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The evening times., 1898-12-20
Grip and Pneumonia.

That distressing epidemic disease which
has ravased the country at various times
since its first introduction nine years ago,
vagely called the grip is once more ram
pant in New York city where there were
said 10 be hundred thousand cases yes
terday. That it will as on two or three
former occasions. extend into the country
at large. there is only too much reason
To fear, although there is a suspicion
that distinctly local causes have encour-
aged its Development there. The streets
are said to be in frightful state and
health officials think the accumulated
snow and filth have a good deal to do
with the epidemic.
Not since 1883 have the first five months
of any year been wholly free from cases
of grip in any of the cities of the sea-
board In 1881 ii was at its worst and
there WAS serious outbreak in January
Of 1850. Il is assumed to be a germ dis
ease and ii is known to be favored by
damp ard cold weather. So far this
month II has not assumed a virulent type
and il is serious chiefly because of the
complications to which it may give rise
1t has the effect of lowering the vitality
and reducing the power to resist the en-
croachments of pneumonia especially, in
the treatment OF which the medical pro-
fession is not notably successful. The
death Of Mr.. Brce, the Rev Father
Brown and Others. is charged 10 pneumo-
MIA following grip. This epidemic disease
affects the nervous system in a peculiar
manner. producing insanity with suici-
dal mania in many instances. The ordi-
nary effects are very obstinate, Indeed,
many who have survived the original Sc
we're attack of grip have never wholly re-
covered their health and are exceptionally
liable to incur diseases that attack the
debi.itated.
The immediate worst symptoms Of
grip. which are often eXcruciating, are
not difficult TO overcome if promptly
attacked but the patient himself must
be depended on to guard against pneuno-
MIA. painful form of neuralgia, and
other sequences. We are approaching the
pneumonia season, and whatever disturbs
or eXhausts the nervous system is a
source of danger. Modern medical opfn-
ion supports the nervous origin of colds,
and whatever is associated with colds
1t is not simply a matter of avoiding
exposure to escape colds, which are the
| beginning of grave maladies, but of
avoiding whatever is calculated to ex-
haust the energy of the nervous system.
4 man who is free of all worry and
who is not overworked. can expose him.
self with impunity TO conditions that
would mean a fatal illness for a tired
man or an anxious one 1t is not wet
feet and draughts that are interdicted
so much as mental fatigue that enables
wet feet and draughts to do their work
1t is much easier to avoid grip and colds
than 1t is to cure them. Plenty of warm
clothing and dry feet and avoidance of
prolonged exposure TO bad weather may
be important, but not nearly as import
ant as cheerful disposition and a free
dom from nervous weariness.
The evening times., 1898-12-20
Army Led by the President.
Press Reform.
From Puck.)


Puck is invited by circular letter to become a
member of the American Society for Press Reform,
and he begs politely to decline The object of the
society is to bring about '.the suppression and
correction of certain so-called liberties of the
press by means of proper legislation both ma
tional and State" 1t is the old idea that by
legislation we can find short cut across-lots to
perfection. Why does it never occur to the pro.
posers OF such measures that if there were any
inherent virtue in a law we would he ENJOYING.
the millennium today? Heaven knows there have
been enough laws passed to make the world per-
feet, if laws could do it.
Yellow journalism is moral ofense, but who
are the offenderss Not the newspaper proprie-
tors, who make the most of that full liberty
which reputable as well as disreputable papers
must have IN, free country, but the people who
buy their output The source of the evil is in
those who make II profitable. There is a well-de-
fined line beyond which newspaper encounters
existing laws against obseenity and libel-laws
that are effective, because they have the general
consent of the people. This side of that line is
the realm OF taste and all attempts to reform
taste by legislation are failures Yellowness in
journalism is merely the reflected yellowness of
newspaper readers. And any legislation abridg-
ing the liberty OF the press would be far greater
evil than yellow Journalism itself
The evening times., 1898-12-20
COLONEL INGERsoLL
VICTIM OF A THIEF

New York, Dec. 2o.-He was lucky
thief who selected Col. Robert G. Inger
soil as victim TO pick his pocket. The
colonel was relieved of an elegant gold
watch valued at $3.50, which he has
carried for many years. He knew moth
ing of the loss until his sister-in-law,
Mrs. c. p Farrell, called his attention
to his watch chain dangling from his
waistcoat They had just elbowed their
way through the crowd in front of the
Metropolitan Opera House after the mat
inee on last Saturday.
That's so, said the colonel, perfect
ly uncsncerned: some one has stolen
my watch I hope it will do the thief
some good
"Will you prosecute the thief if he is
arrested" Col Ingersoll was asked.
Il have not given the matter any
thought l have been carrying the
watch for a long time, and suppose it
is now some one else's turn to wear it.
1 don't expect ever to see it again
The evening times., 1898-12-20
The Girl and the Bull.
From the Philadelpbia Times

Flemington, Nov. 15.-Edward Able, farm
hand, employed by Theodore Tinsman. near
Bloombury, Hunterdon county, narrowly escaped
being bored to death by vicious bull yesterday.
He was attacked by the animal and rendered un-
conscious before he could call for assistance. Miss
Sallie Reifenrath, while passing the place,
heard the bull believing and was Mortified to see
the mad animal tossing Able in the air.
She perceived that delay IN calling for help
would mean death TO Able, so she procured 4
pitchfork and attacked the animal. BY the time
the plucky young woman reached Able the bull
had tossed him against the hub OF a wagon wheel.
The brute backed away few feet and com
ing at the helpless man head down and with ter
rible force, when Miss Reifenrath met the charge
with the pitchfork and saved Able from certain
death After considerable difficulty the young
woman succeeded in driving the mad brute away
from his victim. Able's eollarbone was broken,
but he otherwise seriously injured, but it is
thought that he will recover.
The evening times., 1898-12-20
Our Merchant Marine.
From the Chicago Record.)

The effect of territorial expansion upon the
merchant marine of the country is already being
felt The Cramps building four ships OF 1000
tons burden and sixteen knots speed, fitted with
double decks, for use auxiliary cruisers when
ever needed by the Government, which will be
engaged between New York and Porto Rico The
New York and Cuba Mail Company, which has
been doing business for many years, also has two
5,000-ton steamers the stocks at Cramps. The
Red d line, which has been doing business with
Venezuela for nearly century, stops at the
Porto Rican ports and has had to charter foreign
vessels to meet the demand for freight and pas
sengers. The Newport News Shipbuilding Com
pany has 49, i40 tons now under contract and in
course OF construction including six merchant
ships of 4665 tons each, for the Morgan and
Cromwell lines, and it is understood that plans
are now being prepared there for two IO0, 0,000t ton
steamships for the Pacific Mail Company 10 sail
between San Francisco and the Philippine Islands.
stopping at japanese and Chinese ports. On the
Pacific coast all the shipyards are busy building
for the Asiatic and the Alaskan trade The Santa
Fe Railroad Company has closed an arrangement
with japanese steamship line for regular and
frequent sailings from San Diego, and the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific companies are in
creasing their saihngs from Puget Sound by
chartering English vessels
The evening times., 1898-12-20
PEOPLE SUFFERING FOR
FOOD In CALIFORNIA
DIRE RESULTS OF GAuNr FAMINE
oattie and Horses Starving and Human
Beings in Danger in Southern
Counties

San Francisco, Dec 2O.-There is much
misery among the families in Southern
Monterey and Northern San Luis Obispo
Counties, but California is well able 10
care for the unfortunates and aid outside
of the State is not required.
A special frcm Kings City says: Bereft
of live stock of all descriptions. without
the means of obtaining provisions for
their families and with no hope of better
times until another year shall have passed
the people of Southern Monterey and
Northern San Luis Obispo Counties are
now face to face with starvation. For
weeks they have struggled on hoping al
most against hope that rains would come
and bring a change for the better but
now the situation 'has become so grave
that there is no longer a possibility Of
self help. and, in dire want, an appeal has
been made to the State executive for as
sistance.
One by one the cattle Of the poorer far
mers have dropped and died from ex-
hausrion and starvation Then horses fol-
lowed. until now the entire farming COM
munity is berefJ of all kinds of live stock
and famine has laid its gaunt finger on
the wives and children VINO are fast sue
cumbing TO the terrible situation.
HolloW-eyed women and children peer
out of the dOOrways at the passer as II
in the vain hope OF obtaining something
TO drive away the pangs of hunger that
are eating out their lives.
Around Jolon and Lockwood the cOndi-
ton is of the utmost gravity. The
wealthy people have reached point
where they are doling out their food 10
families "A ShiDWrecEPd
crew Three carloads of provisions have
been sent into the famine-stricken dis
trict by kind-hearted people who have
learned of the misery that exists. but
three carloads are but drop in the buck
ct when the extreme destitution Is con-
sidered. Here in Kings City only the ech-
oes reach, but back in the foothills the
stories are of such nature as to appeal
To the hardest heart
On the big Milpitas rancho. owned by
johnson & Browne, and on the ranch of
A NJ NewhaH the cattle have reached
such a condition that they are dropping
dead all over the hills. Gangs of men
have been cutting down big live oak
trees and the leaves serve TO stay the
pangs of hunger for a while but within
week from now not a head of cattle
and only few of the best horses will be
found in country 100 miles square.
1t is impossible to gather what little
stock is left on the ranges. and drive it
into the home ranches and should it b.
driven there is not enough food 10 carry
il further through the winter
While all classes are suffering the
greatest destitutiun exists among the
rentage farmers These people have al
most given up the struggle. and. unless
aid soon reaches them they, like the cat
tie. will lie down and die
The evening times., 1898-12-20
At the Gallery.
(From Harper's Bazar. J

1t Is customary for the French President to visit
the art exhibitions each year. and it is very
naturally expected that he will make comments
which will justify his official place of patron OF
French art As it is possible that be may not
know Corot from Titan his task sometimes Is
not easy.
1t is said that President Faure, when ushered
into the gallery of the pastellistes looked at one
picture steadily and said gravely:
.'Ah, that IS i landscape!
President Carnot, in the same dilemma, ex-
claimed eagerly, ''Ah. yes the Forest OF FontIin-
bleau, / know the Forest of Fontainbleau! and
passed on leaving the artist happy but bewildered
as to what especial approval his picture had re-
ceived.
President Grevy man of alert tact, once
while going through the same exhibition ex-
claimed palising before canvas:
"0h, what horror Really. that is dread
fulr'
Somebody whispered that the artist was within
hearing on which Grevy went without a
change OF tone glance OF the eye:
.'Of course. always abuses the things one
means to buy adding, Mark the picture sold.
if you please, and send it to the Elysee.''
The artists feelings were soothed, although at
the expense of the Presidents pocket
The evening times., 1898-12-20
THE DoGE'S PALACE
IN BAD CONDITION

Venice. Dec, 21-Sisnor Boito, the eele-
brated architect of Milan, yesterday made
a partial examination of the Doge's pat
ace. The examination was made by direc-
ton of the government. several senators
and deputies having notified the govern
the palace. These interpretations will
probably be discussed in the chambers to-
morrow. The opinion prevails that the
palace is in such>bad condition that the
government will be obliged to order the
removal of the books from the library and
direct the execution of certain repairs
without delay.
The evening times., 1898-12-20
A Suggestion as to the Philippines

Horace Greeley was a man who had a
great many ideas and one of these ideas
concerned the reformation of criminals
He once said that no crime committed in
the world was SO great as the punishment
of crime, and that il he had his way he
would give the criminal piece of land
and a mule and let him begin life anew.
Prof. Van Buren Denslow, in a recent
lecture before the Brooklyn Philosophical
Association, quotes this remark. with the
suggestion that we use the Philippines
as a refuge for our criminals and pau
pers. He adds:
l asked the Governor of Illinois how many
good men he thought there were in the State
prison at Joliet He answered: Thirteen hun
dred OF the l,5oo inmates are as good men for
any social use as any 300 men in the army. and
I'd as lief take them for soldiers or anything
else. The other 200 degenerates.''
1t is coming to be more and more clear
ly recognized that one offense commit
ted against the laws of the land does not
necessarily make a man a criminal. 1t
frequently does have that effect because
it results in his being placed under bad
influences, of which the condemnation
and contempt of law-abiding people is
not the least. But If the man who has
committed one crime and been punished
for 1t could, on his release from prison, be
allowed to begin life over again in a
new place with a fair chance to earn a
living and become respected member of
society, the chances are nine out of ten
that he would do it. Prison life, with
its regularity and habits of industry,
has given him precedent, has trained
his nature to follow, albeit unwIllingly,
The evening times., 1898-12-20
ACCUSED OF USING THE
MAILS FOR SWINDLING

Cleveland Ohio, Dec. 20.-Some one who
fraudulently represented himself as a
commission broker has been cheating
Ohio and Pennsylvania farmers. G. l..
Hess. of FindIay. Ohio. was arrested by
a deputy marshal yesterday on the
charge of using the mails unlawfully
The warrant was made out for G. G.
Landies. alias Hess. The specific charge
is that he mailed letter in Pennsylva-
MIA ordering produce sent to him which
he did not intend TO pay for.
Hess waived examination, and an
nouneed that he was willing TO accom-
pany the officers to Philadelphia. where
a hearing is to be held Postoffice In
spector German, of Philadelphia. has
been in Cleveland several days in con-
nection with the Lands matter
The evening times., 1898-12-20
London's Tower Bridge.
(From The London TimesO


Every body knows that competition tends in al
most every direction 10 become keener and
keener But one would hardly have supposed
the Monument OF London TO be among the suf-
ferers from it. Yet il is said that ever since the
Tower Bridge started up in rivalry patronage
has fallen off from the Monument Official re-
turns are said 10 show however, that nearly ten
thousand people climbed the merry height last
August At thTeepence apiece, that would
bring in about el25 for tine month But that
is said 10 be a considerable falling off from the
receipts before that Gothic interlOper straddled
across the river and offered free view Of the
Thames and London around. IL is not so coed a
view OF course. II Is not 80 high, and the fabric
was not designed for sightseers- The lofty pas
sageway across is merely a thoFoughfare, and It
is only with some difficulty that a good view
may be got up and down the river. But then It
is fee 10 all comeFs, and it is supposed that a
good many people go TO see the famous bridge
when they come to London, and find that the
tresdmill toll up its stony steps satisfies their
ambition for climbing.
The evening times., 1898-12-20
CROOKS AT WORK
IN WEST VIRGINIA

Huntington. W. Va. Dec. 20.-The fact
has just been discovered that crooks
have been flooding this vicinity with
raised bills. They seem 10 have been op-
Grating chiefly with the one-doIlar de-
nomination, which has been raised 10
five. Some of these bills have also turn
ed up in Ceredo and Kenova. The Off
cials think they have cIew. No arrests
as yet.
AT Glenwood Mason County. yesterday
Mrs. John Porter was found in "a room at
her home dead. with bullet hole in her
left breast. 1t is not known whether she
shot herself accidentally or whether she
took her life Intentionally. She was
about twenty-five years of age and was
highly respected. and comes from one OF
the leading families in the county
The evening times., 1898-12-20
Quincy's Forebodings.
From the New York Trihune ,

NfIVIII tIIc "" IUIh IIIIuIIt.J
The specter OF imperialism" is no new thing.
1t was conjured up three generations ago by no
less man than Josiah Quincy. The occasion wa.
the admission of louisiana as State That act,
he solemniy declared, would speedily destroy the
American Union. The Constitution would be
rent asunder. 1t was a monstrous and abomina.
BILE thing to undertake the establishment here OF
an empire, which might stretch even to the Pa.
clfic coast, or at least So far to the westward
that the mouth OF the Ohio River might become
the geographical center of our domain Yet Mr.
Quincy lived to see that empire an accomplished
fact, the mouth of the Ohio far to the eastward
OF the geographical center of the nation, and yet
the Constitution preserved and vindicated and
made stronger than ever before-for the failure OF
the secession movement was perfectly obvious
before his DEATH At intervals since that first one
various other anti-imperialisticr movements
have been organized, with somewhat less net
effect upon the progress of the nation than the
proverbial on the railroad track would have
upon the progress Of an express train.
The evening times., 1898-12-20
PRESIDENT HEUREAUX
FALSELY REPORTED DEAD

Late last night the following dispatch
was received at the State Department
from Minister Powell, at Port Au Prince,
Haiti
Reported here HeureauX killed. Have
cabled there.
After he had received reply from San
Domingo, Minister Powell cabled the de-
partment as follows:
mo truth in report"
Gen. Ulysses HeureauX is President sef
the Dominican Republic. He took Office
in February, 1897, and his term expires
in, 1900. He has been President for four
consecutive terms.
Recently the island has been threatened
with revolution, it's financial condition
seriously affecting business.
The evening times., 1898-12-20

the routine of daily dradgery.s Hence he
is now, perhaps, in better condition to
begin a useful career than ever before in
his life. He is the more likely to behave
himself we'll if he can find place to
work out DOORS for, especially If he is
country-bred (as a large percentage OF
such young fellows are), the confinement
of the prison walls has bred in him a
great yearning for blue sky and green
fields. The probabilities are, however.
that no chance to redeem himself by use
full work is awaiting him, and he satis-
fies his longing for freedom and inde-
pendence by becoming a tramp.
The prison colonies of England, al
though not designed primarily to benefit
the criminal. do sometimes effect that re-
suit. The idea of the legislators who de-
vised the system probably was to get
the criminal out of the island as fast and
as far as possible. What became of him
after he was out did not concern Eng
land, so long as he did not come back
to disturb her peace. In its practical
workings, however, this system has given
opportunity to many men not hardened
criminals to redeem themselves by enter
prise and hard work; and it is argued
from Engand's success that the United
States might proftably use the Philip
pines for just such a colony.
There are two sides to this question. 1t
may be that such plan would be good
on the whole, but there are two or three
rather serious objections to it. If these
to make them useful to the United
States it is desirable that they have the
right sort of inhabitants. A convict pop
ulation would be rather dubious material
for the making of new Oriental states or
even respectable colonies. Combined with
the F'ippinos it would be worse than
dubious. Give such a population opportu-
nifty to control, even in part the rich nat
ural resources of the islands, and a type
of man resembling the 'larrikin" or
Australian ruffian would be developed
and. owing to the freedom given him by
American tradition he might come to be
considerably worse than the lari ikin In
European nations ardently desire to con-
troll these islands, the danger of such
colony becomes still more manifest. The
plan IS pretty plan-on paper. But in
practical working it is likely To prove
bristling with difficulties.
The evening times., 1898-12-20
MOVEMENTS OF
GOVERNMENT SHIPS

The Collier Brutus. which has for some
time been stationed with Admiral Dewey-s
fleet at Manila, sailed yesterday for
Guam where she will leave stores and
supplies for the marines stationed there
The Brutus will then proceed to San.
Francisco. via Honolulu. The training
ships Annapolis and vicksburg sailed
from Fort of France yesterday for Fort
kits
The evening times., 1898-12-20
Dwelling House Burned in Somerset.

Princess Anne, Nd. Dec 20.-About I
o'clock yesterday morning the dwelling
house of Mr.. William Hunt near King
ston Station, Somerset County, was
burned to the ground.
Mr.. Hunt lost all his furniture provi-
sions and nearly all the wearing apparel
of himself, his wife and three children.
There was but small insurance on the
building.
The evening times., 1898-12-20
WHY DEACON WOOD
SPANKED HIS WIFE

Providence, r. l., Dec. 20.-The remark
able divorce case of Virginia Wood
against Deason Mark II. Wood. formerly
town clerk of harrington, for alleged cru
city, was placed on trial yesterday. The
testimony brought out Mr. Woods ex-
treme jealousy and the habit he had of
spanking his wife. Ito take the wicke d.
ness out of her according To Mr. Woods
own testimony
She had q habit of coming 10 town too
often, according TO his testimony, and
when she went to bicycle stores. where
the clerks were all men, that was awful.
The evening times., 1898-12-20

If the Administration meets with serious
opposition in its plans for an army large
enough TO meet all the requirements of our
new conditions. ii may charge it all 10 the
persistence of Alger and Corbin in their
scheme to open the ranks to the politicians
and TO allow the adjutant general to be-
come the commanding general. as he was
in the Spanish war with such awful con-
sequences 10 our soldiers. a few MEM
bers of Congress. with the traditional
fears that have no proper application now
would oppose a considerable increase of
the regular army in any circumstances
but their objections would not cause any
trouble if the bill favored by the Admin
istration and by the House committee had
the approval of General Miles and other
officers who have the welfare of the ar
my and the nation at heart and if it did
not obviously violate principles of modern
army organization insisted upon bv the
most enlightened experts throughout the
world. The President may blame the
members Of his own official family if the
opposition should become grave and d
generally friendly feeling should be dissi-
pated.
The evening times., 1898-12-20

The statement that the Peace Commits
sioners except those who are under salary
for other positions will receive fee of
a hundred thousand dollars each is denied
Judge Day and Mr.. Reid it is explained,
are under a per diem of hundred and
fifty dollars each, making the fee in each
case about twenty thousand dollars.
There should be no fuss made about this.