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144 THE TOMAHAWK. [April ii, 1868.
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FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT IN AB YSSINIA.
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Yes, I daresay you will stare when Antal...
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in Involunt the Macko ary nochie Canoniz...
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MILITARY REFORM.
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tion To as follow indicated the order in...
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THE ZATE BOAT MACE.
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Turni Why % was the Oxford and Cambridge...
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144 The Tomahawk. [April Ii, 1868.
144 THE TOMAHAWK . [ April ii , 1868 .
From Our Own Correspondent In Ab Yssinia.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT IN AB YSSINIA .
Yes, I Daresay You Will Stare When Antal...
Yes , I daresay you will stare when Antalo you see , from April w 7 i , zere 1868 I am . dating this , but it ' s a fact ! Your unhappy Correspondent has been objection and those got to " fo to ols practical the of front the joking 1 . " 04 th N , managed ever you mind may it perhaps hoiv , but . as Young realise you know Davidge , thoug my h p onl iece y to of unpardonable very slight degree tomfoolery , what as my this feelings ! They are got at such me to a could Goona ' nt -ao touch first , it to —that see ' s a wh church at they ! Such told me a . church You — have St . had Paul' a s the picture kind of of the thing place th in at the passes Illus for trated fun I in think the , so 104 th ! understand I was to beaten hear some into fine fits . " music Talk " of Christianity there , " and in Abyssinia " Mackonochie ! Why , the they Patriarch have never even owes heard me ninepence of the xxxix half Articles penny to , while this hour as to . But these are , purely personal matters , and so by no means let being them get here into the print wisest . You thing see I suppose the worst is of to it make is , here the best am , of it . beg Let in the again public , in then proper think style it . part of our arrangement , and I will Before Antalo , April , 1868 .
ing Glorious this on a heading drum-head to this within letter gunshot ! Your of correspondent the " enemy . " is writ Yes - , barbaric ing we are battlements before pageantry Antalo crowned of ! Egypt I with can of ' swarth see old . , but The myriads can feathered p , icture armed arrow the in frown all , the the - attached picture and Nile the rush all goih to -bow this it -markhish — and (' the mentioned more proud , a ! sort standard b As y of Herodotus I fish write - of slice , Abyssinia I feel ) with , the the a . short leathern thrill ! Yes scimitar of , thong I pride can , none run throug of these h my things British carry blood a hundred . N . B yards . You —but know still , of one course can- , not might hel of p realising a dynasty that that one has is seen about a thousand to grapp generations le with the . ancient
well In disci great plined hurry troops to say , all armed this is with a mistake the very . Theodorehas best Birming 15 , 000 rifles a staff ( constructed of picked Europeans on a new . princi The p whole le ) , 2 5 of guns his in forces position are at , and the said disposal to be of preparing the correspondent for immediat of the e action New . Yo Bracer rk Herald insists , who that is my work return . He to strong Annesiey ly advises Bay is me im to possible provide , and myself hint with s at a serious clockwork of punch life . mouse , so He that say , a in s comic the case last of song is cap regarded in ture AmTiaric , I may as , Have almost and at least recei sacred , pt a for chance in gin this - part of the country , and that the celebrated African missionary quentl and exp y lorer introduced , Dr . Sp Christianity arl , not only in escaped the Upper massacre Koohsh , but district subse- , book in consequence , you know of it , having called in , I his think knapsack , " Three that hundred small sixpenny ways of - though serving up course rum . " , the By crisis the way will , could have ' nt passed you , send in all me probability out a few , , long ning before to feel you what get I dare this ? say To you come are to feeling the point at home , I , and beg what insinian I can tell business you a may good turn many out are one feeling of the out most here troublesome . This . Abys jobs - the Times country I hear has , has had already on its sounded hands the for first half note a century of this . alarm The , failure and it . , is The just fact as well is we those have tl at undervalued home should altogether be prepare the d re for - sources and spirit of the enemy , " to say nothing of the jealousy Whthere we is have a French excited fleet in in other the quarters Red sea , notabl at this y moment French . y , and ( fact that )—then the add corresponde to that that nt of our the horses New are York starving Herald ( fact has again tele ) - , graphed to tell you that , Not A a Gun moment —I heard to lose it ! — I I ' m told off you for we the are rear on the eve of a battle .
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Military Reform.
MILITARY REFORM .
Tion To As Follow Indicated The Order In...
tion To as follow indicated the order in the of speech military of failures the Secretary in effective of Stat organiza e for - consider War on the moving question the Army of retarded estimates promotion , it is now in the necessary scientific to to branches a dead lock the those service very , which important threatens corps before , the Royal long to Artillery bring and The the large Royal increases Engineers in . these corps , in consequence of the have increased since importance the date of attached the Crimean to gunnery warintroduced in modern int warfare o the , that service the , such prospects numbers of promotion of officers , to some of nearl , three -fourth the same s of th em , , are literally annihilated . been To proposed remedy , or b rather a committee to palliate of the , this House state of of things Common , it s to retirements make retirement at , lower y at rates the age of of pension sixty to compulsory all officers , and of twenty allow , - two years firs ' t service proposal and is upwards unobjectionable . and will go far to secure a fair flow of promotion throughout , the Corps , but , the for second it is proposal certain that is altogether it will beas fraug a rule ht with the the most greatest active-minded danger , the avail most themselves intelligent of , retiring and the , earl most y from efficient , the service officers ; men who who will , them know into civil from that life , want with , carry their while ing activity th with ey are them of establishing mind their and army body the pension mselves , they to se in cure lu go - crative employments for which their twenty years' experience While and disci the p drones line in , the military indifferent life , will and mediocre so thoroug men hly , will fit them hang . they on , conscious could possibl that y in hop the e army for in they the are contests drawing and more struggles pay than of civil life , and contented to sleep away their years in the fli enjoyment ht of all the of the better rapi men d promoti in the on created . by the premature g corps deprive The permission the service to of retire the after best twenty men , at years their ' best ervice time will ; at u a period of their service when the benefits of experience have best age not , begun and instruction when to be their to diminished the active younger ha ndling officers any commencing of just their entering duties drawback the will service be the of . the Nothing corps can than possibl the loss y tend in their more prime to lower of the their esprit prime and men Zlan , It of
would" Take leave the good the bad , too , too good bad with to them go away to stay . " , at sixty lieu should of this be dangerous supplemented proposal with permissive compulsory retirement retiremen at fifty further -five permission , on the same to or retire nearl at y the fifty sa , m at three nsion -fourth , and s with of the a highest rate of pension . under Thus thirty , no years retire ' m service ents on , and an the average tendency would to retire be admissible would be be comp those letel that y changed would ; go for on the to sixty active years in mind of age and while body the would inefficient would be those who . would take their , good pensions and It is to earl be y . hoped that the Government will look at the quesas tion on que higher stion for grounds the Administrator than mere pou ( if n there ds , shillings is one , and the pence War ; ferred Office ; rather the for than mer for the admit " Actuary into his " to calculations whom it has the been rather rethat and important most an ; efficie certainl item nt y organisation may it efficiency will be , while admitted of the the Scientific by latter all reasonable may Corps not do of men s the o , Army ineffici — ent cost organisation what it will , — how will ever be well cheap worth , will the be cost an ; unalloyed while an waste of public money . :
The Zate Boat Mace.
THE ZATE BOAT MACE .
Turni Why % Was The Oxford And Cambridge...
Turni Why % was the Oxford and Cambridge Race like a p ( Answers to be sent to 30 Tavistock street . 1 st prize £ 10 , 000 . )
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), April 11, 1868, page 144, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_11041868/page/2/
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