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ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1899. MEN IN BATTLE. gXPKKTH ONLY ABLE J'o JUDG1 OF jlli: MREItS ENGAGED. whii'' i illetins and "extras" are keeping the lie hour after hour of the biggesl war in wlii.

ipfakinc have been in the last nu -'on itself to thft looker these dispatches pre? sent cleai i definite Idea to the minds of ftsw whom II) Interesl much?" read the morning said a citl im wiih an Inquiring turn of mind who was news one evening last week, sil pol remen were brought up und repri? by the raptaln of the precinct yester? day, Hi; ves me what you may call a clear, Id? 1 know what policemen look like, ud v.h.ii sil them in a row would look like, I couM look six and at a glanca that then were si i and not ten. Hut when corne to talk about ils hundred the case is altogethar Hftrenl I doubl whether anybody at this table hundred men In a crowd and jay right of! th.it there were six hundred and nat fiv hundred or seven hundred. And when the dispatches tell us that twelve thousand British are fighting the Boers at Ladysmlth, icfjf few except military experts, get anythh te oui of the statement than tl lot' British engaged In the llL'1 Tt, i ng clauae, "except military to an Interesting ques Hea for military experts Is the power of in -i faculty which the soldier has rt his professional equip metit if is, how is it done? MaJ neral Merritt ng a slry vet wan, is pan fii to speak on thb? the of cavalry in actual observing the enemy? movements, and lu- ping the ngiy i1 I'hlans in this tlu. German army In 1 Merritt said In sawwer to the Inquiry speak of es tonal if crowd, you must re vast difference between a I Armies in the field tak" regn which it Is the business ol familiarize themselves Tkk into "inn, it Is quite SWSil Judg of the numhei by the ground You can da thai at considerable dls hsce if you have g.i field glasses. It Is one the things which have to be acquired by lactic? the i a military pupil I'pton at Point ce ed from '-hat foi estimai mur i he num? ber? of lolumn the march was "3,000 men mil? in length." Th" usual allowance for upied bj a mat? in liii" is 28 in? hes, ud remains the same when the line tas right or left, forming column.

The space is supposed to be Is feet i ourse, based upon the ns of the L'nlted States Army, tet (be difference between these and those In armies is now so slight as to be ol Impoi tan? in foi ming rough tanate; i un liers. the dlffl ii of ag si 1 no-n who may be? bt as Oeneral Merrltl Blg ked, troop? nevei gel under inj that will allow through a ni and i hen r. ach hind him." The Jifflculty of appears, is mu? greater ad hen ih" bodies of troops under sata halting In line, in close mdei or are marching in columna. te the me rules for ludglng numbers can he appli? with sue certain foi mulas in this in the usual close forma i posed to know by Hut in tion when the front is '-on testl) the intervals lav men increasing diminish il I be hard to apply any rule and look fail results pe? i h. i leas ere asked, serai Fran, is V'inton (Sreene, said that t) re as never any the numbers of the enemy lur cause they S) night" that is, they to? rn the over ol Iren? hes or of the Philippine Hut the Ruaso-Turkish War, In General ne represented the United th th? Russian army, one way tell fa body of Turkish infan 2 by counting the flags, it being thai tl rally i arrled on? flag battalions 1300men); at ndmbera, though it have needed much practice to bring it it was by the i ij of a.

marching. Group by Daniel C. French, for the Appellate Division Courthouse PLAS'h FOU THE GERMAN CROWS PRINCE. Prom Vanity Fair, Krem nil ai i omits, the German Crown l'rince la llkelj retiemble his father verj strongly In his character He la most patriotic, fond of tho history of hi? house, and, above all things, German. It is that he always prefer? to speak German, and that he much dislikes his grandmother, the Empresa Frederick's, custom of insisting thai English must be spoken ln-r children und grandchildren In her pus.

inc. May nexl the Prince attain hia ma? jority, when he will have a separate establish? ment of his own, and hia in the public Court life Prussia. leaving Ploen he Is to for a fea terms to the Bonn University, where his father and grandfather were before him, and where the greater part of the princes of Germany finish their education. Later he ill do active service in tho army, and will probabl) present iiexi year at the autumn arm) for the Appellate DivlBion Courthou by F. W.

Mfll. ADORNED WITH RCULPTURK WORK OF PROMINENT ARTISTS ON THE NEW APPELLATE DIVISION COURT HOUSE. The now building In Madison ave. Twenj ty-iifth-st. whirh by the Ap? pellate Division of the Supreme rap Idly nearlng completion, and avili be one of the mi.st beautiful public edifices In city, it will occupy ISO feel in Twenty-fifth st and feet In tin- avenue.

The building was designed by James Brown Lord, and the orations ta tha work nf well known mural painters ml sculptors, whose combined efforts it Is be? lieved the new temple of justice be a work of art. The mural decorations be confined to tha courtroom ami the entran hall, and subjects for these stately apartments are elab? orated by the following artists: Edward Sim? mons, H. Blashneld, II Walker, Kenyon Cos, Alfred Collins, Joseph Lauber, II. Sol? dons Mm? bray, Robert William Metcalf an.l C. v.

Turner. Sixteen artists are at work the sculptured ornamentation. The two proininenl grou 'Justice," by Daniel C. French, ami "Peace," by Bitter will above the centres of the Twenty-fifth-st and Madison-ave. elevations, and F.

Ruckstuhl is the designer of the sit. ting figures "Wisdom" and "Force," which will occupy the placea to the right and left of the main entrance, On the Madison-ave. front there be four caryatides representing the four seasons. These are Ihe work of Thomas Bhl? I The four spandrels above the ped intents of the windows of the central portal representing irnlng," "Noon." "Evening" ind "Night." be the work of Max M. Schtvaz All the single figures and groups arc to in- in Lass i marble, quarried in the Austrian Tyrol, and be in place, according to pr plans, in May, IIKB).

Mr. French's group "Justice," is feet high, the central figure being a woman bearing two burning torches figure Is flanked on elthei side by mal? figures representing 'Power" and "Wisdom." by F. Wellington kstuhl, resents ihe figure ol a pati Ian po to a page an open i.k Im arlng the wair Is Ei ry Ian mil posed on isdom is a i to Hi- State." This statue is II 10 Inch high, and th- statue "Force." which stand at ihe main nit ranee, will be of th? sani" height. Th four rar) lii. on.un.

nt the Mali son r.vi si le of the sti lure are high, and ih" spandrels above the windows In the grand portal are a bou I feel long. Morning and "Night" are represented by fern i and NaMin' and "Evening" by male figures, I IPO LOU I l. i is. From The Army and Navy Gazette. A story General Dragomiroff, which Is nof without relation to the pean Conference, Is lobl by "Rasvedchik." ol si Petersburg: An i urg? 'i upon him that II Imperatl neeessni for Russia mi.

her He tlemui red, and saiil that if the counti cou I support an addition ol three hundred thou aan 1 no it was no disadvantage, bul ratl Hi" reverse, for, besides an economy of iMHi.iNNi rubles being Ihe suit, the would gain to Ho- same extent, Every soldier costs doulile his worth, foi does no) work hin and lia.s to work foi him. If we "ii m. leasing "in forces without limit "i reason min is before us." To plunge Into ivai i ord ain Is fatuous. Whereupon I lie ral proc eded lo tell a There were three neighbors, Kan. Hidor and Peter, each of whom had a keeper look ait' i his farm, da) II occurred lo Kan thai If In- two neighbors leagued against him he would have a i.i chance, Therefore he hired another man.

which led Hidor believe he had some il purpose, who thereupon seciin i couple men, and thi ughl he could sleep in peace. Ivan wan alarmed, and Immediately nul and hired two mop" men foi his i urily, and Sidor and he kepi "ii at this ruli game of competition. Peter, meanwhile, not? i hi folia W'hai an exci nt waa crea fing evil where II does noi exist!" he ii-! lo Ih like a goo I house? Lei il com? and I will fc nd mysi If. All the world will nail I'- against me. Perhaps I shall have helpers.

Th" devil is bul g.I!" RAPID OR i I'll) From Tic ill Mall Xhe new Invi-ni Ion of Messi s. Anton Po i and Jos pli al st, promise? i revolutionize i lei trie leb graph) The Win al Btone apparatus has its limitations, but, I i miuila the new has none I uiii lurn "in us thousand word? an lili a p- maximum, umli pn i went) i hou and mm Thi pi Im Iple if Iransml 11 nun thi sume as in th lier from the di scrlptloi u-u i hi nn.i i-orri sfMindi nl ol The Bail) News." bul 111 recelwr Is an adaptation th" diaphragm of which de a I In) mirror, which throws a glowing i) mon sensitised The greal teal be, ability of the app iratua prac in record ever) signal ill lin il). and i .1. Ilk duly proved, The expel i hat a iiiului i- Re? i and toi il) and shall hope i I th- ii. In experlnu ntal use i an ver) -u do Ith su? a I auxiliary lo -jur inetimea oveitaa i irsphii in..