Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-10-06
fHy Herhert corey.l

LONDON, Oct. g. carn't sleep,
the maid who makes my bed told me.
Her, 01 nslSs s Is * ons S # ens h isn't q
mark on him. but he has gone to
pieces. The maid whimpers quietly
In the nj
"'E used to be such a nice boy"
she said. "sold fiahers, e did, at
covent Garding market. The wye g
used to go on about his roses"
The nice boy. it seems, Joined the
fellow too well. He went through that
frightful first week OF the British
troops without weakness. For eight
days not Of his company had a
chance to take OF his boots. When
they reached the front. after three
days spent continually In boats or on
trains, they marched 81 miles in two
der fire for "a hours. Almost every
n was green at the game. At last
they got. a chance with the bayonet.
Did You ever regard a bayoner Close
ly? Did 1t ever occur to you that this
pointed rod of steel is devised to be
thrust through the soft. yielding vitals
of a man?
"'e said" my maid told me. sniff
fling, that e stuck it at two or three
Germans in that charge. but e don't
think g hit anybody until he got a big
German cornered and began jabbing
at i'm with it The German e jabbed
back. but at last g stepped back and
dropped is gun. And Alfred, e
stuck that pore soul in is big, soft
stomach. just like he was lifting hay
German was trying to surrender"
n soft hearted flower merchant
threw himself on his knees beside the
big. fat German" and begged the
poor devil to forgive him. He flung
his now useless gun On tho ground,
the bayonet bent like copper wire. The
German was screaming. Even above
those screams.
He hears them yet. At night he
again feels the yielding resistance Of
that Germans soft white body as the
steel goes through him and hears the
grinding cry with which he died.
The doctor says" my maid tells
ms, 'that Albert is done for. Ell
never be fit to go to war again."
When the Beast Rises.
Hand-to-hand conflict hasn't Eone
out. It never will 20 out. There was
the incident OF the Chateau Monde
mot, of the most beautiful Of the
old Norman keeps. Some recent own
er had widened its narrow windows
to give light to the banuueting hall,
Then he put iron bars across them to
keep marauders out. Ten times that
chateau was taken and retaken by the
French and Germans. No sooner did
an attacking force win 1t than this
artillery was turned on. The old
place became a shambles. The men
striving for 1t became mere snarli'
gasptng, foaming. beasts. The iron
bars across the windows were knock
ed out by shells.
SIu tho oot o~~o,yk ~ ~.aS A. -
who told me the story. ''both French
and Germans came to handsrips. Thew
had no time to load and IRE their
rifles. Some Of them picked up those
huge iron bars and literally beat out
each others brains with them, The
bodies we saw later were covered with
the most amasing and trishtful
One recalls tho stories Of the nala-
dins OF the middle aRes'in hearing the
story Of n sergeant Of French xou-
ayes. He found himself alone. by
some miracle, in q rose garden,
Around 1t were high walls. Although,
N the very center of the fire sweep
the garden had been spared BY OF
those fantastic happenings that are
common IN war. He stood there
and the perfume. Upon a bench sat
an old woman. her white hair lace
covered. She was praying.
Suddenly through the open gate Of
the garden rode a uhlan. No word
was spoken by either man. The old
woman lifted her head from her
prayer. The uhlan couched his lance
and made at the zouave at a rushing
gsl1op. Twice the zouave avoided the
pointed steel. The third time he swung
his heavy sword bayonet. sword fash.
lon. in a chopping blow. and ham
strung the horse. It fell. and before
the uh]an could gather himself from
the around the zouave was on him,
stabbing, stahbinR-
AS he went out through the omen
gate he looked back. The old woman
was on her knees at prayer. Her gray
face was upturned.
1t was only a little time z that
we were told that the chief uses 81
cavalrv had passed. They were to
be utilized in future wars only a,
scouts. Long range rifles and machine
guns and wire entanelements and
well-t!med shrepnel had made TIE
n,d.time r1nsire charge an impossi-
htltty. And yet-do YOU remember
tin? ~
when Scots Crews Rode to Death,
The Black Watch were there, hue
ting the ground. being cut to pieces
by the fire Of Germans. They could
not retreat. The distance was toe
great for a charge. They were dying
by the dozen. Suddenly behind them
they heard the muffled roll Of many
hoofs and loud cheering. The Scots
Greys We're coming up in omen order.
The Black Watch knew what that
meant. The Greys had swirled q
Ht"hland regiment through French
ranks at Waterloo. the infantrymen
holding to the stlrrup feathers.
And so that brave old time maneu-
Yer was repeated. AS the Greys nal.
!oped through the Black Watch 2
football attached himself to eithe,
sttrrup leather Of each horse. Steel
shod rife in each free hand. a sword
waving over them, they Hera pullAd