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ce in 1812 is once lost a wittenburg ger- ount of mr john ward kansas says of the pittsburg desr from omaha waterloo could not keep akc all the time for he ave slept intermittently on during the course of the but mr munsinger who is 13 years of age once kept the t napoleon from sleeping mr munsinger was a baby in wit- nburg napoleon was on the march nto russia the vast army of the french passed through wittenburg jl where a large division of the army ramped for the night napoleon and his wife marie of austria casting t about for headquarters for the night selected the large home of mr mun- j singers father mr john munsinger was then a y and his tiny stomachaches ove him to cry out in such a way to keep the emperor wakeful but e great corsican did not complain fact napoleon gave little thought j sleep at hat time he was plan- g the invasion of russia then the munsinger baby had yhood his father many a e story of that inter- apoleon and his discussing the on mapped declared de- at general petain the able frenchman who is in charge of the defence of verdun outside no sentry is visible but one remarks little groups of secret service men in civilian clothes whose chief duty is to prevent the general from being annoyed by anxious peas ants still left in the community questioned as to the ultimate fate of verdun staff officers at this head quarters replied in effect as follows nobody can say definitely be cause our adversaries are playing their all but the trick has not been taken with means inferior to theirs we have broken a long prepared at tack let us await development with confidence our adversaries cannot repeat their original efforts indefin itely and our admirable troops have not reached the end of their magnifi cent endeavor gen petain jokingly says of him self thathe has had fourteen chauf feurs in two months gen petain was about to retire as a colonel when the war broke out for his courage and ability in the charlcroi retreat gen joffre corn- ended him and afterward made him general of brigade later he was a division and now he com- s an army and is exceeded in rity only by joffre and castel- ough almost sixty gen petain derfully vigorous his men love because he shirks none of their sships in champagne recently he a company across two miles of ugh ground at double quick by the visit paid to him by presi- lent poincare he has been recognize officially as the saviour of verdun apart from the indefatiguable en ergy which makes him appear fro be thatis supposed to be rather un lucky isnt it not many v ccks afterwards the archduke ahdhis wife were murder ed and evefitsvwere set rolling thai quickly led to the outbreak of the war the old callbooks at the palace if sold in the open market would prob ably fetch many thousands of pounds for a dozen of these books king ed ward is said to have been offered 76000 by an american collector but the offer was of course declined loildon answers btsieged seven years constantinople once dedicated a church to divine peace at one period a church at con stantinople was built and dedicated to the divine peace and another was dedicated to st dynamite said sir edwin pears in a lecture to the association of university women teachers at university hall in lon don referring to the time centuries back when constantinople was be sieged for seven years and the walls built in the time of justinian resisted all efforts to take it the lecturer said england at that time was not much more than barbarian whereas constantinople was the bulwark of europe containing the most learned men who were perpetuating and con tributing to art literature and paint ing constantinople was the city in which our- nicene creed was settled upon the reason of the wording i believe in one god being that there has been a tendency to believe in two or three personalities but eventual ly the eastern peril which threatened for many years came upon constant inople and it was captured by the moslems and had been held ever since by them present he has more orders than her v the forests of tfie argonne can fill and private is in fact i a the front have been razed by a fair sample of st dunstans output j sne an shrapnel and the aspect and a number of others who learn 0 tn hill is being still further modi- the trade of matmaking are doing f by these tunneling and mining as well as he is operations various trades learned i 4 ti miner in private life peciahzed at the front in this kind several basketmakers are earning 0 work describes the conditions un- good wages one who has been so w the work is often suddenly fortunate as to obtain special work j stopped and the enemys operations showing at present earnings which checked at the tame time reach as high as 2 a week i the sappers are digging shoveling makers of pictureframes trays j silence when suddenly one of them and other articles requiring an ex- j stops he has heard a hollow sound pert knowledge of joinery find their j the soil under his pick two or three time fully and profitably occupied i more strokes and his instinct of an no masseurs have yet completed j 0 miner reveals to him that there their training but several will pass j a hole under the gallery he strikes the stiff examination which lay be- j again the point of the pick penetrates fore them in the course of the next there is no more doubt but that a ger- few weeks and they have been pro- m blasting hole exists underneath miscd wellpaid posts at military hosjgy small strokes slowly with in and pitals j finite precaution the sapper enlarges other men are rapidly qualifying the opening then aided by his com as expert shorthand writers by the ra lets himself down into the hole braille system as telephone-opera- yj revolver in his fist tors and as divers indced a german blasting hole the important work of devising a that has discovere with a gallery satisfactory scheme of aftercare for the cmj the q is whether the men who are settled at their- occupied to tell the occupations is proceeding i perhaps will appear and rush various satisfactorily arrangements have to be made for supervising their work which would otherwise ten to deteri orate for providing their raw ma terial for marketing their goods and for securing a continuity of wellpaid employment for those who have been trained in such occupations as mas sage and boot repairing upon the intruders no one comes the mine is empty leaving a watchman the sappers and miners ascend into the french galery and go and report their discovery to the captain who decides to profit by the occasion to play a good game upon the germans while continuing to work in the neigh boring mines to deceive the ailvers- and sympathetic understanding tween the people of scotland russia by the death of mr alexander mackinnon the gardening world in scotland has lost one of its most distinguished members for many years he acted as head gardener and manager to viscount melville at mel ville castle midlothian one of the oldest soup kitchens in scotland is that at the border town of coldstream which has just cele brated its centenary in its early days it was supported largely by means of a voluntary levy of a penny per week per inhabitant wasted labor the members of a certain learned society had a gathering at the home of one of their number while they were roaming about the house the host called the attention of his guests to an old clock a great favorite of his he told his friends of his at tachment to this ancient timepiece and added gentlemen t have wound up that clock every night for more than forty years well youve done a lot of unnecessary labor then said one of his friends who was ex amining the clock for thats an eight- day clock i nociaud a man isnt necessarily a simpleton merely because he lives the simple lifo a large permanent fund will be ry rs an1 auxil 0 the in- needed if this work which lias been f are put s to work stuff- entrusted to a special department of with cxplosives the old german the national institute for the blind is to prove permanently useful st dunstans has received many intimations of the intention to be queath legacies for this purpose and a great number of efforts have been i made all over england to augment the fund by bazaars and entertain ments of all kinds the plea of the blinded soldiers al ways proves most potent and highly satisfactory results have followed these efforts for example a few young ladies of a small northern town raised 900 by a bazaar a firm who wished to perpetuate the memory of a valued employe killed at he front sent 100 which will be permanently recorded on a tablet in the hall of the national insti tute for the blind and similar vic- morial sums have been sent by re latives of fallen soldiers theres nothing so surprising to the mart who shirks a task as the apparent ease and rapidity with which a man of industry accomplish es it blasting hole which communicates j with the gallery leading to the ger- 1 man earthworks and to a little ocj cupicd post every one works un ceasingly what a good joke to play upon them every one says the germans at the other end of the gal- lery are on the watch and we have been on the watch for them to see that they did not surprise our plans for the slightest slip or awkwardness a bungling movement with the tools might give the alarm finally at dawn the work is done the entire german gallery at the end where it communicates with our excavation i3 nothing but a vast canyon stuffed with cheddite all the men are at their posts a signal is given the fuse lighted and in an instant the earth cracks it is safe to raise a hcadl above the surface now for the enemy is too much occupied to fire the trench is entirely unheaved and the germans fly in the air some of them whole and some of them in parts the poor man who weds an heiress believes in the gold cure for finan cial ills yi about bandages the best material to use is un bleached calico whats a bandage something you wrap round a wound vastly more than that there are as many varieties of bandages and as many ways of fixing them as there are wounds and limbs and more the usual material for red cross roller bandages is unbleach ed calico as it has stiffness and sub stance white cotton or sheeting is second choice linen is seldom- used too expensive flannel bandages r fortlie trunk of the body and rheumatic joints gauze is used to refrain a dressing in position domette is useful for keep ing bandages or splints in position stockingette may be used for vari cose veins or dropsical limbs muslin or crinoline are employed in the ap plication of plasterofparis starch or silicated bandages the regulation widths and lengths of roller bandages may surprise you taking the series finger arm leg and body the widths run from in to gin and the lengths from 1- ycl to 21 ft varieties of bandages are singleheaded doubleheaded spica capelline halfcapelline four- tailed manytailed etc each ha3 its proper use and the correct meth od of binding needs careful study generally the limbs are bound from below upwards but the abdomen must be bound from above downward gers toes arms legs arc differently even the positiqnyor nurse while applying them is ously defined bandaging is a good deal more than wrapping something round a wound initials spell mother mr and mrs frederick s mcclory of chicago have six children mildred olive theodore harry elizabeth and robert whose initials properly arranged spell mother this hap pened by chance as harry is the old est and elizabeth th youngest i jvw a r sm