The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-02


The delay in the departure of the troops
for Manila was not only due to the diff
Guilty Of obtaining transports on the Pa
cific coast. but also to the ability of the
quartermaster, commissary and ordnance
departments to secure the necessary sup
plies. Those who have complained about
the tardiness of the Government in re-
enforcing Admiral Dewey should remem-
Der that these troops are going to a coun-
try where they can obtain nothing except
tropical food, which would bring them
down with disease and cause the death Of
many if eaten before they were fully ac-
climated. 1t was therefore necessary to
provide at least six months rations for
2o,oOO men, and a simple calculation will
demonstrate what that means. The
troops are provided with all the meats,
breads, vegetables, tea. coffee, sugar and
other groceries, and, in fact. all OF the
necessaries of life, enough to last them
for half year if they were cast away
upon desert island or beyond the reach
OF re-enforcements. In addition to the
eommissary stores required the ordnance
department was called upon to provide all
the arms and ammunition, clothing, tents,
ETC., which 10000 soldiers might need un-
der any contingency for the next six
months. Under ordinary circumstances
supplies purchased for shipment to Ma
Mia would have lasted the entire United
States army year.
There is no excuse for the advance in
the price of food products because Of the
war. OF course wheat and other bread
stuffs have advanced in all the markets
Of the world because of the short crops
in other countries, but in New York.
Washington and other cities of the East
meats have advanced from 2 to D cents
pound and provisions and table vegetables
in corresponding manner. There is no
scarcity of either, there = no interrup-
tion in the trade, the market gardens in
this part of the country never produced
more abundantly than this spring, and
there is no unusual demand. The market
men have simply taken advantage Of the
war as an excuse to increase prices and
charge 6 cents instead of > for a head Of
lettuce and 35 cents instead of 25 for
bunch of asparagus. The butchers say
| they are not to blame for the advance in
beef and mutton because they have to
pay more to the wholesalers.
The Iowa delegation contains the prize
orators of the House of Representatives.
For dramatic effect and impressive eiO-
quence nobody can beat Mr.. Cousins; for
high flights Of oratory and scholarly argu-
ment DOlliver is unsurpassed: in rough
and tumble debate David B. Henderson is
the equal Of any man upon the floor, and
for satire, vituperatiOn and malediction
Col. Hepburn is superior to any man who
has been in Congress for years. The Iowa
delegation is also distinguished because
it furnished more men for the Union army
than any other State delegation in Con-
gress. Mr.. Clark was private in the
Nineteenth infantry; Col. Henderson lost
a leg. while colonel of the 18th regiment:
Mr.. Lacey was lieutenant of the 3:5d
Iowa: Mr.. Hull was captain of tie 23d.
and Mr.. Hepburn u lieutenant in the I'd
Iowa cavalry, and Mr.. Perkins a private
in the 31st infantry.
The second call issued by President
Mckinley will raise the volunteer army TO
100000 men and the whole army to 279.-
500 men. The army reorganization bill
authorized the increase of the regular
army to $1,000 men, and in addition to
the 200,0 600 volunteers there will be three
cavalry regiments, with 5000 rough rid
ers from the West; ten infantry regiments
of immunes. with 10000 men, and $500
in the engineers corps, making a grand
total of 2IS, ,5On men in the United States
army. 1t is tho intention TO at once send
an army of from 10000 to 100000 men
to Cuba, since there can be no danger to
the transports from the Spanish fleet bot
tied I'D in the harbor M Santiago de Cuba.
There will also be larger army sent to
Manila to hold the Philippine Islands.
There will be no experiments made there.
The prediction is freely made Ht the
War Department that within two weeks
there will be $4,000 troops ON Cuban soil.
They will land in the east and west of
Havana, and possibly on the south coast.
in the vicinity of Cienfuegos The imme-
date invasio of Porto Rico is not only
being seriously considered. but is now al
most under way. There are political as
well as military reasons for this step.
The administration still looks for sud-
den collapse of the war by proposals Of
peace on the part of Spain, made under
the thin guise of European Intervention.
The administration has determined that,
Porto Rico must be one of the fruits OF
victory, but to bring that about it is deem
ed necessary that the United States
should effect landing in the island be-
fore the treaty of peace.
70, ralsf r,on
He is member of the Presbyterian
Church of the Covenant in this city, and
the Mems Society, which is u literary
club connected with the church. He was
always regular in his attendance during
the several years that he was stationed
in Washington. and took a great deal OF
interest in philanthropic work After he
was placed in command of the squadron
the Mems Society sent him a telegram Of
concratulation and confidence, to which
he returned quite touching answer.
Commander Washburn Maynard of the
cruiser Nashville and Lieutenant Com
mander McCrea, executive officer of the
Macbias. are also members of the same
society.
When a person files an application for
employment under the Government he is
required to fill out blank and among
other things is asked the question: How
long do you intend to remain in Govern
ment employ The other day the COM
missioner of patents in looking over a
bunch of applications for appointments
rs messenger. found one filed by boy Is
wears old. who, in the blank opposite the
above question had written: "All my life.
if possible" III bet you that boy is from
Ohio" he remarked, as he threw the ap-
plication over the chief clerk. That
is the true Ohio spirit" and sure enough
further investigation disclosed the fact
that he came from Dayton.
All of the commercial and personal mail
that was captured on the Spanish vessels
or was detained by the postal authorities
because it was addressed to Spain has
heen returned to the writers in every case