Show SPY OUTWITTED BY AN OLD WOMAN curiosity aroused by actions of foreign gentleman on aberdeen express DOES SOME SWIFT THINKING looking stupid Is her specialty and when officers grab the spy soy he looks at old lady and sighs london lue best spy store stor in a long ion time comes colnes from a medical officer one of the big guns of his corps and probes profession glon it Is all about tile the aberdeen express one orle of the Nv worlds quickest long distance runs rung you leave london after the theater go to bed in the train have a cup of tea in bed at edinburgh and break breakfast filst in aberdeen COO miles from town northward from edinburgh there are stops a while on the forth bridge from whence you look down onto the decks it af first class battleships and at dundee and montrose the old lady boarded the train at edinburgh and the porter shoved her lute into it a nonsmoking non smoking compartment of 0 the day coach the other passenger was a foreign gentleman of what nationality tiona lity it would be hard to caybut say but foreign As to the lady she seemed a harmless old thing some fifty three years of age the point Is that one of the two was really a german spy and first suspicion would point to the old lady she owned up frankly that she enjoyed a gossip and found the foreign gentle gentleman inan quite a good fellow As to his nationality the accent gave no clue she pumped him perseveringly A few stops from edinburgh the train stopped on the forth bridge from the trains one looks down upon it naval base of first rate consequence A spy making rapid summary of the capital ships in full view might pick up important information the foreign gentleman stood up filling the window shutting out the view and annoyed the old lady who also wanted to have a look moreover she saw aw him go through a long tumbling fumbling procedure which puzzled her extremely what on earth was he up to the only thing she saw was the last swift movement which emptied the bulgy part of his overcoat and she caught the glimpse of a wing now the whole thing was clear there must have been a mes message scribbled rapidly folded rind and made fast and then sudden release of a carrier pigeon the old ladys specialty and then alien the foreigner flashed round to see if the lady had noticed anything no evidently e not she looked vacant nodding find and halt half asleep 1 I look looked ed stupid she said afterward but my specialty she must have done some very swift thinking before he had time to turn round her first impulse was to run along the corridor find and find the guard or rouse the first soldier she saw but then the foreigner would see by lier her first movement lie was in danger and site she did not want to be strangled thrown out ont of the window and drow drowsed tied in the forth estuary she became al affable lable mon wondering derIng what had delayed the train so long lie ile expressed noble sentiments concerning the allies and contempt for germany but as the train pulled into dundee tl e oll oid lady embres expressed ed her conviction that the morning papers would be for tale sale by tills this time at the bookstalls book stalls she felt that a little run on the platform would ease her limbs after the lie cramped compartment slie she would buy a paper for the foreign gentleman also halfway half way to the bookstall she met a porter it would be natural to ask him how long the train stopped dont be seen speaking she 11 seta II as she passed the porter theres n spy in my carriage carrl send the station master to me at the bookstall when the station master came behind the lady spoke into nn fin open newspaper 19 just as though she were reading aloud dont be seen speaking with me she said theres a spy in my carriage the train stops at montrose next nest eh well wire montrose she paid for lier her bundle of papera and walked back to the carriage the spy seemed unsuspicious sitting where liere ti she had left him much obliged for the newspaper the plucky old lady sat opposite to lier her spy and entertained him until they reached montrose no stranger then came to their compartment it british officer with mth an armed guard und and a detective who greeted the spy u at t once like a long lost brother why said he be ive been searching tv fc you for months the spy looked out through the 1 window I en eastward stward and saw an armed sentry waiting on the metals in case lie he attempted escape then he looked at the lady the artful old lady and sighed later the old lady received an cial communication of warm congratulation on her patriotism courage and high intelligence begging her to accept the inclosure memento of a fine deed done tor for hor her country THE AMERICAN ARMY NOW 13 grows in few short months from force numbering only men OVER ARE REGULARS officer personnel numbers more than equipment of cf wen men much more diverse than in any previous war washington the latest official leial off figures put the number of enlisted men in the armies of the united states at 1 30 1000 tills this Is the force that has grown lu in eight months out of an army valca on april 1 1 I numbered only 11 men most of them are still in the training camps many of atheni them are not yet disciplined troops fully equipped and armed for battle but there they are ot of them already one of 0 the biggest factors hindenburg Is reckoning with for the campaign of 1018 1918 to lend lead them there are over officers when the graduates of the second training camp get their first orders the number will be over as is many off officers leers as there were privates nine months ago over regulars of 0 the new american force 0 er SOO men are regulars in all the world only two regular armies remain the american and the japanese the others have all been swept away in the flood of war when the first american ow onslaught laught takes place german landwehr ehr and landstein Land stu n troops droops will find ther themselves nelves opposed to an army of professional fess ional lonal soldiers behind the regulars are the soldiers of the national guard regu regi lars in experience many of them thanks to our neighbor of the south after the guard come the ilie men of the new national army tho the whole military establishment with the marines and the auxiliary forces thrown in numbers a million and a half the expansion that has t taken place Is as if grand rapids had grown in eight months to be as big as philadelphia diversity of equipment the first thing to bo be done for the new aminy was to provide them hem with shelter and clothing f food find and warmth that large undertaking Is fill all but accomplished equally great Is the task of providing arms to arin am an infantry dhillon in the civil war mount meant to provide as many muskets and as ninny many bayonets as there ii were ere men ili n in the ili command in ili the present war the jot job Is more cili there tire are rifles find and ba bayonets to lo lie be furnished now its as formerly but there are also grenades gron ados nud and ga and li helmets elmets and trench mortars to be seen to each of the four infantry regiments in it division must have trench knives automatic ries and three one cannon the nien men ot of the machine gun battalion tind and the agtos men of the flold arld ai tIllery hilgrade must m have machine and three inell guns in ili numbers that would tn in artillerist even of s so recent a period as tile war with spain two hundred and seventy flye five thousand troops were madu mado ready to fight spain in 1808 1898 though only of alic ra were actually engaged ong ngod |