The times., 1898-08-07

to congratulate himself on his action, for
in the battle of the Little Big Horn Capt.
Yates and every man in Troop F. of
which he was first lieutenant. were left
on the battlefield together with nearly
all the other members of the regiment
During his two years with the Seventh
Sergt Rea became personally acquainted
with Buffalo Bill and scores of famous
frontier characters. and he has many in
terestins tales TO tell of his life on the
plains. Since joining the police force of
Se' Louis tne eX-West Pointer has been
promoted twice. He has rendered his SER
vices to the Government in the present
war and the adjutant general has assured
him they will be accepted If another call
FOR troops Is made
What has become of the reconcentra
dos? The woes of the prosecuted pacIf-
cos had a great deal to do with the deter
mination of the United States to drive
Spanish authority from the Western
Hemisphere. But when the war had be-
gun events so shaped the plans of the
campaign that the reconcentrados were
almost lost sight of. Now that peace
seems assured, the fate of the reconcen-
trados is becoming matter of revived
interest. Capt. w. B. Barker, the former
consul at Sagua. who has sailed for San
tiago, said just before his departure:
The impression seems 10 prevail among
the majority of people in the United
States that because of the war these re-
concentrates have been decfnated and
that probably the majority Of them died
long before this from starvation But.
for my part, don't believe such deplor-
able result has occurred. While other
United States consuls and myself re-
in hQ flEar
allowed 10 stay In the towns and cities
because. through the charitable gener-
oslty of the American people, we were
able to feed them; but when the war
came 1t was necessary for the Spanish Of
ficialS 10 econonlize their resources as
much as possible. Consequently when we
withdrew | have no doubt that the mill
tary authorities ordered all these depend
ents TO leave the cities and find their
livelihood as best they could In the coun-
try. Blanco has, in fact, reported to his
government that he had banshed the re-
concentrates from the town The fact
that he took this step inclines me to the
thought that these poor Cubans have not
starved TO deathyg The soil of Cuba Is so
rich that you can cultivate II, as 1t were
by merely running a stick in the ground
Potatoes and other vegetables can be
grown in from thirty 70 forty days and
because OF the easy possibilities of grow
Ing supplies in the country districts of
Cuba, l am led to believe that the suffer-
ing among the CGbans has not been near
ly SO severe as people in this country
have thought 1t to be-
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has rendered decision in which he SAYS
In effect that persons engaged in the
manufacturing of .aEar from cane or
beets and who do not buy and refine
other sugars, are not subject TO the tax
imposed by the new war revenue act.
This act provides as follows: THAT ev-
cry person. firm. corporation or COM
pany carrying on or doing the business
of refining petroleum or refining sugar
or owning or controlling any pipe line
! for transporting oil or other products
whose gross annual receipts exceed $3.50
600, shall be subject 70 pay annually a
| special excise tax equivalent to one-quar-
ter of per centum on the gross amount
of all receipts of such persons, firms.
| corporations and companies in their re-
! spective business in excess of the sum
| OF S25 000." The contention of the COM
| missioner is that the law applies only
| to the persons engaged in refining raw
| sugar, distinction from those who pro-
! duce the raw or unrefined sugars from
| cane or beets. Under this ruling practi-
| CdlS all vi l2le pteI SuSeT Hills u lUc
| West and cane mills Of the South are
| exempt from the tax, they being held not
| to be refiners within the meaning of the
| law OF this latter class there are said
| to be over 100 in the State of Louisiana
alone. The decision was rendered upon
| the application of the Oxnard Beet Sugar
| Company.
Camp Alger is now situated on historic
ground indeed. Manassas Is the spot
upon which Beauregard's army camped
before the first great battle of the war,
Bull Run Creek. from which the battle
took its name. is deep stream, the
source of which is clear, cool springs.
The lack of water at old GIMP Alger is
undoubtedly one of the worst features
of the old site. 1t IS so scarce that the
men were forced to suffer much hard
ship and it is thought more than poo
able that much of the disease now pre-
valent in the camp is due to THE fact thai
the men had no facilities for bathing
Lieut.. Col Burnhagn, of the Fourth Mis-
souri, regiment, who called at rhe Wal
Department a day or two ago, said tina
the 1900 men in his regiment were de
pendent upon one well for their supply
''There was a line at that we'll from early
morning until late at night" said Col
Burnham. 1--WE have been obliged to sta
ton a guard at the we'll to preserve or
der. The trouble in getting water inter
| fered with US in many ways. When We
first established our camp there were
| number of little creeks about where thu
men could take baths. and we saw to /
that the men kept themselves clean. TIT
way men are bunked together in a mill
tary camp makes it most desirable iron
every point of view that they should keey
| their hOklieS oil III the NrapkS IN
which the men used to bathe are nov
dried up and the, only means they has
at Camp Alger of taking wash was t
wait their turn at the we'll. get a buske
of water and go out under the tree
somewhere. That is "a very poor way
The change to Manassas win doubtles
bring about a great Improvement"
Miss Lucy Graves of Alexandria i
writing some very interesting letters from
Santiago to her home paper. Miss Grave
is Miss Barton's private secretary, AM
went into the harbor with the first shi
that took supplies to the suffering people
Among other things, Miss Graves say
in one of her letters: You haven't an
idea how dreadfully unprepared the hos
pital corps of the army was here. The
positively had no hospital supplies an
openly say they would not have been abl
to do anything without the Red Cross
When Miss Barton went to the front sh
| found men terribly wounded who had ha
nothing to eat for two days. and non
of them had anything but hard-tack, cof
fee and bacon. Think of feeding ma
who has had a leg amputated and is, O
course, racked with pain and fever, o.
such stuff as that. They went immedi
, ately to making Cruel and cooking rice
barrels of it, and the men begged for