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MUSTER THEM OUT
At a session of the local war board
yesterday, evidence was submitted con
firming the reports of unsanitary con
ditions, neglect and ill-treatment to
which the Seventh regiment has been
subjected at Camp Merritt, as previously
reported by The Herald. In view of all
these wretched conditions, and the fur
ther prospect that the services of the
regiment will not be required by the
government, the war board acted wisely
ln taking steps to secure the mustering
out of the men.
The whole matter of their enlistment
and retention ln camp for four months,
during which they have been subjected
to slight, neglect and disease-breeding
conditions, may be set down as a
wretched travesty.
If Secretary Alger designed this, or
any part of it, as a means of "getting
even" with Southern California for not
liking him, he ts welcome to all the
glory he will get out of It.
The president should be appealed to
directly to let our boys come home. We
have buried our dead; we will try to
nurse the sick back to health. Our pa
triotism, which has been scorned and
rejected and spit upon, will keep, and
along with it there will be an endur
ing remembrance of the man or men
who have done this foul thing.
THE SIXTY-SECOND VICTIM
Last Monday evening Frank Rodl
baugh, private of company H, Seventh
regiment California volunteers, died of
typhoid fever. This makes the sixty
second victim of the sinkhole known
as Camp Merritt, to which the South
ern California boys were assigned.
Young Rodibaugh was a nephew of Dr.
Stephen Bowers of this city. His par
ents, who reside ln Ventura, are now
inconsolable over the loss of their only
eon.- When this young man entered the
service the examining surgeons pro
nounced, him one of the best men, phys
ically, of his company. His tlfe has been
sacrificed, not to subserve any useful
purpose for his country, but as a penalty
for the gross lncomp'etence and care
lessness, or worse, which has character
ized the treatment of the Seventh regi
ment from the first day It reported for
duty.
At this distance It Is hard to fathom
the motives of the authorities ln com
mand, who are responsible for locating
our gallant boys upon that disease and
death-breeding camp ground. Anybody
with a grain of common sense ought to
have known that the proximity of a
burylng-ground, garbage dumps and
plies of decaying stable manure, together
with the chill winds and fogs that roll
ln from the Pacific ocean In that local
ity, would undermine the strongest con
stitutions and breed disease and death.
When to these wretched conditions were
added an insufficient supply of clothing
and Indifferent food, the climax of ne
glect and abuse was reached.
Over the graves of those sixty-two
Victims, and of those who may yet fol
low them as the results of disease al
ready engendered, should be written
this lasjsnd: "Victims of the lnoompe-J
tence and negleot of the war depart
ment."
It Is stated, with what truth we cannot
aay, but with the appearance of proba
bility, that the real object in locating
the soldiers ln Camp Merritt, was to
throw business Into the hands of the
atreet-car lines that run out from San
Francisco. If this be true, then we must
add to the charges of Incompetence and
negleot a charge of Jobbery. As the
street car system of San Francisco is
largely owned and controlled by the
Southern Pacific Railway company, un
der the management of Boss Herrln,
tt Is easy to understand that a power
ful pull may have been exercised on the
authorities to place the camp where they
did. If that was the moving cause, what
a pitiable spectacle It presents. All for
a few paltry dollars! Think of It, ye
patriot la American citizens! Think of
It, fathers and mothers, brothers and
sisters, wives and sweethearts, whose
hopes lie burled ln the graveyard of
Camp Merritt!
One thing Is certain: The matter will
not be allowed to rest until there shall
have been a thorough investigation to
place the responsibility for this crime
where it properly belongs. When that
responsibility shall be determined, the
vengeance of an outraged people will
pursue the culprits as long as they live.
It may not be possible to hang them—
more's the pity!—but they must suffer
a public condemnation and execration
that may give them a foretaste of the
Infernal regions. They will be branded
as murderers.
WE SECOND THE CZAR
Tbe first thought evoked by the czar's
note to the powers is surprise at Its gen
eral scope, and at the manifest sincerity
of ita author. The next Is an impression
that a most admirable dissertation ln
favor of international peace has been
presented to the world. It inspires the
belief that the present csar is moved by
an Impulse to do an act, in behalf of
humanity, ln some measure paralleling
his ancestor's edict which gave Russia
freedom from serfdom.
It would be difficult to present argu
ments ln favor of universal peace in
more concise and forcible form than the
czar has shown tbem. He says, very
truly, that with the vast armaments
now employed by the nations, "labor
and capital are mostly diverted from
their natural application and are un
productlvely consumed." And again:
"National culture, economic progress
and the production of wealth are either
paralyzed or checked In development."
In considering the probable effect of
this unexpected proffer from the czar, It
la noticeable that Europe and Great
Britain generally concede Its sincerity.
There is no question that It will be so
regarded ln the United States. An im
pediment appears at the outset ln the
coldness with which It Is received ln
England, if we may Judge from the brief
expressions of newspapers that have
thus far reached us. Even ln England,
however, the force of the proposition is
likely to grow the longer the matter Is
considered and the more closely It Is
studied.
Of course It la only partial or rela
tive disarmament that the czar pro-
poses. What fraction of armed strength
he would eliminate, whether one-fourth
or one-half or more, has not yet been
disclosed. The czar's proposition is that
a conference of the powers shall deter
mine this important question and all
others pertaining to it. He simply
pledges Russia to such disarmament as
the rest of the powers will amicably
agree to.
It should be borne in mind that the
Russian bear has never really been the
ogre of Europe that cartoonists have
so lavishly portrayed. Asia is the field
which the great paws have been slowly
but surely moving upon. With the ex
ception of aggression toward Turkey
and Poland, the czar has shown but
little Inclination to trouble himself with
the map of Europe. When Napoleon
oracularly declared that within fifty
years Europe would be "all republican
or all Cossack," he had In mind the
hordes that were pressing him in the
retreat from Moscow.
As the czar's Invitation, of course, ex
tends to the United States, it must arouse
profound Interest here. It comes Just
at the time when our government is
making preparations for a large stand
ing army and a vast enlargement of the
navy. So far as the sentiment of the
people of the United States is concerned,
It may be counted as unanimous ln fa
vor of peace. The American people are
firm believers in the apothegm that
"peace hath' her victories no less re
nowned than war." Victories In the
broad field of the world's industry, not
on the battlefield, are the kind to which
Americans are now looking eagerly for
ward.
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM AND
LABOR
The Republican fly-trap platform Is a
work of art. If It is not a model of con
sistency or of sense. Ie demands the re
tention of Porto Rico and the Philip
pines, In order to permit the extension
of American trade and to extend the
benefit of free commercial Intercourse,
and declares that. In pursuance of the
constitution, all duties, Imposts and ex
cises must be uniform.
A little further on the same platform
pledges that Its representatives in con
gress will devote their energies to re
tain, in its Integrity, the protective
policy of the United States ln dealing
with the question of the retention of the
Philippines.
These political baits are gathered from
the plank upon territorial expansion.
The author of thla plank, however, had
evidently forgotten all about the com
petition of coolie labor which.the acqul
LOS ANGELES HERALD. TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1898
sitlon of this territory must bring about.
The platform, therefore, ottenalbly, by
an amendment, reiterates the old cheat
nut that the Republican party of Mark
Hanna and Dan Burns Is the champion
of the wage earner, and demands the en
actment of such legislation regarding
Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines
as will protect the American workman
against Chinese, Japanese and other
contract labor found therein, and pre
vent any further influx or extension
thereof, and, finally, it proposes to pro
hibit the Chinese and Japanese now "lo
cated" In the Hawaiian Islands from en
tering the United States.
These planks show that Mr. Burns'
platform is Intended as a vote-catcher.
The truth Is the Republican party of
this state has no principles upon which
It can make a winning campaign, and,
in its desperation. It is driven to make
absurd declarations.
Having adopted these planks, it now
remains for the representatives of the
Republican party to explain how it Is
possible to annex foreign territory with
out, at the same time, making Its In
habitants members of the American
Union. Do they propose to drive the
Chinese and Japanese out of the an
nexed territory? And, If so, does any
sane person believe that such purpose
will ever be carried out?
By the constitution of the United
States, under the protection of which
the inhabitants of the annexed terri
tory will be brought, equal rights and
liberties are guaranteed to every person.
While the articles of annexation be
tween sovereign countries may, perhaps,
abridge the rights and liberties of the
Inhabitants of the annexed territory and
force upon them a status peculiar In
citizenship to themselves, no one believes
that It is ln the power of any civilized
country to sell Its subjects Into slavery,
or that the United States could. If It
desired, discriminate between, different
classes of wage earners by declaring that
Its adopted citizens shall be restricted ln
the free exercise of their constitutional
right of pursuing their avocations, while
its native citizens shall have a free field.
The absurdity, therefore, of a platform
which attempts to fool the laboring men
of this state upon a matter of such vital
Importance to them needs but to be men
tioned to be discovered. The Republican
party, which stands as the sentinel for
highly protected mill owners, wants ter
ritorial expansion for an enlarged mar
ket, but always with a stone wall of
protection around It. It wants also the
millions of laborers within this territory
with which to supplant the wage-earners
of the United States. And the Repub
lican platform declaration, that the
American laborers must be protected
against the coolie labor of the annexed
territory, is a falsehood promulgated for
campaign purposes.
COAL AND ELECTRICITY
The discovery of a promising coal
prospect ln Cajon pass Is not surpris
ing. There is probably plenty of coal
in the mVintains of Southern California.
Like many other elements of wealth, the
coal deposits have not been explored
and utilized. Not only coal, but iron
Is known to exist In the mountains north
and northeast of Los Angeles, and It
is only a question of time when these
products will be marketed here.
Fortunately coal Is not so essential
a factor ln the business world as It was
a few years ago; at least where facili
ties are offered for the introduction of
electricity, generated by water power.
Before this year closes we shall prob
ably have light, heat and power, avail
able to any desired extent, at rates lower
than other cities pay where coal Is plen
tiful and cheap.
Less than a year ago grave doubts
were expressed about the practicability
of transmitting electric energy a great
distance without ruinous losa All doubts
on that subject were set at rest several
months ago. Nicola Tesla, the distin
guished electrician and specialist ln long
distance transmission gave a friendly
opinion in a personal letter, expressing
unqualified faith in the enterprise. Mr.
Tesla says: "By means of the polyphase
system power can be readily and eco
nomically transmitted to much greater
distances than eighty miles."
Relative to the percentage of loss In
long distance transmission, which gave
much uneasiness at an early stage of the
project, Mr. Teela says: "The loss at
eighty miles may be practically reduced
to the same figure as at five miles; It
is a mere question of the electric tension
adopted." Under the favorable circum
stances resulting from abundant cheap
power, there is no reason whatever why
Los Angeles should not soon be the site
of many large manufacturing industries.
A SHAMEFUL SPECTACLE
It is humiliating to American pride
that the attention of Europe should now
be attracted to a shameful spectacle at
the head of our military establishment.
The praises of our army and navy have
scarcely ceased to echo abroad, when ad
miration turns to wonder and amaze
ment. The scandalous developments in
the war department and the certainty
lhat only the edge of them has yet ap
peared to public view, makes American
blood tingle.
General Miles is to be subjected to
a court of inquiry, as preliminary to a
court martial, because he has been un
able to fuliv disguise hit contempt lor
the Incompetency and stupidity that
have characterized the operation of the
war department. It will be Interesting
to read the specifications In the case, If
the public should have the privilege of
seeing them. If General Miles has
fittingly phrased expressions of con
tempt, his utterances deserve to be
framed.
The scheme to courtmartlal General
Miles Is palpably an attempt to divert
public attention from the scandala that
are beginning to crop out In the execu
tive department of the service. Secre
tary Alger finds himself overwhelmed
by the weight of evidence already ad-
I duced. He knows that the facts to come
will bear with crushing force, and In his
helplessness he Is aiming to personally
escape by saddling at least part of the
blame on the active head of the army. I
Thus a disgraceful scandal supple
ments the fame achieved for the nation
by its army and navy. . We had good
and sufficient ground for objecting to
some of Europe's strictures while the war
waa In progress, but any case that may
be made against us now, relative to our
war department scandal, may go by de
fault.
A KNIGHT ERRANT
George A. Knight of San Francisco
has announced his Intention to be a
candidate for United States senator
should the Republicans have a majority
of the legislature. He also has declared
hla purpose to stump the southern coun
ties to aid In achieving a realization of
his senatorial aspirations. Mr. Knight
has ever been a stalwart advocate of
free and unlimited coinage of sliver. In
going to the St. Louis convention he
made several speeches for It, and he
voted against tabling the Teller substi
tute ln the convention. We suggest that
when Mr. Knight appears on the stump
he be Interrogated as to his silver views.
In coming out for senator Mr. Knight
displays more courage than Judgment,
for he ought to know that the senator
ship has already been slated for De
Toung.
The gift battleship business Is being
run Into the ground, metaphorically. An
"American Girl" battleship scheme has
Just been launched ln Chicago, and
American women and girls are to be im
portuned to chip ln. Our advice la to
put no coins Into the enterprise. The
government can afford to buy battle
ships when It needa them. A battleship
would cost perhaps five million dollars.
What oceans of caramels and chewing
gum that would buy!
It has a cooling effect to read that Pas
adena Is already making preparations
for Its annual New Tear's tournament.
Our New Tear's days are so balmy, how
ever, that they are hardly suggestive of
the eastern holiday season. Pasadena
evidently intends that there shall be no
In the attractions to be pre
sented ln future, and those In the past
have made the city famous.
They evidently do some things fairly
well ln the staid old Keystone State.
Governor Hastings was nettled st the
way Pennsylvania sick soldiers were
treated at Chlckamauga. He personally
solicited subscriptions for a hospital
train to bring them home, and ln half
an hour he collected five thousand dol
lars. Roosevelt, Hastings—who next?
The San Francisco Chronicle prog
nosticated the entire ticket of the Re
publican nominees with absolute accu
racy two days before the late funeral at
Sacramento. As a shepherd Mr. De
Toung deserves due credit, If the sheep
still maintain that the pasture had not
already been staked out for them.
One of the Hawaiian commissioners,
ln an Interview on his arrival at Hono
lulu, said to the people: "The United
States has assumed $4,000,000 of your
debt, but that Is no reason why you
should be estopped from incurring
more." They must be supremely happy
now.
A project la op foot to colonize a large
number of Hebrews ln our new territory
of Porto Rico. Its success would be very
doubtful. Such an attempt was made
at Vine land. In New Jersey, a few years
ago, and It completely failed. Several
other failures of the kind might be cited.
4 • •
That Enoch Arden story from San Pe
dro Indicates that that ambitious sea
port is alive to the benefits of advertis
ing. Romance Is all well enough In Its
way, but the beginning of that harbor
work is what we particularly want to
hear about.
Now the Spaniards have set up the
plea that they ought to be paid for public
works and buildings on their lately trans
ferred property. As their gall enlarges
they will probably claim a reservation
of tree stumpage, mining claims and un
cut grass.
The report of the Republican state
convention ln Delaware, ln allusion to
the platform, rays: "Nothing was said
regarding territorial expansion." The
Delawareans are evidently satisfied with
the magnitude of their own state.
San Francisco reports a light earth
quake Sunday night. If the city were
blameable for crimes committed there
against suffering soldiers, it would de
serve such a visitation as the one that
wiped out Sodom and Gomorrah.
In a dispatch from. London tt Is said
that the emperor of Germany Intended
to do the olive branch disarmament act
In a declaration from Jerusalem. Well,
let him and all the other monarchs chime
ln. The Idea Is not patented.
Now Kansas City holds up Its finger
and says It wants a peace Jubilee. The
Jubilee fever Is working westward from
Chicago. How would It do for Los An
geles to Jubilate, as compensation for the
loss of Fiesta?
In Berlin somebody Is worrying with
the question, 'whether America has not
reached her zenith." We think hardly,
but It does seem a little dizzy, up where
we are.
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The municipal authorities of Venice nave
petitioned the Italian government to take
diplomatic steps to recover 6000 pictures
which were oarrled off by Bonaparte be
tween 1806 and MM, and whloh were ap
propriated from various powers after his
fall. The city also desires that a demand
shall be adkHressedi to Austria for tbe re
turn of MS pictures which were carried oft
by Emperor Ferdinand in ISM, In time of
peace, fer the galleries of Vienna.
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"And what," the visitor asked, "did your
new gaa stove cost? It's such a lovely one I"
"Twenty dollars," Mr. Wattles answered.
"Why, John!" exclaimed Mrs. Wattles; "It
didn't, either! Tou know tt was only IM.JS!"
—Chicago News, •
The National Soldiers'
Home in Local Politics
BT ABBOT KINNEY
11.
The Soldiers' Home at Santa Monica has
been used by local office seekers to gain ac
cess to the public taxes. Street cars have
been sent to the Home to bring carloads of
soldiers to vote ln the local township elec
tions for Justice and constable. The old
soldiers have been used in school elections.
Five voting precincts have been located on
the federal reservation itself. Office seek
ers manipulate the Home beneficiaries for
personal gain. They treat to beer ln ex
cess at the Canteen and to other strong
drink ln near-by saloons. They debauch
the old soldiers.
The whole business has been a cruel, self
seeking use of the old soldiers. The use
of these beneficiaries of the people's gener
ous sacrifices in taxes for political plunder
has been unjust, Illegal and a heartless dis
regard of the standing of the soldiers indi
vidually and in the popular regard. It is
manifest that the illegal political use of a
body of two thousand men suported by the
taxes of the entire people for the enrich
ment of this or that venal political cabal ts
likely to diminish the good will of the tax
payers who are made to suffer and to alien
ate the affeoton of the people for the old
soldier. It Is clear that such political use
of this Institution in local affairs can ln no
way benefit or favorably affect the
old soldiers or the Home. The
Home Is not administered by local
county elected officers; It Is not
supported by looal taxes. Its law Is the
military law of the United States. The
Home and Its occupants bear no part of the
tax burdens of the community and are be
yond and outside of all local control what
ever.
The beer and whisky treating political
self-seeker ln evidence at this time amongst
the old soldiers Is a moral debaucher. He
Is a curse to the soldier, a detriment to the
Home and a traitor to the just rights of his
real local constituents. No true friend of
the soldier and no honest patriot should
longer tolerate this political and moral
wrong.
The district attorneys have misunder
stood the law applying to this federal Home.
They have advdsed the assessors that they
could collect no poll tax from residents ln
the Home unless these had property else
where In the state. The exception Is In
harmony with the state constitution, which
provides that the occupant of such an in
stitution neither gains a political residence
while there nor loses the political residence
which he hod before entering the Home.
It would therefore be a reasonable presump
tion that the political residence Is where the
old soldier has property. Whether 4t was
the Intent of congress to provide this beau
tiful park and 1 free home for men with prop
erty is doubtful. But that Is another
story.
The assessor knows the law as to this
Home. He assesses no land or buildings
there; he assesses no personal property lo
cated within the reservation either of sol
dier, officer or civilian employe.
The tax collector knows the law, and col
lects no taxes there. It Is left, then, for
the county clerk to play catspaw to tho po
litical monkey amd register the whole com
munal Home Into five voting precincts.
If the assessor and tax collector are
wrong ln their law and the county clerk Is
right, then the former officers and their
bondsmen are 'liable to the taxpayers of
this county for a deliberate neglect of duty.
These gentlemen can rely on the fact that
the approaching settlement of the politi
cal status of the Soldiers' Home will Inter
est them and their bondsmen.
The Soldiers' Home either Is a federal
reservation, the property of the United
States and supported by it, or tt Is not.
If It Is, then no one ln It Is thereby apoliti
cal resident of California, and the gross
abuse of right and decency ln using the old
soldiers ln local political partisan plunder
campaigns must end. If dt is not a federal
reservation, then the assessor and tax col
lector of this county are liable on their
bonds, and this Home and the personal
property within tt must contribute to the
tax burdens of the community. The polit
ical officers of the county are going to be
asked to blow hot or cold on this question.
To blow cold on tax collection and hot on
vote counting will no longer do. The real
friends of the soldiers and the Home and
those whs did most to secure Its location
Ir this delightful climate, so conducive to
the healthand longevity otthe helpless vet
erans, are In opposition to the present lead
ers of the Republican party. None of these
did more for the Home than Senator John
P. Jones of Nevada. The mouth-patriots
who have done the wrong to the old sol
diers of dragging them into local politics
never did anything for the old soldiers ot
for the Home.
No true friend of the old soldiers can
wish to see them used ln organized bod'.es
for local partisan political plunder. The
greatest Injury from their abuse is to the
old soldiers and to the popular regard In
which the Institution where they are sup
ported is, held. The next greatest injury
done is to the party whose venal partisans
seek to debauch and use his lllepil vote.
In this county it has been the Republican
machine. When the Soldiers' Home was
located here Los Angeles was the banner
Republican county ot the state, and this,
too, without any Soldlres' Home to vote.
Today It Is close to the doubtful column.
The last Injury, which Is greatest to the
body of the people, is the defiance of Sow
and justice involved in their abuse and the
fixing upon the county of a body of tax
eaters through the votes of non-tax paying
and helpless tax-supported men in a fed
eral institution and under the military law
of the federal government. The abuse Is
wicked and heartless. The fact that men
otherwise decent and of good standing
should descend to do such a cruel wrong to
the old vetreans and break the law for
political advantage is a demonstration of
the need of a reform of our political
methods to remove such Irresistible temp
tation from those ln the public service.
There are two distinct reasons which make
the voting of the old soldiers at the Sol
diers' Home Illegal. These win be present
ed In another article, and also to the courts
of the state.
It Is no exaggeration to say that the old
soldiers have lost the most by their use
by a political machine.
The officers, both township and county,
whom they have fixed on this county, have
failed to protect them from robbery and
murder.
Dens and dives of disorder have been and
are licensed, tolerated, and It Is even
claimed, proteoted by so-called law officers
These places, located about and near tht
Home, are the most disgraceful dens of
thieves and brutal highbinders ln Califor
nia. Santa Monica canyon is probably the
worst country district on the Pacific coast
Old soldiers have beea murdered right in
Banta Monica.. Who bas paid a penalty foi
the evil deeds? Many of these tolerated
dives live on tbe old soldiers' weaknesses.
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tied especially for us, if you prefer it. Whichever. M
fyou buy you will be pleased with your purchase. JrjK
All sorts of salad dressings, etc.
208-SlO S. Spring St., Wilcox Building W>
I Hysterical Women j
m Aided and abetted by levitating kitchen furniture are these latter days under- i
i taking to teach the science of the soul and to demonstrate a future life, ln m
A our college we teach the science of accounts, and try th demonstrate that the if
A future of each young man and young woman is successful and happy in pro- a
T portion to his application of common sense to all the affairs of life. A
J i Fall Term, Day and Evening, Open* Monday, Sept. S. Drop in to 0
'. see us about it this week. If you enter now we will date you ahead. We send A
'[ interesting reading matter by mail. We are looking out for number one of A
I [ course, but really a six months' course at our school will do you more good i
I • than it will us. It's worth thinking about. 5
£ 212 West Third Street £
Removal Notice . . .
Pending the erection of our new Music and Art Building at 233-235
South Broadway, our temporary warerooms will be at 315 West Third
street, between Broadway and Hill streets.
BLANCHARD PIANO CO.
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! U/m T i 00LD REfINERS and ASSAYERS §
| IT Ilia ■■0111111 l * Will open temporary orlices in rooms9and to, j
*«•**"» 5 128 N. Main St., on Monday, Aitßust 29, and J
I At I A < Tne O ri S' nal son September 1 will occupy the suite of rooms |
j IX vUi W. T.) I formerly leased by Smith & Irving. j
CONSUMPTION CURED DB SiK SON
Friveto'Senltiirlum Beport ef ca»e« lent tree, 418H 9outh Spring at..Loa Angeles Un,
They tempt them to drunkenness and vice.
The time has come for the people to realiz*
the unlawful and disgraceful situation, and
end it.
Let us have a fair, honest and generous
administration of the Soldiers' Home. Let
us protect the soldiers from self-seekers and
debauohers. Let us secure the veterans ln
the regard and affection of the whole body
of the people whose sacrifices in taxation
support them. Let us enforce the consti
tution and the law.
To do this we must abolish the dives
about the Home, we must* keep local poli
ticians out of any interest ln its vote and
we must enforce the plain rule of Justice
applicable to the political status of all such
institutions, whether municipal, county,
state or national.
SIMPLE SONGS FOR SUCKERS
White Ants
Don't say a word to anyone, but we have
had a fright!
White ants have been a-gnawtng at our
platform, clay and night,
Until upon my word they've left us but an
empty sklr..
All fnlr and sound to look upon, but rot
tenness within!
Don't tread so heavy, Arnold, or you'll sure
ly break a plank!
And Waters, mind your trotters; better
lock em ln your bark!
Van Fleet, pick up your feet or you will
have them breaking through!
Good gracious! I'm so nervous that I
don't know what to do!
There have been insinuations that the ants
are not to blame
For. the rotting cf our timbers, ond the
gnawing of the same;
They sny that any fool that knows- a thing,
can understand,
White ant« are not around where Uncle
Coills takes a herd.
Down on the Banks at Alessandro
We are down on the banks where the stilly
Waters flow.
Where the greenbacks rustle as they
waver to and fro,
Where the notes of the birds are borne upon
the air,
With the sweet ten-per-(s)cents, which
they are paying there.
Where the gold bug bumbled as he boomed
upon the w ie,
And left a little smell of prosperity be
hind,
Which the simple sucker sniffs as he cinches
up his belt.
And says that the times are the bes»t he
ever felt!
Yes, we're down on the banks where the
stilly Waters run,
For we have got the sack, while the bank
er got the men..
But the banks are so lew, and the Waters
run so fast.
They are liable to run in a gopher hole at
' last.
The Gold Standard Mother and Her Bi-
Metalllc Child
"Mother, I am hungry; give me something
I can chew'"
"I have no money, darling, and the rent
Is over due; "v
But wait awhile, my darling, when Gage is
in the chair,
When congress shall convene again, and
Waters will be there,
Prosperity will hasten with her bounteous
repast—"
"Oh mother, that's a chestnut; I hays
heard it In the past;
For do you not remember, when Mark
Hanna had the floor
You told me that we never would be hun«
gry any more?"
"Hush! hush! you must be raving; just
give the man a chance!"
"But mother, I cannot get up since you
have pawned my pants;
Why can't you buy another pair? Sound
moneys made them cheap!"
"Oh! Hush your chatter, silly one; shutt
up and go to sleep!"
ALFRED I. TOWNSEND.
LIST OF SICK IS APPALLING
From the following table, says the Ex
aminer, a fair tu';a may be had of the ex
tent of sickness and suffering among the
soldiers. The tabulation is by no meanl
complete, and cannot be nrnde so until com
piled from army records, but Isj made up
generally from the reports received from
the camp hospitals.
Thousands of whom no record now ex
ists, or ever will exist, have gone to their
homes on furloughs and are being oared for
there. Hundreds of others are arriving
almost hourly in the hospitals and camps of
the north from Cuba ond southern camps.
Following Is a partial list of the number of
sick:
At Fort Sheridan 200
At Camp Thomas 159
At Camp Wikoff 1.20S
ln fit. l.ou!s Hospitals 50
At Chlckamauga Park 800
In New York hospitals ZOO
At Santiago de Cuba 5,000
At FercaKdlna, Fla §00
In Tins-ton hospitals 150
At Jacksonville, Fla 100
In Torto Klco 2.500
At San Francisco 200
At Huntsvlile, Ala 300
At Fort Meyer, Fortress Monroe,
Sheridan Point, Camp Alger and
other places 1,000
Total 12,150
summer resorts
Write for circulars and full Information
as to special advantages, rotes, manner ol
reaching, etc.. naentioning^'n^HeraW.
Magnetic Springs,
GLENWOOD, CAL.
Mountain House; heart of the Santa Crua
mounta.ns; hot and cold magnetic baths
tree; cottages for families; stage meets
s i', trail, rrnfh Snn FrMrlsrn Twins to
suit every health-seeking person. Particu
lars of L. V. PERHACS, Glenwood, Cal.
M'>N'fK VK'f \
In Sierra Nevada Mountains. Sixteen
rooms added. Fine tab!»; tons of all kinds
of. fruit; can help yourself; delightful cli
mate; elevation 3800 feet. Illustrated cata
logue. ' Thomas E. Morgan, Monte Vista.
Dutch Flat, Placer county, Cak