The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-10-23
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Judge Mann is the recipient Of q
fattering letter from the general sec
retary of religious organization.
Request is made of him to deliver
an address before the meeting OF
the body ON Prisoners and Their
Proper Treatment While Temporarily
Detained in the Bridal Chamber"
The writer of the letter says that his
honor is we'll known to him and his
associates by the reputation he ac-
quired as former Jealous worker in
the society and because OF his great
experience and reputation as a Grim
inologist he is urged not to disappoint
the meeting by a refusal to speak
on the subject assigned to him. AS
yet he has not sighified his pleasure
in the matter, as he has not recovered
from the shock caused by the sudden
and wholly unexpected honor.
Gaily colored posters we'll calculat-
ed to strike the eye have been dis
tributed in different parts OF the city
which announce that next Monday a
lieutenant from Fort Keogh will be
here for the purpose of enlisting
young patriots who may want to serve
in the cavalry or infantry arm of I'm
Gle Sans military family. Embel-
fishing the bills are pictures OF hand
some men wearing the uniforms OF
cavalrymen, infantrymen and artillery
men.
This morning a group of men were
looking al one of the pictures. A
smile began to play about the corners
of the mouth of one and he remarked
that he never saw one of the posters
that it did not remind him OF a story
told him by Captain Lindsey, who
was stationed at Fort Yellowstone
until little over a year ago. It was
midwinter and the captain and de-
LcIll WSlO SCOuClH6 'IuO pol N Ill oval I'll
of poachers. Progress was possible
only by means of skis" and the
weather was bitterly cold. At one
| place the detachment was obliged to
cross rather deep stream, which
because of the swiftness OF the cur
rent, was not frozen over and nothing
remained but to take off shoes and
stockings and wade. When the fal
side had been reached ard the cap
tstain and his men were seated in the
| snow putting on their footwear, one
of the privates, a man who had only
recently enlisted, gravely saluted and
said, Captain, I didn't see anything
/ like this in the picture" 1t was only
after they had resumed their march
and the smiles OF the other men had
broadened into hearty laughter thai
the captain understood.
OF course, a really and truly rough
rider is not supposed to cry when he
| receives tumble from his mount
but when he is only a make-believe
boy, and net avery large boy al
that, it is different. 1t was knowledge
of this that no doubt caused dim
inutive specimen of Young America
to make no effort to suppress the
/ yells that forced themselves from his
throat yesterday morning, when after
particularly daring exhibition o
equestrianism he suddenly found him
self in the middle OF the street call
ing to the passers-by that his bacl
i 'h-u-r-t, o SO awful bad. But ht
was game. After his horse had beer
recartured and he was assisted int
: the saddle he rode off with quirt ant
spurs working double time. He wa
getting even with the ungraciou
brute responsible for the big dent il
his pride and the ache III his back.
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