Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1918 — Lafe’s Tribute. [ARTICLE]

Lafe’s Tribute.

As we reached a certain smooth road, along w’hich travel daily many ammunition wagons, we met a muld skinner walking. He was going in the direction of a certain military graveyard, where are buried Americans and French and Germans, Senegalese and Moroccans and Tunisians —Christians and Mohammedans. " Over the mule skinner’s right arm hung a French wreath. With his left hand he was leading a sullen looking mule. As we were about to pass him our engine died. W got out to crank up and ■ the mule skinner stopped to watch and talk to us. Meantime an M. P. strolled down. ’ “Where you goin’ with that, Lase?” he asked, nodding- at the wreath. “Well,” replied Lase, with a hitch at the mule, "there was a damn fool I used to sleep with,,and he got his two nights ago. He was a hell of a good fellow, and I bought this wreath to put on his cross.” —Maude Radford Warren in the Saturday Evening Post