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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-06-23
UNITED STATES CAVALRY CAMP. TAMPA FLA.

tion of $50,0OO,0O0 "for the national de-
Tense" On March s the bill was passed
by the house of representatives., and on
March 9 lit was passed by the senate
without debate. The people were impa-
tient because it was not until April 5
that Consul-General Lee was recalled,
and it was rot until April 10 that he left
Havana, On the following day, April
IL, President Mckinley asked the con-
gress for authority to intervene in Gu.
ba. 1t was NOT until April 10 that the
congress passed the Intervention reso-
lutions.
Still the people were impatient, al
though war was coming on fast enough.
On April 20 an ultimatum was sent to
Spain. On April 81 Spain gave Minister
Woodford his passports. On April 22
the blockade of Cuban ports was pro-
claimed. On April 20 the president
called for $4,000 volunteers. On April
25 a state of war was declared by con-
gress to have existed from April q, and
on April 81 Matanzas was bombarded.
Still the people were Impatient until
news came that on May 1 Commodore
Dewey had attacked and completely de-
stroyed the Spanish feet in the harbor
of Manila, on the Philippine islands.
Then the people began to feel that a
state of war actually existed and that
the administration at Washington in
tended to prosecute the war with vigor.
But still the cry of ION to Cuba" was
continued in many sources. No atten-
ton was paid to the cry by the admin
istration, because the president and
others clothed with responsibility as
well as authority determined that there
should be no mistakes made which
could be avoided Gen. Miles authorized
an interview in which he said: Il have
never sacrificed the men under my COM
mand, and do not propose to subject
them to any unnecessary risks in the
present campaign. No officer is fit for
a command who would needlessly risk
the life of a single soldier, either from
disease or from the bullets of the enc
my" He did not intend to send soldiers
to Cuba prematurely, to die of yellow
fever and other climatic diseases, with
out firing shot at the enemy. He was
right.
No other nation in the world could
have enlisted, mustered, armed,
equipped and sent to the field an army
of more than quarter of million of
men in one month. Moreover, no other
nation could have been able to arouse it,
self from the peaceful slumbers of a
whole generation and equipped itself
for war on sea as we'll as on land in such
a short space of time. By reviewing the
events of the recent past we cannot but
be impressed with the greatness and
grandeur of the institutions which were
so sincerely and impressively lauded by
Abraham Lincoln on the Gettysburg
the institutions of a govern
ment of the people, by the people and
for the people; government which
shall not fade from the earth, hut which
shall grow and expand, carrying with
it the gospel of self-government unto
all of the nations of the world.
SMITH D. FRY.
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Dowell, was ordered forward before it
was prepared TO move; long before it
was in condition to cope with the bril-
liant generals of the confederacy. The
result was inevitable. The army did not
go ION to Richmond" very far until it
ran up against a 'Stonewall," very
steep Hill and an invincible Long
street," and the army came streaming
back into Washington defeated, de-
moralized, panic-stricken. After that
experience the administration became
deaf to public clanor, and took time
for the accomplishment of its pur-
poses.
Many men and newspapers of the
present day howled and bayed and
yeiped ceaselessly: ION to Cuba" but
the Mckinley administration has calm
ly taken it's time to prepare for an on
ward movement which should surely
not be failure, much less a disaster.
Consequently weeks have passed away
while the volunteer army has been sue
Gessfully mustered and modified.
1t is a common error for sanguine
men to underestimate the strength of
the enemy. Many of US now living re-
member that Gen. Sherman was called
crazy man because he said that not
less than 100000 soldiers would be re-
quired for federal operations in the
Mississippi valley. The people who
called Sherman crazy within Two years
saw that it required more than 100000
men to make any Roadway at all against
the well-drilled, well-otficered, brave
and efficient soldiers of the south.
Maj. Gen. Miles, commanding the
army, has been severely criticised in
Washington and throughout the coun-
try for not having marched ION to Gu
ba" as soon as war was declared. No
body went so far as to call him crazy,
but by many he was deemed inefficient.
None of these things moved him. He
foresaw the strong Notifications and
earthworks, defended by desperate
sodiery of Spain, under command of a
shrewd leader, and he would not risk
an invasion of Cuba by force which
might be defeated.
The newspaper writer's and the men
in our cities, towns, villages and ham
lets who have joined in unreasoning de-
mands for an invasion of Cuba evidently
have not thought of what the result of
disaster to our army would mean. In
the first place, a small army landed in
Cuba would have been attacked by the
combined strength of Gen. Blanco, and
they would have been sent marching
over roads containing concealed mines
of deadly explosives. There would have
been great danger every hour and every
and the likelihood of complete
destruction and humiliation.
Success for the Spanish forces would
have meant the capture of our arms, am
munitiOn and food supplies; enough to
have lasted the Spaniards long time.
But, worse than that, Spanish victory
would have warranted Spain in request
ing European aid TO prevent the con-
quest of her Atlantic possessions. More
over, it has been well known that Aus
tria and France would have been glad
Of an excuse Tor interference. Conse-
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WARTIME POKER.
Tho Queer Trick of Losing Player
Gchres the Winners Away
from the Money.

The trade Of killing men, which is the
chief end of war, so far from depressing
soldiers, seems to actually enliven
them, causing return to the pranks
of their schoolboy days. This has been
The history of war in all ages, and many
of the best stories in the world are
those of military life. Sam Williams,
the old-timc editor of the Chicago News
paper Union, tells Of an amusing incl
dent that occurred in Mississippi while
he was a soldier in the confederate
army.
About mile from the camp poor
man suddenly died. lie had lived alone
in a little cabin, and there was no one to
bury him, Learning of this, Sam and
three other members of his company
obtained leave of absence to go and per-
form the last sad rites. They arrived at
the cabin about nightfall and placed the
body in rude coffin they had brought
with them, With something of the
sentiment Of civil life, they decided to
keep watch and vigil beside the coffin
until morning, as their leave of absence
extended until the following day, They
had brought some candles with them,
one Of which, fitted in a tin candlestick,
Swas soon burning upon the coffin.
Time soon began to drag little
heavily and one of the party suggested
IA game of poker. Sam, as he tells the
story, objected to this, but the ma
Jority ruled, and with beans for chips
THE cards were soon Tipping merrily
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Fenr In DnttIe.

when you hear a soldier say that he
would as soon fight as eat, or that he
can go into a battle without feeling the
least bit afraid, just present my COM
plments and tell him for me that he is
either a fool or liar" said Gen. Sheri-
dan, after listening to an officer boast
ing about his GOODNESS and bravery. 81
have been in as many battles as any of
them, perhaps, and am not ashamed
to say that l was scared every time,
and sometimes my knees almost
knocked together. The truly brave
man is man of sense, and every SEN
sible man is more or less afraid in the
presence of danger. Wouldn't want to
command body Of men who had no
fear, because they would be forever
running into danger. Give me the man
who is afraid, but has the nerve to con-
troll his fear. He will do his duty well,
and do it without exposing himself un-
necessarily."-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat
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upon the coffin, there being no table in
the room.
"The second candle was less than an
inch long" said Sam, when the great
event of the night occurred The game
had been a warm one and several hun
dred dollars lay upon the coffin. 1t was
confederate money, worth only small
fraction of its face value, but it was all
we had and was priced accordingly.
The great event was jackpot of sur
prisiBg proportions, the climax of the
long play. The cards had been dealt,
and several preliminary raises submit
ted to, when l noticed large beetle,
fully an inch and a half in length,
crawling toward me on the floor Stoop-
ing down, without attracting attention,
4 secured the insect Just then I re-
'ceived card, which CHANGED to be dia-
mond, instead of the heart 1 needed to
make me an ace flush. had not money
enough before me to bluff the others
, out, but felt that 1 could not afford to
lose the pot In moment my plan was
matured. Under the preteXt of snuffing
the candle, I placed the huge bug under
the candlestick. In the meantime the
betting was high, raise swiftly follow
ing raise.
81 wonder what the dead man would
say to this remarked, in sepulchral
voice, as Threw in my hand. He might
give You boys pointer if he wanted to-.
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The hest Paying nnclsn.

The pure breeds of ducks are kept
more profitably than the puddle-ducks,
as they can be made to thrive without
providing ponds. The breeds best
known and which are the most popular
are the Picking, Aylesbury, Rouen and
Cayuga, the first two breeds being
white in color, the Cayuga being black,
while the Rouen has plumage of sew
eralcolors. These breeds grow 10 large
size, and individual specimens have
reached ten pounds in weight. AS they
grow rapidly they reach the market at
an early age.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-06-23
Care of Turkey Chicks.

Little turkeys need no food for the
first "a hours, and then should be fed
something light and nutritious. They
require considerable care for the first
eight or ten weeks. Some growers CON
fine the hen turkey in a movable slat
crate the first few days and allow the
little ones full liberty, Others instead
of continuing the hen, tie one of her
feet to a peg driven in the ground, An
other plan, quite generally followed, is
to put the little turkeys inside a large
triangular pen and give the hen her lib
erty. The pen is moved frequently to
fresh ground. When the little ones can
jump over the 12-inch board they wan
der at full liberty with the hem Rural
World
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-06-23
BANK POULTRY HOUSE.
Most Comfortable Quarters
That Can BE Built.

The poultry house shown herewith is
built into bank and faces south, The
wall up to the surface is through stone.
There is no door at the east end to let
in the cold, the door being on the south,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-06-23
RANK POULTRY HOUSE.

where the roof is cut as for dormer
window. One enters and passes through
to the back side of the house, where
there is walk behind the pens. Such
a house can be made any length, keep
ing the pens equal in number on each
side of the doorway. This arrange
ment probably gives the warmest poul-
try house that can be built.-Orange
Judd Farmer.
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IN V,L ~
THE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS.

A cheer and salute for the admiral and
here's to the cap..sa bold,
And never forget the commodore's debt
when the deeds Of might are told
They stand to the deck through the battles
wreck when the great shells roar and
ScreeCh---
And never they fear when the foe Is near to
practice what they preach;
Sue on with your hat and three times three
for Columblas true blue sons,
3he men below who batter the foe-the men
behind the guns!
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He Was n Fighter.

Nellie Grant was undergoing an ex-
animation when she was child at
school, and under the question: "What
is your fathers occupation?" she wrote
simply "He fights. Iowa State Reg.
later.
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Oh. light and merry Of heart are they when
they swing into port once more,
when, with more than enough Of the
'green-backed stuff" they start for
their leave o'-shore;
And you'd think, perhaps, that the blue
bloused chaps who loll along the street
Are II tender bit, with salt on It, for some
fierce "mustache" to eat
Some warrior bold, with straps Of gold,
who daz2los and fairly stuns
The modest worth Of the sailor boys-the
lads who serve the guns.
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oh, wen they know how the cyclones blow
that they loose from their cloud OF
death,
And they know is heard the thunder-word
their fierce ten-incher saith!
The steel decks rock with the lightning
shock, and shake with the great re-
coil,
And the sea grows red with the blood OF
the dead and reaches for It's spoil
but not till the foe has gone below or turns
his prov and runs,
Shall the voice of peace bring sweet release
TO the men behind the guns!
John James Rooney, In N. Y. Sun,
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but say not a word til the shot Is heard
that tells the tight Is on,
TIL the long deep roar grows more and
more from the ships of "Yauk" and
"Don."
Till over the deep the tempests sweep Of fire
and bursting shell,
And The very air Is a mad despair in the
ihroes OF n living hell;
Then down, deep down. In the mighty ship,
unseen by The midday suns,
You'll find the chaps who are giving the
raps-the men behind the guns
The Anaconda standard., 1898-01-09

I T.. Morris. living on Franklin avenue
at Columbus, was out with his air gun
looking for sparrows, which have come
to be regarded as the legal prey of the
small boy The lad noticed that on the
limb of a tree not far from the ground
was perched what at first he thought
was one bird and then concluded must
be two.
There were two distinctive heads, but
look as hard as he might, the boy could
only discover one body. Convinced that
he had found curiosity, a freak of
nature, he determined to get the bird
! in some fashion, and succeeded in
bringing it down with a weIl-aimed
shot from his air gun.
The queer bird was taken to Mr..
Oliver Davie, the well-known natural
list, taxidermist and author. Mr.. Davie
has made u very careful examination
of the bird and this is what he says
concerning it:
ION skinning and dissecting the
bird it was found that the right-hand
head was connected with the left at
the base of the skull. and at this point
the windpipe also joined. Both heads
held a pair Of fully developed eyes,
each a tongue and one skull contained
as much brain matter as did the other.
I The left-hand head was Joined to the
| main cervical vertebrae belonging to
! the body; the body of the bird being
| considerably larger than that of the
ordinary English sparrow.
TT is my belief that both brains
operated in unison, that is To say, they
\ had no conflicting thoughts, or they
may be called one brain. 1t is evident
| that the heads interfered with one an
other considerably from the fact that
it was impossible to make the feath-
ers of the heads lie down perfectly
smooth as in ordinary cases; they were
twisted and curled as shown in the il
lustration. In the feathers of the left
hand neck there was a distinct hollow
| where the rght-hand head rested.
What a pity that this bird had not
been captured alive. 1t is not uncom-
mon to hear of double-headed pigs,
kittens, calves and other animals.
| which all die young, but this probably
| stands alone as an ornithological Won
der. The bird in this country is COM
| monty called the English sparrow, but
this is a misnomer, for it inhabits the
whole of Europe and its proper name is
house sparrow
The Anaconda standard., 1898-01-09
STRANGE CASE
OF "A NEW york
CHINAMAN

NJ ID. OConnell. solicitor of the treas
ury, was recently consulted by the de-
partment in relation TO the case of a
Chinaman living in New York, and most
peculiarly situated. Indeed, the case
was different from any that had ever
come up for settlement
The name of this Oriental was con-
cealed from the officials at Washing
ton. His case was laid before the treas
ury department by Seth b. Robinson of
New York, who had interested himself
in the case. The Chinaman is, and for
many years has been, member OF the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church sun
day school. When he Joined the school
he was a merchant, member of the
firm of Hong, Chung & Co. In the fall
of 1891 he went to China and he re-
turned in December 1894 Meanwhile
the firm of which he was a member had
got into difficulties; and it was finally
sold out. In the spring of 1895 the MEM
Der in question ceased to be mer-
chant and became a laborer. Following
the tendency of his race in America, he
took to washing clothes.
During his absence in China the ex-
clusion laws of May 5, 1892, requiring
registration within one year, and the
act of Nov. 3. 1898. requiring registra-
ton within six months, were enacted: !:
and before his return the time during
which he could have obtained certifi-
cate, IL he had applied for one as Ia
The Anaconda standard., 1898-01-09
JACK TAR'S
REMARKABLE ME-
CHANlCAL EAR,

The navy department has been led, re-
Gently, to look with favor upon de-
vice for ovefcoming one of the principal
perils of the deep, and 1t is probable
that our battleships and cruisers will be
equipped Herewith in the near future
1t has received a trial on several yeS-
sells Of the navy, among them the crack
battleship Indiana, and the results have
been satisfactory.
The instrument in question is called
eophone, which is corruption OF
echophone-a machine for hearing
echoes, or rather for determining the
direction of the sound. Steering by echo
is a method long in use. In the fogs
that descend upon the New England
coast, 1t would hardly be possible to
find a way in safety among the innum-
cradle islands, fringed with dangerous
lodges, except by needing the warning
given by the echo of the whistle from
the naked rocks or the green walls of
spruce trees along the shores.
Echo, however. has from the earliest
times been famed as an elusive nymph.
She is great ventrlioquist, as poor
Jack" has often learned to his cost. Her
voice may seem to come from a dozen
different directions, or she may lie about
her lurking place with the most definite
malice.
1t was to reduce her doings to some
order that the eophone was invented.
Its first use was in locating icebergs. An
iceberg gives back a strong echo, but it
is often bewildering in fog. A mariner
knows that an iceberg is near, but just
where 1t lies is beyond his power to
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may thoroughly appreciate how diff
cult it is to make ones way over the
| ice with the lower limbs in such a
position as pictured. Again, let any
one who thinks it an easy matter, take
a cane, a golf stick or plain stick,
hold it in both hands, just as the man
| in the picture is holding the golf stick
then brace the shoulders back and try
| to skate.
And yet the art of locomotion over
| the ice according to the new fad may
be acquired, and perhaps one can learn
| to move about gracefully. The atti-
| tude shown in the picture is the most
| difficult one and is selected for illus
tration because of it's seeming impossi-
| bilty. 1t can only be acquired by de-
| grees and one should begin in this
| way:
First, place the right foot at the left
| of the left foot bearing the weight on
| the toe. Then try to maintain equili-
| brium and make slight progress at the
| same time. If the beginner finds this
| impossible, then take two or three
| strokes in the ordinary fashion, and
| suddenly place the right foot in the po-
sition hitherto described. The momen-
| tum acquired by the several strokes
| will give the beginner an opportunity
| to experiment on balancing in the new
attitude while moving.
From this time on the pupil must ad-
vance by degrees until the position
| shown in the picture is at
| tanned. 1t will be found impossible,
however. to learn to skate in the new
| way and at the same time learn to bal
| ance ones self with the shoulders
thrown back as are those of the skater
in the picture. So the way to do is to
acquire the new method of skating first
and then gradually accustom ones self
to the upright position.
1t were we'll if possible to learn all
positions at first without the use of the
stick. for holding a stick in the posi-
tion indicated is more help to the skater
than it might seem to be. To learn
without the stick gives one more self
confidence, an absolute essential in cor
rectly mastering the intricacies of the
| new fad.
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milk of various wild beasts. With this
end in view they have hoped to enlist
the cooperation of the superintendents
of geological gardens and menageries
throughout the country
Professor Russell said in reference to
the present brief notice of his and DR..
Babcock's work that he hoped Ii would
attract the attention of persons having
wild beasts under their care. and thus
secure for the experiments the samples
of milk which they desire.
1t is curious to reflect that the inves-
tigators referred to may have some
bearing on the strange case of the
woman who lived after her stomach
had been remoyed--a case reported
from Europe and widely discussed in
the papers of this country recently.
She was undoubtedly fed with milk,
and If 1t contains IT'S own oigestlns
fluids, the case would be, in a measure,
exn1DinQd
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points directly to the object which is
emitting a sound, an equal number of
sound waves will enter each of the re-
ceivcrs, but if it is turned in any other
direction one of the receivers will be
shielded by the vane, and Will get less
sound than the other.
From each receiver a tube extends to
an ear of the operator. He hears at
first a relatively weak sound with the
other. Then he turns the instrument
about until the sounds are equal, and
a compass reading gives him the bear
ing. which he transmits to the officer in
charge of the wheel.
Not only can the echo from an ice
berg be heard by the eophone, but the
ripping of water against it, though
that would be quite inaudible by the
unaided ear. The use of the instrument
in channel marked by bell buoys, au-
tomato whistles and other devices is
obvious. Even more important is the
prevention of collision. How hard it is
to locate the feeble horn of the fisher
man amid the fogs of the Grand Banks
no one can declare in language that
overstates the fact; and the poor fisher
man can do nothing to protect himself.
He is lost in an instant If the great
ocean liner, in whose path he must often
lie for days, sweeps down upon him.
The revenue marine service under the
treasury department was quicker than
the navy to avail itself of the eophone.
Nearly all the cutters carry such instru-
| ments. and they have proved to be of
| the greatest service so that the deter
! mination of the navy department to use
! them on the enormously expensive war
ships is q matter of Importance to the
nation.