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A Page From the Unwritten History of England's Fight for
India Tells How the Valiant Spirit of The Black Horse
Troop" Flamed Highest When Perils Multiplied.
By HOMER J. COUNCILOR.
PART II, "Destroy us."
If I tried I could not tell you of The words sounded strangely like a
those days. In the brief span of a prophecy.
week, less than a score of the troop eDestroy us, leaving no trace,"
remained. The major was gone; Mrs.
How easy it would be. Our pitiful
Reynolds was a widow, her children handful of weary men, Mrs. Reynolds
orphans. I was left in charge of a and the children. Even then I could
little handful of men, the remnant of see the swarthy horde swarming over
the once proud and gallant Black the walls, across the court, through
Norse Troop. My word was pledged the doors and windows—I could hear
to Reynolds that I would care for his their high pitched shrill shrieks, the
family and return them to friends. chanting of thou- priests, the continu-
The Harvester of Death left us as
ous roll of their damnable drums—I
suddenly as he had. struck. Wearily, could feel them closing in about us,
heavy with care, wondering what of as those who had survived the ravages
the morrow, I threw myself down of our passing pestilence fell one after
upon a divan before the open fire in another before them, fighting to the
the great living room after having last; the wild, fanatic eyes leered at
made my rounds, thinking to rest and me rom out the shadows of the dawn,
plan for the future before turning in their warm breath stifled me.
for the night. The flickering of the "Destroy us, leaving no trace!" I
flava s fascinated
der aedI mss drifting, found
drift repeated slowly. "When, Sake, when
do they strike .
ing, drifting far from the jungle laird, "To -night, Master, when the moon
I was Saka touched
Inv arm. With diffi- goes down:'
"When the moon goes down?"
"Fes, Master, nothing is to be clone
until then. The day is to be spent
in fasting and in ceremonies at the
culty I straightened my stiffened mus-
cles and raised myself on one elbow.
Shaking nay head, I sought to drive
away the wild dreams that had filled temple."
the wakeful night. Dulled as my We sat in silence- It was as though
Senses were from exhaustion, I was we waited the passing of a sentence.
only partially successful and was The room grew gradually lighter. A
about to throw myself back again long, golden ray shot across the floor
upon the pillow when a second time and broke in a radiant reflection upon
Sake. gripped my arm. With that the polished andiron. Ah! the sun!
touch drowsiness and inertia fled. Crosing the room, I threw open the
Swinging to my feet I was fully alert. doors and stepped out upon the hal-
The cold light of the morning was cony. It was a glorious morning, the
just reaching its long, thin fingers birds were twittering and chirping in
through the Iatticed door and win- the trees, the air was fresh and in-
dows. In the gray shadows Saka's vigoratin, the sun was bright and
figure was but an indistinct form. His cheering. As I drank in the beauty
low voice, however, indentified hint and strength of this new day the om-
instantly. mous gloom fell away like a cloak
"Pardon, Master, I would not dis- dropped from my shoulders. Hope
turb you but I must see you before
the others are about." was not gone! It must be a battle of
"What is the trouble,Sake.?" I.brains against brawn, of -wit against
asked,Walso in a Sakai has numbers. The grim humor of the
aWhy are you Wat this situation grew upon me. What elab-
happened?hae Is the plyoue hereaat orate a preparations those sons of the
Ev?r, as it breathed these questions Orient were making, how small would
I was conscious ht some unusual ; be their reward even were they sue -
condition had developed, or that some;
cessful. They were truly lifting the
new horror was impending. Nothing'ch"b of Hercules to crush a gnat.""
short of that uld have caused this quoted, re-entering theWhen the moon goesa down, I
co
tittle Hindu to rob me of such meagre' sIt is a
rest as I had been able to snatch. long time until the moonn g Boo clown.
"Sit down." I continued, motioningFour warning, Saka, conies nnone too
to him, "and tell me what it is." 1 soon, but when the noon goes down
y."
"You know, Master, how bitter the i we
w ..but
gbhim bring Bidding bring my breakfast, I
feeling among the townspeople has i gave myself up to thought. Uncon-
siways been against us. Yesterday sciously I whistled softly the stirring
when on my way to the market for ,air of that old camp song which runs:
you I overheard two Hien talking ::4 warrior bold is a warrior bold
about aur troop., Edging as close as
until he is a warrior dead." Slowly a
I could 1 leerned that a call had been
plan evolved itself in my inmd much
sent out for the men to gather at the ''
temple as soon as it was dark. to'as a ship rises out of the horizon.
planP ser:1st}.ing µ ,out us. ' Breakfast finished, I was ready to act,
"From their manner I was certain' Calling all of our company except the
that this was not for our good, so ! sentries into the great hall, I laid the
matter candidly before thein,
"I have just learned," 1 told them,
"that it is the intention of our neigh-
bors to attack us to -night under cover
and hurried to the temple. No one
]noticed rne. It was easy to pass as of darkness. They are preparing to
come stren
one of the temple boys. Watching our defeneesb preparen numers. Wecd tol withstanden a
my chance, I followed a small partysiege and light it out, or we might
of men into the altar room, which was !leave here immediately and attempt
nearly filled with men. Here they to reach Mater Katie, but in either
were talking very openly."
"And what did you gather from case the outcome would be the same,
what you overheard?" I asked.
"They are • certain that something
has hapnened. here. They have missed
while the sentries were being placed
for the night I slipped away to the
village, dressed in my native clothes,
The natives have every advantage and
in their present frame of mind they
would finish us with dispatch.
Major Lloyd and believe we have "I have, therefore, determined upon
Murdered him and probably those a plan of action taking these facts into
who were friendly to him. They know consideration. The plan calls for
much weaker than coolness, calmness and most careful
that our troop is n
when we came, but they have not been attention to the sppmallest details. Our
dendsn the maintenance
abletolearn just how weak we really oftthe sam heroicoatt fade which you
acre. displayed during the trying days just
" So we have kept our secret from ere B• i fl w�i t -
the ?„meg, � y, Swire to do
r'':.ea. a`Ia:ste,•, we have kept our rs this. Be or -e nightfall the tiroop
Secret, but that will not help us much. must be transferred to the stockade.
They have taken a solemn oath to de- Should this be .done openly it would
troy us. Ever since we took these be useless, since that would merely
carters and forbade their ente_r'ng chgnz the place of attack. T i move
qY" C they have been watching must be entirely covered. This will
the t,l oultd . c.. necessitate that you,Mrs. Reynolds
for a then e to snake trouble, Now and Gertrude adopt the uniform Lein
they believe they are strong enough ' p"sick-house," but the Armenians who
to destroy us completely. leaving no Po<<arnly.
trace of the waif: for which they them -
"At nightfall, Corporal Gray will as- have received the blessed benefit of
selves might suffer !iter." F sure command of the troop, take to its shelter do not like this ward, and
------- the road and proceed southward with in their own picturesque vernacular
. ..t all possible speed. This should give they speak of it as the "Health -House."
satisfaction, each declaring that he
would remain to the end, and it was
only by gruffly reminding then of a
soldier's duty to obey that 1 was able
to prevent them from all laying down
their lives together.
Never since our arrival had the old
palace shown such eigns of activity
as on that day. Companies of three
and four galloped in and out of the
great gates, down the busy streets,
through the market place, out the
country roads, everywhere, The town
seemed alive with hurrying, noisy,
carefree troopers. They spent money
lavishly.
Preparations were evidently being
made to prolong our stay for several
weeks or months. An exchange of
mounts between the stockade and the
palace, occupying the better parte of
the day, was taken as still further
evidence of our determination to
establish a permanent post.. But under
strict directions, when four rode out,
three returned, and where three rade
out, two returned.
So confusing was this constant rac-
ing to and fro, with its noise and hub-
bub, the great clouds of dust raised
by the flying hoofs and all the be-
wildering rush that any count ofMini-
hers
umhers was impossible, and one after an-
other the members of Mir company
secreted themselves at the stockade
without attracting the slightest at-
tention. Thus it was that later in the.
afternoon as Williams came riding
into the grounds leading a string of
horses the place was deserted save for
Saki and myself.
(Concluded next week.
•
The Glory of the Garden.
Our England is a garden that is full of.
stately views
Of borders, beds and shrubberies and
lawns and avenues,
With statues on the terraces, and pea-
cocks strutting by;
But the GIory of the Garden lies in
more than meets the eye.
For, where the old thick laurels grow,
along the thin red wall,
You will find the tool and potting
sheds which are the heart of.•all.
And there you'll see the gardeners, the
men and prentice boys,
Told off to do as they aro bid, and do
it without noise;
For, except when seeds are planted
and we shout to scare the biros,
The Glory of the Garden, it abide'th
not in words.
And some can pot begonias and some
can bud a rose.
And some are hardly f11 to trust with j"among my dearest possessions. To
anything that grows, : my father and his comrades --great,
But they can roll and trim the, lawn, kindly, generous, tender-hearted men
and; sift the,sand and loam, --amongst whom I was brought up in
For the Glory of the Garden occup f.l the barracks at Montreal, I owe Dna-
all who conte.• teeny everything. They made a man
of me far more than many seboal-
Our England is a garden, and such gar- masters ever did afterwards."
dens are not made Mr.
sitting in the shade; Martin Harvey, the Actor.
By singing "Oh, how beautiful!"--• a,nd "it gives me very greatpleasure to
While better men that we go out and testify to the breadth of mind which
start their working lives - always characterized my father's deal -
At grubbing weeds from gravel paths Ings in the matter of my occupation.
with broken dinner knives. His profession was that of naval archi-
tecture, and it was his fond hope that
So, when your work is finished, you I should follow in his footsteps—
can wash your hands and pray famous footsteps they were, as all the
For the Glory of the Garden, that it yacht racing men know. But Nature
may not pass away! had not fitted me for that career, and
And the Glory of God's Garden, it shall when I made up my mind to go upon
never pass away! the stage he was the first to help me
Rudyard Kipling. in every possible way. He sought the
;.--_ advice of Sir W. S. Gilbert in the mat-
ter (he was at the time building a
yacht for him), and on his advice .1
If you have a friend who is a sailor • went to' John Ryder to study elocu-
and his ship is lying at anchor in the tion. This did me a • world of good,
Thames at London you may address a and I can never be sufficiently grate -
letter to him and it will be delivered ful to my father for giving me the fine
at his gangway ju: t- as your own are tuclad rgrounding
delivered at your front door. At no mopporyself i.n nities workhe which mufostghoavenap-
other port in the world is there a mail
peered to him at first strange and pre -
delivery to ships lying at anchor, carious,"
though mail will be delivered to ships Sir Hall Caine, the Author,
at docks,
The Thames river is divided into "If I were writing an autobiography
two postal districts, each under the in the accepted sense, I think I should
control of a river postman, who makes b8 tempted - to tell some touching
his rounds in a craft resembling a stories of how my father, as a friend -
fishing boat. In clear weather the de- less and penniless boy, scrambled and
livery round is accomplished in four starved. himself through seven long
or five hours, but if there is a fog the years that were supposed to. be ueces-
work becomes difficult and dangerous, nary to teach him a trade; and .again,
as ships are hard to locate and there after he had married, and children, had
is always the chance of being run begun to come, starved and scrambled,
down by a steamer. The river post or at least pinched and deprived hiin-
men have their own uniform, as dis• self, with' the cheerful co-operation of
tinguished from that of the mere land My mother, through the years in which
postmen, I and my first brother and sister lead.
The task of delivering the river let- to be sent to school, The world want
ters has been more or less of a family well with him in later years, and his
monopoly for several hundred years, children of a younger brood knew
son succeeding father as a matter of nothing of his privations; but it is
course. In recognition of faithful ser- not for me, as his eldest son, to tor -
vice George III. presented the family get the stoical unselfishness to which
of Evans with the freedom of all ports 1 owe So much,"
of the kingdom and a silver medal . much,"
weighing sixteen ounces. Needless to Airplane Aids Mosquito
say, though highly prized as an heir- EXterrillillatii011.
loom, the medal is not worn by the
Evans men upon their watery rounds. Man has employed many weapons in
-----4' his fight against the typhoid -bearing
The Health -House. mosquito but never until recently was
The Turkish word for "hospital" is the airplane used. A medical officer,
stationed at an army flying field in
Kentucky, was responsible for the in-
novation. Like a Modern general, he
decided to inaugurate his spring of-
fensive Against the pest by a thorough
aerial 'reconnaissance. Having secured
an observation plane and a pilot, he in•
spaded from a low altitude every
square mile in the vietnity of the
camp, -
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iTESTi rMONY OF SUCCESS-
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CCESS-FUL MEN.
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of Me," Says a Great
Iiwentor.
"One good mother is worth a hun-
dred school -masters" The truth of
this time-honored proverb is borne out
by the tributes which successful Hien
pay teethe influence of their mothers,
The Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd George.
"My mother had a hard struggle to
bring up her children, but she never
complained, and never spoke of her
struggle. It was not until long after
that we were able to appreciate how
fine had been her spirit in the hard
task" of bringing up her fatherless
children. Our bread was Bole -made.
We scarcely ate fresh meat, and I re-
member that our greatest luxury was
half an egg for each child on Sunday
mornings."
Mr. Thomas A. Edison, the Inventor.
"I did not have my mother long, but
she cast over Hie an influence which
has lasted all my life. The good ef-
fects of her early training I can never
lose. if it had not •been tor her ap-
preciation and her faith in me at a
critical time in nay experience, I should
never have become an inventor. I
was always a careless boy, anti with
a mother of different mental calibre
I should probably have turned ant bad- the negative? .Opportunities are less
ly. But her firmness, her sweetness, movable than souls and wills. Why
her goodness, were potent powers to not search for them instead of waiting
keep me in the right path. My mother for thein to search for us?
was the making of me. The memory
of her will always be a blessing to
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"Mother and wife, they are the best
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career --all is due to their guidance
and influence."
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AND STONES
The arrival of the first warm drays
of spring makes every person wish to
get outdoors into the woods and fields.
There is no other time of the year
when country walks are more delight-
ful, and. the boy or girl who forms the
habit of walking several miles a day
in the soft spring air willbe amply
repaid by the exhilaration and the
sense of physical well-being that are
euro to follow.
Walking with some congenial friend
or friends is far more enjoyable than
walking alone; • and, since there areoften times when some member of the
party wishes to linger behind the
others, to pass them or to branch off
for a short time in another direction,.
it is a good plan for a group of girls
to arrange among themselves a simple.
system of signals that shall indicate
the direction thaf each girl has taken,
when she set out and when she ex-
pects to get back.
Whatever kind of signals you decide
to use, an emblem that shows the
identity of each one of the party will
be necessary. A branch from some
particular tree makes a good sign-
ature. A twig of ash, for example,
placed between two stones of a pile,
shows who placed it there.
If a girl wishes to inform a friend,
who has lingered behind which of
two intersecting trails she has taken,
she sharpens a twig to a point and
places it between two stones so that
it points toward the trail that she has
taken; then she adds her special mark
of identification.
The most common messages in the
woods are those that indicate identity
and direction; it is less often neces-
sary to leave information relative to
time. For that, make two piles of
stones; the number of stones in one
pile denotes the time at which the
message was left; the other heap car-
ries the arrow and signature. It is
generally better to separate different
messages in that way, and. not to
complicate matters by including a
time signal with a direction sign.
If you wish to inform the friend
who follows that you will return to a
certain place at a designated hour,
leave three piles of stones with a
pointed twig fastened in the middle
pile, together with your signature.
The stones behind the arrow that indi-
cates that direction show when you
left, those in front of it, when you
will return. Those signals can be
easily • and quickly arranged, and
the friend who follows will be able
to read your message at a glance.
For example, suppose that a girl
who follows finds that the trail has
two forks, and that in the intersection
is a twig placed among stones and
pointing in the direction of the right-
hand trail. She also finds a mark of
identification. Behind the arrow are
ten stones; in front of it, three. It
should be clear that the person who
left the message has taken the right-
hand trail, that she started at ten
o'clock and will return at three.
The Loiterer.
As soon as ever spring drew near, and
brooks and winds were loose,
Tom Tuttle would be late to school
with never an excuse.
So little and so very late! And when
the teacher said
That he must take his punishment, he
merely hung his head.
She'd ask him all the hardest things
in all the hardest books,
And -queerly he would answer her, with
absent-minded looks.
"How tiffany yards make twenty
rods?" And Tommy said, "Oh,
dear,
Twelve rods I've cut for fishing poles
in our own yard this year,"
"How many perches make a milel
Now think before you speali,ti
"A anile?" said he. "There's lnillioritl
in the upper sawmill creek."
"What grows in Southern IIinduse
-tan?" Said Toni, "I do not knave.;
But I can take you to a tree wher►
blackheart cherries grow."
"Name Christopher Columbus' boats
"I can't remember, quite;
But urine, that lies below the falls, ie
named the 'Water Sprite.' "
"Now what is 'whistle'—noun o1!
verb ?" I do not know indeed;
But just the other day I made
whittle from a reed."
Then all the little listening boys virouldl
wiggle in their places,
And all the Little watching girls would
have to hide their faces;
And "Thomas, Thomas!" teaeheed say
and shake her head In doubt,
And make him write a hundred words
before the day was out.
'Twos always so when grass turned
green and blue was in the sky --1
Tom Tuttle coming late to school and
never telling why.
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