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Daily camera., 1898-11-03
Getting at the Facts.

This coffee has its good qualities as
we'll as its bad points, remarked the
dyspeptic boarder as he called for a
second cup.
''Indeed?" queried the landlady.
"Yes," he continued; "the best that
can be said about it is that it contains
no chicory."
And it's worst point?' asked the
landlady.
SIS that it contains no coffee" was
the ungallant reply.-Chicago Daily
News,
Daily camera., 1898-11-03
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LOOKING AT THINGS.
IF All Saw Alike This World Would
be Uninteresting.

1T is a pity that more of us cannot
cultivate the twofold way of looking
at things" writes Edward w. Box in
the Ladies' Home Journal" There
would be less friction in life If we did,
and sweeter sympathy, kinder under
standing, and broader and fuller living.
The fact is that we never reach the
dignity of true living unless we do learn
this all-important lesson. And that it
may be cultivated admits of no doubt
1t is simply question of schooling our
selves not to condemn generally what
individually does not happen to be to
our taste. If, for example, we prefer
brown as color there is no reason on
earth why We should condemn the taste
OF any one who preferred to wear green.
What the vast majority Of US need is to
be little more self poised, more judi
cial, more willing to see good in the
tastes Of others, although they do not
please our own particular fancies. If
We all thought alike, read the same
books, saw the same plays, wore the
same colors, this would be an exceed
ingly uninteresting world.
I'VE cannot see all things in the same
way, but we can come near to justice
and true respect by taking a twofold
view of things while still retaining our
strong individual views. Seeing a pos
sible good or use for everything does
not necessarily mean a weak individu-
ality. The most uncomfortable people
in the world are those who assert their
judgments in hard, decisive and final
manner, as if they were courts of last
resort. On the other hand, the bright
est and best minds are those that have
most respect for the opinions Of 9TH
ers''
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stewardship In Egypt It shows an
amount Of work done and an extent Of
progress made that Justify In the most
conclusive manner Great Britain's per-
sistence in remaining In control Of that
country. If we compare the condition
OF Egypt to-day with what 1t was fif-
teen years ago-for it d. so long since
LORD Cromer began his work there
and with what it had been for unnum-
Dered years before, the change seems
Weilmgh miraculous, and it is seen that
to check the force that is thus making
Tor civilization and humanity would be
nothing short, Of a crime.
In spite of the extraordinary ex-
penses of the war with the Dervishes,
the budget surplus, instead of being
to,oUO Egyptian, an Egyptian pound
Defng s1xpence more than an English
one), is actually f433, 900. The debt
mas been reduced in the year more than
t255,OOO. Trade has increased, rail-
road and steamboat travel has in
creased, the area of cultivated land has
increased. the population has increased,
and crime has decreased by % per
cent. Those are all favorable details.
They indicate a healthy and substan-
tlal progress of the country toward the
estate for which nature fitted it and
from which it was long kept only by
the viciousneSS and inefficiency Of it's
government
The work of Lord Cromer in Egypt
has been and is work of the very high
est value to the world. 1t is the old
story of making two blades of grass
to grow where only one grew before.
That is what he has been doing in ag-
riculture, manufactures, commerce, ed
ucation, and, indeed, every useful de-
partment of human energy.
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ROMANCE VERSUS KICKS.
Lop-Eared Marquis Who Disliked
Moonshine Vanquishes the Poet.

She whom I adore is the wife Of fat
Marquis - lop-eared, blear-eyed,
greasy Marquis. A man without soul.
A man without sentiment, who cares
naught for moonlight and music. A
low, practical man, who pays his debts.
l hate him.
That very morning at breakfast, he
had cursed the fishballs and sneered at
the picked onions.
She is good cook. The neighbors
will tell you so. And to be told by the
base Marquis-a man, who, previous to
his marriage. had lived at the cheap
eating houses, to be told by him that
her manner of frying fishballs was a
failure-it was too much.
Her tears fell fast. /, too wept. I
mixed my sobs with her'n. Ely with
mel" ! cried.
Ere she could reply - ere she could
articulate her ecstacy. her husband the
Marquis, crept snake-like upon me.
Shall l write it? He kicked me out Of
the garden = he. kicked me into the
street.
/ did not return. How could I? /, so
ethereal. so full of soul. of sentiment,
of sparkling originality! He. SO gross,
so practical, so lop-eared.
Had I returned, the creature would
have kicked me again.-Boston Jour-
nal
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ton to a private soldier he replies in
English, which is spoken with a foreign
accent. A great many speak with
German accent, and a great many more
with an Irish accent. A few are evil
IDENTIFY Englishmen. Many more have
Irish names. do not mean, that they
may not be quite as good Americans"
as any one else; I am simply noting an
chronological or social fact. In some
regiments, however, such as the Sixth
Cavalry, one finds a large proportion Of
American soldiers, and the regi-
ments, 1t must be said, are beginning
to draw more and more recruits from
the States in which they are stationed
Nearly all of this class are looking to
commission. Most, of them are
younger than the average Of the regular
army. ~
Some of the older Americans confess
that they have made failure in life,"
somehow or other. and have gone into
the army as sort Of refuge, My OBJ
servation and inquiry have convinced
me that the charge that there is
considerable proportion of ex-convicts
in the regular army is false. There may
be discharged convicts in it, but they
are in proportion so small that 1t is.
Insignificant. If discharged peniten-
tiary convicts Of good physique and
good intentions concerning their after.
fife are able to get into the army am
glad of it. Their experience is likely
to be good for them. and t6 do no.
harm to the serviee. ss NineJtenths of
the regular soldiers, when asked where
they come from mention some city or
large town The great rural masses Of
The population Of the United states
seem to be only slenderly represented in
the regular army.
In fact, 1t is not at all representa-
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turn to the regulars after their posi-
BILE volunteer service shall be over, and
they do not hope to come back to it
on terms much better than their pres
ent ones. But the service appears real,
inviting, and stirring to them. Even
they seem to recognize sort of rela-
ton in the volunteer service'to the vital
activities OF the nation which perhaps
they do not feel in the regulars.
But, with it all, certain prejudices
that civilians may have felt against the
regular army are likely to weaken
when one has spent some time in con-
tact with it. If regular army officers
are bound to keep the privates in GER
tain place, and not allow them to get
above it, they are, nevertheless, very
far from appearing to feel themselves
q superior caste. Discipline, not degra-
dation for the soldier, is what they
seek. Among themselves they are a
very democratic body. They put on no
airs at all. "Militarism" in the Ger
man sense they know nothing about.
I believe they are incapable of enter
tanning any notion of hostility to the
liberties of the country. They cherish
a tradition that Grant and Sherman
both informed President johnson. when
he sounded them as to whether the
army could be relied on in case of
trouble between him and Congress, that
indeed it could be depended on to take
the side OF Congress. The old fashioned
ideas OF the civil bases of things in
this codhtfya are entertained by officers
OF the regular army as instinctively, !
suppose, as they are by civilians. =.
To get American officers who are en-
tirely loyal to american ideas" is per-
fectly easy. But to get American sol
diers for regular army-that is diff
rerent Tampa F1a.) correspondence
New York Evening Post.
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THE REGULAR ARMY.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RE0U.
) ;. LARS AND VOLUNTEERS.
Social Questions IN the Army-The
Regulars Net Representative
Seen at Tampa.

There is nothing that the regular
army officers talk about so much as the
regular army. do not mean that
they exalt it on all occasions. Army
officers are for the most part men of
modesty as we'll as courtesy. But they
often speak in a more or less impatient
way of the prejudices that prevail
against regular army, and Of the un-
kind and suspicious things that are said
about 1T; and they like to tell you how
much better and more effectively and
mercifully this war might have been
fought if we had an army of $4,000
men at the outbreak of hOstilities in
stead of one of $4,000. 1 am not going
to repeat any of their arguments, but
I have seen some things here lately
which have been, it seems to me, in
structive on the main point, whether
we are to depend, in great crises, on
regulars or on volunteers. @
Just now we have something more
than thousand volunteers encamped
in neighborhood where some ten or
eleven thousand regulars are encamped.
In many. ways these volunteers are RI
diculous. in comparison with the regu-
lars. They are younger, smaller, paler,
weaker. They are undiSciplined.
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Though they are mostly of very good
class of people morally. they furnished
more cases of drunkenness in a. day
than all the regulars had furnished in
a week. That was not because they
were as individual men more inclined
to drunkenness, but because they were
undisciplined youths suddenly turned
out of their homes into a camp, and
felt themselves bound to do something
rough and soldier-like. AS soldiers,
they are simply not, man for man, one
half what the regulars are.
But there is one point in which they
are worth something more. Socially
the regular private soldier is nowhere
at all. If he enters the big hotel where
the headquarters of the army are, and
which is constantly full Of officers, he
enters 1t only as messenger for an
officer, and must enter it hat in hand,
and go by an inconspicuous way around
to the desk and present his message
and when he has had his answer, he
must go out in the same way. The
private soldier or non-commissioned
officer cannot eat at the same public
table with officers, nor drink at the
same, bar. This social distinction is
not founded, it should be said, on the
assertion Of any difference Of class, but
on the necessity Of discipline, An addi-
tional circumstance of some interest is
that the girls Of Tampa are ashamed to
be seen in the company OF q regular
private soldier. s.slft s.
Now, we who had been Ia Tampa for
q couple Of weeks, and ha d grown ac-
customed to this state of things, saw
something Of quite q different sort
when the Florida volunteers arrived
Volunteer privates Of Florida are seen
at the tables of the Tampa Bay Hotel
at dinner, vis-a-vis with Generals and
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wise it may be believed that he under
stands the temper, disposition and re-
sources of the Spanish, for he was
formerly the United States Minister at
Madrid, and his wife was Spanish
lady.
Americans are as a rule well-read
and well-informed," went on General
Sickles. They. don't know all about
Spain, but they know in a more or.l less
general way. of it's extent and. its re-
sources. They know, too, something, Of
the character and habits of the people.
A good many of them have actually
visited Spain, and have seen the. coun-
try for themselves; nearly all the
others have read about it. To be sure,
I think the ideas which our people have
formed regarding Spain are not alto
gether accurate. We are apt to regard
the upper classes Of Spain as ignorant,
lazy and worthless, and to believe that
the rest Of the nation is made up of
buil-hghters and muleteers who are
good for little else. AS a matter Of fact
the resources. of Spain are apt to prove
surprisingly, great, considering the des-
perate condition in which she is now
placed; and the average Spaniard,. !.
though he may be averse to ordinary
labor, looks upon fighting as an honor
able and worthy employment, and gem
orally has enjoyed some training for it,
Mind, am not casting doubt on the
result Of the present war; it can have
but one ending. What I may say is
that we must not expect Spain to
crumble to pieces at the first touch of a.
hostile nation. The fully informed peo-l
pie OF this country do not expect that,
but they realize that Spain is immeas-
urably weaker than the United States.
In general, the ideas in regard to our
opponent which prevail in this country
are pretty accurate.
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Colonels of the regular army. There
was a hop at the hotel the other
evening. The DANGERS Were made up
almost entirely of 6ffiitesefs of the army
and OF resident young women. In the
midst of all the shoulder-straps saw
q young soldier who had no shoulder
straps His uniform was not unlike
that of a private of the regular. army;
but 1t was easy to see that he belonged
to the Florida militia He was a pri-
vate But presently a young lady who
was talking with an officer rushed up
to him and shook his hand cordially.
Then she presented him 70 the officer.
Captain -, this is, Mr. --" The
officer shook his hand and began talk
ing in cordial fashion with the young
man. They met as social equals.
If you mention this matter to regular
officers, and point out the fact that they
are thus meeting private soldiers on a
plane OF social equality, they say: ..Oh,
that doesn't make any difference-they
are volunteers They are not respon-
sible for the discipline of the Florida
militia They suffer no loss of military
caste on account of social intercourse
with it's privates. Their position is con-
sistent enough A regular army could
not be made and kept good for much if
the officers and soldiers were likely to
meet anywhere on the same social
plane. But in this fact there lies a
question of considerable public conse-
Quence 1t is a fact that is likely to
keep the ranks of the regular army
filled with men of certain sort and al
most no other, and prevent it from be-
ing really representative of the Amer
lean people.
In view of the claim that the. regular
army is made up in large proportion of
native Americans. it is matter of in
terest to note here the fact that very
often when you address any conyersa-
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Gen. DANIEL (. SlCkLEs
TELLS WHAT THE spANIARDs
THINK OF Us.
Delusions About the United States
The War Will Increase Our
Prestige in Europe.

! One fact that needs to be appreci-
ated in order to understand the situa-
ton in the present war between the
United States and Spain," said General
Dan" Sickles the. other day, is the
difference in the extent and accuracy
of the information which each country
possesses in regard to the other
Probably there is no man in the coun-
try better qualified to discuss the Span
ish-American complication than the
doughty old General. He is of the last
of the lighting volunteer Generals of
the civil war, and perhaps the most
prominent of those who remain
Though he is past 20 now and has to
stump around upon one leg (the other
was left upon the field of Gettysburg),
he takes a keen interest in the present
war, and is actively engaged with Lieu
Schofield in the forma-
tion of the National Volunteer Reserve.
General Sickles knows the realities of
war, for he was in the thick of the
fray at Charlottesville and Gettys-
burg and other hard-fought fields. He
is familiar with the political aspects of
the present contest, too for he has
been a Congressman and member of
our European diplomatic corps. Like
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A Funny Burglary Story.

An elGerly woman and her daughter,
living in Walnut street, have been
spending the last few days recuper-
ating from a nervous shock they re-
Gently received, each blaming the other
as the cause of the trouble. The elder
woman is slightly deaf, and lives in
constant dread of burglars, and to ad-
ditionally fortify her room at night she
has taken to standing stick between
the lower sash of her window and the
casing above, so it cannot be opened
The other night she was awakened by
hearing a racket in her room, and fin-
ally, mustered up enough courage to
look around, she discovered that her
stick had fallen from the window to the
floor behind the sewing machine. She
arose. went to the machine and leaned
over it to reach the stick.
In the mean time the daughter had
been awakened by the same noise, and,
fearing that a burglar had entered her
mothers room and would frighten her
to death, she hurried to investigate.
Reaching the door, she saw, to her
horror, that her mother was lying.
head down. over the machine, evident
ly. dead or UNCONSCIOUS. Though the
daughter is small and frail. she decid-
ed to carry her to the bed and hurry
for help. Running over, she clasped
the supposedly unconscious body
around the waist. Immediately the
mother gave forth such a succession
of blood curdling shrieks as might have
been heard for squares. as she strug-
gled in the grasp of the long expected
burglar; but the daughter. certain that
her mother had gone mad with fright,
held on for dear life. and the two strug-
gled and swayed till finally they both
fell exhausted on the bed. Then they
realized the true situation, and they've
been blaming each other ever since
Philadelphia Record
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tive thing. The question may well be
asked whether it ever can be, in view
of the necessity OF the maintenance OF
the social relation between officers and
priyates which have mentioned The
ordinary white American h unwilling
to accept a relation OF conspicuous So
cial inferiority,, for two reasons: One,
and the lesser. is that he has been
taught historically that such relation
must not exist in this, country. ibe-
cause it is. politically dangerous; and
the other and greater reason is that
the women. for, whom he most cares
despise him if he enters into it. ~ The
average American is never going to be
a regular soldier so long as the girls
of the same sort of people that he be-
longs to refuse to be seen walking on
the street with regular soldier. when
they will freely walk with volunteer
private. The social ambition and keen
sensitiveness of American women to
social distinction cuts figure in this
question of the increase of the regular
army which has never been taken suffi-
GENTLY into account.
Some other things which I see here
tend to convince me that the volunteer
service is the real soldering that
Americans think of, and that regular
army can never be anything more than
a thing apart from their lives and
thoughts. The regular soldiers whose
terms of Office are expiring or likely
to expire during this office are all anx-
ious to go into the volunteers rather
than to re-enlist. No great number
Of them appears likely to be able to
get into the volunteer service just now,
but it has great attraction to them. So
it has to all the young officers; they
seem to be to man anxious to get
in the volunteer army SUI
perior to the ones they now hold in
the regular army. They all hope to re-
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Tall Advertisinga

b II was running a paper down in
Tennessee then,' prefaced the ex-news-
paper man whose only work now is to
collect what other people owe him in
the way of rents and interest. "One of
the few fine looking women you find
in the mountains of that region walked
into the office one afternoon and said:
! *.HsBe youins the editor?'' i
] ! : TerJIpon. Being Informed that enjoyed
that distinction she looked me over as
though greatly disappointed, and then
told along story of petty domestic diff
scuities that had led to the disappear
ance Of her husband about two weeks
Before = Now she wanted to put in
nice advertisement telling that he was
forgiven and that she longed TO. have
him at home How much would I
charge her? -
ss.Two dollars an inch,' answered.
: "Taking pencil and sheet Of copy
papersshe figured laboriously for pretty
nearly an hour At length she tore
the paper into shreds and was deliber.
Ately walking out Of the office when /
asked her if she thought the charge
was. too high.
: fsssI don't reckon L know anything
bout your business, sub. But Il never
see that much money, let lone handlin'
of it. Joe's,wuth it, butI couldn't never
buy him back at them figgers.. He's
six foot three in his. bare feet, sub, Joe
is. At So an inch I. make it $15os I'll
just have to go out ansSssit his trail an
foller.. s,.s.. sss.,ss. A.
There was somethines 4akfe in her res
'ifnation. tadvsftiEea Zoe, got aother
peperss to copy, SsE lonnded him
sfp. one .mcrn9ps B hlexe was sa ten
iEa ION kegof niiSenshinE whisky It my
llatchens dooS apdl q dta not ADVERTISE
FOR an owner r"ECedar Rapids Herald.
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The Alert Parson.

Worldly Par1shioner-I was extreme
" annoyed by your sermon from the
Acts this morning.
Parson-Naturally; you couldn't go
out between them, OF course.-Boston
Courier.
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Forfeited Delights.

Grumpy says he saved $1,000 extra
last year"
How was that?"
"Gave his wife $500 not to go near
bargain counter."-Detroit Free
Press.
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A dollar in the fortune-teller's hand
is worth more than the fortune predic-
tion you get for 1t.
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HND WHIT 1T WEHN0.
Just Our Board and Clothes"

been doing
the mar o himself
Us nd Clothes.
hat IS when come right
this makes
1t all happened
place Kingston driving span
of the place
fellow would him rue
everybody there but this fellow
logged along
he about myself.
Women of Luxury
do said Treat
Fairly" said How long been
with boy" What does he you?
foolish
for him coach
his board Why
Well I've been with the doctor SO
make Twenty-Five is long ne
been with him. What
him and dress him
take care OF
We'll think cheap What
of "Oh sometimes pretty gooo
fellow and he find you in
he and besides that
clothes Eat at
privilege, of course
Most people don't do that"
wanted to leave
he boy, so I can
light my pipe" Then standing
earnestly working for
for board and clothes you're chump
Are We a o
mind then as 1t rises now: are we
a chumps?"
his abors?
look the
will find that he doesn't get much more than
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lire We q Race of Ch1tDaps?

board clothes about club life running the
American 1t is ignorance that causes
this The held horrible
anything of the other
There is about ENJOYING high Jnks
in the resort he
all its as vg
high his creature IN
Now what majority of who remain
the city business conernedE
and then to bed
has always this depletion of the club
mans life in the time
Boosted Streng II
I suppose inviting criticism when say tnat
when it right down to results longer the Wea
despite boosted strength
he it cheerfully
to
who
and that pleases
her clothes
o with pride She is
that money the
think fellow enves and
doesn't
1t brings old ditty
The Iords of call
And
But y're much m
And the
1t has
Eor the first
The very
Woman has always power but in the history Of
has she the throttle Of the
angne NJ civilization she has to-day