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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-24
TEE HlsToxiC.L COMMISSION.
W. J Peele Elected Chairman---Prizs cftersd
for sest History of County
iSpeciaI 10 News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer
Wilmington. n c., Nov. 21.-The H'stor-
ical Commission created by the last Legis-
lature, met last night at Warsaw and et-
fected an organization by the election of
W. ]. Peele, Raleigh, chairman; r. d. w.
Connor, Wilmington, secretary. The meet
ing was held at the home of Rev. j. d.
Hufham, member of the commission. The
most important business transacted was
the decision TO offer three 500 cash prizes
for the best country history in the State;
best biographical sketch of a North Caro-
linian and for the best account of any de-
cade in North Carolina.
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Game Ends IN Red Riot.
fBv the Associated Press

Washington, Pa, Nov. 21-The annual
game between Washington and Jefferson.
and West Virginia University here today
was forfeited to the Morgantown Institu-
lion. by TO O.. Following the game dis
graceful scenes were enacted by players.
Students of both institutions and towns
people. and the police were called to the
rescue. Heads We're broken, bricks and
clubs hurled through the air in every di-
recflon and number of arrests made.
The game itself was a fast and furious
one, and the bloodiest aud toughest that
has been played here for years. Scarcely
man on either team was free from
thu1nps and bruises and the blood was
pouring fro mthe faces of several when
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-24
Stieff Pianos

Sing their own Praise, Estah-
hshed 1872
The essential points Of the Stief
Piano are musical superiority, dura-
bility. reputation, and its being sold
direct from the manufacturers. saw
ing middle men and dealers profits at
moderate price.
We are showing the new and latest
designs in uprights and Baby Grands
and rarely before have We seen such
Artistic Creations.
We sell the Stieff on the most ac-
comnodating terms, although, ow-
ing to its reputation, the Stieff is
preferred by all musicians throughout
North Carolina and many other
States.
SOME. PIANOS At VERY Low
PRICES.
One fine Upright Grand, Empire
design and sells for $4,000; now
Special Price $4,000 $1,000 cash and
$500 per month. One very fine Up
right Grand: cost new $4,000; now
SpeCldi IElct nZJO.Ou- -@lp'pp oD~4A
and 800 per month.
INVESTIGATE
STIEFF
Every instruments guaranteed and
backed by capital OF $3,00o,000.
Write, wire or visit the warcrooms
of a. ". CHANDLER,
Factory Representative.
CHAS. NJ. STIEFF,
,GoIdsboro, n. g.
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Gompers is R. elected.

Boston. Mass, Nov. 21.-Samuel Comp
ers, of Washington, was reelected presi-
dent of the American Federation of Labor
today over Ernst Kreft, of Philadelphia,
the Socialist delegate. by majority
greater than that by which few days
ago was defeated the resolution to pledge
the Federation to Socialism. Mr. Gomper' s
vote was 1884 and Mr.. Krett 1.134.
The next meeting of the Federation will
be held in San Francisco.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-24

Durham, n. c., Nov. 21.-The negro.
Adam Hunt, who killed young Wilkins.
having been convicted and sentenced to
die on December 10Th. has appealed to the
Supreme Court. Meanwhile he has again
been brought from RoXboro to Durham
'or safe keeping.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-24

Pisos Cure is an effectual remedy for
cold on the longs All druggists. 25c.
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Raleigh n. c., Thursday, Nov 26.'
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The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-06

of mile. Then suddenly the crazy
elephant made a bolt which forced his
captors almost off their feet. In the
struggle, the three colossal creatures
half stumbled, half fell against frame
house just off the road.
Then there was no more house.
Timbers. furniture and elephants
were mixed on the ground. The two
circus elephants soon struggled to their
feet again, but the mad elephant abb
solutelY refused to stir. He was I'M
hurt, but he would not rise.
Renewed beatings and proddings
were vain. After an hour of labor the
circus men gave the word to their
charges. and off they went, dragging
the captive along the road.
First he was dragged along his side;
then on his back. Now he was rolled
over, then he went souse into a mud
hole. over and through everything
he went, a mighty, living, swearing,
protesting hurdle, giving that New Jer-
sey road such a scraping as it never
had before or since.
1t was a long pull and a hard one.
But the circus animals were big and
impassive. They listened not to the
furious noises of the fallen. nor did
they condescend even 10 peer behind
them. Calmly, irresistibly, they drag
ged him with a cloud of New Jersey
soil and dirty snow lowering over the
caValcade as II an army of ten thou
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-06

The "old man. had communicated
with the proprietors and they had
made him an offer of $500 for the ele-
plant ''as he Stood" 1t was a sport
ing chance. The circus men were
dead game sports.
The "old man" had no sooner ac-
cepted than the car was on its way.
MajeStically. ponderously, the two
big elephants swung up the road for
two miles to the animal farm, and ma
jestically they marched up to their
squealing brother. His frenzy was in
creased by their appearance, but they
didn't pay the slightest attention to
his RACES. Slowly they backed up to
him, one on each side. He thrust at
them viciously with his tusks, but they
squeezed him tighter and tighter be-
tween them till he could move no
more.
Quickly the circus men slipped
chains around the mad elephant and
shackled his legs together with short
chains. Then they cast off the bonds
that held him to tree and stake; and
at the word the circus elephants
marched off, dragging their captive
with them.
He objected with every kind of
sound that good elephant lungs can
produce, but the two big beasts drag
ged him on.
They Smash House.
Everything went well for a quarter
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-06

nank, driven with a force that made
the Wlelder of the weapon grunt. The
elephant turned quick as a flash and
rushed the length of his chain.
But he recoiled with a scream. The
pitchfork man had begun. Jab! lab!
Jab! straight into the sensitive trunk
went the two tines. each time with a
lunge. Once they went clear through
the thick trunk. Twice they buried
themselves half way.
Suqealing, shrieking, screaming
trumpeting. the elephant stood still for
moment-but only for a moment,
Then he cOiled his trunk between his
tusks to protect it and made another
dash. He nearly got the man with the
goad. Only binding blow from the
sapling saved his foe.
Dusk came and black night came.
and still the men fought the uncon-
quered beast. They knew that now it
meant a probable loss of human life
and certain destruction of valuable
property If they gave the brute
chance to tear at the weakened tree
for even a moment.
So, steadily, continually, they ham
mered, stabbed and dubbed the mon
ster. Other employees took hand, and
for three hours a steady rain of blows
fell on the elephant-the poor, mad,
brave old beast, who sobbed at last,
but still would not yield.
Chained at Last.
At last, long after midnight a new
and mighty man took a turn at the
sapling, and with a terrific blow he
brought the beast to his knees. In
another moment he was up again as
plucky as ever. But in that moment a
chain had been passed around his hind
leg and it's other end fastened to a
stake driven deep in the earth beyond
his reach.
Try as they would, the beast was
not to be caught mapping again, and
no more chains could be passed. So,
until dawn, the watchers circled
around and around, leaping in and de-
livering blow or cut whenever the ele-
phant began to tear anew at the tree.
Soon after dawn help came, just in
the nick of time. 1t came in the shape
of two huge trained elephants, sent
in a special car from a circus train that
was showing some miles away.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-06

their minds. His eyes were fiery red,
suffused with blood. He charged
headlOng at the men when they came
in view. They saw that he had dug
great trench around the tree. Every
man made a rush for weapons and
chains.
1t was almost noon when the men,
one and all, acknowledged themselves
beaten. The mad elephant was still
tearing around and around his endless
circles, now trodden into rut many
feet deep. The tree was giving way
slowly, for it was deeply rooted, but
surely. Not man had managed to
pass chain around him.
A telephone message brought the
owner from New York in the early
afternoon.
frantic mountain he telephoned to
New York to one of the famous ele-
plant experts of the country. The
elephant expert demanded a full list
OF symptoms, and then answered hur-
riedly that he was too busy.
The "old man. hustled to New
York in person. There, near the
Madison Square Garden, is a barroom
patronized by a queer lot of custo-
mers. They are lion trainers, elephant
men, and all sorts of experts in the
wild animal line.
1t required some hours and more
drinks to induce any of them to wan
der out to widest New Jersey to sub
due a mad elephant, but at last three
of them went.
Attacking the Monster.
They got there none too soon. All
hands at the farm were preparing to
hunt cover. The tree was almost out
of the ground.
Without wasting time in parley. the
three elephant men armed themselves.
One took an elephant goad, a mighty
piece of timber with a point and hook.
Another selected a huge sapling. The
third grabbed a two-tined pitchfork.
The roots of the tree were showing
above the ground on one side. Bang!
went the sapling, straight down on the
big bullying forehead. 1t struck with
a crack that sounded as If a thousand
skulls had been splintered The ele-
plant shook his head and charged.
Dig! went the goad deep into his
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-06

sand men were marching on.
With final rush they dragged him
like a bag of meal up the inclined
plane to the car and then!
They stepped all over him. They fell
on him with their mighty knees. They
Drodded him with their tusks. They
kicked him and butted him.
In less than fifteen minutes the mad
elephant, whom a whole night of stab
bling and clubbing had not subdued
enough to make 1t noticeable even with
a microscope, uttered long-drawn,
paintive squeal, like a thousandton
pig whose tail is stepped on by a
freight car.
In a trice the circus men were In the
car and cast the chains off so that the
beaten beast could rise. They had
recognized the elephantine signal of
surrender.
Now. I tell you" said the Swiss
animal man. dat was de time I was
beat. But bet you we did good tings
for dat elephant and de circus he got
a good bargain out of de old man.
Dat licking dat we and de oder ele-
plants give him, by Christopher, ii
made him de best elephant in de coun-
try. He's in dat circus now, and he's
so good dat dey let de children ride on
him all de time. His keeper tells me
dat he amt never showed bad tenn
per since dat day. What you tink OF
dat. hey?"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-06
BY ANTONIO DE LAS ALAS.
Copyright, 1908, by T. C. Mcclure.

whose centers of learning can boast
of about 200 Filipinos. All told there
are at least $50 representatives of the
little brown people" seeking knowl-
edge and learning American ways at
American colleges.
Governor Taft is largely RESPONSE
BILE for the shifting of the Filipinos
foreign education mecca from
Madrid to America. Shortly after ms
arrival in the Philippines he became
convinced that the American college
could do better than anything else
great part Of the work of making the
Filipino realize that the United states
meant him only good. At the same
time he believed that college educa-
ton would awaken a patriotic adher-
ence to the new order OF things among
the young men, who, In the natural
course Of events. will be the leaders OF
their people in a few years. so the
Commission inaugurated the plan or
sending deserving Filipino boys 70 the
states for collegiate instruction
some OF these leaders or to-ih0f-
row" have returned to the isiahus
after completing special courses ana
nave entered the government civll
service. They are not only giving
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-06

young man of dark brown fea-
lures, slightly tilted eyebrows and
closely trimmed black hair showing
below a neat American derby, swung
across the campus of Yale University
at smart pace, his arms loaded with
books and papers.
You see that young chap" asked
professor. well, perhaps you
think he's a Jap, but he isn't. He's a
Filipino; a cousin to Aguinaldo' 100
hes not over twenty-four, still -FOUR
years ago he was wearing shoulder
straps as a staff officer in his cousin
army. He's seen as much active
service on the battlefield as many OF
our Civil War veterans, first against
tne spaniards, then against us; now
hes one of the brightest students in
me university"
This Yale student is only one of an
Yer growing army OF Filipino youths
VINO are invading America for their
ssoilege education. The East has not
ASH the influx 80 much as the West
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-06

"Ave a care. sir Els the nastiest
devil I ever see, that's wot e is, sir.
and ed tear your and to pieces in a
minute, sir!"
The second mate of the RUSTY.
smelly, dripping, high-bowed iron
kettle of a tramp, the Bucrania, fresh
from India. proved his faith by his
works. He gave the nasty devil a
wide berth.
The nasty devil replied to his re-
proaches by trying frantically to break
the iron bars. Failing that, he lay
on his side and ripped at the wooden
back of his cage.
And all the time he screamed and
roared like a congress of rioters.
"Pooty fine tiger, dat" said the
Swiss animal man. He had just clam
bered aboard to look over the cargo
of beasts consigned to his "old man."
"Pooty fine tiger yes! Nice boy,
nice boy. So-o-o-o! How you like dat,
hey?" And with the words he stoop-
ed and thrust his arm into the dark
cage.
The little second mate jumped for
ward with yell of warming.
But he stopped short in amazement
so profound that he suffered over
his swearing.
The Swiss animal man was rubbing
the tigers furry white belly and the
tiger was lying on his back with his
legs up in the air, claws sheathed, tail
waving and deep purs of delight rum
bling from his vast interior.
l say, you know. But look ere, I
say, you know" demonstrated the
mate, addressing himself and the uni
verse generally. Il say, you know.
four sailors, you know. E as, and no
mistake, you know. There amt one
Of us been able to go nearer than
fathom length of is cage, you know.
Then ZEE comes a bloomin' stranger,
you know, and rubs i'm as If 'e was
the ships cat. I can't make it out,
you know"
And shaking his head he departed.
down the passageway, leaving a plain
i've Il say, you know" echoing be-
'Hey!" said the Swiss animal man
turning around. 81 guess he's afraid
OF dose animals hey? OATS no Won
der den dat dey die on de way. When
de ship she hits the fogs on de Banks
uen sailors are too much afraid to
take dem animals down in de hold,
and so dey freeze and de old man gets
stuck. Hey?"
Now this tiger was a jungle-caught
BEAST, and he had been shipped
straight from the trap to the coast,
ana straight from the coat to Amer
lea. And from the day on which the
woven basket-cage of bamboo sur
rounded him until the day of the
Shlps arrival at her New York pier
no human being had approached him
without paying for it.
The Swiss Explains.
Consequently, when the animals were
on the ship, the Swiss animal man was
Ied TO corner in sailors tavern near
the pier and cross-examned.
Well" he said, Il don't know what
you want to know. Animals is like
ANYTHING else. You got to know 'em,
ana when you know 'em den dey don't
Dodder you no more"
Yes but how did you know that
you could pet that strange tiger that
you had never seen before. and that
mad never been touched before"
How I know dat you amt going to
bite me or hit me, hey? 1 know dat,
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-06

qont L? And I amt never seen YOU
De1ore neider. hey? I been in de ami
maj business twenty-five years. and I
am never seen a beast yet dat a man
couldn't handle if he knowed how
except once. And dat beat me"
ana the Swiss animal man launched
INTO the story of the mad elephant of
New Jersey.
In the beginning the mad elephant
wasn't mad at all. He was living
quietly on the animal farm in New
Jersey where the Swiss animal mans
ola man" keeps his peculiar merchan-
dlse till 1T is called for. He was a big
elephant and worth much money. SO
the orders were that extra good care
must be taken of him.
Every day he was led out and fast
ened by a great chain to a tree on the
farm. The chain was long enough to
give him considerable scope.
Now, one evening there was a great
"shindig'' in the village near the wild
animal farm. and the employees of the
beast storage place were in a hurry
to get their work done and attend.
An unhappy result of this was that
the big elephant was forgotten. Jim"
thought that Bill" had led him back
to his warm quarters, and "BilT
thought that some one else had at
tended to it.
That ni&ht two circumstances were
in conjunction.
The "shindig" was flooded with red
liquor and the New Jersey sky opened
and let down a tremendous snow storm.
The snow fell so fast that there were
two feet of it on the level before dawn.
There was something else, too, before
dawn.
Strangers who did not know that
wild animal farm was part of the
scenery would have been excusable
had they supposed it to be a locomo-
tive on the point OF exploding. The
conscience stricken animal men at the
"shindig" sobered and made a rush for
the farm. They knew that the sounds
did not betoken the end of the world.
but might betoken the end of good
$4,000 elephant.
Maddened by the Snow.
The elephant was raging in blind
wrath. He had trampled the snow
into a circular path cleaner than a
snow plough could have cut it. Now
and then he threw as much as he could
get into his trunk high up into the
air. He trumpeted and squealed in
cessantly. Every time he finished
crazy rush around the circle he turn
ed at the tree and drove his head
against it with all his tons behind it.
Now he was down on his knees,
burying his tusks around its roots,
and striving to haul it out of the
ground. Again he rose on his hind
legs and laid his whole weight against
the chain.
If the animal men had expected to
lead him to his quarters, one look at
the mad beast was enough to change
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-06

portant a factor of its system OF
education that a native had little
chance unless he studied for the
church or the army. Only the rich
could hope for education abroad, and
graduation from the religious insti-
buttons went for almost nothing in
foreign universities where scientific
and professional courses were given.
But the Liceo will change that
Religious training will be separated
from the other studies, and it will be
left to the students option whether
he takes theology or not. Our course
will be eminently practical; the Liceo
shall be a great preparatory school
for the foreign university, and in time,
1 hope, it will rise to be as good in
itself as any foreign institution Of
learning.
"Within a few years the students we
send out will return men of learning
themselves, the pupils of the greatest
scholars of America. Then they Will
take up the work we have begun, and
the day may even dawn when young
men may come from other countries
to study with US"
During the war against the Ameri-
cans Senior Villamore established a
college within the Insurgent lines, at
Vigan, Illocos Sur. The distant BOOM
ing of cannon would frequently inter-
mingle with the recitations of his
classes. In November, 1899, the town
was bombarded by the battleship
Oregon, and Senior Villamore left mis-
classroom TO go out to meet the
American troops who were advance
ing on the place. 1t was he who sur
rendered the province in the name of
the people he represented in the in
surgnt congress.
The colleges where Filipinos are in
attendance almost invariably report
that they are exceedinly industrious,
IN eontradistinction to the majority Of
young men from the tropics who find
their way up north. Besides being
good students they are naturally
bright and are taking many
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-06

Ignacio Villamor.
Senator Villamor is not a Tagalog,
but an Ilocano of Northern Luzon, a
fellow townsman of Antonio Luna.
Several years before the end of the
Spanish regime, he became instructor
of Latin and Greek in the principal
college of Manila, and later the head
of the law department in the same in
stitution.
When the people rose in arms
against the American government he
became representative of Ilocos Sur in
the Filipino Congress, but when the
Instruction was crushed he went to
Manila and soon after organized a
movement among the wealthy natives
which resulted in the establishment of
a university, now known as the Lii
Geo de Manila" which except in spe-
cial courses, has as high an educa-
tional standard as many American col
leges. Most of its supporters are ex-
insurgents, its president being Leon
Guerro, formerly the chief manufac-
turer Of ammunition for the insurgent
army.
The Liceo was founded on June 80,
1900. Gov. Taft was present and made
a speech, which helped more than any
thing else he had done before to give
the Filipinos his true attitude toward
their educational ambitions.
Then the Club International was
organized as an adjunct to the Liceo.
its first scholarship was awarded to
the son of prominent Manila family,
Santiago Artiago, who was sent TO
Ann Arbor on the recommendation of
Governor Taft More awards soon
followed, and for a time nearly every
returning transport from the Philip
pines brought several prospective
students for American colleges.
Senior Villamore has large plans for
the education of the Filipino youth.
"In the old days Of Spanish rule"
he said TO me. when I was In Manila
at the time OF the Liceo's founding,
I'VE were much hampered by the
church. Religious training was 50 inn