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The state herald., 1901-07-05

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The earth seems to be settling in
Butte. Montana. and huge cracks have
appeared to the alarm of Its inhabitants.
But as a mining town Butte Is still all
that It is cracked up TO be.
The state herald., 1901-07-05

A Mr.. Hogshcad has had his name
changed by the courts. Some men never
know when they have enough.
The state herald., 1901-07-05

Have you tried Russ Bleaching Blue,
the famous bag blue that delights the
laundress7 All grocers sell Il.
The state herald., 1901-07-05

The fool who says II know gets mors
credit than the scholar who says -
think"
The state herald., 1901-07-05
Ladlo, Can Wear shoes.

well. now We can settle down and
think about Christmas" Settle downi
Get stirred up. YOU mean.'
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that when this stocky little southern
boy-he is but little over five feet
tall and weighs about 154 pounds
made this record, no athlete in the
west would approach it. However,
these critics had no means of know
ing that Walter Kennedy was in con-
slant training with one ambition in
view-that of quitting his college ca
reer with high-water mark for
strength tests.
Kennedy had been discussed as the
great tower of strength in the cham
pionship football team. He had been
the recipient of considerable praise
for his hard and heavy batting in base
ball and carried his 1874 pounds of
avoirdupois like a well balanced ath-
letic fellow would. By strict attention
to daily training Kennedy got. into
trim and took the tests. He ran up the
figures to Ash pounds, and there will
be little danger of these numbers be-
ing displaced by Athlete Place or any
other Maroon student.
Both Cochems and Kennedy. have
ing how to apply your strength to the
best advantage in these tests. Pos
sibly there are stronger lads, or, to be
more correct, there were stronger
young men in the college ranks, than
either Kennedy or Cochems, at the
time they made their tests. But if
there were they did not know their
strength, or, what was more likely,
they did not train to develop it to the
fine point necessary to get the best
results out of the official apparatus
in the gymnasium. Unfortunately for
followers of college athletics, there is
no way to make an adequate COMPARE
son between eastern and western rec
ords in strength tests and even be-
tween the tests of Harvard and Yale
there is such a discrepancy that no
small amount of debate has been
caused between the crimson and the
blue over the respective records of
Herbert and Carver.
Harvard men say that the Yale sys-
tenn is not accurate, as Carver must
have used strap or harness in his
work. The Yale men retort that Car
ver's record when analysed shows that
his marks were not SO goodas Herbert's
in the tests that might have permit
ted the use of harness, while in those
which would not admit of harness be-
ing used Carver exceeded the Har-
ward strong mans figures. So it will
never be definitely known to whom
this honor really belongs, until some
sort of general system is introduced
which will be acceptable to all col
leges.
Although Harry Cochems had gained
fame on the gridiron at the Badger
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Spain and served in large numbers in
the native corps of the Spanish army.
That may be one reason why they are
They have always been the tories of
the island. They are said to differ
considerably from the other Filipino
tribes in the matter of blood There
is legend that a couple of hundred
of years or so ago several Chinese pi-
rate ships were wrecked on the coast
of Lepanto and that the pirates had to
forego their honorable vocation of pi-
rating and engage in trade. Since
then there have been large bar scim-
tiers on many of the escutcheons OF
the noble families in Macabebeland
and a peculiar slanting of the eyes
and disposition to engage in laundry
ing have been characteristic of the
tribe ever since Anyhow all the other
tribes in the Philippines hate the Mac
abebe as much as certain horned and
hoofed gentleman hates holy water,
and the first thing that the Tagalogs
would have done had they secured pos
session of the Philippine government
would have been the Inauguration of
several thousand lynching bees in
Macabebeland. The Macabebes fought
in the trenches around Manila Shout
der to shoulder against the Americans
and Tagalogs who were besieging
them. But when the city was surren-
dered and sovereignty passed to the
Americans the Macabebes passed to
and swore eternal fealty to the stars
and stripes. They were anxious to at
once enter the military service of the
United States. They were anxious for
the instruction to be put down, for
they knew what they had to expect if
Aguinaldo's army triumphed. But for
a long time the government refused to
enlist them. The army officers did not
understand the Macabebes and were
suspicious of their motives and doubt
ed their bravery and loyalty Lieut..
Matthew A. Batson, of the Fourth
United States cavalry, became inter-
ested in them and repeatedly petit
toned Gen. Otis to permit him to re-
cruit a company of Macabebe scouts.
He was finally given permission, and
four companies of 100 men each were
enrolled. The Macabebes were de-
lighted and the full number was Sc
cured in a day or two, and 1000 might
have been enlisted in the same time, so
anxious were they to get into the
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ping, etc. The result was he got his
record. Great as is Herbert's latest
total, Cochems still shows greater
points in some of the tests. For in
stance, in the lung test, Cochems had
AZ points, which number has never
been reached by college strong man.
Herbert had 80 points. In the back
Cochems worked the springs up to 400
points, while the best that Herbert
could do was $50. In the points or
strength in the legs, Herbert eXcelled
by several points. Herbert was also.
better in the push up and the pull up.
The effect of Herbert's indomitable
pluck in going through his course of
training, despite the fact that he was
but five feet seven inches tall and
weighed but 145 pounds, showed in the
chest and upper arm points. He beat
Cochems in these by IL points. But
in the right forearm Cochems was IA
points better. In the left forearm the,
Wisconsin football player excelled by
but three points.
Under tibet Yale system, Carver's
April record last year was 1855 kilo-
grams. This Cochems eclipsed, as
the New Haven authorities admitted.
However, Carver, who is Chicagoan.
graduate of Oak Park high school
and deep student who cares little for
football and track and field athletics,
attacked the job of record making
once more and set the mark at 2,073.2
Kilograms. Subsequently Carver in
creased this to 2,371.4 Kilograms and
claimed the record at 5,217 pounds.
In detail the record of Carver as he
gave it is: Legs, $50 kilograms;
back, $40 Kilograms or S14 pounds;
chest and upper arms, 1888 kilograms;
right grip, 100 Kilograms or 226
pounds; left grip, 90 kilograms or 2o2
pounds.
Shirley Ellis, the big football player
of Harvard, went into the gymnasium
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Macabebes had a most picturesque
time. Blount had but just landed in
the island when he was assigned to the
command of hundred Macabebes.
Blount tried earnestly to acquire the
Spanish language in the two days 1t
took him to journey up to his COM
mand. He found after he took hold OF
his scouts and tried to direct them that
his knowledge of the language was not
as comprehensive as he had hoped. lie
was in despair for awhile, but one day
he was observed to be smiling bright
ly, and his Macabebes seemed to un-
derstand his slightest wish. A broth
err officer asked Blount how he had
managed to acquire the Spanish and
Macabebe language in one night.
Greatest thing in the world" said
the gentleman from Georgia. II have
got possession of two words that give
me complete working vocabulary OF
the Spanish language. All I've got to
say is 'sacar estar!' Now, 'sacar,' as
understand it, means to put, to place,
to bring, to take away, to fetch, to
pick up, to put down, to stand, to sleep,
to wake up, to go, to come and large
number of other things. 'Estar' is the
verb that must always be used, and
which means to be or something like
that; anyhow, you always have to use
it with 'sacar.' Of course l have to
wave my hand, too. For instance"
went on the accomplished linguist, 81
point to the water bucket and say
'sacar estar,' and the Macabebes run
foot races to see who will bring me the
water. / point to my saddle and in
low, quiet tone say 'sacar estar,' and
the Macabebes have that saddle on
my horse before you could say John
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and that the proper reply to the hail
'Quien vive," which is Spanish for
"Who lives" is Americana" l think
that the Americana" which l imme-
diately gave at that juncture, was dis
tinctly heard in Manila, but was erro-
neously reported as an earthquake.
The story of the nerve and daring
of the 7S Macabebe scouts who made
possible Gen. Funston's brilliant cap
ture of Aguinaldo has brought these
brave little people into prominence
before the American people. The
name Macabebe does not mean much
To those who have not followed closely
the story of our little war in the Phil
ippines, and when the report was pub
lished that Gen. Funston took IS of
them in his expedition to capture Agui-
citizens Of the United States were in
doubt for awhile as to whether Mac
abebe was new kind of repeating rifle
or an army ra alton.
The Macabebes quite naturally come
from the town of Macabebe in Luzon.
All the country around the town and
Including large part of Pampanga
province is also inhabited by the Mac
abebe's and is generally known as Mac
abebe land. Macabebe is about 40
miles northeast of Manila, on Manila
bay. The Macabebes are separate
tribe of Filipinos just like the Taga-
logs, the lllicanos, the Vistyans and
others. To an American there is no
physical difference between the Taga
log and the Macabebe. except that the
latter does not insurrect. The Taga-
log can always be set down as being
''agin the government" while the
Macabebe follows the flag better than
trade is supposed to do. He followed
the Spanish flag loyalty and well when
it was the recognized emblem of the
Philippines and when the American
flag was raised and the parrot" pulled
down the Macabebes clambered over
each other in their haste to swear 10y
atty to the stars and stripes. The lit
tie warriors were always faithful to
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Many CLAIMANTS for the
Collegiate Strength Record
COLLEGE athletes are agog over

COLLEGE athletes are agog over
4 the various claims made for ath-
letes in the collegiate strength
record. Ask a Yale man who is the
strongest man in the intercollegiate
world and he will quickly answer:
"Why Charles A. Carver, of course. He
recently made a record of 3.371.3 kilo-
grams, or 5,217 pounds" Ask Har-
ward man the same question and he
will give you yard of statistics to
prove that Carl Guy Herbert holds the
Gown and only" college strength rec
ord with 1869 points to his credit, and
made by the Sargent system.
Ask Wisconsin university under
graduate, or an alumnus, for that
matter, who is the strongest college
man and he will ignore all records ex-
cept that made by Harry Cochems, the
great Badger half back when he was
at Harvard. Harry set the mark at
the astonishing figure of 1909. He sue
ceeded in raising the championship
mark from 1,761.4 to over the 1900
mark for the first time in the history
of college athletics. To thousands of
enthusiastic followers of college ath-
letics there is but one strong man rec
ord and that is Cochems'. That Harry
was the idol of a big contingent can
not be denied. The old cardinal stone
wall ground gamer aid all around
athlete is practicing law in Wisconsin
now, but it is only necessary to watch
him in throng of people to see that
he has lost none of his poise, his elias
ITCHY, his broadness of shoulders and
his deepness of chest. A more popular
athlete never attended western uni
versity. After his record at Harvard
the papers throughout the country
awarded Cochems the honor of being
the ''best developed and strongest
man in the world"
Talk to a Chicago university man
and he will spring two strong men for
consideration, and both of them we'll
known all-around athletes. One will
be Walter Scott Kennedy, the former
famous quarterback and captain of
the championship eleven of 1899, and
the other will be Alfred w. Place.
Place took his tests in the gymnasium
of the maroon university and placed
the mark at 4,23s pounds. 1t was said
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was accordingly turned out and stood
in line while the old woman went
back and forth peering into every
face. She walked from end to end
of the line a half-dozen times, but
finally stood nonplussed. Some Amer
lean soldiers had borrowed the instru-
ments of the Namigpacan band and,
while the general commanding, the
officer in charge of the Macabebes
and the old woman stood doubtfully
gazing at the long row of native war
riors, the volunteer band suddenly
began to discourse "All Coons Look
Alike to Me-" The general, who had
been glazing as black as a cloud
burst at the Macabebes seemed to be
suffering from a sudden attack of
apoplexy. for he turned and hastily
disappeared in the direction of his
quarters, and the officer in charge
of the guilty soldiers repaired to the
church and laughed until he cried.
And the two hooters were never dis
covered.
When the Macabebes were taken
into the service they were equipped
with khaki uniforms, but instead Of
the service felt hat were given wide
brimmed straw hats with a bit Of
blue ribbon on one side of the up
turned brim. They were also given
shoes and socks, which were highly
necessary to them. The shoes they
wore gracefully around their necks,
while the socks were stuffed with rice
and the extra shirt the government
had given each man was used as hav-
ersack. The coats were discarded,
and when the Macabebes came out
on the road for hike" they would
appear wearing blue army shirt and
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service. Instead of arming his war
riors with the infantry Krag-Jorgen-
sen rifle Lieut.. Batson equipped them
with the cavalry carbine. A boy with
his first pair of red-topped boots is a
sad and weeping spectacle compared
to the little warriors when they re-
ceived their carbines. The Macabebes
are SO small that the infantry rifle
would have been much too heavy for
them, but the carbine fitted them as
snugly as though they had been meas
ured for their guns. They are inordi-
nately fond of their carbines. and for
the first few months after they re-
ceived them never laid them down.
When Batson first went into action
with his Macabebes it was still ques-
tion with the American officers as to
whether the Macabebes would fight or
sulk. 1t seemed to be no question with
Batson, however. He simply started
on a run down the road straight for
the enemy, and the little warriors
trailed after him like a pack of dogs
close behind fox. Batson did not
look DdCk 10 see WneIneT the NdCd-
bebes were following him or not He
had made up his mind on the subject
of the loyalty and nerve of his men and
he was confident they would follow
where he led. So Batson led and his
men followed, and the startled Fill
pinos after two or three volleys broke
in wild disorder and fed, with Batsoa
still running as though he was entered
in a two-mile race and his Macabebes
belonged to rival college. Batson or
ganized, equipped and disciplined the
Macabebe scouts and carried them
with great credit through dozen
fights until he was finally badly wound
ed, and after long period in hos
pital at Manila was invalided home.
All the commissioned officers of the
Macabebes were officers detailed from
the various regiments In the Philip
pines.
Lieut. James Fl. Blount, OF Geor-
gia, an officer of the Twenty-ninth
infantry. during his detail with the
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university, had won points in shot
putting and weight throwing, and had
commanded attention in many ways
by his athletic prowess, it was not I'M
til he went to Harvard to study law
that he took up the daily work of train
ing for an attack on the kilogram
figures. Looking over the field he saw
that an athlete who had never done
anything surprising in field or track
events or in the football world. C. G.
Herbert, held the varsity record with
total of 1895 points. Lowering and
Klein, two very strong men, were ex-
celled by Herbert.
"I'll try for the record" said Coch-
ems to one of his old associates in
the football world, and then he buckled
down to the daily grind of Ginning
himself, raising bar dumbbells, grip
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the khaki trousers with the bottoms
rolled up to the knees. They would
have their shoes swinging from
around their necks and their socks
stuffed with rice dangling from their
belts. Their little carbines would be
carried by strap from their left
shoulder. Then with their bare feet
pattering in the dust, they would go
romping down the road like lot of
schoolboys before going out to play.
I remember little boyish Maca-
bebe who belonged to Lieut.. Con-
ways command, who lay dying in a
corner of a gloomy old church one
night up on the west coast. He was
shot twice in the breast, and the sur
geons said he would die before mid
night. He had asked for priest, and
the soldiers had hunted all over the
town for one, and finally secured the
native padre Of the town. Now, down
in Macabebe land the people never
quarreled with either church or
state, but native padres are at dis
count, especially native Tagalog
padres. The native padre with his
accolytes and in all the robes that the
regular Spanish priest had left at the
church when the Tagalogs had driven
him away, appeared by the bedside
of the dying Macabebe and began to
perform the last service of the church
for the dying. The wounded Maca-
bebe's face lit up with a smile of
quiet satisfaction. He weakly made
the sign of the cross over his heart
and muttered prayer. Then he
opened his eyes and saw for the first
time the face of the priest bending
over him. The look of seraphic peace
and joy fled from his face and his
features knitted up in scowl. He
calmly reached down by his side and
produced cigarette. Then he lit
up one of the holy candles and lit his
cigarette by it's flame. He pulled a
cloud of smoke into the face of the
startled Tagalog padre and said: mo
querer ell padre negro" I don't know
that this is good Spanish. but at
least l can plead that the Macabe bes
did not speak anything like good
Spanish. But, anyway. what the
wounded Macabebe meant was that
he did not care for the services of a
black priest. 1t was his lifelong ha-
tired of the Tagalog that was still
strong in death. He picked up the
crucifix that the Tagalog priest had
placed by his side and pitched it
straight at the priests head. He
took another pull at the cigarette
and in shrill tones cried out: padre,
negro. no esperar aqui. Vamos,
vamos, vamos!" He pulled himself
up in sitting posture and the ef-
fort tore the bandage from his
wounds, and the blood began to flow
afresh.
"Vamos, padre negro!" he shout
ed. -Vive, vive Macabebe." His voice
died away. He sank back on his
couch, and with his cigarette still
clenehed between his teeth and his
sins still upon him. the soul of the
little Macabebe soldier passed away.
Hes clean grit right up to the fin
;sh, all right" said an American SOL
dfer who stood by. THAT Tagal
padre didn't forgive him his sins, but
when a fellow fights the way he did
to-day and dies as pmcky as he did,
I guess there's somebody up theirs
thatll forgive him, all right"
Thought so. too.
RICHARD HENRY LITTLE
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Robinson. Oh, 'sacar estar' is about
100000 Spanish words rolled up into
two. It's great scheme"
Not long after this Blount and his
Macabebes were suddenly fired upon
from ambush by large body of insur-
gent troops. Blount says that he al
most threw himself into commissions
trying to think of the Spanish word
for fire" Il had to give it up. Then
| decided that as l couldn't give the
command to fire l had better have
my men charge, as / was sure l could
say charge in Spanish, for had prac-
ticed it for a half hour the day before.
But to save my life ] couldn't think
of the Spanish for charge / didn't
know what l was going to do. My
Macabebes were all crouched down,
cycling me, and the Filipinos were
pumping it into us as hard as they
could work their guns. Finally l had
an inspiration. ! grabbed off my hat,
started on a run for the insurgents,
yelling 'sacar estar' as loud as could
holler. Well, sir, those Macabebes un-
derstood that right off. They rose up
with yell, fired volleyand then came
after me in the grandest charge ever
recorded in history. They 'sacar-
estied' right into the niggers and run
them for mile. / couldn't think of
the Spanish for halt, and / was afraid
that myself and the Macabebes would
keep on until we ran off the island,
but all of a sudden l thought of my
vocabulary again, and just shouted
'sacar estar' and the Macabebes
stopped as though they had run up
against brick wall, and. quietly form
ing, marched back in order. My ad-
vice is to any officer commanding Mac
abebes when in doubt say 'sacar
eStar."
The fame of Mr.. Blount's magic
phrase spread. and their officers used
to lead them into battle with the thrill
ing war ..'y of "Sacar estar."
The Macabebes are 1.-THE and ac-
tive as cats. When they start out on
march they dance along like bal
let girls. and no matter how far they
march they can be found soon after
a town is entered skipping about
down every street, and the terrified
squawks of numerous chickens tell
most eloquently of what they are
about. The Macabebe is a most ac-
complished chicken thief, if he sets
his mind ON it. The American soldier
is clumsy and awkward compared to
the little skipping Macabebes. who
trail an unsuspecting chicken like a
shadow and pounce down upon it be-
fore it has time to find out that there
is a Macabebe within ten miles.
remember at Namigpaoah, when three
troops of the Third caralry, a batta-
lion of the Thirty-third infantry and
one company of Macabebes were
pursuing Aguinaldo up the coast road,
of seeing, one bright Sunday morn
ing, the entire outfit of Macabebe
drawn up in line in front of the
church.
Inquiring the cause of the parade,
I found that an old native woman
had charged two of the Macabebes
with walking into her house and
Communicating pot Of rice and two
chickens that were cooking on
stove. Gen. Young, in command of
the expedition, waxed exceeding
wroth and ordered the Macabebes to
be pareded that the old woman might
go down the line and pick out the
natives. Everyone of the Macabebes