Cortland Evening Standard, Monday,
Jan. 20, 1902.
GENERAL CHAFFEE'S REPORT.
Municipal and Provincial Governments Are Being Organized.
Manila, Jan. 20.—General Chaffee in the annual report, which has just been issued, sums up the situation from the military point of view by saying that the provinces of Batangas and Laguna, in Southern Luzon, and the islands of Samar, Mindoro and Cebu constitute the disturbed area in which bodies of insurgents in force are to be found.
General Chaffee says the prolongation of guerrilla warfare is due to the physical character of the country and to the nature of warfare carried on by the insurgents who pose as friends and act as enemies in the same hour; to the humanity displayed by the American troops, of which the insurgents take advantage, and to the fear of assassination on the part of those natives who are friendly disposed toward the Americans, should they give the latter information concerning the movements or the whereabouts of the insurgents.
Municipal and provincial governments are being organized. These governments have not yet received a practical trial. They constitute the only certain and reliable method of ascertaining the progress of the Filipinos toward self-government.
According to the opinion of the army officers, the disaster to Company C, of the Ninth infantry, at Balangiga, Samar, when 48 men were killed, is attributed to the too great confidence of these men in territory which they assumed to be pacified.
In the same report, Judge Advocate Groesbeck says the suppression of brigandage will probably be one of the most trying problems of the future. If the military arm be left free to deal with the marauders, there is no doubt of their final suppression, but the presence of the civil government complicates the situation considerably. With the civil and military authorities working in harmony, says Judge Groesbeck, no evil results should be anticipated.
A report has been received here that a dugout canoe in which 11 men of Company I of the Second infantry were traveling, is missing and probably lost. It is believed the men either perished or were captured.
General Meade has cabled from Cebu that 65 insurgents surrendered in the island of Bohol last Friday. The authorities here say that if this statement is accurate it is astonishing, as the secret service had failed to learn of the existence of any such body of insurgents on Bohol.
An important capture was made in Laguna province, Luzon, when eight men of the Eighth infantry captured a woman insurgent named Aqueda Kahabagan. She recently commanded an insurgent force of 800 men, 300 of whom carried rifles while 500 were armed with bolos, and for six years past she has been leading insurgent bands against the Spaniards and the Americans.
NAVAL BATTLE IN PROGRESS
In Panama Harbor Between the Government and Insurgent Vessels.
COLON Columbia, Jan. 20.—A battle between three revolutionary and three government vessels is being fought in Panama harbor. The government land forces are throwing up entrenchments. The United States cruiser Philadelphia is close to the scene of the engagement
WASHINGTON, Jan 20.—The state department this afternoon received a dispatch from Consul General Gudger at Panama stating that a fight was going on in the bay of Panama and that the governor of that province had been killed.
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| Rudyard Kipling in his study near Brattleboro, Vermont. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Kipling and British Soldiers.
Recent British reverses in South Africa give point and pertinence if not entire justification to Rudyard Kipling's contention, as expressed in his latest poem, that if Great Britain is to maintain her military prestige "each man born in the island" must "be broke to the matter of war."
It is not flattering to "haughty Albion, whose sons in the past have fought with valor upon so many fields and, "only sheathed their swords for lack of argument," that it is unable to conquer a little handful of Dutch farmers, and it is no wonder that Britons wince under the lash of Kipling's poetic but forceful arraignment in the conduct of the military establishment, particularly in sending to the front in South Africa "street boys and colonels."
There is something of injustice, however, in Mr. Kipling's sweeping denunciations. Great Britain has had in the rank and file of its South African army a host of brave and efficient men, notably from Canada and Australia and from the mother land as well, whose loyalty and courage could not be questioned. In the earlier stages of the war, there were many exhibitions of fighting quality by no means discreditable to British arms.
While the military conditions, war office blunders and incompetency in the field, so caustically criticized by Mr. Kipling, have no doubt had very much to do with the prolongation of the war, it must be remembered that England is fighting foemen determined to die in the last ditch rather than become the subjects of an alien conqueror. It is apparent that the war cannot be settled in the field until the last armed burgher has been killed or captured and deported. The extermination of a [race] seems the only possible outcome of the fighting. If England had had a larger and more formidable force in South Africa, this possibly might have been accomplished before this time. Meanwhile the direful work goes on, at what tremendous cost is indicated by a review of the operations in South Africa for the year 1901, lately published in London, showing:
British killed, wounded, taken prisoners, dead of disease and invalided: 39,360.
Boers killed, wounded, taken prisoners and surrendered, 18,320.
The latter figures do not include the thousands of noncombatant Boers—men, women and children—who have perished in the British detention camps.
CORTLAND'S PRETTY BABIES.
Quite an Aggregation of Them Pictured in a Sunday Paper.
The Syracuse Sunday Herald devoted a page to representations of the pictures of some of Cortland's pretty babies, which seemed to be under the watchful care of a couple of large storks. The children shown were Gertrude A. Hickok, who formed the central figure of the page, Mildred Miller, Harrold Peck, Esther Porter Alley, Mary Elizabeth Bristol, Joe Butler, Esther M. Wallace, Henry A. Didama, Earl Spaulding Miller, Mary Mellon, Catherine A. Bengler, Enderce G. Van Hoesen, Harriet Beaudry, Arthur Darwin Angell, Monroe A. Watson, Alice Riley, Harriet and Stilwell Waters, Vera Lanigan and Howard H. Murray.
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| Cortland Normal School. |
NEW LADIES' SOC1ETY
Formed at the Normal—Philomathians—Eighteen Charter Members.
A new ladies' club has been organized at the Normal school under the name of the Philomathians. This is not a chapter of any fraternity, nor will it join a fraternity until it has fully developed the club under the present name. There are eighteen charter members.
The club was formed for the purpose of giving many of the young ladies the privileges of such an organization who could not otherwise get them. The other three ladies' clubs are limited to fifty members each, while in the school there are more than 300 young ladies. This means that more than half of the young ladies of the Normal School go out without having had the advantage of club drill and training.
The charter members of the new organization are Misses Mary Hand, Beata McMahan, Freda Suleanor, Louise Smith, Cora Lyndon, Lillian Watson, Ethel Thompson, J. F. Clark, Grace Parsons, Alice Chapin, Alice Bloxham, Agnes Steed, Estber Golenor, Emma Kingston, Mara Vedder, Gail Van Deryeer and Sarah Adams.
The officers elected for the term are:
President—Miss Cora Lyndon.
First Vice-President—Miss Freda Suleanor.
Second Vice-President—Miss Alice Bloxham.
Secretary—Miss Beata McMahan.
Treasurer— Miss Grace Parsons.
Doorkeeper—Miss Esther Golenor.
Membership Committee—Misses McMahan, Bloxham and Hand.
The young ladies will meet each Friday night as do the other clubs. For the time being they will meet in Miss Griffin's office, and strive to be what their name implies "lovers of learning."
In Police Court.
Phillip Theis answered to a charge of public intoxication in city court this morning. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $5, in default of which he was sent to jail.
John Burns, who was arrested for public intoxication, pleaded not guilty and his case was put over until 2 o'clock today.
James Mackey was brought before the magistrate, but was still too much intoxicated to be dealt with. He talked in his cups, and boasted that he was drunk. His case was also put over until 2 o'clock.
DIPHTHERlA DISCUSSED.
Only Three Cases and All Are Doing Well—Officers Elected.
The Cortland County Medical association held its regular monthly meeting at the office of Dr. Higgins Friday evening, Jan. 17.
Dr. Carpenter opened a discussion on diphtheria, which was both practical and timely. Dr. Carpenter's paper took up the diagnosis and treatment of diphtheria and a discussion by all present followed, all agreeing that we have an invaluable remedy in antitoxin. Dr. Carpenter stated that there have been only three cases of diphtheria reported to him as health officer and it is highly probable that there have been not to exceed a half dozen cases in all the present scare, and all are doing well. One fatal case was not reported to him. The following officers were elected for the coming year:
President—Dr. F. D. Reese.
Vice-President—Dr. H. C. Hendrick.
Secretary—Dr. P. M. Neary.
Treasurer—Dr. F. W. Higgins.
Executive Member—Dr. C. D. Ver Nooy.
Fellow to State Medical Association—Dr. F. W. Higgins.
Alternate to State Medical Association—Dr. F. D. Reese.
A motion was made and carried recommending the executive committee to change the time of the regular monthly meetings from the third Friday in each month to the first Friday, in order that a report of the doings of the county meetings might reach the N. Y. State Journal of Medicine in time for publication, it being a monthly journal.
It was also voted that the county association contribute a certain part of the funds in its treasury to the state association funds for entertaining the American Medical association which is to meet at Saratoga next June.
Meeting adjourned to first Friday in February.
BREVITIES.
—The Cayuga county fair to be held the last week in September occurs at Moravia.
—Quarterly meeting at the Elm Stump church will be conducted Jan. 25 and 26 by Rev. W. N. Bailey of Vestal.
—The first degree will tomorrow night be worked at the regular communication of Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. & A. M.
—New display advertisements today are—A. S. Burgess, Clothing, page 8; C. F. Brown, Pure drugs, etc., page 6; M. W. Giles, Cut prices, page 8; W. J. Perkins, Mid-winter suggestions, page 6.
—The series of Bible readings at the Presbyterian chapel by Rev. H. M. Parsons, D. D., of Toronto were to have begun on Tuesday night of this week, but Dr. Parsons is detained by a funeral and cannot get here till Wednesday. The readings will in consequence begin on Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock following the schedule of themes noted elsewhere. All interested are cordially invited to attend.
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