The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-25

arm, and him not saying word. but Just
submitting like young 'un, He q De
proving around the post In the dark dazed,
and not able to take care of himself
But he was fine mana grand athlete,
too. until the drink sapped him-and he
was square to us bucks OF the barracks,
and fought our battles In the teeth OF the
old maitland always won, too. He wouldn't
stand for anybody imposing on us, and
well, az near AZ men can get to loving a
man, ! guess us fellows loved that good
man and square officer,
Pretty gulpy layout, we We're. son,
when we scraped out hole in the hard
frozen ground for that one, and tossed him
into it, and fired the volley over him, and
listen ed tC the bluhbering kid Of wind
TANNER sounding taps. The assertions
began the next day
They missed him They said that the
post was not only lonesome, but uncanny.
without him. When, a month later, the
fi'-out was shifted to the Southwest, we
We're not much more than one troop. in
stead OF two-and the cashing in of an
officer with the heart and the gizzard OF
sure enough man was the cause of it.
And, talking Of the transferring OF out
fits. that, too, has got to be taken into con-
sidelation az a cause, and, in the aggre-
gate. big big cause for assertions. Men
who enlist In Ger, ain Part of the country
for service in that same section don't like
to make long shift TO n different part
with another climate. More assertions
result from the shifting about OF regi-
ments than ever appear in the figures.
Soldiers that get mixed up with women
outside the post gates are particularly liza.
bic TO desert when their outfits are ordered
away. The soldier rarely has the funds
to pay the woman's way to the new station.
and he doesn't feel like leaving her. and 40
there's only one thing left. and that is to
duck
Amy old country looks good enough 70
come soldiers who become involved with
women. The most aggravated case OF that
kind l ever saw, and I've seen lot OF such
cases. happened whom the layout to which
l was attached was about to leave the
with us was snappy. hustling kid from
Kentucky. boy about 2? or so, who got the
corporals chevrons right soon after he
took on for bright work In campaigning,
and who had all the markings of a fine SOL
der. Fact is he was In line for COM
mission.
But he got mashed on a pretty Filipino
girl. the daughter Of Filirino comnan-
dante, and when we were ordered TO Manila
to take the transport for the States he
couldn't see the thing Of leaving her. !
believe they had been married. or some
thing like that. ANYHOW, when we went
to Manila, this Judgment lacking fool
boy stayed with his Filipino woman.
But he did something even more foolish
than that. When the old man sent nom
com. and some men back after the kid,
he was locoed enough to join the enemy.
instead Of lust taking 70 the buttes and
staving there for a while. until the search
for him was over.
They got him by the time our transport
reached the States. Dye know what that
promising good looking boy. from Ken
lucky is doing now? He is doing ninety
nine years on Alcatraz Island for deserving
to the enemytlIe court-martial's sentence
was death but ii was RENTED.
Did you ever happen to take peek
at Alcatraz Island? No2 Well. most men
would prefer death to even ten years there
but ninetv-nine years on the rock! Man.
let us pray to be good!
And to think OF white hoy from Ken-
tucky-boy with a head. not to mention
biceps-letting a skinny, mop-haired.
rigeon-toed. rice-rowdered Filipino girl
land him for a dose like that. even if her
ewes were fine-