Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-10-08
tCoDyright 1914, by Charles scribner's Sons,


(Copyright 1914, by Charles scribner's sons'
1"Oh, pretty! Right into their tum-
mies Right in the nose! La, la, la !!
But that's off-and SOS that! Tell
Battery C they're fifty yards over. Oh,
beady-eyed gods and shiny little fishes
two smacks in the same spot!
Humph! Tell Battery c that the
trouble with that gun is worn rif1ing;
that's why it's going short. Elevate 1t
for another hundred yards-but 1t
ought not to wear out so soon. I'd like
to kick the maker or the inspector. The
fellows in B p will accuse us of mat
tention. It's time to drop shell on
them to shcw we're perfectly impartial
in our favors. La, la, la! Oh, what
pretty smack! Congratulations"
B Fl was the position of Fracasse's
company and the pretty smack the
one that broke one mans arm and
crushed another's head.
The God with us!" song was singu-
larly suited to the great, bull voice of
lLS COLIpOSO1, OOll W NAO ACA anu w
come Captain Stransky in the red
business of war. 1t was he who led
the thunder of it's verses.
Il certainly like that song" he said.
well he might. 1t had made him IA
nous throughout the nation. There's
Jehovah and birthstone in 1t. Now
we'll have our own"
But we're always losing positions!
complained one of the men. Little
by little they are getting possession"
"They say the offensive always
wins" said another.
Five against three! They count
on numbers" said Lieutenant Tom
Fragini
There you go, Tom! Any other
pessimists or anarchists want to be
heard?" called out Stransky. "Just
how long, at the present rate, will it
take them to get the whole range?
There's limit to the number of even
five millions"
Then the telephone in the redoubt
brought some news. The staff begged
to inform the army that the enemy's
casualties in the last three days had
been two hundred thousand! Immedi-
ately everybody was talking at once
in Stransky's parliament, as he some
times called that company of which
he was, in the final analysis, unlimited
monarch.
How do they know"
"Do you think it's fake?"
"That sums up to pretty near a mil
lion!"
my God! Think of ia million!
Were whiting them DOWN."
1T doesn't make any difference
whether Psrtow or Lanstron is chief
of staff"
They're paying!"
Paying for our fellows that they've
killed! Paying for being in the
wrong!"
Stransky, his eyes drawing inward
in their characteristic slant, was well
pleased with his company, and the
scattered explanatory badinage kept
on until it was interrupted by the ar
rival of the mail. Partow and Ian
st=on, understanding their machine as
human in its elements, had chosen
that the army should hear from home
"How's this!" exclaimed one man
reading from newspaper. They're
going to put up statue Of Partow in
the capital! It's to show him as he
died, dropped forward on the map, and
in front of his desk a field of bayonets
On one face of the base will be his
name. Two of the other faces viii
have God with us!' and Not fol
theirs, but for ours!' The legend or
the fourth face the war is to decide
"Victory! Victory" cried those
who had listened to the announcement
Stransky was thinking that the.
had to do more than hold the Grays
Before he should see his girl they ha(
to take back the lost territory. HI
carried two pictures of Minna in hi!
mind one when she had struck hin
in the face as he tried to kiss he
and the other as he said good-by a
the kitchen door There was not mucl
encouragement in either.
But when she gets better acquaint
ed with me there's no telling!" he KEEP
thinking. Il was fighting out of Gus
eedness at first. Now I'm fighting 70
her and to keep what is ours!'