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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-09-26

| IT1NKlc BROOKS, locolDul NicNS, II
| Dear Junior: Enclosed | send you 10 cents
for the Crazy hospital. | am a little gtrl
| seven years cd. I have lots of FUN playing
| with my kitty and my dolls,
| Nora De;.ver. Berc4aii. Tex.-Dear Junior;
| | don: see now we could do without The
| Constitution. | am always anxious for its
! coinins. | have a number Of pets. among
| them two canary birds We have very
| pleasant home. Enclosed lind cents for
| Grady hospital.
Roy Pettis. Corwin. Ark.--Dear Junior:
! 7 am a little boy eleven years old. Papa
takes The Constitution and like it better
than any paper ever taken. | like TO
read the children's page. ! think Lees
! stories for the children very good. We live
! TWO miles from the schoolhouse, but we
/ go there every day to school
Lucille Hesstield. Besscmer. AIa.-Dear
| Junior: I have been constant reader o.
! The Constitution FOR quite while 1t
! seems to me that ! could hardly do with
| out it. especially the Junior page, would
| lill" a few correspondents about my Az
! which is sixteen. | incloSc 10 cents Tor me
Grady hospital
Henry Grady Zellncr Floral City. ria
! Dear Junior: | live on the beautiful VIII
/ lachoochec river 1t is full Of fish ana
( biz aIIigators | have a riddle for the cous-
/ ms Who can guess it? ! nave hlii9
( brother born on last leap year lie won
! have a birthday in eight years. Now, guess
! WHY if is hat he won't. How many have =
! brother or sister born on last leap year
! Enclosed. find 10 cents for Grady hoSllt"''
Nora Mcconnell Anderson, S. C.-Dear
Junior: ! am Il foolshsome, boisterous Slri
/ Of eleven years. | can milk, sew, help
mamma to keep house, and | can look right
well too. can catch a horse and harness
| him then hitch him 10 the buggy ANA drive
|
! riding horseback. | ride every day. reel
! sorry for The city cousins, for they don
have the freedom that we in the country
/ do.
wills Harley, TaIcyondale Ga.Dear Ju-
| Nor: | will not select subject. The
! cotton crops very much damaged by
! the storm and rain which came few days
/ ago. IT has been raining every few Gays
| and sometimes week at n time ever since
| the LIST of July Il is now sprouting in
| the bols and if the rain continues, the
/ cotton which is open now VIII be ruined.
| The dear old Constitution Is welcome
visitor to our home every Tuesday. /
think country life much better than CITY
| life.
Susie Harley Halcyon Dale, Ga.-pear
Junior | am not going to school now /
am having vacation | enjoy Aun. Susie.
Bill Arp ana Sarge PlunkettS letters very
much | like Mr.. Lees stories. they are
so funny. We are having great deal OF
( rain The 3lSt OF August. the day OF the
storm. SO much rain fell that a nltI t
branch near our home rose s." high uhII
/ it was impossible. The bridges in this sec
ton are all gone and can only stay IN
1 doors and watch the ram
/ Fern Fanyhaw, TawIwa, O,-DeaH
! IIuior; admire The "Constitr-
/ ton" very much. am interested in IN"
I floral growth Of he southern states ana
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T,uvie Hall Cromers, Ga.-Dear Junior;
live in the northeastern part OF ola t'"or-
sia, among the hills and valleys about
twenty miles from the Currahee noun
tain. but we can get on hill little way
from home and see it towering FAR ABOVE
the remaining country, backed part OF the
Blue Ridge. | don't think that we could
improve our time in any better way than
by writing to The Constitution and cores
ponding with each other. 1t gives us su''I
broad space to express our thohShtS' anu
then it seems to bind us All INTO a Closer
union We have large vineyard ! wish
that YOU CAunt Susie) and the cousins
could have helped me eat the grapes, ineE
were very nee this year. | would Ike
correspondents
jennie Dance, Athens. La. Dear
Junior am Il little girl Of thirteen sum
mers. have been Il constant reader Of the
Constitution for some time. | enjoy read
trg tie juniors letters. Lees stories
and especially Aunt Susic's letters. Did
YOU know you had great influence, oHe
that will last to the end Of time, it vii!
not stop when YOU are asleep in your grave
it Will 60 on ana on. | feel 50 thankful
that we can talk in so many homes through
this dear paper, and instead OF complain
ing with dear Aunt Susie for not printing
! all the letters Just like want them. ask
GOD to help her discharge her duty Would
lik" little girl correspondent my age
thirteen.
Bessie Mccormick. Nassburg. AIiss,-Doar
Junior: l viii take for my subject "The
History of Our People" 1t is the great
est history Of any nation known We have
had more wars than any other country.
We have had seven wars. The tfench
and Indian was was the l'rS' ana 'He ~
dictionary wa" the second ne "''''e u,
Cgi.ny,,,Ii. s,,rroodoro5 ON october 10, 1851,
- I,n,,a,,,l yya.hfnpton We have been
Froo ever, Since II makes my heart fun
OF ioy TO think Of how the old sexton run8
tie ben OF Liberty. | write very p'ot,
but have never had any Shdu;e' '"t
never saw in Il Schooir"oh UNI" was
lourlepH S""lH Ill., ,1,t ,,o,, arc deter
floui '' ,, ,rh,9 i, ri,,6t strive hard
ttI 20, IN s,,,cnnf NIrNT SI,SIE)
Theda. Hogansville. Ga.-Dear JUNIOR
Since my earliest recollcCtiOns ! nave he"h
nm ardent admtrcr Of the routh'a treasure
%n,,s, thc ,,aar ola CONSTITUTION. was at
t,,,,,,,no , teachers, institute at Warm
C''.Hi'I0 t 1',.t ,,,,,,,nr. Amt Susie was
springs id .,'al 9uii''''' ,, :. -, .;,,,,,
at the hotel but / '1d ho' kho" II - ''''''
to see her before her depaIt cure.
Dear Cousins | wish you all could have
enjoyed my summer outing "''h me; l
ra Cornnhus RaI,nrsyillc and Atlanta.
49,, Most ,,rofitablp week in th,t time vas
spent aen1lmE le Hrnn.'i'Ic sven an in
t"nitH ''t'tl,"t t a.. o, Ma v.aulI .e ilnpoS-
' i,., ,''' ,n.rriha Dil many of you att,3d
"a. rcI,rinn in Atlanta? | I'D. and | wi
Messed many pathetic and amusing scenes
that | shat never forget ! ENJOYED S'u"N-
Ing the faces OF the o'u ,'H,f,ar ror thetr
conyefsed ONE WIN s1,o n,l3 tHrir love and
SymTn3thy for each other
James p Harley. HalcyOn Dale, Ga
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Flax has been successfully grown near
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JUNIOR CORRESPONDENCE l:!,!'(lly

frankie Brooks, Cocoanut Grove. Fla
Dear Junior: Enclosed | send you 10 cents
for the Grady hospital. | am little girl
seven years cd. | have lots of fun playing
with my kitty and my dolls.
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The Money in Use.

''Thc currency and finances of the island
arc subjects with which our statesmen will
have to deal. The Spanish government in
1895 took up all the Mexican and Spanish
coins in circulation and substituted special
silver coins struck i'll the mint Of Spain
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CONSTITUTION JUNIORO
Conducted Young Folks Page
Our Young Folks Page

ow OF the Pines" Fatal Wedding" and
His Last Thoughts Were Of You" | can
send any Of the cousins Down on the
Correspondence solicited; either sex.
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Nora De&ver. Berc.aii. Tex.--Dear Junior;
| don; now we could DO without 1he
Constitution. | am always anxious for its
coinint.. | have q number Of pets. among
them two canary birds. We have Very
pleasant home. lntiOScd una u cents Tor
Grady hospital.
Evening star., 1898-08-16
TO REMOVE MINES AND CABLES.
Gen. wtIEon's Order to the Engineer
Department..

General Wilson. chief of engineers. today
issued orders 10 all the officers of that de-
partment in barge of fortifications and
works of defense to remove all mines, ca
bles and electrical apparatus connected
Herewith in the harbors and rivers of the
United States as rapidly the work can
be performed with due regard for safety
These orders are supplementary to those
issued few weeks ago Immediately after
the destruction of the Spanish fleet at Sam
tiagO, for the removal of certain submarine
mines In various harbors alleged to be
dangerous interference with commerce. The
original orders merely contemplated the
temporary removal of the mines without
interfering with the cable connections and
electrical working apparatus on shore the
idea being to leave them in such condition
that they could be speedily restored in case
OF an emergency Now, however. that there
IS no longer any prospect of a renewal of
hoSulltieS with Spain or of trouble with
any other nation the War Department has
deemed il safe and expedent to remove en-
urely all the submarine defenses OF the
coast lines of the United States In all
cases where it is not practicable to remove
the mines and torpedoes intact they will he
exploded. but the engineer officers have all
been instructed to preserve the entire apna
ratus wherever 1T is possible to do so
Evening star., 1898-08-16

Treasury Department, on the site selected
for the statue of General Sherman, has
been taken down and removed to the
nursery grounds. The cottage building on
the same park at the head of Pennsylvania
avenue. which has been used by the Treas
ury Department for photographing pur-
poses. will also be removed soon as ac-
commodations can be found for it else
where. The small lodge house used by the
watchmen in Dupont Circle has been re-
moved to the Smithsonian grounds, near
the entrance at 10th and 3 streets north.
The trees in Washington Circle have been
cut and trimmed SO to open vistas to
eEable the statue of the Father of His
Country to be seen from points on Pennsyl-
vania and New Hampshire avenues.
Various repairs and improvements have
been recently made to the Executive Man
SION A new force pump with electric mo-
tor and connections has been set in place
in the engine room for the purpose of sup
plying water to the tanks at the top of
the house 1t replaces a steom pump. An
electric lamp has been hung from the
ceiling of the north portico, and the use
of gas for lighting that portico has been
discontinued.
During the month of July there were
23.S14 visitors to the top of the Washing
visitors since the shaft was first opened to
the public, October O., 1888. Recently a
piece was broken from one of the presen-
tation tablets at the 2T0-foot landing in
the monument and two of the electric
lamps were stolen from their sockets A
wire screen has been placed in position on
the 49o-foot landing to prevent visitors fall
ing over the handrail of the stairway lead
ing from that landing to the top floor
Evening star., 1898-08-16
CUBAN THIEF SHOT DEAD
he Had Been Caught Stealing Large Guam
tity of Supplies.
havana Brightens Up Under the In
huence of Peace News-Demand
for Cuba's Goods.

SANTIAGO. August Is, pm. (delayed
IN transmissicn).-Eariy this morning a
Cuban was shot by sentry who caught
him stealing commissary stores at the
dock Yesterday it was discovered that
enough goods had been stolen to make
three cart loads. which had been taken out
surreptitiously to the Cubans in the field.
The man under suspicion returned TO the
wharf last night, evidently with the inten-
ton of continuing his thefts, but he was
warned off
He was again found there early this
morning. When the sentry CHALLENGED him
he ran, refusing to obey the order to halt.
AS he was likely to escape the sentry fired
and killed him.
The occurrence is regretted by Gen.
Wood and the American officers generally.
but 1t probably will have salutary effect.
as raids on the commissary and the med
zeal ard Red Cross stores have been alto
gether too frequent to be tolerated any
longer.
The rainy season has now set I'm with
torrents daily. The troops therefore are
moved none too soon, as the physicians are
all agreed that the condition of the men
would have been greatly aggravated by the
rain, dampness and consequent miasmas.
All rejoice at the prospect of an early re-
turn home.
Evening star., 1898-08-16
GEN. LEE AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
1t is Thought That He VIII Retain
Command of His Corps.

Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was again a visitor at
the White House today, remaining a few
minutes with the President Gen. Lee. Il
is understood, will remain in command of
the 1th Corps, now at Jacksonville. The
expectation is that this corps will be or
dered to Cuba in few months and will
remain on duty there until affairs are ad-
juSted
Gen. Lee said today that he is ready to
go wherever ordered. Speaking of the sit
uation in Cuba, he said that the Cubans
would have to be handled with tact and
with due appreciation Of their sensitive ma
ture.
The Cubans like Gen. Lee and have given
him their confidence. If Gen. Lee goes to
the island in high military position il is
felt that he would know how to deal with
the men who are inclined to cause trouble
He knows the CUbans better than any
other man in the military service and can
do much to adjust differences.
Gen. Lee calied at the War Department
early today. He expects to return TO Jack
Sonyille tomorrow.
Evening star., 1898-08-16
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.



at Chevy Chase.
Miss Landon Blackford of 1925 Q street,
nineteen years old, daughter Of b. Lewis
Blackford, the real estate and insurance
agent of 926 F street northwest, attempted
suicide about noon today at Chevy Chase.
She fired three shots. One took effect in
her head, another in her chest, while the
third entered her hip.
DR.. Ray was summoned to the house and
took charge of the patient till she reached
removed on a special car to 18th and U
streets and thence taken to the hospital
in a conveyance. Her father, who reached
the hospital soon after his daughter ar
rived. was unable to give any cause for
her conduct.
Miss Blackford graduated at the Normal
School last year and had received an ap-
pointment as a school teacher. She would
have taken charge of a. school in Septem-
Der.
She was employed at the new city post
office as one of the bond issue clerks and
came into the city to work this morning,
accompanied as usual, by her father. She
returned home early without his knowl-
edge. Her condition is extremely serious
Upon being examined ii was found that
the bullet in her chest had entered near
the heart and made dangerous wound
DIR. ]. Ford Thompson will perform an
operation this afternoon.
Evening star., 1898-08-16
WHITE DEFENDS GERMANY
Ambassador Says That She Has Treated
America Fairly.
No Purpose at Any Time to Interfere
With Philippine War
Operations.

BERLIN, August 16.-Mr. Andrew D.
White, the United States ambassador, who
left at noon today for Homburg, where he
will take the waters, made the following
statement to the correspondent of the AS
sociated Press:
so far as 1 can see, the state of things
between Germany and the United States
remains satisfactory. Throughout the war
the German government has treated us
fairly; and. so far from seeing any cause
for complaint on our part, it seems to me
that the fairness of the German govern
ment's attitude requires recognition
with regard to their sending forces to
the Philippines, that matter has already
been fully cleared up. There was nothing
whatever in it to show ill-will toward the
United States, nor was there any purpose
to interfere with our war operat tions.'
Evening star., 1898-08-16

HAVANA, August Is. 900 p.m.-Oelayed
in trarsmission)-The reports put in circu-
lation some days since with respect to the
progress of the peace negotiations between
Spain and the United States have had the
effect of stimulating orders sent from
Europe and other countries ty cable to
buy Cubas public stock. So far back as
August ~ the rise in all securities of this
class began, and on Thursday and Friday
OF last week silver rose from 40 per cent
discount to y per cent discount while rail-
way stock rose from % TO 80 points in some
instances late Friday afternoon althoue h
the rumors that the protocol had alread =
been signed were believed by many to be
tricks OF the speculatcrs to affect the mar
ket. When the facts were known on the
following day the rise was maintained
The news that General Blanco had re-
ceived dispatches from NJ Cambon, the
French ambassador at Washington def
nitely declaring that the peace prelimin-
aries We're settled and signed, spread with
lightning rapidity throughout the city, and
there was general relief at the prospect
of treaty of peace that would put an
end to the spilling of blood and the long
era of desolation and ruin from which the
island has suffered, as there is scarcely
any family Cuban or Spanish which has
not felt the terrible depression of the war.
Evening star., 1898-08-16
EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN.
They Are Giving Satisfaction in Post
Offices in Germany

United States Consul Liefeld, at Freiberg,
reports to the State Department that the
German government is following the exam
pie Of America and Ell gland and employing
women in the post office department. Ths
experiment of using them clerks and di-
rectors of smaller post offices has been sat
isiactory. The department is now going
step farther and is appointing women as
sistants in the telegraph ard telephone Of
fees. great many omen have also been
appointed to take fUll charge Of smaller
post offices, preference being shown 10 the
widows and daughter of deceased post
masters. Those who have been in tie en-
plcy of the government a long time are to
receive a salary Of 1.200 marks (S2SJJ per
year, with an extra allowance of so marks
(S119) for house rent.
In Norway women have for some time
been employed in the railroad and post OF
flee service, and are how receiving appoint
ments as supervisors of the railroad sta
tions. They receive the reports from the
train conductors answer the many ques-
tionS of travellers in German or English
call out the trains in the waiting rooms,
ring the station bell at the departing of the
train and telegraph its departure 10 the
next station. They perform the duties Of
government telegraph operators, and often
those of postmasters and baggage men.
Evening star., 1898-08-16
REST FOR THE SAILORS.
Revenue Cutters and Light House
Vessels Not Needed by the Navy.

vessels NOT NeeOeQ by the Navy.
All vessels of the navy that can be spared
from service in the West Indies have been
ordered to ports in the states, where the
men will be given brief holidays The big
battle ships of the feet will be put in dry
dock as soon as possible and undergo such
repairs may be necessary. There is
scarcely a vessel of the navy that does
not need docking. 1t is expected that the
large dock in the New York yard will be
ready to receive the ships in about two
weeks. The auxiliary vessels of the navy
which Will not be used for the permanent
navy will be disposed of as soon as they
go out of commission, probably being sold
at auction.
The acting secretary of the navy today
informed the President that in view of the
termination of hostilities the Navy Depart
ment has no further use for the vessels of
the revenue cutter and lighthouse services
which were taken into the navy soon after
the outbreak of the war. He recommends
that they be restored to their usual duties
under the Treasury Department. There are
about twenty of these vessels, and they
have rendered most efficient service in the
prosecution of the war, as dispatch boats
patrol boats, etc. Several of them notably
the Mangrove, were especially valuable in
the conduct of the naval campaign in Gu
ban waters.
Evening star., 1898-08-16
CHAs. w. DAsnIELL DEAD.
For Many Years the City Editor of
the baltimore sun,

BALTIMORE. August l6-Charles W.
Dashiell, for many years the city e1,tor OF
the Baltimore Sun, died at his horne in
this city at 1920 O'Clock this morning.
after an illness of nearly two years drra-
ton.
Mr.. Dashiell was born in Baltimore
nearly forty years ago, and In his early
boyhood took up newspaper work as a
profession After a Few mon MS service on
other local papers he entered the employ
n ent of the Sun, and soon rose to the city
eoitorship, which position he filled with re-
narkable ability. His grace of manner,
gentle and unfaililg courtesy and unim-
peachable integrity made him universally
popular, and his loss will be deeply fell.
not only among his associates. but By all
who came in contact with him.
Evening star., 1898-08-16
IMMUNES MADE TROUBLE
Gen. shafter Orders the Second Regiment
Outside the City of Santiago.
CoIored Troops From Illinois Assign-
ed to the Duty of Preserving
Order and Property.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, August 16, 10 a
m--General Shafter today ordered the q
volunteer Regiment of Immunes to leave
the city and go into camp outside.
Ihe regiment had been placed here as
garrison, to preserve order, and protect
property. There has been firing of arms
Inside OF the town by members of this regi-
heht' without orders, SO far as known
some or the men have indulged in liquor
until they have verged upon acts of license
and disorder
Inc inhabitants In some quarters have
aiieged loss of property by force and in
timdation, and there has grown up feel
ing OF uneasiness. if not of alarm, concern
ing them. /.
General Shafter has, therefore, ordered
tEis regiment into the hills, where disci-
pune can be more severely maintained.
In place of the I'd Volunteer Immune Reg
ih1ent, General Shafter has ordered into
the city the Sth Illinois Volunteer Regimen;
OF coiored troops, in whose sobriety and
discipline he has confidence and of whose
sturdy enforcement of order no doubt is
felt by those in command.
Evening star., 1898-08-16

post as captain general of the Philippines
on August 5.
General Jaudemes was ordered to take
over the command at Manila
The dispatch says: The Americans noti-
fled the authorities at Manila that a bonn
bardment by sea and land would commence
at noon on August 0. The city surrendered
on the 18th and the American flag was
hoisted forthwith.
The Spanish officers were allowed their
freedom on parole. The judiciary and the
administrative offices are to remain tenn
porarily In the hands of the Spaniards
The insurgents remain outside of the
town"
Evening star., 1898-08-16
SENDING OUT DOCUMENTS
Republican Congregational Committee
Has n small Force at Work

The republican congressional committee
has established its stCIehouse and shipuinr
station for campaign documents in house
sl3 10Th street northwest, formerly the res
iGence of clergymen Of ST. Matthews
Cnurch- There we're today employed in
tHis house thirteen people. mostly young
lsdles busy in placing printed speeches of
s. matters and representatives in franked en-
Ne+opes ready to be forwarded as orders for
documents come in. Between 300 600 and
sOton documents were today stored in the
nCl!ding. and they were being shipped. gen
6lally IN rather small quantities, to all
Isrts of the country.
Ot course, the work of distributing cam
paign literature will not assume the nro.
portions II took on during the presidential
contest, when about u. .0O0. 900 documents
were sent out from this city by the repub
HC2n congressional committee At one tiIna
during that campaign this committee en-
pioyed 2Oo people in placing documents in
trF nked envelopes, addressing them pack-
ing and sen1ing them out, and in one dsy
luo,pD of these documents were shippej
W lille no such record may be looked for
curing the present campaign. a very large
quantity of literature will be circulated
The amount depending upon the wsy TIE
p nlpaign seems to be progressing during 2
The next fe v weeks and the requests that
scme in from candidates.