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"BLOOD WILL TELL. The Grandson of a Great Author In the Famous Charge Up San Juan Hill. JACK HAWTHORNE’S LETTER TO HIS MOTHER. In the Field, Cuba, Ju! Dearest Mother: I write to le alive and well. you know that I am still hough I am rather sur- If so. le battle that lasted three ich we lost 1,600 killed and BATTLE CF never expected to come battle alive, much less without At least a dozen men were nded right around me. ajor of our battalion called for two to go forward and locate the enemy, and another man called Botts jumped nd ran forward to where we could aniards on the hill. 1 certain death flying so thick, but we got ht and reported. Botts was afterward shot through the leg. I have lost everything except the clothes T have on Your loving son, JACK HAWTHORNE, Tist New York Volunteers. Company A, But no, Jack Hawthorne had not lost his most precious possession of all: the heroic blood that courses in his veins. Heroic blood it was that prompted both him and private Botts at the same instant to jump up and tush forward with such alacrity in the face of almost certain death. All the world knows the name of this young fellow’s grandfather, Na- thanicl Hawthorne, author of the arlet Letter” and “The Marble Faun,” masterpieces of English lit- erature, but who has heard of Botts, the unromantic cognomen of the voungster’s equally brave compan- ion? What forefathers have handed down to him the blood from which heroes are made? HEROISM IS IN THE BLOOD. “Blood will tell,” is an axiom that in ail the ages has never been gain- said. Every man who does a brave, heroic act carries within his veins a quality of blood that urges and sus- tains him. No matter whether he in- herits it from a long line of famous ancestors or from the sound and healthy constitution of his immediate parents, whose only distinction i honorable toil and a simple, virtuous life. It matters little where or how you obtain it, but it matters all the world that by some means you possess good blood. Good blood is first, last and always the making of manly men and womanly women. It is the source of all courage, virtue and hap- piness. CAN A MAN MAKE HIMSELF A HERO? “A man’s first duty,” said Henry Ward Beecher, in a grand sermon on human development, “is to be a good animal.” A man may himself begin the rehabilitation of his phy- 1 powers, laying the foundation of his own manliness and of an in- heritance for those who come after him more precious than fine gold and rubies. Men and women who are sick- wretched, and incapacitated for their full share, in the daily, hourly strug- gle for existence, ought to carefully determine whether or not their men- tal, r 1 and physical faculties may be improved and advanced surely to a higher and nobler plane. WHY PEOPLE DESPAIR. In the depth of sickness and wretchedness, men feel that their days of courage and usefulness are ended, women feel that they will never more be equal to the duties and burdens that come upon a wife end mother; but too often this sad conclusion, and the deep and hope- less despondency that accompanies it, are entirely erroneous. It comes because manly mentality and womanly courage have been sap- ped and undermined by the subtle, disintegrating poison of _ physical debility and mal-nutrition. The spirit ceases to be “willing” because the flesh is weak: the blood is impover- ished, the nutritive powers depleted. It is by overcoming these physical disabilities and restoring the forces of nutrition to full and complete to get up, the j vitality that Dr. Pierce’s wonderful “Golden Medical Discovery” gives back to men and women their true birthright of hopefulness, endurance jand heroism. WHAT TWO SOLDIERS SAY. . “Four months ago I did not think to be in shape to assist our ‘Uncle Samuel’ in case of hostilities,” said a Florida gentleman, A. D. Weller, esq., of Pensacola, in.a letter to Dr. Pierce. “But thanks to you, I am now ready for the ‘Dons.’ Since re- ceiving your diagnosis of my case, as stomach trouble and liver complaint, I have taken eight bottles of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and must say that I am transformed SAN JUAN. from a ‘walking shadow’ (as my friends called me) to perfect health.” “Thirteen years ago I was wound- ed by a ball passing through my lung,” said George H. Belcher, esq., of Dorton, Pike Co., Ky. “I have had a bad cough ever since with short- ness of breath, and it was very easy to take cold; the slightest change of weather wauld cause the cough to be so bad I would have to sit up in bed all night. “I could not eat nor sleep at times; I was all run down; I could not work at all. A few months ago I began using Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. I have not used more than two bottles and now I can eat, sleep and work, and I feel like a new man. I cannot find words to suffi- ciently recommend Dr. Pierce’s Gol- den Medical Discovery, or tell the good it has done me.” ‘THE BASIS OF POWER. The extraordinary effect of this great “Discovery” upon the diges- tive and nutritive organism, which is the basis of all physical renewal, gives it efficient potency in all those complaints, of both adults and chil- dren, associated with debility, emaci- ation and loss of stamina. It is the sovereign remedy above all medi- cines ever invented for overcoming severe, chronic, lingering coughs, throat and bronchial complaints, bleeding from the lungs and all kindred ailments, which, if neglect- ed, or badly treated, lead on to that dread disease—consumption. 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He said he-had | ico.” “°™?* '° * ne THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1898-12 PAGES. never failed but a time or two. I took his treatment about three weeks and was no better, but worse if anything, so I decided to try Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. I bought six bottles, but I had only to take four bottles of thé ‘Golden Medical Discovery’ and two vials of the ‘Pleasant Pellets’ and I was able to do my work again. I have thus far had no return of the disease. I feel better this spring than | have felt for several seasons. I have no hot spells like I had for several years. If I had taken your treat- ment sooner, no doubt I could have kept that bad spell off, but I am truly thankful that I took your medi- cine and found a cure. I shall ever praise the medicine that cured me and will recommend it to all suffer- ing as I was.” ; DANGERS AVOIDED. This matchless “Golden Medical Discovery” is absolutely free: from alcohol. 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The splendid Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute at Buffalo, N. Y., of which Dr. Pierce is the chief con- sulting physician, is the model medi- cal institution of America; Dr. Pierce’s staff of nearly a score of as- sociate specialists includes the most eminent experts in every field of practice. NO CHARGE. No charge is made for consulta- tion by mail; and any one writing to Dr. Pierce will receive a cordial, earnest, prompt reply, containing the best professional advice obtainable in America without one cent of cost; and the treatment suggested will be always the most simple, sensible and inexpensive. AN UNMATCHED EXPERIENCE. It should be remembered that Dr. Pierce in his thirty years of practical experience at the head of his great institution, has successfully treated more cases of severe, obstinate, chronic diseases than the average local practitioner ever heard of. His great thousand-page illustrated “Common Sense Medical Adviser” has had a greater sale than any other medical book ever published in any language: Three-quaraters of a mil- lion copies were sold at $1.50 each. A free edition, paper bound, has been issued, and one copy will be sent to any one family for the mere cost of mailing, 21 one-cent stamps sent to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.; or for 31 stamps a heavier, handsome, cloth-bound copy will be sent. USHER’S TORPEDO PLAN. War's Chances Prevented Him From Rivaling Hobson’s Fame. From the New York Journal, Today. A remarkable plan that failed through no fault of his was that of Lieutenant Usher, commanding the little torpedo boat Ericsson. Had not war's chances been against him his name would now probably be on the nation’s tongue. Usher intended to run into Santiago har- bor by night, torpedo those of the Spanish ships he could reach and ignore his chance of ever getting out of it alive. He didn't do it, but the glory of his plan is interesting as showing how real heroism is not all closely monopolized by the fa- mous. First Lieutenant Edi, who fires the Erics- son's torpedo and is her only other line of- ficer, told yesterday of the plan that was nipped. “Usher and I had it fixed up before we left Key West,” he said, “but our machin- ery broke down about that time and there was no way of getting over to Santiago. At last we were taken across under convoy and Usher asked the admiral for permis- sion to make an attempt on the Spaniards. He expected to sink at least one of them if we could get inside. “The admiral kept putting us off, but Usher persisted. Every man of our crew— about twenty in all—was dead anxious to make the try. “I am sure it would have come off if Cervera hadn't made his sudden move out. We were expecting to go in a day or two later than the day he chose for his dash. “As things turned out it’s just as well the Ericsson didn’t try it. We looked at the harbor entrance afterward and there were booms strung across that would have hung us up and made us a target for all the guns in the Spanish fleet. “We were looking for one line of booms, but the way Cervera had guarded himself es have made our Httle game a dead joss. “They had chained a string of big logs from each bank to the wreck of the Merri- mac. We might have got over those by breaking our propeller—that 1s, dashing at them full speed and trusting the lift of our bow to slide us“ over till the propeller struck. If that hit right one or two blades might be left, enough to give her steering way. Anyhow, the impetus would carry us along till we could get near enough to damage the enemy. “But the Spaniards had«a lot of other booms run out and no end of rapid-tire pieces tucked away in angles along the = that would have raked us fore and “Of course, we didn’t expect to get out alive if we had ever started, but it would have been a good piece of work and easily worth the loss of two and twenty men.” ———+o+____ To Be Given Leaves and Furloughs, By the 1st of October the Tist New York and the 2d Massachusetts regiments, now at Montauk Point, N. ¥., will have been mustered out of the United States service. Orders — Mss sent Pe Gen. Wheeler, in comi 16 troops Camp Wikoff, to grant to the offi of the two regiments leaves of CAPT. TAYLOR'S PROTEST sca i 228 . He Thinks Oficial “Reforts lighted the Work of the Indiana. His Letter to Reaf Admtral Sampson and the Rebl¥ of That Oftéer. i The Navy De2partfient has made public some belated correspopdence between Ad- miral Sampson, commanding the North At- lantic fleet, and Capt. H. C. Taylor, com- manding the battle ship Indiana, concern- ing the part taken by the officers and men of that vessel in the naval fight of July 3. Under date of Guantanamo, August 6, Captain Taylor wrote Admiral Sampson as follows: “The report of Commodore Schley on the battl2 of July 3, as published, gives credit in the seventh paragraph to four ships and mentions by name their captains, Philip, Evans, Clark and Cook, and adds: ‘The dense smoke of the combat shut out from my view the Indiana and Gloucester, but as these vessels w2recloser to: your flag- ship no doubt their part in the conflict was under your immediate observation.’ “2. In your report as published you make but slight mention of the Indiana, stating that ‘the Iowa and Indiana, having done good work, and not having the spe2d of the other ships, were directed by me,’ ete. “8. The result of these reports is that the captains of all the vessels of the lin2 of battle except the Indiana have received personal mention in the official report be- fore the d»partment, while the two smaller vessels have also had distinctive mention, either from the commander-in-chief or the second in command. “4. If the official record should be referr2d to in future it will appear from its general tone that the Indiana was less deserving than all of her consorts. Leaving out my personal interest in th? matter, it is right that I should consider the officers and crew of the ship; and I speak for them as well as for myself when I submit to you, admi- ral, that the above combination of reports will place the ship, in the opinion of th2 department and the country, markedly be- low all the other vessels of your squadron. I respectfully submit, sir, that this is injus- tice to the Indiana and her officers and crew. “5. I can say without disparagement of any other vessel that during the first hour of the fight the Indiana's gun fire ‘con- tributed to the destruction of the Oquendo and the Teresa more than that of any sin- gle vessel of our squadron except one, and equaled hers. I do not know why the sec- ond in command failed to obs2rve the In- diana during this period of our hottest action. I saw the Brooklyn quite plainly. “6. An examination of these reports with reference to the Indiana , 1 believ convince you, sir, that they do. produce t effect of putting the Indiana below all the other vessels of the squadron. If it be your opinion, sir, that this is the case, and tnut all the vessels from the Brooklyn to the Vixen rendered services as inuch more val- uable than the Indiana,as the publisned re- port of the commander-in-chief and the second in command taken together would indicate, then I must aczapt it for myself and the ship; if, onsth>!contrary, that be not your opinion, 1 age respe lly that such steps be taken! towemedy ihis injus- tice as may seem wise lo you. Admiral Sampson repiied to this letter on the 8th instant, as folings: “I am greatly obliget-that you have call- ed my attention to hast appears to have been an injustice to your ship, officers and crew, for the part which they took in the action of July 3, amd ulso for the very proper manner in whichyyou have preseut- edit. I think, however, ¢hat you will agree with me that, in subtmidting such a report to the Secretary of the Navy, where so many ofticers are vitally interested, and justly proud of their ships, it is no task to do so without apparently ing praise unjustly. It requires very ful consideration of thé Seport from every point of view to avoid misunderstanding. “2. The ‘position sof the ships of the squadron must -be -apirefally. considered to fully. appreciate what .it was:-possible for each vessel to accomplish. unger, the cir- cumstances in!'which she was placed. Those that were to the westward ofthe escaping enemy were certainly better placed for stopping the enemy, and also better placed for delivering their fire, than th2 vessels to the eastward, which was the blockading station of the Indiana, “3. No distribation of the fleet could com- pletely predict and provide against every variation of such a sortie, nor do I consider that any commanding officer deserved either credit or blame because the ship under his command was faster or slower than another ship, or carried a heavier or lighter battery, but rather that the com- manding officer was blameworthy when he failed to put his ship in the proper place for destroying the enemy, just in propor- tion to the advantage he possessed in speed, battery or position over his neigh- bers. “4. Each commanding officer, in my opin- fon, was personally responsible for the good use which he made of the-tools with which he had to work. JI certainly did not intend to criticise you, nor to bestow less praise upon the Indiana than was bestowed upon any other ship cf the squadron. “5. The face that the commanding officer of the Indiana was signaled to return to blockade at the mouth of the harber-after she had so gallantly contributed to the destruction of the Spanish ships was only @ necessary precaution which the com- mander-in-chief felt obliged to take to pre- vent disaster to the large number of trans- ports which were left in that vicinity when the fleet started in pursuit of the enemy. There were still some urmed vessels 1e- maining in the harbor of Santiago—at least two, and we did not know then how many more—which could nave come out in the absence of the fleet and produced great hayoc among the <rodpships, which were defenseless in the absence of an armed vessel. “6. This explanation, together with your letter, will be sent to the department, with the request that it may be attached to and form a part of the original report.” +e+ BANKERS’ ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. 5 G. H. B. White of This City is One of the State Vice Presidents. The closing sersion of the twenty-fourth annual convention of the American Bank- ers’ Association was held yesterday at Den- ver, Col The officers: elected are as fol- lows: President, George H. Russell, president Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich. First vice president, Walker Hill, presi- dent American Exchange Bank, St. Louis, (0. Members of the executive council for three years: CharlegR, Hannan, Council Biuffs, Iowa; Homer, McCoy, Peoria, Ill.; 8S. R. Shoemake: intington, Pa.; R. McCurdy, Youngstown ‘Ohio; A. P. Woo- ridge, Austin, Tex.;*Breckinridge Jones, St. Louls, Mo.; J. C.-Mitehell, Denver, Col.: J. G. Brown, Raleigh, .N. C.; H. L. Burge, Boston, Mass., and Bradford Rhodes, New York. dott The following state vite presidents were elected: Alabama, Jo®¥2 Whitirg; Arizona, H. B. Tenney; Arkansas, J. G. Fletcher; California, C. F. Howes; Colorado, J. A: Hayes; Connecticut, G9 A. Lewis; Dela- ware, Preston Lea; (District of Columbia, G. H. B, White; Floria@azdohn T. Dismutes; Georgia, L. P. Hillyarg/I@aho, H. N. Coffin; illinois, G. D. Boulton;-krdiana, A. G. Lup- ton; Iowa, George ritory, W. A. Ware Kentucky, Favette W. Bolton; Maine, At. J. D. Wheeler; Mai Ripley; Michigan, Peter White; Minnesota, G. G. Taorne; Mississippi, G. D. Able; Mis- souri, T. P. Neal; Monjana, E. B. Wetrick: Nebraska, Charles 8_ Miller; New Hamp- shire, W. F. Thayer; New Jersey, Nathan Haines; New Mexico, W. 8. Strickler; New York, W. H. Rainey; North Carolina, John M. Miller, jr.;. Nerth. Dakota, W. C. Mc- Fadden; Ohio, C. EB, ,Neils; Oklahoma, J. H. Wheeler; Oregon, €: H,. Canfield; Penn- sylvania, William Hallett; Rhode Island, H. J. Wells; South Carolina, J. A. Brock; South Dakota D. F. McKay; Tennessee, rsall; Indian ‘Ter- F. O. Watts; Te: T. J.Grace; Utah, L. 8. Hills; ae Vermont, W. Hawail, 8. M. Commander White, Not Wright. Commander Edwin White, commandant appointed to survey the aux- illary navy, and not W. Edwin Wright, as recently published. © STARVED ON THE MOHAWK “The President’s Own” Regiment Intends to Prefer Charges. Col. Hart and the Quartermaster Ac- cused of C: jing Needless Hard- ships and Suffcrin: From the New York Journal, Today. CAMP WIKOFF, Montauk Point, “August 25.-The transport Mohawk has arrived with nearly 1,200 men of the 8th Ohio Regiment, “The President’s Own,” aboard. Colonel Hart is in command. The ship is still in quarantine, but from stories that have come ashore the Mo- hawk’'s voyage, barring suspected cases of yellow fever, will be written in as many chapters of horrors as that of the Mobile. The Mohawk reported 120 sick when she arrived last night. Dr. Magruder found 340 men fit for the hospital when he board- ed the transport this afternoon. All the ambulances in camp were sent to carry them to the general hospital. When Major Brown was apprised of this tremendous influx of patients he was visi- bly worried. “All right,” he said, after a minute. “Let them come. We are pretty full here, but with what vacant tents we have in the detention hospital we can ac- commodate them.” A Soldier's Story. All the afternoon a long train of ambu- lances bearing the sick totled up the hill to the hospital. The well men will not be landed till tomorrow. Starvation and over- crowding, entire lack of suitable food, scarcity of medical supplies, incipient mu- tiny—that is the story that comes from the Mohawk by a soldier who smuggled himself ashore today. He is a regular—not one of the Ohio troops. His name is with- held for obvious reasons. The voyage was a terrible one for the men of the Sth Ohio,” said this soldier. “Though they got to Cuba too late for the fighting, they had a hard time there. They only got fresh meat three times between July 1i, when they arrived, and August 18, when they sailed. Their meilical corps was taken from them as soon as they arrived, ard they got all the guard duty going, be- cause they were the freshest regiment at the front. “They had no blankets, and when they boarded the Mohawk they were a sorry lot. We regulars found it hard to live on trav- eling rations, but that was nothing to the way these men fared on the way home. On August 20 they only had soup and hard tack. I saw that soup made. Ten cans of beef and thirty-four cans of tomatoes were dumped into the caldrons to supply 1,200 men. Each got iess than a quarter of a pint of the watery stuff. “The next day a large number of pris- orers in the guard house were set to scrub- bing decks. They revolted and said they were too weak to work until they were fed. A special meal was gotten up for them and they went back to work. On August 22 the whole regiment crawled up to the main deck and assembled in front of the quarters of Colonel Hart. The whole affair was arranged. ‘Who is it that is starving the 8th?” shouted the spokesman. “Colonel Hart and the quartermaster!’ yelled the whole regiment as one man. “The colonel ran out of the cabin, white with rage, and shook his fist at the men. Called His Men Cowards. “*You aré a lot of cowards,’ he shouted, ‘to make such a kick about the rations. You'll get no more soup this trip.’ “They did get the soup, despite the threat, but the rations were wholly inade- quate and the sick fairly starved. Ruse and Eddy, who died, were victims of star- vation as surely as I stand here. The ofti- cers fared well. They had three square meals a day, and good grub it was. The men are going to wire charges to the Pres- ident as soon as they land.” or MORE MILES INTERVIEWS. Remarkable Alleged Statements and Actions Related by a Correspondent. The Kansas City Star continues to print some very remarkable interviews with General Miles, written by its correspond- ent in Porto Rico, Mr. J. D. Whelpley, who is General Miles’ personal friend. One of the extracts from the published interview quotes General Miles as saying: “The whole affair of the surrender of General Toral was simple. He agreed to a surrender, was given time to secure ap- proval from General Blanco, and then from Madrid, and then, without being asked to do so, surrendered his entire corps, or about twice as many soldiers as were in Santiago. This amused me consid- erably and surprised me as well, but I took the surrender of the corps as though | had expected it.” “Do you think this was done on his own responsibility?” I asked General Miles. “I do not know,” he said, “but I have had an idea that this was inspired from Madrid for the purpose of getting the sol- diers home at the expense of the United States. With Santiago lost the Spanish forces in eastern Cuba would have been in very bad condition. They are in scattered and isolated garrisons, certain of being de- feated in detail, and by the terms of the surrender they are brought together and shipped to Spain, where they are undoubt- edly wanted to strengthen the government against revolutions.” y ‘The correspondent also describes how General Miles shows his Superiority over General Brooke, whom the President has appointed a commissioner for Porto Rico, as follows: Gen. Brooke is very much in evidenc> arouud army headquarters. He is second in command to Gen. Miles, and is to be mili- tary governor of Porto Rico, witn Tesidence in San Juan. Gen. Miles is in command, however, until h2 leaves the island. This ig in evidence everywhere, and whea Gen. Brooke calls at headquarters for a call on the commanding general; Gen. Brocke Ricks his heels in th apte-room as long as the commanding general sees ft before he is allowed in the inner sanctum. It is a little by-play that is rather amusing, as Gen. Brooke has not played second for many years, and never took very kindly to it. Another paragraph of interest Telaies to Gen. Roy Stone, and is as follows: Brig. Gen. Roy Stoue of the Engineer Corps has furnished the element of amuse- Ment in this campaign necessary to give relief to all serious dramas. He was sent ahead of Gen. Henry toward Arecibo with forty men of the Signal Corps and a small d3iachment of infantry to take charge of the telegraph offices én route. Consumed with ambition to do something startling, however, he was nut content with this, and Started on a pell mell overland chase to- ward the north coast, capturiag villages as he went without firing a gun. He nearly reached Arecibo before Gen. Miles suc- ceeded in checking his advance, for if Gen. Stone had succeeded in reaching Arecibo, ha would have cut off the retreat of the iards to San Juan from the west end ef the island, and that is just what Gen. Miles did not want to do, because it would mean the necessity of several skirmishes perhaps, or the taking of a lot of prisoners. Gen. Stone was beremptorily called back and told to attend to his own business, but at headquarters he seems to he regarded as & constant menace to a p2aceful situation. Roy Stone and his whereabouts !s the stock joke around headquarters, but the affair has a serious side which is not overlooked by the commanding general. —_—_—o + ______ HIGH OFFICERS ARRESTED. Result of a Tele; im Sen Stating Their Desire to Ge agMeinoags By order of Colonel Andel, commanding the 4th Illinois Regiment, Lieutenant Colo- nel McWilliams and Majors Bennett, Lang and Elliott were ordered under arrest late yesterday afternoon at-Jacksonville, Fla., on the charge of violating the Gist articie of war by conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman. ‘The particular charge is*that they jointly sent a telegram to Goverror Tanner and Serator Mason of Illinois, stating that all of the officers, with one or two exceptions, and 90 per cent of the enlisted men of the regiment desired to go to Cuba and re- questing that they use their influence to Deve tt res there. Geis Andel favors but will be as soon as he shall return to the regiment, ~ REGULARS FOUGHT AND WON To Them Gen, Shafter Gives Credit for the Volunteers Lacked Unity, Cohesion and Individual Support—His Re- ply te Criticism. From the New York Herald Today. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Thursday.—Prior to embarking on the steamer Mexico, Major General Shafter this evening consented to be interviewed. During the intervizw he discussed in general terms the campaign that has just ended. General Shafter said: “I loak upon the campaign just closed as a successful one in the highest degree, not only in regard to the military operations, but more especially in regard to the great results achieved. When we decided to at- tack Santiago we looked for nothing more as the immediate fruit of victory than the capture of the city. What has been achiev- ed is the capitulation of the entire eastern part of the province from a line at Jibari to the south coast, together with the en- emy’s forces, amounting to almost 24,000 men. Surely that was a notable achieve- ment of the campaign, bearing in mind the fierce opposition we encountered and the comparatively small loss of our own forces. Knew His Soldiers, From a military point of view I perhaps took steps which might not be deemed jus- tifiable under other circumstances, but I knew the temper and capabilities of my soldiers and the moral effect of our gradu- ally cooping up the enemy within his own lines. < “My engineers were very apprehensive that the Spaniards might break through on my left and cut off Sibone: This, from a purely military standpoint, might have been truthfully correct, but personally I had not for a moment any fear on that score. The result has, I think, proved the correctness of my conclusions. “Our primary object was to drive Cer- vera out, and next take the town. We had gradually driven the Sp: ards back ov his lines, circting the city, and slowly advanc- ing day by day. The enemy began losing spirit as soon as our guns had been placed in a position to cover the town. “When Cervera left the situation was changed, The town was at my mercy, and had I given the order for a direct assault it would have been taken within four hours. I belive that with the forces then at my command, reinforced as they had been. I was in a position to take the city by force. “But if T had taken a step of such a char- acter, what would have been the result? I estimate that our casualties would have been three thousand men, and the action I took has had more brilliaat real results without so heavy a loss of valuable lives., Well Situated for Defense. “The town itself is admirably suited for defense, and the fight would have been a long and bloody one. Every house is strongly constructed of stone, and entirely different from the ordinary frame build- ings. Every house was a little fortress in itself. Had the Spaniards, forced by des- peretion, fought the battle out in the streets, our loss would have been enor- mous. But from the moment Gen. Toral made a. proposition for a conference 1 knew he was determined to give up, and I acted accordingly. “Personal reflections have b2en cast upon me because 1 was not on tne fighting line. That was not the place for a general in command of an army. It must be remem- bered that I was connected by te'ephone with the officers at the front, ani was bet- ter able to direct operations from the posi- tion I had taken. Save for two days, when ill, I was in direct command of this cam- paign. which I consider unique in Ameri- can history, for it was really the first time the United States had fought with its reg- ular army. The civil war was a war of Volunteers, but this campaign was fought and won by our regular traops. “I did not notice the fact at first, but there were only threc volunteer regiments engaged against Spaniards. While the highest credit is to be given them, and they fought bravely and well, there was the moral support of the regulars back of it all. Volunteers Enthusiastic. “Our volunteers lacked that unity, cohe- sion and individual support noticeable in our trained troops, but at the same time no disparagement should be made of the vol- unteer regiments in the campaign. What they lacked otherwise they made up for in enthusiasm and patriotic spirit, and I de- sire to command no better army than one composed of the class of volunteers under me in the Santiago campaign. “The operations of the regulars in the campaign have proved conclusively thes superiority over some organizations of state wilitia, in which the men are partially som- pelled to serve by a sense of shame, but they do not show the enthusiasm of volun- teers. “There has been some question concern- ing the transportation facilities of the army. The facilities were all there, and the transportation equipment provided was all it should have been, but our difficulties were enormous. There was only one roas To have built another would have tak®. two years. The nature of the country, the weather—all these things—helped to disor- ganize this department. The use of wagons was almost impossibie, = CLAUDE MATTHEWS STRICKEN. Paralysis Seizes Him While Address- ing an Indiana Assemblage. Indianapolis was startled last night with information that ex-Governer Claude Mat- thews was lying at the point of death at the home of a friend in Montgomery coun- ty. There had been an immense assem- blage of old settlers at Meharry’s Grove, near Wingate, and the governor was billed to speak. Soon after dinner he began his address and spoke for about an hour in an easy manner, when he was noticed to stop and waver for an instant. Placing his hand to his head, he turned about to a friend on the platform and said in a rather frighten- ed manner, “I feel very weak and queer.’ He then staggered for a moment and was about to sink to the floor when several of those present rushed to his aid and, catch- ing him in their arms, carried him off the platform and stretched him at full length on the ground. Medical aid quickly reached him. His entire right side was paralyzed, and while he could apparently understand questions put to him, he could not reply. He simply shook his head, as if he comprehended what was said. He was then taken to Isaac Medary’s home. The doctoxs antici- pate a fatal ending. Two of the best phy- sicians of the county are at his bedside. His wife is coming to him from their home in Vermillion county. cd IMPERILED MANY LIVES. Incendiary Biaze in a Six-Story New York Tenement. A fire which is believed to be of incendi- ary origin imperiled the lives of elev2n families and did $10,000 worth of damage in the six-story tenement at No. 733 Sth street, New York, yesterday. ‘ Max Stein, a deaf mute, fell down an air shaft and was badly injured. Selig Lipman and wife, who lived on the top floor, were unable to reach a fire es- cape and sought safety on the roof. As they were going up the scuttle steps they were overtaken by flames, which severely burned Lipman’s naked arm and singed the hafr from his wife's head. All the other inmates escaped uninjured. Seven demijohns which had contained kerosene were found in the cellar of the tenement, which pointed -to incendfarism as the cause of the fire. They had appar- ently been so placed about the foot of the stairway in the cellar that would topple over and scatter the oil in all di- rections. Three ef the demijohns had top- pled over as planned and one had gone over only partly. An investigation is under way. —_— +e. — ea Cambridge Honors Dr. H. H. Bowditch The University of Cambridge, England, kas conferred the honorary degree of doctor ef sclenc2 upon several of the delegates to the international congress of zoology, among them Dr, Henry H. Bowditch. Harvard University. ———__—5e A week makes a lot of difference. Hoeke's clearing sale prices this month.—Advt. ‘of 11 SAGASTA’S CLEVER STROKE Repatriated Troops Receiving a Portion of Arrears of Pay, Convocation of Cortes ix 5: to Ine dicate a Weakening on the Part of the Premier. The Madrid correspondent of the London Standard says: “Nothing can better illustrate the coun- try’s weariness and disillusion than the small excitement caused by the return of the repatriated troops. Of the 225,000 men who have left Spain for the Av March, 1895, 50,000 have 73,000 have been sent home inva the rematnder are returning to be ed after receiving a portion of their nins months’ arrears of p: “This clever stroke of policy on the part of the government will, it is thought, avert the dangers that otherwise might have ex- isted of the discontented army being made the tools of political or military intri and Carlists. Mes since “There are 43 gencrals and officers on the active list. For t ti Proposed that the number of line reg!- ments shall be increase The government has very vided hospital and other for the returning troops, and private s scriptions are pouring in from vari parts of Spain also for the assistance the sick soldiers, Its Days Numbered. “The Carlist and republican opposition organs of every shad ing the conservative and independent jour- openly show delight at the convoca- liberally ommodat apers and inclad- tion of the cortes. It is their firm belief that the days of the liberal government are numbered. They also announce that the opposition considers that its hour of reckoning has come. The opposition will ot allo: the government to ciose the ses- sion as quickly as Senor Sagasta fancies or may desire. His opponenis, they add, are determined to discuss all the acts of the cabinet before and during the war, and there will be prolonged debates. ‘Some papers are even laboring under the delusion that the cortes can discuss the contemplated instructions to the peace commissioners. “A part of the session will be devoted ways and mea he treasury is already coming very empty. Eve friends of the cabinet consider the ion of the cortes a mistaken act of weakness fraught with consequences which will prove undesirable and inconvenient, both in home politics and in relations with the United States.”” Sagasta Capitulated. The Madrid correspondent of the London Times says: “The convocation of the cortes for Sep- tember 5 indicates that Senor Sagasta had to capitulate to a majority of his col- leagues. The chief advocate of the early assembling of the cortes was the minister of justice, Senor Groisaro, a recognized au- thority on intricate questions. “The peace conditions are thus fated to pass twice through the fire of parliamen- tary discussion—tirst in embryonic state, as defined in the protocol, and subsequently in fully developed treaty’ form. “It is stated that the government will in- sist upon prorogation during the sittings in Paris of the peace commission. “The press hails this solution as a victory for genuine constitutionalism over what El Imparcial describes as a ‘dictatorship of impotence.” There are many indicatk that the session will be extremely lively. The government will have to justify the suspension of the constitution and the press censorship, and there is no doubt that the orators of the chamber will make strenu- ous efferts to rouse the nation from its culpable lethargy.” PEACEMAKER GARRISON’S SPEECH. Says War Was Hurried Regardless of Truth or National Honor. The principal speaker at the annual meeting of the Universal Peace Union at Mystic, Conn., yesterday, was William Lioyd Garrison, who devoted his time to a@ vigorous denunciation of war in general, and the late war in particular. He said in part: “The late war with Spain was worked up with the unspontaniety of a labored drama. It was not called for by the people, was earnestly opposed by disinterested think- ers who had the public ear, and the aver- sion of the evidently sincere President ond Secretary of the Navy gave hopes of a peaceful settlement. “A remarkable series of fortuitous events strengthened the hands of the yellow jour- nals and the jingces in Congress, beginning with the theft of the Spanish’ minister's private letter from the mails for publica- tion, the still unexplained explosion which destroyed the Maine, and the carefully worked up speech of Senator Proctor, os- tensibly in behalf of the starving reconcen- trados, who were soon to rue the sena’ s friendship. All contributed to fire the heart of the nation ani force the unpre- pared administration to instant war. “Like the Franco-Prussian war, initiated by a falsehood, our hosti'itics with Spain were hurried, regardless of truth or na- tional honor. In the light of today's knowl- edze of the Cuban insurrection and the real character of the insurgents, of the eagerness of Spain to avoli figating by generous concessions, of the brutal and blind declaration of war by Congress, re- gardless of preparation or season, the ver- dict of history must pronounce the incep- lion of the struggle to be without justifica- tion. “Behold a country that has had its cen- tury of dishonor with the Indians and its infamy with the negro. prating of its new- found duty to swarms of people of whose nature and needs it knows nvthing! Ad- mire the assurance of a people which shuts its doors against foreign coramerce, pro- claiming the necessity of conquest for the Sake of trade! Note the anxiety of a r tion that bars out the Chinese hurrying to annex whole populations of Aslatics Think of a republic which jealously warn: off foreign natiors from the American con- tinent now claiming the right to hold do- minion in the Philippines because Admiral Dewey destroyed a Spanish fleet in the harbor of Manila! What a spectacle is presented by a democracy, perplexed at its own miscarriage of self-government, un- dertaking with jaunty confidence to govern hordes of people in the tropics, alien in manners, traditions and habits to all that Americans hold dear —_——_-e-+—___ FORECASTER DUNN'S REVENGE. Former New York Weather Sharp Getting Even With the Bureau. From the New York Journal, Today. An explanation cf the continued hot wave which has been sarping the vitality of New York and the country surrounding is fur- nished by a story concerning a warm time in the local weather observatory. The weather forecaster, Mr. Emery, has been notified to get out of his lofty quarters on the roof of the Manhattan Life Insurance building or pay $3,000 a year rental. The Weather bureau in Washington refuses to pay $3,000 a year. Mr. Emery cannot find another suitable location and, to cap the climax, the man who has been in charge of the bureau at nigbt, Dr. F. A. Davis, has resigned. Elias Dunn ts cool enough to frappe even as hot weather as we have been havin, but he does not seem to be doing it. holds the commanding hand in the game against Mr. Moore, chief of the bureau, who forced him to resign. It appears now that Farmer Dunn, during his command of the weather bureau in ihis city, saved the