The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-27

Garry, however out Manila way, which was
one reason-ony one, mind you-why Quimby who
had been there and gotten back, captured the girl
and Garry, being out Manila way, and having duly
cursed Quimby and all womankind, sat down-by
hmself-and pondered the remedies for bghted
affection prescribed by the best practitioners, and
which may be generally summarized drink"
philosophy" and ''another girl Just then and
there, however there weren't any other girls of the
kind to act good counter-rritants, and Garry's
philosophy, taken straight, didn't seem to meet the
symptoms; so he cooked up sort of prescription Of
the two first-named specifics, and kept gradually
increasing the drink ingredient, which he found the
more palatable.
The regimental surgeon told him it wouldn't do in
that climate and this warning acted new incentive.
CARRY had been brooding good deal by this
II time, and he said he didn't care what became
of him. He said it in way which suggested
that the role of unhappy lover drinking himself
to death rather appealed to him from the dramatic
standpoint; and yet Garry had always seemed to be
bright, sensible, manly young fellow. I'm inclined
to think that there's good deal more in blighted
weather was simply damnable: -Four feet Of rain
day." wrote Sade gravely to his paper, and oxy-
gen, ozone, electricity, no life. There so
much "hot" and wet" that there wasn't room above
the earth for anything else.
This probably had something to do with the result.
Anyhow, Garry kept raising the limit in alcohol, and,
pretty soon, finding how that from the East many
attractive roads lead to the Devil, he struck out
the opium route He used to call opium his addition
to the pharmacopeia, and said it beat the home
specifics endwise that when he got back he going
to open Office for like his Then he sketched
out his ad: East Indian savant-self-cured, after
being given up by all his frends-eager to spread
the blessing among NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ten dollars
dope per use" He gave all kind of disgust
with his talk, which no one but Garry considered in
the least witty; but he only laughed when we
at him. He laughed good deal in those days, and
his laugh had a sort of nasty jange to it.
~ ita cbaI oil
~ hgh-tragedy climax such you read about,
but low tragedy, and consequently great deal
more tragical. Brown men and yellow men can stand
opium, and white men can stand NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
for years; but no mans nerves can stand opium and
whiskey for even little WHILE and the sounder his
body the it is for him. Garry was pretty well
shaken before he began to "take treatment" and,
he one of those fellows who've never known
sick day in their lives, the end came sooner.
1t was like this:
Fighting Tagas doesn't, as rule, require much
spectacular courage but it takes lots of ve-ust
plain nerve-to live in the knowledge that every
other man you meet would stick knife into YOU if
he dared, and that your bullet may come from any
hut or bit OF cover along the countryside. 1t takes
nerve, l say, and it takes lots of it, and was
just what Garry was getting short of. believe he'd
have charged battery all right up to the last but the
eternal pot pot potting was too much for him. and he
lunked. won't tell the story, because it's particu-
larly shabby one; but Garry, aunked-went all to
pieces right before his men, and the courmaral had
choice but to dismiss him from the service.
The reason they didn't shoot him was because some
oil them knew all the facts and so Garry was sent home
he hadn't even enough left to put pistol to his
head and when he let loose he never stopped till
he lost himself in New York, and God knows where
he lived or how. only it was certain that
n he hit the pipe and the bottle harder than
ii ~ ever His body needed them, that his
all gone.
aesxe And this brings to the humorous side
of the story.
N a.. NUIMBY was stationed at Governors
" Island, and one day-it must have
been at least year after the trouble
at Manila, and Pm sure don't know how