Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-08-21
AND FANCIES
Written for the Sunday Leader BY
the Peripatetic Philosopher,

LOT SuluduCe lHdu uiu WV
of the Board of Strategy in time of
war.
The Trustees of the Marietta Water
Works have in course of preparation
their sixth annual report to be issued
soon. Reports of the Board for the
years covering the existence OF the
system UP to last summer, may be had
in pamphlet form at the superintend-
ent's Office by any person interested
in the finances of the Marietta Water
Works.
1t may be interesting to know that
the system has not cost the city cent
beyond the original sum of 100000
voted by the Council at its inception in
1891. The plant is now valued at
nearly 100000 the excess having been
made in the profits from the sale Of
the water.
In these days of Town Improvement
Associations, new buildings, relief
committees and inspiring and improv-
ing generally, the following verses
clipped from the Detroit Free Press,
may serve as a timely warning to
those who have no share in the good
works of the time:
"They built fine church at his very door
He wasn't in it:
They brought him scheme for relieving the
poor
He wasn't in It.
Let them work for themselves as he had done;
They wouldn't ask help of any one
II they hadn't W asted each golden minute
He wasn't in it.
So he passed the poor with naughty tread
He wasn't in it;
And he scorned the good with averted head
He wasn't in it.
When men in the halls Of virtue met
He saw their goodness without regret;
Too high the mark for him to win it.
He wasn't in it.
A carriage crept down the street one day
he was in IL.
The funeral trappings made display
He was In 1t.
St. Peter received him with book and bell
My friend you have purchased a ticket towel.
Your elevator goes down in minute
He was in it,
In his wanderings about the town
during the past week, the philosopher
came across an old and musty volume
called the Annual Register" pub
lished in England in 1853. From its
dim and yellow pages the philosopher
CLEANS the following extracts from an
account of England's conquest over
the Philippines, while at war with
Spain during the preceding year.
With Manila now one of the most
glorious names in our history and the
Philippines so nearly possession of
the starry flag, these jottings of events
of by-gone days are interesting to
read. The account runs as follows:
When the British armament ar
rived upon the coast of Luconia Lu-
zon) they found the Spaniards abso-
lutely unacquainted with the breaking
out of the war, consequently unpre-
pared, and in all that confusion which
necessarily attends sudden and pre-
oipitate disposition against attack.
That they might have as little time as
possible to recover from this confusion
so favorable to our enterprise, it was
determined that the forces should be
landed, and the operations commenced
harbor of Cavite, which was conven-
iently situated to strengthen Manila,
and might afford an useful station for
ships during the siege. The first idea
was to begin with the attack on this
fort, but on consultation between Mr..
Draper and the admiral, it was con-
cluded more desirable to proceed di-
rectly to the grand object, judging
very properly that conquest there
would of course occasion and draw af-
ter it the fall Of Cavite. The delay
naturally attendant on the first plan
would have given time to the Span
iards to recover their spirits, dismayed
by the sudden appearance OF an enemy
on their coasts, which had long been
unacustomed to the alarms of war,
they would have had leisure to clear
away the buildings which obstructed
their fortifications, to put their works
in repair, and to take every step to-
wards an orderly, and therefore, prob
ably, an effectual defense
The dispositions for landing were
made little to the south of the town.
The boats were ranged in three divis-
ions, under the protection of the men
Of war Frigrates were ordered to
the right and left. by brisk fire to
cover their fanks, and to disperse the
enemy, who began to assemble in