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ILt-E ^t-VILLE NEWS WANTS 13-CENT STAMP U. S. MARINES TEACHHAITMNS HOW TO SHOOT College Class Shows How U. S. History Is Bjunri Up in “13.” post Office Department Petitioned ti Issue Stamps of That Denomina* tion Again—Give* Some Interesting Facta. Washington.—Putt.muster Genera! Work has received from members oi Hie Amerlcun history class of the Shop- 1 herd college slate uormul school, Shep- herdatown, W. Va. t a petition that th« Post Office department again issue stamps of the 13-cent denomination, which tVas recently abandoned. The petition declares Urn entire his tory of the United States rk bound u( in the dgure 13 and gives the follow ing historical reasons why the 13-cenl stump should be Issued: America was discovered on the night of the 13th of the month.. The republic originally consisted ol 13 colonies. The first official flag had 13 stars and 13 stripes. The American eagle requires 13 let- Wonderful Development Is Shown by Gendarmerie After Two Years’ Coaching. F0U6HT FOE WITH WILD YELLS Natives First Had to Be Taught How te Wink—Officer la Eager to Bring • k, Hie-Marksmen-to-Compete in United States. Port au Prince, Haiti.—Haiti’s first national rifle match, held recently on the rifle range on the capital’s out skirts, not only settled the individual and team championships of the Gen darmerie d’Haltl, but brought out shooting of an order that amazed thosa who, two years ago, saw the first «f- „ .. forts to make a straight-shooting sol- lers to spell It, as does also the motto,^ (ji e r out of the most unpromising ma- •11 1’lurlbus tuum. | Serial. To add piquancy to the matches, The first word to pass over the trans they were shot over a field that, when nilantic cable was transmitted ou the revolutions were the favorite outdoor l.tib ot the mouth. | sport of Haiti, served as the scene for 1 lie silver quarter Is written nil ovet t] le i nrtny executions of political prls- uith 13. Aiouiid the head of Liberty .oners who had gambled on the wrong are 13 stars; the eagle bears an oliv* 1 tum of the coin branch with 13 leaves in one claw and I Two yenrs ngo ' lt ls doubtfu i it there I t thunderbolts In the other. On hi. | wtt8 a gen darme in Haiti who could breast Is a shield bearing 13 bars and have hit the proverbial barn at 100 in his beak is n ribbon bearing the yards "with a rifle. When the gendarmes motto with 13 letters, each wing ho 13 feathers hnd it takes 13 letters to spell quarter dollar. There are 13 letters in John Paul Junes’ name. There were 13 ships in the first American navy. Perry’s victory on Lake Erie was won on the 13th of the month. The Stars and Stripes were raised over Fort Sumter on the 13th of the month, Gei.i-rnl Pershing arrived In Franct mi .1 :ne 13, 1017. .Tii • Thirteenth amendment to tlu Cons-itution freed the slaves. It .could Hot cost any more to make n 13-cent stamp than any other one. The petition to Postmaster Genera; Work also suggests several designs foi tin* stump, all commemorating the If colonies. FIND Pr.EHISTORfC BUILDUPS Ancient Homes on Isle Royale tie lieved to Have Been Used by Copper Miners. Port Arthur, Ont.-s-The remains o: l ino, believed to have been used bj preh'storlc copper miners, have been f ad on Isle ltoyale, ill Lake Stipe t'it*, says William P. - Ferguson archaeologist, of Franklin, Pa. Mining was in progress there at least l.tXK) years ago; how much long er we do not know,” says Ferguson "tV'n found pine trees six feet in di i -ter growing on the ancient rock ■lumps. There is an area two mile? long end half a mile wide, over tin whole nf which we found remains ol human habitations. ’ There were larger pits which hnd been dug for homes. They ranged from eight to ten feel deep and wert protected by carefully built stone walls which kept them free from wa ter. The people Incidentally used’ com- tmuiHl dwellings In some Instances, Rf several of the pits were 20 by 40 feet *nd one, which may have bees f fort was 20 by 50 feet. "These people mined in solid rock the, whole Island over, but did not dig their shafts more than 20 or 30 feet deep. Their tools were black egg shaped stones of great hardness, such aa ire found on the north shore ol I.tkii Superior but not on Isle Royale.” SMYRNA ARMENIAN LOSS BIG Twenty Millionaire* Psnnilc**—23,000 Mining or Mad* Priaontra by Turk*. At liens.—The losses of the Armenian community In Smyrna total $118,000,- •n» according to a tabulation made by •inimlttee under the direction of the bidi ,p 0 f Smyrna. 3'ity millions of this,total ls in real * n 1 personal property, and the remain- d“ r a Intangible assets like stocks and h*"i« in Armenian companies operat- * p r 'i Asia Minor. The annual Income *' 3 'kW Armenian families in Smyrna wvi lie’$7,600,000, of which It is de- rl,r i that 15 per cent was given to til iri ► jpg an( j jj le c ) iurcb , ' v 'tna, which was the richest Ar- *'""'in community in the world before f f ‘* -uulng of the Turkish army, had Jl "ii llonairea, hut toduy every on* of ' men is virtually penniless. The ■*t losers are the land owners. Importers and exporters of " 1 ereals, carpets and opium, number of Armenians killed In '• according to the committee, ""h and the number of persons < or made prisoners, Is stated to '”d men nntl 15,000 women. . ‘ most prominent Armenian busl- "ii killed were Sarkis nnd Kns- •i land owners, and, Gurunlian '"'•shin, textile merchants. "d and Remarried In Five Days, h,.. „ I’hiine. la. Divorced and then "'I wlttiin five duys'ls the nn- '•'‘*i’<l of Mr, and Mrs. Elmer R. I he Iowa law prohibits di- I'crsons remarrying within six the couple crossed into Mis- the sevoud ceremony. took the field under Americai^leader ship In 1017, nnd cuiiie into contact with a band of Cacos, the procedure wns sim plicity itself. The two or three marines with the column or patrol got down to business with their rifles or a machine gun. The accompanying gendarmes shot wildly from the hip, usually aim ing at the sky, but well content with the sound ol’ their shots and their yells of defiance to the Uncos. The Uncos fought back in the same happy-go- lucky fashion so far as the rifle was concerned. It was Maj. James J. Meade, now assistant chief of the gendarmerie, who first made a serious effort to develop the gendarmes of his department of the north, into riflemen two years ago. Would Bring Shots to U. S. When the last shot of the rerent, team match had been marked, two marine oflleers who have captained teams In the big national matches at home were seriously championing the idea of entering the Haitian gendarm erie in the international matches In the United States in 1923. That is nn indication of how far along tlie road of marksmanship the untutored men who fought their foes with wild yells have traveled In the las! I wo years. All the more remarkable is tills prog ress, for, outside of tlie isolated effort of Meade? nothing of an organized na ture was attempted until less than a year ago. When Lieut. Col. Douglas U. Mac- Dougnl took over the Gendarmerie d’Huiti a little more than a year ago, with the rank of major general In Haiti’s nucleus of an army, he failed to see the logic of giving a man in uni form a rifle and not making a shot of him. MncDougul captained tbp win ning marine corps rllle team inThe na tional match In 1911, shot on at least three others and ls a ride shot of na tional reputation. At the time he be gan bis campaign, there was. nml for four years had been, a strong belief that the development of good rifle shots in the Haitian ranks was not only inadvisable but Impossible. He indoct Mnated his command, however, with I Is aims, and then the handicaps loomed large and unique. In the first place the Haitian soldiei had been the most atrocious of shots. The machete had always been his fight ing weapon. Soldiers appeared on pa rade at the Champ de Mars not so many, years ago with a man In the front" rank the proud possessor of a rifle stock, while his rear rank file was content to grasp a barrel minus the stock. The Haitian armies that fought f or control at the behest of agitators, politicians and foreign traders were armed with as mauj} varieties of fire arms as there are seeds In a Haitian grapefruit. They fought the marines in 1015 with American, British. Ger man, lielglun and Spanish rifles that ran from muzzle loaders to repeaters; with sawed-off shotguns and pieces that the French army abandoned in 1804. Rifle sights were an Impediment that disappeared under the vigorous strokes of a stout machete. Amarican System. The system determined on was pure ly American, and among the American officers and the gendarmerie were many trained shots and rifle coaches. The usual trouble* with recruit shots were discontinued, but up bobbed a handicap that had never been fore seen For some reason the average Haitian Is physically Incapable of dos ing one eye or openl.g -ne eye «th- out the other acting In sympathy. The Haitian can stare into the tropical sun with the boring glance of an eagle, though It would blind a white man. He can sleep standing up with the sun Mazing Into his fate and never flinch. s„ it fell to the lot of the rllle instruc- ‘ irs to overcome this peculiar defect l,v teaching their men literally how to wink Winking is an unknown lure of ,he Haitian belle. In place of a sly ..overt wink she stares with the direct K aze of a baby. In a few weeks I he or der to tench — progres tions and Caserne that flunks the marine bar racks at the capital, gendarmes were mustering the art of the flapper. Once on the range, after the rudi-. meats bad so far advanced as to per mit of actuul firing, those who had not mastered the ancient lure sought the aid of a khaki-colored puteh to wear over the left eye when firing. There were many such used In the recent matches. Auother quaint turn came when, either by chance or good hold ing, the crack of a rifle was rewarded by the flashing of a white disk signal ing a bull’s eye op the target. The Haitian peasant is a simple- minded person, full of superstitions and odd beliefs. The gendarnie who once scored a bull pulled serenely at | his trigger the next time, confident that I whether he held at the bottom or the top of the target, he would score an other bull. He reasoned that the first shot had followed a groove in the air that led to the heart of the black butt’a eye. The next bullet had only to find that groove. Time brought disillusion ment and then the gendnrmes, a corps full of esprit, settled down to straight shooting. True, in place of certain superstitions that the American rifle man ls prone to, he'was apt to consult the harmless charms of the witch doc tor to bring him luck. Learns Secret of Shooting. All this time, however, he was learn ing the secrets of the trade, how to sight on n mark, to fire without flinch ing or closing-both eyes, to npply windage and a change of elevntlon when a shot Indicated the need, to hold the rifle like ii vise with the rifle sling cinched tightly about his upper arm, to hug the ground nnd exiAl the air from his lungs and keep them empty until his shot had gone. He hnd learned the Joys of competition and absorbed like a sponge the wis dom that his white officers imparted to him in his own native creole. Slowly, as the jungle recedes before the patient, unremitting strokes of the machete, the gendarmes were learn ing to shoot. It was then that General MncPougiil sought and won the Inter est of President Porno In the project of an individual match to correspond with the President’s match, and an eight-inan team match from the four departments to correspond with the National team match, the classics of tlu* American rifle range. The American high commissioner, Prig. Gen. John II. Itussell, was thor oughly in sympathy with the idea, so MacDougal led up to the tdg matches with department matches in October. From thosg competitions came full as surance that the big matches would be highly creditable in their standard of skill, and from them the eight best shots of each department were formed into a team and placed under exjiert training. One of them, the department of the south, for instance, was coached by (’apt. 11. L. Smith, whose team of leathernecks won the national match at Camp Perry In 1921 from the best field In the United Stales. The matches began with the 40 best shots in tiie gendarmes competing for (lie President's match. Sergt. Astrale Holland of Jeremie, a keen, soldierly gendarme. Smith's best bet, won it In spirited competition with the total of 227 points out of a possible 250. Prizes for Winners. At the conclusion of the match, which was witnessed by President nnd Mine. Porno, members of the Hnltlun cabinet and council of state, High Com missioner Itussell nnd Brigade Com mander Theodore I*. Kane and their staffs, and the ranking officers of the gendarmerie, the President presented Holland with a handsome gold watch, a medal, an autographed letter and the equivalent of a month’s puy to take back to admiring Jeremie. Incident ally, Rutland ls now learning to read time. On the following day the national team match got under way with the four teams firing In relays, one target to each team. Slowly the department of the south began to forge ahead and won out with the score of 1,738, or an average of 217 points out of 250. The other teams finished with the respec tive scores of 1,568, 1,041 nnd 1,590. Again Astrale Holland demonstrated his right to the crown with the high gun of 234 out of 250, closely pressed as he was. In a special match for the benefit of President Borno, now a con firmed rifle enthusiast, and whose right shoulder ls no stranger to^the Impact of a Springfield, Rolland met Fadael of the President's own Palace guard. Fadael triumphed In the ten-shot match prone, scoring 49 to Holland's 48. At the conclusion of this match President Borno, in a happy little speech complimenting the men on their application and skill, presentAl each with a medal and cash prize equal to a month’s pay and ordered that all be given ten days’ leave to visit their families. To the south went the national trophy, a plaque of pol ished mahogany with silver medallions to mark the victors of the yearly matches. JANUARY FIRST DRAWS NEAR. The light and airy manner He had some weeks ago Has passed from him comptat*!?. His heart Is filled with wo*. For that day Is approaching He great dreads to sec. 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