El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-01
. A QUESTION
wa OF METHOD
H.
Young Bowen's Contempt
For Army Red Tape.

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Jung Clancy Bowen brought to
York from his western home a
equipment of so much energy, COM
-, with the unshakable belief that
s easy enough to do things" If
only got down on your four legs
Exercised" that his friends, both
the otand old, expect a great deal of
Hous But they are yet awhile no near
and Topping the Objectionable introduc-
Portsto his name than they were three
Tho ago, when Bowen had no better
,,.,n; than to spend a week of his pre-
,rh time in the attempt. according to
omise. to collect an old and out
"hi'd debt from vanishing person In
moneast for the benefit of some one lat
tioIne" Then and always they called
celn young" Only this winter he had
experience which should have been
thrmative. 1t stunned him, perhaps
arjt he awoke unchanged.
Bowen's brother, a soldier In the reg
ar army, went to the front in 1898
The stay at home, however. bore a
Seavier burden of the distresses of the
Campaign in Cuba than the one who
Raw the battles. When he read In the
newspapers that the army was keenly
suffering for food while whole shipfuls
of stores remained untapped at anchor
a few miles off the beach. the young
man seethed with pent up irritation
pent up until he had finished a scrap o.
breakfast at his boarding house. where
there was no one but the landlady. and
she deaf, and found the ear of an &C
Ouaintance down town.
Say, what good are those generals?
They amt fit to be pitching hayi Say,
I'd get a rope on to every one of those
ships, one by one. and haul 'em up on
shore, and I'd dump 'em out and fill up
the brave fellows fighting for their
country till they was gorgedy'
You couldn't do that, or anything.
not if you was a general" said the
other Red tape" He repeated the
last words decisively. Red taper
I'D ravel it all outr' cried Clancy
nd hurried off. That was the man;
pess is the simple experience:
the re brother came back from the war
Ha bit the worse either for the fast
orlor the fighting. but the chance of
life did not bring him within
inc b of Clancy's arms for more than
giorear. Then, after everything else
been said, the soldier let fall the
rmation that he had been obliged
Cteave his extra clothing, together
como most of his worldly goods. at the
less 1cks in California when he was or
hut TITO the front and regretfully wish
is not I'd them now.
did you put the things"
pncy, alive at once, ready to
sge of the matter of getting
AS SOON
had been pf,old me to pack my stuff In
wonderful r locker, and did-No. 60.
ed by silent racks, Second infantry
bank rattied OH the soldier.
rhor NOR we have to do is to write
,o.,Ieas,. IAN, the janitor. or what
who keeps care of the
nearly every ask him to send your
ing minute IN, as you have need Of
Chopin's al fix it up for you"
marches. said the other hesitating-
The sim shudn't be quite right. you
quiet. giving ~ anu an ,, ue.ter
oocSion to the chaps out west.
Standing one reg'Iar.~
poop deck of t,ancy shifted: that will
fin of the quees your captain a good
that could be e tend up to it sharp?
ing the AIbertster let me-.
Iy:o.-.. interrupted decidedly.
.ings in the right way,
King anu. queen, better in the end. he
then the zach
royal personagts passed. Nothing was
yacht HohenZolicia barracks Clancy
of Cernanv anfis brother punch up
I,or;,J ,,assa even wrote a fevered
to the man who. he
Gu III 'He lave taken away those
~ steaiheu lhe them, but the soldier
England can m. letter be mailed. The
Sluggishly at split up over this ques-
the fast black h said he was ashamed
of them, while aInlly shouiu nave SO
-. t,..Io.hi, him.
gestic. Rodey in Iro,hor T., his s,,,
eign warships als1 last week he Was
the scene or tragid linked, blue linked,
Under this stat
toric yacht ARR
with it's royal bur