Life — May 10, 1900 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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J. K., or “TINY,” WATERMAN, Who died In South Africa two years ago, was known In St, Louls, his home city, as & young man who never got the * hot end” of any proposition. Some friends once invited bim to thelr shooting club at Kings Lake, near St. Louls, and the first afternoon they stationed Tiny tn a ducking tank, or sink box, where they well knew ducks had neve seen. He took the Joke good naturedly, and that night at dinner he pulied @ shell out of his pocket and tossed It on the table, with the remark that e “thought he had put all of his shells away" Most naturally, one of the diners cut the shell open with bis pocket-knife, disclosing the contents. Tiny seemed astounded at the number of bullets,” as be called them, and asked how many were Ina shell. Of course, no one could enlighten him, so he satd “If you fellows who are hunters really don't know, it seems to me that it 1s & good betting proposition.” * Good scheme,” exclalmed one of his hosts ; "let's make {t a dollar each as to who guesses nearest to the actual umber In the shell."* “As there ts only one bet tn this proposition,” Tiny suggested, “let's make It five dollars a corner,” which was agreed t Each one wrote on the table-cloth his guess as to the humber contained tn the sheil, and when the pellets were counted It was found that Tiny had guessed the exact num- ber. He accordingly gathered in the thirty dollars, and when he had It safely bestowed, he casually inquired ; * What do you fellows think | was doing to that blamed tank all afternoon t” — Argonaut. “ THe night of the El Caney affair,” sald General Lawton, © when my division was marching back to El Poso to take up @ new position the next morning, | was sitting with Major G Creighton Webb, inspector general of my staff, and one of the plucklest men I know, at the side of the road, My men were fling past, and we watched them. They were tired out, bat fall of gloger. The day was just beginning to dawn when heard some one coming down the road, talking at the top of his lungs, He talked and laughed and langhed and talked, and the men with him were chattering and Joking. “Here come the colored troops," sald Webb, and sure enough the Twenty-fifth Infantry came along. The man who was doing the talking was @ slx-foot corporal, He carried two guns and two cartridge beits loaded full, and the man to whom the extra gun and belt belonged was limping along- side him. The tall corporal was weighted down with his blanket and haversack, but In his arms he carrted a dog, the mascot of his company. lere, corporal,’ sald Webb, ‘didn’t you march all last bight?’ Yes, str,* sald the corporal, trylag to salute, And didn't you fight all day t? ‘Sure, sir.” “Aud haven't you been marching ever since ten o'clock to-night?" “* Yes, sir.’ Well, sir,’ shouted Webb, ‘what In thunder are you carrying that dog for ?* ++ Why, boss, the dog's Ured,’ was the reply. “ Webb Just rolled over in the dirt and laughed and cried like @ boy." — Hume Crete. IT bappened In the early days of Australian history, when bushranging was common. A genticman was riding alung a lonely track through the dust, when he beard loud cries for help proceeding from a neighboring grove. He immediately rode to the of the person who seemed to be in distress Arrivteg spot whence proceeded the cries, he was suri, shocked to find # man securely thed to a tree, “ What ts the matter here ?’? he asked, “Oh, sit," replied the poor fellow, “1 am go gy have come! A few hours ago I was stuck up by hasing who riffed my pockets, and, after stealing everyttsg except a bundie of notes In my tnstde breast.poete they fortunately overlooked, bound me to this ty, decamped.” “The scoundrels !' eJactated the new-comer; the wretches robbed you, eh" “Took everything you had except a bundle of your Inside pocket, en?” Yes, sir.” “The villains! 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