The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-27
POOR MERE MAN.

POOR MERE MAN.
He.s led to believe he is learned
TN On everything under the sun.
Rn wn Just Just how tS thing should be done.
She he d f,nds; as ,s,nd general s1.,r rule.
She always believed him a fool.
He's told his opinion is valued
On intricate matters of state:
And saving the country from ruin
Depends on his intellect great.
but. after election is over,
And politics settle and cool
in nay never mind letting him see that
They always esteemed him a fool.
New York Sun.
Loyal Filipino Troops.
Recent official reports, some of
Them not yet put into print, make it
apparent that if the United States
ever has trouble with a foreign power
which may undertake to overrun the
Phlhppines, the enemy will meet
with q resistance NOT due entirely to
the force Of American arms
me Filipino constabulary and the
Filipino scouts, armed organizations.
one serving under the civil govern
ment and the other under the mill
tary authority Of the islands, have
done field service of which the SOL
dlers OF any army might be proud,
and have shown a loyalty which
means that no flag except that of the
United States can command their
courage and devotion.
Army officers who nave served in
the Philippines say that the con-
stabulary, half police, half soldier.
count OF themselves on any field
against any foe, and that what Is
said Of the constabulary is true of the
scouts. whose work is entirely mil
itary, and who are attached to the
army for the particular service which
their name suggests.
Philippine constabulary and scouts
together form a force or nearly TO-
600 officers and men. The officers in
the main are Americans, but some of
the juniors bearing commissions in
the constabulary are Filipinos trained
for the work. In time these juniors
will fill the places of higher rank and
greater responsibility
Brig. Gen. Clarence a. Edwards,
chief of the bureau Of insular affairs,
who has known the Philippine con-
stabulary and scouts in town, camp,
and field. says they are a force upon
which dependence can be placed to
the very last. An officer of general
rank who has seen both the constabu-
larry and the scouts in action against
that worse kind OF an enemy, a hid
den enemy, told me recently that he
would ask for no better command
than an army of 100000 soldiers of
such courage with which to meet an
enemy Of equal numbers, and he said
he would not care much IL the color
Of the skin Of the enemy was the
white Of the Caucasian.
One fight which the constabulary
had with large force of Pulajanes in
Sanar became a hand-to-hand COM
bat, with the enemy outnumbering the
A.~Tr &C., ", n l.
ties among the conStabulary were So
per cent of the force engaged, yet the
remnant with their wounded Ameri-
can officers, Capt. Jones and Lieut..
Bowers, as leaders, finally routed
their savage assNlants. 1t was this
fight which presented the strongest
argument to the government for arm
ing the constabulary with Krag-
Jorgensen rifles and bayonets.
In some parts of the Philippines
there are still disturbing elements. A
curious story Is told of the leader of
a savage band which makes forays
from the swanps and mountains in
one of the provinces near Manila.
This leader, Salvador by name. sue
ceeded in getting weather reports
from the Manila bureau within eight
hours of the time they were issued.
They forecast conditions for thirty-six
hours. Salvador told the ignoranS
be fair, and as his prophecies gen.
orally came true, they made a demi-
god of him and did anything he or
dered. His following is not yet sub
dued-Washington Dispatch to Chi
cago Post.
Needles and Pins.
The patient was a healthy Scotch
girl, aged 20 years, who had no sign
of hysterical tendenc~ but was in the
habit of putting pins in her mouth,
and sometimes had been known to fall
asleep without removing them. She
was admitted to the hospital. having
fixing clothes, and by the help of
emetics she was relieved of them. Re-
turning home, she began regularly to
vomit pins, and got rid OF twenty
three in the course of month. She
then began to produce needles. and In
a fortnight thirteen came out from the
following situations-the left nostril,
the origin Of the sternmastoid behind
the left ear. and a spot on the front
of the right arm At the same time
seventy-five had appeared. The
needles were blackened and slightly
eroded, and two Of them were thread
ed with about three inches of thread.
Lancet.
What He Was Waiting For.
A mysterious stranger with lowered
brow and menacing glare, stood
alongside one of the shoemaking
exhibits in department store yester-
day and watched the shoemaker at
work. For a long time he stood
there. never shifting his glance, star
ing steadily at the bench workman.
watching him put handful after
handful of lacks in his mouth and
gradually empty each nav load into
shoe sole Finally a store detective
became suspicious, and after keeping
an eve on the fellow for while went
over to him and asked him what he
meant by his actions. "Oh, nothing.
the man. I'm just waiting
to see what will happen if that shoe
maker should he sneeze when he has
a rnouthful of tacks.''-Philadelp
Record.