being 1,800 yards there was Uttl* chance agr.lrst !he opposing artillery The Freucli troops were accordingly MISSING 23 YEARS, swung back to positions from which they could see the Germans approach Ing over exposed ground. HE RETURNS RICH Front Reduced to Nino Mile*. "The effect was that the immediate front of the attack, which wus orie.l to Seek a lially twenty-live miles in extent, was Prange Left Family reduced to nine miles, hut even this soon proved tins wide. Tiie Germ. i Fortune lo the West Great German Offensive Re- Eyewitnesses Describe Scenes losses were so great that the at tael could not lie up at all points. sulted In Loss of Thousands Behind the Lines of kept Teuton "On Friday, tiie critical day. the from of Lives on Both Sides. and French Trenches. was reduced to six miles and then t< FALL INJURED HIS MEMORY live. On Monday. Feb. “N. the offen the tradition that new ' Although sive dwindled to fragmentary attacks members of like congress, children, The of tin to following description On Recovering He Was Ashamed should be seen and not heard, is not German offensive, resulting cleared. From sky my high vantap. French retreat from Ornes. six miles and at Last now as it was in in Write, but Prospered respected former the battle of Verdun, has I saw before me the row was s point entire northeast of Verdun, given by and do freshmen of the house been called mili- Decided to Return—Found Wife days, rarely by competent of heights, from Fort Douaumont t( wounded French soldier who was it tn&ke such an impression within a THEtary critics the bloodiest battle the Cote de the mnin fort reft Two Grown Children—Happy Family Froide. the engagement: sreek of their arrival as did in the of all the world. Wheth- line north of Repre- history Verdun. “On tiie -1st we started giving ground Reunion Results. sentative Venable of a er this be an or not. cer- the Mississippi, exaggeration “Here principal battle raged. Ou> with the Germans at our heels. Nt young man elected to suc- as men were as tire Frederick C. Prange was reunited recently tainly many employed heavy lay upon it. One could sec sooner had we traversed Ornes. firms eeed the late Wither- in any other The methods at Conn., Representative struggle. the giant black clouds of the big call as we went and taken the road to Mon with his family Stamford, spoon. of slaughter were more highly devel- bered given guns rise like enormous trees court than otir artillery oiiened ori tin the other day after having been Rising to answer an attack a oped, and the issue at stake was all im- The by firing and fall of our heavy shell: advancing Germans. I've seen sornt up as dead for twenty-three years. Texas Democrat upon the president’s portant. could be clearly followed. The masse: bloody fighting in this war. but they When he went away he was poor. He advocacy of preparedness, young Ven- The Germans, after having leveled of smoke that developed showed when were only sham battles compared will comes back rich and with a story as delivered a the French trenches hours of ar- iable speech that placed by fires had been caused. Behind For this conflict. Shell after shell ripper as a scenario. Slim at once among the orators tillery lire in which the great 42 centi- strange moving picture great Douaumont. too, pillars of smoke seem gaps in the German lines. ■of and meter guns an Prange was in business in a small congress earned him the siege played important, od to signify the advance of the battii of Democrats and part, sent regiment after regiment of Advanced Lines way in Stamford in 1893. He had lived jplaudits Republicans beyond this height that was now firmly Twenty Deep. iallke. their best troops into the mouths of our there all his life and was well known in hands. “As our seventy-fives flamed dealt One of his the French seventy-fives. The French, lived illustrations, empha- “On the front ridge of the height: against the oncoming, close packed bat and highly respected. Prange the benefits of unable to withstand the force of the sizing preparedness, is west of Douaumont numerous flashes lines the with his wife and two children—Elita, Teuton under talions, twenty deep, corpses Still being repeated in the cloakrooms. great drive, executed the caused by the enemy’s shrapnel wer* were piled up in mounds. We were sc eighteen, and Charles, twenty—at that It has been supervision of the German crown my pleaure during my observable, leading to the deductior near them that fragments of bloody time in a comfortable home. he “to prince, cautiously withdrew several lifetime,” said, be intimately that one of our infantry attacks wa: flesh, from human bodies torn asundei In the fall of that year the wander- Sand miles and established new positions personally acquainted with two dogs. One of them was a little rat proceeding. fell us. lust seized him. He believed a for- nearer the of Verdun, which by exploding shells, among Merrier who had a little over city ap- tail curled his back like a corkscrew. “Guns of all calibers roared about “That we in Moncourt tune awaited him in the west. Final- parently was the objective of this of- night spent “That little dog's life was one long sad wail of He was kicked me. The also extended towarc his misery. fensive movement. firing under the ghastly radiance of stai ly he answered the call, telling !by every nan he met and whipped by every dog he ran across. I knew the southwest, over the fortification: which that he would communicate For days the fighting continued with shells, tiie Germans fired coutin family ^another dog, a magnificent gentleman of his race. His head reared great unabated fury. The kaiser himself uously. with them later. ritself above his shoulders as the head of a lion. He was thewed and Months and noth- went to the front for several days. The “Under the lurid glow of these passed they heard .sinewed like a gladiator, and his curved forelegs and stanch haunches The into spoke full story of this battle will never be bombs the bloody battlefield was ing. months lengthened years, fof tremendous strength. He lived his life and men. I and still no came. respected by dogs told. After the war we shall shown with its I saw lonj: tidings Advertise- •owned perhaps carnage. him for five years and I caressed him when I felt like him. ments were kicking know the total number of men lost, lines of German dead, where machine inserted in newspapers all He was a prince of the house a of his kind and he fWhy? royal, gladiator but how they died, what their suffer- gun volleys or shells had torn throng!, over the country without avail. Then •was prepared. ings were, the fate of their bodies, will the ranks. the conclusion was forced upon the “As a result, he lived his life in peace, with all his institutions intact that was dead. He was never be known. Those heart touching “All tiie while the guns in tiie Ver family Prange land his personal and property rights thoroughly mourned as such. respected.” forts kept up a continuous bom tnrdment against the German posi Suffered Partial Aphasia. Meantime Prange was encountering strange He went first to , M’CREARY LIFE experiences. QUITS PUBLIC Chicago, then to Denver. In Colorado he became interested in gold mining After thirty-two of his seventy and started to prospect He was so five years spent in public serviea engrossed in his surroundings that he James B. McCreary, who recently re' forgot to write home. tired from the governorship of Ken- One day while riding along a lonely tucky, announces that he is through trail his horse stumbled and threw with public office. him on his head. For weeks he was Mr. McCreary served six years in a hospital with brain fever. When In the Kentucky legislature and was he finally emerged he suffered from elected governor of the state in 1875 partial aphasia. His mind for months when he was thirty-two years old. was a blank. After that he was elected to the It was a long time before Frange house of representatives, where he fully recovered. Then, ashamed to served twelve years, and then was write home, he plunged farther into Photo by American Press Association. transferred to the other end of the the west. He took up mining in Cali- fornia and capitol as a United. States senator. A “BUST BERTHA,” OR GERMAN 12 CEN prospered. TIMETER SIEGE Within For several years after the expira- GUN. the past few years his ac- tion of his senatorial was a tivities have centered about Dos An- term he ou the opposite side of the Meuse. In to geles, where he made a fortune. private citizen, only enter again the direction of Vaeherauville the ar Still he the field as a candidate for delayed writing to his He political tillery tire of the enemy appeared to family. and he is the man on believed his wife and children dead. governor, only occupy itself almost with exclusively Then a record who was twice came longing to know. He elected gov- the foremost line and seemed power- decided to go east. ernor of Kentucky after a long lapse less against the German artillery firing of Prange arrived in New York. So years. from the rear. my -* During long stay sure I was he that his was dead look back on my first cam- in not a family the neighborhood single shell that ipaign for governor with a deal of he went at once to the great pleasure,” said Governor McCreary. fell there. I could see Verdun with the family '“It was that that to burying plot in the Hackensack campaign probablj’ gave the United State Supreme naked eye. A large church was the most (N. J.) nourt bench one of Its most and valuable members. cemetery. No new graves were there. respected My opponent feature. means of GENERAL. FRENCH COMMANDS! prominent By glass- HUMBERT, He then visited a to that fight was John Marshall Harlan. Not after the election I had the AT VERDUN. brother-in-law, Wil- long es fires could be discerned in the town. liam of Huyler, in New York and from -opportunity recommending that President Hayes appoint Harlan to the Photo by American Press Association. “I talked with some of our men who, tions. was him learned court So terrific the cannonade that his wife and children .^Supreme bench.” after several days of attacking, had THE GERM4.N CROWN PRINCE. that the blood poured from our ears were stiil in Stamford. The daughter been withdrawn to the rear to get rest and noses from the concussion. is Mrs. Henry J. Flick, wife of a little details have all been buried related how had pho- by They laughingly they “Far was heard the continuous tographer there. She now has a the continual rain of millions of away daugh- shells always gone farther than they had as old crash of exploding projectiles as they ter as was Prange’s daughter SAVES INDIAN BABIES and bullets. But some idea of the in- beeD ordered to go. On one occasion fell upon the German lines, and still when he went away. The son is Dr. of the be had one tensity struggle may they had been told to take hill, bul Charles a from farther away in the distance the big Prange, prosperous dentist. A the stories told by those who took Instead carried in succes- unique baby-saving campaign they three The wife, son and and who German guns were replying with a daughter were launched by Cato commissioner part have returned to Ger- sion. had now had a welcome Sells, They roar communicated and all and France from the steady of thunder.” with, three hur- tof Indian affairs, is attracting the at- many battle front. wash, eaten well and slept well and ried to New York. Prange met them, tention of statesmen, were to get at it educators, One Shell Wrecks Fort. ready again. Great Gaps In Banks. and the reunited family went to Stam- churchmen and philanthropists in “The fresh appearance of the troops ford. The Berlin Tageblatt correspondent A soldier who was in the ranks fight «9very part of the country, for, Mr. and their splendid spirits astounded Prange is sixty-nine gave the following account of the re- ing at Ornes told this harrowing story: years old, and Sells declared, on the success of the me in the face of the signs of such ter- his hair is white. He duction of Fort Douaumont: “I fought since the beginning of the proposes to dis- campaign depends the survival of a rible fighting, and especially the calm, pose of all his interests "The giant block of cement and steel war. I saw the shambles at Suippes in California .Wace. clear, almost unmoving sureness with and will siK»nd the armor plate that was Douaumont lies and Souain. They were nothing tc remainder of his Commissioner Sells sent a circu- which this titanic undertaking was days In Stamford, which in ruins. A second fort not far off what I saw at Verdun. he left so lar letter to all superintendents and being carried through, almost like ma- loug ago. blew up. just as did Fort Loncin at “The Germans advanced, and we re- employees in the Indian service, neuvers.” jother Liege, as the result of a single large tired under orders, but we killed them ■irgmg them to do their utmost to save caiibered shell crashing to the Stories of French Wounded. the dozen. It was so that ELECTRICITY FROM ithe lives of through by terrible THE AIR. Indian babies. Three- ammunition magazine. narratives of the I, who have watched my comrades of the North American Indian Graphic greatest Kansas Man “The of the attack on Gets It, but What Is organization and most terrible battle in fall around me almost with indiffer- Ha bies are in on account history to Eths dying infancy the north front of Verdun was a mas- as Going Do With It? were told in Paris. Officers who had ence, shudder my memory recalls •of neglect of ordinary treat- For two sanitary terpiece in itself. Preparations of vust those scenes. years ment been to the most of them wound- Harry I’errigo of Kan- and lack of food, says Mr. Sells. extent front, sas had first to be carried out in we City, Mo., has lieen iHe ed, shuddered as recalled the “Eventually reached Moncourt striving to declared that the Indian problem from they draw complete concealment the enemy and took shelter for a time in electricity out of the air. He can •cannot be sights. the solved with Indians, and if the fight the for- get the against invincible wood. it was 3 o'clock in the currents all right. The trouble that the race came in a flood, in an endless Although Bays will become ex- tress was to succeed. “They is that he the shells as can’t take care of the iHnet unless the wave, those Teuton hordes.” said one morning, bursting made it power United States awak- “To the distances over which after he great clear as day. giving the battlefield the gets it. ens to the necessity of the officer. The Improving heavy artillery had to be taken with- a scene. other the “The French mowed them down aspect of fairy day inventor was conditions under which Indian out guus knocked children using railways were superadded unconscious twice the are torn. He directs the in heaps, but still came, pouring by employees of the Indian service to the ditliculties con- they Dead Stood In current make thorough great resulting from Groups. strong and both times a on the across the slopes in a ceaseless tide of pnlmo- Investigations reservations to which are no bad weather conse- tor they detailed and spare tinuously and the “From behind us the French artil brought him to. hater he took the efforts in teaching the doctrine of humanity. baby saving. Tribal funds are to be used quent condition of roads. Hundreds fired into the German count again. But Dr. In “The German theii lery masses, the James I. Tyree formulating the work, if necessary. of men had first to build roads. infantry began and the good German shells over our heads pulmotor soon on attack on Feb. 21. The first flying were hand, “Another of the difficulties was the Monday, and in an hour toward the Douaumont section. Then Perrigo was at work of symptom of the battle favorable to the proper laying the beds on which the our machine in again. French was the of the Ger- guns, placed batteries great guns rest and on whose firmness inability five began to and wc Perriga’s device mans to the every yards, play, resembles a wireless depends in the first Hr/! the silence French artillery. tower MIYATOVICH’S BRAVE WORDS accuracy saw the dead In groups. From Mon- connected with a of our The offensive opened with strong re- mysterious heavy gunfire. How unbeliev- court I followed the bread box and where- supply road tc numerous wires. He ably accurate was their fire is now connoitering parties advancing, Cheddo where I took the rail says his machine Miyatovich, Serbian diplo- were noted a of offi- Fleury, light already has furnish- ] known. in large proportion ed matist and poet, who visited America way toward Verdun. The enough power to an “Prisoners cers. heavy guns light eight on said that the effect of our room house. a mission from his country declares near Douaumont and Damloup were artillery was indescribably frightful. that until hope is dead Serbia will not French Work New Maneuver. firing as fast as they could be loaded. Nobody could hold out long against it.” die. “Our friends of our nation- c-ame In “When we passed between the two speak “Then the infantry great FINDS HEIR to al tragedy,” says he. “We are grateful Battle In the Lake. numbers. During the next two days points the air pressure produced by the $400,000. for their continuous was so generous sympathy. But our Another the fighting waxed fiercer and fiercer. .discharges terrific Son of Oil correspondent at the Ger- Man Located After Search tragedy has not yet seen our “At first fourteen German that blood rushed from our ears and tears, man headquarters says: corps of our Nine Years. nor shall it ever see them. were then sixteen and lungs almost ceased working.” “The Meuse valley in many places engaged, finally Keith Edwin "Our women suffer our The A combatant, who was in one of the Dalrymple, twenty-five silently; had been transformed into a b\ seventeen corps (“40,000 men). years lake old, who has beeu men die we our at this carried most advanced trenches in tin sought for silently; bear sad bur- floods. The woods on the rolling French command point early den battle of Verdun and who has to a,,out silently. Meuse sown out a maneuver which will be recorded return- ion *}0°.o°o heights, everywhere with tiV 1,7 Vfa ,flpir 8 “Yet our in ed to I’aris wounded, says: !,or’ oil tragedy is illumined barbed are mown as a masterpiece military history. onerafor Pennsylvania by wire entanglements, peratoi, was taken to the of had “At dawn we received ordors to Charles City light hope. We lost, in honest down by artillery. The hattlegroun : The German movements been and “• all the our cover of in leave the trench to retire to a * *»• struggle, territory of king- is distorted by explosions. The cap- made under the woods, °S: in fcJr com- the Vaux j dom which we raised up from ruins tured French trenches, which lmd un- ravines and patiently prepared strong position woods, :S 8 ®ephcw of faithful love of If the front of Douaumont Bending wi W Palm- by national inheri- dergone a severe bombardment, had municating trenches. French low, er^aJiii i'e the with retired the three or four tance, by self-sacrificing efforts of been very extensively developed, but had tried to keep in touch the kilometers the snow without much generation after generation. But in showed signs of less secure construc- enemy they would have been more or through loss. “Once in the new trenches we this the darkest hour of our country’s tion than ours. less In the dark and the operation of could not hear one another so history we have not lost faith in God “Contrary to assertions which have their own artillery greatly hampered. speak, gn at hospital in of the and his justice; we have not lost faith been made, the heavy snowstorm did “If the Germans had been only fif was the noise cannonading, and Februily/^JrVume'rSdd when we looked the in ourselves, in our allies or in hu- not stop the progress of the battle in teen yards away the French could have through periscopes we could see inanity; we have not lost faith in the the degree. Our artillery con- been by the attack, provid- only heavy clouds of -;-- slightest submerged 110 wUI be progress of the world, were Mnoke shutting out the sky with and , cared for perpetual moving ceaselessly onward, though some- tinued to fire uninterruptedly through ed the attacking forces prepared jets "» through bitter rivers of of fire flashing through the «' U. times blood, sometimes the ruins of national reputa- the veil of snow. Toward midday the | to make any sacrifice, but the distance snowflakes.” future tions and of once-vaunted civilizations.”