Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-11-04


the battery The drivers brother. both
OF them being In the battery. called ON
him 10 pun up but the driver gruuted
back that not oven FOR hin brother him
nclf would he pull up at that crisis. a
moment later he was put TO the tcat for
~ admit hardly spoke the word before
u droppln' sheli
A little risht the battery an between
the section fell,
An when the smoke 'ad cleared away
before the timber wheels
There lay the drivers brother. with ~
cad between 'iu 'ecls,
Then scz the drivers brother an his
words was very plain.
For Gawds own sake get oyer me. an
put me out o pain"
They uaw Ia wounds was mortal. an
they Judged that 10 was best,
SO they took an drove the timber
straight across hiu back an chest
The driver e give nothln' 'ccpt a little
coughln' grunt
But 70 swung " 'orses 'andsome. when
u come 10 action front"
An " one wheel was juicy, you may
lay your Monday head
Twas iucior Tor the nlFgrrs when the
case begin 10 uprcad.
The moral OF this otory. Il Is plainly To
De seen.
You 'avcnt got no famlilcs when ahry
In uf tho Queen.
You 'aycn't got no brothers. fathers.
sistcrr. wives o. sons.
II you want Co win your battles take
an work your bluomln gunh
The "hloomin' guns are the main rc.
lance of the British against foes who
must light ut close quarters W they
nght az all The BorrH who. the Eng
liah admit knocked as silly AZ mile Do
are another proposition. but still Il has
always been the contention that the
Boor victory az Maiuha I'm could never
have been won II the British artillery
had been brought mp, This time Great
| britain IN sending battery after battery
| To the front We eau sec, then. that
| Kipling u expressing the opinions NJ
the headquarters as wen an OF the
camp In "Screw-Guns," a poem with a
/ peculiar Interest at this time The old
nun captain glorines himself and hiH
| guns 10 the extent Of half dozen
verses IN one Of which he tells tho
whole story by saying;
| They sends as along whore the roads
are, but mostly We 10 where thty
amt
Wed climb up the side OF slgnboard
an trust 10 the suck Of the paint
We've ohlvicd the Maya and Eaouhni,
we've give the Afcedeemnn ITS,
| For We fancioa ourselves at two thou
sand, We guns that are built In two
bits.
TO which the chorus. sung by the en-.
tire gun crow. ~ about AS boastful and
arrogant an assertion of the power OF
batteries against foes not well provided
with them AZ could well be conceived
but KipllnE is doubtless expressing ali
| Of British military opinion when he puts
into the battcr's mouth:
| For you all love the acrcw-guns, the
scrcw-guna they all love you.
| So whom we call round with a few guns.
of course you will know what 70 do
hool hoo
| Just send In your chief an surrender
RS worse n you nght or you runs.
| You may hide In your cayea--theyll be
only your gravcH-fur you can't yet
away from the guns,
The last picture In this British war
| panorama Is that Of the old, disabled
and discharged soldier. whose mlHeries
arc told In "a Shillin' a Day"
Ny name Is oltelly rvo heard the
From Burr to Barely, from Leeds to
! Lahore,
Hong Kong and Pcshawur
| Lucknow and Etuwah.
! An hfty five moro AN ondln' In pore"
Black Death an his qulckncss. the
depth and the thickness
! OF sorrow ana sickness I've known on
my way.
, but I'm old and I'm nervls,
: I'm east from the service,
And all l deserve IS shlllln' q day
"A ahillln' day" In the money of tho
United States Is somewhat lass than the
smallest pension paid the great ma
I lnfity OF pensioners here. According
/ 20 the narrative, however. O'Nelly was
! a Troop Sergeant Major. and the pen.
sion 10 that grade In the British army
is considerably higher than that paid
20 privates, The mass OF pensioners
OF the English army receive what M
nearly equivalent IN our money, to 50
a month, and there are not a few got
TING less than 81 per month. The Brit
J lah soldier 10 not 70 well paid as the
AmsrieAn.--sL Louis GLOBE Democrat.