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But the influence of the American
college did not stop at that. When the
constitutional assembly met at Tier
nova to frame the Constitution for the
new born State it was a Robert College
graduate who succeeded in giving the
new Constitution its extreme demo-
cratic character, and, when after the
Russians left and the Bulgarians be-
gan to do their own governing, it was
again the American trained men who
displayed the spirit of independence
which baffied and angered the Russian
Generals.
From that time to this day. when
one Robert College man is Prime Min
lister Of Bulgaria and another is Bull
garian Minister at Constantinople
while a third, one Of the ablest of, them,
is Bulgarian Minister at Athens, the
Robert College has been nursery for
Bulgarian statesmen.
But it is not only at Constantinople
that the Americans are at work. They
are at the present moment almost the
only people who are doing good for hui
mnnity in Asiatic Turkey. People
speak as If the Anglo American alliance
was a peaceful dream to be realized in
the remote future. If they had lived in
Asia Minor they would have discovered
that it is a very practical working
factor in the daily life of millions of
men.
How many Americans citizens, I
wonder, are aware that from the slopes
of Mount Arrarat all the way to the
shores Of the blue Aegean Sea, Ameri-
can missionaries have scattered broad
cast over all the distressful land the
seed of American principles. They
eschew politics. They stick to their
Bible and their spelling books, but
every year an increasing number of
Armenians and other Orientals issue
from the American schools familiar
with the principles of the Declaration
of Independence and the fundamental
doctrines of the American Constitution,
and so thes leaven is spreading through
out the whole land.
But the American missionaries have
not, come off Scott free. Oscar Straus,
the United States Minister, has to col
lect some 100000 due as compensa-
tion for the destruction of American
property during the recent troubles.
The money is yet to be paid. 1t cost
the Sultan S3,O00,000 to entertain his
friend, the Kaiser. How can he spare
100000 to compensate the Americans?
II shall never forget the intense con-
viction with which fanatical friend
of the Sultan once declared to me that
there would never be solution of the
Eastern question until an American
missionary was impaled and his wife
and daughters were flung into the
Pasha's harem. He spoke more truly
than he knew, because within one
month of such an outrage becoming
known to the American people the
warships which swept the fleets of
Spain from the sea would have forced
the Dardanelles and exacted reparation
at the cannon's mouth from the as
sassin of Stamboul. And, perhaps, in
the possibility of such a contingency
happening any day lies the highest hope
that humanity has for the extinction Of
the devastating despotism of the Turk
ish horde
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killing Superintendent Charles Kennedy and
-Four Chlnamen.
The Explosion a Terrific One, Four
Tons Of Nitro-Gelatine Blowing
UP, Completely Demolishing the
Bui1ding-The Same House
Badly Damaged Six Weeks Ago
From the Same Cause.

PINOLE, Dec. 5.-The nitro-gelatine
house of the Judson Powder Company
blew up at 1886 this afternoon, killing
superintendent Charles Kennedy and
four Cinnamon, the only workmen in
the building at the time.
The explosion was terrific one, four
tons of nitro-gelatine blowing up, COM
pletely demolishing the building.
The same house was badly damaged
by an explosion six weeks ago. and two
Cinnamon were killed
Superintendent Kennedy was super
intending some mixing when the ex-
plosion of this afternoon occurred. 1t
is probably that the cause of the ex-
plosion will never be known, as no one
who was in the building escaped death
ter.
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STABBED BY A BEGGAR.
A Former City Councilman of Los
Angeles Seriously Wounded.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. Sc. w.
Earle, a former City Councilman, was
stabbed on the street here this after
Eeon by a beggar to whom he had re-
fused aims. The affair took place on
Main street, near the Westminster Ho-
tel, on crowded street. Mr.. Earle had
turned away from the beggar and was
passing on, when the fellow turned up
OH him and stabbed him three times in
the back with a pocket knife, 1T the
same time muttering curses against
the Masons At the station he gave his
name as Curran. He is not known to
the police. Mr.. Earle, who is an elder
ly man, is seriously wounded.
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Los Angeles Municipal Election.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5.-The major
ity of the municipal offices of the city
of Los Angeles will be held by the Re-
publicans for the next two years. The
Democrats elected but three officers
the City Clerk Glance, present incum-
bent,) and two of the nine Councilmen
The contest was close throughout
Eaton, the Republican nominee for
Mayor, beat Synder Democrat), incum-
bent, by about 600 votes which was the
avera ge majority secured by the other
Republican candidates. The new char
ter, which was advocated by both par
ties, was completely showed under
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SAN FRANCISCO STOCKS.
San Francisco. DE.

San Francisco Dec 5th
Morning Session-Andes. 10c; Belcher,
23c; & B, 40c. Chollar, &c; G G v. 81. 40;
Potosi, 26c: Savage, 18c; s Nevada, $40
@1.25; Union, 2Sc; Utah, 17Q16c; Yellow
Jacket, 18c.
Andes. Sc; Belcher, 21c; B & b, 39c; Bull
ion, sc; Caledonia, 2lc; Challenge. 1ec;
Chollar, 25c; G ", N35; Con Imperial.
27c H & N s1.60: Julia, 1c; Justice. 1Sc;
Kentuck, sc: Mexican, 30c; Occidental, CSC;
Ophir, &c; Overman, &c; Potosi 25c; Saw
age. 1Sc; Scorpion, &c; S Nevada, $1S0:
Union, 25c; Utah, 16c; Yellow Jacket. 17cg
Standard, $1.70.
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Major General Wheeler.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-Major Cen
eral Wheeler was a center of attrac-
ton and congratulation when he ap-
peared in the House to-day to resume
his Congressional duties. He arrived
last night from the camp in Alabama,
where his troops are stationed Gen
eral Wheeler said he probably would re-
sign from the army, but his plans were
not definitely fixed. "If there is to be
any more fighting, want to stay in the
army said the General, ''but if the
fighting is over, I want to return to
civil life.''
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Election Contests,

SAN JOSE, Dec. 5-Petitions for con-
test Of the election of Joseph A. Lotz,
Treasurer, and r. ]. Langford, Sheriff,
were filed to-day by Walker Jones on
behalf of E. w. Conant and ]. III. Lin
don, the defeated candidates under the
returns. The allegations are that sew
eral hundred votes were lost to the
contestants by wrongful counting and
throwing out of votes as illegal which
should have been counted.
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Fatally Injured.

OAKLAND, Dec. 5.-Samuel P. Flint,
Assistant Superintendent of the Rail-
way Mail Service, was struck by
broad gauge train at Fourth and
Franklin streets and received injuries
which proved fatal. He had just re-
turned from Los Angeles and was on
his way home across the track when
the accident occurred His head was
badly cut. He fingered in much pain
until near midnight, when he died. Mr..
Flint had been long in the Government
employ, and was well known through
out the Pacific Coast States.
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Death of a Santa Clara Citizen.

SAN JOSE, Dec. 5.-Ben Luis Ar
gliello, one of the best known residents
of this county, died at his home at
Santa Clara at an early hour this morn
ing. Ee leaves a. family of grown
children and a large estate, though
much of this has been decided TO the
children. He was native of California,
aged 6S years He was one of the old
Spanish familys and noted for his hos
p:tallty which was always upon a lavish
scale.
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Boy Drowned.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5.-The body
Of Lester Ward Lewis, seventeen
year-old boy, who has been missing
since last Saturday. when he started
for the Cliff House to hunt mussels,
was found to-day near Lands End Sta
ton, by Erickson of the Baker Beach
life saving station. The unfortunate
boy had evidently fallen from the rocks
into the bay
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FRESNO COUNTY TEACHERS.
Prominent Educators to Attend the
Institute Convening on the 10Th.

FRESNO, Dec. 5.--The Fresno Coun-
ty Teachers Institute will convene here
on the 10Th, and among the prominent
educators, who have been invited to ad-
dress the convention and have respond
are: DR.. G. Stanley Hall of Clark Uni
versity, Mass; Professors E. E. Brown
and Heaton of Stanford; Professor t.
Fl. Kirk of San Bernardino, and Miss
Helen McGillevary of Stanford, who
took her degree in England, and was
there for a time under Government en-
ploy, lecturing on hygiene to the poor
as one of Florence Nightingale's health
missionaries.
The County Institute will continue for
three days, and will then merge into the
San Joaquin Valley Teachers Associa-
ton, with which seven counties in the
valley have affiliated. The associa
tions' third annual meeting will end UP
the week of teachers in the raisin cen
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Fast Train Service to Los Angeles.

SAN FRANCISCO Dee. 5. = The
Southern Pacific Company will in a
few days put on a new fast train be-
tween this city and Los Angeles. The
train will leave here at 4:30 p. M, and
arrive in Los Angeles at O'clock the
following morning. North bound. the
train will leave Los Angeles at Z a. M.
and reach San Franciseo at 7:45 o'clock
the following morning. That will make
exactly fourteen hours between Oak
land pier and Los Angeles, including
stops at Tracey, Fresno and Bakers
field.
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Telegraph Operator Dead.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 5. James
S. McGinnis. a welI-known telegraph
operator, died in this city to-day. He
was attacked on Wednesday last by
severe hemorrhages, which so weak
ened him that he was unable to rally.
Mr.. McGinnis was an expert operator
He had been employed in most of the
largest offices Of the United States.
He was about 33 years old.
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Meat Market.

Following are the rates for whole car
cases from slaughterers to dealers:
quality, 51aQ6c; third quality, 41a@5c per
VEAL-711aSc for large and 7QS1ac for
ID for small.
MUTToN-Wethers. 7c; Ewes, 614@7c
per 10.
LAMB-Sc per h.
PORK-Live Hogs, 414c per 10 for me-
dunn, 3AG31ac for small, 4c for large;
dressed, 6Q7c per 10.
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Death of a Cavalry Officer.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5. = First
Lieutenant James E. Nolan of Troop
I, Fourth United States Cavalry, died
at the Presidio this evening of penu-
monia after brief illness. He was
a native of wisconsin, graduate of
the Military Academy at West Point,
and had seen hard service in Arizona.
He leaves wife. who was a Miss
.Kimball of Chicago, and three chill
f7rpu -g-
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Street Car Held Up at Tacoma.

TACOMA (Wash.), Dec. 5.-Two ban
dts held up the conductor and motor
man of an east side car at $50 to-
night. The men entered the car to-
gether, drawing handkerchiefs over
their faces at the same time The con-
ductor and motorman were compelled
to turn their faces away while their
pockets were rifled. The section where
the robbery occurred is three blocks
from well lighted and thickly settled
section of the city.
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State Board OF Agriculture.

SAN FRANCISCO Dec. 5.-Governor
Budd to-day appointed Frederick Cox,
one of the present members of the State
Board OF Agriculture, to succeed him
self Colonel Park Henshaw of Chico
was also appointed a member of the
same board to succeed j. e. Terry,
whose term has expired.
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California Fruit Sales.

The Earl Fruit Company's auction sales
of California fruit yesterday resulted as
follows:
age s1.O7; Ferrera, 75c0s1. 40, average 95c;
Tokay, s1.5O@3, average N;T; Cornichon,
One car sold weather threatening
At Boston: Tokays. $2.14; Cornichon.
81 q: Ferrera, $115; Morocco, $1.65.
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Trial oR Mrs. Botkin.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5.-The trial
of Mrs. Corde1ia Botkin did not ad-
vance very far to-day. A large number
of talesmen. were called off and alb
sentees noted, after which the court
adjourned until tomorrow out of re-
spect to Judge Rhodes Borden, deceas-
ed. 1t is understood that the defense
will ask for a continuance until Fri
dav
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Closing Grain Quotations.

New York, Dec. 5th.
-WHEAT-December, 72Ac; March, 74c;
May, 7oa4c.
Chicago, Dec. 5th.
WHEAT-December, 651sc; May, 66c:
July, 641sc.
San Francisco, Dec. 5th.
WHEAT-May $117as.
CORN-Large Yellow, $1.071k@1.1O.
BRAN-$14. .50Gl15.50.
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California Dried Fruits.

NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-California Dried
Fruit: Apples steady, other fruits firm.
Evaporated Apples.Commop. 7@Sc; prime
.Prunes. 4G10Mc Apricots-Royal 11G114c;
Mcorpark, 14917c. Peaches-Unpeeled S14
6p1215c; peeled, 18I22c.
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Block Island Suffers From a Storm

NEWPORT OR. L., Dec. 5.-B1ock ISL
and suffered severely from the storm
last night The three -masted Nova
Scotia schooner Vamoose, loaded with
coal, went ashore during the night on
Clay Head, on the east side Of the ISL
and. The Captain and mate were
drowned. Two of the crew We're able
to reach shore in safety and four others
were taken off by the life saving crew
in the breeches buoy.
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CONGRESS HAS
REASSEMBLED

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ty-fifth street Friday evening, were
continued by consent till Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock
The Southern Pacific pay car came IN
last night.
The board of education worked
couple of hours last night on the list
of teachers and salary schedule, but
adjourned until Tuesday night without
completing the lists.
Yesterd ny the sheriff sold under exc
cGtion the trucks and. contents of The
two men. Breen and sullivan, formerly
OF Park City. The sum realized was
S91-S5, and the Judgment was for some
thing over $500.
The services over the remains of the
late Elias Cave will be held today IN
the Mound Fort meeting house, begin
ming at > o'clock. Friends are invited.
The remains may be viewed between
the hours OF 10 and u.
For a genuine good time. so with the
Weber county crowd TO Saltair Aug.
10. People from every part of the coun-
ty are going. a big boat race is TO be
one OF the many attractions.
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WAR AS AN EDUCATOR.
What She Had Not Learned Was Not
Worth Learning.

Washington Star: She was a winsome
young wife, all sweetness and pink shirt
waist.
oh Harold" she twittered over the
newspaper. lit is perfectly dreadful to
have a war and to read in the nsWspa Ders
day after day of how the poor soldiers
are being killed. wounded and missing.
but ii is an i'll wind that blows no one any
good. and, while there must be all kinds
of horrors, there is in it all an education
for many who would no5 otherwise be
educated"
He had never heard her talk in such a
strain before. and he was greatly sur
prised, not to say alarmed.
why, dear" he replied, noting her
closely, what is it,
i was thinking. Harold, what we learn
by hearing 50 constantly about the war,
where it is fought. Why, do you know,
dear, l hadn't the least idea before of the
difference between a protected cruiser and
one that was on the free list. though for
the longest time l have heard you and
dear, il never seemed TO come home so to
me until our own boys went forth to
meet the foe"
He stared at her quite helplessly.
And there are those machete guns"
she went on. or would have gone had he
not stopped her.
Machine guns l guess you mean, don't
you? he ventured, in a tone that she did
not wholly approve
"Of course, ! do, stupid she responded
with confidence machete is ma
chine and, of course, a machete is a ma
chine gun, and what's the difference I'd
like to know. II seems to me that some
people haven't learned as much about the
war as they have had opportunity to-
and she arose before the smiling Harold
she could commune with herself undis-
turbeG
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The Climate of The Philippines.

Scribner's: In regard to the climate
which foreigner encounters, it is easy
to eXaggerate its discomforts; although
it is tropical, still even in summer the
climate may be called healthy. From
December 10 March there are warm
days, with cool nights and little rain.
During March. April and May the days
are hot, dry and dusty. while the Their
mometer rises to SO degrees at noon.
but the nights are uncomfortable In
the latter part of May and of June
there are thunder storms every after
noon with a tremendous downpour of
rain. The greatest heat occurs in these
months, the thermometer rising fire.
quently TO 105 degrees in the, shade
July, August and September are The
months of the great typhoons, and
while Manila escapes the greatest fury
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CONDITION OF THE BANKS.
Payments On the War Bonds Are
Half COMPLETED.

New York. July SO.-The weekly bank
statement shows the following changes:
Surplus reserve. decrease, El,107 ,525;
loans. increase. ST. $50 500; specie. decrease,
s.. 137, 100; legal tenders, increase, Sll6,7
deposits. increase. 1851, 100; circulation. de-
crease. $4,000. The banks now hold
81. 90 40 in excess of the requirements
OF the . per cent rule
The Fimancicr says: The statement Of
the associated banks of New York Cit.
for the week ending July 80. shows no
important changes. he increase of Sl,s20,-
500 in loans is oVershadOwed h. the eX-
pansion Of something like $2.0500e0 this
item reported by one bank In the same
manner one banks decrease in cash was
twice as large as the average decrease
of the remaining institutions. Deposits
have remained almost stationary. but
there mas Eeen moro or less shifting OF
funds, anG the banks with heavy interior
connections seem 70 have gained as a
rule. In the same time the reduction in
surplus reserve was brought about by
actual loss ia cash as the p per cent
requirement is very little higher than last
week. owing 10 the insignihcance of oe-
p0sit expansion. The specie decrease was
due TO opera tons with the treasury, but
tbs transfer of coin TO the sub-treasury
on July . aggregating nearly s. 006.0 900
seems 10 have been included in last week S
statement. The government bond pay
ments have been more than half COM
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Ogden Briefs.

Wait for the excursion given by the
ladies' auxiliary of the B. of L. E. to
Garfield. Aug. 6.
The Woodmen of the World will run
an excursion by way of the Rio Grande
Western to Saltair Aug. 4.
George P. Bowman arrived from
Boise. Ida. yesterday, and went out TO
the home of his father. John Bowman,
in Blaine, Davis county.
The services over the remains of
Baby Thorsted, who was drowned Sat
urday. will be held today ct o'clock
at the residence, 1446 Washington ave-
nue..
In the district court yesterday an or
der was made in the case of the Coop
Wagon & Machine company VS.. j. C.
Armstrong ct al, taxing costs on the
plaintiff.
Yesterday the cases of Tom Topham,
Richard Keith and Tom Fagin, arrest
ed for disturbing the peace on Twen-
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JOSEPH |. COOK HEARD FROM
OGDEN ATTORNEY STILL MIN
ING IN MINooK CREEK.
Has Had No Ogden News Since o.
tober-Will Stay Another Winter
is at Rampant City, Alaska.

Joseph L. Cook, the young Ogden at
torney who left here about year ago
for Klondike. has been heard from. A
private letter was received in Ogden
yesterday from Joe, who is well and
prospecting near Rampant City, Minook
creek, Alaska. The letter says the
writer had received no mail since DC
tober last Evidently Joe means to be
a slayer, for he asks that Ogden news
be rushed to him, as he wants to learn
something of home before winter sets
in and the freeze-up comes. While his
report of his operations is by no means
discouraging. still Joe's advice to
young man contemplating journey to
Alaska is DON'T"
The letter was written at Rampant
City, July 9. and posted at Seattle,
July 81.
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FIGHTING BUTTONS.

An ordinary button is a very trihing
thing. but one of brass has a power that
few other things possess. Everybody
falls under the spell of the brilliant array
of gilt buttons that shine on the dark
blue or gray coat of 4 midshiDman or
cadet. or glitter on the portly breast OF a
brigadier general O. acmiral. But how
manS people know that there is u mean
ing in every one thus yata. and that an
officers rank NAV B.. C-ermi-cd by the
device on the button as we'll as by the
number he wears.
As 10 the buttons themselves the i9-re
ones are seven-eighth- Ct an inch in inter
Tor diameter, aad ,.-e sinaa ones ase
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HAD AN OLD DISEASE.
But the Name Was New and the
Symptoms Very Bad.

Symptoms Very Bad.
Washington Star: The mercury in
the thermometer had dropped off a
point or two, and the air responded TO
il with an effect of residence on the
spirits of the average human being
which made all the world seem less like
the other place where good Americans
don't go when they Gle. Notwithstand-
ing all this, the man in the northwest
corner Of green car No. 463, coming
down Capitol Hill, showed signs of de-
preston.
What's the matter with yOu2" in
uuired a friend who came aboard at
B street and got a place beside him.
My wife has punomania,' replied
the man. gloomily.
'"Pneun- n, What is she doing with
pneumoni, now. when she's got all
winter ard spring to have it in?'
I said punomania," corrected the
husband.
oh, excuse meg Whats puno-
mania2"t
The disease of making puns."
"GeToCsale mi" exclaimed the last
man, lis it catching? If it is I'll send
my wife around. She never said a
funny thing in her life"
Neither did mine" groaned the first
man.
Why I thought you said she made
puns?'
Il did. but that's no sign she says
funny things. a pun once in thou
sand years is endurable but as q
steady diet. puns are worse than the
horrors of war. That reminds me. The
other day she asked me If Miles and
Shafter and Wheeler. and some more
of that rank were general officers who
were particular officers. and before I
could swallow she asked me what the
last era of Spanish defeat was, and
when | thought she was serious. and
started to tell her, she gave me the
hOO-ha and said il was Cerv-era- Yes
terday at breakfast she said that not
withstanding the war was over in
Cuba they were fighting there, and
when I failed to catch right on, she
asked me If / didn't think there ought
to be a colonel in the hull of a ship
instead of a captain or commodore.
And it has been going on that way
ever since I married her The war only
makes it worse by giving her a greater
fed. Why. this morning, as l left
the house, she asked me for some
money to so shopping. and I gave her
half a dollar. She objected to the
amount and 1 began to argue and she
snapped out that it was money that
talked. and when 1 snapped back and
wanted to know what il talked she
said ii talked cents: at least mine did
and then she went back into the house
and ! came away wondering what in
got to say is" groaned the victim,
that You ought to thank heaven for
sending you wife who isn't so darned
smart
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crossed cannon and a bombshell with
circular scroll over and across the cannon,
containing the words Ordnance NOrflS-
Signal corps officers have convex gilt but
tons. with plain border, and the device or
two crossed signal fiags with burning
torch between them. For artillery. m
fantry and cavalry the button IS git, con-
VeN. with the device of a spread eagle.
with a shield on its breast which contains
the letter A. / or G. The aides-de-camp
may wear the button of the general stan
or the one of their own regiment or corps,
as they please.
The cavalry has a button with two
sabres crossed their edges upright: the
infantry two rifles without hayOnets
crossed. their barrels upward: the artfl-