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"WELL—AND WHAT OF IT?"
Sunday American’s Request for Com
plete List of American Slain Denied.
Record Compiled From Dispatches.
Continued from Pago 1.
Mexican bandits who crossed the line to attend a celebration
of Mexican Independence Day in Phoenix on September 16,
1912.
PRICE, SCOTT, bystander, killed when bandits were firing on
Williams.
MATHESON, N., an aged and crippled Mormon, killed while flee
ing from Colonia Morelos, Sonora, on September 16,1912, when
bandits were looting the town.
M'KINZIE, , an American resident, executed near Agua
Prieta in September, 1912, because the rebels suspected he had
given information to Federal troops.
WAITE, W. H., manager of the Esmeraldes plantation, at Ocho-
tal, Vera Cruz, killed in April, 1912, when he refused to pay
money demanded by bandits. He was beheaded.
FOUNTAIN, ALBERT, captured by Orozco, the rebel leader, in
April, 1912, and assassinated. Described to the Department
of State by a United States Consul as “a cold-blooded murder.”
HARVEY, J. D., American Mormon, killed at Colonia Diaz May 3,
1912, by bandits.
STRAUSS, H. L., formerly a correspondent for the New York!
Herald, killed, with 34 other non-combatants when Zapatists
held up a train August 11, 1912, near Cuantla, Morelos.
HERTLING, JOHN, Douglas, Arizona, a German American citizen,
hanged near Nogales by rebels under Orozco in July, 1912.
SCHUBERT, GUIDO, Douglas, Arizona, a friend of Hertling,
hanged at the same time.
STEVENS, JOSHUA, an American settler of Colonial Paoheco,
murdered by rebel soldiers while protecting his two daughters
from assault. Press dispatches described his murder as the
fifth in that American colony.
KANE, THOMAS G., conductor on a Guanajuato railroad, shot!
through head when bandits wrecked a train at Silao and killed
many passengers, on April 10, 1912.
SEFFER, PEHR OLSSON, formerly a professor in the University
of California, killed by rebels on April 29, 1911, together with
three of his servants, near Cuernavaca.
CAMP, JOHN, killed near the United States Immigration Station
in El Paso, Texas, May 9, 1911, when the rebels attacked
Juarez.
FERGUSON, R. H., of San Frajicisco, a member of Troop F, Third
United States Cavalry, killed by bullet fired over the border.
GARCIA, ANTONIO, killed in El Paso, May 9, 1911, by stray rebel
bullet.
TWO UNIDENTIFIED MEN, killed May 9, 1911, in El Paso, by
stray bullets fired by Federals and rebels.
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HUEITISURE
TO FAIL, JUST
LIE IGLOO
Frederick Upham Adams Shows
Why ‘Liberty’ in Mexico Must
Be a Farce.
Harrison as Governor of
the Philippines an Unfit
Appointment
dexter, of Washington, and Senator
Penrose, of Pennsylvania, have been
hurled away In the pigeonholes of
the desk of Senator Augustus O. Ba
con, of Georgia, chairman qf the Sen-
CLARKE, DR. R. C., Taylorsville, Ill., shot dead in Mexico City, at * Commlttoe " n Foreign Relations,
May 27, 1911, by a partisan of General Diaz.
LOCKHART, JOHN R., Scott’s City, Mo., mining engineer, killed
by bandits in Durranneo, in November, 1911.
MEREDITH, R. N., Troy, Ohio, struck by bullet in the Porter Ho
tel during the bombardment in Mexico City in February.
GRIFFITH, MRS. PERCY, legs shot off during bombardment of
Mexico City.
THOMAS, A. E., murdered by bandits whilfe protecting wife and
seven children near Nogales, Sonora, March 10, 1912.
HUNTINGTON, ROBERT, railroad switchman, shot without cause
near Agua Prieta, April 13, 1911.
EDWARDS, J. C„ native of Virginia, shot to death while acc'4
dentally within the rebel lines near Agua Prieta, April 13,1911,
CROWE, EDWARD, killed by Mexicans shooting across United
States border at Douglas, Arizona, April 12, 1911.
Convicts, Turned Loose,
Loot Defenseless City
Here ore some specific instances,
details of which are in the hands of
the officials of the Department of
State, the accuracy of which have not
been challenged:
During the. 24 hours of officially
•anctioned freedom accorded to the
rebel troops by General Tomas Ur
bina after the capture of Durango, on
June 18, hundreds of women and girls
were outraged; Americans were ruth
lessly shot down or thrown into pris
on; stores and homes were sacked and
burned, and anarchy reigned supreme.
&1. A. Leach, of San Francisco, eye
witness to these outrages, journeyed
to Washington and gave a complete,
detailed and vivid account of the
atrocities to Secretary of State Bryan
Drunken bandits, posing as pa
triots of the rebel army, descended
upon the home of Frank Ward, an
^American, near Yago, in Tepie Terri-
on or olvnu 'April 9, and, after
ig N ard In the hat L
lng American neig' r. rnt
Marsh up by the neck and binding
him hand and foot, four of tlu-%? sav-
'ages, in the presence of the dying
Ward and the tortured Marsh, ill-
treated Mrs. Ward. Then, from the
roof of the looted home, an American
flag was torn down, spit Upon and
trailed in the dust.
Huerta to Kill American*.
Through T. D. Edwards, American
Consul in Juarez, the State Depart
ment w’as advised on July 22 of
threat* to kill all the Americans, in
cluding women and children, In the
Madera settlement in retaliation for
the death of two of the rebel bandits.
Mexican Federals in the State of
I>urango, according to pres advices
•n August IS, were shooting all pris
oners taken, regardless of national
ity. O. V. Seifert, & mining man, was
quoted as authority for this infor
mation.
' From Tampico Washington h.as re-
eslvod *n official report that early
fhis month Matthew Gourd, an Amer
ican farmer, lashed to a tree, was
compelled to witness the most das
tardly outrages upon his two daugh
ters. l, and 20 years of ago, by ban
dits.
Wince Francisco I. Madero, Presi
dent of Mexico, was assassinated aft
er he had been deposed from office
through betrayal of his trusted aide,
General Victoriano Huerta, now the
Provisional President, murder and
pillage have prevailed from the
Kio Grande to Guatemala, and th«
Washington authorities, through the
Embassy in Mexico City and the
consular officers in the several States,
has been fully advised as to these
outrages.
Shot by Stray Bullets.
United States citizens who were on
this side of the border in Texas and
Arizona have been shot down by
stray bullets from the rifies of Fed
eral and rebel troops engaged in con
flict on Mexican soil.
MatiMtlcs compiled from consular
reports from Mexico show that the
ii\t'S of 20,00)) Americans sre im
periled by the southern republic;
tii.it the $1,057,770,000 of American
investments south of the Rio Grande
have depreciated approximately 50
per cent, and that Americans and
American corporations have suffered
a property loss of $150,000,000.
As far back as April 21 Senator
Mark Smith, of Arizona, presented a
j resolution in the United States Sen-
4 i!e - calling upon President Wilson
nd Secretary Bryan for this infor
mation;
How many Americans have been
kii.-.. in Mexico or wounded or driven
from that country, what damages
Americans have suffered, what claims
have been presented and what action
has been taken by this Government
toward enforcing them, what citizens
have been held for ransom and what
redress has been offered or de
manded ?”
Resolutions Are Buried.
Senator Smith's resolution, like
similar ones offered by Senator Poin-
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These three United States Senators
have been held up to the American
public as 'Mingo statesmen.”
The Sunday American has repeat
edly requested the State Department
to make public the official advices re
ceived from Mexico. These requests
have been Ignored or denied.
Washington dispatches of August 6
gave a detailed account of the report
submitted to Secretary of State Bry
an by M. A. Leach, of San Francisco,
who was in Durango in June, when
that city was wicked and burned and
American citizens subjected to the
most outrageous indignities. Repre
sentative Julius Kahn, of California,
accompanied Mr. Leaoh to the State
Department
Leaoh Describes Atrocities.
Portions of Mr. Leach’s report to
the State Department, ns vouchsafed
for by Representative Kahn, follows:
“Living as I have for the last three
years in the State of Chihuahua and
in Durango, the hotbed of the trou
ble, 1 have been forced to go through
many trying experiences and to wit
ness many revolting spectacles. The
worst, however, that I have ever Been
was what took place in the city of
Durango after its capture on June 18
by the forces of Tomas Urbina. Oa-
liztro Contreras. Domingo and Ma
riano Arrieta and Orestes Perada.
numbering in all some 4,200 so-called
Maderist&s.
“No sooner had these men entered
the city than they began breaking in
to all the cantinas (saloons), drink
ing such liquor as they found there,
after which the wholesale sacking
and looting of the entire city began.
Not a single store escaped teing com
pletely sacked. The largest store,
‘La Suiza’ (German), the Fabrica De-
Francia and Francia Maritima
(French), and the Durango Clothing
Company (American) were burned
after being sacked, and many others,
entailing property loss of more than
10,000,000 pesos.
Prisoners Turned Loose.
“All prisoners from jails ani the
State penitentiary, some 400 in num
ber, were turned loose and all crim
inal and land records were burned.
Not content with this. all houses were
entered and much loot taken and
damage done. Scores of Mexican
people were shot down and dragged
through the streets of the city during
the eight days I remained there after
the city was captured. (Durango
was captured June 18.)
“Rogers Palmer, an Englishman,
25 years of age, employed by the con
struction department. National Rail
ways, was killed because he failed to
open a safe to which he did not have
the combination.
Two Wounded by Bomb.
“Carlos von Brandis, a wealthy
mining man, and L. W. Elder, owner
of a largo hacienda, both Americans,
were severely wounded by a bomb
used to force the door of the Mc
Donald Institute, where many of the
foreigners had assembled by pre-
arrangennyU for their mutual protec
tion.
“All inside, some 150 in number,
were then lined up against the wall
and threatened with execution unless
a certain sum of money was imme
diately raised and all horses, arms
and ammunition were delivered. The
foreigners were forced to do as told
to save their lives.
“H. W. Stepp, a civil engineer, an
American, was shot through one leg
because he failed to pay over the sum
of 600 pesos, which he did not have."
Men Put to Torture as
Troops llltreat Women
The greatest difficulty has been
experienced in compiling a list of
American women and girls who were
illtreated because of the unwilling
ness of relatives to even allow an of
ficial record to be made of the facts.
A few of the isolated cases follow:
WARD, MRS. FRANK- Attacked by
four rebel soldiers near Yago, on
April 9. while her husband, who
was shot in the back, was dying.
GOURD, MISS, 30 years old—Attack
ed by bandits abi*ut August 1, after
her father, Matthew Gourd, ;ui
American farmer residing near
Tampico, had been lashed to a tree.
GOURD, Miss, 17 years old—Treated
in the same manner as her sister.
Scores of other American women,
whose names were withheld in the
news dispatches
SHAY, MRS.—Horsewhipped by ban
dits in the presence of her hus
band, an American rancher, at their
home near Sanburn, north of Santa
Lucretia, until Mr. Shay paid the
bandits $800.
ROMNEY. MRS. MILES A . wife of
an American farmer—Illtreated by
twelve rebels at her home near Co
lonia, south of Juarez, on October
3. 1912. She was rescued by Fed
eral troops.
BAGBY. MRS. D. L.—Robbed of
clothing and money near Culican on
March 26, 1912, and left to face star
vation in desert while trying to
make her way to the border
WHATLEY, Mrs. A. H.—Illtreated by
Mexicans near Parral and com
pelled to pay $200. all the money
she had, to prevent children from
being murdered before her eyes.
July 14. 1912
THREE AMERICAN WOMEN, de
scribed as Mrs. Deniwilero, Mrs.
Jackson and Mrs. Rushness, roughly
handled by rebels at Noviato in
March, 1912.
MAUFARL1N, shot through the arm
by bandits.
BENTLEY, S. A., beaten by soldiers
in Juarez jail May 1, 1912, and
strung up by ropes because he was
suspected of being a spy.
RICHARDS, C. W., of El Paso, a com
panion of Bentley, met with same
brutal treatment.
BAKER. JOHN, private Twenty-sec
ond Infantry, shot by rebels. Juarez,
May 6, 1912, while patrolling bor
der.
BAGBY, D. L. t assaulted and robbed
near Culican while endeavoring to
escape to border with wife and chil
dren. Escaped by payment of $700.
March 26, 1912.
STEVENS, CASS, American mirfer.
stoned and driven from Culican for
appealing to Governor for protec
tion. March 27. 1912.
SKELTON, “JACK,” American miner,
captured and tortured near Culican
for reporting thefts by bandits.
March 27. 1912.
HAMBLETON, JAMES W„ attacked
and wounded *&{ Parral after being
compelled to pay $6,000 to save his
life.
RUTHERFORD. FOREST, assistant
superintendent Copper Queen Smel
ter Company, wounded when rebels
shot across border at Douglas, Ariz.,
April. 1911.
ARMSTRONG. BEN, wounded at
Dougins, April, 1911.
DICKSON, A. R„ wounded at Doug
ins. April 13. 1911.
LENNON, CARLOS. wounded at
Douglas. April 13, 1911.
COLE, GENEVIEVE, shot iu her
home at Douglas by Mexicans, April
13, 1911.
SOUTHERLAND, SIDNEY, reporter
for The Mexican Herald, shot in leg
when General Felix Diaz was bom
barding the city.
LASAN, THOMAS, wounded at the
same time and manner as Souther
land.
GREENFIELD, MRS., struck by shell
during the bombardment.
M’CRESSON. DR. R. H., Lincoln,
Nfcbr., finger shot off during the ten
da vs’ battle.
JOHNSON, MARK, Madison, W r is,
shot through shoulder in Mexico
City battle.
RAMSEY, F, L., Galveston, Texas
shot by stray bullet during bom
bardment.
BLAND. ALLIS, printer, hit by stray
bullet in Mexico City.
MARSH, , beaten by bandits near
Yago on April 9.
HOPKINS, A. A., Deputy United
States Marshal, shot in knee while
enforcing neutrality laws at Naco,
Ariz., March 15.
CHARLOT, ROBERT, wounded while
watching battle across the border
from Naco. Ariz., March 24.
PARKS, JOHN, ear cut off by bandit.
VON BRANDIS, CARLOS, mining
engineer, shot at Durango, June 18,
by rebels.
STEPP. H. W., shot through leg ct
Durango, June 18, by rebels.
GILMORE, SILAS F., struck by three
bullets during the bombardment Df
Mexico City in February.
ROBERTS, FRED, wounded during
the bombardment.
ROBERTS. MISS BERTHA, daughter
of Fred, wounded during bombard
ment.
CMFLEET, AI.LBN A., private Troon
G, Fifth Cavalry, U. S. A., seriously
wounded by a rebel bullet while
patroling border at Nogales, Ariz.,
on Match 13. •
Robbed Four Times
By Same Three Men
Victim of Persistent Footpads Loses
Patience and Finally Com
plains to Police.
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—For the fourth
time in a month Emil Magee, 8849 Esca-
naba avenue, was robbed by the same
three men In the same neighborhood,
according to his own story to the South
Chicago police. He was a short dis
tance from his home when the men
accosted him and robbed him of $8.50.
Ho told the police he was robbed by
the same men three times before in the
last month, but did not report to the
police because the amounts taken were
small.
Alligator Puts Hotel
Patrons to Flight
Escapes From Cage and Chases
Guests and Walters From Din
ing Room In Panic.
ST LOUIS, MO., Aug. 30.—An alliga
tor that was on exhibition at the Plant
ers Hotel at the convention of the Na
tional Commissary Managers’ Associa
tion escaped from its cage during the
dinner hour and invaded the dining
room, sending the New Yorkers scam
pering to cover.
One man jumped over two tables in
his haste to escape. The alligator turned
his attention to the negro waiters, who
dropped their trays and fled. The house
detective shot it.
23 PRISONERS BAPTIZED.
LANSING. KAN.. Aug. 30.—While
scores of their fellows stood about
witnessing the ceremony. 23 convicts
at the State Prison here were bap
tized in the prison laundry Sunday.
Thirteen of the converts were women.
By FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS.
All the troubles which now distract
Mexico and which have disgraced her
for the past three years In the eyes
of the world trace their cause to a
revolting lust for graft. The masses
of the Mexican people are as honest
as the average o^ mankind, but those
who aspire to political or military
rank make slight pretense of disguis
ing the fact that they consider a pub
lic office as an opportunity for public
plunder.
Political and military officials have
stolen from Mexico hundreds of mil
lions of dollars, and have escaped
with their vast peculations to Franco.
Spain and other foreign countries.
One political favorite of Porflrlo Diaz
amassed $100,000,000 or more, and
managed to convert much of it into
gold and send it abroad before the
aged despot was deposed.
The Mexican army is held intact by
graft. When Madero appealed in vain
to his people he was compelled to fall
back on an army officered by as
despicable a coterie of mercenaries
as ever disgraced a nation. Certain
of these officers betrayed their coun
try by methods which make the trea
son of Benedict Arnold appear almost
exemplary.
Ruse to Secure Recruits.
President Madero was the com-
mander-in-chlef of a standing army
in excess of 60,000 men. Many of the
privates had been recruited from the
jails, and when the jail supply failed
all sorts of expedients were used to
arrest new victims.
One jefe politico under Diaz in his
latter days was notified by an offi
cial of the army that his district was
short in its quota of enlisted men.
The jefe replied that the peons In his
district absolutely refused to commit
any breach of order warranting their
j arrest and a sentence to a term in the
army. He was sternly notified that he
must furnish 100 men within 48 hours
or hand in his resignation.
The jefe politico returned to his
quiet village in deep distress. The
peon inhabitants were so apprehen
sive of arrest that they hardly ven
tured out of doors. The Jefe had an
inspiration.
Peons Throng to Bonfire.
That evening his subordinates col
lected the materials for a huge bon-
j fire near the plaza. W T hen It was dark
] the pile was lighted. The fire bells
ided the alarm. Fires are rare
and a great treat .to the peons in
towns built mainly of adobe and
other non-combustible materials.
The mounting blaze lit up the vil
lage. The church bells increased their
clamor. The unsuspecting peons
rushed to the plaza, danced joyously
about the fire, but their ardor was
checked when the soldiers of the jefe
politico descended on them and ar
rested 120 of their number.
On the following morning a right
eous judge convicted them of the
crime of disorderly conduct and sen
tenced each and all of them to serve
five years in the regular army.
Soldier’s Lot a Little Better.
Once in the army a private can ob
tain release only by desertion or
death. Poor as Is the original mate
rial it has been posisble by years of
training to whip much of it into
shape, and the lot of the average peon
is better in the army than elsewhere.
This army of 60,000 men was well
equipped with modern weapons and
all of the military accessories re
quired in waging campaigns against
revolutionary and bandit forces. Tna
officers had had years of experience
under Diaz.
The problem ahead of this army
was to suppress the “revolutionary’’
forces under Orozco, Zapata and the
lesser military adventurers and open
brigands. The total armed strength
of all of these forces was less than
15,000 men, most of them poorly
armed and inadequately financed.
Ten thousand American troops could
have stamped out the last ember? of
revolt and brigandage in two months,
and the pick of the same number of
Madero’s army probably could have
accomplished the same results save
for one reason—graft.
Fight Only for Money.
“I have 60.000 men,” Madero said
sadly, “but what do they fight for?
Money. They care not for whom they
fight so long as they are .paid.”
This revolting farce had its fitting
climax w'hen Felix Diaz was released
by traitors and began his fight against
Madero in Mexico City. Had the
officers of the army been loval to
Madero, they could have batters!
down the arsenal and captured and
executed Diaz within 24 hours.
If the United States consents to
keep its hands off Mexico and can
persuade the great foreign powers to
do the same, it will be an easv matter
to write the history of Mexico in ad
vance for the next generation. Huerta
will eventually be overthrown by Car
ranza or some other aggressive “rev
olutionist.”
Rebels Will Levy Tribute.
Zapata, Salazar, Salgado, Oritz,
Sanchez, Samano and other unsuc
cessful aspirants for the presidential
chair will decline to recognize the new
government, and will continue to oc
cupy their districts and levy tribute
on such foolish Americans, Germans,
English and other foreigners w'hodare
to remain in the hope of saving the
wrecks of their properties.
Huerta will be permitted to escape
abroad with what he can cash in.
Carranza will try to float a new loa.i,
and, if successful, most of it will be
absorbed by his army favorites in
their comic opera warfare against the
old favorite “revolutionists” and such
new candidates as ill make a bid
for popular support.
Lawlessness Will Spread.
The contagion of anarchy will
spread to all parts of Central Amef-
ica, and the wonderfully rich section
between the Rio Grande and the Pan
ama Canal will be given over to un
restricted lawlessness.
The last guilty American will take
a last lingering look at the ashes of
his criminal Mexican possessions and
return to his native country', which
loves peace so well that it shuts its
eyes and closes its ears to the mur
derous strife across the Texas border.
Just why we should restrain Cuba
from indulging in a *milar bent is a
matter I can not fathom, unless it be
that our advocates of peace at any
price are not afraid of Cuba and arc
ih deadly terror of Mexico.
We have waited several days to see if any valid reason or ex
planation could be given for President Wilson’s appointment of
Francis Burton Harrison to be Governor-General of the Philip-
pines.
No other foreign post under the government calls for higher
qualities of character and capacity, executive skill and experience
than that of Governor of eight million Filipinos.
What are these simple, saddle-colored souls to think and say
when we offer Mr. Harrison as the American Exhibit A? Where
there should be force we give them weakness. Where there should
be courage we give'them timidity. Where there should be intelli
gence we give them mediocrity. Where there should be indepen
dence we give them a hand-picked product of the Tammany ma
chine. Where there should be a man of iniative and sagacity we
give them a merest messenger boy of money.
Who and what is Mr. Harrison? Born in New York, he grew
up to ask and obtain admission to the bar. More familiar with
drawing rooms than courthouses, he has been eminently the sort of
lawyer of whom, when they fall ill or leave town, the papers chron
icle the interruption to their social engagements without saying
anything about their practice.
Tammany usually sends to Congress either obedient dummies
or very rich men. Mr. Harrison lias been both.
A youug lawyer, without many clients, but excellent cotillion
qualities and fine Virginia family, he married the California heiress,
Miss Crocker, who dowered him with great wealth. He became a
generous campaign contributor.
Tammany loves gold and sent him to Congress. By mere lapse
of time he has become second to Underwood in seniority on the
Ways and Means Committee. Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania, the
President’s friend, is third. There is talk of sending Underwood to
the Senate, which would make Harrison next in line for the leader
ship of the House. Is President Wilson sending him to the Philip
pines to save the House or to remove one obstacle in Mitchell Palm
er’s path? This would explain the appointment. It would be al
together laughable if it were not altogether lamentable.
President Wilson is supposed not to like Boss Murphy and
Tammany Hall. His Philippine preference for Mr. Harrison in no
wise supports this assumption. Since he took oath as a Represen
tative, Mr. Harrison has been docile to the Murphy order-—tame to
the Murphy touch.
When iu 1909 the House was in rebellion against the tyranny
of Speaker Cannon, Boss Murphy—for a consideration—came to
the rescue of that threatened despot. Boss Murphy “ordered” Mr.
Harrison to desert the Democrats and run to the aid and comfort
of the common enemy. Mr. Harrison ran. Thus do bosses vote their
dummies in aid of the criminal Standard Oil or Sugar or Tobacco.
Not poltitcs, but bib business, rules when criminal privilege is to be
saved.
Mr. Harrison was eagerly willing. He turned traitor at a
Murphy nod, and, abandoning his post as a doorkeeper in the House
of the Lord, raced across to the tents of the ungodly.
Mr. Harrison’s vote against Democratic principles was and i3
the only act to lift its head above the dead and desert level of his
House career.
H one except his being barred from the White House by the
particular Mr. Taft, that Cannon vote constitutes Mr. Harrison’s
entire Congressional record.
What powers, working through Mr. Wilson, have secured this
senseless promotion of Mr. Harrison? No question in^ decade has
so wrung the withers of political Washington. The public wasn’t
clamoring for it. No Philippine interest asked it. Why, then, was
so much 'weakness required at the head of Filipino affairs.
True, the Philippines are a sugar preserve, just as they’re a fa
vorite hunting ground of tobacco. Also, the robbers, for obvious
causes, prefer the Polled Angus breed of governor. Was it a to
bacco hint or a sugar hunch that has so boosted Mr. Harrison?
As against this come others who declare that the bug beneath
the chip of the Harrison appointment is a bug, not of tariff, but of
social hue. They whisper of blue room, red room reasons, and in
form one that, having in view the gentleman’s feelings, Mr. Har
rison is sent to Manila only to get him out of Washington.
To put an end to this conflict of harrowing surmise, Mr. Wil
son should take mankind into his confidence and give in full his
Filipino reasons for the Harrison hopes within him. A "White
House silence at this crisis would be unfair to sugar, tobacco, the
railroads, the Filipinos, Mr. Underwood, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Harrison
and society—to say nothing of the public at large.
Hen Gives First Aid
To Choking Rooster
Seizes Straw Projecting From Chan
ticleer’s Bill and Pulls
It Out.
ST. LOUIS. Aug. 30.—Charles
Stewart, of M&rlssa, the only dry
town in St. Clair County, Illinois,
owns a flock of chickens presided over
by two roosters. One of the collec
tion, a rooster, partook of a breakfast
food, consisting of a long wheat
straw.
When one-half of the food was
down that part of the chicken that
sometimes is warmed over for sup
per, the Eftraw stuck. The rooster
tried the usual chicken method of ex
tracting the straw—that of putting
one foot on the straw' and pulling
back his fyead. This did not work.
His temper became ruffled and he
began to run around the yard. One
of the hens noticed his plight and
coyly approached him, reached up,
grabbed the unswallowed end of the
straw' and pulled It forth.
The rooster crowed his praise and
then turned around and whipped the
other rooster.
“You’re Safe”
so long as you keep
the Stomach, Liver
and Bowels working
regularly and when
the first sign of weak
ness appears be sure
to take
HOSTETTER’S
STOMACH BITTERS
promptly. It will help
you keep the appetite
normal, digestion per
fect and liver and
bowels active. Try it.
&
Anna Rocheleau Burt I
- VOICE CULTURE AND SIGHT READING ,
ct'TTTM/'AcJ 412 Wesley Memorial Bldg. 1 Residence';
b A UUJUj|Cot. Cascade Are and Beecher St.j Went I23r
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