1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
681 
Diary of the Week. 
The health of the troops in Porto Rico has im¬ 
proved. Distress caused by the hurricane in the 
West Indies greater than at first supposed. Bar- 
badoes has suffered very severely, Saturday, Sep¬ 
tember 17. 
The Sultan of Turkey has ordered the Governor 
of Crete to accede to the British demand for dis¬ 
armament. The new French minister of war 
will not permit any revision of the Dreyfus case 
which may reflect tipon the army. The eruption 
of Vesuvius continues to excite alarm. Capt. 
Alyn Capron, of the First Cavalry, who survived 
the battle of Santiago, in which his son was 
killed, died at his home in Virginia, of typhoid 
fever. Sickness is increasing among the troops 
at Santiago. Six convalescent soldiers from 
Camp Meade arrived at Jersey City in the caboose 
of a freight train, being sent from camp without 
money or means of transportation. The new 
Atlin gold fields in British Columbia said to be 
richer than Klondike. Memorial services for the 
Empress of Austria held in New York, Sunday, 
September 18. 
The Spanish Minister of War, Gen. Correa, has 
issued orders for the return of all troops in the 
West Indies. The transport Berlin arrived with 
1 100 soldiers of the regular army, from Montauk. 
The Red Cross Society is smuggling goods into 
Cuba for the relief of the destitute. A gale rag¬ 
ing on Lake Superior and Lake Michigan is ren¬ 
dered more dangerous by a dense pall of fog and 
smoke. The administration is arranging for a 
large garrison force in the new dependencies, 
estimated at 100,000 men, of whom 60,000are to go 
to Cuba, 20,000 to the Philippines, 12,500 to Porto 
Rico, and 3,000 to Hawaii. Labor agitations in 
the Philippines are becoming serious, and strikes 
are frequent, Monday, September 19. 
An attempt is being made to .abolish the office 
of Major General Commanding the Army, and 
this is generally construed as an effort to remove 
Gen. Miles, on the part of his personal enemies. 
The ambulance boat Shinnccock brought 268 
sick and convalescent soldiers from Montauk. 
There are still many serious cases of typhoid at 
Camp Wikoff. Preparations are being expedited 
for the dispatch of reenforcements of 5,856 men 
to Manila. Business in Porto Rico is at a stand¬ 
still, owing to confusion in the currency. Mar¬ 
ket gardeners near Honolulu are indignant over 
the lawless acts of American soldiers, who raid 
and destroy their plantations, and they are mak¬ 
ing" urgent appeals for protection. The soldiers 
assert that their rations are so insufficient that 
they must steal or starve. The President’s Com¬ 
mission for an investigation into the subordinate 
branches of the War Department, now consisting 
of seven members, will begin work this week, 
Tuesday, September 20. 
Native Hawaiians who favor the restoration of 
the Queen, held a mass meeting September 12, 
and adopted a memorial against annexation. 
They complain that their own race is not repre¬ 
sented on the Hawaiian commission, and that 
annexation was rushed through by foreigners. 
The Seguranca reached Montauk Irom Santiago 
with one dying yellow fever patient and 35 other 
sick aboard. Sickness is decreasing in Porto 
Rico. At the unveiling of the monument to Cham¬ 
plain, founder of Quebec, in that city, the cap¬ 
tain and crew of the cruiser Marblehead, were 
guests of honor, and were saluted enthusiasti¬ 
cally by the people, Wednesday, September 21. 
Col. John Hay, former ambassador to Great 
Britain, arrives in New York. Two batteries of 
California artillery have been shipped to Manila. 
The Emperor of China has been deposed by his 
mother, the Empress Dowager. Filipino repre¬ 
sentatives of Aguinaldo arrive in this country, 
for the purpose of conferring with the President, 
Thursday, September 22. 
An explosion in a mine at Brownsville, Pa., en¬ 
tombed 54 men; 27 escaped, and eight bodies 
have been recovered. It is believed that the 19 
men still missing are beyond aid. Camp Wikoff 
was swept by a brief but violent storm, which 
flattened many tents, and caused water to leak 
into the hospital. Lieut-Col. It. S. Huidekoper, 
chief surgeon of Camp Thomas, who was accused 
of incompetence and said to be merely a veter¬ 
inarian, has resigned. It is reported that 2,500 
men in Porto Rico are sick. The natives are 
rioting, and Spanish troops are compelled to re¬ 
store order. An explosion of grain dust in the 
granary of the Eastern Distillery Company, 
Long Island City, wrecked the building, burying 
one man under the ruins, and injuring three 
others, Friday, September 23. 
AFTER THE WAR. 
THE SOLDIERS IN CAMP WIKOFF. 
[EDITORIAI, correspondence.] 
The Soldier's Uniform. 
The regular uniforms of our army are 
too well known to need a description, 
but these were too heavy and considered 
unsuitable for service in Cuba, hence, a 
different and lighter uniform was de¬ 
vised. It is made of yellowish cloth of 
a coarse texture, resembling that used 
for overalls and jumpers on the farm. It is 
decorated with brass buttons and straps 
of yellow, red or blue; with it leg¬ 
gings are worn which lace up nearly to 
the knee. The hat is a gray felt, which 
soon turns into considerable of a slouch. 
These uniforms are rather peculiar-look¬ 
ing affairs when new, but greater inter¬ 
est attaches to many of those which have 
returned from the war, as they are 
soiled and worn, and many of them rag¬ 
ged, showing signs of hard service. Many 
of the hats, especially those one saw 
worn by the returned troops around the 
camp, were perforated and very dilapi¬ 
dated. Many of those worn by the sol¬ 
diers had painted on them the names of 
the engagements in which they had par¬ 
ticipated. It is reported that the Gov¬ 
ernment paid about 558 apiece for these 
uniforms, and if this is true, it would 
seem that investigation in this direction 
is necessary, as apparently, they ought 
not to cost over a couple of dollars apiece 
for material. Many complaints were 
heard about the poor quality of some of 
the materials used, poor work in making, 
poor shoes furnished, and in some cases, 
the soldiers did not receive the light uni¬ 
forms to replace their heavy ones until 
nearly the time for them to return from 
Cuba. 
Landing the Horses. 
I was much interested in watching the 
landing of a lot of army horses, from one 
of the lighters which was transferring 
equipments from the transport to the 
dock. A plank platform four feet wide, 
having several 2 x 4s nailed crossways of 
it, extended from the deck to the dock. 
The latter was so much higher than the 
lighter, that this bridge stood at an angle 
of about 45 degrees. Fancy getting a 
lot of farm horses up such a pokerish 
place. Hut nearly every one of them 
took the bridge like a veteran. One 
more skittish than the rest tried to 
prance sideways, lost his balance, and 
went over backwards on his back, on to 
a pile of provender. Among the lot were 
three Cuban horses, small, chunky, hardy 
looking animals, which had, apparently, 
come through the scrimmage in pretty 
good condition. 
Stabling the Horses. 
In a temporary army camp, of course, 
primitive conditions prevail for both 
man and beast. Most of the horses 
are tethered to long ropes which are 
staked to the ground, the animals being 
tied closely together, in a row on each 
side of the rope. It would seem as though 
here were an excellent chance for their 
injuring each other by kicking, but they 
are, probably, accustomed to this sort of 
treatment, and all seem to get along very 
harmoniously together. Animals, like 
men, become accustomed to all sorts of 
conditions, and learn to accommodate 
themselves to them. The feeding was 
largely done on the ground, and it would 
seem like a wasteful practice. Most of the 
horses were thin and in poor condition. 
Primitive Laundry Work. 
Most of us have read, probably, of the 
man who owned but one shirt, and was 
obliged to go to bed while his wife 
washed and dried that. I saw one volun¬ 
teer who, if he had a wife, did not find 
her available. He had but one shirt, 
which he was washing, while his socks, 
which he had already washed, were hung 
on a tent rope to dry. lie was scrubbing 
away on a washboard (how he came to 
have such a luxury as a washboard, I did 
not learn) while being a rayed only in a 
ragged, abbreviated pair of trousers. 
From the vigor with which he worked, 
it is evident that his shirt had long been 
in need of a washing, and that he was 
making up for the delay by the extra 
rubbing. It is needless to say that hun¬ 
dreds of others were seen whose shirts 
were sadly in need of the same energetic 
treatment. 
The Women and the Red Cross Society. 
All readers are familiar with the ac¬ 
counts of the work of the Red Cross 
Society, during the recent campaigns. 
Disgraceful reflections have been made 
upon the work of this Society, by Sur¬ 
geon-General Sternberg. A large part 
of the work of nursing the sick and the 
wounded, of supplying delicacies and 
necessaries to those in camp and hospi¬ 
tal, was done by the faithful work of 
the members of this Society, who get no 
reward for this work other than the 
consciousness of duty well performed. 
Had it not been for their faithful efforts 
in caring for the unfortunate soldiers, 
many hundreds more would have found 
untimely graves. One volunteer well 
expressed the feelings of hundreds of 
others, when he said: “The Red Cross 
Society are all right, the women are all 
right,” and he added, “Gen. Wheeler is 
all right.” Disgraced should be the man 
who casts reflections upon the work of 
these earnest, faithful patriots during 
the trying times of the past few months. 
General Wheeler. 
This grizzled old veteran has been pic¬ 
tured in so many puolications during 
recent weeks, that his appearance ought 
to be pretty well known to all. I do not 
Without Macbeth lamp- 
chimneys, you throw away 
money and comfort. But get 
the right one for your lamp. 
The Index free. 
Write Macbeth Pittsburgh Pa 
know when I have seen illustrations of 
a public man that were so uniformly 
accurate as those of Gen. Wheeler. As 
is well known, he was a Confederate 
leader during the Civil War, has been a 
member of Congress from Alabama, 
and went to Cuba in command of the 
cavalry division of the army. His sol¬ 
diers all seem to adore him. He is a 
small, spare man, with gray hair and 
whiskers, and at the time of my visit, 
was continually bustling in and out of 
his headquarters in the undress uniform 
of a Major-General, and with a battered 
old straw hat on his head. He was be¬ 
sieged by civilians in search of relatives 
and friends in hospital and camp, and 
no request seemed too trivial for him to 
listen to. He is, without doubt, one of 
the best liked officers in the army to-day. 
Going Back to Cuba. 
I asked a large number of the volun¬ 
teers what they thought about the pros¬ 
pect of their return to Cuba, at a later 
day. Not one of them was pleased at 
the idea of anything of the kind. Many 
of them declared they would never go 
back under any circumstances, and one 
went so far as to say that, if they were 
ordered back, his entire regiment would 
desert. It is evident that, if another 
army were needed for that work, it 
would be hard to find it. Thus is our 
Government getting its reward for its 
inhuman treatment of those who re¬ 
sponded so willingly to its former cajl 
for volunteers. 
The Dead House. 
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road. 
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Its wearing qualities are unsurpassed, actually 
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ENGINES, 
SAW MILLS, 
THRASHING MACHINES. 
Beat Machinery at Boroeat Prices. 
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A grewsome sight was that of half a 
dozen dead soldiers piled up in this annex 
to the general hospital, like so much 
cordwood. It was a grim reminder that 
he who goes forth to war takes his life 
in his hand. A load of cheap coffins on 
its way from the station to the camp, 
was alluded to by some of the soldiers, 
as overcoats for those who were suffer¬ 
ing from cold. The indifference with 
which these things are referred to among 
the troops, shows the hardening process 
through which they have passed. F. h. v. 
Every woman wears 
a crown who is the 
mother of a healthy 
baby. The mother of 
a puny, sickly, pee¬ 
vish baby bears a 
cross. It rests with 
every woman to de¬ 
cide for herself which 
kind of a mother she 
will be. 
The woman who 
takes the right 
care of herself 
during the months 
preceding ma¬ 
ternity may rest 
content in the as¬ 
surance that her 
baby will be a 
strong, healthy, 
happy one. The 
woman who suf¬ 
fers from disor¬ 
ders of the dis¬ 
tinctly feminine 
organism during this critical period, and 
fails to resort to the right remedy, is pretty 
sure to have a puny, peevish, sickly baby, 
born into the world with the seeds of weak¬ 
ness and disease already implanted in its 
little body. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre¬ 
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prospective mothers. It imparts health, 
strength, vigor, and elasticity to the deli¬ 
cate and important organs that bear the 
brunt of motherhood. It prepares a wo¬ 
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strengthens and invigorates, and insures the 
E erfect well-being and absolute health of 
oth mother and child. It does away with 
the squeamishness of the interesting pe¬ 
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nourishment for the little new-comer. It 
tntKe^v'tns weak, sickly, nervous and de¬ 
spondent invalids into healthy, happy 
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to which babies once came stay but for a 
brief day and then die, now bless this won¬ 
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The dealer who tries to persuade you to 
take some other medicine, than that you 
ask for insults your intelligence. 
*’ The best doctors in Kansas City told me that 
unless I went to the hospital and had an opera¬ 
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Kans. ‘‘I had ulceration and weakness, and 
each month I would get down in bed and suffer 
severely for twenty-four hours. Four bottles of 
your ‘ Favorite Prescription ’ cured me.” 
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