Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-03

elsewhere, which az first disgust them
but later are accepted as an uniovely
part OF the game.
IL would be quite easy to make bake
houses and appropriated steam fittings
to deal with the trouble. The huts them
selves stand on brick piers. from one 20
three feet above the ground. The board
floors arc not Erooved or tongued, 80
there Is ample ventilation from beneath
but they have Installed recent cooking
ranges and gas, and the men have al
ready made themselves all sorts OF handy
little labor-saving gadgets. They would
do this II they were In real desert.
incidentally. / came across delightful
bit Of racial instinct. A man had been
told TO knock up a desk out of broken
packing cases There is only one type
OF desk in Canada-the roller top, with
three shelves each side Of the knee
hole. Characteristic sloplng sides, raised
back and long shelf In front Of tho
writer lie reproduced II faithfully
barring. Of course. the roller top: and
the thing leaped TO the eye out OF its
English office surroundings The en-
gineers do not suffer for lack OF talents
Their senior officers appear to have
been the heaGs. and their juniors the
assistants. in big concerns that wrestle
with embarrassed nature. (There Is a
tale Of the building Of a bridge in Val
cartier camp which IL not bad hearings
! The rank and file include minere:. road
trestle and bridge men; iron construction
men who. among other things, are
steeplejacks; whole castles Of such as deal
In high explosives for a living; loco
drivers, superintendents too, for aught
] know, and solid grouting OF selected
machinists. mechanics and electricians
Unluckily. they were all foot or so too
tall for me to tell them that, even II
their equipment escaped at the front,
they would infalllbly be raided for men
An Unrelated Detachment.
1 left McGill Queens, and Toronto stlll
/ digging in their trench, which another
Undergraduate, mounted and leading a
horse. went out of his way to Jump
standing. My last glimpse was OF a
little detachment, with five or six South
African ribbons among Them who were
being looked over by an officer.
No one thought IL strange that they
should have embodied themselves ana
crossed tho salt seas independently as
"so-and-So's Horse" Gt is best to travel
I with title these days.. Once arrived
they were not at all particular. except
that they meant to Join the army, ara
the lonely batch was stating It's auaiifi-
cations ms engineers.
They get over any way ana every
way" said my companion. Swimming.
I believe"
But who was the so-and-so that they
were christened after7' asked.
! Il guess he was the man who financed
EN- or gruh-staked 'em while thew wera
waiting. He may be one of EN- in thar
crowd now; or he may be n provincial
magnate ut home getting another bunch
together"
Vanguard OF n Nation.
Ihen went back 10 the main eamp
Tor last look at that wonderful army
where the tin-roofed messes take French
conversation lessons with the keen-faced
french-Canadlan officers. and where one
/ sees esprit-de-corps in the making. No
4 where is local sentiment stronger than in
Canada. East and west, lake and mari
time provinces. prairie and mountain.
fruit district and timber lands-thev each
thrill TO It.
me west keeps one cold blue open-air
eye on the townful east. Winnipeg sits
between, posing alternately as sophiS-
tieated metropolis and simple prairie.
Alberta, OF the 1000 horses looks down
from It's high-peaked saddle on all who
walk on their feet; and British Columbia.
tnanks God for an equable climate. and
tnat it u not like Ottawa. full OF politi-
cians and frozen sludge. Quebec, unas-
ssilabie In Its years and experience.
smiles toierantly on the Nova Scotian.
TOT II has a history, too. and asks Mon
IeaI u any good thing can come out of
Brandon. Moose Jaw or Regina.
Nhey discuss each other outrageously.
es they know each other intimately. over
wv miles Of longitude-their fathers
their families and all the connectIonh
Wmeh Is useful when It comes to sum-
ming up the merits OF a newly promoted
ter.
As their army does and suffers. and It's
record begins to blaze, fierce pride of
regiment VIII be added TO local love and
the national pride that backs ana en-
Neiops an But this pride Is held in very
severe check now; for they are neither
provinces nor tribes. but a welded neonIa
nghting In the war OF liberty.
They permit themselves 70 hon. thu,
the physique OF their next contingent
ent. They believe that their country car
SEND forward certain number OF men
ana certain number behind them, all
equipped to certain scale. OF disoom-
torts endured. Of the long learning ana
J deiearning and waiting on. they saw
4 nothing. They do not hint what thew
wiz do when their hour strikes. though
they more than hint their longing for
that hour
In all their talk caught no phase that
eouiu De twisted into the shadow OF a
oosst or any claim to superiority. even
In respect to their kit and outfit: no
word or implication OF self-prlse for any
sacrifice made or intended II was their
rigid humility that impressed one as
most sisnficant-and perhaps, most
n'enacing for such as may have to deal
with this vanguard OF an armed nation.
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