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To Yukon Territory, Atlln District, Imteriof Alaska.
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way and Whltehorse, trains leaylsg both terminate on Tueadays
aud Fridays. TTi'Tmrt ■* ^ j ^
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White Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 40.
Every Tuesday and Friday
No 1, X. Bound j_4 < . i No. 2, 8. Bound
1st Class ; j \ ^ k 1st Class
8:.J0 a. m. Leaves SKAGWAY Arrive® 3:50 p. m.
11:03 a. m. " WHITE PASS. Leaves 2:20 p. m.
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2:20 p. m. " CARCR08S s " 10:48 a. ni.
4:50 p. in. Arrives VVH3TEHORSE ' " 8:00 a. m.
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WILLIAM J. ROBINSON
The !>ikh' places caste above every
thing. lie will not driuk from any
thing that has been used by a white
man, for If he did he would lose caste.
If he happens to be eating and a white
man's shadow falls across the Sikh's
food he will starve rather than touch It
again.
The Indians got along very well with
the French people, and some of them
could even talk a little broken French.
The suffering among the Indians dur
ing the first winter was terrible, but
they bore It all fairly cheerfully and
did their duty well. They are not
trench fighters, though, and cannot
play the waiting game. They want to
get out at the enemy, and the officers
have their work cut out to keep them
In the trenches for very long.
The Germans certainly did not like
the Indians a little bit The Indians'
belief regarding no quarter is not <>a
pecially nice to think about, ana their
natural Instincts are hard to coutroL
They have a weakness for cutting off
ears and heads and keeping other little
souvenirs. The Oermnlns know this.
and naturally It puts the fear of death
Into them.
J 8pent Christmas day of 1014 In the
trenches Just south of Ypres. Christ
mas eve was a beautiful night, and the
Germans who held the trenches oppo
site left us very much alone the entire
svenlng. We didn't bother them either.
There was a beautiful moon, and
with everything so quiet and peaceful
It was hard to realize that there was
a war on. During the evening the Ger
mans started singing," and I heard
some of the most beautiful music I
ever listened to in my life. The song
might start Just opposite us. and It
would be taken up all along the line,
and soon It would seem as If all the
Germans In P.elgium were singing.
When they hud finished we would ap
plaud with all our might, and then we
would give thetn a song In return.
A regiment In the trenches started
"My Old Kentucky Home." The men
were getting well along with It when
some one In the German trenches Join
ed the singing In Just as good English
as any of us could speak. It was beau
tiful, but It made me awfully home
sick. After they had finished the same
German voice sang "Dancing Around,'"
and. believe me, that fellow could sing
ragtime. He was applauded uproari
ously, and then we sang some more
popular songs for them, and so it went
until the wee small hours of the morn
ing.
During the night a couple of our
chaps crawled up almost to the Ger
man parapet, and with them they took
a phonograph and a record. They
wound up the machine, put on the rec
ord and attached a piece of string to
the starting lever. Then they crawled
back, unwinding the string as they
came. The next morning they pulled
the string, and it started the machine
playing the song which was so popu
lar in England ut that time, "When We
Wind l"p the Watch on the Rhine."
Tou can bet that that phonograph was
filled full of lead in short order.
During tile few weens airecuy aiter
Christmas I was In the trenches just
south of Ypres most of the time. When
on duty In the daytime it was not so
bad, but the nights were awful. The
Germans had the advantage over us
In that their trenches wero on higher
ground, and they drained all the water
down Into our own. We had only
buckets to bail with, and it was very
slow work, as well as dangerous.
Then, too. the cold weather Increased
our troubles.
I notice in my diary, which I kept
from time to time, that I entered an
lncldcnt which shows our state. I will
quote you Just what I wrote:
"Dec. 27. H»14. — Was talking with
two boys of the Royal Scots today.
They have Just come down from the
Hollebeke trenches, and they are in ter
rible condition. Their casualties dur
ing the last engagement were light, as
they lost only four killed and nineteen
wounded, but forty-two died from ex
posure.
"One poor devil tells me that he has
three brothers and fifteen cousins In
his battalion. Two of his brothers
died during the past two weeks. One
stopped a bullet, bat the other one
drowned right by his side In the
trenches, and he was unable to aid
him.
"A lot came in on their hands and
knees, and many came dragging them
selves on their stomachs through the
mud. It was terrible."
One of the saddest things 1 have
ever seen is the last roll call of a reg
iment which has been cut to pieces.
I saw one regiment go Into action for
the first time.
J watched them go. up_,slnglng and
FOUKtEEK
(MONTHS
AT Jj
An American Boy'*
Baptism of Fir«
By WILLIAM J. ROBINSON
Copyri(ht, Little, Brown & Co.
The moat graphlo account of th«
great war that has yet been written
comes from the pen of a twanty-two
year-old Boston boy, Who haa }uat re
turned from France, where aa dragoon
guardsman, dispatch rider and motor
car driver he Berved fourteen znontha
under the British flag. Out of thirty
one motorcycle dispatch rldera ha fit
one of four survivor*.
shoutUfg' ana nrgn spines generally.
They werti 1,100 strong going Into ac
tlon, but two days later they came
out, and there were only twenty-Unea
of them to answer the last roll calL
It was a heartbreaking sight and Im
possible to forget.
One day I went to some trenches our
division had Just taken over. The wa
ter was above our knees, and there was
also about a foot of soft mud. In feel
ing around for a firmer foothold my
foot struck something more solid than
the ground around me. I started
stamping and kicking about, but I
couldn't seem to make it give way. Be
ing curious, one of my comrades and I
dug down with intrenching tools.
What we unearthed was the body of a
dead Frenchman. Heaven only knows
how long he had been there, but he
was as black as a derby hat
At this time the Dickebusch-Holle
bcke road was alive with snipers. In
some way they would get through our
lines and secrete themselves along the
road, where they could pick off Individ
uals without much fear of being seen.
I noticed that there was one place In
particular where we always heard a
bullet puss too close to be comfortable.
It was a little wooden bridge, and I
don't think I ever crossed it without
hearing one whine past me.
Oue day 1 rode up with a second lieu
tenant of the Royal Kngineers. As we
crossed the bridge a bullet whizzed be
tween us, but when I looked at the offi
cer he did not appear to have noticed
ft, so 1 didn't say anything. About
three hours later we were coming back
the same way. Just before we came to
the bridire he said:
"That blasted sniper has potted at
me once too often. We'll leave the
road here and sneak down opposite
that bridge under cover of the trees.
Lot us see If we can find the blighter.
We'll wait until he pots at somebody
else, and you keep your ears stretched
and try to lot-ate where the report
comes from."
We tetherod our horses to a tree and
crept down to a point Just about op
posite the bridge. After a few min
utes an empty transport wagon came
along. As tills hit th% bridge I dis
tinctly heard the crack of a rifle, but
it came from behind and to the right
of us. We beard the bullet slug otw
our heads and saw the driver duck and
put the whip to lila horses.
Very Quietly we crawled back in the
direction from which the report had
come. After going about 100 yards we
lay still and waited. Tretty soon we
heard the rifle crack again, and It
wasn't very far away, but was still
behind us. We went a little farther,
and the lieutenant whispered: "Keep
your eyes skinned. Watch the trees."
I could see 110 sign of Ufe anywhere,
but I knew that the sniper must be
very close. After several minutes' wait
the report came again, and this time It
was so close that 1 Jumped. We heard
the ejector fly back and the bolt snap
home aealn.. A-tii then J saw JtlmJ
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TEe «Ifil>er was*'well up in a tree,
and be was almost Invisible, so well
was a screen of branches drawn up
around Mm. Ills rifle was fitted up in
a tripod, and the legs of this tripod
were nailed to the branches of the tree.
All he had to do was to sit there and
pull the trigger. I eased back the bolt
of my rifle so as to make no noise,
and I eased it home again. The lieu
tenant drew hia revolver, and we took
a steady aim together.
fire, uo suiu suiuv, «uiu iuc l »u
■hots rang ont as one. Mr. Sniper
cama down like a thousand brick.
I climbed the tree to have a look at
bis neat, and It certainly was ingenious.
That rifle was fixed dead across the
center of the bridge, bo all be had to
do was to pull the trigger when he
beard anything strike the wooden
planking of the bridge. It was u pret
ty little scheme, but it came to an end.
as all things, good or bad, must.
Other trapi such as this were alI*too
common along this road, but eventual
ly we cleared the most of them out
Many of the snipers would wear civil
ian clothes, some would be wearing
the British uniform, and some would
have the nerve to use their own uni
forms.
We captured a few of these beauties
alive. Their admissions were almost
unbelievable. They confessed to hav
ing patrolled the road every night and
actually greeted any of our chaps they
chanced to pass. They knew the
names of most of the regiments in that
vicinity, and some of them even knew
the nicknames our fellows had for
their officers. It is a Job that requires
heaps of nerve, but it is a dirty, despi
cable came.
(Continued Tomorrow) [
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One of tlie great natural treasures of
Africa is the immense estra tropical
forest that extends almost unbroken
from the extreme southern end along
the eastern highlands to the equator.
There are gaps in it, and the trees
change in kind somewhat with change
of latitude, but upon the whole it has
the same character throughout. The
altitude above the sea changes regu
larly with decrease of latitude. Near
the cape the forest grows at sea level,
in Xata! and the Transvaal its alti
tude increases to 4,000 and 5,000 feet,
and on approaching the equator it rises
to 7,000 ffret and finally to 10,000 feet.
In the equatorial highlands the growth
Is very vigorous.
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