Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1919 — SOLDIER OF FORTUNE PASSES [ARTICLE]

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE PASSES

World Soon to Have Little Use for Picturesque Character Whose Fortune Was Hl* Bword. If It shall now come to pass, as It well may, that there shall be an end put to wars, the old-time soldier of fortune will become art extinct species. The of course, can get along very well without him, and yet he will be missed. For he Is a very ancient Institution, Indeed. He was with Alexander and Caesar, Napoleon, the captains and the kings of every nation under the sun wherever therfc was a knife to stick or a bullet to shoot.. Slowly but surely, however, the ground has been cut from under the feet of the soldier of fortune, and now ft spems that, at last, he is to disappear completely. He had a good time, though, while It lasted, and It did last a long time, at that. For there was always, somewhere, a Job waiting for him. If things went stale on the Spanish Main, he could cross over to the other side of the world and find another banner under which to fight. It was all the same to him, which side he fought with or against. He had no enmities, no hatreds; he had no grudge to satisfy. His business was fighting. The doubloon of Spain looked Just as good to him as the sovereign of England or the yen of Japan.