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soon followed by the guns from the other
two forts. The inhabitants fled to the near
est forts.
The Indians commenced TO burn all the
houses that were left defenssless and de-
stroy all the live stock. hay and grain
fields.
The invaders did not modest the upper
fort but passed down the valley to the
middle fort. where they fired several shots
from small mortar.
"A white flag. carried by man named
Hare. who once lived near Fort Hunter.
and who was hanged in ISL as a spy, APP
preached the fort. Murphy. who came from
Philadelphia, and who married Margaret
Feeck. as soon as he saw Hare approach
ing. raised his rifle and fired. the shot strik
ing the pole.
Hare dropped the flag and got back into
the woods, as II the devil was after him.
The Colonel who was commanding the fort
was very angry. but as he was a coward.
no one obeyed him. They all looked W. to
old Peter Vrnoman for what to do.
OFFICER CARRIED FLAG.
Soon after the flag came out the second
time, and this time an officer held it. II
was waved back and forth until David
Ziele got tired and sent bullet after him.
The flag was then dropped. Soon after We
could see the Indians crawling along to get
closer. We opened fire and soon drove them
back. The field piece was fired several times
by the British. but did no damage.
The enemy approached the lower fort in
two columns. the Indians under Brant and
the British under Sir John johnson. They
fired few shots at the fort from the NOR
tar. and then the two columns united and
went on down the valley, toward the Mo-
hawk River.
'on the night of the 18th they encamped
near S,oansvile. where they buried their
mortar. On their way down the Schoharie
10 the Mohawk they sent out parties of In
dams in every direction to burn and de-
st-oy.
''On the morning OF the 18th they resumed
their march and came out of the woods at
Auries Creek and crossed the Mohawk and
proceeded along the Tribes Hill and Caugh-
nawaga districts. which they had destroyed
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GETTING REA1Y 70 fZRE At TIE 01rzry
NZA9GEZzS.

Another ingenious device of this kind
represents line of infantry 100 yards long
Yet eight men can set it up in ten minutes
and one man can work it
Various notifications of this Continuance
simulate the advance of re-enforcements.
the thinning out o. an infantry line or the
approach OF column of soldiers.
IN order further - encourage the develop
:iient of skill in shooting tc kill'' on the
part of our soldiers the War Department
has created a new grade Of marksmen-
Men who have duly qualified as sharp
shooters may try for the title of expert rifle
man. which carries with it not only GER
tain distinction. but also 81 a month extra
pay.
Expert guuners in the navy get such ex-
ira pay. and it is thought that the soldiers
ought to have It likewise.
On> should mention incidentally. the fact
that one of the forms of drill employed is
that of estimating distances. in order to en-
able the marksman to put the sight Of his
gun at the proper elevation.
Many Of the contemplated Improvements
and new departures in methods of rife
practice for our troops have been suggested
TO the War Department by Colonel James
Parker. who is recognized as the best
equipped expert in matters of this kind in
the United States Army.
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cavalry as chairman. to consider new rules
for the use OF small arms including the
revolver. and millions of cartridges. at a
wholesale cost of 2i2 cents apiece. will be
furnished for the peppering of targets.
Hints on this subject are being taken from
the Germans. who make a great feature of
small arms practice in the training of SOL
diers.
Extensive use is also being made of dunn
my men. for initiating the enemy.
Such men are usually of sheet iron. and
sometimes as at ordway. near Washington.
they represent a company of infantry. six
teen men lying prone. sixteen kneeling ten
yards behind, and sixteen standing ten
yards in the rear of the kneeling figures.
A troop ofri femen fires three volleys at
the dummy command. and. the number of
hits being counted. the percentage is reck-
oned. Then the men repeat the perfor-
nance. firing at will. three shots apiece
in as many minutes.
II Is found that soldiers fire with more
accuracy at such dummies than at a bulls
eye. and the practice is more profitable TO
them for fighting purposes.
MEN DRILLED TO
FIRE AT WILL.
The idea of firing at will Is now being
tried in our army for the first time. and
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gets are changed and q second squad OF
thirty men begins.
The miniature targets serve as records OF
what the men have done in the way OF
shooting. thus making it unnecessary 10
keep elaborate tabulated memoranda on the
subject.
The system renders II practicable for the
company comulardeE to select at once the.
best shots and to separate those needing
further instruction. This will serve instead
of the old percentage method OF classifying
marksInen in the regiments
In ordinary target practice a man fire.
quenuy has to wait two hours or more Tor
his turn to fire. which tends to destroy his
interest In the shooting
Objection has been made that the noise
of thirty rifiemen shooting together tends TO
diminish accuracy. but 1t is Just the kind
Of noise that will be found on the firing
line. and it is good thing that the SOL
diers should become accustomed to it
When a marksman can hit an S-inch
bull's-eye frequently at go yards. he is 4
coed shot and fit for the firing line. Il ia
just about this standard of excellence for
all OF our soldiers that the War Depart
uIeut is anxious to achieve.
When that is accomplished our troops Will
he much more formidable in war than they
are to-day.
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BY EVA II, PUTNAM

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
In rumasing in an old attic in the Mohawk
Valley recently l came across several I'M
published records of stirring battles of the
revolution. written by an ancestor of mine.
From this account l have made the fol-
lowing extracts. Part of the letter is writ
ten in Mohawk Dutch. while other parts re-
late to the personal opinions OF the writer
of some of the officers
Most OF these officers have come down TO
III by nam. only.
The surrender of CORVALLIS at York
town. says my historian. lis supposed to
have ended the Revolutionary War.
But the last battle. according to my au
thori;y. was fought IN the Mohawk Val
ley, October ., ISL" The Captains. my
ancestors. account is as follows:
Butler. with several companies OF Brit
ish and Indians. crossed the Mohawk River
above its junction with Schoharie Creek. SO
as to avoid Fort Hunter, and proceeded
toward Johnstown.
Colonel Willetts. who was at Fort Van
Rensselaer,, about twenty miles west up the
Mohawk. started after him, expecting to
catch up with him at Fort Hunter. but
when he got there he found that Butler had
proceeded toward Johnstown.
"wirletts followed and caught up with
him near Quillhoits. and whipped him. They
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He has invented a kind OF target practice
which will probably be adopted. inasnuch
as it enables large numbers of recruits 10
receive instruction simultaneously.
Miniature targets are employed. pasted
on large frames covered with canvas-backed
paper. and placed at distance of only fifty
feet. but reduced in size to simulate ordi-
nary targets at 100. 90 and 800 yards
A shot hole at fifty feet is plainly visible.
so that 1t is not necessary to have markers.
Each squad of recruits under instruction
consists of thirty men and there is an in
structor ian expert soldier marksman) for
each recruit.
To each recruit Is assigned a separate
target. with his name writtsn on il. and
twenty ordinary service cartridges are is
sued to him.
AT A SIGNAL HE
BEGINS TO FIRE
At signal he begins to fire. under the
supervision of his teacher. and continues to
shoot at the target until his cartridges are
used up.
The instructor. standing by him. corrects
his faults of attitude or trigger pulling,
points out the position of each shot made.
and In each case explains the cause of fall
ure to hit the mark.
When the first squad has finished the tar-
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WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPCBLIc.s
Our soldiers do not Shoot straight
enough.
The War Department says so. and 1t
ought TO know
American military marksmen, used TO he
the best in the world. but they are so no
Longer.
There has been a great influx OF volun-
tears into the, army since 1885, and some OF
the regiments that served in the Spanish
War went into action for the first time
without having fired more than fifteen
shots 4 mar.
Many of these boys IN khaki are still
pretty poor performers with the rife. and
the introduction Of the Krag-though the
arm is vastly superior 10 the Springfield of
old days-has an unfavorable effect upon
accuracy. because the weapon is not so we'll
understood.
Thers has never been a time in the his
tory of warfare when accurate shooting was
OF so much Importance as now
1t is absolutely necessary that our soldiers
shall learn to use the rife with skill and
precision. and. with that end in view. the
War Department is starting in to spend a
great deal Of money on instruction in rifle
practice.
Secretary Root recently appointed a
board. with Colonel James Parker of the
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Sir John had crossed the river and had
made his escape with his troops.
More men in all fell at oriskaney than
did at Bunker Hill. and it was the pivot
point on which the Revolution turned.
IF the men of the Mohawk Valley had
not turned out as they did. St Leser's
army would have been able to march on 20
the flank of General Gates. and there would
have been no surrender OF Burgoyne. as
General Gates would have had to fall back
on Albany.
There would have been no intervention
by France. and there would have been such
concentration of British forces against
the American that By no possible means
could they have stood. The valley all turned
out. business men. farmers and all.
Five hundred of the hes: men OF the val
ley were killed. Many were taken prisoners
At the end of the war only 5000 widows and
children remained and only about 400 men"
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In connection with this sensational nfraIr

In connection with this sensational affair
the most fantastic stories were told
1t was said that the young Prince would
be abducted by night by the Seryian General
Protisch. who. as the representative OF King
Milan. had arrived in Wiesbadeu.
He. however. relieved the fear Of the
Queen by declaring that he never would
take refuge in such methods.
Then Natalie appealed to the German
Kaiser, but his Majesty answered in a te1e-
gram that King Milan merely made use OF
his right ruler and father ard that i'll
tsrnational law prohibited interference.
He therefore strongly advised her 10 give
up her son. However the Queen refused.
and thereupon the Pruss:an officials Per
enptorily demanded compliance with Mi
lan's request.
But again the Queen refused. and took
steps TO prevent the taking away Of AIexun-
der by force.
She armed her servants with weapons
The Prussian Government had no desire to
see servian matter fought out in its own
territory. and SO Natalie was made to IN
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the May before. sending out parties to de-
stroy anything that had been rebuilt
They proceeded west to the Stone Arabia
district, which they thoroughly burned out
as far north as Ephratah and as far west
as Garoga Creek. at Palat!ne Church.
The churches at Palatine Church were
not destroyed by Brant. as he had promised
before leaving Canada not to destroy them.
During the time of this raid the troops
under General Van Rensselaer,. Colonel Har-
per and Lieutenant Colonel Needer had been
gathering TO prevent the British forces from
ever returning to Canada. At Stone Arabia
the British had skirmish with forces I'M
der Colonel Brown Of Massachusetts,. who
killed. The troops under Van Rensse-
laer had encamped at Schenectady on the
night Of October Ii. and the 18th had
continued the march UP the Mohawk River
Valley.
The march was kept up night and day.
The American troops, on arriving ut the
Nose. at the upper end of Caughilawaga
flats. were afraid to cross the river, for fear
of an ambuscade. and they continued up
the river to the Brandywine Ford, near
Cana joharie
UNABLE TO CROSS.
They were unable TO cross there on &C
count of the high water, so they marched
on to Keetor's Rift now Fort Plain. where
a crossing was effected by placing the army
wagons end to end across the river. the men
passing over them to the opposite shore.
This was the advance under Colonel Har-
per.
When the main bocy arrived under Van
Rensselaer, they crossed the river and moved
up on the north side to near hiocSs. where
they found Johnson's army on the little
peninsula. The American forces were
formed with Colonel Dubois the hill and
Van Rensselaer, on the fiays. opposite John
son. Dubois drove the enemy from the
hill. but it soon became SO dark that tine
engagement came TO an end
Van Rensselaer, took his troops down the
river several miles to camp. When he adj
vanced in the morning TO renew the attack
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ds-Stand that If she opposed the officials she
would be expelled from Germany
Then she sent her aunt. Princess Marussi.
to Berlin on mission to secure help. but
the aunt returned 70 wiesbadsn without
ACCOMPLISHING anything and after Natalie
had teiesraphed in vain to the Kaiser she
finally consented TO give up her son.
The painful episode. Of course. had at
tracted the widest attention. and very early
in the morning OF July L large concourss
Oh people had gathered before the villa OF
the Queen
About o'clock two Servian officers.
Colonel Batalowitsch and Major chinitsch.
cane TO the villa to he the Crown Princes
..dju,an,-
An hour later the Police President OF
"iesbaden. dressed in full uniform. drove
before the villa. followed by two Police In
saeeiors. tow Commissioners and twelve po-
!'ceTnen. The negotiations in the villa lasted
Ter Eve minutes.
Then Alexander came cut Of the house.
He laughed. but his neither. from an upper
window. babe him 4 fearful farewell.
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Then there is the matter of rapid fire
On the field of batfie.,the soldier sees the
individual foe only for a moment as the
latter fits from cover to cover or rises for
an instant to shoot and disappears.
He must shoot quickly if he is to get his
man. Accordingly, our fighting men are
receiving special Instructions I'm quick firing
and are taught to deliver as many as five
aimed shots in twenty second4 whereas for
merly five minutes would have been allowed
for the same number OF shots.
What Is wanted is accuracy for service
Conditions-that is TO say. ability to do the
kind OF shooting that will be required in
actual warfare.
TARGETS PROVIDED
FOR ENLISTED MEN
Targets of German patterns are TO be fur
nished for the enlisted men and officers of
our army. who will practice in competition
with one another.
In this way figures will be used as dis
appearing or movable targets, the agility Of
sharpshooters being represented by dunn
mics that pop up and down out of trenches
and from behind embankments.
The Germans have some Of their movable
targets attached to sIeds. which are drawn
over the ground by steam power or by
horses.
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HOW KING MILAN
RECLAIMED HIS SON.
Story of Natalie's Vain Efforts to
Keep Alexander With Her.

Special Correspondence Of The Sunday Republic
Berlin. June H.-The bloody events in Bel
grade call 10 mind an interesting German
episode in the history of the house of obren-
owitsch.
This was the giving up of the late King
Alexander. then Crown Prince. to his father
King Milan. 1t was in July 1855. when the
divorce of King Milan from his wife. Ma
tale. had been decided upon.
The Queen, with the little Prince. was in
Wiesbaden- Milan demanded the delivery of
his son. and he decided. in case Natalie re-
fused, TO call on the Prussian officials for
aid. The Queen categorically declined to
give Up the Prince.
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all started running. and Willetts after them
At the West Canada Kill he overlook them
again. and in the engagement that followed
Butler was killed
lie begged for mercy when captured and
/, cried Quarter! QUARTER but Hans only
put his Ratchet into his head. saying: I
give You Cherry Valley quarter"
The historic struggle for supremacy in the
Mohawk Valley is also recited in consider
able detail
LIGHTHOUSES WERE BUILT.
in the spring Of I77s the Continental Com
gress sent engineers 10 the Mohawk. Scho-
harie and Cherry valleys to aid the inhab-
ttants to Guild defences to protect them
selves against the hostile Indians and Brit
ish.
After these blockhouses were built a
small MURDER of Continental troops were
sent 10 aid in defending them The farmers
erected smnI houses in these palisaded forts
rs homes when danger Threatened.
IN the s:choharie Valley there were three
of these forts. called the upper middle and
lower forts The upper one was on the
Feeck place. the middle at the Vrooman,
while the lower included the church. On
October Ii. 1850. Sir John Johnson with 500
troops, including Indians, appeared near the
upper fort.
"Feeck fired the alarm gun. and it was
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-12-15

The engineers IN charge Of the new
subway In Boston recently objected to
the passage OF procession through
one OF the streets where they were ex.
cavating for fear that the vibration
OF the earth cnused by the rhythmk
beat Of the march might endanger the
abdtting buildings The line Of march
was accordingly changed. 1t is well
known fact Of physics that vibrations
are IS contagious as smallpox. One
tuning fork viii communicate ita hum
to another Of the same pitch in the
eame room. and two clocks, one fast
and the other slow. VIII soon tick
Eynchronousy II put side by side on
the same table. When soldiers march
across a bridge they break step lest
the strain should damnge the structure.
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The New York Evening Post points
out the fact that Carlyle's favorite def.
milton Of respectab;lity, a .'gigman, 4"
seems obsolete in the light Of modern
developments. In place Of the old
standard "he keeps n gig" we have
substituted "he has a steam yacht"
Most amusing was this latter day
measure of wealth brought out In the
letters from Paris Of the promoter in
search OF an underwater. Question
arose as TO the financial responsibility
of one ready subscriber apparently
without ready CASH. and the astute
american applied himself TO the task
OF rating the fellow But how did he
go to work7 Did he go to the banks,
the agencies, the bourse? No; he sim.
ply observed the mans manner Of life
When he discovered that tho back.
ward underwater kept a yacht his
doubts were instantly relieved and he
cabled the Joyful news 20 New York
Evidently, we say, in the lexicons of
today we must look to see the entry,
"Gigman; modern, yachtsman."
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1t Is an interesting fact that the
name OF a single survivor Of the war
OF 1912 now appears OH the pension
rolls, that Of Hiram Cronk OF Oneida
county. n. u. who is 103 years of age,
But no fewer than i,115 widows Of the
soldiers IN our second war with Great
Britain are eth getting money FROM
the federal treasury Young women
who are willing 70 marry aged war
viors with the hope % pensions are
plentiful. Long after every man who
bore arms in the Mexican war, the
rivll war and the Spanish war has
drawn his last breath there viii be a
host OF widows still obtaining pensions.
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nent nminsion of nndrun,.

Professor Curie now announces the
amazing fact that the change IN INC
rate Of heat emission Of radlum within
the comparatively short distance Of alb
solutc zero ls exactly in the opposite
direction to what might be expected in
view OF the effect Of low temperatures
on ordinary chemical action for at the
temperature necessary TO llqucfy ny-
drogen, the greatest cold yet secured
by scientists, the heat emission Of radl
um Instead of being reduced is aug
mentcd.
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one Hunarea polIars ! hox.

Is the value II. A. Tisdale. Summer
ton. s. c.. places on DeWitta Witch
Hazel salye. He says: 81 had the
piles for 20 years tried many doc
tors and medicines, but all failed ex-
cept DoWitcs Witch Hazel saive. It
cured me" Il is combination OF the
healing properties Of Witch Hazel
with antiseptics and emollienfs; re-
lieves and permanently cures blind.
bleeding, itching and protruaing piles.
sores. euts. bruises. eczema salt rheum
and all skin diseases. sold by J. N.
WaDeee.
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And Chandler is His Flssey MaIessy's
Throne.

Between 600 and 100 loads Of cot.
ton were on the street Of Chandler
last Saturday. Some Of It sold as higs
as 81 per hundred pounds in the seed.
Ginned cotton brought from Si1 TO
212 per hundred Several hundred
loads and many bales we're brought to
the capitol city Of Lincoln county on
"Wednesday of this week.
Some of the heecy staple brought
to Chandler was raised fron twon y
TO thirty miles from here. The glad
tidings that the county seat Of Lincoln
was the best cotton market IN eastern
Oklahoma spread far and near and at
tracted hundreds Of loads that other.
wise would have been hauled to small
CT towns. Chandler Publlcist
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why nritona WIN Not rnIlst.

The ease OF James Crosse. late troon
sergeant major: Tho old soldier served
IN the Cvlnea. Balaklava and Indlan
mutlny He lost two fingers Of his sword
arm, was wounded IN the leg and had
a bullet through the top OF his skull
and so was disabled for active service.
"A grateful country" gave him a pen
sion for six years and then said he was
~ to work, and his pension was
stopped. He died In penury London
Court Journal.
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American Brewer Makes Best
Beer in the World.

Prague, Bohemia, Dec. l. The
Imperial Scientific Commission in
vestigating the different kinds of beer
OF the world has awarded the highest
honor for superiority to an American
LrO luct.
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a GUARANTEED CURE FoR PILES

Itching. Blind. Bleeding or Protrud
ing Piles. Your druggist viii refund
money II PAzo OINTMENT fails to
cure you. in G to IA days. SOC.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1903-03-03
Tn buen aCuerdO
del cOnsejO EjecutiVO
Coamo debe prosperar.

Fl Consejo Ejecutivo, en- Ia session
de esta tarde, ha otorgado al Ayun-
tamiento de Coamo, una concession
para deriyar del rio xCoamox 6 Ii
tros de aqua por segundos de ITEM
po, destinados al abastecimiento
de la poblacion.
Ell proyecto de acueducto ha
sido sometido al Sr. Comisionado
del Interior para su aprobacion; y
dentros de POGO, la simpatica Vi
LA gozara de los benefcios del
aqua distribuida q domicilio; me-
jora sanitaria que ha tempo vie
ne gestionando.
Ell Ayuntamiento de Coamo, es
uno de los que en- mejor situacion
Sc encuentra: sin deudas y con So
brante en- sus cajas, esta en- muy
buenas condolences para contratar
un emprestito. La labor honrada &
inteligente del actual Alcalde don
Manuel Betances. y la cooperation
de todos los elementos de Ia pobla-
cion, haran que sean pronto un he
cho las obras en- proyecto para Ia
mejora de Coamo.