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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-04
BRITISH BRAVERY.
Fought Against Several
Thousand in West Africa.
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London Tele graph.
AS a war department the Colonial Office
Is most successful. and the operations
against kano and Sokoto were marred by
not a single untoward incident. This was
a campaign of drilled blacks against wild
natives and organization and the example
of the white officers and non-commissioned
officers told in favor of steadiness of front,
steadfastness of purpose. and endurance
during long marches in waterleSS wastes.
The relations of all concerned appear TO
have been most happy. Sir Frederick Luz
CARDS despatch TO Mr. Chamberlain says:
II have only to add to II an expression of
the great pleasure which IL gives me to
record my keen appreciation of the accu-
rate diagnosis of the situation made by the
political officers: the foresight and thor
oughness with which the necessary supplies
(Which proved amply adequate without ex-
cess were collected at a minimum OF cost,
in spite of great transport difficulties. the
ability of the leadership and the forbear-
ance and disciplinary control shown in
victory and the eagerness, loyalty, and
galantry of all ranks" Gen. Kendall SIM
ilarly compliments all concerned from Col.
Morland and Lieut.. Col. Testing down.
ward.
One incident Is narrated by Sir Frederick
Lugard, which illustrates what wonders a
British officer can perform with mere
handful OF drilled natives
Il desire TO draw your especial attention
TO the very ga liant fight by Lieutenant now
Captain) Wright at Rawia. That officer.
with only for'y-five men of the mounted in
fantry. hampered by carriers on foot, had
been sent out to reconnoiter one of the roads
ato2g wii4eh an army OF at least one thou
sand horse andstwo Thousand foot was ex-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-04

H. s. Garfield, in Outing.
1t has a hundred tricks OF defense. 1t
will sometimes lie still until the hunter
IS within a yard OF IL, then soar straight
upward in his front, towering like a wood
cock: again. it will rise forty yards away,
and the sound of its wings is his only
notice of its presence. 1t viii cover upon
q branch under which he passes. and his
cap will not be more than foot below 1t
as he goes; and though ii has seen him ap-
preaching, IL will remain Quiescent in
frightful fear until his back is turned 1t
will flush then, and when he has slowed
himself hurriedly around he will catch
only a glimpse of a brown, broad wing far
away. Wounded and falling in the open,
Il will be found-if ii is found at all-with
the telltale speckles of it's breast against
the trunk OF some brown tree against
which its feathers are indistinguishable,
and the black ruff about the neck of the
male will be laid against the darkest part
Of the bark. Often Ii will double like
fox: often as man draws near, IL will spring
noiselessly into some spruce and hide until
he passes. dropping then to the ground and
continuing its feeding; often, too, II will
decline to take wing. though unhurt. and
Will run fast for a half mile-so fast that
the most expert woodsman will be unable
70 keep pace with it. This Ii will do only
on leafy ground. and never when snow
would betray its tracks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-04

like tribe, who early in 1899 exhibited hos
tility to French authority. French officers
accordingly led their Senegalese troops
the Tepos, pieces of pot legs and of iron
pots being used as bullets; and a French
doctor and ten Senegalese were killed. To
prevent the Tepos from following a Gus
tom attributed to them of eating their dead
and buried foes, the French placed the
slain Senegalese in hut and set It on fire.
thereby consuming the bodies. The Tepos
defeated, and Grabo, their capital, occupied,
the French burned four of their larger
towns, imposed a fine of fifty bullocks, and
also condemned them to two months hard
labor in making road round the back of
Liberia. This is the highway leading to
French Guinea, which is destined to play
an important part in the opening up of the
rich region of the Cavally.
The character of the Tepos as reflected in
the foregoing is quite different from the
pectors to the natives generally. WILDWOOD
Reade, a celebrated West African explorer,
considered his treasure chest safer in the
hands of the humblest Ivory Coast carrier
than it would have been in England. Bin
ger, too, found the natives not only honest,
but also peaceful and inoffensive. True,
they are superstitious. They believe, for
instance, that the white man has an attrac-
ton for gold-that gold is drawn to him;
consequently on approaching a mine they
paint themselves white so that the gold
from the black man. Sometimes, too, in
escorting prospectors they have prepared
for the journey by sacrificing dogs. pigs.
goats and fowls The natives number about
1900 900. Besides gold washing, their en-
Payments include fishing (at which they
are very exper0. discriminating. matmak--
ing, pottery making, rubber collecting and
palm oil trading.
The coast tribes have a good smattering
of English Every white man is John,
and the generic name for food is chop"
This is easily accounted for when IL is
membered that for over a century the bulk
of the trade has been in English hands.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-04
October Outing.


One day in November several years ago,
the good people living on the Massachu-
sets bay shore at the north end Of Cape
excitement by the arrival OF an immense
school OF Blacklist which were on the fats
chasing bait, the small fish they feed on
are called, and gradually working inshore.
The news spread like wildfre; village
stores were hastily closed. school boys de-
serted schoolrooms; and even women
fiecked TO the shore. The fats along the
coast make out from half TO a mile and
a half practically level and almost dry at
low tide where at high tide Is four . to eight
feet Of water. No school OF blacknsh SO
large as this had ever been heard Of And
by good luck the tide was ebhing.
Hastily the boats were launched, eacn
taking a half-doZen men and boys, those
not rowing being armed with sticks and
pieces of board. In quarter or an hour
they were I'm position. In half circle and to
leeward OF the fish
''Close in now" came from the "Com.
modore," land make all the noise you cant"
And they did fairly churning the water
with boards and sticks. The thousands OF
squid and herring on which the Blacklist
were feeding assisted in .his movement by
getting into shoal water as far as possible.
SO that the b!ackfish could not follow them.
The result was inevitable the fast ebbing
tide soon began 10 leave the big fish in such
shoal water that IL was difficult for the
larger ones TO swim. Gradually the circle
of boats drew nearer and nearer: and in
two hours 20 per cent. OF the entire school
the villagers were engaged in cutting up
and trying out the oil. The total catch
netted some $1,000. many of the fish weigh
ing two tons apiece
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-04

Caspar whitney. in October Outing.
Friends OF college sport are awaiting the
opening football season with more than the
usual INTEREST," for much concern follows
hard uron the trying of the new rules.
Theoretically viewed, they do not appear
ideal; how they, Will work in practice is
awaited anxiousl&, At all events the rules
committee IL to be commended for meet
ing the exigencies Nof a situation fast be-
coming intolerabe. rather than obstinately
abiding by narrow personal bias. as seemed
likely 10 be the case At one time. The re-
vised code is an experiment. but / venture
TO say 1t will develop more OF benefit than
OF harm TO this splendid game. For the
present IL is sufficiently important
achievement that committee and faculty
legislators finally have realized that the
rlay of the game must be opened. And
1t shall be whether or no Individual self
love suffer martyrdom therAby.
The chief gains promised bN the new
rules are Cd lessening of ''massT play: CD
lessening I'm Importance of meye brute
strength: 60 development OF end\ running
and strategical attack; CD development OF
back field players and work genekaly.
do not like the new quarter back Nrovis-
ions; IfhOpe IL will not result In giving US
heavy line-smashing runners IN place of
the wiry alert generals that have become
traditional since Harry Beecher showed
-. s~esh-n -arid bew To nias fha nazifi1sp-
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(for which / compiled an index, the only
one ever published, to my knowledge"
And so this Is in some sense based on
Looking Backward"
mo; hardly that. for though Looking
Backward had the power TO present a most
vivid picture, il failed 10 show the con-
Meeting links from the present. And that,
to my mind, is the chief fault in the argu-
ments OF most social reformers. They see
the end 10 be attained but in thier eager
ness TO reach their minds skip over the
present difficulties which beset the path.
Their heads run away from their feet. The
thing that 1 tried to do was TO embody into
our present system OF society the essen
tial basis from which could grow a more
ideal form of society.
"Of course, the scheme was of slow
growth, il had 10 be worked out In my
spare time, for / was very busy man In
my profession. Some of the evidence given
before the royal commission on labor and
before the commission on the housing OF
the poor brought my attention very direct
ly TO those phases; and the little book was
the result"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-04
A WHITE MANS LOVE FOR A NEGRO.
owen snufer Risked the Union Fire
TO Comfort George Mcdonald.
Kansas City Journal.

Kansas City Journal
The Osceola Democrat has started a move
send Uncle George" Mcdonald. of st.
Clair county, one Of the few colored Con-
federate veterans In the State. and per-
haps the only one, TO the Confederate re-
union at Columbia hext month. Uncle
George went with the Confederates and
enlisted from st. Clair county and Fought
In several engagements. At Wilson's Creek,
where mimic ball plowed through his
hip and buckshot struck him in the face,
he was made the object OF one Of the finest
displays of heroism witnessed anywhere in
the war.
George lay groaEing upon the ground
when he found 10y Owen Snuffer. HeC-
tenant of his company. For Snuffer. the
Osceola Democrat says, George had all the
affection which pet negro slave lav!shed
upon his MASTER; and Snuffer knew IL, The
white man stopped down, examined the
black mans wounds and stanched the flow
of blood from them For Gods sake"
cried the suffering negro. give me a drink
OF water" Shutters canteen was empty,
but midway between the firing lines was a
we'll ITO reach it," the Democrat contin-
ues, was 10 become the target or sharp
shooters. and it meant almost certain death
But the groans of his black friend were
more powerful than the love OF life, ana
with bullets falling around him like hall
stones, he pushed forward until the well
was reached And then he discovered that
the bucket had been taken away and the
windlass removed The water was thirty
feet down aud the depth was unknown.
THE well was an old-fashi0ned stone
walled and Owen determined TO get
water or know the reason why. He pulled
off his long cavalry boots and, taking one
in his teeth, he let himself down slowly,
laboriousy, hand over hand until the water
was reached and the boot filled, and then
he began climbing up the same way he
went down. straddling the well and clutch-
ing with hands and feet a the rocky walls.
Reaching the surface again he picked up
the other boot and safely made his way
back to the Confederate lines. George
drank copiously and the cooling water was
poured upon his burning wound. Although
he lives at Monegaw, he still insists that
the only wafer fit TO drink was that which
he drained out of that boot.
Returning from the war, he settled near
Monegaw Springs and has raised most
intelligent, honest, industrious family. one
of his children educated himself graduated
at the Smith University, in Sedalia, and il
now in charge Of church in Kansas. An
other Is waiter at the Commercial Hotel in
Osceola and is known for his strict integ-
rity.
1.-THE satisfaction OF seeing an honest
negro giving the old rebel yell will be suff-
cient recompense." the Democrat thinks,
''for the small amount OF money required
to give him perhaps the last opportunity
to march again in the rapidly thinning
ranks OF those who wore the gray"
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Atlanta Journal
Something over twelve years ago a Geor-
gia business man who now and then
mounts the lecture platform declared i'm
a public address that the two most ridcu-
lous things connected with civilized GUS
toms were the two buttons on the back of
mems coats and the initials in front of
mems names.
WHO knows he inquired what the w.
stands for in Henry w. Grady?'
Since that time slowly but surely the mid
ole initial has been replaced by the full
name. The 1rst initial mad fallen into dis
use some years before. III. w. Longfel-
low had become Henry w. Longfellow."
This in turn, after the poets death. was
succeeded by Henry Wadsworth Longfei-
low" In like manner 1t was not until the
brilliant Georgian had passed away that
the world knew him otherwise than as,
Henry w. Grady" The query of the lee
turer above referred to would now be point
less. as the name OF Henry Woodhn Grady
is to-day familiar TO every intelligent per-
son in the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-04

Leslies Monthly.
One source of immense trouble 10 the
cattleman has been the calf thief. Many
a large outfit" has gone out of business
on account of the "rustler. Where COW
herders have TO ride the range for ifty OF
seventy-five miles they are likely 20 be
forestalled in branding calf by some Vigil
liant rustler whose little mountain ranch IS
near the usual grazing place OF bunch or
cattle. Or very possibly the puncher for the
big sc ranch has caught and branded the
calf with its proper mark: and when many
months later he rides on yearling branded
BOB he has no means OF knowing that the
owner of the latter brand has deftly touched
up the &C with a running iron by the ar
tistic addition OF two strokes and an added
letter. Ii may be stated parenthStically 10
passing that more than one large "outnt'
OF to-day got It's start entirely from
''rustled" cattle. In the more arid SoGth-
west r,lstling Is not so common because
most OF the water is pumped and cattle set
into the habit OF coming home often TO-
drink and can be watched more closely. bqi
even there IT is u factor OF no slight
portance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-04
Ebb and Flow.

I walked beside the evening sea,
And dreamed a dream that could not be;
The waves that plunged along the shore
said only, Dreamer, dream no more"
But still the legions charged the beach:
And rang their battle cry. like speech:
But changed the imperial strain:
III murmured, Dreamer, dream again.
Homeward l turned from out the gloom.
Tha. sound heard not In my room;
But suddenly sound that stirred
Within my very breast heard.
II was my heart that like sea
Within my heart beat ceaselessly:
But like the. waves along the shore
Ii said Dream on. and Dream no morer'
--<searsa Wiilion Cnrfis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-04
Army Officers Horses.
Army and Navy Journal

The proposition that every officer of
the cavalry be required to own his own
horse and that each officer be privileged
to buy any horse in his troop, has been
made to the secretary of war and will be
referred by him to the War College Board
for action. The regulation requiring cav
airy officers to own their mounts has not
been enforced within recent years owing
TO the uncertainty of the service and the
possibility that the officer might at any
time be ordered to the Philippines. The
proposition that officers be allowed to pur-
chase any horse In their command Is said
to have been opposed by the board on
changes in the army regulations, although
approved by the Cavalry Board. 1t is
claimed that by adopting such a regulation
dissatisfaction would ensue among the men,
who could never be certain that they would
retain their individual mounts. There will
be much interest in the recommendation OF
the Army War College Board in regard
to this matter
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1903-11-19
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
DISTRICT AND COUNTY OFFICER

Congressman, 18th. district ..
- e. ~ " tlcI
S ate Senator 9th district. 80.
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Dated. New Orleans. La. Nov. 10
Received at Brownsville, 9:45 a. m.
G. H. Maris, collector of Customs
Brownsville, Texas:
Tonight and Friday, partly cloudy
to cloudy weather and probably
showers, warmer, fresh easterly
winds.
|. NJ. CLINE,
Chief Weather Bureau.
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Just received, large assortment
Of stylish trimmed ladies' hats, at
the residence of Miss Dora Kimball
For new brooms, best quality at
low prices, see H. NJ. Field. Big
stock, good goods. Make clean
sweep.
For SALE.-One horse buggy
and harness. Z. S. DUNN.
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0TRIAL NUMBERS Of our beautiful
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Of only ten cents. Address, WoMAE's
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50th District
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.

Brownsville Lodge No. $3.50, *. of H,
meets on the second and fourth Tues
DAYS of each month. at 80 p. N, at its
hall on Elizabeth Street.
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LODGE DIRECTORY.
MASONIC.

Rio Grande Lodge No. 81, A. F. s. A.
NJ, meets on the first and third Tues
days of each month, at Z 80 p. m, at
the Masonic Hail on Levee Street.
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Congressman, 18th. district. ...
.. ................J. \. Garner
safe Senator 27th district -.
............ .......J John Willacy
Representatives IF w Seabury
85th. district -. VIM. j Russell
County Judge ...... .......
County Attorney. .... E. K Goodrich
p County Clerk. ............J Joseph Webb
Sheriff ....... =. Caledonia Cara
Treasurer ...... Aug. Celaya
Assessor ''''' . Ezequiel Cavazos
Collector. ....D alnaso Lerma
Surveyor. ....M. Hanson, jr.
Eide Inspector. ....... Tomas Tijerina
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Precinct No. 49,. .Atenojenes Oribe
precinct NO. g.. Jose Celaya
Precinct No. 3.. E. B. Raymond
Precinct No. f.. II. >. Champion
Justice Peace Precinct No. 2
.... -............. Ndlentln OaVltO
Constable G enaro Padron
County court meets for civil, criminal
and probate business on the third Mon
days in March, June, September and De-
cember.
CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor pro tenn. ...,... Benz Kowalski
Chief OF Police. ...... IL. H. Bates
Treasurer. ........G Geo. NJ. Putegnat
Secretary .... 80. Frank Champion
Attorney. .. Frank w. Kibbe
S1rveyor. ...............
Assessor and Collector. IS. Valdez
U. S. DISTRICT COURT.
The following are the officers of and
the lines and places of holding court for
the Southern District of Texas:
u S. District Judge . Waller T. Burns
Attorney. ........s.M Marc McLemore
CIelk Observation-Disclosures. Dart
Marshal ...........W VIM. Hanson
Galveston: Second Monday Jan
uarv aud First Monday in June.
Houston: Fourth Monday CT Feb
uary and September.
Laredo; Third Monday of April and
Second Monday of November
Brownsville: Second Monday of May
and First Monday ofDecember.
DISTRICT COURT.
Cameron County: first Mondays in
February, and lrst Monday in Sep
TENDER, and may continue in session |
four weeks.
Hidalgo County: Fourth Monday af- |
1CA 0A'o .A9V -AoiANi''J III GU Ie'AJ anu
September, and may continue in session |
two weeks
Starr County: Sixth Monday after
the first Monday in February and Sep
temher. and may continue IN session |
two weeks.
Duval County: Eighth Monday after
the first Monday in February and Sep
TENDER, and may continue in session two
weeks.
Nueces County: Tenth Monday after
the first Monday in February and may
continue in session eight weeks and
Tenth Monday after first Monday in
September and may continue in session
four weeks.
OFFICERS DISTRICT COURT.
Judge ................St Stanley WEIGH
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-10-06
MURDERER sTlLL AT LARGE.
Atlanta Policeman Was Foully Murser
cd by Negro.

Atlanta Policeman Was Foully MurceF>
ed by Negro.
Atlanta, Oct. 5.-The negro murder
er who drove a dagger into lthe heart
Saturday is still somewhat uncertain"
of Patrolman Hans C. Drasbach Sat
urday night, Is stifl at large.
Although four or i've arrests have
been made, the police are now certain
that the man they want has not been
caught There are some good fclews,
however, to work upon, and it is be-
heved the assassin will be behind the
bars before many more hours have
come and gone.
No more foul murder was ever som-
mitted in the city than that which
took the life of Officer Drasbach.
The policeman was on duty in full
uniform. He arrested a negro for
violating the law. He was as humane
as possible about 1t, using no harsh
measures. Suddenly there was dag.
ger uplifted In the air and blow vas
struck, which was scarcely seen py
the victim before he was in the pangs
of death.
The murder has greatly stirred up
the whole city, and people of all tclass-
es are discussing the terrible crime
and hoping that the guilty person will
be caught and dealt with by the law.