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About Hemingford herald. (Hemingford, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1895-190? | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1898)
rr 9' t . v X F FARM FACTS. BEE BUZZ1NGS. One year Gravenhorst, early In May, removed twenty old queens, replacing them with queens Hint hnd begun to lay. Nineteen of the twenty colonies swarmed. But when the young queen Is reared In the colony he has never known such young queens to swarm this year. Doollttle gives some figures (Glean ings, page 39G.) The first young queen emerges from her cell In about seven days after the prime Bwarm Issues. Queens which have their own way fly to meet the drone when nbout five to seven days old, and begin to lay two or three days later; seventeen dnys Is the shortest time a young queen Is likely to be laying after the prime swarm Issues. But eggs are so scarce that It Is hardly worth while to look for them till three or four days later. If after-swarms Issue, then the time la lenghtened several days. Mr. Doollt tle's practice Is to allow for brood eggs the twenty-third day from swarming If there nre no after-swarms, and four days later If there ore after-swarms. The Inland .revenue department at Ot twa has shut -off all adulteration of honey In Canada. There is nothing but'- pure honey sold there now. The Ideal Super Is the rather Im posing name applied to a super that tins won Editor E. B. Root from his loyalty to the section-holder, and seems to be in a fair way to secure the allegiance of Dr. Miller to the aban donment of the T super. If fences and plain sections nre to be used. The Ideal takes tall sections, the super having a strip of tin ns a support at each end at the bottom, the same as the T super, but In place of T tins It has plain wooden bars running lenghtwlse, the sections resting on these bottom bars. In the American Bee Journal Mr. William Stalley of Hall county. Neb., says he has twenty-eight colonies of bees which take twenty-eight days of his time each year, and rnise honey for him which sells for 15 cents per pound. He stnrted with six colonies In 1SS0; has made $3,722.83 since then or $213 each year, which he considers good wages for twenty-eight days' work. He loves bees and advises all farmers to keep them. BEEF PKODUCTION (From the United States Farmer's Bul letin, No. 71.) The following article on beef produc tion Is condensed from bulletin No. 71. It should lie carefully read by every fnrmer who raises beef for the mar ket. GOOD BEEF FOBM. Teh first thing that should be looked to is the general beef form low, brond. deep, smooth and even, with parallel lines. No wedge shape or sharp protruding spinal column Is wanted for the block. Next in Importance Is a thick even coveilng of Hip light kind of meat In the parts that give high pi Iced cuts. The rib and loin tuts command over four times the n-rnge price paid for the remainder of the carcass, and It Is nppaient that the practical beef nnl mal must be good In these pans. LOOK TO THE BACK AND BIBS. Brond, well cornered backs and ribs are absolutely necessary to a good car cass of beef, and no other excellencies, however great, will compensate for the lack of this essential. It is necessary to both breed and feed for thickness In these parts. Mere thickness and substance here are not all. Animals that are soft and patchy, or hard and rolled on the back are sure to give defective and nil. Jectlonnble carcasses, even though they are thick, and they also out up with correspondingly greater wnste. FEED FOB SWEET QITICY MEAT. The parts furnishing thppe high pr'eed cuts must be thickly and evenly cov ered with firm, yet mellow, flesh of uniform good quality and alike free from hard rolls nnd blubbery patches. Course, harsh and gnudy nnimnls will no longer be tolerated, much less those that are bony and bare of flash on the back and ribs. The men who buy out rattle and fix their market value are shrwd enough to know almost at a glance how much and Just what kind of meat a steer or carload of steers will cut out, and If the producer overlooks any of the es sential points he Is compelled to bear the loss, FOOD VALUE OF BUTTER MILK. Tlmre is no material difference in the feeding value of buttermilk and or dinary skim milk, provided the former Is not diluted with the wash water from the churn, and that both aro kept clean, and not allowed to become sour. At the Massachusetts experiment station, fed to pigs weighing nbout fifty pounds at the beginning, 100 pounds gain In live weight was secured from 1.351 pounds of buttermilk and 116 pounds of corn meal, and a similar gain from 1.390 pounds skim milk and 115 pounds corn meal. From this and other experlments.Prof. Henry concludes that when feeding Dne pound of meal to one pound to three pounds skim milk, the latter is worth 13 cents per 100 pounds, when corn sells nt $10 per ton, or three-tenths as much as corn, nnd In the rnme propor tion when corn Is higher or lower. When fed at the rate of one pound meal to seven to nine pounds skim milk, the value of the latter decreases to 0 cents per 100 pounds, when corn Is worth $10 per ton, or less than or.e-flfth as much as corn. Hoard's Dairyman. John Evans of Burton, near Lincoln, Eng., Is a breeder of Lincolnshire red shorthorns and has, for the last seven years, been breeding them, with a spe cial eye to dairy purposes. Selecting only from his own herd, he has grad ually brought up the yield in seven years about HO gallons per cow. Profit, one of his herd, was champion dairy shorthorn for 1897. She dropped her sixth calf August 17. made a total yearly yield of 15,531 pounds of milk, or thirty-seven pounds dally, fur 420 pounds butter. Another, after her fourth calf, made 13,026 pounds milk nnd, 423 pounds butter. The weight of the English gallon Is 10.32 pounds. We enn see. In the above example, the profit that lies even in so short a time as seven years, in be ing obedient to the true principles of dulry breeding. Mr. Evans had (lrst to establish in his mind fixed ideas of dairy for mand capacity in his cows hnd then breed toward those Ideas, riot away from them. Can nnyone sup. jiose he would have Increased the dairy quality of his heifers, one generation after another. If he hnd bred toward "general purposes?" He had to breed away from the beef temperament nnd toward the dairy temperament, and that does not mean general purpose. However. If you are breeding for "beef production" study the points nnd breed for beef, not for milk. No anl mal can put the same food Into both beef and butter. If you are a dairy man breed for butter; If you aro a stockman, breed for beef. You can't breed for both inone animal. WITH THE ROUGH RIDtRS. When the war Is over nnd the bane plays "When Johnny Comes Mttrclrint Home,'' the dudes of Fifth avenue, whe nre very largely represented in this unique regiment, should turn out in a body to welcome back to civilization, tu the club nnd to society these young dandles who fcisook the Waldorf din ing room for the mess tent, the fenthei bed for a rough beard and nil the sat torlal splendor of New York's fashion able tailors for the cavalryman's uni form and a sombrero. Already the hardships have begun and life in camp with its manifold dis comforts for the men who so willingly donned the blue and stood In readiness to obey the discipline put on them. All the "400" will senrcely appteclate the every day life of the fastidious young society men nnd the hardships they nte schooling themselves to In order to be ready for the dash Into Cuba. There are no coupes, no club rooms, no Turkish baths, no drawing rooms, no morning cocktails, no divans In the blistering hot cornfield where the Fifth avenue contingent Is camped. Nothing but the seared soil of wicked Texas the crude accommodations of the serv ice and hours that sybarites are vio lently opposed to. Come to.Cnmp Roosevelt, WjUTme and see Wuodbury Kane engaged In the gentle art of making snleiatus biscuit-' at sunrise under the tutorship of Henry Hemming, one of the wildest plainsmen ever brought up on the adobe of Texns. For years Hemming has been com pounding these gastronomic wonders, nnd It took him but a minute to mnke a skilful biscuit moulder out of the crack polo rider. "You see." said Bern, ns he is called by the cow punchers, "I takes a few handfuls of flour, shnkes It out nnd mixes it with the freshest wnter these parts contains and n little salt. Like that. Then I chucks in a tnblespoonful of saleratu? for each twenty biscuits nnd Inserts the same Into a oven, if one Is handy. If not, 1 flops 'em over. This way." Of course. Lieutenant," remarked Hemming one day, "these here saleiatus propositions never sets well if you don't "get out and ride 'em down Immediately after eatin'. But they Invigorates a gent Git on to a broncho and hit up about half an hour's haid ridln' and nothln'll bother you." So far ns the brute bioneho Is con cerned. "Ham" "Fish, Jr., has masteied that particular product of the west like an old hnnd Private Fish looked upon liis bucking horse at first as a hard ;ustomer to handle, but finally found it n good thing to wake lilm up at bugle cull "I can't git 'em up, I enn't git 'em up; I can't git "em up in the morning." When the notes rung ut at suniise Mr. Fish thought he was being sere naded, but In a very short time the clatter of accoutrements and the sound jf voices roused him from his slumbers ind he realized that his bed was really the hard bonid lie hail dreamed about In his nlghttnnie, ot rather than it was not a dream 'Go to the stable. All ye that are able And give your horses some corn." When Mr Fish answered this bugle .all and arrived at the quarters of his siiount he found some i lingers tiying to pet a bit lnt the mouth of a wilJ cayuso Horn Dallas one that hud never been proper l straddled by u human lieing. "Let me take a fall out of that horse," raid Fish "1 suppose 1 11 have to do it telly soon anyhow, and 1 may as well Login at the worst bucker in the camp" He was shortly accommodated, and in less time than it takes to go Into the details Mr Hamilton Fish. Jr., was doing some of the most ungrateful Htunts ever witnessed in San Antonio. But it is worth while to state, if only to tell the truth, that Mr Fish "stayed" and, moreover, btoke the bucket so completely that tin- animal bowed bis weary bead and Hotted off to water with the New Yorker comfortubly bet tied on his bai-k It Is the general Impiession at Camp Rouse, ell now that Fish Is one of Buf falo Hill's rough riders traveling Incog. Alkali Wilson. Lariat Leonard and Hank Harness, better known as the "Barking Walrus from Tucson," called on Fish as a committee and invited him to go down to Weller rt much and "Jine In a dance, now goin' on." Guy Holllstor, Harry Bull, Pierce Gas sett. Craig Wadsworth anil Kenneth Robinson, leaders in Fifth nvenue sets, find reel en Hon studying the trick of loading and tying n pack saddle or mending a pair of tabaderos. Every day the regular rangers and troopers from other regiments come over to tin Roosevelt camp and offer various members special Inducements to Join them. Private Mason Mitchell of New York was offered a first ser genntry, but refused on the ground that the New York contingent was good enough for him. Goodrich, the Hurvard athlete, refused promotion in his own regiment, giving as a reason that there were plenty of other more competent men who deserved Hie ad vance. "Rebellious Willie" Tiffany had a long struggle with himself trying to get used to Jerry Jackson's compounds. But Jerry called Lieutenant Colonel Roose velt Into the kitchen one day and had him taste his ox-tall puree, with the result that the colonel pronounced it as delicate a soup as he had evev eaten. Young Mr. Tiffany Is not used to Hurt brand of cooking, but he got up an ap petite for it after awhile, and now pre fers a slice of bacon, n pari or licans. one of Kane's biscuits and a cup of bluck coffee to the private dinners at the As toria. Young Kenneth Robinson, who Is nn adept with the chafing dish at home, and has a powerful liking for good cooking, also tried IiIh hand at soup making, and his Fifth avenue fi lends agreed that his soup Is far more to their taste. The most Important addition to the camp came lately In the person of Sher iff Daniel, who put down the lawless ness In Dodge City. Kan., dining the bad days, and five deputy sheiiffs from Cripple Creek, where every citizen car ries a six pistol and holds revolver practice on his neighbor. The strictest military rule Is observed and every exit and entrance to the camp Is guarded by a soldier armed with a Krag-Jorgensen rille. At 10.30 taps is sounded, and Hie reg iment, save those who gunrd, put out their lights and stretch on the boards, with only n blanket under them. The troop sleeps on the lloor of the exposi tion building. Far away on the Atlantic seaboard nre thos-e whom they have left behind. There arc sweet memories of wide ve. Hindus at Larclunnnt. moonlight nights up the Hudson, cotillons at Fifth ave nue homes, dear old Broadway and the yellow cable cars, yachting parties on the sound, her eyus, lior hand, her heart. But rough riders are simply rough riders until after the war WAR AND CRIME. The Influences of a war arc nlwnyr far reaching, and they arc often a p. parent In the most unexpected quar ters and under the most unexpeetec. conditions. One enn readily understand how certnln branches of trade shoulr be affected by our present difficult with Spain, nnd how the stock market Bhould feel Its Influences, That Ir tc be expected, and Is not In Itself a mat. ter to be wondered at. But there Is cause for wonder In the fact that here In New York (and It If rensonnble to suppose the same condi tions exist elsewhere) the war has had an astonishing effect upon crime. With In the last two months the police de partment and the criminal courts have experienced n remarkable change. It Is safe to say that not In twenty yearJ has there been so little evidence ol crime In New York as nt the present moment. A ensual glance through the pnges ol the dally papers will show that crim inal news Is a scarce nrticle. Whero six months ngo you were wont to bo shocked nt the breakfast table by sick ening details of some atrocious deedt or where you were obliged to scan column after column .of. criminal Intel llgence, you now see little evidence Hint crime still exists In New York, And now-you will at once Jump to th) conclusion that 'the reason lies In thi fact that such news Is either, "boiled down" by Hie gentlemen with blue pen ells, with whom every nowspnper olllcu is plentifully supplied, or else Is crowds ed out altogether to make room for' war news. It Isn't becnuse there Is lesii crime, you will probably argue, bui simply because there Is less room lit the papers In which to exploit It. But there you are wrong. Boiled down the chronicles of crime certainly nre to meet the exigencies of the sltu ntlon, but there Is comparatively little to boll down. I spent a day last week In Investigating the situation and in attempting to arrive at some solution to the problem. Everywhere, in the riollce coutts. In the district attorney's office, at police headquarters, 1 was as sured that since hostilities with Spain began there has been u great decrease in crime. It was Impossible to procure subslan. tlatory figures, but the situation speaks for Itself. At Jeffeison Market police court, where previously two sessions were required every day, lasting on an average two hours each, the entire bus iness of the court Is disposed of very often nt one sitting, which seldom lasts more than nn hour. The same condi tion of affairs prevails at the other po lice courts. The district attorney's ofllce also p.oved the snme thing. Not since 1S71 has the olllce been so free from crim inal cases. The dockets are thoroughly ?leoned out, and there Is no reason why any person who has been Indicted and released on ball should not have a trial within five days. Assistant District At torney Lindsay Is authority for the statement Hint there is less crime In ,e V,rlr Onlnv flicm M, ,lli, It,, ,-1ir,,.u two million souls, than when the total population was eight hundred thou sand. The war is without a doubt at least Indirectly responsible for this state of affairs. Just why this should be opens up a uroad Held for speculation nnd te search, from n psychological point of view. Is It that the criminals have all enlisted? That Is not a pleasant solu tion. It Is not a nice thing to think that the defenders of a nation's bono rue recruited from the crlmlnnl class. s And yet it Is natural to suppose Urn -In proportion Hie thieves and crooks o' the lower class, the cutthroats and th homeless wanderers have not negleeter' the opportunity to enlist. Mr. Lindsay is rather Inclined to this belief. HAVE CRIMINALS ENLISTED? "1 do not believe with Nordnu and otheis of the degenerate school that men are evil by birth or environment," he said to me. "Crlmcv to my way of thinking, and 1 have had ample oppor tunities to study it in Its every phase, is almost invariably the result or either Impulse or necessity. Every man's nat. ural indentions are for good. Poverty and want are the principal goad to crime, aside from Impulse. "These poor devils who are driven to I stealing, and who afterward keep It i up, have seen In the war an oportun i Ity to get away from themselves, so to i speak. A soldier's pay and a soldier's I rations mearr a great deal to them. So I dare say many of them hove enlisted " A positive air of stagnation perme-' ates police headquarters. Actlnc Chief Devery and Captain McClusky of tho detective bureau, both agree that crime, nun iiireu iii ruiiy one-nan, ir not more, since the first gun of the Spanish-' American war was fired. Flat robbers' are an scarce ns hen s teeth. And usu--ally this Is the time -of year, or from now on during the summer, that these gentry nre usually most In evidence. Even arrest for drank and disorderly conduct are few and far between as compared with the -usual number of such petty offenses. The dipsomaniac, the habitual drunkard, whose brain Is' usually deadened, and whose sodder mind is -so often In a state or pitiable densltj jierhaps Is as habitually drunk as ever. But the liquor does not now have Its usuul stupefying effect Low as lie may be In the social scale, he cannot help foiling an Interest In the war. There In something for him to think abouL His sluggish brain makes some effort to perform Its nor-, mal functions, and the liquor which he drinks acts lesir readily upon his sya- tern. And po it Is with .all classes of hu manity. One scarcely realizes the in tense Interest taken in the latest news from the front until one comes in direct contact with the various elements that; go to make up the population of Greater New York. The veriest Bow ery bum Is keyed up tu a high pitch of enthusiasm. Idleness and vice, under such circumstances, could not possibly be such close companions as when there' are no weighty problems on the publfo mind. My visits to the police courts also brought to my attention a new and rather amusing side cf the situation. The few drunks who were arraigned at the bar of Justice from overindul gence nt other bars were not slow tc take advantage of the war spirit as an extenuating circumstances for their of. fence. To the query, "What have you to say for yourself?" the reply will usually bi something line tins: "Well, your honor, you see It was this way. I stopped in a saloon win some friends of mine to have a quiet drink. We drank a toast to Dewey. After a while we drank one to Samp pon. Then, to show there was no hard feeling, we had to drink one to Schley Somebody suggested 'Fighting Bob,' and we drank one to him. To tel, the honest truth, we drnnk too many and that's why I'm here. Don't bo hard on me. Judge. This patriotism li nil h 1 when It gets started." Or some fellow will get nrrested and locked up for lighting. Ten chances (o one tho other fellow has made his es cape, so there is no one but the police man who made the arrost to contradict the story, and the bluocoat, after he hears It, only smiles, FIOHTINQ BOB'S WIFE. Mrs. Evans Comes From a Family of FishtorB. Mrs. Evans wna born and raised In Washington, In atr atmosphere which fostered her Innate patriotism. The Taylors were well known In all the heterogeneous circles which go to make up what is known ns Washington so ciety. Her father for years was the proprietor of a book store on Pennsyl vania avenue nnd numbered nmong his friends and acquaintances the brightest minds of the nation's capital. He was a scholarly mnn, a lover of books nnd a keen student of humnn nnture. Old Mr. aylor was an Intense union man. As a matter of fact, he pur chased the first $100 bond Issued by the government In conectlon with the civil war, standing in front of the treasury building all night long Hint he might enter first when the doors were open. This bond, appropriately framed, Is now among the dearest possessions of Mrs. Evans and occupies a place of honor on the walls of the cottage at Fortress Monroe. Harry aylor and "Bob" Evnns were boys together In Washington forty-five of fifty years ngo. They went lo-school together and played hookey together. They were Insepurable until the age .was reached When boys begin to take notice or the fair sex, and then "Bob" began to cast sheep's eyes nt Harry's pretty sister. It Is a practice which he bus never outgrown, He does It yet. The boys were both appointed to the navnl academy at the same time, Sep tember. I860. Then the civil war broke out. Both were eager to fight. Their studies were neglected. When they should have been last asleep they were whimpering to each other what they would do If they only had the chance. And the chance finally came. At the end of three years both left the aca demy and were ordered to duty with squadrons operating along the southern coast, and their dreams were at last realized. Both saw service, and both profited by their expeilence. Among other fights, Evans figured In both attacks on Fort Fisher. In the last battle he received two severe wounds nnd was relegated to the hos pital. The suigeous examined his leg. "It will have to amputated," they said. That didn't suit young Evans. He concluded that he still had some use for that leg, and determined to usseit his proprietary rights. Through some means or other he secured a big navy pistol, and when the surgeons came back with their Instruments lie was ready for them. One hand was hang ing down behind his cot. "What are you going to do?" he asked. "I'm afraid we shall have to amputate your leg," replied the chief surgeon, renchlng for his Instruments. Like a flash young Evans" right arm came Into view, and the sawbones foun 1 himself gazing into the muzzle of an ugly looking pistol "Drop that knife, d you!" ex claimed the patient. The order was obeyed. "Now, I Just want n word with you fellcws " continued young Evnns ' Tlint leg doesn t corne off Do uu under stand'' The first one of you who makes a move to take It off will get a load of lead." And he enn led the day. The leg didn't come off It knit rapidly, and the wounds healed under pioper treatment. He carries a limp to thlr day. but lie saved his teg. and that's the main thing. As is natural to suppose. Evans mor rlifl his chum's sister, the sweetheart of his bovhoo.l days. Maybe he was think ing of -her when he si. veil his leg An other of Taylor's sisters married Fred erick Magulre. n wealthy merchant and capitalist, of Washington, anil to even matters up Taylor turned around and nan ted Mnguire's sister. He wasn't to be outdone Captain Evans nnd his wife hnve three children The eldest, Chaiiot'e, was married a short time ago to Lieu, tenant Charles C Marsh, who Is now with Admiral Sampson on the New York, and the other dnughter, Vlnglnia, Is still Fingle. Frnnk, the only son, wns graduated from the naval academy this year, and is now serving on tho Massachuessets. Both the daughters, as I have said before, together with their cousin the daughter of Captain Taylor, are studying to be nurses While Mrs. Evans tins n duo appre ciation of her husband's value as a naval man she doesn't lose sight of the fact that he is not the only one. Those misguided persons who wish to flutter her by repeated allusions to Captain 'Evans' reputation and position are often nonplussed by her demand to know what Is the matter with "brother Harry?" And sometimes she will ring the changes by allusions to the other lighting men of her family. The cottage at Fortress Monroe wns built when Captain Evans was on duty with the lighthouse bonrd. It was constructed by permission of the treas ury department on the reservation con trolled by Hint department as a buoy and light station. Subsequently he had some difficulty with tbe gentlemnn who was secretary or the navy at that time. The latter, In order to gratify his per sonal reeling In the matter. Induced the treasury department to direct the re moval of tbe house. This nroused the flglrtlng blood of Captain Evans, nnd, moreover, his sus picions were nroused as to whether Trie cottage came within the scope or the department. He requested a resnrvey and founr that his suspicions were cor rect. Greatly to his delight he dls, covered that the house was In the army reservation. His relations with that department were most cordial, and the outcome of It all was that the cottage was per mitted lo remain where It was. subject to the conditions imposed upon all buildings on government land outside the fortifications, which are In effect that It shall remain until the War de partment sees fit to order Its rmoval. And It Is there that Mrs. Evans lives, rhe Idol of all the boys at Fortress Monroe. Usually the Case. There was once a poor boy who, while walking along, saw n pin on the pavement before him. Quickly the lit tle lad stayed his steps, ami picking the pin up, stuck It carefully and se curely In his coat. A rich man ehnnclng to pass at that time saw the action and was much Impressed by It, so much that he took the boy Into his bank and finally adopt ed him. Thirty years have passed, and the erstwhile poor boy Is a rnultl-mllllon-alre. Yesterday he drew his personal check for $10,000 and gave It to n for mer schoolmate who had not prospered In the i ace of life. "All that I am now I owe to you, John!" said the multimillionaire. "But I don't understand," stammered the beneficiary. "Simpler enough. If I hndn't hated you so at school I would never have picked up that pin to put In your seat." DIXON'S REMARKABLE SERMON Washington's Address Is Treason at This Time. The following Is the conclusion of a remnrkable sermon preached by Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., In tho Grand Opera house, New York: "When the first Spnnlsh shell screamed Its challenge over the flagship of Dewey nnd the boatswain's whistle cnllcd our men to the guns, by n corn, mon Impulse tho nwful battle cry rang from 300 brave men, 'Remember the Maine!' It was not a cry of human passion. It was the Judgment voice of Almighty God. Who could stand be. fore It? "Dewey taught us, too, that the way to do a thing wns to do It, The wny to take a port Is to go for It nnd take It. There may be wisdom In the long delay over Cuba, but the common mind can not understand It, "Since Manila, the ordinary mnn must believe Hint had we bornbnrdcd Ha vana on April 22, we would hnve dls mantled every gun In six hours. Now ten guns bristle for every one then. Every dny of hesitation and Indecision must be paid for In the blood of heroes. "We have tested our navy and found the American sailor of tc dny what he has always been, as fine a senmnn as walks the decks of any ship that llonts. The Spaniards boast that In the first battle our men of many nations would fall In a panic nnd desert their guns. Manila Is the answer. The composite man has shown the pure-blooded Span lard Hint whnt he needs Is new blood In his veins. The movement of our fleet wns the remorseless nnd terrible sweep of the scleitlflc control of nature against biave but suicidal barbnrlsm. "It was an overwhelming nnswer to the American snob nnd croaker. We have a group of loud-mouthed toadies who have wearied our ears with sneers at everything Amerlcnn during the past decade. To hear them, we had no navy, no commander), no guns thnt would shoot, no ships that would float and no nrrrior that could stand the first crush of a genuine foreign built shell, Manlli) Is the answer. Let the toady who lim been entlng the bread of democracy ami Tawnlng at the reel of titled fools now migrate to Madrid where his spirit will be appreciated. This In only the first skirmish. The future will send every warship that files the Spanish flag to the bottom of the sen, In spite tf tho clintUr of the few drlvellna Idots who edit out Hurper's Weeklies nnd gravely continue to wnrri us that 'all war Ib crime nnd barbnrlsm.' We will continue to add the numes of iIIh. tingulshed 'criminals' to the roll of Im mortality nmong whom aro Washing ton, Lnfayette, Orant, Farragut and Dewey, "And we will continue to love a war rlor nbovo all other heroes In spite of the moral idiot who cries for peace-at-nny-prlce, nnd cannot distinguish right f loin wrong. We love a warrior not ibecause he kills, but because his busl riess Is to die for his country nnd hit fellow man. We don't rejoice over the number of Spaniards killed and wound ed at Manila. The secret of our national exhultatlon Is found In u larger thought Tho shriek of the shells from our ships sang the battle cry or freedom In one of the foulest slave pens of the Orient, We nre teaching the music of human liberty to enrs and hearts that never heard It before! . "That battle marks the founding of n world empire of the common people a 1 certainty. Washington's farewell ad dress has been over worked by modern phulsees, hypocrites and traitors. That address was delivered a century and a quarter ago. It was patriotism tlrn. It is treason today. We were a hand ful of poverty-stricken colonists In n hostile wilderness, with savage Indiana threatening our frontiers and three hos tile natlonb established orr our soil. Steam and electricity, Hint have made a new world, were then the dreams of madmen. The young Ameritun of today looks forward to a mighty nntlon of 300,000,000 of freeman, lending the world lo peace, freedom and Justice. Men and nations must go forward or backward. They cannot stand still. It Is the law of nature. We are not dying. There fore our mission Is forwnrd! When Old Glory Is raised over Manila, no com bination or European tyrants on earth with devils In hell can ever haul It down." PRIZE MONEY, THEN AND NOW In Early Days Each Soldier Re tained Plunder Captured. It Is an elementary principle of the laws of war, as well as International law, that all captures In war, whether made on land or sea and whether of public or private property, Inure to tho benefit of the government or the cap turing party, and that the government Is responsible for all captures Illegally made. If the captured property or any part or its proceeds Is distributed among the captors, it must be authorized by local law, and without such local law the capturing party can clulm no pe cuniary Interest In the captures he makes. It Is the practice or nearly all governments to give to the captors a. speckled portion of all captured prop erty as a reward for bravery and a stimulus to exertion. Before the early Jewish laws a dlstln tlorr was made In booty between ani mate nnd inanimate things, the latter being given lo Individuals who cap tured them, while the rormer were distributed proportionally to those en gaged In battle and those who guarded the baggage. Later the booty was dis tributed proportionally to the whole army. Among the Greeks booty was sometimes distributed by lot and some, times sold and the money divided In the enrly days or Rome each sol. dler retained the plunder he captured. ArterWard the soldiers were obliged to bring all the booty Into the common. It was then sold by the general, the proceeds consigned to the public treas ury and a part distributed pro rata to the army. In tho middle ages pillage was the general practice, but the evils were so great that the system or distribution wns suusiuuieu and a strenous meas ure adopted to prevent soldiers rrom plundering. From very early times the admiral's court In England hns had Jurisdiction or all maritime questions, und as the English have been engaged so fre quently in maritime wars there was a standing proclamation ror granting and distributing prize money to the navy, and borne upon the books, all the residue, according to their respective rntes of pay In Hie service. Our own laws respecting maritime prizes are modelled after those of Great uritnin. and the decisions of our prize courts hnve been as able as those of the British admiralty. The most recent law In regard to prize money directs that where the enemy's force Is equal or superior to the captors the entire prize goes to the latter; If Inferior, one-half goes to the navy pension fund and the other hair to the captors. The commanding officer of the fleet or squadron receives one-twentieth, the commanding officer of a single ship three-twentieths, ir acting Independ ently, nnd one-tenth of what gqes to his ship. If under the Immediate com Ing officers and men on board. COMMODORE SCHLEY. An Estlmnto of His Ability as a Fighter. Fearlessness and resolution nre tho lending characteristics of Commodore, Wlnfleld Scott Schley, U. 8. N., If tho estlmnto of those who have known him long and well Is to be accepted. And It Is well that such arc his character istics, for the man who nets ns Jailer to the crack nqundron of Spain nnd on whom the brunt of the expected battle, will fall must be every inch a mnn, a! pallor nnd n fighter of the first class. Those who know Schley are glnd he Is where he Is. The glory of the flog Is! In safe hands. Commodote Schley enters Into argu ment ns frankly and thoroughly as ho would an engagement with the enemy, contradicts with vehemence where h knows he Is unqualifiedly right and Is not nbove a good round, sailorly oath when occasion enforces verbal explo sion. Subsequent to the Maine disaster. Commodore Schley expressed doubt thnt the misfortune took plnce through lullucnce outside the ship, his theory, of the occurrence being drnwn from an Incident of his own experience. Whllq en the New York the swift, terrible word enme to him, "Fire! The ship is burning!" Losing not nn Instant, ho mustered his almost panic stlckcn mn, who thought each moment to be blown o n torus. "Drown tho mngnzlne!" he shouted, leading the way to duty free fronv alarm, to where a steel pinto of tho magazine room glared red hot from a powerful blnze next to It, and all linndH Hooded the big New York to safety. Fearless, outspoken, his manner Is yet even tempered with courtesy, and he observes the llntterlng niceties of acquaintance and friendship with rare punctiliousness. He Is a tall, strong looking man, with more muscle than flesh, n complexion fair, despite the best efforts of sea winds nnd enstern suns to tan It, nnd lightish hair, which time hns neutral tinted and which he disposes carerully where It Is thinning, from expressing his thoughts, nnd his gray mustache and beard conceal his mouth and chin rrom criticism. Commodore Schley wns born near Frederick, Md In 1839, nnd his very baptism wbb subject to military In utience. Just nt this dnte Genernl Win. field Scott was In Frederick, holding couit mnrtlnl. A rrlendly lntlmncy sprang up between John Schley, rnther or the present commodore, who hnd nerved In the navy In the war of 1812, and the distinguished oflicer. one result ' of which was nnmlng the son nnd heir of the Schleys Wlnfleld Scott. There Is a tradition that tho baby showed distinct tendencies the day of his christening to live up to n fighting name. His ancestors were people of .Schleswig-on-Uie-Schley, who came to this country following the revocation of the edict of Nantes stanch Huguenots, one of whom, establishing himself In Savannah, became later governor of Georgia. From the time his enreer began after entering the naval academy and re malning from 1856 to 1861, events of In terest quickly succeeded each other. He hns medals of honor nnd tributes of prnlse from his country, which he hns served actively In mnny pnrts or the world, and has Improved opportunities of heroism and bruvery to the ever lasting credit of his record nnd to the envy of less fortunate men In the ser vice. He was graduated at the head of his class, and In 1861, being given sea duty on the frigate Potomnc, storeshlp at Ship Island, was In 1862 promoted to tnnster and ordered to the Winona, of the blockading squudron of the West Gulf. Commodore Schley saw real war, be ing In n number of skirmishes nlong the Mississippi river, cngnged and oper ated with field batteries, aided in cut ting out under heavy fire two schoon ers which were carrying supplies to the enemy, for which honornble mention In special orders was accorded him. July, 1862, he received his commission bh lieutenant, serving with further honor nble mention through engagements thnt led up to the capture In 1863 of Port Huron, Ln. From 1864 to 1866 he was executive officer of the Wateree, a steam gunboat, on which he served on I the Pacific station. I The suppression of nn insurrection nmong Chinese coolies In 864 In the, 'Chin Chi Islands nnd the landing of one hundred men to protect the United! States consulate marked his stay la 'those waters. July 18, 1866, he received, the commission of lieutenant commands tr, and having returned from the Pacific,; 'station spent three years on duty atj the naval academy. The Benlcln, of the Asiatic station, was his next post, he taking part In 1871 In the overthrow of the forces defending the Salu river In Corea, "Head of the department of modern lnngunges" at annnpolls fol lowed, and It can be said here that he Is a fine linguist, speaking Spanish with ease and admlrnble accent. Being made J commnnder In 1874, he was for five years on the north ond south Atlantic stations nnii the western coast of Af- 1 rlca."""I tt"r" ' ' "" 4 From "Afrlc's sunny strand" he wus ordered to the "Icy mountains" of the North Polnr land, In command of the Greedy relief expedition. From the clutches of Arctic death he rescuedLleu- , tenant Greely and six others at Cape I Sabine, conveying them safely to their home. A gold medal from congress. promotion by President Arthur to chief of the bureau of equipment, Where he was raised to the rank of captain, nhu the applause of the people of the United. States were his prompt reward, After resigning from his place of chief bf the bureau of equipment, the cruiser Baltimore was put in Schley's com mand. A picturesque, pathetic duty was his, one that those who remember" the sad, gray day when the mist en veloped Baltimore, escorted by a fun eral procession of ships, bore the bodj or John Ericsson. Inventor or the moni tor, back to Sweden, his fatherland, through New York harbor out to sea will recall at mention. A gold medal from the king of Sweden wns given Commander Schley at Stockholm. The difficulty arising from the stoning .of some American snllors of the Haiti, more oy some unmans or Valparaiso, r.nd which threatened disagreeable com-, plications between the United State and Chill was disposed or by him In a manner that earned expressed gratl, tude or the navy depadtment, A hard student, an lionest sailor, r. frank, bright tnlker, a good, clear thinker nnd n lucky man, he married n beautiful wire. Miss Nannie Frankllrf was the belle or Annapolis when he won her dark eyes to look his way She Is a handsome woman now. In his pocket he curries n gold chronometer, to keep time on the Sr,anlsh, a girt from Maryland his Maryland ror lire sav ing In Lndy Franklin Bay. He has two sons, one uu army officer, Frank, who has come up rrom the ranks; the other Dr. Wlnfleld Scott Schley, a practising physician In New York city A daughter. Virginia, married an Eng. llbhrnan of position. Damp sale will remove the discolora tion of tea and the like In dishes that have been carelessly washed )
