keeping many years in Dorfield and I'm not sure I can find among our household possessions anything to give the Liberty Shop

osing lot of odds and ends which were not in use and could readily be spared. Eager to assist the girls, the old colonel next morning went to town and ordered a big sign painted, to be place

re to the girls and the first load of goods to b

lue. It may have seemed "rubbish" to some of the donors, but the variety of goods that soon accumulated in the store room presented an interesting coll

contributed to the Liberty Girls' Shop. But the girls induced other trucks to help Joe and the enthusiasm kept growing. Curiosity was spurred by the big sign over the closed doors, and ev

and patch and put the chairs, stands, tables, desks and whatnots into the best condition possible. Alora Jones thought the stock needed "brightening," so she induced her father to make purchases of several new articles, which she pres

rdered away to the cantonment and the day before they left all their parents received a circular saying that the draft was unconstitutional and that their sons were being sacrificed by autocratic

was the first to secure one of the papers and its envelope, mailed through the local post-office, and her indignation was only equalled by her desire to punish the offender. She rea

ed the clothing store of Jacob Kasker and asked the proprietor if

ts, and therefore his citizenship could not be assailed. He had been quite success

answer to the request. Mary L

't help us, I suppose?

d her with a slight frown. Usually

don't like it. Say, I got a boy-one son. Do you know they've drafted him-took him from his wo

se, "your boy is one of th

again; you'll just help give him knickkna

's eyes

der that speech disloyal and traitorous.

ged his

's democracy is the kind that won't allow people to express their opinions, unless they ag

d to breathe the same air with him. But she hated to retreat without a definite display of her disgust at

d th

he knew well its wording. Mary

out it?" he as

your sentiment

upon her s

wrote it?"

e my own," reto

frown d

ates must win this war because it has started the job, and right or wrong, must finish it. I guess we could beat the whole world, if we had to. But I ain't fool enough to say that all they do down at Washington is right, 'cause I know it ain't. But I'm standing by the flag. My boy is standing by the flag, and he'll fight as well as any in the whole army to keep the flag flying over this

Louise, "and I think I've got every word of it." She slipped the boo

is fingers through his bushy hair as i

ve changed my mind about those goods; I'l

't accept them. Only those whose patrio

the proprietor at the desk staring at

his papers; "you talk too much. If a man prints a