“So when the news of the war came to San Francisco, he put aside as
fair a prospect of wealth, success, happiness, and long life as could
well open before a young man, and determined to throw in his lot with
the old country and the Allies in the fight for civilization against
all the armed might of lawless iniquity which had flung itself on
Belgium.
[Illustration:
_Drawn by Joseph Cummings Chase._