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Show Men of Iron. Capt. Edward Beck of South Bend, Tud., at present in France with the black Senegalese' troops, recently wrote home concerning them. "They are just like our own colored col-ored troops," he writes. "No wonder they're great fighters. They never feel any pain. They remind me of n colored laborer in South Bend. One day, to test the hardness of this fellow's fel-low's head, a mason on the upper floor of a biulding dropped some mortar on it. The fellow never moved ; in fact, he hadn't felt a thing. So the mason dropped a brick. "Crash ! "When the brick hit his head the colored man looked up at the mason languidly : " 'Look out whar yon'alls done drop-pin' drop-pin' dat mortar,' he said." |