j A BKAVE COWARD ) 5 By H. I. Cleveland. . 5 John Sloan trembling. His face was white, his eyes wandering, while over his •kin ran cold and hot Hushes. His mother eat by the big window at the west end of the dining room. Mary Carr was at the door, ,her hand upon the knob. She was •peaking \o "Of course, if you have got to be made to ' gOj there's; no heroism in it ; Ihe lentil Pennsylvania do*i't want thnt class of men. llut if.ydx}- love me—if you think anything of-the old' Hag—if you go because you ought togo —why, you can come and say good-by to me to-night." 'The latch clicked and she was gone. Sloan looked at the troubled face of his mother and left the house. ' Mechanically he wan dered to the great red barn and the stalls where sleek horses stamped. There he bat « tied with himself. , »l'Jie Sloan farm in Pennsylvania* o;i the t. banks of the Juanita river, has beeft -worked f•£ a hundred years by men bf the same °. bPfoS. I'jjiink the McCleljands, _ ' the Ourt3p«?, and last the Sloans—all inter im been.the possessors of the '' aeVt*ase since the battle of Brandy wine. *. Each gerferation of tliis family down to th.e * '. Sj'oins had a lighting man in the nation's ' f'ervice 4 * * •,.IV»iS? i>ot to be wondered then that the ' .Sloans suffered in their pride to find that they &~,ry the first of the race to be with out a military representative. John Sloan, their only son, heir to their goodly estates, was a physical eowajd. He knew it, did his gray-liaireA.father .and kindly-faced mother. 112 Morally, he was a clean, wholesome boy. Physically, he was tall, ruddy-faced, well muscled and more than good looking. Vet it was a matter of horror and shame to him that he feared firearms, dreaded the blow given in friendly contest with other boys, and was in *a treaible if bodily harm eeemed imminent. Hut if the suffering had been a sore trial to him in his earlieridays, John Sloan never realized its full agony until following the operations'fef the American army in Cubi* and the war with Spain there came the call for troeps to'serve in the Philippines, and the' Tenth Pennsylvania regiment was ordered to prepare for service in the field. The destination of the regiment was Manila- Word liaj gone out from Pittsburgh that recruits would be accepted by the regiment. This message reached the settlement about the Sloan in the Juanita country. Several young men promptly came forward and declared they would enlist. The girl that John Sloan IW'ed and wished to be his betrothed —Mary Carr—asked him if' he did not intend to join. His answers were evasive. Then she called at the Sloan home _ and asked him dicectly to enlist. And it was after this scene that John Sloan fled .0 tjje red barn to hide his misery. vA worn a i I*9 will is Stronger than a man's wheß that man loves the woman. John Sloan won a partial victory over his fears arid decided that he would join, the regiment. At evening time the young man crossed the fields to the Carr homestead. He expected that Mary would be watching for him, but ehe wa9 not at the gate nor on the front porch. "Her mother greeted him with the words: » "We had a sudden telegram from lowa, John, that Mary's sister was ill, very ill. Pa hitched tip at once and Mary left on the afternooe train. She's gond to Cedar Rap ids, 'cause none of the rest of us could go. She left this note for you." The lines within ran like this: "John, mother will tell you about my hurried going. I have prayed every min ute since I left your house that you would «ee your duty clearly. If when you receive this you have decided to enlist you will know that you have made your best friends very happy and done your duty to your country *nd the flag. Mary." It iB making a long stnry rightfully short to say that the next day he left for Pitts burgh, passed through the test of enlist ment, was accepted and assigned to com pany A, of the Tenth Pennsylvania. A let ter which his father had written to Col. Hawkins, commander of the regiment, se cured him some courtesies he otherwise would not have received. He wrote to Mary Carr, at Cedar Rapids, the date his regiment would leave Pittsburgh and its route to San Francisco, and it was after this letter was gone that he was seized with an inspiration. He made his way to his captain and told him frankly that he would like to leave Pittsburgh several days ahead of the regiment and meet it at Cedar Rapids as it traveled west. He said frankly, also, that the reason for his going to Cedar Rapids was a woman. Ten hours later he was on his way to Chicago, dressed in his regimentals, and marked by all who ob served him as a recruit for the Philippines. His peace of mind did not increase as the North Western carried him from Chicago to Cedar Rapids, across the Mississippi into the fertile fields of lowa. It is not necessary togo into the details of Sloan's meeting with Mary Carr, nor the inevitable pleading on his part that before he left she would give him her plighted word. When tin; moment of final separa tion was at hand, she said to him: "You know, and I know, that I care for you —how much it is not necessary to" tell. Let the way you do your duty at the front prove to me how much or how little 1 am to care for you in the future. I am not send ing you to greatness, but, oh, John, I want you to come back a proven man, and—-and— the day you do I will give you my final an swer. Go, now, and God be with you, till we meet again." Sloan joined his regiment, crossed with them the historic Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads, and came at last to the Presidio at San Francisco, where the regi ment was stationed for a short time. The sailing was on June 15, and as the transport passed out of the Golden Gate on her long journey to the orient, he leaned over the rail of the troop deck until the land had entirely faded from sight, sick at heart, un manned, a pitiable object to himself if not to his companions. One of them threw hfs arms about the neck of Sloan and sang out in gleeful tone: "Then stand to your glasses steady And drink to your comrade's eyes, Here's a cup for the dead and the dying, Hurrah for the next one that dies." Sloan shuddered, broke away, and hid in his bunk. Overhead was Col. Hawkins, Harnett, Maj. Cuthbertson, the gentle chap lain, II unter, and other heroic ieaders. And although .Sloan did not know it then, there was one captain above whose thought was upon him, and whom he was to learn to call "My Captain" to the end of his days. This captain carried in his effects a let ter from John Sloan's father in which were the lines: "My boy is going to battle in your com mand. Years ago your father and my brother went to battle as comrades, and in the heat of eonflict your father fell, wounded My brother carried him to a place of safety. and in the end nursed him back to streoglh. I ask you to care for my boy a.s one of mine once did for yours. Me is a good lad, but he needs a fri»nd now as he never did before." And this was the reason why, after the transport had cleared Honolulu and was on the last tack for Manila, that John Sloan found himself detached from his company and on duty in the officers' quarters, where, much to his surprise, a certain captain often spoke kindly to him and gave him en couragement. "I have watched you enough, Sloan, to know that you are mortally atraid of what we are going into. You are a bundle of non sensical nerves; but whatever is going to happen when we are on shore, remember this, Sloan, don't run." Men pray even in these hard days, and John Sloan prayed that night for strength, prayed as only a man can who knows that he is a coward, yet is determined to fight to the end. In the morning, while looking over liis kit, he came across a North-Western railroad folder, which was the only one re maining of several he had provided himself with when starting from home, and some how it gave him cheer and comfort to read the old familiar names in the states, and to know that back there many were thinking and living for him. The./landing was rough. Their transport had passed up the harbor by the Olympia, the'"Raleigh, the Boston, flags flying, bands playing, and the great admiral on his bridge bowing and raising his hat as the troops cheered, which had come to his aid. Even Sloan forgot his lidgets, and waved his cap high in the air, and yelled: "Hurrah, Dewey!" Manila was still in the hands of the Span ish. Aguinaldo was seeking to secure reCog nition from the United States, and at the same time to capture Manila and loot the city. Dewey was holding the insurgents in check and preparing to take the city. The Tenth Pennsylvania was landed at Cavite, and then marched to the trenches at Malate in front of the Spanish outposts. Active service was commenced at once. The first duty that came to Sloan after the reginft>nt was in the trenches was that of picket. Tlis post was on the edge of a thicket, scarce a mile from the Spanish line, l'lie tropical rains had commenced, and the fever was already upon some of the men. He was given particular instructions to watch out for a surprise, the Spaniards hav ing displayed great activity during the day along the front of their line. Wrapped in his rough weather coat, hold ing his gun underneath it to keep it dry, Sloan paced up and down his post, splashing ir. the water, wondering at the brilliancy of the lightning, and shivering in dread an ticipation of trouble. A Hash of lightning showed him figures on the plain, in front of him, moving toward him. Only the enemy could come from that di rection. Sloan stood still as if welded to the ground. His hair rose on end. He yelled and tired in the direction of the advancing foe. Strange, is it not, that that shot —fired by John Sloan,, coward —gave to the American army its notice of the advance of the Spaniards at Malate, defeated the enemy, and made a hero of a trembling, frightened, half-boy, half man! Sloan, after firing, ran back towards his own lines and stumbled or fell at the feet of that captain who had first encouraged him to do his duty. He jumped up out of the slush, saturated, and wasordered to take position with his company. Twice during the l>attle did Sloan have the wildest desire to run. Rut, as it has done many times be fore in the world's history, that name "Mary" held him to his place and duty. When morning came and it was realized that American pluck and valor had won the day, it was SloaJi's captain, who. .ending for him. said: "You knew your duty last night. You have placed yourself in line for promotion. The colonel knows of your service as picket." Then, out of the boy's heart rushed all those years of misery and doubt; all those unnamed fears that held manhood back and kopt him the child. There came messages from far-away home. At the end of his mother's letter there was a penciled line: "The Dodd boys have written home of your bravery at Malate. We hear you may be promoted. Keep up, John. Mary Carr." That kind of a love letter would not sat isfy all men, but it did satisfy John Sloan, who tucked it away in his blouse and lead it many times in the days to come. He would sit in the shade of his tent, read the short lines from Mary Carr over, draw out his North-Western railroad folder, and on the ground work out the topographical map of the long range of country from the Golden Gate to the Juanita region. Other soldiers eame to watch his self-ap pointed task. Some suggested the outlines of the Missouri valley, others the location of Ames and Clinton, still others the topo graphical building of that beautiful sweep of Illinois from Clinton to Chicago. The little time table and folder from which they drew their general plan was preserved as though priceless in intrinsic value. Nos talgia, that dread disease of all armies called in the German "Heimweh," in Knglisb "Homesickness"—was fought off with this strip of printed paper and these rough trac ings on the face of the earth, time and time again. There was not much soldiering to be done after the July fight until late in Dece.u ber. Hostilities with the insurgents com menced shortly afterwards, and by February real war was again raging on the island of Luzon. The day and the night of February 4 will be remembered by Sloan so long as he livei. During the day of February 4 insurgents kept creeping up on the American outposts, and there was desultory firing. That night Sloan was stationed on ptcket duty, perhaps 200 yards from a Chinese hospital in which were several hundred Filipinos. The op presisve darkness of an oriental Evening had already settled down when a number of these insurgents attacked the American lines or< outposts at the point where Sloan was placed. At the first scattering volley that apprised him he was under fire, he ran like a madman toward his own lines. There was a ditch to cross, and in the brush of its bot tom was a barbed wire. Becoming en tangled in this he fell and stunned himself, while his regiment, coming to the front, passed over him, and men of the hospital corps picking him up for wounded sent him to the rear. There it was quickly discovered that with the exception of a cut on his head from the fall, Sloan was uninjured, and he was ordered back to the front. At daybreak word came to the Tenth that a charge was soon to be ordered. The cap tain, of whom Sloan was so proud, was near him and quietly taking note of his wretched countenance. Of a sudden he ordered Sloan to come to him, and when the latter ap proached, said: "Someone on the picket line ran last night. Was it you?" "Yes," said Sloan, feeling a strange re lief come over him at getting the truth out. "Well," said the captain, speaking very slowly, "you ought to be shot. As it is, fight to-day, for God's sake fight." Sloan went back to the ranks all in a flame, the blood coming hot and then cold in his veins. The bu&len rung, otlioers shouted. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER ax, 1899 and the line of American boys swept for ward, first very slowly, then, gaining mo mentum, increasing the speed until it was a mad rush, and every man on his metal to reach the hospital first. Shots were pop ping from it, men were falling, Landis went down and others, but the rush never stopped. liut the maddest of all sights was John Sloan, liatless, far beyjnd his own line, run ning like a hare for the hospital, gun well up but never firing a shot. Officers yelled in astonishment as he ran by them, privates envying him his gait, shouted in encourage ment. lie was a stimulant to the entire line—this coward from the Juanita country. He was in front of the walled church now, eager to fight his way in. Men were yelling on all sides of him, and there was the snap of flames in the thatch. Suddenly the earth seemed to slip away from him, his head whirled, he threw up his arms, and went down, wounded. Sloan had given his blood in atonement for his cowardice, and no man can do more than that. When his senses returned to him he was in the field hospital, and his left shoulder done up in bandages. There he remained until March, receiving from home many kind letters, but none so dear as the one which ran like this: "I all about what you did; every body il talking of your bravery; if you were here I would tell you,®Johl), what I think of you; do, do come home. MARY CARR." Rut John Sioan was yet to light at Malolos, to cross a Filipino river under tire with Funston, the men by sidf, to be with the Utah battery, the Thirteenth Minnesota, the. men from Oregon and Ne braska, and when Mal,plos was taken he was to fall in.the.middle of its main streets, shot again as he held the colors high for the cheer of his comrades. It was'then he was taken back to Manila.as Sergt. Sloan, of the Tenth, and nursed uritil such strength came back as enabled him to return to the dear old railroad folder and With pencil and paper this time map out tEe long journey home from the Golden Gate over the Union Pa-' cific and the North-Western to the Juanita country. ' •. The Tenth came into Manila to relieve the Fifty-first lowa at Cavite, and there to it came the glad news that it was ordered home and would go as soon as the transport was ready. The gallant regiment had been 69 days on the firing line, and made a wonderful record for bravery. The latter part of J una the men went on board ship, and late in July reached San Francisco, bringing into the Golden Gate the body of Col. Hawkins, who had died en route. The.Union Pacific and North-Wes.,'rn brought them over the Sierras, through the Rockies, across the plains of the Platte and safely to Chicago. A little later they were in Pittsburgh, where royal greeting awaited them. Rut Sloan could not wait for tljis, sjid hastened to the home of Mary Carr. John was at the foot of a small hill, when, looking up the path to the summit, he saw her coining. For a moment she did not see him, but paused to gather a flower by the way. Then he walked up toward her, one hand outstretched. • Now she recognized him, and there was a flame in the hazel eyes, and flame on the soft cheeks, and'the quick, heart-giv ing cry of: "John!" He was by her side now, the white hand of the maiden caught in the brown of the soldier. "I have come," he said, all the old feare gone, "a long way—to tell you that I am no longer afraid—l hnve done my duty." This with a touch of pride. "I was often troubled; I did many things I ought not to have done, but I have conquered myself. Mary, Mary, I want you'" For no hero (jf war or of peace can there be greater reward than the love of a pure woman. The emolumeuts of governments or the rewards bestowed by patriotic citi zens sink into significance beside the giving to a man of a good woman's heart. There came nestling into the hand of John Sloan not one white hand but two, and the face of Mary Carr was lifted to his and her lips given to him. Then she turned back with him, and the two, thus united after sore trial, walked their happy way up to the old farm and the old folks waiting there. Much had Sloan to tell, much togo over and over again— his fighting, his wounds, his myriad experiences in Malayland—but when he had told all he would that night, he brought out the faded North-Western folder, and he tossed it into the lap of Mary Carr, with the words: "That was a living link with home to us in the field and at Manila—keep it forever; it did much to save me for you." And, being a woman, she asked him why, and in time he told her this story. 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At our price, $16.75, this cutter is 4 * ] > furnished complete with shafts and is furnished with the best patent adjustable shifting ]4 * ' ► bar for front or side hitch. a/* avpa 4* J ► Only a limited number to sell at our special offer price I R GF% '4 * * > Order now and be ready when the first snow arrives If IUI 111 4 > < > wh ' ch ,s listed at lowest wholesale prices < J 4; 2Hffl €Ver V^ h ' n S *° ea * wear ® n( * use.is furnisb < ► <; pGSjffi ~ jij ° tmmmmßbl on receipt of only 10? to partly pay \ > \ ► l~ -Jl *■' expressage and as evidence < ► <' ffiejy.li W/M WAYA B1 M M oojof good faith the 109 is allowed on first < > 4[ purchase amounting to *l9? orebov©. % ]► "UR monthly grocery PRICE LIST FRtelO <> 'k-k^k-k-kick-k'k-k'k'k-k-kir'k-k ★i SAVE of A iryriN ★ * YOUR W I Mil TAGS * ★ "Star" tin tags (showing small stars printed on under side A of tag), " Horse Shoe," "J. T.," "Good Luck," "Cross Bow," ★ and "Drummond" Natural Leaf Tin Tags are of equal value in A securing presents mentioned below, and may be assorted. yT ★ Every man, woman and child can find something on tha list A that they would like to have, and can hove * FREE! X TAOS. TAOS. *1 Match Bo* 36 33 Clock, 8-day. Calendar, Therrnom- a 2 Kn<fe, one blade, Rood steel lit eter, 6eo 8 S<M»«ors. inche« 36 34 'Gun'caaer-feathet; no better made. 600 ★ 4 Cliild'M Set, Knife, Fork and Spoon 36 36 Revolver, automatic, double action, . 6 Salt and Pepper Ret. one each, quad- 33 or 38 raliber GOO ruple plate on white metal . 64 31 Tool Set, not playthings, but real 6 French Briar Wood Pipe 36 tools 6SO 7 Razor, hollow ground, fine Engliah 37 Toilet Set decorated porcelain, A ateel 60 very handsome . 800 8 Butter Knife, triple plate, best 28 Remington Rifle No. 4, 3sor 33 cal. 800 ★ quality 69 2t Watch, sterling ailver,full'jeweled 1000 A 9 Sugar Shell, triple plate, beet qual .60 30 Drees Salt Case, leather, handsome "W 10 Stamp Box, sterling eilrer 70 and durable .. 1000 ★ll Knife, "Keen Kntter," two bladee .76 31 Sewlnu Machine, first claan, with 4 13 Butcher Knife, "Keen Kutter," bin all attachments.. «...1600 blade 76 33 Revolver, Colt's. 38-callber, blued / ★l3 Shoarn, "Keen Kutter." 8-inch 7i steel ' rt 14 Nut Set, Ciacker and 6 Picks, ailver 33 Rifle, Colt's,-16-shOt, M-«rallbar. .1600 plated . 80 34 Guitar (Washburn), rosawood, in- ?« 16 Base Ball, "Association," best qual. 100 laid 2000 *+■ 1« Al*rm Clock nlckel.. .160 u Mandolin, rery h»nd»om« 2004) yr 17 Six Genuine Rogers Teaspoons, best M . , " 4 . 0 . 4 __ t.late<l goods ; 160 ** Winchester Repeating Shot Gun, Watch, nickel, stem wind and set.. 300 2000 19 Carvers, good steel, Mckhorn 37 Remington, double-barrel, ham ★ ao t'i. f <! 7' 1 . k 25" Ro P"' Table Bt,oo 8 t ,oon *' 01I „ 38 Bicyrie. «t»nd»rd ra.ke, ladiM or A t>Mt plaieil Rood, 450 sent* SI Bfi each. Knives »nd Fork*, bnck > J,"".' "'. 'j' i!i "v " ★ horn handle* 360 » »»?' Onn. Hemington, double bar sa BU each, Qenuln. RogerH' Knirea rBl - nammerlosa 30«0 and Forks, beat plated goods 600 40 Reglna Music Box, 15)4 inch DUc. .6000 THE ABOVE OFFER EXPIRES NOVEMBER 30TH. 1900. A ★ Special Notice' p . ,,|nTt ® t ,»b» H'"'fn t«u* win no sm»u lIUHL.O ■ gtars printed on under aide of tac), are not gfjod for prenenti, A = but will lie paid for In CASH on the baaia of twenty cents i>«r hundred, if received by us on or before Mai-ch Ist. 1800. •■'"IIKAIt IN MIND thai a ilimc'a worth of I STAR PLUG TOBACCO * W will Iml lonier and afTord plsainrr than a dime'* worth of any V othrrb.and. othrrb.and. MAKETHETEBT! t Send tags to COIVTIME.MTAL TOBACCO CO., St. LouU, Mo. tj® PATCNTQ Advice aa to pauatabllltj sad tar«BUr>' (vMi >. w-Hm WHEN W KITIVO TO ADTIKTItEIM ,UU that y.u k, 44„r11w la thla pmrmr. | OLDEST MAN IN AMERICA Tells How He Escaped the Ter rors of Many Winters by Using Peruna. Mr. Isaac Brock, the Oldest Man in th« Uniteifc States. . \ Mr Ifaiffj Jst;ocki of - McLennan county, ' Tex., has ittajtied.'th'H great age of 111 yeara. having bcjei*4®»ii in-U7jW: Hc is an ardent friend to l'erfjia angApeul>a ft in the fol lowing tefihS': l **• \ "During mv. Jpng life I have known a great A colds, catarrh ' and alM'ays.supposed these affections:',to (Jtsca.ies, hut I have learriWl JJM 'Mui'tftian j»i)ooks tliat these a ffeetion J'are*tie airicl are proper ly called cita r rt^: V "As for J Tr. Hart'riian!s remedy, Peruna, I have found it t<< be She best.jfljot the only i reliable remedy for these affections. i«*l*eninii has been my atnnd-hy for many year*, and I attribute iriy good health and my extreme Kite'to this remedy. It eiuctly lucetii all.my re quirement*. ' .... i"I have come t(j rely upon it almost en tirely for the many lit tlethiugs for which I need medicine. I "believe it to be especially | valuable to old people.'' •' Isaac Brock. j Catarrh is the greatest enemy of old age. A person entirely free from catarrh is sure to live to a hale and'hearty old age. A free book on catarrh setit liy the Peruna ! cine Co., Columbifcy-O. . FOR NEXT THIRTY DAYS. HEUMATISM ? lead About "5 Drops' r Withoat Taking Them? lave wasted precious time and suffered enough? If op*" and be promptly and permanently cured of Dps" 1* a speedy aHu Sure Cure for Rheumatism, mbago (lame back), Kidney Disease*, Asthma, Catarrh of all kinds, bronchitis, La Qrippe, neuralgic). Heart Weaknfess,' Dropsy, Earache, 1 Croup, Toothache, Nervousness. Sleeplessness, ilaria, and kindred di£ea»?s,, "5 Drops" has cured past four years, of thsatxsiee-nam«Ml diseases, than u, and in case of Rheutnatisai is curing more than id batteries combined, Chronic le time and money; but try "5 Drops" and be st medicine, but it is the.cheapest, lot a SI.OO bottle id by mail or express, or 6 bottles "for $5.00. For REE to anyone sending; |LQ qeuts to pay for the 1., 160-164 E. LAKE ST.vJCHICACO. 7
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