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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-31
Piles and HemOrrhOids

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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-31
Rheumatism

So long as the germs remain in the
system the disease is bound to trouble
you from time to time. The way TO get
rid OF Il forever Is to explain your con-
dition 10 DOCTOR REEVES. who
treats every form of rheumatism with
unsurpassed skill and success.
The evening times., 1898-09-16
Hosiery.
Saks and Company,
Penna Avenue and Seventh Street

CURED, and in the mad panic that at o1ce
followed Mr. WitthauS did what he could
to get the women and children into the
lifeboats- From the first he regarded hfn-
self as doomed. for there were not nearly
boats enough for all the passengers. and
IL was evident that the ship would feat
only a few minutes. Several women
whom he knew on board he found pieces
for at once only to see the boat Overturn
as soon as it was launched. and all go
down, one of them with her two lite
children in her arms
Horrified and sickened by the sight. he
went back to the stern of the ship, which
was higher out of the water than the
bow, to wait until he. too, went down,
and stood leaning again on the taffraii
AS he did so in flash he recOllected the
conversation of the afternoon before, and
looked over the rail. There still hung The
life buoy, stiff and immOvable. and the
instinct of self-prsservation sprang to life
once more A knife to free the buoy and
he might be saved, but he had none with
him and to find one was impossible with
the ship liable to go down at any second
AT the same moment his eye caught
the flagstaff, and there, where MS friend
had evidently forgotten ii the afternoon
before, stuck the knife. With the haste
of life and death Mr.. Witthaus pulled 1t
out and began to saw away at the buoy
and he freed ii and threw himself Off
the deck into the sea just in time to
get beyond the vortex that came as the
great ship went down. sucking hundreds
of victims with IL. Mr.. Witthaus floated
about for some time. and was at last
picked up by small boat that was walt
ing about for chance survivors, and was
brought back to New York to tell of one
of the most awful catastropheS that ever
happened at sea-
The evening times., 1898-09-16

his own tents or clothing. They should
be provided for him.
In this case the soldier had to take
care OF himself. He was told to eat the
army rations, and occasionally did not
get any army rations at all. This was
the case with the District troops, who,
for three days after they landed, We're
given nothing whatever to eat. If
peddlers had appeared in camp on the
third day, with sandwiches and fruit,
1t is not to be supposed that the men
would have sat down and looked at
them, and told them to go away; it
was against the regulations to pur-
chase food. Moreover, it is probable
that after their long fast whatever
they ate would have disagreed with
them. But that would not be the fault
of the sandwich; it would be the fault
of the Great Hunger" as the Rough
Riders call il. When men are rescued
from a shipwreck, after long privation,
they are not expected to control them
selves in sight of food, and the con-
dition of many troops in the volunteer
army was not much better. If the Gov
ernment does not wish the soldiers to
eat rations contributed by civilians ii
should not starve them till they be-
come rayenous. Human nature is hu-
man nature, not a machine. and even a
machine will not work except under
proper conditions.
The evening times., 1898-09-16
Hold the PhiIfpDines.

Why doth President Mckinley, as the protocol
he signs,
Leave as undetermined still the future of the
Philippines?
We have brought the naughty Spaniard to his
knees to sue for peace,
Are only wise in battlef Are we fools waen
fghtings cease?
Shall we with chids abandon throw what we
have won away,
Counting OF no advantage, this, our gateway
to Cathay?
boys have trod;
Land he could not hold against us? Never, in
the name Of God.
Hark you, President Mckinley, there are strug-
Cling peoples there;
Shall turn their shouts OF gladnesS into wall
ings of despair3
'Ganst the centuries of bondage they have al
most won their fight,
Striving upward from oppression into liberty
and light
With the arms which we have furnished they have
tasted freedoms bliss;
Shall we, in our hour Of triumph, stoop to
treachery like this?
Make them now in meek submission kiss again
the tyrant's rod?
Give them back unto the spoler? Never, in the
name OF God?
Think Mckinley, what figure should cut
before the Powers.
BY the terms of the surrender all the islands now
are ours:
Ours their problems ours their future, ours their
fate for veal or woe;
1t were folly it were madness, it were crime TO
let them go
Never from the path Of duty have we shrunk in
shame before.
Heaven shall visit, ii We faiter, on our heads
affiiction
There our arms have grandly conquered, there
our blood hath bathed the sod;
Shall we then weaklings yield it? Never, in
the name OF God.
Howell s. England, in the New York Tribune.
The evening times., 1898-09-16
The secret Instructions.

One OF the chief elements of American
strength in its international relations
has been its frankness 1t has never
had anything to conceal from its own
people or the world and has had no
fears Of publicity. Such open conf
dence in the justice and reasonable
ness of its cause has confounded the
trained diplomats Of Europe. to whom
the art of secrecy is a fetish and who
would rather lose by lie than win by
the truth. There is no reason to think
we have anything to gain by making
a mystery of our demands on Spain In
the official statement made by the
Peace Commissioners and published
this morning, il is said: While for OBJ
vious reasons it was determined that
the nature of the instructions" etc,
should be kept secret" There are no
such obvious reasons-at any rate, they
are not apparent to the public.
There are certain things this Govern
ment will insist upon as essential to a
treaty of peace. 1t is assumed that all
will be granted without delay, except
in the case of the Philippines. Even
demand for the cession of all these
islands to America may not be serious
ly opposed by Spain, if we judge by the
tone OF the Madrid newspapers and of
many leading public men at the Span
ish capital. 1t is in our power to en-
force all cur claims. Why there should
be any reluctance to tell all the world
| just what we want and intend to have,
| We are unable to understand. What we
shall ask and take is not unreasonable
We are moved by sense of our rights
in the matter and our duty to the peo-
| pie involved, and TO mankind. We have
no need to appeal to chicanery, sharp
practice or any devious and mysterious
methods. The Commission will not
| fairly represent the American people
mands. Indeed, the statement is made
that it has no authority to modify or
| change these demands
There is only too much reason to fear
that in the case of the Philippines the
| Commission is instructed to take only
>
then there is one obvious reason why
the American people should not know
it until the treaty is signed. The Pres
| ident would have no rest from their
protests and appeals. They foresee
trouble from the sovereignty of Spain
over all the other islands, that could
easily be avoided by placing all under
American administration. They know
the worthlessness Of Spanish pledges of
reform, and they know we should in
evitably interfere between Spain and
her perennial insurgents. They would
prefer this to giving up Luzon, but they
do not see why we should not escape
such complications, especially since the
Filipinos, Great Britain. Japan, Ger
many and many leading Spaniards urge
us to take all for the future peace of
the islands and of America. Popular
regret and indignation will steadily
grow with the passing years if America
filings aside this golden opportunity, ne
elects this plain duty and imposes un-
necessary burdens on the future.
The evening times., 1898-09-16
Colonel Roosevelt.

There is one man whom the country
has learned to understand in this war,
and that is Colonel Theodore Roose-
people, rather underrated. 1t was not
quite certain whether he was a man
who loved dramatic effect and loved
only to be seen and recognized, or
whether he was really strong and ad-
mirable character. That question
seems to have been settled.
Colonel Teddy" is picturesque and
dramatic, whatever he does, but that
is because he does things which are
essentially interesting. He does not
stop to think how he looks to other
people. He is always tremendously in
terested in what he is after at the mo-
ment, and he does not stop to pose
any more than a football player does
when he goes for the ball, heart and
soul. and finds himself at the bottom
of the heap of struggling. kicking play
ers. What that player is thinking of
just then is the ball. and there is no
room in his mind for anything else. So
Roosevelt. He is enthusiastic and full
of vigor, and when he goes into a thing
he goes in to win.
When Roosevelt raised his regiment
of Rough Riders the paragraphers and
interviewers Immediately started after
their prey. The enterprise was pic
turesque one, and they made the most
of it, and made the regiment a great
deal more conspicuous than anyone in
it really wished it to be. Bat Roose-
velt's men were not recruited on the
| basis of comic opera chorus, but for
the work they could do. He picked
men whom he knew, whether they
came from New York or Arizona, men
who could do good, hard work on the
fighting line, and the result was natu-
rally unique. Many people not under
standing what sort of men these were,
| thought that they were more for show
than for fight. These spectators were
| undeceived.
The latest performance of Colonel
Roosevelt is the getting up of me-
mortal to willie Tiffany 1t is a
purse of money, to be distributed among
| the families of men who were killed
and badly wounded. This money was
The evening times., 1898-09-16

The positive statement that our Gov
ernment will bring the Turk TO terms is to
be received with caution. 1t is far more
important that the boss at Havana, who
excludes American supplies for the starv-
ing and who keeps in prison men and wo-
men whose offenses were abolished by the
protocol. should be subjugated. Instead
of kicking him out and unlocking the
prison doors, the Presidents Commission
ers call all the world to witness that they
recognize the supremacy of that boss
who ISLANDERS America after every drink
All complaining Cubans are referred to
him. Is the President working a CHASTITY
joke on the unhappy people of Cuba and
the indignant Americans who have pro-
tested against the acknowledgement of the
war? If not what explanation is there
of the astounding course of his Commits
sion? We can afford to submit to the
Turk, unspeakable as he is, until we have
freed Cuba from the yoke of the
man who has continued the Weyler policy
of determination by starvation.
The evening times., 1898-09-16
SAVED BY A KNIFE.
The Remarkable Escape of a Pas
sencer on the VILE dc Hayre.
(From the New York Prcss-)

fFrOm the New lOrh
Rv the sinking of La Bourgogne and the
awful loss of life is recalled the accident
RI 4he Vile de Harve of the same line in
1872 when the latter named ship was
struck at night and went down at once,car-
rying almost all on board. Pitifully few
were those who were saved from the
Hayre, but among them was the promi-
nent New York lawyer Witthaus. and the
way in which he escaped is so eXtraordi-
nary that it sounds like weil-concocfed
tale instead of the plain fact that Mr.
Witthaus vouches 1t to be.
The afternoon preceding the accident 20
the Havre Mr.. Witthaus, with another
man. was on deck. and Mr. Witthaus was
leaning against the taffrail under the flag
staff in the s:ern. AS the two men stood
there talking the friend put his hand on
the life buoy that was hanging over
the side and called Mr.. WitthauS's atten-
ton to 1t.
Look" said he. 'these life buoys are
simply screaming farces. This one here
is so stiff and hard with coats of paint
! that you couldn't get it free except by
cutting it with a knife
Mr.. Witthaus attempted to move It, but
found it glued hard and fast The friend
took out his knife and began idly sticking
it into the soft pine of the flagstaff, ard
that they talked before they were inter-
both went below.
Early the next morning while the PAS
sengers were still asleep the collision oc-
The evening times., 1898-09-16
AFFAIRS IN CAMP wIKoFF.
Deaths of Two Regulars Reported
This Morning..


Montauk Point, Sept 16.-In spite of the
hard rain which has fallen steadily since
last night the conditions in the camp are
good. In the hospital matters are excel
lent. The wooden building which will
soon replace the tents Is nearly finished.
There are COL patients in the hospital to-
morning. They are Walter Noyes. Six
teenth Infantry. and Fred Holm. Eighth
Infantry.
Gen. Greedy returned to New York this
morning after spending the night with
Gen. Shafter
Gen. Shafter said this morning that he
would carry out the order to remove
troops quickly as possible, and that
he will remain here as long as there are
any troops here. He also said that he
has received no orders from Washington
assigning him to the Department of the
East, and that he does not. expect the
order until Camp Wikoff has been broken
up.
The following orders for the movements
of troops We're received by Gen. Shafter
this morning:
Twelfth Infantry to Jefferson Barracks.
st. Louis; Heavy Batteries A and B, of
the First Artillery, the Eighth. Tenth and
sixteenth Infantry Regiments to Hunts
Vile, Ala. the First and Second Infantry
Regiments to Admission. Ala; and the
Sixth Infantry TO Fort Thomas, KY
The evening times., 1898-09-16
Library Fines.
CFrom the New York Evening PostD

From the New York Evening Post.)
Man is an illogical animal. When the Omaha
public library charged cents for each day that a
book was overdue its from this source
was much larger than it was after delnquancies
were made less expensive by reduction OF the
fine to , cents for the first two days and cent?
for each day thereafter The difference in the in
come was too large to be accounted for by the
reduction in the charge, and there other
evidence of a decrease in delinquency. The de-
creased penalty seemed to sharpen rather than
to dull the memory of the book borrowers. The
effect largely wore away, however, in later
months. All of this, of course. applies to the
chronicalIv careless. Library records of fines show
that very large proportion is paid on the first
day book is overdue. When the delinquency
extends beyond two days the book is supposed to
be in the bands of tie absent minded or IN the
possession of these who regard the daily charge
for delinquency as being in the nature of
nominal payment for the privilege of monop-
olizing the use of the book
The evening times., 1898-09-16
The Individual Soldier.

One Of the excuses which the apollo
gists Of the War Department, in and
out of official life, put forward is that
the volunteers did not take proper care
Of themselves in camp, and hence be-
came i'll. They overlook something.
1t is not the soldiers business to take
care Of misunderstanding to their idea.
The very men who advance this argu-
ment are the most vehement in decIar-
ing that discipline is everything in an
army, and that no soldier should think
for himself so long as he has a COM
manding officer to do his thinking for
him. IT is. therefore. the soldiers busi-
ness TO fight. When he is not fighting
he should be taken care Of He is not
expected to provide his own rations or
The evening times., 1898-09-16
POLITICS AT VARIOUS POINTS.


Wyoming Democrats Seem Certain
oI Carrying That State.
Democrats always carry Texas, but this
year, judging from present indications
they intend to surprise themselves. Jo-
seph Sayers, ex-governor and present
member of Congress, is the Democratic
candidate for governor, and his success
is so apparent that the Republicans have
refused to make nomination.
The only opposition ex-Gov. Sayers will
have will come from the Populists. who
have nominated Bennett Gibbs. who was
once elected as Democrat to be lieuten-
ant governor of the State. His support
will be scarcely more than a corporafs
guard Democrats also expect to defeat
Congressman Hawley, of the Tenth dis
trict and send to the Fifty-siXth Con-
gress solid delegation from the eleven
districts in the State.
Senator Clark, of Wyoming. said yester-
day that he honestly believed the Repub-
licans would carry the State in Novem-
Der, but he added that it would require
hard work and all the votes that can be
obtained There will be elected in Wy
oming this year a full State ticket from
governor down, and legislature, which
will select a successor to Senator Clark,
whose term expires next March.
The Senator modestly admitted that if
the legislature is Republican he expects
to be returned. A close friend of Con-
gressman John Z. Osborne, when told
what Senator Clark had said, laughed,
and declared that the Democrats would
carry the State with ease and return Mr..
Osborne, the only member of the House
from Wyoming, and that a Democrat
would succeed Senator Clark. He hinted
that Mr. nchnrpa might hn Senator's
successor.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge is at home
working hard to succeed himself in the
Senate. His term expires next March,
and already there are number of ambi-
tious Bay State Republicans who have in
timated that they would like to succeed
Mr.. Lodge. Republicans count on the
legislature being Republican, and admit
that they fear the internal strife the
Senatorship is likely to create more than
they do the Democratic opposition. The
friends of Senator Lodge claim that his
return to the Senate is certain, and that
by the time the legislature convenes all
opposition will have died out.
By the, end of the month nominations
will have been made in all of the con-
gressional districts by the several par
ties The campaign is beginning to shape
up pretty well, and both of the commit
tees mere are QlSplaylnS mucn energy In
securing speakers for the doubtful dis
tricts. Literature is also being sent out
by the ton.
Chairman Babcock, of the Republican
committee, claims that his people are
waking up, and that more life is being
thrown into the contest since it has
dawned upon the Republicans of the
country that they will have to work
harder to retain control of the House.
He complained of too much apathy. the
average Republican taking for granted
that they would have walkover this
year. MIR. Babeock claims that the Re-
publicans are going to win, but admits
that majority will not be as large as 1t
was two years ago.
Secretary Kerr. of the Democratic COM
| mittee, grows bolder in his estimates as
the weeks glide by. He insists that the
The evening times., 1898-09-16
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1898.
The Mi.chievous Commission.

II is an abuse Of the wires for the
Havana correspondents to note the cor
diality Of the relations of the Amerl-
can Commission and Blanco. Nobody
who has read of the methods by which
the questions incident to the proposed
evacuation of Cuba by the Spaniards
are considered can doubt the satisfac-
ton Of Blanco. These methods could
have but one purpose-to postpone the
departure of Blanco and his army until
the patience of the President is ex-
hausted and he sends down an army
20 drive them into the bay. 1t is equal
ly superfiuous information that lit Is
now known that the evacuation of the
island by the Spanish troops will re-
duire a longer time than was at first
expected" and that Captain General
BIanco, notwithstanding reports to the
contrary. will remain TO the last" +"
From the moment it was apparent that
Sampson had imposed his red-tape
methods on the Commission. the Ameri-
can people had no defusions as to
Blanco's stay for an indefinite period.
This inconceivable Commission has
become Blanc0s instrument by which
his hold is to be continued and the tide
Of Cuban confidence turned away from
the Americans. 1t is bending all its
energies to crafty that despicable
Spaniard, who has continued the Wey-
ler policy of determination by starva-
tion-that blatant humbug who has
issued prOclamations slandering and
biackguarding the American Govern
ment and people. The members boast
OF having won his favor. 1t requires
no stretch of the imagination, in the
light of their methods and their sub
servience to BIaneo, to charge to his
influence the decision of the Commits
sion to pay no regard TO the proper and
reasonable appeals of the Cuban peo-
pie.
From the signing Of the protocol it
has been the distinct policy of Blanco
to discredit America in the eyes of the
Cubans. When our Commission reached
Havana the people believed the reign
of the tyrannical Blanco was at an end
AS IL should have been. But il was
not. The Commission has taken pains
to bow down before him and to impress
on the people their recognition of his
arbitrary power.
In the prisons of Cuba are ladies of
high standing who have offended Blan-
co and his libertine officers, and honor
able men who have protested against
the atrocities of the Spaniards. They
have sent appeals TO the american
Commissioners, but only to be treated
with contempt. Instead Of demanding
the instant release of every political
prisoner the moment they stepped on
the island the Commissioners decline
to consider any of these matters that
will interfere with their purely imag-
mary diplomatic business" And
Blanco. strong in his mastery of the
Commission, can tell the Cubans what
fools they were to place their hopes on
America.
The evening times., 1898-09-16

The Republican machine in Conneci-
cut does not enjoy high degree of popu-
lar favor and does not exercise decisive
influence over the party. Something else
than the power of the machine must have
contributed to the tremendous odds
against the Presidents secretary in his
candidacy for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton. A good many of the Connecticut
soldiers have reached their homes. There
is a regiment encamped at Hartford and
the people have had an opportunity to
get at first hand information about the
needless and inexcusable Affections of the
heroes.
The evening times., 1898-09-16

There Is no reason to be surprised at
the violation of the protocol by the Span
ish troops in Cuba. Bianco has never
quite consented to the terms of tempo
rary peace made by Sagasta and he has
induced the American Commission to
agree to the abrogation of much of it. If
he chooses to shoot few insurgents now
and then to keep his army in spirits. it is
safe to say the assistant Spaniards on the
American Commission will not consider
any complaint or protest from the out
ragged Cubans. go to Blanco with your
complaint; he's the boss" is the reply
of the Commission to all protests and
appeals.
The evening times., 1898-09-16
Gravity Power.
(From the Chicago Chronicle.1 y

IC.D
An English inventor has en- view a system
Of propulsion for railroads which does away
with both steam and electricity as motiv, power
He depends entirely upon the law OF gravity only
assisting it by hydraulic rams. model plant
has been installed and is now on ezhinitien in
London, but it remains to be proved that the
scheme can be made available or operated eco
nomically on large scale. 1t seems highly
probable, however. that it will never pass beyond
the range OF novelty. This the inventor of
course. stuutly denies. His railway consists of
sections. the rails being raised on columns, and
the trains or suspended on either side
below them. At the functions the sections are
hinged together, and at three points can be
raised by hydraulic rams. The raising OF the
track with the trains upon it forms Il grade
down which the cars rush to the next rail june
tion, when the same process is repeated. and SO
on, until the terminus is reached