Sunday morning globe., 1901-11-17
CAPTAIN CULVER'S TALK
Reminds Our Blue Stocking of
Funny Remark.

At the informal Saturday evening
reception held at Mrs. Colbys hospit-
able home during the winter months
ons is almost sure to be treated to
some novel entertainment. Last Sat
urday was no exception to this rule,
although the star attraction was eX-
ceptionally fine. 1 refer to the very
interesting talk given by Captain Cul-
yer. of the Thirty-secOnd regiment,
q. S. Volunteer Infantry on conditions
In the Philippines The Captain mas
but recently returned from the land OF
the insurrectos and while it was his
main business when there to annim-
late them, he has evidently spent no
small portion of his time in an ana
lytical study Of the people and Gus
toms of this far away country one
| incident he related especially Is
worthy of repetition as showing the
real opinion the Filipinos have of the
methods Americans mean to adopt
when once they succeed in fully estab-
! fishing their title to this land and its
people. An insurrecto desired to sur
render to the Americans and was Will
| ing to take the oath of allegiance. He
! had been made thus willing by the i'm
! portunities of his little daughter, who
/ was a pupil in one Of the schools es-
| tabHshed recently in the Philippines
! by our Government. The child was
but eight years old and had become
| so thoroughly convinced of the kind
ness of the Americana and his desire
! really to help his newly found broth
/ ers i'm the East and to aid her own
people instead Of trying to wilfully
! hurt them that she went into the
| mountains I'm search of her father to
| tell him the good news For three
! days she wandered i'm the wilderness
until finally she met her father and in
! duced him to return with her to the
camp Of the American soldiers and
talk to "El Captain" +. uctantly he
| came and in order to conceal from his
comrades the object of his visit he
had wrapped his gun in a bundle of
hay. TimidlF, once in the presence
Of Captain Culver. the insurrecto stat
ed the purpose OF his visit-he wanted
to surrender. The Captain carefully
explained the meaning Of the oath Of
allegiance and also that those who de.
sired to lay down their guns were not
compelled to take this oath, although
it was better to do So.
However, the man declared he un
derstood what il meant ami wanted
to take the oath Of allegiance to the
United States Government; so 1t was
forthwith administered. At the close
Of the simple but impressive ceremony
during which time the little girl held
her fathers hand and looked steadily
into his face as If to encourage him
the Filipino turned to Captain Culver
and said: "Now what is my punish
ment." Thinking to test his idea OF
the character Of Americans, the Cap
tain replied: well, don't you think
you deserve punishment for fighting
= against your best friends?" The mar
, said yes, he supposed So and was ready
to take the punishment, but hoped Il
wouldn't be very hard
This reminds me of a funny remark
made by a visitor to the Midway al
d the Pan-American Exposition. One en-
terprising show employed a man t
r dress up as an old farmer who haC
come to see the big fair, and the curl
r Gus antics of this Reuben would at
r tract the attention of th2 crowd
whereupon the erstwhile harmless
! tiller of the soil would be at one,
g transformed into the most enterpris
! ing advertising agent, who proceeded
to shuttle the crowd inside the door o
the show Some one who had peel
! watching this man saiu, Look at tha
-, fellow. He gets 5 a day for making
! a fool Of himself The supposed farm
!, er was evidently a WI and had hear
p this remark-for he stopped lon
d folks, not a thousand miles away, tina
makes a fool Of himself and don't ge
a cents a day for doing It, neither.
3. And the crowd laughed heartily at tn
g expense Of the first speaker, while h
s. simply wilted out Of sight
e ROsALH GOULDfNG.