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Or, Tho South African Millionaire.
her if she were going to marry 'S,ieb s
. in an undertone, and the member ..of
,parliament, whom she found very
charming,' and every now and' then
Adolphe threw a look across the table
Which said plainly, "since 1 could net
have you next to me, I put you where
I could see you, and you look lovely,"
And when dessert was going on, he
had turned to the wetness and -said -
"The worst of fruit is that it won't
last, it gets too ripei or we eat it,
now if you ladies will look under year
plates you will find the everlasting
fruit. That is much better,"
He was a little nervous, and the
fact of his being so rather emphasized
his German accent, Lately •Judith had
grown to think his accent fascinating.
01-IAPTER XVII.
London was not half as surprised
as Lady Glaucourt thought it would
be, when' Lady Judith's engagement
to Adolphe ,Lieb was announced. It
is wonderful how many people there
are who have the characteristics of
the ostrich, a d imagine that be
quite hit it off with people de notre
monde. There was Hubert Gres tam,
whose mother is just the opposite to
a Jew, bands you a tract when you
go to be down, and puts a Bible in . He had not told -Mrs. Golling of his
your bedroom, and all that sort of plan, because he felt instinctively that
thing and he proposed I know, and the Gollings were' not yet quite sure
Judith wouldn't have anything to enough of themselves to be able to ad -
cause heybury their heads in the say to him," and then that fiasco with. vise others, and he knew that women
ground; they are not seen, As a mat- Mr. Danvers. never could resist a jewel, Faust is
ter of fact, everyone understood that "Yes, I never quite understood after all only man's philosophy with
Lady Judith' had seized her last op- that" put in Lord Glaucourt, but regard to woman, expressed.
portunity by the hair, and that the
factof the presence of the Mascotte
of Park Lane, made her trust to his
not minding even when he found out,
which of course he would do, the
mysterious something, which had
made her last engagement a disaster.
"Naturally, one knew," said the mo-
ther of a plain daughter, "that the
Glaucourts couldn't be running those
Africans 'pour leurs beaux year."
there were so many things that he And underneath each plate, or ra-
didn't understand that his wife didn't then underneath the edge, each woman
begin to explain. She was quite found a small pear formed of one dia-
satisfied with one or two of what Ju- mond 'of exquisite color, with two
dith called "Mother's useless lies" to- little green leaves of emerald fasten
day, especially as evidently the Jew ed to the stalk. •
had pleaded his own cause with some "Isn't r,sLieb!"
ies .'exquisite q"
success. "hid you ever see anything so love -
"Of course I suppose that I ought 1 ?„
to have seen through it when she ac- y
cepted that necklace the other day," His little attempt at social apostasy
said her had not miscarried. The women were
husband.
As for the Duchess she now tookdelighted. It made so original. an
all the credit of having brought it She didn't tell him that he rarely ending to the dinner, and as'•Judith
about. "You see, my dear, that I saw through anything, from a scheme said to herself, gave one an insight
knew what I was about when I asked of the Opposition downwards, but it into all his possibilities, and increas-
you to be civil to the Gollings," she was too good an opportunity to be ed the semi -Monte Cristo, semi -
said to Lady Glaucourt. lost, in which to put forward her own. Arabian Nights feeling, he always
perspicacity and its superiority to inspired.
his. But he had his little joke to im-
"Oh, I have seen it coming for a part, for Adolphe Lieb, like most
long time," she told him. Germans, was a good host. He want -
The episode of Judith's accepting ed them to remember his dinner, the
first he had given in London, and at
"I must say, my dear Duchess, that
I don't see that there is anything to
boast about. It is a wretched match
for Judith, with her looks."
But the Duchess knew, that to use
a vulgar expression "Cornelia thank- the necklace was this: -
ed her stars," and she even had a Three days before he had propos-
long talk with her son Eustace about ed, Lieb had given the Glaucourts a
it, begging him to see that people dinner at the Carlton. Mrs. Golling
didn't say anything disagreeable. had helped him. He had wanted to
which Judith had been present.
He drew a gold chain from beneath
his plate.
"Now ladies I feel sure that you
She :was so thankful that Eustace was give it at his own house, but Mrs. are all generous, kind-hearted, full of
safe, that she would have done any- Golling overruled the proposition. feeling for one another, ready to
thing to assist this marriage, and She was always perfectly frank with give up what has pleased you ' to
she was good natured, and had never him, others. This chain you see has four
wanted Judith to go completely to I "I don't think I would do that i little hooks with a small green leaf,
the wall. She had a certain loyalty I were you," she had told him, "peo- now these hooks are for the four lit -
to her own class and sex, which is ple are so funny, and they have an tie pears, You see this way." He
passing away with the younger gen- idea that Azuma—don't you know," held out his hand and they laid the
eration. Some one likened her to an she stopped. Delicacy forbade her pears in his broad palm looking puz-
oid war horse and her clothes to ei.plaining further zled, as he hooked them on to the
old-fashioned trappings.
As for Lord Eustace, he was thank-
ful that he had always been pals
with her. "His chief's future wife"
as he now called Judith. Now Lieb
was called "My chief."
"Nonsense," the Duchess had said,
"when you know that you practically
run everything. I am sure I don't.
know what they would do without
you." And the dear woman actually
believed it.
Strange to say it was Lord Glau-
court, Lord Glaucourt who never ex-
pressed an opinion hardly at home,
who opposed the idea.
He had a long talk with Judith
about it. It was a most distasteful
match, he told her, and if he had had
any idea of that sort of thing he
wouldn't have had him inside the
house. As a matter of fact, he had
had him to dinner at home, and at
the club and liked him very much.
"You seem to forget that he is a
Jew," he told her, "putting aside
everything else, merely a Frankfort
Jew, the son of a jeweller, or some-
thing."
Lady Judith had never realized how
old-fashioned her father was, and schemes, and who was as at home in Even an extremely aggressive en -
now for the first time she grasped South Africa as he was in the House emy can be conquered bystrategy;
£he fact that she and her mother of Commons. it is only a question of employing the
had grown immensely ahead of him, The dinner had nothing different stratagem fitted to the case.
thanks to the knowledge they possess- about it to any other dinner, till quite
ed of her "malheur," which he did not. the end, if anything it was rather ` An open-air preacher of East Lon -
How could he know, poor dear, that don understood this, and his strate-
if she didn't marry the South African
she would never marry anybody?
"Don't you think, dearfather," she
said very patiently, "that when a
man is as rich as that it hardly mat-
ters who he was, it is a case of what
he will be, and of course he could
go into parliament or do anything.
Dizzy was a Jew you know."
But it had been quite troublesome
to get him to agree, and the fact that
it was so, enhanced her value in
Adolphe's eyes. He had had just
the kind of interview he had expected
with Lord Glaucourt, who, because
there was no fault to find with .the
settlements, had found it pretty
roundly, and with little disguise, with
the man.
"0f course I will not hide from putting it I mean.
you, Mr. Lieb," he hated pronouncing But Judith didn't explain, she ra-
the name, "that I am not in favor of , tber enjoyed mystifying her mother,
this engagement. Money is not and explaining weuld have meant to
everything, don't you know.' tell her how near he had got to pro -
"No, I know that it is unexpected posing, and how he had warned her
good fortune for me," Adolphe had that when he ever did propose, it
told him in a very quiet and gentle- would be in his _ own house.
manlike way. "Lady Judith belongs "I think I would like to see the
to a different class to myself, to a place again where I had proposed, if
different religion. On the matter of of course, I had been accepted," he
religion there will be no trouble. I had said. "You see if you propose to
am afraid that I am not very ortho- a girl, say in her home, in a friend's
dox, and if there are any children—" house or an hotel, it might become im-
"They will of course be Christians," possible to visit that place again, but
put in Lord Glaucourt a little hast- at home always you would be remind-
ily. ed where that happened."
"Certainly, if -Lady Judith wishes it, It was a funny idea, but somehow once risoned for a week because
and I was going to say," he added,' Judith could enter into it, There was
"that while I quite realize that Lady very little that he said that she could he lafrghed at the sight of a fat
Judith could have married anybody, not enter into, He had said this tt policeman chasing a student who had
I don't think that any one would make night of the party at the Gollings, and dined not wisely but too -well; while
her happier than I can; I can, at then at the Carlton he had asked Ju- a woman. was fined twenty shillings
least, give her everything in the dith if she and her mother would because she told a clumsy man, who
"Yes of course, that—" .
world. she wants." come to see his diamonds and curios, trod on her foot in a 'bus, that he
and he had felt when she accepted walked like a hen.
"That)
is the only thing in my fa- . the necklace, that she was to all in -
Of course, one of the most henious
vor," interrupted Adolphe with a tents and purposes engaged to him. offences is to laugh at an official; but
frank laugh. She would have known it, even if the unhappy citizen is fined for doing
"Oh, well, yon know, one cant have Mrs. Golling had not told her. somethingand another day for not
sentiment ;in a matter of this kind, "He is intensely infatuated with ,
you will quite understand that—" you,. but of course he doesn't think doing it. A motorist went slowly
"Yes, I' understand;" Adolphe re- you would marry him." But the inti- through a little town in the evening
plied with quiet dignity, "I under- dent of the necklace seemed to show without sounding his bell, as no one
stand that the matter lies entirely that he knew that she would, and she was about; fined. A week later he
with your daughter herself, and if
she considers the matter and changes
her mind," he paused a moment, "it
will be a great blow to me, but I
shall understand, 1 'do not wish to
influence her at all, unless she feels
pretty contented."
"I must say," her husband told
Lady Glaucourt afterwards, "that be
behaved like a perfect gentleman.g
But a Jew; it sticks, doesn't it?"
"Well, I 'don't know." Lady Glau-
rourt thought that the Christians had
"stuck" a good deal more till now,
Judith was always rather peculiar,
don't you know, different from other
girls, and she never seems to have
"But Lady Judith, she quite un-
derstands."
"Lady Judith isn't everybody, at
least not yet," she said with a smile,
"and you want some nice people to
meet them." And he had given in.
The dinner had been given at the
Carlton, and Lady Glaucourt had con-
sented to accept it, protesting a lit-
tle because it was Lieb's dinner but,
knowing all the time that Judith in-
tended her to go, and to make Lord
Glaucourt go, and they had been
agreeably surprised at the people they
had met. Lord Eustace was there,
and the Gollings, of course. No other
girl, but Judith. The Duchess would
not go, but she had made her mar-
ried daughter, Lady Adele Spencer,
go with her husband, Mr. Spencer, a
little insignificant -looking man, who
said all the intelligent things of the
evening, and who took one so by
surprise every time he did that one
expected to hear Lady Adele from
the other side of the table, exclaim:
"There, that's why I married him,"
and a friend of Lieb's, his only
Briton -born friend, the member of
parliament who helped him with his
chain.
"By George, I believe he is going
to take them back," whispered Lord
Eustace across Judith to, the member
of parliament.
"I bet he isn't," said the member of
parliament, who was a staunch friend
of Lieb's.
"Well, you see now, here the neck-
lace is perfect, but there is only one
necklace. I feel sure that you would
all rather the jewel was not spoiled,
so you must draw lots and see who
is to have the whole necklace—"
Nobody understood for an instant,
then the four women burst out.
"Oh, but no, Mr.. Lieb, I wouldn't
think of such a thing, I couldn't real-
ly." "I certainly won't give mine to
anybody," said Lady Glaucourt em-
phatically, and everyone laughed.
"I don't want to, but I suppose one
of us must be self-sacrificing." Ju-
dith felt as if she were already mar-
ried to him, and helping to dispense
his gifts.
(To be continued.)
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Retreat in Order.
shorter than most, and as Lady
Glaucourt put it afterwards: "We did
not drink out of cut diamond gTasses
or anything of that kind."
"Nor even drink Johannisberg," Ju-
dith put in demurely.
"Do you think you ought to have
accepted such a valuable present? I
mean don't you think it was rather
bad taste of him making you so con-
spicuous before ?—I mean it isn't as
if you were engaged."
But Lady Judith didn't think it was The man said he was a soldier, and
at all bad taste, she thought it was asked the preacher to test him.
delightful of him the way he had "Very well," was the reply. "I will.
singled her out. Now, then. Attention!"
"I suppose he is going to propose, This the soldier did as well as •his
Judith?" condition would allow.
"Yes, 1 know he is, he told me .so." "About—turn l"
"How very odd, what an odd way of This order was also obeyed, though
with some trouble.
"Quick moral"
And off went the valiant soldier,
marching down the road at a quick
pace, while the preacher resumed his
address.
Laws Made in Germany.
Most of us have felt sorry for the
hardly -used Belgians, who are im-
prisoned for failing to salute or for
laughing at a soldier, but it is only
what the Germans themselves have
to put up with.
A worthy citizen of Berlin was
gem fitted to a charm. He was ad-
dressing a crowd when a soldier who
had been drinking came up and'ridi-
culed the serviee. Finding it was
useless to ignore the man, the preach-
er said:
"Ah! my friend, you're no soldier.
No 'servant of .the King would get
drunk and interrupt a peaceful ser-
vice."
enjoyed his way of making love to
her, it was a little unique, and hither-
to there had been no fight, no strug-
gle, no interference.
•At the end of the dinner; the touch,
of the Oriental had been introduced,
the touch of magnificence, as if he
felt that it was necessary to make
them feel that dining with a multi-
millionaire, the richest man in Eu-
rope, was not exactly like dining with
any one else.
"Pay them for coming," Gosling
had said, coarsely, with a touch of
contempt. Lieb had not been able to
put Judith next to him, she sat be-
tween Lord Eustace, who kept asking
sounded it well; fined for doing it too
vigorously.
If you hang your bedclothes out of
window; fine. If they drop out as
well; double fine—two offences. If
you run for a tram,sand board it in
motion; more money goes to the po-
lice exchequer. So much is forbidden,
it is surprising that it does not ex-
tend to lining,
Interested.
"Your name, please, Miss."
"Iona Carr,"
"Oh, do you? What make2"
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CHERRY JELLY
Prom a recipe of Charles Fran-
, catch,, Chef Cook Vo Queen
Victoria. Published fn 1865.
Clean 2 lbs, cherries and a
handful of red currants, and
bruise atones. and kernels in a
mortar; place In'small pre-
serving pan with I lb, John
Redpath's sugar. loofa and Y
pint sprint; -water ; boll on the
stove -fire about Jive minutes,
taking care to remove scum es
It risen: pour Into a beaver
felly -bag and filter in usual way.
Mix Juice wlth two ounces
clarified Isinglass. and pour
info Jars or mould.
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Get your supply of sugar in Original REDPATH ,
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See
tliissse:reks
Styles Nates,
Ostrich feather ruffs) short, round„
thick find in colors are seen in active.
competition with the marine -made
styles,
Every one wears n neckpiece of
some Sort. Summer furs, satin.
throws, marine niches and feather
ruffs, take your choice.
The black velvet hat is "in" again -
It antedates its last year's debut by
twomonths, and is likely to be super-
seded this year by the black satin hat
made in upturned sailor 'style and
faced with white. Hatter's plush, in
colors, is another motif in millinery
which appeal's in crown effects sup-
ported by straw brims in contrasting
color.
De Lange, in "Women's Wear,"
writes in her- Paris letter:—'''Mlle.
Margot, the well known' manikin, is.
wearing a one piece dress ivhich is
made to simulate a jacket and skirt.
The dress is made .of fine navy serge
and buttons down the side front with
ball shaped buttons the size'of a hazel
nut to slightly below the waistline.
On either side there are simulated
pockets outlined with' buttons placed
just below abelt of patent leather.
The skirt of this model measured at
least five yards around the hem and
escaped the floor by at least 16
inches."
One of the smart oddities neck-
wear or three inch
is the one, ch
with an upstanding
band of velvet, ing
attached to the up
frill of tulle per
edge. This is wo eck
with low necked ses
and gives them the illusion of be
ing
EI high necked. On est
velvet ribbonab
seen was of cerise out
in width fas-
tened a flat• era
an inch and a qua as-
tened at the back cravat
frill was ab
bow. The upstand out
three inches in wi ut-
ed ruffle of stiffs n -
other was of two- et,
with a black lace ill.
bout five places,
It was wired in a to
upstanding ruck
hold it in a sort of ed
frill.
in
rn around the n
blouses and dies
o of the pretti
dth and was a fl
tied illusion. A
inch black vel'
bock pleated fr
Anecdotes Which Show the Calibre of
British Generals.
A friend .of urine, Mr. de F., who
since the beginning of -this war was
attached to the "Mission Francaise,"
near the British headquarters of Sir
John French, and who followed the
fortune of the British army, related to
me an anecdote showing the calmness
and self-control of Sir Douglas Haig
in the face of a very great danger,
writes Mr. Paul Balbaud.
This was during the retreat towards
Paris, when the British army was
closely pressed by the German troops.
Sir Douglas Haig was with his offi-
cers in Landrecies. It was dinner'
time, and all -the staff was at the table
when the general was informed that
Germans had reached the Aerie with
motor cars and the headquarters was
in a very critical position,,jisking be-
ing surrounded any minute.
Sir Douglas Haig quietly got up,
gave his orders for the defence of the
place, ordered the barricade of the
streets, and probably knowing that
the forces the Germans had brought
hurriedly were not important enough
to prevent his passage, sat again at
the table and continued his meal as
quietly as if he were a hundred miles
away from a deadly danger, though
the fight was going on and the bullets
whistling all through the streets of
the city. He was right since he pass-
ed and is now in command of his army
in the north.
According to my friend, the bravery
of Sir Douglas Haig has been .very
often proved during this terrible war,
wherebravery becoines so difficult in
front of an enemy, who most of the
time remains invisible and under the
pouring rain of murderous shells.
Once, not very long ago, some-
where around Ypres during the first
battle of the Yser, one of the roads
of communication between two towns
occupied by the British troops was
under the enemy's shells and it was
most dangerous to pass along it. Sir
Douglas Haig having to go to inspecthis advance troops,' rode towards
them on horseback, and'seemingly im-
mune fromtho terrible danger, went
on as quietly as if he had been on a
morning ride at Hyde. Park. Mb
firend, who was in his limousine with
the French mission, confessed that he
would have liked very much to pass
d at full speed across the dangerous sec-
tor, .but taken by the sight of such
bravery, he Followed the general with-
a- out increasing his speed. Men of that
sort in our days are real leaders of
troops, as men would go anywhere
when they have confidence in their
chiefs.
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Starting a Dairy Herd.
With the average farmer the cheap-
est and most satisfactory way of
starting a dairy herd is to select as
foundation stock good grade cows
and a pure bred bull of one of the
strictly dairy breeds. The grading
up will be most rapid when the pre-
dominant blood in the grades corre-
spond with the blood 6f the sire,
writes Mr. John Michels.
A foundation of this kind, of course,
does not produce stock that can be
registered, but by continuing the use
of good, pure-bred bulls of the same
blood, stock is soon obtained which,
so far as milk and butter production
are concerned, very closely ap-
proaches in value that of pure breed-
ing.
To start with a pure-bred herd is
practically beyond the means of the
majority of farmers. Furthermore,
there is an objection to placing well -
cared -for, pure-bred cows under av-
erage conditions as to feed, care and
management, because under any such
change the attainment of satisfactory'
results would be practically impos-
sible. Where there is a gradual in-
fusion of pure blood, as in the case
of grading up a herd with pure-bred
sires, the new blood is gradually ac-
customed to the change of environ-
ment, the herdsman is given the ne-
cessary time to change his methods to
meet the requirements of pure-bred.
cattle.
Where the dairyman understands
the management of the pure-bred
stock and has the means with which
to buy the right kind, a pure-bred
herd may be started to good advant-
age.
One of the chief dangers in start-
ing with a pure-bred herd is the lack
of funds to procure the right sort of
animals. Instead' of buying a pure-
bred bull and a number of pure-bred
cows of common merit, it is better
policy to buy relatively cheap grade
cows, and to add the money thus sav-
ed to that originally set aside for the
bull. This extra meney is likely to
be the means of securing a bull of
outstanding merit.
Whether the cows be grades or
pure-breds,' it is of the highest im-
portance in building up a dairy herd
to secure a pure-bred bull of real
merit, Unless the bull is descended
from good milkers, it is folly to' ex-
pect him to produce good milkers, no
matter how fine or ideal he may' be
as an individual. '
It is, furthermore, of importance to
remember that aherd 'cannot be suc-
cessfully built up unless . the bulls
that are successively used belong to
the same breed.' If the grading up is
begun with a, Jersey bull the process
must be continued uninterruptedly
by the use of Jersey blood.
The importance of the dairy sire is
recognized in the expression: "The
bull is half the herd:" Usually, hew -
ever, the bull is more than half the
herd, either for good or bad, In the
case of common or grade cows, for
example, the pure-bred bull may
count for three quarters or more, of
the herd by reason of his greater pre-
potency. To so great an extent does
the bull determine the improvement
or deterioration of the herd as to
call for the utmost caution in his
selection.
In the case of a dairy bull, espe-
cially a •young bull, his chief value is
determined by the performances of
his ancestry. The points of greatest
importance to consider in his pedi-
gree are the following: (1) The merit
of his mother and his sire's mother;
(2) The merit of the daughters of
his sire and grandsire; (3) The value
of -the daughters of his dans and his
grandam; (4) The value of his sisters,.
if he has any; and (5) the value of
his own progeny, if he has,any. The
farther back consecutively good re-
cords can be traced the more valuable
the animal. It should always be re
membered, however, that near an-
cestors count for a good deal more
than those more remotely related.
With a first-class bull at the head
of the herd, rapid improvement is ef-
fected by selecting and retaining
calves from only the best =Ulcers, at
the same time culling out those cows
whose records have not been satisfac-
tory. This word cannot be done to
best advantage unless, records are
kept of the quantity and quality of
milk from each cow for a whole lacta-
tion period.
Where all of the cows in the found-
ation stock are grades, none of the
calves, of course, can be registered.
It is desirable, therefore, to add' to
the herd from time to time, as means
permit, some good pure-bred cows of
the same blood as the bulls that. have
been used. This has the advantage
of enabling the owner to dispose of
his calves to better advantage.
The purchase of cows, however, is
always attended with the danger of
introducing contagious diseases into
the herd. For this reason, the buying
of the cows should be carried on in a
limited way only. It is, of course, al-
ways in order to buy cows when the
object is to' add to the herd pure-bred
individuals of exceptional dairy merit,
But the -practice of buying cows
should never be carried to the point
of making it the principal means of
replenishing the herd, especially since
the latter can be accomplished much
more satisfactorily by raising the
calves from the best cows.
N
A Seasonable Hint.
The wise man moves next door to
a family whose income is less than
his.
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RIGHTS OF WAR PRISONERS.
Crime Against Nations to Ill -Treat
Those Captured.
According to reliable reports, Ger-
many is violating the rules formed by
the leading nations at The Hague con-
vention, and . shamefully ill-treating
British prisoners of war. This is a
crime against the law of nations,
which emphatically states that war-
ring forces treat their prisoners in a
humane fashion.
The object of internment is solely to
prevent prisoners from further par-
ticipation in the war, and unnecessary
limitation of liberty, unjustifiable se-
verity, ill-treatment and indignities
are forbidden. The rooms in which
prisoners of war are accommodated
must be as healthy and clean as possi-
ble, and they should not be situated in
prisons or convict establishments.
Captives must be given the same scale
and quality of rations, quarters and
clothing as the troops of the govern-
ment which captures them, and pri-
soners must be paid wages for tiny
work. they may do. The latter must
have no connection with the opera-
tions of war, but may be carried out
for municipal authorities or for pri-
vate persons at a reasonable rate of
Pay
In no way'must a prisoner of war
be used for the purposes of aiding the
military activities of the nation. which
captures him. A prisoner is not bound
to reply to any questions except those
which concern his name and rank,
and he is not mipected.t'o betray mili-
tary secrets. He cannot be punished
for giving false information about his
own army. AB personal belongings of
prisoners of war, except arms, horses
and military papers, remain their pro-
perty.
To safeguard prisoners of war from
being ill-treated, The Hague rules de-
cided some years ago that a bureau of
information relative to captives must
be formed 'at the commencement of
hostilities in each of the warring
states. Each nation engaged in the
European struggle has such an insti-
tution, whose purpose' is to reply to
all official inquiries concerning war
prisoners, in addition to keeping a
careful record of what happens to
every captive. Each prisoner has a
history sheet, which gives his name,
age, place of origin, rank, wounds an
place acid data of capture. When
peace is signed, such records will be
exchanged among the belligerent na
While hostilities art in pro
grecs it is not obligatory fora nation
to furnish particulars of the number
of prisoners captured. It must, how-
ever, keep the enemy informed as to
the sick anti wounded Who have been
taken captive. -
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and invariably in 'debt.'"
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Colonel and Sergeant.
To the young recruits the sergeant
is a much more awful person than
the colonel. And that is how this
story has been born. A sergeant in
one of the regiments of the new
army came along twice to enquire if
anyone had seen the colonel. Pre-
sently the colonel arrived, and on his
way had to reprimand a raw recruit
for not sainting.
"Do you know I'm the colonel?" he
said.
"Oh, you'll cop it," said the re-
cruit. "The sergeant has been here
twice looking for you."
a over 200 000 Boy re v Scouts
in the British Empire.