<s_» W W V well, that any cadet who - 'j"~ > shall bo dismissed from the rvrrr»> T v ra> i 1 /4 * >(* »*?'*?£& /£>*s&- '.fr'ffl service. The first classman I ADfifP IsIFK AT \M ■ : .--4fc'.-1a szszxgsrs M. IS* *- m. '-'X '? thing of the kind, but here 1 (fTV u: \><, • *'. 4 '<% & "'■%/#V^ F ""T 1b the way w hich veracious ?Point)™:r;r: " T ' Skyward S.CLARK t#Wl \XI !X I COPYA/Cfir /9Q9 BY w.A.PATrERsoN j II \ W \ \l ! case you undoubtedly have \rfX """"" _ J . | . ..'*~>v j »:, ./• \.9P V \1 I had rare opportunities to v®7 IffifjtP W; AY ? /l note the e£fect of the Buna t/\L\J v—X l.w -•- '.' , '4lqj\ . ) /™*\ rays on certttin objects. ASHINGTOV-Congress almost every yW? wafer bucket Unit waa Wyear has bet ore It the case of some West W' ■' B£k \ innocent of the retention of Point cadet who allowed his animal spir- ~ -/ Mm ' a single drop of the fluid, its to get the better of him, and who un- what do you think, air, soL im £ t lß |^t U zfng 4|f would have been the partic t Point is a hard one, and each successive p§g 1$ J | board of visitors is likely to make some fg| @~/ Grant "that it would' get suggestion to make the cadet s condition ~ O o ' warped and leaky." just a little nioi 3 irksome. Just now DRILL "Very well Mr Grant there is speculation on the subject of you ghow erudition beyond your' what the official visitors of the year of years. Now if you will look at my ■ _ grace, 1909, will recommend as an addi- |Un|l|l||k V water bucket you will see that it is tlon to the academy's code of discipline. //^|PVVKM as dry as a chip. By the further ex- Sometime ago a clergyman of the Church of England // ercise of your knowledge and observa- Visited West Point. He wished to get full knowledge of H « tlon> Mr Grantf can you teU me by the drill, the system of study and the disciplinary 0 what means j may prevent the warp . •methods of the institution, and so he rose at reveille and / / lng and leaking of my bucke t?" •made the cadet day his own, until taps had sent the / // / " Have lt fllled> .. gaid Grant stripling soldiers to their blankets. / J I.. Very gQod( aga , n Mr Grant; but The clergyman, after seeing Rights out, went to the offl- pray note what you Bald . . have lt ————————————■ means, Mr. Grant, that some one must || I fill it for me. You have shown so ' r '3#> ~ njf» ■ much acumen that I fear to violate V S -.1 ■"■ -C. » t l he^®[°lß^®^y°\ ir l prescription elt^ef ~ An upper'classman, bent nothing ■ .» • i* . else than having some fun with tho K'V - ■ u " famous general, asked him Disobedience of direct orders is a PI*STOL DR/LL BY CAD£T<S thing practically unknown at the school. Infractions of regulations may in a sense be termed disobedience, but they are never so regarded in any of the world's schools. Boy nature would needs be remade if the rules of any 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 school never changes. It is the same to-day as it was in the days of Grant and Lee. Take a 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 iPoint. Drill in the open air gives the requisite exercise to keep the physique right, and for rec reation apparently there is no need. The routine has changed a little with the pass ing years, but in a general way the day's pro gram at the academy is like this: Reveille at 6 o'clock; roll call at 6:20; break fast at 6:25; guard mount at 7:15; recitations and study hours from 8 until 1; dinner, 1 until 1:40; recitations and study from 2 until 4; drill from 4 until 5:20; parade at 5:30; supper at 6; study from 7 until 9:30; tattoo, then taps and sleep. There are no recitations at the United States military academy on Saturday afternoons, and the cadets are given what is called "release from quarters," with permission to visit one another in barracks or to roam about the reservation, ta king good care, under pain of dismissal, to keep from going off 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. The boy who unwittingly puts on h pair of white trousers having an iron rust stain on them, and wears them at drill or at dress pa rade, will know no release from quarters for days. Should a 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 a "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 civiliza tion from a distance. Upon occasion the cadets are given permission to call upon friends at the little hotel on the res ervation. If, however, a boy commits the enor mous offense 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 expiated his crime by many extra tours of guard duty in the broiling sun or zero weather or a Highland? winter. In an elder day at the academy, and it 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 a 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 mall his let ter and a 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 alcove the cadet must hang one specific article of clothing; on the second hook another article, and so on. If, perchance, the youth hangs his dresscoat on the nail sacred to the overcoat, he can bid fare well to release from quarters for two Saturdays at least, and If, 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 a yardstick along the toes of the extra shoes which under regula tion, must be placed in regular order beneath the foot of his bed. If the toe of one shoe pro trudes half an inch beyond the toe of its 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 will receive a sufficient number of demerit marks to enable him to realize thoroughly the beauties of a right line as applied to something besides geometry. It is "a beastly grind," as the English clergy man said, but it is a grind that has its uses, and the proof of it is written In all the records of the service. Hazing is in a sense an hereditary habit. The army officers who have been asked in the years that are past, and who are being asked to-day to root out the practice of "deviling" the plebe at West Po'nt, did not, and have not all of them their hearts in ths work, for were they not hazed themselves, and were they not in turn hazers? Nine out of ten of the hazed will tell you to-day that they profited by the experience. When Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant entered plebe camp, a first classman who noticed the boy's strong build intimated to him that it would be a pleasure to have him call immediately at the senior's tent. Grant went. There is a rule at West Point, which was a rule in Grant's day as CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY JULY 15, 1909. still wearing the clothes of civil life: "Which do you think is the greatest man. Gen. George Wash ington or Gen. Ulysses S. Grant?" Fred's answer, blunt and quick, was:"Washing ton may have been the greater man, but my fa ther was the greater soldier." "Mr. Grant," said the upper classman, "to com pare your father to George Washington in any sense, is like unto the comparing of a 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. Schofield was an artillery officer. The army has it that Schofield had a distaste for the infantry branch because of an experience which he underwent during his first week as a plebe at the military academy. Some yearlings chased Schofield up a ladder from the cock loft of barracks to thfr roof. The future hero of Franklin was clad only in a night shirt. When the rof was reached the cadets gave Scho field a rifle, marked out a sentinel's beat on the tin roof and started the future artilleryman on his walk back and forth with the musket on his shoul der. They kept him at it with few intermissions, from taps to reveille. Edgar Allan Poe was a cadet at West Point only for a short time. Army tradition holds nothing con cerning the hazing of Poe. The academy, however, is the custodian of one of Poe's first poems, which is nothing short of a striking example of the boy'g wit. While Poe was at the academy Lieut. Joseph Lock was stationed there as a tactical officer. Lock was the strictest kind of a disciplinarian, and he was constantly reporting Poe for offenses, reports which brought as their natural consequence some heavy punishments. Poe had his revenge in a poem which the curious may find in a volume called "Tic Tacs," which was published years ago by the cadets: John Locke was a great name, Joe Lock is a greater. In sftort,. The former is well known to tame. The latter well known to report. There is, or was, one form of having at West Point which has in it the essence of cruelty. This consists in making a plebe read witb appropriate gestures and the proper. inflections, all the nice things which the newspapers of his home town printed about him when the announcement of hia appointment to a cadetshlp was made. Imagine, if you will, the feelings of a green youngster, as he stands upon a barrel, reading to an assemblage of possibly 50 yearlings, the editorial statement of the local papers, that Henry Smith "doubtless will be made a corporal as soon as the eyes of the super intendent of the military academy fall upon his tall and manly figure. Henry has in him the making of a great soldier. We shall hear of his deeds on the field of battle as a leader of his country's hosta in case dread war shall come." ' S Hi flaw U Bij Cheap i f4 f4 poiNlJ^ ilf you are a business man, did you ever think of the field of opportunity that advertis ing opens to you? There is almost no limit to the possi bilities of your business if you Study how to turn trade into your store. 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