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•FARM'
POOITRY
WORK IN THE POULTRY YARD
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Young Chlcka Often Die of Indlgeatlon
, When Fed Too Early After Hatch
ing—Corn Makea Fat
Water fountains for -Ae young
chicks are all right If they are kept
perfectly clean. .Too many people
neglect them and they become foul
and cause disease. -
For very sniall youngsters a good
drinking fountain can be made by fill
ing a teacup with water, placing a sau
cer over it and then turning It upside
down. Stick a thin piece of wood un
der oAe side of the cup and the water
will pun out and fill the aaueer.
Do not let the old hen run with the
Chicks all summer. JTake her away
Healthy, Vigorous Chlek. ' '
as soon they are old enough to rus
tle for themselves. '
The spring chick should have a spe
cial place to roost and the cockerels
as soon as they can be distinguished
should be separated from the pullets.
Did your young, chicks die of ladl
' feestlon during the first fevftdays? You
probably fed them t6o early after
hatching. Next- time feed them noth
ing for thirty-six hours.
Wet feeding Is going out of favor
and why shouldn't It? Natural food
for young chlcka Is dry.
Rolled oats.makb an Ideal food for
the baby chicks.
Do not feed much corn in the sum
mer time. It makes fat.
With large flocks hopper feeding Is
doubtless a labor saver, but the small
flock do better from the hand.
Olve the chicks all the range possi
ble in summer. A light fenee ran
around a portion of the orchard makes
an ideal place for them.
The hot sun will kill very yoang
chickens. They should always have
plenty of shade.
It Is Just as Important to spray the
Interior of the brooder with kerosene
aa it Is to spray the poultry house
later on.
INFERTILE EGGS FOR CHICKS
Feed Made by Mixing With Rice and
Flour and Baking Into Cake Ward*
Off Bowel Troubles.
Keep the Infertile eggs taken from
the Incubator to feed the coming
chicks. An infertile egg will not rot if
- kept in a clean place. After months
you will find that it has merely dried
down to something not much larger
than a bean. V
Mix the eggs with lies and flour and
bake In a cake, which yon can crumble
to chicks, poults and ducks. The rice
wards off bowel trouble. As they get.
older, mix the egga with sifted oern
meal and bake up for them.
Start in Chicken Bueinesa.
While It Is deeirable -It Is not al
ways necessary to start In the chicken
business with a flock of purebreds.
Buy the best hens you can afford and
then spend aa much more aa yon can
afford for a purebred cock.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
E. C, DERBY
Civil Engineer.
GRAHAM, N. C..
Naflaaal Baikal Alaswset STi'|.
BURLINGTON* N. C*
I*l*7 Balldlaa.
JOHN J. HENDERSON
Attorn cy-at-Lsiw
GRAHAM, N. C.
J", S. C OOIC,
Attorney-iit. Law,
GRAHAM, N.c.
Oflee Patterson Building
Second Tlaor.
UK. WILLS.IMUK.
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OFFICE i» SIMMONS BUILDING
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JOHN H. VERNON
A tiara ay and Ceaaaslsr et-law
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BCRUVOTOW, N. C.
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Dr. J. J. Barefoot
omoi orn HADLKT'S STORK
Leave Message® at Alamance Phar
macy Phone 97 Reaidenee 'Phone
302 Office Hours 2-4 p. m. and by
Appointment.
The Alamaxoe Gleaner.
LIVE
STOCK
KEEP SHEEP ON EVERY FARM
Flock of From Twenty-flve to Thirty
Ewea Can Be Maintained qt Ex
ceedingly Small Coat.
(By J. B. M'CLINTOCK, Ohio Experi
ment Station.)
A email flock of from twenty-flve to
thirty ewes shouft be found on every
farm. A flock of this size can be kept
aUllttle expense. It will, If .given a
chance; clean thellelda of weeds, pro
vide a supply of wholesome food, and
return to the farmer a neat aiim from
the wool produced.
A strong, vigoroui, purebred ram
should be used. Ewea, to b4 desir
able should have straight backa and
good mouths. ■ Aa a rule, sheep have
one pair of permanent front teeth
when ,one year old, two paira when
two years old. A ewe with a full
mouth may be "five or more years old,
but If the teeth are neither broken nor
Prise Winning Oxford Down flam.
lost, nor worn down, the ewe may be
bred and kept for a year with good
results.
A small flock of ewes can often be
pastured during the winter on a wtyeat
or rye field. The best ropghage for
sheep la clover or alfalfa hay and a
few roots. If clover la not available,
however, corn fodder supplemented
with a little bran or linseed meal Is
sufficient As soon as the lambs are
old enough to eat, give them a little
-cracked corn where the "awes cannot
get It. '
A fence that has been used success
fully by the United States Forest
service In protecting sheep from coy
otes Is recommended. This fence-Is
built as follows: A strand of barbed
wire. is stapled to posts at the sur
face of the ground; three Inches above
this is placed a 80-lnch strip of close
woven wire fencing, and above this
are stretched two strands of barbed
wire.
■ It sheep free from stomach
are secured, little trouble will be caus
ed by these pests. The worms are
small round whitish worms that Infest
the stomachs of the sheep. The lambs
become Infested by eating grass on
which the yonng worms ha,r£ crawled.
It is recommended therefore, that the
lambs be placed on pastures that have
not been occupied by mature sheep.
PLAN FOR CASTING A HORSE
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Simple and Inexpensive Method Re
quires Only Strong Piece of Rope
Fifty Feet Long.
(By O. L. PRIEN, Wyoming Experiment
Station.)
The most simple and Inexpensive
method of casttog a horae requires
only a soft, strong rope SO feet long.
The addition of hobblee, to whldh
iron rings are attached, eliminates
the chanoe of rope burns abont the
fetlocks of the hind fe«% but hobbles
cannot be used on unbroken range
horses. \
Knot the rope at the middle oi Its
length so as to make a loop, which,
when passed over the horse's head,
will fit the neck like a collar. The
Jsnot Is placed lowermost and each end
of the rope Is now psssed backward
outside of each foreleg tnd then be'
tween the hind legs and around the
respective pasterns.
* Before running the free ends through
the loop collar paaa each sod over the
Casting s Horse.
backward length o» the rope. This
holds the rope more snagly abont the
pasterns and lass wis the chance of
the animal stepping out of the rope. ▲
steady poll by assistants on each aide
will throw the animal The hind legs
may he drawn to the horse's sides and
securely fastened.
Liberal Feed for Bewa,
The sew can he kept at very little
expense in the spring lor the first few
months after her pigs are weaned,
provided aha has good pasture. But
during the time she Is anchllng her
pigs she shoald he fed very good food,
else she will run doyrn to very poor
condition and net heat to breed for a
long tiau.
IMarrhsea «alckly Cared.
"About two years ago I had a
severe attack of diarrhoea which
lasted over a week," writes W. C.
Jonea, BuforH H. D. I became so
weak that 1 could not etand up
right. A druggist recommended
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Bemedy. The first dose
relieved me and in two days I waa
as w air as *verObtainable every
where. adr.
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NAWS Snitnihntl The n, eventful MMurern of the war In week* culminated in the occupation of Lemberg, the capital of Galicla, Austria, by
l ~7" _ ,be Teutonlc armies; the Bpaaiana evacuated in orderly retreat. Before going to the summer White House at Corniah, N. H.,
Of the Week »«*»dent Wilson nnmed Robert Lansing, former counaeior, aa the secretary of state. The preaUJent also posed for a picture
with Kllen McAdoo, his new grandchild. After commuting the aentenca of Leo Prank to life imprisonment Governor Slaton of
Georgia declared mprtlal law around bla borne. Harry Thaw gained point, aad trial by Jury started for teat as to his aanity. Beventy-flvt thousand saw tbe
super-Dreadnought Arizona aa abe left tha waya at New York. Belgian schooiahip L'Avenlr, with cadeta aboard, arrived from France as a merchantman.
MUSE DESIGNED
FORM LOT
Structure Most Suitable for Erec
tlon In Small Town y
Village. -
LAID OUT FOR SIX ROOMS
Propsr Arrsngsmsnt of Light Is One
of the Features That Make ths
Building Eminently Desirable
—Buffet In Dining Room
a Feature.
By WILLIAM A. RADFORD.
Mr. ' William A. Radford will answer
question, and (Ira advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building, for the readers of this
paper. On secount of his wide experience
as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, ha
Is, without doubt, the highest authority
on all these subjects. Address all inquiries
to William A. Radford. No. IM7 Prairie
avenue. Chicago, 111., and only enclose
two-cent stamp for reply.
The fashion of building a house with
considerable width of frontage is prev
alent In a great many towns and vlt
laces of the middle West Ordinarily,
such houses require wide lots, which
probably Is the principal reason why
they are not so much built In cities,
There..land, values are. very much
greater. .
. In most towns and villages the res
idence streets are lined with shade
trees, so that after the noon hour
there la oonslderable shade, which Is
a great relief from the hot morning
sun. It Is noticeable that a shady
lawn- usually Is cool. Large shade
trees, with the branches trimmed up a
distance of twelve or llfteeri feet above
the ground, are said to possess a suc
tion which draws the air under the
blanches and creates a breeze even on
a comparatively still day. The real rea
son Is that there always Is a breath of
sir moving across the landscape. When
the advancing current of air meets an
obstruction like a tree, It parts arid
passes around the object In every di
rection. Part of the -moving air Is com
pressed between the tree branches
and the ground. Because of the re
stricted area the air moves faster,
which accounts for the pleasant sensa
tion of a light breeae that la so often
noticed under shade trees in the sum
mertime. H
This fcoftfe should be built on a lot
at least imy feet •« width—sixty-feet
would BB" better. The frontage may
ha either mirth or wast. If it la oe
ceasary to front towards the east It
would be better to reverse the floor
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plana aad Mt the llring room on tha
lonnr aide of the booae. It makea
a treat difference In the comfort of a
booae to bare the Urtng room* face
in tha moat desirable direction.
- Tke general appearance of tfefa
booae from tha atreet la exceptionally
Interesting and pleaalng. There la
aonuUilsg light and airy and clean
looking a boot the dealgn ud «nlah.
Tha booae la eonatmcted la the nav
al war of bolldlng a wooden booae
orer a ao lit cellar or baaement wall
of etooe, brick or concrete. The ma
terials for the waU mnat ha aelected
according to the locality Stone, aand.
' Flret Floor Plan.
GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY, JULY 8 1915
• lime, cement, etc., are heavy com
modities, »o that freight rates mount
up. For that reaaon each community
baa figured out the cheapest and moat
i satisfactory way of building up to the
surface' of the ground. If cellar-wall
material is locally convenient, the
walls are carried up to the bottom
of the first floor joists. If cellar-wall
material is scarce or expensive, tljen
cellar walls usually extend only to the
surface of the ground,
i A sill la laid on top of this low wall
and the studding started from the-sill
In the usual way, but there is a furring
4trlp gained into the studding two or
three feet above the top of the wall.
This furring strip supports the floor
Joists,so that the cellar is given the uau
•l height of IV4 feet of headroom, and
S6O or SIOO is saved in the cosi of
construction. These details are worked
out locally regardless of the general
plan of the auperstructure, because it
piakes no alteration in the manner of
building-except that the studdinga are
two or three feet longer, more or less.
The plan of this house provides for
four rooms and a bathroom on the
first floor, and there are two bedrooms
and a sewing room on the second
floor. The sewing room la lighted by
the front dormer. The back dormer
window lights the stairway. These
dormers are very artistically designed
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Second Floor Plan.
aa a relief to the long sloping root,
as well as for admitting light to the
center of the upper story.
The two bedrooms are lighted by
double windows In the gables. The
fashion of using double wlndowa Is
a good one for looks as well aa for
light Large gables 'require some
kind of an Interruption to the general
smooth, straight siding as A relief.
For that reason the wide projection of
roof shuts away some of the light, so
that when single windows are used in
this capacity the bedrooms are likely
to be somewhat dark. The bedrooms
are 14 by 11 feet 6 Inches in size, with
four extra large clothes closets or
store rooms. This Is a way of util
ising every square foot of floor space
down to a point where the rapf come*
within a few feet of the Boor.
The downstairs rooms are very nice
ly arranged for'comfort and for conve
nience in doing tbe house work. The
i pftrfor and (Be dlnlnf nfßto, being con
nected by ft wide ftrehwftr. in almost
, like one room. The parlor la mftde
i very at tractive by the large chimney
■ad Oreplaoe, with boohcaaee Is the
cornera. These boohcaaee are about
At* feet hi height, which nicessltates
i the placing of the windows over theae
boohcaaee at conalderable height; hot
there Is an advantage In this, becanae
the light comae from ft different angle,
•ad theae amaii high wlsdows, in con
neetloa with the triple window in
Croat, light the parlor la ft very satis
factory manner Likewise the dining
room la lighted by the wide trlndows
In Ue rear wall and by two anrrower
windows la the bos scftL
A b Jilt-in buffet Is einatracted
against the blanh wall la the dining
room. The woodwork of the buffet
corresponds with the other woodwork
la the dining room and.the parlor.
The same general design la aaed in
the front hall. The Ide* la U> aelect
• style of do lab that Is suitable to the
house and to have all tfce living rooms
flalabed in the eame pattern.
There is one bedroom dowaetairs,
which may be aaed tor a den or *n
office, if eo desired. One of these
bosses was built for a doctor, ftftd he
ased this IltHe room for office pur
poses. although he found It neceeeary
to ■"•*« one or two slight changes.
The arrangemfnt of the kitchen.
pantry and baCk porch le very satls
factory and It makea a perfect work
shop. The porch' Is an adjunct to the
kitchen In the summer time, and the
pantry makea a atorage room the year
round. Also the stairway leading down
to the cellar la oonvenlenfly placed.
The wlndowa lighting the kitchen are
ao arranged aa to provide light where
It la most needed.
„ Hen aa Trained Nurae.
_ Johnny HUlyard, alx-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hlllyard, who live
near Qlllla, on the Mount Hood rail
way, owns a black Minorca hen, which
he would not trade for the beat hen on
earth nor for her weight in ailver.
Recently Johnny waa taken alck and
confined to hia bed in a tent for aev
eral days. The Minorca hen, dlacon
solate over the loaa of her playmate,
refuaed to eat until aha discovered
wheae the boy waa, and then she
"camped# In front of the tent. Noth
ing cobld drive ber away. While the
mother waa away and the boy was
aaleep, tbe hen flew on the bed and
laid an egg on the pillow by the side
of the sleeping boy.—Portland (Ore.)
Dlapatch to Seattle Times.
Thoroughly Soaked.
"Did old Sklnson let you In OBSke
ground floor of hia new atock promo
tion achemeT"
"That's what he did."
"What happened then?"
"The ground floor was flooded wltb
water." , •
LIFTING THE STUBBORN POST
Device Made by Uelng Strong Steel
Hook. Attached to .Chain «a Shown
In tha Illustration.
A strong steel hook, such a* la often
used for lifting balea of bay, may be
converted Into a lifter for light poata
by attaching to It a chain aa shown In 1
the Illustration, aaya Southern Agri
culturist. Dig around tbe poatSuid
Lpr
Handy Peat Lifter^
drive tbe point o{ the hook Into tbe
bottom, drawing tbe chain over a
plank set on edge, or a stout stick.
Tbla la a handy way to get a light
post out of the ground when It Is a
little too stubborn to come out by
simpler means.
WAY OF CLEANING THE CHURN
Plrat Rlnee With Cold Water to Re
move Buttermilk, Salt, etc., Than
Scald Thoroughly.
When ready to cloak first rinse the
ebnrn wltb cold water to remove all
buttermilk, salt, etc.; tben partially
fill tbe cburn wltb boiling water, pot
on the lid and fasten loosely ao that
the a team can escape, withdraw the
draining plug and whirl tbe cburn.
Tbe prooeur* on tbe Inride cauaod
by the creation of eteam from tbo hot
water will force water Into every
crevice of tbo cbarn. After a few rev
olutions, draw off tbo water and put
in another lot, boiling hot, and re
peat tbo whirling. Draw off tbo wa
ter again, lot tbo churn stood a few
minutes ao it will drain, then turn tbo
opening np and lot M dry.
An occasional rinsing oat with lino
water will help to keep a cburn sweet.
All other dairy ntonoils should bo
rinsed, scalded and dried with tbo
asm car*. Tben keep Inverted In a
clean place, or exposed to tbo son.
where no dirt qan be blown into them,
wltb s fly bitting over tho top.
Keep Milk Stable Clean.
Tbe milk stable must bo clean sod
free from undesirable odors If tbe
■ilk is to bo kept in tbo boat shape.
Over' Bve hundred registered Peroh
eron stallions were trnaaferred to In
diana owners, according to tbo report
of tbe Pereheron Society of America
St Ma annual mooting. This puts the
Mate third in number of purchseas.
against tenth place last year. The
increaee la accounted for by tbo mow
stallion registration rules, which re
quire tho owner to make the brooding
of tbe horse public. Farmers have in
many caoee been breeding to bones
of scrub lineage, which they supposed
were purebreds. Illinois' lead* In
•ambers purchased, with 1.197.
ROAD BREAKER IS CIVILIZER
Man's Scale Is Very Correctly Tested
by His Attitude Towsrd Some
Obstruction In Road.
The civilized man makes roads;
the Havage does not. That is the
safest test of civilization.
Among us in all communities are
Individuals who are not really civil
ised. They do not take any interest in
„ roads.
A man's scale In civilization is very
correctly tested by bis attitude to
ward tho stone- which has rolled into
the road, or the tree which baa blown
down across It, writes Herbert Quick
In Farm and Ffreslde. The man who
drives around tbe obstacle day after
day la one sort of man, the one who
■tops his team and rolls or drags It
away is another. And a person pass
ing along a road which he does not
expect to retrace, who removes tho
obstruction for the sake of the stran
ger who comes after bli£, responds
to a very high test of civilisation. ll*
feels socially.
When the anow piles up In the road
the man who goes ahead and breaka
the path for other* bears the burden
which he who ha* made progress al
ways must bear. There Is snow In
"every road—to co-operation, to better
schools, to better business methods.
There must be road breakera for every
path.
The road breaker la tbe great elvl
llser.
DIRT ROAD IS THE CHEAPEST
Meat Satisfactory Highway In Nine-
Tenthe of Territory—Big Objec
tion to Macadamised Roada.
The time may come when we can
make cement roads. They will coat
from $5,000 to SIO,OOO a mile and they
may be so smooth, If we learivto make
them properly, that tho children liv
ing on these lines of road can go to
school on roller skate*, as they do In
some places down In Maryland.
There may be some satisfactory
combination of sand and clay; but,
apeaklng for the prairie lands, tbe beat
and the cheapest road wo can get over
nine-tenths of the territory Is the dirt
road. Tbe more clay there la In It,
the better the dragged road will be.
Thero Is no better road than the gum
bo road, If It la properly dsalt
with.
It li really a pity that the drag la ao
aimple and cheap. If It had coat $26
or S6O, and waa painted red, then the
farmera would think aomethlng of It.
The main reaaon why It haa not come
Into more common uae la that It la ao
cheap and almple In conatructlon and
ao eaay to handle.
Someone may aak: Why la it that
there waa no objection to macadam
ized road a twenty or thirty yeara ago?
Simply becauae we did not have the
automobile. MacAdam, that Scotch-
Excellent Roadway In Colorado.
man from the aectioa where Secretary
Jamea Wlleon waa bora, waa a gonlua.
Ho figured that by putUag atone oa
the road, the whoela of the wagon,
eapodally If broad tired, woald gradu
ally wear down tkaee atonea aad fur
nlah a filler. He did a groat aenico
to hla country. Bat the automobile
haa come In. It baa oo'lroo Urea;
bence It makea ao filler. On the other
hand. It aacka oat the filler and throwi
It out in the air. It prlee the (tonee
apart, and thea we hare what la called
a "raveled" road, that la, a road cov
ered orer with loose atones, the mean
eat kind of a road to travel over. That
la the reason the macadam road falls
under modern travel. Wallaoa'a
Farmer.
Itch relieved Is 30 minutea by
Woodford'a Sanitary Lotion. Never
fail*. Sold by Graham Drug Co,
GET RID OF DELICATE HORSE
Farmer Should Dispose of Ailing Ani
mal at Onca and Sava Much Time,
Trouble and Expsnse.
(Br J. M. BELL.)
I know of nothing more trouble
aame on the fajm than the "delicate
lorae." In the first place the ordinary
-fanner la not a veterinarian If any
tense; therefore, when he la unfortu
nate enough to own a horae that la
aubject to apella of alckneas. be really
does not know what to do, and If this
aame horae la- an animal whoae value
rangea anywhere from S6O to SIOO, the
owner la loath to aend off for a regular
veterinarian and pay him for hla visit
and preacrlptkra, consequently the'
horae In queatlon la very apt to die.
1 have had soifle experience in the
past few months with a delicate horse.
Standard Bred 'at Government Re
mount Depot
and thla experience may be of vslua
to some reader.
The horse In question waa and la a
good one In many ways. "City broke"
(that la, fearless), when It comes to
the many thlnga that are very liable to
frighten a IMrse these days.
Automobiles, steam cars, blcyclea
and the like do not even Interest blm.
He will meet any of these horse-ter
rifying affairs with utmost Indiffer
ence.
When I flrst purchased him be was
low down In flesh snd really, looked
depresaed and aad.
Having bad about thirty years' ex
perience In the handling of horses and
mules Of all aorta, I naturally thought
that I could take thla apeclmen to my
farm and make aomethlng of him.
I bought him over three months ago
and have fed him on what la consid
ered by good horsemen to be flrst
class feed. At the present' writing 1
can only aay that my experience and
ii«! e£rt«s c; =; E»!jhbo»s it* *t
fault, for the horae still remains poor
and apparently out of condition.
He hu had two attack* of tick
nasi in the paat month and with no
excuse ao far at the writer can lee.
First a bad cold that kept him half
•Ick for over two months, then a se
vere attack of indigestion, which last
ed all day and well Into the night, and
waa followed by a severe chill.
I would advise any farmer who la
unfortunate enough to own a delicate
horse to of him at the ear
liest opportunity and thus save him*
self trouble and expense, for the ordi
nary fanner doea not know what to do
with, an animal that la regularly sub
ject to these spella of slckQeea, and
even If he doea know what to do. It
doea not pay to waata time on such
an animal.
MAKING HOG FEEDING EASIER
Trough Secured to Qround by Meana
of Posts and Fastened to Fence
le Quite Handy.
It Isn't any fun to take a bucket o
swill or maah out among a dosen or
more hungry hoga and pour It out
while all are trying to get In the
trough at the same place at the same
time. A hungry hog baa no manners
3R
tavee Feeder'e Trousers.
and usually poeseasee a dirty nosa to
wipe on the trousers of the feeder.
The accompanying Illustration tells
bow to feed tha. bags without going
Into the lot or Held. The trough la
secured to the ground by meana of
strong stakea aad la bald at one and
agalnat the fence. A spout made of
four boar da extend* from the end of
the trough to the outside and la firm
ly secured to the fence and trough.
The feed la poured through the
spout and It glrea such force to the
Bow that the far and of the trough
la usually reached before It la stopped
by the hoga. A paddle la kept by the
fence to force down the solid matter
that tesue to accumulate in the spout
and to empty the water that stands
la the trough after a rain.
English Spavin Linimnet re
moves Hard, Soft and Calloused
Lamps and Blemishes from hones;
also Blood Spavins, Curbs, Splints,
Sweeney, Ring pone, Stifles,
Sprains, Swollen Throats, Coughs,
etc. Save SSO by Ase of one bot
tle. A wonderful Blemish Cure.
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jj MACHINES AND THE Mr, |
By FRANK FILBON.
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(Copyright, I*ls, bj W. O. Chapman.)
Lieutenant Rycroft's flrst experi
ence of battle waa so stupendous that
for a few minutes he forgot to be
afraid. He lay upon his face behind
the little abetter which he had dug
with hla sword, waiting for the com
mand to charge. On either side of
him he could see his men lying down,
also waiting, and adjusttng the mech
anlsm of their rifle*.
He was lying amid a pandemoni
um of noises. The heavy ahella from
the guna roared over him Incessantly.
Mingled with these sounds came that
of the amaller artillery, a defying
screech that set his teeth on edge.
And with these, but blending, as It
were, waa the hoot of rifle bullets,
now overhead, now low beside him,
occasionally varied with a spurt of
duat aa a bullet struck the ground.
Rycroft, being an Imaginative boy,
had anticipated the atunnlng honors
of battle. He knew that It wjould re
quire all a man's resolution to face
them. BtlU, he came of a military
family, and he had believed that
when his tithe came, be would not b«
proved wanting.
Bat this actual experience was more
terrifying than anything he had ever
conceived. Al he lay there, helpless.
- cdUclous that men were looking to
him for leadership, he felt bfojjUood
tuning to water. He was shakW,
be felt the -sweat stream down Bir
face.
He had Imagined a battle of men,
but thla was a battle of machines.
It was machines that were vomiting
out that hall of bullets, that fury of
shells. Machines, which had caught
him In their Infernal sn%re and were
bent on his destruction. And the en
emy was not anywhere in sight.
Suddenly a shrill whistle blew. It
waa the signal for the attack. By
croft leaped to his feet, with the au
tomatism born of his camp training.
The men bad sprung up on either side
of him. The boot of the bullets was
terrible. It seemed a miracle that he
had escaped thus far.
He aaw men begin to drop on either
side. The sergeant, next to him, flung
up his rifle, spun round, and collapsed
upon his face. Stories began to recur
to the lieutenant's mind. He had beard
that men always spun round that
way when shot through the brain. He
■aw the blood upon the sergeant's
head.
His knees would hardly bear him.
He beard his voice shouting com
mands to his men, and did not recog
nise It for his own, or know how it
Issued from bis lips. He did not
know what he was saying, and list
ened for the words. "Forward, boys!"
he waa shouting.
.He h»|t«4 sn(l crouched low. -The
line had swept Into an exposed anglfa '
among the trees, and all the Ore of
the enemy was concentrated here. It
was hard to go forwsrd, was becom
ing Impossible. The men were lying
lown again, kneeling, firing. The fig
ures of the officers and non-coms
were seen, urging them to rise. But _
every man who stood upon his feet
withered under thst Infernal bullet
stream. Rycroft ssw the captain go
down. The machines were winning
the victory.
And a stifling rage against this des
yny rose In hls / heart and choked his
throat. He sprang to bis feet and
shook his flst in the direction of the
cannon.
"Forward, boyif he screamed, thla
time with Intent and not automatical
ly. He began to run forward, his
knees quite steady now.
He heard the whole line rise to its
feet and follow him. He realised that
hla anger had communicated Itself to
bis followers. The same spirit had
seised upon the entire company, and
spread from company to company,
throughout the regiment
As he ran he began to see the en
emy for the flrst time. He saw long
llnea of figures leap from their
trenches to repel the sttack. And he
became aware, too, that the sheila
had erased. The lines were too close
together, and the hostile gunners
could fire no longer for fear of hurt
ing their own men.
It was bullet agalnat bayonet now.
It waa bayonet against bayonet The
attackers were upon the trenches of
the enemy. The machines had ceased
to act It was the men behind the
machines now, and these were pow
erless.
Suddenly Rycroft realised tßat He
saw that the same moral force and
will-power were there, as on the foot
ball field, as at Crecy and Waterloo.
The machine was, by itself, an im
potent dead thing. It was only the
man that counted.
*He waa mixed with the melee. He
waa in the heart of the stabbing as
sault Bayonet crossed bayonet He
aaw everything aa in a dream. Ha
was conacloua of an Inner personality,
serene quiet in the heart of the
storm He taw himself cut down a
man at a machine gun, who was aim
ing a rifle at him. He aaw the en
emy's lines break, surge backward;
be aaw the defenders In wild retreat;
pursued by his own men.
And he waa standing alone, un
wounded, in the center of a panting,
cheering throng. They were cheering
him. Hla sword waa broken, and ha
did not know how he had broken It
But he knew that he hsd found him
self, the human personality, without
which the machines were ao many
Impotent masses of worthless steel.
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