SPANISH PRISONERS, ANNUAL COST OF COLLEGE, DAVID HARUM AND A PHENOMINAL COW

 

Emilio Aguinaldo, former president of the Philippines.

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, July 7, 1899.

SPANISH PRISONERS.

Their Release From the Filipinos Finally Arranged.

TERMS NOT YET MADE PUBLIC.

Civilians, Officials and Sick Soldiers Already Released—The Last of the Spanish Garrison Surrenders and are Received Everywhere with Cheers By the Natives.

   MANILA, July 7.—The Spanish commissioners who went to Tarlac for a conference with Aguinaldo regarding the surrender of the Spanish prisoners in the hands of the Filipinos have just returned. Chairman Del Rio of the commission said the release of all the prisoners had been practically arranged for, but it would be necessary to consult the Spanish government before the agreement could be ratified. He declined to give the terms of the arrangement or to say whether these contemplated a ransom. He asserted, however, that Aguinaldo has already issued a decree for the release of the civilians, officials and the sick soldiers

   The commissioners, with the remnant of the Spanish garrison of Baler, on the coast of Luzon, and a number of civilian prisoners were escorted by Filipino soldiers from Tarlac to the American outposts at San Fernando and came to Manila by the night train.

   The heroes of the long defense of Baler, where the Spanish soldiers resisted an insurgent siege for more than a year, formed a picturesque band. Lieutenant Martin, the only surviving officer, marched through the streets. There are only 22 and most of them are mere boys in faded blue cotton uniforms and red shirts. They are barefooted. A crowd of Spanish men and women embraced them, weeping and shouting their praises.

   They tell a remarkable story. It appears that the captain several times proposed to surrender, but the soldiers refused. Finally some months ago, he tried to raise a white flag. Thereupon Lieutenant Martin killed him with his own sword.

   Their food supply gave out entirely a week ago, and they surrendered to the Filipinos with all the honors of war. They were allowed to keep their arms and they marched from Baler with a Filipino escort and carrying guns through several insurgent camps, everywhere being cheered and feted.

 

William McKinley.

VOLUNTEERS APPRECIATED.

President McKinley Has a Good Word for the Men in the Philippines.

   WASHINGTON, July 7.—The president found an opportunity in connection with the visit to the White House of a Pennsylvania delegation to express in a semi-public manner his appreciation of the services of the volunteer forces in the Philippine archipelago. The delegation was headed by Governor Stone and went to the White House to prefer a request that Colonel Hawkins of the Tenth Pennsylvania, now on the way home from Manila, be promoted to a brigadier generalship.

   Replying the president said that no citizen of the country could have a higher appreciation than he of the exceptional services and patriotic self-sacrifices of the state troops in the Pacific islands.

   "I should," he said, "like to have an opportunity to take by the hand, and thank every individual member of the volunteer forces remaining in the Philippines or assisting in the work there beyond the time required of them by the terms of their enlistment."

   He added that he would make an effort to arrange the itinerary of his Western trip so as to be in Pittsburg at the time of the arrival of the Pennsylvania boys and take part in the reception to be tendered them.

   With reference to the promotion of Colonel Hawkins, the president said he would be glad to give the recognition provided there were no obstacles.

 

Lieutenant Dies of Fellow Fever.

   WASHINGTON, July 7.—The war department has been advised of the death at Santiago de Cuba of Lieutenant McLaughlin, Volunteer Signal corps. Lieutenant McLaughlin was a victim of yellow fever.

 

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Troops for the Philippines.

   In defense of the administration, Postmaster-General Smith points out that the senate's delay in ratifying the peace treaty fomented the insurrectionary spirit in the Philippines, and the emasculation of the army bill took from the president the power promptly to suppress the revolt. Before a proper force could be sent it was necessary under the law as passed to reorganize the army. The statute gave all the volunteers the right to their discharge and at the same time required the muster out of regulars above the fixed number of 27,500.

   Here the patriotism of the volunteers came to the aid of the government. They elected to stay at Manila till they could be safely relieved. In the meantime the president, as Mr. Smith well says, "might have called for volunteers, as many now ask him to do; he might have accepted the great numbers who would have hastened to respond to that call; he might have sent these undisciplined and unacclimated levies to become the prey of sickness and disease; but he did a wiser and surer thing. Required by the army bill practically to reorganize a new army, he directed immediately on the passage of the bill and on the adjournment of congress, that the work of recruiting should be carefully undertaken.

   The recruits enrolled have numbered more than a thousand a week; 90 per cent of all who have applied have been rejected because of falling short of the standard; fully 70 per cent of those accepted saw service in the Spanish war of last year; these recruits, with the reenlistments, number all told, about 40,000 men, so that now when many loyal and earnest people without having understood what has been going on are asking that volunteers may be called out to crush the insurrection, they awake to find that the army has been quietly reconstructed and that instead of being obliged to raise and hurry forward raw troops the government is able to give General Otis from 35,000 to 40,000 of the best trained and most effective soldiers in the world. With such a force of such quality at his command, when the rainy season is over and the fighting can be resumed again, the earnest desire of the country for a short, sharp and decisive campaign will be fully realized." This statement, which is authoritative, will be accepted as satisfactory save by those who are bound to find fault in any case.

   According to the latest Washington advices the government, to make assurance doubly sure, will add ten volunteer regiments to the force of regulars for the finishing Philippine campaign.

 

The Parrot Flew Away.

   Mr. J. H. Gunn of 140 Groton-ave., Cortland, had a parrot which has become quite a pet in the household. The bird was an unusually intelligent one and aside from being a good talker would contentedly ride with Mr. Gunn on his wheel as he went about town. This morning before 6 o'clock the bird which was about the house and on the porch as usual, became frightened and flew away. A diligent search in the trees and surrounding fields failed to reveal the whereabouts of the parrot and at 3 o'clock this afternoon he had not been found. Mr. Gunn is anxious to recover the bird and offers a suitable reward for its return to his home, 140 Groton-ave.

 

THE COW A PHENOMENON.

Began Giving Milk When 9 Months Old and Can't be Dried Off.

   Willard Knapp, the inventor and manufacturer of the celebrated Knapp cow tie, has upon his farm west of Cortland a thoroughbred Jersey heifer that is a phenomenon. The heifer was born on Dec. 10, 1897. Last summer while running in the pasture with other calves one of them began to try to suck her. This fact was observed by Mr. Knapp, but no attention was paid to it as it was known that she was only a calf, and it was not supposed that any milk could be secured. But one day it was found that her udder was expanding and it was then discovered that there was milk in it. At once she was separated from the other calves and then, when the other calf ceased to suck, Mr. Knapp found that he had to begin milking her, and she was not then 9 months old.

   The heifer was exhibited at the Cortland county fair last fall and won a first prize. She was the wonder of all dairymen as they saw her fine udder and noticed that she was being milked. Mr. Knapp tried to dry her off, and early in the spring thought he had succeeded in  so doing, but when she was turned out in good feed in the pasture the milk began again, and now she is giving eight pounds of milk per day. She is due with her first calf the latter part of next December. This is an unusual record, and Mr. Knapp doubts if its like can be shown elsewhere.

 

The Cost in Colleges Per Year.

   As a result of a recent estimation of the costs of getting an education at several of the leading American universities and colleges, the following figures are submitted: Amherst, $500; Barnard, $500; Bowdoin, $300 to $400; Brown, $500; Colgate need not be above $250; Columbia, $550; Cornell, $500; Dartmouth, $400; Hamilton, $275 to $380 exclusive of clothes, there are men who get through on $200; Harvard, $1,000, though the catalogue gives $358 as low and $565 as liberal; Leland Stanford, $300; University of Pennsylvania, $450; Princeton, $329 to $663; Rochester, $300 to $400; Syracuse, $250 to $400; Trinity $600 to $760; Union, $280 to $400; Wesleyan, $325; Williams, $272 to $482; Yale, $600. These figures are pretty low, and they are not supposed to include clothing. However, the youth who is really desirous of getting an education will not care much for elegant clothes or social functions.

 

"DAVID HARUM."

Its Enormous Sales—Greatest But One Since "Trilby" Came Out.

   The New York Times' Saturday Review says that the sales of "David Harum" have now reached 190,000 copies. The royalties to the family from the sale of these books is, therefore, nearly $30,000. The Times says further:

   With the exception of the religious novel, "In His Steps," of which its publishers claim more than 300,000 copies in this country and Great Britain have been sold, "David Harum" has probably sold better than any work of fiction since "Trilby" was the rage.

   Many book and department stores have purchased large quantities of "David Harum," and are selling it at a very slight margin of profit in order to attract custom and make a feature of it.

   A Times reporter asked a bookseller why he sold so cheaply. The bookseller answered:

   "By buying not less than 250 copies at a time, we got them for 90 cents each, and sell them for 95 cents. Of course there is no profit in that to speak of, and we only do it to attract custom. The department stores that advertise it for sale at 98 cents do the same thing.

   "You have heard, of course," continued the bookseller, "that 'David Harum' was rejected by several publishers before the Appletons with great foresight took hold of it. But have you ever heard that originally 'David Harum' was simply a subordinate character in the book, which was a conventional love story.

   "The Appletons saw the possibilities in the story, and took it up on the consideration that David should be made the principal figure and the book named after him. You know what the result has been. Such a book is better than a gold mine to the publisher and author's heirs."

 

Page 8, Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, July 7, 1899.

BREVITIES.

   —E. H. Brewer's residence has been connected with the telephone exchange.

   —A combined Sunday-school excursion from McGraw and Blodgett Mills will arrive here on July 26.—Ithaca News.

   —The Cornell University Medical college has had in its first year of existence, an attendance of 278, and has graduated a class of sixty-seven.

   —Hon. George W. Ray, member of congress from this district, is the logical successor to Judge Follett on the supreme court bench.—Owego Times.

   —A bicycle tire of covered springs has been patented—one tire within another—which defies glass or tacks. It is a little heaver than the pneumatic tire now in use.—Exchange.

   —Mr. A. D. Lane is about to produce in Whitney Point the comic opera "The Merry Milkmaids," which was given so successfully by local talent both in Cortland and Marathon.

   —Leo Howard of Pendleton-st. was playing with a blank cartridge pistol when it accidentally discharged, making quite a hole in his hand and burning it quite seriously at the same time.

   —The Standard Butter Co. of this village has ninety-eight employees on its payrolls.—Owego Times. This is the company to which a number of creameries in this vicinity furnish butter, cheese and curd.

   —Garden thievery has again shown itself in Cortland. A Homer-ave. garden was visited last night, and a quantity of string beans and currants taken. The thief did not leave his business card, but left his footprints in the moist earth.

   —At the M. E. parsonage, New Hope, N. Y., July 4, 1899, by Rev. L. L. Wilcox, Mr. Willard W. Seamans to Miss Anna L. Widger, both of Cortland, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Seamans, the parents of the groom, were present  at the ceremony.—Moravia Register.

    —Seven bids were received and opened Wednesday for building the new Presbyterian church at Ithaca and all were rejected on the ground of being too high. The lowest bid is said to have been $85,000. The trustees will now wait a couple of months and watch the prices of building materials before going any further.