The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 10, 1899, Page 30

THE SUNDAY CALL 29 Ceft Home and Risked His Life to Nurse a Siek Brother in Manila. +# & He Received a Prophetic Warning Through a Dream. ot o TRULY HEROIC ACT OF A SMALL SAN FRANCISCO BOY. MAMA ; I'M OFF TO MANILA. £ P > fever on the island when leaving d sa amma; I'm off to Ma- ng for weeks t every m ar d waited patiently for ollowed complaint from school. Arthur was uld not study. He m- BRB{\S& By A uTTO . \-{9 ing on his mind, and principal he would And so on eft home s: off to Manila to find brother t he had said that just thirty times tr to on that it h a new d out: “Arthur, ou want to drive your le feet could the water g Kisses at And Take good care of He had not pocket, but or upon only to place by But fine young courage i s later he p: Gate bound for Manila. d his going saved his brother’s life. nt as a stowaway on the trans- ort Gran For three days and nights he had nothing to eat, and he made this sac- rifice for his brother. Is there a greater love than this? Little Arthur Pohlmann is back from d, and he came on the good Presidio camp and ted in Company D, E he is certainly the most popular member. “That'’s the bravest boy in the State,” sald Captain McCreagh. “The Kid's all right,” said a dozen others. “Hooray for the four lusty throats. And little Arthur Pohlmann outgen- Kid!" came from eraled them all in his unconscious hero- ism. Tell me how you managed it? I said, locking into a pair of fearless blue eyesy the color for dauntless courage. “To get aboard was easy enough—but to stay ‘get,’ that was the hardest rub. 1 tried mighty hard to go away on the transport Ohlo—but—now—I'm glad I didn’t, because—two other kids who went on that transport were captured by the Filipinos. You see they got tired marching and fell behind the soldiers and were never heard from afterward. But {t wasn't my fault that I failed to go on the Ohio. Why, I waited hours and hours to get a chance to climb over the gates of the Folson streug 2 T 1 i \ Younc RASCAL! wharf—and then when the men were not looking I climbed over and man- aged to squeeze into an open port and dropped into a bunk to hide. ~——— — - WHAT ARE YOU POING HERE ’i “I thought I could run the bluff of a soldier. wled in betw n the blankets @olorado Volupteer ap Heir to 4,000,&) HIS MASCOT NUMBER HAS ALWAYS BEEN THIR- on the in the s Lake, Michigan, Point, on th. Point_on the 13th 96 but did not sted as a private . Company B, the rformed to_an 3th of June he was f & only diréct heir 00. following month commissioned officer. has no terrors for he was promoted to 1e number th nt Lawrence comes from a mil- some of whom have writ- mes in our military history m the fury of the Revolution- to the War of the Rebellion dent of the famous 1p” Lawrence and e of the house in- miral Farragat and g fr War 1 lineal desce ert E. Lee. Lieqtenant Lawrence Is the happlest of- ficer i the Colorado camp, and without doubt he is the most popular. AND BROUGHT HIM THE LUCK AND WEA dollars! mped up and said: tree w quickl nce, but shiners laughed at him to ex- plain, and he at once replied ““In a few weeks you will hear that you ce tallen helr to a fortune.’ “Of course I thought the fellow a little queer, and at t! e there was ju le n t he said, for t w 4 to_my possession was a ‘patent’ and like all property of that nature, med like the rainbow’s pot of gold “Well, when the news came General Otis telegraphed up to the barracks for me to come down to headquarters, and I with my head and heart all full of the idea of promotion started for the commander's Quarters. You can imagine my surprise when told that not promotion but a for- tune awaited me upon my return to the Tnited States. I then had to go down to make affidavit that I was the person {den- tified in the deed, and this I did without hesitation. “Sho,” called a voice from the street. «“Just a minute, please,”” and the quarto- millionaire again left me to hold conver- sation with a private outside. ‘Again the money jingled in his purse, then as he entered I quoted the open se- same to hls purse: “Lieutenant Lawrence, just a moment, please, At this he laughed and sald with feel- 8¢ LTH. too long f full and 1 don There is such man of £ millions, ideration it was t to see, entured 1l me how Horatlo kept the bridge?” “Oh, no; excuse me: that is just one ect I will not talk upon. It would ot be quite the thing for me to say any- I just tried to do my thing about that d hat is all. did you never feel a premonition th—or that sort of thing, you } : but T will say that many times I have heard soldiers give orders for their letters to be sent home with their bel ings and they would say good by start for the firing line, assured that they would never return, and I never heard of one whose premonition proved wrong. Would I enlist again? Oh, yes; you see, I am sort of a military animal—fond of pa- rade and gunpowder. I guess I inherit this tralt from my ancestors, but I want @ his week we are mus- cem like a luxury ilian clothes again.” nd a valet, Lieutenant Lawrence?” eed, yes; I am_not too fond of work, but I am not going“in for seciety.” Here he unlocked a trunk and drew out a volume of legal papers. “This is the bundle that locates my luck,” and I read over his shoulder the clause stating: “Article No. 1—Beginning at the most easterly corner of a patent of 9,000 acres of land, granted in the year 1770, to Henry Glen, and others, commol called the Jersey Field Patent, etc.” and after wading through much that I didn’t un- derstand legally, I came to his attorney’s i ;’r \ Almern Grifiin, Rensse- v York. > signatu lae: “What are my plans for the future? I shall stop over at Denver for a brief time and then proceed to New York to settle up the estate. I haven't really made ex- tensive pians as yet. I am particularly fond of music and studled the violin for four years and in all probability some day will give it further attention, but just at present my ambitions are wholly military.” “an?l not dk;)mesllc?" K “Well—no—but do you know I thi girls of Virginia charming. kit “Really; and perhaps i‘ou can remem- er one who I8 paticularly so?” “No; but I expect to find one some day, and when I do, I'll lay aside my military ambitions.” Then this knight of fortune and war was called to officers’ meeting and ever since I have wondered if all men ac- cepted wealth with Lieutenant Law- rence’s ulet philosophy; if the friend- ship for s comrades in battle will last, BEST OF find my WiThH ™Y FWRAT DO YOU THINK SHE GAVE me? ‘fi o MY BLANKEY (LoThes looked like a tall man—then I found a soldier’s cap, pulled it well down over my face and stretched m out as long as I could make myself and looked like a real soldier. “After awhile a policeman came along and I thought he was after me, sure— but he went right by and then a Re Cross weman found me and told if I would come off the ship she would make me the finest kind of a suit with brass buttons and told me to come out to the Presidio the next day and she would have my measure taken and get me a pass on the next tr: a gilley I believed he I went cut and what do gave me? A cream pu day D! The n ou think she “After that I spent most of my time water front. 1ottt 1 and after I 1 hool at the “The day before the G went on board with the casuals hid in the ventilator. I found pretty uncomfortable and ther ways danger of dropping dc kept wy eye cpen for the officers and nt the ‘Cop.’ and when the ccast was clear ‘Il ade for the bunk and crawled un- er it. “Gee whiz, but wasn’t I tired of my narrow quarters. The iron wasn't al- together like a feather bed, but—I knew if I got out before we left the bay that I was a goner. “I could hear the people shouting and talking and I thought the ver would haul up the anc Honest, it seemed a longer time under the bunk than the whole trip to Manila. I ached all over— and v E k, too, and on the third day out of Frisco I crawled out and was that hungry I didn’t care whether I was caught or not. I couldn’t stand up 1 was so cramped. YOU EAT E) ed me up to the cor ng asked me all sorts of had a father and a t by stowing L orry that T left hen I sai 0, b ‘i at Honol made u.’ I was aid all the money I I helped in the ts and chored after I 1ger when he wasn’t and made myseif handy in nd wasn’ —and, by the X 1u I had enough clott <] ed in one of the les and got under the until we got outside of When we got to Manila I had $3 saved up and there I found my brother ay off on the isla and there were no boats and no one knew whether ck or not and so I went with ‘Walled City." The; 2} e and we were on the south Los Pin g line a “That was the Ii WENT AS A STOWAWAY THAT HE MIGHT BE OF AID. were there one month. I walked ten s the first day with the soldiers and my blanket with my clothes in a horse shoe around my afraid of falling behind. were awful good to d blankets with me— on account of my v how it did rain. I was through and through. did laundry work for the boys, r guns and did everything vanted me and never was " with them and they always pald well, so that I had quite a good- tzed wad saved up, when some one brought word into the camp that my brother was on board the Sherman— but sick in the hospital. TRESE pP\lNJI “Then I went right back with some men on the trail and got into one of the Sherman’s little boats and went out to see my brother. “Brother Harry was too sick to sit up and looked like a ghost. He couldn’t say a word when he saw me—I just went up and put my arms around his neck and neither one of us said any- thing for a long while. He looked awfully bad—and I took my little ‘dough’ that I had saved and bought ice things for him to eat and he wouldn’t taste a thing for a long time until I said to him in’t you ashamed of yourself! Now you eat these dainties and get well and go home to mamma— here a little kid like me comes all the way to nurse you and now you won't es He got so he didn’t want me out of his sight and he did eat everything I brought him, too. He says I saved his life. I don’t know about that, but— I'm glad I went and I'd do it over again. Only I don’t like to see killed.” DeoHie And this is the story that the stow- away tells; the young hero of the west who went to the battlefield all for the love of a brother. “Lisutenant Foratio J. Lawrence.