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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-06-15
TO ENLIST
THE COLLEGE MEN
Short TERN Service to Follow
Graduation--Prussia s Elk
perience as Example.

Washington June 13.--Maj Gen.
Leonard Wood. chief of staff of the L.
8. A.. is out with brand new plan to
recruit the cltizen scldiery of the ma
ton entirely apart from the national
guard. In brief, the plan Is to give all
college graduates at least the rudi
ments of a military training by an ac-
tual enlistment in the army for a term
OF six months or a year after gradua-
tiCn.
The scheme Is merely tentative as
yet, and whether the enlistment Of the
college men should be compulsory, by
act of Congress. or voluntary, has not
even been considered.
! General Wood points out that when.
in 1868, the army OF the South needed
men more than ammunition to prolons
the war with the North, the students
OF the Virginia Military Institute (oft-
er called the West Point of the SOUTH
marched out in \ body TO the support
of the confederaCy. The ages of these
young soldiers ranged from II TO Is
years. the majority OF them being
nearer IA than Is. The services they
rendered to Gen. Robert F. Lee and the
'lost cause" in Virginia forms one of
the brightest pages of the history OF
the civil War
| II is recalled that in 1906, when Napoleon
signed the treaty with the King Of Prus-
| sta. he unntentlally laid the foundation
! for an army of sturdy Prussians, which
was later to whip his almost invincihle
old guard Napoleon had thrashed the
Russians numerically in 1873, his army
| Irrr,G CT n
four winds. Then Napoleon thought he
would eliminate the Prussians from fur
Their participation in the wars to control
| Europe so in the treaty following the war
he stipulated that at no time was the
Prussian army to consist of more than
| 4oCM men.
General Scharmhorst, then head of the
| Prussian army, saw that If Napoleon
| should give the country to Prussia she
! could I'm a few wears turn out finished
army through the 1000 year enlist
ments' scheme Therefore General Scharn-
| horst simply made all enlistments to the
! Prussian army a year In length. In TINS
way he made almost finished soldiers OF
| practically the entire male population or
| Prussia.
So we'll did his scheme work that In
Isis, when the Germans met Napoleon
ut Waterloo. 10000 OF the Germans
were men who had several short-time
crlistmcnts in the Prussian army
The training they had thus received
aided them to whip the great Napo-
leon. who 10 years before had routed
and driven them to the four corners
| of the empire.
General Woods idea is to have every
young man as he graduates from col
lege enlist in the regular army under
special enlistment for six months or
year, the choice of the period to be
left to the recruit. These young men
a. to have their own organization
with tn exception of the officers.
Their service and discipline will be
the same as that of the regular troops
and will be in tho field.
| BY carrying out this plan General
Wood believes the United States would
soon have trained ctizen soldiery'
who would be htted to meet any emer-
] gency which might arise.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-06-15
Settlement of Five Months of
Controversy Calls for Expen.
diture of S257oOO,Oo0.
THREE TIMES PRESENT COST
Neither Company Gets All II
Wanted and Each Has to
Make Concessions to
the Other.

New York June 13-Five months ot
conference and controversy over new
suHWaVs IN Greater New York came 70
Il head to-day IN n plan which MAYOR
Tayhor declares is the largest matter
before any government in the world. ra-
uonal state or local. So far as I know.
at the present time" The bipaess Of tbo
project Is made most emphatic nv the
sum. $-5L6"lVo. that will be oxnonded
II the entire program Of new UNDER
ground bornings and elevated extensions
Is carried out. This IS more than three
times the amount spent on the prcsen,
subway system.
The report Of the subway committee
embodying the plan attempts to settle
the controversy by proposing n conf
promise by which neither tho Inter-
borough Rapid Transit company. which
operates the present subway. nor tho
Brooklyn Rapid Transit company which
has control of most Of the lines in the
Long Island portion of the greater city,
gets all II wanted The Interborouch
VIII have to conccde the brooklyn com
pany's invasion Of Manhattan. and the
brooklyn company will have to give
New Workers a five-cent fare to Cone.
Island
Inc lnterborough concessions are; A
subway on the east side. where mors
thousands live to the square mile than
perhaps on any other spot in the world.
tut winch has been without subway,
Tho proposed line will be via Lexington
avenue 70 the Bronx. Also a suhwaF
from AND street south through lower
west side VIA seventh avenue - tha
'attery; subway east from Lon-aore
square VIA and street and the hitherto
idIe otelnway tunnel giving the Inter-
borough line into Long Island city and
cueensporough'
Inc brooklyn Rapid Transit company
concessions are; a subway under tho
East river at l4th street Up Broadway
10 1-hu street, ana thehce 20 central fa'i-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-06-15
WHAT HAPPENED TO JONES.

Jones was at the theater, and behind
him sat a lady with "a child on her lap
which was crying increasingly.
Unable to stand IT any longer Jone'
turned smilingly to the lady and asked
HAS that infant of yours been christened
yet, ma'am?"
No, sir" replied the lady
IF l were you l would call II Good
idea,'" said Jones.
And why Good idea?'" said the lady
Indignantly.
Because" said Jones, ut should b(
carried out"
1t was Jones who had to be carried out
Baltimore Sun
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-06-15

Foley Kidney Pills contain just the in
gradients necessary to regulate and
strengthen the action OF the kidneys and
bladder, Try them yourself. j. W. OSulli-
van. "a Church Street, Stanley & Estey,
Ninooski.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-06-15
JOHNSON SUMMER SCHOOL.

The fifth annual summer session of
the johnson normal school will begin
July and extend three weeks. This is
distinct among the summer schools of the
State 1t is especially for the elementary
school teachers of the State, to whom no
tuition IS charged 1t is held In the same
place on successive years and the full
equipment of the school Is available. This
year the school is planned for practically
private instruction in school management.
rural work. music, drawing and manual
arts, English and subjects in which
teachers seem most generally to want
help.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-13
1T HAPPENED IN JANUARY.
Events of the Month That Have
Chanaed the Course Of History.

Changed the Course of History.
When Juan Diaz de Soils, cruising
down along the coast of South Ameri-
ca, discovered a new port on January
/, 1913, it was the height of tropic
summer, and he named the port Rio
Janeiro in honor of the day.
1t was on January 10, 1884, that Vas
co Nunez de Balboa came back to the
little town of Darien after he had dis
covered the Pacific ocean.
On January 26, 1888, the first COM
pany of English settlers sailed through
summer seas to Australia.
January has been rather an eventful
month for England in several different
ways. 1t was on January IS, 1886, that
Henry VII. married the Princess Eliza
beth. daughter of Edward ", and SO
ended the Wars of the Roses by join
ing the houses of York and Lancaster,
1t was on a January day that Henry
VIII. married beautiful Anne Boleyn
He died on January %. 1547. Twelve
years later, on January Is, 1853, his
daughter Elizabeth was crowned queen
Less than a hundred years after
Elizabeth came to the throne England
was to see for the first time in the
history of the world king beheaded
by his own subjects, for it was on
January 30 1649, that Charles Stuart
lost his life.
For hundreds of years this day was
kept in fasting and mourning by Roy
alists all over the world. On the other
hand, says the American Boy, some
of the descendants of the Puritans kept
it as a feast day. Many people still
living in this country remember eat
ing calfs head for dinner on January
30, though they do not always know
why it was done.
1t has been said that revolutions al
ways begin in summer, but Ivy an odd
freak of destiny both the kings who
have been victims of revolutions me;
their fate in January, for Louis XVI
of France was guillotined on the 2lst
of January, 1893.
In January. 1888, the last Charles
Stuart, Prince Charlie, who had landed
in Scotland more than forty years be-
fore tn fight gallantly To win back the
throne of Great Britain. died eXiled and
almost forgotten. an old man, in Rome
In the days when speaking pieces
was part nf the Friday afternoon pro-
gramme in every school many boy
began sOlemnly to recite THE Burial
of Sir John Moore" but very few OF
them had any idea who the hero was or
when his burial took place. He was in
the British army in America before
the end of the Revolution, he fought
against the Irish in 1898 and he was
killed fighting Napoleon in Spain at
the battle of Corunna, January 16. 1909
So it was on a January night that his
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-13
FRENCH FISH STORY.
Three Days Carnival of Marpisnon's
Intrepid Anglers.

Though their lakes and ponds are
few and their rivers comparatively
destitute Of fish, the French people are
extremely fond of angling. Indeed,
nervous and excitable as the average
Frenchman may be, he is content to
sit by stream with a pole and wait
all day for bite.
In a certain country town not far
from Paris there existed fishing club
named the Intrepid Fishers Of Marp-
ignon. A pretty stream goes through
Marpignon, but for many years not
one fish had been seen in this stream,
from which circumstances, it follow
ed, the Intrepid Fishers had little to
do says Harper's Weekly.
The excitement may be imagined,
therefore, when the word ran through
Marpignon that a large barbel-a
tough and gamy fish-had been seen
in the stream. The Intrepid Fishers
turned out and, having ascertained
that there was indeed a barbel in the
stream, Immediately stopped the wa
ter some little distance above and be-
low him with gratings so that he
could not get away.
Then they ranged themselves joy
fully along the stream with hook and
line, and all went to fishing for the
one fish.
BY and by one Intrepid Fisher
caught him and Immediately threw
him back into the water In the
course of time another caught him
and did the same.
For three days one veracious ac-
count has it the Intrepid Fishers kept
at work catching this one barbel, and
at the end of that time the fish died
of exhaustion and loss of blood. Then
the Intrepid Fishers counted up the
notches that they had made on their
fish poles. and the man who had
caught the barbel the most times was
declared the champion fisherman OF
Marpignon and received great honors'
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-13
How spartanburs Was Named.-Mr

How Spartanburg Was Named.-Mr
G. B. White of Chester, has recently
addressed a letter to the State, giving
an interesting version of how Spartan
burg got it's name. In his communlca-
ton he says:
I notice in the State of yesterday
that when the party that recently WIS.,
tied Cincinnati on the first Carolina
Special was asked: Where did Spar
tanburg get its name?" Mr.. Meek, one
of the party, suggested, as the best eX-
planation, that the city took its name
from the Spartan spirit shown by GEN.
eral Morgan whose statue stands IN
Spartanburg.
I believe there is a better answer to
this question:
|, At the beginning of the Revolution
regiment was organized under the
name of the Spartan regiment This
regiment, which was made up largely
of men who lived in what is now Spar
tanburg county, served through the
Revolutionary war, engaging in most
of the battles in upper South Carolina.
John Thomas, who lived on Fairfax
creek, in what is now Spartanburg
county, was the first colonel OF the
Spartan regiment. He was captured
at an early stage of the war and I'M
prisoned at NinetySX He had seven
sons and three sons-in-law, who serV-
ed in this regiment. His eldest son,
John Thomas, served first as a captain
and afterward succeeded his father as
colonel.
Capt. McJunkin was a sOn-in-law OF
the first Col. John Thomas. DR.. Jos. II.
Save of Sharon, one of York county, s
present legislators, is a descendant OF
Col. Thomas, through Mrs McJunkin.
The town of Roebuck. SpartanDurg
county. was named in honor of Capt.
Roebuck, who was a captain in the
Spartan regiment. Senator Howard b.
Carlisle of Spartanburg is descend
ant of a sister Of Capt. ROebuck.
believe Spartanburg was named in
honor of this famous Spartan regl-
ment. Can any person give a better
explanation?
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-13

the old campaign hat, too, and substi-
tute the mounted police hat" which
has a lower crown, and a wider brim
and Is more comfortable. With 1t goes
the individual housewife" The COM
pany will carry a kit for mending for
the entire outfit. A neckerchief Is to
be made part Of the uniform. Officers
will not carry their sabers in the field.
And tobacco and soap will be made
part of the ration.
Most of this great relief to the s'-
dier who fights on foot Is due to the
untiring efforts Of the officers who
make up the United States Infantry
association, which was organized some
years ago. Its president is Lieutenant
General John c. Bates, Brigadier Gen.
eral Clarence R. Edwards is vice pres
ident and Major George H. Shelton,
is secretary and treasurer. Its men,
bership includes the officers in all the
infantry regiments Of the United States
and most of the National Guard regi-
ments in similar service in all the
states. The association, publishes the
Infantry Journal, magazine in the
forefront of the military profession
and regarded as one Of the authorities
on the work Of the foot soldier.-New
York World.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-13

friends went through that weird cere-
money and left him alone in his glory"
A little more than 200 years ago, on
January 81, 1907, the Great Mogul died,
the last of the Moguls of India. Today
his name is only a proverb, for people
still say "as rich as the Great Mogul,"
but during his lifetime the tales that
were told of his thrones crusted with
precious stones, his treasure chambers
full of gold and diamonds, emeralds,
rubes, sapphires, were not only won-
derful but true.
The French jeweler Tavernier saw
and handled some of these jewels and
it is supposed that the Great Mogul
diamond was split and recut and that
part of it is now the Kohinoor of the
British crown jewels. The Great Mo-
gul ate from golden dishes and drank
from a cup of carved rock crystal, and
one of his thrones was completely COW
cred with diamonds.
All through January in 1852 there
was a great frost in England, and 1t is
said that the ice on the Thames was
five feet thick. On January q, 1900,
a great storm swept over a part of
England and blew down what was
known as King Johns Castle at Old
Ford, near Bow.
The union of Great Britain and Ire
land took place on January 7, 1901, and
we probably owe to this great part of
the early Irish population of the Unit
ed States, since many patriotic Irish
men rather than yield to the hated
power Of England betook themselves
to America. On January 13, 1S47, the
Young Ireland party formed the Irish
Federation" which enrolled a hundred
and fifty thousand men, and the re-
suits of this struggle against England,
together with the famine year, brought
another great Irish migration to our
shores.
January has the credit Of still anoth-
er event, which has changed the worlds
history and which happened in our own
country. Gold was discovered in Cali
fornia January IA, 1S4S. Seven years
later, on January 27. 1855, the Panama
railroad was opened and got it's share
of the gold of the returning Califor-
mans and the gold seekers who had
money enough for travel by that route.
And the first telegraph was estab-
lished January 6, 1874, and the first
penny post and postage stamps in the
world came into being in England jan
uary 10. 1910.
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"A ss*A ss*A sS*A s*A ROSA s*A se*A ssssA s*A
-. T H E -.
FORTUNE HUNTER.
Novelized by Louis Joseph Vance
From the Play of the Same Name
by Winchel Smith ~
Copyright WncheI Smith and Louis Joseph Vance
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why, no; of course l don't"
Then why don't you stop it?" Sh'
watched his face, her manner coy ant
yielding. Nat" she said in a softer
voice, IF you like me as well as like
you
| He moved away a pace or two
"Ah, child" he said, with a feeling
that the term was not misappliec
somehow, you don't know what you're
saying!"
Yes, do" she pouted. Il don't be.
lieve you care anything about me-"
"Oh, Josie, please
well, anyway you've never told me
So" She turned an indignant shoulder
to him.
How could To-
why couldn't you?"
But don't you see that l shouldn't
Josie?" He turned back to her side
| looked down at her, pleaded his de-
fense with the fire of desperation
Just think, you are an only daugh-
| ter"-just what this had to do with
the case was not plain even to him
| IAN only daughter" he repeated-"ah
not only your fathers only daughter
out your mothers only daughter
Your father-ah-is my friend. How
unfair it would be to him to-
But the girl interrupted with deci-
sion. But papa wants you to. He
told me So"
He could only pretend not to under
stand. But consider, Josie. You are
rich, an heiress. I'm a poor man
Would you like it to be said l was
after your money!"
NO one would dare say such a
thing" she asserted, with profound
conviction.
"Oh, yes, they would! You don't
know the world as l do. And for al
you know they might be right. How
do you know that
Nat" A catch in her voice stopped
him. Don't say such horrid things!
l could tell-a woman always can.
know you would be incapable of such
thing. Papa knows it too. No one
has ever got ahead of papa, and he
says you are fine, steady, Christian
man and he would rather see me your
wife than any
"Josie!"
The interjection was so imperative
that she was silenced. Why, what
| Nat?" she asked rising.
The time has come" he declared
You must know the truth
"Oh, Natl"
I'm not what you think me-" he con-
tinued dramatically.
oh, Natl"
Nor what your father thinks me, nor
what anybody else in this town thinks
me. I'm not a regular Christian-it's
all a bluff. l didn't know anything
about a church till l came here.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-13

ham to turn on all the light that
way" she simpered. Somebody else
might We SEEN"
YES" agreed the young man, hall
distracted, but of course l daren't
turned them off again"
Never mind. We can wait" Josie
blushed. I'll just sit here and wait
We can talk till Tracey comes, and
then you can walk home with me-"
Yes, thatll be NICE" he agreed, but
without absolute ecstasy.
Fortunately for him, in his temper
of that moment, Pete Willing reeleo
into the shop two-thrds drunk, with
his face smeared with blood from q
cut on his forehead.
"Scuse me-" he muttered huskily
kin I see you a minute, doc?"
He reeled and almost fell-would
have fallen had not Duncan caught
his arm and guided him to a chair
Great Scott, Pete" he cried. Whats
happened to you?"
M wife" Pete explained thickly.
ITO be Continued
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-13
Military Punishments.

In times past the military code was
no less stern and uncompromising than
the civil. Sentence of death was read
lily decreed and as promptly executed.
Where Offenses multiplied and whole
sale executions would have weakened
the army numerically, decimation-the
slaughter of every tenth man-was the
rule, or the troops gambled for their
lives by casting dice upon drumhead
or drawing lots under the gallows
tree
Lesser penalties, not capital, but
physical, and causing pain with per-
manent degradation, were manning,
branding the cheek or forehead, bor-
ing the tongue, or cutting the nose
and ears These last named were re-
tained upon the military statute book
until the reign of Queen Anne. The
"trappado" was a fiendish device by
which delinquent was hOisted on high
by a rope fastened to his arms, and
then dropped down by a sudden jerk
that often dislocated his shoulders.
Hanging by the thumbs, sometimes
called "picketing." was also practiced;
while the body was raised to such a
height and its whole weight rested on
one toe, and that again on a sharp
| pointed spike.
To ride the wooden horse" was to
he mounted on a raZor-edge, with
weights fastened to the eXtremities.
Running the gantlet, or ''gantelope.
was as old as Cromwcllian army, and
| it is thus described in an army order
about 1919: The culprts (who had
been guilty of blasphemy as well as
deer stealing) were To be stripped
naked from the waist upward, and a
| lane made by half the lord generals
regiment of foot and half Colonel
Pride's. with every man cudgel in
his hand. They were to he run through
| in this posture, so that every soldier
might have stroke at their naked
| backs, breast or arms, wherever 1t
might alight." ."-Tit-Bits.
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smoke. and l drink, and l swear, and
1 gamble, and l only cut them all out
in order to trick you into caring for
me-"
"Oh, Nat, don't believe it,"
Alas, JOSIE" he protested violently,
its true, only too true"
But you did it to win my love.
Nat?"
"Ye-es." He saw suddenly that he
had made a fatal mistake.
Then. Nat, will be your wife in
spite of all"
He found himself suddenly caught
about the neck by the girls arms.
His head was drawn down until her
cheek caressed his and he felt her lips
warm upon his own.
"Josie!" he gasped.
Nat. my darling"
With a supreme effort he pulled him.
self together and embraced the girl.
Josie" he said earnestly, Tin 60
ing to try to he a good husband to you.
And that" he concluded, sotto voce,
wasn't in the agreement
She held him to her passionatcly.
Dearest, I'm 50 glad!"
1T makes me very happy to know
YOU are, JOSIE" he murmured misera-
bly,, and to himself while she still
trembled i'm his embrace: What cur
YOU are. But l won't renege now.
I'll play my hand out on the square
with her"
UpOn this tableau there came sud-
den intrusion. The back door opened,
and Graham came in, Kellogg at his
heels. II was the voice of the latter
that told the two they were discoV-
cred, a hearty Hello. What's this?
that rang in Mats cars like the trump
of doom.
In a flash the girl disengaGed her
self, and they were yard apart 10y
the time that Graham, laundering in
his surprise, managed to turn on the
lights at the switchboard. But even
i'm the full glare of them he seemed
unable to credit his sight. why,
Nat" he quavered, coming out toward
the guilty pair why. Matt"
Duncan took a long breath and Jo-
sizes hand at one and the same time.