Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1914 — WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER [ARTICLE]

WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER

Child- Learns That Joy Sometimes Finds Deepest Expression In Tears. It was a morning in early spring—the spring of ’65. The orchard was in full bloom and on the -wind was the odor of the blossoming crabapple trees in the woods pasture. I was sitting on the back doorstep eating a bowl of bread and milk and pausing between spoonfuls to note the glory of woods, pasture and blue sky. I was but four years old and the beauty of the world was just dawning on me, when to my ears came, sudden, far-off, dull booms like sudden echoes of thunder. The sky was without a cloud. Again I heard the dull boom. Ah! I had ft! ‘•Mother,’’ I called, "someone’s pounding on the side of Uncle Dave’s barn!” She came to the door and listened. Again, came the dull, thunderous sound. For a moment she listened and then burst out sobbing. "What’s the matter, mother? Does it scare yon? I’m not afraid!” She stooped over and gathered me to her breast “The war is over. The war is over.” was all she could say, but she said it over and over. “The war is over and your father is coming home.” "Why, Fd think you’d laugh instead of cry! I’d think you’d be glad instead of sorry.” Child that I was, I knew not that joy sometimes finds deepest expression In tears. ————- » ' Stoneworkers. in Germany have a I union membership of 76,783.