The farmer and mechanic., 1915-01-05


with his rife, knelt in a circle round
the light.
There must have been just such
scenes in early Christian days"
Another story an officer tells OF a
German prisoner very detected amid
his guard:
Damn the Kaiser,," he cried Il
wish | was back in Sheffield" and
this was spoken in very good EngliShi
One English soldier badly wounded
was found dying alongside wounded
German who was shot in both arms
A cigarette was in the Germans
mouth and the English soldier wa.
holding it while his enemy smoked it.
1t seems that the third volume Of
Bismarck'S S memoirs, the publication
of which was to be made later, was
at the special request of Bismarck
himself deposited in the Bank of Eng
land. We can assume that this treas
ure will remain secure in the banks
safe.
No doubt the German Chancellor
| had in his mind when speaking of a
scrap Of paper" the speech of Fred
erick William from the throne TO the
l L
! Having handed over the patent Of the
/ Constitution he said:
| Never will l allow a sheet Of writ
| ing paper to come, like second Prov
! idence between our Lord God in heav-
en- and this land, to govern us by its
paragraphs"
NAPOLEON once said: God is always
on the side Of the last reserve"
l
The Sikhs and Gurkhas are the
best Of fitting men. The former have
the title of Zion race" from their de-
| fence of the weak and oppressed
Their value as soldiers depends upon
their adherence to the simple life anG
tenets of their fathers. One leader OF
the sect would not allow them to cu1
their hair SO that they might look like
giants and SO frighten their enemies
on the field of battle!!
The Gurkhas religion is a Hinduism
of the simplest kind; more like Bud
dhism. 1t is interesting to go to th'
. camp and see the repast Of the Hindu
, The Gurkha and other Hindus will ca
goat and mutton provided the anima
has been killed in a special manner
but the disgust which the strict Hind,
; feels at physical contact with beef |
so intense he cannot look at it. N
9 beef is killed at the front as it nigh
carry pollution to the Hindus. Fo
drink the army rationS Of the 1ndial
\ | troops includes rum, but the MOham
, | medan being debarred by the PrOphe
from all intoxicating liquors is give
- | sugar and tea instead The India
4 soldier receives two packets Of cigar
n | cites a week.
i In Bombay, when a regiment Q
Gurkhas was embarkinS, the queStiO
arose among the British officers as t
e whether they would eat meat. The
e decided to put the case to the mi
: The Subadar (chief native officer) wa
e called and after winking Of the eye
n brow said: Il think, Sahib, the reg
e ment will be willing to eat the ice
a sheep provided one of them is alway
g present to see the animal frozen
a DEATH"
= That the men may know Whethe
o they are eating clean or unclean fles
p units are detached to a point near tf
l. railroad, where each man, be he M
e hammedan, Sikh or Hindu, despatch,
his beast by his own peculiar Sacrifi,
ial stroke, marks it as clean and sent
le it on to his comrades in the trenche
,e Their camps are huge stocks Of he
e and Indian chopped straw, covere
N over with green tarpaulin, and tn:
lg same chopped straw is given 10 the
mules and country bred horses II
D. latter viii not eat the English hay.
The gayety Of the French soidie
ed waiting in the trenches is well illl
in trated by a daily newspaper which
n being produced by a certain coloni
regiment fighting in the Argonne. II
eS newspaper. which is called lie Pet
en- Colonial, is lithogra phed on q sheet
ct ordinary note paper. 1t contains t.
IL cOmlnuniQues Of the day and amusi1
We topics of the war. One little sl1et
IS shows a French colonial infantrym;
h. introducing "Cippaye" (Sepoy) to
ne Senegalese with the words, 'Sepoy
low me to introduce son of Budd
Vs. to son of Mahomet. We don't kn(
mt one another, but we are all brother!
ad Another item, under the heading
re "Situations Vacant" is an offer ma
m. to all soldiers who have acted as wa
,e- ers, uShers in courts, etc, of the j
he Of announcing the arrival OF the Gt
We man shells in our lines "a stro