Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 48, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 May 1898 — Page 6
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JHE WAR SITUATION AS SEEN BY fyV&fj SOLCIERS AND SAILORS.
"he City Is Headquarters For Wild
'I* tho American public cannot know where tho army and navy are or what they aro doing until the government in Wash-
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mora—Censorahip Over Dispatches—• Peril Dreaded by Naval Veterans—The Coban Element at the Keys.
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[Special Correspondence.]
|PV KEY WEST, May 23.—Of course the ir Spanish ships will run when caught at a disadvantage, but what if in running f' some of them should make a sudden dash upon this point when there is nothing formidable to oppose a movement of that kind? This is the naval base for operations in West India waters. Warships come here for coal and repairs as well as for ships' suppliea
Two or three chance vessels constitute the fighting force here the most of the time while the fleets are out blockading or scouting for the enemy.
I suggested this idea of a Spanish flimh on Key West to a naval attache, and he admitted that it is among the possibilities that the Spanish dons may give one call here. "But only one," said he calmly. "Our boys will answer for it that the same ones never come the second time."
The hearts of the sailors here are with the flying squadron and the blockading ships. Everything is what "we" are doing and what "we" are going to do, the "we" signifying the fighting element on tha outposts. And there is as much jealousy here because the lucky dogs in the Pacific got in the first blow as among the sailors out on the line also as much grumbling because Sampson was so long held in leash. All hands want the work over as soon as possible, for this climate has perils for seamen as well as for soldiers. A peril on the sea in this region more dreaded than all the ships of Europe is the hurricane which shows its fury here in midsummer. The hurricane is especially terrible in the Florida straits and in the channels along the north coast of Cuba. In these waters when the hurricane is at its height commotion takes the shape of whirlwinds running counter to the air currents of the gulf stream. Ships are as toys for the elements while the fury lasts. Even the sheltered harbors are no protection. Soveral times the harbor of Havana has been devastated and stanch ocean ships in refuge there destroyed. In one calamity, in 1846, 64 foreign merchantmen were wrecked, besides 8 French and 14 Spanish ships of war.
Key West is headquarters for news from the seat of war in the West Indies. In this rospect it answers to what Washington was in the civil war. But with the tendency to ever stricter censorship on telograms and official information it must soon lapse into a mere nest for rumors. It requires two to three days for the transmission of letters to the northera papers, and these letters are necessarily based on rumors. Skirmishes and trifling affairs will pass the censor, for those involvo no secrets of strategy, but
ington sees fit to let the whole world to its secrets. Victories are proclaimed as soon as known, and as for reverses, why, tho people are prepared to take the bitter with the sweet
Zealous news seekers aro finding out that tact and evasion do not work with government men. While politicians and elective officials are too shrewd to snub
SPANISH PRISONERS.
the men of tie press, government representatives aro too polite to do sa Secure in their independence, they simply toll tho correspondents, "We have no news to give out,' and that settles it Whether or not they have news which is not to be given out is a point beyond discussion. It is amusing to see
a
fresh
outsider wilt when the man in uniform
Bays
calmly, but firmly, "I have my orders." When the orders from the editorial Ciesar and those from the army Ocsar clash, it is not the government which goes to tho wall. But if the men of the press have the good sense to respect the trying position of the government men tho feeling is reciprocated. Both classes are soldiers in their way, and soldiers are ready to help one another. So it pays in the long run to work in with tho government Americans here, both the newcomers and old settlers, have been surprised that so many of the Cuban refugees show no disposition to fight for the freedom of the island now that the battle is on. It is only fallowing out the old law that agitators never fight The enthusiasm with this class is exhausted over the wine table just as it was with their predecessors in the last Cuban war. New York and other porta trading with the island were filled with refugees who made enough noise to free their country twice over, if noise could do it but in spite of the numerous daring filibustering schemes that went through the Cuban colonies in northern cities remained full The adventurous men were Americans and Irish and anything but Cu* y»« GEORGE L. KILMER.
A Bengal poetoffioe superintendent kas received from one of his Babu inspectors this report of an accident at a river which had to be forded owing to the breakdown of a bridge: "As I was to pass the river or water through my cart for absence of any boat some alligators ran on my oxen hence the oxen getting fear forcibly took away my cart in an abyss below the water of 12 feet which the cartman failed to obstruct The oxen forcibly left the cart and fled to the other side of the river by swimming. I myself being inside the matscreen of my cart the whole cart fell down in the abyss, used to cry loudly at the time. The cart with myself was drowned in the mean time the Overseer Babu Mehendra Nath Ghose and my cook jumped on the water and took my cart in a place where 4)4 water then I myself jumped on the water and saved my life. The alligators getting fear from the cart fled to the roadside and no sooner we came to the road they jumped on the water. Had I been under suffocation for three minutes more then there was no hope of my Ufa
The nearest residents told thereafter that some men died this year in the abyss by the attack of the alligators. I am much unwell the voice of my speech is fallen low and out of order from the suffocation."—London Standard.
BUI Was Fooled.
"Seen anything of a feller round here with red whiskers an a squint? queried Bill Sykes of Newberg, as he adjusted his red comforter and blew a sonorous blast from his bibulous nose preparatory to taking a little stimulant, 'cause if you have I've got business with him. He come to my house yesterday, an after talking around a spell an telling Hanner he thought she was my darter an making a fool of her he said he would have to inspect the well Sent out by the state, you know. "Well, I got a pailful of water, an he poured some in a sasser and looked at it through a mikyscope. Then I looked at it an say, fellers, that water was full of alligators afoot long—microbes he called 'em. The upshot was I bought the mikyscope and some stuff to put in the well to kill the animals, an I paid him $10, but 'twas partly Hanner's fault"
Here Bill looked around defiantly and continued: "That stuff was salt an water an there wan't no bugs. They were painted on the glass to the mikyscope." And with a rather derogatory remark about the honesty of man generally Bill left in quest of the man with the squint
Dowagiao Republican.
Effects of Imagination.
Some years ago a number of students in Europe were concerned in a charge which demonstrated the powerful effects of imagination. In a frolic they donned disguises and arrested another student, whom they tried in a theatrically arranged and dimly lighted chamber and condemned to death. For several hours they kept their horror stricken victim in a darkened room, and having informed him that he was to be beheaded bandaged his eyes and led him to another apartment
A crowd was assembled, but restrained their mirth as the victim of the practical joke was forced to kneel down and placed his neck across the spindle of a three legged stooL They prepared for a great outburst of laughter as the neck of the poor young fellow was touched with a slender cane, but instead had to shed tears of regret for the action, as immediately upon being touched with the cane the young man fell dead. -g
Magnetising a Soap Bubble.
Oxygen is a million times less "attractable" or "susceptible" than iron, and therefore experiments to show its attractability have to be extremely delicate. It was with one of them that Professor Fleming concluded his lecture. He took a soap bubble—soap and water, by the way, being diamagnetio—and filling it with air placed it in the field of a very strong electro magnet The bubble did not quiver. Then he filled another bubble with oxygen, and again turned on the current Instantaneously the bubble inclined itself toward the magnet It bobbed back again when the current was turned off, but at a second attempt when again the current was turned on. the attraction so unsettled it that it burst—Loudon Graphic. C„
Gunpowder Explosion.
The actual chemical result of the explosion of a charge of gunpowder cannot be told with accuracy.
The general idea of what happens is that when the temperature of the igniting agent reaches 482 degrees F. the sulphur bursts into flame the saltpeter, acted upon by the heat, frees the oxygen with which it is highly charged, and, combining with the charcoal, forms carbonic acid and oxide, while the nitrogen is liberated.
The products of combustion are approximately 67 per cent of solid matter and 43 per cent of permanent gases.— New York Sun.
Strategy.
Mr. Chamberlain when a little boy was playing one day with his sister at a game of "battle,-* each child having a regiment of toy soldiers and a popgun to fire at the enemy.
The little girl's soldiers went down very quickly, but his stood firm, and he was proclaimed the victor.
He had glued his men to the floor I— London Figaro
In round numbers there are 2,500 journals in Paris. One hundred and seventy of these are political organs, over 100 each are fashion papers and illustrated journals, some 120 medical papers, over 200 financial papers and about 60 dealing with the turf and other branches of sport
The marriage of a Japanese bride is sot complete until she bathes the feel of the bridegroom.
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an extremely interesting book on "Timidity. He finds that the vast majority of people are timid in their youth. A considerable minority remain timid all their lives. Timidity leads to meditation *nd analysis. It enters into the temperament of the philosopher and man of science. Per contra, a thoroughly stupid man is seldom timid.
Yizgil, Horace, Benjamin Constant, Michelet and Amid were all notably timid men. M. Dugas notes that in the intellectual man you are apt to find great speculative hardihood combined with a practical timidity- Carlyle's is the typical case. The mere thought of having to order a coat or buy a pair of gloves caused him the most acute discomfort
In its extreme type timidity approaches the malady of the will which the medical dictionaries call agoraphobia —the dread of the crowd, of the gaze of other people. All public speakers have known this feeling—even, it is said, the brazen M. Rochefart Cicero, used as he was to the rostrum, was prevented by "blue funk" from delivering his "MiIonian" speech. M. Sarcey, who has lectured every week for 20 years, says he has never been able to conquer his timidity. Paillet, a famous Parisian advocate, was so nervous that he used to say he half hoped some accident would happen to him in the street on his way to the court so that he might be prevented from appearing. Veteran actors, when they are worth their salt seldom get over their "stage fright"
Heating Capacity of Wood. fU
writer in Die Staats Zeitung corrects a very common supposition in regard to the heating capacity of wood, the most notable fact in the case being that such a practical and easily demonstrable error should so long have prevailed—namely, that the heating capacity of hard wood is greater than that of soft wood. The fact, as ascertained by repeated determinations, is that the greatest heating power is possessed by one of the softest varieties of such material—viz, the linden. Taking its heating capacity for the unit, the second best heater 'is also a soft wood—fir, with .99 heating power next follow the elm and the pine, with .98 willow, chestnut and larch, with .97 maple and spruce fir, with .96 black poplar, with 95 alder and white birch, with .94 only. Then come the hard oak, with .92 the locust and the white beech, with .91, and the red beech, with .90. These examples leave no doubt of the general fact that hard wood heats the least^^!f'*fCl^:^
KuKft London Book Thieves.
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Suckling, the book seller, gave me quite a little chat on book thieves the other day. "Book thieves," said he, "are most plentiful. They are also most audacious in disposing of their stolen wares. One of them did me rather neatly not long ago. I was sitting in my shop, thinking no harm, when a rather clerical looking man came in and offered me an abridged edition of Littre's Dictionary at £1. Of course I bought it Judge my surprise when I found out about two hours afterward that the clerical looking gentleman had stolen that copy of Littre's Dictionary from the stall in front of my own shop I may add that I had the satisfaction of recovering some volumes and jugging that respectable clerical looking gentleman, who, as I afterward found, had been doing many of my confreres in the same artistically nonchalant manner." —London Correspondence.
Identified by a Blind Man.
A blind man picked out his dead wife in the New York morgue a few days ago by his delicate sense of touch, says an exchange. Two women, both of the same name and both of whom died in Bellevue, were taken to the deadhonse at about the same time. When the morgue keeper caught the blind man's right hand and guided it to an upturned face, he said, "No, no that's not my Mary I" The drawer was dosed, and the next one was pulled out The sightless man laid down his stick this time and used both hands. His face was transfigured as the tips of his fingers rested on the sharp set cold features. "Mary," ho whispered, "I have found you, dear! How thin your face has grown I How cold yon are, Mary—how oold 1" The blind
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had made no mistake The
dead woman had been his wife.
Story of Pattt.
Patti dnce went on an excursion with a party of Americans, among whom was a young chap who could play on a banjo and sing "coon" and "rag time" «mgw like a professional He did not intend that the great singer should judge of the quality of his art, but by accident she had a chance, and to the young man's joy she fell hilariously in love with every "rag time" melody he sang. This was a secret between the two until one evening Patti consented to sing for the company. Several listeners west mildly insane when the great artist ^ter a little preparatory "patting, sang Mamie, Come Kiss Your Honey Boy." pi
Mexican Customs.
There are no drays or express wagons in the City of Mexico The natives use a kind of cart with enormous wheels, but for carrying around town the "transportation" is all done on the backs of natives. If you want to have a trunk moved, you hire a "cargador," and for 26 cents he will carry a $00 pound*trnnk cm his back two milea In the oountry everything is carried on the backs of BW»H mules. Droves of them oome into town with produce on their backs. 5lK laaagfauury
Danger*.
Nervous Old Lady (to deck hand)— Mr. Sltaznboatman, is there any fear of danger?
Deck Hand (carelessly)—Plenty of fear, ma'am, but not a bit of danger.-" Harlem Life
lesion the drift, and where the fall oload* How The steep above him looms, And strong winds out of distant regions blow
The snow in streaming plumes, And yawns the gulf of the crevasse below In sapphire glows and glooms.
Along the precipice there is no way That he may sorely tread. Sight is his foothold on the slippery stay
That trembles to his tread, And chill and terrible the dying day Falls fast about his head.
Oould he bnt hear some lowing of the herd. Some mountain bell ring clear. If some familiar sound one moment stirred
To guide him lost in fearl He dares not move. Some beckoning leading word,
Alas, oould he bnt heart
In those waste places of the earth and dim No star shines forth at all. Through awful loneliness enshrouding him
Be gives one shuddering call, While horror of great darkness seems to swim And fold him in its palL
Then like blown breath of music in the height A cry comes far and low. He thrills, he springs, he gathers all his might
He feels new pnlses glow! His father's voice—he needs not sense nor sight I He knows the way to got —Harriet Presoott Spofford in Harper's M&ga sine.
REPORTER AND CHINAMAN.
The Newspaper Man Was Very Tired When the Oriental Finished.
Numberless are the tricks whioh newspaper reporters play upon one another to relieve the somber "grind" of their calling. Two young men employed on a morning paper in a large oity were detailed one day to call upon the resident Chinamen and "interview" them respecting some immigration measure then pending in congress. One of the two reporters was a beginner, aed the other, an experienced man, naturally assumed the management of the assignment "Billings," he said after they had invaded several laundries without any important result, "here is a tea store, wish you wonld go in and talk with the proprietor. I want to know what he thinks about Chinamen voting. I'll go on and pull off an interview with the man who runs this oigar shop next door. Remember to use the very sim plest English at your oommand."
The young reporter went inside the tea store, took out his notebook, and thus addressed the proprietor, who happened to be alone at the moment: "John, how? Me—me—Telegraph. John! Newspape—savvy, John? Slewspape—print things. Un'stan? Me want know what John think abont Chinaman vote, see? What John think—Chinaman—vote—all same Melican man? Savvy, John? Vote? What think?"
The Chinaman listened to him with profound gravity until he had finished and replied: "The qnestion of granting the right of suffrage to Chinese citizens who have oome to the United States with the avowed intention of making this conn try their permanent home is one that has occupied the attention of thoughtful men of all parties for years, and it may beoome in time one of paramount importance. At present, however, it seems to me there is no exigency requiring an expression "f opinion from me upon this subject. You will please excuse me.
The young reporter went outside and leaned against a lamppost to rest and recover from a sudden faintness that had taken possession of him. His oom rade had purposely "steered him against" one of the best educated Chinamen in the United States.—Youth's Companion.
Maternal Trials.
"Edie," cried the mother from the hall below, "what's all that noise up stairs? It's shooking." "Ob, it's these two dolls of mine, mamma. I'm going to put them right to bed and see if we can't have a little peace. "—Detroit Free Press.
The principal varieties of the opal are the preoious (or noble), the girasol, the oaohelong, the hyalite, the hydropbane, the asteriaanda kind exhibiting dendsltis markings, generally called the moss. When the oolors are broken into small masses, it is sometimes oalled the tarleouin.
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I served three years in the 124th Illinois, enlisting at Kewanee. 111. I was in Libby Prison, and suffered, like many another Northern soldier. Until recently I was a member of the Prinoeville Post, of the Q. A.K. "The strain of army life did its work in undermining my health, although the collapse did not come for years. For some time I suffered from general debility and nervousness, so badly that I could not sleep. For fifteen years my sleep was completely oroken up. Indigestion, resulted and my misery increased. My eyes began to fail, and as my body lost vitality my mind seemed to give way also. I could scarcely remember events that happened but a few weeks before. "For two years I was unfitted for business. I was just able to creep around during the greater part, of this time, and there were times when I could not get up at all. My brother is a doctor, but all his efforts to help me failed to give me any relief.
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