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These materials must rest on a firm foundation which extends to a sufficient depth below the surface to withstand the eflect of the frozen ground on either side. Furthermore, the surface must be waterproof in or- der to prevent the entrance of rain or melted snow, which when frozen will separate and disintegrate the best laid foundation. Also the road surface and gutters must be so constructed that the highway will automatically drain itself of all water. This serves the purpose of automatic flushing and accounts for the continuous clean swept appearance of the well designed and properly con- structed roadway. A properly constructed highway is expensive, but it is an asset too obvi- ous for argument. Too often, however, the first cost represents the deciding factor in the selection of a certain type of construction, and the upkeep cost is overlooked. It is this attitude on the part of the town or county taxpayers or road commissioners, coupled with graft and politics on the part of the contractor, which accounts for a large part or the improved roads which need to be reconstructed each year.-â€"H. W. Slauson in Leslie’s. War Films. War films, says the Boston Tran- script, have proved to be very useful in modern warfare. Used only as an ex- periment at first, they have been of such practical value that the return of the cinematograph operator from his aerial reconnaissance is always impa- tiently awaited at headquarters. But Bad Roads Are More Expensive In the Long Run. Highway engineering has become a highly developed art, and good road making materials are plentiful. Con- sequently there is absolutely no excuse for a modern road to “go wrong” .With- in its first four or- five seasons of use unless petty graft and local politics can be considered as sufficient excuses. The moving picture man who volun- teers for this work undertakes a vem difficult and daring feat. He must be a master of his profession, have nerves 01' steel and be willing to take great risks. More often than not he is obliged to fly at a low altitude, for otherwise his pictures would be without value. Many men who have gone out on those perilous expeditions have never re- The war films Show the experienced observer :1 great deal that is going on behind the enemy’s lines. The trenches are clearly visible. It is even possible to discern the men digging trenches or placing big guns in position. The cine- matograph men have often brought back excellent pictures taken from wa- terplanes that show the movement of ships and the track of enemy perk “His executive ability was greater than that of any other man I have yet seen. His memory was prodigious, conversation laconic and movements rapid. He disappeared one day, and although I sent men everywhere it was likely he could be found, he was not discovered. After two weeks he came into the factory in a terrible condition as to clothing and face. He sat down and, turning to me, said: ‘Edison, it’s no use; this is the third time. I can’t stand prosperity. Put my salary back and give me a job.’ I was very sorry to learn it was whisky that had spoiled such a promising career. I gave him an inferior job and kept him for a long time."â€"Collier’s Weekly. Ho Couldn’t Stand Prosperity. Thomas A. Edison once said at 1 man in his employ: How to Please Your Employer. To please your employer show that you have a little spirit. Make it clear to him that you do not wish to be im- posed upon. He will admire that in you. If he asks you to work most of the time you’re at the oflice or to do a little something extra you say, “What do you think I am?” Tell him he Knows What he can do with the job it he doesn't like the way you handle it. He will admire your spunk. If he sneaks in and catches you loafing tell him you're only human. Maybe he will then give you a raise. Then again he may only give you a boot.- One Man Over-domes a Nation. Jean Angot, who died in 1551, was a French merchant in the African and East Indian trade. When some of his ships had been taken by the Portu- guese he fitted out an armed fleet that kept Lisbon blockaded until the gov- ernment of Portugal indemnified him for his losses. At ‘one time he was im- mensely wealthy, but he lost in specu- lations and in money lent to the kin of France, and the closing years of 11h life were passed in dwfitntion. 86": Only the Boot. 'Itriedto explaintomygrocerm b meant by calm in food." “Ya?” GOOD ROADS ARE COSTLY. “Mary. my dear, Iamastonishedyo‘ Enoufskmesucha question, anabo- Each to His Task. “the women can’t drive nuns.” Wyn m crowmg about? 1'0. September 27, 1917. Try Trout Fishing Tactics When You Go After This Game Fish. When you are going to make a try for salmon remember your trout fish- ing. Keep low in the grass and bushes, cast delicately over the entire pool, be- ginning at the tail, where the fish are most apt to be in ordinary weather, and, working up to the very head, where they are often found after a rise of water, propel the fly with the variety of motion known to every trout fisher, and particularly try it at vari- ous depths. Mapping the Uniud Stabs. Beginning nearly forty years ago to construct accurate topographic and geologic maps of both the known and I have often found that the only way to start a salmon was to sink'the fly at least two feet and rely upon a tiny spasmodic twitch now and then (as of a drowning insect) to do the trick. This is often efiective after a fish has come up once and refuses to repeat the experiment. What You Eat In Apples. Do you know what you are eating when you eat an apple? You are eat- ing malic acid, the property that makes buttermilk so healthful. You are eat- ing gallic acid, one of the most neces- sary elements in human economy. You are eating sugar in the most assimila- ble form, combined carbon, hydrogen and oxygen caught and imprisoned from the sunshine. You are eating al- bumen in its most available state. You are eating a guru allied to the “fra- grant medicinal gums of Araby.” You are eating phosphorus in the only form in which it is available as a source of all brain and nerve energy. In addi- tion to all these, you are drinking the purest water and eating the most healthful and desirable fiber for the 11-.b quired “roughness” in food elements. the unexplored regions of the United States, the United States geolog'cal survey has speedily progressed with this part of its work until topographic maps of 40 per cent of the country are now published, besides maps for large areas in Alaska and Hawaii. Exten- sive areas have also been covered by geologic maps, and all the work from the beginning of the field survey to the printing of the finished map is done by this government bureau. Oth- When a rise comes it will probably be a slow one. Do not move the fly at all after the first sign. Strike lightly, but firmly, on the first impact if the line is short, and when you have count- ed two or three after the rise it the line is long. Advice not to strike, if applicable at all, pertains only to swift water when fishing downstream. Un- der any other conditions failure to strike is often suicidal.â€"Outing. Johnson and Seven. I President Johnson had seven letters 5 in his name. When he was fourteen. twice seven, he became a tailor’s ap- prentice, which he remained for seven i years. When he was twenty-one, three i times seven, he gave up tailoring. I When he was twenty-eight, four times i seven, he became an alderman. At? thirty- five, five times seven, he entered i the legislature. In 1842, six times semi en, he was a member of congress. At , forty-nine, seven times seven, he was a senator. On the 7th of March, 1862, a he was military governor of Tennessee. At fifty-six, eight times seven, he be- I came vice president. . er acti'ities of the survey are the classification of public lands, the an- nual collection of mineral statistics of the United States and investigations of the nation's water resources, all in- volving the publication of scientific and technical reports containing over 20,- 000 pages annually. During the last thirty yeam over During the last thirty years over $15,000,000 has been spent by the geo- logical snrvey in geologic and topo- graphic surveys in the United States. Seeing Distances. About 200 miles in every direction is the distance a man can see when stand- ing on a clear day on the peak of the highest mountainâ€"say at a height of 26,668 feet, or a little over five miles above the level of the sea. An ob- server must be at a height of 6,667 feet above sea level to see objects at a distance of a hundred miles. The dis- tance in miles at which an object upon the surface of the earth is visible is equal to the square root of one and one-half times the height of the ob- server in feet above sea level. Some allowance has to be made for the ef- fect of atmospheric refraction, but as the refraction varies at different heights and is afiected by the various states of the weather no precisely accurate fig- ures for general purposes can begiven. Probably from one-fourteenth to one- tenth of the distance given by the iformula would have to be deducted owing to the refraction of the atmos- The Manager (at amateur rehearsal, to the leading 1ady)â€"’Ere, Miss Morti- mer, you mustn’t talk like that to the duke. You mustn’t say, ‘Wot are you a-doin?’ You’ve got to speak king’s English. You must say, ‘Wot are you a-doin’ of ‘2’ ”â€"London Sketch. Bunker Hill monument is 221 feet 2 ‘ inches high, 30 feet square at the base. and 15 feet 4 inches square where the I pyramidal apex begins; 8,700 tons of ; granite were used in building it. I Epitaphy. Epitaph for a miserly man: “His head gave way. but his hand never did. His brain softened, but his heart couldn’t.” At the Department. Store. The Shopperâ€"I’d like to look at sea. COAXING THE SALMON. Bunker Hill Monument. The Pu rist. Chemistry Can Convert It Into Many Useful Materials. Although any one will concede that man cannot live by bread alone, it has been thought possible to get along rather nicely if milk were added to the diet. But it remained for two French chemists, Francois Lebreil and Raoul Desgeorge, to conceive an idea Where- by milk may also be made to yield a fabric which may be converted into clothing and ornaments. The curds of the milk are subjected to a chemical treatment by means of which the mass is converted into a plastic substance which may be rolled into sheets resembling celluloid, from which buttons and other articles such as combs, umbrella handles, brida- brac and even imitation leather may be made, all of which are of attractive ap- pearance and of excellent wearing qualities. The milk is first robbed of its fat, after which it is warmed with rennet so as to form curds. It is then par- boiled and exposed to the air and then is treated with acetone to give it the required hardness, plasticity and trans- parency. The product may be made so soft that it can be used as a substitute for silk in the manufacture of fine underwear, or it may be made solid enough to serve as a good imitation of ivory.â€"Popular Science Monthly. t Varnish and Enamel. Paints which dry with a high luster ' or gloss are called enamels. These are made from zinc oxide ground in var- nish. V arnish is produced from fossil resins such as copal, kauri, etc. These resins, which originally flowed from Water Glass Will Keep Them Fresh Six Months or Longer. Eggs are much cheaper in the spring than they are later on in the year, and spring eggs can easily be kept over un- til the high price season by putting them down in water glass, which can be purchased at drug stores for about 25 cents a quart. Stir the water glass and water mix. ture until thoroughly mixed. Use a stone jar that has been thoroughly cleaned. The eggs should also be clean- ed. Cover the bottom of the jar with eggs stood up on end, the small end down. Pack the eggs so they will cov- er the bottom. The eggs can all be packed at one time, one layer upon an- other, Or the packing can be done from time to time. Pour in the mixture so the top layer of eggs will be covered fully two inches. A thin coating of paraflin poured over the top of the wa. ter glass mixture when the jar is filled will prevent evaporation; otherwise the mixture will require replacing as often as evaporation makes it necessary. Store the jar in a cool cellar. A. quart of water glass mixed with twelve quarts of water that has been boiled and then cooled will be suflicient to preserve about fifteen dozen eggs. A stronger solution should be used for eggs that are to be held six to eight; months or longer. How Kaffirs Smoke. The natives of South Africa are in- veterate smokers, but some of them in. dulge in the habit in a distinctly queer fashion. The natives of Harrismith, in the Orange River Colony, smoke in the following novel manner: A “pipe” is made by thrusting two sticks into the ground so as to meet at an angle; when they are withdrawn two tunnels are left behind. A hollow reed is stuck in one hole and the tobacco placed in the other and lighted. Before beginning operations the native fills his mouth with water, drawing in the smoke with a gurgling sound and blowing out the water and smoke through a second reed. It seems a mighty poor way of smoking to a white man, says a writer Not That Kind. 3 “Here you are, son,” said the face- tious man to the messenger boy. “Take this note to No. 1415 Umpty-ump street and see if. you can’t give me a correct imitation of Mercury.” 3 “Aw, quit cher kiddin’, ” answered the Jad. “I ain’t no thermometer in the Wide World Magazine, but the Kaflirs are very fond of it. The Sergeant’s Threat. Answering for absent comrades dur- ing roll call is quite usual with sol- diers. Sergeants know themselves to be tricked in this fashion very often, but as detection of the culprits is al- most impossible they have to content themselves with the use of a little threatening language toward their men. It was an Irish sergeant who recently delivered himself as follows when about to call the roll in a Dublin bar- racks: “Now, mind ye, if I ketch any of ye sayin‘ yer here when yer not here yez’ll go over there,” pointing to the guard- 1'00111. ,. trees, have been deposited for centuries in the earth. They are mined in Africa and New Zealand and are found in big lumps. Remembering Errors. “Does your typewriter believe in the simplified spelling?” “Oh, I rather think not. She always seems to spell words in the hardest vw, UWuc, uâ€"vvâ€"- - I don’t intend to marry ?- MILK 'AS A FABRIC. PRESERVING EGGS. Rejected. How’d you like a pet dog? She-â€" Charlie, haven’t I told you that THE DURHAM CHRONICLE Meteors That Bombard Us and the 1 Puzzle of Their Origin. . Most persons have no comprehension ' of the actual bombardment to which ; the earth is continually subjected from i the heavens. Millions of small meteors Q enter the atmosphere. every twenty- -, four hours, and in addition to these it 1 has been calculated that on the average ' not less than a hundred large meteor- : ites strike the earth somewhere every ;.\‘ear. The small meteors are totally ' consumed by the heat and friction, and only their slowly settling dust ever touches the earth's surface. although ‘ any one of them if not resisted by the air would hit with from twenty to a hundred times the velocity of the swift. est bullet. The big meteorites, on the contrary. which frequently consist of solid, iron, often get through the airy shield. with enough of their original velocity left to bury themselves many feet in the hard- est soil. They constitute a real peril. Although the chance of anybody being hit by a meteorite is almost infinitely small, yet the annals of mankind show that a few persons have actually been killed by these strange shots from the Sky, They Calmly Awaited Death With a Song Upon Their Lips. The British transport 'l‘yndareus struck a mine ofi' southernmost Africa. She began to settle by the head. Im- mediately “assembly” was sounded the men put on their lifehelts and stood at attention till the roll was called. Then the order “Stand easy” was given, and they began to sing as fervently as though marching homeward on leave through a lane of France or Flanders. Whence do they come? The small meteors are apparently the debris or those hardly less mysterious bodies, comets. but nobody has yet suggested a satisfactory origin for the great me- teoritesâ€"Garrett l’. Serviss They were perfectly sure that most of them would find a grave in the sea that engulfed so many of their fellows. They had no how of rescue. They stood exactly as the men of the Birk- enhead stood when they went to their doom and their imperishable renown off the same coast sixty-five years be- fore. But the sequel by a modern miracle was happily otherwise. Two steamers summoned by wireless came and towed to port the foundering vessel, with a display of seamanship on the part of the crews of all three ships that has maintained the British navy’s proud traditions. The bravery of those who had al- ready given up their lives as lost was just as sublime as if that ultimate for- feit had been required. Wherever the deed is known it will stir the pulsw of men, this story of heroism quite as ex- alted as any that Homer or Plutarch immortalized. A Comet Scare. Joseph Jerome Lafrancais de La- lande, the popular French astronomer of the eighteenth century, difl‘ered from Newton’s view that Providence had so arranged matters as to make collision of the earth with a comet im- possible and wrote a paper to prove that it was only very improbable. This paper, which was to have been read with others before the French academy on a certain day in 1773, got crowded out, but the Parisian public. hearing of it, made up its mind that Lalande had predicted the impending destruction of the earth, and such panic ensued that the police had to order the publication of the paper to reassure the public mind. But even then it was popularly believed that the pa per had been delib- erately toned down. and comet panics ensued for a quarter of a century. Cold Feet. Persons afflicted with cold feet, in- stead of taking a hot fiatiron or brick to bed with them, as was once the cus- tom, may now wear either “bed shoes” or “feet enchOpes" of eiderdown flan- nel. The latter are easily made. Take a yard and a half of eiderdown flannel, a yard wide. Fold this together en- velope sty'le, the fuzzy side Within, leaving eight or ten inches for the flap. Bind it all around with ribbon to match. “That’s right,” replied Senator Sor- ghum. “ r'hen I suppress my natural inclination to arise and waste time in speechmaking nobody ever takes me by the hand and congratulates me. Sacrifice Unrecognized. “Some of our greatest sacrifices bring us little credit.” “He has retired.” said Senator Sor- ghum. “to make way for the man of dominating personality who insists on putting himself into ofice.” Supplanted. “What has become of the old fash- ioned political boss who used to sit back and put people into office?" Their Quarrel. Mrs. Dasberâ€"No, dear. you really must not invite the Fannings and the Jeromes for the same evening. The two families don’t speak. Dasherâ€"Fel] out over the children. I presume. Mrs. Dasher-No; their cooks quarreleiâ€" Life. Very Telling. "Yofir friend Mrs. Gaddy has rather a downright manner. ‘hasn’t she?” Do not judge of the ship while it h on the sun-ks.- __ ____ “1 must say she has some Ways.” SHOTS FROM THEâ€"SKY. HEROES OF THE SEA. FLORIDA 0F RUSSIA “Hanging down into the Black sea like a butcher’s cleaver, with its handle pointed east and the near corner of the blade joined to the mainland of Rus- sia. the Crimea, where it was first planned to exile the czar when he ab. dicated, is about as near to being an island as a peninsula well can be, even though a very narrow strait is the only water that lies between it and a second connection with the mainland. On the one sideâ€"to the west-lies the Perekop gulf, and to the east. shut out from the Black sea by the handle of the cleaver, is the sea of Azov." HORRORS OF ITS GREAT WAR. Thus the Crimea is outlined in a bul- letin by the National Geographic so- ciety from its Washington headquar- ters for geographic research, concern- ing this Florida of Russia jutting out into Europe’s inland sea. In This Famous Conflict Soldiers Died Like Flies From Disease and Florence Nightingale Won Her Crown of Glory on the Battlefield. “With an area matching that of New Hampshire, a population equal to that of New Hampshire and Vermont to- gether and a climate that borrows good features from Florida and south- ern California and bad ones from many places. the Crimea is one of the most fascinating bits of territory be- tween Portugal and Cochin China. Its populace a congress of races. its in- dustries ranging from the growing of subtropical fruits and the housing of Russia’s elite as they flee from the cold, to the herding of sheep and the growing of grain. it is a place of many sided activities. The Historic Crimean Peninsula of the Black Sea. those of western Europe have theirs along the Riviera, the people of posi- tion in Russia have their country seats in the Crimea. And beautiful places they are, for in Russia the rich are very rich. The height of the social sea- “As the men of wealth of America have their winter homes in Florida and son is from the middle of August to the lst of November. “The peninsula is occupied by 855,000 peOple, according to the last census, mostly Turkish speaking Tartars, with a scattering of Russians, Greeks, Ger. mans and Jews. Cleanliness and mo- rality are said to be proverbial traits of the Crimean Tartars, who have been undergoing the influences of Russifim- tion for several generations. They have taken up vine culture, fruit growing and kindred occupations with a zeal seldom equaled east of the Aegean. “Of course most interesting or all things Crimean are its history, its for- tress and its imperial palace. In the second century B. C. the Scythians founded a kingdom there, and the land passed through many changes, now un- der one sovereignty, and now under an- other, finally passing to the Tartars, who in turn were brought under the rule of the Turks. In 1783 Russia forced the last khan to abdicate and made the Crimea a part of one of her provinces. The Grim Tar-tars, who give the peninsula its name by reason of their substantial admixture of Greek and other bloods, have lost most of the Mongolian features, being slender in build, possessing aquiline noses, eyes that have lost the oriental slant and sountenances not quite so inscrutable as the eastern type. “In the Crimean war, fought by Eng- land, France and Turkey against Rus- sia, the final test of strength came at Sebastopol. Here the factors of un- limited resources operated in the allies’ favor. Through their command of the sea they could secure everything need- ed, while the Russians could bring up their supplies only across the barren steppes, whose highways were marked at every step by the dead and the dy- ing, both man and beast. “The novels of Tolstoy give a graphic picture of the Crimean war from the Russian viewpoint, depicting the mis- eries of the march, the anguish of the life in the casemates and the nerve destroying ordeal of manning the lines under shellfire, there to await the night attack that might or might not come. It was in this war that Florence Night. ingale rendered services as a nurse that made her name a synonym of ministering angel on the world's bat- tlefields. Then men knew nothing of the cause of cholera and such diseases, and the soldiers died like flies. It is estimated that 50,000 British soldiers lie buried in the cemetery outside of Sebastopol. “The imperial large palace, to which the dethroned monarch was to retire, is situated at Livadia, surrounded by a magnificent park. It is of recent construction and was completed in 1910. Hard by is the simply construct- ed small palace, in an upper room or which Alexander III. died. In no oth- er country in the world was the reign- ing ruler possessed of so many lands or such extensive properties as was the case in Russia.” “Sure." feplied the suburban real es- tate agent. “All our trains are gener- ally late.” , Have the Habit. “Have you any late trains out here?” asked the prospective purchaser. He (proudty) - My ancestors came ovah in the Mayflower. Sheâ€"Well, it was centainly lucky for you that they Itisnottheflne,butthocouugnd mmthotbmn. -g §Xx?§zu..N:H:?w.nxu:uzuzuxv¢§ _ _ O. émmVi“? !~:~:-‘:~.'¢~°~2~2~2~3~3~3~W O earnestly are our eyes, our hearts, fixed on the Western front that we have little thought for the wonderful deeds that have been accomplished by British and Allied troops in other theatres of war. For instance, we bear little and then only at long in.- tervals of what has been done and what is doing in Africa, where at one time there were probably half a. dozen fronts, and half a dozen little wars raging simultaneously. To-day there is only one African front, only one German armx at lax 4e, and this is now being attacked. That there is only one African battlefield to-day is due to the splendid heroism of British, Belgian, and Afrikander ex- peditions that gradually rounded up and destroyed the various enemy bodies that were operating in diner- ent and widely-separated parts of the great continent. Some incidents that occurred in one of these little British expeditions are reported in the form. of a diary by Commander G. Spicer Simson, of the British Naval Re- serve, who headed the Tanganyika expedition in the fall and winter of . 1915-1916. His original task was to take two small British gunboats and their crews a distance of some 10,000 miles, place them on Lake Tangan- yika and there assist the Belgians in wiping out the enemy. the Belgians apparently not having big enough boats for the job. He mentions that the small size of the British boats ex- cited the derision of the Belgians when they first arrived, for it was not believed that they were big enough for the task ahead of them. It is regrettable that the tonnage of these two boats, Mimi and Toutou. was not given by Commander Sim- son, but he mentions incidentally that of the three German boats that dominated the lake bezore the arrival of the British expedition one of 600 tons blew herself up to escape being captured. Of the other two one was sunk and the other ‘aken. It is ob- vious that the Mimi and Toutou were no motorboats. Nevertheless, after their ocean voyage, they were trans- ported 200 miles through bush and forest, 400 miles by river, and again 100 miles by road. Probably when the history of the war 1.; written this obscure little task performed by a handful of Englishmen assisted by negroes will stand out as one of its most wonderful achievements. Commander Simson says that the conditions existing on the last stage of the overland trip were simply aw- ful. He and his men had no water to drink; so they drank filthy mud. They had little sleep, and were worn out with the sun, dust, flies, and mos- quitoes. The dust from the oxen and traction engines, in combination with a merciless sun, :nd then “sixteen. days on the Lualaba River in an open boat through a sleeping sick- ness country, infested with tsetse, was an experience none of us wishes to have again." At one moment, he says, he saw his boat sliding in loose earth towards a precipice, and at an- other with one wheel right down in an ant-bear hole. The road on which the final march was made was over a plateau 7,000 feet above sea-level, so soft that the wheels were buried, and the gear had to be hauled out with block and tackle, oxen and negroes. The river journey was hardly less trying, since the boats had to be got aboard barges. When the outfit ar- rived finally, the Belgians said that the impossible had been accom- plished. The entry describing this part of the diary, which is published in the New York Times, closes with these wordsâ€"and how many Englishmen have not said the same and made it good with their lives: “We have a very diflicult task in front of us, but for the honor of our country, we are determined to give a good account of ourselves.” They did. On De- cember 27, 1915, the British boats engaged a German gunboat of five times their combined tonnage, and after an action of twelve minutes she struck her flag. The gunnery of the British boats must have been excel- lent, for the third shot from the Mimi hit the wireless and brought it down; the fifth shot hit her on the waterline and she fled, “but we were faster and put shell after shell into her." One of them went through the conning tower, killing the captain, a gunlayer, and a seaman. She was also leaking badly, and then she quit. When the British sailors boarded her they found that twelve of their shells had struck. She was yellow from lyddite, and the dead were unrecog- nizable. They were buried with mili- tary honors. On February 9 the Hedwig Weiss- man a large German armed steamer. was sighted. She was attacked by the Mimi and the German boat taken in the first fight, which had been re- paired and renamed the Fifii. The latter was not fast enough to over- haul the Hedwig, which had steamed up to attack, but had turned tail as soon as she saw the Union Jack, and so the Mimi put after her, opening fire which compelled the German to keep a zig-zag course and thus 1080 time while the larger boat was get- ting into action. These tactics were successful, and the Fifi gradually got the range of the Hedwig and put shell after shell into her. In ten minutes she was on fire and sinking. The British pick-.1 up twelve Ger- mans and nine blacks; the other: were either killed or drowned. With the suicide of the third vessel, the lake was cleared of German boats, and the British expedition had ac- complished its ends. It is a satisfac- tion to be able to say that in theao actions there was not a single eas- ualty, and the surgeon, who had in- sisted throughout the _jonr_ney _1n, carving all the joints of fowl in order that he might be in practice. had to £8311“; with unfleshed 391ml. 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