Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-04-20
THE LEAGUE Of
REMEMBRANCE.
l5y chss. }. Lisis)
Copyflsht,e hy The Golden Trail and
w. pfiatcd hy permission.

terry lay hidden 10 there IN that .neon
spicreas iliilc Warehouse. ife sense,
an awe dat he had NOS known even ~
the fire ~ battle when his nation had
been wiped from the roll Of indcpen-
dent nations At one furious armed
sweep
he knocked AZ tho door. no one an
swsrea. Tie tapped and called At tho
window there was no sound. no res
pense He tried to peer through the
kcyhole. past the closed curtains In the
window openings nowhere could he
zee ray inside. Finally he procured
40 Ak, despite his oniciai reverence for
property Tor the sanctity OK private
rights hc broke ~ the door.
n WAS meanly furnished dlngy
little ONCE; stripped Of everything in
the way Of furniture except desk and
two chairs There were few prints
on the walls: clippings from news
papers. IN various languages, telling Of
the I.usilania. OF score Of other naval
a close tense script which the simple
ilcieisn could not read. but which
proved 20 be American with curious
Gsrmanlc Examinations. WAS q list Of
ships sunk by mines and submarines
during the war II was a formula ole
list indeed freighiers. passenger ships.
trawicrs pleasure yachts. list n.adc
W, God knows how OF the victims.
known and unknown Of the submar.
Ines. Possibly II was correct slater
comparison proved that every ship
there named had been lost In some WY
and not one bad boon armed. Oppo-
site each name was a column Tor trc
losses IN men and m eey
And Ia another parllel conmu WAS
a Iist u German ships lost d, sen since
the war closed. one for est.y name I'm
TIE first sruesome iisL nitn dap,s,
values. the toll Of lives snutrcd out.
Not 10 honorable battle but assassin.
ated, ambushcd. destroyed without |
warnlngl The ink from the last uamr |
was stu slistening and undricd: a
fountain pen lay on the floor. ooxlng
out IT. last few drops OF Ink after
writing It's last entry.
Otherwise there was nothing sinister
about the room. nut Just through the
door TO the warehouse proper. lay the
body Of a man. A pistol was in the
nervelcss hand. the acrid smoke OF
the exploded cartridge stiil hung In the
air. The man was dead: bullet
through his brain. fired By his own
hand
The Waterman stared, aghast. amaz-
20. Then he crossed himself devoutly:
a prayer-and bent over tho
riAn on the floor
note book lay there. written fun Of
entries In hand the simple Belgian
aid not understand--thc name hand as
IAc tally lists OF ships on the wall
Mostly the book contained incoherent
rawlings OF religion. Of love. OF science. /
~ patriotism. OF vengeance. OF unre- /
ated nothings. The cover showed /
much wear. and the pages were thumb c
"a, a. " Il had been the intimate T
,oekst companion OF the dead man. g
;ome of the entries were blottcd In his h
Hood they were not ever dcciphercd. n
doubtless all told fairly the man him n
eli. his condition. hts manner OF 4
sought; which was Wild. frcnxied. a e
r. driven by titanic purpose and en- c
ray. methodicai but rude. uncon- q,
feiied. dashlng both itself and others n
, the destruction OF insanity and not q
ae ordered strength Of sane purpose.
fsut the last ten pages were written
a strong. bold hand: photographers "
- that only the absolutely sane can I,
rite 20. In them was told the story n
now eiye to YOU. "
= am now mad Il said. yes. IL
~ my God how mad, But have
I'd 80 fuii ! have finished my work. u
~ last score Is wiped clean. II Is CT
ps for me 10 20 when have set n,
~ = the STORY for the world TO judge. 20
n nsa American horn. OF Gcrmanlc a
'fents Always they talked Of the ia
afefl ud-of that far-eway home
b ra our people have grown up from ~
sreer into sspefclvillxiion from ,e
iir'pted sqnalor 10 tho plnsacic Of IA
itpcs aud heaaiy and ait The Faith
hna raed me- for an my obli. IN
fs,ns % the band % my birth. ~
WHOA war broke cat there was 80 ru
g bar onf risht the Grsmauic right Il,
2 eirs WIS wrons Lies al Hes All
~ me revelations the innacnaae~
. ieaiousles u others Deutschland M
~ aliss en-
r had ~ siehi 70 take this burden OK
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