New-York tribune., 1916-07-09

Company, fist Infantry whose wife
died last week.
but it will only he in cxtraordi-
nary cases that such leaves will be
granted" the general said.
Up to now the Guardsmen have been
TOO busy building their camp to do
much talking. and civilian residents
have been likewise too busy with their
business boom TO do much thinking.
thinking and talking have strtcd at
last, though, and If there is anything
TO that old saying there must be pair
Of burning ears in the White House.
The citizen soldiers have begun to
ask one another what is TO he the con-
crete result Of sacrificing from three
months TO year Of their time to their
country. These Texans Of the border
answer them:
1T they take you away before you've
hred them nice new guns of yourn us
iellers will have to follow you. Once
let the MeXicans get the idea that
Uncle Sam has been bluhing EN- and
that they've called the bluff. an Ameri-
cans life along the border won't be
worth a mesquite bean"
Down here. although Texas is n strong
Democratic state and his own cause is
lost. Theodore Roosevelt is a hero.
mere Is much anxious speculation as
to whether he may not have some
prominent part to play in the next ma
tonal administration, given Justice
Hughes is elected
Judge John G. Scott. of Corpus
{ Christi. counael for the Hdalgo County
drainage district, was here to-day talk
ing politics and war and Roosevelt.
Corpus Is pretty near 200 miles from,
mere he said. "but | wouldn't dare tc
Keep my family even that close to the
+ border If the calling out Of the Ma
tional Guard proves to be plain politics
wilson made his first mistake az
Vera Cruz. as we on the border know
only too we'll
This present concentration, unless
he means TO 60 through with it. will
start bigger coufagration than .he
/ Vera Cruz affair.
IF Colonel Roosevelt had been nomi-
mated at Chicago he would have stood
good chance of carrying Texas. That
because We know how he's regarded in
/ Mexico. ! was i'm Mexico City when he
was defeated at the convention in 1912
and | remember that two newspapers
IN Mexico City came out the next day
with the headlines: Mexico Is Saved
There's been some talk about the
| Colonel becoming Secretary of State II
/ Hughes is elected II that is the un-
derstandine, therell be big Republi-
can vote in Texas next fall, you can
bank on that and Judge SCOTS views
are those of nine out of ten men IN
McAllen.
Heat has been intense again to-day,
with humidity of which medical Off
GERS arc beginning to take note. At
dawn low mist hangs over the brush.
II seeps through the tents, and the
men rise al rcvcille 20 find their cloth
/ ing wet as with heavy perspiration.
Perhaps the two cases of pneumonia
which thus far have developed may
have been due 10 this Meanwhile hea.
/ prostrationS continue at the rate of
| fifty day. Most Of the victims re-
/ cover within few hours, but half a
/ dozen arc still in the base hospital at
1 San Antonio.
Scorpions and tarantulas abound. The
ratt t.esnakes are disappearing. Never
/ theless, there was a snake scare early
/ this morning that brought out half the
men Of r Battery. 1st Artillery. with
| slippers and sabres and not much else
The snake came from the tent OF
Captain John T. Delaney, commanding
/ the battery. His men, i'm the negligee
of Eden. found him outside his tent
when they rallied 10 the rescue.
+. +. Pittman. a private in Company
l. list Infantry. who has suffered six
attacks Of heat exhaustion since reach.
ing the border. Will be sent home to-
/ morrow. Private George Waterman, OF
/ the same company, will be sent 10 the
base hospital at San Antonio 70 be
/ treated for appendicitis. An operation
( probably will not he necessary. George
/ u. Millar, private in Company VI OF
/ the list, who has been a victim OF
/ epilepsy. due 10 contact with a charged
/ electric wire four years ago, will start
home on the same train with Pittman.