The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 60, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 12, 1902 Page: 3 of 4
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leader who has the confidence of every
member of the organ 1 is tlon. Active
Traps for American Soldiers
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IN MAETERLINCK’S MAY, “NONNA VANNA”
to (He American army in the Philip-
pines, is taken from the New York
Times:
“Serving asr an enlisted man through
the Philippine war 1 came across many
odd trenches, barricades, and block-
ades erected by the ingenious Fil-
ipinos, who always calculate these
fortifications with a view of retreat-
ing from them in the event of being
pushed by the American troops. But
I never saw trenches and barricades
of the order of those utilized by the
cunning Moros. v
spongy enough to let a shell penetrate
without breaking the material. The
natives secure a sort of a lime-like
product from the paountalns with
.which they make a cementing mate
rial to erect the masonry.
“The Mores are as ingenious as the
'Filipinos in the construction of
Mme. Leblanc, who Is regarded ss
one of the coming great tragediennes
of France, was to have appeared in
the title role of Maeterlinck's "Monna
Vanna,” which the British censor
his camp. When Monna Vanna hears
of the conditions she decides. In spits
of the horror of her husband, that
is her duty to save her city. She goes,
only to find herself treated with re-
would not allow to be played In pub- j spect instead of insult, Prinxtvalle
trenches and barricades of the abund-
The.- writer accompanied_the fti>t ant htmimn nf the i-oentrv. H^.^hon
posts are placed in the earth at Inter-
vals. Then the necessary cross pieces
of the same stock of smaller diameter
are put through the uprights, and
large expedition against the Moros, in
April, and had an opportunity to ob-
serve the entrenching customs of the
Moro soldier. There is on the island
of Mindanao what is known as the lake
tribes, and these tribes. oJ-<J>art of
them, arc the tribes-nngd^ed I iu war
■wtth Ijie Americans. The coAst and
river Tribes are friendly, and many of
the members of these tribes were
hired by the American troops to carry
rations and ammunition on all expe-
ditions to the interior, where the lakes
are located. The lakes are fine
stretches of water about thirty-five
miles from Maiabang.
“We camped at the latter place sev-
eral weeks awaiting the concentration
of the troopB to move on the warring
Moros at the lakes. The lake tribes
had .committed serious depredations,
sad i it became necessary to pacify
them. They had captured and killed
small bodies of our soldiers. They
blockaded roads and trails, and com-
mitted crimes similar to those which
caused Weyler with his Spanish regi-
ments to try to force a passage to the
lakes some years ago, but which ex-
pedition failed. The Moros at the
lakes are supposed to be in strong
force. They occupy several of the
forts which were built by the Spanish,
but which the Spanish failed to hold.
At the time of writing this article
your correspondent “ is in the field,
about twenty miles from the lakes,
with the first American troops to go
there.
“We find barricades of all kinds
across the roads to obstruct the prog-
ress of the troops. Trenches of varied
styles are seen.
“The sketch here, a cross section of
one of these trenches, shows the de-
vice employed—a light bamboo cov-
ering. c,arth is placed on this cover-
ing, and the passing troops are sup-
posed to break through the top and
tumble upon the sharpened bamboo
]>oints below. If the troops fell in
upon these points- serious results
Milglit follow, but care is used, and,
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these cross pieces are Interwoven with,
the divided or split bamboo. Then an-
other partition like this is put up
about three feet back and, the space
between packed with earth, sods,
brush, etc., resulting iu a substantial
barricade, through which Bhot, as a
rule, cannot pass.
“All along the line of march to the
lakes one would see a man, every now’
and then, fall straight forward, full
length, throwing his rifle ahead of
him. An examination of the path
would show the trap (1), consisting of
a single piece of thin bamboo, adjust-
ed on Tittle pegB, and set Just high
enough from the surface to trip any-
one who was passing.
“I never was in a country where the
enemy displayed so much ingenuity in
the setting of traps. ‘ t served as a sol
dter In Cuba, and have been at it
three or four years In these islands,
but not until I took the Moro trail to
the lakes with the American expedi-
tion of April did I see arrows set to
shoot out across the path near one
lie. In the picture Mme. Leblanc is
seen in the costume she wears in the
play, which was first produced in Par-
is on May 17 last.
The story of the play turns upon
poignant situations. The town of Pisa
is being besieged by the Florentine
army, led by the brilliant Condottiere
Prlnzlvalle. It is at the last stage of
famine and despair; food and amnia-
union aifc alike at *w-end. At this
point the conqueror states bis terms.
He will spare the town, he will indeed
revictual and rearm It, If the beautiful
Monna Vanna, the wife of Guido, one
of the princes of Pisa, is sent out to
haB seen and loved her years ago, and
he asks to be allowed to kiss her upon
the forehead. They return togetbwr
to Pisa—for it is no longer safe for
Prtnxlvalle to remain with the army
whose victory he has robbed—ai\d
Monna Vanna declares her fhnocence
and her companion's mercy. But she
is nowhere believed. Her husband,
Guido, is so iufurtaled by her state-
ment that he threatens-bo -put •Prtnsf-
valle to the torturo unless she con-
fesses. Finally, in the attempt to save
him whom she now finds she loves,
she confesses to what is no*, true. The
play is exceedingly powerful.
WHAT YHK INSECTS COST
Enormous Mousy Losses Produced in
This Country by Their Ravages.
“The chinch-bug caused n teas--of
$30,000,000 in UTI. upward of $100,•
000,000 in 1874. and In 1$$7, $66,000.-
says Dr. H. C. McCook In Har-
r’s Magazine The Rocky Mountain'
locust, or grasshopper, in 1874 des-
troyed $100,000.000of the crops of Kan-
sas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa, and
the indirect loss was probably as
much more. For many years the cot-
ton caterpillar caused an annual av-
erage loss in the southern states of
$1$,000.000. while in 18& and U73 the
loss reached $30,000,000. The fly-
weevil, our most destructive enemy to
stored grains, particularly throughout
the south, Inflicts an annual loss in
the whole country of $40,000,000. Ttaa
coddling moth, the chief ravager of
the apple and pear crops, destroy*
every year fruit valued at $30,600,000
lo $40,000,000. This damage to live
attack inflicted by the ox-bot, or ox-
warble, amounts to $30,000,000.
“These aro fair samplos of the enor-
mous money losses produced in one
country^Jjfy.a few of the pigmy cap-
tains of pernicious industry whose
hosts operate In the granerles, fields,
stock farms and the stock yards of
our country. What la the grand totalf
Mr. B. D. Walsh, one of the entomolo-
gists of his day, In 1867, estimated
the total yearly loss In the United
States from insects to be from $800.-
000,000 to $400,000,000. In 1880, C. V.
Riley, long chief of the division of
entomology estimated the loss at
$300,000,000. Dr. James Fletcher In
1891 footed Op the loss to abeut one-
tenth of our agricultural products—
$330,000,060! In 1899 B. Dwight San
derson, after careful consideration of
the whole field, put the annual loss
st $309,000,000.
us-
"ns n rule, places of this kind are
avoided. . —
“We found many trenches arranged
so that the occupants could keep up
a continuous retreat and still-remain
under cover. A drawing of this
scheme is presented. These trenches
are made alongside the mads or trails,
and. In addition, there are stone bar-
ricades piled- at proper angles. The
enemy is stationed at (d). for exam-
ple, and maintains its fire upon the
' oncoming troops from this point until
the proper times comes for making a
retreat Tbeh the occupants retreat
back to (c) and open fire; then back
to m, and so on as tong as tha
trenches continue. ,
“In this, sketch the reader may ob-
serve a plan of a barricade which 16
built with the intention of giving a
reception of bamboo pointa to, any
one jumping the same. It is frequent-
ly necessary to rush the trenches of
the enemy and the Moros know this,
so that they prepare the back of the
barricades with the sharpened points
of bamboo as indicated. The pointa
Frogs and the Telegraph.
One of the greatest enemies of the
overland telegraph line in central Aus
tralia is the common green frog. In
order to save the insulators from be-
ing broken by the lightning they are
provided with wire “droppers'* leading
round them at a little distance to con-
duct on to the iron pole in case of need.
The frogs climb the poles and find the
insulators cool and pleasant to their
.bodies, and fancy that the “dropper’’
is put there to furnish UTem with a
back seat. After a nap they yawn and
stretch out a leg until it touches the
pole—result, sudden death to the frog,
and as the body continues to conduct
the current to earth we have a para
graph In the papers to thet effect that
“in consequence of an interruption to
the lines probably caused by a cyclo-
nic disturbance in’the interior, we are
unable to present our readers with the
udual cables from England.”
<io not show from the front, and the
chargers are often unaware of the
pricking points until they strike upon
them. We found many barricades
made entirely with the thorny, under
growth of Jtb« jungle. This substance
posffss wirelike points, which, tear the
clothes anB'the skin. It Is very diffi-
cult A> force a passage through these
and tha column* are de-
layed.
•We bsd artillery with us, and bar-
ricades built of ordinary stone could
be shattered freely with these pieces.
But tha Ingenious Moro finds a kind
of sandstone In tha bills with which he
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#hen he tripped the rkwhide or hem
pen cord. The Filipino had devices
of this kind, but they did not alwhys
work and the soldiers would play with
the contrivances. But no one plays
with the Moro" path-shooting arrow
gun, arranged as represented in the
sketch. Here the arrow lays in a hoi
lowed section or tube of bamboo, close
to the surface, and this tube is fixed
with a bow, as shown. The bowstring
is hauled back and connected to a trip
clutch. This clutch Is connected with
a cord, which extends across the trail
to a peg. As a man passes over the
trail his toe catches the cord, the bow
is let loose and the arrow flies.”
Revived Old Cuatom.
American taxdodgers Would proba-
bly hesitate before going quite so far
as was traveled not long- ago by the
rector of a parish in England, his
church warden and the chairman of
the pariah council. By virtue of a cus-
tom dating back to the time of Queen
Elizabeth residents of the parish of
Corby, near Kettering, are exempt
from market tolls and Jury service pro-
vided that once in every twenty yea s
they submit to being placed |n t) a
public stocks. The parson and his
two thrifty friends were locked up for
an hour or so, thus reviving a custom
which had been forgotten for a great
many years.
Governor Paroles Chinese Desperado.
Gov. Gage of California has roused a
storm of disapproval by securing the
parole from San Quentin prison of
Mah Noon one of toe most desperate
and bloodthirsty highbinders ever
caught red-handed. Mah Is a fine cook
and the governor has installed him as
chef In his own hotna. The Chinaman
whs sentenced not long ago to fourteen
years for attempting to murder an-
other celestial. He also shot and dan
gtoroualy wounded an officer who want
to arrest him.
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Deadlier Than the Fer-Ds-Lancs.
One who has been over the world
says: “Your Martinique friend fer-
de-lance is not to be compared with
the duklte snake of Australia. It is
like the pictures you have seen of sin,
a long, red snake, with eyes the liv-
ing embodiment of evil. The dukltcs
never go alone. If you are unfortun-
ate enough to kill one without killing
its mate the latter will follow your
trail remorselessly, like death, or fate,
and though you camp twenty miles
from the spot It will kill you as sure
as you killed ltB partner.”
The Greatest Oil Well.
The greatest oil spouter of the Rus-
sian petroleum district was struck a
few months ago about eight miles
southwest of Baku, The well was
bored to a depth of 1,800 feet before
oil was reached. Then, for nearly
three days it sent out oil at the rate
of 180,000 barrels a day, and continued
thereafter to flow at a diminishing
rate until it had produced over 2,000,-
000 barrels. The owners lost money,
for the well could not be controlled,
much adjacent property being dam-
aged by the oil that escaped.
Leader Who Has the Confidence
of the United Mine Workers
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Pleasure Driving Tabooed, but
Whisky Plentiful on Sunday.
The Jewel of coualatency la about as
rare In Scotland as In other lands, It
would seem. As a case in point, J.
Fred Burns, of St. Louis, at the Grand
hotel, yesterday related an experience
of his while staying In the country
district of Scotland. “I was putting
up,” he said, “at a small country
house, kept by a woman, a typical
Scot, religiously pious, , so it turned
out. When the first Sabbath came
around I decided I would have a drive, t
to I asked my landlady If she would
accommodate me with a team. She
threw up her bands In horror, inform-
ing me in a dialect that I could not4e-
.....produce for you even if l ware In a
golf suit, that It was impious to go
driving on the Sabbath; she would not
allow me the use of her team. ThOrp*^'
seemed no way for It, but 1 should go
to the kirk with my landlady and a
crowd of villagers. After the service —
we returned to the Inn, minister and
all (by tho way, he was not little).
When the house was reached the land-
lady led the way In by a door that I
had not before entered. I went in
with the rest, and when we were In-
side I was treated to the spectacle of
my pious landlady dealing out Scotch
whisky to all hands, Including the
minister. I told her there seemed to
be more than one way to serve the
Lord on the Sabbath day, but the shot
passed over her head.”—New York
Tribune.
If Leo Lives One Year.
It la pointed out that If Leo XIII la
-spared to see the year 1903, that year •
will be to him one of quite exceptional
Interest, a veritable “annus mlrabllls.”
As everybody knows it will be his sil-
ver Jubilee of papacy (elected Pope.
February 80, 1878;) but more than that
it will also be bis golden Jubilee as
cardinal (proclaimed by Pius IX in
the Consistory of December 19, 1863,)
and bis diamond jubilee of eplcopacy
(preconlzed Archbishop of Damietta by
Gregory XVI on January 37, 1843, and
19). Such
1
efforts are hiring put forward to and
the present costly strike, and It la be-
lieved a plan of arbitration will be
agreed to soon and that a million men.
women and children will be relievtol
from the Imminent danger of starva-
faceT 1
tlon which they how
The pro-
business sentiment, and the appoint-
ment of a board of conciliation Is im-
minent. All parties are tired of the
ooetly struggle.
•v.“~
consecrated February 19). Such a
triple jubilee, If Hla Holiness lives to
celebrate It will probably be unique
In history.—London TableL ’
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Practical Philanthropy. v ^
1 have heard of a woman In a coun-
try town, says a correspondent, who
every morning and night fills a bucket
with fresh water and stands it at the
gate of her little wayside house. Her
I4$s la to give vagrant dogs a drink,
and a mighty good Idea It 1a, for along
the road travel ma#y teams and they
are seldom unaccompanied by a dog
of some sort. In hot preather the
nine’s distreaa was often noticed by]
this. Samaritan, and she has adopted!
this measure for alleviating some;
poor fellow’s thirst, because, as she'
says, ‘There are no drinking foun-!
tains for dbgs in this neighbor hood. -
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Three Grades of Mankind.
Henry Thomas Buckle’s thoughts
and conversation were always oft a
high level. Once he remarked: “Men
and women range themselves into
three classes or orders of intelli-
gence; you can tell the lowest'’class
by their habit of always talking about
persona; the next by the fact that
their habit Is always to converse
about things; the highest by tksir
preference for ;> the <ti*<u**ipn at
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Newton, W. B. The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 60, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 12, 1902, newspaper, July 12, 1902; Mineral Wells, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1038773/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.