1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
4o9 
The War. 
BRIEF NOTES FOR BUSY PEOPLE . 
DIARY OF THE WAR. 
Spanish Senate urges immediate adoption of 
privateering. Report that Spain is fortifying the 
heights opposite Gibraltar. The Vatican declares 
neutrality. Spanish bark captured near Porto 
Rico. British steamer fired on by Spanish cruiser 
at Porto Rico. Oregon reported at Key West, but 
report officially denied, Monday, May 33. 
Rumors of a great naval battle, though not 
substantiated, cause much excitement. Condi¬ 
tion in Manila reported critical. Foreign resi¬ 
dents fear an outbreak of Spanish soldiers. News¬ 
paper dispatch boats debarred from accompany¬ 
ing the fleet in Cuban waters. Spanish fleet offi¬ 
cially reported to be still at Santiago. Transports 
City of Peking, Sidney and Australia loading 
with troops for Manila, at San Francisco. Fuller 
reports of the bombarding of Cardenas, in which 
Ensign Bagley and four men of the torpedo boat 
Winslow were killed, say that the Spanish loss 
was nine, including two women and three child¬ 
ren killed by one shell in the streets of the town. 
Movements of Atlantic squadrons Dkept secret, 
Tuesday, May 24. 
The President has issued a call for 75,000 volun¬ 
teers. When present plans are carried out the 
military force will number 278,500 men. Three 
transports started for Manila with 2,500 men. 
Key West under martial law. Oregon reaches 
Jupiter Inlet, Fla., after a voyage of 65 days. 
Spanish torpedo boat, Terror, leaves Martinique. 
Spanish fleet blockaded in Santiago harbor, Wed¬ 
nesday, May 25. 
Rumor that Secretary Alger will resign. No 
word from Santiago. Three cruisers sent in pur¬ 
suit of the Spanish torpedo destroyer, Terror. 
The Oregon at Key West. Mines in New York 
harbor set adrift by careless mariners. British 
steamer, Europa, arrives with cargo of sulphur, 
after chase by a Spanish torpedo boat, Thursday, 
May 26. 
The Spanish fleet blockaded in Santiago har¬ 
bor by Admiral Sampson’s fleet. Reported that 
the Cadiz squadron intends to break the block¬ 
ade. Commodore Schley’s squadron watching 
the Yucatan Passage. In the Senate, amend¬ 
ments looking to the annexation of Hawaii 
offered to the War Revenue bill. Balloons re¬ 
ceived for navy use. Report that Porto Rico, 
rather than Cuba, will be the first scene of in¬ 
vasion, Friday, May 27. 
What about the war revenue measure? 
The senators are still talking over it ! 
A bakery at Chattanooga is large 
enough to bake 40,000 loaves of bread per 
day. 
Apparently the anti-American feeling 
in France is chiefly newspaper talk. The 
common people are not unfriendly. Sen¬ 
sational newspapers do not fairly repre¬ 
sent public opinion. 
Dr. Capote, vice-president of the so- 
called Cuban Republic, is in this country. 
He says that his government will end 
when the last Spanish soldier leaves 
Cuba. Then all Cubans will unite to 
form a government! 
Who is responsible for the delay in in¬ 
vading Cuba? It is said that Secretary 
Alger wants to move at once, while Gen. 
Miles reports that we are not ready. In 
the mean time the Spanish are strength- 
enmg their position and the reconcen- 
trados are dying—or dead. 
Five more countries have declared 
neutrality—Russia, Greece, Venezuela, 
the Netherlands, and Canada. Great im¬ 
portance attaches especially to Vene¬ 
zuela, because of her proximity to the 
West Indies, which would furnish places 
of refuge and possible coaling places for 
the Spanish fleet had neutrality not 
been declared. 
The remarkable trip of the battleship 
Oregon has reopened the discussion con¬ 
cerning the Nicaraugua Canal. The 
Oregon sailed 13,000 miles to join the 
other warships. She could have saved 
8,000 miles if the canal had been open. 
The chances now are that the war spirit 
will be strong enough to induce the Gov¬ 
ernment to help build the canal. 
The report that the monitor Monterey 
is to be sent to reinforce Dewey’s fleet 
at Manila is causing serious alarm to 
many Pacific Coast people. The removal 
of the Monterey takes away the last re¬ 
maining protection, except the fortifica¬ 
tions, against the ships of the enemy. It 
is suggested that the Cadiz fleet, whose 
whereabouts and movements are so un¬ 
certain, might attack the unprotected 
Pacific Coast. Such a contingency seems 
highly improbable, and the Navy De¬ 
partment is too busy to pay much atten¬ 
tion to these protests. 
The Spanish authorities are deeply in¬ 
censed over the report that the American 
warships which bombarded Guantanamo 
approached that harbor flying the Span¬ 
ish flag, in order to deceive the garrison. 
International law declares that an ene¬ 
my’s flag may be so used, but it must be 
hauled down before a shot is fired. Very 
little is known as to the engagement at 
Guantanamo, but Spanish authorities de¬ 
clare that our force was repulsed. The 
Spanish government threatens privateer¬ 
ing, in reprisal of the Guantanamo inci¬ 
dent. 
Gen. Gomez, of the Cuban army, has 
issued orders that any officer or private 
guilty of intoxication will be severely 
punished. One American regiment passed 
through Lexington, Ky. The papers 
state : “ While the soldiers were board¬ 
ing their trains the refreshments which 
had been taken to the Opera House were 
being transferred to the baggage cars 
and coaches, and along with the liquors 
went large pieces of ice, big bundles of 
mint, and huge sacks of sugar, 20 dozen 
toddy glasses and as manj spoons, and 
10 dozen beer glasses were added to the 
outfit.” 
The Secretary of the Treasury has 
issued an order to customs officers notify¬ 
ing them that the port of Manila is 
blockaded, and that, therefore, clear¬ 
ances will not be granted to merchant 
vessels for that port. In anticipation 
of the military occupation of the Philip¬ 
pines, the Treasury is formulating rules 
for the collection of customs tariffs, 
which will be collected by the military 
authorities, and turned over to the Gov¬ 
ernment as a “military contribution.” 
The tariff rates will closely follow Span¬ 
ish customs laws now in force in the 
Philippines. 
The battleship Oregon, which arrived 
at Jupiter Inlet, Fla., May 25, left Mare 
Island, Cal., March 19, making the trip 
of 13,000 miles in 65 days. At Callao she 
was joined by the gunboat Marietta. The 
Spanish torpedo gunboat Temerario was 
lying in wait for tbe vessels at the mouth 
of the River Plate, so a rapid run was 
made to Rio Janeiro, where the two ves¬ 
sels were joined by the cruiser Buffalo, 
formerly the Brazilian Nictheroy. The 
northward journey was one of great 
peril, owing to the proximity of the Span¬ 
ish fleet under Admiral Cervera. From 
the time the vessels touched Bahia, May 
9, any information concerning their 
whereabouts has been kept from the 
public. 
The regular field ration of our soldiers 
includes beef, bacon, flour, beans, pota¬ 
toes, onions, coffee, sugar, candles, soap, 
salt, pepper, and baking powder, this 
being issued in bulk and carried by wag¬ 
ons. On occasions when it is necessary 
for each man to carry his own food, an 
emergency ration is provided. This 
ration, for one day, consists of 10 ounces 
of bacon, 16 ounces of hard bread, four 
ounces of pea meal, four ounces of coffee, 
or one-half ounce of tea, four grains of 
saccharine, .64 ounce of salt, .4 ounce of 
pepper and one-half ounce of tobacco. 
The total weight of the ration for five 
days is a little over 10 pounds. A fold¬ 
ing can with a handle is carried in the 
haversack, which can be used as a sauce¬ 
pan for making soup, the tea or coffee 
being made in the tin cup. Experiments 
have also been made in a standard emer¬ 
gency ration in compressed form. The 
defect in this class of food seems to be 
that, while the requisite amount of 
nourishment is provided, the deficiency 
in bulk is likely to affect the digestion 
unfavorably. 
The Outlook reprints Edward Everett 
Hale’s fine story, “ The Man Without a 
Country,” with an introduction by Mr. 
Hale, in which he tells how the story 
came to be written. Speaking of the 
justice of the present war, Mr. Hale says: 
It has come about that no viceroy, serving a 
woman, who is the guardian of a boy, can be per¬ 
mitted to starve at his pleasure 200,000 of God’s 
children. The world is so closely united—that is 
to say, unity is so real—that when such a viceroy 
does undertake to commit such an iniquity, 
somebody shall hold his hands. It has come to 
pass just now that tliis somebody is the United 
States of America. Mr. Cleveland, when Presi¬ 
dent of the United States, gave fair warning; he 
said that this sort of thing must stop, and that 
before long. The people who advised the mother 
(herself innocent) of the l»oy, who was quite 
innocent, supposed that Mr. Cleveland did not 
mean what he said, and that the nation called 
the United States, did not mean what her ser¬ 
vant said for her. They were mistaken. And 
the moment has come when the civilization of 
tbe world and its international law is to be ad¬ 
vanced one step as they learn their mistake. 
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind 
exceeding small. In this particular case, it is 
the business of the United States to give to the 
millstone its last turn. 
OFF FOR THE WAR. 
It is 35 years since New Yorkers last 
saw soldiers marching to actual war, 
and the different regiments now going 
through the city are greeted everywhere 
with great enthusiasm. When the 9th 
and the 69th regiments marched through 
New York, May 24, they were greeted by 
great crowds at every point, many people 
standing for hours in the damp air, 
hastening to occasional shelter during 
passing showers. The crowd was thick¬ 
est in Madison Square, and included all 
sorts and conditions of men; brawny 
aborers cheek by - jowl with the well- 
brushed idlers of upper Fifth Avenue, 
while women alighted from their car¬ 
riages to stand with democratic equality 
among those whose only equipage is the 
street car. 
Standing at windows, in balconies, and 
on the pavement, overflowing on to the 
car tracks, and surging out into the 
roadway, the crowd stood patiently until 
a gun from one of the newspaper offices 
announced that the soldiers were in 
sight. A gleam of watery sunshine 
sparkled on the brown army carbines, 
and the marching men passed between 
the lines of cheering spectators. The 
69th is not a show regiment ; it is a 
sample of the plain people, and perhaps 
that is one reason why New York re¬ 
gards it with such affectionate pride. 
Its men all look like stalwart workers, 
muscular and brawny, burnt to a coppery 
brown by their outdoor life. They 
marched up Fifth Avenue, where the 
Roman Catholic Archbishop of New 
York stood on his porch to give them a 
parting benediction, and then across to 
the North River, where a transport 
awaited them. The men looked heavily 
weighted with all their accoutrements, 
but here and there one was to be seen 
with a child on his shoulder, while a 
sobbing woman hastened by his side, 
trying to keep up with the steady stride 
of the marching men. At one point, a 
man rushed forward to tell one of the 
privates that his mother had died sud¬ 
denly. The soldier dropped as though 
shot; he was picked up and put in the 
ambulance, and the regiment marched 
on with unvarying step. People pressed 
forward with all sorts of gifts—cakes, 
pies, sandwiches and fruit. Sometimes 
there was a momentary halt, and the 
spectators crowded into the ranks with 
their offerings. By the Fifth Avenue Ho¬ 
tel, a knot of women surged into the ranks, 
to receive from some of the men the fa¬ 
miliar street-car conductor’s admonition. 
“ Please step inside, ladies.” Going down 
the river, the transport was saluted by 
all the passing craft. Much of the ship¬ 
ping wore gala dress, in honor of Queen 
Victoria’s 79th birthday, and the English 
ensign was everywhere dipped to salute 
America's soldiers. It is hard to imagine 
a heartier reception than our soldiers 
receive now on going through New York, 
yet it is safe to say that our present en¬ 
thusiasm will seem colorless when com¬ 
pared with the way we shall receive them 
when they march back again ! 
Vanity in women Is 
forgivable. It 
was Nature’s in¬ 
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vain of her per¬ 
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fails of her full 
womanhood. No 
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satisfied to go 
through the world 
with a complex¬ 
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by unsightly 
blotches, pimples 
and eruptions. 
No woman should 
be satisfied to 
have a sallow, 
sickly complex¬ 
ion. 
The remedy for these conditions does not 
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impurities in the blood, and by nervous 
disorders due to weakness and disease of 
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