The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-02-13
KELLY TELLS OF
HINDU AS FIGHTER
GETS VISION OF DARK RACE m
THE TRENCHES AND THEIR
IRREGULARITIES

| The Hindu as man, and as a sol
der, offers something new TO Habert
! Williams Kelley VINO writes the fol
lowing interesting letter OF his asso-
Citations with this strange ally Of the
other nations fighting Tor a world
democracy Here is his letter:
November IS, 19l7.
| Somewhere in France
Dear Folks:
This new stationery has olfercd a
stimulus 10 my pen, and | shall try to
spread my enthus assn over more
pages than am accustomed 20 write
at one sitting This last week has
been so dreary and depress ,ng that
one does not want to write; he only
mopes or broods his spare hours
away Last night was the climax and
| end of the temporarily foul weather,
and the sunshine is silver and the air
s blue this morning. This is GER
tainly an inyigorating day I subdued
| myself physically earlier this morn
ing by voluntarily swinging an END
OF a buck-saw through four feet eff
white. moist, sWeet-smel ng beech,
| Il was a giant messy trunk heWn in
an old, old forest some distance from
here But ] am not subdUed men
tally; nay mind is effervescent with
such a number OF things that ! fear /
shall be unable to record them with
out acute cramps Of the fingers.
|. | worked near a Hindu labor gang
Yesterday and had a chance to OBJ
serve them, and attempt communica-
ton with them. Poor fellows, they
are practically ostracized by the
! white man in this country; and they
must be lonely indeed The English
men do not associate with them; GER
tainly the Bra'sh officers do not: and
their own officers probably do not
because OF the intense caste feeling.
And here they are in a country which
lis so far removed from their own,
among people and customs so in
fmitely different from those to when
they were associated, that they think
themselves stranded on the moon or
some other land equally remote They
I've apart and to themselves. except
of course, during that briet period of
curiosity which they excite among
our more advanced brethren. Amer
lean novelty appetite is now being
satisfied, and before these ''heathens"
leave this vicinity it win be cloyed.
The Hindu is superior His fore
head is high, perpendicular aud has
an intelligent breadth which we do
not always find On the white man
His lips and nose are well carved and
resemble those of the Caucasian in
every respect If you will permit the
' generality. His teeth are white, not
by contrast, but by care. He readily
understands gestures, is very docile,
and readily offers his assistance when
he pereeives that you want to learn
] gave them cigarettes Chose which
are issued and they lost no time in
emptying the package They did not
even grunt as they accepted them
they merely saluted and grinned
VIDE sparkling. red-and white Hindu
grins. Very few Of them put the
cigarettes between their lips They
doubled a fist. inserted the cigarette
i'm one end, and sucked the other end
with the greatest satisfaction in the
world Their native way of smoking
so learned, was not to put their lips
i'm contact with the product smoked.
Ihut to place IL i'm a whole, where il
was lighted, the smoke being sucked
therefrom by those who sat around It.
| A long stem was used as the con
ductor Of smoke
The poor wretches wear all of the
clothing they can DRAW around them.
yet they SILVER and shake and cry
'f'ndahl tindahf" ccldl coldD al
most necessarily. Some of them
cough that hacking cough which has
shaken the army of France. and
thrown so mayn consumpptives into
the hospitals and graves Of this cOun-
ltry. One little Indian threw back his
coats and barred his brown breast;
then threw himself back on a pile OF
lumber in tropical languor while he
, exclaimed 'Gndiahl Indiah!" mean
ing Of course, that they lay naked in
/ the sunshine In Bombay or Calcutta
or other towns they mentioned as
they iabbered.
7 managed to learn several Hindu
words 7 could have learned more
had my tongue been more flexible,
bH was unable to pronounce the
words; occasionally 7 recognized one
word used by Kiping in "Guanga Dim
-the word "panee', meaning water
Remember those lines
49,
"Hi slippery hitherao,
waer-get it. panee lao"
CIV
or something to That effect. One