Show AMU UI IIFUCI IS WAit I 1 The progress of clilllzallon thin century la perhaps bent Illustrated on a modern Held of battle where amidst carnage and death angels of mercy tire busily engaged carrying all the aid possible pos-sible to the oumlcd And dying rrmrly organized nulton on the battlefield oas not thought of Medical 11 aid after the engagement wan generally Insufficient Tho victims of bullets I suortls or bayonets were often left whero they fell ti tile In agony All this Is I changed Kcn cruel war has bn matte 10 recognize In the Soldier a human being entitled to the tender I care of fellowbeings and today a battlefield bat-tlefield literally warm with member I of the ned Cross society who take their own lives In their hands In order I or-der to nave others The Held hospital service of the American Orlny han now reached n high degree of perfection When a regiment regi-ment Is engaged In battle a number of soldier about twentyflu to a regiment are detall1 no stretcher barer About twenty mole of the hos J1ltnl corps are engaged for the same purposc Tho latter clo el > watch the then I find its noun as a Soldier In I seen to fall their truly Is I ta hasten to > hIm with a stretcher Should the wounded ho too numerous for the twenty mn 01 I the hospital corps the twentyfile as i sIstantH belonging lo the regiment an I nll1 into service II neeory n our geon examines tho Injured mon before ha Is I taken away and dresses hit I it wound temporarllj he la hen removed moved < to the dressing < station which In I located < out at inngc of the enemys tire and lure his Injuries arc attended to The hospitals contain ohout to hundred hun-dred cots Attached to them are competent com-petent surgeons and nurses They tire < equipped with medicines linen sultn bit food and fill necessary apparatus for pirformlnK surgical operations II I the Injuries of tho patient are such that he requires medical treatment for a I longer Period than a couple ot viecks he Is I sent to some pennnnnt huo pltnl located far away from the scenes 01 war and < there given the necessary Attendance It 14 I Incullltent upon tile omlllanding lIIcer tit nnnoun 10 the chief ot the hospital service the proha lilllty nn < locution of Imttlo nnl < supply 11 hIm still mum ot the batllcllell 1 And I d coon na the plans l Kin completed < In oiuYr tii enable him to t locate his ilroiiH Ing utatlons and field hospitals ot the i most ndv mlngeeiin pusllluni I Ior the victims I meal office our I government ham made Nlually gonrou I 1 arrangements At n cost of n million dollars the rhlp Solace has been filled I out as a floating hosllal the lint on ever mplod In uch service In a nanl mar This vessel can accommodate accommo-date about seven hundred < patients and < has every appliance found < In ft modern llrBtilnts hospital This shift Is l subject to tho millers < of the commander of nhaloer fleet she may Lc attached I to During action her position Mill bo k k I to the rear of the battle line At her I I 11 masthead float the lied Cross nan a t rlmon crops on n white field anti this 1 00 V protects her from tile file of the enemy I j Any American vessel wllh noundcd I H i on beard raises the olgnol to Indicate 1 that fact find mlien the signal U I 5 totaled a stcnin launch Is I dispatched < I from the Solace to take off the Injured I men The ship lies also a morgue ul her those beyond human aid tire embalmed I BO that the remains of those volio dlo In the Service of the country aped not be I cast Into the en as for 11 nerly but maybe lo I may-be sent to mends and lathes ashore All this h I the result of n civilization 13 which evidently realizes that tho advanced I vanced position It has Attained has I t 11 I i placed < upon It new duties as regard I 11 tho methods of warfare It Is an eel I I dence of a growing dlt > nosltlon to gradually render war between nation claiming a standing on the high platform plat-form of western civilization unneces ury and to substitute for It better I I I methods Al present those who have hn thought to this uhJct have loven able to see no other remedy than ormed peace Ilorce however cannot can-not prevent vier no hAS bn abundant ly I Proved < nut the humnlzln Inllu encem that have as yet taken rem In Ihe work ot the I Craig society are bound < to clonfintle lo ark among the nations until public Sentiment will pronounru the decree trial the best In eresti t of the world both material and monil uro In the direction of pence |