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THE COUNTRY VOLUNTEER.
“He wins gruff an' rough hu ready—
Wue our country soldier Joe,
An' he handle of Ms rifle
Like tia’d handle ot his hoe;
An' he’d wan't the kind of soldier
That the wtmmln try to smite,
But you just had ought to seen him
When the bugle sounded—fight!
“He wus long an’lean an lanky
Wuz our country soldier Joe,
Air he’d shoot the practice target
(.Ike he’d shoot a thievin' crow,
An' thorn wnru’t one inch of beauty
In his clumsy rawbone height.
But you just had ought to seen him
But when the bugle sounded—light!
He wuz slim an’ slow sn’ stupid—
Wins our country soldier Joe,
An’ he’d rick a heap of canvas
l.tke he’d rick a medder mow;
An' he wan’t much good in drillin’—
On parade he wins a fright,
But you just hsd ought to seen him—
When the bugle sounded figlitl”
Victor A. Hermann.
TWO CAREERS
THAT ELENDED
A. Hospital Romance.
By Edgar T. Field.
/— r - OUR cab is
waiting, Mr.
Y ’vsjk Blakeslee."
JKB| “Then 1 must
. ' K°> * suppose.”
||r pose ho. That
AA was your inteu-
Won, I believe.”
1 “I Relieve it
was. There doesn’t seoui to be uuy
particular reason why I shonld stay
around here any longer.”
Hore be glanced at her a trifle ex
pectantly. “No,” she replied, ab
sently, smoothing a tiny wrinkle in the
covering of the hard little hospital
bod
“Oh, you don’t think there is?” he
demanded, fiercely, stopping in his
task of buckling the straps of his army
blanket.
“Well, the doctors Hay there isn’t,”
she said, and then commenced
straightening the bottles on the little
stand with rather nervous lingers.
“Confound the doctors!” Ho gave
a vicious aud final tug to the straps,
and then added: “They’re a precious
set -the doctors.”
“Why, ono would think you hadn’t
been well treated here,” she said, with
rather an unsteady laugh.
“Oh,” exclaimed the young officer,
“you’ve treated me well enough just
as woll as you would anybody else, I
suppose."
A shadow of a smile crossed her
lips, but there were tears in her eyes
he did uot see.
“I don’t complain, ”’ lie went on
bitterly, watching the graceful lines
of the little figure in the blue and
striped dress, as it moved to and
“To morrow they’ll bring some
otlyif .tutor fellow in here and you’ll
take jirit as good care of him as you
did of me, and let him go with just as
much cheerful ness, too. Poor
wretch.” Ami the young lieutenant
went to the window aud drammed on
the glass with impatient fingers as he
stared gloomily at the little patch of
gray sky visible above the high roof
CU the church next door.
Through many weeks of pain aud
weakness aud weariness indescribable
he had watched that little scrap of
gray as he lay helpless in the grasp of
that terrible fever the insidious,
treacherous deadly fever of the trop
ics that had crept into his veins from
the trenches of Santiago.
At first it had meant nothing to him
but so much blank space, that patch
of sky.
Then it begun to take ou u new
meaning, as he uotioed that it was
often the background for a picture a
charming silhouette of a girlish face,
with a little tip tilted nose and tender
ourves of cheek and chin and waving
masses of hair surmounted by a tiny,
stiff cap of diaphanous white.
He came to watch for this dainty
vision, and sometimes in his fevered
dreams he would see it when it was
not there, always hettdiug toward him
with a smile of divine pity on the
•weet lips.
He could see it now, thongli his
back was turned to the girl busy at
the table, aud be gave an inward
groan as he remembered that soon he
would see it no more, exoept in
dreams.
No ouo know what that face hail
growu to ba to him ia the past weeks.
No oue ever should know, he re
solved, with a little tightening of the
lips, as he turned from the window .
She did not care for lue going—that
was evident.
•‘We take good care of everyone, I
hope,” she was saying somewhat
coldly. “As for our beiug glad to see
them go- that is nonsense. We are
very sorry to lose yon, Mr. Rlakes
leo **
A groan hurst from his lips.
“Oh, spare me that, l beg,’ - he ex
claimed, wrenching himself into lur
blue cape overcoat.
“Aud we are always interested to
know what the—the natieuts do after
they leave us,” she proceeded, hesi
tatingly. “Shall you return to the
army. Mr Blakelee?”
“I suppose so,” he replied. “I’ll
go out to Manila aud get shot, if
they'll waste the powder aud ball on
Bio,”
“How cowardly that sounds!” she
cried, iudiguautly, aud the little
womau of five foot oue surveyed the
big soldier with onrliug lip aud dark,
eeorufnl eyes.
“It would be braver, perhaps, to
stay at home and face death in the
ehape of a diphtheria microbe or a
mettlesome horseless cab,” he said
wilhjAther uusucessful sawa^fu.
to tace life-'.'ana death,
as iim ' "Why
aßEaffiCTKwSMwant to .m
stood close to her, looking down into
the Hashing eyes.
“I wonder if you know how pretty
you are?”
“i'wonder if you know bow rude you
are?" she retorted.
“Do you suppose it’s easy to say
good-by to a girl with a face like
yours?” he went on recklessly, taking
her bands—the poor little hands all
reddened and roughened by hospital
work.
“Then it’s only my face that makes
it hard. You flatter me, sir.” She
had withdrawn her hands promptly
from his eager clasp.
“Ob, well, it might be a little easier
if you were crosseyed or looked like—
like Becky Sharp,” he admitted. And
they both laughed.
After all, they were so young.
“And you expect me to go away af
ter all these weeks with you and pre
tend not to care?”
“You have no right to care,” she
cried, drawing herself up proudly.
“Ah, give me the right, he said. “1
cannot go away without you, and leave
you here to do this sort of work. This
hospital life is unfit for you—it is
wearing yon out.”
“Mr. Blakeslee, you do not know
wliat you are asking. I’ve taken up
this work against the advice and wishes
of my family and friends. To give it
up now would be to acknowledge my
fuilure. It would be too humiliating.
You must not ask me to. And then—
your own career. You have made a
glorious record so far—you must not
think of anything else for years to
oome. And your country needs you.”
“No one else does, evidently,” he
said bitterly. “Well, good-by, little
girl, and God bless you.” And with
out another word lie left the room.
The young officer strode aloug the
echoing corridors with hasty steps.
His heart was hot within him and he
was ashamed to find tears in his eyes.
But when he reached the great door
way he hesitated.
Ouee outside and he had left her be
hind him forever. He could not leave
hor this way. Without a word of
thanks for the tender nursing she had
given him. She must not think him
ungrateful.
Swiftly he turned and retraced his
steps.
The door of the little room where
he had lain so long was partly closed
when he reached it. What if she had
gone.
With a heating heart he pushed the
door open softly and went in.
And tliore she was—the stout-hearted
young woman who had so bravely sent
him forth to his duty and so sturdily
kept to hers, with her head on the,
pillow— his pillow—crying her heart”
out, just like any other unhappy girl.
A moment he stood transfixed.
Then in one bound he crossed the
narrow room and took her in his arms,
and as their lips met two careers that
might have been melted into thin air
and disappeared forever.
CromwftU at Home.
What glimpses we get of Cromwell
by the fireside of the old gabled farm
house at Huntingdon!—in the fields,
mowing ami milking; in the market
pluce with his fellow-townsmen, talk
ing not only of oats and barley, but ol
the sufferings of the non-conformists,
ami the growing differences between
the King and the Commons; at the
great open fire-place round which,
twice a day, he gathered his family
aud servants, aqd expounded to them
the Scriptures; in the village church,
to which he went with pious regu
larity, ami where his burly form
always elicited respect, in spite of his
coarse, country-made clothes, his big,
unfashionable hat, aud the piece ot
red tluunel that he always wore roiiud
his throat when in the Feu Country.
All the sedgy shores and swampy
fields of the river Ouse he has made
classic ground, for there, amid the
blowing, sighing bulrushes, he fought
over ngaiu that great spiritual battle
which Luther had fought before him
at. Ertnrth.—Amelia Barr, iu Harper’s
Magazine.
A Hungarian Love Tr(fwly,
A shocking story comes from the
village of Teteleu, Hungary. A cer
tain cook in service iu the place was
in possession of a lottery ticket which
she had purchased years before when
in Vienna. Austria. A Vienna hank,
where she had deposited the ticket,
wrote recently to inform her that she
was the lucky winner of the chief
prize. The news spread like wildfire
through the village, andtwogeudanues
who had been paying her court for
some time offered her marriage. On
her choosing one the other became so
infuriated that he threatened to kill
them both. They were discovered
shot dead soon after, while their
murderer committed suicide by throw
ing himself in front of a passing train.
On the day of his funeral and that of
his two victims a letter arrived from
the Vieuna bank addressed to the
cook, in which she was informed, with
innumerable apologies, that her ticket
had not been drawn at all, a mistake
having been mafie in one of the figures.
—New York Press.
Danger of u Little Arithmetic.
An instance of the danger of a little
arithmetic Las occurred at Birming
ham. A far-seeing Alderman objected
to building the council house upon
ground held only upon a 999-year
lease, at the end of which land and
buildings (Birmingham buildings are,
of course, durable) would belong to
the ground landlord.
A learned mathematician thereupon
presented S3O to be accumulated at
compound interest tc buy them back
again. It seems, however, that $48.98
could safely be devoted to the present
purchase of tnrtlescnpforthe corpora
tion; two cents would be sufficient,
sappofiug that interest, rent and
money had not been abolished mean
while, and that the end of the world
had not come!—Madame.
mm WEEKLY LETTER
MAKES A STRONG TALK IN RE
HARD TO LYNCHINGS.
HE WADES INTO THE CRITICS.
Bill Declare* That No Good Man Ha* Rea
son to Fear For the Results of
Mob Law.
The lynching of Sam Holt is over.
The press and the preachers have ex
pressed their horror or their approval
and the world moves on—not a stay
nor a stop nor a jolt is felt either so
cially, religiously, financially or com
mercially. The fulminations of the
northern press nor the apprehensions
of editors nearer home amount to any
thing. History is just repeating it
self. Every few years something like
this happens and the press and the
preachers explode in about the same
language until they get tired and then
subside and wait quietly for some
other barrowing thing to happen.
We remember well what the press
said about the burning of the brute at
Dallas a few years ago and the same
adjectives were used and the same
anathemas hurled upon our people.
The brute who ravished a child of six
year Hand then killed her and threw her
mutilated body into the hushes actu
ally found friends among our enemies.
They said it was brutal to burn him.
We remember when the negro as
saulted a little girl near Madison as
slie was going home from school alone
and then cut her throat and threw her
body iu a gully and covered it with
brush. When vengeance overtook
him the northern press howled as
usual.
It is their business to howl. They
like it, and do doubt are glad this
thing has happened. It feeds their
appetite and nurses their wrath and
will last them a week, perhaps longer.
In the language of Governor Oates, 1
would rise to a pint or order and ask,
“What are you going to do about it?”
Nothing, of course, nothing. Such
things will happen sometimes every
where at long intervals, but they do
not affect a single item of civilization.
Who is afraid to move to Georgia or
Texas because of lynchings? Nobody,
save, perhaps, a few had men who
think of coming because they are in
bad repute at home. Fitzgerald was
not afraid to come, nor afraid to stay,
and the northern people in that grow
ing city are celebrating their content
with picnics and and other hilarities
while I write. •The wicked flee where
no man pursuetli. No good man is in
danger of the lynchers. No law-abid
ing citizen lias any fear for himself or
his household.
It takes a terrible crime to arouse a
whole community into such a remedy,
and so I feel no personal alarm.
Reader, do you?
The truth is that lynchings are not
as frequent iu the south as they have
been, but are getting quite common
over the line. We read that they tried
t.o lynch a man in New Y’ork the other
day for stealing a horse. Why they
have long since quit that in Texas.
Mr. Inman is right or nearly so. He
says in his answer to the symposium
of opinions that “there is no just
cause for alarm among the country
people—no greater cause than there
lias been. That 95 per cent of the
people, both white and black, are
harmless and law-abiding and we will
have to watch and punish the other 5
per cent just as we have beeu doing
for many years.” The per cent of
had negroes is greater than he thinks.
The number in the chningangs prove
this, hut their crimes are generally
misdemeanors, larceny and burglary,
aud education does uot correct this.
Booker Washington says it does, but
observation and statistics of the prison
commission prove the reverse.
Wo old men who owned slaves be
fore the war are established in our
opinions that education does not les
sen crime, neither among whites nor
blacks. Mr. Stetson, the chairman
of the school commission of Massa
chusetts, declared this in a pamphlet
several years ago, and proved that educa
tion increased crime not a little, but
to an alarming extent. I have great
respect for Booker Washington, and
believe that the kind of education he
is giving will lessen crime among the
pupils he is educating. Our slaves
were educated by fear of the lash or
the whipping post, and you can pick
them out today. It is their children,
born since the war, or their grand
children who are iu the chningang.
Why should there be 4,000 negroes!
iu these state and county chaingangs
of Georgia when there are only ‘240
white convicts? It will not do to say
the negro is punished and the white
man escapes. That is a lie and every
observing man knows it. My own ob
servation is that the courts lesn to the
negro rather thau against him. No
small per eetitof the colored* convicts
are now serving a second term aiid
some a third term, which proves that
imprisonment does not reform the ne
gro. When he comes out his last con
dition is worse than the first. But the
whipping post would so thoroughly
reform a youug negro that he would
not repeat the offense. Confinement
in jail nearly crushes the soul out of a
white man, but a negro is perfectly
contented there. Ask the sheriffs or
the jailers if this is not so. Now, it
will take perhaps ten years to do it,
but my candid opinion is that the
number of convicts would in that time
he reduced from 4,000 to 400 were the
whipping post used instead of the
chaingang. Delaware has experi
mented with this for half century
and will not abolish it. It iV used for
all colors —white, black ajtfd mulatto.
If that little state was soijhtk of the
line wouldn’t she catch At from the
northern press and northern preach
ers? J
But how can we mfeke the change,
for as long as the uedro has a vote he
will vote against a candidate who fa
vors it and the candidates are gener
ally demagogues anil dare not dis
please the negro? / No, they won’
even pass a dog law for fear of offend
ing their colored constituents. Ev.-i v
now aud then my wife asks rue to bn>
some mutton and says we used tub "e
mutton. But the liegroes owfi the
dogs and the dogs Lave exterminated
the sheep in Bartow county. We
ought to change tlJe constitution and
elect lawmakers fo four or six years
and after that they should be ineligi
ble. Then they Urouldent talk and
vote for buncombe.!
Some of the Symposium writers
thought that the laiw’s delay and the
lawyers were to blhme for these lyneh
ings. Not so. A lynching for that
crime is hut the outburst of human in
dignation. The Maw’s delay is not iu
their minds. If I [know myself I am as
good a man as /any horror-stricken
editor or preacheJ. Tam kind In heart
and love my felhow men and fellow
women. I respejet the supremacy of
the law just as mluch as Governor At
kinson or any Ether governor, but I
rejoiced when the brute was caught
and burned. I
How much he/ suffered is of no con
sequence to me, nor am I afraid of the ,
crowd that did lit or that will do it
again. It was the unanimous verdict
of a very large Jury, a jury of men and
women, and I am not chicken-hearted
about such suspects as Lige Strick
land, nor woJild I take very much
sympathetic tialk from other negro
leaders who /raise their bristles. I
know and feeljthat the white people of
the south bavfi been kind; yes, over
kind to the negro since the war and
that yankee emissaries have alienated
him from uls and we have got no
thanks for all we have done. Sooner
or later we wfill have to take away his
vote and establish the whipping post
and then, anil not till then, will we
have peace bletween the races.
If these remedies affected a few bad
white men, [let them share it or leave
the country!. Some of us remember
when the kifklux was our only pretec
tion, and it raised a howl that was
heard acrosb the ocean, but it saved
our wives ayid our daughters when the
world, the/ flesh and the devil were
against usi
And so, /let the procession proceed.
P. S. —I)r. E. Van Goidtsnoven, of
Atlanta, a scholar aud a gentleman.
He sends hie the translation of Bishop
Onderdonlk’s gold-headed cane: “Epis
noe ebor’f stands for “Episcopus noe
eboracenais” and means “Bishop of
New York.” Thanks. Bum Arp, At
lanta Constitution.
SENATOR MORGAN TYRITES.
AlabitiniHfii Give* His Vimvs
Suffrage Restriction*.
A special from Montgomery, Ala.,
says: Senator Morgan, in response to a
request) that he give his views on the mat
ter of 111 e restriction of the suffrage lias
written a letter which is attracting very
great attention in the state. It was pub
lished! in a special edition of The
Birmingham Age-Herald, and in view
of the deep interest throughout Ala
bama in the suffrage question is bound
to attract very great attention.
HEALTHY WOMAN KILLED.
Widow of Hungarian Nobleman Mur
dered at San Antonio.
Mrs. M. L. Maudarsy, a wealthy
lady 1 of San Antonio, Texas, wife of a
Hungarian nobleman who was banish
ed from his country twenty-five or
thirty years ago, was murdered aud
her body burned Sunday.
Robbery is believed to have been
the incentive, and a Mexican laborer
who worked on the place has baen
arrested on suspicion.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY. —lB
tirocerii.
Roasted coffee, Arbuekle and Levering
$11.30. Lion *IO.BO, less 50c per 100 lb
cases. Green coffee choice 11c; fair 9c; prime
7.h'<®8 Sugar standard granulated. New
York 5.56. New Orleans 5.56.
New Orleans white do yellow s>^c.
Syrup, New Orleans open kettle ‘2s®4oc.
mixed 12>4@20c: sugar house 28@35c.
Teas, black 60@65c; green 50@65c.
Rice, head 7J^c: choice 6%@7c: Salt, dai
ry sacks $1.25; do bids, bulk $2.00; 100 3s
$2.75; ice cream $1.25; common 65®70e.
Cheese, full cream 13c. Matches,
65s 45c; 200s #1.30@1.75: 300s $2.75. Soda,
boxes 6c. Crackers, soda s<S>6 cream
6c: gingersnaps 6c. Candy, common stick
6e; fancy 12@13e. Oysters, F. W. $1.85@
$1.75; L. W. sl.lO.
Flour, Grain anil
Flour, all wheat first pate^^|^^
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Clear rit>s boxed sides 5%e: clear
s'§<* : ice-cured bellies
hams M’lli': California HJt'O;
bni-on lOffil Lard, best quality 7) 3c : s’
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Happenings In the State of Inter
esting Import.
Convention Whs Successful.
The ninth International Sunday
school convention, which adjourned in
Atlanta Saturday night, was one of the
most successful in the history of the
organization of the International Sun
day School Workers, and was also one
of the largest ever held. It was as
interesting as it was successful, and
the indications are that its results will
be far reaching.
More than 1,500 delegates attended
the convention, and these were enter
tained free of charge by the church
people of Atlanta. Atlanta threw
open her doors to the delegates, and
their impressions of the city were ot a
most flattering nature.
At this convention there was tran
sacted probably more important busi
ness than ever marked any previous
convention of a like nature, and the
leaders are well pleased with the re
sults.
The meeting in Atlanta began Tues
day with the session of the interna
tional lesson committee and closed
Saturday evening with the final lesson
of the convention. The first business
meeting of the convention was held
Wednesday evening, and three ses
sions were held each day until the
close.
During that period a great number
of important reports were rendered
and the work for the next three years
was mapped out by the executive com
mittee.
The convention was marked by the
large number of excellent papers that
were read and addresses that were
made. The delegates displayed un
bounded interest and enthusiasm in
the proceedings of the convention and
the Grand opera house was filled with
them every day. At times large num
bers of the visitors were turned away,
being unable to find seats in the audi
torium.
Atlanta was honored by the election
of Hoke Smith as president.
The delegates were entertained in
Atlanta’s usual hospitable manner and
were well pleased with the city. Es
pecially was this true of those who
came from the far north, and had no
idea that Atlanta was such a large and
progressive city.
While the conventions of coming
years may he larger than the one held
in Atlanta, it is hardly probable that
any of them will prove as pleasant and
accomplish as much work.
For Benefit of Wage Workers.
The labor convention in session at
Atlanta the past week adopted the fol
lowing constitution:
“Believing that the wage workers of
Georgia need more perfect organiza
tion and unity of action in order that
they may receive proper recognition
from employers, the general public,
and more important still, the various
municipal, state and federal legislative
bodies; and that such recognition must
result in laws being enacted which
will tend to alleviate the condition of
the laboring class; and,
“Believing the system of central
bodies organized in citiss in state
has resulted in much good to organ
ized labor and the people, and should
be encouraged and upheld; and,
“Believing these central bodies
blended together in one state body
with the many labor unions of the
state can accomplish more satisfactory
results and greater benefits than the
independent atjd separate efforts now
put forth,
“It is hereby resolved, That the dn
ly accredited delegates of bona fide la
bor organizations, including local
unions and central bodies, do hereby
organize and constitute the Georgia
State Federation of Labor, to the end
that peace, prosperity and happiness
shall come to the toiler and justice
reign In the land.”
* * *
Veterans Fraternize at Fitzgerald.
The first annual picnic of the gray
and blue was held in Fitzgerald last
Saturday. Hundreds of old veterans
marched in line to the tunes of “l’au
kee Doodle” and “Dixie.” General
John B. Gordon reached the city dur
ing the morning^,
livered an^address to an immense'au ?
dience-'-'He completely captivated his
hearers, and as he would tell of the
days of ’6l, and the struggle between
the armies of the north and south,
tears rolled down the cheeks of the
old confederates andj^M^S^irand
v i-■
plause.
.. 1 - I.JVI
trade from the city. There are many
members of the different commands
who would like to buy their clothes in
Savannah, but they do not feel that
they could carry them awuA’ under
ther arms or in valises, anJttick to
the blue uniforms they haveJLirn for
several months.
* * *
Ex-Governor Atkinson a Trustee.
Governor Candler has appointed e*--
Governor Atkinson to the vaucancy in
the hoard of directors of the Georgia
Normal and Industrial college aud an
order to that effect has been issued by
the executive department. Ex-Gov
ernor Atkinson ha3 been connected
with the state industrial schdjl for a
number of years and his seryces for
that institution have been of% signal
character. The reappointment of ex-
Governor Atkinson by the present
chief executive was a compliment to
the former and Mr. Atkinson x|illhold
office under the appointment until the
next session of the legislature,'-when a
successor can be appointed and con
firmed by the state senate.
...
Atlanta Wag Ignored.
At the meeting of the Georgia So
ciety for Colonial Dames at Savannah
the past week, the following‘officers
were elected: President, Mrs. J. J.
Wilder, Savannah; first vice-president,
Mrs. Annie J. Waring, Savannah; sec
ond vice-president, Mrs. Joseph L.
Lamar, Augusta; honorary vice-presi
dent, Mrs. H. C. White, Athens. The
last mentioned office was especially
created for Mrs. White at this meeting.
Board of managers is composed of
Mrs. W. G. Charlton, Mrs. Wm. Gar
rard, Mrs. T. F. Screven, Mrs. L.
Gourdin Young, Miss Mary Ellis, all
of Savannah, and Mrs. F. H. Miller,
of Augusta. Atlanta is not represent
ed either in the list of officers or board
of managers.
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Delay In Rural Delivery.
The rural mail delivery in Bibb
county was to have been inaugurated
May Ist, but Postmaster Hertz receiv
ed a telegram from Washington in
forming him that the delivery has been
suspended until further orders. It is
supposed in Macon that the autliori-'
ties at Washington have taken this
action because of the protest made by
Senator Bacon and Congressman Bart
lett to the appointment of negro car
riers for the rural delivery.
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Help Palmetto Citizen*.
Residentsvif various cities of this
state are now taking subscriptions for
the benefit of the Palmetto citizens
who spent considerable time and
money iu searching for Sam Halt. The
movement was commenced by'Mpeßnt'
of Hogausville.
Firm Will Dissolve.
The firm of Draper, Moore & Cos.,
wholesale dry goods dealers,of Atlanta,
will go out of business on the first
day of June. At that time the part
nership will dissolve and the firm will
become extinct.
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SOLDIERS’ BODIES BURIED.
Brought From Cuba and Porto Kico and
Interred At Washington.
The bodies of 252 soldier dead,
brought from the battlefields of Cuba
and Porto Rico by the steamer Crook,
were interred at Arlington cemetery at
Washington Tuesday with military
honors.
The ceremony was identical with
that held on the occasion of the inter
ment of the bodies brought by the
Crook on her first trip, about a month
ago, but neither the president nor the
members of his cabinet were present
Tuesday, as on the fo nier occasion, the
military display was less elaborate and
the crowd much smaller.
THIS LEGALIZES POLYGAMY.
Order Issued By General Wood at San
tiago Has Far-Reaclilni; Effect. M
A dispatch from Santiago de Cukfl
says: It is pointed out that a
result of General. Wood’s audHfl
merit that the marriage oeiJfc.
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