Show THE ARM- Or SORROWS They ha e ounted the German dead otn the batUeiield and there are o5 000 Perhaps it is an exaggeration but it ap pronmatcs the truth Add to this the dead of French and English armies and the total is 0 000 It seems inconce v able and -N et we know that the slaugh ter must have been somewhere near as frightful as the f gures ind ate "Wellington had only 80 000 under his command at the battle of "Waterloo In the battle of the Ifarne 70 000 were killed not killed or -wounded but killed iNoth ng 1 ke t has occurred in modern t mes and the records of an cient times when the prisoners often shared tho fate of those who had died m battle are too unreliable to form the L basis of a compar son . But the dead do not complain They hed no tears and make no moan It is the living who tread the wine press Back ur the fatherland there are 3o 000 widows waiting for the fatal message jE To some it will not eome until weeks EJF after the battle and meantime they R must wait In fair France and England 3o 000 more widows are r battling against the grisly ter rors of suspense Compared with that the battlefield is glorious Even the fight in the trenches when the enemy Z attacks at night has no such terrors. Bat the army of sorrows is re en Ifc forced by the countless numbers of mothers and sisters Their cnes and "B -prayers besiege the battlements of heav " en for the ten thousandth time s nee the t world began and the only answer is the " Eiss of shot and scream of shell as the " -eons of women gnmly battle m the " dark. But there is an answer for it is 5 net all of 1 fe to live nor all of death Aa die The soldier says We must a all die once whether it be upon the bat tlefield or in bed Sooner or later all . most enlist in the armv of sorrows |