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manager of ranch. cattle. irrigation;
something large: will resign; if you
want results. that's me; "a years; lots
experience and can hustle; hours no
object; good standing; references; if
do not increase profits will walk
out: will take trial two months; state
salary; can travel. Box 1882.
Take Roosevelt's opinion on race
suicide and General Corbin's opinion
on the young officer who dares to
marry on his pay alone, shake these
two opinions we'll together, serve as
a hard fact. and you'll find on the
platter about as indigestible q portion
of brain-food as you ever struggled
to assimilate.
At least that is what Lieutenant
Frank I. Otis of the Fourth cavalry
thinks. He has turned the unedible
morsel this way and that, in his quar-
ters out at the Preside, with a vague
hope of being able to devour it and
so get 1t out of the way. But he has
be done. He holds a commission that
he won in five years by bravery, and
rose from the ranks. He has salary
that amounts to about $3.50 a month.
According to General Corbin. he
should not be married. But he is.
According to the president, he should,
therefore. add to the population of his
native land. And he has-five times:
three in a row and twins. Out of
this coil came the foregoing adver-
tisement.
Lieutenant Otis has just been or
dered to the Philippines. If he should
go he would have to leave behind
him his wife, his three boys and the
two bouncing girls that the stork be-
slowed upon him, "'mid the rockets
red glare" in the early morning of
the last Fourth of July. Such q sep
aration would mean that he would
have to keep up an establishment
here and another in Batanzas, or Po-
lopatink, or wherever the Fates and
the war department might choose to
locate him.
He has already been separated
from his family, through the exigen-
cies of the service. more than a third
Of the time since he first put his uni
form on. He has, so he says himself,
grown tired of domesticity on the in
stallment plan and a mail that con-
sists chiefly Of what-nots beyond the
utmost elasticity of his salary. So he
has concluded to stay where he is
most needed. to let the Philippines be
kept in order without his assistance,
and to lay away his arm ysuit of kha-
XII for good and all.
From Private to Lieutenant.
Uncle Sam is going to lose a good
officer, as the following items from
that officers records will demon
in the Thirty-fifth infantry in July.
1899. He became, respectively, cor
poral, sergeant and second lieutenant
in the next six months In six months
more he was made first lieutenant,
then given command of a troop OF
Macabeebee scouts. then given the
same rank in the regular army He
served on expeditions in the Philip
pines under General Lawton, Lieuten-
ant Colonel Wilder, General Bell, Ma
jor Ratson, General Funston and
Colonel L. W. V. Kennon.
Lieutenant Otis took part in ac-
tive engagements in Martimbo, Bull
can, Casiri. Zamballes. Morong, Bag
mas, Atlog. Peneranda mountains, Mi
nolunga, Tubigan, Sibul Bulican, San
to Cristo, Maniching, Cebu, Talipapa
and Papaya. On one of these occa-
sions he tore up a whole province"
to quote from the chronicle of one of
his commands. in the effort to keep
the rebels from cutting telegraph
wires. He had only one troop of
Macabeebees under him In this task,
'but he accomplished It, AS to his be-
havior under fire in general there
seems to be but one opinion among
his brother officers. Condensed. that
opinion amounts to this: HE is one
Of the bravest and best"
Lieutenant Otis is a fine figure of
a man, with keen gray eyes, a nose
somewhat like Caesars, and a restful
sense of humor. He has been a good
many things besides a soldier, too;
though he was born in Camp Warren
and is the son Of soldier. Colonel
Elmer OTIS who died In the service.
Soldier Wants a Home.
"a soldier wants a home as much
as any other man." he said yesterday.
when asked to explain his attitude.
And he doesn't get It. Look at my
case, for instance. I've jumped from
here to the Philippines, from the
Philippines to Cuba. from Cuba to
Fort Riley, from Fort Riley to the
Preside; and now 1 am ordered to
the Philippines again. I've tried to
keep my family with me, and I have,
when I could. but 1t wasn't always
possible. I'm "a years old. II I stay
in the army till am retired, that is,
33 years more, I'll probably be only
a captain, since at present there are
PA lieutenants who rank me on the
list.
"Of course I might go out in a
blaze Of glory-by which I mean, get
shot. And what would be the sum of
that? Merely an inch in the newspa-
pers: Lieutenant F. I. Otis was shot
through the middle yesterday during
the engagement at Notonthemap. He
will die. He rose from the ranks.
He leaves wife and five children.
Fine, EN-? and maybe It might be
seven children by that time.
mo, I've got to quit-now. I am
going to send In my resignation, sell
my uniforms. and get out and hustle,