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O'' 1 £xhcrter in the PulpL «lnd at Close Ranye @
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Fr.ini th<» New York Herald.
A large church in the heart of the
city, usual :• : by colored peo
ple, hut on this occaatea ♦iiled to the
I Aith a mixed congregation of
etaotionaJ men and women; hundreds
In the si reei unable to eaun ad
mission; a hysterical child aye years
old in the pulpit exh r: iim people to
seek salvation and ha the next breath
beseedttag them to buy his photo
graphs.
"This di> ye in the name of the Mas
ter!"
"J-onnie" Dennis, wlv has lx>en hold- 1
Ins revival services In New York dur
ing the »e-k, is a most astonishing
prodigy. For two months he has been
working northward from his birthplace
at Atlanta. <;».. prattling In his baby
tongue ibout doctrines mos-t sacred to
the human s«'Ul and of which his mind
can have no possible comprehension.
He h:'s '■addressed." as his mother
puts it. more than two hundred thou
sand people. The larger his audience
the mo iif- seta and the long
er he is willing to ta!Vi. He ha.s Serip
the tin c€ his tongue.
9 Questions put to him as
readily, if not as intelligently, as
B Nothing shakes his nerve.
His ; arenta say be la "inspired." A
physician who, among others, has ex
amined the child since his arrival in
this: i Ity says he has a man's brain
and an al i naory.
k years ago Norab A very, an
other colored revivalist from the South,
'. a great deal of astonishment
CURIOUS STOBY worn I SSSiiS^wuhSt
■ Published by "a For-
QUEEN VICTOR ™< Maid of Honor-
The Quiver for February (CasaeU &
Co. i will contain an article of excep
tional interest, entitled "The Queen's
■Wish." and credited to "A Former
It purports to be the
report of a conversation held between
the qi:een and the maid on an autumn
afternoon some years ago.
The queen was seated alone, lost in
at a window of Osborne house,
« king the shipping in Spithead
channel, when the maid entered the
room. Fam-ying h^r mistress was
asleep, the maid was about to tip-toe
out again. A motion of the queen"s
han<i arrested her flight and the mute
oing of the royal finger bade her
came to the window and gaze out upon
the spectacle ..f the ships, gilded by the
g'.ow .if the setting sun.
"•Just now, when you came in," said
the queen, "I was dreaming — day
dreaming-. Seeing all those ships com
ing and going, my spirit seemed to be
carried away, nrst by one and then by
a:.oth<-r. New I was in Australia, now
in India. Africa I saw. and Canada;
then all the islands and their people;
thr rook of Gibraltar. Hong Kong,
Aden, and the Sey,h>-lks passed before
me. And at every port I saw ships en
tering and leaving, and men at desks
receiving and transmitting messages.
And it was everywhere. 'What are they
doing— what are they thinking— in
England?*
VICTORIA'S CHILDHOOD.
"When I was a child my dear mother
took me about a great deal, and I saw
pe<jple at work In all kinds of ways
and in every sort of industry. The
things I saw made a deep impression
upon me, and I have never ceased to
think of them. Tens of thousands,
najj millions of people, are en
gaged year in and year oat; it is their
life; they know no other. And what is
taking- place in these islands is taking
pla-e wherever the English tongue is
spoken. All these people ask is to be
allowed to do their daily task in peacs,
to earn their daily bread, and to have a
little fringe ef play/
"It is very marvelous." said the maid
of honor.
"To me." replied her majesty, as
sh^ continued to gaze on the proces
ships, "to me there is some
thing heroic in it all."
Then after a pause she continued:
"When I rirst came to the throne ev
erything was very different from what
it is now. There was great distress
and .i-stiiution, consequent upon the
long wars; there was much discontent,
t< o and at times the outlook was very
dark. 1 Son't know that I had much
influence; I certainly loved my people,
and I prayed sincerely fur their hap
-ind welfare. But I am afraid
b.-- first 1 SH not know much: little by
little, however, I learned more: little
by little I saw what a noble people
they J-re at bottom — what =rrength they
have, what courage, what energy ! They
;:iany things, but I think they
love work best of all To. be left In
■ rk, that is their desire. And
see v. hat they have done since I came
YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW MEET IN UNCLE SI'S DOMAIN
Our Mondays Are Now in
Duplicate.
The war with Spain has been full of
surprises, but perhaps its oddest out
come is that L'nule Sam now has all his
holidays — not to mention otter days —
in duplicate.
For this we have to thank Admiral
Dewey. T- rritorial expansion has in
volved us in time expansion also. It
iriously literal fulfillment of the
Spaniard's dream of "manana." Today
i? always tomorrow in the Philipines.
This paradox of time leads to all
serta of queer consequences. The ca
blegrams received today are dated to-
Boorrow. only the breaking of the ca
ble at Manila prevented our hearing of
Dewey's victory the day before the
battle was fought :
If you should start at noon today and
travel westward at the rate of about a
thousand miles an hour, it would still
be : -on in every region you passed
through all the way around the world.
You would catch no glimpse of night;
you would see no sunset and no sun
rise.
Yet when you reached home again
twenty-four hours later, it would be to
morrow.
Proceeding in the opposite direction,
would of coarse get just the opposite
result. Ton would pain a day appar
ently. All young folks remember the
clever way in which Jules Verne took
advantage of this fa<t in one of his
most entertaining st'-ries.
The day of the month is a purel" ar
bitrary arrangement. Nature does not
define it. One day slide? into another
just as yarn goes around the reel. Yet
it is necessary f. make the change
somewhere. So we draw an arbitrary
line from r.orth to south on the one
side of which it is today and on the
other tomorrow, even in* places not a
mile apart. Theoretically there are
in this city. But Nora was twice the
size of "Lonnie." and she could read
and write. "I.onnie" does not know the
a'.phaber and frankly declares that he
does not intend to learn. For a child he
speaks with phenomenal clearness and
fluency. The Scriptures he rt peats so
glibly have been well drilled Into him.
for he never seems at a. loss for a quo
tation or a word. He 1b an attentive
listener. When his elders are talking
he sits staring at them with wide open
eyes, and if asked to do so he can re
peat almost every word of a ten
minutes' conversation. So much for his
memory.
"Lonnie's" initial service in this city
at the Mount Olivet Church last Sun
day nlg-hi was attended by a throng of
people who are fond of revival meet
ings. The child's fame had preceded
him. The baby evangelist conducted
his meeting 1 in the orthodox way. He
paced up and down the pulpit platform
(lapping his hands and commanding
his hearers to sing one revival song
after another. "Nearer, My God, to
Thee." "At the Cross.** "Safe [n the
Arms of Jesus" and other familiar
hymns followed one another in rapid
succession until the audience was in a
frenzy. The child's mother sat near
to prompt him. When she is not close
by he loses courage.
"Down on yo' knees and pray!"
shouted the child at the top of his
voice.
The audience obeyed. Xort« remain
ed with uplifted head.
-Oh: Lord, save these sinners I"
t > the throne by their thought ar.d toil
—they have made this empire what
it is."
INFLUENCE OF SOVEREIGNS.
After a pause her majesty continued:
"The work will continue after I am
gone, but I sometimes wonder in what
way. Sovereigns have their influence,
and when they die it stops, or seems to.
In only a few instances it is otherwise.
King Alfred turned the national mind
to learning, and perhaps the influence
he exerted never wholly died. Wiliiam
I. set a hammer going that in the end
turned a nation of Iron into a. nation
of steel. The last Henry made this
country Protestant. Elizabeth — the
great Elizabeth — transformed it into a
nation of heroes."
"Her influence surely has not died,"
observed the maid of honor.
"No; it would seem as if something
of her spirit still inspires the people
who speak the tongue she spoke — still
sends them in those winged ships
round the world. I can hardly hope
to leave such an inflTier.ce; and yet
under my rule the peopie who were
counted by hundreds have grown to
thousands, the thousands to millions,
and that has come about because, for
the most part, my reign has been one
of peace. There have been wars, but
they have been to establish peace, to
give people security in pursuing the
arts of peace.
"Wars for that end are justifiable,
but for no other. My Influence has
?ver been for reace. Only under a
regime of peace can a people grow in
thuse graces and virtues which it is
the aim of our religion to Inculcate.
There is no reason why a nation de
voted to peace should become weak
and effeminate. The labors of men in
their peaceful callings- in mines and
Quarries, on the sea, in furnaces and
iron works, building railways and lay
ing submarine ajid other cables, ex
ploring and planting new colonies — all
these labors are as arduous as those
of the soldier, and they call out strong
er and more enduring qualities.
QUEEN'S WISH FOR PEACE.
"I -would not have the English peo
ple study less and practise themselves
less In the art of war; I would not have
them show one whit less of that high
spirit that has carried them so far;
but, if it were in my power, I would
have all those ships, when they meet
in the ocean, and when they touch at
a rcrt — I would have them say to each
..ther. Friends, the watchword is—
Peace.'
"I do not mean that quite literally,
perhaps, but I am convinced that peace
conquers more than the sword; for
men. working together in peace, ex
changing, bartering, dependent upon
one another, cannot but grow more and
more thoughful for one another, more
and more just.
"That is my belief. That, too. I be
lieve, is the destiny of the English
speaking people; and if when I am
dead they honor me enough to think
of what I would wish and what I would
j pray for on their behalf, I would have
vni, An % re % SlnS step wouid carry all shi P s the y cross d r°P or repeat
It -J ? Sunda >- n OOll the middle a day, throwing your diary sadly out
tvm. i a^ „ . . of & ear - Sailing eaatward you go to
This is the so-called date line. Here bed Sunday evening and when you rise
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THE ST. PAUL GLOB 12
shouted the child. "Wash them in the
blood of the Lamb. Show them that
they will be damned if they are not
saved."
Thus the meeting ran on for more,
than two hours. The child's eyes were
aflame with excitement. He seemed
possessed. Other children of his age
were at home tucked in their cribs.
If the child had given anything ap
proaching such an exhibition in a the
ater or a public hall the Gerry so.iety
would have been down on him within
twenty-four hours. But they never in
terfered, although their attention was
called to the ca^e. The revival serv
ices were repeated at other places dur
ing the week, when the scenes of Sun
day night were renewed. The stock of
photographs ran out. and the child was
taken to Harlem to lay In a fresh
Btfii k before going ti> Jersey City,
where he holds services today.
To set a better idea of the baby re
vivalist and his source of "inspiration,"
1 visited him at his home in West
Thirty-seventh street. At the child's
request it was in the evening. His par
ents allow him to follow his own in
clinations about sleeping, and it suits
him to sit up late at night and sleep
late In the morning. The flat was
tilled with colored people, who had
come from all parts of the city and
from Brooklyn to see the child and buy
his photograph. They believed him in
spired. Some of them brought auto
graph books and guided his tiny fin
gers while he held the pencil. When
they were gone he turned to me and
said:
"Are you a reporter or a preacher?"
■A reporter."
•Then be a Christian and pray all
the time."
It was almost elfish to hear the lit
tle fellow prattle away as he did on
such sacr-d topics. He played with a
toy train at cars while he answered
questions about the sermon on the
mount and quoted from the beautiful
them always associate my name with
peace and the amity that rr°m otes tne
erds of justice and at right. There
is something great in the people of
these islands and in those who have
sprung from them which makes them
capable of great things — I think of the
very greatest, humanly speaking.
They are proud, suspicious, self-peek
i:-~ am to fire at a straw: but at tlw
s;?n-e time they are capable of the high
er: sort of heroism, the loftiest kind of
li'.aenanimity, especially when under
the impluee of a great inspiration— and
whac greater could there be than that
of conquering the world by peace? That
is what I meant when I said I would
have them give. - The watchword is—
Pt-ace.'
"The English people have been ex
ceptionably blessed by Providence, and
great things. I believe, are expected
of them by the Almighty; and in what
way could they please Him more than
by promoting the ends which during
my reign have been the means of paus
ing so much general happiness, such
AS OPTICAL DELr SIOX IN CIBES.
_• ■ ' .
How many cubes are there In the lowar
figure? Six or seven?
Six, you say? Look sharp at the two black
squares at the bottom. Now there are seven!
No, sii!
This funny Illusion is used by Prof. Jaa
trow in his article on "The Mind's Eye," In
th« current Popular Science Monthly.
SUXDAT —JANUARY 22, 189 9.
Twenty-third psalm without a trip of
speech. It ran like this:
"Tli," Lord is my Shepherd. I shall
not want— o-o-o ain't that a long train
—God taught me, 1 tell you. I never
had another teaciter — He maketh me to
lie down in green pastures. He re-
Btoreth my soul — mamma, plea.se take
this sliver out of my thumb, it hurts
— surely goodness and mercy shall fol
1< \v me all the days of my life." There
was a knock at the door.
"Oh," cried the. child piteously, "no
mere, no more."
"I g-pt so tired of s«Mng people," he
said, apologetically. "I want to play
a bit now."
AVOIDS OTHER CHILDREN.
His father had told me that he never
played with other children; that he
did not like them. I asked the child
why. "They would distract my atten
tion from Jesus," he said solemnly,
"and make me an idolater like Solo
mon."
"Luniiie" has a BUtprisingly sonorous
m lee for a child. H* jjas been taught
to speak slowly an<3 His
mother was a Sunda^ school teacher
in a Congregational ch-urrh lii Atlanta
and appears to be a woman" of good
education.
"But Jesus loved little children," I
said.
"Well, I don't."
"Which book in the New Testament
di> you like beat?" I inquired.
"I love It all, I love it all," he said,
waving his arms dramatically.
"What is your favorite hymn?"
" fcafe in the Arms of Jeaus.' "
"Do you believe in hell?"
"Of course. I do." as Though surpris
ed tha.t such a question should have
bten asked. i
"A real hell, where ceople are burn
ing forever and ever?"
"The real hell the Bible talks about "
ne replied earnestly. "Kb nee d fcr peo
ple to g 0 to it if tijey ain't wicked
Christ was sent into the. wcild to save
widespread content ? I have the con
fidence to believe that such is their
destiny, and nothing that I know of
would give me so nvJeh pleasure as to
be assured that my spirit could in any
way watch over and aid the accom
plishment of that noble work
"But I have babbled till It is almost
dark. Shall we call for lights?"
THE STORY IS DENIED.
This conversation, If correctly re
ported, is, it will be seen, of the most
opportune interest at the present mo
ment, when the possibilities of war be
tween England and some Continental
power are agitating the air, as indi
cating that the queen's desire for peace
is a long cherished and deep seated
1 conviction. " "_
Bu- from England Itself, where the
aitic a has appeared in advance of its
American publication, we are informed
by cable that an official statement has
been issued utterly denying the truth
of the maid of honor's report.
The smaller figures above ths main one
are guides. Look at the left-hand one and
then glance down, and the larger figure al
ways seems to contain six cubes. Look from
the right-hand one down and you always
see seven. About this time telephone for the
wagon from the insane asylum; you'll need
Today Is Tomorrow in
Manila.
in the morning it is still Sunday. Sail
ing toward the west you find that you
have slept till Tuesday, though you got
only your usual rest.
The true date line is rarely shown cm
maps. The accompanying chart is
therefore worth preserving.
Roughly, the course of the line is
as follows: Starting at the north pole
it passes through Bering strait, then
slants to the westward to clear the
long horn formed by the Aleutian
chain of Islands and give them th«
same day as the United States, to
which they belong.
This accomplished, it returns to the
ICOth and 80th meridian and drops
southward into the tropics, keeping
far to the east of ithe Japanese group
and the Philippine^ unjfl it approaches
the latitude- of th& Fijf -islands.
As these and * some neighboring
groups belong to Great Britain and do
business chiefly with her Australian
colonies, the date line here makes a
sudden swerve eastward, so as not to
embarrass the local ccmimerce with a
change of day.
When we purchased .Alaska we en
nexed the Siberian-day, which at that
time cut into the "American continent,
though occupying a remote and deso
late region. We quickly re-vised the
date line, however, to suit our own
convenience.
The case o€ the Philippines is singu
lar. For a long "timA they enjoyed
the American da>*tho%h the Asiatic
calendar prevaile* all around them,
thus dragging thW date line far out
of its natural course.
Some who ought "to know better
seem to suppose that this absurd prac
tice is still maintained. -A statement
to that effect appeared in a well
known magazine not many years ago.
But In- 1544 the much-needed change
v.as made by Narciso Calveria, then
governor general and archbishop, tho
31st of December of that year beir.g
dropped from the calendar.
Birners. Be a Christian and pray all
the time."
The child's parents never interrupted.
They let him have his bent. He chat
tered away on the most n> leiiin sub
jects and freely offered hia opinions on
the serious problems of life. "The world
won't get better," he said, "until people
believe in God. They must obey the
Ci rr.mandments. Folks don't obey the
commandments. One commandment
i;<>t in the twelve it ain't— la that we
love one another. Do people love one
another? You; don't you hate some
body? That ain't right."
"Wouldn't you like to go to school?"
"No; i won't go to scnoot. God has
taught me all I know, and will teach
me all I ever s tight to know. I mean
to be the greatest minister on earth
some day. "
"His ideas may change when he gets
a little older," interrupted the mother.
"No, they won't, neither," said the
child, indignantly. "What's the use of
\our trying to send me to school if I
don't want to go? By talking all the
time about schr.ol y (J u make me forget
about God."
"Don't you want to learn to read?"
"I am learning to read. Didn't you
buy me alphabet blocks, and can't I
make letters on paper? Let me alone.
When my Saviour thinks it time for me
to read he'll tind the way."
At this point the Gerry society was
mentioned. The father had been warn
ed of iK>ssible interference. "I won't
stop for no Gerry society," said Lon
rie. "I'll preach in Gerry's church."
This seemed to amuse Mrs. Dennis.
"He is the most extraordinary child,"
she said. "I took him to a Salvation
Army meeting yesterday and he in
sisted on getting right up In front. He
wfuld have spoken if I had allowed
him to. To one lassie he said: 'If I
got up here I'd soon have some of you
down on your knees.' "
"I'm hungry," said Lonnie.
PRECOCIOUS CHILD.
While his wants were being satisfied
TEXAS' DIANA, FLEET OF FOOT, TRUE OF AIM.
Quick with a Rifle, Mrs. Ladner Loves Nothing Better Thar) to Bring Down
the Deer, and Isn't Afraid of a Mountain Lion.
Prom the New York Herald.
If Diana should drop down to Eagle
Pass, Tex., one of these fine December
days' she would find a worthy asso
ciate in Mrs. A. J. Ladner. To be
sure, Mrs. Ladner uses a rifle of mod
ern make, but she knows how to
cause execution with It just as thor
oughly as did Diana with her bow.
Mrs. Ladner's husband is manager of
the Burke cattle ranch, thirty miles
east of Eagle Pass. She and her chil
dren live in town, because of the
school, but make frequent trips to the
ranch, in the vicinity of which game
is abundant.
Mrs. Ladner has written for the Her
ald a story of what happened on one
of these trips, and this is what she
says:
"Mr. Ladner took us ail out for a few days.
We left town on a Friday noon, and arrived
at the ranch at i p. m. The next morning
bright and early we mounted our horses and
started out. each taking a different direction.
I told Mr. Ladner I was going to Camp Mc-
Kinley, where we and some friends of ours
had camped during the summer. This place
is a good-3ized water hole, about four miles
from the ranch, and surrounded by larga
ticca.
SHE SHOOTS TO KILL.
"On m? way there I saw several deer, but
my horse being a little afraid of the noise of
shooting, I did not fire. If I shoot, I shoot to
kill, so I let the deer go. Arriving at the
camp I tied my horse and looked around for
fresh tracks. The most of them seemed to
have been made the previous day. I took it
easy and eat down is a little thicket which
grew close to the water. From this point I
could ace the whole place. I had been wait
ing but a little while when a doe and a fawn
came to the water, but they winded me as
soon as I saw them and were gone before I
could raise my gun.
"After about twenty minutes another doe
came from the opposite direction from whtri
if IMI iKSMID ?
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> BY ROBERTSON HOWARD, Jr. 5
Scattered through the West, as every
one knows, are many little army posts.
They are the homes of our regnlar
army In time of peace. If the people
of the United States could have lived
at any of these posts they would now
understand why it was that the regu
lars did not fail at Santiago. The. fine
marksmanship of the American blue
jacket has been traced to an unlimited
amount of target practice. The won
derful discipline of the American Tom
my Atkins under fire can be traced
' directly and indirectly to his extended
| order drill.
An extended order drill is a very
! fine tiling to witness, and the only way
i to see one is to keep with the officer in
command of the line. He will always
find a place from which he can ob
serve and control it, and if you stay
with him you will be able to take in
each detail. The line generally starts
out across a beautifully even field with
a woods full of hostile skirmishers at
its border, which is perhaps a mile
from where you start. At first the
companies go forward quite carelessly,
but when the little white dots begin to
show along the edge of the woods
they hear the commanding officer
talking to them through the sharp
notes of the bugle, and then the line
breaks up into companies and then into
platoons and squads, all keeping a
beautifully even line, but one that cov
ers a very great extent of ground, with
long intervals between each company.
It is like a vast serpent, and each of
the many men who compose it seem
like the dead parts of some wonder
ful machine, controlled and moved by
some other power than its own. It will
turn and go forward, or come back, or
He down so suddenly and together at
the call of the bugle that it seems to
you as though each man had quickly
changed his mind and decided to lie
down and firp, or to turn to the right,
lor come back. And then you com
mence to realize what a fine thing dis
cipline 13 and wonder why any govern
ment should be foolish enough to put
undisciplined troops in the field. But
before TOO have been long in a camp
of Instruction you learn that it is not
easily acquired, and not at all the sim
ple thing it looks.
Practice marches may be Included
under the head of extended order drill.
They are equally indespensable. The
officers and men take them very seri
ously, and if we were in a state of real
war they would not be conducted with
more skill and care and activity. I
went on one of these marches, and
what impressed me most was the lack
of confusion. Now I had always sup
posed a battlefield to be a place of ut
ter confusion, and, instead, I found it
one of perfect order; where every com
mand was eagerly awaited for and
promptly obeyed. It gets the men used
to being fired over, and it is my opin
ion that men who have been in sev
eral sham battles will go into-real ac
tion with a great dee! more confidence
than men who have never seen any
field service.
The practice march may take several
days, and much new country may be
tramped over. There will be advance
guards and rear guards and baggage
guards, and there will be attacks and
skirmishes, and camps will be e"st.:b
-lished at night, and the young officers
will be called upon to choose the
camping places. ' This will give them a
change to learn something praetica-
I ble in regard to moving a field col-
I umn. It will also show the quarter-
Mr. Dennis told me some-thing about
tho precocious child's history. He was
born in Atlanta In 1893, on Christmas
day. The general supposition that both
his parents are negroes is an error. His
father is a typical Georgia "cracker"
in appearance, but he says h* is a mix
rur. ,>f white and Indian blood. The
child's mother, who looks like a.full
blooded negro, says she also has Indian
blood in her veins. Lonnie looks like a
mulatto. Physically he is a fine, healthy
child. His parents say he has sever
known what it is to be sick. Though
he insists on keeping late hours they
do not seem to fatigue him. After the
excitement of a big meeting he sits
awake tor hours without speaking.
He was two years old when he flrbt
began to talk about his -Inspiration. "
r rom infancy he has believed, or says
he has, that he has a holy mission to
fulfill. No amount of questioning wiil
induce his parents to admit that they
instilled these thoughts into the little
fellow's mind. They declare that they
have never taught him the Scriptures,
and that he knows more now than they
can ever hope to know. Mrs. Dennl3
says she tried to wean the child's
thoughts from religious matters, but
in vain. She invited children of the
neighbors to play with him, but he
wouldn't look at them.
Lonnie is a whimsical lad about hia
food, and almost everything else. He
likes fish, cereals and sweets. Meat is
repulsive to him. He insists on hav
ing his hair dressed in the peculiar
way shown in the photographs taken
especially for the Sunday Herald — two
little crinky curls hanging from his
temples half way down his cheeks and
tied at the top with small bows of
ribbon. When he "preaches." as he
calls it. he likes to wear a white frock.
Jhe bustle and excitement of the
North, particularly of New York, is
new to him and he enjoys it. He says
he wants to live here and save New
York sinners. Mr. Dennis is a me-
I was located, and went down to drink. I got
ready to shoot, and when sha was about a
hundred yards from me I Ist go. She gave *
leap In the air and fell dead.
"I waited a few moments to see if she had
a fawn, for If so It would come to its mother
to ace what was the matter. None came; and
after waiting five minutes or so I went to th«
deer and was surprised to find It one of the
largest does I had ever aeen. I do not know
tier complete weight, but one hind quarter
weighed twenty-four pounds. She was so
heavy I could not drag her In, and it was
all I oould do to turn her over. I went to my
horse and got a sack, which I threw over her.
Then I went back to my thirket and waited.
I looked at my watch and saw that I had
plenty of time until dinner, it being only
"As the day was very warm, lots of cattle
and horses came to the water. I was watch
ing them as they came and went, when sud
denly I heard a hissing noise, such as bucks
make when they acent danger. I looked over
to the bank opposite that from which the
sound apparently came, this bank being -about
ten feet higher than the side I was on, but
nothing was to be seen. Ail of a sudden the
noise was repeated, and feeling some air
strike my face, I looked down and saw, oh,
horror! I gave a scream, or at least I think
I did, for what did I see but two monster
black snakes right on a level with my head.
"The foremost was about a foot away aid
th« other about three feet. The jaws cf boch
were wide op« and ea**h waa fcisstrg. whl.-h
accounted for the noise I heard. They were
cunnrng thjcnnsc/ives on com« l&nge limba
hanging in tlie watsr. As soon as I ji_m..eJ iip
they drew 'u&ck into ih« wats-r and dun. fltd
to tne other side and up the opposite ba^k.
apparently aa i'rigiteiwd as I was. Th«y were
Che largest snakes I ever saw. the larger of
the vwo being fully aever. feet long.
"As goon as they had disappeared I s;.--p; >d
ijut of the thicket, but hardly had taken two
st»p« when my Wood ran '."old, for right bf
fore me iay, coiled and ready to spri::g, a
rattlesnake. I jumped to one aide, at the
Baaae time pjadug a. No. S gTiell in my gun.
To aim and flre was the work of a s?cond.
with the result that th« snake's head and a
foot of rts body were torn to pieces. Th«t
tall of this snake had twi rattles attached to
It
"Not wlsdlng to encounter any more snakes.
master just how heavily he may load
a six-mule wagon. A body of troops
can only march as fast as its rtoweat
baggage wagon. So you see it is very
important that the quartermaster
should know just how to load them.
There Is nothing that hardens the men
like a practice march, and there is
nothing so healthy.
In the West the conditions are bet
ter for practice marches than In any
other section of the country. It is so
very sparsely settled that the troops
can tramp hundreds of miles without
meeting any signs of civilization. They
must rely entirely upon themselves,
which is the best training in the world
for soldiers.
We started on our practice march
early one morning, when the day was
Just beginning-, and everything- waa
new and fresh. The word "march"
came clear and sharp, and two bat
talion commanders and eight company
I officers sang out " 'arch," and the
big column started.
We swung along through the long
grass until dinner time, when we
came to a halt for just an hour. Then
we tramped on again until the shadows
began to steal down the hillsid-s,
when the colonel raised h's saber ver
tically to the full extent of his arm,
and the bugles blared out "halt," and
one day's march was over.
Soon the white tents began to dot
the grassy little plain that had been j
selected for our camping- ground, ar.d
in an Incredibly short time the canvas
town was completed. Then came sup
per. After we had finished eating. w_»
went out to where the wagons were
parked and watched the teamsters
prepare the mules and wagons for the
night. Then we went over to the head
quarters tent, where the officers had
all collected, and heard the orders f. r
the next day, and smoked a cigarette.
And when we started back for our little
canvas dwelling-, the stars were shin
ing brightly and the night was dark,
and we could hear the cinch, cinch,
cinch of the sentry and the rattle of
an infantry sword, and "tags" came
soft and sweet from the guard tent,
and all the lights showing- yellow
through the canvas walls went sud
denly out and darkness shut us in.
There were some things that happen
ed on this maroh that I remember quite
well, even now, and which I will prob
ably be conscious of for a long time
to come, because they were very nice
and thrilling things. As we, of one
battalion, were marching- along, calm
ly, and thinking of our dinners yet to
bti cooked, and not knowing where the
other battalion was, or what it was
about, it would suddenly come whoop
ing and bobbing and ra?ing down a
hill on our flank in a mad attempt
at capturing our baggage train. Then
we would deploy like a flash and ..p^n
fire and then mass to re-pulse a charge.
The attacking battalion would halt
then and retreat a little distance and
reform: and then would commence a
skirmish at long range, while the re
spective companies formed an instan
taneous plan of action.
Sometimes the places where we stop
ped our march to kill our fellow men
and perform some of the maneuvers
found in certain books of military
science — although we didn't always kill
any one and often disobeyed the rules
laid down — were very beautiful .spots.
Once it was on a green hillside, with
fields of golden corn, and a tall, whit-.?
fuimhnuse, surrounded by slender
wind-bowed poplars, and fine brown
haystacks showing in the distance. "We
could see the bluecoats and gray hats
17
rhanlc. and the lad Tiaa an inherited
fondness for machinery. He declared
that the Horald press room interested
him more than anything he had ever
seen. The baby evangelist's conduct
before the camera shows more than
anything else how thoroughly he has
been drilled. His mother said:
"Now, baby, show how yr>u call for
order."
L'p went the little hand in sign of
command.
"Now show how you appeal to sin
ners."
Two steps forward, with arms out
stretched.
"Now your appeal to heaven."
Baby's face was lifted skyward, and
his hands were folded in supplication^
It was all as mechanical as he is in
the pulpit. There was no more spon
taneity about it than there is about the
piston rod of a locumotive. Neverthe
less, drop the inspiration idea and the
Dennis parents have a remarkable
child. A specialist in brain develop
ment who examined him says his
memory is marvelous, but that he has
no conception of God save what he has
been told. His head is about twenty
one inches in circumference, with fore
head well developed. Hia brain, the
specialist thinks, would weigh about
thirty ounces. Lonnie has no brothers
or sisters. His parents had been mar
ried eighteen years before he waa born.
Mr. Dennis asked me to deny a report
that he had Quit his trade and was
making a living from exhibiting hia
child. "I have money enough to liv#
without working, if I want to," he said.
"I own three houses in Atlanta, and
more, too."
To which the average person who
saw Lonnie would feel inclined to re
ply: "Then put your rniid to school and
give him a chance to make a normal
boy of himself and not a little toy
evangelist wound up with a key."
I concluded to leava the place, but had gom
only a slight Hmtmtee when an inquisitiv«
coyote appeared on the acene. I put som«
buckshot la my gun and fired at him. H«
jumped and made for the bushea, howlioa
every Jump, but dropped dead before ti«
reached cover. I always carry a small rop«
la a bag when I go hunting. I took this, tied
hta fe«t amd dragrg -d him elo*e to my deer.
"It waa new half past 11. and I thought
H thus to go for my dinner and get ae-lp.
Flr«t however, I got some wood together and
made a lire to keep the coyotes off until I
came beck. I started for my horse, but had
hardly gone M yards whtn I heard s^ojib
brush crackling. Dropping behind the brush
I watched to gee if anything waa coining,
and, sure enougn, out of the brush, along th«
trail, trotted a good-sized buck.
"I got ready to shoot, but before my gam«
got in rang? wiottrar buck, still larger, came
trailing after him. Neither saw me nor could
they wind me. so I waited, intendeing to shoot
the larger. When the first one was within
300 yards of me he waited for the otheT to
ocme up with him. Then tier name along in
Indian file. I aimed at th« larger, wao waa
traveling behind the Bmall^r one. The first
buck stepped and threw back his head and
rha other came right up by his side. This
waa my enhance, so I took good aim and flrsd.
DID HER DUTY.
"What waa my satisfaction at seeing both
fall, on« atop the other. The first never
moved after be fell. The other tried to get
up. but the weight of his dead companion
kept him down. He was badiy hurt, but
alive, and to put him out of his misery I out
his throat. The horns of the larger buck
had eleven prongs and the uLher nine proags.
"On another c-casicn, while out hurting
In the same vicinity, I spied a mountain Bob.
Taeie animals are the tnsnries of ail stock
people, and I cennder^d it mv duty to shoot
him, and so I did. It is no uncommon thing
for us down here to shoot wild hogs. In
fact, we hardly r-onsider it sport to kill -iie
javertins, as they are known in Texas. My
killing the two bu^ks I told of created quite
an excitement at Eagle Pass, but I do lint
see anything particularly wonderful about it.
— "Mrs. A. J. Ladner,
"Eag.e Pas. Tex."
coming through the standing cum, and
tiien they came over the brow of the
hill in extendtd order, and were turn
ed Into a long, thin, blue line tha.t sent
forth little white puffs of smoke that
the wind caught up and whirled away,
and that smelt saly when it came in
our faces.
And then, when we also deployed and
answered their tire, and hundreds u£
rifles wer? cracking and banging in
cessantly and "at will," the sun dipped
a little and cast a dark shadow over
our hill, the flame that leapei trom
e\ery rifle muzzle showed b!
through the dusk, and they were Hash
ing spitefully all along the line.
After the march is over and the men
cetne tramping back into the fort some
I evening at sundown, you will hear them
! cheer when rhey see the old y
j brick barracks looming up across the
[prairies, and by that yoi irilj know
there has '•e^n S'ime hard work lone,
end that the men are very glad
back under a tin ronf again.
But that is bow they learned lo go to
war.
Most of the regiments that went to
Cuba last summer have now rel
t > their homes in the little posts of the
Northwest. Here Ihey are actively
preparing to again take the field. Th 3
time they are to go to the Fhili
and are being furnished with khaki
suits. But the prairie back of th
is alive every morning with com- «
doing extended-order drill.
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