Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1918 — Conservation Under Fire. [ARTICLE]

Conservation Under Fire.

I know of nothing more strange than the usual conversations in which one Indulges at the front in the heat of battle. Recently I was racing down a road to get out from under heavy shell fire, falling on my face every five or ten yards as a whistling scream announced a fresh arrival. A panting lieutenant caught step with me. “Do you know So-and-So?” he gasped, “l'es,” I replied as a shell whirred down out of the sky and we both fell flat on our faces. “Where is he now?” he continued as the sound of the explosion died away and We rose, running together. “I think he’s in Paris,” I an-, swered, and even as I spoke rolled flat with him in a muddy ditch as another shell screamed down and broke nearby. And thus we continued our way for several hundred yards, discussing our friend and his characteristics between dives into the mud. —William. Slavens McNutt, in-Colller’s Weekly.