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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-29
GENERAL WOODS POLICY.
Unexpected Morning Visits to Asy-
lums and Jails.

Havana. Dec. 2S.-General Woods Of
flee is bcsieged daily by Il crowd of Of
fee seekers from all parts of the island.
The applicants want everything or any
thing-from cabinet secretarysbips to
ialitorships. Despite the fact that the
Governor General receives on the aver
age 200 people every twenty-four hours,
he manages to find time to pay uneXpect-
ed, early morning visits to the asylums
and jails General Wood prefers to take
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-29
PUT HIS WIFE OUT OF DOORS.
Ed Durham Goes to Jail For Threaten
ing Her Life.

Durham. y. c.. Dec. 2S.-(Special.)- -
Ed Durham, n white man, was today
bound over under one hundred dollar
bond by Justices Gunter and Owens.
He had threatened the lives of his wife
and mother-in-law, and several days ago
put his wife ont of doors. Since then
she has lived on the hospitality of neigh
borS.
Durham told his wife his mind was
made up to kill her. This threat caused
his arrest, and an default of bail he was
Sent To iail
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Collector Shoots a Woman.

Chattanooga Tenn. Dec. 2S.-Ths
afternoon, Samuel Mills, collector for
an inStallment house, attempted to seize
furniture in the house of Mary Venable
for Il small debt. The woman attempted
to prevent it, and in the struggle that
ensued, Mills shots the woman and her
little son and daughter. all seriously.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-29
Clevel and Able to be Up.

Princeton, ~ j.. Dee 2S. -EN-P!rsi-
dent Grover Cleveland, who has been
confined to his bed for the lass th.ee
days was much improved today. The
attending physician at the Cleveland
residence stated that the cy President
was up and able to get about the house
and would soon be entirely recoy, "ei
from his sickness.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-29
Bubonic Plague at Honolulu.

San Francisco. Dee. IS The army
transports Centennial ana Newport,
which arrived here last night from Ma
Mia. via Honolulu, bring the startling
news that the bubonic plague is raging
in the capital city of the Hawaiian Is
lands. 1t is understood that the scourge
was brought into Honolulu by vessels
from one OF the infected ports of China.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-29
Lawton Fund $26, 792.

Washington. Dee. 2S.-The subscrip-
tions to the Lawton Home Fund receiy-
ed up to noon by Adjutamt General Cor
bin and excluding the subscriptions col
lccted in other cities aggregate S26,792.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-29
Tanner Not a Candidate.

Springfield. H., Dec. 2S.-At the
gathering Of Illinois Republicans for
their annual love feast today Governor
John r. Tanner declared that nc was
not Il candidate for reelection.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-29
BRANDED AS FICTION
The Story of an AngIo-Ger-
man-Portugese Treaty.
Said to Have as Its Object the Division Of Por-
tugaI's Territory in Africa Between
England and Germany.

Berlin. Dec. 2S.- Regarding the state
ment by the Lokal Anzciger that II
secret Anglo Portuguese treaty
exists for the division of the Portuguese
colonies in South Africa, the correspond
ent of the Associated Press is able to
assert on the highest authority that the
story is a pure fiction, and is in all its
claim without foundation in fact. The
high official who authorizes this denial
made the following declaration:
There is no objection to stating that
the understanding had by Great Britain,
Germany and Portugal refers only to
Africa and leaves Asia wholly out of the
account 1t is quite certain, however,
that Germany under no consideration
would conclude such bargain with
Portugal as the Lokal Anzeiger sets
forth. Anyone with the slightest politi-
cal sense ought to see that these tiny
enclaves in the midst of British India
are the last colonial possessions Germany
would dream Of ;"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-29
Accidentally Killed His Son.

Charleston. S. c., Dec. 2S.--William
Sachael, an Orangeburg county farmer,
while hunting ON Tuesday afternoon
near st. Matthews. accidentally shot and
killed his only child, a boy eight years
old.
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STORY NOT CREDITED.

Washington. Dee. 2S.-NOthing is
known here of the reported intention of
Great Britain and Germany to partition
Portuguese East Africa between them.
The officials here attach no crcdence TO
the story. because. as they point out. a
movement of this kind disturbing the
balance of power in Africa, would lead
almost certainly to serious complications
between the principals and the other
powers of Europe. Moreover, the old
rumor of Il secret treaty between Eng
land and Portugal. whereby the former
might for proper consideration possess
itself Of Delagoa Bay whenever the place
is needed for military purposes has al
ways been credited 10 some extent here.
and if such a treaty really exists, there
would be no need for Germany's partici-
patton, as reported
az FANTASTIC STORY.
London, Dee. 2S.--A dispatch to the
Times from Berlin. comments on the
Lokal Anzeiger treaty statements us fol-
lows:
When it is remembered that two of
Pprtugals ASiatic possessions, Goa and
Damio. form enclaves of the province
of Bombay, the statement of the Lolqal
Anzeiger borders ON the fantastic"
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Queen at Isle OF Wight.

London Dee 2S. Queen Victoria ar
rived at Osborne. Isle of Wight, this
afternoon. The water was very rough
en- route.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-19
TWO MR.. SHARkEYS.

Lest there be some MISUNDERSTANDING
of most important matter, we take
this opportunity to assure an anxious
public that the Mr.. Sharkey who was
adjudged insane in this city the other
day is not the Mr.. Sharkey who dances
in the prize ring, clad in a can-can cos
tune, for a stipend
True. there is a marked similarity in
some of their symptoms but only one
has been formally and legally pro-
nounced insane. The local celebrity
bearing this aquatic sobriquet was fond
of posing publicly in the altogether
with a lantern held above his head He
either imagined himself an offspring of
Bartholdi's genius, or had concluded to
take up the work of Diogenes so long
neglected for obvious reasons. He was
mental millionaire, for he had visions
of great wealth, and whenever he
needed a little change he experienced
no trouble or embarrassment in re-
questing the loan of a million or so
from any of the capitalists of the world
The other Sharkey's method is some
what different. When he strikes man
for money his manner is less refined
1t is even regarded by some as brutal
Instead of holding a lantern aloft to
light the world he takes a brickbat in
his hand and proceeds to make some
body see stars. While our modern Di-
ogenes. stripped to historical accuracy
was looking for the proverbial honest
man, his pugnacious namesake was
hunting for a referee and a crowd be-
fore which to disrobe and otherwise
show his animal nature.
There is not a vast amount of diff
ference, but there seems to be distinc-
ton. Sharkey, the philosopher, has
been sent to the asylum Sharkey, the
fool, is still at large.
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digality. adding thereby hundreds of
millions of debt to the depleted treas
ury. and silencing all remonstrance by
filling the dungeons of the Bastille.
With Pompadour and Du Barri, he
chanted "Apres moi lie deluge' (after
me, the deluge), until the people. reused
by centuries of unfeeling eXtortion,
were no longer amenable to reason or
gentleness.
Possibly with more firmness of char
acter Louis XVI might have deferred,
but not aveTted tie pitiful fate TO which
the excuses of preceding centuries had
foredoomed him. Hitherto the people
of France had been taxed to support
three great armies: first, that of
spendthrift court, exempt from all tax
alton: second. that of the church, also
exempt from taxes. excepting a modest
free gift annually voted to the king,
and, third, that of the in mense body of
soldiery. For the support of these
three armies the people were ground
down until fairly eaten up with taxes.
When Foulon heard that they were
starving, he said, contemptuously;
well, then, let them eat hayl" When
the report reached court that the peas
ants had no bread. the ladies, more ig-
norantly considerate, exclaimed: Then,
why not give them cake?" The peas
antry had reached the limit of suffer
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First Estate, enervated by its ill-gotten
privileges.
At the time of her marriage, Marie
Antoinette was d mere child, Is years
old. irresponsible, poorly educated, be-
cause her mother. the great Maria The
resa, had been too busy administering
the Austrian government to see that
her children were properly taught. The
bride was nevertheless effusvely
welcomed to the most corrupt court in
Europe and there allowed to give her
irrepressible spirits full play. The
court of Louis XIV in profiigacy out
WED that of the Roman emperors, and
the dauphin's young Austrian wife
was treated to strange sights during
the last four years of the reign of the
Comtesse du BARR and Louis XIV. Ma
RE Antoinette was, moreover. so un-
fortunate as to arrive in France just
as the ministry, headed by the Due de
Choiseul, which had brought about the
Austrian alliance. was about TO be su
perseded by a faction bitterly opposed
to it. Consequently L , new ministry
and its satellites soon found opportunity
for calumny in the queens care-free
love of gayety, in ner goOd-natured dis
regard of the stiffest conventionalities
of court etiquette, in her evident en-
joyment in tranSplantinS some of the
Austrian ways, to which she had been
accustomed from her earliest childhood.
and in her extravagant fondness for
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-19
SUFFICIENT GUARANTEE.

1t wasn't necessary for the people of
this state to have their attention called
to the fact that there are F'ilipinos on
the bench of the supreme court at Ma
Mia. for the purpose of proving that
Justice was done the natives i'll all
civil. criminal and military litigation.
No one doubts it. No one has ever
disputed il, so far as we have been able
to learn. Men who oppose a policy of
conquest. and question the necessity of
either subiugating or exterminating the
islanders, do not claim that the Amer
lean system of Jurisprudence is unfair
or that it would be bad thing for the
people of any country to adopt. That
it frequently fails to give satisfaction,
as was the case in Samoa, counts for
nothing. Some of the most experienced
and enlightened litigants in our own
land occasionally find fault with it.
It was only necessary for the people
of this state and the surrounding coun-
try to know that Major Richard w.
Young of Salt Lake City was a men,
Der of the supreme court in the Philip
pines That all cases coming before
that tribunal would receive careful and
intelligent consideration, and all liti-
giants fair and courteous treatment, was
a natural conclusion. Under no other
circumstances would Major Young con-
sent to remain member of that court.
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full-grown man. But they know bet
ter. Just ask one of our self-taught
experts to load and fire this one piece,
and note how his face blanches with
fear. There's test, and it speaks vol
umes for the daring Of the Filipinos
who man those guns.
OF course, it is deficient in some re-
spects; it lacks weight and paint, and
it needs few more nails and pieces of
hoop iron in dry weather but as a dis
appearing gun it beats all the heavy
ordnance that frowns down from our
expensive coast defenses. Load it with
fair charge of powder and ball to
match, and touch it off. and it will dis
appear as completely as one could ask.
Indeed, the hand that touched it off
would be very likely to disappear at
the same time. So it doesn't pay to
stand around and poke fun or fire at
g1n like that. No telling what it will
do. 1t isn't as harmless as it looks.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-19
KINGS NEW STORY.

The Herald has the pleasure of an
nouncing treat for its readers-a new
novel by General Charles King. The
story, Found in the Philippines" deals
with army life in Luzon and is one of
the most stirring variations ever writ
ten by this popular novelist.
General King is always a soldier be-
fore ne is novelist; and on the break
ing out of the recent war he resumed
his command in tine army and went out
and led brigade on the firing line at
Manila. After about a years hard
service his health broke down and he
had to come home; and then he became
a novelist again, and wrote a story OF
American army life as he himself had
just been experiencing it under the en-
tirely new conditions of warfare in a
far-off land.
The story is in twelve installments
and will be handsomely illustrated. The
first installment will appear on Sept. 3.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-19
WELCOME HOMEI

Welcome. thrice welcome to the
volunteers who went away as raw re-
cruits to return as veterans. Their
manhood has been tried in the crucible
of patriotism at the fires of war. They
were boys a year ago; they are heroes
now. The wires have sung their praises
under the sea and over the land for
many a day. No battle was finished
without the help of Utah's field artil-
lery; no report was complete without
a recital of the deeds of Utah men.
Whether on boat or bridge, in fort
or thicket, on lake or land, theirs were
shots that counted, theirs was work
that told. In hundred engagements
or more these gallant lads took part
opening the gate for attack, blazing the
way for infantry, guarding the TANKS
and putting many a wavering column
on its feet Nor were they content to
stop at the simple discharge of duty.
Even when their terms of enlistment
had expired they responded as bravely
and as cheerfully to every command as
they had before. Heroically they tore
the grin of tyranny from the threats
of struggling colonists. and as heroic
ally they classified the ingrates who
smote the hand that gave them
freedom.
These are the heroes we welcome
home today. With banners flying.
flags waving, children cheering. men
and women rejoicing. and the city in
her holiday attire as the boys come
marching back from CORY fields where
everlasting fame they won, none may
doubt the love, the patriotism, the
appreciation of the people of the state.
With flags and flowers we greet our
volunteers. The flags we all will ever
hold aloft. The flowers we strew in
the pathway of our soldier boys, and
wait for the mountain breeze to watt
the bloom of health to their cheeks
again
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-19
FILIPINO FIELD PIECES.

After a cursory examination of the
cannon captured at the battle of Can
daba and sent by Major Grant to The
Herald, the casual observer is very apt
TO say 10 himself, if not aloud: so this
is a specimen of the artillery with
which the Filipinos have been fighting.
\ fence post with a piece of gas pipe
run through it; no breech, no fuse tube,
no trailer, no caisson, and no carriage,
but two rickety wheels that give the
ordnance the outward appearance of a
banana cart
The gun may be composed chiefly of
wood. The gas pipe, which constitutes
its bore may be of irregular calibre and
uncertain strength. The piece may be
as sightless as a bat. In fact. it is use
less TO deny these things. And, since
street cleaners cart gave it a Whitney
of recognition the morning it made its
debut on The Herald corner, we are
not prepared to resent every side re-
mark that is made concerning the fig
ure it cuts in mechanical architecture.
However, this gun has features that no
other implement of modern construc-
tion possesses. If the enemy should
happen to stumble over it in the dark,
his shins would undoubtedly be barked
and his whereabouts would be exposed
by the blue halo of sulphur quite sure
to envelop his head for a moment If
the attacking party were not wholly
disabled bv the fall, it would have a
tendency to throw him into a remi-
niscent mood, in which visions of all
the wheelbarrows and rocking chairs
he had ever stumbled over at home
would occupy his min. while the owner
of the ordnance might slip up and hit
him with a hoe-blade sabre.
People look at this sample of Philip
pine artillery and say that whole field
full of such cannons couldn't hurt
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fired by the success of our revolution
in America. which had emboldened the
down-trodden of, the continent TO be-
lieVe that the united perseverance OF
the humblest could overcome even
kings. Therefore,-when some disagree
ment in voting came up in the states
general. the third estate asserted its
rights, and upon the advice of Thomas
jefferson, our minister plenipotentiary
to France, formed Itself. with the addi-
ton of a few liberal clergymen and
royalists. into the national assembly.
This body then proceeded to form
constitution and To compel Louis XVI
to swear to defend it, thereby trans
forming him from an absolute into a
constitutional monarch.
Although detesting. this constitution.
the king would probably have adhered
to it, and If the government could have
stopped here, all would have been well.
But the hOodgates had been opened.
and ii was impossible now to stem the
tide. After the national assembly had
rendered its important constitutional
service to the government it disbanded,
with the unfortunate proviso that none
of its members should serve in the new
legislative assembly which was to sue
coed it. This measure, intended 10
prove political disinterestedneSs turned
out to be a most unfortunate one. Tor
it thereby excluded from the new body
all the legal ability which had framed
the constitution, and thus afforded OPP
portunity for the assertion of the Wild
unreason of the Paris slums. The Gil
rondists. or republicans, We're soon
overpowered and finally guillotined IN
large numbers by the rabid Jacobins.
The king and queen were imprisoned
for being of royal birth. and the wild
excitement in Paris could only be ap-
peased by the constant plying of the
newly invented guillotine.
Meanwhile an attempt made by the
king and queen to escape was fooled,
and they were seized at Varennes and
conducted back TO Paris by Lafayette,
acting under government orders. This
general afterward endeavored to induce
the king and queen TO escape, when
he realized upon what Dloodthirsty or
gies the new government was feeding;
but, hardened and suspicious by con-
slant betrayal, they refused to trust
themselves to the only man who prob
ably could have saved their lives. the
unsuccessful attempt to escape but IN
furiated the populace, making it feel
that it could no longer trust its reluct-
ant constitutional sovereign. and caus-
ing it to draw ominous parallels with
Charles 1 of England. Louis XVI in
no way resembled that sovereign. He
naturally fought for his crown and
family; his attempts to escape were le-
Ultimate, because those to whom he
had promised fealty were no longer in
power to see that their assurances of
safety were carried out. 1t was. more
over. well known fact that the law
less attacks upon the Tuileries were
cOnnived at by the authorities.
Note-This paper will be concluded
next Saturday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-19
FIREARMS AS PAINTINGS.

Playing with fire and firearms, like
juggling with edged tools, is a form of
amusement that the wisdom of all ages
frowns upon. Yet the dangerous sport
is INDUCED in by careless adults and
inexperienced boys who are old enough
to know better. These fools usually
have TO kill somebody before they ac-
quire the first rudiments of common
sense, or before their guardians learn
that pistols and shotguns are not
proper playthings for idiots and chill
dren.
Here is a pitiful story from Meadow,
printed in yesterdays Herald A g.
year-old boy undertook to amuse his
baby brother with a shotgun, TO which
the mother has chung with singular
tenacity considering that the family
has been abandoned by the father and
is in destitute circumstances The boy
didn't know the gun was loaded. Of
course he didn't. Neither did his
mother. None of them ever know gums
are loaded until test is made upon
some human target. He was only try
ing to amuse the baby by swapping a
cap at him. The poor child received
the full charge of shot in his little body.
and at such close range that his cloth
ing was set on fire. 1t is an awful cas-
ualty and lame excuse.
Every now and then we hear of a
similar case, but it is always the same
old story They never know it is load
ed That shouldn't make particle of
difference. Bowie knives are not the
best toys for babies to cut their teeth
on: nor are shotguns and revolvers the
proper playthings for little boys. 1t is
criminal TO allow them to handle such
instruments of death and mutilation.
No grown person with sense enough to
realize that hats are worn upon the
head instead of the feet has any bust
ness to point pistol or gun of any
kind at fellow being unless he in
tends TO kill him. And this should be
the rule even when the revolving
chamber or magazine has been re-
moved ard when it is absolutely known
that there isn't a grain of powder in
the gun. As backwoods lawyer told
a jury once upon a time: Gums are
dangerous without lock, stock or bar
rel, as many man has whipped his
wife TO death with a ramrod."
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dress. Her three-fold modification at
her ignorance, the prolonged indiffer-
ence of the dauphin and the calumin-
Gus ill-will of the popular party
plunged her deeper and deeper into the
fashionable folly of the day.
Louis XVI was also martyr to an
inferior education. Shy. clumsy in form
and speech, careless in dress, retiring
because of his aversion to the open i'm
morality of his grandfather's court;
studious, diverting himself so success
fully with geographical charts and in
strIments that he soon became the first
geographer of Europe: fond of making
locks and solving mechanical problems,
with no knowledge of military life or
state, and a consequent aversion for
both, he had none of the dashing, king
ly qualities which had so often blinded
the French populace to the unworthi-
ness of their sovereigns. such man
would have been idolized by a peace
loving people; but France, the OPP
pressed but pleasure hungry. saw in her
unpretending monarch nothing which
catered to her Unsuitable appetite for
display; merely a commonplace man.
as unattractive as a ploddfng tiller of
the soil.
A few moments after Louis XIV had
expired the dauphin, then 20 years old.
and his wife, 10 years old. were startled
by a laundering noise in the corridors,
caused by the trampling of the cour
tiers. who. being assured that their de-
testable king was dead. had rushed
pell-mell from his ante-chamber to
pay homage 10 Louis XVI and his wife.
A sense of the awful responsibility
which had come to the newly crowned
king and queen, and a possible forebod
ing of the tragedy lying in wait for
them. led them TO exclaim. tearfully:
.'Oh, God. guide us and protect us, We
are too young to govern!" The young
king Immediately evinced his sincerity
by renting some of the most odious
taxes. by abolishing torture in judicial
Investigations, by sweeping away the
last relics of serfdom. by reducing the
expenses of the court and by founding