The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-23

Of the Prince of Wales's Own and the
Duchess of Portland's brother. Mr.. Dallas
Yorke. is a junior officer OF the same corps.
Another dandy regiment. which Is al
ready at the front. is the Ninth Lancers.
the Queens Royal, and this again numbers
among its officers representatives OF many
families in the peerage and the equally in
huentiai county families not possessing a
title, but whose estates have been handed
down for generations in unbroken succession
in Yorkshire. Devon and Kent. Tn colonel.
Major General Sir William Drysdale. Is to
have command of a division. and Lieutenant
Colonel Bloomfield Cough is marked out for
a high command. The Hon. G. III. c.. Will
loughby. Lord Douglas Compton. a brother
of the Marquis of Northampton. and a son
Temple Blackwood. are younger sons of
peers or peeresses, and a Wykeham-
Ffennes. a Gordon. a Campbell and a Cav
ions clustering round them. To hand them
down. untarnished the present bearers
may be relied upon to do their utmost. and.
on the frontiers Of the northwest prov
inces displayed their mettle in earnest
Through the blood relations of the officers
of these two regiments alone il may be ex-
pected that such a feat of arms as another
charge OF the Light Brigade would bring
fresh renown for reckless bravery to the
nobility of England. or plunge half its fam
lies into mourning.
L Americans the incident of the inspec-
tfon of the Scots Guards on Tuesday brings
home the tie of kinship with intense real
ism: After the Prince of Wales. accompa-
MED by the C~zarowitz of Russia. had passed
fitness for embarking for South Africa, he
stopped to congratulate Col. Alfred Paget
and ms American wife or the fine appear
Paget, the daughter of the late Mrs. Paran
stevens. is a figure no less welcome in LON
don houses than in those of New York and
skating are just those which appeal TO the
outdoor life OF the English army officer.
Az the Queens drawing rooms, the
princes levees and other court functions
TINS popular officer, by reason of his duties.
is Wei known to the public. and his bat
when ranked with the Grenadiers. making a
special brigade of the foot guards. will car
ry with 1t to South Africa the afrectionate
The alliance Of American women with the
Chdrchills comes into note again through
the war. An aunt of the present Duke of
Marlborough, Lady Sarah Wilson. has gone
out, III possible. to join her husband, Capt.
Gordon Wilson, who is with Colonel Baden
Powell at Mafeking. She gives her services
Cnurchiil, who, in spite of his youth, has
passed through more than one dashing cav
AIRY charge unscathed. will tell the story
OF the campaign as a special correspondent.
rev English officers will draw to them
selves a greater interest on this side of the
atlantic than will Sir Edward Chichester,
who will act as transport officer in Natal
Ills homecoming after ar eventful COM
MISSION on the China station preceded that
Dt"Sy oy oHiy d SIOTI pcTlO0.
ana his speedy reappointment signifed the
approval Of the British Admiralty of his
actlon at Manila during the fighting, when
ne made fast friends among the officers of
the sister navy. A Devon man, like Butler.
S %aro ms Of feat at b Barnq eit,aple; this ninth
Stlncts OF his race at sea.
Sir Redvers Butler himself, who will have
supreme command. has long possessed the
commence of Lord Wolseley, the present
commander-in-chief. in the Gordon exnedi.
uon ne won the nickname of 1.-The Soldiers
0eneraf for his personal bravery at a
critical moment of the battle of Taniai.
but; indeed, his close association with
ton of Canada in 1870. He was employed
IN the Ashantee war. the Kafir war and
the Zuiu war of the seventies, and possesses
sre Victoria cross for valor.. He is just
sixty years of age, junior by four years of
Sir George White. the late COMMANDMENT
cnief In India, who now is commanding i'm
Natal. General Whites career is of an even
more varied character, as 1T was not until
tne Aighan campaign of Lord Roberts
a1ter long years of waiting, that he oh,
tanned the opportunity of distinguishing
A more typical instance of a society SOL
der is that of Sir F. Forester Walker. the
guardsman, who has been sent out as gem
manners have made him one of the chief
favorftes of social life, and good fortuna
In the things of this life has aided his rand
promotion. though he has so far no claim to
high military reputation. His services az
the Cape as military secrstary to Sir Rartie
Erere and as chief of staff to Sir Charles
warren IN Bechuanaland should stand him
IN good stead in dealing with the exigen-
cies of the situation.
Another guardsman. Lord Methven. re-
f brs q divisional command, and among the
prother OF Lady Frederick Cavendish. the
Intimate friend OF the Gladstone family.
anu MAJOR General Wauchope, who was the
lothian. :" WIN