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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-11

It's cleanliness. He said we had as
pretty, If not the prettiest camp in
Cuba. He found us little rusty
on our drilling RS we havn't done
much since coming to Cuba an ac-
count OF the heat.
Gen. Snyder, our brigade COM
mander, left for the United States
yesterday. He goes home on sick
Through, am informed. He is
quite old and in a few months he
will have reached the age limit and
will be permanently retired from
the service on -fourths pay.
Since Gen. Snyder left Col. Han
nah is in absolute control of the az.
fairs of the District of Sancti Spiri-
tus. AS governor of this large dis
trict he has his hands full and the
command of this detachment now
devolves upon Capt. Blair, the sen
ior line officer at this place.
The sick report Of the company is
growing. The following are now in
the hospital: Thos. Watkins, NAL
aria; David Gorley, measles; Dav-
i'd NJ. Jones, measles; VIM. H.
Scott, measles; Reason HI Cecil,
measles; j. w. Dean, measles /;
VIM. Boone, malaria. The follow
ing are in quarters: Robt. Blair
Geo. Riddle, John McCabe, Esau
Foster, Ellis Stations, Richard M.
Kidd, Major Hudgeons, James
Woodland, JAS. N. Phillips. The
chief complaint among these is
malaria. Those marked duty ex-
cept drill ase as follows: John H.
Henson, Jesse Wallace, Chas. F
Mcpherson. This makes a total of
nineteen men.
Corp. John G. Burns has charge
of B. COmpany's provost guards in
the city of Sancti Spiritus. John is
one of the best non-coms. in the
regiment and always does his
whole duty as soldier. The fol-
lowing is list of the names of the
boys in the provost guard from B.
Company: Chas. Towle, A. Y. West,
Crawford Cecil, Dock Brewer, Chas
Chapman.
They have all been highly com.
plimented by Lieut.. Polk, the Off
Ger in charge, on account of their
soldierly bearing and gentlemanly
conduct.
I and some of the boys of Co. B.
intend taking trip to the noun.
tains in few days. They are
about nine miles from our camp
and we wish to see il they are like
the mountains of East Tennessee
may have some interesting note;
TO give you when we return.
The regular routine of camp gives
oae very little of interest to write
about, but ! hope to get hold o
some facts in regard to the govern
lnent, schools, etc., which will be o
interest to you.
We wish our friends to remem
Der we only get mail once weei
and we are always anxious to hea
from all ofthem every week as ouI
life here is somewhat dull the bes
we can do.
We were paid for two months
November and December, Tuesday
but as yet have no way to SEM
money home.
Leonard 3. Goddard.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-11

The Alaska homestead law will
exclude Caliadiansl from Alaskan
gold regions, since Canada has ex-
Guided Americana from the Klon-
dixie.
Buffalo, N. Y. disks an appropria-
ton of 100000 for a government
exhibit and building at the expo
to be held in that city in 1901.
Japan is going to have Wo-
mans University, the Nihou Yoshi
Daigahu, in place Of the former
Academy of Mobiles at Toxic.
The average number of horses
killed in Spanish bull fights every
year exceeds 5000 while from 1000
to 1900 bulls are sacrificed.
A Philadelphia man named Lub-
in says he has succeeded in almost
entirely doing away with the
"squeaky" tone of the Photograph.
Some idea Of the educational in
fluence of the British museum can
be gathered from the fact that over
100000 persons visited in last year
Oranges shipped TO the United
States from Mexico in October
were valued at $44, 1O1, against $685.
1855 for the same month of the pre-
vious year.
The lighthouse at Corunna, Spain
is believed to be the Oldest one now
in use. 1t was erected during the
reign of Trajan, and rebuilt in 1884.
The Paris Ice Company has con-
ceived the idea of making some of
the glaciers furnish the ice needed
for consumption, the last winter
having been so mild that their 9TH
err resources failed.
The heart of vegetarian beats
on an average of 81 to the minute;
that of the meat eater 70. This
represents a difference of 10000
beats in "a hours.
There are two islands in New
Zealand set apart for the preserva-
ton of its remarkable wild birds
and other animals. All hunting
and trapping is forbidden thereon.
Five hundred peddlers, comprls-
ing almost all there are in Boston,
have formed an organization under
the name of the Boston Citizens
Peddlers' association, to protect
their rights.
Representative Payne, of New
York, will succeed the late Mr..
Dingley as q member OF the joint
high Canadian commission.
Hog cholera is raging it the vi
entity of Farmland, Indiana, over
1900 head having died in the adj
joining township. The diesase is
general throughout Eastern Ind.
The President has appointed
William Carter Hook United States
District Judge, District of Kansas.
He will be the youngest man on the
federal bench, having been born in
1857.
The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Cham
Der of Commerce has prepared q
bill for Congress providing for a
permanent United States army
post at Chiekamauga Park, to cost
$250,OOO.
| While Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Maley, living near Ceder Greek, in
Newton County, No., were at
church, their three small children,
whom they locked in the house at
home, were burned to death.
| Sixty-ssven million silver dollars
now in the United States mint in
Philadelphia will, as soon as the
vault in the new mint is completed,
be transferred there and placed in
compartments bearing the govern
ment seal.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-11
CAMP BOB TAYLOR,
Sancti Spiritus, Santa Clara Prov
ince Cuba.

Jan. "A, 1897.
DEAR TIMEs:-In my last letter
I spoke of trouble being anticipated
on account of the reported lack of
rations in camp of Cuban soldiers.
Lieut.. Currie went to the camp and
found that the soldiers had rati0ns,
Though not plentiful. The soldiers
of this camp have scattered all
along the raj road between here
and Tunis in squads of fifteen to
twenty-five to each little town, 80
that they can more easily get food
from the people. They seem deter
mined not to lay down their arms
|and go to work, until they are paid
of, and they have some reason for
acting in this way, as scarcely any
of them would have any money at
all with which to commence work.
1t is impossible to tell at present
whether we are to have trouble
with these adventurous spirits, or
not; but If we do it will not be al
together unexpected. The citizens,
who have property, are glad the
American troops are here to pro-
tect them in their rights, in view of
the present situation.
AS l have heretofore mentioned
there is a camp of Cuban soldiers
near our camp and although they
are very friendly to all our soldiers,
an instance occurred last Friday
which shows their character very
plainly. The Red Cross Society-by
the way this is one of the grandest
and most practical charitable or
ganizations ON earth-have ratiOns
here which are distributed on tick
cts issued beforehand. To those
who are sick, old or otherwise un-
able to work these tickets are is
sued fres, but the able bodied men
are required to work so many hours
a day under the direction of the
military authorities in cleaning the
streets. The other day a crowd of
the Cuban soldiers were in town
and were given their tickets upon
this understanding. They drew
their rations and after they-had
eaten them, the bugle was blown
! for them to commence work, but
instead Of doing this, they clapped
their hands together and saying,
awe are Cuban soldiers and not
street-sweepers," off they marched
in q body. OF course the authori.
ties will never trust their honor
again and If they ever get any more
rations at all, it will only be on
ticket certifying that they have
done so much work.
i The Yellow fever situation has
greatly improved. All the patients
but one have been disc harged from
the detention hospital and that one
will, if there's no bad luck, be dis
charged soon. dot not believe
, that there will be spread of the
disease at all If the boys take care
OF themselves as they should and
and keep out of the houses in town
which have been infected.
Monday, Major Rodmsn, a regu
lar army officer, inspected oul
camp, also the clothing and accou
terments. the company books anC
e our drilling ability. Like all of on
b visitors he praised our camp ant
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-11

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was mutually understood that the
gentlemen should come representing
books and that the ladies represent
places, and prize was offered by
Mrs. Sanford to the one correctly
guessing the most of the names. Some
OF the places represented were Bagdad
by Miss Andrews with sachel bag
and photo of her father pinned on her
dress; Sing Sing-by Miss Perine who
sang at intervals snatches from eliot
Time" and "Annie Laurle;" Black
Forestry Miss Belts in the charac.
terlstic costume of that part of Ger
many; Miss Kingsbury and Miss Finn
each represented Dayton-the former
by having card with "I776," and
the latter with one having "date on
attached to her dress; Dover, Maine
was represented by Miss Minis with
a I'D" pinned above picture of the
i'll fated battle ship. Other places rep
resented were Lowell, White Pine,
Elizebethton, Helena, Germany,
Hayti, etc.
Among the books were seen Dee
Maurier's Trilby represented by Prof.
Elmore by staff with the "B" and
the trill; Hugo's Man Who Laughs,
Mr.. Hull with laughing face pinned
on his coat; Roe's "Without. a
"Home"-I. w. Jones with the pic
ture Of a ''hobo" on his front; "Rn
stood for Middle March; a pad lock
attached to young mans ankle stood
"Locke on the Human understand.
ing; "Rob Roy" ESSAY on Man, 2
E"Twisted Skein," for Anous,"
Knight Of KIN Century and many
others were seen. The prize a beau
taul basket of fruit and goodies was
awarded to Misses Yates and Stofell
who tied in successful guessing. The
Baldwin receptions are most enjoyable
affairs, and are always we'll attended.
Mrs. Sanford's tact won the conf
dence of the young men and they now
feel very much at home in the parlors
of Baldwin.
Both Sections of the Athenian
Society united in joint entertainment
Saturday night in A. L. S. Hall. II
was good show and we'll attended.
Hon. Moses H. Gamble "Our
Moze", was presiding officer and filled
his position with all due dignity.
Nose is proud Of his Athenian affilia-
ton and wears the star and crescent
| in the legislature halls with as much
pleasure as when on college hill.
The Athenians first in music, first
in art, first in oratory--have organ.
zed an orchestra of merit, and thi:
RECALLED the delighted audience with
several tastes OF the musical treat.
they will tender us later. The Junior
Quartette rendered the glee "Pvt
been workin on de Levee." Thi.
quartette is second only to that of the
senior section.
Other numbers on the bill were
"Engllsh as she am spoke"-a recita
ton by Eugene Webb; "The Raven
a Parody, reading by Mr.. H. Fran
; els Ritter; The debate on the ques
: ton, Resolved-That the Car
Peace overture is impractible. Messr
Post and Beattis affirmative ant
Litterer and French Negative: ant
the Monthly Athenian by VIM R
Jones. The meeting closed with al
address by Mr.. Gamble.
The Junior and Freshman classe
gave banquet on Feb. and at tn
: Central House. The dining ha
was elegantly decorated with ever
greens, class colors, and class,mottoe'
A sumptious feast of several course
was tastefully served and heartily er
joyed.
The following were the toasts Of tn
evening: Toast Mistress Miss Edit
Newman 90. The Sophmores A. c
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-10-28
FRIENDS YEARLY MEETING.
Representing -Four States And
Territories.
ELEVEN HUNDRED MEMBERS.

Wichita, Oct 9.-The Kansas yearly
meeting of the religious society of
Friends, now meeting in its twenty
ninth annual session at the Friends
University in this city, began on the
9th instant, and will continue until
neon of the 18th.
The president of the University, Ed
pund Stanley, is the presiding clerk,
an Office he has held consecutively for
ten years. He is assisted by Francis
A. Wright of Kansas City, Mo-; Martha
NJ. Pitts, Haviland, Kan, and Matte
Pitts, of Glen Elder, Kan.
The Kansas yearly meeting was or
ganized in 1872 at Lawrence, and has
been held there each year since until
two years ago, when it was held at the
| Auditorium IN Wichita, at which time
SO many Friends were present from
western and southern meetings for
their first yearly meeting that it was
agreed to hereafter alternate their
meetings between Lawrence and Wich-
| TIA, thus accommodating more fully
the 1,092 members located in Kansas,
Missouri, Indian Territory and OKLA
| hOua
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-10-28
NEWSP PAPERS
Have Done More to Suppress Crir
Than ANY Other Agency.


Than Any Other Agency.
New Orleans Times-Democrat: CT see
some fellow is going to start a paper
that won't print any reports Of crime"
said an old detective He thinks such
news is immoral and harmful to the
public, and if he wassin my line OF
business I dare say he would change
his mind. The old-time professional
crooks who went in for big game have
ceased almost entirely to operate, and
it is very seldom that one hears of a
great bank robbery, a burglary on a
large scale or a confidence game in
volving more than few hundred dol
lars. In my opinion this is due en-
tirely to the newspapers. When a big
crime is committed it gets wide pub
licity, descriptions OF suspects are cir
culated all over the country and the
public generally is put on the alert.
This greatly increases the chances OF
catching the criminals, and has made
such jobs so dangerous that, as 1 said
before, they have been practically aban-
doned. The newspapers have undoubt-
edly broken up 'bunko' and other dan
gerous confidence games that used to
gather in thousands of victims every
year. They did it by exposing them
so thoroughly that at last it became
next to impossible to find a sucker
who wasn't posted in the scheme from
top to bottom. Not long ago 1 was
talking to a chap who used to be in
the green goods business in New Jer-
sey. He cursed the newspapers very
bitterly and declared they had taken
the bread out of his mouth, to say
nothing of the Perfecto cigars and two
bit whisky he formerly put into it. I
am absolutely certain that that gentle
man would cordially indorse the new
journal without any criminal items 1
gathered from what he said that he
regarded such news as highly damag-
ing to commercial interests
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-10-28
SEVENTY YEARS.
He Has Lived Without Working, Be
cause He Doesn't Believe in It

he Has Lived Without Working, Be
cause He Doesn't Believe in It
Springfield (Mo.) special Chicago
Record: Down in Stone county, Mis-
souri,, thirty miles south Of this city,
walled in by the Ozark mountains, lives
Skinch Painter, who took a solemn VOW
nearly sixty years ago that he would
never work. He declared the belief
that the world owes a living to every
one brought into it and that work is a
useless sin. This remarkable charac-
ter is seventy years old. In his own
case he has made positive demonstra-
ton Of his anti-work theory, for he has
never toiled. Yet he lives in absolute
contentment, and has the natural hap
piness Of the early day Indians as
portrayed in story books. He says he
has never suffered from hunger, has
never felt the need Of money, and has
never weakened in his determination
to abstain from labor. He has liter
ally fshed, hunted and fiddled his way
through the world. That is what he
said he would do when he was ten
years old. Skinch Painter was born
in the Ozark mountains He has
never been married He has brothers
in adjoining counties who are pros
porous farmers. Skinch hasn't seen
his kinsmen for a score OF years, al
though they live less than fifty miles
away.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-10-28
Veteran Cardinals

Only four cardinals appointed by
Plus TX are now living. Leo XIII Il
looking forward to surviving them,
when he win have a gold medal struck
to commemorate the event, following
the precedent OF Urban VIII, the only,
pope that outIived every one OF ths
men who elected him. The inscription
on Urban's medals was: Non vos ne
elegistis sed ego elegi vos,S referring
to the fact that he had selected every
member Of the Sacred college, instead
Of their having selected him.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-10-28
HECTOR ARCHIBALD MACDONALD.
a soapIess Countrr.

In spite Of British rule, India Is still
virtually a soapless country Through
out the villages Of Hindostan soap Is
indeed regarded as a natural curiosity,
and it is rarely, If ever, kept In stock
by the native shopkeeper. In the
towns 1t is now sold to certain extent,
but how small this is may be gathered
from the fact that the total yearly con-
sumption CT soap IN India is about
100, 900 hUndredweight-tha is to say,
every $500 persons use on an average
only 112 pounds OF soap among them,
or, In other words, considerably less
than an ounce is the average consump-
ton for a person.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-10-28
PROUD OF MACDONALD.

Great Britain feels proud Of her gal
liant soldier, Colonel Hector Archibald
Macdonald, and she expects him to ac-
icomplish wonderful things in South
Africa Fighting Mac is the nick
name that his Command gave him in
Egypt. Colonel Macdonald was born
in 1852. At the age OF nineteen he
enlisted as a private in the famous
Gordon regiment In three years he
was a color sergeant. Then his regi-
ment went to Egypt and his opportun-
'ity to distinguish himself came. With
sixty-three of the Gordon Highlanders
and a few Sikhs he routed an army Of
200 Afghans. Again, in a few weeks,
he was mentioned in the official dis
patches for bravery. When the regi-
ment was ordered home he had his
choice of the Victoria cross or g COM
mission, and the commission he took.
Most of his life since has been spent
in service in Egypt No man except
Kitchener came out Of the last cam
paign there with more glory than he
did. Omdurman was his great vic
tory, won il the face of threatening
humiliation. Great Britain honored
him with many public marks Of re-
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-10-28
n. K.&& t. Shops Run at Night.

Denison, Tex, Oct. 10.-The EN-
bloyes at the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas machine shops have received
notice that, beginning last Saturday
hight the entire force will work until
1O:30,p. M, every night utlt1l further
notice It has been found necessary to
10 tnis on account of the great amount
Of work on hand and the shortage. of
motive power.
Never in the history Of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas has this department
pf the service been so heavily taxed,
Rrd it is for the purpose of getting
every engine on the system IN good
order and repair that this step stalker.
It is understood that the Parsons and
Sedalia shops viii be similarly af-
Cecte d.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-10-28
DRIFTING BOTTLES.
Give vaIzabls Information a. to tAs
Ocean Currents.

ocean OuIEen68s
Washington Spec Baltimore Sun:
Some valuable information respecting
ocean currents has been obtained by
the Naval photographic Office through
floating bottles thrown overheard by
steamers and recovered by passing
ships, which report the exact points at
which they were found. frequently
the bottles are picked up and again
tossed overheard after the latitude and
longitude and the number of the bottle
have been noted, so that the Office in
Washington may know the direction
taken by the bottle since put into the
sea or last sighted by some vessel In
this way the direction it has drafted
and the strength of the current can be
accurately estimated. There are some
recent returns which show that bottles
have hoated thousands Of miles, and
one has a record Of covering 2, 400 miles
in 90 days. This bottle was tossed
overheard from the steamship Furst
Bismarck on May 1, 1898, about $50
miles southeast of Cape Race, and re-
covered on August / in the vicinity
OF Gluck stadt. on the Elbe. The dis
lance between the two points, follow
ing the route through the English
Channel, is about 2, 400 miles, giving
rs miles as the lowest possible estimate
Of the daily average velocity with
which the bottle travelled eastward.
The longest distance made by any bot
tie was one thrown from the steam
ship Electrician, which covered $500
miles In little over three years, or an
average Of nearly six miles day. An
other bottle Travelled 5000 miles in s7l
days, or an average of eight knots,
while another made 5000 miles in 32T
days, or an average of 1873 knots day.
Another good record for bottle is 300
miles in 16 days, or an average OF 1873
knots day. In conducting its expert
ments the navy department has had
the cooperation of the Russian gov
eminent, which on the cruises OF two
OF its vessels had thrown in the sea
703 bottles, Of which 80 have been re-
covered and reported. Taken collec-
lively, the paths followed by thess
floating bottles give a good idea Of the
drift currents of the North Atlantic.
| The motion of the waters seems to be
westerly, as is evident by the destina-
ton of the numerous bottles cast adrift
between Madeira and Cape San Rogue,
all of which ultimately found their
way to the Windward Islands. the Ba-
| .hamas or to the western shores Of the
| Gulf Of Mexico.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-10-28
SHELTERS SUSPEND.
Effects Employees More Than interested
Parties.
Commissioner.

Effects Employees More Than Interested
Parties.
Pittsburg, Kan, Oct. 10.-EverS
plant here of the Lanyon Smelter Com
pany suspended production of spelter
and closed down the furnaces on what
is termed dead fire. Within three
days, every plant of the Cherokee-Lan-
yon Spelter Company. in this district,
will shut down on dead fire" The
Shelter at Bruce, belonging to the
Midland Coal and Smelter Company,
has already closed down. This gen
eral and concerted closing down of the
smelters of this district is only play
in the gigantic contest between the
zinc ore producers Of the Missouri-Kan-
sas district and the shelters which are
dependent on these producers for a
supply of jack, a game the stakes of
which has been the price of ore.
Heretofore, the smelter employees
have been little effected by the fight
between the two big concerns, but this
new state of affairs will affect the en-
ployes more than any other interested
parties, and they are naturally very
anxious that the matter be brought to
a speedy settlement. The w. 81 J.
Lanyon works here will also close to-
morrow
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-10-28
Indian Territory Towns.

Okmulgee, Oct. THE establishing
of towns by the townsite commission
'ers will add greatly to the financial
credit of the territory. At present,
trust companies, as an example, do a
very limited business, owing to the
fact that it is difficult for men to quail
ify on bonds. Real estate and i'm
provements are non-taxable and -ex-
empt from judgment executions. Only
personal property can be attached. As
result men can be found in different
towns who own buildings worth thous-
ands of dollars on lots purchased from
Indians, but judgment proof. When
the towns are plated and government
titles given to the lands, all this viii
be changed, as the real estate and i'm
proxements will be subject to taxation
and judgments for debts.