The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-29

But whether he wears the regiment
ais of the West Point cadet on dress
parade or the old khaki trousers and
shirt waist in which he weeds his
mothers garden, Norman Ramsay is a
fine, handsome figure of a young fell
low, and looks every inch of him a
soldier and man."
For a young man just a little past
his majority. Norman Ramsay has had
something of a career. Unlike most of
the West Pointers. this Topeka boy
knows something of actual war and re-
Allies that military career means
something besides gold lace and glory
and fond fatuous female hero worship
ers. He has experienced the long mo-
notony of life in camp or barracks in
time of peace, and he has seen active
service. He has tramped all day
through miles of marshy rice fields.
messed on a spoonful of embalmed beef
and piece of bareback at night and
slept in a driving rain with another
comrade under the same poncho. He
has heard the Mauser bullets whizzing
around his ears and pepDering a ham
boo fence behind him. and has looked
to the right or the left just long enough
to see connrade go over with a groan
beside him. He knows what outpost
duty is in time of war, when every
wandering shadow magnifies itself to
the nervous fancy as a creeping enemy
with 2 vicious bolo knife
In % battles and Skirmishes of the
Philippine insurrection Norman Ramsay
fought with the famous Twentieth Kan
sas and received with the others when
the regiment was mustered out the hon
orable discharge reading Honest and
faithful" which is one of finest tributes
a man can be paid.
Young Ramsay left the high school TO
join the Twentieth and when the regi-
ment came back he returned to his
studies and was graduated with the
class of 1900 The next year he was ap-
nOinfad fl I
he has now been at the Point two years
and is enjoying his first furlough. He is
what the cadets call a ''Yearling" He
has been home for six weeks and his
furlough will last about three weeks
longer. Then back for his junior year.
There are ten Kansas men at the Uni
| ted States Military academy. and al
| though they have no club or organiza-
ton they hang together" pretty gener-
ally and uphold the honor of Kansas
among the other cadets. No one of the
Kansas present delegates has dis
/ tinguished himself in scholarship.
They're all good fellows" and good Az
erage students but none of them is ra-
ted as a star. The Kansas boys from
| the different congressional districts are
Earl Mcfarland of Topeka, from the
First district, appointed last year; Don
aid c. Cubbison of Kansas City. a
brother of Senator J. K. Cubbison, from
the Second district; Andy Tandy, of In
| 0OpcnOCI1NC, IiCO just dPltOAHlCu
from the Third district: Sidney Guthrie
of Marysville, Fourth district: Arthur
H. Carter of Marion. Fourth district;
| Matthew A. Cross of Ellis. Sixth dis
trict, and Arthur D. Minnick of Wichita.
Seventh district. The two senatorial APP
pointees are Walter S. Drysdale of Law
renee and Merrill E. Spaulding of Con-
cordia. Calvin p. Titus, who scaled the
wall at Pekin, is from Wichita, and al
though appointed by the president and
not counted among the Kansas delega-
ton he always calls himself a Kansas
man and goes with the Kansas crowd at
| West Point