The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1915-06-04

wounded men, each of them with an arm
wound, ran to the ambulance and climbed in
side.
Fifty feet away, from the yard Of the inn,
a strange figure came slowly. He was a Sen
galese with his foot shot away. He came on
bis hands and knees. Again the battery Of
four guns fired, and the whistle Of the shots
was audible for second Of time before they
CT. overhead into the house opposite. Smith
did not duck his head. He stood by his car
waiting for the trailing black man man to
come. There are lots of men who would have
gone out of that accurate fire with the two
wounded men.
1t was dreary wait for the third man
scratching along over the ground. Two more
shells came past and the negro arrived at
the step. Smith lifted him in and brought
the three back to safety.
SOME BRAVE GERMAN OFFICERS
OF battle gallantry I saw several instances.
At skirmish at nellie between Germans and
Begians | saw German hussar ride out OF
wood one thousand yards beyond his own
lines happened TO DO standing in the road
where he emerged. He came out Of the trees
as silently as an Indian. He was entirely
cool unhurried; only his eyes were alert.
If the Belgians were still in possession OF
the road they would shoot him down. Bat
his men would hear the volley, and would not
advance If the Belgians had retired then
his men could come on safely. He was taking
all the chances, in order to save an ambuscade
Of his men. But there wasn't tremor in him.
The Belgians had retired; so he smiled at us,
and rode farther down the road, to gain as
much ground as possible.
My wife and | were in the village Of Zele
when band of twenty Uhlans rode in. The
three officers had their pistols drawn. Their
faces were set and stern. Their men were
laughing. One Of them talked with us about
New York. A few hundred yards beyond
them just over the railroad tracks on the
road to Client, there was red brick house
sheltering dozen Belgian soldiers Behind
cover of bushes there were fifty more. At
the turn of the road, a quarter-mile away,
there were many hundred Belgians and at
the corner machine gun.
Ii was the job Of the Uhlans to learn if the
village itself was a cover for troops. If it
was, they would be wipeG OUT but their main
body of troops would remain back and not
be molested, II was even chances that the
Belgians down the road would rake them
down with rifle and machine gun. The Uhlans
Inspected the village, and then sent word for
their troops to enter. II is for pieces Of ut
ter daring like this that the Iron Cross is
given. The death rate of Uhlans is high.
DYING, HE SMOKED HIS PIPE.
Radcliffe Dugmore, the English naturalist,
and | were present at a skirmish in Aalst,
where the Belgians had made a barricade
across a narrow street. They used market
garden cart, sOds Of earth and bags of fish.
As the shrapnel battered around them | saw
one and another laugh, and then, as | caught
his eye spit, as if he were splitting out a
piece of the bullet That humorous defiance
is rather characteristic of the seasoned sol
der.
| saw Belgian physician, DR.. Van der
Ghinst, when a shell fell and exploded hun
dred feet in front of him. He stopped an in
slant to let the air clear, and then walked
on past the place. THAT is nothing at all, {"
he said. "Thev come all the time" They
did, where he worked
That is the active phase Of courage. There
is another, the long suffering courage that en-
dures grimly.. That too, we have seen. We
have brought in three thousand wounded men.
had an English boy, who had his bicep
muscle shot away in the battle Of Ypres He
had lain for thirty hours, with only a rude
first dressing Of antiseptic and bandage. All
the color had gone out Of his face. He tainted
twice on my shoulder. He did not groan nor
complain. Once, in hoarse whisper, he asked
for water.
Mrs. Knocker and brought up from Dover
to London a Belgian soldier who was dying.
Not moan came out Of him. / lighted his
pipe for him, and he always smiled his graf
itude. Many times / have prepared smokes
for men with the arm gone. There is always
humorous smile from the wounded man at
his own helplessness He regards the atten-
ton as a rather good Joke on himself. o~.u