The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 26, 1898, Image 8
SHATTER AND HIS ARI
Graphic Pictures of the Cyclonic
Campaign at Santiago.
STOBEBS OF MEK B?GET IS IT.
Selection of Leafder and Picked
Troop?-Inslde/TIistorjr of the Ex
pedition-Ho*Y/ Shafter Warded Off
Bisaste*--Tr^-?j:- Vovcsc on Trans?
ports-The yFlRlitsn?: Kegrixuents.
[Copyright. 1S0S. by the Author.]
J 1
This ip the first of a series of 15 arti?
cles codoprisirig the history '^f the San?
tiago/campaign by Captain ^George L.
Kilmer, late United States volunteers.
Captain Kilmer holds the highest rank
?s his specialty-deeds of heroism and
daring-and is "well fitted for the im?
portant work he is doing, He has had
iicoess to the very best sources of infor?
mation, has interviewed every officer of
importance from General Shafter down,
and the men in the ranks have also told
bim their stories. His articles are the
first notable articles on the great his?
torical struggle around Santiago.
ITH the singie
exception of Na?
poleon's Russian
campaign, there
has never been a
military expedi?
tion fraught with
personal distress
and suffering
eq ual to those en?
dured by Shaf
ter's army. The
case is all the
more striking
from * the fact
that after a most
brilliant victory
the army was
compelled to retreat in the face of an
enemy more terrible than Spanish bul?
lets The physical wrecks of this army
which had been spared by the Mausers
at Santiago reached Camp Wikoff, Long
Island, between the loth of August and
the end of that month, and I consider it
the happiest episode of my career as a
writer that I was commissioned to go'
to Montauk and spare neither time nor
expense nor labor in covering the camp
from end to end in order to glean from
the lips of participants of all ranks the
true story bf Shafter's campaign at San?
tiago.
The moment I stepped from the cars
into a throng and jam of war worn fig?
ures clad in stained and oegrimed uni?
forms around the landing at Montauk,
the S3 years that have elapsed since I
inarched with the conquerors of Peters?
burg, back from Appomattox over the
blood stained course to the army land?
ing on the James, were wholly obliter?
ated. It seemed that I was a soldier
again? touching elbows with heroes,
thinking their thoughts and sharing
with them the after emotions of events
seldom finding parallel in the life of
one man. From that time on until the
camp was practically abandoned I lived
among the soldiers, sharing the tents
and the fare of olicers and men. Around
their campfires on the chilly nights and
under the welcome shade of canvas in
the heat cf the August days they told
me of the battle, made sketches of the
position and explained the movements
of the regiments, brigades, divisions
and the vantage ground of batteries.
There came together to take part in
these recitals officers who had not com?
pared notes since the fight of July L
Whenever there was doubt or contro?
versy upon any point, absent officers or
soldiers who could testify in the mat?
ter were summoned. Moreover, soldiers
of every rank finding the strain of w eeks
lif ted at last were in the mood to recall
stirring, incidents which, when pass?
ing, had left no impress except as they
hurt or startled. In point of fact, I
found the army emerging from a horri?
ble nightmare and for the first time
feeling that it was all over and time to
take an account of what had happened.
I was conscious from the first moment
of my entrance to Camp Wikoff that I
was in the midst of a superior body of
soldiers. The type I could recognize as
having existed in 1864-5, but the army
has kept pace with the march of im?
provement, and the ideal soldier of 1865
is the real and universal soldier of
Shafter's regular regiments today.
There was no posing in the camp, no
standing hat in hand to be gazed at
and applauded as hero, bnt a bustling,
dead earnest, soldierly activity, which,
with cool self control, was broken off
long enough to sit clown and discuss the
details of the campaign. There was no
difference whether the soldier inter?
viewed was the leader of a battalion or
a regiment or a commander of a brigade
or division ; no, not excepting the chiefs
of the corps, two of whom were in com?
mand during my stay in camp-that is
to say, General Shafter and General
Wheeler.
As this is to be a story of the fight?
ing as the soldiers in line of battle re?
member it, it is not necessary to discuss
moot questions, but I conld not better
preface the stories of the marvelons
deeds of Shaft2r's army than by say'ng
that it had a leader who in the opinion
of a host of the best soldiers in the serv?
ice was in every way worthy of it.
Whatever he may be or may not be,
whatever he may havo or lack, ho has
qualifications for a high command.
William R. Shafter is no accident.
I was so fortunate as to pass a whole
forenoon in General Shafter's headquar?
ters tent the second day after he took
command of the camp at Wikoff. where
I could witness his method of adminis?
tering affairs calling for prompt and en?
ergetic action. The business of the ad?
ministration being over, he devoted
more than an hour to a general and off?
hand elucidation of the difficulties of
the Santiago campaign.
A s to Shaf ter's army in the Santiago
campaign. I could not help saying to
myself again and again at Camp Wikoff
that the equal of his corps as I saw it,
harrinsr the fever wrecks Ivinc on the
Wi? ???*,:?> -.
grounci and in the hospitals, could not
j have been paralleled by any single corps
I in the Army" of the Potomac in 1864.
This notwithstanding the fact that at
the beginning of the Wilderness cam?
paign the Army of the Potomac was
thoroughly reorganized and consolidat?
ed. - *
In the first place, this couutry has
progressed more than a quarter of a cen?
tury since that time. Military ideals
have been fostered and followed np to
their very highest point, and the very
elements of choice American bone and
blood and sinew and brain which went
to the creation of the crack corps of 1864
have entered into the make up of those
matchless regiments of regulars who
formed and carried the heights of El
Laney and San Juan in the face of a foe
the equal in courage, in equipment, in
position, of any troops that ever stood
for battle
Shafter had the pick of the regular
anny with him at Santiago. This was
stated to me again and again at Camp
Wikoff, and I think no discrimination
was intended against the regiments that
were not there. The fact seems to be
that those regiments which were select?
ed happened to be, without a single ex?
ceptio?, up to the very highest standard
of efficiency. The soldiers had passed
through just the experiences in the west
which would fit them for a hard cam?
paign. They were well officered, well
disciplined, rugged, "gritty" men. ' In
the Army of the Potomac in 1864 the
very best of the army corps had regi?
ments and sometimes whole brigades of
raw and untried material and scores and
scores of green officers. One needed but
to seethe regulars in Camp Wikoff to j
recognize at once the fact that the vet- J
erans there had not evoluted in a single
month's campaign from the standard of
the militia volunteer.
In the twenty and odd regiments I
whose camps I lingered round not a sin?
gle one but what was commanded by a
veteran of the civil war. In many cases
these commanders were majors. The
field officers above them, absent on ac?
count of wounds or promotion were war
veterans, and in several instances the
commanders held the rank of captain
and were war veterans. It seems that
there are now something like 65 cap?
tains in the regular army who served in
the civil war. The importance of all
this will appear during the battle nar?
rative, where the leaders will be named
in connection with their war record.
General Shafter says that after Samp?
son located Cervera's fleet in the harbor
of Santiago and had looked the ground
over he cabled to Washington thai an
army of 10,000 men could take the city
at one blow. Shafter was already get?
ting together an expedition for the in?
vasion of Cuba somewhere. He was di?
rected to embark 10,000 men and pro?
ceed at once to Santiago. Owing to some
difficulty in the way of forwarding cer?
tain supplies or other elements in the
expedition to/the point of embarkation
at Tampa there were empty transports
in the harbor after the 10,000 had gone
on board. Shafter ordered these empty
transports to be filled with troops, and
as a result he took something like 16,
000 or 17,000 men to Santiago. He said,
and General Wheeler, who was present
at the conversation, agreed with him,
that had the expedition gone with 10,
000 men it would have ended in a hor?
rible disaster. In confirmation of the
statement about embarkation is the
6tory of the Ninth infantry, of San Juan
fame. On the night that it embarked at
Tampa an orderly dashed np to the
headquarters with a message to the ef?
fect that if the Ninth regiment was not
on board the transport within a limited
time given it would be left behind at
Tampa and not go to Cuba. The point
was that tho material which had been
ordered forward to Tampa might arrive
GENERAL W. R. SHAFTER, U. S. A.
and be loaded ahead of the regiment,
and so it was really a race between sol?
diers and some other necessary part of
thc expedition.
The Fifth corps as it fought at San?
tiago on July 1 was ns follows:
WHEELER'S CAVALRY DIVISION.
Sumner's Brigade.-Cd U. S. cavalry, 6th
U. S. cavalry. 9th U. S. cavalry (colored).
Young's Brigade.-1st TJ. S. cavalry. 10th
U. S. cavalry (colored). 1st U. S. volun?
teers (rough riders).
There were only two squadrons of
each regiment at Santiago, one squad?
ron being left at Tampa with t.e horses
and baggage.
FIRST DIVISION OF INFANTRY. GEN?
ERAL J. F. KENT.
Hawkins* 1st Brigade-Cth U. S.. 16th U.
S..*Tlst N. Y.
Pearson's 2d Brigade.-2d U. S., 10th U.
S.. 21st U. S.
WikofTs Od Brigade.-9th U. S., 13th ?.
S.. 24th ?. S. (colored).
GENERAL H. W. LAWTON'S SECOND
DIVISION.
Ludlow's ist Brigade.-8th U. S.. 22d U.
P,.. 2d Mass.
Miles' 2d Brigade.-25th U. S. (colored),
4th TJ. S.. Ist U. S.
Chaffee's 3-1 Brigade-12th U. S.. 17th U.
S.. 7th U. S.
Strength about 12.000 In line of battle.
ARTILLERY AND MACHINE GUNS.
Grimes'. Parkhursfs. Best's and Ca?
ption's batterie*. U. S. artillery. 4 guns
each. Captain Watson's. 4 Hotcakiss guns.
Lieutenant Parker's. 4 Gatling guns.
Those troops figured conspicuously in
the battles to be described in the arti?
cles upon the Santiago campaigns.
GEORGE L. KILMER.
Too Mach For Any Man*
There isn't any one so good that it
doesn't make him mad to go home to
dinner and find some one sitting in his
chair at the table.-A tenison Globe.
OFF FOR CUBA AT L&S !
A Soldiers' Story of Shafted
Santiago Expedition.
TOLD AT MONTATJK'S OAMPFIEES.
grafter's Plan For Landing:- Coast
Cleared by Warships-Landing: at
Daiquiri and Siboney-Confusion In
Getting: the Ontiit Ashore-Young's
Cavalry to the Front.
[Copyright. 1S9S, by the Author.]
IL
WING to a
Spanish gunboat
scare, Shaffer's
transport fleet
was held some
days at Tampa.
Th? three days'
travel rations,
which had been
issued at the be
gfnning, had
been exhausted
before landing in
Cuba. The
cramped position
of the troops in
the ships, tho
Hong and tedious
voyage under a tropical sun, sapped the
vitality and energy of the soldiers and
they were not by any means in a condi?
tion to do their best immediately on
reaching the field of action. This is no
discredit to the mettle of the soldiers.
Human nature has limits. Had it been
possible for the army to disembark and
spread itself out over good camping
grounds with ' a good supply of water
and facilities for bathing, cooking, ex?
ercising and drilling, with good air, for
two or three days even, then the effects
of the voyage might have cut no figure
in the condition of the troops. But the
camping grounds where they landed at
Siboney and Daiquiri were very unfit.
Troops began spreading out toward the
heads of the streams passing through
the camps near the shore. . In a short
time the water became foul. The whole
legion was congested with troops and
the impedimenta, and the situation was
such, in brief, that the army bad no
time to take breath, or, as the saying
is, "pull itself together' ' for the hustling
campaign which followed.
All of this has a most important bear?
ing upon the conduct of the soldiers and
their efficiency at tho time of extreme
trial in front of the Spanish blockhouses
and trenches around Santiago1. Any de
count of the Santiago campaign which
starts with the assumption that Shaf?
fer's army was in the normal condition
of an army when it set out along blind
trails and through the dense jungles
which intervened between the seashore
and the heights about the city will con?
vey no adequate idea of the sufferings,
the hardships, the persistency under
difficulties, as well as of the glorious
achievements and unparalleled courage
of the heroes of Santiago. As is already
known, General Shaf ter went on shore
and conferred with General Garcia, the
Cuban, at a point held by the insur?
gents, 18 miles west of Morro Castle.
From Garcia and from former residents
of Santiago, who were with him on
board the transports, he learned the situ?
ation east of Santiago harbor and city
and decided to laud the army for opera?
tions in that region. To mislead the
enemy with regard to his intentions he
secured the co-operation of our navy in
bombarding several points at once.
It was of prim? necessity to keep the
army under cover of gunboat fire while
it was landing and for some time after?
ward, or at least until the forces were
well in hand on land and outposts es?
tablished for defense. There is but one
road running into Santiago from the
east which communicates with good
landing places on the coast. Accounts
of the condition of this road vary. Gen?
eral Shaffer say* that it was very nar?
row and in many places not better than
a trail. Other officers, particularly those
connected with the artillery and trans?
port department, speak of it as an ex?
ecrable roadway. Statements tc the con?
trary have been published, claiming
that it is a fair country road over which
a farmer would run no risk with a full
load of hay, that some one in authority
had a hobby for pack mules, and for
that reason wagon transportation was
neglected.
The landing was effected at Daiquiri
and Siboney between Juue 22 and 25.
As a rule the troops disembarked while
tho transports were from one mile and
a half to two miles offshore. Some idea
of the confusion attending tho landing
may be gained from the experience of
Lieutenant Parker with his Gatling bat?
tery. Parker had an order from Shaffer
to land at once and get his outfit to tho
front. That was on the evening of June
22. The Cherokee, upon which the bat?
tery made the trip from Tampa, was
warped along the iron pier at Daiquiri,
and Parker seized a government pontoon
to use in transferring his outfit to shore.
He was stopped by a young officer, who
claimed to control the pontoons, and
who said that iii spite of Shaffer's order
that the Gatlings get to the front at
once his pontoon should "not be smash?
ed in doing it." While this parley was
going on a general officer rode up and
ordered tho Cherokee to put to sea again
so that some other ships might come up
to the pier. For another day the Chero?
kee, with Parker's guus on beard, lay
in the offing. It is said that at that time
the steamer Alamo had ou board an en?
tire cargo of pontoons, which had not
been landed. On the 25th the Gatlings j
were taken off the Cherokee by a light i
draft steamer and were put upon tho !
shore where Lieutenant Parker was i
warned by the engineers that the roads i
to the front were impassable. A little ;
later it was demonstrated that Parker's ;
Gatlings were as effective as anything 1
in the whole fighting outfit.
As the cavalry brigade of General ;
Young took the lead of the real advance j
on Santiago and first felt the teeth of ;
t?e Spanish tiger a clear view of thc j
opening events of the actual campaign j
is bea: gained by following its move- '
m-??zs. ilie ?i'ig?ur; ?auueu nc JLttuqum
on the evening of the 22dand the morn?
ing of the 23d of June. It'was composed
of two squadrons each cf thc First and
Te:?th (colored) regular cavalry and
First: volunteers, cr rough riders, all
dismounted.
Gc*:* :.; ! Young's orders were to take
pnsi:. >n the left of Lawton's infantry
division, which had already landed.
Thc troopers had no rations. During the
voyage they hud exhausted tho three
days' travel ratious supplied them.
Soon after landing part of tho command
received ordinary ratious, which the
men placed in their blanket rolls, as the
cavalrymen carried no haversacks.
After landing his command General
Young sent au aid on board the steamer
where General Wheeler was fir further
orders aud received instructions to move
out five or six miles aud select a camp
for his own brigade, screen and cover
the landing and relieve the jam there.
The cavalry bivouac was near the mouth
of a stream, the water of which was al?
ready polluted by the infantry camps
above. After getting rations for one
squadron each of the First and Tenth
and all of the rough riders, also ammu?
nition for his Hotchkiss guns, General
Young moved out on the 23d, and, find?
ing Lawton's troops occupying all the
desirable camps, passed on until he
reached Lawton's advance post. There
he learned of an engagement the night
before between Cubans and Spaniards.
Meanwhile General Wheeler had
come ashore at Sibouey and reached
Lawton's advance position. General
Young reported to Wheeler, who said
that he was glad that Young had come
up. He (Wheeler) had been out with
General Castillo, the Cubau, and looked
over the Cubau position. Being very
tired, bc was about to lie down and
3sked General Young to get an account
of the affair from Castillo. Castillo said
that he had met 2,000# Spaniards at a
point near Savilla. ile thought they
had retired after the battle, but General
Young got information that they were
being re-enforced. As there was a good
camp grouud beyond the scene of the
skirmish, Y'oung decided to go forward,
reconnoiter and develop his front.
From Castillo's description Colonel
Rivers, cf Young's staff, made a sketch
of the region around Las Gu?simas. Be
ROUTE OF MAI?Cri TO SANTIAGO.
ing in advance of his command, Gen?
eral Y'oung sent another aid. Captain
Smedburg, to the rear to bring up his
full force and the Hotchkiss gun. Tho
hour set for the movement was 5 a. m.
on the 24th.
General Castillo had indicated a trail
from Si boney, leading over a hill south
of the main road between Si boney and
, Santiago, and forming a junction with
it at Las Gu?simas. The ridge crossed
by the trail is very high. General
Young decided to send the rough riders
over the trail and with the regulars and
Hotchkiss battery move along the main
road. Tho plan was to make a simul?
taneous attack with two columns. It
was explained to General Wheeler. Las
Gu?simas was a pass where the Span?
iards expected to check the American
advance. It is down grade from there
to Santiago.
Castillo was to support Young with
800 Cubans, and the general asked him
to start at 5 a. m., and if he couldn't go
along himself send a staff officer who
would be able to translate and convey
commands. The Cuba?s not being up
on time, at 5:30 a. m. Colonel Eivers
went to Castillo's camp to say that the
column was ready to march to battle.
The Cubau sentinels would uot allow
Colonel Rivers to awaken Castillo, so
ho came back without the Cubans, reach?
ing Y'oung at 5:45. Young then moved
out, sending his aidj, Rivers and Smed?
burg, with Colonel Wood, commander
of thc rough riders. The aids were to
report to their chief the conduct of that
column and give any assistance needed
as representatives of the commander.
Captain Mills, adjutant general of the
biigade, wont forward with the regu?
lars. The Cubans had outposts beyond
tho point where the order of battle was
made. There were small parties of Cu?
bans at different poiuts along the road.
Captain Mills reached the advance
Cuban outposts and sent for General
Young to como up, indicating how he
could keep hidden from tho Spaniards
whilo doing .so. From that uoint the I
general could see the Spauish position j
at Las Gu?simas. There were Spaniards
massed north of the road upon which ;
the regulars were advancing, protected !
by some stone parapets. After survey- !
ing the situation with his glass General '
Young explained to tho commanders of ?
his squadrons what they were to do and
gave them orders to advance on Las
Gu?simas in battle order.
GEORGE L. KILMER.
Not far from the final resting place
of Mr. Gladstone in Westminster abbey I
is the tomb of General John Burgoyne, j
who was defeated by Gates at the bat?
tle of Stillwater and who surrendered
to the Americans at Saratoga in 1777. i
A TE?BT<7 NAVAL JOB.
WHAT !T MEANS TO PUT A WARSHIP
m COMMISSION.
"?ulie Enormocs Amocot of Work That Must
Be Performed and the Ceremonies That
Are Obger?.?d Before the Pennant and
the Stars, and Stripes Are Hoisted.
In times of peace as well as when
war's dark clouds gloom the nation yon
are liable to read in the newspapers an
announcement to the effect that one of
the vessels of thc navy is going "into
commission. " It is not a Tery impress?
ive phrase, but the full meaning of the
term is something of which few have
any adequate conception. Tc put a mod?
ern warship into commission involves
an enormous amount cf work, which
can be fully appreciated only by one
who has observed the process from be?
ginning to end.
When a vessel of the navy is If id. np
in reserve, "in ordinary, "as it is call?
ed, it is far from an attractive object
and could hardly be recognized as the
same ship when in thorough trim, with
crew aboard. The ship is anchored at a
convenient navy yard; the stores are
sent ashore, her engines and guns cov?
ered with oil and an antirust paint;
her decks are allowed to become dirty,
her sides dull and stained from rusty
chains. Thus she lies perhaps for
months, and then an order comes from
the secretary of the navy, through the
chief of the bureau of navigation, di?
recting the commanding officer of the
yard to get her ready for sea.
The first thing to be done is to bring
as many men as possible from the re?
ceiving ship, which lies hard by, and
these, with the force of the yard, under
the direction of whatever officers are
available, begin at once to put things to
rights and remove the accumulated dust
and dirt from the different parts of the
equipment; the engineer's force goes at
once to the engines and boiler rooms;
the anitruss paint is removed from the
engines; new packing is put in the
valves and joints; the pumps are tested,
the rust and dirt knocked from interiors
of fire boxes, and boiler tubes and grate
bars renewed.
Outwardly everything is now in fair
condition, but this is only the begin?
ning. It remains to get up steam in
some of the boilers, turn over the en?
gines to see if they are in proper trim,
start the dynamos, test the electric
lights and the pilothouse, signals, turn
on the searchlights, start the fans, work
the steering gear and steering engines,
set the hoisting machinery in motion
and put the boat cranes in operation.
Every engine, boiler, pipe, wire, tube,
rivet, bolt, nut and plate is carefully
inspected, and if found unserviceable
from arty cause repaired.
Next the equipment storehouse is vis?
ited, and a full allowance of beef, pork,
beans, potatoes, coffee, sugar, salt, flour,
meal, clothing, shoes, hammocks, blan?
kets, paint, tobacco-in short, the whole
miscellaneous assortment of the com?
missary department, is placed on board.
The paymaster of the ship is responsi?
ble for every article received, and a
strict account is kept of each. Then the
galley, cr' cooking stove, has to be ex?
amined to see whether it is complete in
all its findings. The outfit of a galley
usually consists of two copper kettles of
30 gallons each, a 50 gallon kettle, with
cast iron jacket and copper hinged cov?
ers, two steamers for vegetables, each
with a capacity of 32 gallons; two sets
of saucepans, a fine set of tools for lift?
ing and firing and the ordinary cooking
implements.
The iine officers look after the condi?
tion of the guns, the rigging, the boats,
the cables, the anchors, the flags and
signals, the charts, the nautical instru?
ments and other parts of the ship's
equipment. What this means can only
bc appreciated by one who has actually
I undertaken the task. A volume might
j be written in regard to the signals alone.
When all this work has been done,
the ship is ready to go into commission,
and up to this time everything has been
under control of the commandant of the
yard, so that when the captain of the
ship arrives and rep' himself to the
yard commander little remains for him
to attend to. In the meantime men have
been brought together to constitute the
crew.
Sometimes they are enlisted particu?
larly for the ship which is about to go
into service, at other times they ere
withdrawn from other ships which have
just been put out of commission. Tbe
crew and marines report aboard with
bags and hammocks; the captain orders
the crew to be drawn up on the spar
deck promptly at noon upon the day on
which the ship is to be put formally in
commission, reads to them his orders
from the secretary of the navy detailing
him to the command, hoists the com?
mission pennant to the main truck and
the stars and stripes to the gaff or staff
at the stern, and all is ready.
The ship is now in commission.-Sun
I Francisco Call.
Greek and Latin.
! M. Jules Lemaitre condemned the
1 study of Greek and Latin the other day
j at the Paris Sorbonne. He declared that
j the national mind had been formed not
! by the literature of the Greeks and Ro
1 mans, except in au indirect way, but by
j the Scriptures first and afterward by th?
j great French writers. M. Lemaitre
further declared that he regretted hav- I
ing studied Greek and Latin 12 years, j
whereas he is ignorant cf English, which !
is spoken by half the world, and only
knows German in a pitiful manner.
Dwelling in flats is making great j
headway in London, especially in the
West end, but many persons are averse
to being known as residents of such, j
Landlords advertise them as "mansions
built in stories. "
The remedial effects of laughter are
really wonderful. Cases have been
known where a hearty laugh has ban- j1
ished disease and preserved life by e j ;
sudden effort of nattire. i
Come and sec us before buying or trading. ! I
! (
W's CHU please yoe with a White-Randie, i
A
Eoacicao.lt 2nd His Hair.
Boucicault fer a number of years
used to dye the little fringe of hair ho
had, and it generally took on all the
hues of the rainbow, much resembling
Tittlebat Titmouse's experience in col-,
oring his hair.
I was standing in front of the Unionj
Square theater one day after rehearsal;
with the late Charles R. Thorne, Jr., ;
and Joe Folk, writes Owen Fawcett,
and we were arguing the question who
should "buy," when along came Bouci?
cault, as chipper as ever. Of course he
must stop, ask all the news and have a
chat, for he was a most entertaining
man and well worth listening to. On
his preparing to leave Polk said, "Mr.
Boucicault, I do not wish to insult you,
out I wish to congratulate you on one
thing."
"Not a bit of it, my boy," said
Boney. "What is it, Polk?"
"I see that you have given over dye?
ing your hair or what little hair you
had, and you do not know how much
better it makes you look. "
"Yes," said Boucicault. "I have
found out one thing, and that is in all
the years I have been foolish enough to
paint my hair I was only deceiving one
person, and that one was myself. Good
day, boys."-Detroit Free Press.
Spanish Cruelty.
The cruelty of the Spaniard, or rather
his callousness, his recklessness of the
lives of others, and even of his own, is
a mediaeval and oriental survival, says
Irving Babbitt in The Atlantic, and
then, too, there underlies the Spanish
temperament I know not what vein of
primitive Iberian savagery. Mme.
d'Aulnoy relates that on a certain day
of the year it was customary for court
gallants to run along one of the main
streets of Madrid, lashing furiously^
their bare shoulders, and when one of
these penitents passed the lady of his
choice among the spectators he bespat?
tered her with his blood as a special
mark of his favor.
Insensibility to the suffering of ani?
mals, though general in Spain, is not
any greater so far as my own observa?
tion goes, than in the other Latin coun?
tries. Possibly mediaeval religion in st
exalting man above other creatures, in
refusing to recognise his relation to the
rest of nature, tended to increase this
lack of sympathy with brute creation.
The Spanish peasant belabors his ass for
the same reasons that Malebranche kick?
ed his dog--because he has not learned
to s?e in it a being organized to feel
pain in the same way as himself.
Slow ?atfo~ May Be Bad.
According to The Journal of Mental
and Nervous Diseases, slow eating is
as bad as fast eating. "The important
point is not that we eat slowly or fast,
but that when we do eat we chew with
energy. Of course where the haste is
due to some mental anxiety this may
injuriously*inhibit the secretions. Slow
eating begets s. habit of simply mum?
bling the food without really masticat?
ing it, while the hurried eater is in?
clined to swallow his food before proper
mastication. Hence hurried eating is
bad, but rapid mastication is advan?
tageous. It concentrates our energies
on the act in question, and hence more
thoroughly accomplishes it. Moreover,
energetic chewing stimulates the secre?
tion of saliva in the most favorable
manner. These various pointe are so
commonly misunderstood, at least by
the laity, that they demand our fre-.
quent attention."
The Gloved Pasha.
Mustapha Pasha Fehmi, prime minis?
ter of Egypt, decorated by Queen Vic?
toria with the grand cross of the Order
of St. Michael and St. George, is known
throughout Egypt as the gloved pasha,
owing to tho fact that no one has ever
seen his left hand bared since the day
two and twenty years ago when, as one
of the chamberlains of the late Khedive
Ismail, ho helped his colleague, Sahmi
Pasha, to strangle the Egyptian minis?
ter of finance at the close of a supper
party given by the wicked old kh?dive
on board his steam yacht, lying at anchor
in tho Nile at Cairo, just off the palace
of Gezereh.
The Firecracker.
The firecracker so extensively used by
Americans in celebrating Independence
day is a Chinese invention and is sup?
posed to have been used in China in
prehistoric times as universally as it is
now used in the Flowery Kingdom upon
nearly all ceremonious occasions. Its
original use is supposed to have been
to frighten away evil spirits, and ia
some parts of the Celestial empire it is
still regarded as an effective weapon
against ghosts and hobgoblins.
Home Influences.
Each one of us is bound to make the
little circle in which he lives better
and happier; each of us is bound to see
that out of that small circle the widest
good may flow ; each of us may have
fixed in his mind the thought that out
of : single household may flow influ?
ences which shall stimulate the whole
commonwealth and the whole civilized
world.-Dean Stanley.
The Thrifty Shopkeepers.
Mrs. Bargin Friend-I wonder how
those little 1 cent shops ever came to be
invented?
lier Husband-I suppose to use up
what's left of the dollar after the 99 cent
stores get through with it.-Toronto
News._
Her Aim In Life.
"What sort of girl is she?"
"Oh, she is a miss with a mission!"
"Ah!"
"Her mission is seeking a ma a with
? mansion."-Baltimore Jewish Com
meut.
Built Upon a Bowlder.
There is a village in England built
npon an enormous bowlder of chalk.
This bowlder is half a mile long and
must have been carried coastward a dis?
tance of 25 miles by some great iceberg.
It was dropped to the bottom of the?
glacial sea, where it became partly cov?
ered and surrounded by blue .gray bowl?
der clay. ^