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YOWILLE ENQUIRER. MWUKP SMP'WKm.T. t. * oarsT'9 sons. PaMwhm. S 4ami|!! Jefspffer: J[?r the promotion of the political, soeial, 2lgrien!tarat and (Tommerrial interests of thl jpeoj)I{. |T E RNC^ BHTABUSHBD WU YORKrS.~C.rFRIP A-Y. jlTXE 7Tl918. ~~ XO. 4(i IIIIIIIIIIUIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII I "Bride t a J lly VICTOI | A ROMANCE OF TH] I FIGHTING OK I FIELDS 0 ~ Copyright hy UIIIIUIIUUIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII t'MAITKIt XVII. Hartley sat up ?>n the stPtchcr anil llxiil his eyes on Howard's lace. It was evident that he was des|ierat< ly wounded. tiii<- ot th<- orderlies kneeled hesiile him and held him. "This man," said tin- gen? ral, chewing at his mustache in emotion which he could not altogether hide, "was once an officer in the service of our country. lie was engaged in confidential woik in the war department, lie was accused of espionage?unjustly accused." With a low cry Khanor rushed forward and kneeled heside the sllickell man; she placed her arms ahout him and drew ids head down upon her sliouhh'r, looking piteously into the weary eyes. Hampton raised her hand to ins lips and kissed it. "1 njustly accused," repented the general. "Major Kellemiaii, stand to utt< lit ion, sir! You shall ho heard later, lie was the victim of the System, which was even then laying its plans in Washington, lie was the victim of a woman named Morsheiiii Hilda Morsheiiii. whose activities were well known, though we could then do nothing to counteract them. She made a s|Mcially ot luring young odlccrs into gambling dens, winning large sums Irom them, and thus leading them down the slope toward disgrace and death. "She had a confederate who was highly placed in the war deimrtineiit. When, hy their united efforts, they failed to make a traitor of Captain Hampton, they compassed his i uin. How they did so I need not describe now. Tin* fuels arc of record; it is enough to say that they succeeded. Hampton was driven into exile; but they were not satisfied with that. They broke his career, tlt<-> drove him iroin lilt- company of all decent iikii. lint I hat vtaN not enough. They broke his wile's heart; she died. Tliey made Ids name one of execration. Still they Mere not satisfied. With devilish ingenuity they sought to co\Vr their tiaeks hy making it up|iear that Hamilton was still carrying on his trade, still selling government secrets. You see why. colonel?" lie continued, tutuing to Howard. "Iteoaiise they themselves were continuing their vile work, and the new leakages had to he in lor' -*x - ? Kellermnn, against the brick wall; he was rumbling nervously in his tunic |K>ckct. "I suppose, sir, that you are accusing?" he began. "He silent, sir! tientlemen," lie continued. addressing Mark and the t'oloncl, "you are Interested in ktiOM'ing what liap|M'iied to this man Hampton. He could not rid himscll' of the lieliel" that justice, though slow. is pretty sure, lb- hail faith in Hod. t'nfortunately he hud less faith in himst If. Am I wronging you. Hampton?" ho continued, addressing Hartley. "No, sir," muttered the man on the stivtohcr feebly. "tie wishes me to tell the whole story, lie went to t'uhu and Dung in his lot with the rebels, lie became disgusted with their means and methods, obtained a pardon from Hcncral Wcyh r and took up Ids residence in Santiago. The outbreak of the war surprised him there, lie knew that Siinlinw woulil fall. ami Ik- liail boon warned that ho would ivooivo short shift at tho hands of our |m oplo. "Ho longed for doath. hut ho had two things that kept alivo tho dosiro for lifo. Olio was his ohild. tho othor tho S dosiro of vindication, which had become a monomania. Ilo triod to osi:i|hinto tho jungle. Ilo saw that it was hopeless. "Ilo was hiding in a littlo hut when ho hoard I'ootstops. An American soldier. who had strayed from his company. was coining into the clearing. At that moment a stray bullet caught him In tho head, killintr him instantly. Hampton saw his chance. Ho took off the dead man's clothing and put it on: ho dressed tho body in his own. H?* know that by this means ho could iwss through tho linos in tho guise of a wounded man, until he had a chance to got rid of his uniform in the cabin ol some Cuban, who would bo only too well pleased to give him some rags in exchange for it. And leax ing his money and jm|>ers on the dead man, he knew that ho loft his identity behind. for the bullet had destroyed the features. "There was tho child?hut Hampton know that ho could take Iter no further. With the Americans she would receive food?which ho had not?and shelter and protection. Afterward ho would regain her. Ho lurked in the hushes until ho saw Captain Wallace appear, watched him. trusted him. and went away. "He learned of tho child's adoption and for years he haunted her homo, her school, all places that were her residence, ever craving her. ever res' mined b\ the realization that, till his name was cleared, he had no right to her. His idea of vindication had l?econte, as I said, monomania. ' Now. gentlemen. 1 have little time to spare, hut I must carry.this story to the end. I said that he had less faith In himself than he had in Cod. Once, for three years. Hampton lost his child. She had cone to San Francisco. In his despair he went to Washington. he sought out Hilda Morsheim. who was still plying her trade, and liegged. as he had never begged anyone that she would vindicate his name." There was a stillness oC utter death inside the little cave. "She saw in him one of those useful spies such as her organization used. ^ broken men with Inside knowledge of conditions. She used him. held out promises, broke them; in his despair be made himself a slave to iWiaid? and her confederate, forgetting his manhood and what he had been. Time and again they broke faith with him. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimmmiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiu >f Battle" 1 1 HOl'SSKAC E 2 AMERICAN ARMY 1 r THE BATTLE- I F FHANCE. | \V. (i. C'tiapman. E lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliT ili hail just ri-iili/.iil tliut he hail nothing to liujw for from th< m when f'ap lain Wallaci- apiwan-il on tin- seon?\" "Yon, hi- was a rotti-n dot?, sir," said Kcili'iman. with tin- kIioh! of a sin ilo. "In it on wuch evidence that you presume??" "No, sir. it is not!" thundered the general. "It is on the evidence of tinwoman IliMa Monde im, alias Kcnson. secon d by Hampton under circumstances which?" Kellernian uttered a lowcry; he was trembling now. and all ids bravado seemed to have oozed away. "This woman, strangely enonch. loved her confederate," went on the m-iicrnl remorselessly. fixing his eyes lull on Kellerman's now. while Kcllcrnian I.linked liken I .at in da> light, and turned iiis head weakly from side 10 side, as if under the intnleruide glare of a searchlight. "Her claims on him w?-rc strong enough, Hod i.nows! ^luwanted tiim to marry Iter, to take liet away Irom the old scenes that they might have a chance to redeem their wretched lives toy.eth< r. lie lugl promised her that so many times?ami the worst of women is as wax in the hands of the man site loves. "I'ait lie ha<l Ihs-oiih infatuated with another, with a girl as miieh above him as?" With a cry that seemed hardly human Colonel Howard sprat).; toward Kellerntan. Ids tinkers twitching as it lie sought to fasten tin in about bis throat. Mark caught liim and held him while Hie old man swayed to and fro. His outstretched unit extended toward K< Herman as if in imprecation. Klcatior, at Hartley's side, did not even look toward them. "This woman, Morshcim?Keitson? whatever you call her, came to France, upon receipt ol a message which had cut her to tin- heart, shown her the hop< lessness of Itei dreams and taught her that tlie one man in whom site had believed was worthless clay. To do her justice, let us siip|?ose thai, even in tier worst acts, she had been mis taincd l?y a sens, of duty to In-4' country. She met her confederate in an inn at a village not far distant. Frantic at her appearance, lie induced her to let him drive her Imck through the lines, and on the way renewed his lying |yomise*. Thia tjnu^abe-doubted i "Two men had overheard their conversation. Chic was Captain Wallace, whom the pair had broken as the\ broke |Mior Hampton. Ilim the traitor had seen, and he devised a scheme to send him to the trenches and contrive to have him sent on a false and fatal errand. Willi that point I shall not now deal. The other man was Hampton, who had enlisted under an alias, in the belief that he would obtain a clue that would unmask the traitor, lie ( contrived to go back through the lines, found the woman, and somehow? perhaps by find's wonderful mercy?obtained her signed confession?which I have here, in full." I He wheeled u|hiu Kellcrman. "Ma- i jor Kellcrman," he said in a deep volci that vibrated almost with pity, so 1 charged with significance that its I meaning could not escape either How aril or Mark, "you are unilor arrest. Yoii will no toward your quarters, lirst removing your l?*-H ami arms." I\? Herman saluted weakly and stum- ( Med out of the rave. The general i looked at Mark. "The soldier Weston reeelves a free i and lull parTTTm f<ir his valor in the Held this day." he said. "He Is also discharged honorably from the service < of the I'nited States government." Mark looked at the general in as- I tonishmeut; this was the last thing that he desired. The general approached and clapped him on the shoulder. "Captain Wal- , lace." he said, "your written resignation from the I'nited States army cannot he accepted, owing to the state of war. After the war it will receive consideration. *ln the meantime you will 1 resume your duties on the hcadquarters staff." Tears rushed to Mark's eyes. Hi tried to speak, he was conscious that the general and Howard were shaking l.'m l?y the hand: and then a quick 1 glance from Kleanor drew him to < x.here she kneeled by Hartley. i A single look showed him that the man was dying. The unmistakable change had come over his face within i the last few moments: it was as if. i having fulllllcd the purpose of his life, i lie had resigned himself without a imng to death. i Mark kneeled on one side of him. with KI en nor lacing mm over inr stretcher. The hearers, who had fallen i bnok. stood still as images behind. And : behind them Mark had the dint consciousness in the background of his | mind of Kellermnn. broken as he had broken so many, and fumbling- always < fumbling, now with his tunic, now with the belt that he was trying to detach with shaking fingers. "Hartley!" whispered Mark, holding the dying man's hnnd in his. "That was you today?I missed you. hut I believed in you. You saved me." There was a fluttering pressure of Mark's hand in turn. Hampton was speaking: he was asking for the colonel. "I am here. Hamilton." said Colonel Howard in a choked voice, as he leaned over him. "You believe in me now. sir?" muttered the dying man. rolling his head uneasily in the effort to see. "May God forgive me, Hampton! 1 May she?your wife?forgive me. Tell her that, and tell her her words came true. I betrayed ray l>est friend, and I've suffered for It, and I shall suffer to the last day of my life." . "She forgives you. Howard." said Hampton, speaking now with such solemnity that his words seemed to his listeners to be inspired. 'There's only?1 one thine?I want. Howard, old man." 1 ' Yes, m> dear ls?y? yes. Hampton." i "1'ut m.v name?hack on the nies.s lis?," whixperfd Hampton. j Thioue-ti his tears Mark was conscious that the inevitable fumbling outside the cave had ceased. As Hampton Icll hack there came the slid- < den crack of a revolver shot. Tin to ncral's form blackened the i ntrance as they raised their heads. ! Mark placed his hands across Klcunor's eyes and drew her away. (To He Concluded.) SENSATIONS IN THE AIR Sente of Altitude Does Not Count. Ask any airman what it feels like { aii at HUMID or L'0.000 feet for that matter. His reply will invariably be f the same, "Sensation of height? There Ii.'illoon descended to lower altitudes. N'o airplane as yet. has renrheil the height attained on this balloon trip. Special oxygen apparatus would he necessary for ureal altitudes to bring the siipplv to the airman's lungs up to the normal. When "contact patrolling" over the trenches or low flying, strafing ground J targets. the sense of speed is present; >>ut at normal heights (normal for the airman means about 5.000 feet) the relative s|sed of the machine over the ground Is small. The earth , seems to crawl away behind. Advantage of Height. ? Airmen who arc learning to fly do i wot realize theigo of The j>assenger'J^H|^iH u*J(l? not 11 (Ted wtfh ft^^vjJj^JJUAiShtor. The 1 tlrst question potto the instructor s after a flight Is "How high did we t go?" And the answer is probably c ilie first rough guess thai comes into n I In- pilot's head, lie very likely never a looked at the aneroid during the lliglit | until lie was heading into the wind ^ foi the last hit of straight glide down t to the aerodrome. To the pupil the s thought of climbing higher than be- c fore seems to carry a sense of greater ri danger. s No one but the experienced airman a K.dizcs tin- full truth of the maxim, v "safety in height." and nothing but li "conking" engines will bring home I this truth. Tin- homing instinct comes o nut directly the engine is at fault. The f pilot immediately looks round and v tries to make for his aerodrome. Woe betide the pilot who turns down- ) wind near the ground in an effort to n get back without sufficient height in t which to head into the wind again. I This homing instinct is a very natural I nne. Kvcrything else Is strange | ground. Although it all looks flat ti from above, the airman knows how " extremely varied it can be. This is s where the seaplane pilot has an nil- t vantage: the sea will never he so do- f I'optivo as the sides of the hills or lie t hedged in like fields or dotted with t houses and trees.?New York World. f NEW WORDS 1 I The Armies Are Adding to the Eng- ' lish Language. These men are put together with no , discrimination as to race or language ], so that they have become almost entirely de|?endent upon English for their daily intercourse, says Seribner. q That they must know, or learn to g know it, in order to talk with their ti follows, for it is the only universal, | and is the official language of the t army. They must know it to under- I1 stand or give orders; they must know c it well to obtain advancement. The r broad divisions of the country are fi maintained in that southerners are o generally organized in units by them- b selves, westerners by themselves, etc.: 0 but In all the foreign element is in- 0 iliscriminatel.v mingled with the na- ' live. ' There is a manifold significance in *' all this. The effect upon English is already slightly felt: but the future 0 effects are certain to be great, how v great none can now say. It wttl be ten years, a score of years, perhaps ^ a generation, before a toll can be ? taken of the resulting changes in the English vocabulary, meanings, and ^ pronunciation. The most obvious and .. Immediate changes lire the new words . which are being taken bodily into r English as a result of military usage , and necessity. In this class are the u many aeroplane words, such as em- t pennage (the stabilizing planes of an r aeroplane), aileron (a lateral balanc- ^ ing plane or surface of an aeroplane), F avion (an aeroplane), escadrille (an v aeroplane unit in the army), allette (a c part of the wing surface), hangar (a a shed for aeroplanes) etc.; the words t descriptive of military tactics or t n? hAt>M9A AS tis /la harraaa t n mricnvc, c? uaiioac vi wi uv \? , form of defensive gun-flre), liaison a (co-operation between the forces), t camouflage (disguising, as by colora- s Hon), etc., terms of description, such as piolu (a French private), Boche (a German), ace (the French name for ] an aviator who has brought down five i enemy aeroplanes within his own ( lines) etc. t . isn't tiny." The avcitiKO individual who has not yet cxpcricnct'ii flleht is sure ho ' would iio ciddv, faint or seasick, llo J iiiilifos liv liis fiM-liims when looking down over the of a cliff, the KitTel Tower or some such structure. If I ho airmen could view his height In looking down a trailing ro|?o or a sheer wall stretching from his machine to the ground It might he the same for him. From 20.000 feet the ground looks much the same as from S.Ouo or 1.000. Minus a height indicator an inexperienced airman could not judge his height when within 50 l?er cent. Air sickness among pilots occurs very rarely. It is sometimes brought about by the rolling and pitching of the machine in "bumpy" weather, when the air is lull of pockets. Then tic airman who is bilious or otherwise out of trim may experience air sickness, which is much the same thing as seasickness. Different altogether, however, are the effects of the reduced air pressure at extreme heights. A British aeronaut. tilnisher, of the (Jrcenwlch Oh- ( servatory. ballooning as long ago as isil'.', stated that at 29,000 feet lie lost the use of his arms and legs, later . the muscles of his hack and neck, and J power of s|M'och and vision. Fin 11 v- lie I income unconscious until the ' NEWS AND VIEWS OF SEVIEI Dtaervallons Concerning Verk am Living In Blp Training Camg. SEVIER BEING RAPIBLY FILLED AGAIN Soldiers Have Now Discarded Their 0 D. Woolens for Khaki?Everybod) Resigned to a Hard Summer's Train ing. (By James D. Grist.) Practically every unit comprising: f part of the Thirtieth or "Old Hlckorj Pivlsion," as it was unofficially knowi ind which has been in training al *ainp Sevier since last September, Is sow away from there and safely across he Atlnntic. Training camps are lo ated in France and England and oth r allied countries Just like those ir touth Carolina, and there is little prob Utility that the boys who have recenty crossed the oc<-an for overseas duty ivlll be placed in the great battle lines for several months yet; but in tin neantime will continue training ovei here more or less along the same lines 11 which they have been drilled hen 'or the jtast several months. Since tin Icparturo of the last organizations lounging to the Thirtieth left Grcenvilh fume several weeks ago, infuntry regim-nts and machine gun battalion.* ivhich have been in training at Catni lackson in Columbia, have been moved .<> Camp Sevier and from the nucleus >f another division, the 81st, that is iow being recruited to war strcngtli vith drafted men being sent then ioni different sections of the country several thousand drafted men from Mew York stute recently arrive at Seder and at the same time hundreds "rom the state of Alabama came inte K-rvice. The coming of these men nark the first "rookies" to Greenville, ty "rookies" is meant that these re ent arrivals are the first who have ieen sent by their respective local ourds direct to Camp Sevier. Heretoore all new men from this and adoining states have been first directed o report to Camp Jackson and other egular cantonment sites. That it is contrary to the govemnent's policy to have regiments ot roo|>s organized by sections is also airmiscd by the coining of those new inn from different sections of the ountry. Thus with New York and Vlubama in the same company, togeth>r with North and South Carolinians md Tcnnesseeans, sectionalism and all ines regarding sectionalism arc a hing of the past and Is abandoned in avor of nationalism. The linrsh, raspng tone of the New Yorker is blended vith the soft drawl of the man from Uabaina and the silvery note of the coaster" of North or South Carolina, is the men lie side by side in the flrng pits at the target range striving for jjr Seldom" if ever"does a South Caroinian or other lad from a southern late in training at Camp Sevier refer o his comrade from New York or Ohio ir Pennsylvania as a Yankee. That lame doesn't sound right even to them ny more, and is entirely out of place, 'ine fellows, the New Yorkers are, ;ood comrades, good mixers and all of hat and. with it all, as sharp and mart as can be. The southern boys an and are learning much from these lien and the lads from the eastern tat<- can learn many a jiolnt of vantgo from their southern brothers, rhioh they are quick to do. It is a innnv idea and plan, the matter of trignding those draftees to South Car>1 ina for training and it meets with the avor of enlisted men and officers, clilinn |M)|>ulation and everybody. The great majority of these New 'orkers with whom I liave talked, and inturally I have Interviewed scores of hem, are well pleased with the plan or training in southern camps. They ike the climate here and like the peo>le. Of course they are always talking lore or less ahout things hack in ,\u Yo'k," and they miss the familiar cones of their great city. Many of hem had probably never before been urther south than Philadelphia until hey came to Greenville. Kor a time hey will miss their beer, their many orms of entertainment back home and II of that "Squads right" and "leftng" will very soon prove more than ntertaining and there are many other orms of military amusement which hey will soon come to regard as ighl.v and which will prow much tore valuable than that which they eft back east. Every man who went away with the "hirtieth division was subjected to a trlct physical examination regarding lis fltnoss for oversons service before le wont away. Thorc is no timo over hero, the doctors and soldiers who mve been and come liack say, to treat irdlnary ailment and chronic comilaints. Those of the last division to ;o who were considered unfit for forign service were left at Sevier and iavc lwen organized into what is calld a casual battalion. There are sev? ral hundred of these, probably 800. icing men from the various organizaions of the division who on their final xamination proved to he possessed of wenk heart, bad feet, defective vision r other physical shortcomings. They rill -be assigned to light duties that hey can perform, probably some light arm work, hauling and just enough Irill and military training to keep !.em constantly reminded of the fact hat they nre "in the army now." Natirally the great majority of these dickers, lames and lazles," as they are ocularly termed by soldiers, are very auch disappointed over their inability o see it through. Yet they are glad nd proud to know that they are not o be discharged from the sendee but nay still wear the khaki and that the >it they do is just as Important and lecessary as is the plugging of Fritz vith a 30-30. Given plenty of good exrcise and careful medical attention at ill times, there is every possibility hat the physical conditions of tnany of hese men will so Improve that they rill be found fit for military service it some time In the future. Hope ana he future are ever yreat assets In a oldier*8 life. Included In the Slat, or "Stonewall llvtalon," aa It la unofficially known, rhtch was recently traaafehretf from Columbia to Greenville, are Included nany York county aoldiera, all tf tbem (drafted men. 7'here is every reason to believe that a great numl>er of those who are to go into service within the j next few months will be sent to Camp Sevier for training Instead of Camp Jackson. The new division is not recruited to ful! war strength as yet and prolmhly will not be for several weeks. * prafted men from this section will. nidging by the policy of the past, be ' sent to recruit those organizations in i their immediate vicinity and therefore many will come to Sevier. The York eountinns among the recent arrivals uith whom I have talked, say they are , about as well pleased with conditions . at Greenville as they were at Colum, liia, an<l that Camp Sevier has one t great advantage In their eyes in that , it is closer to home than was Camp , Jackson. One in the army soon forgets the , pangs of homesickness and the longing . for home that he might cherish; hut of , course he never forgets entirely or even the exact number of cows and , pigs and chickens there were on the . place when he went away. And visits . back home, even If for only a day. are j looked forward to with as much tn. tiiest and zeal as the visits of Santa ( . riaus in the long ago. GENERAL FORREST A Brilliant Soldier and Hit Style of 1 ' ' Conversation. 1 ' So one, not even Napoleon, ever put I the military art more completely than 1 did General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1 when, in answer to a woman who 1 asked him the secret of his success. ' lie replied, "Ma'am, 1 got there first with the most men." General Maurice 1 1 now iiuotes this trenchant epigram, on which, though Na|?oleon did not ut1 ter it. he always acted. It pains us 1 ' to And the New York Tribune renus1 ins Oen. Maurice for misquotation ami alleged that what (Jeneral Forrest said was, "I got there fastest with the f most men." . i ' We are aware that this impossible form is the one in which Forrest's great epigram is generally quoted, the explanation accompanying it being the one the Tribune now gives, that l'orivst was an uneducated man. No uneducuted man would think of such an intricate and complicated phrase. Nor is it Southern dialect. It is not dialect, but "baby talk." The truth is thut somebody who was try- 1 ing to make Forrest talk whut he imagined to be southern dialect cvolv1 ed that incredible phraseology, and has been, followed lavishly ever since, i What Forrest said undoubtedly was, "Ma'am, I got thar fust with the most men." 1 Forrest was a genius whom the Confederacy discovered too late. After the war Joseph E. Johnson pronounced him. "the greatest soldier the Civil war 1 produced. Gen. Beauregard said that him "the most remarkable man our Civil war produced on either side." 1 At Forrest's funeral, Governor i'orter of Tennessee, remarked to Jefferson Davis that history had "named him as < one of the half dozen greatest soldiers of the country," to which Mr. Davis 1 replied: 1 "I agree with you. The trouble was 1 that the generals commanding In the southwest never appreciated Forrest until it was too late. Their judgment 1 was that he was a bold and enterprls- 1 ing partisan raider and rider. I was misled by them, and 1 never knew how to measure him until I read his rojiorts of his campaign across the Tennessee river in 1864. This induced ( a study of his earlier reports, and 1 after that 1 was prepared to adopt 1 wlint you are pleased to name as the judgment of history." If the Tribune wishes to know how General Forrest really talked, here 1 is a sample quoted by his friend Gen. Dates, in his "War Between the Union and the Confederacy." Forrest Is de- 1 scribing a hand-to-hand fight at the hattlo of Fort Donelson: "I thought that 1 could kill u man hy strikin' him over the head with my sabre, hut I found that ' I could knock him off his horse, he would jump up and run away. I then tried the p'int on one, and when he ' fell he lay thar. I looked up and down the* line, and saw that the boys were ' mixing with them. I tried to think of 1 the command "Right thrust" to give them, hut could not, and Instead yelled ' aloud, 'l'unch them, hoys, damn them, punch 'em!"' They understood nnd obeyed the command.?New York Times. Ons Day At A Tims.?l'ile three , hundred and sixty-flve panes of transparent glass one upon the other and ( try to look through them. Nothing i but Inky blackness. Take from the pile one pane, look through It, and all is clear. Thus, as we face a new t year, with Its days piled one upon the i other, all is darkness. Each morning, ] if we take off from the pile of days i that one which comes flrst, we are 1 enabled to see our duties clearly and live out our responsibilities faithfully. I We cannot live the second day before ( the flrst or more than one day at a time. ' Boy Scout Shot By Germans.?Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell, 1 addressing a meeting of Boy Scouts at Guildhall, told of work done by French Boy Scouts near the fighting line. A heroic deed by one French Boy Scout was described in a letter found on a dead German. Sir Robert read the ' letter, which follows: "A traitor has just been shot?a little French lad belonging to one of those gymnastic societies which wear the tricolor button. The poor little fellow in his infatuation wished to be a hero. "A German column was passing a wooded defile and the boy was caught and asked whether the French were about. He refused to give Information. Fifty yards further on fire was opened from the cover of the wood. "The prisoner was asked In French if he had known that the enemy was in the forest and he did not deny It He went with firm step to a telegraph post and stood against it, with a green vineyard behind him, and received the I volley of the firing party with a proud smile en his face. "Infeteated boy; It was a pity to see 1 such wasted courage."?London dispatch. AMERICANS IN FRANCE The Finest Soldiers World Has Ever Known. THEY ARE WORTHY OF OUR PRIDE. The Cream of American Youth Living Up to Our Highest Ideals?Discreditable Stories Are True as to a Few; But Not to the Men as a Whole. The following article is by Daniel A. Doling, associate president of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, in the Christian Endeavor World: Before leaving America I wrote an article for The Christian Endeavor World in which I emphatically stated that 1 believed a story Just then wtdely circulated in the reform press concerning the wholesale drunkenness of American troops in a certain port of ? 11 *? f olu'? \fnrn thnn nn?' HUIUIU& lu in- iiiidi . ...... . ....... thousand men from a community of the northwestern section of the United States were declared to have been put under guard because of their drunken condition within a day after embarking. The- story is false. I have personally investigated it in every French coast city where American troops are received. My investigations have followed Ihrce lines, civilian life, military authorities, and the Young Men's Christian Association. Nothing even approaching this condition has ever existed. Jtefore going farther let ine insist that such a tale was inexcusable, and that no report of the kind should ever he passed on without first hand knowledge. A slander against the army en masse, however well intended and by whomever repeated, is a |K>or reward for the men who are daring all for us. who an- entering now upon hardships and dangers no pen can describe, and who are the linest flower of our Atncriiean civilization. I would not speak of the constructive work that is being done to guard the morals of the soldier and of his response to these far-reaching efforts without making it clear that the uniformed man is not in every instance live ironi vicr, men- n.i.r I ho re arc outbreaks on the part of individuals and groups that the authorities deeply regret. This war is not a Sunday school, and ail kinds of men are lighting it. Personally 1 wish that a "Uotany Hay" might be established for the chap who insists ti|?on "going the limit" and whose influence is demoralizing to the younger men espeeinlly, who without his example would become seasoned without being spoiled. As to the extent of the excesses of these soldiers who are subnormal morally a simple statement of small and large, on the coast and Inland. by day and by night; I have associated with many thousands of men. and have yet to see my first uniformed American under tin- influence of liquor In public. Have we forgotten that these soldiers were men before they were soldiers? They are the cream of our colleges, churches, offices, farms and shops; for it is cream that we are feeding to the war-god who stalks across the fields of France. Our sons and our brothers who are here and who are on the way are the product of American idealism and the fruit of American Christian and educational influences. The uniform has not changed them, and for every chap the service In France has morally destroyed It has given a new birth to ten men. I should be derelict in duty and false lo hundreds of thousands of anxious parents at home if, having the evidence warranting this statement, I hesitated to speak. The statistics of the surgeon-general and of (leneral Pershing prove that I he American soldier is living on a higher moral plane than the moral plane of civilian life. My first-hand investigations hear out the ollicinl figures. Recently about two hundred men just arrived In a French port started out to color up the town a bit. It was not long before they returned under escort to their quarters; the patrol had illicitly and thoroughly done its work. There were many bruised heads and finite as many wiser minds. These refractory two hundred were out of a total of more than 15,000 new arrivals. The story could lie "played up" as a screaming head-line, "Americans I'aint French City Ited," but under such a headline it would be a lie. The military patrol, or the "M. I'.," as he is familiarly known, is a big asset to General Pershing's campaign for a clean army. He Is everywhere. In some places he is the only police authority, but in cities where their awn civilian officers he has absolute police control of Americans. He registers you at the station, greets you on the street corner, and salutes you when you depart. He is uniformly courteous provided >ou arc law-abiding and decent. It was a soft-spoken, hard-hitting &1. P. from Georgia who found a taxicab for me one stormy midnight when I arrived unannounced in a great city. This same patrol had just broken up an incipient street brawl. When 1 recall conditions in our own American cities under any circumstances which bring together large bodies of men, and then consider what our leadership has accomplished with this cosmopolitan masculine multitude in France, I marvel and stand uncovered. What we owe, and what we must not fall to give whole-heartedly, is a vote of thanks, not a resolution or inquiry or censure; a vote of thanks with the assurance of our unremitting cooperation and support. The programme of our military administration in France is so comprehensive that out of my own experiences with it I could write a thick volume. My only hope here is briefly to indicate it. The programme concerning liquor and vice is, first, prohibition and total abstinence, and second, where prohibition and total abstinence have failed, the saving of the individual from disease. The army docs not recognise or in any way protect immoral houses. The military patrol?and this is becoming more and more true of the naval patrol, which has been slower in develop ing its co-ordinated activities*?sepa rates* uniformed men from questionaide characters on the street. It Franco such characters arc registered In on*' groat |>ort of entry I found on* M. I*. in fr*>nt of each house of ill repute during the day. and two wort located there at night. No soldier was allowed to (kiss, nor would a civilian have been allowed to pass had he carried the papers of American citizenship (portion here delete*! |>> the censor), who endangers the safety and liberty of his comrades by his excesses, There is nothing soft, nothing nambypamby. nothing over religious, about the composite American soldier I have learned to know in France, but he is one of the most open-handed, wholesome fellows I have ever seen. Much difficulty was experienced at the beginning because there was no chance to give the men any sort of moral leadership on the way across: they landed uniformed and unpre pnrea. .>ow h is puiniieu 10 iimv n wide-awake chaplain nnd Young Men's Christ inn Association socrvtaries on every ship with troops. The Young Men's Christian Association with Its huts. Its supplies. Its music. Its entertainments. Its classes in French, and its Bible classes. Its rest camps In the peaceful mountainsYoung Men's Christian Association with its unnumbered physical, mental, and spiritual ministrations has come to the kingdom for such a time a: this. It Is God's mightiest tool, tin churches' most potent agency |>laced at the disposal of American miliary leadership to help realize In the prosecu lion of this colossal war the highest idealism of American civilization. To revert again to the question of liquor as a beverage. I have found less drinking of the so-called French u in.iu" l.i Vittufinnnu I hot I i-v. jus-ted, and I have already comment <1 uj>on the alwinner of drunkenness. Our educational eampaign at home in the training camfw must not be abated. The work of the united committee is In-nring fruit: we can now reach out to supply our equipment to the divisional secretaries of the Young Men's Christian Association both in Knglnnd anil in France. These secretaries are calling for our supplies. I am particularly concerned, too. for our campaign at home quickly to achieve national prohibition. Such a triumph would enable us to call u|>on our heroic allies to join with us in a world-wide movement to save grain, ships, simar and men. und to promote efficiency by eliminating the greatest waster of all wasters, beverage alcohol. In the meantime, General Pershing and his staff leave no stone unturned to hold fast the sound principles of sobriety the t'nlted States and Canada are with Increasing success demonstrating to the world. Thus Is being done, too, with a knightly regard for the feelingB or the uncomplaining Ibng. whose customs In many Instances differ from ours. I>ut whose loynlty to truth and whose ability to distinguish the high aims of others make them a shining example to their comrades in arms. In the Immediate war zone which our authorities control no liquor for beverage pur noses?light wines Included?Is available. The American army has absolutely no rum ration. Pure or purified wafer in ample quantities Is available always. I have drawn it from great cooled canvas bags at the very front. I saw a huge water main nearlng completion In our general headquarters, a water main that the local authorities said could not he laid until the frost was out of the ground. While the discussion proceeded. General Pershing proceeded to complete the Job. Hot eoflfee was served our lads at the last observation post In the most advanced jmsltions less than three hours after a raid that American troops repelled with valor, covering themselves with iin|x-rishahle glory. My story Is ovcrlong and It is scarcely intimated. I have discovered to my own satisfaction: First, that our military authorities In France are aggressively and successfully prosecuting the most comprehensive programme to keep the American soldier physically competent and morally fit ever attempted by a nation at war. Second. ro|s\atlng what I have already written, that the American army in Franceanil I found this true of the army in the great camps at home?is living on a higher moral plane than the moral plane of civilian life. I have found m.v facts; no man has given me the story: I have r.n' n: t have heard: I have lived; I heve spent I en nays wun live nun-ireii uhctits hi son: I have traveled ii. t-nins, in uu'omohlles, and l>y foot across cities and through camps: I have visited hospitals and headquarters; 1 have messed with those in command; and for six unbroken days I have eaten "chow" with the private within the first line. I have had an interview with fh neral Pershing and scores of interviews with Young Men's Christian Association secretaries, chaplains and civilians. I have conversed with medical officers specially charged with the moral anil physical interests of the men. In seaports, In J'arls, and in the shell-levelled country villages where the sound of no child's voice is heard and where no woman remains I have gathered my Information. It has come from the artillery and the infantry, from the engineers and the headquarters comoanies. from the white and from the black. I have slept In a dugout within sixteen hundred yards of our first trench and within eighteen hundred yards of Germany; I have helped Young Men's Christian Association secretaries serve weary. Ix-draggled. mud-soaked men just relieved from trench duty and after having experienced gas. shell-fire, and a raid? helped these secretaries serve these heroes with tea, in a building thrice hit by fragments of shell just a fewhours before and located within the 'one of constant shell-fire; 1 have been with these same men in a barrage, -one with them head first into a ruined trench to escape the bursting shrapnel, reen them earning their own and German wounded; I have drawn the black waterproof above those who -went out and met the iron death; and in the absence of a chaplain I have burled them. J have the facts; God pity me if 1 to make them known; God pity me 'jii - - .K If I fail to resent tne repetition or wiui tales of drunkenm ss. lust and disease i that falsely rriiriwnt the inultltuth . lava use of the weakness of the few; that put an unmerited smirch upon'an I unsullied tine: that dishearten leaders who an- doing tin ir utmost to disi charge a vast moral trust: that sow i the seeds of careless bitterness in the breasts of a million splendid lads who are tempted to believe themselves measured by the sin of the fellow who is the exception to the rule and who. feeling themselves falsely accused, mayfind an excuse to make themselves im-iit the accusation. My word to the parents of America is a word of great cheer. That which is good now is Iteconiing rapidly better. The agencies In the field co-operating with the government in Its programme of moral construction are dally broadening their spheres of Influence and Increasing their efficiency; and all of us who serve the common cause In other capacities will continue to feel an nnescapable responsibility for suppl>imr every assistance within our power. There has hcen much discussion of the pmitosition. "The soldier must be kept lit to return;" as we continue this discussion of vast imjiortance, let us not neclect the other proposition, which is equally vital, "America must be lit tor the American soldier to return to." rails, France. CONCEALED FROM AIRMEN Fliers Cannot Peer Through Fog or See in the Dark. Some surprise, writes lh? editor o( The Airplane, t-ondon, has liccn expressed in many quarters that the mussim; oi (leritiun troops should have taken place unobserved by Allied a\tutors, both before tlie derman push on the Semitic in March and before tinlast drive aKuinst the French isisitions between Soissons and Uheitiis. I would (Miint out that thotiKh aeroplam-s and their crews can tie a surprisinu number of things, one which is iin|Missibl?- for tin airplane is to enable its pilot or observer to see in lie dark 01 to see throuuli a foK. The aeroplane is a distinctly locomotive vehicle, and not some new optical in miii incut. Those who have studied the com iiiiiin<iui ? issued prior to (lie tlerhi.hi attack in March found constant reference to tile lact that night bombiu;: wan im|H>ssibli> uwinK to ground mists, ami on varioun occaMinus it wiia stated that it was Impossible lor our aircraft to ascend until well on in the course of the morning. This means the (iermnns could move their troops in perfect safety night after night, and by stowing tlicin away in towns and villages nnd in forests, which alaiund In that part way as to be absolutely invisible to the most acute air scout. Even on a perfectly clear hut dark night it is practically impossible to observe the movements of troops, and in the moonlight, though the troops would be seel) on the open roads, it would be very hard to see them on those wonderful French roads with trees nil along tls-ir sides intended to give shade during the da> but now providing equally desirable shadows at night. The dillieultics of air reconnaissance have hi-cn increased very inn tcr tally by tlx- fact that the Germans have now such enormous masses of troo|is hehinil every part of the line that the movement of the troo|ts in mass or h,v trains <lo not attract attention even in broad davlight to the < xtent which wouhl have Iwen true over six months ago. Consequently, even the most careful aerial reconnaissance may fail to estimate correctly the excess of the number of troops massed behind one part of the line over the number behind another part. It must be remembered also that although aerial reconnaissance may have estimated with soinu approach to accuracy the masses of troops la-Id in reserve in the nclghhoi hood of t/ian, there was nothing to show whether these reserves were Intended to move west for a renewal attack ?n Amiens or whether they were to move to the south for an attack on the Soissons-It helms sector. The benefit of Internnl lines of communication was again demonstrated, and It has been proved thai although the possession of aircraft enables an army commander to "hoc behind the hill," It does not altogether guard him against surprise, when the surprise is planned l?y callable strategists and tacticians. This was proved by General Hyng's surprise attack in the llrst battle of Cnmhrui, anil it tins neon provea iniw times by the one my since, namely, the second kittle of Cmnbrai, the March at al;n in the Homme area and In this latest drive. These facts, however, far from demonstrating the failure of the airplane, merely emphasize the giu* ing necessity for more and more planes, possil.ly of new types, hut certainly In enormous quantities, so thnt reconnaissance may Ik* even more thorough than at present, so thnt enemy reconnaissance may he more hampered and that attacks on enemy troops l?oth day and night with homhs and machine guns may he more effective, and so that continual fighting in the air may turn definitely and permanently in favor of the Allies. [ . | ? Children Gardener* in England.? Apart from the school gardens, which are increasing In number and size and excellence every year, a great deal of work In the direction of food production is being done by children, both In the gardens attached to their homes or elsewhere. In a numlter of towns the children have been organized for the cultivation of back gardens. According to a report sent to the food production department, Leyton, Essex, has an excellent record in this matter, and it is claimed locally that no oth< r town can equal Its record.?London Globe. Marine Insurance rates were Increas' ed Monday from 50 cents to $10 a I thousand following the report that Uboats were operating on this side of [ the Atlantic. Some agents refused to 'accept risks at any price. ' > - * - ,m*' . .i-:. . . *