Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 20, Number 32, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 28 September 1898 — Page 7

THE NAPPANEE NEWS. BY G. V. MURRAY. NAPPANEJE. * INDIANA. AS EVERY LAPDIE DOES. Oh. when I was a tiny lad I wandered In a wood, -j\> look for fairies or for flowers, as every laddie should. , | only got my fingers stung by things that creep and buzs; Z learned to look for them lnartead, as every laddie does. I sought the pretty fairy-folk in all the yellow flowers, •Where nothing but the busy bees improved the shining hours. 1 found a little caterpillar hanging by a thread; Z put him in a buttercup, and took him home instead. f ■ 1 caught' some minnows In a pool, and thought myself a man, Because I found that I could fish, as every laddie can. I got my father’s pocketknlfe—it’s blade was red with rust—s cut my name on many a tree, as every laddie must. 1 made a sturdy walking-stick to climb the highest hill; And whittled till the knife was blunt, as every laddie aslll. 1 owned a treasury of things that I had found or caught, And changed them oft for better ones, as every laddie ought. I had a little puppy-dog and pets of many kinds; But some they died, and some got lost, as every laddie finds. 3 coveted a pony, and gun to shoot the crows— A pony is a beauteous beast, as every laddie knows. What most I loved were fireworks, and all that lights and burns; But these sometimes are treacherous, as every laddie learns. 31y coats grew shorter in the sleeve; my slippers crushed my toes; But such things always smaller seem as every laddie grows. —C. Gibson, in St. Nicholas. AT SANTIAGO. | Experience of *. boy lieutenant under fire for 3 the drat time. jg By CLEVELAND MOFFETT. § THEBE were two men in the room, stretched on cots. One was tall And wore gray pajamas, the other was of medium height and slender and •wore pajamas checked with white and •blue. The tall man bad been shot -through, the .head with a -Mauser butlet; he had pains and fever, but would are Cover. The other had been shot through the knee and his leg was stiff in a plaster cast; it would stay so. jThey were both lieutenants, regulars, and, had been in the game before Santiago on the Ist of July. . JlWs.waß wt Belleyn* soldiers’ pavilion. Out in the sunshine some convalescents with crutches •were chatting and smoking. Some were joking. Down the long ward inside were dozens of soldiers unable to leave their cots. And some of them were joking, too. There were nurses and doctors moving about, and a few .sympathetic ladles, 1 want to tell now the story of the young lieutenant, the one with his leg in the plaster cast, as he told 1 it to me, I asked him questions and he answered them in short, business-like sentences much better than; adjectives. Now and then he .put in a picturesque.touch which might not have suited in a, Sun-day-school address, but did not seem,out of place in a battle-field narrative. He began with the breaking of camp that famous day .of July 1, at about four o’clock in the morning, two miles back of El Pozo. His regiment, the Sixth infantry, had been up the whole night before, making roads. They went forward*, over the rough trail in columns of four, marching slowly. ‘The shells from both, sides sang over them, and. now and then a man went •down from bursting shrapnel. This young lieutenant, with 50 men of company C, was going into action for the first time. I asked him if he was afraid. “I don’t know as I was afraid,” he said, “but I didn’t enjoy it- It wasn’t exactly like being up here in New York. I didn’t want to be hit. But a man knows he’s got to go ahead' and do his work; that’s what he’s been Taught, and he does it. It wasn't specially pleasant, though, passing a lot •of bleeding, yelling Cubans being carried to the rear. They looked like devils with their brown faces twisted up. They’d been loafing about watching The artillery fire and staring %t the balloon, and some of them got hit. ■Say, we hated that balloon, for it didn’t do a thing but draw the Spanish fire on to us. “When we were about a quarter of a mile from San Juan the order came to Turn off the road to the left and begin the charge on the block-house. That took us through thickets and over fields. We left all our stuff here —blankets and impedimenta —under charge of a sentry, and went ahead •with rifles and cartridge belts and canteens. The Lord knows what became •of that sentry, but we never saw our stuff again. lam betting those Cubans got some of it. “Anyhow, we knew the time had •come to show what sort of men we were, and most of us thought a few •things as we went across a stream there, then on through more thicket* and out again into the road to Santiago. There were 600 yards of level fields ahead of us, and thlrn the main block-house on top of a slope ISO feet high, The bullets were coming faster ®ow, and we were Jn the opep. It’s funny how you dodge when yon get (the whiz of a bullet by your head. The dodging doesn’t do any good, but you <!odge all the same—at least the new fellows do; they can’t help Jt. 'There was a wire fence Just above

the gully of the road, and a Cuban cut it down witjh bis machete. He was the first Cuban I saw with any sand. Then we went up into the field, captain and two lieutenants and 50 men. I had 25 of them to look after, and it was a hot business, for the bullets were coming down in volleys now. Inside two -minutes they’d caught ten of us besides the captain and me. Not bad, was it, for 50 men l And we couldn’t see a Spaniard. “Well, there was high grass in the field, and the boys stretched out quick on their bellies, but they couldn’t tell what to fire at or what range to take, or anything, because there was nothing to guide them. Then they began to huddle up together; it’s sort of human to do that when you’re in a hole, and I had to keep ’em spread out so the boys in front wouldn’t get shot by the boys in the back. They didn’t like to hear the bullets sailing past their heads, either, especially their own bullets. The worst man was that daredevil Cuban, who was ahead of everybody, firing his Mauser for all he was worth. “ ‘Cubano,’ I called out, ‘get back here.’ That was all the Spanish I could give him f but he understood and minded. “ ‘What shall we shoot at, lientenant?’ asked some of the men near me. “ ‘Shoot at' the block-house, shoot at the top of the hill. That’s where they are. Don’t shoot at the thicket.’ “And then for a minute or so they fired away as steady as a jiractice squad. ‘Fire, haul back your bolt, close your bolt, aim, fire, pull back your bolt,’ and so on. You know we have five cartridges in our rifle magazines all the time, but we keep them in reserve. Usually we load in a fresh cartridge every shot." “Were you lying down all this time, lieutenant?” I asked. He looked at me in surprise. “How the devil do you think I could get the range with my nose in the grass? No, sir; I was kneeling on my left knee. It don’t do for an officer to stretch out, anyhow, and that’s the way I got hit. The first thing I knew'l thought a ball of iron as .big as my first hud struck me on the leg. I didn’t feel a thing where the bullet went in, but it hurt like—well, did it hurt?—where it came out. And that very same ball went into the lad lying bext me, right through his stomach, and he died the next morning. “ ‘l’m hit, lieutenant,’ he said, but he didn’t squeal. “ ‘I can’t help you, old chap,’ said I. ‘l’m hit, too.’ “Pretty soon there were so many of us hit that the order came to .get back into the road, and two lads caught hold of me and dragged me through tLe grass. Say, they were pretty good about it; they didn’t seem to be in any hurry at all. Out in the road one of them cut off the leg of my trousersand tied a handkerchief above the knee and then twisted' it tight with a stick, because tne Wood was spuHTfrigout. You see there was an artery cut, and the

IN A MINUTE OR 80 THEY FIRED. boys all know what to do in a case likw that; they teach ua that in the army. We have an hour of drill a week in field surgical work, and you can bet it helped out here. “Then they made a litter out of two shirts and two rifles with bayonets fixed, rolled the shirts around the rifles, you know —that’s another thing' we learn—and so they took me down the road until we met a doctor, lie put a tag on me marked ‘urgent,’ and told the boys to hustle me back quick or I’d bleed to death. So they hustled me back, and the Spaniards took a crack at us every now and then. There’s nothing they like better than to pick off litter-bearers. Say, you ought to have seen the stuff we passed —hats and coats and haversacks and cartridge belts —every blamed thing you can think of, that the men had thrown away. Somebody picked up a dead man’s hat and put it on my head; mine fell off in the field. “Pretty soon we came to a place where the ambulance corps was working, with dead men - And wounded men all over the place. „My! rtat was a thing to Rut I didn’t hear any lad holler; they’d only groan one* in awhile, when they were half unconscious, and a lot of them would try to laugh and joke, but I guess it hurt ’em all right, all right. They all acted like men, though, and they kept cool, bnt you never saw such a row as the wounded Cubans kicked up. They didn’t like getting shot a little bit. “What broke me np worst was losing my eword and revolver. I gave ’em to a fellow who waa wounded in the arm to keep for me, but be got shot again and I never found , them. So I got to the hospital with nothing at all, not even a whole pair of trousers.*~ ‘ f ßat it all goes, anyhow, don’t it, Billy, old l>o jT And then, as If to dismiss the wholi incident: “Say, fire roe over that box of cigarettes, will your—Leslie’s Weekly. Gas tram a Tm mt CwL A ton of good is said to yield about 8,000 feet of purified gas.

TOO MUCH IS MISERY. Dr. Talm&ge's Sermon on the Dangers of Wealth. Th# VHlMiani of the Glsat-Ttc Service ot the Csoosapltw They Who Do the V World'* Work. From a passage of Scripture that probably 'no other clergyman ever preached from, Rev. Dr. Talmage in this discourse sets forth a truth very appropriate for those who have unhealthy ambition for great wealth or fame. The text is 1 Chronicles xx, . 7; “A man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand and six on each foot, and he also was the son of a giant. But; he defied Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimea, David’s brother, slew him.” Malformation photographed, and for what reason? Did not this passage slip by mistake into the sacred Scriptures, as sometimes a paragraph utterly obnoxious to the editor gets Into hi* newspaper during hi* absence? Is not this Scriptural errata? No, no; there is nothing haphazard about the Bible. This passage of Scripture was as* certainly intended to be put into the Bible as the verse, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” or “God so loved the world that lie gave HU only begotten Son." And I selecf, it for my text to-day because it is charged with practical and tremendop® meaning. By the people of God the Philistines had been conquered, with the exception of a few giants. The race of grants is mostly extinct, I am glad to say-. There is no use for giants now except to enlarge the income of museums. But there were many of them in olden times. Goliath was, according to the Bible, 11 feet 4% Inches high, or, If you doubt this, the famous Pliny declares that at Crete by an earthquake a monument was broken open, discovering the remains .of a giant 46 cubits long, or 69 feet high. David had smashed the skull of one of these giants, but there were other giants that the Davidean war* had not yet subdued, and one of them stands In my text. He was not only of Alpine stature, but had a surplus of digits. To the ordinary fingers was annexed an additional finger, alul tbe foot had also a superfluous addendum. He hairs? TeFffifttfftlons to'hands a-mP feet, where others have 20. It was not the only instance of the kind. Tavernier, the learned writer, *ays that the emperor of Java had a son endowed with the same number of extremities. Volcatlus, the poet, had six fingers on each hand. Maupertlus, in his ; 14a*4aHies near Berlin similarly equipped of hand and foot. Ail of which I can believe, for J have seen two cases of the same physical' superabundance. But this giant of the text is in battle, and as David, the stripling warrior, had dispatched one giant the nephew of David slays this monster of my text, and there he lies after the battle In Gath, a dead giant. His stature did not save him, and his superfluous appendices of hand and foot did not save him. The probability wns that in battle his sixth Anger an hi* hand made him clumsy in the use of his weapon, and his Btxth toe crippled his gait. Behold the prostrate and malformed giant of th 6 e text': “A man of great stature, whose fingers and ,toes were four and twenty, six on each haud and six on each foot, and he also was the son of a giant. But when he defied Israel. Jonathan, the son of Shimea, David’s brother, slew him." Behold how superfluities are n hindrance rather than a help! In all the battle at Gath that day there was not one man with the ordinary bund and ordinary foot and ordinary stature that was not better off than this physical curiosity of my text. A dwarf on the right side is stronger thon n giant on the wrong side, and all the body and mind and estate and opportunities that you cannot use for God and the betterment of the world are a sixth finger and a sixth toe and a terrible hindrance, The most of the good done In the world and the roost of those who win the battles for the right are ordinary people. Count the finger* of their right hand, and they have just flve—no more and no le*. One Dr. Duff among missionaries, but .1,000 missionaries that would tell you they have only common endowment. One, Florence Nightingale to nurse the sick In conspicuous places, but 10,000 women who are jusrt as good nurses, though never heard of. The “Hwamp Angel" was a big gun that during the civil war made a big noise, but musket* of ordinary caliber an& shell* of ordinary heft did the execution. President Tyler and hi* cabinet go down the Potomac one day to experiment with the ‘‘Peacemaker.** a great iron gun that was to affright with its tbund-r foreign nnvie*. Tbe gunner touche* it off and it explodes and leave* cabinet minister* dead* on the deck, while at that time, ail up and down our coas's, were cannon of ordinary to be the defense of the nation and ready ah the Aral touch to waken lo duty. Tbe curse of the world 1* big guns. After the- politicians, who have made *ll the noise, go home hoarse frptn angry discussion on the evepjpg of t he first Monday in November, the bext day be people, with the silent ballots, will settle everything and aettle it right. a million of the white slips of paper they drop making about as much noise •§ the fall of an applebioxn-m Clear bock in tbe country to-day there are mother* in plain apron and shoe* fashioned on a rough last by a shoemaker at the end of t he lane, rock-' log babies that are to be the Martin

Luthers and the Faradays and the Edlsous and the Blsmareka and the Gladstones and the Washingtons and the George Whiteflelda of the future. The longer I live the more I like common folks. They do tbe world’* work, bearing the yrorld’a burdens, weeping the world's sympathies, carrying the’ workl’a consolation. Among lawyers we see rise up s Rufus Choate or a William Wirt or a Samuel L. Southard, but society would go to pieces to-mor-row if*there were not thousand* of common lawyers to see that men and women got their rights, A Valentine Mott or a Willard Parker rises up eminent in the medical profe*slon, but what an unlimited sweep would pneumonia and diphtheria and scarlet fever have in the world if it were not for 10,000 common doetors! The old physician in hi* gig driving up the-lane of the farmhouse or riding on horseback, his medicines in the saddlebags arriving on the ninth day of the fever, and coming in to take hold of the pulse of the patient, while the family, pale with anxiety, and looking on and waiting for his decision in regard to the patient, and hearing him say: “Thank God, I have mastered the case; he is getting well!” excitesln me ail admiration quite equal to the mention of the names of the great metropolitan doctors of the past or the illustrious living men of the present. Yet what do we see in all departments? People not satisfied with ordinary spheres of work and ordinary duties. Instead of trying to are what they can do with a hand of five fingers, they want six. Instead of usual endowments of 20 manual and pedal addends, they want 24. A certain amount of money for livelihood, and for the supply of those whom we leave behind us after we have departed this life, is important, for we have the best authority for saying; "He that provideth not for his own, and especially t trose-at htauwerlrotuehold, is worse than an infidel,” but the large aud fnbulOify sums for which many struggle, if obtained would be a hindrance rather than-an advantage. Disraeli says that a king of Poland abdicated his throne and joined the people and became u porter to carry burdens. And someone asked him why he did so, and he replied: “Upon my honor, gentlemen, the load which I cast off was by far heavier than the one you see me carry. The weightiest is but a straw when compared to that weight under which I labored. I have slept more in four nights than 1 have during all my reign. I begin to live and to be a king myself. Elect whom you choose. As for me, I am so well It would be madness to return tq -irtrart.” •---—=***.. - --——— “Well,” say* somebody, “such‘overloaded persons ought to be pitied, for their worriments are real and their insomnia und their ndrvou# prostration urfc "genuine." I reply that they could get rid of the bothersome surplus by giving it away. If a man has without vexation, let him drop ,a few of them. If his estate is so great he cannot manage it without getting nervous dyspepsia from having too much, let hint divide with those who have nervous dyspepsia because they cannot get enough. No, they* guard their sixth linger with more care than they did tiie originul five. They go limp ing with what they ea!l gout und know not that, like the giant of my text, they are'lamed by a superfluous toe. A few of them by charities bleed themselves of this financial obesity and monetary plethora, but litany of them hang on to tlie hindering superfluity till death, und then, us they are compelled to give the money up anyhow, in their last will und testament they generously give some of it to the Lord, expecting, no doubt, tlmt He will feel very much obliged to them. Thank God that once In awhile we have a Peter Cooper, who, owning uu interest In the iron work* at Trenton, Mid to Mr. Lester: “I do not feel quite easy about the amount we are making. Working under one of our patents, we have a monopoly which seem* to me something wrong. Everybody has to come to us for It, and we are making money too fust," Ho they reduced the price, and this while our philanthropist was buildlngj'ooper institute, whieh mothers a hundred Institutes of kindness and mercy all over the land. But the World had to wait 5,800 year* for Peter Coo per! I am glad for the benevolent Institutions that get a legacy from men who during their life were as stingy as death, but who in their last will and testament bestowed money on hospitals and missionary societies, but for such testators 1 have no respect. They would have taken every cent of it with them if they could and bought up half of Heaven and let it out at ruinous rent or loaned the money at two per cent, a month and got a "corner" on harps and trumpet*. They lived in this world 50 or 60 years iu tbe presence of appalling suffering and want and ipade no effort for tjielr relief. The charities of such people are in the “Paulo-post future" tense. They are going to do them. The probability Is that if such a one in hi* last will by a donation to In-nevoleht societies tries to atone for his lifetime closeflsl/ednes* the heirs ttt law will try to break the will by proving that the old man waa senile, or crazy, and the expense of the litigation will about leave (r tbe lawyers* bands what was meant for th* Bible society. O ye overweighted, successful business men, whether this sermon reach your e*r or your eye, let me say that If you are prostrated with anxb-tle* about, keeping or inveating these tremendous fortunes, I can tell you how you can do mor* to get your health back and "your aplrft* raised than by drink tug j gallons of bad tasting water at Maratoga. Hamburg or Cm rltbwk' give to God, humanity amt th* Bible ten per cent, of all your income, and it will make anew man of you, and from, restless walking of the floor at night ]

you ahull have eight hours' aleep without the help of bromide of potassium. Perhaps some of you will take this advice, but the most of you will not. And you will try to cure your swollen hand by getting on it more fingers, and your rheumatlo foot by getting ofi tt more toes, and there Drill be a sigh when you are gone out of the wqrld, and when over your remains the minister recites the words: “Blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord,” persons who have keen appreciation of the ludicrous will hardly be able to keep their facet straight. But whether in that direction my words do good or not, I am anxious that all who have only ordinary equipment be thankful for what they have and rightly employ It, I think you nil have, figuratively as well as literally, Augers enough. Do not long for hindering superfluities. Standing in the presence of this fallen giunt of my text and In this post mortem examination of him, let u* learn how much better off we are with just the usual hand, the usual foot. You have thanked God for a thousand things, but I warrant you never thanked Him for those two implements of work and locomotion that no one but the infinite and omnipotent God could have ever planned or made —the hand and the foot. Only that soldier of that mechanic who.ln n battle or through machinery has lost them know* anything adequately about their value, and only the Christian scientist can have any appreciation of what divine masterpieces they are, Sir Charles Bell was so Impressed with the wondrous construction of the human hand thnt when* the curl of Bridgewater gave 140,000 for essaya on the wisdom and goodness of God, and eight hooks were written. Sir Charles Beil wrote ids entire book on the wisdom und goodness of God as displayed in the human hand. Ths 27 bones In the hand and wrist with eartllngrsand ligaments and phalanges of the fingers all made Just ready to knit, to sew, to build-up, to poll down, to weave, to write, to plow, to pound, to wheel, to battle, to give friendly salutation. The tip* of Its fingers are so many telegraph offices by reason of their sensitiveness of touch. Tha bridges, the tunnels, the eitle* of the whole earth are the victories of the hand. The hands are not dumb, but often speak ns distinctly as the Ups, With our hnmln we Invite, we repel, we entreat, we wring them In grief or clop them In joy, or sprend them abroad In benediction. The malformation of the giant's hand in the text glorifies the usual hand. Fashioned of God more exquisitely and wondrously tlihif nny'tiumnn -mceWnlsm that*, was ever contrived, I charge you to use It for God and the lifting of the world out of ita moral predicament. With the timid and for their encouragement, shake hands. With the troubled. In warm-hearted sympathy, shake hands. With the young man Jii ,;.r.:rsfAv*ri it age and nt the small salr* und the large expense*, shake hands.'With the child who Is new froty God and started on unending journey, for which he need* to gnllier great supply of strength, and who can hardly rearh up to you now becutike you are so much’taller, shake hands. Across cradle* and dying lied* and graves, shake hands. With your enemies who have done all to defame and hurt you, but whom you can afford to forgive, shake Imtids, At I he door of the churches where people coupe in, mid ut the door of chUrche* where people go out. shake bands. Let pulpit shake hands with pew and Mabbath day shake hand* with week day, and earth shake hands with heaven. Oh, the strange, the mighty, the undefined, the mysterious, the eternal power of an honest handshaking! The difference between these llmi-sflinl the millennial times (a that now some shake hands, but then all will shake hands, throne and footstout, across sea*., nation with nation. God and man, church militant ami church triumphant. Yea, the malformation of till* fallen giant's foot glorifies the ordinary foot, for which I fear you have never onre thanked God, Tin* 26 hones of the foot are the admiration of the anatomist. The arrh of tlie foot, fashioned with a grace and a poise that Trajan's arcl| or Constantfne’f arch or any other arch could not equal, Those arches stand where they were planted, hut this areh of the foot is an adjustabla arch, a and ready for movements innumerable. The human foot, so fashioned as to rnahlr a man to stand upright a# no other creature, and leave the hand that would otherwise have to help In balancing the I only free for anything it chomes With that divine trlumphof anatomy In your possession where do you walk? fn what path of righteousness or what ' path of sin have you set it down? i Where have yon left the mark of your | footsteps? Amid the petrifactions in i the rocks have been found the marks ] of the feet of birds and beast of thou- ] sands of years ago. And God cant race ; that all the footstep* of your life- ; time, and those you made SO year*ago I are a# plain a* those made in the last I soft weather, att of them petrified for I the Judgment day, Oh, the foot! Give me the autobiography of your foot | from he time you stepped out of the | cradle until to-day, and j will tell your j exact character now and what ** your prospects for the world to to me. That there might lie no doubt about | tjie fsfr,t that both these piece* of *J|vldrr mechanDm, hand and foot, bet long to IhrWt’x service both' hands of t hrift and both feet of Christ tsere spiked on the through th* arch of both lII* feefeto the hollo* of H - ii.-’cP went the Iron <,ftor* end from the palm of If if b§nd to the back Os It, and liter* U not a muscle or n*rv# or bone among the n bones of hand and wrist or among the M bone* j of tbe foot but It belongs to Mia now , and forever. _; ~ ‘ : •

MAY BE AH UPRISING. 1 France la tw leagana* PetSlaf the Csblsst's OMislss Us Iht Dreyfas Casa. Paris, Sept. M.—Tha eabinat in withholding tha decision of tha Dreyfus commission from tbe people. .Tb* ministry bs -adjourned until to-day without making any announcement of tha verdlot. Tba people are left is suspense, and the moht widespread discontent prevails. The ministers, it is reported, are not in accord upon th* question of revision. Such suspense •a baa not been felt in Paris since th* Franco-Prusaian war now hangs ovbr the city. Crowds, are beginning to march through the streets demanding revision. Thert Is no longer any doubt that a crisis Is at hand in the history of the republic. If tha verdict 1* against revision rioting which may quickly develop Into another commune la likely to begin. The people, convinced at last that injustice has been done to Dreyfus, will taka matters in their own bands. The report of the commission is regarded as a test as to whether th* army or th* people rule th* public. The army is against revision, the people for It, and thus the question baa j gone far beyond the guilt or Innocence iof Dreyfus. The people era arrayed 1 against the army, bitterly arrayed, and the magnitude of the danger la | seen. Wild reports fly about, one that 1 tbe verdict will be for revision, tha 1 other Ihut it M against. In quarters I where the report that the commission hat refused to grant Dreyfus anew trial there are already signs of disorder. The crowds an the streets are In- ; creasing and the suspense grows mor* and more breathless. The military governor of Pnrla ha* taken every precaution Instantly to crush any outbreak, but the dlcontent and anger will be so widespread, should the decision be against revision, that hi* power to do so fs doubled. It _ Is a nice question ns to when to Interfere. Should force be employed too soon a riot would be precipitated. Should the military governor hesltato too long the streets would be torn up and barricaded. The verdict of tha commission, It Is said. Is withheld from the public at the request of the cabinet, which Is to hold an extraordinary /" session. This fear to give out the report wae construed by some to mean thnt revision had bren refused. London, Sept. 2ft.—The Observer continues Its F.sterhn*y revelations, began last Sunday, In a tong article, the most salient feature of which Is Conte F!eterhaxy’e disclosure, made, It Is asserted, In the presence of more pervon* tliun one, thnt he wns the author ,nf the. fAmotjs Djeyfus bordereau. Fstrrhitzy. It is alleged, said: " 1 “It wss Intended to nonsiftuta matsHsl proof of Dreyfus’ guilt, tt was known through a Frenrh ur In the service *e n*rlln that certain documents had reached ths German gensral staff which Dreyfus alon* could have obtained (| was a bet of these documents which conetltuted th# bordereau. Dreyfus had been tested In several way* and be had manaaed to *i>en4 1 ftWr*©>Mj* '^’--iUnane-wtfiMWM-belRB-awr-psrtthtly found out by the German authori-ties-a v<ry suspicious sign. Cal. Bandherr. who waa an Alsatian, Ilka Dreyfus, but Intensely antt-flemllla, determined tw forge hie proof. He waa convinced of lb* accused man's guilt, but tt waa necessary fur the purpose of the court-martial that documents should exist, t wrote the bordereau because fol. Mandherr told me to do so t knew, of course. I was committing a forgery, but. 1 also knew that alt tntelllgenca departments In alt rountrtea were run on precisely tbe name lines and I bat It waa linpusslbla to aehlevs th* r*> suits in any other way." NINE BRIGADIERS. President BetUSter ReWSltfl th* See vices of WlHeevs at Santiago ■ Mat Puerto Mleo. Washington, Kept. 2ft. -Tbe president bus appointed tha following officers to bn brigadier genera Is of volunteers: - Per service# In Santiago campaign, Lieut. Cot Cliarles D V|r|e, First I nlted Mists* cavalry: <’e! William M Wherry, Mixt ecu I h t’nlted Ml nice Infantry; Col John M. Page, Third Piffled Mtntn infantry; Ideal. Col. G. N. Carpenter, Meventh Called mates infantry, Unit Cos! J n Patterson, Twenty-second United Stoles Infantry; Ideut. cot, A, fl. Daggett, Twenty-fifth United Htatcs infantry: Lieut. Col, C. W. Humphrey, •luarierniaeter's department; Col J. K Weston, aubetetence department. gor services in Puerto Itlco, Col. Willi* U Muling*. Mtxteentk Pennsylvania volunteer's. it I* the expectation that most of these officer* who arc thus rewarded for their hurt! service wilUoon b* mustered out of tbe volunteer xervle*, though, of course, not iiewetMirily out of their present regular army positions and grade*. WANTS TO BE A STATE. Oklahoma Has AmMriuas, XeesMHf la Met, Marne#* Aaaaal Megarl. Washington, Hepi, 26,--Tha aeer*tnry of the Interior has mad* public j the tmntini report of C. M. Barnes, governor of the territory of Oklahoma, j The report ia a voluminous document, and takes up all tbs questions which : affect the intre*t of the territory. •On the question of statehood Uov. ’ Barns* says: ! “Mince the passage of the Curtis Mil, | changing to some extent the status of lb# j Ove civilised tribes, end sar*ntly poel- [ putilng the question of eta'*hood tbereUa j lor several y**r, the sentiment In Oklahoma Is some whet stronger for immediate statehood then when 1 made my last report All pollttral parlies nave ihi* year declared in favor of etaiehood upon such terms sod wtib such boundaries a* may seem beet to congress, “ M Haag t-kaag’e Mlval Arreef*. London. Me pi. 26.—The lline*’ Peking dispatch says: Chong Yen Boon, the Caniuuexe enemy end rival of 14 i Bung Chung, mho is charged with harboring Kang Ynisei, has bee* arrested. He is now under trial by Ike board of punishment. He will be stripped of MU hi* office*, sad bi> removal giving Increased power to M Hung Cbaog. Tb* official* generally welcome tb* sow press’ return to power, but tba peopl* gre Indifferent. Kang Yuwel ht charged with conspiring against tb* caper** dowqgvr and baa b*a do* elnred an oatlaw. • ; ' ' :p|