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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-11
a f z w E .
PER
s. S. Alameda
LADIES' PRINCESS DRESSES.

LADIES' PRINCESS DRESSES.
In White, Pink, Blue and Lavender,
beautifully trimmed and the latest Gre
ations of Dame Fashion.
LADIES' WHITE LACE JACKETS
AND COATS.
New York S newest and SWEETEST
styles. They are beauties.
LADIES LONG SILK, PoNGEE AND
REP COATS. CORRECT STYLES.
NEW CHIFFON WELLS.
Long, square and the new outing veil
with the hood effect, embodying comfort
and grace. In all Colors.
NEW vEILNGS
by the yard. All new patterns and the
latest shades. An endless assortment
WHITE LACE EMBROIDERED
Very pretty, and washable.
WHITE, WASHABLE CRoCfIETED
BUTTONS.
In all sizes. just the thing for trim
ming wash coats and suits.
WHITE SILK CRoCHETED BUT
TONS.
Large and small.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-11

Fine driving and saddle horses, 1928
Fort street, telephone 109. Club Stables.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17
When the Chinese Ruler Died

gateway, highly polished and just fin
ished, form a drama. Police officer
inexorable, proprietor sorrowful, fence
and gate shortly somberly CARRIED in
black is the next chapter.
The morning grows and slowly as
each s]hopkeeper adds his contribution
a cloud of blue crested with white
characters creeps up each street and
alley until all the city Is on sober hue
But why this sudden activity, this
transformation?
The busy Manchu soldier policeman
a modernist in uniform and CAP, bob
bling into each tiny shop along the
streets, stops a minute.
"Hwang Shang sur la!" he emphat.
ically declares to you in his highly in
flected Pekin tones, and then you
know. Red and yellow are colors OF
happiness. Blue is the imperial
mourning color. The emperor is dead.
Cold, Gloomy, Quiet.
Evening is crisp, cold, but gloomy
Around the east and north palace
gates heavy Pekin carts are rumbling,
hurrying officials in and out. Down
around the legation quarter late in the
evening you walk in stiffness, finding
only a few more rickshaws than usual
wrangling along and a fep more carts
Out of the darkness along the Aus
trian glacis, an open space Of ground
kept so by treaty, and into the circle
of an electric light, swings an Austrian
patrol Of four musketed and bayoneted
b~luejackets from Kaiser Franz Josef's
navy on their evening tramp around.
Down Legation street you go, passing
a stalwart German sentry, h~igh-booted
and helmeted, the brass spike of his
helmet top glinting as you pass. A
French sentry patrols, the long, slen.
der bayonet on his gun reaching al
most the top of the high French lega-
ton.
Legation street, though deserted.
looking, is busy. Flags were sent to
half-mast this noon when official worL
came that the emperor was no more
Dispatch writing became the order OF
the day. But just now, II you could
see, it is probably buster. There
seems TO be a subdued excitement in
the speed of the rickshaws and carts
and people o meet, not to oe ex-
planned by the of this
morning.
Back out of the legation section into
the native part of the Tatar city you
go, and your Chinese friend, whose
Continued on Page Three.)
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17
why County Grows.

not being used. 1t may be that Te-
cumseh does not realize it's own re-
sources. Whether conscious or I'M
conscious, however, is a question we
shall leave for the citizens themselves
to answer.
Every city dreams. Every city
longs for greater prosperity; every city
hopes for commercial power and mu-
nicipal advancement. The fault of
nearly all ambitious little cities is
that they look for growth TO come
from without instead of within. Te-
cumseh has the element and resources
that will bring growth and prosperity.
1t needs a little pushing and 1t is re-
ceiving it from some of its best citi-
Eens. The city already has a fine
nature with Genie beauty; it has
handsome streets; it has good walks,
water works, electric light and, in
fact, all the other modern improve
ments.
There are two distinct classes OF
settlers in a new country. On the Pa
cifc coast they settle up the country.
In Johnson county they settle down in
the country. The difference between
q period of settling up and settling
down is the difference between adven-
ture and development. And this spirit
has had much to do with the prosper
ity and development OF this county.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17

HEKlN, Sunday, Nov. 15.-All
- morning the shopkeepers
along the main streets and in
the alleys have been busy
Armed with utensils varying
from a pancake shovel to a long-han.
died garden spade they have been
%scraping, scraping, scraping. Door
frames and doors, posts offering any
available surface in the labyrinth of
lattice woodwork of the shop front,
have received attention.
Red and yellow paper posters are
the prey of the hunters. That sign
posted on your house wall last New
Year time by 5our opposite neighbor
MAY he who comes out of that door
across the way have happiness this
year" those fine, big, ~high-meaning
characters or those quotations from
the writing of the sage that you your.
self pasted IN your W shop front are
but crinkled scraps of paper now.
Out from among the steaming iron
cauldrons of this dusky cookshor
comes the boy, usually. All day long
he sings to the passersby the joys and
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17

merits Of his shop ~"boaboas," round
balls of dough and meat, while the
cooking staff in the shop rattle and
drum their dough rollers on the table
Today he has stopped singing, they
drumming. He climbs aloft on a pyr-
amid of stools and tables and pulls
down a streamer of red cloth hanging
in front of the shop. Up goes a piece
of blue cloth instead, suspended from
the bottom of a brass pot emblem
showing that here the hungry may be
filled.
Blue Goes Over the Red.
Across the way al old money
changer is out in front of his cash
shop, replacing with a blue tassel Q
red one adjoining the strings of make
believe brass cash that advertise his
sto~ck-in-trade. Red board signs that
can be taken down come down, blue
paper is spread over the offending red
of those that must stay up.
A police oficial-importance Itself
the proprietor of a new lumber yard
Fate and Despair respectively, and the
proprietor's gorgeous red fence and
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17

~ VERY mas us
strong points as a place of
residence or as a CONNER
- cial or manufacturing CEN
ter. Everything that goes
to make life pleasant and profitable.
either in a social or business way, is
a public asset and has a distinct ON
mercial value.
johnson county not only leads all
other counties of the state in breeding,
buying n shipping of high-grade
draft horses, but it secured first pre-
MUM at the St. Louis exposition for
the best beef steer in the United
States. But few years ago the produc-
ton of well-bred cattle and horses in
johnson county did not merit atten-
ton. Today 1t is the banner county
of the state. And it is in this section
of the great and bountiful west that
the best of the beef you eat doth grow.
The Spaniard was the original cattle
ranchman in America and he made a
success of it from the start. He
adapted himself to the new conditions,
invented new appliances, or made new
use OF the old ones. Even today most
of his methods are in force and his
language Is handed down in the famil-
lar terms used on the range. The
Spaniard's horse had much to do with
his success as a ranchman. This use
full animal, the ancestor of all the COW
ponies, he brought with him from Eu-
rope. With it's aid and with that of
an invention OF his own, the lariat, he
laid the foundation of a business
which has made the fortune of many
men and now feeds a large proportion
of the worlds civilized population.
Yenke Cut In.
Up to this time the Spaniard and
his descendant, the Mexican, had the
business in their own hands. The oc-
casional man from the north was
merely a hand, a ''puncher," and
rarely owned stock of his own, but 1t
did not take the man with Yankee
blood and Yankee commercial instinct
long to see the enormous profits to be
got out of the business, and little by
little he began to acquire, by purchase
or otherwise largely otherwise), a
bunch of his own, which he marked
with his brand. The American and
the Englishman, who came to 1t by
way of the States, caught on amaz-
ingly; the dash and excitement of the
life got into their blood. the CONNER
cial possibilities of the industry ap-
pealed to their business sense and
gradually they worked their way up
from "punchers" to principals. They
became masters, and the Mexican, that
expert horseman and skillful rope
thrower, became the puncher.
The cattle market is moving west
ward. They have stopped growing
cattle and are now growing beef in
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17

Johnson county. They have discov-
eatable portion OF the Neef animal.
Slowly the complexion of the western
herd began to change. Quality has
begun to count as against quantity.
The game today is to get the steer to
marketable size when 10 months old
and weighing about 1900 pounds.
You could never put your industrial
finger on the range steer. His num-
bers and his qualities were always a
problem. Ten years ago the Short
horn cross was in full evidence. Beef
was shorter in horn and leg all over
the west. The 2,000-pound steer is
fast passing, for fashion exists in beef
as in all else. After him came the
Jersey, the Attorney and the Holstein,
but these passed from all beef plans
as impossible of profit. Then came
the steer, dehorned or harmless, all
beef, blocky, s~mall-boned, with no
waste before or after death. He is
1S-karat fine and has had eighteen
months of luxury. He is a new prod
uct in the new west and has come to
stay.
Colonel Ben Miller & Son have been
buying and shipping horses from Te-
cumseh for the last fifteen years. This
mpa handles nothing but the first
grade of well-bred horses. In the
first three years. from 1898 to 1895,
they paid an average price of $40 a
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17

head. In 1900 they paid SAB, in 1905
$110, and last year they were paying
an average of $3.50 per head, and the
horses have been no better than the
one that brought but one-ifth that
amount. This company for several
years has been buying more thar 100
carloads of horses each year. Last
year they purchased 1913 carloads,
amounting to 4,053 horses, for which
they paid $68S,0O0. This accounts in
part for the wonderful prosperity Of
the farmers of Nebraska.
Johnson County's Size.
Johnson county has but 37S square
miles and a population of about
$4,000. Tecumseh, the county seat,
has $500 population, and is one of the
brightest, ~cleanest and most ogre
sive towns for it's size in eastern Ne
braska. Sterling is another town that
would attract the attention of a
stranger as being unusually prosper
Gus. 1t has about 1000 population.
Crab Orchard has about 400 people
that seem 10 De entirety conJenJed ana
happy. Cook has but $50 people, but
1t is surrounded by some of the very
best farming country in the state. The
several artesian wells add much to this
village, as they furnish power for a
limited amount of manufacturing. Elk
Creek has 400 population and Vesta
$50, both being supported by a rich
farming country and both prominent
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17

shipping points for grain and live
stock. The country produced last
year 6S3, 900 bushels of corn and $685.
900 bushels of wheat, while the hogs
shipped out of the country amounted
to about $1,000.
why County Grows.
How much of Tecumseh and John
son county's rapid ana substantial
growth and development is due to nat
ural results and advantages, and what
percentage is due to the remarkable
enterprise and public-spiritedness of
William Ernest is, of course, impossi-
BILE to determine. Certain it is, how
ever, that the entire county has re-
ceived much in both directions and
combined results are in the highest
degree gratifying to all whose inter-
ests or attachments are centered there.
Mr.. Ernest is of a quiet n rather re-
firing disposition, yet his whole bear
ing invites friendship and confidence
and cooperation Is natural as the
spring invites the flower. He is past
middle age, but is robust in mental
and moral qualities and is a man
whose voice, smile and hand grasp all
testify to the solidity and worth Of his
manhood. Mr.. Ernest has had much
to do with the material progress OF
Tecumseh. This little city certainly
has the natural for develop
ment. 1t may be that the material is
Der Sonntagsbote. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1906-1912, 1909-09-26
9nrtie nnO gsriabt.
9teu glorf, D. &c

Gin Slug pon 8ooernorS Ssluuo
iiber 0ie intere 9ai mo Inn Oie
Statue Der NreibeitSa0ftiu herum
miro pobriheinlidj ole erite 0leit.
iliegerporiiibrung iein ipabreno Der
bier itattfinOen0cn 0uOiou-6Ilton.
ieier. @lenn $. 9irtiB, Ser Sieger
0es criten &reiies pdbreuo Der 9uit.
ihifierpohe inRbeius, bat angetiin.
oiat. oaB er oeriuhen miro, 0ieicn
Slug auspifiihrcH iobalO or feline
Yfoidliue OoIlig 5uiammengeiest bat
uu0 tie eingeorbeitet.ilt.
g9ilbur ySright. ser icinen Gleif.
fliegcr nnbe5u sulanmen geieet bal,
irat udbren0 Der Cages sum eritul
@loIe nit GurtiB Suiauneu felt oic.
ier non@uropa suriid gefebrt lit. Die
@egeguung eriolgte in @riahtS
Sduppen ollf Sooernors %Slano.
Tie gegenieitige 8egriiBung mar
reht berSlib uno es iheint SUiihcn
oen @ei0eu feiuerlei Berltinumn0
5u berrihen. neil Oie @cbriiOer
gSriabt sic Serriug.GurtiB So. ne.
gen %atentnerletung bcrtlaat babeu.
Der Sonntagsbote. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1906-1912, 1909-09-26
C9rofaSmiraI a6ils, anacEommcn.
gtclu gorf, %. September.


9einobe jeoer anlauQeuoe trans,
otlontiihe 9oHpier bringt befamlte
@dite 81 Der 9uoion 6ultonieicr
Der eriie Der gtnfammluQe mol
Grobo0nlirni bon Softer. Die ore
Oentiheu areu5er, ole an scr groBer
Shiiisparaoe tbeilnebmen iollen
uarcn nod nidt ongelangt, oIs 9l0,
mirol Softer bon Dem 00mpiel
,,9liimer~ an Sano fam Gr puroC
on Dem @ier in 9obofen bon Bcfie.
raj Souuro Carroll I'M gtamen oce
Sfaates glen Norf imo bon 9rdii,
bent Guesoale BON ser Sadapaua.
gabn i'm Ronien Der Qu0ion55ilton.
fomniiilion begriiBt. @robaomirol
Softer iaate, ooB er IN eriier Sinic
ols gertreter oes Oeutiden aaiiers
fame uno bra6te einen grief bon oic.
lem nit lid. Der @iinihe fir 0as
quite @elinacn DER 5eier entbielt. er
miro nidlt in Qerion ons 9onHanoo
0es oentlben ebeidmooers iiberneb.
men. moourfl Die 6rage pegen oes
@orranges BON sir G0uurO s.. Gen.
mour. Der Die 2eitung Der engliiden
Sdiiie bobeu miro. megidlt.
Der Sonntagsbote. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1906-1912, 1909-09-26
Iaiinnierlnftihiff.
gtelu gorf, %. Sept.

-NNIV sIVltf -. ~VFl-
Cine Soupiulmmer Der grobcn
dronoutildlcn Shouiieauug. Oic ae.
legentlid Der Suoion.6ultonieier I'M
Yla0iion Square @aroen itattiin0et.
miro ein SeitboIlon biIoen. ser nab.
reno 0es 6eites @aiiasiere iiber Oie
StoOt pegtra9en iou. GoS 9uitlbiif
lit eutiuoricn un0 bier qebaut bon
SSSoel Z. 9iice imo Sohn ". 9ligas.
beiOe BON Sot Springs, 9Irt. Sic
moIlen .'res Nal Is @niingiere be.
iorOern unO &iele baben iid ihon fir
eIne 6abrt bormerfen lanen.
Der Sonntagsbote. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1906-1912, 1909-09-26
0nmpf NIT anSinnern.
Qnniinn- Mlidl-- - Eenienlher.

Gaming, W1idl., %. September.
Der Sulispiloparter Sad 8opeIt
bon geliemer bat einen geridt elm.
gelanot iiber eincn Nampf SEN a.
oid)t on Der @ren3c BON @sconiin
nit einer 9an0e bon miloern0eit
Observation-Disclosures 81 beiteben bat.
te. 9ieie Daiieu in Wtidiaan Stride
uno giber geialt, ipie cs ibre Dor.
Ddier qetbdn batten, ebe Die gleih.
aeiihter ibre ,Sagogeieee madten.
Nopctt ging IN ooS Eager Der sSn,
0ianer uno poate iie berbaiten. mad.
Dem or @ilopret uno 9iberbdite
ent0edt bate. Die 6 sSn0ianer grii.
fen, pon ibren SQnaps unteritiigt
ben g9il0fpdrter imo ieine 5 Mann
nit SduBpaifen lno @erten an.
Gieieu itan0en nur 5lpei 8erDebre
8ilr 8erilatnq. 3opeit erid)oB
ihlieBlif einen Ser eSn0inner. Der.
binter einem gaume itebcn0, auf ion
3ieltc. .9ie Squulus maren ebenio
ihIimn iUic Die Dldnner." hcii,t es IN
Dem geridlt. Goiuctt ingt Sinn
ShluB Oeiielben. 0aB glutpergieBcn
unberneiolih mare, menn er nod
einmol oeriudte, 0ie Rotbbaute 81
perbaften.
Der Sonntagsbote. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1906-1912, 1909-09-26
Srei 9scrioncn prrIcbt.

South 9raintree. Nloii., %. Sept.
Scr lette &dgen Oes rcanIdreu
3ugeS bon gIeiuport uah Bolton Der
IN letterer Sta0t INN 8 llbr SO Wii.
mlten &ormittags ioaig lit mo oer
oni Der Strede Der Rem Dorf. glelu
Sobeu & Sartioro ". ". lduit. luar
cine g9eihe nidt ridtig mo illbr IN
cine 9langirIofomotiuc bineiu. Trei
Ycriouen muroen perlett. ober Dem
gLnlhein nod niht aeiahrlih.
Der Sonntagsbote. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1906-1912, 1909-09-26
Tusiidlt anf gecnOianng 6es Strn.
fenbabnitreifes.
Cma6o, glebr.. %. september.

2n1abd, 9(ebry ~. september.
gian trdgt iid bier nit Der Soii.
nuna, 0ab Der Streif Der StraBen.
babnangeitellten baIo 81 einem Gu0e
fommen miro. fUos cine 6olge Der
aonferensen iein miiroe, bic am Ia.
ae Dorber uno in Der letter. gladt
sDiiden Dem 9iiraermeiiter 1abl.
man, Dem Braiioenien @attles BON
ser StraBeHbabnfompagnie. Den
,Siihrern Der itreifenoeu 5traben.
babnanaeitelten mo Wlitglie0ern
0es gtaotraibes obgebaIten pur0en.
@eitere aonieren5en uer0en nod
folaen mo man qlaubt. 0aB man
cine geieitigung Der 9ifieren5en er.
reihen miro. gs beibt. oab 9'raii-
bent g9attles 5mar eine idlieOsoe,
ridltlihe entiheioung abaelebnt ma
iidl qeueiqert bal. bic @emerfidaii
Der angeitelien an5uerfennen, fif
0afiir aber oo5n beritanOen bat. Scr
gireftoren Der aompognie BerihId
ge 3u wihiigen 8useitdnoniiien 81
MAIDEN.
Der Sonntagsbote. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1906-1912, 1909-09-26
@hitnen ipridlt.
glep Dorf. q. Sepiember.


Sarrp @bitnep. Der iinge Sports.
monn Ron gtetc SaDen, oeHen 3eug.
niB fir 0ie gior0polfniitroDerie Don
70 GROCER gsidtigfeit 1T. bat BON iih
boren Iaiien uno beitdtiet. 6db Gr.
Goof ibm er5abIt bat, ooB er ben
giorOpoI entoeft Eat 60 beriftct
cine bieiiae gloreeBeitung. GadD
Dem .91eU gorf @mericon" erbieli
Srou @6itnep. BE glutter oes lur.
Gen Sportmonnes. einen Brief pon
ibrem Sobn. Der rom ;. September
ontirt 1T. Gorin belBt es: sd fat
II goof IN Gtab. Gr bat cine groBe
1bat boabrodlt. CT iDiro iiherIif
ein erober Wann Deroeu. er be,
Der Sonntagsbote. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1906-1912, 1909-09-26

tet iUuroen.
Gerner ioisS aus Gait Sort, WiH..
gemeioet. oaB bort Rarf 5amilton.
oeiien @ottIn nHo flint ain0er urns
2eben taingn, oIs Der Sturm ibr
ecns serit5rte.
Der Sonntagsbote. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1906-1912, 1909-09-26

2eide rubt. geoffnet folroe. narer
ihon biele Sunoerte nnweienO unO
bis Abenos holb 5ebn llbr, oIs bic
Ibiiren qeitIoiien Duroen. ergDB
iih unuHter6rohen EN- W4pni4en.
ifrom om cara por5fi.
Der Sonntagsbote. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1906-1912, 1909-09-26
9dt GuSgellttsa.

Ger @onOernenr Su6uiOH BON Niin-
nriOta unterIieat i'm 9iinacr init
Dem Sdpitter Sob, am fauften
Sage uad Der Operation.
Der Sonntagsbote. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1906-1912, 1909-09-26

bauptet. oaB er Sen 9tor0pOl crreid)t
hat. uno nah ienlen @eIceen oafilr
glaube i'd. 0aB Dem 10 iit."
Commander |earD. an oeIien @e.
leIlihaft fih g9bitnen onihloB, 0ie
er aber ipGtcr micOer ocrIieB. nm
on Der aiiite bon 2abra0or nod pci-
ter 81 iaaen bat aeilgt, 0ob gSbit.
ncp fep gSort non Or. @oofs Ont.
oefind oes gioropols aeiaat bate.
CesbdIb lit man iebr geipannt aui
oas pcrloHlibe 3euQiiB ocs nmgen
Yiannes BON ReD Napen.
Der Sonntagsbote. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1906-1912, 1909-09-26
ggoIburit, Col, %. geot.

Hrdii0ent Gaft fam naboem er
sic giadt OILS @oit i'm Sauie oes &C.
naiors Sua6es in genoer berbro6t
baite, bier mn 9 llbr Wlorgens on
nno nahm ieiu 6riibitiid nit Serru
uno iSron Gbomds 4. @alib elm.
lin 101a llbr uobnte Der Brdiioent
einem Gnpiang bel. DER ibm 5u eb.
rem Dermitaltet tpmOe ino bis IL
ll6r oouerie. Inn 215 llbr Miro er
in Colorado Springs eintreiien.
Der Sonntagsbote. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1906-1912, 1909-09-26

Ct. QallI. Qlinn.. @. zen.

Wlehr ais $4,000 gerionen morfen
iuobreno ors Iages einen lettengllif
aisf oes AntIis oes tooten @ou0er.
neurs sSobnion. oeiien 2eihe i'm
5oDer bes Staatsfdpttols nufge5abrt
III. 4ls I'm sehn llbr gornlittags ste
Ztiirsn 81 bem Sool in bem bic
Der Sonntagsbote. (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1906-1912, 1909-09-26

thoriiesuna ani Ssiis 81
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07

snuffer and tore his "spring6eld" from his
hand.
Then the garbage barrel was removed and
the recruit was threatened with death if he
made an outcry. He was forced to march at
the bayonet's point to the shore of the island
and then to run over the ice toward the main
land with his former prisoners at his heels
When the deserters and their victim arrived
near the New Rochelle shore a hole was
Clipped in the ice by means of the bayonet and
the rifle was dropped through into the waters
of the sound. Then the recruit was told that
if he chose he might return to the garrison.
He told his former charges that he preferred to
throw in his lot with them for if he went back
he would be certain to get heavy dose of the
guardhouse for neglect of duty in suffering his
prisoners to escape, and for the loss of govern
ment property in the shape of the Springfield
rifle which was now at the bottom of the
sound.
The deserters told the recruit that he could
Willmar tribune., 1909-04-07

uttered word. Back over the sand we went
through the bowling and the lashing We lost
our bearings and ran into an obstruction. l
traced its outline and knew what it was. It
was the hospital morgue, wooden structure
not more than Is feet square. We crawled
around it until We had reached the west side
where the shelter gave us breath; from the
doorway of the morgue came challenge that
even the noise of the storm could not smoth.
er-'Who comes there?'
"The answer, Relief was yelled back by two
voices in unison, and we crawled into the dead
house. There, standing guard in the grewsome
place. was colored lad, only four weeks a
soldier, and within touch of his hand resting
on its zinc bier, was the corpse of man.
Driven by the storm to seek shelter, that
black recruit, rather than leave his post to
get the protection afforded by the hospital
had chosen in the blackness of midnight, and
with wind and wave raging without, to take
up his watch by the dead, because the place
where the body lay was on his post, which he
was under orders not to desert"
Two army deserters convinced a certain
raw recruit that there was something more
than words in the saying he had once heard
to the effect that republics always are ungrate
full. 1t fell on this wise:
The recruit had marched on guard for the
first time The sergeant in charge turned two
prisoners over to him with instructions to
guard them while they drove mule team and
collected the garbage from the barrels in the
rear of the quarters. 1t was the dead of
winter, and for the first time in years the
channel between David's island and the town
of New Rochelle was frozen over.
The recruit plodded along after his prisoners
but being green to such work, he kept close at
their heels instead of trailing along at q dis
tance of five PAGES as he should have done.
Guard and prisoners reached point near the
shore directly in the rear of the commanding
officers quarters. There one of the deserters
seized an empty garbage barrel and an oppor-
tunity at the same instant. He threw the bar
rel over the sentiners head like candle