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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-19
TARRYTOWN.

Miss Lauretta Wallace daughter OF the late
William l.. Wallace, Of New-York. and Miss Lii
Ian Woods had a fortunate escape from being
killed in a runaway accident Thursday. Miss
Wallace. who is considered expert whip. was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-19
PROMINENT ARRIVALS AT THE HoIhA'

ALBEMARLE-Re Admiral FREDERICK houses'
T. s NJ and General Roy stone, OF Washr I6t ~
CIR SEy1 Tohn NJ Fgan of Savannah. Ga. HOr :
MAN-Professor Benjamin Ide Wheeler. OF Coi "ei'
University HOLLAND-The Rev. Garre.t o.
barry OF Boston, and Judge H. f. DAVIS OF W as
ington INPERIAIl-W. F. Dalzell, OF fittsouis'
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Warren b. Hooker. OF tne
Now-York State Supreme Court and captain W
W Gibson L. s. A. MURRAY HlLL-Maik ~
Torrov Of BOSTON PARK AVENUE-F. W. sage
~ buffalo. WALDORF-Henry Folger, OF King
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WORKERS,

Mayor Sutherland has signed the franchise 10
give the Union Trolley Company the rlght 10 lay
double tracks in Yonkers to Mount Vernon
Tho Mavor received a protest from large number
af taxpayers of the Seventh Ward asking him to
veto the franchise.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-19
GFPUAN-TPTGTA TREATY.

Washington. Aug. 1S.-The State Department has
been informed by Consul Monaghan. at Chemntz
Germany that a trade arrangement has been
made between Uruguay and Germany by which
each is guaranteed the same rights as the most
favored nation, except that Uruguay does not grant
the special privileges given to Brazil, Argentina
and Paraguay.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-19
ACQUIRED BY NATIONAL TUBE COMPANY

President Converse OF the National Tube Com
pany announced yesterday the acquisition by that
company of the Pittsourg Tube Companys plant at
Pittsburg The books of the National Tube Com
pany were closed yesterday for the exchange OF
the temporary certificates for permanent ones. APP
plicaton for listing the new securities will be made
to the Stock Exchange early next month.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-19
STORY OF A COLLISION.

A rumor came from Newark last evening
that as the excursion steamer Belle Horton, from
Newark was returning from Midland Beach she
went near the Shamrock and was drfted by the
flood tide against the yacht.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-19
MR.. OTTEyDORFER BACK FROM EUROPE.

THE EDITOR OF THE "NEw-ToRKBR STATS
ZEITUNG" SAYS HIS HEALTH HAS NOT
IMPROVED.
Among the passengers who arrived yesterday
from Hamburg on the Hamburg American liner
First Bismarck was Oswald Ottendorfer. Editor
and proprietor Of the "New-iorker Staats-hel-
tung." In his absence he spent considerable time
in Meran. In the Southern Tyrol, locality noted
for the mildness and salubrity OF It's climate. He
subsequently visited Mannheim. in Hesse 10 enjoy
the benefits of the baths, and he also spent some
time ar Wiesbaden and Schwalbach. AT the latter
place he met x-Speaker Thomas r. Reed, pu1
they did not 'talk politics" Mr. Ottendorter said
yesterday -. 49,. ,nro,,aa In
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
MINIATURE ALMANAC.

MINIATURE ALMANAC.
sunrs. 54 Sunset 653 Moon sets am Sl3 Moons age 10
HIGH WATER TO-DAY.
N-sandv Hook 6:37 Gov. Island 500 Hell Gate 1883
u SANDY Hook 800 Gov Island 6:32 Hell Gate e:2l
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-19
RoyalBakin9
Powder

Royal Baking Powder
possesses peculiar quail
ties not found in other
leavening agents, which
arise from the superior
htness,purity andhealth-
fulness of its ingredients.
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Annoo ncements.
LOCK FRONT"
A perfect fitting collar.
Trade
+. & w.

Keep looking young and your hair. its
color and beauty with Parkers Hair Balsam.
craye's ointment makes a healthy skim SOC.
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Ifr1parts
Hea1thfu1neSs
to
the Food

Royal Baking Powder leavens the 1000 Perle''ly
by its own inherent power without changing or
impairing any of the elements OF the Hour,
Thus the ot-breads, hot-rolls and mut1ns' and
the delicious hot griddle-cakes raised by the Royal
Rak;no Powder are wholesome and digestble, and
NAV be eaten without distress, even by persons OF
delicate digestion.
making vtersa low priced as alum cosS ou!
but alum corrosive poison AIa
nrender baking powder dangerous 10 use m0oo-
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INCOMING STEAMERS.
OUTGOING STEAMERS.

TO-DAY.
Vessel For Line. Mails close. Vessel sails
Umbril Liverpool. Cunsrd II 90 m ZOO m
Furnessla. Glasgow. Anchor. ZOO m IL 90
Breegne Hayre. French. ......... 100 m 1000 IN
Rotterdam Rotterdam. Ho-Amer. 500 m 1000 m
Alene jamaica etc Atlas. ......... 1900 a IL 90
Button. Pernambuco. etc. Lamp Holt 1000 m " W
Trinidad. Bermuda. Quebec 1000 m Il:
Patricia. Hamburg. Hamb-Amer. ... u 90 m $3.50 m
Hekla Norway Scandinavian ...... IL 90 m ~ m
Monaghan. Glasgow. Allan-State.. 300 m
Havana, Havana. Cuba. III 100 m loo N
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ROYAL BAKING POWDER co., NEW YORK.
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Alum baking powders low priced, as alum coss oui
t,o cent? bound but alum is a corrosive poison ana
it renders the baking powder dangerous to use 1000
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06
BrOuklngS County.

Land is rapidly advancing in price and
now is the time to invest Big profits are
sure to be gained by investing.
The county of which Brookings is the
county seat is the best adapted TO diversified
farming of any in South Dakota. Situated in
the center of the renowned Big Sioux Valley
and watered by the Big Sioux river and in
Vulnerable lakes. The soil is of rich, black
loan and is unsurpassed for fertility. The
best of water Is found near the surface, and
numerous small streams water the rich farm
lands in all directions. 1t contains % town
ships and G08,5Si.f3 acres of gently rolling
land, fully IS per cent OF which is under culti-
walton. Has l04 good schoolhouses valued at
about 100000 In round numbers. Good rail-
road facilities. Assessed valuation, 1898,
Ss,3l5,0o Tax levy, 1898, 10 mills forfgeneral
purposes. Average crop for the past twenty
years, IS bushels per acre. Fine herds of
blooded stock and rich grazing lands. No
government land-all occupied by actual
settlers. Decided land can be.purchased at
from s12 TO $50 per acre, accordinglto location.
Good railroads convenient for marketing
stock and grain.
Long distance telephone connects every
town with the county seat and extends TO
many points In the state as well as into Min
nesota and Iowa
The country neighborhoods throughout the
county have their churches where the people
worship every Sunday.
During the past year large number Of peo-
pie from the east have brought their. families
to Brookings county and located perma-
nently. In every instance they'are contented
with their choice of location and are prosper
ing. There Is still opportunities for people OF
all classes to come here and be independent.
No state In the union offers better advantages
than can be found right here In the Sioux
Valley region.
Farmers In the east who contemplate COM
ing west can find no better soil, no better To-
cation and no better markets in the whole
northwest than Brookings connty presents.
Come out and see for yourselves tho banne
county OF South Dakota.
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06

did not rattle the blacks at all. When
they reached the crossing, which was
some time after the head of the column
passed there, and lost many men, the
blacks stood in line under fire, and as
the shells passed overhead saluted them
sarcastically. counting the Spaniards
poor marksmen.
After alternately halting and moving
about along the river for over an hour
the regiment was lined up beside the
rough riders for attack upon "Kettle
Hill, an elevation or spur between the
river and San Juan ridge When the
barbed wire fence blocked their way,
the blacks rooted out the posts and tore
down the interlaced strands, all the time
under fire.
With one gallant rush altogether, not
the black alone, not the rough riders
alone, not the white regulars alone, but
in continuous line, the cavalry column
swept up the first slope In going up
the Tenth lost officers and men, but
marched in good order to the house ON
the hill, and the flag was planted in the
ground under fire from the ridge be-
yond and from San Juan blockhouse.
which the enemy still held.
On "Kettle Hill" the cavalry closed
ranks and then dashed down into q
hollow lying between the hill and ths
ridge, the blacks cheering in all the ex-
ultation of battle. SO desperate was this
rush for the main ridge that organixa-
hon was lost, and whites and blacks i'm
diyidually fought shoulder to shoulder.
There was no difference in the bravery
displayed On San Juan ridge the Tenth
struck its trenches nearest to Santiago.
and held or two days. losing officers
and men. For its charge that first day
the Tenth was highly praised
One black sergeant, Foster, took conn
mand of his company after the white
officers had fallen and led it up the
hill He was rewarded by commissions
in the immune volunteers. and SO were
three of his black comrades Fender
grass, Givens and Ray.
The Tenth lost IL officers ont of 20
at Santiago and 100 men out of 375.
The regiment was organized in 1867
with the noted cavalryman, B. FL.
Grierson, as colonel General ]. X.
Mizner, another noted cavalry leader.
followed Grierson, and the colonel at
the outbreak Of the war was Guy Y.
Henry. Lieutenant Colonel Theo. A.
Baldwin led 1t in Cuba
GEORGE L. KILMER
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06


Among the regulars in Lawton's di-
vision l saw Captain Wood and his two
sons, all survivors and heroes of Ell
Caney. Then went to the camp of the
Second Massachusetts volunteers, to
meet with a fratcrnal welcome by Ma
jor Whipple "a veteran of my old corps
in the Army Of the Potomac. We
swapped notes. and the major gave un-
stinted praise to the young soldiers Of
MS command. spoke of the horror or
the transport Mobile, and asked how
the novices faced that. Said he, "My
son died on the way up" ] waited for
the emotion to subside, then asked,
''Was he with you p
"Yes, in my battalion. A good sol
dier he was, too, and had served seven
years. He carried musket all through
the campaign, and then died of fever
His mother begged him not to go, but
he said if / went he must go to look
after me- 1t turned out the other way.
looked after him at last. Yet I can't
say regret it. He stood to the work at
Ell Caney as the son of soldier should,
and / saw it. . GEORGE l.. KILMER-
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06
SHE SANG FOR DEATH.
The Pathos and Tragedy Of Emma
AbbOttss Passing Away.

The Pathos and Tragedy Of Emma
Abbott's Passing Away.
One night in the city Of Denver.
located at the foot and in plain view of
the Rocky mountains. Emma Abbott
was billed to appear in Faust. In the
same city a most attractive and beauti-
full 18-year-old girl, belonging to one Of
the wealthiest families, lay in the last
stages Of that fell enemy OF the human
race--consumption. Some weeks before
the arrival Of the company she said to
those around her: "Oh, hope the sun
win shine and the weather will be warm
and genial, SO can hear Miss Abbott
sing once more. ] think could then
pass away peacefully and without one
single regret. But there came with the
queen Of the lyric stage northern hur-
ricane-with the very air charged with
icicles. which penetrated the lungs
Some one told Miss Abbott Of the griev-
ous disappointment Of the dying girl
She went to the opera house and never
sang more sweetly. and as eoon as II
was over and the audience dismissed
called her carriage and directed IL Il
drive to the home Of the young Lady.
The scene which followed was worthy
Of the finest brush ever welded by the
grand old masters There lay the dying
earth angel. with pallid lips, hectic
cheeks and lustrous eyes and the light
Of immortal beauty shining upon her
face. Standing beside her, in one Of hen
richest robes (the one she had worn that
night. sparkling with pearls. rubies
and diamonds, stood the almost divine
mistress Of earthly melody.
The first piece rendered was s'The
Old Folks at Home" and then followed
II Know My Redeemer Liveth." The
finale Of this weird scene was Crock Of
Ages Cleft For Me, Let Me Hide Myself
In Thee. And then Miss Abbott bent
over the frail form and kissed her an
eternal farewell. Soon after the spirit
passed into the wild winds which rang
through the wild mountains near by
set sail for that haven from which the
first homeward bound bark is vet Ia
be seen-the stainless soul waited to
the stainless heavens by the sweetest
music ever heard on earth--into the
melodies Of paradise birds
Miss Abbott returned to her room AZ
the hotel and retired Some time dur
ing the night she awoke with pain in
the left lung. 1t rapidly grew worse. A
physician was summoned. Then anoth-
er, and another. who applied every
remedy they could command. All to NO
purpose. 1t was typhoid pneumonia in
its worst form. The black camel was
kneeling at her door. Angels Of the
heavenly choir had that night listened
to her voice in the sickroom and sent
for her to come home to them.
In three days that voice which had 80
often raised the souls of men and wom-
en- to the noblest. the grandest heights
in holy ecstasy, was forever stilled In
death--gone forth into-the night
So fades the summer cloud away.
30 sinks the gale when storms are o'or.
30 gently shuts the eye OF day,
30 dies the wsve along the shore
--H. G. Stevenson in Atlanta Consti-
tution,
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06

mouthpiece when the country needs de-
tenders.
1t was given to few veterans-per-
haps to but one--to figure in a battle
field episode so tragically pathetic as
that at Las Guasimas when Captain
Allyn Capron, Sr, stood over the dead
rough rider bearing his name and with
out twinge of emotion exclaimed,
"Well done, boyp' But there have
been scores and scores to say those very
words over the gallantry of a son who
took down the rusty 'sabre de mon
pere" and polished its keen blade for
the fray of 1898.
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06
REAL BLACK HEROES.
THEY FOUGHT IN THE TENTH REG
UlAR CAVALRY IN CUBA.
White Officers Praise Negro valor.
Goodness with HOtchISiss Guns.
Charge of the Tenth at San Juan.
sergeants Given Shoulder straps.

n OTION has
taken root in the
minds Of many
people that the
negro is an ideal
soldier. My OBJ
servations and
inquiries among
the survivors of
the S a n t i a & o
campaign leads
me to say that
there are, dis
tinctly, two sides
to the question.
This story of the
Tenth cavalry in
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06

LOOD will tell
in fighting as
well as in racing
stock. The fight
ing family of
M C Cooks had
fighting ances-
tors for both
tribes. Not the
contentious kind
were those Nc
Cooks neither
the sons nor their
forbears, but of
{ h at st a m D
which makes of
the guy n
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06

Cuba shows but one side, and that the
best
During the civil war it was my for
tune to serve in corps where there was
division of black troops, ana it is un-
necessary to go further than to say that
when stepped into the camp of the
Tenth at Montauk Point / had no very
high opinion of the soldier stuff in the
American negro. went into the Tenth
at the suggestion of an officer in white
cavalry regiment who said that would
there see and hear things to surprise
me- And did. After the officer who
acted as spokesman for the regiment
during the interview had told the story
of the fighting he took me to the tent
Of the regimental sergeant major, really
the clerks Office, to get some official
data. The sergeant major and all of his
assistants were colored men. There was
no subserviency in the manners Of the
negroes in the presence of white officers.
none of the man and master attitude.
The blacks kept on at work and when
asked for official data from the records
showed themselves posted in all the
technical details of their work. They
used good language, and had not seen
their faces would have supposed the in
formation given was from the heads OF
a corps of first class white army clerks.
These men were detailed from the ranks.
During subsequent visit to the camp
80 fhA Tapfh ot fir,Nn xyhayl tho
manding officer and the white adjutant
We're officially engaged was referred
to the sergeant major for some addi-
tional data. found the force steadily
at work over the books and papers and
Just as ready with their answers as
when the white officer was present
Among others of the enlisted class in
terviewed Sergeant Bivins, the head
noncommissioned officer of the detach-
ment of blacks which handled the
Hotchkiss guns at Las Guasimas and
San Juan. He spoke for the white Off
Ger, who was not at the camp. l missed
nothing in not seeing the white officer
except the pleasure of talking with the
principal, for Sergeant Bivins gave me
we'll connected, modest and soldierly
account, as though accustomed to max
ing just such reports.
He was fine type of soldier and the
equal in intelligence of any white ser
geant ever saw for all military pur-
poses. Sergeant Bivins told me the ex-
act location of the guns at the battle of
San Juan, their distance from other
guns, from the river and from the Span
ish lines, all without referring to any
notes He explained the effects OF the
different shots from his section, for
which he fixed the elevations.
In the same company with this SER
geant found man who had kept
diary throughout his service, and, being
able to add to it an account of the San
tiago campaign from personal expert
ence, he was negotiating with pub
Usher to print it. The chevrons on the
arms of this literary soldier showed that
his scribbling habits didn't interfere
with martial duty.
The negroes of the Hotchkiss detach-
ment, as well as those of the first bat
TALON Of the Tenth to be engaged in
Cuba, took taeir baptism Of fire at Las
Guasimas The battalion line, about
200 strong, charged forward beside the
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06

am the son of Captain Pardee" There
was no time for parley or sentiment.
The captain told the boy to ''fall in, I"
adding, You're the kind of 'volun-
teer' Uncle Sam is looking for just
now"
The boy was worthy his lineage, and
after the fight went back to the Seven
ty-first The officers of the Thirteenth
who saw hin, in action told his story at
headquarters. and he was offered a
transfer to his fathers old company.
mot now, said ne, "not till I'm 81,
for promised mother that if she'd let
Inc go with the Seventy first I'd stay
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06
BR00KINGS and BR0OKlNGS COUNTY.
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION.

One feed mill.
Electric lights.
One state bank
Seven churches.
Five good hotels
One steam laundry.
One national bank.
Excellent drainage
Two lumber yards.
Five grain elevators.
Three weekly papers.
Fine lake near the city.
one firstclass creamery.
Good water near surface
State Agricultural college.
Twenty-Five hundred souls.
Splendid resort for sportsmen.
Waterworks for fire protection
One monthly periodlcal-colege.
Long distance telephone system.
Fine brick public school building.
Incorporation three miles square.
One building and loan association.
Railroads running east, west and north.
FIGURING mill with capacity OF 200 barrels.
Abstract and title guaranty company-in- :
corporated.
County seat Brookings county, population n
l2,0OO-fine court house and jail.
Surrounded by the best farming snd graz
ing lands in South Dakota-where crops are
sue and water plenty.
Masonic bodies: Commandery, Council,
Chapter, Blue Lodge and Eastern star. odd
Fellows: Encampment, Subord mate and
Rebckah. A. o. u. W. and Degree OF Honor
Modern Woodmen and Royal Neighbors.
Royal Arcanum. National Aid Association.
Mystic Circle. q. A. X. and Woman's Relief
Corps.
Beautiful trees dot the prairie in every di :
rection and the city presents charming ap
pearance, matted as II is in midst of fine
growth OF shade and ornamental trees.
Brookings invites manufacturing enterprises,
wholesale houses and business of all kinds
Her citizens are ready and willing to encour-
age and assist every helpful industry.
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06
OF FIGHTING BLOOD.
HEROIC SONS OF VETERANS IN THE
CUBAN BATTLES.

They Were Not Petted AppOintees,
hut Began mt the bottom oS the
Ladder-Sons of Generals, CoIonels
and Captains In the Same Swim.
copyright, 1899, by the Author.l
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06

the soldier loves 10 fall, if fall he must.
killed in action.
With his back 20 the field and his feet TO the foe
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06

The negroes of the Hotchkiss detach-
ment, as well as those of the first bat
TALON of the Tenth to be engaged in
Cuba, took tdeir baptism Of fire at Las
Guasimas The battalion line, about
200 strong, charged forward beside the
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06

w. OF CHRIST tsclentl.o Ser.
"''eVery Sunday in the g. A. r. hall.
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06

Just to call your attention to the
fact that | have a few articles in
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06

y. a N. Robert l.. McCook Post No. "a,
nees nrst and third Saturday afternoon each
month in g. A. r. hall.
w w. K. STOWE, Commander.
/ WH. CORNELL, AdJutant,
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06

Iasked the white leaders of tho Tenth
the question, "How did your men be-
have9' The answer was, "We don t ask
for better soldiers in battle" The Tenth
came under fire while passing down the
San Juan road, just behind the balloon
when it was high in the air drawing
Spanish fire. Bullets and shrapnel aimed
at the balloon fell into the ranks, but
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-06

Copyright. 1899.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-10-07

Angleworms raised for the market
ts the novel business of florist Of
Bangor, Me. He accidentally became
aware OF the value OF the angleworm
while Mt Moosehead lake, Mount
Kineo, a few years ago with party If
fishermen who were in distress be.
cause they had no angleworms, and
because the successful anglers there
were those who had brought in with
them cans of this bait dug in towns
near Bangor on their way in.
The florist made Il complete study OF
the worm. Then he built big leser
voirs on his farm and began opera
tons. He says that the worms bieed
twice yearly. They lay from $50 to
500 eggs in n set, and these hatch into
tiny worms ali eighth OF al in, Il long
For three months the worms lie in
clusters, deep in the loan in the res
ervoirs, when they separate and be.
come independent. At seven months
the worms are full grown and ready
for shipment. The farm stock is kept
at 800, 900 worms.
The worms live in loam made of de-
cnyed bran. They are fed on leaves
of lettuce and grass, and are soaked
thoroughly in water twice a week.
On this treatment their average length
is seven inches, when full grown, and
they are as lively as small snakes. -
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