A certain King of Scythia, wishing to make an enumeration of the
inhabitants of his realm, required every man in his dominions
to send him an arrow-head. The vast collection was officially
counted, and then laid together in a sort of monumental pile.
This primitive mode of census-taking suggested to Darius the
idea of his cairn in his march through Thrace. Fixing upon a
suitable spot near his camp, he commanded every soldier to bring
a stone and place it on the pile. Of course, a vast mound arose
commemorating the march and denoting, also, the countless number
of soldiers that formed the expedition.
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=College Men in Positions of Trust=--See TRAINING.