Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 27 July 1899 — Page 6

GENERAL R. A. ALGER TALKS KEMISSCE.XTLY OF THE WAR WITH SPAIN. The Suggestion of Sending the Spanish Prisoners Back to Spain at the United States Governienl's Expense, Originated With the Secretary. Washington, July 24. — Secretary Alger has always felt a pardonable pride in the success with which the war department met the tremendous problem thrust upon it by the necessity with which it was suddenly confronted during the war with Spain of disposing of the thousands of Spanish prisoners captured in Santiago province. The history of that time has not been fully told, and it remained for Secretary Alger to supply the need by the following reminisence: “On the night of July 9, 1898, the president asked me what, in my judgment, we should do with the Spanish prisoners of Santiago after their capture. The matter had received very much thought from the president and myself, but no definite conclusion had been reached. I then suggested to the president that. Galveston. Tex., would be the best place in the United States, in my judgment, where we could send them; that it was away from the coast line travel; a good harbor; that there would be plenty of room for camping them, and that its climate would be as nearly similar to that of Santiago as we could probably select. ••This seemed to meet his approval, as it was only a question of time, of course, when their capture would be effected. I went to my home, and a new idea came into my head. ‘Why not send them back to Spain?’ This thought impressed me so deeply that I formulated my plan, and on the morning of July 10, instead of going to the department direct, I went to the white house and laid the new plan before the president, saving that it would be an unprecedented procedure and a most gracious act; that L> transport the prisoners to Galveston would be half the distance; that we should have to clothe, shelter, guard and feed them there, and no doubt have to ship them back to Spain in the end. I also stated that I believed it would be a great inducement to the Spaniards to surrender, which General Shafter afterward assured me was the effect. The president readily approved the plan.” Advertisements were published asking transportation companies for bids to carry the prisoners back to Spain. The American companies and one Spanish company bid for the privilege. The American companies combined on a price which was nearly 50 per cent above that of the Spanish company, and the contract was given to the latter. “Immediately upon the surrender, steps were taken tocarry out the pledges of the United States government to ship the Spaniards home. The quartermaster’s department immediately advertised for bids to transport the prisoners to Spam. This government paid for toe transportation of all the prisoners 1513,860. The same number carried by the other companies under their bid would have cost the government fl,312,915. Here was 1800,000 saved to the United States.” ELIHU ROOT President Selects Him as Secretary Alger’s Successor. Washington, July 24.—The president has filled the vacancy caused by the resignation of Secretary Alger. It was a record breaker as to time in filling a cabinet position. The new secretary of war is Elihu Root of New York. Alger’s resignation came on Wednesday, it

fl ELIHU ROOT was accepted on Thursday and Mr. Root was appointed Saturday. He is visiting the president today to discuss the duties of his office. Mr. Root stands at the head of the New York bar, and will have more particular charge of the legal sphere of the office, which has become quite formidable since the acquisition of Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines. General Corbin will retain his present position and have, it is said, direct charge of the war. Washington, July 25.—Hon. Elihu Root of New York, who is to succeed General Alger as secretary of war, arrived in Washington late last night and had a long conference with the president. Will Not Meet Aug. 2. Ottawa, Ont., July 22.—1 t has been arranged between Senator Fairbanks and Sir Wilfred Laurier, acting in behalf of the American and British commissioners, that the joint high commission will not meet on Aug. 2, but that it shall be adjourned to a date to be determined by mutual agreement. Japanese-Chinese Alliance. Shanghai, July 25. —Tbe reports regarding a Japanese-Chiness alliance, which have been persistently denied for some time, have now assumed definite form and are causing great excitement in Russian circles.

PEOPLE OF THE DAY, Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia, so it is reported, is fitting himself for the w. rk cf a physician. He has been giving considerable attenti n recently to features of western civilization, but it is a little bit unusual for an emperor to take up the practice of a profession. The emperor is at present planning to build an immense ha’pital at Adis C V; V ■ MENELEK OF ABYSSINIA Aheda. the capital cf his nation, and when it is completed be intends to assume entire control cf its surgical department He expresses astonishment at the skill of the surgeons, under whom he is training, and is most pleased when he can bee .’ some service, such as holding a limb or a roll of bandages

Loubet's Fine Decoration. The grand master’s collar of the order < f the Legion of Honor, with which President Loubet was invested, is of finely wrought gold and is altogether a magnificent decoration, but very rarely assumed by the president. The order dates from Napoleon's consulate in 1802. It comprises four classes —viz. 80 grand crosses 161’ grand officers. 400 commanders and an unlimited number of officers and chevaliers. Unless by the exercise of authority on the part of the grand master or for some signal service to the state all holding the order begin at chevaliers and are not eligible until they have exercised with distinction for 20 years civil or military duties, or have dene some important service to the state, or earnsd distinction in art or science. A chevalier must have held that grade for four years before be can become an officer; two years more are necessary before the grade of commander can be attained: a commander cannot become a grand officer under five years, and five years more are needed before a grand officer can become a grand cross. For military men years o? war services count double.—London Chronicle An Unpopular Crown Prince. The hostility cf the people of Norway to the union between that country ami Sweden has shown itseif lately in several very unpleasant demonstrations The unpopularity of the royal house which embodies the union is marked Recently Crown Print? Gustaf, whe z CROWN PRINCE GUSTAP. was acting as regent during the illness of King Oscar, was snowballed in the \ streets of Christiania by a hooting, hissing mob. A later event shows that the hostile feeling is not confined to the class that usually makes up mobs. More than 6<J members of the storthing declined an invitation to dine with Crown Prince Gustaf at the castle. Tesla Has a Rival. Tesla has a rival in the field of visionary invention in Jan Szczepanik, a prominent Polish electric specialist, now in Vienna. The rival has a record almost as extensive as Tesla’s. It includes an electro magnetic appliance for the absolute prevention of railway collisions, an improved telephone system to carry the voice 5,000 miles and a wonderful weaving loom that will work automatically. His latest is a device which is set in action simply by the effect of light It is a bomb which contains an electric lamp in its interior mechanism so arranged that it causes the bomb to explode the instant a stream of light is thrown from the lamp A Remarkable Class. Major General E. S. Otis is an alumnus of the University of Rochester class of 'SB. This class, by the way. was a remarkable one. Nearly all the members attained distinction. Among those best known now living are Captain W. Harkness, LL. D.. of the National observatory. Washington; the Rev. Dr H. L. Morehouse, field secretary of the Home Mission society; the Rev. Dr. Cephas B. Crane of Boston, the Rev. Dr. Lemuel Moss of Philade). phia. the Rev. Dr. Jacob S. Gubelmann of Rochester Theological seminary. Professor Almon C. Bacone of the Indian university. Indian Territory, and W O Stoddard, the novelist and historian

GSAR AGAINST MAN. In Avrfnl Grapple in Deadfall Pit in WashingtonIt is doubtful if more vicious tuementes were ever carried about in the 1 pocket of a man than those "in the posi session of Ambrose Larsen. o* Sehome. I Wash. Larsen’s narrative of the incidWA leading to his wounding by a brown j bear and the securing of four tusks as ’ mementos is as follows: "I have pre-empted on a quarter seci tion of land lying about eight miles back of Sehome. There I nave been living with my family for the las; six years, improving the place, raising some stock and cutting shingle-bolts. In the latter part cf last September two cf my pigs were killed by bears. 1 hunted and waited up of nights for the Lears, but could not meet them. Then I built a deadfall, placing it directly in the only trail the marauders could reach the pigpen by. On visiting the trap, one day. I found an immense brown bear in it. the largest I have ever seen during a lifetime spent in the woods. The log of the trap had fallen acrcs<s its haunches and broken its back. The animal was alive, however, ?.nd full of fight. I put two bullets from my Winchester into its head, and the bear turned over as if dead. "I then climbed down into the pit to see the best means of getting ta work at skinning the animal. In doing this it was necessary for me to pass my right arm under the bear's head. No sooner had my hand touched his head than, with a snap there was no avoiding, he raised and caught me by the right arm, just above the elbow, sinking his tusks deep into the bone. At the same time he sent his claws into the leg cf my right boot. Fortunately, I had brought my Winchester into the pit with me, and had leaned t against tha side, as it happened, within reach cf my left hand. The tear had me securely pinioned, and I .■ouid feel his tusks crunching on the bone of try arm. What the agony was you can only imagine; I cannot describe it. Getting the rifle stock between my knees. I managed to work the loading lever with my left hand, and. placing the muzzle of the gun fairly into the bear's right eye, fired. The shot sent the big brute into its dying throes. Like a vise its jaws settled down on my already crushed arm. until it seemed that flesh and bone must sunder, and the weight of the bear's head and shoulders would teat the arm away. "However, endurance could not stand up under a strain long. Getting another cartridge into the rifle by the same tactics as before. I rammed the barrel of the gun alongside this, where a space showed between my shirt sleeve and the bear's tongue” (Larson here showed the tusk with the mark of the rifle barrel upon it), “and. shoving the weapon as far down the brute's throat as my failing strength would allow of, fired. "The bear was undoubtedly already lead, but only a slight relaxation of its jaws followed the second shot. I could not free my arm. The hold of the law on my boot, however, relaxed. With this advantage gained I dropped :o my knees, and. using the rifle barrel as a pry. forced the animal's jaws . pen. Gcd only knows the awful ag>nly I endured during that prying operation. but at last I managed to free myself. With my relief my grit gave cut, and I fainted. The next I knew my wife and a neighboring rancher were beside me in the pit, endeavoring :o stanch the bleeding from my arm. My wife had become alarmed at my ieng absence, and, knowing my errand when I left in the morning, had made her way to the bear deadfall. Unable, on account cf her feeble strength, tc raise me from the pit. she had walked three miles to the next cabin adjoinr.g ours to procure the neighbor's assistance. “I was taken to Fairhaven and thence to Victoria. Everything has been done that the surgeons of the northwest are capable of. and that is pronably all that medical science can attain, for I have had good doctors. The crunched bone of my arm will not knit or form again. It continues to work out in small pieces. Every time one of these fragments of bone comes to the skin it forms an ulcer or boil In its efforts to frei itself. The result 6 my arm. where the bear’s tusks pentrated. is a mass of useless flesh. The pain comes from it constantly. I had decided to undergo an amputation when a friend told me of a surgeon in ■an Francisco who had performed several difficult operations in cutting •way and piecing out of diseased bone matter, and I am going to him as a lasi hope. If he cannot help me the arm nii’--t come off. for I cannot stand this i wful constant pain much longer.” Kf»tjar<lln~ &in »11 pox. It lias been found that smallpox pa tients are least marked when kept in rooms darkened with red curtains. Sunlight passing through a red medium loses its chemical power. It thus i-vent smallpox taking a confluent form One of the sights of the next Exhibition will be microbes placed under prismatic rays. We shall see how the chemical rays—violet, etc.— stimulate or tickle them to death. The violent rays are the cause of sunstroke though the red rays have so far been blamed. They liecome dangerously lively in the process. Red is heating but calming. Is this why children who are restless, feverish beings are so fond of that color and of pink? The Great Mogul knew what he was doing when he went about under the shade of a big red umbrella. He Would Find Ont in Time. The overturned coaches lay at the foot of the embankment, where they had rolled when the train left the irack. The wrecking train had arrived. the crew had gone to work, and the wounded had all l>een cared for. "Will you please tell me your personal experience in the accident?” asked a reporter, whipping out bis notebook. "Yon will read about them, sir.” re plied the solemn looking passenger with a slightly foreign accent, whom he had addressed, “in the book I shal' certainly publish about this country.” —Chicago Tribane. Hou.es of Zinc. Ryra. a town in Africa, is built eni • rely of 7’>c, The public building) I ind residences did not cost more than

■!l BI ■. One Time When He Badly Needed Assistance and Got ItHE IS NOT A “CUSSER.” Savs Hard Language Affords a Vent For Wrath Which is Better than Breaking Heads. Bos n.s Mate Faller the Champion Profane Xian of Uncle Sain's Navy—W ith an Artistic Vocabulary Which Excited the XI under of All XX ithln Hearing Distance —Tackled a Jammed Cartridge. John Crittenden Watson does not belong to the list of “cussing officers,” ,et as a man-o’-war skipper he never bad a man of his ship's company aft I for swearing. He was singularly indulgent of the hard swearers forward. "Hard language helps a man along occasionally,” he has been known to S,y to one of his deck officers upon overhearing a stream cf maledictions from the lips of some old flat foot working at a stubborn job forward, “and it is better for the men to work off their wrath over fouled anchor chains in cuss words than to take it out of each other's hides.” Aboard one of the ships under NN atson’s command there was an old bos n s mate named Fuller, who had the call throughout the whole navy as the '•nampion profane man cf the government's line of packets. Fuller never raised his voice when he swore. He would simply stand back and quietly regard the inanimate object of his wrath—a bent belaying pin perhaps or s slack ridge rope—and then he would open up in an ordinary conversational rone. But the utterances he gave vent to were sulphurous. It always took Riller a good five minutes to work off what he considered the necessary number of remarks on such occasions, and t always seemed, when he was through that he had quite exhausted his whole vocabulary of profanity. But this was a mistake. The very next time anything went wrong with a bit of Fuller's gear he would start in on a new line that would contain absolutely not a single repetition of any of his previous performances. It was always a source of wonder to Fuller’s shipmates, even the old timers, wnere he picked up the new ones, all of which were of startling originality and force. These shipmates related only one instance in which he found himself at a loss for words. He was with a landing party from his ship, marching on the outskirts of Chemulpo, Korea. He stubbed his toe on a loose boulder in the road and fell on his face in the dust. He picked himself up and looked at the road. He opened his mouth to say something, but he had no words. He was dumb with wrath. Two or three times he attempted to begin, but it was no go. He was struck for once, io he pulled out a pistol and deliberately fired it into the air five times. He had to express his feelings in some way. When Fuller was serving aboard Watson’s ship, he was in good shape, and his frequent quiet outbursts kept the forward part of the ship keyed up with wonder as to what was coming next. One morning at big gun drill Captain Watson himself was superin tending the exercise. One of the wooden cartridges became jammed in the breach cf the 6 inch rifle to which he was devoting most of his attention. He wouldn’t permit any of the gunner’s mates around him to attempt to loosen the cartridge, but essayed the job himself. He tugged at the jammed cartridge and broke his finger nails over it. and still it wouldn’t come out. It was a pretty hot morning on deck, and the perspiration began to roll off his face in streams, but he persisted in trying to loosen the stuck cartridge. He locked as if he would like to say a heap were he a swearing man, but he wasn’t a swearing man. When he had been working for five minutes over the jammed cartridge with no success, he ’.coked pretty helpless and miserable. He gave one final tug. but the stuck cartridge remained in the gun's breach The skipper gathered himself together mopped his forehead and looked at the gun. “Confound it all.” he broke out "where's Fuller? Sena me Fuller somebody.” Fuller was on hand directly. He wasn't a gunner’s mate, and he had nothing to do with the guns, but NVatson wanted Fuller to tackle the jammed cartridge all the same. "Fuller,” said Watsoj, "try and get that dummy out of that gun." Fuller looked at the stuck cartridge, and Watson retreated to the starboard side of the quarter deck. Fuller made two or three claws st the wooden cartridge, but it wouldn’t come out. A gunner s mate could have go-t it out in a jiffy, but Fuller wasn't in that line of the service. He tugged away, but it vas no go. Watson stood regarding the horizon on the starboard side of ’.he quarter deck. Fuller spat on his hands and made one more try. The dummy didn’t move a tenth of an inch. Then Fuller mopped his forehead with his neckerchief, clapped his cap on the back of his head, and opened up. It was great work, this performance of Fuller's, and no mistake. He eclipsed ill of his former efforts. Ke stood with his hands on his sides, looking at the pun breech and saying things at it that no Morgan or Kidd or Teach or other heaven defying pirate could ever have equaled. The men stood around, just ooking at Fuller in open mouthed mazement. They couldn't make out 'here he got them all. They were : >ll in English, but the combinations were weird. The peroration was frightful, although delivered in the mildest tone imaginable. When Fuller finished, he mopped his forehead with his neckerchief again ■rd walked over to his commanding fficer, who was looking over the star- ' >oard rail, apparently thinking deeply, i Fuller saluted. “It s stuck proper, sir,” said Fuller. ‘I can’t get it adrift.” "Well,” said Watson. “I didn’t think you could. E*uller, but I needed vou. Thanks. You did very well. Go orward.”

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