Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-25

Nein!' either but anybody may ada
interval. ''''''7
i, II you prefer merely to Sigh heav.
ny that also is understood. and not
resented But 1t must be an abstracted
ana not querulous sigh.
DIVIDES Aspirin With Soldier.
an under officer who speaks a lit
te English and has the spirit TO be
friendly In spite of the fact that he
Is wretched with cold and fever sits
by the bleak porcelain
stove ! divide my aspirin with him
ana advise him to pack it into him
self forthwith.
re protests that he ought not TO
take II because it is hard TO get i'm
ms region But when one is among
soldiers the day is long" as Mollere
phrased 1t, when you don't get re-
turn klndnesses double-fold for any
friendly act YOU may have done
man- perhaps not from the same
man, but from some of his comrades
certainly.
J suggest as much to the under Of
fleer who, having cautiously turned
the matter over in his methOdical
mind for some seconds, takes my
view of it and accepts eight of the
tablets Of aspirin
IT was beautiful to see him again
next morning: his fever was gone
and he was breathing quite freely
again.
Blizzard Becomes Worse.
$3.50 o'clock leave the casino.
The blizzard has risen in fury The
streets are almost deserted Four sol
diers laughing in rich gutturals. are
newly arrived mail sacks to
the sorting station
An officer passes, flashing his
pocket lamp every thirty PAGES not
keeping 1t going continuously, for one
must conserve the battery. The pre-
cious thing throws beams block
long
A lonely horseman rides by. lie is
a uhlan and the mortar board Of his
helmet has caught a heaping hand
full OF damp snow It adds three
inches to his great height. The foot
steps of his horse make not sound
on the cobblestones. so deep are the
drifts
The synagogue shows black above
the white roofs of the shops on each
side of it,
The abbey church shows white.
Light CLEANS fitfullV behind its high
seeming at times almost to
die away. Then there is a sound OF
and presently the light is
brighter. II comes from the little
fires that the Russian prisoners have
built with pieces Of choir stalls and
Of coffins. / stop and peer through
the iron gates of the abbey wall.
kinsman In Chicago.
A sentry calls. 'Wer da 2' "kriess-
aus Amerlka,' say,
and he gives grunt of recosnition
and accepts cigaret.
"Not so fine and clean in this Rus
sia as in Germany / say.
"For the will of God he replies,
mot a thousandth part as fine ana
clean
We talk of America, and he would
like to know if I know his brother
in-law, who lives in Wellsstrasse IN
Chicago. have to confess that !
don't but add that | shall forward
letter to him when | get back to Ber-
lin if the sentry will have II ready
some time during the week. SO we
say good night and part very lrlend-
lv The Russians in their abbey
prison continue laboriously chopplhs
% choir stalls and coffns, and l
move on.
A few hooded women wearing
boots go dumping by. They are
dishwashers from the officers casl-
no and are being taken to thelr
homes bv a detail of the guard or
iinarilv no civilians are allowed on
the streets at this hour.
The snow has drifted the Iull
length of the twenty-toot arch"aS
that lead into the courts arounu
which the houses are built. In an
house lights are ilashlhs'
and the servants of late arriving o.
ficers can be seen drawing curtains
1r stuffing bits OF carpet INTO VIII
dow frames that lack glass,
Everybody is in his quarters ana
buddled against the porcelain Stow,
If he Is so lucky as to have fouhu
-uarters containing porcelain s'oNo'
Heavy Firing HealN.
Tho next morning | rise very cary
e. ae IN nave a long day behind the
,',,,s % n Bolimow. The storm has dieu
5own The dawn is sickly and gray
jsh. At 4 o'clock the artlliery mas ~
sumed firing. ., ,;s,or The
runbIe Of the guns all along thaI
Great line to the east is heavier anu
more rapid than have ever heafd 1t
before a,ou.-covered
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