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NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS (Continued). Cooke; treasurer, W. W. Martin; surgeon, John L. Fryer. Pacific, Santa Monica, Cal.: governor, O. H. La Grange; treasurer, T. J. Cochrane; surgeon, O. C. McNary. Marion, Marion, Ind.; governor, Geo. W. Steele; treasurer, J. W. Miles; surgeon, Harry Miller. Danville, Danville, Ill. governor, Isaac Clements; treasurer, M. J. Barges; sur geon, D. C. Jones. Mountain, Johnson City, Tenn.: governor, J. P. Smith; treasurer, P. E. Divine; surgeon, E. T. West. Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, S D.; governor and surgeon, R. D. Jennings.

The requirements for admission include an honorable discharge from the United States service and disability which prevents the applicant from earning his living by labor. Soldiers or sailors whose pensions exceed $16 a month are not eligible unless the reasons are explained to the manager and are satisfactory to him.

There are also thirty State homes, located as follows: Veterans' Home of Callfornia, Yountville; Colorado Soldiers and Sailors' Home, Monte Vista; Fitch's Home for Soldiers, Noroton, Conn.; Idaho State Soldiers' Home, Boisé; Illinois Soldiers and Sailors' Home, Quincy; Indiana State Soldiers' Home, Lafayette; Iowa State Soldiers Home, Marshalltown; Kansas State Soldiers' Home, Fort Dodge; Massachusetts State Soldiers' Home, Chelsea; Michigan State Soldiers' Home, Grand Rapids; Minnesota State Soldiers' Home, Minnehaha; Missouri State Federal Soldiers' Home, St. James; Montana State Soldiers' Home, Columbia Falls; Nebraska State Soldiers and Sailors' Home, Grand Island; Nebraska State Soldiers and Sailors' Home, Milford; New-Hampshire State Soldiers' Home, Tilton; New-Jersey State Soldiers' Home, Kearny; New-Jersey State Home for Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Their Wives, Vineland; New-York State Soldiers and Sailors' Home, Bath; New-York State Woman's Relief Corps Home, Oxford; North Dakota State Soldiers' Home, Lisbon: Ohio State Soldiers' Home, Sandusky; Oregon State Soldiers' Home, Roseburg; Pennsylvania State Soldiers and Sailors Home, Erie; Rhode Island State Soldiers' Home, Bristol; South Dakota State Soldiers' Home, Hot Springs; Vermont State Soldiers' Home, Bennington; Washington State Soldiers' Home, Orting; Wisconsin Veterans' Home, Waupaca; Wyoming State Soldiers' Home, Buffalo,

THE NATIONALIZED MILITIA, 1906.

An act of Congress, approved Jan. 21, 1903, defined as the organized militia of the United States the regularly enlisted, organized and uniformed militia of the various states and territories, and provided that the organization, armament and discipline of this militia should be within five years from the date of the approval of the act the same as those prescribed for the regular and volunteer forces of the United States. The federal government now issues stores and supplies to the militia and conducts joint manoeuvres of regular and militia forces. The following table gives the militia strength in each state and territory, the state headquarters and names of state adfutants general.

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SUPERINTENDENT, COLONEL HUGH L. SCOTT, U. 8. A.

The United States Military Academy at West Point was founded in 1802. Each Congress district and Territory, the District of Columbia and Porto Rico is entitled to have one cadet at the academy. Each State is also entitled to have two cadets at the academy from the State at large. Forty are also appointed from the United States at large. The appointments (except those from the United States at large and from the District of Columbia) are made by the Secretary of War at the request of the Senator, Representative or Delegate in Congress: and the person appointed must be an actual resident of the State, District or Territory from which the appointment is made. The appointments from the United States at large and from the District of Columbia are specially conferred by the President. The appointment of the cadet from Porto Rico is made by the President on the recommendation of the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico. The nun.ber of students is thus limited to 522.

Appointments are required by law to be made one year in advance of date of admission, and may be made either after competitive examination or given direct, at the option of the Representative. For each candidate appointed there may be nominated two alternates, who will be examined with the regular nominee, and one of whom may be admitted in the event of the latter's failure to pass the prescribed preliminary examinations. Appointees to the Military Academy must be between seventeen and twenty-two years of age at date of admission, at least five feet three inches in height, weigh 100 pounds, be unmarried, free from any infectious or moral disorder, and, generally, from any deformity, disease or infirmity; must be well versed in reading, in writing, including orthography, in arithmetic, and have a knowledge of the elements of English grammar, of descriptive geography (particularly of the United States), and of the history of the United States. The course of instruction requires four years, and is largely mathematical and professional.

The principal subjects taught are mathematics, French, drawing, tactics of all arms of the service, natural and experimental philosophy, chemistry, mineralogy, geology and electricity, history, international, constitutional and military law, Spanish, and civil and military engineering and science of war. Academic duties commence September 1 and continue until June 1. Examinations are held in each December and June, and cadets deficient in either conduct or studies are discharged. From about the middle of June to the end of August cadets live in camp, engaged only in military duties and receiving practical military instruction. Cadets are allowed but one leave of absence during the four years' course and, as a rule, it is granted at the expiration of the first two years. The pay of a cadet, with commutation for ration, is $609 50 a year, and with proper economy is sufficient for his support. Upon graduating cadets are commissioned as second lieutenants in the United States Army.

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MANNER OF APPLICATION.-Applications may be made at any time, by letter, to the Secretary of War, to have the applicant's name registered for submission to the proper Representative when a vacancy occurs. The application must exhibit the full name, date of birth and permanent abode of applicant, with the number of the Congress district in which his residence is situated. Immediately after his admission, and before receiving his warrant of appointment, the cadet must sign the following engagement for service, in the presence of the Superintendent or some officer deputed by him: "I, -, of the State (or Territory) of , aged months, do herely engage (with the consent of my parent or uardian) that, from the date of my admission as a cadet of the United States Military Academy, I will serve in the Army of the United States for eight years, unless sooner discharged by competent authority. In the presence The candidate must then take do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and bear true allegiance to the National Government; that I will maintain and defend the sovereignty or the United States paramount to any and all allegiance, sovereignty or fealty I may cwe to any State or country whatsoever, and that I will at all times obey the legal orders of my superior officers, and the rules and articles governing the armies of the United States.

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UNITED STATES SOLDIERS' HOME COMMISSION.

Commissioners-Major General F. C. Ainsworth, the Military Secretary, president; Quartermaster General Charles F. Humphrey, Commissary General Henry G. Sharpe, Surgeon General Robert M. O'Reilly, Judge Advocate General G. B. Davis, Brigadier General Alexander Mackenzie, Chief of Engineers, and Brigadier General Hamilton S. Hawkins (retired); secretary of the board, N. Hershler.

Officers of the United States Soldiers' Home, Washington-Brigadier General Hamilton S. Hawkins (retired), governor; Brigadier General Edw. B. Williston (retired), deputy governor; Major Henry M. Kendall (retired), secretary and treasurer; Major Wm. H. Arthur, attending surgeon.

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CIVIL WAR STATISTICS.

Number of enlistments in the army, navy and marine corps in the war of 1861-65, taken from latest revised reports of the government; many men who served in the war enlisted two or three times and are counted that number of times in the table:

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1Indians. 2Number not credited on the quota of any State. This item includes all deaths resulting from quarrels, riots and the like, which are not definitely reported as murder; from being shot for insubordination or by provost guards or sentinels in attempting to escape or pass the lines; from exhaustion or exposure; killed while depredating upon the property of citizens, and all other causes not mentioned in the foregoing table. Desertions (estimated by War Department), 117,247. No trustworthy deductions with regard to the nativity of soldiers in service during the Civil War can be made from any existing statistics.

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The maximum pay of a colonel is, by law, $4,500 per annum.
2The maximum pay of a lieutenant-colonel is, by law, $4,000 per annum.
"Regimental adjutants and regimental quartermasters are never retired as such.

NOTES.-Under Sec. 1,261, Revised Statutes, an aide-de-camp to a major-general is allowed $200 a year in addition to the pay
of his rank, not to be included in computing the service increase; an aide-de-camp to a brigadier-general, $150 a year, and an
acting commissary of subsistence $100 a year. Assistant surgeons are entitled to pay of captain after five years' service, service
to be reckoned from date of acceptance of appointment or commission.

Retired officers receive 75 per cent of pay (salary and increase) of their rank. Retired officers detailed for duty at colleges
under the act of November 3, 1893, are entitled to the full pay of officers of corresponding rank. Those detailed under other laws
are not entitled to anything beyond their retired pay.

Mileage, from and after July 1, 1898, is allowed to officers travelling on duty under orders at the rate of seven cents per mile,
by the shortest usually travelled routes. Commutation of quarters is paid at the rate of $12 per month per room.

The monthly pay of enlisted men in the Army is as follows: Artillery, infantry and cavalry-Privates, $13; corporals, $15;
sergeants, $18; first sergeants, $25. Engineers and ordnance--Corporals, $20; sergeants, $34. The pay increases $1 per month each
year during the term of the first five years' enlistment. For the second term of enlistment the pay is $2 per month above that of
the last year of the first enlistment. The pay of others on the first year of enlistment is: Ordnance sergeant, commissary ser-
geant and post quartermaster sergeant, $34; hospital steward, $45; acting hospital steward, $25; senior veterinary surgeon, $100;
junior veterinary surgeon, $75. There is, in addition, a clothing allowance. Twenty per cent increase on ray proper of all
enlisted men is allowed in time of war. Enlisted men when retired are entitled to 75 per cent of the pay which they receive
in active service.

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NAVAL STATIONS AND COMMANDERS.

(Corrected to December 1, 1906.)

Atlantic Fleet (Rear Admiral Robley D Evans, commander-in-chief).--First Squadron First Division: Maine, Missouri, Kentucky, Kearsarge. Second Division (Rear Admiral Charles H. Davis, commanding): Alabama, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana. Second Torpedo Flotilla (Lieutenant Commander Edwin A. Anderson, commanding): Hopkins, Lawrence, Macdonough, Whipple, Truxtun. Worden. Santo Domingo Division (Captain W. H. H. Southerland, commanding): Dixic, Newport. Don Juan de Austria, Dubuque, Marietta, Paducah, Scorpion,

Pacific Squadron (Rear Admiral William T. Swinburne, commander-in-chief). -Chicago, Boston, Princeton, Yorktown, Paul Jones, Preble Asiatic Fleet (Rear Admiral Willard H. Brownson, commander-in-chief) Special Service Squadron-West Virginia, Colorado, Maryland, Pennsylvania. Gunboat Division-Callao, Villalobos, Quiros, Concord, El Cano, Helena, Wilmington. Cruiser Squadron-Baltimore, Cincinnati, Raleigh, Galveston, Chattanooga. Philippine Squadron (Rear Admiral James H. Dayton, commanding)-Rainbow. Arayat, Pampanga, Paragua. First Torpedo Flotilla (Lieutenant Clark H. Woodward, commanding)-Barry, Bainbridge, Chauncey, Dale, Decatur.

Naval Station, Boston.-Rear Admiral Albert S. Snow, commandant. Naval Station, New York-Rear Admiral J. B. Coghlan (retired), commandant. Naval Station, Philadelphia.-Rear Admiral Joseph E. Craig, commandant. Naval Station, Norfolk.-Rear Admiral Purnell F. Harrington (retired), commandant.

Naval Station, Narragansett Bay.-Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas, Superintendent Naval Training Service.

Naval Station, Portsmouth, N. H.-Rear Admiral William M. Mead, commandant. Naval Station, Washington, D. C-Captain Eugene H. C. Leutze, commandant. Naval Station. Mare Island, Cal.-Rear Admiral Henry W. Lyon, commandant. Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Wash.-Rear Admiral William T. Burwell, commandant. Naval Home, Philadelphia.-Rear Admiral Nicoll Ludlow (retired), governor. Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C.-Rear Admiral Asa Walker, Superintendent.

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LIEUTENANT COMMANDER. Name. Date app't'd. Name. Date app't'd. (Rank with colonel.) Merrell, John P.Sept. 26, 01 Swift, William.....Feb. 9, 02 Date app't'd. Leutze, E. H. C. Oct. 9, 01 Ross, Albert......Apr. 11, 02 Bicknell, Geo. A. May 12, 01 Sebree, Uriel.....Oct. 9, 01 Clover, Rich'dson. Apr. 11, 02 Ackley, Seth M.. Apr. 8, 04 Couden, Albert R.Jan. 15, 02 Miller, Jas. M....Apr. 29, 02 Tilley, Benj. F...Sept. 2, 01| Pendleton, E. C..Jan 21, 02 Colby, H. G. O...June 18, 02

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