Show WOODS OF GENERALS IX ACTION A curious article might be written on the immunity from wounds inaction I in-action of some generals and the ill fortune of others in becoming the bilet for a bullet No commander was ever more ftrward in the fighting fight-ing line than Sheridan yet henever got scratch tkobeleff who many a time went at it with his own good sword at d in his white coat and on his white charger headed the charge with a recklessness that men called madness had as complete an immunity im-munity bS if he carried the charmed life that hi soldiers ascribed and was wounded only in the quiet trencbeo by a chance bullet tired into the air a mile away 1Ve ling ron w > s but once hit the bullet that carried away his boot heel ecarce give him a contusion Grant was never struck no more was Napoleon Napo-leon Of sir Neville Chamberlain alan one of tbe mot distingu shed pffictrs of tur Indian army the saying say-ing goes that x > e never went into action without receiving a wound and the galant old man has been lighting pretty steadily ever since the firt Afghan war Ba zaine was a man to whom Fortune was not stingy in the m fitter of woundb At Borne there cme to him the leaden reminder that he was mortal though this time it wa but a gentle hint The fagnuent of a shed hit him on the left shoulder shoul-der but it had been well spen and because of the prov cioii of the epaulette gave him but a contusion from which he bad pin for Efveal days especially when on horseback horse-back English Illustrated Magazine Maga-zine |