Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-11
ECHOES OF THE WAR.

ECHOES OF THE WAR.
Makers and peddlers OF Dewey souvenirs
reapcd a great harvest in New York. Trim
kcts and pictures Of various kinds and col
ors sold like the tabled hot cakes, exhaust
ing the supply long before the show was
over. An idea Of the extent OF the sales is
given by one of the chief vendors who hal
500 hawkers on the streets. OF one kind of
Dewey pictures 10000 were sold in two
days; of another, IS 900; while IS 900 EN-
bossed pictures OF the admiral were got rid
of easily. Five leading styles OF pictures
sold TO tho extent of 2S0,000 copies. Plaques,
medalllons, medals, crosses and stars to the
number of 25O 600 we're disposed Of and 45,-
coo of the Dewey-Schley medal, Besides
these 200O 900 buttonhole silk flags were soli
Altogether, more than l25O,000 souvenirs
OF the celebration were sold on the streets.
Chaplain Mcqueen relates a story illus
trating a phase of American push and
getthereativeneaS in the Philippines. He
says he learned trSm the books of the Req
Cross society of California how two progress
sive young Americans, one a volunteer Off
GER, ana the other Red Cross agent, stole
the supplies of the society, sold them and
went into business in Manila with the pro-
porous and respected merchants Of the Phil
ippine capital-in the smuggling line
Lieutenant Ira S. Reeves of the Eleventh
infantry, former newspaper man of Indian
territory, has returned home from the Phil
ippines on sick leave. The lieutenant
fought with General Chaffee in the Santiago
campaign, and was sent to the Philippines
early in the year. He participated in sew
eral fights with the Tagals and was hit by
eight OF their bullets in the fight at San
Fernando July IL. He says it is impossible
to do any campaigning on land during the
rainy season. During July the rainfall is the
heaviest, and in sixty-four hours he wit
messed 23& inches of rainfall. In some
instances the soldiers were compelled to
tight while standing in water waist deep.
with their cartridge belts around their
necks. Lieutenant Reeves says the Phil
lppine islands are very rich and it will be
an excellent country for investment after
the insurrection is at an end, but he
wouldn't advise poor man to go there
under any circumstances.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
describing life in the bailiwi?k of the sultan
or Sulu, says that in Jolo United States of
America, there is one sound that reminds
one OF home. when I heard it," he saws,
i wondered If it was the same old cat that
used to sing me to sleep long ago The
lieutenant, in whose quarters I sat- assumed
listening attitude. His eyes cleaned with
the light Of battle. That's the same one,
he said He noselessly took spear out
OF the rack, and stealing to the window
poised his weapon and then let fly. There
ttrne I.,T,N ,i,t., -.
with thud the spear struck into the fence
The lieutenant went out and then came
back into the light of the window. He held
up spear on which a dead cat was impaed
That's the fifth cat I've killed in two
weeks said the lieutenant 'Jolo amt such
a bad sort of a place.
The cats are the pest of Jolo. You fall
over them when walking along the street
at night, and they give concerts Immediately
in the rear of every house. 1t has always
been considered legitimate to hurl anything
at cat that was closest at hand This is
what makes life hazardous at night in Jolo.
The things nearest at hand are spears and
barongs, and one who doesn't wish to go to
the hospital through poor workmanship on
the part of the man who thought it was the
cat must walk wide of feline concerts. 1t
L
night and have spear whzz past ones
head and quiver in a nearby tree, while a
voice from a window says: 81 wonder il that
was cat, after all. "
The story of Major Pangborn's experience
as teacher Of the youthful George Dewey
must be revised, In the version published
in The Bee a few weeks ago the school
teacher is represented as having thrashed
George" That experience of a school boy
was not unusual in years past. Indeed, the
school boy who did not feel the impressive
caress Of teachers paddle or ruler or switch
held very low position in the estimation
Of the class. Pedagogue Pangborn did the
Job OF thrashing thoroughly and with the
joyous JUNCTION characteristic of old timers.
But the conventional story ends there. The
finish is thus related by a Washington cor
respondent of the Chicago Post:
The pedagogue was frightened when the
scene was over. He had conquered his
school, but had incidentally licked a son OF
DR.. Dewey, which was an offense. He
thought it over and concluded to face tho
music. The night after the thrashing h.
called on the doctor and insisted on George
giving his version of the affair. The boy
told the story truthfully to the minutest
detail, sparng himself in no particular.
When George was through the doctor OBJ
served dryly:
"'Well, George do you think you have
had enough? Are you satisfed?'
Yes, think ! have had enough
i am glad to hear you say so. II you
| wanted more you know where you could get
it. | endorse Major Pangborn, He did rlgh,
and / uphold him
"The future hero acquiesced in the finding
| and later on became quite friendly with his
| teacher. The licking established relations
between them and there was no future
| trouble. The Doctors stand may have hac
| something to do with this. however"