. nie eof ground before FANGS ARH REGIMENTS FIGHTING THEIR COUNTRY'S BATTLES. Have Taken Part in Britain's Wars in Many Parts of the World. Among the moet famous régi- "menits of the British Army are sey- eral having their headquarters in Treland.: For two hundred years Irish regiments have distinguished themselves on the battle field, bringing glory to their brave race. and doing not a little to build up the bse fabric of \he British Empire. The Royal Irish Regiment. Among the finest of Irish troops is that corps which, at the siege of |; Namur in 1695, received from Wil- . the' proud title of the h Regiment. After the Grenadiers had been beaten back xy the overwhelming force of the defenders of Namur the Royal Iris! fs) dashed on, an ad sweeping _ ---- a breach in the walls planted the colors on the summit. Would they had been at the defence whe n Na- mur fell the ether day! In all Mar!borough's victories the Royal Irish did splendid service. Their charge was so fierce that the finest troops on the Continent fell back, before them. At Venloo they drove the enemy from the cutwork oat a fort and chased them across the moat to the very rampasits, when the garrisen was «6 dismayed that it immediately laid down its arms. the whole thing being over in a few minutes. At the mege of Torney the Royal Irish fought with pick and shovel in° subterranean galleries. and lost many of their numbers by the explosion <f the enemy's mines. . gallant regiment saw service American War of Indepen- . and later on at Toulon, Napoleon first faced the Bri- They fought in Egypt. China and in the Grimea, where they tock part in the famous assault on the Redan. They saw service in New Zealand, in Afghanistan, and, under the command of Lord Wolse- ley. took part in the famous night march over the Egyptian sands ai Tel-e}-Kebir. In the South African War the Royal, Irish figured in many a desperate fight. They de- fended a little fort near against dreadful odds until their men were killed and wound- ed. The place was captured, but a yrivate of the regiment would not Fenn until -he had made his maxim gun useless when .it fell into the enemy's hands. Kor jthis brave deed he received the Victoria Crens, The "Enniskilleners."' Ancther great Irish corps dis-! tinguished for dauniless cx oura ge | amd daring deeds are the Enniskil-4 len Drageons and Inniskilling Fu- siliers faised at Enniskillen in| 1689. the Fusiliers fought in Flan- | ders. in North America, and in the | Weet Indies. in Helland, and in the | Peninsular War. In Spain the En- mekille ners were confronted by a regiment of French Grenad: ers. | Frene! ' officer came in front of jth} firing Hine and challenged aay of | the EF ntckillen regiment, tu sin; ie combat. Instantly a captain of the | rich regiment accepted the chal- | lenge. and after a Retle brilliant pwoid play laid the Frenchman low. With a cheer for their brave cham- pren the Enniskilleners rushed for- | ward and made cne of those ter- rils] charges which no enemy | could withstand, It turned out th ithe French officer's weapen was a sword of honor which had been presented to him by Napoleon himself. This trophy the champion ofthe Enniskilleners bere with him! proudly off the field At Water'oo the Enniskillen Regi- withstand a. fearful} mont bad to cannenade, and at the same time | were attacked by French cavalry | from La Havre Sainte All th hat | day they stood In a compact. | though ever-lessening square, and | at nightfall every officer and two- thirds of the rank and file were dead or wounded. No British regi- ment Sufferéd so severely . No won- dey the 18th of June. Waterloo Day. is an anniversary which the regi- ment keeps «with great pride. In the Boer War the Enniski!'eners fought at Collenso, where they! made a desperate effort to cross the | river under the muzzles of the enciny's guns. Nor did thev come back until Sir Redvers-Bulier gave the order, and then they retired ex- tremely disappointed. At Railway Hi} the Enniskilleners had to climb! & steep ascent among boulders and | ¢ rz chs. and then mish across a hare | they could} ae the enemy. They climbed up| x2 in the fac e of thousands wh one a gaa ed | -|regiment's bugler boy was wound- ed chine in armies are something better than i! iow' HOLY OF MLE | The Guildhall is at Present a De- i & -- LIFE THE METROPOLI 8. * pot for Red Cross. Paraphernalia. As you come into the courtyard f the Guildhall you see the gleam of lance-points, the. flutter of red and. white pennons. These are sen- tries posted over the centre, the holy of holies, of London's muni- cipal life. Through the centuries and-in every land. the city, the municipality, has been first the cradle, then the stronghold of free- om, order and law. Seven hun- ANTWERP. A General View of the City, and a View from Quay Van Dyck, show- ing the Cathedral. Cuidad Rodrigo the Connaught ngers fought'with desparate gal- lantry. Af the former place the ; but continued to sound the "Advance," until the enemy had been completely subdued. 'he Hees me Record ted that "the ught Rangers gdve a display | of Britich vhoar ia exceeded in the annals of war." In the Crimea the Indian Mutiny and at the Zulu War the Connaught Rangers pur- sued their brilliant career. nthe South African War the Connaught Rangers suffered severe- y. The Boers attacked a party of | them before they knew that war had been declared, and poured in such murderous fire that the .gallant | Rangers had to surrender. This, took place while the regiment was marching to Pretoria, and there were women and children with them. The Band:naster' s wife, though she saw her husband killed and her little child wounded, nobly devoted herself to the wounded and dying. Amidst a hail of bu'lets she calmly went on with her noble work tearing up part of her clothing to i bind up the wounds. Of the two companies of the Connaught Ran- gers concerned in this affair, num- | bering 250 men, 150 were killed or wounded, the remainder being taken prisoners. Ancther achieve- ment added to their laurels when 75-men of their regiment held out lat L gpa for twelve weeks |agains: an opposing force of 700 Boers. At the end of the war Lyd- enberg was still untaken, In this war these and other Irish regiments, inspired by the glorious traditions of the past, will un- questienably famous deeds of valor, and cover themselves with fresh renown. ----_ 4, ----__--_-- Beer General With British. It is announced that the Boer | Gene eral Franco's Joubert-Pien- nar, has arrived at Bordeaux. Francs. to offer his sword to the Allied armies. "I fought against General French in South Africa. Now : am going to fight with him,' said he. commanded a Boer army opposed to him at Elaads- laagte, where I received my bap- tiem of fire. I have offerzd my services unconditionally, and do not know as yet how I may be em- poyed. but expect that I will be ached in an advisery capacity to Benets: French's etaff. This war will be long and fierce. The Ger- man Army is the finest fighting ma- the world, but we shall beat it in the endk& cause our AMAZING INDIA. Emperor William's en Went Wrong. The Secretary of State for-India was.sore perplexed durin half of the present year. . Hindus in nt rica were in tevold. load of emigrants from India and the Hindus had declared their in- tention to return to their native land and preach a crusade against British rule. The empire of the East was filled with unrest. am revolution 'seeméd imminent, says the Boston Advertiser. The Kaiser is believed to have calculated on the seriousness of the Indian situation to keep Great Bri- tain out of the European conflict. His advisers said that if the Eng- lish forces were removed from the 'ast Moslems and Hindus would rise against the foreign rule and overthrow it. England did not un- derstand India. The country was held' by force of arms . The Kaiser need only send a few regiments u from German East Africa and he would be looked upon as a deliver- er, "The British army was removed from India and nothing happened. The government brought native In- dian troops to fight for Great Bri- tain on the Continent and nothing happéned. The Cabinet told In- dia that England was in noms of money and soldiers signal that, according to the 1 Kai-' ter's calculation, should have started the uprising. What hap- pened? India immediately started to raise an army of seventy thou- sapd to go to England's aid. In- dia immediately gave 85,000,000 'to England's war chest and promised more. The princes of India offered to contribute their crown jewele and asked permiteton to serve in the King's army. Not only Germany, but the whole world has been wrong about Eng- land's position in India. The Exicz- lieh Viceroy is more secure in the government of India than any ne- tive ruler that held sway before the conquest. England wi!l rule In- dia co long as the' princes of that country can command their eub- jects' respect. Wihen the le de- velop @ spirit of indepen lence and rebel against their native rulers, then, and not until then, the King of England will cease to be Emperor of India. SESE: Egoism at its Apex. 'fday the municipality of Brussels, {}don, most favous of municipalities, the first} treated by other British bien: y r British su 4 Rand mi me is given up now to the ork dred years ago the stout citizens of London were on the side of liberty against baron and King, just as to- in the person of M. Max, its Burgo- master, sturdily refuses to cringe before the brutality of German militarism. It is natural that the city of Lon- should be ardent in support of the national war against a despotism 'by right of arms, most fitting that in this hour of stress the precincts of the Guildhall, famed for an age- old hostility to militarism, would glitter with steel] and echo to the rattle of spur and sword. Spared by Fire of 1666. While you watch the pennons 'there comes out between the sen- ; a . For part of th of those who minister to the wants of England's armies. Under the hall, which echoed fecently to the stirring eal] of patriotism, you go down to the crypt, with its fine clustered columns and groined vaulfing. Spared by the great fire of 1666, which worked so- much havic among the memorials of old London, the crypt is a remnant of the Guildhall which was built 500 years ago; before ever Dick Whit- tington was Lord Mayor of London. -Now it has been granted to the city branch of the British Red Cross So- ciety, and is being used to splendid purpose for the work of that organ- ization. Devoted to Red Cross. At this moment the crypt is a de- pot of all the thousand and one things of which a Red Cross de- tachment stands in need. The or- ganization is under the care of Lady Wynne, wife of General Sir A. 8. Wynne, keeper of the Jewe! House at the Tower. To the orypt come flannel and linen, gifts of the great firms of the city and of pri- vate people. These fabrics are to be eut out, and then, through Jocal organizations, made up into neces- sary garments by the capable work- people whom the outbreak of war has-robbed of regular employment. 'But it is not only textile mater- ials with which the authorities of the crypt can deal. Into great bas- kets all sorts and kinds of things useful to those at the front or on active service are being packed. There are baskets of two species, surgical and comestible. For the rst, besides such matters as lint and sprints, hair brushes, gponges, and. matches are needed. For the second, abundant orocker and such groceries'as tea, cofiee and biscuits: It would be superfluous to praise the forethought and care with which all the lessons of experience have been brought to bear upon the work.. Surely in all the five cen- turies of their existence the arches of the crypt have never looked down upon an enterprise , "more beneficent. ws 4 could not help marching anywhere. But the g INFLATED SKINS. the Water eee et ue Pere went sea in a beau boat," is the way that delightfal nursery song runs, which, set ~to happy music, and. sunk thick the stage, pl usands of oldsters, bringing to mind the pic- ture of some odd, fantastic craft. to the rules of the nursey and ane Jand--but something odd and whim-| sical. When Newberry O. Norwood, who is a student of unfamiliar of a one' one ere the owl-shaped boats vu at- Bagdad, "There, I have found it at last-- the real Owl. and the Pussycat boat of the song!" Life by the Tigris and the Euph- rates moves slowly ; and it is inter- esting to note, for example, that there are used for the navigation of the rivers craft precisely similar to those employed in the days of Sen- erib, King of Assyria (705-681- B. C.)., These are.the kufa and the kelek, a timber raft floated on in- flated skins. The kufas are built on the banks of the Tigris and are from four to twelve feet in diameter. They are constructed of date-palm branches, woven together with rope 'made out of palm-leaf, and plastered with sev- eral coats of bitumen, which comes from the famous fountain of Hit. To make a kufa of fair size, three men will work for twenty days. The craft can be seen only on the Tigris and on the lower Guphrates, serving freight across the rivers. They are in common use at Bagdad. Passengers are packed like herr- ings in a barre], the river men find- ing this n ry, the ferry charge only represents about half a cent in our coinage. Being - flat- bottomed, the boats are very safe. They are in especial demand when by floods or heavy winds. They can only cross the water diagonally, for they are unmanageable against the current. When passengers and pro- duce have been brought to town from upriver villages, the kufas have to be towed back by hand, the mma either walking or rid- "The ke kelek is a different type of craft, a large raft of wood made additionally buoyant by means of inflated skins: It is used for mer- | cha: idise. i; by Keleke the ied being too shial- low for any other kind of craft. Ty form a kelek, thin poplar poles are secured, with ropes of willow, to a heavy framework o thicker timber. This construction is then moored near the bank, and skins are plated in rows, one by one, beneath the poplar poles, Then the skins are blown up by men, whose only "inflators" are their mouthe. This is by no means a small task; for as many as 700 skins may be used for a kelek. -------- NATIONAL W! WAR SONGS. Britannia" Is_ the Among Many. It may be interesting at the pres- ent time to recall those national war-songs that have inspired the various countries of the world to do and dare everything in their de- fense. Written into them both is words and music is a passionat love for country which impels to almost superhumen deeds that the | charter of liberty may not be for- feited in their person ink o the Austrian Anion, 'one of the finest in existance; Haydn's "Cre ation'? in which ocurs the eplendid | = "The Heavens Are Tell- ing. Germany marches to baitie "Rule F incet to the soul-stirring composi tion, | "The Watch = the Rhine."' Rus- sia has perhaps the most state anthem in "God the All Toreibin whose very 4itle strikes a heroic strain, We are told that, played, upon the great organ in the Cathed- ral at oscow, it sdunds like praye Our own national anthem | _ probebly, the largest cireulation | of. any tune in the world, while in "Rule Britannia' we have perhaps | the finest national song possessed | by .any nation. war spirit in the song, Love This Land of Ours;" America, to the strains of John | Brown's Body," with its refrains of the Norway finds her "Yes, We whilet FROM MERRY OLD ENGLAND How the Amante Used them in chiefly for ferrying passengers or the bridge of boats is disconnected | firm NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. Occurrences in The Land That Reigns Supreme in the Com- : mercial World. Newbury racecourse © i ready for ng sworn in for Bu Lord Charles Beresford and a| Desborou Gifts of fruit received at Tpewicht have been Son SAA a bon of m for tho benebst of the N J ar Ww dient 'eur rPThorne was shot by a sentry Renney Fort, near Flys uth. " failing to answer a Eligible 'ee men in oC Lambton's Jes who refuse to of-) fer oat services to the anmy are being ueen Mary has inaugurated a fund to provide employment for wo- men who seaphit n thrown out work by the The City Ceanoraiion uo placed at the disposal of the War Office! the south court of the Guildbeds for' reaeitine purposes. e Lord Mayor of Birmingham Licwtonens Ooleaal Martineau, resigned office, having volunteered for foreign service. Seven thousand families in 'Bir4 mingham have applied for relief, alt but 15 per cent. having their bread-! winners at the front. e Army Council have. accepted the oer of the Chesebrough Manu-' facturing Co. to supply 50,000 ton of agmgiecnnt for the troops. ng of the council df the South Wales Miners' Federation ib was sta' at over 7,000 miners were idle in "the coalfields. Substantial. offers for fine yarns,) which have hitherto been executed at Lille, in France, are being car- ried out by a Manchester spinning Mrs. Glasspool, of Ashton, Bisth« op's Waltham, Hants, aga four sons at the front, has rec a letter of congratulation from '"E. M. the King. At Blythe. recently, Earl Grey announced that it was the inten tion of the military authorities to form a miner's battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers. About 500 members of 'the staff the London, City & Midland ae have Per tes os AY and navy Sxces, rther large numbera. ~ os rg most of the chereh porn Te rural Devon the wives of the rid | men serving at the front are poeted with the request that pmyer should be offered for their safe ne turn, An order has been issued by wha Section Commander at Sheernees, authorizing the closing of all. pub- lic houses at Sheerness at 10 p.m. on week days and 9 p.m. on Sun- lays. Mr. James McCormack of Uther Hall. Gardens, Hamstead, has of- fered 50,000 cigarettes. for the use of 'the troops at the front. His of- fer has been gratefully accepted by the Army Counci Colonel Greig, 'C.B., M.P., who relinquished the command of tho London Scottish four years agé on entering Parliament, will command the 2nd Battalion which is now be- ing raised. The death has occurred at. Ry«ha 'of Captain John H. Jellicoe, father jof Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, ; 2|is now in supreme command wf the' © | Home Fleet. Captain Jellicoe was in his ninetieth year. The Stanton Iron Works Co., af Nottingham, which employs several | thousand hands, are giving $10 to ;erery workman accepted as a re- ieruit. besides paying weekly $2.50, ito each married ----, item! | POPULAR WITH TROOPS. ) Gen Smith-Dorrien Trusts. in . Honor of the Soldier. General Smith-Derrien, whg has earned such high praise frovs sir j John French, is the most popular i genera! in the British Army, be- | cause during the whole of his career the soldiers' welfare has always oc- ; cupied first place in his programme. Nine-tenths of his service has been passed in India, and it was there at Quetta that he built the | first soldiers' club that the Army has known. The General's first public appear- ance in England was made on a Weslevan platform, from which die delivered a lengthy speech in favor of ameliorating the discomforts of : barrack life. He is one of the few soldiers who can speak eloquently and without notes. The acts which perhaps have en- deared him to Tommy Atkins more than any others were the repeal of piquet @aty and the freedom grant- ed to soldiers during manoeuvres, Until! General Smith-Dorrier. took command at Aldershot piquets of four or eight men payaded tihe streets until midnight. General Smith-Dorgien put the soldier on - his honor(not to misbehaye him- self in the public streets and abol- ished the'piquets. They have never been reinstated. ' markenman, t was im possible 4 machine. She--Your oe is a bit of an og me wale the rasa a wre ee 'atonel - egotist, isn't he . did more tto bring down the ee but | Unlucky. He--A bit! Why if he hadn't}. No man with a good conscience is | dynenty of the Bourbons than half a a lle iempt, but the) go ete, oo been born he would have expected | ever afraid when a policeman rings | @ozen army corps. It is now the rave Enniskilleners stuck to the Cynicus--I once knew "a fellow eonta.£ Sah P his bell national r of bli reeks tT held on until an im pe rt- | Who gave a girl an engagement. ring Peoj soberly . not a é * France. and i] TM: nai m movement had been-mrade, and) of opals. Mother--And so my ttle man Be pred ae oad vietory was won a day or two dater Sillicus~-Gracious! "Wasn't 364 Bivla that turn women's leads} didn't ery when he fell down. That that rik areca Ages ae Fe The Connaught Rangers. i "ky i also put kinks in the necks cf gen-|was brave. Little Man--There| ™™Y & eee een ae y | Cynicus--You bet it was! She | Hemen, wasn't anybody to heart The discussion betw the two Thr Cony voght Rangers, raisod { wiatied him. Sapleigh--*'I shall never have the "'Swhubs declares,"' 'aid: Goak- friends had become peed " nue tf Galway in 195, have wen clesotih- | er courage to propose to a giri--|Jey, 'that out his way cne night the any idiot can ¢ee that," veniunvicen Wr. faime we fany a hard-fenght}] L's almost impu. issihle to discour- | never! Miss Pert--*' 'Well, youttemperaiuie droyy pe d to. zero,"' | one of them. "That's where you grat. ET ay took par in mest of the | age the man who thinks he ern tell will be saved one disappointment i m That' s. nething,"' said Joakley. hace the advantage was "the Napererres Wars At Badajoz and | a funny story. life, anyway, Mr. Sapleigh!"* "What's nothing?' .'"Zero,' other's polite rejoinder. ; ? 5 ' : , " sat Sei ace ete cen tees ee Leen Cie) pad te Sta ca Eee eae :