Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1911 — IN 1959. [ARTICLE]

IN 1959.

It was an aged pensioner who stopped me on the street; “See here,” he says, “my teeth are gone—it’s hard for me to eat; I lost ’em breakin’ hardtack—-’twas no job that I chose — In the year of nineteen ’leven, where the Rio Grande flows.

“My digestion was plumb ruined in that long and hard campaign: I et strawberry shortcake till all doct’rin’ was in vain; It was tough to be a soldier* you c’n take my word or no, In the year of nineteen ’leven, on the edge of Mexico.

“This arm of mine was injured—it has neyer been the same— A-writin’ endless postcards to the home folks —and I claim There never was campaignin’ that was half so rough on men As the row of nineteen ’leven, jest a follerin’ nineteen ten.”

It was an aged pensioner, wlxo wept the he talked, And limped like Rip Van Winkle when finally he walked; • For he’d injured both his ankles — they had rusted from disuse— In the war of nineteen leven, when the Diaz cinch came looee. —Denver Republican.