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A Surprising Reserve ==of== Trained Citizen Soldiery By Day Alten Willey, 90900002 @~ T vs a wise provision to include military tactics in the curriculum of the agrieultural and mechanical colleges which l the nation. has endowed for the higher education oj the hoy and girl of the farm, for of the total number of cadet soldiers gruduated in the country yearly, these i-stitutions contri -90048 000¢ 0o hute necarly one-half. Frem the fifty colleges come about forty-five hundred; of thirty-five thousand students fifteen i.mmi thousand are enrolled in the cadet corps. The fact that these colleges represent thirty-two states and territories in dicate the national scope of this inflyence. The public high scheols of princi pal cities have algo introduced military tactice to such an extent that nine thougand boys are cadet soldiers—the most notable command being the High School Cadet Brigade of Boston, which represents several public academies in the city and suburbs and has ar average membership of two thousand. But of strictly military schools there are one hundred and seventy-five throughout the land. Nearly every state has at least one, New York has thirty-two, New Jersey nine, Pennsylvania eleven, North Ca'olina seven, Texas nine, Wisconsin four, California nine and Illinois five. These states are quoted merely to show how widely distributed are the centers of soldier making. And the ‘means are within reach of any reputable school that can muster a corps of one hundred and fifty or two hundred boys. Under these conditions the Federal Government will furnish field pieces and caissons fer the battery and arm the corps with saber and rifle. It is ¢nly necessary for the school authorities to give bond to return the equipment in good condition. Thus with weapons of actual warfare the routine of the regular army may be faithfully followed. Ten thousand young men coming from these institutions every year mean an addition of a hundred thousand men in a decade to the class of American citizens available for the country’s protection.—From “Training Our Minute Men of the Future.” in the Outing Magazine, ? Forest Slaughter S RCAT RORR RS Mo 2D . By Samuel E. Moffett. % e O the future higtorian the report of the TForest Service @ on the lumber cut of the United States for 1906 will be a document of melancholy interest. It will be like a contem porary description of the slaughter of the last great herd of buftalo in 1875, In 1906 we slashed from our disappearing | forests about forty billion feet of lumber, ”worth seven hun dred millions dollars. It was more than we had ever cut before. 1t gseemed as if we could not bear the sight of a standing tree, and had been seized with a frenzied eagerness to turn the last remnants of cur woodlands into barren wastes of stumps in the shortest possible time, In some kinds of lumber the hand of destruction is already stayed by the lack of anything more to deéstroy., In the seven years between 1899 and 1906 the cut of white pine has been reduced by over forty percent, and oak by nearly as much. The average value of lumber of all kinds has increased in the same period by forty-nine percent, an ecloquent commentary on the _progress of exhaustion. The stumpage values of the principal varieties of trees have doubled and tripled in seven years. Yellow pine has increased from $1.12 to $3.16 per thousand feet, oak from $3.18 to $6.52, ash from $3.03 to $7.58, and white pine from $3.66 to $8.09, The line of devastation has swept ~across the continent, until now the older lumber-producing regions are eclipsed. Washingtgn s now become Ih9»mt state dn the volume of its -%%QW% spond. Wisconsin has gone fl”{gm‘ first place W \ DO6 o third*in 1906 and is still declining. The rapid ‘exhaustion of the finer woods is bringing poorer varieties to the front, but it is only a matter of a few years before a tree of any kind will command the respect due to rarity.— Collier's Weekly. ’ g h rss The Rhodes Schola & Future R TDT LMLL AN T ¥ By Sherman Peer. £ unvnnamtiers s rmprpema ) o oeooo® | the uses of a Rhodes scholarship, three may be mentioned as of practical value and as peculiar to Oxford. First is the pursuit of stuiles and research preparatory to teaching his tory, the classics or English literature; secondly, following ! a line of stucy preparatory to journalism; and, lastly, the @ooe taking up of swdies in view of entering our foreign consular or diplomatic service. In this list, history might well be “.3 given the leading place, inasmuch as the history schools of Oxford are celebrated for thoroughness, for the scholarship of the instructing staff and for the excellent methods of teaching. Supple mental to this is the historic setting in and about Oxford, and the vroximity of the continent, so rich in historical librarvies, great living historians and cities and battle-fields famous in the annals of the past. In the classics, Ox ford has long stood first by reason of the marked ability of the instructing staff, the class of undergraduates interested in Latin and Greek texts and the original methods of instruction adopted in this field of study. She is with out doubt the stronghold of the classics, surpassing Cambridge in this respect, though both universities possess, as semebody has remarked, the “classic at mosphere.” The third place in this list is assigned to English literature. One might expect it to lead, but though in process of development, this line of study has not yet attained the reputation of the s=aals of history or the classies, Curiously enough, the Rhodes scholars are now bringing thiz school 10 the front~—Putnam's Monthly. ; 5’ “Dangerous”’ by \g"’ & . Speedi & . peeding - T A é By Henry B. Anderson. é LMOST all efforts by regulation to reduce the danger inher ent in automobiles have had in view the identification of the car and the chauffeur and the imposition of a limitation up on speed. As a rule, three classifications enter into the limitation of speed: ten miles an hour being the general rule for con gested city districts, fifteen miles for ordinary settled lo calities, and twenty miles for the open country. Such lim itations are very crude, for in each class the speed is hab itually exceeded by skilful and careful drivers without nccident or even dan ger; and, on the other hand, in each class, <areless drivers may keep strictly within them, and yet continually expose other users of the road to risk of injury. This defect in the speed-limit regulations is recognized in automobile laws, which usually deciare that the mere observance of the limits of speed does not free the driver from liability in case of accident, if actual careless ness is proved. 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But this was not a battle of believer ~against unbeliever, heathen versus Christian. The contestants were monks sworn to teach the doctrines of the Prince of Peace. This happened only a short time before the anniversary of the first Easter day, when the Saviour of the race rose from the dead. In the centuries that have elapsed the last resting place of the founder of the faith has never known a ces sation of strife. Those monks who battle to-day are only carrying on the strife that the crusaders caused to rage around the holy edifice. Vo The bone of econtention is a desgire to control the sainted sepulchre. It was this ambition that brought the crusaders swarming from all Europe, and now a form of the'same desire has the monks of the Francis can order and the Armenian branch forever at each other's throats. They quarrel over the right to sweep off the steps, and the Greeks, though they had little part in bring ing the tomb of Christ under Chris tian control, have profited so skill fully by the quarrels of France with Turkey that they have ingratiated themselves with the pasha till he is regarded as their silent ally. . In this last battle one sacristan had his skull smashed in with a LR \",\\\v’\ S§B Y i SR . OSSR R IR 2 ST o N N IR R N SR A PR R R RN WA SRR TR SR O S N ;.fi‘ S e R -SO Qe &ifi.&i ?‘. g A “\3; 3 ( : 1 R ey PR BRI S LR e SO G S N G RN L | S Ny 3 :'.~» » .“, ,\'}\ TSR AR L 3 v‘)' ‘~,-\~\‘\'r\§i\“.t.\"“ DR VRN R R e e -\\'f;.\-::\.\.t:&‘-{ig:.«:_\\\\\\. A N - ‘;\\i}\\;{_,\ J\‘Q‘T\“\“(_‘é\(\;:‘:;'\”; X _‘\.\-:--“ S < R RS S 0 el Nl (PA R W F ¥ 3 R SRR A w 1 oS ‘\\"\\"\“\‘\'\'\% \‘3&‘\ S . \\\ X \\\i\‘ . \\“\\\\Q\:\\\ *. 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A e oNVe TTR ARN be e P . & BN e 3 % + Sk D AL A S SRR LR G . » “\\\\,\ SSR > SN :«: AR S \‘A‘ 00, O\ NG S T TRy TOWER AND FACADE OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE. churches and suitable memorials. Over the spot where the cross was discovered a chapel was erected, anld the sacred wood itself was retained in Jerusalem by Helena and placed under the great bascilica or church erected by Constantine over the place of Christ’s burial. - The erection of these buildings, particularly the church, made Jeru salem & place of pilgrimage, such as it has remained to this day. . For 300 peaceful years the eross remained at the basilica, and nothing but the worshiping songs and pravers of the faithful resounded over the sacred stones. +ln 614 warfare and slaughter came upon the holy spot. Jerusalem was stormed by the Persian king, Chosroes 11. The Christians made 7y - s e gy eI TP e LY g < St .- G R 82, A b gATTRet Ty Bet 4;3 et oß‘*Pv RIA R R T S ee N N HAEER . 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Only for nine years was peace to reign over the place of contention, the favorite battlefield for heathen and Christian, and in 637 the Caliph of Omar conquered it. Then came another 300 years of comparative silence. The tomb was under heathen domination, but at least no battles raged around it. From this period the sacred buildings emerged to become the centre of Ti tanic upheavals that convulsed the entire world. These battles arraved the Waest against the East, and caused the spill inz of occans ot blood. They repre sent the longest continued and most costly conflicts in war’s bloody pages —the crusades. ' In 1077 the tomb had passed under the domination of the Turks. 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E e e e b e e R S R R d’*’\“&*”?«g"‘ L e N e b CAVE IN WHICH CHRIST IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN BORN— CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY. on pilgrims who went to pay homage to the place of sepulchre, finally aroused Christian Europe to the wrong of letting the Turk maintain his sway. After Urban II became ‘pope a mighty movement began to take form. Much of the agitation' re sulted from the fiery zeal of Peter the Hermit, who traversed Europe and produced the most extraordinary enthusiasm. As soon as the feelings of Europe had been sufficiently heated two councils were held; the result was the first crusade. Soon 6,000,000 sol diers were in motion toward Jerusa lem, commanded by Godfrey de Bouillon, Duke of Lorraine, Hugh the Great, the Duke of Normandy, Count Robert of Flanders and Vohe mond, under whom was Tancred. Battles on the way and never ceasing ravages of disease reduced the ranks of the crusaders till only a fraction of the first force remained. On the 28th of June, 1908, the Chris tians defeated an army of 200,000 Mohammedans and on July 15, 1909, the final battle fought in Jerusalem and raging all around the sacred tomb, saw the object of the crusade successful, and Christ's last resting place once more restored to Chris tian control, Not for long was it to remain thus. For fifty years the newly formed Christian government in charge of Godfrey de Bouillon suffered under repeated attacks of Egvpt and Syria, until finally it was forced to appeal for help to Europe, which resulted in the second crusade. A 2/ AN EASTER LAY. @j '?Q%:N Easter lay, low, sweet alf E -3 clear, Falls softly on the raptured ear, - Flow'rs ope their petals, bright with dew, j Togreet its dulcet notes anew— \ The earth awakes to spring’s glad cheer. 'The gayest herald of the year, ‘ When April sheds her silver tear, Borne to the skies’ cerulean | " blue— | An Easter lay. - Mirth reigns; for Lenten days so drear . Are gone. The clamorcus chantie cléer, ! With stately mien, appears in’ view, And, joyous, joins the revels,’ | too. Lo! good Dame Partlett brings us here, 4 An Easter lay, (- \ ZUGENE GEARY. / e Victory after victory perched on the banner of the Saracens who, under the great Saladin, defeated the Christians in a battle of frightful car nage. On that day, the sth of July, 1187, the cross was lost to the Christians, and though in subsequent struggles the tomb was retaken the cross has never been recovered, : Frederick Barbarossa, Philip II of France and Richard th> Lion Hearted of England headed another effort, but it failed. > Later Emperor Henry IV made a fresh effort to take back the tomb, and it succeeded, but on his death in 1197 the Turks again came into con trol. Innocent 111 proclaimed the cru sade that again brought strife to the sacred tomb. Fifty thousand children from France and Germany, fired with re ligious zeal, made an attempt in 1212, but all were lost by shipwreck or sold into slavery. Frederick 1I gained possession of Jerusalem in 1228, and through a truce kept it in peace for ten years. Several other attempts to hold the city were unsuccessful, and finally in 1291 the sultan took possession of Acre and the Christians were finally driven out of Syria. Even the end of the wars between the infidels and the Christians did not bring peace, for the Saracen con trol -was disputed by other heathen nations. The Mamelukes took the city in 1382. The Turks recovered it in 1517 by the valor of Sultan Se lim. The son‘of this leader, Soliman, built the wall that now surrounds the city. At last, being unable to occupy the ‘home of the scenes of the Holy Pas 'sion, the Christian nations made an SRV 2 R s g ‘%f {f"ip ’fr“-‘ X PN () % 3 'b t b TR - AR TR 25 E’?V{ O #5 TS gg an N Y il AR E ESERER £ Gy N SO I oA N R '”’% 820 i Sl SR B Wi SN 1y e A S B R kRS RR D agreement with the sultan by which they ceded his right to control, but got in return permission to worship there and to have the sacred basilica in charge of Christian priests. But. even this has not brought peace to the tomb, and Easter, 1908, still finds strife and hatred where only love and worship should be. Let me arise. Roll from my tomb The sealing stone of sin; Release my soul that hath been shut So long therein; Let me .come from the grave without The envelope of erippling doubt.