“My horse threw me and stamped on it, sir, just before it got killed by a shell in a charge in Belgium.” “Ah, but you got into them, didn’t you?” Lord Kitchener continued, with a knowing air. “Oh, yes, sir, we did,” answered the trooper, with a laugh, in which Lord Kitchener joined. “There are some more waiting for you, you know,” was Lord Kitchener’s parting shot, and again the trooper laughed. “YES, TAKE A PICTURE” A curious story in connection with the sacking of Louvain is told by a correspondent of a London paper. M. Pousette, a Swedish diplomat, was there, watching the soldiers looting shops. He talked with a German lieutenant. M. Pousette had a camera in his pocket. He asked the lieutenant if he could take a picture. The lieutenant, not knowing that M. Pousette had the camera, misunderstood the question, and, waving his hand toward a particularly fine mansion, generously said: “Yes; go in that house. There are a number of good ones there.” HER FEET HER PASSPORT A Swedish actress narrates how she was taken for a German spy in Paris, and, not knowing how to proclaim her identity and being surrounded by a shouting mob, she felt quite alarmed. Suddenly a lucky idea occurred to her. She slightly raised her skirt, and, showing dainty little feet, exclaimed: “You look at this! Do you call these German?” She was saved and carried in triumph to her hotel. TRAWLERS WORTHY OF FLEET The sinking of the Wilson line steamship _Runo_ by a mine in the North Sea is described as follows: “It was extremely fortunate that the little fleet of four trawlers, homeward bound with their holds full of fish, chanced to be passing almost within hailing distance of the _Runo_ at that moment. The trawlers, regardless of the consequences to themselves, in view of the possibility that there were other mines in the neighborhood, pushed through the wreckage and picked up sailors and passengers who were clinging to timbers and rafts. These were persons who, in the first panic, had jumped overboard or had been blown into the sea. Others were gathered from the decks of the fast sinking ship. “The _Runo_, when she struck the mine, tilted at an angle which made it difficult to launch the lifeboats. Only two were launched, survivors said, and these after reaching the water were both overturned by frightened passengers trying to get into them. “The _Runo_, after settling by the head, remained in that position for nearly two hours, her bulkheads holding her afloat until 6 o’clock when the bulkheads suddenly gave way, elevating her stern high in the air for a moment, after which she dipped quietly into the depths. “The work of the trawlers is declared by the _Runo’s_ crew to have been one of the finest episodes of its kind in the history of the sea.” “NOTHING SEEMS TO STOP THEM” A London _Chronicle_ correspondent thus describes the irresistible advance of the German troops: