Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-05-16
BRAVERY OF FOREFATHERS LIVES
AGAIN IN DEEDS OF AMERICANS
Yankee Troops In France Laugh at Shell Fire. lest at shapne
Spraying and Take Whatever Comes With Bold Courageous
Spirit That Makes Them acknowledgement Braves
Death to Save His Horses


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
flash. then whine, then spongy
roar from somewhere "over there" In
the midst Of the fanfare and scurry a
sergeant--and It is permissible to state
that he came from Missouri-stepped
up to the captain, who was directing
his men to places Of safety or to
nelghboring sections, and said:
There are 80 horses In very dam
gerOus position. What shall be done
with themf"
ut is too dangerous to risk trip
leave them"
Refuses to Desert Horses.
The sergeant paused moment. A
look Of disappointment came into his
eyes. 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 of up the street
into what might well have been the
pit OF death. He disappeared around
u slight curve. A few minutes later
he came into view again behind gal
looping string Of horses which shot of
Into a 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
ernl 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 wns such as to Whit 1t
away from them.
With others | moved down the road
few hundred feet and entered graz
ihh WhtIC WIN uuOuh
30 boys from various parts of the
United States. We could see the Ger
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
every regiment there are men from
practically every state and every big
city back home-said sententiously:
III the people at home could see this
and then realize that their own TO-
Tiers. mothers and CHILDBIRTH get the
same thing II the Germans amt licked
guess we'd have an army Of twenty
million. huh?"
Shortly there was lull In the fight
, Ing. In the period Of quiet which came
. there was release Of the tension
which had been quite successfully
camoufaged. Everyone broke out In
, comment, much as does person who
, has just come through painful denta
/ operation.
whats the news from back home 2
Z one Of the privates asked me.
what do you want TO hear about 2
I I asked.
i. Has Grover Alexander gone in tn,
+. armyT"
y "where'd they bury Bob Fltzsim
mons3'
Q "Did Teddy Roosevelt get over tina
q operationi"
n rs II true they've cut down the sal
n aries of baseball players?"
i Just News From Homo Wanted.
!. These four questions came Quickl
: from four different soldiers and whel
they were answered the boys SCENE,
. satisfied that everything ut home
= all right.
Unimportant subjects were droppe
instantly when shell spattered u
the earth a few hundred feet away
h causing everyone to move to ne,
G region. In minute the bombardmen
was hercer than before. Down In tn
S narrow valley Immediately In the pat
/. Of the shells flight FIVE Frenchme