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THE UNITED STATES BATTLE-SH IOWA.

the Commissioners Of the District Of Columbia 20
furnish and forward at once 10 such place as ne
may select and designate all the military orsaniza-
lions OF those who became citizens by operation
Of the XVIII Amendment 10 the Constitution. me
ranks be filed by recruiting or otherwise 10 inc
maximum strength required for the Regular
Army The bill only applies 10 the colored militia
and is framed 10 meet complaints that the colored
people are being ignored In the enlistment 81
troops 1t contempates three years service All
field and staff officers to be appointed by the
President and persons ineligible for enlist mt
In the ranks shall be eligible for appointment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-28

and attached 10 the frigate Sabine in 1861. From
1862 10 1864 he was Admiral FaJragut's aid on
the Hartford. Of the West Gulf Squadron. Com
mlssioned lieutenant about that time. he took
part in the hombardment and passage Of Forts
Jackson and St Philip and the Chamette bat
tertes in April 1862 passage Of the Vicksburg
batteries in June and July. 1862 passage Of
Port Hudson, on March IA. 1863 passage Of
Grand Gulf on March 10 and 80. 1858; battle Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-28

Warrington. June y Representative Hull. ~
Iowa today introduced bill 10 provide auxiliary
volunteers" for the occupation and defence ot any
islands or territory that may come under the con
frol OF the United States The bill Involves on4y
cojored volunteers and is framed their ndi-
the Governors II the States and Territories and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-28
INCREASE or THE PAY CORPS ASKED

WASHINGTON June y Secretary Alger to-day for
warded 70 the House a recommendation for legis-
laiive authority for adding IN the pay department
~ the Army two assistant peymaeter-generals with
the rank Of colonel. and six deputy paymaser-
generals ranking as lieutenant colonies. In the
counter army. ~ be selected from officers ~ the
Regular Army now In the pay department. Early
action is asked for the ground that tho officers
~ tho my department will soon he on duty outside
the limits Of the United States. In letter from
General Stanton Paymaster General. promotions aS
follows recOmmcndcd:
To b. assistant general with rank ~ colo
r.i ~ voiunie4r. CHARLES MrLrRE. paynas-
To be deputy paymasicr senetsls ranking as lieutenant
o3lon.ls u volunteers Majors \ s TQNAR, 'HAkI.S
y WHIPPLE JOHN 9. MUHLENRER1. CHARLES
r RILBorR NE. all now paynsfters
The other assistant psymaster general Ia not o.
dciay mentioned In the correspondence
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-28
SICK SOLDIERS SENT TO AfLANI''

Tampa Fla. June ., lspeciaD.-The uove Cove. cav.
hospital train will start from here to-morio~ IN
ryinc hfty sick soldiers from the various o A..
this neighborhood TO Fort MCPHERSON, n q, and Q
lanta None OF the men are danseIyyus - am AZ Tor
change Of air II IL believed viii MAKE tndavs re.
duty in comparatively short ume;a 81 ofhcsr Of
ports 10 Captain Franklin chief medi. a. gsnerA
the corps STATIONED here indicate that the s
health of the camps Is excellent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-28

.oreaenca &c EXPRESSED that the peerless Iowa
and the Oregon will destroy the last remnant OF
SPANS sea power and effectually extingu'sh
any delusion that the Spaniards have or pelns
able 10 regain their colonies.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-28
SCENE OF PROPOSED ATTACK.

SPANISH COAST AND FORTlflCATlONS
THAT DEFEND IT
Washington June 2I-When the American
squadron sails for Spain II VIII take Win II
complete information as to the entire s're'ch oi
Spanish coast with detail maps OF every maroon
ard its fortifcations. The War Board had
..s ., this information before It to-day. and
.,.n. a oooa oart Of the day studying Spanish
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-28
THE BATTLE-SHIP OREGON.
from the New England coast, and should reaCn
Cuban waters by the end OF the week
COMMODORE John G WATSON

Washington June q Speciah-Commodore
John Crttenden Watson was born In kentuck
on August q. 1872 and was appointed 70 'he
Naval Academy on September -. IcJo De!Hs
graduated in 1860 He was promoted 70 master
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-28
FOR THE BENEFIT or COLORED MILITIA

sagasts on the subject Of measures N alleviate
djefrees IN Catalonia
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-28
HOT-SE.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BUSINESS SPECIAL
COMMITTEE ON CENSUS
| Warrington. June q The House today won,
promptly to the consideration ~ District OF Conm.
| hla legislation.
| Mr.. HENDERSON (Rep.. Iowa). from the Com
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-28
Mrs. WinslOW's Soothing Syrun

la, leo, ..-, .or over hItrl lEAho W NlL.iuNs ~
MUTHGIsS Tor iaer CHILDREN WHILE lEErhINU
w,,h pIKFECT SUCCESS. IL SOOTHES the CHILD
sOFTENS the GUMS ALLAYs all PAIN; CURES WIND
CoIJC sni /. the best remedy for DIARRHCEA Soa
Nv Du9as. IN every part world Pc and ask M
Nm Wlnsiox :, othing syrup and take other kind
Twenty-Five cents hottie.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-28

. pxt a
Abs d htedu
b1 cary
Enarnda and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-28

ING distance Of the long stretch OF Spanish
coast.
The times., 1898-01-23
"Parasitic Wealth"

Parasitic Wealth; or, Money Re
FORM is small volume by an author
with the plain, simple and revolution
ary name of John Brown. The preface
is hearty testimonial to the life and
work of Henry George, followed by
a statement that the author, in MAX
ing the argument of the book is in no
way actuated by any personal enmity
against the rich. Tie argument is, in
brief, that people instinctively feel
that underlying the present social dis
tress there is some great latent wrong,
and that it behooves the public to find
out whether this is due to what Mr..
Brown calls a bacillus in the body poll
itic, or to some. universal and irresisti-
bic economic law. BY means of dia-
grams and statistics, he then goes on
TO prove that 8 per cent. of the people
of the United States own II per cent
of its wealth. He claims that, with
fair play, this could not be so, and
points out that if Adam had earned
what is now fair living, and saved a
fair proportion of his income, and put
those savings in a bank, he would, if
now alive, have become possessed of
only about 81 100000 Mr. Browns idea
is that the state should not only be
policeman, but the arbiter of fair
play. 1t should not only restrain men
from injuring one another physically,
but likewise industriaIly. He claims
that the Government should not only
issue money, but should establish mer.
camille and savings banks and trans
act all the riskless financial business
of the country, at the actual cost for
banking services. Private banks would
still exist, to carry on enterprises where
risks are involved. The purpose of
the whole book, in short, is 10 break
the money power, which places the
property and the government of the
country in the hands of few and
transfer the government to the hands
of the people. that competition may
be really free. and the majority may
really rule. 1t is. in short, a deduc,
ton from the teachings of Henry
George as they have impressed the
minds of thousands OF MEN in all parts
of the country. Some people will be
inclined to hoot at its arguments and
decry its rhetoric. but others will find
1t interesting, useful. and true (Chi-
cago: Charles II. Kerr & Co. Wash
ington: All booksellers.)
The times., 1898-01-23
4 National Church .

One of three books on the subject of
the religious organizations in America
is "A National Church. by William
Reed Huntington, rector of Grace
Church, New York Others by the
same author are The Church Idea;
an Essay Toward Unity" and THE
Peace of the Church "A National
Church is a lecture, originally deliy-
cred at Kenyon College, to whose presi-
dent and faculty it is inscribed. Ii
discusses in calm, judicial and gen
tie spirit the question whether an
American national church would be a
good thing, and if so, how it is to be
brought about.
Dr. Huntington begins by pointing
out that the idea, pure and simple, of
national church, has never received
much consideration. Such national
churches as exist in England, Scotland,
and elsewhere, have grown up natural
ly, and have been considered more as
facts than as theories. In America, on
the contrary, a national church would
have to be made out of the various in
dividual churches at present occupying
the field. In America, the author
adds, we can work with a perfectly
free hand, unhampered by any fear of
interference from the civil power.
Moreover, an ecumenical council could
owing to the ease of transportation and
of communication, be more quickly as
sembled, and work more effectively,
now than at any time heretofore.
Then DR.. Huntington turns to the
question of practicability. He finds
that there are at present in the United
States one hundred and forty-three dis
tinct denominations, only sixty-three
of these, however. being professedly
Christian denominations claiming up
wards of ten thousand members each.
Most of these denominations, moreover,
fall easily into families under some
bond either of doctrine or of polity.
The question is. then, whether these
ten families, as they finally prove to
be, can be reduced to one national
church, worthy of the name. 1t is
pointed out that there would not, under
this arrangement, be half a dozen
competing divinity schools in Toxic;
that churches in small towns would
more easily exist when consolidated,
and the impression ON the minds of the
young would be much more favorable
than it now is. The idea would be that
The times., 1898-01-23
Iincoln as a Doorkeeper.

(From the Chicago Inter ocean,
Mr.. James Eiter is one of the Oldest
doorkeepers in the War Department and
has been stationed at the seventeenth
street entrance to the Winder building for
many years, occupying chair in which
President Lincoln sat while he acted as
doorkeeper in place of Mr.. Elter. Speak
ing of the incident, Mr.. Elter said:
.'one day n tall, lank gentleman came
to the entrance and asked me il the Secre-
tary was in, and told him no, that it was
too early for him. He then asked at
what hour he would be likely to find
him, and 1 told him. With a pleasant
Thank You (something we don't always
get) he walked away.
AT the hour / told him that the secre-
tary would be in, he again walked up the
steps and asked me il / would not go to
the Secretary's room, and tell him that he
wished to see him. j told him that could
not IeavesIny post.
.''Oh, that is all right; 1 am Mfr. Lin
coin, and I Will keep door while you de-
liver my message. Tell him that / want
to see him here in the lower hail.
with this the President unpinned my
badge, stuck it in his own coat, and took
my chair. | hastened to the Secretary's
rooln and soon the two We're together
near ine, but in quiet and earnest talk.
/ never did know why Mr.. Lincoln did
not want to go to the secretaryS room,
but know that / prize this chair. 1 call
it Abe Lincoln. No doubt that was the
Only time a President ever acted as door
keeDer"
The times., 1898-01-23
A CARLYLE story.

From the Atlantic Monthly.l
Nothing could well be more curious that
day than the look and costume of Carlyle.
He had then been living in Dondon nearly
forty wears, yet he had the untamed aspect
of one lust arrived from Ecclefechan' lie
wore an old experienced coat, such as
Thoreau attributes TO his Scotch fisherman,
one having that unreaSonably high collar
of other days, In which the head was SUNK,
his hair was coarse ana stood up at its
own VIII his bushy whiskers were thrust
into prominence by those stiff collars whlch
the German students call father-kiliers,
from tradition that their points once
pierced the jugular vein OF parent duTlnG
an affectionate embrace.
In this guise, with a fur cap and stout
walkingstick, he accompanied Froude and
myself on our walk. | observed that near
his Chelsea home the passers-by regarded
him with a sort of familiar interest, farther
off with undisguised curiosity, and at Hyde
Park again with q sort of recognition, as II
an accustomed figure. At one point ON
our way home some poor children were
playing on a bit of rough ground lately
included in a park, and they tinidiy stop
ped their frolic as we drew near.
The Oldest boy, looking from one to an
other OF lis, selected Carlyle as the least
formidable, and said: II say. mister, may
we roll on this here grass?'' Carlyle stop
ped, leaning on his staff, and said in his
homelest accents: Yes, my little fellow,
We may r-r-roH at discra ytion;'' when the
children resumed their play, one little girl
repeating his direction audibly, as if in a
vain effort to take in the whole ming of
his long word.
The times., 1898-01-23
CURRENT VERSE.
Rhyme of Rhxmes

=
via on The mountain peak the wind
Repeats its old refrain,
Like ghosts or iuortals who have sinDed,
AND fain would sin again.
f9f w ind l 10 not rhyme to mind"
Like many mortal men,,
gain" twnen one refjects) twere kind
10 rhyme as IL 'agen.p
1 never met q single soul
VINO spoke OF wIna' as ''wined,"
Ana yet We use it, on the whole,
To rhyme 10 find" and -'blipd.-
We say, Now, don't do that agen,''
Wnen people give us pain;
In poetry, nine times III ten,
II rhymes To spain" or Dane"
Oh, which is wrong or which is right?
oh, which is right or wrong?
Tne sound in prose familiar, quite,
Or those we meet III song?
To hold that love" can rhyme to prove"
Requires sorne force of will,
Yet in the ancient lyric groove
We meet them rhyHIiDg still.
This was our learned fathers wont
In prehistoric times,
We follow II, or IL we don't,
we OFT run short OF rhymes.
Andrew Lang.
The times., 1898-01-23
III Il [llt 11[1l|2Eltl1fll|-l d Ut

| include Grant and Tilden, the dethron-
! ed President. and all the other heroes
or magnates of his day and genera
| ton.
| A large part of the memoirs-to call
them so-are devoted to the "Plunder
1 of Eleven States. This depart
| ment of the work is given up TO con-
sideration of the operations of the Re
| publican party in the Southern States
! after the civil war. We do not be-
-lieve that it is good thing to review
! in the press. In those days and under
the auspices of the party then in pow
er, so many thingG were done locally
! and indorsed by the Federal Govern
ment that would today be regarded as
horrible by half civilized power, that
/ we think it wrong to revive them even
in a historical connection. The stu
dent who wishes to know the frightful
truth will find it in the speech of Mr..
Voorhees,. on the ''PlUnder of Eleven
States" delivered in the House of
Representatives, on March 23 1873.
Other publications in the volumes
are THE Tariff and a large number
of speeches upon the currency ques-
ton. Mr.. VOORHEES, for years was one
OF the foremost advocates of the mon
ey of the Constitution. His speeches
all show this. II, at the command of
the Cleveland Administration, he
seemed TO depart from his principles,
and to bow down to the power of the
gold contractionists, in voting To re-
peal the purchasing clause of the Sher-
| man act. his friends say that, never
theless, he was a bimetallist. and only
submitted to temporary party conSid-
erations. always religiously believing
that the future would bring the op-
portunitieS and the means for repent
ence and absolution. While ostensib.y
assisting the pelicy of Grover Cleve-
land, it must be said that Mr.. Voor-
hees was too good a Democrat at
heart to be satisfied with it, and it
will be a happy thought to his friends
TO know that If God had spared his
life until 1900; he would have been
found upon the right side
No reviewer would attempt to talk
about the mass of matter, in col
umn or two, that is included in the
two handsome volumes of Senator
voorhees, public speeches for forty
years They cover too great a field.
They are too voluminous for separate
review. But the work as a whole is
something that should find its place
in the library of every student of
American history or politics, and
should be read by every man who re-
veres the memory of the departed
Tall Sycamore OF the Wabash" On
dianapolis: The Brown Merrill Com
pany. Washington; Hooker & McCaus-
land. agents Nendome Hotel. So
The times., 1898-01-23
r.aleDdar of Good Intentions.

Said Father Tempus, I nave a plan.
I'm going 10 swear off on tire first Of
JAN.
But his resolution be gan TO ebb.
He was Two days shy by che end OF
Then he lost his temper and went so far
A to ba wi and buster all through
He pufred and blew till 1t spoiled his
shape,
So he took the water cure in
AP.
He took a shower bath every day,
And was most disagreeable all through
MAY.
Then summer came and he changed ms
tune
Any fool can be good in
But the strain was 50 great that by and by
He was taken with fever in
He only Just escaped the morgue,
His teTnpera atuTe was 50 high in
Never We're resolutions kept
So well as in conyaleScen5
When he recovered the world was shocked
For ne painted the country red in
Then he howled and ragged like fiend in
love.
He was full as could be OF remorse in
NOV.
It's plain. said he. this thing must cease,
III swear off again-at the end OF
Life.
The times., 1898-01-23
The Old Man Dreams,

o for one hour of youthful JOY,
Give back my twentieth spring,
I'd rather laugh bright-haired boy
Than reign a gray beard king.
Off with the wrinkled spOi!s Of age!
Away with Ieafning's crown,
Tear out life's wisdom-written page,
And dash its trophies down,
Gre moment let my life blood stream
From boyhood's fount of flame.
Give me one giddy. reeling dream
OF life all love and me.
My listening angel heard the prayer,
And calmly smiling, said,
IF | but touch thy silvered hair,
Thy hasty wish hath sped.
'.But is there nothing in thy track
To bid thee fondiy stay,
While the swift seasons hurry back
To find the wishedfOr day.
All, truest soul OF womankind,
without thee, what We're life!
One bliss | cannot leave behind,
III take-lny -precious-wfe.
The angel took a sapphire pen
And wrote in rainbow dew.
The man would be boy again,
And be a husband, too
And Is there nothing yet unsaid,
Before the change appears;
Remember, all their gifts have fled
With those dissoiying years"
Why, yes; for memory would recall
My fond paternal joys.
/ could not bear to leave them ALL
I'll take-my- giris-and boys!
The silent angel dropped his pen
why, this will never do:
You cannot be Il Doy agaIn
And be a father, too,'
And so / laughed-my laughter woke
TIE household with its noise
And wrote my dream. when morning broke
To please tile gray haired boys.
oliver Wendell Holmes.
The times., 1898-01-23

all churches should unite upon "a
foundation composed of huge, rough
hewn blocks of a sort which can be
counted upon to stay put without COM
ment." These are the primitive creeds,
for instance, in which all churches
practically agree. DR.. Huntington
suggests that there might be county
church, the center of administration
being the county town, and the chief
pastor of the Christians of the county
being sort of missionary
Each local church would be entitled to
administer its own affairs, while repre-
sentatives of the groups would come
together as often as might be found
desirable, to exchange ideas. 1t is, in
short, the American principle of civil
polity applied to ecclesiastical polity.
Such modified form of the Anglican
Church, established in America, may or
may not be practicable; it would GER
tainly have its advantages, though it
might not be possible in any case: but
the lecture is very interesting to read
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
Washington: All booksellers.)
The times., 1898-01-23
Snow birds.

Wide wastes of glittering snow,
The fields and the lanes adrift,
Wild winds that infrequent blow,
Gray clouds that remove and shift;
Ind swift from the ground upSpring
The snowbirds tiny and wary,
Blown hither on restless wing
In January.
Packed close is the barren hedge
With white and shining wall;
The wind cuts like a wedge
Deep-driven by oaken maui;
And up from the fsed-iotS rise
The snowbirGs agile and merry,
Under the iorn steel skies
or January.
The sun burns sullen and red;
The woods are as black as night;
The pulse of the world is dead.
And sudden, to leftand right.
Brown-spun in q whirling maze,
The snowbirds over the prairie
Weave out through the snowy ways
OF January.
-Woman's Home Companion.
The times., 1898-01-23
NV shadow,

1 have d little shadow tnat goes in and out
with M,
And what can be the use OF him is more
than can see.
He is very, very ike me, from the heels up
to the head;
And see h lIu JuIIip before Ine when Jump
into my bed.
The funniest thing about hin is the way he
likes TO grow
Not at all like proper children, which is
always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller, like an
IndiarUUber ball,
And lie Sometimes gets 50 little that there's
none of h i'm at all.
One morning very early, before the sun
was up,
rose and found the shining dew on every
Duttercup,
But my lazy little shadow ike an arrant
sleepy-haad,
Had stayed at home ijehind me, and was
fast asleep i'll bed.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
The times., 1898-01-23
.Idle Songs and Idle sonnets."

A book by Harrison Conrard, with the
title Idle Songs and Idle Sonnets,' -
has just been issued in Cincinnati.
Most of the poems sound as if the au-
| thor had enjoyed himself while writing
them. Here and there the edges are a
bit ragged, and the meter Iimps be-
cause Of too many feet, but the muse
IS healthy muse, and moves easily
along a somewhat devious path. One
of the best of the songs is that of
Maggie Driving Home the Cows" of
which the first verse runs in this way:
Golden is the noon of summer,
And the crimson burst of dawn
CLOVIS across the faIrest meadows
Ever sunbeam fell upon.
Clear the lark and sweet the robin,
Pour their greeting TO the morn,
And the Saucy blackbird chirrups,
Swinging IN the tasselled corn;
But the notes of one glad carol
A ii the sleepy meadows rouse,
'Tis the voice of Maggie singing;
Maggie driving home the cows;
Little Maggie,
Barefoot Maggie;
Maggie driving home the cows"
One is sometimes tempted to inquire
if there would be so many references
to the lark in American literature if
the lark We're not the pet bird of Eng
not poetical bird, and naturally there
would be no such traditions about him
if all the English poets, from Chaucer
down, had not celebrated their own sky
lark in golden verse. This Maggie
poem would also be prettier if the au-
thor had not become so delighted with
his own rhetoric that he covered two
pages with it when the subject would
hardly justify one. In fact,
nearly every one of the songs
would be considerably improved
by condensation. AS TO tl< SON
nets, a sonnet is a dangerous kind
of verse for an inexperienced writer to
handle. 1t is something like dancing
in fetters-a good dancer may do It
slSillfully, but a poor one is apt to get
his feet tangled. Mr.. Conrard has TO
sacrifice his grammar, his rhythm and
his rhetoric now and then to meet the
exigencies of his yersification. He
cries, for instance:
Accused world, hemmed in by hell's foul
moat,
Thou art all bane, with ne'er anantidote.
In trying to unsnarl the metaphor of
a world hemmed in by a moat, and re-
quiring an antidote, to say nothing of
trying to appreciate the very pessimis-
tic point of view herein conveyed, the
mind of the unprecedented critic is be-
wildered. In another sonnet the au-
thor comes to the conclusion that it will
not be SO bad to die. and lie in the
ground and decay-which process is de-
scribed with a minuteness not exactly
delectable-if he can only know that mo
heaven imposed duty has been left un-
done" Let us hope that it will not be
his heaven-imposed duty to write any
more sonnets just like that one He
will do better to keep to the song, the
ballad and the quatrain for while
longer. (Cincinnati: The Editor Pub
fishing Company. Washington: All
booksellers.)