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ON PATROL WORK Description of Hot Cornrr in Argonne Forest. Fierce Fightinfl for Victory Over a Most Difficult Terrain?Hew One Bunch of the Enemy Wai Wiped Out. The tricky nature of the fierce fightlug In the Argouue forest is vividly described in Collier's Weekly by Ai* thur Ruhl. who shared the dangers to which the heroic American divisions were exposed in the taking of that difficult terrain. In the article from which the following is an extract Air. Kuhi's viewpoint was that of a certain regiment which had two badly decimated battalions on patrol work in an exposed position. He writes: "Tricky valleys were almost always overlooked by some unexpected hilltop, from which any advance could be enfiladed. Pending another general attack, for which everybody was waiting, the duty of the regiment was A - 11? -? -? ?.UK /\??r\mT? lO 'Keep in cumaci nuu uic cuciuj, push forward wben not too costly to do so, and to find out all that could be found out about the positions in Jfront of them and what was needed to take them. "The young majors were up there now with the remnants of two battalions. i Raked by machine gun fire whanopflp Q hoarl fihftU'W). DO 11 lidfd bV artillery if they showed themselves or not, they had been at it now for fortyeight hours almost without rest. Half of their men were gone, the rest were hungry and tired, some of their wounded had been waiting for the stretcher N bearers for the two whole days. From the army's point of view, the little fight was a mere drop in the bucket ?a "minor operation between attacks/ The battalions were but part of a regiment, the reciment Dart of a bri gade, but half a division, and there were half a dozen or more divisions on this particular sector. "But for the patrols themselves? the steel point of the division's spear ?the clump of bushes across the way that zirp-zirped every time a head showed, that devilish high velocity , Austrian .88 which whipped in without a moment's warning, the wounded moaning before their eyes, water they couldn't get, the 'chow* that was late i7-*H these little things were everything. They were all the war there was. And it Is the sum-of scores of little white hot spots like this which makes up a front, and the garaeness of the men in them which makes it possible for some staff man sitting comfortably in bis quiet office, miles away, to write: 'Nothing unusual to v?v- ! "Just after I arrived the major telephoned that they had caught, with their machine guns, a bunch of Germans marching across a clearing in 'columns of squads.' 'Columns of squads,' the colonel shouted, 'and full belts in their machine guns!' The ones not mowed down or able to escape?some thirty or forty?held up ~ - - 3 _ their bands in toKen 01 surrender. i\u men could be spared from the harassed patrol to handle any such number and get them back to the rear? the machine guns kept working. "The woods were full of obstacles, 'pill boxes' or merely positions in rocks or behind embankments, with conven lent shafts running tnirty or iony feet down into the ground, into which the crew might retire during artillery fire. Sometimes during an ad, vance in fog or thick brush they would let the infantry filter through with out nring anu men mm u? uieiu after they had passed. The few men left behind to hold such a position sold their lives dearly, generally, and when our men had paid the price, in casualties and time, they would not ^ even have the satisfaction of captur ^ ing something. The enemy artillerj would be far away, of course; the bulk of the infantry withdrawn tc Bew positions similarly strong. There would be nothing to show for the wori done but two or three dead Germans and an abandoned machine guh. It was an economical bargain for one side ana an exiremeiy expfiisivt? uut? ivi the other?roost of this Argonne-Meust fighting was that" Natural Resources of China. One reads in Chinese history that several centuries before the beginning of the Christian era the banners oi China were carried to the Caspian sea there to meet the banners of Itome and that the way was thus paved foi China's silks and iron in European markets. The Shansf iron industry is claimed by a Chinese writer to be the oldest in the world. Like many others of the great resources of China, the country's deposits of iron ore have been but little developed. Dr. H. Foster Bain, assistant director of the United States Bureau of Mines, whc spent some time in China investigating its mineral resources, estimates thai China has 400,000.000 tons of iron ore oiroiiahia and snltahle for modern fur nace reaction and an additional 300,000,000 tons that might be treated bj native methods. Doubly Commemorative. The most cherished possession of t certain Frenchman is a beautiful model in gold of a field gun such at was used in the Franco-German war Its history is curious. After that con ilict the present owner's father houghi for a son?: Immense quantities of dis carded war material, including manj field ?3ns, and the transaction! were so profitable that ho was abl< to retire with a large fortune. ... WHEN AVIATOR "STEPS DOWN" , There Are Some Few Things He Misses, but. Take It All in All, He's Not Sorry. I "No, sir, I'm not feolin' like any j enjrle in a cage. I haven't any f<?;- rh #y-s, arid the ground's my natural habitat, if you understand me. A fellow . has two feet for walking and he can ; use his arms for swimming, hut you i don't see any wings sproutln' from his | shoulders, do you?" A young "shavetail," recently released from the air service, was talking. His face still bore the tan of a southern sun and he hadn't yet dropped the habit of "policing" his pockets or snapping his hand to a salute when he met an officer. "But j*ou know, it's sort o' hard, this sittin' into the old job. I'm tindiif a lot of dust-littered corners in my attic and I'm spendin' most of my time brush in? nwnv the cobwebs. "As I told you, I'm no hloomin' eagle. hut there 're times, 'long in the middle of the afternoon, when I'd tr:i?le my chances of future salvation for one little ride?just to swing into the cockpit, give 'er the gun and feel the old bus bump along over the ground a way. tnen pun 'er DacK on ner nauncnes ana take the air with a zoom. "But this gettin' back into harness t has other features than that of polishing up the rusted machinery in my dome. I'd been looking forward to the time I could shuck my uniform and get > back Into civics ever since the ariuis: tice was signed, but one day wilhout the tight-buttoned breeches and leath' er puttees, and I was ready to go back j to the old cords. The wind whistled i HUUiCy O v> cr: l lAUliiC &VUUU I lie irviO'lii of my B. V. D.'s and I feel like on ! orphan child alone in a cruel, cold j world. The next day I was out in my ! uniform, and since then I've been shedding it a piece at a time. "And then I'm missin' the insignia. Those little silver wings were the open sesame' to anything from a slag party to a commercial club banquet, j They were good for a dinner invitation or a bank loan. i "But it's good to get that 'settled* feelin' now?to know a fellow's life Is his own to live, to feel he Is a complete unit and not just an atom. And you can tell the world the arm.v does this for a fellow: It sends him back to his Job filled with vim, vigor and vitality. He feels he has up enough steam to last a lifetime."?Kansas City Star, Disagree on Best Working Time. i aiost peopie, oouna oy irmj-uuuim ! tradition In the matter of work hours. ! have their own Ideas as to what are ! really the best hours for work, and | envy that fortunate class, the authors, j for their privilege of arranging their ! schedules to suit their own conve? | nlence. And It is a curious fact that I many writers prefer greatly to work late at night Longfellow worked until two or three In the morning, preferring the i stillness of the night to the noisiness ! of the day. for his hours of toil. Mrs. I Oliphant, also had the habit of doing most of her writing late at night, and in the "wee-sma* hours." Booth TarkIngton gives his mornings to tennis and spends the afternoons and eve | nings at worn; ana n. i*. wens aiso | prefers burning the midnight oil. j While on the other hand, Thacki eray preferred to work early In the I morning. preferably before ten. j George Bernard Shaw says the best ; working hours are breakfast to lunch, | in the open air if possible, and states i that "All nisrht work is drunken work," ' C!l? r?ilKii?f Ponl'or 5<a n n/it)lcp sfl. niiu on viiiu1."! i a. in nvi unwiiiv* mu vocnte of Retting up early and doing most of his work before lunch. China's Mineral Wealth. : In the light of the constantly prej dieted exhaustion of the world's coal i supply the following note from the 1 I United States commerce reports is of ' interest: I "Pftp th?* nnsf 20 vpnrs thf> world f * v... r -- ? has heard marvelous stories of ' China's vast wealth of coal, yet China imports more than it exports. The ' figures for 1917 show 1,000.000 tons ex" ported and 1,400,000 tons imported. ' yet, according to V. K. Ting, director of the geological survey of China, a ' minimum estimate of China's wealth In coal indicates that It is sufficient to i supply the world's consumption, at its present rate of 1,000,000,000 tons a year, for a period of 1,000 years. Probably no other statement made concernt ing China would demonstrate more ; forcibly than this the backwardness of ! the country In modern industrial de, velopment. Coal is known to occur , In every province in China. i Paper From Dead Leaves. J Owing to the scarcity of other ma' terials. paper was made in France > during the war from dead leaves. - The leaves are crushed, then the - powdered portion is carefully separated and the fibrous ribs and veins ! turned into pulp. These are made * ready for use by simply treating with lye, washing and bleaching. For cattle food purposes the leaf powder may be mixed with molasses and made into cake, f or iuei, me powutr ma.v be compressed into briquets, or it may r be converted into comparatively pure porous carbon by destructive distillation. t Characteristic. * A Kansas City street car motorman, } newly married, took his bride out on * his run with him. He drove for two " blocks, and then she took the cont troller. That's about the distance - most bridegrooms get before the con7 trol Is taken away from them, and 5 then a'? they do the rest of their lives * is to open and close the front door.? Kansas City Star. THRONE HER POIZE Lucky Swimmer Ruler of Anciont City for Yeaf. i ' Every Girl in Byblos, Syria, Had Opportunity to Compete in Aquatic Contest, Held < Annually. j The Ivor.v throne of the h:;rh pr' *stess or oracle in the temple of BvNos might lie won by any girl in tie* sin- ; cient city, no matter how wealthy or how poor her parents. The position was open to the society queen and th?? fisher alike, and once seated, she was in reality the ruler of that Syrian city for a year. j In the old days the city of ByhIns. or (Isdial. was famous for the art of its ?to>it> :ind in the Book of Kinirs these Oiblites are mentioned as ' the stone "squarers'* employed by Kin:; Solomon upon the temple. But it was j inninlv for the nnr.ua] festivities held ; at By hi os. and known as the Mysteries j of Adonis, that the city was most j famed. There was located there a splendid temple to Adonis, and in the 1 spring of e^ch year hundreds of per- I sons from all parts of Syria and the I adjacent lands journeyed to the city j *n wtfnfxss thp celebration of the tnys- , teries. The soil of the land at the headwater j of the river is of red clay, and when j the spring rains began to fall In th** ; hills the water of the river became red. f The priests said Adonis had been slain. The myth was variously told, but briefly il narrated the story of Adonis being killed while hunting and his rnutoration to life by Jupiter at the j prayer of Venus. i Wln>rv tha iVfltor of fh(J rfVPT* hPCatPP ! H ur ii luv ** ?? i v i -/ ?* * - - ? - ml the people began to lament the j denth of Adonis. Streets nnd houses j were draped with mourning and the j people went about weeping and lament- j inc. This lasted a week. Then a great j funeral procession formed and a j wooden Image of the god was carried to the river, where It was set adrift j to float out to sea. Then began the unique and interesting part of the ceremonies. The young women of the city assembled along the seashore and all day gazed out over the waves. Sometimes several days j j were consumed In this part of the cere1 mony for the watch must be kept until an expected message was received from the waves. Finally, far out, one might behold an object bobbing up and down on the rollers. As soon as It was discovered a great shout went up from the girls, and all plunged into the sea. earh striving to be the first to reach and recover the object, an earthen jar In which the message that the god liven again was supposed to come. Several hundred young women, wildly swimming out at sea, was the unusual sight, for to the first girl to grasp the jar fell the honor of belrnr the high priestess or oracle of the god during the coming year. The Incky swimmer, on returning to ; the shore, was grasped by the hnnds J of the crowd and borne in state upon an ivory throne to the great temple, | where she was seated with solemn ceremony before the image of the pod. This swimmer might he the daughter of the wealthiest merchant and the leader of society, or might have spent all of her life in the hut of a poor fisherman. No matter what her former social position may have heen, from the moment she recovered the jar with i4"* 4-i 1 nn/vfK/Vl* f AaI? hpf I us uimi iiiiouici iwu <> place at the close of the year, this girl , was consulted about all matters of importance that were of Interest to the people. Once seated upon the ivory {throne the daughters of the rich canie | to consult her "mystic wisdom" and merchants planning voyages to lands of which she had never heard would appear with choice gifts. Nothing could occur without her sanction and her words were final. Then, at the close of the year, an' ?- i OTner was seaieu iu uer piauc. ??ucu ; the water of the river began to turn j red the ivory throne was vacated. She, j who for a year had ruled supreme and spoken the words of the god be- j came a common attendant In the great temple and stood quietly In the jrreat 1 assembly, amid the ascending clouds of incense before the image of the god, j to see another seated on the prophetic, ivory throne. / I; I Have Patience With Yourself. Sometimes it keeps a fellow busy j having patience with himself. He! knows himself capable of doing a . given work. He craves for the chance j. and when it comes he makes a mess j of it. Or it may be that he wants to I be exceptionally calm under a given j test and he can't control himself and . betrays his fears. Oh. it's trying all right, but you will come out on the i credit side if you can have patience, j Let folks laugh at you if they will, j You stick to your job and see that you : give the old man the best of self-man- i agenient. Remember he's your hardest proposition and more likely than any- : body else to take advantage of you. It will try your patience to be patient , with him, but it will pay. Instead of, wallowing in self-disgust just face the j facts honestly and apply the helps i1 where they are needed most. You will i: get a man out of him yet.?Exchange. Riches From War's Castoffs. 1 A speculator amassed riches by buying thousands of French rifles, storing them for 20 years, and then selling them at an enormous profit to China, the South American republics, etc. Some of them are still in use, and bayonets that glittered at Sedai can also be found ail over the world, 1 5 it Illustrations Ni e psl and 2, show ii BHI larged way tl 6 m ence in globult il? 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