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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1915-07-15, Page 94 ' V BUILDINi'i NEW FENCES There ie it whole: lot to the ques- tion of fencing, and every farmer knows*it.. Onee upon le time an eminent jut fou.nd something that wags new te him when he was queetityning A witness upon the matter of feneee. "A, fence for a . five uore lot will be the taaene size. WS matter what the elope of the Jut, will it, not ?" he inquired the witneee. , But the witeees die - agreed. To illustrate thepointe he OW a Wee of String frozre hie pocket, knotted the ter* pnele to- g.e.thei', and •pla6eds the estring upon 1413 'fingers, holding itup in a form nearly,equare. "This etring,* your honor, he. said, "is About eight ineleee each* way, and therefoxe about ,3g• inebee lenif, while it `-044 • .clone A • „ roe of ahotit ,04 square ioeleees ut if you ethepe .it tLi wtty-,(makingit ;About twelve Indies • long .by , about four inelles• wide), • it. Ny1.114411 be the game length,. but it will only encletee 4 quare. _Melees • °tame." - And for QUO Or the few • Ones during a -leng e.tereer, the, e judge had to admit that the laugh was on him , fencing. the' 00 Acre fe,raie . g PlanY Tt'Otti/Ohl; ; -944144° • • farinsof the' hundred :acre sise . Pre- , -; dominate, aed: they vary from an • outside ,dirtrensien of en rods by • • 400 rods, to lin red4 by ren- rods, Beldam approaching More nearly to an equilater& Ont -side /gem •than the • latter. In %telt a Shapes of farm, however high the Outside nee fences May -run,. considerahlc. eest smay Still be e.itved by planning for square _fielde insicle of th se line .:Teneess Prefild'ecT that :these will work out for convenienee in other-. respects. farm planning is El# mat- ter' for the eisereiseof considerable • study. and each farm presonts vary-- ing aspects of, theasefor indivi- dual consideration. • - • • About tlae stables, and barns, ' beaseet, Peognede, garden, 'and faren Penniesgenerallys, thereeie piStasi and re.aSon for intelligent arrange- , meet'. clo'neenteneee - here ' Meana , more by many 'times then in the 4e1,eueneg of the re3t' of the farm ;v1t_Sth, -,lanOe,,...eteLs.,•yory, bit. :. of. ' 'odeled conventenee • .-Meaneeete much labor avekleel, not ▪ fee (Mee, 1*. but for many. t..lings, and • , „„ 3t Wosits for einotethoy, ' not in one, or s'swo, but. in 'many, ways, - and throughont Years of tinea. Aboutthe boate premises, fenees. eare-Wanteele.-and •° planned 'Wisely and well . If house end orehard are adjoining; it is lost to haVelences so placed. that • live -stock insty . be Allowed in .the orchasel. without at .t.413- eilsne thne .`aPPrquihiting to -elose 'to the house or, interfering wsth the flower 'gars den: In 'regard • to a vegetable • gardets, Many. prefer to have One ,of the permanent order, close .to the house, whale others' are con- tent to grow meet or all of the viege-; Along.each eide of this vegetable erdeu the right play,* toplant raspberry, gooseberry, eurrant and, other bushee. They Wien Ilt.LiP shelter the motion without. at. the: tsarist) time ading it too much.' The flower Garden. 1Vhae flowere can do to brighten' .up the lioene would till a big vel limo. They are worth _cultivating, groWing and peoteetings many times; over, ssndthe. beat protection for them SS ni good fenee. Ornateenteli wire' or felliCeEt eonerete,,are worththe trouble and wortIi ithe eseet, . But 41t, the "SOW tisus 4 pod wire fertee rookesean effectent proteetion, and affords" an eal, place for TM -1=g, 'climbing vines and plants, „And ornamental foliage and iteswerS, .the way from. Sweet peas to clematis. Viten grapes omen be. planted -and ieeered for -with. euceese, Other `ildweeing •ahrube May be planted. It is eines evencierfid what suass be sden s Wlth, a' geed erire- %n�,. asPokle, rftice a,nd a besPs .441' geOci oedtailko00, And • Wagon lontleof rooks and retonee, It iseeeeenee of•Alittle bet of taste, aSlit•tle. bit of labor,' And 'big resultseepeoveded that the -atlegue0 Protection be afforded, in the .shaPe of Sis geed, Wsill:-InadO 'fence, About the Orebard. • • Fences about the orchard should be high enough, And close enough and should be provided with atee plaoed with an eye to 'the baullng. away of dead trees and bra neliese-of- the workof geteng light all the weley_ancesseeed_ every. tree ,with the sprayer, ono aloo with the - for the work Of .rescuing the apples. Such a planning • of the tenet) would provide for cultivation and +I* — 'GERMAN PRISONER8,0FAVAR • ATTEND COMRADE'S VIJNERAL The picture shows the funeral of a priiionersolswar who died at one ofs the detention camp* near the moutb of the Thames, and was buried with full militarybonors, His comrades were persuitted, :LQ follow the body to the pave and act as pall Wenn.• 47-- -4- kttOWasor -understood : Our, pasture fields are-ne.Oonger gnisad by the sight of the colts wearing "Pokes,'" cattle with their...heads tied down, others' with d boa s over their eye would prove 'a protectioil to the to prevent them "lumping" as th • roots under the Sod, as:m011.'as.,01° '• ,Piereaoliy" Ones used to- do' • renting' the'Beenyard. Tc'-daw, wire fencing ,hae reashe In planning- for better Pea it; -,EiWtSi- ';61 high ifheeteney, about the stables and barns, One of, fence that is. generally. adopted -the 'firs standard one 'that Is- "abotit tion.' of, tlie dangers and waste of Moires in height, and a little- bi the old syStern of dumping the sass- more is still -hatter. For ordinary um* from the stable right in trout .field fencing "a feness _Shalt hog .of the-sfale- ..s1;00res-s There- issa tigire-and liiiliSProlSt TS one of 'Ole better " plan than thiss:-that of in- to ten strands, of ibeut %-ineh a'litter caerier--.4nd some .wires. The firsis_wire naybe*lose day you will' adopt it. This nittaseS "to ;the ground,' the next ene three "IneheriTig'," the Fence. , . • • . 4 0- it possi e- . 1/40 Yarcl ln inches OboVe theetleetd. one three front .of the stables. elesassand;clear itsohei ,Itigher,- the See*Viiire four of obstacles of all kinds, and pro- inches high,eis' the next five inches Metes' Olitmlineas theeOtable. next Six inches, and the remaining as well as - out. • With; ablee-Tlitrks. four. ranging': seven Chee, .eight Carrier the Manure may. be taken inehes and nine ineheis apart. A further afield, 'and deposited upset gond. fenee Way be 'WM by drop a solid battem, that will conserve- ping one wire and: bringieg the the. linVid manure; and Iseets filth fend() only th4e, inches- lower. Fences that and'atill more open are often built, and are Servieeable, but it is a fictrin tone construc- tion that -the gond fenoe remains when the little bit extra, cost is forgOtten. „: • bee when it is desired to drive them St ,, efencee-thton-theirbeingewell -placed away front \ the stablee. ,Thae 'should.._ be, wide and roomy, but should come in close enough to the Stables at the aides. to make it Prac- tical to close is. with gates ,aad thus prevent animals from simply -running round. and round theprem Co• rner posts are well:named the , anehor posts the "-modern NOP POTTED USES SHOW HOLE As, lr pious) SC, tags - zot woe .4s,trago , arg.,btiP It?"1 trAter, *A AT TO , . Sq MAT GROUND TO iv. EVAct • , BOARDS': , SHOULO St. SAWN ' WICATH or; /it.* issriit..7„.7.19.1.; ft/ /7 7/"/, 0/ The Corner -Post is well'ntinied the '‘Anehor" of 'th0 moiler is Wire fence." . branetl depends .4 greats' deal of. the efaeieasey sand dirabil- ity of the fehoe. 'Thee° should either be of -good, solid cedar, of heavy reinforced conorete, or a well -made and efaci.ent metal post. They ,Should have a solid plaits= At the _bottom, big eeenough broad lexiough.ss:The 401e. yuglie. :for them .should he dug four feet long and ecroeswlee of the, rune of etthe knee:. They shisidel be- four feet deep and about two feet *dth Thi e hole should indicate the glee of .blie .ciciespieepe that are • to be spiked . to, theebettom of tint Corner p4st and Of the platforin to be p a Upon them, The crosspieces sh.0 e of 2" .1-6' ,'and four feet long, .1 orbited into .and Spiked to tables in rows beside the root crops , on the fields As a general thing, ..14, is quite possible, to groW, many of •ye ss able's in thesfield,--butsit-is• , . equally true-that-nasinysothers; and - -s-sespecially Lthose- requiring -earlier planting; cannet be grown in this The Vegetable darden. .01cise to the house, close enough - to-beevery convenient at all -times; should be plaCed The Vegetable gar- Of- *aurae, a, southern -expos , Sure and a southern "sloPe,_ With • good proteetion-upon-the7north side- •• -IS the beet;itit rein -foe ripened -Wee - If, at-ethe- eanie-tim%-•-iteseposicilile to hive it close to the Stable, but protncted front ItoUltry,-, as well as fresIt north-scsindo;766 Innen the ,bet:', ter. Like the fields where economy, of labor is developed' tesi high de- gree, the shape of the vegeta le garden thould Ise long And harrow. • fonfiation permits of the use.. Of horse -power for plowing instead • ef digging, of harrowirig and disc. hag,. instead. of pniverizing the hysitends:to eity nOthing hanling iffenurd- SPreaddie in eat 'dfies'end astd out at the -other -all 'of which Meana the saving of a world of la- bter, and of time. To faeilitate all pf 't -is lieste&Tehave.sempre- on-mide_ifis_theinatistatio the fence. ' 'each end of the IONS, narrow,: vegetable garden -----theithle-she---plaied -swinging gates, and.if the garden is to be a large one it is best to have the' gates double, so to Oen 11P nid.I.6 enough to pertilit horses to go right lheeuglie plowing from end to eed eldnd turning , oateide. Up -to -dale *ire iron . gates will make ideal • revision fore„this. It is one of tile iota tets poSsible. Convenience in Iv matter of planning the fencing lir the tares.. • . • ,Aking the aides .of the 'Vegetable setlen shouldbe•plateel femme that icpe strong and good and tight at the bottom. They eltould 66 three Ugh to keep poultry out. There ie timed when, li*Oultry are very aasful in gas garden, and them are 1.0tes„ "wlum their nebni lt; WOrtir nee MOO than their company. isle of the largerhreeds, ,if wdll WM nob do muels•hassit in a arden1 but it- le not Always the • Se with mustillor poultry, ttna are the hereto* to keele.ent Auto. the stable. There should also the Pest, Theoll :them ohould he be ample rosins at the 'rear Of the. Pra404:1 alsOrt ,boarda; And the Wass& barn to maks rocas for teams; was set in .sund ticitded with "stones and gonssf_and,other impleinents-.-not to_ filledsup-With-earth;,ne- 'DETECT AHEAD .OF InciSE le0NDON NEW YORK-• • niderer Traced Through a 'llfaich." .- Another by, a Blade P of GrasS. ' • In s the. scientific aspects detecs tive-Work -Germany- leads- the veil . The key ,to success in this: kind of work, of course, in an inexhaust- ible patience in. dealing -with details. Indeed, this is the Secret_ of the Ger- man national genius for orgaziiiiitIon; taifil?eaPlidt,twairlitce°r Raymond witho cBa 8.eri; • • .0n a might in .May; an un- knowu man ,was shot down in Pots- dammerstrasse, Eerily.- Apparently nobody. saw the, affray or heard the shots.. A patrolman his- beat at 4 o'cleris in the morning -'stumbled across the dead body. Similar cir- cumstanc4S in a city in America would have- resulted in the following procedure: The patrolman - would Wave notified lead -quartets; headquar- ters would have -notified the coroner's office:. the!eorener weuldslaveissued orders to have the body removed ,to• 'the morgue; autopsy would have been- performed; the coroner's. jury would have declared the man mur7 dere& by a person or - person's un- known; and, finally, either at the end of these proceedings or concurrently .with them, the _police detectives would have Set out to establish the identity the :guiltir- Petty; armed only with the knowledge that the mur- der had been eminnitted on ascertain night in a certain ,streetss," : Now, what happened 13erlin When the patrolman Caine upon the deed.hOdyin the street? Oaf YOth- out in any way touching the body, he rapped with his sttrord-hilt for the patrolman' on the neighboring beat. This officer he despatehecfio the near- est telephone to notify headquarters. • Hearquarters immediately, summoned from their beds the members of the ginder-Commissie . COMMits1011 is a small group .of spe- eially pieked men-understheschargief a ranking officer : to the detective de- partment. Consists of three or four officials the° detective force, a police surgeon, and a photographer, assisted by as many plain -clothes -Men as are necessary for the case. ' Photograph Everything. VS* arriving at the scene of the :erimesthe4eteetives-wentsznethcidical-s lite *irks _First stbeKSIreSs a chalk line in a groat circle on -the pavement and -sidewalk thirty feet around s the- cerpses-_ Then -placing a _hoard in th circle to step •on, so as not to disturb any footprints that might have been left hir the merderer; they made ., a superficial examination to deterniine t e met od of &Ia. The body -how- ever, was not touched. :or disturbed, After ascertaining that the man had been. Shotstwice.in the head, and the motive was, apparently robbery, iniennueh as his speeltetts, liad :sheep pulled -Sent 'theirs prain-clothes men all through , the; neighborhood to apprehend any, suss' lieleuselooking persons Ale could not -give --essatisfactory aecountof- egan a minute- search of every inch of the area Within the circle. Nothing was apParently too small of trivial to es- cape observation. • The corpse Was photographed from every angle. And what did this exhaustive search bring to light? Apparently nothing. A tingle burnt math, had been torn from a paper block of matches, was the only tangible thing Tonna: Tho footprints were .hlurred end confusing. Armed with their meas.. uretneitts and their photographs, " tile detectives withdrew to headquarters, taking the body with. them. They also took with thent the burnt stub of the Match, carefully wrapped • In Oath! The autopsy Which inimediatelY followed merely' verified their earl* mpreSsions. The men had host shot Wide in the head With a 88 -calibre oVeliter. He Wad unknown, with nothing Ori hint to.identifyhim dis redly. isidireetlys Did the deteetivee atop work? Not t all. loirst they measured the soles f flits ineft'S ittees Then they photos t ,be left out for 'weeks at a tisaess, to. this -should be a good soLfd-Post, • but to be put, when neeesaary, where live stock cannot get entan- gled:amengst them. • That Usteful PIddeek. , • • sileat shOiricl -come the; question -of 'a number of pa;ddoeks. Theee.khould. be adjacent to 'the stable • yards, 'should lier of good size, and fenoed. set-notmoreShaw- 10 -or VI 'feet awaY, and with its.braoe from a066 to, the ground at the second post, and , extending to point Close to the top of the Cornet port. •This should be crone-brew:4 in the Op 'Stites -Way front"; botibothe of the corner post to close to. :the tali of the second pest with a. Strong Wire so well that neither- -Stallion, -beam. Ieees hetteresteeesepeende Wirtder getting a coiner pcs riAtrikithO-first-Phiiiessblan to have trouble with it Afterward, _ "(teller- fence PoSts_s__Maysine-mades- of 76-ediii; reraoreedetinerele, :or of hien. Many inaniefactipers n•iake iron posts) carefully made and de- signed, to, give doted service, and Isestisssi to withstand the action o , the elements. These haire many features to recoinmend. them They noinor_e_t_shan geed cedar posts; Name to 13.e bought. They nor •boardsseitar-make- -thessiliglitok dint. 001. --They- Calle for strong posts, heast'y Wire, at least We.. 9, „whieli_isteapis eet Statiling -atratirrof• tbs. per strand, and there should be at, least :height of. 11 'hats, with stays at least 1,2 to every red. saatessanci-pestehesild-bessexce tionally solid. There are few things that prove of more constant and Permanent convenience about tins ferns tharstwostst three bsis more of -those paddoehsts......,......._ stss • stsisysho...doing.n. too. -What Hind sit Pence; is.-elesigessCrtssisitvirig• the lAbee.of With the: passing of ihe. ;14 'kik digging post holes'. They /Ste cen• feece, the etristect of rephteing them venient,, as thiy •usuagy have some tee the Loeb advantage haee veisse. eonyestiont jislan for attitshing wires, Tor-albt of experiment Asia staay, in an'effeotiVe•Way.-.1tanutisottirere, _ sar,ssusstroopulasssfencesof4 _-usuallyseeeonimend`theinsas 'Mier is the were fence. if At be made strong enough . it most- ‘011. ciente. beat Anneisteteti, But it is a miataketo use light,wire, or. wireof infer* intiterial, • The wire that • ' : least 'one-eighth-. of an ineh, in thickness. goost,oteel„ •and. geed for twelve years or so, a per- iod very often equal to the life of a wooden post: ------ - Cotierete posts: are ell the most endittingl,',..When properly re. infoeoeci with iron in the centre they are very 'strong, and if peo- well galvaanzed, :Well braced with Per es placed thsSy can be.Madeto stays, strung Ivan 'good poets, Welt remain .firmly ' place ein. the Ott, OSISI Witak Anchor posts at ground. the eerie's% partakesof the endur- ' Iron 'tests, on ar0 other hand, Ing eolidity aed etrength an iron Mato NOS inore or lees Pontahle, Walt. If the *free art strung oloise They rillOr be PuiRed up 'Atha 'the enough it the ground, arid high knees moved ottr to peewit of' mil. enough at tite top, it will afford a protostion such ate the old-tinie rall fetuses stover eould. takei eldstinte ftirder it, bell 'Of rthOe wet, windy night, the fentiss hlown &wit, the cattle and horsos in the fields of growing grain, the hogs that found the holes could mit be kept out, end the trioky old pow Or ()X that could life "the rails off the top, one at Unit, end Make tie* a for Itself and 'the re# to fol ow. With' the *ire loaded today astsh exporiencee are little •tivating the 101100 bettenS, at the. 00e.t eef .comparative hilsers only !the resetting of the -.corner s polite' . •ViS611 hos. advantages, tea*. the mete toes for the .etensetteeation of every Ittutier-:Sittestierts that lie .stinsf; 1 .solve for•iihnselfs. • ' • -themselves:, ekt dawn they . • iter Little Yoke, • Cot* The theese htis ;out, illitink. , Mis ree Why didn't io ehaselt1 1 graphed • thins. Then air outsider might seem the most al;)•; sued thing of all; they photographeil the buret stub of 'the match Which they had So mysteriously taken with them • Meanwhile. the plain -00%4 men had brought into headquarters three or 'four suspicious 1 °king Slaaracters from the neighborhood . of Totedem- lnerstrasse.• These men .were search- ed, but nothing of value was found_ ,no weapons of eany .kind. • But there . was one thing,found,en the pocket ofs, one of the prisoners Which to the sle=, ectives'aeemed:of'elstraerclinary ints- Portancera paper block Of matches! Apparently, they had been._ leaking • for it, .and they did to it what they do tO almost everything at stlie Berlin Po- licelietidiatirtert--their-photograpTied it! ' •' .• Getting_a CIues — • Drag the Roads-. often the toile* ef aPPe Drag the road.; When the eummer tune is here, Drag the reeds; When the corn is in the ear, Iii t114 winter -cold. and area's.. Every season of the year, 'ffi Dreg the roads. MbOU YO3eVe.ROtbingr 43° to, dos - Drag 410 roads; • • . If but for an houvor :two, Drag the medal., , It Neill keep there geed aa new; With a purpose firm, and Ube. ' Fall in line; lea up to Dreg the roads. , Caring for the Little Calves. • Everybody has 'a. WO' or 40133C things and this is, my way of taking caro of the calves. I have•ten good CQW.S Which T raised lueraelf,' end I found outthatto raise good news you enlist begin'at the hes &Ming,' No good: results will came ,from ashaifsstarved, stsinted oalf. let --the, calf Suck ‘the Co* the first two days. It JS better; for him seed, the ?libeler, toe, end the, calf Is More apt to get all the milk than I would, be, thus getting it. out of the cow's bag and into the calf's ;stomach where. it should be, with. less trouble and hotter 'results. , At the end of this time I mills the cow and feed the calf;. tie the calf "evhere it eatiot-ede iteeitiother, and if the weather IS ,cold I wrap SOMS- • thing excundeherewhenethe-harnetleers are open. Never allowea calf to shiver , you want it to keep well, , For the first two ,weelts• l• feed new milk as Poen 43 milked' and then .1 begin to mix in -separated , isY degrees, adding ,at first a third, theme half and when a , month old I give all Separated and take,' Care to have .it ... • .-.. Buckwheat shorts and bran. aro good, but never put them in the milk. i nave a smell box nailed in A eonvenie ea place en the manger or' Ale et the wall and fill with dry feed. The 'calf will soon learn to help itself. When six weeks old put viewer hay, withie reach; this will :aid the digs - tion and increase groWth. If eggs are plenty' ..._ break ono-or— SWo in the milk, and you Will be mire, prised ett .its eieeknesa. • , 41ollea'are the worst things to stunt the, grewth of calves as they take so much blood, and the young animals !should be 'protected. from the poets. • I tried spraying last Ammer with fair results, but I did net depend ene tirely einen this. I put SOY calves in the barn every afternoon during the evarmeet weather and gave thein hay, Another ..thing- that Aunts the , growing heifseiseeloherning., I avoid this by': rubbing on casiette potash' • when the lierna first eterts first clip- ping away _tlie heir. It will smart for a while that is all and!no horn will ever grow', 7 • heifer's usually come in 'evinazie' 2',. pr three year old and eiCs vellent "ceWS and this is .4°14' I rise ernes- .neee.. • ••• • Sten and Think First. Before 'buying peve machinery, it is well to Consider the fcliowing (PPS* Will the Use of the 'new -machine , glee Inc a larger iiet, return from, the crops on which it is used? •--Willethe-enew-enachineereducesetluer--- demand for Men labor? ' Where a .machine is required only few days each year, can it not be rented More cheaply than purchased?. Will the money to be invested re- tIsrir more in some 6tHer way? Has the maehine, been thoroughly tried by ethers and :found satisfacs *tory. s - MY TRA1 IN ENGLAND MORE _SHOT 'AND SHELL FIRED -TIAN AT THE 'FRONT: ' This photographed' they greatlyene Burn More powder and 'Wear Out larged. Then. they enlarged the 1Slore Guns Than British photograph of the burnt stub until • , , the end of the nuteCh looked as if it Forces in Flanders. wereabout eight inches, broad; Then Keee shet.and"shell are being red with fine and ' delicate instruments they measured the lacerations in the In England at thc. present tinte than front in .Flanders. block of matelies arid the ragged- endS, from the British of the burnt stab; But this latter Millions of dollars' 'worth of pow - step Was hardly necessary, for by -ne der is being constinfed, .millions of glance at the enlarged photographs a rifles are being used up, and thou, leynraneconideirave told that the burnt sands of guns; bigand little, are be - stub found at the scene of the crime ing worn out by Kitchener's armies had been torn • the block: of in the course- of their training, writes ,matches discovered An the pock -et of J. Herbert-Duckwyrth.1, one of the suspects.. These statements, extravagant as :Rids practically ended the case as they May -seem, were made to me in far as. the deteetives, were concerned. confessed his guilt" and was "'del:teed States that man aLfonthdeouwbgygethe Vice -President of one :Under adroit questioning- the , sistecomnaerinl inatmhine aUnitititoend to a long teem by the court, for the allies. They help to, explain itioted- of trim -der under the following•TtlielnY$.44°11S:-clisaPPeal:44' ce-a: 4'4'1) er an my o icer was con- Thdifierre!1:::-Xeatis-gls:15, ehaniiitT6'a-ste,i'ensseriorls'esit sonsewhat'on. the principle of then mu- , tricity nrkis Lt.:7°0111f e' clockwork bitial '• eltPh%7 motive power. The ' appears:freer above the parapetsevery, five sesondSs remaining in yievi for not more than two seconds.: -They make excellent • Practice.. And the men 7theroughly enjoy the spert, (if holding them. Nearly a dozen -miles of :trenches must have 'been ,excavatel at Bisley -icfeilichlbelleerTssraltninirs.sin-ttte0-initil :v. here here had riserehed over theshills froin - Aldershot,ien railes'aWaY; that mern- ing. They 'were firing aWay from every ...Conceivable kind. of.. trench from the nastily thrown no Shallow. ditch With 'the loosened dirt' Plied up in front, .to the eight -foot deep reefed -hi and equipped, with cunning- ly hidden loopholes. It didn't require a sestina's consideration to realize that this kindof-Shooting Was very, meas.•:1'1•_0m real . . Ready, for, War. ' A majority of tlie recruits in the IRer°yYalhs11;ersbee :nn dgelitt7n4ig the"'Fe 1 dAitil- . ‘. of their- Profession at Woolwich. One day last February I counted no less -:ilitni-Afteen-batteries of /f..7 field guns in firing- practice on Woolwich Cern- num, up on the overlooktng the Arsenal., Of course actual firing was not being done liereses Woolwich is densely crowded borough , of London.' But the`men" were going lhrough all . the neeesiarY movements of. firing. I After, some weeki of this 'drill the artillery Men are taken Out to, say, Salisbury Plant, where, they 'fire real" shells., -Here What:looks_like waste'', • of work and material is colossal: Corps, of engineers first spend many - days throwing. up huge breastworks,.. protected ',by complicated barbed wire entanglements -all for practice' -and then•;the artillery comes -aloe . with 'high explosive shell's- arid, de- -3 naolishes everything -also for prac- tice. was not, permitted to visit •Shoce burYnesks.Lydd, •or `Cosham, where. - .the heavy ertillery. and some of the _ newest siege guns were being. tried out, but I was lucky enough to be • able to get as hear to the ranges at Cosham-tesheablestosseesand hears- tratige were being -fired, • that guns Of treMendofiss TPhoSse erexpainod. :slims would -shake- the very sground • : - - - . - , tp 9,4 , -war.;11 Orla .eireunrataiw.-ai:-LL- ' - ---e-esthat for Many weeks now have going A citizen Was cut down in the gar- from of a, sabre. At the rosined America to England.. They ac- -den of a ',Cafe, evidently by :the blow count, too, to a large- extent, for the lice all the Sabres' of the dragoOns ing made by Field Marshal' Sir John of Pos seething lack of, progress- that is be - who •had,leavefrora barracks at ' the' Feench's army .after ten months of time of the murder were C011eeted-And getting ready. . submitted to microscopic exeiiiiiiation. initscutting edge in-Witieli Ivaa a Nieuport to theSwisstreater, iSite - g ft, extending m a battle along the Ns_ ' •' No trace of blood was found Ilion - „The -dill any of. them, but one had. a. tiny, notch fragment of a blade of grass, visible ro Mere whisper compared to the in - only under the microscope'. As. ,the .fernal.racket that is being kicked. up blade Of grass in the notch had been at the numberless. rifle ranges • and had preserved its froshnees, The dra- sp 13,:aeliderilstyi_tfhtonish aeartyh, s Britain.artiiler y men" that compose the great citizen practice grounds in Great 'ofilifiejle41"r°ttlie sabre protected Hundreds of thousands of ing,..its.lwas-.7possiblo to it-sz.041 sere s have been euts_npi:with trenches could not have been sticking to the s. (T , x which clerks). factory hands; sabre for any length et time, since it n workers, lawyers, and "gentle - goon to whom :the sabre belonged army have been and are Stilt carry - musts _have,- as indeed he afterwards-- oh*:•PI an incessant niimic war_ in confessed, cleaned -his blade upon el.--° ee°me to ' take the 14°. wet grass after having delivered the • Fox, some menthe now _ countless blow. He had then wiped it with a legions • of soldiers have been spend - Cloth, but the 'fragment of grass res ing the Whole of the working day in mainedsinsthe-notels-lletilmingswith--reastrenehes-in-th -0---Avsznnte-intel- i9--weave a chain abOut the Offieerr: make-believe dummy heads that bob - ting Pastime, of Petting away et this eyietence,ethe police were . able es ting ultimately brought him to j- up, by means of An -electrical- device, the. _ . .._• . . s ' • out Of eisneaite• trentlit-S; . Ponlistshota. : - .si s........ . are not wanted •in this war. To See" Submarines BeloW.: ',The fresh artillery units, too; are using new -guns with real shell and ft An. instrument delicate enough to haterged-submarinesstbree get to the -front they., will know kiss - high eicplosives, So that Whs:sbey to five Miles away, is predicted by, ewhat their guns do and will not 11 Greensback in anseditorial in the. be 'disponcerted, therefore, by sur-• citrreat number of the. Electrical .4x- prises in'the field; I remember Watch- Perimeaer. says:. "The modern ins' lest October . a number of re - submarine is -dangerous only bans e eruiti that had joined 4shoissitzes bri- ef its invisibility,- °If we lindsis MOM% f tee matfett vieible the subinarine win • a wooden dummy oe Woolwieh Corn - become obsolete. The problem dew mon, • • not present insurineuntable d_ifficul:5: . The „isletv Targets, - - -, jets., A ' stibitarine sendsont a con- s ssa „- I•' :.• 111 *I • -pr'--" ' . • . - .. means of detection Hes in the' itSe of portunities to study the great army • -many. • iderable inagite- 0 e some form .of etherie Wii'Veit."` ' . of volunteers, xeceiVing their finish- ing touches -the infantry at such Oh Eudge 1 Ohms its Aldershot, Bisley, Salis- bui-A• and Exeter, and the artillery at " "1 se that the English how be- Shdeburyness., at tbe. Mouth, of the Hove- that the Gerinans aro - colors blind." . . "Why so?" " - : "Betause, ' -they thought , Crey green." " Pith& is the langtiage Of the Channel "Island& . New Zesiland'a tornitial isatenSte la equal to AO' per.ltead of her p6paltis Oen; China's •antitital tett-0MA ill denial 0 20. per head, 7 • • _• She knew. "I am collecting for the suffering poor." , "But are you sane they really Buts for?" "Ole yes indeed, it go to their horigie and' talk to them tor heats at a time:" Thames, at LydcT,. and at Cosham,near Portsmouth. • e I had an excellent Aimee to see these "German hokos," as TornmY Atkins calls the new targets, one day down at Itisley Camp, Brookwood, Surrey., Bisley is the home of the National Rifle Assodiation and the note in times .of peace, of the annual international rifle competitions, at which, ineideetally, Americana more than Once have • captured prizes. These ingerkious• targets have nuttle great 'hit with the men. Every time a hit'is Made 'at 4 bead the men feel as thoueit they had disposed of one, mote Oeiltsan. • • The tar•are niaelte of stout caiboar4 ti in the tu se outline a a tinnikiit Painted ditty 00 00,441ortilithiate, intt phis complexion ao1dle ,vhet acOvely •catispatoin •e, . . upon which-l-stired; theugh-theguns, were five miles aWaysand after every' explosion huge 'clouds:of smoke ised ' debris would be throvin hundreds of feet into the air. was told at Porte! month that • these big mortark or whatever'they were, were being test- ed againstbeavily armored reioforced toncrete and steel dummy forts. • Most of the material now - being tarried -out in .the United States for Butelerid will We '!fsi: The 'quiet ' 'countryside at home.- Some of it will go into the, reserve, and the: rest to the front. • . - As a eiritter-of:fact thereis'ino;real reason to believe that England's sups, ply, or Vs° rate at which it is dehys, ered, unsatisfaetorY. • „. • . Her Mistake. ' ° The small girl •svalked thoughtfully into the house from ,the tregetable. 'garden. • ' "Mettler," said • she, "have 'green gooseberries legs?" • • • . Mother laughed, "Of eentait Alley haven't, darling. What made you think se?" The child lotted More solennethan - ever as eliettpliedt .r . "We% then, rye beeti eating eatere • . pillars I", , e • • •. Itiasonaide, "I believe," said the beautitiii het* OSSI "that the happleat ihnde 'by opposites."• • (quo thilalChOW Pool: I • n11114 Ursks' ed ilto young n1 • Atm 41116 Victerfn Witt; briiiiSon for the Army and dal: ters the Atv.t.tYt. . ,