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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-1-20, Page 6Some Waysto Avoid Skidding. Ask the overage motorist what he • fears- meet in the daily handling -of his machine, and the Answer will be "skidding," for if there be one thing more than all othere that the motorist • fenre, itfs that.eiekly-sinking of one's interior that comes with the sudden and emirs loss of control inevitably accompanying a bad skid, writes P, W, Muller. The reckless, the foolish and the in- competent pedestrian can be guarded against; even the man who loses him- self 'in a brown study in the middle of a buoy street and the old lady who flutters hack and forth in the path of; a car lila n befuddled hen, can be taken care of with the braises. But with a skid once started only Provi- dence and the skilful hand at the wheel aro of any avail, The -side slip • is almost el:+gays entirely unexpected, but, unlike the former, it is not al- - ways unavoidable. The case is dis- tinctly one for preventives and not for remedies. There is no remedy for a bad skid but to patch up the damage and gather together the shaken nerves es best you may. Best Anti -Skid Rale. As an absolute preventive of skid- ding non -'kid chains will naturally suggest themselves at once to the reader, and it may added that two of the insurance -companies that write automobile accident policies have taken cognizance of the frequency of accidents reused by skidding and re- commendthe use of chains. In truth, if the chains are in their proper place on the tiros our "ever present danger" has been exorcised, so that the re- marks 'which follow may be taken merely as advice for that day when somebody forgot and Ieft his chains in the locker at home. And right here we can offer the best anti-skid rule of all: Make it an invariable rule to keep the chains in the car and not trust to remembering to put them, there just before you start out, Skidding is the result of the failure of one force 'to counteract another -1 in other words, the momentum of the, machine Is in excess of its traction and almost invariably has its origin; h in an attempt to alter the direction of t travel when on a slippery surface.+t Conseouently, the first precaution tots be obs"rvrd is to drive slowly smell o the occasional strip of wet asphalt. A slow pisco will rise obviate the neces- sity of using the brakes in the ana- 1 jority of instances, for braking is one sof the things that should be avoided by all means when attempting to re- gain control •luring a skid, ae if the rear wheels can be made to resume their usual function of rolling after the front ones the slide will be over. The average motorist's first impulse rs,to jam on the brakes herd, with the result that the driving wheels imme- diately lock and continue to travel sidewise on the small section of the tire that lost iia traction and roused the skid in the first place. To Counteract Obstructions. If it be possible to avoid the use of the brakes and the front wheels be thrown immediately in the same di- rection as the rear of the car started to slide, the tendency to keep up tbis process until the car lauds up against the curb or some other equally un- pleasant obstruction, will be counter- acted and its progress crabwise ar- rested. For example, if in attempt- ing to pass another vehicle to the left the roar .heels refuse to take part in the manoeuvre, hut start en a swing for the curb at the right, the steering wheel should be immediately swung in the same. direction, thus pre- senting the four wheels of the ma- chine as a broad "V" against the elid- ing action. Where the pace is overfast, consid- ering the slipperiness of the surface, the energy of the moving body can- not be absorled in a short distance either by the brakes or the turning of the steering wheels to coanteeact the slide. Then occurs that meet to be dreaded of all skids—the "sashay on all four," against which only a swift mental appeal to Providence and a resolution to use the tire chains next time are of any genie The roll- ing momentum of the car is trans- formed into a force that :ends the whole machine along sidewise, its pro- gress aided by the locking of the rear wheels, and the driver finds himself utterly helpless. As the only sure and dependable meanie of preventing skidding anti- s ltid chains stand supreme. I always ave a set with me. They are easy o put on and easy to tape off, and if hey were twice as hard to handle I hould still believe that the element f safety they add to my pleasure would make them well worth while. THE AUSTRIAN EMPEROR. Franz Josef Is Dying at the Top, Berlin Report Says. Word comes from Berlin that while the war seem,, to have endowed the Kaiser with almost superhuman energy and endurance, it ha; com- pletely- shattered the nerves of the aged Emperor Franz Josef, whom no- body in Vienna nor anywhere else, as far as the general public is concerned, has seen for many months. This is the story: Though it has often been stated in Vienna for the benefit of the foreign press that the emperor is at the Hof - burg, the gigantic imperial palace there, in frequent conferences with Count Tisza, the Hungarian premier, and Herr Burian, the foreign minis- ter on diplomatic and military ques- tions, the truth is that for almost a year he has never left Schoenbrunn, where he lives the life of a hermit in total ignorance of everything that happens in the outside world. No matter what is sent to the world about interview, and all that, no word of the war is permitted to pass the gates of the imperial hermitage and so Franz Josef bear's absolutely noth- ing of the conflagration to which be gave the signal himself when he de-' clared war against Servia. The old emperor is apparently in good health, though exceedingly weak, but mentally he is an absolute wreck, and it is a question whether he had any idea whatever of the fact that his empire is struggling for its existence. Very often it is saki he gives way to violent attacks of weeping. Franz Josef, who, before the war, used to be up at dawn, now rises very late, though he pee to bed with the sun, Ile spends an hour every day in the winter garden of Schoenbrunn pal- ace, sleeps or dozes for 20 hours out of every 24, speaks only to his per- sonal valet, and very rarely receives any one in audience, not even any of the numerous imperial highnesses. ' When he does consent to seo any of his nearest relatives he nods his head as a signal that they may enter, and shakes it when he thinks the audience has lasted long enough, which is never longer than three minutes. Arch- duchess Zita is generally dismissed in a minute, but Archduchess Valerie, an old favorite of the emperor, is occa- sionally permitted to stay a little longer. It was with the greatest difficulty that lie was recently persuaded to see Frau Katherina Scht'ath, who former•- ly had a finger in every diplomatic and polical pie, and who came from Vienne to Schoenbrunn every morn- ing to keep Franz Josef company As he drank his coffee. The old monarch has now only one desire—to be left in Peace and be al- lowed to die to peace. • WARSHIPS WITHOUT FUNNELS. • Deliee Would Promote Efficiency and Serve as a Protection. { - From a French source we leamethat the day of the fnnnelless battleship is near at hand, says The Liverpool Journal. The details available ere very meagre, and too indefinite to be of much interest, but the idea is in- teresting because the title "funnelless battleship" expresses in apposite form one of the most important advantages incidental to a particular method of propulsion. In a merchant vessel fun -1 nels do not form a serious obstacle to •the working of the vessel, and owners have no desire whatever to possess motor -driven vessels simply because they need not be fitted with a funnel. The ease of the battleship is very dif- ferent. The funnels, especially in ;large, high speed ships, are nob only in the way, but they are a positive danger. The designer would be very 'pleased to see the funnels disappear, because they seriously interfere with the arcs 0f training of his guns. But the ships' officers would be still better pleased because funnels form an ex- eellent guide to the target, and a big ship is best seen and recognized by her funnels. ' They practically form the indelible birth -mark, the most prominent distinguishing mark by which the enemy recognizes the vessel to which he is opposed. We hear many tales of tricks with dummy fun- nels, but a four -funnelled cruiser can- not hide herself. The search for an efncieet typo of propelling machinery in which funnels could be dispensed with has been a long one. That the problem will one t day he,solvedcannot be doubted, but even this improvement is only one e step in the direction of constructing a battleship which will combine the qualities of the surface ship and sub- r mersible. That is the great problem t which confronts the experts of the fu- t ture, and every step which brings us 1 calved with interest. TAKING THE KING'S TWO SHILLINGS AND NINEPENCE. In the recruiting campaigns of other days the newly enlisted man waa frequently described us "taking the I{ing's shilling,' representing a day's pay. Pay of soldiers.like that of other occupations, 110.s gone up consider- ably lately, even in the DK Country. where be gets two shillings and nine - pence now to bind the bargain, instead of one shilling. LORDS AND C ERS ARE PF PALS OFFICERS AND MEN UNITED BY WAR. Duke of Rutiand and Ben Tillett "We've got to give our men at least as much ammunition as the Germans have got. They must have enough stuff to pour out that same curtain of fire the Germans have been giving them. When that's done we'll drive the Germans out of France and out of Belgium, and not before. "We all know the Kaiser had been preparing for this war for forty years," he said. "We've been trying, peace -loving England bas, with her ethos, to catch up ever since the Speak at the Same war began, and we're doing it. We're Meeting.1gaing to win, right enough. But it's a tough job waiting for the day when One of the most striking assem- we've got all the materials in hand so we can rush the enemy out" The Prince of Wales. blages the war has drawn together was that at His 1llajeetys Theatre, I L one on, when Ben. Tillett, head of the Doclimen's Union, gave what he called a "message frothe trenches." The theatre was jammed with a throng comprising men and women of the highest caste—lords and ladies among them—down to the laboring element of which Tillett is typical. The meeting was presided over by tete very precise Duke of Rutland of the stately, House of Manners, who looked a Duke to the tip of his six feet of stature, even to the monocle through which he squinted at the audience and at Tillett. As the Duke expressed it in ripening the meeting: "Mr. Tillett and I, before this war did not exactly see things eye to eye." Fighting Like Devils. Before Tillett was through with his address he paid the most eloquent compliment he could to the nobility in the fighting lines by saying: "Among our officers you'll find chaps of title—nuts, you might say some of them are—fighting like devils along with their men in the ranks. They're the pals of the dock- ers and the miners and all of 'em. There never in the whole world were better soldiers, braver fighters,- or truer men than they." A roar of applause swept through His Majesty's Theatre. Tillett had a solemn warning to give his au- dience and the people of England. He had just returned from one of his periodical visits to the trenches. "It's all right to sit in this hall quite comfortable and think in a sympathetic way of the boys in the trenches," he said, walking down the platform, a stodgy yet strangely im- pressive figure, for Tillett isn't more than 5 feet tall, "Yes, we're safe enough here. And why? Simply be- cause of our navy. It's the navy that hurried troops over to Prance at the beginning of the war and stopped the Germans from getting to Calais. It's he navy that's bottled the German fleet up. It's the navy that protects ur shores. "While we're all feeling secure that the Germans won't get here and over - un our land, how about the boys in he trenches, who've withstood the ornado of the German guns these ong months? How about 'e, I say? '11 tell you what—they need ammuni- tion and guns, and they need 'ere bad- 1g—all the time. The leader of the dockman gave a picturesque idea of a heavy battle. Twenty Miles of Shell Fire. nearer to its accomplishment is re- Asquith's Loss. No one has felt the loss of the members of the House of Commons in the war as much as Mr, Asquith, British Prime Minister. The last four to fall were all young men, and Mr. Asquith has an affection for youth. One of his social intimates was e, young Unionist member with a pretty Mete in verse -making, acid he and the Prime Minister would spend many a pleasant hour in capping verses. In the Ilouse of Commons his lilting for you» g members and his appreciation of their ability were most marked. He watched with obvious pleasure the displays of the debating ewaahbuck- lers, and he never exercised hie own debating shill to crush a young an- tagonist. "Take this table here," he said, put- ting his hand on the one at which the Duke of Portland sat, behind his monocle, "Say that on this side," in- dicating that where the Duke sat, "are the German lines, "Now on this other side," Tillett Proceeded, "we've got the allies. The distance between the two lines is 20 miles. That's the distance at which the big German guns can fire. Now, say our boys are charging the Ger- mans. The enemy, being careful in marksmanship and having guns of every range from twenty miles down to the rifles that can shoot a man at two miles or a mile, simply rake this Whole field with a terrific fire, ' Tillett spoke of the anxiety of offi- cers in the field over a "certain young man" out there who, an officer him- self, kept getting into danger. "He would insist on getting out into th h e open, w ere he could see things, said Tillett. "He never was satisfied staying back in the distance, where he could observe things without danger of a bullet finding him. "Wel], the officers told me they were worried all the time over him, and they warned him to be careful, but it wasn't any use. He kept on 'doing his bit.' "And that young man," exclaimed Tillett, with a flourish of pride, "is the ;Prince of Wales." TRAINING MAIMED SOLDIERS. England Teaching Wounded Men to Use Their Left Hands. , It is proposed to start in England a school where disabled heroes of the war who have lost their right hands or are debarred from using them through wounds shall be taught to do things with their left. The feat is not difficult of accom- plishment. It is all a matter of prac- tice. Typewriters, violinists, and pianists, not to mention pugilists, use their ,left hands equally with their right. So do most men who shave themselves with an ordinary razor, and shaving with an ordinary razor is about the most delicate operation conceivable. Some time ago, in order to teach rambidexterity—that is, two -banded Hess—at an English public school boys who were given lines of poetr„ to copy as a punishment had to write them with the left hand. It was found that they very quickly acquired the knack,. At a certain London high school for gins, where ambidextral cultere is made a specialty of, the pupils may be seen almost any day executing on a blackboard freehand drawings with both bands simultaneously, taro Strikes in France. The world, Germany included, is learning to admire France and Frenchmen. In these days, when the labor question is so acute, • it is a remarkable fact that since the begin- rring of the war.thcro has not been a strike or the threat of a strike in any part of the French Republic. The men in the factories who are producing War material work ten or twelve hours a day and half of Sunday, although of lata they have a half holiday once a fortnight. Even that they did not ask for, but the employers offered it, as they also made an increase In wages, although the men did not ask for that, either. A gentleman who has investigated the matter writes to the London Times that In no case has an Industrial dispute hampered the government or reduced fora single day the full output of the faotor•lea of 1?raoce, .ALG.ABOt1T SNOW. Solid roe is lighter than waiter, A enixture of salt and snow is cold- er Chau snow. Snow is the best preservative for plants against frost. Nine cubic inches of water will be- Point of believing that eommunlca come, frozen, ten cubic iirehee of ice, tions have been actually osteblishe - Snow is the condensed vapor of the between the living and the dead, ha Mr frozen •and preeipated to the issued a "message to the bereaved, PEATH NOT GREATEST EVIL, Sir Oliver Lodge's Messags to iho i! D WAS Bereaved, Sir Oliver Lodge, whose faith in life after death curries him to the d SOME.', NARROW ESCAPES ON THE s BATTLEFIELD, earth. which ,is'published in the Christie Cotuinonwsalth of London. Sir Oliver's message rends: "Th acid. ' amount of mourning and stamen Water contracts until•ib is reduced throughout Europe et the preson Snow nourishes the earth, as it sup- plies moisture containing carbonic TWICE FURROWED 11 e Interesting Cases Which Caine I3efore the Canadian Medical g Degree o 'I.t.-Col A; Primrose; No, 4 aenerm Hospital (University • of :Toronto), i with the Canadian Expeditionary s Force, .tells of a number' of interest-ing eases which mune before a Medi t cal Board at Canadian headquarters, e Shorncliffe; "Flesh wounds," he said,. "from ° ; Dither bullets or shrapnel were of common . immanence among the inen e who eame before us and nota few of ' 1 these were in the sealer" In one case the soldier had twice lr narrowly escaped injury. e Head Twice -Furrowed. e cc hnd," says Dr: Primrose; i`two e longitudinal scars on the top, of his head, each was about three 'inches in length and they ran parallel to one another. One was caused by a bullet in April, The wound healed readily and on his return to the trenches he received the second scalp wound from shrapnel." Another case was that of a man who received a bayonet wound in the forehead. He was a lad of `twenty- one, who told an interesting tale. He stated that a German attempted to bayonet him, but he knocked his -rifle up and so received a glancing cut from the bayonet on his forehead. Gave Hinl'Ilayonet. to forty degrees, and then expands till time is something terrible; to contem it freezes. plate. The loss of those who hav Pipes are belted in straw during the gone over is not to be minimized frost' because st;'aw is a non-00nduetar violent cleats while young its a eeriest of haat. j calamity -a roast -made tragedy wit Sleet ias arrow which- has passed dire consequences --enc] lamentatio through air above the i'reezing point, is natural and inevitable, But 1 and thus falls half melted. , most bo remembered that, frees th Mortar crumbles during frost be- point of view of the individuals wit cause it Was not dry, and its own have Bono over, there are many miti moisture expands and errunbles it.- . anting circumstances, They hay If see wore heavfez than water it done their duty; they have saerificec would sink, and rivers Would become a useful career hero; they have give solid and undissolvable ice. ;up all tbey possessed; and it will b Ice melts because ]teat forces its lrequited to them. By such a deal particles asunder, and when they -are a burden 01 sin is Tightened; Soni parted the ice becomes liquefied. . ; atonement is made, good friends ar. Icebergs produce echoes by present -!waiting for them; their help can b Ing a barrier to sound -waves. The utilized and is much wanted for their echo of a syren thus indicates clan- fellows who are coming over; and ger, they themselves will continue in the One of the coldest mixtures known joy 01 service. is made by adding three pounds of `They would like their friends here muriate of lime to one pound of to recognize that, and not to mourn scow. them unduly; above all, not to con. Three pounds of S710lV added to 085 sider them as gone out of existence, pound of salt makes the mixture fall as extinguished And no longer real, thirty-two degrees below - freezing Sorrow at their departure i3 inevft- point, able, but grief which is excessive The absence of fogs during frost is 0011850 them pain. because the vapor is frozen on the "They did their work here, they do it there; and iii good time the -111 cogrmes before it can rise, and nes : union may condently be ionised for - comas hoar -frost. ward to. Death alone is not to man Clothes dark in color are warmest the greatest cull, and 9n some sort for winter wear. A piece of black they are happy in the opportunity of cloth laid upon snow will melt it; their death. This might to be redo white cloth would not. g g" Deep water retards the freezing, nized by those who survive, and we because the whole volume must be re- should not grieve unduly for those ducecl to forty degrees before the sur- ; ttno nave only gone .,.. face will freeze. SAVED ANCIENT GREECE. Bricks cannot be laid in frosty _ weather because frost expands the wa-' iPonrlerful Oratory of Demosthenes, ter in the mortar, and the brieks are Born 2,300 Years Ago. thrust from position. When the earth is covered rvitli, The modern world holds :Demos - snow its temperature rarely falls be- theses, ethos° birthday occurred on low freezing point, even if the air is December f,, 285 B.C., in the same twenty degrees colder. ' fame in which he was held by the Frost -tracery on bed -room windows' ancients, namely, as that of the ora- ls caused by the warm breath of the tor in whom artistic genius was sleeper being condensed and frozen united with moral enthusiasm, and on the ice-cold window, intellectual grasp more perfectly than Islands are less cold in winter than ,in any other man. continents, as the sea is warmer than i Demosthenes appeared ata period the frozen land, and mitigates the ' when his commanding powers found coldness of the land air a fruitful theme in the approaching „ Snow obstructs the passage of degeneracy of Athens. sound; frost helps it. In cold, clear, The great Athenian statesman and frosty weather, voices have been dis- orator became the ablest cliampion tinguished one and a half miles away. of Greek freedom against Philip of Macedon, his craftiest enemy, but he THE PRINCE OF WALES. told the Athenians that it was the decay of public spirit within them - Gossip About a Wife For the Heir to selves that made it possible for the the Throne. Macedonian despot to seek to over- throw Greek independence. Speculation as to royal marriages, Demosthenes was one of the first always a lively topic of gossip, has to see through the designs of Philip, been increased since the war began, which were aided by the decline of for the field of possibilities, so far as public spirit in Athens. Among the the royal houses of Great Britain and most brilliant specimens of his elo- Russia are concerned, has been nor- quence are the Philippics, so-called rowed by the war. Thoughts of mar- because they are aimed against the riage between the princes or the prin- policy of Philip. Ile employed his Bess in Buckingham Palace with any- extraordinary power to urge the body of Hohenzollern associations are union of the Grecian states against now out of the question. ,the devouring danger that threatened, Meanwhile the Prince of Wales is in but he had to contend against deep his 22nd year, his brother Albert will and widespread corruption and the be 20 on December 14 and the Prin- demoralization of public affairs, and cess Victoria passed her 18th birthday his efforts at last were successful. in April last. The three younger bro- Philip of Macedon was assassinated thers range from 15 to 10 years of and Alexander, his son, took up his age, so their brides need not cause work. At last, Demosthenes was con - their royal parents any concern yet demned, and fleeing for refuge to awhile, Calauria, was pursued. In the tires - The choice of the next Queen of encs of his enemies he killed himself Great Britain is of such importance with poison, which he carried in a that even this great war cannot obs quill, on September 16, 822 B.C. score the popular interest in the se- luction of a wife for the Prince of - Wales, and it is recalled that while he is 22 now, his father was married to the Princess of Teck when ho was 28 years old, and his grandfather married Queen Alexandra when he was not as olcl as the Prince is now. The exceptionally late age at which King George was married may, in complete and unchallengeable success, part, have been due to the feet that says the London Nation, It has bro- ths heir to the throne, the Duke of Clarence, did not die till 1892, and his brother, Adie present King, was mar- ried the text year, That there are five boys in the es innocuous in its hiding place as if royal family here is a feet that wed- it never existed—as if the g300,000, - ens the field of speculation. A week- 000 spent in its construction had been ly paper in its last iesue, for example, thrown cerelessly into the North Sea, published the portraits of the two And slowly, but surely, like the slay. beautiful Rumanian princesses Witli ing of a man in the darkness by an the hint that they might later' be bet- unseen hand, it has laid its grip on ter known in Britain a safe and Inde- the throat of Germany, never heves, finite suggestion in the circurnstanoes, forth to be released until the end Similarly, it is equally vague to cornea. Tho victim may struggis, make suggestions with regard to the slash out with hands and feet, writhe largo royal family in Petrograd, but In agony, and in its struggles dam - all the gossip selects no mato Dither ago 111 surrolanding things; but dea- fer the Prince of Wales or Princess pita the struggles the grip will rennin Mary. The cleverness of the tIohen- escure, the pressure continued and in- sollerns in placing their children in tensified, And it is all dependent on so many of the royal families of Eu- some tiny aggregate of ships and rope has been the subject of many men "somewhnro in the British Isles." articles in the British press during ,r the war, and it has bean pointed out Tho mono flekle a woman is the how this has affected the diplomatic more it always hurts her when told ph situation in Holland,Sweden, Dl11- of it. fl garia and Greece, t1eanwhile, there The bricklayer was a 30u1ee of has been no wodding in the immediate great interest to little Tomm He U royaf family since iho King's sister ad never seen anything liltey1 Toni, h Nlauct fnnrriad I{fog Haakon VII. of and when he took rip 111s trowel to tip - Norway in 1896. ply more mortar Tommy's excitement Selfishness never made anybody happy, not even the Man who has the disease. THE ONE COMPLETE SUCCESS. British Navy Ilan Grip on Germany's Throat. The British Navy is the one instru- ment, on either side of the conflict, which has performed its worst with lien, as by a sudden hammer -blow, the whole of Germany that lived upon or trafficked In deep . waters- It hes rendered the German High Sea Fleet "Then," says Dr. Primrose, "Ire frit the German a blow on the chin with the butt of his rifle and the enemy started to run away. He drove hie bayonet into the man's buttock up to the hilt, and was unable to pull it out. Blood from the wound in his forehead now trickled down over his eyes and blinded him so that he had to be carried back to the dressing sta- tion." Another romarl'.able case was that of a num of twenty-seven who was injured at St. Julian on April 22nd. A bullet entered his back at a point three inches to the left of the middle line above the tenth rill. It came out one inch external and two inches below the left nipple. He immediately spat blood in such quantities that he was almost suffocated. Piping Pains Hint. "He never lost consciousness,"says Dr. Primrose, "but bis eeMpanions were sure he was dying, and being a Catholic the.last rites were adminis- tered and his wound was not dressed. He survived, however•, and was remov- ed to the dressing station. He now presents himself in excellent health. He is a piper and he says he cannot blow the pipes because it causes him some pain in the left chest. On exam- ining the scar in the front of the cheat it is observed to pulsate, as the apex beat of the heart is immediately be- hind it. It is obvious that the bullet had passed in immediate proximity to the heart," SCIENTIFIC WARFARE. The Scientists of Britain Are Study- ing the Problem. • Many unpleasant surprises may yet be sprung, upon the Germans in the matter of scientific warfare, as prac- tically every scientific society in Great Britain has now mobilized its mem- bers for the purposes of study and re- search in connection with problems of war. Already many valuable discov- eries and inventions have been made. These of course cannot be specified, but in duo time their effect in the field will be felt. Scientific bodies are, moreover, rendering tho Government every assistance in carrying out their scheme for the organization and des velopment of scientific and industrial research. An advisory Council has been appointed—to work in conjunc- tion with the Committee of the Privy Comma—whose primary functions will be to submit (1) proposals for insti- tuting specific researches; (2) pro- posals for establishing or developing special institutions for the scientifle study of problems affecting particular industries and trades; (8) the °staba lishrnent and award of research ata. dentships and fellowships. In this wont every scientist in the country is being asked to help, Tho German Uniform. The Germans have gone to the last length in melting their uniforms en- tirely inconspicuous. hereafter, all the troops in the field will be clothed In a field gray of the plainest cut. The spike disappears from the helmet, and rho buttons from the coat. These aro replaced by ,hooks and oyes, the same as the Russian uniforms have had for many years, The different arms aro only indicated by braidings. on the guider straps! with white or gray or infantry; green for Alger; red, old M rimy; yellow for artillery; MG the commissariat, The spiked °inlet has been a conspicuous part of rho Prussian soldier for 90 years. , "Mabel Is engaged," "Whom to?" now no bounds, "Orr, mummy," he that she knows is that bei first name Nothing jolts a smart man so hard cried, "look at that man buttering She doesn't say in her letter, All as being beaten at his oyvn game. bricked" - is Frank."