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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-05-13
FILIPINO BRAVERY.

Instances of Remarkable Courage in
Their Fights Against Us.
The Filipinos as well as the Ameri
cans have a record of brave deeds dur
ing the war with Uncle Sans soldiers.
One Of their heroes is Col. Santa
Roman.
Shortly after the outbreak of hostili-
ties, when the firing line was Just out
side of Manila, Col. Santa Roman
called for 200 volunteers. and with this
force he slipped one night inside the
American outpoSts along the shore of
the bay, getting into the city unseen.
1t was his intention to set the city
aiire, attack the Americans from the
rear. and by confusing them give the
fflfpinos under Pic del Pillar an oppor-
tunity to make a successful attack
But once inside the city patrol dis
covered the little band and opened fire.
The 200 intrenched themselves behind
hastily -thrown-up barricade, and for
two hours fought ten times their num-
Der of American. Nearly all of them
were killed, and only a score succeeded
in cutting their way back to their
own lines. Col. Santa Roman was one
of the twenty.
Several months later he was killed
by his own countrymen while attempt
ing to defend his friend and chief, An
tonic Luna, from a band of assassins.
The two men killed three of the muir
derers. however, before they fell.
You will also hear from Americans,
as well as from Filipinos, of an Incl
dent which occurred at the time when
Gregorio del Pillar was killed in the
Fila Pass.
The insurgents were defeated to-
ward evening, after an all-day fight
As the Americans reached the top of
the hill, which the Filipinos had been
defending. they saw Gen. Pillar mount
ing horse. They opened fire again
and the young general fell dead The
horse was wounded and galloped off,
but native boy, who had been hold
ing it by the bride. picked up a gun,
stepped across his dead masters body,
and returned the fire of the American
soldiers. He fired two shots, then
stopped; his ammunition was gone.
The Americans. admiring his BRAY
cry, wished to take him alive, so they
ceased firing. But when they reached
the boy he attacked them so fiercely
with the butt of his musket that they
were obliged to shoot him after all
1t developed later that this boy was
no soldier at all, but the valet of Pillar
At the battle OF Bocave Filipino
soldier astounded the Americans by
his cool display of bravado. As usual
the Filipinos were defeated, and were
scattering into the bamboo copses.
Suddenly one of them halted on
slight eminence and fired what was
evidently his last shot. Then he de
liberately laid down his gun A COM
pany concentrated Its fire at him. but
he remained unhurt. There he stood
for fully two minutes, alternately wag-
ging his fingers at his ears and stick
ing out his tongue. At last with a
gesture of his arm that said plainly,
you make me weary" he sauntered
quietly off and disappeared behind the
hill
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-05-13
CandeIaria Hall Saloon

Is ven-known and finely furnished aud is the
mott popular resort in Candelaria. The bar is
stocked with the choicest and best brands of
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-24
HALLSANDS is DOOMED.
English Village Is Falling Slowly Into
the Sea.

English Village Is Falling Slowly Into
the Sea.
! Nesting under the cliffs about a
mile from Start point, on the east side,
is a cluster Of white cottages, which
forms the village of Hallsands. says
the London Graphic. Far removed
from railway and separated from the
nearest point of tourist traffic by sew
eral miles of rough Devonshire lanes,
its main connection with modern life Is
the daily cart which carries crabs to
the station.
The village, which is built close to
the sea, faces cast, and is exposed to
the fury of easterly gales. Walls and
quays have from time to time been
built to prevent the waves reaching the
houses and nature provided a safe
guard from the peril in the shape Of
fifty yards of pebble beach which the
gale rolled up against the quays and
so formed natural embankment to
preserve the walls and foundations.
All would, no doubt, have continued
to go we'll with the primitive spot had
not the contractors for government
works at Keyham cast their eyes on
that bank of single. They persuaded
the government to let them use this
beach for their work, and for three
years every spell of fine weather
brought the dredger to the spot and
strings of lighters would 60 away
laden with the single.
In time the beach sank twelve feet
for a mile and a half, leaving the
quays exposed. When bad weather
came the mischief done was apparent.
Ground swells swept the beach bare,
leaving little rocks. Soon the walls of
the Quays began to suffer, and then the
sea began slowly but surely to en-
croach on the shore, until house after
house had to be abandoned because of
the damage done to them by the force
Of the waves that beat against them
unrestrainedly.
Every storm does further damage
and one Of the last inroads made by
LIZ oOb SuC LhIOuSu luC OuC street Oh
the village, the two sides of which are
now connected by wooden foot
bridge. A fund has been started to
purchase land on the top of the cliff
at the back of the village, as a site for
new village, for the old Hallsands
seems doomed.
The destruction Of the fishing village
is to be made the subject of a lawsuit.
An owner Of property there has issued
writ against Sir John Jackson, Linn
tied, the contractors for Keyham dock
yard extension works. The plaintiff al
leges that the defendants, by dredging,
removed thousands of tons of single,
which formed natural barrier against
the sea.
The admiralty and Sir John Jackson
subscribed $500 toward a sea wall to
protect the village, but that has been
partially washed away.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-24
Well?

"Stop"
please"
mo. If you kiss me I'll never speak
to you again.
CA struggle and smack.) 81
Don't you ever dare to do that
again."
Il couldn't help it,"
eyes you could. Now behave"
Cali right, I WILL
(Smack again.)
mother"
mo, you won't"
eyes, will"
another smack)
"Oh! Now you STOP"
"Why?"
Because l want you to-"
"Why do you want me top
Because"
(Silence for a few minutes.)
Il wish you would keep your arm to
yourself"
"Why?"
Because don't want it around my
vast"
"Why not?"
Because it isn't proper"
"Why isn't it?"
Suppose some one should see"
"But no one can"
''They might"
"Well?"
"Well."
This sort of conversation may not be
an intellectual sort of treat to every
one, but seven girls and three men who
were eavesdropping listened to it with
rapt attention and sighed when the
lovemakers departed.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-24

Now, take that waist you are dis
tinguishing. It's just shirt waist,
isn't it?'
Il think it's rather a nice one.'
II think so, too but I'm not judge.
I wouldn't call it poem, for instance.
I'd call it a shirt waist If it was
on any other girl but you l wouldn't
give it second look. What else did
he say?'
HE said | was as fair as a flower"
''There it is again! No specifications
at ALL What sort Of fiower-a holly
hook, tuberose or what? For all you
know he might have been trying to
insinuate that you were rhododen-
dron. 1 wouldn't stand for that if
were a girl"
81 think it was nice'
81 don't. 1 think you've got the
flower garden faded. I'm no horticul-
turist, but as far as my taste goes
I'd quit a bower of roses any time you
crooked a finger at me-. Now, it seems
to me SO far that your interesting
friend hasn't made good"
"Don't you think he has?'
II do not. Comparing you with
magazine poetry and climbing nastur-
tiums! Honest, 1 wouldn't compare
you with anything that I ever saw"
"No?"
"Sure not. When l take a good
square look at you, you don't put me
in mind of things. 1 wouldn't say your
eyes were as dark as a stack Of black
cats or that your lips were a coral
reef or your form had the grace of a
gaZelle. My mind isn't running on
natural history or literature or botany.
Your eyes are in a class by them
selves-same way with your lips and
your nose and that dimple you're
showing now. No, throw up my
hands. You'll never make a good
jollier of me-"
ooh, l don't know" said the girl.
you're doing very well, 1 think
better than / expected. Go on
Chicago Daily News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-24
PAINLESS DEATH PENALTY.
Why Not Adopt Anesthetics to Sup
plant the Chair of Pain

Why Not Adopt Anesthetics to Sup
plant the Chair of Pain.
1t has been and is still a much-d de-
bated question whether people convict
ed of murder in the first degree should
suffer the death penalty or not, but the
medical profession is only interested in
this discussion in so far as it involves
the question whether a murderer 60
ipso is or is not of unsound mind.
We do not think the death penalty is
either good sociology, good economy or
good penology, but that is not the
question. There is no doubt that the
prevailing feeling among civilized ma
lions eliminates in the desire to take
the life Of the culprit as painlessly as
possible.
Civilization had advanced from tor
turing to hanging and strangling, from
hanging to the drop" breaking the
spine and causing instantaneous death:
from the use Of the sword or ak, with
it's attendant greWSome uncertainties.
sprang the guillotine. and finally came
the electric chair. That the latter de-
vice is by no means an ideal of per-
lection is admitted OH all hands. and
even if it were, there is still the har-
rowing time of preparing and pinion-
ing the victim for execution, which to
him is worse than death itself.
AS long, then, as legal killing must
be done, why not resort to anesthetics?
The dose can be administered while
the subject is asleep; it would induce
absolute unconsciousness; there would
be no pain whatever, while the actual
transition from life to death would be
left to scientific methods in a manner
best calculated to let medical science
at least profit by the loss Of human
life.-American Medicine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-24
ANTIDOTE FOR CARBOLlC Ac,
An Eng1ishman Has Tried Turpentine
with Success.

An Eng1ishman Has Tried Turpentine
with Success.
a remarkable discovery has appE4
emily been made by Dublin vetet
mary surgeon named Allen, respecting
an antidote for carbolic acid poisoning.
Some time ago his attention was
drawn to two horses which were evil
IDENTITY suffering from poisoning. On
examining one he noticed that the mu-
cous surface of the mouth was blanch-
ed, and that the animal was stagger-
ing. There was a general twitching OF
the muscles, the eyes were staring and
the animal was rapidly assuming a
comatose condition. Mr.. Allen asked
for some oil, linseed for preference, If
any kind of oil that was handy. Some
was brought, and about two wine
glasses full administered to one of the
animals, the effect being, to quote the
words of Mr. Allen, miraculous. For
the first time he then noticed that the
"oil' which had been given to the
horse was the ordinary turpentine of
commerce. So satisfied was he with
the result that he gave the second
horse dose, although at the time the
animal was unconscious. In about ten
minutes it recovered, and both horses
were at work the next day as if moth
ing had happened.
Not long after this by peculiar CO..
Incidence, Mr.. Allen was asked to look
at blacksmith who after drinking a
glass of stout had become very i'll In
the forge the veterinary found the
smith in condition of coma, strong
smell Of carbolic acid pervading the
premises. Ultimately he discovered that
the man had drunk out of the wrong
vessel, and imbibed a solution Of the
acid instead Of the stout. A doctor
was at once sent for, but, in the mean
time, Mr.. Allen administered a dose of
turpentine that happened to be on the
premises, and the man not only quick
ly recovered, but resumed his work
within an hour.-London Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-24
Guess Again.

An old lawyer tells, in the Brooklyn
Eagle, this story Of one of his expert
ences, years ago, in Cross-eXamination
The witness seemed to be disposed to
dodge his questions.
"Sir," said the lawyer sternly, you
need not state your impressions. We
want the facts. We are competent to
form our own impressions. Now, sir.
answer me categoricaly."
From that time on he could get lit
tie more than Eyes" and mo" out Of
the witness. Presently the lawyer
said
"You say you live next door to the
defendants"
Eyes"
''To the north of him?"
mo"
ITO the south?''
mo"
"Well, to the west, then?'
mo"
"Ah," said the lawyer, sarcastically,
1--WE are likely at last to get down to
the one real fact. You live to the east
of him, do you?"
mo"
"How is that, sir?" the astonished
attorney asked. "You say you live next
door to him. Yet he lives neither to
the north, south, east nor west of you
What do you mean by that, sir?"
81 thought perhaps you were COM
petent to form the impression that we
live in a fiat" said the witness, calm
ly; ''but l see must inform you that
he lives next door above me-"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-24
The Truth About Animals.

The serious student Of nature can
have no interest in belittling or in ex-
eggerating the intelligence Of animals.
What he wants is the truth about
them, and tl1is he will not get from
our natural history romancers, nor
from the CASUAL unframed observers
who are sure to interpret the lives Of
the wood folk in terms Of their own
motives and experiences, nor from In
dams, trappers or backWoodsmen, who
give such free rein to their fancies
and superstitions. Not to Romanes or
Jesse or Michelet must we 60 for the
truth about animals, but to the pa
tient, honest Darwin, to such calm,
keen and philosophical investigators as
Lloyd Morgan, and to the book Of such
sportsmen as Charles st. John, or to
our own candid, intelligent and wide
awake Theodore Roosevelt-men capa-
BILE of disinterested observation, with
no theories about animals to uphold
John Burroughs, in the Century.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-24

Serious charges are those which the
president Of Brown University brought
against college athletics during the
conference Of university presidents at
st. Louis. If they are subStantiated
the authorities Of our educational in
situations ought to unite in drastic ac
ton designed to check the existing
abuses, even though, in order to do so,
it shall prove necessary to prohibit
intercollegiate athletics altogether. 1t
has been matter of common belief for
q long time past that the football
teams, baseball mines and rowing
crews Of the colleges are made up
largely if not wholly, from profession
ais matriculated solely for that pur-
pose, says the Chicago Journal. 1t
has been more or less positively known
that the intercollegiate exhibitions Of
various athletic sorts are largely, If
rot chiefly, money-making enterprises
President Faunce has turned these
suspicious into certainties and has dis
covered in all college athletics shock
ing state of affairs which would JUS
tify their total abolition so far as inter-
collegiate contests are concerned. Ath-
letics is a vitality necessary accompanl-
ment Of college training; the sound
body is equally essential with the
sound mind within it. But it is mat
ter of health more than Of winning
victories. The result Of it should be
health and it's preservation rather than
the joys Of triumph. When it becomes
a thing so important that the students
are willing to sacrifice their honor as
gentlemen by hiring professionals
under a subterfuge it is time to do
away with it. Too Uany young men
go to college and devote most of their
attention and energy to sports and
games, and this is due to the promi-
nence allowed athletics in the cur
ricula. But it is the college authori-
ties who are to blame for this. They
have learned it is good advertising,
and not the least important part of
their duties is to build up their col
leges. But they really cannot much
longer allow a condition of affairs
which, as President Faunce says, will
develop their students into "leaders in
evading taxes, corrupting politicians
and bribing juries."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-24

The Average Sort of Girl said to the
Commonplace Young Man: Il met
that very interesting Mr.. Yallery about
three weeks ago. and we-mamma
and I-have seen a good deal of him
since then"
You are trying to make me fran
tically jealous" said the Commonplace
Young Man. "Tm not going to be,
though"
''The idear' said the girl I'D like
to know what right you have to be
jealous"
II said I wasn't going to be. What
makes him interestirg"
"He says such nice things"
"Taffy, eh?'
"You are horrid."
II know l am. / always recognized
my own little defects and limitations.
Perhaps 1 could improve if 1 had the
benefit Of good example. Tell me
what nice things he says"
"Well, in the cause Of education per-
haps l might be excused if l did. He
said the gown 1 wore that night was
poem"
What sort Of poem-dialect,
humorous, short or long? It seems
to me that was little Indefinite"
That's your material point Of view.
He meant, of course, that it had a
beautiful harmony and that it ap-
pealed to the poetic and artistic ma
ture."
ooh, he meant that it was all right.
I'd never have thought of it, though"
"Of course you wouldn't"
mo, l don't think l would have
noticed your dress even-not while l
had something prettier to look at"
"You are complimentary, l must
say"
Your face, for instance"
"Well, that isn't so bad, perhaps"
II don't see anything to make fuss
about because you wore something
that you set off to advantage. You
do that with anything you wear.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-24
SMALL BOATS CROSS SEAS.
World Circumnavigated in a Vessel
Only Forty Feet Long.

Upward Of a hundred men have ven
tured on long cruises in boats from
twelve to forty feet in length. Captain
Joshua Slocum is perhaps the best
known of these voyagers. The feat
which he has accomplished is certainly
the most daring which has been
brought to a successful finish.
With a forty-foot yawl called the
Spray Captain Slocum started from
Boston in April, 1903, to circumnavi-
gate the world. He arrived at Glib
raltar a month later and set sail for
Pernambuco, on the coast of South
America. From there he set sail for
Rio Janeiro, to Buenos Ayres, through
the Straits Of Magellan to the island
Of Juan Fernandez, made famous by
Defoe's ''Robinson Crusoe."
The Spray then headed for the Sa-
moan Islands, making the 5000 miles
after run of siXty-tWo days. Sydney,
in New South Wales, was the next
stop, then down to Tasmania, return
through the Torres straits into the In
dian Ocean and Mauritius. He next
sailed to Cape Town and was at last
in the Atlantic Ocean. He returned
home by way of ST Helena and Gren-
ada, having covered distance of 49,
600 miles.
The voyages of Andrews and Lawler
are still remembered, though they
were made as far back as 1878. An
drews had hard luck from the start,
for he was capsized five times and
was at last taken on board a passing
vessel more dead than alive. Lawler.
however, reached the Lizard after a
more or less exciting trip Later An
drews proposed another trip and the
two started from Boston. Andrews
succeeded in reaching the coast of
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-24
Merit Makes 1t the Worlds Leader;

Merit, greatest medicine ever put into
convenient form for quick, easy, pleasant
use-backed by the right kind OF adver-
Using, has given CASCARETS the
greatest sale in the world among laxa-
tive medicines. Over ten million boxes a
year are now being bought by the Ameri-
can people. This wonderful growth has
never been equaled and it is the best en-
dorsement that any medicine has ever re-
ceived. Great successes always bring
out imitators and we want to warn our
readers, that when it comes to buying
medicine the best is none too good and
whenever a dealer offers to sell you
something just as good as CASCARETS,
put it down as a worthless fake, put
your money in your pocket and go to
store where you will be treated fairly and
where, when You ask for CASCARETS,
you will get what you ask for
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-24
stingy old thing! Had the check called

stingy old thing! Had the check called
for So, Mrs. Green could have paid it
as easily, though such extravaganza
would doubtless have made her quite
i'll. If she were to eat lunches that
cost So every half hour Of the twenty
four and every day in the year she
would be unable to spend a twentieth
part of her income. One naturally asks
why this rich old woman should prac-
tice stinting She has more money than
she knows what to do with. One
would think she would desire at least
the comforts Of life. The fact is the
woman has economical so long it is a
part Of her life. She finds a certain
sort of pleasure in it. TO save d few
cents is to her a triumph of manage
ment. But there is a lesson in Hetty
Green's eight-cent lunch-a lesson the
American people need. We are likely
to spend so cents rather than eight. We
are extravaganza. We have our thrifty
people, but they are the exception We
are inclined to blow ourselves. The
proverbial "rainy day" has been eX-
plunged from the average American cal
endar. AS a nation Of spenders we
may well point a moral with Hetty
Green's eight-cent lunch, as we'll as
adorn a tale
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-24

Belgium is probably the most demo-
cratic of all the monarchical states.
The King of the Belgians not only does
not wear a crown, but has not even a
crown to wear! No coronation cere-
mOny is known to the constitution, the
sovereign inaugurating his reign sim
ply by taking an oath to govern ac-
cording to the laws. Moreover, the
births of his children, if he has any,
must be registered in exactly the same
phraseology and in the same set Of
books as the births of the humblest
Of his subjects.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-24

1t is charged that while only train
ed, highgrade men can operate trains
that are not fully equipped with all
the latest Improvements, the installa-
ton of these improvements is often
used as an excuse for employing infe-
rior men, thus off-setting any measure
Of safety that might have been added
by the improved equipment. The pub
lie, after ALL is to blame. Every man,
of course, regrets the loss Of life in
railway accidents and is ready to cen
sure the managers for running trains
at too high a rate Of speed, but when
he starts on trip he wants the speed
limit removed. The nation is in a hur-
ry and the railroad company that pro-
posed to lessen the speed of trains for
the express purpose of reducing the
chances Of accidents would promptly
be ridiculed as an old fogy outfit and
its business would go to it's rival.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-24

Organized governments are rapidly
deciding that it is unwise to harbor
enemies of organized government. A
little more than year ago the Ameri-
can Congress passed a law excluding
anarchists, and it has been declared
constitutional. The British House OF
Commons has recently passed an alien
immigration bill, which, if the House
Of Lords approves it, will make it pos
sible to exclude not only alien anarch-
lists. but undesirable aliens Of any
other kind. One branch of the Swiss
legislature has approved a bill MAX
ing the advocacy Of anarchy a penal
offense. Laws already in existence in
France, Germany, Russia, Italy and
other European countries forbid the
teaching Of anarchistic doctrines.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-08-24

Probably one reason why Mr.. Rookie
Teller is glad that he is loyal Amer
lean instead of a subject Of King Ed
ward is because if he lived in England
his income tax assessment annually,
it is said, would keep five of his ma
jesty's first-class battleships in COM
mission. 1t costs a sorry lot to be a
multimillionaire in some countries.