davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1914-10-25

finally the 14th settled down to a long
stay at Vancouver barracks, historic
post on the banks of the Columbia,
first created as an armed post by the
Hudson's Bay Company in 1924; later
an American garrison under Capt
Bonneville, made famous by Washing
ton Irving, and still later the scene OF
the labors of Capt. U. s. Grant, young
the existing buildings were built. IL
was at Vancouver. by the way, that
Grant sfckened of army life in the dull
days of the early ffties and resigned
from the army, not to return until the
civil war called him.
In 1897 all the world went gold mad
because of the discovery of Klondfke.
The adventurous by the thousands from
flocked to Alaska. All had to enter by
way of Skagway and the White Pass
trail. There was no civil government in
Alaska, so when Skagway blossomed
into a pretentious city the iawless took
charge. One '.Soapy Smith, at the head
of a gang of desperadoes. levied trib-
ute on the weak and the unwary.
One day the more permanent resi-
dents of Skagway, headed by the local
editor, J. F. A. Strong, now governor
of the territory, held a mass meeting,
deplored the fact that the federal gov
ernment had not moved to provide a
government for the country and SOL
emnly resolved to try to better condi-
tions in such crude manner as they
might devise. They buried Soapy
Smith" next day, his system permeated
by quantity of soft lead which had
been injected therein by the aforesaid
good citizens. Many of the lawless ele-
menI moved AWAY few jumps ahead
of the good citizens.
+
This stirred Uncle Sam to action He
dispatched company of the 14th In
fantry to Skagway to relieve the law
abiding element from such unpleasant
duties as it had been forced to per-
form. Lieut.. Mccain went along. Pres
emily Skagway was as peaceful and
orderly as a New England village. The
lanky Mississippian proved to be ca
pable and efficient mayor, chief of po-
lice. lice town marshal and city council.
Skagway no longer was disturbed. The
widest and wooliest desperate wilteu
before the calm. soft-eyed, soft-spoken,
gentle but adamant army officer.
Skagway was calm and peaceful when
along came the Spanish American war
Quickly the scattered elements of the
14th Infantry hurried back to Vancou-
yer barracks, there, for the first time
In years. to be mustered complete un-
der the grateful eyes of their famous
regimental commander, the loved Col
Tommy Anderson.
Col. Tommy" loaded his forces on a
transport and took them to Manila as
a part of the first army expedition to
the relief of Dewey. First Lieut.. Nc
Cain, always unperturbed, always ef-
fcient, was one of the colonePs right
hand men in the movement
In the islands there was some fight
ing. The action of August s, 1898,
when the land forces took the city
from the perhaps willing Spanish, is
matter of history. 1t was no great
shakes of a battle. after all, but it
III T..
had become engaged.
Then the Aguinaldo insurrection be-
gan to brew. The 14th was in for a,
lot of brisk fighting, and felt the fact
Evening star., 1914-10-25

to take up the cadets musket. Wealth,
family tradition. influence mean moth
training schools-lWest Point and An
napolis. Individual capacity to make
good" Is the only thing that counts.
Does all this tend to create an aris-
tocracy? Yes, in the better sense Of the
word 1T does. But it Is an aristocracy
of brains and competency. Only the
best equipped survive the four years
at these service schools. Only those
who can survive the rigid tests of po-
tential leaders emerge as graduates
from the institutions. And that Is not
all. Moral character also is a factor
In the equation. Truth, honor, justice,
these are concrete and not abstract
things at the academies. The acade-
mics and the services for which they
train stand for the elements on which
civilization and good government are
based.
The spirit of West Point. as well as
Annapolis. as Gen. Mccain pointed out
in further talk, is essentially demo-
cratic. All new cadets are beasts" or
''plebes short for plebeians. They
must demonstrate their character and
abilities before they are admitted to
full fellowship with their colleagues.
These are qualities that must lie with
in the individual boy. All start from
Ino SCRATCH, as IL were.
AS an instance, one of the most non-
ular cadets in the last decade at west
Point, the one who achieved more
prominence in studies, athletics. social
affairs and military exercises than any
one cadet in a generation. and who
finally was graduated among the first
three in his class. is the son of a moor
widow who made a living conducting a
miners boarding house in the far west.
She had nothing to give her son save
q a hoI
brain and democratic spirit Uncle
Sam took him from her. educated him
In a worthy profession and now has
him at work.
the average American West Point
trained army officer; man sprune
|, from the people, a poor boy lighting
his way to the top and to a career Of
honor and integrity.
When he spoke of facing a life of
following a plow and a lop-eared mule
in event of his failure to pass the en-
trance examination at West Point. he
indulged in no figure of speech. Born
, in Mississippi in 1851, his youth was
: spent in an impoverished and broken
.. community. The struggle for existence
was desperate. The civil war was not
far distant and reconstruction was q
, reality when he came to the age when
most boys are In grammar school
Educational advantages were few.
and time to study, since every member
of the family had to contribute labor
to the common support. was hard to
md somehow, though. young Nc
, Cain grubbed along in his studies. and
then acquired an ambition to go to
West Point.
Hernando De Soto Money, then a
representative from Mississippi, later
distinguished senator, was willing
to give him the appointment. since
. there were few applicants and few Of
} those who had applied had been for
Evening star., 1914-10-25

in its very bones. But just before the
big show started. just before the
chance came to make real military
records, Lieut.. Mccain. always hard
working. acquired a case of tropical
fever that was the admiration of the
Medical Corps. 1t was a perfectly typi.
cal case. Just the thing the Medical
Corps wanted to work on. But Lieut.
much the doctors might. He wanted
to go out with the regiment, but he
had to stay in the hospital.
There were times when 1t looked as
II he would come back to the United
States in a fag-draped casket, but he
evaded that. Nevertheless, the fever
left him SO shattered that he was not
fit for the field. The army authorities
sent him back to Vancouver barracks
to build up
What mattered that promotion to
captain came along in the regular
order of things about this time? The
war was over, the heroes were to be
rewarded, further promotion was thus
enectually blocked for a number of
years; nothing was ahead but the old
routine of moving from one tiny west
ern hitchfng post to another. It was
a doleful outlook.
In some such state Of mind Grant. at
the same station, tried to find relief in
renting a patch of ground and raising
potatoes as side line to soldering.
But history records that just as Grant
raised a fine crop the market broke
and the potatoes rotted on the ground
lowing the ilustrious example.
Mccain worked off his crouch by
going across the Columbia to the wild
and beautiful valley of the Washougal
and wandering among the frs. hunting
and shooting and studying. 1t helped
some.
About this time Congress passed
law which provided that the appoint
ments In the adjutant generals and
inspector generals corps should be by
competitive examination. Heretofore
they had been by selection. and politi-
cal influence and favoritfsm' had as
much to do with the naming or tneSe
officers as anything else:
McCain's eyes glistened He saw him-
self as a fine young adjutant general.
The tall frs on the Washougal told
him to go to 1t. He went. Right In
their midst, too. He laid out q course
of study, took his books into his favor-
lite retreat and "boned" up as ne had
not "boned" since he left West Point.
r
When the examinations were over
ana tne papers WeiS oil nv ~ O."
found that Henry P. Mccain had pass
ed a better examination than any other
applicant. He BECAME at once major
in the adjutant generals corps. A
year later he became a lieutenant col
onel, and in 1904 he became a colonel.
Twice since entering the corps he has
served in the Philippines The first
time he was over in the Moro country
when Maj Gen. Leonard Wood was
subduing that turbulent territory. There
he proved himself a first-class fighting
man as well as capable adjutant.
Wood thought SO well of him that when
Mccain was coming home Wood gave
him a personal letter to Woods best
Evening star., 1914-10-25

on Tuscarora creek. Adamstown.
Buckeystown and Limekiln on the
main line of the Baltimore and Ohio
through Frederick valley to the Point
of Rocks, and Feagerville on the JEFF
fersop turnpike. South. over a patch
work of fields and woods. you look far
off over Dickerson and Barnesville and
Boyds to the neighborhood of Pooles-
vile. You can pick out about where
Leesburg lies.
Buzzards flying high over the fields
are wheeling and floating below you.
On a crag overhanging the depths
long-leaf stunted pine tree grows. The
view is magnificent, but of such COM
mon clay is man that the Rambler
turned his back on this panorama and
fell to eating chicken grapes that grew
luxuriantly If not lusciously over the
small sumacs and dwarfed locust trees
that live up there. Then with stained
face and hands he began the down
trip over the stony trail and along the
dusty road to catch a home-bound
train at Dickerson.
Evening star., 1914-10-25
October Foliage.

A FEW days ago the Rambler. while
"a gathering bouquet of wild fiow-
ers, met. on a woodland trail. Ewing
Summers, one of the hard-working bird
and plant enthusiasts Of Washington.
He was warming up over the autumn
beauty of the woods and what he said
to the Rambler follows:
while the region Of the st. Law
renee valley and the great lakes prob
ably exhibits the most gorgeous forest
colors in the world, reminding us of
the brilliant calicoes Of two or three
generations ago. we have here In the
Potomac valley display sufficient to
elicit our admiration.
yellow is the prevailing color. next
to green. in the autumnal forest. as
found on the naples. sweet gum and
tulip poplar. The foliage Of q maple
or sweet gum tree all turns at once.
while on the poplar only here and
there a leaf turns yellow, increasing in
number and brilliancy until severe
frost turns them all suddenly into a
dingy brown and forces them off to the
Evening star., 1914-10-25

How Henry P. Nc
Cain Quit Following a
Lop-Eared Mule in the
Furrow to Become a
West Point Cadet and
Rise to One of the
Most Powerful Posi-
tions in the Military
Service-A Story of
the Democracy of the
American Army.
Evening star., 1914-10-25
T was a summer

1 WAS d 6uIIlIIleT
day at West
Point. In one of
the academic halls
there was gather
ed q stately ar
ray of stern. uni
formed members
of the faculty of
the worlds most
famous military
academy. At the
desks was a col
Evening star., 1914-10-25
UGARLOAF noun

UGARLOAF noun
tain is one of the
natural objects in
the region Of
w a s h ! n g t o n
which nearly all
persons who dwell
In the capital and
the territ or v
around it know
something, b u t
perhaps not very
much about. 1t
Evening star., 1914-10-25

lection OF assorted young Americans.
They were hardly the average of
boys, else they would not have been
there. Each had some quality that had
lifted him above his fellows at home
and won him an appointment as a
cadet. "The flower of the nation" they
have been called. but In this instance
il was the flower in the pollen, for
not yet had they gained full admit
tance. They were up for the entrance
examination.
In the group was a tall, awkward
paliid youth, uneasy, scared, nervous
and yet showing in his fine deep-set
eyes a desperate purpose. Up from
Mississippi he had come, shabby, un-
couth by comparison with the city
bred. trained and tutored boys who
made up considerable part of the
throng, boys who were full of the con-
fidence OF their own superiority There
was more than a trace of contempt in
the amused glances they sent to the
rustic youth from the south.
All beasts" in the vocabulary of the
Point, they seemed to feel that they
were materially less beastly than the
Mississi ppian.
my whole life, said the boy recently
= boy no longer, he sits in an cxpan-
sive suite of Offices in the War Depart
ment at Washington playing a larg.
part In the direction of the American
Army. Brig. Gen. Henry P. Mccain
adj.Jtant general of the army, is hi
name and title.
There was a reflective look in hi
eyes and q sad little smile on his lipi
as he, let his mind drift back to that
to him. terrible day of 1851.
II had to stand up there before a 10
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-21

Puerto, Mexico, July 21.-With
Huerta safe aboard the German
cruiser Dresden, bound for Jamaica
Mexican officials breathed easier to-
day. A rebel attack was feared While
the former dictator was here.
The federal soldiers who gau5ed
Huerta and his party, who wee not
sent back to Mexico City, thrw away
their uniforms and disapeared in
the, forest. Before IePlng Huer5a q
gave out a statement ]. which he de-
cIared the United Sites was prepar-
ing to annex Melco, but said the
plan would neve. succeed. Huerta
will soon saffron Kingston for
France and 20 to Riviera, to join
Porfirio Dia.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-21
ANDERsoN's INJUNCTION
Against Primary Law Will be Passed
On in Jacksonville Saturday

Jacksonville Metropolis, goth: The
injunction suit instituted by II. l..
Anderson, progressive party leader
in Florida, which was made return
able to Judge Wills, of the eighth
judicial circuit, Gainesville, today,
has been delayed, owing to the re-
fusal of Judge Wills to hear the
matter on the grounds that sufficient
notice was not given.
A hearing will therefore take
place in Jacksonville before Judge
Daniel A. Simmons next Saturday
morning, at 10 o'clock.
Mr.. Anderson petitioned the court
for an injunction directed against
the secretary Of state to restrain that
official from certifying the names of
primary nominees to the commission
ers of each county for the official
ticket in the general election. Mr.
Anderson, in his bill of complaint,
claims that the Bryan act is uncon-
stitutiona1
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-21
GAMBLER

Gambler, July 20.-The match
game. Saturday between the senior
and junior baseball teams on the
home diamond resulted in a score OF
to z.
Miss Helen Thornton, who has
been the popular guest of Mrs. JAMIE.
Pritchard for the past week, has re-
turned to her home in Burbank.
Mrs. Belle Holtzclaw has return
ed from a fortnight visit to Mr. War
rem Holtzclaw and family in Jackson
Vile.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mathews were
the chaperones Monday evening of
splash party at Smiths Lake, which
was given in compliment to Miss
Helen Thornton.
Mrs. Shelton is convalescing af-
ter two weeks illness.
Mr.. Burdolf, who has been visit
ing his family IN Ohio, has returned
10 his duties ON Heather Island
Mr.. Oscar H.ghtower. the king OF
Heather Island. paid Belleview a
business visit Monday.
Mr.. A. ID. Moore. formerly of
Chicago, stopped over Wednesday
AMI Thursday en- route to Fort Ny
ers. for short visit to his wife and
daughter, who are visiting Mrs. His
cock and will, in the future join Mr..
Moore in their new home further
south
There were services in the Metho-
dist church Sunday morning by Rev
Evans, and in the evening in the
Presbyterian church.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-21
NEGRO KILLED AT WILDWOOD

Wildwood, July 21.-O. c. Jack
son, colored, was killed here yester-
day by L. E. Story, special agent of
the railroad. When train No. 2
from Tampa, going north, pulled up
to the water tank here, the negro
stepped down from the rear end of
the tender and Mr.. Story was stand
ing on the opposite side of the train,
saw him when he got down and
went under the train and caught the
negro and in the scuffie which took
place he shot him.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-21
LAKE WEIR w. c. IT. q.

The W. c. t. u. met at the home
of Mrs. T. B. Shook, July 18th.
The meeting opened with a song
and scripture reading followed by the
Lords prayer in concert.
The roll call was answered by clip
pings from the essays given at a
medical convention held in B:rming-
ham, England.
A committee was appointed by the
president to see the merchants OF
Weirsdale in regard to the anti-cigar-
ette law.
The superintendent of the mothers
department, Mrs. Shook, then took
charge of the meeting and the fol-
lowing program was rendered.:
Phonograph selection, Memories
of Mother
Repeating of the 2Srd Psalm in
concert.
Song, "OlI Folks at Home"
Talk by Mrs. Reed on the depart
ments of our w. C. T. U.
Reading by Miss Grace Simpson.
THE Bravest Battle
Reading by Mrs. Rast, Women
Cigarette Smokers"
Talk by Mrs. Sigmond, What She
Loved Best-the W. c. T. T."
Song, "God Be with You TIL We
Meet Again"
Adjournment.
After the program lovely refresh
ments consisting of ice cream and
cake were served to all present.
Eleven members and thirty-one
visitors were present and the meet
ing proved a very pleasant one in
deed.
After a pleasant social hour all
departed declaring that this was one
of the best meetings of the year.
Minnie D. Albertson, Press. Supt.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-21
MISERY AMONG
OHIO MINERS
SEVENTY-F|Vf THOUSAND PEOPLE AT
POINT Of STARVATION
DESTITUTE OF FOOD, CLOTHING AND MONEY, AND MANY
At THE POINT OF DEATH

Cleveland, July 21.-Without any
food, clothing or money, $4,000 men,
women and children are near starva-
ton in the mining district of East
ern Ohio, according to President AL
basin of the Miners Subdivision
No. 5, who is here today to make an
appeal for the stricken people.
Over $1,000 miners have been out
of work since April 1st. They and
their families and dependent ones
are starving, some actually dying.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-21
B0RAX WILL PREVENT
TYPHOID FLY FROM BREEDING
DEPARTMENT of Agriculture Discovers
A Method for Doing Away with
One Great Source of Disease.

Washington, July 21.-As a result
OF experiments, the specialists of the
department of agriculture have dis
covered that a small amount of or
dinary Iborax sprinkled daily an ma
nure, will effectively prevent the
breeding of the typhoid, or house
fly. Similarly, the same substance
applied to garbage, refuse, open toi-
let's, damp floors and crevices in
stables, cellars or markets, will pre-
vent fly eggs from Matching. Borax
will not kill the adult fly nor pre-
vent it from laying eggs, but it's
thorough use will prevent any fur
ther breeding.
The Investigations, which included
experiments with many substances,
was undertaken TO discover some
means of preventing the breeding of
flies in horse manure without lessen
ing the value of this manure as a fer
tilizer for use by the farmers. 1t
was felt that if some means of pre-
venting the breeding of flies near a
human habitation could be devised,
the diseases spread by these filthy
germ carriers could be greatly re-
duced. While the ''swat the fly" cam
paign, traps and other devices for re-
ducing the number of typhoid-carry-
ing flies are of value, they are of less
Importance than the prevention of
the breeding. 1t was realized, how
ever, that no measures for preventing
the breeding of flies would come in
to common use unless it was such
that the farmer could use it on his
manure pile without introducing in
to the soil any substance that would
interfere with his crops.
AS result of experiments carri-
ed on at Arlington Farm, in Vir-
ginia, and New Orleans, La, the in
vestigators found that O.62 of a
pound of borax, or 0.75 of pound
of calcined colemanite (crude calci-
um borate) would kill the maggots
and prevent practically all of the flies
ordinarily breeding in s bushels OF
horse manure from developing. This
was proven by putting manure in
cages and comparing the results from
piles treated with borax and from un-
treated piles. The bOrax, it was
found, killed the fly eggs and mag
gots in the manure and prevented
their growth into flies.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-21
MAY BE USED IN
CASE OF MOBILIZATION

Jacksonville Metropolis, goth: The
Black Point military reservation
may be recommended as a mobiIiza-
ton headquarters by the United
States army officers who have been
tour of duty which closed yesterday.
This was brought out in an unofficial
conversation between Major S. c.
Harrison, Jr., and the regular army
officers. They stated that they con-
sidered the Black Point site the best
in its district, and it is to be expect
ed that, in time Of military agitation,
United States troops will be station
ed at this point
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-21

los Angeles, July 21.-An inres-
ton into the murder of Mrs.
a Skies, the beautiful young wife
President Skies of the First Ma
al Bank Of Norcross, Ca, by
rles Haag, Los Angeles builder,
contractor, who then suicided,
started by the coroner today.
ording to friends of both parties
mad infatuation of Haag for Mrs.
IS was responsible for the trag-
Haag was recentlys divorced
n his wife. Mrs. Skies last week
papers asking for a divorce
n her husband, the banker.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-21
LOUSY AND QUARREL LED TO
THE TRAGEDY

Fhe woman was dragged from her
lroom early this morning by the
for whom she gave UP her hus-
id and Georgia home and shot to
lth as her five-year-old son clung
her and begged Haag not to kill
mother. Haag then turned the
oliver on himself and sent a bull
Through his own brain.
jealousy which resulted in quar-
is supposed to have caused the
gedy. Mrs. Skies, who was twen-
four years of age, came to Los
geles IS months ago, and lived in
boarding house. She met Haag,
% was about thirty years of age,
nething over year ago.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-21
NTI-TRUST BILL WILL
BE REPORTED TOMORROW

Washington, July 21.-Afte
|onths of deliberation the Senat'
|iiciary committee last night agree
bon final revision of the Claytol
hti-trust bill. The committee wi
port the measure to the Sena
Iednesday.
Most important of the amendmen
recommended by the committee s
he to provide for court review
Eders issued by the Interstate Co
|erce Commission or the propol
Iterstate trade commission agaid
brporations found to have violed
be trust statutes.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-21
CARRAzA WILL TREAT
AS CRIMINALS
Men Who Had Anything to Do with
the Murder of Madero

/ Los Angeles, July 21.-Eyery man
who took an active part in the events
leading up to the assassination of
President Francisco l. Madero, will
be dealt with as criminal" accord
ing to a telegram received here from
the headquarters of General Venus
tiano Carranza. The telegram was
sent to Adolpho GARLIC, constitution
alist consul, and was signed by Sec
retary of Foreign Relations Fabela.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-21
ETI-TIPPING LAW
IN OPERATION
aveIing Salesman Arrested in Mis-
sissippi for Giving Negro
Porter Ten Cents

jackson, Miss July 21.-The first
rest was made here today for vio-
ion of the anti-tipping law, when
ID. Sinclair, a travelling salesman,
s held under $25 bond, charged
IN giving a tip of a dime to ho-
\ porter. If convicted Sinclair is
.Ble to fine of $50.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-21
coNFLAGRATIoN IN oLUMBUs
Empire FIGURING Mills Burned with
Heavy Loss, Pary Covered
by TnsuSnce

Columbus, Ca, lly 21-The En-
.pire Flour Mills hrned today. The
large concrete gin elevator recent
ly built was saed. Loss, $175,0OO,
partly coveredpy insurance.