The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 22, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 September 1910 — Page 6
Syracuse Journal SYRACUSE, - - IND SENSE OF HEARING IN FISH Angljsr Tests Theory That They Are j Frightened by Sounds on Banks of Stream. I have long thought that fish under water cannot hear sounds which take place above IL I have been fishing •with a gentleman who did not like to speak for fear the trout would hear him. I ridiculed the idea and said: “Let us fish away and talk as loudly as we can for a while, then let us fish and hold our tongues for another ■while and see if there is any difference in the rising of the trout to the fly.’’ There was not the slightest difference. Among all the anglers of my acquaintance I can only call to mind this one who held the idea that sound above water frightened fish under it. The firing of big guns from forts has been alluded to, but generally in these cases a ball goes hopping along or a shell bursts and causes a movement in the water. From the fort at Kisale they fire toward the harbor’s mouth, as I have seen many times when in our yacht at anchor in the harbor. We were told that the locality where the balls strike was quite deserted by the fish, but in other parts of the bar bor the fishing was not affected. Small narrow streams in Ireland often hold trout, and one day unper ceived I got close to a trout In one and shouted as loudly as if tallying a fox from cover. The trout took no notice and did not move, but the moment 1 made a movement and showed myself off he went like an arrow. In the same stream I saw a trout tying dose to the bank, and getting above him I tore a few bits of white japer from an envelope and let them float over him. He at once rose and took a piece. This was repeated three times when the paper floated directly over him, but when they passed him on either side he took no notice. If a hook had been in one it would ap parently have been as good as the best fly. In the Bandon river I saw trout rising outside the reach of a man with a 12-foot rod. When he was gone, having caught nothing, I took his stand, ind covering the trout with my 18looter pulled out six. I never thought >f any effect from stamping on the bank and never tried it. —Thomas Poole in the Shooting Times. Find Treasure Trove. A great find of treasure has been made at Alcazaba, in Spain. Several centuries ago a castle was built tc defend the town against the Moorish Invaders. It was built on the top oi a hill and recent earth excavations in those parts have caused the old castle to collapse, and have also destroyed several neighboring edifices. Lasi month the tower fell, some of the falling stones killed two of the occupants and injured seven others. Thereupon the authorities decided to demolish the castle, and during excavations in the deep dungeons a number of skeletons, evidently prisoners who had died in jail, were brought to light. Twc Iron chests were also unearthed, and when opened they were found to be full of old Spanish and Portuguese gold and silver coins. At the bottom of the chests were a number of gold and silver bars. The whole is estimated to be worth oved $150,000. Hall of this treasure trove will go to the government, and the other half to the workmen who discovered it. A Drawing From Memory. Everybody knows of the extraordinary talent of several of the Emmet girls for painting and drawing. Jane Erin Emmet, who married Vohn Glehn, the London painter, can do a speaking crayon drawing of anybody in less time than it takes to tell it Once In London she met a young man in the Street and never saw him again. Some years afterward his mother came to her In grief and despair. The young man had died suddenly, and there was no portrait photograph or other likenes of him to console the family. Jane Emmet did a crayon of him from the memory of that chance meeting in the jtreet and It is prized by his family beyond all their other possessions. When They Go Out to Dine. “Did you ever notice the difference between a man’s dinner and a wornin’s?’’ asked the observer. "A man bikes you out to dinner. He orders i steak or roast beef, spaghetti, potawes in some style, sliced tomatoes and or pudding. A woman gets sweetbreads, artichokes, truffles, mushrooms or some other expensive delicacy, lettuce or apple salad and the fanciest kind of ice cream dessert. A man never thinks of having anything but good solid food, while a woman must have something different, and it usually takes the form of highpriced, non-nutritious dishes.« If they are out of season, so much the better. Hot Time Coming. Hewitt —What sort of a fellow is he? Jewett —Well, if he gets all that’s coming to him in the next world he won’t feel like sending out any “at home” cards. Marital Comparisons. "My wife can throw such soft languishing glances that Fd defy any one to get away from them.” "My wife can throw a flat iron with such precision that I’d defy any man to dodge IL"
NO CLOUOSIN SIGHT COLONEL GEORGE HARVEY BAYB COUNTRY ALL RIGHT. THE WHITER SEES NO CLOUD Striking Article In North American Review That la Attracting Wide Attention. The attention of business and professional men In all portions of the country has been attracted to a strikingly strong article by Col. George Harvey In the September issue of the North American Review in which the writer takes a view o< the greatest .1 hopefulness for the future of America | and Americans. The article is en- | titled “A Plea for the Conservation of | Common Sense,” and it is meeting | with the cordial approval of business men of all shades of political opinion throughout the entire country. In part, Colonel Harvey says: "Unquestionably a spirit of unrest dominates the land. But, if it be true that fundamentally the condition of the country is sound, must we necessarily succumb to despondency, abandon effort looking to retrieval and cringe like cravens before clouds ' that only threaten? Rather ought | we not to analyze conditions, search for causes, find the root of the distress, which even now exists only in nen’s minds, and then, after the American fashion, apply such rem- I edies as seems most likely to produce beneficent results? Capital and Labor Not Antagonistic. "The Link that connects labor with capital is not broken but we may not deny that it is less cohesive than it should be or than conditions warrant. Financially, the country Is stronger than ever before in its history. Recovery from a panic so severe as that of three years ago was never before so prompt and comparatively complete. The masses are practically free from debL Money is held by the banks in abundance and rates are low. “Why, then, does capital pause upon the threshold of investment? The answer, we believe, to be plain. It awaits adjustment of the relations of government to business. * * * The sole problem consists of determining how government can maintain an even balance between aggregations of interests, on the one hand, and the whole people, on the other, protecting the latter against extortion and saving the former from mad assaults. “The solution is not easy to find for the simple reason that the situation is without precedent. But is not progress being made along sane and cautious lines? • • • Conserve Common Sense. "Is not the present, as we hav seen, exceptionally secure? What, then, of preparations for the future? Patriotism is the basis of our institutions. And patriotism in the minds of our youth is no longer linked solely with fireworks and deeds of daring. It is taught in our schools. A new course has been added —a course In loyalty. Methodically, our children learn how to vote, how to conduct primaries, conventions and elections, how to discriminate between qualificar tions of candidates and, finally, how to govern as well as serve. They are taught to despise bribery and all forms of corruption and fraud as treason. Their creed, which they are . made to know by heart, is not complex It is simple, but comprehensive, no less beautiful in diction than lofty in aspiration. These are the pledges which are graven upon their memories: “As it Is cowardly for a soldier to run away from battle, so it is cowardly for any citizen not to contribute his share to the well-being of hla country. America is my own dear land; she nourishes me, and I will love her and do my duty to her, whose child, servant and civil soldier I am. "As the health- and happiness oi my body depend upon each muscle and nerve and drop of blood doing its work in its place, so the health and happiness of my country depend upon each citizen doing his work in his place. “These young citizens are our hostages to fortune. Can we not safely assume that the principles animating their lives augur well for the permanency of the Republic? When before have the foundation stones of continuance been laid with such care and promise of durability? “The future, then, Is brighL And the present? But one thing Is needful. No present movement Is more laudable than that which looks to conservation of natural resources. But let us never forget that the greatest Inherent resource of the American people is Common Sense. Let that be conserved and applied without cessation, and soon it will be found that all the ills of which we complain but know not of are only such as attend upon the growing pains of a great and blessed country. He Knows the Game. According to the Metropolitan Megazine, Fire Chief John Conway of Jersey City, hi solved the baseball ex- ; buss question by the posting of the I tallowing printed notice on his desk st fire headquarters: “All requests for leave of absence swing to grandmothers* funerals, lame back, house cleaning, moving, sore throat, headache, brainstorm, cousins’ wedding, general indisposition, etc., must be handed to the chief not later than ten o’clock on the morning of the •ame."
Wexler/BoolU i in I Justifies Our Inter venfion in Ciibtx
TH an unpardonable lack of tact or agrewsome attempt at a sinister piece of humor, Gen. Valerlane Weyler, the former Spanish captain general of Cuba, who gained for himself the unenviable title of “butcher,” has allowed the publishers to print the title of the sensational book
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(n which he attempts to defend his conduct while the representative of the Spanish crown on that island, MI MANDO EN CUBA (My Command in Cuba) In letters of gory scarlet on a paper of livid gray. Whatever the motive may have been that prompted such a choice, that bloody “eye catcher” of a line fitly symbolizes the man and the work which caused so many years of discontent In Cuba. Weyler has been on trial before public opinion
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for butchering his enemies Instead of fighting them; and he flaunts In our faces the ugly stains that show where he wiped off his knife. Captain General sf the most fertile province of Spain (and a province which more than ance manifested her Intention to throw off the Bourbon yoke), he makes such a case against the country that buys his services as no citizen of the United States could have ever made to
justify America’s attitude in the Cuban mlx-up. Weyler was the best hated man In Cuba when the government of his nation finally recalled him. This book will to be cursed the length and breadth of the peninsula. “I wrote it,” he says, “to give all the facts about my conduct as general In chief, a conduct admired not only by army officers, high and low, who wrote me Innumerable letters, but by privates, who, on their return to the peninsula, spoke of me with an enthusiastic fervor for which I can never thank them enough. Various reasons prevented me from doing years ago (when I could not have freed my mind ’ from a certain bias) a work which I can now do In perfect peace of mind, thanks to the i time that has passed, and which has soothed the irritation due to the injustice I suffered at the hands of some men. “Furthermore I did not wish to sadden Senor Sagasta by retelling the story of our colonial disasters; neither did I feel any pleasure In censuring the illustrious Gen. Martlnex Campos, my predecessor in Cuba, however uncharitably he acted toward me after his return to the capital.” A perusal of the book fails to prove that Weyler kept his promise»to treat the subject with perfect moderation; the general’s blood is still | boiling, and with some justification, for atrocious | as his conduct was in many Instances, it could not very well be criticized in. Spain by the Spanish government. Had Weyler been endowed with the literary genius of a Marbot or a Las Cazes, he could have made a much stronger case against Spain and presented his own actions in a much more favor- t able light. Unfortunately his knowledge of the writer’s craft is as deficient as his fund of information touching political economy, general history, national anad International politics Is meager. Weyler Is not a diplomat; the slippery land of nuances and Innuendos is to him terra incognita; a primitive brute, with rudimentary ethics, though unflinchingly frank and straightforward, he never ventures an assertion which cannot be supported by documents; he never pays any attention to hearsay but quotes people’s letters in extenso. A fascinating type, after all, for the observer blessed with the sense of history; just imagine what a Weyler would have developed into If he had not been born some 500 years too late; clad In steel, he had been riding a caparisoned mount, or, if he had been allowed to range over Europe during the Thirty Years’ war! General Weyler’s style is very trying; even his proclamations vainly modeled after Napoleon I.’s oratorical gems, rarely sound the note that makes a people or an army vibrate. His relations of the Cuban campaign with all the facts, figures, names recorded in haphazard fashion day by day, Is well nigh unreadable. But the documents he publishes in support of his thesis (some of them of a confidential character and which must have been secured through “diplomatic means”) make it well worth while wading through an otherwise dull, shapeless and indigestible piece of writing. First of all we are made to realize how hopeleas the plight of the Spanish commanders had become in the Island when Weyler took the situation In hand; the many generals who preceded him had been losing ground from day to day? their cables to the Spanish government gave information of a pessimistic character of which the public and the press were seldom apprised; their confidential correspondence betrayed heart- ■ rending facts; more than once poor Gen. Martinez Campos had humbly confessed himself beaten, while the cabinet led the Spanish nation to believe that the war was practically over. Weyler himself, when placed In command of the Cuban army, was not even given what he was entitled to, an honest account of the situation. “When I landed In Cuba,” he writes, “I did not even suspect the terrible conditions that prevailed in the Island. I did not know anything
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besides what the minister of war had told me and what I had read in the papers or in anonymous letters sent by Spaniards living in Cuba, and I thought that all of them exaggerated the facts; I had no knowledge of the secret documents I have appended to 1 >
t is book. How gloomy the outlook was Is set o* r graphically in a confidential letter from uen. Martinez Campos to Canovaa del Castillo, prime minister of Spain. * • • Although from the very first 1 realized the gravity of the situation, I refused to believe it; my visits in Cuba, Principe and Holgin appalled me; however, In order not to appear pessimistic, I did not express all my thoughts, and I decided to visit not only the maritime communi. ties, but the towns in the interior. The few Spanlards who live in the island do not dare to mention their origin except in the cities. The rest of the population hates Spain. Wherever you pass a farm and ask the women where their husbands are, they answer with terrifying frankness: Tn the mountains with Chief So and So.’ "You could not get anyone to carry a message for 500 nor 1,000 pesetas; he would be hanged if he were ever caught. ...” The rebels who charged Weyler with wanton cruelty seldom restrained themselves from accomplishing deeds of violence likely to terrorize the few remaining supporters of the Spanish rule. To quote Weyler: “The insurgents did not return in any way the considerate treatment accorded to them by this generous commander (Martinez Campos). At the beginning of the war Maximo Gomez showed himself very fair; but Maceo, as I shall prove by authentic documents, ordered his bands to set fire 1 to all the sugar mills whose owners were not pay--1 Ing war tribute, to plunder and loot the country, to shoot mercilessly all the messengers, men j caught repairing railroad lines or bringing pro--4 visions into the villages. Worse yet: The insurgent chiefs did not hesitate to kill with their own weapons defenseless Islanders, and Maximo Gomez in his ‘Memolres’ confesses to having shot personally a man he had sentenced to death, a deed which I call willful murder. And still that individual presumes to call nia. ‘assassin.’ ” As his authority for the foregoing statement General Weyler not only quotes extracts from the Cuban papers, but appends a proclamation of Maceo, Gomez’s lieutenant, to his bands. “Comrades in Arm’s: Destroy, destroy everything, day and night; to blow up bridges, to derail trains, to burn up villages and sugar mills, to annihilate Cuba is the only way to defeat our enemies. We have not to account for our conduct to anyone. Diplomacy, public opinion and history , don’t matter. It would be sheer insanity to seek the laurels of the battlefield, to bear the fire of the enemy’s artillery and contribute to the glory of the Spanish commanders. The essential thing is to convince Spain that Cuba will be but a heap of ruins. What compensation will she receive then for the sacrifice entailed by the campaign? We must burn and raze everything. It would be folly to fight as though we were an European army. Where rifles are of no avail let dynamite do the work. A. MACEO.” The only way to subdue such bloodthirsty, desperate pirates was to adopt their own tactics. The Insurgents, of their own admission, never gave nor accepted battle, but harassed the regulars and destroyed their sources of supply. "Concentration” seemed to be the only solution of the problem. for the wives and children of the Insurgents
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“Os all the measures I took the most bitterly crltlslzed was the ’concentration,’ which saved my troops from being uselessly decimated and prevented the landing of arms and munitions consigned to the enemy. I need not defend that system. Whoever has a smattering of the history of modern wars know’s that it was copied by the English in the Transvaal and the Americans In the Philippines, a fact most flattering to my pride as a general. “If Individuals were sometimes summarily shot under my generalship, as It happens In the course of every war, they were put to death in obedience to the laws and regulations, never for the mere reason that they were Insurgents. I pardoned those who returned to the fold, and showed much clemency to all those who came to me, however black their past may have been.” It is a matter of regret that General Weyler should not have deemed it advisable to volunteer more information as to the organization of the concentration camps. He says that one pound of meat and a quarter of a pound of‘rice were allowed to every individual over fourteen, and one-half that ration to children.
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gave them constant aid and kept them Informed of every movement of the Spanish regiments. Says General Weyler:
families whose men were not .serving in the ranks of the regular army. Refused army rations, compelled to roam from one devastated village to a burnt down hamlet, they could not but succumb to hunger and exhaustion. Had Wbyler been less brutally honest, he would have omitted such a damaging admission. Up to this day we have had books of many kinds dealing with the Cuban war; pamphlets put forth by the insurgents and notoriously unfair to Spain; Spanish publications which misrepresented grossly the attitude of the United States; articles in European newspapers almost unanimously censuring the Americans for “robbing” Spain of her colony. Now, however, we have the facts presented almost without any comments and certainly without embellishment by a Spanlard ( who loves his country and frankly detests the Americans. Once or twice he registers a protest against the senate’s decision concerning the recognition of belllgenercy or the campaign of defamation directed against him in American papers. He complains that in March, 1896, when he had the situation well under control, the senate of the United States interfered most unfairly, for it recognized the belligerency. of the insurgents, thereby giving them new courage. This is less convincing than the majority of his arguments, for if we compare dates we find letters in which he admits his failure to stop the progress of the Insurrection. His gravest charge against the United States Is contained in the following paragraph, which is too vague to be taken as seriously as some . other statements of his: “The United States were against everything that would bring about a termination of the war— American citizens held several millions worth of Cuban bonds, issued with the provision that the Island would pass-under the domination of the United States ten years after Cuba would have separated herself from Spain. The Yankees saw that with the pace I set the much-longed-for independence of Cuba and Its corollary, the annexation thereof, was becoming a more and more remote possibility. But there was no reason why the peninsula should have robbed all the gossip which originated In America.” But on the whole the picture his letters and reports, as well as the letters of Martinez Campos he publishes, present to our eyes of Cuba in the years preceding the Maine incident would have justified any nation, near or remote, in intervening for the sake of humanity; a populationunanimous in its desire for independence; a bloody war which could only lead to an ephemeral peace and at best would have left the island a dreary waste for years to come; the rights of foreign land owners and Investors trampled under foot; all this horror had to be stopped. Spain did not lose Cuba as a consequence of the war with the United States; by the very admission of Spain’s military representatives in that ill-fated colony, Cuba was irretrievably lost to Spain La 1897, and the few Spaniards residing in the coast towns, the only safe abode for them, felt themselves a despised, ostracised minority. I
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which seems quite sufficient under the circumstances. A few paragraphs, however, couched in his blunt, soldierly style, setting at naught the terrible charges preferred against him in connection with that stern system of warfare would have been interesting, but they were lacking. His silence amounts to a confession of guilt, tie makes a weak attempt at explaining that the wives and children of insurgents were not “concentrated," but obliged to betake themselves where the head of the family was supposed to be found. This is • worse yet, for one can conceive the appalling abuses which such an order emanating from the general in chief must have countenanced and justified. As the, revolutionary bands were constantly moving from east to west and from west to east and could not be located with any certainty, what an existence must have been that of
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