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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15101, 25 March 1911, Page 8

— The small military iliill Station of Ohorat is about 40-miles from Peshawar, that old and historic mudwall-lmilt city lying at tlio foot o' (ho Klivbcr Pass. Regjmcr.ts have for half a century been stationed in Ohorat during the summer months, and nearly all have left a memorial of their visit. There are 40 regimental badges or crests cat out. in the rocks. In oiw place there are nine different badges, and the others are engraved hero and thoro nil over the place. Anions them are the badges of the Gallant Gordons, the fwnoiu Black Watch, the Queon's, and the Royal Soots, the two former being recently cut out when the detachments were there las! year. Rome of these crests aro ds high as 60ft above the roadway, which much have entailed a great deal of hard work. They arc all woll done, not one being in the least, way wrong in any detail. All of them have been cut by soldiers in their spare time; in some crises the commanding ofiiccr has allowed the man or,men to be struck off duty for the purpose of cutting out the crcst. — Mr Robert \Y. Chambers, the American novelist, was recently interviewed by someone, who asked him whether he thought, experience was necessary in order that, a novelist might depict truthfully tlio things which he dcserilxxl. Ho scouted the idea. Ho said it was not necessary to be a. drunkard to describe one. Mr Chambers said: "The moment- a man thinks he has a mission he's lost. That's tlio trouble with a lot of the men who are trying to be great to-day. What wo really need is the realisation that not. one of us is indispcnsnMe. The women are beating us on our own ground three days. TJicro's Mrs Whartin—l don't know her equal among the novelists. And Mrs Margaret Deland does more perfect work than any of us. There's where you pot the fallacy of the personal experience theory. Those women have aiot found it nocessary to knock around the low places of t.ho earth, and yet their characters .are by no means an amy of saints." Tlio boverago that benefits—WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS—ft drink, a tonic, » medicina.