The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-11-11

IN the field. and so at last he won.
This we will do If every city in the
nation must be desolated. Every day
We are growing stronger and better
prepared; every day the enemy en-
TENDS his lines to seize more ravagcd
regions; he is growing weaker"
The regents generals realized that
winter, firmly established, added to
the difficulties Of their campaign. Chi
cago. Gary. st. Louis, Minneapolis, st.
Paul, Kansas City, Omaha, Des Moines
and Denver had become monstrous mu
milton centers.
Almost daily flotilla of the regents
planes or n squadron Of his dirigibles
new over one or another of the cities
In the Mississippi valley. Thus Elcin
again and again was attacked.
1t was the autumn of the year 1919
In Cayuga county, N. ". brown and
parched season, even more rainlcss
than the summer and fall of 1918 had
been. The crops had failed, and in
Europe there was scarcely any crop at
all. The wheat had failed. owing to
drought, and in Asia the rice crop
was cut in two this year by foods Of
rain as 1t had suffered the year before
by lack Of water. Only in the great
valleys of the Mississippi. the ASST
neboine, and the Saskatchewan in
North America and in the valleys of
the Parana and the Salade in the
southern continent had rain and sun
alternated 80 as to grow grain, but the
wheat of Argentina was only in the
process Of thrashing. and, If II was ex-
ported, 1t could not make w the short
age in Europe.
II the nations whose soldiers held
the coast states required the wheat
and the beef and the fodder they
would have to annihilatc the American
armies and then capture the supplies
before they could be destroyed
For two years now the regents mr.
mics had held the Atlantic states. and
for more than II year they had grad
ually been extending their lines till
they occupied almost all the Ohio val
ley east of the Wabash aud the Cum
berland. The oricntals neld half the
country west Of the Cascades and the
Sierra Ncva,las. Yet when either in
vader advanced and succeeded In drlv-
ing back the American army opposite.
the Americans continued to lay waste
everything IN their retreat. To the re-
gents repeated demand that the Amer
leans admit defeat and to his offer to
withdraw for proper indemnity the
American reply remained the same
ana was made by decd as well as by
word. 1--WE offer billions for destruc-
ton, not one cent for indemnity"
Upon this brown dry in autumn
1917. Jim .\shby was gr,lbbing the lit
tie. dried np potatoes when an object
meant for him, was cautiously pissed
from prisoner to prisoner along the
rows In the potato field Jim obtained
II at MSf--it was only walnut but
there was II number scratched on the
shell--142.G94.
The shell had been opened. the meat
removed and in it's place was n paper
wad which. spread out. showed writ
ing. 1t was diminutive writing, but
the character OF a woman's hand re-
manned in the careful little words:
"a hole large enough to hold you has
been dug at the south end Of this row.
1t has Il wooden cover concealed by
soil Get some one to scatter the soil
over the top again after you are In
and conceal yourself there ut the first
chance. AS soon ufterward as possible
make your way to the colt onwood near
the stream directly SOUTH You will
be met there. For the sake Of the ia 1T
on the Hudson"
Rcntrice l.ognn-only she could have
written that! lie had heard absolute
~ nothing Of her, either directly or in
directly, since the day. almost two
years before. when lie had brought her
to the American lines near Cayuga
and he had left her to rcIoin the army.
To be continued.