The Arizona copper camp., 1920-10-23
GRIPPING

country like Kansas, Indiana and
Minnesota, but the unhappy people
/ are in primitive civilization, there
are few that can read or write. It
has been misruled for generations,
even by Poland before it's partition in
the year of 1772. 1t must be remem.
bered that at that time, in Poland,
/ 'Sclachta' nobility and church ruled.
After it's dismemberment, Russia
tried every means to Russianize the
/ Ukraine.
/ After several weeks of but little
fighting, after taking towns of Lutzk,
/ Wolzina state, and other strategical
points, our division was sent to, and
|around, Bendzin - Czenstochava = a
German and Bohemian border as it
was feared there might be trouble in
THAT vicinity.
My battery was stationed near
lCzenstochava, town which is famous
because of the Holy Miracles cure of
the afflicted. At this point we had
an incident on visit to the Bright
Hill, as it is called Three of us went
into a church. Two of the party were
unfamiliar with many customs strange
to their land of nativity but common
lin Europe. AS we entered the great
Iedlfice we noticed woman lying
prone near one of the altars On
seeing her, one asked if the woman
was real or statuary. 1 suggested
that she might be in faint, but that
she was alive. AS Americans are al
ways kind and attentive to women,
they went to lift her UP. Just as they
approached her, thought it was time
for me to go as Il knew what would
happen. In little while they came
out of the church much excited and
perplexed. After they explained what
they had done, one of them said that
they guessed that she did not want
to be lifted up as they had tried hard
enough to lift her! Then / explained
to them that she was doing penance
and was lying there doing penance
for her sins. 1t was something new
to them, and without sacrilege, / felt
l had the laugh on them
"a few days later was some holy
day and many pilgrims were in evi-
dence. In company with others, l
went to see fortificatons of the four
teenth century; tunnels and walls I
believe, though, that the pretty girls
were the principal Objects of atten-
tion. AS was within the great walls,
looking at some rare paintings of old
en- times, and of the former reigning
sovereigns, was caught by the mass
of humanity and pushed toward the
altar in spite of my efforts at resist
ance, and had to go or be crushed.
Finally, the current stopped for a
spell. Then l noticed something
scratching around my feet and legs
and heard some mumbling I decided
to investigate, and, managing to look
down, to my surprise, found that
was standing on a mans mustache
1t seems that this man had particu-
larly long mustache, and as he had
been kneeling when the crowd surged,
he was forced to the floor, and, having
his mouth so near it, he was unable
to speak coherently, and, not using
the very best of language for church
socials, he was notifying us of his
predicament by scratching and numb
ling.
Horned Devils"
II neglected to mention above when
speaking of General Haller's army,
we from the U. S. were looked upon
as radicals, socialists, Polish Bolshe-
Wiki, horned devils and other things
ungodly. This latter was on account
of our having four -cornered caps. The
native troops did not have them. Most
of these epithets were hurled at us
by the upper classes, the "Szlachta''
and priests, for we were evangelists
and forerunners of freedom for future
Poland, always acting as gentlemen,
behaving at everyplace and dividing
with them everything that we had. !
They soon came to admire us and |
begged us to stay in their country af-
ter the war.
Il hope that conditions will be |
changed after the war, for Poland has !