The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-08-03
Prescription:
New Mexico,
By One Year
Copyright, 1904, by
~ - NJ M
PHILLIPS


lars and organized state militia WIS
over The national guardsmen were
fast deserving Camp Young. Howard,
Ky, for home and mothers pies. All
morning troop trains had pulled up To
the PLATFORMS, received their burdens
of humanity and, skirting the placid
Ohio, pulled away through the green
and gold of the Muldrangh hills bound
for Louisville and the north
The First battalion, Fifth Michigan
infantry, consisting of four companies
of stalwart khaki clad fellows from the
interior towns of the state, swarmcd on
TO their train right willingly Now, IA
the wheels slowly reynlycd, the men in
the tourist slecpers waved cheerful
goodbys To the soldiers still lining the
tracks They sang, toe, smile compel
ling doggerel ON the depth and sticki-
ness of kentucky mud or on the pro-
fame uncertainty of their re-enlistment
az guardsmen.
Back in the Pullman the dozen OIL
GERS of the battalion We're little quieter
in demonstrating their satisfaction.
Sword belts Mere unbuekled and flung
aside service blouses and campaign
hats stacked in vacant sections Sand
witches We're shared indiscriminatcly
among the members of the happy
group.
There WIS one who sat apart an
ovcrcoat wrapped about his tall figure,
although the sunlight was warm over
head. Unseeingly he gaZed out the
window, II smile on his lips. 1t was II
grave sweet smile not without "A GER
tain tolerant cynicism In it, ms one
smiles who can enjoy joke on him
self
Most men in the shoes of Captain
John Stewart, commanding Company
X, Fifth infantry, Michigan national
guard, would have smiled not nj all.
Signs, deep and dolorous, would have
been their Offering hut when man
fights his way up from foundIing's
crib through successive stages of news
boy, farm lnbOrcr and college student
Ia Il place at the bar of his county mis-
fortunes mildly amusc.
Stewart was unceremoniously drag
ged into the hospital tent the last day
OF camp for examination.
There had been questions, n thump
ing of back md chest with the sur
geon's little hammer, and divers apph-
cations of the stethoscope. Then the
activity was relaxed, and the blun old
doctor, who had known and liked
Stewart for years, delivered himself.
"Youre sick man. captain; scker
than you know. Lobe of the right
lungs affected Ii isn't consumption
yet but II will he if you don't get out
of that Internal Michigan climate.
Stay up there three months, and you're
sure OF nice military funeral. Go TO
New Mexico or Arizona for year,
and youll die some time, but it'll be
of old age or anything else but con
sumption"
The pallm on Captain Stewards
check dccprned trihe. II have
cousin down In the oscura mountains,
New Mexico, keeping books for min
Ing company. | could 20 there" he
said quietly He had felt the doe
tors verdict before ii was uttered.
The very thing" replied the other
enthusiastically.
SO Captain Stewart went back to
quarters, his decree of Punishment
hanging over him lie had no fear,
for he felt the doctor spoke truly;
year beneath the balmy southern skies
would cure him The affair of the
lungs did not bother, but the affair Of
the heart! That was another story.
There was girl--'there always Is"
Stewart told himself grimly as the
train bore him northward next day,
and he smiled cynieally at his own po-
sition Prom every standpoint it's
the best thing possible for me that
Pm going suppose it's human ma
ture TO be contrary, though. and no
exile ever felt worse over leaving
home than | do.
Delightful arc the vagarics of love
the leveler Stewart, who had
mighty pride, had fallen hOpclessly In
love with Marjorie Madison, hciress Of
millions and courtcd assiduously by
crafty fortune hunters, young and old
Stewart loved her not for her money,
but in spite Of it, Marjorie became
singularly interested In the clear eyed
young lawyer with his wealth Of quiet
huInor.
Now, to be in love. even when too
much money on one side and too much
pride on the other offer no obstacles, Is
n sufficiently uncertain and heart trying
business. Something within him drag
ged the unwilling Stewart TO the Madi-
son home about once in three weeks
Being unable to forget the barrier be
tween them, Stewart devoured the girl
with his eyes and came away after his
glimpse of paradise cursing himself for
a fool He was different sort Of
caller from most, Marjorie discovered,
and as an antidote 10 the hunger OF
Stewards Chances she talked arrant
nonsense to him '.If she were only
poor. Stewart groaned In secret daily.
Callahan appeared on the scene three
weeks before the Kentucky encamp-
ment. Callahan had curly blond hair,
almost az much money as Marjorie's
father and limitless audacity. He was
the Junior member Of northern Mich
igan lumber firm and came TO Water
vile ms manager Of branch office. He
straightway paid court to Miss Madi-
son In a fashion that bid fair to dis
lance all rivals. He was constantly at
her side. Stewart still made periodical
visits, and between him and the blond
Callahan grew up deep antipathy.
Marjorie watched both and smiled.
Which she favored no one knew.
Alone to New Mexico" the car
wheels clicked increasingly in Stew
arts ears as the troop train plunged
northward. Its all off with me now.
IL ever had chance" he unused bit
terly. Il guess out of sight, out of
mind applies today MS much as ever
IL did. She'll marry Callahan inside
Of six months. But it's just as well.
No one will say that John Stewart Is