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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09
RASH NAVAL OFFICERS.

The Vieksburg and the Morrill, had a
narrow escape from humiliation near
Havana harbor and it was only good
luck that saved them. Spanish gun
merry is not first-class, but it isn't safe
to- ignore it altogether, and some of
the shots just missed these boats. A
very clever trap was laid for them and
they came near running into it. The
course pursued by the commanders of
the Vicksburg and the Morrill, was sim
ply foolhardiness, and it came danger
ously near ending in disaster. 1t was
the precipitancy of the Spaniards in
opening fire that saved these two boats
and nothing else.
There is vast difference between
bravery and rashness. No one doubts
for a single minute that the command
ers of the Yicksburg and the Morrill,
are brave, courageous men, men who
would cheerfully sacrifice their lives
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09
TREAT THE VOLUNTEERS RIGHT

There seems to be some just criticism
of the inadequacy of preparation for
calling out volunteers. Some of the
states that were most prompt to re-
spond with their quotas were not fully
prepared to place them in the field.
Pennsylvania was one of these states.
The Philadelphia Ledger says:
The folly of taking the whole ma
tionai guard of Pennsylvania to Mt.
Gretna on a single day has already
demonstrated the inefficiency of the
administration. With inadequate rail-
road facilities, with a criminal neglect
to provide camp equipage and neces-
sary provisions. with utter indifference
to the comfort and health of the men, a
few general officers issued improvident
orders and brought about dire confus-
ion and needless distress. The right
thing would be just what the general
government and army authorities in
Washington did, in transporting single
regiments and individual batteries and
cavalry troops to Chickamauga Park on
successive days; so that the whole force
of regulars was established there
slowly and III perfect order. Such
contrast between regulars" and vol
unteers" ought to be a lesson.
Severe as this condemnation is, it is
not too severe. To order men into
camp when every facility for making
them as comfortable as possible in camp
is lacking, shows absolute incompe-
tence in those making the order Camp
life at best is hard, but the first few
weeks of it are hardest of ALL The
change from the comforts and luxuries
of home life to the roughness and pri-
vationS of camp life is so radical that
everything tends to disgust men, and
to make them cross and Grabbed, but to
deprive them of the necessaries of
camp life-of tents and provisions--is
to put their patience and powers of
endurance to a supreme test; and no
one need be surprised if they growl
and grumble to the verge of mutiny
One of the first requisites for a good
officer is solicitude for the physical
comfort and welfare of the men under
him; to neglect to look out for this is
to impair the efficiency of the army by
weakening the soldiers and making
them more or less discontented. Care
of the soldiers stomach is a fundamen-
tai principle of war, although it may
not be laidsdown in the books. At best
soldiers life in the field is a hard
one; to neglect to make him as COM
Portable as possible is a crime.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09
wAITINe FOR THE BATTLE.

All day yesterday people were anx-
iously inquiring whether any battle had
been fought between Admiral Samp-
sons fleet and that of Spain, but there
was no news, though there we're many
rumors. When the two fleets do meet
it will be one of the greatest naval bat
ties the world has even seen; the ca
.,5scity of the modern battleship for
offense and defense win, in all proba-
bility, be fully tested for the first time.
The people of this country and Of
Spain will await the result of the con-
fiict with an anxiety that none others
can feel, but the world will be deeply
interested in it. The American people
are as confident Of the result of the
battle as they are certain of the JUS
tice of the cause for which they have
gone to war; the officers and men in
Admiral Dewey's fleet have a like con-
fidence, and they are more than anx-
ious to meet the fleets of Spain.
Here are tables of the best fighting
ships in SIMPSONS squadron and the
whole Spanish navy:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09
THE OATH OF OFFICE.
One of the Clauses Was Too Much For
the HumoriSt.

| The editor-in-chief of the Daily Howler
having enlisted for three years for the
| war, he was succeeded by an elderly gent
with wooden leg and a sinister count
enance. who was reorganiZfng the force
! or rather putting into shape pieces of the
editorial crazy quilt set before him.
And what are your duties?' he said to
a young and gaunt-looking fellow with a
gray eye of glass.
Il haven't been assigned yet, SIR he
replied but l expected to do the. funny
business. sir. The Howler has always
had reputation in that line. and ii
would be pity to lose it when talent is
waiting. sir, to maintain it, And the
gaunt man tried TO puff his chest out
and look like a pouter pigeon with a
palpitator on.
Huh" grunted the new editor, funny
man. Ell? Write jokes and verses and
things like that, EN-? Current humorist,
Ell? Well, sir. are you prepared to take
an oath before going in work.?
What is it, may / ask" hesitated the
humorist, who would have taken a dose
of medicine before losing his job.
Hold up gpu your hand" commanded I'll the
you will not, during the prevalence of
hostilities between the government of the
United States on one side and the gov
anything of an alleged humorous char
mackerel? Swear
The aspiring humorist choked once or
Nor to Spanish fy?"
But they are bound to fly" pleaded
the humorist.
Leave that to the news editor. win
you swear?"
II swear
"Nor to Spanish onions?"
But II is gardening time"
Leave that to the hired man. VIII
you swear?"
IT swear"
Nor to anybody walking Spanish?
Swear.
DAMN exclaimed the humorist.
STRIP said the editor, with a look of
horror. :,
You said swear and I'm swearing, :"
explained the humorist And what is
more, I'll swear l won't work for no such
editor. You must think a man can be
funny in time of war on hay. No. sir,
| can't do good work If am not al
lowed the proper TOOLS. and, sir, you We
taken away the humorist's best fmple-
ments, and / must tell you to go to
thunder and bid you good morning
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at the call of duty, but they manifest
ed great lack of discretion. No doubt
that which led them to do so was their
great contempt for the ability of the
Spaniards, but it is never safe to have
too much contempt for an enemy, no
matter how inferior he may be in any
respect; to have too much contempt is
simply to court danger. In this case
danger was needlessly and wantonly
courted; the officers and men of the
navy will have plenty of danger to
meet if anyone has in the present war.
1t is safe to say that Captain Smith
and Commodore Tilly will not be so
rash again, ard that the whole navy
will profit by their experience, which
came so near being terribly expensive.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09
THE DRUM.

oh. the drum!
There is some
Intonation in thy grum
Monotony of utterance that strikes the
spirit dumb.
AS We hear
Through the clear
And unclouded atmosphere
Thy rumbling palpitation roll in upon the
ecr.
There's a part
OF thy music throbbing heart
That thrills a something in us that awak-
ems with start,
And, in rhyme
With the chime
And exactitude of time.
Goes marching on to glory TO thy melody
sublime. y
And the guest pos
That thy rolling robs of rest
Is patriotic spirit as a continental
dressed, rs.
And he looms 20. e. le-
From the glooms
OF a century of tombs,
And the blood he Spilled at Lexington in
living beauty blooms.
And his eyes
Of a nature pure and wise,
And the love of them is lifted to some
thing in the skies
That is bright
Red ard white.
With blur of starry light
AS it laughs in silken ripples to the
breezes day and night.
There are deep
Hushes creep
Ger the pulses as they leap
And the murmur. fainter growing, on the
silence falls asleep.
While the prayer
Rising there
Wills the sea and earth and air,
AS heritage to Freedoms sons and
daughters everywhere.
Then with sound
AS the thunderings resound.
Come thy wild reverberations in throe
that shakes the ground,
And cry,
Flung on high
Like the flag it fiutters by,
Wings rapturously upwards till it nestles
in the sky.
Oh, the drum,
There is some
Intonation of thy grum
Monotony of utterance that strikes the
spirit dumb,
AS we hear
Through the clear
And unclouded atmosphere
Thy rumbling paipitations roll in upon
the e2-.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

A Harvard graduate sends this pro-
test against Professor Nortons cap
tious criticism of the war to the New
York Times:
1 want to thank you for speaking the
truth vigorously about Professor Nor
tons recent utterances. AS a Harvard
man, / feel naturally angry that such
views should get associated with Har-
ward, especially at time when two of
her graduates, Secretary Long and AS
sistant Secretary Roosevelt, are work.
ing so hard and with so much ability,
for the navy, and. incidentally, doing
great honor to Harvard. One would like
to know what good Professor Norton
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

A writer in the April Fortnightly Re
view says: Some naval officers re-
Gently played out fleet action between
these various ships with Naval Krieg-
spiel As allowance was made for bad
Spanish gunnery, and as the Krieg-
spiel is specially designed to solve prob
lens of this kind. it's results may pos
sess some approximation to what might
be actually expected to happen. In the
Kregspiel battle the more numerous
units of Spain proved victorious, though
the victory was of a Pyrrhic nature. .
No one envies Spain this brilliant vic
tory.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Says an exchange: "a wonderful feat
in dancing is recorded from Berlin. AT
a recent ball, a prize of a gold ring was
offered to the lady who waltzed the
longest without stopping. Twelve cou-
pies competed. They began waltzing
at 1880 q. m. and it was 5:45 a. N.
before the winner and her partner
stopped Waiting. By 2:2O five couples
dropped out, and at AIS another lady
tainted. Two more couples dropped out
at AS, and at 4:5o only two couples re-
NAMED on the floor" Certainly those
were wonderful dancing feet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Thought he was doing in raising his
shrill, ill-omened notes after war was
upon US. Why didn't he go down and
lobby congress during Easter week, or
else remain silent forever?
But he is not of the stamp of men
who act. If the United States gets pos
session of the Philippines should like
to see Professor Norton sent out there
as military governor in order that he
might justify by demonstration his
practical ability, for he must have
great deal of it to advise so glibly on
matters out of his province.
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u 4-inch
1t is generally believed that the
American vessels are superior to the
Spanish of the same class, while it is
almost universally conceded that the
personnel of our navy is greatly super
Tor to that of the Spanish navy. The
American warships are American built;
the Spanish are European built. Here
again it will be interesting and instruc-
tive to see which is the superior. In a
sense the coming battle will be America
against Europe. If Captain Clark could
only join Admiral Sampson with the
Oregon before the great event trans
pires, how glorious it would bel It will
not be long before it does, but the peo-
pie can scarcely hope that our ships
and sailors will suffer so little damage
as they did at Manila.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Boston papers are advocating a bicy-
Gle path across the Common. This
shows how common the use of the BIZ
cycle has become.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

There is no truth in the story that
Secretary Alger viii resign. Still that
reindeer exploit OF his isn't calculated
to produce over-confdence in his abil-
tiles
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Chicago Tribune: Uncle Sam ben
again over the chart of the Atlantic ocear
and studied it closely. Puzzle picture,
he muttered. Find the Spanish fleet
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09
WIT AND HUMoR.

Life: The Literary Movement in Amer
ica-Almira-You should join our book
club. Why. last winter l read over 100
books by giving five minutes a day.
read Nansen's @Prisoner of Zenda," Han
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Chicago Record: What is your defni-
ton of optim;sm?'
1T is a determination to enjoy life
whether you do or not
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

sagasta isn't relying so much on
Spanish patriotism as on Spanish bay
onets at the present. There is an up
rising in Spain. but not of the kind he
anticipated.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Care once killed a cat. There is a
fine moral in this for national party
leaders who are trying to force fusion
where it isn't wanted
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Puck: "Smallman doesn't seem t.
amount to much, does hep
mo; he's of no more consequence thar
a thermometer on pleasant day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

San Franciscans are advised to boil
their water. Does San Francisco have
any desire to rob Chicago of it's bad
odor reputation?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

That fight at Manila is beginning to
remove the San Jose scale from the
eyes of the Germans.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Spain has no idea of surrendering,' -
is the news from Madrid. She will have
the idea hammered into her head, all
the same.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

a Philadelphia exchange says there
is a boom in American warships. So
the Spanish have heard.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

The upshot of the explosion of sub
marine mines in Manila harbor when
the Olympia sailed in was a column of
water.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

1t is the most natural thing in the
world for the Spanish to want to cab
bage the Cincinnati.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Detroit Free Press: A Rapid Talker.-
HojaclS-What chatterbox Miss Frocks
is.
pretty high
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fleet. seasick in a storm. was disturbed by
a grating noise. He inquired whence it
proceeded and. on being told it was the
rudder of the ship, he desired it might be
Immediately taken off,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

About the biggest demand for star
spangled banners comes from the south
ern states.
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Judge: Sappington-I once came within
an ace of making $500.
DeQuincy-How 50?
Sappington-It was game of poker:
what 1 needed was the ace of diamonds.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

The men on the Don Ulloa fought
bravely. What a pity it is that they
were fighting in so bad a cause.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

The actions of the Spanish fleet in
dictate that it is located at Cape Fear
rather than at Cape de Verde.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Spanish bulls are utterly incompetent
to lift Spanish bonds.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Detroit Free Press. Whats the matter
between Meekly and his wife,
He enlisted without consulting her
and now she's threatening TO overthrow
the government because she can't get
out a writ of replevn and recover him.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

That Spanish onion has brought tears
OF joy to the American eye.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Spain boasts plenty of valor, but she
can hardly lay claim to discretion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

fortune awaits the man who places
a Dewey Manila cigar on the market.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Cooperation" means buzzard for
Democrats and turkey for the other fell
lows.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Montana is so filed with the war
spirit that army worms have appeared
in countless millions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Fusion is a beautiful thing to behold,
a sort of whitened sepulcher, so to
speak.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Commodore Dewey is sans peur ct
sans reproche.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

The next edition of Hunting Trips of
a Ranchman" will tell of the biggest
game yet gone after.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Gaines "Quo vadis," Aliens Christian. -
Julian Hawthorne's "Choir Invisible
and Hopes ''Farthest North.
Lucinda-How charming.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

The air is filled with reports of
heavy cannonading.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

The spaniards are now remembering
the Maine.
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Those black Spanish cocks at Cavite
were forced to show the white feather.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

A Spanish spy has been captured in
Washington. Hang him with Manila
rope.
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Dewey is holding up his end of the
cable all right.
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Kansas City Star: If it is the intention
of the United States TO prevent il from
being great naval power, 1t is too late:
1t is not so much the present navy or
the country that is TO. be counted-al-
though il is large and effective-as the re-
sources OF this country for creating a
navy of any power required at any time.
The United States possesses all the ma
terials, the greatest abundance OF me-
chanical skill for constructing the ships
and guns and can send the ships to sea
as they are ready, under the command
of the best educated body of naval Of
ficerS in the world.
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Philadelphia North American: ''Why is
it, 1 wonder" unused Sagasta, that those
Americans are such dead shots?"
1T must be their practice at the ma
tionaI game suggested Gullon. I've
heard considerable about their putting
the ball right over the plate"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Stormed at with shot and shell boldly
Dewey's ships rode and well.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Sarcastic
Parent--'And you want my daughter
for herself alone?" said the sarcastic old
millionaire.
yves, sir
We'll. my boy. I'll do better by you
than that. I'll throw in the clothes she
wears, too
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Atlanta Journal: In his effort to purify
Philadelphia politics - Brother Wanna
maker has undertaken a big job but the
hopes and sympathies of good men ev-
eryWhere are with him.
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Providence Journal: Doubtless the
training acquired by Commodore Dewey
in the civil war prepared him for the
struggle in the, far east. but it is as i'm
oortant TO note that he comes of line
of maritime fighters whose reputation
has sprung from not merely modern
conflict like the long four years effort
to preserve the union. but an education
in war.ike possibilities and a traditional
system of recorded bravery in the face
of peril which belong to the history of a
nation that is now nearly century and
G quarter old.
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COMMENTS BY THE PRESS

Chicago News: Owing to the fact that
the Hon. Steve Elkins owns a good share
OF the country's COAL he probably views
the new definition of contraband as
base reputation of the late Noah Webster
ST. Louis Globe-Democrat: After ran
saclSir- the markets of the world Uncle
Sam s-cceeded in mastering a lair sort
of navy, but he was not satisfied until he
had absorbed one of the Spanish fleets in
the Philippine country and picked up a
scring or the enemy s small boats eX-
tending from Havana TO Key west
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-09

Louisville Courier-Journal: The mat
ter of political brigadiers of mere politi-
clans appointed to important positions in
the army was particularly noticeable in
the early part of the civil war. Every
man who mad. been in congress thought
he ought to be at least colonel. Curl
ously enough, to have been an unsucceSs-
full candidate for congress formed the
wealth's attorney aspired confidently to
the rank of major, and a county clerk
would be content with, nothing under the
rank of captain.
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United States.
MONITORS.
ARMoRED CRUISERS.

Main Battery Armor
Tons. Guns. Inches.
New York 49,. $3.50 S-inch SIS to 10
l2 4-inch
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We could write a book about
our ST. Fedora. We could go
on and tell you about the height
of the crown, width and curl of
the brin, and a whole lot more
of such stuff, but that wouldn't
begin to tell you of the amount
of Hat goodness in it. This
must be seen, so come. They
come in black, brown, maple, vi
cuna and peach. Hats of all
shapes at 81, $3.50, So, $3.50,
81 and So.