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Evening star., 1914-10-25

The Germans knew, of course, that
they were In the low countries, always
subject to the desperate old defense of
flooding. Their secret service must
have made it part of their general in
formation that, on both sides Of the
Scheldt, the outermost belt of forts.
at radius Of twelve miles. was con-
tinued by zone of inundation." The
Scheldt, the Rippel and the Nothe. all
diked. are. at the tide, away above
the level of the countryside. The Ger
mans knew it, but could not conceive
that Belgium would. at least, so soon.
resort to such devastating means as
letting in the ocean on vast meadows.
downs and villages, dairies and fac
tories, farms, nurseries and grazing
lands, for miles.
The rabbits knew. A sick and wounded
German lieutenant who is scarcely more
than boy and being privately cared
for at Lorrach, just across from Basel.
skedaddling through the brushwood
and, in time, he began to think it queer.
The German soldierst were not hunting
them-they would not dare WAS it a
time for hunting?" All the afternoon, the
rabbits came dancing along, the big
hares bounding beside them. all in the
same direction. Never saw SO much
game. outside of battue." he says.
Chickens, turkeys and pheasants clutter
ed past. Now a COW or two, quite busi-
nesslike, and now a bunch of hogs, silent
and hurried, and mule stopped and
looked me in the face. then turned con-
temptuously, and left me. l wondered
where they all came from, because we had
cleaned out the country as clean as q
desert. as we imagined, apart from what
the natives got away with
1t was growing dusk.
X
1--WE felt queer says the boy lieutenant
you know? AS when something is go
tn hon In ho
thing that looked like a great black
shadow scooted past along the surface
it was rats! Great rats. as black as ink
million Of them! And. above. flock
of crows came flying and cawing That
was queer. too. All the other beasts
were going And the crows were COM
ing. They lit in trees. a million Of them,
black as ink. They came to wait.
know.
Then. in the stiffness, a faint moaning,
so you scarce could hear it. Then a roll
ing. as of distant thunder, lower but
more musical. 1t grew and grew. A roar
was In our ears, swash was at our
feet. The flood! They've broken the
dykes! Officers were crying orders, bugles
blowing, and I found myself with my
cannon. keeping my frightened men in
harness. clash of arms. cries, revolver
shots, neighing horses and the roll of
wheels in the slop.
I'VE were IN five inches of water.
The great object was to save the artil
lery and munitions. There were thou
sands Of caissons full of shells. But
when the water got to the hubs we
lost the roads. Impossible to follow
them The land was water-in the
darkening night! Some were In the
fields, some in the gullies Wheels
stuck, caissons overturned, horses fell
and broke their legs.
TT seems like an Internal dream"
says the lieutenant. when 1 look
back to that disaster, due to no fault
of our own, I see infantry up to their
waists, trees black with men. cannons
submerged. weeping officers walloping
the poor beasts. the fash of shots, or
ders unheard. men falling and the
Evening star., 1914-10-25

hitched. Driver and cannoneer stood
by their posts and through the down
pour listened to the swelling firing to
which they had grown SO accustomed
The boom of artillery threw a new
note into the battle. The character of
the musketry changed. and. instead of
broken fre-at-will, there came the roll
of volleys. still dull and distant, yet
terrible. 1t sounded, to sleep-laden
ears. like the sharp crackle of a dry
ing sail tapping in the wind at some
fair, homeland port. And the burst of
shrapnel, nearer, punctuated the war
motif, now become a monotonous tone.
Without voice or trumpet. the battery
moved out at command of the captain,
the column striking a gummy road and
turning, where red light, high on
STAFF, bespoke the position of reserve
ammunition train. to the northward.
Already, battalion ammunition carts
were waiting at the roadside to replen-
ish, and extra caissons moved out to
join the column.
Up the hill, toward the firing, the
horses strained in their steel collars.
to the slipping wheels or themselves
slipped and strained as they strove to
boost the guns crestward.
At each side of the hill road. heavy
columns Of infantry stood. clearing the
way for the artillery. The faces of the
men, shining dimly in the occasional
lantern light, turned to the passing
guns.
a. ~.
'Them's the blokes." sang out a
Tommy admiringly. Let the Betsys
get up; they'll stop the bloomin'
racket" A..
Near the top. the ,cut-up road be-
came too much for the gun teams
and the battery halted. The lead and
swing pair from the following team
were added to the team Of the lead
ing gun. Prolonges, long ropes, were
Evening star., 1914-10-25

This Is the third OF series of pen pictures
of modern warfare by an American army
officer who himself has seen lot Of hard
fighting. Next weeks article will tell efl
''The Cavalry Raid"
Evening star., 1914-10-25

horses beginning to swim! 1 got away
twelve men and saved piece of rs"
Mighty little was saved He does not
indicate the losses, either in lives or
artillery. He turns his face to the wall.
Flood and mud. rain, cold. chattering
teeth. bronchitis. pneumonia and con-
gestions!
When they add the dead from sick
ness and famine to waterlogged pris-
oners and fallen by the wavside water
may be found as deadly as was fire.
The grand German army all but
starved because Of swollen rivers.
million men in soaked uniforms!
This boys brother died of conges-
tion of the lungs in the Quarries of
scissors. after the heroic retreat of the
German armies from the Marne under
diluvial rains.
'The roads were transformed to ver-
table rivers" he says. '"The wheels of
vehicles sunk In deep ruts, which de-
manded the tragic skill and patience to
conduct the harassed horses. Whips
lashed the poor beasts incessantly, and
their efforts were desperate, but the
wheels sank always deeper. And rain
came in torrents.
UP some officer announcing the ap-
proach of the enemy. Cut the traces!
Save the horses! OFF they galloped. and
another caisson of munitions lost,
sticking in the mud, impeding those
behind, who have to turn round it as
best they can.
Nothing could be seen for the fog,
the soaking mist accompanying rain
upon those plains in autumn. Under
that incessant rain, the men, worn out,
weakened by hunger, without ammuni-
tion, were but vast flock of desperate
wanderers. Far away, the booming of
the cannon indicated that the battle
still continued. A single moment OF
vexation might be dangerous, discour-
agement spells crime. Our officers,
tears rolling down their rain-lashed
cheeks, must get the men onward, on
ward"
1t is a monster drama that the sick
and wounded boy at Lorrach tells from
his dead brother, a drama in rapid
movement along all the French high
roads conducting northward from the
region Of the Marne. The great plains.
soaked by rain and yelled by mist, are
cut by swollen rivers.
Water, cruel water. The rivers must
pc .orded or pontooned. all bridges
having been cut by the French. and
decimated the columns. Sixteen times
IN one case they blew the German
bridge Of boats to kindling wood. each
time they patiently began again. be-
meath a calling fire!
The difficulty of crossing those riv-
ers was the most terrible obstacle to
the retreat" says the boy to their
mother at Lorrach. "They principally
caused the lack of food and munitions,
because the great automobile trucks
could not follow the troops over the
pontoons."
Flood and mud!
Rivers and rains! Drowned men and
horses. wounded sinking or soaking.
hunger, wet. cold, fever. chattering
teeth. deadly fatigue, bronchitis, con-
gestions, pneumonia!
Safe and snug In the trickling quar-
ries OF scissors the brother died in
peace-while the German armies re-
formed their center.
STERLING HEILIG.
Evening star., 1914-10-25


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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26

as was experienced In the Dark. Ages. with
This firm conviction, the American mind and
hat Of other civilizations would be recreant
to their duty to posterity moi to frown upon
what is fcreseen with the coming Of possible
events To the outside world. then. is It any
wonder that the militarism of Germany. as
represented by Its ruler and war staff. appears
in the rola OF the brigand that cuts the fences
and turur the cattle loose, burns pastures and
settlements and puts to the sword any that OBJ
structs his way? This the mailed fist of autoc-
racy frepugnank to modern civiltzation) is
in the individual German. who though all a
man in stature and intellect Is yet in shackles
from that barharous system.
That the curse of coming ages. of genera
tions yet unborn. will rest upon tho militia rism
of the Teuton. that he will be a by-word and
scorn for times and half-times", is not
doubted by impartial minds and students OF
history. The black plague the simeon of
the Sahara, the cyclone of the west and the
east the tidal of the Oriental inani-
snates-nor the Moslem scourge. the advent
the Moors. the onrush of the Vandals or grass
less tread of the Attila hoof will ever COM
pare with the nnwarranaed devastation and
Dissertation OF a peaceful and forbearng Bel
GUM comport In ferocity with the barbaric
which Is disguised by civilization with Chris
tian pseudonym. The Tartar OF old. the Jug
gernautsts of Medieval and the Inquisition
must giva way to the cruel propensities OF the
Hohenzol.ernthe Herod of modern times, the
Slaughtered OF innocents, the destroyer Oh
peace. the scourge Of MISUNDERSTANDING Clti-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26

hihition field The Vt-uiatan invites the atten-
ten of the civilized world to Virginia and her
work for and with prohibition. We will be more
than willing to compare results, efficiency and
honesty of prohibition in Virginia with the Nc,os
Leaders, Russian favorite.
"All Of US can afford TO watch with interest
Dcmoorscy's and Virginia's effort at prohibit
item"
Another la,tcrday saint In the cause of pro-
hibiton is the Richmond Eren'ng Journal which
saturday. inspired by what 1t considers the
bright prospect OF Tho Gripping of the West Wiz
gin!a prohibition law, delivered itself of An ut
terauce on Enforcement of Prohibition" in
which. with characteristic ant-prohibition zeal,
it seets to direct the steps thai should be taken
by Virginia to enforce the law that the Journal
combatted with such jealous unscrupulousness
short month ago. Among many interesting.
II not wholly accurate, statements we find the
following
In many places in West Virginia Areat
deal OF liquor IL being sold. In every instance
It is said that is due largely to the fact that
me men CHARGED with the enforcement OF the
law do not like some Of its features The i'm
pudence OF an officer OF the law refusing to
a. his sworn duty and enforce the law in
gu estion simply because he does not believe
It wise one, stirs the indignation of every
gt Cd citizen"
We are OF the opinion that the Journals infor-
nation as to liquor selling In West Virginia is
about as accurate and reliable as some Of the
near-intersiews and almost-accurate statistical
and impresslonistic Information 1t produced dur
ing the course Of the campaign But ii is really
amusing TO note the righteous indignation the
Journal musters at the prospect OF "Tmpudent'
officers dcfying the law of the land. II memory
and records serve us right the Journal at
pains month ago to demonstrate the i'm
possibility and preposterousness OF expecting
Acknowledgement from officers who opposed the
principle Of prohibition and holding Office in 10
caiities- where local majority voted against pro-
hibiton. The pirDinidn Then and Now pre-
sented arguments and facts to the character
of official who would allow his opinions to in
terfere with his duty. But so many remarkable
things have happened In the of the
Journals career that we suppose the public
should be charitable and trust the Journal to
that kind providence that watches over three
certain classes Of persons
Verify, then and now" before and after TAX
ing" and the wet newspapers afford much food
for reflection. qualification and amusement
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26
OPENING OF REyIy AIS.

The revival services inaugurated here yes
terday received an suspicious start. The large
gathering at the Auditorium in the afternoon
was earnest and interested in the messages
that were presented. The many services held
last night were largely attended and deeply
spiritual. The people of Richmond are on the
verge Of a great religious awakening. strength
ening of their religious faith and more whole
hearted loyalty to the chHrch.
The VirDiaian would gladly see the church
prosper to the very fullest extent because of
the better character of citizenship the more
intelligent activity and participation in the
affairs OF the world. that those whose spiritual
lives are strong have always manifested. What
there be place more undesirable as business
or dwelling place? Could there be field of
more uninteresting activity? Could there be a
more unrestricted field for evil influences; Cor
crime and insanity. poverty and ignorance. and
all the evil brood of wfckedness that makes
up the sinful side of the world?
1t Is a great privilege to serve the needs of
the day. 1t is a greater service to fulfill the
needs OF the people. There is more humanity
and more constructive possibility in work with
men than in work with mere things Revi-
walls of religion seek to strengthen the funda-
meutals OF life, and 1t is for that reason that
We believe Richmond is in the midst of truly
great movement.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26
COMPULSORY EDUCATION.

Remember the time your mother sent you to
school with tear in her eye? That was the
first day. Remember the time father well
coined you at night with a repetition of
teachers hickory and started you off again in
the morning with little touch at your bare
legs? That was the first week. or, If you were
unusually precocious or spoilt the first month.
That was also compulsory education.
The city is to act compulsory eAuca-
ton amendment on November 3. That action
would be unnecessary II all parents were like
yours and ours-of course. But all parents
aren't that way, and more's the pity. There
fore the city must step in--that Is II the voters
viii let it--and take the place OF both father.
mother, and hickory In order to induce de-
linquent young America to attend to business
and take advantage OF the opportunities afforded
II.
Compulsory education may not be pleasant
from every standpoint but it Is expedient It
IL right 1t liz wise, 1t ia necessary, and it is
beneficial. 1t should be adopted on Novem.
Der 3.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26
Frightening 1t Up
The Dream.

The Dream.
The Little Boy smiled in his sleep that night
AS he wandered 10 Twilight Town;
And his face lit up with a Heavenly light
But he awoke next morning with ear-stained
In the light of the gray dawn's CLEAN.
And out from the stiffness hear him cry:
I've lost my dream-my dream"
And he told then, in his childish way,
OF the wonderful dream he'd known
He had wandered away from the Land of
Play
To the distant Land Of the Grown.
He had won his share OF the fame and the
fight
In the struggle and toll of men.
Yet he sohbed and sighted in the breaking
light
Il want my dream again"
as the years passed by the Little Boy grew
Till he came to the Land of the Grown,
And the dream OF his early youth came true
The dream that he thought had flown.
Yet once again he smiled in his sleep
Smiled or till the gray dawn's gleam
When those near by might have heard him
weep:
Il want my dream-my dream"
For ne dreamed of the Yesterdays OF Youth,
And the smile Of mothers face:
A heart of old-time faith and truth
In the light OF old home place.
He had his share Of the fame and fight
In the struggle and toll OF men,
Yet he snbbed and sighed in the breaking
light.
Il want my dream again"
-Grantland Rice
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26
Generally Speaking
The Reason For II.

Americans respect. honor, and even love. the
private German citizen. This latter recognizes,
az does all the world. that the present dire
conflict is the doing of crowned heads, not Of
the people Patriotic to the core. the German
citizen displays his undying loyalty to hts ruler
by barring his breast in tho teeth of death, and
by vociferous support Of what his civil and
religious father has precipitated- For this the
German Is to be commended. For this. and
other deserts America applauds him. It Is not
his individual, character. aninus bred by
past overt acts that causes Americans to take
sides with the Allies.
The fearful shadow of worldwide mailed
fist a mitarism that is repugnant to this n
lightened age, is what has biased. If you please
so to call it. the American mind against Ger
many To the student of history and the
wishers Of worldwide peace. therp Is an awful
portend that with German success would come
a world Of militarlsm, a rule of the steel such
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26
What is Money?

1t Is quite difficult to give broad
definition OF money that will be under
stood by all. for in different ages and
lands many things have been used as
money besides the coins and bills
which we think of only when we think
at all what money Is. Anything that
passes freely from hand to hand in
community in the payment of debts
and. for goods purchased, accepted
freely by the person who offers 1t
without any reference to the person
who offers 1t. and which car be in turn
used by the person accepting 1t to
give to some one else in payment of
debt or for the purchase of goods. is
money. This Is rather a long sentence
and perhaps difiicult to understand.
and so we will try-to anafy1e what
this means. II some one offered you
pretty stone as money in payment
Of debt, II would be as good a. ANY
kind Of money II you in turn could.
pass 1t on to any other person to whom
you owed debt or In payment OF
something you bought. The stone
might appear TO you to be valuable
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26
/ Slmu Not Pass This Way Again.

Shall Not Pass This Way Again.
The bread that giveth strength | want tc
give;
The wafer pure that bids the thirsty live:
want to help the fainting day by day,
I'm sure l shall not pass again this way.
II want to give the oil of JOY for tears
The faith to conquer cruel doubts and fears,
Beauty for ashes may I give always
I'm sure l shall not pass again this way.
II want 70 give good measure running DER,
And into angry hearts ! want to pour
The answer soft that turneth wrath away;
I'm sure / shall not pass again this way.
Il want to give to others hope and faith:
want to do all that the Master saith;
want TO live Alright from day to day.
I'm l shall not pass again this way"
(Ths poem. much worn, found in tn.
desk OF Mr. Daniel s. Ford, the proprietor ant
editor of the Youths Companion, after his
death whom his desk was cleared by lovins
hands, 1t explains much of Mr.. Fords wide
and generous benefactions)
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26

but would not be good money unless
you could count on every one else In
the community accepting II at the same
value. II everybody accepts 1t at the
same value, II is m good as any kind
of money. So that anything which
is acceptable to the people In any
community as unit OF value to pay
debts. IL good money. provided every
body thinks 30 and accepts II that
way. In this case. then any kind Of
substance might become money pro-
vided II was used and accepted by
everyone.
From the Book Of Wonders now be.
ing distributed by this paper on the
coupon plan. See coupon for full de-
tails. One Of the most interesting
stofies OF the worlds activities 10 the
story Of money, the different things
which have been used as money, why.
We need money. who originated money.
why we uae gold and silver - money.
who made the post card. All this 10
told IN fascinating way In the Book
Of wonders. Oct II today. See eon.
pom for particulars i ssss
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26
Prohibition Anvil
Dry Russia.

Russia which was recently a warning
the world of the dire effects which attend
government monopoly in the sale of alcoholics,
is to afford Christendom the greatest object
lesson 1t has ever had in the practical opera
tions of prohibition. One way another. that
object Lesson cannot fail to be important to
America.
1t is probably safe to say that nothing
did Russia more harm than the short-sighted
policy of Count White, when led to q gov
eminent monopoly in the sale of intoMcants.
Government employees became liquor saIesmen:
every Involvement was offered the people to
drink often and deeply for the more the peas
ant drank, the larger the revenue to the gov
ernment. In 1909 the revenue from the spirits
monopoly was 71s,ss3.964 roubles; in 1912.
through the activity Of the government, 1t had
increased to S24,e92,17a roubles: for 1914, it
was estimated at 935,S05000 roubles, or 26 per
cent of the total ordinary revenue of the
pire. simultaneously with the development of
the monopoly. the prison population increased
from 8S.&85 in 1905 f.Jan - to 174733 in
1911, the last year for which statistics are
available. The number of sick persons per
annum for every 1000 of population increased
from 33e SEA; 10.S per cent of the young
men called for compulsory military service
were found to be totally unfit physically and
1913 per cent were either placed in the second
reserve sent back for further physical de-
vefopmen..
At the outbreak of the war the spirits mo-
hibition IN every sense OF the word is to come
in the empire where the mandate of a
single man will make It as complete is
humanity possible. The Car did not have to
ask the Duma consult the provincial
semhles. He had only to issue the order and
the manufacture. importation and sale OF all
intoxcan-s WAS put under the ban. He had
only to say the word to the minister of jus
tice, M. Shcheglovitofr. and the most perfectly
organized secret police OF the world began to
ferret out iaw-breakers.
| Ali OF afford to watch with interest
autocracy's effort at observation-disclosures
News Leader.
| Ifthe temperance forces able to put forth
anything like the effort put forth by the liquor
PEOPLE they would sweep the country in an
unbroken string OF victories. According TO the
claims OF the vets OF Colorado. they have a field
force of 300 workers. It is declared that
the vets every week mall literature to all voters
| In Colorado and that once month news
paper containing wet advertising is sent them
Portland tMe,) Express.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26

. The cause Of the flibuster Ia made known!
Hoke Smith told the Georgia Crackers II they'd
send him TO the Senate the price of cotton would
never 60 below thirteen cents, and when 1t did
tho Georgia voters took him ut his word and
began 70 draw ON him for the amount Of thstF
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26

Germany Says Have Never Had Designs
on South America. "-Headline Well Miss
South America could get verdict In any breach
cfpromise court we ever heard Of
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26

And all the hats in Carolina went up last
come down Thanksgiving Day.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26

When the Colonel said "Give me neither pow
erty nor riches" he probably had q Fremont
ton of the diet of political husks.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26

North Carolina considering amendments to he
constitution lacks only an opposition.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26

Funny thing about compulsory education IA
that 1t compels man to do what he ought 70
be ashamed OF not doing anyhow
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26

Distinguished Men Visiting Richmond
Standing Headline.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-26

crop at thirteen cents No wonder he nlibus-
tered! We'd have busted worse than that.