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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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