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In this story Mr. Palmer, the
noted war correspondent, has paint*
ed war a* he has seen It on many
battlefields, and between many na
tions. His Intimate knowledge of
armies and armaments has enabled
Mm to produce a praphlo picture of
the greatest of all wars, and hla
knowledge of oondltlons has led
him to prophesy an end of armed
conflicts. No man Is better quali
fied to wrKe the atory of the final
world war than Mr. Palmer, and
ha haa handled hla subject with a
master hand.
a sms—
(Continued from Yesterday.)
" "Even the minute of the attack they
knew; and Just before midnight they
sere standing at the window looking
out into the night, while the rice-cblef
held his watch In hand. In the hush
Ifae faint sound of a dirigible's propel
ler high up In the heavens, muffled by
the fog, was drowned by the Gray
{guns opening Are.
• ••••• e
Before the mine exploded, by the
light of the shell burets breaking tholr
.vast prlarns from central spherea of
Hume for ml lee. with the quick se
quence of a moving-picture flicker,
FTacnase'a men could see one another's
faces, spectral and stiff and pasty
(White, with teeth gleaming where Jaws
had dropped, some eyes half closed by
the blinding flashes and some opened
wide as If the lids wore paralysed.
{Faces and faceel A sea of faoes
etrntoMng away down the slope—faces
In a trance.
ITp over the breastworks, over rocks
pmd splintered timbers. Deterkln and
Ihe Judge's son and their comrade*
clambered. When they moved they
were as a myriad legged creature,
bruin numbed, without any senbutton
except that of rapids going over a full.
Those In front could not falter, being
pushed on by the pressure of those In
the rear. For s few steps they were
under no fire. The scream of their
own shells breaking In Infernal pande
monium In front seemed to be a power
as Irresistible at the rear of the wedge
In driving them on.
Then sounds more hideous than the
flight of projeotllee broke about them
with the abruptness of lightnings held
in the hollow of the Almighty's hand
and suddenly released. The Browns'
guns had opened fire. Explosions were
'•'Oh. the Murctar of It—the Murder,"
Ho Breathed.
Been swifter In sequence than the
flashes that revealed tho etark faces.
l>uet and stones and flying fragments
of flesh flllod tho air. Mon wont down
M> PoalUeo paralraia of (acaltlos by tho
terrlflo crashes. Sections of the ram
"wero blown to pieces by the burat of
m shrapnel ahoulder high; other sec
tions wero lifted heavenward by a
•bell burat In tho earth.
PoterkLn fall with a piece of Jagged
Srteel embedded In hta brain. He had
gone from the quirk to the dead ao
arwiftly that he never knew that bla
charm bad failed The earne ei plosion
got Fracases, oword In hand, and an
other buried him where he lay. The
banker's son went a little farther; the
barber's eon otlll farther. Men who
were alive hardly realised Ufa eo
»niied were Ufa and death Infernal
Imagination goes faint; Ita wildest
•tmilee grow feeble sad banal before
aurh a oaceummatlnn of hell.
But the tide keeps on: the torn gape
of the rain are filled by ‘the rnehlng
leg* from the rear Officers urge and
Had. Such are the orders; such la
•be duty prescribed, suc-h Is human
|>ravery even In there days wnea Ufa
Is sweeter to more men in the Joys of ;
■stud and body than ever before. I*rw
Blelon. organisation, solidarity tn this
eucb as the days of the "death-
boys never knew! Over the j
bodies of Peterkln and the barber s (
the banker s _i>lu«gia* ,
through sheTi craters, stumbling, Stag
gering, cut by swaths and torn by
eddies of red destruction in their
rankß, the tide proceeded, until its
hosts were oftener treading on flesh
than on soil. And all they knew was
to keep on—keep on, bayonet In hand,
till they reached the redoubt, and there
they were to slay, alive or dead.
***••*•
"After hell, more hell, and then still
more hell!” was the was that Stransky
expressed his thought when the en
gineers had taken the place of the DSd
of the Browns In the redoubt. They
put their mines and connections deep
enough not to be disturbed by shell
fire. After the survivors in the van of
the Orays’ charge, spent of breath,
reached their goal and threw them
selves down, the earth under them, as
the mine exploded, split and heaved
heavenward. But those In the rear,
slnpped In the face by the concussion,
kept on. driven by the pressure of the
mass at their backs, and, in turn,
pluugeid forward on their stomach* in
the seams and furrows of the mine's
havoc The mass thickened as the flood
of bodies and legs hanked tip, in keep
ing with Westerllng’s plan to have
"enough to hold.”
Now the automatics and the rifles
from the redoubt to which the Browns
had fallen back opened Are. So
close together were these bullet ma
chines that the orbit of each oneto
swing made a spray of only’’ a few
yards' breadth over the redoubt, whore
the Browns' gun lire had not for a mo
ment oeased its persistent shelling,
with Increasingly large and eolld tar
gets of flesh for their practice. The
thing for these targets to do, they
knew, was to Intrench and begin to
return the infantry and automatics'
Are. Desperately, with the last effort
of oouragn, they rose In the attempt—
rose Into playing hose streams of bul
lets whose close hiss was a steady un
dertone between shell bursts. In the
garish. Jumping light brave officers
impulsively stood up to hearten their
commands In their work, and dropped
with hnlf-uttered urgtnga, threats, and
oaths on thetr lips.
Tlte bullets from the automatics
missing one mark were certain to And
another, perhaps four or flve In a row,
such was their velocity and power of
penetration. Where shells made gape
and tore holes in the human mass, the
automatics cut with the regularity of
the driven teeth of a comb. The men
who escaped all the forma of slaughter
and staggered on to the ruins of the
redoubt, pressed their weight on top
of those In the rrstsrs or hugged be
hind the pyramids of debris, end even
made breastworks from the bodies of
the dead The more that banked up,
the more fruitless the efforts of the of
fleers to restore order In the frantlo
medley of shell screams end explosions
at a time whan a minute aeeme an
age
Meanwhile, between them -this
banked up force at the charge’s end
end the Brown redoubt with Its auto
mation. the Gray gunners were making
a sons of shell hursts In order to give
the soldiers time to make their hold
of the ground they had gained secure.
Through this tone Htrsnsky and hla
men were to lead the Browns In a
counter attack.
At the very height of the Grey
| charge, whan all the reserves were In,
dark objeots fell mit of the noarens,
and where they dropped earth and
fleah were mingled In the maceration.
Like some gisnt reptile with lie ver
tebrae breaking, gouged and torn and
pinioned, the charge stopped. In writh
ing. throbbing confusion. Those on
the outer oircle of exploeions were
thrown against their fellows, who j
surged back In another direction from j
an exphii-lon In the opposite quarter.
From the rear the pros sure weakened j
the human hauimur was no longer driv
ing the ram. Blinded by the lightnings
and dost, dluy from concessions end
noise, too blank of mind to be sane or
| insene, ths atoms of the bulk of the
I charge In natural tnstlnot turned from
tbelr goal end towerd the place whence
they had come, with death from all
•Idea still buffeting them. Staggering
ly, nt fleet, they went, for want of In-
Itatlae tn their peraiysls; then rapidly,
as the lew of self preservation asserted
Usrlf tu w ild Impulse.
As sheep driven over a precipice
they had advanced; as tnen they fled.
There was no I outer any command, no
longer any cohesion, except of legs
struggling In and oat over the uneven
footing of dead and wounded, while
they felt auother pressure, that of the
mass of the Browns la pursuit Of all
thoss of lYaoaase s company whom
wa know, enly the Judge's eon and
Jacob Filter wars alive- Stained with
hioed and dose hit teeth showing In
e grimace of mocking hate of all hu
mankind. 'Miter s savagery ran free of I
(he restrain: of dtaclp.lne and ctrtlited j
convention Striking right and left,
he forced hie way cut of the region of
■hell Are end still kept cn t flubbing
hlv rifle, he streok down one officer :
who tried to detain hla:. but soother
effioer, quicker then he. pet a revolver
bullet through hla head.
* • • • s s s
TV ester ling, who had burled Ids face 1
In his hands In Marta e presence at'
the thought of failure, must heap the
«TOK of. M» position before the staff,.
With chin drawn In and shoulders
squared In a sort of petrified military
habit, he received the feverish news
that grew worse with each brief bulle
tin. He, the chief of staff; he, Hed
worth Westerllng, the superman, must
be a rock in the flood of alarm. When
he hoard that his human ram was in
recoil he declared that the repulse had
been exaggerated—repulses always
were. With word that a heavy counter
attack was turning the retreat into an
ungovernable rout, he broke into a
storm. He was not beaten; he could
not be beaten.
"Let our guns cut a few swaths In
the mob!” he cried. “That will stop
them from running and bring them
back to a sense of duty to their coun
try."
The Irritating titter of the bell In
the closet off the library only Increased
his defiance of facts beyond control.
He went to the long distance with a
reply to the premier's inquiry ready to
bis lips.
“We got into the enemy’s works but
had to fall back temporarily,” he said.
"Temporarily! What do you mean?"
demanded the premier.
"I mean that we have only begun to
attack!” declared Westerllng. He liked
that sentence. It sounded like the
shibboleth of a great leader In a crisis.
"I shall assault again to-morrow
night."
"Then your losses were not heavy?”
"No, not relatively. To-morrow night
we press home the advantage we
gained to-night.”
“But you have been so confident
each time. You still think that —”
"That I mean to win! There Is r
stopping half-way.”
"Well, I'll still try to hold the situa
tion here,” replied the premier. "But
keep me Informed."
Drugged by his desperate stubborn
ness, Westerling was believing In Ills
star again when he returned to the
library. All the greater his buccosb for
being won against skepticism and
fears! He summoned his chiefs of
divisions, who came with the news
that the Browns had taken the very
redoubt from which the head of the
Gray charge had started; but there
they had stopped.
"Of course! Of course they stopped!”
exclaimed Westerling. "They are not
mad. A few are not going to threw
themselves against superior numbers
"A Whole Brigade Mine! 1 Live."
—our superior numbers beaten by our
own panic! Lanstron la not a fool.
You'll And the Browns back In their
old position, working ltke beavers to
make new defenses tn the morning.
Meanwhile, we ll get that mob of ours
Into shape and And out what made
them lose their nerve. To-morrow
night we shall have as many more be
hind them. We are going to attack
again!"
The staff exchanged glancea of
amaxeraent. and Turcas. his dry voice
crackling like parchment, exclaimed:
Attack again? At the same point?"
Yes the one place to attack!" said
Westerling. "The rest of our line has
abundant reserves: a needless num
ber for anything but the offensive.
We’ll leave enough to hold and draw
oft the rest to Engadlr at once.
"But their dirigibles! A surprising
number of them are over our lines,"
Helltnl, the chief of Intelligence had
the temerity to say
"You v 111 send our planes and dirig
ibles to bring down theirs!" Wester
ling commanded.
”1 have -every last one; but they
outnumber us!" persisted Bellini.
"Sven In retreat they can see. The
air has cleared so that considerable
bodies of troops in motion will be read
ily discernible from high altitudes. The
reason for our failure last night was
that they knew our plan of attack.”
"They knew! They knew, after all
our precautions! There is still a leak!
To be cofitiuued tomorrow
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
Speaking
... THE ...
Public Mind
PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF LAND.
I To The Herald:
Your correspondent of Tuesday who
signs himself "P. O. L.,” wishes to be
drawn into an argument on the ques
tion of the ethics of the private own
ership of land. His contention, as set
out, is that there Is no Justification
for holding land as private property.
He says: “We are all equally en
titled to life. The use of the earth Is
essential to life. Ergo, we are all
equally entitled to the use of the
earth. The appropriation of any part
of it to individual use, without com
pensation to those who are excluded,
is a dimunllion and denial of the
! right to life."
This is a perfectly sound argument
|if we grant the premises. The fault
' lies in the major j>remlse. Have we
all, Indeed, an equal right to life? j
What does he mean by a “right” to j
life? Answer me that. If lie doesn’t
I nov what It means, then ho doesn't
know what he is arguing about.
Have we a “right” to anything
whatever? Do we not have to establish
'in- "right” by showing our fitness to
maintain, or hold on to, the thing
which we claim?
As far as your correspondent’s ar
gument goes, we all have an equal
right to be a great novelist. But no
body would grant that. We have to
show our ability before we can claim
the right.
And we have to establish our capa
bility to keep alive before we can '
claim the right to live.
Being able to take of the fruits and
goods of the earth enough to feed and
clothe ourselves is a part of the power
we must have.
The weak dies and the strong will
live.
A thousand forces, cold, lightning,
earthquake, pestilence and decay aro
constantly tending to overwhelm us.
We have to fight against these and
prevail in order to avoid death. We
must find food, we must build houses
and cover ourselves with cloth. We
must resist the thousandfold attacks
of elemental nature. Then, and only
then, we have a right to live. And the j
acquisition of land In private hands, I
in the course of this natural selection i
of the Fit, is inevitable.
The surplus energy, the superior j
strength which some of us have, cn- |
ahles us to build up bulwarks against j
the hostile forces that are always |
striving to pull us down.
We are able tn wrest from nature
more than we need, and we stow this
away and save It for a rainy day.
Thus property accumulates. Each
man pays to the others: “I’ll help you
protect yours if you'll help me pro-
I tect mine.” Thus private property
comes to exist. Each man has a
j “right” to his own share, Insomuch as
!he was able to take it from the un
friendly clutch of nature In the first
place. Nobody denies the right of
private property. That land should j
have become private property was In
evitable from the first time the first i
man built himself a house with a
fence around it to keep out the j
wolves. Who would deny his right to
live in It if he could defend it. What .
If all the land in the world Is now
taken up. Have the people who first
claimed it, and who have been strong
enough to build up laws to secure it, i
no right to it? Life Is a battle, and :
those who have the advantage shall !
prevail. The strongest will survive.
Not that l mean to have establish- j
ed any semblance of a VESTED
RIGHT that the strong have over the ;
weak. For there Is no such thing as i
right. Might is right.
J. T. C.
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