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portion of those killed in the opera
tions in the attack and defeat .of
Nancy,
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/E'HOUSANDS QF GRAVES IN the crosses flying in splinters. Flow -
FRENCH LORRAINE.
Shifting of, Battles May Be Traced
By Following Linea of
Wooden Crosses.
French Lorraine is the greatest.
cemetery in the world, Colonies of
dead, marked by lines of crude wood-
en crones, bee everywhere under
newly -formed sod at the edges of
woods and thickets and in ravines—
German and French. The shifting of
battle scenes may be traced by fol-
lowing them. They are thickest there
whore wee fought the great battle
for Nancy that began with the re-
treat of the French from Morhange
and reached its climax during the
battle of the Marne. The number has
been continually swelled since in the
14 -months', struggle in the Woevre
and the Vosges.
Saint Genevieve, Eseey, the
Amances, the Heights of Cuittes,
Veaino, Gerboviliers of the Grand
Couronne deNancy, Etain, the
Epargea, the Bois. Brute, the Bois
Apremont, the Bois Saint Mansuy, and reason to examine the man, his cape -
the Bois Le Pretre in the Woevre are bilities and determination, as impar -
so many cemeteries, nearly all of tially as possible. To begin with we
them with crosses bearing names al- cannot but admit that what Lord Kit -
ready illustrious. Lionel Rieux, the ehener has done in the course of this
poet, lies at Essey; Paul Vial, who war as an organizer is deserving of
received a bullet in his heart, in the the greatest respect. One must judge
Saint Mansuy Woods. Among the not from the English point of view,
French buried at Gerbervsller is Jean for it is impossible to apply the same
Martin, one of the most promising pu- standard to the work of a German and
pias of the French Art School at an English Minister of War. A Ger-
man Minister of War would be
ashamed of himself if he needed so
much time and trouble as Lord Kit-
chener has needed to get together and
prepare a similar force for operations.
No such improvisation is necessary in
our case, but in England, where in
times of peace preparations have ne-
ver been macre for a land war on such
a scale, it must be recognized that
Lord Kitchener has created his armies
and organization out of nothing.
It is easily 'understood, therefore,
why the leading classes are not to be
shaken in their confidence in him.
Who is this man with whom we have
to reckon in the future in the devel-
opment of the struggle of struggles in
the Eastern Mediterranean? He is a
typical representative of English
militarism, which, notwithstanding all
disclaimers, has always existed and
once had a similar representative, a
man of the same stamp, like Welling-
ton.
Lord Kitchener, like Wellington, de-
termines his acts on grounds of prac-
ticability only.
Ors are planted oe all the French'•
graves and the trieolor floats aver
many of them. The graves of the
Germane are sacredly protected, but
not decorated.
RESPECT KITCIIENER.
German Press Likens Him to Duke of
Wellington.
The most remarkably frank appreci-
ation,of any Englishman that' has ap-
peared in the German press since the
beginning of the war is published by
the Berliner Tageblatt, as the imme-
diate result of Lord Kitchener's mis-
sion, about the effects of which seri-
ous Germans are plainly uneasy,
Lord Kitchener is evidently regard-
ed by the writer as the modern Wel-
lington, to whom he freely compares
him, whilst the whole article is an ap-
preciation of Lord Kitchener's mili-
tary and organizing genius 05 201 -
lows:
Nothing is more stupid than to un-
derestimate an adversary, and when
England sends its best military man
to the district in which possibly the
war will be decided we have every
Rome. Ile fell with the heroic hand-
ful of Masseurs that held the Mor-
tagne there against 40,000 Germans
during the 11 hours. Mercell Drouet
is among those who lie at the summit
of the Samagneux hill.
"To -morrow in Nancy."
The dead lie thickest perhaps at
the Laisy Gap. After the Germans
had captured Nomeny and Pont-a-
Mousson, they sent a regiment to
force this passage between tvvo
heights, held by a single company of
French infantry. That gap became
the tomb of the entire regiment.
The cemetery of St. Genevieve is
not so dense, but far more .extended
than that of the Loisy Gap. The Ger-
mans, forced by the resistance of the
company of infantry at Loisy to try
a flails meyement around the heights
of Sainte Genevieve, obtained a suc-
cess before the heights of Cuittes,
where French crosses predominate. It
was then, thinking he saw the route
opening ftp for his troops, the Em-
peror of Germany issued his famous
order of the day: "To -morrow in
Nancy." Sainte Genevieve was still
between His Majesty's troops and the
Lorraine capital; it is to -day the ceme-
tery of most of them. The French,.
too, fell insuch numbers there as to
disquiet the officers, who called the
attention of Commandant M— to
the losses,
"No matter," replied the command-
ant, "we won't give an inch." It re-
quired an order from the general to
induce him to take up a stronger posi-
tion a little in the rear.
"In the Name of His Majesty."
During the attacks upon the plateau
of Amance, captured on the 7th and
retaken by General Dubial on the
8th, Emperor William is said to have
observed the action from the edge of
the Mocal Woods, behind which were
concealed the 10,000 horsemen of the
Prussian Guard his escort into
Nancy. Volaine fell and Uhlans and
Bavarian infantry surged into the
passage between the two heights of
Amance. "1f we can hold out the day
it will be a miracle," said the French
General in command. The three-
inchers increased their fire to the
maximum speed just then and mowed.
those Uhlans and Bavarians down be-
fore they could debouch from the de-
file; they lie there to -day in serried
ranks over which a weedy sod has
formed. The 10,000 cavalry of the
guard galloped off toward Metz, and
a parliamentarian with a white flag
asked, "In the name of His Majesty,"
for an armistice of 24 hours to bury
the dead,
"In 24 hours," replied the French
General, "when the Emperor shall
have given sepulchre to his thousands
of dead, we shall be ready for him
again."
Flowers of French Graves.
An estimated proportion of three
Germans to one Frenchman buried in
the battlefields of tho Grand Cou-
ronne de Nancy, extending in a semi-
circle from iaerbevillers to Pont -a-
Mousson, on the east bank of the Mo --
sell°, naturally takes no account of
the thousands of Bavarian dead re-
moved at night by rail toward Metz,
after the battle of Sainte Genevieve,
which decided the issue of the strug-
gle for Nancy; nor does it comprise
the heavy death roll of the French in
annexed Lorraine, just over the
frontier, in the disaster of Mor-
hange.
The evictence of those who have
visited all the battlefields of Lor -
mine and those who helped pick up
the dead after the battle of. Nancy
tends to the belief that, taking the
French dead in German Lorraine and
the Gorman dead carried from the
field of battle, there is no exaggera-
tion in the optimate of three Ger-
REVOLT WHEN TRUTH TOLD.
Berlin People Already Doubt Some
German Versions of War.
To the Paris Figaro a French-
woman has written a letter from Ber-
lin, describing in a very interesting
manner certain conditions in the Ger-
man capital. After telling of the daily
increasing difficulty in procuring suffi-
cient provisions and other necessities
of life, the correspondent continues:
"Life here is becoming unbearable,
and I am glad that it will soon be
time for me to leave. The people ]fere
hate everything that is not German.
They are absolutely self-sufficient, and
nobody else is of any account. They
will not admit the superiority of any-
one, except God, perhaps.
"There is one thing in particular
which exasperates them, and that is
when they are referred tows 'barbar-
ians.' They hate France well enough,
but it is nothing compared to their
hatred of England. To the English
are credited the blackest crimes un-
der the sun, and every German prays
and hopes most fervently that the
powers of heaven will some day strike
and utterly blot out England.
"We are quite a few sympathizers
of the allies hero, and in spite of all
the bad news we are treated to in the
war bulletins, we are not getting dis-
couraged. At the time of the latest
French successes in Champagne, the
German version of the event read like
this on the bulletin boards: 'The
French occupied a few of our ad-
vanced trenches, but we retook them
presently.' But htey forgot to men-
tion that these trenches cost them
120,000 men. Many have begun to
doubt the veracity of the War Office
and aro murmuring over the unrelia-
bility of the news from the front. It
is my opinion that these people, who
have hitherto let themselves be led
like .sheep to the slaughter block, will
become like wild beasts when they
finally learn the truth."
And the Nurse Was Offended.
Doctor—Well, Casey, are the eyes
improving?
Patient -Sure, they are, sir.
Doctor --Can you see bettor? Can
you see the nurse now?
Patient—Sure, I can, sir. Faith,
site gets plainer and plainer ivery
day.
A False Note.
"I hear you ca-a-lling me," warb-
led daughter from the parlor.
"Yes," sang mother from the kit-
chen. "I want you to come here and
help me with tho tris -s -Shea."
And then a profound silence reign -
mans to rine Frenel,meu as the ego -1 ed.
THE MAORI IN HIS "TOMMY ATKINS" AND HIS NATIVE, UNIFORM.
14Ien of the New Zealand Maori contingent to the British ]Oxpeditionary
force, when they get the King's uniform on, are Wren of a different color, so
;o speak.
- GERMANY'S ARMY.
It Has An Increasing Tendency to
Shrink.
Some calculations on Germany's
wastage and reserves are given by Mr.
Warner Allen, the British correspon-
dent with the French armies. These
calculations, he writes, are confirmed
by a variety of sources.
From August, 1914, to the end of
October, 1915, the total German losses
amounted approximately to four and
a half million men on the combined
GO BACK TO OLD REMEDIES,
1Yer lirings Return of Mediclees of
Gruiulfuihet•'s l)ay.
' .Physicians have been jumping from
one drug or chemical to another ever
since Lister found a way to check or
prevent the i)tfeetian of wounds, Doc-
tors have tried friars balean, ear,
belie acid, iodoform and dozens of
other antiseptics, some of them vory
costly, and now seem to have gone
Meek to old-fashioned houeehuld dress-
ings of past years, and even past een-
turies.
On the battlefields of Europe sugar,
salt, tincture of iodine and eemmon
garlic have superseded drugs and
chemicals with high sounding names,
The New York Commercial states.
Sugar is used as 0 dressing for
wounds already infected, The British
Government has found that wounded
men on ships, whose injuries have
been evashed with common sea wetter,
make better recoveries than those
treated in field hospitals, the conclu-
sion being that the waters of the
ocean are an ideal anti+'ept1e. Tinc-
ture of iodine, a preparation as old as m their dangerous playground. lout with the conclusion of peace. In
the hills, is the favorite protection I Few, indeed, were the children who all circumstances, as the Secretary of
against lockjaw; and so it goes. I shared the perils of that time, cam -
State for the Imperial Treasury has
Of all theae reversions to grand --pared with those endangered, injured, said in the Reichstag, we shall have
Mother's specifics, however, the des- and slain in the fearful European war eo boar a colossal burden of taxes af-
covery that garlic is almost a cure-all of to -day, Leaving aside atrocities, or ter the war. It is useless to make
is the most striking. Doctors who intentional injuries to children,—of guesses about the extent of the eom-
prescribe and use only the most eostlywhich one eau scarcely bear to think,
ing taxes. But even superficial con -
and new-fangled preparations import - I —the exigencies of warfare along so sideration shows that after the tsar
ed from Germany will have to give re- many hundred miles of trenches, run -
we shall have to place a far higher
spected attention to garlic, for its ning through so many i uined and half- percentage of our income at the des-
efblcacy is vouched for by the London . ruined villages, have brought many ossa of the State,p in the shape of
Lancet on the testimony of two emi-scores of children within the danger taxes and customs.
nent London surgeons. Garlic applied zone. Often they become, like the In and euon to these great saeri-
to a wound stops the infection and Lucknow children, quite fearless, faces smaller sacrifices are required,
heals quickly, whereas modern anti- learning to disregard the most terri- and the future as well as the present
septics used in fashionable practice in- fying sights and sounds. They help demands privation. How can one
jure the tissues, Garlic has been test-' their mothers to work in the fields un- ;measure these sacrifices in compari-
ed thoroughly at the Paddington In- der fire quite as a matter of course; son with what our soldiers have to
firmary, in London, as well as in field and it is their frequent tendency,
hospitals in France. 1 with the natural curiosity of childhood, hear in the rain of shells, in frost and
The story of the rediscovery of gar -'rather to approach the firing line than wet and without even he most mis-
'"TRENCH RABBITS."
Many Children Heunt the trines at the
Front,
In Lady Inglis's narrative of her
experiences during the siege of Luck -
now, half in century tigo, nothing II.UN NEWSPAPER PUI3LISIIES A
caught the attention of the public FRANK ARTICI E.
more generally than her rleieription
of bow quickly the children in the be- _
lengaered residency became ascus-
toned to living under tire. They lost Enormous Burden of Taxation Fore-
all fear of bullets, were only momen- seen, But People Are
tinily startled by the crash of a shell
close at hand, and used to beg hard
for the, privilege ,of leaving the more
sheltered women's quarters to play in
a little inclosed garden, despite the
feet that their swing had been car-
ried away and their pet goat slct'.n
there by cannon fire, while bullets pat-
tered so frequently against the walls
that it had ceased to be fun to run
and pick them up while they were yet
hot. Before the siege ended, some of
their little playmates had been killed
GERMANS RECKON
THE COST OF PEACE
Defiant. -
' An exceptionally frank article re-
garding the actual economic Conditions
in Germany appears, in the Koeinisehe-' '
Zeitung of a recent date. The writer
calls attention to the seriousness of
the situation and expressos great
doubt as to the possibility of Germany
being able to increase her income after
the war in a proportion sufficient to
meet the situation. Extracts of the
article follow:
and some wounded; but the survivors, i "Never shall we be able to forget
pining in the heated rooms, were not a the seriousness of these times. The
whit less eager for tag and hopscotch effects of this war will not be wiped
— nt —_, he possesses human interest. An old to keep away from it. Despite rules erable conveniences?
envy. But a horrible thing happened.: French peasant woman was found to and orders, they occasionally reach "Let us not forget that many Ger-
Another maid, bringing gifts and ten- - have dressed the sores and wounds of the second, and even the first line of man women are to -day walking a road
derness, suddenly appeared. Two soldiers in the war zone with remark- defense, and pay surreptitious visits of suffering, and that there is much
hearts the bombardier was fully con-' able results. An army surgeon lures- ., to the soldiers in the trenches. There need among the families of the lower
petent to hold. tigated, and garlic is sold by the ton they are both scolded and welcomed. middle classes which is not yet allayed
Conversation became jerky when a : where it was formerly sold by the In some cases orphan waifs have been in spite of all readiness to help.
third girl arrived, and when the fourth' ounce in England chemists' shops.' practically adopted as individual, con- ' England is Blamed.
skipped in the boastful bombardier or regimental pets and mascots.
crawled away "to order tea" He fled
to the garden in a somewhat feverish
condition. On the step he stumbled Err 1
upon the fifth attachment. "Dear old in preventing tuberculosis and in cur-1"trench rabbits." g
Joe," she said, "where shall we sit?" ing it in its early stages. The con -1 Not always to the poor little "rab- 'because England's sharpest weapon is
"Let's go to the pictures," he answer- mon onion, cousin of the clove of gar- , bits"escape unscathed from their dan- � aimed at the lives of our children and
ed quickly; "it was getting too hot in lie, is good for colds. Hindus have gerous tasks in the open, or from as- I of our weakest and most helpless.
fronts. Of this total three millions that ward." used plasters of garlic for ages. Just sedating with their soldier chums. 1 "Anybody in England who has the
may be taken as definitely hors de when speculators have cornered the Wounded children are not common; i very smallest conception of economic
combat (dead, prisoners, or permae drug and chemical market, army doe- yet, unfortunately, they are not very life has known for a year past, ever
neatly disabled), while the remaining ELECTRICITY ON THE FARM. tors find substitutes in things that are rare in the hospitals near the front. since the beginnings of our organized
1,000,000 may be considered as having cheap and plentiful. When they are brought in, a nurse has ' economy, that the German people as a
returned to the fighting line. lacing Taken Up By the Farmers of - --
There is a considerable amount of Great Britain.
evidence to show that the German
losses are much greater than they ad-
mit. The writer comes to the conclu-
sion that during the last nine months
of the war the German casualties
have reached 300,000 a month, exactly
as they did during the first six months.
Not more than one-third of this total
is able to return to the front, so that
the German net losses amount to 200,-
000 a month.
To meet further losses Germany
will be compelled to raise the age limit
of military service above 45, and al-
ready a secret circular has been issued
instructing the authorities to proceed
to the preparatory registration of men
between 46 and 50.
For some time past the numerical peace.
strength of the German Army has same time the question of initial ex- While Germans in the first line are the white fleece was stained with . be made. Our enemies, now that the
been stationary on the various fronts, pease had to be borne in mind. How-
-
ow- given only one meal a day and have blood. The nurse offered to wash it , war is approaching its climax, and
with an increasing tendency to shrink, ever, an experimental installation was to be contented at night with the cof- off, but the little fellow was not will- now that the last trumps are being
The number of men called up for ac- prepared, and displayed at an exhibi- fee served out to them and with such ing to wait, played on the enemy's side, shall learn
tive service since February last cer- tion. It aroused instant and wide- provisions as they have been able to "Let me have my lamb now; he,that in our capacity and readiness to
tainly does not exceed the number of spread attention, the. average farmer buy for themselves, the French corn- begged. "You can tie a bandage make sacrifices we have by no means
casualties, and at the present moment having long since appreciated the in- � missariat has never failed to provide round him, and I will play that we i reached the end, and our readiness
the number of men in the depots does conveniences' and dangers attending the entire army with two good meals a' have both been wounded by the ene- will be all the stronger and more will-
s antiquated oil -lamp illumination. The I day. An extra ration of meat is now mies of our country."ing the more plainly we see through
even to the men most exposed, and When his friend, Monsieur Tom- ,these horrible methods of warfare.
Garlic juice, diluted with three orpany, g'
four parts of distilled water, seems to , So numerous are the children who "We know who is responsible. A.
be the standard dressing. I haunt the lines in certain regions that war is no child's play; but this war is
Garlic is also found to be effective the soldiers have nicknamed them' of quite special horror because of
I sail's eunnin>r and violence, and
During the past two or three years
the employment of electricity upon the
farm has undergone considerable de-
velopment in Great Britain, says
Chambers's Journal. One great ob-
jection to this system of illumination
has been the fear that highly skilled
labor is essential to its installation
and maintenance;. but the increasing
utilization of oil -engines as a source
of power has dispelled this illusion.
Accordingly a British firm conceived
TRENCH LUXURIES.
Soldiers Have Wire -Netting Beds and
Paved Trenches.
The French armies are undertaking
their second winter campaign under by shrapnel, went under ether to have - will succumb to the pressure. If the
conditions which are luxury compared his mangled toes removed, still clutch -!English yet succeeded in gaining a
with the improvised arrangements for ing tightly in his hand a woolly lamb, ? triumph it would be our babies and
their comfort made last winter. War- made for him by a British "Tammy" the weakest members of our people
ner Allen, representative of the Bri- from a scrap of his own torn sheep- I that would go under; never the people
tish press with the French forces, skin coat and a few bits of whittled as a whole. And even this we shall
states that so highly organized aro the wood. As the child's fingers relaxed, i know how to prevent.
conditions now that not only has the it was removed and forgotten. But no England will not be able to satisfy
the idea of putting on the market a army very little to fear from cold, but sooner had he recovered consciousness ,her ambition and to make good the
complete electric -lighting installation also the life of the soldier in the than his first inquiry and demand was failures of her strategy by a great
of simple design, highly efficient, ver- trenches apart from the dangers in- "Where is my lamb? I want my lamb ' murder of children. We who are
tually "fool -proof" and capable of be- separable from war, is more healthy that Monsieur Tommee made for me.", strong and capable of resistance must
ing installed and maintained by a far- than his ordinary existence in time of The lamb was found; but it had' and will bring every blow to naught.
mer of average intelligence. At the been allowed to fall to the floor, and, But to this end fresh sacrifices must
testified, they are often clinging tight- whole will continue to hold out in this
ly for consolation to he toys con - ;war for years to come. And every
trived or carved for them by their t neutral knows that if England in the
grown-up playfellows in the trenches, i course of a long war can still claim a
in the monotonous hours of waiting success it will be the elements of the
between assaults. !German people which are physically
One little lad, wounded in the foot and economically the weakest that
not exceed the numoer at rust qac
To keep pace with the wastage result is that the farmer's electric set
Germany has been forced to exhaust has come into extensive favor, and is
almost all the reserves of men, and having a promising vogue. The in-
tho work has been carried out with stallation has everything that is re -
ruthless severity. Her last reserves quired, including a small petrol -
are being rapidly used up, and if the engine, some seventeen lights of vari-
numerical strength of her army can
still be kept up for a limited time its
quality has deteriorated, and must de-
teriorate more and more.
BOASTFUL BOMBARDIER.
A Tea -Party Meeting of Five of His
Sweethearts.
Wounded heroes form many attach-
ments in our county towns, says the
London Daily Mail. Some men glide
happily into one affair and let it
ripen; but there are others who drift
along the pleasant path to convales-
cence making a fresh conquest every
afternoon. The story of a boastful
bambardier illustrates the danger of
falling in love more than twice at the
same time,
The fire was gloving red in the re-
creation room of a hospital, and the
men turned lightly to romance. Re-
garding the achievements of his col-
leagues as mediocre, single -string af-
fairs, the boastful bombardier describ-
ed no fewer than five simple maids
who carried his photograph. Tho other
men asked the names and addresses of
the lucky girls, and the bombardier
gave them with and
fervor. Late
at night the other men issued five
postcards inviting the maids to tea
and signed "Joe," the name of the
bambardier.
On New Year's Day the bombardier,
sitting by the fireside, was pleasantly
surprised to receive a visit. "Joe,"
said the girl, "how sweet of you to ask
me." Secretly amazed, the bombardier
coaxed her to the fire and winked a
triumphant message to the other men,
who stood about apparently glum with
ous types to meet the' decorative
scheme of different apartments and pumps have been installed to clean out never tare ,among ��
buildings, sufficient supply of wiring, the Vater. The walls of the trenches leys of the "Land of Counterpane. Conditions of Life Altered.
Monsieur on, Seeing that everything that the Bri-
mee's" comrades heard about it, they
Bri-
drinks. made a number of other lambs and tish spirit of invention has devised
The most raditre form, however, is
comfortable sent them to the hospital, so that the blessingainst tfor us, we mays has hitherto sure that
ed into a
in making the boy's convalescence was cheered by
and healthy. They are even being the enemy's last spring will not find
drained and paved, and powerful shepherding a noble flock, of which he its weak.
•the hills and vai-
when the temperature requires it, hot
g nee Atkins;' and
fuses, lamps, switch -board, dynamo,, have been strengthened. To make the
and a special type of storage -battery., shelters damp-proof the ground has 'TERRIBLE IN TRENCHES.
Moreover, the set is made up in such been beaten down, levelled, and Cover-
a manner that nothing else whatever ed with planks or straw, the earthen Winter Campaign Worst in History,
is required, while the task of install- roofs strengthened with sheets of zinc, German Experts Say.
ing can be carried out by the owner and due attention paid to ventilation An exceptionally frank admission of
himself without any extraneous aid. and heating. In the second line wood- the terrific conditions faced by Ger-
The whole equipment is of substantial on huts have been erected. The beds man troops going through the second
construction, the parts which ordi in these shelters consist of wire -net- winter's campaign is contained in an
narily demand careful handling and ting stretched on a wooden frame. article by Major Moraht, military ex-
pert of the Berliner Tageblatt and the
best known German military critic,
He described unparalelled hardships
and sufferings by the Kaiser's men
and cells the winter campaign the
most terrible in the world's history.
"Superhuman deeds still are being
accomplished in the struggle against
wind, weather and winter, I will not
depict in detail the agonies which the
flesh is undergoing out there while
the spirit remains steadfast, but in
order that we at home may not mini-
mize the magnitude of this suffering, S
can only describe as fully justified
the wish which is so often expressed
in my correspondence, namely: 'Let
no one be misled by pretty pictures
Which now and then reach the German
papers from seine alleged point at the
front.'
u
• t
"On our western and eastern_ fronts
and along the lines held by our Aus-
tro-Hungarian allies tate conditions
under which we meet stubbornly Morel
out are such as never in the history of
the worlds most terrible winter cam-
paign had to be endured before."
A little 'fish lin a small puddle
imagines he is big.
supervision being unusually robust.
The battery is of sufficient capacity to
supply two-thirds of the lights at the
rated candle-power for eight hours
continuously, the battery being re-
charged during the hours when the
light is not required.
d
Misfl t.
Ad in a paper: "Wanted—Book-
keeper and salesman. Must have one
leg shorter than the other,"
We were about to telephone this
opportunity to a friend, when we sud-
denly remembered that what he had
was one leg longer than the other.
Accommodating.
Her Father -The fact is, I cannot
give my daughter a dowry just at
present.
Suitor—That's all right, sir. I can
love her for herself alone in the
meantime.
"
Bello, old man! Have you had any
luck shooting?" "1 should say I
diel! I shot seventeen ducks in one
day." "Were they wild?" "Well, no
—not exactly; but the farmer Waal"
•1'
He Knew Father.
The philosopher is born, and not
made. Even in tender youth the pre -
elms gift is often observed, remarks
the Manchester Guardian.
One juvenile philosopher was dis-
covered the other day, when the news
arrived at a certain, house that the
head of the family, fighting with his
regiment in France, had been wound-
ed. Tears were the order of the day,
until the small boy thought to in.
quire, "Whereabouts was dad wound-
ed?"
He was told, "In the hand."
"That's just like father/' he- re-
sponded, going on methodically with
his breakfast; "he's been trying to
Latch the bullet!"
Speedy Dogs.
The swiftest dog in the world, the
borzoi, or Russian wolfhound, has
Made record runs that show 75 feet in
a second, while the gazelle has shown
measured speed of mere than 80 foot
a second, which would give it a speed
of 4,800 feet in a minute if the pace
could be kept up, '
"We have never had and in future
shall have less than ever any lack of
bread. The supply of potatoes, which
caused us such anxious hours and
which seemed to be in such hopeless
confusion, has now been happily as-
sured.
"Thanks Lo the heroism of our sol-
diers the existence of the German citi-
zens is so secure that he hardly re-
alizes how little this terrible was has
altered the conditions of life in Ger-
many. This is the reason why we
hear complaints about triflles instead
of seeing every sort of discontent and
all superfluous complaints put aside at
the outset. The renunciation of these
popular and customary complaints is
itself a sacrifice which is now revived
in the interests of our fntherind---•
required not only from hint who cowl-
plains without reason but also from
him whose heart is devoured by reel
suffering. Complaints will make noth-
ing better; but many of these (Mere
of wee make breaches in our front in
the field wisieh may be more serious
than many breaches+ made by shells.
"The dictetes of tine simpiiest greti
tilde ought to shut the mouths of
those who complain. The time for big
talking has long gone by. We have
entered upon the clays of tough endur-
ance and silenced complaints; and it
is more than river necessary that every
German should find in every other
Germane trustworthy sup—poet."
When it coshes to stepping into a
fortune ne man objects to patten; hip
font in it,