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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
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lx which lie used in Congress. On the lid is a bucolic .scone, hard)
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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?
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"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
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