The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-13
NEWSPAPERS
IN MANILA.
A Kansas Boy Sends Home a
Copy of "EThe American"
Extracts From 1t of Interest in
This Country.
SELLS FOR TEN CENTS
Largely Devoted to the DOings
of the Soldiers.
John Steele, of Lawrence, on the
Staff.
FOR TEN CENTS

George NJ Hammel has received copy
of The American" published at Manila,
P. L. and dated December .. The paper
was sent by his son, Seth Hammel, who
is with the hospital corps of the Twentieth
Kansas.
The title page bears the picture of the
American eagle spreading its wings over
the harbor of Manila. The issue is vol
ume l. No. 81. and the subscription is SLIGO
per month in Mexican money, single copies
10 cents. The first page is devoted to
dispatches. special TO The American. and
marked Republication prohibited, also
Associated Press reports from New York
and Washington relative to the Philip
pine situation Other dispatches are from
London Philadelphia and other places.
The editor is Franklin Brooks A full
page advertisement of a United states
brewing company appears on the last
page. On the editorial page appears an
editorial saying that many of the Span
ish and native employees of the office wish
to quit and join the American army. and
another editorial reads as follows: Uncle
Sam: Discharge your soldiers Eere-an
who desire to remain They will build up
your new territory and Americanize it for
you. 1t is to your interests, as much as
to the individual soldier, to have good,
patriotic Americans the pioneers of your
new land, Reward them as they have re-
warded you ]. M Steele is the repre-
sentative of the paper for the Kansas regi-
ment.
page, BY Captain. T. Millar. entitled "A
Night on Luneta-
How sweet on Luneta at evening to stray:
The breath of the ocean comes soft Ger
The sun IN its night robe of glory is
And grand is the music that plays it to
How varied and vast is that gay moving
Now walking. now resting. now moving
The lights of Luneta CLEAN brightly on
And heetly the tiny cabanos speed by.
The music has changed. and how grand
A song of Columbia is stirring souls;
The soldier in white turns his eyes to the
And lives once again with his loved ones
The music has ceased and We leave the
To walk in the shadows of palms spread
Black-eyed senoritas, all beauteously pale,
Speak soft to their gallants, for love is
their tale
The lights in the bay gieam against the
To tell that the grim ships of Dewey are
We think OF our hero's grand triumph
That gave these fair islands to Freedoms
domain
Oh, long may the sons of Columbia be
BY songs of our country that Freedom in
And long g by the palms under nights
starry dome
May love tales be whispered in Freedoms
new home
Under the head of christmas Day in
Manila, P L. the following announce
ments appear:
Lieutenant Bruckart of company NJ:
Thirteenth Minnesota infantry, formerly of
the editorial staff of the Minneap polls Trib-
une, will give Christmas dinner 10
party of friends. nearly all of whom are
old time newspaper men, at the Golden
Eagle hotel Among the guests will be
Washington D. G: Colonel James Sher-
wood of Honolulu. formerly with the Star
of that city: A. J. Singer of Honolulu and
formerly with the Star of that city. Mr..
Scholes of Tacoma, Captain John B. JEFF
Will ]. Mathews. city editor of The
American and representative of the Den
Harry w. NIcCauley. representative of the
Denver News; H F. Seymour. assistant
of the Seattle Observation-Disclosures and Ar
thur P. johnson, correspondent Rocky
THE John B. weiIand Brewing company
of San Francisco has cabled its agents
here to furnish the egg-nogg for the
Christmas dinner to the officers and men
OF First California infantry and California
artillery
orado volunteers, secured eleven turkeys
about Thanksgiving time. which they have
killed and will grace the company's ia bIes
today If they finish this eleven they
night
IAN Sir Knights .sojourning in Manila
are requested 70 meet at the Grand Hotel
Luneta. No Gale Real. Frmita- at noon
on Christmas day, to join in a toast to the
grand master of the knights TempIar of
Fu1Jouon