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EVENTS OF THE MONTH.
July 1. Funeral of President Carnot in Paris.
Signor Bandi assassinated at Leghorn.
2. Lord Russell appointed Lord Chief Justice.
Canon Ainger appointed Master of the Temple.
State Ball at Buckingham Palace.

Distribution of certificates at Royal Academy of
Music by Princess Louise.

Celebration of sixtieth anniversary of Royal
Institute of British Architects.

Dowager Duchess of Montrose's stud sold for

42,405 guineas.

Intercolonial Conference at Ottawa discussed the
Pacific cable project.

New army regulations, drawn up by the
Emperor of Germany, were published.
Railway Strike in America spreading.
Canadian Pacific express train wrecked; five
passengers killed.

Attempted assassination of the Marquis of Cubas
in Madrid.

3. Opening of new buildings of British Home for Incurables at Streatham by the Prince and Princess of Wales.

President Casimir-Périer's messige read in the
French Senate and Chamber of Deputies.
In Windsor Home Park the Queen reviewed
1,000 boys of the Greenwich Hospital School.
Duke of York laid memorial stone of Cripplegate
Institute, Golden Lane.

County Council decided to prepare and introduce
next session eight Bills for the acquisition of
the undertakings of the eight Metropolitan
Water Companies.

Both Houses of Convocation of the Province of
Canterbury and the House of Laymen as-
sembled at Westminster and protested against
Welsh Disestablishment.

Celebration of Jubilee of Salvation Army.
Miners' Federation meeting held at Birmingham.
United States Senate passed the Tariff Bill.

4. Resolutions carried by the Houses of Convocation unfavourable to Sunday opening of

museums.

Banquet at Mansion House to the Bishops.
Henley Regatta commenced.

Troops congregated in Chicago against Railway
Strikers.

Inter-University cricket match ended in favour
of Oxford.

Intercolonial Conference endorsed project of a
Pacific cable free from foreign control.
Madame Carnot declined offer of a peusion made
her by the French Governn.ent.
Conference at Oxford, under auspices of National
Liberal Feleration, to discuss Parish Councils.
Annual Meeting of the International Arbitra-
tion and Peace Association.

Italian warships ordered to Rio de Janeiro on
account of the refusal of Brazil to submit
certain questions to arbitration.
Cholera reappeared in St. Petersburg.

5. Meeting of Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the financial relations of Great Britain and Ireland.

General Miles assumed command of the Troops in Chicago.

Collisions at the Stockyards between the Soldiers
and the Strikers.

Collision between the yachts Valkyrie and
Satanita on the Clyde. Valkyrie sank.
M. Burdeau elected President of the French
Chamber.

6. Meeting of the Coal Conciliation Board.
Loudon Municipal Society founded.
Annual Meeting of Central Committee of
National Society for Women's Sutrage.
Trains attacked and pillaged at Chicago by the
Strikers.

World's Fair Buildings fired by incendiaries. Forty supposed Anarchists arrested at Marseilles. 7. Speech day at Harrow and distribution of prizes by Prince and Princess of Wales. At a meeting of the Midlothian Liberal Association a letter of farewell from Mr. Gladstone was read; and Sir T. Carmichael was accepted as Liberal Candidate. Duke of Devonshire opened the Royal Infirmary at Derby.

A painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds sold for 11 000 guineas. Important resolution carried by the Intercolonial Conference with reference to trading between Great Britain and the Colonies. A thousand Japanese troops landed at Chemulpo. Strike Situation in Chicago more critical. All business disorganised. Five persons shot dead. 9. State Concert at Buckingham Palace.

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Prince of Wales distributed prizes at the Royal
Hospital School, Greenwich.
Dinner at the Authors' Club.

Tower Bridge opened to foot-passengers.

A Bill for more stringent treatment of Anarchists introduced into the French Chamber. German Federal Council declined to endorse the resolution of the Imperial Diet in favour of the repeal of the law against the Jesuits. Sixth Congress of representatives of Archæological Societies was opened.

International Conference of Journalists opened at Antwerp.

President Cleveland proclaimed Martial Law in Chicago.

Colonial Conference at Ottawa concluded.
Rifle meeting opened at Bisley Camp.

REV. WALFORD GREEN.
President of the Wesleyan Conference.
(From a photograph by Russell and Sons.)

Earthquake shocks in Constantinople.
Duke of York distributed prizes on the School
Board's training-ship Shaftesbury.
Welsh National Eisteddfod.
Important arrangements made by the London
County Council with reference to the Election
of Guardiaus and taxation.
Pullman Company refused to refer dispute to
Arbitration.

National Temperance Fête at Crystal Palace. Opening of Conference on Reformatory Schools. 11. Prince and Princess of Wales attended the Eisteddfod at Carnarvon.

Public meeting at the Mansion House to discuss
the position of Christ's Hospital.
Annual meeting of the subscribers to the British
School at Athens held in London.
Convocation of York met to discuss the Church
Patronage Bill.

Attempt to Organise a General Strike in
America failed; Mr. Debs and others indited
for obstructing the mails; fatal conflict be-
tween the Troops and the Mob in Illinois.
Further earthquakes in Turkey.

In Italy a new law against the Anarchists was passed.

Metropolitan Board Teachers' Association discussed the Board's forthcoming letter on the test circular.

12. The Queen reviewed troops at Aldershot. Select Committee on the Vacating of Seats met at the House of Commons.

The Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Expedition started in ss. Windward.

Railway traffic resumed in the United States. 13. The Princess of Wales laid the foundation-stone of a Hospital at Rhyl.

Commercial arrangement with Spain concluded, by which goods from United Kingdom and Colonies will be for the present admitted at the same rates as hitherto.

Mr. Bryce received a deputation on the ex-
plosions of domestic boilers.

Mr. H. N. Dering appointed British Minister to
Mexico.

The vessel in which the Wellman Arctic Ex-
pedition sailed reported to be crushed inice.
Railway Strike in the United States declared by
Mr. Debs to be at an end.

Conference of Miners discussed the suggestion that a national policy should be decided upon for the protection of mining labour. Eton and Harrow cricket match at Lord's. A deputation from the City Corporation went to Windsor, when the Knighthoods announced at the opening of Tower Bridge were conferred. Further earthquake shocks at Constantinople. 14. Members of both Houses of Parliament visited Portsmouth Dockyard and witnessed torpedoboat manoeuvres at Spithead.

At a general meeting of the Bar it was resolved
that there should be a consultative body, with
permanent offices and a paid staff, to consider
all matters affecting the profession.

Dr. John Williams created a baronet.
Annual Meeting of the Cobden Club.

National Festival in Paris; statue of Condorcet

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Cholera increasing in St. Petersburg.

Further disturbances in Corea.

Martial law proclaimed in Nicaragua.

Tariff Bill still under discussion by the Conference
Committee in the United States.

Arrest of the supposed murderer of Signor Bandi.
Disastrous cyclone in Bavaria.

16. Christening of the son of the Duke and Duches

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of York.

The Prince of Wales presided at the Annual
Meeting of the Royal College of Music.
The American Memorial to Keats was unveiled
in Hampstead Parish Church.
Duke of Westminster presided at a meeting at
which resolutions were passed establishing a
National Trust of Places of Historic Interest or
Natural Beauty.

Mr. Clancy elected City Marshal of Dublin.
Athletic contests between the Universities of
Oxford and Yale at West Kensington; Oxford,
5 points; Yale, 34.

Fatal explosion in the caisson of a battery in Chicago.

Pullman Company's workmen returned to work at the wages offered.

The London County Council decided to ask the Board of Trade to inquire into the management of the Gas Light and Coke Company, and the high price of gas.

General Election in New South Wales; Sir George Dibbs returned for Tamworth. Queensland Parliament opened by Sir Henry Norman.

Debate on the Anti-Anarchist Bill in the French Chamber.

Law passed by the Volksraad restricting the rights of public meeting in the Transvaal. Wesleyan Conference opened at Birmingham; the Rev. Walford Green elected President. John Davis, keeper of a coffee-house in Bishop's Road, fined £25 and costs for keeping a common gaming-house.

Mr. Debs and three other labour leaders sent to gaol in Chicago for contempt of Court. Government inquiry opened at the Hackney Union Training School.

The Queen conferred the honour of Knighthood upon re. ipients of birthday honours.

Mr. Aland received a deputation from the governing body of St. Paul's School, to consider finances.

Viscount Falkland and Baron Torphichen were ele.ted Scottish representative peers.

Mobilisation of feets for the Naval Manoeuvres
began.

Meeting of the Oxford Summer School of
Theology.

Unsuccessful attempt made to blow up a train
on the Northern a ifi: Railway.

Dinner given by the Liberal Members for Lancashire at the National Liberal Club to Mr. Bryce and Lord Twee imouth.

Republic proclaimed in Hawaii and Mr. Dole elected first President.

19. Coal Conciliation Board adopted a sheme by which wages will be at once relucel by ten. per cent. and will remain stationary until 1896.

Explosion on gunboat in the Solent; seven men kille1.

Conference of representatives of County Councils and Sanitary Authorities.

Victory of Free Trade l'arty over Protectionists

in New South Wales.

M. Casimir-Périer took

Elysée.

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Tennis-Match at Lord's, Sir Edward Grey won the Marylebone Club Silver prize. Anti-Anarchist Bill passed in French Chamber by 263 to 163.

The Anarchist Meunier sentenced to penal servitude for life.

Murderers of Emin Pasha and Major Hodister
captured by Belgiau soldiers.
English and German Committees rejected M.
Tricoupi's proposals to Greek Bondholders.

160 Crimean veterans visited Olympia and were entertaine 1.

The Prince of Wales distributed medals awarded by the Order of S. John of Jerusalem. School Hygiene and the Housing of the Working Classes discussed at Public Health Congress. Special Meeting of London County Council to consider the establishment of a system of Municipal Pawnbroking.

French Senate passed Anti-Anarchist Bill by 205 to 34.

Silver Wedding of Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark.

NOTABLE UTTERANCES.

July 3. Sir Chas. Tupper, at Westminster Palace Hotel, on Canada and its Governors.

4. Sir E. Clarke, M. P., at the United Club, on the next General Election.

Mr. Burns, M.P., at Wandsworth, on the work
of the Government.

Mr. Aclaud, at Oxford, on the Parish Councils
Act.

5. Mr. Balfour, at the Mansion House, on Working Boys' Homes.

Lord Twee mouth, at Streatham, on the Govern-
ment and the veto of the House of Loris.

Lord Wantage on the work of Oxford House,
Bethnal Green.

6. Mr. J. Chamberlain, at Grosvenor House, on Licensing Reform.

The Duke of Westminster on the same subject.
Mr. Goschen, at the St. George's Conservative
Association, on Public Affairs.

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Withdrawal of Federal troops from Chicago. 20. Banquet at the Imperial Institute to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the submarine telegraph to the far East. Mr. J. K. Bythell appointed chairman of the directors of the Man hester Ship Canal. Sir Horace Farquhar elected president at first meeting of London Municipal Society. French Chamber passed the first clause of AutiAnarchist Bill by 297 to 205.

Sir Frank Lascelles arrived at St. Petersburg. 21. Bisley Rifle Meeting ended.

Private Rennie (3rd Lanark) won Queen's Prize.
Hackney Marsh declared open to the public as a
pleasure-ground.

Annual demonstration of Durham miners.
Serious floods in India.

The Senate accepted the financial arrangements
of the Italian Goverment by a majority of 95.

23. Deputation to Mr. Shaw-Lefevre on condition of pauper children in barrack schools.

Mansion-House dinner in honour of Belgian
Minister of Agriculture and the Executive of
the Antwerp Exhibition.

Field operations commenced at Aldershot.
Amateur Championship of the Thames won by
Mr. Vivian Nickalls.

French Chamber adopted Clause 3 of Anti-
Anarchist Bill.

Murderer of Bulgarian Finance Minister arrestel

in Roumania.

M. Tricoupi proposed arrangements with foreign bondholders.

24. Meeting of London Chamber of Commerce. Prize-giving at the National Art Training School.

International Textile Workers' Conference opened in Manchester.

Hostilities commenced in Korea between China aud Japan.

Financial statement of New Zealand made in

RT. REV. DR. KENNION.

The New Bishop of Bath and Wells. (From a photograph by Mr. S. A. Walker.)

The news of Japanese attack upon the Chinese fleet, the sinking of a transport, and the capture of a warship are now confirmed. Fifteen hundred men drowned.

Mr. Goschen on Free Libraries and Books.

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9. Duke of Cambridge, at Kingston, on Education. Dr. Cox, at Burlington House, on Archæological Errors and Fictions." Lord Brassey, at Hôtel Métropole, on Cabdrivers' Benevolent Association.

10. Mr. Balfour on Proportional Representation.

Miss Spence, ditto, ditto.

Lord Tweedmouth, at the Eighty Club, on the
Liberal Party.

Mr. Asquith, ditto, ditto.

Mr. Herbert Gladstone, at Shoreditch, on the
Labour Question.

Mr. Lewis Morris, at Carnarvon, on the
Establishment of a Welsh University.

11. Mr Bryce on the work of the British School at Athens.

12. Lord Londonderry, at Windermere, on Party Prospects.

Mr. Arnold Morley, at Norwich, on the Parish
Councils Act and recent Liberal work.
Lord Aberdare on the position of affairs in the
territory of the Royal Niger Company.

The Primate, at Lambeth Palace, on Church
work.

13. Sir John Hutton on Weights and Measures.
Sir Dyce Duckworth on Sunday Observance.
Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., at Charing Cross, on State
Regulation of Vice.

Sir Baldwin Leighton, in London, ou Re-
formatory Schools.

16. Mr. Edmund Gosse, at Hampstead, on "John

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Meeting of Institute of Naval Architects at Southampton.

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25. Annual Meeting of Royal British Nurses

Mr. Emerson, the Speaker of Newfoundland, and another member, making the 15th, unseated for bribery and corruption.

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Association.

Public Health Congress recommended Municipal Winter Gardens and Entertainments.

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BY-ELECTION.

July 5. Sheffield (Attercliffe):

On Mr. Bernard Coleridge becoming Lord 21. Coleridge a by-election was held, with this result:

Ald. Batty Langley (L)
Mr. G. H. Smith (C)..
Mr. Frank Smith (L)

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In 1892 : Hon. B. Coleridge (L) Mr. G. H. Smith (C)..

Principal Fairbairn, at Oxford, on "The Place

of Oxford in the Religious History of England." Mr. Bryce, at the National Liberal Club, on the work of the Liberal Party.

Lord Tweedmouth on the same subject.

At the Oxford Summer School of Theology lectures were delivered by:

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Professor Seth, on the Moderu Philosophy of Theism."

Professor Ryle, on the "Character of Iu-
spiration."

Professor E. A. Smith, on the "Making of
Israel by Jehovah into a Peculiar People."

Mr. Acland, at the Education Office, on St.
Paul's School.

Professor Bruce, at Oxford, on "Philosophical
Christianity."

Mr. John Burns, M.P., at Durham, on the
advantages to Miners securel by the Parish
Councils Act.

Mr. Balfour, at Chislehurst, on Golfing.
Further lectures at the Oxford Summer School
of Theology by Professor Seth, Professor
Massie, and Principal Fairbairn.

23. Mr. P. Alden at Oxford, on University Settle

ments.

24. Mr. Mundella, at Kensington, on the Education Question.

Lord Brassey, at Southampton, on Progress in
Shipbuilding.

25. Mr. Mundella, at Upper Norwood, on Educating the Blind.

Duke of Devonshire, at Westminster, on Liberal
Unionism.

Mr. Acland, at Gloucester, on Parish Councils.
Mr. Walker, Head Master, at St. Paul's School,
on the Academic Year.

26. Sir John Lubbock, in the City, on the Unity of the Empire.

Mr. J. Arch, M.P., in Norfolk, on the present
position of the Agricultural Labourers' Union.
Professor W. R. Smith, at the Health Congress,
on the Local Government of London.
Duke of Devonshire, at Westminster, on Tech-
nical and Secondary Education.

Sir Hy. James, at Westminster, on the Rural
Labourers' League.

57. Lord Selborne, at Charing Cross, on Church Education and Voluntary Schools.

23. Duke of Devonshire, in London, on Profitsharing for workmen.

The Speaker at Leamington College, on Educa-
tion.

Professor Crookshank, at King's College, on
Microbes.

PARLIAMENTARY.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

July 2. Wild Birds Protection Act Amendment and Merchandise Marks (Prosecutions) Bill passed Committee.

Pistols Bill read third time and passed.

3. Royal Assent given by Commission to fifty-one public and private Bills.

Locomotive Threshing Engines Bill read a second time, and Injured Animals Bill a third time.

5. Bishop of London's Licensing Law Amendment Bill reje ted by 49 to 20.

6. First reading of Lord Salisbury's Bill to amend existing law with respect to aliens.

9. Industrial Schools Bill read second time. Also Sea Fisheries and Quarries Bills.

Larceny Act Amendment Bill passed Committee.

10. Report of Amendments to the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Bill agreed to.

12. Quarries Bill passed through Committee.

Larceny Act Amendment Bill read third time.

16. Statute Law Revision Bill read second time.

Industrial Schools Bill and Coal Mines (Check
Weigher) Bill passed Committee.

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July 2. Rev. J. Wakefield Greeves (Wesleyan Home Mission Secretary), 71.

Captain Hammill, Commander of the Camperdonn, 43.

Hy. Browne, Hackney, 64.

4. Professor August Dillmaun, 71.

5. Sir Henry Layard, 77.

Lady Grant, 90.

Prebendary St. Aubyn. Madame Betti l'aoli, 79. 7. Canon Hoare.

Dr. Adolph Hannover, 80.
Dr. W. J. Little, 84.

9. Lady Cunynghame, 71.

Captain W. A. de Vesci Brownlow, R.N., 61.

10. Sir Gilbert Greenall, 88.

David Nasmith, Q.C., LL.D., 65.

12. J. F. Dunn, bookseller, 58.

Major-General H. P. Hutton.

13. Major E. Morland, Mayor of Abingdon, 50.

W. H. Worthington, brewer, 70.

Herr Bruno Piglhein, painter, of Munich.
Dr. D. C. Daniellsen, Bergen, 79.

17. Professor Joseph Hyrtl, anatomist, 84.
Baron Beyens.

19. David Colquhoun, QC.

Rev. J. C. Harrison, Hampstead, 82. 20. Mr. Alfred Williams, C. E., 65.

21. Rear-Admiral Pike.

22. Marquis of Headfort, 72.

Mr. G. O. Formby, Liverpool. 23. Prof. Heinrich Brunn, 73.

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Parochial Electors Acceleration Bill read third 25. Rev. Edward Hale, M.A., Eton, 66. time.

THE LATE M. LECONTE DE LISLE.

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Sea Fisheries (Shell Fish) Bill and Locomotive Threshing Engines Bill read third time. Discussion on Betterment.

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Budget Bill further considered and amended. Debate on Amendments (report stage) of Budget Bill.

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20. Lord Denman's Women's Suffrage Bill rejected without division.

Discussion on Import Duties in India.

23. Quarries Bill, Coal Mines (Check Weigher) Bill, and Zanzibar Indemnity Bill were passed. Evidence in Criminal Cases Bill read second time.

Boards of Conciliation Bill passed Committee. 24. Chimney Sweepers' Bill read second me. Industrial Schools Bill passed.

26. Budget Bill read second time. 27. Budget Bill passed Committee.

Parochial Electors Bill read third time.

Thames Conservancy Bill read third time. Finance Bill again discussed and amende 1. Zanzibar Indemnity Bill read second time. 13. Zanzibar Indemnity Bill passed Committee. Budget Bill further considered and amended. 16. London Streets and Buildings Bill read third time.

Report stage of Finance Bill completed.
Zanzibar Indemnity Bill read third time.

17. Budget Bill read third time, the motion for its
rejection having been negatived by 283 to 263.
18. Sir William Harcourt announced the programme
for the remainder of the Session.
Army Estimates in Committee of Supply.

Prince Henry IV. of Reuss-Kostritz. 23. Cardinal Ledochowski, 72.

Viscount Hardinge, 72.

29. Archduke William of Austria, 67. 30. Walter Pater, of Oxford, 55.

Major Montagu Battye, 69; Sir Hy. Ainslie Hoare, 71; Rear-Admiral Ferdinand Grasset, 78; Prof. Mallard, of Paris; Captain E. R. Renny-Tailyour; Captain John Warreader; M. Edouard Andre; M. Leconte de Lisle; Prince Henry of Bourbou; Rev. Divie Robertson; M. Edmond Guillaume; Geo. Rex Graham, New Jersey, 81; Admiral E. P. Charlewood, 80; Lady Bunbury; Lieut -Col. H. C. Symons, at Poona; Mr. Francis Hugh Irvine; Rev. Samuel J. Butler, 72; Rev. Dr. Whittemore, 74; Sir G. Rendleham Prescott, 47.

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EUGENE V. DEBS: PRESIDENT OF HE great strike and boycott of Chicago has terminated in a disastrous defeat for the men. Labour has had its Bull's Run. It remains to be seen whether the disaster

will have as invigorating an effect upon the working classes as the Southern victory had upon the Northern States. War is an ugly word and should not be used lightly, but if it be correctly defined as an appeal by disputants to blood and iron, to fire and sword, then undoubtedly industrial war in

America has ap-. proached ominously near to the fatal brink, if, indeed, it has not crossed the frontier. The news from Chicago and Sacramento within the last two months bears an ugly resemblance to that which records the progress of a campaign in which rival forces are

THE AMERICAN RAILWAY UNION.

by fire is estimated at considerably over a million sterling. The indirect losses are quite incalculable. In the piping times of peace men can do without leaders, but in war it is different. The superstition which is so prevalent in the American democracy, that there is no need for leaders in a republic, that every man is as good as his neighbour, if not a little better, and that therefore he has no need to trust his brother or to find any man whose word of command he will implicitly obey, cannot survive a single day of actual fighting. Hence every campaign sees the evolution of the supreme fighting man, the gradual recognition by the rank and file of the necessity for obedience and the recognition of the qualities which make a great leader. After the Civil War half-adozen great chiefs stood out in clear relief as the representatives of the military capacity of the nation. But before the true leader is found, a great many false ones are used up. Until the taciturn

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actually in the field. The number of killed was not great, indeed much less than could have been anticipated considering the number of shots that were fired by armed men against each other. Great battles in history have been decided with exceedingly little bloodshed, but in destruction of property and in monetary loss it is possible that the campaign in Chicago and the West has cost more in £ s. d. than, let us say, a year's campaign in the Wars of the Roses. The property in Chicago alone destroyed

From Beiblatt zum Kladderadatsch.]

UNCLE SAM'S DREAM AND HIS AWAKENING.

[July 15, 1894.

Grant was discovered or evolved by two years of hard fighting the Federals sent a succession of incapable or unfortunate men to the front, and they had to go under before the real heroes of the war arrived. In the industrial war it will be the same. The men who first

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