Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-11
DIED FOR COUNTRY
But English Private Hinton Was
Not Listed a Hero.
ONLY 4 NURSE In HOSPITAL
CONTACTED Enteric Fever While
Nursing Sick Soldiers.
i CORRESPONDENTS STORY
,rrcspnndeuce Of the Associated Press.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
LONDON, April Am obscure hero dis
playing for months patient valor in doing
little kindnesses in a field hospital and then
dying at his work is the subject of Daily
News correspondent. writing three weeks
ago from Orange river He says:
For the man who In the heat and ex-
element of battle leads his troops into ac-
zion: for the officer, half mad with the lust
Of blood. who takes his company up to the
steamng muzzles of the enemy's guns; for
the bIoOd-stained victor generally. there is
the triumph with no attendant slave to re-
mind the laurel-crowned Caesar Of his NOR
tality. Heroism of this kind must appeal
to the heart of the MACON, and even war
office critics have before now been forced
to remain silent at a palpable blunder. be-
cause it took the form of something par
ticularly brilIiant-a gallant charge, a mas
terly retreat, or ridiculously theatrical
maneuver-which the man in the street saw
fit. with some unauimity, to applaud There
are many little acts OF heroism-if any acts
Of heroism can be little-records of which
never trouble the assistant editor or agi-
tate the linotype. There are acts. how
ever. which have not the almost essential
luridity of coloring required for your mill
tary anecdote. and being such pass out of
knowledge. Because there was nothing
dsshlng or thrilling about the acts Of Joseph
Hinton. private of the royal army medical
corps. l almost hesitate to do him into
print.
Nurse In Fever Hospital.
"For over four months Private Hinton
had been nurse in charge of the enterio
fever and other dangerous cases at Orange
river. in one Of the field hospitals there
The duties of nurse in charge of one Of
the marques, which do duty for wards,
are many and arduous. There are no white
covered beds and dimity window curtains;
no polished floors and shining brasses; no
soft-footed women moving about the quiet
ward. no tW1tter1ng birds on the big trees
outside; no texts on the walls. There are
i, ne Of those things in a field hospital The
k enjoyed orderly, bare armed and alert,
picks his way carefully over the PROSTATE
: rms lying on the hay-covered floor Of the
baking marquee. A word Of encourage
!.'cnt here, word of reproof there and an
We ever open for the dust devils that
sweep across the clustering plain and Will
throw back and even kill the patient who
= at the critical stage of enterio. When the
devil comes the fly OF the tent must bs
quickly lowered and pegged down, and the
dust and sand and debris which has whirled
in in spite of all precautions must be re-
moved Doing his duty in such a hospital,
Hinton for four months simply devoted him
self 10 the patients.
Long after the time came which released
MIN from duty he would sit among his Suf-
f. ring comrades, tanning them. attending
on them and doing all that lay in his hum
bic pUwer-for Hinton made no pretensions
to aTistoCratic origin-to alleviate the suf-
rerings Of those who were fortunate enough
to come into professional contact with him.
After four months hard work, nature step
ped in and extracted her revenge for liber-
ties taken. and Private Hinton died Of the
disease. h. had been fighting. l feel almost
Inclined TO offer an apology for inserting
This record for. as / say. here was a
Tommy who was not dashing, who was
not brilliant-only faithful unto DEATH
Dead Beers in n Pool.
Riding through the dusty veldt. a. Tele-
graph correspondent espied pool of water
that looked limpid to his jGded observa-
ton. Il lay down to drink" he writes,
...apd placed my pocket filter with tube into
the pool. At that moment l noticed q
strengthening object. which, on further
examination. proved to be dead Boer,
who had been snot through the skull. This
sinister discovery, / need scarcely say, al
Layed my anxiety TO quench my thirst In
the neighborhood. / turned tho body over
II lay in the water and the eyes. half
open. seemed 10 look forth reproa chfully
upon the disturber The man had been
stripped Of ammunition and arms by his
comrades. and had been cast into the water
with & boulder attached to his waist. When
j returned to camp / reported my strange
find. and then learned that my experience
had been by no means unique. 1t was only
4 few weeks ago that upward Of thirty
dead Beers had been dragged from a we'll
previous TO which time a great deal Of
the water had been used for drinking pur-