Show r the mercenary als reentry the mercenary fighting man to is a person who seldom receives his big due reward during his lifetime or his bis just meed of fame after hit his death the character is one so a alien to the age in which we live it belongs so entirely to the days when fighting was th the 0 0 only y occupy occupation ti an for a gentleman that it has bas forfeited alike our study and our sympathy lymp ibby volunteers we tin understand d ers t an d but b ut mercenaries we W edo do not n 0 t the world apparently has grown to think that fighting asa profession the j bare trade of arms unconsecrated by any sentiment of cause or country coun try is s not a noble thing and should not however ably and gallan gallantly tay followed be adjudged the highest praise possibly the world is right but b t we suspect that change of system in inthe the I 1 training of fighting men bus baa had bad far more ore influence than mere ab abstract humanity in creating this opinion in I 1 these theae days of short service and swift V wars ars the old type of professional m onal fighting man has bag become extinct extin at rn in every country the recruit is k forced through a soldiers education at high pressure and returned to io civil life as speedily aha as ps possible that he be may earia earn m money oney to pay for the education of others ho Noma man iff unless he be an aff officer icer devotes his whole lifetime taneto to the dij nij military calling and oense the few mercenaries the name mama is a too A 4 ignoble for them who are t to 0 I 1 us win a in these later ti times we are without e X c 0 gordon gordan forin for instance stance valentine V a I 1 I 1 aaker and hobart it was not a EO 0 of C 1 f old i when the rule rul a was once abol dier 6 e I 1 r always ayk a soldier d na tho the only a school I 1 oo 00 I 1 was war thanie then few men dreamed of bf I 1 rising asing r s to command commac except epil t ahr through kh I 1 theran the e lEa and many gintle meo preferred jo stay ta all i I 1 their freir I 1 ii v V C af ji n ks ar et g t 1 zt Y vv Is dij 4 1 M to to bedr carry r Y the me engg ensigns n s of dt their veteran soldiers were worth their weight in gold and though by rao co means innocent of rapacity followed their calling from sheer devotion to it and thought themselves u unlucky if they died in their beds ma Mac cmil lans abaga zinc sine |