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The National tribune., 1900-10-18
Progress in Porto Rico.

Matters are progressing so in Porto
Rico that in his annual report Brighten.
G.. W. Davis, commanding the Depart
ment, states that when the organization of
the Civil Government shall have been
completed and the civil machinery is wo. k
ing well, there will be no necessity to re-
tain so large military force as at pres
cnt.
Gen. Davis says the reduction of the
garrison to IS companies certainly can be-
made, and perhaps a still greater redGc-
ton will be possible. He says, however.
that he cannot conceive it possible to lin t
the garrison to a force just sufficient to
take care of the guns at San Juan. and
he points out that the island of Porto
Rico must have in the future, as it has
had in the past, great military Importance
Gen. Davis adds: 1T is inconceivableAthat
the United States will leave the island
without adequate protection of men, ships
and guns-the only land owned by the
United States in the West Indies"
Land for a naval station has been re-
served. and coaling and repair station
probably will be erected at San Juan. Gen.
Davis says the armament should be in
creased and moierniZed, and the guns
cared for by a sufficient force of artillery.
He says the experiment of utilizing the
natives as soldiers has proved Il marked
success, Judging from the appearance OF
the organization as it was seen on parade,
review and in camp.
In the local elections, Gen. Davis saws
there was never present at or near vot
ing place an armed soldier, and ''the bay.
onet was conspicuous by its absence.
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but praise and thanks and public acknowl
edgement should not be withheld from
brave Baron Won Ketteler's memory. All
know now, as many did whose hearts
failed them when the order to prepare
to leave Peking was read. that certain
massacre by Imperial order awaited them
outside the city walls-massacre only
averted by Baron Won Kettelers death.
Alas that it took so much, after months
of trickery and inaction on the part of the
Chinese officials, to convince the body of
Ministers that in such 4 crisis they could
not trust to Chinese promises of protec-
tion.
And so many who were unknown to her
mourned with the young Baroness and
many an eye filed with sympathy when
after the troops for relief came she was
seen, tall, slender, statuesque, her face
drawn with suffering, moving about like
one from whom the spirit almost had fled
And more than she felt glad when, nearly
nine weeks after his death, the BarOn's
body, lying in magnificent Chinese col
fin, was recovered from a mound in tn
Tsung Ii Yamen, identified by friends ar
physicians, and laid to rest in the Germ
Legation. There had been days and night
of widest grief, acutest agony, when Is
roness Won Ketteler imagined her husban.
only wounded, a prisoner among enemies
whose delight is to torture; times whel
she and all his friends thought, even if
dead, his body would be mutilated; but tn
subsequent recovery of it, intact save for
the wound in the head. was cause for
The National tribune., 1900-10-18
In the Philippines.

The administration of Maniia's civil
courts by Filipino magistrates has long
been scandalous. and is one of the things
the Taft Commission proposes to rectify.
The courts are composed of four Just es
Of the Peare and four primary courts The
magistrates are all Filipinos, and devel-
opments hive proved that the incumbents
are utter f:iilures as administrators of JUS
tice The dissatisfaction with and COM
plants against the existing courts are un-
ending. Natives and foreigners dread iti-
CATION, knowing the facts in the case
Charges have been filed and evidence is
IN the hands of the authorities which, it
is claimed, will show that the magistrates
have been guilty of the greatest corrup-
ton and nralfeasance in office.
The rebel ladrones on the west coast of
the island of Leyte are plundering, raid
ing, attacking and then returning to the
garrisoned towns, while the Americans are
pursuing them in the mountains. The sol
ders are in earnest, however, and are
breaking up the rebel organization.
The captured guerrilas and ladrones,
when questioned, stated that on the 9th
instant 80 Americans attacked 45 rebels,
rifled their strongholds in the Camarine
Province, and routed them, killing 10.
Small bands of ladrones are committing
depredations in many sections of the arch
iuplagO.
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| that the Empress is quite i'll, and the free
hand of the Emperor of late is regarded
as coniirmatory of this. 1t is said that
Ii Hung Chang has advised the Emperor
to return to Peking, on the ground that
| the Powers can stop supplies from reach
| ing the province of SheD 81.
\ later report that the Empress was
dead was regarded by Germany as a new
| phase of trickery and that Government
! sent note to the Chinese Government
demanding direct information whether the
Empress was dead or not.
UPRISING IN THE SOUTH.
Boxer risings in southern China as
sumed considerable dimensions. There
have been conflicts between the Boxers
! and Imperial troops Admiral IIo in par
suit of some Of the rebels was severely
checked near San Chun.. British t.ouD.
are on the move. Fear is expressed tha
| the Boxers may capture Canton. En-.
land has requisitiOned 10000 more Indiai
troops for Hong Kong. The Boxers hav
taken the towns Of Tung Koon and Wei
| Chow City, on East River. In the south
eastern part of kwangsi Province Gen.
Su, in command, has announced that HI
10000 Imperial troops are inadequate and
he needs at least 100000 to suppress the
Boxers. 1t is reported that the YanGtsc
vicerOys have sent 10000 troops to Pao-
TingFu.
An expedition consisting Of 5000 of til,
allies departed from Tien Tsin for Pao-
Ting-Fu on Oct. u. They will meet
1000 British and make a detour to the
south of the Pao-Ting River, through 8
number of large villages, supposed to he
Boxer communities The object is 10
demonstrate through wide territory not
hitherto covered by the allies. The Box
ers are reported in great force east am
west Of Pao-Ting Flu.
The latest difficulty which faces the
Chinese Government and further compl
Gates the situation is a reported MahOm
etan outbreak in western China.
The opinion gains ground that it will
be long time before the Chinese ques-
ton is settled and quiet restored.
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Army of the Cumberland.

The Army of the Cumberland at its
Annual Reunion at Chattanooga, Tenn,
last week, elected the following officers:
President, Gen. ID. S. Stanley; Core
spending Secretary, Gen. II. V. Boynton;
Recording Secretary, Col. John w. Steele;
Treasurer, Maj. John Tweedale; Histor-
ian, Charles e. Belknap; Orator for 1901,
Gen. Archibald Blantley, of Pittsburg,
Pa; Executive Committee, Gen. Charles
II. Grosvenor, Gen. j. w. Burke, Gen.
James Burnett, Gen. W. A. Robinson,
Gen r. A. Alger, Gen. A. Baird and Gen.
I. Wood.
The next meeting will be held at Louis
vile, KY, Oct. 8, 1901.
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what men think of his generosity:
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treatment a thorough test, and the benefit has
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CHINESE SITUATION.
i Hung Chang at PekiEg-UPrising il
Southern Provinces.

Ii Hung Chang is now in Peking, and
laking his official calls on the Legations
In Germany the United States answc
the French note is generally approved
Jut surprise is manifested by number OF
apeIs that our Government has rapidly
assumed Il more energetic attitude TOWARD
China and attribute this to the presence
of Secretary Hay.
Rather trustworthy Chinese reports are
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MAGAZINES and Nnkss.

In the October number of the North
American Review the editor gives another
proof of his determination TO treat the
commanding interests of the hour with a
fullness which, in the treatment of such
topics, has never been attained by any
other magazine. No less than II articles
are given to the discussion of the great
political questions upon which The minis
OF Americans are concentrated at this
moment-the issues involved In the Presi-
DENTAL campaign-and most OF the writer's
of these articles are men who are fore
most In tho councils of the Democratic and
Republican parties.
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VETERANS PREFERENCE.
The Posts All over the Country Indorsi
the BromWall Bill.

the Bromwen Bill.
The following Posts have taken action
in favor of the Bromwell Bill, and repol +
ed the same to Adjutant General F. NJ.
Sterrett, st. Louis, who furnishes the list
to THE NATIONAL RrBUNE:
Post 10. Arkansas: Posts 4, 80, 2. Colo
rado and Wyoming; Posts as and Is. Con-
necticut; Post 3, Illinois; Post 5, Ind an
Territory; Post SO, Iowa; Posts. 90, 4S,
46, 20, SO, 149, 92, 153, 11O, Is, 90, Mas
sachusetts; Posts 119. 261, 132, 4f6. 2 O.,
1S1, 160, 274, 43, 255, 395, 80, 21S. 235,
9S, Michigan; Post 2, New Mexico; Posts
197, 449, 800, III, 43, New York: Post 8,
Oklahoma; Posts 46, 246, 81, rs, 8, 81, %,
Pennsylvania; Posts Z, Is, 6, Rhode
Island; Posts 105. 2, Vermont; Post IS,
Tennessee; Post 53, Texas; Posts IS, At,
10, Washington and Alaska
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me up / am Just as vigorous rs when boy,
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free for the asking, and he wants every man to
have it.
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Portentious and black, it mounted high,
Till its lightnings flashed in the startled
North.
Dyed deeper crimson with blood of her
sons,
Torn with bullet and saber-stroke,
Undaunted in face of the laundering guns,
The Flag of our country for Union
spoke.
Those four long years! while the breach
grew wider
'Twixt Northern blue and Southern
gray;
Till the Nation, with Lincoln's hand to
guide her,
Saw at last the sunset of battle day.
For so years while the wounds were heal
ing,
Thirty years and little more.
The cruel burden of bitter feeling
North and South for each other bore.
1898.
Until, when the century's years were
numbered,
There fell a moment ordained by Fate.
When the Nations spirit that long had
slumbered,
Woke in the springtime of ninety
eight
Woke, when beneath sullen waters,
Went down the flag of the gallant
Maine;
And Americas outraged sons and daugh-
ters
Joined in the war-cry once again.
And North and South became one forever,
Beneath the Flag with its 80 stars;
For the heart of Love that no strife can
sever
Had melted the bondage of Hatred's
bars.
1900
Now side by side as brother to brother,
Northern blue and Southern gray,
Knowing only the self-same mother,
Are guarding the same old Flag today.
Let it laugh in the light Of the free blue
air,
Under the arch of the sunlit heaven
The Flag of our country without COM
pare,
Emblem of hopes that of God were
giveni
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photographed by ]. Martin Miller.

deep thankfulness. Not only his young
wife's sad heart was comforted with the
privilege of laying her dead away, but
many more rejoiced in the decent burial
of Baron Won Ketteler.
]. MARTIN MILLER.
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"a DREAM OF THE FLAG.

Under this tiue there appears in Frank
Lesie's Popular Monthly a meritorious
poem by Miss Theodore Peck, daughter
of Gen. L. S. Peck, of Burlington, VT
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John Mclaughlin, Co. B, 35th Mo-,
Diagonal, Va, wants to see something
from his regiment.
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1881.

Lifted the veil of future years,
Scattered the mists that around them
float:
The young Republic, mid hopes and fears,
Rides to the ring of the bugle-note.
She rides to the beat of the conquering
drum,
To the cheer of the charge, and the
torches flare,
AS onward the lines of the redcoats come,
And our Flag floats out on the York
town air.
When the smoke had cleared from the bat
tle-line,
And roars of angry cannon cease,
The Flag of the sky, and the glad sun
shine,
Floats radiant over land of peace.
But while the century yet was young,
America called on her sons again,
For over the land the war-cry rung,
From the mountain crest to the ocean
main.
And again the Flag with its sunny hues
Thrilled at the kiss of the ocean breeze,
As the Yankee ships, with their stalwart
crews,
Danced Oh the waves OF the threatening
seas.
And when, in the midst of the lurid night,
The sea was adame, and the sky was
red,
The Flag, with its colors cleaning bright,
Proudly rose through the gloom DER
head.
And victory crowned our arms once more,
And peace, n lowering angel form,
Spread her pinions from shore to shore,
To smile in sunshine and droop in
storm.
1916.
Yet, still, as the years went echoing by,
Contentious new in our land arose;
And again to the sound of the rallying
cry
Our soldiers subdued the border foes.
1861.
All, lowering-dark was our country's sky
When out of the South the storm came
Nrth
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1777.

\ woman sat in the silent room,
Lit by a candies flickering flame,
Sewing on through the shadowy gloom,
While glorious thoughts with stitches
came.
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1916.

Yet, still, as the years went echoing by,
Contentious new in our land arose;
And again to the sound of the rallyine
cry
Our soldiers subdued the border foes.
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Blue as the breadth of the boundless sea-
Flecked with the blazing stars of night,
Glad with the light of the sunshine free,
1t waved a promise blessed and bright
The National tribune., 1900-10-18

\ glow of crimson, a gleam of white,
AS the banner lay across her knee,
The colors catching the candies light,
In their longing to fly to the breeze
free
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1861.

Ah lowering-dark was our cOuntry's sky
When out of the South the storm came
forth;
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-09-03
CAPITOL IMPROVEMENTS.
What the Freseo Artists ana Decorators Are
Doing az the State House.

What the lFreseo Artists ana Decorators Are
Doing az the State House.
The contractors in charge Of the inn
provements on the South wing Of the
Capitol Building have completed the
work in the Hall Of Representatives
and the room is now in the hands OF the
decorators who are engaged upon what
will be the most elaborate and modern
work in the building. The ceiling is Of
pressed steel with handsome moulds
and panels and a style and cove of ex.
quisite pattern. The design complete
really embraces three separate ceilings
divided by two beams lengthwise OF the
Hall and this metal work has been
treated 10 a coat Of red lead and a coat
of silver gray upon which the panels are
laid in aluminium bronze, and the
moulding in parti-color. The styles and
carr are blended colors and the enrich.
ments picked out in crimson, copper and
other bronzes necessary. Six classic
corinthian columns with the elaborate
capitals and bases support the teams
These are to be treated in zinc white
and gold leaf, while the saftitt above
carries the dead fiat particolor work
Of the whole scheme No time or
materials will be spared to make this
room as complete in all ways as it now
is in respect TO improved acoustics. We
are pleased TO add that this work lie be-
ing dnoe by home talent. Erb Il Van
Patten the original contractors have en-.
gagged Frank l.. whitman, assisted by
Eldridge Ryder, who will do the iresco
and painting work complete, which
without doubt will be acceptable to the
Board Of Building Commissioners and
70 Mr.. Neer, as Mr.. Willman frescoed
this same room eight years ago in
manner entirely satisfactory to the same
Architect,
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-09-03
RnttIrsnnI.n PnI.nn.

Years ago, when | was a boy at
home" said southern man, ian un.
Gle OF mine. who lived near Mont.
gomery, was out on his plantation one
day when he saw an enormous rattle
snake stretched In a furrow Of a cot.
ton field. lie seized a hoe lying near
by and made pass az the monster.
and broke OF one ~ It's fangs on the
edge OF the hoe blade. My uncle dis
patched the snake and then picked up
the fang and brought IL 20 the house
as n curiosity. II was sharp as a
needle, and faint yellow stain az the
tip showed where some OF the virus
had eXuded.
The bit of bone lay for at least three
or four years In an ebony box on my
uncle's writing table I'm his study,
when one da. a stupid negro servant
girl, not knowing what Il was, used
II 20 extract splinter from her thumb.
In less than an hour her whole lower
arm was swollen. and she exhibited
all the characteristic symptoms OF
snake poison.
MY uncle had studied medicine and
by prompt measures saved the girls
life bur for some mysterious reason
gangrene subsequently appeared In her
arm, and amputation was necessary.
My uncle lost no time IN burning his
murderous relic"
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-09-03

An lmpudent fraud was perpetrated
upon a Manchester bank by one OF its
customers who opened an account
with some few hundreds OF pounds.
The man, after few weeks, drew two
checks, each within a pound or so OF
his balance. and, selecting a busy day,
presented himself at one end OF the
counter, while an accompllce, when he
saw that bis friends check had been
cashed. immediately presented his own
10 a cashier at the other end. Both
cashiers referred the checks 20 the
ledger clerk, who, thinking the same
cashier had asked him twice. said
right" 90 both checks The thieves
were never caught
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-09-03
STILL ANOTHER
VICTIM OF ACCIDENT
Bicycle COlideS With Horses
on a Country Road.

Hanse Jacobson, Of Portland, young
Norwegian about % years Of age, was
brought TO the Salem hospital Sunday
evening about 8 o'clock suffering from
severe injuries received several hours
before. on the road from Salem TO Inde-
pendence.
In company with his brother, Mr. Ja-
cobson was going to the hop yards on
his bicycle. They met team on the
road and by some misunderstanding
both team and bicyclists turned to the
same side Of the road. jacobson ran
into the team and was knocked down
tnd kicked in the face and chest. Two
Of his ribs were cracked and there has
been some hemorrhage. He is resting
easily today and lie not thought to be
III.
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One uoIlar SMlndIe.

Word comes from the prune growers
south Of town in the Rosedale district
that an agent who is buying prunes for q
well.known Portland commission house
is doing a little crooked work. The
agent, who is contracting for the prunes,
draws up contract between the firm
and the grower and the contract reads
that the sum OF 81 is received by the
grower TO bind t he contract and after it
is signed by the grower the young mao
leaves without paying the 81, unless the
grower demands it, and in many cases
the grower does not think Of his 81 un.
ill the agent IL gone. When these
prunes are delivered the growers who
did not receive the dollar will bethe
looser to that amount, as the commits
sion house hold a receipt to the effect
that they received their 81.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-09-03
0PTICIAN ABROAD.
A Salem Man Attends a Con-
ventiOn.

Chss. II. Hinges, the Salem Optician,
comes home happy and satisfied with
Oregon, and especially the weather here
after a month spent in the hottest part
of the east. He visited his old mother
and brother and sister in Cincinnati,
and attended an international conven-
tion Of about 400 opticians and jewelers.,
at Detroit, Mich For three days be
heard lectures the leading opticians Of
America and Canada deli Sered, and saw
hundreds Of instruments and machines
that have been invented to test the
eyes and perform optical sorgery. All
these improvements in his profession
and demonstrations made by great eye
surgeons were very interesting and val.
liable to a man in the business as Mr..
II inges is.
At Chicago he spent some time in the
arge factories and mechanical depart.
menis, spending a week by permission
in one Of the largest filling prescriptions
and orders for people from all over the
country. lie has come back with new
ideas that will be valuable to his Gus.
toners and patients, and expects coon
to put in an electric plant and improved
machinery for grinding lenses 10 6t de-
iective eyes that are brought to him for
treatment.
Mr.. Hinges says Business conditions
in the eastern and middle states are
quite good-the best for years, but the
climate is almost uncomfortable for one
accustomed to the quality Of temper
atures we have in Oregon. I could
hardly keep a dry stitch Of clothing on
me day or night for the month / was
away. While found all of my people
happy and prosperous | saw nothing to
induce me 10 exchange for the advant.
ages we enjoy at Salem"
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-09-03
CarIoua AaeIIean Laws.

They have some very curious crimi.
nal laws In Mexico. For Instance, II is
twice as much Of an .offense to mutt
late the face OF a woman as that OF a
man. The law seems 20 be based on
the idea that a woman's best posses
sion is her beauty and that TO mar IL
does her a great injury.
There Is another curious law. n a
person should be wounded In an en-.
counter, the punishment 10 the offend
er IS fixed by the number OF days his
victim has to stay IN the hospital or
under a doctors care. A line Is fixed
at 40 days In the way OF general diyi-
sion. II the injured man occupies more
than 40 days In his recovery, the pen.
atty doubles up.