Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 309, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1899.

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Ready October 14. The . . Legionaries A Story of the Great Morgan Raid, by HENRY SCOTT CLARK. A story of love and war of very unusual interest. For his historical setting the author has taken the story of the great raid made by Morgan's Confederate Cavalry through Indiana and Ohio during the civil war. The story is told in the first person by a youngVirginian, John Trenham, a captain of cavalry in Morgan's command. He is in love with a girl in the North, Kate Bellray, and his conflicting sentiments and the intense feeling existing among his associates both of the North and South, are most skillfully described. The book is in a field that is new and it gives a series of accurate, vivid, yet dispassionate pictures of the time. The description of the dashing ride made by the famous raider is dramatic in its interest. "There is much thrilling incident in this admirably written Book." St. Paul Pioneer Press. Third edition now ready. Special Price $1.10 Postage, 1 2 cents.

Ready October 21. The Black Wolf's Breed A story of adventure happening in the reign of Louis XIV, by HARRIS DICKSON. This tale of adventure, by a new Southern writer, ranks high among the successes of the year. It is stirringly told, is -full of a sort of interest which endures from beginning to the end, and the writer seems to have the grip of experience in relating dashing incidents, an experience which he has gained by the most careful research into the history of the days of his story, and by personal journeyings to those parts of Prance and of America with which his story deals. Happening in France in the period of Louis XIV, the book skirts historical ground very closely and has among its principal characters some men and women well known in French history. "The characters are real men and women, who love and fight, enjoy life and conquer sorrow and win the whole sympathy and interest of the reader." -Indianapolis News. Third edition printing. Special Price $1.10 Postage, 12 cents.

Ready October 28.

j The Puritan ! Republic A history of the Massachusetts Bay Col- !. onies in New England, by DANIEL WAIT HOWE. i Judge Howe herein attempts j a lask at which some of the best ! known writers of this country ! and England have tried their hands. He gives a concise and : accurate history of the Massa- ! chusetts Colony, beginning at

the very beginning of things; showing in his first chapter how the persecutions of the early Puritans in England led to the emigration to Holland, the emigration of the Leyden Congregation to America and the founding of the Plymouth Colony. He describes also the Puritan industrial and commercial life; their Sabbath, their education, their books and literature. Beginning at the tenth chapter the writer takes up the question of the theocracy, showing how the power of the church in the state grew until it was supreme and then how its power waned and died away as the seeds of a republic were planted and the system of local government began to be popular. The theocracy out of the way, the writer follows logically the growth of the Massachusetts republic up to the foundation of the greater republic by the federation of the colonies of New England. "A timely and successful effort to tell the country what it owes to the much traduced Puritans." Indianapolis Journal. Bound in cloth one large octavo volume. Special Price $2.80 Postage, 20 cents.

Ready November 4. The Art of Cooking A manual for homes and schools, by Emma P. Ewlng, superintendent of the Chautauqua School of Cooking. Mrs. Ewing is a recognized authority upon all culinary subjects, and it successfully meets the demand for a skillful and exhaustive treatment of the methods of cooking. It needs no recommendation to those who have prepared many wholesome and dainty dishes under the author's skillful direction in the ChautauquaCooking School or elsewhere. The book is divided into six parts Marketing, Food Materials, Methods of Cooking, Mixing, Seasoning, Serving and Garnishing, and contains 26 chapters. All the principles of the culinary art are so clearly explained that any person of ordinary intelligence can select, prepare and serve in a skillful manner such articles of food as are in general use. It is a distinct addition to the literature relating to the culinary art,, and as a cook book for everyday use in the kitchen it will hold a high rank. One large volume. Special Price $1.40 Postage, 14 cents.

Ready November 11. Book Lovers' Verse Being songs of Books and Bookmen, gathered from English and American authors, by HOWARD S. RUDDY. The love of books has inspired some of the finest thoughts of the niadizeval and modern poets, and the idea of the editor of this volume has been to collect the best that has been written on the subject by English and American versifiers, as a tribute to that love of good books which is one of our national characteristics. He has endeavored to make his selection with reference to every degree of bibliophily; reverence for the wisdom of the sages, the love of possession, of collecting, and of mere reading. The book is to be printed on fine deckle paper, and is handsomely bound in green and gold. It seems destined to appeal irresistibly to book lovers everywhere. Price to be announced.

Ready November 18.

Riley Love Lyrics Beautifully Illustrated

The favorite of Mr. Riley's love songs, illustrated with over fifty studies from life, by William Buckingham Dyer. Riley Love Lyrics is to be one of the most beautiful of the holiday books. It contains all the favorites of his dainty, tender love poems, and the illustrations, of which there are over fifty, add greatly to the book's artistic beauty. Mr. Dyer shows a poetic appreciation of the author's verse and the ability to work out with the camera the central ideas in an altogether delightful way. Price to be Announced . .

Ready November 25. Of Such Is the Kingdom A book of delicious stories and rhymes for children, by CLARA VAWTER. With many Illustrations by Will Vawter. Many authors .have writ-

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hood, but not for children. Miss Vawter writes of children for children and grown folks alike. Her stories have a delicacy of fancy which is irresistibly charming. Fairy-like humor fairly bubbles from her pen, and her literary art is a delight in itself, so artless is it, so cameo-like, so exquisite. Her brother, Will Vawter, who shares all her fairy fancies and all her intimate knowledge of childhood, has made a series of pictures which deliciously supplement those from her pen. Beyond qur-Mon, this is to be one of ; most successful children s books of the year. Price to be announced.

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AMERICANS IN AFRICA

THEIR IXFLIEXCE AND ACTIVITIES IX THE TRAXSVAAL.

The Part "We riayed In Dereloplns the Country Succm of Riff Enterprlnes Hue to American Skill.

Boston Herald. - The present prominence of South Africa calls attention to our trade relations with Cape Colony, Natal, the Orange Free State, and special! the Transvaal. Probably not one American In a thousand realizes the enormous amount of our commerce or the astonishing eoctent of our political and commercial influence In those regions, partly because these are of very recent growth. Five years ago America's share of 'the business of South Africa was infinitesimal; today the United States holds second place In the Suth African trade, having outranked Gennany, France, Belgium, Holland asid Italy." In, several branches of trade America surpasses even England, which has always had the trade advantages following from the supremacy of her flag over the greater part of the country. The British merchants are keenly alive to the fact that the trade supremacy la that quarter is likely to pass Into our hands, as shown by their efforta to check the Inroads which we are malting In their field. In his valuable book about the situation of "Oom Paui's People" (Appleton), with reference to the rest of South Africa, Mr. Howard C. Hillegas, a New York newspaper man, who spent two years In that region studying conditions, devotes a most important and significant-chapter to "American Interests In South Africa," and shows how strikingly our business 'enterprise, tho quality of our manufactured products and our knowledge of mining and engineering have affected tho development of the country. The Intelligent and systematic efforts of American firms to work the South African markets have been so successful that the value of our exports to that country have several times been more than doubled In & single year.' Scores of representatives cf American business firms are .constantly traveling through all parts of South Africa, either to secure orders or to investigate tho fleld. Fifteen American commercial travelers, representing as many different firms, were registered at one hotel in Cape Town a year axo, and all had secured exceptionally heavy orders. Yet the laws in all sections of South Africa are decidedly unfavorable to foreign commercial travelers, who are obliged to pay very heavy license fees. The. superiority of certain American manufactured products Is such that other nations are unable to compete in those lines after our products have been introduced. This is specially true of American machinery. "Almost every one of the hudreds of extensive gold mines on the Hand is fitted out wholly, or in part, with American machinery, and. at the present rate of increase in the use of It. it will be Irs than ten years when none other than United States machinery will be sent to that district. ' The KImberley diamond mines among the most extensive and elaborate tindergrourd wcrks in the world use American machinery almost exclusively, because

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- country waa maiie In America and was Instituted by American workmen." Almost .every rail, wlrf- and car of the street railways in Cape Town, Pretoria and Port F.lizabeth tears the marks of American manufacture. HesMe installing these street railways, . Americans secured the concessions for operating them. AMERICAN GOODS. Ore of the first railroads In South Africa w.i built by an American, and American materl.! has entered largely Into the construction of the mora extensive roads. American rails are more quickly and more cheaply obtainable In South Africa than those oi English make, but the Influence which is exerted against ths uae of other than British rails prevents their universal

adoption. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Cape-Cairo Railway, in London, last May, Mr. Cecil Rhodes said: "But the other day we gave an order for 350 miles of rails. We had a large number of tenders, and the lowest tender, you may be sorry to hear, was Fent by an American. Mr. Carnegie. Fortunately, however, the tender was not in order, and we were, therefore, able to give the work to our own people. It may be said that this American tender was a question of workmen and strikes." American firms have recently secured the contracts for forty thousand ton3 of steel rails for the Cape Colony Railway system, and more orders are likely to follow. American manufactured wares of all kinds are in demand, and in many Instances they are leaders In the market agricultural implements, for Instance, which are more adaptable to the soil, and much cheaper than any other, make. Small stores in the farming communities of Natal and Cape Colony sell American ploughshares, spades, forks, rakes and hoes almost exclusively. Almost all the lumber used in the mining districts comes from Fuget sound. In spite of the expense Involved. American coal has secured a foothold in South Africa, and American petroleum is rapidly crowding out its sole rival. Russian oil. Among the other articles of export to South Africa are flour, corn, butter, potatoes, canned meats and vegetables, all of which might be produced in the country. American live stock has been introduced with such successful results that several Western firms have established branches in Cape Town, and are sending- thither large cargoes of mules, horses, cattle and sheep. Mr. Rhodes recently stocked his Immense Rhodeslan farm with American live stock. Our trade with South Africa was $3,000.010 in liv95. $12,000,000 the next year, $1,000.C00 the next and probably $20,00),uui) last year. Rut a large percentage of our exports thither were ordered through London firms, and. consequently, do not appear in the official figures. Almost every dollar's worth of this vast amount of material is carried to South Africa in ships sailing under foreign colors. WORK OF INDIVIDUALS. Our commercial interests in South Africa are small in comparison with the work of Individual Americans, who have been active in the development of that country during the last quarter of a century. Wherever great enterprises have been Inaugurated Americans have been promptly Identified with their growth and development, and In not a few Instances the success of the ventures has been wholly due to American leadership. European capital is the foundation of all tho South African Institutions, but their success has been due to American skill. Rritish and continental capitalists have recognized the superiority of American methods by intrusting the management of almost every large mine and industry to men who were born and trained in the United States. This Is so well known that when a success of South African enterprise is being discussed people ask, "Who is the Yankee?" To-day the American colony In Johannesburg numbers about 3,XO of the most respected citizens. Mr. llillegas gives one amusing Instance of the diversified nhture of American enterprise in South Africa in the shape of a Boston book agent, who made a competency by selling albums of United States scenery t the negroes along the Umkomaas river, near Zululand. However, the. United States has had a deep influence on South Africa in other ways than those of commerce and trade. The progress, growth and prosperity of the American States have instilled in the minds of the majority of South Africans a desire to be free from European countries and to bo united under a single banner which is to bear the insignia of the United States of South Africa. The influence and example of the United States are political factors which are felt in the discussion of tvery public question and in the re.ults of every election. American influences are felt in all phases of South African life, be they social, commercial, religious, politcal or retrogressive. Among tlu roll of honor of Americans who have bjen prominent in Scuth African affairs, while continuing to be stanch sup porters of American Interests in that country, may be mentioned ;ardner F. William-?, tvio general manager of the De Heers consolidated diamond mines, at Kirnberlcv, who tock charge of them when thy were in a chaotic condition. Introduced American machinery, applied American ideas and suc- ' ceeded in making of the mines a property which yields an annual profit of about $10,tw.W) on a nominal capital of twice that amount. Mr. John Hays Hammond, one of -ihe first American englneere to reach the gold fields, was official mining engineer for the Transvaal government and formulated th mining laws. He is now consulting engineer for the lfritlsh South African Company in Rhodesia and several gold mines m the Rand at salaries which aggregate almost JlOO.OuO a year. He Is only one of h scores of American engineers on the

I Rand. One of these, Mr. J. S, Curtis, dlscovered tho deep-level mines, which the

government sold at great profit to itself and the mining community. The consulting engineers of almost all the mines of any Importance in the country are Americans; their salaries range from $10,000 a year up. One American introduced the system of treating the abandoned tailings of the mines by the cyanide process, whereby thousands of ounces of gold have been abstracted from the offal cf the mills. Others have revolutionized different parts of the management of the mines, or have taken abandoned properties and placed them on a paying basis. Americans nave done more toward the success of the Rand gold mines than the combined representatives of all other nations. The American Trading and Importing Company, with headquarters in Johannesburg and branches In every city and tovn in the country, deals exclusively in American manufactured products and sells annually immense quantities of bicycles, stoves, beer, carriages and other goods, ranging from pins to pianos. - t noi xi) TO RISE j Or, Messenger Hoy 'o. 13, AVho Became n Modern-Day Croesus. Wall Street Top.os. Cecil Fitzclarence Duffy was a messenger boy in the employ of the Financial District Telegraph Company. His proud spirit chafed at the menial service that he was called upon to perform. The celluloid collar that the company furnished also chafed his neck, and furthermore interfered when he projected his head forward in emphasizing his remarks to the other blokles. Cecil Fitzclarence's number was 13, but he cared not, for his was a dauntless spirit. If another messenger kidded him about his numerical designation he straightway would proceed deftly to knock his eye out. He was extremely proficient with his dukes. Cecil Fitzclarence had a soul above the slavish insignia represented by the aluminum frontispiece on his cap and the nickel buttons on his coat. In brokers' offices to which he often was summoned he saw millions in bonds and stocks, and in the banks to which likewise he was dispatched to deposit checks of no value to any one except the rightful owners he saw millions In money. He resolved to become a multi-millionaire. The tide in his affairs came sooner than expected. Scarce had he made his resolution when he was sent to an office which rang for a messenger. A rush communication was Intrusted to him and a liberal gratuity was bestowed upon him to insure acceleration. When scarce more than half way to his destination he came upon a game of craps. He had recourse to the tip he had received a few minute before and he joined in the hazard. In half an hour he had denuded his confreres of their circulating medium. Then he realized that fortune was smiling upon him and that he would be a lobster (the marine crustacean homarus amerlcanus) did he now crowd his luck. Precipitating the missive which he was bearing into the most convenient sewer opening he quickly wended his way to a policy shop and ventured his all. His gig came out and he had to entreat a paper bag from an Italian peanut vender to convey the money that chance had favored him with. "De first ting dem udder mugs know (unconsciously including himself in the category) I will cum down town in an awtermobeel," said Cecil Fitzclarence meditatively. He -spoke truer than he though!. Everything he touched turned to gold. His next venture was in a bucket shop, or in other terms the office of a stock broker without a Stock Exchange membership. His winnings resulted in the bankruptcy of the shop. Then he onened an account in a regular broker's office. He rode dally in automobiles and in an incredibly short time was worth Js7.S64.722.il. At this juncture some other messenger drove a tack into his leg and he woke tip. His cigarette had gone out but it was still retained between his teeth.

A WOMAN'S OCCUPATION

HOW FEATHERS FOR MILLINERY ARE HANDLED BY EXPERTS.

Many "Birds' on Hats Are Mannfactured Flnnmfre of Chickens and Game Birds Used.

, Supply In llenfrre. Philadelphia Times. Nature and autumn do not mind casting off the leaves os garments for the trees. They have plenty more In their trunks. Hovr Will the Evening Pre-m Stnnrt on the Nnturnl-GiiM luentloii. Cefore th election the News thought that the meter for natural g;is was not the issue, but since then the News clearly sees that the gas companies should either bring more lines' from the field or else give consumers a rebate for the gas they do not furnish. The News has now placed itself on record against the gas companies. Will the new paper do the sam? If this new paper cannot se its way clear to fight for the Interest of the citisers the promoters had better take some of Haas's Liver Pills to clear their heads, as the editors of several other Indianapolis paper have tried them since the election and found them the best medicine on earth to clear the head, cure sick headache, indigestion and biliousness.

New York Evening Post. American Women spend about $10,000,000 a year" on two articles of trimming for their headgear, namely, . flowers and feathers. The great center of this Industry in the United States is New York, where 10,000 women are employed, and at this season of the year are working day and night that the demand may be filled. Since June 1 this little army has been working exclusively on fancy feathers, yet it is found difficult to keep up with the orders, and manufacturers could employ many hundreds more, but they look in vain for skilled labor In this line. Not until Dec. 1 will the strain be over, and then it is to begin again, only In producing flowers, for the same women who fashion feather trimmings from June to December are also adepts in the art of flower making, which begins the 1st cf December and lasts until June 1. Hence these allied branches of work furnish continuous employment throughout the year. The-wages received by feather and flower workers run from $6 to $15 a week, and for women who become experts In either branch from 915 to 120 a week. Some of the dyers who have a secret successful process of their own in coloring can command their own salary, for this is the phase of the general work which gives most trouble to the manufacturer and allows the French to make J3.0OO.O00 of the $10,000,000 which is expended yearly by American women on hat trimming. Some of the best dyers employed in French establishments when brought over to this country find it impossible to produce the same colors that they had success with at home, and they attribute the difficulty chiefly to the water In this country. Apart from the workers themselves, and their occupation, the most interesting thing to the spectator in a fancy-feather factory particularly to a spectator of Audubon tendencies. is the material used in. constructing the beautiful little birds, downy breasts, pompons, and the various other modish articles which will appear on hats generally this winter. "From what birds do these feathers come?" was asked the forewoman of a largo establishment concerning the contents of great boxes of ugly feathers near by. CHICKEN FEATHERS USED. "Those are all chicken feathers." she answered, "from which, after they have been dyed we make these breasts, blackbirds, cock feathers, and ostrich plumes." In turn she picked up a sweeping fold of what appeared to be the' breast of some white and brown bird of rich plumage, a tiny blackbird, a smart tuft of shining cock feathers and a plume which would vie with the handsomest an ostrich himself would grow. "They are first assorted and then dyed." she explained, while sho directed the placing of two little legs in a very small blackbird, which a novice was battling with. "The feather? which compose, thia breast were originally a drab brown from a very common typt of chickt-n. and are those which grow, as you will see by their shuje, under tho wings and around th breast and back. The feathers in the blackbird are generally pigeon feathers, but . they ?row small enough on some parts of the chicken for the coat of a blackbird. The long, fine feathers frm the tail of the chicken compose the ccck feathers. This year we are producing a feather designed' as a substitute for an ostrich plume. Hera 1 a specimen." And she held up a long. rich, lustrous plume with curled edges, which it was difficult to believe was constructed from the neck feathers of certain breeds of roosters. There was scarcely any difference in the thousand o. jyirjnu ccmiAKlng the plume, and each one was put in place by skilled fingers. In the various parts of the workroom girls were busy painting wings and quills with bright splashes of color. Sea gull, pheas

ant and grebe breats were being shaped and lined quick as nimble fingers could ply the neeble. Elsewhere young girls were assorting by length and color the eagle feathers, so popular a trimming on street hats this autumn. The crude material used in the manufacture of fancy feathers comes almost exclusively from abroad, although some comca from Chicago. China contributes the largest amount, and next, perhaps, Germany. The duty is 15 per cent. Goose, chicken, duck, turkey and pigeon feathers constitute the variety utilized from barnyard fowls, domestic and foreign. ,-The great bulk comes from Germany, France and Italy. Texas contributes large numbers of gulfs, whofe breasts will adorn many handsome hats his winter, and Japan and China contribute pelican and turkey quills. The South American grebe are also imported in immense quantities from Russia and California. Tropical countries export birds of bright plumage in great quantities, and their feathers undergo no change of color. NO SONG BIRDS. "Not a song bird is used In this house," said the forewoman, and she enumerated the varieties that passed through her hands.. "The song oird is really not bright and pretty enough to employ as an ornament, and his feathers are too few to make his killing worth while ' without the coloring. The skins and wingg of game birds, plover, partridge, grouse, woodcock and other edible varieties which are killed in season we find little occasion to change, as their natural color Is most desirable for wu Iking hats. These are used In great quantities. So you see out of waste material birds of gay plumage of every variety are made. Chicken feathers and coloring stuff are remarkable materials when you place them In tho hands of a skilled workman. No bird is Impoible to the worker. She has a sample before her, and that is all that is necessary. If there were a systematic busiuess in crude feathers of domestic poultry and game done in this country as there is abroad, there would bo found money in it. Some little attention is given this business in Chicago, but when we want great quantities we must send abroad to procure them." The workwoman who transforms the ostrich feather from its crude form to, the beautiful one which it assumes on a hat is distinctly different from the fancy feather maker. The ostrich feather production does not increase appreciably with years, but, although style has much to do with the demand, the supply Is not found much In excess of the demand any year. The entire crude production of Africa, which Is exported from the Cape of Good Hope, is $3,000,000 a year. Egypt produces $1,000X00 worth, and this constitutes the whole ostrich crop of the world, for other places where the ostrich is reared for its feathers can be counted out on account of the insignificance of the total results. Ostrich feathers in their crude state to the amount of $1,250,000 are imported to the United States yearly, and the work of dressing them Is all done in this city by women; Philadelphia is the only other place where any dressing is done, and there only on a small scale. The thirty importers in New York employ about 2,000 women who make from $10 to $13 a 'week. Their wages vary with their skill, for they do "piece-work'1 entirely. The working hours are from 8 o'clock in the morning to half past five, the same as for the fancy feather makers: but many who put in several hours a night at home or in the factory add to the figures given from $3 to $5 a week. While ostrich plumes sell as high as $30 apiece in some parts of the United States, the head of the operating room In one large establishment stated that it was almost impossible for her house to make a feather in excess of $7; at this sum the most beautiful manufactured are sold to the wholesale and commission men, who in turn sell to the retailers. The feathers in the crude state b-ing from $3 to $100 a pound in this country. .bout Dec. 1 the entire force of women now engaged In the making of fancy feathers will bend their skill to producing flowers, and by the latter part of May the stock for the next summer and autumn Is ready for the inspection of purchasers, who flnck Into the city about that time. Tho woman who is an adept at roses commands the highest salary paid, from $20 to $25 a week. To transform the dyed, starched cotton, the sateen, silk, velvet and the other materials employed into a queen of the garden which will not look like an imitation, but as natural as the growing rose, Is what every woman In the workroom aspires to do some time, because to do that successfully Insures a comfortable income. The violet, by reason of its few petals and simple construction. Is the most simple flower to make. So novices always begin on that. The artificial foliage is executed almost entirely by machinery, being stamped and cut by special mechanical devices. It furnishes little employment for women, but as It is a small item in the sum total of the work it counts little one way or another.

WITH THE VOLUNTEERS

SOME OF THE TRYIXG THIXGS THE SEW RECRl'IT MIST LEARN.

One Is the Elimination of Personal Identity Liberty Cnrtalled Lonjrfor1 Home.

New York Advertiser. What follows was written by one who, in the vernacular, "has been there." The writer disclaims any intention to reflect upon regular army methods, or those which obtain In state militia regiments which, In most Instances, had been organized and capably officered long prior to the late Spanish-American war. Reference is made more especially to certain of the United States volunteer regiments in Cuba, some of which were officered without regard to the efficiency of the service. A recruit of Uncle Sam's volunteer army will soon have impressed upon his mind with emphasis the fact that hla personal identity is as completely lost as are his limbs concealed by the uniform which he wears. He will find that freedom of speech and action are curtailed to a degree he could never have dreamed of, and that his whole career, while In the ranks. Is directed by one little word obey. The volunteer soldier has no right even to think, in so far as action is governed by thought, but he must. In all respects, shape his course by the dictum of commissioned officers, no matter how unjust such officers may apparently be. The fact that a commanding officer may be the soldier's Inferior mentally, socially and in every other respect, makes no difference except that the soldier's deportment must, for that very reason, be all the more uncomplaining. The volunteer must also be careful not to exhibit any surprise, much less express it, at any display of Incompetency by a commanding officer. It may appear strange to him at first to see a captain or lieutenant on the drill field ask a noncommissioned officer what command to give in order to get the men in a certain position, yet instances of that kind are liable to happen frequently in a volunteer regiment. He must not be surprised, either. If officers seek to cover up their own mistakes by making a great show of pushing and hauljng men into place and a vociferous and fluent use of "cuss" words. The writer distinctly remembers the afternoon when a certain immune regiment was being drilled preparatory to leaving f.ir Cuba, the colonel raised himself In the stirrups and ancrrily shouted: "Captains must learn to give commands correctly before they curse their men for not executing them properly." A THING TO REMEMBER. An important thing for the volunteer to bear In mind is that an act which would be construed as a mistake, if committed by the officer, would not be condoned If committed by a common soldier. A company of soldiers was doing garrison duty at Morro Castle, which overlooks the entrance to Santiago harbor. A few hundred yards distant from the historic old pile lay prostrate the Reina Mercedes cf Cervera's ill-fated fleet, ani the Merrlmar, ma do famous by Hobmn's exploit. The company's captain was fond of relics and he looked with covetous eyes toward the Mercedes and Merrlraac. Yts. the mast of the Mercedes, cut down, split up and cut into proper lengths, could be fashioned Into Innumerable canes, and theso would be valuable relics which he could present to people of influence at his home, up in Alabama, and then, what a number of votes the.e canes woul4 be the means of petting! Forthwith the order was issued to cut down the mast, and poor old Queen Mercedes was shorn of the last vestige of former glory. It was rumored in army circles that the captain would have to answer charge: In Wahlnton fur his act of vandalism and cupidity, but It is not on 'record o far that lie has had occasion to do so. Soon after the above incident two addi

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from the old castle and adjacent buildings. Three companies being on the ground, of course the major of that battalion was on hand, and thereby hangs a little story", which might properly be called 'The Major and His Canes." It runs thus: An humble private who was found of relics became Impressed with the beauty and value of canes which his captain was having made out of the mast of the Relna Mercedes. He thought, like the captain, how nice they would be to present to friends at home. Surely there could be no harm in his taking a few pieces of the old mast, and this he proceeded to do, wrapping the sticks very carefully in hi poncho, but inadvertently leaving the ends exposed. Along comes the major. "What have you in that poncho?" he sternly inquired. "Sticks'. "Are they not pieces of the mast of th Relna Mercedes?" "Yes. sir." "Take them along with you to your tent, and I will decide what to do in this matter In the morning." A CRAFTY PRIVATE. The private was crestfallen. He knew th sticks he prized so highly would be confiscated In the morning, and perhaps additional punishment would be meted out to him. He went to bed sorely distressed and passed many sleeple.s hours, but toward morning a bright Idea suggested lt-elf. Out to the camp woodpile he hurried, and. selecting some pieces not very much unlike the sticks the major had taken him to ta?k about, he split and cut them Into proper length, carried them to his tent and substituted them for the ones wrapped up in his poncho, hiding the others where they would be hard to find. Sure enough, on the following day tht major called the offending private before him. and after delivering a severe lectur on the enormity of his offense in appropriating government property, commanded that the pieces of the mast of the Relna Mercedes bo turned over to him (the major) forthwith. The private, with manifestations of great regret and dejection of spirit, brought forth his woodpile products. What did the major do with those sticks? Without any suspicion of the deception which had been practiced, he sent them to Santiago, and at considerable expense had hcm beautifully polished and appropriate designs and mottoesamong others, "RemV-mber the Maine"' carved on them, and then placed them "where they would do the most good." The major has recently 'been honored with a commission in the new volunteer army, and who knows but what the private's woodpile sticks may have been important factors In securing- the apnolntment? Should the recruit be sent to Oiba or the Philippines, he will find that his dreams of tropical cnery and scenes, of luscious fruits and ever-blooming flora and singing birds, and of brlftht-eyed senoritas, will fall far short of actualities. Tropical scenio effects, with their monotony anQ sameness, will pall upon his fancy and make him homesick; tropical fruits will make hlro physically 111, and tropical damsels the on-s he will meet- will fo? him. A rather humorous illustration of how soldiers' opinions have been known to change after r.nticipations have failed of realization follows: DREAMS UNREALIZED. An immune regiment had been ordered to break ramp and report at Savannah, from which point it was to be transferred to Cuba. It was the rainy and unhealthlest season on the Island. Arrived at Savannah in the night, the regiment was ordered th following morning to board a transport bound for Cuba. The regimental chaplain refused to go, giving as his reason the injustice and unrighteousness of leading ;i body of men Into a pesthole of disease and death. Few persons have evi-r brt-n uioie roundly abused than wai the chaplain by the men of the regimeiit. He was act us. d of cowardice and burned In effigy. Aftr tho regiment Ind been In Cuba a fiwuks and the men began to pine for home. at;J bad food and tropK-al dieast .-ro.'l- s-i!o;.h inroads on their health,.id spirits, the' thought of the dtspUd chaplain who h t.l protested againspthelr removal .to Oi!.i during the rainy' eaon. In a discussion ut the situation the formerly mucVabud chaplain was voted the only sensible person ever connected with the regiment, and it collection was taken to help build him a church in IMrmlrgham. In the general round up of volunteer officers It is refreshing to record that the arc many notable exceptions to what michr

"t'l"'" oi . lortgoirg io oe the generri rule. There were some officer !n every counter regiment with wh;ch the writer hid Mnv iirnnnlnluii.- -h.. ......... - iv.

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acquaintance who were men of extit military training, of strictest inIty, of a fine sen;' of honor . .'

ness. and who were universally loved arT co-operated with by the soldiers unul

them.