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THE GAL\ fiSTON DAILY NEWS. MONDAY. JULY 27. 189a
A CUNEY ROASTING.
G\E THOI'SAND VOTERS HEAR THE
HEPIBLICAN l.EADKK FllO.M THE
DEEr WATCH rORT.
LiLY WHITES, LILY BLACKS,
Party Boodle. Cariiet-lbigiHiii. Denui-
ttog> "Were Themes Ho Handled
with Bristling; Gloves.
Dallas, Tex.. July 2G.
The mass meeting called by W. E. King,
chairman of the Dallas county black and
tarns, for the city hall auditorium last
night, was attended by 1000 people. The
news that N. Wright Cuney was to speak
and that he wasn't over-burdened with
compliments for the Grant men helped
swell <the ranks of those present. There
•were administration democrats. Grant re-
publicans, lily whites and black and tans
on hand, all eager to see the Galveston
man and bear his story of politics as
things look to him. The Grant men looked
sour as Cuney eommen%'l "roasting."
"while his own forces frequently attested
'their delight. No one who- heard Cuney
speak can doubt that the light for su-
premacy within the lines or liis party in
this state is to be waned to the bitter end.
Ho seems to realise that much depends on
the coming convention and will play every
trump ho can yet hold of. He made no
•appeal to class or color, but on the other
!hand decried such practices in any one
and condemned i-t in unmeasured terms.
His speecil was closely listened to by all
and was loudly cheered 1 y those of his
own faction who were present. The meet-
ing was intended as a means of organizing
the factions in this county for to-morrow's
convention and in this respect at least it
was a signal succes •.
The crowd was called to order by W. E.
King. He was greeted with a generous
share of applause. He said: "This great
meeting here to-night is of the people.
There is in this building the chief leader
of all the republicans in Texas. He is
your guest. You are here to honor him
and you will do it well. We have another
one of our lead era, a trusted lieutenant.
J want to present to you W. M. McDonald
of Forney."
The Kaufman county leader was loudly
cheered all over the hall. He said:
"Our platform has been promulgated
and candidates put thereon. It would be
political treason to the party for us to
entertain for a moment our own personal
predeleetion with regards as to who should
have been nominated. With respect to
what course the republicans of this state
are to pursue in regards to the national
ticket is not the question. It is true that
not many months ago some of us were
lteed men. some Allison men, and some
McKinley men. To-day we are all Mc-
Kinley men. Not that we love our first
choice less, but that we love principle.
"A majority of the delegates assembled
at St. Louis declared for Major McKinley
as our standard bearer. We accept the
verdict and shall rally to his support
with as much earnestness as if he was
our first choice. Yet there are those who
would have us believe that no man is
able to do anything in the pending cam-
paign but 'vote' unless he was an original
McKinley man. We want the wisest and
the best to condtfet the canvass in Texas
this fall, regardless of who they may have
favored for the presidency. Now there is
a campaign of 'federal pie-getters and of
federal pie distributors' in Texas who are
seeking to control our next state conven-
tion and the question is, shall they be al-
lowed to do so? They have promised every
ambitious lily black and lily white, whom
they believed to have some little intluence
ofilce. From the Red river on the north
to the gulf on the south and from Texar-
kana on the east to El Paso on the west
these dealers in governmental patronage
have already parceled out all the little
cross roads postoffices, a few of the cus-
tom-houses and clerkships by the score
have been promised in this state and the
Indian nation. If he is a 'big lily black'
or 'big lily white' they bristle up on one
side of him and tell him he can have
United States marshalship. Others they
put to sleep when they promise to give
them a I'nited States attorneyship. One
or two of this firm has gone still further
and promised to break up the civil ser-
vice rules and shove a few of our gradu-
ate doctors into the United States surgical
departments. All of these promises, how-
ever. can b»- given out only on one condi-
tion and that condition is. 'You must help
us choke X. W. Cuney and Bill McDonald
to death.' What has Cuney and McDonald
done to merit death? These same young
Napoleons have the unmitigated cheek and
tfau'l to intimate that their ability to carry
out such nromise should not be questioned
because they would have you believe that
M. A. Hanna. our national chairman, had
signed a written contract granting them
power to handle all the 'Washington pie'
that is o be given to Texas. In the worst
and darkest days of carpetbagism we
never !:al anything to excel this diaboli-
cal duplicity and demagagy. The black
man ihat can be led by this class is not
worthy of his freedom and the white man
who fodows such a lead disgraces his an-
cesters and is not worthy to be called a
free American citizen. I have boundless
and the utmost contempt for this oflice-
getting crowd which subordinates all prin-
ciple and every element of manhood for
•a promise of on office and the further sick-
ly pka, J am with the winners. T had
rather go down in an ignominious defeat
believing and feeling that i am right than
to gain a glorious victory at a sacrifice of
what 1 consider the loss of manhood and
honor. When these little topwaters are
yelping iOUd and strong about their close-
ness to Major McKinley and in the mean-
time telling you that such men as Col. E.
H. R. Green. W. F. Crawford. R. H. Haw-
;«y, Charles W. Odgen, George W. Bur-
£retU Eugene Marshall. W. K. Makemson,
£i. b. Moore and a host of others can not
touch the hem of Maior McKinley's gar-
ments keep an eye on him; whistle for
an officer: have him arrested under a
cnarge of lunacy and forthwith send him
to Terrell. More than a auarter of a cen-
tury ago carpetbagism wrapped in robes
trimmed with the earnings of toiling mil-
lions holding in her frantic clutch political
power, honors and gold; the suffrage of a
trusting and deluded people, the keys of
liberty and df>ath. trampling beneath her
leet the rights of a nation in the proud
movement of almost universal dominion
throughout the south felt within her
heartless breast the deadly dagger of
popular revolt. It came to us then in the
shape of promises of land and mules. It
comes to sis to-day in the promise of post-
office clerkshins. United States marshal-
ships and many other places which thev
are certain not to have power to give. No
matter what may come to me or what mav
come to you. let us stand up for principle
and race first and the promise of office
afterward."
The crowd had been, eargerlv await inc
«}•" ,Vr ,wh'* <™ve«ony ®fu3n
should begin. He wis introduced by ehair-
inmri King i,n a frw words a.nd I hen his
supporters turned their enthusiasm Jo®*
They howled and yelled for several minutes
and ga\e e_\ ery evidence of intense Joy
1 lie. speaker s voice was under perfect con-
trol and he exercised it for all it was
worth He was severe in ids arraignment
of Chairman Grant and venomous
weherever ho mentioned his name an id's
auditors seemed to enjoy it all. Their veils
weire lifelike awl full of vim and seemed
to cheer their favo-rite.
The man who proposes to control tihe
•next republican state convention or meet
ny po.itica/1 death in, the attempt, began
•ins speech in a voice that seemed to meet
every requirement. It was soft and low,
Mien swelled into a volume of fierce de-
aiunciations. He said in part: "I am here
on my way to Galveston, my home. You
3oiks up hero t'hink you have the finest
city in Texas. 1 always say 'except Gal-
veston. I love Texas. I love the man-
hood of her men and the virtue of her
women. There is not a grander people
on earth than f.hose that inhabit what I
Deneve to be the greatest state in the
American union. But I am before you
to-nigh l tor a: f iber punm-so. I Suppose
you have ad hear I of Wright Cuniey arid
Jura passing away at Kt. 1 -onis. You have
heard. too. of ;he 300 political affidavits
and the perjury that was eommitited in
l.he name ol tb» lowly Nazarine at that,
convention those kind of creatures (and
he faiirfly hissed The wdrds) can't
destroy Cuney. They dont get $50.-
000.000 backed up by a prospective presi-
dent with which to ravish and dostrov their
people. The battle is on, the lines are.
drawn and John Grant or Wright Cuney
will go under. If Gen. Grosvenor was
ever the commander of a brigade may the
Lord deliver us from his privates. If he
&ets to congress from his district in Ohio
he may consider himself lucky.
"Wright Cuney asks no quarter. Wright
Cuney wants no quarter. He doesn't have
to defend his record, or his good
i ;ime in Texas. There is a com-
bination in Texas and it is right,
here in Dallas, too to throttle your
liberties. I am tor sound money: 1 am
for protection, that protection as Garth:-M
wisely said will eventually en 1 in free
trade. That's why I'm a republican. I'm
not a I illy white, because they are political
orphans. 1 have fought them for twelve
years and I'm net letting up that war now.
I'm for sound money because 1 believe
we must have a substantia' basis upon
which to build anything. What shall be
the basis? is the question we must ans-
wer. We say go' 1. Other i ople say silver.
We w^ant a solid foundation for our busi-
ness. You can't legislate- value into a
thing that has no value. You can't make
50 cents worth a doKar."
He spoke briefly of the tariff, and con-
tinued "But the tariff question dees not
enter into this tight. I believe, 1 say it
as an individual, that three-fourths of the
people of this country want free silver if
they had sense enough t\> get it. If I was
a populist I'd be a middle-of-the-roader.
I'd be with Gibbs and K ear by and Cyclone
Davis and Stump Ashby. I'm glad they
won out at St. Louis. They are good
lighters and I admire that kind of men.
"We are aoproaching a crisis in the
history of politics in Texas. Every voter
should give due consideration to the prin-
ciples upon which the battle next Novem-
ber is to be fought. We believe in the
monetary standard established by the com-
mercial nations of the world. It would
have been better for the country had there
been no split at the St. l.ouis populist con-
vention. Then the battle of the standards
would have been squarely joined and the
great question settled once for all.
•'Talk about a party outliving its useful-
ness! When it becomes possible for an
anarchist to dictate a plank in the plat-
form of a political party condemning a
patriotic president for saving the country
from anarchy and ruin, then I say it is
time for that party to die. (Loud ap-
plause.) I respect and honor Grover
Cleveland. I differ with him on several
issues, but I believe him • to be a patriot
and a statesman and 1 trust the day will
never come when this anarchist who had
him denounced can become governor again
■of the great state of Illinois. 1 make no
attack on the individual members of the
democratic party. Many of them are
grand men, but the party is in bad lines
to-day. Jones of Arkansas, chairman of
its executive committee has been at St.
Louis bending cring-ing knees that thrift
might follow fawning before the people he
and his party has so 'often maligned. The
democratic party ought to abandon its or-
ganization and let the populists meet the
republicans on the issues of the day."
The speaker reverted to his own fight
and his words grew acrimonious again. "I
was turned out at St. Louis by perjury,"
he went on. "I made John Grant two
years ago and this is the way he has
treated me—like an ingrate. I saved him
from the vengeance of his political ene-
mies and this is the way he has rewarded
my services. I stake all my political
prestige on the convention to be held at
Fort Worth on Sept. s." he shouted and
the black and tans raised the roof. "The
man who has promised offices to every one
whom he could induce to support him in
his efforts agaihst me can't control the
republican party of Texas. He can't play
St. Louis politics in this state. We are
pretty good stockers ourselves. John
Grant's not jroing to win. He's beaten
now. My friends, Paris, the handsome son
of a king of Troy, carried off the beautiful
Helen and brought on his people a seven
years war. Troy fell through a deception.
They built a huge horse, filled it with
Greeks ^ajul were slick enough to have
their enemies pull it inside the city's walls.
While Troy slept these Grecian soldiers
inside the decoy horse unlocked the gates
of the city letting in the army of the out-
side. Troy was destroyed. Don't let them
use the lily whites for a Troyan horse on
you. Don't be deceived by any subter-
fuges. Meet me at Fort Worth in the
ides of September and w'il have right
and the majority to rule in republican
councils in Texas."
A mighty rear went up when he had
concluded, and for the next twenty minutes
he was kept busy shaking hands. He will
go to Galveston this afternoon.
THE DREADED ARMY WORM.
Farmers Are Greatly Excited and
Fearful of the Pest.
New York Tribune.
The army worm is on the move again.
Reports have come from different parts of
the state telling of his dreaded appearance.
He is even said to have been seen in this
city.
The army worm, which appears in the
form of a moth and a caterpillar, is one of
the worst scourges that visits the farmer,
gardener or forester. W. Beutenmuller of
the entomological department of the Amer-
ican museum said that he found several
handfuls of these worms around the neigh-
borhood of East Seventy-ninth street.
There was also a report in the newspapers
of recent date in regard to the large num-
ber of caterpillars in Brooklyn, which lit-
tered the ground to s-uch an extent that
bicycling became dangerous.
A Tribune reporter made a visit to Cen-
tral park yesterday for the purpose of
finding out if the worm had been seen
there. As he walked through different
paths he bent his gaze carefully upon the
ground, but no army worm was to l>e seen.
He asked the men working in the park if
in their labors* among the trees and in the
grass they had come across the army
worm. They replied in the negative. The.n
the reporter went to the arsenal, but the
officials there disclaimed any knowledge of
the existence of the worm in the park.
Hope was also expressed that the worm
would not appear in the park.
According to dispatches recently received
from various parts in the state, the army
worm id nevertheless progressing steadily
toward this city. This worm is said to
possess almost incredible powers of de-
duction. It is not particular about its food,
but will eat anything in the shape of living
green. The reports say that it has already
caused ruin among the grain fields of west-
ern New York, as well as near Newburg,
and for a considerable distance along the
Hudson river. Easthampton and Great
Neck, Long Island, have also been visited,
and show the results in the blighted condi-
tion of the trees and meadows there.
The chief reason for the well founded
fear of the army worm, which exists wher-
ever its work has once been seen, is that
its numbers are overwhelmingly large and
its persistence almost impossible to check.
When a band of the insects attacks a field
there are so many of them as almost to
literally cover the ground, and the noise
which they make in feeding is plainly au-
dible at some^distance. One of the tele-
grams announced that fifteen acres of rye
had been destroyed in about twenty-four
hours after the worms were first discov-
ered in that neighborhood.
New York city has not yet been entered,
even by the vanguard of the army, but
there is every reason to suppose that it
may be within a few days or weeks. If
this occurs it will be a fresh discourage-
ment to those citizens who are trying to
increase and improve the city's foliage.
J he hairy caterpillar, who is getting his
share of blame just now, will be quite
thrown into the shade by the more power-
ful onslaughts of his new rival.
It is recorded that trains in the west have
occasionally been stopped by the masses of
army worms which have swarmed upon
the tracks. Whether they will succeed
here in stopping the cable cars oil the
curves may be an interesting study in a
tew days.
A dispatch from Sing Sing says that tlie
army worm made Its appearance 011 tlie
farms east of that place early last w< ;<k
Crops Oil the Willet Hyder, W. W. J,aw!
Robert G. Mead and other farms are re-
ported to have been greatly damaged by
the destructive insect. Columns of these
worms are found on the highways and in
the fields. The columns are 100 to 200 feet
long and from JO to 12 inches wide, and
within these limits the worms progress,
tumbling over each other, and destroying
everything that is green which oomes in
their way.
In crossing grass the worms leave a path
the width of the column that looks as
though it had been burned with lire* In
rye and other grain fields the worms scat-
ter and de> not rest until every green thing
in the field is devoured. Farmers cover one
ot the marching colums of worms with
istraw sprinkled with kerosene oil and then
set lire to the mass, in this way the
worms are destroyed by the barrelful.
Many of the farmers have cut their rye
crops early in order to save them from,
the worm.
Reports from Yorktown and Mount Pleas-
ant. show that the worms are plentiful in
those towns, ami have caused great dam-
age. In attacking wheat and rye the
worms climb up the stalks and, reaching
the heads, eat out the busk, the grain
which they do not touch, falling to the
ground.
Army worms have also devastated a large
| quantity of grain, especially oats, in the
vicinity of Orient, Long Island. Some of
' the farmers have plowed under whole
! lields to saw the foliage for fertilizing pur-
poses. Sprouts and cauliflower plants,
which have been set out. are suffering
from the army worm also, as well as from
a green worm which appears to feed on
tin-o plants alcne. Extra help is being
mployed in ditching these fields, a ditch
being the only known method of stopping
the progress of the worms. The cotton
crop is also threatened, and nothing but
constant watching will save the crops. The
pests did not arrive in Orient early enough
in the season to damago the hay. which
was light this year and lias nearly all been
; harvested.
j The army worm is described as being
from an inch to an inch and a half long,
and light blue or gray in color, with brown
' and yellow longitudinal stripes upon its
back. It has strong jaws ami an altogeth-
j er tierce-looking head. This is its cater-
; pillar form, the one in which it does its
; work of devouring. It subsequently devel-
1 ops into a moth with a cinnamon-colored
; body, about seven-eighths of an inch long,
j This has brownish wings with spots of
: white on each. The moth flies only at.
I night and deposits its eggs in the thick
grass or upon leaves. It is also said to be
a fact that the caterpillar form prefers to
eat at night, and does most of its work at
dusk or shortly before dawn.
The Story of tlie Salmon.
Chamber's Journal.
In the autumn time, and onward to the
beginning of ihe next year, the mother
salmon ascends the rivers to deposit her
eggs, and thus to secure the continuance
of her race. In connection wiuth this
periodical visit or visits to the river
must be mentioned a very curious fact.
The idea is entertained very strongly by
some authorities that a salmon invariably
returns to its native river or that in which
it was bred. It has even been asserted by
fishermen that, when several rivers enter
the sea in one stream (as Bonar Bridge,
for example), the salmon bred in each
river will pass back into their own water
and will avoid the strange streams. The
late Frank Buckland, a strong believer in
this instinct of the fish, regarded the
sense of smell as that which led it to its
native rixer. Perhaps the truth is that
for the most part salmon do return to
their own rivers, but that the practice
and habit are not necessarily invariable.
We know tlie fishes certainly swim great
distances Uong coast lines where they are
captured in stake and bag nets, and it
may well be the case that now and then
a fish will turn into a river that is near,
in preference to seeking its own and dis-
tant water.
Arrived in her river the mother salmon
begins to scoop out a kind of trench in
the gravel of the stream. This she ef-
fects by plowing into the gravel with
her body. This trench is to be the nur-
sery of her young. The eggs are laid in
the furrow and are duly fertilized by the
male salmon. Then the trench is filled in
by the efforts of both parents, the eggs
are covered with gravel, an<* the mound
thus formed is called, in fisher's lan-
guage, a "redd." How many eggs a
mother salmon will deposit is, of course,
a difficult question to determine, but a
stock calculation maintains that she pro-
duces about 900 eggs for every pound she
weighs. Each egg in its diameter meas-
ures about a quarter of an inch, and it is
estimated that 25.000 eggs go to a gallon.
The Empress Downier of China.
Far Eastern Question, Valentine Chirol.
Until last year, notwithstanding her nom-
inal retirement after the present emperor's
marriage, in 1889, the dowager empress un-
doubtedly continued to exercise a para-
mount authority. That she possesses en-
ergy and ability of a high order is proved
by the skill with which she grasped the
reins of power, in concert first with the
widow of the Emperor Iisien Feng after
his death in 1861, and the tenacity with
which she has held them more or less con-
tinuously ever since, boldly breasting or
cunningly circumventing every obstacle
that successively arose in her path. She
has often been compared to Catherine the
Great, and in everything but the broader
aspects of statesmanship the analogy is
not infelicitious—most o-f all, however, in
regard to the greed of power, extrava-
gance, and sensuousnes: common to both.
The anniversary of her fiOth birthday was
to have been celebrated last autumn on a
scale of unusual magnificence. Large
sums were sent up from every province,
and still larger sums were levied by the
provincial officials as the free gift of a
grateful people.
A splendid road, which at least gives
some idea of what Chinese roads were
like in the days o-f the empire's prosperity,
was built from Pekin to the residence of
'the empress dowager, near the summer
palace for the imperial procession to pass
over. The city gate giving access to it
was restored in all the pristine glory of
quality carved and painted architecture,
and every house and shop along the road
blossomed out into a galaxy of newly
glided signboards and many-colored wood
work. But the disasters of the war shed
a gloom over the outward celebration, and
it is believed, for a time at least, dis-
turbed the filial piety of which it was in-
tended to be the crowning illustration.
How far the empress dowager's intluence
has been permanently shaken, it is im-
possible to say, but there were undoubted-
ly stormy scenes within the palace of
which an unmistakable echo reached the
outside world in the publication of a mem-
orial from one of the censors vigorously
denouncing the baneful effects of "petti-
coat." government. The very mild punish-
ment inflicted upon the author of this
philippic showed the sentiments expressed
in it to have been viewed, to say the least,
with considerable leniency in the highest
quarters.
"When Cod Uccume Blind.
Spectator.
Several large cod are kept in one of the
tanks of the Amsterdam aquarium neces-
sarily near to the surface and therefore
exposed to a strong light from above.
Now, the cod, though not a "deep-sea"
fish, is not a surface swimmer, and lives
at depths where the sunlight must be very
much modified by passage through the
water. It lives in what to us would be
semi-darkness. Every one of these cod ex-
posed to the strong light is suffering from
an extraordinary hypertrophy of the eye.
The whole organ has become overgrown,
as if in the effort to adjust itself to the
use of more light rays it had Income over-
equipped and then useless. The cod in fact
are blind.
The most interesting feature in this
change is the extraordinary rapidity with
which an increased supply of light rays
has overdeveloped the organ for its use
It has taken place, not by slow degrees
from individual to individual, but in a
course of time to be measured by months,
and in every individual in the tank. If
this example is a measure of the rapidity
with which such cl anges take place among
lish the adaptation of those creatures
which have migrated from the shallow
waters to the deep seas, shown by the to-
tal loss or enormous development of their
eyes, and the growth of illuminating or-
gans to light the abyss, may have been as
rapid as it is marvelous.
Slieep J a in pi tig HedtfCM.
Chamber's Journal.
Anent sheep jumping hedges, I may ven-
ture here to tell a tale of a certain old
rogue who went by the name of Tup-
Harry. This is how >he got his nickname.
Harry was a. small farmer, and he had a
neighbor with better means and a better
farm than his own. One very dry season
Harry had come to the end of his grass
lor a Hock of sheep he possessed. His
neighbor had. however, got a fine field of
mangel wurzel. Harry looked over the
hedge—a hedge furnished with outstanding
slates—and greatly longed for those man-
gels for hi Si sheep; but he did not relish
the risk of being caught taking them. So
he went in the evening into his field, that
was bare of grass, put his head against
the hedge, bent his back, and called:
"Tup! Tup! Tup!" whereupon up ran his
old ram. jumped over into the mangel
Held, and all the Hock in Indian tilt- tam-
pered after him over the back of Harry.
Very early in the morning the rogue
went into the devastated mangel field, put
bis head against the hedge, bent his back,
called "Tup! Tup! Tup!" a.id up came
the ram. ran over his back on to the
hedge, and leturned to the barren quarter
again, followed in Indian tile by all the
flock. That was done several times, and
no signs appeared anywhere of the hedge
being broken through, or of a padlock
gate having been opened. At last the
farmer who was robbed hid himself one
night and saw the whole proceeding. Tup-
liarry did not try that trick on a«ain.
ALWAYS ATTRACTIVE.
GENERAL, MANAGER SMITH TAI.lvS
Ol;' EXPOSITION HALL AND DE-
MAND FOR SPACE.
MANY EXHIBITS THIS YEAR.
lltreetor A. 13. Taber KuthuBia.stie
Over ProMi»ectN—The Cattle and
Swine Departments.
Dallas, Tex., July 26.
"Exposition hall is of course at all times
a center of attraction to visitors," re-
marked General Manager Sydney Smith
on yesterday, "for in this building our
patrons look for and expect to see the
greater portion of all the association has
to offer that is new. interesting, entertain-
ing and attractive: and while it is at a
great disadvantage to make any rear-
rangements of the spaces to any great or
noticeable extent, we have, however,
adopted a plan, the effect of which will
add very materially to the general interior
appearance of this hall. We are now re-
modeling it and making the repairs neces-
sary preparatory to exhibitors going to
work on their exhibits. We have a large
number of aplicants for space in this build-
ing and on Aug. 1 we will be in position
to begin making assignments. In the
meantime any one desiring space should
not delay filing application for same, for
we are prepared now to give in all proba-
bility a good location, whereas later cn
—nearer the approach of the fair less able
we will be to give exhibitors what they
want. We have a number of new exhibitors
coming from the north, who will put in
specially attractive displays. Our old pat-
rons are coming forward in good shape.
All these and the many new and nove*
features which will be added, including
first-class attractions, I am sure will make
Exposition hall present an appearance
which is certain to meet with general ap-
proval.
When asked by a News reporter on yes-
terday as to the machinery display at the
coming fair. Director A. B. Taber re-
marked:
"Machinery hall, and in fact, the entire
machinery and agricultural exhibit at the
State Fair last year was the largest made
a.t any annual fair and exposition in the
United States, and when this fact is con-
sidered alone* with the statement that
this display will be on an increased scale
an idea may be formed of the interest be-
ing taken in this department. Machinery
hall with its 100,000 square feet of floor
space has had every foot assigned and
with the unassigned applications we have
on hand and others coming in almost
daily, we are in somewhat of a quandary
what to do. EVen outdoor space for these
exhibits is limited and to meet the in-
creased demaiid we have already added to
machinery park and the exhibits of wind
mills, threshers, traction engines, corn
mills, hay presses, grinders, wife fence
machines, water tanks that will in them-
selves cover aeres of space. Moving ma-
chinery exhibits, those requiring power,
will be largely in evidence, and my opin-
ion now honestly expressed is that visit-
ors at the fair this fall will see the larg-
est. the most diversified and the most at-
tractive aggregation cf machinery, imple-
ments and vehicles ever seen on any state
fair grounds in this country. While my
special attention is directed to the partic-
ular department, under my directorship,
I am in a position to know what
degree of success, is being attained by the
various denartments of the State Fair and
unhesitatingly state that the most favor-
able outlook attends the efforts of the
management. A great, grand and attract-
ive exhibition and ..entertainment in 1896
is what, my juofeftient at this time, pro-
nounces it will be: and visitors will be
here. too. in numbers to give us a con-
course of people the largest that has ever
patronized the great Texas State Fair."
Mr. J. E. McGuire of Gatesville was a
caller at the fair office last week. Mr.
McGuire left his application for stalls for
an exhibit of both cattle and swine. Speak-
ing of the outlook for the success of these
departments this season he said: "I am
satisfied the exhibits of swine and cat-
tle. especially Jersey cattle, will he on a
much larger scale than in W:<, and under
the new rules adopted by the Fair asso-
ciation governing the swine department,
the quality of the stock is certain to l»-
of a higher grade, since no swim- will be
permitted to enter the grounds which do
not score at least GO points of the type of
breed to which it belongs. Considerable
interest is manifested in the Statr Fair,
and from our section I think a good pat-
ronage will be had. The disposition of
the management to meet exhibitors half
way has created a kindly feeling among
breeders in behalf of the State Fair, which
will result in these departments being
more complete tlian ever and taking into
consideration the fact that an excellent
list of attractions, some of especial inter-
est is promised visitors, they are going
to come to the State Fair in numbers a<
large if not larger than any previous
year."
Col. Lyman Cone, who has been en-
gaged jointly by the Commercial club and
the Fair association to collect an agri-
cultural exhibit for the coming fair, re-
ports that he has already collected quite
a number of samples and that preparations
for the exhibit have progressed in a most
satisfactory manner. He states an active
interest being taken by the farmers in
this movement and he is satisfied the
result of his efforts will secure a most
complete and comprehensive display of all
that pertains to agriculture, horticulture
and mill products.
SEMI-CE\TEXXIAL EXPOSITION.
PoMtponed Until the Year 180.S by the
Com nilttee.
Owing to unfavorable conditions and the
great amount of work which it was neces-
sary to perform in a comparatively short
space of time, to say nothing of the un-
settled condition of affaire throughout the
country at present, it has been decided
by those who have been foremost in pusih-
the interests of the semi-centennial exposi-
tion, which it was intended to hold here
during the year 1897 until 1898, as the
general belief was expressed that it was
much the bejtter course to pursue. Be-
fore doing this, however, a circular was
sent to the people of Texas generally ask-
ing their views, on t'he subject The tenor
of the replies received was generally in
favor of a postponement. This being the
case the executive committee decided that
it would be by far the better movie of
procedure. The semi-centennial exposi-
tion'. therefore, will not be held in. Texas
until the year 1898.
The circular is as follows:
I'o the people of Texas.—We, the com-
mittee of tihirty-five selected by the con-
vention that met in. Dallas February 25th,
1*M, to trake action looking to a semi-
centennial celebration to commemorate the
anexation to tihe United States of Texas
and other territory that had formed an
integral portion of the republic of Mexico,
have resolved to postpone that event utifli
the fall of HS98, for the following reasons:
1. Because the event is of such mag-
nitude, relating: as it does to the acqui-
sition by this niation of almost a third
ol Rs territory embracing the Rocky moun-
tains the treasury of the world, that prep-
arations on a scale of grandeur which the
occasion merits could mot be matured by
fia.ll of next year.
2. Because Omaha and Nashville hav-
ing this year been before congress for
appropriations in support o-f their fairs,
do not deem It advisable to move while
these cities %vere asking for small support,
but prefer deilaying action until the ad-
journed SM'sslon which meets" next De-
cember, when it lis believed Uwut congress
in view of the celebration, a celebration
that yields the inspiration to the touch
of half a e,Mi»tui\v wi'H give it that support
it justly lays claim.
In the aid granted Atlanta, Nashville
and Omaha we are assured that this ce>-
bration will rroeive proper national recog-
nition and support.
•'!. Heeause it is expected that each
of the states and territories acquired by
the t'uited States from .Mexico under the
Heaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo will erect a
.building which wou»'.d be impossible be-
tween now an the fall of 1897, particularly
in view of the fact that the uiinds of the
people in the states and territories inter-
ested are now and for sometime to oome,
will be wholly engrossed in politics.
4. A meeting of the directory will
be called in the early part of November
for the purpose of taking action looking to
the pre-sentation of this matter in congress.
Aware of the deep seated hold that this
celebration has on the minds of the people,
and conscious too that -the coming elec-
tion will be followed by an era of un-
paralleled prosperity, we can conceive of
no more important factor in pushing Texas
•ahead than tho proposed semi-centennial,
which will cause the eyes of the whods
world to turn on our state. Signed by W.
rl. Getzendaner, chairman. Waxahachie;
Leo Wolfson. Dallas, secretary; Alex.
Sanger. Dallas: J. S. Armstrong. Dallas;
W. C. Connor. Dallas: Thomas Field, Dal-
las; J. F. Reiger. Dall«as: C. A. Keating,
Dallas: J. N. Simpson. Dallas: J. T. Treze-
vant, Dallas: J. F. Zang. Dallas; K. M.
VanZanat. Fort Worth; W. E. Skinner,
Fort Wort'h; W. L. Cleveland, Houston;
Otto Steffins, Abiline; John Martin. Paris;
James Garitty, Corsicana; R. B. Parrott,
Waco: C. W. Ogden, San Antonio; Bryan
T. Barry, DaKas; J. W. Springer, Dallas;
Geo. W. Owens, Dallas; C. A. Lyon, Sher-
man: C. H. Jenkins, Brownwood; J. S.
Davis. Waxanaehie; F. P. Holland. Dal-
las ; W. H. Gaston. Dallas; James P.
Douglas, Tyler: R. H. Greer, Beaumont;
E. M. Kahn, Dallas; C. C. Slaughter, Dal-
las.
periments in 1798, and arrived at a result
which is probably very near the truth, and
i has recently received a remarkable con-
■ firmation in that obtained by Mr. Poyn^ing
; fain observations r.iade svuh a common
balance. Both, in fact, give a mean dens-
! ity very nearly live and a half times that
of water; and it is worthy of notice that
Newton, in the "Piincipia," had suggested
by one of his happy conjectures from the
general considerations, that "versimile est
quod copia materia totius in Terra quasi
quintuplo vel sextupio major sit quam si
tota ex aqua constaret."
WINGLESS BIRD OF NEW ZEALAND.
It In a Cineer-Looking; Fowl and Feed*
Only at Night.
San Francisco Call.
E. Harrow, an Englishman, who has
lived in New Zealand for the last fourteen
years, arrived on the Mariposa with a tine
specimen of the apteryx, or kiwi, the
wingless night bird, found only in New
Zealand.
The strange looking creature is about the
size of a domestic fowl, and is covered
with what is apparently a hairy coat of
mottled brown. This apteryx probably has
the honor of being the first one of its kind
that has ever breathed the air of America,
though live kiwis have been obtained for
botanical and zoological gardens in Eu-
rope.
If there ever was any foundation in fact
for the notorious filleyloo bird, the kiwi
must have furnished the suggestion.
It is most active at night, and then it
goes about rapidly, thrusting its long,
slender bill into the earth in search of
worms, on which it feeds. While thus
hunting it keeps up a continuous audible
sniffinir, its nostrils being situated very
near the end of the upper mandible. The
kiwi, for by this name it is best known in
New Zealand, is sluggish in the daytime,
and seems to have great difficulty in see-
ing. At night it often catches the large,
luminous fire worms, crushes them against
the ground and swallows them. During
the operation phosprorescent particles ad-
here to the beak, and the hermit-like bird
can be seen in the darkness continuing
its search for food. A remarkable thing
about the kiwi, in addition to the absence
of wings and regular feathers, is the great
size of the egg it lays. The kiwi egg
weighs over twelve ounces, or a quarter of
the bulk of the bird itself.
This kiwi Mr. Harrow long ago accus-
tomed to meat diet, and that is the reason
he has got it here alive. He hoped to dis-
pose of it for $25 to the park commission-
ers, but was told that they would willingiy
accept it for nothing.
EtiggliNh Boys and Girls.
Quarterly Review.
It is a commonplace of the day to con-
giatulate our children on their singular
good fortune in having been born seme
sixty years later than their grandparents.
If comparative luxury wfch far greater in-
dulgences bo an unmixed good, there is no
denying the proposition. Whether they are
better, or even happier, are questions less
easily answered. The dld-fashioned disci-
pline was one of Spartan severity—for ob-
vious reasons. Children were treated neith-
er better nor worse than their fathers and
mothers before them. It may be worth
while to glance at the contrasts between
those ascetic times and the present. Social
and domestic England had changed, but
little since the revolution. Communication,
no doubt, had gmntly improved, but it was
still slow, costly, and precarious. Isolation,
even in considerable towns, Was the pre-
vailing rule, and the remoter country dis-
tricts were shrouded in benighted darkness.
The metropolis was a city sui generis,
and the Londoner was regarded with awe
by the rustics as a foreigner of strange ex-
periences. There were no railways to in-
stigate a craving for perpetual movement.
The shortest journey was a matter of se-
rious thought, and not to be undertaken
lightly. For days on the great roads the
intending traveler might have to wait for
the chance of a seat on a stage-coach, or
the opportunity of a return post-chaise.
The sovereign of those days would have
thought it an Arabian Nights' dream, had
lie been told that one of his proximate suc-
cessors would spend a good part of the
year at a castle in the Scottish highlands.
Old Farmer George lived in peaceful con-
tent betwien the slopes of Windsor and the
beach at Weymouth, as the gayer regent
divid. 1 his time between Carlton house and
Brighton Pavilion. George III was an af-
fert j,irate ami indeed a doting father, but
in Mine. d'Arblav's Memoirs we hear much
of the ceremonial reverence with which he
was treated by his daughters in t'he quiet
domestic circle.
The Broken Covenant.
Longman's Magazine.
One old-fashioned divine- my early
youth preached every Sunday upon "The
Broken Covenant." At length the long-
suffering parishioners could stand it no
longer and a deputation was organized to
visit the manse. The deputation informed
the minister that they were extremely
weary of hearing continually of "The Bro-
ken Covenant," and that there was a gen-
eral desire to have at least one new ser-
mon. "You shall have it," said the worthy
minister, in conciliatory strain; "you shall
have a perfectly new sermon next Sun-
day." Accordingly the church was fuller
than usual, and a thrill of satisfaction ran
round when the text was announced in
these words: "And the cup was found in
Benjamin's sack." "Let me tell you, my
friends," said the preacher, "the day is
coming when all your sacks will be rypit.
And what, think you. what will be found
in them will be the Broken Covenant, on
which I will now proceed to speak at great
length." Thus was hope dashed to tho
ground, and the congregation fel<l back
into the estate of utter misery in which
they had listened to that dismal orator on
many past days.
I
lloiuiclcleM in the United States.
North American Review.
We find that during the last six years
there have been 43,902 homicides in the
United States, an average of 7317 per year.
In the same time there have been 723 legal
executions and 1118 lynchings. These start-
ling figures show that crime is rapidly in-
creasing instead of diminishing. In the last
year 10,500 persons were killed, or at the
rate of 875 per month, whereas in 1890 there
were only 4290, or less than half as many
as in 1895. This bloody record shows a
fearful increase of the crime which de-
stroys human life.
We are aid alike anxious for a remedy,
but before we can obtain one we must
know the cause. We'can easily recognize
that the greatest evil of any civilized uge
is confronting us not only in the shape of
crimes committed by individuals, but also
of crimes committed by mas<3es of men who
are endeavoring by bloody and improper
means to seek a remedy—1 mean those who
band themselves together as mobs to seek
that protection which they fall to obtain
under the forms of law.
WelRliInu the Earth.
Notes and Queries.
In an interesting note at this reference
with regard to the place of Cavendish's
experiments to deter'nnig the mean dsnslty
of the earth, Mr. Heob uses the expression
"in which Cavendijh liist weighed the
earth." As this may bo misunderstood, it
is perhaps well to point out jtiiat the first
attempt to determine the point, experiment-
ally was made on a modntain in Perth-
shire by Maskelvae ir> the year 1774, the
principle being, in fact, to compare its at-
traction with that of the earth.
The use of a torslne balance was first
suggested by Prof. Mlchell (Iierscheil's in-
structor in the art of grinding specula), but
be dying shortly afterward (1796), his ap-
paratus passed first Into t'he hands of Wol-
, laston and then into those of Cavendish
> who tfuccessfuil carried cut a series ot
UNCLE SAM'S RATION.
01TIt SOLDIERS BETTER FED THAN
ABE THOSE OF ANY OTHER
COUNTRY •
Infoi'tunate Spain.
London Times.
Enough has been said to show that the
rebels roam at will throughout the length
and breadth of Cuba, the only exception to
this being the towns and fortified posts
guarded by Spanish garrisons. I will go
further than this and say that Spain has
lost control and jurisdiction in this island
except -in those'syots where her soldiers
are actually encamped. A mile distant
from any of these garrison towns and for-
tified posts, armed rebels will be found at
every turn. And this condition of affairs
has only one meaning—Spain has lost the
power to protect life and property in
Cuba. I do not say that it is at all im-
possible for the mother country to re-
conquer this lost ground; but it must be
first clearly understood in Madrid what
the true position is here to-dav, and that
the merely defensive attitude now adopt-
ed is worse than useless, if not, indeed,
the precursor cf dire disaster. The fine
and dry winter season is now ended, and
that opportunity for an active campaign
is lost; we are on tne threshold of the
notoriously unhealthy Cuban summer,
with its invariable and terrible scourge of
yellow fever; the rains set In during the
month of May, and ail roads will now be-
come practically impassable for military
maneuvering.
For the next six months, therefore, the
Spaniards can hop to do little by force
of arms: they must wait and suffer the
terrible efects of the climate and support
the strain of being constantly harrassed
by the rebel skirmishers. For the Cubans
the summer months have no terrors. They
are not subject to yellow fever, nor do
they suffer from exposure 'to wet weather
to anything approaching the extent that
Spaniards and other foreigners do. Day
after day telegrams from Madrid are pub-
lished in Havana to the effect that min-
isters and other public personages ex-
press 'themselves as thoroughly satisfied
with the way affairs are progressing in
Cuba. It is time to be done with such
child's play and throw aside these clumsy
and puerile attempts to throw dust in the
eyes of the Spanish people. It is better
they should know the truth, however un-
pleasant and unpalatable the facts may
Muiugn in July.
Century.
It was July and we had arrived at Mala-
ga from Marseilles by water. The town
lay white and shining under a barren
amphitheater of mountains. Between it
and the Vinuesa was a great stretch of
•hot, hazy, shimmering, sunlit water, over
which little boats, each with white awn-
ings up, pulled out to meet us. We had
read in Mr. Hare's "Wanderings in
Spain" of the extortion and shocking man-
ners of Malaga's boatmen: the same story
was in Murray, with an added warning to
keep our temper. But we had no trouble.
Once we had landed and on the open
quay had unstrapped and unlocked all
our bags for a customs officer, who was
too lazy to look into them; and at the
Hotel Victoria the landlord had given us
a large, clean, airy, brick-floored bedroom,
for which he asked less than the guide-
book told us to beat him down to; we were
free, withcut further delay or boaher, to
make our plans and be off on the road at
any moment we chose.
But first of all we went out to have a
look at Malaga. Who wa3 it said that
sight-seeing was the art of disappoint-
ment? Sun'ly we had not come all this
way to the town of Haniet el Zegri to
walk through brand new, wide streets
lined with nig modern shops and clubs
and cafes. The huge Interior of the ca-
thedral was unimpressive. The broken
walls of the old Moorish fohress stood
on the top of far too high a hill to be
climbed in the staring sunshine of a July
day. And even Murray could direct us
to nothing else but a plain, bare church,
where tlie banner of St. Ferdinand Is said
to hang, which we found fast shut, and
an old Moorish arch, now neatly restored,
and a river, dried up by the blazing sun
of a tropical summer, with a railway track
running down the middle of its bed, be-
tween groups of wooden shanties. We m< t
woman in black lace mantillas, or else in
long pointed shawls, a gay tlower stuck
In .heir hair, ami men with clean shaven
faces, in low. broad-brimmed hats and
wide red belts. We saw plenty of donkeys
in bright, gaudy trappings, but this was
ail the costume. We ought to have known
better than to expect more. Still, some-
how. its absence added to the grayness
of our first impression.
FALLING OUT THE BANKS.
One by one we are falling out
The ranks, we soldier boys;
Nor much the fact that ranks grow thin
Our equipoise destroys.
Trained well we were at mother's knee,
And taught by father's tongue,
We proudly played the role of men,
And brave men marched along.
We questioned not the legal right
Which held up in the ranks:
We fe.t the thrill of patriot hearts,
Nor courted country's thanks.
Shoulder to shoulder in serried ranks,
We've stood as shot and shell
Did plow their way 'cross hot-fought
fields.
And wept as our comrades fell.
Not surely on Ctilloden's plains,
Nor 'neath Italia's skies.
Were loftier deeds at Marengo
As France with Austria vies.
We fought the fight with might and main,
While "Stonewall" led the way:
We listened, each with ears at tent.
What " 'Marse Bob Lee" might say.
We caught in ranks the last resound
Of cannon's echoing thunder,
Nor ever flitted 'cross our minds
Tl)e thought, 'twas all a blunder.
We hear the fiat, war's no more,
And peace proclaimed in sorrow;
We furled our flag and turned our face
With strong faith toward the morrow.
GEORGE ROSS, M. D.
Richmond, Va.
The Sweet and Sentimental Murderer
Ivokoro. Lafcadio Hearn.
"There Is a story that, the most famous
of all Japanese robbers, Ishlkawa Goem-
on. once by night entering a house to kill
and steal, was charmed by the smile of a
baby which reached out hands to him and
that he remained playing with tlie little
creature until all chance of carrying out
his purpose was lost. It is not hard to be-
lieve this story. Every year the police
records tell of compassion shown to chil-
dren by professional criminals. Some
months ago a terrible murder ease was
reported in the local papers—the slaughter/
of a household by robbers. Seven persons
had been literally hewn to pieces while
asleep; but the police discovered a little
boy quite unharmed, crying alone in a
pool of blood: and <h«\v found evidence
unmistakable that i,t»e men who slew must
have taken greafr care not to hurt the
child.
Civil Service lleforiim.
Boston (Ind.) Herald.
Tho remarkable conglomeration in the
Chicago resolutions would be less com-
plete were it not for their side blow at
civil service reform. We fear there are
too many active politicians in both parties
who look askance at the loss of the offices,
but the action of the republican conven-
tion was explicit in indorsing its enforce-
ment. and the record of Gov. McKinley is
entirely satisfactory on the subject. Civil
service reformers will not have the slight-
est doubt as to liovv their votes shall bo
cast this year.
MiMunilerMtood.
Washington Times.
"Doctor, will my husband be able to
recover--"
"Oh, yes. madam; he Is not seriously
hurt, and—"
"I was going to ask if he would be ablo
to recover damages from tho company,"
ARE THEIR OWN CATERERS.
Permitted to Get and Ent Pretty Much
Anything: They AVnnt—Allowance
from the Government.
New York Times.
"Now, look here," said the enthusiastic
army officer, "simply regard the differ-
ence. Here are a lot of German soldiers,
who, they tell us, are the finest on the
earth, living on what soldiers call 'chuck.'
which, if given to the rank and file of
Uncle Sam's blue-coated defenders would
lead to a riot.
"This, according to the long-awaited an-
nual from the military information division
of the war department, is what one regi-
ment of the garde lives on, even when
quartered in Berlin:
Breakfast—Bread and coffee.
Dinner—Bread and coffee, with meat and
peas.
Supper—Bread and coffee, with the ad-
dition of meat on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
"Bread and coffee, coffee and bread.
Why such a bill of fare constantly set be-
fore our troops on the frontier would be
something like a disintegration of the
army. The men wouldn't—couldn't—stand
it. They would, first, if such a fare were
by any possibility decided upon by their
superiors, raise their voices in a vocal
howl that would reach high heaven; then
they'd desert, and that would be the end
of them.
"As a matter of fact, our soldiers are
fed better than are the majority of what
Europeans call the 'middle class. They get
good, wholesome food, plenty of it, and
they see to it themselves that it is properly
cooked. They are practically their own ca-
terers, and our government allows them,
under the supervision of the amiable com-
pany commander, to get and to eat pretty
much anything they want.
"The system is a splendid one. Tem-
p« ance people may preach against the
army canteen as a factor in promoting
drunkenness in the ranks, but their 'kick'
is simply a theoretical one, following out
a principle. As a rule, they don't know
what they are talking about. Men in the
army, 1'iom the colonel down to the high
private In the rear rank, recognize the fact
that since the introduction of the canteen
system the soldier is better fed in conse-
quence of it, better contented with his
individual lot, and soberer, if you'll pardon
the word, than ever it was before.
"But the consideration of that much-
mooted question is in better hands than
mine, and we will drag ourselves back to
the discussion of the graver question of
our army 'chuck.'
"Of course, every one knows that the
government supplies a 'ration' to its sold-
iers. This consists of a per capita allow-
ance of fresh meat, pork, bacon, beans,
coffee, bread, sugar, salt, vinegar, pepper,
potatoes and onions—in fact, quite enough
to make in itself a good living. Each man
is allowed enough each day to keep himself
fat for twenty-four hours, and when the
first sergeant of a troop of cavalry, for in-
stance, goes to draw his rations for sixty
men for ten dayr, as is the army custom,
he gets more of some of the 'details' of the
ration than his men can possibly consume.
"For example, the coffeee allowance is a
tenth of a pound per man per day. This
for 60 men for 10 days gives »50 pounds for
that time. Making the inspiriting liquid
as do army cooks, it takes about 3 or
pounds a day for the troop mess, and so
in 10 days, using at the most 3l/fc pounds
each day, a balance of 25 pounds is accu-
mulated. In a month this makes over 75
pounds, and coffee in the west is worth
from 20c to 30c per pound.
"ThliKis where we get down to the sys-
tem. The government allows munificently
the troop mess to dispose of its savings
thus made to the highest bidder, and the
money so obtained goes into what Is called
a 'company fund.' Coffee is not the only
article of the ration on which saving can
be made. Pork and bacon are furnished
on the basis that they form three-tenths
of the meat consumed by soldiers; as a
matter of fact, they don't form one-tw€*itU
eth of the flesh food he disposes of. Other
things, like beans, are furnished in excess
of the consuming capacity, and. being
readily salable, go to swell the 'company
fund' at the end of each month.
"And here, having shown one source of
a troop's living income, let me dilate on
that received from the canteen. That bib-
ulous institution is run on general lines,
laid down by the war department, by an
officer selected from those of each garri-
son. He acts under the immediate super-
vision of the commanding officer, through
a council made up of three members of the
post officers. It is not only a place where
beer is sold to soldiers, but there they may
purchase at moderate coat pretty nearly
anything, from a collar button to a bicycle.
Everything except beer is sold with tlie
view of making only a moderate profit on
the capital invested, and Is consequently
cheap.
"Each month, generally, a balance in tho
canteen's earnings and debits is struck,
and the profits divided among the troops or
companies serving in the garrison, accord-
ing to their individual strength. These
profits would surprise you. In Fort Sill,
Ok., for example, where Lieut. T. B. Du-
gun, of the third cavalry—probably tho
most efficient canteen officer in the army
—was for many months in control, the six
troops stationed there divided about $2000
a month.
"So. getting back to the question of food
a troop of cavalry—I am a cavaJry officer
and 1 love only the mounted troops; that's
why I take a troop as a basis— when serv-
ing on the frontier, Is in receipt of a
monthly income, from its savings and from
the canteen, of about $1500. This money,
by some ambitious troop commanders, is
saved in order to make a big showing for
the officer at department headquarters, but
as a rule it is spent on the troop mess.
A non-commissioned officer is ih charge of
the mess, and under the supervision of his
immediate commanding officer, he buys for
his troop everything that comes Into his
market.
"Instead of his coffee and bread, then,
for breakfast, dinner ana supper, tho
American soldiers live on the fat of the
land. For breakfast he has beefsteak,
eggs, ham and vegetables, varied of such
wholesome food as his mess sergeant can
scrape up. His dinner is a regular course
affair, made up of soup, roast meat of
some kind, three or four vegetables and
dessert. At supper he enjoys either cold
meat and 'tixin's,' or he has some kind of
meat pie or something of the sort, and gen-
erally some kind of pie or pudding or other
amiable topper-off.' Coffee is given ad lib.
at each meal, and as much bread as the
soldier can eat is given to him.
"Such little extras as butter, milk, jam,
etc., make their appearance on the soldier's
table at frequent intervals, and on Sunday
—every Sunday—the mess syrgeant simplv
blows himself. Chickens, turkeys, geese,
and deer ail die for tho honor of such oc-
casions, and the soldier, ono day in the
week, at least, is glad that ho is alive.
Holidays are especially observed in a gas-
tronomic way, and 1 have known a troop
commander to spend out of his troop fund
as much as $100 for a Christmas dinner for
his men.
"Suppose, instead of his bread and cof-
fee, with the 'addition of meat on Tues-
days and Thursdays,' a German soldier
were to have a daily bill of fare something
like Ills American brother in arms he
would unquestionably be a better man
physically than he is. Imagine him living
like this:
Breakfast—Beefsteak, fried eggs, fried
potatoes, broiled ham, coffee, bread, butter.
Dinner—Roast chicken, sage dressing"
mashed potatoes, stewed corn, stewed to-
matoes, green peas, plum pudding, various
pies, coffee, bread.
Supper-Cold roast beef or meat pie, veg-
etables, pickles, coffee, bread, cheese but-
ter. '
"That may look big on paper, but as an
actual tact It Is not a bit of exaggeration
I have command."! a troop which llv."i
like that straight along. Itn menu was al-
ways good ami was varied by the seasons
h.verythlng that could be got my ser-
geant got lor his mess, and even then the
men, spoiled by good living, thought «
was rather skimping them. "«
Of course, in the field, troops In actual
crnment r.'u"on""bu?lt??en"The°r? "if" "hey
f.S;1 "i'I's ™nl,v
In such cases and the fact thaT.'hl'e nlly
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