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HOUGH & CO., ~ 20 Pembroke Arcade garusis VELOX. GEN. LEE’S POPULARITY. Favorite with Ladled an Well ad Officer* Wherever He Goes. Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union. “Say, Is that General Lee?” The question was directed to a TlmesUninn and Citizen representative, w'ho w r as coming back to the city on one of the street cars from Camp Cuba Libre the other day. The question was asked by a countryman, who evidently had seen the general's picture, but had never seen him in the flesh before. Looking in the direction indicated, the newspaper man saw General Lee riding past, alone and unattended by any of his staff, on his iron-gray horse. • "Yes,” was the reply, and then the stranger turned and looked admiringly at the general, keeping his eye on him as long as he was in sight. “He's a big fellow, Isn’t he?” commented the countryman. The question is a common one every day, although most people in the city have now come to know the general and salute him as he passes by. The remark as to the physical size of General Lee is also not uncommon by any means, as most people have not expected to see such a rotund figure, which is accentuated, if anything, when on horseback. Eyery regiment that has been assigned to the Seventh Army Corps is proud of the fact that they are under the command of General Lee. There is a sentiment about it that possibly does not appeal to any of the other generals. The name of Lee is an inspiration in itself, and coupled with the further fact of the bold stand that General Lee took as consul general to Cuba, and especially during the Maine disaster in Havana harbor, it is little to be wondered that the men of the Seventh Corps feel enthused at the prospect of being led to battle under him. The general Is naturally the center of attraction wherever ?he goes about the city, out to camp, or about the Windsor Hotel, where he makes his headquarters. At the band concerts given at the hotel during the week, he can always be found seated on the piazza, surrounded by a bevy of Jacksonville’s beautiful young ladies, or by some of the pretty Cuban senoritas. Mrs. Lee is now' here, and what is more, the general is in his element on just such occasions as this. If the others enjoy it, he enjoys it still more. He takes their banterlngs goodnaturedly, and laughs at the good things. Ma'.iy a young officer would undoubtedly like to be just such a center of attraction. It is just this temperament and bonhommie disposition that makes General Lee the popular officer that he is. He is courteous and pleasant to all. He speaks to the civilian or to the private just as readily as to the officer with stars or silver eagles on his shoulder straps, and he has never been known to “turn down” a newspaper man. In other words, he is “approachable.” Although elevated in rank, he is still of the people. An excellent illustration of this was given at the close of the band concert a few' evenings ago. The First Wisconsin Band had finished its programme, had been served with refreshments by the hotel proprietors, and the men were going out. when some of them approached General Lee, and expressed a desire for his autograph. General Lee promptly responded, and standing at the news stand counter, wrote his autograph on slips of paper for every member of the band. Perhaps it was a little thing, and yet every officer would not have been so accommodating. When the general had finished one of the men was heard to remark: “These will carry Wisconsin for you all right in the next presidential election, general.” In a letter written to the Davenport (la.) Democrat. General Lee, commanding the Seventh Army Corps, says: “I have two fine regiment in camp here from your State. I am sure they will give a good account of themselves should an opportunity offer, and your people may rest assured that I shall take good care of them, and guard closely their interests in all things.” The Important Thing. Washington Star. "You must admit that your argument was rather thin.'' “My dear air," remarked the man who was filibustering, “In a case like this it 1b not the thickness of an argument that counts. It is the length.” The Correct Expression. Sporting Times. “Have I got the 'pleasing expression’ you want?” asked Mr. Gubbins. ”Yes. sir.” replied the photographer. “I think that will do very well.” "Then hurry up. please. It hurts my face.” ‘ , 1

ARMY SIGNALING CORPS THE “EYES OF THE ARMY’’ BEING RAPIDLY PREPARED FOR SERVICE. Paraphernalia of the Corps and Its Uses—. Telegraphy and Heliographinyr—The Reliance on Flagging. Washington Post. While Uncle Sam is busy organizing his boys in blue, as well as good supplies of stores, clothing, and ammunition, by every train, General A. Greeiy, whose fame as an Arctic explorer is world-wide, is hard at work equipping for the field the men who are in future to be the “eyes of the army,” and on whose vigilance depends so much the usefulness of the movements of the troops. Napoleon realized the necessity of observing the acts of the enemy, and remarked that “the secret of war is the secret of communication.” Cavalry has largely in the past been used for the purpose, but in the present conflict the signal service will be brought into requisition almost entirely to secure information. To the general who commands a body of troops on a cairpaign the need of the signal service men is a necessity, and in the present instance they will be invaluable. Ever since the late war, at which time they were first organized, the corps has been steadily growing in importance, and innumerable experiments made, till to-day it Is an arm of the fighting force, without which the body would be almost powerless. When camped or on the move the signal men are keeping the different points in constant communication, and for miles about the country there is a constant outlook on all sides, every motion of the enemy being instantly wired to the headquarters of the general. In sending out to the army in the field In the present war the service will place an officer of the corps on the staff of each general, and under this officer will be several hundred men whose duty it is to go on in advance, to skirt the sides, and, by signals from stations in trees or on hills, to place the different commanders in communication with one another and inform the leader of all movements of the enemy. The uniform of the signal men is blue, like the rest of the army, but while the cavalry has yellow trimmings, the artillery red, those of the signal corps are black in hue. They are accompanied by all of their paraphernalia, which consists of innumerable instruments for telegraphing, flags and torches, heliographs, reel wagons, on which telephone and telegraph wires are stretched, and even balloons, which will be used extensively for the first time since the recent experiments. THE SYMBOLS USED. As talking is conveying ideas by means of sound, so signaling is conveying the same ideas by means of symbols. For ordinary occasions the most used means are the flag code and the telegraph wire. In using the field telegraph, which was first done in the late war, considerable antagonism was aroused against its application by the civilian companies empowered to convey messages by wire, but General Butler issued an order placing the telegraph line in command of a signal officer. Reels and wires were bought, skilled operators secured, and the line was used by the Army of the Potomac, proving of great value, though the soldiers, at first unused to the sight of the wire along the lines, would sometimes cut it, thinking it a device of the enemy. By the means employed at present, which are an immense improvement on those of the past, the wire for telegraph lines is rolled on a huge reel wagon, to which horses a r e attached, and this is paid out as fast as it is erected along the fine of the army. If in camp, the lines reach to the headquarters of the different commanders and signal stations on adjoining hills; if the troops are in motion, the line is placed along ahead, keeping constantly in advance of the soldiers. Telephones are now also in use in the army, and the ’phone wires are laid at the same time as the telegraph ones. One of the most recent and valuable inventions is an instrument by which the same wdre can be used at one time for both telegraphing and telephoning. Temporary stations, fully equipped with the paraphernalia and batteries, are placed at the different headquarters and signal stations, so that to-day a general in his tent is able to talk with his subordinates miles away, ami to learn from the stations on the tops of mountains the first signs of an enemy’s approach. For signaling long distances an instrument employing the sun's rays and known as the heliograph is used. It consists of mirrors and screens upon a tripod, which flashes the focussed rays at the receiving station, and by a manipulation of the length and direction of the flash a complete code can be accurately spelled out and perfect communication established. The flash is kept correctly adjusted by means of a dark spot, arising from an unsilvered place in the mirror. The mirror used by the officers In the field is four and a half inches square, and its flash can be seen by the naked eye for a distance of thirty miles, while with the aid of a telescope it can be used for a space of sixty miles. Messages have been sent as great a distance as ninety miles, and the flash distinguished at 125 miles. What was probably the first use of the heliograph by the Union army was in 1863, at Rockville, Md.. when a Capt. E. A. Denicke made a successful use of small hand mirrors, an experiment which was repeated later on in New Orleans. USES OF THE FLAG. For distances between stations several miles apart the flag signal Is that most commonly used. Most stations are on elevated points, hilltops or trees, and the movements of a flag in the hand of a man can be detected several miles by a fieldglass, There are two flags used, one a white one with a red center, which is used when the background is dark, and the other a red one with a white center, w'hich is employed when the background is light. For instance, a dark background would be that of a dull sky on a cloudy day, while a bright one would be the blue of a sunshiny one. These flags on a sufficiently high point can be seen for a distance of ten miles. The flag is attached to a staff twelve feet long, and the code is sent by certain motions. The man with the flag takes a position facing the station with which he wishes to communicate, and by various movements of the flag from one side to the other, he is able to spell out rapidly any message desired. These symbols are sent by numbers, and though they have the same meaning now as when used during the civil war, the numbering has been changed. At night, when a flag would not be seen, a torch Is used in its place. With one at the feet of the signal man and another in his hand, the same symbols are sent during darkness as would be dispatched during the day. These torch-signals can be seen as far as ten and fifteen miles. Rockets are also valuable at night, though sometimes being obscured by clouds. Colored fires are also used, the colors red, white and green being employed, and burned in holders shaped like an ordinary pistol. If the signalist is provided with only the three colors, red, w'hite and green, he can Indicate nine messages by burning one or two cartridges of these colored lights; by lighting three or less than three at one time he can forward twentyseven dispatches; by burning four signals at once as high as eighty-one messages can be sent. A fourth color is secured by a tint known as “red white.” and by combinations of this as high as two hundred and fifty-six dispatches can be forwarded. The colors red, white and green indicate certain numbers by which symbols meaning a phrase are denoted. THE BALLOON IN WAR. The heads of the Signal Corps expect to use the balloon in locating the enemy and communicating with the army. These balloons will be carried by the corps on wagons arranged with pipes, so that an inflation by means of hydrogen gas can be made at any time. The basket of the balloon will be used by several signal men, who will be fully equipped with every instrument for detecting the foe, while from the car to the ground will run a line of telegraph wire, W’hich pays out by means of a reel in the basket. The balloon will be held captive, as a rule, and with the aid of a telescope can be sent up near enough to discern the movements of an enemy, but so far off as to be out of reach of a shot. Experiments with balloons have of late years been carried out In the posts of the West, and by means with which the telephone can be utilized its use has been greatly enhanced. With the ’phone wirs et hand, the signal man high up in the

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air can watch every movement of the adversary through a glass, will be safe from danger and talk at the same time to the general in command of the army in the field below. The services of th 9 signal corps were utilized by the generals of the late war and by their means almost every important movement and battle was guided. Ali of the old war horses used the code for sending Information, while the. Confederates also employed a system of signals and code of their own. When Sheridan was campaigning in the valley Early found that Howard, Sheridan’s signal officer, was reading the rebel signals sent. So he had a decoy dispatch forwarded to himself, intending that Howard should Intercept it. It read: “Lieut. Gen. Early, Fisher’s Hill: “Be ready to advance on Sheridan as soon as my forces get up. and we can crush him before he finds out I have joined you. “J. LONGSTREET.” When Sheridan was told of this dispatch he at once wired it to Washington, and it was also telegraphed to Grant. It was some time before Sheridan found out that Longstreet was not in that part of the country and the whole thing a clever ruse. The idea of the signal corps as it Is used to-day in this and other countries originated in the brain of Gen. Albert J. Myer, a native of New York, and an expert telegrapher. In 1851 his attention was called to the clumsy and complex method of military signaling as then employed, and it was when serving in New Mexico that he observed the Comanche Indians making signals from the hills by the waving of their lances, hence was induced to reduce the army signals to a simple code which would put all parts of the army in communication. By constant attention from Myer, the thing grew from an unimportant branch to what is now regarded as one of the most useful means of watching the enemy, and the work once done by cavalry is performed more rapidly and more effectively by the corps of to-day. Instead of a solitary scout we have now hundreds of men with telegraphs, and telephones, flags, heliographs, and balloons, so that the enemy can be discovered for miles in the distance, and the general can talk, even when on the march, to all parts of his forces. PORTO RICO. Climate, Soil nnil Products and Population of the Island. The Outlook. The surface of the island is broken and hilly. A low mountain ridge traverses it from east to west, ranging nearer the southern than the northern coast, with spurs extending northward. Os this ridge the highest elevation is El Yunque (The Anvil), a mountain rising from the tableland of Luquillo to a height of 3,700 feet above the sea, and visible to vessels some sixty miles off the coast. The country has two marked features—the many wooded ravines descending from the mountains, through which course streams of bright w r ater falling to the sea; and, interspersed w’lth these ravines, extensive stretches of natui al meadowland, which serves as pasture to herds of wild cattle. The climate is a healthy one for a tropical situation. The constant running streams, with the absence of stagnant water, doubtless contribute to purify the atmosphere. The island, well aerated throughout, Is appreciably cooler and more salubrious than are the larger Antilles, or than the majority of the lesser Windward islands, which have • been termed the graves of foreigners. The mountain valleys, especially in the winter—from November to April—when the north winds blow steadily, enjoy a delightful climate which has been likened to a perpetual spring. In the summer—the rainy season at the north of the island—a sea breeze blows from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m., in the absence of w'hich life would hardly be tolerable near the coast. The rains, which are frequent and plentiful in May and June, come down in August and September “with the fury of a deluge.” The rainfall at San Juan has been estimated at about seventy cubic inches. On the southern coast, however, there is much less rain; sometimes none at all even for ten or twelve months. It is in August and September that the climate at the north is least healthful, especially fo r foreigners. Fever, dysentery, and scorbutic diarrhoea are then to be guarded against, and a change to the mountains is desirable. These are also the months of the hurricanes which have in some years proved so destructive and ruinous in their effects. "This dreadful scourge.” writes Colonel Flinter, “wrhich often visits the West Indies, may be considered as a great drawback on the planter, and is a great deduction from the value of West Indian property.” Porto Rico is eminently an agricultural island. It is favored with a soil of unusual fertility, consisting of a reddish (or whitish) earth, made up chiefly of a clay mixed with peroxide of iron or marl. The abundant supply of water keeps the soil productive; even in the southern districts, where the rain is less and the ground seems parched, water may bo found by digging a foot and a half or two feet beneath the surface. The hills and valleys are luxuriant with vendure; the mountains are green to their tops and cultivable at any height. Good timber, suitable for houses or ships, is abundant—a result owing in a measure to a wise provision of the government early in the century, when it was formally ordered that “three trees should be planted for every one cut down.” Among the native trees the royal palm has been perhaps the mofet useful, not only on account of its wood and its fruit, but also for its leaves, which furnish thatching for the cabins of the poorer classes. The mahogany tree has yielded valuable timber for export. The plantain and the banana trees have furnished food for thousands. Among the shrubs, the coffee plant, grateful to sight and smell, with its glossy leaves and jasmin-scented white blossoms, grows almost spontaneously. The tobacco plant yields a product not much inferior to that of Cuba. That useful grass, the sugar cane, is cultivated with profit, and best in the hot, arid regions of the south, where other crops requiring more moisture would not flourish. A considerable capital. English and Spanish, is invested in sugar plantations, Ponce being the center of this commerce. A cotton remarkable for its length of fiber, tenacity, and whiteness is produced, and its culture might with advantage be largely extended. The exports from Porto Rico have consisted mostly of sugar, coffee, tobacco, molasses, rum, honey, indigo, cotton, mahogany, cattle, mules and hides. According to the most recent authority, “latest returns’’ exhibit the three principal exports as follows: Sugar, 54,861 tons; coffee, 16,884 tons; tobacco, 1.8At7 tons. The sugar export has declined, having once nearly doubled the above quantity. The island also produces, m lesser quantities, flax, ginger, cassia, rice, and maize, with citrons, lemons and oranges, and other fruits, which might well be made articles of commerce. Several banks of fine salt are worked by the government. Colonel Flinter congratulates himself that, at the date of bis writing, none of the precious metals had been discovered in Porto Rico. “Fortunately for the inhabitants,” he says, “no mines cf gold or silver have been explored, to divert their attention from the sober path of industry.” But a late authority mentions that gold has been found both in lumps and dust in the beds of streams: adding that iron, copper, lead and coal have also been detected. The coal, however, used on the island comes almost exclusively from Great Britain. Other main items of the British trade are cottons, woolens, jute for coffee-hags, metals and rice; and codfish are supplied from the British colonies to the estimated value of £95,000. From the United States have heretofore been imported flour, grain, butter, lard, furniture, lumber and staves for sugar hogsheads and rum puncheons. The population of this densely peopled island is about 800,000. Eves, above quoted, states it, under date of 1897, at 813,937. As to the character of this population, a series of fortunate circumstances, in combination with a sagacious government, has contributed to impart to it a quality superior to that of any other of the West India islands. In the first place, this has alw'ays been a purely agricultural people. Then, at an early period, the crown lands of the island were divided up among the natives, who thus became a community of small proprietors, to w'hich was given anew consistency and stability on their being formed into a body of disciplined militia. Further, the island has not suffered to the same extent as its neighbors from the curse of slavery. The slaves were permitted to purchase their freedom off easy terms, and they have borne but a small proportion to the mass of the inhabitants. Roosevelt’s Book. Kansas City Journal. Some time before he went to w'ar Theodore Roosevelt published a volume of essays entitled, "American Ideals.” The essays are pervaded with the same headstrong. breezy vigor which led the author to lay dow r n his portfolio to lead the regiment of “Rough Riders.” We cannot help sympathizing with much that does not entirely carry our judgment along. One of the best of Mr. Roosevelt’s points is his denunciation of the “timid good,” who have very keen eyes to see the evils in the body politic, but are mostly in doubt as to what would be better, and even when they think they sec something better ate indisposed to risk a little rough handling by "practical politicians” in order to attempt to realize the reform. Mr. Roosevelt has- a right to speak In these matters, for no one can accuse him of cowardice in failing to try to live up to his political Ideals.

SPAIN’S IDEA OF THE WAR. Much Indifference and More Amazing Ignorance. Madrid Letter in London Mail. It is now seven weeks since I journeyed from London in hot haste to Madrid, with the object of discovering the true state of the popular feelings, not only in the capital, but also in the provinces, with regard to the disastrous and unequal war in w'hich Spain’ is engaged. In England one had been told that the whole nation was stirred to its foundations, that rioting nad already begun, that everything was possible between a bloodless revolution and a repetition of the horrors of the Spanish commune. A few hours in Madrid were amply sufficient to prove that the state of things had been vastly exaggerated, and that' the bulk of the population took little interest in the war with America, which they regarded merely as an extension or continuation of the colonial troubles which have plagued Spain and its exchequer for years, and of which they had throughout been so ill-informed that they had but little idea of their true gravity. During the past six weeks excursions into the Spanish provinces to the leading industrial and agricultural centers have revealed almost precisely the same indifference to the war as is felt in the capital. That the Spanish newspapers do all in their power to discourage this indifference is natural enough, and it may even be the ca that many of the writers do conscientiotmy believe that their own sentiments of alternate enthusiasm and despair are shared by their readers. They endeavor to impress upon the stranger their theory that he cannot possibly estimate the amount of feeling about the war by the mere behavior of the Spaniards whom he encounters, and to whom he talks. They desire you to believe that they are not the demonstrative people that you perhaps think they are. To some slight extent this may be true enough. But it seems quite clear that the Spaniard does not allow his private opinions about the suicidal folly of the war to interfere with his behavior in public. Roughly speaking, the population of Spain may be divided into the usual three classes, but the middle classes can hardly be said to exist save in the more important towns. The lower classes, a large proportion of whom in the country districts are unable to read or w'rite, and whose knowledge p£ history and geography is confined to a few superstitious legends, could hardly be expected to follow at all closely the fortunes of their country at the present time. Individually they are kindly, simple folk, but if you talk to them about the troubles of their fatherland they are at a loss to know what you mean ,and appear to think you are attempting some silly joke. Possibly the prices of their small luxuries, such as oil, tobacco, etc., have gone up somewhat of late, but they have been used to that sort of thing for generations. * The peasantry, whose devotion to their absentee landlords reminds one of feudal times, are just now employed in harvesting crops of unusual excellence, and are in no mood to worry about troubles abroad of which they have heard little and understand nothing. Moreover, the Catholic Church has an influence over them which is almost mediaeval—an influence which extends to an almost equal extent over the poor working population of the town. The view of the church at the present crisis must not be ignored, and one can find them easily enough in pamphlets calculated to appeal even to many of the well-edu-cated, who still trust implicitly to its voice. Here is a quotation from a very recent (June, 1898,) brochure, entitled, “Religion and the War,” and, issued not tyithout authority. I give the cTosihg words literally translated: “If we triumph we shall triumph with justice on our side; if they beat us, we shall raise our eyes to God, and we shall say, in the beautiful legendary phrase: What does it matter?” These comforting words, “Que importa, if only we do our duty?” may not be literally accurate, save in their spiritual significance, but they are well adapted to the bulk of the Spanish population, who, in their private life, are curiously fatalistic. When domestic disasters occur, or the breadearning son is demanded by his country for military service, there js no long grumbling. "Que importa, it’ Is tfte~ will of God. ”, provides consolation to many a poor soul, who does not know which way to look for the future. In addition, the poorer population of Spain is notoriously improvident in money matters. That they will pawn their blanket (by which is Implied their last possession in the world) in order to go to the bull fight, is the popular and not altogether exaggerated idea of their recklessness. It is needless to say that the wealthy men of Spain, the absentee landlords who form the aristocracy of Madrid, though devout Catholics almost to a man, have scarcely so simple a faitfi as have their uneducated inferiors. Que importa? indeed. They have their family position and honor to consider. In bad times, when rents are scarce or markets are low, there are many who, it is said, maintain their showy establishments in Madrid, and go for daily promenades in their two-horse broughams, even though it is thereby necessary for them to starve their retinue, and possibly themselves, In the necessaries of life. But, unlike the poor, they are continually grumbling, and are inclined to attribute their pecuniary difficulties to the government to an extent which is scarcely fair. And while they lay stress upon their losses due to the w'ar, you can learn nothing about the gains which many of the large producers for foreign markets must now be realizing, owing to the fall in the exchange. It is even asserted that the great deficiency of silver in Spain, and the almost entire disappearance of the gold coinage, is in large measure due to the aristocrats themselves. who have for years past been laying up private stores for bullion. Despite the pride which has hitherto prevented Spain from issuing the bank notes for small amounts, w’hich are customary in Italy and Greece, its monetary system is infinitely more troublesome than it is in these countries. The smallest note is of twenty-five pesetas, worth at the present time little more than half a sovereign, English. Owing, however, to the scarcity of silver, it Is often difficult or Impossible to get these twenty-five-peseta notes changed, although they are freely taken in payment. At railway stations, for example, if your fare is fiftyone pesetas you can pay it easily enough, but if it bo only forty-nine pesetas vou must be provided with at least twenty-four pesetas in silver, unless you are prepared to sacrifice your change. At Gibraltar Spanish notes are now only accepted at a reduction of 10 per cent, of their face value in pesetas, and there is no anxiety to take them at even this reduction. It is, no doubt, the middle classes of Spain who have been most hardly hit by the war. And among the middle classes one must include. besides the ordinary shopkeepers, the wealthy manufacturers of Barcelona and elsewhere. For these industrious folk have no wish to be reckoned among the aristocracy. although the latter may include bank clerks at Madrid who keep up their proud position on a salary which does not amount per annum to £4O of our money. That the manufacturers have lost a large share of their foreign trade is t~ue enough, but, on the other hand, they have gained an amount of home trade which has never before come their way. The Spanish merchants and dealers can no longer afford to buy their goods outside Spain, now that the peseta is at only half its former value, and the Spanish producers have now a firstrate opportunity of convincing the consumers that their goods are in no way inferior to those of the foreigner who has enjoyed a long monopoly. It is, indeed, more than possible that, so far as trade is concerned, the war and the consequent fall in the value of Spanish silver has not, so far. affected the commerce of Spain as much as it has that of other European nations. At present the dignified'peace, on w’hich Spain insists, seems unattainable. It is practically agreed by the well-informed that an undignified peace will mean a revolution, and that unless this be bloodless, peace, so far as Spain’s interna! prosperity is concerned, will merely be a fall from the frying pan into the Are. It is even said that Don Carlos himself, whose chances as a revolutionary leader seem of late to have received a certain amount of recognition is fully aware of the fact, and that he has no intention or desire to promote his claim to the Spanish crown unless he has the full support of the Spanish army. Carlist sympathizers are therefore waiting, anxiously enough, to see if the present government will be foolish enough to enter on a peaco which would not be thought degrading by the proud army of Spain. Meanwhile the present dynasty seems to have lost little of its customary popularity. Recently when Senor Castelar hinted at its Austrian origin, there was a general wave of indignation at the unnecessary remark. Spaniards of less note hint that the little King, sturdy as he looks, was born long after his father had incurred consumption, and that the disease is clearly hereditary. Rabid politicians will tell you that the Queen Regent falls to rule the country with the strong hand which it needs, and which only a man can give. The Carlist adds that there is only one who has a divine right to the throhe.' and that he is precisely the kind of King required. and so forth. He will even claim that his candidate must have the support

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of all true Catholics. But the church, however great its influence may be, does not seem inclined to make any pronouncement, at all events for the present. IF WE NEED MORE OFFICERS Volunteer* Should Have a Chanee to Enter Regular Army. Richmond (Va.) Dispatch. The annual report of the Board of Visitors of the United States Military Academy at West Point, just made public, renews the old recommendations that the number of cadets be increased. The board urges that the President be permitted to appoint twenty cadets and each senator in Congress one. This is an old scheme revived at a time most opportune for its adoption. Congress is now ready to do almost anything that is suggested by military men. However, we do not think it possible for any such bill to pass at the present session of Congress. It will doubtless be drafted, presented and referred. At the winter’s session it can be discussed much more intelligently than at present. That the present law affords the means of furnishing all the officers the regular army (as now constituted) needs no one can doubt. And when this war is over we trust it will be the pleasure of the President to nominate for commissions in the regular army many young volunteer officers who have proved their fitness for command by actual service in the field. But, of course, if ours is to be a shoulderstrapped Republic, we shall have to have an enormous regular army. The more regiments and battalions we have, the more need for officers there will be. In that event, not even the board’s recommendation will furnish enough. Our own idea is that we ought then not only to develop the capacity of West Point as an officer-producing establishment, but we ought so to legislate as to make our volunteer service an avenue for reaching commissions in the regular army at all times. If we hold out as an incentive to our volunteers that by studiousness, good conduct and display of all soldier-like qualities they may possibly obtain commissions in the regular service, we shall give the “National Guard - ’ the greatest boom that it ever has had. Many a youth. flreff by ambition, would then enlist in his home company and enter heartily into its work—yes. even if there were but one chance in several hundred that he might get a regular officer’s commission. The provisions of law that now exist do not meet this question properly; they do not hold out the hearty invitation that they ought. The Dispatch has not the slightest purpose of disparaging the training given at West Point. Far from it. We consider it an incomparably excellent military school. And we would make it even better than It is. At the same time, we are of the opinion that we can secure valuable officers now and then outside of the list of its matricuUnder a proper law, and with a wholesome public sentiment to support it, our volunteer organizations could every year turn out a considerable number of highly qualified army officers. The volunteers have done so when opportunity offered in the past; much better could they do so in the future, under a law designed to stimulate their young officers to prepare for reasonable examinations, preliminary to receiving commissions. . , . It is to be hoped Congress will be very vigilant in examining all measures proposed that look to changing our government into a shoulder-strapped Republic. If there is to be such a change in the character of our government, the Republican party will have the formation of our military establishments to a very large extent. As is well known, that party is not to be balked in any of its aims by the teachings and traditions of the patriot fathers. Os course, we would expect it to use its power to reward as many of its supporters as possible. Partisan as we own to being, we do not charge that no other consideration would guide the Republicans; but we do think we are justified in believing they would take care of their own in the future, as in the past. We dislike to think of militarism and imperialism in connection with our federal government, but events are rapidly shaping themselves which compel us to consider a change not only as a possibility, but as a probability. If come it must; if the passion for territorial expansion outweighs every other consideration; if we are to have a big standing army, let us at least provide that our volunteer organizations shall be encouraged to furnish some of the hundreds of new officers that will be required. This they can do with credit to themselves and with benefit to the country at large. A* to Shirt Waists. Philadelphia Inquirer. The efforts of certain wealthy women two years ago to do away with the shirt waist upon the ground that it was cheap and common has gone the way of many other spasm for which there was no excuse. On Chestnut street yesterday nine out of ten women wore such waists, and how nice and cool they looked, too! We have not much to say for some of women’s winter dress, hut in the matter of their summer attire they are far and away in advance of the average man. Good taste, beauty and comfort are their object, and it is easily attained. The average woman has not much money to throw away on dress, but she Is learning very rapidly that she does not need It. Comfort doe* not He exclusively in silks and satins. The cheap materials, of which many of her summer gowns are made compare most favorably with those composed of more costly material, and as one of the purposes of dress is to be as attractive as possible the question of cheapness bars any material. The tan shoes and negligee shirts for men were a good start, hut where Is the negligee shirt now? Out oitbe

Don’t fail to see these Napkin Bargains Bleached % size, $6-50 quality—s 4 98 Bleached \ size, $5 quality $3 05 Blehched \ size, $3 50 quality....s2 08 Bleached size, $3 quality $2 25 Bleached 22-inch size, $2 quality. .sl-39 Bleached 18-lnch size, $1 quality OOc Silver-bleached $1.50 quality sl-10 Unbleached, 85c quality 58c Some Exceptional Good Values in Towels Hemstitched Bleached Damask, 50c and 75c kind 800 Hemstitched Huekelbuck, 75c kind....45c Hemstitched and fringed, 35c kind 10c Hemmed Linen Huck, 25c quality lOc Hemmed Linen Huck, 10c quality 14c Hemmed and fringed Huck. 12*sC quality ...go Fringed Honeycomb, 5c quality 2’4c Turkish Bath Towels, 25c quality 10c Turkish Bath Towels, lOc quality 5c A Crash in Crashes Bleached Toweling, 12*40 quality Oc Bleached Toweling, lOc quality 7c Bleached Toweling, heavy twill 2c Unbleached Toweling, l2 1 4c quality $c Unbleached Toweling, 8 l-3c quality...4c Lunch Cloths Hemstitched Damask, $2 quality...sl.39 Hemstitched open work. $1.25 kind .88c Hemstitched Damask, $1 quality 70c

WASH GOODS A large, new arrival; a multitude of styles and patterns. Every piece a gem; most of them were never shown before in Indianapolis. Naturally we bought them at our own prices. They are marked at about half the season’s price. Just put in stock for Monday’s business.

DIMITIES—An entire new line of this choice summer fabric, in light and dark grounds, all new styles in the most desirable colorings, same qualities sold at 20c, 18c and 15c; to-morrow, 15c, 12c and ;...8c ORGANDIE LAWNS—32 inches wide, all new patterns and colorings, same quality sold at 15c; to-ir.orrow 7^c ORGANDIE LAWNS—32 inches wide, plain and satin-striped grounds, with handsome printings, all new styles and colorings, same quality sold at 18c and 20c; to-morrow lOc LAWNS—Light grounds, neat and pretty prints, 30 Inches wide, lOc quality sc

question entirely, unless It has a starched collar and starched cuffs! Where’s the negligee in that? So we say a health to the women in their many-colored summer waists. They would be pretty in almost any attire, hut women should be sensible as well as pretty, and the women in shirt waists are both. GREAT STATE FOR KIN. An Odd Family Trait Peculiar to the Good Dames of Missouri. New York Sun. “There are more old families in Missouri than in any other State west of the Mississippi,’’ said a man from that section to the friends who were entertaining him. “And that is why if you spend the day in any old home out there you will find before you leave that you are of kin to the family, or of someone whose name happens to be mentioned. During the civil war there were more kinsmen of John C. Breckinridge in Missouri than that individual could muster in Kentucky. There are some counties in Missouri that were settled by the next of kin of Henry Clay, to hear them tell it, and they are still living. The Todds and Lincolns are as thick as hazelnuts in the fall. That became quite noticeable after Lincoln was President. There was a gambler In the town where I lived who never amounted to much until after the election of Lipcoln, and then as his name was Lincoln he claimed the distant relationship which, in Missouri, is as good as next of kin, provided the family with whom kin is claimed is respectable and has been successful. “For many years after the war wherever you found a Price in Missouri you found a relative of ‘Pap’ Price whoshad such a hold on the affections of the Southern people of the State. There are good old women in Missouri who do nothing but make up family records, and whenever anybody in the world comes to the front these motherly old souls find that the favored ones are their kin. Just after the Manila fight the newspapers of Missouri had to crowd out war news and advertisements to make room for letters from the Deweys in the State, or from people related to the Dewey family. People who had a middle name beginning with ’D’ said it was for Dewey. “A good many years ago I was making a campaign in my district. I got lost one stormy night, and called out In front of a farmhouse for lodging. I was Informed that there was no place to sleep. While I was wondering which way I would go I heard a woman ask; “ ‘What is his name?’ “The patriarch in the door repeated the question, and I said ‘Craig.’ “ ‘Any kin to Gineral Jeems Craig?’ asked the woman inside. “ ‘Nephew,’ I said. ‘Alight and come in,’ was the response. “Gen. James Craig was a former congressman from that district, and had visited these people and hadf sent them garden seed, and they felt themselves honored by the attention. Any friend of his was welcome there, and before I left the house the good old woman told me that her mother was a Craig, and that she and the general had found that they were of kin. “About ter. days ago I was in Audrian county, Missouri, buying live stock. Audrian is one of the oldest sections of the State. It is next to the county which to this day is called the Kingdom of Callaway, and not far from Pike. There has not been anew family in either of these counties for fifty years. I mean a family from any other State. The last night I was in Audrian county I stopped at a farmhouse where we talked about the present war. I was enthusiastic about Hobson. When I had made a regular speech about him the old farmer went to the door of an adjoining room and said; “ ‘Ma, here is a man who knows Hobson.’ “Before I could correct my host his good old wife was in the room and she began. So far she had been able to learn she was no kin to the hero, on her side, and none that she knew of on her husband’s side. “ ‘But you know Mrs. Emily Dill, maybe?’ she said. Lives up near Mexico, the county teat. Well, she is close kin to Hobson. and she Is one of my best friends. And then there’s Judge Pierson’s family. He was judge in our district when I was a girl. Lived in Mexico and left many descendants. Well, hi 9 people were Hobsons, and Mrs. Dill says they are all of the same family. The Piersons and Dills came from Alabama, near the Hobsons.’ “And so, I thought, here It Is again. Old Missouri is bound to be in it whatever it is that is going on. I reckon by the time the war is over there won’t be a successful general or admiral or commodore who won’t be able to go to Missouri and live around among his kin for the rest of his life, for they are powerful hospitable In Missouri, especially where you are of kin.’’ CORN AND COOKING. Some Mexican Dishes Said to Beat American “Ho* and Hominy.” Industrial Advocate (San Francisco.) Nothing but ignorance and indifference can account for the horrid diet of hog and hominy, which was the staple menu for so many years throughout a large part of the West. The Western farmer could raise anything the Mexican farmer could. But what a difference In the cooking. Surely if the devil—as the old, saying has it—does furnish the cooks, he sent so plentiful a supply to the Mississippi valley that he ran a little short before he got to the Mexican line, or across to California in the old days, when there were not grocery stores at every crossroads, and the people had to raise what they ate. Did you ever eat a Mexican dinner, cooked by one who knew how to cook It? If not you have missed something. Enchiladas, tortillas, frijoles, tamales. Trv a dinner of them some time, if you are lucky enough to ever be where you can get one rightly

g (I MAIL orders given prompt atW. jI ■ ten non. Haiti pies cheerfully sub- • mitted. I A W MpaL ,sc,oseathand * f T * invCl Anent same we make these SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS TO CYCLISTS. BIKE SUITS, AU-wool Casslmere. neat checks and Indistinct plaids, fly-front jackets, deep-faced and stitched skirts, season’s price $9 and sl6; L. A. W. special $4 08 CYCLE HABIT of All-wool Novelty Cloth, fly-front jacket, skirt with 10-inch facing, eight rows of stitching, $lO kind $5 08 BICYCLE SKIRTS of Ail-wool Casslmere—the best we can say about it Is that It Is worth $4-08; U. A. W. price.s2 08 SWELL SAILORS of extra quality, Milan double rim, sold earlier at SI.OB, now $l4B L. A. W. (Ladies All Wright) BICYCLE BOOTS, in Black or Tan, Vicl stock, all leather, perfect fitting, new coin lasts, bought to sell at $3. f0r....52-59 GOLF HOSE, for ladies and gentlemen, excellent for bicycle use; black, fast dye, with fancy tops, 75c the usual price; special . 390 Muslin Underwear SKIRTS of Cambric, deep Lawn flounce, 4-inch lace, with insertion trimming, lawn dust ruffle; specially desirable for summer wear, $2 25 _ quality $1.85 SKlßTS—Umbrella flounce of lawn, neat embroidery-trimmed, 75c quality; special, Monday 400 DRAWERS of Cambric, Umbrella style, six tine tucks and wide lace-trimmed, to close this 75c style 30c DRAWERS of elegant Cambric, Umbrella flounce of 10-inch Swiss embroidery and group of line tucks, ,sl-25 quality ’.I 980 Mattings From the big importation. If we had to buy them to-day ttoe advanced tariff would make them cost us more than we sell them at. CHlNA—Extra super, best quality, 49c kind 25c MATTING—Cotton Chain, yet a splendid line being shown of 20c and 22c kind 12c

ORGANDIES—The fine imported qualiHr, light and dark grounds, they sold at 2oc and 35c; your choice of patteriVs to morrow 140 GINGHAMS—Zephyr weaves, dress and waist styles, including the popular block checks, sold at 12Vic and 15c; tomorrow 7^.0 PONGEE—A very desirable material for Dresses and Waists; very fine and soft, and preferable to percale; light grounds, with neat and pretty printings, 15c quality; to-morrow 70 LINEN SKIRTING—The correct article for cool, light-weight garments, desirable color, 25c should be the price on them, for 18c

cooked, with just these four things, and you will get a meal that will make your mouth water ever after every time you think of It, and what are they all made from? Tortillas of corn—Enchiladas of corn and a little chopped meat and some onions and peppers, and hot sauce that gives a zest and relish—Tamales, of corn and corn husks, and chicken—and frijoles are beans, just plain beans, but cooked—cooked and seasoned till they are a dish, fit to set before a king. There is a Mexican woman who keeps a little restaurant at Visalia, away down in the San Joaquin valley, who can cook such a meal in such a way that if the United States government had saved the whole $130,000 that they threw away uo the free seed fake and spent every dollar qf it in teaching the women of the West and the East to cook these delicious dishes of corn—just common corn—and a few other things that any man with an acre of ground can raise himself, they would have enlarged the use of American corn enough to have warranted the whole expenditure, and at the same time have taught the people how many good things there are to be eaten if they are cooked right, which any man can raise himself with his own labor. Not a family that Is in want in the cities to-day need ever lack for a meal if they had two acres of land and water to Irrigate it, ■ and knew how to cook corn as the Mexicans do. It was a style of cooking which was the outgrowth of conditions which made it necessary for them to produce themselves what they ate. Ranches were far from stores. Roads were bad, and there were no railroads In the old Mexican days. They had no well-stocked grocery stores to draw on at short notice. They grew their own food and learned how to cook it—and to cook it deliciously, too. The problem of transportation and exchanges never bothered them. They ate what they raised. Mhy can’t Americans do the same? There is not a mechanic or artisan or laborer in any American city who lives as well, no matter what his wages may be as he might if he tilled five acres of land with his own labor and had a wife who could cook corn as well as the Mexican woman who keeps the little restaurant in Visalia, and yet there are those who say that the congestion of population of our cities cannot be relieved oy turning the people back to the soil, because they would have to find a market for their products. What better market do they want than their own stomachs? Does It add a zest to the food to carry it overland? It would seem so, for we see Eastern tomato catsup on many California tables and Chicago hams on many a California farmer's trencher. Why? Because he is too indifferent to produce it at home. Let every farmer provide bountifully first from hi* own products for his own table, and he will go far towards solving the ptoblem of transportation so far as it affects him, and every laboring man who would devote his labor first to producing his own living from the land by his own labor would solve for himself the labor problem.

When we read of an elephant hunter who has been trampled to death in the wilds of India, we wonder at the foolhardiness of man who will travel round the world and endure all manner of hardships, in order to court death in a far away jungle. A man does not have to make a journey to India in order to court death in a manner equally foolhardy. Thousands of hard working men are daily courting death in a much more certain form, without ever leaving their native villages or cities. They are the men who neglect their health. They are the men who court death from consumption, or some other deadly disease due to improper or insufficient nourishment. The man who suffers from bilious or nervous disorders, who has a weak stomach and an impaired digestion, who has lost the power to eat, rest or sleep, 'hnd who fails to take prompt steps to remedy these conditions, is courting death in the guise of some fatal malady Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cures 9b per cent, of all cases of bronchial throat and laryngial affections that lead up to consumption. It soothes the cough facilitates expectoration and restores the lost appetite. It correct* all disorders of the digestion, makes the assimilation of the life giving elements of the food perfect. It invigorates the liver and purifies and enriches the blood. It is the great bloodmaker, flesh-builder, nerve tonic and restorative. It is the best of all known medicines for nervous disorders. Dealers sell ‘‘.and have nothing else “just as good.’* I had a bad cough and got so loxv with it that I could not ant up* writes Mrs. Mittie Gray, ot Loudon. Union Cos., Ark. “Our family physician told my husband that I had consump--1 T b ? d E® us through my chest and spit ua blood. I took your * Golden Medical Discovery® and it cured me. It saved my life.” J

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