a rising monetary value as being attached to such relics.

Apart from the personal interest which German helmets possess to the happy individual who drilled a hole through the head of the former possessor, what interest is there in these relics? Already non-combatant collectors have commenced to specialize in these, in which they resemble those suburban persons who proudly display stag antlers in the hall of their small villa, somebody else's conquest. These persons are not sportsmen. The owner of a fox's brush or his head, in a country house, recalls with pride that he was "in at the death."

The only persons eligible to possess Hun helmets and Hun badges are those who took them forcibly from the possessors. There is no doubt some trophies are worth more than others in regard to the Prussian-Wurtemburger-Saxon-Bavarian or any other of the units making up the German, Austrian, Turkish, Bulgarian combination. The much vaunted Prussian Guard was broken by our contemptible little army," to quote the dictum of the lunatic " All-Highest." The Prussian helmet badge," Mit Gott fur Kænig und Faterland” is a reproach for what these representatives of Hun "kultur" did in Belgium and in France. The truest collection of Hun helmets is over.

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Carlyle, reverent idolator of "Frederick Rex," would bend his peasant knee to the "F.R." on these Prussian helmets, under the tutelage of his

Prussian ghost collaborateur in the life of that world-charlatan.

As to relics in general, they are something which one can revere. Relics are sacred, they have associations which are or should be beautiful. Hun relics belong to the category outside the normal, such as the collection of ropes that hanged notorious criminals, or the letters of abominable malefactors, or the belongings of celebrated courtesans. It is all one such polluted objects should not claim the attention of the serious collector whose plane is above the Newgate Calendar," and who desires to summon up tender grace of a day that is dead."