The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-08-03
PARISSOBEREDB BY WAR; WOMENDO
WORK OF MEN CALLED TOFRONT
Absence of American Tourists Deprives Shopkeepers Of
Golden Harvest-France Seeks Moral Support of the
United States.

was inscribed Imported from
S~aXOny."
Art Treasures Protected.
The Venus de Milo dwells in steel
plated seclusion at the Louvre; the
Mona Lisa and other treasures are
likewise Theoretically sealed against
the proclamation Of the Huns AT the
Petit Palai the great tapestries from
Rheims are displayed, and the hoard-
ed similar crOWn-jewels of other
churches and museum of Belgium
and of rural rance imperiled by the
German howitzers. You cannot climb
the NOtre Dame tOwer-Where the
gargoyles have much to perpend as
they look down on the subdued and
chastened but uncOnQuerable city;
from the lantern Of the Eiffel Tower
stream the long antennae of the wire
less, and soldiers patrol the fenced
and interdicted area of the fourfold
foot of that beautiful ~audacity in
steel. In fact, any viewpoint not that
of a natural eminence is likely to be
forbidden ground and a thousand
places that have been shrines OF
American pilgrimage are "ferme." Yet
Paris still is Paris; the Bots is a living
green, and the fountain laughs in the
Tuilleries, n the bOokworms gnaw
their way along the Seine embank-
| ment, and If the sidewalk cafes are
largely depopulated there are still a
few grave and bearded men n some
what careworn, pensive women sip
ping and gesticulating at the little
tables. In the court of the Invalides
you will find a crowd about the spoils
of are-the biplane taken at Jouchery,
the Battle of the Marine, in September,
1914; the dirty gray Taube captured
in the region of the MeuSe; and be-
side these Is the French biplane shot
at more han 400 times tn some 1870
L roo0~ n cro nor hotruon~ ~,k q o~<J
December "A, 1914. There are per-
haps 80 Of the 77-millinetre German
guns and their appurtenances. Up
stairs and within doors is the array Of
battle flags taken in various engage-
ments.
You begin to feel that you are at
close grips with the wal when beside
blue linen and a volunteer ambulance
driver, who is going back mex day
both of them Americans with their
souls in the work Of their hands"
The airman tells you, with evident
keen relish in the adventure, how his
motor took fire in the air and he vol
planed down a thousand feet into a
wheatield, within the lines. To win
the "brevet millitaire" the flying mar
must be able to stay an our at 1000
metres, to describe a triangle Of zoo
kilometres, to make a straight return
flight Of ITO kilometres. The ambu-
lance driver has his own story of the
perilous vicinage of the trenches. He
has had two chauffeurs "gasSed' and
three cars hit in his business of bring
ing out the wounded. There are doc
tors in the trenches, of course, AND
each man carries a first aid cart
ridge" II he has not used it to clear
his rifle, ever as the British Tommy
uses his respirator for a tea-strainer
~ fh0 n A.
stages. The first takes the wounded
2 man to the "poste de secours'; the
second, as the enemy's firing permits
: brings him thence to the infirmary
the third, If his wound is grave, take.
him to a base hospital or to the rear
l dined with Owen Johnson, tn
novelist. who vas just back from tn,
front near Rheims with Arnold Ben
t nett; and 1 must not purloin any 0
: h thunder of Mr.. JOhnSon's artillery
] but to him as to me, it is a very won
t derful thing that the French tempera
: ment has, in h worlds eyes,, been s.
completely "bouleverse." Here w
r have all been thinking the Frenc1
o the playboys of the eastern WORLD
g volatile, mercurial, frivolous, like tn
e B~anda-log in the Jungle Book; witt
and depraved and welded to absinth
frappe. How these men of Franc
e have fought and died, and endured /
d the trenches, and Travelled with thei
IS wounds till the stretcher-bearer an
a the ambulance found them, and sui
fered uncOmplainingly for months i
l. the hospital, is indelibly written o
J. the most recent and most gloriou
d page of Frances history.
a, France Asks Mora Support Of U. S.
le I talked with one of the most bri
n liant Of the Figaro's contributors, on
Of the men to whom Colonel Hous
canQ on his recent visit as TO an Al
lie thOrity on the attitude of France t
o. ward Americas entrance into the list
to l felt that this mar truly spoke fl
We France when he said: quite apa,
from the provision Of munitions,
America sent never a man and new,
IL a ship to aid France in this cruci
IS hour, her moral support would no !,
valuable. 1t woul be the final arg
of ment the culminant influence to hun
sc. BILE Germany to the dust. 1t mlst