Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-10
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best piece Of forgery ever committed.
Needless to say, Birnbaum still supplies
4 he fort resS with grain jf.yt} 2ssi

best piece of forgery ever committed.
Needless to say, Birnbaum still supplies
tho fortress with grain.
In some cases tfilching has reached
such a pitch that the supplies for which
the government makes money grants
have disappeared ltogether--except on
the accounts. Backing Is a case in
= point. At one time every regiment al
lowed the soldiers SO much backing
per month for their boots. AS this is
not an expensive item only small
sum was allowed for 1t, and when the
officers began to help themselves very
remained. In q year or two the
colonies ceased altogether to buy 1t
for their men, But unblacked boots
look very bad at a review 1t was,
therefore, arranged that the soldiers
should buy their own backing for these
festive occasions out of their miserable
pay of cents IL day.
REWARDS FOR DISHONESTY.
1t frequently happens that men are
rewarded for their dishonesty. A Cos
sack officer named Capt. Ekimoff. who
Z went out to Manchu.ia during the
Japanese war, used to supply the army
with very good and very cheap horses.
4 AS Il great many We're killed during
y engagements, the demand always was
large and urgent The captain was re-
commended to headquarters for the
prompt manner in which he supplied
+ the army with horses, and in reward
was decorated With the Order of st.
Vladimir, with star and cross, by the
car.
with his bosom friend and made an
illuminating confession in which he said
they had combined to cheat the army
: They put themselves ut the head of q
band of narauders-of which hundreds
Infested Manchuria during the wall
End, falling upon scattered and small
5letachments of Russian cavalry, killed
f Inc men. took away their horses and
feaold them to The army supply COM.
mistee who We're delighted to get such
good animals at so low a price. Ekinl-
DIFF made small fortune and still wears
his order simply because none of the
officials whose duty it is to punish him
think it worth while doing so.
The schools in which such officers are
traine6 are almost beneath all criti-
esnI5 Discipline Is quite unknown In
tho large Russian towns whore cadet
s schools are located, these young gem
+ tlcmen-aged from 10 to l6--can be seen
rolling home dead drunk at 8 and
o'clock In the morning. The system of
4 teaching is Anticipated and inefficient
and they leave the schools without u
notiOn Of the duties that await them
In the army. Professors and pupils are
rrnnt about their inefficlency. One pro-
lessor of military history told a Mill
tary visitor from Germany that his
pupils knew nothing of the subject ex-
eept what appeared in a book PUBLISH
4 ed 30 years previous because he him-
!. self knew that book. by heart and could
reciic pages from it at the lessons with
put giving himself or the cadets any
trouble. The same visitor asked one
Of the elder cadets in the college at
st. Petersburg what they learned and
how many classes they were divided
into.
DEGREES OF LEARNING.
I'VE have three classes was the
reply TIN one the boys only drink,
in the second they make love, and in
the third they do both. / am In the
third
Unhappily. this is not merely bit
of boyish brag. but 81 fact, as the
numbers of morally and physically
ruined boys who yearly leave the ca
Diet colleges for the army and navy
show.
The medical commission also is
!loneycombed by corruption, the
members enriching themselves by en-
forcing brides from those who wish to
avoid service. When the unwilling
candidates come up for medical exam
nation the doctors find ready at hand
large sums from the parents OF the