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Show 54 I la, ' l. n ir "I fill Kj I Cfrl boil lilt 1 1 If L'n rhf4W k ,1It m4--i I J 0(1 k u.r r : 1 4 ,? K k- " - I r &- - ;Xt 1. MU . :; : ' .' Nf- - :j a o- - I y train with supplies for tin nlll! armies, from Siberia, arriving fit front with soldiers of nil the allies, A mdib-r- r, soldier irirnii In Manchuria. Tlio photograph shows I I OF DURAZZO, HARBOR I t'ririy rr f RAIDED BY THE ALLIES 3 r to. M--. 5LtVV- - y-i- jr- ' Commander of Gerrenz daftn c. fershirvg Americas Armies ed I was old enough to accept employ, metit In It, and for years I worked in' Earlu as a clerk for the general's father. As. I remember the Johnny Pershing of Evidence of. those days he was a quiet, little boy.v, The elder Pershing was strict In hi discipline. As the (toys grew up he IS boyhood friends in Linn kept them steadily employed at useful, county, Mo agree that It wholesome work.' By the time John was neither pull uor poli- had reached his teens the family pose farm a ties that made John sessions Included a Laclede mile from and there the fuPersldng commander of the American forces In ture soldier worked from spring plowFrance They say also ing to corn husking. "Every morning, if you were up not a genius Is hf that and thut luck hns not aid- early enough, yoi could see John and Jim with their teams going out to the ed him In rising from the ranks. C. C. Bigger, boyhood Advantages he had siutdoor life, farm, says General of friend rersldng, now d farm work, plain living, good parents and a Christian home Even yet his lawyer at Laclede. John "Was a worker. Ills father, old home town carries the flavor of the Laclede is scarcely though not unduly severe, was strict open country, never heard larger today and no less wholesome In his requirements; yet I than Jt whs forty years ago when Its John complain. lie always had a genthree nurseries made It at once the uine Interest In carrying to a successmost Important and the most agricul- ful finish every piece of work that he tural town In the county, writes A. A. was directed to do. , Not a Genius. Jeffrey Ip New York Sun. "John Persldng was not a genius," To this thriving town of the '50s "He came the general's father, John F. continues his bnyhhod friend. a but Westmoreland clear, from ndnd, possessed county, analytical Pershing, Tn.t where his fnmlly lind been hon- no better mind than thousands of other ored citizens since 1749, the year chos- - j boys possess. He was clean In char-acto- r, en by John and Frederick Pershing absolutely so, and a regular at church and Sunday school for their pilgrimage from France to the new home of freedom in the new at the Methodist Episcopal church, of world. The ambitious young Pennsyl- which he was a member and In which vanian of the fourth generation from his father and' mother were active these early patriots came to Missouri workers. Ills parents were Intensely In the religious. In 1855 to take a Thc trnlts distinguishing him from building of the old Missouri Northern railroad from St. Louis to Macon. At many other boys," concludes Mr. Bigthe end of four years he had little of ger, wife those that characterized material value to show for his work; him as a tireless worker, Indomitable but at Montgomeyy City he had won In his purpose to perforin every task set before him. And he never was a bride Ann Thompson, a Missouri girl with brave, sweet mouth, tough ; he never considered it neces- honest blue eyes and a heart of gol. sary to seek questionable companions or places In order to have a good time. Bom in Shanty Near Laclede. fashion of a healthy Coming westward from Macon at the In the conclusion of the railroad building the country boy he enjoyed our neighbor young contractor stopped at Laclede hood parties, our, taffy pullings, our to accept the first honest work that baseball, fishing and swimming, but he was offered, the foremanshlp of the never resorted to rowdyism." west of Laclede section of the llannl- - j Though never quarrelsome, Persldng was abundantly able to take care of bal and St Joseph railroad. The started housekeeping In a little himself. Ills old associates proudly shanty two miles west of Laelode. It tell of, the first terra of school he was there that their first baby, John taught, when he was eighteen.' It was at Prairie Mound, In Charlton Joseph, was born September 13, 1800. "It was Just after the outbreak of county. It became his duty In the the Civil war In 1801," relates Henry C. course of the term to thrash a big boy, Lomax, now Laclede's pioneer banker, and he addressed himself to this re- "that the Pershing family came to sponslblllty In his usual direct and vlg- town to live and John F. Pershing orous fashion. The discipline had th desired effect on the boy, but brought opened a general store here. "Their family, and ours lived togeth- the hoys father rampant to humiliate er for several months, as my father the young teucher. , . , had gone to war and there was not an "John was then only a boy himself, empty hou$ In town for the newcom-m- . r big strong, boy, but only a boy, says Captain Henley, When the Pershing store was open- - with whdtn the young teacher boarded France of the harbor of Durazzo, Albania, which was entered, by a naval force of the allies, the Austrian naval , destroyed and oil enemy vessel sunk. View tuie being ROLE' GARLAND IN NEW .. . WIPER OUT OF THE MACHINE - GUN. NESTS Gave Courace and Power of well-behave- d lHO-aer- ' This Is one of the small British tunks that do such valiant service in nests that the enemy relies bn to make good his tvlilng out the muchlne-gu' retreat. . 3j n ,-- V ?? vs s yfyf ft TO THE MEMORY OF BELGIUMS VI & rf if rpi t v 'VvK? DEAD fulr-lmlre- d i whole-soule- Jta.h rpy s x . w j wwwswr-- ' nihWnftii; ' Charles He nl Garland, au American served with the British cav-,lr- J i. ad was honorably discharged. hiciinie a naturalized Britisher Is u n, Per-shln- candidate for parliament as tntive of the discharged Of the Warwick division. , This rhntoi nph was taken at Mr. Gar-end- s home In Warwick. repn-s.-- n d aol-lle- rs , This Dog Bites. F. O. .Rock of Ben Avon, a u employed by the 1ennsyl-milFrench more has niilrond, any foodies in hig custody for shipment e Will he very careful with his lan " hen KK.'k-m- -- an broad-shouldere- d nK,. Recently Rock received a crate flg-Wn- Detroit Free Press. old man Card, was a burly giant, fully six feet four and wildly determined to lick the young teacher. "He made It plain Hint nothing else would appease him. John tried to present a reasonable view of the situation, but Card only grew more Insolent In word and gesture. , Showed Iron Determination. "Then It was, as my children recounted at the time, that Johns usually ruddy lips whitened and his big blue eyes narrowed to steel-grapoints. He stepped toward the big man and his words had a cold precision that was truly ominous. " 'You get out of this house and ofl these grounds and stay off as long as Im teacher ot; 111 kill you.' "With mumbled apologies, old man Card hastily backed out of the school-houseconcludes Captain Henley, and he did not trouble the young y ." teacher again." Front other sources there Is additional eildence of the sturdy fiber of John Pershing's courage and power of will. "John was no sissy, even If he wa. clean and well behaved," asserts Charles R. Spurgeon, who was Pershing's boyhood chum and his college roommate. "He was a manly, upstanding boy. In his classes he had hit lessons, and when asked to work a problem he would step promptly to the blackboard and do It In a way that proved his heart was In the work. "It was the same at college. At Klrksvllle Nortnul, where we were classmates, John was a student He always was thoroughly Interested In his class- - work and wa always looking forward to the succeeding years In the course and the finish. When we came home nt the end of our first term I wns offered a position In a store, took It and, by heck, rm clerking yet.' John had a similar offer, but turned It down. Tin going back to Klrksvllle, anyway, he said. I dont know what Ill finally do probably be a lawyer, but Just now Im going to stick to the school. . f "The next time I saw him was when he came home the time the Laclede post office was robbed,' Ills father was postmaster then, and of course the loss fell upon him personally. John came home from college and turned over the remainder of his savings to his father gave up his college course to help the folks at home. "It was Just then that Congressman Burrows of the old Tenth district announced the first competitive examination for the appointment of a cadet to West Point. John heard of ll saw hi chance, went to Trenton amfwon the appointment fairly and squarely by the sheer merit of his work." . hard-workin- g con-hdnln- g a French poodle consigned to Detroit Tlie canine refused to stop g Marking, Rock had a great deal of lo do, and the dog annoyed him. "Nmt up, Kaiser, or Ill give you Yankee wallop," he yelled. The poodle only set up a louder erleN of yelps and when Rock passed y the crate the poodle stuck its head ut between the slats and nipped him n the . nnkle. , before calling the dog Kaiser Rock jld It licked his hand and was very tfleudly. at Prairie Mound, while his assailant The dedication of this mausoleum, erected to the memory of Belgian took soldiers who fell in the fight to protect their country from the Ilun, one Is mausoleum the The only Garrison cemetery. place In the Shorncllffe . of Its kind In all England. Woman suffrage was Indorsed at the annual convention of the Pennsylvania before State Federation of labor. Englands prison population The Inventor of a pulley with depresnow 0,500, Is it the war was 18,000; sions In Its surface contends that belts New Zealand has an annual death will not sJ'p when It Is used. rate of less than l per cent. 5, BRIEF BITS , Buddhists American Experiences Rev. Mokusen Heki, a Buddhist apostle returning lately from America to his native Japan, was given a reception by the Japanese Young Buddhist association. Recounting his experiences, he told that there was a machine Indicating the death rate In America at Kctly section In the Panama 'exposition. According to It, mortality Is romnrkably higher In youth than in aged people. On one occasion he counseled ids audience to coma over to Buddhism and get firm faith while they are his sermon with young, the demonstration afforded by. the death rgte Indicating machine. . Impressed with bis speech, many ladles and gentlemen congratulated him at the close, and some enthusiastic ladles "mystically kissed his hand," . .to his great consternation. of was he the when gneet Again, honor at a dinner party given by a Japnnophlle American, a ball was Ita main feature. It can be Imagined, therefore, In what an awkward plight the austere holy man found himself when some ladles Insisted upon having the guest of honor for their partner In a profane gyration called a tango From East and West News. |