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made a sergeant and also given ninety
>Six hours leave in which to go home.
N'Well. sir, l wish you could have
s&en Alb walk up Main street from the
depot. Instead of the shutting, siovenly
boy that had left town a few weeks
previously. he was an outstanding
soldier man, a sergeant and a defender
of the nation. His shoulders were
thrown back, his chin was tucked in
and his chest was out. his eye was
clear and he walked with the stride of
one who. had faith in himself.
The very changed appearance of the
boy shocked the people almost to death.
but there was a greater shock coming.
Instead of going back to the junk shop
and the -feed store, Alb went, home and
took an armful of groceries with him.
a motion picture show. Folks crowded
around and congratulated him on his
splendid appearance, and maybe his
chest didn't swell with pride.
I'm pretty good, I'll admit Alb said,
but you ought to see some of our fell
lows The Army's the stuff, tell YOU
Two days later. when Alb left for
camp again, score of persons went to
the train to see him off And after the
train pulled out d lot of old fogies who
had argued against the war were
gathered around. talking about the
wonderful change that had been
wrought in Alb. when Fred Kneif, who
had been against the war and every
thing, spoke up and said: I've been a
fool. and I want to apologize. If the
government can take Teller like
Alb and straighten him up. derned if
l don't think it's got some business
taking the crookedness out of the
kaiser. too The others in the crowd
nodded approval of Freds remarks"
The congressman was silent. The OBJ
server let him dream on for a few
minutes. and then he remarked
Are you wishing that you were a
young man, Congressman"
We'll, no, not exactly" he said, but
I was wondering if the Army, having
taken the crookedness out of Alb,
couldn't do something for me-"
why you don't admit you're crooked,
do you, Congressman" the Observer
said.
mo! no. he hastily replied, but it
just struck me that the Army might
take the crescent shape out of the
front of my vest if I'd stick with it
long enough" THE OBSERVER.
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to move ard Sazes at his companions
with HI cir Of establishment He puts
on his cap. And there is a lace stripe
on the cap. What? An officer? The
other two give a start. They are
stupefed and worried. They have
taken liberties with him. the thought
of which makes them panicstricken-
But he shows no signs of having been
offended. He has the eyes of a man
to them. in a benevolent tone:
Friends, do you know if the 5o3d is
still at s.
They humble:
Lieutenant. We belong to the 520th.~
In giving this answer they straighten
up and both of them think:
We are in a first-class car. What
is going to happen to us?'
But nothing happens. The officer
makes only commonplace remarks, like
Hello! There is a sausage" "a cap
tured balloon), or AN aero! Two
aeros! How interesting They feel
stress. And they look at him with in
creasing amazement.
When the train stops at s.. the
provisional terminus of the line cfor
further on the enemy's shells have
destroyed the track). the officer leaps
out on the platform with the keen
ness of the man who says to himself:
Here / am, at last" He has eyes
full of curiosity, nostrils on edge and
ears which he turns toward the roar
Of the cannon.
A gendarme politely asks him for
his furlough card. He produces II.
But the gendarme. as he ie about TO
Confined -ea Sixth PagA)
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'Gangrene,' says Dinny well, thank
God for the color anyway says he
1T was in poor Garfield's time that
one blusthry seventeenth We were
marrchin' over Rock Creek bridge. The
Joonor Knights o Saint Patrick was
just ahead av US, and young Jerry Cos
tigan was carryin' a green flag. His
father was next to me. Well, anyway.
a gusht O. wind KEN and got under the
flag and fairly swept the lad of av his
feet. Sure he let it blow over into
the creek. Well his father was tarfn'
mad! You're mighty wake says he.
that you couldn't hold on to it IN be
DANCED. says the son, If I let any Irish
flag drown me- says he"
When the outburSt of laughter caused
by this sally had subsidized young Roa-
gan broke in with:
How long are you out. here nov,
Mishter Fogarty?"
BY ganny. it's nearly sfxty-seven
year since 1 KEN thru Castle Garden
a bye av nineteen. 1 KEN in to Wash
inton in April. ffty-one. The mont
rnent was a hole in the ground, and.
this place was purity small. Taylor was
President After him Franklin Pierce
TUX a seat, then Buckanon, and the
next was poor ouid Abe Linkin. Aha,
me bye thin was the days l cud lep
over tin fut wall, and look at me
now. Bat sure there amt a thing
the matter wild me only I'm all crippled
up and -"
Dan came voice from within the
house. come in. yoor dinner is ready"
IT'S Johanna that's calm. think
I'll go in an ate bit. Well. good day
an good loock TO yuh."
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My wife
Your wife,
Photographs OF her
SHOW me them. OH She is large.
She carries herself we'll"
she weighs $50 pounds.
"Ah! That is fine
And there, you see, she is with the
little one.
she is large. too. Did she recog-
niZe you
"Ah, Joseph. She cried to me-:
Pepere, pepere. old poilu.' Poor little
dear l took her w and jumped her.
Then she went TO sleep IN my arms 1
still feel the weight OF her little moist
head OF the crock CT .ay arm. But
stop. when I think of ali that, get too
melancholy
'pon't think of it, old fellow Look
but he doesn't worry about anything"
And he points to the man in the cor
rer, who is fast asleep.
The train starts. The two soldiers eat
and drink. Then the digestion of the
Russian hare added to the jolting of
the car makes them drowsy. They fall
asleep and Snore.
The train rolls on. 1t takes advantage
of their forgetfu,ness. 1t carries them
quickly toward the boches. And when
day breaks and awakens them they
try, see the troops and grumble: We'll,
we're back in the bacchanale."
Dawn, in the life of the soldier, is
almost always lugubrious hour. Only
poets, who have never been to war.
find it cheering. And now the man
who has been curled up in the corner.
mute and motioniess. suddenly begins
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Fogty Relates How St. Patrick Was Honored Other Days

the Avenoo and thru the White House
grounds. The President would stand
on the porch and take a look at US.
We'd continue up to Washington
Cercle. where a shtop would be med
and colleAhun taken up for the poor
little orphans of st. AIMS.
Then we'd start again and keep on
to NJ street, Gargetown, double back
to h and break up. We'd have bare
time to ate the supper and knock the
dust ay our shoes, whin we'd hurry
off to the ball at Odd Fellas' Hall,
where the like O. such jig and reel
dancin' you niver saw would be kept
up until the break O. day"
hausted from the recital. A few draws
on the pipe caused him to catch his
second wind and he resumed:
X
Well, Jim. you should have been
around in thin times. I reminder
when in seventy-four-I think it was
that we had a splindid turn out. We
were marrchin opposite the White
House when little Dinny Downey, who
was mounted, tux a glance at the
statchue av Andy Jackson. and what
did he do but throw his harse back on
his hind legs like Ould Hickory. Well.
you should hear the people on the
sidewalk roar wild the dint O. latin.
That same Diuny was a comtcal JANUS.
The poor felia was taken to Providence
Hospital wild bad fut and the doctor
tould him that gangrene had set in.
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The Kaiser's Dream.

CIT HE kaiser's dream" said SEN
ator the other day. was a dream
of world domination. but hi has al
ready begun to experience a rude
awakening.
THE kaiser is now in exactly the
same position as Wash White, Farmer
Cornelius Husk heard a noise in his
chicken house one night, tiptoed down
with a shotgun. and discovered Wash
in the act of filling a burlap bag with
chickens .'.
"'Wash. you rascal, what are you
doing there? said Corny Husk
''1t's all right, sah,' Wash replied
TIM here on account of dream I had.
sab
"a dream?' You black scoundrel,
what are you talking about?' --.4.
"'Well, sah,' said Wash, 7 dreamed
1 was goin' to have chicken fo' dinner
tomorrow; but see now il hain't
.
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seen. When a very light goes up he
lies still. If he happens to be standing
he stands still. Unless the light is be-
hind him SO that he is silhouetted, he is
invisible to the enemy.
Approaching a body the patrol lies
quiet and watches it for several min
utes, unless it is one he has seen before
and is acquainted with. Because some-
times the man isn't dead. but a per-
fectly live boche patrol lying "doggo."
You can't be too careful.
If you happen to be pussyfooting
forward erect and encounter a Ger
man patrol it is policy to scuttle back
unless you are near enough to get in
one good lick with the persuader. He,
will retreat slowly himself and you
mustn't follow him. because the Brit
ish patrol goes out singly. or, at the
most, in pairs or threes-
The Germans. on the other hand. hunt
in parties. One man leads: two others
follow to the rear, one to each side.
And then two more and two more, SO
that they form a V, like a flock of
geese. Now. if you follow up the lead
man when he retreats you are baited
into a trap and find yourself surround
ed, smothered by superior numbers and
taken prisoner. Then back to the
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other noble patriots who opposed the
war. We had no right in the war and
he would hght CONSUMPTION to the last
he declared; but instead he took to the
woods. Hunger brought him out a few
days later. however. and, within a
week. he was on his way to Camp
Zachary Taylor, Kentucky
lab was sullen as could be when he
arrived in camp, but. fortunately, he
drew sergeant, an old-time soldier,
who knew men and the world. and he
saw possibilities in Alb. So within a
day or so ne called Alb aside.
"'Darwacker,' he said, they tell me
you come from the country and that
you know wood when you see it. Most
of these boys here don't know wood
like you do. and if you'd kind of show
them about how to make tent pegs and
rack them I'd like it nightly. OF
course, you'll just remain a private for
the present, but l shouldn't be surprised
that if you showed adaptability, it
wouldn't be long until you'd have
some stripes on your sleeve
1.-THE effect on Alb was electrical. He
had been singled out as a man who
was better than somebody else. He
was a man among men. He was about
to show whether he was capable of
telling somebody else how to do some
strength of the government behind
him. He went at that work with a vim
and he made good.
1.-The sergeant was a wise old owl, as
j have said. He kept his eye on Alb,
spoke about him to the lieutenant and,
the first thing you know, Alb was a
corporal. And then. last week. he was
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G1WO comrades have run across
each other on the platform of
the railroad station and go to-
q gether to look for places in the
train. But since they have the heavy
hearts of men on leavd returning to the
front they find all the third class cars
uncomfortably full. Wishing to travel
at their ease, they murmur in clammy
voice: .---' -. 49, -
ITS no good here! Let's try the first
class"
They board a first class wagon. one
after the other, and shamelessly settle
themselves. on the soft leather seat.
But in corner of the dim compart-
ment there is already a sleeper, whom
they accost. but who doesn't bulge.
Friend. you're running big risks! Are
you out of your head? What is your
idea? Life is an onion which one peels
with tears. Where do You come from?
But since the stranger makes no re-
ply they ignore him and begin friend
ly chat. 49,,
You should see the mess of stun that
I am taking back"
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Trinkle's woods, back of her house. in the
heart OF winter, gathering up branches of
dead .trees and bark in order to keep her
self from freezing.
Alb made his headquarters down at Dad
Gerherd's feed store and Perlman's junk
shop The morning sun played on both
places and the hay and the hides made
comfortable couches for Alb to sleep OIL
About the only time Alb ever showed
any activity was when there was petty
thievery around town. Because he never
worked, he usually was suspected, and
though nothing ever was proved on him.
IT kept him moving at times to explain
how he lived.
The only time / ever knew him to make
any money was when he raffied off a pig
that belonged to his mother. No one was
present at the drawing except Alb. in so far
as We ever learned. and. strange to say.
he won the pig.
He was so lazy and shiftless that he
didn't even take up eornet playing, and
you know that's some lazy. He was so
incident, in fact, that he never even
fell In love. He guarded against this,
l suppose, because he feared he would
have to work in order to buy her some
gum drops, or something.
Such was the life of pampered ease
that Alb was leading when the draft
law went into effect. He was Just
twenty-five years old. six feet two
inches tall. and weighed 10 pounds,
but as shiftless and hunch- backed a
oelng as you ever saw.
Then, for the first time in his life.
ne began to show interest in life and
Things governmental. Whereas before
ne often had declared that it made lit
tie difference to him when he died, as
NE was . snare and delusion and
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boche trench. where exceedingly I'M
pleasant things are apt to happen.
1t is. in fact, most unwholesome for
British patrol to be captured. I re-
call case in point which I witnessed
and which is far enough in the past
SO that it can be told. 1t occurred. not
at Vimy ridge. but farther down the
line nearer the Somme.
I was out one night with another
man proving in the dark, when en-
countered a Canadian sergeant, who
was alone. There was a Canadian bait
holding the next trench to us, and an
other farther down. He was from the
farther one. We lay in the mud and
compared notes. Once when a light
f1oated down near US I saw his face
and he was a man I knew, though not
by name.
After a while we separated and he
went back, as he was considerably off
his patrol. An hour or so later the
mist began to get gray, and it was
evident that dawn was near I was a
compile of hundred yards down from our
bait. and my man and I made for the
. trenches opposite where we were. AS
We climbed into a saphead / was
greeted by Canadian. corporal. He
invited me to tin Of "char," and I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-17
LID DAN FOGARTY stood leaning
against the picket fence 'front.'
ing his humble home in Foggy
BOTTOM. IT was the first time in

~ Bottom. 1t was the first time in
four months that he had stepped over
the threshold.
The season of hope had arrived, for
there was breath of spring in the air.
With a "T. d. (the only so1ace of his
old age) between his teeth, he was
grinding some 'tobaccy'' between the
palms of his honest, gnarled hands. He
never could get accustomed to the cut
plug, so he stuck to the old style.
:. His gaze was now and then directed
toward the gas house. where. he was
wont to remark, q gev many a hartd
day" He was one of the last few
survivors of generation who were
forced to leave the old land in famine
times and emigrate to this country
while it was yet"fn raw and. unde
veloped state. A network of railroads
had to be built and canals constructed.
1t would appear to be the design of the
Almighty to fashion these sturdy immi-
grants with strong arms and broad
shoulders, enabling them to do the
rough work now being done by GER
tain Latin race of continental Europe.
Down the street came young Jim
Reagan, fine block of d boy, just
few years out from County Clare, with
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ut was the Observers congressman
III who explained the situation He
1 II had lust returned from the sassa-
. q fras belt of Indiana, where he had
been mixing with the home folks 1or
the good of the nation and the coming
election, and he had information on all
matters of state, fresh from the SOIL.
And, by the way, that's the one place
10 eet it. We in Washington here have
the worst warped ideas on earth in re-
gard to how the country really views
the great problems, and only by go
ing back home and talking with the
folks can we get the correct view
point. Thanks to the h c. of L. we
go seldom, so we just go on and on,
getting warpeder and warpeder, as it
were.
But what 1 started to say was that
the congressman had il right.
know he did because he was dressed
in a well ventilated collar that opened
like a runway to a cattle chute. and his
black katyoiid coat When he dresses
that way he is convinced OF something
and is very likely to expound his views
On the floor. When he is in brown
study and undecided he is very likely
TO wear a brown suit, say about
twelve dollar one. Then he has nothing
TO say
yes" he said, you no longer hear
criticism of the draft back home
Folks are satisfied that it is fair And
: do you know to whom a great portion
of the credit for this feeling belongs"
The Observer admitted that he did
mot being quite as undecided on this
point a. he is in the matter of upon
whom Should rest the laurels for the
last election of President Wilson
''wen. sir" the congressman con-
tinued. they belong to Alb Drawback
err"
"You don't mean Hesitation Oar
swhacker, that old town bum out home
who never would work, do you?" the
observer asked, in surprise
IT do the congressman replied.
Not only our Alb Darwhacker, of
course. but the Alb Darwhackers of
every town. little and big. in the coun-
try. / mean the loafers. the buns the
no-accounts and never-do-wells.'
The Observer still expressed doubt, so
the Congressman shifted himself into
an easy position, lighted an Early Au-
.tumn Virginia panatela and told his
story.
1--WE. talked to almost every member OF
tutS HOUSE Slice L saw WnaI happened TO
Alb Darwhacker," he said, land 1 know
that what l saw out home is being wit
messed throughout the country. Hence
an ready to stand on my original state
nent that the credit belongs to Alb and
his kind The change that has come in
them since they have Joined the Army
has brought the good points Of military
training home to them in impressive style
II don't know that you remember all
about Alb. for you haven't seen him in
many years so III just rehearse few
OF his activities and inactiyities for you.
''You viii recall. of course. that as a
emall boy he was just plain no good, Out,
: school when he was thirteen years old
Eent The winter hunting and trapping
and tie summer fishing and swimming
Lived OF his father until the old mar
bed of exposure, sustained while cutting
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The Observer Shows What Army Life Did for Alb Darwhacker

full of hard work, he suddenly perked,
up and took the greatest interest in
living. Ana, despite the fact that never
previously had he read the congress
sional proceedings. nor the war news,
combining bis reading to the barber
shop weekiies, he became profound
particularly as it was expounded by
the little group of willful senators and
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wood to support his no-account son. and
a broken heart over the boys Incidence
After that Alb lived off his mother. He
couldn't be depended upon for anything
except TO show up regularly at his meals,
but would bob through the door at chow
time with the regularity of a cuckoo at
the striking hour. Did he ever help his
mother? Not that any one recalls. Many
is the time that I have seen her off in
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Here is story by Rene Benjamin.
which shows him in one of his grimmer
moods. lie has at TINES a poetic and
almost romantic vein; bat again he can
be ruthlessly realistic in his reaction to
the misery and cruelty of war In this
story Whit Of hunor tempers the IN
sr1rirc realism.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-17

7o 0E left Petite-Saens at
\LN so'cIock Friday night and
\YN commepced our march for
" " what we were told would be
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-06-14
. TAYLOR Township News.

Lyle Krough. who has been at hos
pital several weeks on account OF an
operation for appendicitis, was brought
home Wednesday His recovery has
been very slow and he is not yet able
to sit UP.
A. c. Thompson and Mrs. George
Lewis were called to Crawford county
Tuesday evening on account OF the
death of Mr.. Thompson's sister-in- law.
The Ladies' Aid Society met We'd
nesday with Mrs. r. w. Handorf. The
following officers were installed: Pres
ident, Mrs. Carl Lewis; vice president,
Mrs. Handorf: secretary. Mrs. j. Il.
Long treasurer. Mrs. ]. F. McKibben.
During the past year over a hundred
dollars has been given for benevolent
purposes made from a large amount
of sewing and materials for the Red
Cross.
A large granary and crib is nearing
completion on the II. c. Lounsberry
farm, tenanted by Clarence Sellers.
w. f. McLeland is arranging to build
brick silo 1sx5O feet. 1t will hold
twenty to twenty-five acres Of corn
fodder.
Mrs. Harry Pursel has gone to Wa
terville, Mimi. to spend the summer
at the Pursel cottage in the hope that
a rest may improve her health.
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PRINT CLOTHS HIGH.
Reach Top Levels Of NERVOUSNESS
Is Active.

Reach Top Levels Of NERVOUSNESS
Is Active.
Philadelphia, June 14.-Print cloths
have reached the top levels of the
years. Sales of 3S12 inch 64x6Os were
made this week at 1S& cents for deliv-
cry from July to October Nominally
four yard eighty squares are % cents;
this week IS cents has been paid,
Brown sheeting and drills continue to
be scarce. For forty-inch 2.S5-yard
sheetings, 80 cents has been paid. Bag
manufacturers were reported to have
been active in the medium and light
weight sheetings. Prices asked for the
finest grades<of thirty-two inch combed
yarn dress ginghams for next spring
vary from 3iIa cents to AN cents
yard. These goods not so long ago
were 10 and 20 cents retail.
Wash goods buyers looking ahead
into next spring have also ordered
few Of the higher priced novelties.
Business is also very active on silk
and cotton goods. The counter trade
is active but not on the rush. as the
season OF the year would ordinarily
indicate. The consumer is buying
slowly and with view to substance.
Consequently the higher priced cotton
goods are the ones that are exercising
the counter trade at present.
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Banuor Items.

Cecil Teager, who has been visiting
her mother, Mrs. O. B. McClain. left
Sunday for Duluth, MINI.
Miss Frances Green visited in Mar
shalltown the first of the week.
J. H. Renaud and family were In
Lynnville Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Francis, OF Gil
man, visited at Rev. N. NJ. Hodgins
Tuesday.
Mrs Mary Nicholson. who has been
visiting at the J. r. Macy home, lef,
Thursday for Oskaloosa, where she ex-
poets to make her home.
Mrs Glen Wilson and daughters
Frances and Arlene, Of Minnesota. anG
Mrs. o. J. Meredith and daughter
Janet, of Redfeld. are visiting at the
A. E. Hollingsworth home.
Mrs George Snyder. of Manhattan
Kan, Is visiting at the home of hel
father, Boyd Carey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Macy and sor
James visited at the P. J. Harris home
at New Providence Sunday.
Mrs. II. G. Kinzer and daughter
Marjorie spent a few days this weel
at the John Gaunt home at Clemens.