The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-03-11

England VIII teach Pharaoh how to
play, are all the arts and industries. all
the institutions, all the religion and
politics, all the steamships and rail.
ways and stock exchanges Of mankind.
In this game ara included everything
from Windsor Castle and the Old Lady
Of Threadne9dle Street to the miners
hut in Wales and the British fishing
smack in the South Bay Of New Zen
land.
W. might 90 through this poem from
beginning to end, and note In almost
every Y.lse and every phrase tho pack
ing together in the space Of gun.cap
Of historical facts and principles as IL
under the pressure of five hundred at
mospheTes. Take for example the do
scription Of the conditions under which
Pharaoh was & ID from mud to
manhood.
There was heat ands and coolis work
andsun,
There we're vlpors, aies and sandstorms,
thore was cholera and thi
But Pharaoh done the best liver done.
It Is not every poet VIII O.Can take such
a liberty as that while compresEihg
into two verse; the whole landscape
%maleyolence Of nature, visitation OF di-
sease. and cruelty af man.
Mr.. Kipling's p~hraseology is the most
graphic and powerful with which We
are acquainted. His words have an In
d%escribable momentum His audacity
leads him to the use Of language which
can only be snatched from the diction
airy Of slang by somes Sol. of.geniuswho Is
able to doit. Kipling says that Phara-
oh shall be taught to-
Maxim his oppFessor as a christian ought
to do.
In the word Maxim Is hidden the
whole evolution Of firearms from tbo
mousquet Of the French hawker (mous
quet means a falcon0 to the highest
development Of the KagJorgensssn
rife that will drive its missile through
thirty inches Of oak. Pharaoh Is 70
maxim his oppressori In KiplingB
hand the proper noun vaults over among
common verbs and dispenses history
and christianity in one volley
All through the poem this marvel.
lous use Of language, freighted with the
essence Of things and the live
blood Of thought bubbles and PUSHES
and flames along tina page ID currents
. electrical fire, Kipling can say any
thing he can force into his expressions
description and philosophy and poetry,
until his.phrase fairly bursts win H.
Yehemence behind IL. Describing
the process BY which the nameIes5
drill-masteF conve-tsd Eie
mud into q riheman, KipH1g says:
The Sergeant gave the CT ltlons. and Be
combed old Pharaoh out.
the hands ofa weakIirg Chat wonld
merely ~vulgarity. but when We per.
Sergeant W~hatisname far an in
desert working his unpromising
by laborious manipulation into
similitude Of d British soldier. what
ihould We say but that he eombed Old
Pharaoh QUIT Further on the poet says
# the Sergeant that
He drilled a black man White "
made a mummy aght-
is perhaps the most marvellous
.xample Of raising thedead 81 RECORD.
MOI may we fail tai observe the AVA.
nendous blows whicl Kipling deliver
p the policy Of GreaB Britain n tbe
ast He drives hose with doubled
st into the stupid. ef3gasbrium 81 prit.
" polltlcs and IL 1hat monster have
Y tnls time recovered bis breath. IL *
my Dy q spasmodic gasp. OF Che neg
'cton the part Of treat Britain 81 hSr
eIolc defenders il the east, Kipling
y England's wy 3 doing business:
shewOuld serve her God 81 roraon 49, ~
samei
1r she thinks her empire sim isthe strsad
and uolborn am,
she didH't think q serteaBt wh.tis.
name.
Again he says
England used ON clf yriom
the start.
And finally in the III
2 are Eating dirt IN ia
our daily Bread,
fnich W have TO buy 4om thoss tt-t
hate as most,
~ we must not raise Cha m,.. tr-
Sergeant raised tile deaf
ma IT'S wrong and bad AMI 5
boast.
a. " w Sergeant who wrought thg
Y efeating On army 81 raliant
s.gts IN o4 the dirty degtiernfe 81.
.nls y 09pis and Fellahs England
lever cared for him. Killing svs
ie WI stu continue eergoa whst,
ofal oelour-sergeant and w.
snues
u vel worth while Coz ono II tiap.
l45 and buy hoaEa and ssasv
Una reject on the nature of fhsnea
W. aa5at himself with tie H1elll.
Y aAa military conditions IS che
III NJ other purpose Cham
KUN himself 70 st down faf + Nfe
end read anil rareag Ph.f
" sergeant with the falI
that he viii and 90 The m0
enc gfFphie pogtieal afnor
i4ines tiIat ias parhaua
the memory 0f maa
kfsHiug d