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wsl^^liit MILLS IN CHARGE OF U. S. MILITIA Will Direct States' Soldiers if They Go to Mexico. HE REFORMED WEST POINT Bravery Exhibited In Spanish-Ameri can W ar Rewarded by President Mc- KinleyOn Arrival at Army Training School He Made Changes Which Greatly Pleased the Cadets. Washington.-'The national guard," said General Alfred Leopold Mills, "has never been better equipped or better trained or better officered for service than it Is today Which may be an important factor in the present situation if the states' mili tia should be called on for action. Gen eral Mills' statement may be taken as fairly representing the situation. In the first place. General Mills knows He is the head of the division of mili tia affairs at the war department and as such would have charge of the trans fer of the militia to the service of the national government. In the second place. Mills wouldn't say it if it were not true "General Mills," said one of his near associates, "is not one of the most bril liant men in the army. He is not re markable for scholarly attainments But he owns a most impressive brand of common sense combined with every soldierly quality Mills is the man who reformed West Point Before his day there as superln- Photo by American Press Association GENEKAX, ALFRED L. MIIiIiS. tendent the cadets were treated like prisoners, fed upon theory and clothed In uniforms that fitted like the skin of a mushroom If a regiment of West Point cadets had ever charged an en emy the sound of popping seams would have been heard above the rattle of musketry Mills came to the academy4 as super intendent while he was a first lieuten ant and therefore still young. That fact did not please any one at all The elder officers thought it absurd that a "young whiffet"these cruel words are quoted with exactness should be given a place that had al ways been likened in honor to the command of a division. The younger officers were jealous and said that his appointment was due to favoritism As a matter of fact it was due mostly to A. L. Mills, somewhat to Theodore Roosevelt, and partially to President McKinley. Mills was at the battle of San Juan Hill in command of a com pany of regulars. Roosevelt's rough riders were being maltreated on the slope "He took command of my three rear most companies." said Roosevelt after ward, "moved them over to the right of the line, gathered up some troopers of the Ninth cavalry and headed his detachment in the rush up the* hill." In that rush Mills was struck by a Mauser bullet which destroyed his left eye and passed completely through his head, but it did not interfere with that rush up the hill. It wasn't until San Juan hill had been captured that he gave his wound a thought. All the surgeons said that he would die at oncehe was the first wounded officer to be returned to the United States merely in compliment to his bravery Privately the surgeons thought it would be more economical to let him die in Cuba But he completely regained his health. President McKinley met him, deter mined that the youngster had the punch and pep the president thought was needed in the reconstruction of West Point and made him superintend ent. Mills found the academy being oper ated somewhat as a reform school and somewhat along the educational lines that prevailed prior to the first war with Mexico. Cadets were forbidden to smoke: therefore they smoked by stealth. He let them smoke pipes on the campus. He found hazing flourishing at West Point, successive generations of repressive measures having failed to stamp it out. He aroused a sentiment against it and for the time, at least, it died out. He did away with everything that savored of the automatic in the system of education and taught his men to think. Washington.The, high cost of meats has received a body blow in a re port received from Minnesota by the United States agricultural department here. One of the greatest contributing causes to the high cost of all meats is dmitted to be the great ravages of hog cholera, which has swept the coun try during the past few years until last season over $100,000,000 in pork was lost, of which $33,000,000 was in Iowa alone. With such a great scar city of pork there was no balance wheel to depress values of beef, and hence the mounting prices of steaks. Hog cholera has come to be so dreaded that farmers are beginning to refuse to raise any hogs, and even those who stick to the game raise only a few. not caring to take the long chances. It is admitted that with hog cholera eliminated from the farmers' calculation millions more would be raised, as they are easy to handle and the returns are quick. But. strange to say, science has never found a cure for this dreaded disease. The report just received by the de partment of agriculture contains a chart showing the treatment of up ward of a thousand "hogs sick with chronic cholera with a special veter inary treatment. Cures were effected in 75 15 per cent, of the cases. The tests have been going on in the field in vari ous parts of Minnesota since last Sep tember. State veterinarians sent out by the Minnesota live stock and sani tary board to administer serum treat ment were instructed to have the new medicine administered. EDISON IS CHALLENGED. Head of Tobacco Firm Asserts That Cigarettes Are Pure. New York.Thomas A. Edison has been challenged to prove his conten tion that the cigarette is harmful and that its users are feeble minded Fur thermoie. Percival S. Hill, president of a big tobacco company, in an open letter to the inventor, expresses the belief that investigation and reconsid eration would cause him to admit his error Mr. Hill recalls the time wlien it was quite the fashion for cigarettes to be attacked by "well intentioned ig norant people, by notoriety seekers and by thrifty legistors." The result was that medical men and other scien tists undertook thorough examinations of the cigarette. "Every one of these investigations," writes Mr. Hill, "resulted in exactly the same set of findingsviz. that the cigarette is absolutely pure: that it contains less nicotine than any other form of tobacco products: that the combustion of the paper is harmless in its effect on the human physiology that its temperate use is in no way Injurious to noimal users." PEOPLE'S RAILROAD IS A MONEY MAKER Left "In the Gold," This Town Builds Its Own System. Tacoma, Wash.There is one rail road in the United States that has paid from the day it began to turn wheels. Not a single dollar in bonds was issued to start it. All the stock was paid for and every cent expended on honor. There is not'and never has been one dollar of indebtedness against the property. .Every bill is paid on presentation, and all current accounts and wages are met at the first of each month. In almost four years of op eration the books show annual divi dends of 4 per cent and a comfortable reserve fund. In that time the road has nothing in the accident clasification on its rec ords, not a broken car. a mangled pig nor injured passenger. Not a sin gle lawsuit has ever been filed against the road it has never had to answer a legal complaint. And this paragon of transportation systems is purely an in land empire development. It is the Waterville railway, running from Wa terville to Douglas Junction The dis tance traversed and the traffic carried demand five and one-tenth miles of main line and two miles of sidetrack. For the three years ended Dec. 31. 1913, passenger earnings of the Water ville road were $14,465: freight re ceived, $14,279.79 freight forwarded. $12,147.92: miscellaneous, mail, etc., $11,020.50: total, $51,913.21. The highest priced ticket on the sys tem is 36 cents, and this covers the whole line, and more than 50,000 passengers had to be carried with a single engine and one coach to make the earnings shown. Ten cents is the first class freight rate of the line, and much freight is hauled at as low as 1% cents per 100 pounds. More than 45.000.000 pounds had to be brought into Waterville to earn $14,279.79. The road was built and is operated by the people it serves. Had "Wad Slept In Furnace. St Louis.Because his clothes were mussed and his face dirty Edward Pel zer was arrested here as a "suspicious character." At the station the police were amazed to find all his pockets stuffed with greenbacks and goldbacks, totaling $2,940. BODY BLOW FOR HIGH COST., TAKE JOY RIDE IN HEARSE. New Discovery May Cure Hog Cholera and Save $100,000,000. i Women and Children Enjoy It as Spec tators Stand Aghast. Spokane, Wash.Fifteen miles across country in a hearse was the unique trip taken by a party of Spokane wo men and children after their automo bile had broken down near Cheney. Wash. While the stranded wayfarers looked sadly at their balky machine, S. M. Smith, a Spokane undertaker, came along with his automobile hearse. Mrs. WillMm Pitman and daughter and Mrs. Frank Chapman and daugh ter gayly climbed into the hearse, hav ing Mr. Pitman and Mr Chapman to tinker with the machine Raising the curtains within the hearse, the way farers enjoyed the trip to Spokane. The big black vehicle rolled through country and villages while spectators looked aghast at the smiling faces ot women and children tbaj peeped out at them. When the hearse reached the suburbs of Spokane bystanders looked horror stricken to see a party of four live persons emerge and get aboard a street car. SAW GARRISON, ALL OF HIM. Man Looking For War Secretary Found Him Just Out of Bath. Washington.Secretary of War Gar rison tells the following story on him self apropos of the approaching heated term: "Last summer I went on a tour ot inspection of the western forts On one of the hottest days of the" year 1 finished looking 'over Fort Leaven worth, Kan., and then motored to Kansas City 1 went, straight to my hotel, filled the bathtub with water and luxuriated. After the bath and before drying I started a parade up and down the room, enjoying the river breezes that strained through the'win dows. All at once the door was burst open and a wild eyed young man said ia surprised tones: "'I want to see the secretary of war.' 'Well, take a good look.' I said 'You'll never see any more of him than you do right now.'" LOWER CALIFORNIA A RICH PENINSULA Facts About Territory Where Valuable Resources Abound. Washington.Lower California, Mex ico's isolated peninsula, the c&ast of which the Pacific fleet of the United States is now patrolling, is one of the least known territories in North Amer ica. The following facts concerning this arm of land, which projects about 800 miles southeasterly from the south ern border of California, were given out by the National Geographic society at Washington.' The width of the peninsula varies from about thirty to more than a hun dred miles, and its irregular coast line, over 2.000 miles long, is bordered by numerous islands. Being mainly a mountainous, desert region, it is thinly peopled and presents many sharply contrasting conditions. Low sun scorched plains, where death by thirst awaits the traveler, lie close to the bases of towering granite peaks, belted by forests and capped in winter by snow. Desolate plateaus of black lava look down on valleys seamed with green bordered streams. At the time of its discovery in 1533 by an expedition sent out by Cortes in search of a fabulously rich island, it is estimated to have been inhabited by 25,000 Indians, who vigorously resent ed the intrusion and prevented the newcomers from getting a foothold for more than a century. The Jesuits then came in and were wonderfully success ful in exploring the peninsula and es tablishing missions. They established three main trails, one along each coast and the thjrd down the middle, which serve as the regular routes of travel today. The Indians have vanished from all parts of their former territory, except a few in the extreme northern end. During the last half century all parts of the territory have been visited, mainly by Americans, in search of mines and other natural resources, but little of the knowledge gained has be come available to the public Gold, sil ver, copper, iron and other minerals and much fertile land have been found, but the scarcity of water, fuel ands for age and the difficulties0 ofe transports Cause T1}^ tb hrtnJ*!!6 Ming about failure to develop the re sources. The climate of Lower California in general is hot and arid. Northern con ditions are closely like those in adjoin ing parts of southern California in the middle they are. more arid, but the ex treme southern end. though arid trop ical, has more regular summer rains The peninsula suffers long periods of drought, during which no rainfall suf ficient to start vegetation occurs over large areas for periods of from three Z^lSSt'iT^ thrr'ecrptecTe^eptcIe^n.1 be succeeded by torrential rains, which sweep the country and roll great floods down to the sea. The peninsula is thinly peopled, and enormous areas remain uninhabited. The most populous section is the region south of La Paz. where rains are more regular than further north. A few small towns and widely scattered com munities along the coast with a lim ited number of villages, ranches and miners* camps in the interior, covet the population. -v, MKJM ST. PAUL MP MINNEAPQMS. MMN.. SATURDAY: MAT BO 1914. BUTTERFLYi FARM OWNED BY GIRL i Makes Good Income by Rals ing Hundreds of Insects. FINDS ALREADY MARKET. Catching the Butterflies and Moths Only a Small Part of the Work, as Real Difficulty Is 'Experienced In Raising ThemInteresting as Well as Profitable DutyN Truckee, Cal.A California girl with the astonishing name, of Ximena Mc Glashan has the distinction of being the first professional "butterfly farmer" in this country. She began the work by mere chance, but she has made a sue cess of it by dint of hard work and at tention to scientific detail. It sounds very pretty to be called, as Miss McGlashan frequently is, "the butterfly princess." But this particular princess is a mighty industrious one. In the spring and summer she is often busy from daylight until after 10 o'clock at nigfct. This little fact is worth mentioning, as Miss McGlashan has received hun dreds* of letters from women and girls who apparently want to found a whole dynasty of butterfly princesses. They have heard that Ihis young girl, with out capital or previous experience, is making $50 a week out of butterflies and moths. That sounds pretty good to them. But their enthusiasm may suffer a relapse when they read the whole story. She started her "farm" near here a year and a half ago She was planning then to be a teacher, and when one day she saw her father showing his little grandchild how to capture a butterfly it occurred to her that the knowledge might come in handy in her own career as an instructor of school children. Her father readily consented to show how the trick was done and casually hinted that she could make more money out of butterflies than in peda gogy. He "sugared" some*trees for her, fixed her up a lantern and some cyanide in jars, showed her how to catch moths at night by placing the mouth of the jar over the unwary feaster on the sugar, and without more ado she was launched on her career. Inside of two weeks she shipped 1,500 moths and butterflies and receiv ed $75 in return. In ten weeks she sold over 10.000 specimens at a flat price of 5 cents apiece and had over $500 in return. In addition, she had on hand about 20,000 eggs, larvae and pupae, which would hatch out in due season These really constituted her farm and are the important end of the business. Catching the butterflies and moth's is only a small part of the work The real job is raising them. Only perfect specimens are saleable, and it is a ticklish undertaking to capture these fragile creatures without injuring them. Many of them are already a trifle damaged. They may have lost an antenna or a piece of a wing. The first thing this young entomolo gist does with her captured speci mens, therefore, is to sort them over carefully She liberates the males that are not perfect so that they may go out and propagate more of their spe cies The imperfect female specimens she puts in paper bags, one to- each bag, so that she will have their eggs to :idd to her stock. This is where the real work begins I each' bag she puts food for the oc oupant Butterflies will not deposit tlieir egas unless confined in a gauze bag or its equivalent and supplied with their particular food Every day Miss MfGlashan feeds her butterflies with dnerl apple*, soaked in water contain ing a little honey or sugar. With this treatment she persuades tliem to lav their eggs on the inside of the bag. Some of them deposit as many ns 200 or 300 eggs When they have finished they die The eggs hatch in inning periods, some in a few days, othois only after the lapse of months Miss McGlashan has them in test tubes where she can keep track of their rle\ efopnient. During the winter she puts the tubes in cold storage to pre sent the eggs hatching before theprop i food plants are ready th eggtrcomeou has an other peiiod of feeding before her. She aters to the tastes of these little norms as carefully as it she were a U,SWhen 0 salariee chef supplyingshae cuisine- for a lot of epicures. She experiments with all kinds of leaves till she finds what seems most tempting to the ap petites of her charges, Some of these she keeps in candy jars If she has many hundreds of one kind she places them in a tight barrel, covering the open head with gauze. In the bottom of each jar or barrel she puts several inches of dirt or leaf mold, as the larvae like to hide in it in the daytime Fresh leaves must be put in every day. the old food taken out and When the perfect moths and butter flies finally emerge from the pupae they are ready for shipment and prices are good Sell Eggs by the Bushel. Columbus. Ind.Eggs are so plenti ful in Jackson county that they are be ing sold there by the bushel. When a huckster called at the home of John Manion. a farmer in that county, the farmer sold him two bushel baskets to ten years. He has the knowledge of full of eggs at $6 each. *0:jtf!r^ child of that age. SPEAKING AB-Ui HOGS. Ohio Editor Grows Earnest in His W ar on Cholera. Washington.Representative AVhite of Ohio is showing his friends in the house just how the bog cholera lobby is working here. Mr. White has a con stituent in Ohio, an edito*. who stands close to him in many wjys. To this editor came A. P. Saudles. most ar dent exponent of the projected law, with the plea that he "get George busy for the hog cholera bill." Here is a part of the letter which the congressman received from the editor: I had a sort of Idea that the white plague was about the wqrst thing we had to contend with in this country, but no, a thousand tunes no! For frightful destruc tion and stupendous havoc and gigantic lossof moneythe hog cholera has the white plague backed up the corner yell ing for ice water. I firmly believe this because "Put" says so. So I wish to ad my urgent insist that you fly to the pro tection of the innocent hog instanter. If a few odd thousand children should die durmg your errand of mercy to the hog that is one of the exigencies that cannot well be avoided, because there are plenty more Where they came from Not so with the hogs They are bringing from 9% to 10% cents ^Pittsburgh today, and the visible supply is limited. THESE CHICKENS ARE VAMPS. Survived a Fire and Wouldn't Leave Shells Till Bell Rang. Tarrytown, N. Y.-Fire destroyed the North Tarrytown fire house. Water played on the blaze flooded the house of Charles Minnerly next door, and a box with a sitting hen and fifteen eggs floated around the cellar. The hen. however, stuck to the post while the flames crackled around her. When the eggs were due to hatch no chicks appeared. Minnerly spoke to some of Ms friends, and they told him they were fire chickens and if he want ed to hatch them he would have to sound an alarm of the bell. Then Minnerly went to the coop and rang an old dinner bell for fifteen minutes. To his surprise the eggs be gan to open, and in less than an hour every one of them hatched. The chicks would not stay with the mother as long as Minnerly rang the bell. He solved the problem by tying a small bell around the mother's neck. HEAVY SNOWS TO BRING BIG CROPS Soil In Fine Shape as Result of White Blankets. Washington.For a number of years the country at large has not enjoyed such general snows as whitened the countryside during February and March of the present year. Also it has been the occasional catastrophe that one great heavy snow has fallen late in the season to be followed by a quick thaw and consequent floods. Now the soil sharps, seeing Lhat condi tions are more nearly ideal this sea son than for a number of springs, are encouraged to believe that 1914 is des tined to be a year of bumper crops. Dr. J. A. Bonesteel of the bureau of soils is quoted: "Since the snow blanket took its time in departing we will have a bet ter crop start this year than for sev eral years. To date conditions could be hardly more ideal. We had snow after snownot too heavy, but per sistent enough to keep the ground cov ered well and the tender shoots of the wheat in perfect condition. "This is particularly true of the east ern states generally, but at the same time conditions are far better in the middle west than is the general aver age. "In the corn belt, where there was a considerable depletion of the crop through too persistent drought last season, the snow will,prove of incal culable benefit. The corn belt ought to have a splendid start. "Where snow remained a long time and there has been extensive oppor tunity for it to seep down into the earth, carrying its moisture from one to two feet, the soil is prepared to de velop sturdy roots for the cereal crops. The plants therefore stand a better chance against possible deficiencies in the matter of rainfall during the period of their growth." WOMEN IN BUSINESS. Statistics Show That Many Females Are In Various Professions. Washington. The extent to which women are leaving the home to enter the business world is shown by the following figures for the United States. There are: 239,077 stenographers. 327,635 teachers and professors. 481,159 in various trades. 770,055 engaged in agricultural pur suits. '7,300 physicians and surgeons. 7,395 clergy. 2,195 journalists. 1.037 architects, designers and draftsmen. 1,010 lawyers. 429,497 women in various other pro fessions. Man's Mind Ten Years Old/ St Paul. Minn.According to alien ists who examined George Preston, twenty-four years otd. charged with robbery, his mental age is from eight MINNESOTA ORJCAL fTY. IDAHO'S MINE PROFITS BIG. Sixteen, Concerns In One County Net ted $4,776,775 In the Aggregate. Wallace. Tda.Net profits reports ot sixteen producing mines in Shoshone county filed with the assessor for as sessment purposes for the present year based on the operations of the year 1913 show a total net profit of mines of $4,776,775 as against net profits of $3,589,501 for the preceding^ear, or an increase of $1,187,274 in the face of an adverse lead market which, during the year, has gradually fallen approximate ly $1.40 per hundred pounds The gross output of the sixteen big producers for 1913 amounted to 2,039. 030 tons, antmcrease of 150,786 tons over the preceding year, while the gross value amounted to $17,670,083, an increase of $2,391,020. The cost of .ex- traction amounted to $6,586,784 as against $5,926,374 for the year 1912 transportation and smelter charges amounted to $5,767,412 as against $5, 059,612 for the preceding year, and im provements and betterments decreased from $908,785 to $635,376 The most remarkable showing made by any single producer is that of a mine which this year jumps into first place, eclipsing the Bunker Hill by $144,814 in net profits. Still another remarkable showing is that of a mine which this year dis places the Stewart for third place in the producing list with net profits of $838,140 the Stewart ranks fourth with $561,432 as against $395,344 last year. The Morning Mine at Mullan holds its position at fifth place, with a decrease of $19,632 in its net profits, while the Hecla drops from fourth last year to sixth this year. GOOD TO JACK'S GIRL Daniels Allows Sailors on Shore Leave to Stay Away Later. Washington.Secretary Daniels dem onstrated again his friendship for Cu pid by letting it be known that he pur poses to extend the shore leave of sail ors when their ships are in port. Inci dentally Secretary Daniels expects thereby to decrease the number of technical desertions. Under present regulations, when a sailor gets shore leave, he must return to his ship by 11 o'clock, when the last boat to the ship leaves shore There have been many desertions be cause of failures to catch the last boat, and Secretary Daniels has issued an order providing that there shall be a 12 o'clock and a 1 o'clock boat between shore and ship "It is quite unfair," said Secretary Daniels, "to expect that a sailor can take his girl to a theater, have a little supper afterward and get back in time' for the last boat at 11 o'clock. I have ordered that the last boat between shore and ship leave at 1 o'clock. I understand that navy desertions have been due to sailors missing the 11 o'clock boat, because they have feared the results." MONUMENTS MARK U. S. BOUNDARY Surveyors Fix Line Between Alaska and Canada. Sitka, Alaska.-'-Scarring a broad line across 600 miles of wilderness in the far north in order that the possessions of the United States and Canada may have a distinct separation at every point will be completed during the coming open season. The work has been in progress since 1907 under the direction of Thomas Riggs, Jr., civil engineer, representing the United States Alaskan boundary commission, and T. D. Craig, representing a similar commission of Canada. Although the United States and Can ada have been neighbors in the far north for almost half a century, the ex act dividing line between their posses sions, especially as to the northern por tion, was, previous to this survey, in definite and conflicting. Many disputes arising, the two governments decided finally, through their commissions, that an absolute survey, clearly established and marked for all time, should be made along the one hundred and forty first meridian, from the Mount St Elias Alps, on the Pacific, to the Arctic ocean, a distance of approximately 600 miles. The United States surveying party consisted of from sixty to eighty men each season since the work was under taken. Chief Engineer Riggs, himself a young college man. selected his aids from the hardiest classescowboys, forest rangers, prospectors, timber cruisers and frontiersmen, with a lib eral sprinkling of engineers New ex peditions were organized each spring although many of the men who started at the beginning have remained in the service up to now It was the custom, too. leave a few men in the north each winter to care for equipment and supplies. The.pctual visible result of the six 9r seven years of efforts, is a twenty foot vista, cut. like a gigantic avenue or lane, through all timber and brush districts, together with monuments set at intervlsible points from three to four miles apart Holds to Ledge Twenty Minutes. South Bend. Ind.After hanging from the ledge of a cistern twenty min utest' with 'the tvater to bis neck. Christian Lipp. aged seventy, was res cued by relatives. He is not expected to survive. tv $2.40 PEE YEAK- GEN. CROZIER BOSS OF ARMY'S GUNS As Chief of -Ordnance Bureau He Supplies the Weapons. NO BOMBS IN AEROPLANES. Characteristics of the Man on Whose Shoulders Rests the Responsibility of Having Ammunition Ready For Any EmergencyProud of Soldiers and Their Appearance In Public. Washington.By and by some inspir ed war correspondent will sneak a let ter through the censor's lines down in Mexico. He will tell of a uniformed aviator's performance on a hydroplane "Laden with bombs," the correspond ent will say. But there's no need of going any further, because the hydroplane will not be laden with bombsat least not with bombs that are spelled with two b's because that sort of thing is against the conventions of The Hagueand because that particular prohibition was put in those conven tions at the suggestion of General Wil liam Crozier, chief of the bureau of ordnanceand because General Crozier is just the sort of soldier who would have an aviator crucified for disobey ing an order of that kind. Aeroplanes may sail through the blue empyrean until the air men get dizzy, observing the movements of the ene my. But that is all. Stories in which aviation and bombs get all tangled up are hereby oflScially discounted. Crozier isn't particularly well known to the country, but he is one of the Photo by American Press Association. GENERAL WHJIiIAM CKOZIEK. strongest men in the United States army. As chief of the bureau of ord nance his duty will be to see to it that the army has all the guns it needs when it needs them, and all the am munition, and that the ammunition fits the guns, a detail that has been over looked in some previous affairs And he likely will see to it. He has served well in the fieldsomewhat hampered because things had been for gottenand after he got back home he has raked the coals to a nice, glowing center and placed a few superior offi cers on them and then watched their intellects during the process of reduc tion to bone ash. Crozier is frank frank to a fare-you-well. And fearless He has said things that he positively knew were going to hurt some of the very highest and most influential feel ings we have. But he has never yet had to take anything back. He was a captain, for example, in that march to Peking during the Chi nese trouble/ He saw Japanese soldiers bayonet helpless Chinamen and Rus sian soldiers kick little Chinese chil dren in the face and British soldiers loot cities with the advice, approval and assistance of their officers. Crozier told about it. Whereupon those told on started to .say it wasn't true in clarion tones that gave every evidence-Of getting more clarion as the day brightened. But after thinking it overand thinking Crozier overall the clarion came out of those indignant yelps. Their owners knew he had the goods. When, just to make every one happy. Crozier allowed that the Ameri can soldiers on that march were good soldiersfine, honest, hard fighting menbut sloppy. "It was the fault of the American officers," said Crozier. "They permit ted their men to go about slouchy In dress and carriage. There was no ex cuse for It. for there are enough offi cers graduated from West Point every year to teach the service better man- ners." Mind you. he is enthusiastic about the quality of the American soldier but he isn't enthusiastic about dirty collars and open blouses and greasy bridle bits. Our arms were better than those of any nation in that Pe king parade, be said, and our clothes were the equal of the best. In spite of the raptures that some critics went into every time they saw a Japanese cart, hauled by a pony and led by a coolie, Crozier demonstrated that the good old four mule army wagon of our daddies is the best means of army transportation Invented. ~J 'p? 7 "V. r- -3 -A &