The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22

terance, LET the day perish wherein I
was born and the night which said, There
is a man child conceived" The son of
his father gazed at the paper which had
been handed him for many minutes. In
truth young Henley had gone down deep
into the dark. Had the father known he
could not have had the heart to pile upon
a universe of misery one added burden.
The young cavalry officer had been laugh
ed at, insulted, beaten with many blows.
From a home where desire knew not the
meaning of denial he had been cast upon
a land where men live like tramps and
die like beasts, violently, with opened
veins, in the dirt He had been held re-
sponsible for one of these deaths. He
had been called coward And now this
cablegram was before him:
"Reverses Resignation not accepted
Remain for stated period. Spare ex-
pense of cable.
Yes, he had gazed upon the paper for
many minutes. The fatal atmosphere of
dollars had lifted indeed. He who had
sat in a high place and commanded a
world had been told to spare the expense
of cablegrams. Even his father had turn
ed his face from him. He raised his
eyes and saw only heat and hatred in the
heavens, for the sun had faded the blue.
The soldiers in the plaza saw in him only
an object to hate. The officers passed by
and saw him not at ALL OF all the worlds
offerings death was alone to be desired.
but not with knives. like that other
At this moment the colonel. standing
not rod away, gave this command to
his orderly: Tell Captain Sanders. with
my compliments, to get his troop in readi-
ness to start on the north trail to repair
the main wire, which has just been cut
by the rebels. Tell The captain to report
to me before starting.
Zone moment, colonel May l not take
my troop out and fix that wire? I'll do it
quickly, sir"
Lieutenant Henley vas tall He had
the look and the talk OF man. AT this
moment he would not remind one of the
prodigal's elder brother The colonel had
to think moment. He was so hustered
'The ugliest niggers on the island are
on that north trail. lieutenant"
'I'll fix the wire quickly. sir"
"By the time your troop is saddled,
lieutenant there will be two days rations
waiting for you here in the plaza"
1t was then 2 O'Clock in the afternoon.
Exactly IL hours later the ticker in the
telegraph Office at headquarters awoke
the operator. Hours before dawn the
colonel, heading a detachment, started
out on the north trail. They saw many
things that morning, and the least of
these things was neither excitement nor
dead men.
Sixteen miles north of the town the
oolox,ni ~ htS n, mr., onooupforod A NOR
lean sentry. More OF less dead Filipinos
had been encountered before that
''Any dead with your? asked the colo
mel. His lower jaw dropped until be had
heard the answer.
1--WE lost Black and Peters, sir, and
there are three wounded in that shack
yonder. The lieutenant was hit twice,
sir, but he's all right, and we got whole
bunch of niggers."
81 see you did," remarked the colonel.
Then he hunted out Henley, whom he
found propped up on a couple of blanket
rolls.
GOOD morning, colonel The wires
working all right?"
"Are you hit hardY gasped the colo
nell
couple of little punctures that don't
amount to anything. Got whole raft of
niggers. Say. did you know father was
busted p
Not long after that the colonel took the
top sergeant off alone and asked him to
tell the story. This is it, shortened:
''The lieutenant rode US fast along the
wire The niggers were all about, and
we had to follow. The lieutenant was
hit in the shoulder before dark yesterday.
but he didn't seem to mind. We had to
go slow after dark TO keep tab on the
wire. 1t was after midnight when we
got volley from niger camp in front.
1t was right here, colonel where the wire
was cut, we got it. The moon was up.
and we charged into them. with the lien
tenant ten yards in the lead. Here we
lost Black and Peters. and the lieutenant
was hit again. He would have gone after
them, but he got groggy from his wounds
We got whole slew of niggers. sir.
Here is a paragraph from a letter
which the colonel wrote to father after
ward:
HE is born again. a devil this time.
who swalloweth the ground with fierce
ness and rage and smelleth the battle
afar off, He turned loose when he thought
you were broke and developed ip an aft
ernoon. Incidentally he made good citi-
zens out of over score of niggers and
got scratched up little I'll watch out
for him and turn over to you one of thesr
days something that smells like a man
Yes, there is blood in the boy."-St. Louis
Republic.