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soldier who wants a drink is going to
have it, canteen or no canteen. It is
pretty safe to say that a majority of the
men who enlist in the regular army
leave more or less of drinking record
behind them in civil life. don't say this
in a deregatory sense. It is a simple
fact, well known to army officers as well
as to civilians familiar with the personnel
Of our regular army. When these men
assume the army uniform they don't sign
any total abstinence pledge. If such
pledge were exacted Of candidates for en-
Hstment there'd be no army.
Once enlisted, the men are expected
and required to behave themselves, and,
in my opinion and in the opinion CT
most officers of experience, there could
not possibly be an instrument more help
full to the enlisted men in their efforts to
behave themselves than the post canteen
1t keeps them within the post limits It
Keeps them from destroying their bodies
and sizzling their brain with the I'M
speakably vicious whisky that is DUR
veyed to soldiers at the groggeries that
Cuddle up to the very gates of most mill.
tary posts.
CANTEEN REFORMS DRINKERS.
"a man who enters the army after bav-
ing all but ruined himself with strong
drink in civil ife-there are many such
finds an actual chance of redemption In
the canteen. When the desire for drink
is or him, he can have beer, without
maddening himself and waking up in
trouble. I have known many soldiers
who were, as they told me, immoderately
hard drinkers of whisky in civil lie to
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come public property: 1t may. seem odd
martial to punish Individual pranks, but
these FRANKS are responsible for ABOUT
four-fifthS Of the haZing at the Military
academy. L remember when was a
plebe l was going UP to West Point one
day on the Hudson riVeTewith three other
plebes. We met tall sallow-lcoklng
chap and struck. up a conversation with
him. ve
Two things about him that struck me
with great force were a big black cigar
that he. smoked and his conceit. ! asked
him if he knew anything. about the Mil
itary academy. He said he guessed ne
and he talked so much about military
affairs that l said something about his
having friend up there, and that per-
haps he was going to visit him.
Yes, said my friend Of the cigar, I
have several friends up there. I ought
TO have g few, as I have been in the
academy for about four years
THE next time I met him was on
Filtration walk, and he said:
See here. you; take your hat off.
You are the fresh rooster that came up
on the boat with me. Put a handle to
my name in addressing me. ana always
sir to me in future. Do you under
stand?
way IN which he grabbed me about the
collar, and the polite, inoffensive way in
which a half dozen Of his companions
threw me down, tore off my clothes,
Smeared me with tar and feathers and
made me stand naked in the open air
tour weeks as a result of This hazing.
L never want another. I bear the marks
yet, and that is why I want no son
of miue haZed and why / think the su-
thorities at West Point ought to stop the
practice. They could do so had they
the mind to-"
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ONE MORE SAFETY DEVICE.
Plan to Teach Railroad Signals by
Stereopticon Views.

Plan to Teach Railroad Signals by
stereOpticOn Views.
A. recent innovation designed to perfect
the safety of the operation of railroads
is the use of the stereopticon II teaching
railway signals, which was discussed at
a recent meeting of the Northwest Rail-
way club by c. G. Jett, instructor in me-
chanical engineering at the state uniVer-
sity. He said, in part:
The more thorough instruction in the
use of signals, the, less liability Of acct
dents. With theg stereopticon, slides can
be made of every possible combination of
signals on the road, and the conditions as
they really are, are brought into the eX-
aiming room, not only the signals them
selves, but the tracks, signal towers,
bridges, bridge signals and the surround
ing conditions, so that the employee can
see the situation in the examining room
just as it will confront him in the serv-
ice, and the exa miner is soon able to
determine fully whether the candidates
have the requisite familiarity with the
signals and the necessary thorough I'M
derstanding of their meaning.
The use of the Fstereopticon develops the
knowledge or lack of knowledge of the
empleye, not only as to signals them
selves, but also as to their proficiency in
the train rules generally When an en-
ploye IS being examined by this method,
he and not the examiner makes the neces-
sary explanations. .Its4s his cuty TO ex-
plain what the signals are. where they
are what they goyermSi what the different
positions Indicate and. what the rules re-
qutre under. the different conditions given
In this way there can be no question
as to the thoroughness of the examina-
ton, nor as to the knowledge Of the party
undergoing examination.
The stereopticon may be used as an aid
in illustrating the mechanical examna-
tons of engineers and fremen. Views of
locomotives and tenders may be shown
in such a manner as to show the men
what should be done in case of accident
For instance, if a whistle were blown out
of the elbow, the view of the locomotive
could be shown on the screen, and the
man undergoing the examination would
be supposed to tell exactly what he would
do in such a case. Or, if any accident
whatever should happen to the engine or
tender, the conditions of affairs could be
more fully brought before the men by
the use of the stereopticon than by any
other means.
We may also use this method as a test
for color-blindness. 1t is absolutely
necessary for train and engine men to
readily distinguish one color from
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another. Yet there are at least 4 per
cent of those taking the examinations
who are color-blind. For this reason,
many railroads require that applicants
for positions submit to the eyeslght test,
and in some states the eyesight test Is
required Of them by law. The so-caIed
Yarn test has been the subject of con.
siderable agitation on some roads the
employees claiming that it is not feir
test, and that it sometimes results in the
dismissal of efficient employees. If the
stereopticon were used as a >Eneans Of
conducting the eyesight test, it would,
beyond question Of a doubt, establish the
fact whether or not~the employee is or Is
not defective in his color vision. 1t
would also meet all the requirements of
the yarn test, and at the same time
would be generally accepted by the en-
pioyes as a test erninently fair to them.
as by this method an employees defective
color vision would be made apparent to
his co-workers.
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MINE GAZING IN.
Town of Pittston, Pa, in Danger of
Disappearing


Town of PittstOn, Pa, in Danger Of
Disappearing.
the ravine mine Of tie Pennsylvania Coal
company, which commenced Thursday,
has continued. Before noon the prin-
cipal street of the city, for a distance Of
thirty feet, fell into the mines The cave
in IS the most serious in the history of
the Anthracite region. Police are guard
ing other sections, which it is feared
will also sink into the mines. Water and
gas. mains were broken by today's cave
in and the water is continuing to rush
into the mines. Seven houses were also
badly damaged. and the residents of the
neighborhood OF the cavein are frantic
with fear that their homes will be pre-
cipitated into the mines.
The collapse was caused by the rob-
bling of the mine pillars
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-23

AUTHoRI-EE les OF THE NAVAL
ACADEMY HAVE BROKEN UP
THE PRACTICE
WEST POINT COULD STOP IT
Historical Cases ut Naval and Mill
tary Schools, Including a F"- r.
nous Incident Involving
a Negro.

I'VE have broken up hazing at the
Naval Academy" said an officer of the
receiving ship Vermont to a New York
Mail and Express reporter. Il do not
understand why the military authorities
at West Point have not been equally sue
cessful There are many who imagine
that the authorities up the Hudson have
not given the matter the attention it de-
serves. Leaving aside the. question of tie
hazing of Cadet Booz, If it really took
place, there are those who recall with
horror the famous Whitaker case at the
Military Academy, ~and-I for one am glad
that Congressman briggs has offe7'edgaa
resolution directing the. secretary of war
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truth AbDI GANIbNS
CANNOT sFoP SOLDIERS FROM
DRINKING 1T TEzEY LIKE
TO DRINK
MANY WAYS TO GET WHISKY.
Views OF Regular Army Man Who
Has Observed the Workings
of the Establish
ment

''It would be a bad day for the Amer
lean military service if the canteen were
to be abolished said a veteran regular
army officer the other day to a Wash
ington Post reporter. without the can
teen, it fould be found that drunkenness
and fighting and absence without leave
and all sorts of other discipline-smash-
ing bobberies would fill ten times as
much space on the first sergeants day
reports as they do with the canteen in
operation 80
''The anti-canteen folks are patheti-
cally in error if they fancy they can
stop soldiers from drinking by taking
Their post canteens away from them. A
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ne time, and again was hazins

him at one time, and again was hazinS
suppressed. -.--z--sss--=
There was a flash of the smouIdering
embeIs when Commander. now Rear-Ad-
miral William r. Sampson, followed Capt.
Ramsey as superintendent of the acad-
envy. The Constellation was then on her
practice cruise, and the-m middle class. men
decided to have some fun with the plebeS
who had just Joined the ship. Commander
Sampson learned of the affair, declared
the ship back to Annapolis. In alt nine
youthful heads were taken by the court
martial that followed.
Park Benjamin, who had written a
book about the academy, sums up the
hazing situation there in this graphic
There is no hazing; but if a piebe
shows undue conceit, and essays to i'm
press his comrades with his peculiar So
cial or political Importance, or the wealth
of his relatives, or gives any indication
of a notion that the navy is especially
that over the chatter f-the mess table
his voice may be heard recounting an
idiotic story or lie may be found in some
part of the grounds Selemnly singing his
last laundry list to the tune of Yankee
Doodle or through some mysterious tel
themselves akimbo while he promenades
the brick walks. or he may prefer to
compliment the upper class men by dedl-
eating to them a composition of not less
than 1890 words some Subject,.-aS tho
-Thingness of the Is But whatever he
seems so; indeed he rather prefers to do
it than otherwise" g.
.HAzING AT WEST POINT.
s.sse1Y6dl ls. know" said an ex-army officer,
chat no more than 1 per cent of the
haziDo cases a the Military academy be-
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sTERNBERG GOES TO PRISON.
Sensational Trial of Berlin Banker
Is Concluded

Sensational Trial of Berlin Banker
Is Concluded.
BERLIN. Dec 22.-Sternberg, the mil
lionaire banker, who has been on trial
for a long time past, has been found
guilty of unnamable immoraIities and
was sentenced to two and half years
imprisonment with loss Of citizenship fer
five years.
The end Of the trial, after eight weeks,
has come with great relief to the press
and the public as it has been one Of
the most remarkable cases in Germany's
legal history in wealth, number of wit
nesses, sensational facts and regulations
blasted.
1t is announced by the Berliner Post
that proceedings will be begun against
Herr Werthauer, one Of the leading law
yers for the defense, on charges of hav-
ing induced witness to commit per-
jury.
Before the court retired for del bera-
tons, Sternberg spoke in his own de-
tense, asserting that he was innocent
of the worst charges, admitting a moral
lapse, and asking for an acquittal.
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our Nations wealth.

Gold and silver are poured abuudantly
terial wealth and strength is rather In
iron. the NEST useful OF all metals, just
as the wealth of human being lies in
a useful stomach. IF you have oVerwork-
ed yours until it is disabled. try Hostel
ter's Stomach Bltters. 1t will relieve the
cloggcd bowels. improve the appetite and
cure constipation, dyspepsia, biIiousness,
liver and kidney diseases.
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TIN HEALY'S DOWNFALL
IRISH PARLIAMENT ExPELs HIM.
BUT HE DOESN'T SEEM TO
MIND 1T
HIS PICTURESQUE CAREER
Has Always shown a Disposition to
Do as He Pleased, Regardless
of the Wishes of
Others.

Timothy M. Healy- has been expelled
from the Irish Parliamentary party.
Those who know Tim are doubtful If
he will stay expelled He has been for
years a sort of stormy ,petrel in Irish
how he will turn up. ''Tim' is now forty
five years old, the New, York Tribune
says. He was born. in Bantry, Cork, but
went. to England sat an early age and
settled in Newcastle. In; local debating
societies he took a conspicuous part, and
was prominent among the Irish societies
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-23
Holiday Excursion Rates TO Eastern
and Canadian Points.

Rosten and return 5000 via Chicago
bee s4o.G0 Montreal $35 90. ProDortio9afe
rates 10 other points. Tickets on saie
Dee. IS to g.. Good to return Jan. 6.
1861: For further .tnformation apply to
Rcoert Sts.. ST Paul. MINI.
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to thoroughly investigate the alleged haz-
Ing of Booz.
1T is known for miles and miles
around the Military Academy that haz-
Ing is not only permitted, because of fail
ure' to enforce regulations, but Is openly
carried on. The outrageous attack upon
the colored cadet, Whitaker, who was
Bhockingly mutilated, was an occurrence
that could never have taken place al tie
Naval Academy, because the law against
hazing is strictly enforced. 1t will be
difficult, of course, to prove who Were
responsible for the hazing, If Booz was
injured by hazing, because the chief wit
ness is dead 1 would not be surprised,
however, to see a number Of West Point
cadets dismissed. Dismissal is the only
way TO break up hazing. 1 recall one
case at the Military Academy where they
half killed a plebe because he presumed
to address an upper classman. That
thing, l repeat would not go at Annapo-
lis"
HAZING AT ANNAPOLIS.
Hazing was identified with the Military
academy for some years before it be-
came known at the Naval academy.
About the time that Commodore John L.
Norden, who commanded the Monitor in
her Merrimac fight, relieved Admiral D.
ID. Porter as superintendent, hazing be-
came known there for the first time. That
was in 1874. Previous to that time the
older classmen, who wore long swallow
tail coats and whiskers, were very exclu-
siVe, and playing FRANKS on the young
sters, or tormenting them in any way,
was considered as beneath their dignity.
In fact, almost every upper claSSman had
his special charge in the entering class.
in whom he took a personal interest, and
to whom he gave the benefit of his knowl-
edge and experience. 1t was common
thing to hear an older classman refer to
some youngster as my plebe, and it was
just as common to find the same indi-
vidual ready to chastise anybody who at
tempted any abuse of his charge.
Because several members Of the enter
ing class were badly treated in May, 1874,
shortly after Commodore Worden took
the helm, congress, in the following June,
enacted a hazing law which made every
form of the sport a court-martial Of
tense. The law provided for a drum
head court of three commissioned officers
to investigate and report. The recon-
mendatiOns of this court, even to dis
missal, We're final. The hazing of 1874
resulted in the entire third class be-
ing deprived of it's summer vacation, and
the ringleaders were sent away for good
This ended the pastime until a colored
youth was appointed to the academy. The
negro had formerly been employed as a
messenger in the Office of the secretary
of state of South Carolina, and was nom
mated by a colored congressman from
that state. He was found wanting in
academy.
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HOW IT WAS SUPPRESSED.

During that year he was hazed dozens
OF times. and the ringleader in one of
these attacks, a Southern cadet, who nad
violent IDEAS as to the race question, was
dismissed. The treatment of this negro.
and that Of the two others who followed
him, about settled the question Of admit
except for individual pranks, was in bad
door at the academy until Admiral Rodg-
ers returned to the SUPPLEMENTARY. Tor
ty-elght offenders were imprisoned by
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seated upon the bed the chest and head
3elng supported by a number of pillows
Absolute silence should be maintained in
Wen ventilated chamber. Cold food in
small quantities should be given. such "a
mix, beef tea, ice cream, etc. and
lemonade, if desired, by the half glassful.
may be given every hour, while for nedI
cine ten drops of tincture of perchloride
OF iron may be given in a little water
every three hours. Flannel saturated
with camphorated oil or some other
counter iiritant may be applied over the
chest.
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switch to peer as purveyed in the can
teen and then gradually give up drinking
altogether. Hundreds of old soldiers who
were heavy whisky drinkersr before the
establishment of the canteen system,
abandoned their whisky drinking when
they found that good beer was handy,
and they were, of course, immeasurably
better off for it.
'"Those of US who have been in the
service long enough well remember the
old-fashioned pay DAYS Of the enlisted
men, before the Introduction of the can
teen. The arrival of pay day would mean
one massive drunk for a majority of the
men. With their money in their pockets
they'd hike off to the adjoining city or
village, fill themselves to the brim with
horrible whisky, get to scrapping among
themselves, tackle civilians and trim
them to a turn, find themselves in con.
flict with the civilian authorities-who'd
always be laying for the soldiers on pay
days-get themselves dubbed mercilessly
by the chaps with the locust sticks, and
finally lard, many of them, in JAIL As
often as not number of these disorderly
soldiers would be sentenced to thirty
days in the calaboose by the civilian au-
thorities. When they had done their
thirty days they'd be gathered in on leav-
ing the calaboose by the military authorI-
ties and tried for desertion, when they
had no intention whatever of DESERVING,
and the upshot of the pay Gay drunk
ment in a military prison, with hard
labor, for many of them.
ACTUAL CONDITIONS AT ARMY
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Y III lON
POSTS.

'T an not making any fanciful pic
ture. I am simply reciting the conditions
that actually prevailed before the intro
duction of the canteen. The soldiers
who did not get into trouble with the
civilian authorities would nearly always
overstay their leaves. have seen a first
sergeant report to the officer Of the day
at reveille. the morning after pay day,
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a whole company absent and unaecounted
for-thc whole outfit lattened. out by the
WHISKY dished out to them in the city
on the previous night A garrison would
not, as rule right itself for about two
weeks after pay day. The men would
come Struggling ia OF. be picked up on, the
summary courts-fnartial for being absent
without leave, and cit Was-a common
thlng for half a post command to be. do
ing a Suafdhouse trick lt the same time.
There is absolutely nothing of this
sort under the canteen system. The de-
crease in the amount of druDkenness
amazed the old officers. There is less
drunkenness among the enlisted men Of
the United States army than there is
among the enlisted men OF any other
army in the world. I don't bar any. The
records prove this. That. the reason
maintain that the canteen is the actual
salvation Of the@ regular army soldier,
VINO has a natural or cultivated inchna-
ton to drink rum There is nothing
dangerous about beer. Men who are
husky enough to pass the examination
dier's uniform don't get drunk on beer,
or anything like drunk. They don't even
drink canteen beer when there is any
thing for them to do In a military way.
The canteen is only open at certain hours
OF the afternoon and evening, and when
it is open there is nothing IN the way of
drill, fatigue duty, or that sort of thing
for the men to; do.
CANNOT. sRENR. MUCH MONEY.
1.-THE men don't gilzzle beer, for an en-
listed man s=pay edoesn' t permit of sol-
>d1er's guzzling.g THE soldier pays 5 cents
Z over the bar fer a generous glasseof beer,
and IF he wants two or three or even hVe
or six of those. beers, he is entitled to
them, providing he's has the necessary
number of nickels. But he is not permit
ted to buy more than is good for him.
The soldier stationed behind the bar dis
penslng the beer eaIH1at any time choke
off the supply of a comrade who indicates
by his manner that ne has a-plenty
aboard. Catch a GROCERY bartender
shutting off soldiers supply of VIII. ky
as long as the soldier has a 10-cent piece
IN his clothes. It very rarely happens,
however, that a soldier gives any evil
dence of intoxication in canteen. You'll
hear lot of laughter and storytelling in
the canteen on pay day night, but when
the canteen closes the men seek their
hunks, and they are ready for duty, with
clear heads, the next morning when first
call goes
Besides the beer the canteen provides
for the men at very moderate rates, and
all in all the canteens at American mi
tary posts are positive triumphs In the
way they are managed. Moreover, the
profits that accrue to the canteen are dis
tributed equally among the companies.
troops, or batteries Stationed at the posts,
and these profits are devoted to the pur-
chasing of butter, milk, eggs and other
liable delicacies not provided for in the
soldiers regular radon
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time he escaped conviction, but in 1888
he served four months in prison for a
seditious speech
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% ollss know" said an ex-army officer,
chat no more than 1 per. cent of the
hazing cases at the Military academy be-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-06
the carriage ordinance against Joseph

the carriage ordinance against Joseph Ault.
 stephen Moran, who has been before the court many times, was sent to Jail for thirty days for begging.
 Detective Frye arrested Joseph Bur relic, colored, for the theft of com fortable. Burrelle was captured on Webster street Thursday. In court yes terday the tase was continued until January 12.
 Gases which Judge Studley had tried came up and were. nolled.
 They were cases of trespass upon railroad against number of Dixwel avenue boys. The boys were Arthur E. O'Connell, James McDermott, Wal ter H. Fancher, Frederick Poulton, David Whalley, James OConnell, Fred erick Schadel, Benjamin Stackman, Samuel Hazelton, William Anderson, Eary Carpenter.
 The cases of breach of the peace against William Loos and Rudolphs Miller also were nolled.
 Cases of violations of the junk laws againts Isaac Meyer, and Hymen AL pert, Morris Berman, Samuel Gilbaum, Moses Alphowitz, Barnett Albert, Moses Block, Max Harris and S. A. Alder man came up and went over to Jan uary 13.