OUR LIVIN SOLDIERS 0 BY CErAn Lr Z lowr LOWE ajr A IV 17 gen sir henry evelyn wood V C G C B G C M X G adjutant general of uie the forces in all the BrIt british lith army alch n contains a ROOI many very officers theia ta Is probably no ni mr more all around a raan maxi than the present A iju tant general of tile arces for in ili haf hl time as one ot of liis biographers remarks lie ho has hd boon been sailor corn t and of 0 corpo Capt captain itin and alolor of nf infantry lur amry ataru ate ale of the bialt college co lIeRe at low colon lit b enral i ars nral tl alifi buther bold kalcl to lo hounds or of the ilish bongers mongers mon gers t F atilla ut il chrite tr for thit out VL eess ardeal ahll g firtel 1 fellow all vy birth lie in is an esex caon calf lint but nver before N aaa as iacre a calf with such stich a 11 ilah ab nb libart ben etli ity its hide bid hla his grann grandfather father was nn an opulent ine reliant 0 of londen donilon town antt n sir matthew wood X who had been van its lorl mayor nil nd for aniro tami thorf thirty years its ais rp r in ill art llam ct lie ho mad notorious by MS ills oslenda bious thip or of tile cause of quean coeline con line the german of ui oct equally billy girman acor corgi e IV his f ather was waa tile the rev kev sl sit 1 holni hu I lace age wood bart barl vicar or of bessing in essex abere lie he was bota boia iti ill IS 8 and his uncle was lord rath halh orley lord calic ot of Ln england gland on the th other hand big cornish mother mitchell by nam belonged belon pod to a naval and it was perhaps title ic to this ihla fact that y youna oil ng melyn rivilyn wood first firm sought on the seato sea to to avils fact and th the additional one that the rough sea seemed to be tho the most fitting fittl ns life element for such a and audacious spirit A N AR OLT oln ITERO HERO As ai a on n board the v albod Que qubell ell guns gun young wood actor attaining his lith year spent eighth ri exciting eA citing and happa illo months abs tbs being pr armit prem Mit ritt at th tile bombardment hom bar dment of odessa odema but he be was as hipko enough to bo be Sn eluded in ill the lynn immortal gortat naval brigade V chich aich landed to jol join our land forces in the siege ot of sobs 0 pei and tte ire boy boil had not been cwm ions I 1 hi I 1 the iho trenches before he was wan telco recommended mended id for the Vir virtoria torla crow clogs on oil one CP occasion ion us its vas mas v as written toy ny capt pei to in whom ho it was acting its A 1 P C wood HA as set bet boniv in ili hu ich yeat yo ye boys of ell cia tid vol till te teiei iet to bring ail up powder frota from the i teat par a fire chich daunted it was mas the more noble no as there lher aero rc no spectators th n tin s of thoo to tin heroes wits waa the other are arc knoob n through thi dueh the hole fumy and I 1 alint almost thought it incon ant to bavo two uli sub dauntless spirits round tile the th vry v vt ry next dy day capt acl th thanked anIced his bokvist aido de dc camp in ili the drea eno of 0 the runs guns c ren a under hla his coni coal mand for hailing hRin fi unit and catill unda sl ft very heavy fire from ta ian and the krijn it a tile inc alch had IP airn n set on oil ire fire by the ilia alu juala yuu yea he be glad to 10 hear wrote capt pell PP I 1 to woods father that ihal not lot only did your son whew how tile alio most mort coursac in battery lait cry but tile ills conduct find and manners are as exemplary as ill hl rodingo rou cou ingo in tic anal on it the indan wood like n deer or a on etc fielce ot or mon eton WILS was tile only hc be of the rh naval brigado brif cud to the wall abere ho he iris struck doan sense les A ly by a Ru Rua filan bullot all hp he havid weil veil sd lord lyons the naval chiff chial at fa n banot bao lot given him at tl ten Arward WArd bv bil tilt ian city of london but 1 I daull it in the bhole liole li history artory of 0 chiv atry ar ry there la in anything liner than the co coquet duet of cart capt peel and his two gallan gallant lant t albeit die d camp one of whom boil wood oo il vas nas wounded placing tho the seating scaling ladicos ag the wall waits of I 1 the rod an jaitly disgusted at not readi I 1 the penny nith 0 bro bronze lize which lie he b haa repeatedly rappa curtly earned and for Avi which liell lie he had bad been tt tico ice midshipman wood on I 1 hoin 1 in hl hi lmh year now determined to woo the he cuy coy caddess dellna nI lona on another tack tacit and procured a commission in tho the nth light dragoons now ilar iii sala gaii on oil tile th el day 1 after joining Jol olna wrote str sir evo n in a harm charm insle t chatty jubilee ari article loic on tile the S oldie of 0 the qt queen can 1 1 1 I N M rote direct to the commender comma ln n chief that I 1 hid had not joined the army to spend my time in a a quiet country town and alleging that I 1 had passed all my drilli bogged begged I 1 might bo be allowed to join the blead li ail quarters nu arters ot of this A leesment leel ment in the crimea this letter was duly acknowledged by tile ada u tall t G galex leial at to lo the forces in the foll follow following inar terms tile the officer con com i the th depot I 1 ial directed to point out to this that correspond nee 1 should be ba for added through tile proper channel the commander ln in chirr bits I 1 RIN understood it takes more than cleall ach duyff to hakea perfect cavalry I 1 officer urne it appears tile RD op 1 illona COIlE liaa has been at the depot the letter hov however vcr wound up by saying baying that asi 0 tile tho youir allicer was so BO MIX lous lou to return to th the he should be bent I 1 out at tile the erl IN till alir MUTINY but in ili the Seba sevastopol sebastopol fell I 1 the mutiny broke brake out ont and youns young wood exchanging into th ill seventeenth laners I 1 lann n as aa IN dath Diat li or glor glory y lloys hoyn mcnut out to india when lie I 1 learned the ld almost ua as quickly ats he bit had I arnert arned cavalry dall and the third bombay baY can irv at ho head of fc T hom he soon wun hii tit th vietoria victoria lorla choa which had been beell so po nig refused lalni as 2 a middy in the crimea for foi having during the at ahen hen in n commend of A troop of the third light cavalry rit tacked with rauch pit ballanti cantry i allia ost single handed a body of debos mho had bat dwle ri a stand etan rhom he routed also for having subsequently near g aall 1 fotr artly at 1 y advanced nith a an and d F w a r of apil ons horse and rescued front from a band of 0 robbers a Ili tall nhom they had captured and carried carded off to the jungle there 01 ty y intended to hans hang him hl ill 1 I 1 assure you wrote sir richmond shake peare hint I 1 It believe elleve the serviced servi ot of those tio officers r radford bradford falter waid chief ef ct police the marapo lis and lood it at 1111 ill bo of moi gioie e avail in restoring order than ihan any number of oc english soldiers nut but as wood in ili somewhat ehat ot of a hult buff had ad me navy to tc become a I 1 borse marine so ro lie he now in turn for or bolves motives of 0 a rather sJ similar nillar kind tor for book tile the cavalry arm in 0 order rd L r I 1 to t try r alinz ills his fortuni fortune etith lah the Intaj itry he had boon been by ills hla co cavalry chart or in ill act of too loo literal obea obedience to I 1 orders some even catlett called it bardl nation and lie h resigned although maj dayno or May A faynes neti boise HOT so wrote bi him in 1 I have never met with an aftic officer r is of f LICUL woods use age not yet 2 sa 3 who rave higher promise of 0 making a brilliant ills whole heart anil and bout boul are ara in hla his and he Is an ot of sir chaiet 5 Nap lers becu ideal of 0 fill an li it mcg ular horseman bat be hail ad meanwhile had donough ot of is as well all as ot of the in burning treat heat of 0 indeli so that soon foon after re rc imling 1111 nine home ho be c exchanged hung cd ills hla saber for a clas more that la 18 to say fay a major by purchase at the ago age ot of 21 24 he exchanged into the seventy thard bligh land landrers now the second battalion watch with mith velch chich lie he d for three years year when lie took a turn like dal rity aith the acl 11 cc and not content mith that lie finally passed to the ninetieth perthshire Perth shire the second Camei omans a battalion ii aich had ever exercised a curious arcurious fascination ci for the coming nien men of 0 the tlc alc army that it had already boon the nursery of iwo commanders ln in chief one hila had been viscount hill and one lie that was waa tu tie be viscount jn in tilt thi intervals lie tween bla hl i gini El mental se service ivice wood had spent dewia pescial years year at ili the college be had heaxt for and been called calet d to the bar J he e had joined alloca rinds of b heart alta T 9 service in lichan In lanil 1 innon other maros duijn tile tho fenian I troubles ot of K fg N M here in looking for military glory ho be found what was more substantial a model mite it II vas nas dicing tb salisbury iliin maneu maneuvers veis ot of that lie wa fust filst brought into service contact sir firnot agn not Wol Kely y who was quick to recognize ills hla capacity for organization aniza tion find and command and so 0 o when A he chantl campaign borame became nicea feces piry next year he appointed col wood to do what lie had dono so well mell fifteen years in india blat is to rathe a body of natives native as a al ill iia i to ill ahr Lri tish a body which hs be soon hoon drilled and disciplined so net all that bolg ley py wrote to him 1 I watched you yen through ill glass until you got close to tile the mailach we left on the be beich leb and bour movements looked so PO pretty that one would bave thought them a a strategic strite elc egic movement across abo elong 1 ons valley A VICTOR victorious roUS CAMPAIGN wood NN with ith its his banit lealos T was as f fortunate r enough to fight the first a action 0 I 1 0 of the cam campaign thus breaking t the h le rp il as wolseley fley said of the inai invincibility cibil ity ot of the As hantla in the bush ain in the subsequent riK hline lie he waa aaa badly wounded in the breast by art an ashanti aluis but neither wada nor fever e could I 1 d keep him lack back and ofru cottu glans on 0 again to 10 the front at the head of 0 his levies he led 1 id tile the attack at Ord ahsu opened the th road to Coo malisic on him arid and on an baker luvell the brunt braunl ot or this his var has hail toile n rote Wol wolseley deley nt at its close with other high encomia on nig big follow majr in ili the nrc bracks bi ecka col woods next flold field ot of service was to 0 o bo be south africa after acting ln for several years as a second staff officer at he be VA sent out in the spring of to take command of on vf of the four columns de detailed to i rush the power ot of the ili beadel by tb ahr chief to whom lie he once referred as I 1 that african tyrant i with tile the voice of 0 the llie inma tind lind ohp teeth of tile the volf if march ly strike Lom om blied binea auh woi ever ill I 1 he strater leal maxim rf of moltke As ak it was al ulo alo o that of n lord Cho linsford nho ho divided filed hla his force into tour four weak columns columna tor for the iho invasion of zululand Zu luland with 11 ayos capital kraal iia as I 1 heir concentrating and ciu crushing shing point I 1 lol 01 wood 0 o 85 a xv ell tho fourth column un n tho the left aitt alth big bv ve at Vir cht in ili the lh southwest houth west corner borner tit of the transvaal v had tile year before liven that thal v was as nily kooim column came to t include IL 11 body of mounted boo fl minder under the bravo brave plot act ays who mho lid dirt excel int service ervice fr for or the common cause tile the prote protection tion of the iho population from zulu wood advanced alth boldness lut but ole no 1 luni 1119 there benched rca clied him tile the news of 0 what was practically tile annihilation of 0 the col j mn next to him at isan diwana an aal ilist gae eap him pause jutt just as aa the d defeat of blucher at elleny a policy of roscine on the victorious wellington welington lIng tOll at bras brag in tile the same manner goodsh being now nov a walling ganio he took ill up a strongly stion gly Pst position lon on oil bamboula Kam Ham boula hill while sending out from time to in time tho the irregular horsemen ho of patt lya and buller to provoke them to an attack at last tills policy had its and icim n P host of savan savall al t Is itself alti with fury nt ablit wois handful or of inon inen con col among amone horn for moir lalor and discipline were mere his own perth ahir on both hideg the hauld was desperate but thanks chairs to the co intrepidity of col wood anil and the stubborn bravery of 0 his men it bonded ili the complete rep of the bavage farmy and whon on that Klor glor loua louR ath of 0 marii malli mar mal li ii said wood wod himself afterward nt at a ell city banquet ia liquet zulus aulus measured their strength tor for five long fourthey hour they schned very long to lo me irist our ISM ISDO inc men M und and young an and d a old upheld equally tile tho credit of out our items it v as a not till 1111 four months later eliat ill ahr zulus titter after ihla it jig smashing defeat had the stomach to land aland up for or a 11 final trial of strength with v ith us its fit at lU lUndt vilere the th of 0 Kamb nula it akala K a 1 n played it a prominent roin te ay mv lads IN bowl vaa lian beard to lo and not net more than once ilare low ito 0 cry o far fal alyn vl yn All wooda faaee f ciroto rot 0 forbes WAS wn ladling with ohp rapture ot 0 tl the fra fray oa as he rode up 1 and I donn on 1 behind l nil his regiment exposed woods a dle dis of bullets to L of 0 arse sad aid clear cs are bat anle tie sperl ili ion iut but from the pini print of ft view or of ills they suffer froin ons one ex grave defect they make no reference to himself it Is 1 in nadyn vii wood lood coin pany wrote forb r arhia a thit that one oe hears heaxt of evelyn wood N nevertheless wood nan asi light shining in a lark dark ever as a bright place tto 0 that wo sely nov roto rote to 11 bilm in just a line inc to lo congratulate yoa tou on ull all you hive kne dine for tho th state you and bullar have been tile the bright spots in athla his miserable aar ar two daynes OLL OLI 11 in hold bold relief lotfi I laird ird rd chelmsford Chelm stord the riama of 01 wood and buller on his retain home c vii lie he had now been rec received elved FL a splendid reception both in his native county and this th elty city of 0 london landoll which lid did it its best beat to ijo iq honor I 1 to this ti lial all s idler and as tor for the th Ideall bra in ili this ideal soldier so idler was not this finaly expressed bv ahat he said at a city banquet on the th sul subject eject of regimental colors alch e IT I 1 it t wis was proposed prop oscil to abolish a as c indeed they tire pro now no longer carried r i e 1 I into action it to 18 Sugg suggested ted that the they me ate and arc t tho he cause of 0 atter after all they aro are what a colored rag ra on a and Is it morth while to risk mans lives for or 46 piece flece of danl silk you na as well say that because honor Is 13 in invisible and falth faith impalpable the they do ii not t exist as lods lode stars for the mind colors are arc potent to check disaster devast r to rally fugl lives to attack the chivalry that li Is shown chown in the deconge lct nse ot it any ish ideal whatever may be its ita symbol is IH surely never waited and it A v us as tills thia sense of oc el in another ano fo ni sir evelyn evelln to return to south africa ns as the guide conanan companion I 1 on an consoler of the F empress pres eugence when she ehe went out there to t visit tb spot abere here her jonir son th tell to till an imperial crown