The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-11-26
NEWS HND COMMENT

Here is a bit of recent testimony before
tho war investigation commission which
strikes closely home to the real cause of
much of the suffering among the volun-
teer troops. We quote from the report in
the sun:
James ;. Sauers, private of Company
* of the Seventy-iirst regiment testified
that after the surrender of Santiago his
company had more food than before, but
even then. he said, the coffee was not
good. Some of II was greer and the men
did not know how to roast it.
Did YOU expect to find coffee roasters
In the trenches" asked General BtavCi
THE men of the Sixteenth had them"
Don't YOU know that the reason why
green coffee was given to you by the gov
ernment was that it wished you to have
the very hcst?"
i've heard that but our officers did not
give us chance to hcEp ourselves like
the regulars did
'rhen the main reason" said Captain
Howell, 'why YOU did not get enough
food seems to be that your officers were
Inefficient
"Hes, sir. There seemed TO he enough
food, but our officers did not know how
to get at it, The sixteenth Sixth and
Twenty-fourth regulars had plenty uf
food while we were nearly starving. The
regulars were not ordered to throw away
their haverSacks but we were. Those
who oheyed were dependent for food upon
the men who did not"
"Thcn" inquired Colonel Sexton, 'is it
true that while the regular officers were
looking out for their men your volunteer
officers were looking oLt for themselves?"
That's about the size of it," replied
Sauers,
Chicago just now seems to be setting
the pace in scientific exploration In adj
| .1fs N
hunting party, which had its inception in
the Windy City, two now expeditions are
about to start from that city One under
command of DR.. Charles +. Millspaugh,
curator of the botanical department. of the
Field Columbian museum, will pass three
months i'm the interior OF Nucatan, hunt
ing tor rare botanical specimens. The
other, Ted by Professor starr Of the
University of Chicago. will visit sctcral
islands in the Gulf Of Tohuantepec, Mex
leo. inhabited by tribes of savage In
dians. Professor starr will attempt to
visit an island where are located the
sacred caves worshippcd by the natives
In addition to the usual explorers sup
plies, Professor Starr will take 1000
! pounds of plaster, with which to make
casts Of the natives and complete photo
graphic outfit.
DR.. William y. Sonsibaugh, dentist of
ioll byron, III, II III Il serious COnultiOn
| as a result Of pranks played upon HIM
Will" heing initiated in a fratcrndl insur-
| dnCc Lodge in that village During the in
| itatory ceremonies he was blindfoded
| and given several slight shocks from a
| live wire. ore Of the initiating team, see
| ing the candidate was about to cVade tho
| wire, gave him little shove, which un-
| fortunately proved sufficient to throw him
| of his balance, and he fell hands down
| upon the battery itself. receiving a shock
| which rendered him unconscious After
| working over him for two hours and fin
| ally reNiNing him IL was discovered that
his right arm hung limp and loose, and
| i'm this condition 1t has remained ever
| since. one of the attending physicians
| says that paralysis of the nerves ia
| threatened, in which event the sufferer
| cannot live
Some wonderful needlowork is done hv
| the Filipino women. "There Is a cloth
| here" writes John r. McCutcheon, Ma
| nila correspondent Of the Chicago Record,
| (which Is manufactured of pineapple
| fibre, and Is called pinas cloth. The tex
| tuTe is as delicate as a spiders web ana
| i'm the hands of the women Is fashioned
! into most wonderful designs. | have seen
| small handkerchicfs which cost sll0
apiece. When a Philippine lady of the
| better class gets married she sometime $
| wears as her wedding dress costume Cf
| native manufacture that reaches i'm value
| up into four figures, II takes months TO
make handkerchief or a sleeve or a