Arizona republican., 1905-04-16

Congress got Q move on at last, ]. we thought it never would, and the Colorado National Guard was accepted. enlisting as a body. When we were in camp together and the medical in spector went around humping chests. the captain gave him a little song about my eyes. "He can't see without his glasses" says Captain Fletcher but he can shoot all right with them on. And he raised my extra men, and { he's a soldier"
 The doctor says: Well, I'm getting forgetful in my age. and maybe I'll for get the eye test" Which he did as he said.
 l After that was Dewey and Manila Bay, and the News that the Colorado Volunteers were going to the Philip pines which everybody had studied about in the geography. but nobody re , membered, except that they were full of Spaniards just dying to be lam pasted.
 : We got going at last, muster at Den ! Yer, and they gave US 9 Sunday off to sea our folks. You better believe took an early train for Striped Rock ' and Susie. hundred and five miles ! 1t was, and the trains running so that I had just two hours and twenty-five minutes in the place.
 I Susie wasn't at home. nor any Of ! the Lathams. They were all in church 1 at the Baptist meeting house, where I l gave her the grab-bag ring for kid fun. I went over there and peeked | in the door. A new sky-pilot was in 1 the pulpit, just turned loose on his re- 1 marks. Sizing him up, I saw that he ! was a stem winding, quarter-hOur | striking. eight-day taIker that would l swell up and bust is he wasn't allowed | to run down. Tn the third row I saw i Sus.e's hair. There I'd come a hun dred miles and only two hours to spare and there that preacher was taking my ! time, the time I'd enlisted to fight three 1 years for. It was against my nature. so I signalled to the usher and told | him that Miss Susie Latham was wanted at home on important business.
 The usher was one of the people that are born clumsy. The darn fool. in stead of gOin~ up and prodding her shoulder and getting her out sort of quiet. went up and told the regular i exhorter who was sitting up on the platform; and the regular instead of ! putting him on. tod the visiting preacher. The old geezer was deaf.
 "Hey?' says the stranger.
 Miss Susie Latham" says the reg ular preacher between a whisper and Q ho,ler.
 What about her?"
 "Wanted at home" so that you could
 hear him all through the church
 "Oh!" says the parson. "Broshers ana
 sisters I am requested to announce
 that Miss Susie Latham is wanted al
 home on important business-that thi.
 hopeless eternity is set as a guide tC
 our feet" and all the rest of tn,
 spiel. And me feeling as comfortabl,
 as Q lost heifer in a blizzard-fortJ kinds of a fool.
 She came down the aisle, lookin: . red and white by turns. with all tn, 3 people nechng her way. Before T.
 got time to explain why I did it. he
 mother got nervous, thinking ther
 must be some trouble and came trail
 ing out after her. Then her kid sis
 ter couldn't stand the strain, and fol
 lowed suit. That family reunion or
 the porch spoiled all the chance that
 had to see Susie alone. because whel they heard why I came, and how I wa going to be Striped Rocks hero. the l were for giving me Red Cross recep 9 ton then and there. Only two hour } more until train time. and the old lad } had to rush me down to the house fo 7 lunch-and me with the rest of my If | to eat it in
 r But I shook her and the kid siste at last and got Susie alone. I tried t . tell her-and l couldn't. I could onl
 say that I was going to do my bes