Life — October 26, 1899 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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329 e letter, 1 know that if you ever deign to answer it in your weekly that you could make me look very small, as 1 don't pretend to be able to write, which ts your business, but 1 could not stand by and bear the frst uation of the world called a “ coward !"" Yours very truly, A SOLDIER OF THE QUEEN. Purely as a matter of courtesy ton Soldier of the Queen we print his letter. But we must correct an error, Tn the article to which he alludes we called no one a coward; alluding to Eogland’s perpetual wars with smaller nations, we said the ** business would be funny were it not so cowardly.” In that sentence we sce nothing to modify. If the definition of “cowardly” as given in the dictionaries is correct, we have made no error. If the Zulus, compared with Great Britain, are not “ diminutive” in point of population, weapons, commissariat and military science, then, upon that point, we allow our correspondent the last word, As for our ‘miserably planned cam- paign” of last year, we can ooly reach out and shake his band, and congratulate him ou his accuracy. R, MAXIM, the gunmaker, has followed the example of Mr. Astor and become a British subject. Mr. Maxim has a great manufacturing plant in England and very large business in- terests there, He has lived and worked there tuo for many years, and when he came back here for a visit about a year ago, he ran up against disturbing in- felici ies of a domestic nature which im- paired his peace of mind. The change he makes is reasonable and we will all give him our blessing. The resignation with which, we bore him compared with the indignation which Mr, Astor’s abjuration of citizenship ex- cited, attests thut it was the special fea- tures of Mr. Astor’s case that made us mad, and that we harbor no general unwilingness to love acitizen of England provided there are reasons that warrant fen™ “WHY YO" USE DAT OL” CANNON POH ER STOVE?" “ KASE [WANTS TO BU KINDS OB FIRE-WOOD,"WHETHAT HITS LOADED WID GCNrOWDATT OR NOT. DAR'S SOME POW'FUL MEAN WITE FOLKS IN DIS VICINENTY, DEACON, AN’ LIITS BES! TO ON DE SAFE sib) A Letter. Toroxto, Octoher $, 1899. before they use the word Worst Insult that can be give but evidently to ward,* as itis the Tam a subscriber to your paper, great pleasure in reading it; batan article whieh appeared in your last number bas rather shaken the opinion Thad of ft, Itseems to me that you are always on the lookout to get A slap at England. Apart from the poor taste and red It shows, It does not look well coming from a country that at present claims to be on the hest of terms with England, ch an article must also prejudice a lot of tguorant people who are willlug to swalow all they hear, and breed bad feeling against the British, It 1s rather rough on your Canadian readers to have such an article thrust on them, but I suppose your circulation in Canada ts so «mall that you can afford to lowe It. Over here and in England people think twice New York the word iqulte comn Tam sorry tohear youstate that the Zulus are diminutive foes, the change, as It'shows a deplorable display of ig- horance, and no donbt many people will belleve the statement, Doubtless you never read an authentic account of Rorke’s Drift? Itts rather a cool thing for a nation to criticise another's mode of Aghting when they themselves bad a miserably planned campaign as you had. last year, where men died from starva- ton and disease, and not by shot and atiell, which latter end Kills most of Britain's soldiers. Now, Live, I hope you will forgive this A PARO LAY OUT. comichooks.colu)