Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1917 — Colonel Bids Newsy Good-By. [ARTICLE]

Colonel Bids Newsy Good-By.

He was one of those solitary-looking men. According to the eagle device on his shoulders, he was a colonel in the United States army. He issued forth from a lunchroom on lower Fifteenth street, and a newsboy not over twelve, stepped up to him with a paper. He seemed to be one of the kid’s steady customers. The unsmiling face of this man whc seemed alone in the world lighted, up as he saw the boy. “Good-by, old top,” he said to the youngster, as he took the paper, “I won’t see you any more.” “Are you going to war?” asked the boy, with an anxious note in his voice. “Yeh; in a day or two now. Good-by, old fellow.” The kid looked at him a minute in silence, and said slowly: “Good-by 1” The officer stuck the paper under his arm and turned up Fifteenth street, with a strange mistiness in his eyes. One got the idea that there wasn’t anybody else that the officer wanted to bid farewell. —Exchange.