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VOL. XL. VI I. NO. G.
'fi ;0ME persons say
IXV 11 1S nafural for
!F them to lose fiesh
ti 4j during summer.
But losing flesh is losing
ground. Can you afford
to approach another win
ter in this weakened con
dition ? j
Coughs and colds.weak i
throats and lungs, come J
quickest to those who are
thin in flesh, to those eas- I
ily chilled, to those who J
have poor circulation end
eebie digestion.
of cod liver Oil with hypo-
phosphites does just as t
mucn good in summer as
in winter. It makes flesh
in August as well as April.
You certainly need as
strong nerves in July as in
January. And your weak
throat and lungs should
be healsd and strength-
Si ened without delay.
all Dmi-cl'U. Bnr. and IL
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of husband and father j
is usually the pro- :
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E An Equitable
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I If there is no "Equita- sj
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Vtr I'nrlf Mam h. i ful.
be ik?vit aouhI a fray.
lie hVtl llMWt ttNjUOUHC
tyo't to kwp th- wolf away,
fie wa a modt-l yuuiigswr
An' be didn't ever cans
Eur mlxln' Into troubles
W hicn a-aa none of his aOuir.
But iioar tlion-'a lot 'a o' worry
Kur fear he'll go astray
tause he's gellin' a eoliectiou
of Kfuali Uutudi Caraway.
Au he'a envied by Hieotiicn
A Ihiy aee witb iratb'rin feura
Uovr lie uacberly posaenai
WUat they've wanted all thine years.
It'a them tliat's at to wield it
Who at last riie power will gain ;
Au liiere ain't DO uae o' dodgiir
Llle's aucoesHea nor ita paiu.
Thoae fertile aejUiMiUoaa
Muxtn't te uiiiundcrtioL
Yer l iu-le (Sam can't atop 'em.
They're his iay fur bein' good.
Washington Suir.
CAPTAIN PHILIPS FAITH.
An Impressive Scene Aboard tho
Battleship Texa.
ASKED HIS 2IE5" TO THAXK GOD-
According to Chaplain II. V. Jwies,
of the Texas, CapL J. V. Pliilip iuade
tlie following fetatement to his ofiicerH
and men immediately after the great
battle off Santiago on Sunday, July
'I wish to make confession that I
have implicit faith in (Jod and in the
oflieers and crew of the Texas, but ray
faith in you Ih jefndary only to my
faith in (Jod. AVe have seen what Ho
has done for us, in allowing us to
achieve so great a victory, and I want
to a.sk you all, or at least every man
who has no scruples, to uncover his
his head with me and mlently olfer a
word of thanks to Cod for His good
ness toward us all."
"It was a beautiful afternoon,'' Bays
Chaplain Jones. "Uod's heavens never
looked so clear.and the Stars and Stripes
never seemed so pure as tiiey did when
welay alongside of the ( risf bal Colon
after i-he had been Waelied nnd h;tl
surrendered. Ve had len encaued in
a fierce fight to the death, when these
words came from the lips of the same
man who had, a few moments lefore,
given the various orders for the attack,
and I wish to show to the people of my
country what kind of man Captain
Philip, of the Iwttleship Texas, is.
"I have had the honor of being the
chaplain of the Texas since October 1!,
lsytj, so I have been with Captain Philip
ever siuee he took command last Octo
ber. During our liixt conversation he
aid: 'Chaplain, I am a firm believer
-In prayer, and I think it is a duty we
owe to God to have prayers on Itoard
ship every evening.' So when Lieu
tenant Commander Haber came to us as
executive officer, the Captain epoke to
me then about having prayers, and I
told him I should be very glad, indeed,
to conduct them every evening at quar
ters, and that custom has been observ
ed ever since. The men would be
marched aft, and I offered a humble
petition for each one, our loved ones,
our country, our President, and always
closed with an earnest prayer for peace.
"Captain Philip always spoke about
the late war, and reminded us that the
side which opened 1 fire first on the
Sabbath would lose every time; so I
was very glad last Sabbath when I saw
the Maria Teresa fire the first shot.
Often during the weary days on the
blockade, the Captain would say some
thing to me about prayer, and his un
flinching faith in (iod. One evening,
soon atter our second iNinibardment,
we were walking up and down the
quarter deck together and, by the
way, it was after the Spanish had kill
edhira, but I guess they found him a
very much alive corpse on Sunday
morning during the fight he mention
ed how bis wife had felt about him,
reading the account of his alleged
death, as she did, in the papers, but he
said: 'I wrote to Mrs. Philip and said
I'm ju-t as safe here as I would be
walkirg up liroadway with you, be
cause tied is with us, and He is listen
ing to our prayer.'
"On another occasion he was called
on board the flagship, together with
the commanding officer of the fleet,
for a council of war, and went on board
at half-past nine that Sunday morning.
Tiie decision was reached to bombard
the forts at 2 o'clock that afternoon,
when Captain Philip spoke up and
said:
" 'Admiral, this is Sunday. I do not
think we hould fight to-day. We may
be sorry if we do.' Whereupon the
Admiral apologized for even calling
them together at all that day, but ad
mitted lie had been so pressed that he
had entirely lost track of the days; so
the battle was deferred until the next
morning, with the result of no dam
age to us.
"As a captain, he has been most kind
to me, never absent from divine service
unless detained on account of duty, as
he was always anxious to set his men
a good example, and the example bad
its effect, for my congregations were
always very gratifying to me, to have
so many men, Protestants and Catho
lics, meet of their own free wili and
listen to the simple !ospel of Jesus I
always tried to give them. I love Cap
tain rhilip for his mauly stand for the
tiospel of Jesus.
"When, after the battle, the bugle
souuded all hands on deck, I went up,
Dot know ing what it was for. The Cap
tain did not know I was there, and
when I heard what be said, I was very
glad he did not. Mr. Harber came to
me ami said, 'Chaplain, did you hear
what the Captain said T I replied Yea,
sir. 'A very manly thing indeed, to
do, and a most impressive bight,' said
lie.
"I weut into the cabin after the Cap
tain had gone there. Holding out my
band to him, I raid: Captain, I con
gratulate you, not alone for your tre
mendous victory, but for the stand you
took after the action. His countenance
brightened up as he replied: 'Why,
Chaplain, I was sure of it when I went
on the bridge, for surely God has been
witb us, and it has been all on account
of prayer.'
"This is a glimpse of one of the com
manding ofticer of the United States
navy. iou see wnal nis iaitn la. Let
me, one of the corpa of naval chap- j
lain. 4, sk you ju-t one question: Have
Boi
SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY,
yon faith to believe? Do things seem
dark for you? Has sorrow filled your
life? If so, go tell it to Jesus and all
will be well; and the God wlio was
with us in the battle of July 3 will be
with you in all your battles of life, if
yc Jrve only faith to believe."
The Decadence of Spain.
On his accession to the Spanish
throne Philip II found himself ruler
of thj greatest empire the world had
ever seen siuee Rome was at the zenith
of its power, says the New York Her
ald. Its natives were famous for their
greatness and they ruled the ocean; its
armies were famous for their prowess;
she swayed the destinies of Kurope,
had possessions iu all the continents,
and may be said to have owned the
Americas, North and South. Samuel
Johnson, writing as recently as 1740,
when complaining of the poor people's
hardships, said:
"Are there no region, yet unclaimed by
8 pa in 7
Quick, let u rise, those happy lands explore.
And hear oppression', in-soleno no more."
The Spanish Kmplre was the result
of marriages, conquests aud discover
ies; its decline may le ascribed to the
ruthless character of the Spauish peo
ple. The Inquisition aud bull-fighting
were evolutions from this character.
Torquemada and the matador were no
more cruel than the nature of the peo
ple required. Cardinals were frequent
ly prime ministers, and Tamerlane
never treated Central Asians more mer
cilessly than Spain treated the Indians
of North America. When Columbus
discovered St. Domiugo it had a popu
lation of 2,(KJ0,0()0; in 1 30 thin popula
tion had dwindled to 330,000. Cortez
in Mexico aud Pizarro iu Peru were
idf al Spanish conquerors.
In the latter part of Philip's reign
Spain lost all, or nearly all, of her de
pendencies in North Africa, and early
in the next reign Burgundy, Naples,
Sicily and the Milanese.
pawThe Netherlands.
ltiS Malacca, Ceylon, Java aud
other islands.
KU0 Portugal.
lVt: Maastricht, Hertogenbosh, Kre
da, IJergen-op-Zoom and many other
fortresses iu the low Countries. In this
year also she tacitly surrendered su
premacy ou the seas to Northern Ku
rope. 1(")0 Housillon and Cardague. Those
places were coded to France, thus mak
ing the Pyrenees the boundary between
the two countries.
KWS Other sections of Flanders.
1072 Many towns and cities in Flan
ders.
171U Gibraltar.
1704 Majorca, Minorca and Ivizza.
1791 The Nootka Sound settlements.
1754 St. Domingo.
1S0 Louisiana.
1 sOU Trinidad.
1S1! Florida.
1S10-21 Mexico, Venezuela, Colum
bia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chili, Ar
gentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Patago
nia, Gautemata, Honduras, Nicaragua,
San Salvador, Hayti, San Domingo,
besides numerous islands, retaining not
a foot of ground in America.
In 1S0S she may lose Cuba, Porto Ui-
co, the I'huipplne islands and the L.a-
droue and Caroline Islands.
During all these years, while other
nations were discovering new regions,
or capturing those discovered by Spain,
the laud of the Cid Canieador was go
ing steadily down the hill. The only
time she stood still for a moment was
in 1S1, when Marshal O'Donnell took
Tetuan and Ceuta from the Moors.
In the heydey of Moroseo ascendency
Spain had a population of 20,000,010, in
the time of Ferdinand and Isabella,
12,000,000, and in the beginning of the
eighteenth century, only 6,000,000. The
present population is about IS.0110,000.
It may he said, in conclusion, that
educatiou iu Spain is limited to com
paratively few. Thirty or forty years
ago it was no disgrace for a Spanish
grandee n4 to be able to write his
names.
Our Treatment of Prisoners.
Good gunnery and dauntless valor
are not the only features of our fighting
that have astonished the Spaniards.
They are amazed at our courteous
treatment of our prisoners ot war.
The Spanish press has contemptuous
ly characterized our soldiers and sailors
as "American pigs." The Spanish
editors, many of whom never saw an
American, have pictured our officers
with all the brutal attributes of bar-'
barians. But Sptnish prisoners have
found our officers chivalrous and hu
mane. They find that among the first
concerns of an American admiral or
general after an engagement are the
safety and comfort of the prisoners.
The conduct of the victors toward
the vanquished after the destruction of
the Spanish fleet at Santiago was mag
nanimous in the extreme. Admiral
Cervera was more impressed by the
courtesy of the American fleet officers
and their enthusiastic congratulations
than by any other incident connected
with the crushing defeat. He was so
elated over the generous treatment ac
corded him that he took especial care
to acknowledge it in his official
despatches to the Spanish authori
ties. It is a pleasure to record the fact that
the American policy of dealiug with
prisoners was fully reciprocated in the
chivalrous treatment of Lieutenant
Hobson and his crew of the Merrimac
by both Admiral Cervera and General
Linares.
The Spanish officers at the front know
more than Spanish editors about the
gallantry and humanity of the Amer
ican soldier. They know that in bat
tle he can fight like a demon ; that
after the battle be can act like a
Christian.
Judging From Appearances.
Fond Mother-"What do you think
baby will be when he grows up ?
Exasperated Father I don't know ;
town crier, likely." Stray Stories.
Builds up the system; puU pure, rich
blood in the veins; makes men and
women strong and healthy. Purdock
Bl jod Bitters. At any drug store.
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ESTABLISHED
TEE PHILIPPINES.
Interesting Facta Belating to Them,
Ban Fmnciaro Examiner.
Oiled rags are used for brooms.
Cuttle are no larger than goats.
Women exceed men in numbers.
Hats are worn only by foreigners.
All the women smoke large cigars.
Spanish soldiers march barfooted.
The natives bathe three times a day.
Water buffaloes are used for plowing.
Manila was founded by Legaspi in
1571.
All the inhabitants fall asleep at mid
day. Knives and forks are unknown in the
islands.
Freedom of speech is absolutely pro
hibited. Manila is pronounced Mah-nee-la by
the natives.
Indians and Chinese patronize the
horse-car lines.
In 164-3 the city was nearly destroy
ed by an earthquake.
A fashionable delicacy for the menu
is the grasshopper.
The poorer classes robe themselves in
one yard of cloth.
The common laborer receives as much
as ten cents a day.
Mosquitoes are more formidable than
Spanish gunboats.
Electricity is used for illuminating
purposes in Manila.
Manila paid $1,000,003 to England as
a ransom.
The yearly output of cigars from the
Philippines is 140,000,000.
The chief occupation of some of the
savage nations is murder.
The streets of the capital city are un
der water most of the time.
Manila is considered commercially
equal to Calcutta and Ratavia.
Visitors to the islands are not numer
ous. 1 he earliest was Magellan.
The high quality of the indigo is ac
knowledged throughout the world.
The oil of the cocoa is used for light
ing purjHX-s throughout the islands.
The bushmen are more dreaded than
earthquakes, typhoons or plagues.
The land is fertile, but the natives
are too indolent and ignorant to culti
vate It with the best results.
Hundreds of persons have been sent
to the penal settlements, aud even de
prived of life.
Horses are a curiosity. The few that
are raised in the islands are too small
to brand.
The male half caste wears trousers
and a shirt. The latter is not confined
in the trousers.
The streets of Manila are un paved.
During the rainy season they are ini
mssable. In 1S97 the United State took 41 per
eeuL of the Manila hemp exjorted.
The insurrection haabem caused by
oppressive greed i.nd a crushing rate of
taxation.
The British captured Manila In 17G2
with a fleet of fourteen ahips and held
it for fourteen months.
Delinquent taxpayers are whipped at
the post, banished, aud their property
confiscated.
The atmosphere of Manila has been
likened to the savor of cachous and the
bite of red peppers.
It is estimated that there are l,2iO
islands in the group. There has been
no official counting.
The typhoon aud earthquake have
been the most frequent and dreaded
visitors up to the appearance of Dewey.
For three years the United Stt t ?s im
ports from these islands have ave.aged
over $7,000,000 a year.
Primo de Rivera, governor of the isl
ands twice, marie an enormous fortune
out of gambling licenses.
The capital of the Philippines) is Ma
nila. It has a population of 2OO;C00 and
over 60,000 in the suburbs.
Iu the Philippines they have butter
flies as large as bats. Their color is
fawn, aud they hive ruby eyes.
The wealth of the man who owns a
shirt is estiuetl by the linen gs of its
texture and the way it is worn.
The streets of the city are lii-ed with
massive stone houses, somber churches,
and airy cottages in tropical groves.
For two or three hundred years in
surgents in the islands have been in
creasing in numbers and sLvngth of
purpose.
General Weyler was governor of the
islands for four years. He saved $1,
000,000 out of his annual salary of $40,
0J0. The chief diversion of Manilla is the
cock-fight. Th pit is as big as a cir
cus. Four thousand spectators' eaa be
accom mod ated.
Houses are raised on posts, to permit
the water to flow under theau iu rainy
seasons.
The mestiza of the island is super
stitious aud languorous. Sbe has been
called the human butterfly. Her gar
ments are silk, -very thin, and very
loose.
The orchid, found lu the jir igles, anil
difficult of access, sometimes e mmaiil
$1,00 1 apiev. It takes mont Us to stalk;
the "demon flowers."
Spain's troublesome and impecuni
ous Doblea have air-ays hem sent to
Cuba aud the Philippines. It is nC
considered mannerly to question hor
they obtained their wealth when tlney
returned to Spain.
The Small Boy's Idol.
My daughter, who teach en in a m is
sion Sunday school, tells me of a
Dewey experienee she had with m
youngster making his first pearanc e.
She Ld put him through, a half-hot ir
or more of instmction in the rudimei -tary
principles, for he wns entirel j
lacking in information on that point,,
and to test bint was reviewing her work:
with hint.
"Now," she said, "tell me again wbo
made the work and all that is in it?"
"God did, replied the boy, with .
commendable promptitude.
"God can do everything, can't he?""
she aked again.
The boy hesitated a mo'jM at.
"I don't believe heccetd lick Dew
ey," he answered at last, ami the teach--er
sat silent between "her religion and .
Ler patriotism. It wasn't her time to
say anything, ifbe didn't -want to lose
that boy forever, au4 sht had wit
enough to let it go t taat. V ashing-
toj Star.
1827.
JULY 20. 1898.
Why This Country Declared and is
Waging War Against Spain.
The correspondent of a Freuch paper
published in Paris, interviewed White
law Reid on this subject. Following
is a translation of the correspondent's
statement of Mr. Reid's position. It is
a strong statement of the view of a
majority of Americans :
You ask, "Why Is the United States
forcing this war on Spain?" We here
do not thiuk it is. Personally, I am
profoundly sorry for the war, aud
would most gladly have seen an honor
able course taken by which we could
have avoided it. I know well the
mauy high-minded and charming
traits of the Spauish people, have val
ued personal friends among them
even in the latest "war cabinet'' and
have hoped that the inevitable deart
ure of the Spanish flag from the New
World, which Spain discovered for us,
might be delayed to another genera
tion. Bnt we had reached an alwolute "im
passe." For three-quarters of a centu
ry our government was positively com
mitted to the position that if Spain
failed to govern Cuba the island must
either govern itself or be governed by
the United States; no other European
nation being permitted to take Spain's
place. Practically that mfle us for
three-quarters of a century the ally of
Spain against all comers as to her Cu
ban possessions, aud so made us in oqe
sense responsible for the nature of her
government. Now, her government of
the Island grew steadily worse until it
became intolerable. Cuba was taxed
and plundered and misruled till it re
volted. It was then defended so feebly
that the first revolt lasted ten years,
and was only kept under not ended
by the bribery of venal insurgent lead
ers; while the second revolt, after
spreading for three years, was barely
held in check by a barbarous olicy of
desolating the country, destroying its
industries and starving its inhabitants.
No nation in Europe would permit a
distant jower to maintain fr thirteen
years such an inhuman and olTensive
nuisance directly on its shores. B-.it
the United States was, besides, driven
to action by the necessity of its historic
position. Having warned everybody
else oil", it was itself bound to interfere
when somebody's interference was
plainly demanded in the interests of
civilization and humanity. If it did
not interfere it was itself rvsjionsible
for the iniquities perpetrated by fbe
ouly power it would permit to rule
there. This was not a situation vreated
by Mr. McKinley. It was a situation
created on the one hand by John (J'lin
cy Adams, Daniel Welister and the
whole line of our governing statesmen
from 182:1 to this time, and on the other
hand by the Spanish authorities in
Cuba, who went steadily from bad to
wooe iu spite of our apeals aud the
remonstrances and revolts of their
jeople.
The President was most desirous of
avoiding war, and eager to believe
every assurance from Spain that ordr
would soon be restored. Meanwhile
all information from the Island showed
that the disorders continued, and the
inhumanity and suffering increased.
Then came the De Lome incident,
which showed the minister Spain bad
accredited to us scheming privately to
mislead and blind us by pretended ne
gotiations to restore the ruined com
merce, aud, in tha same breath, utter
ing offensive slanders upon our chief
magistrate.
Speedily following this came the
blowing up one of our warships at the
buoy in the harbor of Havana, where
the Spanish authorities had moored
her, aud the loss of two hundred and
fifty lives of her crew. The circum
stances left in the minds of the great
oaajority of our people the moral con-
wiuion that the explosion was the work
y iSpanish agents, who, whether with
t-T without nfiieial authority or even
knowledge, did use explosives too
elaborate and powerful to have been
other than public property.
Frwu that moment it was beyond
the power of any president or cabinet
oroougreta to restrain the American
people from war. Promises to do better
if more time were given, belated eff rts
at organizing an autonomous Cuban
government, proposals to listen to the
Pope and Mispeud hostilities, diplo
matic feuce and parry, were all as use
less as the idle wind against the stern
resolve of a nation occupying a con
tinent and numbering seventy-five
million! of souls, to "make an end f
this," to be trilled with no longer, and
to expel from the western hemisphere
the fiag under which such deeds were
possible.
There was not then the remotest
thought in it of taking Cuba for our
selves. In fact, the acquisition of
Cuba was considered a misfortune, to
be carefully shunned. Ou that poiut
the American people have uudergoue a
great change since the Civil War.
They wanted no more territory, and
. j they wanted no more war. They were
the least anxious for territorial exten
tion and the most resolutely ieaeeful
of all civilized nations of the globe.
Even in declaring war congress avow
ed the purpose to leave Cuba, after free
ing it, to its own devices.
Rni Hip aweenof war is like that of
J the whirlwind no man can tell where
li it may reacli. We have interfered to
j a;ive Cuba a belter government and we
dierefore stand morally responsible to
iaUe civilized world for the character of
au government. The present insurgents
may be able to establish one that we
:ta afford to be responsible for, but if
aot,our responsibility continues.
Meantime, since war is serious busi
Be4 and not a mere dress parade, we
iuutit strike and cripple Spain wherever
we can. We have already struck her
1 in the Philippines, and what we seize
we-ehall certainly hold so long as it
erv our purpose, and so far as the re
!iiMibility incurred in destroying the
existing government may carry us.
We have also struck her in Porto Rico,
and the war will not end till we com
plete that conquest
If all this threatens other Interests or
I' disturbs our European friends, the only
possible answer is that we regret it as
deeply as anybody can, but that we did
not seek the war, aud it Is not to us
that appeals should now be addressed to
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stop it. The only rational interference
for European nations Ls an interference
with their feeble neighbor in its blind
fight against fate. The sooner Spain is
slopped the less she will be damaged.
The Ladrones and the Carolines.
Far out in the Pacific, where the map
looks as if a eharge of bird-shot had
peppered a spot no larger than your
thumb, the American flag is flyiug
over the Ladrones. They are but specks
on the face of the deep. Yet, here is
an empire of island wealth amid the
rarest scenery iu the world. An earthy
paradise, it is called.
The capture of the Ladrones by the
United States, with a prarieciive seiz
ure of the Carolines, just to the south
of the group, makes them of new in
terest to Americans.
The ladrones are a chain of volcanic
islands extending north and south from
latitude 13 degrees 12 minutes north to
latitude 20 degrees S2 minutes south,
aud in longitude ahout 14'i east. They
were discovered by Magellan, March i,
li21, and named Ladrones from the
supposed stealing propensities of the
natives. Later, in ls, the islands
were named Mariaua, iu honor of Ma
ria Auue of Austria, the widow of
Philip IV., King of Spain. Tiie in
habited islands are Agrigan, Saipan,
Tinian, Rota and Guaiu. On the other
islands are volcanoes spouting fire aud
steam. The mountains range from one
thousand to three thousand feet high,
about the altitude of the biggest of the
Catskills.
The Spaniards have controlled the
islands without interference or series
trouble from the native. There is a
small garrison at Agaua, the capital,
where the goveruor-general has resided.
Many native of the Caroline islands
have been imported into the Ladrones,
and the races are iuterestiugly mixed.
The blending of the tall, copier-eo!or-ed,
curly-haired, long-bearded and mus
tached Carolinians with the Philippian
lookiug Ladroues, v. itli their d rk
Malay skin, has given a new tint to a
large number of the young men and
women.
The chief pnxlucts for sustaining
life are cocoanuts and bread-fruit. They
grow spontaneously everywhere. It is
said that oue cocoanut tree will fe?d a
man. A grove of the fruit trees to the
islander is what a herd of cows is to
the Pennsylvania farmer.
These, with the tons of li!i in the
lagoons, which are natural iisii-ionds,
are responsible for the profound iiul
lence of the natives. They can support
life without laboring. Some ot the
bread-fruit trees are 10 or 12 feet in di
ameter. A single tree is considered
equal in life-supporting capacity to two
acres of wheat. Then there are ther
products guava, corn, ordinary wheat,
bananas, figs and arrowroot.
The Carolines are like the Ladrones,
only more extensive in number ami
area, and densely populated. The isl
ands are widely scattered into three
great groups, the eastern, western and
central. Spain originally claimed all
the groups, but Germauy recently bxk
the Marshall Islands. The central or
main group, now belonging to Spain,
comprises 4s smaller groups, making a
total of "our or five hundred Islands.
Among the pr-xlucts of the country
are rice, corn, wheat, sugar, cotton,
tobacco, indigo, bread-fruit, &stor oil
aud kindred neces-aries of life. "Among
the curious natural features are the
palm trees that produce vegetable
ivory; banyan trees that grow down
ward, the seeds being planted by tinls
high up iu other trees, deposited in
bark aud crevices, sending down root
lets to gather sustenance and moisture
from the soil. 1
Another tree bears a fruit so offen
sive in odor that no man not in prac
tice can endure it, but once in the
mouth, the fruit tastes so del:ci )Us!y
ilut he can not stop eating until it is
devoured.
The women of the Carolines are neat
and attractive at home or among their
cocoanut trees. The men are indus
trious everywhere displaying ingenu
ity and thrift.
P.ude will be their awakening when
from steamers- and locomotive they
hear the echoing warwhoops of Amer
ican civilization.
" Sending Keys by 2Iail.
If you have occasion to pack and for
ward an extra trunkful of clothes to
any of the family away, the trunk key
is usually mailed, wrapped up in line
tissue paper, folded so as to soften the
angularity of its outlines. It is not
likely that the packet will work its Way
through the enveloj and be lost in the
mails, but such things have happened
before now, and there is a good way to
prevent such an untoward accident.
Take a linen trunk tag with its fold of
strong cord duly attached. Write on
the side of this as legibly as pos-ible,
the name and address of the man or
woman to whom you are sending the
trunk. Then affix the key securely to
the tag, and wrap the key in soft paper
in a flat, square shape ; fold a half-sheet
of letter paper around the tag and key
parcel, and slip In addressed envelope.
It is ready for mailing.
Human Hature to Dode.
When Dewey was first lieutenant of
one of the gunboats which Farragut
used as a dispatch-boat, the Admiral
used often to come aboard and steam
up near the levee to reconnoitre. The
Southerners had a way of rushing a
field piece to the top of the high bank,
firing point blank at the gunboat, and
then backing down again. Upon one
such occasion Farragut saw Dewey
dodge a shot
"Why don't you stand firm, Lieu
tenant?" said he; "don't you ku w
you can't Jump quick enough?"
A day or so after, the Admiral dodg
ed a shot The lieutenant smiled and
held his tongue ; but the Admiral bad
a guilty conscience. He cleared his
throat once or twice, shifted his atti
tude, and finally declared :
"Why, air you can't help it, sir. It's
human nature, aud there's au end to it"
Argonaut
"I can't get it off my mind," said
Mrs. Stickler.
"But you can change your mind,"
suggested her husband. Detroit Free
Press.
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WHOLE NO. 2151.
A Hero of Santiago.
Emm the New York Tritmne.
There are those, forgetful or unheed
ing, who look upon Spain in her decay
and wonder at her former greatness.
How, they ask, could the country of
Weyler and Don Carlos ever have been
great? How could a nation so shiftless
and impractical, so unprepared and so
iucapable of preparation for war, have
dominated all the world save oue or
two outlying islands? How could those
who cannot retain a single colony once
have held an empire on which the sun
never set ? They ask unwisely who ask
these things, but they are not without
their answer. It comes to them from
amid the smoke and tlatnes and the
earthquake shock of one of the most
tremendous naval battles we speak
advisedly the world has ever seen
It comes to them from the wreck-strewn
beach of Santiasro province. It bears
the form and utters the sound of a sin
gle familiar name Cervera. j
The nation that could produce that
man could produce world-conquerors.
Let there le no mistake about that.
1 le was our foe. But to our foes as well
as to our friends it behooves us to be
just. And simple justice requires it to
lesald that Admiral Cervera iu his
sortie from Santiago bay displayed a
heroism of which the bravest nation iu
the world might well be proud. You
may s:ty it was madness. No doubt it
was. Rut it was studied and niethod-b-:il
madness, ami it was magnificent.
There was in it a touch, and something
more than a touch, of the old Spartan
i spirit remembered by every one who,
as a schoolboy, declaimed the address
f Spartacus to the gladiators : "If we
must die, let it be uuder the clear sky,
by the bright water, in noble, hoior
able battle." That was Cervera's choice.
ifeini','ht have stayed in the harbor aud
lee!i killed or captured like a rat in a
trap. He mi;:lt have blowu up his
ships where they lay, to prevent their
falling into our hands. Kut he prefer
red a course at once more jeri!ous and
uiore'ii'iguanimous. He came rushing
ut of his lair in full daylight, and
hurled himself against the barrier of
steel und tire that hemmed him in, to
cut his way through if possible, at any
rate to take a life and destroy a -hip
for every one he gave. That he did
neither was not his fault Had his
government given him as good coal as
our shin had, at least one of his ships
might haveeseaped. Had it permitted
him to drill his men in markmansbip
us ours are drilled, we might to-day be
lamenting ships lost and lives destroy
ed. Kut it did not. He could fight
Americans, but he could n't conquer
the politicians of Madrid.
He is not well advised who reckons
that Spaniards are cowards. Some may
be, as some are iu every laud. Kut
there are as brave men under the flag
of Klood ami U ld as uuder the Stars
und Stripes. It was a distinguished
American, now Ambassador at the
Court of St James, who wrote :
Land of uuNiiii(Uered V eiayo! land of the Old
Citiipvadur !
Sea-uirdled luirtherof men ! Spiiin, name of
Klory and power;
Craille of world-grasp! ug Emperor, grave of
Ihcckl.-. invader,
11 jw art thou tillen. niy Spain '. bow art
thou unlc at tliia buur!
1 1 is characterization was correct. The
nation as a nation is fallen. Corruption
aud decay have f-istened their fatal
fangs upon its vitals. For it, as Spain,
there remains little hope. But indi
vidual Spaniards are still hereand there
worthy of the mighty names of the
past, their virtues shining the more
brilliantly amid the gloom that settles
upon their fatherland. And conspic
uous among these we may well rank
Cervera, the wily strategist, the gener
ous victor, the daring, valiant fighter
in the last extremity, preferring to
share the fortunes of his least efficient
ship if thus his splendid flagship might
speed ahead to safety, and the victim
at last not only of superior force, but
also of the hojeles.s incapacity of his
own government. So lie was vanquish
ed, but he made iu his defeat a place
for his name high on the world's roll
f her.)j.
Effects of the Manser Ballet
The wounded soldiers at Tampa
show clean-cut wounds, without lacera
tiou, nude by Miuser bullets at long
range. Those who were struck at close
range during the early fighting were
so badly mutilated that it was at first
believed the Spaniards had hacked
their bodies with machetes. The def
erence is ex plained to be that the Maus
er bullet, when it leaves the gun, has a
twisting, spiral motion, which causes
it to tear large holes iu any soft sub
stance that it passes through, while,
after it has gonesonie distance, it loses
this motion and travels with a steady,
even flight, which carries it through
flesh and bone without making a bole
larger than itself. The wounded men
say, however, tas.t, though the bullets
gave them little pain when they struck,
they knocked down the men they hit,
and this answers a question of great
interest to foreign military studeuts,
especially among the English, who
have expressed much curiosity as to
the abilities of the various types of pro
jectiles to "stop"' an advancing foe.
They find fault with most of the small
caliber bullets becauseof theirsupposed
inability to stop the man they hit, and
defend the spreading Duru Dum bullet
adopted by the British army, because,
they say, when it strikes a man it puts
him out of the ornb.it 1 aim id lately.
But now it seems that the slender
Mauser bullets do the same, and opin
ion on this point wili have to I revised
agsiti.
An Explanation.
The reasou for the great popularity
of Hood's Sarsaparilla lies !u the fact
that this medicine positively cure. It
is America's Greatest Medicine, and
the Ameriean people have an abiding
confidence in the merits. They buy
aud take it for simple as well as serious
ailments, confident that it will do
them good.
Hood's Pills cure all liver ills. Mail
ed for 2"c C. I. Hood A Co., Lowell,
Mass.
Meerschaum is a silicate of magnesia
and is to be found chiefly in Asia Mi
nor, Greece and Madrid.
Monroe DiKtnne Intact.
An American admiral, it seems, is
going to bombard the coast towns of
pain. With the smoke of the first
guns will vanish the Mouroe doctrine.
If America will not let Europe alone.
she cannot expect to be let alone by
Europe. Prof. Gold win Smith.
Usually wise and well informed, the
professor here falls into an error which
would be natural to an ignorant Berlin
scribbler, but is really uu pardonable iu
his case.
There is not a sentence, not a line.
not an implication in the message of
Monroe or iu the subsequent aud au
thoritative utterbucea by which the
doctrine has been interpreted and ap
plied that forbids us or makes it incon
sistent and unsafe for us to assail, bom
bard, ravage and destroy any European
city or country iu a war undertaken
for a just cause in the defense of our
national interests. The proof of that
statement lies in the fact that we per
mit the European nations to make war
on our sister Republics in the new
world whenever they have a grievance
that justifies that method of redress.
The British at Corinto, the Germans at
Port au Prince, Spain herself lu Chili,
were met by no assertion on our part
that the Monroe doctrine forbade theiu
to proceed ; nor did we restrain the
French in Mexico until it became evi
dent that the professed object of their
foray was not its real object .
We shal in our own giaal time pro
ceed to bombard the coast cities of
Spain, if in the meantime she does not
sue for peace. Does Prof. Goldwin
Suiith really suppw that any Euro
pean powers will be so foolish as
to go to war with us for exercising our
lawful and proper privileges. If they
do, it will not be because we have
violated our own Monroe doctrine, nor
will our attack on Spain at home be au
act In any manner inconsistent with
that doctrine.
Cervera Embraced Schley.
On the return of the United State
cruiser Brooklyn to the blockade off
Santiago de Cuba on the evening of
July 3 the Iowa n ported to Commodoie
Schley thai Admiral Cervera, the com
mander of the Spanish fleet, was on
hoard. The commodore at once went
over to pay Lis resect.
The Spanish admiral was much cast
down by his defeat, but preserved a
dignified ami courteous demeanor not
withstanding. He said he deeply ap
preciated the fact that the men of the
Brooklyn did not exult by cheering
when it was learned that he was a
prisoner on the Iowa. He replied, in
response" to the commodore's remark
that it was the fortune of war:
"Yts; but I've lost my career now
that I've been def.uted."
Commodore Schley, however, told
him that such a brave deed as bring
ing out his squadron could lieyer be
looked upon otherwise than aaaniost
gallant feat, upon which Admiral Cer
vera threw his arms around the com
modore and said:
"Ah, sailors always are gentlvmen!"
He then said he thought his dead
would probably number seven hundred
and fifty, though he could not tell
definitely.
He spoke of the accuracy and dead
l'ness of the Brooklyn's fire, saying
that in the early part of the action one
of her shells had traversed the entire
length of the gun deck, killing and
wounding probably eighty men. On
the Vizcaya alone there were one hun
dred and ten men killed. Admiral
Cervera said he feared the !oses might
be greater than ho anticipated, for
many men were below the protective
deck, and when the ships were on
fire it must have been difilcult for
them to escape. He added that all his
captains had Iteen killed or wounded,
but later it was found that the captain
of the Cristobal Colon was saved.
Oar Forces for the Philippines.
Although the first expedition to aid
Admiral Dewey, at Manila, was a long
time iu reaching him, two others wilt
follow more promptly, and each of the
two is stronger than its predecessor.
General Anderson's, which arrived tm
June 30, consisted of about 2,00 officers)
and men; General Greeue's, which
ought to be there by the middle of this
mouth, carried 3,.Vi, while General
Mac-Arthur's, which Is due at the end
of July, took 4,St7, beside a few non
military persous.
By August 1, therefore, there should
be under General Merritt who went
with the third expedition a force of
nearly 11,000 officers and men. Add to
these the landing parties of the fleet,
as now reinforced by the Charleston,
and it will be seen that we have force
enough, especially when aided by the
insurgents, to conquer the Philippines,
and that Spain's cause there is doom
ed. Yet even this array is not all.
Within a week the fourth expedition,
General Otis, is to leave San Francisco,
while the fifth and final one will prob
ably go about a fortnight later. These
two wilt double the land forces now
there and ou the way.
But we expect that long before these
Utter expeditions reach Manila, the
whole Islam! of Luzon will be ours.
There should then be an end of projects
of European interveutiou. With Ad
miral Dewey's victorious fleet reinforc
ed by the Charleston, the Monterey
and the Monadnock, and w ith 23,000
men to maintain our authority ashore,
no Eurojieau power will find it a con
venient matter to question our rule.
The trying time was between the vic
tory over Montejo's fleet and the ar
rival of the CharL-ston with the first
three transports. There is less of anx
iety now.
A Narrow Escape
Thankful words written by Mr. Ada
E. Hart, of Groton, S. D. "Was taken
with a bad cold which settled on my
lungs; cough set in aud finally termin
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short time. I gave myself up to my
Savior, determined if I could not stay
with my friends on earth, I would
meet my absent ones above. My bus
band was advised to get Dr. King's
New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds. I gave it a trial,
took in all eight bottles. It has cured
me, and thank God I am saved and
now a well and healthy woman. Trial
bottles free at J. N. Snyder's Drug
Store, Somerset, Pa., aud G. W. Bral
liers Drug Store, Berlin, Pa.
Kegularsize .10c and ll.OXX Guaran
teed or price refunded.
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