The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-09-12
LONG LANCE, CHEROKEE INDIAN, A
HEROIC FIGHTER At why RIDGE

from winch ne graduated two years
later. While there he made the high
est yearly mark in the senior class
and won medal for efficiency in his
studies.
He also annexed a silver loving
cup for winning the school spelling
bee, was member o. mcst Of the
athletic teams and still holds the
schools half-mle record His fell
lows voted him the best all-rourd de-
veloped student, physically, in the
school.
At st. Johns, as at Carlisle, his
summers went in earning a living
and accommodating money for moro
school. One season he posed for u
moving picture company in Wild
West lays. The next. he became
clarinetist in a military band that
tourned the ChautauCua circuit.
Whatever chance came to hand he
seized, for his ambition had corn
pletely stripped him of any false
shame or petty pride. The impulse
which had taken him from the circus
and the prize ring-the fixed pur-
, pose to educate himself and realize
all his possibiities-ruled him Who'll
ly.
The Glorious Climav.
Then came sudden ard DAZZLING
honor. In he spring OF 1915 Pros.
dent Wilson. whose attention had
been called to this pluckv and per
/ sistent Indian lad more thar a year
before, and who had been WATCHING
him without his knowledge, surprised
him by bestowing on him one of the
precious Presidential appointments
to West Point.
/ But Long Lance never came to join
his class at West Point. Instead, hc
] dropped out of sight, and so remain
ed until last winter, when one of his
old teachers at Carlisle was surpris-
ed at receiving a postcard, dated
somewhere in France, and sent by
First Lieutenant S. c. Long Lance
of the crack Princess Pats Battalion
And now, to a friend in New Yor,;
has come another letter dated Junr
/, which shows that Long Lance
luck is still with him.
81 am in a field hospital" it saw
"convalescing from wound in tn
head, received a couple Of weeks aCc
Nothing serious; only piece c.
shrapncl in the back part Of the hea'
and a broken nose the latter sus
tanned in falling on my face, pre-
sumo.
81 came through the April 9 scrar
(Vimy Ridge) without a scratch ho
ing the only officer of my rank lcf
in my company, only to get hit {;
month later on one of the QuicteG
days we have had lately. Such is
war!
Glad to Be ont of Trenches.
"Any way" he goes on. 81 find th|
open warfare, which has enSucd sing
we took Vimv Ridge, is much mo-"
interesting and endurablc than thr
trench stuff that we had to tolerate
all winte", We are able to sec mile.
behind Fritz lines now, whereas
during the winter, few yards OF Nc
Mans Land and the German front
line was the visual limit from ou'
trenches.
81 am enjoying the green trees an
sunny hillsides surrounding the hos
pital here, after so MANY drcarr
months in the drab trenches. O1'
would hardly know that there was +,
war on if it were not for the dist?7
|, tumble of the 'heavies' and the Gyor'
of battle planes overhead.
1--WE have Fritz on the run now
and we are holding all the trump
cards as far as can see from obfcr-
vations here. Fritz personally, is
getting pretty well 'fedup' with wa
1t is not infrequent that he voluniar
, lily comes over and surrenders-whcr
he gets a chance to sneak from his
, own lines"