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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-12

NORFOLK. June ii-iAsut Edward
teer. L : n. and ;wenty-us1e Mary
and reserves arrived here today - man
sra slAooa, : aaese row IN th-suavy yars
aie cxpFcte3 - Pes completed ard raafv
~ SEA service " Wednesday. Two d}vls osx
y aAF&l reserves .-oEl I!slgots. oEa fran
A-.on. f2e ctAer from CaacAgo arrived
acre today 20 man IRE cruiser Ners~k.
waaeh Will BE ready Tor ssvice in q Few
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-26
Another Expedition To Cuba.

Key West, July %. y. m.-The tor
pedo beat Gushing, which left here
yesterday with dispatches for the
blockading squadron, returned this
evening. bringing Lieutenant Colonel
R-balcava. Of Brigadier General Ro-
jas division, OF the insurgent army
TOW operating In Matanzas province.
Colonel Rebalcava left here about "A
week ago on the tug Uncas Win
small expedition carrying a quantity
Of rifles. food and clothing. a landing
was effected near Cardenas without
difficulty.
On Thursday last the Manyrovc -ap-
turel the Spanish slOOp Aguili'a on
BCca de Sagua fifteen miles from Erus
del Padro. Tn" sl.op carried 4 crew
90 four men who ~ the sighr - the
ap3roa, u ng gunbo@t icaped OTe-board
AID ~, ara 10 the shore. The Agu'dita p
cargo consisted % dye wood. 4 s:na!l
lot II food supplies and s25 in spanish
silver. She will be brought here - tho
Cn'as tomorrow.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-26
TROOPS LEAVE CAMP THOMAS
General Brooke aud STAFF Start for
Newport News-Another brigade to
Follow al AN Early Day.

Ch!cEamauga National Park. July
cS.-The most momentcus event of ths
war SO far as the army at Chicka-
meuga is concerned, occurred this az
ternoon when Genera; ISr 5oke and
stan left Camp Thomas for Newport
News on their way to Porto Rico. The
arrangements for the department or
General Brooke and stan were con-
cluded by noon today His train was
made up at Battlefield station and was
composed Of one private car for Gen
eral Brooke, two Pullmans and one
baggage car.
General Brooke and his entire stan
were dressed in their new kharRi uni
forms and they made n most impress
sive diplay as they entered the cars.
The excitement at the park was great
and every soldier who could get away
from his camp was at the depot to SEQ
them off.
When the train pulled out OF the
station about 2:30 o'clock "A rousing
cheer went up that resounded through-
out the entire camp and was echoed
from thousands of throats. The gem
erals train reached the city about $50
o'clock, having been delayed at sew
eral points because OF freight trains
in the way. The generals train re-
mained in the city, on account OF de-
lay in getting the baggage and oth"G
equipments from the park TO the city,
until o'clock this evening, when the
start was made for Lexington on the
Cincinnati Southern and thence To
Newport News by the Chesapeake
and Ohio.
The reserve ambulance company ana
hospital corps under Colonel X. Huide-
koper. chief surgeon. marched into
Roesville early this morning and load
ed their effects. Then. the signal corps,
under Major Glassford. and the head
quarters guards detachment Of the
Eighth United States infantry, under
command Of Captain Pitcher, Joined
them and were off for Newport News
early in the afternoon, taking the
same route as the brigade that left
yesterday.
No other organizations left the park
today and no orders relative TO fur
ther movement We're issued, aside from
the orders in vogue.
Colonel Lee. chief quartermaster, was
hard at work this afternoon arrang-
ing further details for the transpor-
tation OF the troops yet TO go. He
said there were no more troops under
direct orders to go. except the four
light batteries, which will leave Camp
Thomas at 6 o'clock tomorrow morn
| ing. These are Battery A, OF Missouri;
Battery A, Of Illinois; Battery Il. Of
Pennsylvania, and the Twenty seventh
Indiana battery.
While no other troops have been or
dered out, the next brigade in success
| sion, which is the Third. Of the First
| division, First corps, has been ordered
| to hold itself in readiness and will be
| ordered out just as soon as the nee
| essary transports can be arranged
| A hospital train arrived at Camp
! Thomas this evining and took on board
| 80 patients from the camp. These sick
| soldiers will be taken to the Fort Nc
| PhersOn hospital at Atlanta
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-26
Marrying a aPeuitentIary Convict.

Chicago, July 23.-Charles Warren
Spalding, the convicted ex-president
Of the Globe Savings bank, and Sarah
Louise Erwin, his former stenogra-
pher, were married here today. Spald-
ing is serving an indeterminate sem
tence in the Joliet penitentiary for
wrecking the Globe Savings bank. but
for two weeks has been in the Cook
county Jail, where be was brought on
Z writ of habeas corpus in order to act
witness in a suit growing out Of
tie banks affairs. Miss Erwin is the
young woman upon whom Spalding
lavished money and property before
the collapse Of the bank
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-26
Suit to Annual Contract for Transpo rt-
Ing spanish Prisoners.

New York, July 23.-George Osgood
Lord today brought suit in the su-
preme court against the Companld
Transatlantic Espaniole. J. VI. Bel
lios. agent, who in behalf Of the span
ish line made the bid for transporting
25, 900 defeated dons from Santiago to-
Spain at $50 for officers and go Tor
enlisted men. The suit is TO annul the
contract the quartermaster's Depart
ment made with the enemys steam
ship line The ground for the suit iS
that the contract is against public pol
icy. and gives aid and comfort 10 an
enemy OF the United States. Techni-
cally Mr.. Lord sues for 100000 dam
ages but the real object Is TO secure
the annulment Of the contract.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-26
NILES EXPEDITION
Expected to Have Reached the Coast Of Porto
Rico By This Morning.
AT WHAT POINT HE WILL LAND

able Communication
He Shat
terra nd Sampson Anxiousy Avaed--To Establish
Camps--The Philippine Probem.-No Euro
Interv ntion Feared ed..Sha
port On Fever n amp
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-26

My appetite was very poor and
was so nervous | could not sleep. /
was troubled with dyspepsia and was
very weak. After | had taken a few
bottles Of Hoods Sarsaparilla | could
eat anything | wished. could sleep well
and was much stronger Mrs. John
j. Martin, Warrington, North Caro-
lima.
Hoods Pills cure all liver ills. Easy
to take. easy to operate; reliable,
sure. Csc
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-26


At midnight the war department
made public the following dispatch
from General Shafter. regarding the
yellow fever situation:
Santiago de Cuba, July %.
"Adjutant General. Washington. D. C:
The following men died at yellow
fever hospital at Siboney today: Jack
Dongan. civilian; Bert Lewis. bands
man, Seventh infantry: Private Fred
erick A. Percival. Company F. Thirty
third Michigan. On the 21st Sergeant
J. Brittin, Troop G.. First cavalry: VIM.
]. Howe, teamster; Patrick Sullivan.
Company E. Seventh infantry.
NO deaths at the front have been
reported as yet. Complete report will
be sent in the morning. The situation
is not alarming. though there are many
sick with fever about 1.500 lexact
number viii be given in the morning)
Only a small part Of those sick are
down with yellow fever, about 10 per
cent. $50 in all. Slight changes of
all the troops have been made to get
them on fresh ground and the artillery
and cavalry have been moved about
three miles.
"SHAFTER,
l.. - Major General Commanding"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-26

The last and most agreeable event
of the day was the arrival at the navy
department Of Lieutenant Hobson, the
hero of the Merrimac. The officials
We're not informed of his visit except
through the newspapers. Consequently
when he reached the railway station
here at 2:3S o'clock this afternoon.
there was no official there to meet him
and his reception was truly democrat
ic. Some one spied him, however, and
soon the cry OF "Hobson,' ''Hobson,"
rang out and the crowd closed about
him, shaking his hand and pushing
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-04-03
MRS. MARY ANN Du PLAUNTY.

and she turned affectionately to Miss Byers.
her granddaughter. 81 would Tx to see
my brother, join Myers; / don't know
whether he is living or dead. He left home
when he II years old and came to Cali
fornia; that was in 1876 or 1S47, and I have
kept one OF the first hotels in San Fran
Her grandchildren believe he is the Ny
ers, of Russell & Myers" who kept the
Ward house or Clay street in 1850. where
the first county election was held on April
! of that year.
This old lady is very independent: she
est. assistance; in fact, she does not like
to be assisted in any way. She makes her
own bed every morning, and her own toilet,
without help.
Il have been 9 good cook in my day,
and even now I could show a good many
Of the girls how to cook" she continued,
'ff my eyes were not so bad. / don't do
MY appetite is very good: indeed, / like
meat as well now as ! ever did. I have
always been very lively. I was born in
81. Lawrence county. New York state, in
May, 1d96. My mother, Millissy NJ. Myers.
lived to the age of 1N years; all my folks
have lived to a good old age. I had five
sons: W. of them were In the civil war:
listed. He died in the AndersonviIle prison
during. the war, and Henry who was II
when he enlisted. died at Memphis, Tenn"
Mrs. Du Plaunty draws a pension for
these two soldier boys and Is very probably
the Oldest lady drawing a pension in the
United States. Mrs. Du Plaunty is living
with her grandchildren at SIG Haight street.
to sit by the window and enjoy the bright
California sun.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-04-03
WHY HE GAVE UP CIGARS.
A Way of Spending Money Which
Gave Him Much More
Pleasure.

FROM success.
An English clergyman. who was a hard
smoker, was cured of the taste for tobacco
by a sudden twinge of conscience.
He was sitting one day In his library
with an expensive cigar in his mouth when
the name OF one Of his oldest friends was
announced. The visitor. when greetings
had been warmly exchanged. confessed
that he had come upon a begging GRAND.
A story of pathetic distress was told.
and an urgent appeal was made for i'm
mediate relief. The clergyman was a
wa~rm-hearted, generous man, n his and
was plunged at once into his pocket. but
he found only a few shillings there. He
book, remarking to his friend that 1t was
a very sad and urgent case. and that he
would do what he could: but when he
looked at his bank balance his face chang
ed color. The account was nearly over
drawn already.
az am very sorry" he said. 81 can only
give you a 81 sum. l did not know
When his friend had gone. he relighted
his cigar. but It seemed to have a bitter
taste, and he took out q fresh one. Be
fore striking a match he jotted down on
paper the price of the cigar. and the mum
Der which he usually smoked a DAY. He
shillings a day. and over ninety pounds
a year-or about $3.50 in American money.
The amount which he had given his old
III uuE0 01btTSSS represented inc COSI
Of twenty days smoking.
The clergyman was an impulsive man.
Instead of lighting his fresh cigar of the
choicest brand, he threw 1t into the fire On
his hearth. He was SO deeply impressed
with the thought that a little self-denial
on his part would lave enabled him to
help an old friend in great need that he
resolved sternly never to smoke again. Be
ing a man OF strong will, he was as good
as his word.
A recent investigation has shown that
the students of a military academy in Eng
land expend enough money on Cigarette
to provide for the education OF forty young
men too poor to nave the same advantages.
The effects of tobacco on health may be
disputed. but no smoker can deny that
smoking II a wasteful habit. and that there
denial.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-04-03
NO LONGER BADGER" STATE.
Wisconsin Denixens Fail to Recog-
nize the Once Familiar
Animal,
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Some Of the Sentfnel's esteemed contem-
poraries are permitting themselves to be-
come considerably exercised over a rcent
hunting experience OF a certain Mr.. Rucks.
the aboriginal and arboracious Businesses of
his Washington county farm when a
strengthening quadruped, with an elon-
gated body, ditto snout and short stubby
legs, came within range of his vision and
rifle and promptly was made to suffer the
conventional penalty.
Mr.. Rucks at a glance and coincident snir
made sure that the dead beast was neither
q little bear nor yet a big skunk. Except
Identification failed to serve him nor could
his n~eighbors tell him what II was, and the
otherwise omniscient editor of the Fond du
Lac Reporter was discovered to be in the
same boat or hole, according as you view
his sanctum from the standpoint Of a sea-
dog or Of a %landlubber Wherefore. jeer.
Editor LANCE by the Sheboygan Telegram,
Eau Claire Leader and other badgering con-
temporaries.
For it transpires hat ultimately the game
was identified by an ornery English way
farer as the traditional badger to a like
ness with whose habits of Information the
early pioneers OF Wisconsin owed their 500
briquet and thus the state its too, which
pickname II ever appropriate has long since
lost Its application. For on the one hand
the badger has become all but extinct. is at
any rate SO rare a bird now tha to 9S9 res
name unless. forsooth. they be extensively
learned foreigners, and on the other hand
the times have changed and we have chang
ed with them.
Is not, therefore. the occasion Of our semi
centennial celebration propitious to the
adoption by. popular nomination and ac-
clamation of a new and characteristicalIy
appropriate sobriquet? One typical OF the
Wisconsin of to-day and promising so to re-
main for another half century. say. Cpon
this subject the Sentinel invites sngGes-
tons and criticism. and will be at pains
oinvesigate and interpret what may fairly
seem to be the consensus of Authoritative
opinion The proposal of the youngest
schoolboy Will. be as welcome as the opinion
OF a United States senator. The badger il
dead. long live the - 81
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-04-03
HOW JOKES ARE A
Ono Man Has Them Printed ON De
tachnble Coupons and Sent
ArnunA IN EdIfnsa

The common or garden joke in the comic
papers Of America and England has come
to be a. much Of a mechanical product
as any other Of the minor articles Of COM
merce. Indeed, a w%ell-known professional
Jest manufacturer (the designation is
the perfect system Of the factory.
In a brief talk with this business hu-
morist he outlined his scheme Of work
My note book is the storehouse for raw
material. Therein are jotted down all
suggestions. ideas and events which may
Inspiration. pure and simple, My family
and friends, my chance acquaintances. and
the people and sights I encounter supply
the unreined joke; Right here l want to
Woodworking and conscientious baby. aetat
! year. This admirable child is one of the
largest daily contributors Of raw material
for my joke factory. Before his arrival
l had to get my infant humor at second
hand, from other peoples nurseries. 1t
really pays a manufacturer to be his own
NJ Jokes roughly 1otted down. are. On
each Monday morning. carefully sorted.
The Thanksgiving output is thus ready by
placed on the market by Michaelmas.
With regard to the new perforated joke
broadsheet-my own tnvention-1 should
order a huge sheet of writing paper. per
forated after the manner of postage stamps
into rectangular subdivisions Of equal size.
Each subdivision Is just large enough for
a joke. and a my name and address
printed for editorial use. in the corner.
I write my Jokes. one joke to a rectan-
gular slip; and then fold up the entire
broadsheet and mail 1t to the b~est-paying
and most desirable comic paper on my
list.
The editor looks over the Jokes and picks
out the ones he wants. These he detaches,
by tearing along the perforated lines; and
sends back the remainder. Again 1 mail
the broadsheet to comic paper No. 2, and
the same process Of selection is gone
through. When all the humorous journals
have been given a chance, my mutilated
broadsheet IS sent the rounds Of the trade
papers; and, these publications having de-
tached the best Jokes remaining, I forward
what is left to England, where I find a
ready market for the remnant.
The system is an excellent one. obyiat-
been covering the backs Of my joke broad
sheet with mucilage. agreeably favored.
SO that the busy comic editor does not
have to bother about his paste pot. either.
/ do not see why a great wit and humor
paragraph trust should not be one of the
events Of the future"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-04-03
Spaniel Who Can Tell Tim..

Carlo. a half spaniel, aged 2, Is the prop
erty of an Auburn newsdealer. His spe-
cialty is telling the time of day by the
town clock.
81 want you to run up street, Carlo. look
at the town clock and return here in lust
fifteen minutes" said his master the other
day in the presence OF several friends.
Carlo trotted up street. and at the ex-
piration of just fifteen minutes returned
He was sent out again with orders to re-
turn in half an hour. One OF the men pres
ent followed him to watch his actions.
The dog went. up State street to a point
where he could see the clock and soon en-
gagged in play with several other dogs.
The watcher noticed that Carlo freauentiy
glanced In the direction of the clock. Sud
denly he stopped short. wagged his tail
and started on a run down the street II
lacked two minutes of the appointed time.
and at the end of that two minutes the dog
was back in the store,
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-04-03

admitted that to get a really creditable
account of himself from himself the best
results could only be obtained by the full
corps of Interpreters.
OF course Joseph had to make a living
while studying languages ashore. He Sc
cured a job from Hagenbeck in Copenhagen
and became ar assistant lion tanner. In
Berlin he was exhibited as a wild man from
somewhere, and a big ring was inserted be-
tween the nostrils Of his nose, which Is
about one and one-half inches wide. In
London. where his travels also took him.
he got a job again as a lion tanner. Some
months ago a vessel he had shipped in at
a European port was wrecked OF the coast
Of Brazil. He was thrown up with the
drift on the beach,. and, pursuing, his drift
ing habit, he drifted back to his BIRTH
place in Barbados.
Barbados was dull. He fell IN with some
Of the crew Of the American bark and they
though it would be fun to have him aboard.
He could sing and put up a pretty good
vaudeville entertainment all by himself.
the entertainment including mimicry OF the
noises made by the various wild beasts
with which he had become familiar in cir
Gus shows.
They helped him to hide away beneath
the starboard boat and after the bark was
under way one of the crew announced his
feigned surprise by calling out that there
was a new coon aboard" He turned in
and worked with the crew.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-04-03
The SADDLE SETS The PACE
WOMEN CAN RIDE FAST WHEN
SEATED COMFORTABLY.
Riding Astride To-day md I'm Former
Timex-How the Side Saddle
Orisinntcd-Changes Of the
Female Centnur.

The female ccntaur. whom antiquity
only imagined as a NEUROLOGICAL creature.
first appeared in real life in the latter part
of the fourteenth century. when the la
dies spent their lives on horseback. hunt
ing hawking or travelling. They rode astride
in those days, on saddles adapted
from those of the knights. but their strong
seats depended, not on the grip. but on
balance. and on the leverage obtained by
leaning against the saddleback while press
ing both knees forward against the front
pommels. In the Fargcllo museum there
is a beautiful fourteenth century wom-
ans saddle: the carving on the lower edge
OF the front pommel has been worn away
by the pressure of the knees. while the
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-04-03
A REMARKABLE sToWAWAY.
An Adventurous Negro From Barba-
does Who Can Speak Any
LanGuaue.

From the New York Times.
NO one at the barge office doubts that Jo-
seph Badmore would be able to scrape to-
gether a living in this country. but as he
mas no money n no friends and came as
a stowaway he will have to go a to
barbadoes. whence he came on the good
bark Mary C. Hale. Joseph's parents were
born In Africa, as one can easily believe
VINO beholds Joseph, for he Is as black as
the ace or spades. His hair Is crfnkly. his
lips as thick as blubber and his chin re-
treating. No one would take him to be a
ilnguist and an individual Of varied at
Tor twelve years. He thinks he is now A
years old. but he doesn't know just when
he was born.
He went to sea twelve years ago. but he
mas not remained at sea all of the time
since. When he first signed seaman's ar
tGies ne could talk only Spanish. He rest
ed a while in Germany and while there
picked up German and Russian. Then he
went 70 Holland and got 4 good smatter-
ing OF Dutch. A sojourn in Italy made him
proficient In the language of that sunny
iand. HIS French Is Partisan, he having
learned II IN the capital. To sea he went
again, anG at Singapore he learned to talk
with the Malays in their own Language
and at Madras he caught the language OF
the coolies, and he claims a smattering too
OF Chinese-enough to be understood. At
AlSierS he studied Turkish and Arabic.
and in Japan Japanese. He drifted back to
Germany and found Polish easy, and then
education by mastering the Scandinavian
languages.
hat he really had Il smattering of all
these tongues was attested by the CORPS OF
Interpreters in the immigration bureau. He
was abls to talk to any Of them. but they
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-04-03

the world rode-men. women and children.
The roads were mere tracks, frequently
impossible. and 1t was only about the be-
riages were built with springs.
In the time of the Romans, ladies had
carriages with springs; it was the excel
lence of their roads that made it possible.
ana rougher countries could not avail
themselves Of the invention. which there
fore lapsed and became forgotten. The
den. nor did the Greeks. nor. still further
back, the Egyptians. 1t is not known
when women in Europe first began to ride,
nor where the custom originated. nor what
ems riding seems to have been about. the
latter half Of the fourteenth century.
when. mounted on their big chargers. they
rode with the knights to hunts and tourna.
ments. This lasted but a short time, for
at the extreme end of the fourteenth GEN.