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W.it,pr for Dewey. Report

It is not to be supposed that this
country 10 done with the affair in Ma
nila Bay. the annoying tactics Of the
to make themselves disagreeable up to
the last point on the side of safely.
ending with the theft Of the governor
Of the Philippines, who was construct
lively Admiral Dewey's prisoner.
AS far as the American people and
presumably the authorities in Wash
ington know, Admiral Dewey did not
consent to the elopement of the bonn
bastic Augustin. So far, nobody In
authority has said that any explana-
tion of :he affair has been made by
either Dewey or Merritt. The s.ate-
ment that the Germans had American
authority to carry away the official
whose presence was important at the
time of surrender is made by Berlin
newspaper, which does not pretend to
have direct knowledge. There was
no news of a peace arrangement when
the Spanish general fled, and as far
as they knew at Manila the war was
to go on indefinitely.
1t would be difficult to imagine why
Admiral Dewey should permit the de-
parture at that time. and until there
is statement from him to that effect
there is every warrant for doubling
it. There is no need of haste. but
we are bound to bear the business in
mind, and If it finally appears that the
carrying away of Augustin without
permission was the climax Of the Sc
ries Of irritating movements of the
Germans. there can be no escape from
the duty of demanding an explanation
from Berlin.
1t is not easy to account for the dis
play of unfriendliness on the part OF
the Germans at the Philippines. That
it does not reflect the sentiments OF
the German people is positive. Let
tiers received from the millions Of rela-
tives and friends by German-Ameri-
cans are full of sympathy for this
country in it's righteous war. The high
er officials of Germany. however, have
long shown a disposition to annoy and
injure America. 1t was revealed in
an unwarranted exclusion Of our pork
and other products. which was contin-
ued after Prof. Virchow proved that
it was foolish. Mr.. White defends
the Germans against the charge Of un-
friendliness. If he is right. they will
offer a satisfactory explanation Of their
conduct. provided Augustin had no
permission to go from Admiral Dew
ey. though it is not easy to conceive
of the character of such an explana-
ton.
Anyhow, this is not good time for
lGermany 30 become irritating about
the Samoan affairs. Ordinarily. this
country would be forbearing and Sow
to wrath, but with the many pin pricks
it has had from that source. it will
stand very little trifiing. We are wait
ing now for a detailed report from Ad-
miral Dewey on the flight of Augustin.
A good deal depends on it.
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RoosEvELT's COURAGE.
His bravery mt San Juan Urged the
Men to Victory.

New York, Aug. 25.-Policeman Philip
X. Sweet. of the East Twenty-second
Street station, one of Roosevelt's Rough
Riders, who was granted leave Of absence
by the police board TO go to the war. ap-
peared at police headquarters almost a
physical wreck His body has been rack
ed by typhoid fever.
He has been at Camp Wykoff, but got
leave TO come to New York He said he
had not cent and had come to head
quarters to get back pay. He received
about 500 and went to an Ice cream store
TO get a plate of cream, as he thought
1t would do him more good than any
thing else.
Sweet said the experience of the Rough
Riders in Cuba was frightful He was
near Hamilton Fish. jr. when the latter
was killed and he was close to Policeman
Hayward. of the Madison Street station.
VINO was shot through the body. A Maus-
er bullet went through Hayward, enter
ing the abdomen and coming out of his
back. He said Hayward went twenty
six hours without medical aid after be-
ing shot.
He said that In the charge at San Juan
they were led up steep hill over a path
where there was room for only one man
at a time. When they reached the top
1000 Spaniards were shooting at them.
but there they found Col. Roosevelt
shouting to come on.
The Spanish opened fire and his COM
panions fell ali round him. He. too. fell.
but was not wounded. He got to his feet
and began shooting. He could hear the
voice of Col Roosevelt in the distance
shouting:
Come on. boys! There they go. damn
them,"
Col. Roosevelt. he says. never gave any
orders in a military way. but always ad-
dressed his command as boys" He said
II was Roosevelts courage and bravery
that urged on the men Through all the
battle his voice was heard above the din
shouting for his men to come on.
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fashionable Nuptials.
(From the Boston Herald. }


The "high noon'' nuptials have certainly been
discounted by a recent sunrising ceremony in New
York State but which, for obvious reasons, will
scarcely become fashionable at other seas ms. In
order to begin the matrimonial campaign bright
and early. a Boston girl has actually been we'd
ded to her true love at sunrise! A few of us
may have. beheld the beauty Of the dawn in
August, and the bouncing out CT the orb Of day
from a sea of pearly mists. but precious few. We
generally prefer to take these tianscendent effects
of early morning on hearsay. Nevertheless. there
have been occasions when the sunrise worth
sitting up all night to look upon. and this
morning in question. when two young persons
plighted their troth in the presence Of an ac-
commodating parson and suitable witnesses, was
made memorable by the magniHcence Of the suns
rather hackneyed performance. The happy
couple stood on large rock in the center of a
beautiful glen, and the ceremony was so skill
fully timed that they were pronounced enc rs
Old Sol sailed into view. Nobody could tail Of
being impressed by the majesty Of the scene.
but it was enc that couldn't be repeated: in
fact, marriages by sunrise is too unconventional
an idea to be initiated with success.
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HOLD THE PHILIPPINES
New York Merchants Urge That We
Keep the Islands.


New York. Aug. 2.-That there Is a
strong sentiment among New York bus
mess men that the Philippines should
be retained is shown by the fact that
petition is TO be sent ID President Nc
Kinley soon calling on him not to sur
. render the islands. This petition has
been in circulation only a short time,
but 1t already has many signatures
The petition reads:
United States: rsr.
The undersigned merchants. exporters and 9th
ers of New York city desire TO express their ap.
p-oval of such measures and acticn. far as
compatible with public interest. viii tend TO
hold the Philippine Islands under the control Of
the American Government.
We welcome the cessation of hostilities between
the United States and Spain. but maintain that N
the interest Of civilization good government and
commerce these islands should not b. Surrendered;
that every foot of soil covered by the American
Gag thus far should be under the control of the
American nation-
Among the signers of the petition are
Oscar r. Sanford. No. PA Church Street;
George H. Sutton. No. 2lS Church Street:
S. D. Brewster. No 70 Leonard Street.
Buckingham & Paulson. No. 50 Leonard
Street. Neuss. Hesslein & Co.. No. 81
Franklin Street; Erlanger Brothers. No.
81 White Street: Edwin F. Gibson. No.
50 White Street; Everett. Heaney & Co.
Nos. 355 and 800 Canal Street; William
Fisher jr.. & Co.. No. so Leonard Street:
Schneebeii Brothers & Co. No. 80 Leon
ard Street; Nazareth Manufacturing
Company. No. 152 Leonard Street: Will
liam Chalmers. No. 81 Leonard Street;
c. c. Newell. No. % Leonard Street; A.
F. Buchanan & Sons. No. 90 Leonard
Street; Lazarus Loomis, No. 216 Church
Street: William Lewis Brown. No. 6l
Worth Street; John H Parker. No. 256
Broadway; L. A Bwer. No. g Broad
way: john A. O'Neill No. IS Fulton
Street: Eugene Munsell. No 2lS Water
Street: Ferdinand Van Sicien. No. 32S
Broadway: John Stewart. No. 2l6 Church
Street. John c. Tatum. No. 81 Leonard
Street: James Higgins & .Brosher. No.
III Duane Street; Murray & Broking.
No. 212 Church Street, and Thomas
Hughes. No. 2l2 Church Street
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YOUTHFUL HIGHWAYMEN.
Boys Hold Up and Rob q Woman II
Central Park.

Central Park.
New York. Aug. 25.-There was bold
highway robbery in Central Park last
evening. and although the highwaymen
were not either of them more than thir-
teen years old. woman who said she
was Mrs. A. H. Sergsberg, of No. 81 West
Eighty-second Street. but concerning
whose identity thre is mystery. says she
was as roughly handled as though they
had been twice the age. The woman was
on the west side of the park. opposite
Eighty-seventh Street, when the high
waymen appeared. Both were in knee
trousers and neatly dressed. one in blue
and the other in black She saw the boys
running toward her, and thought they
were playing some chiid's game. She
stopped to watch them. They ran up to
her. one passed and then turned about.
just as the second grasped her by the
throat.
Your money or your lifer" piped the
boy.
His victim was overcome with surprise
and fright. She sank down on a bench
before which she stood. Her pocketbook
containing, more than S dropped from her
hand. One of the boys pounced on 1t and
ran.
AS soon as he disappeared the second
boy took his hand from its firm grip on
the woman's throat. snatched her gold
chateiaine watch and followed his COM
panion.
Their victim sat stupefied for few sec
onds. then she screamed. Bicycle Police
man McLarkey heard the cry and saw
one of the running boys. He jumped from
his wheel. followed the lad over lots and
through streets, but lost sight of him at
Eighty-eighth Street and Columbus Ave
nue.. He thinks, however. that he knows
the boys.
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The Impossible Achieved.

Lieut. Hobson. in his recent address at the
Metropolitan Opera House. mentioned. among
other things, spectacle which. from a proscen-
ium window in prison he had behed and which
it had been authoritatively stated, could not be
performed. The prelude lasted twenty days. Dur
ing that period he watched the Spaniards forth
fying Santiago. He saw them f,tching guns from
their ships and place them there. And then Just
as though troops had waited until everything
was ready for their reception, he the unsup-
ported infantry advance, he heard the singing Of
the bullets, the banging Of the guns, and through
it all. through the hankng artillery. through the
tearing schrapnel, through the streams Of fire,
through the red and white OF the ia. .nshed dawn,
he saw the advance continue, the fight Of the
foe the rush Of the infantry. the dash up the
HILL the capture Of the fortifcations, the feat
which experts had decided could never be per-
formed Nor could it before. Nor could it now.
To find anything resembling it one has to go
back to the remoteness of the fighting ffties and
the Balaklaya charge
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,FHE .rURBINIA.
A Vessel That VIII Cross the Ocean
in Three Days..

In Three Days.
New York, Aug. 25.-Mr. Parsons, the
inventor of the TurbiMa, has made a
brief description of what he calls the
fastest vessel of any description afioat.
To Journal, reporter he said he expects
to cross the Atlantic in three days. With
ordinary draught she can run away from
the fastest torpedo boats. making twenty
four knots an hour. Under forced
draught the Turbinia can make thirty
five knots an hour. Her coal will last
for three hours only. but in that time
she can steam more than one hundred
miles.
The Tur5inia is 100 feet long. with a
beam Of nine feet. and carries crew OF
ten. She has 2.100 horse power. can pro-
duce 30 900 pounds OF steam an hour. and
has a pressure of 225 pounds square
inch In her water tube boilers. Her three
propeller shafts have each three screws.
several feet apart. These screws revoive
$500 timeT a minute without causing per-
ceptible vibration. The engines can be
raised to full speed from standstili IN
thirty seconds.
The Turbinia's engines are of the sim-
plest type entirely at variance WIN any
known marine machinery. The motor at
tached to the shaft consists Of multi
tude of fan blades. exactly similar IN
principle to the blade of an electric ran.
Against these blades, inclosed in a steam
chest. the steam is driven. The pressure
makes the blades reyolve. turning the
shaft. =
Mr.. Parsons calculates that 15.o00-ton
liner furnished with steam turbine mo-
tors. can cross the Atlantic In three days.
The coal consumption would be l. so tons
daily. but the extra coal bunker room re-
qusred will be offset by the smaller space
devoted to -she machinery. Such vessel
could carry as many passengers and as
much cargo as a vessel of the same tom
mage propelled by the ordinary machin-
ery. Mr.. Parsons speaks Of twelve-min-
ute trips from the Battery to Staten ISL
and in small turbine-motor boats as
nra,ticai,le
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That Toral could have held out longer
at Santiago is highly probable. If he had
known that Shafter had made the attack
without supplies for his men, and that
because Of exposure and deprivation and
the lack of intelligent medical super
vision the Americans must suffer as they
did. he would have resisted longer. 1t
seems to have been a case of successful
bluff. and we may thank our lucky stars
that we were not overwhelmed by the
enemy after being reduced by disease.
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foreign" and under his arbitrary rule
at Havana the captured city can enjoy
none Of the favors that are shown to
Cuban ports where the Spanish flag
still droops from the official pole. The
Spanish loyalists at Santiago who dare
to be happy under American administra-
tion are repudiated and scorned by the
Havana humbug general.
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OF course Aguinaldo is pleased with
American occupation of Manila. He has
been misrepresented. obviously for a
purpose, and. therefore. misunderstood
by the American people. He was ugly"
only when he had too much cause to
fear the Americans intended to turn
the islands over to Spain, leaving him
and his people to the vengeance Of that
savage nation. He would have been
lacking in sense and manhood II. In
such circumstances. he had been sub
missive
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Tho.e ..Rle..ea Ankel..n

(From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
The bronxrd soldier looked at the package ad-
dressed to him with moistened eyes.
"Blessed angels" he said; they 90 not forget
u.s."
Then he carefully took of the wrappings and
found:
nail brush.
An ornamental hair receiver.
pair of tides.
small bottle Of mixed pickles.
tract.
hand painted blotfing pad.
A trousers-stretcher.
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An EnSlfsh Success.

1t is still too early to discuss matters
of government in the new territory We
have acquired by war. That is mat
ter that will be shaped largely by cir
cumstances rather than by theories of
administration. That We shall draw
somewhat on the experience of Eng
land in the rule of peoples outside the
present national boundary lines is
probable. 1t is this that makes dis
patch from Egypt, published this morn
ing, of interest to American readers.
On Tuesday, in the frontier camp of
"Wady Hamed," there was a parade
of the entire force of the Anglo-Es ypt-
ian expedition against the dervishes.
Over twenty thousand able-bOd.ed
fighting men were in line. and the
spectacle is said to have been magnifi-
cent There is no doubt that under
English officers and with the example
of a number of British regiments the
Egyptians who were formerly regarded
as cowardly and fntractable have FORM
ed an excellent native army. The ma
terial was not promising when Eng
land undertook the problems of Egypt
ian administration. The country was
in a frightful condition. the treasury
was empty and the debt was enormous.
The unkempt army was the tool of
ambitious rascals. Yet such has been
England's success in government that
France demands her withdrawal, as
serting that Egypt is now well able
to take care of herself.
In connection with the successful ex
periments in India. this is encouraging
to America, which will have problems
of the same nature, though by no
means so difficult. when it assumes
control of the annexed islands and
Cuba That the element which now
seems the only one that will be dis
posed to be troublesome, both in Cuba
and the Philippines. can be worked into
a satisfied and effective military force
under American officers there can be
little doubt.
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OBJECT TO FOUNTAINS.
Dispensers of Drinks in Boston Pro-
test Against Free Ice Water,


test Against Free Ice Water.
Boston. Mass, Aug. 2a-Unconsciously
Mayor Quincy and Water Commissioner
Murphy have been doing extensive work
in behalf of temperance. The placing cf
ice-water fountains about the city has
interfered with the business of dispen-
sers of drinks. and objection has been
made to their extension.
A protest has been lodged against the
location of one Of these fountains in
front of the Revere House. The protest
was from the Revere House people and
adjoining drug stores. The protest was
respected. and the fountain will not be
located in front of the Revere House but
elsewhere in Bowdoin Square.
Wherever these fountains have been
located the sale of cold drinks in various
establishments about them has been ma
teriaily reduced.
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country, and astounded the enemy by
q steadiness under FIRE that could
hardly be expected Of veterans. II
those who did not have their chance
had been at the front, they would
have made the same record. since there
is only the one little failure we have
referred to. In their homecoming all
deserve the honors in store for them
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ing wreath

On the principle that misery loves COM
pany. the people of Washington ought to
be able to bear this hot spell with forth
tude It is general. H. not, in the words
of the New York mayor, universal" All
over this country, with the exception Of
Syracuse and other towns that have been
afflicted with cloudbursts. heat and hu-
midity are doing more deadly work than
here. while Europe is in state of coll
lapse from the heat A temperature of
81 degrees with a humidity Of ss per cent.
made New York suffer yesterday as this
city has not suffered this summer. The
general impression outside that Washing
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Whether it is at Savannah. at WASH
ington or wherever sick soldiers on their
way North are seen, 1t is the same sad
story of neglect and deprivation. The
recitals of the ladies of the Red Cross
in this city are heartbreaking. and they
arouse indignation because the suffer-
ing is believed to be needless in many
cases. For weeks it has been known that
the sick soldiers in Florida and in other
Southern camps would be sent to their
homes. There was surely time enough
10 make ample provision for their COM
fort 1t is hard enough for well men to
travel on ordinary slow-moving trains
in this weather in the South: in the case
of sick men without beds or attention
or food fit for patients, it is almost kill
ing. The men who undergo this are
our heroes for whose brows We are max
ing wreaths.
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.OId" Ge.eraf Wheeler.

Gen. Wheeler a lieutenant general third
Of century ago, but then it must he remembered
that he was lieutenant general before he was
twenty-eieht years old. Many men are almost
at their prime at his age. and he seems to be
one of them. He will yet climb many trees.
whip many enemies Of his country. serve many
years in the House. or 60 higher. as occasion may
demand.
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The Government complains that the
Spanish prisoners are a burden. 1t is not
clear, however, how they are to be got rid
of. They refuse to go home when the
offer is made to send them free. They
know when they are well of.
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Comparative Merits.

She-Just like you, Why, don't know whit
you'd do il you had to choose between your old
pipe and me.
He-well. but remember that pipes improve
with age, while women
The evening times., 1898-08-25

ton Is one Of the hottest Of American
cities has been caused by members OF
Congress anxious to find excuse for early
adjournment. Their charge against the
climate here is disproved by the records.
The evening times., 1898-08-25
Brothers in Arms.
(From the Boston Journal

VffUm BOst0h JOufhlI.1
In Battery l, First Heavy Artillery, Massachu-
sctts Volunteers, now at Fort Warren from the
shoe town Of Brocktcn there are Eve pairs O.
brothers-the Aliens, Churchills. Foyes, Holme
and Marshalls
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LookiDr Folvprd
Tron Puck

at is said that the seacoast line Of the globe
is about $4,000 miles.
''well. we ought to build a navy to defend
II. There's no telling how soon 1t may belong
to -.
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.Frixky Ii Hung.

From the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.)
For man without jacket or feather, Ii
Hung Chang seems to be frisky sort OF cd
fellow when 1t comes to matters Of statesman.
ship.
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To Him Who waits.

wooed my peerless Edith
Some twenty wears ago.
But Danvers had me bcstcd
A million plunks or so.
Yet. winning Edith's daughter,
This happy day, know
Eve got the best Of Danvers
A million plunks or so.
New York Herald
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Nay BE NEEDED soo.
from the Rochester Heruld.) !

(From the hocDestef Hefd1u-J
Instead Of beating the sword into p.owshare.
the indications that Uncle Sam will con-
tinue the manufacture of swords.
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Killed in the army e6o
Killed in the navy. y.......................... II
Killed in the marines. es........................ 7
Wounded in the army. my................ I,4oO
Wounded in the navy. 10
Wounded in the marines. Observation-Disclosures. Ii
Here is total OF 279 killed and LAB wounded
in war which resulted in the destruction Of the
Spanish navy, in the freeing Of Cuba. the cesson
Of Porto Rico and the capture of Manila.
The losses on the Union side at Gettysburg
alone were 500 killed and 14.i97 wounded In
the twelve great battles Of the civil war the
Union losses were q. .46s killed and eos49 wound
ed.
No war has ever produced such important and
far-reaching results with so small loss Of life
as has cur war against Spain.
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Communications intended for publication in
The Times should be tersely and plainly written.
and must in all be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. Rejected COM
munications will not be preserved. and only man
uscripts of obvious importance will he returned
to their authors.
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A Great Record.
From the New York Worid. \

The official statement Of our losses in the war
with Spain is not yet made up, but the approxi-
mate figures. compiled from reports to the War
and Navy Departments give this remarkable show
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ing to this office information OF the fact
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CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

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