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All communications intended for publication In this paper must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. THE INDI INAFOMS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places; NEW YORK—Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House, P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street, Great Northern Hotel and Grand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Deering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 256 Fourth avenue. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Riggs House, Ebbltt House and Willard’s Hotel. The most of the volunteer regiments favor the policy of the Czar—disarmament. Thp calamltyite did not figure largely in the exercises of Labor day this year. It does not appear that Eugene V. Debs was invited to address any assembly of laborers yesterday. The attempt of ex-Governor Altgeld to boycott Chicago’s proposed peace jubilee was a dismal failure. The venerable John Sherman says he has Bo personal feeling against Secretary Alger; but this cannot be proven by his words. Now there is trouble. The war tax law Is bringing in more money than was anticipated, and the war will not cost half as much as estimated. It seems that Colonel Bryan never intended to make a speech on Labor day, the report to that effect being the invention of some irresponsible paper. The Populists assembled In Cincinnati io mark the middle-of-the-road are reported to favor Wharton Barker, of Pennsylvania, for President. But Mr. Barker may change his politics before 1900. It is expected that the National Encampment of the Grand Army will put on record some expression of good will for the men who fought them thirty-five years ago. The time has come for such action. The man whose dauntless courage and high statesmanship brought this country to specie resumption will occupy too conspicuous a place in Its history to afford to betray a desire to punish the secretary of war. The senseless fury of the attack upon the secretary of war for sins of omission which are not his is abating, but the President should set an Investigation on foot that the country may know better than it does who is responsible for some things that should not have been. When the President recommended General Wheeler to be major general he was accused of being led by sentiment to select an old man who had been a Confederate soldier. Thus far few men have made themselves more generally useful that that “dried-up old man.” .i General Burt, of the Seventh Army Corps, now at Cincinnati, reports an organization of officers in that corps which is called “The Society of the Heroes Whose Parents Made the Mistake of Not Going to Michigan.” The secretary of war will find that such a reflection does not violate any of the articles of war. It Is to be hoped, says an exchange, that if we ever go to war again the belligerent nation will be situated in the neighborhood of the pole. Well, and If It is mattes will not be much better. A lot of people will be kicking If a base-burner stove is not furnished with each tent and hot rolls served to the men in the trenches. The State of Vermont will go through the motions of holding an election to-day. As the few thousand men in that always Republican £tate who vote the Democratic ticket are every-year voters and the Republicans turn out in full ranks but once in four years, it will not be surprising if the Democratic vote should be as large as the Republican majority. Before the war began, and in its early stages, the flag of Cuba was as popular as the stars and stripes. On Washington’s birthday a body of students marched through the streets of this city displaying as many Cuban as United States flags. The craze has died out. There is no sale now for Cuban flags, because reading people know more about Cubans. In New York stacks of Cuban flags cannot be sold at any price. That absurd fad Is dead. The order prohibiting the furloughing cf sick men to go home unattended has not been issued too soon. Such furloughs havo caused the greater part of the clamor about the alleged criminal neglfct of soldiers who have reached some train penniless and 111 or been found 111 on trains. The cases of this sort which have caused such an Indignant outcry have furnished the basis of long stories of neglect. Men should not be discharged from hospitals until they have recovered. More men ill with fever are likely to die from relapse after being furloughed than from the fever in the first instance. The statement that the Omaha exposition management is getting out of debt is gratifying. It is a very excellent show, according to all accounts, but owing to the absorption of public attention in the war it was played to empty benches, so to speak, for several months. The end of the war and the close of a bountiful harvest, coming about the same time, gave the people a chance to think of it again, and farmers have been flocking in from every direction in a way to encourage the downcast guarantors. If the present rate of attendance continues it is likely to come out even, if not to be a financial success. No more effective scheme could have been devised to spread discontent among ifae en-

listed men in the regiments than the suggestion of the War Department that the early muster out of regiments would be determined by the expression of the rank and file. Os course, it was well intended, but it Is strange that the officers issuing such a statement did not realize that such a course would create discontent and contentions In nearly every regiment utterly destructive of that discipline so essential to an army. It may yet be necessary for the War Department to recall that suggestion and declare that the regiments in General Lee’s corps will be held for duty in Cuba. Already Colonel Bryan’s regiment is worrying about immediate muster out. LA DOR-DA Y PARADE. Those who viewed the passing of the labor unions through the streets of the city jesterday must have noted that all of the men were well dressed and had the appearance of those who are accustomed to comfortable living. The clothing of the men showed that they keep suits for Sundays and holidays of* good material. Many unions were dressed in neat white uniforms, indicating that the owners are earning fair wages. Not a small number of men, as well as women, rode in carriages. One party had a tallyho coach. Bands of music were in the procession in unsuual numbers. Many carloads came from Elwood, Muncie and Anderson, women and children as well as men, who crowded all the restaurants during a very long dinner hour. Cheerfulness was everywhere apparent; sobriety prevailed. The multitudes that thronged the sidewalks to witness the marching were largely the families of the men in the ranks. Thej - were In holiday attire, stylish and in good taste. There was not a banner indicating lack of employment. If there had been such a banner, the comfortable appearance of the marchers and their friends would have made it one with a false device. “The like of that parade cannot be seen elsewhere in the world,” was the remark of a well-known citizen of German birth; “labor in Europe at its best cannot wear such clothes as these men wear,” was his further remark. It is true, and it is true because the standard of wages is so much higher in this country than elsewhere. Such parades as that of yesterday should be object lessons for people who sometimes forget, and, forgetting, are often deceived by calamity howlers into the belief that those who work for wages are each year falling lower and lower in, their scale of living. The truth is, and yesterday’s parade went to prove it, the general condition of wage earners is improving as the years pass. TIIE RESPONSIBILITY IN CAMP. It has been stated several times that the Seventh Corps, stationed at Jacksonville, Fla., and commanded by General Fitzhugh Lee, has escaped disease in a remarkable degree. Why Is this? Jacksonville is some better than other Florida stations, but its heat is tropical and its location unfavorable for summer. If the reason of the healthfulness of General Lee’s camp iiad not ueen given, it could have been assumed. Correspondents tell us that the greatest watchfulness is exercised over the camp to keep it clean and wholesome. Again, it is the one camp from which no reports have come regarding the anxiety of regiments to he sent to the front. This is not because the regiments of the Seventh Corps are better than others, but because they have been led to believe that they were being retained for the fall attack up&n Havana, and, since peace is assured, that they would be sent to Cuba to maintain order. During two months all the regiments at Chickamauga were expecting to be sent to Cuba or Porto Rico in a few days. Under such conditions it is natural that camp duties might be neglected. Again, it is a fact that some of the regiments camped at Chickamauga left there in a much worse condition than others. The One-hundred-and-fifty-eighth Indiana left Chickamauga in good condition, while other regiments had a train load of sick men. Location, doubtless, had something to do with this difference, but it is due more to the efficiency and inefficiency of the commanding officers and medical corps. An irresolute and flashy commanding officer insures a filthy camp unless his superior officer prods him to do his duty. To such a camp, whether in Indianapolis or Florida, disease is invited. On the other hand, a resolute officer fit to command will keep the same ground well policed and healthy. If he cannot, because of its locality, he will protest so loudly that his command will he removed. $ Asa camp ground Chickamauga became unhealthy because it was occupied by too many men for too long a time. Medical officers should have known about this and reported the danger to the camp commander or the surgeon general. The secretary of war or the surgeon general could not be expected to know about this growing danger until informed by officials in that camp. Both these officials may be open to criticism, but not for sickness in camps until informed thereof. A WORD TO VOLUNTEERS. The Journal has received several letters from members of the One-hundred-and-sixty-flrst Regiment declaring a desire to be mustered out of the service now. One or two of these letters have been returned with the advice that it is better for the men to serve out their term of service if such is the desire of the government. One soldier has sent the following letter signed “One-hundred-and-sixty-first Regiment We, the undersigned members of the One-hundred-and-sixty-flrst Indiana Volunteers, who have always been and who are now loyal citizens of the Union, left our families, friends, and many of us our positions, to enlist in the One-hundred-and-slxty-first Regiment to serve in the Spanish-American war. The purpose for which we enlisted, the doing away with Spanish rule in the western hemisphere, has been accomplished. We fully realize that we are under contract to our government for two years, and until the expiration of that term the option is entirely and solely with the government, but when official reports from Washington say that the mustering out of the volunteer army Is to be guided by the inclination of the enlisted men, and when the expression of that Inclination is forbidden to us and expressed by proxy by some of the officers, we feel the injustice of the situation and turn to the only source of redress, to the press of Indianapolis. Yet. in order that no wrong impression as to our motive may arise, we wish to state to our friends and the public that we wish, upon the formal announcement of peace, to be mustered out of the service. We do not believe it would be just to ask the volunteers to neglect their homes and families and all their business interests to do garrison duty in these distant Islands—a duty that must sooner or later, and the sooner the better—be intrusted to the regular army. The Journal desires to submit to all soldiers who entertain views similar to the foregoing a few reasons why, in its judgment, they should, if so desired by the War Department, continue to serve the country and to carry out their contract. Spanish rule will not be done away in Cuba until a stable government, which Congress has promised, 6hall be established. There can be no more honorable service for an American citizen as a soldier than to be a unit of the force that Is to give Cuba a government which will secure security to life and

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property—to give to its people the civilization of the United States. As was evident long before the writer of the foregoing letter was mustered into the service, the tranquillizing of Cuba is a vastly more difficult task than the expulsion of Spanish rule has been. Spanish rule has been expelled because it is eVuel; factional misrule would be more cruel than Spanish tyranny because It would be vindictive. To finish the good work begun a certain number of regiments will be needed. To be selected for that purpose is a distinction, and to assist in giving good government to Cuba is as important and honorable a service as men can be asked to render. There is another consideration: The islands for which troops will be required will, with our rule, enter upon an era of development and progress. They will afford business and industrial openings such as cannot elsewhere be found. Spain has kept enterprise, intelligence and industry out of those islands ever since they came under its wicked rule. Now they will be opened to all, and great opportunities will be presented. Cuba will he Americanized—who are better qualified to assist in the work than the intelligent young men in the Indiana regiments? It may be added that there are thousands of men who would regard with favor a proposition to spend six or eight months in Cuba, As for soldiers in the field, they may be assured that the service in Cuba will be regarded as the most useful they can render the country, because ft will conquer peace in Cuba without bloodshed, and they will be participants in events of international Importance. For these reasons the Journal earnestly urges the men in the regiments which may'be retained to comply with the orders of retention without protest. Editor Buckley, of the New York Christian Advocate, writes for his paper an article four chapters in length to prove that the new plan of individual communion cups is nonsensical if not absolutely wicked. He assumes that the only objection to the use of the common cup is the fear that contagious disease will be communicated, and virtually defies any one to prove that such Infection, ever occurred from this cause. Perhaps Editor Buckley is so spiritually minded that when he partakes of this sacrament his soul is so far above earthly things that he does not heed the obvious fact that the beard of the saint at his side is stained with tobacco, or that the one beyond him considers a tooth brush a superfluous article. If so, he is fortunate. It is the people less spiritual than he who cannot rise above these things, and who, though they may not fear disease, feel that their peace of mind and consequently their piety will be enhanced by the ability to disregard the causes of offense which a separate cup will give them. It is not fear of microbes but the fastidiousness of daily life and habits applied to the Sunday ceremony that gives rise to the demand for individual cups, and so sensible a man as Editor Buckley should realize the fact and that it is useless to protest against the change. Pension Commissioner Evans will get himself disliked by the medical profession if he continues to experiment with its members as he reports having done in one case. The doctors doubtless consider it a very reprehensible proceeding for him to have sent one applicant for a pension before four different boards of three physicians each to see how nearly they would agree. The circumstance that no two boards gave the same diagnosis and, that the ratings varied from $8 to $24 a molith will not lessen their indignation at the trick played on them. It will be very hard on the doctors if they are required to agree. The railroads carrying passengers to the Grand Army Encampment have issued a circular warning them not to sell their tickets to solicitors on the cars, as they would pay for tickets with counterfeit money or return counterfeit tickets for those they were permitted to examine. Whereat the ticket brokers are indignant and threaten prosecution. The Democratic press is turning itself into a monstrous magnifying glass, through which the people are asked to witness the suffering of the soldiers. Too many people are doing so, but the fact that it is a glass makes it more easily seen through. Andree has been found again, and the Democratic papers are finding time between starvation howls to talk about the price of wheat. The war must indeed be ended. It is the things we are going to do that make life worth living.—Puck. Nay, it is the things we are going to do that make it possible to live. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Friendly Comment. He—Yes, he called me a blooming idiot— Him—As if any one could not see that you had gone to seed. So Sarcnstic. Willie—l once knew a girl who nearly died from ice cream poisoning. Nellie—The very idea! I would never have dreamed of such a thing happening to a girl of your acquaintance. Printer's Fault. Watts—How do you understand that expression of Shakspeare’s “go to?” Potts—lt is my idea that it arose from the printers not knowing the use of the dash when his works were first published. More Appropriate. “I understand you won the blue ribbon, so to speak, in the examination for the civil service.” “I—ah—would hardly call It that,” answered the mild young man. “Let us say I won the red tape.” ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The silkworm is liable to over one hundred diseases. The following somewhat ambiguous plragraph appeared in a recent Issue of the London Figaro: “I regret to learn that the Emperor William fell from his horse on Saturday last at Wilhelmshohe, but was not killed.” “Yes, I knew Wagner,” said Bismarck once, according to the London Daily News, “but it was impossible for me to care for him. At breakfast, at lunch, at dinner, every moment Wagner demanded admiration. He would be first. I found myself too busy for that.’” The grave of James G. Blaine, at Oak Hill, is visited by about thirty persons a day, and is unmarked save by a small footstene bearing the initials "J. G. B.” It is understood among the friends of the Blaine family that the burial at Oak Hill is only temporary, and that Mrs. Blaine intends to remove tne bodies of her husband and children to Augusta, Me., as soon as she can make satisfactory arrangements for their burial there. Governor Pingree, of Michigan, on returning from the naval parade at New York, told of a talk he had with Rear Admiral Schley. “Schley told me in a little chat we had that he expected to lose his ship that day off Santiago when he saw the Spaniards coming out of the harbor. ’I thought I could hold them,’ he said, ‘until the other boats got in range, and I made up my mind to tackle the whole lot. God was with us that day.’ ” The rejection of Rodin’s statue of Balzac shows that even a great man cannot foist a poor work upon the Parisians. He has taken his curious statue (which was intended to represent the great novelist getting up In Ms night gown to jot down an

idea which has struck him) into a quiet country place, and doesn’t want to hear a word about it or see it for years to come. Meanwhile Falguiere has been given the commission to do Balzac, and the society of authors wants the statue ready for the one hundredth anniversary of his birth, next May. A New York woman was the victim lately of a painful accident, the recital of which should prove a caution to others in the use of hot-water bags. To allay a sharp attack of pain in her chest, which she thougnt might portend pneumonia or some other serious illness, she partly filled a bag with very hot water and applied it. The steam filled the vacant space of the bag. and in two or three minutes it exploded with a loud report, and before she could fling it off she was seriously scalded. It was this sufferer’s advice to buy very strong bags or to fill them quite full of water. Ex-Governor Peck tells a story about his visit to Green Bay, Wis. He had been asked to speak at a Good Templars’ affair there. “When I stood up,” Mr. Peck tells, “I looked about tor some water. A mug had been placed beside me, and how it could have happened at a temperance convention I do not know, but it was a beer mug filled with water. Well, it was a warm day. and where there is convention food spread out on a warm day there are likely to be flies. There were flies, and one had lighted trustingly on the surface of the water in that mug. I caw him as I lifted it. and did the most natural and humane thing that 1 could think of—blew him off the water. Well, they cheered for five minutes. And to this day I suppose you can’t persuade a Green Bay man that anybody from Milwaukee can drink a glass of water' even at a temperance convention, without first blowing off the foam.” Hooray for our conquest far over the sea: Its glory—with rapture I tell It; Its name has a music which fills me with glee. Though I cannot pronounce it nor spell it. —Washington Star. Old Glory hung as still and limp As if benumbed in every crimp. The people glanced up at the flag And saw with grief its hopeless sag. “Dear, dear,” they said, “what can it be That ails the banner of the free?” And ready tears in trickles fell For that dear flag they loved so well. Alas, alas! could it have told It would have said with every fold: .“I’ve waved and waved all o’er the land, But this hot wave I cannot stand!” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. BUSINESS AND POLITICS. Animus of (lie Warfare .Against tlie National Administration. To the Editor cf the Indianapolis Journal: Now that the war is over the yellow journals and the Democratic press generally are making a fierce attack on the President and the War Department on the conduct of the war—the one for business purposes and the other for political capital—now so scarce in Democratic quarters. The splendid achievement of a Republican administration in bringing a great war to a successful issue in a few months, and that, too, with a loss of 350 killed by wounds and less than 1.5C0 dead of disease, must, if possible, be dimmed and obscured with falsehood to furnish Democratic campaign material. That our losses from wounds and diseases have been so small, considering that an army of 301,000 men was in service during the sickly season of the year in tropical and semitropical climates, settles the fact that skill and science were exerted in the prosecution of the war to as great a degree as circumstances would permit. When it is considered that at the commencement of hostilities we practically had no army and had to improvise one out of raw material, it was out of the question to expect better results than have followed in the matter of suffering and deaths. Soldiers have to be taught how to live on the march and in camp as well as how to face death unflinchingly in battle, and time alone will suffice for this necessary training. We have ignored the custom t Qjf h'ther first-class nations In maintaining a large and thoroughly trained standing army, prepared for the hardships of war at all times, and we must accept the consequences of this unpreparedness whenever the Nation engages in war. The navy was on something of a war footing at the start, and the results in that branch of the service emphasize the fact that the losses of war can be best minimized in times of peace. Raw volunteer troops hastily assembled, officered not infrequently by incompetent pnd inexperienced men. appointed by State Governors, influenced much tpo often.by politics, cannot furnish an army able to resist the ravages of disease incident to soldier life in the field. When it Is recalled that Grant was proclaimed a butcher and Lincoln and Stanton denounced in the vilest terms for their alleged incompetency in the conduct of the civil war by these same agencies, there can be little fear that the brave and noble man who labored so hard to avert war with Spain will be held responsible for its unavoidable horrors. J. H. CLAYPOOL. Indianapolis, Sept. 5. IS THE LORD LEADING IIS? Free-und-Easy Discussion of a Current Problem. Bede’s Budget. Since the kings have lost the divinity that did hedge them round and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, it is we plain folks, apparently uncalled of God, who are running things. But if we have no special call as individuals. may It not be that we have a call as a nation, and that the composite action of 70.000,000 freemen is more in keeping with Gods purposes than the dreams and schemes of any single-handed highbinder who feels that he has had a call? It is not hard for us Americans to believe that we are the chosen chiidren of the Lord, and that he is leading us on to a grand and lofty destiny. But we must remember that he led the children cf Israel till ten of the twelve tribes got lost and the other two were badly scattered. So while he may be calling us on to a determined destiny, he is not laying any sidewalks or building pontoon bridges, and a lot of this servile work is left for volunteers. So even if the Lord is leading us we are still in the push and have a good deal to say about what route w’e shall take or how fast we shall go. It may be that he wanted us to uplift the African, and knowing that we were too busy with our ow n affairs to go abroad, brought the black man to our shores in the capacity of a slave till the fountain of liberty should flow for the son of Ham. True it is that the negro, with less travail than that suffered by the Anglo-Saxon for the same end, has attained the widest liberty the world affords. We need not, therefore, nor need he, go around complaining of his past. The friends he left behind him in the fatherland would grab at the same obance. And though we had to shoot for four years at Pharaoh before he found out what God wanted, and “let my people go.” still that was a testing time for the courage and manhood of the Nation, and the future is more securely in our keeping for what we have endured. But if the. Lord is leading us. why be hasty and impatient? Give him a chance. Still it is more accurate to say that he is guiding us. We wander seemingly shepberdless in the crosspaths and byways, but at last w*e get there* just the same. Fear not, little flock, for it is his good pleasure, and though the road be rough and steep he goes to the desert to find his sheep. Man proposes and God disposes. In other words, man has the Initiative and God has the referendum. And if it is our duty to uplift the world a way will be discovered or a found somewhere in the fulness of time for us to do it. be sure of that. And whether you are a commanding general with shoulder straps to show your authority. or a horse-sense private with hame straps to hold vnur harness on, you're not so many, so don’t worry. If it is our duty to carry modern civilization to Asia, we'll get it there some sweet day. and all hell can’t keep it out. But don’t get swelled up over the job. for. as Cevera said to Montejo. yours ain't the only navy on the beach. If God wants us to join hands with England or any other old country In the Pacific and girt the earth with peace and plenty, it will come about, and the earth will have a girt with a buckle on it. but this doesn't mean that we may not make spectacular fools of ourselves trying to do It some wrong and short-hand way. The Veterans Marvel. Hartford Courant. One might think this w*as the first war we ever had. We had raw—rawer—armies in camp through the summer of 1861, most of them “inactive.” And that was a time when we had only a portion of the country In which to locate camps. Moreover, sanitary and medical sciencu were not so far advanced, and the government’s purse was rather flat. The Santiago sickness, per se. aside, veterans of those camps marvel at what they hear In IS9B.

WORSE PLACETHANCUBA GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE THIRST SUFFERED IX THE SUDAN. A Correspondent Following Kitchener Describes Hi* Sensations—The One Drink That Soothe*. G. W. Stevens, in London Mail. If it had not been for the drink. I should never come twice to the Sudan. It is part of the comprehensive uselessness of this country that its one priceless production can never be exported. If the Sudan thirst could be sent home in capsules, like the new soda-water sparklets, it would make any man’s fortune in an evening. The irony of it is that there is much thirst here —such a limitless thirst as might supply the world’s whole population richly; on the other side there are millions of our fellowcreatures, surrounded by every liquor that art can devise and patience perfect, but wanting the thirst to drink withal. Gentlemen in England now abed will call themselves accursed they were not here. And we, the few white men who vainly strive to do justice to these stupendous depths and intensities, these vast areas and periods of thirst—how utterly and pitiably inadequate we are to our high opportunity. I wonder if you were ever thirsty? Probably not. I never had been till I came to the Sudan, and that is why I came again. If you have been really thirsty, and often, you will be able to distinguish many variations of the phenomenon. The sand-storm thirst I hardly count. It is formed by the light soil forming in the gullet. Wash the soil away, and the thirst goes with it. Tnis can be done with water which you do not even need ty swallow. The desert thirst is more legitimate, so called; it arises from the grilling sun on the sand, from the dancing glare, and from hard riding therein. This is not an unpleasant thirst; the sweat evaporates on your face in the wind of your own galloping, and thereby produces a grateful coolness without, while thoat and gullet are white hot within. The desert thirst fconsists in this contrast; it can be satisfied by a gulp or two of really cool \4ater which has also been evaporating through a canvas bottle slung on your saddle. But in so far as it can be satisfied it is no true Sudan thirst. The true Sudan thirst is insatiable. The true Sudan thirst —which, to be sure, may be found in combination with either or both of the others, and generally is—is born of sheer heat and sheer sweat. Till you have felt it you have not thirsted. Every drop of liquid is wrung out of your body. You could swim in your clothes, but, inside, your muscle shrinks to dry sponge, your bones to dry pith. Ail your strength, your substance, your self, is draining out of you; you are conscious of a perpetual liquefaction and evaporation of good, solid you. you must be wetted till you soften and swell to life again. You are wetted. You pour in wet, and your self soaks it in and swells—and then instantly- it gushes out again at every pore, and the self contracts and wilts. You swill in more, and out it bubbles before you even feel your inside take it up. More—and vour pores swish in spate like the very Atbara. Useless; you must give it up and let the goodness sluice out of you. There is nothing of you left. You are a mere vacuum of thirst. And that goes on for three hours after sunrise till an hour before sundown. THE DAY'S ROUTINE. You must not think that we are idle all this while—not even correspondents. The real exercise of yourself and your ponies you have begun before breakfast, and intend to continue after tea. For the rest, at Fort Atbara, you can go down to the railway station. If there is a train there, there will be troops getting out of it; if there is not, you can ask when one is expected, and read chalked on a notice board the latest bulletin of the health of every engine - on the road between there and Haifa. On the platform, toe. is the postoflice. You can ask when the next, post goes out or comes in. The dirty Copt boy they call postmaster will answer ‘ To-morrow.” The postal service Is not good at Fort Atbara. They say the sirdar does not allow it room enough. As the room he does allow is entirely filled with the angarebs of the officials. and as they seldom arise from them, there is doubtless much justice in the complaint. There are other diversions for the correspondent in the heat of the day. He may walk in the nuzl, or station yard. Nuzl is the Arabic for a place where things are dumped down, and dumped down in this nuzl they certainly are. Streets and streets and streets of them—here a case of pepper, there the spare of a gun, there jars of rum. there piles of Remington rifies for issue to more or less friendly tribes, everything that an army should or would or could want. There you see the men who do the real hard work of the army—not the men who work hard and then rest, but the men who work hard and never rest —the director of the water transport, the staff officer for supplies and stores, the director of telegraphs. And there with the hardest worked you see the tall, white-clad sirdar w-orking —now breaking a man’s heart with curt censure, now exalting him to heaven with curt praise, now antedating a movement, now hastening an embarkation, now increasing the load of a barge, for where the sirdar is there every man and every machine must do a little better than his best. All this you may see, and sweat, between the hour before sunrise and the hour before sunset. It goes on always, but usually after sunset you look at it no more. For then the Sudan thirst has spent itself and it is at your mercy. You begin with a bombardment of hot tea. The thirst thinks its conquest assured; it takes the hot tea for a signal of surrender and hurls the first cup arrogantly out again through your skin. You fire in the second cup, and you find that you have gained some ground. It may be that tea is nearer the temperature of your body than a merely tepid drink; it may be some divine virtue in the herb, but you feel the second cup of tea settle within you. You feel yourself a degree less torrid, a shade more substantial. If you are w T ise you will rest content for the moment with this advantage. Order your pony and gallop an hour in the desert, you will sweat, of course. You need not expect to escape that at any time. But the sweat cools you off and you ride in with a fresh skin. Take your tub in your tent. The Nile cools faster than the land, and, oh, the deliciousness of the cold water licking round you! A RECIPE. Now comes the sweet revenge for all the torments of the day. It is quite dark by now, unless the moon be up, leaning to you out of a tender blue immensity, silver, caressing, cool. Or else the sprightly candles beckon from your dinner table, spread outside the tent, a halo of light and white in the blackness, alert, inviting, cool. You, too, by now are clean and cool. You quite forget whether the day was more than warm or no. But you remember the thirst. You are cool, but within you are still dry, very dry and shrunken. Take a long mug and drink well what you will have poured into it; for this is the moment of the day, the moment that pays for the Sudan. You are very thirsty, and you are about to slake your thirst. Let it be alcoholic, for you have exuded much life in the day; let it above all be long. Whisky and soda is a friend that never fails you. but better still something tonic. Gin and soda? Gin and lime juice and soda? Gin and bitters and lime juice and soda? Or else that triumphant blend of ail whetting flavours, an Abu Hamed— gin, vermouth, angostura, lime juice, soda? Mix it in due proportion; put in especially plenty of soda—and then drink. For this is to drink indeed. The others were only flushing your body with liquid as you might flush a drain. But this! This splashes round your throat, slides softly down your gullet till you feel it run out into your stomach. It spreads blessedly through body and spirit—not swirling through, like at Atbara, but irrigating, like the Nile. It is soil in the sand, substance in the void, life in death. Your sap runs again, your ziltaong muscles take on elasticity, your mummy, bones toughen. Your self has sprung up alive, and you almost think you know how it feels to rise from the dead. Thenceforward the Sudan Is a sensuous paradise. There is nothing like that first drink after sunset, but you are only half irrigated yet; the first drink at dinner—yes, and the 'second and the culminating whisky and soda—can give rich moments. Then your angareb stands ready, the sky is your bed chamber, and the breath of the desert on your cheek is your good-night kiss. Tomorrow - you will begin to sweat again as you ride before breakfast. To-morrow—to-night even—there may be a dust storm, and you will wake up with ail your delicious

moistr.ess furred over by sand. But that is to-morrow. For to-night you have thirsted and you have drunk. And to-morrow will have an evening also. OUR NEW TERRITORY. Hawaiian* Now Considering Whnt Xnnie to Take. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. s—The United States transport steamer Lakme arrived from Honolulu to-day bringing the following advices to the Associated Press under date of Aug. 23i, The Hawaiian commission is getting down to work in earnest and on Friday and Saturday held prolonged sessions, all the members being present. The first subject considered was a name to be given the territory and the form of government was also discussed with the number of Federal ofi.cials to act in the territory. The subject of Federal laws and their application was the chief topic at Saturday’s session. Arrangements are being perfected for a tour of the islands by the commission and to-night the steamer Claudine will leave here. All the principal points on the various islands will be visited after which the party will return to Honolulu, probably arriving here on Saturday. The United States transport ship Tacoma, with 200 horses and mules for the army arrived off here for Manila last night. Four horses were lost on the voyage. The vessel will remain here about a week. The vessel will not sail through the treacherous Ball-ing-Tang channel, but will be met by a towboat sent by General Merritt and towed through the Straits of San Bernardina to her destination. This will shorten the journey by several weeks. Captain Book, of the United States ship Mohican, has been ordered to take his vessel to Mare island. The vessel will probably sail on Tuesday next. There is a strong feeling of friendship for the United States among the Chinese on the island, especially among the higher class, and they look to the new government to give them all the privileges enjoyed by them under the old regime. The Honolulu garrison is still camped at the race track and there is no present intention of moving the camp. The strictest discipline is maintained and visitors are kept outside the lines. Stores of all kinds are arriving rapidly. PATRIOTIC PARTY THE THIXG. SoggeMtion for Those Who Will Welcome the Returning- Heroes. Chicago Times-Heraid. The next ftw weeks will chronicle many festive occasions for the returning sailor lads and soldier boys, and the following scheme for a welcoming party may be of assistance: Os course the heroes are expected to appear in their uniforms to add to the pjctuiesqueness of the occasion. A flag must decorate the porch and rooms. Large Hags will make splendid cozy corners when properly draped. The piazza and grounds can be beautifully lighted with the new gasoline lamps, w'hlch are very powerful, quite like a searchlight. One room, called for the time "the gallery of heroes. - ’ should he filled with pictures of the war's noted men; fine half-tones of all can easily he obtained; also cuts of famous battle ships. These can be daintily framed by covering mats with crepe tissue paper in red. white and blue, not "forgetting the Maine." Drape this in black china silk, tied with white ribbons, with the furled stars and stripes above it. These pictures will start conversations, and will add a pleasing feature to the evening. Drums, guns and swords make effective decorations, and a tent on the lawn makes an attractive place for the frappe howl. Patriotic music should be played at intervals. Draperies of red,’ white and blue cheese cloth should take the place of all portieres, and coils of nice new - rope make fine cushions. The ice cream w-ill be served in individual molds, such as miniature soldiers, boats, drums, etc., with the plate cards bearing suitable designs either in water color or pen and ink. Red and white carnations and blue cornflowers. with red. white and blue satin rihhon make a gorgeous table decoration. The hostess and receiving party are to be gowned in the national colors, and to make the evening one long to be remembered each soldier or sailor guests is to tell a brief story relating something of interest in his experience. A toast must be given to the brave boys who rest on Cuban soil. or. as fate has decreed, lie buried beneath the ocean waves. That is the sorrow that will mar all these fetes, but it will add a sentimental interest that breeds patriotism. X%HEELER HAS “GIXGER." By Holding; Doctor* Personally Responsible He Drought Them to Time. Washington Times. It is unsafe to fool with General Wheeler. He is as full of ginger as the business end of a hornet, and so the medical staff at Camp Wikoff found out not many days ago. The usual method of procedure at that camp has been to lay the blame on somebody else whenever possible and avoid responsibility. When anything went w-rong it w - as never the fault of anybody that could he found; it was always the other fellow. Occasionally this excuse was really valid. Without subverting all discipline in the army a man in a subordinate position cannot go against the orders of superiors, even if he knows that the lives of helpless men are at stake. It is probable that the incompetence and carelessness in the medical service will be found to be largely among the higher officials, whose salaries are fat and who have not much to do. The doctors who went into the service, not for money, but for patriotism, usually proved themselves heroes. The trouble is that there w r as not enough of them, and that they were hampered by indifference on the part of their superiors. In the medical service, as in the army and navy, the private soldier, the man at the gun, is all right: if there is a sneak or a shirk it is the officer, w - hose salary is large enough to tempt him to go to war for that and a title. These men, and some of their subordinates, have been crippling the hospital service by trying to show their little brief authority. They have insisted that certain forms should be observed before necessary supplies could be obtained; and they have in many cases been negligent in attending to requests for these supplies. It did not take General Wheeler long to see through this state of affairs. He called the medical staff together and said, tersely: This nonsense has got to stop. There are supplies enough of all kinds right here in camp, and if the soldiers don’t get them it’s your fault. Men are dying for lack of medicine because of your petty ways of doing things. If it is _not stopped at once I shall bold you personally responsible for every death that occurs from lack of care. I will accept excuses about lack of medicine from no one. Those two little words, "personally responsible.’’ are wonderful quicker.crs to a sluggish conscience. It is like the way the revivalist has of stopping in front of a halfrepentant sinner and saying. “I mean you!’’ A good many people have been prodded into church by that method who would never have got there of their own volition. The Miscreant of the Maine. Philadelphia Record. No.v that the war with Spain is over—all hut the discussion of the terms of peace —there might he a morsel of satisfaction, even for the Spaniards themselves, in discovering, if possible, the true author of the war, who took the matter of dispute between the United States and Spain out of the hands of the diplomats and put it in the hands of men armed with guns. The murderous miscreant who fired the sunken mine that blew - up the Maine ought not in justice to escape the pillory of universal execration. Injustice. Norwich Bulletin. Captain Clark of the battle ship Oregon made himself sick in his devotion to his country and his ardor to be at San iago when the Spanish fleet was engaged. He was there and did valiant service. His reward is found in detachment from his vessel and with the order detaching him came a less of $l,lOO per annum in salary. Being in no condition to remain on waiting orders he is given sick leave and a further reduction of s7t.O per year. They tfnkr Alger Responsible. San Francisco Chronicle. Secretary Alger is not being held accountable here for the scandal of Camp Merritt, but they are using it as campaign material against him in the East. There is no politics in putting the blame on the military commanders who picked out the site, so Alger has to bear the whole responsibility in the Democratic prints. The experience is douhtless trying, but he has the satisfaction of knowing that such charges cannot either stick or stain. Like Poem. Cleveland Leader. He—Do you know, when you walk you move just like a poem? She (blushing) Ah, do you really think so? He—Yes; one foot always right after the other. Perhup* So. Kansas City Journal. Those Indiana Populists who nominated Lieutenant Hobson for President in 190 J were perhaps impelled by a praisewortha desire to keep him humble. M

RIDICULED BY PANDO TERR NILE SCORING OK UNITED STATES ARMY lIY THE SPANIARD. Denounce* Shafter n* Incompetent anil Then niiinie* Sngnntn for the American Victory—A Hitter Talk. NEW YORK. Aug. 4.—After dinner General Pando received newspaper men. speaking to them through art interpreter. Asked to express his views of the war in general, the general replied with a gesture of derisicr.: "Why. there ha been no war. There are 200,000 soldiers tn Cuba who have not seen an American soldier. My opinion is,” General Pando continued, "that the Spanish and American soldiers were simply inveigled into a war by the politicians of the two countries. The politicians made fools of the soldiers.” General Pando. who is second in command of the Spanish forces in Cuba, gave his views on the war with great frankness. He said he was in the United States during the war as a spy, and had no trouble going around. "I was in Mobile,” he said, “and in Florida. I saw the embarkation. I studied the military tactics of the Americans. I mw the army got together without order. There was no system. Generals were without authority, the soldiers were not soldiers; they did not know how to obey. I walked among them. I watched them as they worked. "I sent from here the information that my government desired.” continued Pando. ”1 told them of the lncompetency of American soldiers. The army of the United States is ineffective, almost Worthless. The American navy is powerful and grand. Its office: are competent, its ships perfect and its sailors excellent, but not so with the land troops. The troops in Cuba alone could have vanquished the entire American army,” ‘‘The war is not over,” General Pando declared. “It has not even commenced. There was no war. It was only a skirmish. There are 200,000 Spanish soldiers in Cuba who have never seen an American uniform. “The history of Santiago is beyond belief. It was a monumental piece of stupidity. The Americans were already conquered. General Shafter’s campaign was full of mistakes. He showed himself untit to command even a regiment. He lacks the intelligence. He does not know the alphabet of war. The Cubans gave him the leading hand that took him to Santiago. Without them an American foot would never have been set in Cuba. Even the Americans know that. “The condition of the American army was lost. Their health was gone. If Cervera had remained in Santiago a day longer, the United States soldiers would have been forced back. Men were dying. There was no corps sanitaire. A competent one does not exist in the United States. The men did not know how to construct a camp, the officers did not know - how to care for it; they lacked instructions. They had not been learned in the business of" war. The men rebelled against discipline, the quality of a trained soldier, the only thing that can save an army. “We couid easily have held Santiago two weeks. It was the supreme folly of Sagasta, an old man, seventy years, in his dotage. It w - as his supremest and his final folly. His senility was fatal. The Americans should raise a statue to Sagasta. He has made them a present of Porto Rico, of the, Ladrones, of the Philippines, perhaps—God knows—Cuba. The Americans will take it, too, after a while.” "Two weeks after the war had been declared, I proposed to Spain to come to New York and offer to the Cuban junta the freedom and absolute independence of the island. Spain was ready to grant the Cubans sole control. It was not too late. But Sagasta w - ould not hear. Again it was his folly. He would not let me come. It was foolish, fatal pride. Poor Spain! It is a grand nation, beautiful Spain, made hideous by politicians without scruple, ministers without ability.” Asked if he believed that General Toral should be courtmartialed, General Pando replied: "I believe that in the regular course of events. considering what has happened, he will be.” Asked to explain the story which has been printed to the effect that he had secretly fled from Cuba with 12,000,000 francs. Gen. Pando replied: “When I get back to my country. I will get what is of more value to me than the amount of money you morif tioned, the respect of my fellow countrymen.” In response to the question of his destination General Pando replied that he was on his w - ay to Madrid. He wished to get there, he said, as quickly as possible, in order to attend the meeting of the Cortes. He would not go to Paris, he thought. Asked if he thought the Cubans could govern themselves General Pando said that he thought they could. Pando Hedge* in Hi* Interview. NEW YORK, Sept. s.—General Pando was feeling well at the Hotel America to-day and for about two minutes he submitted to an interview by newspaper reporters. The first thing he had to say was that a misunderstanding had gone abroad about his criticism of General Shafter. He declared that he thought General Shafter an able general and he doubted if any other man couid have brought the Santiago campaign to such a speedy close with such little bloodshed. General Pando also took occasion to deny the story about his duel in Mexico. He said that he did not even know such a person as he had been represented as fighting with. General Pando will sail to-morrow on either the Lahn or the Aurania. Ea*y Question* Hurd to Answer. Maurice Thompson, in the Ishmaeliie. Is it more logical to say that immortality is improvable than to assume that lit'*, whose origin vie cannot find our, ends with organic dissolution. No man can explain the beginning of the impulse that moves his finger; can any man tell where ends the impulse of the soul’s unaccountable aspirations? If we cam* from God, may n>t the universal numar tradition of immortality be but an hereditary memory transmitted Iron* Adam? Cost of Wur Dispatches. Baltimore Armrican. The cost of cable dispatches to the government during the war amounted to $-’.•> <) a day. The totals for telegraphing will, it is said, foot up to half a million dollars. Many of the dispatches were short and in cipher. We learn a little as we go along. Secretary Seward made known to the French government the attitude of the United States on the invasion of Mexico by Maximilian in a dispatch that cost fifteen thousand dollars. Obliged to Uncle Sam. New York Mail and Express. There isn’t a map publisher in the world who doesn’t feel under special obligations to I’nfle Sam. His revision of the political divisions of the earth means a boom in the entire map-making Industry. One Theory. Bede's Budget. Most of the fuss about the conduct of the Cuban campaign comes from a aheap lot of newspaper fellows who took valets with them and couldn’t find a place to put on their night shirts. Good Advice. Kansas City Journal. "What shall we do with our secretary of war?” inquires the Chicago News. Treat him fairly and decently. That is what a number of journalistic faultfinders are not doing at present. Hardly. Kansas City Journal. We. hardly think Colonel Roosevelt will take to the lecture field. Colonel Roosevelt enjoys popularity too well to trade It for gate receipts. Presumably. Bede’s Budget. We notice in the daily press hotel advertisements for vegetable girls, but suppose none need answer unless they are some pumpkins. Next. Chicago Journal. When ihe horrors ot peace are removed the horrors of the money question will to out on the political circuit for the fall run.