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Show SAD WELCOME AWAITS THEM Mother, Brother, Sweetheart, En Route From Europe Will Find Young Soldier Dead. Louis Kosmen is dead in a St. Paul, Hum, hospital. From somewhere In Central Europe an aged widowed mother, a dark-haired dark-haired lass of nineteen and a lad of fourteen recently started on a long awaited journey to fur-off America to rejoin the son, sweetheart and big brother, believed to be ready to greet them after years of separation. For eighteen long years Louis Kosmen Kos-men had pursued the blue bird of happiness. hap-piness. Through prosperity and poverty, pov-erty, on battlefields and in hospitals he had followed, always with the dream that some day he would be able to send for the loved ones to come to him In the promised land of America. At last Kosmen believed he could see the fulfillment of his dreams. Through the aid of his American Legion Le-gion pals with whom he had served In the World war, the red tape of government gov-ernment Immigration regulations had been cut nnd he had cabled word to the waiting loved ones that they should come to him In his American home. The lines of fatigue faded from his toil-worn face and the discouraged droop disappeared from his shoulders as he thought of seeing once more his mother and little brother and his promised prom-ised bride. Then came Illness. The doctor told him that disease contracted while serving serv-ing In the American army during the war would necessitate an operation. Recently he went onto the operating table. The next day he was dead. When but a lad of fifteen, Kosmen, heir of a once wealthy and Influential Albnnlan family, had been sent to Greece to escape the Turks. His father was killed by them. Before he left he was betrothed, according to the custom cus-tom of his country, to baby Aspasla Gerdan. In following years he fought the Turks, served In their prisons, was wounded, escaped and finally came to the United States where he set to work to build up a comfortable home for his remaining loved ones. Ill fortune pursued pur-sued hlra. After accumulating considerable consid-erable money he lost It In a business venture. Then America, the land of his adoption, entered the war and he followed the flag to the front In spite of broken health from the military service he had set at work once more to build up a fortune for his family and beiieved his ambition was attained when death claimed him. |