The scene is a village on the outskirts of Muelhausen, in Alsace. A lieutenant of German scouts dashes up to the door of the only inn in the village, posts men at the doorway and entering, seats himself at a table. He draws his saber and places it on the table at his side and orders food in menacing tones. The village waiter is equal to the occasion. He goes to the stables and fetches a pitchfork and places it at the other side of the visitor. "Stop! What does this mean?" roared the lieutenant, furiously. "Why," said the waiter, innocently, pointing to the saber, "I thought that was your knife, so I brought you a fork to match." DECORATED ON THE BATTLEFIELD On a train loaded with wounded which passed through Limoges, September 11, was a young French officer, Albert Palaphy, whose unusual bravery on the field of battle won for him the Legion of Honor. As a corporal of the Tenth Dragoons at the beginning of the war, Palaphy took part in the violent combat with the Germans west of Paris, In the thick of the battle the cavalryman, finding his colonel wounded and helpless, rushed to his aid. Palaphy hoisted the injured man upon his shoulders, and under a rain of machine gun bullets carried him safely to the French lines. That same day Palaphy was promoted to be a sergeant. Shortly afterward, although wounded, he distinguished himself in another affair, leading a charge of his squad against the Baden guard, whose standard he himself captured. Wounded by a ball which had plowed through the lower part of his stomach and covered with lance thrusts, he was removed from the battlefield during the night, and learned he had been promoted to be a sublieutenant and nominated chevalier in the Legion of Honor. This incident of decorating a soldier on the battlefield recalls Napoleonic times. "AFTER YOU," SAID THE FRENCHMAN Lieutenant de Lupel of the French army is said to have endeared himself to his command by a most unusual exhibition of what they are pleased to term "old-fashioned French gallantry." Accompanied by a few men, Lieutenant de Lupel succeeded in surrounding a German detachment occupying the station at Mezières. The lieutenant, on searching the premises, came upon the German officer hiding behind a stack of coal. Both men leveled their guns, and for a moment faced each other. "After you," finally said the Frenchman courteously. The German fired and missed and Lieutenant de Lupel killed his man. The French soldiers cheered their leader, and he has been praised everywhere for his action. A "WALKING WOOD" AT CRECY A correspondent describes a "walking wood" at Crecy. The French and British cut down trees and armed themselves with the branches. Line after line of infantry, each man bearing a branch, then moved forward unobserved toward the enemy. Behind them, amid the lopped tree trunks, the artillerymen fixed themselves and placed thirteen-pounders to cover the moving wood.