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r.
Pete blackberry sat up, scratched and
rubbed himself. seemed to be trying to once
more get a full supply of air in his lungs
and turned one-eyed glare on his surround
ings. The guerrilla whom 81 had knocked
down began TO show sigiis Of returning con-
sciousness, but no one paid any attention to
him. One of the other; two pulled out a
piece of tobacco, split; it in two put the
bigger half in his own mouth and handed the
remainder to his partner. Both began chew
ing medtatively and looking with vacant
eyes for tho next act I'm the drama Shorty
regained his gun, and he and 81 looked in
quiringly at one another and the mistress of
the ranch.
Come on up t. the house." she said, start
ing in that direction. The rest followed,
with 81 and Shorty in the lead.
The boys gazed around them with strong
curiosity. The interior was like that of the
other log cabins they had seen-a rough
puncheon floor for the single room, fireplace
as big as barn door, built of rough stones.
with hearth of undressed fat stones, upon
which sat few clumsy cooking utensils OF
heavy cast-iron, three-legged stools for chairs,
a table OF rough whip-sawed boards, held to-
gether by wooden pins. In two of the cor
ners were beds made of layer of poles rest
ing upon a stick supported at one end upon a
log in the wall and at the other end a forked
stick driven between the puncheons into the
ground below. Upon this was pile Of beech
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Our forces are now sweeping down
on Porto Rico, and We have hopes that
next week we shall be able to chronicle
the complete occupation of that Gem
of the Antilles" The conquest of the
island involves very few of the diff
culties that Santiago presented. 1t is
well cultivated and very thickly settled,
with no terrors of yellow fever to deci-
mate our troops or dense chaparral on
rugged mountain tops to shelter the
enemy. The force OF the enemy is be-
lieved to be much smaller than that de-
lending Santiago, the Publications O.
San Juan are not formidable, Admiral
Ceryera's feet is not there, nor any
thing approaching it in force. Any
one of our cruisers could probably de-
stroy everything afoat in the harboT
Our victory seems easy and sure.
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exclaimed ioyously. and hustled around to
make extra preparatious for his entertain
ment.
The Squire entered, hopping his face
with his bandana, and moving with the
deliberation and dignity consistent with his
official position.
He looked at the boys with severe, judi
cial eve, and gave the ouinous little cough
with which he was wont to precede sentences.
But he recognized the Major and Tuggcrs,
and Immediately his attention was conferred
IN them. They were connected with Army
Headquarters, they were repositories or
news which he could spread among his con-
stituents. He greeted them effusively. ard
was only too glad to accept their invitation
to sit down and drink. But he suggested.
with official prudence, that they 90 out In
front and sit under a tree, where they eSrld
converse more at liberty.
''Afore you 90 out, SQUIRE said Mos
Bolster. with an attempt at eoyness, : wsnt
yo' T. do little job for me. !"
Shorty's hair tried to stand on end
Jest wait little my good woman" said
the Squire patronizingly. want TO talk
to these gentlemen first; / kin tend to
your matter any time
They lighted their pipes, and talked and
talked, while Mrs. Bolster fidgeted around in
growing anxiety. Finally. rs the sun was
going down. she could stand it no longer. and
approached the group.
esquire. " she said, 3" Pm orferly anxious
to have little job o mine done. 'Twon't
take you five minits Please tend 20 it
right away"
Z" What is it she wants ?" inquired the
Major.
think she wants me to marry her TO a
Yankee deserter In there. She whispered
suthin' o. that kind 10 me awhile ago"
That reminds me, >" said the Major; "I
want You to swear those two men into the
service of the Southern Confederacy: You
might as well do it now, if you please, for
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Yankees here, an yo' baint killed
'em, y he yelled. He put his hand to his
revolver and stepped forward. The two
boys jumped up aud snatched their guns,
but before another move could be made Mrs.
holsters uniailing trip brought Simmons
heavily to the floor. with his revolver half
out the holster. In an instant she sat down
heavily upon him, and laid her brawny hand
upon his pistol The dogs and children
gathered around in joyous expectation of a
renewal of general hostilities. But the dogs
broke away at the scent or sight OF someone
approaching.
"ATebbe that's Squire Corson," said
Mrs. Bolster with renewed flush of pleasant
anticipation.
Instead. rather good looking young rebel
officer wearing Majors silver stars, dis
mounted from his horse and, followed by two
men, entered the cabin.
Hello, Simmons said the Major in a
tone of strong rebuke as soon as he entered
. What in the world are you doing here? Is
this the way you carry out the Generals
orders? You're at your old tricks again
You were sent out here early this morning,
to capture or drive away that Yankee picket
at Raccoon Ford, so as to let Capt. Gillen
come through with his pack mules. | ex-
pected to meet him here and 90 on with bin.
Your men have been waiting at the cross
roads for YOU since daylight, while you We
been lettering around the rear j ought to
have you shot, aud you would be if | re-
ported this to the General You skulking
whelp, you ought to be shot. But I'll give
you one more chance. 1t may not be too
late yet. Break for your place as fast as you
can, and take these whelps with you. I'll
wait here till shutdown for you. If you
don't report back to me by that time you'd
better make your will. Jump, now"
Mrs. Bolster had let go of Simmons as this
exordium proceeded, for she felt that lie was
in good hands.
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AN Italian official paper complains
of our "Garagantuan appetite" for
foreign possessions. This is ludicrous,
coming from Italy. which is crazy for
foreign acquisition, and takes everything
she can grab. The only trouble with
her is to find somebody she can whip.
She tried hard to grab Abyssinia, but
allowed a mob of -barbarous negroes
and Arabs run her army of 10000 men
out of the country, killing and capturing
the most of them. Italy has Cara
gantuan appetite" to the extent of q
disease. The only restraint upon it is
the diAinclination of her soldiers to fight.
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SOME Californians are so enthusiastic
ally patriotic that they want to abolish
the names which make the list of post
Offices In California read like a calendar
OF Spanish saints They viii not sue
ceed. The Spanish names there have
taken a newer, finer, cleaner, higher
meaning, and serve as splendid indica-
fions of the change that will come over
the same class of names In Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Philippines after few
wears of American disinfection, renoya-
ton and vivifcation.
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200 Ind. Vols.

ST would have sprung up to greet him,
but Shorty laid restraining hand, and whis-
pered:
HE don't belong to our regiment"
A second glance satisfied ST of this. While
it is hardly possible for a man to know every
ether man in his regiment, yet in little
while there comes something which enables
him to know whether any man he meets does
or does not belong to his regiment
The Major and Mrs. Bolster instantly rec
ognized the newcomer.
lawful glad to see you, Tuggers," said
the Major, rising and shaking his hand.
Did you get through without any trouble?"
mot bit o. trouble, thanks to you and
Mrs. Bolster here. She got me this uniform
and this cap" said Tuggers, taking off the
latter article and scanning the lettering.
Rather more brass than Pm in the habit of
CARRYING on top of my head, no matter how
much / have in my face. / got your note
giving me the positions of the Yankee Tegi-
ments, for which l suppose we must also
thank Mrs. Bolster. / found them all cor
rect. As the 200th Ind. was the farthest
out, had no difficulty getting through the
rest of them by saying that | was on my way
to my regiment. Of course, / didn't come
through the camp OF the 2OOth Ind, bat
modestly sought by-road, which Mrs. Bolster
had put me onto. I've got lot of important
letters from the mail in Nashville, among
which are some letters for the General which
am told are highly important. Pm mighty
glad to be able to place them in your hands,
and relieve myself of the responsibility.
Here they are Thanks, don't care if do,
since you press me so hard, said he, without
change of voice, as he handed over the letters,
and picked up the bottle and tin cup.
Excuse me, Tuggers, for not asking You
before,' said the Major. was so inter-
ested in you and your letters / forgot for
the moment that you might be thirsty.
Help yourself"
~ didn't forget it," said Tuggers pour
ing out liberal dram. Here's to our
deserving selves, and our glorious cause"
A shy girl of about eight had responded to
Sis persistent encouragement, and sided up
to him, examining his buttons and aceouter-
ments ST gave her some buttons he had in
his pocket, and showed her his knife, and
Their trinkets in his pockets. The other
children began to gather around, much in
terested in the elaborate dumb show he was
making of his inability to speak.
Again the dogs barked Mrs. Bolster ran
10 the door. ''Hit's Squire Corson,' she
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WICKED fellows, who are familiar
with Congressional proceedings. say that
the protracted negotiations for the sur
render of Santiago did not surprise
them from the moment that they knew
10 Wheeler was one of the Commits
sioners They only wonder that he is
not talking yet.
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SENDING BACK THE pErsosnRs.

SENDING BACK THE EIsOSETS.
The decision to send the prisoners
captured at Santiago back TO Spain was
a stroke Of policy Of the very shrewdest
kind. 1t will cost great deal of
money-the first estimate puts it in the
neighborhood of 81 900, 000-but it is
worth all that it costs. 1t gets rid def
nitely OF great army of men for whom
We have no sort of use. If we attempted
to hold them it would cost great deal
to feed, house and ciothe and guard
them, and we would get nothing for
them in the end. If we kept them in
Cuba very strong guard would be
necessary, and the duty would be re-
pugnant to those assigned to it. 1t
would cost great deal to bring them
to this country, they would contaminate
the transports with yellow-fever germs,
and probably Introduce the dreaded dis
ease into this country. Many of them
would want to stay here, and we can
have more desirable immigrants.
BY sending them home we get rid of
them as definitely as if we killed them,
for they can take no farther part in the
war. They will mingle with the people
there and spread the knowledge that
Spain is most anxious to keep from the
people, of the power, greatness and cour-
age Of Americans.
1t has always been the barbarous but
cunning policy of the Spaniards never
to bring a beaten army home. She has
left her soldiers to die in prison, desert
to the enemy, or do what they pleased,
rather than come back with the tale of
their overthrow and the incapacity and
corruption of the Government on their
lips, to spread among the common peo-
pie, and refute the CLOSING, palliating
lies which officialdom spread abroad.
So we'll settled is this Spanish policy
that it is gravely doubted whether
Spain will allow the prisoners to land,
and it is proposed to employ neutral
ships for the purpose. The officers are
to be sent in the cabin, as first class
passengers, and the men in the Storage,
and fed with the United States Army
ration, much better and more food than
they have ever before received. It is
something unique in the history of
war, and cannot help having strong
effect On Europe. 1t shows that We
wage war on a higher plane than ever
before contemplated.
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BRIG. -Gen. Thomas L. Rosser, the noisy,
unreconstruc ed, never-surrendered rebel
Brigadier, is to command the Third Brigade
of the Second Division of the First Corps,
sisting of the I'd Ohio, LIST Pa. and 18th
MINI. That will be pretty unpropitious
crowd for any rebel ebulhtion.
Mrs. u. s. Grant. who is spending the
Summer, at Magnolia, Mass, is finishing
up a book of per sonal "reminiscences, which
will be ready for publication in the Fall.
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THE Cremationists have won great
victory. The Church has formally
recognized ashes as remains" All
the great funeral, when the ashes of
Capt. Charles V. Gndley were inferred
at Erie, Pa, no less dignitaries than
Bishop Boyd Vincent, of Ohio, and
Rev. F. p. Spalding. of ST. PauPs
Church, conducted the ceremoniea
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As they disappeared the Major turned to
Mrs Bolster and inquired:
"Did Capt GiIlen get through with that
quinine and guncaps?"
They're thar" she said, pointing to the
boxes under the beds.
s'Very good. I've brought some men to
take them away We need them very badly.
Who are these men ?"
Mrs. Bolster told her story about how they
were tired of the Abolition war, and had
yielded to her persuasions to join the South
ern army.
The Major looked them over sharply, and
BEGAN close questioning as to where
they We're born. what regiment they belonged
to, how long they had been in the service,
what battles they had been engaged in and
on what part of the field, where their regi-
ment now was, its brigade, division and
corps, commanders, etc, etc.
As Shorty did not see any present occasion
for lying, he bad no trouble in telling con-
vincing, straightforward story. ST success
fully worked the loss-oi-voiee racket, and left
the burden of conversation TO his partner.
The Major seemed satisfied, and said at
the conclusion:
Very good. I'll take you back with me
when / return, and place you in good regi-
nent
This was new and startling prospect,
which was almost too much for Shorty's self
control. For a minute he had wild thoughts
of assassinating the Major then and there,
and making run for life. But he decided
to wait little longer and see what would
develop.
If Mrs. Bolster's hue had permitted, she
would have turned pale at this threatened
loss of husband and upsetting of all her
plans. She merely gulped down lump In
her throat, and seemed to be thinking.
She became very attentive. to the Major,
and brought for his edifcation private
bottle of fine old whisky. She set about
preparing something for them to eat.
Again the dogs barked, and in walked a
man dressed in the fatigue uniform of Union
soldier with the chevrons of a Sergeant.
The boys gave start of surprise, and a
greater one when they saw on his cap:
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ga LOYAL HOME WORKER ABROAD

We give this week the first of Miss
Elsie Pomeroy McElroy's promised
letters from Europe, and We congratulate
our readers upon it. We believe it to
be the brightest, chastiest letter from
Europe since Mark Twain's day, and in
8 sentence it gives pictures that other
writers would labor through pages in
giving. Her next letter will be awaited
with eager interest.
The National tribune., 1898-07-21

THE PRESIDENTS WAR ORDER. g
The Presidents order to the Secretary
of War with reference to the Govern
ment of the captured district of San
tiago is one of the most momentous
State papers in our history. 1t marks
the commencement of new and
pregnant era. Call it Colonization, !"
" Conquest" Territorial Expansion"
Imperialism" Annexation" INA
tional ACKNOWLEDGEMENT" or what you
will, it is here, and opens up new
future.
In the first place, the Order ignores
the Cubans and the Cuban tentative
at Government. It abolishes the
Spanish authority and substitutes
therefor the absolute control of
the United States, exerted through
the General assigned to command.
This officer is directed to maintain
the local authorities and Judiciary, as
far as their rule shall be harmonious to
American ideas and just and benef-
cial to the people, but to change them
at discretion wherever change is neces-
sary and desirable. The people are to
be absolutely protected in their persons,
property, and liberty of thought and
conscience, and the taxes drawn from
them are to be applied to the support of
the local Government made necessary to
secure these rights. This is the first
and beneficial change. Here
tofore they have been governed with
a view to wringing from them the
utmost that could be extorted for the
of Spaniards at home and
the particular officials set over them.
Hereafter whatever they may make
belongs to them, except the light taxes
necessary to support the Government for
their own protection.
Everywhere, the most absolute justice
must rule. There must be no confsca-
tons Of private property, no persecu-
tons, no Partially.
The ports of the island are opened to
The trade of the world on precisely the
same terms as those Of the United States
proper.
The Order. will be taken all over the
world as the announcement Of our
policy. in all the places We may seize
from Spain, and must give general
except to those who view
.he extension of our power and influence
With a jealous eye To them nothing
will be satisfactory.
OF one thing, however, they may
rest assured That wherever the Star
5pangled Banner goes up it will never
De hauled down.
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sir ever the seas run dry" Spain
would be able to pick up more fine
navies on the bottom than all the rest of
the world combined. She has been in
dustrious in building ships for other
people TO sink.
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1.-THE adventures of ST Klegg and his tall
friend, Shorty, both of the 2G0th Ind, were
so numerous and so interesting during their
service in the civil war that it will take the
author long while to relate them, and the
sketches viii appear in many issues. His
friends have seen their graduation from raw
recruits to veterans, and have followed them
in their campaigns to MurfTeesboro' after the
battle of Stone River, and there they are
quartered for the Winter. In the immedi-
ately preceding chapter Shorty and ST, hav-
ing been informed that certain Mrs. Bolster
"a woman CT meager attractions but fiery
temper, who has fallen in love with Shorty
harbors a nest of guerrillas and spies, decide
to break it up. They pretend they wish TO
desert the Union cause and go with her. She
takes them to den i'll the mountains. and
at the close Of the last chapter trips down
one Of the guerrillas there who objects to
her making love to Shorty.
The National tribune., 1898-07-21

AFTER all, those colleges knew what
, they were about when they made Ad-
miral Dewey an LID. He is as
expert in diplomacy as in gunnery, and
nipped the German scheme very neatly.
The National tribune., 1898-07-21

AFTER all, Admiral Cervera has done
more real fighting, much less bloyiating,
and shown himself more of gentle
man than any other Spaniard who has
appeared on the scene so far.
The National tribune., 1898-07-21

CERvERA's chiyalrous treatment Of
young Hobson was the best investment
Spain has made since the war began.
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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-28
Not Spanish Sympathizers.

Mr.. Courchesne, French consul. and
Dr.. Marchand, his secretary. wish &c
repuoiate most Dphatically the
charges tn 1t the French colony here or
in Juarez is sympathetic with the
Spanish cause. In a talk with q HER
AID represent ative this morning MIR.
Courchesne said that the spirit of an.
tagonism shown in certain quarters to-
ward the French and Italians was most
unreasonable; that he was personally
acquainted with all the French people
here and many of the Italians, and he
knew they were loyal to America, and
that those who had become citizens
we're as loyal as any native American.
The French are republicans, that is
liberals, and it would be absurd for
them to side with monarchy. Mr..
Courchesne hoped that the good pr O.
ple of E Paso would not be pr JUDGED
bv the malicious statements of irres-
possible people.
The version the HERALD reporter
got of the melee in Del Arra's saloon
last night seems to dispose of the story
that Old G DRY was involved in 1t a.
all 1t was simply q saloon fight of nc
uncommon sort, and the Italian parties
to the affair say that they saw no flag
tore no flag off any coat.
erampled no flag or anything
else under foot, aud did nothing but
g IMPLY fight: and that there was no race
question, o nationalit question, no G
question involved in any possible way
They say they areI perfectly loyal &c
the Stars and Stripes, and love tn q
country above any other.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-28
Personals.

E. II. Brown of Nebraska is in
town.
M.B. Green of Kansas City is at the
Grand Central.
G B. Good left for the east yester-
day over the T. P.
E.H. West, of Denver, came in on
the Santa Fe this morning.
B. w. Freer was among the arrivals
yesterday, from San Francisco.
E.Tyner, of Chicago, came in yes
terday and is at the Grand Central.
DR.. S. V. Young of Washington, D.
c., is in the city on his way to La Luz.
Nat S. Green was among the arrivals
this morning over the T. P. from Dali
las.
Chas. T. Wettstien, of Cedar Rs-
pids, Iowa, arrived this morning on
T. P.
]. Green aud wife We're among the
arrivals on the Morning Santa Fe,
from Trinidad, Colo.
J. A. Reynolds, president of the
First National Bank of Las Vegas, is
in the city on business. He will return
Monday.
Mrs. M. Cabell Martin will leave on
Monday next for q long visit in Virgi-
lila. Her macy hundreds of frienus
jim heartily to wish her well.
Mrs. Judge Magoffin, accom-
panied by her daughter Mrs.
Glasgow, arrived on the San
Ia Fe this morning. Mrs.
Glaswgo expects to stay with the IA
miiy while Lieut. Glasgow is away
with the army.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-28
Knights of Labor Excursion.

1t is now defoitely settled that the
knight of Labor will give the first
grand excursion over the White Oaks
road on the 4th OF July. The propo-
sal made DO the company has been &C.
cepted by the Knights and tickets will
soon be on sale in all parts of the city
at cost of $3.50 for the round trip to
La Luz ard return. Nice little boys
and girls under twelve years of age
will be charged half price. Ample ar
rsng-ments will be made for the COM
fort and convenience of the excursion
lists especially the ladies and children.
1t is expected that this will be the
largest excursion ever sent out from
this citv. and every effort will be mad e
by the Knights to take it enjoy able for
all.