After the generals and the staff officers had passed by, I took it upon myself to be a sentry over the house.

To prevent this venture going into the red, I managed the show mostly with one staff-member, and by deploying my Merces flat as the office.

The staff work of General Headquarters and of the staffs of the three corps proved wholly sound.

We stopped for dinner at Strij, another of those drab, dusty, half-Jewish towns filled now with German and Austro-Hungarian soldiers, officers, proclamations, and all the machinery of a staff headquarters, and the next morning rolled into Lemberg.

Something of the unreadiness of the army, every reflecting soldier in the ranks comprehended, when he saw within the precincts of his own brigades the hap hazard conduct of the quartermaster's and staff departments.

With a view to check simply the worst abuses in this respect and to prevent young men quite untried from holding these important posts, it became necessary to require, as a preliminary to the bestowal of staff appointments, evidence of a certain number of years of service.

" SPIRIT OF BELGIAN SOLDIERS Writing from Antwerp on September 1, William G. Shepherd, United Press staff correspondent, illustrated the spirit of the soldiery of Belgium by the following story: "The little Belgian soldier who climbed into the compartment with me was dead tired; he trailed his rifle behind him, threw himself into the seat and fell sound asleep.

Staff editor: George E. Hagemann.

" She vaguely remembered that Vincent Atterbury was on staff duty.

There, as in the Rue Drouot, the drums were beaten and arms presented to us; more than that, an officer came and informed the leaders of the manifestation that a delegate of the Central Committee begged them to proceed to the staff quarters.

[Illustration: Staff Officer (accustomed to staff-car pace).

"On my way here I saw one of Feisul's staff captains driving in a cab toward the Jaffa Gate.

Only a staff specialist, trained in intelligence work and in constant touch with the intelligence department, can be a safe censor.

At this moment a staff-bearer came in and gave the king a dagger found by a eunuch under Nitetis' window.

To the extreme right you might have beheld Vegetable Warren, the staff-surgeon, slightly exaggerated in the semblance of a South-Down wether nibbling at a gigantic Swedish turnip.

The present organization, by maintaining large staff corps or departments, separates many officers from that close connection with troops and those active duties in the field which are deemed requisite to qualify them for the varied responsibilities of high command.

All with a military purpose, it is said; for in the nice calculations of a staff system which grinds so very fine, nothing must be excluded that will embarrass the enemy.

Administrative staff report.

The national banner clings to the flag-staff heavy with blood.

Then our last colonel, a staff man, Col. Doughty Wylie, ran ashore with a cane, ran right up the hill, ran through the last handful of men sheltering under the crest, took them with a rush into the Turkish trench, and fell with a bullet through his head.

The XXth Corps staff maps and plans, and the details accompanying them, were masterpieces of clearness and completeness.

The periodical perusal of a report, drawn up with as much authority as a scholastic staff possesses, might have very beneficial results.

In the Divisional Offices there are some staff posts open to women at a salary of £200 to £300.

Irus' self, The staff-propt Beggar, his thin-gotten pelf Brings out from pouch, where squalid farthings rest.

Then to the issue of staff recruitment, and and one of my pet peeves.