The Lucknow Sentinel, 1915-01-21, Page 3„
The opening, of the year1800 w
'gloomy, indeed. BO utter -was, th
want' that it had beeY.--cog11411M0a_
ed to th,e highest quarters.
.eivilelittemas-enake than ele-yeseee
arrears, and the King's servan
- were obliged to present him o. Pet
•Alen begging that some portion
their wages he paid them. ' Lb, w
,several years 'before the Kin
caught up with hireexpenditures. I
that year, top, the • Irish Act
- Urlion was -passed;.- in,consequenc
ef the ever-presefit. menace of re
volt revived by the '98 uprising an
. thee Meddling • of the. French. Publi
sentiment was exceedingly uneas
concerning the war. People did no
at first display the....same calm con
fidenee which strikes Observers i
e England to -day, although later, .4.•
they, became used to it, the.eationa
• life returned to. its - accustoine
• channels,
' 'Lair .Against Forestalling:
• There :was a Scarcity of food, too,
. arid riots were frequent. The acts
against merchants who purchased
stocks of food to lay up in order to
. command 'higher- pi -ices were put i
• force, . The value of a load of /114
had increased from :22 2s,*ine17,70
•• to 27 in 1800. Meat has risen from
• fourpenee a pPendninePence.
'Butter was •one shilling and' four -
pence; Where:it had been sixpence.
Sugar had Climbed from eighb•pence
to one shilling.and fourpence. Can-
dles had almost doubled in price.
• .But ,perliaPe nothing served‘letter
to illustrate the hardships al the
• period than the rise in the poor
rues from one shilling a quarter in
1773 to -five shillings in MO.;
Feeding Fren'eh Prisoners.
•
_ So short was the supply of wheat
that in 1801 the Government for -
"bade the sale of fine flour, ordering.
that only the unrefined flour, which
' contains the bran should be used.
.:.England's troubles were further
increased abotit this time :by an an-
nouncement by the French Goyern-
• Ment'that it refused any longer to
be responsible for the feeding of
French prisoners in English hands
unique Areangerieent to thig-ef--
feet having been entered into by
the two countries, "in consequence
• of Napoleon's having adopted thd
attitude that otherwise his soldiers
, and tseilerte would !starve, an atti-
etacle, tot,,. it may be seen, he &ban-
kliretied the moment it became evi-
ent that a reverse poliey would be
tore. aanoyieg to his enemies.,
- flier° Were nearly 26,000 of the.
1"re*IirPriwilerici*EPA141A-,V1d-
•Ir• 90.1.
\BITAR IS tOilIDENT NOW
,sur, WAS IN. WAAS WITH
THU GREAT NA
There Is Sonic. Sim arity Be ween
• Conditionte0 the Two '
COallietsa
' 'be
,New York .EYeeting•Pept has
interesting and infOrraing e0M-
parieain Of present conditions
•and particularly in Britain -
With thofee'ebtatning during the X4.-
sP°104.1„0'.)YAITI... _Whlth ,i0,1i9V14 in
parte • .,, • . • .
7 'IV Tin774 707 Piiriael ,O the enn-dr-
tion •or Europe to -day, it is neces-
sety to goback to the Napoleonic
wars, and it is interesting to no-
tice the Startling siini1arity which
links the two greet confliete, ewe -
rated by*the „gulf of: a century.
Those were hiedtimes in Britain
• and Starvation was an 'ever present
menace. -Thene.asenleee,...the--O0un-
tre haa staked its all on, the resillt.
a titanic pontlica :Then, as. now,
the eountiY entered War fresh from
Of.adeep sociel unrest.
'enen,...es,now, Ireland was conspiee
• uetigsa to the,fCre.' But in the'inidet
OPit all, the life of the :Couetry went
oe in entich. the nsual.rqiitine-03ege
• edbly as it i doiug no -and -men
sand women deelined to peeinit
. theniselvei to be perturbed by the
theeetening spectre of the -Cureie
' can's -ermies encamped juet acr:ose
the e,c,hannel at Boulogne -'-Bou-
logne, which is now one of the
_be of thetelaritiallearmy battling
• side bY side with the French against
a Common enemy,
,• Tear Was a Hard One.
t-
ts
as
0.
thela feeding was no' slight under.
!kin. '
PeaCe Orought Relief.
. ,
Conditions were bettered some -
What in the•fall leaf with .6 e
signing ofthep MAMMA, treaty of
• peace . which Was, to last until Na-
poleon was ready to 'resuine•....the
' struggle again. Naturally, an • mediate result of the 'peace was to
relieve the _Shortage of •food and.
'send prices down. Retrenchmept.
in armaments alert -served. t� lessen
•
for a brief interval the tax burtiems
.‘0 the POPulaticei. _
Before' that year was over
• England and France were at war
again. It was this resumption of
• hostilities which. served to
every British against Napole-
)11.i And Which may.be•eaid to have
ceased-- a crystalization. tif seal -
Inca in favor of war to the hitter
end. .
• Reettainis was the order of •the
day, and, although there was no
- Lord -Ititchene.r at the War Office
linie were field emainienders and po-
' litieians ran the a.dininistretive end
"-arid the country 'possessed
'bly tenth of the resources now at
ite disp.esat within eleven weeks of
the issuing of the'deolaratioe of war
nearly dcd,Ooo Men had been enroll
the eat*, and the fleet was
• crittipPerl and at sea. There Was
, 'patriotic fund,' like Om Prince
' Wake'. Fund Ws read so much
' hbaut to-dn.-.. and instances wern.
nbI lacking of individual generosity
as in ,the edee of a. weIl-known• keit
voluntatily ,ogeted the floi'r1.0
•tentigrit 400 horses, 60 wagrms and
2,13; boats,
,fteatir of Xolsofi•
. 'There Watt also .a.e.pes. beanie; to,
'
fallr)f the yei,r .saw
4
Trafalgar, Nelson's cleeth; and the
endof. thee bogey of se Freeelk in-
saasien Of England. 'One wnlielees if
*ea silineltaneousevieterr and sleuth.
of eany Modern British Admiral'
would create the furdae .1r114
oaliseel'hy N'elsene's pessing. His
state funeral 'cost $75,000, a ,e011-
siderable sign for 'these dAYA and it
was: the grandest ever, welded
i
subject n England. Perliamisat
arse voted $4,00,000 to be distribut-
ed amen,- the eailoreof-his fleet. 'e
•Tug foRro
-ovor, Afeindre
1111114111
•
SIIGUS 4 S'VEABILV INeREA.S.
• IIVG PROSPERITY,
gritriCet' Cetilmitted' Staicille,1Theit
•Sate letola Upr thW,Iliniser's
0
• The chplomatie fiction, eb.may:
'be, ealled; ueder"ivvhieh!'Egypt nein.
j:.411111Y renieined a part:of the Otte-,
4 luau Empire, wherees In feet • she
• Ships ot All Cheeses.' •-
In ships,: in guile, in pereenziel
the _Biitieh nary is supexior to those
Or Germany, and Austria, Put to-
ge,elier, says Ohaenbers's journal.
Prioreeto the introduction of the
modern dreadnoughts it was nob,
eueteinary to-praee more thah four
,.ef the, biggest guns in any one ehip,
ttut......1seirieadditien to theees. 19ilte or
five descriptions of sinaller guns
Were' 'earned. The dreadnceight.
was designed to carry teii.big guns,.
and most of the smaller type were
eliniinated IhilT15-eceitte-knowu
the aZbig-gue -type of vessel, the
smaller gams retained being intend-
ed to repel Vessels making a special-
tyeeil tomcats attack. The. .eleeign
was gaielely improved upon, and
'euper-dreadnoughts were soon pre -
duped.' The advantage of the 'all-
. ship,, of Whatever One,: is
that- it is •able to maintain An en-
gagement at longer range With
its principal. alinement, and do
Wore, damage thee was possible
with the best .babeleehips ofthe ere -
dreadnought: era. The naval. bat-
tles in the war between Russia and
Japan were held by experts to liave
demonstrated •that a vessel .earry-
leg a greater number of heavy leng-
range guns is supeeior to, any other
type: of 'battleship. The 'big ships'.
volleys in that war, and especially
in the final naval battle, -Wore -large-
ly at distances ranging from 2,000
to 4,000 yards. Britain seemed .a
lead With vessels of the dreecl-
nought type, and hy.,,virtue of her,
vast reeources has been able • to
maintain .tliat lead notwithstanding
Germany's_efranticeeefferts to profit
by her exainples buileldreadnonghts
and Iessen the discrepancy between
her fleet, and that of Britain. Ger-
many. however, has no battleships
eo compare aseequals"with the ten
British and • besbe. super -dreads'
noughts; each side his three ender
conetruetion, of which the British
trio will probably be ready first,
e The "secrecy of naval movements
is as important to -day .0,S it _gm
was,perhaps more:so. This :s, sur-
prising to some on account .of the
many :inventions for improving
commUmeatione, particularly__ wire-
less. telegraphy.. If, however, , the
nubile can he prevented absolutely
from using Wireless, and the inven-
tion is retainedentirely for State
purposes, \ the , authorities can im-
pose that secrecy which ier so ,neces-
sary to the successful development'
of the campaign. The whereabouts
uI the AritieleegleiPerareeekeneenti
to the Admiralty and .' the King,
and their-moven:lents are recorded
daily. So nunierous. is the -British
fleet -that out .of the 500 odd, vessels
--inaluding, the -non-tombii,tnntsof
which it censists; it is considered
to have between 300 and 400 in the
North Sea welting to settle ace
counts With the aerrean fleet, Which
has scarcely half -that number:
These•Otals inehide ships of every
description -- battleships, battle-
exuiserse-heae7- armored- --cruisers,
P
reteebed 'pruisers, light' cruisers,, •
•
seouts,•-destroee:ree---terpednalioats,-
enbisterritee, eniteeesWeePerreelid'-re4;',
pair. ships. . '• •
VirtuallYeatleast hell, the navy
is , always .in commission; the hal- ,
once includes the ships' in 'earls*
sta es or readnes e commis -
.Was a British ,proteeteretee has , ate
last been discarded. •' The • -flag of
Turkey baa been hauled, dawn for
all time, and'in name,. as Well pain
fact, tent is pert of the BritishEvpire, with -ter own Sultan and a
'High .:Commissietter, appointed by
the British Crown, at the head qf
its local government. When Turkey
took up the Kaiser's ause she was
warped. that Thee was eomniitting
suitide. She has now bebn kicked
out of Africa; in the end she will
be kicked out Of ,Europe, and in
Asia elle will be forced back to the.
mountains ',whence hee . people
emerged many centuries ago, says
a writer in The Montreal Standard.
About Size of Ontario.
• ExcludingtheOro-66*i recon7"
quered in the Soudan, Egypt has an
area of 400,000. square miles, inse
about equal to the area of the Pro-
vince of Ontario; but only fourteen
thousand ,square miles .of'Zgyptian
territory are. settled. And yet on
that comparatively small area there
is a population of `twelve
The settled pope:lotion:of EgyPteff
only pee half the extent of ,New
Brunswick, bid its population is
about one-third geeater than the
populationof all Canada**. .
British Rule.
• For elnicist the third of a century
Egypt haepeaCtically enjoyed Beit-
ish rule,•the fruitiof which are now
being enjoyed by the -,people of the
Ancient Land. taxation has been
reduced, law and dedee,zimintained,
justice administered, industrieifes-
tered, great public works con-
structed, and a general uplift of the
eiceeple--hresught 'about. -Since the
rblighting, effects of Turkish oppres.:
Sion and •corruption have been re-
moved. the: people of Egypt have
enjoyed in peace the fruits of their
labor. The greater' part of those
&lase: are agricultural, for fully
two-thirds of' the eopulation are on
the land -the fellaheen„ or small
cultivators. ' A cleverly 'devised
scheme of financial assistance
enabled these„ cultivators to -im-
prove' their' condition.. •They. receive
advances fromi the Agricultural
Bank up to the equivalent of about
$1-,500; •the. loan -being limite'dto
-
fifty per cent. of the selling value of
the land. To thiS policy is due to' a
large extent the development in re-
cent years of the country's coin;
!tierce and industry, and a-eteadily
anereaeing prosperity.
Blessitigs From •British. •
he cultivate(
extended ibeyend the region capable
of being watered' by theeNile but
this region has been enlarged by -ir-
rigation Osten s- that are ewonders
of engineering skill and workman.;
ship -blessings • conferred • epee
Egypt by her .British governors.
• There are 1,500 miles . of . state-
owned eailwayse-ande-800-of light
agricultural railways owned by
companies. The products of. the
temperate zone and of the .' sub-
tropieS fleurishein-Egypt„. for she:
produces cotton and sever as well
awhiat And other cereals.
- -Apart-ft -0 'llgre-Ctifinnefeial
ad-
vantages.aeorujng. fromithe pOspes-, 9
pion (and ;now the ownership as,
well) of Egypt,, the holding of -the
country is of great importance to '14
•
e,:seee'
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THE StilOAY SCI101 STUDY
INTEIM'AII`101S'AI, LESSON,
,,.AN VARY 24,
Le8Soll Wean the Thr
" illundred, !Xinig,.1. Olden Text,
geciati 4.14
• Verso' Tlien Iernhhaal, who
chapter te,• verse
Gideon was•ealled Serfibbaelovhi
means,- "Let' PAW,' cOntendi.'!., •
Th1.3".
,tlie spring, or plaee'of treiubling:
fear. In Vvese' Jehovah. eea's -
Gideon, 'aPreelaim in the .ears
the Pe9Ple, ..aaeinse, -Whosoever
fearful end tiernbling, let 'him r
turn and depart from ,Mount. al
Practically every . Pr9P
noun in Hebrew,. whetheltit be th
name Of 0,• person er cf kplace,
indicative of, something paeetictil
- about ghe:penotA or the placse. Th
, sPringoa Hared has been undollb
odl'y located by Modern eXPloratio
• There were three springs, or 'well
tying theevalleer :jezreer. On
lay ISY: jezreel itself, and one ou
•,upon , the open •plain',": ".••1111e"-thir
was overSbadOweti by the precip
,tions banks •of Gilboa, The first
were controlled by the Midianites
Tbe the well of Hared, no
called jalud, Wfte eera'mal'Ide
by. the Illraeliees.. .
, . • e. And-echo:I:rah saki unfo Gideon,
Fight Betieeen h Gentian "Tanbe" tind a French War Aeroplene. the people that are. with thee are
One cif the faeteilying Germa,n,`"raubes," so called beeause of its re- 'too many. -Jehovah is madeto
seniblenee to a dove, is shown in this photo endeavoring to escape- from speak again. If eo large a becly of
e..Purstang..Faeneltesero.which is equipped \-witb-sa rapid fire mechinee•-•-men, theuld hakes' defeated the
gun.. The photo 'was made just as the gunner aboard the French ship - enemy, they might, have breasted
was teaininethe machine-gun ort •the German '"Taube," whichwas bhem•selves and said, "We were
threatening to outdistance him. The action took- plebe above . But
thembats , strongenough on our own •ac-
tlefield of the Arras. • • . . ;arue.ncita., te'
iGlsdgiallinprrtaw-nthieeR. ahdAas
• •
KAISER IN GAMBLER'S ROLE
HE 'HAS RECEIVEB. PEOPLE
OF GERMANY.
ease._
• •
Preaching of "God With Us" Hats
_ Prepared Nation. For ,
. Victory: • ' •
TheaLonclon Thees.has republish -
_ed a Atriking forecasteof the-
er's, career, Written in the year.
1891 by the fainons' Portuguese au-
thor, Eca de. Queltorm- Some ex-.
tracts of that 'forecast follow: •
• aiu hint we have among tis in
this philosophical eeneury a nide,:
a mortal, who,. Mere than . any
.0t1ier . expert, prophet, :or Saint,
lays claim and appears t� he the
ally and intiinate friend of, God.
The world has. never seen, since the
days of Moses on Sinai, sueh hi-
tunacy, such an allianee betiveeu
the' creature and the Creator.- The
reige of .Williain IL- 'seems 'to be,
as it were, -an unexpected restirree-
tion Of the Mosaism of the Penta-
teueh. He is the favorite of God,
he holds conferenees- with Goel in
the burning bush of his Berlin
Schloss; and at the instigatiou •of
God he is leading his people to the
joys <111 .Canaan. Truly he ifs
3feses •II. Like Moses, ' tee, he
iiover tires :of proclaiming (daily.
arid loudly so that none May ignore
ehe fact and through ignorance con-
travene.it) his spiritual and tem-
poral relationship to Got', whieh
makes him infallible and therefore
irresistible.,
Nothing Impoasihle.
"He has but to expedite a tele-
gram, to sound a bugle. If the de -
Sire seize him to -transfoini in his
potent an s a'w ole social organ-
ization, he has but to announce the
feet. en him nothing is impossible
for he commands tiro' sol-
diere And a people Whoocek liberty
only in the regions (ifphilosophy,
ethics and exegesis, and who when
their Emperor oidersthem to mareh
silently obey'. And, 'further, to
hitn nothing is impossible, for it is
his firm' belief that God is on , his
side inspiring hina aud sanctioning'.
his power., .
. • 9. :
Partnership With Almighty.
"In -every Assembly,- .everYeban'---
uet where,Williain ti holds forth
and of all contemporary -.Kings
William II. is' the meat verbose), he
lwa,ys introduces in the guise,. as
it weroe_ofaelayeetheesaceeedotal
sioned and the ships under repair. Suez Canal, an essential part of sertion .that God is with him, as, in
With the exception, perhaps, of the Britain's shortest route . to India, the days of Abraham,. itiorder to
hot. ibis. little more than a Matter EgYPt's •PeinOieesi citY. 'Cairo,- has ,a, help and serve him in everything
df days;: of a -week or two at meet, population of et10,000, being, there: 'with -the power ' of that formidable
ti, commission and. place on a war fore,. somewhat larger' than Meat- We whiCh can disperse,._like parti-
footing every available ship in the real, while the second City Alexo,o. f 01,eR Of importunate dust, the ptars
British Navy. •
• , .
•
ins riELD- WAWA.
flkt lief Offieer'S
'Hands.
. -
A • Bktiele soidiet 'writes tui
Couui-
try Life, London : "I have just re-
turned from .another turn in the
lerenehes. r Lan going to send you
half a, pair of fielciglassee ,which
have doe Inc e.gieat service. I
was standing tip in.a tretitheea
tle.over-confident-watching the res.
liftratatatia'aelayottiaratlfeetnIliaaehr
glaeseS; 'when biffl' and I 're, ceived
terrible' •hang in the eye. Of course
it knoeked me down. and I wender-
ed for minute or two why Oft 'ettlitit
./. was alive. I distinctly heard
one of. the men say 'Pore devil;
goi it in the "ad.' A bullet had
ht thelens of the &sieges and been
deflected lese_the prisin, passing Out
at the Side, as you will 'see. I found
half the tgle8308; elle eiale ta the
teerith and hag the other; the ritcht
half *is 'still quite aervicettlelda 80
hel(014 'iteltr• son ,with beautiful
black eye. ‘f only *wish l'eould sen
you the bullet, -too, but it went the
war 61 all bullet. I;ain hack with
the ibattery pow -rather glad to
get rid tf di rather tiorve.tryip Joh,
though it was a grilat toorltheo:
d' e]1 worth +he eyo.”
dna, has•a population eot almost'aand suns of ethereal space. Threfield.
four hundred thousand:: certainty; the habit of tbis 'alliance. great eTlYgemrm:lee;'elabalenrtlaae.tileieciren‘pYaikyth, ore iten
the • fight tiwviitTligi . at hal te.1 Trine, • erahlaffl,g4. ailn1:01 tthhee'',1‘,1)'pettxa,';tinngf 111,110•011:1114pe81,1
4.1 Cai. n e
sergeant was °trifled to see helm Of the awfill :terror which struck thee:Innen). height df so° te'et h'einee-
• . , ^ , refers 'to God in -terms of greater eeetee lee
thingseattei•lya tree military leader, he saw what
; ; hOWever,
JS of more significance,: that be.-
haranguing with, flowing 'chem.
plignp. his vasscils of the Mark of cause of the nature of the battle
Brandenburg he speaks of Gd
farnilierlv as "My 'old Ally!" Here fiweeludldsobetgethdair numberowneV;aafndinel!
we haee 'William and God as a new-ee'e'ding17 difn4u4 for him to dis.
limited liability sompany a•dmi is- Pbse Pr"e'lliP.
"It may indeed happen that
, , 'I 3. Fearful and tee lir D . b
teeing the universe.
day Europe will awake. te the roar
9.4e.slese many of:the thirty-two thousand
were fearful and trembling. At WV
an ing., ou t -
of clashing armies. only because in rate, we read that "there returned
the soul of this great dilettante theof the people. twenty and two thoe-
!
buining desire to `know. woe,' to •_sand; and there remained ten thou -
enjoy war, Ives stronger than fetes- sand'?' ' ' : ..... '
on, counsel; or pity • for his sub- 4. Bring them damn itreto the WA-
jeeti. Not long ago, indeed, he
ter. -A further weeding out Was
' gave this promise to his faithful re- neeeesary, and therefore e test was
tamers of , Battedelaurg:- 'I *ill Put to the ten thousand. The well
'
lead).1.
: you,'e.seatd, 'to ,splendid and of; Hared wasover against .the
glorious destinies!' What destine
Midianitee.. Erom. their !battlefield
ieet - Battles; of ' course; in ,e,eiee they could see what the Israelites
the German Eagles shall triumph. . were doing. In fact; theten thou -
ore bYeallied-armie a- on'Itheapletter'eand'averee-Ineedangee-ofe-bein
•of Europe-eGermany will at once ,,peuneed•upon tit the e _ as prac
1
xposed. It was necessary, :Itinycde ees•pitolti . Go_d MIS the. triek of a wh' e . . • -
therefor -e, -for Gideon to be sure of
• "Then will there not be atones h•le neene He could Only use those
en.ttigb from...L. (.iironie to Pomerania who -would aperceeate their danger.
to stone .this counterfeit Moses. Wil- strPrigth .P.I'd •bravery Yve?'e net the
liam IIis! in very truth_ ca4izi"g. only qualities. Which Gideon needed
against Fate •those terrible ,iron in hirmed at this time. it wasnotAeqUestioneet_mass-marement, of
dice' to which the .now fol. tten
WE TRENCH flOWiTZR MIN
Aq,\OTII-E'R TE"E °PRODI.T.
• • TIONC.14
Weighs Only 130, -Pounds
• Throws, Shell 'Weighing
.,190 Pounds, ..
As thtrxer,progresses we beemno
More and more aware of •the com-
pleteness of the Oerinan - fighting • •
machine, says the Xew York Her-
ald. _ ••
the'.meraIe Of the German
tr9ePae INAIC only equal to the excel- '
Jenee. ef their, artillery equipment a
different .tale of their pregraes on
the Continent caul(' he told. ,
A late instalment of "Eye -Wit -
nese'" graphic ,avvotint. of Sue. war
contains an allusien to the "nnuen•
wilder," oetreneh howitzer, which
• the Germans. are using. "In this
geertera". he writes, • referring ,tet
the. eaeguinarY eenflict COW in 'Pro-
gress on the Lys, /41179 experienced
for the first time in the 'northern'
theatre of war the.aetion 'of 00,
(mineuwarfer."'
TNe. troll& hoNyitzer, is another of, -
the Produetions of Krupp. is
curiaus little weapon, hut, though
small, ' . undoubtedly a, factor
serious to reckon with „.in. trench
fighting. . •'
Weighs 180 Pounds:
, •
The. howitzer itself is only three,
feet or ee long, and weighs.. iao
Pagoda.. Its mounting is. a sinaal - •
affair abf asibeiut -100' pout -idea hut it .?
is attached to a heavy bed or Plat -
lope of 830 deed -weight..
This complete mass of Witte over
half_ a, ton irprovidesi with -Wheels'
and,'-a-couple-ofeliandlese- and -Can -
readily be transported by twd men.,
Itsesznall size and mobility per- •
Tait of it being implied about in the
trenches; When in _pos,ition-- *thee -
hoWitzer,e with ite bed. • is renioved
from the travelling hewele, and the ,
weapon can then be fired from the
ground:- It ieea decided 'novelty ita—
munitionsof War. • ' •
The calibre of the, howitzei is less
than 'three inches, ' but, the ' shell
thrown ,ig a sphere: over. a, 'feet in
• diexneter, weighing, with its charge '
of high 'explosive; algae uponf 200
• pounds.. •
,To enable • theelittle howitzer to. !.
accommodate such ailuge shell, an.
adapter has to be used. •••
. When the: 'howitzer •• is fixed the
adapter -and -shell ardcforeed :64 to- ,•
gether. 'the two are soon Separ-
ated.; howesime the air,. forting -ie
*ay, between them, causing tile.
apterlo fag:Apart, and :to allow-
tically thwholositionot-Glideon the ehell to•travel.on.ite way•elohee. -
conelude that hi's' ranch .vaunted al. e eeP7
• The velocity given to the hell as
t leaves the bore of thehowitzer is
only 230 feet persecond. The low- :
est elevation emeleeed is 45 .ae-
grees, ane17-at-this.angle the -shell:
travela; distance �.f 55U yards,' he
rxiige ' Obtainable: Tile . •
accuracy Of fire is said to be as&ry
•simply pouring men into the ranke
Biemarek once tilluded.-Irhe win
of- thee elieriay • it was, primarily; a
he PlitY have Within and withoutthe
question of individual initiative' of
frontiers altars such as were raised' aOting upon the moinent witb:judg-
to Augustus • shall& he lose, exile, ment and cleaeesightednees. Hence
the traditional exile in eEngland a small army, even a very small-
awaite hime-e, degraded eXile, . the army' of men; ef men .V.410 could be.
xile with Which he so sternly e
thmlft to their own judgMent was a
fallibility."
itens those who deny his ie.- :better -fighting force foe -Gideon
e .
Shell Weighs 200 Pennies. ,
• Although this range
the shell bakes: no less' than 10 sec,
mad.% in its flight, :zed -reaches a .
height of 410 feet in the air. It i..5
dilficult to imagine the feeling S of.
those in the teencliee against Which
the howitier is operating, as they '
:'
than. a large. army, the individual- '"e the large. Circular shell lebblee
members of which were not able to toward them. The. projectile . coo-
-
dii their "own •thinking, but needeel• .elsW01. irat a thie
-----eea-e•-,--eee • steel envelope,
to rely upon 'Gideon toethink for
SeWEETHEART.. 'them. The men who stood the test
which Gideon put to them were
.c ()nick: Sehool OW Followed as thinkers as Well, as fighters. Each.
, Red Cross Sister. . • one • had in him pot only • deep-
seated and, indomitable bravw and
"By the side of a young French
cavalry officer who had been hit in: -Courage, but. also the'.. power to
ht sen the Aisne we found the thlek-eleltrir'nrell"-ePle;rge-"Y iud
body . of, a. pretty giel," saes -Sete to act isr(01)*• '
5. So he brought down the people
gea,nt Payne, . who. is . at Bristol,
wOunded. "Beth were deed. Th,0,1„ Unto the water. -The soldier whe
lowed doven upon his knees drink
story Was is sad as :anything I have '
heard of in a warfull of tragediesnecessarily could see oply what was
When the young -man--joined Lees under "him e he could not see what
regiment the girl left a convent Was in front of him..
school and attachedherself to the :6. he number of them that lap'-
laed.Cross, • pecl- .• wets:three handred:Orily
"Ifeaeing that her .sweetheart had three-kundred out of ten thousand
net returned'from it charge' in which realized the necessity of keeping
hie regiment was engaged,. she hadatheinselvos • in • •:inetant -.readiness
geee, °et With the ambulance nlep either to repel an attaek 01 to make.
to look for him.. Going in advance, onslaught iition the enemy. These
the greater partof its 2e0 pounds'
weight consisting of lag explosive.
. Pour,pounds of dynamite or"gun-
cotton are ponsidered seflicient to •
demolish • breastworks of two to
three feet thickness, Composed of
earth tammed between plinks, or .
ay ,h'ePer-a-----TAA-ie-741-4t-r-Itheni-
difficult to estimate the 'destructive
powers Of such •a mass of high ex.,
plosive falling into the trenches,
The effect of ordinary' 'shrapnel
shell ia cihtained by the bulletsand
splinterseof tthe envelope -when the
iheli bursts. With the "minenwur-
fee." shell the effect is Almost en-
tirely explosive. The walls of the
shell tire tooebhin te be capable of-, •
doing mucledainage, and it is not en
phis direction that the effect es ex-
pected: 7. -
Wheie the- trerscheaeare leae-firan
500 or 600• yards apart a shorter •
she had. feunde him, And_ wheleLee, wereeliamen:Gialeanewanted.--- '-e-ranerecari be ebtain ear by elle rating -
:the itowitm,--r,(r.ageeatelealigte'lhin'
745 degrees. At Go degrees, for,in-
izis,tance, (he. range. would he 470
yerds, 'rho, shill would then etath -
a .height of 020 feet 'in the 'air, and
Vie !tie jectery:.'. -
te
st
ri
ncling.todus wounds, was hiteby-see- -16:-Anii-he-divided--the- three' Mole
ere buried side by side." , same formation hi battle, (See Olt • lung and,kilited her -.- - .-Tlry - Other aIeraelite generals used this
ray- bulleta which penetrated her drecl Men into three companies.-
-....:_eee ' . Saab. li: lia 2 Sam. • 18. 2,..) ,
• 17, And be' said-uiito-theiur-160
, Done His Share. on me; and do likeiiiie-Gideon
was reitclY to 'stand as much as and
. — _
Duting the • • More than any one of his men. ,
. ,,. . _
opening stages '0i the 18. When't blowethe trurnpet
present wet. a soldier Was told that then blovi, ye : : . and eay, •For Se -
there were three .Germanieto every 1 es . 1 41 1 ' '
eee
.. •
"e•
The highest Angle At which the
"eeepenwicefer'" can deirater Sr • '
denties... At this elevation the
range would be • only .190 yards.,,,
_ .1. elle Nearly a quieter of a minute wonld •
•one of,oui, forces in thirapareaof-the iintnemOriat eoldiers have' gone -into elapse between the monient of clis.
• greW act much uPon hiM Oat* he ever.
•.' %then Gem -lane Aviakesa • egnality--aa. he Might allude to•
•Feeince or Austria• or, to Humbert
•"At -tite-"firSt clitagter-whether it Of Italy. Formerly he epoke Of
be inflicted by his buighers layellim as the Muster who is in Heav-
his people in the streets,of•Berl.in en., .the Almighty who orders -All me
h
g - - e --an sea mlese.marelr te-itheSei eleeees- -ettlined, lit -jvaisety. ()life -has-
te Ibe fear. e`Wheeey tiling :toe but to remember that-la'craels rune
ear' he • 'roti -red. ex -Ole," " replied cesing. • ,
are ''YOu 0ff'• ,with terrific
eeier can e'er 10(7 vtirde in a ispic;:elee'
'I'ommys `.1'ye killedthree ef the 20,•And the three eeiinkianies blew
enemy. I've done tnv share ae I'm the 'trumpete.--Th•e MidianiteS had
beck to emery." • no idea of .e night ettack, and When
• • the *were aWakened and heard thu.
noise ef-leattle. and saw the 'flarieg
lights, they uridoubtedly thought
• that.i great hole, wes 'aeon then,
and thev fled precipiteusly.
• . • • 9 • • '
•23. And the men of Israel Were
"".
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str,44'
r•r • r ••••:•s,
e'eee•sere. : •
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gathered togetheree-When the en-
- eeeeteseeepeetes:Adeeklieeesie4r-ene
beeeight UP alftbO fOi•eeS he could
muster out of the different trews..
NOW he &mid use neen. As t he•enemy ,
was in, the open, and the More dere-
• x•
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see.
..- A , ,
ekeelite-
e
'r1i piggers' (Pioneers) o
e.esseeeseee-e?""e
• •?A•s.:
till be Magian "
tI1k 13 eigiat Armstilt Peking Well and healthy, and now. iboroug,l4 4Ceti8,•,
towed to the hard' work ‹')11 the trwieheo.
,
, •
v
mately tQ eeeonds. to apprea'ateathe. .
sloe•nsss with whieli the 01,11 ann_
plete;s the di ane' ,beeweee -the •
teenelie.s.• when fireel at 'bictlt •
elevation. ' • f-
Eee-witness' 'nerratk o deze
noteeIl lIS What 'are the it iutil.-auct •
bilities of this litt•le heeliate aq
,
apseruptive agent, . this iNp 1 lfrr,
yet to;1eun Ibut we'are :mass, na"..
i.,teenchetestrenell.fiehtieee • mith.-.:.•
cI lerror iti, the .torin t 1 thie..eow'
erdnanee.
.- •
. •
• .•
a • 'Treats lii
the 'later bordpr. wars bits. • /ialltinit'a Safety in time. of war
rsecl and their nei hbe i
. further mentiOn of the Ificlianites.
Gide04-with -one fell swobp effele'
tively put at end to those peace dis-
turbot% from across the Aordan.,
Gideon 'himself dal not, want war,
,but 11C eltti3i41 that the militarism
of his eennerre neighbors eould he
destroyed only by tive forecof arms.
• . ,
, ,„ • • • • ,
• -"Why 1a horse4he kindest of
onimaisi" . "It gladly nitrite- the bit
ont WS:Mental, and listen's, to
every Woe,"(whos).*:'
lies ie her` Ability to flood great •
streets of tend, Witham, ef .0range
flosaled the eoentryht 1574, aed.bv
so-d.ofng drove out the Spanish ,iefs
waders. The 1,41111.0 policy was arloPt-
ed'on the'oceasion of the Fr,eneh ,
'torsion of'461:1.----
0.0.444, • •
hear thatyou nave a college'
graduate /at a teak- Itn't that ver'
,expensive I" "Not 'very, 'She *joke
,for hel. board and elotliet;."
IlLos:v does ,she' Coine to do
ho,i#
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