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< LETTER From W. H. BUNN.
Guantanamo, Cuba, Sept 29.
Dear Siss :
The other letter 1 wrote you
was necessarily so short on ac
count of my desire to get it off
on the m’il, then being closed,
that I shall write you one more
fully.
I received copy of the Rome
paper you sent me containing
my letter to mother describing
my travel on an army trans
port, and my first impression of
this end of the island. I was
sorry I didn’t take more care
and use less of the ego, in so
much as it was appreciated far
beyond my expectations.
I am sorry I could not tell
you more of the situation here,
so you could see that it is im
possible for me to adviss any
one of your boys or Henry Bunn
or Allen Neely to come.
You know that every man in
our service here is detailed from
service in the states of a similar
nature, and when vacancies oc
cur we have no more sayso than
the man in the moon, to who
shall come to fill it. There is a
great scramble in all the de
partments at home to get ass
signed t" duties in Cuba. Most
ly frcm those who are merely
sightseers, and when the novel
ty wears off and the sightseeing
is over they want to return, or
maybe when the first little spall
of the fever that always takes
those who come from the states,
strike them, they want to go
home right away, and sooner
than they usually can.
Everything is under military
rule at present.
The commander of the Amer
ican army is virtually governor
of the surrendered portion of the
province of Santiago. Little bus
iness has started, except that
merely pertaining to feeding and
clothing.
There is now no opportunity
for a business situation. If any
one has money he might start
up a business that will make
him rich in course of time. There
are very few Americans here ex
cept army people and post oifice
men, custom men and quarter
master and commissary clerks .
The natives have no money
The only money in circulation
is what the American paymas
ter hasbrough*. here for soldiers’
hire. Spanish money is run out
ry - "" '2 " " '
According to the* novels
t*l c J of Richardson and his con-
temporaries, in the olden
days mcn used to admire
Jw. - -tai 4J, i women who screamed
ql* lupou the least provoca-
/ Bw tion an d fainted on all
1 opportunities. Rich-
ardson’s heroines were
(f always toppling out
11 1 l “ e > r chairs, fall-
I * ‘ > ■EXaj/ - np * n a "dead faint”
7] in their lovers’arms,
B \ M having their stays
■ | B\ * cut and their hands
a ■/ IfpsJJ slapped, their tem-
I / H VSGt pies bathed and
W 4 II u 11’V their noses smelling-
|J'%v W 1 salted.
'* Both the women and the
O'men have changed radically since
those days. The modern man does not
admire the fainting woman, neither does he
marry her. If by chance he does, he is
only a man, and lives to regret it. There is
no reason why any woman should be a faint
ing woman. General bodily weakness and
nervousness in women are due to weakness
or disease of the delicate, special organs of
the sex. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
is a scientific and unfailing remedy for all
disorders of this description. It imparts
health and strength to the sensitive and
susceptible organs upon which a woman’s
general health is largely dependent. It
quiets and tones up the nerves, restores the
vigor of youth, rounds out the emaciated
form, imparts the glow of health to the
complexion and transforms weak, sickly,
nervous invalids into new, healthy, happy
women. It fits for wifehood and mother
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" Words fail to describe my suffering before
using Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription,” writes
Mrs. Sallie Key, of Tampico, Granger Co., Tenn.
'I had inflammation, irritation and profuse
flowing and was very nervous and suffered terri
bly at all times. My feet and limbs were cold. I
had palpitation of the heart, and my back was
S 2. w r? k tlla t I could not turn myself in bed.
<ne thought of food sickened me. My kidneys
■were very badly affected I had been down six
months. I could not sleep night or day and had
VP hope. Mv husband got me some
of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. I took it
fcr five months and at the eud of that time could
warn a mile and do all my own housework I
•m sure I typuld be in my grava if it had not
been for the Favorite Prescription.’ ”
Send to Dr. R V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y„
WfctA- a “People’s Common
Medical Adviser.” For paper-cover
enclose 21 one-cent stamps to covet
mailing only. Cloth bound, 31 stamps.
of Santiago aid is worth only
50 cents on the SI.OO. Here at
Guantanamo it is more abun-’
dant and is worth 65c.
A few days ago two men re
ported to us for duty. We had
not even asked for any help ad
ditional. One was from Pitts
field, Mass., and one from the
Postoflice Department at Wash
ington. We put them to work,
of course, for we kuo v some one
will want to gc back again be
fore long. Maybe one of them
will see enough or have a little
fever, or see that he can’t run
things, and be the first tr
return. That’s the position in
this province right now.
What it is in Havana—7oo
miles distant, I can’t say, This
is not Havana. And we get our
news from there by the belated
newspapers from New York.
I came from Santiago up here
last Monday night to visit a sta
tion we have here, expecting to
return following day. But the
boat that regularly runs betw’een
here and Santiago twice a week,
took a notion to go over to
Kingston—not Kingston, Ga.,
but Jamaica —and I have no way
of getting back, so am spending
my spare waiting time catching
up with desire for writing let
ters. I shall go back as soon as
a boat comes, whn that will be
I do not know.
It is a night’s ride by steamer
from Caminaria to Santiago and
fourteen miles from Guantani
mo to Caminaira.
Caminaira is the shipping
point for Guantanamo, and large
quantities ot sugar is sent from
here to New York.
The Messrs Brooks, English
men, own all the adjoining land
about here, and all that adjoins
that. They own three million
dollars worth of machinery for
simply converting cane into su
gar alone. You may have some
idea of their sugar estate from
that.
Comenaira is twelve mile
from the coast line outside and
gives one of the finest harbors
in Cuba.
The harbor at Santiago is rath
er small and the American war
ships are all here in this harbor,
also the Maria Teresa, sunk by
Schley—nobody here ever says
anything about Sampson—at the
battle by the navy on July 3rd.
Hobson brought her up .here
from the berth Schley put her
into on that awful occasion.
At the entrance to Guantana
mo bay is camp McCalla, where
the marines fron the Marble
head landed as the first Ameri
cans on Cuban s^il. The r e are
still on the side of the hill in
plain view, and where the Span
ish block house once stood, a
number of graves to show that
they met with a warm reception
from the Spaniards.
Col. Ray’s;regiment, the 3rd
Imraunes,are nearly all encamp
ed here, two companies are
at Baracua on the North coast,
and two at Sagua de Tanamo,
still further to the West Lieut.
McCall (formerly of the Arm
strong hotel) is in one of the lat
ter companies. They are simply
burried. A message arrived
here yesterday reporting sixty
in the hospital out of the 175
men there. The messenger rode
through the country, two days
coming.
Just before coming up here I
returned to Santiago from a
weeks’cruise along the North
coast with Col. Ray and party,
and fleet of three ships, two of]
which, the Reina de Los Hagies
(Queen of the Angles) and the |
San Juan (Saint John) pre cap
tured Spanish prizes.
The Los Angles I think is the
most beautiful ship I was ever
in, except Coosa river steamers
of course.
The names of the ships were
enough to insure at least a
heavenly time, but that was
completely antidoted by the ob
ject of the trip.
The party consisted of Col.
Ray, Major Me Leary of Gen.
Wood’s staff. Mr. Brooks, one
of the gentlemen who supplies
us with sugar, as interpreter,
Lieut. Piexotto, Col. Ray’,
quartermaster and myself, de
La Coralo, also a guard of nine
men, who nover saw their mus
kets after they got on the ship.
Col. Ray chose the Los Angeles,
of course, for the flagship and
out we put to sea to double Cape
Maisi and to, as Col. Ray put.
it, to “round up” the Spanish
soldiers on that side of the is
land. Right here let me remark,
for I am aware that the newspa
pers at home have unnecessarily
censured Col. Ray for injecting
a true soldier’s manner into a
volunteer regiment. Men have
officers commissions through
political pull, expecting a flow
ery bed of ease, and for nothing
of the real business of warfare.
I don’t think there is any
man in the American army to
day that is more capable, and
more patriotic, and who has a
better idea of warfare than. Col.
Ray.
Officers as described above
have failed in their requirements
and having had enough promin
ence to secure a commission,
have enough prominence to get
the sympathy of the public.
One thing can be eaid of Col.
Ray that may redeem many
other faults he may be accussed
of, and no one conversant can
deny it, he looks after the inter
est of the man who carries the
gun and makes the officers under
him do it, too. One captain i«
now under arrest for showing a
favor to officers when he should
have looked after his own men
first. Don’t that remind you
some what of Napoleon?
He has a meat discres.ionary
faculty, and adaptable disposi
tion, as, is shown from the fact
that he came from the Klondike
directly to this tropical climate.
As a soldier he knows how to
command, and, what is more
essential, what to command. A*
a man, he is as pleaasnt com
pany as you can get with, and
as thoughtful of his companion,
as he, as a colonel, is thoughtful
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Mr. B. D. Jenkins, of Lithonia, Ga„
says that bis daughter, Ida, inherited a
severe case of Eczema, which the nsual
mercury and potash remedies failed to
relieve. Year by year she was treated
with various medicines, external appli
cations and internal remedies, without
result. Her sufferings were intense,
and her condition grew steadUy worse.
AU the so-called blood remedies did net
seem to reach the dis
ease at all until S.
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an improvement
was at once noticed.
The medicine was
continuerd with fav
orable results, and
now she is cured
sound and well, her
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she has been saved
from what threat
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HOTM. eMCKM M, »IWW-
of his men.
We first went up to Porto de
Sagua, and being there two day.
we took every Spaniard in that
region on b >nrd.Tu n came back
dawn the coast to Baracoa,
where he. the aahes of the fa
mous mule killed by abot from
the gunboat Annapolis, when
that beautiful little city was
bombarded.
That mule was the only death
arising from that exploit of our
navy, and the Spaniards gave
him a deserving funeral and
burial, one befitting the occa
sion.
Every true American coming
down here, and believing he
will not take on that Manana
(tomorrow) feeling, should pay
a visit to the grave of that hero.
It didn't take long fer Col.
Ray to “round up” the prisoners
of war there and to inspect the
companies there under Maj.
Wyly, and in seven hours we
were off te Guantanamo bay
with two thousand Spaniards,
aboard, our fleet and as many
Mauser rifles. I know that would
arouse the jealousy of every
huntsman at home who a,
Mau.er rifle. But they get them
Twenty four hours sail and
we were alongside the transports
that were to take the Spaniards
to Barcelona. I want to interject
at this point that of all things I
would rather not be, I believe it
would be not to be a soldier,
badly licked and sent home by
the fellows who licked me.
They were a sad looking set, I
assure you. I wondered how
they fought at all.
They seemed to have no di-,
cipline, no pride, no clothes and
no dinner. . -j
Many officers had their wives
and several had children.
Almost every soldier bad a
rooster taking back.
I think the senoritas bad lost
their fashion plates since coming
to Cuba, but they had not lost
their jewelry.
Last Sunday I went down the
west coast to the wrecks of the
Spanish ships. As I have said
the Maria Teresa had been float
ed and sent up to Guantanamo
bay. But the Oquendo and Vis
cay a were there, about eight
miles apart.
I went aboard the Vsscaya,
which i. still burning, and the
stench from the dead in her
holes is something awful.
There is not a particle of ma-,
terial about her, except of a
metalic nature, scarcely a beam,
that is not bent. You cannot pic
ture the awful destruction that
must have been wrought on that
day. What a hell each of those
ships was ! To have been on one
and to remain was simply te
roast to death.
When her aft magazine ex
ploded it tere a hole into her
side big enough to put a house
in, and twisted her six inch ar
mor plate like a girl twists her
bangs with curling tongs.
I picked up a number of little
'souvenirs off her iron decks.
One a stack of five porcelain
lined plates melted together, so
you cau’t pull them apart. A
similar dipper where the metal
had melted and run down into
the bowl until it almost filled it.
A number of five dollar gold
pieces have been picked up from
her melted and run together.
From this you get some idea
of what a naval ba tie is in real
ity.
I remain in rather good health.
Have lost no flesh. Am rarely
ever feeling badly. Have only
lain up half a day since arriving
in Cuba. Besides stayed in the
same room for a week with one
of my ewn party, who had yel
low fever, not badly, however.
Wish I could have similar al
ia* k and become an immune.
I te.ir I have wearied you,
but aliU no boat. Since writing
this Col. Ray tells me he will
take me baek tomorrow.
Much love to all, and write
me often.
Your affectionate brother,
M. H. Bunn.
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REDUCTION in freights.
Railroad Companies Make a
e
Cut Between East and South.
Baltimore, Oct. 14.—The Mer
chants’ and Miners’ Transpor
tation Company today announced
a reduction of 25 per cent. on
freight rates from Boston. Trevi
deuce. New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore to Nashville and
Memphis points. The cut will go
into t-ffeet L morrow.
The reduction was upnn
at meeting htld in New York on
Tuesday, at whieh the Merchants’
and Miners’, the Seaboard Air
Line, the Norfolk and Western
railroad, the Atlantic Coast Line,
the Baltimore, Chssßpeake and
Richmond Steamship Company
and the Central of Georgia rail
road were represented
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agenoy, and upon inquiry of the
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factory, and with hundreds of
sales, not one word of criticism
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On the contrary many ladies
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Wishing to close up my old
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also of J. T. Crouch & Co. I
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be placed in the hands of a col
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