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Local
Miss Lucy Board visited Mrs.
Bennett Sunday.
Miss Maggie McDougald came
out to the Lyceum lecture Friday
night.
Douglas $3.50 gun metal shoes
have no equal. Sold only by Wilson
& Derden. 9
Mr. LaFlamm will lecture Tues
day night at the chapel under the
auspices of the Y. M. C. A.
Drill overshirts, belts, gloves,
sheets, pillow covers, table covers, etc,
9 Wilson & Derden.
Quite a number of the cadets went
down to see the carnival; all came
back reporting an excellent time.
New arrivals in men’s underwear
shirts, neckwear, gloves, hose, etc.
9 Wilson & Derden:
T. C. U. has installed a printing
outfit, which prints their weekly,
The Skiff, and other College work.
Douglas Shoes do not soften in the
c ounters. Try a pair next time.
9 Wilson & Derden.
Cadets, if you want the best shoe
made for college men buy W\ L.
Douglas S3.50 gun metal. Sold
only by Wdlson & Derden. 9
At the T. C. U. game, after A.
and M. had made about four touch
downs, a Freshman was heard to re
mark: “Well, I believe we’re going
to win!”
The annual contest for the How
ell Bros, medal for the best stcck
judging student in the Sophomore
Class came off this evening at the
barns.
Rugs curtains, shades, blankets,
comforts, etc. Call and see us.
Wilson & Derden, Exchange Hotel
block 9
Wilson & Derden are showing the
season’s latest models and materials
in the celebrated Kuppenheimer
make of clothing. Prices $15.00 to
$25.00. 9
Join the Austin Literary Society as
an honary memder and feel a pride
in the work they are doing, if you do
not have time to do your duty as an
active member.
The A. and M. College has no
more ardent admirer among the news
papers than the Fort Worth Star.
Its bouquets are frequent and fra
grant. —Bryan Eagle.
Miss McClellan of Hillsboro, who
visited the campus some years ago as
a very young girl, has returned tb
take the position of stenographer to
the assistant director of the experi
ment station.
At the next meeting of the Publi
cation Society the subject of adver
tising will be thoroughly discussed by
the members. Every member should
have something to say on this im
portant phrase of publication work.
The new nurse for the hospital,
Mrs. Britnelle, came last week. She
is a graduate of the John Sealy Hos
pital, Galveston. She takes up the
work performed so capably for the
past two years by Miss Ida J. Craig,
whose unexpected resignation at the
beginning of the session caused much
regret on the campus, and who is
now at the home of her brother,
Mr. John A. Craig of Oakmore,
near San Antonio.
Mrs. T. C. Bittle came out from
Bryan last Tuesday to visit Mrs.
Ness and Mrs. Hutson. She has
been entertained almost every day of
her visit by some one of her old
friends. Thursday Mrs. Giesecke en
tertained her with Mr. Beale Bittle
and Mrs. Hutson at dinner. Friday
Mrs. Fraps invited her, with Mrs
Hutson, to dinner, and this week
she is to be entertained by Mrs.
Sbisa and Mrs. Brown.
Announcement of the successful
prize winners in the stock judging
contests at Dallas have been made
for cattle and hogs, M. M. Cole
man, a sophomore from Lubbock,
winning first money in both events.
B. Gist and C. E. Jones were second
and third on cattle, while W. H.
Furneaux and John Sharp Williams
were second and third in the judging
of hogs. The results of horses and
sheep are not yet announced. First
prize was $15.00, second $8.00 and
third $5.00. Twenty-six students
took part in the contest, representing
all classes. They go next week to
San Antonio to compete in a similar
contest.
Miss Alberta Adams of this city
appeared in the flower parade of the
Houston carnival, with the party
riding in the Elks’ gorgeous turnout.
The Houston Post says of this float:
“It was a magnificently decorated
vehicle drawn by four white horses.
There was a wealth of purple in the
decotations, and with this was used
the California pampas grass, the long
fiber being hung in profusion over
the entire rig. The horses wore huge
plumes of this grass, and about their
hoofs, which were gilded, were tied
long bows of pnrple ribbon. A huge
elk’s head occupied the place where
the driver would ordinarily be, and
the horses were led by attendants.
The vehicle was occupied by Misses
ArabePa Gibbons, Alberta Adams of
Bryan, WIHie Sameson of Palestine,
Jane Percival and Annie Martin.—
Bryan Eagle-
CAMPAIGN OP SANTIAGO DE CUBA
Col. Sargent’s New Book Reviewed in
Journal of the Military Ser
vice Institution.
In the Journal of the Military Ser
vice Institution for November-Decem-
ber. General Charles King, the author,
writes as follows of Col. H. H. Sar
gent’s new book:
As a result of six or more years of
careful study and three of careful writ
ing, Colonel Sargent has at last given
us “The Campaign of Santiago de
Cuba,” and as a result of reading it,
small wonder can there be if one say,
“Thank God, it wasn’t France, Ger
many or John Bull we had to deal
with!” Smaller wonder need there be
that Bismarck once said, “God looks
after the fools and—and the United
States.”
These words of the Iron Chancellor
had not reached the general public in
1889, but that they were known to
Congress and serenely accepted there,
we have reason to believe. Nothing
less than implicit faith that the Al
mighty would “look after the United
States” can explain, even though it
cannot excuse, its utter failure to pro
vide the nation with an adequate fight
ing force. Everything that educated
officers—army or navy—could say or
do had been said or done to arouse
Congressional comprehension of our
needs, but while congress may have
comprehended, it failed to provide, for
it left the richest nation in the world
with the poorest means, pf all the pow
ers, of either waging war or keeping
peace. With miliary resources second
to none, our military strength was
really second to all.
Ship for ship, and gun for gun, as
Sargent shows, Spain and the United
States were not unequal; but in Cuba
and Porto Rico alone, at the outbreak
of the war, Spain had ten times as
many regular soldiers as we had in
the entire army.
And yet it fell to that little army to
invade, to attack, and, after giving a
brave and well-equipped adversary
abundant time to concentrate and
crush the invading force, to “win out,”
as the Yankee loves to say, in a way
nothing short of miraculous. How it
was done, in spite of lack if system,
staff and preparation, in spite of num
bers, climate and conditions, Sargent
tells the soldier or the layman in the
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fascinating pages of an almost match
less military history.
It is ten years since he won the
critics at home and abroad by the
praise and recognition of the keenest
terse, luminous style, and clear and
forceful descriptions of “Napoleon’s
First Campaign’ and “The Campaign
of Marengo.” There was observable
in them all the simplicity of Grant’s
“Memoirs,” the almost Doric severity
of Humphreys’ “Virginia Campaign of
1864-1865,” and the cold blooded accu
racy of detail of the German staff re
ports. Yet they were so free from
what the Springfield Republican
styled “technical verbiage” that they
admirably served the purpose or their
being, “for the soldier and the civil
ian.” And now self-schooled in this
clear and lucid method, the modest
writer of these earlier studies comes
forward with a work that bears to the
war with Spain the same relation that
the history of the Comte de Paris
holds to the Civil War in these United
States. But he is no longer the sub
altern, conscious of his powers, yet
cautions in their play.^;He speaks now
with the ring of authority. He writes
with the yim of absolute conviction.
He marshals his facts, las the-master
of his art arrayed his /forces on tbs'
field of battle, and he has given us a
work that outstrips the earlier efforts
as Gettysburg outranks Bull Run.
There may he those in both army and
navy who will not take kindly to some
of his conclusions, but he gives his
reasons in the soldierly “Comments”
with which he closes every episode.
Without once being betrayed into sev
erity of censure, and only once or
twice into possible overglow of praise
the result of generous and soldierly
admiration of soldierly heroism—he
parcels out criticism and commenda
tion with his facts behind him, and it
will be hard for those who differ to re
ply. The navy may not fancy that a
landsman should take issue with
Sampson, Evans, Harry Taylor and
Chadwick and sharply question their
ability to take Havana. There may
be resentment of his criticism of
“Sampson’s wild goose chase to Porto
Rico” at the moment when Cervera
could have entered any one ot the prin
ciple ports of Cuba. (What infinite
luck for us he chose the one he did.)
He will meet with less opposition as to
Schley’s start for Key West at the
very moment when he should have
clung to Santiago; but the navy must
own that the soldier writer of today
comes out veheminenly against the
soldier fighter of ’98, who insisted that
Sampson and his ships should force
that hell-mined, tortuous entrance to
Santiago Harbor to make sure of San
tiago town. Facts—and Captain Ma
han—are with our author, and, so far
as the naval operations are concerned,
it may be said that if we blundered
once or twice, our blunders, like our
land forces, were outnumbered ten to
one by those of Spain. Cervera was
sent across when he should have been
held at home; and he chose Santiago
when he could have had Cienfuegos or
Havana—chose Santiago and stayed
until the mournful fate he foresaw, be
fore ever he left the shores of Spain,
befell the fleet under his command.
Like our officers jie had dared tp lay be
fore the home government the defects
and needs of their navy, but unlike
ours, he had no sympathetic secretary
to aid him to the limit of his resources.
One matter made very plain in what
may be called the Navy Volume—the
first of the three into which the work is
divided—is the worry at Washington
over the defenseless state of the At
lantic Coast. Having neither forts
nor guns fit to cope with modern war
ships, even those of Spain, Congress
was sore bedeviled by a frantic con
stituency bordering the sea from
Maine to Mexico, clamoring for protec
tion. What would become of a
score of cities if Cervera were to leave
Cuba to take care of itself (as well it
might) and swoop upon our seaboard
towns? Seeing only their own peril,
the sovereign people dmanded of their
representatives that what there was of
the navy should be split up and sent
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