Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1899 — A VICTORY OF PEACE. [ARTICLE]

A VICTORY OF PEACE.

Why the Colonel Was Deprived of His Military Title. It was two days after the final signing of the peace papers between the United States and Spain when the lady called on the editor. She was a pleas-ant-featured woman, but there was a line around the lower part of her face that looked as if it had never been put there to be crossed. She talked as if she might be a Western woman, and that she had not been deeply harrowed by the conventionalities of elaborate society was manifest. “Excuse me,” she said without much waste of time in preliminaries, “but is there peace now between the United States and Spain?” “There is, madam,” responded the editor. “It began on Tuesday, the 11th day of April, about 3:30 o’clock in the afternoon.” “And there isn’t any more war?” “Not any with Spain, madvm.” “Any with any other country?” she asked as if a new thought had come to her. “Well, we are having something of a small domestic difllculty, so to speak, with a few measly Malays Id the Philippines.” “Is it real war?” “It looks a good deal as it it were, madam.” “Um,” she said in a tone of disappointment, “that’s what my husband said. But I wasn’t quite sure. You see, my husband used to be in the militia and he insisted on my calling him colonel before folks, and I didn’t like It. At last I agreed to call him colonel as long as there was any war, but I told him I’d just be dratted If I would call him It when there was peace. I didn’t hear till to-day that there was plumb peace with Spain, and when he said there was war enough yet for me to keep on calling him colonel, I thought I'd just drop in and see you about it. Good morning,” and she marched through the open door and disappeared. —Washington Star.