HEROES IN THE MAKING.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1186, 22 July 1911, Page 6

HEROES IN THE MAKING.

which our race was supposed to hold over the world's courage. Analyses of courage in battle —made independently by sub-sections in tho military history departments of tho French and German general staffs—are to tho effect that, among the dominant, nations (here is not, Tacially, much difl'crenrc They place the greatest cavalry charge in history as that curried out by Von B redo w at Mars-la-Tourj Hie swiftest mobilisnlion as that of the North German Confederation and Prussia in July, 1870; thegreatest amount of manoeuvre in the immediate- iii'PAoace of an enemy as belonging to Britain at Pieters II ill; the greatest amount of execution in proportion to nrea of battlefield as again ]3ri!nin's, at AVnterloo; the poorest stamina of (loops on record as Britain's in the Jtajuha campaign; tho largest infantry charge on record os that personally directpd by Kuropatkin (.id battalions) at Mukden; the finest infantry charge as that of J'ickett's division of I.ec's army at Gettysburg. In arriving at these- disconcerting estimates tlie cold-blooded Continental researches admit, freely enough, that they have laid stress on four things:—(l) disunities in proportion to time engaged; (2) disconcerting political and newspaper influences tending to enhance or diminish reality; (3) physical obstacles encountered on the line of effort (streams, dongas, gullies, steep ridges, spurs, bush, etc.). (1) Thp length of tho peace period preceding the war. Ruthless as all this is, there is in it ono splendid'lump of golden comfort for all. Even tlio German General Staff, which covers itself as thickly with chilling technicalities as a. Rcduvius bug covers itself with earth, seems to imply, in all its researches, that it admits that almost any man belonging to I he AngloSaxon and Teutonic stock;, and even J lie Latin races, is is i'ossk n hero, provided always that ho comes of a reasonably clean parentage. There is showing, somewhere on this page, a war-time drawing of the stuff from which Pickett's charge was tunde. It is the drillmn-U'r at work ou'troopj nt tho beginning of the war. and, certainly, the elderly gentleman, with the

ing Walker.- An alarm ivas at once given, and willing hands set to work to recover the body, which was extricated at 11 o'clock this morning. The deceased leaves a wifo and one child, for whom much sympathy is felt. Walker was ths son of Mr. Walker, owner of the Brighton colliery. He learned his business with his father, and was a good miner as well as a popular and respected young fellow. This is the first serious accident that has happened in the mine since it was opened ■1C years ago.

Messrs. Baldwin and Hayward, patent agents, Wellington, report tlmt they have filed Ihc following applications for patents in New Zealand during die week fmled .July 21:—A. Cooper, Palrntrston North, improved rush or tussock knife for atlachmeiit to ploughs; J. S. Hopkins, IVlone, improvements in or relating to stopracks; W. Kggleton, Palmersfon North, improvements relating to scutching macliinns; U. JI. Thompson, Aucklaml, an improved single cord Venetian blind; W. J. Teese. Victoria, improvements in and connected with the pulsating apparatus of milking machines; L. M'Lean. N'.S.W an improved compound for application to animals as a protection against insect pests, as a healing agent in eases of flyblow, and a destructive agent of larvae and th» like; .1. fi. Tonkin, n.ietinos i m provements in kettles, urns, and the like. For Broiiehial Coughs take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is. Gd. • Messrs. Stewart Dawson and Co., have an advertisement in this issue drawin" attention to wist watches, of which they have a. large stock of different varieties. .Messrs. W. T. Turnljull and Co., »7 I'anama Street, advertise for sale, a property of 5720 acres, situated near Gi«borno, and only seven miles from the railway. Three, thousand seven hundred acres are in grass, and the balance in bush and heavy manuka. Tho propertv is wintering 50(10 sheep and ,iOO head of ratlle. and is good two-shcc.p ooimti-v. 1 he firm will Ire pleased to give full particulars to intending purckasers.