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RIFLE CLUBS AND RANGES
FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Plan to Give the Boys of the Country Military
Rifle Practice.
Washington, D. C., Aug. IS.—A few
v eks ago a sham battle was fought
, the White lot, the large oval space
k of the White House. The regi
nt of Washington High School Ca
ts was divided into two forces and
, n tested gallantly for the possession
o: the disputed ground. Charging and
retreating, rallying and recharging,
n. ir glittering accoutrements, flutter
ing flags, glistening swords and bayo
nets, waved by eager hands and back
ed by earnest youthful faces, combined
to render the sight inspiring.. High
officials, civilian and military, gather
ed to witness the battle and applaud
the bravery displayed, but amid the
rattle and bang resulting from the
discharge of thousands of blank cart
ridges, a discordant note was heard.
• That is all very well,” said a griz
zled veteran of two wars, whose
houlder-straps denoted his high posi
tion; “but it is sad to think that prob
ably 90 per cent, of those young men
who are so gallantly popping away at
each other, if put to the test, could not,
to use a hackneyed expression, ‘hit a
flock of barns’ at a hundred yards."
The Real School of Soldiery.
With a pull at his wiry mustache he
continued: "When I was a young man
we had considerable .practice of a dif
tterent sort. On the plains when we
were not chasing the hostiles #/e were
hunting buffalo and other game. The
result was that everybody knew how
to shoot, and especially the soldiers.
But now a man gets arrested if he
fires a gun in the city limits; all the
game is gone, or at least, all that
would he accessible to city men of
moderate means, and the best we can
do is to play a shotgun against a glass
ball or a clay pigeon, while the young
men who will form the basis of our
army in the next war go banging
around a ten-acre lot, firing antiquated
carbines into the air. Why, sir,” ne
I said, straightening up and looking
even more flerre than before, “if those
cartridges were loaded with ball in
stead of blanks, demme, sir! the only
danger would be to us bystanders!”
Play mid Real War.
The General probably put the mat
ter too strongly, but there is unde
niably a basis for his statements.
While no statistics are available it is
more than probable, should the young
cadets who made so brave a show on
that occasion and who displayed such
! a commendable knowledge of military
tactics, be called upon to fire rapidly
and accurately at an enemy 300, 500
or 1.000 yards away, they would be at
a loss to proceed. Place a modern rifle
in the bands of the average man and
1 set him about pumping a magazine
full of shells at a mark the size of a
man and a half mile away—what would
he do!
Yet the complaint of the veteran
officer would not properly be laid
against the cadets, for doubtless they
would have been more than pleased
to familiarize themselves with the use
of the army rifle and ammunition, and
to become at least fair marksmen had
an opportunity been afforded them.
And in all parts of the country there
are other sham battles fought where
the participants are quite ignorant of
rifle shooting.
Ont-of-Date (.ail*.
To the casual observer there would
seem to be something xvrong about a
plan that provided only out-of-date
guns and blank cartridges for the
training of the youth of the country;
that taught hundreds of hoys at ex
pensive military schools, and colleges
receiving a government subsidy, how
to drill, to march, to make camp, and
everything else a soldier should know
except how to shoot! And so it looked
to congress which. In March, 1903, en
acted a law providing for the Na
tional Board for the Promotion of
Military Practice, to be composed of
twenty-one members, civilian and mili
vary, which should be charged with
the duty of devising plans to encour
age all citizens, and with the duty of
age all citizens, and especially the
youth of the country, to learn to shoot
and to shoot straight.
Skill in rifle and revolver shooting is
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counted as eight points in ten of ef
ficiency, and yet it is not too much to
say that in our military schools, the
National Guard, and in crack mili
tary companies, at least ten times as
much attention is paid to evolutions
and the manual %at arms as to rifle
and revolver practice. But, although
the British soldiers at New Orie'ans
were probably the best drilled of their
day, it was the squirrel hunters be
hind the breastworks than won the
day.
Tle Decline In MnrUsinnusliip.
The lamentable decline in the aver
age marksmanship of American youth
is directly traceable to the lack of suit
able ranges, both indoor and out, and
the national board has turned its at
tention to arousing the interest of in
structors and students in the military
schools throughout the country, in this
subject of rifle and revolver practice
with a view of securing adequate
ranges. There are eighty-nine univer
sities and colleges in the United States
to which military officers, either on
the active or retired list, are assigned
as professors of military science, and
it would be interesting to know how
many of these have rifles ranges. When
•Congress some forty years ago first
took up the matter of granting appro
priations for agricultural schools it
wisely tacked thereon a provision that
schools receiving such appropriations,
in addition to giving instructions in
agriculture, should provide for instruc
tion in military tactics.
Army Officers in Colleges.
The colleges to which army officers
are detailed as instructors, although
by no means comprising the entire list
of military schools in the United
States, are divided among the states
and territories as follows: New York,
7; Missouri, 5; Pennsylvania, 4; Cali
fornia. Georgia, Tennessee, 3; Arkan
sas, Florida, Indiana, lowa, Massachu
setts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jer
sey, South Carolina, South Dakota,
Texas, Vermont, Washington and Wis
consin, 2 each; Arizona, Connecticut,
Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky,
Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland,
Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Hampshire, New Mexico, North Caro
lina, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Vir
ginia, West Virginia and Wyoming, 1
each.
Average of Volunteer Troops.
If may be assumed that 60 or 70 per
cent, of the aggregate of a large body
of volunteer troops would be under
the age of twenty-five. In states where
j boys- have commenced business ca
j reers at the age of eighteen or twenty,
it is hard for them to get the time,
! even if they desired it, to practice
| with small arms. “It is therefore es-
I senitial," says the report of the Board
on this subject, “that wherever pos
sible indoor ranges be provided in pub
lic schools and other institutions and
that a special endeavor be made to
promote the use of private and other
ranges by schools.”
In treating of this subject, the board
advances a number of propositions for
the consideration of the War Depart
i inent and of Congress, as well as of
j the heads of the various schools. It
I points out that very little expense is
! attached to the construction of indoor
| shooting galleries, and recommends
j that special pains should be taken to
! see that every public and private
school throughout the country is equip
ped with such a range. Especially
does this apply to those institutions
to which army officers are detailed,
which should be required to provide
suitable indoor ranges and demand a
certain amount of rifle practice by
every student as part of the military
instruction.
Ranged for Military Schools.
It is further recommended that
these schools be required to provide
a range of at least 300 yards and pre
ferably 500 Varda, and that the state
ranges should be thrown open to all
the schools under suitable regulations.
It is impossible to equip all the schools
with the regulation rifle used in the
army, but the 'board recommends that
the Krag carbines, which will be soon
discarded by the United States cav
alry, should be divided among the
schools so that each scholar should
at least obtain a working knowledge
of the arrp. This oould be accom
plished by issuing ten pieces to each
school as a part of the equipment
already authorized, and one carbine
i to each twenty-five scholars in public
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schools possessing indoor ranges.
These arms should be chambered to
receive the regulation cartridge in or
der that exploded shells may be used
for loading for indoor practice and with
reduced charges at short range. It is
suggested that twenty-five 'rounds of
ammunition be issued free for each
qualification and additional material
for school practice be sold by the gov
ernment at half its actual cost. In or
der to encourage the students to take
an active interest in this proposition
the board suggests that a number of
classes should be instituted as
“sharpshooters.” “junior sharpshoot
ers,” "marksmen" and “junior marks
men’’—“junior sharpshooters” and
“junior marksmen” being boys of less
than 15 years of age.
A special effort is to be made by
the National Rifle Association of
America, which is co-operating with
the national board, to interest mem
bers of the Y. M. C. A’s throughout
the country in this subject with a
view of forming rifle clubs as a part
of those organizations and the carry
ing on of rifle 'practice under their
auspices.
THE lIBEL'EDITOR’S JOB.
How He Earns Mis Money on One
oI the Bis New York Dailies.
New York, Aug. 13.—There is a story
going the length and breadth of Park
Row, where the journalists of New
York most do congregate, of anew ed
itor lately installed on the staff of one
of the most obtrusive of the “twentieth
century” newspapers.
This functionary is entitled “the libel
editor.” He was set to work, of course,
because the bright young men on his
employer’s paper had got so careless
in their statements of fact that suits
for libel were altogether too frequent.
The young man who fills the place is
a lawyer who came here from the West
looking for a chance to build up a met
ropolitan practice’. Just how he fell in
to the job of libel editor has not yet
transpired, but it is understood that
he was very glad to get it, and also
that he is working very hard to fill
the bill completely. In truth, he must
work hard to do so, for he cannot pos
sibly perform his task without read
ing every line of proof prepared for
the paper ever night.
Newspaper men alone can under
stand what that means, and newspaper
men alone can understand what a
nuisance the sort of supervision he ex
edcises must be around a newspaper
office. In this case the libel editor's
word is above the word of anybody
and everybody else, even the manag
ing editor, and the way things are
changed every night, especially head
lines. at the last minute, in the office
of the newspaper in question, is said
to be heartbreaking. It is said, how
ever, that the paper now prints only a
small percentage as many apologies
and retractions as it did, and that the
libel editor is, therefore, considered a
good investment by all concerned.
Duane.
Herkimer, Kans.
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Amusements
New York, Aug. 13.—What, some
body has called “the busy hum of
preparation,” is about ail that is in
evidence in New York amusement mat
ters for the current week. There are
no fresh productions, while the old
ones in theaters and on roof gardens
‘are running along at a peaceful jog,
some drawing larger audiences than
others and all having settled down to
remain as they are until the general
shuffling up at the beginning of the
real theatrical term, which is still
some weeks off. But it is already evi
dent that when the starter's flag is
once dropped, so to speak, there will
be plenty from which to choose in
the matter of stage offerings.
Every theater, hall or other large
apartment available for rehearsal pur
poses in all New York is being utilized
at this moment and there is quite an
overflow of companies spreading into
Brooklyn, Jersey City, Hoboken and
as far away as Newark. Persons who
a few months ago were gloomily pre
dicting, in the face of alleged, over
building of theaters, that there were
not enough attractions to fill those
play-houses already completed, need
not waste their time upon further
speculation.
Desirable dates in all parts of the
United States are as scarce now as
at any period in the country’s his
tory, and the only question that re
mains to be settled has reference to
the support of the public at large dur
ing the coming season as compared
with th'at of past years. It may he
frankly said that most amusement
managers having their headquarters
here are not as sanguine as usual.
It is an odd feature of the ye'ar that
there are in New York at the present
moment vastly fewer visitors from
other cities than at any previous time
in August within my recollection, or
that of the amusement purveyors and
hotelnien. It is during this month,
under ordinary circumstances, that the
great throng of recreation seekers
from the South ‘and West come to
New York, filling up its hostelries and
packing its roof gardens and other re
sorts. They are not here just now.
Perhaps they have been switched off
to St. Louis and perhaps they haven’t
started at all.
The New York theatrical season will
open this month 'at the Garrick Thea
ter. with a “Military Maid.” The au
thor of the play, which is quoted as
being a "roaring farce,” is Leo Di
trichstein, who will have the leading
role. Richard Mansfield’s former lead
ing lady. I<fa Lonquest, will be Mr.
Ditrichstein's leading support, while
Henry V. Donnelly and T. A. Wise
will help make the play a success.
"Madcap Princess,” with Lulu
Glaser in the title rdle, will open at
the Knickerbocker Theater in a short
time. Supporting Miss Glaser, will be
such well known stars as Betram
Wallis, William Pruette and Mary
Conwel] - i j
The music publishers are giving
somewhat serious attention to a rather
chimerical scheme. They are planning
legislation devised to make possible
the collection of royalties from self
playing pianos, slot machine phono
graphs, graphophones, etc., which now
reproduce popular music without mon
ey and without price. If this propo
sition should prove feasible perhaps
the publishers will consider legisla
tion to make people pay for the
privilege of singing and whistling popu
lar melodies.
To Make, Fighting Kites
And How to Fight Them After They
Are Made.
The string of a fighting kite is cov
ered with glue or paste and then
sprinkled with ground glass or a pow
der made by pounding up fine bits of
broken dishes. This gives it a rough
surface of considerable cutting power
when drawn across the taut string of
another kite.
The object is to fly a kite so that
the string of it shall cross the string
of an opponent's kite, and then to let
the string out quickly before lie can
slacken his own.
Other things being erpial—that is
to say, the two kite strings being of
equal cutting power and like tough
ness, the line which has the most
strain on it is the one which gjets cut.
Some boys acjuire great skill in this
game and can cut their opponent's
kite string, even when their own line
is of inferior cutting quality, by ma
nipulating their kite in an adroit man
ner.
A kite cut loose becomes the prop
erty of the boy who cuts it, or else is
left to the first small boy who picks
it up, according as the agreement of
the game may be. In any event the
original owner* forfeits it.
A good way to prepare the string
is to/ mix pounded glass or porcelain
and glue together and then dip the
line carefully in It section by section
and hang it up to dry. The adhesive
substance should not he made so thick
that it will cake off when dry.
In the East, fish glue and rice paste
are both used. Sometimes a Japanese
boy will attach a small, sharp curved
knife to his string and try to guide his
kite so that the knife will cut the line
of his opponent.
When a Japanese boy goes out Into
a field he rhooseß an opponent and
olterß battle with hi* kite. If the chal
lenge is accepted, at It they go; but
It Is not considered good manners to
attempt to cut the string of any boy
who does not want to fight his kite,
and hoys are generally careful not to
entangle their kite strings accident
ally.
Frequently there are kite fights be
tween famous experts, whose skill and
whose kites are famoug, and then all
lesser combats are postponed while
the crowd watches the battle.
Boys go out by appointment to fight
kites, Just as In this country one base
ball team goes out to play anothfr.
When It is reported that Okashl, the
champion kite fighter of Nagasaki, hag
come with his fierce kite, the "Stork
and Tortoise. - ’ to do battle with Hlshl
tani, the champion of Toklo, and his
wonderful "Flying Devil,” everybody
goes out to see the contest, which is
talked about for weeks afterwards by
both men and boys, who discuss the
manner of fighting affected by the two
champions and argue as to which Is
the most finished and skillful artist In
the kite-fighting line.
As some boys and men get a reputa
tion as expert kite fighters, so gome
kites become known as almost Invin
cible ones, sure to cut down any other
kite, and they are, consequently, much
valued by their owners, who go about
with them seeking battle.
To the top of a Japanese fighting
kite, as. inded. to most kites In Ja
pan, there is attached a bent bow with
a rawhide bow string.
It Is fastened on with the tsut string
up, and when the kite gets In the air
the wind produces a humming sound
which makes the kite seem like a fierce
bird in the air, challenging the other
kites to battle.
The louder a boy’a klta hums the
prouder he Is of It.
It Is an animated scene on a good
Jk. TheßtostEver.
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\qa At the risk of encroaching on Sunday
we did great stunts on Saturday. The ai
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The various shelves of low shoes have , jffiv
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have the cash we have the low shoes
For Instance: •jgjHL
p'ltent I Children’s Tan Ladies’ Vlci Kid ’
Tlik and black or Black San ' and Tan Vici tSSSK'
HP jl kid. 'The kind dals and R o j if ?,i d , Rib J’ 0n (h Tie ox ' ■ Hp fl
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kite-flying day when, from some open
place, scores of gaily colored and fan
tastically shaped kites are diving
about in the clear air. humming
fiercely, here and there a fight going
on, or a kite just cut away, sailing oft
down thd wind in defeat, while the
boys run about and call out to each
other offering battle.
—At the Seaside.—She—“Oh! George,
what lovely waves!" He—“Very nice;
but, poor things, they’re just like me—
we both arrive at the shore in splendid
style—and go back broke.”—Judy.
Attention. ,
Watch Onr Weekly Lists of
New Subscribers, Pub
lished Every Sunday.
The Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph Company has installed
since last Sunday, Aug. 7, 1904. tele
phones for
15 New Subscribers.
The list of new subscribers Is as
follows:
BUSINESS.
115—Brown, H. A.
435—Espy Cotton 00.
39S—Southern Pressing Club.
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