TnR OMAHA DAILY PEE: BUN DAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1004.
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ROVID SC FOOD FOR ARM!
Commiwiry Defartmtnt a Gompftnlivtl;
Ucd-ra Institution.
STANDARD RATIONS FOR A SOLDIER
American FUhtlna Men the Best Fed
and Mont Liberally I'rovlded
for la the World
Today.
Very little data Ik handed down from the
e.trly warlike ages antedating the Chris
tian era, that gives murh Information re
garding the provisioning of armies. In the
very nature of things they must have had
commissariats In order that some system
should be observed In the distribution of
food supplies to the varloua military divi
sions. Military campaigns were carried
over extensive arena of deaert countries,
and food supplies must have been carried
from the fertile food producing countries
arross these desert reaches. These ' Sup
plies were only Intended to last from the
point of departure to the destination of the
Invading armies. Wars In those days were
(or conquest and plunder and pillage, and
as the soldiers were made partners with
their officers In the division of the loot
evefy possible passion wss stirred and cul
tivated to stimulate the soldiery to under
take the conquests Into the lands flowing
with milk and honey, and myrrh and
frankincense.
It waa this promise to the famished hosts
of Moses from the narrow food-Impoverished
valley of 'the Kile that lured them
Into the food-fattened land of Canaan. It
was the promise of ravaging the vineyards,
fields and flocks of Greece that Invited
Xerxes and his famishing hordes of sol
diers and camp followers, approximating?
'ver i.OOO.OflO of people, to nndertake that
Invaslofi. The devastation wrought by that
march Impoverished Tersla and Asia Minor
for more than a century afterward. Ajnd
It was to prevent the certain Infliction of
famine throughout Oreece that wrought
the Greeks to that marvelous cour
age that thwarted the Persian In
vasion and drove the Xerxlan multitude
bck across the deserts they had made,
here more of them perished from famine
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courage of Sparta and the heroism of the
ureeics.
Greeks Were Great Hostlers.
It waa the fertile valleys of the Eu
phrates that lured the Greek legions under
Xenophon to become mercenaries of Cyrus
the younger that they might fatten off
the produce an established Greek colo
nies at the gates of Nineveh and Babylon
from which food supplies might be trans
ported back to Greece, In order to complete
the conquest of the world. The Grecian
rmy consisted of scarcely more than 13,000
tnen. and when the battle of Cunaxa (Sep
tember 3, 01 B. C.) waa fought, and al
though the Persians and Greeks were vic
torious, the most complete disorganisation
prevailed because of the death of Cyrus In
that battle, that tha Grecian army was
Compelled to retreat because of the lack of
food arrangements, ' and being surfeited
With the plunder of the camp of their ene
mies, Xenophoa had to "slaughter tha bul
locks and asnes which had drawn their
wagons and. with them made their break
fast." They left the Tigris on their hrtme
ward march and thus began the "retreat of
the 10,000," of which less than 1,000 eventu
ally reached the seacoast. And here we
have the first historical, record of mule
(neat as an army diet.
The same promise of milk and honey and
plunder bedkoned nearly a century later
Alexander of Macedonia to the Tigris and
Euphrates an) to the conquest of Babylon,
and wherever pre-Christian' armies marched
It waa for food as the prise rather than
the plunder of palaces.
Neither had the Greeks of still later
years a commissariat. Their Incursions
Into Asia were largely for food, and after
ah army had once departed upon an expe
dition for conquest or plunder no concern
was ever given It by the Xlreeks at home,
an Its departure only left more food for
those that remained. The army Was to
provide for Itself and open out larger fields
of sustenance fpr the kingdoms. The
Greeks, subsisted largely upon fish, olives,
dates and tropical fruits. The vocation of
agriculture waa held In such contempt by
them that cattle and sheep were too scarce
and valuable to permit them to become ar
ticles of common food or for tha army. The
bulla and cows were made objects of re
ligious veneration, In order to discourage
their slaughter except for the elect.
Roam Ueod Providers.
The Romans were the first to recognise
the fact that a full stomach makea a fine
I soaker, -and they were the first to organise
it 'quartermaster and commissary system.
' food of the soldier was specified and every
sacrifice waa made to keep the army well
fed. Granarlea were established at Home
for the special sustenance of tha army,
thread, or a crude form of cake, easily port
able, was made in the Roman camps for
- the long marches, and this, with wine and
fruits, was the chief food of the iiomao
armies. When campaigns were carried on
pear the aeacoasts flsh. dried and aalt, be
erne a part of the ration. Very little
neat was Issued the Roman soldier, though
alt waa an important ingredient of the
Iloman army ration. They had to rely
wholly upon the invaded territory for meat,
and at times on short marches cattle were
driven along, with the armies, but where
(Treat numbers of live stock were a part of
the plunder, these were sent back Into the
f i
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ing at 8:30. .
We have determined to dispose of every sample piece
of furniture that has been on our floor beyond a certain
time, 17,640.00 worth, including dining room, parlor, bed
room and library furniture. Jot one piece but that will be
gold for lews than cost and many at half cost. These goods
hare all been on show for inspection Friday and Saturday,
and go on sale Monday morning at 8:30. An opportunity
you cannot afford to let go by if you are in need of furniture.
All sale goods on main floor.
Doors Open at 8:30 Monday.
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empire to replenish the stock herds nearer
the cities. 8timr, coffee and tea were un
known to the Roman soldier.
Thus down to modern times there was
very little change from the Roman atiethod
of feeding armies. In the northern armies,
the Ituns, Baxons, British, Norwegians and
Swedes, meat wus the principal feature of
the army ration. It was a fancy among
many of thym to eat their meat nearly
raw, as they conceived that It made them
more savage and flerre. A Muck, coarse
brend and a sort of beer comprised the re
mainder of the ration.
Impoverished Frnnre In the revolutionary
period, was niggardly with everything else
but her army. Its sustenance was essen
tial, and while the rations furnished the
soldiers of Napoleon were not materially
different from those that nourished the
legions of Caesnr and Charlemagne, they
were at least abundant for a time. Wine
became the eseentlal beverage of the French
army, as It Is today. Meat was scarce, and
about the only way It could be obtained
was by armed forays into adjacent coun
tries. Germany, Austria and Spain con
tributed almost wholly to the meat ration
of the French. It was the gilded promise
of "Beyond the Alps lies Italy" that lured
the tired Napoleonlo hosts across the
glaclered Alps to the plains of Lombardy,
and It was the stimulus of plunder and sur
feited appetites of his soldiers that started
that meteoric career of the Little Corporal
across the world's firmament, and It was
the hunger and weakness of his troops,
emaciated and worn from the flight from
the Icy plains of Russia, that caused the
setting of his aun at Waterloo.
Amerleaa Army's Experience.
In the Continental army at tha beginning
of the American Revolution there waa no
commissariat Each state furnished Its
own contingent of troops with their food.
When Washington took command of the
army at Boston he organized the tint com
missary system. The food for the troops
was furnished by the contracting or pur
chasing commissary and Issued to them by
the "Issuing" commissary. The ration con
sisted of fresh and salt meats, flour or
cornmeal, beans, salt, dried fruit, candles,
soap, vinegar and "cider." Sugar, tea and
coffee did not constitute a part of the ra
tion. It would have been rank treason to
drink tea, and coffee and sugar were too
expensive and wholly unobtainable. The
soldiers made their own bread and hard
bread, salted their own meat and made
their own .soap and candles. The Conti
nental army waa In the main well fed.
During the entire eight years of the Revo
lution there waa no general shortage of
foodstuffs for the army. There were inci
dental exceptions, as at Valley Forge, but
the fault lay not with the supply of food
In the country, but the Inadequate facili
ties for transporting it as the emergencies
of tha service required, and then the pro
vision trains were Intercepted by the
enemy, as waa the trouble at Valley Forge.
The ration of the American army contin
ued practically unchanged during tha war
of 1812. In the Mexican war one or two
minor additions were made, coffee and
sugar being Included.
Ratios of the Civil War.
When the Civil war came on the ration
adopted during the Mexican war waa In
use throughout the army. During the first
year of the Civil war the ration waa fixed
as follows per man per day: Twelve ounces
of pork or bacon, or one pound and four
ounces of fresh beef, or twenty-two ounces
of salt beef; eighteen ounces of soft bread
or flour, or sixteen ounces of hard bread.
or one pound and four ouncea of cornmeal
To every 100 rations fifteen pounds of beans
or peaa or ten pounds of rice or hominy;
ten pounds of green coffee. or eight pounds
of roasted coffee, or two pounds of tea; one
pound and eight ouncea of adamantine or
star candles; four quarts of vinegar; fir
teen pounds of sugar, four pounds of soap,
four pounds of salt, four ounces of pepper.
and to troopa In the field four pounds of
yeast powder to the 100 rations of flour.
This ration continued up to 1879, when
fresh mutton waa authorised to be Issued
at the same rate and In lieu of fresh beef.
or fourteen ounces of dried fish, or eighteen
ounces of fresh or pickled fish might be
Issued In lieu of the meat components of
the ration. Molasses or syrup could be is
aued In lieu of sugar at the rate of two
gallons to fifteen pounds of sugar.
W'hea Vegetables Were Added.
It waa not until 1890 that one pound of
vegetables were added to and became
curt of the ration. Prior to this time
there had been issued during the closing
years of the war a species of compressed
vegetables and defalcated potatoes. This
was one of the very first attempts on the
part of the government toward an(IsHue of
condensed food or an emergency ration.
This' preparation never became popular
with the army. The soldiera characterised
tha compressed vegetables as "dried weeds"
and the desslcatcd potatoes as "doctored
sawdust.'" While not a part of the ration
up to this time, potatoes and onions could
be purchased from the commies ry depart
ment. During the civil war the lack of
vegetablea caused scurvy to prevail In
many parts of the army and many died
from Ita effects, . and others were perma
nently invalided thereby.
An Instance Is recalled of the eagerness
of the troops for vegetables during the
civil war. When General Hooker's rorpi
waa transferred from the Potomao army to
the western army by rail, . they passed
through Columbus, O. Almost the entire
city was at the depots to see tha troops
pans through, and were provided with all
aorts of luxuries In the way of food for the
boys. One old farmer who had heard of
the scarcity of vegetables In the army
brought in a wagonload of onlona to give
to the veterans. As soon as the soldiers
learned of the existence of the nlona they
threw away cakes and plea and fried
thicken and the like and filled their haver
sacks with onions and ate them ravenously.
and, while grateful for the other dainties.
gave their heartiest cheera for tha onion
man.
Freaeat Standard Ratio.
It waa not until the Spanish-American
war that any other significant addition waa
mads to the ration of the American army.
This waa the addition of two ouncea of
dried fruits, and during field service an
equivalent in fruit jams was furnished.
The vinegar allowance, which waa always
excessive, was reduced one-half, and
plcklea substituted therefor. There was
also a change In the sugar ration, which
originally allowed but fifteen pounds for
ten men for ten Jays, and thla waa in
creased to twenty pounds. Canned toma
toes were Included In the vegetable ration
and could be substituted for tha potato or
onion if desired. .
In 1901 the standard of the army ration
was again raised and la In effect at the
present time. This ration Is known as the
President McKlnley ration, as the "duty of
prescribing the kinds and quantities of the
component parts of the army ration lies
directly with the president of the United
States." This ration Is as follows:
Fresh beef. 10 ounces; or fresh mutton, !0
ounces; or bacon. 12 ounres; or canned
meat, when Impracticable to furnish fresh
meat. 16 oi.nces: :r dried f)sh, 14 ounces; or
pickled fish, IS ounce; or canned fish, 18
ounces. (In Alaska 16 ounces of bacon, or.
when desired, 16 ouncea of salt pork or 22
ounres of s'llc beef )
Be.'wis. ? ounces; or peas. 2H ounces;
or hard bread, to he ordered Issued only
where It Is Impracticable to use flour or
soft bread, 16 ounces; ,or cornmeal, 20
ounces. i
Beans, 24 ounces; or pease, 24. ounces;
or rice, 1H ounce.
Potatoes, 16 ounces; or potatoes, 1SS
ounces, and colons 3Vj minces; or potatoes,
12 ouncea, end canned tomatoes, 84
ounces; or potatoes, 11 Vfc ounces, and other
fresh vegetables (not canned), 1 ounces,
when they can be obtained In the vicinity
or transported In a wholesome condition;
or desslcated vegetables, when Impractic
able to furnish fresh vegables, 24 ounces.
Fruit, dried or evaporated (prunes, apples
or peaches, SO per cent of the issue to be
prunes, when practicable), 1 ounce.
Coffee, gren, 1 ounce, or roasted and
f round. 17-25 ounce; or tea, black or green,
2fi ounce.
Sugar, t ounces.
Vinegar, 8-25 gill; or vinegar, 4-25 gill,
and cucumber pickles, 4-26 gill.
Salt, 10-25 ounce.
Black pepper, 1-25 ounce.
Soap, 16-25 ounce.
Candles, when Illumination Is not fur
nished by the quartermaster department,
6-25 ounce.
In Alaska the allowance for fresh vege
tables will be 24 ounces. Instead of 16
ounces; desslcated vegetables, i ounces;
candles, 8-26 ounce.
Field Ration Alio Fixed.
There Is a slight difference In the field
ration from the garrison ration. The dif
ference Is hardly perceptible, except that
jams are issued In lieu of dried fruits In
the proportion of 1 ounces to the ration.
Dried or compressed yeast or hops' for
bread making la furnished where ovena are
practicable.
Then there Is the travel ration, which Is
as follows (the proportions ara given per
the 100 rations):
Soft bread, 112V4 pounds; or hard bread,
10A pounds.
Canned cornbeef, or cornbeef hash, 75
pounds.
Baked beans. 25 pounds.
Canned tomatoes. 50 pounds.
Coffee, roasted and ground, 8 pounds.
Sugar, 15 pohnda.
Since the order for the McKlnley ration
has been promulgated there has been added
aa a substitute for either of the above meat
rations cornbeef hash or beef stew, In
about equivalent proportlona to those above
given.
The bacon ration Is now much Improved
and It cornea In pieces of ten to twenty
pounds each, and the old fat bacon and
salt pork Is eliminated entirely. Salt pork
can still be bought of the commissary' de
partment when desired..
The rice ration Is being more extensively
used In the Philippines now than formerly,
the roldlers preferring It to tha excessive'
u&e of meats. .
Pansy Food Mar Be Had.
Every article of standard and fancy gro
ceries, and many articles of dry goods, can
be purchased from the commissary depart
ment of the army by the soldiers. To enum
erate these articles would be simply going
over a list of about every conceivable food
product. These are furnished to the army
at the lowest cost rate with tha rata of
transportation added.
The American army Is the best and most
liberally fed army of the world. The Eng
lish army Is gradually emulating the Amer
ican commissariat.
A peculiar system prevails In the English
army. The ration .-.a Issued la really In
sufficient for the sustenance of the soldier,
but he la paid for the deficiency and la at
liberty to buy food to make up tha de
ficiency. This plan Is adopted on the prin
ciple that it Instills Into the soldier the
habit of providing himself with food off
the resources of the country In which he
happens to be, and thus prepares him for
the emergency of living off the country by
foraging when In the enemy's country. The
same general rule applies In the German,
Russian and French armies.
The emergency ration has aa yet failed of
practical accomplishment. Tha American
soldier does not take to patent foods.
In the preparation of food for troopa In
garrison, everything ' Is ' provided on the
most elaborate and complete scale. The
kitchens of the garrisons contain every
modern device for the convenience of cook
ing, and the mess table of the private
soldier In garrison will compare very- fa
vorably with any ordinary hotel, while the
food Is certainly superior to the average
hotel or boarding house, In Its purity,
wholesomenesa and cleanliness.
This condition has been brought about by
the enthusiastic seal of tha commissary
general of the United States army, Briga
dier General John F. Weston. He hag been
assisted In the work by tha various de
partment commissaries, and none of these
have been more conscientious and devoted
to thla work than Major W. H. Bean, chief
commissary of the Department of the Mis
souri at Omaha, and his able assistant,
Captain Frank A. Cook. Major Bean and
Captain Cook have made a close study of
the susbslstenca 'question, of the army and
the results of their Intelligent and faithful
labors ara manifest In the growing Improve
ment of this most Important department
of tha military service.
HEXiGiora.
A monument to Hoses Ttallou, the founder
of lnlvf rsallnm In America, has recently
been dedicated at hia birth place, Richmond,
K. II.
The endowment fund of
Square Presbyterian church,
which Dr. Wrkhurst is
amounts to 1204.434.
the Madison
New York, of
pasttr, now
The Presbyterians, whe have tS churches
with 6.3V1 communicants and .'"W Sunda
y
acnoot pupils In C'orea, are watchl
great Interest the course of event
Hermit nation.
Ing with
s In the
The late Cardinal Vaughan's ecclesiastical
robe have been presented by his executors
to 8t. Kdmund's college and have been
placed In a case near those of Cardinal
Vauning and Cardinal Wiseman.
Rev. Dr. E. p. lngeraoli. secretary of the
American Bible society, has been appointed
by the organisation to represent It at the
comniemoratite exertisea of the British
and Foreign society in London In March.
It la stated on good authority that during
the lust seventeen years, below Fourteenth
street. New York, seventeen Protestant
churches have moved out and XSfi.OvO people
have moved in.
The statue of the late Rev. John Jasper,
the colored preacher of "the aun do move"
fame, was recently unveiled In the church
at Richmond, Va., over which he waa pas
tor. The exercises in connection with the
unveiling lasted nine day a
Bishop Charles B. Galloway of tae Meth
odist Episcopal chun-h, south, of Jackson,
Mlxa., has accepted the invitation of Prin
cipal Bouker T. Washington to p.'each the
Commencement sermon at the Tuakagae In
stitute, May St. - . ,
' A fw day ago tie pope leek a
j U bills
The entire stock of CANNED GOODS dam
aged by the Allen Bros. fire. These goods were
damaged by smoke' and water, and not by heat
all in good condition will be placed on sale
AT 1315
043 dozen cans Teas,
at, per dozen
1205 dozen cans Corn,
at, per dozen
874 dozen cans String Beans,
at, per dozen '.
1132 dozen cans Van Camp Whole
Corn Hominy, at, per dozen
1321 dozen cans Tomatoes,
at, per dozen '
1284 dozen cans California Apricots,
Reaches, Plums and Cherries, doz .
138 dozen . gallon cans California
Apricots. and Blackberries,1
at, per dozen
No can goods sold in less than 2 dozen lots. Sale begins promptly at 9
o'clock Tuesday morning, February 9th, at 131? Howard, . Be on and early if
ypu want first choice of bargains.
L. ftlcGREER, Agent.
stylograhplo pen from a Protestant Jour
nalist's hand and pronounced a benediction.
He returned the pen, saying: "No one
hHS a nobler mission than a Journalist In
the world today. I blesa your symbol of
offlce."
It la estimated that during tha last
twenty-one " years the . Congregational
Church Building society ha helped to se
cure at least Il7,000.ou0 worth of church
property. .During the last year the so
ciety paid appropriations amounting to
tJSl.&W. The total income of tha year
amounted to $222,173.
Ban Miguel church, in Santa Fe, N. M., Is
the oldest eooleslastlcal edifice existing in
this country. It was erected In lB'-J and
perhaps even earlier. In 1H0 Banta Fe waa
burned and the roof of Ban Miguel waa
consumed and the Interior badly damaged.
In 1710 the church was put In thorough re
pair. Under the care of the Christian
Urothers the church is kept In eicellent
condition. This adobe church In an adobe
town la a unique memorial of one of the
most stirring and romantio epochs of Amer
ican history.
The Russian Orthodox church In North
America-is growing so fast that Itishop
Tikhon Is to have a coadjutor, who will
have his episcopal seat at Bltka, where It
was In davs before the United Btatea
purchase. This bishop of Alaska is Bishop
Innocent, about So years old, who has done
miHslonary work In this country and knows
English. It Is probable that very soon the
seat of Bishop Tikhon will be removed
from San Francisco to New York City.
Irgn movements of the Russian and
Pollen Unlets from their connection with
the Roman church Is really the determining
factor In the division.
UtBOR AND ISDl'STRT.
The oldest match factory In the world la
In Sweden
The' average wage for labor In Spain la
48 centa a day.
American fashion plates ara used In Ger
man tai'.or shops.
The great w!,lp making town of tha world
Is WestAeld. UaM.
In northern Italy there la a co-operative
association for every l.OuO Inhabitants.
Over 900,000 people In Massachusetts) are
dependent upon the cotton mliia for their ;
living. I
Corean commerce amounts to about $15,-1
000,0(10 per annum, the imports being double
the exports.
A baker's oven In France, which la heated 1
by electricity, is said to be a uccea in ,
every particular. 1
One German city, Chemnlts, eo'.d in the 1
United States lat year M.1,0U worth ef !
stockings and $2,320,000 worth of gloves.
Seamless welding of Iron and steel is now 1
done In Birmingham, Kngland. by the use
of acetylene and oxygen and a blowpipe. j
The Japanese cultivate chrysanthemums
In ZH varieties and colors. Of thaa 87 are
svnue, us yellow, xz purple, u pins, SO red,
12 ruaset and It mixed hues.
The productions of lice in (ouislana and
Texas has so Increased that It Is new be
lieved that the home crop of thla year will
fully equal the home demand.
The English Co-Operatlve Wholesale so
ciety has l.ifig.SW members and doea an an
nual business of tx.fo.0Q0. The similar
Bcvttlsh society does J9.&00,000 of business.
Not only la the British suoa made chiefly
of A merit n leather and by American ma
chinery, but even the hooka and eyeieta are
E radically all Imported from tha United
tales.
There were 144 German domeetlo servants
last year who were awarded the servanu'
goliln crow, for having lived forty years
with on family. Only one waa found In
Berlin.
Tha aggregate number of members of the
various Oanuth co-oueratlve institution
ceds eUO.Oun and the aggregate value of the
annual exports of co-oueratlve butler, bacon
ana eggs amounts to Hi.7tH.0uo.
The French Canadians are overrunning
the eastern part of the United Slates, but
they have not attracted attention because
they have taken no part In general poli
tics. They have driven the Irish out of
the mills.
The largest shoe factory In France uaea
only American machinery. Ita growth la
phenomenal. Before the Parla expoaltlon
of 1! this factory waa a very small one,
employing only French machinery. It la
now the largest In the republic.
The work of changing the gauge of the
Mexican National railroad has lieon com
pleted at a coat of SM.uui.u00 gold, and the
entire road, which was until a year ago
the longest narrow gauge railroad in the
world. Is now standard gauge from Laredo
to the City of Mexico.
A Ban Francisco Inventor claims to have
perfected a simple method of extracting
radium from ore. He alao claims to have
invented a small battery, which, with one
charge of a preparation of radium, will run
a motor car (ur mllee.
The sewing of buttons on shoes and on
garments Is no lunger don by hand In
modern factories. There is a machine that
sews i.SU buttons on garments in nine
hour or mora than eight axpert eewers
could posatbly do la the eame time. This
machine rexulraa no eJ(t apetataa.
buy or girl ruua it
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