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tiQ‘ never seen or heard a rifle till this moment and now a re almost ignor‘ ant. at which end it fires. And if the troops are inefficient the officers are worse. In the first place, the mili- tary profession docs not, stand high which is in itself. a bar to efficiency. By s metlting more than a coincidence the lest officers are those who are socially thought most of by their coun- trymen. as in England, Germany and Austria. In S} ain. the army apâ€" pmtches being held in social contempt. wh-irh is in no why counterbalanced by the reiteration. before every offi- cer's name. of "B-izarro,” and other faituous epithets of the press. fl‘he army and the. church in fact, are the two professions no man chooses if he b'lS the money or the. brains to choose anything else. and a girl who threat- ens to become an old maid, is told in 108:; that she will have to marry an officer. which illustrates the national bias. The Spanish officers cheapen themselves. They are never out of uniform with a. sword tinkling at their side. They carry a sword and spurs about with them everywhere, to church included. Their assumption transcends belief. yet it is admitted throughout the Peninsula that their preparations and qualifications ARE PRACTICALLY NIL. A propoml has even been approved that the l‘rachelors in arts shallbe ad- mitted without further examination. as second lieutenants. To this latter rank are promoted hosts of ser- geants a practice ultimately subver- sive. of discipline it carried, ashere, to excess. But sheer want of instrucp tinn. bookwork, backed up by range- tiring tactics. military surveying, map drawing. sham fights and so forth, is the. glaring and primary defect, and during the Cuban rebellion three gen- our dormant capabilities of passion. Thay h‘IVO not heard of the Scotchman at Majuha. who. with half his face blown away. groped fora rifle to have one mom shot at the. victorious Boers. They ruuld never bring themselves to nsm'iate our reputedly frigid temper miLh the flaming heroism of Chard. and tho oid Etonians who fell at Lahig's Not. Yet. if ardor is_bravqry, not only Italy, or Spain or Greece. but 0m 3 hme fallen into trouble. not. 1mu1.u-k of oourmze~ but from lack of kin-“ledge Praisely the sune in- u mwtence prexails inthe navv. Thus, in a w.ord neither officers nor men “was the elements of technical “ar- {am and all is left *u courage: ”Spaniards or Italians are gixen to imagine that the fine frenzy of a des~ per-ate exploit is limited to their warmmlooded aelves._ fl‘hey nnderrate tlm argument.” It analogs one sad, continues the Eng- lish writer. to see the quality of the expeditions packed off in heartless shoals 1,0 Cubaâ€"boys. to look at, who "But if our troops require more food than the Spanish. our commis- eriat, is proportionately equipped to meet. the additiunal demand. our pre- aupwestc-s are pronortionately heav- ie-r. Our regiment is more liberal, costs mommnxl we can afford to pay more, otherwise Ishouid admit a value in The writer adds that. he has talked with Spaniards of all grades and pro- vinces. and two qualities alone have they advanced in favor of the Span- lsh soldierâ€"his ability to go without food for 'a long time. and 'his bravery. A gentleman. speaking to me at table lifts a scrap of salad on his fork and says ”This is why our ”army is Letter. In who NSgwct at least. than yours or um German. Your man require to be fed solidly. and often ours will last and fight enemy. a rifle bullet, sighted, aimed and fired five hundred yards away. of the drum sets all his martial blood afim. and in picturing an ancestor storming a breach with the Spanish’ flag in one hand and a sword in the other he forgets how dismnlly modern‘ and prosaic is the hum of that unseen) The people, so fatally conservative p0 than co.’our of tradition do not ap- pmchte that since the devilâ€"may-care mmmlgns of the Netherlands, war has [pen reduced to rule. If there be oc- casion when sheer dash, unhacflxed by- calculation. comes in, they may he mtgnificent. A Swniard is romantic to the core, agift not altogether ad- mimhle in these days. The very tap any branch of military retinue. Even physically they are the wrou‘hedest of beings. wiry enough but undevelop- ed, since nothing is done to diet, STRENGTH EN OR IMPROVE THEM. haunt Slllluu'y (‘rlue says Neither OI- nn Nor Privates Understand the lull- Inclu of War-liven Physically lad. Commenting upon a. Spanish writer's ltflectione on the war in Cuba, in which he had attempted to show that want of cava‘ry, together with the, superior knowledge of the country assessed by the rebels. was the cause a! the failure of the Spanish troops. an English military critic, in the linited Service BIztgazine. taking ex- ception to the statements and the conâ€" clusions. derlaree that the real reason It! simply that the Spanish army. eav- alry. infantry. artillery, engineersâ€"- til branches of the sen-ice alikeâ€"have hell no schooling in their trade. From ‘ brig-tide general to primte, not a man i hasgrasped the rudiments or require-‘ mute of wa r. For the troops. there Is no drill. no practice in gunnery. or swordsmnnship. or gymnastics or SOMETHING ABOUT THE WRETCHED ARMY or SPAIN. FOR DAYS ON THIS '9 a touch of a peacurk’s feather the fakir depressed a balance of a common weighing machine in daily use in the household. though in the other was a weight of twelve stone. and with a distant motion of his hand he made shavings of wood to sink or move in water. Still more marvelous is the de- scription of the manner in which this veritable eastern wizard was able to set at defiant-e the law of gravity. On this occasion when leaving the room. he paused on the threshold, folded his arms‘ and by a simple act of volition, raised himself from the floor and re- mained poised in air for some minutes. A duel has recently taken place at Paris between two football men, the Captains of rival teams, who had quar- reled on the field during 111a progress ofi a game. Unlike mosI Frenzyâ€"2118;}; which are impala, both combatants received severe sword wounds in the arm‘s and shoulders, The natives of Kabtiaa' are in the habit of digging awry year in the sum- mer dry banks of file. Vergei River for fish. which they dig out by hundreds, just as they would potato-es. The mud lumps are broken upz‘n anizl' the fish. perhaps eight or ten inches long, will always be fio-und alive and often frisky as if just remuved from its supposedly native elementâ€"the water. ' The more hairline-1~ feat. of the seem- ingly supernatural growth of flowers was utterly eclipsed by another inst- ance vouched for by the same narrat- or. His own servant. brought him a score 011‘ so of seeds. from which he sel- ected and marked one. The fakir plan-ted it in a pot of earth muttered some words over it. and fell into a sort} of trance. which lasted about thirty minutes. lie then awoke. uncovered the pot and diswvered a seedling two or three inches high. Jaculliot, exam- ined it and found it had sprung from the seed which he had marked. With ! Blllt shrewd Itsralvelers of later date, :whose veracity is beyond dispmte tell pof much more. inexplicable things than Ethese. One of the best known writers on occultism Jaco-lliot. has left an ac- count. of certain things he saw during his official sojourn in India” which, as they seem to defy explanation, may fairly be classed among things incom- prehensihle. The performer Whom he accidentally met... and who requiired some persuasion before he would exhib- it. feat-s which. be continually affirmed, were the work of other inttelligences. On some sticks fixed uqn‘iglhit in flow- er pots were placed some lewves from a tree. with holes in each sufliciently large to make them fall to the level of (the mold. Standing at a considerable distance the fakir made a gesture with his hands. A slight breeze seemed to pervade the room. then the leaves quivered and gradually worked up- ward (m the sticks. Jaoolliot placed himself between the flower pots and the operator, placed the sticks in the flooring. and adopted every means he could imagine to frustrate any trick- ery, but nothing he did made any dif- ference to the mnwement of the leaves. i It In ”from Beyond the Power of the Wises! to Explain ll. One need not. go to the realms of space. or time, Olr figures, to meet with the incomprehensible. DeSpite modern science and ingenuity. this word still remains the only applicable epithet for some of ihx} achievememts of Indian con- juxe'rs. \Ve can smile at. the luminous appearance of the beautiful face before which as the revelation of Osiris, the old Egyptians prostrated themselves in aweâ€"for the marvels 01f the magic lam- tern are familiar to us; the early ex- istence of gunpowder giives an easy ex- plamation oi the oracle’s lightning and thunder; the weird harmony of Mem- mm was merely the resullt Olf an ingenâ€" Ious mechanical contrilvance. “The lesson of three centuries ago is not the lesson of to-day. It is no use to pose upon a crumbling pedestal and scoff at Time, who takes us by the fore- lock. rather than we, him; with him we must go. his word we must obey, or by his certain wngzeanr‘e we shall cease to learn and prematurely to live." .v‘v-w â€"â€"â€" -the love of fighting at close quarters to the inspiring music of a hundred- gun battery. With what noble ecstacy ’did Charles of Sweden burrow into i Russia’s vitals with a few calm squad- rons of unyielding horsemen? “It'is cowardice or coldness that are exceptions in the army, and the fire and savagery of onset, what they mis- take for coldness in us northerners is the fine restraint of previous military education, the leash that holds the bloodhounds, slipped at will, and OFTEN SLIPPED TOO SOON. "So as I should be the last to deny the bravery of the Spanish army as a whole, I at once assent. ‘Yes, it is braveâ€"as ninetyâ€"nine per cent, of uni- formed armies are braveâ€"what then? Bravery and a small appetite are not stakes high enough to win with (I) the board of military action, much loss, let that. calm supplant the soldâ€" ier’s schooling. Courage we all have. if we are put to fight. courage under aspects slightly different but still courage; and it is for want of our seeming base minutiae of war, the marksmanship that hits, the steps that charge, and march. and advance and retire; the arts that help to win a hat- tle, as seamanship helps to propel a vessel, that one of. all brave nations is falling swiftly from a high estate. b W’â€" oon's feverish delight a_.t .Copenhagen‘ 1' FOOTBALL DUELISTS. DIGGIN G FOR FISH INDIAN MAGIC. a, modern fzwtm-y in Kahwl run by 5:19am and employing 3500 wurkmvn. which turns out daily 10,000 Martini- Henry cartridges and 10.000 Snider cur- fridges finished and cumulvte; twen- ty Lfa|r=tizni~llonnry ain't hwnly Snider rifles; 50,000 r'o-ials; hm field gums. va'ry- ing from 3~1y011mdrrs to 12-poundera; twelve Maxims. eighteen Gardner's, with; carriages and full equipment. per annum. as well as a large. number of swords and mechanical cuntrivances. The Ameetr takes great pride in the factory and makes his khans and all his: visitors go and see it. One day Umra Khan. who came {mom a distance, walled on 811' Salturs Pyns and said: "How do you. make {gun-3 2” “It. is quite easy," replied Pyne. “You make. a 31010 first, and then wrap Some imm around it." "Ah.” he said, aurmowfwlly, “there is lots of air [or the hole in my country; only. no one theatre knows how to wrap the iron around it." TELEPHONE SIIBSCRIBERS. According to recent statistics there are 1,450,000 subscribers to the tele- phone service in the world. The United States leads the list with 900,000, then comes Germany with 140,000 and Great Britain with 75,000; Switzerland, 50,000; France. 85,000; Austria, 20,000; Russia, 18,000; Sweden and Norway. 16,000; Ba- varia, 15,000; Denmark, 15,000; Italy 14,- 000; Holland, 12,000; Spain, 12,000; Bel- gium. 11,000; Hungary, 10,000; \Vur- temberg. 7,000; Finland, 6,000; Japan, The Ammu‘ passed his hands over both ears of the memhling wretch. whercumin' “the secretary reminded him of a passage in the Koran saying that. anything touched by, the. representative of the Almighty became sacred. So the ears ware saved. . Afghanistan is anything but hawk- wazrd,‘ as Asiatic comn'nries go. There is To this he assumed. whoremwn the secretary eXplaimed that he had never execuxted this form of punishmcn he- tore mnl would His Higihnlss show him how much was to he removed. "Then" said Alxlu-rrhaman. “we can da withou’t you" and forthwith direct- ed' “halt; the lmgg-znr should be hamged. He' is. however. susceptible m flattery, and can sometimes be cajoled. A man whom he hm] sentenced to have :his ears out off far some in-:iiscre- than happened to be a flriend of his chief secretary who avex ted the muti- Lation. by «filtering to pvcrfozm the task himself provided it might be dome in the Ameezr's presence. Oxnve a beggar in Kabul asked 311318 of the Khan. _“Did you evecr wark for a living 3" {asked the ruler. “Never. 0 Khan," the man replied; “I am a 1.:eggur.” . ' A fine old-v-ruvsftnd aum‘rat in Abdur- ralhman vapable of waking up his doc- tor to ask it it would hurt him to em; a peppermint lozenge, and. also slhuttti'ntg up a thief in an iron cage to! starve to death. Abdul-ruminant, of ,h‘glmnialan, ls (hm ol the film: Origin“: of LIVillg Rulers. The most. innm‘osting ruvler in the world at p’rescmn is prohably, Abdu-r- rahmmn of Afghaniwtam A simple dinner gofwn, made with !ow waist and short sleeves. is somewhat severe in design, but none the. less Dretty and effective. The skirt: is made with the attanhwl flounr'e. but is {awh- ioned with, rather an unmually shoqt apron. The body of the waded; is fuii, THE JOLLY AMBER. "This is quit; HZiural. I have sinnud in my life the most with my mouth. in eating drinking anl talking." BISMARCK’S SINS. Of the neuralgic pains in his face. which were so severe that he sometimes had to press the points of his fingers on .his cpeek. bones for several minutes to secure a little reliei. Bismarck was reported as qa'ying: Il'nl “Itis a unstalke .00 suppose that moisllcning ill»? lnad of a pencil makes it write better. It spoils the punt-it. as it hardens the 19ml yet people will pe.:r.~‘iqi in 1311-) urnvleanly habit, of thrust- ing horrorxed pencils in 'their mouths." R GOWN --“~- .u. mvsfib“ the lead an il before wruting the orintcndent of a large pemil 1m said yesterday: causes of umsilitis an'l dilfihxtheria to this cause which at. first sight appvarwd inexplicable. Even the seeds of mm- sumptiom may he sum: by this means." Regarding fin,“ habit of moistenimz "Physicians are now liq-ginning to give thoir attention to the cause. and prevention or diseases more than ever Lhr-y did liviure. The rules of common sens-3 are. being instilled into the par- ents 01' thw young patients. and a doc- ton“ of to-day, when called to attvnd a rlhild [mils its patron-ts through a Very rigid vrous-oxaminaiirrin as to "he huh- ins of his little patient. it is when found that the. disease has l‘een coun- municuled by some hmrmless act. which most people. would not. notice. Childrcn am: very democratic. A pupil at a school will moisten a. lead pencil in his mou'lm an'i begin to Write. A ooanpun- ion will borrow the pencil. and the first thing he will do in nine cases our. of ten will be 10 pm. 1"th bolrmwed pencil in his inouth: _Iha've Maud several The practice of “swapping” and Don‘- mwing lead pencils is mum common auwng children than adults. The Spirit. of caumraderie which makes pupils grow "chmnmy" and socml in the pub- lic schnals some/Limes causes wag-pen- mis to become‘commm. property among groups of school chndren. A child who 18 .recovermg from any throat. disease might tht‘rcfore be .thc Innocent means of communicating the malady to its (-ompanizms. A well-known throat spe- cxalgt says:â€" The practice of boirowing pencils is myx helie'ved to: be responsible for [many cases of dimmneria and tonsilitis which could not. be otherwise accounted for. l’ohysivians have» therefore, begun to warn their patients against putting the points of lead pencils in their mouths lie-flue they write. By [maul Pencils "(DISICICd In the Month. The apparently harmless act of hor- rowing a lead pencil is rmognized by the medical faculty as a prolific means of propagating disease. Many people still cling to the time-hanured ptractice of moisiening the writing and of the pencil in the month before they pro- ceed to write. and has a pointed belt. It is finished around the. shoulders with a mft l‘nt‘he of Mliffon, and at the left side is a chiffon lane how. The sleeves are small puffs with tied-in loops of rib- bon. The material of the gown is [man do soie of a delicate ahade of yellow. ...... \VOMEN 0F SU’MATRA DIPHTHERIA SPREAD xuuut: wr‘uung. me sup- a large pencil factory 3% moigtening and “tile menâ€"Fudler. A man never sews :H has been to him till i' her know that 11v 8!?! ella. tie; a great deal] on the table u 119w ‘ This is an int-mum 11c stirs une’s Moo 'shovelfu! of dirt, m away the earth :m' little bunch of um I worth, possibly .733”, The transfur‘maliux year by this strike 1 Night" talus. I 3 July, '96. 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