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  2. CHINAMAN HINDENBURG.

    In view of the appointment of Field Marshal von Hindenburg as Chief of the great German General Staff, the following article by General Turner ...

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  3. SAYINGS OF BRITISH NEWSPAPERS.

    Kitchener was, to put it in a word, no idealist. He treated the nation with the instinets of a brilliant sergeant. But for the immensity of his qualities let his ...

    Article : 44 words
  4. RUSSIA TO HAVE DARDANELLES.

    On the return of the Russian Parliamentary delegates to Russia a sitting of the Joint Army and Navy Committee of the Duma was held. at which the deputies made their report on ...

    Article : 249 words
  5. HUMOR PARS.

    Employer: "Can you write shorthand?" Applicant: Oh, yes, sir, only it takes me longer."—London, Notes "Every night Jack and Jill say ...

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  6. JUST BOYS !

    Managing a family of between 400 and 500 would tax the patience of the old woman who lived in a shoe even more than history record about her sorely tried endarance But that is ...

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  7. THE UNSPEAKABLE HUN.

    When, the civilised world comes' to settle accounts with Germany at Berlin a generous nation may he expected to forgot much and to forgive more. One prolonged episode of ...

    Article : 369 words
  8. The Subaltern on Leave.

    "I asked what he meant by the ideal tearoom and he said A place where a chap who has only a few days to himself out of the trenches is not likely to run into his aunts." ...

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  9. Wait and See.

    "If the Germans cannot begin to break the Russian main front again in the next few weeks, tho Allies will have every right to believe that they have seen the worst of the ...

    Article : 39 words
  10. Mr. Balfour's Letter.

    "The First Lord's letter seems to imply a resignation to the strategic defensive. We are far from the day, it would seem, when the enemy's coast-line was considered our ...

    Article : 37 words
  11. Sandbags.

    "First Tommy: "Who'd a thought three years ago we should have been here in the trenches!" "Second Tommy: No! Then I was living ...

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  12. A Memory of Lord Kitchener.

    For our own part we shall always recall him as we saw him in a long interview at the War Office recently, Our impression of him is of a strong, silent man, of sincere religious ...

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  13. SUBSTITUTE FOR GELATIN FOUND IN THE PHILIPPINES.

    According to a recent issue of the "Commerce Reports," a substitute for imported gelatin is made in the Philippines from a kind of seaweed brought in by the fishermen and ...

    Article : 249 words
  14. Kitchener's Last flours.

    Just before his fatal voyage to Russian he asked for a series of detective stories to divert his mind., So it may have been in unwinding a plat by Gaborian or Conan Doyle that he ...

    Article : 50 words
  15. RELIGION AS IT IS.

    Church—A place one can go to think over his affairs without being distracted. Sermon—A necessary part of the program, appreciated inversely to its length. ...

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  16. The Russian Success.

    General Brussiloff has shown again how unenviably precarious is the position of those who would dare to hold the Russian bear by the cars.—Morning Post. ...

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  17. Kitten in the Naval Battle.

    Even the ship's kitten in one vessel was imbued with the prevailing spirit. It was in a dressing station where a shell burst. It lost half its whiskers, but was soon seen purring ...

    Article : 49 words
  18. Talking Shop.

    Pal (meeting cheery wounded Tommy) "Hullo old man, back again? A bit wounded, I see." Tommy (late of the Building Trade): "Yes, ...

    Article : 53 words
  19. ART OF WALKING.

    Probably no two people walk exactly alike; in fact, it is quite a common expression to say you know a person by her walk. Where so many women are at fault is that ...

    Article : 326 words
  20. A TRAMP ELECTRICIAN.

    A scientific tramp, who roams the State of California, prepares his food on an electric hot plat instead of cooking it over an open fire kindled with brushwood picked up form ...

    Article : 151 words
  21. A Modern Meditation.

    This splendid, keen-faced man, full of vitality, with the impressive air of command—can this be our husband of many years, whom we had grown to think dull and prosy? And ...

    Article : 60 words
  22. Less Stiffness in the Suburbs.

    Yon can't sit in jour lonely, lofty dignity when you want to know if the people three doors many have beard from their boy, who was reported a prisoner, at the same time as ...

    Article : 43 words
  23. THE RAPIDITY OF IRISH WIT.

    "As I am not a bird." said Sir Boyle Roche, a famous member of the Irish Parliament, "I cannot be in two places at once" His principle was right, if his illustration ...

    Article : 295 words
  24. Woman in War Time.

    We don't cling; when we care, we hold, and as often as not we prop. We are the partner, and sometimes the boss; but there's no Virginian-Creepiness about us.—Sketch. ...

    Article : 36 words
  25. GERMAN SOLIDERS' PAY.

    Information is to hand (says a French official wireless message) that Dr. Helfferich, Secretary of State for the Finance of the German Empire, has refused to grant the ...

    Article : 122 words
  26. Hint to Women Gardeners.

    Before I go gardening I 'gouge' my fingter-nails into some soft yellow scrubbingsoap so that there is soap under each nail. When I have finished gardencing I just wash ...

    Article : 53 words
  27. The Eec of Decision.

    After two years we shall soon see either light at last or "darkness visible" in the shape of another prolonged period of disappointment and delay. We cannot help ...

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  28. Sir Ian Hamilton.

    Many people call it Ean. I heard the General announced himself yesterday and he pronounced it Ian with a long I.—Daily Mirrering that this is a very remarkable hour in ...

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  29. COST OF WAR.

    There are a few—curiously few—members of the House of Commons who were present at the opening of the session hastily summoned in October 1890 following upon ...

    Article : 234 words
  30. SONG.

    I am the super-servant girl. My business is to cause trouble to common people. I know my business so well that I have no competiors: I am alone in my class. ...

    Article : 131 words
  31. The Colour To-day

    Navy blue will be more popular than over—if that is possible—issue our glorious Navy has given us yet another reason to do it honour—Skctch. ...

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  32. The Greek Government.

    The Greek Government must be brought to its knees and its senses, ami we hope that our Foreign Office will make up its mind to the decisive action for which we believe that ...

    Article : 47 words
  33. PAINFUL MOMENTS FOR PROMINENT MEN.

    Julius Caesar: When he received space rates from The Roman Bugle for "I came; I saw: I conquered" Alexander the Great: When he wept because ...

    Article : 161 words
  34. ALLEGED "JONAH."

    Pleading guilty to having tailed to joint his ship. Charles, Dunn, a seaman, said he had served in the Titanic, Sunk in iceberg collision, The Empress of Ireland, lost in collison ...

    Article : 133 words
  35. If Arthur Pollen—

    If Arthur Pollen or Archibald Hurd had been in the Admirality on that awful Friday they could have taught Mr. Balfour how to tell the news of a victory that must have ...

    Article : 43 words
  36. ERE DAWN!

    Music in the darkness, The sound of marching feet: The trend of many men To a dull, drum-beal! ...

    Article : 102 words
  37. Another Kitchener Tale.

    Long since be said to a friend with a shyness which him was never unmanly "A soldier should not marry—he doesn't know what may happen to him."—Land and Water. ...

    Article : 39 words
  38. Proud Grief.

    If it is meet and right that we bow our heads for ther's griefs it is meet and right that we uplift them for out own.—Observer. ...

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  39. KITCHENER.

    No man in England slept, the night he died; The harsh, storn spirit passed without a pang, And freed of nortal clogs his message rang In every wakeful mind the challenge cried. ...

    Article : 102 words
  40. Commercial Candour.

    "African Grey Parrot, very clever talker, can almost say anything does not sear; price 12 gas."—Weekly paper. ...

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  41. PIPE TRAP FOR RABBITS.

    Rabbits may be trapped, in order to rid grounds of them or for food purposes by the use of the tile trap A tee, having a smaller opening of 6in is set in the ground with the ...

    Article : 117 words
  42. A DARK-ROOM LAMP.

    A very handy dark-room lamp can be made from a elar box After fearing off the covfer, cut a hole in one end just large enought to allow it to be sliped over an electric light ...

    Article : 88 words
  43. A Schoolboy Dialogue.

    I said to Mitchell: "It may interest you to know that real soldiers never talk about the hideous side of the war" And Mitchell answered The details bring it home to us and ...

    Article : 81 words
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