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TALE OF DEVOTIONonTHAT COMES HOME WITH TWO HEROES OF SANTIAGO.After an EightOne of Them is Captain Pickering, Brother of Mrs. Jos. Craig.aAN2 nt year:Hoone tmvnsl pecting. and rious places.Hisfrom Wvomi4home. Mrs.live ilev4and rgei is i roeiged last tple ‘ran. Rev. lieenears •oin-Her thelieen■hild oped mar-t he stersThe the ither e old es to appyasted irnedTheyntrv.4with Mor-their The Vhitek.and hvtea re. i cock,that dhola of l l lie in-don ofncliedwaswords»rison-\ saidi*. hutle wasin atrv to4IS 0111VIN NAN ORCHAf ACRES INFruits and CiAstreetnished 8 wickvotingnlv art4hat the under‘611 Me-ccurred is thatt. Cor-Fran-tirst ofCaptain Aimer Pickering. Com-1 ness his loeat pany (i. Second Cnited States In* ed and his fa fantry. a brother of Mrs. Joseph Craig. | countv. Sev of Logansport. and I/ieut. W. .1. Lutz Company 11. Second Cnited States hi fantry. arrived at Lafayette Sunday I nmv reside In afternoon from Mnnfa.uk Point. L. f— | liis arrival, where thev landed last week, direct from Santiago. Both had been in thebattle before that citv, and Lutz is■just recovering from a wound in thehip. received from a Mauser bullet.Captain Pickering is barely able to heabout after a serious spell of illness.common in the Cuban camps, andlooks very badly dilapidated. A verypretty story is connected with the departure of these two soldier** from thedeadlv Me of Cuba. He fore thev left • •Tampa for Santiago the captain and the lieutenant made a compact, showing their friendship and devotion, one to the other, by agreeing to -tick together through thick and thin. They -wore, in the presence of the captain -wife, that if either was wounded or became ill. the other would nurse him and care for him to the end. The fact that Lutz was loyal to the compact doubtless resulted in saving Pick-i 'ering’s life. The former's wound hadi.healed sufficient lv before the time4came for the transports tlt;» sail forhome. Pickering having cared for him as if he were a child, but shortly before the orders came for him to start for the states on sick leave. Pickering became very ill. He'grew worse as Lutz grew stronger, and it was the latter's turn to show his loyalty to the compact. A sick leave was obtainedhv Pickering and the two were re-4joieing over the prospect of getting out of Tuba. Alas, when the glad dav came for them to go aboard the great ocean liner. Pickering was too sick to he moved. Lutz got hi-* own men down to the wharf to be loaded onto the tug^ that were to take them out of the ••bottle to the St. Paul, and then he looked around for tin* captain of Company G. He wa** not there and I there woninquiry developed the startling fact 1 which it w that In* hail been left at tin* hu-pilal hv those who were tlt; have taken him4to the ship. There wa* no time tlt; he lost hv the anximis. heartsick lieuten-ant. He knew that to leave Picker-1 east of thi-imr tin*re wouid mean death 1 him I orchard of. Iand he could imagine the feeling- of grows the the poor fellow as he rolled in hi- bed las apples. ] aware of the fact that he was being |other of tlleft behind. The tugs were ready to leave tlie dock when Lutz rushed up I in climate, to tin* oliicer in charge, imploring refreshing him t'i wait until lie could go for the I states fron captain. The othcer knew Pickering 1 no forests and agreed, for friendships sake to | winds, hold the last tug for a short time. It could not he for long, however, as the land we ha great liner had steam up and was | the citizei ready to sail. Frantically Lutz rushed hack to the hospital, bundled the overjoyed captain into an ambulance and rushed him to the dock, so sick he could scarcely move. The tug was I Fell From casting oif. hut came hack. As Lutz wiped the perspiration from his brow he heard the oliicer in command say:.. . %• t .. , pel* the di“lou are just in time, lieutenant, and |____,___then he heard the sick captain murmur: ‘-Thank God! and that is howCaptain Abner Pickering got out of adeath hole.Captain Pickering and LieutenantLutz are at the home of the latter*sparents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lutz, near Shadeland, Ind. The former has a month and the latter two months of sick leave. The captain's family areflm I oil A mu] WnfliThe party southern pa ing a deligl through tit following Pharos fromRoswel A our tr; New Mexiccbeautiful h of large pra background Tree.- were lending gn farther, at mist- we of the 1 ther westthe region and at whirto he verv s4them. St i 1 pleasure of cattle feediat Roswell, tertained b«next morni conntrv. in4trees plantiand the elm were of gr* and are the land. Weiman life tlt; lt;Mir pai Chi-ndle n ranch in tlThe sceiThe 10-Tuesday,scions for on his hei cussion o: attended improved111P11Force an
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The Saturday Pharos
Logansport, Indiana, US
Sat, Aug 27, 1898
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