Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1904 — For Valor. [ARTICLE]

For Valor.

Andrew D. White tells In his reminiscences of his diplomatic career, which appear in the Century Magazine, a story of a British officer who has Bince Avon distinction. This was General Methuen, who at the time of Mr. White's ministry to Germany was a young colonel connected with the British embassy. One day, while walking in a remote part of the Thiergarten, Methuen saw a working man throw himself Into the river, and instantly jumped into the Icy stream after him, grappled him, pulled him out, laid him on the bank and rapidly walked away. When the news of it got out he was taxed with the deed by members of the diplomatic corps; but he awkwardly and blusbIngly pooh-poohed the whole matter. One eA-ening not long afterward the old emperor sent for the colonel. When he presented himself, his majesty took from his own coat a medal of honor for life-saving and attached It to the breast of Methuen, avlio received it in a very awkAvard yet manly fashion.