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THE DRUMS OF THE ! FORE AND AFT. EH By BTOYAKD KIPLING. " ion poor little sprats. And you want to go np to the front with the regiment, do yon? Why?" "I've wore the queen's uniform for \ two years," said Jakin. "It's very 'ard, sir, that a man don't get no recom pense for doin 'is dooty, sir. " "An-an if I don't go, sir," inter rupted Lew, "the bandmaster 'e says *e'll catch an make a bloo-a blessed musician o' me, sir. Before I've seen any service, sir. " The colonel made no answer for a long tima Then he said quietly : "if you're passed by the doctor, I dare say you can go. I shouldn't smoke if I were you." . The boys saluted and disappeared. The colonel walked home and told the story to his wife, who nearly cried over it The colonel was well pleased. If that was the temper of the children, what would not the men do? Jakin and Lew entered the boys' bar _rack room with great stateliness and refused to hold any conversation with their comrades for at least ten minutes. Then, bursting with pride, Jakin drawl ed: "I've bin intervooin the colonel. Good old beggar is the colonel Says I to 'im, 'Colonel, ' says I, 'let me go to the front along o' the regiment. ' 'To the front you shall go, ' says 'e, 'an I only wish there was more like you among the dirty little devils that bang "tte bloomin drums. ' Kidd, if yon throw your 'conferments at me for tellin you the truth to your own advantage your egs'llswelL" None the Jess, there was a battle royal in the barrack room, for the boys were consumed with envy and hate, and neither Jakin nor Lew behaved in conciliatory wise. "I'm goin out to say adoo to my girl," said Lew to cap the climax. "Don't none o' yen touch my kit, be cause it's wanted for active service, me bein specially invited to go by the colo nel " He strolled forth and whistled in the clump of trees at the back of the mar ried quarters till Cris came to him, and, the preliminary kisses being given and taken, Lew began to explain the -situation. "I'm goin to the front with the regi ment," he said valiantly. "Piggy, you're a little liar," said Cris, but her heart misgave her, for Lew was not in the habit of lying. "Liar yourself, Cris," said Lew, slipping an arm round her. "I'm goin. When the reg'ment marches out, you'll see me with 'em, all gallant an gay. Give us another kiss, Cris, on the ' ,'. ~C im> If * "If you'd on'y a-staid at tne depot, where you ought to ha' bin, you could get as many of 'em as-as you dam please," whimpered Cris, putting up her mouth. "It's 'ard, Cris. I grant you it's 'ard. But what's a man to do ? If I'd a-staid at the depot, you wouldn't think any thing o' me." "Like as not, bnt I'd 'ave you with me, Piggy. An all the thinkin in the world isn't like kissin. " "An all the kissin in the world isn't like 'avin a medal to wear on the front o' your coat." "You won't get no medaL" "Oh, yus, I shall, though. Me an Jakin are the only acting drummers that'll be took along. All the rest is full men, an we'll get our medals with them." "They might ha' taken anybody but yon, Piggy. Ycu'll get killed-you're so venturesome. Stay with me, Piggy, *arlin, down at the depot, an I'll love you true forever. ' ' "Ain't you goin to do that now. Cris ? You said you was." "O' course I am, but the other's more comfortable. Wait till you've growed a Int, Piggy. You aren't no taller than me now." "I've bin in the anny for two years, an I'm not goin to get out of a chanst o' seein service, an don't you try to make me do so. I'll come back, Cris, an when I take on as a man I'll marry you -marry you when I'm a lance. " "Promise, Piggy?" Lew reflected on the future as arrang ed by Jakin a short time previously, but Cris' mouth was very near to his own. "I promise, s'elp me Gawd!" said * < Cris slid an'arm round his neck. "I won't 'old you back no more, Pig gy. Gk) away an get your medal, an I'll make you a new button bag as nice as I know how," she whispered. "Put some o' your 'air into it, Cris, an I'll keep it in my pocket so long's I'm alive." Then Cris wept anew, and the inter view ended. Public feeling among the drummer boys rose to fever pitch, and the lives of Jakin and Lew became un enviable. Not only had they been per mitted to enlist two years before the regulation boy's age-14-but, by virtue,, it seemed, of their, extreme yonth, they were allowed to go to the front-w'hich thing had not happened to acting drummers within the knowl edge of boy. The band which was to accompany the regiment had been cut down to the regulation 20 men, the surplus returning to the ranks. Jakin and Lew were attached to the band as supernumeraries, though they would much have preferred being company buglers. "Don't matter much," said Jakin after the medical inspection. "Be thankful that we're 'lowed to go at alL The doctor 'e said that if we could stand what we took from the bazaar ser geant's son we'd stand pretty nigh anything." "Which we will," said Lew., looking tenderly at the ragged and ill made housewife that Cris had given him with a lock of her hair worked into a sprawl ing "L" upon the cover. "It was the best leonid," she sobbed. "I wouldn't let mother nor the ser geant's tailor 'elp me. Keep it always, i'sreiv. aD remember I lovo yon irrte.;" They marched to the railway stai ! 960 strong, and every soul in cam j meDts turned out to'see them go. ! drnmmers gnashed their teeth at Ja and Lew inarching with the band, married women wept ripon the p i forra, and the regiment cheered its ble self black in the _ace. "Anice level lot," said the cole to- the second in command as 1 watched the first four companies training. "Fit to' do anything, " said the sec< in command enthusiastically. "Bu seems to me they're a thought young and tender for the work in ha It's bitter cold np at the front nov "They're sound enough," *said colonel "We must take our chane sick casualties. " So they went northward, ever nor ward, past droves and droves of cami armies of camp followers and legions laden mules, the throng thickening c by day, till with a shriek the tri pulled np at a hopelessly cong s junction where six lines of tempon track accommodated six 40 wag trains; where whistles blew, Bab ' sweated and commissariat officers sw ! from dawn till far into the night an the wind driven chaff of the fod< bales and the lowing of a thousa steers. "Hurry np! You're badly wanted I the front," was the message that gre J ed the Fore and Aft, and the occupai j of the Red Cross carriages told i same tale. " 'Tisn't so much the bloomin fig] in," gasped a head boun trooper hussars to a knot of admiring Fore a Aits. " 'Tisn't so much the Moore fightin, though there's enough o' th i It's the bloomin food an the bloom climate. Frost all night 'cept when hails an b'ilin sim all day, an the w ter stinks fit to knock yen down. I g my 'ead chipped like an egg. I've g uneumonia. too. an ruv cuts is all o o' order. 'Tain't no bloomin picnic those parts, I can tell yon." "Wot are the niggers like?" deman i ed a private. "There's some prisoners in that tra yonder. Go an look at 'em. They're ti aristocracy o' the country. Tho coi mon folk are a dashed sight uglier, you want to know what they fig with, reach under my seat an pull oi the long knife that's there. " They dragged out and beheld for ti first time the grim, bone handled, ti angular Afghan knife. It was almo as long as Lew. "That's the thing to j'int you, " sa: the trooper feebly. "It can take off a man's arm at tl shoulder as easy as slicing butter, halved the beggar that used that ni but there's more o' his likes up a'bov They don't understand thrustin, bx they're devils to slice." The men strolled across the tracks 1 inspect the Afghan prisoners. The were unlike any "niggers" that tl Fore and Aft had ever met-these hug< black haired, scowling sons of the Bne Israel As the men stared the Afghai spat freely and muttered ore to anothei with lowered eyes. "My eyesl Wot awful swine!" sai Jakin, who was in the rear of the prc cession. "Say, old man, how you gc puckrowed, eh? Kiswasti, you wasn' hanged for your ugly face, hey ?" The tallest cf the company turned his leg irons clanking at the movement and stared at the boy. "See!" he cries "to his fellows in Push to. "They sen< children against us. What a people an< what fools!" "Hya!" said Jakin, nodding his hea< cheerily. "You go down country. Khan; get, peenikapanee get-live like i bloomin raja ke marfik. That's a bet ter bandobust than baynis get it ii your innards. Gcodby, ole man. Tak< care o' your beautiful figure'ed an tn to look ku shy." The men laughed and fell in for thei: first march, when they began to realiz< that a soldier's life was not all beer anc skittles. They were much impresser; with the size and bestial ferocity of the niggers whom they had now learned te cali "Paythans," and more with the exceeding discomfort of their own sur roundings. Twenty old soldiers in the corps would have taught them how tc make themselves moderately snug at night, but they had no old soldiers, and, as the troops on the line of march said, "they lived like pigs." They learned the heartbreaking cussedness of camp kitchens and camels and the depravity of an E. P. tent and a wither wrung muie. They studied animalculae in wa ter and developed a few cases of dysen * Ty in their study. At the end of their third march they were disagreeably surprised by the ar rival iu their camp of a hammered iron slug which, fired from a steady rest at 700 yards, flicked out the brains of a private seated by the fire. This robbed them of their peace for a night and was the beginning of a long range fire carefully calculated to that end. In the daytime they saw nothing except an occasional puff of smoke from a crag above the line of march. At night there were distant spurts of flame and occasional casualties, which set he whole camp blazing into the gloom, and occasionally into opposite tents. Then they swore vehemently and vowed that this was magnificent, but not war. Indeed it was not. The regiment could not halt for reprisals against the frane-tirenrs of the countryside. Its duty was to^o forward and make con nection with tho Scotch and Gurkha troops with which it was brigaded. The Afghans knew this and knew, too, after their first tentativo shote, that they were dealing with a raw regiment. Thereafter they devoted themselves to the task of keeping the Fore and Aft cn the strain. Not for anything wonld they have taken equal liberties with a sea soned corps-with the wicked little Gurkhas, whose delight it was to lie out ! in the open on a dark night and stalk j their stalkers-with the terrible, big j men dressed in women's clothes who could be heard praying to the'ir God in j the night watches, and whose peace of j mind no amount of "sniping" could j shake-or with those vile Sikh?, who I marched so ostentatiously unprepared j S I and who dealt ont such grim re war I those who tried to profit by that tin] > paredness. This white regiment i different-quito different. It slept : a hog, and, like a hog, charged in e\ direction when it was roused. Its i tries walked with a footfall that co be heard for a quarter of a mile ; wc fire at anything that moved-evei driven donkey-and, when they '. once fired, could be scientifically "rr ed" and laid out a horror and anoffe against the morning sun. Then th were camp followers who straggled i could be cut up without fear. Th shrieks would disturb the white bc and the loss of their services would convenience them sorely. Thus at every march the hidden e my became bolder, and the regim writhed and twisted under attacks could not avenge. The crowning i umph was a sudden night TRSII end: in the cutting of many tent ropes, collapse of the sodden canvas ano glorious knifing of the men who stn gled and kicked below. It was a gr deed, neatly carried ont, and it sh< the already shaken nerves of the F and Aft All the courage that they 1 been required to exercise up to t point was the "2 o'clock in the mo ing courage," and they so far had oi succeeded in shooting their comrai and losing their sleep. Sullen, discontented, cold, sava; sick, with their uniforms dulled a unclean, the Fore and Aft joined th j brigade. j "I hear you had a tough time of coming np," said the brigadier. I when he saw the hospital sheets 1 j face fell I "This is bad," said he to himse "They're as rotten as sheep." A aloud to the colonel: "I'm afraid - can't spare you just yet "We want we have, else I should have given y j ten days to recruit in. " The colonel winced. "On my hon< sir," he returned, "there is not t least necessity to think cf sparing T My men have been rather mauled a: upset without a fair return. They on want to go in somewhere where th can see what's before them." "Can't say I think much of t Fore and Aft, " said the brigadier confidence to bis brigade maje "They've lost all their soldiering, ai by the trim of them might have marchi through the country frcm the otb side. A more fagged out set of men never put eyes on. * "Oh, they'll improve as the wo: goes on. The parade gloss has been ru bed off a little, but they'll put on fie polish before long, . ' said the brigat major. "They've been mauled, and thc quite don't understand it. " They did not. All the hitting was c one side, and it was cruelly hard hi ting, with accessories that made the: sick. There was also the real sickne that laid hold of a strong man ai dragged him howling to the grav< Worst of all, their officers knew just i little of the country as the men then selves and looked as if they did. Th Fore and Aft were in a thoroughly ni satisfactory condition, but they believe that all would be well if they coul once get a fair go in at the enemy. Pc shots np and down the valleys were ur satisfactory, and the bayonet neve seemed to'get a chance. Perhaps it wa as well, for a lorig limbed Afghan wit a knife had a reach of eight feet an could carry away enough lead to disabl three Englishmen. The Fore and Fi would like some rifle practice at th enemy-all 700 rifles blazing together That wish showed the mood of the men The Gurkhas walked into their camp and in broken, barrack room Englisl strove to fraternize with them; offere< them pipes of* tobacco and stood then treat at the canteen. But the Fore an< Aft, not knowing much of the naturi of the Gurkhas, treated them as the^ would treat any other "niggers," anc the little men in green trotted back t< their firm friends, the highlanders, and, with many grins, confided to them "That dam white regiment no dan use. Sulky-ugh! Dirty-ugh! Hya, any tot for Johnny ?" Whereat the highlanders smote the Gurkhas as tc the head and told them not to vilify a British regiment, and the Ghurkas grinned cavernously, for the highland ers were their elder brothers and en titled to the privileges of kinship. The common soldier who touches a Gurkha is more than likely to have his head sliced open. Three days later the brigadier ar ranged a battle according to the mles of war and the peculiarity of the Af ghan temperament. The enemy were massing in inconvenient strength among the hills, and the moving of many green standards warned him that the tribes were "up" in aid of the Af ghan regular troops. A squadron and a half of Bengal lancers represented the available cavalry, and two screw guns, borrowed from a column 30 miles away, the artillery at the general's disposal. "If they stand, as I've a very strong notion that they will, I fancy we shall see an infantry fight that will be worth watching," said the brigadier. "We'll do it in style. Each regiment shall be played into action by its band, and we'll hold the cavalry in reserve. ' "For all the reserve?" somebody asked. "For all the reserve, because we're going to crumple them up, " said the brigadier, who was an extraordinary brigadier and did not believe in the value of a reserve when dealing with Asiatics. And indeed, when voa come to think of it. had the British army consistently waited for reserves in all its little affairs, the boundaries of our empire would have stopped at Brighton beach. That battle was to be a glorious bat tle. The three regiments, debouch ing from three separate gorges, after duly crown ing the heights above, were to converge from the center, left and right upen what we will call the Afghan army, then stationed toward the lower ex tremity of a flat bottomed valley. Thus it will be seen that three sides of the valley practically belonged to the Eng lish, while the fourth was strictly Afghan property, In the event of de . . . ; feat the Afghans had the rocEy~h fly to, where the fire from the gu( tribes in aid would cover their re In the event of victory these same wotild rush down and lend their w to the rout of the British. The scr^w guns were to shell the of each Afghan rush that was ma close formation, and the cavalry, n reserve in the right valley, w( gently stimulate the break np v would follow on the combined at The brigadier, sitting upon a overlooking the valley, would v the battle unrolled at his feet The and Aft would debouch from the tra! gorge, the Gurkhas from the and the highlanders from the righi the reason that the left flank of enemy seemed as though it reqi the most hammering. It was not e day that an Afghan force would ground in the open, and the brigj was resolved to make the most of i "If we only had a few more m he said plaintively, "we could surr the creatures and crumble 'em up 1 oughly. As it is, I'm afraid we can cut them up as they run. It's a g pity." The Fore and Aft had enjoyed ur ken peace for five days and were be ning, in spite of dysentery, to rec their nerve. But they were not ha for they did not know the worl hand and, had they known, would have known how to do it. Throng] those five days in which old sole might have taught them the craft of game they discussed together their : adventures in the past-how sue ! one was alive at dawn and dead ere dusk, and with what shrieks and st: gles such another had given up his under the Afghan knife. Death w ! new and horrible thing to the sons of ! chanics who were used to die dece: ! of zymotic disease, and their car conservation in barracks had done ni ing to make them look upon it v less dread. Very early in the da wn the bugles gan to blow, and the Fore and Aft, fi with a misguided enthusiasm, tur out without waiting for a cup of co and a biscuit and were rewarded being kept under arms in the cold wi the other regiments leisurely prepa .for th? fr.av The Fore and Aft waited, leaning u; their rifles and listening to the prot< of their empty stomachs. The cole did his best to remedy the default lining as soon as it was berne in u] him that the affair would not begir once, and so well did he succeed t. the coffee was just ready when men moved off, their band leadi: Even then there had been a mistake time, and the Fore and Aft came < into the valley ten minutes before 1 proper hour. Their band.wheeled to 1 right after reaching the opec and tired behind a little rocky knoll, si playing, while the regiment went pa It was not a pleasant sight that op ed on the unobstructed view, for t lower end of the valley appeared to filled by an arr " 1 position-real a actual regiments attired in red coi and-of this there was no doubt-fin: Martini-Henry bullets, which cut i the ground 100 yards in front of t leading company. Over that pockmar ed ground the regiment had to pa* and it opened the ball with a genei and profound courtesy to the pipi] pickets, ducking in perfect time, though it had been brazed on a ro Being half capable of thinking fi itself, it fired a volley by the simp process of pitching its rifle into i shoulder and pulling the trigger. Tl bullets may have accounted for some < the watchers on the hillside., but thc certainly did not afreet the mass of en my in front, while the noise of the rifl< drowned any orders that might ha\ been given "Good God!'" said the brigadier, si: ting on the rock high above all. "Ths regiment has spoiled the whole sbo^ Hurry up the others, a d let the sere* guns get orr. ' But the screw guns, in working roun the heights, had stumbled upon a wasps nest of a small mud fort, which the; incontinently shelled at 800 yards, t the huge discomfort of the occupants who were unaccustomed to weapons o such devilish precision. The Fore and Aft continued to go for ward, but with shortened stride. Wher< were the other regiments, and why die these niggers use Martinis ? They tool open order instinctively, lying dowi and firing at random, rushing a fe"R paces forward and lying down again, according to the regulations. Once ir this formation each man felt himseli desperately alone and edged in toward his fellow for comfort's sake. Then the crack of his neighbor's rifle at his ear led him to fire as rapidly as he could-again for the sake of the comfort of the noise The reward was not long delayed. Five volleys plunged the files in banked smoke impenetrable to the eye, and the bullets began to take ground 20 or 30 yards in front of the firers, as the weight of the bayonet dragged.down and to the right arms wearied with holding the kick of the leaping Martini The company com manders peered helplessly through the smoke, the more nervous mechanically trying to fan it away with their helmets "High and to the left!" bawled a captain till he was hoarse "No good! Cease firing, and let it drift away a bit. ' Three and four times the bugles shrieked the order, and when it was obeyed the Fore and Aft looked that their foe should be lying before them in mown swaths of men. A light wind drove the smoke to leeward and show ed the enemy still in. position and ap parently unaffected. A quarter of a ton of lead had been buried a furlong in front of them, as the ragged earth at tested. A private of the Fore and Aft spun up his company shrieking with agony, an other was kicking the earth and gasp ing, and a third, ripped through the lower intestines by a jagged bullet, was calling aloud on his comrades to put him out of his pain These were the casualties, and they were not soothing to hear cr see The smoke cleared to a dull haze TO BE CONTINUED. How to Be Strong. Mr. Frobel, of Froebel and Rage, ; !be great gymnasts who were io the city Ja3t week, was asked about the beet j mode of exercise for a young mac who wiebes to become SD athlete. "If," 6aid Mr. Frcebel, "a young man wishes to enjoy the very best of health and 'build up his streogtb he ehouid hsgio exercising with great care and moderation. "I uaderbta d you have a good athletic club b^ere. The youog man hould exercise as follows : '.He fehould ruo around the track or course for one minute with dumb bei is weighiog not more than two pounds. Then exercise on the riogs one minute Then jump up and dowe on the Bpring or bafant board for one minute. Then go on tbe trapeze for one mionte. Then on the horizontal bar one minute, and after that punch the bag for one mionte, a&d then work with the rowing machine for one minute. "That," said Mr. Froebel, "makes eight min tes a day, quite enough for a starter. Let him keep this exercise np for several weeks, and then increase the exercise gradually to three min tes co each machine-that will make 25 minutes a day. He can afterwards as he gains agility and strength increase to five minutes on each machine named. "Now, then," said the gymnast, "if a feeble, sickly young man will do what [ have advised, io one year this daily (Xercise will not only make him a new and perfectly healthy man, but one of the greatest athletes of the country. "I am cot telling the yoong man bow to train for a professio.nl. I am simply telling him how to get health, the greatest of all blessings, and ctrengtb-how to build op his body. "After each day's exercise the young man sboold bathe in tepid water, then take a cold shower bath and be robbed down thoroughly. He will be sore, of coarse, at first, bot this will soon pass cff. "New theo," said he, "the maning will strengthen the langs and legs, tbe dumb bells and riogs the arms, chest and shoulders, the rowing machins the Lack, thc horizontal bar the stomach, the spring board the feet and ankles, punshing tbe bag will quicken the eye and band, and the trapeze will steady and make eurong the nerves, train the eyes, strengthen the judgment and improve tbe mind." "What else?"' "'Young meo,'*' said he, "should always wear a supporter when exercis ing, the lightest gymnastic clothes that can be bad." "Should yoong women take gymoas tic exercises?" he was asked. "Yes-tbe same as yoong man. Let them tske these exercises which I have outlined, either at home or establish a ladies7 gymnasium such as they have in the north abd west. The soutb needs such women gymnasiums. They will give health and Etrength and happiness to thousands of southern ladies who are weak and look like invalids and are undeveloped and move about slowly and sadly, ail for the want of proper exercise "Proper physical exercise," said he, "is the best medicine in (he world and will make new men and wemeo out of people who mope around half sick, complaining acd depressed : "Ladies should follow the directions which I have given for the men, acd with Macbeth they can say: " 'Throw pbysio to the dogs. Fil none of it/ " Mr. Frobel is a German. 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ATLANTIC COAST LINE North-Eastern R. R. of S. C CONDENSED SCHEDULE. TRAINS GOING SOUTH Dated ;No. ^ No. No. A pl. 17, '99 35 23* 53* a m p m Le Florence 3 25 7 45 Le Kiogetree 8 55 Ar Lanes 4 33 9 13 pm Le Lanes 4 33 9 13 6 20 Ar Charleston 6 03 10 50 8 00 * TRAINS GOING NORTH. No. No. No. 78* 32*. 52* am pm am Le Charleston 6 33 4 49 7 GO Ar Lanes 8 03 6 14 8 32 Le Lanea 8 03 6 14 Le Kings tree S 20 Ar Florence 9 20 7 20 am pm am ?Daily. jDailj except Sunday. No. 5 ii rune through to Columbia via Cen* tral R. R. of S. C. Trains Nos. 78 and 32 run via Wilson and Fayetteville-Short Line-and make clo33 connection for all pointe North. , Trains on C. *D- R. R. leave Florene* daily except Snnday 9 50 a m, arrive Darling ton 10 15 am, Hartville 9 15 am, Cberaw ll 30 a m, Wadeeboro 2 25 pm. LeaTe Florence daily except Sunday 7 55 p rn, ar rive Darlington 8 20 pm, BeDcettsville 9 17 pm, Gibsoo 9 45 p m. 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