Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1915 — BOWED TO BLOW OF FATE [ARTICLE]

BOWED TO BLOW OF FATE

Bmall Animosities Forgotten When Enemy’s Stroke Made Them Comrades In Misfortune. There have lived at Hartlepool. Eng., aide by side for many years a cranky old bachelor and a spinster of doubtful age. Their houses were adjoining, but the owners were not on speaking terms. The story of how their quarrel arose is safely locked within their own breasts. Suffice it to say that

their aversion to each other’s sight and habits of life has furnished many an amusing incident to the neighborhood. The attack on her cats and the defense of his rude-mouthed parrot had afforded many a scene of violent outburst of loud temper and abusive language. Then came the early morning 'raid of the German cruisers. He was just out of his bath, enwrapped in a towel, and she had just disembarked from the deck of her four-poster when, crash! a fearful c'nsh that seemed like the crack of doom, and amid the

blinding dust and falling rubble they were discovered each to other, only a few feet separating them, prostrate on their respective floors from shock, but otherwise unhurt, for the partition wall between them had been blown down. Fate had saved their lives, but had ’laid them almost in each other’s arms.