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Show FELT TENTS NO NOVELTY. Have Long Been Used as Shelter for Campaigning Soldiers. A Copenhagen dispatch tells of a Dane who lias Invented a new military tent fashioned of felt. Possibly there may ho some new method of treating tho material, but felt tents nro not a new device. They played their part In eastern history at a date sulllclent-ly sulllclent-ly late to bo In most people's recollection. recollec-tion. The Turcoman tribes of Trans-caspia. Trans-caspia. not to seek further, have used tents of felt for ages. The use of them had n curious effect upon a Russian expedition thlrty-flvo years ago. Gen. Lomnkln assailed tho stronghold of tho Tekkes nnd fired In terrific volleys of grape and shall among tho tents of felt. Ilut no serious damage seems to havo been tlono, and when the troops nttompted the storming of tho felt encampment en-campment they wero repulsed and fled In wild panic |