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THE HERALD.
T.J.O'KEEFE, Publlhor.
JIEMCNQFORD - NEBRASKA
ilT NEWS.
A young nor. of William Shupp nenr
t ulberljti van thrown from a horse.
Leaking his shoulder blade.
To Inst company on the Hat for the
'ilru regiment Nebraska rsntionm i
pucrus oe rniseu in nun couiuy, jonn
Sklrvlng of O'Neill anil F. A. Dross of
Atkinson have been authorized by the
governor to recruit thl u upnny, which of WnRhliiRton n gathering of demo
will be designated n M of the regiment, emtio party representatives from nil
! over the union. The meeting was con-
Mrs. Jeff Van Dr'irrgh of Talmage, I ducted under the nusplcos of the Nn
who nan been In HI henlth for some tlonal Democratic club organization nnd
time, attempted suicide Wednesday by j the occnslon was to do honor to the
cutting hr thtont with n razor. A memory of thnt great old commoner,
physkinn dtessed tho wound, but nlu Thomas JefTetscn.
died from the effects Thursday. ' Mr. Bryan was present nnd briefly
responded to the toast, "Thomas JefTer-
The preliminary examination of Chns son." He said:
Heberlee, charged with the theft of Mr. Chairman, Ladles and Gentle
Dick Stnnderford's teum on the cvenlmt men It Is a year since we celebrated
of May 7, was held before JuBtlce Smith the last anniversary of the birthday of
of Humboldt on Wednesday afternoon. Thomas Jefferson In thlB city under
Justice Smith overruled the defenses ' the auspices of the National Assocln.
motion to discharge the prisoner for tlon of Democratic clubs, nnd during
lack of evidence and bound him over the year which has pnssed the prlnel
to tho district court In tho sum of pies of Thomas Jefferson have received
$1,000. In default, the pilsoner was re. uach month sume new vindication. If,
turned to Jail. 1 when we assembled n year ago, wo had
reason to tenew ofir faith In those prln-
Tho satisfactory pi ice for grnln lino Holes, we have still more reason to re-
caused heavy selling by the farmers new our fnlth In thoso principles to
18C cars of com having been bought at night. The principles of Thomas Jef
Nchawkn In the last thirty days. This furson embrace all that there Is In
puts a great deal of money In clrculn- democracy, and yet they are so com
tlon, but leaves the country still full jileto that we can solve all questions
of corn. About ioO cats of rock and in peace or war by the application of
fifty of clay have been shipped from those principles to the questions ns they
there In the Inst month, mnklng the arise. (Applause.)
totnl shipments from Nehnwka the last DEFINITION OF DEMOCRACY.
thirty days about 4.10 cars, Including ' The definition of democrncy as writ
stock, ten by the democratic party, the dcflnl
. tlon of democrncy as It stnnds today
Mr. BoydBton and other members of
the stnte commission, who were ap
pointed a committee to work up a pro.
gram for Nebraska day at the exposi
tion, have had a conference with Pres
ident Wattles The date set. June 14,
will stnnd, nnd It hns been decided to
make the occasion a great one. i ne rifle, and from the Canadian border tc
program will be almost as elaborate, the Gulf of Mexico. To be a democra
If not fully as elaborate, as that pre- now menns something. (Applause.,'
pared for the opening day. ( My friends, the principles of Jefferson,
ns crystallized Into the definition of
While some carpenters were repnlrlng democracy are stronger todny than they
the floor of an old building on Central were when we met a year ago. (Great
avenue, Kearney, formerly occupied by applause.)
a saloon, a box containing a human People can learn much by the failure
skeleton was found. The authorities of our opponents as much ns they
were Informed and they took charge could learn by the success of our own
of the box nnd nn Investigation will be IdenB, If permitted to be tried, and we
made. Much speculation Is Indulged have had constant evidence that the
In ns to who the person wns and nil opposition to the principles of Jeffer-
the disappearances for twenty years son Is proving n failure when tried,
nre being suggested as the unfortunate We have to confront today many ques
one. I tlons, and yet those principles cover
' them all. We have to solve many prob-
Charles II. McCarl, a Burlington lems, and yet those principles solve
freight brnkeman, wns fatally Injured them all. Democracy, as defined by the
In the company's yard at McCook nbout Chicago platform; democracy, ns un-
4 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Freight derstood nnd preached by hjm In whose
train No. 77 wns being made up. and honor we assemble tonight, means the
while be wns between the cars coupling equal rights of all and speclnl prlvl-
the air-brake hose some cars were leges granted to none. (Applause.)
switched against the train nnd before , Tnklng that as our foundation prln-
ip could net out from between the cars clple, we nre able to meet every ques-
he wns caught and run over, one leg
and one arm being cut oft In addition
,to other Injuries. He lived but a short
time after the accident.
nnhort Ttenler of Deadwood was nr-
rf.t.ri in Chndron Monday by Sheriff
Dargan on the clinrge cf kidnaping, i
nreferred by John Harris of Sturgls,
Bepler, It seems, was separated from
his wife some few years ago. and their
only child, a little boy, wns adopted by
xin Tipnlor's nnrenta. Mr. nnd Mrs,
John Harris. The child was In Dead-
wood last week at a circus and Bepler
gained possession of him, coming tc
this city. Sheriff Brown of Sturgls.
Mr. Harris and Attorney Wesley A. Stu
art, arrived In the city the first cf the
week nnd were the principals In the
o m.irht nirninHt Benler. He wns '
held for 'equlsltlon papers from South
Dakota Lnter In the day a writ of
habeas 'corpus was procured In the
county court and Mr. Harris secured
h child After this Bepler decided not
to wait for requisition papers, but re.
turned to Sturgls, where the matter
will be continued In the courts.
LETTER FROM GUNNER FORD
Writes a Lottor to His Father and
Tolls About tho Battle.
nmnhn. Mnv 29. Patrick Ford, Jr.,
who Is a gunner on the cruiser Marble.
rV8 a ,!""",:.. fZr V Upni
hCaVV u"pUv Interestmc euers of
jr., of this city. Interesting letters '
life on board a battleship
The following refers to the engage-
ment at Clenfuegos three weeks ago,
and he sends a piece of the cable he
bplDed cut. The piece of cable has In-
tide twenty-five sections of copper
wire, the whole being tightly bound
with smaller wire.
Young Ford thus graphically writes;
Key West, Fla., May 20.-Dcar
Father: We arrived hero yesterday,
from Clenfuegos. Were ordered to
leave there In a hurry, as the Spanish
tleet was supposed to bo coming that
way, and wo were too small to cope
with them.
We have been coaling all day and
night. We will leave here tonlKht with
the fleet and try nnd find the Spaniards
1 was reading nn account of our fight
at Clenfuegos. Not one of the papers
hnd It right. Tho Marblohend Is hardly
mentioned. We did nbout nil tho fight
ing that wns done there. Our ship
destroyed the cable house and light
house. It was as hot a light as I ever
want to be In. I was In tho steam
launch. and we were the ones to get tho
brunt of the nghtlng. As soon as the
firing started, tho Nashville launch
steamed over and got her sailing
launch and towed It back to her ship.
We stayed and fought until our men
began to fall. We were all compli
mented by our commanding officer for
bravery nnd gallantry. That means a
great deal to us. We picked up three
Cuban officers who enme out to seo us
nnd to make arrangements with us.
and they told un thnt our xhells killed
between' 3W and 500 Spanish soldiers.
We gave them ammunition and sent
I think we will beat
the Spanish
fleet when we go out this time, to
give them battle. There Is not the
slightest doubt that we will whip them.
Don't worry about me, for after what
happened the other day, I don't think I
will ever be killed.
Kegan was standing on my left when
he was. killed, and Kuchmuster. who
was on my right had his lower Jaw
shot away.
Mullets fell like hall, but I was not
touched. We ore all In good spirits,
and all are anxious to meet the Spanish
net. 1 will end by express today a
piece of the cable we cut, and a piece
off the Maine, All the men on the
boat got a piece of the cable.
will close for this time. Hoping
that the next time I write. I will bo
able to tell of the defeat of the Span
ish fleet, I remain your loving son.
TM.a l ,t.n Cuainl Qnilni.o nraiulnn
nnd Ice company's plant at Boulder.
nnd Ice company's plant at Uouider,
Colo., destroyed the property to the
txtent of $50,000, fully covered by insur-
ance.
Mrs. Georce M. Pullman has re
hounced the term of
dnwpV rieht'.baThu
i's shares8.
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will and chosen her
will Increase the son'i
W. J. BRYAN'S JEFFERSONIAN SPEECH
THE REAL LIVE PROBLEMS ARE DISCUSSED A LA JEFFERSON
AT A GREAT GATHERING IN WASHINGTON.
MR. BRYAN PAYS HIS RESPECTS TO MANY REFORMS
Tho Income Tax. Tax-DodBln
Qold-Standard Forolun Policy,
There was recently held In the city
nnd has stood since the Chicago con-
ventlon, Is n definition broad enough
to Include within Its limits every be
liever In the principles of JefferBon. De
mocracy, as now defined, Is not sec
tional; democracy, as now defined,
renches from the Atlantic to the Pa-
tlon which arises. We can apply It to
the question of taxation, and we can
show that taxation today as administer
ed by the republican party is not In ac
cordance with the principle of equality
before the law. (Applause.) My friends,
events are Impressing upon the minds
of tho American people the Importance
of the application of this principle of
equality In the subject of taxation.
AN INCOME TAX
You remember that something more
than a year ago, when we talked nbout
the Justice of an Income tax, it was
hard to awaken some people to the Im
portance of the subject and hard to im
press upon them what possibilities were
of evil In the decision which stands be
tween tho Amerlcnn people nnd the
levying of an Income tax. Ilut, my
friends, events are making the Amer
lean people think of that decision as
they have never thought of It before,
The dissenting opinion of Mr. Justice
Brown contained a significant sentence,
and one that you may well think of to
night. He said he feared that In some
hour of national peril the decision
might rlso un to paralyze the arm of
tho government. (Applause.) In time
nt nnlot. npfinlo mlerht overlook what
Mn justlco Brown said, but we have
IvtlLIICU Villi V ti livl f w vov iis.
possible peril, we may well consider
whether this decision does not rise up
to paralyze the arm of government,
Just nt the time when the government
In need of the most revenue. Sup-
P " B,ouU1 come' ur lm'
wquM fa off nnd QUr pecelpta
ports would fall oil, and our receipts
from lmnort duties would decrease and
our revenues would fall us, Just at the
time when we were In the sorest need;
and then what? The government would
not be nble, according to that decision,
to drnft the wealth of the rich to sup
port the government.
THE MISER'S DOLLAR.
The government could go to the moth
er nnd take the son upon whom she de
pended; the government could go to the
wife nnd tuke from her side the hus
band; but the government could not
lay Its hand upon the fortunes of the
great and make those fortunes con.
tribute to the support of the govern,
ment. In the nnme of Thomas Jeffer
son, I denounce the policy that places
the miser's dollar above the mother's
son In peril of our country. (Great ap
plause.) When we protested against
the principles which underlies the op
position to li.ccme tax.they called us so
cialists and annrchlsts, but we who be.
Ileve In equality before the law are able
to defend our position when we say the
time has not yet come when the dollar
Is better than the man In thlB country.
(Great applause.)
DEMOCRACY VS. TRUSTS.
But that Is only one direction In
which our principles are being vindicat
ed. The principles of Thumns Jefferson.
i enforced In law. would make the trust
impossible In the United States. Some
I one waB explaining the other day that.
when he heurd that confidence wns re.
stored, he looked in the dictionary to
find out what "confidence" meant, nnd
he found that one of the definitions of
"confidence" was "trust." (Laughter.)
Mv friends. If confidence means trust,
then no one will deny that confidence
has been restored throughout the land.
(Laughter.)
The Inst yenr has brought vividly be
fore the minds of the American people
! the fact that the trust Is growing, and
the result Is and must be that If a few
I men can combine nnd exempt them
lelves from competition, those who can
not combine must be the victims not
only of falling prices, but of rising
i prices when they come to buy; that the
great majority or tne peopie are neip-
. less victims of these aggregations of
Wealth.
I My friends, we assemble here as be-
i ", "t. 5 . .
llevers In that democracy taught
Thomas Jeffereon. We do not com
come as
enemies of pioperty. We do not come
i to advise the taking of one man's prop.
lv fn- (ho nnrniBA nf crlvlnir ft in nn.
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wi.
We do not come to preach the
of leveling society by taking been removed by the testimony of those
"" th Industrious and giving to the'ot our own clUzenswhoayirone
Wealth. Trusts. National Banks
Etc., Receives His Attention.
OPPOSED TO TRUSTS.
We nre oppesed to the trust, whether
we have- yet been Its victims or not, be
cause we recognize thnt we owe a duty
to posterity. We expect tc leave our
children here when we go hence. We
hnve sons In whom we are Interested,
and we wnnt our sons to be nble to en
ter Industrial pursuits. If they choose,
and stand or fall according to their
merltB. We do not want to tolerate the
system that Is growing up In this na
tion under vhlch men may become
prosperous, If they will conspire against
their fellows, nnd must become bank
rupt If they refuse to Join In the con
spiracy. (Great applause.) Wo regard
the trust as a menace to the lndustrlnl
welfare of the nation, and we regard it
ns a menace to the polltlcnl welfare of
the nation ns well, because we want It
so that when our children enter Indus
trial pursuits, they enn enter nnd be
free men: nnd we wnnt the government
conducted bo thnt if they enter politics
they shall not be compelled to bow the
knee to some aggregation of wealth be
fore they tan hope to succeed. (Ap
plause.) CHICAGO PLATFORM.
My friends, the Chicago platform
would not have been so bitterly opposed
In 1SDC. If It hnd omitted reference to
the trusts; but I am glad that that doc
ument, which will stand for generations
ns the first Inaugural message of Thom
as Jefferson stood for generations I am
glnd thnt the Chicago plntform, writ
ten for the future ns well ns the pres
ent, covers all these great questions
which are now before the people for so
lution. AS TO NATIONAL, BANKS.
But those principles ns embodied In
hat platform do not Btop with bring
ing equality In taxntlon. They do not
stop with the annihilation of the trust.
They go further, nnd they declare, as
JefTerBon declared, that the right of
trial by Jury shall not be taken from
the people; (applause) that the Judge
shall not usurp the province of the
Jury; and, while we do not mean to re
flect upon the court, we do mean that a
court Is but the Instrument of the peo
ple, and that the people have a right to
make their courts ana uirect mem.
(Great applauHe.) To deny It would be
to declare' that tho courts are above
those who created the courts.
But our platform does not stop there
There are other questions before the
people, and our platform mentioned
them. When our plntform declared
against the nntlonnl bank ns a bnnk of
Issue, some neonlo thought we were
borrowing trouble; that we were antici
pating nn Issue that had not arisen; uut
tlioBe who wrote that platform were
nble to see what was coming, and they
knew that a part of the gold conspir
acy was the surrender of the right of
the government to isBue paper money
and the transfer of this act of sover
eignty to the national banks. (Ap.
plause.) When we declared against the
national bank of Issue we were stand
ing upon the doctrines of Jefferson, be
cause he himself said that he was called
a maniac In his day because he opposed
the bank of issue. And yet, my friends
so firm was his opposition that he de
clared that the bank of Issue was more
dangerous than a stnndlng army. Ht
understood that if a few people havi
the right to control the volume of papei
money they will control It for thelt
own advantage, and thnt all the rest of
the people must enjoy Just so much of
prosperity ns those who control the
money think it well for the rest of the
neotDle to have. My friends, it is n
fpower so grent that we cannot afford
to entrust it to tne decision or private
Individuals who will use the power foi
their own selfish ndvantae; and when
we denounced the national ban kof Is
sue we Htood on the principles of
Thomas Jefferson, and simply antici
pated by a few months the effort that
is now being made by those who, in the
last campaign, did not dare takp the
people Into their confidence or tell them
what they Intended to do.
GOLD STANDARD.
When we denounced the gold stand
ard as an un-American and an nntl
Amcrlcan policy, we were standing on
the principles of Thomas Jefferson, be
cause Thomas Jefferson believed that
It was as wrong to steal by law as It
was upon the highway, and thnt the
man vho stole by law only lacked the
courage of a highwayman to be a high
waymnn. (Great applause.)
If anybody cculd doubt the correct
ness of our position In 1896, he cannot
doubt It now, because when the Pres
ident of the United States sent a com
mission to Europe to get rid of the
gold stnndard, he entered a confession
to all we had charged against the gold
standard as a menace to our liberty.
(Applause.)
RIGHT AND DUTY OF SELF-GOVERNMENT.
We declared that you could not wait
for other nations to bring these advan
tages to the United States. We de
clared that 70.000,000 people not only
had a right to legislate for themselves,
but must leglslnte for themselves. If
they intended to have their Interestb
protected; nnd If anybody doubted It In
1S9G, no person can doubt the necessity
of Independent action now, since Eng
land nns spanked our commission and
sent it home. (Laughter and applause.)
But, my friends. I am glad that the
principles of Jefferson nre broad
enough to furnish direction In troublous
ns well as In peaceful times, and I am
glad that now, ns we are called upon to
consider the foreign relations of our
nation, we can fall back with confi
dence upon the principles of the man
who wrote that all men nre created
equal, and that governments derive
their Just powers from the consent of
the governed.
When you understand that we, who
take the name of democracy, still be
lieve In the declaration of Independ
ence, you can understand why the dem
ocrats never lose an opportunity to ex
tend a helpful hand to those who want
to bring government up from the people
rather than down from the monarch.
(Applause.)
My friends, proximity not only gives
rights, but proximity imposes duties.
If a man suffer a hundred miles away
and we do not see the suffering, we may
not be called upon to extend a helping
hand: but. If some one Is stricken down
In our presence, we cannot help feeling
an Interest, nnd, If we be human, we
cannot help protecting the man who Is
abused and oppressed and tyrannized
over. (Applause.)
SHOULD HELP CUBA.
If any one doubted that there havt
been tyranny and oppression and mis-
ery and cruelty in Cuba, all doubt has
there, and who have told us of what
they saw. When we assume the re
sponsibility of saying thnt sucli war
fare shall cease, no nation in Europa
can deny our right or our duty without
defending the things which we con
demn. (Applause.) A man might not bo
Justified in trying to prevent tho erec
tion of a slaughterhouse In the next
county, but he has a right to protest
ngalnst the erection of a slnughter
house In his own yard or next to his
own house.
My friends, while the nations ncross
the ocean may be. so far removed that
they do not feel ns much concern as we
In regard to the manner In which the
war In Cuba has been conducted, wc,
who are placed side by side with those
who suffer nnd who have the knowledge
of their Buffering brought to our at
tention, cannot refuse to express our
determination thnt those people who
have been so cruelly treated and who
have so manfully resisted, have earned
their right to govern themselves. (Ap
plause) A LITTLE FOREIGN POLICY.
Our right to recognize the Independ
ence of those who have won their lib
erty by the sword oes not depend en
tirely upon humanity. We have Inter
ests ns well as Spain, nnd we have a
right to guard our Interests ns well as
she has to guard hers; nnd when she
for more than a generation has been
unnble to govern without exciting re
volt, and when she excited revolt him
been unable to quell It, we, aB a neigh
boring nation, have a right to say that
such a rule shall terminate upon the
Island of Cuba. (Applause.) And more
than that, we have a right to say that
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the Interests of the United States shall
no longer be mennced by such govern
ment ns they have had there, or such
strife us has taken place; and If they
desire a more specific reason, we can
reply that we live bo near to Cuba that
we must Insist upon having a govern
ment which will make It Impossible to
have ships blown up In Its harbors
when they enter on a friendly mission.
(Applause.) My friends, If you decide
that the desttuctlon of the Mnlne and
the death of our sailors were due to
the Intentional act of the Spanish gov
. ,i -u.. i.mu . ,..
to be described in words-and If you be-
Ileve that. Instead of being the lnten-
tlonal act of the Spnnlsh government,
it wns the result of a carelessness so
gross nB to pVrmlt the planting of such
a mine there, you must conclude that a
nntlon so careless ought not to be al
lowed to control countries In the lmme.
dlute vicinity of a nation like this. (Ap
plause.) But, my friends, I did not rise to
make nn extended speech. I smply
rose to call your attention to the fact
that those who believe In the principles
of the founder of the democratic party
can find In those principles a reljf
from every wrong and can through
them achieve all good that government
can bring. I am glad thnt the demo-
crntlc party Is standing firm In regard
to domestic nnu in regaru 10 ioreign
affairs, and Insisting upon the applied
tlon of those principles to every ques
tlon as It nrlbes.
SHOULDER TO SHOULDER.
I hove reuson to congratulate the
democratic purty upon the fnct that
recent events have answered fully and
completely a charge which 1 have heard
from time to time since I wns a boy
The fact that we had In the democratic
party many who, In the late war, were
nrrnyed against the union, has been
declaring that the democratic party
was not a patriotic party. My friends,
as we assemble tonight to celebrate the
birthday of Thomas Jefferson, we can
rejoice that at last the civil war is over,
never to be resurrected again. (Ap
plause.) When the president asked for an ap
propriation, there wns no opposition.
Every member of the house of repre
sentatives, and every senator south,
north, east nnd west responded to the
request. We told the people years ago
that at an hour of danger the men who
wore the gray would be as loyal as the
men who wore the blue, and they know
It now.
It has so hnppended that in this crlBls
the United States has been represented
upon the Island of Cuba by a man who
served In the confederate army. I am
glad that It was so. I am glad that it
was not only so, but that he discharged
his duty so well and protected the
rights of his government so faithfully
and so courageous.y tr.at not a person
In all the northland would want to re-
call Fitzhugh Lee and send another
In his place. (Applause.)
Yes, my friends, the war Is over, and
democrats must now be recognized as
patriots, and instead of trying to revive
the issues of the civil war, our oppo-
nents will have to meet us in the dls-
cussion and settlement of the Issues
that arise in times of peace.
MISERABLE SPANISH SCHOOLS.
Teachers are Paid Less Than $25
Per Year.
The condition of public schools In
Spain Is miserable, In spite of the school
law of September 9 1857, which made
ZXfSXX H L
and the law of 1870, providing punish
ment for parents who do not send their
children to school. Both laws have re
mained mere dead letters. In 1887 It
was estimated that of 10,000 persons In
Spain, 1.RS9 men nnd 960 women could
read and write. This Is 28.49 per cent.
One hundred and twenty-six men and
217 women could neither read nor
write. There are at present 22,996 ele
mentary schools the laws provide; 4,130
women could read only, which is 3.43
per cent. Two thousand eight hundred
and eighty-five men and 3,916 women
I. e., 68.1 per cent could more than this
number. Only 41 per cent of children
of school age receive a very scanty ed
ucation. More than half ore vagabonds
or street beggars. Night schools are
not In existence,
The pay of teachers Is pitiable. Of
14 4:1ft !(-nrhPrs 7S7 nn tint crof mnr
than $25 a year; 1,781 receive from $25
" .,. . w w 0--
iu ou; o.ioi jmve a sumry oi irom oo
to $100; the next class consists of 3.067.
drawing $100 to $125 annually, and so on
the number of teachera dacreaslnir to
:. n"mer eacnerB. pecreasing, to
vu unu more a year, wnicn sum is en-
f0:edbyj!.teac. And If they could
but draw their salaries! Part of them
must collect their pay from parents,
most of them having little or nothing
themselves; others are to get their com
petency from the communities, which
often are still worse off. In 1893 tha
communities owed to teachers $1,600,000,
and there are teachers who have seen
no salary In years
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i reuuy is uu nuuuer inai some Ol
the teachers should get even on tho
sums granted for school materials, or
by fictitious charges for such. In what
state, under such circumstances are
school houses and classrooms easily
may be imagined. The total levy for
school purposes by the communities is
$5,200,000, and by the provinces $400,000
The state spends the formidable sum
of $213,600 for Instruction, while to the
very wealthy clergy the state pays $8,
000,000 annually. This contrast is sig
nificant of the ideas held by Spanish
statesmen aB to the necessity of publlo
education. Let the reader Imagine what
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Cuba and in the Philippines, If such 1.
' the condition of the motller country. -
IN UU11C 1U1 UUUL1XL1U11 ill 11CT1 LUlUIIltTH. Ill
EXCITING LIFE ON THE FLAGSHIP.
Under tho Awful Search Lights Gleam with Cannoni
Booming, tho Blockado Runner Heaves to.
While It lasted, life on board the
flagship New York during the blockade
was full of the most novel and pictur
esque incidents, nnd the change to thr
heat und dust and Inaction of till
base of mlllatry operations is palnfu
In comparison. There Is all the dlt
ference between the deck of a warshli
cleared for action and a hotel plazzt
filled with ladles In summer frocks nni
officers In straw hats, engnged In rend
Ing newspapers one day old.
On the warship there were also nl
the comforts of civilization, all the lux
urles of a yachting cruise, but then
was none of Its ennui and boredom. Foi
If something was not hnppenlng, then
was always the expectation thnt It wni
about to happen. Every column of
Btnoke on the horizon suggested a pos
slble Spanish gunboat, or certainly a
blockade runrer, and many times each
day and each night the bells In thr
engine room would sound "full steam
ahead" and every glass on the ship
would be turned to the flying stranger
Sometimes the New York let her es
cape, only to run into the Jaws of
the warship on tho next station, but
almost Invariably the flagship raced
her. throwing shells across hei
bows, until she backed her engines and
showed her colors, and a boarding ofll
cer went over her side.
The discipline of the New York was
rigid, Intelligent and unremitting, and
each of the 500 men on this floating
monastery moved In his little groove
with the perfect mechanism of one of
the eight-Inch guns. A modern warship
is the perfectlcn of organization. It Is
the embodiment of the axiom that "a
stitch In time saves nine." It Is the
eternal vigilance which obtains that
keeps he; what she Is, the hourly fight
against rust nnd dust that makes net
'P0 ns , thmV? 8e L iU
J,ecn made c. mplete thnt morning. AH
the old homely saying seems to be the
mottoes of her executive. There is a
"place for everything and everything
In Its place," whether It Is a projectile
weighing: hair a ton, or signal flag No.
22, or a roll of lint for the surgeon, or
the bluejacket in charge of the search
light. A SHIP OF WAR A FLOATING VIL
LAGE. A shin of war Is like a movlnc vlllajre.
it hns to hcuse and feed nnd give
employment to Its Inhabitants, and to
place them at certain points at a mom-
ent's notice, to face unknown conditions
and to face them coolly and InteUI-
gently. You can Imnglne the confust n
in a vlllace of 600 neonle should tl.er
be dracsed out of bed nt midnight by
an alarm of lire. But in the floating
village of the warship New York disci
pline and training have taught the In
habitants to move to certain places
and to perform certain work when
they get there, within the space of two
minutes. It Is so on every other war
ship In the navy of the United. And
It does not consist entirely In manning
aguuand pulling a lanyard. That Is
the showy work, the work that tells
In the dispatches and which is illus
trated in the weekly papers.
There arc also those who serve "who
only Btand and wait." who see noth
ing of the fighting, but take equal risk
with those who light, who have none
of the couscicusncts thnt all Is going
well to Inspire them, but who remnln at
their posts In the semi-darkness be
low deck, shaken by concussions above
and not knowing how soon the sides of
the ship may part, or the decks below
rise, or a prcjectlle crash bursting and
burning through the deck above and
choke them with vile suffocating fumeB.
They feed the fires with coal and haul
on ammunition lifts, like miners In a
coal pit. Their work Is just as Im
portant as Is thnt of the gunner who
trains nnd fires th big gun. but when
It is over they go back to set the table
for the officers' mess or play a bass
viol In a string band or sweep out the
engine rooms. They are Just ns val
uable to the village as Is the gunner's
male, and they should be remembered
guinu j.ntu autjun
-eye) had several culls to "general
quarters" nt night. They were prob.
ably the most picturesque moments of
the ten days spent on the flagship. To
the landsman one bugle call was like
another; "general quarters" meant no
more to me tnan the fact that the mall
Wa8 going ashore In ten minutes; It was
three sleeping Japanese stewards who
told me we were going Into action,
Whenever I woke to find them In the
wardroom I knew some one was going
to fire off a four-Inch gun.
They opened a hatch Just beyond
my berth and pulled on a creaking am
munition hoist. They did this drowsily
and stiffly, with the cluthches of sleep
etlll on their limbs and heavy on their
bttonlng tunics over white and pink
Pajamasf and buckling on swords and
field glnsses. Even below decks you
could hear the great rush of watei
at the bows and the thumping of the
engines, that told the ship was at rac
ing speed, and when you had stumbled
on deck the wind sweeping past awoke
you to the fact that In two minutes COO
men had fallen' out of their hammocks
and Into cutlasses and revolvers, and
that the ship was tearing through the
dark water In pursuit of a bunch of
lights. There were no orders shouted,
but wherever you peered in darkness
for the flagship showed no lights
you discerned silent, motionless figures.
They were everywhere on the bridges,
at the foot of the gangways, grouped
around the guns, couched In the tur
rets. You stumbled over them at every
?iePi y.u eaw them ouUlned aga,nst
kllc o"
LIKE CAT AND MOUSE.
And then, shining suddenly from the
. v.i,irr0 nnl Halnc- nnd renehlne
fly'n?-b-rJdB.i.a."(l... 15 .,", JL. "125
ul rtl"J "" ViTn-ht It show'ed
fl'-fjer of the searchlight. It snowed
.. pmntv waurs. and the tossing white
r ,' ": iiht "To the left'"
caps .n a path c rf light To- the l.ft.f
the forward bridge, ana, ns xnougn n
were a part of the voice, the light
shifted. "No, higher!" the voice would
call again, and the obedient light woulo
rise, turning the glare of day upon a
half-mile mora of troubled water and
exposing on its horizon a white, fright
ened steamer, scuoaing m iuu epeeu
fnr her life. Sometimes she backed,
.r v. v.nn.ro,, . xnuriia hm
fme. Lmtesn8ilPp f h,a"!fncd Us clasn It
thf "VPr nu nheff held In the
f,-,1-,e LnmL lintJrn
c,Kle of a ,L 5?t IfiaS with a
" was &.1? 7lhbv
m0U8e ?r a ht0,U"d1,hn)idlto? fho erea
t , scent. In the silence of the great
great that the men crowded shoulder
to shoulder cculd not see each other's
faces, the blcckade runner, exposed and
pointed out, and held up to our derision,
seemed the only living thing on the
iiurface of the waters, sne was as con
?? a .p!?I" thr25 V? I
reoniicon on a- acrccm u i v.c
. .
JJ fnf0f "nTe "a docket and
g tDf line of the S lnd
of the forward guns would speak, flash-
the faces of the men, and it would
speak again and again. And the Hying
steamer, helpless m the long teaching;
iutch of the searchlight, and hearing;
he shells whistle across her bows,
vould give up the race and come to a.
Unndstill, sullen and silent.
VHEN THE BIG GUNS ARE FIRED.
While I was on board the big gun
vere twice brcught Into scrvie once
it the bombardment of the batteries at
.datonzns and again when they wer
.rained in some Impudent cavalrymen
vho had fired on the ship from ther
jhore. Why they did so, unless they
lad heard that Dutch cavalry once
nptured a fleet of war ships, It is Im
possible to say. The first of these bom
bardments wns chiefly Important be-
ause It was the first; the second was
of no Importance at all.
The quurter of an hour was of In
terest In giving some knowledge of
how a warship In action acts upon
herself. With land forces the effect of
their fire upon the enemy Is the only
thought; on the sea, In one of these
new Inventions of wnrtare, the etfect
of the batteries on the ship herself is
an added consideration. To the civilian
the effect was not so tremedous as he
had expected. He had been told to
stlck cotton In his ears, to stand on
his. toes and keep his mouth open, a
somewhat difficult and ridiculous atti
tude In which to meet death. As It
happened the call to quarters came so
unexpectedly that there was no time in
which to find any cotton, and, ns it
turned out, theie was no necessity to
stand on one's toes.
The concusslcn of the eight-Inch guns
shook and lifted one as sharply as
though an earthquake had passed be
neath, and the reports were trying to
both the nerves and the ear drums. A
camera I hnd pluced on the deck of
the superstructure Just back of the for
ward turret was burst open, but was
not dnmiged so badly that it could
not later phott graph the Jets of smoko
from the same guns. Glass was broken
and Venetian blinds In the chnrt room
were ripped out of their sockets, but
that was all the damage the ship sus
tained. To the crew the bombardment
was only gun practice, and a quarter
of an hour after the order to cease fir
ing had been given I found half of
them stretched out and sleeping peace
fully on the lower decks, or playing
crlbbage with anxious and undivided
Interest.
i received a cablegram while I was
on the New York asking me to relate
how her crew behaved In the action at
.Mutanzas. l diu not answer It because
I thought there were a vfew things the
American pec pie were willing to take
for granted, and because the bombard
ment at Matenzas was no test of tho
crew's courage, but of Its marksman
ship. There Is a story, however, that
Illustrates the spirit of the men on the
New York, and which answers, I think,
any queries anyone may make as to
how they might behave In action.
Taylor, a young gunner's mate, was
shot on April 26 by a revolver. It was
an accident, but It Is possible he was
more seriously hurt than were any of
the six wounded men who went through
the seven hours' battle at Manila, for
the ball passed through his arm and
Into his right side, and came out nearly
a foot away under his left armpit. As
sistant Surgeon Spear said that If he
had tried to dodge the vital parts in
Taylor"s body with a surgical Instru
ment he could not have done It as
skillfully as did the bullet which was
neither aimed nor guided by a human
hand. It was this Junior Surgeon Spear
who performed the operation, while the
fleet surgeon, Dr. Gravltt, watched him
and advised. It was a wonderful opera
tion. It lasted nearly two hours, and
It left the layman uncertain an to
whether he should admire the human
body more or the way a surgeon mas
ters It. What they did to Taylor I
cannot tell in technical language, but
I know they cut him open and lifted
out his stomach and put It back again
and sewed him up twice. He could
not get wholly under the influence of
the ether, and he raved and muttered
and struggled, so that at times two
men had to hold him down. Just be
fore the surgeon began to operate 'he
boy gave the chaplain his mother's
address and reached out his hand and
said, "So long, chaplain."
He wns a typical New York boy. He
came from Brooklyn, but nevertheless
he looked and talked as you would
expect and hope that an apprentice
from the St. Mary's training ship would
look and talk and think. His skin was
as tough as a Bhoe which had re
mained long in the salt water, but It
was beautifully white and spotless, llko
a girl's and the contrast it made with
the skin that the sun and wind had
tanned was as sharp as the stripes on
the flag.
When the second part of him was
sewn up Taylor was carried to a cot
and lay there so still that I thought he
was dead. They had to Inject strych
nine into his veins to keep his heart
beating. But a minute later he opened
his eyes and turned them to the operat
ing table, where he remembered in a
half drunken way, thay had placed him
two hours before. His eyes were dazed
with the ether, his lips were blue and
his face was a ghastly gray. He looked
up at the four figures leaning over
him, their bare arms covered with his
blood, and back at the operating table
that dripped with it. What had hap
pened, who had attackfed him, and
why, he could not comprehend. He
did not know that parts of him which
had lain covered for many years had
been taken out and held up naked,
palpitating nnd bleeding to the ruthless
light of the sun, to the gaze of curious
messmates crowded at the end of the
sick boy, that these parts of himself
had been picked over and handled as
a man runs his fingers over the keys
of a piano, and had then been pushed
and wedged back into place and covered
over as one would sew a patch on an
old sail, to He hidden away again for
many, many years more, let us hope.
He only knew that some outrageous
thing had been done to him that he
had been in n nightmare, in hell and
to Taylor, still drunk with ether, these
men whose wonderful surgery had
saved his life were only the bloody
assassins who had attempted It and
failed.
He was pitifully weak from loss of
much blood, from the shock of the
heavy bullet that had dug Its way
through his body, from the waves of
nausea that swept over him, but the
boy opened his eyes und regarded the
surgeons rcornfully. Then he shook
his head from side to side on the pillow
and smiled up at them.
"Ah, you'ee can't kill me," he whis
pered. "I'm a New Yorker, by Godi
You'se can't kill me."
That Is the spirit of the men who
sunk the Spanish fleet at Manila, and
of the crew of the warship that la
named after the c t y of New York
I RICHARD HARDING DAVJ
DAVIS,
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