The Cuero Daily Record. (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 38, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 14, 1899 Page: 2 of 8
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ILOILO CAPTURED.
j
I
CEN. MILLER’S FORCES TOOK
POSSESSION OF THE CITY
On Saturday Morning Last—The City Bom-
barded and Before Being Eraruaied
t
Was Fired by the Phlllpinos—No Casual-
ties on the American hide.
Washington, February 14.—Shortly
after midnight Adjutant General Cor-
bin made public the following dis
patch from Major General Otis, re-
porting -the capture of the town of Il-
oilo by the American forces under Gen-
eral Miller on the 10th instant:
Manila, February 13.—General Miller
reports from Iloilo that that town was
taken on the 11th Instant and held by
the troops. The insurgents fired the
native portion of the town, but the loss
to property of foreign inhabitants is
small. No casualties among the
United States troops reported.
Manila, February 14.—The United
8tates forces under Brigadier General
Miller captured Iloilo, capital of the
island of Fanky and seat of the so-
called government of tihe VI say as fed-
eration, on Saturday last after a bom-
bardment. The rebels set the town on
fire before evacuating it, but the Amer-
ican troops extinguished the flames.
There were no casualties on the Amer-
ican side.
f -
Manila, February 14.—The United
States gunboat Petrel arrived late Sun-
day evening with dispatches from Brig-
adies General M. F. Miller to Major
General Otis, announcing that Iloilo
had been taken by the combined mili-
tary and naval forces on Saturday
morning. General Miller, on receipt of
ihis instructions from Manila, sent na
tive commissioners ashore from the
United States transport St. Paul to the
rebel governor of Iloilo, calling on him
to surrender w ithin a time stated, and
warning him not to make a demon
stration in Hhe interval.
The rebels immediately moved their
guhs and prepared to defend their po-
sitions. Thereupon the Petrel fired two
warning guns and the rebels immedi
ately opened fire on her. The Petrel
and the Baltimore bombarded the towu
which the rebels, having set on fire,
immediately evacuated.
The American troops were immedi-
ately landed and extinguished the fires,
but not until considerable damage had
been done. It is expected tnct ihe
enemy’s loss during the bombardment
was heavy but no American casua*..es
toe reported.
Austin. Te>
most notable
f
Lative session
senate of the
an appropriat
of special cou
as. February 14.— The
incident of today's legis-
was the passage by ihe
house bill providing lor
ion for the employment
is el in the railroad com-
mission injunction .suits, with on
amendment t.iat the amount appro-
be $13,5000, as original-
l*. The house by a nar-
refused to concur in the
priated shall
ly provided ft
row majority
Smokeless Powder Manufacture.
Penns Grove, N. J., February 14.—At
the big powder works of the Duponts,
at Carneys Point, interesting experi
ments in smokeless powder are being
made by experts in the employ of the
government. ' One of the difficulties
that has attended the manufacture so
far is that the powder is not wholly
smokeless and that it apparently
loses strength through storage. The
expenmen is, it is said, led to the dis-
covery that cotton could not be ground
fine enough to bring about the best
results, and that the powdered pith of
cornstalks gave somewhat better re-
sults.
This fact is only partly authenticated.
If it should prove of lasting value, a
new source of revenue is opened u>>
for farmers, since thousands of acres
of cornstalks annually go to waste in
the field, although much is being used
in the manufacture of cellulose.
amendment and the. matter has lieen
referred to a conference committee,
two of the three members selected
by the speake’ to report to the hoi s^
thereon beiug opposed to the amend-
ment.
The senate £ Iso took up Miller s bill
providing for the redemption of real
estate sold unaer execution toyed with
it awhile and killed it, and then de-
moted some time to a motion to re-
consider the vpte by which it was on
last Saturday j decided to £|djourn for
a couple of days this week to attend
the presentation of a swoid and Biblh
to Commodorej Philip at Galveston,
which motion finally went by the
board. Nothing was said on this s b-
jeet in the house, but it is understood
that an other attempt will be made to-
day to adjourn for the occasion, and
it is predicted that, whether the at-
tempt succeeds or not, there will be
no quorum present Wednesday or
'Thursday, as enough members have
signified an intention of spending
those days in Guilviston to prevent the
transaction of liusiness.
The introduction in the house todny
of a resolution providing for slue die
adjournment on March 15 is taken to
mean that a majority of the members
have made up their minds to quit cn
that day. The tax commission, la d
office investigation and state reveni.e
agent enlargement hills are well under
way. The bill providing for a state
purchasing agent.has be u introduced
and the various committees have de-
capitated pretty nearly everything else,
so that, ther is pot much of anyth.ug
to dispose of now save the general and
deficiency appropriation bills. The lat-
ter will be on tjie desk tomorrow, an 1
an effort wil be made to call it up, and
the former is promised for next Tues-
day at the latest. With these bills in
hand, the legislature will have, little
time for anything else, and once they
are out of the way it will be impossi-
ble to hold a quorum together* so that
the prospect of an adjournment by the
middle of next month is pretty g >od
and an extra session will fodow lat-
er on.
The senale committee on town and
city corporations this evening pi a ti-
cally knocked the life out of the A s-
tin city charter bill. A favorable re-
port has been handed in by tlte house
committee on stn e affairs on t»*ew art's
bill providing tl at herafter the rail-
road commission shall furnish to the
tax assessors of the several counties of
this state throng i which any railroad
tis operated, on o • before tlie 15tli day
of January of e year, a fair an 1
just valuation of all the railroad prop-
erties subject to taxation in such coun-
ties. wldeh valuation shall b» pr'ma
facie evidence o*f the value of all such
properties and shall be assessed at
such valuation nr less show n to be un-
just by anv railroad company after
due notice to th" county commissioners
aetlDg as a board of equalization.
Seventeen Cremited.
Yankton, S. D., Feb. 13.—The state
Insane asylum at this place was the
scene yesterday of a holocaust which
sent a shudder of horror through the
community and the like of which has
no parallel in this state. One of the cot-
tages in the asylum grounds took fire
in the basement at 2 o’clock yester-
day morning and seventeen inmates
confined therein were incinerated be-
fore help ciuld reach them. *
The cottage was intended for laun-
A2"nciUo’» .V.i Pment.
London. Feb. 13.—The European
Filipino junta has received a long
telegram from Agoneillo to agent of
Aguinaldo, dated from * Montreal,- and
declaring that he left Washington in
consequence of a telegram which he
received on Feb. 4 from Aguinaldo
urging .him to cable to Malolos the
result, of the vote of the United Staffes
senate on the peace treaty. Aguinal-
'do, it appears, added: “It is of the
most urgent importance that we
dry purposes, but owing to the crowded should at once be acquainted with
Mkaters Kem-ued.
CMcago, February 14.—After being
drifted on an ice floe in Lake Michi-
gan for over fifteen hours, the five
people wlho were carried ert Sunday
evening by the breaking of ;be ice
were rescued, and it is thought that
none of them will be much the worse
for the experience. The names of
thos saved are Elmer D. Brothers, Miss
Orell Manley. Chauncey Manley, Guy
W. Carron and Guy McLehry.
The castaways were discovered at
daylight four miles from shore by the
Chicago life-saving crew. Miss Man-
• ley was almost dead when the life-
savers came, but the physicians ihink
she will recover entirely. The five
people tramped up and down all night
in the effort to keep warm, and finally
When Miss Manley beenm# unconscious
they made a bed for licr of their over-
coats.
Fire at Penitentiary.
Huntsville. Te
Fire yesterday m
cas. February 14.—
irning destroyed e
penitentiary administration? and cob
buildings. The nr en nre at work and
everything going smoothly. casual-
ties. Loss not over $30,000. if that.
The burning of ihe penitentiary cells
and general offices
caused much exoil
cause of the fact 4
because of the fea
yesterday morning
ement. not only be-
f the fire itself, but
of a general escane
! of convicts. The prisoners were great-
j .1
ly alarmed and weye calling lustily f >r
aid.
Assistant Supefn|ten<5ent T. G. Smith
er had them unloe
In short order, q
ied from their ceils
lieting their fears.
m*';A
Muatl Meel.ng oa 1 nut Miiay.
Austin Texas, February 14.--At tli*
request of General Freight Agent
Goodwyn of the tSama Fe the railroad
commission today postponed until
Thursday the giving of its answer to
the last proposition submitted for the
amicable settlement of the injunction
suits.
In the meantime, the commission's
rate clerks are busy preparing the fig
Stores which it wUl insist upon on the
final showdown which, so it is stated
by both parties to the controversy,
will be had 'Thursday. The ba^is up-
on which said figures will be made has
already been outlined several time-,
in thes dispatches, and if any hitch in-
curs in the end it wil^be over details,
but the tindications are still that a sat-
isfactory adjustment will finally tie
agreed upon
l«*iist effort to es<
when they marebel out into the yard
and stood in line, not one making the
ape.
The fire was discovered at 5:45
o'clock in the penitent!.- ry In what was
known as the seln
has lieen used as :
account of the the
zero, it was imjM*s
to play on the flam
very slowly, but as
ter the main cell
stroyed. as well as
trot ion building.
The fire was can
Hue.
>ol building.':. which
ell building, (it:
rmuineter being at
ible to got water
•s. The lire spread
there was no \va-
bullding was de-
the main adminis
ed by a defective
S«»\ en IV raoi m
Memphis, Tenn.
special to the Commie
Fine Bluff. Ark., sat’
Jones, and Ids six
a burning cabin
and May plantatu
Sunday night. It is
!ng caught fire aft*
retired and they
they met their dejitll
condition of the ‘ m. j building forty
of the female patknts were housed
within its walls. The exact cause of
the fire is not kDown, except that it
originated in the dry room of the laun-
dry. The fighting of the fire*' wa>
greatly hindered by loss of power. The
burned cottage stands some 300 feet
in the rear of the main building, the
w'ater tank which is for fire protection
standing 10 feet in the rear of the
cottage. The steam pipes used for
heating, and Ihen to the artesian
pumping run from the boiler room ot
the main building through the cottage,
well or tank. The intense heat in the
burning building caused Ihe pipes to
burst shortly after the fighting of
the decision, as we are negotiating
with Gen. Otis and the vote will vi-
tally affect the negotiations.”
Agoneillo further declares that as
he was closed?.’ shadowed by the
American authorities, to dispatch
this telegram wroiild have been im-
posssible, and he therefore proceeded
to British territory.
Agoneillo also said he was per-
suaded the treaty would not be rati-
fied, and points out that "three votes
by which it was passed were only ob-
tained at the last moment and as a
result of the outbreak of hostilities.”
The agent of Aguinaldo again ex-
pressed his conviction that the out-
break was "provoked by the Amerl*
the fire began, thus leaving them with- i cans f°r this very purpose.
out power and depending entirely upon
direct pressure from the tank, which
was in no w’ay sufficient to quench
the fierce flames.
With the thermometer standing at
23 degrees below' zero it w'as heart-
rending to witness those escaping com-
ing down the flight of stairs in their
n*ght clothing and bare feet into the |
bitter cold, and had it not been for
the nearness of shelter the suffering j
and probable loss of life from freezing |
would have been terrible.
Fifty-two persons were in the burn
The telegram continues:
“The Filipinos were anxious to
maintain friendship with the Ameri-
cans and had formally decided never
to be the aggressers.”
Several dispatches have also been
received here from Filipino sources
dated, from Manila via Hongkong and
give tlrtr rebel version of the outbreak
I of hostilities. A Filipino dispatch
dated* from Manila on Feb. 7 says:
“On Sunday a force of Americans
attacked simultaneously Caloocan
and Santa Mesa. Two American war-
ships were off Malabon and Malate
ing building, forty patients and twelve an(J a Rma„er gunboat wa3 in the
female attendants. The atendants es- j Pasjg rlver to protect the Amerlcan
raped, as did the others wTho were
saved, with none of their personal ef- . ,
: * For several days previously the
feots, many losing all that they pos- j Americans had been endeaTorl to
8£SB6d. I
____ ! provoke hostilities and peace was
| maintained only by the rigorous or-
D^XIE DOINGS- i (jer Aguinaldo, who was negotiat-
ing with Gen. Otis for an honorable
understanding. The American at-
tack was unexpected. The ships de-
stroyed all the villages between the
shore and the Pasig river within an
area between Malate, Paranaque, San
P. . McConnell shot and killed his
father in South Nashville, Tenn., fpr
boating the boy s mother.
The Arkansas senate passed a rail-
road commission bill. It fixes the stl-
aries of the three commissioners, who Pedro and Mocati. Crossing the river
are to be appointed by the governor, the Americans advanced to San Juan
at $300 each, to be paid by the rail- del Monte, capturing the waterworks
roads. after a severe fight. They then pro-
The grand jury at Mklvern, Ark.^ ^ pf* to Sin gal on, establishing them-
v_"!^*'1vps on the river Dam. They tore up
a mile of the rails of the Caloocan-Ma-
loios line and cut the telegraph in or-
brought in an indictment agaSnst Har-
dy and William Sherfield charging
them with murdering and burning the
body of Mrs. Horne, who mysteriously
disappeared from Hot Springs about
three months ago.
Wm. Gilliland, a printer at Shreve-
der to stop communication with Agui-
naldo.
“The Filipino forces engaged num-
bered onl> 7000, including 1000 Ygo-.j
rotes. Acting upon instructions from
Austin, Tex., Feb. 13.—Il the house
Saturday several bills were intr-
doced.
A resolution by Lane, Bailey and
Henderson of Lamar was introduced
providing for the appointment of a
committee of three members of the
house and two from the senate to in-
vestigate the work of the state re-
formatory at Gatesville, as suggested
by the governor.
Kennedy of Limestone offered a
resolution which provided for an ad-
journment to visit Galveston. The
house refused to table it and also re-
fused to substitute a resolution of re-
grets.
Mr. Prince was recognized and in
a touching and eloquent speech ad-
vocated the adoption of the resolu-
tion. He twelt at some length
on the question. He rose to several
touching climaxes and was applaud-
ed to the echo.
Morrow offered an amendment pro-
viding for the docking of the pay of
members and officers for Tuesday.
A substitute was offered providing
that members and officers donate
their pay to the state during their
absence from Austin. The house
promptly snowed the substitute un-
der and also defeated the amendment.
The resolution was lost.
Henderson of Lamar presented a
petition from citizens of Austin pray-
ing that the proposed city charter be
submitted to a vote of the people of
Austin.
Resolutions to the memory of John
M King, a Texas pioneer, and
Madam Candelian Villa Nueva, a sur-
vivor of the Alamo, were adopted.
\
Pushing the Matter.
Austin, Feb. 13.—It will be remem-
bered that some time ago Gov. Sayers
wrote a letter to Senator Chilton at
Washington askiDg him to look after
the matter of securing an appropria-
tion to pay the Texas merchants who
furnished supplies to the Texas troops
while the ywere being mobilized for
the Spanish war. As a result of that
letter, Gov. Sayers received the follow-
ing telegram:
Washington, D. C., Feb. 11.—Hon.
Joseph D. Sayers, Austin, Tex.: Have
secured amendment to appropriation
which will pay for supplies furnished
volunteers between enrollment and
mustering in. H. CHILTON.
Upon receipt of this Gov. Sayers at
once sent the following:
Austin, Tex., Feb. 11.—Hon. S. W. T.
Lanham, Washington, D. C.:, Please
see that senate amendment to appro-
priation bill to pay for supplies fur-
nished volunteers between enrollment
and mustering in, by Senator Chilton,
is retained. Very important to Texas,
See Senator Chilton.
JOSEPH D. SAYERS.
The Lack ef DUctpiiAie la a Vatkaal
Chart*etei rtattc.
There is a dominant line in the na-
tional character of Italians, says the
Westminster Review! it was this trait
that Tasso had in v\e
“Alla virtu LatiJUL
sol la disciplina.” j?
of the Latin race has
perhaps, that It *9
It w'as another s5e
that D’Azeglio expri
“In the heart of e|r
is some touch of e
brini’s words, too,* though referring
more particularly to the Neapolitan,
were applicable to i his countrymen
generally when he regretted that “Tal-
ent they all have, and some of them
very great talent, but they have no
perseverance, no sense of order or dis-
cipline.” The poet, tfhe politician, the
patriot, each froqi hia own .point of
port, I,a., and recently married, was MaloIos the F1iipinos remained strictly j
cm, five times in the abdomen by an- ron the defensive and finally retired in
other printer named Charles Gregory. . sood wder without any loss of arms,
Gilliland died. ; artillery or ammunition. Two old 1
By a vote of 64 to 26 the Alabama Krupp guns of an obsolete pattern,
house of representatives has placed mounted on the fortress of San An-
on the favorable calendar the dispen- tonio, were captured. The fighting wras
sary bill passed by the senate. I very subborn and lasted continuously
A peanut trust with a capital of from Saturday to Tuesday. General
$5,000,000 has been organized at Nor- 1 indignation has been occasioned by the
folk, Ya. treachery of the American surprise.
While crossing Clinch river, near The Filipinos believe that the Yankee
Middlesboro, Ky., in a wagon, Mrs. administration is only favored by a
Mary Williams, her son Harry and two minority of Americans and abstain
small daughters were sw’ept dowm by from taking the offensive in order to
the current and drowned.
show their gratitude to the American
' Nathaniel Baxter, Jr.. G. B. McCor- nat1,,n for belping them to «et rid °<
snick, James Gowron. A. M. Shook ami ,be 8panlrt‘ r"le' Hence th'5' wl" <>“'?•
Walker Perry, officials of the Tenn.es-
fight w'heii attacked and their future
Burned to Deatb.
At Science Hall, three miles west of
Kyle, the only children of Mr. and Mrs.
J I. Wallace were burned to death. The
parents were a short distance from the
house when it was discovered to be on
fire. The father of the children was
at his shop and the mother was at a
neighbor’s house. The dwelling was a
small one, and burned, -with all its
contents and the two little children, in
a very short time. The bodies were
zurned to a crisp, their limbs being
entirely burned away, presenting a
sickening sight.
Fee Coal and Iron company, have in- iaction rtep£uds upon the decl3ion ot
the United States.
eorporated the Birmingham (Ala.)
Southern railway, with a capital of
$1,200 000.
“Aguinaldo declares that the real
enemies of peace are the American of-
ficers in the Philippine itlands.”
The British garrison at Bdward*sa-
bad jn the Punjab. India, has had a
lively bru?h with a band of outlaws,
who occupied the towers at Goomett!.
The British lost six men killed and
fourteen seriously wounded.
The Filipino junta at Hong Kong
has issued a statement in which they
accuse the Americans of trickery and
barbarity. -
A horse with icicles three inchps
long protruding from his ncstrils.
giving him 'he appe.'Yanc’0 of a young
rhinoceros, was a frost freak at Fort
Worth. Tex.
I>rifl — <l \ n :iy
Chicago, 111.. Feb. 13.—Sixteen sl at-
ers living in the suburbs of Rogers
Parte and Lake Forest were carried out
into the Lake Michigan on ice fioe>
At Anniston, Ala. Col. D.*C. Colson ;
and Lieut. E. D. Scott- of the fourth }
Kentucky had a pistol fight, in which
the former was shot in the hip.
Colde*t Known.
Dallas, Tex., Feb. 13.—The coldest
weather ever known here occurred
yesterday morning at 7 o’clock, when
©
10 below zero was reached. From all
over the state come reports of the
terrible cold. Such frigid weather
has caused much suffering, and the
stock have been frozen to death in
great numbers in many localities.
Rivers ail over the state ar# frozen
over.
The residence of V. Gilliland, near
Mineola. Tex., valued at $600, burned.
Fui*l and Fear* ^rarrfi,'a
St. Louis. Mo.. Feb. 13.—Owing to
ti e prolonged cold spell the demand
for real has trebled and not since the
eonl strike last year has there been
vesterdav. Ten of them were rescued a scarcity of fuel in St. T^ouis and
and d.irin? the entire evening search- J,he 0O1? weather bas
ing parties made fruitless efforts to se- R t-d the receipts of eggs and a
(re mated.
February 14— A
rciul Appeal from
s: A negro, Silas
lildren perish* d n
tie* Richardson
n at Cornerstone
thought tli*» bui *1-
r the family had
ere asleep when
19.
cure come trace of the missing six.
The missing are Attorney Elmer D.
Brothers, Mips Orel Manney, George
Mallory of Pontiac, 111.; Chauncey . .. „ . . A . ,
Manney, Guy Carron and Arthur tng the past week but dealers are un
famine in that commodity threatens
St. Louis. Much of the receipts have
been frozen. Wholesale prices have
advanced from 13 1-2 to 23 cents dur-
Fletchei of Ravenswood Park.
able to supply the demand.
oil
The Missouri Pa*
pany tins purchased
lines west of Maryii
tie Railroad com
li«• Central branch
lie.
Heard From.
Washington. Feb. 13.—The following
report has come by cable to the war
department from the transport .Grant
en route for Manila:
Port Said, Feb. 1J..—Corbin, Wash-
ington: Arrived at noon. Voyage
safe, pleasant. No serious illness.
Fourteen cas* s mumps, ten measles de-
velop* d since Gibraltar. Sick doing
well. Coal her** Leave to-night. In-
form quartermaster general Wire
news Suez. LAWTON.
The 10-year-old daughter of Judge
Hardy was burned^ to death at Corsi-
cana, Tex.
Frozen to Death.
San Antonio, Tex., Feb. 13.—The
frozen body of Wm. Pieper, a deliv-
ery : wagon driver, was found early
yesterday morning on the road to the
Southwestern insane asylum. There
were bruises on the face of the de-
ceased, but no indications of an in-
jury sufficient to have proven fatal.
Pieper was last seen at 9 o’clock on
his wagon wfthin a block from his
home. He was perfectly sober and
stated to a friend that he was going
home.
St. Ixtuls is taking active steps to-
ward the Louisiana purchase oelebra-
;ion.
The intense cold wave still prevailed
all-over the country on the 12th, ex-
tending way down in Florida and do-
ing great damage to oranges.
The Metropolitan sal on
‘aurant at Deni.-on. T**x..
stroyed by fire. Total*loss,
and r**s-
was de-
? 1
Gen. Garcia's remain*
at Havana on the 11th.
were interred,
i
Steadiest Severe Weather.
Ennis, Tex., Feb. 13.—Capt. W. H.
Getzendaner and daughter, Mrs. S. P.
Skinner, of Waxahachie, were here en
route to Tampa. Fla., and the Bahama
islands, where the wiyll spend prob-
ably two or three months. Mr. Getzen-
damor has for many years kept a care-
ful register of weather conditions, and
hr saVs that while he has seen cold-
er weather than any we have had this
wjntek he has no record or recollec-
tion of as much severe weather in Tex-
as as we have, had this season.
when he wrote:
nulla manca o
e tt^ble nature
virtue save,
disciplined. ”)
the same truth
when he said:
Italian there
war.” Settem-
view, indicated thp.
ian character whi
through the centu
grown with the gr
It is to that lmpa
taking the term
that we must at
the people of
of great natural
produced no great
po&n, no novel, no
ing, no building, no
of Verdi can be an
be placed in the
the Italian has; he
ing refutation to
genius is an infinite
ing trouble, but hit
What M. Chevallier
Jn the Ital-
y be traced
'd which has
of the nation,
s of discipline,
widest sense,
the fact that
Italy, in spite
ents, have
istic work—no
no paint-
c, unless that
ptlon. that can
rank. Genius
Indeed, a stand-
paradox that
ity for tak-
nius is barren,
said of French
with En-
workmen, comparing, them wit
glish, is true of the Italian of every
class, and especially qjf the upper class.
He cannot steadily, f doggedly nettle
down in spite of failure to overcome
material difficulties. His full faculties
do not wake up save in contest with
other men. Undisciplined himself, the
Italian is prone to I make light of
breach of legal and bf moral obliga-
tions in others, and in public life es-
pecially has developed a laxity of
which the traces arci all too deeply
marked in the parliamentary history
of the passing generation.
A BUSH WOMAN.
More Like an Animal I Than
Homan “
dried on her
lot even been
meat, which
and ate rav-
were almost
Close to the wagon we met a bush-
woman, one of Indowyoka’s people, re-
duced by starvation to the most ema-
ciated and pitiable condition, says
Blackwood’s. Her husband had been
killed by lions soihe days before,
though she herself i&d escaped with
her life. On her bad^ and shoulders
were the marks wbeje the same lion
had ripped away ©.cat strips of flesh.
Long clots of bK
body; the wounds
washed. I gave hc£f
she seized upon at
enously. The bom
through her filthy ai^in; her little,
beady eyes, set cioee together under
a low, retreating forehead, her flat-
tened nose and large, protruding lips,
concealing what Uttlej chin she pos-
sessed, gave her a look most uncanny
and repellanL
Altogether more like an animal than
a human being, she seemed to me the
lowest type of womankind that It has
ever been my fhte to look on. There
are numbers of bush men and their
wives who live in this miserable condi-
tion, wandering through the veldt with
no other means of subsistence than
such trash as wild roots and berries.
Some of the men have guns and am-
munition, and they spdnd their whole
time in shooting. When they kill a
buck within reach of Water—say ten
miles—the whole family congregates
on the spot, sits around the body and
gorges itself until ev^Tt scrap of flesh
and skin has dlsaj
THE TURKISH DRAMA.
Mohammedan Woman Cam Never Appear
on t*e Stage.
It is altogether difficult to ascribe to
the modern men of’letters in Turkey
a pronounced and well defined line of
literary pursuit, as is customary in the
west, says Literature. Most of them
are poets, dramatists, philosophers,
historians and philologists at the same
time; some of them qw* their reputa-
tion mainly to their dramatic composi-
tions, as, e. g., Abdulhakk Hamid,
whose tragedies Tarik ttbe Moorish
conqueror of Spain) and Dukhteri
Hindu (the Hindu girl) would really
deserve a translation in any of the
European languages In the first-
mentioned play the ^uthor introduces
a Mohammedan heroM^n order to
prove that the dWltration of
both sexes ia not prescpp>d by Islam,
and that it is merely .an eastern habit
of misapprehended chtastity. The
dramatic literature of the Turks is by
no means a quantity negligable of the
modern Osmanli literature.
It Is a great pity that the theater is
still in its infancy, for the simple rea-
son that only the actors are genuine
Turks, while the actresses recruit
themselves out of the Christian por-
tion of the country, as Mohammedan
women cannot appear in public, and
still less on ’the atage. There is no
want of a play-fotag public in the
modern Turkish aociety, but the en-
joyment is often Marred by the queer
and un-Turkish pronunciation of the
Armenian actresaea, whereas tbe lan-
guage of Turkish women sounds mo«r.
delightfully.
• Hot to Bo Daunted.
A Colorado gentleman advertised for
a well-preserved ^eleton^ and short-
ly after the paper was qut an old
maid of his town (appeared in ber best
bib and tucker and #ked if his inten-
tions were honoflfiM^ Dearer Post,
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Wood, H. G. The Cuero Daily Record. (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 38, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 14, 1899, newspaper, February 14, 1899; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth838242/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cuero Public Library.