Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1899 — A Flag of Truce. [ARTICLE]

A Flag of Truce.

Such occurrences as this are Inevitable. The father is a veteran of the civil war, and the son helped settle tfiings in Cuba. “You don’t know what war |s,” said the old gentleman at dinner the other day. “It’s nothing to go over and clean out a lot of half-breeds and heathen. We fought as brave a lot of men as ever strapped on a knapsack or pulled a trigger, and we didn’t come home kicking because our bill of fare wasn't np to that of a $5-a-day hotel.” “O, I guess you did your share of kicking, from what I read. And I guess you didn't strike anything much hotter than ft was going up that hill at Santiago.” “Papa,” said little Johnny, from near the foot of the table, “do you mean tbht a man that was wounded or killed in your war was any more woundeder or killeder than they was In Brother Ike’s war?” The older veteran simply hoisted Ills napkin on his fork, and the Cuban hero smilingly acknowledged the surrender. —Detroit Free Press.