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It SPO HGDS OAS VEHE SEI VIDA DOEDIDSD> DOODLE GHIMGS OO DOF GI POD GG BODOG LPO PHO VD PDH IPG FBYPS pevvvevevrrverrrreeresy Tiernet eet ene sofG“oo OOO a $8.00 1S THE PRICE OF THAT popular Two-tray Cloth-lined Q 0 0 0 r) (Trunk we are showing this § week. Have not been able to Q summer. Have a fresh lot of them just from our shope. ) strong lock bolts, binges, &c., Q all riveted on. ) TOPHAM’, - @ 1231-1233 Penn. aye. meet the demand for them all ( Iron bottoms, steel clamps, 0 $ 8 ° O (0) Factory, 1217-1220 E at. 200 0 Qo ooo OO Volunteers. Climatle changes are apt to produce j Celie, Dsmenters. ete. Dr. SIEGERTS ANGOS. “ A HITTERS is a sure preventative of these disease AMERICAN ENGINE FOR E LAND. Its Coweatcher Will Be a Curiosity for the Traveling Britisher. From the Philadelphia Record. In these When American manufac- turers dream of making the entire world a market for their goods, it {s interesting to note that the Baldwin locomotive works have just finished their first engine for England. For years they have been build- ing locomotives for British provinces and colonies, but this engine is the first foot- held they have secured in the island itself. The locomotive, which is a “double end- er,” is Intended to run between Barnstaple, in Devonshire, to Lynton, a coast resort about fifteen miles to the north, and has one feature which is expected to make Eng- lishman stare. This is a cowcatcher, or, rather, two cowcatchers, one at each end— a device quite unknown in English rail- roading. As a concession to English meth- ods there is no headlight, but only a large signal lamp in its place, The Baldwins have recently shipped six engines to Spain, to be used on a mining ratlroad in the province of Biscay—a fact which shows that the Spanish sometimes do know a good thing, even if American, when they see it. ISLAUGHTER BY SPANIARDS Macheted Ninety Inhabitants of Ciales Who Raised the American Flag. Old Glory Was Run Up After They Left the Houxe, but They Returned and Revernged Themselves. (Copyright, 1808, by Associated Press.) PONCE, Porto Rico, August 15, Evening. —White flags flutter at the Spanish and American outposts, and all is quiet. The first report of outrages by the Spaniards within their lines was brought to the head- quarters of General Wilson today by a priest, who headed a deputation from Ciales, twenty miles northeast of Utuado. The inhabitants of the place raised an American flag after the Spanish troops had left. The troops returned, tore down the flag and macheted ninety of the inhabi- tants. This occurred on Saturday. The priest appealed to the Americans for pro- tection, but the latter are powerless to interfere in the present circumstances, even though a reign of terror be inaugu- rated. The Chester, with the Ist Engineers, Col- onel Griffin, ‘arrived today. Batterfes A and C of the Pennsylvania Light Artillery, the Governor's Troop and Sheridan Troop disembarked from the Manitoba, and are camped on the outskirts of the town. No disposition of these troops has yet been decided upon. The Columbia will sail to- night for New York via St. Thomas and Key West. The warships Puritan, Terror, Prairie, Gloucester, Wasp, Leydon and ‘Annapolis will go to Guanica tomorrow, and will re- main there until they receive further or- ders. The harbor there is a good one. Macias Invited to Dine. PONCE, Porto Rico, August 16, Night.— The American cruiser New Orleans at- tempted to enter the harbor at San Juan de Porto Rico yesterday under a flag of truce, with a notification ef the signing of the protocol, but was unable to do so on account of the sunken wreck at the en- Her captain went ashore in a , and was graciously received in General Macias, who accepted an invitation to d ne on board the cruiser. General Miles :nd his staff, escorted by Trcop A of New York will visit General Wilson at the front tomorrow, and may remain for several day —_—__---____ en a Flag. From the Frederick Citizen, Captain Brown, the obliging conductor of the Frederick and Washington accommoda- tion train, was presented with a beautiful flag last week by the passengers who fre- quent this popular train. The flag was purchased by a dime subscription. ‘The subscription paper stated: “This dime sub- scription is for the purpose of presenting Conductor Jesse Brown with ‘Old Glory,’ urder whose proud folds he served as a satlor on the U. S. yacht America, in the early sixties.” Then follows a long list of names. It is not generally known that the captain was an old tar, but he served as quartermaster cn the yacht America after she had beea sent to Annapolis. It will be remembered that about 1852 the Queen of England had uw gold cup manu- factured as a prize for the yachts of all nations to sail for. Mr. ,Georg2 Sears, then the great New York shih builder, had con- structed the yacht America to compete for the queen’s cup. She went to England, won the cup and returned with {2 to Amer- ica, where it now remains in the custody of the New York Yacht Club. The America was afterward purchased by some English noblemen. She was used as a blockade runner during the civil war and was captured while trying to run into a Florida port. The prize crew presented the vessel to the Naval Academy. Then it was that Captain Brown was sent from Boston to serve as quartermaster. The America was afterward sold to Ben Butler. The flag presented to the captain was thrown to the breeze on the day of the unveiling of the Key monument, and there is no man in Frederick who is prouder of Old Glory than the genial captain, who still loves to talk of old times and how. he “fought, bled and died for his country.” ——_—_+ + ___. If you want anything, try an ad. in The ng If anybody has what you wish, you get an answer, HARDSHIPS SCORNED District Soldiers Treat Their Keen Experiences Lightly. LETTERS: FROM THE FRONT Sleeping on the Ground and Soak- ing Wet All Day. INTERESTING INCIDENTS —_+—_—_ The many letters being received here from the men who represent the national capital in the ranks of the Ist District Vol- unteers in Cuba illustrate in no uncertain manner their soldierly qualities simply by the way in which they make light of tie real hardships which they nonchalantly de- scribe in the most matter-of-fact sort of way. It isa most gratifying thing to real- ize this, as it shows the kind of stuff Dis- trict boys are made of. A number of let- ters have been shown to The Star und some of these are given below. Private James E. Smith, Company D, Dis- trict Volunteers, in a letter to his aunt and uncle, dated at Santiago immediately after the surrender, describes an experience on the night of July 12, when he was one of a party that went out within 125 yards of the Spanish lines to dig trenches. “We were requested to keep absolute si- lence, as the least noise would be apt to draw the fire of the enemy,” writes Private Smith. “We started out-in the pitch dark with picks and shovels on our shoulders, moving very slowly. We reached the place We were to start on and began to dig. We had not been out ten minutes before it be- San to rain as it can only rain in Cuba. In a couple of minutes we were all soaked through. We were working away, when all at once, crack! went a shot and about ten answered. We ali dropped in the grass out of sight, while the bullets flew at a great rate. The most of them were from our own pickets, who did not know we were so far out. All this time the rain was fall- ing in streams, and as no orders came to us, we lay in about six inches of water for about two hours. We were about as wet and miserable as it is possible for any one to be. When finally we got orders to retire, as it was impossible to do the work while the weather was so unfavorable, we reached camp only to find that the wind had blown down our lean-tos and huts, so we had to sleep in the mud after all.” Fine Work of Colored Troops. In describing the previous march from the landing place Santiago Private Smith writes as follo “Our first camp was the site of Roose- velt's Rough Riders’ camp just after their first fight. We passed through where thay had their battle, seeing where Hamilton Fish, jr., was buried. While we were at the port we could see th> wounded from the first battle of Santiago, in whic the 6th Cavalry and the negro troops did fine work, We only remained at our first camp for one night, as the next morning by daybreak we started for Santiago, about -eley2n miles away. When we got within a few miles of the city we heard the cannon’s boomings at regular intervals. As we reached the val- ley In front of the broastworks on the hills we could see all the ground over which the Americans had to charge to take the hills just about half a mile in front of the town. No one can realize the immens? task it was and what terrific fighting was required to charge up these steep hills and over the jevel, covered with barbed wire fences. When we reached here we were just in camp in sight of the city, only we are over the brow of the hill, so that w2 cannot be seen by the pickets of the enemy. We left all our camp equipage at our first camp, so we had to sleep on the ground with nothing over us. The n2xt day most of us put up shacks and thatched them with palm leaves and brush. This kept out part of the rain which fell during the day, but the most of it came right on through. Many Hardships. “As we had left all our food at the other camp we went about twenty-four hours without anything to eat except a few man- goes—a fruit about the size of a pear. The night after we got here we went into the trenches, or, I should have said, the night we got here, in front of Santiago, about which I have already told you. The next day we stood around the fires to get dary, if possible, but we found that as fast as we would get one side dry and turn the other around the rain would give us a bath all over again. The next day we went all the way back to our first camp to bring up the baggage we had left behind. Talk about your walking over wet and muddy roads! The mud was fully six inches deep most of the way, and the streams were waist deep and so swift that two men had to cross together and brace each other. One of the boys was knocked off his feet by a floating log, and one of them was almost drowned. We got to camp at last, and after a night's rest we came back. This is the most beautiful country we have yet seen, the camp where we now are be- ing on a hill and entirely surrounded by mountains, which are covered with a thick green growth of trecs and shrubs. At our feet is a valley, in which are cocoanut trees and all*kinds of bushes. The other day I killed a snake about four feet long which was swallowing a smaller snake. I don’t know what kind he was. You ought to see us now. We look like old campaign- ers. You remember those little tin plates we ate out of in Camp Alger? Well, they are now the most useful things we have. We cook our own meals now. All the men are better satisfied to do so. You ought to see us cook. We have a mess of six and get together and cook our meals together. We have some fine messes. For instance, this morning we had fried bacon and coffee, and for dinner we made a stew that tasted Just like potpie, fried some hard tack, and made coffee. This is what we now call an elaborate meal. I will have to make an envelope and sew it with black cotton and send it as soldiers’ mail, because envelopes and stamps are not to be had.” Starved Spaniards Surrender. In a letter to his motker, Mrs. M. A. Feiand of 117 41th street northeast, Pri- vate Samuel Feland of Company D, Dis- triet Volunteers, tells the story of the ar- rival in Cuba and subsequent events, “We got here Sunday, July 10, at Si- bency, and marched out three miles to the place where the Rough Riders had their first fight. The country is beautiful, but I will not stop to describe it. The stench was fearful; can’t be described. ‘The Span- ish left their*dead in many instances here and there in the jungle, and it was a fear- ful sight. We left there 3 o'clock a.m. July 11 and :marehed to the firing line. The Spanish ‘had ditches to face ours, and a good many slipped through our line to our pickets and surrendered—starved for water and food.“ They did a great many more things,’ such as working on ditches under a flag of truce. We stopped that by doing the same. They surrendered July 17 at 12 o'clock. Colonel Harries and his staff stayed with our company. We were nearest to the city, and I saw the first flag as she was raised. We cheered, and the band struck up the ‘Star Spangled Ban- ner,’ ‘America,’ Dixie’ and other home airs. We gave three cheers; in fact, sev- eral,, led by Colonel Harries and Major Hines. Marehed back to the camp. I have had several ‘€xperiences that will stay in mind till I die. The climate here is cooler than it was at Tampa. We are apparently right in the heart of the mountains, and at night it is cool; yes, cold: We are doing our own cooking, froning and washing, and are as tough as gamé roosters, and full of fight, too.” The next paragraph is dated San Juan. It to think every day we will move out soon. We are having an easy time. I am as brown as one of Annie’s, and as tough as leather. We have returned thousands of starving peo- ple to their homes; some dropping dead on their way home from hi rand fa- tigue. I can never tell you all till I see you. The country is full of graves and hungry-eyed starving people. Things are getting better for them now, and I do not regret my share of the hardships by way of helping them. I can’t tell you. all; it's too di ful. The Surrender and Afterward. Frank L. Gooding of Company A, District of Columbia Volunteers, in a letter to his parents in this city, dated July 18, 1898, at Santiago, Cuba, says: “Today is kind of a holiday, so I will write you a few lines to let you know how we are getting along in’ this campaign. Yesterday the city was officially surren- dered-go our forces. It was a very impos- ing sight. e were drawn up at our trenches, which are from 100 to 200 yards from the Spanish lines and are twelve miles long. We had them completely surrounded. At ten minutes to 12, Light Battery E, Capt. Capron ‘commanding, fired a salute of twenty-one guns, and at 12 o'clock the stars and stripes were run up on the gov- ernor’s palace in the town, and the band played and our army cheered. I would not have missed it for a great deal. I think now We will soon be back in the states, as it is a hard thing to get supplies over the roads, which are knee-deep in mud; every- thing is carried on pack mules. “We have not had but one-third of our rations issued a day since we have been in Cuba, so all of us have a good appetite. 1 will let you know the day we will strike Washington, so I can have a good, square meal. I have seen one hardtack sold to a Cuban for $1. A can of tomatoes whic you pay 10 cents for sells for $3 a can here. Money is plenty here and food is scarce. This island is destitute of food. No one wants money, as you can’t spend it when you get it, as there {s nothing to buy. To- bacco is the only thing we need, and I am almost famished for some smoking tobac- co, and there is no y to get it. Several have bought it at $10 per pound, and are glad to get it at that. Well, it will soon be over for us, as I don’t think they will need us in the service much longer. You would hardly know us, as we lock gocd aad tough. I have not shaved for a month, our pants are cut off below the knees just where the leggins meet, all of our spare clothing has been thrown away long ago; so have not got clothes enough to pad a guitar string. “For three days and nights we were soaking wet and could not get dry. It is cold here at night, and very hot during the day. All of us are pretty well.” Nominates Roosevelt for President. Mrs. E. M. O'Connor of S15 9th street northwest has received an interesting let- ter from her son, Kenneth O'Connor, who is with Captain Domer’s company of the Ist District of Columbia Regiment. He de- scribes the life in camp and gives the daily menu as follows: “For breakfast I have catmeal with condensed milk, coffee and bread; lunch, steak and onions, coffee and milk (a kind of broth); dinner, Hamburg steak, soup, peaches and coffee. Bread at all meal: “When we come back,” he continue: will be sporting a 5th Army Corps The people ought to give us a gran come.”” Mr. O'Connor then writes to his brother oy ige. wei- yphoid fever and is not with If we walk up Pennsylvania ave- us at all. nue lots of us will be pinched for indecent exposure. Th barbed-wire rough on our pants. was wonderful. e ‘niggers’ are grand fighters. They did the best work, driv the Spaniards off San Juan hill. 3 outnumbered ten to one, but they did the act, charging up the hill into the Spanish fortifications. 1 have a piece of the block house for a souvenir. We were thirt en hours on the firing line in a rain storm. Teddy Roosevelt is a peach. I wouldn't be surprised if he were nominated for the presidency. Santiago is Like Alexandria. In a letter jusz received frem one of the beys of the District regiment at Santiago, who was a member of the Mount Pleasant Field Band, dated August 1, occurs the fol- lowing: “It has been some time since I wrote you a letter. It is because I had no writing mate- rial. I successfully pass2d the guard and stole into the city, a distance cf three miles from our camp. There is where I got th paper, the fanciest that I could find. 1 bum place—looks like Alexandria; flying horses in the middl2 of the town—and they are run by steam, too. And then you say that they are uncivilized. Rum shops are on every squar>. Beer is fifty cents a bottle, not off the ice. Ice is seare? as bens’ teeth. That last letter that you sent me served me well. The envelope s2rved me as a sugar bowl and the paper started the fire three times. We build cur own fires and cook our own meals. Soaked hardtack fried in sowbelly is a favorite dish. We get beefsteak now every day. Everybody has discovered a new dish—some stew mangoes and potatoes; others make hash. Quite a number of us have mountain fever. I had it, and don’t went it again. The other day some of us paid a visit to the Spanish pris- oners. There we met a city guard, and after speaking to him for a whil2 we pro- ceeded to cut the buttons off his coat. He made no objection, and we got nearly every one off, when the guard chased us away. I aso got a button off an infantryman’s ccat. I am losing no time in collecting souvenirs. Campbell is getting along nicely on his horn. Fleck is half dead nearly all the time now, and Campbell plays the only solo cor- net. And he plays it good, too. I have not seen butter or cow’s milk in nearly two months. But as w2 heard some wild guinea fowls crying, Scotty and I are going to see if we can’t discover a few eggs.” The letter is written on paper at the top of which is a thrilling picture of Spanish soldiers charging upon a few scattered and mostly unarmed blacks, District Boys Robbed. In a letter to his father, John P. Church of the Agricultural Department. written July 23, Private Clifford Church of Com- pany G, District Volunteers, among other things, says: “:As you know, the surrender of Santiago occurred on Sunday, the 17th, at roon. We were lined up on the hills surrounding the city, and after the twenty-one blust: of the cimnon began we came to pres: fences are g done here arms, the band played ‘The Star Spangicd Banner,’ :nd then we cheered and sang. As a similar program was carried out by all the regiments around the city, we could see the soldiers lined up in the distance and hear them cheering and singing and the playing of the bands for miles. It was a very interesting performance. After the surrender we went back from the firing line to cur first camp to get our tents and other belongings, but found a great many things stolen. Some of the boys fost al! of their private property. I lost a few ar- ticles—shirts, coat and quinine. I valued the last the highest, as it is very useful and rather scarce. I could not get any of the surgeons unless I wae pretty sick. For- tunately, I have not as yet felt the need of any, though many of the boys are fever- ish. I follow your advice as much as p. sible. Of course, we are obliged to sleep cn the ground. Sbe!ter we are glad to get. Even the officers mostly sleep on the ground. 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Cs Se $1.19. They are elabora' Hundreds of ladies 40. Si .98 white India linon waists, $1 19. We have just received from one of the leading waist makers a Line of clean white India limon vaists, th $1.98 a sbort while ago, and in buying them ely trimmed with en will welcome the 2n The sult yours unt:l hounce the keep point fn mind, —— yor great bargains for August exemplify the store's mission. the spirit of this great tailoring business. ( $ ¢ always : ‘ % ( bargains permeste every department of the busi Buyer or sightseer, you'll catch An —— Real APRARARSS Suit department is a place of special attraction this week—we’ve lumped all our fancy suitings into two lots—all our suits that were as bigh a AAR ARAN ARIS the firing line we moved camp to a better place. We were a mile from water, but are a little nearer now. We are on a@ hill. £0 that we enjoy a good breeze much of the time, although the sun is terribly hot. We are on the ground over which the Rough Riders fovght, and a number of their graves are scattered around us. “It is v2ry unpleasant going along the reads, as stenches arise from the thinly covered graves of dead Spaniards. Of course, the American soldiers are more carefully buried. We have no idea when we will leave or where we will go. We are under quarantine, and !f yellow fever or other serious sickness should break out we would be delayed a long time. We can- rot leave camp even to get water or bathe, except in a squad at a time, and once or twice a day. It seems ridiculous to wash ourselves and underclothing in cold water and without soap, but we have to do so. It is next to impossible to boil water, as we have nothing to boil it in. We carry all the water in canteens and bamboo trunks. Unpleasant Visitors. “July 24.—If we knew that we were to stay here long we would try to make low cots under our shelter tents, in which three men are lodged. But as it rains so often and so hard, we find no chance to raise the little tents. If we had our large tents, that are still op the Catania, we would erect Cots. We are not trofibled mueh with snakes, insects of all kinds being our wain visitors, except the natives, and they are not allowed in camp. Ants of every variety, scorpions, centipedes, tarantulas and lend crabs are all very numerorvs, I killed a scorpion on my shirt, and a num- ber of others, as well as tarantulas, have been killed in our company. Two boys Fave been stung by scorpions, one of them being in our tent. But they are the least of our troubles, and we think no more of them than of froge. “Although we are so near Santiago, yet we are not allowed there; but Lee and an- other stole in one day, talked with Ciara Barton and saw many strange sights. We are on guard today, and I am on duty at brigade headquarters, Col. Turner cf the 1st Illinois in command. His ent, the and our it form 9th Massachusetts ( Price, ( REREAD ESOESOOEO $25, August Bargain price now, *14. AN suits that were under $15, August Bargain Many of the styles can be worn into the Fall ( ° * season. You can have them cut after the latest Fall Plate, which has just been received. The styles are choice—we're simply following out our policy of selling goods the season they are bought ‘We're able to keep our large force of workers al- ways busy, which is an advantage we reap in the Mertz ava Merrz, Tai.ors, 906 F STREET. SLY rw R= a AA PARA besides LPI IO PS PLIERS THE AMAZEMENT OF ITALY. Astounded by the Chivalry of Our Victorious Leaders. From the New York Times. It has been profoundly interesting to watch during the last two months the pro- gress of European sentiment toward the United States of America. Since Manila and Santiago, with their splendid incidents of chivalric courtesy so finely recognized anc praised by Spanish officers and men, and the exhibition we have made of tre- mendous capability by sea and land, the older nations have not only ceased to scoff, but begun to praise. ‘The blind confidence in military training and etiquette as the primal factor of suc- cess has received a rude awakening. The idea that the Americans were rough, un- skilled, cowardly, bumptious boors, sure to go to pleces before the shock of trained, civilized European armies and navies, has given place to admiration at ne sigaek le who can improvise hearts of their conquered foes with delight at their generous and chivalric treatment venquished. often came the news of Philip's splendid, chivalric, manly feeling, checking the en. thusiasm of his crew in the presence of their vanquished enemies: “Don't hurrah, boys, those poor devils are dying,” and that “nost moving scene,” as-they well entitled it, when Capt. tie declined to take the sword of Capt. Eulate of the Vizcaya and instead warmly pressed his hand. Cervera’s testimony to the treatment ac- corded him by “the most generous cf ene- mies,” made, too, a deep impression, and at last the clow-moving European intelligence began to doubt if those savages over there in America were such stupid boors after all. People marveled in the streets and shops at. their prowess and self-restraint @ prostrate foe. The hotels, quick to sec an American franc coming in, celebrated the event with special ices crowned with American flags. The novelists who had assured the Italian public in their works of fiction that they had only to send a ship er two over to New York to lay the American nation at the feet of Italy began to ponder. The dapper, contemptuous Ital- ian officers, naval and military, avoided American friends and assumed a less doubt- ful, less patronizing or scornful tone. Simple Milk Texts. From the Philadelphia Times. A quick test of milk is to mix ft well and then pour it from a glass. Pure, unadul- terated milk will leave a thick coating on the inside of the giass, while watered or skimmed milk will run out cleanly. Good milk should contain 12 to 15 per cent of cream, and the percentage of cream can be estimated in this way: Take a long, narrow bottle, with a capacity of six or eight ounces. Paste on the outside a strip of paper, half an inch wide, running from the neck to the bottom of the bottle; divide this strip by pencil marks into ten equal parts, fill the bottle to the five mark with milk, and then to the top of the paper with water at a heat which will just allow the hand to be inserted without causing pain, and to which so much soda has been added as would cover the end of a penknife. Shake well to mix thoroughly, and place in an icebox. In half an hour observe how much cream has risen, and measure this off on a piece of paper; double this distance and then see what part of the total length of the paper strip on the bottle this is. If it is one-twentieth the milk only contains 5 per cent of cream; if one-tenth, then it contains 10 per cent; if one-fifth, then it contains 20 per cent, and go on. Save os aged buying at Hocke's clears chivalric courtesy toward ing sale.—Ad