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Again" CGeneral Seely‘s Story of an Adventurous Life: Cheatâ€" ing Death on Land, Sea, and in the Air; When He Nearly _ Killed _ General Botha: A Maori Idyll By FRANK WHITAKER "To die," said Peter Pan, "would be an awfully big adventure," to which General J. E. B. Seely no doubt reâ€" plied, it he ever met Pote; Pan, "Probâ€" ably; but why die?" A man who has survived apparentâ€" ly certain death by each of the four eleiments; who bas been drowned and revived; fallen a distance commonly thought to be fatal and lived> faced range and 1 acroplane w and EM w outed A Gallant Gentleâ€" Adventure 13 alk like that AALTN moves ) from th MTT AND JEFFâ€" By BUD FISHER Mc v ig ITIOUS The Flag on the P The Problem of Fear lone unbarmed when every ose around me had been killâ€" rounded"â€"a man who has angers like these can afford ike that. _A charmed life? : normal expectations of a is they say in the North, a It his it an Ww 10 General S ely has now told the »xtracedinary career in and told It well. _ The 1 a crescende of excite + first page tn the last; to note how the scale ring grows as the years gins with a solitary fall nd widens and deepens, » and more people in a netical prograssion, unâ€" in the supreme advenâ€" ntiv of his nicle a t compa ad mi i7 W h Steepie Iy U on the icknow, estate h t} yM f P 0 P h all ind M H P it h _ | tumes of &# © |leaves, Afte " |came to see but bluntly, i ® | To use the * i "torn with ca * |wivrl of sevent h it child‘s bow and arrow, shot a rope over the beams in the church steeple, hauled himselt up from stage to stage, and tied a Union Jack to the top. _ His career at Cambridge was ended abruptly by a bairâ€"raising exâ€" perience with a runaway horse in Switzerland. _ With bridle broken it galloped for miles down a mountain track and deposited him, unconsctous, with his legs dangling over a chasm two bundred feet deep. _ He was laid up for months with congestion of the brain. ("My dear Jack, that explains it all!‘" said the then Mr. Balfour twenty years afterwards, when Seely, who had been the first to leave him on the Fiscal questicn, told the story at a Commons dinnerâ€"party). \ The Maori Princess In New Zealand he was nearly drowned zgain, and then came an adâ€" ventureo of a more romantic kind. While swimming one day in a pool in the heart of the Maori country he encountered a lovely girl, "the most beautiful thingâ€"animate or inanimâ€" ateâ€"that I had ever seen, like the most perfect Greek statue, with the poise of Raphael‘s young St. John the Baptist at Florence" and a "deticiâ€" ous enigmatic smile." _ She was the sister of the local chief.â€" Next he swam ogt with a line to a wrecked French ship, received a gold medal, a broken rib and a punctured lung. _ He set off on a long sea yoyâ€" age to recover his health, served as an A.B., was swept out of his cabin by a hoge wave, and saved himself only by clinging to the afterâ€"rigging as it swept past. During the same storm his companion, ‘Tom Connolly, fell from a yard a hundred and twenty feet above the sea, clutched a swingâ€" ing ropeâ€"and held on. As the ship heeled over he caught the ratlines and descended safetly to the deck! Truly miracles seemeA to follow Seely wherever he went. The rest of the story is soon told. As we wandered about the great forâ€" est finding strange birds, hot springs and occasionally the track of a wild boar, 1 was often with the princess â€"as she was called. _ She stariled to teach me Maori, including many kind and friendly words in that singularly melodious language. I can still say in Maori that "my soul is filled with respectful adoration." It was all very delicions and innocent, but dificult to see how it could end. She gave up the Kiw{t mats, and was dressed in everâ€"changing cosâ€" tumes of garlands of flowers and leaves, After a few days the chief came to see me and quite politely, but bluntly, asked me my intentions. To use the novelist‘s phrase, I was "toru with conflicting emotions." This wirl of seventeen, though some would have described her as an untutored savage, was without doubt the most beautiful creature I had aver seen. Moreover, though she could run and jump like a gazelle, and swim like a salmon. she had the manmer and hearâ€" most Whil B The Man Who Would Not Shoot When the Boer War broke out Genâ€" vral Seely, who had meanwhile joinâ€" i the Yeomanry, went out in charge i a squadron, and bad two of the ost amazing adventures of his life. Vhile reconnoitering a ruined Kaffir raal he was surprised by a shout of Hands up!‘" from a small party of m jeval sunny mornin a kiss the manner an thoughts and i irm and beauty st into tears and so, as 1 jumped into the moment shot into the he deft blowsâ€" cf the ‘lded â€" paddles. _ Just ded a bend 1 looked ber standing handâ€"inâ€" brother. _ She waved and I never saw her Â¥1) 16 ‘d people nting the ig the Kmpht be unpjon ( m one d n Mm T n â€" of airts if na make of within twelve yards of me. 1 could recognize him toâ€"day from among a hundred others. It was no good for me to run away, because I ruund1 that I could not be missed; so I stood stlll waiting for the end. Then an extraordilary thing happened. . The man lowered his rifie, looked me straight in the eyes, turned round and walked away. It was said to me in explanation of this curious episcde that my three troops, who had already got round the flank of this small party of the enemy, had made the man real ize that be must get quickly on his horse in order to escape. But I know perfectly well from the look he gave me, and from the deliberation of his movements, that what really happenâ€" ed was this. He was sorty for a young Englishman â€" thus surprised, and, out of sheer good nature, decidâ€" ed not to kill me. The Horseman in the Mist In the other adventure he himself was the man with the gun. It came to him at an advance post on the top of a high ridge, on a misty night when a party cf Boers had been reâ€" ported near. _ Suddenly a figure on horseback appeared through the mist, riding towards the outpost:â€" ! Foch‘s Prophecy { And so Foch was invited. _ When the maneouvres were over, he made this striking prophecy:â€" ‘ "The armiles have outgrown the | brains of the people who direct them. | I do not believe that there is any man ‘living big enough to ccontrol these | m{llions. _ They will stumble about. fand then sit down helplessly in front .of each other, thinking only of their means of communicaction to supply ‘The corporal was about to fire, but: I snatched his rifie from him, whh-‘ poring, "Let him come on." The mist was drifting in swathes over the hill and for a moment he was invisible; while I heard the horse advancing on the stony ground; then for a second I saw a commanding figure silhoustted . against the grey mist, The corporal was so excited that he shouted to me quite loud: "Shoot, sir." The figure turned and galloped away, I fired, reâ€" loaded, and fired again; I ran forward with the corporal, but although the range was not more than fifteen yards, I had made a clean miss both times, I make this one conflident claim to disâ€" tinction, that 1 made the luckiest bad. shot for the British Empire that any man has made! _ For the eommand-‘ ing figure was Botha himself! Ho‘ was reconnoitring his enemy‘s fmnt‘ before making his desperate and sucâ€" cessful attempt to break through. ‘ It was Botha himself, years later,i who told General Seely of bis escape, and it was Seely who recommended the King to make Botha a lieutenantâ€" general of the British Army. "This is the first time," the King replied, "that 1 have been asked to make a man a lieutenantâ€"general for his brilâ€" liant services against ns." But he. made him a full general, and as the: world knows, Botha lived to render invaluable service to the Empire. _ Preparing for War ’ General Seely returned home to find himself a member of Parliament, and he devotes a large part of his book to the stormy politics of the ten years prior to the War. In a deeply interâ€" esting chapter he describes the growth of his conviction that war was inevitâ€" able, and how as soon as he became Secretery for War in 1912 he set to work with â€"redoubled energy and secrecy to prepare for it. In his view, the historian of the future will fasten "war guilt" not on any single person, however highly placed, but on the political aspirations and policies cf the contending natlons: and his deâ€" finition of these rival policies will be a desire by Germany to expand, a resolve by England to maintain its status quo. In 1912 General Seely had an interâ€" view with General French with farâ€" reaching consequences:â€" He came to me and said: "Would it not be a good plan for us to inâ€" vite to our manceuvres an eminent French soldier who is likely to take a leading part in the defence of France if the war which you anticiâ€" pate bappens?" _ As always, the difâ€" ficulty in preparing without inciting undue suspicion and distrust was sufâ€" ficiently obvious in this case. _ But I decided to take the risk, and said. "Yes. _ Whom shall we invite?"" He replied: "I think the most remarkâ€" able man in the French Army, alâ€" 'tlmugh he is far away from being I senior, is 2 man called Foch." these vast ‘hordes, who <must eat. Your l#itie Army, directed by my friead French, with your sea power enabling you to send them where you will, may well prove decisive if ever a conflict comes." But before the conflict did come there were exciting events at home. The one that affected Genrral Seely most closely, of course, was the Curâ€" ragh incident, for it led to his resignâ€" ation. _ He traces the development of that unhappy business temperately, and as far as one can judge from the published documents, fairly, although the late Sir Arthur Paget would probâ€" ably have differed from him on ‘more than one point. There was excitement to spare in those days, but it was not of the kind that appealed most to Seely‘s acâ€" tive â€" temperament. He â€" confesses that he grew sick of politics, and one can imagine the tightening of the lip and the squaring of the shoulders with which he beard the fateful declaraâ€" tion of August 4th, 1914. Within a few days he was at the British Headquarters, "never expectâ€" ing to see England again." Every day his duties took him into the Britâ€" ish and French front lines and back to Headquarters to report personally to Sir John French what he bad seen. No man saw more in those weary, confused days, when whole armies stumbled blindly over the fields of France and Death lurked round every corner. But Fate was kind to Seely, Shells and bullets encompassed him, but, in the language of the time, his name was written on none of them. He dominated the whole place: the King, Ministers, soldiers, saflors, So great was his influence that I am conâ€" vinced that with 20,000 British troops hbe could have hald Antwerp against almost any onslought. . . From all I learned and all 1 saw, 1 think it very possible that had Winston not brought his naval men to Autwerp, the Belâ€" glan Field Army would not have esâ€" caped. _ Had Winston been vigorousâ€" ly supported, evea thus late in the day, the Germans would ‘have been forced to detach such large forces that their advance on Ypres would have hbeen stayed, and might have been prevented altogether. The Arrest of Mr. MacDonald On General Seely‘s return to Headâ€" quarters one night, General French told him that "some idiot at Dunâ€" kirk" had addested Mr. Ramsay Macâ€" Donald, who had come over to visit a hospital, and asked him it bhe would put the matter right. He did so; "MacDonald took it very well, and after a word or two of serious proâ€" test, laughed the matter off." _ Later he took Mr. MacDonald up to the front line, and it was only by great good fortune that they escaped with their lives. _ They stumbled into the middle of a French counterâ€"attack; shells fell all round them, their car was repeatedly hit by bullets, and finally they took refuge in a support trench, where they were nearly shot as spies! From first to last, when he reached safety covered with mud, the future Prime Minister, says General Seely, "behaved with the utmost coolâ€" Fventualiy he wenrt to Antwerp, where he found "the whole business in Winston‘s hands." ness." Eventually General Seely was given the command of the Canadian Cavalry Brigade, which he led with conspicuâ€" ous gallantry and success. _ For their brilliant capture cf Moreuil Ridge at the end of March, 1918, which saved Amien«, they received high praise from Foch and General Rawlinson, and were mentioned in the communiâ€" ue of the day. _ Soon afterwards, suffering hadly from the effects of gas, Seely was ordered home. He was one of the few _ nomâ€"proâ€" fessional scldiers who reached high rank as a combatant, and he scathingâ€" ly criticizes the follies of some of his superior officers. Many avoidable disasters, he says, were caused by the failure of commanders to make perâ€" sonal surveys from the front line beâ€" fore ordering an attack, and many hardshtps were traceable to their atâ€" tempts to apply obsolete theories to new conditions. _ He clearly ranked French above Haig, and symphathizâ€" ed with French when he was recalled. â€"John O‘ London‘s Weekly. The wind frequently turns an umâ€" brella, but a borrower seldom raturns it. Heâ€""You arse the breath of my life." Sheâ€""Let‘s sea you hold your breath." May 4. Lesson Vâ€"Promotion in the Kingdom â€" Matthew 20: 17â€"28. Golden Textâ€"The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ranâ€" som for many.â€"Matthew 20. 28. INTRODUCTIONâ€"The conception ouf the kingdom of heaven runs through this Gospel of Matthew, and in our lesson the problem of rewards in the kingdom comes up for discussion. I. ThE way To GLoRy, 17â€"15. ANALYSIS I. tnuE way To GLoRy, 17â€"19 II. rarss amBirion, 20â€"23. III, Ttrus amerrion, 24â€"28. The heroism of Jesus is evident in the decision to go up to Jerusalem. He kno ; that the issue between him and the scribes is reaching a climax, and that he has been marked out for death. But this was not to be a mere result of fate. There was a willing choice on the part of Jesus to accept this path as the only one by which he could bring salvation to the race. We also are to notice how nis thoughtfulness for the disciples leads him to prepare them. They were filled with the idea that they were advancâ€" ing to a kingdom of great earthly power, in which they would aave poâ€" sitions of distinction, and now Jesus warns them against such futile hopes, and tells them clearly of the kind »f reception they may expect. V. 18. It was the habit of Jesus to speak of himself as "the Son of man," a title which implied Messianic standâ€" ing, and which, in its best application, implied that he would at last return crowned with glory. But the way to such reward led through suffering. There is no misunderstanding in the mind of Jesus. V. 19. He also knows that, since the Jews cannot pronounce sentence of death, he will have to stand before the oman authorit‘es; but his sensitive nature shrinks before the cruel treatâ€" ment which he will have to endure He had frequently pictured the detaiis of such a trial szene. But beyond the cross lay the crown H« knows that after death he will rise again ard reâ€" turn to the fellowship of the Father. He always associates his resurrection with his death. II. FALSE AmBITION, 20â€"23. V. 20, Ambition is not wrong in itself, and depends altogether upon the objects which we seek and the motives which inspire ns. Jt is not wrong for this mother to have lofty aims for haor sons, and we may admire her resoluâ€" tion and insistence. F V. 21. It was the way in which she puts her request, and the conditions involved in this, that were so wrong. Three things may be noted in her reâ€" quest: (1) It revealed a total misapâ€" prehension of the teaching of Jesus, who had come to bring a distinctly different kind of kingdom from that which she thinks of. He had never raised hopes of an earthly rule. (2) It was inconsiderate in that it placed Jesus in a very invidious position. He would either have to refuse her reâ€" quest or else :f he granted it he would awaken hard feelings on the part of others. (3) It was selfish in that she wished to get something at the expenso of others. If her prayer were granted then the other disciples would have to be satisfied with lower positions. Thus rivalry and envy would be started among them, all due to false ambition. V. 22. The answer of Jesus reveals at once his perfect wisdom and his wonderful courtesy. He first tells them that they do not know what they ask. They have not realized the naâ€" ture of the kingdomâ€" Then he does that which shows the fineness of his feelings. He knows quite well that the others will be very indignant at the two, Accordingly he asks James and John is they sare willing to pay the price of promotion, which is trial, bardship and possibly death,. We respect 1 ople who go through hardâ€" ships for their ambition, and Jesus V. 23. He refers to the condition of reward. The high places do not go to favoâ€"itesâ€"all is arranged by the Father in accordance with the laws of the moral world. If they will labor and sorve worthilv. they wil!l be sure of a high place. Thus in a way Jesus grants them their request, at least he shows how they may obtain their deâ€" sire. III. truE amBirio®, 24â€"28. V. 24. The indignation of the ten is quite intelligible, and these others no doubt felt they were justified in being angry. j * % respect 1 ople who go through hardâ€" ships for their ambition, and Jesus tries to place these two in a good light as he shows them agrecing to accept this call to heroic service. ___ _ 7 V,. 25. But Jesus has a lesson for them also. Let them learn from this incident the lesson that carthly ambiâ€" tion rests upon a faise foundation The passion for earthly power and disâ€" tinction is tha; which inspires those Sunday School Jeff‘s Advice Reverses Its Gears, ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON It‘s typically sports! A charming wearable type that adapts itself to all the season‘s new fabrics. It is sketched in wool jersey in chartreuse grecn, with dash of soft brown in grosgrain ribson piping, bow tie and suede belt, Applied neckband gives smart finish to becoming collarâ€" less Vionnet neckline. Several dresses may be made from this Style No. 2841 and each one apâ€" pear entirely different. _ _ f Orangeyâ€"red or violet blue silk crepe is effective to complete ensemble, HoOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plainâ€" ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want Enclose 20¢ in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 78 West Adelaide St., Toronto. It comes in sizes 16, 18 years, 86, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust, V, 26. The test of zreatness in the kingdom of God is selfâ€"sacrificing serâ€" vice and love, There is a true ambiâ€" tion, and it is to serve. Let this inâ€" spire them, and they will forget all about worldly ambitions The pure love of others will drive out all lower motives. new system for playing the races." "Do you think it will win?‘ "No. But it will vary the converâ€" sation when he comes to explaining how he lost his money." fear. who guide the affairs of the Roman Empire, which they so much hate and Imitation forms our manners, our opinions, our very lve«e â€"John Weiss. Illustrated Dressmaking Lesso Furnished With Every Pattern What New York Is Wearing I‘m glad George has worked out a Paris Fails At Long Skirts Workrooms With Floods of Orders London. â€" London dressmakers are experiencing a boom in orders from society people such as they have never before known. ‘This revolution hbas been brought about in less than three months by. the muchâ€"abused long skirt, Paris dressmakers invented the new fashion of long skirts, and then found that they could not make them! And London dressmakers smiled pityingly, Paris, in fact, came a cropper over making the tightfitting bodice which the new fashion requires, The prob» lem, however, did not worry London. Mr, Norman Hartnell, the London designer, stated that his workâ€"rooms are flooded with orders. *The new fashions have had a startâ€" ling result," he said. *"People who used to go to Paris are coming to Lonâ€" don. ‘The superior fitting in London is no doubt responsible, and I find al> so that English people prefer London, where eccentricity is barred to a greater extent than Paris, England‘s Influence "Paris may have lost her old ascendâ€" ency but she will always have some kind of position, because she produces London‘s materials, decided on a year in advance. "New York dressmakers, too, are finding themselves flooded with orâ€" ders that formerly went to Paris," she said., *"England bas always infuenced fashions in France through sport cosâ€" tumes. Now it seems as though we had a chance of doing it in a more general way." "I have nothing but praise for the London houses, I have been mable to inspect three London workâ€"rooms, Their work is & credit to British taste and enterprise., A prominent leader of society fasâ€" hlons, who described the new long akirt as "wonderful,‘ ‘agreed that the fashion is bringing an unprecedented influx of society business to London. Wickham Steed in the Review of Reâ€" views (London): Fear of unpopularity is the beginning of political rottepâ€" ness, The first care of any real naâ€" tional Jleader should be the lasting wellâ€"being, morai and spiritual no less than material, of his own fellowâ€"coun» trymen, Wellâ€"being does not morely consist of bellyfuls of cheap food. It consists of healthy conditions of menâ€" tal and physical life; for, without them, a people cannot do its duty to ftself or to others, The best test of a national leader‘s fitness to lead often lMes in his readiness to get bimself hissed and hooted by the ignorant, the selfish and the foolish. Truth (London); An old gentlieman who was interested in working out such things once informed me that the Emperor Caracalla travelled post from York to Rome as speedily as Sir Rob» ert Peel could go from Rome to Lon« don, His idea, I believe, was to show the amazing strides that transport had made during the jast century com»â€" pared with its stagnation throughout the others, I told him that the Emâ€" peror Caracalla could go from London Bridge to Charing Cross at mid4ay, very much more quickly than I can. At the present rate of increase among motor vehicles that congest all u;; roads, the same truth will probabl apply to everincreasing distances as time goes on., Silk Stockings as Lifeâ€"Savers Silk stockings are thus appreciated on the road. They are also appreciated at the Zoo in London, The biggest of the chimpanzees there has a passion for wilk stockings, and though he is rather doubtful whether they are meant to cover his arms or his legs, he is immensely pleased and proud whenever a visitor presents him with a pair. ‘The old, old argument about the pilâ€" lion girl on the motorâ€"cycle has taken a new turn, Some motorists have no« ticed that at night her silk stockingd act as "reflectors," and it is claimed that collisions have been averted as the result of the warning flashed to following trafic â€" by #«!lkâ€"sheathed limbs. At one time stockings were made of eloth, and one of the pioneers of the wilk stocking was Queen Elizabeth, She was presented with a pair of black knitted silk stockings, and was #so pleased with them that she never wore the cloth variety again. A KIND FATHER God is a kind Father, He sets us @&ll in places where he wishes us to be employed, and that employment !s truly "our Father‘s business.‘ e chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them, if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sonse enâ€" ough for what He wants us to do: if we either tire ourselves or puzzle our» ®elves, it is our own fault, . Anod we may always be sure, whatever we are doing, that we cannot be pleasing Him if we are nol happy ourselves,= Jolun Ruskin, A great man is made up ol quaillio® that meet or make g1eal ucchawlbe, s# J. R. Lowell, * Politics and Popularity Why Hurry?