Show NEVER FORGOT HIS MANNERS Two Good Stories Told of Major Gen eral Plumer Plumer- In the campaign of 97 1896 Colonel now Major-General Major Plumer raiSed and led of mounted riflemen and he used to return return return re re- turn to in the evening as clean and spruce as though h he had just come In from a stroll down Bond street As an example of his unvarying unvarying unvarying ing drawing room manners as a brother officer o once once ce styled them a astory astory story is told of him that during the Matabele l campaign his small force found itself in a very hot corner and men were falling rapidly in all Plumer had two machine guns with him and these he considered were not doing a as well as they might be He called up an orderly therefore therefore therefore there there- fore and said to him him- Will you kindly kindly kindly kind kind- ly go to Capt Captain in Blank who commanded commanded commanded com com- the guns and and tell tell him that I think he might do better if he would please move his guns a little further to Lo the right Thank you And then he calmly we went t on with his direction of at the fight in the same quiet easy manner Again he was rather badly hit while in command of a column luring Juring the recent S South uth African war ind sent a message to his second in command to the effect that he was ather rather badly scratched and he would JQ e greatly obliged if Colonel Blank would take over the command of the force pending further orders Men Men and Women London |