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GHISRMfiUGfI
Camp la be loiestigated at
Once.
MANY BLACK CHARGES
Must be Explained Away. Can
It be Done?
Washington, Sept. 2. —After
persistent representations on the
P*rt of the newspapers as
io short comings in the depart
ment of the Surgeon General
•nd other departments, an in
vestigation has been inaugurat-
lt is not yet general in its na
, as it will be when more
. frets are brought to the attention
°f the administration, but a
istinet order has already been
to Brig. Gen.H. V. Boyton,
•» ' h' ainatiga to find what is
1 e basis cf complaint there and
who is to blame.
Acting Secretary of War Mei
*'«]ohn said today:
In view of the statement that
. ;«*• been published about Camp
oinas the Surgeon General
..*** requested that an investiga-
Ofl be made and it has been
Boynton has been.
on ncti ng the investigation all
•in’k #nd Mll ig completed it
rv i ® f° rwar ded to the Socreta-
W made public.
_ n < R Wa “ ® Mur «d yesterday by
official of the War Depart
thal of the medical
C»mp Thom., were
s * h ’ lr i d “ J ' “ di, ‘ he
I?**? or p.nu. .tn be im-
courtmartial.”
In the meantime Surgeon
General Sternberg has submitted
to Acting Secretary Meiklejohn
this report showing the number
of contract nurses in service or
or erders for duty August 27,
1898.
CHICAMAUGA WORST OF ALL
Speaking of this investiga
tion, Surgeon General Sternberg
said today that there hrd been
more sickness at Chicamauga
than at any other camp. The
investigation, therefore, under
Gen. Boynton will be far reach
ing, as natural surroundings
at Chicamauga were such as
were thought to be coducive to
health.
Notwithstanding the practice
during the civil war of keeping
men in one camp continuously
only for about a week and then
putting them together in num
bers not to exceed a division,
forty thousand men have been
crowded together inChicamauga
camp for nearly three months.
The inquiry will proceed first
upon the basis of why the pro
test to Gen. Sternberg against
such an unheard of disposition
of troops for such a long term
was heeded.
■The next stop in the investi
gation will be the hygienic de
tails of the camp. The question
of sinks will first be taken up.
It is now admitted that this
has been the most prolific cause
of all the sickness among the
soldiers in the southern camps.
It was known at the beginning
that sinks of suitable depth
could not be dug at Chicamauga
owing to the uuderly rock being
so near the surface.
Thus, the camp has been over
swept with fever breeding genps.
This care of the soldiers seems
to have entirely escaped the at
tention o fGen. Sternberg. He
with summing up the number
of quinine pills he has sent to
each place. He seems to have
been entirely oblivious to the
broad hygienic laws laid down
for the proper sanitation of
crowded camps.
BASIS OF INVESTIGATION.
The investigation, moreover,
will rest upon specific and per
fectly authenticated complaints.
The percentage of fever cases
will be compared with that of
other camps, and the number Os
nurses and doctors, and it not
found to be sufficient the finding
will be embodied in the report.
For example, at Camp Thom
as, where there were 60,000
troops, according to Gen. Stern
berg’s statatement, there were
only thirty eight- nurses. The
doctors were in proportion. The
complaints, therefore, from there
have been so clear and pro
nounced that it is thought the
root of evil may be most quickly
found, as far as volunteer camps
are concerned.
A CLEVER TRICK.
It certainly looks like it, but
there is really no trick about it,
Anybody can try it who has
Lame Back and Weak Kidneys,
Malaria or nervous troubles.We
mean he can cure himself right
away by taking Electric Bitters.
This medicine tones up the whole
system, Acts as a stimulant to
Liver and Kidneys, is a blood
purifier and nerve tonic. It cures
Constipation, Headache, Faint
ing Spells, Sleeplessness and
Melancholy. It is purely vegeta
ble, a mild laxative, and restores
the system to its natural vigor.
Try Electric Bitters and.be con
vinced that theyr are a miracle
worker. Every bottle guaranteed
Only 50c a bottle at Curry Ar-
Amateur—“ What do youthink
of the artist Albino, who painted a
spiderweb on the ceiling so na
turally that a chambermaid spent
the whole morning trying to sweep
it away?” Critic—“ There may be
such an artist, but I do not be»
lieve in the existence of such a
chambermaid. ” —Fliegende Blast-*
ter.
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Hon. J, Pope Brown and Capt
tain J. A. Coffee of Pulaski, and
Colonel R. A. Wilson of Wilcox,
three of the most progressive far
mers in the state, have concluded
that it does not pay to pull fodder.
Consequently, they will cut and
shock their corn, and when it is
cured, by means r-f a shredding
machine, they will shred stalk,
fodder and all and use for feed.
Many farmers are - watching this
experiment and if it proves a sue*
cess the idea will be universally
adopted in this section,
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Mrs. Myrick very truthfully
says: After all, the army is more
indebted to the woman of the
country than to those whose busi
ness it was to provide necessary
equipments and supplies.
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Seven provinces in the Russain
wheat belt have very small wheat
crops and the prospect now is that
American wheat will command a
fair price.
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“Sometimes,” said the young
man who is becoming slightly cy
nical, “it does seem that a dollar
is the best friend a man can have,”
“Yes, sir,” replied Senator Sorg
hum; “and I have always contend •
•d that it is a politician’s duty to
make a* many friends as posible.”
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Il is ruined I Stolid Farmer —“Aye
man, an’ thee be sittin’ on my
strawberies which will na improvs
them, I’m thinking!”—Judy.’
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It is said that Editor Brann, of
Iconoclast fame, bad an aoedident
policy with a contingent life clause
for $5,000, The company refuses to
pay the widow on the ground that
he deliberatelv contributed to the
violent accident that caused hie
death.
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The United States ship Monon
gahela, which has taken oat the
cadets of the Naval Academy on
many summer cruises, will prob
ably not perform that service
again. The old vessel, it is said,
will be“housed over,” similar to
the Santee, and used for a bar
racks. The practice ship, to be
named the Chesapeake, now budd
ing at Bath, Me., will be ready by
spring, in time for the cadets*
summer cruidb.
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“At Cave Springs a boy was
born the other day with five fingers
and one thumb on each band.
Nature never makes any mistakes.
When she decided to mate K insas
tl.e banner corn State of tbe
Union she had to provide addi
tional husking facilitite ”—Kan
sas City Journal.
The above c!ipp ; ng ins to do
with a fr<>ak in C ve Spring, Kan.
and does not r--ti -ct on Cave
Spring. Gu.
t 000
Says the Cedartown Standard:
A minister in a town not a
thousand miles away, on a recent
Sunday evening surprised his au
dience by reading the following
ann mneemeut from hie pu'pit.
“Tbe regular session of the don
key club will be held as usual at
the close of this service. Members
will line up just ou'side tbe
church door, make remarks and
stare at the ladies who pass, as is
their custom. Any member known
io escort a young lady to church
like a man and -it with her like a
CHEAP RATES.
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The Southern R’y operates 3
daily trains between Itotne and
Chattanooga, by which parties
can leave Rome in the morihug,
spend the day in Chattanooga
and return homo same evening.
The schedule between these
points is as follows. Leave Rome
1:00 a. m. arrive Qnattanooga
4:15 a. m.; leave Rome 10.35
arrive Chattanooga 1: 00 p. m.;
leave Rome 6 :25 a. m. arrive
Chattanooga 8 :50 p. m. There
is also a local train leaving Rome
going by the way of
CohuMa and Cleveland and ar
rives Chattanooga 7:20 p. m.
Returning, trains leave Ohatta*.
nooga 6 :30 a. in. arrive Rome
9: 00 a. m. ; leave Chattanooga
3 .10 p. in. arrive Rome 5:35 p.
m.; leave Chattanooga 10:10 p.
arrive Rome I:44'a. m. Pull
man sleeping cars on all trains.
For further information call
on C. Harrison, C. T. A.
SICK MEN GOING HOME.
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Washington, Aug 29.—Ths sick
at Camp Alger are being rapidly
removed to their respective states.
Forty-two sick men of the Mis
souri regiments left today. Tomor
row one hundred sick meu of the
Sixty-fifth New York will
home in a hospital train.
I Beware of Imitations