The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-03-06
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"About the meanest thing ever did,"
said Bass McPheeters, who had served
as a volunteer through the Cuban cam
pnign, was to steal brandy off the
dead dagos. Every man Jack of them
had flask. l guess 1t was the worst
brandy ever distilled, but 1t tasted
mighty good to me, and, as l say,
stole 1t and drank 1t and felt like a
ghoul all the time"
"Ah, you're thin-skinned," growled
Heathcote, a Harvard man who had
come to be Texas ranger because he
was plucked at West Point; 'if you
want TO feel real downright thirty
cents you ought to try peacemaking
between q woman and q wife-beating
husband. 1 did. You remember it,
don't you, Harris? The time 1 came
back from Langtry in an ambulance?
/ made peace between them all right,
but what they did to me between
them was plenty. Robbing dead
dagos is u Sabbath pastime compared
to peacemaking and twice as remuner-
alive"
"Neither one Of you knows what he's
talking about" drawled Lieutenant
Collins, who was doing his second year
on the frontier with his regiment, and
held the record as the only officer in
It who was not pulling wires for de-
tached service. lone of you is thief
and the other fool, but can tell you
an experience that made me look like a
thief and feel like q fool for a long
time.
"You remember, Heathcote, while
was at the academy was forever run
ming back to Cincinnati to spend a day
q week or month, or whatever time
could get on sick leave. bogus tele
grams or other subterfuges. Well, they
thought had for going there so often
Woman? Yes, of course it was WON
an. That is, she was the making of O
fine and beautiful woman. She was @
mere girl then, just come eighteen, ant
as gentle and generous soul as ever
lived. l might as well admit that
had my heart set and my hopes bull
on her and-lost. didn't find out tha
part, the loss part. though. till my last
visit to Cincinnati, and as that's what
started out to tell about, II just be
gin there.
"Well, I don't think Edlth-that was
her name-I don't think she ever knew
how felt toward her; you see l was
never forehanded with women, or sh,
wouldn't have invited me to her thea
tre party. l don't know exactly how
her mother sprung 1t, but anyhow W,
hadn't been In Edith's house five min
utes before everybody knew that SHE
was engaged to Herbert Humphreys, ;
spruce little dandy with light-coloret
eyes and clothes that would have mad,
Freddie Gebhard look like costermon
ger. didn't like him first, last nor any
time. but of course was a prejudice(
party
"Well, was assigned, that's wha
you call it, l guess; was assigned t.
Fannie Ziegler-you know the Zieglers
Heathcote? Brewers, you know. ant
we went off to the theatre in lot o
carriages, the girls all talking abou
the coming wedding and what Lowell.
doings would be pulled Off. and wha
lovely ring that was Edith had, an,
me-you can just guess how 1 enjoye,
that theatre party. l don't remembe
what the play was or who was in IN.
carriage besides Fannie or anything
about It except that one Of the part
was girl cousin of Edith's who ha
come from New Orleans to be leadin
lady, or bridesmaid, or whatever 1t
at the wedding.
"Well, sir, she was sumner!
think II I hadn't been so faded o.