Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1899 — Trine fin Their Duty. [ARTICLE]

Trine fin Their Duty.

A military play was being acted at a small theater. Men were required on the stage as soldiers, and the colonel of tbe regiment then quartered in tbe town lent to the manager a certain number of his regiment, who were of course glad to add a little extra money to their pay. The regiment happened to be an Irish one. Everything went splendidly np to the battle neene, when the signal was given for tbe flght to cense, and for the regulars. who personated tbe beaten foe, to retreat. On this particular evening, however, they took no notice of the signal, but stiß fought on In terrible carom*, and punished their opponents so unmercifully that at last they threw down their weapons nnd used their ■sts instead. Eventually the curtain bad to be dfbffced’ja tbe raging con-. *** ■*“■«** grfly, “Whftt doM Ail this swift? Why lld frontf gmin « tftf of ft***