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Show infill i where one large building I a?e.i for hospital purposes. Two Spanish chap- lains. two surgeon, m apothecary's steward, and five Junior lieutenants have had a building Luilt fur their special accommodation, and have been fitted out with sailors clothes from the Their wardnavy yard storehouses. room Is fitted out wiih bunks nud abundant furniture. Dr. Suarez, who speaks English a little, says that while there will he a good deal for the doctors to do, they all expect to enjoy themselves In camp. The civilizing Influence of a short piece of rope is still tn be seen at Camp I.ong. In olden times the rope was used to cow starved and prisoners. Today it serves a different purpose. The members of the officer's mesa hardly got new clothes betorc they began devising amusements, and jumping rope ha3 become very popular. Two of the mure sedate officers swing the rope while the others take turns jumping. The horrors of war already seem fat away, and the most important things ; in the world seem lo be the delights Admiral Carpenter of good living. Is In who temporary command of the navy yard, has closed the island ti curious visitors, who are not annoying when they get long range views from the New Castle and Kittery shores. Altogether the camp promises to be so quiet that Colonel Forney may lay out new golf links, and perhaps allow the Spanish officers to learn the game. LMV A VP! Al. AIT, rJOItY . , , There are some congressmen who wouid be wming to work overtime ILLUSTRATING THE PRESENT PLIGHT OF THE PEOPLE. This is a land of paradoxes. With an of food the people overproduction Exactly tha Way In Which the Vaurcra starve. With an abundance of land Have Fouled the llebtiir ClanaM Justhey are homeless. With an abundance tice for the IUuih la Not of labor to perform there is no one to hire. With an abundance of peopls wanting money the banks hold milUnder stress of extraordinary cir- lions of Idle capital. With a powerful cumstances the farmers ( people) of a nation, capable of creating its own certain country became very largely money, it goes to ruin for want of It Indebted to the grain dealers of the With mountains rich with silver and congress elected to coin It. the conworld. So they landed, penniless, sick, dirty (Portsmouth, N. II., Letter.) The indebtedness was of various gress demonetizes it. Ashburn Times Civilization while you wait would be and almost naked. kinds and payable In different ways. an appropriate motto for the prison After the mustering was over the After a time, at the suggestion and for One such appointment (for personal stockade at Camp Long. The camp ,is first shipload of prisoners was surthe better security of the grain deal- favoritism, sentimental recognition, on Seaveya Island, part of the navy rounded by marines from the garriers, a law was enacted making all of political spoils, or hereditary considyard, which on the map appears In son and marched into the stockade, the dehta payable in grain" at fixed erations) is enough to Injure the tons Kittery, Me., and on official documents the barefooted ones being chiefly prices for each kind. of the army. Twenty of them togethat Portsmouth, In New Hampshire. anxious to avoid the nettles that lurkThe term grain had previously been er constitute as deadly a blow against Two days before the St. Louis steamed ed in some of the grassy places. legally defined to mean wheat and the efficiency of the army as the presi692 into the harbor with After one day in camp these same Spanish priscorn, each of specified measure, weight dent could administer if he had taken oners of war on board the camp ground hungry looking prisoners could hardly and quality. the advice of Sagasta and Blanco inwas not much better than a desert. be recogniezed. The day's rations of The grain dealers were very lntelli- - stead of the senators and representaof This end the island is bound with beef, bread, coffee and pickles were degent They had great wealth and large tives and political jubhers whose presone which man stick the voured each at up rocks, meal, eating through experience, hence they had great influsure he has shown himself unable to blueberry bushes and scrubby glass more than a pound of meat. They found ence with those literary, legislative, Such weakness Is as baleful in resist. on knolls and hillsides. Col. James hammocks, comfort able hair mattresses and other agencies which mould public Its results as deliberate wickedness. Forney, commanding the Maine Guard, and government blankets provided for opinion and control legislation; they re- New York Dally Times. had during his previous term of duty them, and after a few puffs from boralized their great power, and were willat the navy yard laid out golf links on rowed cigarettes the well Spaniards ing to use It to procure the enactment this eastern end of the island. of laws which would Inure to their slept long and soundly. More meals If the acoounta that reach us from followed with surprising abundance Today he uses the old iron profit, and to Influence the people to Cuba and the Philippines are true, the as dead line ranges. The and regularity, and great wagon loads acquiesce in such laws and such con- intelligent people of these Islands have best hazards in the links are spoiled by of clotheB were hauled over from the struction of them In future as they come to the conclusion that the transa little new pine board town of a dozen navy yard and dumped at the feet of fer of sovereignty from Spain to the might ask. OLD METHODS THE BEST. houses, all but one of which are cut the prisoners. United States would be nothing else They understood fully that the unioff from the rest of the island by f The few industrious spirits volun- Work of versal of supply and demand delaw but a change of masters, and that the Fulfils School la Under Pnpilx teered for camp work, and their worktermines the market value of all comhigh board fence. Within thirty-al- x American parasite would be as disTwo System Compared. hours from the arrival of the St. Louis ing made a pleasant spectacle for those From the New York Evening Post: modities, hence If they could largely agreeable as the Spanish. They are in the lower harbor this village had who were not industrious. With 4varm of Professor Richard C. lessen the use and demand for one kind right, of course, but I am Inclined been equipped with all the creature new clothes and a comfortable full- In the opinion of grain, it would diminish its price to think It will be Just as hard a task Scbledt of Franklin and Marshall colcomforts demanded by a free born ness under one's belt, It is agreeable to has been gained, but while the price of that which muBt for them to get rid of the American American citizen. sit In the sun, or at least out of the lege, nothing in the abandonment of supply Its place and use would be In- bloodsucker as of the Spanish. The lost, The landing of the Spaniards was rain, and discuss wby It was that Ad- something American parasite is aa persistent and old methods in public schools of creased. the Two miral Cervera did not utterly destroy alternate without ceremony or display. intherefore used their They great pitiless sb a bedbug. Free Society. recitation periods, study and n black, shaped barges were the American fleet. To be aure there nnA of a brief recesB during each school fluence to procure the enactment in brought up, one after the other, from are sentries and deep water in front, session. This view was expressed in a many countries of a law that corn Ratber than tax the corporations ths the big liner, about a mile away, and and sentries, with a high board fence read before a meeting in Lan- should not be used sb food for cattle, congress has saddled a Republican made fast to Lieut Greeleys landing behind, backed by barbed wire and paper or horses. of course, This, of the Associated Health hogs Pa., caster, of issue bond $400,000,000 on the proplace, at the foot of old Fort Sullivan, Gatling guns in the rear. What would Authorities. The paper was scientific caused the use and demand for corn to classes. This is to say that ducing from now used as a reservoir. men were run There away you? Shall sane and described psychological experi- be much less, and that for wheat much for to come the workers years thirty a few workmen and a few ladles and good food, good clothes and a good ments undertaken use for were all obliged to by Professor greater, children from the post on the shore, company to lose themselves in a Schiedt and others to determine the wheat only, where both corn and will have to pay s million dollars each month to the bondholders and at ths and a cordon of pleasure boatB on he strange country and starve? fatigue of pupils under different condi- wheat had been used before. end of that time will still owe ths is but not that it the last, and culture water, but no official demonstration of proThus, although Perhaps may tions. Passing the experiments, and of $400,000,000. The Reany Bort. There was not an officer, the sentiment in Camp Long at pres- coming to the professors conclusions, duction of wheat largely increased as whole debt nor even a marine, in sight, and no ent. The landing of the prisoners and it appeared that under the Herbartlan compared with that of corn, the price publican leaders rely on the excitement attenIndication that the island was garri- the establishment of the camp was ac- method of instruction, which provides of wheat went up while that of corn of the war to distract public from tion of this the peopls betrayal soned. complished without the slightest hos- for alternate recitation and study pe' as measured in wheat went down, unOn the first barge Lieut. Catlin, a tile demonstration on the part of the rlods, and does away with home work, til the market price of corn as meas' In order to Bave the corporations from survivor of the Maine disaster, brought Spaniards. Some of the men passive- the power of mental endurance exhib- ured In wheat was about half as much taxation. But they1900forget the heretbe war will bs with him Capt. Moreu, of the Cristobal ly object to being clean, but they can ited by the children was practically as before their "corn laws" were en- after. Long before over. Then the debt will begin to about to and cleanliness with if a corn act of would bushel Colon, sb interpreter, only they get without limit when the atmospheric acted, although put up press hard upon the peopls. And they a dozen American marines to take plenty of tobacco. conditions were favorable. In the re- still pay for nearly as much property will not fall to remember who loaded In care of a boatload of four hundred Col. Forney has the barracks at sults the depressing or elevating influ- other than wheat aa it would before. MaiL Meantime the grain dealers had it upon them. Stockton ence of the atmosphere had an imporSpanish prisoners of war. Lieut. Cat- the navy yard and on duty at the stoc'i lin had a navy revolver in his belt ade about two hundred men, but Sur- tant bearing. A partial remedy is the quietly but successfully used their inInstead of his sword, and went at his geon Parsons says that if the Span- session recess, affording opportunity fluence to have men of their own numPrivate Ownership of Railroads. work without any fuss or feathers. iards only understood that they were for physical exercises in the open air ber or those who would favor paying The war had one of its interesting When six marines had scrambled to have their three square meals a and for a complete change in the at- all debts in wheat placed in control developments last week, when an act ashore and were strung along the bank day a marine guard would be requlr- - mosphere of the schoolroom. This is of the farmers business. of flagrant treason was committed by Many friends of the farmers main- tbe Standard Oil magnate who controls tained that it would be just and legal ths Plant railway system in Florida, to pay their debts in corn or wheat says the Twentioth Century. For four But the grain dealers and those whom days he deliberately threw back ths they had placed In control exclaim. troops ordered to the front It seems Oh! no, not so, we allow, for we canthat a sort of legal battle la in prognot deny, that payment In corn would ress between tbe Plant system and ths be legal, but it would not be near so Florida Central & Peninsular railwell for us as payment in wheat road. The latter claims the right to You farmers are too proud, too patriuse the former's terminal facilities. otic and too honest to wish to pay us The Plant system refused to recognize in anything but that which is best for this right The troops were loaded us. We trust that yon can be made on the Florida Central cars, and were to believe it would be almost like repu- going to the front on hurry orders, diation to pay ua in corn. We know but the Plant people refused to allow you would scorn to even seem to repu- the trains to proceed. They claimed diate any part of your debts. We hope that the Florida Central had no right you will be willing to keep us and our to the use of Plant tracks. The comfriends in control of your business so manders of the troops fretted and that we can be sure to get our pay fumed, hut all to no purpose, and fifWhat ought the teen thousand men were delayed for wholly In wheat. farmers to do? What will they do? twenty hours. Nor has the delay been Suppose it is suggested to the grain abated at this writing, and the movedealers that the farmers are proud, ments of our troops are still retarded. patriotic, and honest; that, being bo, It is conceivable that the fate of a vithey would scorn to repudiate any hontally Important battle may hinge upest debt; that they wish to, and will, on the arrival of troops at the front pay their debts honestly and In full, but at a particular hour. If the government lu order that they may be able to do so owned the railways, there would be no It may be well to allow them to place such peril as these corporation comdisinterested men in control of their plications entail, and, perhaps, the business, and If they shall decide to army of invasion would Le In Cuba SOME SCENES AT PORTSMOUTH. pay debts partly In wheat and partly now. Every soldier in the South, who in corn, the grain dealers can save has given the subject any attention, from loss on corn by re- knows that the railroads are wholly the gangway was opened to the pris- ed, not to keep them on the Island, the more important, Professor Schiedt themselves law the discriminating against blame for all the delays that have pealing oners, who went off the barge in an but to drive them away from it At says, as in this region the days with corn, thus restoring it to its normal to The Incident for which the occurred. unfavorable conditions atmospheric the navy hospital baths and clean Irregular straggling. value as compared with wheat. is responsible is only Plant system are la the majority. E. W. METCALF. They were defeated and shipwrecked nightgowns and beds have transformone of a hundred. But nobody dares to say a word about it. The adminissailors, and they showed it Bare- ed the patients who Monday afternoon Sentiment. Fighting far headed and barefooted, with straggly were groveling in the dust of the roadtration was put In power by the corPOINTS FROM THE PRESS. Tbe masses of the north will fight, side. of a garand porations, and their directors have dirty couple only beards, and fight hard Rnd long, as we of the There are three wounded men, one south have had proved to us. MoreHunger is the parent of revolution. teats In the cabinet. Therefore, when ments In most cases covering legs and bodies, they passively obeyed the or- having been shot in the leg, another over, they will fight for a sentiment, Spain suffers from revolution because glaring examples of the perils of in war time are thrust ders of Capt. Moreu, and were gather- having been hacked in the face by a as we also know by experience they she makes people hungry wherever she no notice is taken ed in ship's companies by the calling Cuban machete while attempting to will fight better for a sentiment than goes. Let us profit by that warning, under our soldiers our to eat. and something of them. The situation somewhat reashore from give and a hundred the had roll. get burning ship, of the Hardly for anything elr.?. But for the sentiTwentieth Century. sembles tint in a highly fashionable men been landed before the sick be- a third who lost several toes from a ment of the north about the old flag dining-racwhen one of the company gan to drop groaning upon the dusty machete wound. There Is an old man and "the preservation of the union, moments idle estimate to sit down on a In the Las just misfortune your are whose legs paralyzed, probably South Carolina would now bs a memroadside. more a millionaire will be pumpkin pie. Tbe incident is unmismuch how In so water. front All the being long of Confederate demonstration the ber States of AmerThe first official navy called upon to pay to carry on the pres- takable, but nobody takes any notiee on shore was made by the navy sur- the other patients, about one hundred ica. That is a proposition. ent war with Spain than will a man of it. To take notice of tbe perils of are and twenty-fivfrom suffering While that section utilized an enor- geons, Drs. Tarsons, Fitts and Morris, works for daily wages. The rev- - corporntioulsm in this crisis would be who contawhich is not fever, to hosroous recruit Its armi"? Immigration who walked over from the naval congress taxes the calling general attention to the source gious, but which causes chills, cramps It would have defeated the south with- enue bill adopted byand pital. followed by an ambulance. leaves property of most of our present troubles. The of life necessaries and about five for The great pain days. out much aid, because without it it Parsons spraks Spanis Republican people Plight inslat upon government This free. say that this fever will go was still far stronger than the south. practically ish quite fluently, having been station- surgeons the wc have never yet been ownership uni operation of the but doctrine, camp, attacking all who Chickamauga. Gettysburg. Sharpshutg or such a propoed in Peru, but very little talk was through as a means of ending the war. have not had it. About a score of and Fredericksburg proved its fighting able to Ree the justice see the and to the feel pulse necessary Times. Tulare be driven into adopting this shall Wc sition. ith men are taken sick every day, and capacity. If we do not that ir tongue of a groaning Spaniard. V.serit'in corporatloas continue policy same number are discharged we can claim no credit for our own about the wants the solall posailile gentleness the most llK-llost o! greed and The Washington displays the for from four years, and hospitals. glorious fighting $5,000 per year and the are encouraging the ously sick were taken to the naval diers Thry paid The convalescents and milder cases we would have no excuse for our defeat. reduced to $13 per mort. enemy. horpitnl and given as good care as Columbia (S. C.) State. rouid be given to American sailors. of fever are cared fur iu the stockade. Instead of Trying to Escape It is Doubtful If Anv of Our 692 Captives Could Be Driven Away. hole-marke- rs flat-iro- nos-es- , m self-evide- nt e, tic rall-i-'m- i-i reco,-,n:7- .o lncom-prNnc- en p. |