crank and is authority on mil matters pertaining to the game.OUR SANITARY CONDITION. 'Much talk has been indulged in. regarding sickness in the army. These rumors have gone the rounds and been magnified until one would think the condition really alarming. There is nothing surprising in this, because in every community will be found those who are anxious to borrow trouble and who are not natural unless when ceaselessly gabbling about everything going wrong. But this misimpression should bo corrected. Wo are an army of 20,000 men and in a country to which wo aro strangers.Is there then anything remarkable in the fact that people get sick and in some instances die? This happens everywhere amongst the given number of people, and the percentage here is not larger than elsewhere. As to smallpox it, visits here regularly and seldom proves fatal. Since the United States government took charge of affairs everything possible has been done to improve the sanitary conditions,* and the officers in charge of affairs will continue their ceaseless vigilance to the end. Wo can trust them, and thero is no cause for alarnv.—-----—o -\t » I ■ irr. I /'.lt; r\ 9 rrl n 11 lliO IB