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Every Shell Added to the Confusion

to get transferred to the infantry, I'm
rather sure they'd be glad to get a
hundred thousand like you
sYou think SOP" Stephen spoke
eagerly. I'm going to make applica-
ton as soon as can. / sure would
like to get into just one battle
A slow grin overspread the Doctors
face, and he ran his eyes over Stephen
as though taking an inventory.
That's too bad he said dryly;
'and you're not likely to be able to
have chance SOON You've hole
through your right thigh, bullet in
your left shoulder, a superficial fur
row of the scalp, the calf of your right
leg was drilled twice, and you have
three minor flesh wounds.
You've been mentioned in dis
patches for that ammunition stunt of
yours, and the chance are you'll land
a nice decoration that many a staff
officer would give his left leg for
Yes, it's tough you never had a
chance to get into a battle"
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He realized he should be mixing
dough, for the men in the trenches
would be hungry. They must be fed
so they could fight again.
But even as he turned back to take
up his work there came shout. Men
we're running about among the
wagons, horses were being harnessed;
already some of the vehicles were
moving away.
For moment Stephen stared be-
wildered; then, after a glance toward
the west, he, too, broke into a run.
Stephens driver was backing the
traces when he arrived, and started
the team with shout and swing of
his whip as his comrade leaped to the
seat of the big oven. The crest of a
hill to the west was swarming with
gray-clad figures The English were
fleeing before them. The line had
been broken by a force which had
charged up the steep banks along the
Marine.
Whether the Germans could hold
the position under the fire of the Eng
lish batteries and could cut off the
force entrenched on the little plateau
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being scared, to analyze his emotions.
The men up on the plateau must have
cartridges or they must surrender
and the loss of that hill spelled dis
aster!
The pace of the heavy draft horses
was slow-cruelly slow-and the need
of haste was vital They had not gone
a hundred yards before bullets from
the German infantry were whining
past, and Stephen stood up to lash
the numbering animals.
Now they were only Quarter of a
mile from the English trenches, but
the bullets were flying thick, and
shrapnel was dotting the slope with
feecy, white balls!
Now they were at the bullet-swept
summit, with only hundred yards to
go!
Could they pass through the storm
of lead unscathed?
Stephen yelled encouragement to
the laboring horses, swung his whip
in an effort to urge them to greater
speed The man beside him suddenly
slumped in his seat. and quietly slid
off to the ground.
Stephen felt shock and his left
shoulder went numb; his cap was
dashed from his head; something
warm was running down his wrists
and making the reins slippery.
One of the horses lurched in its
stride, but he dashed it on to culver
ing, last effort. Only hundred feet
to go-now, then!
One horse went down; the other
was thrown to one side. The twist
overturned the wagon, spilling cases
of cartridges on the ground.
There was a sensation of flying
through space, and blackness swal-
lowed Stephen.
He awoke to find himself lying on
the trampled grass near the trenches,
swathed in bandages, very stiff and
helpless and weak. The sound of the
guns had receded. English guns were
slamming shells into the rear ranks
of Won Kluck's army, which was al
ready beginning its retreat to the
north.
Some one leaned over him-a gray
haired man who wore the straps of a
colonel
$50 this is the chap who drove half
mile through hell to bring the car,
tridges,' a voice said. well, if he
hadn't it's hard telling what would
have happened today. Holding this
hill is all that saved US.
Several days later in field hos
pital Stephen, with the petulence of~a
sorely wounded man, interviewed the
brisk. capable young. physician who
was dressing his wounds.
you think they'll take me in one
of the active regiments when get out
Of here?" he asked. "They put me
in the commissary where a chap has
no chance to get into the fighting. It's
tough"
The surgeon nodded approval and
understanding. He knew what it was
to remain behind the guns dressing
wounds, when he would have pre-
ferred to be making them.
Eyes," he said, 'it is tough to be
tied down where you can't grab gun
and wade in. AS for your being able
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Stephen Barrow paused in his work
of mixing dough to listen to the dis
tant pulsing of the battle. The rasp-
ing rife volleys sounded from point
nearer at hand and he knew that
there had been changes in the posi-
tons of the batteries, too.
Yes, the troops were retreating
again. From the hill he could see cav
airy already crossing the Marine.
Well, that had been the regular
thing since the English expeditionary
force had bumped into the German le-
gion at Mons, far to the north in Bel
GUM. Stephen could hardly recall
how many days had passed since this
steady retirement had begun. 1t
seemed to him that it had been going
on for months-years.
He had been disappointed in the
campaign from the very outset-from
the day he had accepted the kings
shilling to fight for the union jack.
Neither events nor his part in them
had come up to his expectations. In
the first place he had been transferred
to the commissary department to mix
dough and bake bread instead of fight
ing, and then he had seen the army
hurled back toward Paris in the initial
battle-and since then the English had
been retreating to new positions as
matter of daily routine.
But bitter as the constant retire
ment was to the men in the battle
lines, it was doubly so to Stephen.
Occasionally they had an opportunity
of turning on their pursuers, but he
was everlastingly mixing dough with
out a chance of feeling the kick OF
a rifle against his shoulder.
Now they were retreating again.
Infantry in small detachments was
crossing the bridge over the Marine,
and the tops of the hills beyond were
dotted with white puffs of smoke
which marked bursting shrapnel. A
regiment moved past toward a posi-
ton on the river bank, and Stephen
studied it casually.
Somehow the bearing of the men
leaner, dirtier than when they landed
in France, but they were still full OF
fight and confidence.
Every man seemed waiting impa'
tiently for the day when he should
turn his face north and help even the
score with the Germans.
And the time for the stand was near
at hand, they believed, and Stephen
did too. The imperiled left wing rest
ed against the forts of Paris; the river
provided strong line of defense, and
TO retreat farther meant severing COM
munications with the capital Yes,
without doubt, the allies were about
to stop and fight.
But the thought deepened Stephen s
gloom.
He was tall man of twenty-eight,
with jaw that jutted forward at q
pugnacious angle, and he yearned for
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SQUIRREL Wisdom.

The squirrel knows better tnan J
depend on luck from day to day
bring him his food in the season W.. .o,l
that food is to be found only II S1o
age, says the Cleveland Plain p9a III
The squirrel has a lesson to teaen j
proud but shorter-sighted Drotnel :,
the human race. All the fall the ous -
tailed fellow, what time he eoulo spa ars
from eluding the guns OF nun s.or,
licensed by law, gathered mus nU
tree and ground and put them , @@
safely for the winter use he hn' i
somehow, that long season wa1 1rd
hand when nuts could not be lOun nr
when it would be impossible 70 t0'
at large in search Of proVendes' .
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EUAuSJ 0dGIOiIO9 VVCUt IutO NVStVUs
was yet to be decided; but, meantime,
| the vicinity was no place for COM
missary train.
At the foot of the ridge road ran
east and west, and the wagons took
it at the top speed of their numbering
horses, camp kettles slosEing and
splashing, iron ovens changing as they
jumped over the stones.
A cloud of dust appeared in front,
and the wagons turned aside into a
shallow ditch while a battery whirled
by, gun after gun; the rafting Gals
sons, and after them cavalry, all in a
desperate hurry to save the infantry
from rout
At the same time the air seemed
suddenly full of shrieking things that
burst with thunder-ciaps and scattered
death! The Germans had brought
guns across the Marine, and they had
the range
When the battery and cavalry had
passed, the commissary wagons
turned back into the road and raced
on in an effort to get beyond the zone
of fire; but disaster quickly overlook
them A shell struck heavy van,
the vehicle following it toppled over
into ditch in an effort to drive past
the wreck, and the road was blocked,
while German field-pieces continued to
rake the train from end to end.
Every shell added to the confusion.
The road quickly became litter of
smashed wagons and dead horses.
Drivers were cutting loose the anil
mails and riding away. 1t was obvious
ly impossible to extricate the train,
and Stephen was about to follow the
example of his fleeing comrades when
around a turn came black ammuni-
ton wagon, its driver flashing his
horses.
Plump into the piled-up mass Of
wreckage it drove!
Stephen reached the scene as the
driver, who had been hurled from his
seat, staggered to his feet, and from
| his blasphemous comments he learned
| the reasons for the others haste. The
| infantry on the plateau was running
short of ammunition.
There had been bungle some
where, and the word had been wig
wagged that unless ammunition ar
rived soon the troops would be help
less.
1t was then that Stephen qualified
as a man in an emergency. The am
munition wagon was overturned, one
of its horses was down with broken
leg: but nearby stood big wheeled
trough. in which dough for the camp
bakery was mixed. It's horses had
not been touched as yet by the rain
of shells.
Promptly Stephen took command of
the situation.
No officer was near, and the men
| followed him as promptly as they al
ways will natural leader whether he
wears shoulder-straps or not. Willing
hands ripped a passage through a
hedge which surrounded an adjoining
field, while others hastily transferred
boxes of cartridges from the ammuni-
ton wagon to the camp bakery
| trough.
When the gap was open Stephen
took the reins, the driver of the am
munition wagon swung up beside
him, and they drove through the
hedge. Shells were bursting around
! them Any moment one might hit the
wagon!
There was more than half mile Of
1 open country, swept by bullets, to be
crossed. 1t was his first experience
under fire; but he did not hesitate.
There was no time even to think OF
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tell at first whether it was the
men or horses that he heard
stood up, tottering a little \,
clutching in his hands his him.
Then he saw, rushing low
him, horses, more horses than
his life he had ever seen and ~
on them, men, different from AM
that he had ever beheld. Did \
for the tricolor? Did he knoJ
only under the tricolor might \
be found? High above his yelloJ
he held the bluets.
Perhaps it was only fate nerJ
was the God to whom the grand
prayers were rising, but the maj
saw the baby hands ana the blu1
flowers was the man of war.
den word and there was a sudda
of all the pounding boots. n
down from his horse, the man !
took the blossoms, and on his lin
a word the childish ears had
heard spoken in tongue he con
understand: "Kaiserbh,men!"
"Honneur; Patrie, Gloire." N
liant words rested curiouslv I'm,
baby lips, but in an instant tho
lect before which the entire worl
trembling understood. Honor-G
Fatherland-the same in everv h
for which every man must Law
his life, whatever helpless alto
might leave behind him.
There were orders quick and
and then the pounding hoofs 7
on, but around the fields Of
Craquette was a double Gordon
posed of the flower of the arm
emperor's personal staff. 1t was
to obey, whether it might be a nj
of fellow creatures that was
moved down, whether it might
confiagration lighted by their
torches that was to be stayed.
The August moon was well pa
full, only a little crescent of col,
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preceded by few hours the rising
the sun. 1t looked down upon
scorched and smoldering territory
the north, to the south, to the es
and west it stretched, but in the q
ter stood Bibi's home, the sm
matched cottage, surrounded by
ield of grain, trampled, perhaps,
tie under the feet of its Jealous
fenders-fallen here and there
sheltering everywhere clusters OF bI
SONS blue as heaven itself, Bibi's b
cts, the Kaiserblumen" beloved
the man of war.
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Saving Belgian Beets.

Many of the Belgian beet sugar fac
tories are operating, Notwithstanding
the war. The manufacturers, it is an
nounced, state that they have no ex-
pectation, of making any profits, but
they are doing a great work in that
they are saving 100000 worth of
teets and are providing employment
aud livelihood for their hands.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-01
Made the Hot Air Work.

Until the aid of science was invoked
the work Of unloading cars loaded
with coal in winter in Philadelphia
proved to be heavy task, for it often
happened that whole trainloads arriv-
ed with the coal frozen into a solid
mass. Science built a concrete and
nearly alright house at Greenwich
Point. into which twenty-one loaded
coal cars may be backed at one time,
like so many pies in an oven. Here in
q temperature of $50 or more degrees
the solid contents of a car are thawed
loose from the sides. In forty minutes
or so, the cooking process being COM
plete. the cars are taken from the oven
and hoisted over the ship, when the
coal runs out easily. That hot air can
do to twenty-one cars In forty minutes
what it. took 100 men a day to accom-
pIsh.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-01
LAUREL PARK CAMP TO OPEN
FOR TWO MONTHS ON JULY /

Prof. 1. B. Brown, director of the
Laurel Park camp, was in Henderson
Vile last week, when he arranged for
opening the athletic and educational
institution on the shores of Rhododen-
dron lake on Thursday Of this week.
Prof. Brown states that prospects
are bright for students from various
parts of the country, including Wash
ington, D. c., Charlotte, N. c., Column
"a and Charleston, S. c., Savannah,
Ga. Among them will be the grandson
of former Secretary of State William
J. Bryan, who was in Hendersonville.
last week, when. he made arrange
ments for entering the young man,
Who, it is probable, will be accompan-
led from Washington by the son of the
minister from China.
Laurel Park camp has been consid-
erably advertised of late and illus
trated booklets of camp life have been
distributed telling of the advantages to
those seeking assistance in any branch
of school work or simply an. outing
where the greatest diversity of pleas
.ure is available under close, personal
supervision of the ten teachers in
charge. Unusual advantages will be
offered nall kinds of field and aquatic
sports. !.
Prof. Brown is hopeful of a most
successful season
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-01
Brides First Mistake.

An amusing incident recently took
place in hotel at popular seaside re
sort. At one of the tables in the writ
ing room sat the young and charming
Mrs., Newlywed busily engaged on a
letter. Suddenly she stopped, laid
down her pen and gazed out of the
window; then she stared at the ceiling
evidently deep in thought. Finally she
made number of jottings on the blot
ter beside, her, examined them careful
'ly and at length resumed her letter.
A base and uncalled for curiosity
prompted the correspondent to take his
seat at that table not long afterward.
On the blotter. each word followed by
a formidable question mark. was the
mysterious inscription: .'Happynesi
Happiness? Happiness ?" And, alas,
Mrs.~N. had made the first mistake in
her married life. The first two words
had d determined line drawn through
them. GLASGOW News.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-01


While reporting term of court Il
an outlying county a village merchant
was prosecuted for arson 1t deveI
oped that the business men of the
town had retained a special prose
cutor TO assist in the case. The at.
torney for the defendant invariably
asked each witness if he had ever con.
tributed anything toward the support
OF the special prosecutor One old
man was very Jealous in his efforts to
convict the defendant. The attorney
started to. ask him the regular ICON
tr1bution" question. but the witness in.
terrupted him and gave his answer in
the middle of the question. with the
following result:
Have You ever contributed anything
toward the support
No sir: L never did-not a cent?
of your family?''
The witness was excused amid the
laughter of the. court. jury and andi
ence. He left the room mad as hor-
net and was heard to hutter. II amt
got no family West Publishing Com.
pany.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-01
Silhouette and Raintinn.

The art of painting begins inevi
tably with awing-with expression
by means of the point: the resnlt-line
This every teacher and academy real
ICES and has to realize. More. every
great school of painting. has evolved
from it. But this use of the point OF
drawing soon reaches its limitations
and the brush demands mass. or per-
haps it is more correct to say that mass
demands the brush. The floating of
masses on to canvas or paper. with it's
edges holding the outline of the form,
Is silhouette. Silhouette, in other
words, is the basis of all mass impress
Eio4s. Without a sense of silhouette
we can utter no large and sublime
moods. Yet, strange to say. the small
part given to silhouette in the teaching
of the art of painting in academies
indeed. more often the utter lack of
it-has always struck me as extraor-
binary. = Haldane MacfalI in T. P.'s
Weekly, London.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-01
Good. Rait.

Fish stories are supposed TO- be
unique as stretchers Of the imagina-
tiop. but none beats the story told by
recent British visitor at Washington.
It seems that one OF his acquain-
tances. a traveller OF some note had
sold assmall farm to an 1rishman.. and
the latter was complaining = because
there were no birds In his garden
''Set some traps" suggested the trav-
efer. land they will come
'Sure an will they come thinF'
'Yes. / was once In Africa, ana
there wasn't woman, / had been
told, within 200 miles. wanted some
one to cook. so hung pair Of ear
rings and bracelet on a tree and the
next morning found five applicants un-
der the branches."-New York Tribune.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-01

There are women in many homes
where there are no men, and even if
there were, does man vote to repre-
sent his sown opinions or that of some
ione else?
Ex-President Roosevelt said during
the Ohio campaign, '"The brewers and
distillers have taken the field against
woman suffrage, because they regard
the entrance of women into the rights
of citizenship as a danger to the dom
! nance of liquor in politics which they
have been trying more and more To
establish. ask you to give women
the right to vote, not only as a matter
of justice to them, but as a matter of
Justice to the men who are striving to
do what is right in public interest
When you see crooked politics ana
whiskey interests, which have a ma
tural affinity, fighting a thing, it is \
pretty safe thing for decent men to
support
Last November in returning from
the interesting, instructive Woman
Suffrage convention which met in
in Charlotte, 1 wore my suffrage
badge and colors. These were soon
noticed blythe conductor, and paus-
ing by my side he said pleasantly,
ftAh, suffragist, / see."
Yes" 1 answered, 81 hope that YOU
are favorable to the cause and that
you will help us.
Promptly he replied, THAT / will,
you may count on me, madam
After giving very excellent reasons
for his position he concluded with this
tribute, my wife is better fitted for
the ballot than / am, or than half the
men know. She has been everything
that woman could>b be as wife, moth
er and friend. If there is any good in
me owe it to her. Whenever l. get
and can't go on she is
right there with her arms to pull me
up, and if l begin to slide back she is
always there with the sand to keep
me from slipping Several Fedora
tons of Women's Clubs have given |
equal suffrage hearty endorsement |
In New York the vote was a splendid |
and important victory, 2S8 for, and 2 /
against. AT the Pennsylvania conven- |
ton the suffrage resolution was car
ried by an overwhelming majority, |
only % dissenting votes among the 407 |
delegates. Hearty Endorsement also
IN Missouri.
Hereafter women will have equal |
rights with men at parish meetings in
he New York diocese of the Protest
ant Episcopal church. At their, con-
7ention in November this measure was
adopted with only dozen votes IN TIE /
negative. Our North Carolina men
lave ever been noted for their fair
their keen sense OF JUS.
ice, and their willingness to deal with
equal favor to all who are within our
,oirders, and for these reasons they I,
will surely see that it is unjust to
orce women to obey lays, which they
AVE no power to make or change,
ret under which ahey are taxed equal
Y with men. Some man has said, and :
We suffragists know he is right, Il
avor equal suffrage because my motto
5, give the women what they want,
when they want it, for they'll set It
nyhow.'"
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-01
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Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-01
CHIMNEY ROCK POPULAR.
fRntherfordton Sun. }

The Esmeralda park and inn at
Chimney Rock are becoming quite
popular with Rutherfordton people.
The inn management has added a
splendid dancing pavilion on the banks
of the Broad river and have recently
completed a new suspension bridge
which has opened up to visitors many
new beauty spots. on Chimney Rock
mountain.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-01

The Democrat gives more county
news and boosts the community more
than all other publications and costs
no more. H