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EMPIRE’S CRACK MARKSMEN - FOREGATEER. Where Two Thousand of the Best Shots Meet as Patriots, Not Pot-Hunters. At no place in the world is a greater gathering of sharpshooters ever found than at Bisley, writes Frederic Walker in The London Mail. On the pine-clad Surrey commons there are now assembled the picked marksmen of the empire. The presence of the men from overâ€" seas represents a year’s patient shooting, for numbers attending are limited and the competition for se- lection is keen. This year the great brigade of sharpshooters is again comprehensive in its collectivism. The sharp drawl of the sons of the pine from North- west Canada contrasts oddly with the soft tongue of the New Zealand‘ er; the rifleman from the Punjab rubs shoulders with the West Indian, while Uganda and the Cape jostle with Paris and Aberdeen. In no assembly is the mixture of dialects so noticeable, for the harsh burr of the northern counties, the 'Gaelic tongue, and the purring of the Celt mingle with purest. Cockney and the strange “bat” from overseas. A great working hive is Bisley. A thousand men are firing to-day, and two thousand to-morrow. They are the salt of the earth in shooting and between them exists a freemasonry of the gun~barre1, which has no counterpart. SHARPSHOOTERS’ ALL. Most of them could hit the heart at a thousand yards. Great, long rows of prone men lie stretched along the green butts, and the crack of cordite is unintormittent. They handle their rifles as a woman does her child. The rifle is the nursling of the shootist, which may bring him fame or obloquyâ€"flll his purse or empty it. Bang! Away goes a shot at 900 yards. The White target in the next parish seems in doubt, but finally it {shivers and bobs from sight. When ‘the marking dummy comes up it reâ€" cords what has happenedâ€"a bull'sâ€" leye, or perhaps a bad outer. If the latter there is more nursing an alteration in elevation, an allow- ance for windage, and off goes anâ€" other bullet, whistling its way, to end with a “pill” against the sandy bank of the butts. "Bull’s-eye, Col. Gibson.” reads the register-keeper, and the colonel, having found his aim, proceeds to drill out the piecemeal. These are men Mr. Arnoldâ€"Foster means to haveâ€"men who can shoot an enemy in a landing~boat half a. mile from the shore; and to this end he excuses from attending regimental :camps every volunteer who will put ‘in a week at the imperial wapenshaw i on the gorseland between the Hog’s Back and Chobham .Ridges. PATRIOTS, NOT POT-HUNTERS. This is the final official "act of rec- ,ognition of the value of individual merit in shooting. Years ago a. man who made a hobby of shooting was hubbed a potâ€"hunter. knocked the bottom out of the fetish I volleyâ€"firing and this was followed by Lord Roberts’ eulogy of snapâ€"shootâ€" ing. Finally, Pall Mall unbent, and after 44 years of consideration placâ€" ed the hallâ€"mark of oilicial approval on "the shooting volunteer." But the work is not all on the range. In the statistical office is a- small army of postofl‘ice Volunteers, sorters in the main, who tackle mountains of score tickets which are rained upon them by mounted or- derlies galloping from the firing points. Fifteen hundred tickets for a single big competition take some sorting, and there are, over fifty events every day; but, under the deft fingers of the postal volunteers, the pile Sinks, the lowest prizeâ€"taker is known, and Mr. Caiger's official list is being telegraphed to every paper in Britain. Nor does the work end with the arithmetic of shooting. A field force of regulars are employed manâ€"hand- ling the targets; and streets of nonâ€" commissioned officers to keep the scores at the firing points, sitting out all day until the sun tans their faces to copperâ€"color, despite the giant umbrellas whose peaceful shade they enjoy. , THE RANGE OFFICER. And there is the range officer dup- licated at each group of targets. No pay is too much for the sweat of his daily agony. He answers as many questions as a porter at Wat- erloo, and is expected by each com- petitor to answer q'fféries with the memory of a Datas. and to lcnow the family history of 'every marksman surrendering a competition ticket to him. Finally, there is Lieut.â€"Col. C. B. Crosse, who sits at the head of the whole mountain of decentralization,- nothing puts him out; his brain is as cool as an icebox and under his hands the great meeting glides along like a Well oiled machine to its apâ€" pointed conclusion. The council sits under the chairâ€" manship of Lord Chelyesmore. and it comprises the greybeards of the shooting world. The Bisley Comâ€" mittee embraces such officers as Capt. John Barlow, who spends a small fortune every year on encourâ€" aging marksmanship; Major the Hon. 1‘. F. Fremantle, a. famous long- centre of the target Then war : lT‘HE BISLEY MEETINIIJUSTl-FIED Ill " WHAT Hll sus- WHY J. J. PERKINS OWES HIS LIFE TO DODD’S KIDNEY PILLS. Doctor Had Given Him up-and he Was Hopeless and Destitute Be- fore the Great Canadian-Kidney Remedy put Kim on His'Feet. Tyndall, Man, 'Aug. 8.â€"(Special)â€" When a man has had Kidney Disease; when the doctor has given him up; when that man takes Dodd’s Kidney Pills, begins at once to recover and is soon a well man, that man Is surely in a position to say that Dodd’s Kidney Pills saved his life. That is the experience of Mr. J. J. Perkins of this place. Speaking of his case Mr. Perkins says :â€" “For two years I was troubled with my kidneys and at last became so bad that the doctor who was attending me gave me up’and said I was inâ€" curable. “I continued to grow worse. I was unable to work and was becoming destitute when to please a friend I tried Dodd's Kidney Pills. "The first box did me so much good I felt like a new man and after taking five boxes I was completely cured.” Dodd's Kidney Pills cure the kidâ€" neys, and cured kidneys cure. Dropsy, Rheumatism, Heart Disease and all other diseases resulting from impure blood. range shot; Lord Waldegrave. Mr. Henry Whitehead; Major W. 'i‘horâ€" burn, equally renowned with the rifle, and the small arms expert, A. P. Humphry, whose opinion is al- ways sought by the war office. Between the officials and the marksmen is the colony of the old school. those pastmasters of the art of shooting, who come as spectators to watch the new generation perform. At the peak of the camp stands a mega/Line charged with cartridges for the target campaign, and under the Watchful eyes of Superintendent Isâ€" aacs’ detachment of London con- stables. On the highest pinnacle [about the pine and gorse stands the flag-staff with its masthead drum, which semaphores “Commence” and “Cease fire” to every part. of the camp. When the drum is dowu no man may have a cartridge in his rifle, and the air is still. When it is up there is a flight of bullets con- stantly humming, and sufficient to stop any clervish rush. Tens of thou- sands of cartridges bury themselves in the high protecting banks every year until the original sand of the butts becomes a seam of lead. At nightfall is the lead-picker's harvest. » The gypsies stalk the pick- ets, and if sliCCessful they spend “a lraking night" on the entrenchments. lBut they rarely elude the patrols as iin the old days, and the business of llead recovery is no longer the pro- {fitable game which aforetime led the lRomany to camp on the fringe of the ' commons. l â€"â€"+â€" CLERGY OF ENGLAND. The Poverty of Some of Them Is Appalling. The appaling poverty of clergyman tin poor parishes in England is one of the saddest phases of the religious life of toâ€"dz-iy. This poverty is not the least. of the causes which have led to the accusation of “paganism” being hurled against the country. Mr. C. Guise Mitford, who, as seeâ€" retary of the Queen Victoria \Clergy lFund, )S in a position to speak with authority, was interviewed on the subject recently. “As long,” said he, “as the intel~ lectual and social standard of the clergy is kept as low as it is. so long will the churches be empty. “How can a clergyman who has not enough to eat, nor money to buy decent clothes and books of reference, be expected to do his parish work and preach good sermons, torn as he is with domestic worries? “The artisan of to-day is a reader. -a thinker, and a politician, and he will not attend the church of a clerâ€" gyman who has lost prestige. “One of the few remedies for this evil is the compulsory amalgamation ’.of parishes where the clergy are anxâ€" ious to work, but. have no work to do. l “The poverty among the clergy is appalling. I know of one clergyman in the Norwich diocese, the poorest in England, whose living was worth under £40. He lived in a cottage in the middle of a potato field, and supplemented his income by selling old clothing which had been given him. “He reached his bedroom, with his bed, waslisiand. and solitary chair, by a ladder. A varsity friend gave him a pair of curtains and these he used to patch up the chancel of his church. “With Archdeacon Sinclair's re- marks abo'lt 'Pngan Londoners’ I disagree. The man who. after a day in the country, is not a Pagan, and, as a. matter of fact. the rows lof cycles outside the churches in the lcountry about London will prove Ithat so-callod woek-enders attend cy- 'cllst services by the hundred." strenuous week’s work, seeks a Sun- “ Pure soapl” You’ve heard the word“. In S u n l i g ht 8 0a 13 you have the fact. REDUCES EXPENSE Ask for the Octagon Bar. SIGNIFICANCE OF PLAY. Play distinguishes the higher from the lower animals, and it signifies possibility of education. 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