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THE MORNING CALL. Vol. X. No. 140. TROOPS IN THE TROPICS. Li»t» of Articles of Clothinc Authoriz ed by War Department- Washington, Feb. 16—In a geners al order issued today by the secretary of war the announcement ie made of the clothing authorized for nee by the troops serving in Cuba and other trop ical countries, The list was as follows : Cork helmets or campaign hats, straw hats, khakie uniforms, white b'eached cotton duck suits, uniined blouses, gingham or chambray overshirts, lightweight flannel shirts (dark blue wool) lightweight undershirts (cotton and wool) jean drawers, lightweight cotton stockings, abdominal bandages, russet shoes and leggings, rubber pon chos, trousers of 16-ounce kersey. The quartermaster’s department has been busy for some time arranging a list of suitable clothing and several combinations are recommended It has been suggested by the quarter master-general that the men should wear lightweight woolen undershirts with a gingham or chambry overshirt and either the khakie or white duck suit. If this is not agreeable, a regi mental commander may clothe his men with cotton undershirts, a light weight dark blue woolen overshirt and the same uniform For use at night, when the weather is cool, the men can use the unlined blouses. The russet shoes furnished by the department are of exceptionally good quality and t’ue wear ing of abdominal bandages is to be ma le compulsory. Distance Traveled by a Waltzer A dancing master at Gardiner, Me , has calculated tire distance a waltz-r t n;vels during the course of one even ing at seven miles He says that a', lowing six feet for one waltz step, and the waltz tempo sixty measures a minute and taking three steps to the measure gives 180 steps in a minute. Giving ten minutes for each waltz and ten waltz in an evening, the waltzer has covered a distance of seven miles in waltzes alone during the evening. A Frenchman, with an impossible name and a predilection for figures, has estimated the average length of a man’s stride at 31| inches, and the distance an average traveler can cover at this rate, at 7,159 yards an hour, or 119 yards a minute. The number of strides would be 7,500 an hour, or 125 a minute. The length of the stride in the various European armies is as follows : In the German army it is inches with a cadence of 112 steps per minute; in the Austrian army, 29A inches, with a cadence of 120 per minute; in the French army 29| in ches, with a cadence of 115 per min ute ; in the British army 30 inches’ with a cadence of 116 per minute. For LaGrippe and Influ enza use CHENEY’S EX PECTORANT. Fire in Navy Yard- The building known as No. 29, at the Brookly navy yard, occupied by the steam engineering department, was totally destroyed by fire Wednes day evening, together with its con tents, which included much valuable machinery. The loss is estimated at. one million, five hundred thousand dollars. The cause of the fire is un known. Many valuable models and patents of warships were destroyed, including those of the Newark, Ral eigh, New Orleans and Atlanta. The coincidence of the fire was that the model of the battleship Maine which went down in Havana harbor a year ago that day, were also destroyed. It was especially valued at this time, as it was to be used in the construction of the new Maine The battleship Massachusetts was in a dry dock five hundred yards away from the fire, but was not injured There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put to gether, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a consti tutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitu tional cure on the market It is taken in ternally in doses from 10 drops to a tea spoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. end for circulars and tes timonials. Address, F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. THEIR HOME-COMING DELAYED Volunteers at Manila Were Preparing to Come Home. But for the recent affair around Manila the vounteers under Gen. Otis would have been preparing to start homeward. The movement of 7,000 regulars to the Philippines was planned and inaugurated with & view to the return of 13,000 volunteers now on service in the archipelago. The transports enroute to Manila w< re ex pected to load with voluntrers and start for San Francisco soon after they reached the former port. Had there been no outbreak by the Filipinos, and had Aguinaldo shown the dispo sition to acknowledge Amriieun au thority that was expected to follow ratification of the treaty, the first of the returning volunteers would have been on the way home before the tnd of March, probably. But the recent events have caused a modification of plans The 7,000 regulars will be re inforcements. The volunteers will remain longer, until it shall appear certain that the Filipinos do not mean to continue fighting Gen Miles thinks, since the battle o' last Sunday, that it will be necessary to keep 35,000 soldiers in the Philippines for some time. Ihe plans of the president have not comtemplated so large an army there by one half Nothing can be determined no-v. The only thing to do is to wait and see the effects of the lesson taughr In a general way the President, be fore the battle at Manila, had directed the war department to make prepara tions for '.he musteiout of all volun teers. The work was to begin with those in camps in this country. Each of these regiments ie costing about $2,000 a day for pay and support The President said he wanted to lessen the drain of war expenses on the treasury, and he felt that the volunteers could now be spared Fifteen regiments were to be disbanded just as fast as the mustering out routine could be performed. There has been no change in the orders since the Manila affair. It ie understood that the disbandment of the regiments still in the Southern camps will proceed rapidly. After that will come the return of volunteers from Cuba. Inquiries have already been sent to commanders in Cuba to obtain opinions as to the numbers that can be spared It is the intention, unless the situation should seem to demand the continuance there of all the troops to bring to this country a division of the Seventh Corps in March Two of the immune regiments in San tiago province will be brought back in a few weeks. By the Ist of Mav the garrison force ie to be reduced to a minimum The appearance of yellow fever in a New York regiment in the interior of the island is having the effect to strengthen the purpose to reduce the garrisoning army as rapidly as it can be done safely.—Washington letter in St Louis Globe-Democrat. CAISTOrtIjA. Bears the st Kind You Hare Always Bought Signature , ■//s.# /--7Z 7 of Severe Punishment in Old Times- There ie on record in Northumber land county a remarkable instance, one of many others found there, which reads as follows: “Northumberland, August Sessions, 1784 At a court of General Sessions of the peace held at Sunbury for the county of Northum berland, the fourth Tuesday of August 1784, before Judge Guyers, Esq , Re publican vs. Joseph Gusbery. Indict ed felony,the defendant pleads not guilty, and jury drawn and beiog sworn upon their oath, respectfully do say that Gusberry is guilty of the fel ony wheteof he stands indicted. Judg ment, that, the said Joseph Gusberry receive thirty-nine lashes between the hours of 8 and 9 o’clock tomorrow, to stand in the pillows one hour, to have his ears cut off and nailed to the post, to return the property stolen or the value thereof, remain in prison three months, pay a fine of £3O to the Honorable the President of the S'ate for the support of the Government, and stand committed until fine, fee and cost are paid ” —Milford Dispatch CASTOR IA . For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1899. More Friction in Cuba. File (act ilia' tlier.- i« a -up-'- abundance <>i rn - ape nd rh u <!■ . str..ps ii Cuba i- c -niinualii cr.-ppil'g out in conflicts of authority, not only between the American and the natives, but between American officers Our dispatches have mentioned several in stances in point. The latest of them, having to do with the decoration of the graves of the victims of the Maine disaster, discloses the fact that the disagreement and discontent rx'end to both the army and navy, Commodore Cromwell is the com mandant of the Cuban naval station with headquarters at Havana Capt. Sigebee, formerly of the Maine but now in command of the Texas, is un der him. There is such a degree of friction between Commodore Cromwell and Capt. Sigsbee that the latter will not appear in any function not strict ly military and in the line of duty, in company with the former. Capt. Sigs bee the other day gave it to be under stood that he would not take part in the ceremony of decorating the graves of the Maine victims, since Commo dore Cornwell, as senior naval officer, would be present ; and this in the face of the fact that the Mtine victims were Sigrbee’s men, and that lie enter tained a high regard for them. Father more, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee announced that he and bis soldiers would not take part in the exercises alone with Cromwell and bis sailors, but would visit the cemetery andjpay their trib ute of respect after they had left As to the friction in the army, it ie necee -ary oily to revert to Gen. Lee’s slate merit n week or two ago, to the effect that in order to make places for others, he had been side—tracked “with an unemployed army of 10,000 men,’’ to the affair between Gen. Wood at San tiago and Gen Brooke at Havana re specting the customs receipts, and to the intimation by M»j Hatrison that he was hampered in discharging bis duties as provost marshal at Havana. And these aie far from being the only instances. Each officer, of course, is try ing to get all of the glory that he can out of hie military service. Each, therefore is jealous of his power and preroga tives, and possibly asserts himself to the limit, and sometimes a little be yond. There are too many division o' authority. As we have said before, if Fitzhugh Lee bad been made military governor of the island and permitted to select his own assistants, the prob abilities are. that there would be a minimum of fiction, and the recon struction of the island would have been much more rapidly advanced Savannah News. The Modern Way Commends itself to the well-informed, to do pleasantly and effectually what was formerly done in the crudest manner and disagreeably as well. To cleanse the sys tem and break up colds, headaches, and fevers without unpleasant after effects, use the delightful liquid laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs. Made by California Fig Syrup Co. Vaaderbilt's $6,000,000 Check. In the sale of the West Shore prop erty to the New York Centra’, Wilt liam H. Vanderbilt gave the now hit toiic check of $6000,000, then the largest personal check that had ever passed through the New York clear ing house. When Mr. Vanderbilt drew the check there was some apprehension on the part of his friends that it pos sibly might embarrass him, and when they went to him saying that, if be needed it, they were able to lend him securities enough to carry the check awhile, Mr Vanderbilt replied : |, Why, I could draw my check (or a dupli cate sum, and have it cashed with money that I have on deposit.’ The absorption of the West Shors by the Central is in line with a new policy of scientific economies which the New York Central is only just beginning to establish, a nolicy which those who are informed say will, when completely carried out, result in vastly increasing the income of that corpora tion It may be this knowledge in part which has inspired so many per sons to buy the securities of the Cen* tral and pay (or them a price which does not represent as much as 3 per cent O.i ihe investment on the pres eni dividend rale. —New York Spe cial Philadelphia Press. C ASTOTLIA. ! Bears the Thu Kind You Hare Always BrajM Signature /fl* RoYal Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum Alum baking powders are the greatest menacers to health of the present day. wov»e BAKi-a eowßts ca, new vomt. A Lesson in Usury. Peter Cooper, the great philnnthrop ist of New York, was one of the most successful, careful and prudent busi ness men of his lime He was strong ly opposed to the methods of many merchants who launched out into ex travagant enterprises on borrowed money, for which they paid exorbitant rates of interest. The following nnec dote illustrates ibe point very forcibly : Once, while talking about a project with an acquaintance, the latter said he would have to borrow the money for six months, paying interest at the rate of 3 per cent, per month. “Why do you borrow for so abort a time?’’ Mr. C< oper asked. “Because the brokers will not ne gotiate biila fur longer,” “Well, if you wish,” said Mr. Coop er, “I will discount your note at that rate for three years.” “Are you in earnest?” ask the would be borrower “Certainly I am I will discount your note for SIO,OOO for three years at that rale. *Wi!l you do it?” “O. course, I will,” said the mer chant. “Very well," said Mr. Cooper. “Just sign -this note for SIO,OOO payable in three years, and give your check for SBOO, and the transaction will be com plete.” “But where is the money for me?” asked the astonished merchant. “You don’t get any money,” was the reply. “Your interest for thirty six months at 3 per cent per month amounts to 108 per cent., or SIO,OOO. Therefore, your check for SBOO just makes us even.” The force of this practical illustra tion of the folly of paying such an exorbitant price for the use of money was such that the merchant deter mined never to borrow at such ruin ous rates, and he frequently used to say that nothing could have so fully convinced him as this rather humor ous proposal by Mr. Cooper iky **3k WA THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRL'P OF FIGS is due not only to the originality and simplicity of the combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the California Fig Syrup Co. only-, and we wish to impress up< n all the importance of purchasing the true and original remedy. As the genuine Syrup of Figs is man -.-.fat'. tired by the California Fig Syrup Co only, a knowledge of that fact will assist one in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other par ties. The high standing of the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co. with the medi cal profession, and the satisfaction which the genuine Syrup of Figs has given to millions of families, makes the name of the Company a guaranty of the excellence of its remedy It is far in advance of all other laxatives, as it acts on the kidneys, liver nnd bowels without irritating or weaken ing them, and it docs not gripe nor nauseate. In order to get its beneficial effects, please remember the name of the Company CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. HAN FU AN CISCO. < al. LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW YORK. N. Y. For Whooping Cough use CHENEY’S EXPECTORANT. 7 « < «ir-t <<>»;•»« i iJition lurunr. ; <•-. t .ii. .. c.itn irtic. 10c or2sc. f <' • «»xj f jg -.is r- fund meet* R.F. Strickland & Go. OVER SHOES FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN, ALL SIZES AND STYLES. BOYS AND GIRLS SCHOOL SHOES. THE KIND THAT WEAR. R. F. STRICKLAND * CO. ,r '■■■■ ■ ■ ■■■ ■■■ ■ ■ ■■■■ . .. 1 BARGAINS IN BICYCLES. 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