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 Tt is all very well for peorle to sit in an armchair before a wood II at home and criticize" sail one officer but when you're on .he field the prob lems which seem SO easy q thousan miles away take on a very different complexion. The British generals gre accused of disregarding cardinal rules of scientific warfare Well, that is just what we did before Santiago. but we got there all the same. l know of an officer named Wagner who has writ ten an excellent book on strategy and who went through the fights before Santiago. Why. they didn't use any thing in my book he said, laughingly, after it was all over. By all the rules we should have retreated down there more than once, and the Spaniards sad we didn't play fair because We didn't follow out the rules. Well, we all know what happened. I don't think the breaking of rules did much harm. And so it is with the British generals in South Africa. They must not be judged too hastily. They are dealing with tremendous difficulties. They do not know the country. whereas the Boers know it by heart. I think this ! lack of information is at the root of the trouble. In the civil war the gen eral who succeeded most often was the one who knew most about the enemy. and the same thing will be true always It has been pretty well proven that the British have little information ahGut the people they are fighting against or the ground they are fighting on, and you can depend upon it that this i ignorance has been more of a factor in their reverses than have the bad tactics of the commanders
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 Minister Bowen, at Teheran, informs | the state department that great dis tress prevails in Persia in consequence of the high prices of bread. He says ! the situation is growing worse every i day, and the prospects are that the poor will be face to face with starva- ton the entire winter. American mis- sionaries cannot obtain bread enough | for their servants or for the schools and hospitals under their care. Min ister Bowen asks that the situation be made known to the American people, with the suggestion that contributions of money be sent by draft on the In- perial Bank of Persia at Teheran, made payable to the order of the Rev. Lewis P. Esselstyn, senior American mis- sionary, who will use it for the relief of the suffering poor.
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 The grave situation confronting Great Britain in South Africa almost obliterates the effect of the speech of the German minister of foreign af- fairs, Count Von Bulow, in the reich stag, last Monday, though scarcely any announcement of recent years has had so much bearing on the future of Eu- rope. In spite of the uninrorme1 com ment in some English quarters that Count Von Bulow spoke merely for po- litical effect-in other words, 'iollled' the reichstag by means of ;ingois:ic ic sophistries, for home consumption, to vote for the new navy-in Vienna, which is in closer touch with Berlin than any other capital, Count Won Bulow is interpreted as f1inging down the gauntlet to Great Britain. The "Neue Erie Presse, '' which has personal connection With the foreign minister of Germany, declares Germany is determined to obtaln the greatest possible advantage from the South African complications, and adds: ''The cool mention of England dissi- pates all apprehensions caused by Elm peror Williams stay at Winsdor, and it is not impossible that England's s difficulty may, in certain circumstances be Germany's opportunity"
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 A curious case in the law of accident insurance has just been decided in the United States circuit court, New York city The deceased was insured against bodily injury sustained through ex- ternal, violent and accidental means. His death was caused by hard, pointed masses of food which perforated the intestines. Judge Wheeler holds that this was an accidental injury within the meaning of the policy. The food, he says, was merely placed where it accidentally caused the injury. If an accident, that persons of ordinary strength would stand should kill a weak person, or a person of ordinary strength at a weak place, the acci- dent and not the weakness, should be said to have killed" In Illinois it has been held that taking poison by mis- take is to be deemed an accident, under a similar insurance clause. On the other hand. in New York, in 1880, the Albany general term by divided court decided the same point the other way There was an emphatic dissent however. by MT. Justice Foliett, after ward chief judge of the Second division of the court of appeals; and the court of appeals itself subsequently, disap- proved of the decision, saying that the rule laid down by the general term was too strict.
 TO KRUPP, THE IRONMASTER.
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