... treated in this way. Do not rake out tires before going to bed. Leave them low with a fire guard in front; there is no economy in fuel in raking out, and the risk of fire increased. Close the flues of the kitchen at night; by leaving them open, thr water ...

... of bed with butts of rifles at dawn most mornings. Commandant frequently drunk, and when drunk used to make sentries and guard fire volleys through windows. • • ...

... PRUSSIAN GUARD. CRACK GERMAN CORPS BY t TRAPPED BY OWN WIRE. What happened at Legaicoart A. told hi Mr. Philip Gibbs in a graphic dispatch to the Daily Chronicle. Mr. Gibbs describes the fighting here as one of the bloodiest episode in all this loog ...

... GUARD IN BURNING VAN. While a goods train was travelling rapidly between Hurlford to Carlisle the guard's van caught fire, and was soon a mass of flames. The guard managed to scramble into the next wagon. There was a wagon of gunpowder cm the train, but ...

... PRUSSIAN GUARDS BEATEN. About 10 a.m. the Prussian Guard were thrown into the fight cast of Contalmaison in a desperate effort to forco us back, but the attack was crushed by our fire. The enemy subsequently fell back northwards, leaving 700 prisoners ...

... GUARDING AGAINST GAP'S. Clematis.—Layering is a good means of increasing all Clematis, and this is the beet time to do it. When pegging down the stems, work a little good soil immediately round the area, and fasten the shoots so that there is a decided ...

... GUARDS IN ACTION. W THREE BATTALIONS OF COLD. STREAMERS CHARGED IN LINE. The Guards, Coidstreamers, Grenadier& and Irish, have won glory in the fight. ing on the Somme. The Guards had their full share of Abe fighting and of the difficult ground, with ...

... MANSION FIRE SEQUEL. LEEDS SPINNER SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS FOR ARSON. Harry Smith, the Leeds worsted spinner, eharged at Jedburgh with wilfully setting fire to Lindon Park mansion, Hawiek, to defraud the Yorkshire Insurance Company about X 50,000, was ...

... P THE LAST SLOT. FRENCH titICEANTIIIRES IN LAST The last shot in the ~war -is believed to Imre been fired by a taefgeant r a nging to General Gourand'a Army it a • t about 500 yards behind the e, betireen Mizieres sad Charlevi.le (say. the Paris correspondent ...

... gc farther would be absolute death. The troops on the right had been utterly held up. The Guards were up in the air, with an exposed flank, open to all the fire that was hung upon them from the enemy's lines. the temptation to go farther was great. The ...

... Frederick Freeman-Tkomas, a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards, and eon of Lord Willingdon, of Rattan, Willingdon, Sussex. At the first hearing Lieutenant Roderick, formerly of the Coldstream Guards, in an affidavit, said that on September 14 last, the ...

... of cotton, brought in motor-cars, were used by the armed raiders to start the fire. Simultaneously armed Sinn Feiners guarded all approaches to the building and raided the fire-station to ensure that the flames should work their destruction. 'l' he large ...