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SCHEME TO
HELP CUBA
Newspaper Plans Fili
bustering Trip.
IT WAS SNEERED AT
But People Weil Informed Are Not So
Incredulous..
WOULD PRECIPITATE A GRAVE CRISIS
Believed That Action Would
Put Us in War With Spain.
WHAT FEW AMERICAN GUNS COULD DO
Statues Be ing Erected in Washington to
Generals Sherman and Logan--In
teresting Stories About Them.
Washington, Dec. 11. —[Special. ] —When
it was proposed by the owner of a big New
York newspaper to organize an expedition
for the purpose of fighting for Cuba, most
people smiled. They said it was a mere
advertising scheme and could not result
in anything of a tangible nature. But I
find the men who are familiar with Cuba
and the situation which prevails there not
so incredulous. It certainly would be a
dramatic performance if an American
newspaper were to organize an expedition
of armed men that should march through
the island, defeating the Spanish and giv
ing encouragement to the insurgent cause.
I was talking about this with an army
officer who knows Cuba pretty well, and
what he said was very interesting.
“Strange as it may seem,” said this
army officer, “I believe a thousand Amer
icans from the western country, sharp
shooters with the rifle and experienced in
Indian fighting, would march through
Cuba from one end to the other. I be
lieve, furthermore, that if such a troop
-were sent out and were supported by the
insurgents, as it would be, great results
would follow. In the first place, these
men u*>uld be fighters. They would fight
in American fashion. They would bring
to bear against the Spanish cqolness, pre
cision, courage, strategy. If they did not
accomplish so very much from the mili
tary point of view, they would certainly
stir up the diplomatic world. Land such
a party of armed Americans in Cuba and
Spain would go wild. She would lose her
head. She would demand all sorts of
things from the United States, and the
result in all probability would be an in
ternational row. If the newspaper in
question sends oul an armed expedition, I
suppose it will be with this result in mind.
What an advertisement that would make
for the enterprising paper!
Spain’s Weakness.
'“Every military authority in the world
Is surprised that Spain has not quelled the
rebellion before this,” continued this army
officer. “If Spain had the proper sort of
fighting material, she could put down the
revolt in short order. Does it not seem
strange that the diplomatic world should
be stirred up and the peace of two such
nations as the United States and Spain be
endangered by a little one horse rebellion
which, in all probability, 3,000 American
troops would wipe out in 60 days? It is
"the opinion of most military authorities
that our regular army or the troops of
England or Germany would put an end
to the Cuban rebellion in two or three
months. The trouble is that the Spanish
■troops fight only in platoons. They will
not adopt the method of warfare which
alone.can produce results under the con
ditwjr.s which prevail.
“Do youwupposc Cencrul Gomez’s scat
tered bands could withstand such fighting
as thut which the English did at Darkai
jidge or such warfare as that which
our troops have time and again bc?n com
pelled to wage against the Sioux, the Mo
ttoes and the Apaches? No. England or
•the United Stales would have brought the
trouble to an end long before this. The
-Spanish soldiers appear to bo all right,
but they lack leadership. We hear in
Washington that Spain would have a good
•deal better chance to succeed if her gov
'ernr.-ciit would suppress every case in the
island. The Spanish officers do not care
to get far away from the cases. They en
joy themselves too w r ell. If they make a
little sally out into the wild country, they
turn back in a day or two to have a good
time at the town. American qr English
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soldiers woul’i follow up a trail till they
got what they were after. If necessary,
they would take their kits on their backs,
live bn the country and penetrate the very
fastnesses, just as we had to do in Indian
fighting and as the English have to do in
fighting the tribesmen on the frontier of
India.” (
Speaking of fighting men reminds me
that we are now erecting in Washington
statues to two famous American military
heroes. A statue of General Sherman is
soon to be put up just south of the treas
ury department, near the White House,
while a fine figure of General Logan is
about ready to make its appearance In the
center of beautiful lowa circle, in the fash
ionable residence part of the city.
Stories of Sherman and Logan.
A retired army officer told me the other
day a couple of good stories concerning
these two military heroes who are soon to
be honored in marble and bronze at the
capital of their country.
“Did you know old General Sherman?”
said the officer. ‘ Well, he was the bluff
est old fellow you ever saw. He had away
when people started to enter his office,
probably for the purpose of asking a favor,
of snorting out at them:
“ ‘Take ’em away. lam too busy to see
any one.' Let me alone. ’
“Ono day I was in General Sherman’s
office and I witnessed a performance like
this. After quiet had been restored I said:
“ ‘Sherman, I know you through and
through. You are an old bluffer. You
scare people off when they are at arms’
length, but when they get to you they
find you soft and easy. You are a bluffer,
that’s what you are, and underneath the
surface you have a heart as soft as a wom
an’s.’
“‘That’s just it. You’ve hit it,’ re
plied Sherman. ‘lt’s true. I admit it.
That’s why I try to scare ’em off. If they
ever get to me I am a goner, no matter
what they want, whether leniency to an
offender or a subscription for a starving
family.’ ”
The other story was characteristic of
General Logan. His command while on
the march once came to a river. There it
halted. The engineers set to work to build
a bridge. Their plans were elaborate. It
looked as if it would take them a couple
of days to get the structure up so the army
could cross. But Logan was in a hurry,
as ho was after the enemy. He rode to the
bank of the river where tho work was go
ing on and with an oath he cried out:
“Stop this d d nonsense. Bring up
those wagons. Hurry ’em up here.”
In 15 minutes the boxes had been taken
off the army wagons. In 15 more a string
of them were fastened together and floating
in a line across the stream. In two hours
the whole command was on the other side,
crossing by means of this improvised
bridge. That was John Logan for all the
world. WALTER WELLMAN.
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Winter tourist tickets are now on sale to
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For information, call on J. N. Harri
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Teiphone No. 39.
Had Fun With Elto.
The young women of the normal”
school are always ready for fun. They,
get dreadfully tired of their enforced
feminine companionship and the sight
of a live man is like a rift in a thunder
cloud. Occasionally they frighten the
men who chance to visit the school, and
one visit is quite enough for the vic
tims. Some time ago a teacher in the
public schools took a gentleman to the
normal institution and introduced him
to the young women. He was a modest
young man and blushed slightly as he
faced the crowd. Just as the teacher be
gan the introduction every young wom
an took out a sheet of paper and poised
a pencil expectantly.
“This is Mr. Blank from Chicago,”
young ladies,” said the teacher. “He
expressed a desire to visit our normal
school and wants particularly to heal
you sing.”
As the stranger bowed a young wo
man in the back part cf tko room arose
and anxiously inquired:
“What was the gentleman’s address,
please?”
And then all the girls wrote it down
i like mad.
’ Whether the* stranger enjoyed the
i subsequent singing as much as no other
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i ful.—.Cleveland Plain Dealer.
THE TBIBUNE WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 15. 1897.
CHICAGO’S NEW FAD.
Mrs. Shattuck Teaches Parliamentary Law
to Clubwomen.
When the World’s fair spread the
fever of organization among tho women
of Chicago and woman’s clubs sprang
up throughout the city as thick as bi
cycles on an asphalt boulevard on a June
evening, the lack of feminine knowledge
Concerning the ordinary rules of proced
ure and debate became painfully evi
dent. The club members realized that
the ordinary sewing circle method of all
talking at once would not serve when
business was to be transacted. They
knew that men did things differently,
but just how they wept about it not
one woman in a hundred had the faint
est idea.
Then came to the front Mrs. Julia B.
Shattuck and rescued them from the di
lemma. She was a member of the Chi
cago Woman’s club, of the Arche club
and of the South Side Woman’s club,
and it was not long before the otbei
members of those organizations found
out that she knew all about parliamen
tary proceedings. She knew how to ad
dress the chair, how to put a motion
properly and a lot of other mysteries.
Her sister club members clamored for
her to teach them the rules of debate,
and she did so willingly. So many
thirsted for this sort of knowledge that
MRS. JULIA B. SHATTUCK.
she was compelled to form classes, and
so successful has she been that hundreds
of women in Chicago know the effect of]
the call for the previous question and
such intricacies. Other teachers have
appeared since she began, and at least
one woman has made a profession of it,
but Mrs. Shattuck is known as “the
mother of parliamentary law.”
“It is the finest study in the world,”
says Mrs. Shattuck, “because of its
mathematical precision and logical se
quence. Women who earnestly apply
themselves to it learn rapidly, but the
woman with a sense of order has the
advantage. ’ ’
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-—Lewiston Journal.
The Child’s Bill of Rights.
The principal clause in childhood’s
bill of rights is Santa Claus, and it will
stand in spite of the iconoclasts.—Chi
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If France continues to discriminate
against our cattle, we can retaliate by
shutting out her music hall artists. —
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Year’s Support.
GEORGIA. Flsyd County.
To all whom It may concern: Notice is hereby
given that ilie appraisers appointed to set apart
and assign a year’s support to LaFayette F. and
Huger K. George, minor children of Junius
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