KNIGHT,

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13983, 14 August 1909, Page 6

KNIGHT,

a more valuable piece in chess than the I ami. A knight in Saxon meant a ••hoy." then a servant, then by process ot evolution those who served the feudal kings and bore arms were called k right*. In process of time the order of "knights errant" was created. These mon protected the defenceless and ;iid.'(] the oppressed in cruel and barbarous times. We live in better days, yet cruelty, oppression, and suffering (htiiiii; consequently there is need for the knights errant in these times. Men of (rreat hearts, who take up the cause nf the weak and poor and defenceless Lord Shaftesbury, who gave his life lor the suffering poor; Dr. Barnardo, who rescued the waifs and strays from slumdom ; Genera] Booth. who set himself the . task of raisins the submerged, stasses — God's Lniirhts errant, all of tiiem. And inapy others nnkuejhi to fame, whose obscure rirrrit of heroism have not been heralded l>v the worl'Vs trumpeter. The young m.m qualifying himself for a nrofes-f-ioiinl career, full of ambition and pur-iv)*-i>, who. when his father dies, sacriJic's his cherished ambitions and works lieroirnllv in some humble station to support the widowed mother and fatherl«'s^ family. The (laughter who refuses teniPtim; offers of marriage anil spends Iht life in nursing. a sick mother. Both of them knights errant. Then passing

rapidly ou, we have the piece known as the