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penal servitude from being connected with
Fenianism. How much 1t told on his phys-
cal frame no one will ever be able to say;
but Il must have been inexpressible tor
ture to a man of his susceptibility and high
intelligence and the fact of II Is no credit
TO England
Another member OF Parliament. Mr.. j.
+. X. OBren, can go still further, and
boast of what probably no other citizen
can--vlz, that he was tried for high trea-
SON." found guilty, and sentenced to death
''as a traitor!" II is, Of course, superfiuous
to say that this barbarous monstrosity OF
a sentence was never carried out, though
before Mr. O'Brien obtained his perfect
freedom he had had more acquaintance
with prisons and prison life than the aver
age man is likely 10 care for.
Dr. Jameson, as everybody knows, can
boast of an acquaintance with Holloway
Goal not inferior TO that of most men,
And, as everybody knows also, 1t was for
what at the worst can only be set down
as a mistaken idea of colonial policy in
South Africa. Those who saw the doctor
before his trial, and those who saw him
after, could scarcely recognize the same
individual in the feeble, wan-looking man
who was removed so carefully under med
zeal care, after fifteen months soJourn In
II. NJ prison al Holloway, compared with
the bronZed wiry-looking official OF the
veldt whom they had formerly known.
OF Sir John Willoughby and Maj. Cow
entry, sentenced for the same cause, but
for a lesser time, one may make similar
remarks. Yet that men who have gained
high renown in fighting for Brtain's SOW
ereign should be subjected to such degra-
datlon as herding with convicts and fell
ons seems to suggest something wrong In
the English prison system.
The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland
xhf411
time in prison for contempt Of court"
Holloway also was, If we are correct, her
experience of prison life. The lady had
destroyed some papers which she said
were private to herself from the late
Duke. and which the court had ordered
to be produced. She refused to give them
up, and many people applauded her for
doing so. The court, however, decided
that she had treated IT with contempt
and committed her to prison. Even as a
first class" mlsdemeanant her expert
ences cannot have been very desirable.
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and merchant classes that he ever. retain
ed. 1t is probable that from the events
OF the Diet Bismarck evolved the first
IDEAS of a United Germany, in which
Prussia should be the most splendid fac
tor, the Prussian house of Hohenzollern
to furnish The Emperor. While he was
never an orator, as the world rates ora
tory, Bismarck was always forceful, clear.
and epigrammatic. In 1860 he made a
speech as minister of state to the Prus-
SIAN Reichstag. at Berlin, in which he
said: The great questions of the day are
not to be settled by speeches or majori-
ties, but by blood and iron" Since then
Bismarck has been called the man of
blood and iron"
They do not do things by halves in an
empire and so it as that thanks TO Ger
many, Bismarck became a wealthy man.
lie had three estates, Varzin, in Pomer-
ania, whore the land is fiat, like that of
Holland, but fertile, is probably his favor
lie place. He owned $1,000 acres there,
enough TO give him rank among the large
landed prOprietors of his district Then
comes FrieGerichsruhe, In the heart of a
Saxon forest. Third and last is the old
homestead of Schoenhausen, where the
Prince was born. Bismarck proved him.
self a good soldier in 1S70-71, and became
colonel Of his regiment of heavy cavalry.
Cuirassiers of the Guard. But before that
he had been Jumped from major 10
major general so his colonelcy really did
not matter SO much. AT the time of his
retirement he held one of the highest
grades than can be obtained-colonel gen,
eral of cavalry
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pionship over England, and Larned, the
second best player ia the land; Goodrlch,
the captaiu of Harvard's crew in "a, and
Bull who rowed on that crew; Dean the
best Quarter back in Harvard's history,
and Creenway, the best end in the history
of Yale; Charming and Church, who play
ed football at Princeton; HOLSTER, the
runner. and Waller, the high jumper Of
Yale: Stephens, the polo player, and Fer
guson and Thorpe, the members OF Rose
velrs old polo team at oyster Bay; and
besides these, who were all troopers,
Lieut.. Devereaux, who played good foot
bali at Princeton, and Lieut.. Woodbury.
Kane. who did the same at Harvard, and
who helped win his commission washing
dishes on a cooking detail for New Mex
leo outfit, and washing them, as sUpe-
rior said. id well.'
And more, Sergt McBlhinny the Louis
lana planter who has an island of hts
own; Capt. Jenkins of South Carolina,
son of the Confederate general; Capt.
O'Nein, ex-AIayor, eX-sheritf and hunter
of Indian and white desperate, POpulist
and free silver man; Capt. Lewelyn, who
carries four bullets in his body Capt.
Luna, who demanded at Tampa that he
should be permitted to go to the front and
show his loyalty because he was the only
man of pure Spanish blood holding a COM
mission i'm the American army; Sergt.
Dairy who was speaker Of lower House
and gold Democrat candida te for Con-
gress; Heffner, who, though shot mOrtaHy,
got Col. Roosevelt to give him his gun,
and, proper against a tree, kept firing
until the line went forward; and Lieut.
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Thomas, whose father fought in the civil
war, whose grandfather was killed in the
Mexican war, who had two grandfathers
in the war OF 1872, three grandfathers In
the war of the revolution, while the fourth
was Patrick Henry-all these were citizens
Of New Mexico. Lastly, there was Capt.
Capron, who fell-the fifth from father to
son in the United States army, a captain
of Indian scouts, an expert in Indian sign
language, and a great hunter. There were
no laggards in that little struggle.
Marshall the correspondent, kept with
the advancing line, taking notes as he
advanced, and when shot through the
spine kept on writing his story" between
periods of unconsciousness and spasms of
pain. Caspar Whitney stood near a
Hotchkiss gun and took the fire as coolly
as any regular under Gen. Young. Col.
Roosevelt picked up q rife and led his
men on charge across a space where he
thought they needed encoura cement; and
Richard Harding Davis gave his good SER
vice of an officer in the beginning, and
afterWard took the gun of a wounded man
and fought with the rest.
Such were the men who fought the good
little fight of Las Guasimas, and would
to heaven 1 had been with theni And
so, once more, to the Riders, one and all
Hail! -.
June 3O.-Quiet, modest. forcefll Col
Wood moves on Santiago tomorrow in
command of brigade. Roosevelt's Rough
ltiders go as Roosevelt's in fact as well as
in name. Col Roosevelt has made his
word OF peace good in war
John Fox, Jr.
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o8INcE BISMARCK DEAD.
.-.-n-.l from F'lrst Page.

I In ISIS i'll health compelled Bis
Council lire 70 private life for a time.
magck 70 following he enter
on the discharge OF his
ii ui" rs foreign minister of the
tulcuons -r,s7 confederation. In July,
Norm -.eir5d that Gen. Prim had sent
lS7t t -'.... % prussia to offer the crown
o en- 90 Prince Leopold OF Honenzoi-
Of st, I- -r.reh people were greatly agi-
lern ,-. receipt of this intelligence.
tatei --lr leading statesmen declared
SOM would never consent to see a
that since seated on the throne of
PruSS' .yolanations were demanded
Span perrin cabinet. 1t was alleged
iron. ~. that the King of Prussia
by consent 10 the acceptance of the
CAV A fla prince only as the head of the
crown I'm family, and not as an act
Hole'--' '.,,zrnment. A few days later
Of -s .,ir3,,al Of the princes candidature
me "'.-.rnsed. but in spite of this France
was -.5 ,,.Ir AGAINST Prussia and the cam
az fs.4u. The complete success OF
pas, -.,ss.sa arms is a matter of history
" il.'-,!, a.eompanied the King of Prus-
bl9'i .,'lr.,-e15,u the campaign, and after
sd ~ Paris, he dictated the terms ot
the -0' which were adopted by the assem-
pea, .trting at Bordeaux. Following
NY '-r.lr-fan of peace with France, Ba-
JUS baden and Wurtemberg We're
Ial'- mo the German alliance, and Bis
W., had the pleasure of seeing, in 1871,
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HoBsoN CANNON BALL.
That Is the Name of the Latest Fancy
Drink.

From the New York Herald.
Latest of all drinks Is the "Hobson Cam
non Ball" concocted by dispenser Of in
toxIcants known TO fame as the ''Only VIII
liam" To drink the "IIobson Cannon BALI
you must be In a mood appropriate for the
lmbibing of patriotism. The effect Of
drinks depends largely upon the emotions
and the thirst OF the drinker.
Nobody, for instance, can do justice to
the alluring beverage which bears the name
of Hobson without being animated by a
love OF country and by admiration for that
naval hero. Richmond Pearson Hobson.
II is not best to know too much about
the composition of the "Hobson Cannon
Ball" One of It's charms Is Its mystery.
The ingredients are those of the gin fizz and
the proportions are practically the same.
It's manufacture, however, rs carried on
with military precision. He who makes II
works like an experienced artilleryman fir
ing howitzer.
There Is a hasty reach for the gin cais-
son. vigorous ramming of lemon "a charge
of carbonlc water, and then come the ar
tiilery tactics. The drink Is poured into a
long cylinder, and the glass Is carefully
fitted over 1t. This cylinder Is different
from the ordinary lemonade shaker IN
that 1t Is longer ana mas mucn the appear
ance OF a cannon.
Nothing can exceed the rapid manner IN
which the "Hobson Cannon BALI is shak-
en-. The operator is meanwhile executing a
kind of war dance closely resembling the
drill of a light battery. Then a look of
pride comes into the eye Of the drink dis
penser. He draws his arms toward him
and then suddenly throws them forward
with the shaker tightly clasped in either
hand. There Is a crash of bits Of ice against
the glass, and then boom! bang! the foot
OF the dispenser has struck the floor with
thunderous effect.
Customers who are waiting for ordinary
cocktails or whisky straights turn and
look toward the placd-faced drink-mixer.
why, what's that?" they demand.
What happened?"
"Hobson Cannon Ball." replies the only
William" as he pours forth the allurlng
nectar.
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AT LAS GUASIMAS.
The Splendid Part Played by the
Rough Riders

The Splendid Part Played by the
Rough Riders.
One of the most brilliant accounts given
to the press of the heroic work done by
Roosevelt's Rough Riders in the deadly
ambuscade at Las Guasimas Is the fol-
lowing, which appears in the current num-
Der of Harpers Weekly, written by the
special correspondent of that journal, Mr..
John Fox, Jr.
"This I was taking in when the Riders
were fighting their way forward foot by
foot, and making the charge that won the
day.
Cease firing and advanced
No wonder the Spainards ran-they
must have thought that the superb nerve
of that charging line had the muscles of
the whole army supporting it close be-
hind.
A a big spring l was oYertaken by two
men. One had a smooth face that sug
gested subdued temptations, and the
other called him, l thought captain"
The one was a trooper but the other, the
smooth-faced man, was a chaplain. He
wore a six-shooter, handled it with low
ing familiarity, said he asked no odds
of any man, could settle a Spaniard at fif-
~ PAGES, ulu not tI6dIi 10 ne taken ny
surprise, and, therefore, mounted on a
mule as high as a dromedary he carried
his gun" drawn, and almost wept next
morning when his colonel told him that
the articles of war forbade him to carry
a weapon; and yet he was a man of the
cloth, from Arizona, and to the Rough
Riders-chaplain. The chaplain was much
disturbed when he first heard Of the fight
of Las Guasimas, and groaned in genuine
distress when he was told that the adju-
tant had seen Col. Wood fall and had
got from his lips a dying message TO his
wife.
The rumors were so thick, conflicting
and wild, however, that we were not sure
there had been any fight at all. But by
and-by we met white man on foot with
his arm in a sling. Then came, on
litter a negro with a shattered leg; then
another with a bullet through his throat,
and another and another on horseback
rode a sergeant with a bandage around
his BROW could see him smiling broadly
fifty yards ahead-and the furrow of
Mauser bullet across his temple and just
under his skin. After him we passed a
camp of insurgents. little, thin, brown fell
lows ragged. dirty shoeless-each with
sugar-loaf straw hat, a Remington rife
Of the pattern Of 1892 or a brand-neW
Krag-Jorgensen donated by Uncle Sam.
and the inevitable and ever-ready ma
chete swinging in a case Of embossed
leather on the left hip They were very
young and very old, and were wiry, quick
eyed, intelligent for the most part, and In
countenance vivacious and rather gentle.
There was little creek next. and climb
ing the bank of the other SIDE / stopped
short, with a start. in the road. To the
right and on a slopng bank lay eight gray
shares. munled from head to foot. and
thought OF the men l had seen asleep on
the deck of the transport at dawn. Only
these were rigid. and. should have
known that all Of them were in their last
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) WITH PRISON RECORDS.
Celebrities who Have Done Time for
OHenses More or Less Rank.
E,rnrrn Iloarenr,c MALL,


1t seems strange to think of those whom
whom it even respects, as having been in
prison and suffered torture, doesn't IT,?
But it's true, nevertheless. Probably the
most striking case is that of Lord Loch
the late high commissioner Of the Cape.
After the Chinese war in the forties he
had, while attached to the British embas-
sy there, the misfortune to be captured
by a band of Infatuated and ignorant Chi
nese. They were savage at the losses
they had suffered and were ready for any
brutal acts Of revenge on the hated Eng
lish. They took Henry Loch-as he then
was-and his companion, and put them
both into narrow cages, just like wild
beasts in a show, and they carried them
up and down the country, exhibiting them
to the enraged Chinese, who jeered them,
Knocked them and tortured them in every
possible way Happily for the two unfor-
tunates, British soldiers were not long in
coming to the rescue when the news be-
came known, and they, quite contrary to
their own expectations, thus managed to
escape an awful fate.
one who can tell also Of the horrors
OF foreign prisons under barbarous gov
eminent is DR.. Wenyon, the well-known
Wesleyan medical missionary. Who that
saw him sitting calmly and placidly at
the Wesleyan conference, held in Leeds
some time ago, would ever have suspected
that the minister with the thoughtful face
and sweet kindly expression had once
been seized by rude Turkish officials while
travelling in the Euprates district Of Asia
Minor. and thrown into the awful cell of
a Turkish prison house, there to langu!sh
in utmost torture. physical and mental,
until his friends in England brought sufi-
cient influence 10 bear upon the Sultan's
emissaries to secure his release?
The British Parliament contains at least
two men who have wasted away under
the terrible regime Of English prison life,
and to whom at that time life seemed ut
terly hopeless and lost.
One of them, Mr.. Michael Dayitt, than
whom there are few ordinary members Of
Parliament more respected, both inside and
outside the House. served long years Of
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AGAINST THE ARMY CANTEEN.
Savannah w. c. It. us Petition to the
President.

President.
The Woman's Christian TEMPERANCE
Union forwarded the President last night
a petition which the members have been
circulating for the last two weeks. with
sol signatures against the canteen in the
army camps.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union anrd leading temperance and re-
ligious workers all over the country have
been waging an uncompromising war on
the army canteen. II has been taken up
by the bishops of the M. e. Church, ten
OF whom arc quoted in opposition to the
canteen system. These bishops are men
noted for their careful conservatism, men
whose abilities and thoughtfulness com
mand for their utterances the, respect of
All hearers. With a single exception. none
Of those whose opinions are noted, has
been openly identified with political prohi-
bition. Their opinions, therefore. must be
recognized, even by partlsans, as the IN
biased judgment Of men qualified 20 weigh
facts carefully and accurately As such
their words will not fail 10 have weight.
not alone with the great religious denomi-
nation Of which they stand at the head
but with the Christian and thinking public.
The reception that their opinions viii re-
cciye at the White House viii be worthy
of notice
The ladies Of the Savannah Woman's
Christian Temperance Union hope for
practical results from their petition IN
conjunction with those which have gone
from other cities.
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me King Of Prussia crowned Emperor of
Germany IN the palace of the French
hhgs at Versailles. During the same
month he was appointed by the Emperor
10 DE- chancellor of the German empire
ana IN the following year he was raised 10
.Ae rank OF Prince. In December, 1872,
ne resigned the presidency of the minis
nv although ne continued TO confer with
Ile Emperor on the affairs of the country
Al 100 he was reappointed premier, which
1 Uuloe ne neld during the lifetime of Will
nam L ana during the short reign of his
son' frederick. Prince Bismarck finally
ieuIeo TO private life in March, 1890, short
peror -
40 man Of this century attained such
19lue N his sphere as did Won Bismarck.
5'y was born at a time when the tremen-
e s5a}s events of the Hundred Days were
t-1H''ls All Europe, as a reed is shaken
~ 'ue wind. His earliest memories were of
those days of Sturm and Drang. Neither
55 tad nor while a student at Gottingen,
ra .Ne future chancellor show any indi-
~ ''o''s Vi The genius for the great matters
we III winch his eliminating stroke
a '"e fusion of all the smaller kingdoms
~ -u N1chies of The Fatherland into a
th'9I'' empire, changing the coronet of
of, assam Kings into the imperial crown
'eIuIdh emperor. In truth Bismarck
800 any 'hlng but model student Il
sr .'H nave taken a degree in drinking,
ti.-1NiLs' and eating good dinners" he
t'--'sel4 SAYS. His closest friends were four
C+te, '0dns' King, Mallory, Motley, and
VIII ~ was from constant association
ants. '"zsv young men that Bismarck &C
H. .al almost perfect knowledge OF
H.. -"s1sh tongue, which he saws. has
iesr-o- such use to him. 1.-THE English I
tba was not Kings English at all. but
v.e.r -ican tongue" said Bismarck,
p..,,,.tie iale William Walter Phelps com
r,''-u MN upon his extremely correct
~ 1'H laiion OF our language. The
o. Siip then formed endured as long
''' Oh The four Americans lived. He
VIII urn believer in the code duello. and
nr. 1 student fought twenty-eight duels.
''." pistols, most unusual thing at a
f5.. ~, as student duels are usually
le.-,1 "4'h a straight, pointless sword.
chi ~ ~ razor hneness in edge. The
50 ul,, word is square and very sharp,
viii a severe wound can be inflicted
' 1t II the face can be touched.
p,1-e Of the most important incidents in
iafNs life, judged in the 1igbt of s,,b-
ae .., vents. was his assignment in 1851
Com 4 OF the Prussian embassy 10 the
i...lH u-et, which met that wear an
r5tt,,. y Inc German diet was a convo-
MAJ, ". representatives from an the Ger
s..t.. 9'ales' duchies, and free cities to con =
rr , 'N frame needful regulations touch
M we internal commerce of The states
ur. Ie.al ng to customs and tariff mat
rep reseHt. being the most powerful state
er5ri.'5'led in the Diet. Bismarck was
s.mr'e5 70 impress his views upon The as
and freo '9e.p.iIesentatives Of all the states
usual fere, ies or Germany proper In his
'te biz, ~ lorcible way. The results OF
focrs.'a, IN commercial way an5 ~ ~
marrl , LIS soon learned il was TO MS
.vau.lees' 1 I they owed the commercial al
the pr'-. russia then enioved. II eavo
''-~s strength among the farming
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A buzzard tapped from the tree over him
as we passed beneath. Beyond was the
open-air hospital, where We're two more
rigid human figures and where the wound
ed lay.
That night there was g clear sky.
quarter moon and an enveloping mist of
stars, but little sleep for any, l imagine,
and but restless, battle-haunted sleep. for
all. Next morning followed the burial.
Capt. Capron was carried back to the
coast. The rest were placed side by side
in one long, broad trench, with their feet
to the east. In the bottom of the grave
was a layer of long, thick, green, cool
leaves of Guinea grass, and over the
brave fellows were piled the green
plumes of the royal palm as long as the
grave. At the head of the trench stood
the chaplain; around 1t the comrades of
the dead; along the road struggled band
of patient, ragged Cubans, and approach
ing from Santiago a band of starving
women and children, for whom the SOL
diers gave their lives. No man could ask
a Drawer end, more generous cause or a
klndlier grave-a soldiers death, a broth
er's freedom, and a last resting place in
leaves and white sand
Nearer, My God to Thee" sang the SOL
diers.
And the tragedy of Las Guaslmas was
done.
Everybody has perfect health in the
American regular, and knows, what he
can and what he will ever do. Gen Young
did, then, what the nation knew he would
do, and his negro troopers fought braVely
and we'll. But the interest of the fight
would center In the gallant conduct of
Roosevelts Rough Riders-or Woods
Weary Walkers, as they were dubbed at
Tampa after their horses were taken from
under them-even If they had not borne
the brunt of the fight. Never was there a
more representative body of men on Amer
icon soil; never was there a body of such
varied elements; and yet it was so easily
welded into an effective fighting machine
that foreigner would not know that they
were not as near brothers in blood, char
acter, occupation, mutual faith and long
companionsnip as any volunteer regiment
that ever took the field. The dominant eic-
ment was the big game hunter and the COW
boy, and every field officer and captain had
at one time or another owned a ranch
The majority came from Arizona, New
Mexico, Oklahoma and indian Territory,
though every state in the union was rep
resented. There were graduates of Har-
yard Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell
University of Virginia, Of Pennsylvania
Of Colorado, Of Iowa and other Western
and Southern colleges. There were mem
bers OF the Knickerbocker Club of New
York and the Somerset Of Boston, and of
crack horse organizations of Philadelphia
New York and New Jersey.
There were revenue officers from Geor-
gia and Tennessee, policemen from New
York city, six or eight deputy marshals
from Colorado, half dozen Texan Rang
ers, and one Pawnee, several Cherokees
and Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Creeks.
There were men of all political faiths. ali
creeds-Cathoiics. Protestants and Jews
There was one Swapping Australian and
one Of the Queens mounted police. though
20 per cent. of al we're native torn Amer
leans. And athletes a plenty-Wrenn.
who twice saved America the tennis cham
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Remarks.--No material changes in tenn
perature. No rainfall over the Wilmington,
| Vicksburg and Galveston districts; show
ers elsewhere.
Observations taken July 30, 1885, s D. m.
75th meridian tlme), at the same moment
of time at all stations for the Morning
News:
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Baron Henri de Rothschild. a cadet of
the Paris branch of the famous financial
family. has passed his final examination
as doctor before a jury composed of Drs.
Fourier, Budin, Poirier and Meter The
young physician obtained the mark Eek
tremely good"