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feu I Agricultur* I Location and EnI vironment. a The College is located in Oconee 5 County at the foot of the Blue Ridge I Mountains, on the homestead of John C. Calhoun, and later of his Jaiv ThfiS fi OlftniSOn. Tlie 4W ?* j * -? ? - , College is over SCO feet above the sea level, and the climate is healthful and invigorating. Temptations to dissipate or to spend money fool-! ishly are reduced to a minimum. I The students are under strict military government and every effort is made to train up young men who will reflect credit on the College and on the State. Religious Influences The College contributes to the salary of four resident ministers, who conduct divin,e services and do pastoral work among the cadets in barracks. There is a flourishing Sunday School and Y. M. C. A. with two salaried Secretaries. A $75,000 Y. M. C. A. building was completed I January, 1916. Requirements of Admission. No student will be admitted who is not at least 16 years old at the time of entrance. An honorable discharge from the last school or college attended is required. ' The scholastic requirments are the same as those of the other Colleges in South Carolina. Details are given in College catalogue. Hazing is forbidden by the laws of the State as well as the laws of the College. No application will be accepted, whether for re-admission or first entrance, unless the applicant has filed pledge of prescribed form not to haze. ITALIANS DASH FOR LIBERTY, ed free Conditions So Insufferably Bad Be- and, gan Planning Upon Arrival. com sion London, May 16.?It has always It been considered fair game in war for feas prisoners to escape from confinement ging wherever opportunity presents itself, und< and to make what opportunities they littl< can for themselves, on the clear un- ed, derstandiner that thev take their subs lives in their own hands, it being no dug offense against the rules of the game wor] for their pursuers to shoot them dead ecut on coming within range of them. ? mini The record for this war in the way conf of prison-breaking unquestionably ligh has been made by a party of eight hole Italian soldiers, who escaped from an thei: internment camp in Czernowitz, fallc where they had been incarcerated for trial eighteen months. A These Italian "escapadoes, arrived dasfc in London a few weeks ago and I as 1 met them immediately after their ar- of t rival in a little Italian restaurant nigh where they were the guests of the wou proprietor. Private Danni, who was ty o selected as their spokesman for the was reason that he spoke French, told but me that they had reached London I thei] after ninety days of traveling, partly | disa on foot, partly by rail, and partly by hS \ sea. Their camp life at Czernowitz was so insufferably bad from the first m that they began by signs and other j ' devices to prepare a plot of escape. ^ "We would all have rather been ^ Jaod + Vi o v, oUttq in + V>o f infornA " coifi I u^au bUAU c*** * A". "V, ?W*U q? ^ Danni, "and sooner than fall into the men hands of the Austrians again, every ^ one of us would commit suicide, or j( die of a broken heart if the means to otlie commit suicide were not within our agCC reach. When our great countryman, tJijn Dante, wrot6 his 'Inferno,' he did not . know anything about life in an Aus- hQ trian internment camp. If he had he . would, have included it among the g.gh 'tortures of the damned.' " ^ecTreated Like Beasts. unif They were accommodated like cons beasts, given damp beds of straw to To ( sleep on with rats for their com- robe panions in the night. Their hours whit of labor averaged sixteen for seven top days of the week, and their food con- on r sisted of unpalatable black bread "] washed down with draughts of a said nauseating beverage called coffee, us 1 but no more like coffee than plaii treacle is like honey. Only the usef pangs of hunger and thirst com- Sc pelled them to swallow the re- thei: pulsive rations. Each man had his Gen appointed dole of hard work to do, pare while over him stood a soldier arm- tion, iMS e, ChemistP NEXT ! Four Year Degree Course. 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TWO YEAR COURSE IN TEXTILES Requirements; 18/years of age, one year of mill experience, eight grades in school. with a whip which he used down ly on the slightest provocation soldi< when no provocation was forth- withe ing, applied as a devilish diver- "T ! said I was discovered that the only! all d ible means of escape lay in dig- Lond ; an apperture in the soft ground i undei ar the walls of the prison, and thedr a by little, as opportunity afford- Six especially during the night, the the f toil was silently and stealthily when away uy me pnmuivc opauc caym k of fingers and nails. The ex- of th ion of their plan occupied their bia, ; 3s and relieved the tedium of throu inement. When eventually the dista: t of day was seen through the whicl in the wall the men experienced trave: r first thrill of joy since they had upon >n into the hands of the Aus- reduc is. footg t length a time was fixed for the j had i for liberty. Watching the sentry j move le paced- along from end to end hut t he dimly lighted corridor in the them t they calculated how long it Of Id take him to reach the extremi- 'and f his beat ^nd return again. It | upon only a matter of a few moments, j they : so skillfully had they perfected j The ! r arrangements that they had all j hospi ppeared through the hole before! their vas aware of their escape. decid The Escape. *ll?k hey stepped out into snow that in the open country several feet secre1 ?, so that progress was exceedingifficult at the most critical period j ? heir enterprise. Several of the i ^ were actually weltering waist-} ), and it seemed as if they must j eft behind; but by grasping each; x's hands they somehow man- Trs - I fpnm i to get well away before any-1 g was heard by them of the Aus- 40 is in pursuit. Half a mile from only camp was a convenient hollow, ians? which they scrambled out of' to pa t of the prison, <%nd here it was j neces ded that the mahogany-colored j t0 ^ orm which they wore showed up j move picuously against the white snow. I an(* T >vercome this difficulty they dis- were id in the cold and, taking off their j *ans 1 :e undergarments wore these on , outsl< of the uniforms, which they put i these text to their skins. I 3umP [t was very irritating at first," Pecte Danni, "but that did not distress diers very much when we could see ily that the ruse would be very Two ul to us if we were chased." coupl ?arcely had they thus reversed and * p clothing when a company of tion nan soldiers came into view ap- drink ntly marching in their direcTbe Italians instantly lay Ev< ON CO y, Engineering, T exl SESSION OPENS SEPTEMBER 1 "education" a patriotic dutyIn the.-e war times eVerv technically trained man is a national asset. The Colleges, as well as other agencies, have a real contri burion to make towards the winning of the war. The special interests of institutions must be subordinated to the one purpose now before the nation. * President Wilson has declared that it is the patriotic duty of young men under twenty-one years of age to seek a technical education. and if already in College, to continue and complete their education. A sufficient number of technically trained men is so essential that the War Department has made the following provisions to encourage college students arriving at draft age before graduation to continue and complete their courses. Immediately upon graduation, such students enter the service in their special lines. t 1. Qualified engineering students may enlist in the Engineering Enlisted Reserve Corps and be placed on the inactive list until graduation. At graduation they will have an'opportunity to enter an Engineer Officers' Training Camp to try for a Commission, or they enter the Engineers' Corps as a private. 2. Qualified engineering students may enlist in the Naval Re serve, and on graduation may enter the U. S. Navy Steam Engineering School and train for Ensign's Commissions. (Students in the Naval Reserve will likely not be eligible for membership in the R. O. T. C.) 3. Qualified agricultural Students in the Senior Class may enlist in the Quartermaster's Reserve Corps to be called to active duty in that branch of the service after graduation. The Secretary of War has distinctly stated that young men under draft age who have entered upon a technical college education can render the nation the greatest service by being educated first and serving afterward. Young men sixteen or seventeen years of age can graduate by the time they reach the draft age and be prepared for maximum usefulness in the military establishment. Engineers and technicians cannot be made over night, and our Government will be seriously embarrassed if young men refuse to begin now the training necessary to keep up the supply of such men both for the needs of the army and for carrying out the war programme at home. After the war the greatest opportunity in history will be presented to men trained in Agriculture, Engineering and other technical lines. If the U. S. is to be a leader in the reconstruction of the world, she must have men trained for the task. For Catalogue Application Blanks, Etc., Write at Once to W. M. RIGGS, President, CLEMSOX COLLEGE, S. C. IliBBBBMBWMWMWHMMWBBMMMM in the snow and the German 1 after the fugitives had been fifty d jrs passed them by on the left" on their journey. The spectacle t >ut detecting their whereabouts.1 presented on calling at the Ita! hat was a very narrow escape," j consulate was that of famishing, I )anni, " and we thought we were washed, half-demented men attirei ead men. But here we are in rags and looking as if their rea on enjoying a first rate dinner j had left them. The consul immedi; p the shadow of St. Paul's Ca-j ly procured food and clothing, al." ! for three days they remained in 1 :teen hundred miles lav before' rograd, when they felt sufficiently joldiers and the Arctic ocean, j freshed to resume their journey; e lay their only chance of es-1 the object upon which they had g to England. The first stage: their minds was to reach Engla eir route lay through Bessara-1 an(I thereafter to return to their < across the Province of Podolia, j country and fight the foe they igh Volhynia and on to Minsk, a| learned so heartily to detest, ice of 350 miles, every yard of j It might well be asked how did i they must traverse?and did I Italian soldiers protect themse! rse?on foot with the result that | against the cold, which grew m ' -?A ^ O TJrt n /I TXTV reaching Minsk their boots were intense every u<ry : am* >ed to tatters hardly resembling did they sleep at night? Were t ear at all. The frost and snow | n?t constant danger of starvinj bitten their feet until every; death? Did any of them become fa ment was an agony and nothing \ hearted and threaten to put an he passion for freedom enabled j *he business by the last means to bear^ip and struggle on. j to men in overwhelming difficult! food they had practically none j Life in Snow Huts, were obliged to subsist mainly | The answers to these questi radishes and other roots which j were given by Stefano Danni afte found at the bottom of the snow.; consultation with his fellow "e: Russian pesants extended every j padoes." They constructed huts tality within their power, but i snow and discovered, as travelers resources in this direction were. quently do in the Artie, that wan edlv limited. A great stroke of j was actually obtainable in such befell them when a particularly cumstances. Their Mbed-cloth 1 old peasant produced some of j were snow: their drink was deri orbidden vodka which he had. sucking ice, and they managec ted in some corner of his hut, j keep together by holding each oth ave them a small quantity and j hands and moving in a single gratitude was expressed to me leaning on each other's shoulders mni, who said: string of weary men weak and t 7e have built a monument to fr0ni exhaustion, trudging throi peasant in our hearts." the pitiless Arctic region, buoyed lins were running frequently bv the remote hope of yet reach Minsk to Petrograd, a distance their homeland alive. None of tt 0 or 500 miles, but these trains gave up, though all of them : proved tantalizing to the Ttal- threatening fits of faintheartednei who had no money with which Was there ever a picture in ,y their fares. Here again the world of ice and snow, like this ; sities of the position drove them ^ure 0f eight Italian soldiers trai jsperate measures. The trains jng through blinding snow-stor d in a very leisurely manner, an^ singing, as they did for ho vere mostly full of soldiers, who together, the stirring strains of V. ^ fK<An/11r TVie. Ttol_ *1 u: T i . ^ -r, ft nis.t;i%Y tu uc mciiui;. Ac*** uanuaiui nyiiiii., iu ivcc^ up u secreted themselves a little way drooping spirit^? 3e Minsk station, and as one of Qn g^venty-fifth day of tl trains left in the dark the} pjigrjmage from Czernowitz ed on behind and as they ex- away behind them in Austria, M d were well received b} the sol- man Qn shores of the Artie oe to whom they conveyed as best wag reached by tortuous routes < could an idea of their position. unSpeakably painful degrees. H< of the Italp'ana jumped on the w{jere everybody was kind and s: ings betv-een the last carriage naf]iefip_ thpv staved nearly a we he brake van, and in that posi- wamng for a g^jp to take them they traveled without food or England, where they knew all wo for two days. wejj gy a strange irony of f Fifty Days to Petrograd. a steamer called the "Huntsend" i entually Petrograd was reached placed at their disposal, bound * HnmnnBBinBnn tiles, Militar 1, 1918 _ ~~ "" ~ " * i Award or Scholarships and Free T uition. The College maintains 1C9 fouryear scholarships in the Agricultural and Textile Courses, and 51 in the One-Year Agricultural Course (October 3rd to June 1st). Each scholarship is worth $100 and free tuition. Scholarship and entrance e.vami\ nations are held at the county court I houses at 9 A. M.f July 12th. Write a for full information in regard to the j scholarships open to your county R next session, and the laws governI ing their award. ] Credit will he given for any ex animations passed at the county seat. The State Board of Charities and Corrections is charged with investigating the financial standing of all applicants for four-year scholarships and free tuition, and reporting their findings to the Board of Trustees of the College. This Board passes upon the matter, accepting as correct the information gathered hv the State Board. Appeal from the decision of the Trustees may be made to the State Board of Education. The College will furnish blanks to all applicants for scholarships ami free tuition. Summer School Courses For Agricultural Teachers (July 2nd to August 27th) Corn Club Boys (July 16th to July 27th) (July 31st to August 10th) t Rural Preachers (July 2nd to July 13th) Cotton Graders (July 2nd to July 23rd) County Superintendents (July 2nd to July 13th) Poultry Husbandry (July 16th to July 23rd) Cost of All Courses For Room, Board, Water, Light, etc., $1.00 per day. Xo tuition charged. 1 [ays | Newcastle-on-Tyne. The "Huntsem hey was a steamer of the Hamburg-Ame lian i ican line that had been captured 1 un- j the British and was now being put d in. British uses. It gave the Italian sc son | diers a peculiar satisfaction to knc ate- that in this way their barbarous en and! mies were, so to speak, compelled Pet- j minister to their wants in the la re-; stage of their adventures, for; In due course the "Huntsend set; which was making its first voya; md, after the break-up of the ice, arriv< >wn at Newcastle, where they were clot had ed and nourished back to life ai fitness. Their stay in Newcastle w thj? short, money and Italian uniforms b Ives j ing given to them at the consula lorej there. On their reaching London tl lere j Italian ambasador had everythii I hey j done to minister to their comforl I to They spent a week in the metropo] int- j enjoying "a very good time amoi end Italian friends and English symp left i thizers." ies?j "Jf we are killed when we beg ! fighting again," said Stefano Danr ons' wil1 be * glorious thing to die i the cause of liberty; so very miv sea-! yetter than t0 have *n a pr's: , of camp under the lash of the unspea ?re_ I able Huns." nth j ? THR CYCLOPS MYSTERY. cir es" (Continued from page 2, column 6 ve(* Pickering to go under. I t0 The Wasp with 140 men und< er'3 command of Commander Johnstc : Blakely, engaged and captured ( a September 1, 1814, the British br ,ent Atlanta. A Swedish brig report* L1&h | having spoken to her thr< UP; weeks after that date, but no furthi in& j news ever was had about her. SI iem j is supposed to have foundered in had j gaje# 3S* ' The Hamilton, one of Commodoi the1 Chauncey's squadron on Lake 0] Pic-j tario, capsized on the night of Ai mP"| gust 10, 1813, while trying to weatl ms? | er the enemy's squadron, urs "All hands," says the offici; the chronicle, "are supposed to hai ieir been at quarters." The Epervier, a ship of eightee leir guns and a complement of 128, ca; far tured from the British by the. U. I ur- S. Peacock, sailed from Gibraltar f< ean this country on July 4, 1815. SI and last was seen by a merchant vess are, on August 14 in mid-Atlantic, fm- The Lynx, a schooner of three gui >ek, with fifty men on board, commande to by Lieut. J. R. Madison, sailed fro: uld St. Mary's Fla., for Jamaica, on Ne ate Year's Day, 1821.. She last was sigh svas ed on January 22 that year, for The Wildcat, with three guns an t y T raining. Military Training Clemson College is rated by the War Department as a "Military College." All students are required to wear, the uniform and are under military discipline at all times. Military instruction is supervised by regular army officers. 1 o /-x 1 1 r-r V? r\ ** O H A flk \^idiiavsu nab uvcr OW Bg men in the service, many of them holding high rank. When war was declared, fifty-one of the class of 1917 went to the first officers' training camp, and forty-seven of these won commissions. Since then, the military instruction has been made even moije efficient. No patriotic young man can afford to miss th? opportunity of combining with a technical education thorough military training. Clemson College is a member of the Senior Division of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. All Freshmen, Sophomores and Short Course students are required to take the Basic Course of three hours military instruction per week. Juniors and Seniors may enter the Advanced Course if physically and otherwise qualified, and if admitted, are required to take additional military instruction. All students in the Basic and Ad-' vanced Course receive from the gov ernment $14.00 on their uniforms, and students in the Advanced Course $0.00 per month in addition for subsistence. While no obligation rests upon the graduate of the Advanced Course, completion of it gives distinct military advantages and special military opportunities. Membership in the advanced course amounts practically to a two year scholarship furnished by the Federal Government. 1 * "Drive Courses" For Teachers of Agriculture in Schools. (1 Session) 1 / For Chemists. (1 Session) Write for Details. 1" thirty-one men, commanded by Lieut. . # ir-j J. F. Legare, sailed from Cuba for by Key West in 1824. She is supposed to to have gone ashore on Carysford >1-; reef, as an armchest and other iw | wreckage from the vessel later were a - j found there. to | Armed with eighteen guns and st; carrying a crew of 140 men, the j Hornet, with Commander Otho Nor," j ris as skipper, foundered in a gale ge( on: lampico on sepiemoer iu, 1023, sd | with a loss of all hands. h-: The Sylph, a small naval schooner, id also believed to have foundered a asj few years later, as she never was e- j heard after her departure from port. te: The Sea Gull, which left Orange tie Harbor for Valparaiso in company igj with the Flying Fish on April 28, ? :s. i is believed to have sunk in a severe [is | gale, from which the Flying Fish'' ig took refuge under false Cape Horn. . a" i Sailed from Charleston. I ! The Grampus, a schooner of twelve m! guns, sailed from Charleston, S. C., *l'j about March 14, 1843, and was due inl at Norfolk, Va., between the 8th and 2h! 15th of April. In June the Navy m r-. A A ?J . _ii 1 c~ ! ueparimeni auaiiuuiiea an nupe iui v"i her safety. 1 The Jefferson, a steamer engaged . in the coast survey was lost near the ? Straits of Magellan in 1850. 1-! The Albany, a sloop-of-war with 210 men under command of Comer? mander J. T. Gerry, sailed from )n Aspinwall on September 29, 1854, m for New York. After a long wait the is, steamers Princeton and Fulton were sent in search of her, but no trace 2e ever was discovered. er| The Levant, also a sloop-of-war ie with 210 men, under Capt. William . Hunt, departed from Hilo in the 1 Sandwich Islands on September 18, re 1860. Vessels of the Pacific squada". ron searched for her many months, a~ I but the only traces ever found were ; an oar and broken spar, believed to ! have belonged to her. 3,1 The only case in recent years of a re naval vessel, other than the Cyclops, ! disappearing from the face of the 5 i sea, is the tug Nina, which officially was declared lost by the department on March 15, 1910. She is believed ^ -? i? - * a ?ii ^ 11 1. i to nave iounaerea wun an nanus m ie' a gale off the Atlantic coast, el; | Henry S. Felder, of Bamberg, fa1S miliarly known as "Punch," was a :(* member of the crew of the Cyclops. m ^ < > ? w Let's not wait for "history to punt ish the Boche." Why not do it our| selves, and permit history to tell id about it?