Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1898 — Page 6

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FIGHTS OF OUR MARINES. Kight Attack* at Guantanamo by Goer-

villas and a Brave Rescue. One-* upon a time there was a great deal of fighting between the marines and the guerrillas at Guantanamo, and during that space things occurred. The night attacks were heartbreaking affairs, from which the men emerged in the morning exhausted to a final degree. like people who had been swimming for miles. From colonel to smallest trumpeter went a great thrill when the dawn broke slowly iu the eastern sky. raid the weary baud quite cheerfully ate breakfast, that soapdalous military breakfast which is worst when m ru have done their best, advanced far or fought loner. Aft-rward the men slept, sunk upon the ground in an abandon that was almost a stv.r r. Lieutenant Neville, with his picket of about 20 men. was entirely cut off 1 from camp one night, and another night | Neville's picket and the picket of Lieu- - tenant Shaw were cut off. fighting hard in the thickets for their lives. At the break of day the beleagured camp could hear still the rifles of their lost pickets. I The problem of rescue added anxiety t? the already tremendous anxiety of the ■ fine old colonel, a soldier every inch of him. The guerrillas were still lurking in the near woods, and it was unsafe ! fj’~Ugh camp without venturing into i the bush. . Volunteers from Company C were called for. and these 17 privates voluuteered: Boniface, Conway. Fitzgerald, ' Heilner, Harmson. Hemerle, Lewin, ! .Mann. Mills. Monahan. Nolan, O’Donnell. Ryan. Riddle. Sinclair. Sullivan. XV. A., and Smith, J. H. They went j out under Lieutenant Lucas. They arrived in Neville's vicinity just as he and bis men. together with Shaw and his men. were being finally surrounded at close range. Lucas and his 17 men broke | through the guerrillas and saved the pickets, and the whole body then fell back to Crest hill. That is all there is to it.—Stephen Crane in New York World. THE DEWEY EAGLE. Weekly Newspaper In South Carolina Named After the Naval Commander. Naming dogsand babies after Admi- ; ral Dewey is common enough, but South Carolina has probably the first newspaper to be called after him—The Dewey Eagle, a weekly of Lake City. The

Eagle used to be known as the Lake City Times. Its former editor was arrested for being one of the lynchers of Postmaster Baker. The editor-lyncher, Marion Clark, went to the front under bond, and a preacher named Kirton took The Times. A few days ago he announced that the paper would hereafter be known as The Dewey Eagle. This is his announcement: “In bom r of Admiral Dewey, the hero of Manila, we name our paper The Dewey Eagle. The term Dewey repre sents courage.' method and victory, and the term Eagle represents aggressiveness and liberty. We may not measure up to our highest ideals of journalism, but we will make an honest approximation. We will later to advance the various intensts of our subscribers and the public generally. " —New York Suu French shipping is slowly but steadi ly declining. In 1860 there were 500 candidates for examination for masters' mates and in 1890 om- 125.

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THE NEW DEVIL GEN. THE DANGEROUS IMPLEMENT IN CHARGE OF "HAL’’ BORROWE. Some New Facts About the Machine Which Formed a Part of the Battery Trained on Santiago by Shafter’s Advance — Hurls Death Dealing Gum Drops. The offer of Hallet Alsop Borrows to take charge of the rough riders’ dreaded glycerin gun undoubtedly struck many persons familiar with that young man's past career as somewhat melodramatic. It did smack of the lines which the hero of the five act Bowery drama hurls at the gallery. But Borrowe, as recent events have shown, was very much in earnest. His offer was made under the following circumstances: Roosevelt's troopers had been supplied with one of the new and practically unknown nitroglycerin throwers, but of all that troop of fearless men not one wanted to handle it They were willing to face Spaniards with Mausers, but none cared to stand behind a gun which was. according to common report, just as liable to be deadly at one end as the other. Borrowe heard of this condition of affairs and volunteered to manage the gun. Some say he wanted an opportunity to wipe out the implication of cowardice which seems to have stuck to him ever since his connection with the famous scandal of several years ago. It will be remembered that during the first rush of Shafter's division on Santiago the report was sent out that Borrowe had been killed. He was not killed, though, nor even wounded, and when Shafter prepared to bombard the city a neat little pit was excavated close up to the Spanish lines. In that pit were placed Borrowe and his gun. The glycerin gun is the latest devel-1 opment in light artillery. It is a queer I looking device, with one long, lean bar- j rel and two shorter ones. It fires a car- . • -i i. • i_ i _ i- t• 1- _ a.: -

tridge which looks much like a gigantic ; elongated gum drop, but this gum drop ’ is far more deadly than tiie pink hued, glucose variety sold by the candy ped-; dler at the circus. It contains 93 per cent of nitroglycerin and 7 per cent of gun cotton, both extremely unsafe substances to handle. Should one of these cartridges be fired from an ordinary cannon by a charge of gunpowder the cannon and thoman who pulled the lanyard as well as everywwW St I# | a v ■ ' <(t BORROWE AND HIS GLYCERIN GUX. thing else in the immediate vicinity would be obliterated. By a somewhat intricate arrangement the cartridge is intended to be safely ejected from the longer tube by means of compressed air. In one of the shorter tubes a little pill of dynamite is exploded. This generates gases, compresses the air and otherwise raises a gentle disturbance. The tubes are connected in the back with the main barrel, and into this through a valve rushes the air. The sensitive cartridge is given a mild sort of push toward the muzzle. Once it is under way a decidedly more vigorous push is given by air from the second tube, and in this way the destructive cartridge gains velocity sufficient to carry it to a distance of two miles. Like the dynamite guns of the Vesuvius. the glycerin gun makes but little fuss at the time of discharge. Instead of a hollow cough, it gives a thin, sibilant hiss, like that of a monster rattle-

snake when it prepares to strike. It is not- exactly a hiss either, but a weird “s-s-sh s-s-sh. ” the sounds coming far enough apart to be distinguished. Just what happens when the cartridge strikes has not yet been accurately determined. Perhaps one reason is that none of those people who have been in the immediate vicinity of such an occurence is alive. It is said the tremendous detonations will kill every person within 300 feet of the point of explosion. We shall know more fully about this feature of the weapon when we have interviewed some of the surviving defenders of Santiago. Even the dynamite throwing guns which the Cubans occasionally used against the Spaniards caused terrific destruction as well as widespread terror among Weyler's soldiers. “I fully believe,” said General Genio of the Cuban army, “that if we could ‘s s-sh’ loud enough we could drive every Spaniard off the island.” “Devil guns’’ is the appropriate name which the Spanish give the dynamite throwers. Probably they will class the glycerin gun under the same head. “I confess." continued Colonel Genio, “that the first attempts made at ending the war with dynamite were not satisfactory. It looked as though we might end it by annihilating ourselves. For instance, we were trying it at long range one day. The n of the gun forgot to lock it iu i i after he had sighted it On firing tae powder charge in the right tube for the initial explosion the gun turnt-d up its tail, put down its head and discharged into the ground, blowing out a hole large enough for a well and kicking half a dozen stmersaults. That forgotten lock cost four lives. ” Lieutenant H. R. Gahan.

.'fearless of fever. M YELLOW JACK CAN'T TOUCH HOOD’S REGIMENT OF IMMUNES. Il More Thai. One Thousand Soldiers Who it May Be Sent Anywhere In Fever Cursed j s Cuba Without Dancer of Contracting the j Dread Disease —A Stalwart Commander. 1 3 Our volunteer army is unique in , 1 many respects, but perhaps next to r Roosevelt’s rough riders its most uns usual feature is Colonel Hood's regiment of ininiunes. It is the first regi- >! meut of the kind ever organized. It s comprises 1,038 men. and every one of t, them is immune to yellow fever. i The word immune, of course, is here j used in a restricted sense, for a man who has survived an attack of smallpox 3; or any other disease which you may j have but once is immune to that partici ular malady. In the southern states, however, where the dreaded yellow jack l overshadows all other epidemics an s immune is understood to be a person I who has had yellow fever. > I Colonel Duncan Norbert Hood, with > I whom the idea of an immune regiment. > i originated and who has raised and now II commands the organization, knows all ■ j about yellow fever. He is a native of > | New Orleans, and most of the members , i of his family, including his father, | ■ i mother, grandmother and sister, have I j been carried off by the disease. He him-j self has lived through it and therefore : i fears it no longer. II But Colonel Hood knows that Cuba is the home of yellow jack, aifl early in , : | the war he realized that even if the vol-[ I j unteers could manage to escape its rav-j > j ages during the active campaign there 1 i would come a time when troops would ■ have to be stationed at posts which had been for years hotbeds of the disease. I It was with this idea that he urged the governor of Louisiana to recruit such a regiment. But the governor was opposed. He had promised to give the nation-

al guardsmen first chance and there was 1 no room for the immunes. . Undismayed by this obstacle Colonel Hood went to influential friends and se ! cured an interview with President Me-: Kinley. The chief executive enthusiastically indorsed Colonel Hood's plan and gave him a commission on the spot. The president took up the matter of immune regiments with Senator Caffery and the war department and soon an appropriate bill was introduced by the house military committee providing for the re- j cruiting of ten regiments of yellow fever immunes. the maximum number of each regiment to be 1,038. In the meantime Colonel Hood returned to Louisiana a”d began recruitl - ■ .’A. ' i z> 5 I COLONEL DUNCAN X. HOOD. ing. He had not the slightest difficulty in securing a full complement and at last accounts his regiment was encamp-

ed on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain, exactly opposite New Orleans. In the , operations at Santiago there has been no . urgent necessity for the presence of the I , immunes, for yellow fever has not been raging on the hills of the southern shore, but with the beginning of the assault on Havana the immunes will be in demand. That Colonel Hood was fully entitled to his commission there is not the slightest doubt, for he is a graduate of West Point, although he did not see fit to enter the regular army when be had completed his course at the Military academy. He is by profession a mining engineer, having been graduated at the i Columbia School of Mines. After leaving West Point in the spring of 1890 he made an extended tour of the south and Central America and the West Indies, visiting Venezuela, Panama. Colon. Jamaica and other ■ West Indian islands, and then returned to the United States through the republic of Mexico. Previous to offering his services to Governor Foster of Louisiana he was in New York prosecuting his studies in Baling engineering preparatory to going to South Africa, where he has a cousin engaged in that profession at the magnificent salary of $50,000 per year. Colonel Hood is six feet in height and weighs 180 pounds, and that he is a muscular, all round athlete may be determined by the fact thr.t he played on the West Point football team for three years. A mere rugged appearing officer could scarcely be found anywhere else in the army. He comes of a fighting family too. His father was the late Lieutenant General John Bell Hood, the famous Con- ! federate officer who refused to live in Kentucky after that state failed to secede from the Union. The field officers of Colonel Hood's regiment are all college men. As for the rank and file of the immunes. they have been gathered from all sections of the country, many having traveled from distant points to join - Colonel Hood's command. Evt-ry private has wrestled with yellow jack and has come off victor, bo that there is not a man in the regiment who would be subject to the X.-HN F. WILXCUGHBT. _ '

I dude sailors no more. 1 The Naval Rewrve. Have Fought Well and Bravely. Less than two months ago the United Slates auxiliary cruiser Yankee left the Brooklyn navy yard for Cuban waters. She had a crew of men who two weeks, ■ before had been following peaceful par- { suite. There were lawyers, brokers, j I clubmen, merchants and bank clerksj among them. They were members of i the New York naval reserves and had been called “dude sailors” and “rock-1 ing chair t3.rs” so long that the epithets j were familiar. On .Tune 3 the Yankee arrived off | Santiago just in time to take part in the bombardment. The Yankee’s forward 6 pounder rifle was the first gun to be fired by naval reserves in the war. During the action the Yankee steamed! within 2.000 yards of the shore t—--3 Jfi. THE YANKEE’S SIX POUNDER GUN. ies. At first the reserves whooped and yelled, but they soon calmed down and sang popular songs as they worked their guns. Commander Brown son took them in past all the other vessels, and they engaged the batteries at very short range. At the close of the bombardment Admiral Sampson signaled, “Well done. Yankee, ” and the reserves were

wild with delight. | s Since then the “dude sailors'' have ' j been in many scraps with Spanish gun- j boats and have demonstrated that they : can shoot fast and straight. I t Two things that the Yankee has dem-'. onstrated, the officers say. are that the ( naval militiamen can shoot without get-| ] ting excited and that they can be shot: ] at without flinching. There isn’t a | chance in a thousand of their ever hav-,, ing to stand such a fire again as they , got before Santiago. t As for the men, they are a unit in ; j pronouncing their captain. Commander Willard H. Brownson, one of the nerviest men that ever walked the bridge. He took them into the thick of every fight, they say, and went out of bis way many times in the hope of getting a scrap Under such a commander, they say, a truckman would become a man-o'-war's man in a week. I A BIT OF AFRICA. Island of Centa. Which Watson Will Seize as a Base of Supplies. Ceuta, which has been chosen as the best place for Commodore Watson to occupy as a base of supplies while he is scouring the seas for Camara or laying waste the Spanish coast, is an insignifi-1 caut looking little island, but it is of great strategic importance because it lies just off the north coast of Africa and commands the approach to the strait of Gibraltar, the gateway to the orient. Ceuta is a rock ribbed, reck bound island off the northeast coast of Fez, Morocco. and is 12 hours’ sail from Gibraltar. It might as well be called the island of the seven hills, for from these it derives its name. Os these the most conspicuous is Monte del Hacho, which looks out toward Spain like a signal point set up to say “All's well.’’

Stretching back from the mountain a narrow peninsula connects the island with the mainland of Africa. On this neck of land the town of Ceuta is built. All around are fortifications. The high HARBOR OF CEUTA. hills put up there by nature and the prison walls had moats built in succession by conquerors and remodeled and rebuilt by their successorsand strengthened again by the Spaniards when they made of it a prison hell. The seven walls coiled about the town itself are thick and impassable, save here and there where arched bridges have been cut through. Between each wall there is a deep moat of sea water, set down like a seductive trap to catch any unfortunate convict who might escape the vigilant guards stationed all around the walls. Every one of the seven hills is fortified now. Up high on Monte del Hacho there is a strong citadel garrisoned by Spanish soldiers. Here and there the walls are piecred by the noses of cannon. but there is no evidence that they have ever been used except for signaling. and it is doubtful if they could be , brought to much better use owing to ■ their immovability. At the Austrian court it is contrary to custom for perishable articles to ap' . pear twice on the imperial table. The | result is large perquisites for the attendants. To one man fall all the uncorked bottles, to another the wine left i in the glasses, to another the joints and j to another the game or the sweets.

HOW A WOUND HEALS. When the Blood is Pure a Wound Heals Quid* The Fact Demonstrated in the Case ot a Baptist Clergyman ot Ashley, Ohio. — ■ ■ « I II" ■ 1 II < From the Timet, Athley, Ohio. - t

Elder A. S. Shoemaker has been a lifelong resident of Ashley, Ohio, and is favorably known by a wide circle of friends in this part of the state. For many years he w&s a prominent Baptist minister. He has been Mayor of Ashley for three successive terms, tilling the position with dignity and honor, and has held other offices of trust. He is sixty-six years of age, hale and hearty, and attributes his present healthful ! condition entirely to the use of Dr. TV ilhama’ i Pink Pills for Pale People. "For about twenty-hve years, he says I was afflicted with rheumatism and was constantly in pain. I could not remain >n one position for but a few moments at a tune and could sleep bat little at night. I was dragging out a miserable existence. Especially in damp, lowery weather I would be very miserable. I frequently remarked that 1 was a traveling barometer, as I could always tell when a change in the weather was com- I ini’. I tried a great manv remedies that were recommended, nut they did not help me. “One day while at work and complaining of my pain in the presence of Mr. Elia* Bishop, a neighbor, he asked me if I had | ever tried Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for P«le People; I told him nn. I had never heard of them. He advised me to try them, saying they had benefited him and might help me.’ I replied, that T had no faith in any medicine as I had tried so many dinerent remedies without receiving any benefit that I did not think it worth while to throw away more money. “Time passed on for nearly a year until; one night I was suffering intense pain and I ,

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tbougbt of Dr William,. Pi ■ Pale People and concluded touv th® 1 ‘ the morning 1 went to the rtv, '’>■ I purchased a box of the pills using them aceordingto It was the wisest thine I j the third night after conimenrin'tr' l went to bed and slept al ] ,he!r » particle of pain. 1 contim i T 1 ' 1 * pills until 1 used five boxes an^hH 111 " any symptoms of my old trouble j? 01 ' time, now two years ago. ' Wce 4 "Just after I stopped the a. met with un accident. In chemjj k ' 11 ® cut my foot very badly ”*• through the instep of my fL^r' 1 ' thought the wound would be w, 1 ' heal for a man of ravage bntt„,t?"™ I of everybody it healed quickly wo'"' l ’ difficulty. I attribute tta a&ta condition of my blood through th. ? the pills.” 6“ we m In rheumatism the Wood has , n leia . purity which irritates the sensitive " I that unite the joints and cover the J! thus causing those indescribable tom,. 7 1 rheumatic sufferers endure | always dangerous as it is liablefcZS heart. ‘“‘l Years ago those afflicted, were bls! taking away some of the impure remedy the balance. This i folk ft abandoned, and to-day phyaiciaw and druggists recommend the J ,7, Williams’ Pink Pills f or p ale these marvelous vegetable pills w ,5 the seat of the trouble exerting a wwl influence in purifying and enrichingth 11 by eliminating poisonous elements lad « , ing health-giving forces, thus makißMw remedy for curing this dilease, * ™

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