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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-23

They nov say Zoa is TO become a
priest. just because he's got the other
fellows ccnfessing?
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-23

MANCHESTER BUREAU. 1921 HULL
STREET
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-23

PETERSBURG AGENT.
MRS 6. {. HUTCHINSON. LOMBARD
STREET.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-23

THE MAILING LIST IS ONLY PRINT
ED ABOUT EVERY Ten DAY. ).
THEREFORE,. DO NOT PEEL UNEASY
II THE DATE OPPOSITE YOUR NAME
on TIE LITTLE PINK SLIP IS Not
CHANGED AS SOON AS THE SUE
SCRIPTION is RENEWED.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-23

THE DAILY TINES Is served by carriers
on their own account IN this CITY ana
Manchester for 10 cents a week. Wheh
paid weekly but 50 cents per month
when paid monthly, by mail, OUTSIDE
OF Richmond so cents a month. So.oJ q
year-anywhere IN the United states.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-23

WE DEsIPE TO CALL TIE ATTN
TON OF ALL PERSONS SENDl<.i
POLITICAL NEWS AND OTHER CON-,
THE ESsITY OF SIGNING THEIR
NAMES TO SUCH REPORTS. As 1T -
THE RULE OF THIS PAPER NDI ~
PUBLISH ANY ARTICLE TIE NAMb
REJECTED CONTRIBUTIONS VIII
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-23

OF course, the officers OF the Second
Regiment were thankful enough % pre-
pay those kilograms to- Governor Tyler.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-23

The w. @. Us. U. may rest assured that
there viii never Doe o. success sfui launching
and enrlslonns without Wl-.r.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-23

j. reports from Naples Doe true. our
Vesuvius SIS not the real thing at al on
destroying the shore lines"
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-23

Professor Tattcn says the world will
come 90 am end early in March. Remem-
Der this in laying ia your winter supply
OF c0aL
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-23

Pingreo wins again. ola Ping knows
that there are many ways Of serving
potatoes besides roasting them.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-23

Deer arc scarce this year in the Adj
rondacks. but about fifteen guides have
been brought down by the unerrns
malksmcu.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-23

The school book night seems to have
finally reached the rural district
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-23

Don Carlos SENS TO have made up his
mind that the other fellows are going
TO keep st after an.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-09-23

The season approaches when other how-
crs may fade. but the chysanthemum
gets a good show.
The times., 1898-04-17
OverzeaIous Patriotism

AT time like this, particular care
should be taken that the passions of
men do not run riot. There is enough
to excite the fighting temper Of the ma
ton in actual facts and conditions, and
there are many things against which
this ardor should be directed. 1t is not
necessary or desirable, brethren, that
actors who are playing the parts of
Spaniards on the stage should be
mobbed and maltreated.
The fact that such a thing is possible
shows quite plainly the temper of our
country. Not long ago, in Chicago, a
play was produced in which there was a
strong patriotic and anti-Spanish senti-
ment. The villain of the play was
Spaniard, and a very good villain he
was He made himself so detestable
and so heinous that he could not show
his head on the stage without being
greeted with storms of Kisses. This
was fine art, and made him valuable to
the company. But as the Cuban senti-
ment increased during the season, and
the audiences became more and more
enthusiastic over this play, the actor
who played the villain found that his
personality was getting uncomfortably
mixed with his part Not that he, him
self, was inclined to sympathize with the
Spaniards but the audience could not
seem to understand that his playing
was art and not nature and their feel
ings carried them away SO that they
waited for him at the stage door and
night, at the very tip-top of his histri-
onic triumph, a man jumped up in the
orchestra and pointed a pistol at his
| head.
That night the actor went to the
manager Of the company and resigned.
He said in effect that he loved his art,
but 1t was impracticable TO be shot ev-
cry night for the sake of dramatic ef-
! feet, and while he had done his best to
make the figure of the villain realistic
! he declined to allow the audience to
carry the realism TO the extent of max
/ ing him a martyr 20 the cause of art
! He was, however, prevailed upon to
/ stay, and il is no more than fair to
4 point out TO the public the injustice OF
visiting upon an actor the sins of ma
/ tion with which he has nothing more
TO do than simply show them in theiI
most realistic colors.
Let this extra enthusiasm cease. il
The times., 1898-04-17
SeIf-GnNernIn Rnf.

The card which the Administration
has been playing for the last two or
three days is the plea that the Cubans
are not fit for self-goYernment. Under
the present circumstances it is difficult
to see how anyone can tell whether
they are or not Fighting against a
force of trained soldiers many times
their number, nadequately armed,
hampered by the lack Of seaport, they
could hardly be expected to have any
very imposing government as yet. 1t
is said that there are no men among
them who can play the part that the
fathers of our Republic played in the
formation Of a stable and reliable ma
ton That, again, is matter about
which We have no very definite infor
nation. 1t is probable. however, that
at the time the United States achieved
her independence there We're few states
men in Europe who would have had
much TO say as to the stability Of our
Government.
What business is it of ours, however,
whether the Cuban government is sta
BILE or not? That is not the question be-
fore the court. Are we to sit in judg-
ment upon this little island republic
and declare that it cannot govern it
self before 1t has had fair chance to
try? Have we succeeded SO well in es-
tablishing order and civilization in our
own territory that we think we can
govern 10 the best interests of all par
ties a nation of different race, religion
and civilization from our own? The
only dignifed, just and reasonable
stand for us to take is that we will help
the Cuban people to win the independ-
ence they have certainly earned, if
pluck and determination can prove it,
and then let them work out their own
salvation. And If, after more than a
hundred years of self government, af-
| ter proof after proof of the progress
| which may be attained along the lines
marked out by Thomas Jefferson. the
| champion of human rights, We are go
| ing to allow the cupidity OF a few
| greedy speculators and the spec!ous ar
| guments they put forth to blind our
eyes TO plain right and duty, it may be
| doubted whether we ourselves are fiji
| for self-government. If this nation is
| willing tamely TO submit TO the bossisn
| which has bargained for the highest
| places in the gift of the people; if il
is ready TO allow the bankers of Lon
don, Paris and Berlin to stretch theil
| rapacious hands across the Atlantic ant
| control our legislation, the question is
| not whether we are capable Of self-goV
| ernment but whether we want il
There is no doubt as to what the Gu
bans want. They have declared agar
and again that nothing short of abso
lutte independence will satisfy them
and that the last man in their brav'
little company will have to be killeC
before they will yield. Contrasting thi
with the trembling creatures who or!
out on the horrors of war, who shrinl
The times., 1898-04-17
Hr. (nHerN.

When Mr. Caffery, who in part rep
resents, If he does. the loyal and splen-
did State of Louisiana, yesterday read
an editorial from The Times on the
floor Of the Senate. he gave an unwilling
tribute 10 the paper of the American
people, and accepted. personally, criti-
cisms which could not have been ac-
cepted if the shoe had not fitted; be-
cause they were general in their char
acter, and could not have applied to
Southern senator" not within their
purview.
Mr. Cafery was mistaken in assum-
ing that the editorial in question ac-
cused any statesman of connection"
with the Louisiana State Lottery Com
pany. We had in mind a certain Lou
islana politician who used to disburse
the money of that charitable and ed
ucationar' institution for political pur-
poses, and also one who owed his prom
inence in public affairs to the patriotic
"4-11-44' influence of the corporation in
question. Nothing was said about Mr..
Caffery or connection" The word used
was association" The senator's dec
laration. that he had always worked for
the destruction Of that infamous insti-
tuition, will be judged in the light of
his history as a politician in his State
II has never been hidden under a
bushel, and it would not be Well TO con-
slider ii as ground for challenge on the
basis of fact. Mr. Caffery was good
enough TO remark, in the spirit of
peace:
Turn loose the dogs Of war. and lot them lick
their chops in the bloody gore OF humanity.
That is exactly what Spain has been
doing, and it is a advertisement TO
which the American people so much OBJ
ject, that they are going to turn loose
the dogs Of war" and stop it. Incident
ally, they are going to punish Spain for
the heartless massacre of our sailors in
/ Havana harbor. That, in Mr.. Donelson
/ Cafferys mind, may not be good cause
for turning loose the dogs of war, but
the Congress and the people of America
regard it differently.
The trouble with Donelson Caffery is
not that he is not an able local poll
ticiari Not that he has not been able
to initiate the success of Boss Plat on
a small scale in his own bailiwick, but
that he is narrow enough TO pit the as
sumed interests OF Louisiana sugar
/ planters against the cause of humanity
and two hundred and sixty-six Ameri-
! can sailors. who were foully murdered
( by Spanish treachery.
The editorial to which he took excep-
J
tone. Now that he has chosen to adopt
it as truthfully applicable to himself,
we have something specific TO say to
/ him. A man who is as dense as he TO
! every consideration Of patriotism and
national honor is not fit to be a SEN
ator of the United States The
monthly drawing" of his native place,
/ and not the chamber where the great
men OF the nation congregate, is his
! proper forum.
The times., 1898-04-17

thought 10 be in control with his friendly
intention to do nothing that could offend
there was willing ear extended for sug-
gestions of mediation. Within the last
forty-eight hours there has been mark
ed difference. The queen herself has
given up hope.
Intervention and coercion against Spain
is not, however. such a serious PROPOSE
tion as it would be against this country.
and when Europe finds that Spain will
not consent peaeeably there is the posi-
bility that force may be used in that
quarter. 1t IS possible too that the proper
quality Of coercion could be applied 10
make the Spanish people see that an at
tempt to fight would be useless: ana
that thus war might be averted and
revolution in Spain as we'll
There is another factor in the situation
within the last few days that was not
there before. The United States had
the sympathy and support of nearly all
the European countries up 10 the time
the Morgan resolution ~as introduced.
or at least until the President sent in his
message. The cause of the United States
was considered eminently just and prop
er- Now however. Europe undoubtedly
believes that this country has been play
ing either tricky or a wonderfully blum
dering game. The United States asked
for certain things from Spain and every
one of these demands was granted. Then.
when as Europe believed there was the
very plain path to peace anead of Con-
gress came forward with a new propo-
sition that Spain actually give up her
island. surrender her sovereignty. Europe
therefore is now unfriendIy 10 this coun-
try where before it was almost an ally.
The reason there viii not be active help
to Spain is that Europe is afraid.
1t is believed that this factor may have
an influence later in making the war
short.
The stock Markets strength
The only reason for believing that peace
may yet be one of the possibilities is the
strength of the New York stock market.
The people that have been in the habit Of
securing advance news of the situation
by reading the tape" are nonpIused
by the strength OF the market. while all
that is in sight on this side is so full OF
war. The market undoubtedly means
that Europe has been sending gossip OF
peace negotiations. There is the grave
/ probability this time, however. that Wall
/ Street has fooled itself by paying too
/ much attention to talk of European peo-
I pie who do not understand the temper
/ of Congress and the people
/ There is even reason to believe that
/ financial Europe does not very seriously
/ hope for peace. The Spanish bonds
/ tumbled further yesterday. and they have
I been going down persistently for week
The Spanish Is sold in London yesterday
for 42d. If the European fnaneiers be-
lieved there could be any salvation for
Spain. with the retention OF Cuba for the
decrepit monarchy. the bonds would nos
be dwindling away in value.
The times., 1898-04-17

There used to be a legend among coun-
try boys that if you went out in the
woods and found an owl sitting on a tree.
and walked around and around him, al
ways in the same direction, he would
follow YOU with his eyer, and by and by
would twist his head off in the process.
Something like this appears to be hap
pening to the anti-Cuban people. They
are trying to face both ways at once,
and 1t is hard work. One of their ar
guments a little while ago was that it
would be unchivalrous for us to fight
Spain because she was 90 small and we
could whip her so easily. Another ar
gument was that we ought not to fight
Spain because we were unprepared for
war and she would be likely to whip us.
1t has been simultaneously declared that
the President would do whatever Con-
gress wanted him to, and that he was
trying TO control Congress and keep peace,
in the land The gyrations of these ar
guers are most extraordinary and it is
perhaps just as well TO let them explain
matters to suit themselves and settle our
business without them. 1t is really not
necessary to please everybody in this
Spanish matter not even the best busi
ness interests There will be time
enough to untangle these contradicting
statements after things have been set
tied. and if the people who make them
do not like the settlement, they do not
have to like 1t.
The times., 1898-04-17

The attitude Of these people reminds
one Of that ancient aristocrat, who,
when blown violently through the air
by cyclone, picked himself up after
it was all over. and began to consider
what was the proper thing for gen.
tleman to say under such circum-
stances.
Now, sensationalism is a very bad
thing, there is no doubt about it. The
man who goes bowling about the coun-
try With insufficient cause, making a
mountain out of molehill and treating
a stubbed toe as if it were a mortal
injury, makes himself ridiculous. But
there are times when nature herself
seems TO think it proper to be sensa-
tional. There are times when men be-
have in way that is essentially dra-
matte. There are heroes whose hero
ism consists in action, not in sitting
still and trying to prevent other peo-
pie from doing anything. Possibly
these people who, in a period like
that which followed the destruc-
tion of the Maine, tried to make
the public believe that the dis
aster was IAN incident" really sup
posed they could hypnotic other peo-
pie into reversing natures laws. Per-
haps they really thought that by con-
tinued assumption that the reports of
Cuban outrages We're exaggerated, they
could prove the falsity of these reports.
This kind of mental science does not go.
1t would be just as sensible to feed a
man red peppers and brine and try to
make him think he was eating bread
and milk
The times., 1898-04-17

One thing appears to be settled in
most satisfactory manner to US. The
British colonial office has notified the
authorities in Jamaica that. in the event
of hostilities, coal will be treated as con-
traband of war. Spain is laying in 25.-
600 tons at Porto Rico, and our feet
should make that island its coaling point
while the supply lasts. The Spanish tor
pedo hotilla is finishing It's coaling pre-
paratory to a dash across the Atlantic
In the meantime, the Senate talks and
Austria and France are working desper-
ately for armed Intervention against the
American Congress and people. Remem-
Der the Maine,
The times., 1898-04-17

Unwritten history good enough for the
purpose has it that, at the battle of
Waterloo, Wellington would have run
away. but he did not have the necessary
Money to make the mare go. Thus we
are taught that history sometimes does
not repeat, but goes plumb back on it
self. A sheep is in thy honored chair.
Maryland. My Maryland! Go and yank
him out from there, Maryland, my Mary
land! Take and send him off to Spain.
Fill the seat with thing of brain. Make
him tingle with thy cane, Maryland, my
Maryland
The times., 1898-04-17

The Regular Army is moving. It
ought to have moved month ago It
is reported however, that the President
would not allow 1T. since the marching
of our own troops within our own bor-
ders might have the appearance of un-
friendliness to Spain. For the same rea-
son the urgent pleas of the Naval STRAIT
egy Board have been ignored or reject
ed. Before we get through with what is
coming. there will be valuable American
lives offered UP upon the bloody altar
of insincerity and vacillation. Remem-
Der the Maine,
The times., 1898-04-17

Even al this juncture, when the ma
tion is in a situation as serious as any
we have seen for many years, there are
people who are warning against ''sensa-
ton" According To their idea the very
worst thing a man can do is to be SEN
sarional. OF dramatic, or anything Of
that kind. He should always move In
quiet and gentle manner. being care
ful 10 preserve his usual dignity and
not to rufiie his philosophic calm. He
should on no account do anything TO
indicate that he is in the least excited
The times., 1898-04-17
sENATE's DECISIVE VOTE
Continued from Second Page)

the Cuban leader or they will be fighting
against him." he declared. He denomi-
mated the majority to be inflated, angry
and impassioned in their action.
AS he finished. there We're loud cries of
vote! vote! vote" and the question was
on the amended joint resolution. which
was again read at length. at the request
of Mr.. Davis
Mr.. Davis closed the debate and a vote
was taken with the satisfactory result
set forth above
The times., 1898-04-17

The fresh young man with no respect
in his soul for gray hairs and dyed whis-
kers swung himself onto the car in the
middle of a block, and leaning against
the brake handle, proceeded to roll a ci-
garette with great deftness. The fat
man who despises the ways of youth on
general principles leaned against the
window guards and watched the develop
ment of cigarette.
"Got a match, neighbour" inquired the
fresh young man as he put the last fin
ishing twist to his smoke.
Young man.. began the fat man after
brief elderly pause, calculated TO
greatly impress the cigarette smoker.
Yes. l know all about interrupted
the youth, 80 you might well choke
your lecture on a bornin'. / knew cigar
cites will kill me if | stick to 'em. but
don't care. It's an easy death, j know
| if I must smoke l should smoke cigars,
! but don't like the color of 'em. I've got
| a touch of paresis now, and I'm due
| for more | know you think, of all
] the disgusting things in the world, ci-
| garette is the worst.
| II know they undermine the consdtu-
| ton and are wrecking the rising genera
| ton now. If I've forgotten anything you
| were going TO say help me out. Come
| to think of il I've got match myself.
| If / keep on smoking these things
won't be able to think at all before long
| | know If YOU had a boy that smoked
| cigarettes you would lick him within ar
inch of his life. | nearly forgot you were
| going to say that. Where do you ge
off, anyway"
Here" gasped the fat man as he drop
ped off the platform muttering something
about what this country is coming TO
And the fresh young man lighted hi
| cigarette with a grin.
The times., 1898-04-17

When the ultimatum goes TO Spain, and
it is said that 1t will be sent on Tues
day. how long a time will Mr.. Mckinley
allow for an answer? The possibilities
for a prompt decision in Madrid are ex-
cellent Four or five hours are all that
need be required. The cable is nearly an
instant means of communication. and to
grant even twenty-four hours delay
when both sides know what is to happen
would be criminal and suicidal. We can
not afford to wait a minute after the
mandate to strike is given. That tor
pedo hotilla must be met and captured
or destroyed. Remember the Maine!
The times., 1898-04-17
STORIES OF THE STREETS.

The gentleman with d past, a thirst
and an appetite, landed against a lamp
post at the corner of Tenth Street and
the Avenue, discussing within himself the
faces of the passing throng with a view
to selecting some susceptible victim for
touch" Presently he left the lamp
post to its own support and interrupted
rather styIishly dressed young man
as follows:
Il say, frien, I'm in need of little as
sistance. I'm dead hungry EN- broke. en-
If yuh could help me out with tn loan
of a small piece of money on this ere
ring 1t 'ud save my life" Here the gen.
tleman with a past brought from the
greasy depths of his trousers pocket
cheap, gold-plated band ring, the kind
that sells by the dozen. II hate to part
with it," he murmured, seeing it's an
old keepsake en- was give to me by my
mother, but a mans got to part with
his valuables and feelins on the sub
iect when he's hungry. Cud you spare
me half a bone on 1T fer a few days?'
The well dressed young man had honor
ed the hungry gentleman's spiel with
an amused sort of attention, and when
the touch had arrived at the stereo-
typed climax he expected.
That's all right, old man. You We got
your talk down fine, but | used to sell
rings myself when / was broke. l know
as much about the game as you"
The gentleman with an appetite and
other things displayed an immense degree
of amazement on his unkempt counte-
nance, but he was not TO be put aside
so easily. With the ready adaptability OF
his class and the picturesque versatility
of the professional beggar he made an
other talk.
well. now; I'll be jggered fer dead
one if yuh look like one of tn old
scouts. Now. I'll tell you straight; I've
been on a little jamboree, en- / need
drink moren this country needs protec-
ton an free lunches. Can yuh stake
me to tn price of bout four fingers?"
Sure, can do that" consented the
young man, with the clothes. I've got
| half here I'll split even with you just
because you're honest enought to say its
drink you want.
The day happened to be Sunday and
there was no place handy where the
ffty-cent-piece could be split even"
"Oh, that's all right said the ring
| selling gentleman. I've got the change
here, and forthwith he produced the
proper amount of change in nickels.
The young man who had once sold
rings looked disgusted at first and then
| waxed angry.
See here, you're a disgrace to the
| 'profesh' 1 used to grace. Didn't l tell
you / had been up against the game my
! self? You're trying to push the limit
| with an ex-brother. You're rotten, any
way" and the gentleman of fortune
| fancy was left alone with his rings, his
hunger, his appetite and his past.
The times., 1898-04-17

As Archbishop Ireland is quoted as say
ing that Mr. Mckinley would like to
give Spain reasonable time" in which
to try the efficacy OF "armistice" ana
autonomy" we desire to call the lat
ter's attention to the fact that lighting
is in daily progress in Havana and other
provinces of Cuba, which would tend to
the suspicion that the "armistice'' at
least is not so very efficacious. AS to the
other subterfuge, that has been exploded
long ago. Remember the Mainei
The times., 1898-04-17

may, however, be as well to suggest
that the actor who shall dare to assume
the character of Hanna in any up-to-
date play will do well TO get his life
insured before beginning his tour