Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1898, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, MAY 97, 1898—16 PAGES. General, Sir Evelyn Wood, |"0°S*4No Jetsam > SS S SIR EVELYN WOOD Says: “Regarding the infantry marching in the recent maneuvers, it was the best seen during my command at Aldershot. Many officers availed themselves of the tonic and reconstituent properties of the well-known Mariani Wine, the most certain as well as the most palatable method of inducing resistance to fatigue.” From ‘The London Sketch.” i ey [MARIANI WINE.] Mariani Wine is endorsed by more than 8,000 American physicians. It 1s of especial value in eases of Neuralgia, Nervous Debility, Muscular Relaxation. Mental and Physical Depression and k or Overstrain, Insomnia, He e. Nervous Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite, it builds up the vital forces and 1% a powerful rejnvenator. It gives e hervous system, firmuess and elasticity to the mus ‘es, and richness to the blood. It benefits all and injures none FOR OVERWORKED MEN, DELICATE WOMEN, SICKLY CHILDREN MARIANI WINE MEANS SALVATION. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. REFUSE SUBSTITUTIONS. SPECIAL OFFER---To all who write mentioning The Washington Star, we send a book containing portraits and endorsements of EMPERORS, EM- PRESS, PRINCES, CARDINALS, ARCHBISHOPS and other distinguished personages. MARIANI & CO., 52 WEST 15TH STREET, NEW YORK. Paris—41 Boulevard Haussmann; London—83 Mo rtime. Streez; Montreal—28-30 Hospital Street. = ae 2 = WANT JOHN EXEMPTED. are some eleven millions of eligible soldier Yhe Cry That Comes Up Country Districts. The war between the United States and Spain is producing more or less trouble for the politicians. One of the leading mem- bers of the House of Representatives said last night: “I am in a fair way, I fear, of becoming the chief politieal reconcentrado in my dis- triet. A few months ago ail the population of my eight counties were as one man in demanding war—hurry-up war—war that would put out the eyes of the Spaniards and make those of the race in Cuba light out for home afoot, without waiting for gunboats or gum boots. When I suggested to some of these patriots in eruption that war was expensive and bloody business, they howled ‘D—n the expense! Lick the Spanish! and gave me to understand that if I did rot vote solidly for every war measure that came down the pike, my po- litical sealp would be actually divided up and pieces of it nailed to the flagpoles of eight several and distinct Indiana county court houses. “But now that the war is with us and the call for troops is made, now that the mus- tering in of the boys is actually going on, I am bombarded by every mail with let- ters from my district demanding that I shall see to it that ‘my son’ is not sent to the front. Perfervid old patriots have found out that they cannot run the farm or the store ‘without John,’ and every good old mother with a cross-eyed, knock-kneed, ring-Loned boy scems to think the war is only waiting for her kid to reach the front and sends me a tear-bespattered appeal to see the President right away and get her Willie exempted. I am doing my best to meet all these demands, and thus far I think I have saved about thirty thousand of my callow constituents from being set up as targets for Spanish bullets. I hope to save most of my crowd before the elec- tion this fall.” And tais is only one of hundreds of Ike emusing situations with the politicians growing out of the war and its incidents. Yet it ought to be remembered that there From the stock in the United States that will not be needed, how r long the war may last. —— Firing Plantations. From the Boston Globe. Professor Marshall, head instructor of chemistry at the University of Pennsyl- venia, in the course of a recent lecture on the action of phosphorus, read some ex- tracts from a letter he had received from Cuba, which told of a novel use the in- surgents had made of this chemical. In the summer of 1896 the writer of the letter had lived in a province where the raising of sugar was the principal industry. The crop was just ready for harvesting when the Spanish soldiers took possession of the district and proclaimed martial law. The fields throughout the district were covered with ripe sugar cane, which is very inflammable. Despite the presence of the soldiers, the insurgents managed to fire several fields. The force of sentries was doubled, but al- though no insurgents were seen, the fires beeame more frequent. It was concluded that the firing was be- ing done by strategy, and all suspicious characters were thereafter forced to give an account of themselves. An old farmer carrying a large barket, who was in the habit of passing the lines regularly, was stopped several times, but nothing more suspicious than rolls of butter was found upon him It was noticed, however, that the fires always followed in the wake of this farm- er, and a spy was detailed to follow him one day. Unaware of his surveillance, the suspect stopped at a sugar fleld and threw szveral of his rolls of butter among the cane. He was at once arrested, and con- fessed to the burning of the fields. It seems that each of these rolls of but- ter contained a quantity of phosphorus, which, as is well known, ignites spon- taneously when exposed to the air. The heat of the sun would melt the butter and expose the phosphorus. The length of time ‘t took to melt the butter allowed the in- cendiary to get out of the neighborhood before the flames broke out. eee ee se ee iechoe _ Pull up ever. you any amount need cash to get through Our Matting free. my23-T54 tra charge for credit here. You Can Keep The House Cool. Yy carpet in your home and re- place it with Matting or Oil Cloth. They’re cooler and lots easier to keep clean. We offer on credit. Don’t think you'll the best prices—there’s no ex- Come in and look Department. There’s not a larger or finer assortment in Washington. Eyery pattern is of tested reliabili- ty—we'll guarantee good wear. your rooms and we'll tack the Mattings down You can pay the bill as you are able—a little each week or each month. No notes to sign—no interest charges—take anything in our store and your promise to pay is sufficient. GROGAN’S Mammoth Credit House, 817-819-821-823 7th St. N.W Between H and I Streets. EREAPETELEEEEEEE Let us measure “ Mach Useless Stuff Carried by Youth- ful Soldiers. MAY KNOW BETTER LATER Proper Clothing for Campaigning in the South. NO NEWS GOOD NEWS Modern warfare is exemplifying in many particulars the practical and peculiar changes that “soldiering’ has taken on even since the civil war of a generation ago. The “impedimenta,” as Caesar term- ed army paraphernalia, has undergone some startling changes. A trip among the city tradesmen shows this clearly. Our armies are on the move; the boys are pre- paring their personal effects for camp and march; some taking note of southern and Cuban possibilities and some of Philippine probabilities. Consideration of long separation from home and loved ones, of climatic changes, of health precautions, of toilet privations and of physical comfort in general, are causing, and have caused, some novel de- mands to be made of outfitters, both by the local soldiers and those of other states in camp at Falls Church. Old campaigners predict that much of this extra baggage will be flotsam and jetsam before the boys have seen real service many weeks. Some of the men who have joined the vol- unteer army, or are about to join at the different recruiting stations, seem to think that the southern summer is like the breath of Nebuchadnezzar’s furnace, or a kind of kitchen climate in shedl. They figure the thermometers in the south as double the length and twice the degree power of those in the north, and few of the volunteers can be made to accept the fact that the average temperature in Florida, Alabama and Cuba is lower than in the northern and eastern states in July and August, and that more sunstrokes are reported from the cities be- tween Boston and St. Paul than from those between Charleston and Galveston. The only real “hot times’ in the southern cli- mate are the hours between 10 in the morn- ing and 3 o'clock in the afternoon. If one can keep moderately quiet, remain under cover or in the shade, eschew ice-cold wa- ter, alcoholic beverages and mental anxie- ties—all of which should be easily possible to the bulk of the soldiery in camp—tittle danger or discomfort need be feared from southern sun. : Ciothes to Wear. There are thousands of the soldiers whose own notions, or whose importunate kins- folks, are causing them to pack their knap- sacks with light, flimsy underclothing, thin stockings and—tell it not in Gath—with night shirts of bobinette airiness and fili- gree embroidery. All of these are to assure the comfort of the brave soldier boys in the tropics. But all of these provisions are to- tally amiss. To one who knows something of practical southern campaigning in tne sixties—even on the levees of New Orleans, the sands of Pensacola and the coquina flats of Florida east—such articles appear emphatically out of place. The facts are that a medium-weight woolen shirt is the only reliable, al garment of comfort and health’ preserva- tion, and a strictly all-wool sock the acme of safety and satisfaction on the soldier's igl foot. Cool nights, chilly mornings before y and many muddy marchings have vin- ated these facts to every experienced thern soldier, hunter and fisherman. Any sort of fancy wear is tabooed any- where down the Curiously enor vise well-inform: t and in Cuba. millions of our other- people still harbor the notion that the south is a region of swamps, eliow fever and chills of the “continuous performance” type. Nothing could be farther from the truth, and the boys who are being urged to pack off with them bottles of quinine big enough to stock a Georgia country apothecary shop, and to smuggle along a proper men- stuum for the drug, sundry flasks of “me- dicinal” rye are being provoked to a vain and useless thing. Malaria is largely a myth. It mean: “bad air.” but the fact is the south, esr cially Florida and Cuba, enjoy an atmos- phere continuously purified by alternating sea and gulf breezes and medicated effect- ually by the balsam of vast pine forests. The effects usually attributed to malaria are really due,\in most cases, to malaqua, or “bad water,’ so thai for the saldier in camp or field a gallon of thoroughly boiled Water is better than a bushel of quinine. Keep dry and sleep warm and chills and fever will become as visionary ag Blanco’s boasts. Shoes Of. The advice of an old veteran is that in every instance of going to sleep, in camp or bivouac, take off the shces before falling asl There are breathing pores in the soles of the feet, and if these get a chance while you are asleep they will do their perfect work in aerating your feet ana limbs, taking away the soreness and ban- ishing “that tired feeling.” An old con- federate commander, now a member of Congress, remarked to some of the new volunteers the other day as follows: “I commanded companies, regiments ana brigades during the last war. I served in Virginia, in Tennessee and in Mississippi. But whether in the snows of the Blue Ridge or on the sultry, sandy bottoms of the Mississippi, I always made my meu take off their shoes while resting and before going to sleep at night. Many a winter, bitter night I went among them to see that my order was obeyed. The consequence was they had better health, a sturdter strength and could march harder, faster and farther at a stretch-than any other command jn the army.” The photographers all over the country have ben working on emergency orders. The boys could not go away in service togs without leaving with their best girls and the good old mother a photo of their mar- tial selves. Every form of pictures from tintypes at a quarter a bunch to imperial busts at $3 a bust have been lavishly dis- tributed. Of course in the knapsack of every one of Uncle Sam's foot and horse goes the blessed counterfeit presentments of parents, wives, dulcineas and other friends. All of which will be pleasing enough to dissipate the monotonous hours and ennui of earlier home-sick days in far- away camps. Shaving outfits of elaborate construction. portable boot-blacking kits, button and thread boxes, needle and pin cases, lillipu- tlan drug combinations and court plaster envelopes, stationery portfolios, fountain pens, packages of ‘foot ease” and a hun- dred other small wares that the imagination and forethought of fond onss can conjure for a soldier’s necessities are forced upon the boys, all unconscious that when real war is met these things will largely. litter the highways, and in the end the sons of Mars will be shaving with jack-kniv2s and plastering rosin soap on their cuts and bruises. ~ Getting News. “Telegraph me quick” is the admonition given to nearly all the boys by parents and chums, to be heeded in case of battle or wounds. The dear ones do not realize that when the dread event arrives ths boy may be many weary miles away from any ticker and that military discipline may have laid an embargo on all private dispatches. They do not know, also, that mails will often be weeks in reaching troops in the hills and chapparels of Cuba, and that, even if a wire should come through that Johnnie is “down with the fever,” or “is seriously wounded,” @ passage for parent, or brother, or sister to the field hospital will be ajmost as im- possible as a Sunday excursion to Mars War tek hy is also a costly business, and often i not be undertaken unless messages are “‘ id” and forwarded at sender's risk. Therefore it ought to be recognized at once that when the army is in Cuba only general news will be available, as a rule,and special communications infre- quent. In that case it is best to rest on the old saw that “‘no news is good news.” ‘Will Be Known. One of the saddest features of war that impresses a visitor to our national ceme- terles, made necessary by the late war be- tween the states, is the vast number of graves that are marked “unknown.” These are the poor fellows who died along the flery front of the battle and upon whose persons, dead, bloody and trampled, if not ransacked, could be fouad no card, letter, or paper of identifi lop. Tens of thou- sands of homes all ‘6ver''the land preserve the memories of fath and sons and brothers who marche? a®ay with patriotic fervor aid never came back—the time and place and manner of Whose deaths have never been ascertati In the present waf the’ government will furnish aluminum ti #ith company and regimental numbers that, will aid largely to identify the dead, while many are providing themselves with leathernrcases and water- proofed cards giving all necessary data for certain identification in case of death or accident. These are wise precautions, and should be generally adopted by the volun- teers. Rs “HARDTACK? OF TODAY. Old-Time Brand Whigh Stoppea Bal- lets Has Gone :Forever. From the Chicago Chrenfele. Nothing so delights the veteran of the civil war just now aS the relation of tales of woe concerning “hardtack.” He will ex- pound the miseries suffered by himself and his comrades in their efforts at reducing the hard commissary bread to such a de- gree of softness as would make it eatable. He can tell harrowing stories of the biscuit. It pleases him to tell gaping crowds how lives were saved because the men wore one or more of these biscuits inside their blouses. Bullets, according to the veteran, were turned back in their flight by the food. This same veteran has been eating soft bread ever since he left the army. He would feel that soup is not soup if crackers were omitted from the bill. But when it comes to hardtack he. grows positively elo- quent. He can tell more about it even than he can of the mistakes made by the general who commanded his brigade, division or corps during the war. If all the reports of the bread be reliable—and there {s little reason to doubt a part of their truth—the men did suffer to a considerable extent. But the hardtack of today. the official commissary hard bread now being issued to the troops, is by no means such a bugbear. Men will eat bread soft and flaky three times a day for all of their lives and never complain. The hardtack of today is really a very good article of food, made of the best of materials, and, aside from the mo- notony of such a diet, is easily eaten. It has none of the bad features ascribed to its predecessor, for it is nothing but a cracker of fine wheat flour mixed with wa- ter. It is palatable and by no means so hard that a man will lose his teeth in eat- ing it. By courtesy of Major 0. M. Smith, com- missary of subsistence in charge of the de- pot in Chicago, a reporter for the Chronicle was able to obtain a supply of the hard bread, as it is officially designated. Not only did the reporter obtain the goods, but he also secured the official description of the materials used and the manner of prep- aration. Here is the description as furnish- ed by the department at Washington: Hard bread made from the very best straight soft winter wheat flour, mixed with water only, baked in crackers one inch long by half an'inch wide and about three- eighths of an inch thick, packed in air- tight oartons made of strong strawboard 80 processed as to be grease proof. One end of the carton to be closed with an easy opening flap one and one-half inches wide. Cases of forty cartons to be made of wood that will not impart odor. ‘The foregoing is the official hardtack pre- pared for field use in times of peace or when the commissaries are not. crowded with rush orders, as is the case at present. But in such times as. those of today the officers whose duty it is to provide for the subsistence of the army have no time to be particular about the |{ttlépasteboard boxes. ‘The crackers now being firnished to Major Smith are of the usval soda cracker size, made according to. the’ specifications as set forth in the foregding-paragraph. They re packed in cases"pf about fifty pounds each. t “It has been a long time," said Major Smith, “since we manufagtured the old bis- cuits which are poplarly' known as hard- tack. The regulatiohs ndw specify the s as well as materials, and the small cracker is the official style.iBud we are rushec night i day to gt fieid rations ready, and have no time tp wait for boxes for packing. We are putchaging large quanti- ties of the hard bread made in the usual cracker size packed in lange boxes, so that one box has one day's ‘rations for about fifty men. One pouitd of the stuff is the daily ration for ote man, Ordinarily ft would come in the Jigtie.¢ases in the boxes, but now we are glad toxget enough with- out going to the addé@ trouble of putting it into the smdH cages’ Tt Is not bad food, and, aside from"the tphotony of a contin- uous cracker diét, would never disturb anybody.” ‘ The crackers, even-after they have been packed for several months, do not become so hard as to wreck the teeth, although they are so manufactured as to develop all the resisting power of the wheat. The dovgh ts mixed .with pure water only, and is absolutely devoid of the “shortening” which the ordinary cracker has, Salt is not mixed with the mass, another fact which makes the food pall upon one’s palate after a time. But it is of good materials and clean, is well packed and presents few, if any, of the objections which the traditional hardtack 1s popularly supposed to offer. The dough is made stiff enough to devel- op all the gluten of the wheat, is rolled out into thin sheets and cut into the re- quired size and form. ‘Then it is baked un- til it 18 thoroughly cooked and well brown- ed. If it is used while fresh it crackles readily under the teeth. After it has been packed for a time. the gluten renders it tough and its friability is much reduced. ‘Then the man who must eat it has some of the troubles of which he has heard for thirty years or more. But, all told, the man who lives on hardtack as prepared now lives on good, wholesome food, al- though the lack of salt may make it’in a measure unpalatable for steady diet. ————_+-e +_____ FLAGS DOWN SOUTH. ‘There is a Phenomenal Demand for Them Since the War Began. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. An ex-confederate officer, who makes yearly business trips through the southern States, remarks the wonderful growth in patriotism throughout that section of the country, as shown by the sudden popularity of the stars and stripes. “I returned a few days ago from a trip through several southern states,” said this gentleman, “and was amazed at the num- ber of flags which were flying from Private houses and business blocks. It has been a matter of remark to me that since the civil war there has been a reticence on’ the Part of the southerners to throw the stars and stripes to the breeze. They were loyal to the government, but the use of the na- tional colors was confined to the govern- ment buildings, to school houses in some sections and to the homes of northern men, who decorated their property with flags and bunting on. holidays, “But, with the beginning of hostilities, @ new era has begun. In my travels I saw fully as many flags displayed in southern towns as is the custom here in the north, at present. 1 “In Atlanta I visttéd 4 reerutting office which was in charge of avformer confeder- ate tighter. He ha ing an immense flag across the street from the building in which the recruiting station was situated. It hung directly oyer the sidewalk. “*Yes, sah!’ said ‘thisOveteran, ‘I reck- on I've fixed it so tha every citizen in At- lanta who passes t! ce will have to walk under the starg:qn@ stripes.’ ” orate esate Hime Sat. Be os GURE CONSTIPATION. ... x Bow York. 96 ertng Renoty Compeny, Cem esta ow Yo. $e WO-TO-BAG Sis suparietie wine FUN IN FIGHTING. Some of the Humorous Phases of the Present War. From the Baltimore Sun. Grim-visaged war has its humorous as well as its terrible side, and Captain Gen- eral Blanco is not the only humorist in the present conflict. The cablegram to Madrid from that redoubtable commander about the mule that was killed at Matanzas set two continents a laughing and thousands of rhymers to writing verses. And it is a dull day when he does not in a dispatch to the Spanish government destroy several American men-of-war. But as a humorist the captain at Manila who requested a cessation of hostilities while he went ashore for more ammuni- tion is entitled to the cake. The Petrel of Dewey's fleet chased a gunboat up the Pa- sig river, Seeing he was cornered, the cap- tain of the Spanish gunboat went to the Petrel in a small boat under a fiag of truce to make terms. The American captain told him he must surrender or fight. “We are illing to fight,” replied the Spaniard. “Please allow us to send for ammunition, 15 [ASTHMA TREATED FREE! Dr. Cowden Cordially Invites Every Asthmatic in the District to Test, Free of Charge, the Cur- ative Qualities of His Treatment for This Disease--The Most Favorable Season of the Year to Receive Treatment for All Diseases of the Respiratory Tract. Hope for Asthmatics. “The treatment that cures’? has beccme almost a household word in the city of Washington, and the favorable reputation it enjoys has been xchieved only by the résults of two years’ conscientions and skillful work, together with the application th th What $5 Will Do. For this merely nominal fee Doctor Cowden will give his personal attention to all applying for | help, furnishing all | purest drngs: ons on nose. thi eines ycompounded from ree nothing for opera- r. ~ of a method of treating chronic diseases which $5 A MONTH, HAY FEVER. because our store is exhausted. heretofore has never been equaled in Its curing | $5 A MONTH. ins here was decidedly no humor, however. | and healing powers. The truth of this statement $5 A MONTH, 3 Srauahecer ane eae enue a the is aeons: Y demonstrated by the thousands SA — S. s a al 1e ‘avite ar- ave reliet $5 A MONTH, BRONCHITIS. senal He holsted a white flag w je | have voluntarily testiti % : ‘H TRouRLES * e e flag when hi $5 A MONTH, STOMACH TROUBLES. was sore pressed, and when the Americans, | their recovery from a $5 A MONTH. . believing he had surrendered, came to take | Duuneel Incurable. | Prominent among $5 A MONTH. possession they found the Spaniards still | Consumpt A under arms. The withdrawal of the troops | exemplif: A with their arms pending negotiations for | of medica@®n and to allow every sufferer to try . surrender was an instance of treachery and its effects in their own ¢: Dr. td hire 3 atment for Cataract without te i weeks ago offered Consumptives a two weeks’ free see ee had faith, : trial treatment for this disease. This. offer was a _chesity. axe guaranteed an@ the ve Coolness with which Commodore Dew- | accepted by a large mumber of ‘grateful patients Ses : ey interrupted the battle for breakfast is | a great majority of whem were se benefited by the Sieve ie cae decidedly humorous. The crews of the warships were shut up below decks, with hot boilers within and a tropical sun with- out, and the intense heat. would possibly have done more damage than the Spanish guns. So breakfast time.came most oppor- tunely. But it is not likely that a great battle was ever deliberately interrupted be- fore upon the sound of the breakfast bei!. An incident took piace at the battle of Mobile Bay when a breakfast was kept waiting for the close of hostilities. Rear Admiral James E. Jouett of Montgomery county, Maryland, then a lieutenant com- mander, was in command of a vessel. A lieutenant named Murphy, who had resign- ed from the United States navy, had com- mand of one of the small confederate boats in the bay. Jouett and Murphy had been warm friends before the war at the Naval Academy. So Jouett had a delightful break- fast prepared and then set himself to cap- ture Murphy's boat. This he succeeded in doing after some delay, and Murphy came aboard with his arm ii a sling to surrender his sword in the most formal manner. In- trial that they bave taken up the treat; ularly, inspired with the hope that thelr ment 80 quickly brought about will result future complete restorstion to healt Dr. Cowden now proposes to further demon- strate his willingness to allow all to thoroughly test bis methods. by extending to asthmatics an invitation to call befcre June 1, 1898, and rv one week's treatment and medicine absolut of cost. It matters not ho how Jong standing. those w it, and this may be the m to many who have given fs made in good faith, an in their lve ly free severe the case or of 1 fill net regret ins of bringing relief py all hope. This offer all are welcome. stead of taking the sword Jouett reproach- ed Murphy for keeping break7ast waitin, Upon seeing the feast, Murphy, who w; very hungry, said: “Jouett, if you had oni sent me word about this breakfast I would have surrendered an hour ago.” see New Customer—“I'll drop in next week and pay this bill. Clerk—“I wouldn't put you to that trou- ble for the world, sir. I'll just send the goods C. O. D.”"—Brooklyn Life. Office Hours—9 am to 8 p.m. daily; Sundays and holidays, 10 a.m. ‘1pm. treatment in any respect, cs and every case accepted for treatment will ceive the same care apd attention as if pay $50 a month. From the Chicag» Net cept as to pri Dr. J.T. 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