The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-30
HEARD WAR CALL
CANADIANS OF ALL STATIONS LIE
UNDER FLANDERS SOD.
Odd Assortment From Ash Man to
Millionaire, They Threw Aside Cares
of Peaceful Citizenship and Became
Crusaders-Many Made Over.

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Saturday Night: The other night /
was running over certain of my familiar
circle who had gone to the war Frank.
lyn Gadsby writes. An odd assortmen.
they were, from ash man to millionaire.
but all throbbing to the same grand
ideal. The call came and the fighting
blood of their faraway, dim ancestors
surged in their veins. They threw of
their duh cares of peaceful citizenship
and became crusaders.
To begin with, there was Ruggles. the
odd job man. Rugglcs was British born,
and that was hard Luck. over in Eng
land he was a bookkceper, and the caste
system hurt him horribly. He felt that
a mans a man for a that, and became
a bitter Radical. Not getting any
farther ahead that way, Ruggles came
to Canada, where all men are supposed
to be equal. As matter of fact, there
is equality nowhere. Even in heaven
the angels differ from one another in
glory as one star differs from another
But equality was the hluehird Rugglcs
was chasing and he thought to find it
in Canada.
lie found instead hard fare cheap
lodging houses, menial tasks and too
much whisky. He was what Won might
call flabby and when he swept the eel.
lar he puffed a great deal. Poor Ruggles
was fast running to seed when the
war came along and made "a man of
him. The old lion called and Ruggles
shifted the air. lie tried to excuse him.
self by saying that it was great
chance to go 'ome," but the fact is
that Ruggles shed his bitterness like
a garment and became a flaming pa.
triot the second week after the war
broke out.
lie came 70 sec me three months after
,ho dorrod tb, uniform, now Rupples
ovo. cIoo, chin nm sbouIders brocod a
soldier Of the king. lie went away in
the third draft and he promised to write.
lie did write twice. but not after a GER
tain battle on the Somme where a Gen.
man bullet pierced his heart Thus was
Ruggles' short. sad. sordd life glorried
bv it's gallant finish. He died for many
fine things-for his native land, for
Canada for freedom and humanity.
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