Show Mr a y r T w M err I I o r H E D E WET N E r 0 OF F THE T i H I I I I L E B BRITISH RI TISH T S H A ARMY R M Y THE h view MASSIVE I OF ANCIENT COLUMNS COLUMNS In the h KARNAK KARN pa K N 1 4 i I I tit 1118 lB Wands S of ot Major Cl Om t ral f HP Denton T g John Cell French who II 11 I now In BUilth I of ot tho o 1 JL A ca I In v an are 1101 l llo i I they forward to lo the in time Um h h he will be nut Cill I IC I I Lr I nUt nul tur Ing hie 8 at A ASor AI 1 lake up 1111 t HOU C iii home to tn 1 First Firsti t Sor commander command r of ot t the h hI Jl 1 lut as aM H hell held hy by hyi I to the P post it E II Ily i ar my mops I i lilt III t t et hid iI 1 huller favorites In such ty i I 1 with ure r rI ll llone u it t h ii I i I 1 cud one or of whom la I II a 11 U n 10 ohm 1 form a wry very happy Vl army Is III oll ollI otle ReX their theil f I In i of or tho lie pr prettiest I choler flifle how hew In ht army I It Is la the opinion t i nir office olnee will rank a asad 1 aji cr t that mi th Iho w war r ji ii sad BAd mistake If It It I t I French from tl the e acne of hi Mr II active vI op I j Il orations Wow before the tho actual parin Ij f as 11 hers are areno I ot of no i the floes lit at present o of an any other I half with commander In t the i i Those Thaw who of ot 11 Ids hll o f i be bestow besloW tow upon Pan him the greatest ti I II I compliment In called him hlOi the I duh It mid and fI owing to the j 1 Brit sh 1 I Da a Wet Wel daring he has displayed throughout the 1 active acme command In Ito South of or his It ti 11 Africa period r due allowance for their the Ir I of at birth there are many pa par pars In 10 the rho cm of or cheste two s I 1 generals One De Wet was wan made n a 1 aI I I military man through stress of ot circum urn obliged to tight fight run tun runor runor or nr surrender nil all a man holds hold roost mot mott campaign record shows shown w dear Inn His t rarely equaled never II per r rh hops hups IUra od In rapid marches dar Ar h h i lag Inu raids rol e ambuscades and J tl I lIl e dashes upon his unsuspecting I enemy enam enami l Hut fIut while the doings doing of ot De Wet hove have i c rightly challenged the tho admiration of ot tho world Ids hili British rival French I 1 his hils displayed tho the name come tlc tics In a lessor degree and boa hM pur PilI pursued sued the tho sumo same tactics tact though th ugh he hoe has less leall attention I from been lees In the public eye CI As AH a ft Indica Indication tion merely morely It may Ilia he Ie pointed out that I no two men havo o been ice m I t e Her reported rr r ras d di i as ns killed or miming than limn 1 De e 1 Wot and nn n Hell There Thore has hai M u o n been heen n the tho panic panic uncertainty na rw to 10 their move mOe mover r meal mento s not only to i r n the he ubiquitous q n news newspaper s ws paper hut but their own mi Ml r p er rlou or having been kept t fall v I as os to thorr whereabouts It Q t I may not bo hG assorting too mud much to that lint nt three th se two men o cr mi have lean boon tho the and heart of ot the protracted campaign r and that their removal from rom the field 1 j would tl bo ho loo looked 1 til c upon t l D o n b by Tommy A Atkins s ns 08 nit nn an unspeakable calamity French has never pushed himself elf to tho the front and particulars na as nato to his career ore are hard to obtain except excepting ing 1115 tho o Ural that refer to his Ida latter life In South Af i lea leaBorn r Born Darn In tho the quiet village of ot nipple Vale Kent Kant French rench Is 18 now but hul i little bYr years old ohm un tut until til no Went to 10 I Africa lit In hud bud its 11 service only li lit Itt the Sudan of Im 5 In III the Nineteenth hu hl f its ho ha In r t After Mtr ft r ten K ur ri nt III homo In III vu va U h hI was war sent out oil to fight the hoer lioen with ih the rank of ot H noral Ier I and found t e employment t fur for hit his UM us of ot tho the cavalry In III He Ifo v wait fUll as tho the lait lart to lave leav till the beleaguered mill and uL n 1 Inter the lh C flint lie to 10 enter enlar Kim 1 II H 1 a woe HO so that the tho never 1 knew V win whre re to Ind him for or 0 tho the flea nell when you ph ce your linger on all him he ha la le let lanot t not 1101 there thOre If It In the 11 morning he was reported cutting a n line III of o runway railway as ns na no not apt In tho the afternoon noon h he would bo ho thirty miles or more mor away Ing lag the tho hoer lino IIno of ot through tn ough an nil Important mountain turn From l the time manner manlier In ht which lie he h be lie Ctrl Ies n ti horse ore one would Id know 1101 s that Frenchs li t wan on Oil shipboard an RII n r a IL I n r re eau In thin the navy 3 for Cor ho ni to IUs s e e nothing r more a n r Hns ea a than n a rut fat iii hunched up UI Indian Indians s Itin t s Another has hils compared n t him Ulm lo 10 I u Grunt Irani on horseback for COI he hl IH is IHnot It not n a 1 commanding figure on et the lice qua quarter quater ter tel dock deck of at lila his noble stood Hut hp hI sticks there ho gets geta there all the same Ills Hlo stuff start anti and his Ills corps of ot cavalry CL vury the sort port of r rho ho ht IB la and atul that they Ile believe hollee In III him hint speaks nl 8 volumes for tor his example If It not notor for or his hlo In his hili he lie no other othor of tit our civil Will go en conspicuously as nit That ho IH Is n a barn botn Rivalry lender leader says nays nn on l his liln throughout tho the war clearly y yet t his hili b k l I 11 1 I M t I s s a 1 r t tr r t ti I I i I f 1 I 1 it a It l 1 a M G p W C 5 e t ki 1 1 d dA ri 1 r 0 GENERAL FRENCH AND HIS FAMILY appearance on a II charger by h no 10 moans en ono one to either his own awn for tor prolonged occupation of tho the saddle Huddle or tiro tho with which his lila carry him Short In lit und and of ot build there Is la not tho the toast suggestion of ot an nn Irishman about him till IIII you catch which you YUU m im e do lIo a n clear gray eye Iye which looks at tit you very vely frankly observantly observantly oh antly Amid which proves capable at nt times fleas of or burning b oral n nh with i n a lurid fervency which makes malter the thu object of or Its regard In lu Inclined dined to remember pressing oln engage meats elsewhere No o la 11 the operations dis lIls disturbs turbe l 1 serenity but any slack stack i t A news neM of ot movement or slowness of or com eom on the part of or an un officer In n trusted trus 11 with n II critical move will with without without without out fall 1111 Kindle the tha theme lame While absolutely absolutely cool under tire lire ho ha Is III extremely quick In ht what one might as ns asI I recovering r e co his hla game null Is III very clever In laying lahl out his hla plan of or opera operations Hans In modifying and altering It 11 according to the tho actual fortunes of ot time tho day ny Ho lIu III Is n most moat uncomfortable blo com corn companion panion In III action notion because It never seems to occur to hm him t that h If a n o c bullet ballot hits you youIt youIt youit It generally hurts mud ho Is nn on nl adopt tit at that most trying of ot all nil movements In book back under lire fire aa as a as aR s riding rid InK up tip to It It Is III nr ac 1 acknowledged on nil all sides that ho he has frequently tho enemy nt at their own game on their own grounds and amid outmaneuvered th them m on many occa ocea occasions clone Blons It was at nt however that ho Ito first shone conspicuously I This Thill Is your funeral said Sir George O Whit to o him on Mils occasion ho Ito soon lIoon proved that ho 1 know knew how hots to run riot It rho Tho had bud reason to rum ruo their letting him escape from not nol only train from tho tiro trouncing they got cot ot at nt 1 but subsequently In tho the mountains nail and on the burning veldt Everybody I knows now that If It It hull had hadnot not lIot been for ai French and anda a law OW outer othor choice ei of ot anti 0 courage 1111 thorn then little Lord Roberta campaign would not have been the much lauded success that It right after utter H lt was over ocr Trench ahead of ot tho the malt male body of tho the Ing legions cutting 11 II 10 al 0 seizing holding river and ov ev when wh n most needed nt at just tho the tight right time For example on Fob 11 1 1899 lio ho seized a I ford nt lit drift on oft tho the river upon which ho hind had pounced hike n thunderbolt after aCt l hav having hll lug ing d on from and ami next day u II cone ramo that after holding the tho crossing so 80 long as liS was VIlH necessary ar arbo ho he had pushed posited on nu with three broaden brigades of or cavalry horse artillery maid and mounted n Madder Infantry to seize time the ford tord at ut river miles away In lit con conjunction conjunction junction with another command ho completely turned the tho Joers and ond opened tho the way WilY for Cor or tho tha Immediate re 10 relief I lief lIot of ot tho the descent upon which by French rench l with his hilI cv airy aly thundering along mid mill dust heat was one OliO of ot tho the magnificent spec lades of ot the tho war Ho IIo unit anti lila his men melt swept wept everything before baMo them entered and an UI hour later Inter French was his dinner as unconcernedly ns Os If IC cavalry charges and hot dusty marches were Well a things with which ho lie had hind nothing to do nl al oil nil Tho way VIlY In III which he betided off oft anti rounded UP III unfortunate nate nato was WU cue no of o the most mas mae masterly terly feats of ot tho the war wm und and ho lie accomplished pushed It with halt hall horses and worn down lown with fatigue French boat hant Roberts Into Pretoria and was van n II abong long bong distance beyond It when tho the Int latt ter announced Its lis full fall nod tho thin esa o o of ot h There is III no tin doubt douht Hint Hutt he hind had a n much clearer con cog conception of tho the n In HIP ure way of or complete subjugation than the tho overrated ed cd Hobs Bahe who so soon noun after wont homo home to rest upon the tho th laurels mainly won on for Cor hUn hlin by this lids Do Wet of ot the Brit army A Jm n There Thoro is 18 no tin more singular monument In the world thou the tho one which line has been Jeen q over the tto grave gravo of or 0 f Robert robort l Paterson In l n CI Bet Scotland who was an nn original char character character acter In many respects earned n 1 reputation tation laUon through t rough the tho tact oct that he wait tho the firs t man t to omI ildo de a n bicycle Y e In Ui Indeed It H was that his two own tW best Jest friends were his hla puny pony and his bin bicycle and nn that he certainly hold them then In iii 11 high esteem Is evident from rom tho the fact that by hy hla his request sculptured figures lit of if them were placed ns nil n a atoms cent beside h his lih grave Three were IC wrought In III marble and tile tau one of the petty la III said to bo timid lilt nying BLOWS allows a u singla lIng aims of ot tho the hall hallof of at coin mine mu H liar Mil 1 t where nt lit present 1181 1110 In tt tempt at It nail Luxor nr Im well preserved JIe evell for or temples wore than thull I rY w X r u f 1 9 A 6 i a f it r lil I i l I r years y Is old but the work of or cI lion hems has been going on for and only two years ngo great columns fell to tho the ground undermined erill by the Nile floods Somo of or those these col are 12 feet Ceel In III diameter tol 70 10 feel fed high the tho groat central 11 hall hail a II pot portion of or which ls is shown In the tho Illus Illustration was built hullt by II if tho the Pharaoh of or the tho Sill H 11 It Is Mi that lima tho only oily In Kabul the tho capital of Afghanistan Is the gentleman portrait IH e with presented Mr bh Martin manager of time tho Ameer gun far fac tomy Hi Ili hits hla ea en y a of tAt tAtti hoer In thief chief to ti ho loo succeeded Sir fir firlet Sill let one of at the most moat wonderful of b C CAmy If sue one may Amy Judge from his Ho lie r was trait t for t 0 r many n y I I i 1 years Y aura tho tl ur handy handyman hued t I I it man amt of tho Iho late lama a moor ameer and F t abrought brought Afghan Afghanistan rl out of tho me depths of lana Igno e eranee ranco ranee to be something of ameer wan Inordinately proud Ho lIo es cs established mints mime and foundries ammu ammunition million factories all sorts of at things of which the stood In ha need Hued but I never had before Sir Him Salter final finally finally ly Invalided Ii home niter after his here tabors labots and Mi Mr Martin took tonic his place |