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The evening times., 1898-10-05

dian declared, with impassioned fervor:
Well well, art thou named the craWfsh! with
such rapditipe ceieritude dost thou progress back
ward.
But even in retrogression We are
quick to see and to correct faults. 1t
is not the American way TO sit calmly
down in the midst of deadly stagnation
and declare that ii is all right because
good Americans OF the past generation
thought that it was There are corners
of our country which have been left
behind in the course of enlightenment,
but when they are awakened from their
Rip Van Wrinkle slumbers they show
the national adaptability and quickness
of comprehension. There is just
enough of the conservative element in
this country to serve as a sort of brake
on the radical and ultra-progressive
reformers, who wish to move at pace
too rapid for the average man to follow.
1t is this conservative party which Is
appealed to just at present TO sit down
on the graves of its ancestors and re-
frain from demanding too much. 1t is
this party which is asked to forgive all
the scandals of the present War De-
partment. because some mistakes were
made by the War Department of 1876,
while wrestling with a problem vastly
greater in its difficulties and its conSe-
quences. But it looks very much as If
the conservative people of the country
would refuse to become Chinese. They
do not enjoy a fight for its own sake,
but their eyes are open, and they see
that. trouble or no trouble, somebody
must be punished for the state OF things
which has existed in the hospitals and
understand that it is time TO reform the
department on such lines that repe-
tition of the horrors of the Cuban war
will be impossible They know that
while we may in the past have been
able to live our life without
reference TO other nations the
time is coming when we shall
be EFFECTED to rise and give an
accodnt OF ourselves. Our ancestors
had their, problems in the great task of
developing this country. We have our
own, and while we may well desire to
do our work as well as they did theirs.
it cannot be done in the same way. nor
will it help US very much TO repeat
their mistakes AS the old negro
preacher said: De faults o de great
men o. de Bible wasn't intended for US
TO patroniZe!"
The evening times., 1898-10-05
TALL sCHoOLHOUSES.

A writer in the Medical Record makes
a plea for less ornamental school build
ings and the use OF the money thus saw
ed for elevators. He says:
"A matter which has been most fore
ibly brought to my attention, on account
of chronic heart trouble OF one of my
own little ones. is the usual height 10
which the public schools of this city are
being built.
I'm this particular case. the little one
was utterly unable to climb the five
flights of stairs required 10 reach her
classroom. After several days attend
arce, at the beginning of the school ses-
sion, her trouble became so marked as to
require her remaining away from school
until such time as rest would correct the
injury brought on by the unusual exer-
ton to which she had been subjected.
In another case. dating back few
years, the daughter Of colleague had
recently recovered from scarlatinal
rheumatism, followed by marked heart
lesion After she had made several et-
forts at regular attendance during
period of six months, ii was found abso-
lutely necessary to withdraw this child
from the public school and have her ed
ucation continued in schoolhouse
which did not require such high stair
climbing.
In the Two cases just mentioned no
serious deprivation of education would
occur to either child. as ii is possible for
the parents TO avail themselves OF other
means of instruction than those obtained
in the public schools; but in many cases
when children have recently recovered
from any disease which weakens the
heart the stra.n required by high stair
climbing TO reach classrooms would still
further weaken it, and probably TO such
an extent as TO require their removal
from these schools, and so deprive them
of an opportunity TO receive liberal
education on account of lack of means
on the part of the parents to send them
to other schools where such conditions
would not exist.
"As the city of New York is spending
money without stint for purposes of ed
ucating the coming generation, erecting
public school buildings replete with every
sanitary arrangement to prevent the COM
munication of disease, and architectural
ly in almost every case, ornaments which
the citizens may we'll be proud of. L
think that some of the more ornamental
features might well be dispensed with,
and the money SO saved used for the pur-
pose of installing one or more elevators.
for such children as those mentioned
above and who present certificates from
their physicians to the principal of the
school of their inability to climb sew
eral flights of stairs; or a larger space
of ground could be taken and lower build
ings erected. the classrooms of which
could be reached without difficulty by
any child whose heart was more or less
affected. and also be more readily emp
tied in case of fire."
The evening times., 1898-10-05
The Army Death Rate.
From the New York Journal.) }

The War Department has published reports
showing that 2.225 officers and men out of a total
Of 265, 900 enrolled died from disease from the be
ginning of the war to August 81 This il is
airily explained, is "a little less than per cent -
That sounds very small. but let US see what it
means. "a little less than l per cent means
in this case $40 of per cent, or $40 PEI thous-
ard. On August 81 the army had been enrolled
for less than four months, but call il four months
to be more than fair. Then. by the War Depart
ment's own showing, We have a death rate from
disease alone, cf 25.47 per thousand per annum
The very highest death rate among whites in
any registration of the United States at the
time of the last % II per thousand
and from that the rate down TO 1876. In the
city of New York. in ls96, the total death rate,
including black and white, rich and poor old
and young was 21.52 per thousand OF the total
number OF deaths in New York three-fo were
of children and elderly people. Only one fourth
Of persons between fifteen and forty five.
Thus our soldiers, all young men in perfect physi-
cal condition when they enlisted, have been dying
one-fifth faster than the people of New York. in
cluding the congenitally diseased the tenement
house babies and the tottering octogenarians, and
two or three times as fast as New Workers of
corresponding ages.
But that is not all. 1t takes some little time TO
kill in robust health by disease. The
malady must first gain foothold; it must un-
dermine the rugged constitution and gradually
break down the successive lines OF defense That
cannot be done in day a month. Even the
men who lay for weeks in the trenches before
Santiago in the. tropical Cuban rains and mud,
with their systems weakened by Skaters starya-
ton commissariat arrangements, did not die at
once And vet this tremendous death rate was
piled up in four months. What would it have
been if the soldiers their constitutions finally
broken down, had stayed in Algers pest camps
four months longer?,e
The evening times., 1898-10-05
COSMOPOLIS.

New York sets herself up as being the
most cosmopolitan of all the great cit
les of the world. and seems to prove 1t
By statistics Whether it is thing to
be proud of is matter about which peo-
Pile may, differ. Apparently the New
York Sun has no doubt that it is fine
thing. 1t says:
"A series of statistics. prepared by
the registrar general in London, shows
that it is no. Ky any means notable
among the great cities of the world in
the matter OF its cosmopolitan popula-
tion. Ii appears that the number OF for
eigners mot touristsl resident in London
is: Go.000 Germans, 30.9a0 Russians. 200D9
Frenchmen, 1860 Americans. 15.eeO
Dutchmen. 12.0oo Poles. 100 Italians and
0.C01 Swiss. Of course, London contains
at all times larger foreign population.
but it is made up largely of transient Wis
itors. The resident foreign population.
as these statistics show, is small proper
tionately to the total population, which
was 4 i3S, ,0lS by the March census Of
1896.
Paris came next 10 London. and with
population OF Z-OS5, ,SSi IN 1875. was the
second largest city in the world. but
since the enlargement OF New York il
has dropped into the third place. The
most recent computation showed the
number of foreigners permanently resi-
dent in Paris TO be Is0.G19 divided thus:
''Belgians, 45,ee9: Germans .0.e0j: Ital-
ians. 2S.Ga0: Swiss. 2JG0: English. u COO:
Hollanders, 1900; Americans. 100; Rus
slams. 5000, Austrians and Hungarians,
5.0G0: Spaniards. 4.G10. and natives of other
countries. 5000.
New York is far more cosmopolitan
than either, so far as concerns its resident
fereign-born population. The board of
healths estimate of the popula ton of
New York city on July l. 1895, was s.
1884, S99. or about 1GCN,G0 more than Paris
and 1.030,e00 less than London. In the
Greater New York are $4,000 natives of
the German empire, 505. .00o of Ireland.
81. ee of Russia or of the Polish provinces.
5000 of Italy. 31.C00 of Norway and Swe-
den. - coo of Scotland. 20 coo of Hungary.
.15,d90 of Canada, 12,5e0 of France and I.5eL
of Spain. II will be seen that New York
is by all odds the most cosmopolitan city
in its population.
by the census of 1890 there were $50 coo
foreign-born inhabitants of Chicago. g7o.-
COO of Philadelphia. l5S,GIo OF Boston 126. .OO1
Of San Francisco and 1l5.0G9 of St Louis
No other American city had as many as
10000 fOreign-born inhabitants at that
time"
The evening times., 1898-10-05
Chinese inausements.

Some time ago a translation of a
Chinese essay on America went the
rounds of American papers. The Mon
golian observer found some things to
praise and others TO condemn in this
great republic. and one of his remarks
was:
- Americans never enjoy themselves by sitting
quietly on their ancestors graves.
In this conclusion the Celestial essay
list was right. 1t is not the custom of
cestor's grave and mediate. To be
sure. there are country towns where the
casual visitor is always taken. Iirst of
all, TO the cemetery as a means of en-
tertainment, but the inhabitants them
selves do not spend much time there.
They go there now and then, and ad-
mire the tombstones, but they do not
choose the graveyard as a place for
prolonged meditation.
Metaphorically, also, this statement
Of our Celestial visitor is true. If there
Is any one thing for which Americans
have won a reputation among the ma
tions Of the earth. it is for departing
from the ways Of their fathers when
ever they saw fit to do so. We have
been progressive, and we are proud of
A.. Some of our movements in certain
sections of the country may look like
those OF the animal of whom the Aca-
The evening times., 1898-10-05

There is case of reformatory punish
ment in Ohio which seems to need the at
tention of the governor of that State.
About two years ago man named Au-
gust Balizet was sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for three years for stealing
grain. Six months ago he was pardoned
on condition that he should report each
month where he was, what he had
earned what he was doing. and what he
had saved. At the first call for volun-
teers he enlisted in the army and went to
Santiago, where he made his mark by
bravery on the field. He seems to have
had the idea that by so doing he could re-
deem his character from the disgrace
which had befailen 1T. He came back
The evening times., 1898-10-05
EARLY ENGLISH.

In the Atlantic Monthly. Mark H. Lid
dell makes plea for the study of the
language of Shakespeare, the language
that is slowly passing out of use and of
knowledge. He says we do not read
Shakespeare understandingly, not merely
because We do not make an analytical
study, but because the race has not kept
alive the meaning of all his words He
says:
'As we go through life and continuous
iy add to our experience we add at the
same time words which are native to our
thinking and fitting to our experience.
Most of these words are generic, and
have their place in other minds just as
they have in ours. They represent pretty
much the same objects of thought and
pretty much the same relations for all
who think in the language we use. Some
of them we use often, others are as rare
as the experiences they connota: but all
are there, ready TO rise at the proper call.
1t is the power of literature to call them
forth and set them in what order the
poet (for in this sense all literature is
together. and our lives are caught in the
tissue whether we wish it or no. He uses
words that have been in our hearts at
times when feeling was strong and deep;
words which bitter memories cling to:
words which lovers use; words fast knit
into childish prayer; words of homely
comfort when deaths hand was heavy:
words bound up with duty, hope. love,
faith and the best things we have known
or hope to know. AS they pass through
our minds they stir us again, revealing us
TO ourselves as they reveal the poet )
thought TO US. and our hearts burn with
in us They are English words worn by
ages of English use-the oldest, simplest
words of the language. and therefore the
richest in association. They are the
words of Home. Sweet Home. 'AmericA,
God Save the Queen Pilgrims Prog
ress, the Bible (would that they were
there given their modern English form
so that they might be more homeiy stliI)
our English birthright.
Such words make our best literature.
and always will. as long as human heats
beat in our breasts. We cannot escape
them; they are part of ourselves, the
ghosts of our good deeds and our bad
deeds that must abide with US. We can
not get rid of them. For us they need no
notes, no Interpretation: they go straighf
to our understandings. without need o.
introduction; when the poet uses them
they are inteiligtble, and Immediately
intelligible. conveying without iisk oi
mistake exactly the thought OF the poet
mind and no other The process OF appre-
hending them to the fun is what might
be called, with little stretching OF the
term, reflex action. This is what l mean
by understanding. and reading il this
way is reading understandingly."
The evening times., 1898-10-05
CURRENT HUMOR.

''At any rate" remarked Uncle Allen Sparks.
1T doesn't appear that any epidemic broke out
among tEe army horses. Let us be just 10 Surg
Huidekc er.'-Chiesge Tribune.
DO you believe poetry is dead in this count
try?''
YES; practically 50. The soap manufacturer,
don't use it for advertising purposes any more
Chicago News.
''Madge. do you dislike meeting Your old low
ers?''
'.No: their wives are generally ugl:er than
am.''-Chcago Record.
about the hottest thing / have seen lately. :"
Ashury Peppers remarked. as he spared TIE b-st
slice of melon, was otd salt with papppry
temper, who had just been mustered ut."-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
He-The.e are two periods in a mans life when
he never understands woman
''Indeedi And when they?'
Before he is married. and afte:ward. Life
= She-!.nd would you go TO the end CT the world
with meg''
He-Which end?
Now she treats him as a stranger.-Cleveland
Leader
Miss D,-Angelina, why don't you marry Lieut.
Yf
Miss A.-Firzt because he has no brains-and
he can't ride. dance, play tennis ithat
could we do with him?
but he swims beautifully
".Oh, yes; but one can't keep ones husband in
an aquarium, you know.''-Tit Bits.
81 tell you my wife's wonderful woman"
.'Indeed?"
"Yep-her last three daughters were SPOKEN for
before they were three days old."-Iife.
Subbubs-rd like to own a steam Yacht and
take a six months cruise around the Atlantic
Howse-Any particular object in view?
Subbubs-Yes; I'd like TO show TIE cook that
she couldn't leave whenever she pleased
Puck.
81 presume you are glad that the war has
wiped out all traces of sectionalism. colonel?"
81 suppose ought TO be glad, sab, but it is
putty hand to be compelled to brother up with
a people whose favorite drink is rum and mo-
lasses Cincinnati Enquirer.
Smith-Jones says there is something suspi-
cious about his wife's actions.
BrOwn-Is that so?
Smith-Yes; he says she insists on getting a
Whit of his breath every time he is detained
downtown late at night.-Chicago Record
81 ddh't sec the widow at the funeral"
'.No; her2gown fitted so badly that she couldn't
restrain her grief Chicago Record.
Bilkins-Who was it wrote ACTIONS spsak loud
er than wefds?"
Harper-d don't know, but I'll bet the thought
occurred to him while he was trying to sn ak up
stairs at O'Clock in the morning-Chicago
News i-e
seHow will know when the New York train is
made up so | get aboards'
s'Ler me see. The train leaves at 10 O'Clock,
doesn't it?t
well, at about 9:3G will come into the
waiting room ard bawl out: 'Pa-a-a-aas ng'rs fr
Ma-aa- -aiml m n No-o-o-oo-o-o-or Blaw-aw-
aw waw-aw-aw- -aw-awmf'r Ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-eelm m
Wu-u-uI--ug-u Grr-r- al -ai-eorp n Doo-
oo-oo-eo-oo-gii Aw-aw.aw-awl abo-o-o-c-o o-oard!'
Then you 20. ,ysto him and ask him if the New
York train is ready, and he'll tell you -'-Caicago
Tribune.
The evening times., 1898-10-05
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1888.
Dewey and the Germans.

The letter of a German naval officer
published this morning is read with
various feelings. and especially with a
feeling of distrust. The writer is surely
wrong as to the alleged announcement
of Admiral Dewey that every ship en-
tering Manila Bay would be boarded by
an American officer. Since no such
purpose was asserted there could have
been no backdown by Dewey and there
fore no moral victory for the German
admiral. However. it is possible that
the latter may have believed that was
DeWeys intention and prepared to re-
sist
The recital Of the German officer
shows a degree Of barbaric brutality on
tle part Of his admiral that would be
more characteristic of the Turk than Of
a civilized naval commander Instead
Of protesting against what he regarded
as an assumption of unwarranted au-
thority. the German admral-accord-
ing to the account given by his subordi-
natG-GelibeTately resolved to assassin
ate more than five hundred Americans.
He prepared his ship for war, taking
days to the work, then sailed close to
the flagship Of the American command
er, moving slowly. in order TO tempt
him to send an officer to board him
His intention was to fire a broadside
and use torpedoes, without a word OF
notice. and sink the American war
ship.
If the German officer tells the truth
his admiral is but little, if any, better
than the men who blew up the Maine.
There had been no declaration of war,
no authorized talk of war, between this
country and Germany. If the American
commander proposed an act that was
in violation OF international custom a
protest and a demand for apology and
q disayowal of any intent to insult the
German flag would have been the pro-
ceeding dictated by the rules of civilized
nations. To destroy the admirals yes
sel and all on board without allowing
an opportunity TO explain the act would
have been simply savage and barbar-
Gus. Yet il delighted the soul Of the
German official to anticipate just that
The atrocity Of the scheme appears
the greater when we remember the
course Of the same German admiral
when Dewey challenged him with the
quiet observation that what the Ger
man proposed 10 do was an act of war
DO you want to go to WARP was, in
effect, the question of the American
The German did not. In the light of
this letter he did not merely because
the Americans were not unprepared.
The evening times., 1898-10-05

In one or two instances our generals
have been able to minimize the sufferings
of their commands resulting from depart
ment ineft!ciency or rascality, simply by
showing teeth early In the fight and
frightening people inclined to take ad-
vantage Of the poor soldier Gen. Wheel
er managed to keep his division fairly
well supplied. fed and doctored; first.
because he had great experience in cam
paigning on nothing. and. second. because
he is not the man To stand any nonsense
That the officials charged with the duty
of furnishing the needs OF the army We're
able to comply with his necessities and
demands reasonably, il it means any
thing. means that 1t was dishonesty
rather than incapacity that produced diff
ferent results in other instances. 1t seems
that when it was known that no foolish
ness could be safely INDUCED in things
went well enough.
The evening times., 1898-10-05
No More Rough Riding.
(From the Buffalo Times.)

Evidentiy Col. Ted Roosevelt had enough OF
rough riding when he in Cuba. At any
rate, in touring New York State during this
camraien he proposes TO have smooth riding
As possible In fnrtherance of this desire On tn
part of the hero of San Juan. the genial and
oI H-,ing Chauncey VI. Depew. who put Teddy IN
rC.rination at Saratoga. viii furnish him with 4
spvciaI ear in which he can travel IN style
throughout the State. There will be no rough
riding as this with all its luxurious appoint
mentS giides over the smooth tracks 4 the
New York Central and Teddy rumiuate on
the difference between campaign against the
Dons and a campaign against the Democrats.
the comparative merits OF the Sboney trail
with the mercury in the hundreds and tAe we'll
ballasted tracks of the New York Central with
ming ever il.
The evening times., 1898-10-05
A Case of Huried Alive.

1t greatly grieves US to think that the
report Of Col. Rcos Welt, on his obse serva-
rions and experiences during the war.
shCuld be just now the subject of pub
lie comment and curiosity. Written at
a time when there was every reason TO
think that the Administration. or its
New York end at least. would antagon-
ize his political ambition, ii may be
taken for granted that the fearless cit
izen and critic was not as careful to
spare the feelings of the War Depart
ment misdemeanants as he would have
been if his adjustment to the Platt ma
chine We're already accomplished. As
a passing comment, il may be doubted
if that adjustment would have been
made but for the nature Of the report
which, those who best know the colonel
say was hot enough to burn the eyes
Of anyone venturing TO read II. AT
present it is understood to be much
cooler in tone. 1t is officially referred
to as in the hands of TIE President for
consideration" We do not, of course.
know exactly what value to give such
statement under existing circum-
stances. Perhaps il would be best TO
consider it as only OF pro forrna char
acter, and to assume that the much
taIked-of document is really at Oyster
Bay, Long Island, there to be re-writ-
ten from the point Of view of a patient
Republican pack mule, who is no longer
the red-eyed, bucking broneho of the
time when it was sent TO Washington
before
We are glad to hope that this may
prove to be the fact, and that thus an
impertinent public appetite for truth
concerning one moiety of the great war
scandal will remain forever unsated.
When the report ultimately shall see
the light and be read to the Alger Relief
Commission we fully expect that it will
be found Of d nature to completely sat-
isfy the desires and necessities of the
Rough Riders new bosses. 1t may not
be improper to add that. if the Carter
court-martial papers should ever bob
up serenely from below-after the cleo
tions-it would not surprise US to learn
that they show the engineer defendant
to have been honorabIy acquitted, and
deserving creditor of the Government
TO the extent of several hundred thou
sand dollars.
1t is too early to discuss what may
be the consequence of such a revela-
ton. But, after the polls are closed in
November the object of the Alger Re-
lief Commission will have been accom-
plished, or else confessed to be fall
ure. and there will be no further occa-
sion to waste public money on that
score. Probably then it might be in
order To divert the activities of the
members TO the work of Carter Relief
Commission. 1t would be too late to af-
feet this Autumns political results but
high time to think about 1900. The gen.
tIeman who has been so hardly used by
press and public, and who would today
be in an uncomfortable position but for
his friend, General Alger, has many and
powerful relatives and friends who
were liberal in 1896. and, presumably,
could be made even more SO on the next
occasion, with little pressure
After the Alger Relief Commission let
us have Carter Relief Commission. by
all manner of means.