The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-01-02

sdHlUS marching up into Nepaul, so
five hundred of them got their Martini's
and Rukries and prepared to hold the
mountain pass-even the only road.
Well, when Greek meets Greek, etc.
For three days and four nights the
two forces rammed and jammed up
and down the pass, hacking each other
into small moist pieces. Of course
they were not fighting all the time:
sometime there was lull in the battle
that the men might eat and rest. 1t
was during one Of these temporary
respites that the English astonished
the little Ghoorkas by their strange
actions; for lo and behold, they
brought a round black ball out on a
level place in the English camp and
proceeded to kick it, all of them together.
And after they had kicked it to one
end of the field they turned around and,
by MOhammed's beard! kicked it back
again.
"By Allah!" piped one little Ghoorka,
"what fools these sahibs are They
waste their strength fighting each
4athsr- g n A-ayy yasaid -s-ts.A~ HI hil4mafi with
shaggy beard, "thou seest not the
meaning of this thing. 1t is their wey
of making prayer to Allah" And they
all nodded gravely and accepted his
explanation-for they had never before
seen an English football game. So the
little Ghoorkas stood up OH their earth
works and taunted the sahibs and
wagged their heads, saying, "Why
makest thou prayers to thy gods :?
Why comest thou not up into Nepaul 2"
But the sahibs only laughed and ordered
up more artillery. That was the way
of the sahibs; they always laughed and
ordered up more artillery.
And when the artillery came the two
forces once more ranged up and down
the pass, hewing each other nightly
until every foot of the pass was stained
with blood and dented with bullets.
But the end came at last, as it always
will come when the Orient tries to
stem the tide of Anglo-Saxon civili-
zatlon, and on the dawn of the fourth
day 10000 sahibs marched over the
dead bodies of their enemies, singing.
"God Save the Queen" AS they Went
up into Nepaul and trampIed under
foot the growing grain, and fired the
outlying villages and bungalows; yes,
sweeping the land clean as they went,
even as the wind sweeps a threshing
floor.
After the war had gone on for some
time the young maharajah began to
look about for means to continue it,,
for his credit was exhausted. But he
found he could raise nothing-no, not
even one lac of rupees, for it was a
hopeless war. So he was compelled to
pledge the crown jewels to slim
Parsee gentleman from Bombay. Part
of them he pledged and part he sold
outright, and among those he sold was
the Buddha Khan. And the slim dark
Parsee went down from the hill country
with the jewel on his person, and,
without an escort. Yea, fool that he
was! So the Thugee fell upon him and
strangled him and carried away the
Nepaurs jewels, and the chief of the
Thugee took for himself the Buddha
Khan and gave the rest to his followers.
1t came about that the chief, who
was good Buddhist, fell sick unto
death. And he gave to the Buddhist
priesthood the great jewel, so that his
spirit might pass in peace to Nirvana.
The priesthood placed the gem in the
forehead of the great idol, Buddha.
And Buddha Khan abode there many
days and glared down on the white
clad worshippers who came to rowtow