1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
553 
The War. 
BRIEF NOTES FOR BUSY PEOPLE. 
DIARY OF THK WAR. 
Transport Rio Janeiro sailed from .San Fran¬ 
cisco to Manila, with troops. The Philadelphia, 
first vessel to sail fora foreign port over which 
ihe Stars and Stripes has been raised, cleared 
for Santiago with cargo and passengers. Lieut. 
Hobson arrived in New York, on his way to Wash¬ 
ington, Saturday, July 23. 
Cuban non-combatants have appealed to Presi¬ 
dent McKinley to remove Spanish officials from 
Santiago. Number of new cases of fever of all 
classes among troops at Santiago, 39(5, deaths 4. 
Yellow fever does not make great headway, and 
is not regarded as virulent. Insurgents capture 
Gibara. Report that Gen. Miles has reached 
Porto Rico. German traders at Manila demand 
indemnity for losses sustained through the war. 
Four Spanish officers and 237 sailors sent home 
on British steamer Hesperia, Sunday, July 24. 
American troops reported to be landing at 
Gunniea, Porto Rico. Four Russian warships 
reported to have left Port Arthur for the Philip¬ 
pines, and four Japanese warships have left 
hastily for Saiseho, with orders to cooperate with 
American and British Admirals. Spanish pris¬ 
oners continue to pour into Santiago. One death 
from yellow fever at Siboncy; about 500 new cases 
of all fevers. Reported that the Spanish pre¬ 
vented the landing of American foiees at Bahia 
Honda, 50 miles west of Havana. Arrangements 
made for strong fortifications at Honolulu. Red 
Cross uurses called for at Tampa and Jackson¬ 
ville, where there is an alarming increase of 
typhoid fever; the same conditions prevail at 
Camp Alger, Monday, July 25. 
Spain sued formally for peace through the 
French ambassador. The landing at Guanica, 
Porto Rico, was a surprise to the Spanish. In 
the attempt to repel the invasion,four Spaniards 
were killed. The official report of the naval bat¬ 
tle of July 3 was received from Admiral Samp¬ 
son. Gen. Sliafter reports 2,138 cases of fever, of 
which 495 are new cases, Tuesday, July 26. 
Gen. Shatter reports 3,770 sick men, 2,924 suffer¬ 
ing from fevers. Eleven deaths July 25, five from 
yellow fever. No action taken yet upon the 
peace overtures. It is said that the Philippines 
will form a difficult question; it is conceded that 
Cuba and Porto Rico tire lost toSpaiu. Several 
skirmishes reported in Porto Rico. The Havana 
blockade tightened. A new battery west of Havana 
fired on the Vicksburg, without damage. All 
troops are to leave Tampa, where a yellow-fever 
epidemic is feared. Continued sickness at Fer- 
nandiua, Jacksonville and Camp Alger, Wednes¬ 
day, July 27. 
Reenforeemeuts have been sent to Gen. Miles, 
who still holds Guanica, aud will advance on 
Ponce when his forces are strengthened. Gen. 
Shatter reports 822 new cases of fever at San¬ 
tiago; three deaths. Peace negotiations still 
under consideration, Thursday, July 28. 
Gen. Miles has captured Ponce without resist¬ 
ance. The people received the American forces 
with great enthusiasm. Terms of peace so far 
considered are to the effect that Spain must 
evacuate Cuba and Porto Rico without our as¬ 
sistance. The Philippines still under considera¬ 
tion. Transport Leona arrived at New York with 
51 sick and wounded. No news of Manila’s sur¬ 
render, Friday, July 29. 
A slim, brown-eyed young' man wear¬ 
ing a creased and shabby suit of clothes 
was among the passengers on a Staten 
Island ferryboat .July 23. He excited no 
attention until some one noted the name 
R. P. Hobson upon his traveling bag, 
and then there was such a scene as is not 
often witnessed upon New York Ray. 
People crowded forward to shake hands 
with the hero of the Merrimac until lie 
escaped from the cabin and tried to find 
a secluded place upon the upper deck, 
but the excitement continued until the 
boat reached her pier, when Lieut. Hob¬ 
son rushed ashore and took a cab to the 
Pennsylvania ferry. Here he was again 
recognized, and there is no doubt that 
Hobson fully learned what his country¬ 
men think of him before he reached .Jer¬ 
sey City. It is said that, when Lieut. 
Hobson left for Cuba, he made a contract 
with a press clipping bureau to furnish 
100 newspaper clippings containing his 
name, if he should happen to be men¬ 
tioned in dispatches. That clipping 
bureau could, doubtless, furnish 100,000 
paragraphs containing Hobson's name, 
without any trouble. 
The average American citizen often 
finds it difficult, when he enters the naval 
or military service, to subject his in¬ 
dependence to the discipline required. 
The Philadelphia Record says that the 
other day, on board the receiving ship, 
Richmond, at League Island, a big six- 
footer came swinging in and demanded 
admission to the service. He stated that 
he had come especially from his home in 
Nebraska to enlist, and his joy was great 
when he passed the physical examina¬ 
tion. “ Do you think I’ll get to Cuba 
soon ? " he asked the officer. “ Can’t tell. 
You will have to wait and see,” was the 
answer. “ My, but I can hardly wait 
to pop a dozen or so of those darned 
Spaniards,” he continued. Just as he 
was to be sworn in, a natty young officer 
came along and was accosted by a 
marine, who touched his cap respect¬ 
fully to him. “What’s that for?” de¬ 
manded the tall Nebraskan. “To show 
respect,” he was told. “ Does every one 
have to do that ? ” he continued. “ Cer¬ 
tainly.” responded the officer. “Well, 
pard,” said the Nebraskan in a dejected 
voice, as he slowly pulled on his coat, 
anc started for the door ; “ I’d expected 
to enlist and get to fight, but 1 could never 
do that, so good-bye.” And off he went. 
While the wounded were being cared 
for at Siboncy, the Spanish wounded 
were not being neglected. It is impos¬ 
sible to say that the Spaniards are not 
brave fighters after once seeing the 
bearing of their wounded, as they fell 
into the hands of our men. Every man 
of them fully expected to be massacred 
on the spot. Here is one instance : 
One Sunday morning, near Gen. Shat¬ 
ters headquarters, a dozen wounded 
Spaniards were having their wounds 
dressed One young fellow who was 
shot through both legs lay on the ground. 
The surgeon was trying to ask him to 
move his leg so that his boot could be 
unlaced, when Mr. Charles Pepper, th j 
Washington correspondent, volunteered 
to act as interpreter. Stooping down to 
the Spaniard, he gave the message, and, 
as is the Spanish custom, he prefaced 
his remark with “Amigo.” Instantly 
the young Spaniard’s face lightened with 
amazement and delight. He grasped 
Mr. J’epper by the hand, and exclaimed 
incredulously : 
“ Thou callest me friend ! ” 
Mr. Pepper explained the remark to 
the two other correspondents with him, 
and when they, too, shook hands with 
the Spaniard and helped the surgeon to 
unlace hi* shoes, it was really a study to 
watch the surprised expressions of the 
other Spaniards. 
There are many close observers of 
affaii’S down there who do not hesitate 
to say that the quickest way for us to 
have captured Santiago would have been 
to release 200 or 300 of the prisoners who 
have been fed and cared for, and send 
them back to their own lines to tell the 
story of their fine treatment at the hands 
of “the Yankee pigs.” Many of the 
prisoners admit frankly that the food 
the Americans have given them has been 
their first squire meals in many months. 
The new graveyard at Siboney has 
been opened by Chaplain Gavitt. A cor¬ 
respondent of the Sun accompanied the 
chaplain to the cemetery to witness a 
funeral. The body had been brought 
from the hospital on a handcar. When 
the chaplain arrived, the coffin lay on 
the ground in the middle of the road, 
while six colored guards sat in the ditch 
in the broiling sun reading newspapers. 
They picked up the coffin and climbed 
the hill with it to the burial place. The 
chaplain read the usual service at the 
•side of the grave, after which the guards 
shoveled in the earth. At the head of 
the grave, a foot below the surface, Chap¬ 
lain Gavitt buried a ginger ale bottle 
containing a slip of paper bearing the 
number of the regiment and the name 
and address of the dead man, and this 
plan is to be followed hereafter. In this 
way, it will be easy for friends to identify 
and claim bodies. The graves are now 
being made five feet deep, as in the old 
graveyard, the rains have washed many 
bodies to the surface in less than a week. 
SCIENCE FROM THE STATIONS. 
REVIEWS OF IMPORTANT BULLETINS. 
The Lung and Stomach Worms of Sheep.— 
The Ohio Experiment Station (Wooster) issues a 
bulletin with the above heading, which is of con¬ 
siderable value to sheep breeders. Ohio sheep 
have for an indefinite period, suffered from an 
amende disease manifested chiefly in lambs, or 
yearlings, and known as paperskin, whiteskin, 
etc. This condition was very puzzling to breed¬ 
ers for a long time, but finally has been decided 
to be due to worms which cause a cough, difficult 
breathing, and subsequently wasting away and 
death of the sheep. 
The larger part of the bulletin is by Mr. Jos. 
E. Wing, who has had considerable experience in 
the treatment of affected sheep, aud who gives 
the results of his observations through a series 
of years. The principal worms treated are the 
white thread-worm, the red thread-worm and the 
stomach worm. A description and life history of 
these parasites are given together with the treat- 
•ment most suitable for relief of the affected 
animals. 
It is stated that a rainy Summer is particularly 
favorable to the increase of stomach worms, al¬ 
though in warm aud sunny Texas, great losses 
are often experienced from this cause. Some of 
these worms are very difficult to overcome be¬ 
cause of their great hardiness. The common 
formula given for stomach worms, is one part of 
turpentine, 16 parts of milk, stirred thoroughly 
together, and given in doses of from one to three 
ounces, according to the size and age of the 
lamb. This formula is not to be relied upon in 
all cases. The best results ever observed in 
practice were obtained by the following mixture: 
Pine tar, eight parts; turpentine, one part; raw- 
linseed oil, eight parts. A dose is from one to 
three ounces. 
Prevention is recommended rather than medi¬ 
cation. It is better to have the lambs dropped 
early in Winter, as there is then less likelihood 
of their becoming infested with parasites. Then 
they should be pushed rapidly, and weaned w-hen 
first ready to turn to grass. They should have 
fresh pasture that has had no sheep on it for two 
years, or at least none the preceding year, and 
no old sheep should be pastured with the lambs. 
Soiling where practicable is recommended. 
The Fruit Industry, is the name of a bulletin 
issued by the United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture, Division of Pomology. It deals with the 
substitution of domestic for foreign-grown fruits, 
and gives historical and descriptive notes on 10 
varieties of apples suitable for the export trade. 
It is illustrated by several colored plates of raisin 
grapes, prunes, figs, olives and almonds. The sub¬ 
stitution of domestic fruits in place of those of 
foreign production is certainly commendable. 
The bulletin sjyeaks of the fruits found aud used 
by the early colonists, and of the earliest efforts 
in the cultivation of native fruits as well as the 
introduction of exotic fruits. It gives interesting 
facts in relation to the beginning of the foreign 
trade in fruits, and also statistics of the foreign 
fruit trade. 
In relation to the varieties of apples for export, 
this trade is very exacting, and few of the varie¬ 
ties taken by our home markets are suitable for 
transatlantic shipment and sale. Of all our many 
varieties propagated in America, not more than 
a score have been found adapted to the export 
trade as now conducted. The 10 leading export 
varieties, acceding to this bulletin, are the Bald¬ 
win, Ben Davfc, Jonathan, Northern Spy, Rhode 
Island Greening, Roxbury Russet, Tompkins 
County King, Winesap, Yellow Newtown Pippin, 
and York Imperial. The history of these varie¬ 
ties, and descriptive notes relating to them, are 
given. This bulletin is especially valuable to 
those growing apples for export. 
Forms for Organization—The Department of 
Agriculture of Pennsylvania has shown com¬ 
mendable enterprise in many ways. Bulletin No. 
36 gives forms of constitutions and by-laws for 
farmers’ organizations, and is compiled by John 
Hamilton, Deputy Secretary and Director of 
Farmers’ Institutes. This bulletin of 72 pages, 
gives forms for the organization of farmers’ 
clubs, cooperative creameries, boards of trade, 
village improvement societies, good roads asso¬ 
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way of an organization that farmers would be 
likely to go into. The beauty of this pamphlet 
is that it does not give theoretical forms for 
constitutions, but gives copies of the constitu¬ 
tions of actual societies which have been prac¬ 
tically successful. We often receive requests 
from readers for just such forms, and we take 
pleasure in saying that this is, probably, the 
best thing of the kind that has ever been issued. 
Thos. J. Edge, of Harrisburg, Pa., is secretary 
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