&VEJ1 fiEFUDLICAU COMITTEE'S ADDRESS.
To all who lore Americt and Freedom:
4 Choose ye this day who shall
a rule Man or Mammon.
The last election of the nineteenth should have the right of self-govern-leatury
la at hand. Grave questions merit.
agitate the minas or Americans. i
In Nebraska the state conventions
have been held ana trie issues are now
Joined. The populists, democrats and I
ilvar rennhlirana known as fusionists. I
silver republicans, known as fusionists,
awfllrg in common certain great lun
damontal governmental principles, havt
Unanimously united In naming Silas A.
Holcomb, a man of unquestioned abil
ity and sterling integrity as their can
didate for Judge of the supreme court.
J. L. Teeters and Edson Rich, both
gentlemen of high scholastic attain
ments, honest and capable, as nominees
for regents of the state university.
Whn Khali serve ua as officials Is of
great interest; out ine approval or uu-
approval of the principles which they
represent is of much greater Importance
A .,ll v.a raP.rc!ihin? in effects. The
great interest; but the approval or dis
eyes of the world are upon us.
Shall we Dy tnia last vote 01 uui,
this century, turn back the hand of
time to the days of King George and
declare him right and our forefathers
arrongT
Shall we declare to the world that
we love gold more than our fellow
men?
Shall we declare that the trusts and
monopolies which are crushing out in
dividual enterprise, and degrading la
or are greater than their maker
nan?
Shall we declare this government a
failure; that we prefer European Ideas
-to those American; that we prefer em
,plre to republic?
The republican platform adopted at
Omaha, September 21. 1899, says:
"We adhere unequivocally to the gold
standard and are unalterably opposed
to the free coinage of silver."
It further says:
"After more than twenty years of
harmful agitation the people of the
United States, by a majority of more
than 500,000, decided in favor of that
standard."
Now, is not that a fine statement for
honest men to make, in face of the fact
that the national republican platform of
UH promised to promote the free coin,
age of silver through international bi
metallism and that congress appropri
ated 1100,900 for the purpose of trying
to rid this country of the gold stand
ard? It la true that the republican party
for more than twenty years has been
promising the people to return to the
free coinage of gold and silver and it is
further true that their promises have
been kept after the same fashion aa the
promises of 18S6. They have simply
proven false.
At the election of 189 over 13.000.000
Of people voted for bimetallism and
only about 130,000 (the gold democrats)
for the gold standard.
The present republican platform
Jao upholds the administration not
the government, for that is the people
in its Imperialistic ideaa, which
means, if carried out, a great standing
army ror uie people to support, ine un
ceaaary destruction of thousands of
ltV
'ee and the downfall of tne repuouc
The fact cannot be disrulsed that
widespread alarm now exists In the
jnlnda of many thoughtful citizens lest
.eaur government shall be destroyed.
This feeling Is not confined to any par
Ocular party or locality, but Is found
ite all parties and everywhere. Such
: Jtalwart republicans as Senator Hoar,
. ax-GovTraor Boutwell, Senator 8d
trands, and John Sherman of Ohio and
thousands of others are greatly exer-
Msed over the precarious and unenvl
. ifele situation In which the adminis
tration has placed us in the Philippine
rfcjlandj and elsewhere through the Influ
ence of scheming, conscienceless men.
Under the influence of commercial-
and imperialism Mr. McKJiuey nas
i led to abandon the Monroe doc-
Ine, so long held sacred by Amer
... tar muiiinr war urjon a people
upon the other side of the globe; to
ii thnu nrinclnlM which have
extinguished America from the gov
ernments of the old world.
That heaven born document which
declares that all men are created equal
and that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain Inalienable rights.
Sat among them are life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. Is the base
hih tna ntr fabric of human
liberty rests; this and the further doc
v..t oil iimt covernments derive
frnm the consent of the
sToveraed Is the foundation upon which
Xm-- ....Kilo Vaa hMfl htlllt.
These are great eternal truths, sp-.M-.ku
AVArvvhrn and for all time,
luharmony with the laws of God; all
?f which doctrines are evolved from
be sublime law of Christ:
"Do unto others as you would have
others do to you.
There Is no question but that we can
muiaiw and crush the Filipinos, but
, .r atmnr we have no
right to trample upon and subjugate
w arhn mav be our interiors. A
Is despotism; that Is militarism.
The same spirit is behind Wm Mc-
hih wa. behind Jeffer
son Davis In 1861, the spirit of greed;
more territory for slaves then, more
territory for subjects and vassals now.
Abraham Lincoln. In 1858, referring to
the Declaration of Independence and
Its authors, said:
"Wise statesmen as they were, they
knew the tendency of prosperity to
breed tyrants, and so they established
these great self-evident truths, that
when In the distant future some man,
some faction, some Interest should set
us a doctrine that none but rich men.
or none but Anglo-Saxon white men
were entitled to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, their posterity
might look up again to the Declaration
of Independence and take courage to
renew the battle which their fathers
aarnn, so that truth and Justice and
mercy, and all the human and Cbrie
tJan virtues might not be extinguished
from tbe land; so that no man would
toreafter dare to limit or circumscribe
Ota great principles on which the tem
ai mt Ubertv was built
-Wow. my countrymen, If you have
- taught doctrines conflicting with
M. iSJspoudeooe; If you hare listened
ft SzSSSIm .sim. would take away
4 3rrdaal rights eentmerated by our
4 W U -r
ft
Dewey sunk the Spanish fleet, but it
uaiue, ana vanquisnea me &panisn
army, taking 7,000 prisoners, many of
hom thev still hold. Asruinaldo was
a ham than aa vol aa Tlou."i?
Was it right, was it fair, was it even
decent for us to claim that we had
bought our allies from a common ene
my for two dollars per head, and then
try to deprive them of the right of self
government for which they had been
righting for three hundred years?
want tn u-af u-itt, finuin t n Hv
Cubans Independence, the right of self
government. Now we are spending
millions of dollars, sacrificing thousands
miuiuus or aouars, sacnncing itoumui"
of lives, to subjugate another people,
10,000 miles from our shores. May not
thA ariminiati-atinn In thla matter fairly
the administration in this matter fairly
and greed with "criminal aggression?"'
in a recent letter benaior noar oi
Massachusetts says:
"The blood of the slaughtered Flll-
nlnm th Hlnrwl a n H waatoH health of
our own soldiers is upon the heads of
those who have undertaken to ouy a
people in the market like sheep or to
treat them as lawful prises and booty
of war, to impose a government on
them without their consent and to
tvamnla nnrlw fruit nnt nnlv the rwrtnla
of the Philippine islands, but the prin
ciples upon wmcn me Ainenuim iv
public itself rests.
"ThA law nf HrhrnnlfM And 1 11 t i('P
on which the great and free American
people should act, ana in me ena. i
am sure, will act, depends not upon
parallels of longitude or points of the
compass. It Is the same yesterday, to
day ana jorever. 11 is as true how
when our fathers declared it In 1TT6.
I. , - am hlntlm, lin.m William M ( IC 1 n -
ley aa it was upon George Washington
or Abraham Lincoln.
"The declaration as to Cuba ty tne
nrK5irint anrl hv r-onerress abDiies with
Btronger force to the case of the Phil
ippine islands.
'la-uinalrir. and hla followers, before
we began to make war upon them, had
conquered their own territory and in
dependence from Spain, with the ex-
AAr.ttn a ainvla Mtv onrl thfV tt'Pr
gatting ready to establish a free con
stitution.
'U'hiu hv ira fia-htinfi- for freedom
and independence and the doctrines of
our fathers, we are fighting for the
principles that one people may coniroi
and aovern another In spite of Its re
sistance and against its will."
Humanity is the same the world over.
These Filipinos are a very religious
people they love their homes, their
wives and their country. They desire
to be free. They had reason to believe
that the same principles wouia appiy
ha. to lh fnViana. Whv should
not this inestimable boon be granted
them?
Lincoln once said:
ThAM Hst Aanv trvAnm to others
deserve it not for themselves, and un
der a Just God cannot long retain iu
A republican government cannot be
maintained next cltlsens and part sub
jects sr vassala
Think of tne rearrui cost in me aim
treasure, of the emancipation of 4,000,-
000 slaves at home a few years ago.
Let us think seriously before we ap
prove of making io.ow.sw oi men uui
..! iauoo miloa a.wav. in violation
of the great principles of the Declara
tion of Independence.
it has been said by some that the
Filipinos are not capable of self-govern
ment. This nas always own me nn.
anrl ooMia nf tvrants Who have
desired to enslave their fellows.
They may not want a government ex
actly like ours, perhaps it might not be
bes tin an respects.
Dewey has tola us max imj wei
more capable of self-government than
the Cubans; at any rate they could
govern themselves oeuer uu we uu
govern them.
rr-. U K thav wort to h V their
own government after the Spaniards
- - . . , . V , .. I A ,L.
were aeteaiea.oui. nra mt luum
President McKinley wanted an army of
. utiiui tr. HdWKKl anldiers to OCCUPY
livni w,wv -
their Islands the sad idea dawned upon
them that after an mey were
changing masters, and after having no
satisfaction given them as to the In
tention of this government they com
menced to try to repel our Invasion o
what they believed to be their country
Assurance from the president of inde
pendence such as congress had granted
Cuba, and we would have had no war
with the Filipinos, and many lives
and millions of money would have been
saved this country; nor would we now
occupy the very unenviable position we
must In the history of the world.
A vote for ex-Governor Holcomb
means a vote for honest government in
this state and for a supreme court
which will not be owned or controlled
by corporations and trusts. It means a
vote for home rule and American ideas;
for equal taxation, rich and poor; for
the elevation of labor rather than Its
degradation. That you prefer repub
lic to empire, democracy vo mmuum,
peace to war. . ,
i ,. nt infldonrp In the Drin-
clples of the Declaration of Independ
ence. . . , .
Now, if you have had any loea mi
... ..iniwirt the action of Mr.
u.viniv herause wicked men nave
drawn him away from the fundamental
principles of this government; it you
have had any Idea of following him In
, j MirnMinn. In the lan-
tniB ri " -
guage of Abraham Lincoln, let us en
treat you 10:
"Come back. Return to the fountain
whose waters spring close by the blood
nf the revolution. Come back to the
truth of the Declaration of Independ
ence." .
J. N. LTMAn, uiiiraian,
a u f.r.B-.ASrtN. Secretary.
Sliver Republican State Central Com.
mutes.
BRONCHO DRANK AT BAR.
Ohcaco News: A bucking broncho
stepped to the bar of the depot saloon
a the main entrance to the union
stockyards today and was served with
drinks like two-legged customers. C. J.
rmm a Philadelphia commercial trav
eler, rode the horse Into the place on
B wagar that ho could not snake it anni
from the bar. Tbe animal pranced to
the brass ratlins, buried bis boos la a
bucket of water, aad Mr. Brem rode
out the wlnuor of H. rvtral hundred
aad stockyards employee
about the entraaeo of the aa-
the
fen the
ed hour f Uamft rd water for the
kt Ao'ta r 4jo to ra to hM
i icil-. wi rrroi wt j rl
uewey suna me opanisn neei, out u
was the Filipinos who fought the land
looaaad wsohodtho pssaiaaoa, Igw
BOMB LATE INVENTIONS.
For use In rainy weather a New Jer
sey woman has patented a skirt protec
tor which combines a short petticoat
and a detachable waterproof bottom
portion, which can be attached to the
short skirt in wet weather.
A combined mop bead and wringer
has been placed on the market, com
prising a pair of fluted rollers held in
proximity in the mop head, with a
folding crank attached to one roller
by which it is made to revolve and
wring the cloth.
A westerner has designed a fence
post which can be fastened securely in
the ground, the lower end of the post
having win(?s folded Into slots as the
post Is driven into the earth, the wings
opening out horizontally as the dirt is
tamped around the post.
The prevent the lodgment of obstruc
tions In a conduit a Pennsylvania has
designed a new pattern of tubing, in
which the inner wall has ribs formed at
angleB to the direction of the current
-jf water, causing it to take a zigzag
course through the conduit.
Bottles can be easily washed by a
Chicago man's device, a shaft being
fitted at one end with a plurality of
bristles, which are plated inside the
uuUle and tne shaft revolved rapidly,
the brlHtles spreading out and engaging
the Interior.
Leaks in metallic pipes can be easily
stopped by a new patching device, a
u-sliaped yoke being passed around the
pipe, with the ends of the yoke carrying
a detachable head, with a screw in the
center .which presses a cushioned patch
over the leak.
To securely Join the waist and skirt
of a dress a newly patented belt has
a plate at the back, provided with
sharpened hooks projecting from both
faces, those on the one face projecting
upwardly and those on the other face
downwardly, to engage the skirt and
viaist respectively.
A machine has been decigncd for rap
,dly moistening and sealing envelopes,
raving a feeding device which forces
the envelopes singly acroRS a roller
dampened by a water renervolr above,
vith a hinged plate to fold the fiap.
after which the envelope Is forced be
tween rollers to stal it.
Separate garments can be easily re
noved from a new wardiobe without
disturbing the others, the hangers be
i,g suHperded on sliding bars, with the
;oor at the end of the bars in order
l-.at any bar may be pulled out to t-x-ose
the row of garments tor the seh-c-lon
of any one desired.
Incandescent gas mantles are now
strengthened against breakage by a
.iew French protean, consisting of us
ipndlng the mantle before incandesc
ence In a tubular well filleJ witn a
iquid mixture of paper fiber and water,
a current being created to deposit a
coating of the fiber on the mantle.
A Maryland woman has patented a
.over for Ironing boards which Is a'
ways smooth and" retains lis placj?
surely on the board, the fabric having
x series of lacing h!s around th td; e
in which a lacir.g strip Is inserted, wul.
cords at each end ti prevent tbe covtr
sliding In either direction.
A Massachusetts man has patented
a combined rowing machine and bicy
cle for use In exercisin the muscles, a
sliding seat being fixed on the frarrt
with levers on either side of the sev.t
to operate the propelling mechanism,
the leverage being changeable by reset
ting the fulcrum pins.
Umbrellas can be secured to the per
son to be carried without the necer.';y
of touching with the hands by a New
York woman's device, a hook being
provided for attachment Xo the be'.t.
with a strip of fabric having a ring
at the lower end to support the um
brella tip, a short chain being used to
hold the handle close to the hook.
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
Iron cloth is announced..
China's empress has over 2.00ft gowns.
Americans use 250,000,000 poker chips
annually.
TkM la a lemon crrove nf 1.0OO acres
In San Diego county, California, and It
is said to be the largest In the world.
It was begun in 1W). when ixo acres
were planted, and it has been annually
added to, until it has reached Its pres
ent size.
Tn tho latoat tvuhnnn at Manila bar
6.30 Inches of rain fell In twenty-four
hours. In Providence, R. L, accord
ing to the Boston Transcript, .30 inchss
of rain fell last Wednesday between
2:30 a. m. and 11 a. m., which Is better,
or worse, than Manila's record, accord
ing to the point or view.
An einmnle of the life Dreservlna
powers of British civil positions Is the
Hertslet family, one member of which
has completed sixty years service in
the queen's household. He has two
hmihpn who iirien t fifty years each in
the foreign office, while his father was
in the same office for nrty-six years.
The entire cucumber crop in the dis
trict northeast of Benton Harbor, Mich.
i.jn rcnreaentlnr over 2 000.000 buihels
of small pickles per season for the last
ten years, has in the last ten days be?n
completely destroyed by a foreign red
bug. The total loss to growers is esti
mated at over 1100.000.
Th. clnalna- nf Tavlor's hotel. In Jer
sey City, is the ending of a place made
famous through lis occasional use uj
famous New Yorkers who In times past
KdnH t t tx-vond the reach of the
service of injunctions and other pro
cesses of the law of the state or city oi
New York. It was also a famous place
,.- nwinla arilna- abroad to stop over
night when their snip left early In the
morning from tne jersey siae. i ne sue
Is to be used for the erection of a big
office building.
The British are about to commence
thoir Pacific cable, extending from Van-
k wav of certain Islands to
Australia and New Zealand. It will be
8.000 miles long, and complete me eiec
rirnlt nf the trlnbe. The ccst is
ni.A.j at I7rji0(i0 and is to be borne
by Canada, Australia and the British
vtvarnmont. but cn env ry Jiuwrjui.
m,. hlit is tn unite the scattered
fragments of the empire more closely.
and also to reduce caoie rates.
pw. hniMinar nf a cremstnrv at Nv
ni m V la nrnnnsed- wherein human
bodies will be Incinerated by the use of
liquid air. Tile ironi or ine reiort, a
furnace, is 10 ne oi glass, mrwusu
kih tha nmresa coins on within can
W .kainr Th hndv Will rest OH SU
asbestos robe. Liquid air win men n
nniiaa harlnnln at the feet, and In
thirty minutes the entire body. Includ
ing even the teetn, win oe entirely con
sumed. The ashes can be removed five
minutes alter the work of the retort Is
finished.
go tn pies of cement uaed as Ephesua
and Smyrna several centuries before
Christ have been analysed and found
to be oom posed of carbonate of lime
and a mixture of fatty aclda. In trylff
to Imitate it experiments were mad
with a cement consisting of burned lima
aad one-third olive oil was tried and
hardened readily and seemed to possess
great endurance which led to tbe be
bef that this was substantially tbe cow
of the aacieat
its.
THE ODD THING.
I had been poring over a fourteenth
century manuscript In the window seat,
behind the library curtains. The twi
light, and the end of the faint, crabbed
writing came together; and then I sup
pose I fell asleep. I woke at the sound
of Vera Rutherford's voice.
"The odd thing about it Is that I
don't really dislike him at all."
"You will tell me next thing he
doesn't really dislike you," said Maud
Leslie, with an unbelieving laugh.
"I am afraid," said Vera, "there Is no
doubt about that." I could have point
ed out grave doubts, but I wasn't more
than half awake. Besides, I couldn't
be quite sure they referred to me.
"11 you say 'afraid,' Ve?"
"You need not quibble over my
words," she answered Impatiently.
There was a pause.
"Dear old Ve!" said Maud, In a mo
men. Here again I ought to have pre
tended that I had Just woke up, and
announced myself.
"I hate him!" Vera observed Incon
sistently. "So," said Maud, heartily, "do I!"
I could not well proclaim my presence
after these remarks.
"At least 1 think I do."
"I'm sure I do," said Maud, posi
tively. "1 consider him horrible.'"
"Oh, Maud. You know he isn't"
"He must be, or he wouldn't be so
rude to you."
"I I provoke him, you see."
"That Is no excuse at all. Look at
the way he contradicted you about
those Tuscan vases, or whatever you
call them."
"I contradicted him first."
"Why shouldn't you?"
"Because he was right."
"Which made It an the more annoy
ing." Yes," said Vera, with a sigh. I
wished I had let her have her own way.
"Never mind. dear. You refuted
him about those silly pre-something-or-other
things."
"No-o; I didn't really."
"Oh, but you did'. Papa and every
one laughed about it. Confound them!"
'Ah, but I was sorry, and he knew
It."
"Nonsense, Ve."
"Didn't you hear what he said to
Sir Garvin OBripn about them after
ward? If you remember '
I don't! I didn't understand a word
of their gibberish, and didn't want to."
Quite right. Miss Maud; women
shouldn't dabble in antiquities. Then
they wouldn't quarrel with antiquar
ians.
"Anyhow, it disposed of my theory
completely."
Then why didn't he say It at ne
time?"
Probably he thought me beneafri
argument." As a matter or fact 1 had,
for once, made an effort to be mag
nanimous, and spare her feelings.
"He Is a great deal too 'superior.
stated Maud. I felt myself blushing.
He really knows a great deal," sug
gested Vera, timidly. I made up my
mind not to quarrel with her any more.
A lot of antiquated rubOlsh or no
use to any one, scoffed Maud, l couur
feel that she was tossing her head
Jack calls him the 'lumberroom :
Jack Is a young ass!
1 don't agree," said Vera notiy.
Jack Is"
"No he Isn't!" He's very nearly en
gaged to Maud.
"A charming and intelligent ienow.
I was going to say."
"Nasty little story-teller!" I tnougni
they were going to quarrel, but they
didn't.
Well, I'll admit the learning ot
your Mr. Norton," saia .naua, wnen
they bad done laughing, "but"
He lsiTt my Mr. .Norton, vera ob
jected. There was a further pause.
If Maud had gone I should nave ten in
clined to come out and place "Mr. Nor
ton at Vera's disposal, but Maud dldn t
go. .....
Do you really like him, old ve."
she asked.
"Only Just a little."
"Sure?"
"Yes almost sure."
"I cvan't see what you like in him,"
rirot,me5 Maud. Impatiently. "He's .
st least." Thirty-seven only, Miss Maud.
"I don't care if he la He looks
young."
"He's full of conceit." That really
was a mistake.
"Oh. Maudle! Of course, he can't
help knowing that he knows things!"
"Rubbishy antiquities! I beg your
pardon, dear old girl, for attacking
your 'subject;' but they are. Anyhow
I don't believe he knows nair so mum
about them as you do.' '
"That," said Vera, "is utterly ab- j
surd. I do not deceive myselt upon
that point."
I had been studying antiquities for
twenty years. She has aaooieo in
them for two. Her frunas naa per
suaded her that she was an authority. !
and she had posed a little to me. 1
had been Impatient and tactless In
pointing out her harmless errors. That
was the beginning of our quarreling.
Afterwaids we disagreed upon every
thing we happened to discuss. We had
discussed a good many things.
"Anyhow," contended Maud, "he don't
know much about anything else ex
cept, perhaps, chess and billiards."
"He rows well, and dances splendid
ly." "If he does things as wel as he thinks
h does !" said Maud scornfully. You
will admit that my situation was em
barrassing. "You are rather hard on him. Maud.
1 think." So did I. "Won't you ad
mit that he has any good points?"
"Oh he can talk! He's very amus
ing when he comes out of his shell. I
rather like to talk to him myself." Li
deed! "But I don't believe he has a
bit of sentiment In him. I'm sure hp's
never kissed a girl In his life." Hasn't
he! "Unleps" she laughed mischiev
ously "It's you!' '
"You are ridiculous," protested Vera
"He wouldn't dream of such a thing."
Otiviouxly Miss Vera understood me no
better than other antiquities.
"Perhaps he Why don't you leanre off
squabbling with him?"
"He won't let me. He generarty be
gins by asking rr. If I am lead;' for
our usual quarrel."
"Why don't you say 'no'?"
"Because he ought to say it" I re
solved that he should.
"Then you would find hiss deadly
dull."
"I I don't think I should."
"Whatever would you talk about?"
"Oh the usual things!"
"My dear Ve, he couldn't! Just fan
cy him whispering soft nothings li.
your earr Maud laughed. Personal!?
I didn't see anything to laugh at "And
you blushing and looking down"
"Don't be so silly."
"Whilst he Imprinted a chaale sa
lute" "It la time to dress for dinner,' 'said
Vera, frigidly. She walked toward t In
door. "Ho baa a ginger moustache.'' Id
Maud, aa a parting shot. This remark
waa absolutely untrue; It Is golden si.
most.
Maud humated a queer little tune t
herself for a minute. Then ah slghd
five presumably for Vera. Then ah
atevesai tut abouWna onco-1 fear
for met Then ahe went out also. Af
ter a prudent Interval I followed.
At dinner Vera and I were neighbor
I avoided antiquities, and told her
amusing stories, Just to hear her laugh.
She looks very pretty when she laughs.
She also looks very pretty when she
doesn't.
After dinner our host, who is proud
of his scenery, suggested that we
should go and see the moon rise over
Tail Hill. I managed to escort Vera
and to lose the others.
"Shall we have our usual quarrelT"
she asked, when we had perched our
selves upon a big stile at the foot of
the hill.
"No," I replied; "I don't want to
quarrel, please."
"Don't you?" she said brightly.
"Aren't you afraid we shall be dull?"
-Not In the least; but If you are"
"Oh, no. We can talk about let me
see "
"The usual things!" I suggested. She
looked swiftly at me, and gave a little
start. I took hold of her arm. "I
thought you were falling," I explained.
"Perhaps it would be safer If I held
you." She didn't seem to mind, so I
gathered her arm comfortably In
mine.
"I can't Imagine you talking 'usual
things, you know." she said, with an
uncertain little laugh.
"Everybody says 'usual things' In the
moonlight." I explained. "See. It ia
Just rising over the hill."
We sat a few minutes In silence,
watching the yellow rim appearing,
and the pale light streaming down the
fields, dotted here and there with tall
trees.
"It Is very, very beautiful," she said
softly. "It makes one feel good. I am
so glad you didn't want to quarrel to-
nl"ht"
"Or any other night. I have been
going to tell you so for a long time."
She laughed.
"How strange? Do you know I have
been wanting to say the same thing to
you."
"It was right that the overture
should come from me." She started
and glanced at me again. The moon
light lit up her pretty, thoughtful face
and glinted In her golden hair. "The
prettiest effect of the raoonrtse Is in
visible to you," I told her.
"I think." she said smilingly, its
nicest effect Is that It has made two
qaurrelsome people " She hesitated.
"flood friends?" She nodded. "One
of them ia very glad."
"So," she said almost rnaudibly, la
the other."
"Do vou know, little Miss Vera,
dreadfully as we have quarreled, I
liked you all the time. Only I thought
yo udlsliked me so much." ,
"Oh, no!" she cried quickly. "Indeed
I didn't." JJ ,
"That," I said, "was the odd thing
about It!"
She gave such a Jump at the quota
tion that she would certainly have
fallen off the seat If I had not had the
presence of mind to put my arm
around her waist! New Yerk Mall
and Express.
Cause and Cure of Lockjaw.
Bathers have long looked upon death
by drowning as their chief danger, but
there la another peril, less known and a
thousand times more frightful, the peril
of a death beiilde which d rowing is a
summer afternoon's diverslotv-deatb
from the germ of tetanus or loefcjaw.
The bacillus tetanl distills a poison so
terrible that the venom of a rattle
snake Is nectar compared to it. On
grain will kill 200 men.
These death-dealing creatures love a
hot, damp climate. Any grain of sand,
any tin can or rusty nail or icrap of of
metal or broken clamshell may have a
score of them clinging to It.
These are precisely the conditions of
our American beach resorts the moist,
warm air, the beach too often strewn
with rubbish, and In any case lit
tered with broken shells and bits of
wreckage from which broken nails pro
trude. This summer the past has been great
er than for years. The number of
deaths from lockjaw in June and July
will long be remembered. It is strange
that the most deadly work of the germ
is done in late spring and early autumn.
BUfty per cent of the deaths from te
tanus are due to wounds on feet or
hands.
The sufferer first experiences a tight
enlng of the muscles of the JaW. Then
the face stiffens and the corners of tht
mouth are drawn back, exposing the
teeth In a fierce, mocking grin.
As the face becomes rigid the- skin
of the forehead is thrown Into folds,
k. oilnn nt the noM T1SC. BDO tile
ii. .a r,red unon the teeth, grow thin
and white. The eyes shrink, the lids
narrow and a rrlghtrul innumsn ex
pression spreads itself over the whole
countenance. The rigidity extends to
the trunk and then to the limb The
whole frame Is shaken with convul
sions and the body arches ba i until It
Ha head and heels alone.
These spasms subside, but return quick
ly.
The sufferer gasps for breath forty
tiroes each minute. All the symptoms
grow worse until death at length re
lieves the victim's misery.
Tbe bacillus tetanl In a congenial soil
grows longer and finally breaks m two,
and each half does the same, so that
one bacillus after four such genera
tions would have thirty descendants.
After the bacillus has entered the
wound from five to fifteen days may
elapse. The bacillus do not trufsnselves
pass Into the system. They remain In
the wound, but generate a poison which
does their work.
In most cases there are preliminary
symptoms similar to those of an ap
proaching cold a dull ache, located be
fore the ear, followed by stiffness in
ihe muscles of the lower Jaw. There is
a growing difficulty In opening the
mouih, and attempts to swallow exag
gerate the symptom. The Jaws then
become locked and the disease passes
downward to the rest of the body.
In the open air the bacillus remain!
Inactive, it Is only when It enters
more deeply and gets away from the
air that it becomes dangerous, it may
be rendered harmless by cleansing the
wound with a mixture ef one part car
bolic acid and twenty of water. After
ward the wound should be filled with
tincture of Iodine.
If the wound should be a deep one,
caused, for instance, by gunpowder,
or a crushed wound, aa with a hammer,
. l - . t,. nt KlMiifflnr mav be a
difficult mRtter. and a phslclan should
be called In, who may t 'Jf-ct antitoxin.
Herman M. Blggs ltaelerlologlst, New
York City Health Hoard.
A Kansas man who recently visited
Puget Bound aaya he was ssdly disap
pointed la the bsttlrshlp Iowa "I, a,
pec ted," aald be, "to see a vast moua
tsln of Iron and steel, with great
guns sticking nut In every direction,
while from her bowels Would come con
tinuously a deep, hoarse growl like a
bulldog baffled of Ha prey. Instesd, It
looked more like a raft wllh little
bouaes and cheeaeboxea set on it. and
the only growling w ht-ard was from
the non-commissioned officer who antg
wt couldn't come aboard."
THE CLIFF
DWELLERS
Rev. George L. Cole, a retired mlfl
Ister of Los Angeles. Cal.. after three
years of tireless search, has made what
seems to be one of the greatest archae
ological discoveries of the- decade. He
has returned triumphant from an ex
ploring expedition laden with Speci
mens from a village of the cliffs for
which archaeologists have been on a
still hunt for years.
It was a vast communal town on ths
cliffs of the Santa Fe river, fourteen
mii. rrr.m k'aiiannla New Mexico. Here
dwelt a dense concourse of peP'e and
here ruled a King. Among me j.w
. -i..., - ..kamKnr ..f th r-lifr town were
found great quantities of household ar
ticles Just where this strange people
dropped them one day. centuries upon
cycles ago. In a mound to the front
of the village was uneartnea tne iomu
of the monarch of the cliff dwellers.
Most wonderful of all was found a pit
where the gore of human sacrifices ran
red for the sun god.
The hovel-like buildings rise tier upon
tier of each other, as complex and In-
- on hill The rilnn Is not
Wltttltr an .i ... ...... ... , --
dissimilar to those of the other clllt
palaces with their little dog aennei
doors, where the aboriginal club man
shinned up to the top of his house on
a ladder and crawled down through the
top. On the bottom floor of the cap
ital city were about 350 little boxlike
rooms, very few of them opening Into
others and usually seven feet by 14
m i iiManBunl ilmrml alWAVS the
Jloienslons contained the number seven.
And what astonished tne scieniiBi
. l . . . v. . tha mnamrM were bv a
me iBii wii ni ---
modem foot of 12 Inches, showing that
the cliff men nad a similar mm. i
measure.
Under a dirt mound, shrunk by ages
of weather to a paltry six feet or so,
was found" the tomb of the monarch.
He was burled good and deep. First,
when roe eartn was nun mm n.
a I...I..IT hnnAa ii rwl hones of dogs.
the turkey having apparently been sa
cred. Far underneath was a stone slab
about two feet by eighteen inches, and
underneath this lies tne mummweu
king. . . , ,
The cliff dwellers burled their dead
j..i.i.. .m all In a hen I), wllh their
chins down to their knees, and always
sluing with their neans lowaru mo
setting sun. And thus was the king.
There has seldom been such strong
evidence of the tragedy which wiped
away a people. It was the terrible
earthquake which tumbled down the
walls of the mea city. Indian tradl
.., nh(no- nf thla for these peo
ple passed away yea.rs and years be-
for the ndlan was an innian.
a ii v...,it un MT-Menres of an ancient
volcano which had evidently quieted
when this extinct people um.
f. i. k..,,... in hunt nf Its belrhlngs.
and two extinct craters scar the land
scape. .
One day the awful shake came and
the poor cllffmen fld. The pottery ft 111
stands In the rooms, placed neatly
away, where the good housewives left
them. In some of the houses firewood
lies on the hearths ready to be lighted.
... . , thj r.r.wif nosftlve. In
OUL uric ..... - -
some of the houses the fires had already
been lit, and la tnese rooms tne
i m .... 1 1 . Lumen1 a wav where
the walls shook down on the brands.
Where did the people go.' no cii
say? Mr. Cole thinks probably far
away to the southward, where they
Joined the beginning of another tribe
to form the ancient Aztecs.
THE IMITATIVE
FILIPINO
FrorrV the Manila Freedom: Of all
the races peopling this mundane sphere
r ot one has such an extraordinary spirit
of Imitation as that which Inhabits the
Philippine Islands. This race of peo
ple of Malay origin, which occupies all
the archipelago of the Celebas Sea.lacka
the esthetic taste necessary for the
proper combination of colors, construc
tive ability, uniformity In architectural
designs, and the good taste which la
required for the culture and advance
ment of a people. They have no ideaa
of this kind of their own, and In all
matters of taste do nothing more than
what they see in the races of the west.
Any one who has observed the Fili
pinos will have noticed that they have
no Ideas at all In regard to the proper
combination of colors In their wearing
apparel, as. In spite of their dusky
complexions, which are least suitable to
them, you win see inaian gins aim
breeds aa brown aa berries using In
their dresses and scarfs such colors aa
blue, green, yellow, brown and black.
A woman of dusky complexion with a
dress of any of these colors presents
an appearance that Is hideous In the
extreme. It is not uncommon to see
dark-skinned Indian girls dressed in
such bright greens that If they should
encounter a rarabao they are liable to
be eaten by that festive animal on ac
count of their similarity to a bunch
of hay- . .
The reason why these people cui mis
riHirMih.na tlirure Is that they see these
bright colors on European women, and,
without thinking nf the effect which,
on account of their different complex-
Ion, such hues are Hanle to produce,
readily adopt them and consider them
selves the most elegant of the elegant.
No sooner does a new fashion arrive
from Paris, Vienna or Berlin In shoes,
trousers, shirts or neckwear, no mat
ter how extravagant, the Indian and
the half-breed Immediately adopt them.
The American troops had been In
Manila only a few days with their
brown suits before the stores on the
Eseolla were besieged by natives and
half-breeds, buying all the brown cloth
obtainable, wool, cotton or silk, and In
a few days all the Indians and half
breeds were wearing the same kind of
hats as the Americans.
I bellve that the Americans will have
but little trouble In Introducing here
their usages, customs and language, aa
to that en dthe spirit of Imitation which
predominates In the native tribes will
be a powerful factor.
LOOKING O LASSES.
Persia ia the Ideal place for a looking
glaea peddler to live and move and
have hla trade, for the Persians are as
fond aa the shiny reflectors as are sav
ages of beads. Bvery year Immense
numbers of mirrors of all aorta and
kinds ere shipped Into the country of
the Shah. Germany. France fend Bel
glum furnish most of the supply. Ia
addition to having a fondness for see
ing themselves ss looking glasses show
them, tbe Persians know no more pleas
ing potior decorations than brilliant
mirrors In gilt frames. Boms of the
Persian drawing rooms are completely
hemmed in by great pier glasses that
visitors often become bewildered and
try to walk through tbo glasses dowa
the long aisle that seems to stretch la
front Bo bumped knees, noses and tota.
are not uncommon la that land of art
ontal avians' mi aad karaUry.
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