The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-04-26

, specified subsidy for the maintenance { 5 those vas leaving behind: took q : for euitis. and 70 in my pocket AS cam
 paignirg expenditure bongh; knar . sack and a notebook, and started b. sh mail train (secoad classl ,he same n,shi : A trend had taken charge for me et ta r Losfos Sso!Smsa.
 Luck. in a way. was oa the side of ihs enthusiastic noviCe. Mir. Graat seeme. ,n have little more oonverSance with ,h,
 theatre of ~.r than tha, !; would oe some , where ln continental Europe. and he lei
 |, to ue ;o make choice whe,Aer ~ouis sec what .as to oe seen with the 6er
 mans or ~ith the French. S,noe leAv,ns the army. had made some study of ih,
 military o:ssalrA,ionS of tue great Euro
 pean powers l h.a read Colonel Stcfiei',
 warning letters: and fell the conviellar that even II the French were 10 condiiia n to essay ther old accustomed role oi the hrst offensive. 'eftnan method. system Al copiau<ne,> ef available resource sai.6 ultimately bring victory Ia the
 Ieu'onit banners. How putpos eful were the Geria .n mil. aiy people. ho~ smooth iy an. efficiently worked Moltke's VAS; machine. WAS demonstrated So power inliy Tn Henry Hofier's "Seven Weeks War. iha, wondered even then. as l have wondered m a growing ratio ever sincc. how So many clear-hea aded Bfl,ons should have been so implicit believers in the Trench supremacy. |, lar my part. needed no nomen; for consluyrsit an be fore l decided io choose the German siic in the grea; cockpit, and with hstic less deliberation l selected the pom, tor which 10 make. wIin ,ntcut in sec the earliest fighting lei; behind me when ! l qautcd England the address al pos,e Res,ante, Saashtas In regard 'e the
 .l.-impof;ant question of les.,nua,ion. !" the German term for permission ,o ae- company anne, in the neld. l ~as in ai
 ies and happy ignorance. My assumption ~As that could < et along somehow and So. ~hlle the great ones oi the professor ..l whose ranks wts the hamblesf ot s.aw recruits were haunting the berlin hsfcaGN II quest af theiI credentials. l ~as already looking !, the heh,iae. l was ver1 ltcky. saw everything up to ,Iavclottc ID virtue of an inform A scrap oi pcrm,ssioR General von esoehen had gwen me as l passed through Coblen,zc on my ~ay ts the front. II Was pot ani,l the day alter t.ravelotte, when the ter man hearts were meIlowed by viessr,, Ina; gotthe 6te#st Hcad-aaaitef Pass : signcd hy todbseskl. the quarter master general of hing Wilhelm staff which was so po;cn, Il voue her wherever cNhih- ited. Nor for ;his purssant document had to beg and intrigue. ard use infiu enee. had no influence 10 ase. | slm- ply called, the evening after t,r1velat;e. ,ti Inc bureau m t,5tse oi the general sts: There found friendly sergeant, to whom c>plalned what l desired to have. and sith s nom lch the crodcn- u4is cAtiied from my newspaper aud the s,rap Von Gocbcn had gwen me sts bi'idce. 'o return m an hour eid sa, aud the friendly sersean, handed me the Po6bIclski IegitinatIoB, ~ah the stamp and seal on il of the royal head. quarter. and the injunction to all and sandry 10 gard me AS a fully acc,edi. cd correspondent. The sergeant d,d my business for me in connection with thls affair l saw nobody save that genial spes ,ac'ed non commissioned otficcr
 Ne l had found s,auneh comrade m poor young lacob de Lletic, ~ho vas representing the G.axoe Us,aa had a strangely adventurous tune of II be- tween the frontier and the vicinity of Pans Save for the occasional hire of A vehicle, we covered the ground on foot. knapsacks on backs. We were lndepend- cnt of quarters, for wc blvosackeu wlih the h.hlest hearts. and we tarncd our fatoas and dad our cooking gipsy- itshion. under the ice sf snel,ering hedge. Me could scarcely b< called war correspondents rather ~e were journals uC uanps writing letters t9 our news papers, winch ~e posted in any hcld-po,, wagon ~e chan ea on, with 4 vague hope taa, somehow or other ihey would reach thclr destination some day We had no money for coutiers back to the base w.th our despsicAes. no fesoarees that would justify resort to telegiaphic commun,- eaton, no s.ffiliaiioa io any head laarie, through wlseh ou: letters eeuld be esr peelted. sn the fullest sense of the term we were unattached" l, was an, ad- sen'ufoas, Tacy pictures qne life Du, Il was no; @ar correspondence in the mape modern sense el that terra. Later, il came with me to be a fysesaadc mat tef of chasrin aha; l shosld see ..aay- ,hing notable. the account ot which F n.y. lish newspaper reade1 shoald noi have before them within three days a, laxs;. The feelng gres ap Tn ms. so CeEned dld be ofnc in my work. that l would rather s0; see suca an occurrence al all than see II and no: be ao.s io lusIfy my eAGstenee m relation to II oy getting the descrspt4on Df II home senTe a ierre. Bul ,sis anoaiet stnse %f respon ability had 3ot goI us gFlI pn Hse shile as yet ] promenAGed Lorraine Tor the .i4axsssg id ssra aae,. ~l.n ana ps-. k on os.lk ard A scry small h4uaig. pi nspa!eoas 1T. my pocket .s was I-tl sny atiair tnea 1 had neither borses nar.A eoursrrs. have ot1en ;hosghi SsHee. had all iEs apols~ anees been thea d my c9Dmss.d, saeA s-s In later csnp@igDs originated, elas- oraiec, anG strained asny s,isae to n ar utmost tensIca, hos~ l might lave m ssie the world ,Eg iI tsese early. eager. feveTi n ca,s of the srs, act e&the r. a.ts- German tragedy For ~e lao re- .less