RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF l atiiiiiinriniiiiniiiiii!tiiiiiimiumiiniiirmuuiintimiiimimit iitimimiiimmiimiiimmiimmiitiniiiimiiniiitnmuiinitiiLg Ramsey Milholland By BOOTH TARKINGTON iiiiiiiiiifiiiiiititiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiitiiiiiiiiiitiliiiiiiiiiitiitiliiiitititiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiitiiifiiiiiiitiiiiiititiiiiiiiitiiiiiiitiuiiiir? THE BOY, FATHER OF THE MAN. Here's anoUier of those Booth Trklnton boy-and-slri stories that set everyone laufhln and Uyln over again the day of youth. Tills one U much Ilka "Panred and "Seventeen" and "The Oriole." Tt' different, too, In that tt carries Ramsey MlUolland and Dora Ye cura through school and college to early maturity In the World War. 80 It's serious as wU m runny, and It's ono Of Booth Tar klnaton'S best of It kind. That's enough. 30 CHAPTER I. When Johnnie cosies marohlng home a rain, Hurrah I Hurrah I We'll give mm a hearty welcome then, Hurrah I Hurrah I The men with cheers, the boys with shouts, Tho ladles they will all turn out. And we'll all foel fray, whoa Johnnie comos tnurchlnc home again I Tlio old man and tho llttlo boy, bis grntidfion, Bat togothcr la the shade of the big walnut tree In the front yard, watching tbo "Decoration Day Pa rnde," as It passed up the long street; and when the last of tho veterans was out of sight the grandfather mur mured tbo words of tho tunc thai come drifting buck from tho now distant band at tho head of tho procession. "Did you, Grandpa?" tho boy asked. "Did I whut?" "Did you all feel gay when tho army got homo?" "It didn't got. home nil at once, pre cisely," tho grandfather explained. "When the war was ovor I suppose wo felt relieved, more than anything else." "You didn't feel so gay when the war was, though, I guess 1" tho boy ventured. "I guess we didn't" "Wero you scared, Grumlpn? Were you ever scared tho Johnnies would win?" "No. We weren't ever afraid of that." "Well, weren't you ever scared your self, Grandpa? I mean when you were In a bnttle." . "Oh, yes; I was." Tho old man laughed. "Scnrcd aplenty I" "I don't see why," tho boy said promptly. "I wouldn't bo scared In n battle." "Wouldn't you?'? "'Courso not I Grandpa, why don't you march In tho Decoration Day pa rade? Wouldn't they let you?" "I'm not nhle to march any more. Too short of breath and too shaky In the legs and too blind." "I wouldn't euro," said tho boy. "I'd be In the parade nnywny, If I was you. If I'd been In your place, Grandpa, and they'd let mo be in tlint pnradc, I'd been right up by the band. Look, Grandpa I Watch me, Grandpa I This ' Is the way I'd be, Grandpa." Ho rose from the garden bench whero they sat, and gave. a complex Imitation of what had most appealed to him ns tho grandeurs of the pro cession, his prancing legs simulating those of the horse of tho grnnd mar shal, whllo his upper parts rendered the drums nnd bugles of tho band, ns well aa tho olllcers nnd privates of the mllltlu company which had been a fea ture of the parade. Tho only thing lie left out was tho detachment of veterans. "Putty-boom I Putty-boom I Putty-boom-boom-boom 1" ho vociferated, as the drums and then as the bugles: "Tn, ta, ra, tarn 1" lie addressed his restive les: "Whon, there, you Wbltoyl Geo I Haw I Git up I" Then, waving nn Imaginary sword : "Col lumn right I Fnrwud march I Zlnltl Carry harms I" He "carried arms." "Show-dlcr harms I" no "shouldered arms," and returned to his seat. "That'd be me, Grandpa. That's the, way I'd do." And as the grandfather nodded, seeming to agree, a thought recently dismissed returned to tho mind of the composite procession and ho asked: "Wcl'i why weren't you ever afraid the Johnnies would whip the Unions, Grandpa?" "Ob, wo knew they couldn't." "I guess so." Tho little boy laughed disdainfully, thinking his question sat isfactorily answered. "I guess those ole Johnnies couldn't whipped a Heal Thoy didn't know how to tight any at all, did they, Grandpa?" "Ob, yes, they dial" "What?" Tho boy was astounded. "Weren't they all Just reg'lar ole cow ards, Grandpa?" "N," said the grandfather. ''They war pretty fine soldiers." "They were? Well, they ran away whatever you began' ahootln' at 'em, didn't tney?" "Sometimes tbey did,' but moat times they didn't. Sometimes they fought Ilka wildcats and sometimes wa were the onei that ran away." "But the Johnnies were bad men, weren't they, Grandpa?" "No." The boy's forehead, customarily va cant, showed some little vertical ahadowa, produced by a straggle ta think. "Well, but" he began slowly. Listen, Grandpa, listen here I Yon aid jrou said you never get scared li ole Johnnies were sola' to win." . "The, did. wlA iwatfct of ta." said I tho grandfather. "They won a good many battles." "I mean, you said you never got scared they'd win the war." "No, we were never afraid of that." "Well, but If they were good men and fought like wildcat, Graadpa, nnd kep winning battles and every thing, how could that bo? How could yeu help beln' scared they'd win the war?" The grandfather's fcoble eyes twin kled brightly. "Why, we knew they couldn't, Ramsey." At this, the llttlo vertical shadows on Ramsey's forehead became more pronounced, for he had succeeded In thinking. "Well, they didn't know they couldn't, did thoy?" he argued. "They thought they were goln' to win, didn't they?" "Yes; I guess thoy did. But you see thoy wero wrong." "Well, but" Itnmsey struggled. "Listen 1 Listen here, Grandpn I Well, anyway, If they never got scurcd we'd win, and nobody got scared they'd win well, I don't sec" "You don't see what?" But llnmscy found himself unable to continue his concentration. "Oh, nothln' much," ho murmured. "I see." And his grandfather laughed again. "You mean: If tho Johnnies felt Just ns sure of winning tho wnr as wo did and kept winning battles, why shouldn't wo over have had any doubts wo wero going to win? Tlint'u it, Isn't It?" "I guess so, Grandpa." "Well, I think it was mostly because wo wero certain that we were right." "I see," said Ramsey. "Tho Johnnies know they wero on the side of the "I Wouldn't Care," Said tho Boy. "I'd Bo In the Parade Anyway, If I Was You." devil." But nt this, the grandfather's laugh was louder than It had been be fore, and Ramsey looked hurt. "Well, you can Inugh If you want to I" he objected In an aggrlovcd voice. "Any way, tho Sunday school sup'lntcndent told us when pcoplo knew thoy wero on the devil's sldo they always" "I dare say, I daro say," the old man Interrupted, a little Impatiently. "But In this world mighty fow people think they're on the devil's side, Ramsey. The South thought tho devil wus on our sldo, you sec." "Well, that kind o' mixes It all up more'n ever." "Suppose you look nt It this way: The South was lighting for what It believed to bo Us right to be a coun try by Itself; but we were fighting for 'Liberty and Union, now nnd forover, ono nnd Inseparable.' There's tho rea son wo had tho certain knowledge that wo were going to win tho wnr. How plain nnd slmplo It Is I" Ramsey didn't think so. He had be gun to feel bored by tho conversation, and to undergo the oppression ho us ually suffered in school. Tho earnest old votco of tho veteran was only a sound In the boy's cars. "Boom" Tho veterans had begun to Arc their cannon on the crest of tho low hill, out nt tho cemetery; and from a little way down the street como tho rat-a-tat of a toy drum nnd sounds of a fifo played execrably. A file of chil dren In cocked hats modo of newspa pers came marching Importantly up tho sidewalk 'under tho maplo shudo trees; and In advance, upon n veloci pede, rode a tln-sworded personage, shrieking Incessant commands but not concerning himself with whether or not any military obedlenco wns there by obtained. Here was a revivifying effect upon yountr Ramsey: his shier. gard eyelids opened electrically; ho leaped to his fcot ond, abandoning his grandfather without profneo or apolo gy, sped across tho lawn and out of the gate, charging headlong upon tho commander of the company. "Yon get off that 'loclpede, Wesley Bender V he bellowed. "You gimme that sword I Whaf rights you got to go inn Mintaln o' my army. I'd like tn know I Who got up this nnJiy, in the first, xjiace. ra hk iw "wi i uiu Copyright by DouMedsy. Purs 6 Coenpsny f 5 myself, yestcrd'y afternoon, and yon get back in lino or I won't let you b'iong to it at nil I" Tho pretender succumbed; he In' stnntly dismounted, being out-shouted and overawed. On foot he took his place In tho ranks, whllo Ramsey be camo sternly vociferous. "In-tentlon, company I Farwud march I Col-lumn right I RIght-showdler harms I Haiti Far-wud march. Carry harms" Tho army went trudging nway un der tho continuous but unheeded fire of orders, nnd presently disappeared round a corner, leaving tho veteran chuckling feebly under his walnut treo and alone with the empty street. All trace of what ha had said seemed to have been wiped from tho grandson's mind; but memory has curious ways. Ramsey had understood not n fifth nor n tenth of his grandfather's tnlk, nnd nlrcndy ho had "forgotten" all of It yet not only wero there many, many times In flio boy's later life when, without ascertainable cause, ho would remember wordB nnd sentences spokcu by the grandfather, though the lis tener, half-drowslly, had heard but tho sound of nn old, eornest voice nnd even the veteran's meaning finally took on n greater definlteness till It became, In the grandson's thoughts, something clear and bright and beauti ful that he knew without being Just sure where or how he had learned It. CHAPTER II Ramsey Milholland sat miserably In school, his conscious being consisting principally of a dull hnte. Torpor was a llttlo dispersed during a fifteen minute Interval of "Music," when he and nil the other pupils In the largo room of the "Five B. Grade" snug re peatedly fractions of what they cnun elated as "The Star Spun-guh-hullert Banner"; but afterward he relapsed Into the low spirits nnd animosity nat ural to anybody during enforced con finement under Instruction. No allevia tion was accomplished by an Invnder's temporary usurpation of the teacher's platform, n brisk and unsympnthetlenl ly cheerful young woman mounting thereon to "tench German." For n long time mathematics and German had been about equally re pulsive to Ramsey, who found himself dally In tho compulsory presence of both ; but ho wns gradually coining to rcgurd German with the greater hor ror, because, ufter months of patient mental resistance, he at last began to comprehend thnt the German langungo has sixteen special and particular ways of using the German article corre sponding to thnt flexlhlo bit of a word so easily managed In English the. What In tho world wus the use of linvlng sixteen ways of doing a thing thnt could Just ns well be dono In one? If tho Germans had contented them .elves with Insisting upon sixteen use less variations for Infrequent words, such as hippopotamus, for Instance, Rnmspy might have thought tho affair unreasonable but-not necessarily vi cious It would be easy enough to avoid talking about a hippopotamus If he ever had to go to Germany. But tho fact that tho Germans picked out n nnd tho nnd ninny other llttlo words In uso nil the time, nnd gave every ono of them sixteen forms, and expected Ramsey Milholland to learn this dizzy ing uselessness down to the last crotchety detail, with "When to employ Which" ns a nausea to prepare for tho flnnl convulsion when one didn't uso Which, becnuse It wns nn "Exception" there was n fashion of making easy matters hard that was merely hellish. Tho teacher was strict but cnthu slnstlc; she told the children, over and over, thnt the German wns n beautiful language, and her fnce always bad n glow when sho said this. At such times tho children looked patient ; they supposed It must bo so, becnuso sho was an adult and their teacher; and they believed her with the snmo man ner of believing which those of them who wont to Sunday school used there when tho Sunday school teachers were pushed Into explanation of vorlons mnttcrs set forth In the Old Testa ment, or gavo reckless descriptions of hoaven. Thnt Is to soy, tho children did not challenge or deny; already they had been driven Into hnblts of resignation and wero passing out of tho age when childhood Is nble to re ject adult nonsense Ramsey Milholland did not know whether tho English Inngunge wns beautiful or not; ho never thought nbout It. Moreover, though his deeper inwnrds hated "German," ho liked his German teacher, ond It wns plensant to look nt hor when that glow samo upon her face. "You bet your life I hato her. 'Teacher's Pet that'a what I calf her." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Limited Rule. "Believe yourself happy and you arei happy," says a writer. Unfortunately,) that rolo doesn't work when n mani thinks he is wise, for then he Is other wise. Ono humble cottnge on enrth Is J better than a dozen castles in the sir. "Ufie AMEPJCAN LEOON (Copy for Tula Department Supplied by tho American l.Blnn New Service.) WILL WRITE POST'S HISTORY Rupert Hughes, Author, Will Chron Icle Happenings to Members of Robert Stowe Gill Body. The history of one American Lcgloa post will bo written by no less n light than' Rupert Hughes. With nn eyo to his versn. tllo p c n, mem bers of tho Rob ert Stbwe GUI post of tho Le gion in New York, hnvo mado tho author their historian. T h o membership of the post Is mado up entirely of members of tho Lamb's club writers nnd nctors for the most part. "Long In tlnio and short In Impor tnnco" Is tho wny Mr. Hughes de scribes his military career. As a mat ter of fact ho wns a fairly important soldier. He started us u private In tho Seventh regiment In 1807. Ten years Inter he wns offered n lieuten ant colonelcy, which ho did not ac cept. IIo served on tho Mexican bor der ns n captain, and only denfness kept him from service nbrond during tho World war. During tho raising of troops in New York ho served as adjutant general, whero his deafness was nu asset rather than a liability with the pacifists tooting their tin whistles, and then ho beenmo a cap tain In the Intelligence service, being lust ns Intelligent when denf ns when sharp of hearing. "I Joined tho L'eglon," Mr. Hughes wrote, "becnuso I bcllovo In Its prin ciples and I believe It to bo ono of the most Important organizations in tho country." Mr. Hughes has recently como into public notice for his stand against censorship. HIGH ON LEGION HONOR ROLL Minnesota Newspaper Man Wrote 3, 236 Personal Letters to "Home" Workers During World War. Ono of tho world's most enthusias tic letter writers is M. W. Grimes, edi tor of the Lo Sueur (Minn,) News. For his re markable service as "sclf-appolnt-e d correspond ent" during the wnr, he stands high on the hon or roll of the Minnesota d e partment of the Amorlcnn Legion. I,e Sueur nnd vicinity sent 230 man nnd seven women to tho colors. Editor Grimes sat down nnd wroto them 3,230 personul letters whllo they wero nwny from home, an average of, ono letter n month for each fighter or nurse. In addition he mailed n -copy of tho hometown paper to each of them every week. Tho letters wero not tho "Denr-JIm-I-remnln-yours-truly" variety ; they contained tho bits of "homo gossip" nnd local color for which the doughboys wero willing to give their Inst cigarette. When the veterans returned, Editor Grimes assisted In tho formation of a post of tho American Legion nnd de voted nn entire edition of the News to reproducing tho pictures 'of every Lo Sueur boy that had lost his life In tho war. AN EYE ON NEXT CONGRESS Official Washington Is Speculating on How Many Ex-Service Men Will Be Returned. OIHcla'l Washington Is wondering how mnny ex-scrvlco men nro to bo returned to congress nt the election next fall. Speculation Is rife, with tho bonus controversy nt full tilt. Veterans of the World wnr already havo formidable strength in tho house, 31 scats being occupied by former service men, according to a canvass by tho American Legion. Tho sennto has two veterans Senntor Newberry of Michigan, and Senator Elklns of West Virginia. Twenty-ono stntes are rep resented by cx-servlco men In con gress, New York lending with four, Massachusetts and Tennessee being second wlh three each. Far-sighted persons hnvo hazarded the opinion that when the votes nro counted In November, It will be found thnt the number of ex-sol dlcrs In the houso has been materially Increased. Only Ex-Servlco Men Wanted. When Edward Ilincs, millionaire merchant of Chicago, wants help In his lumber yards, ho sends to tho Amer ican Legion. Ills employment olllcers have been Instructed to. hlro only vet erans of tho war In the yurds. nines Is tho donor of n memorial hospital at Maywood, III. Single Track. "When Is your flaughter thinking of getting mnrrled?" "Constantly." American Lcgloa Weekly. iJSa?BBBBr aaBBBB. LEGION MAN BUSY AVIATOR Earl Vance, Miles City (Mont.) Ex. Soldier, Did Not Quit When tho War Ended. Before the war, EnrI T. Vunco wns a stenographer. IIo could scarcely typewrite for GO seconds without mnklng n mistake, but wlicu ho got Into aviation he mannged to fly 1,000 hours with out nn accident. Lemuel Bolles, national adjutant of tho American Legion, was so impressed with this record that, after turning down dozens of offers to ride, he took his first flight with Vance while tour ing tho country In Montana. Vnnco bad returned from his nlrplnno honey moon, which ho devised ns a means of avoiding old shoes nnd rice, and which his bride thought wns "too thrilling for words." When Vance got out of the service, ho found himself In Texas. Not be ing entirely decided on tho best place to live, be stepped into n plane and Btarted "north." When he arrived over Montana he looked down nnd thought tho country looked good. So he land ed, nnd he Is In Miles City, where lie runs nn airplane company. Doctors, and oven horse doctors, patronize his taxi service to make their long calls Montana miles being among the long est In the world. Vance always makes It a point to fly to conventions of the American Legion. "SERVICE" FOR LEGION ALSO Raymond Brackett, of Marblehead, Mass., "Delivered the Goods" During the World War. When Raymond O. Brackett was running n hotel In Marblehead, Mass., ho believed In giving his guests "service." When his patrons or derea up nn oy ster stew, they were sure to find plenty of oysters In it. When the wnr began to be men tioned In the pa pers, Mr. Brack ett, whose grand father, uncle, and great-uncle all had been In the army In the Civil war, closed his desk, hung up his "be back later" sign, and Joined the navy. The Germans having ordered up a war, Mr. Brackett, In his i customnry style, saw to It that they got "service." If war was what they wanted, he was willing to fill their order. On October 1, then a full fledged lieutenant, he steamed out In his U. S. S. Lake View and "filled the North sea so full of mines that thero was very little actual water left. It was on the Lake View that he wit nessed tho sinking of the German fleet at Scapa Flow. When Lieutenant Brackett returned ho took down his sign, opened his desk, nnd found a notice of his elec tion as one of the national vice-corn-mnndcrs of the American Legion, in which capacity he Is still giving "serv ice." 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