ills JIM Otis Declined an Armistice But Refrains Temporarily From Aggressive Action. TO DEFEAT • DECEPTION. Law ton Still on Aguinakio's Trail. Will Be Assisted By Kobbe and His Forces. '1 lie Washington Administration Inspects News of an Agreement With the Fill* pinis Vary Soon—Military Authorities Think l.auton's Flying Advance lias 11ml Demoralizing l-'ft'ert. Manila, May •-'l'.- Major Cencral Otis has declined to recognize the rebels to ihe extent of agreeing to an armistice, I>ut he has ordered the American com manders to refrain temporarily from aggressive action. Thus he is in a posi tion to resume hostilities at any time. I'hls will defeat any subterfuge lo gain time on the part of the rebels, which would not be the case if the Ceneral agreed to an armistice. The Filipinos are said lo be so deceptive that persons here hesitate to credit with good faith their latest overtures. Hut more attention is now paid to them than was paid n> their previous advances. The .Filipino Commission is acting under instructions from Aguiualdo, and ihe Congress, but it is possible that if peace is arranged. tJen. L.una and I'io del Pilar and their followers will continue a guerrilla warfare. Manila, -May -2.—Aguinaldo's Coin mission lias requested that an armis tice be granted by the Americans until ilie people can lie consulted upon the ijuestlon of peace or a continuance of ihe war. The Commissioners have also asked permission lo confer with a commis sion representing the Filipinos living ill Manila. Ken. inis refused lo consider the lirst ropiest, but has granted the second re luesi upon the condition that the Com missioners act as representing ihe Fili pinos generally. Washington, May _"J. News «>f an of peace with the Filipino insurgents is expected, to reach the Wai Department very soon. (leu. otis's la'est despatch reports the capture of I'amlaba. to which place Aguinaldo lied on Thursday from the American forces under Ceil, l.awtou, at San lsi dru. That Aguinaldo has again been forced to tlee is particularly gratifying in War Department officers. It is evi dent. they sa.V, thai lie is thoroughly l lightened, ami would gladly come 10 an agreement of peace. l!ut if the lat e>i profession of a desire for peace is merely a pretension I«» enable the Fili pinos in recuperate after their many • teieats, they will probably be disap jieiuted, for it is certain Ceil. Lawiou w ill continue his advance until an 1111 ilerslanding is reached. Oeu. Lawotn is expected to continue hi> pursuit of Agltinaldo anil his fol lowers. and will be assisted in this by t'nl. Kobbe's forces. The natives suc ceeded a day or two ago in reaching I'arlac. nearly iliirtj miles from San IVrijando, aild il is believed thai Aguiualdo will endeavor t<> effect a junction with llieni iliere. if lie has not already done so. As 'l'arlac is on the D igtipau Itailroail it i* not improbable that Ceil. MaeArihur may decide to semt a body of soldiers by rail from San Fernando and break up the Filipi no headquarters later. 11 is recognized by military authori ties here that t!en. I.awtou's Hying advance through the insurgent cotui irv has done more than anything else to cause Aguinaldo ami his adherents io desire peace. A few more such re lentless sweeps will, it is believed, be followed by such, complete dcniorali/.a tion in the Filipino ranks thai they will throw down their arms and sur render without any idea of terms. Washington. May —A Manila newspaper, tlio American, which has been received here, under <laic of Suu- Jay, April Hi. contains news of an at tempt lo assassinate Cen. Whealon. which seems lo have either escaped liUXKItAL IXOYD WIIF.ATON. tiic .'mention of the American news paper correspondents at Manlia or to have atlnieteil 11 n- bine pencil of the censor. This item reads: "I.ast Friday renins llriK.-t ien. When toil, while iway from liuadipiarters. was at tacked ii.v one of his native servants, who made an attempt upon his life. After attacking him. stones and oilier missiles were thrown ai him. The rjeneral was bronchi to the city ia-t night for medical attention, ami it was discovered that lie had three ribs broken. He, however, refused to iro lo the hospital, bill returned ti> Ins omuiand an hour ialer <m the North l.ine." The same newspaper contains a enri ■>us story of the arrest and imprison uent at Manila of the noted insurgent leader. Gen. I'io Pel Pilar. The r.e j:irtmont has no official advices of this ■•liaracter, nor has ii been mentioned Heretofore in press despatches. I,mm llreuk* WMIi ,\»• Manila. .\l*y 2-'.- (Jenerai l.nna has iiMolrcfl the peace commission ap pointed b> Agnlnaldo. Two ..f its umuilicrs—BuencanUno and Colonel Ar guMles—have been put under arrest nt Tariac, trhvre Ijima's government is established. Four other commissioners were ap pointed, wild camu into (Jeueial Law ion's lines at San lsidro. Their author! ty is limited to asking a cessation of hostilities. The new commission is head£d'by General Cregorio del Pilar. Colonel French, with the Twenty second. Infantry wab sent down the river threa-miles from San lsidro by Ceneral Lawtou. He met the enemy, driving them out with the loss of four Americans. Major Kobbe with the Seventeenth and Ninth regiments, is expected to meet Colonel French at Arayat. 'The Rio Grande will then he clear • of natives. DEWEY RETURNS j Admiral J)awey Ktnrt* on lli« iTout'oay lo America Amid Booming of Cannon and Streaming Hunting;. Manila, May Admiral Dewey has started for home. The cruiser Olympia left, her anchor age ii! Manila Bay Saturday steaming out between tiie cruiser Baltimore and ilic battleslip Oregon. The scene as the Admiral left the waters in which lie had made himself famous was an inspiring one. 'All the ships were gayl.v decorated, and as tlie Olympia slowly picked iter way out of the bay each vessel tired an admiral's salute. The crews stood at quarters and cheered frantically, while the bauds with one accord, played "Home, Sweet Home." Throughout tlie ovation tlie Admiral siooil uncovered on the quarterdeck of th«' Olympia. The cailors on the British cruiser \ Powerful manned the rigging as the Olympia passed autl save three ringing j cheers. ' Admiral Dewey says he expects lo i reach New York about September 1. The Ul.vmpia will stop at Hong Kong from which port she will goto Singa pore. thence to Colombo and Aden. She will also possibly tall at some port in C recce. Admiral i tewcy says lit- expect* to reach New York about September I. Ilnrker in Command Washington. May J:;.—A message | from Captain Marker, of the Oregon. | received by Secretary Long. announced that Admiral I 'ewe.v had started home. ; .lust how long it will require the Ad miral lo set home will be determined partly by his own pleasure, but Secre tary Lonj; believes hew ill be here in August. Itinerary Washington, May I!.']. —This compu lation of tlii- distances and probable j time of Admiral I lewey's trip home is ! furnished at the Navy Ilepartuieut: Manila to lions Kong. <>.'!<> knots; : llong Kong to Singapore. 1.440 knots; Singapore lo Colombo, I.."Villi knots: Co lombo to Aden. knots: Aden to Sue/.. 1..'110 knots: Sue/, to I'ort Said, i knots: Port Said to Gibraltar. U.OilO j knots; (Gibraltar to New York. "."'it j knots. Total. IJ.StUi knots. Allowing an euilre day and night for 1 the passage through tin* Suez Canal, | which is the regulation time, ihe re mainder of the voyage, 12,1".14 knots, ! will probably be made at au average speed of eleven knots an hour or in ! forty-six and one-half days. Navy Department ollicials are satis I lied that the Admiral will stop at least a day or two at Malta, where his life I was saved lifteen years ago by means j of a critical operation, and where he | spent several months recuperating I among loving friends who now wish | to welcome him. MRS. KOWE BITTER S«Vfc II Negroes Cannot lie Protecleil riajj Hioulil 1»« 1-owered. Boston. -May 2".—AI the anti-l.vneh ing mass meeting called by the women of Boston. Mrs. Mil tier 1!. Wilson, wile of a well-known colored citizen, pre sided. <>n the the platform were Mrs. ' lulia Ward Howe, Mrs. Kdna 1 >. Chen- Icy. Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer. Mrs. , Richard Hallowell. the ltev. Mary Whitney. Mrs. Florida lMriley, Mrs. Harriet lieed and Mrs. Mary l.eavitt. Mrs. Cheney. Mrs. llidley. a colored woman, and Mrs. Howe were among the speakers. Mrs. Ilowe said: "1 hold that the Federal Government is bound j lo see that the negro vole in the South is properly counted, and that military protection be afforded the negroes in dangerous sections. If the central : government caunot do this. Americans might as well take down their Hag and raise the black flag of piracy." Haverhill, Mass.. May "J:!.—At the cou- I vention of the Colonial Baptist Ass'n {colored i resolutions were adopted appealing to the' Christian ministry and the churches t>> unite in ail appeal |to God in behalf id' suffering humanity in the South, where "lawlessness is on the increase to an alarming extent." ind where "neither the local nor na lional government seems • t<> care •UOUKII about I ho negro ti> protect him. leaving tho rnoo IK tho mercy of mobs." ('oiiHoldnlion. Now Yolk. .May 22.- There was a re port in oiroulatiou from Akron. 0.. of an advance in Diamond .Match stock heoause of an announcement that Kd win Gould had signed contracts for j the 1 ransfer of tho interests of tin l Continental .Match Company to tho ' Diamond. Mr. Gould said that ho had I not heard of tho report. lie said there ' might lie negotiations pending be tween the Continental and Diamond companies, but that, lie did not know what results had ben accomplished yet or what might be. He declined to dis cuss the situation further. The report from Akron intimates thai the I'nlon Match Company, recently incorporated in New .lorsey. had been formed .-is an agency for the riiamotul. with the ob ject of securing control of several smaller companies, and that this object is being attained already. All Mu«l I>ll'l liiit l'ana. 111.. May 20.- As tho result of a conference of coal mine operators, the State Board of Arbitration and the United Mine Workers' officials, an agreement wan nlgned formally settl ing Hie loug-drawn-out struggle here between union miners and operators. The agreement give* the nnoin recog nttlou and declare* that all negroes •hall leave the city, and only union mon be employed. TELEGR APHIC TICKS News Notes From Every Part of the Civilized World. Bridget on (N. J.) flsherineif report sighting a sea serpent with a tongue two feet long. Mrs. Adela Beach, of Toledo, Ohio, sixty, and white haired, lias been con victed of bigamy. Troops have been ordered to the Mo qui Pueblo Indian villages in Arizona, to enforce vaccination. The salt palace directors at Salt Lake City have given orders for the immediate construction of the build ing. An English inventor is perfecting a device by which vessels may be warn ed of the proximity of rocks despite log, David 1. Field, a retired capitalist of St. Louis shot and killed Robert W. Stratford, a negro servant. Stratford attacked his employer, who had just discharged him. Niue railroads that the Chicago, Burlington and ijuiucy Company has been operating under leases for years have been bought outright by this cor poration and hereafter they will be but parts of the big system. .loli'.i W. Jorgonsen. "Jack, the flair Clipper." died in Chicago from a self inflicted bullet wound. .lorgeiiseu was captured several months ago while lie w as in I lie ad of clipping the tresses from a young girl 011 a down town sireoi. lie confessed to a num ber of other hair clippings and declar ed that lie had a mania for despoiling girls of their tresses. Iu the I 'lilted Stales Court at Musco gee. I. T.. Nelson N. Jones was fouud guilty as accessory to the klduapplng of Lincoln McOoisey and Palmer Sampson. Seminole lmlinu boys, who were kidnapped iu the ludian Terri tory by a mob and afterward burned to "death at the stake near Maud, Ok lahoma. .louos. at the time of the burning, was a deputy United States Marshal and had a writ for McGeltey, but instead of arresting him and tak ing him from the hands of the mob. assisted in the kidnapping. This is the first of thirty-six similar cases. .-'eii.aior 1...1. lloso, of California, si former uiulil-inillioiiaire. poisoned him self. The Berlin police have suppressed a play wiitten to exploit the cruelties of vivisection. Tile first annual reuuiou of the Bough Bidt-rs will lie held at T.as Ve gas, N. M.. June '_M. The American schooner Leila Smith is a wreck oil iho Columbian coast. All bands were saved. Brazil Is to be called 011 10 make amends fur the mobbing of our con sular ofli'-er at Manaos. Latest r« ports from Cape Nome say that the gold strikes rival those of the Klondike for richness. The Boihlehoin Steel Company tiled notice a 1 llnrrishurg of an increase in its capital stuck from $5,000 to $1.",- OOO.OOtI. 11 ov. Kooscveli lias arranged to come to New York for Sunday to con sult Senator Piatt and others aliout the franchise tax bill amendments. The Brotherhood of linilway Train men re-eh clod Cram I Master Mor rissey and other otlicers. and selected Milwaukee as Ihe next meeting place. 'I lie trial uf Michael Emli Bollinger, for wife murder, has been begun. The ease has many features resembling the famous l.uetgeri case. Like Luetgert, Bollinger is a butcher. He is accused of strangling his wife and cremating her body. The directors of Wittenberg College, one of the oldest Lutheran educational institutions iu the country, have de cided to admit women to the theologic al seminary and IIIHIII completion of the course to confer the degree of 1!. 1». upon them, the same as the men. The Missouri Senate lias passed and sent to the Uovernor a bill placing a license lax of SlO 011 all foreign cor porations w hicii desire to do business in the State, in addition to the present tax. ii does not effect corporations now authorized to do business in the State. The I'niied Stales transport Port laud has arrived here, twenty-four days from Maulla. She has 011 board twenty discharged soldiers of various regiments. Private Jeremiah Shea, of the California Heavy Artillery, died and \wis hurried at sea off the Island of Formosa. l'.y 11»' purchase of the ltd I Tele l>li<iii<• inicrisis in ilic Stale of Wis consin. i IM* Cleveland Telephone Com pany becomes tin* largest concern of 1 In* kind in ilit* world, li now ope rates 11,">,7:U miles of win* uiul serves subscribers. Aside from Wis cousin tin* company owns anil operates :ill the Hell telephone interests in the States til' Texas. Arkansas, Minnesota. North Dakota. South Dakota. Michi gan and the Hty of Cleveland. Tin* illtli annual rossion of the Presbyterian Church Is being held at Minii'*a polls. Dr. Howard Ay res. Professor of bio logy in ilit* I'niverslty of Missouri, has accepted the presidency of the I'ni versit.v of Ciucinnatl. Cuv. Voorhees. of New Jersey, de nied ilie report that he had been re quested to appoint an arbitration com mittee tn settle difficulties between olHcials and employes of the Delaware, l.tu-kawaua and Western Itallroad. The Coventor of Missouri has signed (lie Department Store bill. It applies .> lll\ in Mures in Si. I.ouis. Kansas I'iiy and St. Joseph, which employ tiftcen persons or more and taxes hea\ily all classes of goods handled *vci'pt one of the seventy-! hree classes. 'l'lii* Pulled Slates Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco has handed down an opinion In the c ase of I.il liau li. llecU vs. The Supreme Lodge of Knights of I'yihias. The plaintiff is the widow of l*'rank E. Beck, n mcmlicr of the endowment rauk, who blew out his brains. The Coroner's jurv rendered n rerdlct of suicide while temporarily insane and the indev refused to pay the policy. The widow brought suit aud got judgment for >•:: I«HI. which the Circuit Court of vinie.ils upholds be«MM tkt 4*f«ul III! failed to Show ftttftlAaJ HitMt or lU'il.'s part. ROMANCE OF A DIAMOND. Maying of Men lllrrctly line to 111* l'»|i»'« I'rerioa* (iein. Pope Leo is the owner of what, is lielieved to be the largest diamond in the world. It has a most romantic history, having been the cause of tht assassination of a Icing, numerous other crimes, and of a small war. iu which several thousand men wen killed. Memela. an aged South African ne gro, has told the secret which iink> him iu history with Pope I.eo and President Oom Paul Kruger of ilu Transvaal. It was Memela who owned the dia mond for many years. As an act of gratitude to Kruger for freeing lilm many years ago. from the Boers, win had captured him. lie gave him this precious stone, which he had carried concealed on his body through strange and terrible hardships ami adventures For a century before that it had beer a sacred talisman of savage chief tains. It belonged llrsl io Meshesh the powerful chief of the Bastiti nation, who gave ii as a friendly of I'eriug to the great king of the Zulus Chaka. The envy that ii excited in lib brother loci to Chaka's assassination Then followed a long line of plotting and Hideous crimes for iis possossiol amoag rival chiefs. Whit" men. seeing it.finally attempt ed to secure il. Inn failed. The liallvt chief's stispii ions being aroused, a wai against the whites was begun, wlilcl resulted in the killing of l.ixm Boers and many times thai number of blacks When many chiefs were dead Me mela came into power and got pos session of the wonderful gem. Ills capture, slavery and escape, and his gift of the talisman lo Kruger in gratitude complete the history of what is liellevcd to lie tln* largest and most precious diamond iu the world. \Vln>ii lo Hon. A young lady would lie right in bow ing to a gentleman by whom she li.nl been taken to dinner. She should bow to him on mooting him again after an introduction by a in lit mi I friend. Slit* should not bow if she lias merely talked when casually meeting at :i | friend's lions**, when no introduction look place. In Klin land a lady liows ilrst. Abroad this is reversed. and can should bo taken to follow the custom which prevails. Women generally bow I othei simultaneously, i>ut, as a matter ot fact, a married lady should bow lirst io an unniarried one: and a lady of higher rank should take the initiative. If a lady bowed to a gentleman of her aci|unintanee who was accom panied by a friend no acknowledge nieiit need be made to the stranger; though both men would raise theli hut-. Above tl»e Clou<U. Airships have not yet been invented, vet it is possible 10 sail for a day and it night in a fairly comfortable steam l.oal at a height of over two miles ! above the sea. The water i;n which | you accomplisn this remarkable feat is Lake Tltlcaca. which lies between I Peru and Bolivia. It is a huge lake, 12tt mill's long an nearly 'in wide, ami is over 1.000 feet deep. It is 11 way up I Nine rivers flow into it. besides a vast I amount of snow water, yet it has no ' visible outlet. The (100-toii steamers which sail on | l.ake Tltlcaca were built in Scotland, carried over the passes in sections, | and put together on the spot. The fuel j is Australian coal, brought from 7,000 miles away. Iti the lake are beautiful islands, and the cliffs which , line the shores are magnificently rug •jed. In no place can a ship anchor. The water, even sixty feet from shore, is hundreds of feet deep. Ihe native I,oats on l.ake Tltlcaca have straw I sails A Fellow Feeling. Little Kdgar. on seeing his mother ; approaching with a stick in her hand to punish him, immediately crawls under the lied: whereupon his mother informs the father, who gets down on his knees and pokes his head under the bed. saying: "Are you there, Kdgar';" Kdgar Yes. papa, is she after you, New Y«»»*k Mrtiketn. < irain— IConflicting 1 Conflicting advices from abroad were largely responsible for sharp llitctations in domestic markets. Advices from Buffalo intimated that the strike was about settled. No. 2 ' red. M T „c. spot and SOT&c. to arrive 112 o. It. afloat. Corn t'orn occupied a firm position with little pressure to sell; 40 °4c. 112. 0. b. afloat. ( , i tats The market was dull and un j changed. No. oats closed SIVsC-I No. 3 white. :Slc. ! Kye. -Market dull. No. 2 Western dtlc.: 112. o. b. afloat; State rye, 62e. c. 1. 112. New York car lots. Barley.-Market slow. Feeding, 41a 42c., and malting, 47 a 50 e., both c. 1. 112. Buffalo. Beans.—Beans, marrow, 1898, choice, per bushel. sl.S2',ij; do.; medium, choice, 1898 $1.33ai.37Mi; «'o, pea, choice, ?1.32iia1.35. Butter.—Creamery. Western, extras, ! |K-r lb.. 18c.: do.: firsts, 17a17V&c.: do. thirils to seconds, 15a1(%c.; do. Btate i extras, 17'.ial8c.: do, firsts 17c.; do, thirds to seconds, State dairy, hnlf-flrkin tubs, fancy, 18 , ,< [ al7c, do., firsts, lriLjalt'tC. Cheese. New Cheese.—State, full, cream, large, white, choice, 9%c.; do; colored, choice. !)Vja9%c. Old cheese— State, full cream, choice lltyc. Kggs. —Jersey aud nearby, fancy, pei do*en. 13c.; State, Pennsylvania and nearby, average prime 14V4a14%c.; Kentucky. 12^al& Potatoes. 1 loiriestlc old per 180 lbs. 31.tt0a1.70. Beeves.—Keeling steady. Calves.—The market active. Poor to prime veals sold at f4.ooafti.so; eoun i try dressed. 7a»e.: little calves, !Sa7c. Sheep and I.utnhs.—Keeling firm all around, and lambs were rated TtalOc. | higher. Prime clipped sheep sold at Jft.so: fair to good unshorn lamlts, j«CKi7.l2'»: fair to prime clipped. Stl.4oa :t.7<i: >|irinii lamb* nominal: country J drcs>cd s:;.tHiat;.iH>. I llogs. Ouoted llrmer at $-t.20a4.40: |ror.nlry •'resge.l, Mtmdy at Ueavj to light wslgiitx. Aii army ettieer lius n Itii of :i storj j to tell whirl) throws n sidelight 01 tno ways 01' recruiting oliiocr.». h: Ills command during 1* if Cuban rain ! palgli wsis a |>i'i\ :iI•- ii'i < ame every day 10 ask for )<-ii .ii.s )>ii Murphj was his iiaiih.' on i :u' lull. but the t«ng ■if iiis diii it.H suggest eyco tft moldy the Kmerakl i le. Day ftitel day. ami no letter i-.ime. Murphy' 6 I'llgrew longer. Ms urn ry more path die every lime h- uppearid. •No let tor." said the officer one ninrn ing. "No letter for you. There's onlj one suhlresseil to 1 .. me see- in <;i<> vntiul I'alatlini CastcllaKzlii or some thing like that. Nolle for you." Murphy's l'aee beamed with delight "Thiit-n-olie for mo," he said. "My name Ilka that. I goto the recruiting office. t am wanting to fight. OfTleel says. "What your name';' I say. '<lio vanni Paladiul Castollazzla." and lit say, 'Oh. helhiuam. ilia I no name fol you. Vou not liglu with name. Yor right with cun. .Ml thai name tri| you up. Vou lie Joseph Murphy.' I lie Joseph Murphy now, and that i> 111V letter." Carefully <'oi»«lil»r«nl. "What." inquired the psychological student, "do you regard as the chief end of nianV" "Well," answered Mr. Blykins. "it depends ou what vou wain the mat; for. If you want lilm to do brair work it's his head, and if you want him to run errands it's his feet." A WiMiilerful Slum I A wonderful shawl is possessed h> ihe duehess of Northtimherhind. Ii onee belonged to ('litirles N of Franci and was made entirely from the fur oi Persian eats. Although the shawl is eight feet square, it is of such tint texture thai il can he compressed iuti an ordinary coffee clip. Wife of Mis Shirt Bosom Are tlicst your new collars. Husband- Yes. dearest. W. 11. S. I!. •in a lone of grievci astonishmenti But these are Id's am I wear 14's; and those last neckties you bought didn't match a slngh gown I've got. I-U'£•«(. ItOAKI). The largest room In the world i; til Si. Petersburg. It is 020 feet l?on;. by 150 in breath. It lias been used foi inilittiry displays, and a whole but lallon can completely manoeuvre it It. A l)nti;'li(«»r of Kvr. Mother- Why didn't you screan when he kissed you': The <:irl His mustache was in tin way, and when if was all over 1 saw that screaming wouhlu't better thi situation. Removed ! to my new store in the GAREY BLOK where I will be pleased to meet all of my old pat rons and many new ones. We fit the young and old of all nationalities and color with Boots, Shoes, Rubbers, Fine Assortment at Popular Prices. CALL OItST US Remember BLOCK, the Place, DUSHORE. DUSHORE. J. S. HARRINGTON. New York Weekly Tribune. - na ti °N™LSLY er For Farmers ? and Villagers, and|your favorite home newspsper \ The News Item, BOTH One Year for $1.25. Send all orders to the News Item, Laporte. THE N Y. TRIBUNE ALMANAC, 340pagee. A National Book: ol J*f« r p UnU*sS ™ T. -ASSZS: "Try The News Item Job Office Once. Pine Printing MODERN 1 * We Print To' Please. THE REPUBLICAN IS THE PAPER FOR THE FAMILY. , . n • • l I v-</ Republican in Principle ! L < Independent in Thought x ( Indomitable in Action. The Conquered Nation Alaaott Invariably Come* first—Many CUM, The conflict between the United States and Spain lias passed Into history as the "Spanish American" svar. At iirst glance there is nothing Gtrange is this fact. Nobody has ever found out the real source of the names ot| the millions of objects and events Ordinarily it might almost seem the names were given by accident or chance. The matter of naming ware, however, seems to follow a set rule. Examination reveals the fact that In almost every case the designation of a war by a certain popularly accepted name shows at once the victor and the vanquished, and that in such cases the tlrst name, If two be given, or the one name. If there be only one, is the name of the conquered nation. The two that will at once occur to anyone's memory afe the "Franco-Prussian" war, In which the French were de feated, and onr own "Spanish-Amer ica 11'' war# Hut—there are others. In the Tro- Jan war, so-called, the Trojans were defeated by the Greeks and Troy was besieged and captured. The Macedon ian wars were gained by the Komans. In I lie two l'unlc wars (Punlcas: | Phoenician: Carthaginian, because I'arthage was a Phoenician colony) the Carthaginians were defeated and Car- I ilingo was seized by the ltomans. In | modern times the "Napoleonic" wars. I called, ended in the destruction of i lie armies of Napoleon and the cap ture and imprisonment of the emperor. The "Indian" war of 1841 resulted in i lie establishment by Great Britain of 1 its power over the Indian empire. The j "Crimean" war was signiilcant of the 1 defeat of Itussla by the allied armies . il.sr>iip. The "Austro-ltalian" war (18- V.i lSiHi) ended with the defeat of Aus- I Irla and the independence of Italy. In I I lie "Schleswlg-ilostein" war (1804) i lie Danes were defeated and forced to | cede llolstein and Sclileswig to the j victorious Austro-Prussian coalition. ! It was of this war about a very com -1 plicated situation that Disraeli said, I when asked to explain it. that only two i men, of whom lie was one, in the ; whole I'nited Kingdom had ever un ; iterstood what it was all about; the 1 ;>ther man was dead, and he had for gotten. Next comes the "Austro-Prus ! ■sian" war, in which Prussia, by win ning the decisive battle of Sadowa. I .lefeated the Austrians. Then we have | [lie "Franco-Prussian" war, ending at j Sedan ilSToi wit.i the annihilation of I the French. The "China-Japan" war, in which i lie .lapanesi were couquer irs; the "tiraeco-Turkish" war, result ing in victory to the Turks, and our iwu "Spanish-American" war com pletes the series, and seems to sustain the contention that wars are named itorn the conquered and not from this i-onquerors.
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