Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 7, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 August 1898 — Page 3

PICTURESQUE PONCE.

SECOND CITY IN IMPORTANCE IN PORTO RICO.

It Is Connected With San Joan by a Military Road—The Place and Its People. Good Harbors For the Debarkation of

Troops—Welcome to Americans.

[Special Correspondence.]

PONCE, Porto Rico, July 30.—So far the war between the United States and Spain has happily affected this drowsy old town on the southern coast of Porto Rico. We are now Americans. As it is connected by cable with Jamaica we have heard everything of importance transpiring in the present crises, but even the great disasters to the Spanish fleets and the surrender of the army at Santiago were heard of by the majority of the people here with apparent indifference. Their chief concern was about the effect that the war would ultimately have upon themselves. It is needless to remark that these strictures do not apply to the late officials of the town or •the native born Spaniards, nearly all of whom are devotedly attached to their country. The most of the remaining population, vastly in the majority, whether white or colored, welcome the Americans, and, I imagine, not only in Ponce, but throughout the island, have long desired a change of masters.

For some time we have anticipated an invasion of the island by the American troops, but supposed that the first point of attack would be San Juan, the capital. Recently a cable dispatch arrived conveying the intelligence that Ponce was to have that distinction. The news created the utmost consternation among tlio officials and th8" troops stationed here, and steps were at once taken to* improve the defenses of the town. These are erf no great importance, and wisdom was shown in offering no resistance.

Ponce has a population of about 18,000, the majority of whom are whites, and is the second city in importance and population in Porto Rico. It has a public hospital, is illuminated with gas and has telegraphic communication with the important places on the island. The houses are mostly built of wood, but there area few good public edifices. It has a largo export trade in sugar, coffee and molasses, with somo cotton and tobacco, and is situated about threo miles from salt water. The bay of Ponce measures nearly three miles across between Uavenero, the eastern, and Cuoharros, the western, point. The port is in the northeastern part of the bay, and on its shores is tho villago of Port Ponce, with a population of about 1,500. The custom houso is located here and is a l&ng, white, two story building, which is very conspicuous from the entrance to the harbor.

Tho shores at this point are low and fringed with trees, aud back of the village the land rises aud is gently undulating. In tho immediate vicinity of Port Ponce is Ratones island, oovered with a don so growth of shrubs and brushwood. When tho tide is out, it would bo possible for one to wade from tho island to tho village. Near by there is also another small island, surrounded by a reef sloping down to tho sea.

There are but few supplies of any kind at Ponce. Wood and coal aro not plentiful, and the water is bad and scarce. At no great distance from the

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town are numerous little bays, at which an expedition could safely land. Among them are Port Matansa, PortGuayanilla and Part Uunnicn. all of them quite available for the debarkation of troops. A road, said to be an excellent one, leads to Sau Jniui, about. (50 miles to the northeastward, aud a narorw gauge railroad runs to the town of Yauco, 20 miles distant Of the various ports mentioned probably the QUO that presents the fewest difliculties in effecting a landing would be Guanica. The milroad leading to Ponce is only a few miles distant and would become available for transporting the troops to that city. .Now in possession of Ponce a good rawl, which the troops could traverse in a few days, connects with San Juan.

With the exception of traders and seafaring men there are but few visitors to this town. Correspondents aro never seen here and I fancy have not been welcomed, whatever their nationality, by the Spanish officials. These, either in Porto Rico or Cuba, do uot desire publicity, and tho belief is general among this class that newspaper representatives are not partial to them and disapprove of their practices. Usually the people do uot regard foreigners with disfavor, aud even the officials are tolerant of non-Spanish people, excepting Americans, whom they hate with all the intensity of a nature prune to malignant passions, and the English, whom they regard with scarcely less disfavor.

Shortly after arriving here I met the cure of one of the parish churches, an intelligent, affable, courteous old gentleman. After I had secored his confidence be criticised freely the personnel and conduct of the members of the Spanish government He characterised their policy as fatnoas—in fact, idiotic— and expressed the fear that the ultimata result of the war would be to limit Spain's possessions to the peninsula. Ha. of course, with the most of the native born Spaniards, would regret such a termination of the trouble. The rest doubtless would hail it with pleasure.

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OUR WOUNDED WARRIORS.

Treated In New York Hospitals—Strange JFrealcs of Mauser Ballets. ISpocial Correspondence.!

NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—No country in the woild ever treated its soldiers with greater liberality and generosity than the United States. Previous to the present war the money expended yearly in pensions in this country exceeded the military budgets of most of the great powers of Europe, and this vast sum of money was given ungrudgingly for the support of the country's defenders or their widows and children. In other countries the military service is unpopular, and conscription is resorted to for filling the ranks of the hrmy. Here, on the contrary, so many are eager to join the army and go to the front that the chief difficulty is to make a selection.

If any one doubts the popularity of the army in this country, he should have been in New York recently and witnessed the spontaneous outflow of affection displayed by all classes toward the wounded and sick soldiers that ar-

FltEAKS OF MANSER BULLETS.

rived from Santiago That they were warmly welcomed would express the display of feeling but mildly. Ladies of the highest social position and wealth vied with each other in bestowing attention upon the victims of the campaign, and for a soldier to express a wish was to have it instantly gratified.

The hospital ship Olivette was the first vessel to bring a consignment of sick and wounded soldiers to New York. There were 800 of them altogether, and many pathetic? scones were witnessed when friends and relatives were permitted to see them. Perhaps the most affecting of all was the meeting of United States Judge John R. Thomas, provisional governor of the Indian Territory, with his sou, Lieutenant John R. Thomas, Jr., of the rough riders. Ho had been reported killed, and when his father saw him alive and on tho fair way to recovery he caught him in his arms and exclaimed, "Tonight I am the happiest old man in America."

Scarcely a man among the 800 had a complete uniform. Under the broiling sun of Cuba they had thrown everything away but those articles of clothing which wore absolutely necessary. Nearly all of them had been unshaved for weeks, and they cortainly did not look vory attractive, but this did not make the slightest difference in the warmth of tho kisses bestowed on the wounded heroes by their parents, wives and sweethearts. Shortly after their arrival in New York the sick and wounded were removed to various hospitals in the city, where the best medical and surgical skill in the country was at their command.

Though remarkable in other respects the battlo of Santiago was noteworthy for nothing more than the number of mon that were pierced by Mauser bullets aud not only survived, but have good chances of reyovery. Doubtless this is largely owiug to improved surgical methods and antiseptic dressing of wounds, but somewhat must be also credited the clean puncture made by the Mauser bullet and its great velocity. The strange circuits made by some of these missiles is most surprising and throws discredit upon the old familiar phrase, "straight as a bullet."

Willis. E. Parker of the Fourth infantry, who was removed to the marine hospital at Staten Island, was struck by a bullet in tho forearm, thence it passed through the biceps muscle, the left shoulder, the baso of the neck, and finally made its exit through the right shoulder. His physicians say that there is little doubt of his recovery.

John K. Emory, in the same hospital, is a still more surprising case. A shot perforated his ribs about the region of the liver and passed through his body, coming out at the back. He lay on the field of battle unattended for 28 hours, surrounded by the bodies of scores of dead Span ards. There is a probability of his recovery. Another most remark able case was that of a boy named William Kenibbs, who was hit six times by Mauser bullets. The first shot struck him mi the knee and passed through the muscle at the back, the second grazed one of his fingers and smashed the stock of his rifle, the third plowed a channel along his scalp, the fourth entered his side and made a bad flesh wound and in rapid succession came two other shots, one passing sideways, breaking his front teeth, and the other entering his neck, passed through his mouth and made *its exit through his cheek. Strange to relate, he has since so far recovered that be has been permitted to return to his home on a furlough.

Since the coming of the Olivette, the transport Seneca and the hospital ship Relief have arrived at this port with many more of our wounded juad sick soldiers. On the arrival of the Seneca startling revelations were made of the insanitary conditions to which her sick and wounded passengers were subjected on the voyage from Santiago to this port. men wore short of everything a ary for men in their state and wtiv crowded together like sheep in a pen. It in difficult at present to fix the responsibility. All that extreme kindness, superior skill and the most assiduous attention can do has been dene to restore them again to health, and this with such favorable results that nearly nil will recover. v— u-n^t irn

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THe Doc and the Law.

TERKE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL,, AUGUST 13, 1898.

Once it i« established that the nature of the species is gentle and that every dog is a law abiding and peaceable Bruno then it becomes necessary, before liability for tho vulgar transgressions of a fierce Towser can be fastened on the owner, that he should have previous knowledge of the usual and not to be expected feature.

This is called scienter, and until an owner has this knowledge of his dog's viciousness he is not responsible, though in the error of its ways not acting f" becomes a gentleman of the dog specks or a lady, as the case may be. To be more accurate and exact, once a dog has departed, from the narrow path of rectitude and demeaned itself in ways other than should obtain with a strictly proper and gentle animal, and the owner knows it, then it loses status and caste and must be put down as a vicious animal, and the owner keeps it at his peril. Lord Coleridge, it seems, was anxious to reduce the law on the subject to a nicety in the way of succinctness and brevity, and he succeeded by saying that "every dog is entitled to one bite," and the case has special reference to spring lamb or veal. The expression is varied by making it "every dog is entitled to one worry."—Green Bag.

Racial Repartee.

A Swede and an Irishman, both of them tolerably well known about town, got into an argument in front of the courthouse, and they began telling each other how it was too bad that their ancestors had ever happened to shed the wolf robes and take to living under cover. When things got a bit warm, the Swede remarked that there was no doubt in his mind that the Irishman would be entitled, by reason of his ancestry, to join some of the pedigree associations but for the unfortunate fact that most of those ancestors were hanged for stealing sheep. "I suppose they did their sheep stealing with the understanding among themselves that they were all kings, and that it was all right to go over into the next county and steal whatever they could lay their hands on," said the Swede in conclusion. "Yes, an be all accounts," said the Irishman, "your ancestors lived in kingdoms so very small that every time they smelled a stockfish in the yard of a neighbor they jumped over the fence an got it, an if they got back they made a national affair of it if there was any pursuit."—St. Paul Globe.

Grotesque Spanish Honor.

The Washington Times recalls a story about the Duke of Wellington that illustrates the fantastic idea of honor held by many Spaniards, contrasted with the practical common sense of English men. When the duke was co-operating with the Spanish army in the peninsula against Nanoleon, he was desirous cn one occasion during a general engagement that the general commanding the Spanish contingent should execute a cer tain movement on the field. He communicated the wish to the* Spaiftagd personally and was somewhat tqkeh aback to be told that the honor of the king of Spain and his army would compel him to refuse the request unless Wellington, as a foreign officer graciously permitted to exist and fight on Spanish soil, should present the petition on his knees.

The old duke often used to tell the story afterward, and he would say, "Now, I was extremely anxious to have the movement executed, and I didn't carf a 'twopenny damn' about getting on my knees, so down I pumped!"

Luminosity In Plants.

Many instances have been recorded of flowers being luminous at night. They only seem to do this on rare occasions, hence they are to be envied who have the good fortune to witness the phenomena. Though the writer has often endeavored to get fortune's favor, she has never smiled on him but once, when he saw the phosphorescent glow from fungi in a hollow tree, just like the glow of a match when rubbed in the dark. A German naturalist, Herr Haggren, seems to have met with a number of instances in his country—or, rather, the night watchman he employed, did. He concludes the phenomena are moro likely to occur when it is dark, after rain, following a sunny day. July and August gave the most in stances. Occurrences began soon after sunset, and there were none after dawn He could not decide on the cause of the luminosity. —Meehan's Monthly.

"Doubtful Characters."

When Mr Gladstone and Lord Tennyson paid a visit to Kirkwall and wished to see St Magnus* cathedral, they had to get the assistance of the United Presbyterian minister to show it to them. "I was," Mr. Gladstone said, "sucn a doubtful character that even in the company of Tennyson I was not sufficiently respectable to be conducted over it by the proper authority." The story is told by Mr. Patrick Campbell, for so many years Mr. Gladstone's election agent in Midlothian.—Westminster Gasette.

Queer Reckoning.

Indian street peddlers throughout Mexico sell bananas for 12 cents a dozen, but when offered 24 cents on payment for two dozen bananas the peddlers refused it and demanded £5 oents. The course of reasoning is that 1 real is 13 oents 2 reals, 25 oents 8 reals make a dollar. So the traveler must pay a real for one dozen bananas, but 25 cents tor two dozen, and TO amount of arguRent will convince the peddler that this is not right.

Why She Could Smile.

"Your wife always weans such a happy expression, Mr. Willikicj. She always seems to be smiling."

Yes, she didn't have to earn the $4? worth of gold that she wears in her front teeth."—Cleveland Leader.

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The Passion of the Hoar.

Every year modern habits become more unlovely and modern sensibilities more blunted. The preservation of what is beautiful, per se, at the present time is almost always ridiculed, unless it can be shown to be joined to some profit or utility.

The characteristic passion of the hour is greed—greed of possession, desire of acquisition and passim for ostentation. Trade has become an octopus embracing the whole world. The thirst for gain engrosses all classes. Beauty, unless it be a means of gain, is to this temper a useless, or worse than a useless, thing His regarded as a stumbling block and incumbrance. It is doubtful if even the power of perceiving what is beautiful has not in a great measure left a large part of the population in all countries. Modern cities would not be what they are now had not the race to a great extent grown color blind and become without the sense of proportion. Modern builders and modern engineers would remain unoccupied were not the generations which employ and enrich them destitute of all artistic feelings.— Ouidfi in Fortnightly Review.

A Lost Opportunity.

The Chicago Record says that some time ago a young organist secured permission to practice on the big organ in the Auditorium. An elderly man walked in and took a seat a few rows away from the musician. The young organist noticed him, and was encouraged to "show off" and do a few tricks of playing for his audience. He rambled on for an hour, and the elderly man sat there, apparently impressed. The young man tired at last and was about to lock the organ when the elderly man approached him and said in broken Engliah that he wished to play for a few minutes. "They don't allow any one but an experienced organist to touch the instrument," said the young man loftily. ^jWith a little gesture, suggestive of Jmeeknesw and humility, the stranger presented his card, "Alexandre Guilmant, Paris."

Then it was time for the young organist to swoon. He had missed the chance of his life. For an hour he had been entertuining the great master with homemade drivel.

VTIiere to Carry Stamps.

"Business men have various ways of oarrying their .postage stamps," said the stamp clerk the other morning while sitting in his chair at the stamp window in the general postofflce. "A good many men who post their letters here always have one or moro stamps about them Some of them carry their stamps in stamp cases, but the economical man carries his stamps under the band of his hat or in his pockets. "The other day a young man called for 'five twos,' and, putting one on a letter which he had to mail, he took out his watch and opening the back of it slipped the remaining stamps into the case. They don't stick to the cover, and that is about the best way one can carry stamps if he has a watch."—New York Sun.

War and Soldiers. "~vr"

Old Thomas Fuller spoke thus of war in his "Holy State:" "A soldier is one of a lawful, necessary, commendable and honorable profession yea, God himself may seem to be one free of the company of soldiers, in that he styleth himself 'a man of war.' Now, though many hate soldiers as twigs of the rod war, wherewith God scoureth wanton countries into repentance, yet is their calling so needful that were not some soldiers we must be all soldiers, daily employed to defend our own, the world would grow so licentious."

Poisons In food.

Decomposition in animal products often develops poisonous alkaloids, and -cases of illness from eating canned goods are usually traced to this source. There is also an element of danger in salts that may be formed by the action of the contents of the can. Both these sources of danger have been reduced to a minimum by improved methods of canning, but it is idle to deny that they exist, and they demand reasonable precaution in purchasing and using canned goods.

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Vlndi&tlon.

"Are you not ashamed to look your ohildren in the face?" hissed the unhappy girl.

Her father bit his lips that done, he cut loose. "I will no longer endure to be unjustly reproached I" he cried. "You kids get your pug noses from your mother's folks 1"

Sinking into a chair, he wept weak tears, uot strong enough indeed to phase the colors in the upholstering.— Detroit Journal.

Surely He Wouldn't.

The Tongue.

The tongue is divided into three regions of taste, each of which has its own special function. Tho tip of the tongue is chiefly sensible to pungent and acid tastes, the middle portion to sweets or bitters, while the back is confined entirely to the flavors of roast meats, butter, oils and rich and fatty substances.

It is calculated that if the children under the care of the London school board were to join hands they would reach from London to Carlisle, a distance of 800 miles.

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