The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-28
He Fouaht Huns SO Thoroughly That
He Was Wounded as Few Men
are Wounded and Live
TO Tell About It
HIS SISTER IN KEoKUK
He Called for Her from His Hospita,
Cot In New Jersey, But She
Could Not Go to Him
and a keokuk SequeI.

A heOKuk woman HiSHly iCSPeS'S
by all her acquaintance received
word that her brother. wounded IN
France, had been returned to nos
pital in New Jersey. He was more
than a brother, for she was his Dig
sister and had been mother 10 MIN
when he was boy.
The official report said that he was
wounded quite severely. One side OF
his face vas shot away, but the sur
geons were grating on new cheek.
| One eve was gone, but he can see out
of the other one. Fifty-odd pieces OF
shrapnei were taken out OF his body,
but the surgeons believed they got
most Of them out. lie had minor
wounds also.
He is called the mystery man IN
that hospital-the mystery is how he
lived at all.
Il Takes Money 70 Travel.
That was the condition OF the sol
der. who was loved SO much by his
sister in Keoluk, who had been a
mother to him, when they we're Or
phans.
He was a thousand miles away from
Keokuk, and the sister here couid
not afford to go to him, for her hard
working husband could not accounts
late that much money in these times.
go the sister and foster mother
waited here in suspense and watched
for the postman and telegraph mes
senger to bring her the news Of the
death in New Jersey OF that soldier
brave enou, h to get wounded that
way by the Huns And the soldier
was calling for his sister from his
cot. But it seemed absolutely impos-
sible for her to see him before he
died, much as she yearned to do SO.
The soldier Saw His Sister.
Frank w. swan heard about it, YER
tilted all the facts, and the high per-
sonal character of the keokuk sister.
One day he started out over town,
and before night had raised over $l2S
to send that sister to see her wounded
brother in New Jersey.
! But the sister baked at the plan.
| She refused to take the money from
strangers. Swan I, Id her nobody
cared anything about her. but the
money had been raised so that brave
American soldier could see his sister,
as the chaplain wrote he was so anx-
Ifous to do. That changed her mind.
She visited her brother in the hos
pital. perhaps saved his life by her
companionshtp, and returned to keo-
IEuk, She rode and slept in day
coaches and apologized for taking
taxi across Philadelphia, because It
was the only way she could find her
way between stations. She rendered
an itemized account of her expenses,
which were $10S.50.
Had Some Left Over.
Frank Swan found himself with
over SIG Of the money left over, after
the sisters trip to her WOUNDED
brother.
He consulted some of the donors
about turning it over to the Red Cross,
but some of them suggested better
plan.
1t will be added to the wartime fund
in the hands Of Charles s. Abel,
raised at the time the soldiers were
brought from Camp Dodge for Christ
mas in automobiles.
Sometime when another worthy
case appears, there will be some mon
ey available instantly for proper use.
But the Abel fund is not large
enough even now to do much with. 1t
ia hoped that Keokuk business men
will mail Charles S. Abel many
checks. and others will hand him bills
and silver dollars-it will all be used
to good purpose by Charles s. Aoeii