THE CORPS OF GUIDES.
[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR; I have just seen our Chief Guide, and suggested to him that we should largely increase our numbers, for in remote country districts such as my own there are many individuals who are eager and anxious to serve their country, yet are not able to enlist or join the Territorials. The Chief Guide said : "Enlist as many as you can." This at once I am about to do on my return home to-night, and I hope to enlist a goodly number and arrange for them to come to our village miniature rifle range and practise shooting. They will thus—over and above being Guides—form a nucleus whence might be drawn a further contingent of men who might be able to assist the Territorials in time of need. I shall hope to be able to furnish you next week with the results of my recruiting for the Corps of Guides, which the editor of the Spectator has done so much to encourage.—I am, Sir, &c.,
A NORTHUMBRIAN DISTRICT GUIDE.
[Capital. But care should be taken not to enlist as Guides any men under thirty. The business of men under thirty is to join Lord Kitchener's Second Army. Till we have got him his half-million there must be no joining by the young of corps meant for the old ; no choosing of soft jobs instead of the hard one of the firing line. We must have an Army before we have anything else.—En. Spectator.]
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