The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-02-11

over his heart. lie has her; first name tattooed
on each forearm Regularly he spends half
Il love that girl" he said, so hard 1t makes
me seasick " look NJ her picture.
When did you see her last asked
"aAbout four years ago, he SAID.
tf course you cufrpSpund'
Nope" said he, but I've sent her enough
nuck To MI a wheat elevator. say Since ,e
fines, bolos, swords and daegers that | took from
Papiecios, that you ever saw" .
Shhmpo9's three yeats eNpr" next mnu,ih ana
embarked that | supposed he would then x"
back I" the States and marry the girl,
Marry" he exclaimed "Nie marry \ sol
der marry Why, It. against regulations Nul
don't supp9sr I'd go back to The States when !
on your worthless life, Dont ! love th" gltl'
OF course ] Dc. DO You suppose I'd have her
ia,'om+d 4ll over me- I didnr DO YOU SUPPOSE
u didh e. don't suppose she cares a blank
about me But i d"rsn't do her any harm for
NE To l4ve her and 1t makes me- feel good savoy
when get that travel pay In going 10 send her
Manila"
Heap IIurucan- is the life Of the detachment
on a long match, At other times he dpnsI I
have much 10 say, but lac keeps up n running
hte Of clnil from the start 10 finish Of n hike The
dr,a'hmrnl once mnle n sixty hour march, with
but quarter hour rests and bareback To- eat, and
Heap Hur1CHnr never stopped talking
his reminds me, he SAID at about ia" iurueth
ho9f, "oi a man ! knew back ~ the States, lie
nhu WHul VI" newspapers called IN" walking
disease. You see he was n very wicked man
Inc to~nfolks. said he was The wlckedest man N
lhe county. lie always went fishing on Sunday
and was proud oflt We'll. sir, hnc day his eldest
uaughter up and matries a sky pilot n patSun
you know. Well, sir, when he heard about II
II was such n nervous shock to him that he started
lrg, re Kept IT up day and night for weeks.
ihen his folks got alarmed and called in the
doctors. They tried everything 10 stop him
, ,'.i walking but couldn't, You see they
me mouth. 81 they had to give 1t up and let
mn walk. His wife used 70 have To tot along
Sine OF MN WITH n tray while he took his meals
Wen, SIR, he walked up and down that from, yard
lor i"r,E years, day and night And then he
died Yes, sir. I'll b, damned il he didn't
! hrn 'here was another man in the same town
lie couldn't walk or stand still, But he could
run. The only way he could keep his feet was
running II he tried to walk or stand stall he'd
fall Hat But { you lifted him to his feet and
gave him a push to star, him running, he'd keep
right on running straight ahead until hr ran
against a VAL Or something 10 stop him, You
ing Stopprd HIM he'd keep night on running round
and round the blamed old world. touldn stop
nohQw Say, he'd b" a great soldier for n charge.
wouldn't he? Couldn't turn back after hr once
got started no matter II he was scared To death
There's that new recruit GUESSING the army
again. Says h" came over here To- get shot, not
got the funniest damrcd army in tn" world On,
thlri OF al %" enlisted men ARE newspaper CORES
pondentS in disguise They just come over here
to show the thing up What they'll DO 10 poor
Gus when they get hHck is u few. Say. There's
q man I'm sott" for obs Think Of belug
Commander in Chief II IN army Of journalists.
Why, III" DrnNfus CHSe Amt one, two, Il rec.
Then, another third Of he privates are confirm
tors to magazines. Some II them are pots aud
some, artists and some photographers. Then
there's another third who ara the %nophews II
{ ongreSSn"n. They took on as prlyateS for a
few months, until their uncleS get them commits.
SionS hey II all h. officers IN n month 81 Two
Say. There's only ono man in the whole blamed
army who is Just a plain soldier and nothing else.
That's me Old lIoap Hurricane, and | don't
expect my lis harS' IN ia" next mail. either
u ! don't get shot, " eat ur sleep myself to death,
| eNp'ct NV fun three wears
Say. There's another thing that's renarka.
BILE about thlS mans army Nj the enlisted men
threw up big Salarled positions to take on. The
smallest SALARY that an enlisted man in his army
drew in civil life IL $50 n week. The salaries run
from that up to five hundred a week. Why, it's
an army of eN milliouaires. heard one Il en-
kicking at mess the other day Tor a 'servictte
What in he'll is that Another Of EN- ordered n
dinner down at the Turks last pay dav AMI
wanted a demi 'assccAfav and q petty we're
OF cognac, and whenhe got en- he burned en-
up. Saw. I'm the only private in the blamed
army who used TO work for a dallar n day and
damned glad to get il"
Il guess I'm the only private who ever worked
at all before H. took on. The rest of en- Just set
around and drew nay. That makes n hard for
EN- now It's different with me. I've worked
hard all my life. The easiest work ! eyer did in
civil life was breaking -'.uc. Joined the army
to get a rest and something 20 eat. And, Bless
God, I'm getting IT, That's the difference be.
tween me and all The newspaper correspondents.