The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-03-11
BUT WILL GO BACK If HE CAN
BE PATCHED UP-SAW HARD
FOREIGN SERVICE.
AM ERICANS A FINE BUNCH
HIS ENGLISH BRIDE PRECEDED
HIM TO HIS HOME IN
ARTESIAN.

hating speech, Jesse b.. Anderson, of
Artesian, returned last night from
the French and Belgian battle fronts
of continuous continental service in
the Canadian overseas army. He
came from Liverpool to New York on
the Olympian, attended by a cruiser
and several destroyers. From New
York he went to Halifax, from where
he sailed more than two year ago
now a city almost unacceptable
from the effects of the great explo-
sion. From there to Regina, where
he was mustered out, and from where
he came home, bearing with him
recommendations. for the Victoria
he sailed more than two years ago
and If he a be patched up so they
will accept him he will leave his Eng
lish bride and aged mother and again
go over to inflict what hurt he can
sian.
Lee Anderson, younger brother of
the man just returned, registered in
Lake county under the selective draft
and is in the city today taking his
examination before the board. Yes
terday he drove a car from his home
in Artesian to Woonsocket, and took
home the returned and elder soldier
brother. 1t is of the younger man we
get the story. The family is of
Scotch-Irish-French descent and they
are what might be termed addicted
to war. Lee. the younger man, at
tempted to enter the navy some time
ago, but was pronounced physically
unfit. He says now that he is glad
he didn't get in. He'll now enlist in
the army, and cold-bloodedly and
with a full realization of what is be
fore him, do his worst against the
disturber of the peace of the world.
If anybody says Germany" to him
he'll hit with whatever comes first at
hand. He is not put for the decep-
tive and elusive glory, nor for a sense
of intense patriotism-he just wants
to avenge his brothers injuries and
bring home to them a realization of
what they have done to suffering
women and children. He's going to
fight.
Jesse Anderson ran away from
home at the age of Is and joined a
Canadian ex~peditionary force to fight
the revolving Beers in South Africa.
He served with distinction in the
Strathcona Horse, and in a charge on
a blockhouse was wounded by a gi-
gantic Boer with a saber which he
thinks was eve feet long. He was
discharged and sent home. He en-
listed in the United States army or
the occasion of the Spanish unpleas-
antness, but saw no action. When
the present world disturbance took
place he again went to Canada, en-
listing in a regiment of the Royal
Engineers, with which he went to
France. The company in which he
served was nearly wiped out, and the
remainder were placed in other serv-
ices. He finally found himself in a
machine gun company.
>, He received a shrapnel in the leg
and was sent to a base hospital. He
again went into the inferno and re-
eeived a lungful of the barbaric gas,
and was again sent to the rear for
!. hospital treatment. Again he was
pronounced fit for cannon fodder and
went into the sodden trenches. A
huge shell sought out his dugout
shelter, blew him wholly clear of the
shelter, and tore his leg again badly
This was his Blighty. With a per.
manent limp. a lung affected by
chlorine gas and a nervous system
wrecked by the terrors of danger and
noise, he was permanently invaded
l and sem home. He is recommended
for the Victoria cross.
While in England, convalescent
he married a young English woman
: On receiving notice of his discharge
! she came on ahead, and he joined hel
|, yesterday at the home of his mother
in Artesian.
: He says the soldiers are wal worr
> and tired. They have no idea of Civ
ing up, but are stimulated to dogget
action by a calmly dispassionate ant
cold hatred of the Prussians ant
a their inhuman methods of waging
war of frightfulness. When asked
why the English did not attempt re
, prisals over peaceful German towns
{ he said, What would we gain? AM
: besides, it isn't just the thing for
I white man to do, is it?" And wound
I ed and sick and shattered as he is
{ with a bride, after all he would again
enter the service of humanity agains
the Hun.
or the American soldiers the re
turned man said that they were be
ing gradually introduced into wal b,
being intermixed with ~seasone,
troops, both French and British. HI
describes them a being a cleanl,
: bunch of men, peculiarly free from
disease. resupctful Of the weak al