1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
473 
The War. 
BRIEF NOTES FOR BUSY PEOPLE. 
DIARY OF THE WAR. 
Cadiz fleet reported to be bound for the New 
England coast. This fleet is reported to convoy 
transports carrying 4,000 Spanish troops. Opera¬ 
tions to be hastened in Cuba. Third expedition, 
aggregating 3,850 men, to be sent to Manila. 
Crews of steam cutters taking soundings off San¬ 
tiago fight fiercely with Spanish infantry, Satur¬ 
day, June 18. 
The Spanish flag on El Morro, Santiago, being 
half-masted after Tuesday’s bombardment, led to 
the fear that Lieut. Hobson and his party were 
killed. This is not confirmed. Report that a 
third call for volunteers is projected. Spaniards 
concentrated near Santiago, to repulse attempts 
at landing. Fierce fighting in Philippines; report 
that Manila has capitulated, Sunday, June 19. 
Attempt to assassinate Gen. Blanco. Havana 
on the verge of anarchy. Spain refuses to ex¬ 
change Lieut. Hobson. Monitors Mahopac and 
Manhattan ready to leave League Island. Pro¬ 
visional government formed by Philippine in¬ 
surgents. Transports of the Sliafter expedition 
reported to have reached Santiago, Monday, 
June 20. 
Report of the arrival of Gen. Shafter’s army 
off Santiago confirmed. The troopships, 3fi in 
number, convoyed by warships, were seven days 
on the voyage. Good health prevails throughout 
the fleets, excepting some mild cases of typhoid 
and measles. Another flying squadron projected, 
to harass Spanish ports. Blanco concentrating 
troops at Santiago. Large bodies of troops are 
being sent south, Tuesday, June 21. 
Troops landed at Baiquiri without resistance, 
while Sp.anish attention was diverted by bom¬ 
bardment of Cabanas. Cable to Jamaica cut by 
the St. Louis. Cable connection established be. 
tween Camp McCalla, Guantanamo Bay, and the 
United States, Wednesday, June 22. 
Our army of 16,000 men securely intrenched 
near Santiago. Immediate movement to be made 
upon that city. Reported sea fight off San Juan. 
Spanish squadron under Admiral Camara on its 
way to the Philippines; the fleet consists of four 
warships, three torpedo boats and five trans¬ 
ports. Report that German marines have been 
landed at Manila, in advance of American forces, 
is discredited. Monitor Monadnock and collier 
Nero started for Manila. Third Manila expedi¬ 
tion delayed in starting. Suspected Spanish spies 
arrested at Savannah, Thursday, June 23. 
Severe fight at Aguadores, eight miles from 
Santiago; 10 of Roosevelt’s rough riders killed 
and 37 wounded. The enemy were ambushed in 
the chaparral, and greeted our men with a wither¬ 
ing fire. The rough riders were supported by 
Second Massachusetts volunteers and First reg¬ 
ular cavalry. Great gallantry was displayed. 
Our land forces are closing in upon Santiago. 
Insurgents are joining our forces, and are found 
valuable in scout duty. The first military ex¬ 
pedition to the Philippines is to attack the 
Ladrones, Friday, June 24. 
It is reported that Captain-General 
Blanco has notified our blockading fleet 
that, hereafter, he will recognize no flag 
of truce, and any vessel within six miles’ 
range will be fired upon, whether flying 
the Stars and Stripes or a white flag. 
It has been said that the great guns 
of our warships can be fired only 100 
times. It was thought that 100 dis¬ 
charges would weaken them so that 
further work would be dangerous. This 
idea has been disproved, as one of these 
guns has already been fired over 300 
times. American guns seem to be supe¬ 
rior to those made in Europe. 
Tea importers naturally disapprove of 
the new duty on tea. In this country, 
the annual consumption of tea per capita 
is but 1% pound, while in England, it is 
between five and six pounds. A very 
small amount of tea per capita is con¬ 
sumed in the southern States. 
Life on a monitor or torpedo boat in 
Cuban waters is a terrific strain to officers 
and crew. Temperature on board varies 
from 95 degrees in the officers’ quarters 
to 140 and 160 degrees in the engine- 
room, and the monotony of blockade 
duty is very trying. When prepared for 
war, the vessels of the navy were painted 
black, instead of white, and as this color 
absorbs the heat of the sun, it naturally 
raises the temperature. 
War is expensive business. The mod¬ 
ern artillery guns use up a small fortune 
at every fire. At Sandy Hook, one of 
the outer defenses of New York harbor, 
is a battery of 60 mortars. Each throws 
a shot 12 inches in diameter, and weigh¬ 
ing one-half ton. Each discharge of 
these 60 guns costs about $50,000, and an 
hour’s constant firing would cost about 
$1,000,000. But it is stated that the ship 
isn’t built that can resist the effect of 
this battery. 
The apparently unconcerned way in 
which Uncle Sam goes on buying ship 
after ship, and fitting out fleet after 
fleet, must impress other nations with 
the unlimited resources of thi., country. 
These are what must tell in the long 
run. Most of the foreign nations have 
had a certain feeling of contempt for us; 
but this feeling has already changed, 
and if the war has no other effect, it will 
increase immensely the respect of for¬ 
eign nations for our resources, our ability 
to meet every emergency, the valor and 
prowess of our fighting men, on sea and 
on land, the effectiveness of our navy, 
and the patriotism of our people. 
The war loan proves a popular one, in 
spite of predictions to the contrary. 
Within a week, the people have sent to 
the Treasury bids for $157,000,000 in sums 
of $500 and less. These are in addition 
to cash subscriptions made at the Treas¬ 
ury and the various Sub-Treasuries, 
estimated at fully $10,000,000. The 
Treasury officials think that all of the 
$200,000,000 will be absorbed by the sub¬ 
scriptions of $500 and less. 
Representative Gardner, of New 
Jersey, has introduced a bill which, if 
enacted, would do away with our present 
pension system. He proposes to issue 
life and accident insurance policies to 
members of the army and navy, the 
amount to be paid on loss of life or in¬ 
jury in the service in lieu of all claims 
for pensions by soldiers and sailors or 
their heirs. The bill provides for a 
board of insurance commissioners, to be 
appointed by the President, who shall 
report to Congress the amount of in¬ 
surance to be allowed, together with an 
estimate of necessary appropriations. 
A few weeks ago, when the price of 
flour went up, some of the working peo¬ 
ple in New England took the advice of 
sensational papers, and bought a year’s 
supply of flour ahead. Some of them 
drew small savings from the banks, and 
invested it in this flour. Now the price 
of flour has dropped nearly $2 a barrel, 
and these people find themselves with 
the flour on hand, on which they have 
lost money. Cases of this kind are hard 
on the working people, and newspapers 
that would give such advice without suf¬ 
ficient information to warrant them in 
doing so are unworthy of support. 
THE SEAT OF WAR. Fig. 212. 
Our operations, directed against Santiago, 
Cuba, now extend from Sigua in the east to 
Aserradero in the west, 42 miles. The landing 
place of the troops is at Baiquiri, 17 miles east of 
Santiago. The map shows the road to Santiago. 
The map, reproduced from the Sun, shows the 
road from Aserradero to Santiago Bay. Garcia’s 
Cuban force has been transported by sea from 
Aserradero to Sigua to cooperate with our ad¬ 
vance on Santiago. The new cable office at Playa 
del Este, from which the Government is receiving 
dispatches, is 254 miles east of Baconao. 
One obstacle encountered by the Gov¬ 
ernment in the conduct of the war has 
been the lack of vessels for the transpor¬ 
tation of troops and munitions to Cuba 
and the Philippines. Vessels flying a 
foreign flag cannot be used for war pur¬ 
poses, while, owing to our laws, a special 
act of Congress is required to admit for¬ 
eign-built vessels to American registry. 
At the time of the Civil War, we had a 
fine mercantile marine, but now the 
bulk of our carrying trade is done in 
foreign vessels. If we are going in for a 
policy of colonization and imperialism, 
we certainly need to encourage an in- 
creese of vessels sailing under the Amer¬ 
ican flag. 
The statement has been made that, 
should our forces interrupt telegraph 
communication with the Spanish col¬ 
onies, Spain will retaliate by cutting 
the cable between the United States and 
Europe. The London Electrician says 
that such an attempt would only cause 
damage to neutral property, without 
effecting the desired object. Not only 
would this result in heavy damage suits, 
but it would be practically impossible 
to break 12 or 13 cables before those first 
severed are repaired. It is, also, asserted 
by one of the Atlantic cable companies, 
that they have transmitted readable code 
words through a cable about 500 miles 
long, which was broken midway, by 
means of a new invention in telegraph 
apparatus. 
The Philadelphia Record observes that 
our new policy of imperialism and col¬ 
onization will be a bit expensive : 
The extinguishment of the Spanish title in the 
Philippines will cost an initial expense not less 
than $100,000,000; Cuba and Porto Rico will easily 
add $ 100 , 000,000 more in the shape of immediate ex¬ 
penditure, and the outstanding debt of Hawaii 
to be assumed will be $4,000,000. To this must be 
added $130,000,000 for digging the Nicaragua 
Canal in order to make our Pacific possessions 
accessible and defensible. But this preliminarv 
cost will be as a flea-bite to the cost of mainte¬ 
nance. We shall get our new islands in a very 
run-down and unprosperous condition. We shall 
have to build a navy to correspond with our in¬ 
sular aggrandizement. We shall have added to 
our holdings an enormity of unfortified coast¬ 
line. We shall have to built forts and maintain 
standing armies to hold insurrectionary popula¬ 
tions in order. Imperialism is grand. It has a 
swelling and majestic sound; but it is costly. It 
is evident that, when the war with Spain shall 
have ended, we shall have on our hands 1,400 to 
1,500 . dands, large and small, near and distant, 
for which we will have no immediate use, but for 
whose future condition we will have made our¬ 
selves measurably responsible. The questions 
raised by such a condition cannot be decided off¬ 
hand. Nothing more momentous has ever been 
presented for determination to the people of the 
United States. 
LIFE IN THE ARMY. 
THE DAY’S ROUTINE. 
The precision with which military de¬ 
tails are conducted is strikingly at vari¬ 
ance with the haphazard habits of civil 
life. Every part of general orders comes 
at its proper time, to a half minute, and 
every man, from the captain to the cook, 
is expected to obey orders on time. The 
boys who were reared on the farms have 
little difficulty in adapting themselves 
to the prescribed programmes. The lag¬ 
gards who fail to comply with the orders 
are those who insist on being out after 
“taps”, and who, probably, had their 
training in the cities from which they 
enlisted. They get all the work to do. 
Those who strictly attend to business 
are seldom assigned extra duty. The 
official routine now in effect is as follows; 
1. First call. 4.42 
2. Reveille. 4.55 
3. Assembly for setting up drill.; 5.00 
4. Recall and mess. 5.15 
5. Water and stable (artillery). 6.00 
6 . Surgeon’s and fatigue. 6.45 
7. Drill. 6.50 
8 . Assembly. 7.00 
9. Recall.n.45 
10. Mess.12 00 
11. Water and stable (artillery). 4.15 
12. Mess. 5.15 
13. Assembly. 5.55 
14. Retreat. 6 00 
15. Guard mount. 6 15 
16. Tattoo. 9.00 
17. Taps. 9.15 
No. 1, the first call, is the bugler's 
assembly ; it is made by a single bugler, 
taken from a battalion, and its purpose 
is to warn other buglers of the battalion 
to get into their clothes and make ready 
to blow reveille. The bugle at head¬ 
quarters governs the time, and the bug¬ 
lers from the separate regiments follow. 
No. 2, reveille, is the bugle call for the 
soldiers to get up in the morning. It is 
one of the most unpopular melodies in 
the routine, although it is very pretty 
when sounded properly. 
No. 3, the setting-up drill, consists of 
about 20 exercises in calisthenics, and is 
calculated to limber up the soldier’s 
muscles and joints after his night’s rest. 
It is given over to the charge of a non¬ 
commissioned officer who takes each bat¬ 
tery through the exercises. 
No. 4 is the breakfast call. 
No. 5 ; the artillery horses are watered 
and fed at this call. 
At No. 6, those who are sick, but not 
so sic c as to be in the hospital, report to 
the first sergeant of their battery or 
company ; he takes them to the hospital 
surgeon, who gives them their medicines. 
In emergency cases, the sick are not 
required to wait for this call, but may 
be admitted for treatment at any time. 
The hospital is a large tent full of nice, 
clean mattresses. I have not seen any 
female hospital nurses here. About 
two weeks ago, the 400 men of our bat¬ 
talion were vaccinated at the hospital. 
Perhaps not one in fifty failed to “take.” 
The result is much grumbling when the 
boys crowd in the foot drill. The pain 
is not sharp, but there is a constant ache 
about it that is very annoying, and the 
heat seems to aggravate it. There is 
usually one hospital surgeon to each 
regiment of 1,000 men. The surgeon 
of the First O. L. A. is Major (formerly 
Prof.) Moore, of Starling Medical College. 
The drill call is sounded at 6.50 ; it is 
merely a warning of the drill assembly 
which is sounded 10 minutes later. Every 
man not sick or on a detail is expected 
to respond to the drill assembly. Up to 
the present time, the drills have been 
upon the tactics of the light artillery on 
foot. The guns were received a few 
days ago, and were recently mounted. 
Each battery of the Ohio artillery has 
been ordered to recruit to 175 men. This 
number means four six-gun batteries, 
instead of four four-gun batteries. 
Seventy-five new recruits will be likely 
to make the old men some hard work 
until they get used to drill work. The 
foot drill consists of a four hours’ tramp, 
each morning, over the hills, hollows 
and underbrush that still covers parts of 
the park, and three-quarters of an hour 
in instruction from the tactics. The 
lieutenants usually give the lectures on 
tactics, and more than half the soldiers 
have secured copies for themselves. They 
study them, too. 
No. 9 recalls the soldiers from drilling. 
Immediately on their arrival in camp, 
they wash and prepare for dinner. The 
cooking for a battery is done in one tent, 
and each soldier is required to spend 
three weeks in the cook tent. The turn 
is arranged alphabetically, the A’s tak¬ 
ing first turn, the soldiers whose names 
begin with B, second, C’s third, etc. At 
the present rate, all will not have had a 
turn at it by Christmas. The menu does 
not vary a great deal. Salt side pork, 
beans, hard bread, and a pint tin cup of 
coffee, with a teaspoonful of sugar com¬ 
prise the standard. The beans are some¬ 
times omitted, and their place supplied 
with tomato soup or some baked pota¬ 
toes. Nothing sticks to the ribs so 
tenaciously as beans, however. A “ can¬ 
teen ” has been established in the bat¬ 
talion, and the profits are reputed to be 
devoted to supplying luxuries for the 
boys. Beyond a little beefsteak at far 
between intervals, I have not been able 
to discover any luxuries, unless black 
eyes and bloody noses can be counted as 
luxuries. It is suggested to the manage¬ 
ment that they keep the beefsteak to tie 
over the boys’ eyes when they get in 
that condition. j. h, d. 
Chickamauga National Park. 
(To be continued.) 
There are men who 
Imagine that out-door 
‘work is a sovereign 
cure for all ills. They 
work like slaves at their 
business, take insuffi¬ 
cient time to rest and 
sleep, and abuse 
and neglect their 
health in every 
1 way. Then, when 
they break down, 
they keep on just 
as before, except 
that in addition to 
) ulf'. their usual work, 
' they go out every 
day and spade a 
little in their gar¬ 
dens, or try to 
imitate Mr. Glad¬ 
stone by cutting 
>4", down a tree or 
chopping the fam- 
ily fire-wood. 
A more ridiculous method of curing a 
man who is suffering from nervous exhaus¬ 
tion and is threatened with nervous pros¬ 
tration could not be well conceived. A man 
who has overworked does not need more 
work, but less work and more rest. The 
man who has lost his appetite needs some¬ 
thing to restore it. The man whose nerves 
are shattered needs something to tone and 
strengthen them. Get the nerves right and 
sound, and refreshing sleep will follow. A 
man who sleeps well ana eats well, and 
digests and assimilates his food will not 
remain ill. 
In cases of this kind Dr. Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery goes to bed rock—to 
first causes. It creates a hearty appetite; 
it makes the digestion and assimilation 
perfect; it invigorates the liver; it purifies 
the blood and fills it with the life-giving 
elements of the food. It builds up new 
flesh, new muscle and new nerve fibres. It 
is an unfailing cure for nervous exhaustion 
and nervous prostration, and the best of 
all medicines for overworked men and wo¬ 
men. An honest druggist won’t urge an 
inferior substitute upon you, thereby in¬ 
sulting your intelligence. 
It is a dealer’s business to sell you what 
you ask for—not what he prefers for selfish 
profit’s sake to sell. 
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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