Show J BRITAIN IS THE t 1 LAND OF SPORTS i 1 While Its a e Fighting Abroad broad Games are 9 at Home Hamel HamelI I OdORS IN Oran le lair Ue Taft An loon lIo rh l th the bear London Jul July S London Ca Cable tile ble letter copyrighted by the As Aa Great Britain hi hithe the land Jand ot of alert soldiers are arc a barbarous the fir East Bost In n dramatic to save Mt the lives of at some IOme ot of their fellow noun and maintain their prestige soldiers are engaged In a task In Ashanti where British women And children Are In danger ot of being massacred by revolted revolt ed Ht savages and a quarter of a million I are grappling with the atu military and nd civil be ba overcome before South Miles I le pacified Yet at horn home cricket running rowing polo tennis and athletic lc contests of at all d held practically undiminished away wa over public interest WEEK AT lI RENLEY Ilia It is true that Henle week weak all as Ii a so eo social cial has been m more re slimly Ii at attended t tended than tor years past and the gorgeous hummer Bummer toilets did not blot sum as usual on the banks ot of the Thames Thame nut But while society deserted I Honley there was waB no diminution In the quality of the nit rowing or In the interest of these theN who watch Henley Henly for tor its Ita sporting rather than for Its Ita social r tea turoa tuNS The war and the w weather wet were chiefly for absence from the great re t river carnival The Th begin beginning ning of the week was a so o wretchedly wretched wt amp cold celd lh t many mallY persons their projected trip The cricket match did not supper from th thew causes It attracted In a as large nuns num bere as ever er and for Cor several days daYI the undergraduate and his hll deter Iter mother and other attachments he have been ubiquitous throughout London INTERNATIONAL international The and polo are also aklo looked forward tonnI to with lIh keen heed interest Whitt with such lIuch large larg It contingent at present from Uie United Stat State an annual convention of Ih the largest engineer organizations to In AmerICa holding its meetings within the shadow ot of Abbe Abbey the hundreds of who on I their heir way wa to Paris Parle P pay A plying visit t to ling land to 0 11 say of Ih those who regu regularly larl crow the A Atlantic lI for tor a holiday It is Ie almost M Ln so no anywhere without meeting The They are ars omnipresent Over fifty Americans who were Witt anxious to attend UV the Fourth of at Jill July banquet had bad to celebrate the eM by themselves owIn owing to lack of apace pue 4 A DOOR WITH A The Ie reception of the Stales t Mr Joseph II 11 Choate for tor Americas wu was more OC crowded than remembered In the lie his hie tort tM ot of the embassy A curt Otis OUI feature was the presence ot of a man who strolled past patt the flunkeys and sW W dye do to Mrs Choate boat with without out ul hl hi hilt hat and still with his hla hd had covered sat t down In th the drawing room tOOm full hilI of American women and be ben gait n to pad pul a lighted d cigar r After a hi fu hittle futile tile to engage nr time the In this Individual left not In the to slightest put Iut out because such action had been to him TJ The absence ot of balls ball And parties ban haa driven dran society to other forms of Im amuse bent the last diversion being beetle pantie on en the thu Serpentine In Ute Hyde Park FIRST TIME TUm m IN For the nut first time In years the prin ease CUI ot of Wales accompanied the prince of Wales to Io and It was a bitter to her to see Iamond Jubilee the prince entry and title yr years winner or of the Derby beaten by Merry Oal Mr Ir William Waldorf Actors Altor recent paragraph In his own paper per the Pall lall Mail In Oll te about Captain SIr Berkeley Milne or of the HUI naval and mill tar lal club formerly com ot of the Royal Yacht Osborne and II a well known clubman who at attended tended fended II a at the Actors Ator without an is 18 makIng A great com commotion commotion motion In London society and threaten to fir Ir Actors position therein It scents that Captain Milne was u diner at al the house ot of a well known knon Id who asked him to go with hr her air arty to th the Actors concert This Thill II dally done don In London and Captain III ly accepted On ar r Mr 4 Instead of shaking hands Wit Uit a captain asked ked the let lat letter tr ter hi his na t Milne told lold him and said Id that Lady brought him with her party part ASTOR ASTOn IS A CHUMP Nr Aster responded that 10 b hid had not tilt the pleasure of his acquaintance requested him to leave adding that he would In insert sert eert Q a notice In the newspapers Cp Cap Captin tin Mime retired In confusion and amI andrem rem the Natal Olal and Military club the same night sent lent Mr lr Actor Ator 1 a letter of ofa ofa a 1 and expressed the hope hole that h he would allow the matter to lire drop In Ine e ot of this Mr All Astor tor In hit his paper the next afternoon inserted all cabled to the Pre Press at the time the following paragraph We are an desired d to make known that the presence of oC lr Milne ot of the Naval anti an Military club at Mr r Astor Altor I a concert last Thursday evening was a uninvited SOCIETY IS Captain mn many Influential Who include the duke duk of York Yorka a are th the duke and other natal regarding Mr Actors conduct as AI an pewit to their profession as well III as to a PI friend l whoa position In society el is 18 unquestioned The Th members ot of the 1118 Naval and nd club are a algo Indignant at the tact that Mr Aster d dragged 1 In the name of their club The whole holt with Captain letter has been placed before th the prince of Wal Wales and society is III awaiting the next move ROBERTS DID AID NOT OOT WANT OREEN Lord Roberta de declination to allow t troops to be withdrawn from South for tor service III fu ChIna is II said Mid to have coma about this thin way wa The sec Me secretary of for war Lord lArd Lands Land downe denne Lord Roberts Roberta aikin asking It If Ithe he could spare lIpare l a division and Tea 1 Lord then selected II a number of n favorite favorit of officers who have havil been cooling their heels In hi hithe the drawing rooms at home for billets billet with the force fora In th the meanwhile Rob Robert Otis ert cabled bJ d suggesting that several of ofhie his hie tried should accompany pony pany the division he Was preparing adding that It If as an army corps was 11 need needed needed ed he ha would like to go himself These TheM put Lord lArd Landsdowne In an awkward Ax AxI I I I LITTLE BOBS DODS WAS 0 Oh TIME i he answered Lord Roberts Roberta i i suggestion the latter hard from Crom privat I vat Pawnee that none lIone ot of his hll seasoned lieutenants wee to go but that war tiara who have fattened on the flesh fleshpots pots pole or of the city were coming out to site all commands In the expedition whereupon the little man promptly wired London that It was Impo to send any an mope l at an all out ot of South his hll previous offer beIng based on lord lArd army rejoiced and nd tho war Will Waa reluctantly obliged ed t to a scheme whereby It was WAI hoped to motile mollify many soldiers and their relation There Ther is h no ot of this thle but It itis is III told with DAD BAD TREATMENT mOT OF VOLUN VOLUNTEERS The resignation of lord the hOnorary colonel and Co Cod tile the commanding officer ot of the crack London Scottish volunteers Mil cc a result ot of their desire to protect against the governments treatment of r the In the service has haa crest crested ed a bbl tol le III II a brother of the minister of at that name and nd Lord has done don more mor for tor this branch or of Ot Great defense tha than any allY other oter man manThe The trouble arose over the wr war of flee to give a capitation grant to the Landon they the were ere tillable owing ewing to having lIS men menat lit at the front to put 10 per tr cent of strength In camp amp for tor the man maneuvers Lord writing to Lord ford Lands Landsdowne downe tells him he ha has It the original Intention ot of the lie voter Oter torn rind dad leas hall chan changed ed its Ita character und and lion lionA A Albrecht who has haa just died In London wee a 11 manufacturer of chemi ct cats at Durla During th the American civil win war b be w was mainly instrumental In In collecting for tur distribution among nun the be freedmen |