Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-02

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gressional committees are prolific.
the army knows that it is impossible
TO explain to the gentleman from NbM
Long Island or Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
that a little brown brother, hopping in
and out OF the brush, fanatically desir- "a
Gus OF clawtng up an American citizen
with a poisoned bolo, has little regard II
for the. federal statutes at large. And, ~
OF course, neither has Sammy, Jr, the ~
~ommerc 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.
Private Sammy does his work and he --
does 1t according to circumstances, s1H< M
which are essentially nonpolitical. WE%Z
Therefore 1t happens on occasionos MN
that the Aforesaid Moro Is sent yelp- WOhzAn
ing into eternity and Sammy Jr, re- TF FL
CARDS himself with a pleased grin.
Also. circumstances force him to
other untoward steps. Once there
was q famous soldier, Mulvaney by
name, who took the town of LungtunRpen. ma
kid as Vanus," and who, prior thereto, helped
the department of information of the British en-
pire. with the judicious administration Of his
cleaning rod. Which goes to show that between
Private Sammy and Private Tommy there is a
healthy Anglo-Saxon MISUNDERSTANDING
- regards the treatment Of black and brown
brothers.
all this is merely preamble, but wheI tho
Moro has been carted away and the congressional
has committed itself and the garlands
are forgotten Private Sammy goes back to his
own life. which to him is a highly important az
fair. Somewhere, somehow. there remains in his
brain an impression that he is allowed the pur-
suit Of happiness-and he pursues 1t. He does
It In his own way and in divers places. The tur-
bulent tides Of Juan de Fuca, which race by the
nun crested heights of Fort Worden, have heard
his rsucous chorus; the watermelon patches dot
ting the desolation of Fort Riley know his foot
print. On q Florida sandspit, in the SHOWS OF
Alaska, in the heat Of the islands, he pursues it
and catches what little there is of 1t.
The world which praises and abuses him
Knows him not, nor his life. The point Of view
Ia entirely different. A ponderous civilian at
the window of the paying teller of a local bank
observed an ohhcer in uniform standing behind
him.
wall. I guess the country is SAFE" observed
the rosund one, gazing superciiiously at the UNI
form.
Thank you, SIR" said the officer, %saluting.
This oncer was a boy lieutenant, and his sar'
casm vas natural. For within his short space
If yeafs he had played with the fangs OF death
,sad made suNoks at the powers OF darkness. A
sSSort time previously, at Luzon, he was ordered
TO ind the bodies of two soldiers that nad oeeh
murdered. The orders were to find the bodies
40 OF course they went and did. With seven
'tzoopes, and a surgeon he pursued MS way
,throusA Jungle scrub and cholera infested lands'
without food, drenched with ram, siesp,ns , ~
swamp. They found them. One was tied alive
over 4 red-ant hill, after being slashed with q
holo. ad the other had been knitted and gagged
With a PORTION OF his own flesh. Presumably me
superc16ous circumferential gentieman au NV
Srcv 81 .,,cb things and-this is what stings-
there s,m to be 50 many citizens of the coun'
try whne ideas Of the work of the army Is eaua any
lin,ted.. unfortunately. the men who 90 DIE
things ennot talk about them.
It fenpws that what the man OF the army no =
to undayo. 80 must the womm OF 4 - che is
..,t.,de Snrld knows the army woman as she %
nct n.ees in her life a succession OF society
"os...-ss realixes not the horrible other Side
Hero n I'm illustration:
soun wear. ago, in ''the days OF the empire snI re-.
it'll. IN woman went - a bride WIN nei ooo,