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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
A Fighting REGIMENT
That Is the Record Of the
Third Regular Cavalry.
ALWAYS READY FOR WORK
The Fearless Services Of Captain
Chase-Captain Doddis Trained
Horses-Shot in Charging ON Ell
Cancy-LieuteBant Heard Is the
Champion Pistol Shot OF the Army.

It was noted by the volunteers near
Santiago that when the Third United
States Cavalry struck the shore its men
looked at the face of the country and
said, The same old thing" 1t was ex-
actly the sort of country they had fought
in against Indians, and they took to their
work as a matter of course. The Chicago
Times-Herald gives a sketch of the regi-
ment, from which this is taken:
1.-The Third Cavalry has always been
fighting regiment, The command clinched
it's claim to the title when the men, dis
mounted and with carbines, advanced,
left the chaparra1 cover and swept across
the open plain straight for the Spanish
entertainments. At the next roll call fifty
men of the Third, officers and privates,
failed to answer their names. OF the men
who led in that charge, where not one
flinched in the face of a whitening fire,
there are many whose records are remark
able and in some cases unique in the his
tory of armies. Capt. George F. Chase.
of the Third. was practically in command
of all the troops in the field during the
Mexican border troubles. Gen. Wheaton
in his report said of Chase: Tt Is no dis
arrangement to the valuable services of
others to say that credit for a large share
of the results attained is due this officer
Chase toward the close of the Texas CAM
paign had a peculiarly romantic expert
ence. The planters near the border were
getting tired of the constant presence of
the troops, and more than tired of the FREE
quent bandit raids. They were afraid to
give up the names and hiding places of
the robbers though they knew both.
They sought out the bandit leaders and
induced some of them to believe 1t would
be good thing to surrender. Then they
went to Capt. Chase and told him if he
would consent to be led 10 miles blind
folded he could see some of the robber
captains and make terms for their sur
render. Chase agreed. On a dark night
three men appeared, bandaged the coura-
geous captains eyes. put him on his horse
and after circling three times led him off
into the blackness of the chaparral. Chase
was hated for his good work by every
Mexican-Texan within so miles. He knew
not but that he was riding to his death.
In two hours a CLEAN of light came
through the bandage and the sound of
voices fell on his ear. The binding was
whisked from his eyes and he found him.
self in a summer house, in the center of
which was a table covered with the best
things to eat and drink that the country
afforded Around it were seated repre-
sentative planters and number of bandit
leaders whom Chase had hunted for two
years There were bright lights over all
and without were the warmth and quiet
of a subtropical night At that midnight
banquet terms of surrender were arrang-
ed. Chase went back to camp blindfolded.
The terms were kept faithfully. but 10
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
A Strange Epitaph.

"Doctored to Death could truly be
written on many a gravestone. II IS pit
fful to think of the sorrow and suffering
that have followed and are following in
the trail of ignorant or vicious medical
treatment. The day will come when stu
Did or mercenary doctoring viii be Grim
inai. That day is being hurried by the
wonderful work of Prof. Munyon.
Munyon guarantees that his Rheuma-
tism Cure will cure nearly all cases of
rheumatism in a few hours; that his
Dyspepsia Cure will cure indigestion and
all stomach troubles; that his Kidney
Cure will cure 80 per cent of all cases of
kidney trouble; that his CataSrh Cure viii
cure catarrh no matter how long stand
ing: that his Headache Cure will cure any
kind of headche in few minutes; that
his Cold cure will quickly break up any
form of cold. and 50 on through the en-
tire list of his remedies Every drug
store is a center for the sale of them
mostly a. Is cents.
At his medical institute skilled physi-
clans are at your service FREE Once
open all day and evening. closed Sunday
during July and August G25 l3sh St NV
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
millions ARE INVOLVED
Sharp Contest for Big Battle
ship Contracts.
THE QUESTION OF SPEED
Lewis Nixon. Who Designed the
Oregon. Tells How Estimates Are
Made-Options ON SteeI-Labor La
an Element of Uncertainty
Many Chances the Builders Take.

The great ship builders of the United
States have been figuring for more than
a month on bids for the construction Of
three new battleships authorized by Con-
gress.
There are only four builders in this
country competent TO do the work, but
the competition among them is as keen as
though there were a hundred, because the
amount involved is enormous. The Gov
eminent viii spend more than $4,000, 0Gl
on the three new battleships, and the
contract for all three of them would keep
the biggest shipyard in the United States
going for two years.
How the Cost Is Figured.
in figuring the cost of big battleship
the contractor has 10 take into considera-
ton a remarkable list of contingencies.
in the three years watch may be needed
TO complete the ship the cost of labor
may go up enough to wipe out all the
profits if too close a margin is left Or
a limit of time like the eight-hour law,
may increase the cost of labor indirectly.
When Congress passed a law limiting the
hours Of labor on public works TO eight
hours per day, it so increased the cost of
public buildings that plans for the build
ings under way had to be modified 10 keep
within the limit of cost If wages do not
increase or hours shorten, there may be
a strike TO delay the work and cause a
heavy forfeiture to the Government. The
prices of materials may increase greatly
within three years, due to heavy exports
and domestic demands. Or prices may de-
cline so that the profit in the original cal
culauon is materially increased.
The Chances They Take
II the shipbuilder took all the chances
of a decline or increase in the price of
material. he might suffer a very serious
loss The bautleship Indiana contains
,alyout $500 tons of steel. exclusive Of her
armor When the Indiana was built,
steel was worth aboct 43-4 cents
pound. Today 1T Is worth about 2 IL
cents If the Indiana was to be dupii-
Gated, the cost of the steel alone would
be nearly sI50.0e0 less than il was
LEWIS Nixon, the man who is famous
n0day as the designer of the battleshir
Oregon. says that ship builders do not
take the chances Of a rising or falling
market in steel
They make contracts for steel in ad-
vance, said Mr.. Nixon. zone Of the
principal reasons for taking this precau-
ton is the fact shat the steel mills of
this country could combine 10 put up the
prince of material if there was an object
in doing il; and an imperative contract
for battleship. TO be completed within
a certain period under heavy penalties,
would be incentive enOcgh TO warrant a
corner On steel. To provide against this
the ship builder gets an option on the
material before he submits his bid. and if
st is accepted, he closes a contract for all
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28

all bids and hold the matter open until
Congress meets in the hope OF getting
authorization for ships of greater dis
placement. and there is some idea among
shipbuiders that he will do this Mean
time bids are being prepared by the
Cramp Company the Newport News
Company. the Union Iron Works, of San
Francisco, and probably one or two
other builders, and they will be opened
in the Secretary's office September l.
Cheaper Than England.
Mr.. Nixon says the new battleships
ought to have greater displacement and
higher rate of speed. He thinks also
that it is a mistake for the Government
not to give speed premiums.
I'VE are building ships cheaper than
they make them in England he said,
but how? Can we do it in competition
with the men who have worked the speed
of ships up from eighteen to thirty knots?
l think we cannot do it and make a
profit. We cannot do it and come out
even.
1.-The heaviest loss caused to the con-
tractors who undertook s30. 000, 600 pro-
gram some years ago was due to the fail
ure OF the Government to deliver the ar
NOR Tor the Indiana as provided in the
contract. Some parer of appropriations
determined that the recommendation of
the Secretary of the Navy that we pay
800 ton for armor plate was unfair, and
the work was held up Foreign govern
ments paid $500 for the same armor plate
and were satisfied But our Congressman
knew more about it than anyone, and so
the work was suspended while the con-
tractors lost heavily, with no possibility
or redress against the Government"
Mr. Nixon pins his faith to battIeships
at least for our navy. Torpedo boats
may be all right under some conditions
he says, but he holds that Hudson Max
i'm is right about the usefulness of the
aerial torpedo.
Value of Torredoes.
Ihere can be no question:" he said
or the relative value of torpedoes. one
or which must be used under water M a
range OF 300 yards-a range which was
pracicaiiy unattainable'S in our recent
War-and the torpedo which can be used
against an enemy at 1900 yards The
submarine torpedo might be all right in
war between England and France, sep
arated by only a Harrow channel and
with weather conditions which might
make 1t possible for torpedo boat to
approach big ship unohserved in fog.
But IN any other circumstances 1 think
| the value of the submarine torpedo has
!; been much exaggerated. 1 thought so
| when we were threatened with the Span
| Ish torpedo boats, and I said then that
| with our searchlight system, we had little
| to fear from them. rs-3lI
Mr. Nixon said he hoped the Navy
Department would retain some of the
! smaller auxiliary boatsag bought during
| the war. q En
There are circumstances he said, Sin
| winch we need them. Some years ago we
| needed to make demonstration in Mic
aragua. We sent the cruiser Columbia.
which could not approach the shore near
| enough to be seen. and the British sent
in little ship that cost less than one
| tenth as much as the cruiser and had
| twice the moral effect
| GEORGE GRANTHAM Balm.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
Got Back Her Medal.

NV IIIUWIIesT
When Miss Ida Work, of Dallas, Texas, was
graduated from Fort Worth Seminary, in ISL,
She received a gold medal in the form of n
Maltese cross She lost the medal while out
riding shortly afterward. The medal TUNED up IN
the stockyards OF Chicago the other day. Il was
f-upd in the stomach of a cow which had been
shipped from Dallas. Frank Shaw. superintend-
emf Of the meathouse at the stockyards. wrote to
the postmaster at Dallas, but learned that the
Wo-k family had left that city years ago. Out OF
c,,riosi vse mt adve ii tments in Weste aperS
and finally received word from Miss Work, who
was in Albuquerque, n. n.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
A New Disease.
(From the Chicago News.)


Uncle Josh Wayback. who resides in the rural
wilds of Missouri, entertaining his nephew
and niece from Chicago during the summer vaca-
ton. One morning he happened to enter the
room where the young lady was going through
her gymnastic exercises, under the directions OF
her brother.
"Great Jehosaphat!'' he exclaimed, "what in
tarnation's the matter with that gal, anyhow;
be she hevin' a ftp"
''oh. no. uncle, replied the young man, that
is what call ealisthenics.''
Dew telli' exclaimed the old man. eyeing
her suspciously. '1An' has she had 'em long?
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
Sc Hosiery, lie.

Ladies Black, Tan and Gray Hose.
Misses Silk-plaited Isle Gray, Pink
and Blue Hose.
Children's Plain Fast Black-"Ren-
chau'' ribbed Sizes 4 10 7 H.
Infants Half and Three-quarter
Socks, in black and colors.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
Csc Ribbed Vests, lie.

Ladies' Subscribed Vests, low neck
short sleeves and sleevfless-all regu-
lar sizes and extra sizes-finished in
first-class manner with silk lace.
Also Children's Subscribed Vests
high neck-long and short sleeves.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
Book Department.
Millinery.

81 so quality Untrimmed Hats.-......49c
$1.00 quality Untrimmed Hats.-......l5c
75c quality Untrimmed Hats. &c
Rough and smooth Straws in black
and cOIors.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
Palais Royal.
A. Lisner. and Eleventh SITS

RY Every item in this adj
vertisement bears our guaran-
tee. Only goods of recog-
nized merit offered" at the
lowest prices.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
Notions.

&c ]. o. Kings soft-fnish Cotton,
uoA- ----. ...-.--....-- -l9c
&c Large SpoOls Basting Cotton, doz- &c
&c Velvet Skirt Binding, yards lie
loc DeLong Hooks and Eyes card. &c
l0c Warrens Featherbone, for
waists. yd..................... SC
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28

the material he viii need at the price at
which he figured the cost in making his
fasf irr,.l =
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
Palais Royal.
A. Lisner..-..........G and Eleventh SIS

B@N No article advertised in
this space is old style, worn
out from handling, or not
worth-the-keep.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28

Mems Pure Linen Handkerchiefs,
hemstitched and fancy borders.
Ladies' White Pure Linen, with
hand-worked initials and a collection
of pretty Swiss Null Handkerchiefs,
with delicately traced scalIop edges.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
COrSetS.

The celebrated SIPS w. B. Corsets,
made of fine coutil, stripped with
sateen. cut bias, with straight front
From is TO 26. In white and 5Qe
gray. Special ..-....-.............. o'0
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28

Sample bottles of GeIle Freres' new
sensational odor, ''Paris-caprice:" also
sample packages OF solid Comfort
for the feet-if you are sufferer from
those overtaxed members don't fail 10
get the solid comfort this package will
bring you.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-08-20
FALSE PATRIOTISM.
She Felt Much as Do Many Others
When Merely Looking On.

She Felt Much as Do Many Others
When Merely Looking On.
ma an 1 went to see the soldiers
go marching off," said Johnnie, ac7
cording to the Lawrence American. II
tell you twas great fun to see 'em.
Pa asked ma how she liked it, and ma
said it made her feel real patriotic.
She said she wished she was man
an there wouldn't nobuddy ketch her
staying to home such a time as this;
she said she would be off fightin' for
her country every time. Pa said sha
needn't stay to hume on account Of
bein' woman, cause she could go
as a nurse, just as lots of others were
goin'. An ma said that wasn't what
she wanted. Shed like to get right
inter the thick of the battle, where
bullets were whizzin' round an can
mons goin' off an soldiers falling all
round. An pa laughed an laughed,
He said he'd just like to see ma in a
place like that. An he said out In
the corner of the back room where his
empty gun was standin' the dust was
three inches thick, cause ma was so
'fraid O. that gun she didn't dare to git
near enuf to it to sweep the floor up.
An pa said ma would average seven
teen fits minute if she got in sight
OF real battle, to say nothin' of what
would happen if she was right in it.
And then pa laughed an laughed, an
ma was mad, an said there was times
when pa acted like a regular idiot.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-08-20

get hold of it. Fortunately, Capt. sigs-
bee found the signal code safe in the
Icabin-or what remained of the cabin
of the Maine There it was, wet but
perfect. If it had been lost at sea it
would have necessitated the making of
Ia new code for the entire United States'
navy. Some years ago an information
al signal code was adopted by which
all vessels on the high seas could speak
to each other. This code is of such a
nature that it can be read by English,
French, German, Spanish, italian or
Russian sailors without trouble. They
do not need to know any other Ian
guage than their own in order to read
the code. This international code con-
sists of eighteen flags, as follows: One
burgee, four pennants and thirteen
square flags and In addition an answer
ing pennant. The eighteen flags repre-
sent the consonRnts of the alphabet and
by a combination of two, three or four
| of these flags arbitrary signs are made
which represent words and sentences of
/ the same signification in all languages.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-08-20

set of signals which caused Capt. Sigs-
bee so much worriment after the Maine
wa blown up. Our own pet signal sys-
tenn is the wig-wag, which is the best
known of all sea signals. It is done
by wig-wagging a flag from right to
left, from left to right, from front to
back, and from back to front It is
generally operated by the hand. but
when distant wig-wagging is done it is
operated by means of a very large me-
chanical arm. Our navy adopts the
Meyer code of signaling. This is the
code used by private yachts and by
many people in country places who de-
sire to communicate with each other
and who do not own a telephone. At
sea in a private yacht the wig-wag is
used to communicate with the yacht
houses on land, or with friends ashore,
or even with passing vessels. 1t can
be done with a flag, pocket handker-
chief, an oar, a broom or any imple-
ment Here is the wig-wag code as
generally understood on the small bod
les of water Of the United States. It is
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-08-20

The people of the United States, If not
the statesmen who were responsible,
have chafed at the difficulties and de-
lays caused by the short-sighted and
niggardly policy Of the past thirty
years, with reference to the army and
navy. To use a colloquial expression,
lit has been like pulling teeth" to get
a single war vessel out OF congress; and
the politicians have pretended fear that
the liberties Of the country would be
in danger if the army of a nation num-
bering 100000 should exceed $4,000
enlisted men. Now we are thanking
our stars that our foe is poor, weak
Spain-rated as a third-class European
power. If it had been England, or
France, or Germany, or Russia, or
Italy, perhaps we should have conquer
ed in the end; but at the beginning any
one of them would have outclassed as
hopelessly. Fortunately we have not
to cry over spilled milk this time. Yet
unless we learn the lesson of our mar
row escape, the twentieth century may
find Uncle Sam in more than one tight
place.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-08-20

At the Washington postal congress
attention was called to the fact that
two-thirds of all the letters which pass
Through the postoffices of the world
are written by and sent to people who
speak English. There are substan-
TALLY 100000 persons speaking col
loquially one or another of the ten or
twelve chief modern languages, and of
these about rs per cent, or 125,0O0,0OO
persons, speak English. About 9O,00O,-
900 speak Russian, 100000 German,
55,O0O,OOO French, 100000 Spanish,
S5,000,000 Italian and 12,00o,00O Portu-
guese, and the balance Hungarian,
Dutch, Polish, Flemish, Bohemian,
Gaelic, Roumanian, Swedish, Finnish,
Danish and Norwegian. Thus, while
only one-Quarter of those who employ
the facilities of the postal departments
Of civilized governments speak as their
native tongue English, two-thirds of
those who correspond do so in the En-
glish language. The situation arises
from the fact that so large a share of
the commercial business of the world
is done in English, even among those
who do not speak English as their ma
tive language. There are, for instance,
more than 10000 postofflces In India,
the business of which in letters and
papers aggregates more than 800, 00O,-
600 parcels a year, and the business of
these offices is zone chiefly In English,
though of midas total population,
which is nearly 300, loco, 600 fewer than
100000 persons either speak or under
stand English. Though 10000 900
speak or understand Russian, the BUSH
ness Of the Russian post department
is relatively small, the number of let
tiers sent throughout the czar's empire
amounting to less than one-tenth the
number mailed in Great Britain alone,
though the population OF Great Brit
ain is considerably less than one-half
Of the population Of Russia in Europe.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-08-20

The stars and stripes are doing hon
iorable service in the public schools Of
Chicago. Little celluloid flags are Of
! fered to the pupils at FIVE cents each.
The proceeds are already sufficient to
maintain three vacation schools, which
for six weeks of the summer bring I'M
mixed happiness and no little profit to
I the children of the very poor Long
may our flag wave over not merely the
land of the free and the home of the
brave, but over a people whose rich
come into kindly contact with the poor,
and where the learned and fortunate
share their requirements with the ig-
norant and the forlorn.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-08-20
runnv rootnaohe Cures.


Before the days Of dentists, and Whef
people generally believed in the value
Of charms, there were ever so maui
mysterious ways of preventing tooln,
ache. One of these was to dress tl'
right side of the body first-right STOCK
ing, right shoe, right sleeve, right glow
A favorite plan in Scotland was 70 ai"n
a tooth, salt it we'll and burn it II lun
view on glowing Goals. In Corhma4
many save their teeth by biting the -"
young ferns that appear. The eus'Un
of catching a common ground mols
cutting off the paws while the ilt.l'
creature still lives, and wearing thsI'
is traced to Staffordshire, Englanu'
Some people who are fond OF eAer'iso
believe that walking twelve miles.I.
more, no Iess-to get a splinter OF ~
toothache tree that grows particular.
well in Canada and Virginia Will ol...
away the worst ache and pain tnat e,s y
tortured a poor tooth. The belief sn u.
toothache is caused by worm a. i.
roots is prevalent in many parts u = =.
world, hence this cure: Reduce &C.
eral different kinds of herbs.
greater variety the better-to poWu'.'
Put a glowing cinder into this pow,
and inhale the incense. AtterWass
breathe into a cup Of water, ana ~
worm viii be gone forever.