THE LAST CALL
Troop K had been crmslnff Apache
for ton days first through the (rorpea
of the Itoi-kles and then across the
deserts of eastern New Mexico. Kor
ten days bltf. gruff Cnpt. ISompers hud
irldden nt the head of his company of
'seventy trusted cavalrymen, and be
initio him, mounted on a little Mexican
jbroncho, roilo K's bugler, little John
ny fSnnmels, known among the garrison
t Fort fnlon as "The Kid."
"The Kid" was the Idol of every man
, in the troop. His father, big .lohn
'Samuels, first sergeant of K, was a
iborn soldier, and loved thu western
, service us but few men could. When,
'Sixteen years before, his dusky
jMcxican wife presented him with
ilittlo Johnny he declared that his chief
aim in life, should bo to make "The
'Kid" a rood soldier, one worthy n
place in tlio ranks of his old company.
And he kept his word, for lit sixteen
;there was not a better bugler in the
Berviee. None who could play "trips"
o sweetly, or whoso reveille could
arouse slumbering troopers without
making them curse tho bugler.
On the afternoon of tho tenth day
out the men of K caught their lirst
Sight of their game. Hut the pursued
were to be the pursuers. The Indians
liad received reinforcements and were
making a last desperate struggle. It
was into this ambush that Capt. (lorn
pcrs so unconsciously led his men. an
act ho paid for with his lifo. From
THE LAST CALL.
(Cojiyriflit Mm) '
KmilU out.
StaJUU eatt.
I
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just beyond a cluster of sago brush a
few stray bullets wero coming, and
through the Mnall openings could bo
seen probably forty red-skins.
"Sound a forward, Kid," said the
captain, and the notes had not yet died
away when tho order for the charge
was given.
With raised sabers and horses at a
hard run, Troop K broke into tho
tirush expecting to meet the f.eutter
mg five of tl.o forty foes In front, but
met instead a raunJerous volley from
three hundred red devils on either
Hank. Cnpt. (tampers was the first to
go down, and an ho fell forward on his
horse "The Kid ' threw Ids arm around
him and drew him across tho pommel
of his own Ruddle, The next moment
ho fell fui ward onto the body of his
dead cuptuiu inortully wounded.
When the forty men who were left
went into temp that night they erect
ed, as bus t they could, u rude shelter
for their boy bujlur ttud left Urn in thu
care of hla fiilhur.
F tailumcalL . ' . . I
It was Into. The sentries had been
changed for tho second time an hour
before. Duty had for a few minutes
called Sergt. Samuels from tho side of
his son. The sentry on post four, whoso
beat took him near tho place where
tho bugler lay, was almost half asleep
when lie was suddenly roused by a
bugle's notes sounding revelllo. Sure
ly it must bo that ho had slept and this
wnsadrenm. ltut no, tho notes came
faint and clear, and now they chnnged
to assembly call. His ears could not
deceive him now, and ho must report
It.
"Corporal"
"Hush. Jackson, it's the Kid." It
was tho corporal of 'tho guard speak'
ing. He, too. had been attracted by
tho strange sound and had sought tho
soiirco from whonco it came!
"llo is dying, Jackson, and I will re
lievo you while you call his father.
Those uro tho last culls Johnny Suinu
els will ever play for K troop."
As the father enmo tho assembly
changed to a quickstep and then to
drill call. When the dying boy played
tho stable call even tho horses
recognized it, and seemed impatient
for tho expected morning meal. All
that was left of Troop K wero grouped
about the rude couch of their dying
bugler, almost every man of them
crying as they had never cried before,
Still the father's grief was a tearless
one, and it was not until the adjutant's
call had been played and the first
notes of the well-known first sergeant's
call caught his ear that ho too could
express his grief in tears. It was
years before that he had taught his
boy to play that call his favorite of
them nil. Tho notes grew fainter and
fainter; the bugler's breath grew
shorter and shorter, and, as the last
note died away, the cherished bugle
fell from his hand. Littlo Johnny
Samuels, tho idol of troop K and the
garrison at Fort Union, was dead.
With quivering hand tho father
raised tho boy's bugle to his own lips
and played that last call of tho soldier's
life taps. Played it us ho bad played
it years before when ho was the bugler
iu tho proud company that to-night
was so crushed and shattered, J f is
grief was not for long, for with the
rising of tho morning sun an Indian
bullet pierced his heart and ho joined
his boy iu another land.
I!ut a dozen men of K troop ever
Jived to relato the story of "The Kid's"
last call to tho sad garrison at Fort
Lniou. Wiiiaux A. I'ATf EU.iON.
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Influenoe of Ensilage and Field Curing on
the Digestibility of Forage Corn.
DY II. P. ARMSliV.
Muring the fall and winter of 1890
91, digestion experiments were made
with the green material used in filling
two small silos, and also with the re
sulting silage and with field-cured fod
der from the same lot of corn. As
has been explained in another place
in discussing the losses sustained in
the silo, the resulting silage was some
what abnormal in that the fermenta
tion which it had undergone and the
resulting losses of material was exces
sive, the latter amounting to 29 per
cent, and 37 per cent, of the dry mat
ter. Over 3a per cent, of the dry
matter of the corn was likewise lost
in field curing. The experiments up
on these materials, however, are in
teresting as representing to a certain
extent the influence of extreme con
ditions. While the effect of the fer
mentation on the digestibility of the
corn might be expected to be exag
gerated in this case, yet the results
serve to show even more clearly on
this accouut the nature of the change,
and a comparison with results under
more normal conditions may give us
valuable information. A number of
other experiments upon the same sub
ject have been made, both here and
elsewhere, notably at the Wisconsin
Station. The results of these experi
ments are summarized on the follow
ing pages.
It has generally been held hitherto
that the process of ensilage does not
increase the digestibility of corn, but
that, on the contrary, both ensilage
and field curing decrease its digesti
bility. The results of these experi
ments in the main support this belief
so fat as concerns the ordinary con
ditions of practice. They do, how
ever indicate that it is possible to in
crease the digestibility of the woody
fiber of corn by excessive fermentation
in the silo. They show at the same
time, however, that whatever advan
tage may be gained tiius in increasing
the digestibility of the least valuable
ingredient of the corn is far more
than offset bv the large loss of valu-
ab e material by fermentation and by
the decreased digestibility of other in
gredients. The results of the experi
ments may be summed up as fo.lows :
1. The ensilage ot maize may con
siderably increase the digestibility of
the crude fiber of the green material.
2. This result is only obtained
when the loss by fermentation is so
large that the crude fiber is attacked
and is at the cost of a decreased di
gestibility of every other important
ingredient.
3. The albuminoids are especially
affected by ensilage, a considerable
proportion of them being converted
into less valuable forms and the diges
tibility of the remainder being reduced
sometimes nearly or quite to zero.
4. Such silace may be consider-
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