The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-10-01

sour grapes and sclf-pity. but l assure
you l dcn't indulge in il very often, and
Il follow might Us we'll let you See the
other side 1T his nature once i'll q while
The Lord knows it's n too ianiiiar SIDE
~ all Of you. At any rate. / suppose
L time will come when it will be l.
source Of some satisfaction TO have
been shot ut oftcnrr. ;lnd longer, and in
more different ways and Ut closer
range. than some of the others fellows.
although just at present the retrospect
is anything hut charming.
| don't know that L fellow gets I'M
! nrrvcd. OF anything closely approaching
that exact state. but I'll admit that he
gets mighty we'll fed up on this front
line stuff. after Il month of more or less
intimate association with 1t. There are
II hundred things that left their i'm
press on me. can hardly pick out
| the ones which are the most vivid. AL
arc too clos, behind me Tor that, yet.
might tell OF my warm personal friend
whose last earthly words were, Well.
caesar took Il chance" and nc wills
! flaliencd by Il big ii. r. shell few
! minutes after taking his chance. Or. I
! might make a vain attempt to make
! you hear. roaring in your own ears. the
! noise OF Z real. mans size barraSc. from
each Of three listening points: In line
with our own hravicS beneath the rest
! of flight Of both ours and Jerry $
! shells. where the lnudcSt noise Is the
. whistle. and. last hu< not least. where
! Jr--y's big ones fall. 1t Is one OF the
few sensations in the world which like
; the first sight OF the Grand canyon OF
Niagara Falls do MOI seem TO fall short
; az ones pr"cunccivcd idea gathered
: from tuo FREQUENT and too fulsornc de-
! scr. pti"n.
! No writer ever stirred my Imagination
! IN sci up such Il strain on my ears
such IN obstacle to ordinary CONVERSE
zion. such y terribly continuance, wide
sprral. and endless giants thunder
storm And then that scream OF the
big m" which is coming 1t you; Il
! would have 10 b" Calmrr man than
! any nC my own acquaintance who did
not. in spite uf himself, tense the NUS
! c!cs OF his neck and shoulders until
: ihoy hurt.
! Th" snIpe-'s rifle ball and the ma
+: chine gun bullets ara less scary than
: the shells. The bullets don't whistle
! nor ."whinc.' nor "whirr. nor sing
; nor Zip rs they have been variously
! described to do. To my ears they sound
; <artly as if every ono we're hitting a
tShtIE SlTt(CHEu wire LII lbCL
{ on The first few occasions when they
PASSED near me. I instinctively looked
FOR the wire. To $50 how nc;r they had
come. Another impression that can
never fade is tn" sight ~ very many
mon lying dead on III" G"ld in the pos.
, tons in which they FILL.
curry :, mighty vivid picture in N,
rI"raory. Of :: very handsome yoruY
r C;"rnIn captain. whose badly shatteat
body, WIS lying outside the machine 81,
I'm I.l;tt"n"n; from which II was bloEn
10y Il s"v'nfv-five shell. and arorni /
, whose l.:-S was wound belt Of liz
own deadly cartridges. yards and Urls
: "r them. Another picture is NJ twenty
iwn nj our Own. ranged evenly bsiie
:, hic grave which newly made Gerz,n
prisoners w"r" digging.
SOM" time when I descend to = Hr-
. tiCul7r." r. v"liirE mood I shah tell ron
! something &C smells because rrery
:,rnSc is acted upon most rivideey VI
ih"rH IT III" Line. II isn't ouly your
body and your senses that have rpcri-
rnces. There came times when was
compelled to make up my mind hat 7 !
could reasonably expect any oneef the
immediately succeeding seconds To b.
my last found that. on accznt OF
nIt that have hal horn IN r. and
Ties" and other days. and Of ~ CON
ference with persons and Ponrs. the
actual cacr In fac" prospect G2asstnS
out is not in itself. rs terrifying rs 7
used {" think It would be
Nevertheless a fellow find his Iifo
to h> pretty DEAR to him. az himself
| full nf wc'l-mrant resolution,to uae II
Will if it IS =pnr'H' Some rz1,ty s-ood
j i"tt"rs r"rn" to m" up there, rom faith
! or. mother. brothers and ott.s, Father.
you cant v.ritc'wonderful -cpthcT' let
| trrs llkr Mamma can. and !obody can
! write universal compcntfiu,s Of love.
and good humor and news. Ike you can.
! Th"re'S n coincidence ahor your last
letter. Mother Nhe last oneI received. I
| rn"7n> fml wer" writinen 4 certain
memorable night in Jul tho night !
after N" seventeenth. Al that night
| r." roads We're filled Nth mcu a1d
horses and gums. moviu mp for the
| greatest surprise attack since the BE-
ginning Of the war
was one of the hrong and we
! marched along IN n diving thunder
: >'"'n' Ih"rr was >arn breakfast
| h"hE some trees yey closN to tne
! I'hNs. INST after midniHt. At midnight.
~ nearly so. you wcr writing IN YOU
.,'e 'nat y"u Ind a unusual lonEn
20 u" with mo at thatvery momcnt. III"
! !" N""" JUST what Sns doing
d" almost that pry minute. "n'"
s"n consider the difference in time p'
,~een her and home WIS standing al"
watching the Amencans 20 over 'nt
t np' with the drumming IN my ears ~,
De memorable h>Tage that sc. .,o,,t
hSayins that my lEkhts were upon you
Vi'IoiS - So Town were upon -