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Show I nxperlmema with sugar ration fee soldiers were tried during the last German Ger-man maneuvers. Ten men wers subjected sub-jected to the sugar diet while another tan received exactly the tame rations aa the rest of the army Themenckos. en for the tpee.al diet were weak corporeally cor-poreally According to the oClclal rs-I rs-I port, the weight ot the sugar men Increased In-creased during the maneuver mors than that of the men on the ordinary ration, "It was proved that during the V long marches the feelings of hunger j could be kept down for a longer time j by ths umi ot sugar that the sugar pea- J pis suffered less from thirst than tbe J others, and that a few pieces of sugar I sufficed to still thlrat for a consider- ) able time. It wsn aleo observed that I symptoms of exhaustion or ot sun- ' stroke were quickly overcome by a I small ration ot sugar" The authorl- j tits now recommend that sugar b con- ' sldered a rtgutar article of soldiers' food, and that, above all, soldiers on tbe march ihould have a tupply of IL New York Sun. Sartrlnc Mtrrow. C-rtr and ovtr again ths old truUi comts back to us that no man la good (or much until hs has suffered a great sorrow. Ths bsptltm of pain It ons of tbs Instrumentalities which Ood usa for purging away tbe drot of our nature na-ture and making us fit to bs partakers of ths Inheritance ot the saints In light. Not those who have escaped tba 11 try trial, but those wbo bava gone through It and come out unhurt and glorified, are to bs envied. Ood knows what is beat for us Therefore he sends first one affliction and then another upon us. Sometimes, because He tees It ns-ceaaary, ns-ceaaary, he lifts ths very floodgates, snd allows wave after wave ot misfortune misfor-tune to sweep over us If we have tha right stuff In us, we shall be helped and. not harmed by these seeming calamities. |
