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There are many traditions and time-honored time-honored customs at the West Point military academy which are held sacred sa-cred by the cadets of that ideal school for soldiers, but it is doubtful If there is another custom as religiously kept as that of hazing, writes William E. Curtis in an article on the military academy. There has always been more or less hazing at West Point and there always will be as long as boys will be boys, although Col. Mills, the present superintendent, has succeeded in sup- pressing the practice which has prevailed pre-vailed there for several years of compelling com-pelling the freshmen to undergo physical phys-ical texercises at the orders of me sophomores and upper class men. It is difficult to find a cadet of any class of getting back to her tribe left her. Several days passed, and then the little Apache girl, with the doll still in her possession, was sent back to her people. When the child reached the Indians with the pretty doll in her chubby hands It made a great sensation sensa-tion among them, and the next day the mother came with the child to the post. She was kindly received and hospitably hos-pitably treated, and through her the tribe was persuaded to move back to the reservation. The Ket Purpose of War. , What is the net purpose and upshot of jvar? To my own . knowledge, for who in his solicitude for the welfare of the institution does not defend hazing haz-ing as necessary for the proper training train-ing and discipline of new cadets wnen they enter the academy. They claim that if promotes the esprit du corps and the democratic spirit of equality; that It tamest bullies, develops the courage cour-age of the timid, restrains those who are too active, stimulates those who lack energy and corrects faults that cannot be cured in any other way. It is principally applied to those who are vain or "fresh"; those who assume airs of superiority, and those who are careless about their dress, uncouth in their manners, slouching in their postures pos-tures and indifferent to the welfare of others. The military academy is a little republic where the doctrine of equality Is enforced with more care and zeal than in any other, institution I know. A cadet who presumes upon the fame of his name, the wealth or social position posi-tion of his family or his own talents, is toned down to the level of the average, while those who come from the soil and the slums, as cadets have come.are toned up to the standard of gentlemen. These results are actually aecomplish- example, there dwell and toil, in the British village of Dumdrudge, Usually some five hundred souls. From these there are successively selected, during the French war, say thirty able-bodied men. Dumdrudge, at her own expense, ex-pense, has suckled and nursed them; she has not without difficulty and sorrow, sor-row, fed them up to manhood and even trained them to crafts, so that one can weave, another build, and another hammer, and the weakest can stand under thirty stone avoirdupois. Nevertheless, Nev-ertheless, . amid much weeping and swearing, they are selected; all dressed dress-ed in red and shipped, away, at the public charges, some two thousand miles, or say only to the south of Spain; and fed there until wanted. And now to that same spot, in the south of Spain, are thirty similar French artisans, from a French Dumdrudge, Dum-drudge, in like manner wending, till at length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway Straight-way the word "Fire!" is given; and they blow the souls out of, one another; an-other; and in place of sixty brisk, use- ed by comrades who sometimes allow their enthusiasm and zeal to obscure their judgment and lead them Into excesses. ex-cesses. Then we hear of it through the newspapers. But the transformation of an awkward, uncouth "plebe" into an erect and graceful soldier is generally accomplished quietly within the quadrangle quad-rangle and the barracks, screened from public observation, and is due quite as much to the training of his comrades as the teaching of his instructors. The result is apparent to everyone who has had the opportunity to inspect a squad of plebes at the hour of their entrance and afterward at the grand review at the close of their first year at the academy. acad-emy. There are two kinds of hazing, physical and " moral. The latter ;s known here as "deviling,"and although it is not forbidden by the regulations it generally tries the soul of a cadet more than the physical exercises ordered by ful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury and anew shed tears for. Carlyle, in Sartor Resartus. The School Mistress and the Soldier. Everyone wants to do something for the boys in blue, but not every one is as practical and self-sacrificing in tha effort as the young teacher of whom The Youths' Companion tells this story; A sick soldier who was ordered to a sanitarium on a mountain summit sum-mit found on arriving there that but one room in the house was unoccupied and that so shut in that no one would take it. A young schoolmistress had the best room in the house, having engaged en-gaged it long before because of the grand view from the windows. When she heard of the poor fellow lying in bed all day with only a dense wood for a prospect, she had the clerk ex- his tormentors. When .a boy comes here fresh from the farm, with hayseed in his hair, timid and trembling, or from some famous preparatory school, conceited and confident, his comrades of the upper classes take his measure as accurately as the tailor who makes his first uniform or the director of the gymnasium.who after a physical examination exam-ination tells him how he can expand his chest or broaden his shoulders or strengthen the muscles of his arms; and there is always sufficient ingenuity In the "yearling" class to suggest the proper corrective. This is the first test of a cadet's manhood, the first battle of the soldier. There is always a great difference in the manner in which the boys stand their hazing. Thus, some of the newcomers at the military aead- rooms, bargaining that her little plan be kept a secret. If your walls are so narrow You cannot see far. Knock a hole in the ceiling And look at a star. The little schoolmistress did better. She knocked the hole in a brother's ceiling, and opened up to him a whole constellation of happiness. The National Encampment.' The thirty-fourth national encampment encamp-ment of the G. A. R. will be held in Chicago during the week commencing commenc-ing Monday, Aug. 27, and there are many indications that there will be a great gathering of the survivors of the defenders of the union, and that thn emy sail smilingly through the ordeal while the souls of others are sorely tried. When, however, a freshman becomes be-comes a sophomore and passes into the upper classes and later receives his commission in the army and becomes useful and sometimes famous, he always al-ways admits that the "deviling" to which he was subjected did him good and was as much a part of his training train-ing as the instruction he received from the faculty. How a Doll Averted a War. A western Indian agent tells this story of how a doll averted an Indian war: On one occasion Gen. Crook was trying to put a band of Apaches back on their reservation, but could not catch them without killing them, and that he did not wish to do. One day his men captured a little Indian girl and took her to the fort. She was quiet all day, saying not a word, but her beady black eyes watched everything. every-thing. When night came, however, reception given to the Grand Army by tlat city will make the occasion a very enjoyable one. The general committee commit-tee are about mailing to every post in the United States a circular giving full ir.formation of the plans for our entertainment en-tertainment , Army News Notes. Tha pay of a British commander-in-chief while in active service Is 75 a week. Under favorable conditions of peace the death rate of soldiers is about five in 1,000. The death rate of clergymen is U in 1,000. It is intended to make the reunion of the Roosevelt Rough Riders an annual an-nual affair,, with exhibitions of horsemanship horse-manship and other accomplishments. The British government owns 25,000 camels, several thousand of which are used in India to carry storer and equipment when the regiments are changing quarters by line of march. |