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A STORY OF CAMP LIFE
By WM. S. COPP
Camp Hancock, Georgy, June 17, ’lB.
Dear Kditor:
Folks keep a wnitin’ to me to keep a writin’ to them. The other
day 1 sot down to write an’ they was, a brain my hed. Sez I to my
self, eez I, what shel I tel the folks back home?
An* then the idea cum to me, what kind o’ mothers is it that sol
diers want to stand by ’em in this war an’ see the thing through?
Immediately the character, Mis Willers, presented herself, calm an’
i quiet like an’ full o' cheer an’ unselfish an’ so patriotic that she was
willin’ to give her seven sons, even though it ment years o’ lonliness in
a big empty house with only a few keep sakes to keep her company. A
woman so brave that arter the oldest had bin killed in France she was
ready to sa yo' the six left, ‘‘An’ if I had six times six twould be the
same.”
In picturin’ Miss’ Wilier’s trip to Camp, I've tried to show Camp
life jest as it i«, an’ especially how glad the men folks is to see the
wimmin folks from home.
Hopin’ your readers will git real acquainted with Mis’ Willers, I
am, ' SAIT.
As I was goin’ over the hill to Lem
Billings today to doctor his sick kow, for
Lem allers would persist in feedin’ hul
taters to his kows, an’ they do say that
in all the kentry round I am as good a
kow doctor as ever traveled Rappin’s
Pike, —but as I was a sayin’, as 1 was
cummin’ along by the Wilier’s place 1
saw Mis Willers in "the gardin’, sad like.
Sez I to myself sez I, there's a female in
distress an’ sez I to myself sez I. the
cumfortin' of a woman’s inside is of
more valy than savin’ a kow’s hide; so I
stopped by the picket fence an’ was about
to speak when 1 seed it was no time to
intrude. I'd heered that sayin’ ’bout
fools a rushin’ in where Angels would
fear to tramp, an’ 1 thought I wouldn’t
play the fool: so I jest hung by the fence
awaitin’ til Mis Willers would look up.
I could see by the way she picked the
cabbage leaves that another of her boys
had been drafted. Theys somethin’ ’bout
the way a woman does things when she
i is feelin' bad, that tells the hul world
1 that God an’ her are havin' it. out. for
the good of all concerned. She wasn't
makin' no fuss nor weepin’ loAid like, like
folks of littlt mind. but. je H t pickin’ cab
bage leaves and lookin’ off to where the
road turned down into Grizzly Gulch,
whar one by one her boys was a goin’
day arter day with a smile an’ a good
bye wave o’ the hand an’—eternity. ’
Biin by she cum along my way an’
looked up. Well hody do sez she a smilin’
an’ puttin’ out her hand; for its allers
been a custom in our little place to shake
hands whenever you meet, no matter
how often or under what circumstances.
Wai, we talked about the wether, an’ the
crops, an' the new preacher for a spell,
an’ then jest naturally drifted on io the
war. Mis Willers all the time a strokin’
the cabbage leaves an' lookin’ off down
to the gulch. I axed her if she'd heard
from Tom. That was her last to go as
far as J knew, his bein’ next to the last,
an’ I daren’t ax her if the baby o’ the
lot, young Jed, had been taken.
They was all a likely lot them boys, big
an’ strong and over six foot an’ havin'
more'n the ordinary amount o’ brains
Their father'd died soon arter Jed was
born from a gunshot wound he received
at Petersburg in the <‘ivl War. The boys
had all oum along one cl us on another so
that Mis Willers found herself arter the
funeral expenses was paid, with a big
hungry brood to her credit an’ the where
withal to feed them all on the debit side.
Ir. Willers had worked hard all his life
to provide but at his death the mortgage
wasn’t paid on the little farm. Wai. Mis
Willers had took in washin’ an' done
-sewin' an’ writ poems for the Punkin
ville Ti: ies <‘nough to keep the interest
paid until the boss could get out to work'
an’ be of some help. They was seven o’
them little critters an’ not more’n seven
years difference in age frum the fust to
the last. I’ve seen ’em in sun an’ rain,
wind an' show, aworkin’ nway like men
an’ never a complaint or shirkin’ o’ their
grim duty. An' all the while, Mis Wil
lers managed to keep ’em in school,
clothed an' fed an' lookin’ respectable
like folks;, a goin’ on Sunday to church
an’ Sunday School. n<- neat an’
m;i !.‘ly as if they had bin Squire Berk
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Pine Hill.
Then it rum along time for Ben, who
is the oldest, to gradual** frurn town
school an' go off to college They boys '
had worked hard, paid up the mortgage j
an’ added considerable to the so
that Ben could go without much priva- !
i tion an’ hardship. The next in line, I
thats Sam, was planning to g<» next j
'•ear.
Wai, Ben had jest graduated an’ was ;
back home this spring to stay for the i
first time in four years, lie was plannin’ ;
to marry and settle down on a farm close
by, that he was gotr.’ to work ■ n shares *
until he could pay for it. Ik hadn't J
been home a month fore the draft took ;
him. I was up to Mis Willers the day
he went. All the town folks was there,
for Ben was the first boy to he called
from our parts an’ it created quite a
stir. The town council was for gittin’
out the brass band an' veterans an’
formin’ a parade to escort Ben to the
stashun. but Ben wasn’t one o' them
kind. Sez he to the folks gathered round
that mornin’
"My neighbors, it is not new a time
fur band playing and parades. It is time
only for war. Wq must all face the fu
ture with a det /mination to see this
thing through, ri J irdless of privation, re
gardless of disaster, regardless of the
slaughter that is bound to come. If we
do this, keening calmly cheerful, ami
having a full faith in the justice and
mercy of thy good God. victory will be
ours, noble lasting and bearing in its
hand the fruits of peace "
Wai. his speech kinder settled the
nerves o’ a good many. Before that there
had bin more or ’ess confusion an’ tear
spillin’ among the folks that had conie
to sec ’im -off, for Beu like the rest o’
the Willers boys was well liked by every
hodv round.
There wasn’t a farmer fer miles round
that wouldn't cum for them boys when in
a tight ninch. Didn't matter whether it
v:>s havin’, tater dingin’ or what, the
Willers hovs was worth a young armv of
the ordinary kind. But if Ben was calm
that mornin*, his Maw was like still
waters by moonlight. There wasn’t a
rinnle o’ fear or sorrer chowin’ on her
clear upliftin' face. She wont about
among us all a sneakin' good words o’
•heer while she packed his socks :fn'
last year’s umlerwear in around th>'
lunch to keep it from ma shin'. I seed
she put in jest the things he liked best:
lots o’ curd cheft.ee an’ brown bread an’
| little bartlett pears preserved with cloves.
All the other hoys kinder hung around
an’ looked ns though th yethovght that
everybody thought they was traitors
cause they wasn’t going along. An’ then
the time cum for Ben’s goin'. an' they
jest sod good-bye ho a kissin' 'er as
she tucked bis Bible in his coat’s side
pocket an' stood a leanin' again the door
post as he walked off down the road
til’ he cum to the ben o’ the road, where
it dins down into Grizzly Gulch, an' then
* he turned, smiled an’ waved his hand
an' went on into eternitv. 1 watched
Mis Willers clus. for most wimmln find
a few tears most satisfvin’ when It' corns
to sprinklin’ an’ revive*! the hearts ease
o’ the soul: but M»s Willers didn’t, she
kept lookin’ fer a little while out where
Ben had jest bin. and then 'vent into
♦he kitchen an’ began makin’ riz biskits.
Some o’ the “foolish virgips” about re
marked that she didn’t seem to take
Ben’s go’ng very hard: but T.nr, if they
could only have seen what was writ on
the tables o’ her hart. I’ve allers no
ticed that still waters run deepest and
Mjs W ; T’ers was one o’ the deep runnin’
k’nd. Wai. after that, things went on in
about the same wav. Some o’ tlm other
neighbors’ boys had been ta’-en bv this
time, so folks was gdtir’ nse.i it An’
so one ar*er the other. .Will«*rs’ bovs
was called an* wint. an’ they wasn’t no
more fuss an’ feather* about it than if
them bovs wn* a a train for the
next town. fi”i»u o’ ovenintions of
tn false statements’ or RnnHr'»-
♦<nns o* demon/”’ pp eDimin’ d^^»e”d r ” , t‘’
hut jest a nickin' im ™* wbnt dud l * they
’-nq a’>’ savin’ pn‘ n-oin’ no*
down tbn**nad thatl ends to Grizzly Gulch
av eternity.
Wai. tn nnrrn tn whe**o wn left
'■>f< a talkin’ by the fence WiHer*
•otq roe that the n» enyen had
b>n nailed an’ hr»q ]pft that mnmtng. ,an’
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TRENCH AND CAMP
yarqqea oqi paqsuM ,uu o; pts
leaves while she. yet the table an’ told
me of some of the things the boys had
writ from Trainin’ Camp. All the boya
had been sent to the same place an’ she
was plannin’ to go down an' make ’em
a visit. She was goin' so as to be there
the Fourth of July, for then there was
to be a perade and marchin’ an' speeches
an’ President Wilson was goin’ to be on
hand an’ the Governor an’ Mr. Taft an’
they hoped Teddy would be persuaded to
join in an’ have a free for all good time.
Wai, we had a right nice supper, me
an' Mis Willers, cause I do like apple
sauce cake an’ jell an’ Mis Willers is
famous in our parts fer them very things.
She laughed some when she brought out
some of her choicest preserves, remarkin'
that as she had furnished seven sons to
help win the war, she didn’t see but what
sL# ought to be exempted from Hoover
ing when it cum to a few nick nacks now
an’ then, an’ she was a goin’ to have a
little cake an’ Jell once in a while even
if it was unpatriotic. I agreed with Mis
Willers cause 1 had a reason. Then we
went into the slttin* mom an’ talked
some 1 plum fergot Lem Bil
lings’ kow.
But to git back to my story agin,—
three days before the Fourth. Mis Willers
packed her satchel an' went down to see
her boys. She stayed longer'n I expected,
fer she had never run the roads much
an’ I expected to see her back the next
day arter the Fourth. But she stayed a
week altogether; an' when she cum back
she talked an’ acted ten years younger.
There was a bright rose in each cheek,
an’ she wore a service, pin o’ solid gold
t hat the Gineral had .given her with seven
star'. In it. From what I could make out
afterwards, they had jfut her up on the
platform where all the sj>eech making was
made, an’ the Gineral had got up and
presented her with the pin afore nigh on
to all the folks an' soldiers fer forty
miles, around.
An’ she brought back a picture o’ the
seven of ’em an’ her in the middle, an’
Lan to Goodness, they looked so much
bigger an' broader in their new uniforms.
vOu'd a thought they was all seven foot
tall.
An’ she told me all about the Camp an'
Carnu life <er them boys took her into
; even' nook an' corner o’ the Camp
grounds and showed her the hul place.
She wint first to the mess hall where the
boys et, an’ had dinner with ’em an’ she
sez to me sez she, the cookin’ beat, half
that the wimmln of Plainville kin do. hn’
tliey was all men cooks to. jest the sol
dier boys themselves, an’ where they had
larnt to cook so soon was a mistery to
Mis Willers. She sect they had long ta
bles clean an’ well scrubbed arter ’•every
meal, but rm tablecloths, for thuy didn't
have no time fer extra fixin’s though the
dishes was deau an' of aggate an’ heavy
stone chiny like our forefathers used to
use.
The men was all divided up by what
thev called squads; that is seven fellers
called privates an’ another feller called
a .Corporal, who go folks would know
what he was. wore two stripes on his
arm. as a sign that he was boss over the
ther oseven. An' they’r taught that a
Corporal is as much a Gineral over his
squad as a Gineral Is Gineral over his
Army. Four of Mis Willers boys, thats.
Tom. John. William and Henry, are Cor
porals, with Ben and Sam Sergeants.
' they a havin’ three stripes on their arms
an’ bein’ boss over four squads: an' Jed.
the youngest, he is jest a plain fitin’
man.
Wai, the way Mis Willers described
I thrjn meals would a dun your heart good.
| She sod fur breakfast arter the boys had
; all bin up an' dressed an' had had before
j that a splash in the bath house an’ stood
up fer some performance called reveille,
at which the Captin an’ Lutenents cum
! along an' stood in their places an’ every
• body saluted an' the roll call was took
; when the bugle blew. well, as I was a
savin', they marched into the moss hall,
an’ all stood up straight at attensun, an'
then was all seated at the same time an'
begun to eat. Mis Willers sed it kind?,
made her feel bad that nobody ast a
blessin, but seoin’ as how we was at war.
she guessed the good I. rd would over
look some o’ the religious courtesies-.
Thev had oatmeal with canned milk
which Mis Willers wasn't used to. allers
havin' lived on a farm an’ bein’ used to
a cellar full o’ pans o' milk an’ thick
cream, but she sed all the men seemed
to like it an’ as it was full o’ sugar, it
■must be fattenin'. Then they brought, on ’
big pans of'ried taters. an’ platters o’ I
fried eggs an' bread an' butt *, an’ coffee,
an iwa.s'all good an' wholesome an' clean,
an’ tit fer anybody that didn't have a
fanev appetite.
When thev had et. they went into the
kitchin, an' Mis Willers sed she jest
poked about to see fer herself if things
was dirty and corners full <>’ filth as she
expecti'd’ to find 'em. seein’ as how it
was all men that did the cookin' an no
wimmln folks about to slick things up,
but sez she. you could a et off that
kitchin floor, as they was all the time
a dabblin in water an' soap suds.
The meat was hung in a great ice box
biggern the one up at Squire Berkham's,
an* the bovs themselves had invented a
new fangled fly catcher that jest ketched
as fast as thev gmwed. Sez Mis Wil
lers to me. sez she, I tell you Sait, this
armv o' Uncle Sam's is a makin’ our
boys mighty perticular about their vic
tuals an’ clothes an’ where they slten an’
sieh like an' a lot of our girls era goin’
to be left old maids arter its over if they
don't perk up and put away their high
*ocietv ideas, an' nonsense, an' foolish
ness for the war is a teachin' our young
men' that the best kind o’ better haff is
not the girl that can look like a painted
doll, who can't lift her little finger to
somethin’ useful, nor do a stich o' work
that ain't fancy, but its the girl that
can cook, or sew. or git along on what
she's got. jest Fke the wimmin o’ *76.
In ether words, this war is teachin'
wimmin to be wimmin as well as for men
to be men.
M ai, for dinner it was much mo r e ’lab
crate P’-sf thev had mashed taters an*
the tenderest beef stake vou could im
agine, with succotash on the side, bread
an' butter, watermelon, ic'd tea an' rice
•'udd»n’; je*t a good substant ; ''l. muscle
bulldin’, mind deveimfin’ meal seen as '
w’orth whP A folks rel’sh an’ are ready to ]
'at. An' the «-av them men et arter th°
forenoon’s drill was a sight to see. It
ken* a crowd o’ the bovs that acted as
"’niters a goin’ an’ eunv-xin’ in a con
stant stream an’ n-bat wit l- ’ the rush nn'
clatter, the handlin’ A ! she« an’ the
,-. C nx«A r -ntjon. It was ■' Ir e’’ mA»i.
MI the fnrenoon Mis W’Pors had b?n
•nit o n the pelade c-rpund a w-Mohin* the
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tater salad, an' in honor o’ Mis Willets’
visit, some bouquets strung along the
tables an’ ice cream. The Captin an’
Lutenents stayed to supper an’ the Cap
tin made a little speech arter which the
boys cheered an' sung old songs.
The next day Mis Willers went out to
the Artillery range and saw ’em shoot
the big guns. She sed everybody had to
stuff cotton in their ears an’ then the
noise was so loud it made her jump each
time a cannon went off. She sed the ar
tillery men was to shoot at an old barn
off on a hill about four miles away’ an’
she'd he hung fer an untruth if they
didn’t blow it to smitherenes at the first
shot. Then she sez they put down what
they call a barrage in which they jest
completely covered the kentry side with
shul an’ j'lmll which tore up th,-- ar:’
fences an’ made kindlin’ wood o’ every
thing fer miles around
This was the only time Mis Willers
voice, shook an’ a tear rolled down her
face as she said. "Thor’s a glory in
raisin' boys fer Uncle Sam. but O the
cost of it.’’
Next day she went to the Base Hos
pital to see hew things was gun’ on
there. She sed the Base Hospital was a
city in itself with wards an’ wards an’
wards, all cool, clean an’ white with
I white enamel iron beds an' little stands
with flowers on ’em an’ ail the boys there
a playin’ games an’ re idin* if they wan’t
too sick. She sed she went into** the
i operatin’ rooms an' saw all the ma
chinery an' tools for cuttin' folks up.
She sed they was a thousand times as
many contraptions as in Doc Do s en's
office, down at Punkyiville. an' fer every
kind of ailment. They even had an Xray
to take pictures o' peoples insides so as
to locate anythin’ that was rnissin’ or
not in the right place an' sieh like. An’
all the Red Cross nurses was dressed in
white with white slippers, an' white cans
with a little red cross ,on 'em. an' the)
came an’ went all the time with never a
grumble ner word o' discontent at the
hard work. An' all the fellers that done
the he:* •< rk- ’hey call ’em orderlies—
was dr- u in white an' kept scrubbin’
the floors an' windows an' wheelin’ about
the meals on rubber-tired wagons bilt
special fer that very thing An' then oti
Sunday, she sod. the boys told her the
preacher cum with his hymn book an
melodeon an' prayed an’ sung an' every
body jined in an' felt better all around.
Also, in one part o' the hospital was a
store, called a canteen, where the boys
could buy reasonable, tobacco, chocolates
an' such truck an' git stamps an’ news
papers. while right close by was a barber
shop fer shovin'.
Sez Mis Willers to mo sez she. them
vronaganders a fellin' how misused our
bovs are bv Uncle Sam er nothin' but
German spies pure an' simple, an’ they
lie every word they say. Os course some
o' the poos lads die. but it ain’t from
lack o' care or attention. Folks die in
Plainville, too. an' where there is mebbe
four hundred souls in Plainville, there
are sixty thousand bovs down at Camp.
I seed that if Mis Willers had ever bin
a doubtin' Thomas, she was now a deep
water convert to the way T’ncle Sanvwas
a runnin' things.
Wai. Mis Willers went to everv place
1 gve-s thev was in that Camp. I kinder
shuddered for her morals when she told
me. she a shoutin' Methodist, that she
had gone to a dance g-d un for the whole
Camo. Sez she. I don't believe in dance>.
but if other folks do. let ’em dance. An’
sez she. 1 wanted to see ; P the cam-ins
on in that Camp so T could know whether
or not mv bovs was a coin* to the bad
wb’’e in the service o’ their Country.
Wai. the dance was nut under the trees
where th* bn'- - bad strung »-lee*He lights
:>n' all ttm officers an' their wives was
there an’ the Red Cross nurses and folks
from the no-’rbv towns with their darters
-'n' the miltar'- bands nlaved an’ thev
seem t n be a«v s»gns o’ the D-'vil
-nukin’ am whore about as far as Mis
W’’iers could see.
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ti’T"* at nnp of tH V. ' 'c bv
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of medals himg .aorn«« h?s breast for
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-■rhtin' to ’nihilate Germany, the old-
fashioned Germany, the one o’ song an’
story and good deeds, but they r a fightin’
the Kaiserized part which at present
seems to be the hul thing but it ain’t.
Where ther- s so much smoke there must
be some fire an' where there's so much
’ ~ - hound to be a heap o’ good.
A tre« ' tap root has got to be sound
even if its fruit bangs rotted: an’ so
they'r-a fightin’ Germany jest as we
fohght the South. We fought the South
to keep her in the Union, an’ they’r a
fight in’ Germany to keep her citizenship
•
Hul I’m agin the aiserized part like
they be an’ like Mis Willers is, an'
whether its the sendin’ o’ nne son or
Seven, er all a woman’s got, I say send
’em.
But to cum back to where I left off.
that 4th of July perade must have bin
the bigges’ thing one < ould ever imagine.
1-jvn a celebrashun in Punkinville Center
couldn't cum up to it accordin’ to Mis
1 Willers. Why, sez she. as far as I could
I see, there was soldiers a marchin’ past j
j that grand stan’.
{ Au' then the Governor spoke, an’ Mr. ;
j Taft, an' Teddy, an’ ail the folks an'
'• buys cheered an’ cheered, and the bands
[ struck up Hail to the Chief an' President
J Wilson got up. He looked kind o' tired
; j like, as though the biZness o' standin’
i • day ar!er day between Hell’s destruction
’ an' humanity was a wearin' enterprise,
. but his step was firm an’ his actions
calm an’ when he spoke there was the
sound •<' victory in his. voice.
i Mis Willers sed he talked like as though
he fr ;r- wed up on a farm an’ under-
• { stuud jo,' ; how folks felt about giviKn’
■ up their boys. How twas a breakin' his
! heart jest as it broke Abo Linkin's at ;
• the cemetarj in Gettysberg, an’ he;
talked so peaceful like, yet with a de- I
i termination that fol skknew thej was no I
: turnin’ back, no matter what the cost; i
while the w’orld's fate swings in the ba!- i
L ance. afi’ humanity hangs on the <’ross. I
. An’ do ye know sez Mis Willers. there's
> a goin' > be a change, in the World's
. conduct arter this war. Theys a goin' to
1 be more o’ the ingdom Cum spirit in
folksy’s hearts an’ their a goin’ to be
far-sighted enough to see over the
i Heavenly gates into Paradise.
. Lor. how you do talk sez I to Mis Wil
! lers, sez 1. F- r she does take flights at
I times that barely miss landin’ her in the
I eternal realms fer she’s one o’ them be- !
, in's that uses the light o' stars to find i
: her way about through the darkness o' I
; this world.
But to git on with my story, arter our i
• •■e in chat I left Mis Willers an' went i
home to hed, an' het fact that I hadn't
bin anear Lem Billings' kow didn't bother ,
• me a bit. *
Wai. 1 cum along by Mis Willers agin
this arternoon an' stopped in to see if
she had any news from the boys. I seed 1
she had. fer they was a few tears a 1
triklin’ down her face which reminded me '
o’ a thawin' brook in springtime. Fer i
the human heart in a time o’ grief is ’
like the icebound waters of a wintry
land. Grief just hardens the heart, that
, is like the brooks bein’ icebound. Then
the sun cums out an' melts the ice a
little an’ still a little more until there is
a tinkle of spring waters; an' so the sun
• o’ self resignation melts the stony first I
grief o' our hearts until sooner or later >
there is singing through our souls the
. tear brook o’ our sorters.
I hadn’t bin up to Mis Willes fer a few
days an’ in the meantime the ice had
melted. It was all as clear as mud. Ben.
thats the eldest, the one that had grad- j
I uated at College, had bin shipped to j
France, had gone up to the front line, i
had sprung over the top an’ jest naturally '
: got shot.
s They was nothin’ more to be qed er
; done, except to uack up his few bet ag
ings which Mis Willers was a doin. She'd
brought down from the attick an old-
I time chest an' was puttin’ in it Ben's old
. clothes, with sweet smellin’ leaves
sprinkled around an' in among wet here
an' there by her tears.
There was all his letters he had writ
> from College'an’ Camn. The photy of his
. graduatin' an’ football team. There was 1
, in odds an’ ends a record of his life, j
1 from the first mornin' he drew breath un '
in the sunny east chamber down through i
the years til he had filled a soldier's ;
. grave in France.
> A few days later ♦h A town folks gath- i
ored up at M>s Willers an’ pronoqed i
> havin’ a funeral ceremony an' erectin’ a i
> statue in the grave yard of Ben, but Mis |
Wil’ers wouldn't hear to it. No. sez she. j
i he fills a soldier's grave an* that is g!nr;- ;
’ enough. There is no use In puttin’ a :
, stone where he ain't fpr if all the folks j
this land rut un stores frr rhe bovs
. thev are a eoin’ to I'se. th»q kentry is a i
• em’n’ to become ° forest of monuments, i
• ,°n’ God knows thev’s snrr' 4 *' enough in ‘
the land tndav wffhnut granite « : gn posts !
tn remlrd nf it. An* besides, con- i
tinned Mis Willers, we’r nt war an’ can j
mi 11 min ■■■■ n ——————————
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Wednesday, October 2.
use the money to better purpose in the
carin’ fer the sick an' starvin’." Ben s
dead and sleeps where he served his
kentry last. Why should we intrude. Do
( need anything stuck here in Plainville
to remind me of what he did. of how he
lived, of how he died, of what his love
was to me? No, let me keep only his
memory fre.sh in my- heart an’ the old
keepsakes; they are enough; they are a
part of him.
1 thought Mis Willers talked with real
good sense. Why put a stone where he
ain't ?
Wai, after the townsfolks had gone, me
an' her wint out into the gardin’ agin an’
got some more cabbage leaves fer a salad.
The sun was settin’ over Grizzly Gulch,
a makin' a fringe o’ fire around the pines
an' edgin’ the hill tops with soft gold.
Mis Willers picked a. worm of’n a cab
bage leaf an’ stood lookin’ down the road
where it winds an’ winds an’ dips down
into the Gulch off toward eternity.
I seed she was thinkin’ o’ Ben so T
jest stood by an' waited. Arter A while
she turned to me an' sez she to me. sez
she. Sait, ain't it glorious off tlywe in
eternitv? Off when- Ben's a waitin’ til
I cum?
But sez she as we turned away, I’ve
got a long wait ahead, T expect, fer I
ain’t done givin’ to my Cod an' my ken
try. They's others o' my boys that’s a
goin’ the wav Ben has gone an’ I must
stay til the finish.
Fer the love o’ heaven. Eib Willers,
sez I. as I reached fer my pocket hancker,
fer I was complete overcome to hear a
wman talk like that—are you a goin*
to lose more o’ them boys? Yes, sez she,
quiet like I feel it deep down an’ I know
I it.
Wai that jest broke me up internally
Lib Wil’ers. sez I, it's the wimmin like
vo-i that’s the salt o’ this earth. It’s the
wimmin like you that the world can cive
credit to fer winnin* this war. O. Lib.
sez 1. b«>r- 3 you are in this big, old. emoty
house with nothin’ but a few keepsakes
an' i-icturs f-'r company, with the story
of what might have bin. that of laugh
ing children, unfolded an' ready fer you
io read dav bv day, with siz sons a fitin’
ih God Almighty’s cause an’ one that has
paid the price. Ml those you have,
enough to recrucify the Christ, an’ yet
vm among your cabbages an' praise
the Almiuhtv that you still have six sons
' - go .a marohin' far out beyond the
v. —<hr’ road that dins down into eternitv.
Yes, sez she. ouiet like, an’ if I had
six t ones twould be the same.
j Ameb. sez T.
I heered Lem TPHings’ knw fl'cd
-Lieut. Wm. S. Copp.
FIRST GERMAN-YARD KEEL
Washington.—The iirst keel of the
American Merchants Marine to be laid
in a German shipyard, was laid today
at St. Andrews Bay, Millville, Fla., in
the shipyard of the American Lumber
Company, a former German concern,
now controlled by the allied enemy
custodian. The property is now under
American management and will be en
gaged hereafter in construction for
the shipping board.
HUN NAVY’S HEAD
Washington.—Vico Admiral von
formerly commander of the
i submarine freighter Deutschland, and
j now head ol the German submarine
; section, has been appointed head of
I the German admiralty, succeeding von
Cappelia, diplomatic cables stated to
day. Renewal of submarine warfare
on' a more active scale is anticipated.
While some Scottish regiments werre
; disembarking in France, some French of
ifP'crs wme watching them. One observ
jfr.fl- "Thev can’t be women, for they
jl'-dve mustaches- bur they can’t be men,
1 for they wear skirts." _
•‘I have it," said another. "They’re
| ’■hat fanwus Middlesex reg merit from
! London.”
Prof. Van Orsdell
Expert Photo Artist.
Est. 1880. 714 Broad St
! Work dene Night and Day.
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