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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1898-06-17

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continued at intervals throughout th'
rest Of the night, with firing from small
squads on the various directions
Toward morning the fire slackened
Dawn is the favorite time for attack
and as the east paled the marines, lyint
on their guns, were aroused. Som.
we're actually asleep as they had no res
for forty eight hours and tired nature
could no longer stand the strain, bu'
no attack came.
Three new 5-pound field guns which
could not be used during the night fo1
fear of hitting our own men, shelled
several squads Of spaniards after day
light. They dove into the bushes like
prairie dogs into burrows as the shells
broke over them.
AS the correspondent Of the Associat
ed Press talked with Maj. Cockrell,
who was in charge Of the outposts,
word came of the finding Of the body Of
Sergt. Smith. When and how he was
killed no one knows at this writing.
The men had neither been mustered,
nor had the outposts Of Lieut.. Neville
and Lieut.. Shaw been relieved. b a
Lieut. Col Huntington and Maj.
Cockrell gave high praise to the nerve
and steadiness Of officers and men,
especially the young ones, as the en-
gagement was baptism Of fire for q
large majority. The men were in dark
ness and in q strange land. but they
stood to their posts with courage and
fortitude and there was no symptom Of
panic. The marines, though much ex.
hausted, were eager for more fighting,
promising to infiict heavy punishment.
They complimented the daring Of the
Spaniards with characteristic camp
profanity. Today ample precautions
have been taken and as the dispatch boat
Dauntless was leaving, reinforcements
were landing from the Marblehead. A
stormy time is expected.
Estimates vary as to the attacking
force. some saying 200 and the figures
run as high as 1000. Col. Campina, the
Cuban guide. said the spsniards were
mostly irregulars, but the reports Of the
discharge of Mauser rifles would indi-
cate thae they were regulars. as most Of
the guerrillas carry Remingtone. The
Cuban guerrillas. as . rule, have more
dash and courage than the.regulars.
The new. campaign uniforms prove
satisfactory and are almost invisible at
q distance Of 900 yards. The Lee guns
caused several accidents in drawing
cartridges. Corporal Glass shattered
his hand.
Despite the loss Of the men, who are
keenly regretted, the marines rejoice
that they have been engaged in their
first fight on Cuban soil. They sailed
from New York the day war was de-
clared and expected to land within a
week at Havana. Since then until they
landed on the shore Of Guantanamo
bay, they have been cooped up on the
Panther and they had begun to fear
that the troops would beat them after
all.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1898-06-17
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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1898-06-17

P. S.-Send me some of your papers
as they would be like letters from home
to the boys.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-28
STORING AWAY BRIC-A-BRAC.
Arrest of an Art Lover Charge
With Theft.

New York. Mar 2S.-A man arrested
with rabbits foot in his pocket brings
to light a strange story OF theft. and a
burning desire for bric-a-brac and an
tiques in which he takes delight in steal
ing
The prisoner is Louis Hughes. chem
list, twenty-nine years old living at No
$50 East Sixty-ninth Street. Hughes on
tered the jewelry store of Deutch Broth
ers on West Seventeenth Street Wednes-
day afternoon ana represented himself as
the son of a Broadway jeweler named
Mahler He examined some leather
pocketbooks. and after he had left tho
store IT was found that five pocketbooks
trimmed with gold and inlaid with dia-
monds had been missing
Hughes, alias MAILER. was arrested To-
day and when searched a large number
OF pawn tickets mere found in his pock
cts. together with a rabbits foot which
ne begged TO retain, saying that he was
IN hard luck now, but If his rabbit's foot
were taken away he would be worse off
than ever.
A search of Hughes room was made
and bric-a-brac and antique paintings To
the value of 81 800 were found
Hughes has always been held in the
highest respect by his friends. who. know
ing MS circumstances. have often won
uered at his great collection of specimens
ana valuable antiquities. He never mart
ca with any CT H.: traISu 'cs exccIr un-
oer stress OF extreme need, and t;,oh as
much delight in handling his curios as
d miser Goes counting his hoard
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-28

a London newspaper devotes some
broadly philosophical reflection to the
subject Of hairpins. The writer takes
for his text a remark of some lady cor
respondent or other that hairpins are the
chief obstacle to feminine independence,
because no woman can argue unless her
hair is tidy. The London newspaper goes
on to picture a scene in a possible par
liamentary gathering. in which the lead
er of the opposition should speak with
telling effect until her hair came down.
when she retired in confusion And it
argues from this that woman can never
be able in argument until she stops wear
ing hairpins. Without entering into the
question whether or not woman ought
TO argue questions in public which. if
it is considered at all. is rather too grave
a topic to be dismissed with arguments
of the above fiippancy. ii may be asked
what particular reason there is for sup
posing that the violent exercise of par
hair to come tumbling down in the midst
of a speech. She has managed 10 keep
her hair up on most occasions when 1t
seemed to her desirable that II should
be up. for a good many hundred years;
she has cooked. swept. ridden on horse
back, played tennis. danced the most flu
rious of waltzes. impersonated on
the stage the most emotional of
heroines, and done various 9TH
er things requiring exertion, and
her hair has. as "a general thing,
stayed wherever she intended IT should.
Whether there is anything in parliament
tary debate which would inevitably draw
from her mead all the tiny but necessary
articles which hold hair in place. as the
mountain of loadstone drew the nails
out of the ship in the Arabian Nights, re-
mains to be seem
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-28
The Gerry society.

There is a howl every few weeks from
some authority or other in New York
about some child who is acting, dane
ing or singing in public at an earlier
age than the law allows; and then this
child is taken precipitately off the
stage and put to school. This is a
good idea, theoretically, but it is like
many good ideas. when ii is put in
practice the harm that il does very
nearly balances the good. OF course il
is not a good thing for children to be
earning their living on the stage. when
that means hard work for them the
loss Of an education, and undesirable
associations. The question is. however.
whether it is not on the whole, a bet
ter thing than the only possible altern-
ative 1t is not as IL these children
would be given the advantages Of the
children of the well-to-do classes. IL
they were not on the stage. Nothing
OF the sort would be likely to happen.
Their compulsory removal from the
stage means simply less money for the
family and probably harder life for
the child. That is ALL The trouble
with all this sort OF paternal legislation
is that it does not so far enough. 1t is
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-28
Too Much of an American.

There are strong evidences that
strained relations are beginning to sub
sist between Theodore Roosevelt, the
patriotic member Of the Administra-
ton. and the majority element in its
composition. devoted to the interests Of
Wall Street and the Spanish-Cuban
bondholders. Ii is reported that, at
dinner on Saturday night, the Assistant
Secretary Of the Navy declared that
the views Of the best business in
terests' and financiers might be para
mount in the Senate. but they would
not be paramount with the American
people, Mr. Hanna is said to have
been present. and the obvious direction
CT the remark did not fail to impress
the guests Of the occasion, or citizens
generally. when the incident became
known and was discussed all over the
capital yesterday.
one result is that friends of the Ad-
ministration are moving anxiousIy
about, spreading rumors that Mr..
Roosevelt is overworked and has be-
come excitable and unreliable in con-
sequence, and that he ought to resign
or take a long vacation. All that sort
Of talk only fills the public mind with
apprehensions that this truly American
member Of the Executive family sees
only too much reason for believing that
the purposes and actions of the Ad-
ministration are directed toward some
thing other than the good and the hon.
or OF the nation.
We can well conceive that a prom
inent and popular official who dares to
hint publicly that the interests of the
Spanish-Cuban bond conspiracy are
not paramount with the American peo-
pie. pust be persona non grata in a
Government nearly all Of whose other
members are sacredly committed to the
defense and promotion of such inter-
ests. 1t would be the most natural
thing in the world to force him from his
seat in the Sanhedrim. and drive him
forth. TO herd with the plain people
whose cause he dares to champion.
But how those same plain people"
win kick If 1t is tried on! They do not
like the shibboleth of the Hanna infiu-
ence. which is: Put no American on
guard tonight
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-28
DIPLOMATIC JUGGLING.
Preacher Dixon Discourses i'm Favor
of Action Against Spain.

New York. March 2S-The Rev. Thorn
as Dixon, jr.. in his sermon at the Acad-
envy of Music yesterday. again urged
action by this Government in behalf OF
Cuba. He was frequently applauded.
Among other things. he said;
1T is time to rise and strike the shack
les of slavery from this poor. downtrod-
den people. Spains hotigla of torpedo
boats should never be allowed to cast an
anchor on this continent.
The only thing that is left for Presi-
dent Mckinley TO do is to present 10
Spain in brief words the ultimatum-
as simple. as memorable as Fate-that
she must at once recognize the indie
Dendence Of Cuba and evacuate the ISL
and. or be blown from the Western con-
tinent at the lannon's mouth. The poll
icy of juggling and diplomacy and trick
cry, in order TO keep in the good graces
of European powers. will not do. Talk
about that moral support of Europe is
nonsense. We are not playing to the
galleries of Europe"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-28

They had a peculiar case TO deal with
in a New York court the other day A
week or two ago man was arrested
at the instance Of his wife. on a charge
of non-maintenance. AT the time of his
arrest he was whiskered individual of
mature appearance. He got bail. and be-
tween that time and the time when his
case came up for hearing he succeeded
in Transforming his appearance so COM
pletely that even his wife was obliged
to look at him more than once to be
sure she had not secured the wrong
man. His whiskers had disappeared.
His tail hat had vanished. His coat was
replaced by q boyish Jacket and his col
lar by a Fauntleroy arrangement of
dainty linen. Even his voice was pitch
ed an octave or so higher. and he talked
with an engaging little lisp. He put up
the plea that when he was married he
not wholly responsible. The wife and
her lawyer were very indignant at this
lightning change of the recreant hus-
band, and 1t was so thoroughly appar-
ent. and transparent, that II could hard
ly be called successful This gen
tieman seems to have been am
bilious to establish precedent
Hereafter criminals whose physique per-
mits 1t may escape severe condemnation
by playing the baby act" There are
States in the Union where small boys
are sent to the renitentiary for trining
offenses. and the courts in our own Dis
trict occasionally bear rather heavily on
youthful Migrants who have no. friends.
but as a general thing. a young crimi-
nal gets a light sentence. But one
thing should be noticed in the case of
this New York person; he did not begin
playing the baby act soon enough Grim
inals desiring light sentences on the
ground that they are young things and
cannot leave their mothers should not
grow whiskers. and then shave them off
after arrest. They should dress in char
acter all the time ID
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-28

one Of those halfway reforms which
are Utmost worse than no reforms at
all A child who is on the stage works
butsa few hours in the day. and re-
ceives from so to IS cents night Little
gir.sS work in the sweat shops many
houfs a day for slips a week. and the
law Finever touches them. A woman
who work on children's suits, working
from early morning until late at night.
Gan make about 80 cents a day, with
the help of her children, and on this
she must live and support them. The
Gerry Spdyety does not step in to help
this woman, but if one of the children
has a chance to earn, on the stage, a
sum more than equal to the combined
earnings of the whole family, and ac-
quire meanwhile a useful trade. then
the society steps in and forbids such
proceedings. As to the associations OF
the stage. it is to be doubted whether
they are any worse than the
associations of tenement-house,
where the mother has no time
or strength to give to her
children. And the child on the stage
has the advantage of a chance to ad-
vance toward independence, and pos
sibly comfortable living, whereas the
child who is trained in the sweat shops
has absolutely nothing to look forward
to.
Unless paternal government chooses
to establish free kindergartens. roomy
Fairgrounds and industrial schools for
the children OF the poor-and that is
what every city ought to do. for the
protection Of its own interests
it should certainly let them
alone In their efforts to earn their
own living. The business of the stage
rs in some ways less objectionable than
any Of the other businesses children
are engaged in. They do not here inter-
fere with adults or lower the price OF
labor to any appreciabIe extent. To
many children this work is congenial;
at least. it is more congeniaI than sew
iRgs<buttons on a card. pulling out
-bas4tng threads or picking bits of coal
.eutt<ef RASH barrels; and although the
air OF a theater is not the very best
that might be, il is as good as that Of
a tenement house, where artificial light
is the only light half Of the rooms ever
get Viewed from any standpoint, the
condition in which the children of the
very poor live and grow is something
fearful to contemplate; and one of
these days We shall be civilized enough
perhaps to spend money on free kinder
gardens instead of prisons, and estab-
lisha big. airy. roomy Fairgrounds. I'M
der some sort Of supervision. instead Of
hospitals. 1t will be considerably
cheaper and infinitely more satisfactory.
But until that time, the reform societies
would do we'll to turn their attention
TO helping good things instead Of pre-
venting bad things. II would be just
as useful and much pleasanter.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-28

They are having trouble out in Chica-
go. and II is on account of dog. There
was a man who had a lawn. and it was
getting threadbare and sorrowful look
ing, and he decided to rejuvenate 1t. He
shaded Il. and he hoed it, and he raked
it. and he fortified II, and then he sowed
II with nice. orthodox reliable grass seed.
But il happened that his next-door
neighbor had a dog-one of those Great
Dane dogs, which I'LL up quarter Sec
ton of the landscape wherever they hap
pen TO be- They are something like
baby elephant around the house, and
when they are out of doors things have
to make way for them. This Great Dane
dog came to the lawn and lay down in
il, and rolled over in 1t. He enjoyed the
performance. and he rolled and he rolled
until the. grass seed was very much dis
turbed. The lady of the house tried to
scare him away. but he did not go. Then
her husband espied the performance. and
chased the dog away, but the dog came
back. He went to the dogs owner and
complained, but he had no suggestions
to offer and " didn't act bit sorry" so
he said. This last item settled the fate
OF the dog. The perturbed gardener
went TO the corner grocery and bought
about a pint of peas. He loaded with
these peas an old army musket, and the
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-28
MONDAY. MARCH Is. 1898.
The Maine Report.

The report Of the Maine Board Of In
Quiry. as il is presented to Congress, is
a much more peace-producing docu-
ment than it would be if all, or even a
fair proportion, Of the damnatory evil
denCe against Spain, given before the
Court. and accompanying it in the
shape Of appendices, were to be made
public In its present form, the report
is exactly what The Times has pre-
dicted il would be.
The report eNOnerates Captain Sigs-
bee and all Of his officers and crew cf
any blame for the loss Of the ship. II
declares that discipline on board was
above criticism and perfect. That the
temperature # the magazines at o.
clock y. m on the night Of the massa-
Gre was normal, and disposes Of the
idea that The explosions at $40 o'clock
could have resulted from spontaneous
combustion.
The Court finds that the destruction
% the Maine and the butchery Of the
crew was due to a submarine mine ex-
plOding against the port side Of the
vessels hull 1t was not due TO the
fault Of any person on the ship, but the
report does not attempt to fix the re-
sponsibility.
II all the testimony were published by
me Administration it would be seen
that it was quite superfiuous for the
Court to fix the responsibility, especial
u as there is reason TO believe that it
was requested. if not ordered, not TO
do So. The terrible weight Of the evil
dence itself fixes the responsibility, but
whether that Will ever be given TO the
American public or not is today a SER
ious and an eXasperating question.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-28
Our Navy.
(From the New York Tribune.

(From the New York Tribune.
The Kearsarge is superior to the In
diana. The next battleship should be.
and no doubt will be. Superior TO the
Kearsarge. RetrogressiOn. or even
standing still, would be unworthy OF our
national fame. Twice. IL not three times.
by means of epOch-making inventions.
this country has revolutiOnized naval
warfare. She must still be in the fore
front of improvement and advance
ment. This also should be that the
work of construction be kept up and
increased in quantity as we'll as quail
ity. Two new ships. and such ships.
are a fine acquisition But il would
be better If there were four of them
Before next year is numbered with
time past there should be four or more
newer and better Kearsarges sent from
the ways upon the seas they are to
rtfl
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-28

next time the dog returned he received
a peppering which Vas effectual He
went home across lots, and did not re-
turn. When the owner of the dog came
home that night he found, he says, that
the sight of one of the animals eyes was
gone and since that the other has be-
come blind. He has brought a suit
against the pea-shooter, and says that he
will have that gentleman put in the pen
itentiary. And all this goes 10 prove
that a dog can make trouble between
neighbors. just the same as chicken. 1t
has long been conceded that il was
against Christian principles 20 keep
chickens in a city house. and perhaps
the principle will extend to dogs. 1t does
now. in apartment houses. which also
discriminate against children. Some
times it seems as If city were rather
an inhuman place in which to live.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-28
GOnEress NoI TruSIed.

Again We feel compelled to call the at
tention Of the American people to the
Executive assumption that Congress
cannot and must not be trusted to ex-
ercise the rights and perform the
functions which its members were
elected to exercise and perform 1t is
a startling indication of the length we
have gone toward the final Suppression
of free government in this country.
Think Of it, The lawmaking, war
making Legislature Of the nation is de-
MED the privilege of reading those parts
of the Maine report which show conclu-
sively the treacherous completely of the
Spanish government in the massacrei
Why?
1t is given out with cynical frankness
from the inner circle Of the Administra-
ton that to give all the truth Of the
disaster to Congress would certainly
render it impossible for Mr.. McKinley's
plan. to save Spanish sovereignty and
load the blood-stained debt upon the is
land, to succeed.
So the truth and the Congress must
be suppressed. lest the Spanish-Cuban
bond conspiracy should come to naught
and many noble campaign creditors
come to grief.
If 1t be true and accepted by the coun-
try that the elected representatives OF
the people really cannot and ought not
be trusted. then it must be plain that
we are rapidly surging toward a point
beyond which there can be nothing but
monarchy or revolution. Our best
business interests" no doubt. are able
to contemplate the former with COM
Portable complacency; but the masses
of the nation are not likely to agree
with them.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-28
WAR SIGNALS.
Army Officers Make Experiment..
With Kftes


New York. March 2S-wilIam A Edd,,
DR. William Mitchell. Henry L. Allen and
w. w. Hotchkin experimental last NIGH,
with army and navy night signals operat-
ed aloft by means of kites. The first ex-
pertinent was the burning of brilliant
red chemical light. which could be seen
Tor a long distance. The red fire was
suspended by wire from the kite string
in wooden box lined with asbestos. Ar
9;45 two kites. one six and the other soy
en- feet in diameter, were sent up to a
height of 600 feet Each kite had a lam
tern set close to its face. The result was
that the whole face of the kite could be
seen because of the bright light showing
upon the white cloth.
Captain w. A. Glasscord and Iieuten-
ant Wise, who are experimenting with
night and day signals by means of kites
are preparing to make use of some very
large kites. Upon advice of Mr. Eddy.
Captain Glassford is preparing to make
trials with kites fifteen feet in diameter.
Lieutenant Wise has done even better
and has constructed a kite which he has
named the w. A. Eddy, which is twen-
ty-two feet six inches In diameter
Objection has been raised to the use
of kites by the navy on the ground that
a ship at anchor In a calm could not send
the kites aloft. Mr.. Eddy claims that a
tender of ship or its launch could be
used to send the kite to a height where
II would find breeze which would sus-
tain it. A launch or tender running at
the rate of twelve knots would soon raise
the kite as high as 1t would be wanted,
and in exceptionally calm weather the
kite could be kept aloft by the launch
st btming in a circle. An aluminium screen
has been constructed which can be sent
aloft with the lantern. and which can be
opened and closed at will. making the
lights appear and disappear at will, as
may be desired, SO as to operate a signal
cOda.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-28
A Fad of Italy's Queen.

The queen of Italy is enthusiastically
following the fad of collecting old boots
and shoes of celebrated persons. She
possesses the shoes of Marie Antoinette
Mary Stuart, the Empress Josephine
Queen Anne and the Empress Catherine
of Russia. Lady Ermyntrude Malet
wife of the British ambassador at Ber-
lin. has beautiful collection. They are
of all shapes and sizes, from satin ball
shoes to boots made for long tramps
through the snow.