1808 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
601 
The War. 
BRIEF NOTES FOR BUSY PEOPLE. 
DIARY OF TDK WAR. 
Manzanillo, west of Santiago, was bombarded 
for 12 hours, beginning Friday, August 12. The 
town had been ordered to surrender, but sur¬ 
render was refused. The Spanish lured our ves¬ 
sels in range by flying a white flag, but the 
enemy’s aim was poor, and they did little dam¬ 
age. Four transports arrived at Fort Wilcoff with 
troops from Santiago. Gen. Brooke’s forces at 
Salinas were just sighting their guns to open 
battle when news was received of the cessation 
of hostilities. General satisfaction over the ter¬ 
mination of the war, Sunday, August 14. 
News received of the bombardment of Manila, 
August 13, and the city is now in the hands of our 
forces. Gen. Augustin fled.on the German war¬ 
ship Kaiserin Augusta the day before the bom¬ 
bardment. Embarkation of Spanish prisoners 
at Santiago is being hurried, owing to the great 
mortality among them, Monday, August 15. 
Fuller reports of the fall of Manila state that 
the city resisted only two hours before surren¬ 
der. The engagement was opened by a heavy 
bombardment, after which the American troops 
stormed the trenches, driving the enemy within 
the fortifications. Authentic reports of our 
losses not yet received. Yellow fever has ap¬ 
peared at Camp Wikofi', Montauk, L. I., and the 
camp is quarantined. The disease appeared on 
one of the transports. Three cases of yellow 
fever are reported in barracks at Key West. Re¬ 
port that Spanish troops are massacring Porto 
Ricans; our troops are unable to interfere. The 
President has appointed the following commis¬ 
sioners to adjust the Spanish evacuation: For 
Cuba, Major-General J. F. Wade, Rear-Admiral 
Sampson, Major-General M.C. Butler. For Porto 
Rico, Major-General Brooke, Rear-Admiral 
Schley, Brigadier-General W. W. Gordon, Tues¬ 
day, August 16. 
Our loss at Manila was eight killed and 40 
wounded. The first shot was fired by the Olym¬ 
pia. Gen. Merritt entered the city as soon as it 
surrendered, and proclaimed martial law. He 
saber. The men took this brilliant per¬ 
son to be a Spanish officer, and as he did 
not stop when challenged, they buffeted 
him about the road and threw him into 
a ditch. Some American officers arrived 
in time to prevent further abuse, and 
the victim was discovered to be a mar¬ 
shal of the fire department, who had 
every intention of friendship and peace. 
Admiral Ckrvera passed through 
New York July 17, on his way from 
Portsmouth, N. II., to Annapolis. lie 
arrived by boat about six o'clock in the 
morning, but in spite of the early hour, 
there was a large ci’owd waiting to meet 
him. When he started down the gang¬ 
plank, some one called out, “ Three 
cheers for the only Spaniard who knows 
how to be kind !” The crowd gave 
hearty cheers, followed by hand-clap¬ 
ping, until the Admiral reached his 
carriage. While in the railway station 
at Jersey City he was again cheered en¬ 
thusiastically, and then the crowd in¬ 
sisted upon filing into his car to shake 
hands with him. We can afford to be 
generous to the people we have de¬ 
feated, and Cervera’s courage and dig¬ 
nity in the face of disaster give him a 
strong hold on our sympathy and ad¬ 
miration. 
Dr. Cyrus Edson, writing of the army 
medical service, in the Independent, con¬ 
trasting men from city and country for 
army service, declares that men from the 
city are usually better able to sustain 
hardship, because they have more re¬ 
serve force. The countryman, while 
more muscular, is more like an athlete 
who has been trained fine. As a rule, 
such men have lacked the city man’s 
variety of food, and the city man, in 
Dr. Edson’s opinion, has always had 
pure water, while the reverse is often 
true in the country, and the general 
health suffers from this. We feel obliged 
to differ with Dr. Edson in his estimate 
UNCLE SAM: A LITTLE LOUDER, GENTLEMEN! Eio. 271). 
The New York World pictures Uncle Sam as a singing master teaching Weyler and Sagasta 
how to sing a new tune. It is lip service largely. 
would not allow the insurgents to fight or to 
enter the city. The number of prisoners is 7,000. 
In Cuba, 7,756 Spaniards surrendered to Major 
Miley at Baracoa. Report of massacre by Span¬ 
ish at Ciales, Porto Rico, confirmed. President 
McKinley determines to disband the Cuban 
army. The Cubans desire to share the armed 
occupancy of Santiago, Wednesday, August 17. 
Reception arranged for our warships, which 
are expected to arrive in this city to-morrow. 
Business generally is to be suspended. Gen. 
Merritt has issued a proclamation announcing a 
military government for Manila. Severe fighting 
continues in Luzon between the Spanish and in¬ 
surgents. The Spanish have burned Pilar and 
killed 500 persons. Reenforcements continue to 
leave Sau Francisco for Manila. Schooner loaded 
with onions and potatoes enters Havana harbor, 
being first entry since the blockade. American 
Hag Hies over MorroCastle, Thursday, August 18. 
Sagasta declares that the present state of 
affairs is neither peace nor war, but merely a 
suspension of hostilities. Manila’s capitulation 
held to be ineffectual because made after the 
signing of the protocol. Hospital ship Relief 
arrives with 248 sick and wounded from Miles’s 
army; 10 died on the voyage, Friday, August 111. 
□ The people of Porto Rico would hardly 
agree with that editorial on tobacco, on 
page 596. Not only does every man 
smoke in that genial island, but every 
female over 13 appears to smoke, too. A 
great many of the women work in the 
tobacco factories, as there seems very 
little other employment for them, and 
they smoke incessantly. Large, rough 
cigars, said to be of excellent flavor, are 
sold at the rate of 20 for 25 cents. 
A Porto Rican correspondent states 
that, when some of the Sixth Massa¬ 
chusetts were on an inland reconnoitring 
expedition, they met upon the highway 
a man wearing adazzling uniform, which 
consisted of a flaming red shirt, sky blue 
trousers and cap, and waist adorned with 
a bright red sash, from which hung a 
of city water, after experience in a great 
city where all the water had to be 
boiled for 30 minutes and then filtered 
before it was drinkable. We think, too, 
that Dr. Edson’s assertion that the city 
men are better able to sustain hardship 
is true of picked men, but not of the gen¬ 
eral average. 
HOMEWARD BOUND. 
The fighting is over, and if we escape 
Yellow Jack for a few more days, we 
shall be sent back home. Santiago sur¬ 
rendered with what I should call a very 
slight resistance, considering all things ; 
still, enough of our men were killed and 
wounded, and we are thankful that we 
attained our position in so short a time, 
as every minute was death to many. I 
saw seven men drop dead and wounded 
within arm’s reach of me, and there were 
lots of others I was too busy to observe, 
flow I came to be missed will always be 
a puzzling question to me. 
We have done every kind of work that 
is done by a soldier, from road-building 
to fighting, and now that our work is 
over, we one and all feel that we shall 
be glad to get home again. This is not 
a healthful country at this time of year, 
as there is so much rain that the ground 
is constantly muddy ; as it rains in the 
afternoon, we are nearly always com¬ 
pelled to sleep on the wet ground, as 
we have no tents. We have our ponchos, 
but they are so worn as to be of little 
use, and when it rains, we are soaked to 
the skin. We have to go a mile for water, 
and it is horrible when we do get it. 
We hear talk of being sent to some 
other place, but we are in no condition 
to be sent anywhere else, and the sooner 
we get out of here, the better. I myself, 
and my chum and tentmate (minus the 
tent), are as well as we can be, and the 
only thing that worries us is that we 
have not and cannot get enough to fill 
us up. I think we shall get to the 
United States as soon as this letter does, 
but when we do reach there, we shall go 
into camp for a time. It would be 
hardly fair to the men to take us out of 
this wilderness and turn us loose in the 
city. * * * 
I have just finished the laborious work 
of putting three small potatoes on the 
fire for my dinner. It was not the 
amount of work that made it tiresome, 
but now that it is all over, I do not mind 
telling you that the last four days were 
the worst I ever put in in my life. I had 
that malaria that everybody is affected 
with here, and of all the head-split¬ 
ting, bone-breaking, and aching-all-over 
things I have heard of, that was the 
worst. Then, there is no such thing as 
comfort, even for a well man. in this 
beastly place, and you can imagine what 
it is for a sick man who is entirely help¬ 
less half the time. If a man had to do a 
full day’s work every day in this coun¬ 
try, he would be dead in a week. In the 
afternoon, we get ready for a pouring 
rain. * * * When preparing to em¬ 
bark on the transport, we were able to 
get fresh supplies. There is a commis¬ 
sary now where we can actually get 
canned fruit, lime juice, and everything 
good ! I got a bottle of lime juice, and 
I could write a testimonial like this : 
“ After one dose, I feel like another 
man.” w. A. d. 
71st N. Y. Vol. 
A COMPARISON 0 C FERTILIZERS. 
In the Spring of 1897, the Ohio Experi¬ 
ment Station began an experiment in 
which several brands of factory-mixed, 
commercial fertilizers are being com¬ 
pared with home-mixtures of tankage, 
acid phosphate and muriate of potash, 
calculated to contain the same quan¬ 
tities of ammonia, phosphoric acid and 
potash as are claimed by the manufac¬ 
turers for the respective brands of factory 
mixtures used in the test. The experi¬ 
ment was begun on a tract of heavy clay 
land, and the plan is to continue it 
several years in a rotation of wheat, corn 
and clover, applying the fertilizers to 
the corn and wheat. The plan of the 
test and the results on the corn crop of 
1897 are fully reported in Bulletin 93, 
which shows that, in the first crop of the 
test, the home-mixed fertilizers produced 
results quite equal to those yielded by 
the factory mixtures, although the cost 
of the home mixtures was from $6 to 812 
per ton less than that of the factory mix¬ 
tures. 
Following out the plan of the test, one 
of the sections of land set apart for it 
was sewn to wheat last Fall, the fer¬ 
tilizers being repeated on the same plots 
and in the same order in which they had 
been used on the corn. The wheat was 
sown late, and suffered severely from 
the Winter, the yield on the unfertilized 
plots being reduced to less than two 
bushels per acre. The increase on this 
unfertilized yield shown by the several 
fertilizers appears in the table. The 
factory mixtures were used at the uni¬ 
form rate of 200 pounds per acre, but it 
was possible to duplicate their composi¬ 
tion in essential constituents with con¬ 
siderably less than 200 pounds in most of 
the home mixtures. 
Cost 
Increase 
per acre. 
Fertilizer. 
per ton. 
Bushels. 
Factory Mixture A . 
... *30.00 
8 3 
Ilome Mixture A. 
17.85 
12.8 
Factory Mixture B. 
... 25.00 
11.8 
Home Mixture B. 
... 17.60 
13.0 
Factory Mixture C. 
... 20.00 
7.9 
Ilome Mixture C . 
13.55 
10.6 
Factory Mixture D . 
... 17 50 
5.2 
Home Mixture D . 
9.40 
6 8 
It will be observed that, in every case, 
the increase from the home mixture is 
decidedly greater than from the factory 
mixture which it was intended to dupli¬ 
cate, the difference being greatest in the 
case of the most expensive factory mix¬ 
ture. 
The prices given above for the factory 
mixtures are what the station paid for 
them in small lots at the respective fac¬ 
tories ; the prices quoted for the home 
mixtures represent the cost of these mix¬ 
tures at the station, the materials being 
bought in single-sack lots at the regular, 
publicly quoted, retail prices for the 
materials, with freight to Wooster, 0., 
added. Nothing is added for mixing, as 
the freight paid on the factory mixtures 
would several times over pay the cost of 
mixing. 
When a man who 
has neglected 
his health finally 
realizes that he 
is being attacked 
by serious ill- 
health it is no 
time for half¬ 
way measures. 
Death is an 
enemy that 
must be 
knocked out 
in the first 
round, of he 
is pretty sure 
to conquer in 
the end. 
A weak 
’stomach, an 
impaired di¬ 
gestion and a disordered liver 
mean that a man is fighting the first round 
with death. Unless he manages to strike 
the knock-out blow, it means that death 
will come up in the second round in the 
guise of some serious malady. When a 
man’s stomach is weak and his digestion 
is impaired, the life-giving elements of the 
food he takes are not assimilated into the 
blood. The blood gets thin and weak, and 
the body slowly starves. In the meantime 
the disordered liver and the sluggish bow¬ 
els have forced into the blood all manner 
of impurities. The body is hungry and 
eagerly consumes anything that the blood¬ 
stream carries to it. In place of healthy 
nutriment, it receives for food foul poisons 
that should have been excreted by the 
bowels. Continued, this system of starva¬ 
tion combined with poisoning, will wreck 
every organ in the body. Naturally, the 
weakest organ will give way first. If a 
man is naturally nervous, he will break 
down with nervous exhaustion or prostra¬ 
tion. If he inherits weak lungs, the con¬ 
sequence will be consumption, bronchitis, 
asthma, or some disease of the air-passages. 
If he has a naturally sluggish liver, he wili 
suffer from a serious bilious or malarial at¬ 
tack. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discov¬ 
ery cures all disorders of the stomach, di¬ 
gestion and liver. It purifies the blood and 
fills it with the life-giving elements of the 
food that build new and healthy tissue. It 
is the great blood-maker and flesh-builder 
and nerve tonic. It cures 98 per cent, of 
all cases of consumption. Thousands have 
testified to their recovery from this dread 
disease under this great medicine. 
Dr. Pierce’s Pellets cure constipation. 
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