The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-10-28

again. garlands are few, while con-
gressional committees are prolific yAN#
Inc army knows that 1t is impossible
70 explain to the gentleman from ZXE
Long island or Poughkeepsie NJ "
tnat little brown brother hopping in &&
and out OF the brush. fanatically desir- NJ Il
GUS OF clawing up an American citizen EM@
with poisoned bolo has little regard NNk
Ior the federal statutes at large. And ~
OF course, neither has Sammy Jr, the @GSsss
monumental gentleman who has en-
listed for reasons best known to him.
self and whose duty it is to catch the
aforesaid Moro, and generally clear
the path for those that follow after
Prlvate Sammy does his work and he
which Ias ar according to circumstances. M
therefore, It happens on occasionos 1nxlIzz
that the aforesaid Moro is sent veln ,d1I3nI1
eards h,n,se, ,. III. ana sammy Jr. re- mr. n
sards nimseif with pleased grin
Also circumstances force him to
other untoward steps, Once there
was famous soldier, Mulvaney nv
name, VINO took the town of Lungt,ngnar ..na.
ny nlu as sanus' ana VINO, prior thereto helped
the department of information OF the british ON.
pire. with the judicious administrator ~ h,a
cleaning rod Which goes to show that between
Private Sammy and Private Tommy tbara a. !
healthy AngloSaxon Observation-Disclosures
as regards the treatment of black and brown
brothers.
All this is merely preamble, but when the
MORO nas been carried 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 at.
, 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
1t In his own way and in divers places The tur-
bulent tides Of Juan de Fuca, which race by the
In-CreSf0d. heights of Enrf
his raucous chorus: the watermelon patches dot
ting the desolation of Fort Riley know his foot
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 A ponderous civilian at
the window of the paying teller of a local bank
observed an officer In uniform standing behind
him.
z+Well, guess the country Is SAFE" observed
the rotund one gazing superciliously at the uni.
form.
THANK you. sir" said the oficer, saluting.
This oficer 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 was ordered
4 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 cholera infested lands,
without food, dren6hed with rain sleeping in
swamps. They found them. One was tied alive
over red-ant hill. after being slashed with a
bolo. and the other had been knitted and gagged
with a portion of his own flesh Presumably the
supercilious circumferential gentleman did not
know Of such things and-this is what stings-
there seem to be many citizens of the coun-
try whose ideas Of the work OF the army is equally
limited. Unfortunately. the men who do big
things cannot talk about them.
It follows that what the man Of the army has
to undergo SO must the woman OF the army. The
outside world knows the army woman as she is
not. 1t sees in her life succession of society
events and realizes not the horrible other side.
Here is an illustration:
Some years ago. in 'the days of the empire"
. little army woman went as bride with her doc