Arizona republican., 1918-09-05
Twelfth lnstaIIment. Chapter w. (Continued.)

Chapter w. (Contnued.)
 We were beginning to realize slowly what hell of torture and suffering and disease this war means to France. Half million tuberculars in her homes' spreading poison there; two million homeless refugees quartered beyond the war zone; millions of sol dlers living in the homes 50 miles back rom the line, every month bringing new men to these homes left by their comrades returning to the battle front; ar raids by night staying women and bables; commerce choked with the offering to the war god soldiers filling the highways: food, clothing and mu- nitions taking all the space upon the Iallroads' fuel almost prohibitively nlgh; food scarce: and always talk of the War-of nothing, absolutely noth- Ing put the war and it's horrors. That France has held so long under this curse proves the miracle of her divine courage.
 How Would Wichita Feel AS we sat under the shrouded torches in the inn courtyard and con- sldered what life real.@ means to the men and women of St. Dizier, once more we wondered how we at home would react under the terrific punish ment which these people are taking what would Wichita do with her houses bombed. her homes crowded with refu : gees; her parks and schools and public buildings turned into barracks. her | stores filled with gaping empty shelves, | ner railroad yards clogged with muni- l nnd about the street and man to his long nome. How would Emporia act with the pestilence that stalketh in dark ness forever nea rher: with her wom- en and children slaughtered, merely to break the morale of the people and cause them to plead for peace; with crlpples from the war hidden away in hundred sad homes, with fatherless children and children born out of wed lock among the things that one had to lace daily? Perhaps our young Jewish friend thought we were weary Ing of her. For she rose and said: well, good night gents-pleasant dreams."
 Pleasant dreams-ndeed.
 But In the morning we arose re- treshed and hurried along a misty piain, 40 miles or so from the American troops. Always in the background were great bushy trees and lush green grass, and the thing was composed How the French manage to compose thelr landscape is too much for me But at any of a thousand points the scene might have been photographed for Corot by getting a few good looking girls in nightes to dance or the grass of the middle distance American landscape has to be picked apart to have it's picture taken; a tre, selected here, a hill there, brool wonder, and if ladies in nighties ar, needed, they are brought from afar They are not indigenous to the soil But one feels that in France the, might come sidling out from behin, any willow clump with their toe rouged ready for the dance.
 Saw America.
 The road that morning seeme traversing a great picture gallery, un winding into life as from a drean within dream. And then, after tw hours of joyous landscape, we wake and saw America, Now America wa not vision; it was substantial, if no beautiful. As we switched around pend In the road we came upon Amer lea full sized and blood raw-a farme Doy-bronzed, milk eyed, good nature with the middle west written all owe hlm. He wore a service hat at a for ward pitch over his eyes; in his hard conched to tremulO the sound, he hel an harmonica; his eyes were aslit i the ecstasy of his own music; fror the crook of his arm dangled a bridl and he sat cross legged high up o the quarter deck of a great four-s stor, full-rigged Missouri mule. He didn salute us, but called Hi" as we passe, and then we knew that "our flag wa still there" and that we were near ol troops.
 The boys must be popular in il nelghbourhood. For in the next vi lage. which. by the way, was a tow Of lo,oOo, our American Red Cross un forms were treated with distinguishe courtesy.
 A Deal in Matches.
 Henry wanted a match. He cou talk no French, but little boy at Il nm, seeing him fumbling through h clothes with an unlighted pipe can running to us with q little blue box matches. Henry gave the boy a fral more to be amiable than anythir else. The boy flashed home to h mother proud as Punch, And just ; we were pulling out of the village tl boy came running to us with anoth little blue box of matches We thoug the boy had discovered that match would bring franc box from Amer cans and was preparing to make h fortune. So Henry took the box. al as the car was moving handed the b, another franc. We noticed him wavil his hands and shaking his head Al when we were a mile out of the Vi lage Henry opened his second box al found his original franc in it. T boys mother was ashamed that