Arizona republican., 1903-09-08

best Of hands and ali may rest aSSuieu that everything possible will be propmtly done to forward the develop ment work.
 LANDLUBBERS FOR THE NAVY
 Experience of Recruiting Outfit in
 the West.
 "I never ploughed into so many schools of natural born hesitators as l met with during this last inland lubber- gathering cruise that I've just finished, said a petty officer of the navy who has been attached for some months to a naval recruiting outfit operating in the middle western and a few of the more northerly southern states. Most of them nudged so close to the life on the ocean wave that they could feel the spray and smell the Scouse, and then. becoming Stampeded all of a sudden, ducked for the tall and uncut like bunch of seminary girls with red sum- shades crossing grazing field and hik ing for the fence upon seeing q COW gazing at them three furlongs away.
 And the bigger and huskier the lub- bers were the more scared they seemed to be the last minute. One of them, an Illinois yap as high as q Manchu mandarin on street-fiood stilts and strong enough to play jacks with ten pound dumbbells wired together. made b2clldown and getaway that gave the officer in charge of our shipping outfit the irantods for three days.
 He passed the surgeon as easy as a racing turbiner slips by a dump Scow. He was so good when he shed his hay in duds and went before the physical examiner that the surgeon only smiled ana said. Whats the use? You'll do, after taking little more than peek or two at the big lummox.
 Bnt some of us that were looking on could see that his giZZard was about the size of a sand gnats. There was hunted look in his eye after the surgeon told him that he was all right. and you could almost hear the cogitations in his maintop while he was putting on his clothes preparatory to going in before the shipping officer and putting his name to the enlistment papers. Take a brace. maty,' We said to him, encouragingly. seeing that the big Zeke was edging close to a collapse, Whats three years? A mere bag O shells. And think of the hayin' you'll dodge while you're gone. Look at the fun you're going to have! Think Of Paris and Port Said. Just one grand, Jolly dreamy smoke for three years!
 Unship that think it-over look and take a reef in your forked guessing stick.
 The deep waters the thing for you. Jack
 'I dunno so much bout that. b'gosh,
 now th't I've got this far the big Cy said scratching his head. 'Mebbe it wouldn't suit me and l wouldn't suit it-and then what? Say. I'd sure like t talk il over with maW ag'in before l put my hand t them binding papers
 We had q hard time cugger-mug- gering him out of that notion and we finally, one of us at each side of him.
 nursed him along through the door of theoffice where the shipping officer had the enlistment papers spread out. He had the linked pen in his shaking hand and was just leaning over the desk with his tongue lollng out and his eyes rolling to scratch his signature at the bottom of the made-out form that would hold Eim tight for three years when there was clattering and q crea king on the road down below. The
 - With the pen still in his hand he clomped to the window and looked down. A little Uttered bonnet was just climbing out of the farm wagon. which she had been driving herself. Its maw, gasped the Rube with an expression of intense relief on his face. I guess maw wants me
 The office door flew open.
 "'Maw,'
 Micah
 And he was in her arms and she was in lisn.
 '''Th' idee O my Micah wantin' t go fir a rowdy, drunken, scan'alous sailor tn very idee, said the old lady. ad dressing the tired-looking recruiting officer An him tn youngest O eight | boys, all O 'em as happy an content as can be on their paws farm-an' Micah never hevin' been no further way from hum than Pee-or-ia. Don't you dare [ tell me that my Micahs already been an gone an jined them scan alous sailors, or that it's too late! I'm a-goin | take my Micah hum with me right now.'
 Madam said the shipping officer getting up at his desk and making
 Micah's mother q low bow. he's all yours. You can have him. She took Micah by his han-like hand and led him down the stairs to the wagon. and I never saw q more de- lighted looking Micah ashore or afloat
 than that enc was when he climbed in
 to the wagon alongside his maw. Fact
 is, as the wagon sheered off Micah
 twisted around in his seat grinned and
 stuck his fingers to his nose at us who
 were watching his getaway from the | window.
 We had another close thing of it in l a little Iowa town. lie was township tease who wore store clothes, banged | his straw-cClored hair sos it would pro trude in q real cute way in front of his
 chip straw hat, and sported a hand
 lxpit e.raeD blue and red fOur-in- nd