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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-09
Chicago Produce Market.

Chicago, Dec. S.-Wheat, No. 2 red
IA; No. red, 70 or; No. 2 hard, II "
@72; No. 3 hard, 6S@70; December
1895; May opened. 75A @75ss; high
est, rs; lowest, 7514 closing, 757s @76
Corn, No. 2 and No. 2 white, 5412 q
55; No. 8, 54@541a; Nos. and yel
low. 55@551a; December 55; May
opened, 43A @49ss; highest, 1871 !;
lowest, 43B@43A; closing, 49&.
Oats, No. 2, 30k@31; No. 3. 800
301s; No. white. 34@37; No. white
31@33; No. white, 3O@3214 stand
ard. 33@35; December 31ss@31k;
May opened, 32A @32s; highest, 33;
lowest, S25s@32A: closing. 33.
Pork, January, 1886; May, 1882
Lard, January, SIT; May, S,95@8.97
Ribs, January, S.35@S.37; May, SIT
@S.20.
Rye. cash, As.
Barley, 36@60.
Flax, 1.14@1.20.
Glover, 1885.
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with his wife Catherine, the inspirer of
the great Salvation Army.
Catherine Booth was herself a preach
er, and she desired all her daughters to
be preachers also. Emma, the second,
is perhaps the most eloquent and in
spring of the gifted Booth family
When she was seventeen, she preached
her first sermon, and five converts an
swered to Der fervid appeal. In those
days her mother said once to vast
congregation who begged to hear
Emma speak again, Pray for her; she
is nervous" But no nervousness was
apparent to the audiences who listened
to her. To them the power of the Spirit
was in her voice; it flashed in her eye,
it vibrated in her magnetic touch. The
illuminated enthusiasm of her girlhood
is with her still.
In 1888 in the largest Salvation Army
hall in London, in the presence of $1,000
persons. Emma Moss Booth was mar
ried to Frederic St. George de Lautour
Tucker, who in 1881 had resigned a
promising and brilliant career in the
British Indian civil service to join the
Salvation Army because he thought
the Lord called him. Before that time
the favorite sport of Frederic Tucker
had been hunting and killing things.
After her marriage Emma Booth
Tucker went with her husband to India
to further that Salvation Army work
which he had already inaugurated.
The better to reach the poor and the
lowly among the Hindoos the pair
adopted the native costume and lived
among the people. Emma Booth
walked barefoot with her husband
through India, preaching, teaching and
living the gospel she believed in In
1896 they came to the United States.
Mrs. Booth-Tucker is the mother of
several children.
ESTHER z. CULLEN.
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empty cupboard will ever stare him in
the face on Christmas day.
In the center of the great inclosure
stand usually Commander and Mrs.
Booth-Tucker and their aids. There
seems a radiant atmosphere about the
spot where Emma Booth-Tucker stands.
Those 1000 baskets are largely deliv-
cred to the recipients with her own
hands. Long, delicate frail looking
hands they are, yet there are blessing
and power and magic in their touch
This tall, slight woman with the golden
brown hair looks so fragile that a wind
might blow her away yet for three
hours she stands and deals out dinners
and blessings. AS she gives the baskets
she has a good word for each person.
and her voice is musical and thrilling
To one she murmurs Merry Christ
mas to another Happy New Year"
to another, an old and trembling wom-
an, God bless you. mother" Tears
are in the old woman's eyes as she
passes on with her precious Christmas
dinner. Then the radiant soul that
blessed her gives a basket to the next,
the toughest, most battered looking
wreck in all that motley throng. and
tells him God loves him.
Looking at Emma Booth-Tucker, you
certainly know at last that there is a
beauty transcending earthly comeli-
ness, and you see it here Her asso-
ciates of the Salvation Army feel it,
too, and love and reverence are in their
manner when they come near her.
This lady the second daughter of
General William and Mrs Catherine
Booth, was appointed by her father as
consul of the Salvation Army in Amer
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friends were a good thing. for they
kept her in the straight and narrow
path. Yet if you come right down to
the comfort of the thing-but Wen
leave that case because it has compli-
cations.
Take the case of Miss Flighty She
is sacrificing a whole career, or at least
the probability of making enough mon
ey for her old age, out of regard for
her friends. Now, let US see what they
do for her. I am sorry to say that they
let her vegetate in her little hall bed
room five nights out of the seven. But
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even a very sure one They have
racked their brains and searched the
whole town in the efforts to find an
apartment house with a swell entrance
and a small rent. Not being able to
find the small rent, they took the swell
entrance. and they have been living on
hash and chuck steak ever since. Why
Because Of their friends.
Now, it's a question how much COM
fort each of these received in return.
In the case of Mrs. Blank 1 dare say
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HGsIaUTdUI
There is no doubt of it, selishness is
becoming the keynote of the age, and
When you have once recognized this as
a fact it explains many things-for in
stance, why people are entertaining
their friends in restaurants. Time was
when no self respecting woman would
have dreamed of such thing, but now
restaurant dinners are such a recog-
nized thing that new dresses are being
designed to meet the requirements of
this sort of entertainment.
The reason is plain. People refuse to
be bored even for the sake of their
friends. Mrs. De Jones may issue in
vitations TO a dinner at her Fifth av-
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ones own country and find oneself
practically ostracized. No; better tenn
porize a little longer
Miss Flighty is dying to go on the
stage-in fact, to be exact. the height of
her ambition is to join the ladies of the
chorus in comic opera-but if she did
that all her respectable old fogy friends
would faint with horror; so rather than
lose them Miss F'lighty still thumps the
keys in a downtown Office and confines
her ambition to standing on the edge
of the bathtub and kicking the chan
delier. Alas. she has nine times more
cleverness in her toes than in her head.
but she viii never earn more than $40
a week because of that phantom group
Of accusing friends.
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she sees them
Sunday. On her
way out from
church, if they
are feeling gra-
cious, they stop
to speak to her.
and sometimes
they invite her
to a solitary,
manless dinner,
after which she
is turned loose
to find her way
home in the
darkness as best
she can. From
more elaborate
affairs she is,
of course, de-
b ARE d. G b q
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ing reau OF the
gre at mis- cry
among the poor
families of the
east side and
knowing of your
charitable tend
encies, 1 have
instead sent to
each of the fol-
lowing families
in your name
one ton of coal.
If you should
care to call at
these addresses.
I am sure that
the sincerity of
the gratitude of
the recipie n t s
of the greatly
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FACT AND FANCY FOR THE FEMININE WORLD.

In a speech before the Boston Asso-
ciation For Good Government Mrs Luz
cia Arnes Mead showed that one first
class battleship costs more than the
The Topeka state journal., 1902-12-20
KING EDWARD LIKES THE TYPE
WRITER.

Queen Victoria had a positive distaste
for the typewriter letter and would
never allow her private secretary to use
anything but his own hand in answer
ing the hundreds of letters which daily
came to the court. The consequence
was that Sir Henry Ponsonby and in
later years Sir Arthur Bigge went very
near to catching writers cramp." The
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king has changed all this. If one re-
ceives a letter from Marlborough House
in which the king desires" So-and-so,
one finds the same neatly typewriter
and the signature of Sir Francis Knoll
lys appended in less wornout fashion
than formerly. The tap of the type
writer is now heard in the royal resi-
dence-
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lea. to have joint and equal authority
with her husband in all it's affairs. Ev-
identity General William Booth has out
grown the old fallacy that there must
be one head to every organization. and
that head a man. For an Englishman
this progress is little short of miracu-
lous. His enlightened stand on the wo-
man question comes from association
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Nc s.pon't,, VaIue of Friends.

say that we are
Indifferent to
that don't, " but
we are not.
Little Mrs.
Bla nix would
like very much
to leave Blank
and travel in
Europe for a
couple of years
or so. Blank is
as disa greeable
as it is possible
for n man to be,
and she is sick
and tired of
him. But what
will her friends
say2 It would
not be agreeable
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the stripes and tucks running round
her dress, and she will be surprised to
find how much her appearance will be
improved
Taking into account the entire popu-
Iation, this country has 1900, 900 more
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ninety-three buildings of Harvard uni
versity
Some exceedingly quaint designs are
shown in jewel cases. One is of gilt
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it you win see that it is little difficult
on $40 a week.
And Mr.. and Mrs Newlywed? Oh,
they have the pleasure of giving that
new swell address to all their friends,
and the friends come once and even eat
dinner or so, and then they go away
and criticise the place because the fur
niture is on the economical plan.
And we think we are our own mas
terst
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and represents paddock. Another. of
glass. is patterned after china eabi-
net, and still another is of delicateiy
tinted Dresden china oval in shape
A blond may wear pure white with
advantage. but the brunette nearly al
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males than females. About three-fifths
of the people Gncluding children) are
single.
Choose your sweetheart as you do a
new gown. so that he will wear we'll
He must last through the long summer
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Ida Bing Ding is the only Chinese
washerwoman in New York city. She
does a fourishing business, employs
several men and has a good knowledge
of English
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ways looks better in. cream -colored fab
rics. This ought TO be more generally
recognized IT,
Tucks and stripes running downward
become the Juno type of woman, but
the thin, angular beauty should have
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days and through the winter ones and
before you give him yourself think il
all over we'll and remember that you
are choosing your sweetheart not for a
day or for a year. but for all through
lifa-
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of itself make the most delightful
Christmas offering that could possibly
be made to you
The replies received by the French
gentleman all indicated that the fine
ladies who had failed to receive Christ
mas presents from him were sincerely
pleased by his delicate thoughtfulness.
Indeed, many of them declared that
they should follow his excellent exam
pie at least in limited way.
And after all, that represents the
true Christmas and the true Christian
spirit.
The "DOn'tv Value of Friends.
The question is how much good our
friends are to US. Says the cynic at my
elbow. Their moral value is infinite;
they keep US from doing things"
Which is true enough in several ways.
I have noticed this much about ones
average friends--they are very quick to
say don't" And it's all very well to
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CERTAIN we

Il CERTAIN wealthy French
~ bachelor of this city has in
"a augurated an innovation in
Christmas gift giving which is
worthy of imitation. A few
days ago he CHANGED to read of the ter
rible poverty in the congested east side
districts. Coal especially was said to
be an almost unknown luxury to many
of these people. Returning home, the
French bachelor inspected the list of
persons to whom he had purposed send
ing Christmas gifts. Then he sat down
and wrote to each of them a letter
somewhat like this:
Dear Madam had intended to
send you as a Christmas Offering a
small jeweled bonbonniere box. Hav-
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enue mansion, and she will have a mea-
ger enough attendance. Furthermore.
as soon as is decent her guests will
hasten away to distract their minds
with something frivolous. On the other
hand let her summon her eronies to a
cozy little feast at the Goldrocks res
taurant or even at that shocking little
Bohemian place over on Avenue Z, and
they will all attend with the utmost
JOY You see, at a private house a GER
tain amount of decorum is necessary,
if only for the sake of the servants,
while at a restaurant one seems to be
able to do as one pleases.
An Auto "Fright.o
Last Saturday afternoon I was riding
up Broadway in cable car. Suddenly
there was a great commotion. People
craned their necks to the brea king
point and tried all to see at once out of
the rear door. Then there were excla-
nations somewhat like this:
What is it ?''
rs it a monkey?"
It's a big dog"
mo; it's bear
With a whfr and a cloud of evil
smelling smoke, a huge automobile
dashed past. Then came the cry.
why, it's a woman."
And so it was. But you could hardly
have told for the life OF you. for she
was wrapped up in a huge goatskin
coat, her head swathed in a mud col
ored chiffon veil. KATE CLYDE.
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The Pros md Cons.

The Fros anu COnss
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Newlywed haven't
a very large income-in fact, it isn't
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"a ACH year so long as live and
- the Christmas time comes again
I shall think of Consul Emma
Booth-Tucker, of the Salvation
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doesn't present a swell enough appear
ance, and when you come right down to
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GA NABEL.' said Elizabeth Ronce-
NE val to her sister, ''let us cele-
u I,,.a To rraor. sfr-icflv
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1902-05-02

LIE sorprendimos CON siete vieios en-
IN bohio, =
eEstos estaban indsfensos, con-
sistiend0 su Gnica &rmA en- nm par
de bolOs. No hubo lucha pues les
cogimos de sorpres&. El intsrprete
los aCos6 & preguntas pero el1os SO
neg&ron & hAblar.D
Sun policia nativo, sigue dicien.
do Snee, amarr6 entonces 6 los siete
viejos en- una GensRrta> c&v6se un
profundo hoyo 6 cuyo borde so colo
caron los reos. Nosotros formamos
alfrente "a 10 crden del sRrgen-
to hiCimos fuego. Todos aouellos
infelices cayerOn muertos en- el hoyo
y allf f0eron Rbandonados regresan-
do nosotros &l campamento con el
asesino como prisionerO.~
EstamOs actualmente en- plena
pascua de los hebreos, que CONNIE
moran Ia noche en- que ell angel del
Senior pas6 sobre las casas de los is =
raelitas en- Egipto Esta pascua dura
8 dias, en- los cuales los dos prime
ros y los dos 1ltimos est&n dedic&'
dos & ls iglesi&.
Ls ceremonia principal de 10 hes
to, one fac observada cuidadosamen
te en- TODD Ell Ghetto neoYorquino,
tiene efecto q IL hora Gel :dssayuno
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1902-05-02
CERTAIN person yclept Gee

"a CERTAIN person yclept Gee
the, poetsster of no account,
who has never won o prize ut Porto
RicAn literary contests, once made
this remark: ....-..
sThe main point Is learning to
control oneself.S
Now, if political parties con-
trolled themselves; IL the govern
ment--should it need it-controlle1
itself; if ell the co0perators in the
great work we are endeavoring to
carry out, controlled themselves,
there would be NO donbb No TO our
attaining the aforesaid main point
Bat as long as no restraint is
put on our volatile temper, and
overwrougt passions and ideas are
allowed to run W Id, there is no
possibility of our ever coming to an
understanding.
And, what with The .scurrilous
epithets banded back and forth, the
mutual misrepresentation and re-
ordinations, etc the estimable
forts Ct the present political fac
tore, namely, the federal party, the
republican party, and dissenters
from both, the white flags, and the
red, flags, will certainly come to
n@ught'
1t behooVes us, however, to bear
in mind that it we do not succeed in
controlling ourselves, we rum the
risk Of eventually being controlled
bV others.
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Jinet0s CUbanOS
dan la bienvcnida a Palma
y lc acompanan
a su antigua casa.

HAbAnA Abril 24.-E Presiden-
te electo Estrada Palma lleg6 4 su
antigua casa en- BAyAmo, PcovinciA
de Santiago. Fu6 recibido con gran
entusiAsmo, y victoreAdo por todo
el c~minO desde Holgofn, de donde
vino en- una antigua vOlauta.
Fac AcompaflAdo por cientos de
person0s & CAbAlIo.
Az recibirsele en- Holguin, 1900
niHloe, le cAl taron ell himno cubAno.
En un hsT quote Ia mis- ma tArde el
T. esdE Ente electO, Aconsejo 6 todos
sin distinction de classes que contri-
buyerAn todAs levAntAr una gran
bArrera de protection q 10 nueva re
pGblic&.
Dijo que los cubAnos deberian
unirse ecoLomicAmente mas bien que
politicamente y consolidar la estabi
IidRd del primer gobierno cub&no.
A. Llegando q BAyauo, fu6 recibi-
do el Sefor Palms por algunos anti
guos compaHieros incluyendo & RAbf
Lara y Bay, quienes 10 acAmpafS-
ron lN cindAd,
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TEATR0.

{ Ell tempo b&stante desSpacible
no fu6 obice para que un auditorio
numeroso concurri6r& Anoche & sabO
rear las melodiGs de Traviat&, como
CidA obra del Maestro Verdi.
IQai6n habr& que no conozca Ia
lA rom&ntica production de Alejan'
drO Dumas hiio, cuSndo todavi& no
habfA tornado ell camiro literario que
tanta celebridAd le propOrciOno mas
tAr1e. La dana de las C&melias, Mar
garita Gautier, como tant3s OtrSs
embrisgadas en- Ia vida galalte, pc
70 & las cuales un amor 6 un capri
cho regenerSn, es M tipO blen p@rl
sieny y bien humane; y de ah1 10 AGO
gldA que in lilo tempOre dispense ell
pdblicO Ala novel& del incipiente es
critor y hS dispensado despu6s con
mayor motive q Ia composition musi
cal, exOrnad& con Ell estilO de Verdi
en- su primerA etapa.
A semejAnsA de LuCis, TraviAtA
es del genero que con mayor brillan'
tez interpretA la Sra. Turconi.
Nj su voz nj sus actitudes dejA'
ION NADIA que desear y el pdblico la
&plaudi6 cOnciencia
El serIor Cigada, Caracterizando
q Gorje G9rmant, no hiZ0 mas que
rAtifcar el concepto de cAntsnte de
primo cArtello que ha sAbido conquis
tArse.
FL papel de Alfredo, acArgo de.
Sr. RambAldi, estuvo muy bien inter
pretNdO.
Todos los demas pusieron de ST
pArte 10 possible por s&tisfacer al SO
berano, que en- honor de 10 verdae
no es muy exijente 2 sAbe Sprecial
el buen deseo de los artist&s por de
iarls complAcido.
PARSIFAL.
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RL SENIOR Gcethe, un poetAs.
tro que no hA sido nunca pre-
miado en- certAmenes puertorriquef1os
dijo:
L0 principal es aprender d domt.
ndTse.
81 los partidos polfticos SO domi
nan; 81 el gobierno, caso de que 10
necesite, se denominA; 81 todos los
colaboradores de ests gran obra que
aqui intentamos realizar ae domi-
nan, no sc dude de que c. ire.
mos 10 princtpaI
Por oil los resortes 90 g,
pAsiones ideas err6neAs an
por su respetO, teDgAse por guro
que no podremos entendernos.
Y naturAlmente los esfderzos de
los factores politicos de hoy, tales
comosel pArtido federal. partido re.
publicAno, disidencias peculiares &
cad& partldo, cominaciones en- IL
prensR y snredo impropied&d en- el
uso de los vocAblos, etc, etc. ser&n
completamente perdidos, y sobre to.
do, que 81 NO nos dominamos, CORE
mos peligro de que nos dominen.
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COlOsOs del mar

Conocidos son "a dc los lectores
los colosos que 10 iDdustri& naval
viene produciendO, y entire los que
los dos eiemplares mas nOtAbles son
los vApores c0rreos ell Deutschland,
de Hamburgo, y el sKronnprin Viii
helm,D de Brema, que miden de lon-
gitud, respectivAmente,S docientos
ochos y EdCscientCs nueves metros y
etreinta y siete mil caballosa de
foerz1.
Ambos son hAsta thora los bu-
ques mas rApidOs que han surcado
los mares, todA vez que efectG&n Ia
trAvekiA del Atl&nticO en- cincO dfas
y once horAs, con una ve1ocidad me-
diA horaria de veintitres nudos y
medic.
Ahora Ia CompA3fA naviera Gu
nA1d, de Liverpool, Ia mas antigua
de las existentes, ha orden&dO Ia
construction de mn buque de vapor
que tendrG d0scientos trece metros
de largo y cu&renta y ocho mil ca
bRllos de vapor.
Su mREcha media serG de vein
ticinco nudes por h9ra, 8 sean &cua
rentA y seis XII ometrOs trecientOs
metros.
Con Ia construction de este bu
que, InglAterra serA la que bAta el
record que hastA ,h0ra poseen las
CompAflfAs Sleman&s propietarias
de los vapores antes mencionados,
pero su triunfo ser6 tfGnero, por-
que el Norddeutscher Lloyd, de
Brema, trAta de poner en- grada un
Kaiser With ,lm II, qua medir& la
Ion gitud de doscientos veinte me-
tres y icincuenta mil cAbAllos! de
fnorZA
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1902-05-02
Ell autOr
de "Th0 Lady or the Tiger. "
ri prOCeSO pOr CrueldadeS
en- Ftl1pinaS.
10 QUE DECLARA
MIGUEL sNEE.
SIETE ANClAROs EN- UNA TuMBA.
SIETE ANClAAOs EN- UNA TuMBA,
de maestro cogresp0osa1 J

Abril 25 A los sesenta y ocho
amos de edad aCabn deamorir en- Was
hington Ell popular novelista Frank
R Stockton, celebrate autor de eThe
Lady or the Tiger?o
Stockton naci6 en- Filadelfia. De
nif1o ciff&ba su ambici6n an ser an
dia piratA 8 medico pero su padre
notable metodista 6 quien Henry
Clay proolam6 sin vacilaci6n el pri-
mer orador sagrado de SD &poca CON
buen sentido pr&ctioo SO empeno en-
que el faturo veraifcador aprendie.
RI el ot1cio de ebanista que reEd1&
entonces como hoy mejores entr&
das.
Empez6 Stockton su Carrera Ii
ter&rla como poeta, pero ell fracaso
que tuvleEO- sus primer&s tentativ&s
le relegaron al secreto del mont6n
h&sta que mas tarde accidentalmen
to logr6 que le publicarAn algauas
historietas humoristicAs los c6lebres
semanarios Vanity Fair y Pnnchi
nello. Aquf empez6 su popularidad
Hoy se le considera por muehos el
primer cuentista de los Estados Uni
dos. Sus obras levan e] sello de
agudezA y busn humor que le eran
car&cterIsticos. Entire aqueIlas figu
ran principalmente Ia ya Clt&da &The
Lady or the Tiger?1 eRndder Gran
ge1 'Thd TrAneformed Ghost"
otras muchas que seris prolijo emu
mer&r.
He aquf ID historic que nos Cuen
ta el individuo Miguel 6nae, que per
teneci6 & 10 Compaf1fa W del regi'
miento 8 de regular y sirvl6 en- Fill
pinas al mando del General Smith
el cual dicho isea de paso ser6 bre'
vemente ju2gado por un causeio de
Guerra eensecuenc de los hachos
que ha venido denunciando 10 prepsa
en- estos 6ltimos di&s.
sEn cuantO llegamos 6 Sam&r
dice Snee, so Orden6 Ia reConCentrS.
ci6n en- ell pueblo so penA de ser fu-
silado sin formation de causR, todo
hombre, mujer nif1o que se encon.
tiara fuers, Sc nos di6 6rden de ad-
quirir toda suerte de informes Acer-
ca de los insurrectos y de us&r el
sWAter cure.0
Este procedimiento nos era anti.
patico, pero tenismos que emplearlo
so pena de severe cRstigo,
<Yo vi como veinte filipinos mar
tirizsdos por Ia Gcura del aguaa.
ga mi Sc me destac6 una vez
CON siete hombres al mando de un
sargentO para buscAr & IN nAtivo
que hAbfR asesin&do & nm soldado.