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Almost daily there appear, in the study of rinderpest in Cape France extraordinarily fiue pieces Colony, and his researches were of war literature which, it is a eo successful that he stamped out pity to think, will scarcely live ed and were to follow. Imagine the disease, saving the country more than a few houre. Most of it repeated a hundred times over millions of pounds, and incident- these are too long for reproduction wilboat much variation: along ally superseding Dr. Koch, who as patterne of French style, but the whole zone where the armies had previously been employed on recently M. Maurice Barres cites are grappling and will have an the same work, He also did description written by a superior approximate vision of the picture magnificent work for the health officer an artillery colonel-to of the battle painted by modern of our troops in the South African which he gives hia imprimatur as warefare. War, but it was as a combatant of the "finest page te has read, Invisible Soldiers.
"Do not imagine that the eye leprosy that he rendered bis most since the war began," and from
that important services to humanity,
the following vivid sees motley of soldiers advancing page services which bave never met extracts are taken:-:
ia serried ranks against each other with adequate recognition. He
"We had just done some good until the bayonets cross, accord- crowned a noble life in the cause work, and demolished with oaring to the traditional idea of of mankind by himself falling a battery Beveral of the enemy's civilians.
Your imagination victim to the dread disease. -Globe. guns Opposite, blowing up their would be completely in the wrong.
Lt. Col. Stack.
ammunition carts in a firework It requires a very practised eye to Lient-Colonel Charles Spottie-display. Captain R'a gaiety was see the men during a fight. When Wood Stuck, the 33rd Cavalry, suddenly cut short by an un finally you have seen a few Indian Army, who has been expected reply of telling precision. suddenly starting up like jacke- eeverely wounded da ing the shower of abella Using over my in-the-box it is never more than operations on the Persian Gulf, head bad fallen right at his feet; for a few seconds, and the vision stick one so quickly and so era and workmen engaged in was born in September, 1888, and a buge fragment had strack him slips into the ground again as
passipustely that when you come Government work all strikes and when he was 20 became a second to the besit. He cried Abl mon suddenly as it appeared. But if to miss them life seems as insipid lock-cuts are to stop at once; full lieutenant in the 6th Dragoon Dieu! The Adjutant said: "I at this moment, instead of keep market value."
ss an article which has lost its witk and full output are to be Guards.
In the same year he am done for, Oce of the gunnera ing the eye fixed on the point
secured; any stoppage must im- went into the Indian Army. He breathed out his soul ia s long where the vision vanished, waiting
mediately be referred to a Gov- was in the second Mirzini Ex-sigh, which I can still hear in for it to reappear, you turn it to
ork meat tribunal; women are, il pedition in 1801, and in 1900 he my ears. All this in much less the right or the left, you will see
MASTER AND MEN. necore.ry, to be employed on served in China, getting the medal, than a second and in a blinding the same apparition being pre-
shells and fuses; an agreement The Dying Kaiser.
flash of light. I turned round, [duced in the same instantaneous About the Engineor's Strike.
thas high earnings in war work The London street vendors have convinced that it was car own conditions. You would almost
are not to involve a lower scale of discovered yet another topical shells that had burst inside the think that the ground bad been No Government could look on pay after the war is to put an toy. It is known as the Dying guns. The three men lay side by sown before-hand with eclipse unmoved at such an event as a end to the muggling over piece- Kaiserroncunced Ksy.er), and side with their hands by their apparatas, representing a file of strike of engineers in the midst work prices; firms are to guar is a variant of the dying Boar, hips as if on parade, but they haman silhouettes at intervals, of this traendone conflict, and antea that nothing eball prejudice the dying rooster, and the dying were stretched fall length on their table slowly to advance either we most heartily congratulate individusla or trade unioas when Ansurance Baby. The Imperial backs with an air of calm and above or under-neath the ground. His Majesty's Ministers on have the war is over; and, most body is of a bladder-like sub reat on their faces, in which the "After a long moment of this ing acted with promptitude and imperzant of all, every restrictive MY stance, which is inflated by blow-eyes were still shining, that I shall observation, and when the eye, and resolution sayes recent issue trade role or custom is to be ing, and then collapses gently in always see in memory. Other growing accustomed, begins to of the Globe. In the Clyde dispute abolished. No one can say that in an appearanes of abjent misery, men leaning against the wheels perceive detaile, it remarks bere we have no doubt that there is these orders are not inspired by Let us hope says the Globe, the or fallen on their kaces held and there on all eidea, more or much to be said on both sides, the wish to do impartit jaitice symbolism is prophetic.
their hande pressed upon the less, little light or dark heaps in much for the masters, who have between mistere and men, though St. George's Day. scarlet patcher, which an instan relief to the green of the plain or their own special difficulties to the proposal that war wages are His Majesty the King has been before had been their faces, with the yellow of the fields: Those popiend with, and perhaps more to govern peace rates is extrems, pleased to approve of a service difficulty holding eyes, nose, or remain always visible, and what for the men, who, naturally, de. But that it should ever have been being held in the Chapel of the texth in sobs of awful suffering. is more, motionless and in the sire as large a abare as possible necessary to take such measures Order of Saint Michael and Saint Battle's Actuality, same position. They are the in the profits. But all this can is an indelible stalo upon the George on Friday, April 23, at 12" Pictures like this are terrible broken silhouettes; they are the not excuse, much less justify, a patriotism of the Clyde. There noon, in celebration of Sand grandiose, like all the holo- dead; that is all." George's Day
se this. The very life of the n we trust to the Government, at of one's country, which only take Speaking of the impression on tion depends open the unintar auy cost of votes or influence, to In asserting that it was the visible shape at such instants of the esx of shell-fire, he says, "Irupted supply of war material, see that they are strictly carried Germans who really won Water-trago beauty. As for me, I had have often thought that the beat and those reponsible for it, whethout. loo, Professor va Leyden is only not a scratch; my torn was to idea that a non-combatant could er masters or men, are false to repeating an article of faith among come only a linle later. The get of what is usually called a themselves, to their class, and to his countrymen. One my perhaps first battalion of my battery went field of ciroage during the battle their country, if they permit any UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS. convince the average German that on puat the dismantled ore and would be for him to take up a private considerations what over English troops were a's present flung themselves into a charge a position against a good piano to tempt thom to cesse from at the battle which brought about under a veritable overhead vault whilst a virtuoso was playing manufacturing while they haggle Nepoleon's heal overthow, but of shrapnel and eb-11 which the prestissimo some great warlike over terme. Let the folk of Clyde- Eastern Extension Australasia nothing is likely to shake his enemy's batteries in front and on air, and look at the little wooden side look to it. Men who are offe belief that the outcome would the flank built for them. I had and leather hammers jumping oping their lives to save
Britain have been ontirely different if it no time to think on the little in, and down inside and striking the frota being mide another Bel- had not beet for Blucher. The cident which had just saddened sonorous chords. In the mean giam, men who have surrendered. city of Hanover possesses military this corner of the battlefield and while the rest of the orchestre, good positions in civil life to face exercising ground and a memorial fetched two tears from my oyee, armed with big drums and cast every terror that war can bring, Krown respond the W
as the Water In battle the immediate is what enets, should in frenzy abake the will not lightly pardon those who, loo Place and the Waterloo is happening and no longer that latter or bang the former. You in a fit of temper, would decrive Column. The memor al was which has just happened, but see how it is simple and lacking in hem of the menus wherewith to erected and the name given to still to-day-a long month after-melody. The harmony of battle hurl back the eavage foe Never the ground while Hanover still warde-every line of the picture and its great poetry are not in ita would the nation forget or for belonged to the British crown, of B's battery at the moment it musio any more than in the give such treacherous selfishness bat for years past it would have was hit stands faithfully in its epectacle, in reality very little or exculpate the statesmen who been extraordinarily difficult to place before my remembering animated, it offers to the eye. They failed to bring the offenders to convince Hanoverians that it was glance. Again I hear a ovoice reside entirely to an extremely their senses. not exclusively a triumph of Ger- (my own) Well, captain ?. I was elevated degrea in the notion of We rejoice that no lack of man arme which the column was watching through my glasses a total and permanent sacrifice energy has been displayed by the erected to dommemorate.
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