Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 12, 1915, Page 8

| By MARTHA v. MCNOE ‘When Stephen Yardiey returned from Europe he brought » dog with hiw | The animal was evidently not of a; breed that would enable bim to take a prize in a dog show, and since, Yardiey was rich and always nud the! best that money conid buy there was some curiosity amoung bhis friends to know why the beast had taken bis fancy. This was enhiuced by noticiug that Yardley ied the dug down the, gangway bimselt and on leaving the dock took bim With nim o e car | riage. | “What did you pay for him*" usked @ friend. “Five thousand dollars.” “Five thousand dolinrs"" “Yes, and ten thousand wouldu't buy bim.” “There must be sumething about him that is not discernible to the eye. What .it? “I'll tell you. | was iv Paris when the great European war broke out. In deed, for the past few years I've been more in Paris than at home. Well, you know we Americans in ’aris organized an American corps to join In the dis pute between the allies and Germans. 1 enlisted—why | don't exactly know. The United States remained neutral, | and 1 suppose we should have remain- | ed neutral, but wedidu't. We went into it the way most men volunteer in war- time—to be in the excitement. “Anyway, we formed a corps and after a certain amount of lra(nlngl were marched to the front. You re member that there was a lot of fighting | in a wood near the center of the line. | 1 was fighting one day in the wood | ‘when we suddenly came upon a lot of Germans, and a Nvely scrimmage fol- lowed. Our fellows were driven back, and 1, shot in the body. was left on the fleld. The Germans didn't know | that they bad licked us or, fearing an embush or sowething, retreated. “Well, there | was, deserted by | friend and foe. left to bleed to death | in a wood. Night came on, and the | borror and loneliness were enough to kil a man without his dylug of a wound. Fortunately the cold weather bad not yet come on, and | didn't suffer with the cold. It was a relief to see the day coming, for it brought a hope that there would be more fighting in the wood and | would be within the | Hnes of eltber one side or the otber. “But the firing that began with dawn seemed tu recede rather than ap- proach. | had notbing to sustain me either of food or drink. | crawled to- ward the nearest dead body—a Ger- man—and tried to find some sustenance on bim, but there was neither a crust of bread nor a swallow of water. | erawied on a little farther to a dead Frenchman and found some bread and a fask of wine. “If it badn't been for these I would bave perished, for I lay there all that day and another night. 1 had stuffed @ part of my shirt into my wound, and 1t choked up the bleeding, but 1 didn’t dare draw a long breath for fear of starting the bemorrhage again. While 1 was intent on myself and my dread- ful condition incidents about me were ever present. The birds that had been frightened awey by the firing returned and were tlitting in the branches above me. lnsects were buzzing. attending to their dally affairs, unmindful that a human being was gradually sinking to death. “Finally 1 fell into a stupor. 1 didn"t know whether It was night or day and 1 dido’t care. 1 heard a distant boom- ing, but that was going on all the while. 1 heard the bark of a dog and had 1 been in a better condition might have especially noticed it. The bark sounding nearer, | made an effort to arouse myself. When it was close by me 1 opened my eyes and there was the dog looking at me and barking. “Pretty soon he scampered off, bark- ing as be ran; then | could hear him drawing nearer again. But I was too weak to take much notice of bim. He Was gune so long that I forgot all about bim. But after awhile 1 heard bis bark again far away, but drawing | mearer. The next thing I knew 1 felt a hand on my wrist. Opening my eyes, there was a man with a red cross on bis arm kneeling beside me. “As 80on as be knew that 1 lived he gave a call, and assistance came. | was put on a stretcher and carried to the rear, where | was placed in a hos- pital and received proper attention. “As soon as | got well enough to think of anything except myself 1 ask- ed about the dog that had saved me 1 wus told that he was one of the dogs that had been trained to hunt for the wounded. He had gone off into the wood where | lay and had come back barking and indicating that he wished to be followed. A man was sent with bim and found me very near death’s door. Probably another hour without attention would have finished me. “1 asked to see the dog, and he was brought in to me. When | offered to buy bim | was told that the Red Cross dogs were not for sale. Then 1 agreed to subscribe $1.000 to the Red Cross fund in exchunge for him. My offer did not produce any effect till | ratsed it to $5.000. Then by some hocus po- cus the Red Cross managers got around the selling of one of thelr dogs for money. and my offer was accepted. | “And now you know why I have! brought home a dog that originally ‘was bought for perhaps £5 or $10, hav- ng pald $5.000 for nim And Yardley hugged his pet. | (Furnished by the Security Abstract Land SecuritienOo. - and Title Go., Bartow, Fla.) | N. J. Robertson and husband to | Western and Florida Land Co. Malloy & Miller to W. J. Howey. W. M. Dilsaver and wife to J. C. Rabon. Dilsaver. SAVE YOUR MONEY AND WAIT! 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