The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1915-01-28

rest of your coddling, and if you don't
try to get yourself killed before this
war is over you shall not get cent"
And the indignant dowager moved
off, head in air.
His Wife's Allowance.
Illustrative of the social leveling in
fuenCe Of war, the following incident
is told Of two Englishmen:
A new commanding officer was ques-
tioning a smart young corporal.
care you married." asked the officer.
eyes, SIR .-.-5. II -
Don't you think you ought to make
her some allowance out Of your pay?"
continued the officer.
IF you think it necessary, sir" re-
piled the private, II will, sir. I'm keep
ing up the house and car and allow
ing her $500 year, but if you think
an extra sixpence day would be any
good to her l am perfectly willing"
War Redeems an Apache.
Not long before the war a notorious
apache asked a Paris police captain
for a job as stool pigeon, burglary be-
ing dull for the moment. The captain
accepted, whereupon the apache held
out his hand, but the captain turned
away.
The other day the captain got a post
card from the apache at the front 1t
read:
"You refused to shake my hand late
ly. You were quite right. But now l
think you'd consent to shake my hand,
for I've only one left"
The captain admits he would shake
hands now.
Put Batteries In White.
A device by which the Germans have
helped winter mask their batteries in
the field in northern France is describ-
ed in letter written to the Frankfurt
ter Zeitung by journalist now serv-
ing as an artillery officer at the front.
For weeks, he said, the German bat
teries in shifting positions had been
hurting their iron hail against the
French near Lille. Then snow fell,
covering the landscape with white. In
vain the French officers on observa-
ton sought to discover the German
batteries as on the day before by
watching for the sun CLINT on the metal
parts. Everywhere there was but an
unbroken stretch Of white.
The Germans, the writer explains,
had turned each battery into white by
wrapping the wheels and gun carriage
with white towels. sheets and curtains
and stretching a white sheet in front
of it. Suddenly a central patch in the
white sheet was drawn away, and the
white nose Of the cannon was pointed
upward through it. The very artil-
leryman who touched it off, the CORE.
spondent adds, was dressed in white
from top to toe in a ludicrous long
nightgown, and the entire battery and
its crew were quite indistinguishable
amid the white Of the snow covered
landscape.
Kept Diary of Anguish.
For ten nights during the recent
heavy fighting in the vicinity of Ypres
the soldiers in the opposing trenches
listened to the plaintive cry of a
wounded man. The trenches on both
sides of narrow, muddy canal were
not more than 100 yards apart Both
Germans and French knew the cry
was that of wounded man in need
Of water.
Whenever a German or Frenchman
tried to creep out of a trench to reach
the sufferer bullets found the would
be rescuer. On the tenth day the bat
tie tide rolled onward, and the French
found in a hollow German officer.
his head pillowed on a knapsack. an
open diary by his side. A smile was
on his face. Between the leaves of
the diary was photograph of his wife
and two little children.
A bayonet had pierced him through,
but for nine days and nights before
the end came he had devoted his ebb-
ing strength to writing a record of
anguish, physical and mental.
The diary has been sent to the lady
Of the photograph. On blank page
French commander has written, ''To
the wife Of noble gentleman who
died a hero"
Earl Thrice Wounded.
Lieutenant the Earl of Kingston, of
the First Irish guards, ought, accord
ing to his own estimate, to be dead.
He is now lying at the military hospi-
tai, Denmark hill. in southeast Lon
don, suffering from the effects of three
bullet wounds and a fractured thigh.
Telling how that came about, he said:
''We had bad day on Nov. I.
About half past o'clock in the morn
ing the most damnable shell fire start
ed, salvos of their big high explosives
internationally with what they call
universal 1t has three distant bursts
one forward, one segmental and
straight down, third segmental back
ward. This lasted till half past /
O'clock / called the roll in the trench
and found had only one killed and
two wounded IN cnifo ne tho cnifof,,7