Evening star., 1916-07-17

than he could chew" for after a while
the lizard came up again, Jonah fash
ion. He looked somewhat dazed at
first. but soon recovered his composure
and darted about in the box after the
grasshoppers
The following morning Percy tried
second time to make meal of the
lizard. He got him down all right, but
something went wrong again. for in
few minutes the lizard was on deck
again. This time he looked more or
less damaged and soon he departed for
the happy hunting ground for lizards.
Now Percy is eating grasShoppers eX-
clusively.
Signal Corps and Field Hospital officers
and men who are MasonS have been
invited to attend a meeting of the Ma
sonic lodge of Bisbee and witness the
giving of the third degree of Masonry
to several candidates. Saturday night
a degree team composed entirely of en-
listed men of the 22d Infantry is to
put on degree work.
Signal Corps Carpenters.
The Signal Corps unit has obtained
several loads of odds and ends of lum-
ber from contractor who recently
completed the erection of large
schoolhouse here and every member of
the command has turned carpenter.
Top Sergt. Johnson and Company Clerk
Bonhardt have made a combined desk,
sideboard and dressing table.
The Signal Corps has put up a fine
picket line. but has not yet received a
single horse to tie to it. Some one
suggested that Bisbee, the collie mascot,
and Toby. the feline pet, Of the corps
be tied to it at night time. but Big Bill
Bright. the company cook. objected.
If there is thing about the camp
that is plentiful in addition to fine
mountain air that makes one feel that
life's worth living it Is stones. The
ground is covered with them for
depth of about six inches; then the
soil begins.
The Signal Corps men have been
using them to good advantage around
their tents. They have been used to
make borders for flower beds with
great success. In the beds cactus and
clumps of wire grass have been set out.
In the beds in front of some of the
tents the names of the men Guartered
within them have been spelled out
with letters composed of pieces of
white rock pressed into the red soil.
Those who are sergeants and corporals
have their official designation before
their names.
Took Pistol From Infantrymen.
Private Harry Berry of the Signal
Corps is the hero of the camp. The
other day members of the ed Infantry
received their monthly pay, and
through some hook or crook consider
able bootleg was purchased. One
member of the command took too much
on board and then started on a ram
pa ge in the vicinity of the Signal Corps
camp. He went to settlement of
Mexicans near by and threatened TO
wipe them off the map"
Drawing big automatic from his
holster, the infantryman started after
them. Men, women and children ran in
all directions. Berry heard the COM
motion and started for the row of
shacks at full speed. He found the in
fantryman endeavoring to thrust a
magazine full of cartridges in his pis-
tol. The magazine had jammed and
the soldier was expressing his opinion
of il in words that were not selected
with care.
Berry grabbed the Magazine from the
soldier and retained possession of it
until other infantrymen were on the
scene to take charge of their comrade.
The camps of the Signal Corps aid
the Field Hospital are beginning to
take on a finished look. Mess tents
have been erected for the officers and
men, and tables and benches set up in
them. Stands on which to wash clothes
have been built, and also benches for
the wash basins. The next big job will
be screening in the kitchens.