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Show FBX BAYONETS! pis War at ClaM Ramaa Daarrifcaa hi Knuaat aia iariai fc an 0lca Mannaf r ..... upon the battalion with th complete and horrid unreality of nightmare. The silent ridge to the left awoke with machine-gun- s and rifles, and sibi-lant rushing flights of nickel-coate- d missiles from Maxim and Mauser struck down whert the shells spared. An Increasing trail of crumple 1 brown figures lay behind the battalion us It went. The raw smell of blood was In men's nostrils. Going forward with hit men, a little dared perhaps with shock and sound such as never" were on "eHrth before, the wus conscious of strangely mounting sense of the unreality of the whole thing. The woods on the crest were as far away as ever through the murk, their strides got them nowhere, their legs were clogged as In an evil d.eam they were falling so fast, these men he had worked with and helped to train In war. There was a monstrous anger In his heart ... a five-Inc- h shell swooped over bis head, so near that the rush of air made his ear-drums pop and burst. lie was picked np and whirled away like a leaf, breath and senses struck from him by the concussion. The d was pulled to his feet by Gunntr Nice, who had taken the second platoon. Ills head lolled stupidly a moment, then he heard words "nn' that ahell got all the captain's group, sir all of 'em! An' my platoon's all casualties " He pulled himself together as he went forward. Ills raincoat waa split up the back, under his belt. Ills mnp case was gone the strap that had se-cured It hung loosely from his shoul-der. There was blood on his hands, no mercy. Some hid In holes, r feigned death, to be bunted out aa the pre thinned. There was a battery of field guns diwn the slope, 600 yards or so The gunners those who were luck) took to cover after the first burst ol fire. "Thank Gawd fer a shot at then dam' artillerymen I Htittle-slgh- t, an aim low, you birds don't let any of them get awayl" . , . "Sergeant reckon the lontennnt would let ns go down an' take them T7sT "Shut up an' work yo' bolt, you dam' fool I Whatlnell you think you are a army core?" "Resides. Mr. Connor's deHd. ..." On the hill beyond new trenches scarred the slope; there were many Germans mill-ing there, some 1,300 yards away. "Save your ammunition end lay low," the word was passed. "We're on our own out here." And the battalion, a very small battalion now, little more than a hundred men, lay along the crest they' had stormed, with their dead and wounded and the Roche dead and wounded around them. Almost Immediately the Boche begun to react He opened on them a storm of fire, high explosive and shrapnel, and his machine-gun- s dinned fiercely. A counter-attac- began to form toward Sweating gunners struggled Into position with th, two machine-gun- s that were left In the battalion, end these with their crews, were knocked out by shell-fir-before either had been In action long enough to fire a clip. Rut the rifles gave tongue and continued to speak the last few men are always the most difficult to kill and the Roche had little taste for r!fle-fl- r that begins to kill at 700 yards. That counter-attack shortly returned whence It came, and the one that followed It went back also. Whitehead, of the Sixty-sevent- h company, plumped down alongside the captain of the Forty-nint- Small, very quick and wiry, with his helmet cocked on the side of bis head, he gave the Impression of a, fierce end warlike little hawk. "Hunt's comln' over, Francis," he said. "Rad place; worst I ever saw. Cot about thirty men left Hell that our machine-gun- s got knocked out so quick, wasn't It? must be two regiments of Frltzlea on our front yonder I" Captain Hunt senior In the field, a big, Imperturbable Californlan, came, and Lieutenant Kelly, promoted by casualties In the last hour to command of the Sixty-sixt- company. "How does It look to you, gentlemen?" said Hunt "Damn bad" was the consensus of opinion, with profnne embellish-ments. Followed some technical dis-cussion. "Well," concluded the senior captain, "we've accomplished our mis- - Capt JOHN W. THOMASON, Jr. Saaaaatad at aaatat tan SaaMaat ai Ow MO.M4I (0 kr tha Ban IredlcaU. lac.) CHAPTER VII Continued 11 "Any one of those nine-Inc- babies would have blotted out twenty of us," marveled a lieutenant leading his platoon around a thirty-foo- t crater that still smoked. "Or ripped the heart out of any concrete and-stee- l fortification ever built the good Lawd was certainly with us!" To the company commanders; gath-ered at dark In a much disfigured Boche shelter In the Wood of Somme-P- y, the major gave Information. "The Sixth took Rlanc Mont, and they are holding It against heavy counter-attack- Prisoners say they were or-dered to hold here at any costs they're fighting damned well, too! The Infantry regiments piped down the Bols de VIpre, Just as we did the Essen hook. The division Is grouping around the ridge, but we're pretty well isolated from the French. To-night we are going on up and take the front line, and attack toward town north of the ridge and a little west Get on up to Blanc Mont with your companies P. C. will be there, along the road that runs across the ridge. CHAPTER VIII Biting the E'oche with the American Saw-Toot- h For- - ma.'.ion. Not greatly troubled by the Boch shelling, that died to spasmodic bursts as the night went on, the battalion mounted through the dark to Its ap-pointed place. Here, beside a blasted road that ran along Rlanc Mont, Just behind the thin line of the Sixth, the weary men lay down, and, no orders being Immediately forthcoming, slept like the dead that were lying thick-ly there. Let the officers worry over the fact that the French had fallen behind on each flank, that the divi-sion was, to all purposes, Isolated far out In Roche 'territory let any fool worry over the chances of stopping one tomorrow tomorrow would comb soon enough. "The lootenant says to get all the rest you can don't no-body need .to tell me tha" In the deep dugouts behind the road the battalion commanders prodded at field-map- s and swore wearily over the ominous gaps behind the flanks three kilometers on one flunk, five on the other, where the French divisions had not kept pace. Into these holes the Boche had all day been savagely slon broke up their attack better hook up with the rest of the regiment. We'll find them through the woods to the right Move off your companies Kelly, you go first." Nobody remembers very clearly that swing to the right, through a hall of mnchlne-gn- n fire and an Inferno of shelling. They found the companies of the Second battalion dlgitl'iK In astride a blasted rood, and went into position beside them. "I've organized the company sector with twenty men all we've got left you and I make twenty-two,- " reported the dropping wear-ily Into the shell-hol- e where the cap-tain had established himself. "Lord, rm tired . . . and what I enn't see,," he added In some wonder, fin-gering the rents In his raincoat, "ti why we weren't killed, too. . That night, lying in Its shallow, hastily dug holes, the remnant of the battalion descended through further hells of shelling. The next nlpht tins of beef and bread came tip. There was some grim laughter when It came. "Captain," reported the one remain-In- g sergeant," after distributing rations In the dark, "they sent us chow ac-cording to the Inst strength report-th- ree days ago 230-od- rations. The men are building breastworks out of the comed-wlll- cans, sir twenty of 'em " Some runners got through, and Divi-sion H. Q., well forward In a pleas-antly exposed spot on the Soualn road, built up a picture of a situation suff-iciently Interesting. Four Infantry regi-ments were thrust saw-wis- e northeast to northeast of Blanc Mont; all were isolated from each other and from the French, who had lagged behind the 'flanks. Four little Islands In a turbulent Boche sea, and the old Boche doing his damnedest (TO BBS CONTINUED.) From Men That Knew No Mercy. and the salt taste of It In his month, but It didn't seem to bb his. And the front of the battalion was very nurrow, now. The support platoons were all In the line. Strangest of all, the gray slope was behind them the trees on the crest were only a few yards away. Behind and to the left the machine-gun- s still raved, but the artillery fell away. A greenish rocket flared from the pines ahead, and right In the faces of the panting marines machine-gun- s and rifles blazed. In the shadow of the pines were men In ' cumbersome green-gra- uulforms, with faces that looked hardly human under dfcep round helmets. With eyes narrowed, bodies slanting forward like men lu heavy rain, the remnant of the bat-talion went to them. It was the flank of the Boche col-umn which had come out of and struck the leading bat-talions of the Fifth. It had watched first with keen delight, then with in-credulity,, the tortured advance of the battalion. It had waited too long to open Its own Are. And now, already shaken by the sight of these men who would not die, it shrank from the long American bayonets and the pitiless, furious faces behind the steel. A few Brandenburger zealots elected to die on their spitting Maxim guns, work-ing them until bayonets or clubbed rifles made an end. A few Iron-soule- d Prussians the Boche had such men-st- ood up to meet bayonet with bayon-et, and died that way. A great many more flung away their arms and bleated "Kamaraden" to men who In that red minute kuew striving to thrust himself, and his suc-cess would mean disaster. Already the Sixth had a force thrown back to cover the left rear, disposed at right angles to the line of advance. . . . And orders were to carry the attack forward at dawn. On tcp of that, after midnight a Boclui deserter crawled Into the line with the cheer-ing news that the Germans were plan-ning to attack In force on the Amer-ican flanks at dawn ; a division of fresh . troops Prussians had , Just been brought up for that purpose. It looked bad it looked worse than that "Well," said Major George Ham-ilton of the First battalion of the Fifth, "orders are to attack, and, by God, we'll attack" a yawn spoiled the dramatic efTect of his pronounce-ment "and now I'm going to get soma sleep. Coxy, wake me at 8:30 that will be an hour." And at dawn, while the ridge shook and thundered under the barrage that went before the Boche flank attack, and the Sixth held with their rifles the branch behind the left, the Fifth marines went forward to carry the battle to Noon found them well forward of the ridge, lying In an open flat while the leading battalions disappeared In pine woods on a long slope ahead. It had fallen strangely quiet where they lay. , Up forward, though, all hell sud-denly broke loose. Artillery, machine-gun- s, rifles, even thff coughing de-tonations of grenades, mounted to an Inconceivable fury of sound. "Here comes a battalion runner there's the skipper, over there what's up, any-way V The came through his company with a light In his eyes, and he sent bis voice be-fore him. "Deploy the first platoon, Mr. Langford. Three-pac- e interval, be sure. Where's Mr. Connor? Oh, Chuck, you'll form the second wave behind Tom. Abont fifty yards. Other two platoons In column behind the com-pany flanks. On yo' feet chlllun I We're goln' up against 'em I" And so, all four companies In line, the First battalion, a thousand men, went up against the Boche. "Captain," said the as they started, "we're' swinglu' half-lef-t. This tack will take up right to e. won't it? We were polntln' a little one side of it before major give you any dope?" "The Boche have ccme out of two full Infantry rcglivsoots, anyway, and a bunch of Maxim guns and bit the second and third lu the flank. Must be pretty bad. We're goln' np to hit them in the flank ourselves. 'Bout a kilometer, I'd esy. Wait until their artillery spots this little promenade. None ours In support you know." Every man knew, as they moved out of the flat and ascended the slope ahead, that the case was desperate, but to this end was all their .strength and skill In war, all their cunning gained In other battles, and their hearts lifted up to meet what might come. "More Interval more Interval there on the left! Don't bunch up, yon " The first shell came screaming down the line from the right, and broke with the hollow cough .and poisonous yellow puff of smoke which marks the particular abomination of the It broke fairly over the center of the Fprty-nlnt- and every head ducked In unison. Three men there were who seemed to throw themselves prone; they did not get up again. And then the fight closed pi lwLs2 OLD FOLKS SAY .." DR. 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The subtlety of this task would have ruined any statesman of the driving sort. Great Creative Ability. We are, even today, far from a de-finitive understanding of Lincoln's statecraft, but" there Is perhaps Justi-fication for venturing upon one proph-ecy. The further from him we get and the more clearly we see him In per-spective, the more shall we realize his creative Influence upon his party. In the Lincoln of his ultimate biog-rapher there will be more of Iron than of a less enduring metal In the figure of the Lincoln of the present tradi-tion. Though none of his gentleness will disappear, there will be more emphasis placed upon his firmness and upon such episodes as that of December, 18G0, when his single will turned the scale against compromise; upon his steadfastness In the defeat of his party at the polls In 18C2. The Civil war waa In truth Lincoln's war. Those modern pacifists who claim him as their own are beside the murk. They will never get over the Illusions about Lincoln until they see. ns nil the world Is beginning to see. that his coreer has universal signifi-cance because of its bearing upon the universal problem of democracy. It will not do ever to forget that he was a man of the people, always playing the hand of the people, in the limited social sense of that word, though play-ing It with none of the heat usually met with In the statesmen of success-ful democracy from Cleon to Robe-spierre, from Andrew Jackson to Lloyd George. Ills gentleness does not re- - Greatness of Lincoln Shown in Statecraft ' Writing In the St. Louis I'ost-Dl- s patch, Nathaniel W. Stephenson, of history at the College of Charleston, S. C, thus review Presi-dent Lincoln's great achievements: The history of the North hail vir-tually become, by April, 1801, the his-tory of Lincoln himself, and during the remaining years of the President's life It Is dllllciilt to separate his per-- 8onal!ty from the ireiul of national " history. Any attempt to understand the achievements, and the omissions of the Northern people without underfnk- - Ing an Intelligent estimate of their lender would be only to duplicate the story of Hamlet with Hamlet left out. According to the opinion of Eng-- l llsh military experts, "against the great military genius of certain South-ern leaders fate opposed the unl.rok-e-resolution and passionate devo-tion to the Union, which he wor-shipped, of the great Northern I'resl dent As long as he lived and ruled the people of the North there could be no turning hack." He wus neither a saint nor a vil-lain. What he actually was Is not. however, so easily stated. I'rodlglous men art never easy to sum up; and Lincoln was a prodigious man. The more one studies him the more In-dividual he appears to he. !iy degrees one conies to understand how It was possible for contemporaries to hold contradictory views of h! in nnd fr each to believe that his views were proved by the facts. . . Lincoln's Friends and Enemies. To measure Lincoln's achievement, two things must be rememhered : On the one hand, his tnsk was not as arduous as It might have been, be-cause the most Intellectual part of the North had definitely commuted Itself either Irretrievably for. or Irreconcil-ably against, his policy. Lincoln, therefore, did not have to trouble himself with this portion of the popu-lation. On the oilier hand, that pnrt which he bad to master Included sucb e tlonal rhetoricians as Horace Cree-- ley; such fierce sealots as Henry Win-ter Pavls of .Maryland, who made hint trouble Indeed; and Benjamin Wnde. . Such military egoists ns and Pope; such crafty double-X&- . dealers as his own secretary of the Y treasury; such astute gntfters ns Cumeron; such miserable creatures as certain powerful capitalist, who eucritlced his army to their own lust for profits aud filched from army con tracts. The wonder of Lincoln's achieve-ment is that he contrived ut last to extend his hold over all these diverse elements; that lie persuaded some. move Lincoln from that stern category. Throughout his life, besides his pas-sion for the Union, besides his an-tipathy for slnvery, there dwelt In his very heart love of and faith In the plain people. We shall never see hint In tme historic perspective until we conceive him as the Instrument of a vast social Idea the determination to make a government based upon the plain people successful In war. Intence Love for Mankind.: He did not scruple to seize power when he thought the cause of the people demanded It, and his enemies were prompt to accuse him of holding to the doctrine that the end Justifies the means a hasty conclusion which will have to be ' reconsidered. What concerns us more closely Is the defi-nite conviction that he felt no sacrifice too great If It advanced the happiness of the generality of mankind. Five weeks after the second In-auguration Lee surrendered and the war was virtually at an end. What was to come after was Inevitably the overshadowing topic of the hour. Many anecdotes represent Lincoln In these last few days of his life, as possessed by a high though melancholy mood ot extreme mercy. Therefore, much has been Inferred from the follow-ing words In his last public address, made on the night of the eleventh of April: "In the present situation, as the phrase goes. It may be my duty to make some new announcement to the people of the South. 1 am con-sidering and shall not fall to act when action shall be proper." No Animosity In His Heart. What was to be done 'for the South, what treatment should be accorded the Southern leaders engrossed the Presl dent and his cabinet at the meeting on April 14. which was destined to be their last Secretary Welles has pre-served the spirit of the meeting In a striking anecdote. Lincoln said no one need expect he would "take any part In hanging or killing those men, even the worst of them. Frighten them out of the country, open the gates, let down the bars, scare them oft." he said, throwing up his hands, as If scaring sheep. "Enough lives have been sacrificed; we must extinguish our resentments If, we expect har-mony and union." The passage of CO years has proved fully necessary to the placing of Lin-coln In historic perspective. No Presl , dent. In bis own time, with the pos-sible exception of Washington, was so bitterly hated and so fiercely reviled On the other band, none has been the object of such Intemperate hero wor-ship. However, the greatest In the land were. In the main, quick to see him In perspective and to recognize his historic significance. It Is recorded of Davis that In after days lie paid a beautiful tribute to Lincoln and said: "Next to the destruction of the Con federacy, the death of Abraham Lin coin was the darkest day the South has ever known." 'M iff" Abova n plcturad tha palatini Mr Abraham Lincoln, which was pratented to tbt Whila Houm by Robert Todd Lincoln, am ot tna Great Emanripator Tha palatini la th. work of KathariM Halm. Great Power Aggregation ; The total capacity of prime movers, that Is, water wheels, steam engluee and turbines and Internal combustion engines in public utility plants, fac-tories, mines and quarries In the United States on January 1 of this year was r6500.000 horsepower. This total does not Include railroad loco-motives, motor vehicles or water craft Weakness of prophecy Is that when one hits the bullseye once, bit tries to do It again. ' .XZIIX'1ZXXXXIIXXXXXXXXZZX9 One Kind of Exercise Not for Modern Boy brag of the very short time In which they could saw and split a cord of wood. He was Incited to speed up a bit himself and, as the days went by, found himself able to do more and more of a. stint It was a fine physical exercise and good moral discipline. Boys trained to cut up a wood pile usually mnde good. They raised Industrious families and had a pretty good time through It alL ' , In these days of power saws and new ways of heating and cooking, the majority of boys are not getting the fine exercise with the sawhorse and the bucksaw that their fathers used to obtain, says the Salem News. In the fall, as the old almanac says. It formerly was customary for the old man gently but firmly to steer his son out to the wood pile and sug-gest that It was needful for him to reduce those powerful looking sticks of four-foo- t wood to kitchen stove size. It was suggested, more or less delicately, that these youngsters had free board and clothes and spending money and that the least they could do was to perform the allotted task on that wood pile. It cannot be said that the boy ele-ment took hold of the wood pile with willing sest However, if the kid over in the next yard had one to reduce also, then the spirit of competition came in. But on many days the old saw would drag terribly. It did seem as if those long sticks were the very Invention of the evil one, so gnarled and knotty were they. However, no kid In those days liked to admit that be was stumped or could not do the things generally ex-pected of a boy. The youngster was thrilled also to hear the old fellows Great Men Equipped by Nature for the Qualities That Marked Them as Leaders wlilcli produced a Lincoln can never be duplicated. But America can and will produce great men to meet great emergencies if and when they arise, leaders of the stature of Washington or Lincoln are not possible In ordinary times. Such men can be developed only on the crucible of an agonizing experieme, when a nation or nations are In the throea of birth or rebirth. Meanwhile America may well be botb proud and thankful that In Its rela-tively short life it has produced two men of the first magnitude In the con-stellation of human history, two men to whose virtues a whole world pays unreserved homage. No two great men are really com parable. In the sense of likeness When we attempt to compare them we hut accentuate their differences And each great man Is not only differ-ent In himself, from all others, but he 'deals with different circumstances In which his greatness Is given unique expression, whl-- u are. In fact the mettns by which he achieves greatness It Is because each one of such men Is unlouely fitted ,ne unl'iue l'"m'' tlons of his time and place thijt he superemli.ence. Wash ng arrives at ton could not have been a Napoleon nor a Caesar nor a Cromwell, and not these, or any other In human ITtor . could have done what Waslv did In the way he did It. if at i"f peculiar qualities of Wash fngion matched perfectly the Require ments of the situation which "Ciilled upon to meet Wahlngton could not have been a Un(Mm, nor Lincoln a Washington. Ec,: was the singular product of the ,pec'nl circumstances of the time, and the circumstances of the one time nuu no likeness to the circumstances ot the other. Neither would have been known to fame In any large degree but for the conditions that brought their unique qualities Into action for the leadership of a people. If there had been no revolution Washington would have continued to he a Virginia planter of no special distinction. If there had been no slavery crisis threat-ening the Union, Lincoln, In all prob-ability, would have remained a peri-patetic country lawyer. No one could have Imagined, not even themselves, the s thnt lay dormant within them. Yet how amazingly, how uniquely, equipped each was for the peculiar and tremendous task. Only a Lincoln could have done what Lincoln had to do and did do. and It was the doing of this task In the way he did It that revealed his great qualities his great heart, and placed his name among the first of the Immortals. America will never produce another Lincoln, because the circumstances Life's RealilUi Life will always have some cross In It New heights ef wcrthler living keep appearing, new works of service beckon us to take hold. The upward way cannot be easy ; It must be climb-ing to the end ; but, as we climb, there comes more love of man, more love of God; a blessing of stronger, abler, kinder, happier life. And ever grow-ing over all, a quiet, restful sense of something brighter, happier still, be-yond some crown of better life than aught we know of here, which the Lord hath, in the unfolding ot the eternal years, for tbem that love Him. Brooke Herford. Insect! Wait for Weather Observations made by a British sci-entist have led to the belief that If the weather Is bad the small egg moth can postpone Its own birthday for days, months or years. The cocoon of this type is ordinarily due to open In February but If the weather is Inclement the birth la usually post-poned sometimes for twelve months. Moths have been known to emerge successfully after being Imprisoned eleven years. Shows Lincoln as Lawyer How Lincoln probably looked while pleading a case In court Is seen In the latest notable Lincoln statue, made by Lorado Taft for Crbnna and Cham-paign, III., says Popular Mechanics Magazine. It was unveiled near the courthouse and In front of the hotel, whlcb stands on the site of the old Inn where Lincoln stopped when bis business took him to the "twin cities." The figure Is of bronze and the monu-ment la ten feet high. Runt Over Oregon Trail The Oregon trail, which Is about 2,000 miles long, from Independence, Mo, to Oregon City and Fort Vancou-ver, on the Columbia river, has Its course now practically covered by that of the Union Pacific railroad from the point ot its (Oregon trail) touching Bear river. |