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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-07-27
THE WAYS OF WAR.

The News discovers already that IL
is not alone in recognizing the absurd
self -sufilciency and the buncombe of
Secretary OF War Algers defense of HE
department for it's notorious failure in
the staff work required for the proper
supply of our army in Cuba with com.
missary and medical stores as. briefly
reviewed in Mondays issue.
Mr.. Robert B. Roosevelt Of New
York. who seems to know what he Is
talking about, writes a scathing letter
to the Herald right in the same line
though its review of Secretary Alger'e
letter to General Dodge is far more
pungent than that of The News. Mr..
Roosevelt read the -Alger defense with
surprise and equal Indignation" He
declares 'its callous and heartless in
difference to the sufferinEs of our sol
diers'' to be most unworthy of a pa
triotic public officer and almost incom-
prehensble in father with son at
the front" The reference to the son
may be in the nature of satire since the
only hardship that Captain Alger IL
understood to have suffered is the ab
sence of his private book from the
field.
Listen TO this from Mr.. Roosevelt and
see IL it doesn't echo the unspoken COM
mon sense feeling that has been aroused
all over the country:
"when every father and mother IN this
land who has "a son In the war is bitterly out
ragged AT the want of proper precautions or
ordinary forethought, not TO say downright
peculation-for rs yet no one seems 20 know
where the blame should be placed--the sec.
rctary of war, the man whose reputation Is
most involved, the man who has the greatest
responsibility, coolly writes TO General
Dodge: you and I know what this means
IL has always occurred and always viii oc.
eur. That IL war, and war would not be war
without IT, Is that anything bu: a carte
blanche to every one In any way connected
with the war department TO IN treat. under
feed and even rob the soldiers as much as he
plcasesf"
And much more TO the same general
effect Mr.. Roosevelt writes as TO this
Alger letter. He takes is.
sue with every one of the secretary's
brutal and self-sufiicient assertions"
What Secretary Alger so cheerfully
alleges to be war" Mr.. Roosevelt,
with reason. declares to be utter inca.
pacity for the simplest duties of war
> The country found itself unex.
pectedly brought face 10 face with tho
dread realities OF conflict. A call was
made for volunteers, and they poured
out to the number OF nearly half n
million, counting all who offered their
services. They knew they had TO brave
the bullets of the enemy. the fever and
pestilence. the loss OF comforts and
often OF employment. but they did not
think they were TO be half starved and
then told that TO complain was un.
patriotic; that even 70 write home 60
their families was spreading dIsaffec-
ton"
II is the evident duty OF the war dc.
partment TO find out who is response
bic and not to waste the nations pa.
tience by complaints about "grum.
bling" The better condition of things
profoundly hoped for in the Porto Rico
campaign will demonstrate the correct.
ness OF the attitude taken by a mighty
nation Of the kind OF folk the secretary
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-07-27
Of war calls "unpatriotic" and 'srowIl
ers."
The war department has again d,

The war department has again de-
cided not 10 move Camp Alger. OF
course not. There is nothing the mat
ter with Camp Alger except insuffi-
cient water supply. crowded quarters
for the troops. typhoid fever claiming
more Victims every day, and great
amount of hauling necessary to convey
the subsistence and quartermaster's
stores from the railroad station at
Dunn Loring. which is nearly three
miles from the nearest regiment. AZ
Secretary Alger has so pleasantly ex.
planned, all this lis war and war
would not be war without it."
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-07-27

Here Is good story which comes
from Australia. The day after the per-
formance of play i'm a certain large
city. the manager of the theatre wrote
the following chilling note to the lead
ing actor:-
MY Dear Sir-Your performance last
night was so bad that several dead
heads have written demanding that
their names be removed from the free
list. Tit
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-07-27

III Spain wants peace, she can have
1t, OF course, at price. But IL IL is an
armistice she wants she is not likely to
be so easily accommodated. Uncle Sam
has had all the talk he can comforta-
bly, stand. He is fighting just now.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-07-27

1t is authoritatively announced that
Hobson's choice is chocolate soda. That
is what he ordered in New York drug
store and before he had got out the
proprietor had sign in the window
reading. Drink Hobsons Choice. choc-
olate Soda"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-07-27
Soldiers Relief Association.

The Rhode Island Sanitary and Relief AS.
socintion ask generous public for contribu.
tions OF money TO enable them 10 carry on
their work of relieving sick and wounded
soldiers and sailors, by sending clothing.
medicines and stores that the government
does not supply.
All contributions sent 10 the Daily News
will be acknowledged in that paper.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-07-27
THE WAR LOAN.

Contrary TO expectations, based on
the experience with Clevelands So
called popular loan. the governments
Issue of war bonds on a popular
basis is mighty success. The whole
Issue has been taken up by the sub
Bcribers OF amounts under $4,000.
1t was more than mere partisan talk
that charged the last Cleveland bond
proposition with being popular loan"
only in name and never in purpose and,
ht all events, the great run of people
took no interest in 1t and the big finan-
ciers had TO come to the rescue and
take the issue off the governments
hands. They had already underwritten
It, and there was no reason to find fault
with the government or the financiers
Tor pursuing the usual course except
for the suspicion that both had entered
into the transaction behind the decoy
Of a popular loan." and that point was
made OF the failure of such an appeal
10 the masses"
The war loan may or may not make
= departure in the policy of ISSUING
bonds AS rule government bonds
are not considered the most inviting in
vestment for moderate means for all
the perfect>security they offer. But
. so bond as unit of the issue
and much patriotic interest aroused, as
well as considerable campaign of
education in the matter of government
bonds, have contributed TO make the
war loan a triumphant success and
refutation of the statement that the
people have no interest in the govern
ment's financial transactions.
1rhe small investors have possession
of the governments war loan offered
to them at par. The individual bond
holders number 100000 and the average
amount that goes to each is less than
$50. The government is. of course, not
30 well off as it Mould be IL the whole
$500, ,ooo, 900 had been disposed OF i'm block
at a premium. and at far less expense
than has been necessary to transact the
business dealing with hundreds of
thousands of individuals. but probably
lhe country is just as well off.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-07-27

On the whole, this is pretty good
weather for us reconcentrados within
the urban boundaries.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-07-27

Recent events at Santiago indicate
that the Spanish soldier is rather more
moved by a cheerful desire to surren-
der than by an unconquerable eager
ness to die for his country.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-07-27

-Four paymasters are on their way to
Santiago to pay Off the troops. There'll
be hot time. etc.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-19

.*Did you hit your man?' asked the
captain. ~.' r. ~
mo, sir" replied, Joyce. II believe
not, sir" -
Next best thing to tell the truth"
muttered Capt. Smollett. LOAD his
gun, Hawkins. How many should YOU
say there were on your side, doctor?":
II know precisely said DR.. Livesey.
"Three shots were fired on this side.
l saw the three fashes-two close to-
gether-one further to the west.''
''Three!" repeated the captain. And
how many on yours, Mr.. Trelawney ?'
But this was not SO easily answered.
There had come many from the north
seven, by the squire's computation;
eight or nine, according to Gray. From
the east and west only single shot
had been fired. 1t was plain, therefore,
that the attack would be developed
from the north, and that on the other
three sides we were only to be an
noyed by a show of hostilities But
Capt. Smollett made no change in his
arrangements. If the mutineers sue
ceeded in crossing the stockade, he ar
gued, they would take possession of
any unprotected loop hole and shoot US
down like rats in our stronghold.
Nor had we much time left to us for
thought. Suddenly, with loud huzza,
little cloud of pirates leaped from the
woods on the north side and ran
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-19
An AnecdOte by Mark Twain.

$3.50 AAA~O>AoAS ~ 11A<IA "A SstAAAs
Years ago, as I have been told, wild
owed descendant of the Audubon fang
lily, in desperate need, sold perfect
copy of Audubon's ''Birds'' to COM
mercially minded scholar in America
for $500. The book was worth 81 1000 in
the market. The scholar complimentcd
himself upon his shrewd stroke of BUSH
ness. That was not Hammond Trum-
bulls style. After the war lady in the
far south wrote him that among the
wreckage of her better days she had a
book which some had told her was
worth 500, and had advised her to offer
it to him; she added that she was very
poor, and that if he would buy it at that
price, it would be great favor to her.
1t was Eliot's Indian Bible. Trumbull
answered that if it was perfect copy it
had an established market value, like a
gold coin, and was worth $1,000; that
if she would send it to him he would ex-
anime it, and if it proved to be perfect
he would sell it to the British museum
and forward the money to her. It did
prove to be perfect, and she got her
$1,000 without delay, and intact.-Cen-
fury.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-19

I stand here and tell you so, and they're
the last good words you'll get from me;
for, in the name of Heaven, I'll put a
bullet in your back when next I meet
you. Tramp, my lad. Bundle out of
this, please, hand over hand, and
double quick"
Silver's face was picture; his eyes
started in his head with wrath. He
shook the fire out of his pipe.
"Give me hand up!" he cried.
"Not T." returned the captain.
*'Who'n give me hand up?" he
roared.
Not man among us moved. Growl-
ing the foulest imprecations he crawled
along the sand till he got hold of the
porch and could hoist himself again
upon his crutch. Then he spat into
the spring.
''There!" he cried, "that's what I
think of We. Before an hours out, I'll
stove in your old block-house like a rum
puncheon. Laugh, by thunder. laugh!
Before an hours out, yell laugh upon
the other side. Them that dell be the
lucky ones"
And with dreadful oath he
stumbled off, plowed down the sand,
was helped across the stockade, after
four or five failures, by the man with
the flag of truce, and disappeared in
an instant afterward among the trees.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-19
Ready for Winter.
[To BE Continued

Teachers in the public schools of a
large city hear many stories, some of
them amusing, some of them pathetic.
A young woman who teaches in kim
dergarten in Boston, upon learning
that one of her little pupils was sick,
went to visit her. The teacher had
been to Katie's home before, and so had
no difficulty in finding the two little
rooms at the top of a tenement house
where Katie and her mother lived. The
mother was absent, and Katie, well
wrapped up, was sitting up in bed.
After the usual inquiries and condo
lences, the teacher noticed that the lit
tie girl seemed to speak with some dif-
fculty, and said:
"Katie, am going to examine your
lungs"
"Yes'm." responded the child, du*i-
fully, and Miss c.. began to loosen
the child's waist. After removing it
she found layer after layer of isundl,
which she unfastened with some diff.
Guilty. Satisfying herself that there
was no danger of pneumonia, she began
to replace the child's dress, when Katie
began to cry.
my mother'u be awful mad at you
when she gets home and finds what
you've DONE"
''Why, Katie, what have I done?''
you've unfastened all my flannels,
and ma had just got me sewed up for
the winter!'- Youth's Companion.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-19
THEN he TAINTED.
The Young Man Found Miss Gertrude
In, But She Was Not His
Fair Gertie.

One evening not long ago a St. Joseph
young man, who is quite we'll known in So
ciety,. started out to call on young lady
who lives in the eastern part Of the city
The young man had but recently met the
charmer and had never been to see her. He
did not anticipate any difficulty, however,
in finding the young ladys home, as he had
received careful directions from those who
had been there. In due time he arrived in
the neighborhood in which the young lady
lived. He was undecided as to the exact
house he was seeking, but after some hesita.
ton he selected that which he felt positive
was the young lady's place of abode A
ring, OF the bell brought big darby nanny
to the door.
IFS Miss Gertrude in?" queried the caller.
'n,Yes, sir; step in" was the answer, and
the young man was ushered into the parlor.
1t seems that he was too deeply engrossed
with anticipations of pleasure to follow to
make close scrutiny, else he would have OBJ
served that surroundings were not just what
he had reason to expect. After a few mo-
ments the young man was aroused by a
deep and powerful voice, Enthusiastically that
of the negro nanny, and it's tone left no
question Of the relationship between the
speaker and the person called.
to see yo'."
In a moment "Gertie," who resembled the
ace of spades in color, came into the room
and the young man fainted-St. Joseph
(Mo.) News
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-19
A REALLY INTELLIGENT 1uRY.
The Verdict Was in Accordance with
the Evidence.


1T was the funniest thing I ever saw in
courtroom" laughed the veteran of the bar,
who was enjoying an informal smoker with
trying. to get good start. One of the resi-
dents had mysteriously disappeared, and his
wife was arrested under suspicion thatsne
might be responsible for the fact. defend
ed her.
"On the stand she was simply irrepressi-
BILE. l only got to ask her one question.
That was more than plenty She talked
precisely as though she were wound up and
could not stop until the handspring was
completely relaxed. In the midst Of her
TRADE. she was interrupted by an inquiry by
one Of the jurors.
,"'Who are you talkin'' to, Bill Spriggins,
you to be quizzin' me. Ell you don't know
how to treat your betters, I'll learn you,
you pin-headed coyote. Eff my husband was
here he'd perferate you mighty quick, and
I know it. But kin take care of myself
ct am a lone woman. I'm here to tell what
I know, and I'm goin' to do it if it spills
blood
'tThere was no staying her deluge of words
and the judge was at last driven by sheer
desperation to tell the jury to retire and do
the best it could with the facts in it's posses
sion.
"When the jury came back Bill Spriggins,
as foreman, stood up to give the verdict.
I'VE, find he said, that this here man
Meekham. has disappeared at the hans of
some persing or persings unknown. We find
further that we are unanermous in suspect
in as how he mighter been talked to death
by his said wife, It took the sheriff and all
his deputies to hold her."-Detroit Free
Press.
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THE cOTTIER CHlLD'S LULLABY.

Bright on the hearth are the flame-billows
leaping,
Lurid and live do the live embers glow,
While the old iron tea kettle, singing and
hopping,
Is weaving lullaby, soothing and low,
"Whiz-z-zee whizz, oh! hush-a-by, baby,
Whir-r-zee whirr, oh, close your blue
eye,"
The old iron teakettle, singing and hop
ping,
Weaving the baby lullaby.
Close by the cradle the mother is sitting,
Sitting and knitting the hours away,
With her clumsy shoe on the wooden rocker,
While her needles click to the sleepy lay
or "Whiz-z-zee whizz," from the old iron
kettle,
Whir-r-zee whirr, sweet dreams will
bring,
Beautiful dreams of the fairy children"
Mother will rock and the kettle will sing.
Sleep, oh! sleep. Hear the wind from the
Northland
Hungrily sweeping the moor. Oh! sleep.
Heaped lies the snow by the doorway and
hedges
But red CLOVIS the fire. Oh! little one Sleep
The red fire will warm thee and bark to the
kettle,
The old iron kettle that whistles and
swings:
"'Whiz-z-zee whizz," oh! hush little baby,
Mother will rock while the tea kettle
sings.
-Maude Morrison Huey, in Chicago In
terror.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-19
The Tables Turned.

On one occasion when well-know,.
wit was listening to the band on the
pier at Brighton, some medical STU
dents who happened to be there thought
they would have joke with him, and
accordingly one of their number vert
up with outstretched hand and said:
"Ah, good-morning, Mr.. -! How d.
you do?"
II am quite'well, thank you," replied
he, ''but really have not had the honor
of your acquaintance"
''What," said the student, "you don't
know me! Why, I met you at the
Zoo"
young man, accept my apologies;
but really I saw so many monkeys
there that it is impossible for me to
recognize them all again!"- Tit-Bits.
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CHAPTER XX.-CONTINUED.

Well, here it u.s." said Silver. eve
want that treasure, and We'll have it
that's our point! You would just as
soon save your lives, I reckon; and
that's yours. You have a chart, haven't
your"
ssThat's as may be-" replied the cap
tain.
"Oh, we'll, you have, I know that"
returned Long John. "You needn't be
so husky with man; there amt par
ticle of service in that, and you may lay
to it. What I mean is, we want your
chart. Now, I never meant you no
harm, myself
THAT won't do with me, my man."
interrupted the captain. eve know ex-
actly what you meant to do, and we
don't care; for now, you see, you can't
do it,
And the captain looked at him calm
IF Abe Gray" Silver broke out.
"Avant there!" cried Mr.. Smollett.
"Gray told me nothing, and I asked him
nothing; and what's more, I would see
you and him and this whole island
blown clean out of the water into blazes
first. So there's my mind for you, my
man, on that"
This little Whit of temper seemed to
cool Silver down. He had been grow
ing ncttled before, but now he pulled
himself together.
Like enough" said he. 81 would
set no limits to what gentlemen might
consider ship shape, or might not, as
the case were. And. seciD' as how YOU
are about to take pipe, cap'n, I'll make
so free as to do likewise''
And he filled pipe and lighted it,
and the two men sat silently smok-
ing for quite awhile, now looking each
other in the face, now stopping their to-
bacco, now leaning forward to spit. 1t
was as good as the play to see them.
Now resumed Silver, there it is.
You give us the chart to get the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-19

treasure by, and drop shooting poor
seamen and slowing in their heads while
asleep. You do that, and we'll offer
you a choice. Either you come along
aboard of us, once the treasure shipped,
and then I'll give you my affydavy,
upon my word of honor, to clap YOU
someWhere's safe ashore. Or, if that
amt your fancy, some of my hands, be-
ing rough, and having old scores on ac-
count of hazing, then you can stay here,
you can. Well divide stores with you,
man for man, and I'll give you my affy-
davy, as before, to speak the first ship
1 sight, and send 'em here to pick you
up. Now, you'll own that's talking.
Handsomer, you couldn't look to get,
not you. And I hope raising his
voice that all hands in this here
blockhouse will overhaul my words, for
what is spoke to one is spoke to ALL
Capt. Smollett rose from his seat, and
knocked out the ashes from his pipe in
the palm of his left hand.
'Is that all?'' he asked.
Every last word, by thunder!" an
swered John. Refuse that, and you've
seen the last of me but musket-balls.' .
"Very WE'LL" said the captain. "Now
you'll hear me. If you'll come up one
by one, unarmed, I'll engage to clap you
all in irons, and take you home to a
fair trial in England If you won't,
my name is Alexander Smollett, I've
flown my ,soyereign's colors, and I'll
see you all to Davy Jones. You can't
find the treasure. You can't sail the
ship there's not a man among you fit
to. sail the ship. You cant fight us-&
Gray, there, got away from five Of vol
Your ships in irons Master SilveI:
You're on q lee-shore, and SO you'll ind.
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ade. And yet, in this breath of time.
the fight was over, and the victory

the tight was over, and the victory
ours.
Gray, following close behind me, had
cut down the big boatswain ere he had
time to recover from his lost blow.
Another had been shot at loophole in
the very act of firing into the house,
and now lay in agony, the pistol still
smoking in his hand. A third, as hac
seen, the doctor had disposed of at a
blow. Of the four who had scaled the
pallsade, one only remained unac-
counted for, and he, having left his cut
lass on the field, was now clambering
out again with the fear of death upon
him.
"Fire-fre from the housed" cried the
doctor. "And you, lads, back into
cover"
But his words were unheeded, no
shot was fired, and the last boarder
made good his escape, and disappeared
with the rest into the wood In three
seconds nothing remained of the at
tacking party but the five who had
! fallen, four on the inside, and one on the
outside, of the palisade.
The doctor and Gray and ran full
speed for shelter. The survivors would
! soon be back where they had left their
muskets, and at any moment the fire
might recommence.
The house was by this time somewhat
cleared of smoke, and we saw at a
glancethe price we had paid for victory.
Hunterlay beside his loop-hole, stunned;
Joyce by his, shot through the head.
| never to move again; while right in the
center, the squire was supporting the
captain, one as pale as the other.
''The captains wounded" said Mr..
Trelawney.
"Have they run?'' asked Mr.. Smollett.
"All that could, you may be bound"
returned the doctor; "but there's five
of them will never run again.
"Five!" cried the captain. '*Come,
| that's better. Five against three leaves
us four to nine. That's better odds
| than we had at starting. We were
seven to nineteen then, or thought we
| were, and that's as bad to bear.''*
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-19
Everybody Satisfied.

Who's dead?" inquired man OF the
sexton who was digging a grave. ..%
old Squire Bum blebee." z@s=>&-.<*
What complaint ~ p hi : 51:. !.
Sexton without looking up No
complain Every body's satisfied
What to Eat. i$s
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-19
Made Him Sick.

Doctor ION ocean steamer)-Your turn has
come, | see, sir. Allow me to-
~ Sea-Sick Passenger ian old bachelor)-
No, no, doctor. lit will soon pass off.
IL IL 's tha seaN4seaslckness looked too long
Weekly.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-04-19
Blood
Is Life
Pure Blood
l9 Health.

Without blood circulating through your
veins you could not live. Without pure
blood you cannot be we'll The healthy
action of every organ depends upon the
purity and richness Of the blood by which
it is nourshed and sustained. If you
have salt rheum, scrofula sores, pimples,
boi]s or any kind Of humor, your blood is
not pure. If you take Hoods Sarsaparilla
it will make your blood pure and promptly
relieve all these troubles. In the spring
the blood IS loaded with impurities.
Hence, all those unsightly eruptions, that
languor and depression, and the danger of
serious illness. Hoods Sarsaparilla is
needed to purify, enrich and vitalize the
blood and protect and fortifY the system.