Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-01-21

49, S1~As 3 LII - 0HS
IL TIE nravest mea / have, Isn't BE,
Generate The General Just nodded
his head. The Queen pinned the cross
on my coat and said. 7 am proud q
you. and hope youIl have 4 long life.
My arm was all ibandaged and in
splints, and she laid her hand on it
and caressed 1t. I left the Cross where
she put It until that coat was worn SOS
I couldn't wear 1t any longer.
I'm a modest man." he went on.
I'm one of the modestest OF men, but
I'll say this to you about what ] did.
Most Of the men VINO won the cross
have advanced on amDuscades or
fought under a IRE that came from
they didn't know where. But l tell you
! knew. / was shot through both
arms by the same man, and / tell you
it's hard to stand there and be ported,
and then hold up ready to be potted
again."
Farmer wears his cross all the time,
but is inclined to be critical regarding
THE worlds treatment of him. 81
amt one of the favored few of a
wealthy nation" he said. THAT Ma
juba Hill business was all right and
it got a lot of advertising; but there
was no money in it. I've had my pic
ture printed, no end of 1t, and I've
got a whole book of newspaper clip
pings about me. A fellow is singing
a song about Brave Corporal Farm
er of Cory Majuba Hill at one of the
halls, and making money on it: but
here I am working nights for fifty
cents a night, and that precarious.
One of my hands is half paralyzed,
too"
Everybody knows about him, how
ever, and is more ready to tell his
story than he is, and how he left a
sweetheart at home in England when
he went to the Transvaal, and how
she was the proudest girl in the whole
country. He married her the day af-
ter he came home, and she is his
wife now, and cherishes every picture
Of him, even more than he does.
Two Doughty Brothers.
There is another V. C. man employ
ed at the British Museum, and an
other at the Imperial Institute in Ken
sington. They won their crosses to-
gether, also in saving wounded men,
this time from Zulus, who surprised
the hospital of which they were IN
charge.
There is only one case where two
brothers have won crosses. the men
NV berg lieutenant generals l.. c.
B. Cough is their name. The young
er, Iirgh Henry Cough, was in COM
mand of Hudson's Horse at Lucknow.
He led a mighty charge across a
swamp. resulting in the capture of
two guns. His horse was twice wound
ed, and his turban cut almost from his
head. He virtually won the cross
again later on through another break
neck charge, and fought several duels
in the course of the battle, finally be-
ing wounded by a shot just as he was
charging down On two Sepoys armed
with bayonets. Before he got the
wound that downed him he had two
horses shot under him and had been
shot through the helmet.
His brother, Sir Charles, went
through the Punjab campaign as a boy
Of IL. Four times he has merited the
cross, originally by saving the life OF
his %fire-eating brother at Khurkowdah
when he killed two men who were up
on him. Three days afterward he led
a cavalry charge and fought two men
hand-to-hand, killing both of them. A
year after, at Shumshabad, he engaged
and sabred the leader of the enemy
and a month later he rescued still an
other officer and sent his opponent tc
kingdom come.
CURTIS BROWN.