Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1910-10-28

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again, garlands are few, while con- X# ~
gressional committees prolific N
Fhe army knows that it Is impossible TI&'
TO explain to the gentleman from 4sM
Long Island Poughkeepsie, NJ Y. @
that little brown brother, hopping in
and out OF the brush fanatically desir- kH al -
GUS of clawing up an American citizen II
with poisoned bolo, has little regard NeEMZ
for the federal statutes at large And lZ
of course, neither has Sammy Jr. the etH<sSS4as
monumental gentleman who has en-.
listed for reasons best known to him
sels and whose duty it is to catch the
aforesaid Moro and generally clear
the path for those that follow after
Private Sammy does his work and he 1.
does it according to circumstances .1AE M
which are essentially nonpolitical ZHE Fl
Therefore 1t happens occasionos MINI
that the aforesaid Moro is sent yelp INOhzAh
Ing into eternity and Sammy Jr re- ZzE- III
CARDS himself with a pleased grim
Also, circumstances force him to
other untoward steps. Once there
was famous soldier. Muvaney by
name. who took the town Of Lungtungpen, ma
kid as Vanus," and who, prior thereto helped
the department of information of the British EN-.
pire, with the judicfous administration of his
cleaning rod. Which goes to show that between
Private Sammy and Private Tommy there is a
healthy Anglo-Saxon Observation-Disclosures
as regards the treatment of black and brown
brothers
All this is merely preamble, but when the
Moro has been carted away and the congressional
committee has committed itself and the garlands
are forgotten Private Sammy goes back to his
own life, which to him is highly important af-
fair Somewhere somehow, there remains in his
brain an impression that he is allowed the pur-
suit of happiness-and he pursues it. He does
It in his own way and In divers places The tur-
bulent tides of Juan de Fuca, which race by the
guncrested heights of Fort Worden, have heard
his raucous chorus; the watermelon patches dot
I'M tho 0f knO fo0f.
print. On Florida sandspit, in the SHOWS Of
Alaska, in the heat of the islands, he pursues it
and catches what little there is Of It,
The world which praises and abuses him
knows him not, nor his life The point of view
is entirely different. ponderous civilian at
the window OF the paying teller of local bank
observed an officer in uniform standing behind
him.
well, guess the country is SAFE" observed
the rotund one, gazing superciliously at the uni.
form.
THANK you SIR" said the officer, sauting.
This officer was boy lieutenant and his sar-
casm was natural. For within his short space
of years he had played with the fangs OF death
and made snooks at the powers of darkness
short time previously, at Luzon, he ordered
to find the bodies Of two soldiers that had been
murdered. The orders were to find the bodies,
so of course they went and did. With seven
troopers and surgeon he pursued his way
through jungle scrub and cnolera INFESTED lanos'
without food drenched with rain, sleeping In
swausus They found them. One was tied alive
over IA reliant HILL after being slashed with a
bolo. and the other had been knitted and gagged
with portion of his own flesh. Presumably the
sunercous crcumferential gentleman did not
rnow of such things and-this is what stings-
+here seem to be so many citizens OF the coun.
trv whose ideas of the work of the army is equally
limited. Unfortunately the men who do big
things cannot talk about them.
II follows that what the man OF the army mas
r. undergo, so must the woman of the army. The
uts;de world knows the army woman as she IS
not 1t sees in her life succession OF society
no' nd realizes not the horrible other side.
uore is an illustration:
oors aoo in ..the days of the empire"
49,, ormv woman went as bride With her doc