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Show Too Tall to Be a Soldier. Nothing miild Illustrate butter tlir changes In the art of war wrought b tho evolution of weapons than the melancholy news thnt "Arllllerymni. .fecau nf the Fourth Regiment nt Rochello bus teen discharged on nr count ot his height." In the eld days Arcenu's prodigious-staturo prodigious-staturo would have scared tlio eiicmj and poets would havo chanted the glo rlcs of the nt-'o which could produce such rcdonbtnblo champions, Now, however, smokeless powder has changed chang-ed all that. Invisibility Is tho first consideration on tho field of battle nowadays, and nn artilleryman of six feet nlno might cnuso tho discovery and massacro of n wholo regiment Paris Figaro. |