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ti Letter* from A jTwhat I am .going to write now will m R cold little word of thankful3. I don't jrant It to seem so, Hi will, because what I feel la so !?^?t of proportion to what I map ei It I hare walked through the ?>n?T of the-8hftdow of Death and ^^ l.come to green pastures. And I I "mat dumb of body, though my spirit eager to apeak. ? 1 didn't know what ship you were 1 on, nor where it was likely to be at I. any given time. So when that transmit was sunk last we?k I didn't dare Cgo think. But I had to think. Oh, John, I am thankful, thankful, thankit The newspapers printed an metre early in the morning. Now that so i- many hare gone from Lakewood, they , send extras away out here, and I ' never hear the call without fear in my heart. When I caught the words "troopship torpedoed!" I was up and oat on the street. - There was hardly more than a.line. cabled, I suppose, and rushed Into pptlat. Many American soldiers have i been killed, bat details were not . I got through the next few hours some way, and then telephoned one of'the newspapers. When the man ;f ; I talked to understood I was tbe>wlfe of a soldier?maybe of one who had been on the ship^-he was v.ery kind. - He invited me to the office, where he %satd I conld have the newe as It "there were other women there In a room I suppose belongs to an official, for it was very comfortable s W)th .leather-cushioned chairs and books Ijidg about. You see that room always will be before me, quite as though my mind had been a pho?? J "The newspapers printed aa extra 1 W-ij early in the morning" r1 tographlc plate, registering every de- ; Sj tall. There was a picture on the wall , 6 Of a' roadway bordered by cedars? ] KV M7Mi on nnp qfdfl. nlnA nn thp ofhftr. f I counted the cedara. seven and nine. |, V! over and over. And when I would ft count them a certain number -of Wiilmes, forty-one I believe, a boy 1 u would eome In and read from tbln J tissue sheets. Names and addresses ; he'd read. And afterward I'd feel a heavy, sickening Joy because your ] name had not passed Us lips. - As long as I live, John, 1 shall re- ; Member a roadway bordered by . cedars, seven and nine, and forty-one, And a boy with tbln tissue sheets. And quick, almost unbearable reller, something as If I were snatched np 1 sad. beyond the stars on a spectral < -elevator. - I i thought of other things, too; j I About the way ydu lift yonr chin, and tho boyish wave In your hair. And about onee when I was angry and the * hurt In yonr eyes?It wrung my heart i to remember the hart in your eyes! ' I recalled Incidents which must have > dipped past unnoticed, forgotten I years ago. Our life together and my MOO-GKRMAN RUMORS JtpT- PROXOUNCKD ABSURD j !" Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo has made the following statement, ] which cannot be drctffated too 1"aay: *l ' "My attention has been called to an insidloUB propaganda that is being -carried on, probably by secret agents of Germany, to sow the seeds o( distrust in the mlnda of savings 5 bank depositors by false rumors that the United States Government in ecu- t tamplatiug the ronfiscatica ot the I Savings of the people. The absurdity of theso statements "are manifest, la order, however, to allay the fears of i fke w wbo might be alarmed by each reports, I repeat that these rn- E mors are wholly baseless." j^v . "' 1 *" i1 .*^ *jTi ?*( life before went by while I covgted ' the coder* la the plctwre. 1 imagine the other women felt u I did, A beautiful girl turned stricken, to pax-colored eye* to me tad talked in a voice so tense that It made me feel a* If her throat were dead. "f V|M e?.w^ oka waiit ?T earned a big salary?bigger than his ?and after'we were married and I had to go without, I wasn't contented. I thought I wanted to go to work again and- be free and so I left "I'd feel n henry, sickening Joy, be- u cause your name had not passed his Ups" him. If he ever comes back and will " forgive me?" and her dead- throat moved, but no-sound came. You probably remember the maid we. had before Annie?Biddy of the u joyous flapjacks. - She was there, too. grotesque with hair coming down mnai a hoAnfuuworl Hat An nilg gidfi. Vet ? pitifully dignified with tears on her cheeks. "He was each a lad, ma'am, wit' his bit of a song and dance ever) evenin' and always askln' for lamb itew. Sure, I got sick of cookln' it we Had It that often and 'twai hart loathe soul he was?me laddy, me iaddy! " * "fin see "we are aU about'the same. An old woman, who has three sons Orer There kept twisting her hands. 3he did it the same as I twist mine when ] am robbing in cold cream. Only her hands were so hopeless and tired looking with big purple reins. A very small and very white woman kept whispering, "Ood!" She crumpled, unconscious, when It was. aver. It was orer Anally, in the even log, after, the news had flowed through many editions to a waltlnr city, the boy came in with official re ports. The number of lost had dwinlled from hundred* to fifty-throe and ' the list named no one from Cleveland. 1 don't remember how 1 got out of the office. Ou the- corner of Euclid Aveone I met Mr. Ballard?Is he president or director of your firm?. I've'never Uked him before, bnt now r am pare I have done him an Injustice. He called a taxi and brought, me home and eras wonderfully tactful. ; , After he'd gone I brought out my 'Pandora box," wrongfully named, for It holds all the letters you ever lave written me, dearest I read them all, beginning with the tote you passed down the aisle in n he Eighth p-ade?remember??and mdlng with the line you mailed from Hew York after you had said faresell. / I could find no words to write you hen. Even^now I am dnmh, though MIU mc uumuuww w? nmwv. rhls morning I found gray hairs over ny temples. Bat 1 don't mind. Ho* nightly the stars shine to-night!HOPE. BUI A BOND! > "ve got my sharcking orders, soon / anil cross the pond, ro take a chance in La Belle France, my overseas hat's donned. Irfore I go, 1 think, you know, I'LL buy a Fourth Loan Bond! OOXGKMAL WORK "Would yon be willing to work oqr way through college?" "1 wouldn't mind working my way brougk a girls' college, dail."? lodge. A OBIKL AWAKENING dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, A ad slept on feathers light as day; lut when I woke, by bogie calls. My bedsaek was filled with hay. A ruth teas foe has made his last appear and destruction in his retreat, has I last village on French soil"?Ambas General Lafayette, true general and tal 'ceaseless vigil at Valley Forge and 1 lent his priceless energy and ability these beginnings have sprung our aught, 'desire and willingness are U coring for France the return of the miral Sims, Hie Germans win beg for peace?a pes will be a complete victory for yc Knecht, one of the French High Coi Heaven be blessed! Hiere will be no G sador Jusserand of France. On the Marne, France defended not onl; erty, hot the injured rigfhts of ma Poincare of France. We will continue to speak in the laitga cannon's month ontil we have achiev Secretary of the Interior, Franklin When a German official communique a (the Rhine) now stands before the G home in Germany will begin to und happen."?Dr. Nicholas Murray Bui To speak for France at any time is an nell, Archbishop of Boston. pli sick man or GROSS?RFAOE/l\ i! -}i ^ ^ .4V-. '..3 -l,v 'SWfJI" 1P.-B!- ' 5? ~ r;^5 p.? ?'- - ~ ?:' ?' ' > I U?1 HI JUU LI I in ance and except the want % jurned and plundered his d \m isador Sharp. J ented officer, through the 1 >gj the trying times to come, withoutstint, and from great Democracy, whose ^ iday directed towards sese same blessings."?Adice we will only give if it tu and for us."?Marcel mniission. , ^ erman victory."?Ambasy her own threatened libnkind itself."?President age that comes from the ed a military decision."? PgS||3ffii nnounces that that river err.ian lines, the people at erstand what is going to V A lag/A.' honor."?Cardinal O'Con- |\ 4* niROPn-w, m f Si &
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