The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-26
MEN FOR THE ARMY
ODD SCENES AT THE CITY HALL
RECRUITING STATION.
PATHoS, HUM0R AND TRAGEDY.
Young Woman Prevents Her Sweet
heart From NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Desires to Go In as Major
or Captain.

Say, general, you're not going to take
Look at me, and then say you will not let
him enlist"
young woman pleaded to her utmost
to prevent the recruiting officers at the
city hall from taking the man of her
choice away from her. E
Lieut.. J.. F. Janda of the Eighth In
fantry, stationed at Fort Harrison. had
not so far forgot those fiirtations on the
veranda Of certain hotel outside of the
guard lines at "The Point" that he could
say mo" to tine little woman pleading for
her future happiness.
So the would be rookie" wasn't taken
Pathos, Hunaor and Tragedy.
There is pathos, humor and the stern
tragedy of wasted life taken in by the
men who enlist soldiers to serve for
Uncle Sam.
Sometimes it's funny-somettmes it's
sad. But then, men are sworn to do their
duty, and it doesn't make much differ
ence either way the scale of judgmen.
stands.
There's always heart breaks--always
stories of misspent lives and stories of
how man could seek refuge in the
army of the United States because he
hasn't the converts of the olden days.
Recruiting, in way, is an easeup Of
the routine of duty to the young officer"
said an army officer today. I'm one Of
those 'afterwbiles' of the Hoosier poet.
it's misery to face discipline far beyond
the usual care-free routine of a barracks
or a camp.
"A recruiting officer becomes one OF
two fhinpS--a GALLONS m ri nat inSor Al :.
BILE to the feelings of humanity as the
average county cOnstable-Or an officer
human-bred enough to recognize the suf-
ferings of others, and he is consequently
a. better commander In every respect be-
cause he has come in contact with the
.sufferings of the outer world, which he
doesn't know beyond his top sergeant in
the barracks life."
No Advantage Taken.
There are men recruiting now who
wouldn't take advantage of the misfor-
tunes IF the men who apply.
-Four times yesterday and today men
who were In every way qualified physi-
cally were refused admission to the army
because there were others who would
suffer by their enlistment.
One woman who applied at the city hall
was an aged mother, who insisted that
her son should enlist. She admitted dur
ing the close questioning that her boy
had been incorrigible, and that while her
sole support, she wanted him in the army
for fear he would get into the reform
| school or the penitentiary.
| Kindly, but firmly, she was told that
| there was no place for incorrigibles in
| the army.
| Surgeon e. T. Gibson was approached
| this morning by lank individual who
| hailed from the Daly ranches.
rs this whelo you take men for the
army?" he inquired.
"This is the right place." answered the
| surgeon.
Visitor Grows Confidential.
"Well, now I'll tell you," said the visi-
| tors voice took on confidential tone,
'J'm tired of working on the farm, and
| saw in the papers that men were wanted
| to fight the natives in the Philippines.
II am willing to enlist as colonel, Or Ii
| the places of that kind are filled will
even take a place as captain. or possibly
| as major.
IT have been getting $40 month and
| my board where I was, but don't like
| the long hours--from before sunrise until
! long after sunset, so I've decided to join