Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1912 — Still Popping. [ARTICLE]

Still Popping.

They tell a story about a naval lientenant of the old school who, after a very wet evening—an evening noisy with the popping of champagne corks —awoke the next morning in the midst of a battle. He listened, smiling, to the bangbang of the guns, then shouted: “Hi, steward, bring me three or four bottles before those pigs finish them all up!”