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Show MANY VOLUNTEERS. " Just now there seems to be a decided inclination upon the -part of many of the young men subject to the draft to enlist in the regular army, navy or marine ma-rine corps without waiting any longer. This is the quickest method of getting into actual warfareand we are not surprised sur-prised that it is being utilized by so many eligibles. Between now and the fifteenth, when the work of drafting is resumed, many thousand volunteers will, be enrolled and in training. If we understand the situation correctly, the quotas of the states will not be reduced no matter how many men join the army or navy. The country needs all the soldiers sol-diers and sailors it can get, particularly the former, and the volunteers will be considered a clear pickup, so far as the government is concerned. But it does not make any great amount of difference, differ-ence, so far as we can see, for all the anie-Ludifd vr :yf: uien in tV co-jr,t:y 'vil! ( robaMv 're tal-a-n into the service if the. war lats as long a? some uf ti'.e uovernmcnl oiri-::i! are in'-'ined to be- '.kv. Sgnie ar' now e-vui in the ranks; others aye -vaiib1 to be called. Thoie who are certain o: the'r e!ig bil- itv are vobintceriiu.: in l.T-e numbers, an-1 CiK-ie Sam is Mire of a ercat armv. |