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( Woocd Voo ha'Je) ('Did \ motT {since Voo insist, the. fAJdr~i^ oDauii vFwD y«V A Docnpots/M)CE.f tßooßta?, OPT \% JWHYJ N “Tfetc ?X "l ESK ?/ Tt li se - is THAT There) -- S Lncc J V CT&-OW \ UJWU.I> l£sfln Y V 7 \ TOC MAAiy CATS" /A) -THisp^ , ■ a Jk. a. /*«g GERMANY’S NEW MILITARY PLANS GO TO REICHSTAG PROBADLY THIS WEEK Understood That Recruits Will Number 37,000 and In Two Years Army Will Be Strengthened by 4,000 Officers, 15,- 000 Non-Commissioned Officers and 117,000 Men. Berlin*— I The details of the milltary plana of the German government will, of course, remain unknown until they are fortnaUv laid before the Reichstag next week or poeathly a few days later. Put Ln order to prepare the people and tholr ret>reeentatlves fn parliament the government has fol lowed Its usual custom and given out several hints through the semi-offi cial pres* which may be reUed upon to he quite correot- Aecordlng to the "Berlin 1-okwJ Anaejger." the annual Increase In the number of recruits will lie about 3T.- 000 so that within two years the army will he strengthened by 4.00# officers, 16.000 non-commtetoned officer*, and 117,000 men. With these additions a third battalion will be given to eigh teen regiments which still have but two. the companies will be strength ened throughout, and the frontier corps will be brought up to the high er establishment Six new cavalry regiments will be demanded. *nnd will also be allotted to the frontier dis tricts. ln addition of nearly 30,000 horses will make It possible for the field ar tillery batteries to exercise with all six guns and some of the ammunition wagons. The cavalry divisions are not to be established permanently, but are to be brought together more fre quently for manaeuvrvs. A portion of the non-recruiting ex penditure will go to strengthening and re-armlng the fortifications on the Kastern frontier, and a half a dozen fresh battalions of foot artillery are to be formed nnd provided with In dependent machine gun companies. The horsing of the heavy artillery will also be supplemented. Further, there will be considerable additions to th? searching companies, and the train, telegraph and pioneer battalions. The only paper which makes the as sertion that the government's plnns are directed against France Is, strangely enough, the "Koetntcho Zeltur.i* which as often been used as a special mouthpiece of the govern ment, but which now thunders against France In expressions like these: "We do not underestimate the fac tors that have arisen from the new or der in the Balkans, but when sacri fice* are demanded os at present the finger must be plainly pointed to the quarter from which the nearest dan ger threatens us. That In France. Never has our relationship to our western nelbbor been so strained as today. Never has the ''revenge" idea showed Itself there so undlsgulsedly, and never has It been so clear that Franco claims the Russian alliance and Kngllsh friendship solely for the purpose of reconquering Alsaco-Lor raine. Therefore, ln whatever quart er the world may catch fire, It is quite certain that we shall have to cross blades with the French. When tt will happen no one can know." LONDON RULES FOR RETAINING YOUTH “Know Yourself" the Last of Oldfield s Rules Contains the Secret of Them All. London.—How to remain young and escape the disadvantages of "middle age'' has been explained by Mr. Jo stnli Oldfield, the food t Xpert, at the Simple Life Exhibition, held In Cax ton Halt Westminster. "There ought to be no such thing as ' middle age.'" said Dr. Oldfield. "If a man lives properly he can carry the spirit of youth to the ,nd of his days. 1 am on the way towards 90, fHE AUGUSTA HERALD., AUGUSTA. GA- He Just Could 1 nt Keep From Laughing Ouch! Ouch! How the Ola Man Suffers but f feci entirely young. The se cret is simple. A man must submit himself to mental and physical discip line and cat wisely and not too well." Dr. Oldfield's rules are: Think big thoughts and cling to noble ideals. Live on the fruits of the highest minds. Do not waste time over petty things Most Noisy City In All Europe Is What Is Said of Pretty Berlin Few Factories and No River Traffic, But Air is Filled With Strident Whistling and Tooting From Morning to Night. Second Only to Constantinople on Number of Dogs in City. Berlin.—Berlin is undoubtedly the most noisy city in Europe, though it ha s comparatively few factories and no river traffic to fill the air with strident whistling and tooting. Most of its noise, In fact. Is made by lung and hand power, the first being the result partly of the lusty crlesf of street peddlers and the continuous harking of an unusual number of dogs. For Berlin is, after Constanti nople, the most dog-ridden city in the world, and the latter emanating from hundreds of thousands of pia no- which are belabored by more or less musical fingers about eighteen hours out of every twenty-four Seme time ago the Berliners made the alarming discovery that they were developing nerves, which is anyth.ug but a commua German and do not take narrow views. Take fruits, vegetables, oils, pure wines, eggs, butter, milk, and bread. Avoid shoddy, second-hand food of ali kinds. Bathe every morning and rub the skin hard with a towel. Chance underclothing every twenty four hours. Know yourself. complaint and they began to wonder "hv. As for that part of the Ber liners who are In the habit of mak hours between 10 in the evening and hours btween 10 in the evening and 4 in the morning in the cases, caba fets, vaudeville theatres' and dance halls of Friedrichstrasse and neigh ‘ honing streets, the cause • was plain enough, but the large majority of Berliners who never indulged in these excesses were unable to under stand why they should be nervous and fidgety until Dr. Siegmund Auer bach, who has long been engaged in the study of noises and their effect on health, informed them that it was the unnecessar din of their beloved city that made them Jumpy. When the xplanaticn had been i found the Berliners with their usual resoluteness immediately formed an Anti-Noise society, which has now begun a fierce campaign against un necessary noises and which has of fered a reward for the invention of a noise-meter, or whatever you may call it, to measure noises and when this Instrument has been invented a certain .point of the scale which marks the boundary between noises which are harmful to the health and which are not, for Germans are nothing if not systematic and scien tific in their methods. As a particular Berlin noise Dr. Auerbach names the beating of rugs and carpets, which is bound to make itself felt in a city of flats, where every single flat has its special car pet-beating baloney enrolfed. on the list of modern improvements. German housewives are bitter enemies of dust in the rooms and at least twice a week all carpets, rugs, curtains and portieres are beaten into a state of absolute dustlessness on the beat ing balcony. Under no circumstances does the German soul show such per sistent energy, and one might almost say ferocity as in this semi-weekly onslaught on the microbes hidden among the dust of the rugs and hangings of the house: It promises better for the future that sanitary specialists have now satisfied them selves that the thud of the carpet beater is more injurious to health than all the microbes which the beat ing is supposed to drive away and which ought to be removed in a modern city like Berlin only by the noiseless and scientific vacuum cleaner. SUNDAY. MARCH 30. By ‘"Bud” Fisher By Hettingei By Hernman. AMERICAN DUCHESS INTERESTED IN HOIK London.—ls a vote were to be taken among the poor - and hard working as to who is the most popular lady in London, Queen Alexandra would prob ably be first, but the Duchess of Marlborough would come a close sec ond, for the interest which she takes in the welfare of the humbler classes is not spasmodic. It has become her chief interest in life and like a gen uine American she insists on doing as much personally as her time will per mit instead of following the easier English way of doing good by proxy. Recently she has been very much taken up with the working of “Albion House,", established in the very heard of Kensington laundrvdom, to help along poor washerwomen and other humble female toilers. This house was until quite recently a saloon but is now a residential club and restau rant run by the National Association of Women’s Lodging Houses. The duchess dropped into the club the other day to afternoon tea with the inmates and greatly enjoyed a large cup of tea and two “sinkers" supplied at the reasonable price of one penny. When she left there was not one of the women or girls who would not go through fire or water for th* rtcan duchess.