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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-18

superstructure of velvet, above this SPAN
gled or embroidered tulles, and finally
topping off of feathers. Such toques as
these look quite as weR set on the head
hind side before as the other way round
and, by their weight and heat. they are
calculated to injure the growth of ones
hair, even to the bringing about of incip-
lent badness. As regards hight these COM
pllcated round things are stalwart to de-
gree, and they can be no more tolerated in
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-18
SKAT
THE NEW GAME OF CARDS.

An innovation with promise is always
hailed with enthusiasm by the progressive
Individual and the new game Of skat, i'm
ported from Germany, is proving no ex
ception to this rule. Skat, pronounced as
though spelled Scott, and probably a cor
ruption of the German word "Schatz,"
meaning treasure" is very popular at
the German universities where It has en-
tirely supplanted whist,
1t is played by three people, and one
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-18
MAGNIFICENT MILLINERY.

THE REIGN OF THE ToQUE IS ON,
nut FOR ALL THAT YOU CAN
WEAR PRETTY FELT
New York, Sept. Welcoming the com
ing autumn aud speeding The parting sum
ner is task the mnliners are busy about.
So far as shop windows are concerned the
frivolous straws and flowers have disap-
peared before a strong September gale,
bearing felts and veEvets in its arms. How
far, from a standpoint of beauty, we have
profted by the change remains TO be seen.
There are those who look very dubious
over the autumnal prospect, so far as it
reaches, and candor demands the COMES.
sion that a goodly proportion Of the much
heralded toques look very Ike hasty pud-
dings. They are in the majority of cases,
extremely solid affairs built on the strata
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-18

ternity that was supposed to reign over
the pseudo republic. adorned the face OF
the sharply upturned front brm. and the
milliners have everywhere made use OF
the idea. Instead Of liberty, equality and
fraternity, the huge rosette on the front
of Little Corporal hat usually represents
rank eXtravagance ana love of color. The
cockade is made of mirror velvet It's
night as big as a baby cabbage, and in its
heart spartles a Jewel. Bosettes on
more modest plan, and some Of them with
floating ribbon ends, seem half falling out
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18
DON'T LIKE LEE AND WHEELER.

1t has generally been supposed that
the nomination of Fitzhugh Lee TO be
a major general of volunteers, had
given satisfaction throughout the
length and breadth of the land; it was
a demonstration of a restored Union
such as the country had never seen
before. The appointment was welcomed
as much by Union veterans as by con-
federate veterans; it was the sure sign
that there was no longer any north or
any south. But it seems that the ap-
pointment is not welcomed by some
that in their breasts still rankle re-
membranes of the past and that they
influence the thought and action of to-
day. One of these is the Hartford
Comm Times. 1t says:
OF course Lee and Wheeler are now
major generals OF volunteers, and are
not included in the regular army es-
Enlistment. But after the war with
Spain is over, if either one has distin-
guished himself in any way, it will be
easy to get 4 resolution through con-
gress placing him on the regular army
list as a retired officer. To be sup
ported in your old age by the govern
ment you have tried for four years
10 destroy is about the ''Softest billet"
to use an army expression, that any
man could look forward to. But that is
undoubtedly in store for Lee, and pei
haps for others.
The slur is contemplate and was
prompted by small, mean soul, a soul
that never had d generous impulse or
was prompted by truly worthy mo-
tive. Nothing can be more certain than
that Lee and Wheeler did not go round
begging the appointment or Emporium
ing their friends to get it for them.
President Mckinley was actuated by
the Hottest and noblest motives in
making the appointments, and they
were accepted in a corresponding spirit.
If either Lee or Wheeler distinguishes
himself in the war with Spain, will it
not be the proper thing to give him
the recognition his services may merit?
To give the appointment of a major
generalship and then to withhold pro-
per recognition of eminent services in
the position would be a very churlish
thing Evidently the Times is fearful
that Lee and Wheeler will-distinguish
themselves. The people hope and ex-
pect that they will; and if they do,
they viii cheerfully give them such
recognition as their services may en-
title them to.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18
GENERAL MERRITT MAKES
DENIAL.

General Merritt has found it neces-
sary to repudiate a fake interview of
a most scaudalous nature. 1t repre-
scented him as giving utterance to SEN
timents that were little less than open
ly mutinous, sentiments that would dis
grace any. officer in the army and
should subject him TO court martial
This interview appeared in the New
York Tribune, paper usually very
reliable and not at all given to taking
and sensationalism. 1t may have been
grossly imposed upon, thing that may
happen to any paper. no matter how
careful and conservative. The charac-
ter of the paper in which the interview
appeared gave to it a credibility it
would not otherwise have had, though
no one at all acquainted with General
Merritt's career believed for a single
moment that he was correctly reported.
Whatever the shortcomings of the
officers of the army, INSTRUMENTATION
is not one of them. AS a body, no
men have a higher sense of duty and
honor, and their loyalty is beyond
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat gives
some interesting statistics about our
American soldiers. 1t says the Yankee
is a much bigger man than the Span
lard, and that is an important advan-
tage for the American in this war
With all his pride of race, the naughty
Don is little fellow; in stature he is
least among the Europeans, averaging
only 515 inches over feet. The soldier
who fights under the stars and stripes
averages feet ~ inches in his stock
ing feet; he weighs 10 pounds more
than the Spaniard, and his chest girth
is nearly inches greater These are
points that count on the field of battle
During the civil war the biggest men
came from Kentucky, averaging a tri-
file over feet So inches. Close behind
was Kansas, with Minnesota, Missouri.
California and Nevada following in the
order given. The men from all these
states averaged about feet inches.
Maine. Illinois and Michigan fell two
tenths of an inch below that mark, and
next came Ohio and Pennsylvania
Massachusetts and Connecticut were at
the foot of the list, the volunteers from
the latter states averaging only feet
612 inches. During the civil war the
average American volunteer had a
chest girth Of about So inches. with an
expansion of 90 inches. The men from
Vermont. Connecticut. Rhode Island,
Indiana and West Virginia had a chest
expansion of over inches. The chest
expansion of the average Spanish SOL
der is only 2.6 inches.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18
TOO GOOD TO CARRY MUsKETs.

No regiment in all the country has
gained such unenviable notoriety as
the New York Seventh. This notoriety
was gained through its refusal to
volunteer except on conditions i'm
posed by itself, conditions it was i'm
possible for the war department 10
accept. In the rush of preparation for
war the behavior of the Seventh was
rapidly being forgotten and would soon
have passed out of mind entirely had
not some indiscreet friends have justi-
fed the regiments cause. But the
most snobbish defence of it that has
been made by any one is by Colonel
Robert w. Leonard, of the Twelfth
regiment of New York. He makes this
truly remarkable, un-American and
unpatriotic defense of an apology for
the Seventh:
To order the Seventh out to carry
muSketS would be like ordering out a
battalion of cadets of the army whose
drilling has been entirely to make Of
ficers of them. The men of the Sew
enth are of a social grade not found
in the ranks of enlisted men. They
would be more useful as officers than
as privates.
That comes as near as possible being
an insult to every American volunteer.
What did the members of the Seventh
enlist for if not to carry muskets? The
men of the regiment are Of social
grade not found in the ranks of the
enlisted men. That is probably true
in large measure, but as yet the coun-
try hasn't got SO far along as to
recognize differences of social grade
when it comes to patriotism and
responding to the call of duty. Many
a poor American boy has gone to West
Point and graduated who knows more
about the art of war than any of the
enth regiment, and who never had any
social standing at all. That school of
the soldier does not recognize social
grades, it simply recognizes merit and
ability.
If the Seventh regiment men are too
good for soldiers the American soldiers
will not regard them as good enough
for officers. Any regiment imbued
with such ideas will scarcely prove
itself superior in the field. To say that
the Seventh regiment is too good to
carry muskets in war time because of
the social grade of its members, is to
say that it is only fit for parade pur-
poses on pretty days.
Colonel Leonard, who makes this
caddish defense of the Seventh, was
once a member of the Seventh.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18
AN oLD-TIME NAVAL HERO.
Midshipman Somers' Daring and Self
sacrifice Before Tripoli.

Buffalo Enquirer: 1t is unfortunate
that the name 'SomeTS cannot be at
tached to some active war vessel of the
United States navy. The boat bearing
that name, recently bought at Schichau,
Germany. will remain lille in Falmouth
harbor until the war ceases.
1t is unfortunate, because the name
SomerS comes from a man who is aSso-
ciated with as remarkable an act OF dar-
/ ing as that of any one who ever fought
on the seas for old glory. Names such
as his deserve TO be perpetuated. EXAM
pies like that given by Richard SomerS
are worth more than battleships or in
exhaustible revenues.
The first time SOmerS is heard or is the
time he fought a series of duels- Dueling
was then the vogue. At dinner Stephen
Decatur. jr., whose name is also memoir
able, called him fool. He was an init
mate of Decaturs s. Five other guests told
Somers il was a reflection on SOmer's
courage not to fight Decatur. Somers re-
sponded by challenging the five of them
fought three. when they all apologized.
Somers was a mdshipman on the frig-
ate United States when the war with
Tripoli broke out. He was made master
cornmandant of the 12-gun schooner
Nautilus. He chased some vessels close
to a rriDolitan battery, which did not
dare FIRE for fear of hitting one of its
own vessels. He chased them within 100
yards of the battery, and as he turned to
go back. his quarry safe in the harDor
destruction seemed imminent. But an
<AHleTlCdu smell eADlOCeu III the DdlteI-r
and he got AVA.
1t was on the night of Sept that
Somers gave up his iife for the flag whose
honor he had sworn TO protect. He took
charge of u small boat filed with 100 bar
refs of guBDowder and shells which had
been turned into a floating mine. 1t was
known that could the vessel be taken into
the harbor ana exploded enormous dam
age could be done. Somers undertook TO
do 4. Somers had sworn never 10 be
taken alive. The affair before Tripoli
was not a peaceful blockade. but war.
An uncle of LongfelloW. Henry Wads-
worth, ten sailors and midshipman, Jo-
seoh Israel. who had been refused per-
mission to 60 but who hid in the vessel,
made up the party. The fleet waited the
result The little boat. named the In
trepid. sailed towards the batteries The
batteries opened up ON it. The Amer
lean fleet waited anXiously for two hours
and then the night suddenly changed into
d glare of fire. The Intrepid had blown
itself UP. accomplishing its mission
RICHARD Somers sleeas IN an unmarked
grave somewhere in Tripoli. The Moham-
medans would allow no signs of identif
cation. He gave his life and gave IL at
great cost. for the effect of the explosion
shattered the enemy's largest boat filled
with soldiers. and wrecked two others.
Richard Somers was a type of the mid
shipman of the first part of the century.
His deed has never been excelled in dar-
ing by any single exploit.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18
THE LIEUTENANT GENERAL
SHIP.


1t is anything but pleasant to read
about the efforts being made to have
the grade of lieutenant general revived
for the special purpose of comforting
that rank upon Major General Miles.
Ever since he was appointed TO tne
command of the army he has been
working ceaselessly for this rank, but
to have the matter thrust upon the at
tention of the country at this particular
time is anything but agreeable. II
General Miles is ambitious for the rank
of lieutenant general let him deserve
it through work on the field of battle
and let him cease working for it
through political intrigue. The people
are strongly impressed with the idea
that a political general is not a great
military general.
Up to the present time there is moth
ing in General Miles career that war
rants his lofty ambition. He has a
good record, one of which he may be
proud, but it is much such a one as
the other major generals of the regular
army have. He is a good soldier, but
he is far from being a great one, and
it is altogether improbable that he will
ever do anything to entitle him to be
ranked along with such men as Grant,
Sherman and Sheridan.
This continual importuning of con-
gress to revive the rank of lieutenant
general that it may be conferred upon
General Miles only creates prejudice
against him, for of all things the peo-
pie dislike it is the continual invoking
of political influence by military men.
If General Miles earns the right to
the distinction of a lieutenant general
ship the people will see to it that it is
conferred upon him.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18
UPS AND DOWNS.

When all the chairs are ostriches
And all the tables trees.
And luggers sail TO hunt the whale
At any time you please;
And greenhouse palms in tropic Gains
Are waving in the breeze;
When Fritz, the dog, and Fluff, the cat
Are pumas, splitting fire
What can you have to grumble at?
What more could you desire?
But when the sofa springs a leak,
And sharks are in the bay;
When Indian spies with fiery eyes
And faces painted gray
Go lurking round the corridors
To grab you on your way;
When grizzly bears infest the stairs,
AS fierce as fierce can be
What shall we do for dinner then?
Where can we go for tea?
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18
STATE PRESS COMMENT.

Logan Journal: The county commits
sioners are to be. commended upon the
During the past eight years the ereater
part of the public range in this valley
has been eaten off by sheep long before
the end of the grazing season and our
own cattle and horses have been brought
in thin from the mountain ranges to be-
Sin the winter Last year il was worse
than any previous season. on account Of
the grazing taxes elsewhere. and this
year II would have been even worse had
not the commissioners taken this timely
step. 1t is possible that Cache county
horses and cattle will be able to 1--we out
on the range this year and get something
to eat
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

question. General Merritt is one of the
highest of these and would be the very
last to do or say anything that had the
slightest squint of INSTRUMENTATION or
mutiny in it. If he is ordered to the
Philippines and is Only given a corpo-
rails guard of raw recruits, he will go
as promptly and cheerfully as though
given half a hundred thousand regu-
lars. The first duty of the soldier is
to obey; the next to accomplish the
most possible with the means at his
command. And General Merritt is every
inch soldier.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

The Rambler says that a French
scientist is said TO have invented a
method Of administering pills to plants
so as to keep them in health and Wig
or with but very little other nourish-
ment. It is easily found by analysis
what particular material each sort of
plant chiefly needs. This found, the
necessary salts are enclosed in a pre-
pared metal case and buried under the
roots. They dissolve slowly and grad
ually, the pace being regulated by the
thickness Of the cover and are thus alb
sorbed by the plant. Nobody but a
sappy would swallow this.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

When it comes to assigning troops,
the war department officials don't seem
to know their own minds two days in
succession. 1t is worse than kinder
garten work.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.
Internal Machine Sent to Railroad
Man at Pueblo.

Pueblo. Colo, May he. E. McClin-
took, city passenger agent of the Santa
F'e railroad, received in the mail a small
wooden box, and when he opened il an
explosion occurred which burned his
head. face and hands severely. An ex-
animation disclosed the fact that the
box contained n 4-inch stick of dyna-
mite. still intact, only the cap attached
10 it having exploded. Several weeks
ago some unknown person shon at Mr..
McClintock on the street 1T night He
does not know who his enemy is.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

During the wars of Napoleon every
French soldier understood that he car
ried a possible marshaTs baton in his
knapsack- These are fine things to
have in the knapsack, but it would be
unwise to throw away bareback on a
long march TO make room for them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

The Gordons of Georgia are just as
good fighters as the Gordons OF Scot
land. General John 3. Gordon has a
nephew who is an officer on the cruiser
San Francisco, and a grandson of his
has enlisted as a private.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

That Spanish Philippine islands re-
lief expedition and the expedition to
aid Rear Admiral Dewey, seem to have
paired so far as quick departure is
concerned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

Admiral Sampson faces 8 sea of trou-
lbles in trying to locate the Spanish
fleet. and he is more than anxious to
oppose and end them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18


eminent would but adopt Uncle Coils
view of the case and collect what II can
from him. the people would be pleased.
1t is not understood that Mr.. Huntington
is insolyent.
Louisville Courier-Journal: Taking a
cue from 1888. why not Dewey in 1907
There is nothing likely to happen more
brilliant. or leaving a deeper impression.
and 10 name has q sweeter sound than
Dewey Why not a great national re-
vival in the centenary year under the
leadership of. let us say. Dewey and Lee?
That would knock out the small-fry poll
ticians and give the soldier boys a
chance. 1t would start the country into
the twentieth century nation respected
and honored throughout the world Be
hold how 1t looks i'll print:
For President.
GEORGE DEWEY,
OF Vermont.
For Vice President,
FITZHUGH LEE,
OF Virginia.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

All volunteers, unmarried as well as
married, should provide themselves
with a housewife
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

Boston Transcript: They are telling
that "a comedy widow of Eau Claire
Wis. has sued a man for 81, 200, claiming
that he did wickedly, feloniousIy and with
eS aWdT on F tb 5ek Same Ssn f the
personal property of the plaintiff To
this we have only TO say, Eau Claire
out. We don't believe a word of it
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

There is some question as to what
Admiral Dewey's politics is. He is all
American, a yard wide, and his coIors
never run.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

Judging from the amount of war
poetry produced, Pegasus must have
been pressed into government service.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

Indianapolis Sentinel: We knew it.
The Indiana showed up in action like a
corn-fed harvest hand, and came out COW
cred with glory without a stain on her
silver service. We assert our abiding
faith that the Indiana can whip the Span
ish navy by herself if they will come up
one ct a time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

It is Joseph Chamberlain's American
wife, a daughter OF ex-Secretary of
War Endicott, who has imbued him
with his pro-American leanings.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

Washington Star: IT'S remarkable -
said Senator Sorghum, how differently
people are affected by the same thing
NO l was thinking of my speech. 1t
kept me awake four nights, and put
everybody who heard it to sleep"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

1.-THE iron trade is picking up says
Pittsburg exchange. There certainly
is something magnetic about it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

The invasion of Cuba seems to be
proceeding by fits and starts, there be-
ing more fits than starts.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

The volunteers have all been mus
tered. They are anxious now to catch
up with the Spaniards.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

It depends in very large measure
whose head it is that wears the crown,
whether or not it lies uneasy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

@weyler as type" says the Kansas
City Star. AS type he doesn't
amount to much. but as typewriter
he is without peer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

Admiral Cervera does not appear to
be so rash as Don Quixote. nor so
shrewd as Sancho Panza.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

The Spanish fleet, from all accounts,
must be sailing for the Spanish main.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

That smile about things vanishing
like dew before the sun should be
changed to ike Spaniards vanishing
before Dewey.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

The car Of Russia wants England
to put the screws TO Chamberlain.
Chamberlain could furnish them if nee
essarv
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

Some things about the war depart
ment look very much like sub-calibre
practice.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

Our cause is Just, and if Sampson
could only get at that Spanish fleet he
would prove it as Dewey did.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

Why doesn't Tesla make his oscil-
lator oscillate instead of standing on
the order of oscillating?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

It is very probable that the naval
strategy board viii go. When it is
gone no one viii have any regrets.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

What so dull as day in May when
there is no news Of victory?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

The heavens are weeping and the
farmers are shouting for joy thereat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

The president contemplates calling
out 100000 more volunteers for the pur-
pose Of calling Spain down.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-18

In satisfying a nations earth hunger,
many of its people must bite the dust.