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HORRORS OF CONFLICT
IN THE EUROPEAN WAR
REMIND OF SAVAGES
ONE SOLDIER RENDERED UNFIT BY HIS EXPERIENCE IN AT
TACKlNG A GERMAN WITH A BAYONET-BIG FRENCH.
MAN DECORATED FOR BAYoNETING AND THEN
is CHOKING TO DEATH IA GERMAN SOLDIER

row windows to give light to the ban
quoting hall. Then he put iron bars
across them to keep marauders out.
Ten times. that chateau was taken
and retaken by the French and Gers
mans. No sooner did an attacking
force win it than the artillery was
turned on. The old place became q
SHAMELESS. The men striving for 1T
became mere snarling, gaspfng,
foaming beasts The iron bars across
the windows were Knocked out by
shells.
"In the last assau5tsa' said the man
who told me the story, both French
and Germans came to handgrips They
had no time to load and fire 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 amazing and frightful
wounds"
One recalls the stories of the pal
adins of the Middle Ages in hearing
the story of one sergeant of French
zouaves He. found himself alone, by
some MIRACLE in a rose garden.
Around 1t were high walls. Although
in the very center of the fire sweep
the garden had been spared by one
of those fantastic happenings that
are common in war. He stood there
stunned by the silence and the color
and the perfume Upon a bench sat
an old woman, herr white hair lace
covered. She was praying.
Suddenly throughsthe open gate of
the garden rode a Vhlan. No word
was spoken by eithersman. The old
woman lifleu her head from her
prayer. The Uhlan courched his
lance and made at the zauave at
a rushing gallop. Twice the zouave
avoided the pointed steel. The third
time he swung his heavy sword bay
onet sword fashion, lin .asschopping
blow, and hanstrung the horse. 1t
fell, and before the Uhlan could
gather himself from the ground the
lzouave was on him, ,stabbing, stab
bing-
AS he went out through the open
gate he looked back. The old woman
was on her knees at prayer. Her
graysface was upturhed.
When Scots Greys Rode to Death.
1t was only a little time ago that
we were told that theschief uses OF
cavalry had passed! They. were to
be utilized in future wars only as
scouts. Long range rifles and ma
chine. guns and wire entanglements
and we'll timed shrapnel had made
the old time ringing charge an i'm,
possibility. And yet-do you re.
member the stories of the battle ioi
ISt Quentin? ~ .
= The Black Watch were there, hug
ging the ground, being scut to piece.
by the FIRE Of Germans TheyrUult
not retreat. The distance was too
: great for a charge. They were dying
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MURDER AND RAPINE
IN COSSACK TRAIL
In EAST PRUSSIA
American Correspondent Reports That Depredations o.
Russians Will "Shock Civilization More Than the
Widest Charges Yet Made. Women Cut Open,
c11hildren'ss Hands Hacked Of, Recruits
Tortured. &

in the aftrnoon, a Russian cavalry.
patrol came riding into the court-l
yard and up to the house of the in,
spector. One OF ths riders asked for
brandy, and when the wife came out
of the house he choked her. Several
men then rode to the manor house
and called for the proprietor. Mr..
rKrause appeared on the veranda,
%whereupon he was told to come down
the six or eight steps to the ground.
To his friendly question as to what
they wanted one of them replied,
I'VE are the masters of the Castle of
Triman" At the same moment the
Russian pulled a revolver and hot
Mr.. Krause in the arm. The wounded
man turned to run into the house and
a second shot brought him down.
The dead body showed also several
stab wounds.
One of the lancers leaped off his
horse and went into the house and
smashed everything to pieces-mir-
|rors, window panes, dishes and fur
niture. The servants fed to the eel
lar +
/ Otto Krause was found dead after
the fray in the yard near the cow
shed with several gun and knife
wounds ,inshiss body.
Then they carried straw into the
inspectors house andsset fire to it.
This house was destroyed at once.
They broke open the iron safe in the
manor house and it is supposed help
ed themselves to the family treas
ures, the inherited plate, jewels and
the records, before they set fire to
the manor house, because 1t did not
burn till the next morning. Every
thing was entirely destroyed, or stol-
en- by the Cossacks.
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England.A" sE

London, England.-'E can't
sleep" the maid who makes my bed
told me. Her brother is in one of the
hospitals here, nerve broken There
isn't a mark on him, but he has gone
to pieces. The maid whimpers quiet
ly in the corners.
Sc used to be such q nice boy,''l
she said. "Sold flahers, 'e did, at
Covent, Garding market. The way
e used to go on about his roses"
The nice boy, it seems, joined the
army because his girl liked anoth-
er fellow too we'll. He went through
that frightful first week of the Brit
ish troops without weakness. For
eight days not one of his company
had a chance to take off his boots.
When they reached the front, after
three days spent continually in boats
or on trains. they marched ffty-four
miles in two days. Then they lay in
trenches under fire for twenty-four
hours. Almost every one was green
at the game. At last they got a
chance with the bayonet.
~ His First Victim.
Did you aver regard a bayonet
clsely? Did it aver occur to you that
this pointed rod of steel is devised
to be thrust through the soft, yield
ing vitals of a man? :
"'Essaid,pp my maid told me, sniff
fling, that e stuk it at two or three
Germans in that charge, but e don't
think e hit anybody until, he got a
big German .cornered and began jab-
bling at i'm with it. The German e
[tabbed back, but at last e stepped
back and dropped is gun. And AL
fred, e stuck that pore soul in is
big, soft stomach, just like he was
lifting hay on is fork. And then he
saw the German was trying to sur
render"
The soft hearted flower merchant
threw himself on his knees beside
the ebig, fat German and begged
the poor devil to forgive him. He
flung his now useless gun on the
Iground, the bayonet bent like cop
per wire. The German was screaming
Even above the noise of battle Al
bert could hear those screams.
He hears them yet. At night he
again feels the yielding resistance
of that Germans soft white body as
1.-THE steel goes through him and hears
the grinding cry with which he died
.,The doctor says" my maid tells
line, chat Albert is done for. Ell
never be fit to go to war agin."
When the Beast Rises.
Hand-to-hand conflict hasn't gon.
out. 1t never will. go out. There
was the incident of the Chatea,
fMoadement, one of the most beauti
full OF the old Norman keeps. Som
recent owner had widened its mar
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by the dozens. Suddenly behind
them they heard the muffled roll of
many hoofs and loud cheering. The
Scots Greys were coming up in open
order. The Black Watch knew what
that meant. The Greys had swirled
a Highland regiment through French.
ranks at Waterloo, the infantrymen
holding to, the stirrup feathers.
And SO that brave old time man
euver was repeated. AS the Greys
galloped through the Black Watch
a footman attached himself to either
stirrup leather Of each horse. Steel
shod rifle in each free hand, a sword
waving over them they were pulled
into action by the frantic horses. Not
many of the Scots Greys are left to-
day. That gallant regiment is little
more than a memory. But in It's his
tory the charge of st. Quentin will
never be forgotten.
+ ""The weight of the \ salloping
horses broke through the German
ranks" said a wounded officer. 1.-THE
men fell upon them with a great
shout"
There have been many fights fol
regimental standards. They are
valued by governments because they
put heart into the people,. and the
men take them In the spirit in which
an Indian would take a scalp.
Twenty Standard Bearers Killed.
In the great battle on the Marine a
French regiment vas assailed by a
weight of Germans. They came to
close quarters at once. 1t was rifle
butt and bayonet. Twenty times the
man who held the regimental stand
ard was stamped into the wet earth.
and twenty times another man seized
the staff before it fell and waved 1t
high. 1t meant death to him-defense
less death-for he could not lift a
weapon and still hold the flag. The
tw%enty-first man still carries 1t. So
deep in blood was the ground around
him that his colonel slipped TO his
knees as he made his way over to
shout a promise of a ribbon "for val
or"
No less typfcal a story of what war
really comes from Paris. In that bit
tier fighting along the Aisne French
and German regiments had been split
Into tiny fragments. One huge French
soldier found himself quite alone,
making his way through a wood. 1t
was familiar ground to him, for at
home in Normandy he is the game
keeper of a nobleman's estate. The
frightened cries of birds, the shaking
of a tender branch, each carried a
STORY to him. Through the green
aislcs ahead he saw a flash of color.
Two German in%fantrymen were
there. One carried the regimental
standard. He kept his gaze turned to-
ward lowering the tall staff with in
finite care, that the brilliant silk
might not be torn by woodsy Crap
pies. The. other, his rifle at the
ready. kept guard. The former
gamekeeper .crept up. He knew that
other men were all around him,
i Whether friend or foe he could not
telkss He must act alone. And SO,
running from tree to tree, taking
shelter here and CHANGING discovery
there. he came upon. them. He SWUNG
his rife butt upon the guard.
Choked u German to Death. =
"He just had time to know that
~Frenchman had killed him before hi
died. said the .gamekeeper.
a. The standard bearer threw til,
staff from him and the two mef
clinched. The gamekeeper had con
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-10-22

sidsred his plan we'll. Before the Ger
nan could set himself for the attack
the Frenchman had thrust his long
bayonet, knife fashion, through his
ribs.
HE did not die SOON" said the
game keeper, .but I kept him schoked.
SO he could not give the alarm"
There's a picture for youth the
heart of a peaceful woodland covert!
A dead a here, and there another
dying, with a steel skewer through
his body. Upon him crouched a great
ciutched about the others bursting
throat, his eyes alert against a pass.
ing foe.
ut vas nothing" he said in Paris
when he was decorated with the rib
bon. He seemed almost childlike IN
that he had done a m%eritorious action
Tor one in any way noteworthy. When
he caught the flash of the color on mis-
breast he fondled it shyly as a child
might a bright silk. He smiled hap.
PLY at those who caught his eyes.
"Sfnce SO much Importance is at
tached to these ~drapeaux," said he al
last, IT think I'll go out and get an
other"
One steps right back into the Mid,
die Ages when n reads of a flooded
Belgium. Wherever it was possible
the Belgians thwarted the invading
Germans by cutting their bikes and
making their fair land into a swirl
ing lake. So Holland did centuries
ago.
And that French corporal of dra-
goons might have stepped out OF the
pages of the Three Musketeers." A
French patrol rode down an empty
road toward a little village. AT the
village gate they came upon the cor
Iporal. He was pacing to and fro
across the road. At either end of his
little beat he about-faced smart1y
Every fourth turn he rested upon
his rife just as the sentries do be
fore the invalides in the brave days oil
peace.
Where are your comrades?" the
patrol asked.
II have none" said the corporal,
II am quite alone"
sssThen why this folly" They look.
ed at him as sane men do at q mar
who has suddenly gone mad. Behind
him the village street stretchd silen,
and empty.
There is a company of Germans II
the, wood" said the corporal, "bul
they dare not enter the village be
cause they think I have comrades
. here"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-10-22
YOUR FALL GOLD NEEDS ATTEN.
TION.

No use to fuss and try to wear I
out. It will wear you out. instead.
Take Or. Kings New Discovery, re
lief follows quickly. 1t checks your
Cold and Soothes your Cough away
Pleasant, Antiseptic and Healing
Children like 1t. Get a soc bottle OF
Dr. Kings New Discovery and kecI
it in the house. Our family Cough
and Cold Doctor, writes Lewis Cham
berlain, Manchester, Ohio. None,
back IL not satisfied, but It nearly
always helps. ! "a
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-10-22
10000 HORSES
WANTED IN WAR
BLACK HILLS sfAN OBTAINS OR.
DER FROM GREAT BRITAIN
. no BE FILLED IN SOUTH
DAKOTA AND NE.

Rapid CITY, s.. D.-word from
England where F. r. X. Hewlett Of
this city went several weeks ago to
get a contract for supplying the Brit
ish government with 10000 western
horses, declares that Mr.. Hewlett
was unusually successful and has
been asked to supply 10000 head of
animals which he will get from
South Dakota and Nebraska and ship
to England.
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failure at his post Of duty. Thesdeath
was discovered when SOME residents
of the town noticed the electric lights
were still turned on at the station III
the afternoon, and went to investi-s
gate, finding .Debolt dead. He had.
missed being on duty but = very few
times during the fifteen years Of ser-
vice, and prided himself on hts good
record. b
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-10-22

Tfivate August Kurtz, Fifth
Company Reserve Infantry, Nine
teehth Regiment, and Private Her
mann, Fansewel,,, First Company. One
Huudred and Fifty-second Infantry,
solesnnly' affirm, in the absence of a
notafy who could take their oath,
thatin the forest near Grodtken they
hawSseen with their own eyes twenty
dean bodies of women with their
bodies cut open"
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DIES AT HIS POST IN
/, HOWARD LIGHT PLANT

Howard, S. D.-Sol Debelt, aged
SO. and for fifteensyears In charge of
the pumping station for the Howard
1waterworks system, died Of heart
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REFUGEES BACK FROM
EUROPEAN WAR ZONE
American Liner Philadelphia Ar
rives With Over 1000
Persons Aboard.

New York. Augg. 1.-THE Amer
lean liner Philadelphia, with the
first great crowd of Americans who
rushed from Europe when the vari-
Gus nations declared war. arrived in
New York tonight.
There were 703 persons in the
cabin and 800 in the steerage. vir-
tually all of them were without bag
gage, many of them without money.
and all had stories of hardships to
tell.
The Philadelphia sailed from
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war vessels steamed away.
Hundreds of passengers on board
had rushed from the interior of
France and Germany. Travellers
from Paris told OF mobs swarming
through the streets, breaking win
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Others of Germans caught in the
French capital eyre beaten by gen.
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The streets near the railroad sta
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ried 5000 men, women and children
on every trip.
Among the passengers We're Chas.
Aldrich and family. of Cleveland.
whom some one in London offered
81 goo for their stateroom or $500
if allowed to travel with them
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VAST DOMAIN WHICH
HAS NO RAILWAY LINES

From the eastern shore of the
Caspian Sea little railroad runs
away to the east through Turkestan.
with branch to the border of AT
ghanistan. From the eastern term
mus of this little railroad. says a
writer in the Worlds Work. there is
a gap of several thousand miles
across most of Turkestan and the
Chinese empire. in which there Is
not mile of railroad either east,
west, north or south. In area that
region is greater than the United
States. In population II far out
weighs this country. Some day, no
doubt. a great trunk line will be
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Chinese and Russian system of AS
iatic roads.
That is. however. too big pro-
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Defining a Eiend.

Some time ago a policeman named
Mike had two or three arrests to his
credit. and on the following morn
ing he appeared in the Magistrate s
court to make the usual complaints.
And this man here, officer" said
the Magistrate. finally getting down
to a certain party. what is the
charge against him?"
Sure. your honor" was the rath-
er surprising reply of Mike. 'he is IL
camera fiend of the worrust koind. "
"A camera fend!' hastily rejoin-
ed the Magistrate. You should not
arrest a man simply because he has
"A mania for taking pictures.
"Begorra. an he wasn't takin pic
lures. yer honor" declared the Off
GER. 'He was takin cameras"
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In Present Crisis With
Startling Accuracy.
THE REMARKABLE PREDICTION
OF Madame Thebes Who Has
Correctly PrOphesied I'm.
pOrtant Events.
TELLS WHAT IL YET IN STORE

The European war situation was
foretold last winter in the Herald
by Nine. Thebes, world-famous seer
in the following words:
Russia bring order on, OF
disorder in :he balkans unless Ger
man intrigue causes the Russian
Power TO topplc st. Pe'crsbrrgs
81 eatast enemy Is "erlin.
"Germany-What see fills me
with lea The kaiser's future
looms daf1 acd :oreboding. In the
south many .'>t.ms of ri.t, and
war.
"Austria-Unhappy country! In
Vienna, roits, fire and blood! The
countr wyill pass through dark days
grave conflicts, financial embar-
easements. street fighting and worse
still. Open hostility between the
Slavs and the Germans is approach
ing.
"England-War at home and war
outside, with a revolution or some
thing approaching it over Ireland"
Nine. Thebes says she predicted
the assassination of Archduke Franz
Ferdinand when she wrote regard
ing Austria
who thinks he will reign, will
not reign, and a young man who
was not to have reigned will reign"
The correctness of many of the
prophecies of Nine. Thebes has been
little short of uncanny. While many
of her predictions in the past have
failed to materialize, many of the
most unexpected have come to pass.
TO her credit stands the predic-
ton of the fall of Khartum, and
she it was who prophesied the as
sassination of Sadi Carnot, pfesi-
dent of the French republic, who
was stabbed to death by Caserlo
while driving through the city of
Lyons. Queen Victoria's death was
also foretold by this remarkable
woman one year before it occurred
while her most startling prediction
was that of the death of President
Felix Faure. 1t will be recalled
that Faure passed away suddenly
in the prime of life and while en-
joying apparently the best of health.
Nine Thebes' other predictions
for 1914 are the following:
The monarchy will be restored in
Portugal.
Profound charges amounting to
political upheaval will take place in
Germany and the national life of
that nation will be completely trans
formed.
The death of the Pope is predict
ed and this event will bring about
a great change in Italy. The new
Pontiff will be more friendly to the
Italian government. - [ Louisville
Herald.
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