JUNE n . 1924
Bill Ran Away to
Join the Colors
“W e’re
Coming,
Father
A b ra’am, Three Hundred
Thousand Strong."
By Q R A C t R A D F O R D O L IN
< • br McClsr* Newspaper Syedtcete )
O TH ER and I had taken care of
Bill ever alnce hia father died,
sod him a little «haver two and
a half yeara old.
Anl then hla sweet mother, heart
broken at the death of her young hus
band, dotted her eye* forever.
And seeing aa how Belle (the boy’s
mother) was our only child, we, too,
would have died of grief If It hadn’t
been for Bill.
He bad the bluest eyea and the sun
niest amlla I ever see In a child. And
1 guess we most spoiled him. Least
ways, folks said we dtd.
But how was a body to help It 1 He'd
Just slip hla arm around hla grand
mother's shoulders or give me a
"chummy” nudge with his elbow, and
If the cookie Jar had been robbed or
ha'd sneaked off fishing 'stead o f going
to school— well, you couldn’t sny noth
ing, that's all.
You see, way down Inside he was
loyal and true and generous, If we did
mollycoddle him.
Bill was most twenty when the war
broke ont, and somehow the laugh
seemed to die out of hla vole« and the
smile leave hla face.
Hla grandmother's face went white
every time she looked at him, know
ing well be was brooding.
But Bill, never n word did be say;
no mors did I. I wanted to nee what
stuff the lad was made of.
One by one the lads Joined the col
ors till half the village was gjrme, but
never a word out of Bill.
And pretty soon folks begiai to talk
and sneer at us.
"Well, serves ’em right,” they said.
"They've pampered him and petted him
till he's Just good for nothing.”
And though bla grandmother anil I
bad a deep and abiding faith In the
boy, It ’most broke bar gentle heart.
One night BUI didn’t come home, anil
the morning mall brought a letter froie
him.
Bill’s Farewell Note.
"Dearest folks," It read, " I can'fl
stand thia any longer. I'm going sway.
M
Honed why men should leave peaceful
homes to murder their fellow men.
“One night a vision came to me. I
saw the battlefields of Prance, the an
guish of stricken Belgium. And In the
midst of these scenes stood a man, a
tall, gaunt man. with pleading eye* and
outstretched hands.
" 'W ill you comeT he seemed to say.
And It seemed as I f things were clear
to me. I must think of the other fel
low, that was the answer to my prob
lem.
"And Into my heart came a bit of
song my grnndfatber used to slog It
would serve as an unswer to the sor
rowful man:
“ 'Yes,' I said, ’we're coming, we’re
coming, Father Abra'am, three hundred
thousand strong.' "
And there sat Emily and I, crying
like two children, but no one heard us.
for the people were cheering, and the
band was playing:
"We're coming, Father Abra'am,
three hundred thousand strong."
The graves of four generations of
soldiers are now marked In one ceme
tery at North Baltimore, O. The body
of K M. I'arson, twenty-seven, World
war veteran, was recently placed near
the graves of his three forebears who
had fought In American wars. They
were his grandfather. Tnrllngton B
Carson, who served In the Civil war;
Samuel Carson, hla great-grandfather,
who followed the dag in 1812, and Rob
ert Carson, hla great great-grandfather,
who fought In thy Revolutionary war.
C leveland, Ohio, Jm .e 1 2 .- C a lv in C w /idge was iicihioaltd fui
president on the first ballot in the republican convention today. 1 be
VOt€ WM Coolidge 10Ó5, La F O J I**! t € 3 J, Jubl)8Oh 10.
A
t t
Nellie Brewer 1'rlce Is an occurnts
CALVIN COOLIDGE
FAGE J
HALSEY RAILROAD TIM E
North
South
IN tt 37 a. in. No. 17, 12:15 p. m.
24,
4:27 p m.
23. 7.26 p m.
22,
J:2H a. nt.
21, 11:32 p. m,
By LAURA MILLER
1
Nos. 21 and 22 stop only if flagged.
No. 14, due Halsey at 5:09 p m„ stops
•!• + ♦ + ♦ * ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ • } ■ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
to let ofl passengers from south of
g , 1SII, by Laur* Millar
A WOMAN W HO COUNTS
person. whose youthful huudwrlting Is
balanced by dignified letter paper. The
letter bears the beading: "State ol
Callfcmla, Department of Flunute,
Roseburg.
Iv'o. 23 runs to Engeue only.
No. 21 runs to Eugene, thence Marsh-
iield branch,
Passengeis for south of Roseburg should
lake No. 17 to Eugene and there transfer
to No. 15.
Sacramento.”
1
Of all the artistic and professional
SUNDAY MAIL HOURS
and business women met or written
to, she's the first one who refuses tr.
The deliver? window of the
be beguiled Into any opinions on hei H alsev postoffice is open Sundays
own career or that of “Miss Average from 10:40 to 10:50 a. oi. aud 12:16
Girl." So, though It goes against the
to 12:30 p. in.
grain for me to so much as moke the
Sunday m ail goes out only on
right change for a dollar. I'll try io be
he nortb-bouud 11:37 tra in :
accurate, too I And as a mutter of
Mai! goes south once a day, closing at
fact there's enough romance lu a mere
letterhead, with Nellie Brewer Price’» 11:05 a iu ; north twice, closing 11:25
i. m. and 5:30 p. in. M ail stage for
name second In the list of four per Brownsville. Crawfordsville and Sweet
sons— all otherwise of masculine per Home leaves daily at 6:45 a. in.
suasion— who make up the board of
! control of that marvelous country
kDovvn ns California.
But nguln I
I stand corrected because Mrs. Price In-
H. L Stralvy and wife and E.
I sista there haven't been any outstand-
4, Marstern and aii», in the new
1 ing events In her career.
car, driven by Leroy
There was a university education. Straley
(To some of us a real event.) Fol straley, started lor A lbany yes
lowed a job In her father's fire iusur- f terday. A bout 10 o’clock a load
ance office— because he was in 11) of hay was met. The c a r tu rn e d
health, (W hat wouldn't many a girl out, but wheo an
attem p t was
give to be able to help fath er!) Dur
nade to get back ou th e pavem ent
lug that time she took up shorthand
sm ashup resulted, and all parties
and learned bookkeeping (whethei
ere taken to a hospital.
| with difficulty, nt night school, or at
Mrs. M a s te r s ’ collar b o re w
part of the day's work, her unroinnn
token and she received cuts and
tic self doesn't say). Across tlie bub
ruises. Mr. M arstera’ shoulder
i was a lawyer. He taught Nelli,
vas badly wrenched and he was
Brener Frlco law In exchange fo,
it ou the forehead and under the
I stenographic work. (Again that vali
,e.
S traley hud everal ribs
wonder ubout night study 1)
For the sake of accuracy she ac
-oken and Mrs S tra le y '» back
knowledges that she was the first
id neck were w n nebed and one
woman admitted to tlio bar In New
and severely cut.
Mexico.
(W hat sort of cases came
The accident occurred between
to the first woman lawyer In thal
a rg e n t and A lbanjr. The car is
state so much a part of us, yet so
wreck
close to old Mexico) She doesn'i
tell I) Los Angeles drew her with po
sitions In the woman's city police
court, then In a law-enforcement or
Sanitation, and next In the Taxpay
ers’ Association of California. The
lust kept her at work four years, com
By MARGARET BOYD
piling a digest of all laws affecting
state boards and officts In California.
The knowledge thus gained gave her
(<S) 6y M argaret B oyd.)
special fitness for the work she now
"Carefully then were covered the ens-
does as chief of the division of bud
gets and accounts. The general bud bere that glowed on the hearthstone.*’
— Evangeline.
get for all stale expenditures, which
When the modern householder cov
she recently prepared and submitted
ers his fire at night, It Is to keep th»
to the legislature, that financial
hot-watcr pipes from frecxlng during
scheme on which the state will be run
the night or to keep the house from
for the two yeais to come, totals
becoming unduly chilly overnight.
»110,000,000.
When the farmers of Grand-Pre cov
Remember the small hoys who used
ered their fires at night, tt was to save
scornfully to announce, "Aw, girls
themselves much trouble the next
cun't count” ) For obvious reasons the
morning with flint and steel and tin
girl Luura M ille r used to be had no
der. Lighting a fire In those days was
retort. But think what a small army
no simple matter of lighting a match
of Nellie Prices could say!
—It was a slow, laborious process.
Countless centuries ago man discov
ered that fire would keep him warm
In cold weather, would make his food
easier to chew, would help him In
flaking stone for axes and spearheads
and would aid him In countless other
ways. In the very earliest days men
had to depend on lightning for their
start of fire— hence It was perfectly
natural that the Greeks should have
believed Prometheus stole fire from
•he gods and gave it to man. When
the lightning struck a tree and started
a forest fire, our primitive ancestors
no doubt hunted around In the wake
of the fire for smoldering stumps and
logs. These pieces of smoldering wood
they probably carried to their caves
and used to start fires that were kept
alive for weeks or months at a time.
If through carelessness or accident
the fire was allowed to go out, the peo
ple of (hat early day were compelled
to wait for another lightning storm
to get a fresh supply of Are.
Lnter man discovered that by rut>
hing two pieces of wood together very
briskly he was able to start a fire.
This marked a tremendous step for
ward In the history of fire making,
for It made men Independent of light
ning storms.
Lnter still he discovered tta t by
striking a piece of Iron or steel against
flint he was able to strike fire that
could be caught by a bit of tinder If
he were skillful enough. He also dis
covered that It was possible to start a
fire by focusing the sun's rays through
a piece of glass. Fire could not be
s’ nrted with h burning glass except on
! sunny days, and lighting a fire with
flint and steel was tedious business;
hut both methods were much simpler
than the method that had preceded
them.
The matches that are In use at tha
1 present day are a comparatively re
cent Invention, made possible by ad
vancements In chemistry. Up until
the days of the Civil war and for a
quarter century afterwards they were
looked upon ns something that muse
be used sparingly— and the housewife
who used matches to light a lamp
when she had a fire burning at which
she could light a splinter or a hit of
rolled paper and from that light tha
lamp was regarded as extravagant
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BOYD
"by M argaret Boyd.)
• those who do not think to
deeply, and they wars the greater
number by a hundred to one.”
— Ivanhoe.
Of thoaa who do not think so deeply
there are two classes: those who can
not think and those who do not want
to think.
Not everybody Is able to think deop
ly. We do have menial limitations
though few of us ever study bard
enough or think deeply enough t<
reach them. For some people, how
ever, the mental limits are quickly
reached. Such people are variously
Trust me and forgive me. You'll hear classified as morons, subnormals am
those who cannot "think so deeply."
from me later.
B IL L.”
Those who do not want to think air
Hla grandmother cried and cried till
of two daises: those who are I hz ,
I guess there were no more teurs to
shed. And us for me, 1 confess I was and dislike mentnl exertion, and thos<
who are afraid to think.
a little disappointed lu Bill. 1 hadn’t
Jonathan Swift expressed the »pin
calculated BUI would ran away.
Ion that If people did much thlnklny
Then the gossips begun to talk In
earn cat.
they must go nind; and all of us rec
"Gone to avoid the draft,” said ognlie the fact that there are certalr
Ideas that do not bear thinking shout
some; "pleaded exemption on account
of his grandparents, and then, ashamed
Emerson warned of the risk attendam
to face his neighbors, has fled," said
upon thinking when he wrote: “Be
others.
warn when the greut God lets loos»
Some salil as how they bud seen him
a thinker on this planet. Then all
In a camp on the border. Others wore
things are at risk. It Is as when r
sura they had seen him working ou a
conflagration has broken out In e
farm In a distant state. And all the great city and no mas knows what h
time hla grandmother and I not hear
safe or where It will end. There Is
ing a word from him.
not a piece of science but Its flank artsy
"Joel,” said hla grandmother to me.
be turned tomorrow; there Is not any
"how'll we stand It ) ” And I put tuy
literary reputation, not the so called
anna around her and said:
eternal names of fame, that may not
“Emily, I was Jnat about Bill's age he reviled and condemned The very
when the war with the South came.
hopes of man, the thoughts of blr
Just about as sunny Iwarted. and a
heart, the religion of nations, the man
laughing and a alnglnt; na he was.
ners and morals of mankind are all at
When the force of Ilia liorrlbleu»*» of the mercy of a new generalization
the thing struck me I fell to broixllng
And again: "What Is the hardest fast
like BUI did.
In the world? To think
I wouN pu:
"'W a r Is awful.' I told myself. 1 py.vself In the attitude to look In the
didn’t want to leave peaceful memlrwe «ye an abstract truth, and I cannot
to kill men. You see. my views were I bleach and withdraw on this sld<
selfish, Emily. I wasn't thinking about
and that
1 seem to know what he
the other fellow at all.
meant, who said. 'No man cun see God
"And then one night, still brooding. face to face and live.' "
I fell Into n deep sleep. And In tk at
Before a man can think deeply with
sleep came a vision.
out danger to his community It Is
“I saw a battlefield red with him >d.
that he should be well In
I heard the cries of the dying. And In necessary
formed. Confucius Is credited with
the midst of thia chaos, this burrs r,
the statement that “thought without
stood a man.
learning Is perilous," and there Is ni
"A tall, gaunt man. He looked nt 1.4 ',
doubt that much of our present social
the sorrowful eyea full of pleadlrg',
mid economic unrest Is due to the
and held out hla hands entrrnllngly \
thinking of men who were not sufil
“ 'W ill you come)' he said. A n l,
elently
well Informed.”
Emily, It seemed na If the scales fell*
When thinking on sorlrl and eco
from my eyea. A fragment of a sone
nonilc problems It Is necessary thal
they were Binging then came exultant
the thinker should know not only the
ly Into niy soul.
HBcoretical truth of his subject, bill
“ 'Yea,' I answered him, 'we're com
#he psychology of humanity as well
ing, we're coming. Father Abra'am.
three hundred thousand strong.’
“So, you see. dear,” I told her, "we
don't know how BUI felt about this
war question, and we're Just got to '
live through It 'till we find out, that's 1
all.”
After tbs War Was Over.
Well, one night 'bout three months
after the war was over, there was ter
rlble excitement In the village. A big
ovation to the returned heroes».
" Peart like we'd better go. Joel, so
an folks won't any we'ra ashamed to.”
said Emily.
Never did I see town ball look so
splendid. AU flags and bunting, and a
big band a playing war »■mgs
The mayor stepped forward to In
troduce the speaker of the evening
I can remember Emily's fact, how
ghastly whits It grew Eor the speak
er. young and khaki-dad. with a medal
or two on hla braaat, was smiling right
Into our very eyea. And above the
crowd's approving cbeera Emily cried:
"BUI I"
With a trembllag finger I touched
her wondering lipa.
'‘Hash, dear!” I whispered
And
then the hoy spoke:
"When the war clouds broke, the
horror of It atrnck me to the heart
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