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The Colorado statesman., 1911-09-23
Army is Given Praise for Temperance

n He standard of temperance In the
4 army. for both officers and men,
is exceptionally high, and is not ex-
ceeded in the other walks OF life, un-
less in the church and among railroad
employees" says Major General Fred
erick ID. Grant in a report to the war
Department. while the soldier makes
a favorable showing in this connec-
tion. in comparison with men in other
vocations. General Grant, as command
er of the department of the east dur
ing the last fiscal year, found never
theless that the chief cause OF court
martial trials was indulgence in alco-
holic drinks There was remark
able decrease, he adds, in the number
of trials by military courts in the de-
partment last year as compared with
The previous IL months.
Army surgeons are urging the war
department to act with greater
promptness in discharging soldiers for
physical disability, instead of trying
to patch up worthless men for duty
which they cannot properly perform
The chief surgeon of the department
of the east has called attention to
some specific instances where soldiers
transferred to recruiting depots with
The Colorado statesman., 1911-09-23
Two sWidows" of Soldier File Claims

home and lived with his wife and two
daughters until he left for Ensenada,
Lower California.
On the trip that ended In his muir
der, the Woods woman, 1t is under
stood, followed him into Mexico and
was living with him near Alamo at
the time he and three other Amer
leans were slain in a most heartless
manner Until the time of the murder
and the filing of double claims DR..
Fosters relatives In the east knew
nothing of the kind of life he was lead
Ing in the west.
The summary arrest and almost i'm
mediate killing of DR.. Foster and
three other Americans named Duphois,
Carroll and Patrick Brennan. has led
to a situation that presages bitter
fight in Washington. DR.. Foster and
the three other Americans were in
prison at Alamo and the doctor was
compelled to treat hv wounded
brought to that city. Among others he
dressed the wounds of Gen. Simon
Berthold, of the rebel army. Later he
was ordered shot by General Verga
and was killed while riding on horse
back to what he was told was another
prison. All four men We're shot in tne
back and thrown into a shallow hole
and covered with rubbish
The Colorado statesman., 1911-09-23
1 vvO

III WO women, each claiming to be hiq
1 widow, and both living in Los An
geles, Cal, have filed claims through
Philander C. Knox, secretary of state,
for indemnity for the murder of Dr.
Arthur Livingston Wilson Foster, at
Alamo. Mexico, in June. One OF the
women. Mrs. A. l.. w. Foster, has filed
her claim through DR.. Fosters step
father, Colonel Foster of Newark. N.
J. The other, Mrs. Elizabeth l.. Woods.
has lodged her claim through her at
torney, e. e. Kirk, for 100000,
Mrs. A w. L. Foster claims she
was married to DIR, Foster shortly
after he graduated from Hahnemann
college, in Philadelphia, and that they
lived together until 1904, when they
went to California. There Dr. Foster
met Mrs. Woods and spent some time
with her. though he never sought a
divorce and was never legally married
TO the woman. Later he returned
The Colorado statesman., 1911-09-23

a view to their discharge had been
held under observation and treatment
for several months.
"One case" he says, diagnosed
'neuritis' remained 21S days; another
'ununited fracture 161 days; still an
other hammer toes 12S days. When
1t is recalled that these men were
probably on sick report at their posts
an average of 90 days before being
recommended for discharge. 1t is rea-
sonable to estimate that the govern
ment lost by the present plan with
these cases alone the equivalent OF
the services of an effective soldier for
more than an entire enlistment.
"The army is neither an eleemoosy-
nary institution nor place for the
physically inefficient. and such should
not be kept in it to the exclusion oi
fit soldiers"
The Colorado statesman., 1911-09-23
Great Expense of White House Upkeep

and cupboards, was built in one end
OF the storeroom on the ground floor.
A new telephone system was installed.
and the furniture throughout the
house was repainted or rubbed down
while tAe president was at Beverly.
Not the least part of the work of the
office of public buildings and grounds
was the part taken In social functions.
During the year the office worked on
four state dinners. ten small dinners,
four musicales, two dances. two balls,
four garden parties, and the presi-
dents silver wedding anniversary. AT
each of these functions the Office was
required to see that proper decora-
tions we're In order and to provide ad-
ditional help to carry the affair to
success.
Five hundred dollars was paid for
telegraph connections between the
executive Offices and the Capitol and
the public printing Office. The monu-
ment and wharf at Wakefield. Va. the
birthplace of George Washington. also
come under the head of public build
ings and grounds, and a watchman Is
employed the year round to see that
the grounds are kept in repair. Re
pairs to the grounds during the year
cost $44.25. The house where Abra-
ham Lincoln died. in Tenth street, be-
tween e and F street northwest, also
is kept up by the government. and
S1S2.34 was expended during the fiscal
year in repairs.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-09-23
ers and that mistake crept into the

ers and that mistake crept into the
game code.
Vermont pleased the sportsmen
when it barred claims of damages to
the crops of landowners who post"
their property Vermont also abol-
ished the alien license. and in West
Virginia and Delaware the resident
need no longer take out license to
hunt any game. 1t is astonishing to
learn by inference that Massachusetts,
expects to number wild turkeys
among its game birds They are grow
ing very scarce, even in Virginia. Ne
braska now allows boys under is to
hunt without license If accompanied
by parent or guardian. Idaho exempts
veterans of the Civil war from III
cense requirements" A bear license
is now necessary in Wyoming. 1t has
been the fashion to pay a liberal boun-
ty for bruins pelt.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-09-23
Hobo, Aged seven, Rides "elind."

Louisville, Ky. - Seven-year-old Al
bert Kittler, badly burned by cinders
and nearly exhausted, was taken from
the "blind baggage" of passenger
train here after tramping all the way
from st. Louis. He came in on fast
train.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-09-23
pos.office Robbed of $4,000.

Sioux Falls, S. D.-A $4,000 pack
age of currency mysteriously disap-
peared from the Sioux Falls postof'
flee and has not yet been recovered.
Evening star., 1911-08-27

through the grades. as in the case oi
post houses, which increase in size ant
elaboration as an officer is promoted.
And at the same time that he Is sepa-
duty in Washington, for example-the
second lieutenant also receives a monthly
allowance for gas bills and coal, which
the nearest .quartermaster may furnish
him at slight reduction on the CONNER
cial rate.
If mounted officer, owning his horse.
he is allowed $50 year for its keep
500 If he provides two steeds AT his own
expense. And while he serves in the
Philippines or elsewhere outside the
United States. except in Porto Rico or
Hawaii he is allowed a 10 per cent in
crease in his regular salary.
If he dies in the line of duty his widow
will receive a half of his next years
unearned pay. besides a service pension
of from $12 to SIS per month as long
as she lives. And wherever he dies ne
will be entitled to a free funeral. with
doleful music, bang of guns and
But despite these various perquisites,
the officer who has neither nest egg
of his own nor a rich spouse 10 heip
pay the bills soon faces the realization
that the social standards of living are
more extravagant at army posts than IN
priyate life Even the bachelor subaltern
must make continual return for the con-
slant round OF entertainment which he
receives at the post club. Uniforms are are
a considerable drain upon his purse. for
he has to maintain a complete civilian
o,,tfit in addition. Then the repeated
moyings from post to post to which
officers are subjected prove to be tax
upon their purses. for as the old adage
has it, three movings are as bad as
fire.
The married officer at frontier posts or
upon foreign duty finds no proper schools
for his children. who must be placed In
boarding schools, at a cost of from SOD
TO 81, 1000 apiece per annum such ex-
Evening star., 1911-08-27

band thrown in-young man, hankeretn
thou for these?
II dost, sit Up now and take lively no.
tice-likewise nota bene. For IL you are
still enjoying single blessedness and are
neither under one-and-twenty, nor above
one score and seven: II you can stretch
up to ftve feet four in your naked feet
and tip the beam In accordance with
your stature; II you can exhibit a chest
bellows that has q manly circumference
and expansion-why. for aught that you
know. you may be one of the $50 lucky
fellows upon whom will now be heaped
the honors and glories of such a pictur-
esque career.
AZ result Of the recent increase OF
that service the army now finds itself
short Of over 15O more second lieutenants
than West Point can supply. So to fill
these vacancies appointments will have
to be made from enlisted men In the
ranks and from eligible young men in
civil life.
On September s the final examination
for all candidates will be held at the
various military posts throughout the
country, and II you are . citizen Of the
Evening star., 1911-08-27

ancies still remain, those making be-
tween .75 and 50 will be accommodates
in the order Of their averages. Eligibles
who have never been to military schools
or served in the militia will be assigned
Immediately to posts where they will be
broken in to tactics and the handling
Of troops.
So much for the labyrinthine route by
which the civilian may win his way to
the goal.
Whether the game is worth the candle
is a question for you to look well into.
Take first the question of glory. Very
little of that will gloss the soldiers career
unless he participates in war. The police
man has little chance for fame where all
is piety and virtue and the fireman earns
no glory where everything is fireproof.
Nor can the soldier win the bubble reputa-
ton in the mouth of the cannon spiked
with treaties OF arbitration.
That a great war is sure to come to us
is the cry of military men. whose pay roll
is guaranteed only by this fear. and of
politicians representing constituencies
largely controlled by armament mongers
or other opulent producers of commodities
needed for the constant preparation for
war.
But against these jingoes are aligned
the inventor. who Is fast preparing for
war that is too terrible to be possible;
Evening star., 1911-08-27

United States answering the require
ments specified-also some more In the
bargain-now, perhaps, Is your chance
to add a military handle to your name
and to earn-suitabe for framing and
hanging upon the wall-an engraved COM
mission signed by the President of the
United States, also o. k.'d by the Senate
thereof.
In the filling of these vacancies-accord-
ing to the law and the prophets-prefer-
ence over the man in civil life must be
given to the soldier in the ranks II the lat
ter's Fitness for promotion shall have
been determined by competitive exam
nation" But the chances in this excep-
tional year appear to be that 15O civilians
will be needed after the men who work
up from the ranks have qualified. SO
there now are exceptional opportunities
for our young men who have never shoul-
dered a musket or fiourished saber in
the paid service Of the u. S. A.
There are lots of ins and outs to be un-
derstood before you can get even SO far
as the examination room The first step
is the filing of an application with the ad-
jutant general of the army at Washing
ton This done, you are merely an ZAP
plicant for designation and it rests with
the War Department whether or not to
grant you the status of candidate for
examination" Your application must
state your date Of birth. citizenship, mar
ital status and the branch of the service
in which you aspire to become an officer
whether the infantry, cavalry, field or
coast artillery. Then if your statement
IS satisfactory you will be authorized to
report for examination at some military
post as near to your home as the depart
ment can arrange.
The course of sprouts through which you
must now be put will depend upon the
Evening star., 1911-08-27
Kniqhts Outknighted.

@ ENATOR LA TOILETTE. at pic
- mic in Madison, was praising a
young Milwaukee couple that had just
got married.
They'll have a rather hard time or
il. too" he said. thoughtfully, with
prices at the height they are, ana
Bert's salary in the office so ridicu-
lous"
The senator laughed gayly.
"a girl" he continued, ''once lifted
her head from her young mans bosom
and murmured:
".If il were but possible. in these
prosaic days. for you to do something
heroic, something brave and knight
".Why, gracious goodness cried the
young fellow. 'ain't l goin' to marry
you next month on a salary OF eight
PERI
Evening star., 1911-08-27

this examination yield better dividends il
invested in a more peaceful career?
Your salary during your first five years
as second lieutenant would remain at
81, 100 year, or S141.67 per month. At
the end of the five years you would re-
ceive a 10 per cent increase, raising the
total to 81 ,S55.SS per year. A year or two
later, in the ordinary course of events,
you would be promoted to the grade of
first lieutenant, drawing 5000 during
your first five years. $2.1S333 during
your second five years and $500 during
your third five years in this rank, at
which you are under present arrange
ments, liable to stick for from ten to
fifteen years.
In other words, twenty years hence.
when you are along in your forties or
perhaps mighty near to your fiftieS you
will probably be entitled to only $500
year. Even upon becoming a captain
you will get only S2,40O to begin with.
and when you are a major and lieutenant
colonel you can start out with only
$1,000 and $500. If things continue to
drift along as now you will be within
few years of your forced retirement
when you attain the rank Of colonel,
Evening star., 1911-08-27

penses leave a very small margin, IL anys
for life insurance, that they may be pro-
vided for above the pension pittance, that
would not supply their widowed mothers
with pin money.
Yet the career is secure and leisureiy.
promising extraordinary social advan-
tages. Every army officers wife is ex-
pected to call. at least once a year. upon
every other military matron in her COM
munity, and these opportunities OF meet
ing people are further enhanced by the
constant changes of post Even II he has
s., 500 when he is still captain. past fifty.
the army officer usually shows his wife
and family the breadth of the world. II
not its length.
These social advantages account in large
part for the exalted ego OF some men and
women of the army and navy sets.
Yes. my dear. they are all right-for
civilians the wife of an officer at one
of our posts was lately overheard to say.
But outside the pale of the post itself the
glimmer of the sword and straps and the
glitter Of the braid and buttons do not
blind the civilian to his sense OF propor-
tions. especially in these times OF peace.
Except during periods of war. worship or
the soldier is almost wholly feminine.
commencing i'm the kitchen and ending in
the boudoir. Moreover. ii is the growing
temper of the taxpayer to regard tha
military man as only a necessary evils
fast approaching the status of an un-
necessary burden, and the young citizen
who by next months competition sudden-
ly finds himself metamorphosed into a
gaudy subaltern should grid on his trusty
blade in full appreciation of the fact that
no civilian outside of knickerbockers or
petticoats will stand in any awe OF him
whatsoever until he proves his mettle In
the fast narrowing field of his endeavors
Copyright. lslI by John Elfrcth watkinsD
Evening star., 1911-08-27

A ND Now Is Your Chance
"A of a Lifetime, If You
Hanker for the Glitter of an
Officers Career-No Matter
Whether You Have Ever
Touched Musket or Sword or
Not, if You Have Sufficient
Education Uncle Sam Will
Soon Teach You Tactics
After You Have Been Com
Observation-Disclosures of Uni
versities and Military Schools
Preferred-Just What to Do
to Get INA Secure and
Leisurely Career, With Ex-
traordinary Social Advan-
tages Guaranteed and the
Probabilities of Danger Fast
Diminishing-But P ponder
Well on Whether It's a
Career That VIII Pay-Sal-
ary Fair to Begin With, But
Increase Slow Till Middle
Life-Plenty of Perquisites.
Also Expenses-Examination
to Be Held September s.
Only Bachelors Wanted.
Evening star., 1911-08-27

is even the remote possibility of reaching
a lieutenant generalship at $1,000
Then there are perquisites to be con-
sdered While on service at a military
post as he is liable to be, the second
lieutenant has his shelter. fuel and light
furnished absolutely free, also the medi-
cal and dental attention of himself and
family and, In some cases, even his ice.
If unattached-as he must be upon en-
tering through this civilian examination
he begins post life in bachelor quarters
a two-room and bath apartment. probably
in the officers club building.
But when he marries he is assigned to
"lieutenant's house." which-at the
modern POSTS semi-detached cottage
with three family chambers on the second
floor and two servants bedrooms on the
third besides a snug arrangement of
parlor. reception hall, dining room and
kitchen below.
Evening star., 1911-08-27
NnecdOfe6 COncelhi
Well-knOWn PEOPLE.
II Will Mend.

EX-GOv. PENNYPACKER, I'm an ads
L. dress that was both kind and witty
said in Philadelphia of the divorce evils
There would be less divorce If there
were more forgiveness. We forgive our
enemies-would 1t be SO dreadful to for-
give our husbands and our wives?
II have been reading a play BY y
Frenchman-Heivieus 'Connaistoi-I wish
we turned out such plays In this coun-
try-and in the last act OF this play an
old soldier says a profoundly beautiful
thing about those husbands and wives
who forgive.
Happiness he says. is SO precious
to some of US that, when IL is broken
We stoop and gather up the pieces"
Evening star., 1911-08-27
"If at First"

uIULES vEDRINES lost to Conneau the
J Daily Mail prize OF $4,000" said .
member of the New York Aero Club,
but Vedrines will win some splendid
prizes yet. He's not the man to be disc
couraged by a failure or two.
AT a luncheon at the Savoy in LonS
don a day or two after the Daily Mail
contest Vedrines said:
Failure acts on me like a tonic. n
spurs me on to harder work
Then, with a smile, he added:
Success. after all. il only failure with
Q better motor and q new chassis.'"
Evening star., 1911-08-27
Wouldn't Last Today.

A PROPOS Of fragrant piece OF polfti-
"A cal corruption. Senator Borah said
the other day:
''Diogenes went round for years with
a lantern looking for an honest man. In
this era il he attempted the same course.
somebody would steal his lantern the
first day."
Evening star., 1911-08-27

an "honor graduate" Such of these as
pass the examination will be given the
first commissions, and after them will
be favored all graduates of schools and
colleges Essentially military and. all
young men having had three years cred
liable service in some state militia who
have passed. The remaining competitors
who have made .85 or more will next be
appointed, after which, If any lieuten-
Evening star., 1911-08-27

the economist, who is convincing the
voter that war is too expensive relic of
barbarism, and the beneficent statesman,
who is binding rival powers with treaties
of peace and arbitration. As one of our
army officers lately complained, our only
probable wars will be little affairs not
productive of great military regulations
cate and ruminate Is this: Would all the
time, labor and money represented in the
education required of civilians passing
Evening star., 1911-08-27

with initial salary of $4,000. Then you
will be retired as brigadier general at
$500 for the remainder of your life.
It must be added, however. that by the
sifting-out system of enforced retirements
the army hopes to greatly relieve this
stagnation, and if this proves a success
there will be better chance for the
civilian who now earns lieutenancy in
his early twenties to become a brigadier
on the active list at $1,000, or even q
major general at $1,000. OF course, there
Evening star., 1911-08-27

] j i j. Il b Q I o r e
your name. pre-
eminence In the IA
vor of milady fair,
a career Of fuss
and feathers, brass
buttons and gold
lace; the guaran-
tee of q home and
salary. SO long as
you shall live hon.
orably. and. when
you die, a free fu-
neral with a brass
Evening star., 1911-08-27

Serving away from post he is allowed
Communication for quarters" amounting
to $12 per month per room with a maxi
mum allowance of two rooms. or $24 per
month. which. when he becomes first
lieutenant. is increased to three-room
maximum, or $36 per month. and SO on up
Evening star., 1911-08-27

V VF
Bluff Won't Ca
BY Her
You what you can't hold. You hustle to
cufhuin-t,en tussLe to
you improve lot must improve yourself
You'll develop into sprinter by riding in ,phee
long you pushed forward you'll make
bweaje record.
by proxy Influence is only crutch strong
unea1zza1Lk alone.
You slipped head of the line but fast
there you can't last there Men sometimes arripe but
suruipe through fauorhism accident
yourself secure securing footon where
you=cant hold your footing
stay the grandstand don't belong there
The best all eseruedhe real Always
along and shows his ticket
Bluff will occasionally carry YOU but won't carry you
through.
No cheat did beat the Game of Life You
have definite sufficient ability to develop and
enough purpose to complete it.
The lions skin only sguises the until he brays. You
may temporarily deceive by claiming qualities that don't
but well know what when what do
Evening star., 1911-08-27

Every year certain of the big military
schools and colleges. having professors
from the regular army, designate each
Evening star., 1911-08-27

BY john ELFRETH WATKINS.
Evening star., 1911-08-27

Kaufman ~
You can't hide your actual self it's bound to show when
you're show No matter how much front you put
we're certain to learn the real man inside.
Makeup isn't permanent Exaggerated assumptions like
false con,plexons off and betray the "ska
You're fraud when you undertake than you quail
fled undergo. Conce isn't confidence isn't couyaee
The seller of seruice like other merchant the
honest value of his Don't auertise what dee
You may be blind to your faws but we'll them.
Search your weaknesses and your faults before
reject you.
Hammer yourself shape before you're hammered Of
shape trying achieve something for which you're fitted
This practical hardheaded suspicious world and the older
tgrows the less it accepts on hearsay
We discount every mans opinion of himself.
you're "aN wool and yard ud the acid of skepti-
will tell that you're shoddy and observation will furnish
your
Styles gopernnents religions and constantly
changing but the of aays the
neither Time times alter it.
Work, Work, WORK, WORK. WORK!
Evening star., 1911-08-27

TITLE before
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-29
The High Cost of Living.

II of do gravity?
household
cerned habit cttce the middle
attribute all them The bear their
Modern retail business not conducted along the same
lines it dozen The
housewife longer journeys to the
delivery
charged delivered her back
If
the fruit is of 1t have been r1pend arucay
cold by commission who
his
Look How today
shine shoes? How who live blocks
Twice number local lines
The who "handmedown' suit
the object Of derison He made
Who vaudeville
around the
groceries and
torres
electric lights. jantor
a Where
family would with the good old days when
pitcher order
What of
oldfashoned
factors and 1T high But
those