Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-04-15
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|. OF HUMOR AND PATHOS
Human Interest Side Of Great
War Told Only By Tom
mics" In Trenches
By Wilburn s. Forrest.


London, March 2j-(By mail to New
York)-The human side Of the trenches
and firing lines with their pathos and
laughter combined is no better told
than by the "TOmuies" at the front,
thousands of whose letters are received
weekly by the "tolks back home"
Though inserest is intense in the big
news developments, second to this come
the "soldier letter. sections in the
daily newspapers and columns appear
daily. The British censor scrupulously
eliminates all mention of troop loca'
tions in the soldiers mail but this fails
to detract from the interest in the sub
ject matter.
How an old Belgian woman refused
to leave her home though German
shells has cut great holes in her door
yard, was related by private in the
First Wiltshire Regiment, He called
her "mother Cayelier" and added:
we tried to get her to 90 but it
was no good. 1t is her home and she
means to stay at all costs She looks
upon us all as sons and does everything
for us-gives us food, dries our cloth.
ing and even washes our underwear .
now terrific 'DattIe OF words
ragged between a Belgian and German
poIn;n., Gntm "iong the ls'' was 'olu ny
I'eis Ioiti slah lnlantrymah VINO wrote
tro1aIa. noIn neNsPaPc, "u9u' ~, M me
oiS,i,'!oo o,,,ilI,' "eIS my "IUe dp"'" ne
;tI'i"s ~ soi"ieiS ty"''I.su .n''''Sel I e1
49, '" uha4.ilE;, uIh"iiinE; apuS''e l""SG'so un'lI
the th t oattIe became as ylolGnt that
sIuti,a m ns'si"n 'oloI'l lolo"HG uls lIien
MUM r", un'i T, Ttroal e%'""useE WIN % inc VeF'
mans lhe soldier concluded:
,,.... 80, was Il ply 'oo' oS u was great
pressure 10 leiI one 5 enemy ones con
tempt ana hate'n
"A PIINaCe P.Co OF me Seatorth Hlghland,
US wIote nome now ne mad labored
,,o,'.i W 9ei"lcn OUT IeW IlHGS On Il Plece OF
paper WIN Pencl "hen he Sshpped
Ing Ina l''l mo the WNalery mud m the
Do,,oni ,',',' " oI t"e trtn'R. rue rra"Ied out,
oi"n,; obgnI n"'i houf fIn"l4s ms pencll ana
cleaning the paper then resumed the
''trTl, MR. s.e., ,.. 49,,
: nv le"rlui eohui'Ion OF lhe lIeAehes
20 30 pgSt tL ie1'aieu' ne "IotG' oH the part
in.t. M 'ne'" am S'D'iog nome on TINS
''',eI'
alpiot,,,, WUu"',eu hon'on IcI'llorlai wrote
o,otta5 ,'"'e oulS'Il III az your ciotheS,
hIo4. ot,tu WIN p'ooQ anu art as dry as
Lnooth Loa,i"s P"Poi, ''"'uG an over ana
eIea'hlnS torty to Ihe minute, taken
a'VtI' oIoa' a neu sa ross cart aqM carried INTO
= n y,Tah nai:,I uleesins room" lhen the first
,,nSSu,a III" ~o,'lan you nave seen Tor four
,.'o'''S yutS NoVW cu,hes orr and send
hoiI on to W to peu, II rs hRe craving from
"'', 10 @ meu'GH, en-
. "a vi"nn i,on'e 'o!Por"l VINO was wounded
A. pres ana is again IN the fighting
bcro % tho T,',v, -. ne ne more men we get
and m rh, 'JV'y, "",... 'ne game VIII be at an
Wa oont,,,oi 4v "I'."""s are almost SOLD out,
tho,. 4d,5 rev ,nv o'ner oaY and
M, 'U'u "' 'u'l aunt want to fight
n;oo l,,' m''v g uI'' boys we only want
euro w ,ro oo, my",@g! s! ana then ! am quite
,,oo4,n,, yr, me va" IInlSh uP with brilliant
An Snytor,o,, ....
oVn aro ,"'',',,o" trooper IN Egypt said:
mids mot M, I"'i pe'o" 'he Iyfa,
aitbnraL % %'' H., 5u' nest pace in the world
onco T,o ,"y .s, g,'at napoleon chose it
driIl or w. sl'"' 'afaWoaek is sand; we
consos y" snr, w. S'ggp IN IT. even eat It. n
wonIJ ,yov,noT .y,v nyS ana pad language and
Common,in nti'u''IN nTeaI your heart
furnished %oE %E , On the bTltSh fur coats
write, t'I b,,. -. ., '''
fnr io,,,, nane oeen provided with a
resombIo ., gu,IG a nutty' medal, |.
anJ "'r nn .S'G,1u.'lniHg between a monkey
yynioI4 % I1 "'''l, explorer 1t adds to tho
tbo 7", mo 70 GalIl' but is warm, which 10.
Uo". ,,''u t,. l"lug'
bro,o1 oI ,"o N women with stoic fortitudc
coGfin" Gr" " Gg'"'"n shells to sit beside the
Nv n.y.. ~ VI u n'lghhor woman was told in
Tronno ,a''' ,rTEurT'l private's letter from
'"u'V' lNe women sat silently bpsi1o|