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The Press., 1909-08-04
New London Business College An
 nual Banquet.


 There was something ding every minute at the twenty first annual exercises f the New London Business College, Ii, Id July 27 in the rooms of the cullege in the Harris building. Ex- Governor Thomas M. Waller made the address to the graduates There had been a debate earlier in the even- ing on woman's suffrage. The ex- governor, when lie got to the floor, fairly outdid himself with eloquenoe in favor of the right of women to exercise the privilege of franchise. In return for this he was applauded vieo ously by nearly 300 admiring young students aud their guests. A feature of real live interest at each graduation of Prof Bruhetk's school is the reading of 'The Blotter," or official organ of the college, on the first page of which was an illumi- hating article with the aption. "The Next Mayor'' y Three inches below the caption vas a picture of Hon. Thomas M Waller, taken about the time he left the office of mayor of New London, his second tenn, 80 years ago
 To make a long story short, the extra edition was red hot boom for Governor Waller, candidate for may or of New London. The paragraphs were punctuated ny applause, while Editor Clalk read the campaign battle cry. The ex governor was plainly embarrassed, but there were several more numbers on the program ahead of him, so he finally calmed down and waited his turn.
 When he get the floor he had to wait for minute or so for the ap- plause to die away He looked so good natured then that most people in the crowded room thought there was some chance of his accepting the bid for nomination. nagine the dis appointment, the erefore, when the champion of many active campaigns turned the whole thing down "I came here, young ladies and young gentle, |. en, to say a few words to you, and here I am confronted with an offsr of the office of mayor of your city. '
 Turning to look behind him, where on the platform sat ex-Meyor George F. Tinker, exMayor James P John
 
 Major Walter FitzmauIice, Hon A bel P. Tanner, Dr. A. w. Nelson, P Hall Shurts and others, Governor said: In the presence of so many machine politicians (laughter) such \ all offer as this will be sure to be looked upon as 8 Waller trick laugh ter Just like Waller. Going in to make a speech ana coming out with mayorality nomination in his V st pocket Daughter and applause ). No, my young friends, I can't take it, I m sorry to say. Fun too old. Yet I don't know what to say. II has gotten so now that if you want tc get 8 nomination for office the very best thing that you can do is early ir the campaign to publish denial that you will accept any office. AS there have been denials of this sort pub lished already I don't want to gel into this class. (Laughter). And want to say, young ladies, the very best way for you to get an offer ot marriage is to hang out the never get married sign'." More laughter
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The Press., 1909-08-04
Too Much Expense.

"Yes," said MT. Tyte-Phist, "I was just stepping on the car when the conductor gave the motorman the sig nal to go ahead, and the car started. My foot went out from under me, and I sat down on the muddy crossing, running a twenty-two dollar suit of clothes.'
 '"Then you sat there. Swore like a trooper and gnashed your teeth in rage. I suppose" remarked the sym pathizing listener.
 ''No,' said MT. Tyte-Phist. "I may have sworn a little, but I didn't do any gnashing. My teeth are new and cost me $3O."-Chicago Tribune.
The Press., 1909-08-04
Aroused Her Curiosity After All.

Aroused Her Curiosity After All.
 Don't want any," said housekeep. CT from her second story window to a street vender whose covered wagon was standing q few steps away and who had just pulled the bell.
 Don't want any what?" gruffly asked the vender. who hadn't had even a chance to tell what his wares were.
 What have you gotY' asked the housekeeper. whose curiosity was get ting the better of her annoyance.
 "Oh, never mind. You don't want any. Git up. Bob.''
 'sNow. wonder what that exasper- ating man is selling. anyhowp' She ex- claimed as the wagon disappeared around the corner.-- Exchange.
The Press., 1909-08-04
WALES,

J. H. Loudon has moved his house. hold goods out of town.
 E. l. Needham and son, Leroy, left Thursday for his cottage at Matunuck, R T..
 Rev. MT. Davis left Thursday. It is reported that the church will be closed for few weeks.
 Re-married. July 5th, at their home, "Comfort Hall," Porter Wal bridge to Nellie A. G. Walbridge. both of Wales. The ceremony was performed by Ozro P. Royce. justice of the peace, in the presence of rela- tives and a few intimate friends.
The Press., 1909-08-04
ToEresh Ewes.

Willie, accompanied by his father. was visiting a circus and menagerie. "Oh, papa" the boy exclaimed as they passed before an elephant, Hook ns the big COW with her horns in her mouth eating hay with her tail" - Christian RepiSter
The Press., 1909-08-04
Wide Doorways.

In the making over of an old house, as also in building a new one, 1t is al- ways a good plan to have the door, ways in the rooms on the first floor made unusually wide, almost as large as the rooms themselves, for in this way greater sense of space and airi- ness is given even when the house is not large. Portieres may be hung in these roomy doorways to keep away drafts and to give a certain privacy. but in warm summer days and also when entertaining a large number of persons the portieres may be drawn back and almost the entire ground floor thus transformed into one large room.-Baltimore American.
The Press., 1909-08-04
What He Wanted.

"Be careful. young man. You know the old saying. Marry in haste and re- pent at leisure.'"
 ''That's why Pm rushing things Whnt want Is leisure Exchange
The Press., 1909-08-04

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The Press., 1909-08-04
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The Press., 1909-08-04

Marriage is a lottery in which mex stake their liberty and women theil happiness.-Mme. de Rieux.
The Press., 1909-08-04

Don't waste any time looking back at your mistakes. There is more fun in looking up the mistakes of other people. News.
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The Press., 1909-08-04

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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-09

school. Infraaions of regulations NAV IN a
sense be termed disobedence but thew are never
30 regarded in any of the worlds schools Row
Aature would needs be remade if the rules of anv
institution were to be kept to the letter of the
law
Discipline at West Point is rigid to severity.
AS far as disciplinary methods are concerned the
schooI never changes 1t is the same to-day as
1t was In the days of Grant and Lee
Take day at the academy and compare Its
duties with those of any other institution, no mat.
ter of what country, and it will be seen that in
comparison to the cadets labor the work of stu
dents at other schools is but play. During certain
months of the year there is little play at West
Point. Drill in the open air gives the requisite
exercise to keep the physique right, and for REQ
reation apparently there is no need
The routine has changed little with the pass.
ing years, but In general way the days pro-
gram at the academy is like this
Reveille at 6 o'clock; roll call at g. 20; break
FAST at 6:25; guard mount at 7:15; recitations
and study hours from until /; dinner, until
1:40; recitations and study from until q: drill
from until $40; parade at $50; supper at 6:
study from until $50; tattoo, then taps and
sleep.
mere are no Rotations at the United States
military academy on Saturday afternoons, and the
~NNStS arc gwen NHdt is cdiied release from
quarters, with permission to visit one another in
barracks or to roam about the reservation ia.
king good care, under pain of dismissal to keen
from going of limits
Release from quarters never comes for some
cadets. The breaking of some small rule means
confinement to quarters or the walking of extra
guard tours. Phe boy who unwittingIy puts on
pair OF white trousers having an iron rust stain
on them and wears them at drill or at dress ma
rade. will know no release from quarters for
days.
Should speck of rust be found on his rifle at
Sunday morning inspection, he will shoulder that
rifle and walk two or more hours up and down
the area of barracks as sentinel without
charge" while his more fortunate comrades are
experiencing the ecstasy which comes from per-
mission to ramble about the parade ground and
to view the hotel and other delights of ciyiliza.
ton from a distance.
Upon occasion the cadets are given permission
TO call upon friends at the little hotel on the res
ervation. H. however boy commits the enor.
nous ofense of leaving the main parlor of the
hotel to visit his father or mother In another
room, and the act should be discovered he will
never see the inside OF that hotel again until
many weeks have rolled by and he has expisted
his crime by many extra tours of guard duty In
the broiling sun or zero weather or Highlands
winter
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-09

In an elder day at the academy and 1t may be
so today the mail bag into which the cadets
dropped their letters was hung with wide distend-
ed mouth just inside the door of the guardhouse
Until the first call for breakfast, the guardhouse
was off limits" The instant the drums rolled
the cadets could enter the building and drop their
letters. One morning cadet stood without the
door, holding his letter In his hands. The drum
mer's sticks were poised tremblingly. waiting to
fall for the pounding out of the first call for
breakfast
The cadet saw the poised sticks, entered the
guardhouse and dropped his letter just as the
first note Of the call sounded He had passed
through the doorway just one-sixteenth of a Sec
ond too soon An officer saw him mail his let
ter and report of off limits" went in which
caused the unfortunate letter mailer to perform
extra guard duty for 16 long hours-not consec-
utive hours. however
On the first hook on the wall of his alcoye the
cadet must hang one specific article of clothing
on the second hook another article, and so on
II, perchance, the youth hangs his dresscoat on
the nall sacred to the overcoat, he can bid fare
well to release from quarters for two Saturdays
at least and it, perchance, the shell jacket hangs
on the hook given over to trousers, he may add
three more days of confinement to those which
have accrued from the crime of the misplaced
overcoat
The methodical cadet runs yardstick along
the toes of the extra shoes which under regula.
ton, must be placed In regular order beneath
the foot of his bed. II the toe of one shoe pro-
uudes half an inch beyond the toe of it's mate,
the cadet gets one demerit mark. If more than
one pair OF shoes shows symptoms of irregular
ity IN the matter of toeing the scratch the cadet
VIII receive sufficient number of demerit marks
to enable him to realize thoroughly the beauties
OF right line as applied to something besides
geometry.
1t Is "a beastly grind" as the English clergy
man said, but 1t is a grind that has its uses, and
the proof OF it Is written in all the records of the
service
Hazing is In sense an hereditary habit The
army officers who have been asked In the wears
that are past, and who are being asked TO-DAY
10 root out the practice of "deviling" the pebe
at West Point, did not, and have not all Of them
their hearts in the work, for were they not hazed
themselves, and were they not In turn hazers?
Nine out OF ten of the hazed will tell you TODAY
that they profited by the experience
When Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant entered
pebe camp, first classman who noticed tho
boys strong build intimated to him that It would
be pleasure to have him cali Immediately at the
seniors tent. Grant went. There is a rule at
West Point, which was a rule in Grants dav az
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-09

still wearing the clothes of civil life: (Which dc
you think is the greatest man. Gen. George Wash
ington or Gen. Ulysses S. Grant,"
FTeds answer, blunt and quick was: washing.
ton may have been the greater man, but my ia.
Their was the greater soldier"
Mr.. Grant" said the upper classman, ito com.
pare your father to George Washington in any
sense, Is like unto the comparing of plucked hen
to the American eagle"
Then there followed a fight, but it was stopped
almost instanter by some first classmen because
the place was too public.
Gen. John M. Schofeld was an artillery ofHcer
The army has it that Schofeld had distaste for
the infantry branch because of an experience which
ne underwent during his first week as q Niche at
the military academy
some yearllngs chased Schofield up ladder from
the COCK lott OF barracks to the roof The future
nero Vi FRANKLIN was clad only in night shirt
When inc rof was reached the cadets gave Scho
held rifle, marked out a sentiners heat IN tho
Tin roof and started the future artleryman mn bis
walk back and forth with the musket on his sbouL
DER They kept him at it with few iutermissions
from taps to reveile.
Hdsaf Aiah roe was cadet at West Point only
lof snort 'lme. Army tradition holds nothing con-
he Iiie na|ing OF Poe The academy, however
Is 'he custodian OF one of Poe's first poems which
is nothing short of striking examnle NJ tho ho,,,
wit. "a VIC wy
Whlie Poe was at the academy Lieut. 1oeo,h
LOCK was stationed there as tactical officer JocL
was 'he strictest kind of discipna1ian, and be
was constantly reporting Poe for offenses renorts
i'n oiousht as their natural consequence soma
hea'y puhlshments. Poe had his revenge in noor,
Whlch the curious may find in vo,uma Iii,
nc lacs' which was published years ago hv tho
cadets: "so ny the
John Locke was a great name
Joe Lock Is greater In short
Inc former is well known to fame
lhe latter well known to renort
mere is, OF was, one form of hazng At wos.
oiit whicn mas in 1t the essence of cruelty Tho
consists in making pebe read with ann,onn .n.s
.ea'uies ana the proper infections all tho nIoo
.ninss "hlca the newspapers of his homo tow
piih'ea ABOUT him when the announcement - W.
"ppoihtnent 10 cadetship was made. Imooino -
'ou WILL tne feelings of green younpstor oa -
STANDS upon barrel, reading to an asemh. 80 NC
POSSIBLY % yearlings the editorial sta,aman, VI
locai papers, that Henry Smith "donhtlos. I'm 'ue
maue corporal as soon as the ewes If tho wa w
n'ehdent OF the military academy fall mon h,s .o
anu manly figure. Henry has in him 10 - .A''
VI great soldier. We shall hear Of HIS daaaa us
uhe hela OF battle leader of his countr,s on
III case dread war shall come" nosts
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-09
AGED BRIDE SURE
Of BOYS" LOVE
DISPARITY IN THEIR YEARS, SHE
is "a AND HE 10, WILL NOT
CAUSE TROUBLE.
MARRIAGE A CASE OF LOVE
Wife Old Enough to Be Grandmother
of Bridegroom-Sees No Reason
Why Their Wedding Should
Create Commotion.

Columbia, Mo.-When Turner Ac-
ton, 19year-old bridegroom, wants his
own way his bride, who was Mrs.
Sarah Anne Montemat, Ga years old,
won't quarrel or threaten or p0ut, he
says. She will coax" him. And the
gentle art OF coaXing, in the opinion
of the venerable bride, will keep peace
and happiness at the hearth where
she and her boy husband will sit.
Neither husband nor wife ought to
be boss" says Mrs. Acton, whose hair
is white. Il won't expect to run our
home and | know Turner will not
especially if coax him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Acton are still in their
honeymoon and are furnishing a cot
tage in the western part of Columbia.
They have been boarding since their
marriage with an aunt of the bride
groom on West Broadway.
yes, have seen old fellows so de-
crepit that they had to hobble around
oh SoACo Lddii y luS youuS gins, odS
Mrs. Acton, who is old enough to be
her own husbands grandmother, and
who, in fact, is grandmother, land
l have known marriages like that to
turn out unhappily, the wife seeking
men companions Of her own age.
But don't worry one minute about
my Turner l feel sure he loves me
just as much as love him. | know he
is trustworthy and honorable and I'm
not in the least afraid of his ever get
ting tired of me and running after
young girls.
Il don't see why our marriage
should have stirred up such a commo-
ton, Why, there's been a newspaper
man here almost every day and the
newspapers all over the country have
been writing about us. | even got a
letter from sister of mine in Fort
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-09

Worth, Tex, whom I hadn't heard
from in twenty years. Shed read of
the wedding.
III Turner and l wanted to get mar.
rled l don't see that anybody else
need bother about it. The marriage
was our affair. He didn't have any
home and neither did l, and we loved
each other. l don't think it makes a
particle of difference that I'm 60 and
he's not yet 20. Age hasn't anything
to do with love.
I'm sure he'll be good to me 40
long as | live and know I'll try to be
the best wife | can to him. IT'S q
pleasure now to fix his lunch for him
when he goes out for the days work
Thls was Mrs. Actions second mar
rage. She had been widow nearly
twenty years when she married how
boy bridegroom. Two sons are in tho
army, one now in the Philippines A
married daughter has one child, Mrs
Actions only grandchild.
She has property worth about 81 oOo
and veterans widows pension If
$l5 month. Her husband, who was
employed as caretaker by an elderly
rich man in Columbia, has given IN
nursing and gone back to his former
occupation, teaming. He has black
hair, broad shoulders, dresses iauntilv
and smokes cigarettes. But he never
takes drink, his wife and aunt both
say. VIVA
Mrs. Acton admits that she will, trv
to be financial adviser of the homo
for she says she has had wears of
experience in economizing and man
aging small income.
If Tnrnerll let me-and I'm euro
he w1ll--rll keep the money and Tn
save some of all we take in" she saws
Acton's aunt said to the renorter
while Mrs. Acton walked to the cato
with her husband. They act inst
like you would expect of newlyweds If
both were OF his age. They navar
seem to notice that she is so old and
he so young. Anyway, she's as active
as any girl I know
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-09
PHXSIcAL Drill UNDER ARH3

GERS mess and there in response to
q question from the superintendent
of the academy, he summarized his
opinion Of the days duties of the
cadets by paraphrasing the remark
of the Frenchman on one of the Cri
mean battletie!ds: It's magnificent,
but it's beastly grind"
Lord Roberts not long ago declared
that the United States school on the
Hudson Is the greatest military insti-
tuition in the world. The hero of Kan
dahar doubtless had made some study
of the records and Of averages, for
history shows that in the number OF
soldiers entitled to be called great,
West Point has turned out more than
all the military schools of the con-
tinent combined.
Obedience and discipline are the
foundation stones of the success of a
soldier, according to all the authori.
ties who Judge solely by results OBJ
tanned. DisobeGience of orders means
dismissal from the military academy,
Disobedience Of direct orders Is
thing practically unknown at the