The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-12-19
TAX of Mother Before Death
Ends Suffering.
ARE BRAVE TO The FINISH
rate Singles Best-Iiked Men Of D
company to Be Struck by Same Ger
man missiIe-Were Good Pals, Who
Always Did a Little More Than
Their Share of the Workable Side
by Side.

IN TWO brothers. They were rushe
+ to the nearest hospital, MORTAL
. wounded, writes Frank J. Taylor, Unit
ed Press correspondent
, They were just regular, hard-fight
ing "doughboys," liked by all of tn
men in ID company because they wer
good pals who always did a littl
more than their share of the work
Every man in the company admire,
the brothers because he had seeI
them behave bravely when it was hare
to be brave.
Out of all the men in d company |
was hard to see why fate had singled
these two to be struck by one German
shell. Fate makes no explanations, Sc
the doctors in the hospital operated
sldllfully and quickly on the brothers
and placed them in beds, side by side
in ward full of wounded.
For time both men lay there how.
ering between life and death, and there
was uncertainty whether or not they
would ever gain consciousness.
Rega;ns His Senses.
Finally one of them stirred slightly
opened his eyes and gradually came to
his senses. A motherly nurse bent
over him and eased his pain as much
as possible. Then she whispered to
him that his brother was on the next
cot, but still unconscious.
The conscious brother looked dazed,
but gradually an enlightened look came
! into his eyes as he recollected what
happened in the last three hours. He
looked across to the next cot, family
reached his arm toward his brother
and whispered:
Joe, how are your"
The other brother stirred slightly
and gradually regained his senses. The
nurse gently eased him, as he looked
around with puzzled look, and finally
told him:
Here's your brother on the next
cot"
The second brother looked over with
panied Amusement.
"What are you in bed for, George?
Are you hurt. too?"
"Yes, joe; they say the same shell
got us both"
'Are you hurt badly. George?"
81 think so, Joe; 1 feel awful weak.
How are you? Does it hurt you lot,
boy?"
II don't know as it does. I'm weak,
too. But there's another feeling l can't
describe"
what Is it, Joe?"
81 dunno, George. But, remember
the things mother used to tell us when
we were little, and fought to get on
her lap? 1 keep hearing her telling us
Sunday school stories, George. over
and over, just the way she used to do
it years ago."
eve were on our way to mass when
it hit us, Joe. Maybe that's why you
hear mother telling Bible stories. / |
can hear her now, too, joe"
II wish she were here, don't you"
81 should say so, Joe. Maybe the |
nurse of some one will talk to us the
way mother used to. We ought to do
IT, any way. DttduSC IL SOinClillbS nap
pened to either OF US, mother would
like to know we were all right"
81 think so, too, but say-George."
"Yes?"
"If'I should die. you'll be careful so
you can go back and look after mother,
won't your"
THAT'S promise. Joe. want you
% make the same one to me-"
Lets shake on it, George"
They reached their arms across the
space between the beds and clasped
lands.
Both Die for Country.
I'm not afraid" said Joe, "if you
ome through all right, George. | wish
We didn't have TO leave u company,
hough but even if we get well, we
couldn't go back with the
oys. I'm afraid I'm pretty low,
;eorge, but don't you worry. There's
o pain now"
I'm not in pain, either, George, but
wfully sleepy. We don't have to wor-
V about Company ID, because the
oys1l never lose chance to get a
erman.'
"That's right, too. 1 feel myself go
lg to sleep; so good-by, joe"
"Good-by, George"
The brothers drowsed back into their
illows. and the old hospital chaplain,
no had just arrived, made his services
simple prayer for two brothers who
ere never to awake from the sleep
icy were entering.
In a certain New England town a r
ave mother has already been told by
ncIe Sam how the nation appreciated |
q brave sons she reared, taught and
crificed ito make the world decent
ace to live In"
In a certain New England regiment
the front In France every man In d ia
apAny fias promised himself and hts s,
sist that d company will never Ice 81
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