The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-10-16
BY DON RYAN

III buN h1hN
There remained an hour 20 dis.
pose OF after he had effected a shift
Of trains In the Union station at
Columbus. He wandered Idly thru
the waiting room. observing the syn.
thesis Of contrasts--of old and new
which hubbled in this caldron.
Here the paths OF the smart New
York salesman. touring tho corn.
lands. crossed those Of tho tow.
headed farm laborers in cNnking
shoes who we're working their way
Northward with succeeding haryests.
At tho entrance OF tho waiting
room table had been placed and
here was a sign. Information for
o. $. u. Students" Two Y. W. c. a.
girls attended. Tho girls were both
pretty. with the bloom OF tho corn.
lands on their cheeks.
But they had left an otner rural
herltages behind. Their little tailor.
ed turbans were Tilted over gray
eyes that challenged every arrival.
Summer furs caressed their soft,
white necks. They both wore dresses
Of figured silk.
And the freshmen. fresh from the
cornfields, stood stammcring and
biushing before them.
Just inside the waiting room a
family OF Dunkards sat on bench
eating--as Dunkaris always do in
Central Ohio while waiting for
trains.
The husband and father was tho
reincarnation OF figure that has
almost passed from actual exist.
ence in the rural communities
the bewhIskered farmer. He was,
in fact. perfect replica OF that
old Autograph which used to adycr.
tise a popular make of pillow.
The man wore a broad .brlmnred
black hat. Only his upper lip and
the tops of his cheeks had been
shaved. allowing his dark. curly
beard to grow luxuriantly over his
chin and up under his jaws 10 his
ears. His pepper.and-salt suit
without buttons--for buttons are
sinful since Jesus and the apostles
wore them not--was fastened with
hooks and eyes.
His wife, in a close.fitting black
dress. had black bonnet that com.
pIetely concealed her face and was
tied under the chin. ON her knee
she held a baby. The father held
another. Between the parents sat
smaller edition Of the man, boy
Of G, dressed in long trousers, a
jacket that hooked UP to his chin
and straw sailor with ribbon
such as used to be seen in produc.
lions Of ''Pinafore."
In this costume the Dunkards
plowed the rich Ohio bottoms and
helped runaway slaves get across to
Canada before Harriet Beecher
stowe. down in Cincinnati. had
written her book called Uncle
Toms Cabin" and before the first
shot at Fort sumpter had precipl.
tated the civil war.
A page from the Ohio Of tho
present, and page from the Ohio
Of the past-the coquettish coeds at
the information table. the Dunkards
picking chicken bones inside the
waiting room.
He strollcd out II tho station and
turned IN High st. IL was all fam.
iliar ground, trodden again for the
first time since his discharge from
tho army with an Ohio regiment.
The state house bulged Impress
lively In It's green close. where the
grass is dotted with the atroclous
monuments or the sos. rs he
crossed the street he saw pro-
cesslon mounting tho side steps Of
tho capitol.
He joined the crowd and found
himself before company Of war
veterans, thanked by two bands.
The company WIS made up Of men
from every regiment in the state.
Tho pale faces Of factory workers,
the tanned forchcads OF farmers