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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-17
FAMILY OF GENERAL MACIAs FLEEING

81. Thomas. Danish West Indies July la-Ihe
family OF Captain-Genera Macias. OF Porto Hico'
passed through here to-day on an Italian steamer
oouhu for Spain The United States auxlnaLy ,
Saiser Yosemite. which has been doins bi4ckmae ar
SutS al San Juan de Porto Rico. has arrived neie
nne mas Deen relieved San Juan by the protec.edd
.suser IN New Orleans. The Yosemite is coaiihe anu
WI probably remain several days.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-17
GENERAL BROOKE IN WASHINGTON.

Washington. July 16-MaJor- General Brooke.
commanding the troops at Chickamauga. was
In conference several times to-day with Secrc-
tary Alger. The two went over TO the White
House where questions relating presumably to
the proposed Porto Rico expedition were dis
cussed for some time. Secretary Alger ana
General Brooke declined absolutely to make
any statement regarding the subject.
In other quarters. however. there are eVi-
dcnces that indicate activity in the direction OF
preparation for prompt forward movement.
For instance steps are being taken 10 ascertain
and determine to the entire satisfaC tion OF the
War Department officials tEc most available
points on the Atlantic and cuff coasts from
which 10 embark large numbers of men Major
General Wilson. now at Charleston with
brigade Of soldiers. has expressed the opinion
that that place offers better harbor facilities for
eInbarkation than any between there and New
Orleans the depth Of the water AT low tide being
slightly over twenty feet. while at Savannah II
is about seventeen and at Fcrnandina. Fla. the
captains OF the vessels say they cannot get into
the harbor.
General Wilson has dispatched an officer to
Newport News tc look into the question OF
shipping facilities harbors. camp grounds and
water supply at that place. which seems 10 In
dicate that the Department Is considering the
question Of sending some troops there for en-
harkatiOn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-17

''Babes' Paradise!' Rockwood's photographs OF
children beat the world. Broadway Dth-st-Advt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-17

| wasre
Camp Santiago July 16.
T1e be
tomorrow morning troops prisoners
The Spanish American flag
"sHAFTER, General"
CONDITIONS OF THE SURRENDER.
dispatch received from General shater gave
ing conditions:
Headquarters Santiago, July 16.
"\luan- General L. Army Washington
The captuion include all material in de-
territory. United with little delay possible
transport Spanish troops district Kingdom Span the far
embark the they Officers retain
side and officers and retain their personal property Spanish
authorized military belonging surrendered district All
Spanish volunteers Morzadyes and guer who wish
unde parole during up
Spanish Santiago with honors of deposit
their mutually agreed uon to await disposition the United
States being United States Commissioners will
Spanish soldiers Spain with by defended
This the OF OF entirely the hands OF the Govern
fact that several thousand surrendered said by
1000 whom shot has not been fired The
Spain troops this above 2O according
to General Toral
wv r. SHAFTER U. s. Volunteers"
TORAL AUTHORIZED TO CAPITULATE.
In following General shae that he had
Santiago de Cuba July 16.
ITO His Excccncy Chief OF the American Forces
authorized by Government capitue
appze you requesting design the hour
place representatives shall appear with those OF Your
Exency articles OF capton the basis of what has been
agreed this due time wish manifest my desire to know the
resolutions United States Government respecting the return
capuon also the Your Great races
great generosity impulse for the Spanish soldiers and
the peninsula with the hono the American Army do
them the to acknowledge duiuly descended.
JOSE TORAI, General Commanding Fourth Army Corps
GENERAL SHAFTER, Commanding American Forces
THE NATIONS THANKS.
The following congratory General Saer by
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-17

,ratronize new fast Continental Limited 10 W, M,
S>-~ Rd. SUPERIOR service di.tis.- asxA &H--Aa''-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-17

SEE EXCURSION COLUMN.
New 15-cent Route to Rockaway Beach.-Ao'I
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-17
FIRST ARMY CORPS Is ORDERED TO GO.

Chattanooga. Tenn. July l6 CSpeciaD. Gen
eral Wade received a brief message tonight
from Washington saying the First Army Corps
had been ordered 10 Porto Rico. Nothing more
was contained In the message. The existence
OF the order is not known outside OF headquar-
ters tonight The corps Is ready TO move on
short notice and transportation is already con-
tracted FOR.
The corps as II is now mad up consists Of the
following regiments:
First Dvsion-Frst Brigade. I'd and 3d Wis
corsin and l6tr Pennsylvania commanded by
Brgadier- General O. H. Ernest. Second Bri-
gade Sd Illinois. 4th Pennsylvania and Ith
Ohio commanded by BriFadier- General Harris.
Third Brigade. 1st and 81 Kentucky and 9TH
Illinois
Second Dvsion-First Brigade Sd and lst
Michigan. 10th Indiana and lst Georgia; Sec
ond Brigade 9th Ohio. 15Sth Indiana ard LIST
West Virginia: Third Brigade. ID Ohio. LIST
Pennsylvania and 1ith Minnesota Brlgadier
General Rosser commanding
Third Dlvlsion-Frst Brigade 18th MinnesO-
ta LIST South Carolina and 9TH Pennsylvania
Brigadicr- General John y. Wiley commanding.
Second Brigade. Sth Massachusetts. 2lst Kansas
and 10Th New-York: Third Brigade. 9th Penn
sylvania. ID Missouri and LIST New Hampshire.
Brigadier-General Andrews commanding.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-17
TORAL GIVES UP EVERYTHING.
AMERICAN FLAG WILL BE RAISED OYER THE CITY OF
SANTIAGO THIS MORNING.


Washington July o'clock this evening following message
nouncng Santiago made public the White
House t Adjutant General Corbin:
Camp Santiago, July 6
definitely settled will be turned
morning. will be marched
The Spanish o'clock, and the American flag
hOstcd.
"SHAFTER Major General"
CONDITIONS OF THE SURRENDER
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-04
How to Prevent Grain smut.

w. T. Swingle of the department OF
agriculture makes the following recon-
mendations in farmers bulletin:
1t has been found that sinking smut
of wheat can be prevented by treating
the seed with corrosive sublimate, one
pound to 80 gallons of water The seed
is piled on floor or on canvas and thor
oughly sprinkled, every grain being
wetted over its entire surface. Corrosive
sublimate is poisonous, and great care
should be exercised in using it.
Sinking smut of wheat and covered
barley smut can be prevented by soak
ing the seed II hours in solution made
by dissolving one pound of commercial
copper sulphate III "a gallons of water
and then immersing the seed for five
minutes i'll limewater.
The formalin treatment has been
found very effective in preventing stink
ing smuts of wheat and oat smut It
consists in soaking the seed for two
hours in a solution of one pound of
formalin to so to go gallons Of water.
The strong formalin is poisonous, and
great care should be exercised in its USE
The shrinking smuts of wheat and oat
smut can also bo prevented by treating
the seed with hot water at 1872 degrees
for ten minutes.
Loose smut of wheat and barley smuts
can be prevented by soaking the seed in
cold water for four hours allowing it to
stand four hours more in wet sacks, and
then treating for five minutes in water
at 1872 degrees.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-04
Flavor and Keeping Quality.


The keeping quality of butter should
be considered in making up scale yoi
points for judging it. Few people desire
to buy butter every day, and if the Sat
urday's purchase cannot keep good,
when properly cared for. until the next
Saturday it is q serious fault.
And we believe that this does not de.
pend upon the method of handling
cream or making the butter any more
than upon the character Of the food and
water given or upon the healthy condi.
ton of the animal. We know that care
less handling may spoil the butter from
the best milk in the world, but we dc
not know that there is any way TO pro
duce good butter from poor milk tainted
with the feeding OF musty fodder. dam.
aged grain, decaying vegetables or such
as have an unpleasant flavor. And inn
pure water is worse than bad food, and
we are not sure but impure air to breathe
is worse than either.
II that most important point in the
scoring of butter, the flavor, is due to
bacteria. we will say that we once knew
a neighbor to get the bacteria Of onion
into his butter by allowing CARLOAD
of onions to stand in the barn floor over
night about six feet from the cows
heads Tho milk Of the COWS was just
as strongly favored with the onion as
was the mir in the barn. That proved
two things at least--that the onions
should not hays been put in there and
that the barn was not well ventilated.
He should have known these things be-
fore, but be was young and more accus-
toned to growing vegetables than to
caring for milk cows. american Gull
fivator
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-04
rorestaIling Eyolution.

All breeders of pedigree stock, says
an English correspondent of The Breed
er's Gazette. take upon themselves a
most onerous and responsible task. They
undertake to forestall evolution and to
determine which animals are the fittest
to survive. | can remember i'll u com
paratively short time vast changes
brought about in the Shropshire, and
may venture to say that the alterations
have been great Improvements, but in
trying to improve some points there is
a danger of deterioration i'll other quail
tiles. Therefore breeders individually
and collectively have TO be on their
guard to avoid serious mistakes. for the
improvement and mistakes they make
are spread broadcast over the land to
the advantage or disadvantage of agri-
cuIturlsts in general That man is for
tunate who has learned by experience
the animal be rcquires-that is, what
faults be must always avoid and what
faults he is content occasionally to put
mp with-for it won do to repeat any
fault too often-and also what points
are essential When he has acquired
this, be has learned the art Of breeding
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-04

The striped yellow beetles come first,
and the farmer must be on the lookout
for them, since often during an hour or
two of bright sunny day these pests
will ruin every plant in hill. Land
plaster, with the addition of little kero-
sene oil, is the remedy for these insects.
Add a couple of tablespoonfuls of kero-
sene to two quart measure OF the
plaster. thoroughly mixing. Next comes
the black or brown bug which smells
so extensively. Place some bits of wood,
as shingles. around each hill, and these
bugs will collect beneath them to pass
the night ead may therefore be caught
and killed each morning. The third
great enemy the squash has is the cut
worm. This is an insect difficult to find
until the mischief has been done. The
best preventive measure is the use Of
wood ashes and lime in the squash hills
and about the vines. 1t is well to change
the land upon which squashes are
grown about every year to in some
measure escape the many insect pests,
lays The New England Homestead.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-04
Articles Made of Eeislxin.

An eelslsin leather factory is situated
in quiet street i'll the neighborhood of
Londoa bridge. Here are prepared and
manufactured various articles from the
skin of the common eel. The skins are
manipulated by numerous complicated
processes until they resemble and would
easily be taken for leather, although of
more glutinous and pliable nature.
This strange commodity is cut into
long, thin strips and plated very close
ly together for whiplashes and to cover
portions Of the handles of more expcn-
sive whips. Certain kinGsof lashes and
harness laces are also made of eelskin.
This leather is almost indispensable in
articles cf this description, where flexi-
bility allied with an uncommon Tough
ness is desired Invention
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-04
Reading at breakfast.

Reading at breakfast is fatal to socia-
bility. In breakfasting alone it is per-
MISSILE, but not in company. Leigh
Hunt wrote In The Indicator When
we lived alone, we could not help read
ing at meals, ard it is certainly deli
eious thing to resume an entertaining
book at a particularly interesting pas
sage with a hot cup of tea at ones Ell
bow and a piece Of buttered toast in
ones hand. The first look at the page.
accompanied by a coexistent bite of the
toast, comes under the head of intensi-
ties. " A book at breakfast isno conpli-
ment to the cook. but newspaper is
an insult. On the other hand, news
paper at breakfast is benefit to the
doctor, for it is when one is put off
ones guard by the struggle with the
folds and the search for items Of inter-
est that the way is made easy for the
approach of dyspepsia.
In the old days of The Spectator and
Tattler. when papers were of a reason
able size and reposeful to boot, they did
no HARM Now-welI, now the largest
circulation in the world may produce
the poorest digestion. 1t has been re-
marked (by a collector) that the only
Literature suitable at breakfast is book
sellers catalogues. but since catalogues
lead always to kilograms or envy this is
doubtful The line should probably be
drawn at private letters - Cornhili Mag
a1iuo
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-04
TRACING a LOST STUD.
Luck of Jewelsr Who Dropped Two
Carat Diamond In the street.

Luck of u Jewelsr Who Dropped 3 Two
Carat Diamond In the Street.
Some odd stories Of the recovery of
lost diamonds are told by an old Union
square jeweler One of them is his own
experience.
Zone day last June, he says, 81
happened to recollect that was going
to a reception Before leaving the store
wrapped my two karat diamond stud
in piece of tissue paper and slipped it
into my vest pocket After dinner,
while dressing in my room, went to
my pocket to get the stud 1t was not
there. pnt my hand iii my fob pocket,
thinking it was surely there; then in
the other vest pocket, then in the inside
pocket. and then in my four trousers
pockets, but it was in none of them.
g i left that on my desk. thought.
/ will find it there in the morning. /
will put on a plain gold stud tonight.
1.-THE next morning the stud was not
to be found at the store. / thought of
every step / had taken Oh the way home.
and then called our porter.
george, salu l, just DerOre Went
home last night | slipped diamond
stud, wrapped in tissue paper into my
pocket aud. starting out of the store.
went across Broadway, through Union
square at Fifteenth street, going to the
left of the fountain, and then up the
center path to Seventeenth street and
Fourth avenue; / went down the right
hand side of Seventeenth street to Sec
ond avenue and then home. On my walk
home have distinct recollection of
putting my hand into my pocket for my
penknife or something else. must have
pulled out toe stud and dropped it. Now
want you to follow that path and look
carefully every step of the way, and /
don t want you to come back until you
have found the stud.
He started ont and in less than half
an hour returned with the stud He
had found it, still wrapped in the pa
per. in the gutter. a few steps this side
of Second avenue, and he went home
happy that night with $40 goldpiece
III his pocket - New York Sun.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-04

in at the center and disposed of all
around the building. There is the least
possible work i'll attending to the cattle
and especially in their feeding. This
form Of building is the most economic
al, takes the least quantity of lumber
and needs the lightest of framing stuff
outside only requiring heavy beams
and stout supports under them on the
lower floor 1t is the strongest of all
kinds of framing except an exact circle
and has the most available space inside
for the length of wall of any figure ex-
cept the circle, aud it closely approaches
this economy of space, for one has every
thing in it right under his hand, to be
reached with the fewest possible steps.
In the building of an octagonal barn a
few directions may be useful. The low
er part, of course, needs to be of stout
timbers to hold up the great weight of
stuff that may be heaped in above.
With post Of by 10 timber at each
corner the other intermediate posts
may be by 4 the plates need not be
over 6 by 10, with joists by 10 be-
tween the beams. The upper part may
be all built balloon fashion, leaning in
to the center, somewhat in the way of a
mansard or French roof. with the top of
the roof having all the rafters meeting
in small, octagonal frame, on which
a cupola is built. This gives Il very
picturesque and pleasing shape to the
building and makes the stiffest and
strongest frame that can be put to-
gether
The plates on the first floor ray be
by 10 inches, halved together at the
corners and then tied by half inch
thick and two inch wide iron strap
bent around the timber II inches from
the corner and held by one inch bolt
through the strap i'll both sides of the
timber and through the timber ;as we'll
This ties the joint perfectly and entire
ly prevents spreading of the joint.
There is a row of posts at the corners of
the feed t1oughs, and the beams may be
carried from these to the center, resting
on posts around which feedroom is
built, or this central space laay be left
open so that the feed may all be thrown
down from the floor above into this CEN
trail space, OF if the fodder is cut above
it will all come down into this space,
which is occupied by the feed mixing
boy If steam is used TO do the work,
the engine will be i'll the cellar. or if a
windmill this will be on the top of the
barn, which Will be better than steam,
as perfectly safe from fire. Live steam
may be carried several hundred feet in
pipes wrapped in asbestus Or mineral
wool and then buried two feet is the
ground within wooden box.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-04
Making Butter.

The secretary of agriculture has been
considering methods for further mark
ing the butter so that it will surely
reach the consumer for exactly what it
is. Last season it was discovered that
INSCRIPTIONS merchants awaited them
selves of the high standard Of American
butter to sell it for Danish, French OF
other butter, whichever brought the
highest price. 1t is the desire of the Sec
rotary to make this practice impossible,
but SO far it has not been found prac-
ticable because the consumers as well as
the merchants demand butter in boxes.
There is widespread prejudice iii Eng
land against butter III small packages.
The consumers prefer to have it taken
from kegs, under the impression that it
will be rurer and fresiler. With the
butter shipped i'll boxes it is possible to
stamp only the boxes, which can easily
be covered by dishonest merchants.
Agents of the department are taking
precautions to prevent this practice. =
Breeders Gazette.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-04

Orr cattle are gaining III popularity
with forei.n customers, the exports of
beef cattle having increased materially
On the other hand those Of beef. either
fresh, canned or saifcd, have failed to
show any increase In most cases de-
cided falling of is noticeable. The ex-
ports Of best cattle during the first ten
months If the fiscal year amounted to
s79. 6G3. against BIO, 47S in the CORE
spending months Of last year. The
value in the len months Of 1898 was
SAP s52. S33. against sss S66, 703 in the
corresponding months Of last year.
Fresh beef III tlsa same period fell from
24a. I6s. 0s4 pounds ia ten months Of
1887 to "a. Is rs pounds III the cor
responding zen months Of 1898, while
salfed beef showed a fall of 80 per cent
for the year. and canned beef dropped
from AZ, sz9, 006 pounds in the ten
fnenths Of 1897 to "a, OF /, 1919 pounds in
liz tn months Of 1898. Breeder s Ca
I.ss.fkA 2 =
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-04

When we read of a railroad wreck in
which hundred people are killed, we are
filled with pity and horror There are other
dangers in this life thousand times greater
than that of the railroad wreck, only we do
not have them brought so forcibly to our
attention. Consumption does not kill a
hundred people at once in one train. 1t
does kill tens of thousands for every one
that is killed by accident
If a sufferer will resort to the right REM
edy before it is too late, consumption can
be cured. DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery cures o8 per cent. of all cases if
taken in the earlier stages II has main
tanned this record for thirty years. Many
of those whom it has rescued from the
verge of the grave have permitted their
names, addresses, experiences and photo
graphs to be printed in DR.. Pierce's Com
mon Sense Medical Adviser This useful
book is free, and any sufferer who wishes
to investigate may procure it and write to
those who were once sufferers themselves.
For paper covered copy send II one cent
stamps, to covet cost of mailing ONLY, to
the Worlds Dispensary Medical Associa-
ton, Buffalo, N Y The Golden Medical
Discovery" is the great blood maker and
flesh builder It restores the lost appetite,
corrects the impaired digestion, makes the
liver active and the blood pure Any med
icine dealer who offers you something
else said to be just as good . is thinking
about his pocketbook and not about your
health
g I have taken Or. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery and Favorite Prescription with
wonderful results writes Mrs. Annie NJ. Nor
man. of Equinunk. Wayne Co. Pa. - had
consumption the doctors said I'd die. The
Golden Medical Discovery cured me-"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-04
ANCIENT TIMEPTEcEs.



Various Methods of Measuring Time Prior
to the Invention of Clocks.
We need do no more than allude to
tie habit after the reformation, and
especially in Scotland, OF preachers
measuring their discourses by the hour
glass in the pulpit These marked an
hour exactly Those first made in
Charlemagne's day ran for IL hours
Alfred the Great hit upon method of
measuring time, which shows that there
was no Saxon one, though very proba-
bly, some of the monasteries (then the
only homes of knowledge) were &C.
quainted with water clocks and hour
glasses, if not by practical knowledge
at any rate by hearsay
However, the kingdom i'll general fol-
lowed Alfred's plan, which, though in
genious, necessarily lacked anything
like the accuracy of the other inven-
tions Yet the kings idea was hailed as
a wonderful effort of genius. which, for
such an era by comparison with the
general ignorance, it was AS evcvy
schoolboy (in this case literally knows,
Alfred marked time by flashlights. A
long existence. by the way, has the rush
light enjoyed. seeing that middle aged
people still remember its use in the nurs-
cry at night and the reflection of the
circular holes in the tall metal shades
on the ceiling.
Alfred, says an ancient authority,
"that he might properly know how
the hours passed, made use Of burning
tapers which were marked with lines
and fixed in lanthorns, an expedient in
vented by himself : So, by the way,
were in 500 the lanterns of scraped
horn which still some old fashioned
rustics prefer to glass. But tapers,
however, were then very expensive
The king might himself use these, but
probably the rushlight was used by peo-
pie in general. --LoAdon Standard