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The evening times., 1898-10-15
WITH o.: X SKIN.

OF the blunders that worked such Woe
with our army in Cuba Harold Frederic
writes to the New York Times from Lon
don: As man after man returns here
from Witnessing his share OF the Cuban
operations, rumoTs of defective military
and hospital organization are assuming
very definite shape l do not wish 10 be
misunderstood. / hear nothing with per-
haps, one exception, that does not re-
dound TO the personal credit Of the off,
GERS and men engaged. Newspaper men
and others are full Of stories of personal
Valor of hardships cheerfuIly endured
and deadly risks calmly faced: but re-
ports of commiSsaTiat incompeteucy. en-
gineering blUnders and criminal absence
of common medical aid are flying around
London today.
As l said before, they remind old mil
itary men here of similar stories Just af-
ter the Crimean war On many sides /
hear the hope expressed that some au-
thentic statement may in time be publish
ed. giving the bald truth about these mat
terS. 1t may interest you TO learn that a
starched old general COnsoled me by the
reflection that we Angio-Saxons always
learned the first lesson that way. by our
own mistakes If YOU fellows had been
German. he added, you'd have got all
this out of books. We EngIish-speakin
men have to pay with our skin for our
experience
The evening times., 1898-10-15

about the committees offer to assist In
getting at the truth
While the Commission dare not
openly announce that its sole aim is to
discourage witnesses and exclude facts
in order to be able to report that the
general charges have not been sustain
ed; while ii dare not openly threaten
witnesses, it does il covertIy. Never
does il offer to protect a soldier or an
officer from the vengeance of the War
Department, although il knows well
enough that all are fearful of court
martial If they testify against Secre-
tary Alger or any of his subordinates.
A man would be eXtra-c courageous to
offer evidence after the example in the
case of General Breckenridge. That
officer criticised the conduct of the San
tiago campaign. Some of his friends.
who are supposed to have learned the
facts from him, have related the Incl
dent of General Skaters calling on
Breckenridge to take command and or
der a retreat. He is punished for that.
In a general order numbered 162, GER
tain officers are named for muster out.
and the names are given to the press.
General Breckinridge's name is not one
of them. General order numbered 16S
appoints him to command the First
Army Corps. Then the War Office hears
of his criticism of the campaign. and,
as an afterthought, adds his name to
those on the muster-out order In this
we have the strange spectacle of a gen.
eral directed TO be mustered out of ser
vice by one order, assigned to a com
mand by a subsequent order.
Intimidation is the policy adopted by
the War Department and the Commits
sion To prevent Witnesses from speak
ing the truth.
The evening times., 1898-10-15
SATURDAY. OCTOBER Is. 1895
Sanasta's PPFfidN.

The secrecy Of the sessions of the
Peace Commission at Paris must be the
cause Of no little anxiety and distress 10
the American people. Their interest IN
the proceedings is intense. The dues-
lions at issue involve the practical re-
suits Of war that cost America many
precious lives, in battle and from sick
ness. and many millions Of dollars. l.
is inevitable that every expression of
face of the Commissioners viii De stud
led for an indication as TO the character
of the daily discussions. That the
American representatives left the salon
yesterday with an uncommonly serious
look and the Spaniards remained for
some time in grave dispute, is supposed
to mean they have struck an obstacle
in the way Of further progress. In con-
nection with the reports from Madrid
this suggests possible deadlock to the
watchful correspondents.
1t is positively stated. not as rumor.
but as fact, that Sagasta has virtually
repudiated the protocol as a basis Of
negotiation. He refuses to regard any
point as definitely settled. and complains
that the disposition of the Americans
to preserve the strict letter of that
document is merciless strangling of a
helpless victim. The protocol, he as
serts, was nothing more than a simple
memorandum, agreed to by Spain with
out regard to its specific provisions. in
order TO prevent a needless effGsion of
blood, and was never intended to do
more than keep the peace until the duly
authorized Commissioners should meet
to frame a treaty. He does not con-
slider that Spain has agreed to the uu-
conditional evacuation Of Cuba. but be-
leves il is no violation of good faith if
Spain makes the American or Cuban
assumption of the debt of the island an
essential condition. He goes further.
holding that if America is so dead to
the dictates of magnanimity as TO claim
sovereignty over any part of the Philip
pines, the agreement as to Cuba may be
annulled by Spain.
Probably in all the history of diplo-
macy there Is no such instance of per-
hdy as this. The consequences of ac-
cepting such an Interpretation of a pro
tocol would be far-reaching and most
serious to mankind. No victorious ma
ton would hereafter consent to a sus
pension Of hostilities on the basis of
such an agreement, if its provisions are
not TO be binding. We are forbidden by
the interests of the whole world from
treating the document as something
less than a formal contract from the
terms Of which there is no honorable
escape. In suggesting that it is in ef-
feet a fraud and a delusion Spain ad-
yertises herself as essentially dishonor-
able and dishonest,
The evening times., 1898-10-15
The New Yori. Canal Frauds.

II is not surprising that the Republi-
cans OF New York should have nomi-
mated a war hero and should insist that
the elections shall be decided on nation
al issues. Unless they can hypnotize
the public with the brilliancy of Roose-
velts war record. the voters will recall
tie history of the canal appropriation
A few years ago the Republican Iegis-
lature represented that if the canals
We're not improved, New York would
lose all the enormous benefit of water
transportation. 1t was figured ont, in
detail, that an appropriation of nine
million dollars would modernize the
canal system and increase its value to
the State many times over the amount
of the expenditure. 1t required a pop
ular vote and the vote was favorable
The canals are not in use and have
not been. The nine million dollars are
all gone and the people are told that
unless they vote fourteen million dol
lars more, the money spent will be lost
Was the original estimate a mistake?
Nobody says it was. but only that the
money was expended in such way as
to do the canals no good. There are
four hundred and fifty-two miles of
water way and Of this siXty-siX miles
only have been completed out of the
nine million dollars appropriated. A
committee is now investigating the ex-
penditures, and it is found that at least
one million was virtually stolen. How
much more was used for the exclusive
benefit of Republican henchmen re-
mains to be discovered.
If any business man should enter into
an agreement under which certain work
should be completed for a certain sum
and should find that after all the money
was gone less than a sixth of the work
was done ne would require specific
statement before he would intrust the
same party with another and larger
amount of money. Yet Colonel Roose-
welt maintains that ii is enough when
he says: If there are errors in the
system and in the law, we will correct
them. If there has been fraud we will
detect and punish the wrongdoers"
That is TO say, without any exact and
comprehensive explanation, the people
may trust the Republican party to cor
rect the wrongs and detect and punish
the wrOngdoers Of the Republican
party.
The evening times., 1898-10-15
NEUFELDS CAPTIVITY.

DIR. Neufeld, the German explorer, who
was rescued at Omdurman by the forces
of the Sirdar, is now In Cairo hard at
work on a book in which he will recount
the story of his years of Imprisonment
among the dervishes. Meager and un-
authentic items of his career were pub
lished at the time the news of his res
cue was announced by cable AS a fore
runner of his book the doctor has sum
married. his experience for the Vossische
Zeftung from which the following is TAX
en-: DR.. NeufelRs father died in Janua-
ry 1897, but his mother Frau Sanitats-
rath Neufeld, still lives in her native
town, Fordon, on the Vistula, near
Bromberg Karl Neufeld, after having
been graduated in medicine at Leipsic
University, went in 1881 to Keneh, Upper
Egypt, following his profession first as
medical man and then as q merchant
When Khartoum fell Neufeld conceived
a commercial scheme to operate with the
closed Soudan- He equipped a caravan
and proceeded boldly TO Berber, which
was in the hands of Osman Digna. Os-
man took Neufeld prisoner and sent him
as a dangerous spy to the Khalifa Abb
clares that the statements published TO
the effect that he was an assistant Of
Gordon, Emin Pasha or OF Slatin PaSha,
or that he had ever been in Egyptian
service are incorrect, as IS also the stO-
ry of his having fought d duel in Ger
many and having TO flee to Egypt TO es-
cape prosecution, and likewise the story
of his having a wife living in Germany.
His only wife, he says, is an Abyssinian
slave girl given him by the khalifa.
When Father Ohrwalder, and later SIa-
tin Pasha, made their escape from On
durham the condition of Neufeld was
rendered even more unbearable He was
condemned to be hanged, but he begged
so hard to be executed like u Moham-
medan that the Khalifa granted him a
respite. An attempt was then made 10
utilize his knowledge. He not only man
ufactured powder for his captOrs. as has
been related, but he invented a machine
for coming money. For his work he re-
ceived from the Khalifa a monthly sal
airy of fifteen Marie Theresa dollars
which was subsequently doubled. In late
years many attempts We're made to res
cue Neufeld. The Austrian Catholic Mis-
sion, induced by Father Ohrwalder. SIa-
tin Pasha, the British government, the
German. and more especially the Aus
trian, representatives, at Cairo, all en-
deavored 20 further the escape of Neu-
field. He frequently received money, bat
he refused TO accept liberty without his
wife and the two children whom she had
borne him The latter, had Neufeld es-
capped alone, would have been exposed 10
fearful tortures. Besides making pow
der and coins and decorating the mauso-
leum of the Mahdi, he wrote Arabic
books and illustrated them and became
interpreter 10 the Khalifa and trausIa-
tor OF the European newspapers which
the ruler of the SOudan received regular
ly.
The evening times., 1898-10-15

The people of Illinois will probably
have a reckoning with the Chicago and
Alton Railroad Company. which perists in
its effort To land at Virden hundreds of
black eX-convicts, whose presence must
be menace to the good order of the
State, and TO the property of honest pea
pie. There is not a community in the
land that would permit such a vicious
element TO enter its limits. The mine
owners who have imported the Alabama
eN-convicts, and the railroad company
that carries them, are guilty of an as
sault on the civilization of Illinois. and
on the lives and property of the citizens
of Nirden.
The evening times., 1898-10-15
\ TERRIBLE PRoJECTME-

Of the Lyddite shell the Boston Jour
nal says; 1T has been often predicted
that one consequence of the astonishing
development made in recent years in the
making Of weapons and explosives would
be that war would be made so terrible
and deadly that Il would be resOrted to
less frequently than formerly. so that IT.
ventions intended for the prosecution of
war would actually contribute 10 peace
If this view Is correct. perhaps the
Lyddite she'll which was first used by
the British in the recent battle at Orndur-
man, ought 10 be described as a peace
maker. 1t Is. at all events. a terrible de-
strOyer. IL is said that a single shell sx-
plOded in an iron mosque near the Nah
dis tomb, in which lis dervishes were
gathered and of the whole number only
twelve were left alive.
The explosive with which the she'll is
charged takes its name from Lydd- the
place where il was tested. Lyddite IS
manufactured from carbolic acid, treated
with nitric acid, the product being the
terribly explosive picric acid The inveu-
ton consists in a method of fuSing piCric
acid, so as Al once 10 increase its power
and make il easier To handle. When il is
burned in the open air, Lvddite disap-
pears quickly with a bright flame, but
with only slight explosion. But wEen
it is confined and exploded by detonatiOn
it becomes so appalIingly destructive that
in the experiments at the testing no per-
son was allowed within an area of 500
yards of the point at which the projec-
tile was to burst. Within 400 yards the
vibrations caused by the explosion of a
large Lyddite shell were so violent that
masses of masonry crumbIed to dust
THE use of such projeetiles goes far
to explain the enormous mortality among
the dervish forces. and it is appalling to
reflect upon the consequences OF the in
PRODUCTION of Lyddite into civilized war
fare
The evening times., 1898-10-15
RESPECTABLE DRUNkARDS.

An order has been issued by the pre-
feet of police of Paris anent "respecta-
BILE" drunkards, says the New York
Times According to the order, gentle
men who are too intoxicated after hav-
ing dined out freely, or visited many
cafes. are TO be carefully taken home on
stretchers if they are unable to reach
their dwellings owing to the unsteadiness
of their limbs. 1t is expected that this
decree viii eventually lead to the disap-
pearance and extinction of the worthless
known as guardian angels who look
out every night for inepriated persons.
and help them home for consideration,
generally given them by the wife or
friends of the topper, or by himself, on
the day following the temporary loss of
his senses or of the use of his legs, and
often his pocketbook The ''ange gar
diem is a type of Paris, and is blessed
with considerable antiquity. He was de-
scribed fifty years ago By Privat dan
glemont. and still exists. Sometimes he
acts on his own account. and he may
also be in the employment of publicans.
When unable to get a drunkard home by
strength alone, he acquisitions a hand
cart. or even a wheelbarrow. and accom-
pIishes his purpose with the aid of such
vehicles. A fraternal administration.
now DEGREES that Stretchers, or civieres
for intoxicated persons are to be placed
IN every police station in the metropolis
This would seem to imply either that
the 'ange garden has been slack in his
performance of late or that drunken
ness is on the increase in Paris.
The evening times., 1898-10-15
Intimidation of witnesses

From the first il has been the policy
Of the AlgeT Relief Commission to not
merely discourage the giving of testi-
mony against the War Department, but
to intinidate persons who are ac-
quainted with facts that would be in
furious to the reputation of that branch
OF the Government. The form of letter
invented by the Commission as a reply
to offers Of light shows that. We have
published the curt, chilling answer to
the New York Committee Of One Hun
dred and ii is typical The earnest
friends OF Justice who make up that
committee, assuming that the Commits
sion wanted the truth, offered to gather
in all the soldiers and others in New
York who could testify to- facts within
their own knowledge. Naturally. they
supposed this would be warmly well
coined Instead, they are told, in &. few
words. that they are guilty Of repeating
improved charges, and il they will send
the names and postoffice addresses of
the persons who told them the charges
were true, the Commission will make il
lively for them-will probably cause
their court-martial if they are persons
In the army. That is the real meaning
OF the frigid note. Not a word is said
The evening times., 1898-10-15
S170.72G.I
Is 12l %
Fell Eight Hundred Feet.
(Frem the Butte Inter-Mountain.)

Andrew Rosette, timberman. employed at the
Original mine, fell distance of 500 feet recently
by the parting of the cable.
Rosette had Just taken load of timber to the
LOO foot level and was returning to the surface
for second supply for the same level. He started
with d. Hancock, a pumpman, who was going to
the 1000.
The cage stopped and after Hancock got
off Rosette gave the signal for the surface. From
the l 900 to the 500 level the cage shot up the
shaft, and Just as the 500 level was reached the
one-inch round cable parted and the cage drop
ped to the bottom of the shaft at terrific rate
of speed The safeties apparently did not work.
Several miners on the L. 160-fo level rushed TO
the mans assistance, expecting to find him killed.
When assistance arrived Rosette was attempting
to climb out of the cage. He said he not
injured, but felt very sick. DR.. Wellss ambulance
was summoned and he removed to the hos
pitaI An examination of the body was made
by the physician, but not trace OF any bruises
found He appeared somewhat dazed and was
apparently suffering from the shock more than
anything else Rosette is about twenty-eight years
OF age.
The evening times., 1898-10-15
A Murmur From sIudviIIe.

There's been the diugest earthquake in what's
called cur social status;
All the gals we called "Our owEest' now they
sca'ceIv viii look az US.
We have plenty faith in beauty, but we have no
place to pin IL
For the gals make no concealment Of the fact thar
we amt in it
Since them volunteers came home
From
Santiago.
Through the spring and through the summer dIys.
sea'eely need to mention,
We took these gals to picaics, and we showed 'em
much attention;
And then Cheerfuliy attended ev'-y dance held in
their honOr.
But there's something seems to whisper to US
EACH ''oh. you're a gonerl''
Since them volunteers came home
From
Santiagol
OF course don't beIittle all the yarns them LIDS
are teilir,
How they storIned the hills OF Cuba with the
Spaniards round them yellin'
But what hurts US is to notice Sal and Jane and
Sue and others
All a-huggin' them. deggoue Il. Just the same as
they brothers,
Since them volunteers came home
From
Santiago!
Course, our motives they is honest, and YOU
mustn't miSeonstrue 'em;
Let them fighters have the glory, let them have
all that IS due EN-
But it does seem kind Of meanish. and it makes
our voices husky
When we think the gals that loved Us lard should
throw Us down McClUsky,
Since them volunteers came home
From
Santiago!
Baltimore American
The evening times., 1898-10-15
WRONG End Up.
Trom Youths Companion. )

According to a story told on a certain Mr..
Swadleigh, by his neighbors, he had a mortifying
adventure. He has a phenomenaIly large neck,
and lately had occasion to change his laundryman
On the Sunday morning following this action
on his part. it noticed that he was an unu-
sually long time making his toilet. He called his
wife. and she went upstair-.
Maria" said he. 81 wish you would see what
is the matter with this shirt. The sleeves are all
wrong, and | can't find any holes for the collar
buttons
Mrs. Swadleigh gave one laok at it, and went
into a paroxysn of laughter He waited till she
had partially recovered, and then said:
Perhaps you will be good enough to tell me
what you are laughing atP'
George she replied family, ''you are trying
to put that shirt on wrong side upi The laundry
man starched the wrong end OF itl'
The evening times., 1898-10-15
And again toward the close. of the poem
Judge Van wyck,s Letter
From the Brooklyn Eagle.)

tFrom the Brooklyn Eage.)
The Democratic candidate has ventured on a
new departure. His letter is worthy of a place
in the archives of the State. 1t is a significant
contribution to the political literature of the
time because of this sentence: Experience has
convinced me that a substantial advance for the
cause Of good government would be made il
voters could be persuaded at all times to deal
with municipal candidates on municipal grounds
and State candidates State grounds This ia
an advance. It is not a bid for the support Of
those who are known as local independents Is
the plain statement of a growing conviction.
The evening times., 1898-10-15

We are very sorry to see it stated in
dispatches to Administration organs that
the Republican Governor of Illinois has
ordered his militia to exclude and ire
upon any negroes" who may be brought
to Nirden, where the mining troubles are.
If the ground Of his action is az reported
he has destroyed the logic of his position
1t is foolish ana criminal to raise race
issue where the race question does not
enter by any possibility. 1t is right for
the Illinois executive to prevent the coal
operators from bringing into the State a
lot Of haDituai criminals from the convict
coal mines of Alabama To take the bread
out of the mouth of honest labor Among
the striking coal miners of Virden are
many worthy cOlored men. who occupy
exactly iha position in the strike move
ment thar their white neighboys and
eo-wOrkers do. 1t is an outrage upon
them TO let the story go abroad that Cat
ling guns and Winchesters are TO be used
against imported labor because il is ne
pr1 Ia ha-
The evening times., 1898-10-15
An Athletes Hunger.
(From the New York Timesl

the almost constant hunger that an athlete
engaged in a protracted feat of endurance feels
was well illustrated by Frank Waller in bis
twenty-four hours ride. 1t is said that he got
away with eighty-six pounds of food all but
thirty y-three pounds being solids The food was
weighed by Walters trainer before it was given
him and a record kept Among the quantity the
trainer reported he gave his charge was four
dozen eggs, six quarts of coco-cola seven piuts
of milk, eight pounds of chicken, two pounds
of lamb chops, seven pints Of chicken broth, four
quarts Of peppermint water, six quarts of ginger
ale, two gallons of water, and twelve cigars
which were smoked Immediately after eating II
is also said that Waller gained six pounds in the
twenty four hours of his riding.
The evening times., 1898-10-15

In all his speeches the President re-
peats that we must all stand together
as one man, mot in the spirit of party"
until the peace with Spain is established
At the same time Senator Hanna and
the Republican orators insist that the
people must elect Republican Congress
men to uphoid the President until a
treaty of peace is ratified. That is, par
usanship in Republicans is patriotism.
but in Democrats it is dislOyalty.
The evening times., 1898-10-15
VIII Stop 1t.

tFrcm The New York Tribune)
The town council of Hutchinson Kan, has
passed an ordinance against a Hot Time in the
Old Town Tonight ANY person or persons. ;"
SAYS the ordinance. who shall willfully and ma
lieiously whistle, hum, sing, or below said tune
or who shall play the notes thereof upon any
organ, hand-organ, piano, flute, clarinet from
bone, bass drum, any other musical instru-
ment, within the city limits, shall be fined not
less than 81. AS nor more than S20 and confined
rwenty-four hours in the lookup or as much long.
er as the magistrates shall deem best for public
welfare"
The evening times., 1898-10-15
His Strong Point.
(From the Pittsburg Dispatch.) }

At the recent general election in Sydney, New
South Wales, -four the favorite missile OF
the sydney crowds, and Mr.. Reid, the premier
was the favorte target. He deity turned this
popular preference into political argument for
his side of the campaign. After three bags of
-four had exploded On various parts of his body
at huge open-air meeting he exclaimed: 'See
how plentiful -four is under my regime. Any
one can afford to throw it about. This is a new
departure in politics here. Hitherto -four could
not be spared for this particular purpose
The evening times., 1898-10-15
Too Much.
IT,, A.. n..-,;, F., p->

(From the Detroit Free Press1
Yes" said Mrs. Flinders who has been sit
ting to the celebrated artist, " TOrgairs for her
portrait; Il sure it Is going TO be 4 speaking
likeness of me-"
sckly paIlor overspread the features of Mr..
Flinders. and he replied:
Then I shall not accept it! You talk enough
for entire family. l want no speaking like
ness Of YOU in the house,