TALE OF THE TENTH HUSSARS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1856, 29 May 1884, Page 4

TALE OF THE TENTH HUSSARS.

When the sand of the lonely desert lias ovcred the plains of strife, Where the English fought for the lescue, and the Arab stood for hib life ; When the ciash of the battle is over, and healed aio our wounds and scars, There wilt be in our island story a Tale of the Tenth Hussars. They had eh uged in tho grand old fashion with fiuious hhout and bwoop, Witli a " Follow me, Lads !'" from the Colonel, and an answeiing loar from the tioop ; From the Stalf, a- the troopers rode past it, mgloiy of pudo and pluck, They heard and they never foigot_ it, one following shout, "tioodluck !'' Wornded and worn he bat there, m Silence of pride and pain, The man who'd led them often, but was never to lead again. Think of the seciet anguish ! think of the dull remote ! To see the llu--ai s sweep past him, unled by the old White Hoi- so ! An alien, not a sti anger ; with hcait of a coiuiado still, lie had boine his soi row biavcly, as a boldier must and w ill ; And when the battle was o\ei, in deepening gloom and slu'le, He followed the Start in silence, and lode to the grand pai ade ; For the Tenth had anothei hcio, and npe for the General's praise, Who was called to the fiont that evening by the name of Tiooper Hayes ; He had slashed In-, way to fortune, when scattered, unhoi-ed, alone, And in saving tho life of a eonnade had managed to gnaid hi-, own. The Geneial spoke out biavely as ever a holdier can— •' The Anny"s proud of -yom \aloui ; the llegiinent's'pioml of their man ! ' Then acioas the lonely de-eit, at thecloseof theUenoial's piav-e, Came a cheei, then a quick short tremble on the Up- of Tioopei llaye-. "Hpeak out," said the kindly Colonel, if you've anything, Lad, to say . Youi <^ueeu a'ndyoui deai oldunmky shall hear what you \e done to clay !" 13ut the Tioopei gnawed his chm-tiap, then -heopi-hly hnn-j In- head ; " S|i"ak out, old chap ' -ud his coimadus. With aneltoit, at last, he said-- " I came to the fiont witli my pal- heic, the boy-, and the bia-ko old tu> I've fought foi nn <>neen and ct.uutiy, and xode w ith the Tenth 1 1 u— ai , ; I'm pioud of the fine old ie o 'unent ' '—then the Colonel shook hi- hand — "Ho 111 ask one -ingle fax our fiom my (^ueen and my u.itnc lmd ' " Theie -it- by soxn -,ide on the Htatt, .sn, a man weaie pioud to own ' He wai -tiuek down lu-,1 in the battle, but ne\er was lieaid to ; If T've done ought to de-en c it, '—then the (Jeneialsinili'd " Oi coui-i' ' ' - "(iixebaekto t'u- Tenth then Colonel - tlie -Man on the <>ld White llm^- ' "Jfo\ei imanboiuup, -v, as a soldiei slmuld, with pluck, And fought \.ith i sa\.ige -onov. the demon of cm iod ill-I'ick — That man he -it- hrtoiev" ' ( >i^' u- bade, with his ,\ omul- .mil seal-. The man who ha- MH el> -nfleied^ and ilo\edb\ the Tenth Hu— ais '" Tliena thfi'i went up fiom hi-, com. ade-, and I'clnx'd acia— thi^ -and, And u i- bome on tin- win^i of meicy t<> th< hoai t of hi- n itni- 1 md, Whine Uk 1 ''ucc-u on hei th.one Mil \u\\i it, .md Iho Golo'ii-1 I'unco mil ]n n-e Tlie woiil- of a miph -ol'lu'i ju-t utteied li> Tioopfi 11,1V 1 -. Let the nioiali-t -too)) to meic\, that balm of all smd-. that ]iw> : Foi betti'i th.m all foi getting, is the

— Pinch.

Photck.ku'llK 1 likenesses are no longei considered the thing for the >irh, the great or the beautiful, cither in Eugland 01 Amenta. The old fashioned, ivory-painted inmutiiic is now the lage, and if the " eounteifeit piesentment ' is not quite so tine to natuie as those that the sun makes toi us it leaves the field open foL atti^tie flatteiy and idealising. Tin: death is announced of a well known L.uurkshno woithy— Mi Aichibald Nimnio, shocmakci, Camw.ulh He was a, pel feet stoiohmisc of lnioimation, and as such was fiequcntly consulted liy eminent men, including Mi (iladston'e Tie also published a collection of Clydesdale song^> .aid billads. Of late ycais his ta\ouutc topic of eon vci nation was the Covenanting lustoiy of the distnet, of which he was the chief depositoiy. An inreivicw \slncl\ Ins fathei — who fought in the Scots (tte>s ,ifc W.iteiloo — had -with Jean Annoiu at the gia\c of Bums, is lelited in fiiliillan's life of the poet. Judge Mou.swoum was piesent at Pentudge, m Melbourne, lecently to witness tin ec pi isoueis flowed He wxs dositous of observing the se\ july of the punishment, and diavmg Ins own conclusions as to it-, dotenenl influence upon the lccipicnts. He has e\pic-sul himself in ta\oui of .shoit sentences with .seveie coipoial punishment, and not buidening the State with keeping oflondeis ioi any length of time, lie aNo appealed to" consider 1 h.it the solitai y system of punishment, c.uiiedout in it-, integrity — \;/ , lib ot bit.xl pei day and no chance of any communication with any pei son — would be c\ en moie bciifhcial ; and in this he i^, lmino out by old and experienced gaol ofheials. The Age's special lepoiter, with tlie Austialian team wiitcs tiom aboud ship as follows :—"I: — "I mu<t give tlie Austialian cricketers ciedit ior stopping at nothing wliich can possibly be concencd to be conducive to the production of muscle and tlie maintenance ot good condition ; and it will, i fancy, astonish then iiiends in Austialu almost as much as their opponents in Old England to hear that mo-,t ot them ha\c nsun at (i o'clock in the moining m latitude-, neatest the equatoi, and »oing down to the eupinoloom liave siiippod, and, sliovel m hand, fed the fuinace-j foi a couple of houis at a stictch, the tempeiatuie being H(i J . It need hanlly hu sml that by this means the bupeiilnons flesh has Killed oil in f,tt earns ot pc .^iiation, and the appeniaiue of the bojs as they emeige fiom the lower legion 1 andiushfor the bathioom can only be appi eclated by those who have been them. f only wish I could liiivc obtained photo-, of Muidoch and Palmei as tliey appealed in a lathci of sweaty coal-dust, looking like two ot the jolliest niggeis that e\ei worked in a (stoke-hole. The .stolid Afiican, who Jot a comparative pittance follows tins scorching existence month after month, and year after >eai, must suiely have thought the athletic white man who would \ oliintai lly lebeve liim of hi* shovel for two houts, little bhoit of mad ; but better woik for taking oil the 'extia ' could not be imagined— a fact amply testified to by the bught and cleai .appearance of those who have indulged in it, The Hon. Carter Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, has a son of whom the luteiocciui tells the following story :— '' The other day the younsj fellow hail the Mayor's pet mare out specdiug her on the boulcxaid, and escaped ariest for fast during only under suspension of rules. The Mayor heaid of it, aud the next day lie said to me as Will approached, 'Now, hero 'smy chance. See me haul the young gentleman over the coals. T will make him believe he i.s on the straight road to the calaboo.se, and that; the h'ngeis of the law aie clutching at his tin oat.' The boy came un and the Mayor said with cousuleiable seventy, ' There is a complaint against you for fast dnving. Did >ou have the mare out yesterday ?' ' Ye-.,' lephed the boy ; ' I bad her out, but I hope no one cails that driving fast. 1 let her take it easy, but there were dozens ot fellows driving last,' and he named seveial owneis of cracked horses. As he talked, the severe look on the Mayor's face became an anxious one, and as his boy went on to tell how this man and that one drove, the Mayor buist out with, ' You didn't let him pass you, I hope, ; an,d then he thundered out, ' Did yon let'binV pass 'you ?" To all of which replied the boy, ' You bet I tfidn't So fnde&tfteleWon,'* - '