HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-11-18, Page 2',.EST WE FORGET
The Stery of Infamy and Wrong Perpetrated by the German
Soldiery in the Plains of I+landors, 'Valleys of the Vosges
and the Rating ;ii fields of the Marne.
In post -offices throughout England
one finds small 12 -page pamphlets,
entitled "Germany's Dishonored
Army," They are circulated by the
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee
and are free to the public. In ocoa-
elonal, very occasional, bookstalls, one
finds leaflets of the Union of Demo -
at will, and hardly a single straggler
was left behind.
"Deliberate Defilement."
Dealing with the subject of private
Property, and after recounting the
destruction andpillage which every-
where marked the German presence,
erotic Cartrol and other such pari- the professor concludes:—"I should
fist organizations, also free to the like to draw the attention of the
public. The Government pamphlet reader to some unpleasant facts which
contains additional records of Lerman throw a baneful light on the temper
atrocities in France extracted from of German
more cernadmen. I onf e
tho report of Professor J, II. Morgan, thing is clearly
n
commissioned by the Secretary of , another by my inquiries among the
State for home Affairs to investigate' officers of our staff and divisional
the alleged breeches of the laws of commands, it is that chateaux or pri-
war by German troops in France.;vate houses used as the headquarters
When the time Comes for peace terms,' of German officers were frequently
Pacifists and sentimentalists will raise found to have been left in a state of
their voices, pleading for the enemy, bestial pollution, which can only be
There must he no leniency, no sacci- explained by gross drunkenness or
dee of civilization to barbarians, filthy malice. Whichever be the ex -
When peace comes, peace terms must planation, the fact remains that,
be secured which will insure as far as while to use the beds and the uphol-
is humanly possible the freedom of stery of private houses as ,a latrine is
the world from tyranny and greed not an atrocity, it indicates a state of
and lust and oppression.
Protection, Not Revenge.
The Parliamentary pamphlet might
well have been headed "Lest We For -
INTO PROMIS
D LAND -=TO REDEEM ALSACE
SOLDIERS OF WAR
IN MANY LANDS
SOME CURIOUS ARMY CORPS IN
VARIOUS COUNTRIES,
Berrien Cavalry Regiment With Two
Men on Each
Animal. .
NEWS FROM EN EA 1D
NEWS iiy MAIL, ABOUT JOIN
BULL AND IIIS PEOPLE,
Oecnrrenees In the Land That
Reigns Snprenie In the Coin-
n feiei World.
Tho death has occurred ei Professor
E. A. Minchin, of the University of
London.
It is abroad that we find the• most The death is announced of Mr. Tho -
romantic and picturesque of military mac Morgan Joseph -Watkin, Chester
bodies; but there are quasi -military Herald -at -Arms;
organizations in Great Britain whieh The death is reported at Harrow -
are not included in the Army List, gate of Mr, John Eardley Hall, a for -
and which, ,although the man in the titer well-known Brighton banker,'
street is to -day far more learned' in Dr. Thomas Burnie, who has been
regard to military matters than he in' practice in Nottingham for over
was a few weeks ago, are probably 50 years; has just died at the age of
,quiteunknown to many, people, says 77:
l.i s 7, . �.. London Answers. . Curfew, which has tolled in Chert-
..... ,;,� �• �=-'h' Our Bodyguard of Gentlemen -at- say for the last 800 years during the
At hist the soldiers of France are sighting. their Promised L:utd—the ravished provinces which they ha 'e
sworn to redeem from the holt of the Buns. 'I.'hiswonderful photograph, reproduced from J'ai Vu,
shows Trow the French Armies of the Vosges have won their way through'the barbed death-traps a
td
ldnr desolation of a shell -swept zone. "A loud cheer ).ails our victory. 'Phe crest of. Lorraine 'ls o1
Now to reclaim the fair plains of Alsace,"'
NEW LIQUOR RULES.
mind sufficiently depraved to commit Early Closing and Restrictions Felt
one. Many of these incidents, related in Berlin.
to are by our own officers from their
own observations, are so disgusting The restrictions regarding the sale.
, of distilled liquors in Greater Berlin,
that they are unfit for publication.
get." Those who read it and remem- The point to deliberate defilement." which were proposed in August by
Police President von Jagow to the
bei—they can hardly forget—will de -
The Worst Not Told. governing authorities, have gone into
mend of Germany a settlement which Ieffect. They are so drastic that shall leave her too broken to dare to I Under the heading: "Methods of
land -
disturb Europe again. They will de-, Savages," the report reads:— `lords and distillers are in despair, and
mend an atonement—not in the spirit "The public has been shocked by the general public feels that its indul-
of revenge, but in the spirit that the the evidence, accepted by Lord Bryce's gence in `schnappes" and similar
law demands the punishment of the Committee as genuine, which tells of drinks is to be very largely curtailed.
criminal—for the protection of hu -1 such mutilations of women and chit - The rules now laid down forbid the
inanity: ( dren as only the Kurds of Asia Minor i sale of distilled liquor except between
It is a dreadful report, although not ' had been thought capable of perpe-1 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., the sale in restaur-
more dreadful than those of the Bryce' trating. But the Committee were fully ants having woman waitresses and
Committee or the Belgian Committee.' justified in accepting it—they could.I barmaids, the sale in "automatic"
The result is to confirm the conviction! not do otherwise—and they have by ; restaurants and the sale to drunken
that German atrocities were the re- !no means published the whole. Path- persons. The liquor may be sold only
sult of deliberate military policy.' ologists can best supply the explana- for cash and must be drunk on the
Professor Morgan presents extracts tion of these crimes. I have been told premises.
from German diaries to prove that the by such that it is not at all uncommon Only casual examinations of the
killing of defenceless British and in cases of rape or sexual excess to new rules does not reveal how drastic
French wounded, the slaughter of find that the criminal when satiated they are. Relatively few persons, be -
civilians, and the destruction of towns by lust, attempts to.murder or muti- cause of the late working and eating
were all the deliberate outcome of late his victim. This is presumablyhours in Berlin, have either desire or
calculated policy. the explanation—if one can talk of i opportunity to indulge in spirituous
One damning brigade order reads: explanation—of outrages which would liquors until after the new closing
"To date from this day no prisoners otherwise be incredible. The Commit- hour. Scores of reputable restaurants
will be made any longer. All the pri-
soners will be executed. The wound-
ed, whether armed. or defenceless, will
be executed. Not a man will be left
alive behind.
Revolting Record.
tee hint darkly at perverted sexual
instinct. Cases of sodomy and of the
rape of little children did undoubtedly
occur on a very large scale. Some of
the worst things have never been pub-
lished.
Story of Infamy and Wrong.
As to the outragesyR2on women by "There is very strong reason to
uerman soldiers, "they have beenso suspect that young girls were carried
frequent," Professor Morgan writes, I off to the trenches by licentious Ger-
"that it is impossible to escape the man soldiery, and there abused by
conviction that they have been con- the hordes of savages and licentious
doned and indeed encouraged by Ger- men, People in hiding in the cellars
man officers. As regards this matter of houses have all heard the voices of
I have made a most minute study of women in the hands of German sol -
the German occupation of Bailleui. diens cryiiiy all night long until death
This place was occupied by a regi-
ment of German Hussars in October
for a period of eight days. During
the whole of that period the town was
delivered over to the excesses of a
licentious soldiery and was left in a
state of indescribable filth.
"There were at least thirty cases of
outrages on girls and young married
women, authenticated by sworn state -
and cafes now have female employees
in the place of the waiters who have i lief is the Society of Friends, through
been drawn into the army, and there- its War Victims' Relief Committee.
fore these cafes are barred from The principal task is to find useful
making their formal profitable sales. employment. There are four princi
The provision that the liquor must be pal camps in Holland under military
drunk on the premises deals a blow to control, each caring for 5,000 refu-
a bottle trade that heretofore has as- gees.
sumed considerable proportions, espe- At one of the smaller camps in
cially in the less pretentious cafes and Gouda the refugees are housed in the
saloons. Virtually the only provision green -houses on an abandoned mar -
to which there is no objection is that ket garden. "It is sad to see strong
governing sales to drunken persons. young men sleeping in the day time
President von Jagow's suggestion or lounging about with no occupa-
anent the restriction of distilled tion," said one of the visitors who 're -
liquors included the provision that cently returned from Holland. Big
none should be sold after 7 mm., and wooden sheds form the "homes" of
families at the other camps, and
everywhere may be seen attempts to
establish a sort of home atmosphere.
Conditions are found to be worst at
Amersfoort, where about 13,000 Bel-
gian soldiers are interned. The sev-
HOLLAND HAS BIG PROBLEM.
Belgian Women Want to Be Near In-
terned Relatives.
There are about twenty thousand
Belgian girls and women who consider
themselves, and aro considered by
those who have taken a first hand
glimpse at their plight, the most un-
happy creatures in the world.
They are the wives, daughters,
sweethearts and sisters of Belgian
soldiers interned in Holland. Women
without a country these are, but more
—women without a home, with little
food and less clothing, Their hus-
bands, fathers or brothers are alive
and unharmed, filling most of their
time away in Dutch prison camps.
There will be no union until the war
is over.
Under co$er of night, in disguise,
or on the strength of heart stirring
Arms, the "Yeoman Warders of the winter months, is now ringing again
Tower," and the King's Indian Body- at nights,
guard are fairly familiar to London -d. Owing to the shocking weather
ers; but how many have, beard of the conditions lately, the great recruiting
corps of local Highlanders which, rally at Brighton and Bove bad to be
springs into existence to guard the postponed.
ruling Sovereign whenever he visits i The death has occurred , in London
is a corps entirely , of Mr, George Edwardes, the a we11
ACROSS THE BORDER Bapart from at.
-
military conventions, known theatrical manager,_ at the age
yet the members are strictly discip- of sixty-three,
lined, dressed, and equipped. I Eight hundred delegates attended
WHAT IS. GOING ON OVER IN Many British firms have formed, the Congregational Union Assembly
special Territorial companies or semi- held under the presidency of Sir Ar-
THE RUT ES. military bodies; but one London man- thur Haworth.
ufacturing firm has a complete corps, I The Admiralty have issued a notice
with band, drums; and fifes, ambu warning photographers and prohibit -
lances, etc., and every member of it ing,'the sale of Picture pa no
The Grappling Corps. of
is an Army_ officer or ex -soldier, and P Heywood
wears a distinctive uniform.
Latest Happenlags in Rig Republic
Condensed for Busy
Readers,
British warships. i
The death is announced at
of Mr. W. P. Binns' a member of the
well-known family of music hall en
Buffalo has 85,198 registered voters. This recalls an even more curious tertainers.
Cleveland is building a new deten-corps. It is called the Runcorn and Sir Archibald Murray has taken
tion home to cost $90,000. District Grappling Corps, and it pas- over the work of Chief of the Imperial
The ill-fated steamer Eastland will sesses a special appliance for recover- I General Staff at Army Headquarters
be a Government naval training ship. ing the bodies of drowned persons. in London.
Harry K. Thaw, so his mother says, The captain is ready to turn his corps The Grand Duke Michael of Russia
is back at Pittsburgh permanently- out by day or night for duty, and
Ryans City, Pa., is in the throes of claims a certain allowance for suc-
a real oil boom; it almost rests on a cessful work.
bed of oil,
Detroit may put time clocks in its
It is not usual for cavalry regiments
please hundreds of these homeless wo- to sit two men on one horse. The caused by the closing of the County.
men have managed to get across the high schools to check engineers, fire- idea hardly strikes one as military. Mining School, which rias its head -
border line to be near their interned men and janitors. Yet, some twenty -live years ago, the quarters at Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
Illinois Supreme Court ruled that Servians, when battling with the The West Ashford Guardians have
men folk. Once on Dutch. territory a village ,cannot prohibit billboards Bulgarians, were astonished at the ar- re -appointed Mrs. Langley as "mas-
they become an increased burden to advertising liquors. rival of a regiment of the latter with i ter" of the West Ashford (Kent)
Holland. The problem of the intern-
ed Belgians and their needy women
folk has become tragic. Among the
charity organizations occupied in re -
has presented a pipe and patent light-
er to each of the wounded soldiers in
Hampstead Hospital.
Considerable indignation has been
or stupor ended their agonies. that only liquor of a comparatively
"One of our officers, a subaltern in
the sappers, heard a woman's shrieks high grade and cost might be dis-
in the night coming from behind the pensed.
German trenches near Richebourg The distillers and liquor dealers
l'Avoue. When we advanced in the breathed easier when they heard that
morning and drove the Germans out, the authorities did not favor anything
a girl was found lying naked on the so drastic, but all their hopes vanish -
ground `pegged out' in the form of a ed when the authorities finally did
crucifix, I need not go on with this make public their new regulations. It
=fde that many
ments of witnesses and generally by chapter of horrors. To the end of is asserte
medical certificates of injury. It is time it will be remembered, and from cafes that do not specialize in beer—
extremely probable that, owing to the one generation to another, in the the so-called "wine rooms"—will now
natural reluctance of women to give plains of Flanders, in the valleys of have to close at 9 instead of at 11 or
evidence in cases of this kind, the the Vosges and on the rolling fields of 1 o'clock, and that many of them will
actual number of outrages largely
exceeds this. Indeed, the leading phy-
sician of the town, Dr. Bels, puts the
number as high as sixty. At least
five officers were guilty of such
offences, and where the officers set
the example the men followed. The
circumstances were often of a pecu-
liarly revolting -character; daughters
were outraged in the presence of their
mothers, and mothers in the presence
or the bearing of their little children.
the Marne, the oral traditions of men
will perpetuate this story of infamy
and wrong.
Pride of Insolence.
"Although I have some claims to
write as a jurist, I have here made no quors, and they say that therefore
attempt to pray in aid The Hague there is no military need for the rules.
Regulations in order to frame the They maintain that there is a great
counts of an indictment. The Ger- sufficiency of liquor for army, medi-
mans have broken all laws, human
and divine, and not even the ancient
freemasonry of arms, whose honor-
able traditions are almost as old as
war itself, has restrained them in
their brutal and licentious fury. It is
useless to attempt to discriminate be-
tween the people and their rulers: an
abundance of diaries of soldiers in the
ranks shows that all are infected with
a common spirit. That spirit is pride,
not the pride of pure and high endea- KING GEORGE AND THE TOWER.
vor, but the pride of insolence which) roved ByValuable Gifts
knows no pity and feels no love. Long' Much Improved
ago Reitan warned Strauss of the From His Majesty.
canker which was eating into the Ger- Rich as the Tower of London has
man character. Pedants indictrineted always been in armor, it has, only re -
it; generals instilled it; the Emperor cently, been very much improved by
preached it. The whole people were valuable gifts from King George V.
taught that it was a normal state of The King was told that he possess -
civilization, that lust of conquest and ed et Windsor Castle certain pieces
the arrogance of race were the most of very old armor which really form
precious of the virtues, On this Dead ed parts of Tower suits, and, he ac -
Sea fruit the German people have cordingly gave orders that these
been fed for a generation until they should be sent to the City, so as to
are rotten to the core."—The Toronto complete the sets there. The armor
Daily News, is very old indeed, having belonged
Killed on British Railroads, to King Henry VIII., William Bonier -
The British Board of Trade figures The helmet of the latter warrior alone
set, the Earl of Worcester, and others.
have to go out of business.
These cafe proprietors allege that
they cannot understand the new or-
der nor the reasons for it. For months
now it has been forbidden to serve
soldiers or sailors with distilled li-
Hunted fn Couples.
"In- one case, the facts of which
are proved by evidence which would
satisfy any court of law, a young
girl of nineteen .was violated by one
officer while the other held her mo-
ther by the throat and pointed a re-
volver, after which the two officers
exchanged their respective roles. Af-
ter the outrage they dragged the girl
outside, and asking her if she knew
of any other young girls ("jeunes
fines") in the neighborhood, adding
that theywanted to do to them what
they had clone to her.
"The officers and soldiers usually
hunted in couples, either entering the
houses under pretence of seeking bil-
lets, or forcing the doors by open
violence. Frequently the victims were
beaten and kicked, and invariably
threatened with a loaded revolver, if
they resisted. The husband or father
of the women and girls were usually
absent on military service; if one was
present he was first ordered away un-
der some pretext; and disobedience of
civilians to German orders, however.
improper, is always punished with in-
cinal and hospital needs now on hand, slipper making.
so that there is no necessity for ex-
tra measures to conserve the supply
in this dramatic way. Also, they as-
sert with the utmost positiveness that
Berlin suffers not at all from any un-
due indulgence in liquor which would
require correction through restric-
tion of the supply.
era) hundred women who succeeded in
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh two men on each animal.
railway is rebuilding 7,000 freight But they might have been even
cars in Buffalo shops. more astonished if they had been,,,
a
The rules of the public library at band of cavalry to be found on the
Montclair, N.J., forbid sneezing or island of Madagascar. These soldiers Kentish sanatarium from the effects
coughing into books. go about their military operations. on of consumption contracted in a Ger-
G. G. Torbert has just cashed a
cheque at Milton, Del., that he has
carried for 14 years. -
Prof. Kuno Francke lectured on
German art in New York without
once mentioning the war.
J. F. Mylan, county judge at $12,500
a year in Brooklyn, N.Y., was once a
laborer at $1.10 a day.
Middleton, N.Y., has shipped to
Florida apples weighing 201 ounces
each, and 151/2 inches round.
John Schmidt, chicken thief, killed
a $50 rooster and $10 hen at Akron,
0., and got a year in prison.
A company at Youngstown, 0., has
a contract for the machinery of an
armor plant for Nagasaki, Japan.
A rotten telegraph pole fell on an
auto at Camden, N.J., and killed Mrs.
Workhouse, alter a year's successful
trial.
Joseph Viall, the eighteen -year-old
Australian volunteer, has died. in a
evading the German authorities are in W. Baumgaxtel'and injured others.
dire distress. Only a very small daily
The American Tract Society has
dole is theirs, and no provision is
issued a label stamp poster inviting
made for their lodgings. Some three all to "Go to church next Sunday."
hundred of these women live in an While picking up shingles a roll of British troops at night against the
empty granary lent by a charitable tin 'fell from a house at Gettysburg, daring and merciless Pathan rifle -
Dutch merchant. Pa., and killed Miss Sara Flickinger. thieves who infest those parts.
Belgian carpenters are now making Rev. Francis Rolt-Wheeler has gone Giants Under Arms.
neat,, portable wooden houses, a great to jail in New 'York for three months Turningto Germany, we find dis-
improvement on the barracks. After
for failure to pay his wife alimony.
the war they propose to take these
oxen.
The animals are very lean creat-
ures, but it is said that they move
man prison.
Crossing London:Road, Cheam, a
narrow street, Pte. E. Gledhill, Lan -
with surprising rapidity—which re- cashire Fusiliers, a convalescent 'sol -
minds one of the Camel Corps . which dier, was knocked down by a motor
we formed during the operations in
Egypt some years ago.
Among romantic foreign regiments,
none is more famous than the French
Foreign Legion, the most cosmopoli-
tan corps in existence, containing
many ruined aristocrats, alien crim-
inals, degenerate doctors and pro-
fessors, and ,adventurous ruffians of
every nation under the sun. The regi-
ments are ilrmly disciplined, and are
employed on every desperate and haz-
'bus and killed.
Mr. J. W. Smith, of the Trunk Ser-
vice who has just died at East Cowes,
was formerly principal keeper of the
Beachy Head and the Coquet light-
houses.
News has been received at St. Aus-
tell that the Hon. T. C. R. Agar-Ro-
bartes, M.P. for the St. Austell Divi-
sion of Cornwall since 1908, has died
of wounds in France.
Lieutenant 0. G. Martin, V.C., D.S.
ardous expedition. Adventures are to 0., of the Royal Engineers, has been
be ,found galore by this Legion. But Presented with a sword of honor by
perhaps one would not advise one's the residents of Bath, with which city
best friend to join! ' he was closely associated.
On the far' Indian frontiers we em- -'p—
ploy truculent tribesmen—"Chowki- THE STAFF OFFICER.
dars"they are called—to protect the —
The Important Part He Plays in
Modern Warfare.
In modern warfare the General
Staff play a supremely important
part. They may be described as the
Out-of-door devotees of Chicago tinctive regiments there also. Take brains of the Army; upon their
houses to Belgium. There are already will get fresh air in caves, window- the 1st Prussian Regiment of Guards, brains of
efficiency the success of
workshops for tailors, shoemakers, less and unheated, on - the elevated for instance. Every . member is a a campaign largely depend.
picked giant; but even these are put The staff officer came into exist-
one,the old tins and other trades. In railway.encs during the Napoleonic Wars,
ono. the old used in the camps are Thirty children in a movie show at_ in the shade by the famous giant
coffee and milk cans. Correctionville, Iowa, collapsed from Grenadiers of Potsdam. Prior to that time the number of
converted into tf some sudden illness and needed doc- All countries were scoured for the employed in warfare was com-
Classes have been started in mat and tors tallest men; recruits came from Tur- troopsparatively so small that there was
d
for a year, not including the most
strait death. In several cases little recent railway disaster, in which. near -
children Beard the cries end struggles ly 800 persons lost their lives, show
of their mother in the adjoining room, that on the 23,700 miles of railway in
to' which she had been carried by a the United Kingdom during the year
brutal exercise of force, No attempt covered by the report 125 passengers ton Court, and other palaces, and
was made to keep discipline, and the were killed while 2,440 were injured. placed' in its present position,
officers, when appealed to for protee- Of railway employees, 425 were !till- Amongst some of the special suits
tion, simply shrugged their shoulders, od in this period 'and 5,005 injured, now to be seen is one which is attri-
The German troops were This is a vastly worse showing than buted to King Charles I,
often drunk and always insolent. But, ever before, a fact due perhaps to the
weighs close on twenty pounds,
These additions are by far the finest
made to the Tower armories since the
year 1661, when the whole collection
was brought from Greenwich, Hemp -
significantly enough, the bonds of dis changes in servants and schedules Piuok is all right, but good luck
eipline thus relaxed were, tightened owing tr the war, often lea3es it at the post.
TOYING WITH DESTINY.
German Newpaper Does Plain Speak-
ing . for the People.
Here is an extract from the Frank-
furter Zeitung on the domestic prob-
lems of Germany in war time,
The Imperial Secretary of State
himself admits that the Government is
very late, too late, in fact, in the
adoption of practical measures for
dealing with the economic situation.
Theq f this policy of de
James Schmidt, who fell into New key, Sweden, Poland, and even Ire- no necessity for the organization now
York coal holes and then sued for • land, and one Tyrolese giant is said known as the General Staff; then the
damages, got'a year in prison for his ! to have cost as much as £5,000. The
acts. minimum height was six feet; but
Public subscriptions at Elmhurst, some of the front rank men measure
L.T., saved the starving wife and fam-
ily of Chas. Stillwagon, now in Sing
Sing.
A wagon, an auto and a man on a
commanding general was able to
direct all operations personally, and
could view for himself practically the
eight, and even nine, feet. whole disposition of the troops along
The present Emperor seems to be the front. Even Wellington had but
bitten by the same craze, for when a staff of not more than a dozen of -
at Tangier some years ago he was so ficers.
bicycle met at a railroad crossing at impressed by the' stature of a Moor .The precise number of officers on
Chicago and Hans Marguerdt, cyclist, of colossal proportions that he en- General French's staff is not known,
was killed. gaged him on the spot for his 1st but it cannot be less than 100.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo Regiment of Foot Guards. German The staff officer occupies a pecu-
says there has been no real prosperity discipline, however, assorted ill with liar position. Though he is frequent -
in the United States for the past 10 this giant son of Nature, and he half ly of - inferior. rank to many corn -
years. killed the bandmaster by smashing mending officers (his Army rank may
consequence o rs o Awell-dressed man clung eight him on the head with the cymbals be only that of a captain or major)
lay isthat it is now well-nigh impos- hours to a Chicago pier before he was which he played; and the Kaiser, real- he is far more closely in touch with
sible to do anything to bring down the rescued by John Bain and later disap- izing that physical height can have the commander-in-chief than they,
prices of commodities from their ter- peered. its drawbacks, after all, had him ship- and has.'a vastly more accurate
ship -
rifle height. The escape of a 16 -year-old boy ped back to his, native country, knowledge of the whole campaign. It
The influence' of this state of af- from Morristown, Pa., jail, revealed The King of Siam has a very 'im- is almost his daily duty to bring or -
fairs, further aggravated as it is by that he and another were illegally de -
the intense rivalry of interests which
the war has caused in trade circles, tamed there.
cannot fail to produce an adverse ef-
fect on the health of the people, who Scottish Salmon Migration.
are being gradually driven to a make- A, salmon which has been recently
shift existence.
These rival interests, it is sadden-
ing to see, are receiving most unjus-
tifiable support in the Prussian Par-
liament, and, also, as in the recent
discussions, have shown, in the Prus-
sian Ministry of Agriculture.
How can this toying with the desti-
nies of the nation be permitted?
Convenient Apology.
posing bodyguard of 400 high-born dens to his superior officers, and
ladies, the pick of his kingdom. Es- whilst he has to deliver them clearly
sentially a peace organization, one and explicitly, he must take care not
would imagine. to do se in a manner that would
A curious corps of Amazons is re- eau" offence.
ail ed and returned to the twined by the Kroumirs, their duty Another difficulty the staff officer
caught, m being to follow their lords to battle, is sometimes placed in is that his
water at Kintradwel, north of Brora, and chant their weird war -son to
Sutherlandshire, was caught again superior officer may desire to discuss
fifteen days afterward on the Aber- stimulWie the fighters. the general plan of campaign with
deenshire coast. The minimum dis- him; but the staff officer must never
nee covered by the dish was 140
Improved Dairy Methods. divulge anything he knows, even to
to e
miles, and it had lost one pound and a "How 'Shall we protect ourselves his superior, byand what he has been
half in weight, from bad milk supplies?" instructed to say to him at headquar-
"Pasteurize the cow." ters.
Charles Dickens was offered a her- "What clo you mean bythat?"
onetcy by Queen Victoria, but refus-
ed owing to lack of means.
"Why, turn her out to pasture, of
course!"
If a boy is teal naughty his mother The air in a room fifteen feet long, p--- -• --
apologizes by saying, rd's 11.3ust like ten feet wide and ten feet high would Cats , are said to 'wash right over ing, and so swallow the grounds with
his father."
Japanese and British bluejackets
dress alike.
Turks drink coffee wSiile it is boil-
- Weigh more than a hundredweight, their ears when rain is approaching, the liquid.