The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-30

speot. Instead, William sat in the grass
and softly blubbered, till the man left
him in disgust.
Such was Williams introduction to
| d company, and it was not suspicious.
The days and nights that followed
were a continuing torment edged with
/ fear. The men treated him with I'M
mitigated contempt. He was held un-
worthy of the least consideration. He
was kicked like a dog for purely acct
dental faults. Indignities which should
/ have reused him to elementary passion
/ he suffered with such abject meekness
| that il seemed as if his spirit must be
/ braken.
! The truth was merely that the spu-
rious self-respect bred of countless dol
/ lars had fed along with the dollars,
and William lacked as yet anything to
take its place. He was like a cat shorn
of its claws and dropped in a strange
alley
With the hard outdoor work and the
! three square meals of heavy, gristle-
making food per diem, Williams in
herited constitution at last got a chance
to assert itself, and he developed into
a strapping siX-footer. He was only
two generations removed from a coun-
| try grocer who had rolled his own bar
/ relS of flour and sugar. and with the
| least exertiOn on his part might always
/ have been muscular man. Now he
was made to stand straight till in time
he got a healthy forty-inch chest; he
| was driven to exercise till his legs and
arms were well-muscled and hard.
/ But his spirit sickened as his body
grew. There came a time then when
| the coarse, mOnOtonOus food nauseat-
ed him, when constant contact with
| brutal privates was nothing short of
| hell, when the soul of William Mont
gomery Crimson Carhart, tormented
beyond endurance, cried to high heaven
for aid.
In this meekly receptive condition the
spirit of the army, embodied for the
time being in the person of Sergeant
Jarvey Hook. laid hands upon him and
| pointed out the way. Jarvey, being or
derby sergeant, had the efficiency of D
company close TO his heart. 1t was in
| evitable therefore that Private Carhart
should draw his attention for a more
| colossal example of military inefficien-
| cy in the matter of morals were hard
to find.
| ''EleaZar," he said to Corporal Top
latch, what the devil will 1 do with
the pup"
Drown him." advised Eleazar
| 4 reckon you're about right" said
Jarvey. The trouble is his spirits
broke, same as an overworked horse"
Never had any to break, you mean,
said the corporal, with contempt
| Hes so big he could lick most any
of the boys if he only thought So
unused Jarvey, AN Chislett says he's
got to be made to think so. But I'm a
| Cochin China cOolie if I know how it's
goin' to be done"
Did the cap'n tell you that?" asked
Eleazar.
"On the side" returned Jarvey.
"Say, by thunderation, the cap'n's all
right, amt he?" exclaimed the corporal
with admiration. It's again the reg
ulatiOns. but it's the dose for what ails
him. It's up to you, Jarvey."
NO, sir" said Jarvey, with sudden
| inspiration. IT'S up to you, Eleazar,"
and he outlined a plan.
That afternoon the corporal ap-
preached William where he set apart
| in detected solitude.
willie" he said, for so had the COM
pany named him. II have been de-
tailed to learn you the manly art o.
self-defense. Come on"
''Sir?" said William meekly
Don't you sir me, you cub. How
many times you been told that? You
save 'sirs' for the officers. Come on"
Eleazar led away into the jungle be-
yond the lines and William followed
with apprehension. The corporal chose
d itNtl SpOlp duJuSltu lLe RlOVeS on
Williams hands and his own, and pro-
ceeded with the instruction. It soon
transpired that what William didn't
know about the manly art would bur-
den the stacks of the Congressional Ii
brary.
EleaZar sWeated, sWore and de-
SPARED. He arranged Williams hands
to block a lead for the face. Then
leading slowly, he fiercely admonished
William to block him, but Williams
hands stayed precisely where they
were put while William backed hasti-
ly out of range. After an hours futile
the corporal sought Jarvey.
Say" he said in disgust, 81 pass 1t
up. l amt the man for the job.
couldn't learn that dub to box, not in
thousand years.
You got to do it, son." returned Jar
vey cheerfully.
"Oh. but say, Jarvey," cried Flea
Ear. you don't know what it is. It's
like learnin' a Rooshian to tell the
truth. 1t amt possible"
You got to do it. Eleazar," repeated
Jarvey, and next day he again drove
the reluctant corporal forth.
This time Eleazar tried a different
method.
See here, you" he remarked dark
ly to William. I've fooled with you
long enough. I'm goin' to show you
how to block me. Then I'm goin' to
let drive at yer with that Identical
blow, an, by all the angels, fl we don't
block 1T, it'll knock the head clean off
We, see?"
The plan worked better, for in terror
Of his life, William strove valiantIy,
and to his surprise found the thing
really could be done. 1t was an heroic
method, but all honor unto Eleazar, it
worked. Day after dav the two sought
the secluded jungle together. The SEES
sions grew longer. and at the end of
two weeks the corporal was becoming
interested in his pupil and, wonder of