llowed behind
these half-starved, half-naked soldiers, first a fleeing army, then a
mighty horde of discouraged tramps, then corraled and organized and
under guard. The road was pock-marked with shell holes, which were being
filled by laboring soldiers, first with Austrian dead, then stones, then
earth. The way was strewn with weapons and clothing and blankets and
helmets and love tokens and overturned trucks and cannon and dead horses
and dead men.

"The weak and famished died by the roadside or gorged themselves on the
dead artillery horses or those ridden to death by fleeing cavalry and
officers. Their hunger appeased, many sat in the sun, naked to the waist
ridding themselves of vermin or lay in exhausted stupor. The stench was
as revolting as the picture.

"Such was the panorama all the way from Tonale Pass east, to Fucina,
Male, Cles, Bolzano and south to Trent and Rovereto and along the Piave
to the sea.

"Now, if you will pardon personal allusions, I will tell you how I was
wounded and how I obtained the Croce di Guerra. I--, etc. I--, etc," (We
will omit the account.)

* * * * *

As John Calhoun now called himself a Republican, his residence at
Richmond in a congressional district normally Democratic, did not suit
his political ambitions; so in December, following Governor Morrow's
election, he removed to Pineville in the Eleventh Congressional
District, which was overwhelmingly Republican, and for a lawyer a better
business location than Richmond.

He built a very handsome, brick residence on one of the foothills of
Pine Mountain overlooking the little, mountain city and the broad valley
in the bend of the Cumberland.

He felt satisfied that after a couple of years' residence in Pineville
he could procure the nomination for Congress, which was equivalent to an
election.

The change of residence he found perfectly satisfactory from every
standpoint, but Mrs. Rosamond Clay Saylor was not satisfied. She closed
one of their very common wrangles, and she usually closed such bouts,
by saying: "Well, John Calhoun, you have grown very arbitrary and
headstrong since your experiences in the World War. I shall acquiesce
since most of my time will be taken up on the lecture platform,
advocating woman suffrage. I suppose I can find the place bearable
during the heated term if you make yourself a little more agreeable. I
wish I had married your brother-in-law, John Cornwall, when he