The Post. (Brule, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1906 Page: 4 of 12
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If the question has ever arisen in
your mind as to where the revolution-
ists of Cuba and the South American
republics obtained their guns and am-
munition, it can be easily answered
by saying that when the insurgent has
the price he can get the goods he
wants in New York city. In fact, the
supplying of the sinews of war is a
simple matter of everyday business
and merchandise. There is a big store
on Broadway with every floor packed
tun of military supplies, from rapid-
nre guns and cannon to saddles and
uniforms, which anybody has a right
to purchase if he has the money to
pay for them.
Fifty or sixty miles up the Hudson,
v ,• h 0 8 ght of West Point- ^ a love-
y little island of 13 acres in the center
of the river, nestling between Storm
Ing and the frowning mountain crags
opposite. On this island are stored
ammunition — cartridges, gunpowder,
ynamite, cannon and immense quan-
tities of military supplies, such as uni-
orms saddles, gun carriages, rifles—
n fact, everything needed to fit out a
government or a revolution.
The story of a vast business of sup-
P ylng countries and revolutions with
war material in a legitimate way is
teresting. The story begins 40 years
•go, at the close of the civil war
When the late Francis Bannerman. Sr..'
Of Brooklyn, returned home from
Z Ceutn Ule United State« navy! I
and w th his son, attended the auc- !
Bon sales of naval stores a. the Brook-
yn navy yard. It occurred to them
that there might be money in buying
fWorei*nateriaI and 8el,ing * to
S°vernments. The venture
Proved a success and for 20 years a
Ib Tm8 *JUsiness was done over there,
avenue- Next came an
^tabhshment in Broad street, near
£ nt* and finally Broadway, near
roome street, was occupied with the
sinews, where it now flourishes.
It is well known that the govern-
ment sells its surplus war supplies
2,om t,"ie t0 time. Thus it was that
when 50.000 of the old Springfield
rifles were put up at auction, the Ban-
nermans bought them. One day a
man eame along and purchased them
Ii.»w t G g“ soverninent. he said. I
1 get them out of the country
was easy enough, though the Banner I
mans do not deliver cannon and am- I
munition outside of the United States. ;
How the agent managed to reach
South American revolutionists with
the guns is another story. The usual
way is to make a bluff of shipping
them to Germany or elsewhere, and
later transferring them to whatever
part of South America they are most
needed. 1 hus the business of selling
war material in New York has
thrived.
During the last insurrection in Gua-
temala it was reported that this
Broadway establishment supplied both
C-RDEALS WHICH AWAIT GER-
MANY'S IMPERIAL BABY.
What It Means to Be the Son of Crown
Prince and Future Heir to
the Throne of the Fa-
therland.
Everything from Ancient Armor to 15-
Inch Shells.
the government and the revolutionists.
The same was said during the war in
Nicaragua, and similar reports are
now circulated as to the arms received
by the Cubans, government and rev-
olutionists. It is a fact that the
discarded arms which the American
government has sold at auction were
at the time good enough for American
marksmen in the field. So it is not
difficult to imagine that the agents
who bought these arms in New York
for shipment to foreign countries had
no difficulty in supplying the revolu-
tionists in South America and else-
where with superior weapons of war
The ordinary reader has little idea
of the various kinds of material in-
cluded under the name of “munitions
of war, beginning with the harness
j for artiHery, field guns and all the
accoutrements for fitting out the ar-
| tlllery- A few government auctions
meant the selling of 200,000 guns, 30-
000 revolvers, 10,000 saddles, 15 000
50,000 cante^- 100,000 belts,
oO.OOO cartridge boxes, 20,000,000
cartridges, 50,000 stirrups, 150,000 gun
stocks I75,ooo new uniforms, sold
«hen the fashions changed; also hun
reds of tons of gun barrels, “parts’
and equipments. Gatling guns of all
kinds, cannon from the old parrot
guns to the late armor penetrating
guns of modern expensive make.
last of the canimTs
Mme. La Vivandierp is ahm.t u_
Mme. La Vivandiere is about to be
mustered out of the French army In
other words, 1,073 women, soberly
uniformed in scarlet-piped blue, who
have upheld the traditions of “the
daughter of the regiment” since the
days °f ’89, and so romantically con-
tributed to French history, novels, and
comic operas, will presently find
emselves without employment. The
government of the third republic has
abolished the post of cantiniere.
Though women followed the armies
of the Bourbons, the cantiniere may
Be said to have sprung into existence
m the person of Felicia Loguet, the
wife °f a cuirassier of the revolution.
At 07 she strapped a barrel of brandy
on her hip and followed her husband
to the frontier. She had “limbs like a J
panther, her arms were bare and
Knotty, her voice that of a beast of
prey, shrill and broken with cries of
tumultuous rage," yet she aecom-
P is ed great deeds at Toulon, leading
and firing with her own hands can-
non at which all the detachment had
been killed; at Hohenlinden a ball tore
away a finger while she gave a drink
to two wounded hussars. “I have still
nine left for my country,” she said,
and continued her work. At 77 she
followed the grand army in its retreat
from Moscow; wounded at Bautzen
she turned up again smiling during
the campaign in France of 1814, sit-
ting on the shaft of her cart, clothed
!n rtags’ her feet stuffed into cavalry
boots, an officer’s cap cocked over one
P>e’ and wiPjhg her glasses with a
Russian flag. She died at last, after
\ atei loo, rather of rage than of old
age.
Dunng the strenuous, romantic days
of the beginning of the century more
Man one cantiniere mated with mar-
shal or peer or ambassador.
1, ,second was another
brilliant page in the history of “the
daughters of the regiment.” Mine.
Lros ot the foot chasseurs of the
Guard was decorated on the field of
bolferino by the emperor’s own hand
and the cantinieres of the First Zou-
i ?v'eVhe thirty-fourth regiment, and
the Empress’ Dragoons all received
Hie medal tor the campaigns of 1861
and 1862.
in the “Terribie Year” Mme. Saurin
or the Third Zouaves made herself fa-
mous by killing with her own hand a
German officer who attempted her
capture. She was badly wounded at
Strasbourg, but lived to serve in the
trying Algerian campaign of 1871 But
the cantinieres of ’70 will live in his-
tory rather for tne tender, womanlv
devotion with which they tended the
wounded under fire, than for deeds of
savage and unfeminine bravery which
characterized the exploits of their pre-
decessor?
All the world lias been interested in
the advent of the baby in the imperial
household of Germany, and in the
land of the kaiser, the picture of the
new sicon has been distributed in
hundreds of thousands, for the Geman
people are intensely interested in the
babe who will some day, in the natural
course of events, be ruler of the
mighty empire.
But those who are familiar with the
crushing burdens of royalty will look
with melancholy regret at the face
of the helpless baby who has such a
formidable career before him. The
lot of the infant Hohenzollern may be
magnificent, but it will be, neverthe-
less, a hard lot. He will be deprived
of nearly all those joys and pleasures
which brighten the lives of other chil-
dren, while at the same time he will
be loaded at an early age with duties,
cares and responsibilities with which
other mortals remain unfamiliar all
their lives long. Those especial priv-
ileges which are his due as the heir
o an impeiial throne and afterward
as the ocucpant of that throne do not
n any appreciable degree compen-
sate for the hardships of his lot, for
t hey are often in themselves unspeak-
ably burdensome and wearisome.
What a joyless childhood will be
his. From his earliest infancy the
imperial child will be cramped and I
confined by all sorts of regulations j
and restrictions which do not exist !
tor ordinary boys and girls. If he I
cries he will be told that it is undig.
mfied and unworthy of a future em- I
peror; if he laughs too loudly he will
he told that a prince destined for an
exalted position must not give evi- f
fence of a frivolous disposition If
he romps he will be restrained be- !
-cause he might hurt himself, and’both
us life and limbs are far too valuable
to be exposed to the least danger.
Dong before he is in his teens
learned professors and educational
experts will put their heads together
in order to elaborate a scheme of
training for the little prince. He will
rise early and every second of the day
W1 utilized for some serious pur-
pose or other. A certain number of
hours will be apportioned to mental
training and a certain number of
hours to physical training. The hours
for mental education will then be sub-
divided on sicentific principles, in or-
der that the prince may devote just
enough time to each subject, but not
a minute too long. Similarly, the time
devoted to physical training will be1
subdivided in the same precise man-
ner.
Huge official time tables will h
drawn and impressed with the seal t
state and the prince will be brought
up, according to schedule number^
and-so and not a jot of it all can h
altered without weighty conference,
and lengthy deliberations. 3
When he becomes a student at
Bonn university, in accordance with
the traditional custom of his imperial
family, he must limit his intercourse
to those students who are fit and pr0n
er comrades for his exalted and am
gust person.
This process of severance from the
world is a tatal policy, because it reu-
The Crown Princess of Germany and
Her Baby, Prince Wilhelm, Who
Will Be Emperor Some Day if He
Lives Long Enough.
ders the prince absolutely incapable
of properly discharging his monarch-
| ical duties.
When the time comes for him to
marry, the greatest tragedy of his life
will be enacted. He will not be per-
mitted to choose the girl of his heart
but will be forced to wed a woman
for reasons of state. His matrimonial
affairs will be arranged for him by
statesmen and diplomats on the same
precise scientific system as his whole
career. The consort selected for him
may be ugly, unsympathetic, ill-na-
tured, ill-tempered, a veritable vixen,
but he must marry her as a matter of
policy, lie will then go through life
without the supreme happiness of vir-
tuous love and without these exquisite
joys of peaceful home life in the com-
panionship of a consort chosen solely
according to the dictates of the heart
Instead, he will be chained in loveless
wedlock to a woman whom he detests,
but with whom he must appear in pub-
lic with a smile on his lips and whom
he must designate his “beloved and
gracious queen.”
WISE SLIMMER CHAP.
The following dialogue, translated
rom a German paper, shows that in
Durope the holiday season brings its
woes and worries:
“Well, and have you spent a pleas-
ant holiday?”
V es, thanks. Don’t I look as if I
had?”
Indeed you do. I have never seen
you iook more fit. Not everybody
piohts by the holiday tour as you have
done.
“No. But, then, I was particularly
fortunate in my choice. I liked the
place so much that I mean to spend
my next holidays there again.”
“Good cooking?”
Excellent. You could get anything
you wished for.”
Pleasant company?”
“Delightful people. And, best of all
no formalities. We could do exactly
as we liked.” y
“Qutot?”
I never was in a more quiet place."
Beds all right?”
Piist rate. Private bathroom, too."
But very expensive, no doubt?”
“On the contrary, it was the cheap-
est holiday I ever had.”
But, man, tell me the name of the
place!
I stayed at home.”
Trouble.
“Portleigh took his fiancee out In
his new automobile yesterday. When
they returned the girl was alone at
the steering wheel, and Portleigh waa
walking behind.”
’Lovers’ quarrel, I presume?”
“Oh, no; Portleigh was pushing th«
machine.”—Judge.
A Crime.
“There was a murder in Jinx'a
house last night.”
“Horrors! Tell me about it!”
“His daughter murdered a few poo.
ular songs.’’—Houston Post
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Forster, William. The Post. (Brule, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1906, newspaper, December 7, 1906; Brule, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc942165/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.