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r OUR PRISONERS OP WAR. Humane-Treatment That Has Opened the Eyes of the Captured Spaniards. . ADMIRAL CEKVEHA'H BILLET, 2lW J ' \ / ■ ization while you wait would be • opriate motto for the prison at Camp Long. Tho camp is onS\ y’s Island, part of the Navy •Yard, Which on the map appears in Kittory, Mo.,nnd on ofllcial documents at Portsmouth, in New Hampshire. Two days boforo tho St. Louis steamed into tho harbor with (102 Spanish prisoners of war on board the camp ground was not much better tbnn a desert. This end of tho islaud is bound with rooks which stick up through the bluoberry bushes and Sornbby grass on knolls and hillsides, it Within thirty-six hours from tho ar rival of the St. Louis in tho lower har bor tho village had boon equipped with all tho crcatnro comforts de manded by a free born Amerioan citi zen. b Tho landing of tho Spaniards was without ceromony or display. Two blaok, flatiron shnpod barges wero brought up, ono after tho other, from the big linor, about a mile away, and made fast to Liontounut Greoly's land ing place, at tho foot of old Port Sulli van, now used ns a roBorvoir. There were a fow workmen and a fow ladies and children from tho post on the ahoro, and a cordon of plensuro boats on tho water, but no official demon stration of any sort. There was not an officor, nor ovon a marine, in sight, and no indications that the island was garr isonod. i On tho first bargo Lieutenant Cnt- lin, a survivor of tho Maino disaster, brought with him Cuptaiu Moruu, of the Cristobal Colon, to not as intorpro- ter, and about 'a dozen American ma- rinos to ta|co caro of a boatload of four liundrod Spanish prisoners of war. Lieutenant Catlin had a navy revolver in his bolt instoad of a sword, but went at his work without any fnss or feathers. When sis marines had scrambled ashore and were strung along tho bank, the gangway was opened to tho prisoners, who wont of! the bargo in an irregular straggling. They were dofeatod and shipwrecked sailors, and they showed it. Baro- beaded and barefooted, with straggly ablo to sit in the sun, or at least ont of the rain,-and 'discuss why it was that Admiral Corvora did not utterly destroy tho Amorican fleot. To be sure thero are sontries and deep water in front, and sentries with a high board fence, backod by barb wire and Gattting guns, in tho roar. What would you? Shall sane men runaway from good food, good clothes and n good company to lose themselvos in a strange country and starve? Tho landing of the prisoners and the establishment of the camp was ac- tbe whites of his eyes heavenward, and stood expeotant. Scores of ko daks snapped, and the colored sailor triumphantly rejoined his comrades on tho shore. A lady in one of the boats threw a hunch of flowers into the water near the shore, and in stantly twenty or more of the prison ers struggled for tho possession of the trophy. The Spaniard who cap tured the boUquet was generous, how ever, and divided the flowers among his comrades, who proudly held aloft the mementos, bowing and smiling to the lady who threw them into the water. After the dishes had been washed many sat in groups on the bank, some of them singing the songs of their native laud, some playing cards, others writing letters home, and all of them apparently pleased with tho situation. It wns a sccno never before witnessed in tho Harbor of Portsmouth, but its repetition is likely to happen every pleasant day in tho weeks to follow. So much for the humbler prisoners. Those of higher rank, Admiral Cer- h yt QUARTERS OF ADMIRAL CERVEBA AND niS OFFICERS AT TOE ANNAPOLIS NAVAL ACADEMY. beards, and only a oonplo of dirty gar ments in most oases covering legs and bodies, they passively obeyed the or ders of Coptain Moron, and wore gathered in ship’s companies by tho calling of the roll. Hardly had a hun dred mon boon lauded boforo tho sick began to drop groaning upon tho dusty roadsido. After the mastering wns ovor the first shipload of prisoners was sur rounded by marines from the garrison and marched into the stoekngo, the barefooted ones being chiefly anxious to avoid tho nettles thnt lurked in some of tho grnssy places. * Aftor ono day in camp those same hungry looking prisoners could hardly be recognized. The day’s rations of beef, bread, coffee and pickles were devoured at oue meal, each man eating more thau a pound of meat. They found hammocks, comfortable hair UNCLE SAM, HE PAYS THE FREIOIIT. (The cartoonist of the New York Herald gives his Idea of how the prisoners will be sent home to Spain.) eomplished without the slightest hos tile demonstration on the part of the Spaniards. Some of tho men passive ly objoct to boing olean, but they can put np with cleanliness if only they got plenty of tobacco. Colonel Fornoy has in the barraoks at tho Navy Yard and on duty at the stockade about two hundred mon, but Surgeon l’arsons says that if the Spaniards only understood that they were to have their three square meals a day a marine guard would be re quired, not to keep them on the island hut to drive thorn uwav from it. Two SpAuish chaplains, two sur geons, an apothecary’s steward und five junior lieutonauts have had a building built for their spooial accom modation, and have 4 boeu fitted out with sailor’s olothes from the navy yard storehouses. Their wardroom is fitted out with bunks and abundant furniture. The oivilizing influence of a short piece of ropo is still to be seen in Camp Long. In the olden times tho rope was used to cow starved and ill treated prisoners. To-day it serves a different purpose. Tho members of the officer’s mess hardly got new olothes before they began devisiug amusements, and jumping ropo has become very popular. Two of the moro sedate officers swing tho rope while the others take turns jumpiug. Tho horrors of war already seem faraway, and tho most important things in tho world soem to bo tho delights of good living. Admiral Carpenter, who is in temporary command of the Navy Yard, has closed the island to curious visitors, who aro not annoying when they get long raugo views frdm tho New Castle and Kittory shores. Tho soeno on shoro of the prison front on Seavoy's Islaud on n reoont aftoruoon betwoou five and six o’olook presented a most novel and interest ing picture. The prisoners had just finished their afternoon meal and had swarmed to tho water’s odge* to wash their bowls, platos and spoons. The clatter of tho dishes and the laughter and animated conversation of tho pris oners rnado suoh a babel of noises that they could plainly bo heard on the Newcastle shoro on the other sido of tho Piscataqna Bivor. Huudreds of boats gathered in front of tho Spaniards on the beach and watched them at their work and en joyed tho animated scene, for the “Pons” seemed happy as larks and evidently greatly pleased at tho atten tion shown them. Many ladies in the cook and the steward of the Santee havo been placed at his disposal, and a servant to attend to his personal wants. The last occupant of the house was Lieutenant Gove. The other prisoners occupy the old cadets' quarters on Stribling row. COOKING FOR SOLDIERS. German Army Inventors Pay Mach At tention to the Subject. The interest shown by all classes of people at present in the matters of military manoeuvring and equipments is so great that a recent exposition of CAMP COOKING APPARATUS SMALL BATTALION. army and camp furnishings was a gi- gautio success, ns demonstrated by tho throngs of people which ilooked to tho place day after day. Evidently tho German inventor has been working on the theory that a full stomach is the best equipment for a fighter, and cooking implements were displayed in the greatest variety. A clover cooking outfit is shown herewith. The stove for a battalion is designed for use in the open. It is formed of CAMBON RECEIVES REPLY. IT IS CABLED TO WASHINGTON IN CIPHER FROM PAUIS. THE DOCUMENT IS A LONG ONE. Work of Deciphering H» Content* Woe Immediately Taken Up by the Embassy Staff. The reply of the Spanish govern ment to the peace conditions laid down by tho United Statos wns re ceived at Washington by the French ambassador, M. Cambou, shortly be fore 3 o’clock Monday afternoon. Tho concluding portion of the Span ish reply wns received during the evening, bnt it was not nntil a Into honr thnt it was deciphered ns a whole and gone over by the ambassador. No effort wns made to communicate it to the United Statos government nt such a late hour, beyond a note to Sec retary Dny advising him that the doc ument had been received but uot dis closing its contents. There was complete reticence in all quarters as to the text of the reply. The reply came in sections, the dis patch first received giving only tho opening passages of the Spanish re ply. A fow minutes later another dis- HU Beading. . •The face is an inda to the She: mind.” He: “Then your mind must be mado up.”—Indianapolis Journal. Lost hi. I.lfo Saving Other*. A country boy .visiting New York stopped frantic runaway team that waa about to (laah on the sidewalk whore there wero hun- dreds of women and children, lie caved their •s, but loot hie own. Hundreds of lives are ed every yoar by Ilostettor’s Stomach hit* ter*. People who are fast going to their graves with disorders of stomach. bowels and blood are brought back to good health by It. All the sick should try It. The government contracted for 350,000 Hes sian bags to boused tor fortlllcatlon purpose*. Donuty I* Dlood Deep. Clean blood means a clean slrin. Ko beauty without it. Casearets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all un- E urities from the body. Begin to day to, anish pimples, boils, blotches, blackhead*, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking CascareU,—beauty for ten cents. All drug* gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 60c. When Hot DonH sweat and fret, but ke*f> oool and' take Hood’s Sarsaparilla. This-4* good* advise, as you will find if you follow It. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is ft first-class sum mer medleino, because It’ is so good for the stomaob, so cooling to the bloody so helpful to the whole body. Make no mistake, but get only Hood’s 8 p.*rm. America'!. Greatest Medicine. several iron chests arranged in the i patch brought a second section, and shape of a cross, with a chimney in 1 tho middle. A smaller one is built vera and his captured officers, are hold at the Naval Academy, Ann apolis, Md. Admiral Oervera would bo taken for an English merchant by ninety-nine out of a hundred persons who didn’t know who he was. He is prosperous- looking, well-made, and wears a gray beard. His son, Lieutenant Angel Oervera, is tall and handsome, and wears a coal-black beard. Altogether, the Spaniards are quite a distin guished-looking group, and when they are fitted ont in appropriate gar ments will doubtless mako much social progress in Annapolis, as nearly all of them have given orders for visiting cards. The parole signed by all the prison ers exoopt Admiral Oervera, who waved it aside when presented, with the remark that his sword of honor was sufficient, and Captain Eulate, of the Vizcaya, who declined to sign it because he declared the other officers should bo permitted to give their word as well as the Admiral, is as follows: “I do pledge my word of honor that daring tho period of my retention at the United States Naval Academy as a prisonor of war I will not go be yond suoh limits as may bo pre scribed by the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, and freoly agree to abide by such regulations as said Superintendent may from time to time establish. “The limits now established will be the grounds of tho Naval Academy and the city of Annapolis from 8 o’clock nntil sundown.” Admiral Oervera’s house, which is I to accommodate a squad of about thirty men, and for use where there are no general cooking provisions made for the men, each one looking after the preparation of his own ra tions. It is gratifying to note that the sub ject of caring for the dead and wounded has received n great deal of attention at the hands of army and navy inventors. A large variety of devices was shown, having for their objeot the care and comfort of the wounded warrior. m People Who Live In Tree*. ' Of all the islands of the South Seas New Guinea is in some respeets the most peculiar. With its towns built on the water, its native castles in the treeB and its strange native inhab itants, who have been steadily dying BARRACKS ON SEAVEY’S ISLAND, PORTSMOUTH HARBOR. (Whore tho rank and fllo of tho Spanish prisoners aro contlnod.) mattresses and government blankets provided for them, and after a few puffs from borrowed cigarettes the well Spaniards slept long und sound ly. More meals followed with sur prising abundance and regularity, aud great wagon loads of clothes were hauled over from the Navy Yard and dumped at the feet of the prisoners. The few industrious spirits volun teered for oanip work, and their work ing made a pleasing spectacle for those who were uot industrious. With warm, new clothes and a comfortable fulness under one's belt, it is agvee- * uiue, easy to operate. A TREE TOP nOME. A GROUP OP SPANISH PRISONERS ON *A- VEY’S ISLAND. boats bad provided themselves with kodaks, and hundreds of pictures were taken of tho prisoners that will prove valuable souvenirs of the American Spanish war as time goes by. The Spaniards enjoyed having their pic tures taken, and many of them gath ered in groups and posed in pictur esque attitudes aud waited their turns for the camera. A colored prisoner, blaok as Erebus, waded out into tho water up to his knees, and, striking his bowl aud plate together (to attract attention, placed his hands by Uia side, roiled known as No. 17 Buchanan row, is an old brick painted a dork drab, with brown outside shutters, aud its front windows overlook the oak-shaded grounds of tho academy. Tho com mandant’s house is two doors distant at the corner, and diagonally across the lawn to the left is the superin tendent’s office. A tine marine view is obtained from the rear windows, with the parade grounds in the fore ground. The whole house except the hall, which is approached by a flight of stairs from the road below, is heavily carpeted. The parlor is supplied with comfortable furniture. Opening into the parlor by broad doors is the dining room, which is carpeted like the parlor and contains an oak dining set. The passage chamber, which communioates with the bed room, is the Admiral’s private office. It is provided with a desk, chairs, good lights aud writing material. All the mail matter sent and received by the prisoners goes through the offioe of the superintendent, and' is censored. The Spanish officers are uot being pampered with luxuries. They are re ceiving the same foed that is given to the naval cadets. Admiral Cervera has a house which is occupied by three or four others besides himself aud his sou. The out since tho advent of the whiteman, it is an intensely interesting bit of the world. The natives are gifted with such remarkable powers that they cau see into distouoes far beyond the vis ion of the white man; they can track the wild beast by signs that the white man cannot learn; thoy can find food and drink in deserts where white men would perish of thirst and starvation. The accompany picture represents one of the tree houses built by na tives of the island. Among the sav age tribes are warriors who are known as the “head hunters.” The aerial houses are built as refuges from the head hunters. When tho cry is raised that the head hunters are coming the feeble and the women flee to the tree huts and the able men arm for the fight. 9 A Natural Sun Dial. An immense sun dial, certainly the* largest in the world, is at Hayou Horoo, a large promontory extending 3000 feet above the Aegean Sea. As the sun swings around the shadow of this mountain it touches, one by one, a circle of islands, which act as hour marks, Magnanimous. these kept coming uninterruptedly by a procession of messengers until Sev ern! sections of the Spanish reply had been received at 3:50 o’clock, when the Inst part was Btill to arrive. In the meantime the cipher experts were at work nnd at 4:30 o’clock they were abreast of all thnt portion of the reply received up to that time nnd there was a lull of some time pending the arrival of the concluding portions. It was thought a terrific rain stortn which swept over Washington about 4 o’clock might have occasioned the delay of tho remainder. Pending the roooipt of the complete reply, no steps were taken to fix a time for a conference with the presi dent, as tho time for that depended largely upon some of the features of the reply nnd also upon the explicit instructions concerning the delivery of the answer which usually accompa nies a document of this solemn char acter. Neither at the white house nor at the state department was there any oflioinl knowledge that the reply Lhd reached Washington and the usual office hours closed with uo appoint ment made for a conference. Pending the official delivery of the answer speculation wns rife ns to its contents. There wns little further doubt that the length of the reply meant that Spain had not given a simple and direct affirmative to the American conditions. It wns evident thnt if the reply was an acceptance, it was accompanied by extended discus sion and probably by conditions. This caused considerable npprehen- sion in official circles here, for while it was felt last week that Spain would yield in every particular, it begau to be felt that possibly there might be another period of discussion aud pos sibly an indirect attempt to open up a diplomatic exchange on the nature of the terms. The prevailing view, however, was that the reply was on its face an ac ceptance, although not such a one as precluded all possibility of future dis cussion. All vitnl points were believed to be concluded—the abandonment of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Lndrones, and the establishment of a commission to pass upon questions relating to the Philip pines. In the carrying out of this programme it was believed that Spain would seek to secure an understanding on many incidental points involved, some of them of considerable importance. For instance, some doubt was raised as to whether Spain’s acceptance would be operative until referred to and ratified by the Spanish cortes, and it wns un derstood that the reply might call at tention to this condition. Tho same condition, it was pointed out, exists as to the United States, for a peace treaty requires the ratification of the senate to become operative. Early Dictionaries. Tho first dictionary recorded In lit erary history is the standard Chinese dictionary, compiled by Pn-Out-She, who lived about 110# B. C. It con tained 40,000 characters, each of which stood for a word, mostly hieroglyphic or rmle representations resembling our signs of the Zodiac. This was four centuries before writing wus employed by Western people. Anticlldes, a con temporary of Alexander tho Groat, published a Greek dictionary of the words In ancient writings 330 B. C. Another 'Chinese dictionary wus pro duced about 150 B. C., and Vnrro’e Latin compilation dates back to 110 B. C. The earliest attempts at tho compilation of an English dictionary were made by Bullokar In 1010, and by Cockcrham In 1023, ulthougb a glossary of old English words waa prepared in or about 075.—San Kran- TEACHEn: “Who discovered Ameri ca?” Street Gamin (after deep thought): “I disremember his name, but he was a Dago.”—New York Weekly. BELIEF FK0M PAIN. Women Everywhere Express their Gratitude to Mrs. Pbtkham. LIGHTNING KILLS OUTLAWS. Father and Son Were Credited With Long Lint of Murder*. A special to the St. Louis Republic from Red Sulphur Springs, W. Va. says on Sunday, in Roane county, tho bodies of Wade Counts, the leader of the notorious "Consolidated band” of ontlaws, and his son were found under a tree where they had been struck by lightning. Every bone in the elder Counts’ body was broken, but there was no abrasion of tho skin excepting where the bolt entered his head. The two were credited with o long list of murders, but had never been brougkt to justice. nra. T. A. 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The President, Friday, made the following appointments: Register of the land office of San Francisco, Cal., Aaron B. Hunt. Receiver of public moneys at San Francisco, Sargent S. Morton. Receiver of public moneys at Mar shall, Minn., C. F. Case of Minne apolis. C. P. C. Co . P. 0. Bov, 610, Atlanta, Ga. VIRGINIA BUSINESS COLLEGE Commercial. Shorthand. T> pewrlUne Fn-ilih fort'v” w?, n n- t 18 f? n " •}**?"**** forttSSttn'or lortjduo wi eks. Opeu to both fexcR GnuliiAfai acMited to positions. Eleventh session beidna ££?- tember oth. Catalogue fro*-. R. A. Davis jfi. ^ Pi wider: t. Jox i>, llichniouu. V*» hJL m