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BATTLEFIELD INCIDENTS AND

SCENES.

WHY CAMPAIGNING IN 50 DIFFICULT.

CAPE Town, November 29th,

Not every reader possibly at home realises

the extent of the battlefield in South Africa.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1900.

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shoulder would be more often in view than when worn on the breast. A colonel to whom this suggestion was made, while ad- mitting that it might be worthy of con siderinion, remarked:-"That is not the real difficulty somebody must lead and cour mand, and the man who leads cannot avoid being conspicuous. In the new infantry attack men make short rushes. The officer gives the command; he is the first to rise, and necessa* The fighting line is a ring of fire encircling arily draws the fire; you can't help it. No, the country as large as France. It forms three-

more important question is the policy of these fourths of a circle, and is 1400 miles in length. front attacks. When your men climb precipices Unfortunately, every acre of it is British

under heavy fire how can you escape, propor, territory. At the tiine 1 write, seven weeks tionate heavy sacrifices? The thing to be con after war was declared, no British soldier, with

sidered is, if it would not often be better to con the exception of a few of gallant Baden-Powell's tinue your shell fire for a longer period, and braves, in their during sorties from Mafeking, whether mere could not be done by flank has overstepped the Transvaal or Free State

attacks? incline to that opinion, but only the frontier. The bistorian of the future, who takes officer in command on the spot can form a his stand on the assumption that the English judgment on that point, in any particular en: Government from the very first intended to crush and annex the twin Repúldies, will find it awk- ward to explain that only two months after its own tulonies were invaded had it assembled a force equal to that of the Hoers. Looking round this fence of fire you see, perpetual change and perpetual persistence. The Loers, with really wonderibl-skill, selecting and sois ing the paints best suited for their defensive tactics, and our troops. with equally marvellous coolness and bravery, carrying them one after another. The great Corsican held that you should never do what the enemy wishes, for the very good reason that he does wish it. I Natal our troops for weeks past, and along the Western Border at this instant, the Kimberley Relief Column, have had no choice but to do what the enemy wished, which was to assault apparently pregnable fastnesses and storm steep ridges in face of withering shell and rifle fire at short range. The victor at Ligny could not help fighting Wellington on ground which the never-besten General himself close, Time was against the French Emperor; with our commanders the salvation of Natal and the rescue of Kimberley have overruled all other considerations, and the men have shown them- selves equal to a struggle in which all the odds of numbers and position have been against them.

A FORTRESS OF NATURE.

In-the-march-to-Kimberley you have had the

old story. The Boer leader De la Rey, chose

at Belmont an admirable fortress of nature-- broken kopjes, extending two or three miles in length, and backward in ridges for a mile or two. The frothewed the steep face of the ridge. No one who has not seen an African kopje can easily realise it. It is not a hill so much as the stump of a hill, what is left of it alter ages of denudation; bin the specta festure of it that it is almost invariably covered with a breastwork of boulders. Tropical tourents have washed away the earth and the soluble couponents of the jock, and what is left is heaps and lines, a detached masses of sandstume, ironstone, or granic. A very large part of the surface of Soutli Africa is strewn with these blocks of all formys and sizes. On the slopes of Talle Mountain are maizes of granite, left by the rains of unnumbered ages, as large as a house. These are the Boer fortifications, and he hasany number of them. Talk of the Quadrilateral in Lombardy-why, General Joubert has, ready made to his band, any nomber of Quadrilaterals, all in touch with one another. Our Grenadiers, Coldstreams, and Scots Guards, with the gal lant Northumberlands, had to storm both the ridges. It cost us many poble lives, but it is marvellous that it should be possible. The brave tellows rushed, over the luge boulders, climbed the steep incline, and took the position. A competent observer who went over the ground afterwards observes that with disciplin ed troops the fat would have been impossible. The Boer sanding, to their cost, that they have

discovered a position which our yet men cannot take. lu ordinary times the moun- tain deer would lose his breath ascending these kopjes. For whole regiments, with unbroken front, to do it, while hundreds of crack shots above, at very short distance, are pouring a hail of lead from magazine rifles, is hardly thinkuble.

never

THE BOURS AND THE LOSS OF A POSITON..

It is astounding that our death roll was not larger. The total fatalities reported at Belmont were 51, the Grenadiers losing 27, Northumberl and Fusiliers 13, Scots Guards 9, and the Colds- treams 8. Against these Lord Methuen accounts for 8 dead among the Boers. An officer familiar with South Africa fighting re- marked to me :-"The Boers will not care as we should about the loss of the position, they can find plenty more like it," which, happily, on the route to Kimberley is not the case. But in the present instance they will care for the loss of 81 men, the 54 waggons burnt, the 50,000 rounds of amunition, the 4 huge cylinders containing powder, and 750 shells. Graspan was a repetition of Belmont. There also the Boers leader had seized a line of kopjes which our men carried at the point of the bayonet, the Guards, the Naval Brigade, the York shire Light Infantry, and the Loyal Lan- cashire Regiment specially distinguishing themselves. Our attack was resistiess. It is sil very wall for General joubert to write to the Berlin Press that the Boers prefer to carry on a defensive war; no other is possible. He did not know so well a month ago as he does now what a bayonet charge is; but he is perfectly Aware by this time that the bravest of is burghers will not stay for it. A prisoner taken at Helmont was asked why he had not remained on the crest of the ridge until the Infantry came up with the bayonet. "Allemach- tig,” he replied, "do you think I was going to wait for that?" and he expressed the general sentiment.

BRITISIL LOSSES AT GRASPAM..

Everyone is discussing to-day the list of war Josses at Graspan. They are in many respects remarkable, az kliled, 7 missing, make a buge total. The most striking feature is the casualties in the Naval Brigade, and especially of the Royal Marines. This will be best understood If I place them in tabular form →→

LOSSES OF NAVAL BRIGADE.

Killed. Wn'ded. Total Percentage

force casualties.

ROYAL NAVY.

Officers.........2.1.1Ổ

Men ........... 2. ...13 ... 202 }

ROYAL MARINES,

Officers....... 2......

8.3

Men..........820 }, 427

NOER LOSSES-LACK OF CAVALRY, Whatever our losses may have been, those in Ried and wounded of the Boers have been vastly greater; but they have nnt been-paraded-before-the-world. It is

that they I'rejoria

bad published in ten killed at Belmont, but Lord Methuen ac- counted for eighty-one. As reported to you by wire, I am told that the officer commanding telegraphed to a friend that not a soul of the enemy would have escaped if he had possessed full quota of cavalry. This has been our want nil through the war. The speed with which the Boers regain their horses and gallop of the field is a marvel. We are not less surprised at the enemy's success in saving his guns. 11 is that at Belmont the Boer artillery was never in action. The previous action when Keith- Falconer was killed bad warned them that we 'should most likely capture the Krupps or Creuzots, On several occasions when we have "silenced the enemy's guns" there is reason to opine that the commandant, finding that he could do. little or nothing agains our batteries, and fearing the ugly rush that was Once coming, got his guns away to the rear. the advance is made in sufficient force, with the cavalry in proportionate strength, there will be a different tale to tell. Like the Kaffir, the Boct-never imperils his retreat, and less than ever will he runarisk with guns to protect This, I believe, is the secret of the reported retreat of General Joobert—if there be any such General, for he is persistently reported to have been killed-in Natal. The commandoes have retired from Mooi River and Estcourt, and. we expect to hear presently that the whole force is again beleaguering Ladysmith. THE FIGHTING ON THE WESTERN BORDER. Supplementary to the stories of the recent fighting on the Western Border which you have received by telegram, 1 forward the following graphic shutch by a Canadian war resident Mr. Charles Lewis Shaw, This was not his first expericner of the work of home troops, for he accompanied Lord Wolseley on his Sondan expedition." The Boers at Buf mont held a crescent-shaped range of kopjes known as Kafir's Kop. The advancing British force bivouacked for the night on the plain. No sound betrayed the close presence of several thousands of British troops and a body of Boers of unknown strength. In the grey dawn Lord Methuen's force was drawn up in a long thin line, in opan order; the Coldstream Guards occupied the right of the line, next came the Grenadiers, then the Scots, while the line egiments, Northumbrians and Yorkshiremen, were extended to the left wing, at which

as was stationed the artillery. The guns were thus in face of the south-eastern horn of the semi-circle of kopjes, where the Boers had a gun posted on a peak about 150 feet above the plain, Every man was tensely alert, waiting the order, and a thrill of move- ment filed along the line as the first British

3-pounder erited its sharp bark, and landed a shell close to the Boers' cannon. Then the minute, and the heralds of the dawn were flying advance began. The sky was lightening every westward across the cloudless heavens. There was another kind of lightning playing along

crest of the bills in front; in the half-light, the and against the rocky back-ground, the volleys from Boer rifles looked for all the world like forked tightning dancing among the boulders. But the Britons stayed never a moment, Keep- ing a perfect alignment, the extended Lic moved forward as if parading at some review. Not a sound was heard save the "trump, tramp" of thousands of men, the boom of the guns, and the occasional volley. It was like the steady, resistless unstayable roll-on of a huge ware against a cliff. Soon the level plain was cross- cd, and the ground trended upwards in a gentle slope, which later developed into an almost precipitous ascent, How, the men scrambled ap is a mystery; "they seemed to climb like monkeys. By this time the Boer cannon had been silenced, but the enemy's riflemen were pumping bullets down from their cyfie against the oncoming force. The latter, still silent, fought their way up the declivity yard by yard; they wanted no calling by their officers. It was a dogged, grim display of valour such as few troops in the world could imitate. Unfortun- ately, the stiffest kopje of all, on the Boer left, had not been sufficiently searched by artillery fire when our gallant men reached the foot, and they had actually to be halted for a while until the shells, shrieking close overhead and wonder fully well delivered, had somewhat cleared the way, Here it was that we lost most heavily, forty or fifty of our soldiers dropping close together. But at length, and really for the first time in the advance, the officer could be heard. Forward, men was the command, and the line recommenced to climb. The enemy was pouring down a terriffic fire, but nothing could slay the onset,

TOMMY, ATKINS AND, THE COLD STEEL.

carry the wounded. The locks were strongly posted, and had unlimited ammunition, but they could not wait for the bayonet. If we had had a couple of regiments of cavalry with fresh horses the rout would have been a massacre.

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CARRYING SECRET DISPATCHES, This war has developed an industry that is almost new to South Africa-the art of carrying secret dispatches. The ingenuity displayed has often been remarkable. My friend Mr, Bennet Burleigh devised ballonas, miniature boats to float down the river, and other devices to evade the ring of Boers at Ladysmith, plus, of course, Kaffir ranners. The Kaffir is a fine scout, but he has the defect as a newsbearer, in which some journalists are not wholly free, of exaggerating and telling amiable lies, When you give him a written message, the boy dees well as a rule. Reuter's Agency has had the Boer pretty often, especially by his invisib serveral of its boys captured. The Kaffir eludes ity on dark nights, and next by his most artistic personation of innocent ignor. ance. **Me NO

English; speak farmer's boy; me hate English; me driven put Mafeking" and so on lisps the guileless child of Nature. One of these wily creatures was caught between Maleking and Kuruman. Protesting in vain, he was stripped by the Boers, but o'er a bit of paper was found, and he was allowed to proceed. He bore an important dispatch in a quill, which he carried in ine of his nostrils. Another coloured emis- sary was mounted. The enemy examined him from head to foot, divesting him of all attire but found nothing, the message being in his saddle. A young Scotsman fooled the Boers wh charming good-nature. "Dispatches! No: be wasn't going to carry dispatches, "What have you got there?" the Boer com. mandant asked, referring to the parcel the can- Will ye have one?" and, with the most artless ny Sem evrried. "Only a few sandwiches. air, the North Briton unrolled his napkin and offered tha burgler some of his fare. The par pers were concealed in the napkin and in a hard-boiled egg He gut away on most friend-

terms..

A DARING DISPATCH RUNNER.

The most daring of all the dispatch runners is paid to be Mr. W. Cumining, of Douglas, near to Kimberley. He has gone in and out of the beleaguered city at great risk, the, Boers having, it is said, offered £300 for his capture. On one occasion, bearing a missive from Mr. Rhodes, he crept a good part of thirty miles on his hands and kness so as to escape observation

It is to in a region swarming with the enemy. these adventurous fellows we have owed the story of Kekewich's gallant defence. Britishers in the Transvaal hre, liable to be searched for treacherous docilments. One of these believes he was expelled to Natal because a letter was ful upon hum describing the Diggers' News" as "a rag." Served him right. It would be an insult even to a dirty rag to compare it with the "Diggers!"

"LONG TOMS" SHELLS.

I have just seen a letter written by a young woman at Ladysmith to a friend in Graaf Reinet. The writer went to the camp to pro- cure a few splinters of one of Long Tom's shells, and she got more than one memento, She writes" asked a soldier if I could go with them. He replied; Oh, certainly, Miss Fil take care of ye, an tell ye when another blcomin' shell comes along. We were hearing the spot where the last had fallen, when our friend called, Look out! Here's another.' I had scarce time to see when we heard the shell flying with a scream.

past I closed my eyes and

wire fence with grasp great encres. The shell rst about seven yards from us. It shook the earth, and 1 thought my legs were being shot all over. The first thing I saw before I closed my eyes was some men writhing on the ground and our pro- tector flying for dear life." Miss received a severe scolding for her temerity when she leg and "a dreadfully big hole" in the stocking, reached home and found a flesh wound in the

In the age of women's rights it is to be hoped the right of facing shell fire will not be one of them-Daily Telegraph.

REFORMING THE ACCENT: A Sketch:

[BY W. PETT RIDGE]

The regiment being a mixed one, boy recruits sit one one side of the six tiers of seats, girl recruits on the other. In front of the delighted roaring fire whichfaces them, with its flames

shing up to tell the outer world all about it, marches a young drill sergeant in spotted urs scarlet blouse and black skirt, who endeavours to add to her twenty years by an aspect of immeasurable sternness. She has in her hand abook useful for reference, useful also for ging reproof to the knuckles of the reckless and the unwary. As the civilian enters, bitter, bitter criticism is being made by the drill- sergeant on the clumsy effort of a shock-headed lady private to say omnibus, the recruit being in favour of omtibus, and while admitting that the word as written possesses no letter "1,"is at the same time unwilling to admit that custom is

swrong and the dogmatic young drill-sergeant right Mother always says omlibus, and Aunt Emma says omlibus, except when they say bus, and besides Silencel Children, stand up. The children, up on the instant. Would the

civilian like to inspect the practice of the raw recrutis? The civilian would be glad. Child- ren, sit down; touch elbows,

"Who," demands the drill sergant, holding up her book for attention, "who would like to recite those verses about the bone which *—

ten right hands in the air-which we leamt last week?"

Cautious review of volunteers courageous enough to attack the serried lines of poetry. "Tommy Stace," says the drill-sergeant select- ing

saucer-eyed lnd, "You!" "Whereupon Master Strace gallops off at a desperate rate, and is at the third line ere he realizes that the drill sergeant is commanding him to halt. "Goʻmore slowly, Tommy Stace. Speak each line distinctly, Tommy Stace. Let us hear

each word, Tommy Stace)"

A few minutes, and Tommy was among the Boers with the steel for five wild and breathless minutes. Then the enemy scattered, and hop- ped, and ran and leaped down the north-eastern stage of the hill, making for his horses. As he skipped out of close range a score of British soldiers on the captured kopje accelerated his fight with volleys and individual shooting, and when a running man would double up all of a suddon and roll over like shot rabbit, there was no crying on the hill-top. Numbers of the fugitives were knocked over, one or two at the long range of 3000 yards. The unwounded reached their horses and galloped away over the plain in 11 Modder River, herly direction, towards Our Lancers had skirted this highest kopje to the east, and when the beaten phasis on the aspirate enemy streamed down the slope they started their horses were done up; and

Here you have a percentage of over 42 per cent, casalties among the Royal Marine Light Infantry, Every Briton is proud of the marines, hardiness of the sailor with the discipline of In pursuit, but with the fugitives. The sun it has been said of them that they unite the the soldier and the bravery of both. If there had no

which came the steady line of troops, casting long sindows to the rear. The sun glare did not help the men's accuracy of alm, as most of them had to fire straight into the brilliancy, and, vice versa, it helped the Boers to a better mark. But it was not here that our casualties mostly occurred; they came when the were seating the last fifty yards of the hilltop. Next to the magnificent courage of the troops, should-be-mentioned the marvellous energy and skilt of the engineering corps, under Major Stewart. When the men returned from the ridge the wrecked railway track and broken-

troops

is in the British Services a corps, that can goruse exactly over the centre of the kopjes held anywhere and do anything it is the Marines by the Boers, and turned the whole brown veld This grand exploit at Graspau is extolled by into a sua of shimmering ruddy haze, 'through all who saw it, from the General downwards. | On the field the men were christened, like the knight's bannerer of old," Bravest of the brave," and here, as I have told you by telegraph, that title is universally endorsed. Something is there to deplore in these heavy losses. The question has been much discussed, whether in Few of the terrible gapy made in the roll of officers, they were not even yet too much. -marked out as; Böer targets, by what General Gatacre the other day called badges and balls, eyes, I have put the question whether the colonel, major, captain, or Heutenant could not wear his distingujaning marks behind instead | down culverts had been repaired, and trains of in front he must be recognised, and as he wore standing ready at Belmont Station, with (usually loads,stripes or badges behind the supplies of water and medical- comforts; to

“The 'orse"}

!

"Horse murmurs the sergeant with em.

"The h-arse is to a man A willing pitient friend, ile stawisemmall

"Starts, Tommy Stace, 'starts."

"He starts at early morn

Till day is at a end."

"An end, if you please." Master Stace, his ardour somewhat cooled by these hurdle accidents, makes the required amendment, takes a deep breath, gares very hard at Moses in the Bulrushes on the wall, and attempts the second lap-

“In pleasure or in work

“He's witin to a·sist, Hejines the care and sor·ror "Sor-row, Tommy Stace, sorrow."

“He jínes the care and scr·row,

And sometimes he'll enlist.”.

"Very good, Tommy Stace, very good indeed. Now the third verse. Use your handkerchief, and try the third verae,"

Master Stice is watched curiously by his comrades. They are, I think, a little hurt to hear commendation.

"And 'midst the battle's roar

He-hem!!

"Well, Tommy Stace. What does he do in the battle's roar?"

Twenty hands up from those to whom the action of the horse in battle is not the impenetr able secret that it is to Private Stace, He, fading no suggestion in the picture of the infant Moses, tries David preparing to slay Goliath as being more likely to assist a sluggish memory.

And midst the battle's roar ile-ke's ofen-—"

"Often, if you please."

THE HORRORS OF ELECTRICITY. Dawiershaw Mrs.

Durant, A.

Electricity and its practical effects seem to Ducat, Capt. C. M. be less understood than any other form of Delen, Mrs. L. energy. Some of the more absurd ideas may be quoted here in order to remove a certain amount of apprehension.

Dubbels, A. Davidson, N. J. David, M, W. Deladonespa D'Arcy, Miss E. Dauncey, C. Droz

CAN MEAT BE ELECTRIFIED? The other day & Central Station engineer ap-- plied to his corporation committee for power to make a charge for inspections domauded by consumers which might turn out to be frivolous Duncan, D. M.

Elias, A. and unnecessary. The reason was that in one

Elina, M. case a butcher had complained that his meat was electrified, and in another a consumer at Edwards, L. ed that his meter had expladed. The butcher's Fiereman, M. II. Potion was highly ridiculous, as desi, living of Forster, R. C. H.

Ferrant, Mons. dead, has not been found to be capable of being "Hès often to be seen

electrified even when in such closer exantiguity Foster, L. A dyin' for his country

Fong Hai to excessively high electric pressures than the And Victorièr our Quiern"

meat could have been to a perfees y safe dones. France, G., Mr. and Tommy Stace sitdown with the confident face of nne who had good reason to expect a medal; ently based on the supposition that electricity Fakir, Mohamed

tic supply. The other idea of explosion is evid

Franklin, C. S. P. up again, though to his astonishment, and is a gas generator, is true that from same

France, A. C. ordered to say Victoria instead of Victorier machines a supply of ozone (which we are better which he does willingly, again resuming his acquainted with as a sniff of the briny ") may

Golde, Mrs. G. seat, and for his success is pinched by the ladbe derived, but this is not the vise with meters, Geis, Mrs. L.. next hit.

WATCH. STOPPED! TERRIBLE SICK GESS!

which are a triße miore reliable than theif) Now all of you stand up "-command obey-kindred in the gas businers.

and recite the little story of the Old Wo man and the Fox."

Faces of entire detachment brighten at this; there is evidently humour in be encountered in the cunning exercise. Drill sergeant glances the moment the dismiss will have to be sound at her watch on the table; at half-past four to

ed, and she has no intention of breaking this rule. The children watch anxiously for the "One day!" says the drill- signal to stafi, sergeant, and commences lù beat time with ber book,

"One d'y" chants the class, "a ole wo-

man-

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and you must say an old woman.

Stop stop stop! You must say one day O-i-d, old.” One day an old woman met a fox in the wood. Good morning, Mr, Fox, said she.

The sun is 'igh in the evings.""

High in the heavens."

The sun is high in the heavens, and all the world is gy Madam, said the fox, you speak the voice of trewith.

Froth truth: "

Of truth. Do you, Mr. Fox, sayde ge old woman,

sull take a inter-es: in farma produce? Well, said the fox, blushing, it is a subjeck which

Odil to note the regular Gregorian way of reciting the questions and answers pleasant to observe the way in which the troops keep time; the regular mounting and descending of inflec non in the dialogue; the endeavour to conceal satisfaction when the end of the perilous journey comes near, and the old woman gives the fox (who seems a well-meaning conversationalist,, but unfortunate) the last refort, confating him utterly The young drill sergeant, not dis- pluusid with the concerted movement, accepts the civilian's congratulations in the manner of one who deserves them. Her gaze wanders P and down the ranks searching for a promis selection. ing youngster: the eyes of all eager for

"Neille Wingfield!" A wild-haired infant thought of action. on her feet, panting with excitement at the "Nellie, you are going to be a very good linte gril.”

"Yus, teacher !" the poem called Up in the morning early,

"Say yes, not yus. And are going to recite

"Up in the mornin' curly, Up and about with the lauk. When the flahrs

"Flow-ers, my dear. flow-ers,"

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"When the flowers-flowers--" Nellie Wingfield, to the open delight of all of her gallant mate companions, unable to find the word. What the flowers do is more than she is able to guess; a warning that she is to leave her head alone deprives her apparently dormant mind. of the only means open to her, for arousing a

"Lucy Marsden, you try, 1"

Miss Marsden is perhaps one of the most able of all. Whilst Nellie Wingfield is endeavouring to assume the look of one who could have suc ceeded had she cared to do so but had refrained for good reasons of her own, Miss Marsden, her hands clasped behind her, reels off the lines with amazing case, coming an occasional cropper, however, over the word "cows," which she prefers to pronounce as "caows," and "daisies," to which she gives by inadvertence the Cockney rendering. Nevertheless, Miss Marsden gets to the end of the gallop with safety, and is rewarded by applause tapped gently on the book by the sergeant.

"Now, I want you children to tell me some

of the mistakes that have been made this after noon, so that I may feel sure you have recog- nized them. Well; Banjo Cross ?"

"Please, teacher, some one said 'fi-yer' instead of 'Aer."

"Please teacher," from a hurried small girl, "one of the boys said-he said 'draypers' instead of 'dr. pers."

"Draypers, my dear, is correct. Yeu don't way, Mother, can I fetch you anything from the dryper's? You always say, 'Mother, can I fetch anything for you from the dray-per's ?

"I never say neether," mutters the small girl. A boy rises from the end of his line with one eye on a red-headed girl and desperate decision in both, but she gives him a deadly look and he goes down as though shot. The civilian drill sergeant, pointing out that it is now near feels that he has intruded long enough, but the

to the hour of half-past four, declares there is just time for one more display in elocution. The right hands of those eager for glory and willing to take to risks go up on this announce

ment.” Alice Cleaver is chosen.

"Alice, you will give in your best manner, in your very best manner, mind, the poem of

Cleaver, with respect.

The Fireman Brive,'" suggests Miss

"No not the 'Fireman Brave,' but the one entitled 'Home of my Youth.'”

Miss Cleaver throws her loose hair from her shoulders and coughs.

**Ome of my Youth,' by Anon,” says Miss Cleaver.

"Don't forget your aspirates, dear". Miss Cleaver draws a deep breath in order that sho may, at any rate, start with a good one,

Hove of my youth, long, lang aga, Nesteling sweet in the valley below,

Ave you forgotten the dys that ive spent="" "Do be careful," urges the drill-sergeant.

*Near to the orchrits and wedders of

Kent?"

What are modders ?** (Satirical question.) "Things what you eat," says Miss Cleaver,

"You are unchynged, still as of yower. Rowses and vierlets bloom at your dower. Rowses that fide, but "Oh, my dear, my dear, my dear 2 wails the sergeant.

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As the civilian sirolls along a street already dusky, with lamps brightening suddenly in the shop windows, some of those released from -drill-harry past-tromegard to their respective-

barracks,

“But, I ̈s'y! ́~ ́Ain't she bloomin' peticlar fbout the w'y what you prenounce your words?"! **And d' you know what," remarks confiden- tially-a mutinous girl, "My mother's bin in service in some of the 'ighest families in the Edge'ars-tond, and she tea it's all a mistike./- Pall Mall Gantti.

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Goldman, G. Grosjean, Mons. Goldshly, S.

Ghyke,

Guilbert, M. E Gibbons, Mr. and Judson, Lr. A. K.

eskelli, S. R. Heward, J. C. Hill, Mrs. Haimovitch, E Hardouin, C. Hough C. C.. Hofstadt, L

Mrs. E. S.

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Parker, Nis. A. Pouse, S. E Packarse, ... - Putman, Payot, H. Perrine, Rev. S. A. Patten, Mrs. J. F. Plot, R.

Panigeon, Mr. & Mrs. A. Pathil, R. P. Rouget, J.

Riccardo, P.

Rourks, S. A.

Roberts, Mrs. D.

Rozario, Sta. D. E. Robbins, Miss J. F. Richardson, Mrs. F. M. Rowe, E. Reynolds J. Rawlings, R. Ratchel, Mrs. Richardan, Miss. Reusinge, G. Richerala, Miss D. Rosenzweig, Rotenberg, U. Robinson, G. Robertson, Capt. R.

Ranson, L. EL

Mrs. P.

Robinson, Mrs. W.

Stone, lisa Seeberg, Capt. T.' Sharpe, C. Stemberg, G. Sheppelman, Mrs. H.'

Mrs. J.

Men who ought to know better have accused Galgoczy, Josephine von Steinhagen, Murie the motors of tramcars of magneti ing and Glover, Mr.

Guentz otherwise disorganising their watches, This is not always said with the reward conviction that Gracia, things are St, bat it looks well assure a Gaye, Mr. and Mrs. little technical knowledge occasionally;ld.ough it ignores the fact that the motor is clad in an iron aket which no intensity of magnesim

However, a cirrevonden! of a paper in a great Yorkshire city went witch further than this a few monta ago and stated that he was standing on the pavement when an overhead trolly, wire broke on the local tramway systent. He saw vivid fames extend for y, rus around, the ground shosh, his watch stopped on the instard, and he felt terribly sick All this sounds rather alarming, but the

etails are due to a lively imagination rather Hamilton, Miss E. than the actual facts. The wire falling to the Hopkins, R. G. ground and thus being relieved of al: work Harrison, Miss L. beyond the breaking point. Would no donoray, C.

Hofman, G. 'M. at with its energy to the return aii at such Hunt, G. rapid rate that the heat evolved would meli Hutchison, GW the copper and show the characteristic flame. But that is all, and that would be all over in Hall, J. A. less time than it takes to write the word. Watches have been known to stop before theirs. dawn of the electrical age, and men have been known to feel from what the school boy dubs "blue fank."

WHAT PRESSURE DOES. IT TAKE TO, KILL F Dangerous pressures vary according to the constitution and physical condition of the indi- viduals concerned, but it may interest readers to know that while 1.700 volts m 30 is used 1 electrocute criminals in the State of New York a man in Messrs. Sigmen's employ has had a shock of 2,000 volts from one hand to the other; irms extended, and has survived the onleal,-j sidvocate of India,

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