Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-10

Young men think that everything good
In this world is theirs by right sahib."
Then came the big. still English gun
ners, who are trained TO play with the
little guns. They took one such gun and
melted II into trifling pieces Of not more
than $50 pounds each and reassembled IT,
and explained its innermost heart till
even layman could understand There
Is lot TO understand about screw guns
especially the new kind. But the gunner
Of today. like his ancestor. does not talk
much, except in his own time and place
when he Is as multitudinously amazing
as the blue marine.
The Mule Lines.
We went over to sec the mule lines. I
destcst the whole generation OF these
parrot-mouthed hybrids. American. Egyp-
tian. Andaluslan or up country; so II
gave me particular pleasure to hear a
Pathan telling one chestnut beast who
objected 10 having, its name ,hogged any
more what sort OF a lady horse his
mamma had been. But the animals. they
were a lovely lot. and had long since
given up blowing and flnlcltng over
EnRllsh fodder. H-
us there any sickness? why Is yonder
mule lying down." demanded, as
though al the lines could not SEQ | was
a shuddering amateur.
There IL no sickness, sahib That
mule lies down for his own pleasure.
Also. II Is to get out or the wind. He Is
very clever. sHe Is from Hlndustan,"
said the man With the horse clippers.
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dent grin and true border cock Of tho
turbap, and he dId me the honor to let
me infer
went over their animals. They were not
worrying thefhfclves over this new coun-
try Of Belait he was ihe regular gossip
OF food and water and firewood, and
Where so-and-so had hid the ourrycomb.
visitors Bother Cooks.
Talking Of cookery, the orthodox men
have been rather put out by English
visitors who come TO the cook houses
and stare directly at the food while II
Is being prepared. Sensible men do not
object to this because they know that
these Iinallshmcn have no evil intention
nor any evl eve. but sometimes a mar
lroW-eoulcd pur.st toothache or liver
makes a man painfully rrllgiolwl viii
"spy STRANGERS and insist on the strict
lottor OF the law, and then every one
wao wishes to be orthodox must agree
with hirn--on an empty stomach. too
/ aud walt till fresh mess has been
cooked 1hiS Is taisilff-a burden--for
whore the intention is good and war afoot
much can and should be overlooked.
Moreover. this war is not like any
other war. II is q war Of our RAJ
''everyhody's war" as they say in the
bazaars. And this Is another reason
why It does not matter n an Bngiishman
stares at ones food. This I gathered in
small pieces after watering time when
the mulos had filed Up 70 the troughs
In the twilight. hundreds Of them. and
tho drivers grew discursiye on the way TO
the lines.
The last saw OF them was In the early
cold morning. All In marching order.
linking and iinellns down road through
woods.
Where arc you soing9'
'God knows"
Inn Of Goodbyes.
II might have been for exercise merely,
or II might be down TO the sea and away
20 the front Tor the battle OF "our Raj -
Tho quiet hotel where people sit together
and talk In earnest. strained pairs is
wen used to such departures. The off,
GERS of whole divlsion--the raw cuts OF
their tent circles lie stiu unhealed on the
links-dined there by scores; mothers and
relatives came down from the uttermost
parts OF Scotland for last glimpse OF
their boys and found beds goodness
knows where: very quiet little weddings.
toe. set out from it's doors TO tho church
opposite.
The division went away a century OF
weeks ago by the road that thc mule
battery took Many Of the civilians who
poeketed the wills signed and witnessed
in tho smoking room are full-blown eN-
ecutors now; many OF the brides are
widows.
And Il is not nice TO remember that
: when the hotel was 30 filled that not
even another pleading mother could be
siyen place in which 10 lie down 'and
) have her cry out-not al an nice 70 re-
member that 4 never occurred TO any Of
the comfortable people In the large bu,
{ sparsely Inhabited houses around that
they might have offered a nights lodg-
r ing, even 70 an uniniroduced stranger
D Greatheart and ChrgstGana.
There were hospitals up the road pre-
pairing ana being prepared for tho In
dian wounded In one OF these lay a
man Of say. a Biluch regiment, soreiy
; hit Word had come from his colonel in
D France 20 tho eoioners wife IN England
4 that she should seek TN she found thai
I very man and got news from his very
! mouth-news 10 send 10 his family and
!; yillage.
I She found him AZ last. and he wa
clean bewildered 10 see her there. be-