t
not now tie a lone, trlste man. without
home, chick, or child—only the money.
The touch of a baud, the glance of an eye,
She Is trembling from her dainty
Or a word exchanged with a passer-by; I head down to her tiny, silk-bowed
A glimpse of a fare in a crowded street
Spanish slippers all the time that "El
And afterward life is incomplete;
Largo" is torturing the furious, paw­
A picture painted with honest zeal
ing bull with his sharp bamlerillas.
And we lose the old for the new ideal;
She clasps her hands tightly together,
A chance remark or a song’s refraiu,
And life is uever the same again.
as, finally, tiring of the banderilia work
—which. In fact, has been somewhat
An angered word from our lips is sped
T the head of the 5,000 regulags live to be 100 unless a bullet cuts short
long drawn out, "on account of the
Or a tender word is left unsaid,
in the 1‘hlllppine Islands is n bis strange and sanguinary career.
matador, 'El Chatto’s,’ sudden sickness
And one there is who, his whole life long,
modern fighting machine. Its
Henry W. Lawton was a gallant and
Shall cherish the brand of a burning ami faintness"—the public of the sunny
name is Lawton—Henry W. Lawton
—
serviceable
officer of infantry during
side
begin
to
clamor
for
"El
matador!
wrong;
Mate el toro! Que venga el matador! and for nearly forty years It has worn four years of the civil war, but his
A lino that stares up from an open page,
the uniform of the United States army. peculiar talents were properly envir­
El matador!”
A cynic smile from the lips of age,
The gate swings open nt last, and It has risen from the ranks, this fight­ oned only when he was transferred to
A glimpse of loving seen in a play,
And the dreams of our youth are swept “‘El Largo” still teases the bull as “El ing machine, leaving behind it other the cavalry and stationed in the south­
away.
Chatto” moves forward slowly, and machines as strong possibly, but less west. This was more than a quarter
of a century ago, and for two decades
bows first to the President and then to fortunate.
A friendly smile and love’s embering
Henry W. Lawton was born in Ohio he was remote from the large cities of
the public. In spite of his magnificent
spark
fifty-six years ago. He was a country the east. He found New Mexico and
Leaps into flame and illumines the dark; silver and violet costume, he looks boy and got only a common school edu­
Arizona overrun and terrorized by hos­
deathly
111
—
his
face
Is
white
and
A whispered “Be brave” to our fellow
drawn, nnd under bls eyes great black cation—not any too much of it. It is to tile bands of Indians and he set him­
men
And they pick up the thread of life rings show, that extend almost half­ be doubted if he would have learned a self, along with his comrades, to bold
great deal if kept steadily at college un­ them down. They were held down. The
again.
way down his face.
Thus never an act or a word or thought
But "El Chatto” is game. If he Is sick til he attained his majority. Emphat­ xvork that the cavalrymen of the United
But that with unguessed importance is —perhaps the presence of his wife in­ ically he Is not a book man. Studying States did in those years will never be
fraught,
spires him with fresh courage, for he the printed page has been to him al­ appreciated until a circumstantial his­
For small things build up eternity
unsheathes his bright, keen sword, nods ways a task and never a pleasure. Men tory Is written and it Is not probable
And blazon the ways for a destiny.
briefly to “El Largo,” who gets out of are his books-men and happenings. that the history will ever be written.
the way, smiles once at Lolita, who >s, His folk were plain farmer folk. From It was a life of foray, long rides, des­
beneath her mantilla, far whiter than them he derived his length and size of perate battles in remote valleys, mid­
be, then makes a tantalizing movement bone. The tremendous muscles, the night surprises, combat with a foe that
tireless endurance which have marked often was not seen, disheartening and
at the bull.
N the house of “El Cliatto,” ex-
After all, no one can fight a bull as him in later life had the beginning of fruitless chases, danger and frequent
bull-ligliter of Madrid and present does the Spanish matador. At least, the development in the open air of the death. In fifteen years the officer saw
"Torero before the Mexican pub­ during "El Chatto's” splendid work of fields of his boyhood. It was said of every friend he had made when he
lic,” there was dire dismay, owing the
to next seven minutes that Is what the him that it took him longer to learn went to the mountains taken from him
the low stab- the very low state—of people think. All of them are on their anything and longer to forget it than by removal, age disease or the bullet.
any youth that ever tramped through The entire personnel of the force
the family exchequer.
feet shrieking, some breathless with
“El Chatto” (meaning "the snub delight! Silver dollars and bats and the snow to a log school house. His changed more than once—the entire
nose”) had Just finished taking his flowers rain down into the ring, but memory, indeed, has been one of his personnel—that Is. except himself. He
morning chocolate and “pan dulce,” as­ "El Chatto” lias no time to bow his strong points since he emerged from was always left, lonely, self-contained,
childhood. He remembers well—par­ earnest. Indefatigable and silent, save
sisted by ills pretty wife, Donna Lolita, thanks; he is too busy.
ticularly enemies. A better hater was when giving commands or cheering on
who also had been a member of the
On her feet, as is everybody else, for
noble army of bull-fighters—in fact, that matter, Lolita is watching every never born. It follows necessarily that his men In fight His name became a
he Is true in friendship. He Is, In fact, household world in all of the tepees In
first femule espada in the big ring at motion, her heart beating In great
a man's man. Women who get to that wild land. The Chlrlcahuas, the
Seville—but this was a secret.
leaps, and so excited and wrought up know him like him well enough, but Mescaleros, the Jlcarlllas, Apaches, all
A career that might possibly have now that she lins forgotten to feel
not many of them get to know him. In had for him the mixture of hate and
been glorious had been cut short by the afraid. Bull and matador are Just un­
the age <>f gray hair he is still a bach­ grudgeo admiration compelled by a
selfishness of "El Chatto,” who had derneath her, and twice her husband
elor, and if lie has ever had an affair of dauntless foe. They found In him,
loved her, married her, and taken her has glanced at her significantly; she is
the heart it has been kept to himself.
after a little while, a man who was
away from the old world to the new— watching with her heart In her eyes.
Lawton entered the volunteer service
the rich country of Mexico—where a
One pass of the sword backward over of the United States in April, 1861, and
bullfighter was a prince.
the shoulder—now, then, Dios help— was given the chevrons of a sergeant in
Successful, feted, and honored in a-h-h!
company E of the Ninth Indiana In­
Cuba and afterward In Mexico, "El
For all In a second It happens: the fantry. In August, 1861. he was made
Chatto's” prosperity had not lasted matador, suddenly reeling after a fancy first lieutenant of the Thirtieth Indi­
long, for soon had come the edict that pass at tlie bull, lias cast one agonized ana. In May, 1862, he was made a cap­
bull fighting In Mexico must stop.
look up at his wife and fallen prone on tain, was a lieutenant colonel in No­
This morning, (lie day before the bull the ground The bull does not see, for vember, 1864, was breveted a colonel
fight honoring the fiesta of San Marcos, the furious Impetus of his last charge for gallant and meritorious services
Investigation revealed one big piece and has taken him several feet beyond the in
March, 1865, and was mus­
fourteen copper centavos. Not enough matador.
tered out of the service in No­
to pay coach hire even!
He liad had practically
But before the people have well seen vember, 1865.
Here was a pretty mess; no wonder
that, there is a quick leap and a flash; four years of the most tremendous war
that “El Chatto” leisurely and calmly a slight figure is In the ring, her man­ In the history of the nations. He had
spoke every naughtly and lurid word
tilla is cast back, the pink rose has been a participant in a dozen pitched
that rauie to his mind during the next fallen Into the dust; her tiny, white battles. He had led his men in charge
half-hour.
hands have caught up the sword. As and counter charge on the stricken
At last, out of breath, “El Chatto” the bull swings madly forward she fields of Virginia. He had stepped up­
paused and glared about him, as meets him.
on the dead upturned faces of his broth­
though In search of some one to tight.
He Is an enormous beast, and to be ers. He had been soaked with blood to
Donna Lolita smiled at him sweetly, on a line even with his shoulder she bis knees.
removing the cigaret from her pretty
On the 1st of July, 1866, he was ga­
has to rise on tiptoe. She does It. Her
lips as she murmured: “Have you fin­
face is white and calm as the brute zetted a second lieutenant in the regu­
ished, little Snub Nose?"
rushes at her, lowering hfs head. She lar army, being assigned to the Forty-
A shrug of the shoulders was her bus
springs forward and upward; the first Infantry. A year later he was
band's reply.
sword sinks out of sight In the bleeding made a first lieutenant. He was trans­
"Then listen, O most worthless hus­ shoulder—no fancy passes for her! ferred to the cavalry arm in January,
band, for I have a plan a plan most
And the bull topples over on Ills knees, 1871, had advanced to a captaincy in
magnificent, thereby we will make a
the blood gushing out In torrents. He March, 1879, was made a major in the
fortune sufficient silver peso, one 50-
Inspector's general's department in
is dying—dead!
cent piece, one 10-cent.”
September, 1888, and Inspector general,
The mantilla Is trampled Into the
“This is how it is," she pursued, blow­
witli the rank of lieutenant colonel. In
ing a ring of smoke into her husband's dust, the pink rose Is now a faded, red­ 1889. That is his rank in the regular
dened
scrap,
but
the
woman,
her
hands
face; "the impresairo pay you little-
army to day, although he wears the
very little-only a hundred silver dol­ blood-stained and her face white as epaulets of a major general of volun­
death, knows nothing about that. On
lars Is It not so?”
teers. He is slated for appointment to
“81, that Is all the pigs!” growled the her knees, sobbing like a baby, from be a brigadier general under the reor­
overwrought
passion
and
nervousness,
torero; "and after this there will be no
ganization act and when the two years learned in every phase of their peculiar
fight until ‘holy week’—no
more she Is holding her husband's uncon­ for which the new soldiers will be en­ warfare, and in ten years they dreaded
scious head In her trembling arms.
money!”
listed have expired there will be enough him as they have dreaded few white
As for the populace, they have passed retirements from the service to make men since the winning of the ’ West be-
“rues, then we will make more out
from horror-stricken silence and terror his retention as a regular brigadier a gan. Lawton’s method of I handllng
of them much more. Listen, marido
Into hysterical shouts, screams, ap­ certainty.
them was singularly ids own. 1 When he
mlo; this Is the plan.
plause, nnd even tears.
The gloom clears away from the
He has come upward step by step struck a trail he kept to it with a
Out conies purses and dollars, and l
house of the matador, there continues
solely through personal courage and dogged tenacity which knew no such
even Jewels from the rich ladles pres­
personal strength. He has held that it thing as quit. Whether the ■ pursuit
rejoicing all that day. "El Chatto" and
ent and mnaaee of flowers. Amid
Is the first duty of the soldier to fight, was maintained for a day or a week, it
his pretty wife have a most Joyous
shouts of “bravo;” down It all pours
comedn, ami afterwards lay their heads Into the ring. As for the great banker, and to tight as soon as he gets the was maintained with a steady, unre­
chance. He has been possessed by no lenting earnestness that did more to
together on the subject of the morrow's
Fritnqulllo, who is so excited that he
particular refinements of the art of strike terror into the hearts of the red
tight and a special Spanish costume
can hardly move-down goes his foot­ war. He has simply gone ahead and men than would have been possible to
that Lolita Is to wear one of old Se­
man with a message to "La Espanola!” ' fought like a fiend when opportunity all the rifles on earth. The man's phil­
villa-all rose pink and Spanish man­
Not wafting to bow or to thank the
tilla. with a pink tost* In her blue black people, so overcome Is she with her offer«! nnd left to others the task of osophy was wholly expressed once in
hnlr, this latter being another of the tremendous success, Dona Lolita flies explaining why nnd how such and such a chance remark to a newspaper ac­
mysteries; In Mexico few Indies ever from the ring. It Is all she can do to a victory wns won or defent suffered. quaintance.
“If a man is hunting for you," he
wear the costume of old Spain It Is ns tremblingly thank the bearer of a He has devoted his life to the profes­
much worn out. passe, here ns the cheek from the Banker Frauqulllo. who sion of arms nnd he understands it. He said, “get a gun and hunt him. Do it
does not pretend to be an authority up­ right away. It discournges anyone to
patches and powder and lioops of the has tilled It out for $10,006. Bravo!
on anything else. He is a one-idea man. be suddenly transferred from the posi­
revolutionary days are In Anglo Saxon
So that Dona Lolita's little plan work­
tion of hunter to hunted.”
lands.
Personality of the Man.
ed well after all— so well that five days
This rule has guided alm. He insists
But why Is she wearing It to mor­ later she and her husband left for
In person he Is a wonder. Standing
row? » • • Unless, indeed, It Is lo­ Spain, where, having added much more C feet 3 Inches high, ns straight as a upon being the aggressor. It Is sup­
calise fully fifteen enormously rich money to the banker's $10,000, they rule, with long arms, wide shoulders, posed that he would stand a charge all
Spanish families have taken Istxes and have now retired and are great peo­ deep chest and thin flanks, he weighed right, but hitherto he has always done
the charging. He does not believe in
will be there? Perhaps thnt Is It! ple.
11)3 pounds of bone and muscle when waiting for the other side to act. This
I.ollltn wishes to to patriotic— that is
And “El Chatto” says always that he 25 years old and now weighs 210. Ills
trait wns signally demonstrated in his
what Is the matter!
owes his success to Ills esposa—which head is small and set on a massive
She purposely took a sent Just be­ Is not understood, naturally, by the neck. Ills hands and feet are large. conduct of the right wing of the Amer­
ican army at El Caney. He had men
hind the first barrier of the bull ring— Spaulards of Spain. The Argonaut.
He Is as active ns a cat and as tireless that lie thought could be depended
not sewn feet above the ground where
as a wolf. Under the sleeves of his on. At any rate he proposed to see
her husband will kill Ills bull—"so that
blue fatigue Jacket the muscles bulge what they could nnd would do. So he
Bemarknble Clsirvoyancy.
she can nee him better." as she lisps to
When jieople are determined to find like cables. Ills stomach goes like sent them at the blockhouses and
an admiring Mexican lighter, who
evidence to convince them of a thing clockwork, lie lias not an unsound breastworks hour after hour with a
wishes her to go Into one of the boxes.
they are bound to believe, there Is never tooth, llendaches art* not known to savage disregard of the chances of
In her Sevillian costume, the silk
any lack of it. A certain man who ac­ him, except from hearsay. He can battle and the liability to death that is
mantilla exposing Just enough of her
cepted as true the pretensions of a travel for a week without food or sleep, one of the marvels of that brief and
Spanish eyes and dimpled chin to make
charlatan who claimed to be able to tell then make a l>oa constrictor ashamed glorious campaign. It was of Lawton's
people want to see more, Dona Lolita
the past history, character and future of Itself and sleep for two days without men nnd not of the rough riders that
is by far the most admired woman In
of any person from his handwriting, turning over. He has never taken any the Spanish Infantryman said: "We do
the plaza, distracting attention even
care of himself. The soldier's rough not understand you American soldiers.
said one day to a friend:
from the beautiful banderilia work thnt
"Why. look at the things he Is able to and exposed life tins l>een his since Y’ou tried to catch us with your hands.”
•‘El Largo" Is going through with In tell you from a men1 glimpse at your youth, but he Is ns sound as a nut to­
It was Lawton's reputation for dar­
the ring.
handwriting! The first thing he said day and able to tin* out a dozen young­ ing nnd tireless pertinacity that led to
Many a rich Spanish lady tip then» to me was. 'I see you never took a prize er men. Apparently fatigue passes him bls becoming Internationally famous.
in the Itoxea envies the loyalty that In orthography w Idle you were at by when It lays its heavy hand upon His characteristics were known, of
has Induced the wearing of a passe school.' and It was true."
those apparently as strong. He is al- course, to his superior officers as thor­
dress, and many a Spaniard feels Ids
"Did lie give you any Idea how he ways alert and always looking for a oughly as they were known to the In­
lieart grow warm and his eyes moist knew that?”
chance to damage an opponent, One dians whom he had been fighting for
as, forgetting the little figure before his
"lie sold he conld tell It merely from of his many Indian mimes is “Man a dozen years. For the tenth time the
eyes, he can nee another one of the old the way lu which I had made the curves Who-Gets Up lu the Night - to - Fight." band of Chlricahua Apaches, headed
days In the old country almost Identic­ of the letters g and h in the word and he has earned it by years of prac­ by Chief Naches and directed by Ger­
al; many a man forgets the fat. richly •handwriting'!"—Youth's Compttniou.
tically ceaseless toil. His forehead Is onimo. had Jumped the San Carlos res­
dressed Mexican w ife at Ids able and
high and somewhat narrow, his eyes a ervation, leaving behind them the usu­
goes back in heart to Just such a girl,
Quite Natural.
keen gray, his nose and cheek bones al trail of blood and ruin. Ranchmen
whether of Andalusia, of Seville, or of
It Is only the Bounderbys of the prominent, tils chin square, his Ups were butchered on lonely ranges, chil­
world who boast of la-lug self made. thin He wears a drooping mustache. dren's brains were dashed out and the
Madrid.
And s >at< d alone In bls box the prince Moat men. when they have attained His hair Is cut pompadour, stands up smoke of burning dwellings rose day
of bankers, old Frauqulllo, drops Ids prominence In political life or In social stiff and short like a reversed shoe and night to the brilliantly blue sky.
glass nnd sighs; perhaps if a girl like life, or as men of wealth, prefer not to shoe brush, and he Is not pretty. This General Mlles, a trained soldier and an
that one yonder had lived, instead of have It said that they were once poor hair Is now lil>erally sprinkled with Indian fighter himself, was tn com­
passing away from him during the first and had to work for a living, a fact the gray, and the white amid the brown Is mand. and he selected Captain Lawton
poverty-stricken month of their mar­ Journalist who wsltes up celebrities about his only sign of age. Army sur­ for the task that was set before them.
geons who know him say that he may He started with two troops of veterans.
ried lift there in Barcelona, he would should not lose sight of.
IMPRESSIONS.
I
7ÆW-AAéJ \TT0N.
T/GffTING N-VM' i -
A
“EL CHATTO.”
I
taking a trail that at Its beginning was
broad and plainly marked. Then fol­
lowed the most remarkable pursuit in
the history of Indian warfare. Day af­
ter day the ceaseless toll continued.
The men speedily found themselves In
a country where horses without claws
were of worse than no account. Their
officer dismounted them. “We will
walk them down,” he said grimly. The
walk began. It was white pluck and
endurance against Indian craftiness
and endurance.
Huntinc Geron’mo.
Over rocks that blistered the hands
when touched, in ravines so deep and
dark that through the narrow rift far
overhead the stars were visible at
noontide, up the sides of huge bills
down which trickled rivulets of dust,
threading paths along precipices which
frowned upon green valleys 5,000 feet
below, drinking of cold, clear springs
that gushed above the clouds, some­
times in the sun-baked desert, again
clambering far beyond the timber line.
Lawton and his followers struggled
on. Frequently a wisp of blue smoke
jutted from some inaccessible crag
and a bullet sang its wicked way to its
billet or spattered upon a russet rock.
It is a country that God Almighty
made In wrath and the imprint of his
anger is on it all. Week succeeded
week. Men dropped, fainting, in the
giant hills and their comrades passed
on. There was no time to stay. They
were left to find their way back to the
reservation as best they could. Indian
and white were foemen worthy of each
other's steel, and the Issue of the con­
test was In doubt to the last day.
Finally, one night just as the sentries
were set, there was a faint hail and an
Indian stood before them. He was
worn to the bone, but dauntless still.
He said that his chief would talk to the
white man, but would talk to him alone.
His camp was some miles further on,
but the messenger would guide Lawton
to ft if he cared to come. The noncoms
endeavored to persuade the captain
against the venture, but he smiled sour­
ly at them and told the Indian that he
Caney, doing ns much as any man could
do to convince Toral that his cause was
bojieless. lu all of tlie fighting of that
terrific day he was up to the tiring line,
saying little, but pacing slowly up ami
down. Ills gaunt figure a mark for every
sharpshooter in the enemy's lines, the
Mauser's flicking up the dust about him
or pulsing in the air. giving to his men
the constant example of how an Amer­
ican soldier should act when under tire.
He was one of the three commissioners
appointed by Gen. Shafter to arrange
with Toral the terms of capitulation,
and after the fall of Santiago policed
the city In a very thorough manner un­
til the establishment of a stable form of
government was made possible. Law­
ton's idea of policing a place of the kind
Is very simple. "The regulations are so
and so," he would say. “and you have
your gun. If anybody violates the reg­
ulations, use the gun.” It required Just
one day to quiet the city.
Again it was the Geronimo record—or
rather the record of years in the west
crowned by the Geronimo incident—
which sent him to the Philippines to
command the American forces in the
field. The rainy season will have no
effect on him, whatever the effect may
be on those under him. He is as cer­
tain to go strong and fast, even if he
goes to his death, as the sun is certain
to rise and set. All climates and all
seasons are alike to that iron frame,
upon which war and peace and the
rigors of the mountains and the sloth
of the Potomac Valley and asceticism
and dissipation have been effectless.
SNAKES AS DECORATIONS.
Samoan Maidens Wreath Themselves
with Reptiles of Flaming Red.
For the most part the Pacific islands
are destitute of snakes. That is abso­
lutely the case in Hawaii. In New Zea­
land, equally free of these reptiles, the
only knowledge which the Maoris had
of snakes may be found In a legend of
a monster called the anlwha, concern­
ing which authorities differ as to
whether it is the ancestral and dim rec-
pu .1-0 —
was ready. They left the camp of the
soldiers the next morning. By 10 o'clock
Lawton stood in the Apache horde.
Cavernous eyes gleamed at him. Lips
drawn back from discolored teeth
grinned at him. Wnsted hands were
waved at him threateningly, Stern,
dominant, the living, breathing person­
ification of the great White Spirit thnt
had beaten them back from the far
eastern verge of the land they had
owned, he walked straight to the medi­
cine man and demanded his surrender.
There was a brief parley. Lawton con­
temptuously refused to promise any­
thing or to guarantee anything, except
that he and his followers would be fed.
"Maybe you will be hanged after­
ward," he said. “I don't know about
that. Anyhow, you ought to be. But
I'll feed you. I'd feed a dog in your
fix.”
In the Cuban Fight.
ollectlon of a snake or of an alligator.
All the eastern islands of Polynesia be­
tween these two outposts are snakeless.
M estward from Hawaii, down among
the Gilberts and the Marshalls and the
Carolines, the square-bodied water
snake begins to make its appearance in
the lagoons and harbors. By the time
the Philippines are reached the water
snake becomes both common and dead­
ly, and the jungles of those islands are
abundantly supplied with snakes. From
the Philippines as one follows down the
chains of islands snakes are found both
abundant and venomous. In the wild
lands of the western Pacific the rep­
tiles are frequently objects of worship,
and in some legends are credited with
the creation of the world.
Samoa seems to lie Just on the bound­
ary line of snakes in the Pacific. In
the eastern islands of the archipelago
no snakes are to be found; in Upolu a
few are seen at rare intervals. In
Savali, only a few miles to the west­
ward, they are common and attain
great size, in the case of some kinds at
least. None of them is venomous, and
the islanders neither fear them nor ex­
hibit any of that repugnance to their
presence which is commonly called In­
stinctive.
This indifference to the reptiles is
made most markedly manifest at the
hamlet of Iva. on the northeast coast
of Savali. Here are to be found small
snakes of a most brilliant red color.
They are so common that a basketful
may be easily picked up In any banana
patch. The dancing girls of this town
are in the habit of employing these
gaudy snakes for personal adornment
In their dances. They tie them about
their necks, their ankles, and their
wrists, festoon them in their head­
dresses. and tuck a few extra ones in
the belt in readiness to replace such as
escape in the dance. At their best these
slvas danced by the Samoans are either
dull, or revolting shows of savagery.
It can easily be imagined that they are
made no more attractive when the tau-
pou or village maid and her crew of at­
tendant girls go careering about with
an assortment of writhing red snakes.
Still, the Samoans, who have no stock
of suake prejudices, look upon this as
one of the most successful and artistic
dances in their islands.
A
month
afterward
Geronimo,
Naches nnd their band of cutthroats
were prisoners in Florida. They are
still In confinement. Not only was the
power for evil of this particular tribe
nullified, but the spirit of Apache re­
sistance was broken. It had been dem­
onstrated that they could lie beaten at
their own game. Once again the white
man had shown them that he was their
master, mentally, morally and physical­
ly. It was this service which called
Lawton from the west and landed him
In the Inspector general's office In
Washington, with much official pres­
tige. a fair salary and little to do. The
inaction chafed him. as It chafes any
man of his kind. In five years he rusted
more than he would have worn in ten.
The chance of hostilities with Spain
fouud him eagerly preferring requests
for assignment to service. He did not
wish to Inspect anything or to take the
conduct of army trains. He wanted to
fight. It seemed to him. he said, that
If lie could smell the smoke once more
and know that there was a chance to do
good work, he would Instantly become
young again. The opportunity was of­
fered him. It was recognized that in
the Santiago campaign fighters nnd uot
doctrinaires were wanted. At Tampa
Lawton was the first man named by
Shafter to assist him In the desperate
enterprise ahead. "Pecos Bill" had
been for many years on the frontlet
himself and be knew his officer thor
ougnty. Nothing could have suited
Life nt Big Guns.
Ijtwton so well. He was there to kill
The
huge
guns of modern navies can
Spaniards and he thought be saw his
be fired only about seventy-five times,
way clear to doing it.
As a brigadier general of volunteers when they become worn out.
be was given command of a division
The all 'round proverb is a sort of cir­
and in that command stormed El cular saw.