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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-15

ERECT, are hardened begin
drilling with mIsket,
which seems to be the first am bition of q
boy getting into ranks - your right
shoulder would acquire a permanent
droop, and instead of having a well
balanced, well poised body you would be
misshapen instead of benefited by the
instruction l should give you. No, boys,
you are going to learn to march and to
be soldiers, and you are not going to
touch musket for six mouths. You are
going to drill only twice a week and not
more than an hour and half at time
then. Then, as we progress toward COM
pany movements, 1 shall appoint tenn
pOrarily from among your number some
promising boys as sergeants and as lieu
tenant and to act as captain, and then
give others of you opportunity. Let
those young fellows, who, by study of
the tactics, who, by steadfast attention
to all the drills and duties, have won the
respect of the entire company-let those
young fellows come TO the front when
the time of your election approaches.
Were you to select your officers tonight
you would oegin by picking out for cap
tain the most popular boy without refer
ence whatever to his possible qualifica-
tions.
The boys whom you liked best would
be your lieutenants, and then some
young fellow would be selected for first
sergeant who probably would be found
to have no earthly qualification for the
position. Next to the captain, in my
opinion, the most responsible ano, by
long odds, the most telling position in
the company is that OF first sergeant,
Therefore do say to you, don t think of
such thing as eleeting your officers until
you have been hard at work ct least
three months. Then you will have found
by the ED of that time who are and who
are not ''standing up to the work. -
Now the first thing you want ia somo
sharp, quick instructor By that mean
some young man who Is himself thor
oughly drilled and who has the faculty
of Importing instruction and maintaining
strict discipline. If you can, enlist the
services of some young officer, q gradu-
ate, If possible, of the United States mill
itary academy at West Point; if not.
some young officer distinguished IN the
National guard who is close at hand.
You will probably make the best choice
possible under the ciroums tanoes.
But do dot attempt to drill one an
other, or to have anybody but an expert
handle you. 1t is only time thrown
away 1t is only learning what you will
have to uulearn. II is far easier for a
good instructor to take raw boys who
have never been drilled in their life and
make good soldiers of them in a short
space of time than it is for him to take
boys who have been esrelessly or indif-
ferently drilled and get them out OF the
bad tricks and manners that
they have learned aud bring them
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They've rallied!' Ally yelled,
EcOme on, quick, Cisl'
Where was the GOODNESS between them?
quite swept away by the ardor of the
chase.
'Lower down the logs smaller, - said
. Ally pointing. There was a huge log
fallen across the way. A few of the
riders had cleared it, most of them had
ridden to the right to make an easier
jump.
cts low enough for me here, - said
Cecil, putting his horse at the log.
''Me too, - SAID Ally carelessly. His
horse went over the log like bird; but
the heels of Cecil S horse clattered.
Recklessly they rode on. The cane
was above them, waving on either side.
The riders had beaten path through it.
They raced over the trampled waves.
Ahead of them, the hunters sat on their
horses, quieting them. The air above
was dense with smoke.
Cts knew what rally was. He had
heard Cobbs describe how the hunted
hogs will run for their lives at first; hut,
overtaken, make a desperate stand;
fighting the dogs, charging on the horses
and never fee again, but fight until the
last hog lies dead.
half the hogs lay on the trampled
ground; the others were tossing the dogs
from them on their scimetar like tusks.
The dogs bleeding but full of fight
would dash back into the fray again and
courageously hang on to the hogs ears.
One huge boar, frighttully wounded,
charged on the guns.
He came straight towards the two
boys. His horrible black head was
spiked with two white cleaning tusks,
his eyes were Goals of fire. Cecil felt
one furious bound of his heart as he
aimed his revolver.
simultaneously two shots rang out.
The boar tumbled over, shot SO truly
that he never quivered.
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/ anger or injustice stopped his first i'm
pulse of repentance; he was silent.
Ally it was who suddenly: "Well i,
there ain t nothing for It now but to find
the road and get home the beat we can. -
81 suppose so, - said Cecil, coldIy.
Very slowly and sorrowfully did they
turn to retrace their steps.
But to their dismaY they discovered
that there was no trail for them to turn
upon. The hard ground carpeted with
cypress needles showed no smallest print
of a horses hoof. The cypress and gum
trunks were thick on either side. Had
they been in the cane brake their path
would have been like lane; but forest
fire had swept away the underbrush.
Before they had been walking FIVE min
utes Ally stopped short.
ITS no use, Cis,'' said he, 'tbe
track is plumb gone. haven't the least
notion on earth which way that wagon
road is. -
"Could we strike across the other
way?' Cecil asked after the hunters?
''Listen!' said Ally.
They heard the notes of the horn, but
fainter. Fainter still they came again.
The yelps of the dogs were muffied.
They are in the cane, - said Ally.
But your horse is fresh; you ride on
and get them. III stay here"
Ally shook his head. "And how am
to find you again if 1 do not find them?''
was his impatient answer. "No, we
got to stick it out together. Come on.
Cobbs won't know we haven't gone
home, aud Sally will reckon we are GO
ing to stay all night with Cobbs. There
ism t anybody to help US. We got to help
ourselves
but, surely Cecil suggested,
Hthere are cabins where we can stop. "
Yes, if we go the right way, - said
Ally. elf We take a wrong turn we
might travel all night and not hit one. I"
Cecil said no more. Ally had pro-
posed that he ride the sound horse, and
Cecil had promptly, with cold politeness,
declined the offer.
'Then let's take turns" Ally had
said. cts all stuff, you understands;
me doing all the riding. You'll get
killed up before you know it and then
where IL we be!''
Walking ism t going to kill mel'
con, killed up amt killed." Ally
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or perhaps of gray. That's all the uni
form you IL need for some time TO come
il am to be your adviser. But, what
ever you do, elect no officers yet awhile.
Wait; 1 IL tell you why.
In the first place you want no uniform
because before you get half ready to
wear one some of you will have got so
tired of the course of sprouts through
which l propose to put you that you
won't remain long enough in the COM
pauy to need it. On the other hand, in
the next place, don t want you to get a
uniform until YOU can carry yourself
properly in it. Never do | go travelling
around this country without coming
across boys from some military school or
other, and the way boys from some of
those schools carry themselves is enough
TO give me the cold shivers.
There are two or three admirable
schools in the West where young men are
taught drill and discipline almost as well
as they are Ut West Point There are
some fine military schools in the East.
But where there are six or eight of
these institutions, there are forty or
fifty where the boys know nothing
whatever of the first principles of the
school of the soldier, and by that mean Z
that they do not know, and have not
been taught how to carry themselves in
military and manly style.
To see these young fellows
around the streets, walking with their
hands in their pockets, with their chests
tiattened, with their shoulders rounded,
with their heads poked far TO the front
and still wearing their uniforms, and
generally unbuttoued and Tapping loose.
My first impulse at sight OF such boy is
to take him straight into some drill
room, tell him to button up that coat
and then sail into him with view of
teaching him what he never yet has
learned apparently, the 'serting-up
drill, and that's the first thing that
mean to give you.
Before you go into q uniform at all
learn to stand erect, your heels together,
your shoulders square, your back fiat
tened, your chest thrown out, the
stomach drawn in, the head erect, eyes
straight to the front, chin drawn in,
arms falling naturally 10 the side, but
the hands and elbows well back and close
IN. All that you will find in its proper
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1t was plain, but IL was not tempting
The boys had had just enough hunting t.
be distracted with feyerlsh hunger TO
more.
Ally g loyalty to Cobbs kept his grum-
| bling behind his lips, but at every blast
| of the horn in the distance deep, ire
| pressible sigh broke from him.
az wish they'd quit blowing that con
| founded thing!' he cried, at last. al
hate the sound of it when we re not az
ter itl''
Cecil simply remarked that the sound
grew nearer.
Ally refined in his, horse.
Yes, the sound certainly did grow
louder and clearer; penetrated now by
the shrIll yelps of the hounds.
The Southern boys eyes kindled, q
glow orept into his cheek.
80 just know they re only a bit to the
right, over yonder,'' he muttered
"Cis, say, let's see just this one!"
Every well,'' said Cts calmly In
fact, however, his pulses were drum
ming as hard as AIly's.
With the word, away dashed the boys
across country on a gallop.
They were guided only by the sounds
which, in the beginning, seemed to grow
clearer but presently were duller, as If
the chase had swerved almost at right
angles from its former line. 49,,
Still, on they went.
Ally had looked back once at Cecil and
his shrewd eye, used to horses from his
babyhood, showed him that his cousin s
animal was tagging.
lift him easy over the logs, Cis, -
he added.
"Oh, he is fresh enough, F" said Cecil 4,
putting the poor beast at larger log to
prove his words.
The next instant horse and rider were
sprawling 10 the wreck of thorn tree on
the other side of the log.
Cecil orswled out Immediately, de-
plorable. spectacle, his immaculate
clothes torn and dusty, his face like 8
railroad map in red ink, with scratches.
BE jumped up, laughing. But the horse
lay on his back, helplessly kicking.
Ally's face was very grave as he ap-
preached; he shouted TO Cts to stand off i.
Instead Cts ran to his aid with the
natural result of narrowly escaping hav-
ing his brains knocked OUT by a chance
kick in the brute's struggles before the
latter managed TO stand again.
And. to be sure, he stood in q very
shaky, uncertain fashion.
''I'm afraid be is lame, - said Cecil.
81 know he is,' answered Ally with
the calmness OF despair.
An apology for the recklessness which
had brought this Inisehance upon them
trembled on Cecil's tengue, but the
pride which 30 seldom checks our hasty
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army. Now, what do you boys crave
fur sop? We got canned peaches an )
prunes an 'lasses; the prunes is fust
class; an we got cheese an good butter;
but you Il have t. do without milk in
you Coffee
Even Cecil was satisfied by Cobbs ,
military cleanliness. He enjoyed the
rude meal, seasoned as it was with back
woods jokes and hunting tales.
Rather ruefully, when it ended, both
boys mounted their horses to return
home.
One of the hunters rode with them as
far as the wagon trail; from thence the
way was plain.
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enough. Recollect, therefore, no uni.
| form, no officer until l tell you Three
months probation for each and every
one of you. Setting up drill and the
West Point "calisthenics. - Two drills
a week, and to be practiced night and
morning at home. The salutlngs, fac
ings, balance step, alignments, march,
ings, quick and double time, and finally
company movements, all without arms,
until every boy has acquired an erect,
graceful carriage, quick, soldierly move
ments and hardened muscles. Then
we II see about cadet uniforms and cleo
ton OF officers.
Now do you think you can stand III II
yon can, now is the time to say so. But
let me tell you. boys that never yet have
L seen company started that at least
one fourth did not get tired of it and fall
out before the end of the second month,
even when they were allowed to get
their uniforms and elect officers from
the start. In fact, the first to get tired
of it and quit were pretty sure TO be
those who hoped to be elected for some
office or other and were disappointed il
their aspirations. Only one man il
company can be captain, only two lieu
tenants, and only four can be sergesnti
and so on; and those who do not obtain
these positions, for which perhaps they
had hoped and are euvious, as all boys
and all men,, for that matter-will be
envious of the better fortune Of then
neighbors, it often results that q great
number of them feel q certain degree Of
dissatisfaction over the choice, and the
interest, which was keen when they
started, soon becomes dulled and stag
nant. But don t mean to lecture you
on these points all night.
One word about this matter of chOoi-
ing officers. l told you by no means to
do that at the start; to wait until We
have been drilling two or three months
all of you to be privates in the ranks for
that time. IN be your captain and first
sergeant
Now, one word as to what comes after
each drill. 1 assume that you mean to
have them, say two evenings q week
from TO $3.50. You will be in a gloF
and the perspiration will be streaming
from every pore by the time you are
through. Lose no time now stop no.
where for any purpose. Go straight hons
and to your rooms. Strip, take course
towel and rub yourself down Thoroughly
Then go to bed. A month will MAKE
you feel like an ail-round athlete, and
you happen to have taken the measure
ments Of your chest, arms and legs, sou
will see how you are gaining.
CHARLIE King, Captain, L. s. A
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gruffly, Sat least faint that way; used
up if you like it better -
Then he offered the horse again and
Cecil kept the peace by mounting. Ally
led the poor lame Erasmus.
So they crawled on for perhaps half an
hour. Ally's sole speech was: "Cobbs
knows every tree in the bottom; he could
find the way back to the road in the
dark. oh lawl" Ally groaned softly.
Cecil answered not a word. Over in
the west behind the blunted tops of the
expresses the sun was golden ball. A
chill dampness exhaled from the black
pools among the low land which they
now approached.
1t was bad enough now, but when
night, moonless night came on, what
would they do?
Altar off the wind rose in the forest in
a long, sobbing roar. sound like MOTH
ing else. The golden ball sank lower,
lower, only blood-red sky remained.
Cecil turned to Ally. He tried to read
the others pale and frowning face.
"Ally, - said he, ait looks different
with all this water among the trees,
don t you know at all where We are?"
elf we are where 1 reckon we are, 4"
answered Ally, "we couldn't be in q
worse place. -
TO BE CONTINUED.
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sure my name went in as a charter mem
Der, though it was question whether
they would make me drummer or mar
ksr; being too small, said I hose mag
mates, the big boys, to tote even play
gun.
That was years before the war, but
another company was soon raised and 1
joined it, and still another when l went
East to school in IS. And meantime 1
had been drummer and marker both in q
"grown-up' regiment. Then came the
war, and an end to playing soldier; and
then years of service, with occasional
stations in pleasant cities on staff or re-
cruiting duty; and finally, after years on
the frontier home again, retired. And
wherever there was time, it seems to me
have been interested and often instru-
mental in organizing and drilling boy
companies, and the best one l ever had
was right here in my home six years ago
for by that time there was no end of ex-
perience to draw onto say nothing of
the boys.
Perhaps that is why your editor tells
me he wants me to talk to you about the
matter in order that you may get started
right, so wen begin at once.
Now do you know, the very first thing
shall tell you is one that will be a sur
prise, perhaps not q pleasant one. 1
fancy can see your keen. young faces
all around the room as talk 10 you, and
have talked to my boys time and again.
just as sure as shooting, if you start your
own way you'll start wrong. 1 have
seen boy companies raised for nearly
forty years, and L know exactly what
you were going to do the very first thing.
Tell me honestly, now, if my guess is not
right. You meant to begin by electing
officers and choosing uniform, did you
not? Now, boys, there Is just where you
are all wrong. Get, if you like, loose
flannel shirt and trousers of dark blue.
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By James p. Angel, President OF the Uni
versity of Michigan.
Copyrighted 1880 by the author.

Va
copyrighted 1890 by the author.
One of the most common mistakes of
young students is to overrate the value
of mere brillianoy of intellect in COM
parison with that of industry. In almost
every institution of learning, from the
grammar school to the university you
will find many pupils pointing with a
sort of admiration to some one of their
comrades, who has never accomplished
much, and saying, ''He could
easily outstrip the men whom the
teachers rank as the leading scholars +,
If he chose They say this with tone
which implies that they esteem more
highly his gifts than those of the hard
working, but less brilliant students, who
are far in advance of him in intellectual
attachments. Yet long observation
shows that the Flooding men of good !,
but not brilliant talent, will through life
hold the lead, which they have already
gained over tine brilliant comrade who
lacks the habit of persistent and contin-
nous work. And if our young friends
will study the biographies of even the
most brilliant men, they will find that
the greatest achievements OF these men
were generally the fruits of serious and
severe toll. Let US take two or three il
lustrations.
When 1 was student in college,
Rufus Cheate was at the zenith of his
power. He was the idol Of young men,
who admired brlllisncy. The general
belief among them was that If Mr..
Choate were awakened in the middle of
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HOLSTERS and crabs mastrlcate their
food with their horny jaws, but they
have also sets of teeth IN their stomschs i,
where they complete the work of chew
ing. But there is one peculiar kind of
crab called the king or horseshoe crab
which chews its food with its legs. This
is an actual fact, the little animal grind
ing its morsels between its thighs before
il passes them over to its mouth
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place in the tactics, and in order to
stand, to march, to walk, to carry your
selves at all times in soldierly, manly
way there is no system on earth to com
pare TO that known as the "setting-up
drill'' in the first part of the tactics of
the United States army, supplemented
by the exercises that are taught now at
West Point, the pamphlet which contains
the instructions it would be
very easy matter for you to obtain.
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HOW TO FORM A MILITARY.
Capt. King Tells Boys How to Organize
and Drill Cadet Company
copyrighted 1890 by the Author.l

o YOU are about to
start q military COM
pany, boys, and want
to talk with an old
soldier. 1t is some
thing l wish 1 could
start myself all over
again, and my heart
is with you in the
move. Why, in some
way or other I've
been soldering ever
since l can remember;
and the first boy COM
psny that was raised
at my home, be very
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Don It be in q hurry
getting guns. I'm
not going to let you
touch a gun until you
have learned what
''setting up' means
and the school of the
soldier, marching,
wheeling, turning,
quick and double
time, every portion of
the school of the COM
pany, too, in fact, be-
fore you touch a mus
ket at all. The rea-
son of this is that
were 1 TO let you be-
fore your muscles are
aat and vour framea
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es, and every one feared trouble.
such time the post of night watcnn J.
was one OF danger as well as Of responsl
bility. But Jep's father neither fsAi'
the one nor shirked the other. -,
Yet, this August evening as he stoou
the doorway of his cottage, dinner p@i
in hand. ready to start for the seen' an
his nightly task. there we're murmuE'
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Fps father was
night watchmsn ),
No. 2 breaker, sna
in the screen roon
of the same bresSsl
Jep himself Ts'
e m p1oyed % .
slate-picker. -.
But the OresE'.
had been idle lot
three weeks on &C.
count of the strihsi
and Jep had hsd y
work. No one knes
when the strls'
would end. Nc.
dlesome and nov
headed pc rs o : :.
were stirring "
strife between q.
ployer and empiO,, !,
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so NAS SAA bogSs ~ Tx MARKED
much for this matter of instructor
Now, word about what YOU hsva
do when once in ranks. ReeoIsc, "
the position of soldier after the c1,, =
mand Attention! - has been given -,
a muscle must move, not an eve evoss.
at the word of command; otbarvif'
there will be unsteadiness and demos,
ization in the whole company DURING -,
drills or parades which you NAV be cali.
upon TO perform later in your carss,
The first thing that you have ;,
learn in the ranks is absolute immobfutr
Your instructor will give you freeman,
rests at first because your position VIII
be constrained. But if he is the ri,b.
sort of man and gives you abuDden,
setting up drills in connection with tbs
salutes and facings, the balance stem AM
so on, you Will pass from one movemsn,
to another with such rapidly that tbs
feeling of cODstraint will soon wear oF
but, oh, how sore your muscles will
for the first few days after the first few
drills, and then that will pass away and
a new feeling of elasticity will take Dos.
session of you.
81 could talk of this all night, but the
lesson for the first time is perhaps loDv
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proper methods.
1 found great diff
Guilty in that respect
once in going to drill
q company that had
been very inef1iciently
handled for a year
previous. The first
thing l had to do was
to work hard for q
month to rub all the
old slouchiness -
as 1 call it, out of the
boys and straighten
them up. Starting
them side by side with
a perfectly new set,
the new boys at the
end of the month
were far ahead in
every way of those
who had been drilled
a year under a man
who didn know
much about his BUSH
ness. 1t was a matter
of great ohagrin too,
Far Nha LID -
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CHAPTER xI.-THE HOG HUNT.

HE boys rode into
the forest at a gen.
tie pace.
In December there
come days to Ar
kansas when the sun
seems trying to
cheat the earth with
the delusion that
winter is q sham
and spring already
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BY OCTAVE THANET.
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THE NIGHT yyAroHo1AN,s BOY.
BY Homer Greene, Author of ''Ths Burn
ham Breaker"

[Copyrighted, 1s9O, by the author.l