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WE WILL GIVE
WHAT IS ASKED
Filipino Constitution Out
lined By Schurman.
HE OIVES ITS DEFINITION
Forecasts Document Soon To Be Pub*
lished At Washington Regarding
Philippine Government.
President Schurman, of Cornell
university, and former head of the
Philippine commission, delivered an
•" address before the student body of the
Armour institute at Chicago Friday,iu
which he forecasted the report and
recommendations of the commission
soon to he published at Washington.
President Schurman said that he
had recommended to the president a
government and constitution for the
Philippines identically the Filipinos, same as
that framed by educated
which is practically the governmental
policy outlined by Thomas Jefferson
for the government of the vast territory
acquired by the Louisiana purchase.
President Schurman said further be
was happy to state that President Mo
Kinley had accepted the recommenda
tions and was sending out a second
commission to put this government in
operation. the sub
“To avoid any mistaxe on
ject,” said the speaker, “the constitu
tion drawn up by Pedro A. Paterno,
Aguinaldo’s prime minister iu 1898
will be published alongside with the
constitution adopted by the commis
sion so that it may be seen the two are
identical, with only slight elaboration
in the American form. This constitu
tion also agrees with the request that
leading Filipinos have been making of
us day after day.
“The newspapers have not given
publicity to the fact that we are to
give the Filipinos the very government
they themselves ask, but our govern
ment is now striking off 15,000 copies
of the report that it may inform those
who have been so solicitous iu regard
to the kind of government their
friends, the Filipiuos, would obtain
from us.”
Continuing, the speaker said that
after a careful study of the island
tribes he became convinced that the
plan of Great Britain in the govern
ment of the Malays—signing peace
pacts with the individual chiefs of the
the tribes—was the most satisfactory
one. The results upheld his opinion,
for in the southern row of islands,
where this policy was followed, not a
gun had been fired and the American
flag had been held an honored em
blem. This policy was not adopted in
regard to the middle islands, which
are inhabited by the Yisayan tribe,the
largest in the group of islands, be
cause of tho fact that the most peculiar
of civil governments prevail there.
The influence of Spain, said Presi
dent Shurmau, permeates the entire
country, and its half million of inhab
itants. Owing to the domination of
Spain during the rnauy generations
that have passed chieftains have dis
appeared and the great population is
left lenderless by the removal of Span
ish rule. There are no chiefs iu this
portion of the country with whom the
commission could have begun opera
tions to affect a peace pact.
Just uow it would be as much as
their lives are worth for the natives to
come forward and accept the gov
ernment offered, for the Tagals having
taken away their arms, would come
from the north and in ambush assas
sinate many. It is only this fear that,
keeps the Yisayan tribe from unani
mously and voluntarily becoming the
active ally of the United States.
REUNION RATES.
Information Regarding Fleeting of the
Confederate Vets At Louisville.
J. M. Richardson, chairman of the
Southeastern Passenger Association,
lias sent out a circular announcing the
rates to Louisville, Ky., during the
Confederate reunion. The rate of one
cent a mile to Louisville and return
from any point in the territory of tho
association has been agreed upon by
all the lines.
NEPHEWS UNDER ARREST.
Two Men Charged With Murder of the
Roberts Family In Florida.
Tom Hammond and C. C. Geary
were arrested in Jacksonville, Fla.,
by Sheriff' Broward, charged with the
murder of the entire Roberts family
some days murdered ago. family consisted of
The
the aged mother, maiden sister and
eon. The men arrested are both
nephews of the murdered man.
The theory of the officers is that
eight or ten thousand dollars was
taken from the safe in the house, and
that five hundred dollars found in the
safe after the murder was left as s
blind.
PRESIDENT CRITICIZED
At Conference of “Ea5tern Anti-Ini
perialists” In Philadelphia.
The second day’s session of the
eastern conference of anti-imperialists
at Philadelphia was characterized by
the adoption of a strong resolution
condemning the expansion policy of
the administration. During the dis
cussion President McKinley was se
verely criticised and held personally
for the “criminal aggres
of the oountrv.”
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horses are left in the rear and tho farmer soldiers walk into battle. The
Boer wears no uniform and carries his cartridges in a belt about his chest
and wherever else he cau store them. After the fight he mounts again.
This explains the mobility of the Boer
THE BLACK PERIL
OF SOUTH AFRICA.
Zulus and Basutos Menace Both
Boer and Briton.
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tunity offered by tho Trans
■v vaal war to strike for free
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01 her hands full. Should the
M bold Baautos join arms with
their fierce cousins, South
Africa would become hot
soil for the British foot for
many long months to come.
Both of these uprisings are threat
ened; both are greatly feared. The
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Zulu situation iu particular is watched
with anxious eye. England for a while
was overmatched iu the last Zulu war
and victory was bought in the end with
rivers of English blood. Scarcely any
greater misfortune could come just
now than an uprising such as this.
Tho Zulu is undoubtedly the best
native fighter of South Africa. Ho is
physically a splendid savage—fierce,
powerful and euduriug. Add to this
the memory of a magnificent past, tho
traditions and courage of a race un
whipped except by white men, and by
them only at fearful odds, aud you
have a worthy foemau. Tho Zulus
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yielded to the sway of England through
force indeed, but the fight they made
then was one to keep alive the hope of
a better ending for renewed struggle.
The secret of the Zulu power lies.
first, in organization, and second, in
the tradition of victory. Organization
under the great chieftain Tshaka at
the beginning of the present century
gave them their first superiority over
other savage tribes, aud an unending
seiies of victories for half a century
or more produced a race of rare cour
age and warlike prowess. The story of
it describes the Zulu of to-day.
What is now known as Zululand—a
wild country, bounded on the north
by the Transvaal, on the south and
west by Natal and on the east by the
sea—was then divided among several
savage tribes, of which tho Zulus
were one of the weakest. The chief
of a neighboring tribe, the Umtetwas,
plotted the murder of his two sous,
one of whom, however, escaped, and
in his wanderings fell in with the
British, the organization of whose
forces ho noted with shrewd under
standing. After his father’s death he
returned to his tribe, was made chief,
and proceeded to organize his warriors
into brigades, regiments and compan
ies, British fashion, and had remark
able success in warfare.
Oue of his lieutenants was a youth
of fierce aud restless energy. He was
the son of a conquered chieftain and
his name was Tshaka. Ho studied the
organization of the Umtetwa army
zealously and saw in it wonderful
things not accomplished by his wise
but mild chieftain. He made up his
mind that some day his own chance
would come.
Wiuuing consideration, Tshaka was
finally, as a reward, appointed chief of
the weak tribe of Zulus. He organ
ized them perfectly, and when the
chief of the Umtetwas was killed in
battlo Tshaka announced the indepen
dence of the Zulus aud upheld it by
force.
This done Tshaka started in io
make the Zulu power supreme. He
attacked his weaker neighbors first,
aud with every victory absorbed the
young warriors into his own army and
destroyed the old men, women and
children. In this way his own army
grew marvelously, and his conquered
neighbors lost recuperative power and
eventually He ideutity.
divided his young warriors into
regiments, distinguishing each regi
ment by different colored shields, and
established with rewards a competi
tive spirit among regiments, He
•trained them to advance and attack in
solid formation, something new in
South Africau savage warfare, and he
developed the close quarters attack
with the short stabbing assegai or
spear, so generally used among South
African tribes.
Then he established an inviolate
law that any soldier returning from
battle without assegai or shield, or
with a wound in the back, should be
executed as a coward. By another
law young .soldiers were forbidden
wives until after long service, uuless
meantime they earned them by dis
tinguished bravery in the field.
Absolute discipline was inculcated.
An expedition never knbw its destina
tion and purpose until far from home.
In attacking the first onslaught was
always in solid formation, supported
on either side by wings of skirmishers.
Flank movements were a regulur
manoeuvre, and as effective iu savage
as in civilized warfare. *
It can easily be seen how the
Zulus, under sucli a system, swept all
before them. The undisciplined sav
ages of the plains and forests went
down like grain before the reaper.
And every new tribe subjugated was
ruthlessly amalgamated into the vic
torious nation.
The Zulus swept the coast, subju
gated Natal and pushed their The fierce,
bloody sway far inland. terror
of their name passed far north and far
south.
Nor was there limit to their ravages
until the Dutch settled in Natal.
Tben began a series of fierce fights in
which the white man and the rifle
finally triumphed and the Zulu power
was broken, or at least reduced to the
point of non-interference with the
movements of the Dutch and the Eng
lish, who soon after swarmed over the
land.
But while taught to respect the
white man, the Zulu nursed his tradi
tions, his pride and his ferocity. It
was a disgrace iu his eyes to labor ex
cept in the prosecution of war. Un
der Cetewayo, the great chief whose
power England broke in e war iu
which she met several terrible re
verses and lost hosts of splendid men,
the Zulu was at heart the Zulu of the
great Tshaka’s days.
And this is the people who now
threaten to avail of England’s troubles
to regain their freedom. They are
the* same in spirit and are rich in re
sentment. For years they have
nursed their wrongs. What they have
lost in savage fierceness by a genera
tion of peaceful subjection is more
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than matched, say recent writers, by
their gains in knowledge. They still
retain their terrible stabbing assegai,
but they have added the rifle, and are
splendid marksmen. They dream of
restoring the splendors of their past,
and if they rise can be counted a ter
rible foe.
Zululand to-day has a population of
about a hundred and eighty thousand
natives and less than fifteen hundred
whites. The only occupation of the
natives is the raising of cattle. There
are 8900 square miles iu the district
and the government is a British pro
tectorate.
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The Basutos, while by no means
the peers iu war of the Zulus, occupy
a strong position. Basutoland is
bounded by Cape Colony, the Orange
Free State and Natal. They have
only 600 Europeans iu their entire
territory.
The country is a splendid grain pro
ducer, aud the Basutos are thrifty and
rich. There are wild mountain dis
tricts to serve in time of need.
They were once a warlike power of
some consequence, and in 1879 they
stood off England iu a war over dis
armament to a compromise by which
the Cape Government has since paid
them $90,000 a year toward the cost
of government.
They are in large measures self
governing—of course, under British
dictation—and enjoy a considerable
measure of civilization. About fifty
thousand out of a population of two
hundred and twenty thousand have
been converted to Christianity.
Iu one of the accompanying large
illustrations is shown a meeting of
the most extraordinary parliament,
perhaps, that ever came together to
discuss State afiairs. This congrega
tion of ebony skinned politicians is
the Kaffir Parliament of Basutoland,
which lies to the northeast of Cape
Colony, and is consequently intimately
associated with the present African
muddle. These Baantos number over
200,000, and occupy the finest grain
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and grass producing territory iu South
Africa. The capital of the country is
Maseru, with a population of 600, and
it is here that the native parliament
meets to discuss matters of State.
Basutoland is really a British protec
torate, but the imperial authorities
interfere very little with the liberties
and ways of the natives, the only
white official being a resident com
missioner who levies a very small
“hut tax” ou the natives in return for
which they receive the protection of
British troops along their frontier.
Handling Large Military Forcer.
Some of the practical difficulties of
handling large military forces may be
inferred from the following statements
in T. Miller Maguire’s “Outlines of
Military Geography:”
“A British division on the march
along an ordinary main road without
an advanced guard would be five
miles in length. If the modern Ger
man army were put iu motion the
whole military road from the Rhine
to the Russian frontier would be
thickly crowded with soldiers, guns
and transports. If an army corps of
30,000 men and 10,000 horses rests
for a day or two preparatory to a battle
or during a siege it eats up all pro
visions procurable in a piece of rich
country nine miles long by five miles
wide.”
An Accidental Consequence of a Kiss.
Webster Snider, of Sullivan, Ind.,
went to Terre Haute to have a piece
of knitting needle removed from his
arm where it found lodgment when
his sweetheart was playfully resisting
his effort to kiss her. Snider says
that when bidding the young lady
good night he attempted to kiss her.
She resisted and there was a scuffle.
He kissed her aud iu doing so ran his
arm against the needle, which she
held in her hand. It penetrated the
arm four or five inches and three
inches of it broke off in the arm. The
X-ray was used by the surgeon
and the piece of the needle was re
moved.
An Arizona Curiosity.
This enormous cactus grows near
Phoenix, and is one of the curiosities
of that region. It i» about forty feet
high, and its great size may bo easily
noted from a comparison of its height
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with that of the men standing under
it. The cactus fiber is used for roof
ing of huts in Arizona and other
States where it is found
Great Kngineerinjf Triumph.
Ono of tbfl latest rrlampbs In the engineer
ing world eon-lsts In the construction, ebt|,.
ment by steamer and s ibtequent transfer to
railway transportation of a steamer o( t.Soo
tons displacement, which was finally put nfl >at
in Lake Baikal. -Iberia, not less than 5,000
miles from St. Petersburg.
For Wireless Steering.
An English Invention for steering any craft,
whether s ibtuerged or otherwise, by menus of
an ether wave on the wireless telegraph prin.
clple has boen perfo ted. In naval war It is
expected to make tho torpedo boat almost
Infallible. In th s respect it will equal the
great American dyspepsia curo-Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters -which never falls to cure
constipation. Indigestion, dysnepsla. Everyone bilious
ness, malaria levee and ague.
needs Hand ull druggts s sell it.
The statement of the administrator shows
that, the estate of D. L. Moody practically
consists of his library.
Fducate Your llowel* With Cascarots.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever,
lie, *6c. il C.C.C. fail, drugglsterefundmoney.
Thirty-sis foreign STewB. vessels, having with disaster an ag
gregate tonnage of met
in American, waters lsj*t year.
44 Never Do Things
by Halves ”
Scmetimes the condition of
your health could be de
scribed as half-sick and half
well. You may not be ill
enough io go to bed but too ill to be hippy
or efficient in your home or your business.
Why not be ‘zoholly loeil ? Your dragged
oui, tired feeling is due to poor blood and
nothing else. Make your blood rich by us
ing Hoocf s Sarsaparilla. It <worlts to
perfection; there is nothing like it.
Tired Feeling — “My husband
<coou!d come home from <work so tired he
could hardly move. He began taking
Hood's Sarsaparilla and it cured him. It
cured my girl's headaches." Mrs. A. J.
Sprague. 57 Oak St., Fall ‘Fiver, Mass.
Hood’s PHlscnre liver ills: tho non-irritating and
only cathartic to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Where to Hunt tor the Octopus,
A correspondent writes as follows
from Rivage de Questichou, a small
watering place on the coast of the
Cherbourg promontory: “For the last
two or three months this coast has
been visited by a perfect octopus
plague. They have quite ruined the
fisheries, and many men have laid up
their boats in despair. They devour
everything, even crabs and lobsters
any oysters and all kiuds of shell
fish. The other day a man employed
at the ilacge oyster beds near here told
me he had that day f ound one that hail
eaten eighteen oysters that tide. The
shore is strewn with octopus, and the
other morning along high-water mark
I counted 68 in a distance of 200 yards.
A friend here measured one, and it was
5 feet 7 inches across the tentacles,
but there are far larger ones than that.
Some of the suckers are as large as a
two-shilling piece. They are most
loathsome beasts. Unless tho cold
winter destroys them, there will be
no bathing next summer along this
coast.”-—Pall Mall Gazette.
yWoman’s
Kidney
Troubles
Why trifle with health
when the easiest and
surest help Is the best
known medicine In the
world 7
^ydiaJE^Jhnkham^n/ege^
is known everywhere and
thousands of women have
been cured of serious kid
ney derangements by it*
Mrs* Pinkham's meth
ods have the endorse
ment of the mayor, the
postmaster and others of
her own city.
Her medicine has the
endorsement of an un
numbered multitude of
grateful women whose
letters are constantly
printed in this paper*
Every woman should r sad
these letters.
Mrs* Plnkham advises
suffering women free of
charge• Her address Is
Lynn, FJlass ■
BREATH BAD
<• t have been niter CASCAKET* and u»
a mild and cffee'.ivo laxative they are simply won- with
derful. Mr daughter and 1 were bothered After
sick stomach and our breath wac very bad.
taking a few doses of Cascarets we have Improved family.
wonderfully. They are a great help in the
wii.hel.wina Nagel. Ohio.
1131 Uittenhouse St., Cincinnati.
rn*ot MACK otO!*T*w*t>
Pleasant. Palatable. Potent Taste Good. Do
Good, Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. 2»c. 50c.
CURE CONSTIPATION. ...
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