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MISS LIVINGSTON. MM HOP?
KINS Nt'HSK, WAS IN TURK
or ritii it.
&aw Germans Take Charlerol?Death,
Destruction. Cruelty, Gentleness und
KrstcmUlng of Wounded Are PMl
of Picture.
(Baltimore Sun. otcober 13.)
The Sun last nlgh received from
Miss St. Clulr Livingston, a Johns
Hopkins ums, , who has been living
In Paris for a year or more unil who
answered a call for volunteer nurses
at the front, a letter vividly portray?
ing the war as It appears to those in
the thick of it
It is a story of death and destruc?
tion?death and destruction made
worse by the birth of a baby during
the bell of it all; made worse by tho
agonixirg and dying of civilians; made
worse by unneeesary brutality that
seems reminiscent of the Dark Ages.
Only in the Hash here and there of
gentleness, as when a big French sol?
dier soothed the little new baby, is
there anything suggesting that this is
an era of clvttzatton.
Miss Livingston went to the front
with a fellow-nurse, Miss Stcen-Han
sen. They were ordered to Charlerol
and stayed there about two weeks,
thinking, us Miss Livingston says, that
the war was a myth, until suddenly it
It broke about them with unrestrained
fury. Miss XJvlngaton und Miss Steen
Hansen an now in Paris, from which
city the letter was written. It is a
real and graphic picture that forces
conviction of Its truth and drives
home the horrors of the cunlllct more
convincingly than any private com?
munication that has come from the
other side.
The letter follows:
"It Is like a dream that l am back
la silent, deserted Paris after a seven
weeks' stay in Charlerol. before and
after the German occupation; that 1
have even met on the Hue de 1'assy
this morning i slim French boy of
20 yeurs old, soldier in the One Hun?
dred and Nineteenth Hegiment, whom
I last saw calmly smoking a cigarette
beside a mitrailleuse on top of tho
Charlerol Station the day before the
Germans arrived.
"I had come to this little Belgian
town with four other nurses in answer
to a call for volunteers from the
Belgian legation in Paris. We quite
expected that we would go on duty
the same night of our arrival, having
heard that both in Brussels and
Charlerol thousands of wounded and
dying were lying ahout the streets.
This of course was not the case, for
on August 7 there were no wounded
in Charlerol and only 3(> In Mrussels.
It was August 21 before we picked
up the wounded out of the streets.
We had almost begun to think the
war was a m> ih. for after the day of
our arrival no news of any kind
reached us.
' The One Hundred and Nineteenth
Heglment arrived on August 19. It
was very exciting to see them barrl- .
cade bridges and place tho danger?
ous business-looking mitrailleuses
both there and on the station rocf,
the bigger cannon and artillery
guarding the river by which the town
was approached.
"With a feeling or absolute security
the next morning Miss Stecn-Hansen
and I left the house in which we
were lodged for the school which had
bee t given us to Install as a hos?
pital.
"Tho boom of cannon, which had
be?*n Indistinctly beard for many
duvs, gradually became louder; pres?
ently we knew that some dreadful
fighting was taking place close at
hand.
"From tho attic windows we could
see black clouds of smoke In the dis?
tance. The distant smoke became
great sheets of licking llame, with
the cries of the wounded, streams of
d>ing horses, the guttural yells of
the Lilians as they dashed past our
lo?4p)tal. Smoke, dust and a rainlike
sheet of line broken glass from the.
bursting windows of burning bouses
obscured the view. Haggard, wild
eyed clvllluns of ever> aSJS and con?
dition, forced to inarch In advance of
the Oerm.ins fat then own protection
tlon. Hashed past stumbling and fall?
ing, fainting with fear and mis? r>.
bleeding from the wounds of shots
both I- re in ?t and (orinan or kicked
aside to dm when they could march
no Ioniser.
"Mlack. smoke-blinded and blood?
stained we rushed into the streets
with our stretcher again and again,
picking up the woundad and improv?
ising flfoaaAasji srltk strips of torn
sheets and a Pottle of BOfJttSYft. let as
>ii go supplies had been sent to our
HUlt hegsjitai Man) died before we
i ,? r had the wards a tills si er and
e\er fains the long eeoceaeton of
frantic mothers and fathers rarrylns
thilr children h? Ipim, I he aged
urging the hysterical all seeklna I he
protection ad our Red I free ? Ua is
I hey escaped by back doors or ??vei
bnrniuK roofs fross their ruined
homes.
I me gave news of a J-day-nld
baby wit. Its mother In a burning
house opposite our hospital; wo found
them hidden in the cellar terrified, A
one-armed man and 1 dragged the
mother fron: the corner in which she
was crouched; Miss Steen-Hansen
struggled for posseslon of the baby;
we gained the street only to meet 1 1
Herman soldiers wearing red crosses
on their arms. Notwithstanding our
OWg red grosnci and nurses' uniforms,
the gag1 Or med man and the tiny in?
fant, these tired upon us. The man
fell. We escaped into the hospital
and later kind hands bore in our late
assistant with four balls in his leg.
"The wounded came in steadily,
first civilians, then French and Oer?
man soldiers; the small baby cried
constantly; we could not quiet him.
The wounded begged for news or lay
quietly staring at the ceiling. I
"An Algerian boy of 19 years with
his leg shot off lay on his side singing
softly "The Marseillaise," but when
I saw him again he had died, just
as quietly, with no one beside him.
"Some of our refugees, helping us,
moved noiselessly about, giving drinks
to the wounded or cutting the stif?
fened, blood-soaked clothing from the
patients.
"A big Frenchman from P.ayonne,
wounded in tho chest walked up and
down the hall with the baby endeav?
oring to hush its sharp, piercing cries,
That was when I looked at my watch
for the tlrst time since morning; it
was U o'clo<k of still another morn?
ing and the Germans had taken Char?
te rol.
"The next day we made a rather
sad pilgrimage to the house in which!
we had lived; nothing remained hut
the four gray stone walls and the
heavy iron beams which had support?
ed the celling; the remains of a chan?
delier hung from one of these; In
the thick oaken door could be seen
the hole chopped by German axes
through which coal oil and bits of
celluloid had been thrown to set the
hou-e alight. All houses on both sides
of the street had met with a like fate.
One or two whose owners had been
fortunate enough to extinguish the
flames had bits of board nailed across
the hole. The once lovely avenue of
plane trees now hung limp, smok
blackened leaves and twisted branch?
es, in the cold morning sunshine. A
kitten and a puppy chased each oth?
er among the t Inders. A German of?
ficer posed three armed soldiers in
front of the smoldering houses, pho?
tographing them in different positions,
"A ransom of 10,000.000 francs was
exacted that nlMht from Charleroi,
a little town of 5-',000 inhabitants,
also the promiso I I I,000.000 francs to
be paid at the end of each two weeks
and a daily toll of lO.oOo pounds of
bread, oats, grain and Hour enough to
maintain the German army quartered
among us.
"For the first three days and nights
an endless train of Perlin auto busses
filled wi h soldiers, troops of cavalry.
Infrantry and transport wagons filed
through the town, also a nondescript
colleeton of milk wagons, coal carts
and furniture vans bearing the signs
and names of P>erlin merchants. Home
of these carried card tables, chairs,
clocks, beds, stores and even pianos
which had been removed from the
country homes and chateaux in the
surrounding country where the Ger?
mans had QOartOTOd themselves.
"In the hospitals all our wounded
who were well enough, French and
Germans alike, gathered to smoke
and play eards together. Any little
gifts of fruit Of cakes were shared
among all regardless of nationality.
The German officers and doctors mak?
ing olticiat visits were always astound?
ed by these apparently unbelievable
tiuces; they WOO Id not believe that
any of the peaceful-looking men
grouped about the rom in blue linen
hospitnl clothe.* were German soldiers
until they had actually been assured
of it by the GrOTmanl themst Ivos,
"We saw no evidences of 'dumdum'
bullets among our 8,000 patients. For
the most part our Germans were
wounded In the upper part of the
bodjv. the Fronqh 'and Belgians in
the legg, We had but one British sol?
dier, an Irishman.
"After the first four days the city
water SOppiy, Which the Germans bad
cut when they were dring the t itv,
was put in working order, the gas
ami electricity repaired ami such
shops us were not burned began cau?
tiously to open their doors.
"Oersaan soldiers niled the streets,
German officers took charge of pub?
lic buildings and all new-l>orn bald *?
at this time wore registered as 'born
In Charleroi, Germany.' Our pa?
tients wer?' transferred to Germany as
soon, ami often before, they were tihle
to travel; many died on the stretch'
ers.
"The walls of g|1 public bttlldlnOH
bore poaters announcing grent and
thrilling I lorman \ lotto >? *? a^ 1,11
French, British nod Kusslnn losses.
We were assured by flermnn oHlcor*
'ih.it tin- European wnr at mid be Un?
wished in twti weeks as soon as Par?
in was in their hands, They would
I hen lear i<? pieces the Kngllsh f'?r
their baseness in marching tmalnsl
Germany with the Itusslnn barbar?
ian*
"At the end of the seventh week
It became evident that wc must go to
Paris for money; we had lest ours in
tho fire and had begun to feel the
pinch of poverty. We were told by
both German and Belgian authorities
that it would ho dangerous as well as
absolutely impossible to leave Char?
lerol and that Paris for us was as re?
mote is the moon.
"Nevertheless wo started out one
morning at t; o'clock, making our
way through miles and miles of
burnt, ruined villages and reaching
Brussels ths same night without
having met a soldier of any descrip?
tion.
"In Brussels we were fortunate
enough to borrow 100 francs from
Mr. J. B. Pauley, Of the Internation?
al Harvesting Company, who, with
other Americans, was occupying him?
self with tho affairs of stranded
Americans and British. He told us
that we were doing nothing original
In borrowing this money, as hundreds
of others, Including several million?
aires, much worse off than ourselves,
had been*glad to he helped by their
fund.
"Between Brussels and Ostend wo
traveled easily, the weather was fine
'and, thanks to the Germans, we tar?
ried no luggage to impede our prog
j ress. Fifty other persons left Brus?
sels with us, hut 4 0 of these were ar?
rested by a German bicycle corps,
who held us up with pointed revolvers
while they searched for incriminat?
ing papers.
"At one time, I am ashamed to say
that the remaining 10 of us rode 17
miles in a milk cart pulled by one
horSC. We gave him ll lumps of su?
gar when his strength finally failed
and left him In B green pasture to re?
gain his courage.
"With us were two French and two
Belgian soldiers, one a doctor, who
had made their escape from a Ger?
man prison train. They wore civil
inns* clothes and had boon supplied
with passports from some sotirce
which they did not divulge.
"Wo ate our lunch of two hard
boiled eggs divided into 10 equal parts
in front of a deserted inn. Some?
times we were fortunate enough to
ride a few miles in a tramway or
farmer's wagon and once an automo-l
bile, carrying Red Cross supplies, took
us luxuriously from one village to
another.
"At Ghent wo said good-bye to
Our eight friends, who were going to
Antwerp, and went by train to Ostend,
where we heard the first authentic
war news since we had left Paris,
seven weeks before."
The Prussian System Explained.
The leadership of Prussia is even
more potent in fact than In theory.
Prussia always dominates the Feder?
al Council as a whole, and the Prus?
sian element in tho Federal Council
Is appointed by a government elected
under the Prussian three-class sys?
tem. Under this system, the voters
are arranged on the lists in the order1
of the amount of taxes they pay.
Those paying the lirst third exercise
one-third of the voting power. As
this works out in a city like ESssen,
for example, where tho great Krupp
gun works are located, it has actually
happened that only one person voted
In the first class, and elected one-third
of the representatives, while thous?
ands of men voted in the third class,
also electing exactly one-third of the
represcntalves. In the great city
of Berlin, as it works out, one voter
of the first class has as much power
BS fifty registered voters of the third
< lass, Out it is much worst in the
great land-holding country districts of
the Prussia that lies to the eaatward
of Berlin than it is in the capital
city, The practical consequence of
the Prussian system Is that Prussia is
governed by a few hundred aristo?
cratic, land-holding, and wealthy
families, under the leadership of the
Prussian King, who is also the Ger?
man Emperor, Since the smaller
northern states of Germany follow
the lead of Prussia, the Emperor and
his reactionary group of aristocrats
and militarists, through their abso?
lute domination of Prussia, have thus
far been able to dominate the Ger?
man empire.?American Bevlew of
Reviews for October.
HOY S CORN SHOW POSTPONED.
From The Daily Item, Oct. 17.
There were twenty-six reports re?
ceived at the meeting of the Hoy's
Corn Club this morning, but as there
were eight of the boys who had md
yet gathered their corn, owing to the
continued rain of this week, it was
decided fo postpone giving the pii7.CS
until Saturday. November 7th. three
weeks from today, Mr. Frank Wil?
liams has secured quite a large num?
ber of exhibits for the State Fair and
will put on a good exhibition from
I Sumtcr i 'ounty,
Tbl i nfternoon I he boj p w ho ru me
to the coin show are the guests of
i be Ilex Then! re, M r. I Vi? > I 'l*h< r
ha> Ing offei cd I hem fi ce admission
tu Iiis excellent moving picture show,
'< n fact which "* i,; appreciated and
I taken advantage of by the boys.
Wireless lelegrnphy is being used in
Canada In reporting on forest lives.
HUSKY l>i:\TL-USI! CAUGHT.
Ashley Halsey Lands Kare Specimen
Near Morris Light.
Charleston Post.
An octopus measuring about two
feet from tip to tip oi its tentacles
was included in the cateh made by
Ashley llalsey and party near the
whistling buoy off the .Morris Island
light yesterday. The hideous monster
of the deep has been turned over to
Prof. Rea, of the museum, who will
preserve it and place it on display.
Mr. Halsey stated today that h?l
made the catch with a hand line, and
that the fish did not show fight when
landed. The Halsey brothers are de?
voted fishermen, and this is by no
means tho first monster of the briny
deep to be landed by them. It will
be recalled that some years ago, the
brothers, when they were small boys,
hooked an 18-foot sword fish in the
harbor. The monster towed their j
boat ashore on Morris Island, and
was beaten to death and brought to
the city. One of the Halseys lately
accomplished the feat of landing a
41-pound drum with a whiting line,
and every week or so one of them
jlands a bass weighing between 30 and
4 0 pounds.
I Put the balance of the catch faded
into Insignificance when the octopus
with its eight writhing tentacles and
baleful eves was pulled over the gun?
wale, by Ashley Halsey. The monster
is said to be a species of cuttlefish of
the octopod type, known by various
names Including "inktish"?from the
fact that it destroys other Hih by
squirting an Inklike fluid Into the
water about them, using this charac?
teristic also as a moans to cover its
escape when approached by an enemy
?and "devilfish" which is the com?
mon name for it.
The fish In general shape closely re?
sembles a century plant. The ten?
tacles are smooth on the underside,
and rough on the upper surface to en?
able the fish to firmly hold whatever'
It chooses to wrap its eight arms
about.
The monster will probably ho on
display at an early date at the mu?
seum, and will be seen by many in?
terested persons. It is stated that the
shrimp fishermen often bring in very
small specimens of this fish, but it *s
not recalled that one as large :is that
caught by Mr. Halsey has been cap?
tured hero before.
The Recoil Prom the German Invas?
ion of Prance.
When the Germans started back
and the whole allied line, like the
soldiers who obeyed the famous com?
mand, "Up, guards, and ;it them." at
Waterloo, flung themselves Into the
pursuit, the situation of the two
armies was strangely reversed. From
Cambral to Paris, Von Kluck had
been upon the allied flank struggling
to get behind it and crumple it up
and after it the center and left. Now
the garrison of Paris, done with gar?
rison work for a time, was on his
Hank reai hing for his lines of com?
munication, snapping up his am?
munition trains in the first hours of
the advance. Now he was racing for
his life to get ahead of the Hank
thrust and precisely as the Anglo
French left In retreat dragged the
whole force with it, Von Kluck was
dragging the whole Germany army.
Hack over the same roads on which
they had advanced, suffering alike
from weariness, hunger, lack of am?
munition, but still moving almost as
fast as when they came, the German
army tolled, evacuati ng town after
town, whose capture had been a fa?
mous victory In Berlin bulletins, leav?
ing behind straggling thousands and
j much of the Impedimenta of war,
beaten upon by torrential rains, as?
sailed by troops still fresh and rested,
ftdlowed by British cavalry led by
Sir John French, possibly the great?
est of living cavalrymen?such was
the German recoil. Again and again
the weary lines halted and the ar?
tillery fought off the attack. From
the Seine to the Atsne, there was no
rout. Ho far the German army show?
ed Itself ouite as meat in retreat as
the allies. So fur it wa? not n Water?
loo, but it was n Gettysburg?a Get?
tysburg followed by n prompt, sweep?
ing, tremendous pursuit. The thing
that Meade failed t.. do, Joffre and
French did not hesitate t" under?
take. And SO, having raced fr< in
t he frontier t" Paris t<? get <-n i he al?
lied Hank, Foe Germans raced from
Paris toward the frontier t<> save
I their ow n Hani;. I or them the world
had turned upside down; for the his?
torians it was a marvelous repetition
i of ;i In mendoiis drama.
For fifty years the farthest point In
Plckett's charge til Gettysburg Inn*
been pointed mil as the high-water
mark of the Confederacy. The high
water mark of German Invasion was
Ijfigiiy, seventeen miles from Paris
Hm) live fr. the outer ring of forts
Von Kluck rem lied it on September <?
I thirteen days earlier than Von Moll
in i s ;n ? From "Allies Versus
i German); HI rat eg) of i\w i 'am
pnigns," by Frank H Klnmnds, in iii>
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