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

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war that ever was fought was always
founded on fear and hate. She said
II the Germans wanted to fight us we
ought to go to meet them and tell
them we wouldn't fight"
what did you say?"
"Nothin'. kind O started to-but
what's the use? She's got that in her
mead. Besides, how are you goin' to
argue about thing with a person
that's crying about It? tell you, Fred.
| guess we got to admit, after all that
ole girl certainly must have a lot Of
heart about her, anyway. There may
not be much fun to her-though of
course wouldn't know hardly any
way to tell about that-but there
couldn't be hardly any doubt she's got
lot Of feeling. Well, and then she
went on and said old men made wars,
but didn't fight; they left the fighting
to the boys, and the suffering to the
boys Mothers
"Yes!' Fred exclaimed, and upon
that he turned, free of mirth for the
moment. THAT'S the woman of it, I
guess. Send the old men to do the
fghtingl For the matter Of that.
guess my father'd about thousand
times rather 60 himself than see me
and my brothers 60, but Fathers 80
fat he can't stoop! You got to be able
to stoop to dig trench, guess! Well,
suppose we sent our old men up
against those Dutchmen; the Dutch
men would just kill the old men. and
then come after the boys anyway, and
the boys wouldn't be ready, and they'd
get killed, too; and then there
wouldn't be anybody but the Dutchmen
left, and that'd be one fine world.
wouldn't It'll"
'Yes,' said Ramsey. "Course I
thought of that"
did you tell herr"
mo" :
''What did you sayr
"Nothin'. l couldn't get started any
way, but, besides, what was the usel
But she didn't want the old men to 60;
she didn't want anybody to go.''
"What did she want the country to
do7' Fred asked, impatiently.
"Just what 1t has been dom, sup
pose. Just let things simmer down,
and poke along, and let them do what
they like to us"
Il guess sop' said Fred. .'Then,
afterwhfle, when they got some free
time on their hands, they'll come over
and make it really interesting for ug
because they know we won't do any
thing but talk. Yes, guess the way
things are settling down ought to suit
Dora. There isn't goin' to be any
war" :
"She was pretty sure there was,
though" Ramsey said, thoughtfuuy.
"Oh, Of course she was then We
all thought so those few days."
mo. She said she thought 1t prob'ly
wouldn't come right away, but now 1t
was almost sure to. come sometime.
She said our kilograms and all the talk
and so much feeling and everything
showed her that the war thought that
was always in people somewhere had |
been stirred up SO It would go on and /
on. She said she knew from the way /
she felt herself about the Lusitania
that feeling like that in her would |
never be absolutely wiped out as long |,
rs she lived. But she said her other ]
feeling about the horribleness of war
.aught her to keep the first feeling
rom breaking out, but with other peo-
Die 1t wouldn't; and even IL war didn't
break out right then, 1t would always
'e ready to, all over the country, and
sometime 1t would, though she was
,oin' to do her share to fight 1t, her
self, as long as she could stand. She
sked me wouldn't be one OF the ones
0 help her."
He paused, and after moment
red asked, well? What did you say
o that?"
"Nothtn'. started to, but"
Again Fred thought it tactful to
urn and look out the window, while
he agitation Of his shoulders be-
rayed him.
CONTINUED next week.