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Why He Did Not Graduate

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Day
14
Month
August
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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Gen. Clister tells in an amusing way why lae did not gradúate with hia class at West Point : " Ludlow," he says (now Col. Ludlow), " was a greeny, but he had pluck ; and one evening, when I waa offioer of the day, some upper classmen pitched on to hiin, and hö showed fight. The boys enoouraged them until they got into a good, square, out-and-outer, just as I was going my round. Instead of sending both oí' them, as I should, to the guard-honse, you know, I pushed baok some fellows that were trying to trip Ludlow, and said that there must be fair play. It was a good one, and Ludlow was getting the best of it, when the boys began to interfere again. I was just getting my hand in again when oíd , instructor in artillery, carne around, and instead of arresting Ludlow and the other fellow, he looked me up for allowing the fight to go on, and I was in the guard-house when my class graduated. But they wanted soldiers at Washington just then, and they sent me on. I never went back there again." Destïutction of Property by Wak. - War is the grand impoverisher of the world. In estimating its havoc of property, we must inquire not only how much it co8ts and how much it destroys, but how far it prevents the aquisition of wealth, and a full answer to these three questions would exhibit an auiouiit ot waste beyond the power of any imagination adequately to conceive. The annual productiveness of the United States is probably at least $3,500,000,000. A war of any magnitude would decrease that production one-fifth or $700,000,000. This in addition to the direct cost óf the war and the property destroyed. The waste of property by war is dreadful. The track of an army is worse than the track of a tornado. Before it are fruitful fields, thriving villages and happy homes. Behind it are devastated farms, forsaken dwellings and smouldering ruins. Armies seize not only what is necessary for their own support, but destroy, out of mere wantonness, whatever inay be of use to the people whose country they are ravishing. Splenid mirrors and costly pianos are dashed to pieces with the ax, and tho brand of flre ignites the comfortable farm house or the costly mansion, and leaves nothing behind but a heap of ashes.

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Old News
Michigan Argus