Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-06-22


highest mountains, the icy terrOrs Of
of the desert
But there is one thing left. We shall
learn how love conquered that.
Betty Barstow was very pretty
girl, but spoiled. Perhaps that was
why she merely laughed at Jerome
Gilbert, young superintendent in her
fathers mill. when he fell foolishly,
desperately, pitifully in. love with her.
Betty" he plead, "no one ever loved
as do. You see it's the only thing
live for. Other people have been in
love. or thought they We're, but it was
nothing to this Can't you feel it?
Don't you see it. that I can't live with
out you? You'll find it out some day,
why can't you give me a little HOPPER
Betty laughed. Eventually, why
not now?" she quoted from an adver-
tisement.
Jerome colored. you're cruel, Bet
ty You don't mean it, | know, but it
hurts awfully. 1 can't stand it any
longer. I'm going to enlist and I
hope get killed"
But Betty had heard that bef0ra.
and it worried her not.
He did enlist in the aviation corps.
That was the next thing Betty heard
of him. and he was gone without say
ing good-by.
Then she grew thoughtful. Perhaps
she had been q little unkind. She
really hadn't intended to go so far
She had only meant to tease him
little and make it up the next time
ne came.
Gle doesn't deserve any credit for
going" she said to her father one
morning. "He went because-because
he was cross about something. 1 be-
lieve."
81 don't think So" returned her par
months ago that as soon as we had
certain important work done in the
mill he thought he would go"
ooh" Betty's eyes filled with tears
of humiliation and she left the break
fast table hurriedly.
For the first time in her life Betty
had a rebuff, and with Characteristic
wllfulness, fell in love with the unat-
tainable. And then she discovered that
she had really been in love with Jerry
all along.
Then her mind being serious for the
first time in her life, she began to
think earnestly of the war and of what
she could do tc help. She went in for
Red Cross work for while, and work
ed tirelessly in the WOman's Motor
corps.
But there We're others who could do
her work and she wasn't satisfied. She
wanted something distinctive.
Then one day she read how carrier
pigeons were needed in France, and
how difficult it was to get people to
train them. And instantly she decided
that that was her work.
She went out to their house in the
country with only the caretaker and
his wife for company and started out
with twelve birds.
II was interesting work and kept her
busy. She would take the birds
short distance away from the farm at
first in her motor car, and let them fly
back. Then gradually she increased
the distance, letting the birds fly alone.
At last it got impossible for her to
take them herself, as the distance grew
greater, and she would ship them to
friends in different cities to release.
They came back unfailingly, always
with their little brass tubes containing
a friendly note. White Wing was the
swiftest of them all. Betty was very
proud of him.
One day she sent a message TO her
self, or rather TO Jerry. She had been
so lonely all week, and the solitude Of
the country gave her plenty of time to
think.
"Oh. Jerry, Jerry, if You would only
come back" she cried nightly on her
pillow. I'D never let you go away
again."
The next time she went to the city.
her father was shocked at her appear
ance. you're working too hard with
those birds" he said. "Pack up and
Wen both 60 to the seashore for
week. They can get along for week
without yoa."
SO Betty went, but she took her
birds to test them in five hundred
mile fight home. the longest they had
ever made.
And that was whom she sent the
message to herself, or rather to jerry,
for on the little slip of paper she tuck
ed into the tube on White Wings leg
was written: "Oh, Jerry dear, come
home. I do love YOU. Betty"
Now arctic ice. ana burning sands,
gas bombs and trench knives not hav-
ing haitled love, such a thing as few
hundred feet in the air was not going
to get the best of the willy little fellow.
Jerry was out on a trip, flying low,
when suddenly something hit him in
the breast. There was a tutter OF
white. and behold, pigeon lay stunned
by the impact. in his lap. Here was
roruopee' Terrv keen for adventure,