The National tribune., 1904-08-04
THI SALVATION OF WILLIAM.
Making Man Out Of Spoiled Darling Of Fortune.
By FREDERICK WALWORTH.
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The United Suites Regular Army is the
most highly efficient little body of troops
this planet can beast at the present day.
Man for man and regiment for regiment, it
would waltz through the cohorts of the
bellcose Kaiser exactly as it waltzed
through the veterans of Spain. In num-
bers it is almost contemplate, but in eff
tciency it is without peer.
This result is brought about partly
through the material out of which it is
made, partly through the method used in
the making, and partly through the cal
iber and training of its officers. But it fol-
lows that the United States Army is a
hard school for one unaccustomed to dis
ciplne.
That brings us to Willie Carhart--
William Montgomery Ormiston Carhart, to
give him his due. Willie was the pam
pered only son of wealthy father, so he
started life with ball and chain. Pri
vate tutors of varied nationality formed an
unhealthy environment for his early youth,
and to Harvard was intrusted the discour-
aging task of making man of him.
No doubt Harvard was doing its best.
but along in the Spring of sophomore year
Willie grew tired. Finally. just before
the term examinations. physician was
found who really knew his business. A
trip to Europe was prescribed as the only
remedy for Willie's shattered health.
So he went to Europe and spent several
years and many thousands trying to re-
move from his person the stigma of having
been born in America. He succeeded so
well that his compatriOts would have been
ashamed to admit his original nationality.
In Eco. &c
mother died, but was unable to stand the
"degra ded commercialiSm'-tOu use his own
term-of his native land. and returned to
Paris at the earliest possible moment. AZ
this time he was well set-up young man,
tall. broad-shouldered, fairly good-ooking.
and with quite effeminate manners. In
rough way it might he said that so much
of him as came by blood was good, while
so much of him as came by training was
almost hopelessly bad.
l suppose there was not a more con-
ceited snob i'm the two hemispheres. He
seemed to feel himself in all sincerity the
Nadir of the Universe. At % his ideas
were as brash and raw as those Of the
average school-boy. and were asserted will
the Steel-clad assurance of a hrst-class
battleshp. He was as utterly worthless
a parasite as modern civilization in its
most effete mood has ever developed. But
William Montgomery Crimson Carhart
never dreamed Of such a thing.
What turned him toward the East can
not be determined. Possibly he yearned
to place a still wider separation between
himself and the land of his nativity. Pos
sibly the mood struck him in moment Of
ennui. At any rate. and whatever the
cause, he started for the far East.
1t was at Yokoha ma that the blow fell.
His allowance failed and he wired his
father for funds. Four days went by and
then came cable reading as follows:
'Carhart senior died eighteenth May.
Estate involved Letter follows. Mat
thews. Woman & Matthew'S"
1t is distasteful to record that Williams
first thought was not Of his deceased par
emf, but of the involved estate. Yet such
is the fact a signal commentary upon
Williams character.
The situation was desperate enough.
however, to warrant thought. William
spent bad afternoon. painful evening
and sleepless night, and at the end of it
all sent this cable to the lawyers: Must
have funds immediately He even under
scored the last word on the blank form.
not realizing that all words arrive with
equal emphasis at the end Of 10000 miles
Of wire.
THAT really ought to bring 'em to
time. you know" said William confidently.
Therefore he was shocked exceedingly
u'At udy " Sct tht Id1oHiC reply, 1>O
funds"
1t was a full month before the letter
came. and with its perusal William Mont
gomery Crimson Carhart descended into
the depths.
Matthews. Woman & Matthews regret
ted exceedingly their ina biity to cable
draft. They also regretted the necessity
Of informing him that his father had be-
come involved III very unfortunate specu-
lations prior to his death. William gath
cred hazily that from present iniica tons
it seemed certain the liabilities would more
than swallow all available assets. Under
the circumstances. Matthews, Woman &
Matthews found themselves so placed as
to be unable to forward him anything ut
the present time, and begged to remain his
most sincerely.
William struggled bravely through the
legal phraseology, and when the truth
came plunging home to his long-coddled
sensibilities. broke down and went. One
could find it in his heart to pity even VIII
liam. 1t was situation to shake n nerve
of firmer fiber than his. Yokohama is not
an encouraging place to Ego broke" in.
There are so many little Asiatic gentlemen
ready to do anything for next door to
nothing that white man and his abilities
are at discount.
BY the time William had parted with
his watch and most of his wardrobe he
had found this out. and, quickened by i'm
mnent starvation, his mind evolved plan.