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LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
Old Superstition about Sneezing.
Sneeze on Monday,
Sneeze for danger;
Sneeze on Tuesday,
liviss a stranger;
k. C?l.?
^Joccive a letter;
Snjeeze on Thursday,
Something better;
Sneeze ou Friday,
Expect sorrow;
Snjeeze on Saturday,
(Joy to-morrow.
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Sew BusinessA
San Francisco young woman has
started a njew business. She goes
about from I house to house mending
jewelry andJ repairing clocks. When
she has to Idrill a hole in a piece of
metal, she 1 as drills and a lathe which
she works jv attaching to a sewing
machine. J ilmost everybody who has
iewelrv ha* also a sewing-machine
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Her trade flourishes. Most ladies have
bits of broken jewelry lying about
which they do not think it worth
while to send to a shop, but which they
would gladlty have mended should anvoue
come tcf the house and Gx it up at
a small prjice. In the regulating of I
clocks also ?he does well. Beside her
lathe and drill, she has with her, in a
neat little l|)ox, a full kit of jeweler's
tools, a spirit lamp, and blowpipa
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ltomancc of the Jasmine.
It is alwjays pleasant to associate a
romance with a favorite flower. The
story of th<j; cultivation of the jasmine,
with its djelicate yellow flowers and
delightful bdor, in France, as told by
the Xew ji'ork Mail, deserves to be
remembered. The Duke of Tuscany, j
it is said, fiad brought one plant with !
him from! the tropical countries he I
visited, tuLd placed it, with many in- !
junctions jfor its careful tendance, in
the hands of his gardener, intending to
present it as an offering to the princess
of F ranee. The gardener had a
sweetheart, and, wishing to please her,
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lie one aay> Droae on a sup ui mo uuw
ished plant, and offered it to her. She
planted it,1 hoping thus to preserve it
for her wedding-day, and to her de.
light it took root, throve, and grew into
a stately i bush, from which she gathered
flofvers salable for their rarity
and so accumulated a sum of money
which facilitated her marriage. To
this day, the maidens of Tuscany wear
a sprig of jasmine, in token that they
can bring* a lucky dower to the man of
^^ their choipe.
Fashion IVotes.
The Langtry turban is as popular as
ever.
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Canvas woolen stuffs are all the
rage. 1
Cloth bonnets are worn with cloth
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UIC3SCD.
Quiet colors will be generally worn
this season.
Silver white is the new shade for
bridal dresses.
Snowballs trim the bonnets and hats
of many Brooklyn girls.
Chatelaine watches are exceedingly
fashionable in New York.
Bison hair cloth is the fabric destined
to supersede camel's hair.
Carved wood ornaments are used
to decorate dresses and bonnets.
For morning dresses, white mull is
gathered in the neck and sleeves.
Felt corduroy bonnets are a pretty J
novelty for morning and traveling
;vear.
Large balls and spots are the newest
designs for Oriental and Spanish
laces.
Plaited camel's-hair bonnets are
worn with cloth and cheviot costumes.
"White silk gauze with large velvet
figures is the newest fabric for brides'
dresses.
Velvet spots are introduced into
Spanish laces intended for dresses and
bonnets.
Round hats of felt have large, high,
square crowns and stiff brims faced
with velvet.
Plain pleated and gathered skirts
om more worn hv fashionable women
than any other.
Long redingotes and cloaks of Muscovite
velvet are trimmed with dark
gray and black furs.
Dark blue wool dresses are elabo*
rately trimmed with red braid, or combined
with red wool.
Muscovite velvets have large figures
of cut velvet in high relief on the plain
uncut velvet ground.
Underskirts of velveteen are much
?tV>io oiitumn tionpnfh tiinina
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and polonaises of tweed and cheviot.
Brides' dresses are trimmed with
Bilver cords, silver galloon, and an
embroidery of silver threads and
beads.
Bonnets in the Princesse and Tarn
O'Shanter shapes are now made en
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tircly of white mull. They look very
pretty.
Silver braid and fine gray chenille
cord, plaited in basket designs, make
dressy bonnets, particularly when
trimmed with white and gray ostrich
feathers, and ornaments of silver.
Suede gloves in the new shades of
elephant, Pscnutt, and Russian gray,
czar brown, and Moscow green, come j
in the form of gauntlets, and with
long wrists, with or without buttons.
Modern Locust Plasnes.
Recent events have enabled the
world to realize more easily than before
the dread significance of a plague ,
of locusts. The locusts no longer revives
reminiscences of Pharaoh and
the Exodus; it is a terribly real
scourge of the modern world. Europe
is now invaded, and in Russia, Spain, (
and Portugal, locusts have turned into j
barren deserts the most fertile provinces.
Though their enemies are nu- j
i merous and hundreds of thousands are
killed by birds of prey and all sorts of
animals their numbers do not decrease,
| and until very lately little systematic .
! elfort has been made to oppose their -i
i advance. The island of Cyprus is notable
as being one of the first places to
take up weapons against the foe. Said
Pacini, in 1867, showed a strong determination
to enforce the regulations for ^
the destruction of locusts, and his ofiicial
progress from village to village,
preaching war against the locusts, had
sneh evnallenf results that r> few vears
later it was officially announced at Constantinople
that the locusts in the island
of Cyprus had been completely ^
destroyed. One of the measures which ^
proved most successful was the simple
expedient of compelling each rate-pay- t
er to collect sufficient locust eggs to fill
a large measure, which were then deo
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stroyed either by being buried in deep .
pits or by being burned. But notwithstanding
all precautions, a few of the '
eggs escaped, and Gordon Cumming
gives an interesting account of the
new locust war in Cyprus in the Nine- (
teenth Century. They "increased and ^
multiplied in so frightful a ratio that
by the summer of 1880 their vast
swarms threatened calamity to the
island." The British authorities set to ?
work in earnest to cope with the in- ~
sect. The measure of locusts' eggs to ^
be collected by each rate-payer was re ^
duced in size, and instead of being ^
made compulsory, as is the case in
Turkey, the working of locusts' traps
was paid for. If the measure fixed by ^
was imposed and by this means a trade
in locusts' eggs sprang up, the searchers
who were not lucky and those who
had no taste for locusts' egg hunting
buying their share from more fortunate
or industrious brethren. The. quanti. c
ty collected in 1879 was about twentysix
tons; in the following year it reach- ?
ed the enormous.'"'tal of 236 tons.?
Pall Mall Gazelle.
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Wfurtrirrz* Plnrinotno.
tjliailgv AIUJ Iiiiiiva*
The singular fact that venomous <
snakes will frequently permit children
to play with them ancl handle theTn i
without molestation had an apt illus* r
tration in Eldred township, Mo. Two t
little children, the one but two and 1
the other three years of age, were playing
together. The former was the
child of Franklin Smith, the latter the j
child of John Ileins. They were play- ^
ing in Smith's yard. Mrs. Smith, hav- r
ing occasion to go to the door, saw the >
two children sitting side by side on t
the grass. Iler child had a short stick
in its hand with which it was giving ^
frequent light taps on the ground in c
front of it. Mrs. Smith supposed they ?]
were playing with a small land turtle ^
which she had "seen about the yard for j
some days, and, after watching the i t
children's mirth for some time, she I t
walked toward them to see what they ^
were doing to the turtle. "When she ?
had approached to within a few feet of t
them she was horrified to see that the j ,
children were amusing themselves j t
with a large rattlesnake. For a mo- t
ment she was speechless and motion- j
less. The snake lay at full length, ap- r
parently enjoying the caresses and at- t
tention of the children. At each touch \
of the stick the snake would simply
raise its head, open its mouth and dart \
its tongue in and out. It was that that j
made the children laugh. Recovering <
herself, Mrs. Smith advanced a step or j
two. The snake discovered her. Like
a tlasli it threw itseir into tne con 01 j
springing, by which it alone can inllict j
its deadly bite. This movement \
frightened the children and they moved (
away out of its reach. Mrs. Smith ?
then found a club and succeeded in dis- ]
patching the snake. This done she
fainted away. She was found uncon- j
scious on the ground by a neighbor j
who was passing with the children cry- .
ing at her side, and the dead snake a ,
few feet away. She was soon resusci- ,
tated and told the above story. The
snake was over four feet long and had
seven rattles. < i
WHY, OH WHY?
"Hol," ISurriette. the Iltimorint, Jlonrnfully
Ivjnculntes in the "Cincinnati
lOnqulrer."
There are some unsolved mysteries
in the great problem of life that give
me cause for reflection and anxiety. If
I were rich I believe I would build me
a lonely cell somewhere irt Chilton or
some place like that, worth about $90,000,
with a store-room like a whole
sale grocery, where I might have plen.
tv of help in studying there intricate
problems in our daily economy, or ex.
travagance, as the case may be. For
often and often I wonder and wonderl
Why you always put tea-spoons into
the vase upside down ?
Why the pantaloons of a godless
atheist, who never said a prayer in his
life, bag at the knees just as quickly as
and decidedly as the breeks of the
saint who spends half his days on his
knees ?
Why it is wrong to eat pie with a
knife?
What Washington said to General
Lee at the battle of Monmouth?
Why so many generals in the army
iave been privates ever since the
war ?
How the directory of a railroad company
can get rich while the stockholders
gradually starve to death?
How a receiver prospers and grows
'at on a buinbss that ruined the mer
:hant?
Why the man who "has gone out of
>olitics" never misses a convention'
tnd always keeps "in the hands (and
ilso the pockets) of his friends?"
What the State would do for penientiaries
if all the rascals should sudlenly
step up and confess ?
Why a woman falls like a flash not
wo inches from t|ie banana skin she
iteps on, while a man falls like a cy:lone
half-way round the block, bowing
like a demon at every plunge,.and
Lt last climaxes with a crash under a
>eanut-stand on the other side of the
treet ?
Why "pure bear's oil" is always
:heaper when pork is way down, and
moms un like a balloon in the cholera
rears ?
Why, when spring chickens are so
mall you have to eat them by the dozn
to taste one, the price is so high
'ou have to buy them by the chicken?
Why a man frequently tries to make
timself necessary when he would serve
luraanity much better by making him*
elf scarce?
Why it is so much easier to lose
ialf a dozen bets than it is to win
>ne? """* * ?Why
Tom Thumb was always billed
is "twenty-three years old" until the
lay he died, when he nyide a jump of
nore inaii ins liiewwer
Why some people "remember the
>abbath day" as though it was only a
)arlor-car porter, and give it a quarter
n full for all demands?
Whatever became of the "blue-glass
emedy ?"
And what went with all the archery
dubs? .
I don't believe in philosophy wastng
its time on trifles. If the wise
nen want something useful and pracical
to ponder over, here are their
)roblems.
Poisoned Arrows.
Af q ronont. mpptinrr nf soiont.ists in
^aris, an interesting communication
vas received from M. W. J. Hoffman
egarding the methods employed by
Sorth American Indians to poison
heir arrow points.
The Coraanches simply pierce the
jreen shell of the "Spanish bayonet"
>r yucca angustifolia with the points.
The Apaches (Cayoters, sic) bruise up
he heads of rattlesnakes with deer's
iver, allow the mass to become putrid>
hen dip the arrow points, and allow
,hem to dry slowly. The Chinouns
Moquis of Arizona) irritate a rattlemake
until he bites himself, and then
lip the point and a portion of the
voodofthe arrow into the blood of
he animal. A wound with one of
hese arrows generally proves fatal in
:hr?e or four days, and its action is
nuch more rapid if the stomach of
he wounded person is empty at the
;ime the injury is received.
Another poison is obtained by irri;ating
bees, shaking the hive, and then
rilling them when iri this state with
.mail branches bunched together. The
nsects are crushed up in a mass
ivith mortar and pestle, and the arrow
loints are dipped in the magma. It
s probable that the active substance
n this case consists in tne lorriac acia
contained in the bodies of the bees.
This preparation does not cause death,
jut induces long continued sickness.
Another very active but not fataj
poison is prepared from red ants. It
produces pa'n in the pharynx, considerible
swelling of the part injured, and
sometimes delirium. The patient remains
feeble for a month.
Roast owl was esteemed a delicacy
in a recent Paris menu.
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A CITY'S AMBULANCE SERVICE.
1 How Sew York Provide* for Accident*
and Casuattle*.
, To some of the down-town police
! precincts the ambulances are called
| often half a dozen times in a single
night. It is then that the great crop of
drunks is reaped and that nearly all
the-fighting and murdering is done*
By day accidents to workmen and people
in the streets engage the attention
of the hospital surgeons. The ambulance
horses stand all day and night in
a Dutch cellar ready to turn out at a
momentls notice Under the driver's
seat is a little drug store containing
the essentials ip emergency treatment.
Frequently the call comes over the fire
wires?twenty strokes of the hell ana
the number of the br x where the ambulance
is wanted. It starts from the
nearest hospital. Rarely the ominous
twenty-five notes spells out the message:
4 "Send all the ambulances
in the "city," as it did the
day when the Riverdale blew up. Then
a race for life and death takes place
from up town and from down town,
for which all other traffic must give
way. The ambulance, like the mail
wagon, has the right of way everywhere.
In the fighting precincts, Fourth,
Sixth, Eighth, Fourteenth, all below
Houston street, the hours between 11
at night and 2 o'clock in the morning
are usually the busiest, particularly on
Saturday nights. On Sunday mornings
the term is stretched a couple of hours
till daylight in, honor'of the excise law*
In New York satan works hardest
when the churches are open, and idle
ness and rum are his tools. A police
sergeant's life .is not a sinecure in these
precincts. His responsibility is great,
and usually he is not willing to take
chances. Too many fatal mistakes of
judgment arcrtte record. Any wound
on the head or bad looking cut is cause
enough to discard the doorman's sur.
gery for the doctor's. If the "subject''
is a prisoner or refuses to go to the
hospital, the police sugeon is sent for.
Unconscious cases almost invariably
bring out the ambulance. The single
word, "poison," added to the message
from head-quarters spells at the hospital
the sentence, "Bring the stomach
J pump, and hurry up." And they hur
ry. jn ot long since an amouiance on
the way to the scene of a reported accident
ran over a man on Third avenue
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stopped to pick him up, and returned
with two patients instead of one.
The sick-wagon, by contrast, comes
at leisure. All urgent cases are for
Mimhiitei^'a^d iVcajiOQLj^asg- _
them. Transfers from one hospital to
another can be made afterward. With
sick patients it is different Usually
they can wait. They belong, as the
case happens to be contagious or not,
under the board of health or the department
of charities and correction,
if they have not the means to employ
a doctor of their own, as they seldom
have. The "sick cases" come from the
tenements, the lodging houses and the
streets. If the patient has been less
than five years in the county he is refused
by the ambulance and the sick_
wagon, and the emigration department's
wagon comes after official delay
of sometimes many hours to take the
"case" to Ward's Island.
The recently established night medical
service has provided a most useful
and welcome expedient in such cases,
by putting into the hands of the police
the means of bringing immediate relief,
while insuring to the doctor his
pay. Of the twenty odd persons benefited
by the service in one month not
one was able or willing to pay for the
help rendered, but left that to the city
at the rate of $3 a call.?New York
World.
A Startling Statement.
"There is not in the Bible a single
commandment against self-slaughter.'
This remarkable statement was made
by Mr. Samuel Yorke, one of the most
distinguished jurists and scholars in
this section, says a Washington letter.
"I make that remark advisedly and
it is literally true. From the beginning
of Genesis, to the end of Revelation,
there is neither prohibition
nor censure of the act. Xo denunciation
or reproach can be found in the
Decalogue, nor in the Mosaic code, nor
in the prophetical writing, nor in the
historical chronicles; neither in the
New Testament, nor In the apostolic
epistles and teachings, nor even in the
Apocrypha There are only eight cases
of suicide mentioned in the Bible:
Abiraelech, Samson, Saul, his armor
hearer, Ahithophel, Zinari, Eazis and
Judas Iscariot. In all these cases the
facts are simply set forth without com
nient either of praise or of censure, ex
cept in the case of Eazis, whose "manliness"
is commended. It may be said
that the act of suicide is comprehended
by the command to do no murder, but
there Is no identity between murder
and suicide. One is prompted by
cupidity or revenge, and is directed
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against the person of another; the other
is a deed of insanity or of despair,
directed against himself, and certainly
without cupidity or revenge. We-are <
then forced to the conclusion that s
suicide is no declared, specific offense
against God. The belief that it is, in- t
culcated for so many centuries in t
Christendom, had its origin in ecclesiastical
economy. t
THE TEXAN BANGEBS.
IIow Ther Clean Out Deiperadoei In t
the Lone Star State.
A correspondent of the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, writing from Sierra '
Blanca, Texas, says: The average St '
Louisan has but an opaque knowledge 1
or what a tnorougn Drea icxaa k-migoi
is, or what he looks like, and so I ap. i
plied the syphon to Captain McMurray, i
and learned the following facts: Adju. t
tant General King,of the United States
army, whose headquarters are at Aus- i
tin, is the commander-in-chief, and has g
for subordinates six captains, who are j
appointed by the governor. The cap.
tains of rangers are paid $100 per
month, and are furnished by the state,
which yearly appropriates $80,000 for J
the service. They appoint and enlist
their own men for a term of one year, '
ending September 1, each company
comprising twenty-five men. The privates
are paid $30, corporals $35, sergeants,
$50, and lieutenants $65 per *
month. No uniform is worn, and the
men look like cattlemen, as they spend t
most of their time on the plains or in
camp. They are accomplished and dar- j j
ing riders, intrepid and dauntless in
action, and are armed with Winchester
carbines and Colt's improved forty-two, '
being experts in the use of these arms. ^
The duties of the rangers are to pro.
tect frontiersmen and cattlemen from
the raids of horse-thieves, cattle-* hieves
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and border ruffians, but they do not in.
terfere with smuggling unless called
upon by the United States authoritiesThey
are for the most part in the sad- ^
die, except such as board the trains
running from St. Louis to Deming, in ^
which they ride between Fort "Worth
and Colorado City, armed to the teeth
and prepared to resist all efforts o*
train robbers or hilarious cowboys.
The United States does not own land ?
in the state of Texas, and one of the {
best known tracts of prairie land is the
"Llano Estacada," or staked plain, ^
which is 120 miles wide and extends
from the northern boundary of Texas J
to the tracks of the Texas and Pacific
railway, all guarded by rangers. While
a sheriff may only make an arrest in his
?"i'ilSnMIM'lTl 11 yjar
hend a person in any part of the state
and swear in any number of citizens as
specials to aid him in refractory cases.
One of the most interesting.fights was
that at Eanger station with a gang of ^
train robbers, who are now serving
terms in the state prison. The captains
make their regular monthly re. t
ports to General King, giving the number
of miles covered by their companies,
the number and character of the t
arrests effected, and a general resume r
of the work done. Captain McMurray "
is one of the most popular men in
Texas, and his powerful form is well- r
known to the patrons of the Texas and '
Pacific railroad, which his men patro]
day and night to guard against train .
wreckers. He was born in Franklin,
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Tenn., and was a confederate captain
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unaer yycvuvci, aiuu nu^u uo I
became deputy sheriff of Sherman,, and
later joined the rangers, under Lee
Hall, as lieutenant, being shortly promoted
to a captaincy. During the con- ^
struction of the Texas and Pacific railg
road Captain McMurray was in com- r
mand of the rangers and a body of j
armed men in th 3 employ of the rail* ,
road, who protected the engineer corps J
from Indians, Mexicans and disaffected
persons,aDd he was also one of the party ^
who killed that desperado and train
wrecker, Sam Bass, at Denton,in 1878. j
Monkeys as Torch-Bearers.
The monkey, in combination with
the hand-organ, has been found to be
such a serviceable member of society
that a brisk trade in that intelligent
but unhappy beast has begun between
Singapore and the Italian ports.
Europe has done very little in the way
of developing the talents of' the
monkey, though Egypt has furnished
through all ages an example of what
may be attained in that direction. In
the south of Abyssinia, upon the testi.
mony of the late Sir Gardiner Wilkin.
son, monkeys are still taught several s
useful accomplishments. One of these j
is that of officiating as torch-bearers at \
a supper party. Seated in a row on a t
raised bench, they hold the lights until t
all the guests have departed, patiently s
awaiting their own supper as a reward f
for their services. Occasionally an ob. c
streperous animal will interrupt the t
festivities by throwing his lightei^^
torch among the
oromptly caned intq^|HflBHfiBBjK
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PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
"What is defeat? Nothing but edo:ation;
nothing but the first step to ^
ioinething better.
The sublimity' of wisdom is to do
hose things living which are desired
,o be done when dying.
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which
be least shadow intercepts, while ad*
rersity is often as the rain of spring
Do that which is right The reaped
)f mankind will follow; or, if it does
lot, you will be able to do without it
A wise man ought to hope for the
lest, be prepared for the worst and
iear with equanimity whatever may
lappen.
A man has no more right to say an
incivil thing than to act one; no more
igm to say a rude thing to another
;han to knock him down. J
Great is he who enjoys his earthen- ( j
vare as if it were plate, and not less I
?4-/-v oil hia J
?1 C<1 L 13 tlic lliau IA/ VYULVUU XAAW p
.3 no more than earthenware.
Of all the actions of a man's life, hit
narriage does least concern other people,
yet of all the actions of our live* ^
t is most meddled with by other
people.
SOLDIERING IN ANNA3L
Composition of the Ann*mite Army and
Its discipline.
The St. James Gazette gives an in.
eresting description of the army at
;he disposal of the king of Annam. It
s reckoned officially at 200,000 men.
)f these 40,000 garrison the capital,
ind half that number is assigned to
Janoi and the surrounding fortresses*
STam Dinh. Ninh Binh, Bach Ninh,
ind other placesmTonquin. The reat HH
ire ordinarily disguised" Tfl~'cittHfU3?^0P
ittire, and are not to be distinguished
xom harmless agriculturists. When a
nan is dressed in the customary vestnents
of a Madras coast coolie?a
landkerchief and a bit of string?it is
lifficolt at the first blush to determine
lis profession. In Annam, however,
he matter is rendered comparatively
imple. The law is, from every three
nen one recruit. Except, however, in
ases of extraordinary public necessity
his rule is not acted up to; one man
fom every seven or eight is much
learer the average. The selections of
he recruits is left entirely to the local
Minorities, ana tne village mammrina .
oake a good thing out of the annual
evies.
In default of squad drill the An- /
lamese recruits are put through a
i aiieto ot uuulf^ftnV-^periencfea jde~ ^
igned to test their courapBMiysical
:ourage and endurance are supposed to
)6 the primary requisites of a soldier*
ind, after that, the knowledge of how
o load and let off a gun. It is pleastntly
assumed by the military officers
hat the men chosen for the army are
he worst of the population. The
mandarins are supposed to keep their
listricts quiet by - drafting all their
'mauvais sujets" into the annual levy.
Chere is, accordingly, the less corapuno;ion
in putting them through the pre
icribed testa The first of these is to
issault the raw recruit violently with
i sabre. The sabre is a wooden one,
:ertainly; but the drill sargeant hits
lard, and knows from personal experience
where it hurts most Operations
jommenee on the back and end with
slows on the head. The recruit who
stands battering about the head for a ^
natter of about five minutes without
lttering a groan or flinching, e^ en in.
voluntarily, is hailed as a finished
soldier, and excused further "drilL"
ro shrink, or even to moan, when
jeaten on the head with the wooden
sword is considered pardonable, and
ihe victim is noted down as an "ordilary"
soldier, instead of an "able
jodied" one.
But the recruit who cries out when
le is hit on the body or confesses by a
vriggle that the exercise is painful is
eported for punishment and then put
.hrough a new course of instruction
rhe punishment usually cons^ts in a
:ertain number of blow/Trom a bju- *
)oo. The military mandarins defend
;he system on the ground that it is
,-ery ancient, that it is unique in
he military exercises of the world?
,he latter ascertion being incontroverti
)le. EnergeHCDflTcersol the army j
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