... sought the floor. When she spoke again, her voice was broken. Who would endeavour, she said, softly, to use a woman, knowing so little of a woman's heart? Silly lad, had you but pre tended but pretended I had been content I cannot pretend, replied the prisoner ...

... on the St. Paul's Wharf, Durban, after landing from the steamship Mohawk, and previous to their being entrained up-country. This photograph was taken on Sunday, Oct. 26, General Buller having arrived and landed the evening previous. The two chargers on ...

... think that so recklessly brave are our English soldiers that if they knew these shields would send bullets glancing off, and land sword thrusts far outside vital points, they would decline to wear them, preferring to take their cbance. The only thing is ...

... establishment. Captain P. II. Darbyshire joined the 5th Dragoon Guards in 1889, and got his Captaincy in 1895. At the battle of F, land's Laagte the Dragoons c-hascd the Boers past a Red Cross tent, where a man was waving a Red Cross flag. They re spected those ...

... strong and luminous the azure of the sky is deep and intense it is, in fact, a southern sky, illumining and warming a northern land scape. From the short description we have now given of the scenery in Avhieh avc shall locate the Avinter sports which form ...

... AT THE GREAT WAR-F^TE. Photo by Alias Alice Uughca Qowcr street. New Army Scheme. I'lvit:ltion'1not compulsion, is the characteristic of the new scheme for the strengthening of the Army. Better terms and greater attractions are to be offered, and conscription ...

... they have beei. In the habit of doing. Army examinations are stiff-- for boys, perhaps too stiff. Certainly their paper's deal with subjects that would seem to have little bearing on their future life. Once in the army, however, golf, polo, cricket, and society ...

... under an earlier Duke of Medina Sidonia, a favourite courtier of Philip II. London had its Woman's Conference last year, and this summer it will have a show of woman's work at Earl's Court. A British and Irish silk industry section has been formed, the Duchess ...

... upon it until it seemed the one thing of consideration. The sufferings of the besieged, the loss of life in the re lieving army, were night mares to the Queen. Con sequently, her Majesty is looking ever so much brighter and better since the relief was ...

... Hospital, is to contain 525 beds, and all the counties and villages in Scot land are requested to give it their subscription and support. This assistance is very necessary, as the Army medical resources are now strained to the utmost. It is thought that merrorinl ...

... Palmer is exceedingly popular with the Army, and is the idol of the Sepoys and Sikhs. On completing his education at Cheltenham College, Lieutenant-General Sir Power Palmer, who is sixty years of age, joined the Indian Army in 1857, and served with Hodson's ...

... o/ Argyll and the OJ J been taking a very active part in the arrangements which have now been completed all over the High lands for the reception of those Scottish soldiers who have returned invalided from South Africa. On the very eve of the late Duke's ...