El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-11-11

two, one then two again On the lower edge Of the
shelf scattering crosses fresh mounds Rubbish and
debris Of everywhere German dead unbured food
buzzards but the cleanup squads VIII be along Trace the
advance here fell here another struggling up to the
line Of the woods where the machine gunners lay concealed
and fought in desperation to the very end death their
wages but they made people pay. They held their line
until the position could be made secure Our artillery
thrashng the woods to flinders but the machine gun
ners stayed Evidently for look along over the slope and
count 20 so into the wood the track leads and somebody
has been busy putting up the little crosses here too Our
dead are there.
Over the rolling meadows under the hill where the crown
prince had his post Of command; the woods bordering
bad places those days when secretary war Wash
ington giving out daily bulletins that the American
advance proceeding smoothly with little opposition and
that our losses light Why then these rude crosses
50 numerous We have to pick our way to avoid stepping
the little mounds? o, must numbers into the
thousands then to count these crosses? That plain
once Veruan place. but Il seems to have turned red There
harvest here, very truth These are our dead
hete village, what left Of it. which isn't much but
an evil smelling dump Here factory where maybe
20 and worked actually making something
that men valued The court shiny pond but over there
the pond found could not rise as oue
to cover the ground and somebody has put up little
rude crosses night there safe above the Shiny flood Some
Of people must have had their rifles pokinE through
that loophole The Germans have found It convenient to
move quite ways of now but two Of people stayed
and they there vet They had Hgone over with the
others but they parted company right here and the crosses
have their names and the regiment they belonged to-
Down by the rivers bank, It is quiet now. But there
time when the air sort Of thick with flying lead
and ron people tried to put that pouton bridge
ac1oss Inre Ious I'VE tr1a and what possible
teh and blood anyhow but to mange and scatter about7
There Others coming up, and somebody VII put it
over-somebody did and the division moves across in the
night its advance guard working right under the barrage
from side which the Germans have thought very
uneheaL But It wasn't cheap thing to do The crosses
are grouped here BY the place where trying and
where some failed and thereby won Immortality
There IS something peculiar about the dead on the field
after battle before the scavenges get around They lose
an resemblance 70 humans They Just little piles Of
rags bloody and muddy and Of pushed into the earth
strange twistngs and yet all fattened down and pushed
INTO the mud as nature trying had to hide her
work the let result Of civilization up to now Yet
these are our dead, and somebody sometime win say word
to do.
Arnistioe Day-Ons minute Of silence. Dc We forget
70 soon?
The man with certain kind Of cellar has no diff
.ulty IN keeping servants
Fare enough is fair enough the street car company
It's bad idea to let happiness depend altogether On
ny thing.
It should not be forgotten that the Scotch produce
resbytsrans vel whisky.