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The times., 1897-08-22
The Deadly Grade Crossing.


The terrible accident at Deanewood, IN
which Judge Claughton and Miss custis
met their death, illustrates once more that
the grade crossing, in any capacity, should
not he allowed in the vicinity of large
city. There seems TO be Iecklessness
in human nature which permits man-traps
unthought-of horror awakens the public to
its responsibilities. 1t was so with the
Paris fire. Any one with common sense
might have known that a huge building
ofrhe infIan.m;. bic character of the Partisan
Charity Bazaar would burn like tinder, yet
the risk was calmly taken. It was SO in
the case OF Ford s Theater, which had been
condemned AS unsafe by expert opinion
And it is so more or less all over the
country in regard to grade crossings.
The MohamEiedan calls it fatalism, this
blind confidence that whatever is is right
When the car of Jugeernaut rolls through
the streets of Hindoo city and people are
crushed under it we call it superstition.
But there ,s a Joyous and irresponsible
trust in tie god, Luck, to be found in this
country that is worthy of both terms.
We pay, through carelessness and seIf-con-
fideace, and disregard Of the lives of others,
as heavy a toll to our boasted civilization
as the CITIZENS of some uncivilized countries
pay To their barbarism. 1t does not make
so very much difference whether man is
burned 10 death on the altar OF barbaric
| deity or in a car wrecked by careless OF
II, over worked railroad employe. He is just
as dead in one case as IN the other.
Ii does not make much difference from
the point of view of the family, whether
= man falls into a river and is devoured by
a sacred crocodile, or is caught on a
grade crossing (Which is allowed TO eN-
| ist in the supposed interest of the publicl,
aud crushed by an express train Let Us
have done with the sacrifices TO mate
rial civilization Railways can exist, and
all the other evidences of material pros
peritv can exist, without them. Ifthe same
attention is paid to securing absolute
safety to the people as to securing slightly
higher rae OF speed, we shall cease to
hear of these accidents, and we sh all be just
as truly civilized without them
The times., 1897-08-22
He'll Hound Diplomacy.

On Friday, when the fact became evident
and its annex in the Glover Building were
alakipg desperate efforts to suppress the
truth in the case of Senorita Cisueros, and
especially to prevent an outburst of Ameri-
can Indignation over the outrage, 1t oc-
Cured to us to wonder what subterfugeS
and liesthe Spanish authorities would resort
to In the attempt to cover their foul tracks
The news of yesterday furnished that in
formation. n cablegram TO the New
York World, the hyena, Weyler, makes
the following statement:
For judicial reasons there Is on trial
in the preliminary stages person named
kyangelIna Cossio Iisneros, VINO, ue-
celtrully luring to her house the military
commander OF the Isle OF Pines, had men
posted secretly who tied and attempted to
ASA ssinate him. This case is in the pre-
llnfinary stages, and has not yet been tired
by competent tribunal, ana consequently
no sentence mas been passed ana approved
by me ! answer the World with the frank
ness and truth that characterizes all my
acts
In the last sentence of the foregoing
the Spanish butcher displays a certain
Satanic humor which is worthy of note
If, indeed, he expects the American public
TO Judge him by the degree of frank
ness and truth" which ''characteriZes' all
ment will be taken for what it is, namely.
Iiei AS the trial and condemna ton of
Senorita Cisneros was conducted and ac-
complished by secret military tribunal,
without other warrant than the equally
secret personal order of Weyler, it is
perfectly feasible for him to disavow both
court and action, and, now that the out
rage has been discovered and published
to a Mortified world, it is easy for him
to reiegate the case TO the preliminary"
stage of judicial procedure.
He will not placate American rage and
| detestaticn by any such hypocrisy; nor
will he henefit his own or his govern
ment's case by the dastardly and men
dacious slur which he aims to cast upon
the character of pure young lady. His
assertion as to the nature of her offense
carries its own denial. Evangelina Cis-
| neros followed her father, who was i'm
prisonel on the Isle of Pines, in order to
be near him and to care for him. She
| and all the other Cubans on that island
Were without arms, surrounded by soldiers
| and police spies, and utterly unable to
commit any overt act of violence, or even
OF resistance to outrage. Senorita Cis-
| neros, her father end all his companions
in exile knew that to attempt anything
against the governor or the island, whether
successfully or otherwise, would immedi-
ately be followed by the remorseless
| massacre OF every one of them.
The simple truth is that the military
| governor, Col Berriz, nephew Of Can
| ovas del Castillo, believed the young lady
70 be alone and unprotected ia her faith
| er's prison hut. He sought her presence
for a purpose that should eonsign his
beastly body to death at the stake and
his soul to endless hell. Her cries brought
| her unfortunate father and others To the
scene, and thus the object Of her assail
ant was frustrated. For this, and this
alone, size has been prosecuted, tortured
The times., 1897-08-22
Reform fin the Navy.

There are more than a few reasons for
the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt is the right
man in the right place, or rather, that he
occupies the position next TO the right
place In the line, and it might not be
bad idea, at the earliest opportunity, to
shove him along TO the head of the class.
Periodically, in the past, the country
has been annoyed and molested by con-
slant friction in our naval establishment
between officers OF the staff and of
may be epitomized by the statement that
engineers, whO do not pretend TO be
navigators or fighting officers, and
surgeons, paymasters and chap plains have
had a grievance, because they do not
think that rank and position on ship, on
shore or on leave has been accorded them
commensuTately with their merits; and
that mere admirals, commodores, cap
tains and things, people who do the navi-
anu nav ONSh S-fNh
dignity and precedence over them.
1t must lie said that, as matters have ex-
listed for some time, there is some ground
for the complaint of the engineers. They
have been able to say, with degree of
truth, that If they are not capable OF
taking command of the deck, neither Is
the officer of the deck competent to go
below and run the eneine-room; so they
think that, as between the line and
the engineers, the honors ought to be
even
Mr. Roosevelt purposes changing these
conditions, If the department aud the Con-
gress win back him up, and in a manner
The times., 1897-08-22

Returning Adventures from the Alaskan
passes Continue to report great hardship
and suffering in that region. Not more
than 10 per cent of the people who have
gone up there will reach Dawson City
this year The r-mainder either will have
to camp where they are, or work
their way back to the Alaskan settle
ments. The Canadian authorities are send
ing out $50 mounted police, Judge and
a lieutenant governor. The prospeetors
declare that they win not pay the Canadian
royalty, and, therefore, there are serious
apprehensicns OF trouble.
The times., 1897-08-22
Circulation Statement
SUNDAY. AUGUST %, 1897.
silver and Wheat.

The phenomenal rise of wheat and the
extreme depression of silver in the mar
ket are giving rise to much discussion,
mostly of sort not worthy of serious
notice.
When silver was demonetized its down
wari course only could be arrested by
some demand foI il as a commodity.
This was found in the silver requirements
Of Europe, England especially needing il
to make exchanges with silver wheat pro-
aUcing countries, like India, Argentina and
Uruguay. When the wheat crops in those
countries failed Europe did not need our
silver but did, and does very much, need
pur wheat: so the latter goes up and the
former goes down. How far il may drop
before agricultural revival comes again
in silver countries is a question.
II is not question that in any way
affects the argument i'll favor of the re-
monetization OF silver. The same thing
would happen TO gold il that were de
rnoneti7ed. Restricted TO its use in the
arts and no longer permitted 10 per form
the function Of money gold might speed,
ly drop to the commodity level of copper,
because the worlds supply of gold is suf-
ficient for Its probable absorption in the
arts for sixty years at least. SO if the
whole volume OF gold were to be thrown
On the market at once, after dcnonetiza-
ton, the supply would be SO much in ex-
cess OF the immediate demand that it
would have little value.
Gold and silver alike are without value
except as they are useful for ornamental
and some mechanical purposes, unless by
common conseDttheyare accepted az money
Their value for that is consequence merely
OF their superior indestractibility, divisi-
bility and such things What we need and
alone need TO restore prosperity TO the
masses is volume Of legal tender money
sufficient TO make exchanges TO stop the
ascending power Of purchase in money, as
It exists under contraction, and 10 render
commodities ana development more de-
sirabIe than boards OF gold II enough
gold could he found TO accomplish this alone
that would be satisfactory, butthe civilized
world would want about three thousand
millions OF it added at once TO even begin
10 restore the conditions that existed be-
fore the demonetization of silver
OF course, such a thing is impossible.
As long as it is, it does not in the least
matter how low the commodity price of
silver may fan. II reInone tized it will be
just as valuable for money purposes as it
ever was OF ss gold is today. People must
not allow the gold cranks TO confuse their
Ideas. Money is q function, and not
thing. There is nothing inherent in me
tallic money in the way OF intrinsic
value" because the minute il is denione
tized it's value is determined by the supply
Of and demand fer the metal as merchan-
disc. But when il Is used for money under
law IL ls worth its face, whether it be
silver, gold, or any other substance.
The times., 1897-08-22

We confidently expect that the Presi-
dent, being good and pious man, except
where the tortured and butchered women
and girls of Cuba are concerned, win spend
today in praying for deliyerauce from his
friends. One OF the former organs of his
Hanna cembina ton, the Westminster
Gazette, yesterday wickedly observed:
Dollar wheat is an unmeritcd stroke
OF good luck for President McKinley's
government, which ought to have been
overtaken by swift calamity for shameless
iy paying election debts to the trusts by
the passage OF the Dingley tariff BILL
Dollar wheat is not an unmerited stroke of
good luck to the country, and we are glad
it has come; but, otherwise, the West
minister Gazette displays it's ability to tell
the truth on extreme occasions.
The times., 1897-08-22

II is barely possible that we are to have
some stiff winter weather at an early
farmers weie chilled to the marrow by
finding ice in their cabbage patches,
and our dispatches convey the gloomy
tidngs that beans are in danger. Eros t
was reported prevalent over the lower
peninsular counties. Things of this char
acter depress ambition for yachting cruis es:
and perhaps the Government may return
to its duties earlier than had been ex-
peeted.
The times., 1897-08-22

ex Congressman Linton led, &s he put it
in his advertising matter, ''0uJ OF the
house of bondage into the promised land"
Three years ago Joe Gunneil was EN-
ployed ia the Census Bureau. But Linton
called hiIn and he went He became land
agent for the Southern Florida Land COnl-
pany, the Modello Land Company and
station agent for the East Coast Rail-
road. We'll, this is the Joe Gunneu who
struck Washington yesterday. JOes con-
plc,liOn las been tanned from dude
blonde into a color very close 10 that
affected by a ,Biscayne Bay alligator, anu
his muscles have grown 80 great that
Joe said last night: 4 believe 1 van
lick Carol D. Wright and the whole force
OF Census clerks without taking off my
shirt"
Mir Gunnell explained that the hopes OF
the people of his part of Florida are based
more Juss now on pineappies thar on any
thing else Tomatoes, though, are
good second, SO far as hopes 20, and II the
markets this winter and next spring ara
fair 10 good, many piles OF money viii be
made iIy the settlers away down 10 that
land Of sun and sand There is tide OF
emigration setting that way, ana there is
bag money to be made in pineapples People
already ia the business are making money
by the stack and it is a business which
caEDOt be overdone. IT every foot OF avail
able pineapple land in Florida should he
planted it would feed but oue-hah OF the
watering mouths in the United States thar
crave Tor this luscious fruit. There il
plenty OF land down there, and plenty Of
room for people with plenty OF grit and
some cash ="
The times., 1897-08-22

Before the season is much more advanced
the Canadian authorities on the Upper
Yukon will learn that they are largely
subject TO the laws as well as the vicissi-
tudes of an American mining community.
To Illustrate: The projectors of the trail
over the pyea pass promised the miners
that if they would help build the road their
freight should be hauled over at fifteen
cents per pound. The miners turned out
in body and completed the trail Then
the company promptly advanced the rate
to twenty-five cents. Immediately the
miners aud prospectors held n meeting,
and a hundred Winchester barrels looked
in the face of the next pack train. The
freight was transported per agreement,
and the Canadian customs officers and
mounted police are kindly solicited not
to forget it The United States Govern
ment may not be powerfully represented
up in that country, but the United States
people will be. This is another considera
ticn which the Canadian may as well not
forgetl
The times., 1897-08-22

Mr.. Buckley, who to a large extent holds
in his hands the destiny of the National
Hotel, watched Mr.. March with sym
pathetic face and kindling eye. Yes,
said he, Il believe what you say. l have
heard similar statements before, but they
came from Republican headquarters, and
l did not give them full credence. But
times have been so hard that they could
not get harder, and So / suppose it is true
that there is an aneliorating influence at
work somewhere OH the business conditions
There are a great many more commercial!
E!en OH the road this year thar last, and
they are not walking either, but are put
ting up i'll tie hest rooms in the house
and eating four meals day, with extras
Last year times were so uncertain that
commercial houses were only sending out
such men as it was imperative to send,
but this year the woods are full OF them.
AS a flock of hIuebirds indicates the break
ing I'D CT winter, So host of commercial
travellers proves to my mind that the
backbone OF har times has been fractured
Now, / was up home the other day-l live
at Frederick and the people around that
part of the country seem TO be more hope
full than I have known them to be for
several years. They are putting fresh
paint on their barns and patching up the
fences and planting plots of bright flow
ers. Altogether, they gave me the impress
sion that they We're in that neighbOrhood
to stay, and that they Were not hankering
after cny promised lands. l believe busi-
ness s picking up
The times., 1897-08-22

John Kearney, New York pOlicenan,is
a guest ct an uptown hotel Last night
he visited headquarters and after chat
with d group OF the local deuthS he start
ed out TO see the sights with the eye OF
policeman and Incidentally TO drop in on
the station houses and catch ont o the way
they do things at the Capital City Mr..
Kearuey was not too much impressed
He was candid enough to saythat although
the conduct of police matters is good here,
il might be improved. He thought the in
stitution of justices courts in the sta
ton house would be great Improvements
and wound save many pangs- So many
matters would be settled right on the
spot. To take a man in simply on sus-
picion, and the suspicion sometimes of a
very ordinary policeman, lock him up in
an unClean cell, keep him twent four hours
or maybe longer and then take him up to
the police court and have the judge dis
miss the case, was not, in the opinion OF
the visitor, an up-tO-date Way of dealing
out Justice. The present plan, he thought,
entails great many needless hardshipS
on innocent people. 1t inflicts needless
humiliation on innocent people to beloeked
in a cell, taken to police court in a pris-
oners' van and there hud(iied in with 9TH
er prisoners. With justice court in each
station matters could be disposed of more
easily. 1t would save so much time bota
to policemen and TO civilians.
The times., 1897-08-22
THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY.
A. b. Parker Likely to Be Named
for Chief Judge.

New York. Aug 21.-EIiiot Danforth, the
chairman Of the Democratic State com
Inittee, announced today tina he will short
ly issue call for a NEE ting OF the COM
mittee to be held in the Hoffman House
this city, on w ednesday. September 15.
The committee will be called together TO
nominate candidate for chief judge of
the court OF appeals, and Mr.. Daniorth
regards i t as certainty that Justice Alton
b. Parker, Of Kingston, will be the candi-
date.
The talk regarding the TammaDy candi-
date for mayor has narrowed down to thre e
men, Charles W Dayton, Elbridge I Gerry
and William Sohmer. Dayton seems to be
the favorite.
The times., 1897-08-22
Nothing for the Treasury-All for
the Trust.
(From the New York worId.l

(From the New York WORLDLY
Sugar stock yesterday sold at 150, the
highest price ever made for it. A year
ago it sold at 1o3. But since then the new
ia riff bill has been enacted, and it gives
to the Sugar Trust so great an authority
to tax the people for its own enrichment
that in the opinion of spectators its shares
are worth SAT apiece more than they We're.
That is to say it's SS5, ,OO0, 900 of stock has
been increased in value by no less than
$39, $50 900, and yet there has been not
one dollar added to it's property AMI not one
dollar to it's legitimate earning capacity.
1t has simply been authorized by Congress
to plupder the people.
The times., 1897-08-22

and confined In loathsome dungeon in
the company of the yilest of her sex.
For this she has been tried before a Sc
cret tribunal, and but for the publicity
which has been given to the affair she
would now be undergoing sentence.
Because the relon in the caseis a colonel
in the Spanish army and highly connect
ed in Madrid the "honor'' of Spain re-
qures that the poor innocent girl victim
must be sacrificed and her virtue as
sailed But Will the fathers and mothers
OF this Republic allow it? Will they longer
tolerate the black and cowardly policy O (
this Government toward these our suf
fering fellow-creatures in Cuba?
We must Confess, with shame and cha
grin, that we fully expect TO hear that the
'explanation' of the fiend Weyler will
be accepted as conclusive by our authori-
ties, and That nothing Will be Gone about
the matter in official circles. This may be
predicted with confidence, since there is
every reason for thinking that political,
as well as diplomat tic influences have been
atu ork, during the past three days, tosup-
press and discredit, or to kill the effect
OF the sickening story.
The lesson of all this is, that the men
and women OF America should redouble
their efforts In behalf of the prosecuted
girl, and organize and agitate more than
ever against the sordid and shameful policy
of the national administration.
The times., 1897-08-22

The commission authorized by the last
session of Congress to codify and revise
the criminal statutes of tie United states
will convene here tomorrow Win Judge
Thompson, of Ohio, as chairman. Inc
ether members are Judge Culberson, oi
Texas, and Judge Bodkins, OF Montana
Few men, said Judge Thompson dis-
cussing the work the other day, nave
any idea OF the cnormity of our task II
will require many months TO go over All Oh
the statrtes, revise and codify them, anu
/ expect that the work viii become very
tedious before we are through Win IL.
This work may become tedious, as tfie
Judge SAYS, bot there is a nice, fat salary
that goes along with IT, and people ought
to he glad 10 come against tedious WORK
under sucn favorable conditions. IL Is
said nut in Ohio, where Judge Thompson ias
been for the paststwo weeks, that he has
been assured ty the President that lie was
to be given a place on the Federal bench
at the first favorable opportunity. IhlS
viii probably come with the retirement
of Judg. Sage, Of the Cincinnati circuit
court
The times., 1897-08-22
A Death ON Mouut Rainier.

Tacoma, Wash, Aug. 21.-Frank ana
Walter Holly, of Polo. H., left Buckley.
this county, a few days ago for pros
pecting expedition into Mount Rainier
Walter has returned, carrying the dead
body of Frank, He has brought the body
thirtyfive miles through the jun gle of fir
trees and brush, and when he arrived at
Buckley he was nearly dead. For two
days and nights he had been trudging
along in the forest with the dead brother,
who was accidentally shot in the head with
his wn gun on Wednes day
The times., 1897-08-22
A Broken.Up Game,

(FTom the ST. Paul Pioneer Press.)
A woman at Mclean, H., has found u
new way to break up gambling dens. In
fact, she hroke up one of them in every
sense Of the word She merely walked
into the room where her delicate feminine
instinct had told her that her husband was
squandering his earnings, and before the
players could protest or even grasp the
situation she had grabbed tine bank and
vanished. A few wives like this would
be better than dozen ordinances
The times., 1897-08-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.

1.-The business world is waking up"
said w K. March, of Philadelphia, at
the National Hotel last night. Mr.. March
is a commercial traveller whose tour OF
duty carries him from the pines and
granite OF New England To the palmetto
and sands of the far South. He leaned
leisurely on the glittering OAK counter, and
his shrewd, sJeel-gray eyes looked honestly
into the credulous orbs of The Times
man as the stranger said: Yes, sir, the
business world is waking up"
"A great deal has been printed" con-
tinued MI March, ''about a wave OF
prosperity, which would dreneh every home
aad every lap with Il golden flood. am
not taxing much stock iii that campaign
fable, but 1 know positively that business
conditions are better than they have been
since 1898 A travelling man can find
people now who viii listen to him and
heaTken 20 the tale that h would tell Last
yearitwas worth "a drummer's life to enter
the sdnctum of 8 business man with the
illuslve hope of selling him bill of goods.
1t simply couldn't be done. That man OF
business was ninety-nine times cut of a hun
dred more in the notion of selling oat than
of buying in. That man of business
usually Kept a dog for the purpose OF
entertaining all comers who were so silly
as TO talk of doing trading. Yes, sir; there
is business revival, ana if it hasn alrea dy
struck Washington you may look out
for it,
The times., 1897-08-22
The Judge Knew.

(From the Florida Citizen.)
A lawyer in Georgia quoted to the jury
as a last hope for his client: 1T is better
that ninety-nine guilty ones escape than
that one innocen- man be hung But wheu
the judge gave his charge he annihilated
that plen by saying: Gentlemen, the
ninety mine guilty have already escaped;
I charge you to do your duty as citizens
Of this State