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Show & What does it feel like to be in a trench and be shot at by a foe? What are the feelings and sensations M of the men under fire? A Truly, if a master -writer "with all I the versatility of a Charles Dickens, , a Poo, a Muhlbach, a Ealzac were f to tell you in the most glowing and r expressive language the world has : known in its literary history, he still i would fall short of the mark. j 1 can only sum the lerrifflc gun- ii : fire up in the following words: ii ; "You hear the blamed thing for Vm1 M'nat seems a half hour before it fl ;i hits the earth and all the time you 2 j don't know It isn't going to hit you. JJI i And if it does there isn't going to be 5ii left so much as a stain of you; ky you're going to vanish an ugly M l splash of flying earth as if you'd m I never been. I "No whisper and buzz about the I shell. No it begins with a hungry I I howl, a maniac fury of outcry that swells deliberately to a thunderous gf; ' and deafening fury of noise in which W't ' one can noither think nor act. It is gl l tho venom and blood lust of the war 2J 3 made audible; it Is death set to 5f music. Si;' "Imagine hell orchestrated and a played by a German band that Is tjfi the noise of the shell going over a M) trench whore men stand in fear not jgil; of death, but in nine caBes, perhaps, erjl out of ten of not being hit when they ! ' fully expect to pass out of the world :fl I within a few minutes." rtji! That is how men at the front de-n de-n ; scribo their experiences in the tf trenches. Fighting practically scv-5$! scv-5$! en days a week in all kinds of jjgt ; weather, with shrapnel hissing over fflk their heads and then breaking with I a terrible shriek that pierces one's soul, these men undergo the most terrible adventures of tho war. MANY GO 1XSA2TE. How many of them go insane? That is a fact that never will be known. Physicians say. that men who brood probably will lose tlioir mind. Yet these men in the trenches, be they Austrians, Germans, Rus-jjjjg Rus-jjjjg sians or French they have nothing jj to think but unpleasant thought. On Ifl-; one band there is the home, the chilli' chil-li' dren and wife to think about, to ponder over their welfare and to m. hope for a letter from them, and on jJk tho other there is tho over present Sk' enemy to think of. 'iK Soldiers, returned from the front K describe the trenches as the most 3k unclean and unsanitary places they Ik have ever seen. Men get no oppor-Jfp oppor-Jfp tunlty to take a bath. When the war gK started tho allies were several weeks WW without getting an opportunity to 3Mfi cleanse themselves, although Ger-jSVi Ger-jSVi many, with her magnificent system lj5R of preparation, had foreseen and RM taken care of such things. Jmt At present there are thousands Mmi dying in Servia from typhus fever, fln that dreadful disease born of filth, lEi- tlmt yields noL to medical treatment HI Typhus Is directly due to uncleanll-jK uncleanll-jK ness and finds its victims in ship fR holds, prisons and trenches. It is K V It &Mti && f tftt L carried by a body parasite and once one man has developed it, it is absolutely ab-solutely certain that others will fall victims if other precautions are not quickly taken. .FRENCH SOLDIER'S TALE. Thus for the dangerous features of the trench warfare. As to tho he-, rolsm, listen to this tale of a French soldier who has fought in tho trenches. "In two days wo were at Soissons, and immediately we wero sent to tho trenches. That was in August. Now at that point I must confess that life in the trenches was not very exciting. excit-ing. Since September both sides have held about the same positions, with the exception of the incident In January, when the river rose, carried car-ried off a bridge, and left part of our force on its further side. The Germans Ger-mans immediately attacked, and ' forced the French back over to the main body. "It should bo explained that one reason for tho apparent Inactivity at Soissons was the fact that in their march on Paris German engineers had taken the precaution" to prepare trcncheB in the quarries, situated on a high plateau. Granite trenches are something whoso taking would require the sacrifice of a tromondous number of men. Tho French generals, gen-erals, following Joffre's policy of saving his soldiers and wearing out the enemy nibbling, think that in time they will bo able to surround the plateau. "Most of the while in the trcncheB in those days it was a caso of making mak-ing the time pass. Wo played cards to the accompaniment of shells screaming overhead or tearing up tho earth in the tronch. Whenever the explosion would bury somo of our soldiers we would dig them out again and resume our occupations, the effort being always to keep in good humor. We became hardened FMPyil?3ll ifF nit 4MnMBMI 1 ON THE FRONTlE to the visits of the shells, and used to crack jokes and make wagers about whero thoy would land. In fact, at one point wo were so near the German trenches that we used to crack jokes with tho Germans. A feeling of human solidarity grew up. BRINGING UP FOOD. "One day I got lost In a 'voyau,' or communicating trench and camo near not being here. I had been sent back to the third line to bring food, and the first thing I knew I found myself in the open country. Immediately shells began to burst about me. Now, when I was first drilled I was instructed that the Important Im-portant thing about screening one's self was to bo ablo to take advantage advan-tage of any accidental shelter afforded af-forded by a rock. It seems incredible, incredi-ble, but a stone six timos as big as one's fist will absolutely hide your body if you lio behind it, and at 300 meters an observer cannot detect you. I threw myself flat, and began to cast about for a stone that large. It was remarkable how few rocks I were on tho surface at that poinL i Finally I discovered one, . and I dragged myself behind It. "I cannot toll you how long I lay c; there, but when I discovered I was t still aliye, I began to drag myself nway by the elbows, and finally p found mysolf in a tronch again. My 1 comrades did not recognize mo. Ex- r haustion and rheumatism, tho latter acquired through lying there wal- c lowing my way back In the mud. In- I vallded rao back to tho depot for a s fortnight's rest t "Then they gave me a job as dis- I ' . ? ' ' ' ' ' f &mmr: rrTt- - aM-0 Americao Gives Vivid Des- WMSkM 'm-i criPon $ How It Feels to Be W&00 !SSr a aret n le '-'itcnes Of SBSfflTO"'' ''"''''"' '& 1 ea n e Warsaw Front I SraSSjffiW&iW Wl """Typhus and Varied Diseases tfm '' -& ' Now a Formidable Rival Of I ;JTki'-'' "'..'"' :'.:vr ,-i; .- jbfi) Bullets In European Armies I Sfefy '" vA:WyMzf Marvelous Experiences Of I v-': mMtr -j3J a French Soldier NXDECKED rPUvSS"lN V1UJ-G.E tributer of munitions, food, clothing md other things meant for tho men In the front lino. ThpBe things were unloaded at a certain distance back. In that capacity I went to the Ar-gonne, Ar-gonne, and wbb at the battle of Vau-juois, Vau-juois, at the end of February. I lad come to know Colllgnon very ivell. I know that Colllgnon was repeatedly re-peatedly offered a commission, but tie wanted to carry the colors of tho reglmont He was a splendid figure, kvith his white beard, and the rosetto if the Legion of Honor on his breast, Ho could not wear the military 3hoes, and most of he time he wont barefooted. Later he wore sandals, t was at Vauquols that ho was killed. Our men had sought shqlt-or shqlt-or in the cellars of ruined houses In tho village. In a heavy rain of bullets bul-lets from machine guns. Colllgnon rushed out from such shelter to rescue a comrade who had fallen wounded. A shell burst near him and killed him. "Hq was burled at the front, and it was not until after my 'reformation,' 'reforma-tion,' or honorable discharge, that the memorial service took place at Fontgincbleau. I had composed my 'March Fune'bre' between trips from the depot to the front trenches. Trench fighting, which has played such an important part in the present pres-ent European conflict, is not as old as some of the other tactics In use at the present time. Mass formations forma-tions have been in use ever since the lime of Alexander, and Hank attacks at-tacks have been employed over since there has been war. But trench fighting was originated during the Mexican war in 1S47. . AN OLD PRACTICE. When tho American nhlps bombarded bom-barded Vera Cruz there- was also a largo landing parly under General Scott, which was subjected-to a tor- ' rifle rifle fire from the Mexican soldiers sol-diers within the town. As there was no natural shelter, the officers hit upon the plan of using trenches with which to protect their men. Accord- H lngly, a long ditch was dug around M tho town. This proved to be very ef- M fective and has been used a great H deal ever since by nearly every na- 1 tion. This was the first stage of M the new scientifically constructed jH network of trenches that extend H along the different battlefields M throughout Europe. H In "this Vera Cruz battle, trenches H were used only by one side, while in H later years they wero used by both ' H sides, and for an entirely different J H purpose. In the Mexican war they H wore used as a shelter, and, indi- H rectly as a means of capturing tho ( H city, while at present they play (ho j H most prominent part -in the captur j H ing itself. H The time at which tho real dcvel- H opment of trench fighting began was H when the Federal troops were try- H ing to capture Richmond, during tho H civil war. One of the greatest ob- H staclcs was the? town of Petersburg, H which had vo be taken before the H Union army could march on to the H goal. The town was surrounded by H extensive fields and these were all jH mined, thus making it practically H impossible to capture it without an JH enormous loss of life. H The Federals tried to capture it by jH counter-mining, rather than by opon H attacks, a mode of fighting that was IH almost unknown at the time. They jH started by digging trenches under JH cover of tho night in the direction Of jH the Confederate lines and spending jH tho daytime in safety. This was the jH first lime that both sides used H trenches at the same 'time. The same method of attack is used .it H present and is called sapping, a sep- JH arate branch of the army being de- jH voted to iL In the Wilderness cam- IH paign In the civil war, both tho IH North and South used trenches, a fH fact that shows that their value was H appreciated at that time by com.' manders of both armies. J |