The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-10

abreast. $50 guns free for the moment
to take the air In company behind their
team, and next week would see them
hidden singly or in lurking confeder-
acies Of two or three by mountain and
marches. forest or the wrecked habi-
tations OF men.
When the big guns followed them
with that l~ong-nosed air of detach-
ment peculiar to the breed. the gunner
at my sid made no comment. lie was
content TO let his arm speak for it.
self. But when one big gun in a
sticky phlce fell out of alignment for
an instant i saw his eyebrows on
tract.
The artillery passed on with the
same inhuman speed and silence as
the line and the cavalry's shattering
trumpets closed ii all. They are like
our cavalry in that their horses are in
high condition and they talk hopefully
OF getting past the barbed wire one
of these days and coming into their
own. Meantime they are employed on
various work as required. and they
all sympathize with our r%oughrider of
dragons who fatty refused TO take
OF his spurs in the trenches. IL he
had to die as a damned infantryman
he wasn't going to he buried as such.
Only Onc Horse Fell Ont.
A troophorse of a fanking squad.
ron decided he had had enough Of war
and jibbed like Lots wife. >1is rider,
We all watched him. ranged about till
he found a stick. which he used. but
without effect. Then he got of and
led the horse, which Was evidently
what the brute wanted. for when the
man remounted the jibbing began
again. The last We saw of him was
one immensely lonesome figure leading
one bad but happy horse across an
absolutely empty world. Think of his
recepton-the sole nan of 10000 who
had fallen out.
Ihe commander OF hat army CORPS
came up to salute. the cars went away
with the two generals and Minister
Tor War, the army passed out of sight
over the ridges to the north, the
peasant women stopped again 10
their work on the fields and a wet
mist shut down on all the plain. Brit
one tingled with the electricity that
had passed that way. Now one knows
what solidarity of civilization means.
Later on the civilized nations will
know more and will wonder and laugh
together at their old blindness.
When Lord Kitchener went down
the lines before the march past they
say he stopped to speak TO a general
Ia -. 49,, 49, -
stan at the time OF the Fashoda Incl
dent. and F'ashoda was one of several
cases when civilization was very
nearly manpuvred into fighting with
itself for the King Of Prussia. As the
saying goes, the all embracing vile
ness Of the boche is best realized
from French soil. where they Ia q
had large experience of II. And yet.
as some one observed. W. ought to
have known that a race who have
brought anonymous letter writing II
its highest pitch in their own dirty
court affairs would certainly use the
same methods in their foreign politics.
Why didn't we rea'i2cH
For the same reason. another re-
spOndod that society did NOT realize
| that the late Mr.. Smith Of England,
who married three wives, bought
, baths in advance for each OF them
and when they had left him all their
money drowned them n by one.
And were the baths by any chance
called Denmark. Austria and France
in 1902" a third asked.
No; they were respectable British
tubs. but until Mr.. Smith hd
| drowned his third wife people didn {
get suspicious. They argued. MEN
don't do such things" That sentiment
is the criminals best protection.