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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1918)
BRIDES A Romance at'ih AMERICAN APMV nglitlngf 011 1M10 jrrarNi;is ICOP.YfcliJHl CHAPTER I. JMjflilW- Lieutenant Mnrk Wnllneo of the .Seventieth New York reBlnient einuo o n norupi 8,(,s, . He mi nl.ine in the JutiKle, upon the hhizlnu hillside before Santiago, in the nioiitn of June. IffltH. Through the branrhea of the trees the Mauser bullets still whipped and whistled, and tbe prolonged aereerh of .sheila and distant shouting Indicated that tbe battle, which had raged all dny, had not yet reached Its end. Hut within the short radius of Wallace's vision nothing stirred, not even the palmetto boughs that rustled with the least breeze like tbe sound of the sea. Wallace bad only the most confused and incoherent knowledge of what was happening on that historic day. There had been an advance In the cool of the morning, If a brief respite from the op. presslve heat could be called coolneas In contrast Then came the deploy ment along the base of the hills as the first shells began to fall, the advance In open order, In which the nicely In 'ilen ted teachings of the parade round fell to pieces, tbe Jumble of men, of companies, and, later, of regi ments, pressing forward past the dead ml stricken, the shouts, the rattle of uiiichlue guns and rllles. Batteries "ime galloping where they bud no theoretical business to be, upsetting 'lie Junior officers' desperate attempts to preserve alignment; lied Cross men Invaded tbe battle line to succor the wounded; comiulssurlnt mules, slinking off the lethargy which no amount of belaboring hud ever over time, run away with supplies and strewed embalmed beef over the hlll M.le. In the midst of It nil Wallace ! rallied some men of his OWII troop id led then forward ; he plnngbd Into In patch Oi scriili-covereii Jungle, anil l"iinil that he was itlone. Iu front of him was a small riming. 'i" by seme Cuban squatter in the i receding year and abandoned after the reaping, it contained the ruin of a palm shuck, ami the furrows Mcruped by n primitive plow were OBlf Just dis cernible amid the rank growth that had sprung up. The lieutenant stop ped ami shouted, expecting to see hl: men come running through the trees. Hut none appeared, und It wus ut tills moment that the bullet that had bsa stumped with his name, aerord Ing to the soldier's superstition, fomul him. He felt a smart blow on the shoulder, which kaoekad aim bnek- wurd. He stumbled, fell down, wit up again sad discorerod that his elbow battered. The arm hung help It llj al his side. He managed to bind up the wound hit hand nml teeth. Tie r, i i much pain, bul sort of phj Kr, which made him reel giddily in arose, There waa burning . too. it was extraordinary thai le thing like that Should lake the grll out of a man. A little blood was Dg down his sleeve, but II. ound seemed trivial. Wallace leaned against the wall of the shack and walled for bin men. He shouted once or twice more, but nobody answered hliu, und the battle seemed to be drifting in another direc tion. Wallace Imagined thai his troop had advanced around the patch of scrub, In which case he wns not likely to establish touch with them again till nightfall. He cursed his luck and started forward, but the trees began to reel around him; he clutched at the wall of the shack, missed It, and fell. Then he realised that he was out of i he fight. Yet, In spite of his Intense 'llsappolntment, he knew thut worse might have befallen him. He had fought through hours of the day that wag much; he wns probably spared to lead his men again and that wns more. He had found and proved himself; and ut twenty-one u young lauu, for all bis helf-coutidence, is colli Wad of liars mid doubts as well. In pits of his SOldior ancestors, Mark Will lacs had not been sure Hint his rapacity for leadership extended be- inl tbe parade ground, and lie had Hired from the joung Midler's In- i liable fear of leaf. So he reigned lll.a.si'lf to his sllua- ' ut. He emptied his water bottle and, gripping the end of but gau.e roll wllli ins teeth, managed to bandage his round sufficiently to slop the blood" Ing, The languor, however, wuh Ilk creasing, Sometimes he would do.e for a few moments, awaking with u Mart, to wonder where he was, and what had happened. The air was very till. The shouts hud long since died 'iwuy, the rifle firing was a distant crackling; the tremulous sliuciilo tnp- Iplng of tbe machine guns was like Un roll of drums fur a way. Wallace must huve slept for a pro longed period, for when next he be came conscious he started up to see, lo bis intense astonishment, a prelty UUe girl of three or four years, siuad- 1 Baft lefieldr of r to In fronl of him und looking nt him. He rubbed Ills eyes. e n), ,er to tllMpJM iir. Bat she whs still there, iinil JlIM lis lie .,s lieirlniiliiL' lii iileen (ii. I getbtr B BparJ.il phrBM lb. i t. to liini in English. I wnnt my daddy." Wiillnee renehed out and drew the Child townrd htm. "Where Is your daddy?" he utsked. "And who ure you?" "I'm Eleanor," she answered, "and won't you please find my daddy for me?" She pointed with a grimy little hand toward the Interior of the ahack, and Wntlace. struggling to his feel with n great effort, made his way inside. It was almost dark In the hut, and Wallace could only make out with dif ficulty tin- form of a man who lay, face downward, upon the ground near the wall, l'resently, however, as his eyes became more accustomed to the ob scurity, lie saw tiie bullet wound In tbe hack of the head. He looked up Ut tbe Child, who slood by, unconcerned. ";0 uway, Kleauor," he said gently. The child, too young to know any thing of death, went out of the hut and began to play in tbe ihafl of sun light tbul filtered through the brni of the palms. Wallace searched the dead mau's pockets. Be found noth ing, however, ex pt a military puss, sigtu d by General LInui o of the sp inl . aulhoi Ising the bearer to pas.; through tbe lines j and, after a moment n reflection, be decided to leave ii on tbe body. So this man bad been the child's fa ther, ami, apart from her speech, his coloring showed that lie bad been an American. Wallace concluded that he hud been u planter, trapped in Santi ago. He raised the body in his arms and tried to turn It over, but let It full when he saw the work that the bullet had mude of the face. He must not let the little girl carry uwuy any thing of such memory as that 1 He groped his way outside and beckoned to her. "What Is your other name, Eleanor?" he asked. The little girl only looked at him; it wns evident Hint she did not under stand the inclining of his question. "Did your daddy live In Santiago?" "My daddy has gone uway. I want him," said the child, beginning to whimper. Wulluce tried her onto more. "Where Is your mamma?" he asked. Hut she said nothing, and he sat down, propping himself against the shack. He draw tba Uttls girl town beside him. "Now listen to me, Klennor," he said. "Your daddy has gone away. He will be gone lor a long lime. You musl he good und patient, and BOOO Somebody '- ill come to lake car. ol you. Do you uinlcrstaiidV" The child s lip quivered, lull she did not . ry, lite U d her large giay agof upon him. "Who are you 7" she asked, vlth the directness of childhood. "My nana Is Mark.'' "1 like you, Mark. I will go with you till my daddy comes buck." "All right. Then sit down here he side me and play," muttered Wullaco, wondering rather grimly what there wns for her lo plu.V with. But the grubby little lingers were mm imuv tn Die sandy soil. Wulluce tclied tbe child, wondering who she ' .. i i... ........, i Ho. i i Wl was, nilU now II nan nu.." .. '. T ..-.j .. ,... a, i.itr her 10 lamer nau urwu v- i "I Want My Daddy." Into the Jungle, Into The midst of the conlendlng armies, llei clothing wns almost iu rags, and she musl have hern drenched by the rains ol the preceding night. It had certainly been a des perate and a difficult ndventure for the dead mau. The light began to fade. Wallace, half delirious now from pain and thirst, struggled to proserve his con sciousness for the sake of tbe little girl. Sometimes he would emerge from a semi-stupor and look round for her anxiously; but he always found her, no great distance away, building sand castles out of the soft soil and chattering to herself as happily as If she had already forgotten her sorrow. When he nroused himself finally, It wo,s to see the flash of a torch In his eyes. Fuces which he recognized wero looking Into his own. There was Crawford, the senior lieutenant, who had graduated from Wesi i'olnt the year before, and Captain Kellernian; there was his own negro servant, John son, with a look of alarm on his ebony fuce; and near by were two men from the ambulance, currying an empty stretcher. Wallace moaned for water and the sense of the liquid In his throat, warm though It was, brought back conscious ness with a rush. "Well, we've got you," said Craw ford cheerfully. "How are you feel ing, old man?" "Fine. Huve we got Santiago?" "Well, not exactly, but nearly. We've currieu an me trencnes, and were waiting to get our big guns up. Arm burtlng you?" "No," said Wallace, stifling a groan. "Say, Crawford, I suppose I was de lirious, but I thought there was a kid here," As he spoke he caught sight of Major Howard emerging from the shack, with the little girl In his arms, fust asleep. Tbe mujor came up to him. "How are you feeling, Wnllnce?" he asked. "Good I I didn't know yon were a family man, though, till I saw this kid sleeping in your arms." "You've been Inside?" Inquired the lieutenant, looking toward the sr.."ck. The major's fuce grew very serious. He nodded. "Her father," said Wulluce. "Come, get In with you I" answered Major Howard, curtly, Indicating the umhulunce. Mark, supported by the orderlies, who had placed the stretcher upon the ground, cruwled in and lay down. He stretched out his arm to ward the child. It was an unconscious action, hut Major Howard noted it and, detaching the small arms from about Ills neck, he placed the little girl In the stretcher. Tbe Utile head drooped upon the lieutenant's arm. As the ambulance men picked up their burden two sokUanl came oul of the hut, carrying something in a blanket. They carried it to tbe center f the Clearing and set It down beside u hole Which had already been dug. "lie carried a puss signed by Li nares," said Wulluce to I he nin.jor. Mnjor Howard's eyes contracted luto narrow slits, lie nodded. "1 have It," he unsucreil. "I wonder who he was?" said Wal lace. "We'll decide what to do with the kid after we get her hack to camp," said the major curtly. It seemed to Wallace that he was unwilling to speculate upon the Identity of the dead man. "Lie still, and don't muddle your brains with thinking, my boy,'' lie added. "We'll have you at the base hospital in next to no time." "How many men have we lost?" "I 'au'l I. II you, Quito I fOW, I'm id, Bonmi Is gone. Ora foi 'i and Murray and I found ourselves bun. bed together al the top of tha bill, leading a inivd company of Texas Hangers and Pennsylvania Dutch. We'll gel them sorted out and sent home Willi labels as soon as we can. Hove on, boyal" The Jolting stretcher prooeded oul of the scrub and down tha bilL Hera, In the open, everything was almost as silent as tn the hush, after the day's battle. Undo? the light of the rising moon could be seen parties of men moving over the hillside, strugglers seeking their regiments, or fatigue par ties detailed upon the necessary night work that follows a day of deuth. The moon shone down on huddled forms scattered for the most part In little clusters, where shells or machine gun fire hud caught them. It seemed an Infinitely long Journey, and every movement of the stretcher wns almost unbearable. Wallace shut his lips tight. He looked at the child beside him. She moved In her sieep, feeling for his neck with the little grimy hands. Her cheek snuggled Into the hollow of his arm. The lieutenant WU curiously touched by this uncon scious ( onfidence. He Issued from Ids ordeal of pain al lust, when Hie bearers halted in 1ii.nl of the line of tents thai served tof a Held hospital. Stratcheri i.v the doaen , were plied about the ground, ami more u.-re arriving coustaotly. Wounded m. ii, guided by the sound, runic limping iu on the las! lap of their painful Journeys, Others, who had ar rived bin had not yet been attended to, sat or lay In fronl of Hie leiils. Or derlies were scurrying to and fro. Ma- j Jor Howard caugbl one of the regl menlal surgeons, who looked Mark over quickly and then picked the child out of the stretcher. "Hello! Who's this?" he asked. "Friend Of bis," said tba major, In- j dialling Mark. "She doesn't look like a Cubun young lady," said the doctor, us he cut uway the sleeve of the tunic. "Her father's dead. Hit by a shell on his way from Santiago. mnm mi American." said M I think bl ack. - "(live her to me. I neve Give her to me. I never had one. said the doctor, suddenly Injecting a hypodermic Into Mark's arm. "Not after thai," said Mark, winc ing. "Hesldes, I'm thinking of adopt ing Iter myself." And he wondered what bail miido him say that when the thought had hardly reached his own conscious ness. "See here, young man I Let me look at that arm of yours before you talk that way. Hum 1 You'll be running round In a couple of weeks, as well as ever." "Thank heaven for that V ejaculated Mark fervently. "Then I'll be tn st tbe death." "I doubt It I won't pass you for duty for six months to come," said tbe doctor, grinning. Then, seeing Mark's dejected look, be added, more seri ously : "You may thank the modern high power bullet that you are going to keep your arm, my hoy. It's drilled n nice III He pencil-hole clean through the Joint, Instead of shattering It, and that's got to bo filled In with new growth. Even I can't grow bones In u week. I wish 1 could. Ten yeurs ngo your arm would have hud lo come off. There's nothing more I con do for you, my son," he added, as he smeared some sticky stuff over the wound and began adjusting a bandage, "except tie you up and put you In the hospital to night, and send you down to the base In the morning." "The devil you will I I guess I'm well enough to stay on the Job as 1 am." "Here, I haven't any more time to waste on you I" said the doctor. "Pounce will make you a sling and you'll go Into that tent and stay there, or I'll cashier you. You won't be feel ing so spry tomorrow morning. Get out I" He strode away, leaving Mnrk look ing Into the grinning black face of Johnson. After the sling had been adjusted he discovered that the sense of well being, due to the hypodermic, wns al ready beginning to leave him. His servant helped him Into the tent and Major Howard brought In the little girl, who at once colled herself up to .'ep at Wallace's side. The Farmer Receives More Than Five Thousand Dollars a Minute From Swift & Company This amount is paid to the fitrm-r for live stock, by Swift & Company alone, during the trading hours of every business day. All this money is paid to the farmer through the open market in competition with large and small packers, Shippers, speculators and dealers. The farmer, feeder, or shipper receives every cent of this money ($300,009 an hour, nearly $2,000,000 a day, $11,500,000 a week) in cash, on the spot, as soon as the stock he has just sold is weighed up. Some of the money paid to the farmer dur ing a single day comes back to the company in a month from sale of products; much does not come back for sixty or ninety days or more. But the next day Swift & Company, to meet the demands made by its customers, must pay out another $2,000,000 or so, and at the present high price levels keeps over $250,000,000 continuously tied up in goods on the way to market and in bills owed to the company. This gives an idea of the volume of the Swift & Company business and the requirements of financing it. Only by doing a large business can this company turn live stock into meat and by-products at the lowest possible cost, prevent waste, operate refrigerator cars, distribute to retailers in all parts of the country and be recompensed with a profit of only a fraction of a cent a pound a profit too small to have any noticeable effect on the price of meat or live stock. Swift & Company, U. S. A. 'What are you going to do about her?" Inquired the mnjor, standing be side the camp bed and looking down ill Wallace uneasily. "Holl some canned cow and see If It will dissolve the cellulose out of an army biscuit." "It shall be done. I guess that'll stay her till morning. But seriously, Wal lace?" "I suppose I'll have to assume the responsibility for her. I'll take her down to the base with me tomorrow and ship her home to my people In charge of one of the stewardesses on some liner." "I've got a better scheme," said tbe major. "Let me have her, Wallace. My wife will go crar.y over her. You know she's always talking of adopting u little girl. She's got her Ideal type In mind, and that's It. I was to look round for one like thut If ever the chance came along." "Well, you'd better go on looking round, Major," snld Wnllnce, Irritably. "See hero, my boy, you don't really want that kid, do you?" "I do. I'll think over your proposi tion. Major, of course, but my sister would give her n home and " "Let me send her to my wife. You can claim her nfter the war, If you Aunt to. Suppose you got killed; we'd neither of us hove her. If you don't let me tuke her I'll make you pay for It." "How?" "I'll order her a bath, under the sanitary code. And you'll have to give It. And scraped beef our beef I" "Get out, Major, and give me a chance to yell when my wound hurts. Listen! I tell you what I'm ready to do. I'll let the regiment adopt her, with myself as godfather." (To be continued) With what Joy and satisfaction shall we take down the service flag from the window and lay It away as a sacred relic. o We shall be surprised if your con science lets you buy that new car until Kurope Is fed and clothed again. WONT YOU FILL IT; 8omc place In this community there may be an empty stocking. At this hour when all the world is rejoicing at "Peace on Earth.'' such as never appreciated in thhs generation before. It is your duty to find that empty stocking -and fill it. Make a child's heart glad and enjoy a happiness- greater than you hud planned. Do your Christmas shopping early. o For Croup, "Flu" and ".rip" Coughs M. T. Davis, leadirng merchant of DearsTille, W. 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