TENTING AT WAKEFIELD

Next week members of the Corps will smell their first powder, and hear their first rifle volleys, when one battalion begins target practice at Wakefield. The work of drill, which is monotonous to the point of becoming mechanical during the early weeks, has become intensely varied and interesting. The target practice which will be undertaken by succeeding battalions has in it something, however feeble, of the tumult and thrill of war.

There is no reason why any accident should occur. Daily in Europe millions of men handle firearms in the most deadly way. Yet by the use of a small amount of care, accidents--in the sense of self-inflicted casualties--are almost unknown. With the same reasonable care there will be no mishaps next week.

It is natural to expect that "there is always some fool who will be careless." The thing for each man to do, then, is to see that he is not the fool.