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
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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,