The age-herald., 1898-07-31
OBVIOUSLY
 D|SAPPPG0IIHHT IfD Is Spain That HOstiIifss Have
 Not Ceased. PEACE OUTLOOK REGRE TIED In Camps Where the Troops Have
 Seen No Service. THERE IS STILL PLENTY OF WORK Many Troops Will Be Needed in Cuba
 and Porto Rico. A WHOLESOME YOUNGSTER Causes Quite a Stir in the Navy De- partment-Admiral Cervera Used as Drawing Card by Ad-
 vertising Artists.
Many Troops Will Be Needed in Cuba
 and Porto Rico.
A WHOLESOME YoUNGSTER
BY ARCHIBALD W. BUTT.

BY ARCHIBALD w. BUTT.
 Washington, July 3O.-There is a growing belief here that Spain is not sincere in her overtures for peace. At any rate 1t Is well known that there is considerable op- position within the queens government re- garding the advsability of suing for it at this time. When the presidents answer is handed to the cabinet and his ultimatum made known to the leaders it will then be seen how earnest the government is in the matter.
 State officials here are of the opinion that Spain asked for a cessation of his tilities at the time she did for the sole purpose of putting an end to the Porto Rican campaign, with the hope that the island could be saved to the crown. It seems to be admitted that she expected orders to be sent at once to General Miles to halt on the road to San Juan. That she is previously disappointed is shown in the protests she is now making to foreign pow CTS and in her claims that our continu- ance of the war there is contrary to all military etiquette and usages.
 Little attention is being paid here to the statement made by Senor Sagasta that hostilities should have ceased as soon as Spain expressed her willingness to nego- tiate for peace. The fact remains that this government had no intention that Spain was ready to sue for peace until Tuesday evening, at o'clock, after Gener- al Miles had already landed on Porto Ri- can soil. Our military authorities hold that there should be no cessation of hostilities until there had been an agreement between hoe kAa none, and until Spain accepts as a basis of settlement the presidents note, there will be none. It is believed here that Spain will refuse to make answer for time and try once more to secure European meddling in the war.
 There is regret expressed in some quar- ters over the prospect of an early peace. Nothing illustrates the fighting qualities of the American better than the regret expressed in the various camps that the war might end without the regiments now in camp seeing any of 1t. As fast as the wounded get well here and at Fortress Monroe they apply at once to be sent to the front again. One of the most disa- greeable features of the war has been the pressure which has been brought to bear upon the war authorities to have this or that regiment sent to the front. An att tempt has been made to bring in sectional 3ealousies in order to get certain states represented. The president is very much annoyed and at the same time distressed over the attempt which has been made to make 1t appear that the southern regi- ments have been discriminated against. There were none sent on the Cuban ex- pedition for the reason that few, if any, were in readiness to go. There were very few volunteers detained for that expedition and those that came into the war thorough ly equipped and ready for actual warfare. The south has its quota in the Porto Rican expedition, and is represented in that to the Philippines.
 It has in the Porto Rican expedition the Fifth regiment from Maryland, the First and Third Kentucky, the First Florida and Second Georgia, besides the immune regi- ments from Texas and Louisiana, which go to Santiago. Other immune regiments from the south will be sent to Cuba as fast as they are ready. There is plenty of work yet to be done, and should peace ensue there will be many regiments now in camp sent to Porto Rico and Cuba.
 Should Spain decide to lay down her arms without further resistance, there is still the whole of the island of Cuba to be gar risoned It will take twenty-five thousand men to garrison the district of Havana alone, it Is said here. These troops will he retained there until a stable govern
 
 will be compelled to keep strong army on the island for long time in order to carry out It's assurances that property rights would and should be protected.
 Garrison work Is not as exhillcrating as fighting Spanards from ambush or rather receiving fire from ambush or charging block houses manned by men with Mauser rifles, but 1t affords constant excitement md change and a good deal of the disa- greeable wear which comes with war.
 It Is seldom that the navy department has such a shaking up was given it the Long, The young lad who is just in his teens often goes down to the department in the carriage which brings the Secretary home to his lunch. He went as usual to the secretarys office to inform him that fhe carriage had come. The secretary was very busy and told his son to sit quietly until he finished signing some letters. Af- ter this he went into the assistant secre- tary's office and renamed there for some time.
 Long began to look around to see what he cd for a while with small statue of Hob- Dewey. Finally his eye wandered on a strange row of buttons, eighteen in all, by the side of the secretary's writing pad. Theso he made believe were piano keys and began to drum the devils tattoo on them. In few moments a messenger came in a retary?' Gone out; be back presently" rc;lledthc boy. Soon some one else rushed