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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

A telegram to the Chicago Record from
Cleveland, O., contains the following state
ment:
President Mckinley is profoundly con-
cernsd over the army scandals. He has the
situation in hand and will act probably soon
after his return to Washington from his
visit to the Montauk camp, provided there
has been no reaction in the attitude of the
press and public resulting from a belief
that the stories of abuses have been over
drawn.
The foregoing statement, the telegram
further states, was made by a man who
has talked with the President and his ad-
visers while he was in that city. The men
who are the real friends of the President
and all those who have nothing to fear
from an investigation must see that such a
course is the one which he should pursue,
instead of leaving it to Congress 1t is not
a matter that affects the secretary of war
and General Miles, but one relating to the
general conduct of the war, and the re-
sponsibility for whatever neglect and ir-
regularity there is alleged to have existed
1t has been asserted that the President has
depended largely upon the views of a large
number of papers which have sustained
him in his war policy as indicating the con-
sentative opinion of the country. 1t can
now be said that all these papers are adj
visng an investigation of the reports which
are now attracting SO much attention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03
FRANKLIN WELD DROWNED.
Railroad President Loses His Life
While Boating at ST. Johns.

NEW YORK, Sept. "A special from
Boston to the Commercial Advertiser says:
A private dispatch from st. Johns, N. b..
says that a man drowned near there early
in the week while boating, and who was
supposed to be Frank T. Allen. of New York
city. was not Allen, but Franklin Weld.
formerly well-known resident of New
York. and president of a number of West
ern railroads 1t is said that Weld was a
director in several New York banks. He
had been in poor health and was travelling
in Canada to recuperate. He assumed the
name of Allen so as TO avoid prominent
railroad officials who were travelling In Can-
ada at the same time. The body was iden-
tiflec by p. S. Griffin. of New York. Mr..
Yields attorney ae
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

has been in Florida since early in June, un-
der extremely trying conditions. When 1t
arrived here yesterday its loss by death
had been fourteen men-a fraction over one
to company. 1t had twenty-four men so
Ill as to be sent to the City Hospital and
ninety-three men on the sick list, all of
whom went to camp not being seriously i'll.
This means that less than 10 per cent Of
the men in the regiment were unfit for or
binary camp duty. The men who marched
through the streets with the careless
steadiness of veterans were Drowned by ex-
posure. but there were was no indication of
general feebleness in their movement The
much portrayed skull and cross-bones of
the sensational newspapers could not be
seen lowering about the column as it
marched Considering the exposure in
tropical climate the wonder is that so few
men are on the temporary sick list. Indeed,
such a journey as the regiment has had
would unfit many men for marching while
carrying the equipment of a soldier. 1t
may be added that if 1900 men had been
sun the past month in Indiana, ten in every
hundred woul9 now be unfit for labor.
The truth is, and sensible people must be-
gin to realize it, a great deal of phenomenal
lying has been done regarding the condition
of the troops. There have been crowded
camps, some incapacity and ignorance,
causing privation and illness, but when
comparison is made with other wars it will
be found that as a whole the loss of life by
ho hnon 1ioaf of
Colonel Studebaker's eregiment exposes the
wickedness of stories of general disability
and devastation by death.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

Chicago Post

1t is a severe and unjust reflection on
General Merritt that Cupid is responsible
for his desertion of Mania. The general is
President if he chooses incidentally to take
a Chicago wife on the way it is for the pur-
no intimation of the generals plans after
he has performed the duties assigned to
him at Paris, but we presume he will re-
turn to Manila, where the supremacy of the
Chicago woman will be Immediately estab-
liShed One Chicago woman will be the
first lady of India. and another will be
speedily heralded as the first lady of the
Philippines. We take these honors easily
and naturally, and if 1t develops in the
course of time that Chicago is expected to
contribute a first lady of Hawaii and a first
lady of Guam we shall be ready to meet the
social levy 1t would please us immensely
If General Merritt's marriage could be timed
to grace the proceedings of our peace iu-
bilee but in such matters we must defer
Interested
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

nished by the Sanitary Commission 1t can
also be stated that Shernans army did not
have an issue of fresh vegetables during
the same period The food OF these two
great fighting armies was hard bread pork
or bacon, coffee. ugar. and one or two is
sues of fresh beef. cooked and eaten as
soon as killed. There was no other than
condensed milk at the field hospitals, and
probably very little fresh milk at the large
hospitals at such places as City Point Va,
and Nashville, Tenn. 1t could not be OBJ
tanned. 1t is safe to say that no regiment
now in the service has been fed for two
weeks on so meager rations as were the
1854.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

The present and continued disagreeable
wrangle among military officers proves
nothing except that we are too apt to make
false estimates Of men. That g man is a
hero when the demand for heroism is at
hand lacks much of indicating that he will
be heroic when there is no longer a demand
for signal bravery. Heroism is an intense
condition of mind and soul that. like all
other intense emotions cannot last. In case
another war should at once threaten and
demand their services. the men who do not
now seem to be able to make satisfactory
division of the honors-of which there are
legion-would again become patriots and
heroes and the present strife would pass as
the swamp fog before the wind and sun Of
morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

The press. or at least a portion of It,
IS largely responsible for the popular clamor
regarding the alleged msmanagement and
neglect of the army. Special correspondents
and reporters anxious to send sensational
matter have magnified ordinary incidents
of war or camp life into barbarities and
outrages, and partisan editors have used
the material for political effect until the
truth became, for the time being, almost
obscured. But it will come out on top as
It always does.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

A New York business man who went to
Santiago to establish a branch trust COM
pany says there is general revival of con-
fdence and business there Residents of oil
classes are particularly well pleased with
the policy adopted by the American au-
thorities regarding local taxes and customs
duties. Formerly a large percentage of
these was sent to Spain. But under the new
regime they are expended in cleaning
streets, establishing schools and other be-
inefficient public purposes. The institution of
such reforms as this generally throughout
Cuba ana Porto Rico must have a very IA
vorable effect on people who have been ac-
customed to being taxed and robbed with
out getting anything in return.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

If the final summing up does not show
that the deaths by disease in the recent
war outnumbered by th@e or four to one
those killed in action it will be an eTcep-
sicn to most modern wars. In the Crimean
war the English lost 46O2 men killed or
died of wounds and 1850 by sickness; the
French 2O,15O men killed and 1875 by sick
ness: the Turks. 10000 killed and 2x,5O0 by
sickness; the Russians, 1890 killed and
$4,000 by sickness.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

It looks a little as If Lieutenant Hohson
had lost control of himself. Although the
Navy Department. acting on the best in
formation and advice obtainable has de-
cided to abandon the attempt to raise the
Cristobal Colon. the lieutenant is reported
as saying that If the government did not
back him up in the matter he would appeal
TO the people for popular subscription or
$4,000 20 carry on the work The hero of
the Merrimac had better not lock horns with
the Navy Department.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

Many veterans of the civil war are able
to recall experiences much harder than any
the volunteers in the late war underwent.
II remember" says Governor Tanner, of
Illinois, that % per cent. of my company
died of disease in the first three months we
were out" Another veteran writes:
The writer has a vivid recollection of be-
ing sent to hospital in August, 1861, and
lying twentyfour hours with raging fever
before a surgeon put in an appearance and
on another occasion, of marching bare
footed, with five hundred other soldiers,
from Knoxville, Tenn, to Bridgeport Ala ,
during the last two weeks Of December,
1858. The ground froze every night, and our
subsistence was mainly corn on the ear,
which we had to eat raw, or roast as we
had opportunity to do so.
An ex-paymaster living in this city says
II have seen Union soldiers on the march
fill their canteens with water from surface
ponds in which dead mules were lying, and
from wagon ruts in the road, and glad to
get it, If the late war had lasted two or
three years the minor hardships incidental
to the seasoning period would have been
forgotten in the greater ones of prolonged
warfare and these, in turn, would have
been partially obliterated by the excite
ment of action and victory.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03
Too Much Food Now.


The distribution OF good food-eggs. soups.
milk, butter, pickles. etc.--to the regular
troops has had an unexpected effect. The
men have a great loathing for army ra-
tions; but they are very hungry, and over
load their stomachs with the new and
strange dishes the company cooks make
for tEeTn-al with unpleasant results The
cooks have never before had such a variety
of foods at one time-never before know0
such possibilities for experiment. They know
little more than how to fry bacon and make
beef soup and now that they have the md
terial to work with they hardly know what
to do with Il. Even the more experienced
cooks cannot make dishes for sick men.
though they have everything at hand to do
1t with. So that, speaking generally, the
sick are not as well of as they might
be with what they have. and the well are
gorging themselves sick with rich food.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

said nothing about 16 to / in the platform,
hut Endorsed the Democratic principles LAID
down in the Chicago platform. This may
mean that the convention did not indorse
the Populist heresies which that platform
contained
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

Cleveland papers record the sudden death
of Hon. Charles c. Burnett, prominent
citizen of that place, who formerly lived
at Vincennes, Ind, where he enlisted in the
army at the beginning of the civil war
At Cleveland he became prominent in poll
tics and business affairs and was highly
resnacfad
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

One OF the officers Of the returned regi-
snent asserts IN an interview that the
troops were not supplied with fresh vege-
tables. giving the impression that it is usual
20 supply troops with all that the truck
gardens can produce. 1t is probable that it
has been the purpose of the commissary
department to furnish vegetables more lib
orally than has ever before been thought
Of. If that bureau has failed the reason
Ehouid be known. In this connection 1t may
be observed that the Army of the Potomac
did not see so much an issue OF potatoes
from May l. 1884 until September Of that
year. About Petersburg there was a scanty
issue Of onions two or three times. and an
occasional barrel OF picked onions fur~
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

The clamor about the neglect of soldiers
aaised by sensational newspapers and Dem
ocratic managers may temporarily withdraw
attention from the great questions relating
TO our policy in regard to Cuba and the
Philippines. but it cannot check the onward
movement Of business prosperity. The gem
eral opinion is that it has come to stay, and
1t began with the defeat of 16 to / in No
MEMBER 1903
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

The last political report from Chicago is
that Ex-Governor Altgeld controls the Dem
ocratic state committee, which has been
claimed for Mayor Harrison. That means
an out-and-out 16-to-1 fight in Illinois.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

The biblical assurance that "a prophet
is not without honor save in his own coun-
try" does not hold in President Mckinley
case The people of Canton, his longtime
residence. evidently delight to honor him,
Irrespective of party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

Among other things which it would be
interesting to know is why half the regi-
ments in an army corps got duck suits and
the other half did not? Was it due to the
Partially of corps quartermasters or to the
anefticiency of officers nearer the men?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

The treasury authorities owe it to the
honest bidders for the war bonds to throw
out all the fraudulent bidders. 1t will be
difficult to discover and identify them, but
no doubt every effort will be made
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

The output of gold by the Cripple Creek
mines for August was 81 400, GOETHE largest
on record. But there are those who will
take the statement as something of a per-
sonal affront.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03
Illusions.

my Illusions said she, "are all gone"
why" he asked, with that brutality only
manifested by a man who has promised to
love and cherish don't you go to the drug
store and get some more?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

will repent that they grumbled. They are
not to be blamed. They did their duty. and
it can be depended upon that the man who
is doing the kicking is not one who ran
away from his post
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

The returns of the Controller of the Cur
gency show that individual deposits in banks
have increased Ia per cent. during the past
year. The largest percentage of gain has
been in the West and South
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

The Unsophisticated One-Why do they
call this drink 'pick-me-up"
The Experienced One-Because, If you
take enough of it, the policeman will have
10 pick you up and send you home.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

1t may be observed that the people have
very little interest in the so-called Alger-
Miles controversy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

Contradictory.

"Bretheren and sisters" said the good old
brother in the prayer meeting. II always
was humble and never had any sinful pride,
and I'm mighty proud of it,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

Hurrying the dissatisfied troops home is
something extensive on the line of rushing
the growler' however. it must be taken
for granted tLat in few months the boys
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

Among those who are glad to see the SOL
diers back again, the mothers must be
given first place. as Of old.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
A Chicago lawyer suggests that the bar
build a oattle shin. Yes and call It Chan
Gerry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

Though soldiers are paid by the month"; -
said the Cheerful Idiot, and paused
well, what?" asked the transient
boarder.
1.-The commission will be paid for peace
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-03

1.-The commission will be paid for peace
work."
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-12-17
The Best Seeds Absolutely Necessary.

We cannot too strongly nor too often urge the supreme importance of planting seeds that are perfectly pure and fresh. Seeds that are offered at cheap prices are almost invariably of doubtful origin and uncertain age, sure to cause the planter disappointment and loss The thoughtful planters only sure ty lies in buying seeds sent out by a conscientious and trustworthy house. Avast number of American gardeners have (and have had for years) the utmost confidence in seeds that bear the name, D. M. |. Ferry & Co.,, Detroit, Mich. The present generation of planters can hardly remember the time when Ferry's Seeds were not on sale every where each year and as regularly planted by thousands-With the greatest faith in the unvarying quality of the seeds and i'll the in tegrity of the firm that grew them. Every planter, whether already buyer of Ferry's Seeds or not, should send for Ferry's Seed Annual fer 1899. It is mailed free to anyone who writes fer 1t.
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-12-17
DOCK SOPER'S NEW GRIEVANCE.
He Wants Spain Paid Off and the Mort. gage on Patent Medicines
 Lifted.

Spain has at last concluded to pick up her doll rags and leave.
 His kingletts, Alphonso the Sev- eral, has whole lot less to be king abo ut since the protecal was signed. MT. Sagasta, the kings hired man, did all he could to raise the price of islands, but at last gave us the whole bunch for twenty millions. As soon as this is paid I presume we can take the mortgage off our patent medicines. 1 am glad this IS settled, because I dislike so much to see the kings mamma very about a lot of sunhurned citizens wrapped up in castoff potato sacks, who would undoubtedly. if invited 10 an elaborate function, drink out of the finger bowl and wipe their fingers in their hair and whiskers. Ii these garlic masticating guitar experts had given Admiral Cervera a washboard he could have utilized his old tubs to a great dea! better davantage, and Spain would have been wearing clean linen instead of iimplng mp and down back alley with a handkerchief full of sob juice. Of course, it isn't any affair of mine, but I can't help thinking that while these Spaniards were looking up tree for squirrels they stumbled over bear. DocK SoPER in Coconino Sun.
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-12-17
Robbed the Grave.

A startling incident of which Mf John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by him as iC flows: "I was in most dreadful condition: My skin was almost yellow, eyes sum- ken, tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, no appetite-gradu- ally growing weaker day by day. Three physicians had given me up. Fora tunately, a friend advised trying Electric Bitters,' and to uiy great Joy and surprise, the first bottle made $ decided improvement l continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well man. l know they ved my life and robbed the grave of another victim" No one should fail to try them. Only 59y cents per bottle at Gonder &; Co.'S. Drug Store.
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-12-17
YUMA, ARIZONA SATURDAY, DECEMBER l7, 1898.
Defends the Smoker.

An English feminine writer de-
 clares herself in favor Of smoking for her husband. Home would not
 be home without the man who
 smokes, without the odor of tobacco
 and she gives reasons why she likes
 to see her husband smoke. He is not one of those men who never
 have pipe out of their mouth, but 8 nice, sensible. temperate fellow who, when business is over settles into an easy chair, tilis h., pipe, lights it and unfolds his evening paper.
 ''Then to my fancy a man is at his best," she declares ''for while work he reads aloud the choice parts of the news which he thinks will interest me Should he have encountered more than an ordinary share of difficulties or trouble he forgets them all after he has finished a nicely-cooked and carefully served dinner, and is ready for his pipe. That is true of most men. Worries vanish like the smoke from their pipes. Disagreeble little money matters which the wife approaches with fear and trembling the hus- band regards with compIacency after he has become envelored in tobacco smoke.
 "I don't say that the habit of smoking is good one to form, but once it has taken root it is hard to pull up, don't say that smoking agrees with all men. for I know that it does not. But l. do say that q large number of men suffer no material injury from the use of tobacco and find in it an amount of comfort that nothing else will re. place. 1 have always felt sorry for the man who had to choose between his pipe and his sweetheart, for 1 believe that however much he may love the latter he will miss the former horribly, and all she can dol will not fully make up the loss.
 Smoking is to a man what tea IS to woman, 8 nerve soother, 2 strengthener. brain clearer. I wonder what woman among us would give up cur fragrant cup of tea for anything short of the doctors ordersl Surely we would regard the man who asked such a sacrifice as brute not to be humered. And the woman who asks man to put away forever bis cigar and pipe what is she? A reformer. I heard somebody say. No, she is not un- less the mans health is suffering from the indulgence. Then she has right to interfere"
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-12-17
For Over Fifty Years

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by mil- lions of mothers for their children while teething, with perfect success. It sooths the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind collie, and is the best remedy for Diarrhaea. It will relieve the poor little sufferer inn mediately. Sold by Druggists in every part of the World. Twen nty-five cents d bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup" and take no other kind.
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-12-17

THE excitement over the new ind i'll the Graham mountains, still continues. The stricke is reported to exceed all expectations and pro: mises to be another bonanza like the Commonwealth. A new min ing town will spring up as result; and this section will beconie thoroughly advertised as the richest mineral section in the territoFy-- and the mires and discoveries are here to back up the claim.-Pros= 9leicOs.
The Arizona sentinel., 1898-12-17

PARIS has a new fad the hypo@ dermic injection of perfume. The idea is said to have been discovered by popular Franch actress, who noticed, after taking an overdose of morphine that the oder of the drug exhaled from her body. She devel- oped this Idea by using different perfumes in the same way. As s consequence, she exhales the breath of different flowers every day in the week, or did until a physician points ed out to her that this idea was dangerous, as. unless the perfam3 was absolutely pure, it might cause blood poisoning.