The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-11-26

His Moroccan campaigns, he said,
were mere practical jokes to the pres.
ent butchery, and he told me this
story Of tho trenches, from which he
had just returned.
we have a hard time making the
men stay down under cover. They
want to see what Is going on They
want to jump out and wave their guns
and shout insults at the enemy oc.
casionally as they used to In Mo.
rocco. our captain. who was. OF
courfe. a Frenchman, was as bad as
any. Except to sleep, he absolutely
refused to descend into the trenches.
lie would kneel for hours on the
ground a little to the rear watching
the enemy through his glasses and di.
r%ecting our fire. When We remon.
strated with him he merely said. like
any Mohammedan. that a bullet would
find him when his time camc-ncithcr
sooner nor later. But 50 many of
our men paid for their tcmerity with
their lives that he. too. finally con.
scented 10 come down out Of the hail
OF bullets which had never ceased
about him. Yesterday was his first
day in the trenches. About three
o'clock ia the afternoon a shell burst
overhead. \ piece of I, hit him ON
the crown and killed him instantly
so YOU think it was because his
time had come
What else can one think tie had
found safety in the midst of death.
but death had found him I'm what
should have been the midst OF safety.
Tn" captain was right. II Is written"
Think AIRS Fair In War"
] do not know III" origin of the
proverb, ANS fair in love aud war
but II has an ancient, oriental SAVIOR
and suspec, the Turcos thoroughly
subscribe to II. These African fight.
ers are the only ouea among the
allies whom ! have heard speak open.
ly In praise Of German rlsos
'They'ro sly ones say the Turcos,
and wag their brown heads and grin
appreciation. They think It a very
good scheme OF the Germans not to
make any effort to bury their dead
before rctreatiug from one position TO
another, for thus the PURSUING enemy
must either bother to do the Job him.
self or else run the risk Of discomfort
II even disease They especially
admire the German trick OF standing
mp their dead, helmet on aud gun In
hand. along a deserted trench. 50 that
the French will think the trench is
still defended. And the wonder TO
them is. not that the Germans have
burned and shellod towns. but that
they have not done so more frequent.
~.
Seneealese Worship Fetishes.
The S~encgaleso tirailIrurs. although
resembling the Turcos In certain of
their military ethics. are beings of
an altogether different order There
Is but M Allah, and Mohammod ls
his prophet means nothing iC them
They Worship fptishcs They are
black men OF Timbuctoo aud the
Ivory coast. whore the fiery uuriaat
tan blows southwcstward on ,u. S1
hara toward the sea.
Knowing that the rororatuors ~
many of our own good American uu.
rroes had been captured by ENGLISH
enc Portuguese" s]laycrs In precisely
these regions, ! expected tu find some.
thin- familiar iu the aspect OF the
S~'u"guloso rincmcu. ! was destined
TO disillusiCu. Three days ago uu the
% to Roirs. / overlook au entire
regiment They stood or sQUurtcd or
surawled for several hundred Yards
along the grass at thr edge of the
winding road, resting under the Dot
lars, their rifles stacked. their white
Officers Withdrawn into pruups al.
ways 20 some distance from tho men.
Save FOR a red sash under their IN.
mics, they We're uniformed entirely IN
dark blue. even TO their cloth cans
and their puttios. walked past
them slowly, fascinated. Most wore
shoes, some were h]arcfuotcd i'm sand.
dals, but had TO look very closely
at the dark feet TO distinguish this
difference, They seemed very tired
under the weight Of their haycrsacks
Their eyolids dropped like those Of an
exhausted animal or of a man who has
been drugEed.
Their Look Causes shudder.
II may have been this. or II may
have been the blodshot whites of
their eyes which caused me 10 shud.
der slightly when one looked al mo
They scarcely spoke. Some sat star.
ing into space, bent forward over
their long, thin legs. which extended
like poles In front Of them. 4 mum.
Der were bearded-that Is tn say,
they had across their upper lips and
under their chins a circle OF black
hair, the center of which was "A pair
OF thick lips, When one Of them took
on his cap to mop his brow was
amazed TO see Il h%eaddress like the on.
cravings in the a%nthropolgy text.
books-a shaved head with "A TUT on
top from which descended on all
sides little kinky strings. Some, too,
had earrings,