me EE IDEAL SUITS HAVE BEEN PROVIDED FOR A TROPICAL av Despatehes from Cnba tell how the! soldiers of onr army, burdened with flannel uniforms and heavy ont. | Norfolk jacket, with a belt of th The trimmings are de the | bloe | illery | ts, are throwing away everything. they can on the march, even their In the terrible heat every for the infantry, red for the ar p of weight adds to discomfort | and yellow for the cavalry. while marching, and, regardless of the | piure, men are casting aside blankets, | a clothing, tin plates and other les in their Merriam kits, caring | 0 lighten their burdens, in regular marching order who | n sent to Cabs, volunteers as alars, carry in sll nearly | comumissioned officers are worth ghont | , incladiag their rifles, 1 to stagger 8 man in a cool . This casting away of every 18 article is not & mew prac for it was done by tens of thons- ds of men in the Civil War and been done by soldiers in al- ng the unfitness of the i nniforms for the tropics, rament is having 40,000 cot- ton drilling and duck uniforms made, oh will greatly add to the comfort eral appearance of the soldiers. 4000 of these suits have been : | to Tampa to ba for General campaign uniform for in- i made of canvas dack or drill. 1 feature is a Norfolk or blouns effect with s box lown the back. There are foar # in the front and five buttons, per pockets ee Tass faced with , enffs Har fred a n samo material uniform is made with felled me. Brown canvas leggings some- | darker than the uniforry are A web eartridge belt, blue , haversack to contain knife. fork and = water bottle an the ripen un and d Hn enp Xo knap- ings of the cavalry uni- are yellow and of the artillery | lation army uniforms now in ined sud weigh about eight being better suited for nse in regions than in a climate ¥an's rays are as hot as the | from - farnace. The liniag | bly warm, and officers do not the men under them cast : disgust. br tay Satistw eve be | es troops 0 by ang Uitted 81 and they | active looking ss they are aye cloths nsed in the snits are what are ¢ the trude - drill weave and 0 ll0%le ill Avs radon : Cinscs odd CAMPAIGN. i HOSE RBG ments of the service, infantry, aril “and cavalry, are like the once Py : material, samt style, but of different colors, This trimming, which ends ar | tractive bit of color to the nuifirms, consists of a deep facing at the e ‘the sleeves, over the lapals of th | nppér pockets, shonider stra around the low cut military dbltar. : The trousers are perfectly plain, The uniforms of privates and $3 each. Four big pockets are wiade | in the coats, | Dressed in these suits, wit light ander-wear being provid 1 the Cloverament, the soldiers will foal like new mon. No attempt prq will he made to carry the kit on | marclies, except when absolute!) CAANArY. Officers will wear nniforms of but no more comfortable, ma finer, The cloth is known as kahke in where it comes from, and i brown linen. Uniforms of thi cost about $25, In add@ion to the canvas anc uniforine, which will be sent ¢ . im the Sonth as well Cuba, the Government is provid blae Mennel suit, unlined, NA cr et Gn India, cloth drill | " the * tO WE a khich / tes io Ro NEW UT, 8. ARMY UNIFORM -—LIGHT BEAVY MARCHING ORDER. A STs | ay weighs only a tow ounces more b three pouads. Clothing the army and navy is of the most important problems j sented to the War and Navy Day wents for solation. The quarters ter-getieral performs the task Jor army and the paymaster-general the navy. In time of peace the di involves considerable labor, Jan SER SE A ME AAR LBA 1 RB ro RR he iy w Ca i Deane The cotton ms, which are of a light weigh just two nds and . a ounces, while the uck, which pted for service in a conntry ¢ the men are exposed to dustand - - le evil sill pre ty for. all depart i supply are quickly exhansted, The clothing ‘must be made. The first thing the | of war, and especially at the begin. ning: of hostilities, when the public are crying for a million men to be enlisted, clothed und put at the front in # minute, the task assumes the proportions of a mountain in a fog. Take the quartermaster-genaral, for instance. It is his duty to see that the biz army which t he President has called to give battle to the Span ish is clothed at the very earliest pos sible moment. His nsual sources ao ith ers must be found. erial, like | al privates ix abort 85, men befors the mast is abouy 38 for i act number of suits required, the kind tof suits, the number of shoes and anderclothing, also bats. The sxact kind is then speeified in detail, and CASTOR BATTERY IN AX IDPAL THOPICAL UNIFORM FOR SZHVICE IN THE PHIL IPPINESR, a 0 494 5 bide tor the whole or part of the clothing needed. Accompanying every al ud | act | | : stiff | wheres | hopes to end HE WROTE "I “DIXIE Dan Foinelt Lives to Se to: Nee the North and mouth Sing His Famons Song Tagether, | Perhaps very few people know that | : Dan Fame, wlio wrote “IHxie” is | living Hix home i% in Monnt Vernon, Ohio, wax hora aud where he | hi daws. The old man | ha ix a picturesqna fAgure on the streets | i nf the mid-century dandisas of ¥ | ference ta the conventional, he use { aliy carries a longs #ia® aud wears hin i of rope, Ledge of the tows, | tirely alone Cternoon he can be found seated before his doag eeading, enough to talk with the : or, i poser of one of the pational songs of | town, ' to the cottage. | seated in the shads by his house with a book open before him, : mp the path I said, for 1 had some | doubt in my own mind: bid is a check to gnarsutee that the | terms of the sontract wili be enrried ont to the letter, . Thess bids are snbmitted, together | Pwith samples of the goods required, | The bids are carefully examined and compared and the lowest bidder (the quality of goods being satisf gets the contract. The goods con cory: | manufacturers and jobbers in tha | line of business are invited to sabmi’ | tracted for must be ready on time anc | deliverad to the Government. they are delivered they are inspected i by Government offcials snd, Wher | tf all right, accepted. Then they are for. | ‘warded to the stors house of the army | ‘at Philadelphia to await orders, sworn into the United States service, ! the captain of each company makes New York City. -, When a regiment is recruited and 1 _ life as a printer, hut soon abandoned [ut a requisition for the number of | uniforms neadad and foreards the | requisition to the quartermaster of the | | regiment. The colonel approves of the requisition, agd then it is for. | warded to the brigade ganartermaster, i who, if be has not the clothes required on hand, makes a requisition on the eOTpS quartermaster. The laMer, when | aniforma are nesded, makes a requin. { tign on the quartermaster general, who | draws the supplies nesded from the | depot at Philadelphia Upon the delivery of the clothing to ithe regimental guartermastir, the eaptaing of the several companies ars notified. The captains maroh their [men to headynarters and there they i receive the clothing apporticned ® ; them and for which the captain gives farecsipt to the regimental {arte : master, who Keeps it far his voucher. : The same formula for the imsmang of slothing is followed in the navy, The army and navy wniforme ave , made in searly every large ou) of the | Union, and the cost of those for the and those for per | man, he officers’ uniforms range in price from 8% to 875 A ballet ge however, pierce the one as quickly as ‘ the other. The uniform of the gen. Lernl officers of the army iz a doable: | breasted blouse of dark blue sloth ar serge, with four outside pateh pockets eompany, 5 “4 Taeker, Others, with daps, a rolling collar, with two | i rows of buttons, grouped according to rank, of the same kind as thowe worn on the dress coat. For all other of ficers a single breasted blouse is worn, of dark blue cloth or serge, with four cont. tends from one third to one-half the distance from the hip joint to the knee. Quite as important as the clothes are the shoes. For Caban service the men will wear dark brown canvas clothes, but the shoes will be the | same as worn at home. They are com- mon brogans, these shoes, stont of upper and mighty of sole and heel In fact, the army shoe is not n thing of beauty, but on the march it is ajoy forever, as every veteran known. They are made of cowhide, and, if possible, of the hide of a very tough cow at that. They are exceedingly broad of sole and heel, and are made with the doable view of securing darabilit yasd i comfort. rd RAAT PAY AA SHEA RBevord in Clothes Making. Thomas Kitson, employed in one of the cloth mills of Pennsylvania, had i six sheep sheared at 6.30 o'clock one morning recently. The wool was then sorted, scoured, dried, earded, span, ‘woven into cloth and the cloth was ‘ given to the tailors and made up 1ato “a suit af clothes which were given to quartermasty general does is to as. ~¢rtait, as nearly as possible, the ex- Mr. Ritson at 12.34 o'clock, or six hours and four minutes from the time ‘of shearing. The best previous reo- {ord was aboat eight hours donned a wig of kinky white bair, : : » . became such a favors w the pat- outside pockets with flaps, falling col- | 0 of the circis og i wilh the pat lar, with five buttons in front of the | sasie kind as those worn on the dress | The skirt of the dress coat ex- | «1.1 the stuge himself, of the town. Ia his prime Lo was one New bat now, with piss York City, cali pont fastened in at the waist by a bit tha lives gn. Oy almost any warm af- His home is a Little sotiagee on wheres he bint he ia ready chaned visits whoae cariosity to mest the com. America has brought bum out from It was this curiosity that took me The old COMPOSE Fan As | went 5 “Are you Dan Emmett, who wrote Phxin “Well, T have heard of the fellow: sit down,” and be wolioned to the ( steps. “Won't you tell me how the song was written? “Lake most everything else I ever did, bedunss it bad to be done, One Saturday night, in 1858, as | was | leaving Bryant's Theatre, where | was playing, Bryant called after me, *'1 | want a walk round for Monday, Dan’ Phe pext day it rained and [ stayed | frlaors Ad Brat when T went at ‘the : got anvil HR. Bat a; in Dixie, * kept ro. mind, and 1 Boaliy | The rest wasn't | tory | song I oonldn't ‘I wih I was «if in tay HEY wii t, incon. And Dine’ was writen, “It made a hit at and before the end of the week everybody in New | York was whistling it. Then the | South took it up and claimed it for ita own, I sold the copyright for $500, which was all I ever made from it, I'll abow you my first copy.” He! went into the house and returned in| a moment with a yellow, worn looking | manuscript in his hand, “That's ‘Dixie,"” he said. “1 am going fo give it to some historical so clety in the South one of these days, for, though I was born hers in Obio, I connt myself a Southerner, as my | father was a Virginian” : Half a centary ago Framett was a famous minstrel. Those were the balmy days of burnt cork art, wher | Bryant's Theatre on lower Broadway was one of the most popular resortsin Emmett was born ix 1515. at Monnt Vernon, He begar hae, peating it tok it four long thnt's the » of how £80, Lis trade to join the band of » circus Ii RT BR RA a RAL SOB 1 sud seen, the veal a stall detachment faitens {1 Po the ry {carried along | eonntry ; ment with than not the mont the sade ! month C fitted atrnsl mag iv A Sa i hain. pling bane od | the {other things, matter how thick the bullets fy, THE U.S S. SIGNAL CORPS, RE RAR A MILITARY BRANCH OFTEN ( ALLED |i AN ARMY'S NERVOUS SYSTEM. BN The Wark Is Pregaenily the Malt Dan. gervus the Life of a Soldier fords. tu Times of Pears Herruaits Are ways Taken From the Hanks Wien an infantrynisn, an artillery. man or a cavalry becotaes, at the emi of his enlistment, s member of the United States Siang! Corps, iavx down his gin 4 hal hie sive wiements which comprise army. He has not, however, chosen a lighter berth, nor one less danger and hardship, sontrary, his new place is dangerone dna that the His of a soldier aTorde, and cer. tainly always one of the most baport. ant in modern scientifle warfare, : A signal man is, by prefervnne of! the War Department, ‘ohinsen from the ranks of the army and bis officers from | the army line, Long service alone does not make a competent sighial man of a soldier Lake the recruit in all of | the other branches, the new signal man must go to school, A year of in the hard work 1a the Government sehool | at one of thearmy posts fits hun fairly | well for his new place. He begins by learning what can be done with the sigual flag, the simplest | instrament in the hands of the corps. | by which a motion | The Myer system, of the ar to the right tha left two, and in snple] bhavame wliiteh « is 8 the dipe of Tha Mae, id 3 ERNE one, front threw, hat to memnng 34 3 fonds sh £5 5 + Ha rapt 3. OF two, rat 3d the sindent ewan rar, nractioe iba iene expert with sella +t i 1 > s xb ¥ on ody % hit 1 & photographer, a telezraph side man raphy and iran An elcetrisdian, and a hs sole holes or gov Pes oa : aft or they are Eel fandlic ars also tanght # Fie BYE operating it Bim, fearas, to ride a horse, practic o nauaiiy has ln infantry and the tougiisst Kid of 8 horse, in order | that he may im the end become proof | against the orlinary injaries noident to the wildest sort of rising, aver ail sorta of conuiries, ander pireum- stanoes which wonld render any other uniformed man bors (a combat then anid there. He works that others may Sght with | there within 11, Bo As “The Nurnal the best results, and even whan is Hehiting bis work goea on, the lines if necossity demanidn an offeer expressed it Corps is the nervous system of the | army. its eyes pid ears and tongus” starts out in wivaves of an ivading sry, trarling a» wire behind it, aud at gimonat vary Instant i reports sommanding oifiesr all ust i Beard As tive wire nuwinids unk of trees, rela 5% the put Another ii asied pao if thaire are any np pas of the oF Cel Prieta for vane, Hold yogis, wilting tabi aed We be so i asin fiasgen Pawan swabeaigents rides abead, alice CRTApL IRAlrainens PACE ROGGE MIRIER [ shap Eaativiers informatio { ared shots smd sending Baek by i ax $5 tl the photographie platen | wasn Sted with draugiiting boards | and dark ross are wen who | the plates by a ranid process, pod as i hastily an possible i bine pri i notes the ohyvervations | and with point asd sends hastily draws | a topograpiiead i the seouts | with his 1esbraments PaN PMMErT He was not jong iu discov. ering that he could COWPORS BOURS « of tha kind 10 ase by clowns. One of | the Hoest of these was “Ol of pleasast { inebriate | Memory its was great | that Emmett followed ¢ wany Rilciaas Hoy wish Finally he took to lmpersonations, singing his own songs in the ring, while he ascompanied himself on the banjo, He made a specialty of old men, and blackesed his face and He the South and partly by chance intention, he in. West that at last, and partly through This was some time in 1842 at the | old Chatham Theatre in New York city, when, with two companions, he gave a mixed perfor Mason, made ap largely of songs and dances typical of slave life and character. The little | troupe was billed as the ““Vieginia | Minstrels,” and their popularity with the public was instantaneous, Healthy Hungary. In Hangary there are thousands of villages and haadreds of small towas without a doctor within ten miles, Hard Lack, Terrible sitaation of Henpeck, who enlisted to get away from bis wife awl found her at the froat as a Bed Cross wurse. ; P other wiass whiten, b » x $+. whic tae Duerates, Tan nn i and over 4 ! the wun ¢ POY TIN ta hally { miles as the greatest make fron. them nts, The man of tow seonuts map of the country £h iens work, for with This 18 no rong Fier fie His glass and enmpass tell him directions aud planes, Lhd For Jdistatiess hie dopenda Hp A ¥ the sy xt #1 artilieryiaan’s rang etiader LR viiles % Big, tedls Nin Thna he jegrns how far onntaing is away fron Bich 1% is, Lf a miver tended ponte, if fallen him ment to Had bow Gar away IU may be, the Wire Eel SRD Zoos that the envineer rare of 2 orpsses the fil tar Yhe takes the maps to the to ia thas eashie upon partyin eounagder knowledpe, sionld the camp be moved a de tachment of the aprps follows 1a the rear, taking up the lines which have bean fami. from the reas stays beliind as an sountry through be infested by the etemy a outpost, If the guard must stay behind to protewt the telegraph wire, Pistance stations if the country happens to be one, at intervals of f cipher code, and the cue, two, system the observations with ments can go on withont of a bare, wht by the camp. The disadvantages tliat conutry are set al nan war-balloon, Varied and anmerons as the duties of the signal men are, so compel g a8 namerous nstrannents, thal Wan Can oarry with hat Balin i each He peede In a small bax ears wil t pred Tver hig whoalier are lis telegraph nstramenta and his tele. His chiminug wear on Ii due Appar p wattery. he ean always RN Boots, and thus he ean at auy moment horse's back ana | dismount from his mb a tree or pole. wis Cia The surveyor’s instruments are also | ia a kit, and when in use are sel upon AY an by his owl choles | aud ceases to be sounted among the offen | the frunuht with | oftener | $6 ¢ 8 patter of a brarned, | ply ta an Ta wall. i £4 nt topo i aperstor | tie sur! + 3 bailoon and of | i he Las come to the Signal Corp from | basides all | ih : 4 to bin '} tronieal. With wagons and horses tp corps | the from fo owner in i ound o ¥ Lies SF al the boavd | whillecl surveyor ih Yai and haw but a mo Lira Ors Taek | t be hurried forward tof badd a brides | for the passage of the army, i sourer who { enp alxo carries the biae prints, wad { the | formulate hz plans If the advances of an enemy | is sxpected the corps! which the army in! Lampers this method of | commameation, but by means of relay fiftenn distance by the: thee | instra- | iuterrap- | tion, whale the map-making is doge in | comparative ease | a folding ipod, which hasite place [3 tine His field glasses sro al | by a strap, too, but the tel in long distance signaling goes in the wagon, Ths camera, dark room and chemi- cals can be packed into a bundle so larger than an ordinary haversack, and as the signal man's extra clothes and {blankets are strapped to his saddle, pothing need be left behind when he goes gaputing. Thongh the parenife of the signal man sre in theuiselves powentuil, be ix armored with a revel vor and a vabre, A mam once enlisted in the “blacke™ ceases for all time to be a private. He Coa sergeant theo, and if excellence in his work warrants it he is made a sere geant of the frst cluss. He is eligible to the honsr of shonlder straps should Ls #till be noder thirty years of age. Now York San, i ¥ ¥ : i z ie Business: Hntiner, One of the brightest travelling Csalenman in modern commerce war | thinking seriously of going to war, “You see,” he was saving to the olé military man whose stories of advene ture and sohievernent had kindled his ambition, “I have had experience in L overy braneh of trade thet amounts to very mineh except fighting. “1 have sold nails, barhed wire, | cigars, dry goods, paper, paints, oils and a number of things, Now it { strikes phe that I'd like to handle lead a Sh for the Goverament awhile” | “Yom would have to aodergo agood | many bardships,” remarked his | friend. “1 de’t care. I'm not married; nobody bat myself to think abont, and TA Bike to see if | can’t do something, Of conver, 1 may never be beard from. Bat I'm wiiling fo take my chapees at getting 4 wontinent some day with the rest of them 4g of 1s familihy with | To Ee POI wan 1d want to Qo as ald military fan officar, " remgirhed tise Iman “I'd like Bat if I found it Leotthdn't begrranged, 1 wonldu't stay away for that reason, i “Yonug man, IT Like your spirit, Anvthiug 1 can ido for you I will glad- iy am Jertake. Ii see af ot can be are ranged for yon to have a compiassion.™ The salesman looked started Na, be exelnimad; don’t do that, PAH sonrae, TT doen't Like 10 soot tiers venary, but [ don't want to do any- ibing on thst basis, I have tried i¢ over and over, but { never gol any sat- faction ont of working on commis sion, (dive me a salary every time™ « Ligtreit Free Press. Whnt Mexico Grows, Last year the ontpat of rubber from | Mexico was million pounds. | Hagdreds of thousands of mbber | trees are planted, and in a few "most of sar supply of rabber will come from that conntry, withatandiog earn § in as noon Western States, : of the Metican corn erop for 1598 was Lover 377,000,008, This is ten thoes the value of eonffee raixed in Metian, The wheat in Mexico amonnts in value to tesrly 230.000.0933 a year; the rice erup ia worth #8 0 000; BLL 00 HH: worth of beans are grown cach yer, for hesns forms staple Cartivde of diet amang the peasants, Potatoes are grown in Mexico to the sum of §1LAKKL I, bat the Chih eron exceeds 3 three times, Sugsr is grown ty the value of 212 008 080; patigne, F000 0. sollon, BR 000, HE, and nearly the same amount of ee. Five million dollars is what the tabasco eron for last year yielded, i ~M fwnikes Wis, | Sentinel. fi3, bon A ER ie 3 fae il F ivy We See _re If a man fails 0 as to strike his head violently on the tev or on the pavement, or i he gets a blow over fim eye, ho is said to “see stare” The eanse of thix eurions phenomenon ts found io a peenlisrity of the optie ery The fusetion of that nerve is to eotivey thw impression of light. Is recogises gsotinne im the world bat 3 is saseepbible 1 no other arte d hy any : enw estes to the peliizenon of the prasecs 24k Hy wailing along Ha Aer fHuios [rritate this nerve with a probe ather trament and 1 conveys no sausage. sit, bat simply that of Ingiine ous spare, The pain of the blow on the aye or the fall on the head i» reaiiced through the nerves of general PwenEafion; bat, insasceptibie ta pain or other fesling, the optic nerve semis to the brain its report of the shook be ashes, sparks amd ‘stars "— . Chieaze Chromele. SR SAA KAN Top 23 ws Hpaan = # 1 af fan oF Viel i of brat GLY. 0 pi tion of ps Dourestio Afive of Gatrighes Then an ostrich is prepuniag ‘e i hat-h she scratches a hole mm the Fgronod abont the mize of a bashel | basket. Egg» are then lid day after day, and arranged around the hole, When twenty-one are laid the bird kicks them into the hole, and at night Pate oon theme The male bird performs this duty in the daytune, thus per matting his partner to obtain exercise. ~ Piston (lobe, rim ht “The € Tang of the Waoden Shoont™ There is a eurioas little Holland village in Wisconsin, named “Little Chante” whose ¢lnel mpounfacture is woiden sboes. The people there are ax thoroughiy Duteh as their progen- tern. The town stands on the ground where Pere Marquette hast his winter anarters, amd where the Dateli priests instructed the Indians, The Quien Regent's Ancestor, The most dramatic feature of the fall of Spain is that her present ueen Regent, nader whose sway the iast colonies are being lost, is a direct descendant of that William the Silent who struck one of the first and dead- | liest biows ant Spain when she was at { the height of her power,
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