The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-08-19

SPANS olive breanch recently exhibited
IN the White House by VI. Camoon was a
very neat offering and a remarkably fine
specimen 0f Peninsula horticulture. There
was not a leaf on 81. not twig. With a
cunning quite Oriental Il has been so
pruned that those who did not mistake Il
for a divining rod regarded it as a wedge.
But, planted in tho conservatory Of the
Executive il may be assumed that bar
ring one on another OF those distempers
% which. I'm this climate. INTENDED cxOt-
les are subject. II will promptly bloom
first into the bud. then into the blossom
and finally into the fruiton of mxuriant
peace. May all the boys az the front ger
back 20 SEQ it,
VI. CambOn's mission was not unantici-
pated. Napoleon fcll not through his re-
verses but because OF his triumphs. The
case Of Spain is not dissimiiar. The em-
pire she built was once 80 wide. her sue
cess SO great. that her ultimate fall could
have been mathematicaliy predicted.
Hereafter The lady will take back seat.
From hrst-ratc second-class power she
subsidies into the shabby-g0nteei. THAI
has long been d matter of course. Bul
that which put the world behind the
scenes and made the production OF the
OIAht UfIlHn Eflfl tliN N-IHNNN4 llNiH AtNN
been her defeats or even our victories.
1t was the piper. There IS en individual
who has 10 be paid. None can feed and DE
fed on the faith OF tO-morr0w's baked
meats. 4 piper Il no exception. Even
though he would, he can't pipe on paper
pcsetas In SPANS larder there is Moth
ing else. Before hostiiities began her am
bassadOr I'm London stated that the war
might continue indefinitely. Theoretically
he was correct Matters might have run
on till the Rough Riders l0unged In Ma
drid They would have enjoyed 80. No
doubt the manclas would have enjoyed it
also. II is the absence OF the piper that
puts a stop 20 all that. His strains are
still in the air. and IN the air for a while
yet they may linger But so faint 90 they
sound that one may wonder whether they
Will outlast the bolero In Puerto Rico
and conclude the cachuca in Cuha.
Cervera's defeat was the last straw In
the piper's lemonade. Through that
which history may h. trusted TO cata-
loeue as one Of the great nouts OF fate.
Christopher Columbus gift OF new
world 10 Spain ended with the "Chrlstobal
Colon" The engagement in which that
ironcal touch was given ended other
things also. The ideas which 10 reversed
are notable To take one example from
n dozen there. for instanre~is the value
OF the torpedo-boat destroyer. Iheoreu-
cally. the Gloucester after running mp
against the "puton' and the 'Furor
should have reached tine bottom of the
Caribbean IN just the time that &c would
take 10 90 get there. But not bit of it.
Then and there she knocked spots
straight out OF them and showed mp not
even ragged and stil I'm the ring. Ante
bellum expert testimony was 90 the effect
that brace of boats of the "Pluton
type were "a match for % batteshlp. Made
in England made for fight and made for
flight. fitted with MaXims and lf-p1unders
they constituted the chief anxiety among
Simpsons fleet. And yet % lightly built
yacht tackled them both and eat them up.
The determining factor in that feat was.
Of course. the men at the guns the accu-
racv and rapidify OF the "Gi0uccster's'
shot. the smother of her fire. All OF which
shows. perhaps thar she question OF
naval supremacy rests 'ess'in engines OF
destruction than in the manipulation
which those engines receive Edgar
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