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The protocol don’t seem to
have Lenefitted Alger.
Dewey and Merritt didn’t
need any protocol business in
theirs.
Teddy wants his Rough Riders
out and out they will go. Mark
that prediction.
Spain still has her Camara,
though she is short on snap
shots and negatives.
Isn’t it horrible to think of
the war department having plot
ted against Gen. Miles?
No, Jane, dear, Teddy Roose
velt’* round robin didn’t build a
nest in an Algerian pigeonhole.
With Dewey opening and
closing the scrap why should it
not go down to posterity as the
Manila war?
The Minneapolis mills now
make 14,000,000 barrels of flour
a year and consume 00,000,000
bushels of wheat.
Capt. Taylor don’t propose
that the Indiana’s war record
shall be lost in the shuttle—and
Capt, Taylor is right
Less than 300 Americans fell
by Spanish bullets. More than
600 have died in the Chicamau
ga hospital death traps.
Alger and all his “surgeons”
and “nurses” should bo sentenc
ed to “two years or as long as
they live” at Chics manga.
How about the men of the
Third regiment? Do they want
to quit or do they want to re
main in service? Who can tell?
Blanco, having had a seige of
yellow journalism before the
war, is keeping the reporters out
of Havana as long as possible.
Will the 71st New York be
mustered out? It will and every
member of the command will
■oon be enrolled on the pension
lists.
A few dozen of these poor
doctors-with-politicalpulls ought
to be taken out of the volunteer
camps and lynched, now that
rope is cheap.
Boss Tom Catt Platt, of New
York, is now hunting cover and
inoculating against Roosevelt’s
Rough Riding, Rough Biting,
Round Robins.
A round robin to the weather
man that wou’d remove the rain
clouds would induce us to sign
a protocol with Gen. Heat, of
the summer division.
It toos Edwin M. Stanton
lees time to muster out of ser
vice an army of over half a mil
lion men than it will take Alger
to muster out 100,000.
Holy smoke ! But won’t it be
fun to do the Joe Wheeler act
on a tree and watch the conflict
between Gen. Uniform Miles
and the “Michigan Gang?”
Let the Northern bloody-sbirt
howlers remember the hospital
service,and the horrors attached,
at Chicamauga, and let up on
the cry of Andersonville prison.
Um Rayal is tbe hiqheat qr.de baking powd.r
Um> AcUutl testi. shew it goes o:ia
further than ««r other bread.
POWDER
Absolute!/ Pure
ROYAL bAKINO POWOFR 00., NfW YORK.
The Chicamauga hospital
horrors will forever overshodow
the Andersonville sufferings.
At Chicamauga the volunteer
patients were grossly neglected,
and, though feverridden, were
forced to sleep on the damp
ground while a mighty nation’s
bounty was wasted while they
starved. At Anderson ville it was
different. A blockade was on
and the prisoners were in a coun
try they and their comrades had
been devastating for years. At
Andersonville, the surgeons and
nurses did all they could do. At
Chicamauga the hospital offi
cials neglected every duty. By
all means let an investigation
be ordered and the guilty scoun
drels run down and hung.
The Duke of Westminster has
written to the London papers
vehemently denying the state
ment so frequently made in the
press that nis income is |5 a
minute On every minute in the
year. He submitted figures
showing that his income is only
f? a minute. If the Duke would
give us about an hour of his
valuable time —say some Sun
day when he can spare it—we
would enlarge the paper.
Gen. Fitz Lee thinks that
eight of the major generals will
be retained in the army, and that
the service will contain 100,000
men. Will Gen. Lee please tell
us why this nation should be
burdened with a standing army
of 100,000 men? Is it going to
take 75,000 soldiers to hold Por
to Rico, Cuba, Luzon and a few
coaling stations? If so then
Uncle Sam has captured a herd
of white elephants.
When Blanco reached the
bitter end he thought it was the
jumping off ’jjlace and tried to
leap. His government, however,
determined to save the most ex
pert Spanish typewriter outside
of that bourne which is paved
with good intentions, and grab
bed him by the coat tails and
yanked him back again.
“When a man blames more
than he praises he is billions/’
says the New Orleans Picayune.
Then that was not billiousness
that had Joe Wheeler down
when be was in Cuba. Fighting
Joe is a billions immune.
Many an ambitious young
American who could not get off
to Klondike, but who is now
heading for an opening in Cuba
or Porto Rico, will find the
same to be about six feet long
and grave deep.
Admiral Candler has begun
his bombardment and they say
he is a splendid gunner —La
Grange Reporter.
Why put it “they say,” when
you have suffered while doing
target duty?
Even so near home at Mon
tauk Point rhe accomodations
for the sick are wretched. This
blundering incapacity should
meet with a severe punishment.
—Boston Traveller.
I; Ki -ENUNCIATION .
Ji no Ji: b of v IrmtP'rs have al*
diod of <li*eases contracted
i i I’ihiiiii' >i j ' iiinpH and ihousands
mere will li 'fr'.m th ’ same cause
The heath of many other th< n-
■ ‘ls 1 ■li i seriouHly injured
•)i •! r • ler of their days At
1 l;.i) (i (■ nt of the 210,<100
voiHoteerw will return to their
hotr -s <l':. r i in not being able
to •»» rr>* tl'Mi pipy soldier and
b um" ■ • .\ r rw ii< e experiences
in the cal!', * < concentra’ion.
They know that this si-kness
j and death has caused mainly oy
| the -riminui ignonmco and care
' lotsness of officers high in rank.
They know that the incompetence
and bridal indifference to the
[health and manhood rights of the
I soldiers was caused by making a
political machine out of the war
department instead of looking
strictly to efficiency and fidelity
in official sppoin*meats.
The hundreds of thousands of
disgruntled soldiers thutare going
home, and the lelativts and friends
ol the sick and dead men consti
tute a very substantial part of
every community of importance
in the United States. The storm
they will raise is calculated to
make the wsr department and its
culpable officers quake in their
boots.
The s'orm is already beginning
to be heard. The injured e’ements
are beginning to speak through tbe
press. The gretft metropolitan
papers are publishing column
after column showing the shame*
ful neglect of sanitary precautions
in the various camps of the coun
try and the general cussedness of
the who’e system, or rather want
of system, in the management of
the vo'untecr army. Ere long the
whole press >f the nation will join
the indignant chorus and the
thunder of their denunciation wifi
-hake the country from center to
circumference.
The political effect is something
which the party in power may well
fear. It is likely to neutra'ize all
the capita! that it has made ou’
of the victory over Spain.—Macon
News.
1 . - W ■ T IH-L—'
Here lies the body of Moses Draper
(Tread softly ye who pass),
Vt Ito lived till sixty without a paper,
And then blew out tile gas.
—Rick Valley Register
We are told that Lieut. Willie
Tiffany, of Roosevelt's Rough
Riders, and a son of the New
York millionaire jeweller, died
of starvation. Alger’s gang
seems to be, no respecter—
If Spain bad only known how
Alger and the political surgeons
were conducting the army hos
pital she might have held on a
few weeks and seen different
lesults.
Some people are naturally
nervous, while others are trou
bled with prickly heat.
An actress is often indebted
to the florist for the flowers she
gets over the footlights.
There is nothing a manly man
admires more than a girlish girl
or a womanly woman.
The man who fails to lay up
something for a rainy day al
ways has to depend on his
friends for anumbrella.
It doesn’t always make a man
happy when a girl returns his
’ lovi—especially when it’s re
turned because she has no use
for it.
Before marriage every man
has a theory about managing a
wife, but after marriage he
finds that it’s a condition and
not theory that confronts him.
—Chicago News. •
Hon. John W. Maddox, the
popular congressman from the
Seventh, was here Tuesday with
his wife and two youngest chil
dren, to be present at the burial
of his kinsman, Mr. Edward
Jones, of Mississippi.—Cedar
town Standard.
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