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The Wadesboro Messenger an Wadesboro Intelligencer Consolidated July, 1888.
Wadesboro, N. C, Thursday. May 26, 1898.
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Emergency. -Headquarters
of the Army of Invasion,
Tampa, Fla., May 15. While it lasted,
life on board the flagship New York dur
ing the blockade was full of the most
novel and picturesque incidents, and the
change to the heat and dust and inaction
of this base of military operations is pain
ful in comparison. There is all the differ
ence between the deck of warship-cleared
for action and a hotel piazza filled with
ladies in summer frocks and officers in
straw hats, engaged in reading news
papers one day old.
On the warship there were also all the
comforts of civilization, all the luxuries of
a yachting cruise, but there was none of
its ennui and boredom. For if something
was not happening, there was always the
expectation that it was about to happen.
Every column of smoke on the horizon
suggested a possible Spanish gunboat, or
certainly a blockade-runner, and many
times each day and each night the bells
in the engine-room would sound '-full
steam ahead" and every glass on the ship
would be turned to the flying stranger.
Sometimes the New York let her escape,
only to run into the jaws of the warshipon
the next station, but almost invariably
the flagship raced after her throwing shells
across her bows, nntil she backed her en
gines and showed her colors, and a board
ing officer went over her side.
The discipline of the New York was
rigid, intelligent and unremitting, and
each of the five hundred men on this
floating monastery moved in his little
groove with the perfect mechaaism of one
of the 8-inch guns. A modern warship
is the perfection of organization. It is
the embodiment of the axiom thatf'a stitch
in time saves nine." It is the eternal vig
ilance which obtains that keeps her
what she is, the hourly fight against rust
and dust that makes her always looks as
though she had just been made complete
that morning. All the old homely sayings
seems to be the mottoes of her executive,
there is' 'a place for everything and every
thing iu its place,, 'whether it is a projectile
weighing half a ton, or signal flag No. 22,
or a roll of linit for the surgeon, or the
bluejacket in charge of the search
light. A SHIP OF WAR A FLOATING TILLAGE.
across the waves, would shoot the finger
of the search light. It showed the empty
waters and the tossing white caps in a
path ol light. "To the leftf a voice
would call from the height of the forward
bridge, and, as though it was part of the
voice, the light shifted. "No, higher!'
the voice would call again, and the obe
dient light would rise, turning the glare
of day upon a half a mile more of troub
led water, and exposing on its horiz on a
white, frightened steamer, scudding at
full speed for her life. Sometime she
backed, sometime she changed her course,
but the light never loosened its clasp. It
gripped her like a thief held in the circle
of a policeman's lantern.
It was like a cat playing with a mouse,
or a hound holding a iox by the scent. In
the siience of the great warship, where
the darkness was so great that the men
crowded shoulder to shouldercould not see
each other's faces, the blockade runner,
exposed and pointed out and held up to
our derision, seemed the only
living Ihing.on the surface of the waters.
She was as conspicuous as a picture
thrown by a stereopticon on a screen.
And then one of the forward guns would
speak, flashing in the n?ght like a rocket
and lighting up the line of the deck and
the faces of the men, and it would speak
again and again. And the flying steam
er, helpless in the long reaching clutch of
the search light, and hearing the shells
whistle acros3 her bows, would give up
the race and come to a standstill, sullen
and silent.
WHEN THE BIG GUNS ABE FIRED.
While I was on board the big guns
with a surgical instrument he could not
have done it aa skillfully as did the "bullet,
which was neither aimed or guided by a
human hand. It was Junier Surgeon
Spear who performed the operation, while
the fleet Surgeon, Dr. Gravatt, watched
him and advised. It was a wonderful
operation. It lasted nearly two hours,
and it left the layman uncertain as to
whether he should admire the human
body more or the way a surgeon nr asters
it. What they did to Taylor I cannot
tell (in technical language, but I know
they cut him open and lifted out his
stomach and put it back again and sewed
him up twice. He could not get wholly
under the influence of the ether, and he
raved and muttered and struggled, so
that at times two men had to hold him
down. Just before the surgeon began to
operate the boy gave the chaplain his
mother's address, and reached out hi
hand and said: "So long, chaplain."
here's a sample.
When the second part of him was sown
up Taylor "was caried to a cot and lay
there so still that I thought he was dead.
They had to inject strychnine into his
veins to keep his heart beating. But a
minute later he opened his eyes ana
turned them to the operating table, where
he remembered in a half drunken way,
thy had placed him two . hours before.
His eyes were dazed with the ether, his
lips were blue and face was a ghastly
gray, tie looicea up at me ngures iuu-
ing over him, their bare arms covered
with his blood, and back at the operating
table that dripped with it, and why he
could not comprehend. He did not know
were twice brought into service once at that parts of him which had lain covered
the bombardment of the batteries at Ma- for many years had been taken out and
tanzas and again when they were trained an held up naked and palpitating and
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A ship of war is like a moving village.
It has to house and feed and give employ
ment to its inhabitants, and to place them
at certain points at a momen's notice to
face unknown conditions and to face them
coolly and intelligently. You can imag
ine the confusion in a village of five hun
dred people should they be- dragged out
of bed at midnight by an alarm of fire.
But in the floating village of the warship
New York discipline and training have
taught the inhabitants to move to certain
places and to perform certain work when
they get there, within the space of two
minutes. . It is so on every other warship
in the navy of tha " United States. And
it does not consist entirely in manning a
gun and pulling a lanyard. That is the
showy work, the work that tells in the
dispatches, and which'is illustrated in the
weekly papers.
There are also those who serve, "who
only stand and wait," who see nothing of
the fighting, but take equal risk with
those who fight, who have none of the
consciousness that all is going well to
inspire them, but who remain at their
posts in the semi-darkness below decksj
shaken by concussions above and not
knowing how soon the side of the ship
may part, of the deck below rise, or a
projectile crash bursting and burning
through the deck above and choke them
with vile suffocating fumes. They feed
the fires with coal and haul on ammuni
tion lifts, like miner in a coal pit. Their
work is just as important as is that of the
gunner who trains and fires the big gun, .
but when it is over they go back to set
the table for the officers' mess or play, a
bass viol in a string band or sweep out
the engine-rooms. They are just as valu
able to the village as is the gunner's mate,
and they should be remembered.
GOING INTO ACTION.
We had several calls to "general quar
ters" at night. They were probably the
most picturesque moments of the ten days
spent on the flagship. To the landsman
one bugle call was like another; "general
quarters" meant no more to me than the
fact that the mail was going ashore in
10 minutes. It was three skeping Japanese
stewards who told me we were going into
action. Whenever I woke to find them
in the wardroom I knew some one was
going to fire off a 4-inch gun.
They opened a hatch just beyond my
oerui ana pulled on a creaking ammu
nition hoist. They did this drowsily and
stiffly, with the clutches of sleep still'cn
their limbs and heavy on their eyelids.
The officers would run by buttoning
tunics over white and pink pajamos, and
buckling on swords and field glasses.
Even below decks you could hear the
great rush of water at the bows and the
thumping of the engines, that told the
ship was at racing speed, and when you
had stumbled on deck the wind sweeping
past awoke you to the fact that in two
minutes five hundred men had fallen out
of hammocks and into cutlasses and
revolvers, and that the ship wa3 tearing
through the aarK watr in pu-suu ot a
bunch of lights. There were no orders
shouted, but wherever you appeared in
the darkness for the flagship ehowed no
lights-r-you discerned silent, motionless
figures. They were everywhere on the
bridges, at the foot of the gangways
grouped around the guns, crouched in
the turrets.. You tumbled over them at
every step; you saw them outlined against
the stars.
LIKE CAT AND MOUSE.
And then, shining suddenly from . the
flying bridge and rising and reaching; out
on some impudent cavalrymen who had
fired on the ship from the shore. Why
they did so, unless they had heard that
the Dutch cavalrymen had once captured
a fleet of warships, it is impossible to say.
The first of these bombardments was
chiefly important because it was the
first; the second was of no importance a t
all.
The quarter of an hour during which
the fire lasted at Matanzas was of inter
est in giving some knowledge of how a
warship in action acts upon herself. With
land forces the effect of the fire upon the
enemy is the only thought; on the sea, in
one of these new inventions of warfare,
the effect of the batteries on the ship her
self is an added consideration. To the
civilian the effect was not so tremendous
as he had expected. He had been told to
stick cotton into his ears, to stand on his
toes and keep hid mouth open, a some
what difficult and ridiculous attitude in
which to meet death. As it happened,
the call to quarters came so unexpectedly
that there was no time to find any cotton,
and as it turned out, there was no neces
sity to stand on one's toes.
The concussion ot the eight-inch guns
shook and lifted one as sharply as though
an earthquake had passed beneath, and
the reports were trying to both the'.nerves
and the ear-drms. A camera I had placed
on the deck of the superstructure just
back of the forward turret was burst
open, but not damaged so badly that it
could not later photograph the jets of
smoke from the same guns. Glass was
broken and Venetian blinds in the chart
room were ripped out their sockets, but
that was all the damage the ship sustain
ed. To the crew the bombardment was
only gun practice, and a quarter of an
hour after the order to cease firing had
been given I found half of them stretched
out and sleeping peacefully on the low
er decks, or playing cribbage with anx
ious and undivided interest.
HOW THE CREW BEHAVED.
I received a cablegram while I was on
the New York asking me to relate how
her crew behaved in the action at Matan
zas. I did not answer it because I thought
there were a few things the American
people were willing to take for granted,
and because the bombardment at Matan
zas was no test of the crew's courage,
but of its markmanship. There is a sto
ry, however, that illustrates the spirit of
the men on the New York, and whick
answers, I think,any queries any one may
make as to how they might behave in
action.
bleeding to the ruthless light of the sun
to the gaze of curious messmates crowd
ed at the end of the sick bay; that these
parts of himself bad been picked over as
a man runs his fingers over the keys of a
piano, and had then pushed and wedged
back into place and covered over as one
would sew a patch on an old sail, to lie
hidden away again for many, many years
morei let us hope.
He only knew that some outrageous
thing had been done to him that he had
been in a nightma e and to Taylor, still
drunk with ether, these men, whose won
derful surgery had saved her life, were
only the bloody assassins who had at
tempted it and failed.
He was pitably weak from loss" of much
blood, from the shock of the heavy bul
let that had dug its way througn his
bodv. from the waves of nausea that
had swept over him, but the boy opened
his eyes and regarded the surgeon's scorn
fully. Then h shook his head from side
to side on the pillow and smiled up a?
them.
"Ah, you'se can't kill me," he whis
pered. "I'm a New Yorker. You'se can't
kill me."
That is the spirit of the men who sunk
the Spanish fleet at Manila, and one of
the crew ot the warship that is named
after the City of New York.
Richard Harding Davis.
NORTH CAROLINA HISTORY.
SOME COMMON WAR TERMS.
Some Fact Not Well Known
Outside the State.
New York Herald.
The people of North Carolina have
been unfortunate in some respects. They
have been but little addicted to boasting
of their achievements. While other
States have been conspicu-us on gala
days and in the historical records of the
past the people of North Carolina have,
for two hundred years, been making his
tory without seeking to blazon forth their
deeds to the world .Mr. Bancroft, whose
duties led him to investigate the facts of
North Carolina history, has recognized
much that the people of the State have
accomplished in the cause of human free
dom and in the vindication of rights ever
held dear by free-boru citizens, and has,
itt his immortal pages, chronicled some
of the events that mark the advance of
forth Carolina upon the highway of civil
liberty and religious development. But.
unfortunately, the people in the State
have been so isolated from the great cen
tres, have had so little communication
with the outside world, have been so des
titute of those channels of intercourse
that belong to more favored sections, that
the great, important and . unquestioned
facts of their history are unknown to the
people of other States. While the
skirmishes of the New England
States are known "and read of
all men events of earlier and of quite
as significant character that happened
in North Carolina are only known to gen
tlemen beyond its borders, who, like the
late Col- .Peter Force, of Washington,
Mr. Bancroft, President Welling and a
few others are fond of historical investi
gation or have been led by some circum
stance to explore some of the partially
known historical territory that belongs
to this people. In view of these facts it
becomes an iteresting question what
North Carolina claims and what can be
established beyond all cavil or question?
Briefly this:
That the first tnghshman who ever
planted foot on the American continent
landed on Roanoke Island in the month
of July, 1554.
That the first child born of English pa
rents on American soil was Virginia
Dare, who was born on Roanoke Island
in 1585, after whom the couuty of Dare
is named.
That the first resistauce to the stamp
act was at Wilmington, N. C, in 1765
That the first blood that was ever
drawn in the defence of the people's
rights and i 1 resistance of tyranny, was at
Alamance, on May 15, 1771.
That the first meeting that was ever
jield in any of the colonies to declare sep
aration from the British command, to or
ganize for armed resistance, was in North
Carolina, in the county of Mecklenburg,
in the month of May, 1775 nearly fif
teen months, before the national declara
tion.
Tilings Th itt (he Present Ueue-
rniiuii miun a 1 1 1 1 in.
New York Tribune.
What is an army corps? What a di
vision? What, is a brigade? What is a
reigment? What is a batalion? What is
FIGIir WITH Ki V K It I I.I. .4 S.
Corn Stalk Pith Iu Warships.
Chicago Chronicle.
Today uo American fightinoj craft
is deemed complete without its belt
or cofferdam of corn-nith cellulose;
The pith of the stalk is cut out and
ground into a coarse, mealy mass and
then under pressure moulded into
blocks or bricquettes. In this form
it is packed iu to the eel Is made for
it against the sides of the ship and
about the region of the water Hue.
I he stuff weighs ouly a fractional
part of a similar bulk of water.
Isow, when an enemy s shot goes
tearing through the outside plating
and pierces the cellulose, if water be
admitted by the rolliug of the ves
sel, the cellulose at nce swells auto
matically and plugs the hole in it
self as well as. iu the plating, thus
preventing a dangerous admission of
water in the ticklish region of the
water line. A curious virtue of this
stuff is-thatitdoes not exeit a damag
ing pressure as corn would do under
like circumstances, but rests content
Taylor, a young gunner's mate, was simply with plugging the hole. Of
shot on April 28 by a revolver. It was course this material would be scat
an accident, but it is possible he was tered by explosive shell fire, but even
more seriously hurt than were any of the I then, being fire-proofed, it would not
six wounded men who went through the burn.
seven hours' battle at Manira, for the
ball passed through his arm and into his
right side, and came out nearly a foot
away under his left armpit. Assistant
Surgeon Spear said that if he had - tried
to dodge the vital parts in Taylor's body
Wastin;
inCMuren
a company? What is, a troop? VV hat is
platoon? What are lieutenants and
what do they have to do? .. What is a
fleet? What is a battleship? What is a
flotilla? What is an auxiliary cruiser?
What is a monitor? What is a torpedo
boat? What is torpedo catcher?
An army corps is made up of a num
ber of divisions of infantry, with a prop
er proportion of artillery or cavalry. An
army corps is commanded by a major
general, and is in all respects a complete
army, being the largest of the sub-divisions
of the military forces. During
times of peace, there could be no army
corps in the United States, because the
28,000 men were scattered all over the
country, and concentration was impracti
cable and almost impossible. Au army
corps is divided into divisions, wnicn
term is applied to the next tactical unit
below an army corps.
"brigade" a flexible term.
Brigades are to divisions what divisions
are to army corps. A division ainers
from a corps in so far that while the lar
ger body includes every arm of the ser
vice, a division may be composed of only
one of these arms. Thus there may be
a cavalry, artillery, or infantry division,
or there may be a division which includes
all these. The number of men for a di
vision depend upon circumstances.
Three brigades may be formed into a di
vision, but there is nothing to prevent
its being twice as large. A" division is
commanded by a major-general.
A brigade, commanded by a brigadier-
general, is composfd of three, four, or five
regiments, and may be made up from one
arm of the service, or it may include reg
iments of infantry and cavalry and bat
teries of artillery, together with engin
eers and signal corps.
A regiment is commanded by a colonel,
and is a pemauent tactical unit, with its
own distinct indiyiduaHty. Infantry
regiments, according to the new regula
tions, have three battalions each, and
ich battalion has four co.npanies. The
second officer in a regiment is the lieu
tenant-colonel, who, in the absence of
the commanding officer, takes comaiand.
The battalion commanders have rank
of Major.
The platoon is to the co:npany what
the battalion is ta the regiment, and as
the major is in command of a battalion
under the colonel, so are the first and
second lieutenants in c rnniand of their
respective platoons under the captain.
liners which sail under her flag. The crui
ser St. Paul St. Louis, New York and
Paris would not be recognized by the
people who travelled across the ocean on
the n when they were lnxuriously ap
pointed passenger boats. Superfluous
furniture has been removed, and the ves
sels in their war paint look as though
they had been built for war purposes.
THE MONITOR'S PEDIGREE.
A monitor is a peculiar battleship, hav
ing a low free-board, light draught, and
flush deck, and guns mounted in heavily
armored revolving turrets placed on the
deck. A monitor is a floating battery
more than a ship, and derives its name
from the first of the class ever constructed .
which battled with the Confederate iron
clad Merrimac in Hampton Roads. The
original monitor was described as resem
bling a great cbeese-box on a plank, but
it did valuable service, and revolutionized
naval warfare.
Torpedo-boat3 are the racers among
the war vessels. They are swift, small
craft, designed to launch torpedoes near
large vessels. In order to do this work
properly, the torpedo-boat must go close
to the object of its destructive designs,
and, having placed the instrument of des
truction in osition, its next object is to
get away and out of the reach of the ene
my. A torpedo-boat must be small, and
the men who form its small crew must be
absolutely fearless.
A torpedo-boat catcher is designed ex
pressly to catch or to destroy torpedo
boats. In order to be fitted for the work,
the boats are larger than the torpedo-boats
the can make better time, and carry heavi
er armament
SPANISH LOST THREE HUNDRED.
Exeitins Bpisotle of (he Gnssie
Expedition.
JacksonvillJ.Fla., May 19. A special
to the Times-Union and Citizen from Key
West, Fla., says:
The Gussie expedition did not fail en
tirely. Two native Cuban scouts were
landed west of Havana on the second day
out. Danish guerillas had been assign
ed to the duty of patrolling the shore.
boat from the Gussie landed twenty men.
They had hardly set foot upon shore be
fore a furious volley was fired at them by
the guerillas, who were concealed in
thickets on the crest of the low hills.
The American party advanced, were halt
ed when in range, and the order "fire"
was given. They fired as one man, send
ing three volleys at the guerillas, who
scattered like chaff before the wind. Five
of them were killed, including a eatain,
whose bloody cap and sword wete taken
and brought back as trophies. Two
scouts made their way into the inte
rior.
I have been a sufferer from chronic
diarrhoea ever since the war and have
used all kinds of medicines for it. At last
I found one remedy that has been a sue
cess as a core, and that is Chamberlain's
Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Re medy.
P. E. Qrisham, Gaars Mills, La. For sale
by Jas. A. Hardison.
can he overcome in almost all cases
by trie use of Scott's Emulsion of
f T - 1 it - TT 1
voo-urer vju ana inc i iypopuu-
phites of Lime and Soda. While
it is a scientific fact that cod-liver
oil is the most digestible oil in ex
istence, in
SCOTT'S
it is not onlv oalatahle. but it i
already digested and made ready
for immediate absorption by tht
system It is also combined -with
. it.
tne nypopnospnites, wrucn
supply a food not only f o
the tissues of the body, but
for the bones and nerves,
A Lincoln Con 11 It Bar who Will
Not Talk to Outsiders.
Charlotte News.
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iir. j. jj. ueijane, 01 tnis city, who is
a native of Lincoln county, rives the fol
lowing interesting account of a 16-year
old boy in his county who has never been
heard to speak a word to anyone outside
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01 uis lmmeuiate iamny: "1118 name is
Chas. Ledford, the son of Mr. .Berry
Ledford, a prominent farmer of our coun
ty. I have been well acquainted with
him for years (as well acquainted as any
body can be with one who never spoke to
him) and he has never been known to
speak a word to cousins, neighbors or. in
fact, to anybody, outside of his immediate
family, and no one outside of his family
has ever heard him speak a word to one
of the family as he will mt talk when
anyone else is present He is not dumb,
as his family knows. He seems to be a
boy of bright mind and makes himself
useful in doing turns about the house,
but never indulges in social intercourse
with his neighbors." '
: Mr DeLane says he can get a hundred
testimonials to the truth of the above state
ment."
S. C. P. Jones, Milesburg, Pa., writes, "I
have used De Witt's Little Early Risers ever
since they were introduced here and must
say 1 have never used any pills in my fam
ily during fort v Years of house keeDins that
and "Will build up the child Rave such satisfactory results as a laxative
w lieu 11a uruxiiaxy iuuu
does not supply proper
nourishment
B sure you ret SCOTT'S Emulsion. Sm that tht
ma and fish are on the wrapper.
All druggist; 50c and fixe.
6C0TT ft BOWKE, ChMiIstf, Ntw Yorsv,
The human machine starts but once and
stops out once. . xou can keep it going
longest and most reirularlv bv nsins De-
Witt's Little Early Risers, the famous little
puis ior constipation and all itomacu and
liver troubles, . Jas. A. Hardison
THE EXCELLNCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS
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simplicity of the combination, but also
to the care and skill with which it is
manufactured by scientific processes
known to the Califobxia. Fig Svbdp
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all the importance of purchasing the
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by the California Fig Stbup Co.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
assist one ixuavoiding the worthless
imitations manufactured by other par
ties. The high standing of the Cali
fobnia Fio Svkup Co. with the medi
cal profession, and the satisfaction
which the genuine Syrup of Figs has
given to mdhons of families, makes
the name of the Company a guaranty
of the excellence of its remedy. It is
far in advance of all other laxatives,
as it acts on the kidneys, liver and
bowels without irritating or weaken
ing them, and it doe's not gripe nor
nauseate. In order to get its beneficial
effects, please remember the name of
the Company
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
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THE LOWEST COMMISSIONED OFFICER.
First lieutenants have been described as
holding the places of vice-captains. The
title is purely French. When company
formation is made the first platoon is
commanded by the first sergeant, a quartermaster-sergeant,
four, sergeants, and
six corporals, two musicians, one artifi
cer, one engraver, one sixty-five privates.
In the cavalry arm of the service compa
nies are known a3 troops, and in the ar
tillery as batteries.
Other non-commissioned officers in a
regiment are one sergeant-major, one
chief musician, two principal musicians,
and three hospital stewards.
The terms "fleet," I'squadron," and
'flotillla" ar elastic in their nature.
They each designate a number of vessels
under a single commander, but "fleet" is
a term superior to"rquadron"and"squad
ron" stands for more than "flotilla." The
term "fleet" may be properly applied to
an aggregation of canal-boats, and it is
not unusual to hear of a flotilla of oys
ter-boats or racing yachts. But at this
time one couples the terms with the
navy, and, according, to established
usage, the word "fleet" means a large
number of vessels under the command of
an admiral or other high naval officer.
While it is believed by some authorities
that a fleet must contain at least ships.
others believe that a small number of
vessels may, under certain circumstances,
be termed a fleet. There are countries
whose whole navy consists of only four
or five ships, but these could be spoken
of as a fleet with all propriety. Techni
cally, a fleet has been described as com
posed of thirteen vessels two squadrons
of six six ships each and a flagship. But
this technicality seems to be entirely dis
regarded in practice.
A SQUADROK ASD ITS COMMANDER.
A. squadron is a division of a fleet, a de
tachment of war vessels employed upon
a particular sevice or station, and is al
ways under the command ola flag officer.
A flag officer is one w ho has the privilege
to display a flag denoting his rank an
aumirai, vice-aaimrai, rear-admiral, or
commodore.
A flotilla is the term applied either to a
fleet of small vessels or to a small fleet of
larger craft.
The diffierence between a battleship
and armored cruiser is technical, and ex
perts have stumbled over the matter. A
battleship is supposed to have heavier
guns and armor and to be better fitted
to withs'.aad hard knocks from an oppos
ing force. But this does not always hold
good, as may be seen in the case of the
Maine as compared with the Brooklyn.
The Maine was a battleship, but she was
not so large nor so heavily armored as
the armored cruiser Brooklyn. On one
point there seems to be no dispute, and
that is the fact that the cruisers are taster
than the battleship,and it is conceeded also
that an instances,the battleships are better
protected.
Auxiliary cmisers are vessel wh'ch
were built for the merchant service, but
with a view to being armed in case of need.
When the vessels were built the govern
ment had an understanding with the con
structors andowners by which provisions
for arming were made. A similar agree
meet exists between the English govern
ment and the owter of the large ocean
Shelling at t'ienluego Caused
Ureal Destruetiou f Prop.
erly. "
Key West, Fla., May 19. The Spanish
loss during the recent engagement at Ci-
enfuegosis now known to have been much
heavier than at first reported. Three
hundred Spaniards were killed and sev
eral wounded. Great damage was done
along the coast.
Soon after the engagement the United
States cruiser Marblehead picked up sev
eral Cubans in an open boat some miles
down the coast, including Col. Oris,
Lieutenant Olvarez and three privates,
from the insurgent camp near Cienfuegos
They reported that the Spanish losses
and the damage wrought by the shells
from the warships were very heavy
The hospital at Cienfuegos, they said,
were full of wounded and fear prevailed
everywhere that the American warships
would return to complete the work of de
struction. During the engagement the Marble
head threw 453 five-inch shells into the
Spanish forces and 700 shots from her
secondary battery, the gunboat Nash
ville as many more shells and 15,000
shots from her secondary battery.
Fifteen hundred Spaniards were sta
tioned in an improvised fortress on a
neck of land and upon these the ships
concentrated their fire, and it was upon
that t!ie most terrible destruction was
wrought. During the heavy fire of;shells
and just after the lighthouse was blown
up, five Spaniards who were running to
gether in an attempt to escape were pick
ed off by a shell from the Marbelhead,
the gunner being ordered to fire upon
them by Ensign Pratt. They were torn
to pieces.
Ryal BtkM tfcta food ewra.
k fed
FOYBZn
Absolutely Puro
HOVAt MOMS POWrt eo.. nw vowt.
THE COST OF W.4GISU WAR.
Secretary Alger Will Xeed Au
Appropriation or $SS,6SS,S40
For the Use or the War Alone.
Washington, May 20. Secretary Alger
has sent to the Secretary of the Treasury,
for transmission to Congress, supple
mental estimates of appropriations aggre
gating $88,638,840, required by the War
Department for the support of the regular
and volunteer armies of the United States
for the first six months of the fiscal year
ending June 30, IS'.H), in addition to the
amounts appropriated in the acts of March
15 and May 4, 1893 The particular items
for which appropriations are asked are giv
en as follows:
Expenses of the commanding general's
office, $1,000; contingent expenses, inspec
tor general's department, $1,000; signal ser
vice of the army, $114,000; pay, etc , of the
army, $4,017,8.14; pay of volunteers, $25,026,-
266; subsistence of the nriny, $10,219,635;
regular supplies quartermaster's depart
ment, $6,000,000; incidental expenses quar
termaster's department, $2,500,000; horses
for cavalry and artillery, $2,000,000; bar
racks and quarters, $150,00); army trans
portation, $20,000,000; clothing and r-aniD
garrison equipage, $13,000,000;; contingen
cies of the army, $50,000; medical and hoi
pital department, $354,000; ordnanee ser
vice, $325,000; ordnance, ordnance stores
and supplies, $3,3'.4,000; armament of for
tifications, $130,510; manufacture of arms,
$640,000; equipment of engineer troops,
$75,000; civilian assistant to engineer offi
cers, $40,000.
Up to this time the estimates and appro
priations already made on account of the
war aggregate $205,210,840. "-'
De Bombshell.
Atlanta Constitution.
De bombshell, he go sizzin' 'long
Shoo, Chilian shoo'
En dis yer is he only song;
"Whar vh ar is you?"
Shoo, chillun shoo!
lie huntin' after you!
"Whar is you
En yo' fambl y, too ?"
Shoo, chillun shoo!
De bombshell, he go sizzin 'long
Shoo, chillun shoo!
- En night en day he sing dat way;
' har whar is you? 7
Shoo, chillun shoo!
He huntin' after you!
"Whar is you
En yo'fambly, too?"
Shoo, chillun shoo!
Subtile Thrust.
Clara "Mr. Castleton asked meat what
time -ou were likely to be alone, as he
wanted to call on you."
Maud "What did you tell him?"
Clara T said any time." Life.
Harvesting Oats Properly.
American Agriculturist.
To get the greatest possible good from
the oat crop, it must be cut early. Like
grass, the stalk of the oat upon maturity
loses the rich juices which characterize it
earlier. These juices are changed into
woody fiber, which is of little value for
feeding purposes. In fact, some horses
cannot at all, with safety eat, such
straw.
When the milk in the berry of the oat
has begun to harden a little, I like to be
gin cutting. The ctadled grain should
lie in the swath for a day or two, depend
ing upon the weather. If the sun comes
out hot, not so long a time will be need
ed as when clouds make the day dark. I
do not want the straw to become dark
and brittle before putting it up. When
fairly well dried out I begin binding and
after the day is fairly well spent I set up
what has been bouud during the day.
The sheaves are placed in shocks of ten
each, eight being ranged two and two,
and the othr bundles being u?ej as caps.
These bundles are spread open by taking
hold of the tops of the grain and drawing
it down toward the band until half the
sheaf has been thus treated. One of them
is placed over one end of the shock, butt
upward and pointing toward the middle,
and the stem is placed on the opposite
end. Sometimes I put a small stone on
top of the caps to hold them on in case
the wind should blow hard. In this con
dition the grain stands for a week or ten
days, depending again on the weather.
By this time the shocks will be ready to
draw in.
Oats cut in this way are full of sub
stance. The grain will be found fresh
and nutritious, while the straw is about
as good a teed as hay. Horses, will do
well on it and horned cattle will eat it with
good appetite. If a reaper is used I would
follow the same plan of curing and set
ting up. In case of a binder the bands
should not be tooclose, or the grain will
not dry out so fast and is likely to mold.
Last year we had very stormy times while
cutting oats, but I put mine up as I have
describe above and never had a crop
come out in finer shape.
Many old soldiers now feel the effects
of the hard service they endured during
the war. Mr. Ueo. S. Anderson, ot Koss-
ville, V ork county, Penn., who saw the
hardest kind of service at the front, is
now frequently troubled with rheuma
tism. "1 had a severe attack lately," be
says, "and procured a bottle of Chamber
Iain's Pain Balm. It did so much good
that I would like to know what you
would charge me for one dozen bottles." j
Mr. Anderson wanted it both tor his own
use and to supply it to his friends and
neighbors, as every f imily should have a
bottle of it in their borne, not onlv for
rheumatism, but lame back, sprains,
swelling?, cuts, bruises and burns, for
which it is unequalled, for sale by Jas.
A. Hardison.
Reason For Change.
"What changed Gobang's ideas regard
ing heredity?"
"He says his oldest son has no sense."
New York Journal.
Mr. Jonsing "Jes' I wax comin out
of Marse Jones gate wif de-fowls' ah met de
pahson. "Wife (aghast) "Wot did he say
Mr. Jonsing He said he wuz comin"
ober to tek dinner wif us to-inorrer.
Truth.
t ALWAYS KEEP OB MAID
THERE IS UO KIND OF PAJI OR
ACHE. INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL.
THAT PAIN-KILLER WILL ROT RE
LIEVE.
LOOK OUT FOR IMITATIONS AND SU8-
8TITUTES. THE GENUINE BOTTLE
BEARS THE NAME,
PERRY DAVIS A SON.
i
Flossie Flickers ( f the Jollity Girls
Company) Did you ever run for office?
Mr. Tuegooc Yes.
Flossie Flickers What office?
Mi. Tuegood The postoffice, when I
found I had been carrying one of my
wife's letters around for a week. Judge.
.
Nell "I thought she was going to
marry Tom?" Belle "No; Jack." Nell
" Why she told me Tom was willing to
die for her." Belle "Yes, but Jack of
fered to make a good living for her."
Philadelphia Record.
A Cuban scount who has returned from
Havana brings word that, the Spanish
fleet is expected there. The expectBton
is supposed to be bas-id on advices from
Madrid. New life has been infused in
General Blanco's troops by the hope af
aid.
One Minute is not lonsr. vet relief ia
obtained in halt tht time oy the use ot One
iiinuie cougn cure, it prevents consump
tion and quickly cures colds, croup, bron
chitis, pneumonia, la criia and mil throat
I and lung troubles. Jas. A. Hardisou.
"One Minute Cough Cure is the best nren-
aration 1 have ever bold or used aud 1 c&u't
say too much In its praise." L. U. ken.
noa, Merchant, Udell, (J. Ja. A. litrdi
on.