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WHERE GEN. MERRITT FAILED
He Had to Cali in a Chambermnfd to Help Make n stubborn China
 mnn Understand.

Maj. Gen. Merritt, grim old warrior of score of fields, head of the Manila army, military governor of the Philip pines lately met his first defeat. He got it from yellow, lantern jawed, slant-eyed Chinese armed with wash rag and bucket of suds.
 When the general entered the suite which had been provided at the Palace he found that important business awaited attention. He desired to dis euss affairs of state. A Chinese serv- ant was in the room. washing windows. They did not particularly need wash- ing, but the yellow fellow was there under orders, and he proposed to finish the job. The general asked him to take his suds and go.
 Me no sabee," replied the saffron son of toll, splashing more water on.
 The general argued, but it was use less. He scolded and harangued, but to no effect.
 Affairs of state might wait, but the Chinese was bent on cleaning the win dows. He looked mildly at the general and dipped anew into the studs. Me no sabee," was all he said. The gem cral, being a student of human nature as well as of the art of war. suspected that the intruder was lying.
 "John, said he with great solemnity, don't you know l could have you shot?7
 'You no shootee me-" replied John. "Go shoofee Spaniard Me Melicau mans fiend. Me ale same Stlars and Stlipes," and fresh dash of studs struck the pane.
 The general was getting inpatient There was no use in diplomacy. "Gitl" he yelled. "Namoosel Clear outi You sabee clear out, you heathen?"
 Me no sabee clear out, answered John. Me sabee Melican flag. Me sabee washee window"
 The military governor of the Philip pines was in despair. Just then q chambermaid passed the open door.
 Say" said the general, "come in and induce this hcathen to get out"
 The chamberm,eid came in, broom in hand.
 See here" she remarked to John, skip, or I'll break this broom over your cocoanut"
 John picked up the bucket of suds and started for the hallway. As he reached the door he winked at the gem eral. Me no sabee much; me sabee war;" he said, and went his woy.--San Francisco Call
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PAYMAsrER GENERAL STANTON.

other points of concentration. With in three or four weeks everything will be in thorough running order, and the soldiers at home and abroad will get their pay every month. One cause of the delays which have occurred has been that. troops assembled at one mustered in for some time after reach- ing camp, and their pay could not be- gin until they were actually enrolled in the army.
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I could do nothing until the actual out break Of hostilities. Then, of course, we lost no time in seeking to provide everything that was required. Many of the things we wanted, however, were not on the market in quantities such things, for example, as cases of instruments, medical and surgical chests, filters and folding cots, chairs and tables for field hospitals. Time was required to manufacture articles of this sort, and thus it has happened that the troops have lacked a good many things that they ought 10 have had. A the same time, no troops have gone to the front without ample med ical and surgical supplies, and none will take the field without everything
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that is requisite in this line. For com mon sense reasons we have furnished supplies first to those who were to go first to the front. On the other hand. the regiments at Camp Alger, and some of those at Camp Thomas. are still insufIiciently supplied with field outfits, though all have been provided with everything necessary for imme- diate use. The only reason why full outfits have not gone 10 all regiments is that it has been impossible to get them from the contractors. The latter have been constantly urged 10 make haste, but frequently they have disap- pointed us. A manufacturer, for in- stance, promises us q certain number of medical chests within ten days, and at the end of the time offers an excuse for delay, We cannot very well go to some body else, because She somebody else would not be prepared to produce the goods immediately, Nevertheless, full outfits are being rapidly sent to the front, and by July % all the troops iR the field will be completely provided.
 This department has completely equipped a steamship. the Relief, which is to be used as an army am bulanee vessel. 1t is a superb floating hospital provided with every thing that is latest and best in the way of hospital Improvements, including ma- chinery for making thousands of pounds Of ice per day and an X-ray plant for the use of surgeons in triag- nosing bullet wounds. We have also fitted up an ambulance railway train, which consists of ten tourist sleepers, two kitchen and dining ears, and q combined passenger and baggage ear 1t has been placed under the charge of trained nurses, and will be kept per- manently at Tampa, except when car rying sick and wounded to points des- ignated by the proper medical off eers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-07-17
4 Local North Pole.

A note from q recent report to the. French academy by aiascaTt states that north pole had been found at Kotchetooka, village in Russia. The magnetic needle assumes vertical po- sition at this point, and the horizontal needle remains in equilibrium in all positions. The latitude is 52 degrees north.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-07-17

and quality of food are concerned. All that is needed is good cooking, and this is of the greatest importance to an army, because the improper prep aration of food means waste of sup niles and i'll health among the troops F is worth noting that in the regu- lar army there has never been com nlaint respecting the rations fur pisbed. On the contrary, the allow ance has been so liberal that it has been customary for the men to make considerable savings from 1t. You will
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t1tles off-hand, and it was the same way With many other kinds of supplies. It IS a fact that a great many sol aiefs left their homes without a single shlrt, and without one pair of clean socks. Of course, they needed gar ments immediately and they set up an outcry for them promptly the day after they enlisted.
 The element of time must enter into problem of this kind. but for this no allowance has been made by some crit les. Once started, there is no difficulty in keeping up with demands. large as they may be. For our army, as at pres ent constituted, 3,O00 pairs of trousers day are required merely to replace those=worn out, and ordinary wear and tear calls for a supply of shoes per diem. Some notion of the requirements which we have had to meet will be af forded by the statement that up to July l we forwarded to single camp, at Chickamauga, 37,500 blankets. 163.- 900 pairs of stockings, 80,90o pairs of shoes, 85,000 cotton undershirts, 11O,- GOO pairs of cotton drawers, and 59, 900 flannel shirts. These are only few of the items.
 After the supplies have been deliv- cred at the camp, it takes a little time to unpaek and distribute them, and de- lay in this part of the business has been caused by the inexperience of volunteer officers. If all the material of every description that we required had been ready at hand in storehouses when war was declared, the distribu- tlon of it would have involved loss of time. Cooking apparatus for the troopshad to be furnished, and it could not be bought ready-made; the Buzza- eott ovens, etc, had to be manufac- tured.
 Of course, this department has charge of all the business of trans portation for the army. We had to buy wagons, mules and harness. Great bodies of troops had to be carried by rail across the country-a vast under taking, when the number of soldiers and the distances traversed are con sidered. The volunteers were assem- bled at points of mobilization with ex- traordinary promptness and with re- marlable freedom from accident or delay. Scores of steamships have had to be chartered and specially fitted up for troops, animals, and freight by erecting hunks, building animal pens, and putting in extra tanks for water. In addition, contracts had to be made for supplies of coal and water at points where the volunteers were assembling. So, when all these things are taken into view, and the difficulty of the problem is duly regarded, assert that there have been no real delays in the quartermaster's department.
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Statement by Brig. Gen. John M. VII son. Chief of Engineers of fh


 son, Chief of Engineers of the Army.
 There has been neither delay nor lack of energy in my department. We have been carrying on with great ra- pidity the construction of large num- Der of permanent batteries, the erec- tion of temporary batteries at defense less places, the oyerhauling of old arm aments at existing works, the pur- chase of submarine mines and search lights, the maintenance of mine fields and the buying of siege material, tools and instruments. Emplacements have been built for large number of coast defense guns and about 150o subma- rine mines have been placed in har- bors. We sent lot of pontoon bridge material with the invading army to Cuba, and since then we have secured 1850 additional feet of pontoon bridges. Also we have provided im- mense quantities of intrsncLing tools,
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Statement by Brig. Gen, c. r. Eagan,
 Commissary General of Subsistence.
 The subsistence department is right up to date in this war. There has never been a day or an hour since the proclamation of hostilities when the army, even to the smallest subdiyi- sions of it scattered about in hundreds of places, has been without adequate food supplies, except i'll a few eases where trouble was caused by the ig norance of volunteer officers who failed to make the rations at hand available for the soldiers. Such hap penings, due to no fault of ours, have elicited some complaints, and difficult ty has arisen also from the inability of the troops and their officers to cook and care for their food properly. These matters are running more smoothly now; the stores furnished to the volunteers are being kept in proper shape and distributed with hardly q hitch. Congress is about to provide expert cooks for the company messes, and pretty soon our men in the field will be the best fed soldiers in the world.
 They are already the best fed sol diers in the world, so far as quantity
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Statement by Brig. Gen. AdoIphus w.
 Greedy, Chief Signal Officer of the
 Army.
 I do not think that single criticism of the work of my department in this war has been uttered. There was no uureadiness on our part; on the con trary, we could not have been more
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miners and sappers' tools. drawing and surveying instruments and ma terial for the making of roads.
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Statement of Brig. Gen. T. II. stanton.
 Pnymaster General Of Inc Army.
 There has been some delay in the paying of the volunteer troops, partly owing to shertness of paymasters. From this time on, however, the troops will get their money regularly and promptly My department has al- ready paid the expeditions to Cuba and the Philippines up to date. and it is rapidly disbursing the cash due to the men at Tampa, Camp Niger and
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eruit must be provided with shelter, clothing, equipments, arms, and food. In this country there exist no great plants, such as are found abroad, for the manufacture of soldiers equip ments and supplies. This nation is not a military nation, and merchants would not be warranted in keeping on hand great quantities of uniforms. tents, etc. Such things have to be manufactured 10 order.
 When all the difficulties encountered are taken into consideration, we con- sider that we have right to say that there has been no delay in our prepara- tions for this war. On the contrary, Europe to-day stands amazed at what we have accomplished in the collecting, enrolling, mastering, feeding, trans porting and drilling of a great army created out of hand as by the sowing of the fabled dragons teeth. Those who have constituted themselves critics of the war department have failed to re- alize that men cannot be taken from the shop and the harvest field and con- yerted off-hand into soldiers fit to put in the field against the veterans of Spain.
 The military authorities are content 10 know that they have done greater work in the making and preparation of the army than has ever been accom- plished by any other nation in the same length of time. History will give them full credit, and it's verdict will be their reward.
 Statement by Brig. Gen. M. I. Luding-
 ton, Quartermaster General of the
 Army.
 Up to the very outbreak of hostili- ties my department was held down strictly to a peace basis of expendi- ture. All our arrangements had ref erence to a maximum of 25,000 men. We had supplies on hand for only that number of soldiers. Without days notice we were called upon to equip nearly 100000 men.
 To begin with, these 100000 men had to be sheltered and clothed. We had to provide tents for them, though there was hardly yard of the proper grade of canvas in the market. The Klon- dike demand had almost exhausted the visible supply of tent-canvas, and the navy itself, getting into the market before we had any money to buy with, was actually our competitor for. this grade of duck. Any sort of canvas will not do for tents; we had to have spe- elal quality. Of course, we bought up all the tents that could be obtained i'll the United States, and contracted with manufacturers for as many as they were able to furnish at the shortest notice. There was delay, but it was wholly unavoidable.
 Most of the articles we required were not in the market. and had to be man. ufactured. In many instances, the ma 1erial from which to manufacture them had to be made. Of the goods needed for making the light "kahkl uniforms there was not any in the country; 30 days had to pass before The mills could turn out the first yard of the stuff. As an example of what we have accomplished, l will mention the fact that we are now furnishing these uniforms at the rate of 5'ooo suits a day. The sort of blankets we needed were not purchasable in quan-
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Statement by John TweedaIe, Chief
 Clerk of the War Department, in
 Charge of the Office of the Secretary
 of War.
 Certainly there has been no delay in the office of the secretary of war; Everything here has progressed like cloekwork. Whatever money was re quircd has been provided instantly on demand, being placed to the credit of the proper officers. All matters re- ferred to the secretary by the various bureaus of the department have been put through without the slightest wait. There has been no hitch in fur nishing means for the purchase of ves- sels, guns, or whatever was demanded. Secretary Alger himself has been at his office day and night, Sundays and holidays. Every minute of his time, in fact, has been devoted to the man agement of the war. Nothing any where has been permitted to be g minute behindhand. Naturally, most of the secretary's time has been oceu- pied with the organization of the army and with appointments. Notwith- standing his absorption in war busi- ness, he has been accessible to every body. At the same time, the smallest details have received his careful con sideration-even to such matters as field cooking utensils and hospital cots.
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completely prepared than we were at the commencement of hostilities. All we had to do was to expand the sys- tenn already in actual existence and use. The business of this department is the transmission and diffusion of in telligenee, and to illustrate the per lection of our arrangements l need only refer to what we have already ac- complished. l may mention, as a small matter of detail, that at the present moment we have actually in the skir- mish line before Santiago telephones, which, supplemented by cables, com munieate directly with the white house in Washington.
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find that the volunteers, as soon as they get used to handling their ra- tions and have cooks to assist in car ing for the stores. will make savings likewise out of their allowances. The army has not been delayed minute by lack of food ready at hand. h. deed, the movements of the troops have been constantly anticipated by the subsistence department, and at all times millions of rations have been Iy- ing ready for the soldiers, in addition to the supplies needed to meet cur rent demands. In less than one month after the declaration of war we loaded 12 solid miles of freight ears with pro- visions for the troops. This included 19,123,945 ratiens for regulars and Yol= unteers, weighing 32,18o tons.
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Statement by Brig. Gen. B. w. FIaGler,
 Chief of Ordnance of the Army

Statement by Brig. Gen. B. ". FIaeler,
 Chief of Ordnance of the Army.
 Up to within a few weeks of the present time it was understood and ac- cepted as fact that the militia of the states was pretty well armed and equipped. Though lacking in some de- tails, the citizen soldiery was supposed to constitute an army available at short notice and provided at all events with good rifles. But the actual out break of war proved that this belief was largely an error. A Alarge percent age of the guns furnished by the states with their troops were found to be worthless and had to be replaced with good ones. Some time was consumed
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Statement by Brig. Gen. George M.
 sternberg, Surgeon General of the Army.
 At the opening of the war we had in our depots medical and surgical sup plies for 25,ooo men. My orders had been to make no emergency purchases until war was declared; consequently,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-11

From IN, Chicago Record.

From IN, Chicago Record
SOM, tim. ago IN letter from Atlantic city.
described "a recent discovery 10y John
K,rlA the motor man Of Philadelphia, "hy
rlairns that each ind!l idual has a key or tone
which must haiuuniZr with those of th' propll
around HIN IN order to insure a. p'arcful ana ~
happy NE + II Erand ~ thicar" writes ~"
that this ~ not "a new discovery. mat ~ ms
ncrupatInn uf voice building ne learned thit
fact many years ago. and always a"""rtalns the
individual key 0f each pupil hcfcr" ~ gives the
first lesson.
1T - "A fact NJ Brand sayS that human
beings are ndiN ldualiZrd ur made known To 'ach
other hN the pitcn of their NUlCrs ana 1t ~ AIS" "a
fact that the disposition ot an Individual ~ indi-
Gated 10y the key tone 81 the voice just IL" SAM
ms the tone ~ an r. Hat cornct or any other mu-
cal instrument enables pcopl" 10 idcntifN the
instrument with which IA" sound l. produced
II vii, be- found that persons who's" Voices are
lutr he'd ~ IN. key OF &c are of "A social nature.
and their hole makeup IL amiahe. ID voices
indicate hupcfulnrss and chccrfun"ss; Il ihhi-
Gates "A saneuine temperament THOSE whose
voices ar, pitched in r are earnest and SIN
ccrc. thos, In q; ogoiistlcal ana domine'r-
ing. those in "A frctiui, nervous ana pa
th-ti, While those IN - ar" timld anu appTt-
honsivc. and lack confidence and self-c"ntro'
The semi tones are similarly distributed. but we
give the diatonc scale sample With this
KEY any one can judrc Of the qualii, ations ana
the dis. .osition Of thcse with whom he comes IN
contact
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-11
THtl rLhlED PUhEk WHH THtNh rms


From III, Chicago Journal
san Juan Hi near Santiago d. tui'i f"f
th, last week the boys ni the Isl Illinois nave
been lighting their rsi enemy inalarlai nN'r
About "A fortnight ago ia" dread disease came
anon our camp. aud since then almost every one
has had II WIN. most Of the stricken are MADE
d,IiIious the effect never lasts more IMAM seven
to MN" daNs.
Malaria IN uhat - what "" cal our
.alnpl Is :, beautiful place 20 look at. The men
MAY pok.r with uuininc pills for chips IN"
irouhl. is Wncl player gcts Il Chili ~ ears :,
chin and runs the game short. We have "A
"On,uin, club the object Of the club Is to
.hnv In, weaker members the fine pr"pcrtic: az
IN. drug malaria fIiii' alone consumes ahou'
500 20 1000 pills daily-that rs I,OW ~ nv
grains Ia LAY nothing Of other drugs 'h"t
ought t. be "a great heII 10 I'll, medicine manu-
featuring industry.
The times., 1898-06-16
Commissioners, Orders.

The following orders were issued by the
commissioners yesterday:
THAT a permit be issued to the Jane
Moseley Steamboat Company to erect
banner in front of its ticket office. at the
N Street wharf southeast, on condition
that the banner shall not stretch over the
street.
That the superintendent of the tele-
graph and telephone service is authorized
to obtain additional fire alarm boxes, and
establish them at places recommended in
the communication of the electrician of
said department
That a vitrified brick crossing be laid.
under the permit system, on the west side
of Harrison Street, Anacostia, just south
of the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company; estimated cost SIS.
That naphtha lamp on northeast corner
of South Carolina Avenue and Thirteenth
Street southeast, and lamp on east side
of South Carolina Avenue, between Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth Streets, be moved
to new curb line: estimated cost ST.
street lighting.
of 1924 r Street northwest under the per-
nit system. estimated cost S3S
That the following gas ramps be moved: :
One corner Twenty-fourth and + Streets
northwest one northwest corner Twelfth
and c Streets southwest; one southwest
corner Four-and-a-half and Missouri Owe
corner Four-and-a-haif Street and Mis-
souri, Avenue southwest; estimated cost
The times., 1898-06-16
WELL FED, WELL BRED.
Proper Food Makes Brainy Men and
Beautiful Women

To know just what TO eat is a problem
for many people who find their strength
and health not keeping UP to a proper
stage. From food we must expect our
bodily nourishment. and not from drugs
True. a physicians care is required at
times. but the true physician will always
seek to put his patient on properly Sc
lected food and drink
A food expert has discovered Grape
Nuts 10y experimenting on the treatment
OF grains to artIficially pre-digest the
starches (the principal part) Grape-
Nuts, as now made by the Postum Cereal
Co. Linn, of Battle Creek. Mich. and
sold by grocers generally, is delicious
dainty. suitable particularly for the brain
worker. as it quickly supplies the parts of
food the body needs to supply the daily
loss produced by brain work Unless the
right food be furnished and properly di-
gested, the individual discovers a gradual
falling and some form of disease sets M
Users of Grape-Nuts discover that thew
assist IN the digestion of cream and other
food, and that .'well-fed feeling fol-
lows their use