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^ ^ Ml 11 |^j[|^D^SE^I._WEEK1^^ i. m. obist 4 sons, Publisher. J % Ifamitg Iferospjer: |jor the promotion of the political, jSoqial, Jfgricuttuttat and flfommet[ciat Interests of the $outh. {TER^NGLfioV|EFivicENTsAXCE' ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1898. NUMBER 66. , ^ t ? : ? i _ _ r~ it. ; v; ~ ~ ttt THE GREAT DIAMOND SWINDLE By ATHOL MAYHEW. [Copyright, 1898, by the Author.] The American seemed instinctively to divine the uppermost thought in Cornelius' head. With a pleasant smile he unbuttoned his coat with his only hand, the left Then he was met by a difficulty which Vanderstroom wa9 requested to assist in overcoming. Would he mind putting his band in his (the stranger's) left inside breast pocket and get his pocket Look out for J Tn run.' iiiver since iuusb uuuyusicu iudians" had winged him, remarked the American, with a langh, he had made his wife his right hand, bnt as she wasn't there he must ask Mr. VanderBtroom to take her place and help him to weigh out some dollars. Vanderstroom, thus invited, dipped his chubby little hand into his patron's pocket and produced the c se. It was a He dipped his chubby uiue nana into nis patron's pocket. handsome Russia leather affair, bound with Bilver and having an autograph cut in th9 same metal on the back. But Cornelius placed the pocketbook in the American's hand without stopping to decipher the name. The stranger laughed again and returned it to the diamond merchant with a request that he would read it. The little man gave a start, and a short, sharp cry of surprise sprang to his lips, .for he could scarcely credit his eyes with what he read. There, on the American's costly case, he saw his own unusual name, "Cornelius Vanderstroom." The American lighted a cigar, took a minute or so to get it into good working order, during which he seemed to be deriving infinite amusement from the mer chant's astonished looks, and then he said: "All powerful strange, ain't it, that my name should pan out just like yours? Guess I was just as flabbergasted as you when, looking in your London directory for a leading diamond joint, I came across the facsimile of my sponsorial appellation among the Hatton Garden oommunity. That's what drew me to you, for it might be that we're kinder related." The little Dutchman had never heard of any kith or kin in America. But then the tribe of Vanderstroom had scattered from The Hague and Amsterdam years and years ago, and some of them might have found their way to the colonies on the Hudson. Yes, no doubt the general was right?blood as well as business ties existed between them. And, as he knew full well the old settlers from the Low Countries formed the major portion of the aristocracy and wealth of the new world, Cornelius was by no meaus loath to welcome so desirable a family connection, especially when the taste for diamonds, the dashing bays and the untold wealth of Potshot Gulch were borne in mind. No sooner, however, had these thoughts taken form within the active brain of Cornelius than a hqjrible bus picion presented itself. What if this newly discovered kinsman had only found him out in order to obtain a lengthy credit for the jewels he had selected? The bare idea was too appalling for contemplation, and it caused the little merchant to breakout into a profuse perspiration. The American was evidently a thought reader of the highest order He produced a Eauk of England note from his pocketbook for ?100 and laid it on the table. "Bills," said he, adroitly calling in alliteration's artful aid, "are bully boys for business." No getting over them. ?. He liked a fair and square deal, he did, and no favors asked. This was how be guessed he'd like to trade. He was a stranger in Europe, and he'd ask no man to go bail for him?no, sir-ee! That ?100 bill was, he calculated, a better introduction than all the names and references "on this played out side of the herring pond." The diamond merchant rubbed his hands, smiled effusively and was evidently of his namesake's way of thinking. "Waal, then, s'pose we fix it this way," continued the American in his uncompromising Yankee style?"you hold this ?100 bill and wire me to my hotel when the fixings to the diamonds are complete. Then I come along to your bureau and weigh in ?1,400 more, * and you hand over the jewels. That way I don't plank down too much beforehand for what I haven't got and you don't part with what you've not been fully paid for." Really, after all, there was a downright honest way of trading about these New England folk that put your old world methods to the blush! So thought the little merchant as be consigned the note to his waistcoat pocket and took down the address of the American's hotel?a first olass one, by the bye?in Northumberland avenue. Then, with many expressions of mn- f tual esteem, the two Vauderstrooms t parted. t Bat long before the expiration of the term fixed for the completion of the set- \ ting of the diamonds the American was f back in Hattou Garden, and the visits t became more frequent as the intimacy c between the two Vanderstrooms grew stronger. The colonel?he was not a F general, as the Dutch Cornelius foand * out from inquiries he caused to be made v at the American's hotel?the colonel ^ developed a habit of dashing up with those magnificent bays of his to the merchant's office two or three days a wjaoir inat tn Rpe how he was eetting fi on" and to invite him ont for a bottle of "1874" and an oyster patty at the adjacent railway restaurant. On these occasions the American would allow the voluble little Dutchman to do the major portion of the talking. Somehow or other the conversation invariably took the direction, under the colonel's dexterous steering, of London thieves and the various great robberies and swindles that bad recently taken place in the metropolis. This was a subject on whioh the diamond merchant was quite at home, and there being no wife in the way he proceeded to pose with great impressiveness as an authority on the intricacies of "put up yobs," the great bank haul of ?11,000 and how all these affairs were worked on the conjurer's principle of "de quickness of de I hand flat deceives de eve." " Ouce, after the opening of a second bottle, when Cornelius the lesser had j grown extra communicative, he impart- ^ ed to his kinsman the episode of the lost a pocketbook and the tenacity with which v his wife had stuck to the ?3,600 she had ? found in the hall, refusing to give it up, except on its urgent demand for the c application of the sum strictly to busi- F ness purposea n The American, who had been lolling c at the bar with characteristic languor, grew suddenly interested. He stiffened c himself up, listened attentively, became abstracted for a minute or two, then I hastily, for such an unusually deliber- i ate gentleman, tossed off his glass, pleaded a forgotten engagement, got into his t phaeton and was driven off by the dis- ? creet looking groom, with whom he c might afterward have been noticed in i earnest conversation, in the direction of b his hotel. The following morning the Yankee F Vanderstroom was again in Hatton Gar- b den and almost as soon as the other Cor- ? nelius had arrived at business. b More news?wonderful wire from Potshot Gulch! "Blamed" if ho didn't a think the mine was "going to turn out & a second Tombstone." b Thpr were "ladline it out" of two t more reefs and the wife mu6t have more t diamonds. Better finish her off once for b all while he was about it with a neck- h lace and stars. Those, with what he t had already ordered, "ought," he de- f clared, "to make her shine like the fig- g nrehead of Liberty at the entrance to d New York harbor." This time stones to the value of ?2,- b 000 were selected, and another ?100 note was handed over, just, as the a American put it, "by way of cover for b the fixings." a The diamond merchant was perfectly b satisfied, and, at his friend's urgent so- v licitation, promised to "hurry up" and n have the entire suit complete that day * three weeks, so that the silver king c could catch the American mail on the b following Friday, as he was anxious to lose no time in getting back to tbat E wonderful Tom Tiddler's ground of his t in Arizona. All reason for anxiety was t. furthermore relieved by the American b promising to bring the ?3,800 with t him and "planked dowu, fair and t. square" before the jewels were handed over. * At last the eventful day arrived when c the setting was finished and the magnificent suit of jewels was ready in its r great velvet lined case for delivery. v The colonel was punctuality itself, u He was driven up to the office, as usual, p by that eminently respectable groom of h bis, and he came in smoking a great v green oigar, as oool and collected as n ever. r The 6uit was pronounced superb. It a surpassed the colonel's expectations. Would Vauderstroom the lesser mind b putting the diamonds back in their case f and handing them to hie man below, b while he, the colonel, counted out the notes? o The merchant was about to do as he was bid when his habitual oautiou got g the better of him. He kept a firm hold on the case and didn't budge an inch. s The colonel evidently didn't see ms v hesitation. He was feeling as well as he could with bis one hand in his pockets \ and seemed rather disconcerted at not finding what he was searching for. n Would his namesake mind "just go- g ing over him?" He was so helpless with his one hand. p There was no pocketbook to be found, r After a moment's reflection the colo- il nel slapped his leg, laughed and said bo had it. He remembered now his wife I took his bill case out of bis pocket at o the hotel that morning to get some b money to pay for some fnocks. "Guess she forgot to put it back. It's u a way they've got, eh, Van?" laughing- g ly ejaculated the American. v The colonel's open, hearty manner r, reassured the little diamond merchant, p who was growing jnst a little?the _ merest shade of a trifle?suspicions. g The' sharp eyes of the colonel noticed it at once. y "We'll soon fix that up," he said, hi with his nsual calm drawl. "I'll stop tc right here and get the money all the a same?every cent of ik But I must ask you to act as my secretary. My left fist ti ain't no good nohow with a pen. Here, h; any paper will do. Take this memo, tl form of yours aud'jtcribble a few lines hi or me. My wife knows I came right tere, and your billhead will recall the msiness and why I want the dollars." Nothing unreasonable in that! Li-ttle fanderstroom had penciled memoranda or his maimed namesake several times lefore. He sat down and wrote to the iolouel'8 dictation: My Dear Wife?Send me by bearer the locketbook you have of mine, with its conents. I require it for an immediate and imlortunt payment. Don't keep the messenger raiting. Make him give you a receipt for it. four affectionate husband, cohnei.ius vaNDERSTROOM. "Bully for you!" cried the American vhen the Dutchman had written, signed >nd seated the letter. "Now, then, yon 'Broken my vord! Vat vnrCt" cried Vanderstroom in amazement. ' net run down and give it to my man. ?ell him to drive to the hotel, get his | newer from my wife, and he'll be back pith the dollars before we've time to inish a cigar." The diamond merchant executed this ommission with such alacrity and disiatch that he was back in the office alaost before the colonel had taken a sec>nd puff at a fresh Villar y Villar. The American held the closed jewel ase in his hand. "Lock it up," he cried jestingly, "or might be tempted to run away with t!" | The little Dutchman hardly relished hat form of joking. He opened his safe pith surprising promptitude, and the olouel himself placed the case within ts fastness. The merchant turned the ;ey and returned it to his pocket. They sat down and smoked. Time lassed, and it grew dusk. The colonel leoame fidgety. Vauderstroom was also letting restless. It was time for him to <e getting home to dinner. After they had sat thus for more thau n hour the colonel rose from his chair nd pat his watch to his ear. It mast iave stopped. No, it was going. Thirty hree hundred pounds was a large sum o intrust a servant with. He wished 10 had gone to the hotel for the money limself. But?pshaw 1 Nonsense! He'd rusted the man with larger sums beore. His wife had gone out and the room was waiting for her. Yes, no oubt that was what it was. Sis o'clock uud nearly dark nowl An lour past closing time! The colonel no longer disguised'his uxiety. Something unusual must have mppened. He would return to his hotel t once". His wife must have got home y that time. Would Vanderstroom come rith him? Or?how silly he was? tomorrow morning would do equally well. Jven if his man had gone wrong, he onld easily get fresh notes and be in latton Garden with them by 10. The diamond merchant was really aore anxious about his dinner than anyhing else. Reflection had shown him bat there was no cause for anxiety on lis part. The jewels were locked up in he safe, and he had ?200 as cover for be setting. Therefore, as far as he wa9 concerned, he puymeut might just as well be conladed on the morrow as that night They left each other after one or two efreshers at their favorite restaujant, ?ith the appointment standing for 10 ext morning. It was not kept by either arty. The colonel called a hansom as e waved his one hand to him, and it >*as the last glimpse the little Dutchman ever had of his military Yankee elative with his distinguished bearing nd his sleeveless coat When the little merchant reached his uburbau home that night, it was late, or he had met a friend and dined with iim at his clnb. Mrs. Vanderstroom was dozing in a hair before the fire. "My lofe," began her hnsband apolo;etically. "I know," she answered sleepily. "I appose you wanted it in business or you wouldn't have broken your word." "Broken my vordl Vat vord?" oried randerstroom in amazement. "Why, your word that you would ever touch that ?3,500 unless Brent"? "Vere is de dree tousand fife hundret ounds?" shrieked Cornelius with horible foreboding. "Speak! Who has got tr "Why, who Bhould have it but yon? )id you not send a man here with th-is rder? And of coarse I gave the pocketook up to him at once." "Gott in himmel!" ejaculated the ufortuuate merchant as his eyes caught ight of the memorandum paper be had ,'ritten at the dictation of the American, equestiug the immediate return of his ocketbook and signed?actually signed -Cornelius Vanderstroom, his own misuided autograph. "Done, b. ?I" he shouted as the rhole swindle flashed upon him. Then a rushed to the stables, hud a horse put ) his carriage at once and made his tan drive at top speed back to town. It was past 1 in the morning when he iached the American's hotel. The 6ird ad flown. With a horrible suspicion lat he had not yet realized the worst e next drove to the office in Hatton Garden. With trembling hands he unlocked the great safe and opened the jewel casa It was empty. In place of the diamonds there was only a slip of paper, and Cornelias Vanderstroom, the cute, the clever, the infallible detecter of a "put up yob," fell fainting on the floor as he read his own oft quoted maxim: "It's the quickness of the band deceives the eye." They never caught the colonel or his wife or that highly respectable confederate, the groom. The Sootland Yard detectives were of the opinion that the affair was the handiwork of a certain Flash Cassady. a cockney cracksman of phenomenal ingenuity and of cosmopol Han accompiisnmenrs, wnu nuu pernuuated a Yankee with considerable success before. Whether this was so or not he disappeared, as Cornelius had to do when the robbery got wind, and the little Dutchman became the wholesale recipient of that form of common, or Garden, chaff for which the great diamond market is so justly celebrated. The notes and the diamonds were never recovered. The former, after a decent interval, found their way into the inevitable "innocent holder's bands," while the latter, when taken out of the setting, might have been easily disposed of on the continent. Thus the great Hatton Garden robbery lives now only in the archives of the police as the most successful and cutest "single handed" swindle of the century. THE END. Piscflliutfous heading. GENERAL WHEELER'S GREAT COURAGE. He Has Made the Best Reputation of All the Generals In the Santiago Campaign. Washington, August 10.?Of all the generals with the army in front of , Santiago Major General Wheeler now promises to come out of the campaign : with the highest reputation for courage, , strength of purpose, military foresight , and soldierly discretion." This was the opinion advanced by a prominent officer of the war depart- ( ment today when the Round Robin > and Roosevelt controversy were under ? discussion. There is no doubt that , the conduct of General Wheeler in the Santiago campaign has won golden opinions from leading officers in the army. In private conversation they s assert the belief that the principal credit of the victory belongs to General Wheeler more than to any other general who took part in the campaign. Strong reasons are advanced I for this opinion. It has been made ' clear that if it had not been for Gen- 1 eral Wheeler's determination the army < would have retreated from the ad- < vanced position which it captured in I the fight before San Juan. The tele- 1 gram sent by General Wheeler to Gen- I eral Shafter on the night of July 1, s clearly indicates this. < In this telegram General Wheeler says that many of the offiicers had ap- ' pealed to him to have the line with- ! drawn and the army take up a posi- ' tion further back, but that he positive- ' Iy discountenanced this as it would lose ' the American army much prestige. He I ureed General Shafter not to pay any ! attention to similar requests if made I of him. I That General Wheeler understood i perfectly the conditions which con- i fronted the army when he took this < stand against a retreat, is shown by 1 his telegram to General Shafter. In it he said : j "The lines are thin, as so many men ' have gone to the rear with wounded 1 and many are exhausted ; but I hope ] these men can get up tonight and with i our line entrenched and Lawton on our right, we ougbt to hold tomorrow, i but I fear it will be a severe day. If i we can get through tomorrow all right i we can make our breastworks strong i the next night." 1 "He realized thoroughly," said this 1 officer above quoted, "that his forces 5 were in bad shape and that they had < hot work before them. But he saw I also that they could win out if they i held their ground, and believing that, i he counted not the cost. He at once t set the whole army to work strength- 1 ening its position, and we learn from J officers who have returned from the 1 front that it was his intelligent direc- J tion which not only made the American position tenable, but enabled our i army later on to drive the Spaniards t into Santiago. Some of the officers 1 wno tooK part 111 tne oauie even go * so far as to say that if it had Dot been 1 for General Wheeler the victory of 1 Santiago might have been lost and < the American forces routed. Even i while he was so sick that he had to be I carried around in a litter, his knowl- ( edge of what ought to be done and his t directions as to how to do it were of i incalculable advantage." < "You will take notice that General Wheeler is the only one of the com- 1 manding generals at the front whose ? nume is not signed to the 'Round Rob- i in.' Just as he refused to listen to the c generals who urged a retreat, so also ? did he refuse to take part in any com- i plaint. He was not unsympathetic to f the sufferings of his men. His tele- I grams to General Shafter show how * deeply he was affected by the hard- t ships which they endured. 'You can t hardly realize the exhausted condition v of the troops," he said in speaking of ^ the situation at the front on the night c of the battle of San Juan. But he had s himself stuck to his duty like a man, r when racked with pain, and he looked to the meu under him to show a simi- I lar undaunted grit. t "A southern man and a Democrat? one might have looked for criticism from him of the conditions which Colonel Roosevelt so forcibly set forth. None came. General Wheeler stood out against retreat; he stood out against complaint. We give all our generals at the front praise for their gallantry in action, but General Wheeler has shown himself to be the ablest and the truest soldier of them all." Much more did this officer say setting forth all sides and illustrating bis arguments with parts of the various reports. The report that a courtmartial may likely be the outcome of the "Round Robin" is discredited at the war department. A high authority, in milit.Arv law said that all the erenerals. J O i from General Shafter, who called the meeting, down to the least who signed it, were amenable to courtmartial, but that no such proceeding was likely under the circumstances. As it was explained by this authority, the "Round Robin" is recognized in military law as a form of mutiny. It is an attempt to get at the people over the heads of the war authorities. The only authorized form of procedure in such a state of affairs as existed at Santiago is for each brigade commander to report the condition of his brigade to the division commander, and for the division commanders to represent the facts to the commanding general, who, if he sees fit, can report with recommendations to the department. If the war department acts, all well and good ; but if it does not, the commanding general and his subordinate officers must not carry the matter further. Tbey must grin and bear. That is military law. Any other course of action is regarded as prejudicial to good order and discipline and lays the offenders liable to a courtmartial. General Shafter's action in calling a meeting of his officers to consider a protest is considered a gross breach of military discipline and was so looked upon by General Wheeler. The fact that the department had already decided to do just what Colonel Roosevelt was trying /to force them to do made the matter aDDear esDeciallv ill-timed. The publication was an aggravation. The real offense was in holding the meeting. A. W. B. SAMPSON OR SCHLEY. Secretary Lone Gives the Credit to Sampson ; but the People Give It to Schley. Washington Special to News and Courier. The threats of the clique running the navy department that they would 'do" Commodore Schley before this thing was through with seem certain if success. The bureaucracy has eviiently secured control of the ear of the secretary of the navy and the combination is too powerful for any maD to break, even if he was anxious to do so, which Commodore Schley apparently is not. The announcement that Sampson is to be advanced eight numbers and Schley six means on the surface that both are to be made rear admirals; but back of it is the certainty that when these promotions come they will be timed so that Sampson will rank Schley. There is no question that this will be the course matters-will take. Schley is to be put below the man whom in actual rank he precedes, md all because he was brilliantly successful in the destruction of Cervera's fleet. No man has ever yet been able to get an explanation of the reasons which impelled the appointment of Sampson as acting rear admiral, thus placing him over the heads of all the mart nf flan ronk in Atlnntin wnt.Prs That it was due to rank, arrant favortism there can be no doubt. Sampson s of the bureaucracy ; his clique was n charge of affairs at the navy department and they put him in over the lead of Schley and others. When Schley had Cervera bottled up they sent Sampson to Santiago to take jommand over his head; and now ;hey have joined in the effort to make t appear that Sampson deserves the vhole credit for the great naval vic;ory at Santiago, though he cut absoutely no figure in it, and they will iut a fitting climax to their acts by ixing the promotions so Sampson will ank Schley. The secretary of the navy seems to me to have added nothing to the conroversy by his widely published open etter on the subject, and if he has lone his man Sampson any good I lave failed to see it. Secretary Long fits at the same man of straw that Captain Mahan did in his recent letter n The Sun. Both try to make it apiear that there is an effort on the part )f the public and the newspapers to ;ake from Sampson credit to which he s entitled, and they devote their tral;nts to rebuking that effort. That is their man of straw. Every>ody agrees with them that Samp ion did au tney ciaim ior mm. ne vas in command ; as commander be >rdered that a close watch be kept up>n the mouth of the harbor, and he indoubtedly assigned the ships of the leet to their positions. But Long and tlaban seem to think that Sampson vas the only wateher. That is a misake. And it is a mistake to presume hat any other commanding officer vould have done any less. There is rirtue in having done that sort of a luty well, but there is no stupendous amount of credit due the officer or the nan who does that sort of duty. Still there has been no effort on the >art of the public or the newspapers o take from Sampson the credit for this. There is a disposition to tninic that that was not such a great feat, and to believe that any lieutenant in the navy could have done the same thing. But there is an effort to take credit in which the people are very much interested, and it is this effort that is at the bottom of the controversy between the people and the naval clique. That effort was made by Acting Admiral Sampson, and he stands convicted of it on his own official report. He is the man who has sought to belittle the efforts of another, and who has sought to take to himself the credit which belongs to Schley. Sampson might have been just as much in it as Schley, if he bad been there; but he was not there. For him and the other members of the navy clique to try to take the credit from Schley has brought out the protests of the people. Secretary LoDg and Captain Mahan cannot know public sentiment or they would not try to change the verdict by newspaper letters, especially when these letters consist in creating a man of straw and hitting at him. Sampson may rank Schley on the records; but history will give Schley credit for that greatest of naval victories of this decade ; and to the people Admiral Schley will mean a vast deal more than Admiral Sampson. PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY. A Large Number of Officers Advanced For Meritorious Conduct In Battle. For unkoown reasons the administration decided not to adhere to its formerly expressed announcement that the promotions in the navy would be made as the result of recommendations by a board whose duty it should be to review the achievements of naval officers throughout the Spanish war, and last Friday the navy department made public a list of promotions in the North Atlantic fleet, previous publications having been inaccurate in some particulars. These are ad interim commissions, and hold until the senate confirms or reiects them. Thev take date of August 10, 1898, and in each case are for eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle: Commodore William T. Sampson advanced eight numbers and appointed a rear admiral from August, 1898, for eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle. Takes rank next after Rear Admiral John A. Howell. Commodore Winfield S. Schley advanced six numbers and appointed a rear admiral from same date and for same reasons. Takes rank next after Real Admiral W. T. Sampson. Captain John W. Philip advanced five numbers and appointed a commodore ; Captain Francis J. Higgitrson advanced three numbers; Captain Robley D. Evans advanced five numbers; Captain Henry T. Taylor advanced five numbers ; Captain Francis A. Cook advanced five numbers ; Captain Charles E. Clark advanced six numbers; Captain French E. Chad wick advanced five numbers; Lieutenant Commander Raymond P. Rodgers advanced five numbers; Lieutenaut Commander Reaton Schroder advanced three numbers ; Lieutenant Commander Richard Wainwright advanced ten numbers ; Lieutenant Commander Jno. A. Rodgers advanced five numbers; Lieuteuant Commander Jas. K. Cogswell advanced five numbers; Lieutenant Commander W. P. Potter advanced five numbers ; Lieutenant Commander Giles B. Harber advanced five numbers; Lieutenant Commander Newton E. Mason advanced five numbers; Lieutenant Alexander Sharp, Jr., advanced five numbers; Lieutenant Harry P. Huse advanced five numbers ; Chief Engineer Charles J. Mc Connell advanced two numoers ; uniei Engineer John L. Hannum advanced two numbers; Chief Engineer Alexander B. Bates advanced-three numbers ; Chief Engineer Robert W. Milligan advanced three numbers; Chief Engineer Charles W. Rae advanced three numbers; Chief Engineer War| ner B. Bayless advanced two numbers'; Passed Assistant Engineer George W. McElroy advanced three numbers and appointed chief engineer ; Commander Bowman H. McCalla advanced six numbers and appointed a captain to restore him to bis original place on the navy list. The following take ranks from the same date, but different reasons are assigned for their advancement: Lieutenant (junior grade) Victor Blue advanced live numbers for extraordinary heroism; Lieutenant Colonel R. W. Huntington one number and appointed a colonel in the marine corps for eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle ; First Lieutenant Wendall C. Neville given the rank of captain by brevet for same reason ; Second Lieutenant Louis J. Magill given the rank of first lieutenant and captain by brevet in the marine corps for good judgment and gallantry in battle; Second Lieutenant Philip M. Bannon given the -* 1- linntononf Ku KrPVPt. in 1ULIJV U1 ill Ol/ UVUVUUUUW m,j the marine corps for conspicuous service in battle; Captain Paul St. C. Murphy given the rank of major by brevet in the marine corps for gallant service in battle ; Second Lieutenant Thomas S. Birben given the rank of first lieutenant by brevet in the marine corps for distinguished service in battle. 9+9 "Well, Sambo, what's yer up to now-a-days?" "Oh, I is a carp'ner and jiner." "He! guess yer is. What department do you perform ?" "What department ? Why, I does the circular work." "What's dat?" "Why, I turns de grindstone."