HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-2-25, Page 2SOME VIVID WAR STORIES
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Fight As Seeu'From An
Engine Boout.
The .war mailbag es just. new a
.prolific source of interest, Vivid
:lettere ,from soldiere.a't'tbe trent or
in' beespittel bases and scrappy notes
-tepe/le-tare, with 'the "silent fleets
mirror the wetualities of war with a
:weallth.oi intimate detail and pie-
eureay; ie personal touches impos-
sible to the harshly censored war
correspondent, writes a London
;correspondent,
The following is writtten from the
/front by 'Corporal T, Trainor :
"We have had Genman cavalry
thrown at us six times in the last
four hears, and each time it has
been a'clifferent body, so that they
must have plenty Ito spare. There
is no eight hours for work, eight
hours etor sleep, and eight hours for
inlay with us, whatever the Ger-
mans may do.
"The strain is beginning to tell
on them more than on us, and you
can see by the weary faces and
trembling hands thee they are be-
ginning to• break down."
Sergeant-Major McDermott does
not 'write under ideal literary con-
ditions but his style is none the
worse for the inspiration furnished
by the shrieking shell:
"I am writing to you with the
enemy's shells (bursting and sereane-
ing overhead; but God knows when
it will be .posted, if at all.
"We are waiting for something
to turn up to' be shot at, but up to
now, though their artillery has. been
snaking a fiendish row all along our
front, we haven't seen as much as
a mosquito'e eyelash to shoot at.
That's why I am able to write, and
some of us are Ale to take a bit of
rest while the others keep 'dick.'
'•It's the grenti•ty, natthe quality
of the German shells that is. having
elite. en es, and it's not s:, much
t he ac nittl damage to life as the
nerve -reeking row that counts for
so mach
"Tun who are used to the
ni is and roar of streets can stand
it anueb. better than the country-
men. anti I think • that you will find
eh^: by tar the fittest men aim those
of regiments mainly recruited in
the nig eerie.
":\ Leen a lad near fine says it's
n,
aorse Coto the roar of motor
',knee end ether traffic in the city
(1U. •,
4;aelit• :1pli•it irrepressible.
fee Ga: -lit, =pmt has not deserted
1i'r'•. T Cahill under fire. He
w:Ite
'Ph' Red Cross eirleens with
the:r Dotty faces and 'their sweet
watt, are a, good sten as must o£
teed better than some of us.
They are n.'t supposed to venture
ine, the firing line at all, :hilt they
gat ri'er'e all the ;arae, and devil a
clic : t s dur.et turn them away.
••Milk. (lama- is'thatdroll with
hi., lar:riee and 'bam000zling the
German that he makes us nearly
ern; + ur side, laughing at him and
hie '"ata.
-Yesterday he got a stick and pat
es rap on it, so that it peeped up
latera the trend, just like a man,
and then the Germans kept shoot•
inn aaa • at it until they must have
steed up tons of ammunition."
A wounded private of the Buffs
relates 'how an infantryman got
te,nperarile" separated from his re-
g;anennt at Mune, and lay concealed
in a 'trench while the Germans
pr tseled around.
Just when he thought they had
left him for good ten troopers left
their horses et a distance andeame
IEonsard an' .font to the trench.
gem hidden infantryman waited
unit they were half way up the
61. -,pr. and then sprang out of his
hiding plane with a cry atf "Now,
lads, .:give 'them. hell Without
waiting to see :the '•lads"'the Ger-
mans took to their heels,
_ Rile n Poor Uniform.
Why Highland kilts are not the
ideal uniform for modern warfare
is cnncieely summed up by Private
Barry:
&fust o1 the Highlanders are hit
in the kgs.... It is because of tar -
,tan trews and hose, tvhi9h are more
visible at a distance than any other
part of their dress. Bare calves
also show up in sunlight."
Private McGiade, writing 'to his
aged mother in 'County Monaghan,
bears witness to the oft -made as-
sertion that the German soldiers
(Abject ,to a bayonet .charge
gam ewe of it with a whole skin,
though 'eve were all beat up, as you
might expecte after four days of the
hardest soldiering you ever dream-
ed of. We had our share of the
dr,ghting, and I arm glad to say we
acoounted'for our share ref (t_he Ger-
anan 'trash, who are a,pc.ti• L@t•t when
3t comes to a good, nquare ruction
in the open,
"We tried hard to get at t'hean
Many nines, but they never would
wait 'fret us when they saw the
bright bits of eke,' at the Ibasineas
end of our rifles.il
From Menten the Fleet,
Equally interesting are some o1
he iettere from men 'with the fleet,
atm Thorne, writing Ito hie mother
in ISueseen says:
„'Before we started deg'h'ting we
were all very nervous, but after we
joined .in we were all happy and
most of laugthing till it Vitus finished,
The we all sobbed and cried,
"Even if I never come (back, don't
think I've died a painful death.
Everything yesterdily was as quick
as lighning.
"We were in action on Friday
morning off Heligoland. I had a
piece of shell .as'big as the palm, of
my hand go through my trousers,
and as my 'trouser legs were blow-
ing in the breeze I'thirtk I was very
lucky,"
A gunroom officer in a battle
cruiser writes :
"The particular ship we were en-
gaged with was in a pitiful plight
when we had 'finished with her—
her funnels shot away, masts tot-
tering, great gaps of daylight in' her
side, •smoke and flame ibelahingfrom
her everywhere. file speedily heel-
ed over and sank like a stone, stern
&ret. So ear as is known, none of
her crew was saved. She was game
to the last, lee it be said, her flag
flying till she sank, her guns 'bark-
ing till they could bark no more,"
'Whet naval warfare seems like to
the "'black squad" imprisoned in
the engine room is described by an
engineer of the Laurel, who went
through the "scrap" off Heligoland.
Writing to his wife he says:
"I•t was a terribly anxious time
for us, I can tell yo•u, as we stayed
down there keeping the engines go-
ing a;t their top speed in order to
cut off the Germans from their fleet.
We could hear the awful din around
and the scampering of the tars on
deck as they rushed about from
point to point, and -we knew what
was to the fore when we caught odd
glimpses of the stretcher bearers
with their ghastly burdens,
"We heard the shells crashing
against the sides of the ship or
shrieking overhead as they passed
harmlessly into the water and we
knew that at any moment one aright
strike us in a vital pant and send us
below for good.
"It is ten times harder an the men
whose duty is in the engine room
than fur those on deck taking part
in the fighting, for they, at least,
have the excitement of the fight,
and if the ship is struck they have
more than a sporting chance of es-
cape. We have none."
From a Dying Frenchmen.
The most dramatic letters come
from the French. On one of the
fields of battle, when the Red Cross
soldiers were collecting the wound-
ed after a heavy engagement, there
was found a half sheet of notepaper
on which was written a message for
a woman, of which this is the trans-
lation:
"Sweetheart: Fate in this pre-
sent war has treated me more cruel-
ly than many others. If I have not
lived to create for you the ha•ppi-
ness of which 'both our hearts
dreamed, remember that my sole
wish is now that you should be hap-
py. Forget me. Create for your-
self some happy home that may re-
store to you some of the greater
pleasures of life. Fur myself, I shall
have died happy in the thought of
your love, My last thought has
been for you and for those I leave
at home. Accept this, the last kiss,
from him who loved you."
Writing from a ,fortress on the
frontier, a Frehch officer says the
colonel in command was asked to
send a hundred men to stiffen some
reservist artillery in the middle of
France, far away from the war
zone. He called for volunteers.
"Some of you who have got wives
or children, ter old mothers, fall
out, he said. Not a man stirred.
"Come, come," the colonel went
on. "No one will dream of saying
you funked, Nothing of that kind.
Fall out!" Again the ranks were
unbroken. The colonel blew his
nose violently. He tried to speak
severely, but his voice failed him.
He tried to frown, 'but somehow it
turned into a smile. "Very well,"
he said, "you must draw lots." And
that was what they did.
In the Time of Moses.
The recent census taken by the
British Government of all men -cap-
able and willing to bear arms has a
similarity to what was enacted in
the time of Moses. In Holy writ—
Numbers, lot chapter, we find—
"And the Lard apake unto Moses in
the wilderness of Sinai ... Take ye
the sum of DR the congregation of
the children of Israel , . . with the.
number of their names, every male
from twenty years old and up-
wards, .all that are able to go forth
to war in Israel."
In Luck.
An incident of the popularity
which the British kilted regiments
enjoy in France is quoted in a letter
received in Kirkcaldy, Scotland,
from Paris, containing the follow-
ing—"One Highlander sat down on
the terrace of a cafe in the Boule-
verde dnd fell asleep. When he
woke up toner hours later be found
a large crowd looking at him, and
his table was covered with eigar-
eines and cakes."
CRYING QQT FOR ENO TOF WAR
PANIC IS SEIZING TUE oral,.
DRAT PEOPLE.
(lunger Grows and Hundreds of
Thousands Are Dependent
on Charity,
"Tho •Gersnans are getting pan-
icky." That is the remark I have
heard from every neutral I have
met on his arrival from Germany
for the last few days writes a eor-
respondent at Olden'aal, Holland.
Here, on the !border, the impres
siens of these neutral travelers are
fresh and untainted; they cannot
conceal the truth, and the truth is
the Germans are getting frighten-
ed of what is ahead of them, The
nation, generally, however, Makes
things meth courage and makes
ready for the worst. That is what
they will get, too, and they know it,
Sonia of my informants have tra-
veled 'seraigllit down from Konigs-
berg, through Berlin, Hanover,
Hamlburg; some have seen Munich
and the southern cities; others have
gone to the Rhine province, looking
alter their business. But the latter
were greeted everywhere with
gloom by their business friends.
"There is no more (business." That
sentence has been repeated to' them
continuously—no (business except
for the manufacturers who work for
the army.
The complete absence of raw
stuffs is killing Germany's industry
and the plight of that countryoould
not' be worse if the battle were real-
ly raging within her own borders.
All along the Rhine, in the dis-
trict once humming with industry,
factories are silent and workmen
idle. Misery, in spite of uncount-
able relief committees, is spreading
rapidly. It has long since put its
grip on the poor, and is now starv-
ing the middle classes.
Poor in Sore Straits.
Food is terribly dear. The poor
have no bread that is fit to eat for
months, and now the ' burgeoisie"
must feed on "war bread," which a
Fren h horse would not eat.
People feed on horse meat, and
there is not much of that, because
all of the horses available are
snatched away by the military au-
thorities. In many cases horses
that have been wounded or worn
out at the front, and are no longer.
of any use for military purposes,
have been sent back to Germany
and put under the .bubchers' knives.
The life of the people is corre-
spondingly melancholy. The men
who are not serving no longer have
any 'business to attencl to; the wo-
men work in hospitals or sit at
home knitting for the wounded or
for the men in the field,
The possibility if a final triumph
is only entertained by professional
pan -German enthusiasts. • The Ger-
man people are sick of their own
"victories." They know 'that, with
one or two exceptions, these vic-
tories neer occurred, They are not
so stupid as nob to come tee the con-
clusion that if only 50 per cent, of
these alleged triumphs actually had
been true the Germans would have
been in Paris, and even in London,
long ago.
And the Germans are 'beginning
to discover that they never will be
in either city. "Then," they say,
"achy start this war?"
Losing Faith in Raiser.
For years past the feeling of the
Germans was: "The Kaiser will
only make war when he knewe for
certain that we shall win." The
Kaiser in former days, was infal-
lible, and his military genius was
an article of faith. But now the
truth even reaches the uneducated
East Prussian peasantry.
One of my informants here spoke
to a. peasant in a little place near
Dantzig, at Kriesdorf. The old
man, .who had fought in 1870, and
who has •five sons in .the war, said:
"Der Kaiser tkann's nicht schaf-
ffen." (The Kaiser cannot do ib.)
There was no anger in his words,
but they simply recognized that this
Germany, according to her popular
saying, had 'had "eyes bigger than
her ,stomach," and that she could
nob "digest" all her enemies.
In Berlin, I was informed, the
central part of the city does not
appear to have changed snitch. The
same folk shout the same patriotic
'songs in .the same cafes as' they did
in August and during the first
months of the war. But they .fail
to represent .the real Berliners, just
as the people on the :boulevards are
nob the Parisians.
If you eimply drive away from
'Ginter den Linden to the eastern or
western sections of the oily you
will notice the change the war has
brought. In the east, where the la -
horns lice, everything is silent,
There are beggars everywhere, and
the streets are dirty, fur the scav-
engers—told m.en and old women—
only came out twice a week, the
regular sweepers' being at the front
or killed.
Throngs Live by Charity..
Hundreds of thousands of the
eastern Berliners are dependent on
public and official charity to live
and feed their children, Un employe
merle is increasing every day, .end
many elderly men have gone :to the
front t i!begun
a y41nn Dei' m
a ae 1
they kifew thee, as soldiere, they
will at legit 'be fed and their wives
provided for,
In the wastes% diatrlots, where
the well-to-do people live tell the
night rates are closed. They tried
to continue "business as usual" et
first, but they remained sadly empty
night after nigli , and their receipts
were not sufficient to pay the tele-
phone hill.
In the streets one sees nothing
but people in mourning or cripples
or men with an arm in a sling or
bandaged head, The Berliners have
long since given, up the practice of
hoisting flags when Wolff tedegrams
announce "victories," But they
all say they will only dealt up their
flags when Wolff announces peace,
They have had enough of the war,
especially the women.
I have heard much of the Ger-
man women's strong desire to make
,peace—,Peace ab -..all costs, They
have been the principal losers in
'this' war, They have lost those dear
to tbsen, are when ,their husbands,
their sons, their brothers, or their
sweethearts have been brought back
alive but crippled'1or life or wound-
ed it has been their lot to nurse and
to comfort them.
They have had to be "saving" in
'their household and in their dress,
which is a most difficult thing for
a German woman. They have cried
all their teams; ,they have sacrificed
everything, and while the men at
least have the consolation of dying
"a hero's death" or getting iron
crosses, the women have had to sit
before a deserted hearth and con-
sole fatherless childrep, and live.
And live—'that is the worst 'burden
of all.
The women of Germany are 'be-
ginning ,to realize tt`hat this war has
lasted long enough. They have su'f-
fered ,more than their share, even
more than the women in other
countries, for 'the German casual-
ties far exceed those of, Germany's
foes. They want some at least of
those dear to them to coarse back
alive; and slowly the. ides. is gain-
ing ground in ifheir heads and in
their hearts that they must do
something to stop the war.
What it is they do not know as
yet;. Bult the ferment of discourage
ment and 'wrath is working in nail-'
lions of women's hearts, and now
that it :has become clear to German
women ,that Germany cannot win -
they have spontaneously united in
one wish, one thought, one desire:
"Stop the war !"
WAR TIME SACRIFICES.
Hou' the President of the :C.P.R,
Looks at It.
The readiness of all to go deep in
the pocket, so that Canada would
act worthily her part in helping the
British Empire and her Allies in the
present war, was expressed by Sir
Thomas Shaughnessy to a news-
paper representative, who spoke to
him about the taxes imposed on
railways, steamships, cables and
telegrams.
"The individual, the community,
the nation, fully understand that in
war time sacrifices have to be
made," said Sir Thomas. "These
they ale willing to undertake, as
they are necessary for the integrity
of the Empire. At the same time,
they will accept the extra burdens
with the better grace if they are
well convinced that proper caution
and economy are exercised in the
disbursement of the extra taxes and
the administration of affairs which
accompany such disbursement.
"One cannot gauge the amount of
trouble involved in the process of
realizing these special taxes by
stamps or otherwise, but all are
willing in such a time as the pre-
sent, to do their full duty; to put
up with any trouble; and to endure
sacrifices. They will the more
readily consent to all this if they
have the satisfied feeling that all
proper caution and economy have
been employed by those in authority
in the administration of public af-
fairs, and especially of those spe-
cial public affairs 'relating to our
share in aiding the Mother Country,
With such adequate caution and
prudence, there would be nothing to
regret afterwards.
"It is the duty of all of us, indivi-
duals and corporations, to bear our
share of the extra burdens, which
must necessarily he imposed at this
tune of Areas. If these are wisely
and prudently disbursed, so as to
obtain the best and most efficacious
results, as respeets the public ser-
vice, there will be no occasion to
complain; and nll these,speeial bur-
dens will be borne, I have no doubt,
with cheerfulness by our people,
who are ready to do their utmost to
aid in the defence of the empire."
Couldn't Tell.
"Won't you be very, very happy
when your sentence is over ?" cheer-
fully asked a woman of a convict in
prison.
"1 dunno, ma'am; 1 dunno,"
gloomily ;answered the man.
"You don't know?" asked the wo-
man, amazed, "Why not?"
"I'm in for ?rife,"
et-
"So you want eo marry my daugh-
ter, do you?" asked the father,
"Now, what are your prospects?"
"Excellent, ear," answered the
young man, "if you don't apoll
them,"
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ST_AItVING MILLIONS HAVE A
HATRED Or' GERMANS.
In the, Large Cities Most of he
People Join the Bread -
Lines.
"The impressions d take away
from Liege are those of wonder that
a people can suffer so much in si-
lence, and of admiration for the
bravery which enables 'them to . do
it."
This statement was made by Dr.
P. H, Williams, of New 'York, who,
at the suggestion of the Rockefeller
Foundation, volunteered his ser-
vices to direct the operations of the
American Commission for Relief in
Belgium at Liege, and is now re-
turning to America. Continuing,
he said:
"The people of Belgium never
complaint bat they neve; laugh.
Their stoicism, for that is the onlly
word which describes their attitude,
would mislead even trained observ-
ers into believing that everything
was going on as usual. Under the
surface, however; they feel implac-
able hatred (because of their untold
misfortunes and sufferings.
"A little girl at Liege, who had
been lucky enough to get a warm
petticoat among the Christmas pr•e-
sentts distributed by the commis-
sion, wrote to the American child
who sent it, 'My country has been
devastated by the sword Our dear
cure is dead, our burgomaster, who
was a doctor and gave all his time
to the poor; has been ,shoe; •my fa-
ther was shot, and 1 am now living
with nuns, eating bread sent from
America.'
"In the Province of Liege alone
nearly three hundred thousand, out
of a population of nine 'hund'red
thousand, are absolutely destitute,
and entirely dependent upon the -
commission :for food to keep 'them
alive, In the ,principal towns,
Liege, Verviers; and Spa, distress
is most acute because the iron
mines and ether industries are
Closed. Practically the only ex-
ception is found in :the coal mines,
which are being wprked ,three days
it week to obtain fuel to keep the
people 'from freezing.
"During the month I 'was in
Liege it snowed or rained every day
and when I lett the Province was
covered with a 'thick (blanket of
snow.
Thousands Begging.
"At Louvain and other peaces
Belgium communal authorities are
laying .out !boulevards and other
municipal improvements planned
long ago, simply to provide work
for the people. They can keep this
work going only three days a week,
and in payment men are given pa-
per (bonds which are not negotiable
outside the community in which they
live.
"In the country districts of Liege
Province farmers .are killing the
soil, but they have no horses, and
they are being oompellled to sell
their cattle for slaughter, anti cat-
tle fodder has been requisitioned
for the cavalry. This has had two
resales. The firse is that meat is
cheaper in Liege than it is in New
York, and the second that the sup-
ply of milk is rapidly disappearing,
''-'Ali lease 'thirty thousand people
line up once a day for 'bread and
soup: at :twelve canteene established
by the commission in Liege.. You
seerno young men; these are only
old women, children, and cripples
"The di'stributio'n starts at half -
past eight o'clock in ,the morning
and is not ,finished at the principal
canteen until eleven. Tile women
place bheix half -sound leaves in
neer bags and old men wraaipp theirs
in bandana ha'ndker.ehietfs which
they hide under their coats. :Tlhen
they go to another canteen to get
their allowance of soup,
"Rich and poor all have to send
fo•rbread, and ale get the same sap -
ply. 'Rich' is a term of irony, but
I use it oaanparatively todis'tinguish
between the distressed and the de-
stitute. Thipk of steel magnates.
university professors, and well -to-
do women. accustomed to luring lux-
uriously on investments :which now
bring in no income, being obliged
to stand inn' bread line. Within it
few months there will Ibe no distinc-
tions to make, 'because practeeallly
every person in Belgium will Ibe de-
pendent on the canteens. Every-
one's private means will have dis•
appeared.
"Before the commission get into
operation gores of small towns had
no 'breed at all. Since I arrived at
Liege we have not failed once to be
able to supply rations for the peo-
ple of the ,Province, but we have
had several close shaves. No one
is starving now, but ;the .people are
beginning to show signs of the
strain they are under in; being kept
alive on so small a ration. Their
faces look drawn, and they natural-
ly fall easy victims to any infection.
"Belgian physicians are doing
splendid work both in relieving dis-
tress and in a'tte'nding prisoners and
wounded. The -communal authori-
ties have the sanitary situation well
in hand."
ON THE ROAD TO RUIN.
A Neutral Observes' Says Germany
Is Slowly Bleeding to Death.
A South American, who has lately
been travelling in Germany, and
who knows the country well, says in
a letter to the London Times: "In
the origin and source of all her
power, her industries, her enormous
foreign trade, Germany is being
slowly bled to death! Banking
tiansacl ons with the outside world
are paralyzed, and it is only on
talking with business men that one
can realize what Germany is losing,
or judge of the enormous labor
which the British Navy has accom-
plished for the benefit of the allied
cause. Germany began the war
was an apparently most inexhaus-
tibe supply of arrogance and of mili-
tary pride. The stock is slowly di-
minishing. As time goes on the pro-
cess will be quickly accelerated.
One sees little by little," says the
writer, "the wane of their belief in
the infallibility of their army. That
is despite the fact that bad news is
as far as possible suppressed. The
failures and 'sufferings of the sol-
diers are systematically hidden from
the people. I reburned convinced,"
concludes this neutral observer,
"that in spite of all her efforts,
great though these be beyond all
ponderation, Germany will be beat-
en, and if the war goes to a finish
the military powers of Kaiserdom
will be buriecl for the remainder of
the century."
Rubbing It In.
The
Wife—,I xecall our courtship
days, those Useful days.
The Brute—When I wee in a
bluseiulAlze 1
THE BRRD-MAN'S
BomaAROMENT
ateeeteskeireitenanetelieselMeieetteeeereseil
leriez ie six to -day, 1 have pro -
mined tee, be at his party tto-night.
We were out in the fields' to -day
with the model of my new maelhele..
It is a'p'resent for his birthday.
After all the menthe of failure
the •ata'blizer is aprowed success and
there is great joy in our household.
Julie has Ibsen up nvith me in my
great' newmonoplane, the fastest in
all Germany..
Fritz has been promised a 'trip
with line on ,this special day, but a
summons has cctme'froin the War
Department. General Itoilker,
Director of ' Aviation, has taken•
great interest in any Staiblizer and I
have been -under waiting orders
the past week. .I have .,been tip wt
the deparement andtaken on 800'
Kilos of Ly'ddi'te ,bombs and now,
with special charts, 1 ane up over
the frontier, altitude 2000 metres.
The vast mass of .the eiiemy is ap-
paronle, congested around the many
freight trains. on the branching
spurs of the railroads, and as far as
the eye can see are signs of motive
mobilizing.
Now and again the view is• our-
tained by a filmy olotid as I sail on
toward the great city wh elh is my
objective as marked on my chant.
Now d am over the city, riding
steady as a church. How neat and '
trim it looks with its radiating
boulevards, the orderly arrange•
men'ts of its lawns and .trees, and
the greab detached public ,buiedings,
and yonder, ,the thick jumble of the
houses in great congested sections.
Every boulevard and street seems
-full of the .flawing streams of life,
and endless current cf automobiles
and vehicles, arjd1 :the dark, almost,
continuous masses of humanity.
'Shifting any position over a great
square where the city is incite con-
gested, and slowing down my en-
gine, now I try the efface t:f fre
Lyddite, as, •tossing over one of the
heavy bombs,I watch it long in i'_s
sheer descent into. the very heart of
the human ant -hill. A great tb:i:id-•
ing flash, a cataclysm of scattering
human debris and eldud of curtain.-
ing vapor, }vhich clearing, shows
the consternation as 1 repeat• wi.h
bomb alter (bomb.
What ecstasy to sit serene aloft,
and hurl clown upon this 1 illiput
enemy these jove-like :bolts tf de-
struction.
As I sail calmly about how Cod -
like it feels to rain down the Reig-
ning on this pigmy race.
From this height their lof•:izst
structures seem aheut the sane
level' as the gamine
I laugh at it'heir rrny h ells hue. •
ing far below me. t am aneve :i;tc
superior to the wrath •,f not 1,
As, at caprice, I deal de't:li r' 1
destrndtion here and there a. -d
watch the pride of their are.hi;"e.-
ure tumble like houses tf ea .ds.
perhaps my enjoyment is great r
than I would find in the detail of
the slaughter seen c'.•,se at hit rd,
but from here, itis all so im mere•rr
al, so remote and ;general. Such
disturbances of those messes of ir•
sects. is even rather 'humaruris,
Fritz and T will have to try th=s isw
game an his tin soldiers It will
amuse !him to 'tell how I area j ad
the bridge full of autan:';biles 's n•d
horses .and people, and new herd
and foolishly they tried to reach
papa with their spitting quick -fir ns.
Now S will sail over :those great
barracks and stir up the waspa as
bit --As wheeling, I turn to the
south -east• -Hal aanissfre! Dean
and fury ! than contact'vir It has
got to work new—the ignition—it
fails -Oh, idiot, imbecile—1 k:s:,v
it this morning—and to have forgot-
ten!. The wire! 011 so slight a
thing -20D metres volplane? Down
there ! Quick, let nee think --If I
could only get alt it—Two minutes
to Six it• --
'Stalled dead!' the engine deael!
And I-1God help me•—Well1 Vol-
plane dawn there into that park—
Yes easily onto that great lawn .full
of people—•See the people are run-
ning to meet rne—Devils! It'll be
hard explaining—
There'are soldiers and women
and policemen—
Julie will have to tell the children
I'll not be coming to the party this
evening
That's right Stand aside good
people --Oh the fiendish facee-•-I,a.m
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"Ann S good enough for you?"
sighed the fond lover. "No," mid
the girl candidly. "you're nob, but
you are 'too good for any other
girl."
"How is Holbert getting on at col -
legal" asked the minister, WI., w113
(beingentertained at di nowt,
"Spendidly," said the proud fa-
ther, who then event on to tell t f his
r
on s ming social, , athl.tic mid
scholastic eaceesses, and the min-
ister said it was a fine thr"Irg to he
college Hired. That evening little
Janes mho had been an interested
listener, said: "Papa, whunt ,did i'41r,
Brown mean by 'college bred' V'
Oil, that, said papa, who had
been ;looking over •Iiia sons bills;
"is a four years loaf,"