1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
537 
The War. 
BRIEF NOTES FOR BUSY PEOPLE. 
DIARY OF THE WAR. 
Terms of capitulation arranged with Cien. 
Toral. All the surrendered Spanish soldiers are 
to be sent to Spain at our expense. Watson’s 
fleet not yet ready to sail for Spain. Conditions 
unchanged in Manila, Saturday, July 16. 
The Stars and Stripes raised over the Gover¬ 
nor’s palace at Santiago. Perfect order is main¬ 
tained in the city, and there is little sickness. A 
small gunboat and 200 marines left by Cervera 
surrendered. About 7,000 rifles and 600,000 cart¬ 
ridges turned in. Preparations are being made 
for a combined land and sea attack upon Porto 
Rico. No peace overtures as yet, Sunday, July 17. 
Tariff schedules for Santiago have been agreed 
upon, and collection of duties will begin at once. 
Arrangements have been made to reopen trade 
with Santiago. Expedition consisting of 6,000 
soldiers embarked at Tampa for Porto Rico, 
Monday, July 18. 
Gen. Shatter has 22,789 prisoners in Santiago, 
and may get many more. The Red Cross Society 
fed 40,000 people. Manzanillo bombarded; three 
steamers and one gunboat destroyed, three 
Spaniards killed and 14 wounded. Prize steam¬ 
ers Catalina, Guido, Miguel Jovcr, and Buena 
Ventura, under convoy of gunboat, Newport, 
arrived off Tompkinsville. On the steamers were 
about 300 Spaniards and 44 sick and wounded 
men. Friction continues between our forces and 
Cuban allies, who decline to work or fight, and 
further trouble is feared. Transports are being 
loaded at New York for Porto Rico expedition, 
Tuesday, July 19. 
Spanish prisoners of war are to be shipped to 
Spain on Spanish vessels, under American con¬ 
voy, at a cost of $385,000. Spain will court-mar¬ 
tial Gen. Toral. Expedition to Spaiu delayed by 
the projected invasion of Porto Rico. Troops 
still embarking at Tampa; transports at Guan¬ 
tanamo waiting for coDvoy, Wednesday, July 20. 
Gen. Garcia has resigned his office as Com¬ 
mander of the Cuban Army of the East, and with¬ 
drawn with his troops from Santiago, declaring 
that he and his army have not received sufficient 
consideration from Gen. Shatter. The second 
Philippine expedition has landed at Manila. Ex¬ 
pedition to Porto Rico sailed with about 10,000 
men, Gen. Miles in command. 
Squadron to attack Spain is to consist of 11 
ships, including four battleships. It will sail in 
two divisions, Commodore Watson and Commo¬ 
dore Schley in command. Yellow fever under 
control. Everything quiet at Santiago. Troops 
and supplies a/re being loaded at several points, 
Thursday, July 21. 
The expedition to the Bay of Nipe is entirely 
successful. The Spanish cruiser Jorge Juan, de¬ 
fending the place, was destroyed without loss to 
our side, by the Annapolis and Wasp. Nipe is on 
the northern coast, 12 miles west of Sagua de 
Tan am o, the western point of surrendered terri¬ 
tory. No deaths among forces at Santiago; sani¬ 
tary condition of the city improved. More troops 
forwarded to Manila; total number expected to 
reach 19,000. Reported European complications 
in the Philippines, Friday, July 22. 
We are now informed that two of the 
Spanish ships sunk off Santiago, can be 
raised and repaired. It is suggested that 
one of them be renamed the Maine. It 
is, certainly, a first-rate idea. 
Every armored cruiser and battleship 
in the navy is to be included in the East¬ 
ern squadron, with the exception of the 
New York, Admiral Sampson’s flagship, 
and the Iowa. The Iowa is badly in need 
of overhauling, and must be docked. It 
is rumored that this vessel was injured 
more than at first supposed by a Spanish 
shell at Santiago. 
Gen. Miles has given orders for a 
veterinarian to accompany the forces at 
each engagement, his duty being to ex¬ 
amine all the wounded horses and mules, 
and to destroy those whose condition can 
only result in prolonged anguish. All 
who are interested in the humane treat¬ 
ment of man’s four-footed friends will 
applaud this merciful provision. 
Reports from Havana indicate great 
suffering in that city. Provisions are 
becoming scarcer every day. Sharks 
caught in the harbor furnish delicate 
food, for even horses and dogs are becom¬ 
ing scarce. Provisions of all sorts are 
scarce. When Santiago capitulated, 
American flour was selling at $40 a bar¬ 
rel, beef $1 a pound, sweet potatoes 20 
cents a pound, and wheat biscuits 20 
cents each. 
The friction between the Cuban and 
American forces, which culminated in 
open rupture between Gen. Shatter and 
Gen. Calixto Garcia, while unfortunate, 
is not by any means unforeseen. The 
Cubans have shown a tendency, from the 
first, to shirk hard work, while their 
ideas of warfare have shocked their 
American allies. We have grown so ac¬ 
customed to looking upon the Spaniards 
as barbarous oppressors, that w T e over¬ 
looked the fact that our Cuban allies 
were, after all, an offshoot of the same 
tree. By the time we have settled mat¬ 
ters with Spain, we shall have to pacify 
Cuba, apparently. Neither is the out¬ 
look in the Philippines any brighter. 
Aguiualdo, the insurgent leader, is very 
reticent as to his own course, while very 
eager to learn all he can about American 
plans. It is asserted that each head man, 
equally with Aguinaldo, is desirous of 
being a supreme ruler, and they are al¬ 
ready quarreling among themselves. So 
far Aguinaldo has offered little aid to 
our troops. 
Not many seagoing vessels will gain 
American registry by reason of Hawaiian 
annexation—24 steamships, large and 
small ; 15 ships and barks, and 17 schoon¬ 
ers. Small as is this maritime addition, 
it is far more than would be gained by 
the accession of Spain’s entire colonial 
possessions to our territorial domain. 
Every little helps, however, when the 
upbuilding of a commercial marine is in 
question. 
Masterly inactivity at Camp Alger 
does not accord with the ideas of field 
service entertained by some of the west¬ 
ern troops, and one regiment recently 
forwarded the following sarcastic peti¬ 
tion to headquarters ; “ Inasmuch as 
our services do not seem to be needed at 
the front, and we are likely to remain 
here over Winter, we respectfully re¬ 
quest permission to put in a crop of 
wheat. We find about 1,000 acres fit for 
the purpose on this reservation, and can 
raise enough to bread the army for quite 
a spell.” 
The officials of the Internal Revenue 
Bureau believe the country will absorb 
more internal revenue stamps than post¬ 
age stamps. The Post Office Department 
prints about 3,000,000,000 postage stamps 
a year, or an average of 10,000,000 a day. 
The requisitions already filled for inter¬ 
nal revenue stamps from the 63 collectors 
amount to 500,000,000, which seem to 
have been instantly absorbed by the 
public, and they are now calling for 
more. The department is sending out 
have been the best friends the rough 
riders have had, and every one of us, 
from Col. Roosevelt down, appreciates it. 
When our men were being mown down 
to right and left in that charge up the 
hill it was the black cavalrymen who 
were the first to carry our wounded 
away, and during that awful day and 
night that I lay in the field hospital 
waiting for a chance to get down here it 
was two big colored men badly wounded 
themselves who kept my spirits up. 
Why, in camp every night before the 
fight the colored soldiers used to come 
over and serenade Cols. Wood and Roose¬ 
velt. And weren’t they just tickled to 
death about it. The last night before 
I was wounded a whole lot of them came 
over, and when Col. Roosevelt made a 
little speech thanking them for their 
songs, one big sergeant got up and said : 
“ ’ It’s all right, Colonel, we’se all rough 
riders now.’ ” 
NEWS FROM THE FRONT. 
A friend of The R. N.-Y., in the 71st 
New York Volunteers, writes as follows 
from Cuba, the letter being dated about 
two weeks before the combined assault 
on Santiago ; 
“ We are having a gorgeous time, with 
very little to trouble us and plenty to 
eat. Our rations ai’e issued to us, and 
we have to do our own cooking. We 
have three days’ rations now ready to 
start at a minute’s notice. The rations 
consist of one can of tomatoes, half a 
cupful of coffee, half a cupful of sugar, 
half a cupful of hard beans, some salt, 
57 hard tacks, and a chunk of pork about 
eight inches long and two inches square. 
Now, if a man cannot live on that, he 
the 71st was called upon, but the Rough 
Riders needed no assistance. * * * 
“ I have just been eating and drinking 
a cocoanut and feel better. The nuts 
are fine down here, not like city cocoa- 
nuts. There are other things here good 
to eat, but they won't let us go out and 
look for them, we might get shot. One 
would think this was a kindergarten and 
we were four-year-olds. 
“ To-morrow we march towards San¬ 
tiago; then the fnn begins. If I ever 
write again, I will have a bully story to 
tell. We are camping in what was once 
the engine house of one of the finest iron 
mines in the world. This is a pretty 
little town, all the houses alike, and all 
small and clean, some pretty flowers and 
lots of vines and rose bushes ; though it 
is tropical, the temperature makes one 
shiver at 4 o’clock in the morning. It is 
not as hot here as people say it is, but it 
is no joke climbing mountains with our 
outfits and ammunition. 
“When we reached here, the theory 
was that we would attack Santiago, then 
board the transports again and go to 
Havana, take that, and go home. I do 
not believe we will have such an easy 
time at Santiago as most people think, 
and instead of the Spaniards being poor 
shots, they are very good ones. They 
have block houses all over, and intrench- 
ments every few’ hundred feet, but they 
have sneaked in or near Santiago, as 
that is the place to protect now. The 
volunteers are trusted quite as much as 
any of the regulars, and are to be sent 
about 15,000,000 a day. An estimate of 
the taxes paid by railway companies 
upon bills of lading leads the depart¬ 
ment to expect a revenue of between 
$4,000,000 and $5,000,000 from that source. 
A good deal of comment has been 
aroused by the news that a Spanish 
steamship line will receive the contract 
to carry our prisoners of war to Spain. 
It is understood that several of the ves¬ 
sels of the Campania Transatlantica are 
hidden in Mexican or South American 
ports, to avoid capture ; by the contract 
made, they will have a safe convoy home, 
and at the same time make a large sum 
out of the Government. A number of 
the vessels belonging to this line are 
auxiliary cruisers of the Spanish navy, 
which might be turned over to the home 
government, but it is said that guaranty 
will be given that this will not be done. 
The New York Sun says that while 
the proportion of colored men wounded 
has been large, by their courage and 
supreme cheerfulness they have really 
carried off the palm for heroism. Here 
is what one of the wounded rough riders, 
Kenneth Robinson, has to say about the 
black soldiers. Robinson is lying in one 
of the tents here suffering from a shot 
through his chest. A pair of under¬ 
drawers and one sock, the costume in 
which he arrived from the front, is all 
that he has to his name at present. On 
the next cot to him lies an immense 
negro, who has been simply riddled with 
bullets, but is still able to crack a smile 
and even to hum a tune occasionally. 
Between him and the Calumet man there 
has sprung up a friendship. 
“I’ll tell you what it is,” said Robin¬ 
son this morning. “ Without any disre¬ 
gard to my own regiment I want to say 
that the whitest men in this fight have 
been the black ones. JAt all events they 
ought to starve ; but the carrying of it 
is no joke, I can tell you. 
“ We have turned in our blankets and 
blouses, but we still have half a shelter 
tent, a poncho, a haversack, a canteen, 
our rifles, and above all, 105 rounds of 
ammunition; this alone weighs 12 pounds, 
and if you just stop to think, you will 
find we have quite a lot of stuff and a 
great deal of weight. Fortunately, we 
do not have very far to go, as Santiago 
is only about seven miles away. We are 
going to have a prime fight, there is no 
doubt about that. I am willing to wager 
that it will take more than three days to 
get there. Roosevelt’s boys are still 
holding their position, and others have 
joined them. 
“ Concerning that fight of the Rough 
Riders, Roosevelt’s men, under Col. 
Wood, were ordered to advance a few 
miles and halt. They pressed on in a 
most reckless manner, even after passing 
their limits,and after being twice warned 
by scouts that there was danger ahead. 
Suddenly they found themselves in a 
trap. Marching in a column of fours, 
shouting and whistling in a reckless 
manner,they were surprised to find Span¬ 
iards on three sides of them. The Span¬ 
iards fired and ran. It was then that 
what a fight we can put up when we get 
a chance.” 
pi Wlut • MB 
lm ttaina to seems 
! for a little time 
to be the high¬ 
est rung in the 
' ladder, and dur- 
I ing that brief pe¬ 
riod he may be 
I content, but when 
he discovers that 
/there are other 
rungs, still higher 
, up, ambition gives 
'birth to discontent, 
/and he begins once 
more to climb. To 
climb is really man’s 
tchief end. It isn’t in 
attainment, but in 
fwork, that man finds his 
real happiness, conse¬ 
quently it is not strange 
‘that we find men working 
until they break down 
when there is no real 
necessity for it. 
If men only knew it, they could work to 
almost any extent on through middle life 
and into old age, if they would only take a 
little common sense care of their health. 
The trouble is that they do not take the lit¬ 
tle stitches here and there that are neces¬ 
sary to preserve health. They pay no at¬ 
tention to the signs of on-coming ill-health. 
A little biliousness, a little indigestion, a 
little loss of sleep and appetite, a little 
nervousness, a little headache, a little 
shakiness in the morning, and a little dull¬ 
ness all day, a little this and a little that— 
all these little things they neglect. Dr. 
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery makes 
the appetite keen, digeition and assimila¬ 
tion perfect, the liver active, the blood pure 
and the nerves steady. It is the great 
blood-maker and flesh-builder. It is the 
great liver invigorator and nerve tonic. It 
fits a man to work and work and work. 
Medicine dealers sell it and have nothing 
else “just as good." 
“ I was a sufferer five or six years from indi- 
f estion,” writes B. ff. Holmes, of Gaffney, 
partanburg Co., 8. C., “ also from sore stomach 
and constant headache. I then used Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical Discovery and ‘ Pleasant Pel¬ 
lets,’ which in a few days gave me permanent 
relief.” 
A man or woman who neglects constipa¬ 
tion suffers from slow poisoning. Doctor 
Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets cure constipa¬ 
tion. One little “ Pellet ” is a gentle laxa¬ 
tive, and two a mild cathartic. All medi¬ 
cine dealers sell them. 
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