with its little grave mounds surmounted in many eases by rude crosses with inseriptions written or printed with a pen by Joyal comrades unwilling that their friends should be forgotten, The writer saw the sale of some of the personal effects of Captain Bruce, an English officer of one of the Sikh regiments who had died of fever in the hospital, Trunks, bedding, scissors, harness and few odd paper-backed French novels, etc., comprised the meagre show and were eagerly bought up by a number of other soldiers and civilians at good prices. One's comments on the vanity of life and the bubble of military glory reduced to such a pitiable fiasco are enhanced by seeing the mound in the cemetery where this officer lies surmounted by a rough cross of wood inscribed in indifferent handwriting, evidently by a Sikh servant, to ' Capitan Bruce." Possibly his name may be f-r-gotten by all but the home circle and sorrowing friends and relatives, and thus end the high hopes of one of Britain's soldier sons. Cases such as these show the seamy side of all this business.
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