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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-09-02

Capital and labor would commingle
better If there weren't so many men
trying to get capital without labor.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-09-02

French Government stallions.-The
French government keeps stations for
the use Of the farmers, charging only
"a nominal fee Of 81 or 81 per service.
BY this method the French are rapidly
improving their horses. for these gov
eminent stations are carefully in
spected before being approved for
service.-Mr. Thompson.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-09-02
Halls Cstarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price, 75c.

Blessed is the man who has found his
work. One monster there is in the
world, the idle man.-Carlyle.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-09-02

The Office of liberality consists in
giving with judgment.-Cicero.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-09-02

Lies evening will take its character
from the days that preceded it.-Shut-
tleWorth.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-09-02

New Shade Tree Pest.-That beauti-
full and graceful shade tree, the white
birch, which d%ecorates so many parks
and home lawns. has been attacked by
a very destructive insect enemy in u
state. For several years past some Of
the finest specimens Of this tree in
Buffalo's parks have died each year,
It ia now known that the cause was
a small, slender beetle, whose grub
makes tortuous tunnels just beneath
the bark. To scientists the insect is
known as Agrilus anxius, but we may
we'll speak of it as the birch Agrilus.
I have, as yet, no better sug-
gestion to offer than to cut down and
burn Immediately, especially before
May in the spring, all trees found dy-
ing; I doubt II any protective wash
for the trees will be found practicable
and .erective.-Prof. M. v. Slingerland.
before the w. N. Y. Hort. Society.
Water for the Horse.-The quantity
Of water allowed to horses is often In
suficient, says Rural World. The wa
ter required by animals for nutritive
and depurative purposes is obtained
partly from the drinking water. Green
foods and roots contain q good deal
of water-as much maybe as 80 per
cent-and animals getting these foods
require to. drink less. but the staple
foods OF the horse, oats and hay. con-
tain no more than from II to 16 per
cent Of moisture. and on this. dry food
there should, unless under special and
very peculiar circumstances. be q free
allowance.-Ex.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18

lean gentleman a drink, do you? I'll fx
(hicD you for that If ! can't have beer
you sAant have water. Seer
He lurched down the street and finally
disappeared in the direction of the mule
CORA! back of the Spanish barracks How
ne secured mount is not known, but a
half hour later he was riding past the Ball
King over road leading to FL C-iSto. That
evening, shortly after dark word was has
lily sent 10 the palace that the water sup
ply had suddenly and unaccountably failed.
Men were sent out with lanterns. but il
was an almost impossible task to trace the
pipe line at that hour. and they returned
IN disgust. The following morning at day
break another search was made. About
three miles from the city, at spot where
the pipe crosses a low meadow upon ma
sonry supports, great Jagged hole in the
pipe was discovered. The elevsn-inch main
had been smashed near joint and the
water, was fast forming 4 lake in the vicin-
tty. Not far from the break one OF the
searchers found a blacksmiths sedga ham
mer with the handle sha tered. as if from
a powerful blow. It was evident the phi
vate of immunes had made good his threat
He was arrested and charged with the
deed, but he stoutly maintained his inno-
cence, and the case Nas finally dropped for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18

soodly share of one chapter 10 that highly
ridiculous episode. 1t furnished the enemy
with much food for nlirth at the time, and
1t viii DOUBTLESS be laughed at by Ameri-
cans when they know the truth. AS Capt
Lee, r. a., the British expert present dur
Ing the war. expressed himself: 1T was a
good strategtcal move wasted through IN
foreseen Circumstar ces."
When the American forces left the coast
on its way to attack Santiago it was I'M
derstood that one of the most important
Items In the scheme of campaign was the
speedy cutting off of the capitals water
supply. 1t was generally known that this
supply was obtained from a dam some
where up in the mountains. and that the
water was conveyed through an iron pipe
i'll the vicinity of Ell Caney, but just where
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18

detraet ia any way from the value of an
industry already established. Mr. Amies
does not propose to rob the cow Of her cud
or the horse or his fodder, but for his pay
ing material he intends to &C TO the waste
meadows along the water front, where
grows the comparatively Yalueless grass
which. when sold as salt hay, the only
thing that 1t has been worth selling for,
barely pays for the cost of cutting.
This salt and rank growth of the meadows
adjacent to the waterways Mr.. Amies in
tends 10 compress by hydraulic means into
square blocks. first curing ii by means of
a special preparation of oil. tar and other
resins blended. this preparation making the
blocks according TO the claims of the rev.
erend inventor, proof against the invasion of
moisture and decay The finished blocks
measure fourteen inches by twenty-one by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18

the great News company, was for years the
leader of the house of commons. Labou-
chere Is a conspicuous example Of the jour-
nalist statesman of today. In France the
names OF Gambetta, Theirs and Cavaillac
naturally suggest themselves.
while editing the Albany Express I was
introduced to Horace Greeley. 1t was soon
after he had gone on Jefferson Davis bail
bond and had provoked from over the coun-
try a fire of criticism which had drawn out
his characterization of country editors as
those Insignificant fellows that God In HIS
inscrutable wisdom permits to edit the
country papers
A Greeley Anecdote.
Mr.. Greeley came to Albany and Gov.
Fenton presented me to him at a reception
in the executive mansion as the editor of
the Express. Yes, Mr.. Greeley I said as
l grasped his hand. I am one of those in
significant fellows that God in His inscruta-
BILE wisdom permits to edit the country
newspapers He laughed heartily and we
became good friends. Not long afterward L
went to New York on a confidential mis-
sion from Gov. Fenton and saw Mr.. Gree
ley at that historic desk of his in the TT1b-
une office, writing away with his hand up
Under his chin as he followed his pen with
his eyes
What was the turning point in your
career?" / asked the most successful editor
statesman of today.
II was taking grave risk. when, in 1881,
l translated myself from New York state
to Pennsylvania. In 1870 / had become
joint and in 1877 sole editor of the Albany
Evening Journal l was at home in New
York public life, and had been asked III
state conventions time after time to frame
the resolutions enlb0dying the platform OF
the party. I had been secretary of the
platform committee OF the national repub-
lican convention of 1876 and had come to
anticipate only one possible removal from
Albany, that to New York. When l accept
ed the editorship of the Phila delphia Press,
the leading republican journal of q famous
old republican commonwealth l found my
self face to face with life under new condi-
tons. not in a new state, but in long
established civilization. But ! accepted the
risk and have not regretted it.
I'm all these years, minister to Russia,
on the national stump with Blaine and Nc
Kinley, as platform writer and cabinet Off
Ger, what have been your Words
Concentration and constancy.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18

SIX and weigh forty pounds per cubic foot
The blocks can be lad upon any proper
foUndati in the same manner as are our
granite blocks, yitrifled bricks or other paw
ing material. In the first place he states
that they viii cost less than any other
pavement now in use. and as he proposes
to utilize such a very cheap material as the
why salt grass common along thu Atlantic
coast, his claim with regard TO Ch'apnesS
is probably we'll founded. Besides being
the cheapest, Mr. Amies claims that his
blocks are the most durable that such a
thing as a rut or hollow will bt unknown
on grass paved streets; that in fact. the
mineral matter which falls upon the grass
roadway viii only make il smoother and
stronger, the seeming paradox of this state
ment being supported by the claim THAI the
grass blocks are elastic and moisiur proof
and therefore incorporate with themselves
any mineral matter thai comes thuir way
Mr.. Amies says that his paving blocks
can be made. by process OF treatment of
which he alone possesses the secret II the
consistency of granite, while the slippery
surface common 10 asphalt and wooden
paving Is entirely absent and the noSiness
of granite pavement unknown a. the re-
silent surface of the grass blocks offers a
VelVety surface to the hoofs Of the horses
that makes their tread quiet and orderly
Jhud.
The claim is made that the grass blocks
afe calculated to oUtiast amy of tho g~anite
or wood paving now in Use. So CoHfdcrt Is
NJ Amies of this THAI he is willing 10
guarantee the blocks FOR period 81 i've
years. Mr.. AmieS declares that amy re-
qulred degree Of deI Slty may be given TO
The blocks according To The pressure To
which Lhey have been subjected. a density
Of from twenty-five to sixty pounds per
cubic foot may be attained. The weight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18

which l soon acquired an interest The
Transcript, on which had begun my jour
nalistic career, had been purchased by the
owners of and merged into the Express.
Conviviality Barred.
THE years Immediately following the
conclusion OF the war between the states
were now developing those interesting
changes in American public and public men
which have become fairly characteristic. it
seems to me, of the last half of our century.
The American statesman is no longer
scnt;meutalist. Economic questions have
gradually become the most important.
With the decline of sentiment III statesman
ship sentimental oratoTy has also become
argely Il thing of the past. Our national
life has become serious and practical. Great
problems Of organizations have gradually
occupied the foremost minds. Economic
Questions naturally do not need to be ex-
plotted by the fights of oratory. While the
power To make an effective speech still re-
mains a desirable mpiishment-for there
are occasions and topics that can in no
other way DE Impressed on an audience
as Dy eloquence-speechma has become
a minor part OF The eQupznentscf a success
ful pubic man. The interests after which
tie average RI representative ill Congress now
has ia !coN nave become diverse, so
complicated. - important that he has all
he can do to attend to them. The de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18

the pipe could be found was mystery. A
dozen differer Cuban scouts We're interro-
gated and dozen totally different answers
secured. Each brasl- skinned ally was
positive in his assertion, but none offered
to lead the Americanos to the spot. Finally
after the third days battle, a party was
sent out from our lines to locate the pipe
and cut IL at all hazards.
Shutting off their supply of water will
have more effect than ten days siege
with heavy artillery remarked one of Cen.
Skaters aids. The beggars are not very
partial TO water as a rule, but they must
have something to drink"
An April Fool Joke.
The party returned and reported that
after many perilous incidents they had sue
ceeded in breaking the main about four
miles from the city. Two days later sew
eral refugees who had made their escape
from Santiago We're taken before General
Shafter.
How about the food supply in the
city," he asked.
Very poor, senior" was the reply. THE
Spanish soldiers are eating horse meat.
There is no -four, no bread, no rice"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18

ebove ground IN other places. bitches were
aug, masonry supporters and aquciuc.s
Constructed. and finally the pipe line crawlczi
its way into The city amid The cheers OF the
people. Smaller mains were laid. public
water stations erected in various parts Of
the town. ami supply equal to 2u3u'o gal
Ions daily delivered to the citizens 4 was
barely sufficient for their needs in those
days. and now. with the great Increase Of
population, the total supply sufiiccs for only
six hours Of the tweuty-four
II is a serious question I'm SauJago-a
question beside which the military and no.
litical aspects arr as nothing. The health
and sanitary welfare of the city depend
upon the supplying of pure water to the
people. and strenuous efforts are now being
made by the interchangeable governor Gen.
Leonard Wood. 10 solve tn. problem before
the arrival Of the next sicklY season. Glu-
mately an entirely new dam and reservoir
Will be needed, bat for the l,r, sent several
pun ps will he constructed and a series Of
wells dug near the city.
The old pipe lire viii soon have outlived
its usefulness. bat il will rcma.a long in
the memory Of these who mar. lied with
Shafter before Santiago a. Gen. Toral's
April fool"
HENRY HARRISON LEWIS.
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want Of direct evidence However, when
inebriated American troopers demand beer
In Santiago cafes nowadays they are
promptly served.
One PhiInnthropic spnniard.
The most remarkable thing about the
Santiago water system, besides the fact that
ii is almost worse than useless. is that it
was constructed free OF charge and donated
10 the city by Spanish colonel Of artillery.
Prior TO 1910 the citizens OF Santiago n
city. mind you, several centuries Old and
containing a population exceeding 10000
were compelled to depend upon cisterns and
tanks for their water. Although there was
plenty OF water back In the mountains six
or. seven miles distant. nothing was done
by the Spanish government TO convey St 10
the city.
Col. Manuel Alvarez. generous of heart
and piethoric of purse. sent 10 Madrid FOR
private engineers and began the sunStruc-
ton of dam I'm the San Juan halls. six
miles from Santiago. The material was
brought from Spain. but the ordinary labor
ing work was done 10y Crhan prisoners and
poems. II was task OF long duration.
Roads had to be- BUTT md ma tsria hauled
by OK teams from tss city wharves. Tho
creek 10 be utilized wa small and 81 ran
down the mountain side through a tangled
jungle OF tropical vegetation. Nowhere was
IL more than dozen feet in width.
A limestone wall twenty-five feet high
and five feet thick was thrown across "A
little gorge. then an oblonF receiving tank
hardly larger than those supplying the or
binary American hotels was built AZ one
side. The Spanish engineers lahnrch from
, day TO day throughout the year. and about
twelve months after the commencement
told Col. Alvarez that the wonderful dam
was READY.
How the Water Pipes Were Laid.
Now came the question Of laying ;he pipe
line The stretch OF country between the
hills and the city was rough and broken. A
rather high hill int,rrusod In tn" direct
lire. and "a would he necessary To skirt its
| base for a couple Of miles Thea there were
two rivers - I've crossed. and ? deep gully
tc he spaniel Strange to say neither the
colonel nor HIS engineers had gone over the
a oupd before comm -nCing the coHStruC-
ton OF The dam. They knew than water
could nc bad in the mountains, but they
forgot that a pipe lire over a broken Coun-
try was a rather siuDenGous problem. n
looked az this STAGE Of The game as II the
worthy citizen of Santiago would either
have to 20 back 20 their c!sierns or else
haul water from The dam by oN teams.
A year passed ard then The benevolent
Spanish colonel resumed the task. For va
riOuS reasons the size Of the pipe was re
duoed to eleven inches and il was o7tcr,a
I laid under ground wherever prac;l. able aus
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of the ordinary weeds used IN paving. such
as cedar, spruce, fir. pine. henloclz. etc.
runs rom twenty five 10 th,rty-hve pounds
weight per cubic foot. The woods decay
from inherent causes. and can not be cured
or treated TO prevent them absorbing
moisture My nber blocks can not absorb
moisture, and are decay-proof for very
many years. They may be made rs dense
as mahogany CHE wood now being laid
down in paving blocks In Paris at a great
cost, which Is for Spanish mahogany.
tifty-three pounds 10 the cubic foot; or as
English oak. which weighs bfty-,sight
pounds to the cubic foot"
Experiments have been male with the
grass pavement In Norfolk and Ricflmiond,
and the result, II is claimed, has been very
successful
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18
GRASS PAVING BLOCKS
Waste of the Meadows Compressed to the
Hardness Of Stone.
Successful Trials of This Curious In
yention-SpIendid Results
Are Claimed.
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
OF all the novel materials which have
been utilized for making smoother the
rough and uneven path of The truck driver
whose duty compels him to steer through
city streets huge and jOlting mass Of
merchandise, that of which a clergyman,
Rev. ]. H. Amcs of Atlantic City, n. j.. is
the inventor is entitled to first place. The
material that Mr.. Amies proposes to use
for paving our city streets is common mead
ow grass. His proposition comes with the
additional recommendation that it does not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18
'Humi And the waterg"

''1Iumi And the water?"
Plenty, senior"
General shsfter stared at the speaker IN
creduously.
''PlentyY" he echoed. why. that's i'm
possible. We cut of the supply day before
yesterday"
Nevertheless. there is enough in the
city to last a month. Almost every house
has a cistern or tank, senior. They are all
full. Our water works fail very often. and
We keep a supply on hand In case OF emer-
gencies. General Toral knows you cut the
pipe and he laughs very much. He says
what you call in America April foolr -
What General Shafter said is not re-
corded. but the refugees words spread
through the trenches, and to this day WIS.,
itors to Santiago are taken out to the spot
story of General Torars April fool"
No Beer. No Water.
The local records Of the city contain an
other instance of the violent cutting Of the
water main. In its general bearing the
incident is almost humorous as the first
In the latter part OF August, when affairs
We're becoming settled in tine city, the re
strictions guarding The condnct and liberty
of the American soldiers en- duty around
the town were practically removed, and
the men were given permission to absent
themselves from camp while off duty
A strappins private of one of the i'm
mune regiments took stroll one afternoon,
and. after visiting a number OF rum shops.
dropped into the Cafe La Favcrite on Gale
Santo Tomas. He WIS much the worse for
wear and lost no time in svlemnly derlar-
ing TO the occupants tn9.t one American
soldier was worth ter Spaniards and three
dozen and odd CUbans. To prove the as
sertion he cast his campaign hat into the
middle of the floor ana otherwise stripped
for action. He was finally pacified but
when he gave an order for several bcttles
OF American beer he was politely but firm
~ refused. 1t required me efforts OF five
walters to eject HIM after shat
NO beer, EN- he shouted back thrat;rh
the doorway, You ChicD refuse an Amer
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Humors Of Santiago's Queer System
of Water Works.
SKATER TRIED 10 DESTROY IT
But It Never Amounted to Very
Much at the Best.
BUILT BY A SPANIARD


EXT To THE OBJ
servation balloon, the
cutting Of the water
main supplying Santi-
aGo was the greatest
fizzle. to use a home
~ AmericaniSm, OF
the late Spanish
American war. When
lnspecto General
BreckinriGga writes
his book on the
humorS of the Santi-
ago campaign he in
tends to devote a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18

The greatest diving feat ever achieved
was in moving the cargo of the ship Cape
Horn wrecked off the coast OF South Amer
lea when a diver named Hooper made
seven descents to depth of over 200 feet,
remaining at one time forty-two minutes
under the water. An authority states that
the greatest depth to which man has
bean known to descend does not exceed 20
feet-whieh is equivalent to pressure of
ssh pounds to the square inch
The reason why ships are not struck by
lightning is attributed TO the general use
which is now made Of Wire rope for rig
eing purposes, as we'll as to the fact that
the bulls of ships are usually constructed
of iron or steel. Thus the whole ship forms
an excellent and continuous conductor, by
means of which the electricity is lad away
into the ocean before ii has time to do any
serious damage.
In 1898 there were ffty-three Saturdays,
fact of interest to those having to pay
weekly wages.
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Captain L6efier, who was made a captain Il
in the regular army by act Of Congress
has seen longer continuous government
service than any other man at the White
House. He enlisted in the army as a pri-
vate about 1855, and was private IN the
same company which Fftzhugh Lee be-
longed to soon after graduating from West
Point. Captain LoefIier once saved Gen
eral Lees life during an Indian fight in
the west The indians had ambushed the
company and shot General Lee down.
When the civil war broke out Captain
I,oefler was still in the army, having been
nron1oted to the position of sergeant He
was detailed from the army as the mes
senger of Secretary Stanton and remained
on duty at the War Department through
out the war.
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r.anGs on his time are so great that he
finds leisure for little if any of that social
if convivial life which in ante-6eIlum days
was 50 characteristic of public men in
Washington. Colyivlality and a high oIdcr
of public usefulness are no longer COM
pa tibt1''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18

long, either as, in addition to his many
guests. Mr.. johnson fed all Of the employees
of the building, forty or fifty people. There
has been no such lavishness since that
time. Only the household employees and
servants are fed, as rule. Mr.. Johnsons
hospitality was so open that policemen on
beats near by and almost any passer could
secure square meal by presenting himself
at one of the numerous dining rooms in
operation.
President Johnson spread lunch at the
conclusion of each cabinet meeting, and
eating was the order of the day with all
concerned There was likewise plenty to
drink for those accustomed to this addition
to their meals or lunches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18
LincGIn's UOdyguard.

Mr.. Lewis, the veteran policeman was
for long time the personal bodyguard of
President Lincoln. MIR. Lewis went with
the martyred President to theaters ana 10
all points visited in the evening. Nheh
the President did not go out Mr.. Lewis re-
NAMED on guard in the mansion, playing
with the Lincoln boys. For a long time
Mr., Lewis was the only policeman on guard
inside the building at night. In the last
two or three administrations three or Tour
men are on duty inside the building al
night Everything is so monotonousIy quiet
after midnight that several times every
one of these watchmen was found asleep al
his post in the early hours of the morhl!s-
About 3 o'clock one morning seFe:al years
ago the official under whom these. -hltii
come craN-led in a a basement window ;thd
walked through nearly every room IN me
binding without being challenged. t-G
found every man asleep. THESE laithlu!
custodians did not long reIdaln on ao'9 al
the building.