Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1920 — SIMPLY COULDN’T LOCATE IT [ARTICLE]

SIMPLY COULDN’T LOCATE IT

At That, Marine Showed Praiseworthy Willingness to Obey Orders Captain Had Given Him. Army water carts differ from one another about the same as, say, one egg differs from another egg—namely, in else.. The number of gallons which each' car can contain is, therefore, stenciled on the top of it Ihe captain of a marine supply

company tn France was Inventorying his carts and totaling the figuri* "Wilkin®,” he called to an idle private who hadn’t had the sent-e to get oat of the “get me the capacity of thia cart." The captain ran his pencil down the column of figures for several seconds. keeping one ear open for the result of Wilkins’ research. But no reply came from Wilkins. The captain glanced up to find all of Wilkins except the head protruding from the hole in top of the water cart A desperate struggle with some unseen monster seemed to be going on Inside the cart Finally Wilkins’ baffled head emerged. “I felt ail around the blamed thing, captain.” he explained, “and PH be hanged if I can locate that capacity anywhere.”—Home Sector.