The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-06
THE BIG WAR;;
OF THE ORDINARY
Side Lights In the News That
Touch Many Sides of the
Human Emotions.

mind; it is all allowed for. Besides, the /
fallen are only Polish beginners, the |
spilling of whose blood win spread the |
war lust at home-a necessary factor.
Aug. 11.-And now for the English. |
Tonight William the Greater has given
US beautiful advice: You think each |
day of your emperor. Do not forget
| God His majesty should remember
f.! that thinking of him we think of God,
! for is he not the Almighty's represen-
tative in this glorious fight for the
right?
| Aug. 12.-This is clearly to be an
artillery war, As we fOresaw, the in
fantry counts for nothing
Aug. 14.-Eyery night now a chap
ter of the war of 1870 is read to u.s.
What great notion! But is it neces-
| sary?"
aug. 15.-We are on the frontier.
Why do we wait? Has Russia really
dared to invade us?
Showers of Falling Stars"
Speaking of the fighting on the
Marne, a French sergeant said: Il be-
gan to count the dead, but soon found
that impossible. / suddenly heard u
| great shout and saw a sight that made
my heart stand still.
Our cavalry were charging down
on the enemy's cavalry in the bright
sunshine. Their lances and sabers
looked like showers of falling stars.
There was an avalanche of men and
horses and cold steel.
Huge gaps We're torn in the en-
|
ed to vanish into the earth. There can,
/ believe, be no doubt that the tide
then turned in our favor"
Swarmed Like Ants.
"The more we killed the more they
seemed to become said an officer who
described some of the earlier phases
of the battle They swarmed like
ants. coming on in masses, though
rarely seeking close contact, for they
learned to respect our rifles and bayo-
nets. On this point there is unpreju-
diced testimony.
"A noncOmmiSsioned officer of the
hussars asked me to translate a letter
he found on a German officer who was
killed while defending his battery. In
the letter are these sentences:
German infantry and cavalry will
not attack the English infantry and
cavalry at close quarters. Their fire is
murderous. The only way to attack
them is with artillery"
Caress Seized Horses.
| That sorrowful as are the partings
) between husbands and wives and par
. ents and children in the countries in
/ volyed in the great war, the separa
ton of peasants from the dumb brutes
, that have served them long and faith
: fully and which are Communicated fol
1 the armies is almost as touching t.
/ watch. is the declaration of a Washing
V ton woman who has recently returned
q to her home. She was in Germany Ell
d route TO Munich when war was de
4 clared, and all through her journeying'
+ in the kaiser's dominions she witnessed
a what wsse evidently real bereavement
4 of this kind.
: II saw stolid appearing peasants,
r. she said, leading to the depots tn
q sleek farm horses which had been tn
means of making their little farm
prosper and which, in many cases, wer
the pets of the family After turning
t, them over to the officers in charge
u they would still cling TO thems rubbin
and patting their noses and, in som
1T cases, they would sneak back agai
# later in the day for one more cares
IS and to leave a few Jumps of sugar Q
e. an especially succutent carrot"
=, n Order of the White Feather.
How the women of England are urs
10 ing the men to fight for the unio
"a Jack is indicated in expedients adop
a ed in several towns recently to sham
N ablebodied men who have so far nc
g answered the cali. At Deal a group {
i. pretty girls distributed white feather
ar to crowd of young men, who accep
Is ed them jokingly as 'favors and woI
them in their buttonholes
They We're greatly discounted a lit
later when the town crier announce
or throughout the city that the men la
: been decorated with the order
- the White Feather for Sinking the
- duty and failing to respond to the ca
for defenders of the union jack"
ed Ferocious Bayonet Attacks
a The wounded Germans in Paris
en- clare the British have resorted aimo
IS. exclusively, to the steel in the rece1
re- fighting. The majority of the German
et. admit they have been unable to wit
ny stand the ferocity of these attack
IL Especially terrifying are reported to
a the Irish and Scotch regiments. III
rivalry between these two nationa
ties is acute, and every time that
al Scotch column distinguishes itself II
TO Irish can be depended on to attempt
g. eclipse it at the next opportunity.
Ter
Scattered His Kisses.
"a magnificent Gordon highlander 7
Gently attracted Intention at the Ga