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CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1908-10-15

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Salida. Record.
T. @. Twyman, for the last year and
q half floor manager for the Baker q
Biggs Mercantile company. has &C.
cepted . position a. manager for q
large commercial concern In Nes
Pierce county, Idaho, and will leave
In few days to enter upon the du-
ties Of the place. Mr.. Twyman has
made many friends in Canon City,
who wish him success wherever he
goes.
John W. NcDeyitt, Jr., OF Durango
COLORADO. was married g niss 6es.ie
- 49, ~ a,nscok ~ NorS..
evaninr. The groom formerly lived IN
this place and was graduated from the
public schools mere: ae mas Dcen IoI
rSMe T us "a SiI.A y - htshix IJ s.tesmst -
vonnx man. M. NcDevitt's many
friends in Canon City extend to him
their ieucatanons. Ine pilao - ne
.;.H n.crn,,.rt .nd ali
knovn people OF Duranro.
A gentleman driving IN automobile
on a country road. says q writer In =
Virginia newspaper met an old-fash-
ioned high carriage in which was an
old-fashioned couple. They jumped
to the ground and the automobile
came to halt The gentleman Of the
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1908-10-15

Mr.. and Mrs. John W. McDavitt. Jr
who were married At Durango. Colo
RADIO. on The fifth inst and who have
been visiting friends In Canon City
for the several days, left this morning
for their home in Durango.
John Bonn exhibited at the Daily
Record once this morning cluster Of
apke blossoms plucked from . tree In
his orchard. They looked very pretty
but arc certainly y bit freAkish In the
middle Of October. Mr.. BunA says the
tree alluded to has several hundred
blossoms on Il and he would expect q
crop OF fruit II the season was not %
far advanced.
The Wednesday Musical Club ID
meeting this month with Miss Grace
Dale. The nrst study meeting was
held this morning. beginninE the
study OF German music. A paper on
Earliest Known Music." written By
Mrs. W. A. Norris. was read By Mrs
Jas. Rogers. Other topics in he les
son were taken BY Miss Moray and
Miss Conoway. The club was delight
cd to have as guests. Mrs Carries H.
Wilkinson and her frisna. Mrs. Wal
lace Cahill Aver, until recently q
favorits soprano Of New York. now Of
Denver. who sang several beautiful
solos.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1908-10-15

A pain prescriptioa 10 printed upon
each &c box Of DR.. 4hoop's Pink Pain
Tnblets. Ask your doctor or druggist
II this formula 10 not complete. Head
pains, womanlv pains, pains anywhere
get instant relief from a Pink Pain
Tablet Rambo & Simon.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1908-10-15
nursAaJ.

Nr. and Mrs.. Smith and sona. Percy
and Raeinald. Who hays ban vi.itin :
frianda hare for . connie n vaar.
laft thia morning for their home IN
Richmond Ind.
Senator A. a. rornsv. a sormar res-
,dent of th,. CITY but nov Iiv,n1 At
Wichita. Kan. 4 hers lookinr sfter
Mia intare.t. In the Great W.etarn
cnaI oomnenv sor which hs v.s af
On. finn. m. ..oar.I nnrcb.ain.
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th.3 th.v Iii, ..tt,. -, . tr.ct ~ land
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CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1908-10-15
fass1As.

Mra. 3. r. Rachafellow and daugh.
ter. Mrs. ". T Llttls. went 10 Denver
this morning for visit with friends,
Arch Melsslly, who has bssn sngag-
"a In the meat market business at
Lsadvills for several meaths past. ID
hack In Caaoa CITY again aAd viii r.
mAsA here until after tAs sisot3oa next
Uaa1A.
Mn. J. a. Harvey. Who saooped ofl
hero ssvssal vssks 40 ~ .. visit
With A1fs. 4 O. matt. 80 oeAsr
frssaAs vAlls @ Ass Wv baek - n
Usoo. 0re0oa. fro4 . triUeo In1iAna,
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CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1908-10-15
Rr9Aov.

J. 3. Furbush OF Sidney. Iowa, 70
here for . visit with his daugAter.
Hrs. J. r Laird. on Logan street. LIN
coin PARK.
a vvFy pleasant event vas the pis
supper of the memeen o. Haruo4y
Reoskah lodge. Thursday night There
vas . large Attendance ana every
hodZ - Coo1 tine. -. a.
a1Dau Elitaoeth Myers LEFT few
days ago for her home 10 Albany. ~.
T.. afser months visit here a. the
gueet OF her sister. Mrs. .. h. AZ
water. and family on Macon avenue.
Clyde Nayior OF Pueblo. ana MISS
Belle Handy OF South Canon. were
-...,.A I, pu.hlo t.., rpesd,x bv
=, =. 4.
me ~. Ona ". N
understood that they Will make their
home In Pueblo
q n nar4,ett left n few d.yx AGO
n..,.... -. - r,,. CITY
No. Dss Aotnea. Iowa. and other
.>.i >.s.,. a.aI invo,xor somethinx
- - -
ne ,. -
Ben eteinmeier OF -Four Mile. has
considerable crop OF apples on his
r.ncnG ~ GSy - ..s u .HS sS..s ~cI."n ,na ,hs,
a.. hendinr dovn under their load
OF fruit, and the revenue from them
this year viii enable him to add ma
Ssray 70 ~ osnk = T
~ aSssrnoon thst lad thirty per-
feet apples upon Il. They were Gen.
itcns.
Vs Q! tne e, nnes. c,.s.en . =. cUsT ss1.
80 " sCv otSsr Az thst ma.ter
was left At the once Of the Daily
Record a day or two ago BY L 3. 81
drod, OF 1905 0outh First street, South
Canon. On . tvig seven inches In
length and with = diameter not ex-
ceedinE an ordinary wised lead PEN
oil. are fifteen perfectly developed ap-
pies. Il suggests the very prolific
crop OF fruit there would have been
In the Canon City district this year
had there been no killinE tross last
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SATURDAY..
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CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1908-10-15

1t might be well to explain that
this straw vote was taken in room
IS Apex block.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-24

SECOND HAND PIPE.
Do you want good second hand piper New
tnreaos and couplings. Delivered to railroad or
ooat lree OF charge. Prices right. Pacific Pipe
20. Main and Howard SITS. Tel Douglas 2289
FOR sale-A scholarship in the Coyne National
1rade school OF San Francisco. a school that
teaches various trades; will sell at a reason
eole rate Address CHESTER MOREY B66T
FruitTale av., Fruitvale,- Cal
TENTS. camp furniture, nags. at factory prices;
I'll. catalogue free. w Al PTJTMWfr 4 SSE
III Drumm St. s. f.; tel Kearny aOeS and
o6o-566 Franklin st., Oakland; tel. Oak. 25SS
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-24
CITY REAL ESTATE

~LOEWE TRACT
IN
EXCELSIOR HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATION
in the
City and County of San Francisco
High Glass bus. and residence lots on easy
terms, S400 and upward.
Terms $40 down and $40 per month.
Take Mission ST. cars to Russia av.
Agents on the ground on Sundays
T. F. A. OBERMEYER. Agent
Phone Market 1929. 270 Van Ness aV.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-24
TopAY,s LATE oRpERs

ITAIIANS-ITALIANS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
10 Italians for rock work in big quarry close
LUAIBER PLIERS
10 Scandinavian lumber pliers for good COM
pany's yards, steady employment, $50 month
SHINGLE SAWYER.
Shingle sawyer, San MateO county, so and I'd
BILL CLERK.
Bill clerk, city store, Sl2 week.
HOTEL PORTER.
Porter for country hotel $50 and found.
VEGETABLE GARDEAER-
Gardener. San Mateo, private place must un-
derstand vegetables, $40 and found.
CARPENTERS.
3 rough carpenters city. SIS week.
WAITER AND WIPE.
Waiter and wife as waitress for country hotel,
So and found; good place
PILEDRIFER MEN.
Rattsman for piledriEer, $3.50 day
DOftsman for piledriyer 50 day.
BUTCHER.
Butcher, country shop. $50 end found.
BLACkSMITHS.
Blacksmith, city shop, no shoeing, 8 day
Camp blacksmith. see boss here, $500 day.
TRANSFERS.
so teamsters, new r r. work south; fare; 500.
4 ranch teamsters, fare 81; $50 and 10
BIG, BIG WAGES.
laborers, city JOB, 5Oc an hour
10 strong l0bOrers, close by, S4.S0 0oy.
LOTS OF THEM.
Farmers, SIG TO $40 and fd; mixers. $So TO
$50 and I'd: chOremen and choreboys, city
and country, $l5 to $40 and I'd.
FOR THE LUMBER,
NORTH AND SOUTH.
Edgermsn, sawmill, s. q day.
8 carriage settlers, $50 TO $40 and found.
Lumber pliers. $40 to $50 and found.
20 tie makers. good timber. good ground to
work on. lie tie.
Rigging singers, crosscut sawyers, etc.
Carriage setter, sawmin $3.50.
MARRIED ONES.
Farmer and wife. NOlo CO.. good Job, $50 I'd.
Choremsn and wife. vineyard south. $50 I'd.
ChOreman and wife. mine CO., So and I'd.
TRACKMEN
- trackmen company work, south.
To TAKE CONTRACT-BIG JOB.
Man TO take contract 70 dig post holes, boss
here.
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-24
COUNTRY REAL ESTATE
ALFALFA FARMS
PLANTED AND IRRIGATED

=. We offer 5. 10. 90 and 40 acre farms planted
- aHana and cared for by us; proceeds OF
crops credited on your contract of purchase;
SrNl @nuer & Irrigation; in Glenn county. miles
of payment, $1.5o an acre down and $1.5o
an acre per month Write US. telephone us
Oa Oa can at the office for circular. giving fun
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-24

FINANCIAL
THE BURLINGAME TELEGRAPH1C TYPE
WRITER HAS RECENTLY BEEN THOR
OUGHLY EXAMINED BY GOVERNMENT
PX EI BS TELEKApH1C E1PERTS us
CHANICAL EXPERTS, AND THE COM
PANY INVITES ADDITIONAL EXPERT
EXAMINATION. PARTIES INTERESTED
SHOULD CALL OR ADDRESS ELMER BUR-
IINGAMB, INVENTOR. 606 CHRONICLE
BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO
The San Francisco call., 1908-07-24

MONTARA REAL ESTATE
MONTARA
GRAND EXCURSION on new Ocean Shore
railroad to Montara and return, including din
her. 81; new houses, hotels. new side
walks, large lots. acres; will build houses for
home seekers on easy terms MONTARA Of
nee, PSI Van Ness av.. San Francisco.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-21

Prices in the Honesdale market :
Eggs, 50 cents per dozen butter, 81 to
35 cents per pound apples, as cents per
bushel rutabagas, 40 cents per bushel,
and hay from SIS to SIS per ton.
Mrs. J. p. Chambers, who fell a
few weeks ago and was badly injured,
was again unfortunate, last Thursday
evening. While ascending the stairs she
lost her balance and fell over backwards,
resulting in the breaking of one bone OF
her left arm, near the wrist. Drs. Burns
and Powell gave the needed surgical
assistance.
Mrs. NJ. G. Stark, a daughter and
niece, all inmates of one house at White
Valley, are all i'll with typhoid fever.
They are being cared for by a skilled
nurse of Carbondale, Miss l.. F. Foster
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-21
The Misses Weiss gave a Koffee

The Misses Weiss gave a Kuffee
KlotSch at their residence on Park street,
on Monday afternoon last, in honor Of
Mrs. II. Harrison and Mrs. A. b. Heine,
of New York City.
The will of the late Hon. Joseph A.
Scranton, for over forty years proprietor
and principal editor of the Scranton
Republican, has been admitted TO pro-
bate. The value OF his estate is not
given. The Republican building, very
valuable property, is givcnto his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ida Scranton Tate, and the
business to his son, Col. Robert W.
Scranton. The residue OF the property
is divided equally between the two chill
dren.
Prof. c. f. Hoban, superintendent
of the Dunmore schools, sailed for Lon
don on Saturday last to attend the con-
vention of educators in London, and
study the educational methods of Eng.
land. Prof. Hoban expects to be gone
several weeks. He is one of the ten men
selected from Northern Pennsylvania by
the National Civic Federation to repre-.
sent this country at the convention
Superintendent NJ. w. Cummings, o
Olyphant, and Prof. Frank McGuigan
of Pittston, are other members of tn,
delegation.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-21
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Blandin, of Pitts

Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Blandin, Of Pitts
ton, and Edison Blandin, of Scranton,
have been spending several days with
their mother, Mrs. Henry Blandin.
The Honesdale Hunting Club" en-
ioyed their annual outing at Elk Lake,
last week. The party comprised T. b.
Clark, u. Dubois Weston, c. r. Brady,
4. T. Brown, q. T. Chambers, T. M.
Fuller, and w. q. Blakney, all of this
place, and ]. W. Afford, of East Orange,
n. j.; l.. A. Patterson and John Simp-
son, of Carbondale, and w. NJ. Gardner,
of Scranton.
Mrs. T, h. Clark and daughter Faith,
Miss Florence S. Wood, and their guest,
Mrs. J. W. Afford, of East Orange, N. j.,
enjoyed a delightful automobile ride on
Saturday last. They visited Monticello,
took dinner at Liberty, and then on to
Jeffersonville over fourteen miles of State
road which has just been completed.
The party reached home at 9P. M, hav-
ing covered distance of lO4 miles.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-21
Don't Forget to Remember

The Clutch Supper in the Presbyterian
table at $40, Tickets, s5 cents. All
the delicacies of the Dutch season-in-
Guiding "sauer-kraut."
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-21

Vote the whole Republican ticket.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-26

fellow, brave, and well-nigh savage as lion;
but somehow he did not get on. For some
reason, or no reason at all, unless it might
be from mean jealousy OF q character more
admirable than his own, he did not take kind
ly to Charlie Lester, and was unsparing IN his
lil-natured ridicule Of the youth and his ways.
The annoyance OF this petty conduct was
really outrageous, but Lester, whose courage
patience and quietly bided his time.
About three months after this batch OF
recruits had joined us, number of officers
IRON several regiments obtained fortnigbt's
leave to go off to the distant Moorambee hills
Tor hunt. Both Collard and Lester as it so
happened, were included in the party, and
also was lucky enough to get a place.
Two whole days were consumed by our
eiaborately- appointed cayalcade of horses
wagons, servants and supplies in reaching its
destination, but we finally made camp on the
bank of the Dejoor River, near dump of
cottonwood and peepul trees, on the edge of
an omen jungle, in which peafowl, pheasants
black partridges, quail and jungle-fowl were
ABUNDANT while the marshy, river afforded us
plenty OF molard black and gray ducks teal
plover, snlpe and numerous other varieties of
water and shore birds
Charlie Lester, although this was his first
experience OF Indian sport, quickly proved
to his superior skill or more persistent pur5
SUIT, not one OF the party made such heavy
bags as did he.
All this was gall and NORWOOD to Col
lard, who had never before found himself
eclipsed, and to be now beaten at his own
game by mere tyro, for whom he had pre-
dicted an ignominious failure, was more than
he could endure.
"Of course, while on expeditions of this
kind, all the members of the party were sim
ply private gentlemen. Military rank was
not taken into account, and the Oldest field
officer had only his moral prestige to render
his authority superior to that of the youngest
sub, who, in the present case. was Lester him
self.
"Hence, no one possessed an absolute power
to control Collards ebullitions of temper. and
his treatment of his too successful rival short
ly became so offensive that hostile collision
appeared imminent-a thing the more to be
dreaded because every one intuitiyely felt
that if Charlie were once fairly aroused seri-
GUS catastrophe was likely to result.
$50 far, out of pure courtesy and considera-
ton for others, the. young fellow had exer-
cised wonderful self-restraint, insomuch that
there was some little danger of Collard COM
hitting the fatal error Of mistaking his for
bearance for fear. Thus the unhappy temper
of one man brought upon the whole camp a
lowering sky of discomfort and an anxious
foreboding o. impending III.
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But all unpleasantness was forgotten, all
clouds rolled away, when, one afternoon, a
venerable looking old native, accompanied by
a dozen followers, came into camp and re
ported that tiger, or, as he thought, pair
OF tigers, were devastating his village, some
ten miles away, having already killed several
PERSONS besides an unknown number OF cat
tie and would the white sahibs go out and
destroy the beasts.
"This-not the slaughter of the poor peo-
pie, but the vicinity of tigers--was welcome
news to us, as we had tired of small game,
and, retaining the old native to act as guide,
we sent the others of to warn the villagers
of our coming.
THE next morning, long before daybreak,
twelve. of us, including Lester and Collard,
took the road, with two hunting wagons, and
just at sunrise, reached the village congre-
CATION Of bamboo huts, containing perhaps
two hundred and fifty inhabitants, situated
near an ancient water-tank. and not far from
BARGE, or tree jungle, in which the tigers
were known to Turk.
I'VE found the mixed population of Arabs
and low-caste Hindoos in state of abject
terror, easily accounted for by the fact that
one OF the party, returning from our camp
the evening before had been pounced ,,non
and carried off bodilv by large tipress as
he was passing the tank, just at dusk. and
when actually within fifty yards of his own
door.
"The frightened people said, further that
as a bullock had also been killed on the ont.
skirts of the village about the same time
there could be no doubt that at least two
tigers were infesting the neighborhood
Now, every one knows that tiger-hun+;no
on foot is extremely dangerous work. and is
never undertaken by even the most exner;.
encsd sportsmen when elephants can he nro.
cured. but in our case these useful adipppcts
were not to be obtained under a deisv &c
several days, and we decided to take The risk
without them. VIC ti'N
NEARLY all the men of the village had turn-
ed out to act as heaters, and thew assured mr.
us that the tigers, being, gorged with food d.
would lie in close cover all day.
eve distributed among these natives q
number of hand-grenades, bought for the mr..
pose, and our whole company, about sgsr dtl
men in all, moved off toward the baree '- ons
glance at which satisfied us that So far oa as
beating it was concerned, we should lose moth.
ing by the absence of elephants, as even Their
mighty strength would have been powerless
to clear a way for their huge bodies through
the tangled maze
'1ndeed it was difficult to imagine how
the natives themselves. 1.-THE and slim as thew
were, could possibly penetrate this fearful
place, apparently several hundreds Of acres
IN extent, and densely covered with wild fig.
asoka. cotton, cork, aswattha, peepul and
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mana trees, all interlaced with gigantic creep
ers and prickly, cingng tendrils, twined and
twisted from the ground up into fantastic
mass of rank vegetation, wonderfully close
and intricate as to seem imperyious to any
living thing, and yet we well knew that its
dark recesses teemed with noxous and
venomous life.
:, By the advice of the old native we twelve
Europeans took up our stations along the
hlther edge of the baree while the fiftv or
more natives were sent around to enter from
the far side and drive the tigers out. If this
had been an open jungle, nothing could have
induced the men to undertake such a task;
but, as tigers do not climb trees, these wond
always furnish means of escape in case of
need. -
Each of the heaters, in addition to his own
curious weapons and a bunch of grenades
carried a rude drum horn or some other
noisy instrument and when, after the Iapse
of an hour or so, they got well within the
wood and began to work slowly toward us II
seemed as ii pandemonium itself had broken
loose, and we hardly wondered that dozens of
wolves, jackals and other inferior game. dis
turbed by the hideous racket, broke cover
early in the hunt and scurried past us into
the long grass of the open plain, though with,
out drawing shot, We waited impatientIv
for some hours, but saw no sign of the tigers
and at last the. heaters, having meantime
made noise enough to wake the dead, emerged
crestfallen, from their fruitless search And
now, for the first time. they told us that
within the Daree lay Ine ruins OF an old fem
pie, supposed to be frequented not only hv
evil spirits, but, what was more to the nn ny
pose, by panthers, leopards, cheetahs and
other wild beats. They had not, however
deferred by some ,pious superstition, gone near
tigers might be hiding there 'As
7'Here, truly, was dilemma All our Ia.
Dor had been thrown away, and unless we we
could manage to beat up this spot, the Whole
expedition would prove failure. while an
the other hand, to attempt to do so ann annes 0n
ed SO thoroughly foolhardy as to be Quite
unjustifable.
1Tbe veteran sportsman of the party would
not hear of such thing; but Charlie Lester u
rontain Nicol. Collard and Assistant Sureeon
McNeil could not be restrained, DECLARING fb.t
thev would get to the old temple If n t t,,rs
al dav, AT the last moment, I concluded v ~
90 along. and thus five of us set out on The
reckless enterprise.
ave offered ten rupees each-a fahp,ors
s,n in their eyes-to any of the natives who
might choose to accompany us, but a thou-
sapd times ten would not have tempted them
70 what they deemed such sacrilege.' They
directed US to keep along the edge of the
CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX
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10y story does not refer to that fabu-
IM lous monster, which is described by
AVE the ancients as half eagle, hall hon,
Rs55ySIi but to a youth of eighteen years.
y6SSO who, at the time to which 1t re-
lates, had lately donned Her Brl-
fannie Maiesty's uniform an ensign IN
famous regiment of foot, and thus gained the
sobriquet of Griffin -an army synonym LOT
a newly joined subaltern.
We were passing through the Suez Canal
on board the Peninsular and Oriental steamer
Parramatta on her outward voyage to India
in 1882, and the list of passengers included
as usual a number of officers returning 10
duty at the expiration OF their several tur-
loughs.
To beguile the time, more than one grizzled
old veteran obliginqlv entertained the COM
pany by personal "reminiscences and incidents
of Indian life
Numerous were the tales Of individual dar-
ing, dangerous adventure and halrbreadth es-
capes and one particular story as told by
Captain MacNab, of the Seaforth Highland
ers will bear repeating Said he:
1--WE were stationed at the headquarters
of Sir Frederick Roberts, near Delhi, when a
contingent, sent out to re-entorce our own
and one or two other regiments, arrived from
England
"Among the newcomers was young fel-
low, mere boy in years, named Charles Les
ter, who had just received his commission as
ensign in my own battalion, and who, by vir-
tue of prepossessing appearance, sunny tenn
per and frank, manly disposition, made his
way more rapidly into the good graces of his
brother officers than any Griffin have ever
known.
q Charlie as in less than a week we came
to call him, was not then quite eighteen years
OF age, but stood fully six feet high, and
was active as cat and strong as a buffalo,
havinq indeed ranked Al in the gymnasium
at Sandnurst, in addition to standing well up
in all his classes.
'Verv strangely, however, for one of his
Joyous temperament, he never INDUCED in
any of the mischevous pranks or wild esca-
pades common to other young subs, but at
tended to duty will a conscientious straight
forwardness which. while it exposed him to
not little mereiless raillery on the part of
his more careless companions, babe fair to
insure an early rise in his profession-an aug
ury which some here present know has been
amply fulfilled.
"The boy soon became an almost universal
favorite with his comrades I say almost, ,
because there was one. exception, in the per-
son of Ramon Collard, a man who, at the
age of twenty-eight, was still an ensign though
his opportunities for promotion had been nu-
merons Nevertheless. he was bold hardy