Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-04
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THE ROSARY OF A RAMBLER.


home of the boys of COMPANY n has
! just passed. Passed unnoticed perhaps
except as a few of the boys gathered
! together happened to remember the
1 date and talked.of the days they spent
IN the old camps and the good times
\ they had and then of the better time,
the best time when they all came home
| again. 1t is strange how far off that
day of TWO years ago seems, when the
flags We're waving and the bands were
/ playing and every one in Aarshalltown
was gat hered. at the station to see Capt.
Aldrich and his boys cone pouring off
the train and straight into the arms of
a crowd which loved them one and all.
II is an old story today. the story of the
war with Spain. Ancient history it is
as we speak of events in this hurrying
/ day. Yet it is not dead history after ALL
/ The days are gone and i. is not only the
poet Who realizes they Will never come
again. but the things that we're said
and done in those days ara marching
on 1t is because OF that, that the boys
who Wore the blue have other ideas of
duty towards ones countryof war and
even of peace than those who stad a.
home. In their hearts and minds. the
days of the war will be the old days.
and yet it is the way With the old
things which are really best and eter-
nal. they viii ever be bt.i..nter Than
4 many Of thu. DAYS which have come
l.since and which at the tim, NAV have
seemed as pleasant 1T IS Well that
5lirrom the ne, tior's mind slai,id nass the
i memories of those DAYS of anxiety and
4 watehine bnt II is mt Welt that tho
4 bows who offered all they had risked an
lthey could sboald be Forgotten. II is
4 NOT NEE, that Marshallto,y n should ever
4 forget Ia do honor 10 tht. boys of Cam
4 pany II: who were and have been a
1 credit 10 the eity ON thu anniversary
/ of their safe return home al least. let
s|us all drink 10 their health from the
/ captain, down to the humblest private.
4 So. here's Il, Company III.
j
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\ mind a nre.tv 1ittIa story when was
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gotten all about the guest To whom h
bad been talking. But he had not for
gotten the little woman preparing din
A rer in the kitchen. for he called to her
'sto come up just a mome.it she was
an obedient Wife and also curious
n woman, 50 she came They laughed over
the telegram a moment, but there was
A something in the laugh which was NOT
4 all of humor Then they handed the
Il yellow sill, of paper, TO the guest that
!, she, TOO, might read and laugh. she
; aid both, for the date was one white the
boys were in camp at Camp Mckinney
H and it seems the man. the man Who has
II since married the little woman who
sent the telegram. had not passe, ti,e
rigid physical examination. For the
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