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something happens,
and it usually hap
pens In some for
saken . portion of
our United States
or territories there
of, where civiliza
tion is not and
•murder and sud
den death are most
plentiful. Accord
ingly when that
something happens
somebody in Wash
ington says things
and somebody else does things—
nnd behold, there spring up from
somewhere sundry happily profane
soldiery who carry, civilization in
their cartridges and progress at the
point of the bayonet. For, in mo
ments of stress, the
viewpoint of the
army Is charming-
Ijt—crude. Follows
then a hysterical
splurge. Also,
Sometimes, a con
gressional investi
gation, or mayhap
garlands and hon
ors and whatnots.
It depends upon
the circumstances
—(hat is, tho polit
ical circumstances.
To the men of
the army the gsr
lands and frills
are accepted with
childish delight.
Somewhere in the
bottom of his well
drilled and cleanly
heart there Is the
eoonsciousness of
having done a big
thing well, ninl br
ing most Intensely
human, he gives
Par to tho praise
of his fellow citi
zen. And then
m
m
again, garlands are few, while con
gresßional committees are prolific.
The army knows that it is impossible
to explain to the gentleman from
Long Island or Poughkeepsle, N. Y..
that a little brown brother, hopping In
and out of tho brush, fanatically desir
ous of clawing up an American citizen
with a polsonwl bolo, has little regard
for the federal statutes at large. And,
of course, neither has Sammy, Jr., the
uncommercial, gentleman who has en
listed for reasons best known to him
self and whose duty it is to catch the
aforesaid Moro, and generally clear
phe path for those that follow after.
Private Sammy does his work and he
loes It according circumstances,
which are essentially nonpolitlcal.
Therefore it happens on occaslonos
that the aforesaid Moro Is sent yelp
ing into eternity and Sannny Jr. re
gards himself with a pleased grin.
Also, circumstances force him to
other untoward steps. Once tVre
was n famous soldier. Mulvaney by
name, who took the town of Lungtungpen. »na
kld as Vnnus," and who. prior thereto, helped
the department of Information of the British em
pire. with the judicious administration of his
cleaning rod. Which goes to show that between
Prlvato Sammy and Private Tommy there is a
healthy Anglo-Saxon understanding— particularly
JML regard thu treatment of black and brown
brothers. *
All this'is merely' preamble. but when the
Moro has boon carted away and the congressional
committee has committed itself and the garlands
are f'A"gotten Private Sammy goes hack to his
own life, which to him is a highly Important af
fair. Somewhere, somehow, there remains In his
brain an impression that lie is allowed the pur
suit or happiness—and he pursues It. He does
it in his own way and In divers places. The tur
bulent tides of Juan de Fuea, which race by the
gun-crested heights of Fort NVorden, have heard
his raucous chorus; the watermelon patches dot
ting the desolation of Fort Mley know his foot
print. On a Florida snndspit, in the snows of
Alaska, In the heat of the islands, he pursues It—
and catches what little there is of It.
The world which praises and abuses him
knows him not, nor his life. The point of view
is entirely different. A ponderous civilian at
the window of the paying teller of a local bank
observed an officer in uniform standing behind
him.
"Well, I guess tho country Is safe," observed
the rotund one, gazing superciliously at the unl-
'Thank you, sir,
This officer was a boy lieutenant, and his sar
casm. was natural. For within his short space
of years he had *played with the fangs of death
and made snooks at the powers of darkness. A
short time previously, at Luzon, he was ordered
to find the bodies of two soldiers that had been
murdered. The orders were to find the bodies,
so of course they went and did. With seven
troopers and a surgeon he pursued his way
through Jungle scrub and cholera Infested lands,
without food, drenched with rain, sleeping in
swamps. They found them. One was tied alive
.over a red-ant hill, after being slashed with a
bolo, and the other had been knifed and gagged
with a portion of his own flesh. Presumably the
supercilious circumferential gentleman did not
know of such things and —this is what stinga—
there seem to be so-many cltlaens of the coun
try whose Ideas of the work of the army is equally'*'
limited. Unfortunately, the men who do big
things cannot talk about them.
It follows that what the man of the army has
to undergo, so must the woman of the army. The
outalde world knows the army woman as she la
not. It. aeea In her life a succession of society
events and realliea not the horrible other aide.
Here la an illustration:
* Some yeara ago. In "the days of the empire,"
a little army woman went aa a bride with her doe-
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WOMAN /N
p
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said the officer, saluting.
lessly. I'ools were under the house and cholera
was unusually oil the rampage. The rain came
down In such gusts that she had to fasten down
the windows, thereby making the house too dark
for rending purposes. So the day long, while her
doctor husband wandered about through mud and
rain wllh chlorodyne In hand, she peered through
the slatrt, gftttng at-t he bam boo palmtrees w hip
ping to and fro before the fury of the storm. At
the appointed time she prepared dinner. She pro
duced her row of cans. In her girlhood days
there was a household Joke, "What wo cannot eat
we can." Now as she gazed at the canned milk,
the canned butter and the canned meats she
wondered If she could eat all they can. Some
how or other the (looting thought of the girlhood
days made her choke. You see it was the rain
and the, storm and the centipedes and things
which got on her nerves.
Romance of th
The most highly regarded and widely grown
annual lji Canadian gardens of today, no Matter
where In this flowor-loving country the garden be,
or whether it belong to cottager or man of means,
tolling clerk or parfc-ownlng municipality, the
sweet pea first came to us from tho Sicilian nuns.
Frp.nclscus Cupanl, a monk, who was also a
botanist, sent the first seeds to England In the
year to an Enfield schoolmaster
named Dr. TTvedale. The old Middlesex dominie
was both a botanist and horticulturist, and he
grew the first sweet peas ever seen In England.
Cupanl called the plant Lathyrus dlstoplaty
phyllus hirsutis, mollis et odorus—an unwieldy
name, out of all harmony with the winged grace
of the sweet pea. Later Linnaeus cut down the
clumsy designation to Its present form of Lathy
rus odoratus.
Dr. TTvedale found the seeds produced a plant
with purple flowers, and so here we have the
color of the original sweet pea.
' The stock was gradually multiplied, and about
thirty years later on® Robert Furber, a Kensing
ton gardener, was the first to offer seeds for
sale.
Progress In the production of new varieties
was slow In those remote days, and it was not
until the year 17*93 (nearly a century later than
Cupanl's consignment of seeds) that any new col
ors became known. In the year mentloned.'how-'
ever, a catalogue was Issued, which described
black, scarlet and white varieties.
What bocame of the black and scarlet sorts, If
they ever existed in those true colors, is not
known. The black must Jtave been a deep purple.
The blackest bloom is still the dark purple Tom
Bolton. In this connection, seeing that for years
past hybridists have been trvlnsr to nrodnc %
pure yellow sweet pea, tt may be said that tho
tor husband to Manila.
They were ordered at
once to a native village
up the valley, where a
company of infantry had
been Btatloned to guard
the water supply for Ma
nila. The natives, you
see, had a habit of throw
ing «the bodies of victims
of cholera into the riv
ers and wells, thereby
making life most un
pleasant for those whites
who had to drink. Such
things are not mentioned
in the society reports of
the press.
Of course the wife
could have remained be
hind, but she did not.
She was possessed with
the archaic belief com
mon to the army that
the placo of the wife is by her
husband. So with him she plunged
through the jungle to the camp. She
was the first white woman in the
place and the only other one of her
kind was 20 miles away. The situa
tion was decidedly pleasant. Tho
house was like an inverted waste
paper basket, a three-roomed bam
boo shack set up on bamboo poles.
One room was dubbed the centlpe
dorlum because—well, because ev
cry time the bride .went In it she
found centipedes and other things.
There were other advantages. There
was no stove and the cooking had
to be done over hot coals. Also the
water had to We boiled and par
boiled; not alone the* water for
drinking purposes, but
also for washing.
"There was so much
cholera," she explained.
The meals were served
wilh wire nettings over
the dishes and abofye and
about them and around
them was the one thought
—cholera. There were
other delights. The Moros
were out, A sentry had
been boloed. The roads
were knee deep in mud
and the rain poured down
In torrents.
There came a night
when the very soul of her
was tried to Its uttermost.
The rain had fallen cease-
Her husband came In for dinner and rushed
away again.« Whereupon little Mrs. Army Woman
went to her trunk and for the first time unpacked
all the finery of the days that had been.
"I found a dress which 1 had worn at a dance
at the Presidio the last time,'' she said, "and I
cried and I cried —"
Before leaving, the husbanJ had pushed a chest
against the door, locking her in completely, this
being deemed the safest plan. Therefore on leav
ing he had to crawl through the window, and as
he hung on the window sill she bqnt forward apd
kissed him. Then she heard him drop with a
splash into the disease infested pools below. Alto
gether it was as nice a spot for the pursuit of hap
ptfiis as could be found.
Then she went to the loneliness and the dark
and the centipedes and cried. The wind whipped
the banana palms agalnßt the house, the rain
slashed down, she heard the lizards scudding
around and a big one outside, In a mango tree,
called "tuck-coo" so that she Jumped up in fear
and waiting and wondering.
All through the night she lived the horrors.
The storm passed and there followed the silences,
weird, uncanny, of dripping water, of moving
things underfoot. Ultimately she heard the splash
ing of kindly American boots, and looking outside
saw a wet specimen of Private Sammy, marching
philosophically up and down on sentry go. She
called to him, half hysterical, and he answered
her with cheering Reassured, she waited
for her husband s abearance, wrapped In an
army blanket, chilled to the heart. Later, when
her husband and daylight had come, she learned
that nhe had been sitting opposite a window with
a lighted candle by her, offering a splendid mark
for the prowling Filipino sharpshooters.
This was an experience and one which the fat
gentleman in the bank had never Imagined. To
the army this ignorance and narrowness is Incom
prehensible. The agony and bloody sweat of
hiding death had gripped him so often that Pri
vate Sam cannot understand why the gentlemen
who employ him for this class of work do not
realize that tlwre are particular horrors connected
with it. Being of the army, he does not speak of
them, but his gorge rises within him when fat
gentlemen sneer at the uniform which he has
made, respected. ' "
But he remembers the pursuit of happiness
and the 'day conies when he Is ordered home.
Tl)en It Is that the army and its women, gathered
aft. watch the walls of Manila fade from their
vision. The crowding thoughts chase each other
across their brains, ftfrmlng themselves into mem
ories, horrible and happy, of cholera and poisoned
bolo, ol the perfume of the lhlang-lhlang and the
love flourishing while the constabulary band
played songs of home, around the the Luneta.—
San Francisco Call.
yellowest bloom at present known Is the creamy
Clara Curtis.
A novelty In the form of a striped flower was
offered In the year 1837 by Mf> James Carter, and
in the year 1860 there appeared the first bloom
of the choice picotee-edged varieties which are
EO popular today. The latter was raised by Major
Trevor Clarke. It was a fine white flower with
an edging of blue, and Major Clarke scored a
double triumph, for his new flower was also the
first sweet pea with blue coloring. --«r=-£r — •
The greatest revolution In the history of the
sweet pea, however, .was inaugurated on July 25,
1901, when, at the National Sweet Pea society's
first exhibition, held In the old Royal Aquarium,
Ix>ndon, Mr. Silas Cole, Earl Spencer's gardener
at Althorp park, displayed the famous Countess
Bpencer, a beautiful pink variety with a wavy
instead of the conventional smooth standard. The
loveliness of the new form won the hearts of all
growers at once and during the last ten years so
great has been the increase of wavy or frilled va
rieties after the Spencer type that the latter now
rules the sweet pea world.
Some hybridists are engaged particularly at
present in adding to the list of marbled varieties,
of which the blue-veined Helen Pierce Is so choice
an example, and it Is possible that much more
effort may be expended in future in the attempt
to produce flowers with a striking and delicate
venation.
Just a few figures in conclusion, showing not
the least striking phase of the romance of the
sweet pea. The Sicilian monk's ponderously
named plant has become about 500 different vari
eties grouped Into 21 classes, according to color.
- Over the culture of these flowers a national soci
ety numbering 838 members and mebracing 101
affiliated societies watches.
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A Perennial Mystery.«.
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Miss Rogers—Glorious! I never saw
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