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Cant. Nolte Dead.

This narrative is brought to an abrupt
close by the sudden death of Capt. Carl
Nolte, the author.
Capt. Nolte was about 35 years old,
and a son of an aristocratic family in Ber-
lin. He was graduate of Heidelberg
University, and had been an officer in
the German army. In 1885, while on
leave of absence, he took command of a
troop of Colonial cavalry and saw active
service in the campaign which resulted in
the conquest of Bechuanaland by the Brit
ish. In 1895 he was placed in command of an
expedition to the Nasal Steppes by the Ger
man Government to explore that part of
German East Africa, and report upon its
advantag ges for white settlement.
The narrative of this expedition, almost
I'D to the date of its sudden withdrawal
by the outbreak of the Nasal war, owing
to Missionary troubles, has been printed in
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, as our readers
know.
Capt. Nolte was in THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE office two days before his death,
and said he was nearly through the story,
and that soon after the events noted in the
present installment he had to pack up and
withdraw TO the coast.
At the time of his death he was an at
tache of the German Consulate in this city.
He was found dead in his room last Sun
day morning.
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Copyright, 1899. OF THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
SYNOPSIS.
By c. NOLTE.

In 1895 the author. an officer in the Ger
man army, was directed TO proceed to Zan-
Eibar and organize an expedition and go to
that portion of German East Africa known
rs the Nasal Steppes, for the purpose of
esta abliShing a station and exploring the
country, with a view to its resources for
white settlement The party went in there,
passed kilimanjaro, and located on the
Nasal Steppes south of the Meru Mount
ain.
We soon experienced the hardship of
war, as the Arushas cut off our food supply.
Luckily, we had a good stock of rice and
banana meal on hand, and as there was
plenty of game within easy walking distance
we did not starve, but were only somewhat
Inconvenience.
In daytime the Arushas kept away from
our station. At night they several times
attacked us, but they We're repulsed with
severe losses. One night they nearly
succeeded in surprising the camp. They
used an old stratagem of the African ma
tiyes.
Around the station there were some
bushes, which l had not cleared away, as
thought they would come in handy for
frewood later ON. Unfortunately, these
bushes served as good cover for the natives.
/ shall never forget that night when the
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rate place. The other black boys live in a
five-acre inclosure known as the Com
pound
THE De Beers Company controls the dia-
mond market of the world. OF the five
mines, Kimberley, De Beers, Du Torts,
Pan, Bulfontein, and Premier. The first
two are situated in Kimberley, and are the
only ones worked now. The diamonds
produced in other parts of the world would
not supply the city of Philadelphia. The
value of the South African product thus
far has been S600,000,O00. The supply
seems inexhaustible.
''The other localities are rich in dia-
nds-JOegersfOntein and koffyfontein
both in Orange Free State. At the
former the famous Joegersfontein Excelsior,
weighing 900 carats, was found in May,
1893, and the output of that field last JAM
uary was IL, 1S9 carats. valued at S150, 900.
The corresponding output at koffyfontein
was S11, 600 worth. The proportion OF
diamonds TO earth extracted is greater at
Joegersfontein than at Kimberley"
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EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: The
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the club. The Tribune and books came
all right to each OF the club and give perfect
Please accept my thanks for
the watch and your prompt attention in
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him over mountains and rivers will camp the
hillside and stand guard in the moonlight and in the
ralnstorm; will be with him videt in the lonely
forest, and again in the wild charge.
The humorous. the pathetic, the preposerous, the
travagant phases Of are all told with the pen of
a master Finally comes grim battle the defeat the
render the travelling through the South prisoner of
war the experiences In Richmond prisons and at ghasy
Belle Isle then the climax in the prison stockade
at Andersoavc itself with its 10000 men, poverty, its
starvation, its death All these things told with
the dramatic power Of truth and they told only
they can be told by one who there.
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THE OUTSIDE sENT1NEL's STORY.

II could have sworn" he said to me.
that knew the ground before me pretty
well, but the mist somewhat disguised it.
l was sure that there was piece OF open
ground reaching to some so yards before
me, but with the uncertain light and the
clouds of mist it appeared as ii there were
bushes in that direction, too"
Slowly he moved on, he told me, think
ing soon to be relieved, andIturned his back
to the bushes, which had just attracted his
attention, and, strangely, the bushes also
seemed to move slowly-very slowly, but
still they moved. Even the high tufts
of dry grass, which so densely filled the
prairie land there, appeared to be shifting
their position. There was n large rock
near by, and on it the sentinel sat down
to rest his weary limbs for just a few min
uteS.
The bushes continued to shift, and the
tufts of grass to advance, and one large
tuft came up quite close to the inattentive
sentinel, whose head had sunk on his
breast, and whose weary eyes had closed.
Suddenly he jumped up, and tried to shake
the sleep out of his eyes. That wandering
tuft of grass which had almost reached him
stopped in its movement.
Then the sentinel's head gradually
sunk down on his breast. and slowly the
tuft of grass crawled up behind him, until
it suddenly dropped, and from the ground
rose in its place a dark, shadowy form.
it embraced the sentinel, and plunged a
dagger into his breast: but, luckily, the
man was able 10 guard off the blow, so that
he only received fiesh-wound, the dagger
glancing off one of his ribs. -.. .r..., 90.
In the struggle his gun went off, and set
the whole camp in alarm. ! had the bugles
sounded at once to call in the outside guards,
but out of 10 only three came in, the others
having been murdered by the natives.
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NhgHoEvER will send subscriber may
Y V have these two volumes for his trouble. Re-
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T is impossible. briefly. to give an
adequate description of the scope and
character Of this immortal chapter in
the history of the civil war; 1t deals
with great subject, and one little I'M
derstood, becausei it was a tragedy enact
ed behind the scenes, obscured by the
smoke of battle in front. While the
public was kept daily informed Of march
and siege and desperate attack and re-
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changing panorama of active warfare the voice of heroes
dying in prison-pens was lost
The author of Andersonvlle has told thrilling story
II thas horrors they not of his invention. The book
however will be found to treat not only of prison life
but to abound in incidents of the camp the march, and
the battlefield In fact there better narrative extant
is to be found in this story The reader Of these pages
will go with the author into his life and see how the
boy was Transformed into soldier; will march with
Address TAE
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Me Hme
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Scouts, Spies, and Detectives ev CT the Great %s.

By Capt Joseph Powers Hazeton 248 illustrated.
the Rebellion 1t collection that together the recital the
whose Will
along Paul Revere, Nathan Hale
Revolution this
style the Blue brothers, Maj Pauline
Keller Kildare whose exploits
been neglected by writers the
brilliant
challenge
admiration reader
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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-14
NEED FOR A BIG ARMY.

The interests behind Mckinley want
a big standing army. They want it
stationed at.the great industrial cen.
tiers. 1t comes handy when capital
can't make labor do its bidding.
And if these interests can't get it one
way they II get it another. They got
a war tax to pay the expenses OF the
Spanish war. That war has been over
nearly two years. But the tax goes
on just the same. They need the
money for bigger army. A Republi-
can congress won't reduce the stand
ing army. If it ever gets through
with foreign conquest the regiments
now abroad will be stationed at con.
venient points at home to act as police
men over our own working classes.
There is method in all this military
madness. a.4.f sr- ... r.rEr -.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-14
RICHARD oLNEY FOR BRYAN.

Richard Olney's conversion" to
the Bryan cause is, in some respects,
the most notable event of the cam
pafgn to date, Mr.. Olnes was Grover
Cleveland's Secretary Of State, and by
all edds the ablestinanin the cabinet.
He is Boston man, identified with
many interests, commonly supposed
to be antagonized by the Kansas City
platform. But he is Democrat. He
was the author of the Venezuela mes
sage wherein he made Grover Cleve-
land defy the British government to
the point OF war, to try to extend Its
territories In South America.
Such man was not likely to give
his support to an administration that
voluntarily "hauled down the Amefi-
can fiag' over American territory In
Alaska.
It 10 the final test. No American
deserving the name can do more OF
lees than Mr.. Olney has done. The
brains and heart Of the American
people go with this staunch New Eng
land American-away from Mckinley
to Bryan.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-14
OLNEY ON BRYAN.

Henry Loomis Nelson, of New Ro-
chelle, formerly editor of Harper's
Weekly, made public a letter from
Richard Olney, former Secretary of
State end Attorney General. in which
he gives his reasons for supporting
Bryan in the present national cam
paign. Mr.. Olney had previously told
Nj. Nelson that he would vote for Mr..
Bryan. Mr.. Nelson says the publica-
ton of the letter, which is dated Bos-
ton, August IA, was delayed for rea-
sons which seemed best for Mr.. Olney
and himself.
Mr.. Olney in his letter says, in part
The obligations of citizenship are
avoided, not performed, by standing
neutral in an election. There is al
ways a choice between the conse-
quences of one party's ascendency
and those of its opponent, and there
fore the true question before every
citizen always is Of the general atti-
tude of a party upon the vital issues
of the day, and whether in view Of
that attitude, it's success is not the
best thing in sight. Such is the real
issue now confronting every Ameri-
can citizen. Be it admitted that the
Democratic party, it's platform, and
its candidate are open to much just
criticism, yet, all things considered,
would not its triumph be the best out
come of the present presidential con-
test?
I'm my judgment it would he. In
my Judgment nothing is now so i'm
portant as that the American people
should take this, their first, opportu.
nifty emphatically to protest against
that excrescence upon original Re-
publicanism, which may be called
McKinleyism-at term used solely for
brevity.
ITO support the conclusion to which
/ have come it lie only necessary to
what McKinleyism stands for
what is necessary in indorsing it.
"First-It will mean that the Ameri-
eao people sanction a syndicated pres.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-14
The Galveston Horror.

One OF the most horrible disasters Of the
nineteenth century occurred on SatuI day last
when a hurricane and tidal wave almost OBJ
'iterated the city of Galveston, the metropolis
of Texas. Over four thousand houses were
destroyed and five thousand lives were lost
The storm lasted from P. NJ. until 1.30 A.
NJ. the wind blowing at the rate of so miles
per hour. There was neither room nor time
to bury the dead and they were buried in the
waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The loss of
property cannot yet be estimated, that of the
Southern Pacific railroad alone, reaching over
II million Of dollars. Not a single school,
church or charitable institution was left
intact Not bui ding in the beautiful island
city escaped damage. At one time the
highest portion of Galveston was under FIVE
feet OF water. The city is without light, food
and water
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-14
BRYAN ON THE FULL DINNER
PAIL.

1.-THE gentleman asks me to say
sonnet hing about the dinner pail. The
Republican party is trying to escape
a discussion of its attack upon the
foundation principles of government,
and when a labering man accuses the
Republican party of an attempt to de-
stroy the declaration of independence
the only answer is that you have got
a full dinner pail, and while you have
got plenty to eat you should be salts
fed. 1 want you to remember in the
first place that you can not satisfy a
man by giving him plenty to eat, and,
in the second place, l want you to
take the cost of what you have to buy
as laboring man and measure it
against your wages and see if the
trusts have not raised the price OF
what you buy more than they have
your wages. The Republican party
has no plan for the betterment of the
permanent condition OF those who toll.
but it has permitted the great branch
es of industry to be monopolized by a
fewn
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-14
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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-14
INSULT TO VOLUNPEEs.

When Theodore Roosevelt, two
years ago wrote that now famous let
ter to 1.-The Secretary of War, in which
he declared that the Rough Riders, -
Of which he was the commander, were
las good as any regulars and three
times as good as any State troops, -
he allowed his egotism to get the bet
ter of his Judgment to very consider
able extent. Right now Col. Roose-
welt is greatly in need of the votes of
men who made up the State troops of
which he wrote SO CONTEMPORARY,
and the spectacular hero OF Ell Caney
and Poison Gulch would give much
to recall those words. After all the
letter is characteristic of the man.
Whether the people of the United
States want such a man for Vice
President, position from which he
would be liable to be called at any
time to that OF chief executive, re-
mains to be determined at the polls in
November. 'u'r -r n.. .aa .
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-14
MILITARISM DESPISES INDUS
.'- TRY

Aside from its inherent hostility
to free institutions, a standing army
is a crushing burden on the neck Of
the laborer, because it operates to re-
duce his earning capacity, while at
the same time he is forced to bear the
whole expense of its maintenance.
Every dollar of surplus product of
capital invested in implements, in ma
chinery, in buildings, is fruitful dol
lar. Commodities used in production
multiply themselves even while they
perish. Every dollar expended for
munitions of war is a sterile dollar.
1t is not used for the purpose of pro-
duction, but for the purpose of de-
struction. 1t is wasted as completely
as If 1t were thrown into the sea. A
standing army imposes upon each
laborer the burden Of supporting two
men-himself and a soldier-while at
the same time it diminishes his earn
ing capacity by dissipating the capital
ON which his productive efficiency de-
ponds. But far worse than the spoila-
ton of the laborer is the degradation
which he suffers from a standing
army. Militarism has always despis-
ed industry
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-14
Tuesday. November 8. 1900.
THEY SHIFT RESPONSIBILITY.

What would Mckinley do without
his old standby, commission His
latest one is to go to China in an in
ternational capacity and help
straighten out the tangled affairs
there. What are our ministers and
commanders for? These commissions
cost enormous sums of money and
really accomplish little of value.
However, they make it easy for the
administration to shift and evade
heavy official responsibilities.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-14
TIN PLATE TO SAVE MCKINLEY.

Rejoicing prevailed throughout
Newcastle, Pa, last week, when word
was given out that the tin mill wage
scale had been signed. The signing
of the scale meant a great deal to
Newcastle. 1t is here that the two
largest tin mills in the world are To-
Gated, also one smaller one. They
employ six thousand men. 1t has
been over two months since wheel
has turned in the mills, but they will
start up this week. The signing of
the wage scale closes the longest shut
down in the history of the mills, fol-
lowed close upon the visit of promi
nent Republican connected with the
Republican headquarters at Newcas-
tie. The shutdown was being point
ed to by the press of the country as a
sad evidence mckinley Prosperity"
The managers of the Republican cam
paign consequently decided that the
strike must end and tue wage scale be
signed, so a representative was sent
to Newcastle. The mill owners were
advised to sign the wage scale. claim
ing that owing to the perfection of the
organization, in other words, the Tin
Trust, they would be able to starve
the strikers into submission. Mark
Hanna's representative, however,
took occasion to explain that the
strike was having a disastrous effect
upon the campaign, and that it was
desira BILE that the mills should start
up at once. As the result of the nego-
tiations the Republican campaign
fund was considerably diminished,
and the wage scale was signed.
As an aftermath of the negotiations
comes the announcement that the Tin
Trust is forcing up riches. Until after
the campaign at least, the mill owners
were willing to pay their men a living
wage, but in retaliation they deter
mined that the public, and not the
Tin Trust, should bear the burden.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-14
THIS TRICK TOO TRANSPARENT

1t is to avoid meeting the para
mount issue, which goes to the very
existence of free institutions, that the
Republican leaders are now.endeavor-
ing-even at the cost of copfessing
themselves either fools or knaves-to
rehabilitate the old free silver scare
crow which the found go effective in
the closing days of toe 1896 campaign.
There is some tricks, however, which
Can be successfully played but once.
And this is one of them.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-14
TRUSTS SAFE WITH MCKINLEY

xhCS1S SAFE WITH AChlNLEH.
As the trusts are in control of the
federal administration, nothing can
be done to minimize the trust evil SO
long as the administration is left in
power. That fact is as plain as day
light. The Dingley tariff is the founda-
tion Of hundreds of industrial com.
bines. Without it the trusts organi.
cations could not have been perfected
as they have been all over the coun-
TRIP. Two things were necessary for
the organization of trusts on a great
scala protective tariff which would
exclude competition from abroad and
an admipistration which would favor
them and not interfere with their or,
ganization and operation. Both
needs were supplied. --
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-14
BARBARoUs AMERICAN TARIFF.

No other government in the world
but that of the United States has 80
barbarous a tariff as to make it neces-
sary to maintain in foreign ports an
expensive train of detectives to ferret
out contemplated frauds upon the
custom-house revenues. In spite of
all the vigilance of this detective corps
it is probable that ten smugglers run
the custom-house gauntlet with their
contraband wares to one who is
caught. In this contraband traffic is
a large invisible factor not to be &C.
counted for in the balance of foreign
commerce.