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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02

monoony long garrison duty
and baack life The change altogether
the strangely busy
night ard day. certain warning
Us that sundry little things will happening
Last proclamation action
OF course that brought the long
der in Manila knew well going
bow down proclamation camp
ng of Agunaldo
counter proclamation refusing recognize
But there touch of irony following
to offer the Americans
the privilege Of laying their
These straws have been showing
with the result taking every pecauo
Danger OF an right here in the the
has added to the uneasiness feeling
mand keep their weather kept close to
their the city are almost de-
serted The white uniform
fatigue dress of the shows ready
action Guards and patrols have been
the streets of Manila to-day
few months here would have been an easy
matter for our forces to have broken
movement had been possible
steps at the first the natives in all probability
their arms without struggle Our
Dweys gradually they
have been given time to concentrate
IhaDe for the coming
the exact numerical force of the Insurgents
their total force in Luzon must very
While the plan of campai
not been decided satisfactory way of going
at the business That will be to swaen everything as w s % ~
Bile season of all the year for cam
which are now dry and firm under
water an quite impassabe for troons In
upon us and during that period
viii be practically impossible to con
Since started make preparations Fipnos
city has been the every and then sudden panic
zes the street crowds In spite naturally
am accompanies these scares they
day t"oao When the
took place In very few minutes
was smut up and the struggling
streets but moment before had disappeared
lett behind was wagon load or two
THIS part OF the world The soldiers
on getting the Alarm quickly
Chhe Spanards in
ooru ana MADE LOT their posts fast
out toward the old walled wearing apparel by the
III haste
r and when that had happened native
life TO be seen in any part of the
In the Spanish
me regime OF our predecessors
promptly oar I'D MS place OF
carried But the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02

bDS they ammuntIo
which during
the last Be realized
strong line Old Manila
this South Dakota
Fourth artillery
New Manila stretches beach, The Nebraska reg
around the the South
Third artillery.
to the number positions
well armed
which
their Capuchn
this
spilled deliberately
report
b R.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02
THE LAST STRAW.

1t took the city marshal of Custer City
three months to convince the boys that
the ordinance against shooting pipes and
cigars out of the mouths of pedestrians
was to be rigidly enforced. They grudg
ingly gave way but for the next three
months obstinately stuck to their right to
pepper the front doors of the town hall
and shatter the insllatorsc on the. tele
graph poles. After many arrests and
fines they let up on this, but at a public
indignation meeting it was solemnly
agreed to resist to the last any attempt
to deprive them of the ancient custom of
shooting a plug hat off a strangers head.
Strangers wearing plug hats Were few and
far between in those days, but the boys
waited in patience, and one day he came
in on the roof of the stage. His coming
had been heralded, and there were at
least forty men in front of the postoffice,
who meant to have shot at that hat
The wearer was a youngish man, who sat
with folded arms and looked neither
to the right nor the left. The bullets
began to strike his hat before the horses
had been pulled down from a gallop, and
as the numbering vehicle came to a halt
the fusilade was like that of a skirmish
ping, but it was noticed that not one
passed thrugh 1t. The wearer preserved
his calm de1neanor until every man with
a gun had emptied it. Then he slowly
climbed down off the stage, ana advanced
to the leader of the mob who had well
coined him he held out his hand for a
shake and said:
Sir, I thank you for this enthusiastic
welcome to Custer City, and in case you
have a brass band in town I shall not
object to a serenade after supper
What's the matter with the hat?' yell
ed a dozen men,
The Traveller removed it with a bow and
passed Il around. 1t was steel head
piece and was not even denied
Have they brung this out for wear?"
asked The man who made the last inspec-
ton.
It's the very latest replied the travel
er. I'm sorry for you boys. but one must
keep up with the styles, you know II the
shooting is over and you don't object
The crowd moved across to the public
square, and after Joe Nixon had been ele-
waited to the head of barrel, ne said:
Boys, It was our very last privilege
and now that has been taken away from,
US. I'm off for Tin Cup Diggins, and every
man as don't want TO be an angel will
folier me-"
The bcnd numbered forty-four as 1t
passed UP the trail in the dusk of the
evening, and the traveller waved his plug
hat at them and said he was sorry but
innocent.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02
NO SHOW FOR A CALIFORNIAN.

You see," said the man from south
ern California, "you eastern men don't
give us a fair show To begin with.
You start out on the idea that we are
all liars about our big trees and vege-
tables, and you not only encourage a
man to exaggerate, but go back on
him when he falls into the trap
We'll, now. but what I'm after is
facts replied the other. I've heard
about your big squashes, and want to
know how large one YOU eSsr saw
out there"
"You want the cold TRUTH"
81 do. If you have seen one as big
as barn, don't hesitate TO say So"
But I'm afraid you'll charge me
with exaggeration.
NO, won't. know you have won
derful soil, and still more wonderful
climate, and I've seen some OF your
big fruits and vegetables with my own
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02
TOO MUCH FOR A PAWNEE.

and we rugged the machine up in the
Office. That is, we placed it behind
partition, hung up the skull of a buff
falo and the ribs of a mule, and next
morning we were ready for visitors.
About 10 o'clock old Big Rain, who was
chief, accompanied by four or five sub
chiefs, rode up with whoops and yells,
and after staggering around for few
minutes Big Rain freed his mind. He
hadn't any toga on, and he didn't look
like a Roman Senator nor speak like
born orator. The Internal old scoun-
drel sat down on barrel of salt and
cooked his eye and said:
1--WE want powder and lead. We
want our ponies. We want whisky.
We want blankets and guns. We want
the white man to go. To-day is the
last day, tomorrow we fight!"
II had been delegated to give him a
cold bluff" continued the colonel, 'and
] started in. l told him that we didn't
depend on the soldiers in case of
fight, but that our medicine would
lick braces out of them in ten minutes.
We had been prepared for them for
weeks, and the sooner they opened the
ball the better for us. | threatened
and mystified at the same time, and the
bait took. Big Rain wanted to hear
further about the medicine One or
the sub-chiefs was named Fire Horse,
and he had been doing more boasting
than all the rest put together. Sc
lected him to aid Big Rain in testing
our mystery. Each took a handle OF
the machine and clasped hands, and
after making lot of fiumdooble pas
ses over the bones above their heads,
gave the signal for the current to be
turned on. l don't know how many
volts can be got out Of one of those bat
teries, but if you've ever seen one you
know you can tie man in hard knots.
The antics Of those Indians would have
made a dog laugh. The idea was to
give 'em all there was in it, and we
had 'em yelling in ten seconds. We
held 'em until dignity. brag and buster
had succumbed, and then / waved my
hand to the bones and the current was
turned of. The pair were too fright
ened to make any explanations, but two
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02

hosshead? n ,indie nantly exclaimed tht
fastener.
1T was q champion squash, and il
was a whopper." replied the Califor-
MAN. but it wasn't as large as that.
You've seen beer-keg, of course-one
holding an eighth of a harrel?"
Certainly I have. but you don't
mean to tell me your whopping old
champion squash -"
WAS exactly the size OF one OF those
kegs. I measured it myself, 1t was
taken to the State fair, and the papers
made a great fuss over it. and it,"
You will excuse me, sir" interrupts
ed the fastener, as he rose up with
flushed face. ''but we will not continue
the conversation any further. When
my own wife spent whole winter in
a California squash divided into three
stories and fourteen large and airy
rooms your dimensions and compare
sons are an insult to my intelligence
an insult to my intelligence, sir"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02

There has never been an outbreak
at the Pawnee Agency since it was
established, said Colonel Frazer, in
speaking of Indian affair, land the
reason why is altogether a funny one.
l was assistant out there, and when
we first rounded up the bucks and took
their ponies away it was like living
over a volcano. We had so few SOL
dfers that the redskins had no fear
of them, and every white man who
knew anything of Indian character was
certain that an outbreak and mas
sacre was only question of time.
They were twenty to one, saying moth
ing Of the squaws and the boys, and
day after day the chiefs came to head
quarters and staggered and threaten
ed and made us feel anything but hap
Ply. One day a thought came to me
and it was acted on at once. At the
railroad depot at Ravenhill l had seen
one of these electrical machines which
fakirs take about the country on
wheels, and taking an ambulance |
drove over to see about it. 1t was still
there. It had been shipped on from
Omaha, believe, but it's owners had
not shown up. l looked the machine
over, told the freight agent what 1
wanted of it, and he let me load it up.
I reached the agency after nightfall,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02
CONVINCING PAWNEES.
How an lncipient Indian Outbreak Was Eff
fectually Quelled by Little Yankee
Ingenuity.

other sub-chiefs wanted to see how the
old thing worked. We gave 'em a dose,
and by the time the four of 'em could
wag their tongues and explain to the
crowd we knew that we had the whole
thing pat. Our medicine beat any
thing a Pawnee had ever bucked up
against. He had never taken hold OF
anything before he couldn't let go Of,
nor had he ever tackled anything which
tied him in knots and kept both feet in
the air at once. From that day on we
had no trouble. The Pawnees would
have fought 500 soldiers at the drop of
the hat, but that battery had aroused
all their superstition and they just cud-
died down like SO many kittens. Big
Rain got very friendly with me after a
little, and after three or four months
had passed he one day asked me to
sell him the secret. | told him that it
was a combination of cyclone, cloud
burst. blizzard and rattlesnake poison
prepared in a cafe at midnight by the
great father Of Washington, and that
no money could buy the secret. He
thought over it for a while and then
replied with a sigh:
cts no use to talk. White man
big heap of a Teller, and Indian all
d-n fool!"
CHARLES B. LEWIS.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02

eyes You nnst have sen ! champion
-Quash IA your day Z
"Well, toibe honest, have, but when
I started from home last week I de-
termined to keep my mouth shut about
our wonderful products. / can give
you the name OF man in Los Angeles
who will
Il don't want to open no correspond
ence," interrupted the other. You
saw the big squash yourself, and I've
said I'd take your word for it. Was it
as big as a four-room cottage?"
"I-I-hardly think so.'
WAS it as big as haystack?"
II wouldn't want to say it was"
Don't be afraid to give dimensions.
Was it as big as four hogsheads put
together?"
I'm afraid not
"As large as two?'
mo, I don't think it was"
"But it must have been as large as a
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02
"pEALs OF EAs TER LAUGHTER"

Catholic ancient custom, which last
middle of seventeenth century for the
his congregation with what termed a0ua
pasche the ence With peas OF
supposed be advisable the
Of these dis
courses pomized Christ ST. jouneyng
the they Hospitality
time the smith died
difficulty
his no
a provoked Easter
congregation blacksmith carried and
paradise.
feasting followed fasting
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activity
Visions
his for him.
all
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02

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In
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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02

organization in Manila Spanish officials
their c:s methods
rch and
before bucking
of
prisons.
leniency
during
societies
adding number of military organizations
haven among them
notorious learning
natives
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02

hereditary saxeCoburg has
small English boy whose protrat pro-
England to-day The last
converted lit
the duce5 OF
Saxe-Cobug Goha
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02
THE h()USE:HOL ..

4 Spicy uttle Poem aad ! Delicious Menu Tor
Thursday. With Logical Dissertation on
Mans Appetite Compared With That Of
Woman's, is Martha's Contribution for To.
Day-Some Useful and WeIl.Tried Recipes.
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-27
A Rampant Baptist.

A Baptist minister named Hen
son was turned loose at the Chi
cago expansion meeting last week,
and these things among others he
said: To-day there are those that
wave the Declaration Of Independ-
ence in our faces and tell us that
the thing to do is to deliver over
those islands of the archipelago in
the east to the people who are their
rightful masters, for 'all govern
ments derive their just powers from
the consent Of the governed So
wrote Thomas Jefferson. Do you
Eemember that the Lord said to
Joshua: My servant is dead
And so is Thomas Jefferson. do
not believe that Thomas Jefferson
was iniallIble. Ibelieve that a live
President in the year OF grace 1899
is just as much OF an authority as
a President that lived and died TOO
years ago. l am no worshipper Of
a saint because he is dead. Lot
the dead bury the dead"
These sentiments were loudly
applauded, to the shame Of CHI
cago. Mr.. Henson, OF course,
cares naught for the Declaration
ofIndependence or for the Consti-
tuition, or for any other document
or instrument that woul,1 interfere
with the work OF benevolent
assimilation" which the machine
guns OF Otis are promoting. He
is a Baptist, and, like all the Bap-
fists, he thinks that the subjugatIon
Of the Filipinos will help the mis-
sionaries to prosecute their work
successfully. Would he permit
the constitution or the Declaration
Of Independence to stand in the
way OF such a happy consumma-
tion1 When the average ranting
parson gets loose on political ques-
tions there is no limit to his stock
OF misinformation or OF his reck-
lessness. He speaks from his
prejudices and his bigotry and not
from his patriotism.
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-27
The Peace Conference.

To the third ofthe three sections
into which the great Peace Con-
terence has divided itself will the
civilized world look most hope
fully.
The first section will consider
disarmament-a proposal which
perhaps no nation would at he
present moment serI ously enter.
tain. Not until war talk has prac-
tically ceased throughout the
world will any nation be likely to
lay aside any considerable part Of
its defense.
The second section will address
itself to notifications OF the laws
Of war, notably to the proposals for
the discontinuance Of the use OF
our terribly destructive arms and
explosives. But il there is to be
war is il not best to make il as des-
tuctlve as poSSioler The aggre-
gate slaughter Of modern wars is
far less than that Of ancient wars,
because a few terrible battles soon
decide the contest. Iiby increased
power Of arms and explosives the
number OF battles necessary for de-
cision could be reduced to one,
the event Of which would leave
one party or the other helpless,
would not humanity and civiIiza-
ton and peace be the gainers7
The third section will discuss
arbitration, the interposition OF an
impartial tribunal between angry
nations and that awful court OF last
resort--war.
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-27

less man: mo palaver was wasted
on him. Some Of the men who
conducted the post mortem said
the body had twenty. eight bullet
holes" Such is the way in which
Lemon gloats over the killing OF
a non-combatant, who by the rules
OF civilized warfare, was entitled
to protection.
The stark naked body Of that
Catholic priest, with its twenty
eight bullet holes" is a mute ac-
cuser of the internal policy of i'm.
perialism which William McKin.
ley is trying to force upon the coun.
try. 1t was but the other day that
we were in position to rebuke
England for the crimes she has
committed in building up her en-
pire. Today we are committing
similar crimes in the Philippines,
and therefore cannot point the FIN
ger of scorn at the pirate nation.
Our soldiers at .his moment are
looting and numbering in true
English fashion.
In sending their protests against
these crimes to the Father of
Christendo n the heads Of the re-
ligious orders in the Philippines
call the attention OF civilized world
70 the shameful manner in which
we are making war upon a brave
people who are riskinG all in de-
Tense Of the very principles that |
Washington and his compatriots
fought for. OH the shame of it
that in these last days of the nine
teenth century we should be pill
loried before the world as being |
recreant to all that has made the
Republic great in the past!
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-27
A NOnsensIoaI Suggestion .

Among the various hysterieal
propositions broached with refer
ence to Admiral Dewey, we fail to
remember anything quite so silly
as the proposition to change the
name Of the Philippine Islands, and
to call them the Dewey Islands,
remarks the Washington Pest.
These islands have had their name
for centuries. There is no reason
why that name should be changed.
To call them the Dewey Islands
would not add to the Admirals
fame, but it would simply be a
lamentable failure. No conquer
ing nation has ever yet obliterated
the language or the customs OF the
conquered people, nor has il ever
been possible to change the name
OF city, a town, or even a street.
AS lately as 1896, a subservient
municipal council tried to change
the name of one ol Havana's prin-
cipsl streets from Obispo to WeY-
Ter, To insure this consummation
the old signs were torn down and
at every corner the passer-by saw
in flaming blue and white the
legend General WeYler street,"
yet nobody ever called il anything
but Obispo. The shopkeepers ad
vertised in. that name. Letters
were so addressed; to-day the
street is known as Obispo, and by
no other name.
The suggestion is ridiculous. It
will not be respectfully considered
by thinking men, anywhere.
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-27

Am OHIO RIP VAN WINKLR.-Some
So years ago Matthias Steingruber, then
soldier in the Mexican war, was
wounded in the head on battlefield
He recovered, but his mind was so
affected that he seemed to have no sense
OF the lapse Of time. He remained
always just as he was then, almost al
years old, and all these years has said
he was going to vote Tor Gen. Taylor for
President at the next national election
While helping to saw on his nePhew's
farm last week he was struck by flying
piece Of wood and knocked senseleSs.
When he recovered he seemed to wake
as from a sleep and realized his true
condition and surroundings for the first
time since he was wounded in Mexico.
Told Of the wonderful inventions IN
recent years and the resulting convent.
ences 70 life, he sale;
"Well, guess this world has got too
far ahead Of me for me TO catch up"
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-27

MICHIGAN is about to engage in
the effort to support the State Gov
ernment by a tax levied upon the
incomes Of its citizens.
The Michigan Law applies to
all incomes above the sum Of
$1,000, and all between that
amount and sa, 500 pay one-quarter
Of per cent. above that sum and
below $4,000, one-half of 1 per
cent, and per cent. on all in
comes oil $4,000 and over.
Washington sentinel., 1899-05-27

Kong and Singapore, he does iul
| Justice, and especially to the per
feet good faith with which thel
invited and accepted the CO opera
ton OF the Filipinos as our allies
and prohted bY their services II
the earlier stages Of the conflict.
The quotations which Mr.. Elem
ing makes from the official CORE
spondence OF these officers with the
State and Navy Departments are
most suggestive and instructive
and cast the strongest light upon
the moral turpitude involved in the
subsequent change Oipoliey on the
part OF the Administration when
the appetite for blood and conquest
had seized upon Mr.. Mckinley
and his advisers.
"Readers, II there be any" says
Mr.. Fleming, "oi the debates ap-
pearing in the congressional Rec
ord" debates to which Mr.. Flem-
ing himself made valuable contri-
button at the time) will be put to
their wits end to harmonic the
seemingly contradictory state
ments contained ia many OF the
speeches, pro and con, on the sub
ject OF our relations to Aguinaldo
and his followers. Opponents oi
the Administrators policy quote
freely from the letters OF our con
suls showing the agreements made
and partly acted out with Aguin-
aldo. Supporters OF that policy
cite the dispatches from the State
Department refusing to make any
promises. etc. The apparent con-
tradiction is easily explained. II
is only a matter of fixing the dates
OF the several transactions. In the
early stages Of the war with Spain
our consuls and Dewey freely ac-
cepted the services ofthe Filipinos
as our allies, knowing they were
fShting for independence, for
which our State Department was
fully cognizant, land this course of
dealing continued until reinforce
ments reached Dewey and our
Administration conceived and be-
gan TO put into gradual execution
the purpose OF grabbing the Phil
ippine Islands as a price Of war,
After that time our State Depart
ment began to 'disapprove' and
hold alooE II was then and thus
that FiliDinos were transformed
from friends into enemies and
from patriots into rebels" "
For all the troubles and all the
bloodshed that has since followed,
the unnecessary loss OF precious
lives, the frightiul
slaughter, the untold suffering and
misery inflicted upon the Filipinos.
Mr.. Fleming clearly shows that
the Administration at Washington
is responsible. In justification Of
the severe and outSpoken criti-
cism which the course Of the Ad-
is receiving from good
men and patriots, Democrats and
North and South,
Mr.. Fleming says: Loyalty to
country is noble, but loyalty to
country and to truth is N06iEr sttl.
Commodore Decatur at a banquet
at Norfolk in 1916 gave his famous
toast: Our Country: In her inter-
course with foreign nations may
she be always in the right; but
Our Country. right or wrongP
There the so dier spoke. Hon.
Carl Schurz in the United States
Senate in 1879 said: Our Country,
right or wrong; when right, to be
kept right; when wrong, to be put
rightp There the statesman
spoke" The whole oil Mr.. Flem-
ing's timely and thoughtful article
will well repay careful and thought
full perusal.