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Alma record., 1914-01-01

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild shy.
The flying cloud, the frosty light,
The year is dying in the night
Ring out the DID, ring IN the new.
Ring. happy bells. across the snow,
The year is going. let him 60:
Ring out the false ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind.
For those that here more,
Ring out the feud Of rich and poor.
Ring in redress to all mankind
Ring out slowly dying cause.
And ancient forms Of party strife,
Ring in the nObler modes Of life.
With sweeter manners. purer laws.
Ring out the want the care. the sin.
The faithleSS ColdnesS of the trnes
Ring out ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out the false pride in place and blood.
The civic SANDER and the spite;
Ring in the love Of truth and right,
Ring in the common love Of good
Ring out old shapes Of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust Of gold.
Ring out the thousand wars Of old.
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and Free
The larger heart, the kinclier hand:
Ring out the darkness Of the land.
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
-Tennyson
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untsriu6ungen uits, nab oenen Der
gIib cine Spannuns BON iiinf5ig MiIs
lionen BOLT bat. 5erner bat Steinm.b
feitgeitslt, bab Der glib cine Siroms
iiGrts BON 10000 Qmpsre beiibt, IN
Grbeitsleiitung bic enorme Sabl DON
500 Wiuiarben 8att (oem probutt
bon Bolt unb lmpere) bartlett. Gin
gIiB bui,srt iebod nur / 800, 900 Sss
tunos; pdte 6as ni9t Der 5aa, 10
tpiirbe Der Wsrtb Der bon ibm barge.
iteGItsn ar6eitslsiituns naiiirli6 uns
gebeusr grotb fein. Sn DirtIi6tsit lit
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ronnten 3ablen leidt bere6nen, pie
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leiitste glrbeit in Gslb dusgebriiG.,
fpertb III. Sn Berlin bsifpielspsiie
5ablt man fir cine ailoipattitunb. 40
pfennige. ailoputtftunbe bsibt: taus
feno 8att cine Stunbs lang gelsiitet.
60 ergibt iir o9ne iDeitsrss, Oab cine
utmofphdriI9e Gntlabung niht mebr
dls brei &ilopattitunben an 2lrbeitSs
leiiturs bsbeatet. Sin gIib fpiirbe dIs
fn, tpern man ibn nub bem 8erliner
Grunopr.is fir Gl.ttrisitdt iaufen
tSnnts, ni2t mebr ala 1.2o Wart 10,
FEN
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sawabiIdu iiHsrtha..
wsds iar asHiraitsren.
Gcmmiffioger'B Otttet
9aWiItou g cluHih. OHIO,

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Berfieaflfs " ns elboie ipetben eTi,
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0Snnib gomminionets bts Sreiide. ben !.
Mai 1914. nm 12 libr Diiiiags. far bic Hnt'
iiebeitoe gountbflrbeii,
gerihb ben sgeJiiifniipneH SO. 620-1iir
bic sirpnrntnr ber, GIS gounirn Aorb, bon BET
0ebe.Briiae ilber ben aaual oiiii6 bon 9nri'
men. bnrn bic Ctittnif arliHaion 5fiebis bis
9pil EtrGbe In nodlanb, tn Speamore piio
Sprinaiielb IolpnlblpS.
Tie slrbeii bn. Bn aef5ebeu IN ileberrirfiim,
ming init ben NldseH unb Spe5ilinitcHelL
iuglne feet nuiliepen IN ber GiiCe bss G1arb
~ Gnltilth 0ommitiionerS.
ane angeboie miilieu nf Sprnilartn nnsde.
'erigi ieif. ipslhf In Der Cilire hes Scrrb Of
gounib GommiHiorers an bnhsn Iinb. riib be-
pleitei fetn bon etrem Ronb IN Der Snrinie bon
tiiuibun0ert (sb00O0l Eoll1rs NIT Bipel Glren
iiHb aenliaenben aiiracn ais Sibetheli bniit.
baij Der gteier ben AoHirafl sinesbe iptrb lRur
Ttnsllhruhe Der arbeii i'm Sale tsrfeIte ibni
Tis Gennin gsmniiltoners tsbaiisn no ouS
yietf Dor. traenbein ober alls Nnaeboie si
berfperien
Nm alltrnes s,o suarb Oi sariIiOn County
Breb. 9. .DtlfsImanu. graIbeni.
eititf: afbfrt Reinbar6t gItri;
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Ba sermiett,u-2in,mer.


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Der gde. SO
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ssii, nr asnirarisrrH.
SemIItpn eraIt6. Sbio.

GtnT innatt, o., o. gIpril 1914.
Serflesslfe ang.sboie ivsIbsn eHi.
reacfgen0mnltn tlf Der Gffire beb epatb 81
Gonnih Gommiiiioners bio Hreitaa. ben :.
MAI 1914, nm ~ libr wliiiaas. fac bic uah'
iiebenbe VulHfbsNrbeii:
Gemfdb ben Sbeyifiidtionsn 80. 42s--lfsiir
bic gerbSfisruno Der GIoueb Greef Bite, bon
Der W0anrt 1lrab bis siir gounipsGTenie. in
elHbsrlon aoipnibip
sis elrbeii Tot ~ aefceben IL iitbsreiniiim.
milnp nit zen @IhneI nnb Gpstfilntiousn.
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QcwmiffirneFk nufiisoen
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tetiini fein, ip.ine IN hsr Cfliee bes Bcnrb ci
0rilnlu npriHiiiipptfS 81 babgn ilnp, uilb bes
llrici fein bon fincgi Bonn I'M Beiroac bon
lino .eenie,ilssiI AErasn. aIs .eitsrbeii bai1r.
fnk bcr eietrr bsr aoutrnfi sinaebtn ipirb AIR
sinslnbrlne bsr atbst I'm Sale berielbe ibm
silfrfdnri iulrD.
re ecnrin GcuunlriorsYs betaIisn no bns
trnperfen.
Gpmnilfllrnert.
sHsrEs' ais...l fat..i;IaJyssg! yIs9l''.
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SiicbsnmdbdeH 81 4 uueoriidee ober heut,
ibes feine S0nniagsdrbeli. sos Vlm Git
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auspreuBif9en Berlin
bigunsen. Der ~y,dsnbsimer 4ns
ssiser, 4nili9ss UeriunoisunssbIoit
felt 1856, sntbdlt IN Isinsr Rr. 81
folasnbe .gsianntmaGung. Die Deds
bsbingunasn fir bic aSnislihen yes
id6lsr bes !5eF. sgluii. aaubgeitiils
Dilenburg t5nnsn auf 3immer 4 bss
Hatbbaifss einseIsben iperbtH. Jn
Staticnsbsdor. Wilbslmsbub iieben 2
S.nsis 5ur @erfiisuns. ltdenbsim,
ben 90. MGrs 1914. Die poli5eis9ers
ipaltung. Slider en- tpeld5e GsiaIiss
ildifs bss prsubiI1en geamisntbumS
assSssa bio saSnisIiasn 9si4dlss'a
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Sobes-Gnjeigcn.
eidrb am oieniiaa. ben :. apriI 1914,
3ulia Garair,,

peb. o en- !,
aeIirbte Satin bon Sobn NnTare. I'm Ilier
BON 80 3ahIeH Uionaicn unb 20 I1aen. Die
9'eeroiduna finbct itati BON Itnuetbdnie aus.
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april, nm llbr Hdd5m. gccr0tGung anf bem
Sprina Drcbe Sriebboie
Jerfeh Gitn. ". g.. Seitungsn noueH gel1l'
Iigli iopiren 9,iO
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9 u tri0brrHes wldbden Inn bitien Somuler
nod QbaTIenoit 6u aeben ati WlaTioH abe.
elbonbdlc
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Sn perfamien: Samier.
3n pcrfanien Bidder.

10, 900 brnhmt, enaiifhe etc. yiihsr per.
ben ansutrianit Gnib 5rabims Co.. 3j ca
3. Strahe IL
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anseis.n fir Sadlbernfe.
@erfuren:

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8ifierblaii un6 r9. 6 g. einerdpicri. slb'
anaeben pegcn Qelpbnrnn 255l 1nirpieip
slpenne @bone gSeit 4595 4. IT
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sm psrfanien-geridieoenes.

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gan; bilia. ipenn iofori beriaufi QdcbBlb
fraaen 60S 9iobIe Aono Clifton Seiabis.
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8erlanat sn fanicu:

aIte eTeberbetfer-glir besnbien bic be.
800 g5efi eedfie sbe. g. 3908 o. bp
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II may be said without reflection
upon the other British players that a
polo match without Captain LESLIE ST.
GEORGE CHEAPE In his position would
be worse than forlorn hope for the
challengers. Victory for the American
team would be a foregone conclusion
and public interest in the series could
In splendid form, and to make a good
showing against them the visitors must
have Captain CHEAPE on the field. We
do not mean to say that the British
officers have only fighting chance at
Meadow Brook--they are such good
players that with the best Of the luck
they might lift the cup; but we do mean
to say that the visitors deprived of
the scoring ability Of Captain CHEAPE
could not expect to win game no mat
Association will he heartily commended
by good sportsmen for postponing the
first match until Saturday on account
of the injury to Captain CHEAPE.
Meanwhile. both sides will have an
opportunity for more practice. The
challengers are In need OF 1t, and the
American four will be all the better
for It. If Lord WIMBoBNE upon his ar
rival had asked for postponement the
Polo Association would doubtless have
granted 1t, for In getting together n
team he had made many sacrifices and
experienced disnlpointments; now that
his best player has been disabled and
he Is compelled to accept little grace
it IL IA pleasure to tender It. The
Americans would like to play the chal.
lengers at the top Of their form, and
there is fair assurance that they
will be thoroughly fit when the two
teams face each other at Meadow
Brook There was no such assurance
n day or two ago.
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port that such men as he landed at
Vera Cruz would go anywhere and do
anything when orders were given that
they would not be denied. and would
wiring victory from any emergency IT
their ammunition held out and they
were not hopelessly outnumbercd.
The American soldier or sailor Is
distinguished from the men in the
ranks of other services by being good
deal more than unit that obeys orders
dumbly: he thinks for himself when
he Is on the firing line or finds himself
In n tight place: he has initiative. and
takes responsibility. lie knows his
duty In any situation and how to do 1t {:
checrfully and with Intelligence he
does more than his duty. Always well
trained, naturally adventurous. eager
to prove his mettle, loyal to the flag
and proud Of his commander, he fol-
lows where any officer leads and out
strips the officer II he can. The Amer
lean soldier or sailor Is therefore n
hard man to beat, and that quality
called hcroism inheres In him as Il
common attribute.
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AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS.
luty OF Owners to Take Every Means In
Their Power to Prevent Them.

To/THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir. can
see truth In some of the statements OF
go, c." but he does not look the whole
matter fairly In the face.
owners insure their risks and turn the
cases over to the insurance companies
which have no soul In the matter but are
simply Interested In defeating the injured
one in the attempt to obtain compe nsa ton
This Is either the cause of attempts on
the part of injured people to obtain ex-
brilliant damages or II Is the result of
such attempts. Whichever II be, Ii does
not absove the automobile owner from
doing all In his power to prevent injury,
whether the person injured Is culpable or
not.
When &c. O." says that 95 per cent. OF
accidents are due to carelessness ON the
part of the pedestrian think he overesti-
mates, unless he regards as carelessness
the refusal Of pedestrians to Jump out OF
the way and run, at the risk OF collidlng
with some unseen vehicle every time a
driver chooses to blow his horn.
The streets are primarily for the pedes-
TRANS, and II Is the duty of the driver OF
any vehicle to stop rather than take any
risk OF injuring one. q. II. NJ
New YORK. June 9.
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Federal Coercion in tho New York
Reserve Bank Election.

In all the Federal reserve districts
except the New York district arrange
ments to elect the Class A and Glass Il
directors Of the Federal reserve banks
seem to be proceeding satisfactorily.
The member banks In the other dis
tricts are apparently being allowed to
seek with a minimum of friction and
only a reasonable quantity Of selfish
ness to obtain the best men for the
important places to be filed.
Here in New York 1t Is different.
Since the recent conferences Of the
three sections into which the member
banks are divided according to capital
izatlon a disturbing amount Of dissel-
sion has been stirred up against the
action of the conferences and the New
York reserve district Is threatened with
contest which will he anything but
conducive to the suspicious Inaugural
ton Of the reserve bank.
The conferences recommended GER
tain candidates to he nominated for
Glass A and Glass Il directors by the
three groups of banks In the district.
There began Immediately In Groups .
and 3, comprising the banks having
two-thirds Of the voting power but
providing only fraction of the capital
and resources Of the Federal reserve
bank, campaign Of agitation to substi-
tute for the conference nominees can
didates declared to he more strictly
representative of the groups OF smaller
banks in the State.
For more than week now the New
York financial air has echoed with
cries Of protest against an alleged eff
fort on the part Of Wall Street to dom
mate the reserve bank board, ana IA
miliar charges OF "intimldat lion" and
coercion" have been hurled at the
banking institutions which will supply
the bulk of the funds to the reserve
bank and would normally contribute
the men with sufficient equipment Of
ability and experience to direct the
operations Of the reserve bank.
The situation would he preposterous
II 1t were not dangerous. Left to them
selves, the member banks In the New
York district would NATURALLY incline
to select directors for the New York
reserve bank who would be best quail
| fled to supervise its business. Such
men would hardly he found in the
ranks of the small bankers, small mer-
chants and small manufacturers OF the
State, however competent they might
he In their own particular fields Of en-
terprlse,
The trouble with the reserve bank
election In the New York district IL
that the member banks have not been
permitted to pursue the methods of
independent Intelligence In arriving at
desirable result. The Federal re-
serve bank organization committee has
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nOhNiatInR q Necessity -

According to newspaper dispatches
from Washington. accurately exposing
the thoughts which All the heads OF
those to whom Is entrusted the man
agement of our national affairs:
much relief was manifested in official
circles when It was learned to-day that
HrERTA has backed down from his plan
to blockade Tampico. 1t obviates the
necessity of the United States showing its
hand In favor OF the Constitutonalists
This represents faithfully the curious
frame of mind into which some of
President WILSON'S advisers have sue
ceeded IN bringing themselves. The facts
are that the Constitutionalists, having
captured Tamplco, purpose to import
through that port arms and anmuni-
ton, and at least one cargo Of NUM-
tons of war has been cleared from n
United States port for them. HUERTA,
to prevent the landing Of such cargoes,
ordered a blockade OF Tnmpico. which
the resources OF his navy might have
made effective. the Constitutionalists
having no ships to use against 1t. This
being the situation the United States
announced It's intention to keep Tam
pico open. which its overwhelming
naval strength would have made an
easy task.
This decision having been reached by
the United States, HuERTA resclnded
the order for the blockade, the attempt
to enforce which would have consti-
tuted farce, possibly. even probably,
running into tragedy. The United
States thus gained the point for which
it and the Constituencies We're con
tending, and out Of the murk OF per-
sonal anlmosity and humanitarian as
piration which obscures the capital of
this nation comes the SNUG declaration
that 1.-The necessity Of the United States
showing It's hand in favor OF the Con.
stitutionalists" has been "obviated." ms
II our hand had not been shown COM
pletely and convincingly in the shape
Of a clenched fist adequately coated
with armor!
1t Is declared on respectable author.
ity that President WILSON and Secre.
tary BRYAN are dissatisfied with the
support their Mexican policy receives
throughout the country. If they and
their associates would treat the nation
as a grown man should be treated, and
not as an imbecile child, a substantial
fraction of their cause for complaint
would be speedily removed.
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1t Could BE Done.

Suppose that as division and subdi-
vision proceeds in the rebel forces our
President should become convinced that
the reform of the Mexican land laws
was possible only through CARRANzA,
while Mr.. BRYAN should insist on put
ting the cause of Mexican uplift and
Of perpetual peace exclusively in PAN
CHO VILLAS keeping.
Or vice versa.
Who would be In n position to medi.
ate between the President and the Sec
rotary Of State? What fine formula
of ethical principle and higher national
duty could be framed to meet this
grOtesque new complication?
OF course the thing could be done.
1t could have been done at Gerolsteln.
1t could have been done Behind the
Looking Glass. We are confident Il
could be done at Washington.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-09
GROOMING or THE COLONEL.
Hts Election as Governor Predicted by
an lnfalliblc Seer.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sir. Tho
newspapers antagonistic to Colonel Roose-
welt have decided that the work now in
progress OF securing the necessary sigma
lures to place his name on the Progressive
primary ballot Is merely for the sake of
allowing 7. r, at the proper moment to
decline so that some one else may be
named.
The gentlemen may possess their souls
In peace. The Colonel will he named by
the Progressives and In week or more
enough enrolled Republicans viii sign to
place the talismanic name of Roosevelt
on the Republican primary ballot. II
there IL any Republican In this neck of
the woods who thinks he can beat Theo-
dore Roosevelt In the Republican pri-
maries he will have the opportunity.
This year II IL going 10 be Roosevelt
against the field, and when the fight IL
over THE Sun, whose election returns
are famous for their impartial exactness.
will show that T. n. has received more
votes than all the other candidates put
together.
Barnes and Murphy fighting Roosevelt
are funny enough to make the most blase
New Yorker burst his sides with laughter
NEW YORK, June \. j. T.. III, e,
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a Compromise That Compromises
Naught hut Self-respect.

The so-called compromise amendment
to the canal tolls repeal bill counts for
nothing whatever except as bridge
for the pride of opinion enlisted on one
or the other side of the prolonged con-
troversy mainly instlgated and man
aged by Senator O'GoRMAN.
If the repeal were enacted without
the Simmons amendment 1t would be
not the less true that our Government
is waving or relinquishlng no right
of exemption which we have under
the Ilay-Pauncefote treaty with Great
Britain and the Hay-Bunau-Varilla
treaty with Panama, and impairing In
no way the sovereignty. ownership and
rights of control which we acquired
through these two interdependent con-
ventions.
On the other hand the Simmons
amendment asserts neither directly nor
Indirectly the alleged right of discrimi-
nation In favor of our own shipping
which the Baltimore platform declared
and which has been the principal con.
tention of the Representatives and SEN
ators opposing repeal.
1t Is somewhat humiliating II a ma
ton like ours cannot do Its plain duty
according TO written contract without
resorting TO an expedient like this.
Nevertheless, there ~ nothing IN the
fabric of words devised by Senator
SIMMONS as meeting place for OPP
posite opinions, or, to change the figure,
as veil or garment for the naked fact
Of repeal, which modifies In the slight
est degree or even defines in any par
ticular our treaty obligations concern
ing the canal.
Legislation by Congress cannot
modify or alter treaty obligations.
Legislation may repudiate them. but 1t
Is powerless to change them one iota.
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book just published in England
makes some shocking revelations of
conditions In the upper reaches of the
Amazon. Mr.. JOSEPH +. WooDRoFFE, the
author, charges that Indians are not
the only victims OF peonage In the rub
Der country which has acquired such
evil fame In recent years. lie says that
many white men have also become the
victims Of the rubber companies and
have found death their only relief from
bondage. He speaks from authority. as
he himself was victim of the system
though he escaped alive. The plan Is to
hire some young foreigner, generally
an Englishman, AZ an inspector or
clerk and send him far up country.
Then. II he has any outstanding debts
they are bought up and he is In the
tolls. He Is treated little better than
the native poems and he wears out his
life broken. sad and absolutely without
hope, obliged to do his masters will
without any redress" If ne tries to
escape he is dragged back and the cost
Of his capture is piled on to his debt.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-09

In replying to the charges OF the
Carnegie Peace Foundation report on
Balkan war atrocities the Greek Gov
eminent Is at a serious disadvantage.
II was one Of the Governments that
refused To give the commission of in
quiry any facilities for getting at the
truth. This Is carefully set forth in
the commissions report, but items Of
alleged Greek brutality are all specifi-
cally stated together with the support.
ing testimony. 1t must be remembered
that the tone Of the report. though the
evidence bears against Greece, is i'm
partial. None of the combatant nations
Is acquitted of violations Of the laws Of
modern war. but the pallating circum-
stances. historic, racial and cultural, are
fairly stated. The charges against
Greece arc limited to the period of great
evaporation after the beginning Of the
second war The array OF apparent
facts is nppallingly convincing and 1t
Is To b. feared that some better proof
than ex parte official declarations will
have TO be produced to Offset the moral
effect.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-09

TO condition Of the poems south Of the
Rio Grande why don't you show sufficient
judgment to relieve distress In the United
States? Nobody down In Washington APP
pears to have real policies or to know
what he IL "at." Men cannot live on
theories, no tier whether they sound
well or ILL., | hear men say who voted
for the Democratic ticket at the last
election they will never vote for any
Democrat again. The reason that they
give seems sound to me they say they
want n chance to make some money, that
persecution OF the rich hits them as well.
THURLow WEED BARNES.
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The American Fighting Man.

Hero Is Il word sometimes wOfully
misused, but when Admiral FLETCHER
makes up the roll of honor at Vera
Cruz we may be sure no undeserving
officer or man gets on the list We know,
however. that not every one who did his
duty CALAMITY Is included, for the story
OF achievement ms told In unadorned
official language leaves no doubt In the
mind that the landing parties were
splendidly organized machines COM
posed of first class fighting men who
were rs Intelligent as they were brave.
All were electives in the service mean
ing of the term, but glory il often
caprlciOus.
The work To- be done was not of the
kind that ahoundS in chances for dis
tincllon, although 1t was always dan
gerous, 4 charge gathers men together
In common hot blooded impulse but
charging the enemy was no part of the
tactics Of the American occupation from
the nature of the business In hand.
Men stepped ashore in the vivid tropic
light to be targets of an unseen enemy,
and there was little or no cover. Com
parativcly few of them had been under
hre, and the thing to be done was new
to most Of their officers. Goodness,
steadincss and judgment counted as
much as physical bravery, and no one
seems to have been found wanting. 1t
was severe test both of training and
manhood. Admirably was II met.
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