There was a lot of it on the deck of the Olympia thawing when I was a visitor; and the beef was "delicious." I am at pains to give Dewey's word.

While the Spaniards ashore were eating tough, lean buffalo--the beasts of burden in the streets, the Americans afloat rejoiced in "delicious" beef and mutton from Australia.

It was explained that the use of cold-storage meat depended upon giving it time to thaw, for if it should be cooked in an icy state it would be black and unpalatable, losing wholly its flavor and greatly its nourishing quality.

Australia is not many thousand miles from the Philippines--and one must count miles by the thousands out there.

The Belgians have a smart Consul at Manila who is a friend of mankind.
One of the incidents in the battle of Manila--all are fresh in the public memory--is that Admiral Dewey did not make use of the conning-tower--a steel, bomb proof, for the security of the officer in command of the ship--the Captain, of course, and the commander of the fleet, if he will.
This retreat did not prove, in the battle of Yalu and the combats between the Chileans and Peruvians, a place of safety; but as a rule there is a considerable percentage of protection in its use.