The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1914-12-30


but also hard to clean"
Wounded men are moved sIowl
from the battle field, the physical
saio. in some cases lying between
The trenches for days.
Cannon and food must be move,
first" he said. "The wounded mel
do not count for much"
The mixture of races in the hos
pital IN the cause OF much merri
ment and anxiety at times, he ad
ded The Senegalese and Moroc
cans are extremely sensitive. ant
they refuse to obey the directions o.
surgeons at times, believing thai
they are being Disseminated
against.
Zone Senegalese who had recov-
cred sufficiently to be able to sit W
received his dinner at a table. and
looking about, he saw his COM
rades eating in bed" said DR.. Ho-
guet. with a yell of rage he clam
bered back into HIS bed and cried in
bad French: I fight for France, I
get hurt for France, and by and by
go back and probably get killed
for France, yet can't eat like a
Frenchman.' We fed him In bed
after that until he left the hospital. I"
Other incidents indicating the pa
thence and fortitude of the men who
are brought to the hospital after
rides of As hours from Dixmude
were related, among them the story
of sergeant of artillery, the left
side of whose face was blown of by
a shell while he was directing the
fire Of a gun after the gun officers
had been killed.
THE officer commanding the di-
vision finally ordered the wounded
soldier back of the lines" said DR..
Hoguet, land against his will he
was placed on a stretcher and two
bearers started with him to the field
hospital. A shell fell on him. kill
ing the bearers and blowing off both
his legs. He was alive SO hours af-
terward when we got him, and re-
manned alive for a week. Just the
day before his death he received the
medal, an honor more COW
eted than the Legion OF Honor. A
Colonel, then convalescent,
presented it to him, and all the
wounded in the ward who we're able
10 stand arose and saluted.
THE wounded soldier said, Let
me iiss it before it is pinned on
me- and kissed it. Then he closed
his eyes end Il few hours later died.
It was a most impressive sight to
see these white, black and brown
men from the far reaches of the
world standing stifiiy at salute,
where possible, in their rough night
shirts and pajamas. all swathed in
1apdages.
Another soldier was wounded
orty-five times by shrapnel. one of
he wounds penetrating the brain. |
The abscess which formed was
Trained with tube and the man re-
covered. Another soldier lost both |
lis eyes. and as he lay helpless in
he hospital his mother came to see |
lin.
al have seven sons she said.
One is back home, cripple for life
rom German bullets. This one is
lind, two more are in another hos
ital and three | have not heard
rom since they marched away
THE incongruities one meets
18th every day in the hospital make
p for the drudgery of the work. A
british trooper we nursed back to
ealth thanked us politely and went
way and the next week we receiv-
d from his uncle. a British Lord, a
heck for $1,000 for being kind to
is nephew.
Several other times when the
ospital staff was dashing madly
bout its business, President Poin-
are, of France, and Queen Amelia,
Portugal, paid us visits. Queen
melia went from bed to bed and
poke to the men in the kindest
lanner. shaking hands with than |