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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.