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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

were not that all of your lives are not
worth as much as a drop of the honest
blood of those with me, l would not move
from here until l had put an end to the
last of you. However, you have had a
! sson now. Come down one at time into
the road. When you get there drop your
pts tolls and knives to the ground and then
go down the hill. When one man has start
ed let the next man come down. How
many are there of your"
There are six of us alive" the man
answered. 1--WE were eight besides our
leader. My brother was killed by you in
San Diego the other night and if it had
not been for that 1 should not have come -
Look here" Juan said Il shall see
every one of your faces plainly as you
come down. and when you have thrown
| down your aims you will stand and face
this rock so that l may have a good look
at you. | warn you to leave San Diego as
soon as you get back, for when | return
| will have the town searched for you.
and any Of you found there will pay for
this with your lives. Now you come down
/ first"
One by one the six men came down,
| placed their weapons upon the ground.
lurned to the rock where Juan was lying
! and then went down the pass without a
word being uttered. When the last had
| gone Juan stepped down into the road
ard was at ono joined by WIN, who had
| kept his rife pointed on each man as he
reached the road. in case he should in
! tend treachery against Juan. Two of the
vaqueros also stepped out
Where is Pcdro?" Juan asked.
| ''He is dead sir. He was shot through
| the body, but had just strength to throw
| himself in among the rocks. | heard him
! groaning just at first but he was soon ST.
lent; could see him from where | lay, and
he has not moved since"
'sSCe If he Is dead Sancbo Tbfa ie Z, 10 a
| business
The man returned in a minute.
"He is quite dead, senor"
Where is the man you shot. VIII? Let
us see If my suspicious are correct"
WIN led the way TO the SPOT followed nv
the others. Juan glanced at the dead man.
1T is as ! thought" he said. Then he
turned to the vaqueros. you may as we'll
search him. II is likely he has moaey
upon him."
'He has a bag, and a heavy one. sir"
one Of them said, as he lifted canvas bag
from the dead mans SASH
LET US see what he valued my life at -
Juan replied.
The two vaqueros counted over the gold
pieces.
There are eighty of them"
"Ten apiece" Juan remarked. put aside
sixty for the widows of Pedro and I.op Y,
and take ten each yourselves"
"Shall we do anything with the body,
senor2'
Fetch some big stones and pile them
over IT, There will be no search fer him
! for you may be sure he has not mention d
| to any one in the town what he was going
| TO do, or where he was going. He peoba B. ~
! asked for weeks leave of absence, and
| would likely enough say that he was goiag
/ up to Los Angeles or Santa Barbara gnd
| when he does not return il will be sup
| posed that he has been murdered on The
! way, When you have done with him you
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he spoke Presently he saw a puff of
smoke shoot out from the side of large
rock. He brought his rife to bear upon
IL and watched intently. Three minutes
later head appeared cautiously round
the rock, then shoulder appeared and
rife was pointed toward the spot behind
which he had first sheltered. He fired,
there was sharp scream, the rife went
Gathering down, exploding assit fell The
moment that he had fired VIII drew back
into the shelter of the stone. Two other
shots rung out and the balls cut up and
scattered the small pebbles on which he
had been lying. He was able to observe,
however, the position of one of his assall-
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as he passed down the row of officers
tents and sat upon an upturned box by
the side of the camp cot where lay the
young hero of that memorable rush and
flag capture. He talked with the boy
few minutes. but that interview, although
Ct a pa thetic interest, has no direct bear
ing upon the story fpyen me later from
the hero's lips. After the Secretary had
teen es orted to his carriage the colonel
OF the Thirteenth returned to the tent
and introduced me to Lieut.. Anderson,
saying: Il hope you'll have better luck
in making this boy talk of the battle than
did his last interviewer"
We'll there isn't really much to tell"
responded the fever-stricken soldier, shak-
ing off h s languor with much effort. The
Thirteenth Jared hard in climbing that
hill. We were the only troops to cross the
broad open field in front of the fort, and
were checked by the awful Mauser fire,
which struck us just short of the crest.
was in the front line and when 1 got face
to face with the blockhouse and the Span
iards in it 1 called out, advance rapidly"
and rushed for the door. About a dozen
men within the sound of my voice rushed
with me all firing as we advanced.
when I got TO the blockhouse 1 saw
but one Spaniard on his legs and he was
running to get away. All the rest lay dead
or wounded in and around the trenches.
w z got Ifl6 nag uOWn from LIE TOOA anu
while the boys were looking at it two OF
hose having hold of it were hit by Maui
sers fired from the trees or the Spanish
second line. The men then said that the
flag was a Jonah and tore it into bits.
Please give the men all the credit for
what was done. They were very brave.
The losses among their comrades while
crossing that open field spurred them on.
AS I told you all / did was to call out.
Advance rapidly and rush for it, The
men did the rest"
"Tll print the exact-words you have CIV
en- to me-" said l. land now, to make the
story complete, may ask your name in
full?'
Thomas NJ. Anderson, Jr.. sir"
why, there's a general by that narne
now lighting Spaniards in the Philip
pines"
He is my father SIR said the boy.
with more fire than he had shown before
the secretary or in telling about the charge
up San Juan Hill.
Gen. Anderson's record is a matter OF
history. How about your own?''
1T is nothing. l enlisted in 1894 as pri-
vate in the Fourth Cavalry and served
three years in the ranks as private, cor
poral and sergeant. l passed two exami-
nations fer a commission and was appoint
ed just a year ago second lieutenant in
this regiment. That is all there is of it
up to the charge at San Juan Hill"
AS though that were not enough The
son OF a colonel in the regular army serv-
ing three years in the ranks and working
up fer two examinations in order to keep
| the family name bright on the roll of hon
or After all is 1t remarkable that there
were so many blooded young heroes at
| Santiago?
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ore but the Ensishman had rife over
there. so YOU are quite safe"
You had better come and show US the
way. We did not bargain for this sort
of thing. You said we should settle !,
all IA che volley."
$50 You would nave done you fools. If
you could have shot straight. Who could
have supposed that you were all going
TO miss at that distance. Why, a child OF
10 years old would have fired straighter.
However. / am ready to lead the way.
You. over there, make a rush when we
do"
VIII marked the exact position of the
speaker. 1t was behind a large bowlder
some Is yards up the hill and as mich
ahead of him; he saw that TO join the
men who had been firing he would have
20 pass an open space between that and
some other large masses of rock. and he
laid his sights on that spot The speaker,
who was evidently confident that he was
killed and that therefore there was no
danger of a shot being fired al him while
he moved TO join The others. appeared half
minute later. He was stopping. and held
a pistol in each hand. The moment his
body appeared in the line of fire Win
pressed the trigger. and the man rolled
over like log. A cry of dismay burst
from the hillside above Harland. where the
men had evidently been watching also
for their leader to join his. comrades and
give the signal for a rush.
4 have shot Melos, juan" VIII shout
ed "At least if ne is. as you suppose
their leader"
well done. indeed We shall have no
difficulty with the rest of them if their
paymaster is dead they will think of
nothing now but saving their own wretch
ed lives"
The parties on the opposite sides of the
ravine now shouted to each 'other. Two
or three of them urged their companions
to make general rush. but the majority
were altogether against this.
why should we throw away our lives?"
one said. They have all got pistols. and
even if We got the best of them, four or
five Of us would be likely to go down be-
fore We had finished with them. Indeed.
they would shoot US down directly we
showed ourselves, and half of us would
never reach the bottom.
There was a silence which showed that
there was a general feeling that he was
right. Then the same speaker went on
"Caballeros, We have been cruelty mis-
led; we are poor men, and have been led
into this, Two of us have been killed; we
ask your mercy"
AS he ceased there was general cry of
mercy. mercy"
You dogs? Juan shouted back, "if it
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"A company is constructing a miniature
electric railway in Missouri. The road
will be a mile long. and the officers are
children. The electric motive power Is
furnished by underground wires on a new
system. The gauge of the road is three
feet two inches. each car will hold eight
passengers and the train will be illuminate
ed by electric lights.
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In the Hands of the
Cave Dwe11ers
The Story Of An AplCha Raid.
by 6. 4. HENTI.
Copyright. 1870. by C. A. IIenty)

Chapter III.
rFc night passed quickly. The soil was
s9lt ana sandy. and. rolled in his pom
clio Wu slept as comfortably as if in a
hammock. They were in the saddle early,
fog he days ride would be very long
on. ma Juan intcnd d to give the horses
a y r5st At Martinez.
I'VE don't c5rsiaer 60 miles to be long
10 rney here" Juan said, as they start
%. and, indeed II one starts on fresh
horse IS i, is a mere nothing, but when
20 ride the same, day after day, 10 is as
mucn as you have a right to expect from
them after we are once fairly On our way.
W. shall meet with no water to-day, and
it is sp cislly for this part of the journey
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M%ILITARrsM AND TRUSTS.

Added to those declarations will be
an attack upon Imperialism n the
trusts, both OF which W their exis-
tence to the fostering care Of the Re-
publican party, and how nearly akin
are these creatures Of toryism: i'm
perialism, which would conquer and
tyrannize over foreign peoples. and
the trust, which represents the impe-
ria power In control of industry.
There is the railBad magnate and the
m%onopolistic captain Of industry, WHO
rule with sovereign power ana sueer
at democratic met ods and business as
contemptuously a car. T. for ane
believe thattiN asao1rtrats fAnt
the imp~erialistic policy Of this admin
istration IS deliberately demanded by
the mOnopOlstic forces which control
the Republican policy. 1 believe these
men well understand that military
force is the sole instrumentality
through which they can continue their
domination Of our government, hence
they welcome any foreign policy which
will involve a large standing army,
and what their purpose Is in dealing
with protesting labor receives its per-
feet illustration in the military gov
eminent which has prevailed for many
months in Shoshone county. Idaho,
where, for an offense against property
committed by a few men, hundreds Of
citizens have been imprisoned, held at
the point Of the bayonet, deprived Of
their civil rights and subjected to civil
wrongs which even the car of Russia
would hardly practice with impunity,
and at this very moment the rights Of
miners to labor in the Occur d'Alene is
and Tor months has been regulated by
an officer of the united States army,
who seems to be as distinctly under
the command Of the mine owners as If
he were their private employee
George Fred Williams, at Rhode Is
land Democratic convention.
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RoBsINo THE PEOPLE.

In addition to the pernicious trusts
which are crushing labor and imposing
a yoke upon the necks of the people, a
robber monopoly is created by the Re
publican currency bill. establishing an
absolute gold standard and r~efunding
the national debt as the basis for tho
issue Of private bank notes. Speaking
upon the subject, PENIS Grove IN. j.
Weekly thus exposes some Of the in
wardness Of the act:
IF the government issues a note the
government sells it for labor or serv-
ice. The possessor owns it and it
draws no interest from the people. II
the government coins a silver dollar It
represents labor or service in mining,
smelling and coming it. The owner
possesses 1t and it draws no interest
from the people. Not so with bank
notes. They are never sold for service,
but loaned for interest payable in ad-
vance. If the above amounts OF silver
dollars were coined 1t would require
that amount of employment for labor.
ITO get these bank notes needed to
take the place of that much-needed
more money for commerce will require
the people to borrow them of bankers
at 8 per cent and cost from $4,000, 900
ION 5000. 900, OOO to S21. 500, 900 ION
1850, 900 ,000) more each year than now.
That prospective increase Of profits to
national bankers is a big investment
on their contribution to McKinley's
campaign fund and there will be
enough left for another contribution.
That is what is meant by Sound mon
ey' and an honest dollar
IF the American people would stop
to study and think seriously what vast
amounts they are legally robbed Of
every year they would rise in revolu-
ton at the ballot box and prohibit
every corporation from issuing notes
to circulate as money. and have their
own legal tender money issued by
congress as the constitution Intended.
Bank notes are not a legal tender 20
pay debts and national banks will not
take them for the payment OF princi-
pal nor interest on bonds due a bank
from the government, the people.
They demand gold.
"A government bond is a mortgage
on the houses, lands and an property
owned by the people. When the mem
bers Of a banking corporation deposit
that bond on your property the gov
eminent gives back the same amount
Of bank notes and also interest. The
government will not give a farmer
money on a irst-ciass mortgage. They
are not capitalists. Why should bank
ers be privileged classes7 Is it honest?
Is It iust?"
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TOKEN MONEY.


Now that the gold standard has been
made the absolute standard Of speou-
lation, the country is to be flooded
with token money in the shape Of
subsidy silver coins. which at the real
value Of 45 cents on the dollar COM
pared with gold, is good enough for
the people who are not bankers. It
will be paid out in wages and the
wages transferred into necessaries Of
life at gold prices.
The minis OF the United States will
be busy for some time to come In un-
dertaking to carry out the provision Of
the act hat has Just become law and
that permits the secretary OF the treas
ury to add $4,000, 900 to the stock OF
subsidiary coinage. The authority to
coin silver ot.the smaller denomina-
tons has been obtained specifically
from time to time. but has been re-
stricted to small amounts, the support
ers OF the free coinage Of silver hav-
ing Systematically resisted the increase
Of the supply Of minor silver.
Director Of the Mint Roberts, in
talking about the objects and useful
ness Of the new act, as relating to
subsidiary silver coinage, said: 1.-THE
new monetary act, approved March IA.
authorizes an increase Of about $780,
100000 In the stock Of subsidiary silver
coin. The last authority for the issue
Of subsidiary silver was given by a
joint resolution, approved July %, 1876,
In preparation for the resumption Of
specie payments. Il authorized the
issue Of an amount which. together
with the fractional paper currency
outstanding, should at no time exceed
5000 900.
June g, 1879, the act providing for
the redemption Of subsidiary silver in
lawful money Vas passed, and forth
with u old quarters, dimes and
halves, which had been driven to the
West Indies and South America by our
paper money, began to return.
They were presented for redemp-
ton, until the treasury held over $780,
100000. In this way the $50, OOO, 900
limit was exceeded. for the treasury
officials paid this stock out in the reg
ular course Of business until it was
practically all absorbed.
THE present stock in the country
thus reached about $50, 900, 900. Under
the new law it may be 500, 200, 900, and
bullion purchased under the Sherman
act may be coined. The new authority
was sorely needed, and will scarcely
suffice for the growing needs Of the
country more than FIVE or six years"
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THE GOLD LEAK.

A drain Of $751; 900, 900 a year In our
gold coin, disappearing no man knows
whittier, unknown even to the officials
Of the United States treasury, who
have been in the habit Of carrying the
lott balances over from year to year, is
too important a loss to be allowed to
continue. Now that we have the gold
standard 1t is material to prevent It
from shrinking. If we have a yard
stick it must be kept at three feet Of
twelve inches each or It ceases to be a
yard stick. This ought to be as plain
as a pike staff.
Nay, more: 1t may be possible that
when the national banks finish print
ing bank notes and when the govern
ment ceases expanding the national
debt to accommodate bankers and
money lenders, somebody will take It
into his head to ask for the gold coin
Of redemption, and we shall be short
$500, O00. 600, which somebody must
have, for that amount Of gold coin is
not lost through a crack in a sidewalk
like a ive-dollar gold piece or swal-
lowed by infants as are ordinary pen
MES.
With all difidence it is suggested
that the most of it is in England and
when our inflated national bank cur
rency reaches the proper volume
it will come over to buy paper
money at s2.S5 per gold dollar, as was
done in 1923.
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administration circles by his announce
ment the general feeling in Washing
ton was n Of commiseration that so
gallant a gentleman should. In HIS ig-
norance Of matters political, have made
so ll-advised an announcement II can
bring him no honor, and rather de-
tracts from the great naval reputation
to which he Is so Justly entitled.
The House and Puerto Rice
The house Republicans now have the
opportunity Of re-establlshing them
selves In the respect Of their oonstit-
uents and the entire country by declin-
ing to pass the Foraker Puerto Rican
tariff and government bill. The ad-
ministratlon leaders will try to force
a vote on Wednesday april 49, and
allow only a few hours for debate.
Many members are absent on both
sides, but the Democrats will probably
manage to get back more Of their alb
sentees than the Republicans. The out
come is very problematical, but the
Republican leaders believe that moth
ing Is TO be gained by delay.
All the Republicans who voted
against the original tariff bill still hold
to the same opinion, and there is sharp
protest from others that the govern
ment bill creates an oligarchy Of
which the administration is the su-
preme head. The Puerto Ricans can
be taxed without representation, val
liable franchises can be given to ad-
ministration favorites the island can
be managed by "carpetbaggers," and
neither its inhabitants nor the people
of this country have any voice in the
matter. If the house Republicans pass
this obnoxious measure they certainly
will have to reckon with an outraged
public sentiment next fall.
JACKSON DAY.
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wHERE Az You. M,klNLEY 2

We've been huntin' you, Mckinley, but
we don't know where you air;
When we clap our fingers on you, why,
we hnd you're never there.
When we hunted through the tariff, in
the place you'd ought to be,
Why, you wasn't round there nowhere,
least as far as we could see.
In this Puerto Rico thingumbOb we
thought we'd find you sure;
When we got there you'd been trek
king, like the smooth and willy
Boer;
So we asked the gold supporters II
they thought we'd find you there,
And they said they guessed so, some
place, but they didn't just know
where.
Alger said he hadn't seen you, and he
shed a bitter tear
When he said you'd gone an left him
like a sinking ship last year.
When We visited Mark Hanna, who
was busy countin' pelf,
Why, he said he couldn't tell us, fer he
didn't know hisself.
So we've just KEEP on a-huntin' tn
we're nearly petered out,
And, although we thought we had you,
now We find we're still In doubt.
If these lines should ever reach you,
and you'd write US where you be,
You'd confer a ~good-sized favor on
your friends, the G. o. p.
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would CRY, realizing what pain he was m.
His pitiiul Walllng wal heart-rendlng. /
had about given up hope Of saving him
when I was urged 70 give him Hoods sarua-
parilla, all other treatment having failed.
/ washed the sores with Hoods Medicated
Soap, applied Hoods Olive Ointment and
gave him Hoods s%arsapariila. The child
seemed to get better every day, and very
soon the change was quite noticeable. Tho
discharge grew less, Inflammation went
down, the skin took on a healthy color, and
the raw flesh began to scale over and a hin
skin formed as the scales dropped on.
Less thar two bottles Of Hoods sarsapa-
rilla, aided by Hoods Medicated Soap and
Hoods Olive Ointment, accomplished this.
wonderful cure. 1 cannot praise these
medicines half enough" MRS. GUERnsoT,
81 Myrtle st., Rochester, n. Y.
The above testimonial Is very much con-
densed from Mrs. Guerinot's letter. As
many mothers will be interested In reading
the full letter, we will send It to anyone
who nj request Of us on a postal card.
Mention this paper.
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Now Part Of the Military OrEanisatlons
Of Many European Countries.

Now Part OF the Military Organization
Of Many European Countries.
Next to the horse and mule the pig
con is the most often used Of the low
er animals when man fights his fellow
man. The general adoption Of pigeons
as messengers in modern warfare
dates from the last great struggle be-
tween France and Germany. NO
doubt their marvellous "homing" in
stinct, shared by all animals, was
known to the ancients, and pigeons
we're employed for military purposes
by the Modes and Persians, the Greeks
and the Romans. They we're not,
however, taken up until quite receat-
ly In European armies, and they are
still practically unrecognized in some
The first idea of their usefulness wss
in regard to cruisers and torpedo ves'
sells sent out in home waters and at no
great distances; it was a measure OF
precaution by which warships could
communicate readily with the land ia
case of breakdown in ordinary serV-
ice, and to convey early intelligence
Of an enemy's movements. Foreign
nations have taken up war pigeons
quite seriously. Thus in Francs,
where there we're very few before the
siege Of Paris, every fortress along the
frontier has its supply of wild pigeons.
At the outbreak of the Franco-G German
war in 1870 it was suggested that a
number of birds should be got from
Belgium, but the French war Office did
not accept the PROPOSAL. Later, when
Paris was besieged, the few messen-
ger pigeons in the city we're hunted up
and sent out in balloons to be dropped
anywhere, for it was, of course, impos-
sible to give a definite direction to the
balloons. Many found their way to
Tours, where they were soon dis
patched on their return fight to Paris,
carrying news. Nowadays they are
part and parcel Of the military organ
ization Of France, rs they are IN Ger
many, Russia, Italy, Belgium and
Spain.