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A Letter from Manila.
Manila, P. I., Jan g —Mr. F.O. Marvin,
Dear Professor: I have been wanting to write to you for months and have been putting it off for various unstable reasons, but now, I will try and write you a few lines to let you know that K. U. boys do not forget their professors.
Well, the Twentieth Kansas after seven months of weary waiting, is at last in the city of Manila, overlooking the scene of Dewey's 'glorious victory. The thoroughness of his work is shown by the wrecks of nine Spanish vessels of war. Five have been raised by Dewey and are now doing work for Uncle Sam.
There are about 12,500 Spanish soldiers here waiting to be taken home. They are very respectful to us boys, giving us the narrow sidewalk and in no wise interfering in any way. They are much better liked than the natives who are ignorant, dirty, almost naked, and very little better than savages. The attitude of the insurgents under Aguirreal is quite threatening.
Aguinaldo tries every means to bring out an attacking body by threats and feints. The Twentieth holds outposts on the extreme left of the line, flanking on the bay. They (the insurgents) played us a sharp trick the other day. In front of and to our left is a huge cane brake. One day a large force of insurgents went to work vigorously and built a bamboo house of large size. We watched them with interest but without suspicion. This house stood about ten days when one dark cloudy night it disappeared and the morning light revealed in its place, built inside of the original house a solid block house built of heavy mahogany logs. * * * These insurgents are cowardly and will fight only at night. They are armed with Mausers, Remington and machettes. You can imagine how an impatient Yankee will worry and stern at this opposition. The boys all want to get at them. Yesterday we were again ordered to stay in quarters with five days rations and 150 rounds of ammunition. We boys from Lawrence often speak and think about old K. U. and her professors. Sergeant Rufo Hazen is well and is doing duty. Roy Haynes is in the band. I have managed in my nine months of service to get the triple chevrons and of course I am very proud of them and mean only to do them honor. The boys wish to be remembered to you.
General Otis awaits instructions from Washington and meanwhile all we do is to hold our own, preserve order and be in readiness for an attack or emergency. Around Manila and Cavite the insurgents have a system of cutouts and a skirmish line. Inside of this line is our line at a distance of 200 to 500 yards from the insurgents. Each army watches every movement of the other.
Manila offers some great inducements to engineers I think. There is about the finest bay in the world and yet there are no deep water piers here. The procrastinating Spaniards, who for years have managed affairs, are to blame. The only piers are in the mouth of the Pasig river, a stream about 200 yards wide and quite swift.
They keep a steam dredge going all the year, yet do not get ahead of the deposit of sediment, and only vessels of 12 or 14 feet draught can get to the piers. Already Americhs have a projected deep water pier on paper, and American engineers and capital are all that is needed. Labor can be obtained at 25c a day.
In electrical work the people are fifty years behind hard. The city is lighted with incandescentes with a few arcs in on the same system. You can see the effect of this when an undersized wire is used. Nearly all of the machinery used here is of English make.
Spanish and Mexican silver money is used here on a parity and is worth about 48 cents American money to a dollar Spanish. I think the money system here is an object lesson in free silver. Not a peep of gold can you get other than American gold.
Well the mail closes at noon. The steamer Valencia, a United States transport, leaves at 3:00 and I must close, with best regards I am yours.
CARROL PHENICIE.
BIOLOGICAL CLUE.
On last Tuesday Mr. McClung addressed the Biological club on "Weismanism." Weisman's theory of heredity, though now proved incorrect, is important because it gave a great impetus to the study of the transmission of parental characteristics. No rational theory was possible until a knowledge of the cell was gained.
The speaker briefly [reviewed the older theories on the subject]. He said that the oldest was *Darwin's* 'Pangeneis theory, which was' not based on observation. Among *the* ['the'] later biologists two general heries are held; the germinal localization of *His*, and the idiomics of *Naegeli*
The first is based on the preformation theory and supposes that the egg is divided
into certain portions, each of which contains elements representing characteristics of the parent. This theory was thought to be proved by Roux's experiment in procuring half an embryo after having killed one of the first two cells. Later, however, Roux obtained an entire embryo from a single cell, and so the theory was overthrown.
The second, or idioplasmic theory, supports that in the cell there is a substance which carries the inheritable qualities. This theory has been modified in several ways. It has been positively proved that the chromation of the cell plays an important part in the reproduction of characteristics.
The speaker then reviewed some of the recent experiments and their results. From these it is seen that the question of heredity has not yet been satisfactorily settled.
Mr. Beeck then compared the Permian rocks of Kansas with those of England. "The age of rocks," he said, "is partly determined by the character of the animals found in the fossils. The rocks of Kansas have no breaks, and their fossils give a continuous fossil record, while those of England have breaks, and so the record is not continuous. The important question is, are the rocks of Kansas or those of England the older?"
Mr. Beede is making a careful investigation of the subject, and his conclusions will be valuable.
Othello.
3rd with the following:
Duke of Venice...M. D. Johnson.
Brabantio...C. E. Rose.
Lodovico...E. E. Brown.
Cassio...Geo G. Wood.
Othello...Hale P. Hamilton.
Iago...Franklin Baker.
Roderigo...H. A. Poorman.
Montano...M. A. Smith
Gratiano...C. E. Rose.
Messenger...Roy Mains.
Desdemona...Eva Brown.
Emelia...Mrs. Cora McUllom Smith.
The cast has been working hard on the
The cast has been working hard on the play for some time past, and in its production will sustain the reputation which it has established by its previous performances.
The cast for the play in exceptionally strong, all the members seeming especially fitted for the parts they are to play. The ability of the actors, and their hard work on the play have been demonstrated to all who have been present at any of the rehearsals.
"The Masque" is a University organization, and deservedly recognized as such. In this line K. U, is the pioneer among the western colleges although Nebraska now talks of an organization similar to ours.
The University should turn out and show its appreciation of the club's work by giving "Othello" their hearty support.
It is not merely a matter of University spirit, for everyone will "get his money's worth." The Glee Club's Lawrence concert was always a great success, and most of us are as much interested in the drama as in music.
Let's all go to 'Othello' and see the valiant Othello, the wily days, and the fair Desdemora, as portrayed by University people.
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ECONOMIC SEMINARY.
Brief mention was made of the conditions in France, and of the growth of trusts.
An article on the increase of gold production, in the February number of the Forum by the director of the mint, was reviewed by Mr. Featherkile in the seminar Monday afternoon. During the period of gold production prior to 1861, there was a large increase in the annual yield. From that time until 1890 there was a heavy decrease in production. During this period much was written on the probable limited supply of the metal and one writer concluded that about half of the amount existing in the world had already been obtained. But the discovery of a new process reducing the ore has put a new light on the subject and the annual yield has almost tripled since 1890. In that year the output was $160,000,000 and in 1898 it was $280,000,000.
Mr. Mccree read an interesting paper on the Swiss industrial and educational policy.
He told of their care in fostering industry, of the completeness of their statistics, and what was most interesting, of their educational policy. The Swiss government gives financial aid, limited to one-half of the annual expenses, to 206 schools and colleges.
At, the next meeting. Mr. Copeland will review current events in sociology and Miss Perdue will review an article in the XIX Century.
AMUSEMENTS.
The next attraction at the Bowersock Opera House Monday night will be Charles E. Blaney's latest production "A Hired Girl." Mr Blaney has written several farce comedy successes, and one comedy drama, but that is said to surpass anything he has yet attempted; he calls it a musical comedy, bordering closely upon comic opera. There is a plot of considerable interest but it does not inerfer with the introduction of specialties and amusing situations, usually brought by the efforts of the hired girl to run things to suit her way of thinking.
Herr Ver Blotz, a graduate of the Musical Conservatory of Berlin, secures the position of professor of music at Vassar. He was a little wild in his younger days, and among his chums at college was a young American, John Sanderson, the black sheep of his family. To him, Ver Blotz confides the fact that he had been secretly married to a young peasant girl he had blighted her life, and fearing exposure he was compelled to leave Germany. Before his second marriage he hears that his first wife is dead, but this is a false rumor started by his former companion, Sanderson. The latter, hearing of the professor's marriage, decides to turn it to his own account.
Sanderson comes to America and appears at the Professor's house as Lord Green Goods, an Englishman. He is recognized but he immediately tells the professor that the report of his first wife's death is false, and that he will reveal the secret unless he is aided in his scheme to capture a handsome young heiress who is a student at the college. The professor is thus forced to become a party to the scheme, to save himself from the charge of bigamy. Sanderson, however, is not sure that he will succeed and he makes love to the hired girl who, he has heard, is about to receive $100,000. He is about to marry her when the professor receives proofs from Germany confirming his first wife's death and that his second marriage is legal. Lord Green Goods is exposed and is promptly arrested for forgery, and, like the ending of all funny fences, sends everybody home vowing its the funnies of the season.
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