Strong and healthy. Dark skin, black eyes, and freckled face.

Read simple sentences very well, and wrote words of two and three 
letters ; could count and make figures fairly well. Was very trouble- 
some, disobedient, and a trial to every one with whom he came in 
contact. Made marked improvement in school ; learning to knit and 
sew and to play very well on the cornet, but lacked application, and 
was erratic and lazy. Did well in military drill, but finally became 
so rough with the other children that he was transferred to stable 
work, where he seemed to be in his element. Made an excellent 
groom and stable boy, and gave not the slightest trouble. In his 
seventeenth year was removed. During the Spanish-American War, 
he entered the army, served with credit, and was honorably dis-