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Jf^lJR.-Jodlans Accorded Same Recognition i as Regulars, 'Hf •rrl* »"■»» In giving the soldier his medal it wins ordered set clown in the .records that the re.lson for the gift was ‘‘most con spicuous gallantry In notion.” The Twenty-third infantry went into a fight at LaPnz, Lotion, Philippine Is-’ lands— A soldier of the command -was United States Army -Woek ' Medals l i*' v-, ■f ‘ t ^ _. -TByT EDWAR^ElCLARK. ■ /: ( rriSfea to either flhnl off'the wounded man Jyiih thpIr^rUJes, /afidr so Cook Wollqy charged acr the open without waiting ani/ wofej of command, agd ran along a &pnc of .tierce fire to the Ride, of the sergeant, picked him. up, brought hlin bac&,.*fijJ dropped him io$HTe -<thft liatjH,' J’or that action congress gave this c$ofc whose spirit W8JS- thttV of a aqidfcJSO ^Arj-'T medal of la mar, for tie had uphehlj best braverV# triad i Boris at the . -TTTX7K.. - t , •• V*: \ t V MM m I mm m •■'V. /WVT* \ m derst he advanced alone. directly'/Into i .iVJir i u, the open, his appearance bciiu a di HaW reef and speedily accepted invitation for the enemy to odnc.entraie its fire i “yt ktffnon liim. Shelton Vent .on with the ^ a shUigton.---\^1ing Ame^lc^n^Vw^ khots playing about him, picked up the than faavc be&u selected for .sh^yijga ih the jrtew Nanoual dr my should jgnffkw tiutt 'the same recognition for 'jtolhldual Ucts of personal) gnlluntify . iitrihe field VUl be accor^eia^ tjboijk d^def*the law /{that is now' given to.Vtjh^fs duel men k* the regular service. '...,4 There are enlist ed men jn the serv ice today who liuyc \ won Jpednls of jhonor for conspicuous, persouul gid- P$ntry ip the field, afid.lt can lie said that the possession of-fdiie "of these njetul tributes "to course ife prized shove all tilings e&c that the govern ment eaju i>e»taw r ; < 1/ i By the time that titi<tt now American army troops In, hqrabers ‘strike; ij>e Ceramics In France, 3t is probable .that congress will Jisvc" made some- tebangesdu the laws governing- the giv-. ting of certificates of tuorit and medals Mf honor for hlgl^ acts of courage on i the field of buttle. *• There is n law governing iu the mat- I |fer today, but it is said that army of-; Bficers believe it to, be hedged in with sp ninny requirements that some men ! Whp deserve certificates of merit are j , (prevented from getting their earned] towards! The changes which prob- tebly are to he made will in no wn£ Kfid the undeserving to soenro prizes which aye intended to go only to those Whoso ^onduc^ is of the highest 4p fhcc of treat dAtig^i Young men whV»' lake nhout to enter th^ trailing Camps ■spould Know that in tlds matter of jriecog n 11 U>n for 7 , di^ii' , ?tP'*tfr^y' , 'VlT I 'be the -same footing* withf commis sioned C 1 "*- ,»..M..A.2ii:-J* g illantr h zed. How Medals Have Been Won. j Half HoyfrW'«M*^^' gjto #a* $***. : f. ’ Mi c-b] -—1 ^•onnded than and carf^od him black .along p path" of fire until he was flhfe wlthfn thA lines. ' J; ' Had • Soldier's Soul. Augustus WalTey of the Tenth cav alry'was a cook. He was connected with Troop E of the Tenth. Augustus Walley, cook, had n soldlerV soul.. IS. , , ,, . . , the summer of 1881, Troop E was in "? e ‘ lrain - M nho ' nixin the field In pursuit of hostile Apache -^P 0 * they filled^'.uiotp. [^1 K’t Ml - ^ b£ar^ south !o4''Highland; The'i log feral# Vis moving sdcoyly^np--* tljo., H^lsid’h ;Vlk&» Engineer J^jhh^on H the jivo bears, Welahtng > aboot ; SOO pounds each, statidin^" on the track a hundred Tieet ahead; of Vi m UT protected him from further fire. The troop was compelled to fall hack un der-the suddenness of the attack anti the sergeant was left where he Yell. Walley, the cook, saw thsjt while the stricken “noucom” temporarily was Indians. The command arrived at the. Oughllio Negro mountains, New Mexi co, and ran into a largo band of the hostlie.s. A sergeant of the trooplwas khot by the first fire from the con-i coaled reds and he, fell from his horse at the base of a rock,' which luckily tb kill the befers at the speed bis. : . Johnson pulled the bell cor<3, ihg 'claiig of the bell or the blast of th^ whistle faJlyd t6 frighten the' bruins, who stbod- ; and gazed at the-ote * jiroachlng train. : Knowjiig that It would be impossible ~ 1—Itefrlgeraters J>elng built In the i»t.rqgts«(*; iVi.vmuvtf AAOther -contingent for Goner . . , . . . . ... Recfelary of the organization j)f paeifishs that held u riicetifi* id tihkagos undervprolei {i.m of 5 Muyor Thomptmu despite ra.l Pershing's nrm\ -dejrninl 1 I 1 IP M * i ‘ 1 * 1 gji ‘N-W'-’l *j>V<W-K^otn the gov^rtiment. ^ ng sorm-yh(*»*! In EHtn<*ri' ! hb IawAsT’. fiOchnCr. exeful ->♦ exeCdtl^*' the orders of Uavernor Lowilen. '‘tjrjti heavy train was moving up the hill, and fearing fih: attack If lie Injured them, Johnson stopped'the train, and badly frightened, watched the bears for 7 about half an hour, when they slowly wanderetl off into the forests. WHOLE F lRA[ 'I ;> V '») fill l»: S lyo hi E OF NEW YORK’S SELECTED ■ ••.! :n }-U>T {» - .& <J.. *,/'' All Sons of These American Par ents Serve With the Colors. ELDERS DOING THEIR SHARE • 1 •• ; :} rauk, i-i the thing recog-.j f -Mother Gives Fouv Sorit Ao Army Tton Offers Herself to Red Cross and Is Accepted—Patriotic Women Give All. J [beers. Gnlll dfihJhuhni- mb uLi Savannah, (la.—After |cnntrihut 1-rig her .share to the military csitubllsh- 1 11 is jKissihle that men selected for rvice in the new Xntibnnl army, and jpjerhaps others-, may he interested to I. nrn liow a few of the many enlisted ( en in the United Slates army lm.vc i S >r valufi.” : j ment of the United Stutefc ami doing i,tiiii Virin-k »n- h ‘‘ r Hill part in the Liberty bond par-' chases and contributhig to the Red t’jos^ fund, Savannah now offers dhfe country TUvo famlhes- of fohr sqnsa.wch. all of whom are serving wilfr* the colors • ; ‘ } A - v - , j' mn , M - f , L M. la.nald (d th«' city rlklng to the right nwi| ;t bir©': force j h’^bhr fl^PhrtUient, . pa$t. sixty years ’ the Sioux atxl in a bitttT battle Il ^°- iew ers above all his. sons. 0e rned their .medals When Uusterls eXj t<4 the SIouib country in 1S7G. the—eotn- itanding otlicer ordered Wa^or It^enq with his. squadron of the-ffeey^nfh' to Jiake the detour to tln> i lght.i Custer t! ion rodtvinto the \alki^.'tlv'ihili* \Hih' -v . * . * h R\ eoiiunaitd lie met his death. Reno £ O v hlch followed he lnoa v<yivv', Uti^n. 1 ^ -^5° father of J4 /eet of inen in Ihtt 'agehp'nt"“was at its tery' A, Chatham artillery. His-f6nr "hoys” are Rill, Ro,h, Alex uipJ Rc«‘- Brt* TdCDonald. Each : Is mofo'tiihn While this eugagernenl w Jieighf, a pack mule uuri^ifig -a, conr B deruhle part of the carmpe amriiuril- t mi of- .4ho, troopers hcoke away -ariiT- *-iX feet., in- height *uiuL--strou^ iu pro,- $ illoped toward the Indians. ' A p on-, p°rtloO;.. Hioy ur»i all gbotl ydllWrs. I sted inu:i named llunlcy ktu;w- whgt, l °hr are noncommissioned officers, m loss of ammuniiii#1bt<ffwf^hd-He >t ■ ^"^3* the^youngest and; the short : 'ft his trobp nad-circling -round to u, scant >ix feet. Rill, next tie right ho managed to capture the feu\lTT a ' rt ' : - frunt °' '"" I GREETS AMERICANS IN PARIS Hanlewi-tbww himself on the anl- tial’s hu« kwl lushing it Into a run, kj 1 ad e ytraAght -4m> u 1 e wffs under We mrw we rj ’ the iki^ttos. Kftrked ijt hjtt:' ? esci in you.lli, is, th«‘ taiwt. In height by an indi ant| a half. A'lex, the eldest, and tlee-lBee 'nth Jusf an- inch shorter than Rill. Their father’s height is six feet two inches, and the only reason that he is not with them to-rimt-ttoy - wrtU- uoLJet him Besides thq^dM^tdvantage of'his tjge hi+lbfri ^rylV ar;ili r 4 — will accompany ' their ^ , Spartan Sacrifice. The story of Mrs. A. W. Cook is -Unit of Spartan sacrifice.'' Mrs. Cook has given four sons to her country), j aud she is proud, not sod, at this op- : portunlty for service, eyen though she - Ife-(^efpieat. tfienJ for> to#, mvv j. • I>art. The sons range -in a»e v fritnv »j seventeen to twenty-trve. Ttoy are , Ifuriey, Frank,""Le Roy and'Calhoun 'CMk, a^Hor whom are at the training camu at Fprt McRherson. . Frank and Ifund^ f tire) privates in the " Fiyst .Georgia Jufyntry and Le Roy and TTiT- pniistoil meu in Rattery A. Chatham artillery. •1~-- • .4 gl^reds un*r inira^SiT ^l’hq and w*p- rmi |H 'Uthed u tm#yni r >c<‘1»laing $ie t on an<i gnllantfy, vofc if ie coveted inedal of honor for Ids h gh ser v ice. -\ The bushwhacking war in th(> Phil- N Jppiries jiroduced of heroes a hundred, but theXworld usually was given only tie nanjes'^tf the comm muling officers !i) the fij^JRSf^whleh made Individual bprolsfiti these ilno’A. efni r<*nvefrW r r i! 'wvw before aiviri Louis k yj-. hiving seen or h«ird the 111 OdoonV frjujNL -\ Escape Was Mar4eloil6i A\. N'oi so long ago “G” conipafiy -of tlic '■'NrirmT»mth nf n»Wy-w ♦mb iu4a 'a<s» tfon.tu^af Mount A'mia, Cebu, Pldlip- pln^fslartds. The captaiti of the mrn pany , '\\ i ps mortally w.c*.tjm.lcd.- pi id thA fortunes of fhc fight Ijfi Iiii Mu* field defended only hy| L'4\a* > '’'tujuis Oedeoti. A force of-’-llUA ad vanced.Jo give the captalh hls : death stroke, hut the privat^*f*BWtor fnHhfut *• |lu^y apd foghip f^T-'d the 1 $ baAl. as.Iff 1 W°?I I rf 1 alf ’ * banded apt? nli’QeA'V l^lthofigh ¥ exposecLto a concentrated fire, Ciedeon by his marvelous markuianshiji, aided P.. r( ^#t<trlp j lly,.by hi^.ycjoj^ ip ^ f v , \ynat soemfed certain death, ! epee of \y kept' the enemy back. 1 *0 v! l >«; V.♦ il Pflvate. Gedcpin tnlght;buve,^capos|. He could have slipped into a ravine • #nd have Joined, the main -body of Btrlcken officer, knowing that-his own • !, j tWiUpd'Wa? fatal, -lord^Ad (htdeicpl tp leave him, but. the -private soldjerls answer was to kneel by ftls ^offirer’s side «nd.td o*e^,blA hp^y,a^.<i ifto* tectlota. • k Ged eon’s eic»t)C‘ : that day! waH *«s marvelous as anything ever set down In the pages of fiftlbri’J IRV YieM. klM own and help came bafore the Jgfa '.j 'Tlfc pia- A \ A. Fttn'yijf fkrn the cull to the colors been made when the four elder sons 0fl>jrfc}l jtyeif services. A.fifth son, Wallace Cook, aged fourteen years, is .Forty-second street. At, the Cagey, for jtlje tlfeid to crime when he, v ' ^ friri, 'm$|y s^frve.* Mrs. Cook says slip ( hopes to lie able to get along very well - without her boys during thelr absence. 1 At any rate, she Is happy to make this sacrifice for the sake of her country, j «1 her personal services »ih branch of the JVmer- froSs. ! noteworthy tHcample of is that of 1, who,'? ms th^e^coJprA the lied Or<•*; to g(j Yo the Chariest! yard tO rttn a sewing Offers Herself. st son. he raa- trainlng at Paris Island, S. C. Shortly thereafter- Elmer Perkins, aged thirty-two, son of Mrs. | Gaddis by her llrrt husband, enlisted as a shipwright and (tow is IP train ing at Portland, Ore. . Joe Pefkffis, aged twenty-eight, has f)p cn^H v i^p f _ navy four years. When Mrs. Giidrlls ' * ^ k - wrote her,daughter, Dorothy, a vaude ville actress, the girl ’did not take time ■ luimxtcr by rnSTITmTel?gFapTr?nrT)Tr^ ’.rimther iimncdiately “It seems to rntf iiy- 1 atfpiied todny^fop enlis American Re „ , -9T Jfafe it too wrft nans b-vda larewell parade of New Jiork mtajibo, %ft May i iYTJWBVfc j^^|bl^>YlegXng stwd'al FtfUitoemie ^11 1 . A"*. - 7 ; .T • ; ,. ir&ABY parape*; > « dl'd'.PqK) -AA «■: It J-.m.TOff HORSES FORktHE WY.; 1 : 3 |<)Tg.«n ri.tT .JWAfclBaBlPwMrqpamp ; sTilffn,.: jTp..sh'^is 0 tf?i7r mid is boioci ‘ j j iid J±C: ::Kir >2 'lend .tail Tio i] '^.naW u rt-*niuitr»qs bond j iaa tool tom todV i-T r Y>f) Hi§ EACE Buffalo Man Did Not Recognize Broth er Till Explanation Is " ’ Made. ^Princess Murat, formerly"Mi«s Hel- onir Stallo of New Ydrk-. bate JbsRtofri ap^oicU'd u member of the diyecting hoard 01 the FriejKis of France, tbe new International society for.njed fpr the,.promotion v of closer social and in- teHCctua! relatlodB betWwn Ihfes oriun«t try .and France. 7. ' v .—"—-7 Wit# other- distinguished women bacWrig.: tine movement, she has ten dered the -use of her salon to the if>- tciety for thet'feceptlon of.Americans vi8U4n».4a,,tf.W. Ized the bravery of George M. Shelton, w^o was a private I Oompany, Twenty-third infantry. Marshal oue of the.bdno' Wnluvili^, El Harn^ is -lia^ .trmji Buffalo)’ where he went to see u certalH- inau and met him on the street. “HoW at^ you, OrvllleT’ said iYb vByrmn vexteadh^ bis Buffalo man, with the Tu$turnl aaspic- Ton of an Easterner meeting a strung* er, hesitated. x'Your face: is- familiar." "he said; “I’m sure I’ve seen it b^fdkt,' but who are youT’ ‘‘Merely your brother,” Vego explained. It was the to* f- Dog Gave Life for Master. _ Logan, la.—At the Koma..of Sidney Pitt, Jr., the farm dog tried to pr^ vent Mr. Pitt going ln£? his*garage, y !<.:U : ' Pi m 1 ;a.*i rfl rTAjIllKO 1 u bw }] j 8 ? ilj >T t < :q y i .tea, 81 hrfiry- fomide fit ABfAdry Ar,rkFittflRilLy)fihnWiy be woi^Sil^s^ (i^lGtWKh hldfir #nd»,j /• . -i v--, — tlHze W dtsdsiow of ^<he para dp. if ! HtsttfaS ! ] {K6 ™ museles can be attached. -The most'traveled army man wlould'probubly be an-accurate d(‘scri|rtioif > f»* ir »^^are pf dames “Pink" Arlington, for he la-CorfstdutJy .trarTWiittg.drqttof/tto'^onnt^' Wlop-nwifdiwr's" breaking in and tamfeng wild horses for tto nse of the ufcnJV? Ttolptot |g.. , - er)4 •• M’ _ ___ EaS- si:i ' 2 . .KK.M . ,vrttho»t,,«l>* • ;-j» • aid of lungs. If we takedKAJri ahows him on the Job at Fort Shei 2-^A-Way Out of It. “T am' afrald she Is going to turiTihe down.”” . l--_ •}.. ‘ ‘1 ran tall you how to prevent that!” [ove. QlCchap : Cau yvuui” ! A 8torm of Words. Wonders In many sects Is w< ttflW,, Insect Life* hey are lnary strength >ones to which Rain falls more frequently between iOhofi IsriBal iBsirl.'irfii h atoM or n hours of three and eight o’clodt'ioSw he morning than at thy other time.*' -takta Wtkttftt^eeflee & Wheit ifcat- oto life'pHratwhad sived from rary presidents of the orgi^Hitatlon. ; apd the bullets of the en- A branch'-of tlie societfas to be otv ed'hls last, surrounded by ganlzed In ttorypited Suites, his cojnmand. ru_— Princess Murat Is well known in New York, whera i# her. girlhood'she wrfs known as one of the most beauti ful women of her set. *- . oijeQ^d the door, .wh^i a mad fkig sprang, him, (biitl log .«rto lled with the other and a desperate fight; ensued. A gunshot dispatched the stranger dog. atti the Am dog that had shown ddeh de^flou hud Un usual intelligence had to be* shot be cause of unmistakable Infection. the in the morning than at Ay "I always gea Into a storm when J reach home between those hours.” cm ms. - Little Things. “Never despise the llttlc.thlngs.” . . ”Wbat now, for instance?” ^ t “Think how much more valuable the deuce of cluha is to a four-card dob dash than the king of diamonds.” >4 ' . .,*p y t. IV . v eo o; 7 » ) ilfi ■M' lytTu’- l a w*l 9ii> ■ v^iMSl 61. d mkwhk- #wk|9fke Sure Way. 4toeytUy**fa««! 3M0I I’m gonna cut down my wife’s aP -ttie-eYaMokea throigh Iowa nee.” ' sir la « Howr # ► r 1 . , k ‘ r “By not leaving any money In igy that r»o trousers pockets at night” *■ . possibility find 'series *