St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1922-03-11

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the difference? I'm not condemnin,
anybody; I'm only lamenting."
What about?'
about all of you that want war %
My goly!" Ramsey exclaimed
You don't think those Dutchme1
were right to drown babies and"
No! l think they We're ghastl,
murderers! l think they were detesta
BILE and fiendish and monstrous and
well, then, my goodness! What dc
you want?"
II don't want war!"
"You dOn't7"
Il want Christianity!" she cried. 81
can't think Of the Germans without
hating them, and SO today, when all
the world is hating them, keep nv.
self from thinking Of them as much as
| can. Already half the world is full
OF war; you want to go to war to
make things right, but 1t won't; it will
only make more war!"
swell, L"
Don't you see what you've done.
you boys? She said. Don't you see
what you've done with your absurd
telegram? That started the rest: thew
thought they all had to send kilograms
like that"
We'll, the faculty"
"Even they mightn't have thought
Of it If it hadn't been for the first one.
Vengeance Is the most terrible
thought; once you put it into peoples
minds that they ought to have it. 1t
runs away with then."
"Well, it isn't mostly vengeance
we're after, at all. There's lot more
to 1t than just getting even with"
She did not heed him. you're all
blind! You don't see what you're do
ing; you don't even see what you've
done to this peaceful place here.
You've filled it full Of thoughts of fury
and killing and massacre"
"Why. no." said Ramsey. 1T was
those Eutch did t!Iat to us; and. he
sides, there's more to it than YOU
mo. there isn't she interrupted.
Its just the old brutal spirit that ma
tons Inherit from the time they were
only tribes it's the tribe spirit. and
an eye for an eye and a tooth for
tooth. It's those things and the love
OF flghting-men have always loved
to fight. Civilization hasn't taken il
out OF them; men still have the brute
In them that loves to f1ght!'
Il don't think So" said Ramsey.
Americans don't love to fight; don't
know about other countries, but we
don't. OF course, here and there
there's some fellow that likes to hunt
around for scraps, but I never saw
more than three or four in my life that
acted that way. OF course a football
team often has scrapper or two on
1t, but that's different"
NO." she said 81 think you all
really love to fight"
Ramsey was reused to become arg1,-
mentative. 81 don't see where you get
the idea. Colburn isn't that way, and
back at school there wasn't a single
boy that was anything like that"
"What!' She stopped, and turned
suddenly to face him.
whats the matter?'' he said, stop
ping, too. Something he said had
startled her, evidently
"How can you say such thlng?'
she cried. you love to fght!"
"AIe?"
'You do! You love fighting. You
always have loved fighting"
He was dumfounded. "Why, never
had fight in my life!''
She cried out in protest of such pre-
garication. 5..---
swell, l never did," he insisted,
mildly.
"Why, you had a fight about mel"
"No, didn't"
"With Wesley Bender!"
Ramsey chuckled. ..That wasn't a
ight!'
ut wasn't?"
"Nothing like one. We were just
,uyin' him about-about gettin' slicked
'p, kind Of because he sat in front of
'ou; and he hit me with his book strap
md chased him off. Gracious, no;
hat wasn't a fight! !"
''But you fought Lfnski only last
ALL"
Ramsey chuckled again. THAT
wasn't even as much like fight as the
me with Wesley. I just told this
.fnski was goin' to give him punch
n the Sill just told him to look
ut because was goin' to hit him, and
hen I did it, and waited to see if he
7anted to do anything about it, and he
idn't, That's all there was to it, and
wasn't any more like fighting than
than feeding chickens is"
She laughed dolefully. 1T seems
D me rather more like 1t than thatl |"
swell, it wasn't"
They had begun to walk on again,
nd Ramsey was aware that they had
assed the "frat house," where his
inner was probably growing cold. He
as aware of this, but not sharply or
lsistcntly. Curously enough, he did
OF think about it, He had begun to
nd something pleasant in the odd in
erview, and in walking beside girl,
ven though the girl YVES Dora Yocum.
e made no attempt to account to
lmself for anything so peculiar.
For willie they went slowly to- ]
ether, not speaking, and without des-
nation, though Ramsey vaguely took !