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Show THE UNMARKED HERO. (Chicago News.) He didn't have a bullet wound, he didn't bear a scar. He didn't have the rolling gait peculiar to the tar: ' He didn't show the symptoms of a man that's been afloat In man-o'-war. in battle ship or other .fighting boat: His face bi.re not the ocean tan that's born of breeze and sun. His hand wore not the corns of them that sen e the booming gun. Why hadn't li the callouses, the wounds, the gait, the tan? He'd served in Hobson's navy in our battles with Japan. He didn't know a marlin spike from how to find the iange: If you had told him "Ship ahoy." he would have thought it strange; He knew not how to holystone the vessel's ves-sel's "spotless deck; He couldn't tell the hatches from the hawse, to save his neck. He had no manners nautical, he couldn't sail nor shoot: If he should meet an officer he couldn't well salute. v The captain of a tugboat would have given him "the can The chap who'd fought with Hobson in our battles with Japan. The battles all were fought and won upon the lecture field: Each battle was proportioned to the fee that it would yield. A billion-dollar navy every day or so he built. For every- bureau booking many a hero's gore was split. The goggling people sat and held their several breaths to hear The conflict with Dui Nippon was so awful, awful near. Hence we behold our hero such a scath- less, scarless man He'd only fought with Hobson in our trouble with Japan. |
