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places h lessons are given during the last year of the ---- in. Grundtvig.. It has done very mu 'to consolidate Danish notions of nationality and to advance the ag- ricultural prosperity of the people. "The high schools exist in the loountry districts, and are attended m=} ghe is h represents In this food § $0 ex- Bt is| 8 in the summer by young men and the winter by young ' women. hey resemble somewhat our Chau- mqua, but the curriculum is more ted ; the students all live in one ge, and the = amusements are|ge4 very simple and connected with na- tional and religious ideas. 'When a farmer's son or daughter 'has sufficient notey to spend.on a term or two at a high school, he or appy. 4 GRECIAN PRINCESS. A COTLAND YARD'S 'NEW HEAD John Me€arthy Has Often Shelter- od European Royalty. ard, on. He a8 ap ordinary con ears street duty, ed great apti- he was trans: '| hovering or: returni di fe great p ioconopioucts b : it departments of the German Army. ka, = oe 3 ls, | General von Hausen, Saxon War a Td foas. a regiment of reserves on the Elbe, roundly, 195,000 troops were employed. A Red invading army, representing a Western Pow: er, marhalled a force of some 67,000 men, made up aa follows: HUGE ARMIES. 61% Battalions of infantry. . 10. Machine * Men. +43,000 1e-gun companies . 750 Batteries of field artillery 9,000 Squadrons of cavalry .... 9,800 Batteries of foot artillery 1,200 Batteries of Horse artill'y 600 Companies of pioneers :.. 1,350 Division bridge trains 400 Corps bridge trains ...... 400 Telegraph, telephone, wire- less and air-craft troops... 1,000 " i A Blue defending army consisted oh roundly, 56,000 men, made up as ows : Men. 494 Battalions of infantry...34,650 Squadrons of cavalry ... 9,600 Batteries of field artillery 7,200 Batteries of foot artillery 1,200 'Machine-gun companies.. 600 Battalion of pioneers .... 1,200 Batteries of horse artil'y. 600 Machine-gun detachments 150 Cavalry pioneer detach- 70 ment 100 Telegraph, telephone, wire- | less, and aircraft troops. . 1,000 Minister commanding Blue, General von Buelow ¢ Red, were both, of course, true to the German a of restless of- fensive, as their Leitmotive, All their manoeuvres had the offensive primarily in mind. : One of the tasks set generals im the present manoeuvres was c0-op- eration withs neighboring armies, 6th Red and Blue, in addition to actual forces, had "assumed armies" on either flank for theoreti- cal co-operation. A-novelty was the appearance in the Elbe of a flotilla of motor-boats, armed with ma- chine-guns, intended to harass river-orpssings. They proved quite ineffective and useless except for transport of machine-guns, being far too vulnerable to attacks from troops on the banks. USE OF AUTOS. Another innovation was the em- ployment of auto-omnibuses for troop-transport, The surprise ar- rival of a heavy detachment of rifle- men, who were rushed up in omni- buses, proved the decisive factor in a certain engagement--an experi- ence which demonstrated the rash- ness of cavalry attacking infantry in . position. ~~ Motor-cars, motor- cycles, and motor-trucks were used to an unprecedentedly large de- gree. River-crossing, having played 80 conspicuous a role in the man- oeuvres, it remains to be said that the pioneers worked with marked precision in bridge - building, though their operations were some-~ + | times not distinguished for speed. ATRORAFT SUCCESS. The Red invaders were supplied with & Parseval airship and a de- tachment of six or eight aeroplanes. Blue had the Zeppelin III. airship and the eame number of flying ma- chines as Red. It may be said at once that the work of the military aircraft was of first-rate order, As far as was ascertainable disaster overtook only one aeroplane of all the craft engaged. he scouting on both sides was so efficiently done that each army was compelled to resort to an extraordinary amount of night work in order to screen its movements and tactical operations. Never before has it been brought home so vividly to my mind that the armies of the future will be com- pelled to march and fight under co- ver of darkness to a degree hither- to: unexperienced in the annals of war, GREAT BCOUTING. For far reconnaissance, cavalry and aeroplanes co-operated for the first time in German manoeuvres, a noteworthy step in the effective use of aircraft, There were innnm- erable occasions when both armies had reliable knowledge of the movement and dispositions of the enemy many hours or even a whole day in advance of what would have been the case if cavalry scouting only had been relied upon. Zeppe- lin ITI. was omnipresent, literally, and. rendered incaloulably valuable servios to Blue. There seemed hardly a moment during the opera- tions when Zeppelin III. was not to ita own headquarters with priceless intelli- Aeroplanes did not limit ork to scouting, but proved and reliable time-savers in h- the carrying of communications be- twe of fashion and severe external rp Mi OVER HALF ARE WORKERS. In France Sixty-four Out of Every Hundred Toil.. On an area of 200,000 square miles, one-half of which is under cultivation, France supports a pop- ulation of about 39,000,000, which scarcely varies from year to year. For some time agricultural condi- tions have been. most disastrous. Bad seasons, floods and crop fail- ures have reduced the people to de- spair, says a writer in The Cen- tury, discussing "The Trade of France." One half of the popula- tion finds its occupation in agricul- ture, and one-half are breadwin- ners. Sixty-four out of every one hundred men are wage workers, and thirty-three out of every one ° hundred women. The unhappiness which can come to a people so dependent upon in- dustry when dull times prevail is in- tensified in this case by the impor- tance attached to the savings, which must be laid aside each year if life is to be counted a success. To own a government bond with its lottery attachment is the ambition of all, for the bond not only yields an in- come but there is always the hope anda chance of a prize, something that 'has not been worked for, a sudden accession of wealth. ' Other securities naturally yield better re- turns, but with those 'who have more imagination than wealth they are not so popular. , waist esi AUTO BRINGS SIMPLICITY. London Finds That Customs Cen- turies Old Have Been Upset. The ad¥ent of the automobile his caused a rapid decline in ostenta- tion among wealthy people in Eng- land. Splendid liveries, powdered wigs and eockades have all gone out sim-