Miscellaneous articles from the Richmond Times Dispatch, Oct. 20, 1918:

FIGHTING PADRE WORKS HARD ALONG ONE OF GASSED ROADS

Makes Record Driving Ambulance Ten Hours Over Shell-Swept Highway

PARIS, October 19—Ten hours ambulance driving over a road swept by gas shell fire was the record made by Rev. Father T. J. O’Connell of St. Jose, Cal., a volunteer Knights of Columbus chaplain serving with one of the National Army divisions over here.

It happened recently on a "quiet sector" of the front, when the Boche succeeded in putting over a surprise mustard gas attack on a division which was in the line for the first time. Many of the Yanks were affected by the noxious fumes and because of the absence of previous Teutonic activity in that sector few ambulances were there to handle the casualties.

Chaplain O’Connell had a small camion in which he made the rounds of that sector, accompanied by two Knights of Columbus men, who were working with the troops in the field. He volunteered the car and his services as a driver when he heard of the gas attack, and with a gas mask and helmet on all the time, he worked with the regular army ambulance men, taking the victims to the hospitals some miles at the rear of the lines. The two Knights of Columbus secretaries assisted as stretcher-bearers.

The fighting padre insisted on working until all the wounded had been taken from the field, and then he went into the hospitals, where he gave the spiritual needs of the boys of his own faith his attention.

Heaven

(Found in the pocket of Captain T. P. C. Wilson, killed in action.)

Suddenly one day

The last ill shall fall away.

The last little beastliness that is in our blood

Shall drop from us as the sheath drops from the bud,

And the great spirit of man shall struggle through

And spread huge branches underneath the blue.

In any mirror, be it bright or dim,

Man will see God, staring back at him.

-----Westminster Gazette