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The National tribune., 1898-07-07
PERSONAL.

Just think of it. you old coffee coolers,
who used to hear your work mapped out for
you in orders read to start the next morn
ing, with three days rations and 40
rounds of ammunition.'' The boys started
for the Philippines with $50 days ratiOns
and 200 rounds of ammunition apiece.
Fortunately, they did not have to carry 1t
on their bending backs.
The volunteers in the Naval Reserves
service as they could have anticipated.
The New York boys are on the Yankee,
the Michigan on the Yosemite, and the
Marylanders on the Dixie. These have
had their share in the lively times around
Guantanamo Bay, and now they are to
| Join Commodore Watson's squadron for
dash on the Spanish coast.
| A unique volunteer in the present war
| is Prof James Tat Hatfield, of the North
western University, at Evanston, ILL.,, who
| is one of the ablest philolOgists and writer's
| in the world. He is Jew, and SO years
old He obtained years leave OF alb
senee from the University, and enlisted in
the Illinois Naval Reserves, and now
4
and polishing bright-work on the auxiliar
cruiser Yale, as an ordinary seaman, at
| the pay of s19 a month.
His old comrades of the 18th Me-, OF
which he was the honored Colonel, pre-
scented Gen. Charles p. MattOcks with an
| elegant sword belt and sash. at Portland.
| Me-. June 20, lust before the General started
TO his command at Chickamauga. The
citizens of Portland dded to the gift fine,
thoroughbred Kentucky horse, with the
trappings prescribed for Brigadier-Gen"
Yral.
Stephen E. Chandler, Quartermaster-
Sergeant, 9th n. Y. Cav, now living at
Minneapolis, Mimi, has been granted
medal of honor by the Secretary of War for
gallantry in action. The particular service
recognized by the War Department occurred
at Amelia Springs, Va, April ), 1865.
Under the severe fire of the enemy, with
his regiment in retreat, COmrade Chandler
went between the lines to the assistance
of a wounded and helpless cOmrade. The
soldier ne rescued was Eugene Van Buren,,
OF Gaylord, Mich.
Conrad, Rufus Herbert Lucore, of W.
B. Scott Post, Tonawanda, n. Y, and a
resident of Penfield, Pa, is claimed to be
the largest veteran now living. He comes
from pioneer family OF Pennsylvanians,
and his father and grandfather were SOL
diers. He had four brothers In the Union
army. He enlisted Sept Is, 1861, in the
S4th Pa, and was then six feet highs
weighed IT'S pounds, and could turn
handspring either way. He is now 90 years
old, and weighs $50 pounds.
The National tribune., 1898-07-07

WE are remembering the Maine right
along, and the Spaniards do not seem to
be in any danger Of forgetting that
splendid ship.
LET it be remembered that Santiago
was the place where 56 Americans OF
the Virginius crew were murdered with
all manner of brutal accompaniment.
They were murdered in separate squads,
from day to day, with insults and
cruelties, in the presence of the fashion
able people of Santiago, going to the
spectacles as to bull-fghts, and applaud
ing every insult and cruelty, and while
the Spanish diplomats were palavering
and lying to US about sparing the mems
lives.
The National tribune., 1898-07-07
PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

AS we 60 to press-Tuesday noon,
July 5-the capture of Santiago seems
only a matter of few hours BY q
series of operations of brilliant ability,
marked by splendid fighting on the
part of his men, Gen. Shafter has, in al
astonishingly short time, established his
lines about the doomed city, and brought
it under the fire of bis guns. The de-
struction of the Spanish feet has left
our ships free to aid him with their
powerful ornaments, and the old Capt.
tai of Cuba is within our grasp.
Our troops are at last arriving at
Manila, and the physical control of the
islands is rapidly passing into our hands.
The Star Spangled Banner will, in a
few days, be waving in undisputed
sovereignty over several thousaiu VI Tue
fairest islands in the Sunrise Seas, and
an oriental empire in extent. The fall
of Porto Rico will follow close on the
heels of that of Santiago, and the eek
pulsion of the Spanish authority from
Cuba " will be rapidly accomplished.
Some glimmerings of reason and a
desire for peace at any price appear In
Spain. The events of the coming week
will greatly strengthen these, and we
need not be surprised any day at re-
ceiving her submission to the inevitable
The National tribune., 1898-07-07

OHE HlFPED OUT A LUNG hNlFE- -
"WelI, Sophrony, let me present you with
half o. this plug o. famous terbacker" He
drew his jacllniie, and sliced the plug in two.
Take it with my warlnest respects. Here
comes my partner with some coffee I've sent
him for, and which | want you to have 1t
is not rs much as I'd like to give you, but
| it's all that l have. Some other day you
shall have much more"
Claws sakes,'' she bubbled, as the fragrant
odor of the coffee reached her nose, and she
hefted the package. g Yo' air jest the incest
man ever did see in all my born days.
didn't s'pose thar wuz so nice man, or sich a
good lookin' one, in the hull Yankee army;
or in the Confederit either, fur that matter
But, then, yo' amt no real, blue bellied
Yankee"
''No, indeed, Sophrony. / never saw New
England in all my life, nor did any o. my
people They wuz from Virginny" (about
500 miles, as near as kin calculate, he added
to himself, as mental pOulticel.
"Say, Mister, why don't yo' leave the
Yankee army ?"
Cant" said Shorty, despairingly. eff
/ try to git back home the Provo's'll ketch
me. If 90 the other way the rebels'll ketch
me. Pm betwixt the devil and the deep
sen.
She sat and smoked for several minutes in
sembance of deep thought, and spat with
careful aim at one after another of the promi-
nent weeds around. Then she said:
eff yo' want t splice with me l kin take
keer OF yo'. I've helped run off several o.
the boys who wuz sick o. this Abolition war;
Thar's two o. them now with Bill Philips's
gang maxim it hot for the Yankee trains and
camps. They're maxim more'n they ever did
The National tribune., 1898-07-07
LOSS OF COMRADES.

The thinning roll Of the veterans Of
the rebellion was sadly reduced by the
fighting around Santiago. Among those
so far known to have been killed were
Col. Chas. A. Wikoff, 22d U. S., who
enlisted in April, 1861, as private in
Co. H, 1st Pa. He was afterward given
a commission in the 10th L. S., and
was brevetted for gallantry at Shiloh,
Chickamauga and Mission Ridge.
Lieut.-Col. John II. Patterson, 22d
q. S., also enlisted at the beginning OF
the war, but soon got Lieutenants
commission in the 18th Z. S. He re-
ceived medal of honor for gallantry
in the Wilderness.
Col. John M. Hamilton, 9th L. S.
Cav, enlisted in the beginning of the
war in the SD n. Y, and served two
years in that regiment, when he wa:
given a commission in the Regular
Army.
The National tribune., 1898-07-07

81 wonder what has become of our Jew
spy, Shorty ?" said 81. as he and Shorty sat
on the bank of Duck River and watched the
rebel pickets lounging under>the beeehes on
the other side I'VE haint heard nothin' OF
him for more'n month now"
He's probably hung" answered Shorty.
:" He was entirely too smart TO live long. A
man can't go on always polin' his finger
into rattlesnake's jaw without gittin' it
nipped sooner or later
"I'm looking fur man called ST Klcgg, -
they heard behind them. Looking around
they saw the tall, gaunt woman whom they
had turned back from entering the camp a
few days before, under the belief that she was
trying to smuggle INF whisky.
''What III the world can she want o. me ? "
thought 81; but he answered,
That's my name. 'Whapll you have? ="
A flash of recognition filed at once her
faded blue eyes. Without taking her pipe
from between her yellow, snaegly teeth she
delivered volley OF tobacco-juice at an I'M
offending morning-glory, and snapped out:
80, y'r him, air We? Yr the drafted
measley sapsucker that bounced me bout
takin' likker inter camp What bizniss wuz
hit o. your'n whether | TUX likker in or not ?
Jest wanted t. be smart, didn't ye? Jest
wanted t. interfere with lone, lOrn wilder
lady maxim honest Twin for herself and 10
children. My ole man ketehed the black
ager layin' out in tine brush to dodge the
conscripters. 1t went plumb to his heart
an killed him. He want no great loss, no
how fur he'd eat more in week than he'd
kill, ketch, or raise in a year. When his
The National tribune., 1898-07-07

DEwEY's AND SIMPSONS victories
must be very depressing to French,
German and Russian naval aspirations.
For years they have been measuring up
against England, and quietly calcu-
lating what combinations they could
make to overthrow British sea-power.
France, particularly, has been building
navy which she hoped, in spite of past
experience, might cope with England's.
She has spent immense sums upon it,
and relative to the interests it has to
guard, it is larger and stronger than
England's. But SPANS experience re-
iterates the old story that it is not so
much the ships as the men on them who
win victories. Had the Americans
been on Spanish ships and the Spanish
on the American there would have
been a very different story to tell.
While the French are very superior to
the Spanish. they are of the same Latin
blood, and there is just enough SINH
larity between the two peoples to hint
at the success French ships would have
in encountering with Anglo-Saxons,
either sailing under the Star Spangled
Banner or the cross of St. George. Ger
many is likely to have the same sort OF
chill. The Germans have never been
maritime nation. A German war
vessel has never fired hostile shot, and
Germans may well have solicitous
thoughts as to the result of struggle
with men who have shown themselves
past masters in the art of naval war
fare. Russia is in the same situation.
She has never actually fought anybody
at sea but the Turks. The wiser among
these peoples are very likely to begin
thinking that their dreams of sea-power
are vain illusions, and that they had
better save the money they have been
spending on navies and resign the
dominion of the sea to the English.
Speaking races.
The National tribune., 1898-07-07

AS Commander-in-C of the fleet
off Santiago Admiral Sampson is en-
titled to the credit of the glorious vic.
tory achieved. The real work was
done, however, by the squadron under
command of Commodore Schley-the
Brooklyn, Oregon, Massachusetts, Iowa.
Indiana, Texas, and Gloucester. II
was Commodore Schley who bottled up
Cervera in Santiago, and it was Schley
who wanted to so in and finish him up
Dewey fashion. 1t is grand that Schley
can have the honor and satisfaction OF
the utter smashing Of bis enemy in such
q gloriously-American way.
The National tribune., 1898-07-07
CONE to think about it, we are

COME to think about it, we are in
very good shape tq set up business as
"a world-power" COVE have nearly
S0,000,O00 people under our flag, and
they are all intelligent, progressive, we'll
developed men and women. Great
Britain has but 100000 in the three
Kingdoms, with 100000 more in
Canada, and 100000 more in Au-
stralia, New Zealand, etc. These are
first-class people, who compare favor
ably with our own.da Germany has 81 )
75S,364 high-grade people, or about
two-thirds as many as we. France has
38,218,903 people, or about half as
many as we. Austro-Hungary has Al
35S,SS6 people, large proportion OF
them high-grade Germans and Hun
garians, but also large proportion dis
tinctly inferior to the French or Ger
man average. Italy has 30,913,663, a
minority Of them first-class, but the
majority decidedly inferior. Russia
claims 121 ,S61,761 people, but millions
of these are semi-barbarians and
nomads of Asia, and the average OF
those dwelling in Europe is below that
of any other Nation in Europe, even
Spain. The whole population Of
Europe, with all its mighty Empires, is
only 3S0,OOO,0OO, while we alone have
$4,000, 900, or more than one-fifth that
number, and the average American is
far more effective for all purposes than
the average European.
So why should We not be a world,
power?
The National tribune., 1898-07-07

PROBABLY nothing short of being
born over again will cure the Spaniard:
Of Boosting and lying. When the at
tack on Baiquiri began the commandment
at that place was writing to his superior
I" / am well fortified, and prepared to
resist all the forces the American pigs
can bring against ME"
At the sound of the cannon he sprane
up and went off, leaving the letter un.
finished.
The National tribune., 1898-07-07
PREFERENCES ron THE VETERANS.


The following bill, intended to give
the veterans thet real preference in pub
lie employment to Which they are right
fully entitled, has pnssed the Senate, and
is now before the HOUSE for action:
AN ACT
In reference to the civil service and appoint
mcnts hereunder. u
| Be enacted, Ttc., That in every Executive
| Department of the United States Govern
ment, and III each and every branch thereof,
whether reached by competitive or noncom-
petitve examinations under the civil service
laws lin which case the rules and regulations
affecting the same shall so provide), honor
ably discharged soldiers, sailors or marines,
who served as such between April II, 1861,
and Aug. 20, 1865, shall be certified and pre-
| ferred for appointment to and retention in
| employment in the public service, and for
promotion therein; age, loss of limb, or other
physical impairment which does not in fact
incapacitate shall not disqualify them, pro-
vided they possess the business capacity
necessary to discharge the duties of the posi-
ton involved. And persons thus preferred
shall not he removed from their positions ex-
| cept for good cause, upon charges and after a
hearing.
Sec 2. That all laws or parts of laws in
consistent with the provisions of this Act are
hereby repealed.
This bill, which will remedy many OF
the evils of which the veterans all over
the country have bitterly and just
ly complained, was prepared by the
New York comrades, with JOS W.
Kay at the head, and by good and hard
work they have gotten it through the
Senate, and favorable report on it from
the Civil Service Committee Of the
House.
1t certainly should pass that body
and become law. 1t will pass if the
comrades will interest themselves in it,
and insist upon their Representatives
voting for it. They should rouse them
selves to do this at once. Let every
man in the country who feels an interest
in it, and every one should, write at
once to his Representative asking in no
uncertain way that he do all that he can
to promote the passage of the bill.
The National tribune., 1898-07-07

AS was anticipated, our ships stopped
on their way to the Philippines, and casu-
ally added the Ladrone Islands to the
American domain, bringing the Spanish
Governor-General and his garrison to
Manila. There are II principal islands
in the Ladrones, but any number Of
smaller affairs, ranging all the way from
bare rocks, on which penguins roost, to
little islets of poetic loveliness. Alto.
gether, they stretch over 600 miles
with only $50 miles of area They
have about 100000 people of the usual
mongrel class of Spanish colonies
negrito natives at bottom, with all sorts
of admixtures with the Spanish blood
until at last the, full-blood Spaniard is
reached, who has come from Spain to
4 ~
squeeze a fortune out Of the people.
Probably our ships have also taken in
the Caroline Islands, which stretch for
$500 miles along the equator, and
number about 500 in all. Our mis-
sionaries had made some gratifying
Roadway in converting the natives, when
the Spaniards interferred, and practi.
cally expelled them in 1887. The Ger
mans tried to seize the Carolines and
Ladrones in 1885, but Spain protested
and England backed her up. The Pope
was called in to arbitrate. He gave the
Carolines and Ladrones to Spain, the
Gilbert Islands to England, and allow
ed Germany to have the Marshall
Islands.
The National tribune., 1898-07-07

THE Invincible Armada" which
Philip II. fitted out against England in
1888, and which represented the high
est point reached by Spanish naval
power, consisted of 129 fighting vessels,
carrying 1000 cannon, 5000 sailors,
and $4,000 soldiers. 1t was by far the
most powerful feet that the world had
ever seen assembled up to that day.
Yet the feet which Admiral Cervera
led into Santiago, and which now lies
In masses Of twisted and distorted iron
along the coral reefs, represented vastly
greater fighting power, as well as q
much larger expenditure Of money, than
the Invincible Armada. Each of the fou,
armored cruisers cost over 100000
and taken altogetherfully 100000
SPANS wealth must have been blown out
Of existence by the fierce American gun.
in the four hot hours the battle lasted
Still worse, SPANS naval prestige ha,
been eternally destroyed. She disap
pears from the arena of sea-power. And
Italy and France must feel that in some
way they fall with her. They have
been spending immense sums-far more
than they can afford-upon their nayies
but they can have little hope of con
tending with this new naval power
which simply sweeps the finest ships tina
can be built out Of existence, witt
hardly the loss of man on its side.
The National tribune., 1898-07-07

THE letter from Aguinaldo to AID
miral Dewey shows that practical, Ameri.
can civilization has already begun in
the Philippines. The insurgent leader
says that he has obeyed the Admiral,
instructions, and not killed his prisoners
but treated them deeently.
The National tribune., 1898-07-07

ADMIRAL Sampson is the son of a
man who used to earn his living by Jobs
of saving wood. The son seems to have
inherited the paternal propensity of
saying little and diligently saving
wood.
The National tribune., 1898-07-07
She Thought 1t Over.
Brooklyn Life.

Mrs. Mishaw-You praise yourself too
much, my dear. People would appreciate
you more, and would tell you so, if you
were to cultivate little modest reticenee.
Mr.. Mishaw-There's where you are ont.
did that for years, and nobody took any
notice of me but you.
The National tribune., 1898-07-07
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The National tribune., 1898-07-07

LINCOLN used to tell Stephen A.
Douglas that vermont was a good
State to emigrate FROM" 1t seems to
be also good State in which to raise
Admirals.
The National tribune., 1898-07-07

HAVE not the Spaniards something
more to say about the shameful lack of
drill and discipline ON board American
ships?
The National tribune., 1898-07-07

DEWEY was probably anxious to show
that he was as quick and hard striker
on the water as the famous old Yer
mont Brigade was on the land.
The National tribune., 1898-07-07

"THERE'LL be a Hot Time in the
Old Town Tonight seems to be rising
to the dignity of National air.
The National tribune., 1898-07-07

THE Star Spangled Banner in trl.
umph shall wave
Ger the land of the free and the
home of the brave;
Ger the isles of the sea, and the wide
oceans wave.
The National tribune., 1898-07-07

WASHINGTON, d. c., JULY Z, 1898.
The National tribune., 1898-07-07

ENTERED AT WASHINGTON rosToeros ssEoOADousss"
The National tribune., 1898-07-07

ITO be continued.l
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-13
LINDA DI CHAMoUNIX. Grand Italian Opera Sung by tht
 Ziliani Musical Society.

The Bush Street Theater walked from its long slumber last night to listen to Doni- zetti'S Linda di Chamounix." The the ater was filled with people fond of Italian opera and proud of the Ziliani Musical So- ciety. There were flowers for the favor ties and liberal rounds of applause.
 Mrs. Evelyn Winant Dichey, who played the title role, has very true, sweet soprano. Miss Lillian Wilson's voice is unusually full and strong, and musical, and she sang the famous contralto role charmingly. Alfred Borlini has ability as an actor. His Antonio was particular ly pleasing.
 The celebrated soprano aria in the first act, the duet between Antonio and the prefect, and the prayer finale were among the best numbers of the opera The chorus of fifty voices is well trained and effective, and Is unique among operatic choruses for it's fresh, pretty faces and unhackneyed interest in and enthusiasm for things musical and histrionic. There is good material in Professor Ziliani's society, which does credit to his train ing There are some members of the Linda al Chamounix" cast who are all most strong enough artistically to quit the amateur chrysalis. Persistent study and serious devotion to music would transform these. In time. into free winged, professional butterflies.
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-13
RED MEN ARE
 TO CELEBRATE Will Turn Out in the Fourth of July Parade One Thou
 sand Strong.
To Honor the Ffftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the
 Order.

The Improved Order of Red Men of San Francisco and Alameda and their aux Hilary, the ladies' branch, known as the Daughters of Pocahontas, are making ar arrangements for grand celebration on the Fourth of July in honor of this being the jubilee year of the order, 1t having been in existence fifty years.
 A short time since, at the instance of Montezuma Tribe No. n of this city, a call was issued for convention of dele gates from the tribes and councils of this city and those of Alameda County for the purpose of making arrangements for the celebration, and there was a good attendance at the meeting. A number of committees, each to perform certain functions in order to bring about the general result, were appointed, the fol- lowing named composing the general committee: c. F. Burgman, Mrs. Annie E. Bishop, H. T. Hut, w. J. Robinson, Frederick Brandt.
 At a subsequent meeting it was decided that the celebration should be a division of the Fourth of July parade and to be composed entirely of memDers of the or der. From present indications, based on promises made in tribes and councils, 1t is expected that the division will have in 1t 1000 Red Men. There will be floats on which will be presented historical scenes of the history of the North Amer ican Indians. There will be company of about one hundred members in Indian