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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1898-08-18

The war will soon be over.
but the war tax will llnger
with us, and the war bonds
will stick to us closer than a
brother. E&,
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1898-08-18
Csrrlon BIZ ds Of Cuba.
Chicago Inter. Ocean.

Chicago Inter. Ocean.
A feature OF campaigning
in Cuba which has inspired
the soldier from the North
with horror and disgust is
the presence OF the huge tur-
key buzzards on the battle.
fields. This bird is perha ps
in appearance and habits the
most lOathsome creature of
the air known TO this conti-
nent. 1t is OF right a vulture,
and stands about two and
one-half feet high and is OF a
lustr rous brownish. black
plumage. The hideous part
of the bird is its head and
neck, naked of plumage and
reddish, like raw flesh. Be-
low this is a circular ruff OF
feathers, which seems to ac-
centuate the revolving ap.
pearance of the neck. The
bill is long and slender. with
a powerful, curved tip for
tearing the flesh.
Carrion is the food of the
turkey buz a d, though it
will eat fresh meat, ana when
in torce will even kill small
animals or birds. But Amer
ican soldiers in Cuba, with
their dead lying in the thick
underbush, know too we'll
what the approach of these
vultures mean, and for them
the nausecus birds form the
chief horror of the war. In a
letter to a friend in this city,
written after the fighting at
Baiquiri, one of the Rough
Riders tells of watching the
buzzards come and shooting
at them~as they settled down
to their feast. One OF his
company, he adds, W h O
fought as bravely as the rest
during the battle, went into
a hysteIical fit at the ap
prOach OF one of the birds.
and covered away from it,
crying like a child. Other in
stances of the soldiers shoot
ing at the buzzards and kill
ing or driving them away
have been related.
Yet there is much to be
said on the side of the carrion
birds, They are our best al
lies, and as soon as the bat
tie is over their work of sani
tatlon begins. In that hot
climate death IT, battle waits
death turks in the dead and
reaches forth for the living.
Close behind death by pesti
lence, ready to claim more
victims than shot and shell.
1t is here that the vultures
perform their part, terrible
to think of but very neces.
sary to the army's veal. A.
ter the battle friend or foe lie
dead together in the all but
impenetrabIe ch para
What the burial parties can
not find in that tangled un.
derwOod the instinct OF the
vulture discovers. Far away
in the distance a black spot
appears, grows larger and
sails along on motionless
wings until presently it set
ties down to earth. Others
follow, gathering from all
points of the compass. They
settle in little bands of six or
eight, or even a dozen, and
when they have risen, instead
of the intolerable and horri-
| h1o roSi6yo of hmm nj; + q, yyb ;.h
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1898-08-18
The Arny's Terrible Plight
Baltimore Sun.

~
Secretary of War Alger Or
dering him, on the recon-
mendatlon of Surgeon Gen
eral Sternherg, to move the
army into the interior, where
it was thought a healthier
encampment might he found.
General Shafter thereupon
conferred with the general
and medical officers of the
Fifth Corps and the result
was a protest in writing a.
galnst the instructions OF the
Secretary OF War, combined
with a representation of the
conditions existing in the
army Il t Santiago, which
gives the first complete in
sight into the misery which
the brave men at that plag.
uerldden spot have endured.
In their address to the COM
mander of the army the Of
firers of the Fifth Corps say
they ere unanimously Of the
opinion t h a t "the army
sho lid he at once taken out
of the island of Cuba and
sent to some point on the
northern searoast of t h e
United States" While vel
low fever at present is not
epidemic, "the army" it Is
asserted, lis disabled by ina
laria fever to the extent that
its efficiency is destroyed and
it. is practically in a condi-
tion to be entirely DESTROYED
by all epidemic of yellow fe-
yer, which is sure to come in
the near future. The best
me deal authorities" contin-
ues the address, ''say that
with our present equipment
we could not live in the inter-
ior during the rainy season
without losses from malaria
fever, which IS almost a s
deadly as yellow fever. This
army must be moved atonce
or perish. As it can be safes
ly moved now, the persons
responsible for preventing it
from moving will he respon-
sible for the unnecessary loss
OF many thousands of lives. !"
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, in
n letter to General Shatter,
says that in the division to
which his regiment is attach
ed there have been 1,500cas-
es Of malarial fever. Not a
man has died from it," he
adds, "but the whole com
mand is 80 weakened and
shattered as to be ripe for
dying like rotten sheep when
IA real yellow fever epidemic
strikes us, as it is bound to,
if we stay here at the height
OF the sickly season August
and the beginning ofSeptem-
Der. II we are kept here it
will in all human possibility
mean an appalling disaster,
for the surgeons here estl-
mate that over half the army,
if kept here during the sickly
season, will die. y y The
sick list affords but a faint
index of the delibitation of
the army. Not 10 per cent
are fit for active work. n
1t is impossible to move into
the interior. Every shifting
OF camp doubles the sick rate
in our present weakened CON
dition, and the interior is
rather worse than the coast. "
"The army" says Major
"0~I zI.c -. a,
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1898-08-18
Senator stewards Book.

In his recently published
work on the functions of mon
ey Senator Stewart disclosed
one reason why the young
man of the present day are
averse to marriage. Hesays:
"The comforts of lite with
which the yonng women of
this country have been sur
rounded in the homes of their
fathers. built in the better
days Of the republic, cannot
be- provided by the young
men OF the present day on &C
count of the hard conditions
which environ them" This
is a recognized truth which
the marriage statistics will
fully bear out. 1t ought to
suggest to the young ladies
of matrimonial ge that
their interests lie in the d.
rection of promoting t h e
cause ofbimetallism. Famine
and crop failures abroad and
bounteous yields at home,
together with a foreign war,
may temporarily improve
conditions, but there will be
no permanent prosperity, no
universal good times, under
a n appreciating standard.
The girls cannot more effect
lively improve their matri-
monial chances than hy be-
coming stanch silver advo-
Gates. Helena, Mont, Inde-
pendent.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-05-07
E.fti 2th Anniversary.

Next year, 1899. James Nick's Sons will
celebrate tIIe iifticth Anniversary Of the
establishment oftheirf flower aud seed cat
alOgur. .I+Nn> Wick was the tiI$t nan in
America to publish an illustrated seed
catalogue. That first catalogue would
doubtless present a remarkable contrast
compared with the beautiful book of 20
pages prosecuted to their patrons this
year. The present firm propose to pre-
scHl to ali their patrons of 1898 Il hand
some souvenir Of their anniversary at the
opening of the year 1899. They offer
i,,.ly bargains his season. Noticeable
i HI - tie Rambler roses.
lH@i ,,.",o one OF these plants sold for
fifty r"9'~, !Hl' this VAR Iainos N3rk'~
SONS Of Rochester. y. y, offer one each
attic v-hito. voll0w an,I rri",so0 Hamh-
lers 10: .... IT., ct:.l.. Weeks Garden
and Floral Guide. an elegant work of l.;
large pages. the best ever sent Il by this
house, Will he mailed free upon applica-
ton.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-05-07
TriE UNION PACIFIC.

TrE UNION PACIFIC.
PASSES through The best cities and towns
in Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, ana
Nebraska. ami is tic best route to Den
Yer. Kansas ts.y, Council Bluffs, Sioux
City. st. Louis, Chicago and all eastern
points.
The advantages gained by travelling
via the Union Pacific are
Quick Time,
unequaIied Service.
Magnificent Equipment,
Double Drawing Room,
Pullman Palace Sleepers,
Pullman DINING Cars,
Free Reclining Chair Cars,
Pullman Tourist Sleepers
Fo; tine tables, pamphlets descriptive
of the country traversed, rates of fair, OF
any o,hnr information. address
f. l.. LOMAN,
UEN'L PASS. ANp TICKNP AGENT
OMAHA, NEB.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-05-07
NOTICE..

T. w. HEALY. Attorney for Petitioner
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-05-07

At the regular meeting Of the State
Board of Examiners held April 6, 1897,
the following resolution was adopted:
RESOLVED. That the Board Of Exam
prs shall meet on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in each month for the
purpose Of allowing claims against the
state. ami all claims not in the office of
the Secretary OF State on or before said
FIRST Tuesday after the first Monday in
each month shall not be considered or
allowed by the Board until its next
meeting which viii lie on the third
Tuesday of each month.
REINHoLp SADLER
EVGENE HOWELL
JAMES Il. Judge
Board OF Examiners
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-05-07
SHERiFFS SALE.
Sherif1S Office, County of Ormsby,

Sherif1s Office, County of Orinsby,
State OF Nevada.
Norirr of sale Of real estate under exc
rutiOn.
BY virtue of an execution issued ont Of
the District Court of the Frat Judicial
District of the State of Nevada, in and
for Ormsby County, wherein Samuel
Longabaugh was plaintiff and VIM. NJ.
WyncoOp was defendant, upon a judg-
ment rendered the 18th day of February.
\. d. 1898, for the sum of seven hundred
and thirty-twO and I5-l00 dollars (ST32.l5)
no part of said judgment having been
paid save and except the SUM of Fou
Hundred and two dollars $4,000 !eav-
ing a balance due upon said Judgment,
for the sum of three hundred and thirty
and I5-l0O dollars lS}30.l5) which said
balance due is duly d0rketed in Judg-
mnnt Book D., Ormsby County Records,
onG is in full force and effect.
| nave this day levied upon all the
right, title, claim and interest. Of said
defendant. VIM. NJ. Wynco"p, of and to
the following described real estate
tO-wit:
The ". haif of y. ". I of Sec. "a, and
+. half of y. r.. of Sec. 80, tp. II. n. X.
10, f. NJ. D. r. & NJ.
Public notice il hereby given that |
will on WEDNESDAY, THE ltth DAY
OF MAY. \. u. 1888. at | O'Clock P, Vi of
said day in front of the court House
! door of the County OF Ormsby. sell at
public auction for gold or silver coin of
the United States. all the right, title
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-05-07
NOTICE.

In the District Court of the First H.
dicial District of the State of Ne
va1a. in and for tn" County Of Or
msby.
In the matter of the estate of Hannah
Duffy, deceased.
Notice for publication of time APP
pOintment for proving will, etc.
Pursuant to An order of said Court
made Oil the 2Sth lay of April, 4. n. 1898
notice i hereby given thai SATURDAY
the 14th DAY OF MAY, \. ID. 1898, at 10
o'clock \. NJ. OF said day, at the Court
Room of said Court. at the Courthouse
in the City of Carson. County of Ormsly,
has been appointed as the time aud
place for proving the Will of said
Hannah Duffy, deceased, and for h""riiig
the application of T. w. Healy .ur the
issuance to him of Letters ~Testd;uentary.
when and where any person interested
may appear and contest the said VIII.
and may file objections in writing to TIL
granting of Letters Parliamentary to said
| petitioner.
Dated April 2Sth, 1898.
GEO. A. TYRRELL
Clark
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-05-07
OCCIDENTAL HOTEL
MONTGOMERY STREET.
From Bush TO Suffer
San Francisco. California
AMERICAN Az tUn0Pc!k

American Plan--$2,5 so per day, anG
UPWARDS. according 70 room an"
location.
European Ptan-Sl,Wu per day, am
upwards.
Suites of Rooms SYST peT day II
pwaIdS.
A Eirst-Ciass Restaurant or tt
Office Floor.
REASONABLE PRICES.
STREET ltrS Pass ms DOOR FOR
ALL PARTS OF THE CITY
TELEGRAPH, t. ..PHONs. hhO
MESSENGER SERVICE
Soeclal rates to Gibbs and E.na!,
Parties. Who want ii rlln and a fe"
iays stay down by Tiiewater.
We want to do business with Nevada
people, and your Silver Dollars ar.
as coed as Gold With us.
VIM. B. HOOPER,
LESSEE
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-19
LIQUID AIR is DANGEROUS.
brooklyn Professor Experiments
with Red Phosphorus and
IL Hurt.

While experimenting with red phos-
phorus in liquid air, Prof. Irving w.
Fay, in the chemical laboratory of the
Polytechnic institute, Brooklyn, the
other day, had his face burned and his
eyes were temporarily sightless. The
shock of the explosion stunned him.
Whether it is the phosphorus of the
liquid air that explodes no one knows.
Some remarkable experiments with
the liquid air had been performed pre-
rious to the explosion. Butter in the
liquid air was reduced to a fine, dry
DUST; an oyster became as hard as the
shell from which it was extracted.
Prof. Fay placed half pint of mer-
curry in a paper mold and poured over
the surface liquetied aid. The quick
silver was frozen into rigid bar so
cold that it blistered the flesh to touch
it. He fastened weight of 40 pounds
to the bar and it thawed sufficiently
to let the weight fall in IS minutes
only.
The professor poured liquid air over
alcohol, and soon the latter was frozen
into a snowy mass of crystals. He
stirred this mass and reduced it to the
condition of viscid sugar. He lifted
that out with n stick, from which it
hung down in an icicle seven or eight
inches long. He poured more liquid
air over it and it was rigid.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-19

Gen. Schofeld, in his "Forty-SiS
Years in the Army" expresses the opin,
ion that even in civil life something
like the discipline of West Point would
be highly beneficial. "The hardest les
son." he writes, referring to his cadet
life, II had to learn was to submit my
will and opinions to those of an acci
dental superior in rank, who, imag
ined, was my inferior in other things
and it took me many years to learn it
Nothing is more absolutely indispensa
BILE TO a good soldier than perfect
subordination and jealous service
What / needed to learn was not SC
much how to command as how to obey
My observation of others has alsC
taught much the same lesson. Too
early independence. and exercise of au
thority, seem TO beget some degree Of
disrespect for the authority of Others
Youths Companion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-19
EMPEROR PLANS A FOUNTAIN.
Sultan VIII Build 1t ns n Memorial of
Wilhelm's visit to Com
stRntinOpIe.

Emperor William conceived the idea
of having a fountain erected in Stam-
boul to commemorate his visit. He i'm
mediately designed it himself and sub
mitted his plans to the sultan. The
fountain will be dome shaped and will
have marble seats for wayfarers.
The sultan has presented to Emperor
William two paintings. one represent
ing the battle of Milouna pass and the
other the battle of Domollo in the re-
cent war with Greece. To the German
empress he has given a magnificent
spray of brilliants.
The palace organs. the Malumat and
the Servet. newspapers of Constanti-
NOBLE. publish articles drawing an anal
ogy between the Turkish and German
nations in iailitnry aptitude and in
their parallel roles in history. The
Malumat ascrircs Emperor Williams
second visit TO Constantinople to 1.-The
great virtues which characterize the
eli1tnr, "
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-19

patriots und shed his blood if he don't
haf beer? Mitout beer you vhas oop
before you reach Cuba"
l don't think of it before, but dot
vhas so, und l haf to go back to Capt.
Roedecker again. / neffer see a man
so mad. He calls me one hoonered
bad names und / don't believe 1 shall
ever go to Cuba when he begins 10
smile und says:
IF it vhas somepody else 1 don't
fool NIT him one second, but If we don't
haf you along our army vhas licked
in no time. | shall hire some wagons
to take along beer for you, und when
we get to Cuba we shall capture a
whole brewery Maybe dot beer ,has
not always ice-cold, und maybe he vhas
not der best brand, but we shall do
der best we can. l like you to be here
tomorrow morning at ten o'clock und
put your name down. More ash two
hoonered men are waiting to see what
you vhill do, und you must not stop
dot war any longer"
When ] goes home / shump oop und
down like II boy, und make speech
und tell eaferbody vhas off to Cuba
next day. 1t vhas some glorious times
for two hours, den dot bologna man
comes around und says:
Carl Dunder, if 1 vhas sooch brave
man ash You l gif all my sausage fac
tory"
Dot pleases me und I smile.
"If you go by dot war we shall haf
Cuba in one week"
Dot tickles me all oafer.
you will sooch hero be as neffer
vhas, and you shall come home to be
president of dot United States. How
ever, / like 10 ask you one question.
You vhas n man who eats butter on
your bread. If you don't haf some
butter you can't eat, und you vhas so
mad you broke all der dishes. You had
better 80 buck und ask dot captain how
it yhas."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-19
Good Winter Reading

For farmers in the Easteen States is
now being distributed by the Chica go,
Milwaukee g. st. Paul R'y, free of charge
to those who will send their address to
H. F. Hunter, immigration Agent for
South Dakota, Room 5G5, Old Colony
Bldg. Chicago, Ill.
The finely illustrated pamphlet THE
Sunshine State )" and other publications
of interest 10 all seeking New Homes in
the most fertile section of the West will
serve to entertain and instruct every
farmer dnring the long evenings of the
winter months. Remember, there is no
oharge-address as above, Dec 81
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-19
ST HAF MORE AS SIX FLAGS OUT"

about your headaches? Two times a
week for 20 years you haf sooch
headaches dot you haf to go to bed
und sleep l,etle. Nopody init head
ache can do some fighting. / guess it
was better If you see about her right
apiiay."
Vhell, dot vhas so, und l goes by
Capt. Roedecker und tells him. He
don't like it at first, but by und by he
gays IL vhas nll right. Dot army needs
ms 80 bad dot 1 may so to sleep When
my headache comes, und doctor shall
20 along und make it all right. Dot
makes me feel good again. All der
vfiay home / vhas cheering for Bunker
Hill und some patriots und l hang out
two more flags und set up dot beer FOR
der crowd. Der old womans don't say
nnttings to me, but by und by dot
shoemaker comes in und looks around
und softly says:
"Carl Dunoer, I belief you vhas an
awful fighter, und you vhas in your
grave before you gil oop, but l like to
tell you something. Eafery day for ten
years you must take some clam broth.
u vhas by der DOCTORS orders. und it
nuakes your stomach right. If you
20 in der army how vhas it? I vhas
I'm der Sherman army seven years, und
rdout see no clam broth. If you can't
<aahe some clans along NIT you it
vhas death IN two weeks"
Dst vhas so, und When belief can't
70 to war vhas almost crying about
tt ] goes 10 Capt. Roedecker und
tAIls him, und for two minutes he
a~ears Mt me like some pirates. Den
he feels peter und says he shall haf
e0 fix 1t oop nit der sheneral. He can't
go TO Cuba mitout me, und he Will
hire man to bring clans along. When
he speaks like dot to me tears vhas
In my eyes und take him by der hand
und says:
Capt. Roedecker, maybe I vhas
le$fle particular, but it shall be all
right in der end. I shall do sooch aw-
AL fighting in Cuba dot nopody else
vhas in IT,"
When ] goes home vhas a happy
man und makes sooch noise dot der
police come along und vhas going to
arrest me. i haf more ash six flags
ont. und gif AWAY whole keg of
beer- In one day more shall enlist.
vlien dot cooper man comes in to see
me. he vhas good man und like
bim. He don't say nottings for a good
while. und den he speaks to me:
Carl Dunder, you vhas going avhay
to be a soldier und die for America
hut | don't like you to die too quick.
Maybe you shall have a feather bed,
. doctor und claI1s, but how yhas it
shout beer? For 20 years you drink
len glasses day. Can man be some
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-19

1t vhas all right about feather beds
und pillows und clans und beer, but if
l don't get some butter it vhas no use.
l goes back to Capt. Roedecker und
says how it vhas, und he shumps oop
and waves his sword und says:
Carl Dunder, you shall stay right
home und keep saloon!"
"But like to go to war"
"Neffer shall l take you! You vhas
tco particular for an American hero.
If gif you butter you vhill come back
und want brass bedstead, Persian
rug, a big looking-glass und pail OF
ice cream. like TO oblige you, because
you vhas brafe man, but it vhas too
much. Go home und don't come to me
any more"
Und so / goes back home und vhas
knocked oudt. Dot war vhas not fol
me. l vhas ready to die for America
but like to die my own way und lik,
some shentlemens.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-19
M'KINLEY'S SCOTCH ANCESTRY
Traced Back Through Thirty-Four
Gen enerntions-Nnme Should Be
Spelled macKinIay.

Rev, Ralph E. MacDufF, one of the
delegates to the Episcopal convention
at Washington, which has just ad-
journed, has looked up the ancestry of
President Mckinley, and finds it pure
Scotch. After following the family for
"a generations, from the year 834,
through the Clans MacDuff and Mac
intosh, to the Clan MacKinla. he con-
cludes that, although the ancestor in
the line, James MacKinlay, went to the
north of Ireland, whence his son en-
igrated to America before the revolu-
tionary war, there is no apparent trace
Of Celtic blood, the family tree show
ing clear Gaelic strain. DR.. MacDuff
declares that the presidents name
should be spelled MacKinlay, the E
having been introduced by James Nc
Kinley. the north of Ireland trooper,
who came to this country.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-19
THE CREEK INDIANS.
Dissatisfied with Their Treatment
They Propose TO Establish
Mexican Colony,

Dissatisfied with the provisions of a
law enacted by the last session of con-
gress which will destroy the tribal gov
ernment the Indians of the Creek ma
tion are about to remove to Mexico.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Ryan when asked If the government had
taken any steps toward assisting these
Indians in leaving the country replied
that IL was matter with which the
government had nothing to do. The
Indians are free to go il they choose
and the government would not regret
their departure, as they are an expense
and trouble to the government and the
white people living near their reserva-
tions. The object of the law enacted
by the last congress is to break up all
tribal governments and gradually
merge the Indians into the body po-
litic and in time make them citizens.
Indians of the Greek nation do not
take kindly to this project and have
lands for a new reservation for the
tribe.
Although the government will not
interpose any obstacles, their depar-
ture is long way in the future unless
the Greeks surrender their lands to
the secretary of the interior and
leave empty handed. Their lands are
held in common and before individual
Indians can realize on them congress
will have to allot the land in severalty.
Then the Indians can dispose of their
holdings and with the proceeds leave
the country.
Secretary Ryan says the Creeks are
at liberty to go when they please, and
the government would be glad to solve
the whole veXatious Indian problem so
easily.