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adequate to fit him for the soldiers duties
he may become enlisted, but subsequently
and while at his post he will be detailed
by the captain Of his company to attend
school. Five days in the week until re-
lieved and between the hours OF and
must this instruction as part of his duty
be attended. Not alone this, but instruc-
ton of the strictly military sort is on two
days a week by the company captain
given him in technical school. OF the
varied exercises, which in these periods
he is taught, long list might be made.
His very textbooks comprise a compen-
dious library of military learning. In
deed, every position, every movement of
the soldier when on duty, his stepping to
the right or to the left, the turning one
way or the other is noted in these books
and comprises the pabulum for his medi-
tations. The whole life of the man at
arms is in the literature OF his craft, and
he pursues his occupation defined by the
most infexib bic rules.
Thus is the army of the United States
to-day made up. 1t is the sturdy stock of
the country who are shouldering its rifles
and mounting It's guards. Men of every
conceivable mechanical occupation and
many professional ones are among the
enlisted. Sergeant Dean of the Preside is
a stonecutter; Sergeant Wohltman is
cigar maker; Private Best, who has
charge of the dynamite guns is an elec-
trician. At Angel Island talked with a
non-commissioned officer who had been
for years a sewing-machine agent; with
another who had been an insurance agent.
There are men by scores who have been
carpenters, painters, cablnet-makers, ma
chinists, blacksmiths, wood caryers. At
the Presidio there is soldier who has
graduated as a physician; another who
has a diploma from the University of
Ohio; while of the various forms OF clerks
there is a multitude which it would be
tiresome to reckon. Ask those men why
they came into the army and they will
say: well, times got too hard on the
outside to make an honest living and l
had to take the best opening l could
fud'
The soldier receives $13 per month for
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ond decade following. But with the dis
appearance of the free arabic land and the
narrowing of opportunities for employ
ment the clusters OF applicants around
the recruiting offices began TO enlarge and
they have since been growing. This re-
dundancy of applicants permitted the Gov
ernmenr to raise the standard of qualitlca-
tions for enlistment and the multiplica-
tion of its tests almost to the degree of
fastidiousness, while as the volume of the
unemployed became greater the drafts for
the army began to leave the multitude of
freaks and unskilled laborers and ascend
to those of skilled laborers, clerks and,
the greatest of all, the sons of farmers.
1t is of these sturdy elements that the
soldiery of the army is now made up.
Freaks, ct cetera, do still apply, but they
are rejected in the measured volume of
their application, so that of the number
of offers for enlistment at present but an
average of 10 per cent are deemed avail
able. During the month of Decem Der,
1896, there applied for enlistment at all
recruiting stations of the United States
327L men. OF these but 329 were accepted,
while the rejected mum bered 2942. AS
this was specimen month OF the twelve
it might be estimated that there were
offered for enlistment in the army during
1896 about SO, ,252 men, of which Is, 304 were
rejected and only 3948 we're accepted.
Such being the density of the surge
about the doors of the recruiting station
it can be esteemed that for one to secure
entry into the army of to-day is to
be regarded as an attainment and sue
cess The applicant must be between the
ages of Is and 80, and physically sound,
he must stand in his stockings feet and
inches, must have a proportionate chest
measurement and weigh designated
number of pounds. Nor is his high
register in his score of bodily points
sufficient for his admission; his moral
nature, his habits of industry, must be
certified to by persons of standing in his
community, and his mental reach is then
subjected to tests by sort OF civil service
examination. He must have common
school education, and unless mis- attain
ments OF the educational sort are deemed
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| At breakfast, fried potatoes, bread, butter
and coffee; at dinner, soup, roast beef,
vegetables, bread and butter, pudding
supper, bologna sausage, fried potatoes,
bread, butter and coffee, with variations
OF the menu throughout the week, They
sleep, squad of six or more, in we'll
ventilated room on iron bedsteads, with
comfortable mattresses and clean sheets.
They have baths and BARRIERS, and the
sanitary fittings of the barracks building
surpass those of the average institutional
structure in civil life.
II the soldier is economical in the use
of his clothing he need not draw his full
allowance of apparel; the value OF the
difference between what he draws and is
entitled TO is paid him in cash. But be-
sides this there is usually open to the
soldier employment upon the reservation
IN the line of his trade. He may be a
company clerk or employed in the quar-
termaster's department in carpentering,
painting or machine work and when
such is the case he is relieved from all
duty except DRILL on Tuesdays. For this
service he receives extra pay of so cents
per day. There is a young man at Angel
the post chaplain, teaches the school
For this agreeable service of three hours
per day he receives $15 extra per month
this brings his pay up to $28 per month
and found. 1t is doubtful if he could
secure in civil life employment where he
could with less work clear more money
above his expenses with the certainty of
steady employment the year around than
in the army.
The soldier rises at 6:25, breakfasts at
GAO. There is drill at Z 80 and at s: AS
there is dress parade. Except on lnstruc-
ton days this about completes his usual
duties. At Il o'clock the days work is
done and he is off duty except few min
utes at sundown, when retreat is sounded ;
then all hands report their presence and
the flag is hauled down at the cannon 8
shot. An exception is made to this
regime of the average dav when he mounts
guard. This service falls to him a few
times a month, when he must in shifts
stand sentry duty during the twenty-iour
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| into oficerhood, which they may do
through study. The morale ofthe army is
strictly guarded, and if any man should
so demean himself as to dis race his COM
panv he would be promptly reported to
the captain and either court-martialed or
ignominiously dismissed.
Most of the harsh punishments have
also been abolished from the army, it be-
ing recognized that there is no longer
need of them; for the worst punishment
of them all has come to be dishonorable
discharge from the service. And this may
be made upon the peremptory order of a
company captain. The reward for the re-
covery OF deserter has been reduced from
$50 to $40, and it is a standing maxim of
the army that that there was never yet a
deserter worth $10" If man deserts he
need not be alarmed that any bloodhound
hunt will be made for him. But there is
no need of any one deserting. Ii he wishes
to leave the service he may, at
the end of two years, buy his
way out with $120, a sum which is re-
duced $5 every succeeding month he re-
mains with the army. When he is dis
charged he Is given one days pay and
80 cents for rations for every twenty miles
Of travel to his home, about twice as much
as his expenses in getting to his dsstina-
ton. In short, the scheme of the War
Department at present is to take citizens
from civil life and educate them to be SOL
diers, so that when they return to civil
life, as most of them do, there NAV be
among the body ofthe community trained
soldiers capable when called upon of de-
fapdipp boir I'D tbio tupith
the necessity of maintaining an immense
standing army. Il is, therefore, for deal
ing with citizens not abnormalities or
refugees, that the plane OF soldierhood IN
the army is to-day adjusted; and this
has had its measure of influence in form
ing the type OF soldier of the United
States who exists in the year 1897.
JOHN E. BENNETT.
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the first, two years of his service; the
third wear it is SIC, the fourth $18, the fifth
$40. If he re-enlists it is $24, and for
every re-enlistment it is 81 per month sd-
ditioLal. II he is made corporal he re-
ceives 81 more; if sergeant So. if first SER
geant S12 more. AT the end OF thirty
years of service he is retired on IS per
cent of his pay and 81 50 per month for
rations. So that soldier who enlists at
% wears of age would in his fifty fifth year
be retired from the service with a monthly
stipend of say $35 or $420 year, equal to
interest at per cent on $8400 OF invested
capital.
In addition to all this the soldier is, of
course, clothed and fed, so that his wages
constitute his savings, and this he has no
need to touch; indeed, many men do not
touch it, but leave 1t undrawn in the
hands of the Government and are paid 4
per cent interest upon it. A man who did
not draw his wages would at the
end of thirty years service have
an accumulation of $46S0, with per-
haps enough interest to make the
sum q round $5000, which with his
pension would render him comfortably
well-to- do for the rem ainder of his years.
And as his course of army life is very
regular, his food most substantial, his
hours the most precise, this is all condu-
Give to long life so that when he retires
he is likely to have twenty or thirty years
yet to enjoy the benefits of his accumula-
tions If he becomes i'll in the service he
receives the best OF medical care. and if he
is disabled he is admitted to the Soldiers
Home at WASHINGTON. where he may lead
one OF the most agreeable existences which
the ordinary mind can contemplate.
But there are other sources of income TO
the soldier besides his wages. Unless be
is married and living with his family upon
the reservation each company messes to-
gether; each mans allowance for rations
is spent for the common body and to this
is added a dividend from the profits of the
post store, which formerly enriched suit
ler, but who has been abolished
under regulations of recent years. Tne
food they are served very much surpasses
that of the ordinary mechanics family.
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~.O those survivors of the Civil War
(R2S who endured months or years as
,4kSA soldiers in the ranks in the service
of the United States army, and who were
familiar with the quality and type OF
soldierhood at the period OF the close OF
hostiIities and whose regard Tor the army
moved them to maintain for it the interest
of an observer during the few years follow
inc their return to civil life, the army of
today is as strange and remarkable as
sM7ugb thev had never known its exist
Zaee.
~ The zone OF soldierhood in times of
Nreace in the army of past days was sort
Vi reformatory. For the sake of its disci-
Mine it was upon it that the family of
anv Grade shed the wayward son; where
the abandoned fellow of good breeding
went to spite his kindred; the Tilted lover
N dismay his inamorita; there thousands
went to curb their appetites Tor strong
drink: and there, too, he whose past ex-
ploits had rendered oblivion a state to be
preferred found the seclusion which he
sought, The ranks of the army teemed
with moral freaks, with the slough OF in
dustrv. with the me er-do- weels," and
though, as in all large aggregations OF in
dividuals, il contained many good men,
vet by reason of the fact that its files have
always been recruited through voluntary
enlistment, it had to axe what happened
10 be offered, and there have been periods
in our National history when the offerings
for military service were not OF the best.
But the increase and long continuance
OF hard times among the laboring classes
has in recent years produced an enormous
change in the moral standard of the per-
sonnel OF the army's ranks. In those old
davs, when any man could come into the
great land ocean of the West and pre-
empt 100 acres of arabic soil, work for the
adjoining farmer who was glad to get
neighbor. while he was waiting for the
growth of his first crop, or live through the
interval on the buffalo which roamed II
sight of his shack-when such was the
condition the grade of the men who are
now filling up the ranks OF the army were
pushing their way into the West, many O.
hem to become millionaires OF the sec
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The Death-Dream of Armenia.

A cry from pagan dun geons deep
To Albion old and brave;
A wall that startles from her sleep
The mistress of the wave.
We feel the thrill through England's soul
Of noblest passions birth:
We hear her drum alarum roll
The circle of the earth.
When mothers kiss with pallid lips
The wounds of murdered sons,
We see the sailors on her ships
Leapto their shotted guns.
We hear her martial trumpets blow
The challenge of the free;
Her lean steel war-wolves howliEg go
Through gateways OF the sea.
The talons of her eagles tear
The vulture from his feast;
The lion mangies in mis- lar
The tiger Of the East.
An, what a cheer from Asia breaks
And roars along the dawn,
As rescue's battle thunder shakes
The walls of Babylon =
Will II. Thompson in Century.
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her perfect, classical features proved to be
one with a right to such heritage, for
KateIena Katrina is of Greek parentage-
a mother who goes out washing and a
father who is doubtless fisherman; yet
should she reach womanhood she will
possess one coveted gift, that of a
perfect face, according to accepted
rules Of beauty. She replied to question !:
II am Greek and little American, 7"
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ments and opportunities might not in
spite of her humble parsntage attain to
celebrity by face or gifts in this land of the
West.
After the more numerous representa-
tives of foreign nations had risen to their
feet three little girls remained sitting.
One of these, very tidy in appearance, had
a broad, amiabl face, pIentifully sprinkled
with freckles. She was born in Ireland
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and had lived in this country just one
year. Another was little Dora Mayne, the
only child of purely American parentage
among the number enrolled in the grade.
The third chil6-mistaken for Mexican
because of her dusky face and hair-proved
to be descended from California's primi-
tive and earliest inhabitants. She is
called Mary Saunders and is little waif
who was tossed from one charitable insti-
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"What is Minnie Sundburg?" ques-
toned the teacher of another child.
Russian Finn" was the reply.
Then the German children arose, broad
faced good-natured and some of them ex-
ceedingly apt.
Several Slavonian children were in the
room, but none among the number dis
played unusual characteristics.
A child who had attracted attention by
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The biggest university in the world is at
Cairo, Egypt-a country which is not
usually mentioned in educational statis-
tics-and 1t has Il, ,OC0 students.
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thinking, doubtless, that a proper value
would be placed upon the latter declara-
ton. Looking at the beauty of the child
face Ca fillet of faded ribbon bound about
her head made the resemblance to models
of ancient Grecian beauties more striking)
we thought of Sappho, of Aspasia, both
famed for mental attachments as we'll as
beauty and wondered ii this child with
her Grecian face and American environ
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-05
FIGHTING THE RESERVES.
People of the Northwest Protesting
Against the Forestry Scheme.

Against the Forestry Scheme.
OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 97,-Strong
resolutions were adopted at a meeting
of the executive committee of the
Omaha Commercial club, protesting
against the action of President Cleve-
land in setting aside 81 100000 acres of
public land in the Northwest for for
estry reservations
DEADwooD. s. D., Feb. 27.-The fol-
lowing telegram has been sent to the
President of the United States as the
result of an enthusiastic mass meeting
held here:
1--WE are directed by large meeting
now being held here, voicing the feel
ing of 10000 interested residents of
western South Dakota, to respectfully
ask you to suspend the executive order
establishing forestry reservation in
the Black Hills of South Dakota until
the people can be heard protesting
against it. You have evidently been
deceived by persons without knowl-
edge of the conditions or reckless of
the consequences. This reserve, if
maintained, will affect disastrously all
the mining and dependent industries
of this region and largely compel its
depopulation.
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Rich Leadville Strike.

LEADvILIE. Colo, Feb. 27.--ln the
Nil Desperandum mine, on Rock hill,
at depth of 657 feet and in drift 14O
feet long, has been made the richest
strike in Leadville since 1880, and the
most important one, as the Rock hill
section has had no development. The
mine is being worked by striking union
miners. A huge body of ore runs over
$500 per ton. Ten years ago d. III.
Moffatt spent $685. on this mine,
finding nothing, and abandoned it.
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INDIAN BILL PASSED.
DAWES COMMISSION TO GO
ON WITH ITS WORK.
Tribal Courts Abolished and United
States Courts Given Exclusive Juris-
diction Over All Civil and Criminal
Cases In the Territory.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 97.-The Senate,
at ll:30 last night, passed the Indian
appropriation bill, after striking out
all of the Platt provision excepting
that relating to jurisdiction of United
States courts. An amendment trans
ferring the jurisdiction of the Indian
courts to the United States courts was
offered by Senator Vest and adopted.
The purpose is to let the Dawes com
mission go on with its work and com
plete treaties with all the tribes, the
only reservation being the provision
relating to the jurisdiction of the
courts, which abolishes the functions
of the tribal judiciary. The Indians
will doubtless accept this ultimatum
without attempting any opposition,
glad to get off at this price. This will
leave the Dawes commission free
hand, and allow them to consume
few years longer in bringing the In
dian question TO a close.
Senators Teller, Platt and Hoar
urged the necessity of replacing the
corrupt Indian courts with a United
States judicial system while Mr.. Villas
protested against tanning" through
an amendment despoiling Indians of
their rights. The amendment, as
finally agreed to, gives the United
States courts exclusive jurisdiction
over all civil and criminal cases, abol-
ishing the native courts. Two addi-
tional judges are provided for the ter
ritory.
The part of the Indian territory pro-
vision in the appropriation bill stricken
out by the senate is the committee
amendment authorizing the Dawes
commission to set apart townsites and
churches and educational and mineral
lands, and to allot the remaining lands
among the five tribes.
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Jerry simpson Ousted.

TOPEKA, Kan, Feb. @7.-Chairman
Fairchild, Populist, of Kingman, got
a good whacl1 at his political enemy,
Jerry Simpson, yesterday. Fairchild
was in the chair while the House was
in committee of the whole considering
the railroad bill. Simpson was doing
some lobbying when caught by Fair
child 1.-The lobbyists will please re-
tire said the chairman. All retired
but Simpson. II say for the lobby to
retire" said Falrchild, very empha tic
ally. Simpson never moved.
"The sergeant-at-arms will remove
the distinguished lobbyist" said Fair
child. The sergeant took Simpson by
the arm and led him to the cloak room.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-05
Nine Killed at a Crossing.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Feb. 23.-An
incoming passenger train on the South
ern railroad struck vehicle at q
crossing four miles east of the city at
1910 o'clock yesterday afternoon. In
the vehicle were seated ten members
of the family of w. j. Woodward, a
farmer living at Jersey, hamlet in
this county, and nine of the occupants
were killed, the only one escaping be-
ing 3-year-old girl, Virginia Wood
ward
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Five Years for Embouuler Klein.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb 27.-Henry M.
Klein of Lebanon, Mo-, who embezzled
$4,000 of the funds of the Farmers
National bank of that city while he
was its paying teller, and who pleaded
guilty last week, was to-day sentenced
by Judge Butler in the United States
district court to pay fine of 500 and
undergo an Imprisonment of five years
at hard labor in the Eastern peni-
Tertiary. Klein pleaded guilty the
day after John H. Hoffer. the former
cashier of the First National bank of
Lebanon, was sentenced to pay fine
of $1,000 and to serve ter years for
embezzling $109 600.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-05
Hard Fighting in Cuba.

HAVANA, Feb. 27.-Advices from
Santa Clara are that in the battle at
Ceniza the loss of the Spanish under
General Weyler amounted to 500 killed
and wounded. In the battles at Gala
bazas and Cabaiguan the Spanish
losses are reported to have been
equally as large, but the Spanish dead
aud wounded were sent to Sancti Spir-
titus, and definite figures cannot be OBJ
tanned. In these two battles General
Gomez commanded in person.
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still Bothering Major Hudso on.

TOPEKA, Kan, Feb. 27.-Attorney
General Boyle has commenced snit
in the supreme court to enjoin State
Treasurer Heflebower from paying
any more money to j. K. Hudson for
state printing. A temporary restrain
ing order was issued, and the case will
be heard next Tuesday. Boyle claims
that Hudson is not the legally elected
state printer, and isnot, therefore, en-
titled to pay. The state is now $1,000
behind with Hudson.
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Anolher aClosea 1ncldert."

MADRID, Feb. 27.-The preamble of
the queens decree of pardon of San
gully says that the United States de-
manded the pardon of Sanguilly in a
friendly manner, and that Sanguilly
has undertaken in the future neither
directly nor indirectly to assist in the
rebellion. The incident is considered
closed
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Moro Trouble for Spain.

MADRID, Feb. 21:-Advices received
here from Manila say that an insur-
rection broke out there yesterday.
Bands of Tagales and natives attacked
the barracks of the revenue officers
and gendarmes and murdered a mil
itary officer and four Spaniards in the
streets The troops restored order,
killing 200 of the. insurgents and ar
resting many others. The object of
the uprising was to prevent the troops
from attacking Cavite.
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stole 100000.

CAIRO, Mich. Feb. 97.-E. Durand.
alias Fisk. Dickinson and Wilson, un-
der arrest here, is wanted at Portland,
Ore, on charges of forgery, under
which he was indicted in 1894. The
prisoner admits his guilt 1t is stated
that he victimized Oregon business
men to the extent of 100000 by vari-
Gus schemes for borrowing money.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-05
BRYAN In New York.

New YORK, Feb. PA weI-flled
house greeted w. J. Bryan in Carnegie
Music hall when he appeared on the
platform to deliver lecture on
Money under the auspices of the
Bimetallic Association. The platform
was filled with friends of the free coin
age theory. "
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-05
IL IL. McCnllarh,s Estate.

ST.. LOUIS, Mo, Feb. 27.-Since the
death of Joseph b. McCullagh, editor
of the Globe Democrat, There have
been half u dozen claimants to the
estate, in addition to the six known to
be legally entitled to shares in it.
Among the number are three men by
Cue name of McCullagh.
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Hanna or for washington.

CLEVELAND. Ohio, Feb. =. : Mr..
Hanna spent the entire forenoon
to-day getting his affairs into shape in
order that he might leave for Washing
ton in the afternoon. AT 1:45 o'clock,
accompanied by his family, he left for
Washington on the Pennsylvania. No
one accompanied him except his wife
and daughters.