Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-05-31
RRAVERY OF F0REFATHERS LIVES
AGAIN in DEEDS OF AMERICANS
kpe Troops France Laugh at Shell Fire. Jest at ShrapneI
snraynq and Take Whatever Comes With Bold Courageous
Spirit That Makes Them acknowledgement Braves
Death to Save His Horses.


and flying bits of masonry and steel.
Just then the great French guns be-
gan to add their boom to the din of
the enemy artillery. One, two, three,
four, five and on up to twenty came
the ripping, tearing detonations. First
q flash, then a whine, then a spongy
roar from somewhere lover there" In
the midst of the fanfare and scurry
sergeant-and it is permissible to state
that he came from Acknowledgment
up to the captain, who was directing
his men to places of safety or to
nelghboring sections, and said:
There are so horses in a very dan
gerOus position What shall be done
with them?"
1T is too dangerous to risk a trip
leave Them
Refuses to Desert Horses.
The sergeant paused moment. A
look of disappointment came into his
eyes. I learned later that he has al
ways loved horses.
II can get them out" he said, look
ing the captain straight in the eye.
There was no further conversation.
The sergeant trotted off up the street
into what might well have been the
pit Of death. He disappeared around
slight curve. A few minutes later
he came into view again behind a gal
Looping string of horses which shot off
into field to join a pack Of mules
which slowly and with traditional per-
versity had been moving nearer the
spot where shells were falling with
greatest frequency.
And over in the batteries, around
which shells had been falling for sew
eral hours, the artillerymen had taken
to their dugouts, where they were sit
ting about like gnomes with their gas
masks in position. Gas shells had been
dropping all about them, but fortunate
ly the wind was such as to Whit it
away from them.
With others I moved down. the road
few hundred feet and entered graz
ing field, where I stood with about
80 boys from various parts of the
man shells falling not far away and
could see the flash and hear the boom
Of the allied guns.
Gazing at the people moving across
the fields, soldier from Chicago-in
e every regiment there are men from
a practically every state and every biz
0 city back home-said sentenkiOusly:
a If the people at home could see this
s and then realize that their own ia
t Tiers, mothers and children'N get thu
n same thing If the Germans Amt licked
l guess we'd have an army Of twent!
l. million, huh?"
Shortly there was a lull in the fight
e ing. In the period Of quiet which cam
l. there was release of the tension
which had been quite successfully
# camouflaged. Everyone broke out il
o comment, much as does a person VIII
20 has just come through a painful denta
a operation.
whats the news from back homer
# one Of the privates asked me.
+ What do you want to hear about
RI 1 asked.
y army?"
~ Where'd they bury lob F1tzSin
mons?"
20 did Teddy Roosevelt get over thu
50 operatiOn?"
in us it true they've cut down the sa
N aries Of baseball players?"
n Just News From Home Wanted.
80 These four questions came quick
. from four different soldiers and whe
:. they were answered the boys SCENE
nc satisfied that everything at home
- all right.
Unimportant subjects were droppt
instantly when a shell spattered i
the earth q few hundred feet ava
tn causing everyone to move to ne
We region. In a minute the bombardme
was fiercer than before. Down in Il
as narrow valley Immediately in the pa
of of the shells flight five Frenchm'