The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-09-30

You know feed was mighty scarce In |
! Tientsln in those days. for beasts AZ
well as for men, and | suppose thar
corn was about the biggest temptation
that could have been set before tho
animal Anyway, the first thing |
knew the pony had pulled the hitching
strap loose and was out among the
corn.
well l said to myself, there is
the last of that pony and | was dis
gusted. had paid about ten prices
| for him and was glad to get him az
that for horses were mighty scarce
! Just then and he was a good one. |
had no notion where | could get
another, and without horse there
was no use in my thinking about going
with the relief column TO Pe<in. But
wouldn't have gone into that corn
field after that horse for all the ponies
that ever were bred in China. No
stree, Bob.
"Howev yer, there was a chance to get
him back ai.l l took it. There was a
company of A.usskies lying behind the
embankment few yards beyond me
| anu tldNlti UP W
had n couple of Mexican silver dollars
i'm my pocket. and as l came up to the
first of the Russkies l pulled out my
dopes and showed them to him. Then
l pointed to the pony hogging the
green corn as fast as he could. The
bullets were striking all around him
and knocking up little puffs of dust
just as the first big rain drops In
storm make the water in pond squirt
up when ohey strike. expected every
moment to see him get one and go
down. But when | showed that money
the grin that spread over the fiat face
of that Russian soldier would have
kept you cheerful for long time. He
understood what l wanted, and he
knew what he wanted, which was
those dollars. l don't suppose he had
ever had that much money at one time
in all his life.
the two got up and started out in that
field where the bullets were clipping
the corn tops just as l have seen hall
stones do out West. They went right
out to the pony, only stopping long
enough to gather couple of handfuls
of corn with which to coax him In.
"He was a little shy of them and
they had some trouble In getting him
under cover of the embankment. But
, they did it after a little, and then
managed to run In and catch him.
| When they brought him up to me
; gave them the two dobes and from
the way they took it you would have
thought l had made each OF them in
dependently wealthy for life. But
went back to the settlements and had
, bad quarter of an hour with myself
for bringing two ilen for fifty cents
Z apiece to risk their lives in that
, fashion. Afterward, l saw that II
didn't make any difference to them.
They don't think much of soldier In
the Russian army when he's alive, and
, after he's dead he is only bother.
The fate of man at Pekin showed me
that. The Russians had sharp fight
at the Tung-pien gate in the Chinese
wall and got through it just about the
time our Fourteenth Infantry got over
the wall below them. We went
tHIOuSh thc unE DicH Sutt iuttls 40
! came up there l saw the body of a
) big Russian infantryman lying in the
| roadway just outside the gate.
, "Some of the Russian troops were
, then going through the gate and as
they came along this man was in their
: way. But they did not trouble to re
! move the body. They simply stepped
over 1t and let II lie where it had fallen
The man had been shot early in the
3 morning, for the sun was already be
[ ginning to show its effect on his face
q They had taken his rifle and equip
9 ment, but the body lay there until
g after all the troops had marched
q through the gate. You see they
+ thought more of his equipment thar
they did of the man himself. That
shows how much Russian soldier
h counts.
}. However lawless, or brutal, oi
{ cruel. or licentlous he may be, never
Q forget that the Russian soldier vii
n fight every time and just rs long as he
e is asked to. What will happen wher
o the Japanese get after them no MAJ
8 can tell. The Russian is slow ant
i clumsy and the Jap is light and won
derfully mobile. In the open the Japs
ought TO out-manoeuvre the Russians
> with conspicuous ease. From In
, trenched positions 1t looks to me as Il
a neither would ever drive the other.
p 'The Russian will stay where he Il
: put just because he has been put there
1t was an order. When he Is ordered
h to go away he will go, not till then. II
q the order is given at the wrong time
: 1t will be all the same to him.
A "When those two get at each othei
Z l hope to go along."-New York Sun.