zt? -.- !" i r" t .''-' ;:.. i' -.. . Y ' "' A eV 1, ' V V.J. " t EVENING LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2U, 19l7 1T7tfl ! n Isaac Anderson, (iovernor Penn.v pucker's iiatcrnal great-Knciid-father, was one of America's pioneers. His mime heads the list of those In Congress who cited for the Louisiana purchase atruinst 1 ihe'wlshes of New Knejand. The otlier photograph shows the snuff. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY of A PENNSYLVANIAN 5olN" g$ g By tjamue W. PcnnypacHcr rQr?50w -vnnsyi vanas wosr nocuous WSW cM,Uh 1017 W PuU.c rr ccmran, ' ? inp iTai- "- --- " lx which lie used in Congress. On the lid is a bucolic .scone, hard) discernible because of its age. D CHAPTER II (Continued) S. HKN.IAM1N A. AN'DKKKON, first cousin of my futhei. with hom lie hud rend medicine, und with whose father mine had rend medicine, had recently purchased n druu; btove at the southwest corner of l-'rnnkforil road und Wood streot, in Kensington, Phila delphia. Ho wanted a boy. 1 went to him upon an agreement that I should receive my board with .!!0 for the first year und S.JO for the second year. My services began in the summer of 18.". His wife, also somcvvlmt related to me. though more distantly, never approved of his leaving bis practice to start a drug store, and she displayed her disapproval by lefuMiig to (it up the bouse. In my room u basin and pitcher stood on a withstand; there wero a bed and two chairs, but no other ftirnituie and no carpet. I opened the store at o'clock in the morning and swept it out and my hours ended at half-after ten at night, when the store vu closed, except on Saturday night, when they wero extended to half after eleven. We sold glass as well as chugs, cutting it to tin required size with a diamond, and mixed paints and varnishes. I learned the business, even to putting up the ptescriptiotis of the Joctors. llydrarg. chlor. mit. is iiimly fixed in my mind and the information there acquired has proved to be of value to me tlnougli my whole life. Experiences as a Drug Clerk Quinine cost S7 an ounce; arsenic, bought at tlm late of ten cents a pound, was sold by the grain at the late of $'J per ounce. I cleaned the bottles. I furnished the transportation for the sup plies secured at" the wholesale stores of Xiegler it Smith, at the corner of Second and Green streets, and .lohn M. Collins, on Fifth street above Market, and often 1 carried home twenty pounds of putty. Generally 1 rode with the diiver of the omnibus, u lum bering affair with two hoives and with steps leading up to the door in the rear. A strap fastened to tile leg of the driver gave the signal to stop. About this time the tir-t railway cars drawn bv horses were started on Fifth and Sixth stieels and were regarded as very wonderful. On one occasion 1 went to the cellar at night with a fluid lamp to mix some paint for n customer, and while I was busy at my task the lamp exploded and the flame ran around. 1 well knew the danger. The cellar was full of paint, varnish and hay which came around the glass. I pulled the fiagments of the lamp tiwnv,. threw them behind me and succeeded in putting out the fire m front, burning my bands considerably. Then, on turning around, I found that I had thrown the lamp into u idle of hay and the file was spreading over the cellar. That clistuibed ine and I called for help. The kitchen girl came to the top of the stairs and. seeing the trouble, concluded it was safer to stay where she stood. It was a closed cellur with no 'nouns of exit save by a narrow stairway. 1 succeeded in fighting the lire, finally got it stamped out and saved the house. A door opened from the tear of the store into the dining-room and another door from the dining-room into the kitchen. One afternoon 1 was tending the stoic, the girl in the dining room was cleaning olf the table, while the baby lay in the cradle beside her, and on the stove in the kitchen the doctor was trying a dubious experiment in the way of boiling some varnish to reduce its consistency. Suddenly the girl threw open the door from the dining-room and came rushing through the stor.e holding in one hand a napkin and in the other a knife and fork, followed by a volume of black smoke. In her tenor she ran across Wood street and took refuge behind a long box which there stood on the pavement. A moment later the doctor appeared at the door, his red hair and beard blackened and scorched. Suddenly the thought of the baby, abandoned by the girl, occurred to him and turning back he rescued it from its dangerous berth. The varnish had taken lire. Everything in the kitchen was burned up, but the fire engines and hose soon coming, upon the alarm, put out the fire before greater harm had been done. For two weeks the doctoi remained unable to attend to business and I had entire charge of and responsibility for the store. At the end of the year his wife had her way and he sold the store to a man named Ilex. I remained with him two weeks to enable him to learn the locations of the drugs and to introduce him to the customers, and then having taken care of myself for a year and earned ?30, 1 returned to : Mont Clare. My entering the store wns not altogether n wise movement, but, like most of the unwisdom of life, had its compensa tions in added experience and in ways wo are not always able to measure. At this time lSev. .loel K. liradley, a pi culler of the llaptist Church, had opened a school for beys and girls in my old homo, the house built by Wernwng in l'hocnixville, now called the Grovc inont Seminary; a man of extensive acquirements, lie aided in the translation of a revised version of the Scriptutes from the Hebrew and Check;, and he had had long experience in teaching. It was n good school in the sense that those pupils who wanted to lentil had the opportunity presented to them. On the other hand, he had a very kindly disposition and exercised little impelling force or restraint over those who wero idle or indifferent, t'nder the tuition of Mr. liradley 1 began pieparation for the Sophomore Class nt Yale College and continued in the school for about two years. He told my mother that 1 was the most apt pupil he had ever known in his long experience. The ablest boy in the echool was Samuel Sower, a descendant of the famous Germnntown printer. He had tile power to ie:uon analytically and constructively and, moreover, had an unusual gift of speech. I expected for him a brilliant futuie. We worked together, and together solved ' leluise. and enigmas and were very intimate, but one day we hud a personal lombat, ending in ill-feeling, ami never renewed our relations. His life was without result and closed in failure. Hvory man. I take it, has certain sensations which verge upon the superstitious. :ind in fact we none of us know to what extent traces yet leinaiu in our mental piocesses of what with our ancestors, in ihe dark ages, were fixed beliefs. So many men who have stood in my way in life have perished from before me, three of them having committed suicide, that I am at least aide to understand why generations ago there was faith in and dread of the "evil eye." When years after ward a friend of both quietly said to me. in commenting upon tin career of Sower. "He never seemed to do any good after his quar-ii-l with you," it made me solemn and sad. Another boy. Single ton M. Ashenfelter. a little in the rough, but with vital energies and good-hearted, afteiward the United States District Attorney When the I'enii) packer family moved back to Phncniwille, Samuel took an active interest in public affairs. t the Young Men's I.itcrarv I nion topics of the day were discussed. The daguerreot.vpe reproduced here was taken about the time lie be came president of Hie socictv. The luture Governor is seated at Hie right, and next to him is ISichard Denithorne. Standing, left to right, are Horace Uovd and Irvin .1. Drawer. vcmop for New Mexico, became my closest u.ssociule. The principal bud two sons in the school. Joel, whom everybody liked, wns killed in the Wilderness. A wounded comrade cried aloud for water and loel went bad; und wns shot while standing over him holding n canteen as he drank. The other son, William If. Drudley, studied medicine, became the editor of u paper in Wilkes-Iiuire, was in fluential and then for some years was employed in the business depaitment of the Weekly Press in Philadelphia. (Quarreling with Cooke, the gencrnl manager, he was charged with embezzlement and convicted. I always doubted the justice of the lesult. Two of my first cousins, llenjnmin IS. and Andrew IS. Whitaker, were also among the pupils. Henjumin, now dead, served throughout the wnr in the 101th Pennsylvania Regiment, and then studying medicine was surgeon to the ill-fated Collins expedition to Urazil. Andrew has ever been not only a relative but a staunch friend, and is now, by my appointment, u member of the Pennsylvania Fish Commission. Virginia t'.tivl Hruumall tnoiig the girls a sly little durk-eyed minx, named Annie M. Taylor, pretty to look upon, caught the fancy of all of the boys, and another girl, with dark eye.! and red blood to color her lips and cheeks, more sedate, hut with a piece cut away from the top of her dress, as was then a fashion, caught mine. Her nnme was Virginia Karl Hroomall. The games of the boys consisted of handball, corneiball. duel; on chivy ami shindy; those of the girls, jackstones and mumble-the-peg. We had occasional public e.ci cises in the Temperance Hall at which 1 usually delivered an address in Fiench. which indicated the erudition of the school, but did very little goixl to the audience. I continued my French at Grovemont, and so far progressed that 1 not only read the facile Telemaque of Fenelon, but also a French translation of Cooper's Pioneers, u much moie difficult matter. In Latin 1 lead a reader made up of Aesop's Fables and other materials. GaesaCs lie Hello Galileo, the eneid, Virgil's Georgics and Huccilics, Sallust, Horace and I. ivy. The classes vveie required to read, scan and translate fifteen lines of the Aencid as a daily task. I read u hundred lines, because in terested. Four books were all wo were expected to complete and all that were demanded at Yale. I lay flat on the floor in the garret nt Mont Clare and finished the whole twelve books and likewise all of the Georgics and Hueolics. I rend, in Greek, a leader, the nabnsis, the Testament, Herodotus and four books of Homer. The strength and piocision of the Latin pleased me and it lias never been forgotten. The elaboration of the Greek with iu detail and profusion of tin m and dink-UK seemed to ine to indicate a lack of force, and Gtcek lias meant little in my life but u recognition of scientific: terms. In my fancies Homer fell far below Virgil. It may be unorthodox, but I am of the same opinion still, in mathe matics I finished Kueliil and Grc-enleafs Algebra and went along with philosophy, chemistry, histoiy. grammar and Knglish composition. In 18.",!). at the age of seventeen. I had finished my education so far as schools were to give it to me. but the door to tho learning of the world, as it is contained in printed books, bad been opened to me and I have never permitted it to be closed. A college is a great opportunity, but after all it is only the beaten path. Where the journey ends depends upon the traveler. With the ending of my school d.iys 1 consider that my joutli ended, and at a period in life where many men are only beginning I had for years felt the responsibility of a burden. CHAPTER III Que Fairel' rpllOLGH entiiely prepared for the .sophomore cluss at ale, and. in fact, having progressed much further in my studies than the tequiremonts. the proposition had to bo abandoned for the very prosaic reason that the necessary money could not be secured. Most persons look bad; to tlieir youth as a time of enjovnient, free from the sense of responsibility. With me the approach to man hood was a period filled with anxieties and uncertainties. I was about live feet ten inches in height, slim and anemic, and weighed about lt!7 pounds. The mental attitude of those around mo had a tendency to depress lather than to encourage. My uncle, Ur. Samuel A. Whitaker, once told somebody that I would probably live to lie about eighteen years of uge. und in some way the diagnosis or prophecy had come to me. He did not stand alone; others of my relative?, more blunt than discreet, had indicated by word or manner a some what similar opinion, and I had come to regard such a result as prob able. I hoped to lie able to last until thirtj-five, so that 1 might have the opportunity to see whether I could not do some useful thing in life, ltcmembering these moods now. I can see that they vveie entirely unreal because they were always accompanied with a deter mination to take hold somewhere and a sense that 1 would succeed. This is not the feeling of a moribund or weakling. Nevertheless. I must have approached a condition not then recognized, but which 1 have since come to know as nervous prostration. Once after going with my mother to the railroad station to take a train some ill- jji.( '4A sa, iJ id, A- "SU-'A. i.. t.wt.if.Jfr,(v't. -j.&.tUti lH.U&4L'tJiJ,4i,,Ut;.A. V A, , , v -i-i-. .A -.i sM..'f s . .4- w.l j ., ., ,'j..l.insl .? Jr V.. V...." lU 2 i . AU : n. ,y.'Y,. H''jM-W "( '.'.. l i, i' -o"") . s-w iff ' ' iSKBH . gy'- ..-vfrf-.st'S .TmaB ffflBH &sw .mm'tmm 3m r yaswmam wvw,t i f pcti. u '2 , rft .wv 'iu !-:vsm , Y-i V.-. s.2i a - - -r, ai tv K'j ? i cj ., Ay -' . e. -a Ytstrf fA"wi!ir ';. : qwam & v ' i-fWmm uyi."yr v mi iJKvsj iWV?r !W fsi " ' fc.t t . i i . . - US?.?.. iii surcy inudt! KrV hi r. by lleudrick Pannehacker in his own hand defined sensation compelled a lcturu home. I could not lift a spOon or hold a pen to write or do many little things in the presence of otlier persons. All of the while I felt the necessity of getting started in some occupation in which I could earn enough to take care of myself and per Imps be helpful to the iest; but to find the opening was iliu problem. I knew that finally I should reach the law und in the meantime was ready to do whatever happened to be within reach. I made an application for a clerkship in the office of the Phoenix lion Company. I asked for n place in the general store of lleeves .W t'ornett, a close-fisted firm doing business in Phoenixvill. I tried to get my uncle, George W. Whitaker, to give me a place at the Ouilmm lion Work., but he pursued the cautious and safe policy of not having any of the family around him. j The Yutnuj Men's Literal'! Union In tin- early days of the wai there was a great gathering of puile?, about JiO.OtlO of them, in a camp of tho commissary depart ment at Pertyville. Md., and having reason to believe that I could exert some influence upon Colonel Charles 0. Sawtclle, in command there. I asked for some sort of a position in connection with the handling of those mules. Happily for me. all of these efforts ended i.i failute. So often the disappointments of life turn out for our benefit. Twb-o during each week I arose at daylight and trudged acios.s the long bridge to the town market, and, returning, carried hack in a large basket perhaps twenty-live pounds of beef to my mother. Connected with the hou.se was a large garden in which grapes grew over an arbor, and therein my good old grandmother . had rows of gooseberry bushes and currant bushes red, black and white and planted hollyhocks and dahlias to her delight. I dug the gulden, all with a spade, and cultivated it, raising radishes, peas, beans, asparagus, cabbage, turnips, beets, corn and potatoes. In Phoenixville Hie Young Men's Literary Union had a room iiver the store of Keeve.s & Cornett. at the corner of Bridge and Main stieets. and there subscribed not only for the duily newspapers of Philadelphia and New Yori; and the magazines, but even for the London Punch and Times and the London Art Journal -d Harper's Weekly, Vanity Fair and the Scientific Monthly. It Vise had a fair libiary of romance, history and science. On certain evenings topics of the day were discussed in formal debate. The debating societies of my youth certainly helped me very much to gain self possession and to develop the capacity for public speech which I have been called upon to exercise all through life. Among the mem bers vveie the two lawyer. then in the town William H. Peck, who hud studied both medicine and law, subsequently becoming u surgeon in one of the legimenls during the war, a fluent man of some attain ments and, pet haps for this reason looked upon with disfavor, and Charles Aimitage, slouchy. ill-trained, ignorant and good-natured, who was always a favorite and was lujer killed while fighting the battles of his country. Among the other members weie Ashenfelter, before tefcrrcd to; Hoiace Lloyd, an upright, narrow and methodical clerk in Hie bank, and Josiah White White had force of character. Ashenfelter annoyed him and White emptied n bottle of ink over the light coat of, his tormentor.. Lloyd occupied two chairs, one with liis heels, absorbing the Tribune, which he hud held on to during the greater part of the evening. White interrupted this serenity by setting fire to the paper. A lieutenant in Company G, of the First Pennsylvania Reserves, he was wounded at Antietam and killed in the Wilderness. I became president of the Literary Union. 'I'O.VJ'lNl i;n TOMOKUOVV.' vl 7 1 RAINBOW'S E j& IrJ ylt By REX BEACH VutMmi ftr sri it- 1 Th lUrrlr.' 1 lira r' of tf"i & mni - tap A novel of love, hidden treasure ai-d rebellion in beautiful, mys terious Cuba during the exciting days of the revolt against Spain. Copjrlelit. 1917. Htirptr . llroi tf- CHAPTER XVIII (Continued) mtr,-r., ...... . . .i . . - .. 1.il.. . iiuir.(ii.j imu ucen, ui in si, riuiuu uuuut 'V X rt Tlr.nnli'ii fUnnto , r, ,.!r Mm flplil Jit all ho hail miffrrnil n. snvero liemorrliaco i' khortlv after Ills an Ival at Cubitus ana- It vus only ufter n hysterical demonstra tion on Ids part that lie hail been ac cepted as a soldier. He simply would not bo left behind. At first tho Cubans regarded him with mfiiKled contempt and Pity, for certainly no less promising vol unteer had over taken service with them. The' "Uullel-Katcr" Ills conduct In the face of this Rcncial admiration watt no less unexpected than hla behavior under lire: lirancli gruffly refused. Jo accept any trlbuto whatever, lie snarled, ho fulrly barked at those, of hU comrades who tried to express their k appreciation of his conduct a demeanor nnicn, or course, avvuuenea even bhw admlrnCInn nmnni. tlio fnlinns. Ho WUS . , .....w. a.w.c -..w umionniy surly and sour; no sneercu. ; he scoffed, bo found fault. Ho had the tongue of a common scold, and ho usca It with malevolent abandon, O'Reilly alone understood tho reason 'or the fcllovv'H morbid Irritability, his ulcldal recklessness; but when ho prt vately remonstrated ho was gruffly told to mind his own business. Uranch flatly refused to modify Ills conduct; ho seemed really bent upon cheating the disease that "riiado Ids llfo a misery. But, ns usual, Futo was perverse; she refused, to humor tho sick inau'H hope. When, after blindly Inviting death, Lesllo had emerged from several engagements unscathed, Ills surprise and perhaps a natural relief at finding himself whole leeamo tinged with a certain apprehension lest he survive those deliberately courted dangers, only to succumb to the Ills and Privations of camp life, tyie fellow's tonguo grew ever sharper; Ida society becamo intolerable, hisi gloom oppressive and irresistibly contagious. When, ufter several weeks of campaign ing, tho column went into camp for a short rest, O'ltellly decided that ho would '.try to throw off the burden of Leslie's shift a portion of it upon tlio shoulders i of Captain Judson. On the day after their arrival O'lt.-illy and tho lilg urtllleryman too'.: advantage of a 'pleasant stream to bathe, and wash their clothes; then, whilo they lay In their hammock", enjoying tho luxuiy of a tat teied oilcloth shelter and waiting for the sun to dry their garments. O'ltellly spoke what was in his mind. The Preferable Death "I'm getting about fed up on Leslie," ho declined, "ile's tho world's champion ercpe hanger, and lie's painted tho wholo world such a deep, despondent bluo that I'm completely dismal. You've got to take him off my hands." Judson grunted. "What ails him?" "Well, he wears a wreath of Immortelles day and night. Havon't you guosscd why ho runs sucli desperate chances? He's sick thinks he's going to die, anyhow, and wants to llnlsli tho Job quick. I'm tho one who has to endure him." "Suicide?" "It amounts to that " "Tho devil!" Judson poudeied lot a moment. "Can't you cheer him up?" "I?" O'Keilly lifted his hands in a gesture of helplessness. "When I try ho sets sore at my heartless Indifference; when I sympathize ho declares I'm nudgv lug him closer to his grave says I'm kicking tho crutches out from under him. . IIo's Just plain vitriol. I I'd rather live, with nn adder!" O'ltcllly's youthful aslstente, who at tho moment was painstakingly manufac turing a huso black cigar for himself out of some purloined tobacco, pricked up his ears at tho mention of Ucanch's name and now edged closer, exclaiming: "Caramba! There's a hero for you. Meester Branch Is the bravest man I over seen. Our people call him E1 Demonler O'ltellly Jerked his head toward tho Cuban, "You see? He's mado the hit of his life, und yet ho resents it. Tlio Cubans aro beginning to, think ho carries a ran bit's foot." "No rubbit's foot about it," the cuptain asserted. "He's Just so blamed thin the Spaniards can't hit him; It's like shoot- ng .it the c due nf u plnvlUK rar-l. Alinlt Oakley is Ihe onlv nno who can dn th.it." "Well, my ni-rvc-s an- lrajed out. I've uigucilinvM If lm.irM-, but he misconstrues everything f say. f wisli inii'd convince him that hi- lias a ehaiu-u to M''t well; It might alter his disposition. It siiiiieiliiiig doesn't alter It I'll he court-iiiai tlaleil fur shooting u mail in his Bleep -ami I'll hit him, light in tilt- middle, no matter linw sllm ho is." O'ltellly compressed his lips firmly. Tlio aslstente, who had llnlshcd lolling his cigar, now lighted it and mpeated: "Ves, sir, Jleester lliuucii Is tho luavust man I ever seen. You remember that flist battle, eh? Those Spaniards seem him comlu' and tluovv down their guns and beat ft. Jesus filstol 1 laugh to skill myself that day." "Jacket" "Jacket" was at oncehe joiiilgest und tlio most piofaiiu member of Colonel Lo pez's entile command. The most shock ing oaths fell lrom his beardless lips whenever ho opened them to speak Kng lish, and O'ltcllly's elturts to break the boy of tho habit proved unite unavailing. "Colonel Jllguel," continued Jacket, "ho say if he's got u hunnerd nick men llko i:i Deinoulo he'll march to Habana. l!y God! What do jou think of that?" Judson rolled in his hammock until his eyes tested upon tlm until. Then ho said, "You're ipiito u man of aims your self, for a lialf-poiflon." "Kh?" Tho object of this li-inurk was not uulto sure that ho understood.' "I mean ou'ro a pietty good lighter, fur a llttlo fellow." "Hell, yes!" agreed the vouth "I can fight." "IJetter look out that bomo big Span iard doesn't cany Jon off in his pocket and eat you," O'ltellly warned; at which tho boy grinned and shook his heud. Ho was Just becoming uc-eustomed to tho American habit of banter, and was begin ning to llko -it. "Jacket would inako a bitter muuth nil," Judson vcntuie"d. The I. ill niiikd gentle and drew on ills huge c-lgnr "you beteliei- life That .Sp.iuluid wuiilil spit tin- out iUiek enoin,ii." O'ISeillj 's .Majur-Donio Tills Ciiiiiiigiii an boy was a diameter, lie was peiimp" sixteen, and small for his age. a im-le ehllil, in fact. Nevertheless, he was u seasoned veteran, and his Aluer run camp-mutes hud grown exceedingly fond nf him. Ho was a pretty, graceful vutingster his eves wero large and soft and il.uk. his faco was as bcusltlvo and molitlo ns that of a girl: and yet. despite. Ills youth, he had won a reputation for daring and ferocity quite ns notable iu Its way as was tho renown of I.cslto Hruuch. There vveio many of theso Immature soldiers among tlio fnsurrectos. nud most of them were In some way distinguished fur valor. Jacket was one of these, and ho was perhaps tlio truest pa a lot of any .soldier In Miguel Lopez's band; for liberty, to him, was nqt a mero abstraction or a principle, but something real, tangible, alive something worthy of the highest sacrifice. In ills person all the wrongs ot Cuba burned perpetually. It mattered not that ho himself had never suffered his spirit was tho spirit of his country, pure, exalted, undented. IIu stood for what the others fought for. In order to expand his knowledge of Kugllsh of which, by the way, he was iuoidinately proud Jacket had volun teered to serve us O'Uellly's striker, and tho result had been u fast friendship. It was O'ltellly who had given tho boy his nickname a iianio piompted by a marked eccentricity, for ulthough Jacket possessed tlio two garments which con. stltuted the ordinary lnaurrecto uniform lie made a practice of wi-uiing only one. On chilly nights, or on formal occasions, he wore, both wulbtcoat aijd h outers, but ut other times he dispensed entiiely with tho latter, und his legs went naked. They wero naked now, as, with tlio modesty ot complete unconsciousness, ho squatted in the shude, pulling thoughtfully at his giant cheroot. I III. slOUV Till s I'.VIl .1(111 V Ml. II'UI.II.I.V re itniinniili l.minn a, llli; It'll 1.1 I.I. V . Ii:i. fuller ill I. - Willi llllsV Vltll.S , in,- nf Ihe iiriilmn. r DON l.sllMIVN V VIlON V. 11 itiilth.i him," nuni-r .mil siiuttr tl inlrr nf Culm. linn K'trUiiii liml ti.nirilcil n nihi riii.." In nr - i .. i-c ..i, i si, i,iiu Miiie, mill muili-m' urrriir,i In .i. s,-. ret (liuiuhi-r nt tli lifiitui.i if ii i .-II, I".,- nils .i,..,!-,!,-!! In liiiililliiic this m-ll lt.i Sphimthin. tt faithful sluie, Ihe only utlir iit-rsun to lntr- llir sn r,-l. Iti.u i:tlliini tiiiinii-tl it Mrriinil tluir. ult.l llir ItClNN IsAIIKI,, Clip mii ci-sWiil itiiiiiiin, liml In', huh' hU nlfi in tin liiit- ,ir liitir riling tlit fortune. Itut mIii-ii soimhllmi tilrni-il upon III feiiMtpr mill klll-tl lilm, running n ilil until t, liiilh-t tliriiuuli hi lilui I. bruin luiil lilm Ion, llir mill liiniillon-. of luhrl mpiiIp.I the sp, ret of llie treuiire's lihlln; iiltiee fureier. Liter l-.tle!, her mini turned ii n result of liroitillltK oier Hie .Ireusiirr, mi lillleil lt.i fiilliuc into the uell. At this time the C uhiiits nere ri-lni; In remit eculnst spulii. lohntiie, n In, repreNeuleil h Nen orl tlrio in C ultH, liuil returned lo NeivVorl. tenipitrnrll.i Iteiore Isuhel's iletitli. l.s'ri,i. s, Homu's lirothcr, nits a relniftpi ami die tin, orphans Mere roitipelli-il to tier into the n llilerness, 'llie.i ohtiilneil refime in the hut of l. VSC,i:l.lN.V. selniktluirs iluiiKliler. I'VNC IK) C I l.TO, Dim Csteltau's ohl maniiRer. Is pniv In rotnpli-le dinCrnl of the properly unil 1,-ails seieral parlies in a lulu nttempt tn ill, nmiy ultli die tun nunir people nliu lll Ntiinil In his path, IMebuu falls to return from a ritiil, anil Ititsn Is lotnpellril In ro to die i-olu entra Ctun ramp at MntHUxan to keep front start iui:. Vlrililii title. O'ltellly has tnuile it lain eflnrt to Ret to the rehel lines. Ills llrst trip to C una failed, unit noil lie has Joined a Junta under i-onttuauii of Major Itiimos. With him are l.l'.sl.li; IIIIAMII. a i niiunittlie nenspaper i orrespontlent, anil NOItlMI UV.VMt, a rlrlt .iiiuni: uiinian In )ltiputlij nidi the reliels, it ho iiiaile the Junta possible. ' The rpeilltlun laltils safely on il seeluileil part of die t uhaii shore, ami H'ltelllv, llli Vllss i;tuns henils a unall parl carrjInK liens to Gelirral lauuiei r (lie liinln's safe arrllal, VI Culillas ll'ltellli Is met In .11 IISIIN. anil Vinrrliaii i-aptain of urtlllrry ho tries to olitaln Jnlitiule as a rerrull. O'ltellly sees Colonel l.opei, ulm tells hint of the fnle Hull has liefallen t:lehali liml Ititsa. The Amerli-an then decides to light the Spaniards In the llnlsli. lirancli etillstH nltll hint. Once Jacket's mind was fastened upon any subject. It remained theie, and aftet a time he continued: "Yes. I bet I don't taste good to no Spaniard. Hid I told you about that bat tlo of lino Ilravo? Kh?" He turned Ids big brown eyes upward to O'ltellly. "Crlsto! I skill mor'n a dozen men that day!" i "Oh, Jacket!" tho Americans cried. "You monstrous little liar!' commented O'ltellly. "SI, honors," the boy went on, complacent'- . "That day I skill more'n six men. It was this way; wo came on them from behind and they don't see us. I'hul! Wo bklll plenty, all tight'" "It was a hot scrimmage," Judson at tested, "Some of Luquo's niggers, thosn tall, lean, hungry fellows from Muntlago. managed to buck their way through u wire fence und get behind a detachment of the enemy who had made u. stand under a hill. They charged, and for a wonder they got close enough to uno their machetes. It was bloody work tho kind you nad about no uuarter Somehow Jaeket managed to he tight In the middle of the butchcrv. lit 'n it luavti kid. all light. Muy male!" Jacket Kvplaius Then- was n moment's sileuee. then Judson continued: "Funny thing hap pened afterward, though. Jacket had to do his turn at picket duty that night, and ho got scared of the dark. Wo heard lilm squalling mid sei earning " Jacket staited to his feet. "That's u dam' lie," lie exclaimed, lesentfully. "I'm not soared of no dark." "Didn't ou holler till ou iwoke the whole camp?" "I ain't scared of no daik." tlio boy repeated; but his pride, his complacency, had suddenly vuulshed. "Did you cry?" O'Helllj smiled, and tlio lad nodded reluctantly. "Did he cry?" Judson echoed, "Wh. we thought we were attacked, lie put the whole camp In an uproar," "What was the trouble, Jacket?" "I I waa " The boy's smooth In own cheeks puled, and his moist eyea dilated at the memory. "I ain't scared of any - Spaniard when lie's alive, but It's dinVieut when he's dead. I eould see dead ones everywhere!" He shuddeied invojuntaiily. "They fetched me to lieneial (..onicz and- Caramba! ho'a m. id liut after I tell him what f gee In the dark he say 1 don't have to go back there no more. He let me go to sleep 'longside of his hammock, and lilmcby I quit cryln'. I ain't never Mood no plclcst ilut since that night. I won't do it." Norine Under Discussion It was plain that discussion of this unhappy subject was deeply dlbtasteful to the jouthful hero of l'ino Ilravo, for lit- edged away, and a moment later dis appeared. "There's no end of yellow.-Jack among the Spaniards," said Judson. "Speaking of that, what do you think ot Mlsi Kvuns's work In the Held hospitals?" "I don't think much pt It," O'ltellly con. fessed O'Httlly smiled, understanding now th tenson for Ills companion's leckless, al most frenzied use of soup and water that morning, and his cheerful stoicism lit the hands ot u volunteer barber mora accustomed to tho uses of a machete than a lazor. JMdently Judson had fallen, too along with Major Itatuos nnd Colonel I.opca und Leslie Branch und all the rest. Well, It wast to be expected. Ue.fore he had been a week in Cuba Ojltellly had noticed that Miss Uvaus was a mystery und a delight to nearly every man una met. "So ou've got it, eh?" he Inquired. "(Jot what?" Judson dld-not turn hl eyes. t? ... . .. , -it. . 'i "It? If ou can't tilk Kntrllidi, tul5 Spanish." , ys U UClliy wus nut jwauiucu v mi . ,.infTiies. "I think Jier presence hera.tW.ii the silliest, the most scandalous, thin(p ........ ,.nr.l nt" wild lie t-Th liinsi irf'A. .;- c"' """ -' - r. " : '. .5LiiJui?i girl of Tier accompiisnmenw,, fwarn alone In Cuba! wjy; it's . jasssa ? , m . LirZ- &m t ' vv""l -A& r-.'-.' 1 a , a t " Wfi """ UCJWUUU"! "W 4,, -" ". T i 4 V iK m J. , I i ,-i Srj. tf- 4-, M& tt'i.t- . iJl. J, . n
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