The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, March 31, 1899, Image 2
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THKT PROTEST AUAINST PROPOSED
ANtiLO-AHKRICAN ALLIANCE.
A MEETING IS HELD IN CHICAGO.
Pormttr RuhJitrU of KiiUor Ktprrk* Tliolr
Optnimia In HtmnfMt of Terina.
N?wapa|H>r? Are Blamed.
A Chicago special says: The Auditorium
was tilled Mouday evening \%ith
Qcriuan-Americaus called together to
protest against an Anglo-American
alliance atid the alleged false assertions
ma le against Germany iu Connection
uitli Hie recent Xnanish
American war.
Ex-Congressman W-Uiam Voike presided
and delivered tlie opening
address. The meeting was a very enthusiastic
one and the following dec
laration unanimously adopted:
"With profoundest indignation we
have noticed the persisteut efforts of
English-American newspapers not only
to incite among our people vicious
prejudices against Germany and to defame
the character of the German- '
Americans, hut also to drag tlic United
States into an alliance with England.
"As loyal citizens of this republic,
it is our right, as well as our duty, to
resist these wicked practices with all
dne tirmucss.
"The immigrants from Germany
have brought with them to this land
achievements of a civilization as high
as it is old. Upon every field of the
intell ectual life of our nation, as well
as hi commerce, industry aud agrienl4....v
il. .;. I ~ 1.. i_i i .
iu'c, i-nr*ir cihm in uuvo i imiuii u<icm iu ,
the weal of our people and in peace as
well a* in war they have at all times i
faithfully fulfilled their duty. No
part, of the Amerioau people liaa done
more for the cultivation of music, sociability,
the arts, the sciences, the
churchea and the schools, than the
German*. As Rood citizens of this
country we cheerfully hand over the
achievements of German culture to
our youthful American people still in
a state of development.
\Ve emphatically object, therefore,
to the attempt to stamp our people as
Anglo-Saxons and to make it subservient
to English guile. Not England,
but. the whole of Europe, is the mother
country of the white.inhabitants of the
Uuited States
"We demand that not only friendly
relations lie maintained with Germany,
that has been a faithful friend of our
people for more than 120 years, but
th t* peace and harmony be cultivated
with all nation*, and we will therefore,
Wushuigten, *? all times firmly oppose
the formavion of entangling alliances
with England as well as with any
other country, whereby our country
may lie involved in unnecessary war
"We d?Mi I'ltice the detainers who
have not only instigated public ill will
against Germany, but who have by
their gross slanders also sown the
seeds of discord himiiif our iiuii nun.
pie, and w? solemnly protest against
the proposed -illianee with England.
' W> further declare that with all
lawful uir'itns it our disposal, especially
in political campaigns, we will ut all '
time* strenuously oppose all those who
favor the wicked attacks made upon
friendly nations and who labor to entangle
out country into an alliance
with England. We "all upon the committee
that has had in charge arrangemenu
for these meetings to invite all
Oeruian-Ameri *an churches, societies
aud orders m this city to send a delegate
to a conventiou to he held at an
early late for (he purpose of forming
a permanent organization that the
German citizens may ho called to action
whenever it shall become necessary
to protect the blessing of our
American institution against wicked
aud wily politicians.
' We call upon the committee to
send copies of these declarations to the
president of the United States, to his
secret ?ries and the senators and representatives
in congress."
PICFsIIIIINT hl\A VKS UKOItUl A.
Tho Oo mIIiva Worn Sniil Mo?t K?'g;rt'tfti)ly
Ity Kvervoiu*.
I'resi lent and Mrs. McKinley, Vice
Piosidont Hohart, Postmaster General
Em try Smith, Dr. ltixey. Assistant
Secretary Oortelyon and Stenographer
Batuee left 'i'liotiiaHville, (in , at
o'clock Monday afternoon for Washington.
The special train was run just outside
the station so the people could
gather ar >uml (he rear platform, upon
which the president, Mrs. McKinley
and Vice President Hohart appeared
and liijwo'l their acknowledgment.
Some imo called for three cheers for
McKiniey, and then the president
ma la a few remarks, saying:
"We would rather he corning to
Thomaavilte than departing from it
We hi wo had a uioet restful and enjoy
able time, and thank you all over and
over again for your kind courtesies
and your considerate hospitality. We
bid you good by most regretfully."
<J|!4Y'S Kit IKN Its TO (ONKilt.
Their Oliief II? I'eelt too Hnolv In
Meet Willi Them
There were rumors in Hnrrishurg,
Pa., M unlay night that a conference
uf Senator fjnay's friends throughout
the State " ill he held at the e\- iitive
mansi mi to discuss the senatorial eontest.
The story is that Mr. (Juuy mis n<>tili
I his friends that l.e is fcid.ng too
hall) t.o leave Florida at this tiui?',a:i(l
will !?ave his candidacy in their hands.
EVIDENCE AUAIAST (JUAT.
Bribery InTrttliatlng Committee Hear*
Some leterestInK Testimony.
A dispatch from Harrisburg, Pa.,
says: The legislative committee investigating
the charges of alleged
bribery in connection with the consideration
by the house of the McCarrell
jury bill and the balloting for United
States senator held sessions Tuesday
afternoon and evening aud some iuterestiug
testimony was presented.
Representative Kemlell, of Somer *el,
testified that a resident of Bedford
county not a member of the legislature
had told him if he could see his way
clear to vote for Quay for United :
States senator he would receive $5,000. ;
He declined to name the uiau.
Representative Lnubach, of Philadelphia,
testified that a man named
Frank Jones, of Philadelphia, asked
him to vote for Quay and he refused.
Later Jones told him if he voted for
Oliav he il.Aiihscht could have the
chief clerkship of the mint or the j
custom house.
Uepresontative Brown, of Union,
<wore that a man had offered him $200
to remain away on that day of the first
joint ballot for United States senator.
When he refused the offer was raised
to $300 and he was told if he would
_fo into the convention and vote for
Quay the price would be "altogether 1
different." All these offers were re- ,
fused.
Mr. Brown declined to give the !
name of the mau to the committee,but
after much urging uatned ex-Congressman
M onroe H. Culp, of Shamokiu.
Mr. Culp represented the seventeenth
Pennsylvania district in the fiftyfourth
and fifty-fifth congresses.
The first important break in the balloting
for United States senator took
place in the legislature during the day, 1
when all the anti-Quay republicans
deserted "favorites" and cast their
ballots solidly for Congressman John
Dalzell, of Pittsburg.
SHERMAN AN INVALID.
!.?* * Statesman a Physical
Wreck?Cruiser Kcnctir* Norfolk.
The cruiser which left Hampton
Roads March 13th under orders to
overtake the American liner Taris and
transfer from that ship ex-Secretary of :
State John Sherman, who had been
tuken seriously ill, arrived at Old
I'oiut Comfort shortly after the unon
hour Tuesday with the distinguished
invalid on hoard.
The Chicago, after tAking Mr. Sherman
on hoard, sailed from Santiago
last Friday morning,proceeding direct
to Newport News. The party that returned
with the ex-secretary on the
Chicago was composed of his nephew,
Mr. Frank Wiborg, of Cincinnati; l)r.
McOill, of Duluth, the physieiau who j
has been in constant attendance upon
the sick man, and Mrs. Danizer, the ;
nurse, who leaves the patient.
inu ttfeiV at lit with his features
entirely concealed beneath a heavy
black veil, was placed in a steaui
launch and removed to the pier. Two
officers and four men from the ship
accompanied Mr. Sherman and his attendants.
He was home in a litter to
the hotel on the broad shoulders of
four marines.
A gust of wind, lifting the veil, disclosed
the face of the invalid. It was
wan, pinched and of a deathly pallor.
A crowd of several hundred people
witnessed the removal of the sick man
to the hotel.
At ? o'clock p. m. ho was again
placed 011 the litter and taken 011 hoard
the Washington boat.
That Mr. Sherman is a very sick
man, 110 one who got a glimpse of the
tnvulid's ghastly pallid features can
doubt. He has lost tlesh until little
remains of the active and vigorous
man hut a frame, and he is obviously
far advanced iu general infirmity.
(TBANS It EACH WASHINGTON.
Tliey lteprenent tlie So-ChIIoI Annemlily
and Art* After Mure Money.
Senors Jetser Villalon and Hevia,
who were appointed by the Cuban
assembly to present to the Washington
authorities the resolutions of that j
.hotIt, have arrived in Washington, j
Their mission, in addition to the presentation
of the resolutions, is to explain
in detail the situation with reference
to the insurgent army.
While the assembly did not reject
the $3,000,000 which General Gomez
arranged with Mr. Robert P. Porter I
to receive and pay off the Cuban j
troops, they believed it to be entirely j
inadequate to meet the situation. ;
They desire at least $10,000,000, and i
as much more as can be obtained.
K.1YNE MOORK RELEASED.
A Komi la Kea?ilre<l of Her, However, On
C'lntrgA of Larceny.
A New York dispatch says: Mrs.
Payne Stralian Moore was discharged
Monday upon her own recognizance
by Justice Fursniau in the supreme
court under the charge of "badgering"
Martin Muhon.
She was, however, held in $1,000
>aii ou the charge of stealing silverware
from the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. |
She said she would furnish the bond.
Mali >n, the complaining witness in j
the ha Iger case, has remained out of
he city, and the prosecution has been |
limbic to secure his attendance at the j
proceedings.
HVE ltOIHES RECOVERED
?- . |
i (Min thp l.uiiiH of Iturnfd \i nunir fplt
H'orku I vi <
V ('liica^o dispatch miv<: Five 1 oilies
were 'J'uomIhv fro:.. 11> ? ?
uins of tli?- Armour curled hair ami
felt works, which were hurned M<>nlav
night. The recovered bodies arc:
Willi .m Ilickvockcr, John It. (ieoroe,
Juiu-'s Flnnnpnn, John Smith, unidentified
man, burned beyond recognition.
BIS VICTORY OVER REBELS
AttCINALDO'S ARMY WAS ftADLY
ROUTED BY AMERICANS.
JEN. OTIS' LOSSES WERE HEAVY
*!? OntUnchl Wna FI?ro? and Farloai
?w ncoi'i cosset ueaon into the
Hundreds.
The New York World prints the following
Manilla cable under date of
March 24th:
"A sweeping victory over Agninaldo's
forces has just been won by the
United States troops.
"The total American loss is estimated
at about 101), iucluding both the
killed and wounded.
"The Filipino loss is between
and 400."
A dispatch received at Washington
from Manila states that the enemy are
extremely active in the vicinity of
Malabon preparing defenses, evidently
anticipating an attack. They keep
well under cover. A small body of
rebels, however, emerged ffom the
jungle on the satreme left Friday
and tired upon the Kansas troops in
the trenches, fatally wounding Private
Cohen, of comnanv 1). and Private
Muser, of company E.
The Oregon volunteers and the
Twenty-second regulars marched to
the front Friday. The Third and Seventeenth
regiments have disembarked
from the Shermau. General H. G.
Otis's brigade struck their tents Friday
morning, and an early move is
probable.
Sixteen English refugees arrived
from Dagupan, the railroad terminus,
on board the steamer Saturnus. Thpy
report that the natives are generally
friendly, and the officers invariably
courteous.
Mr. Higgins, manager of the railroad,
and about a dozen unmarried
men in charge of various business interests
declined to take advantage of
the opportunity to leave. Nothing
has been heard from the two American
planters at Calumpit since hostilities
began.
According to Filipino accounts, a
thousand Americans have been killed,
the fatalities being especially heavy at
Caloocan, where the United States
troops "rushed like madmen against
a storm of bullets."
Two Spanish prisoners, who have
escaped from Polo tc the lines of the
Kansas regiment, report that the Filipinos
have concentiated their forces at
Malubon and Polo. They add that only
Aguinaldo's body gu?*Ai?* ?
.?nw iiitii tne Tenet leaders apparently
intend to stako their fortunes on a
tight at Malabon, where it was expected
an engagement would take place
Friday. If defeated, it is further
I asserted, the rebels intend to disperse
to the swamps and mountains.
The rebels were putting their bolos
, in front, believing that the bolosmen's
' chirms will avert the bullets. The
bolos of the Filipinos greatly outnumber
the rifles in their hands. The
rebels are further said to have admit
ted that they could uot stand the
American shells and bayonet eharges.
The escaped Spaniards corroborated
the stories told of food shortage among
the rebels, and they added that their
hospitals are short of supplies.
TO CKL'SII Abl lNALDO.
Otis Is I'rt'puriim for His Final Advance
t'lion Filipinos.
Tt is understood at Washington
that General Otis has so far matured
his plans of campaign that within a
week or ten days he will be able to begin
the movement which is expected
to mark the destruction of Aguinaldo's
army.
Although stragglers and fugitives
may infest tha army of Luzon for some
time, it is believed that nfcer Otis has
delivered his next blow the insurgent
army, ns an organization, will have
ceased to exist.
The new movement will be, it is
understood, by a combined land and
water attack, though it is not expected
that the navy's part in the program
will be particularly prominent.
Otis has procured thirteen of the
Spanish gunboats formerly owned by
the Spanish government, and those
are to play an important part in the
development of the campaign.
TO INSPECT CANAL ROUTES.
Com in Inm I on of Smxlur* anil Kcprriiaiitit11
von Will Soon tttnrt Out.
On the Panama liner Alliance,which
is to take a delegation of United States
senators and representatives to Central
America to view the proposed
Nicaragua and Panama canal routes,
elaborate preparations are being
made. The vessel probably will start
from New York within a week.
After viewing the canal routes the
senators and congressmen, on the
homeward trip, will view the scene of
t'ervera's defeat at Santiago and stops
will he made at other points in Cuba
The expenses of the trip will be paid
by th<< new Punaum eaiial company.
UAHMEVT WORKERS STRIKE.
!'iir|>i>a<- In Abolition of llir Sub-C!ontrnetliiK
Sy?l?*in.
The executive committee of the fiarment
Workers' Union at Philadelphia
ordered a strike of the 11,000 garment
makers of the city, beginning Saturday
at noon.
The purpose of the strike is principally
to secure the abolition of subcontracting
as well as higher wages
and increased rates for government
work.
BILL m WEEKLY LETTER
THE BARTOW PHILOSOPHER TALKS
OF ASTRONOMY.
REY. CADMflN RILES WILLIAM.
Dltacrcrncnl Hrtw?*n the 8nn and Moon
Prodoelnt a Ureat Host of
Lunatic*.
Dr. Baker says tbat all these late
disturbances of the elements are owing
to the moon, and that we havent had a
left-handed moon before in forty years.
The moon has been passing through a
cycle of years, and is just turning back
to go the other way, sorter like the
sun, when it crosses the line and makes
the equinoctial gales. ' And that's is the
reason," says he, "why everything is
out of joint, both in the heavens ubove
and the earth beneath, for the moon
is pulling one way and the sun is pulling
another. And that accounts for
the extraordinary weather and the
; storms and floods and cyclones; and
| this left-handed moon seems to effect
; the people too, and so we are having
, a hullabaloo about the jug and wliis
ky business, and tbey bavo got it
down so fine now tbnt if a rattlesnake
was to bite a man be would die before
: they conld get a drink of whisky io
; save him. And here is all this devilment
1 going on abont iuo1>h killing up the nig!
gers, and to my opinion it's all owing tc
this left-banded moon, for you know
! that when a man goes crazy they call
him a lunatic, and that word came from
Ijuur, the moon, and so I reckon thai
about this time we are all crazy, iuort
or less, and don't know it; I am, ]
know or else I would have so'd 1113
cotton when it was at the high-watei
mark, and I dident."
Dr. Baker is an old-fashioned phil
080])her and has his opinions and som<
superstition about the moon, am'
also abont screech owls snd grave
! yard rabbits, and the like; but he ii
wrong about the cycle of forty years.
Tt takes the moon only eighteen years
to complete its cycle, and I reiLembei
! that eighteen years ago we had a verj
1 late spring, and never got e. chuuce ti
break up the land at all, but had t<
list it in April and plnnt anyhow. \V<
made a good crop, though, and so w<
will trust in the Lord, who said tha
! seed time and harvest should not fail
This moon business has perplexe*
1 me all my life. I can't keep up witl
I it?I can't foretell whether the nex
i new moon will set flat and hold wate
I or set up and down and spill it, n&
; whether it will ride high in the zenith o
j Ann?*er? 1 ntr ^own in southern sky
I It is the most mysterious orb in tn<
| heavens, and its movements the mos
' complicated, but to the astronomer i
i is the regularity of irregularities. I
| revolves around the earth in twenty
seven days, but as the earth is speed
ing around the suu it takes the moot
1 twenty-nine days to keep up with i
1 and make the circuit. Its orbit is ai
I ellipse, and sometimes it is near u
! and sometimes more remote. It wal)
' hies and has a new path around th
i earth every time for nine years, an<
then gets hack again in nine year
; more. It has its lihrations on latitudi
; and longitude and its nodes am
' aspides, and, with all these complies
, tions, no wonder the people have tliei:
signs and superstitions, and believi
in a wet moon and a dry moon and i
[ left-handed moon, and see had luck ii
i looking at the new moon over yonr lef
I shoulder or through a brushy tree top
i and almost everybody has a theory
I about planting in the light or dark o
I the moou.
But if the moon ever does make lu
natics it is making them nowadays
and we are deeply concerned abou
those northern Methodist preachers?
, we see from the New York papers tha
400 of them recently held a conventioi
with Bishop Andrews at their head
and listened with approval to the ut
terances of Rev. Mr. Cadman, of tin
"Metropolitan church, who declare*
that the time had come when the onb
} test of religious faith should be Chris
| and His teachings, and that all tin
| miracles ot the Old Testament sliouh
lie discarded as tables and as contrail
to human reason. "We must cease t<
believe," said he, "that Moses openei
a way through the sea for the child ret
of Tsrnel to pass over, or that he math
water to gush from the rock, or tha
Rot's wife turned into a pillar of salt, 01
the tower of Habel story, or tlint Dan
iel went into the lions' den, or tha
Hhndraek, Meseliack and Abednng<
wnlked through the fiery furnace. 01
that the sun stood still at the eommaiu
of Joshua, or that the whale swallowei
, J.onah," and so forth. The papers sa;
I that th?re "as almost unanimous ap
plause when he closed, and no one re
plied to or controverted the nrgumen
| of the reverend gentleman.
Whit does all this mean? The pres.
. says it looked like a perfect upheavin;
| and overturningof the very foundation!
of Methodism and orthodox Christian
ity, and that this was the most repre
sentative body of clergymen that eve
met in America. Can this be possible
Have they ignored Moses and tin
prophets of whom this same Chris
whom they pretend to believe quotei
i anil indorsed time and again to Hi:
disciples? Dident lie sny to the I'har
isees: "Remember Hot's wife?" Diden
He say in one of His parables: "I
they will not believe Moses anil tin
prophets neither would they believi
; though one rose from the dead?'
i Dident Paul preach a sermon on faitl
and quote Moses and Klijnli and spent
of the very miracles they pei formed'
I confess that I was shocked when I
read the Rev. ('adman's new depurturt
from the faith of the fathers and stil
I more shocked when the 400 cheered
him. It seems that thej were not
surprised, for Cadman had been for '
some time delivering himself on this
same line, and had made manv coni
verts among them. "Our belief must
: conform to human rensou," said he, 1
and yet the idiot cau't tell how his
will raises his hand, nor how he winks
his eye, nor how the leaves of the tree
1 expand and grow and all conform to
the savne shape and size/ nor how the
rose takes on its beautiful colors.
All nature is a miracle aud gives
evidence of the existence of a Supremo
Being, and it is only the fool who
saith iu his heart there is no God, or
I that there i? no truth in the Old Tes.
tament. So far as I am concerned, I
feel as if I was nothing, and less than
nothing in the scale of existence, for I
do not know whence I came nor where
I am going,nor by what power I think,
nor what makes my heart to beat while
I am sleeping. If I did not put my
trust in a great and good Creator in
whom I live and move and have my
being I would be mont miserable. Ho
made me and He will take care of me. ,
I The Bible has stood as the bulwark
i | and foundation of the Christian's faith
for niueteen centuries and now tlia .
Rev. Cadman aud these 400 propose to
strike down and annihilate the Old
Testament. Moses and the prophets
and the ten commandments must go,
for they cannot strike out the miracles
and leave the rest to stand. As yet,
we have seon no reply to or explanation
of this astoundiug departure from
( the faith of the fathers. Are the times
out of joint in the closiug of this
(* century? Are wars to continue? Are
mobs to administer the law? Are negro
soldiers to tramp through this |
( goodly laud and outrage the people i
and make them desperate?
I ! This reminds me of a letter that .
Bishop Turner wrote to us in kind re- :
c membrance of our late wedding. I j
s have known this eminent negro j
[ preacher for thirty-five years and I
r never knew anything but good of him. j
In 18(>5 he was at Rome and used his j
talents and eloquence in pleading for
peace between the races and in giving J
, his people good counsel. I remember
I his public address there on one ocen- I
siou, (luring reconstruction times,
when he and Albert Berrien both
$
threw themselves within the breach,
and how they counseled the insolent
Spanish captain and provost marshal,
De La Mesa, to stop arresting the ,
white people on every trivial complaint
of the necroes. Thev had i/ood
influence over that conceited and re- [
3 vengeful officer and alarmed him into
? milder treatment of the rebel traitors,
as he called us. There is something
very touching and pathetic in this
long-continued devotion of Bishop
1 Turner to his people. He has lived
' to see them all free and many of them
r to prosper, but his discouragement
r has at times almost driven him to der
spair.
* He sees the alienation between the
races is growing wider and deeper and '
that it lias ari;en more from political fac* i
to s n 1 for political purposes than from ;
iace, color or condition. He sees not (
less than 4,000 of them in the chain- I
gangs of Georgia and a like proportion '
J in the other southern states, when j
there was not one in slavery days, and
' all this in (lie face of a degree of education
that the African never had before,
for it is a fact of record that 75
1 per cent of these convicts can read and
but few of them are old enough to
3 have known what slavery was before
3 the war. He has lived to read of a
1 thousand outrages and n thousand
lynohings when there was not one in
r slavery days. No wonder he is beg0
ging and pleading with his people to ,
1 go to Africa.
Here is part of his letter to u .
"Btl.l. Arc, Esq.? Dear Doctor: Please
' permit a member of the junior race, or as
j you are pleased to call It, tin' inferior race,
to tender you nnd your distinguished con- !
sort his sincere and unfeigned oongrntula- |
tions upon reaching your golden wedding I
^ and being abb', through the providence of
(lod, to celebrate your fiftieth mnrriage aui- J
^ versary. The privilege of spending fifty
^ years with a devoted companion is r.n exalted
honor nnd should call for a reconrc- !
' eration of time and talents to the service of
tied and the betterment of mnnkind. Once i
8
^ in a while you have hurled some heavy ,
blows at the degraded portion of my race, |
j but you have evr been charitable and i
R always conceded the fact that there are |
j some good,honest and Christian negroes. I j
pray Ooil that the remainder of your days :
. ami the days of your loving companion may ^
j be pleasant and felicitous, nnd finally ter- I
, I minate amid the smiles and sunshine of our !
i i
s common Father Your wide reading, your i
j bright intellect, your wit and humor and !
r wisdom, and your ceaseless industry will j
rank you among the grent and notable men '
t of (leorgla Again I tender you my con- ,
> gratulntions. Next July I will celebrate the
p fiftieth anniversary of my connection with !
j i the Methodist church at Abbeville, S. C.
1 Yours with liiL'b esteem
7 Henhy M- Turner. '
We are pleased to place this pood
letter in our wedding seraphook with
t all the rest.?Bill Ahi? in Atlanta
| Constitution.
* (1Iak<;ki> with burglary.
K linptiMl miiiihot It o a ml Over Ity Jtm- |
ti?'P of tll?t I'pucc.
Rev. C. C. Childreas was arrested
r by Slier ill" Land at Fairmont, Cordon
? county, (la., upon a warrant charging
& him with burglary. Dr.W. B. Vaughn,
t a prominent physician, alleges his
1 house was burglarized and ?800 taken.
? lie charges Rev. Childress with the
crime and claims to have recognized
t him when the burglary was committed
I At the commitment trial a large |
: number of witnesses testified. There '
was no direct evidence produced of
Childress' guilt, but 'Squire Tinslej,
i before whom the case was tried, saw j
; enough in the evidence to bind the '
' defendant over for appearance at the i
1 August term of the superior court and
' | placed his bond at ?500, which wus !
I i readily made. I
AMERICANIZATION OF SANTIAOOl
Oar Ideas Take a Strong Hold oa Men, Womta
and Children.
I was greatly Interested In seeing
how rapidly the town of Santiago do
Cuba Is becoming Americanized, writes
George Keuuan, lu the Outlook.
ragged Cuban bootblack shouted at
me, "Shine? Shine 'em up?" How
these Suutlago street arabs have acquired
precisely the words, voice, tone
and pronunciation of the ferryboat
bootblacks Jn New York I don't know;
out they linve. Many of them can also
count in English, and, I am sorry to
Bay, swear fluently in the same language.
Half the street boys in the city
cun whistle our bugle calls, "After the
Hall" and "The Star Spangled Banner."
I happened, a night or two ago, just
before sunset, to be standing on the
edge of the parade ground in front of
me ruiu inruuixy uhitui-kh wuuu nv
treat" was sounded and tbe national
colors were slowly lowered to the
music of "The Star Spangled Banner."
A large number of dirty, ragged street
urchins, of all ages, sizes and complexions,
had assembled to watch the drill
Snd the dress parade. The Instant
liat the band struck up "The Star
Spangled Banner" and the flag began
td descend slowly from its staff every
boy who wore a hat or a cap promptly
took It oft and stood bareheaded in re*
speetful silence until the ceremony
ended. I don't know what they though*
nor how much they understood, but I
am told that they began this practice
months ago of their own accord, when
they first noticed that American bystanders
followed It, and that they
have strictly observed the custom ever
Bince.
There can be no doubt, I think, that
American customs, American ideas
and American methods are beginning
already to influence not only the boys,
but the men and women of this city.
In dress, in social habits, in commercial
transactions and in a growing regard
for neatness and clenuliness, one
sees everywhere the slow but sure
working of the leaven of civilization
and enlightenment.
One year ago, under the Spanish regime,
there was not a public school- i
house in the city?that is, a building
originally Intended for educational purposes?nor
was there anything like a
system of free public instruction. Now
there are seventeen elementary and
grammar schools and a high school,
wii.i an average number of 1,922 pupils.
and the private houses rented for
temporary use as school buildings are
wholly inadequate to accommodate the
number of children who have applied
for admission. Major Haccardl, who
is ex-otttcio president of the Heard of ,
Public Instruction, has just recommended
that thirty more schools, with
accommodations for l.r>00 more scholars,
be established within the limits of
the municipality, us soon as there la
money available.
Knows Hotter.
"What is your idea of a humorist?"
"A real humorist is a man who gets
mad when he hears a pun."
Day* of the Home Numbered.
The greatest electrician In the world declares
that the daya of the horse nre numbered,
and that In a short time electricity
will completely supplant nmn'a in< st useful
animal. In 20 years, he asserts, the horse
will he a curiosity. Placates ot the stomach,
liver, kidneys nnd blood would also bo a
cutloslty If all sufferers would take IIc>stetter's
Stomach Hitters. There would then be
practically no dyspepsia, nervousness, sleeplessness,
Indigestion, constipation, malarial
fever or ague.
At Plymouth. Mass.. a man was killed by
lightning while ringing a church hell.
To Care Coustlpatlon Forever*
Take CaScarots Cdndv Cathartic. lOoorSSe.
If C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists rotund money.
The true Christian can he trusted as far as
God can see him.?ltam's Horn.
"Peace Hath
Her Victories
cNj) less renowned than
war,'' said Milton, and now,
in the Spring, is the time
to get a peaceful victory
over the impurities which
have been accumulating in
the blood during Winter's
hearty eating* The banner
of peace is borne aloft
by Hood's Sarsaparilla,
It brings rost nnd comfort to the weary
body racked by pain* of all aorta and kinds.
Its lienolIWal effects prove it to bo the
Kroat specific to bo rolled upon for victory.
Hood's nrvrr disappoint*.
Rheum "My mother was seriously
afflicted with salt rheum and painful rnntiin>:
sores. No inediclno helped her until
Hood's Sarsaparllla was used, which made
her entirely well." Kssk K. mapi.ehtonb.
lifts i tenrhurn Street, Chlcaifo, 111.
Tlrod Feelins "I hod that tiro<l, dull
feeling, dysp.-psia, headaches and sinking ,
spoils, but H'md's Rarsaparilla made mo a
new man. 1 never was better than now."
John Mack, Oskaloosa. Iowa.
cf toCcES S(VUatKVul(a
_ Hoods Pills core liver ills, nonlrntntlng and
tho only cathartic to lake with Hood's Saras pari I) a.
on Athletic Goods
tnsistupon Spalding'6
IIiihImiiiic ( '.it?r?<
A. It. M'Al.lJl.Nii a; iUlOS.,
York. Chicago. J'cnvor.
\\' ANTED- Ciw of bar. health that RIl'ANI
*? will not benefit, bond 6 ci*. to lti|>?nN Olieuiical T
Oo.. New York, for lu saiuides and low testimonial*.
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