Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1917 — No Countrymen of His. [ARTICLE]

No Countrymen of His.

ntu vuuiin/””’" “K. W.,” on a recent visit home, told a story about a trainload of British soldiers who stopped the engine and took the hot water from the boilers to make tea. The Pittsburgh Chronic-Tele-graph prints a Scotch version of what Is apparently the same stury, wherein the. testy engine driver explained to the Scot commandant that they were not on the way because “a lot of whisky drinkin’ Scotchmen had sneaked all the hot water from the boiler to make grog.” “They csnna be countrymen of mine,” replied the commandant skeptically. “or they’d nae bothered about th’ water?’—Kansas City Star. ,- ■ *