Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 51, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 June 1898 — Page 3

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OFFICERS MUST WEAR THEIR UNIFORMS EVEN WHEN OFF DUTY.

Lack of Good Drinking Water and Shade Grievance* at the Encampment—An Unarmed Regiment That Passed In Bertew

Before the President. [Special Correspondence.] WASHINGTON*, June 13.—It may seem

like twanging a harp with a single string, this repeated allusion to the new feeling of fraternity that has sprung up between the north and the south, but perhaps I may be pardoned one more reference to this sentiment. This reference is to President McKinley's attendance at the inauguration of the new buildings at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Seventyfour years ago, at the opening ceremonies of this same institution, there were present the then president of the United States, James Monroe, and two ex-presidents in the persons of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and the university authorities in planning this inauguration cherished the hope of having present, besides our honored executive, the only ex-presidents now liv-

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ing, Benjamin Harrison, whose father was a Virginian, and Grover Cleveland, who now resides in a state in which the greatest of our Virginians. General George Washington, won a decisive victory over the soldiers of our new ally, England.

How time brings about changes to be sure! Those from whom we wrenched several million square miles of territory a century or so ago are now overjoyed at our victories and just yearning to clasp tis in a fond embrace. Those who were arrayed in deadly strife but a generation since are now vying with each other as to which shall be the first to get a whack at the Spaniard in Cuba and Puerto Rico and that being their only point of difference.

Warhorae Grosvenor Getting Restless.

As a southern sonator said, within two weeks, when tho last "disability" was removed from tho former "irreconcilnbles:" "Although wo all agree that this is a just measure, woof tho south persist that it is very generous. You say in passing it, 'Thus wo embrace and forget.' From this baptism of blood and fire anew nation will arise, wherein sectionalism will bo eliminated forever. Those who must fall in this war defending our nation's honor will die in view of a glorious sight—tho north and tho south united in battlo array under the stars and stripes."

And who would havo pictured in his wildest flights of fancy that old warhorse, General Grosvenor of Ohio, rising in his seat in tho house of representatives to eulogizo General Joe Wheeler, who la now in Florida aching to get at oloso quarters with tho Spanish foe. There was a time, not beyond tho memory of man, when "General Joe" was aching to get a good chance at General Grosvenor when the latter was fighting for tho Union and Wheeler against it. But all that is past, and it is time it was forgotten—at all events buried. By tho love feasts which have been celebrated lately it seems likely that it is buried never to be resurrected.

To cap tho climax of good fellowship there was tho reception the Baltimoreans tendered tho gallant Massachusetts Sixth when it passed through their city a number of weeks ago. "Flowers, not bullets. God bless you and bring you safely home." Ye godsl When that sanio regiment went through Baltimore before on April 19, 1861, they had no flowers for "Yankee mudsills," except to scatter o» their graves. Well, this may uot bo fctio millennium, but it is pretty certain tho nation is in the throes of a great transition, and let us pray that she may emerge gloriously strengthened and permanently purified

The Omnipresent Uniform.

Everybody entitled to wear uniform has to dcai it now, willy nilly, and this city is nblaao with tho glitter of gold and tinsel. As a rule, officers off duty don't like to put on tho garb of their servitude, the badge of their couragecall it what yon will but the order has gone forth and notwithstanding the departure of many for the field there are still many left, to judge by the uniforms one meets on tho streets. 1 meta bevy of new arrivals yesterday coming out* of tho White House, where they had been to see tho president They were from Ohio, too, thus refuting the oft quoted slander that everybody in Ohio had been gifen a "soft job" under tho government. They were led by General Grosvenor, who, despite his 86 years, held himself as erect and walked as briskly as the youngest one of the party. I shouldn't wonder if he threw up his congressional appointment and grabbed that old sword again, after all. It is rather galling to seo other veterans —Wheoler and Lee, for instance—prancing about like young colts, with the whole of Cuba and Florida for their pasture, while ho is stabled np here in the sweltering capitoL

At last our District boys are off to the southern camp, probably at Tampa by this time. I was on the avenue when they inarched past with musio by the bond to the tune of "A Hot Time," and Old Sol playing to tho same tune too. It seemed too bad to load those striplings down with hoary knapsack, haversack, canteen, blanket, etc., besides their nee* essary accoutermeaU merely to march

through the city in time of peace. It may have been good exercise, though, and the boys showed their plunk by all staying in the ranks and marching bravely on without a murmur.* The residents of the District of Columbia do not enjoy the franchise, to be sure, but they can shoot, most all of them, and they love their country as well as any one. I expect good accounts from the District boys soon.

The Mnle and the '"Fix."

The nearest military camp to Washington is at Dunn Loring, over across the Potomac, on Virginia soil, about 40 minutes' ride from the city by either steam or electric traction. Whichever way you go you may wish you hadn't gone at all when you get to Falls Church station on the electric or Dunn Loring on the Southern railway and find still three miles more of the dustiest highway travel outside California to be gone over. The fare for the round trip to Falls Church is 25 cents and for the round trip to camp 50 more, making 75 for transportation, to which you may add as much more for lemonade, soda water, etc., to wash the sacred soil of Virginia out of your throat. The local jehus drive what they call a "fix," meaning thereby a "rig," as the Yankees say, said "fix" being usually an antiquated "shay," the locomotive part of which is in front, in shape of a mule. You wonder at first why the driver didn't have two mules for such a big lumbering vehicle, but after the animal has set himself in motion and sent some millions of cubic feet of dust into the atmosphere you are mighty glad he didn't. Half way over to the camp you pass the building after which Falls Church gets its name. It seems that General Washington determined to set up a church at Great Falls, on the Potomac, and sent off somewhere for the building materials, which in some inexplicable manner got stuck here about half way to their destination, and so they have staid where they stuck.

Just beyond the church the first sentinel is met The one who first gladdened our view was a young colored soldier from Ohio who was holding a very long gun crosswise of the road and whistling "All Coons Look Alike to Me." He was so intent upon his musical performance that he didn't see our mule until it was close aboard and came near being impaled on his bayonet We all shuddered, but the mule didn't turn a hair, and I suppose it never will know just how near it came to being sent to eternity with its shoes on.

Xn Camp Where Washington Camped.

The Algerines," as the soldiers tenting at Camp Alger have been called, vary in number from day to day almost, but at present there are some 25,000 encamped on the rolling lands of Dunn Loring. This is a portion of the vast property at one time belonging to the great Lord Fairfax, friend and patron of Washington, when the latter was a young surveyor. Many a time, it is said, has the gallant George himself camped beneath the great trees not far from the old manor house which is at present tho officers' headquarters.

In some respects the site is a fine one, but in others, notably in lack of good drinking water and shade, it is very poor. The boys are bearing all their discomforts with good humor, sleeping on the straw covered ground, standing for hours in sun and rain on sentry duty and eating whatever is given them without protest. They aro the stuff good soldiers aro ijiado of, even if they are not yet veterans. We call them "boys," that being tho affectionate term for all our soldiers, and in reality tbey are, most of them, youngsters of from 20 to 26, with fresh looking, hopeful faces as well as youthful manner.

Already, though all are not here, it is half a day's walk to visit all the camps. Each camp boasts of some special advantago of site that the other hasn't, but it seemed to mo that the Sixth Illinois had about the poorest on the grounds, while the Sixth Massachusetts had a fine location (barring absence of water) near some great trees.

At first the hospital tents were very poorly provided, the sick boys being obliged to lie on the ground, but this scandal so near Washington could not long endure and now they are better off. They were having fun over the "Rules For Health" distributed by some well meaning philanthropists, among which

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were: "Da not bathe in water unless It has been boiled." "Avoid being out in the night air"—on sentry duty, for instance! "At the end of a march bathe the feet in boiled water and dry them with compound talcum powder." "Dc not eat fruit in the summer time," etx

The day of our first visit was that oJ the president's review, when 18.00C soldiers passed before him for inspection. The details of that first review art now familiar to all, but tho saddest sight tb me was one of tho regimentt trooping before tho president without its guns. I think the sight was suggestive to him, for sinoe that time there has been greater activity in the variow departments responsible for the nca equipment of our brave soldiers.

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Worked the Wrong Way.

Mr. Dooley, a Mobile ship carpenter, relates an amusing incident connected with the blockade of Mobile harbor during the civil war. Some ship carpenters had been put to work by the government to manufacture floating mines and had taken a number of heavy pieces of square timber and placed them in the form of a triangle, three pieces being used to each. At the end of each of the sticks—that is, on the three points—was placed a torpedo. A few days after this the wind came out strong from the north, and the torpedoes were taken and placed in position in the bay so that they would be driven by the Hind against the United States gunboat

The plan was apparently to be successful, the torpedoes being driven rapidly in the direction of the enemy's gunboats, and great damage might have resulted to Uncle Sam's ships had not the wind suddenly changed, and the torpedoes were brought back and carried in a bunch to the bay opposite Frascati. Here the torpedo mines met in an eddy, and there was suddenly a great explosion, followed by another, and yet another, completely tearing the rafts to pieces and producing at the same time a panic among the people resident on the shore, who went to Mobile city and reported that the enemy was bombarding Frascati. New Orleans TimesDemocrat.

The Naval Captain In Battle.

Writing of the perils of naval warfare, Park Benjamin in The Independent says: Nobody now believes that a captain who finds his vision through the slits of the conning tower cut off by smoke will stay thus shut up. It is extremely doubtful if it will be physically possible for him to remain there after the shells commence to hammer its sides and burst against it, and iu any event the intense anxiety to see and know clearly what the enemy is doing will inevitably lead him to take his chances in the open. Conning tower or no conning tower, his duty is to place himself at whatever point he can manage his ships to the best advantage, and this he will certainly do. Lord Charles Beresford, with grim humor, has suggested that the captain's safest place is not in but behind his conning tower, "because then he has two thicknesses of steel between himself and the enemy, don't you see?" But while conning tower armor may resist penetration it is by no means certain that the whole structure will not be swept away by the first heavy projectile which squarely hits it

Electric Propntsfon of Ships.

Up to the present electricity has scarcely been thought suitable as the principal motive or propelling power for the larger type of vessels. This is undoubtedly owing to the fact that for a given horsepower a triple or.quadruple expansion steam engine would take np less space and probably weigh less than an electrical installation of equal power. Storage batteries are out of the question for such uses, although persons not well np in electrical subjects frequently wonder why our oc san greyhounds are not propelled by some such method. It may interest some of our readers to know that a vessel requiring an average of 10,000 horsepower to propel it across the Atlantic, and displacing 5,000 tons, would be obliged to carry, were storage batteries alone made use of, 824,480,000 pounds of such batteries, or, in other words, the motive power alone would weigh 163,840 torn, or 30 times as much as the shig.-—Electricity.

Constipation

Causes fully ball the sickness la the world. It retains the digested food too loos in tbe bowels •ad produces famousness, torpid Brer. t«B-

gestioo. bad taste, eoated toegoe, sh* headatiw, tosornnfev etc. Hood's PQto I toreeaastfpatfOB and an Its I tesutts,ea^ and thoroughly. sse. All druggists, Prepared by 1. Bood Ofc* Lowell, Mass. Tbe oaiy Fills to take with Hoofs StnaparlBs.

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nothing could be done for me but to go under an operation-

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A Heu Insinuation.

Two ministers were discussing the attendance of their parishioners at worship. One was bemoaning the indifference of the people to the church, complaining bitterly of lack of attendance at nearly all the churches in the city. It mattered not how well the sermons were delivered—the people still declined to attend. gag "I venture to state," said one, "if I were to advertise that two monkeys would perform in my pulpit next Sunday evening the church would be crowded." "Yes," replied the other reflectively. "Two would be better than one. Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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'-^How Spain Paid Columbus.

„v* A Drawback to Happiness.

"You didn't seem to enjoy the opera a bit, MissGayly." "No. I forgot to carry that elegant new fan auntie sent me from Paris. Detroit Free Press.

A Berlin paper doolares, on medical authority, that not one of Germany's professional bicyclists has a normal, sound heart, and that most of them become unfit at 26 for great bodily exertion.

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A curious discovery has been made in the archives of the Spanish navy— the bills of payment of the crews who composed the caravels of Christopher Columbus. The sailors,according to their class, received from 10 to 12 francs a month, including their food.The captains of the three large caravels had each 80 francs a month. As for Columbus himself, who had the title of admiral, _he was paid 1,600 francs a year. fe*'

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The victory rests with America's Greatest Medicine, Hood's Sarsaparilla, when it enters the battle against impure blood. y^pC i'

Land and a Living

Are best and cheapest in the New South. Land $3 to $5 an acre. Easy terms. Good schools and churches. No blizzards. No cold waves. W. C. Rinearson, G. P. A., Queen & Crescent Route, Cincinnati.

Many People Cannot Drink coffee at night. It spoils their sleep. You can drink Grain-0 when you please ,and and sleep like a top. For Grain-0 does not stimulate: it nourishes, cheers and feeds. Yet it looks and tastes like the best coffee. For nervous persons, young people and children Grain-0 is the perfect drink. Made from pure grains. Get a package from your grocer to-day. Try it in place of coffee. 15 and 25c.

To Cnre Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 28c. It C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money.

To make your Sunday dinner complete, go to Fiess fc Herman, 27 north Fourth street, where yon will always find an abundance of the choicest meats of all kinds. They have also on hand sausages of all kinds of their own make. Telephone 252.

To Gnre Constipation Forever. Take Cuscarets Candy Cathartic. IQo or 25e. It C. O. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money.

Asheville and the Land of the Sky. Twenty-six hundred feet elevation. Delightful climate. Three hundred days of sunshine per year. Finest hotel accommodations in the South. The world's greatest sanitarium and place tpr recreation.

A reduced rate is in effect from the North every day in the year, for round trip tickets via the Queen & Crescent Route and Southern Railway.

Through Pullman Drawing Room Sleepers from Cincinnati daily. W. C. Riaearaoa, General Passenger Agent, Cincinnati, will send printed matter aim full information on application.

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,of the most successful business ^ej^t^es which "we have with us today. From a very small beginning its growth has been wonderful, and it now ranks as one of the largest institutions of its kind in the West. small idea of its operations may be gained from the statement that during"the last year it has distributed in salaries and wages among its employes in Ten:e

Haute the sum of $98,000, which represents more than $6 for each barrel of its product

sold in this city. This does not include the salaries of its agents in other places, traveling men, nor the sums spent on improvements and iepaiffc, Which, if added, would nearly double the amount. |||It is only the sum paid home men for its work at home, every dollar of which has been spent by these employes among home

business men for the benefit ot our own people. It is certainly a splendid showing, but no one envies the company its well-earned prosperity. Its manll^tiight hai always been governed by liberal and progressive ideas, to which to a great extent is due its well-deserved popularity and

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