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The Advocate and news., 1898-07-27
SAMPSON Gets incentive Orders,

Washington, July M.-President Nc
Kinley is thoroughly aroused over the
delay which has occurred in the start
ing Of General Miles and the expedition
under his command for Porto Rico.
For several days General Miles and
his troops have been aboard their trans
ports at Playa del Este awaiting the
naval convoy which is to be furnished
by Admiral Sampson. The troops have
been sweltering in the crowded ships
under the broiling heat of a tropical
sun, while General Miles has been chat
ing under what he believes to be mex
cusable delay and is bombarding the
War department with dispatches urging
in the strongest terms that the navy
be hurried in its preparations for the
expedition. Instructions of the most
positive nature have been cabled to
Admiral Sampson to supply the neces-
sary conveys for General Miles trans
ports, but Notwithstanding these in
stluctions, Admiral Sampson has pro-
ceeded with his preparations for the ex-
petition with deliberation that is ex-
asperating to the officials here.
General Wilson's Porto Rico expedi-
lion has already sailed from Charleston
and it is feared that If the navy delays
much longer that the former will arrive
at Porto Rico first and be without pro-
lection Fully appreciating these facts
and realizing the necessity for prompt
action ir getting General Miles and his
Cuban expedition started, President Nc
Kinley this morning issued personal Or
derE through the Secretary of the Navy
to Admiral Sampson that he should pro-
Ceed Immediately to Porto Rico with
General Miles. The Presidents orders
are susceptible to no misconstructiOn.
They ara imperative to a degree seldom
employed except in cases of extreme
emergency. They are of the sort that
will brock NO delay in their execution.
Admiral Sampson must start at once
or the President himself will know the
reason why.
The Advocate and news., 1898-07-27
War Notes.

General Shafter wants the immune
regiments attached to his command.
Lieutenant Colonel E. G. Little is able
to be around again and has Joined his
regiment.
The regular army is still short $4,000
men to make up its full complement of
$1,000 men.
Camp Alger must be healthy. Not a
man in the Twenty-second has died up
to this time.
The Spanish soldiers at Santiago had
only been paid 81 each in three months
when they surrendered.
The government does not expect that
Spain will move in the matter Of peace
until Havana is taken.
The blockade at Santiago has been
raised and vessels may enter and leave
the harbOr at their pleasure.
Battery A, First artillery, which was
at Santiago, fires shells which cost SAT
each. The fuse alone costs $3.50.
North Carolina is further behind in
its enlistment Of soldiers than any other
State. The Governor is Republican.
Washington gOssips say that General
KeIfer, the well-known ex-Speaker Of
Congress, is to be governor Of Santiago.
Vienna newspapers say that there is
no ground for European nations to in
terIere with the expedition Of COmmo-
dore Watson.
The prisoners taken by General Shat
ter at Santiago number 22,7S9. There
were 10000 rifles and 100000 rounds
Of ammunition.
Spanish reports indicate that General
ToTal will be court-martialed when he
returns to Spain. 1t is alleged by the
government that he had no authority to
The Advocate and news., 1898-07-27

The Supreme court of the United
States has recently decided that suicide
by person of sound mind will defeat
a policy Of life insurance, even where
there is no stipulation in the policy
against suicide, because the contract for
insurance did not contemplate payment
for deliberate self-destruction and that
the time Of payment could not be Op-
tiOnal with the insured and become fixed
by the Intentional taking of his own
life. The idea has prevailed quite gem
orally tnat there could not be such a
thing as a sane suicide and that no
person in his right mind would take his
own life. But this decision Is based
upon different theory In holding that
the intentional self-destruction by a
person Of sound mind defeated the pol
Icy Of insurance on his life.
The Advocate and news., 1898-07-27
ToraI's ARMY does to spaIn.

Contracts have been let at Washing
ton for the transportation of General
TOral's Santiago army to Spain. The
Spanish TraEs-Atlantique Company gets
the contract. The terms are 500 for
privates and $55 for officers, which will
entail total cost of $535,O0O. The ships
are Spanish and will fly the Spanish
flag. 1t causes considerable comment
that the government should enter into a
friendly contract with company whose
vessels have been converted into Span
The Advocate and news., 1898-07-27
Neodesha Stlll Forges Ahead.

Eeodesha is now going to buy a wa.
terworks plant. 1t voted $4,000 Of
bonds about year ago for a munich
pal natural gas plant They were taken
by its own citizens In the last three
moths 1t has paid all expenses and has
put 5000 in the treasury. This was such
a success that the waterworks plant
will now be bought. NeOdesha Is surely
a progressive town. In ten years other
cities will be wondering why thy did not
take up this line when Neodesha did.
1t may be to Kansas what Glasgow is
to The world. II is making a good start.
The Advocate and news., 1898-07-27
ish auxiliary cruisers. It is agreed that
1t is best, though.
No Peace Talk at Madrid.

Madrid, July 21.-A newspaper here
to-day publishes statement from a
cabinet minister who says that he is alb
solutely ignorant Of any peace negotia-
tiOns. He added that if there are over
lures they shall be made to the minister
of foreign affairs, Duke AlmOdovar de
Rio, and that Senior Gamaza, minister of
public instruction, will be charged with
the negotiations.
The Advocate and news., 1898-07-27
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stock of cash in the pockets of the sol
diers there.
The Republican Governors of Massa-
chusetts and Oregon are away behind in
supplying their quota of troops. Until
they provide the number assigned to
them, Republican papers should keep
still about Governor Leedy. He has
furnished every man asked for, has sent
them out In goo0 shape and has been
ready and willing to exceed the quota.
The Advocate and news., 1898-07-27

surrender the territory outside OF the
city of Santiago.
Lieutenant G. A. JillsOn, of Company
II, Iwenty-secOnd Kansas, has secured
a twenty-day leave of absence and is In
Kansas on a visit
The Spanish torpedo boat Temerarlo,
which has been at Assumption, Para
quay, for several weeks undergoing re-
pairs, has sailed north.
Madrid papers are chafng under the
strict censorship imposed by the gov
ernment Several suggest that they may
as we'll suspend publication.
Madrid papers say that a coalition of
the variOus parties against the govern
ment Is being effected because of the
suspension of the constitution.
Larned has two representatives at
Santiago. One is Nelson Bartoo, rough
rider, and the other William II. Smith,
who Is an electrician on the gunboat
Resolute.
Chaplain Barney Kelly is not in this
affair at ALL Newspapers are reporting
that he is at the front in Cuba, but he Is
really helping half dozen privates hold
Fort Bliss, in Texas.
Lieutenant Safer, who was killed in
the first days fighting at Santiago, was
reared at Chanute. He graduated from
the High school there and was appoint
ed to West Point in 1890.
A foreign minister at Washington
suggests that If peace negotiations are
desired by Spain that they can be con-
Quoted through General Shafter and
General TOral at Santiago.
Three Spanish steamers have arrived
at Gibraltar from Cadiz. They fear that
Watson's arrival at the last named
place will be followed by the destruction
Of the shipping in the harbor
The Spanish vessels which were in
Santiago harbor and which surrendered
when the army capitulated are not
prizes taken by either the army or navy,
but go directly to the government.
AS a result Of the agitation OF wives
and mothers three regimental canteens
have been abolished at Camp Thomas,
which Is located on the ChiCkamauga
battlefield. Kansas boys never had one.
The board of health Of San Francisco
has declared that Camp Merritt is nui-
sance from sanitary standpoint. The
Kansas boys Camped there will be
moved to the Preside II they are not
transported at once.
Lieutenant Clad Hamilton, Of Topeka,
has been detailed to command the Ore
gOn recruits until they arrive at Ma
nila. The Oregon regiment has gone
forward and the recruits have been
brlgaded temporarily with the Twen-
tieth Kansas.
The Spanish government has sent a
draft for $4,000 to Admiral Cervera to
pay the expenses of himself and his men
In this country. The Admiral says that
nothing which would contribute to his
comfort has been omitted by the Ameri-
can government.
Nineteen paymasters have been sent
to Santiago to pay the troops under
General Skaters command. The boys
will be paid in cash and after the pay
ment has been made the officers will
proceed to Porto Rico to replenish the
The Advocate and news., 1898-07-27
Patriotic POpullsts EulOgize Fighters.

The Labette county Populists adopted
the following resolutions:
I'VE point with pride to the splen-
did victory Of Commodore Dewey, Com
modOre Schley and General Shafter as
an evidence of what American manhood
can do when aroused by a great emer-
gency, and we call the attention of the
people to the fact that of the 5000 vol
unteers recently enrolled in Kansas g.
273 voted for Bryan and free silver, and
we point to this instance as proof that
the Republican party has no monopoly
on patriotism or valor in the defense Of
the old flag"
The Advocate and news., 1898-07-27
Is LlttIe PhyslcaIIx DlsquallfIed ?

San Francisco, July 21.-Brigadier
General Miller has ordered medical
board to convene to examine into the
physical condition of Lieutenant Colo
mel Little, once acting commander of the
Twentieth Kansas volunteers, to dis
cover If he be not physically disQuali-
fed for the duties Of his post.
The Advocate and news., 1898-07-27
Opening Campaign rleetlngs Arranged.

The Populist State committee has ar
ranged for the State campaign to be
opened in the various districts on the
following dates: First district August
II: Second, August 13; Third, August
Is; Fourth August 18; Fifth, August
20; Sixth, August %; Seventh, August
rs. The speakers and places will be ar
ranged at once and will be announced at
the earliest possible date.
The Advocate and news., 1898-07-27

Charleston, S. c., July 21.-The trans
ports Grand Duchess and No. 30, with
Generals Wilson and Ernst, Second and
Third Wisconsin regiments, put off for
Porto Rico to-day. The loading Of No.
21 Is not yet completed. The Sixteenth
Pennsylvania and two companies of the
Sixth Illinois are being embarked on
her,
The Advocate and news., 1898-07-27
THAT TIRED FEELING

Aching Sensation - Eruptlons - lmms-
dste Benefit.
OMAHA, NEB.--"I was troubled with
an aching sensation and tired feeling all
over my body. concluded TO try Hoods
sarsaparilla and was benefited by II inn
mediately. At the same time / suffered
with eruptiOns on my limbs, but all this
had disappeared after / had taken two
bottles Of Hoods sarsaparilla." w. A.
HAaAMAN, 9OSS South Goth Street.
The Advocate and news., 1898-07-27
TARGET PRAOTICE AT MIGHT.

FINAOL1Uh AT NIfHT
with Ia
illustration the Mblehead
view by one of her powerful SearChGghts
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-19

There seems to be no doubt that in
many respects tho Cuhans have received
cruel, not to say barbarous, treatment al
tho hands Of their Spanish masters, but
happily this grave charge is not of uni
versal application. The medical officers OF
the Spanish army, as BELTS mon practic.
ing the art Of healing, have in many in.
stances acted noble parts, and at least ono
of their number has exhibited beroism OF
the very highest order. In the course of u
sanguinary engagement with tho insur.
gents DR.. Duran proceeded to the front line,
with the intention of aAording mid to tho
Spanish soldiers, who were falling rapidly
under hot fire, but scarcely had he reach
cd tho scene of action when he was struck
by u Mauscr bullet, which shattered his
knee joint.
In this piteous condition DR.. Duran
managed with tho help of his ordcrlics,
to bind up his own wound and then forth
with commenced u series Of no fewer than
20 major operations on others, inclusive Of
reduction of protruding intestines with
suturo of abdominal opening, extraction
of bullets In various situations, adjust
ment Of compound fracture Of the leg, etc
Many of DIR. Duran's colleagues have been
killed in tho course of this lamentablc
campaign and others have died from dis.
ease, whilc several more, having been I'M
fortunate enough to fall into the hands Of
the insurgents, who do not respect the
Geneva convention, have undergone the
most barbarous treatment One of tho
latter, q young and promising surgeon,
was taken prisoner and subsequently set
at liberty, but not until both his hands
had been severed at the wrists with
hatchet.-Lancet.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-19

Tho Importance of tho mirror in search.
lights is shown by the fact that there il
not at tho present time sufficient num-
Der Of these articles to supply the demand
of tho United States. These mirrors must
DO made with tho utmost nicely, and tho
work is such that it is not easy to hurry
1t. 1t requires ut least wock with pres
ent facilities to complete mirror in tho
best style of tho nrt. Tho glass, which
must BIO of extreme 1incncss and purity, IL
nodded into tho proper form. 1t is in
reality concave Ions with backing OF
silver and protection of tho finest hard.
ened vulcanite.
Tho operations Of grinding and polish
ing must DO conducted on tho most scien-
tiflc principles to produce perfect results.
There is neither gucsswork nor question
about it. Tho preparing of the arc lights
Is relatively easy when once the mirror is
ready. The first soarchlight mirrors were
made In 1881 In England. Franco and
Germany took up the business later, and
a majority of the best work is done in
these two countries. 1t is possible, how
ever, to turn out perfectly satisfactory
mirrors from our own shops. Our fortifi-
cations arc at present most imperfectly
equipped, very fow of them having any
facilities for producing soarchlights In
almost all Of them u dynamo must be set
up. This, however, is not difficult, tho
business having been reduced to such
fine art that within three or four months
every fertilization in tho country could DO
furnished with these very necessary i'd
juncts. York Ledger.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-19
THE GLASS WORKERS
VIII Insist on Twenty Per Cent In.
crease in Wages.

VIII Insist on a Twenty Per Cent In.
crease in Wages.
GAINESVILLE, O., July 19.-The Nationa
Flint Glass Workers union is deter.
mined that the wage scale Of three OF
four years ago, which will average
about 20 Der cent. higher than last
years scale, shall become effective for
the coming season. The national con-
vention went on record yesterday by
instructing the conference committee
to present such scale to the manufac-
tureres.
President Smith. who gives out the
news. gives the following reason for
the step taken:
About three years ago the wages Of
glass blowers were reduced all along
the line. Since that time a tariff law
has been passed to protect manufac-
turers and workingmen, and a largely
increased trade has resulted from the
tax placed on imported goods, but 80
far the manufacturers have been the
only ones to benefit by 1t. and the ac-
ton of the convention was for the pur-
pose of partially restoring the former
wages of glass workers. No trouble of
any extent is expected when the scale
Is presented. although 1t is not ex-
pected that the manufacturers will at
once agree to it. as they were as much
opposed to an increase as the men were
to reduction"
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-19
HOAR'S SHARP CRITICISM.
vigorously Attacks the Statements Of
Professor Norton. |

Professor Norton. ..-
Boston, July 19.-Professor Charles
Eliot Norton. formerly Of Harvard coll
iege. In reply to Senator Hoar, who at
tackled the professor in an address re-
Gently at the opening of the Clark uni
versity summer school, makes public
statement In which he says I.
II did say to the youth Of this uni
versity that this war with Spain was
1nglorious,' and as 1t was for che &C.
complishment of ends unnecessary to
US e. q nation II was needless and
consequently criminal that all Ameri-
cans had their lives at the service Of
the country. but that they should care
fully consider whether the best use
they could make of themselves In her
service was to enlist In such a war. /
see no reason to change these opinions
and this advice"
Senator Hoar. In an open letter to
Norton from his home In Worcester,
makes the following reply to the pro-
fessor's last statement:
"All lovers of Harvard and all lovers
of the country have felt for a long
time that your relations to the univec-
sity made the influence bad for tie
college and bad for the youth of the
country. 1t was high time that some
body should sag what have said. I
could easily. from my own memory and
from the report Of persons who have
met you on social occasions, point out |
many utterances quite as deserving of
severe reproof as those to which have
adverted. am afraid that the habit of
bitter and sneering speech about per-
sons and public affairs has so grown
upon you that you do not yourself
know always what you say. 1t is not
In anybody's power to do you injustice
but yourself"
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-19
The Teddy Tree.

Nature has her rum shops, her sa'
looms. She produces plants which de.
vote themselves to the manufacture
and sale Of intoxicants. The South
American toddy tree Is well known ia
paturalists. It Is well known also ia
the South American beatles, the Oryctes
Hurcules When the latter goes on q
spree, he never goes 1t alone, after the
unneighborly habit Of the human
Arunkard. He collects his friends and
acquaintances to the number Of thirty
or forty; the whole crowd run their
short horns through the bark Of the
today tree, revel in the out1owing
Juices, and, while inebriated, are easily
caught by the human natives.
+ The toddy tree parts with it's liquor
free OF charge. There are other
plants which are less generous. They
exact no less a penalty than the death
of the unfortunate drunkard. And
what do they do with the body!
Strange as it may seem, they eat it. In
this manner they obtain the food which
nourishes them and sustains their
healthful existence.
At the end Of each Of their long
green leaves these plants have pitch.
sr-shaped receptacle. We might style
this the growler; but it never needs to
be rushed. 1t is always full Of what
with special appropriateness might DO
called bug juice-a watery liquor,
sweet to the taste and enebrlating to
The senses. Only in fine weather is the
grOwler open for business. On rainy
lays it is firmly shut up to keep out
the rain that would dilute and spoil
he contents. Natures saloonkeepers do
not water their stock.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-19

When you look at your watch and 1t
reads 30 minutes to ~ o'clock, do you no.
tice the hour marks VIII and XII, or do
you only glance at the position Of the
hands ON the dial and instantly under
stand what timo 1t is2
If oil tho arbitrary hour and minute
hands were wiped out couldn't you tell
what time 1t Is by the town clockp
Tho city Of Detroit Is deeply involved in
the settlement Of these points. A hugo
clock has been put In the tower Of tho fine
new postofflco building. Instead Of tho
customary numerals, plain black band
has been put on the dial and gilded dots
mark the feeting hours.
A local inventor and mathematician do
vised it. He claims and he Is supported
by Sir Edward Beckett, the great clock and
watch authority, that nobody but the very
ignorant believes that the people tell tho
time" from the figures on the dial
If the clock proves satisfactory, proba-
bly, other federal buildings will be SIM
ilarly equipped. Some Of tho Michiganders
are grumbling, but almost everybody ad-
mits that he can toll when IT, dinner time
by looking up ut the big clock, 80 long as
the hour and second hands work, no mat
ter whether there arc any numerals on it
ar not.-Detroit Letter.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-19
AUSTRALIAN SHEEP YARDS.

Work That II Like War - General shey-
man Described the Latter.
Tho shearing season in the wool coun.
tries, says writer In The Sketch, Is tho
most important and the busiest of any
which occur in sheep rearing. The swag.
man has an opportunity which he does not
like and usually disregards, and the Eng
Nsh cadet has no reasonable excuse to re-
main idle. The opening of the sheds is not
simultaneous, for, as the hot weather
comes down from tho equator, those runs
away back-where 1t ID too hot to curse
and ono never secs tho kangaroo-start
cutting out some e eks before sheep walks
IN less temperature, but cooler regions.
The shcarers and the musterers travel in
their own mobs and In many cases work
the same circuit. Shearing In Australia
Is earlier than in New Zealand, SO much
80 that when the merry band has tailed
out the contracts with the "cornstalk,"
'gum chewing" and banana" squatters
Of New South Wales, Victoria and Queens,
land 1t ships to Maoriland and, plying the
blades on the sheep of the Three islands,
returns in timo for the early wool clips
amorg the God forgotten backs Of Queens.
land.
fror 70 inc shearine Is the sheep mus
.erlng for"veeks the homestead has been
Dathed IN req CLOUDS OF sand which rise
from tho drafting yards as tho sheep play
"silly devils" when they arc worked The
yaraers win despair written on their faces
know that they are coming to the end Of
thoir oaths ana the dogs to the limits Of
their endurance. Dratting on cool days Is
possiolo ana may DO compassed with but
lew detohat'ons OF suiphurous character,
Dut OH q scofchcr, when meat can be COOK.
ed on tho zinc roofs and blisters arc raised
ny inc drinking water yard work OF any
description ls-heli, to accept tho merest
ana inadequate Austraiasian coiioquial
Ism. Inc wool washing crow Is another
nha OF experts who hump the billy from
shed to shed They scour tho wood and
attend 10 drying ana packing
In New Zealand heeces arc baled up
Wlthout Washing, but tho sands OF Aus
trilla increase tho weight SO much that
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-19
THE COSTLY PORTAL.

was cast and finished, speaks very en-
Enthusiastically Of the aid which this
process will give to art In this country.
The process has been used with more
or less success In Europe, and especial
ly in Italy. Bartlett announces his
preference for American casting and
declares that his preference is not
based upon patriotic or sentimental
grounds, but upon the fact that he has
found better results here than in Eu-
rope. The bronze portal weighs 1870
pounds, required six months to COM
plete and cost $4,000.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-19

Our English cousins have added a
g'eat convenience to the toilet in tho
firm of elastic shoestrings, elastic cor
st laces and other similar articles.
They are far superior to the old styles
Of elastic cords, which are made both
there and here. They are remarkably
strong and durable, and give a play to
the muscles and joints, which prevents
stiffness and discomforts. For low
shoes they are simply delightful, as
they enable one to have laced shoe,
which is the neatest and trimmest of
all footwear, and at the same time to
have the give and yielding quality
which is the chief charm of elastic
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