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Schuster, the "old reliable" Jew
eler, will repair your watches or jew
elry, at bottom prices. IT,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-12-20

Insure your health in Prickly Ash
Bitters. 1t regulates the system,
promotes good appetite, sound sleep
and cheerful spirits. Sold by all
druggists. II % 2w
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-12-20

Chamberlaiu's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhna Remedy can always be de-
pended upon and is pleasant and
safe to take. Sold by Smith Drug
Co,
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To Trade-a bicycle for type
writer, apply at this Office.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-12-20
Or. Miles Nervine Restores Healtl

isfactory experience
DR.. Miles Remedies
are sold by all drug
gists under a positive
guarantee, first bottle
benefits or money re-
funded. Book on dis
eases OF the heart and
nerves free. Address,
DR.. MILES MEDIoi
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-03
GEN, CoPPlNGER'5 REPORT.
sad Results of the Volunteers Ignor-
ance.

Washington, October 1.-Major General
J. J. Coppinger has made the following
report to the war department:
Headquarters Fourth Army Corps,
Camp Wheeler, Huntsville, Ala, Sept az.
Adjutant General, United States, Wash
ington.
General-I have the honor to enclose
the reports received from division, brig
ade and regimental commanders of the
corps as to the quantity and quality OF
the supplies furnished the troops of this
command by the several staff depart.
ments, since the beginning of the war
with Spain.
Subsistence Department-In my. Judge
ment the quality of subsistence furnished
by the department. was good and the
quantity ample. The regular troops lived
well. The volunteers in a great many
cases Jared badly, but this was owing to
the ignorance of inexperienced officers,
who did not know how to procure and
care for the rations, and the inexperience
of cooks who did not know how to cook
them. have been especially impressed
by the comfortable messing of regular
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-03
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY,

The trustees of the public library yes
tsrday resumed the Sunday opening of the
library building. The experiment was
tried last year when the reading room
was open on Sunday, visitors having ac-
cess to the magazines and iissome other
books. This year the entire library will
be at the command of the Sunday visit.
ors. although no books will be given out
for use outside of the building. The
library will be open from to 9p. m.
and during that time attendants Will be
present to get books which may be called
for. With the exception that no books
will be taken from the building. patrons
of the library will have all the privileges
on Sunday that thsy do on other days.
In the stormy days OF fall and winter the
library with its cheerful rooms stocked
with the best literature of the present
and the past should attract large num-
her of persons who may thus find profit
as we'll as pleasure.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-03

The Philippine insurgent leader, Agui-
naldo, has been studying the Monroe
doctrine, and oonolucses that under that
doctrine the Philippines ought to be for
the Filipinos quite as much as America
for the Americans. We can't quite see
what answer our innperialists who used tc
be most belligerent defe nders of the Mon
roe doctrine are going to make to this
insurgent diplomatist. A few years age
they were ready to GO to war with Eng
land to protect Venezuela from enc rosch-
neDt, SO jealous were they to maintain
the rights of feeble peoples. We know they
claim that the FRipinos Will be much
better off under a government admins
tered by us than under one Of their own;
but it was undoubtedly true that the in
habitants in the disputed strip in Vene-
zuela would have been much better off il
governed by England. That consideration
counted for nothing then, and it is a
little difficult to see how, without an
utterSabandonment of consistency, 1t can
be made to court for anything as de-
fence for taking the philippines from the
Tilipinos.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-03

soldiers close to my headquarters, while
volunteer troops in the adjoining field
were subsisting upon chunks of i'll cooked
beef and vile biscuits, an excellent field
oven lying neglected and unused close by
To sum up the subsistence department
did we'll. The volunteer troops. In many
cases suffered for want of wholesome
food, because they did not know how to
handle the rations furnished.
Quartermaster's MISUNDERSTANDING
camp and garrison equipment were some
times of poor quality, the natural result
of an effort to equip some 1926, 600 men
when supplies had been prepared for only
u, 900. This difficulty in supply was
much increased by the luck OF knowledge
on the part of the staff officers of the
regular army. At Tampa the difficulty
was again incurred by the crowded con-
dition existing at the railway tracks
and storehouses scattered over the sands.
In many cases the men suffered from
lack of clothing when good supply was
within five miles of their camp. The
quality of team mules furnished by the
department. was very good. The treat
ment they received in many instances
was atrocious, often brutal teamsters
and improper wagon masters serving un-
der unframed quartermasters amidst the
Tampa sand hills until the burning sun
produced the result that might be natu-
rally expected, dead, dying and disabled
mules. This was the natural outcome of
O declaration of war without organizing
trainss trainnasters or regimental quar-
termasters who knew how to handle them.
In my Judgement the horses furnished
ur cavalry was good. T-R
Clothing-The United States clothing
on hand at the declaration of war was
good and satisfactory. Some clothing
produced in the emergency was good. but
some of the dark blue trousers and shirts
were of poor quality. l think no blame
can be attached to the quRrtermaster's
department in this matter.
The Khahkhi clothing. the best service
uniform we have had yet, Is not yet salts
factory. 1t is of inferior quality and not
we'll cut. I failed to find In the quarter
masters storehouse at Tampa q single
uniform large enough in the chest for a
full chested man.
Medical Department-While many COM
plants have been made concerning medi-
cal supplies my experience with the
fourth corrs leads me to believe the sur
geon general has performed his arduous
task under very trying conditions. 1t was
difficult to provide full supply of medi.
cal stores when the troops are ordered
suddenly to many unexpected places and
when the movements are accompanied
by serious outbreaks of sickness. This
difficulty was incurred in many instances
by the fact that most of the regimental,
brigade and division surgeons were en-
tirely new to military work. l am well
satisfied that the surgeon general worked
admirably to supply my corps and was
ably assisted by Chief Surgeon Robert
M. O'Rielly, to whose ability and ener-
ay | feel on behalf of my troops deeply
Indebted.
Ordnance DepartJnent-A the ont
break of the trouble with Spain we had
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-03

Gen. Coppinger's report lays all the
troubles in the camps to the Ignorance
and inexperaenoe of the volunteers and
their officers. Food was abundant, but
the volunteers did not know how to get
it. While we haveIno doubt great deal
of the trouble was due to the causes that
Gen. Copp7nger specifies, all of it cannot
be explained in that way. The volunteers
were in no degree responsible for the
selection Of unsuitable camping grounds,
nor can thay be held responsible for de-
foient hospital service Moreover if the
machinery for getting rations is so com.
pIioatsd that whole regiments may starve
while it is being lssarnsd it needs to be
simplifed.
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Bonds and coupons Of the
Municipal Security Company,
Series ID, and coupons from
Series Il, and Series u bonds,
due October Est, 1898, will be
paid upon presentations, On "A aAsl
after that date. at the office of
WOODBURY. Il MOULTON.
sep2slw Municipal Security Go.
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was perfectly well understood that if Their
was full expression of opinion the gov.
eminent could not escape taking notice
of 1t. Virtually the public was aske'
whether or not they would have the gov
ernment place upon the statute book I
law forbidding the importation, manu-
facture and sale of liquor in tht
| Dominion. The question was an exceed
| ingly important one, not merely in it,
moral aspect, but also an it's economi,
| bearing, and there was not voter in the
| Dominion who would not be more or less
| affected by legislation that might grow
out of it. Certainly if the initiative BY
| popular vote would ever work it it ough
| to have worked IN this case.
| But what was the result? Did the people
take advantage of their opportunity te
inform their representatives as to tn
manner in which they wanted the liquor
traffic dealt with? The returns show
that only one person in eight awaited
himself of the opportunity. The other
seven remained at home totally indiffer-
emit. The government sought the advice
of the people on question of vital i'm
portance to them, and seven-eighths Of
them either had no advice to give or re-
fused to give 1t. To be sure majority Of
those who voted voted in favor of absolute
prohibition, but as only 0ne-sighth voted
the government is as much at a loss tt
know the real wishes of the country on this
question as if it had never been sub
mitted. The fact of q majority fol
prohibition in a vote of one-eighth OF
the people affords the government no solid
ground for assuming that the country IL
in favor of that policy, and the chances
are that it will indulge in no such as
sumption.
This is not the first time that legisla'
tion by popular vote has proved de-
fusion. Constitutional amendments
which require popular approval to make
them effective seldom call out more than
minority expression Of opinion. and
never anything lice full vote. The vots
on our own prohibitory amendment wa:
taken in connection with the guber'
material election. but with this advantage
the total vote for and against was about
30, GOO less than the total vote for gov.
ernor, and the affirmative vote
did not equal one.half of the vote for
governor. With the average constitutional
amendments probably not one voter in
twenty has anything to do, and if out
laws had required a majority of the whole
vote instead of the vote actually thrown
to make them effective, very few of the
additions to our constitution would have
been made AS "A matter of theory some.
thing, perhaps much, can be said in favor
| of referring laws to the people for their
opinion, but practical experience has
shown repeatedly-indeed we might say
almost uniformly-that such reference
| brings out the opinion of minority
only.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-03
A GRAPHIC LETTER
Written from Manila by a Portland
Boy.

A Handful of Americans Stood Off Thous-
ands of neutrality-suspicious. of the
Troops in the City,
Mrs Frank L. Moseley of 80 Morning
street recently received letter from her
brother Private Larry Wyer of Battery L.,
3rd Artillery VINO is now in Manila which
Is SO interesting that the PRESS prints
it for the benefit of it's readers. Mr.. Wyer
is an old Portland boy and has many
friends here who will be glad to hear
from him.
When the war broke out Mr.. Wyer was
engaged in business in California. He
had served three years in the navy and
was brim full of patriotism and highly
Indignant at the Spanish treaohery in
destroying the Maine. When war was
declared he lost no time in getting to
San Franciso. He threw up his position
and took the first train for the city by
the Golden Gate. Arriving there he
found the Philadelphia on which he
hoped to enlist had sailed. He then en-
listed in Battery l., 3d.artillery, and in
a few weeks was on his way to Manila,
on the transport Ohio. At Honolulu he
wrote several very interesting letters to
his sister, giving an account of his expert
ence in our new possessions. The follow.
ing letter tells about his arrival at Manila
and the capture OF the city:
Manila, Philippine Islands,
August %, 1893.
NV nUJn IfQar GiGtar -HQrQ r,
the center of Manila controlling the
town with little or no excitement and all
my calculations "busted' I never
dreamed of such an easy walk oyer for
our troops. in fact there was very little
actual fighting on the day of the assault
We left Honolulu July and had a
most delightful trip here, there being no
wind stirring and no sea. 1t was more
like an excursion trip than voyage of
1000 miles. We lost but five or six men
on the trip and were otherwise very
lucky. We arrived at Cavite on the eve
ming of the last of July. That night there
was considerable fighting on shore as we
could see by the continual flashes four
or five miles distant from the ship. Next
day, August |, we landed at Cavite and
were CHARTERED at an old fortress four or
five days. Here we found troops. volun-
teers and regulars, though most of the
regular troops were at the front. 1t
rafnsd every day and sometimes six or
seven times a day, and we had not the
freedom we might have had in times of
peace. But what we did see was quite
interesting In the harbor was the top
hamper of seven or eight ships that
Dewey had sunk. a couple of forts bat
tered quite a bit and a general appearance
of the CHASTITY flight of the opaniard
Insurgents were grouped about the streets
and dock as we landed All were armed
with some kind of rifle. The insur.
gents are mostly q mean looking LOT. I
would put one good American soldier
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-03

Senator Cullom talked considerably
about the conclusions of the commission
ers In regard to a government for the
Sandwich Islands, but he threw very
little actual light upon them. The govern
nent is to be territorial in form-that
was a foregone conch1sion-but it is to
differ in many waysifrom the territorial
government we have been accustomed to-
What, these many ways are, or what any
of them are, MIR. Oullom is silent about.
There has probably got to be different
arrangement of thessuffrage from that in
vogue in our other territories, and less
freedom, we imagine, on the part of the
people to manage their own affairs. The
feeling of the majority of the people
toward US is not quite cordial enough yet,
and they are not sufficiently reconciled to
being annexed to make it safe to permit
popular suffrage or anything like COM
plete control of their local affairs. For
some time at least the only element of the
Hawaiian population that is likely to
have much to do with the government of
the island is what Senator Cullom calls
the controlling element" by which he
means the few hundreds of Americans
who live there.
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Or. r. AUSTIN TEMMEY,
oCULTST.

463 1-2 Congress St.
Opp. Soldiers Monument.
Eyes examined free every Saturday. jly4dtf
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THE REFERENDUM A FAILURE.

THE REFERENDUM A FAILURE.
The Populist fad OFF initiative and
referendum received knock down blow
in the recent plebisoite in Canada on the
question of prohibition. Previous to his
election as premier Mr.. Laurier promised
that If he was chosen the people should
have chance to express their opinion up
on a propositi ton to prohibit the manu-
facture, sale aud importation of liquor In
the Dominion. 1t was subject that had
been ag itated in the Dominion for many
years, and one over which there was every
reason to believe the public was thorough
" stirred up. Last week in accordance
with this promise the question was sub
mitted, after campaign which had been
vigorously waged by the newspapers and
In which many prominent public men,
including several members of the
ministry had taken part. Though as the
question wasssssputi it did not bind the
government to act upon the answer it
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-03

about "a, 500 men fairly supplied with
arms, but short of ammunition. A few
days after we were called upon to equip
some 225, 1000, simply an impossibility in
the time allotted. We placed many of
them In the ranks short of cartridges,
short of cartridge belts, armed with mus
kets of antique pattern, interesting in O
museum, but out of place In modern
battle. For this l have no blame what.
ever to attach to the chief of ordnance.
He was simply given an impossible task.
Respectfully, v, e65
j. j. COPPINGER,
Maj, Gen. u. S. Vol.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-03
CITY OF PORTLAND.
Proposals for Tearing Down
the Park School House.

PROPOSALS will be received at the office of
4 the Mayor until Thursday Oct. 49,. at 10 m.
street school house. All bricks and stone-
work to be cleaned and piled up. under the
direction of the Committee on Public Build
inss. The boilers to be removed from the
cellar to place designated by the committee
and housed over: the above to remain the
property Of the city. All other material is to
be the property of the contractor. and must be
taken away before Jan. l, 1899. The right Is
reserved to reject any or all bids not deemed
for the best interests of the city.
CHARLES II. RANDALL. Mayor.
sep30 dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-03
THE PRESS.
MONDAY, OCTOBER {

All the Dominion provinces but one
gave Tna5orities in favor of prohibition.
That one. the province of Quebec, voted
it down by 10000. AS the Liberals are
dependent upon the representatives from
this province for their majority in Parlia-
ment, we can be pretty sure that there
will be no attempt made by the present
government to enact a prohibitory law.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-03

SIT was aim ost miracle. Burdock
Blood Bitters cured me of terrible
breaking out all over the body. | am
very grateful, Miss Julia Filbridge,
west Cornwell, Conn.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-11-06
WOOINGS
in SWITZERLAND.

is overwhelmed with this great boua-
ty, in Others it is the gToomsman
who is so enriched. And bride grooms
have been known to give two pairs o.
shoes-one to attendant maiden, one
to the groomsman. In those cantons
where marriages are not unattended Dy
function and merrymaking each guest
usually receives handkerchief. Red,
the oriental bridal red, is usually their
color. Bride or groom provides The
stuff, and the brides girl friends sew
them.
The brides wedding dress-if she
have one, which happens about one
time in three-is a somber garment
The Swiss make but little use of color,
especially the women. The men some
times paint their houses gaily The
women are rarely gaily dressed, except
in the colored photographs which are
sold to travellers. Swiss women. old
and young, almost invariably in select
ing garments choose first those that
will wear we'll, and secondly those that
will least frequently require washing.
in many of the cantons the peasantry
have a household wash cace n year,
and once year only.
The frugal housewife has a goodly,
if coarse, store of linen and such.
When sheets and napery and under
vests, ETC., cannot be any longer used
unwashed, they are thrown into big
attic, which always tops the dwelling
house or the barn. Once a year, in tho
busy summer time usually, the contents
of this soiled linen garner room is ex-
humed, thrown out of the window, and
all the women of the household fall 10
washing.
The brides of Grisons wear gowns OF
black and are crowned with wreaths
Of orange flowers, wreaths from which
long tails OF the blossoms must hang
below the brides girdle at least. The
guests, too, wear black, all those az
least who wish or can afford to pay
the bride great honor. Black is an eT-
travagance, because it so soon shows
soil and rust and dust; hence. TO
wear it is to pay the greatest compli-
ment one Swiss can pay another When
q Swiss is extravagant in your honor
well, flattery can no further go.
In some cantons the driving of the
dowry cart from the brides old house
to her new is an important and conso-
ouential function, as it or some analo
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-11-06
A CROWN FOR THE OUNCE.

A good story is told of Sir Walter
Scott. 1t seems that he was far from
being brilliant scholar, and at school
he was usually at the foot of his class.
After he became famous, he one day
dropped into the old school to pay a
visit to the scene of his former woes.
The teacher was anxious to make a
good impression on the writer, and put
the pupils through their lessons so as
to show them to the best advantage.
After awhile Scott said: But
which is the Ounce? You have one
surely? Show him to me.
The teacher called up poor fellow,
who looked the picture of woe as he
bashfully came toward the distin-
guished visitor"
Are you the dunce?" asked Scott
Eyes, sir" said the boy.
We'll, my good fellow" said Scott,
here is a crown for you for keeping
my place warm"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-11-06
A MONUMENT FOR A SEAN

Everybody who remembers the q
war will recall the day when Adn|
Farragut, on board his flagship 81
ford, entered the harbor OF Mobi{Q]
der the fire of the guns In the q
and on the Confederate ships. w
the engagement was at its height
went to the quarter deck and In a
to get better view OF what was "a
on climbed into the rigging de1|
the entreaties of his officers. Whe1|
refused to come down. Lieuten
John Crittenden Watson. now com
dore and in command of the squad
off Cuba, who was executive Office
the Hartford. ordered the adm
dashed to the rigging, that In the eS
of his being struck by bullet or n
of flying she'll he would not fall 81
board.