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HOW CUBANS LIE.
Possess I1naginations as Fertile a
the Soil of the Island.

Possess Imaginations as Fertile n
the Soil Of the Island.
1t is often hard to tell whether a
cuban lies to you from Ignorance or
malice. On ordinary occasions, and
about matters that do not promise to
AFFECT himself, he is fairly truthful; but
he seems to know no reason hy he
shouldn't tell lie if he wants to. To
the average Cuban who has always
lived on his own island, lie is a thing
to tell whenever it will serve any useful
purpose-such as getting him out of a
scrape, or securing an advantage, or
getting money out of somebody, or con-
ciliating some one, or creating a good
impression. Here the absence of q
moral sense becomes apparent With
the Cuban, lying is not a matter of
right, but of policy, his shortsighted-
ness preventing him from perceiving
that to-day's advantage may be to-mor-
rows loss. The statement common
among Americans who have lived in
Cuba, that the Cubans are all liars, is
much nearer the truth than most gen
eralizations. Though they usually tell
the truth, nearly all of them dissimu-
late or equivocate whenever they see
occasion. Hence it is not always easy
to tell what a Cuban thinks or how he
feels about the future of the island. He
sometimes tells you what he thinks
you want to hear. Every man Of prop
erty wants Cuba to be under American
control, but he will not admit isDefore
a crowd, or even to another Cuban, un-
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-07-28
BEDS in MANILA.
Are Somewhat Different from the Kind
We Have Here.

are somewhat DInerent from the h1nd
We Have Here.
Look here! 1t is 8 o'clock and my
bed isn't made up yet I heard new
conner eApostulating to the interpreter
in the corridor of the Hotel Oriente.
We old stagers all laughed. We knew
what was coming, but we contented
ourselves with smile.
What are you laughing at?' the
newcomer. asked. ''It may be joke to
you, but this blooming hotel furnishes
the woodwork and that is about all.
There isn't a stitch of bed clothes, q
mattress, or anything but a bolster"
We still laughed. The interpreter
the raw recruit
What is it that you desire?' he said,
finally.
"Desire?" the newcomer snapped out.
Il desire q mattress at least, two
sheets, a quilt and a pillow
81 will go now and see the proprie-
tor said the interpreter, for that was
what he always said
Il got all ready for. bed, raised the
mosquito netting and found that there
wasn't thing for me to sleep on
We all smiled pityingly and went on
With our tales Of camp and the firing
line. There was no use of trying to tell
a newcomer. that here in Manila we
never used mattress, a set of springs,
pillow or a sheet. We would have
deprived him of what he had come so
far to learn by personal experience had
we read him a homiIy on Philippine
customs. The interpreter soon re-
turned and heard him saying:
The proprietor says, sir, that he will
send YOU q sheet, but he is sorry to say,
Sir, that he has not Il mattress or a
quilt, nor a pillow, except the bolster
that is on your bed"
The language of the newcomer that
followed is unfit for publication. The
mattressless and quiltless Filipino bed
is characteristic of the country 1t is
the one thing that is suitable for the
climate, and we soon learned to respect
this skeleton of a bed, the perforated
cane bottom of which enabled us to
keep cool in the hottest weather 1t is
quite jump, though, from comfort
able tick and linen sheets to a bed no
softer than the seat Of a cane chair,
but once taken, like other tropical lux
uries, it becomes essential to comfort
and rest-LeSlie's Weekly.
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Simply Calculated.

For finding the average number Of
years which persons Of any age may
expect to live there is a very simple
rule. If the present age be deducted
from eighty, two-thirds of the remain
der is the answer required. This result
is not absolutely accurate, but it is
near enough. For instance, a man
aged 20 might, by this rule, expect to
live forty years longer, which is just
what the latest actuarial tables give.
At 40 the expectation Of life works out
at nearly 81 years, while the tables
give it as more than twenty-five years.
At 60 the above rule allows just over
thirteen years, and the table shows a
little less.
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less convinced that he. too, is heartily
in favor of it. The trait appears like
wise in accounts of the Cuban army.
However, it is only fair to say that the
glowing descriptions given by the
Cubans of the performances and the
glorious victories of that somewhat
mythical force are not Intentional, de-
liberate, cold-blooded lies. Carried
away by imagination as fertile as the
soil of their island, they actually be-
lieve their own monstrous inventions.
For, after all, the Cuban loves better
than all other things on earth to strike
an attitude, to pose, to strut and br2g,
and make himself out a great man and
his gentle fellow islanders a great na'
tion.-Atlantic Monthly.
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War Wespons from Surgical View
The medical in11rnalS q h1nad r11lllish

War Weapons from Surgical View
The medical journals abroad publish
the results of some recent experiments
With the new automatic revolver,
which is being adopted by nearly all
European Governments. The expert
ments in question were made on pine
wood, on plates of iron. on a living
horse, and on portions Of human
corpses, at distances varying from IL
to $50 yards, there being, however. lit
tie difference between the effects on
living and on dead material. The hole
is from five to seven millimetres in
size, and decreases with the increase in
distance, the aperture Of exit being,
however, slightly larger than that of
the entrance. 1t seems that the effect
of this weapon on the long, hollow
bones was exactly similar to that OF
the German infantry rifle at 5000 to
G,OOO feet--the bone was splintered in
every case, and in no instance did the
projectile remain in the bone, the track
OF the bullet Invariably forming a
smooth channel, without shattering be-
lore the bone, and without bony debris,
while in the event of a bullet striking
the skull it invariably shattered the
latter. AS to penetrative power, the
proiect1le at thirty to sixty feet passed
through two human trunks and only
stuck in the third, went through pine
wood sixteen inches thick, and three
iron plates each two millimetres thick.
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how he likes working with his grand.

how he likes working with his grand.
mother?''
One morning when Spencer came in
Wilhelmina knew something had hap
pened. In the months they had worked
together she had learned to note every
change in his expressive countenance.
She had also learned to care deeply for
ms good opinion; the lie she had. told
him weighed heavily. She found her.
self wishing that he knew she was only
70; five years younger than himself.
Would it make difference?
This morning he looked at her so in
tently that she blushed. Then he said
abruptly: What makes women so Sc
cretive in regard to their age? Are
added years a crime? You are the first
one l have met who confesses to 81;
you are really younger looking, and are
brave not to lie about it,"
Poor Wilhelmina. Without thinking
OF the consequences, she said hurried
ly: Il did lie. am only %. ex-
pected to be caught some time, and
I'm foolish enough to step into the trap.
Shall leave this morning?''
Spencer rose and closed the door into
the outer office. BY this time Wilhel-
nina was gathering up her belongings
and crowding them helter-skelter into
her bag.
What's your hurry? ~ Spencer asked,
putting a OBTAINING hand on her arm.
Wilhelmina looked up into a face so
full of sympathy and tenderness that
the tears of vexation on her lashes mir
rored the wonderment in her eyes.
II want you to stay, little girl, be-
cause-well, because, can't live with
out you.''
Wilhelmina concluded to stay.-Bos-
ton Post.
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How She Received Him.

Harry-I suppose your wife received
you with open arms lass night, even If
you We're rather late?
Dick-Well, not exactly; but she had
her hands open. I remember that dis
tinctly, with the fingers spread apart
and crooked.
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till cured.
- fa Sslals Is ig rs s
u 1zs AM), Sse
<gS VIS,h 4 BODhI9,

1t has lately been discovered that the
large iguana lizards of South Australia
attack and kill lambs on the sheep
pastures. They had previously been
known as depredators only in poultry
yards.
A singular result of the recent ex-
periments of Professor Angelo Mosso
on the physiological effects of high
attitudes is that a mountain ascent
may produce such fattening Of the
lumbar curve that man may be an
inch and half shorter on the sum
init of Monte Rosa than when he is in
the valleys beneath. The height of
Monte Rosa, the second loftiest peak
OF the Alps, is, 1925 feet. The cause
of the shortening is partly the exertion
Of climbing. The human stature al,
ways diminishes Slightly during the
CAV.
The Chinese method of producing
artificial pearls by introducing some
foreign substance into the pearl oyster
is open to a difficulty; the oyster some
times eXpels the object from its shell.
A French eXperimenter has devised an
improvement. He makes a hole in the
shell and introduces a little bit of
mother-of-pearl. The oyster cannot get
rid of this, and deposits the nacreous
layers on it until it becomes 4 pearl.
About two years suffice. A small true
pearl may be used. The subject was
fully discussed before the French
Academy of Sciences.
In order to prove to the satisfaction
of the members of the Linnean Society.
in London, that he had really caused a
buzZard to hatch and rear chicken
from hens egg, Mr.. A. T. Crossman
recently exhibited series of photo
graphs showing the Matching and SUBJ
seauent feeding of the chicken by it's
strange foster-mother. MIR. Crossman
thought it very wonderful that the ma
ternal instinct 81 the buzzard had over
come it's liking for chicken flesh, but
another member of the society pro-
duced records to show that eagles had
hatched out goose-eggs and then ten
derly reared the goslings
The Washington Monument, the loft
lest stone structure in the world, has,
according to the description given by
N. NJ. Hopkins, in the Scientific Ameri-
can Supplement, an ideal installation
Of correct lightning conductors. The
apex Of the monument is an aluminium
pyramid, from which eight half-inch
copper rods extend down to the base
Of the stone pyramid forming the top
Of the structure. At that point they
bend inward through the masonry and
pass down the interior of the shaft,
The eight conductors are all connected;
on the outside of the pyramid by a.
heavy rod, and they are all gold-plated.s
Two hundred platinum-tipped points,
connected with the conductors and alt
pointing skyward, cover the pyramid.
The conductors connect directly with
the tops of four iron columns which,
support the stairway and elevator. At
the base Of. the monument the iron coll,
umns are connected by copper conduct
ors with the bottom of well twenty
feet below the foundation of the shaft,
the well containing several feet Of wa
ter and fifteen feet of sand. Severe
electrical storms do not affect the mon
umcnt.
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Cure for stam,nerine.

a gentleman who stammered from
childhood almost up to manhood gives
very simple remedy for the misfor-
tune. go into room Where you will
be quiet and alone, get some book, that
will intereAt but not excite you, and
eit dtswa and read two hours aloud to
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-07-28
Maine Tramp Law.

The Maine tramp law is driving
Dusty Rhoades and Weary Waggles
out of the Pine Tree State. Judge Bose
recently sentenced several tramps to
Jail for ten months at hard labor, and
their associates are tumbling across
each other in their anxiety to get across
the State line.
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Postoftices Named Dewey.

Twenty-eight Dostoffices in as many
States have beerf named Dewey after
the hero Of Manila. This number is
only four less than the number of those
named after Washington. ).
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-07-28

The husband of a singer must be-
come dreadfully tired of the same old
songs.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-07-28

When a girl kisses a man in public
she does not mean it.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-07-28

Sir Walter Besant's story, 'Tne
Orange Girl" will be published this
N, N, o,. !
The evening times., 1899-01-30
Good Enough for Soldiers.

The chemists of the Columbian EXposi-
tion, or Worlds Fair" at Chicago. made
an analysis of the canned beef placed on
the market by the Chicago companies,
which control the business. They reported
that there was a deficiency of albuminoids
and extractives-in other words, of nu-
tritive materials-of ninety-eight per cent
This means that there is virtually no nour-
ishment to be derived from it; that it is
made up of fat, fibre, and gelatine; and
that persons who depend largely on it as
a food must suffer from inanition and even
tuaIly starve to death. This is alleged to
be the meat that was supplied to our armies
in the war with Spain, and that the preva-
Ience of disease among the soldiers in Gu
ba was primarily due to the inanition
which made them unable to resist the
causes of disease.
That the Chicago meat companies would
not descend so low in morals as to send
out inferior beef to our soldiers was the
statement of the Surgeon Generals Office
when warned of the quality or character
of this ration. So confident were the off,
cials of that Office, of the Commissary Bu-
reau, and the War Department generally,
that no attempt was made to discover
The evening times., 1899-01-30
An English Opinion of America.
From Harpcr's Magazine

Nfioin harper 5 Magazine
| know an Englishman of very great ability
who has been bred abroad--the world also knows
hm-and who does not admire America. or view
IL with English eyes. He likewise is one who
does not content himself with a view of the end
of his nose, but looks far into the future. Thus
this man speaks:
'All who look twenty years ahead in their cal
culations are aghast at the mere brute force of
this insular giant, America, who is ignorant of
and indifferent to the traditions of European pol
icy, who cares nothing about spending f2O0. 1000
a day in needless war. They see the mischief
which this giant make with few ships of
war, interfering in Europe today, leaping into
Asia tomorrow, bombarding right and left, and
discussing the ACCESSIBILITY of throwing their shells
at the coast OF Europe itself. Already the Ameri-
cans are people who grow their own food sup
plies and corner them; who make BICYCLES
steam engines, machinery, and fine instruments
cheaper and better than Europeans; who
underbid the English for railway construction in
London. and who are already landing steel rails
in Liverpool. This is today. The mind is ter
rorized if it tries to conceive what that giant
will do in twenty years time
The evening times., 1899-01-30

situation, the existence Of which is due
to the senseless opposition of the minority
Senators. OF the sufferings OF majority
of the people of the Philippines who are
unable to contribute to the support OF
Aguinaldo's outlaws we hear little, only
because it is too general to excite interest
Yet ii is this mercenary scoundrel, VINO
has declared himself dictator and set up
an alleged government, and who inspires
these cruelties, that Senator Hoar would
recognize as the supreme authority in the
Philippines. 1t is in his interest that the
minority Senators profess to be opposed
to the Treaty-because it does not provide
for formal acknowledgment of his right
10 enforce his savage rule on the people
of the islands The hands of the Govern
ment are tied under the Presidents belief
that he has no authority to act until the
Treaty becomes operative. Every day or
delay adds to the anguish of the unhappy
souls our nation promised to restore to
liberty, and adds to our shame. 1t m
creases the confidence of Aguinaldo and
his strength among his followers, who
would disband at once If the President
could be known to have free hand to
establish American rule which means good
order and the reign of justice. Every day
the responsibility of the illogical and in
sincere minority becomes greater and the
indignation of the people more fierce.
The evening times., 1899-01-30
SPIRITUALISTS MUST
ATTEND COLLEGE
PLANS TO EDUCATE MEDIUMS
Scheme i'm England Declared to Be
to Protect the Public From
FAlxirs.

London, JAN 30.-A movement is on
foot here to put the practice of Spiritual
ism very much on the same footing as the
practice of medicine. 1t is proposed to
establish collegiate institution for the
formal instruction of mediums" and to
provide for the authorized licensing of me-
diums capable of conducting orthodox Sc
ances.
The new scheme owes its origin to a
Mrs. Stannard. Her object, she says, is
to protect the public from experimenting
with fraudulent and incompetent spirit
ualists. She thinks these fakirs, by adver-
tsng themselves as professionals, have
caused spiritualistic experiment Of the gen.
uine type to be derided. She desires TO
organize society which will issue class
ified list of the duly qualified working me-
diums.
Blanks forms will be circulated, to be
signed by all mediums in the country, and
only such as give satisfactory evidence of
their power will be recommended to the
public as duly authorized to put people in
communication with their friends in the
neither world.
The college which will prepare persons
for the practice of mediumship is to have
a decidedly novel curriculum-seances, gy-
rations, and classic dances being expected
to occupy large part of the attention OF
the students.
The evening times., 1899-01-30
whether the canned beef was fit to nourisf

whether the canned beef was fit to nourish
men in the field.
Now we have positive proof Of the char
acter of the meat companies conscience
and their regard for the welfare Of the ar
my. Two weeks ago, after the develop
ment of the beef scandal, C. C. Gaibraith,
the agent in Washington for the Armour
Packing Company, sent this message to his
employers:
Figuring on another Government contract order
for beef viii wire later tonight. Arrange to
have it put into the freezer tonight if / get the
order.
He got the order, for that night he sent
the following important message, which
will be read with interest, not only by the
American soldiers, but also by the whole
American people.
Freeze thirty thousand carcass beef, quarters tt
weigh seventy-five to two hundred. Also
twenty-eght hundred hindquarters. Eight-forty
for carcass, ten and half hnds Colorados al
right. Not necessary to be particular about quail
ity. viii give shipping directions Monday.
mot necessary to be particular as to
quality is a sentence that recalls the
statement of Mr.. Marshall, the retired
packer, as to the carcass that is used
emaciated beef or worn-out bulls, cows
and oxen, which, from hard usage, have
reached point where the flesh is not nu-
| tritious.
But this sentence shows more than that
| 1t shows the kind of inspection the meat
receives from the agents of the Commits
sary General of Subsistence. 1t is obvious
that Mr.. Galbraith knew all about the in
spection and could safely say that it is
mot necessary to be particular about the
quality
Is anything further needed TO show that
| these constituencies meat companies would
serve canned fat, fibre and gelatine on the
soldiers as good food? Is anything further
needed to show the fraudulent character OF
the investigation by the Alger Relief Com
missioners, one of whose members, Colonel
DENLY, seems to be an attorney for the
meat companies? Does THIS meet the views
of the generous and just American people
| that it is not necessary to be particu az
about the quality of the beef served to the
| army?
If the companies and the CommiSsary
officials are willing TO impose inferior beei
on the army-at such prices as eight dol
! lars and forty cents and ten dollars and if-
ty cents, which should insure first-c,ass
beef-can we believe that the score of regi-
mental commanders who reported the can
ned beef as bad were guilty of lying? Yet
the testimony of these officers and forty
| volunteer officers is discredited by Colonel
DENLY and by all the Commissioners.
| Can any rational person doubt that there
| is rank corruption in this meat busine s.
Can Congress longer refuse to investigate
it out OF consideration for an Administra-
tion that tolerates man SO inefficient q:
| Secretary Alger?
The evening times., 1899-01-30
NOTED PREACHER DEAD.
Rev. Mr.. Anthony Saved His Town
During the Civil War.

Sandersvilie, Ga, Jan. 30.-The death of
the Rev. ]. D. Anthony known as the
King Saul of the South Georgia Meth
his life at the time of Sherman's march to
the sea.
There was great fear of Sherman's in
vaders here, and one day while the people
were huddled in fear and trembling on the
street corners agitatedly discussing ru-
mors that the Union army was coming
several troopers, advance guard of the
First division, galloped into the town. In
a moment the leader applied a torch to
the court house and directed his men to
follow his example in other sections of
the village
In this emergency Preacher Anthony
mounted his horse and dashed out to the
advancing forces and appealed to General
Sherman to save Sandersville.
So impressed was the general with the
gentle manners and eloquence of Anthony
that he yielded TO his entreaties and dis
patched couriers into the village with per-
emptory orders to stop the work of fire
and pillage. Grateful for this interven-
tion, Anthony addressed a sermon to the
general and his staff on the spot
When the army reached the town il
passed rapidly through and left it as it
had found it,
In his later years the Rev Mr.. An
thony had done an immense amount OF
work for his church. In delivering his
funeral Grafton a brother minister declar-
ed that 10000 persons had Joined the Meth
odist denomination through the efforts OF
the dead preacher.
The evening times., 1899-01-30
KILLED WHILE DRIVING.
MIR. \. ID. Johnson. of Greenwich. tn,
Victim OF AN Accident.

Victim OF an Accident.
Greenwich, Conn. Jan. ga. b. John
son. an aged man, father of Edwin H,
Johnson, president of the Sprague Electric
Company, of New York. was thrown out
OF his carriage yesterday morning and kill
ed instantly. He left his home shortly b.
fore 10 O'Clock seated in light runabouJ
drawn by a sorrel horse. II was zero
weather and the animal was remarkably
lively. Mr.. johnson bade his WIFE good-by
at the door, and only an hour later neigh
bors carried his lifeless body back into the
house.
Mr. Chard saw the wagon overturned
from distance and ran 10 the scene He
obtained help and placed Mr. Johnson in q
carriage and took him To his home on
short distance away. Various reasons are
given for the accident One is that part
of the harness gave way and that Mr.
Johnson thus lost control of the animal
Edwin H. Johnson was summoned by
telephone, but was unable TO reach here
until late in the afternoon. He was ex-
pected to arrive in Greenwich on the 10
o'clock morning train and his father had
gone to the station TO meet him. but was
disappointed.
When Edwin H. Johnson closed his
| country house here last fall TO spend the
/ winter in the city he left his parents re-
/ siding in a cosey cottage on the pace, and
! to them was given charge of the entire
| property. MIR. johnson had a large num-
| Der of spirited horses in his stables. and
/ his father was expert in handling them, a.
| though he had passed the threeScore and
/ ten period of his life. Alta Crest, the
| Johnson place. is next to the Fairfield
! County Golf Club grounds. and is whe.e e
| Andrew Carnegie spent a delightful sum-
mer two seasons ago while MIR. Johnson
1 was in r hone