... The Indian Army’s Followers. This action not only put an end to a series of abuses which had so long prevailed in the army, but it also reduced the number of camp followers. At the time of the Peninsular War no transport ever left Britain unless it had ...

... company ia their native land. A great many of thee* become officer*’ eerrmnts. They are the philoeopber*. They give little no trouble. They are in the forefront of tb* battle, and nine time* out of ten when they are killed lock of woman * hair or a portrait ...

... cripple, who has for some weeks pa*t been in hospital, was charged with the wilful murder of a woman named Hollis, aged 28, and with attempting commit suicide. The woman waa the wife of I J3C=? aoldier who had been in Egypt Prisoner asked BARNSLEY. A SOLICITOR ...

... ARMY OFFICERS AND MEN. FOR SERVICE ABROAD. fa the gny dewn of Deceeber mnrninf, end (he icroand it end criep with the fro-t. Keenly the wind blovt from the Cbennel over the Shornhill*, and eweepe the parade pound till the mtc't teeth chatter and their ...

... good work being done by THE SALVATION ARMY. CHE Salvation Army has just' issued a report of its Social Work in the United Kingdom for the past year. The report takes the fonn of a series of unvarnished but nevertheless thrilling stories taken- from life ...

... THRICE-FAMOUS feats on SEA AND LAND. hundred cannon-mouths roared loud, from the throats with flash and cloud h, ir showers of iron threw. —Scott BRITISH Runs have tamed the scale of victory and struck terror into the enemy on many a (]eld of battle, ...

... Probably in no army in the world will you find more men of good social class the ranks than the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Thousands of (hem arc university men, and men belonging to the various professions. Only the other day I was privileged entertain ...

... Only One Fault. \ old Scotch woman to sell her hen to a ni’i^bbour. •■But tell me,” the neighbour said, is she a’thegither hen ? Has she got n,-c (nuts, nae fauts at a’?” Awed, Margot,” _ the other old woman admitted, • she has got one fault. She will ...

... It** an 111 Wind NOT furs, but food, is the terrible need of this distracted land. The peasant soldier came home with a gun; he sowed a back-yard patch with corn, and let thousands of miles of rich soil go fallow. So fine furs have disappeared. Meanwhile ...

... revenge. Let think. rraa* ha# a. bold over poo*, woman who has m son. If two people! were of the way eon rich“ No, no,” cried L«hs, who s*w where tins was lead* log, cannot bar tree.” “Ask bun?” cried Basil suddenly, tnraing and pointing ,iui ceasing ...

... plants—that is, would shrivel them up and destroy them, if it were permitted coma in contact with them. —Land and Water. BURGLAR CAPTURED BY WOMAN.. Two men, named Stokes and Ruby, were charged', before the Birmingham police magistrates Monday with bu ...

... without their application to the present state of England. Once during the Peninsular campaign lost the whole of his army, or the army lost him. It was moving in three divisions, and the three several lines of march had been laid dowm in his orders. Yet ...