I. R. R., Clarksville, Va. It is broadening to be able to use more than one language: to be able to speak more than one tongue is a business asset: one is able to enjoy and appreciate the literature of a country with whose language one is familiar: travel has become so easy, and so many persons are traveling, that it is almost a necessity to be able to speak more than one language, if one designs living other than a strictly provincial life.

G. P. O., Richmond - Conscription is the name given to a method of recruiting armies, derived from the Romans, and adopted during the nineteenth century by the leading nations of Europe. September 1798, a conscription of all men from twenty to twenty-five years of age was ordained in France, and from this number selections were made. In after Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign, a conscription of 100,000 men took place, and in December of the same year another of 200,000 men. From 1793 to 1815 (a period of twenty years) the estimated conscriptions in France amounted to 1,103,000 men. The law of 1815 modified in 1824, 1812, and 1815 assigned an annual contingent to each department. In 1815, substitutes were abolished, and military service made obligatory on every Frenchman, not physically incapacitated. All such must enter the army at twenty-five years, as follows: three.  Years in the regular army, six and one-half years in the army reserve, six years in the territorial army (militia.) and nine and one-half years in the territorial reserve. At forty-five years of age, liability to service. 