Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1914 — IN FULL PANOPLY OF WAR [ARTICLE]

IN FULL PANOPLY OF WAR

Correspondent Setting Out for the Front Had Been Careful to Leave Photograph.

It was at the pier.- Rupert Darcy Harris, the world-renowned war correspondent, lingered near the gang plank while the captain of the steamer waited for a wirless message. German crulßers had been reported in the vicinity of Sandy Hook. Not that Rupert Darcy Harris cared a pin about German cruisers. He had been in South Africa during the Boer war, he had shared the mess tents of both Russians and Japanese while the great conflict was on in the far East, be had been within easy writing distance of the war in the Balkans, and he had gone to the front at Vera Cruz within a day or two after the American marines had taken possession of the Mexican city. "Harris, old man,” I said, grasping his hand in a good-by clasp, "I wish I could see you in all your war paint mounted on your horse, sword at your side, pistols in your holsters, fire in your eagle eye—as you’ll look when you join the embattled armies of Europe and mingle with the emperors, the kings, the field marshals, the crown princes, the chiefs of staff, the Imperial guards, and the rest." The world-renowned war correspondent beamed on me kindly as he returned my handclasp: "Go right around to Brown's studio," he said, "I’ve Just had a photograph like that taken."