The Weather After a cheerless summer the weather on land
and sea has been worse than ever. The farmers; who see foot-and- mouth reappearing here and there, still have a great deal of hay out, and their corn, where it was not cut before the hay was carried, is badly laid. The military manoeuvres and exercises have been made a misery, and even stopped in one field. Most of all, we are sorry for the Territorials in camp, because most of them are patriotically giving up their holidays to this service, which ought also to be for them a health-giving pleasure. The camps of the Public Schools 0.T.C.s were stopped by the War Office for fear of spreading spotted fever. A large voluntary camp of the now unrecognized and unsubsidized Public Secondary Schools Cadet Association was a great success, and must have confirmed what we all knew, that the Cadet Corps encourage unselfish corporate outdoor life and not militarism or hatred of one's neigh- bour. To cut down the expense may be right, but to sneer at these Cadet Corps as militarist is not. We shall be told perhaps that bummel and jugends-herberge really mean military marches to military barracks.
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