Evening star., 1898-12-22
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS

| Capt James II. McClintock of Troop B of
| the 1st Regiment, United States Volunteer
| Infantry, better known as the Rough Riders,
was seen at the Metropolitan this morning.
The captain is on his way home to Phoe-
| nix, Ariz., and has just left the government
hospital at Fort Wadsworth, S. l., where
he has been lying sick from wounds receiv-
ed in the leg on the evening of June "A, at
| the engagement of La Quasima, Cuba.
Il just came down on the elevator with
Col. Bryan. said the Rough Rider. Il was
| rather surprised that he remembered hav-
ing met me in my town some three years
| since, when he happened in that way. No,
l am opposed to the colonel politically, but
am sorry that he did not get chance to
get to the front with his NebraSkans.
My wounds, | am sorry to say, have not
healed as yet, and the physicians give me
little hope of their ever becoming entirely
well. My leg and ankle We're terribly
smashed by two Mauser bullets and it is a
wonder that l did not bleed to death the
hight was wounded. L want to pay d
tribute to the nurses and physicians at
Fort Wadsworth. They did everything in
their power for the sick and wounded men
IN their charge. L have found nothing til
complain of in my treatment at any time
during the war or since.
L mad SiXty-elght men in my company at
the beginning of the war. Ten of them
were titNeF killed or nave died since. Can't.
Nm. .. O'Neill of Prescott, who command
ed the other company from my state lost
even a larger percentage of his men, as
well as his own life He was as gallant
ana picturesque figure the war brought
out He was newspaper man, cowboy
a sheriff, the mayor of his town and final
ly soldier, and as popular man as there
was in all Arizona"
Very few people know that the COM
mOnWealth of South
school tax in proportion to her total wealth
than any other state in the Union" said
Nm A. Barber, attorney general of that
state. at the Riggs last night, but such is
really the case. The fact of the matter is
that the state is laying the greatest en-
phass imaginable on education and her
colleges are fast coming to rank with the
hrst In the country. Last year 1 had the
honor of delivering the closing address at
the Winthrop Normal and Industrial Col
lege. an institution in my state devoted en-
tlrely to the instruction of young women
ihere are 400 OF them in attendance there
IN all, and L was astounded upon investiga-
tlon TO note the thorough and useful
courses III the industrial arts that the in
stitution is Offering its students The youne
women OF the south are keeping step with
thelr SISTERS in the north and west in prog
resS, ana we cannot tell what achievements
the future mas IN store for them.
The trouble that we had down our way
az election time was of course greatly to be
teplored, but L am of opinion that it has
blown over now. Between US | think that
IL was more a personal than a political
quarrel, and with the removal of the par
tles who melted it it will be soon forgotten
No people in the world feel more kindly dis
posed toward the colored race than the
white citizens of South Carolina and they
are ready to cooperate in any effort for
thelr material good. Our state has before
IL great future, in my opinion, and only
heeus time and capital to work out its sal
Vatlon The cotton mills established there
are running overtime and are paying first
class dividends, and all industries are be-
coming more prosperous
Yes, I've been fighting and reforming for
twenty-six years now said Anthony Com
stock, the noted post office inspector and
agent for the New York Society for the
Suppression of Vice, at the Ebbitt In nv
time 1 have been instrumental in DESTROY
ing more than seventy-three tons of Illegal
literature. l have arrested more than 9 400
persons for publishing and distributing this
matter and 1 am happy to state that 1
think its publication is now on the de-
cline. l do not think that there is
a more pernicious crime in the world
than the printing and selling of bad