No doubt it was stuff such as this that made the “embalmed beef” that had killed several times as many United States soldiers as all the bullets of the Spaniards; only the army beef, besides, was not fresh canned, it was old stuff that had been lying for years in the cellars; and Jurgis’s informant added that the old scoundrel who had been Secretary of War and gotten that graft was now an honorable senator in Washington.
