Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-05-10

News Service.
 l London, May 9.-Patrioitic English men who foresee that sooner or later Great Britain will be involved in great war are seriously alarmed at the utter impossibility of getting the necessary number of officers for the regular army
 The reason that so few men want to enter the service is not because the young men of English dislike army uniform, but simply that unless a man is wealthy he cannot exist on the mis- erab]e pay allowed British army off, cerS.
 ] Before a British officer is able 10 enter regiment he must pay from fifteen hundred to two thousand dol lars a year for his training at one of the great military colleges and when he graduates from the college and is is made a second lieutenant in an n- fantry regiment he receives only $1.50 a day, which, of course, not half enough to pay for his living expenses
 The result of this is that parents, who, under other circumstances, would be proud to have their sons wear the kings uniform send them to business colleges instead of to military train
 ing schools.
 \ number of people blame the pres ent minister of war, Mir. Haldane. for doing nothing to raise the salaries of army officers and say that he takes absolutely no interest ill the regular army, all of his efforts being centered lin organizing the territorial army planned by him. Officers in the regu lar army are very bitter against the minister because he has just issued an order that lieutenants of the terri torial army are to be allowed a dollar a day for mess expenses while the poor lieutenants in the regular army are forced to pay for their food out of their miserable salary or go with out any.
 It is not alone officers who are scarce but 1t is proving more and more difficult to find men willing to enlist as privates, although the soldiers are now better paid and fed than ever before Nearly three-quarters of the men who came to the recruiting sta tions are physically unfit for army service and even those who are ac- cepted are men who could not possi- bly, sc; anything to do in civil life
 Liquor saloon keepers, threatened with extinction by the new licensing bill' have to meet a new enemy in the shape Of the competing club, which sells drinks at low prices and at all hours and in addition gives music hall entertainments, billiard matches, and : ether attractions which English law : forbids to the saloon keeper The saloon keepers of London are : organizing a campaign against this class of club, which threatens to de.
 prive them of living In South Lon. don the number of such clubs is enor. nous, and many of them combine pol itics and amusement.
 Many saloon keepers on finding ] their revenue falling off made enquir es and discovered that their former
 customers, in order to get drinks dur
 ing closing hours, had started smal
 clubs of which anyone could become i; ' member for a few schillings.
 Ireland is still the home of quain
 superstitions and prominent among tn,
 forms of fairy-people peculiar to th'
 country is the "leprechaun" a benev 1. olent and harmless gnome who in thu : days of old was said to assist house :. wives in their domestic labor
 ! Excitement has been caused amons - the peasantry in the Killough distric Ii by the alleged appearance of a lepre
 chaun in their midst. Several peopl i, declare they have seen mysteriOu l dwarf, clad in red, and wearing l. quaint pointed cap which answers t. Il the traditional appearance of the lep t rechaun.
 'f The strange visitation has naturall
 called forth great deal of ancien
 lore about the habits Of the lepre y chaun. The superstition is that whel
 you see the leprechaun and call at tentlon to it. it vanishes from you
 sight, but remains visible to those yo U have called to observe it.
 If you are so fortunate as to cap |, ture a leprechaun unawares, the crea n ture will, as a condition of his re y lease, lead you to where secret DO 5, of gold lies buried. On the way h e will endeavor to distract you atten r, ton. and should you be so foolish a e, to turn your eyes away even for
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