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EIGHT rnewsrsnoT- Ocywr/OYf/?/?; ow/SiAJ jrtßmf/fOjaw FREDERICK PALMER yOk • > <>iw' - / !j!uk‘¥v^runofflw^E!lß^4ll^B^k 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. WHATTO SAVE IN THE HERALD’S M. & M. CONTEST For further information, call at Contest Headquarters. 213 McCartan street or telephone 1200. LIBT OF MERCHANTS WHOSE SALES SLIPS ARE GOOD FOR VOTES: M. A. Bates Co. Stark French Dry Cleaning Co. Economy Shoe Company. Castleberry & Wilcox. Golden Bros. L. J. SchauL Better Ice Cream Company. Geo. H. Baldowskl, Jr. Maxwell Bros. O’Connor-Schweers. B. A. Dial. B. K. Tant. L. P. Bpcth. Panther Springs Water Company. Burdell-Cooper Company. LIST OF PRODUCTSi Alalia Syrup labels. Brookfield Butter cartons. Swift's Arrow Borax Soap wrappera Swift's Pride Washing Powder oar ton. Uueen Regent Toilet Soap cartona Piedmont. Fatima or Chesterfield cigarette coupons. Maxwell House Blend Ccffee labels Maxwell House Blend Tea labels. Ring's Elegant Flour bags. Sensation Flour lings. 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For cramps and summer complaint It cannot he beet.” Flir sale by all Dealers. Hart Schaffner * Marx Suita, the ha«t made, tie* F. Q. Mert’ns. 1 FARMERS ATTENTION! COTTON IS AN INVESTMENT IT’S CHEAPER TO BUY COTTON AT PRESENT PRICES THAN RAISE IT The Augusta Herald is printing daily a re markable series of special articles by its travel ing Staff Correspondent, Walter E. Duncan, who is covering for .The Herald the Cotton Holding Movement throughout South Carolina and Georgia. t THESE ARTICLES MEAN MONEY TO YOU They put you in daily touch with all the news of the War and of the Cotton Situation, which means your situation at the present time. Leased wire reports keep you informed of all Foreign news, the news of the Markets, and the news of the War. FOR YOUR OWN PROTECTION YOU NEED the news of the Markets, the day’s news and the news of the War which has so important an ef fect upon the business conditions and the trade of the world. 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