The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-12-17
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parted occupants of the house and on
the wide white expenses OF wall along
the stairway that led to the upper
rooms other soldiers had fastened
yards of the great German general
STAFF maps that showed every rise OF
ground and every brook in this stretch
OF countryside.
Attic Now the Lookout
We climbed TO the attic The win
dows that probably were not opened
a dozen times a year in the old DAYS
are always open now. and before those
LOOKING 20 the west and northwest
stand tripods. on which are mounted
field telescopes OF the most delicate
adjustment and the farthest range.
Some Of them looked out on tho white
crunple OF limestone which was once
the princely city Of Arras. and some
looked out on the distant line OF the
blue Loretto hills.
An officer spoke rapidly on the To-
cation and extent Of various move
mements made on hill and plain dur
ing the last few days.
The gentlemen" he said. will see
a brown strip of land one-third OF the
way up the hillside. a little south Of
west" There such and such disposi-
such results attained
A remote church spire. a patch OF
woodland at the edge OF tract OF
meadow. the bend Of a stream. a clump
OF six trees standing like sentinels on
a ridge three miles away-ali these
features meant something in his terse.
emphatic narrative. and the sum total
OF their meaning Is the mound OF
white stone and the jagged remnants
Of walls and towers that once were
Arras.
Trooper Tends a "Bossy"
The swallows were flashing by the
attic window as the officer talked A
wasp that resented our presence dart
ed angrlly back and forth beneath
the warm roof In a bit Of pasture
that came close up 10 the kitchen gar
den OF the house soldier lay on his
stomach. his chin resting In the hol-
low OF his hands Around one arm
he had looped n rope and the other
end of The rope was loopcd around
the horns Of COW that grazed com
panionably az the soldiers side.
The soldiers interest I'm war ap
pcared as remote AL the cows
Sometimes tho soldier plucked Idly
% The lonE spears OF grass and nib
blcd go them. sometimes he fused
with his pipe. cleaning DO with the
spears ~ grass. or refilllng 90. or eIaD-
atD.y rDiightug Co. For picture of
leisure and lazy content he was Dor.
feet but boz that setting OF war not
af an credible.
The room from which 7 looked
down ou hIm contained the usual attic
lmpcdImenta-fhc caatuu things or
Iio which arc Of once ao pathetic and
so commonplace. From tho beams
hung strings OF drying garlic
The "Banished" Portrait.
Across one corner broken sofa
was Fet ln another stood a Grin
and placed bead downward in tho
crib was O. portrait in india ink of n
cad eyed man with a dropping mus.
'a'ho and O. acrupuloualv clean shaver
chin. Tho frame around him was
rHldF r.lt Dot the hrirht surface OF
Do bad nrrkrd away In places and
showed The plaster beneath
Tho effect was to emphasize tho
mournfuIncsa of tho everlasting ban.
iHhmrnt to which The dropping mus.
nchc ana Tho ecupui0us chin nad
boon condemned
There we're old fire screens and
brackets and rap.nr washtub Thar
vas minus q hoop. and package OF
those double photographs OF famous
places such as you used 90 put I'M a
Fteroop'lcon tcnmhiem aoo mr. m MN
firreofcopo when you were boy
Close against the caves we're chu.
dron's toys and little chairs. and such
lk' nursery Furnishings an neatly
stacked in a pile
Every object in The room had an