Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1911 — Futi[?] Work. [ARTICLE]

Futi[?] Work.

Colonel Asa Gould Humphreys, al a veterans* banquet in Duluth, con demned the abolition of the canteen “Those temperance ladies whe caused the canteen's abolition havi accomplished.” * said the veteran “what? Only this: The drinkin? -oldier now drinks, instead of tht mild and pure bevedage supplied bt the orderly canteen, rank, dhry stufl in demoralizing places. “That is what these ladies havt accomplished. Their wanted to dc the soldier good. But. in their ig porance, they worked as vainly as old Mrs. Crowe, of Salem. Mrs. Crowe, at the height of tht war. astonished my colonel by send ir.g him a barrel of pebbles. “*1 have read.’ she wrote, ‘that t pebble held in the mouth is a splen !ii remedy for thirst. Will yoi ■lease aeeept my dear colonel, this arrel for the use of the troops a> th? front?”—Washington Star.