... suffered heavy. I did not like to let you know before, as I thought it would upset you all. The wound on my thumb was nothing to speak of. PLEASANTRY IN THE TRENCHES. That our soldiers at the front are light heared and in good spirits i shown by the following ...

... Rebukes fries Siberia and thel horror of the minas, and in the cry of leoken hearts from the solitary prisons! Shall we bear God speak? Yes. if we listen and bow and confess. and then, no matter how the war may end, there will be • new Europe, and the lands ...

... , and we are still keeping an eye on them, as Mrs. S. is being visited by one of our Maternity Committee, of which I will speak later. There has been, and still is, great difficulty in getting some of the allowances for soldiers' and sailors' wives and ...

... need courage to remain total abstainers; but there is perceptible progress among them, and there was a good opportunity to speak in the schools of the prohibition of vodka in Russia, and the prohibition of the sale of absinthe in France since the war. ...

... doesrolled by some perhaps 400 ships of all concur in his statement that, , classes, ship thus possibly being re- broadly speaking, there is • decided ,sponsible for 40 or 50 square mile*, can it sameness about them. One rejoiced •few Iha wondered at that ...

... Wulon-road.—PlT Finn, IOH, raid that he wee ra plain doth** doty the previoua erraiig at Wiltoo-road be raw priroocr approach aad speak to fire difiermt men. He aaked the last oa* for Ih* pries of drink, aad wkm refused need most obsesa* language. Witness informed ...

... the common stock of civilisation, ters it meant silenced . neutrality e neutral Powers, dumb epectators, because afraid to speak of the ultimate decision It would be a misfortune if this were not so. may affect the lot of every nation. International law ...

... his house at their disposal and for the many kindnesses shown to them by him and Lady Wakefield. THE Earl of Portsmouth, speaking at Andover last week, said that those who like himself were in favour of national service were completely justified by the ...

... an ezhibitiorr of Magic and , stert , which seems peculiarly associated' with the l'ule-tide holiday season. And, when one speaks of magic, one's thoughts instantly fly to that Home of 'Mystery with which the names of Maskslyne and llevant hate been so ...

... 31st Germany might have prevented the war. Well ruiFht Sc Edward Grey say with the Psalmist, I labour for peace, but when I Speak unto them thereof. they make them ready for battle. Then is it not possible. without beirg too presemptuouit to apply to oursolves ...

... before I was wounded. !should like to run across the chap that shot me. I don't mind going back at all. Corporal Bri.towe speaks most highly of the treatment he has received since he was wounded; he is a typical English soldier, and is returning to duty ...

... ready to vote Yes ' on the question whenever it should be submitted to the people. You all know my views,' Whitman said. ' Speaking as an individual and not officially, I am in favour of extending the franchise to women. There is no doubt in my mind as ...