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The evening times., 1898-11-05
Discreet Witnesses.

There can be no doubt that with an
other Commission TO PROFOUND the
questions. the testimony of such men
as General Lawton, General Sanger and
others would be very much stronger.
They are sensible as we'll as honest
men and are not disposed to incur the
active enmity OF a Secretary OF War
who is not restrained by any consid-
Grafton from Furnishing officers who
criticise his administration. The re-
port Of General Sanger. as one OF the
commission appointed by General
Breckenridge to investigate the condi-
ton of affairs at Chfckamauga Park,
for example, contains a great deal Of
condemnation that is not brought out in
his examination by the Alger Relief
Commission, and il specifically affirms
that the preventable sufferings Of the
men were not due TO themselves and
their company and regimen.al officers.
So. too, General Lawton evidently has
in reserve a good deal of important in
formation which the questions were not
intended to extract and which he could
not volunteer. He notes that he had
imperative orders from Gensral Shat
ter TO move To his left, when his situa-
ti0n was such as to make it ''impracti-
cable" This simple statement is signi-
ficant Of a great deal that the Commis-
sion would not allow to be revealed.
That the commanding general should
know so little of the situation or have
so little knowledge of what was posi-
BILE. as TO issue an imperative order for
an impracticable movement, is more Of
a reflection on the War Department
for its choice of a commander than
General Lawton would like to say. in
the circumstances.
This is only one of several very i'm
portant indications of the inefficiency
Of the commander who was authorized
/ By Secret AIRY AlSer to stand out against
any attempt by General Miles to as
sumo command. The country was ex-
asperated during the critical days be-
! fore Santiago because General Shafter
! the anxiety of the people whose sons
were in the trenches. They were told
that he was too busy fighting to write
! Now il appears that he did not write
/ because he did not know what the sit
uation was. The complaints of Doctors
! Greenleaf. Sem and other surgeons
! that General Shafter refused to au-
| thorize them to take any precautions
against the expected epidemic, and that
they We're helpless until General Miles
! interfered, is in line with The testimony
Of the officers of the Third Cavalry,
regulars. that the exhausted men were
compelled to carry back breaking loads
a distance of fourteen miles in the hot
test part OF the day, while General
! ST lter refused To allow them TO use
the idle Spanish mules that were frisk-
ing on the hillsides
Among the most serious and just
criticisms of the War Department is
! the selection of so old and fat a gen.
eraT' to command, as Captain Hunter
puts it-a general who had not a direc-
ton to give about the battle of San
Juan which was strictly a captain s
| battle" But this is a matter that the
questions of the Alger Relief Commits
sion will never bring into the fullest
light.
The evening times., 1898-11-05
The Mother of Franklin.
(From the Century,


In Frantlin's autobiography there is only the
barest mention Of his mother Abiah, and merely
as the daughter of zone Of the first settlers cf New
England Presumably, this silence due 10
the eighteenth century attitude toward women
more than TO any want of affection. for the two
eorresponded with regularity, after the
mother was Every weak and short of breath-so
that | cannot sit up to write, altho' ! sleep
well o. nights and my cough is better and l
have a pretty good stomach to my victuals,' aud
she had to beg her sop to please excuse my bad
writing ard inditing for all tell me | am too
old TO write letters'' To her Franklin sent gifts
of various kinds. including "a moidore .
which please to accept toward chaise hire, that
you may ride warm to meetings this winter -
Upon her death, in 1852, he wrote his sister
Jane: 81 received yours with the affecting news
of our dear mothers death. ! thank you for your
long continued care of her in her old age and
sickness. Our distance made it impraetieable for
us to attend her. but you have supplied ALL She
has lived a good life. well as long one, and
is happy"
The evening times., 1898-11-05

"A Cabinet officer is authority for
the statement that the President is con-
fident there will be no rupture at Paris
that while the Spanish representatives
will make a bitter fight against the
American demands, the result will De
the cession of the entire Philippines
group. on certain conditions relating tc
the assumption of or payment By the
United States of part of the Indebtedness
contracted by Spain in behalf of the isl
ands." In such an event there must be
an interesting discussion in the Senate
as to the ownership of the certificates oi
indebtedness.
The evening times., 1898-11-05

Perhaps it is sad that our institutions
as they are do not permit the Federal
authorities to send soldiers into the
States 10 be handy" on election day.
but we are bound to abide by the funda-
mental law as it is, or surrender our lib
critics. 1t does not matter what the
condition of affairs may be at Whining
ton. North Carolina, the sending of sol
diers TO that place, in order to affect
the elections, is violation of the law
in spirit, and becomes a precedent for
outrages that the nation may have cause
to deplore.
The evening times., 1898-11-05

sections where the Spanish troops are
still in control, the conditions are very
different. 1t is true that perhaps nine
tenths of the original reconcentrados
are dead Of starvation. Therefore the
ill-informed critics of American beney-
olence affirm that there can be no just
demand for such quantities OF pro-
visions as are called for. Yet the expla
nation is simple, and is obvious to all
who want to see it. There are thou
sands who were comparatively well-to-
do when the American invasion took
place While the reconcentrados were
dying, these still had means TO exist;
but week by week they were added to
the sufferers. With the death of every
two or three of the helpless victims of
Weylerism, one more of the hitherto
self-sustaining people was reduced to
a last crust. So there are today, ac-
cording to the solemn statement of Mr..
Quesada and others, not less than sew
enty-fiye thousand Cubans still under
Spanish domination and starving, 1t is
on them that the whipped Spaniards
Wreak their vengeance, by prohibiting
them from resuming their gainful occu-
pations. There is no reasonable ground
for branding the grave statements Of
Mr.. Quesada as false.
The fact that we intervened between
Spain and her oppressed subjects. and
that we intend. partly in our own in
terest, to administer the government of
the island fer an indefinite time; the
fact that we still practically recognize
and continue Spanish sovereignty and
allow Spain to rob the Cubans of the
revenues at the principal port; that We
permit Spanish forces to control large
part of the territory unrestrained by
American investigation, make ii our
duty to save from persecution and espe-
cialiy from starvation, the natives who
are still unable to support themselves,
even if we failed to admit the claims of
common humanity.
The evening times., 1898-11-05
Nou-ReIigiOus BuriaIs.
lFrsm the Pan MalI Ganette.l }

(From the Pail Mall Gaz6tte.)
Pour eneourager les autre>. The nun {. pal
council of SuTesnes, in the Seine departTs ut, has
put premium on civil inteIm,Hs There was
once a poem written on the Tower OF Babel It
was on the occasion when prize was offered foI
this subject in an ancient religious and edues-
tional foundation. One Of the contributions that
did not get the prize began thus: The Lord
looked down. the Lord knows why" This is what
the council of SuTesEes has been doing. TRSy
looked down on the struggling masses and found
humanity would be the better for the institution
known as the civil funeral. All that the people
wanted was friendly lead in order to become
as anti-clerical as the council itself. Therefore.
the municipal assembly of Suresnes has voted
that every interment in the commune which dis
penses with the religious service sail be hon
ored bv the official presence of two municipal
councillors And if after that the population OF
Suresnes does not die right away and get itself
buried with civil rights and civil honors. then
Suresnes does not know its own highest good
The evening times., 1898-11-05

There is some reason to think Germany
is giving moral support to Spain in the
matter of the Philippine question. The
threat of Spain's representatives to with
draw from the peace conference as pro-
test against our demand for the islands
is followed by hints from inspired Ger
man newspapers about Germany's inter
est in the subject OF Philippine owner
ship. and by the German statement that
the naval and military activity of Great
Britain is the result of an Anglo-Ameri-
can understanding. This last is suggested
merely as an excuse for the display of
German concern. If Great Britain is to
have hand in the business in return for
special favors in the islands, of course
Germany has a right to come in. The
European nations will discover that this
is matter that is TO be settled between
America and Spain, and that any moral
support to Spain will be Intellectual.
The evening times., 1898-11-05
Mnnfe Cristo,s Island

(Rome correspondence london Post)
A month ago / able to state that the
Island of Monte Cristo, rendered so famous by
Dumas immortal romance, about to be or
Naples Now the Italian newspapers confirm the
statement, and add that tht lease of the Marquis
Ginori, who previously hired the shooting in the
island has out, and that the State is rang
ing to reserve the island-which is thic1ly wood
ed and completely unirhsbited-as special shoot
ing ground for the crown prince. Before leaving
for Venice to meet the German Emperor the
Prince of Naples will, with the princess, inspect
the island | understand that of the chief
reasons for the choice of so out-of-the-way hunt
ing ground is that it would allow the crown
princess. who is passionatey fond of yachting, to
share in the excursions Of the crown prince.
The evening times., 1898-11-05

The bewilderment of the London press
is both ludicrous and painful. That the
nation should be menaced to such de-
gree as to warrant the thorough and
unprecedented preparations for war that
are now apparent, and that the newspa-
pers should be unable to guess the
source of danger, is funny to the point
of absurdity, Probably in no other coun-
try could the secret be so well kept. if
there is a secret. The repeated aftirma-
tions of the ministers that the trouble
with France is no longer acute-as stated
again last evening by Lord Salisbury
certainly excludes the FaShoda bus. .ness
as cause of the prepara tions Bes .des.
France has declared her purpose to aban-
don her Fashoda claim and Marchand
has already left that place. There is no
evidence of change in the Chinese Sit
uation-nothing that seems to make war
with Russia as imminent as the naval
immediate responsible members of
the government can know of a single
reason for fear of war, so one guess Is
quite as good as any other. The Ger
mans believe it points to an Anglo
American alliance in the expectation OF
foreign interference with the American
occupation of the Philippines, while the
Russians have an idea that it means a
reopening of Chinese questions, about
which Salisbury showed himself tco
timid Nobody seems to think that II
rcans nothing but "a notice to all ths
J world that Great Britain is in good hsht-
| ing trim.
The evening times., 1898-11-05
The Cars slavery to Duty.

The Cars melancholy visit to Copenhagen is
nearly over, and soon he will be hurrying across
Europe to reioin the Czarina at Livada. Apart
from the occasion itself, his stay in the Danish
capital appears to have been marked by excep-
tonal gloom. The young autocrat occupied three
modest rooms in the overcrowded palace of Bern.
storf. and is said to have passed almost his whole
day in his little study reading writing dis
patches Every morning courier arrived from
St. Petersburg with a fresh batch, and every even
ing another set out thtber to take back the re-
suit OF the days work. After breakfast he
walked for an hour with his mother in the
park. that being the sole recreation he permitted
himself besides joining the other members of
the family for a short time at and after meals
He must often have looked back with a sigh
to the time when he roamed about the palace a
careless boy in the company of his stalwart
father
The evening times., 1898-11-05

II looks as though the support of Sec
retary Alger will prove fatal to Governor
Pingree. 1t was only after the popular in
dignation against the War Department
mad found expression that the eccentric
Michigan governor made friends with the
Secretary He had no difficulty in run
ming the State convention. but now there
is an open revolt. and his situation is
most precarious. Republican defeat in
Secretary Ayers own State would be in
the nature of blow.
The evening times., 1898-11-05

ment he has maintained the high Span
ish tariff for the sole benefit of Spain
and himself and excluded the supplies
which this country has sent to the suf-
ferers in the city He has expressed
his contempt for Americans in proc
lamation, and intends to publish what
he calls vindication, partly for the
purpose of melting the Cubans into a
resistance of American rule. 1t is evil
dent that the Spanish officers at Gibara
have used their long opportunity to
poison the minds of the Cubans, and
no doubt the same thing has been done
wherever they have been stationed
This is what Sagasta boasted the Span
iards could do by way of revenge on
their conquerors. Every days delay in
the removal of Blanco increases the
difficulties We shall have to meet in the
administration of Cuba.
The evening times., 1898-11-05
society Girls In Business.

From the New York Mail and Express)
To swell the list of New York society folk,
both men and women, who have recently left
the ranks of the butterflies to compete in the
great commercial race. we have to add the name
of Miss Charlotte Ogden Wotherspoon, whose de-
parture for Europe with Mrs. William Frederick
King on the Csmpania was recorded week ago.
Miss Wotherspoon is shortly to open dressma!-
ing establishment, and is at present travelling
The evening times., 1898-11-05
Hard on the Dog.

tFrOm The Boston ITanStlipI-J
Grahsm-Gong to move? What for?
White-They've got baby next door to my
house and il makes so much noise my dog can
hardly get a wink Of sleep all night.
The evening times., 1898-11-05

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The evening times., 1898-11-05
A ParnhoxicaI Certainty.

From the Cincinnati Enqurer.)
Smith-It is the unexpected that always hap
pens.
Horrican-Yis unless We are lookin' for it.
The evening times., 1898-11-05
Ingrafitude.

Erie ad-Seme men are remarkably ungrateful
after you have had them elected.
The Ro1s-Yes; the moment some men aEe elect
ed they begin to think they did il themselves.
The evening times., 1898-11-05

The methods of the superintendent of
elections in New York threaten to assume
a scandaIous character. He has an army
of deputies who are not likely to hesitate
a the intimidation of qualified voters.
The evening times., 1898-11-05
An Unhappy Fate.

(FrOm The Chicago NeWs.J
ssWhy does Bunts go around with his hair pull
ed down over his forehead and his shoulders all
hunched upY IL makes him look like monkey
II know it. Some one who had a grudse
against him once told him that he looked like
Napoleon, and he believed it,
The evening times., 1898-11-05
Not Bad for the Kitten.

tFrom the Cleveland Leader.)
Mrs Hanby-Don't you think it's unhealthy for
your little girl to fondle that kitten so much?
see she has it in her arms most of the time
Mrs Waybrick-oh, no, not at all. We've had
it six weeks and it hasn't been sick day.
The evening times., 1898-11-05
Fhrnseology.

(From the Pittsburg Chronicle Telcgraph.)
al hear that you have good job at las
Billy"
81 have secured position, jim"
''Eow much pay do you get j dayT"
''siy salary is s1.25 per diem"
The evening times., 1898-11-05
4 POIyElOt Germ.
CFom Puck.)

Briggs Cat the Country Coli Cluo)-N hat do
Won caII il VIXEN YOU drive al ball and miss il? ??
Griggs- depends how many languaga >
Won speak
The evening times., 1898-11-05
The Social Line.

(From the Detroit Journal.)
Young Doctor-I find it haId 10 draw the line
between hay fever and influenza.
Old Doctor-It is hard my boy, but social
distinctions have TO be made; there's no help for
r
The evening times., 1898-11-05
CURRENT HUM0R.
The Rond to Fame.
EFrom BronklYn Life J

(From Brooklyn Life)
B~owne-How did that Congressman get his
reputation as i brainy man?
Towne--He was once interviewed by a bright
reporter.
The evening times., 1898-11-05
His Difficulty.

(From the Ohio State Journal)
s.Do YOU have any trouble keeping out OF
s.None in the wor1d but it Keeps me hustling
trying to get in"
The evening times., 1898-11-05
His Past.
(From Harp,r's Bazar

(From Harpr's Bazar.)
.tDawson's an awfully extravagant chap"
Yes, he l."
HAS he get rluch mon,y hack of him?'
I'm afraid he has more than he has ahead OF
him.
The evening times., 1898-11-05
Not According to Program.
From Puck.)

$50 he went West to grow up with the country,
did he?''
..Well. he thought he did; but it proved that
he went West and went up with the country.
The evening times., 1898-11-05
snropos of Fear Island.

(From the Detroit Free Press)
'Clara is always up 10 date"
tsWhat now?'
'She rented wooden Indians 10 decorate her
parlors for that afternoon tea
The evening times., 1898-11-05
A Proof.
(From tbe Chicago News.)

From the Chicago News)
az thought you were going to quit smokingf"
81 did-stopped for day and half. Just t.
show that could quit if ] wanted to.
The evening times., 1898-11-05
As Sounded to Her.

tFrom Judge.)
Beth Oistening 10 hen clucking TO her eh ok
ens)-Don't talk so fast, biddy-hen an then yoa
pont stutter so, don't you see?
The evening times., 1898-11-05

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The evening times., 1898-11-05

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CIRCULATION STATEMENT

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ing and Sunday, viii be mailed 10 one address
for FIFTY CENTS per month. Addresses changed
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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-12
New Textile Invention.

An Austrian inventor has succeeded
in adapting photography and electricity
to the laying out and application of de-
signs in textile manufacture in way
which it is said will revolutionize this
important branch of industry. By his
novel method it is claimed that the
work which has taken months or even
years to compete can be accomplished
in a quarter of an hour. This new cleo
trio loom will be exhibited for the first
time at the Paris exhibition, where it
will weave handkerchiefs. In three
minutes the purchaser of these handker-
chiefs will be photographed by an APP
paratus in the loom itself. The design
plate will be prepared by the same
machine, and in half an hour silk
handkerchief with the purchaser por-
trait woven into it will be produced.
At the jubilee exhibition now being
held in Vienna small landscapes woven
in silk, as we'll as portraits, are be-
ing shown. Mark Twain and Emperor
Francis Joseph have had their portraits
taken in this way.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-12

neighborhood of 80 tons. 1t will be
geared to five different speeds, ranging
from quarter of a mile an hour to ten
miles an hour, the lowest speed being
necessary to give an easy start. The
motor will have a trolley pole, the same
as the electric street Car, butt in addi-
ton twill be provided with an electric
shoe, which will take up the current
from the conduit when it becomes i'm
practicable to run the trolley, as in
cases of passing beneath bridges and
culverts along the line of the canal
The trolley wire will be suspended
about IL feet above the track, which
will be ballasted and graveled to an
even surface, SO as not to interfere with
the drawing of boats by mules. This
will necessitate the widening Of the
towpath to at least ten feet.
Mr.. Wagenhals says that it will re-
quire about 100 boats to equip the line
between Dayton and Cincinnati. These
boats will be constructed of steel, and
SO designed as to draw not more than
one foot of water. Three power stations
will be erected at equal distances be-
tween the two points named.
The motor which Mr.. Wagenhals has
designed to do the work will be of 100
horsepower, and will, he says, pull with
ease train of at least five heavily laden
boats, or more tonnage than 800 horse
power engine can pull on rails, there
being SO much less friction to counter
act the pulling strength.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-12
Toxin Remedy Against Locusts.

There is good deal for the farmer to
think over in the story received from
Mashonaland, Africa, of the efficacy of
the toxin remedy against lccusts. One
farmer who procured a supply of locust
toxin from the government says that
as inoculated locusts died he kept and
dried them, and afterward having Civ
en- the fungus time to mature ground
them into powder. A swarm of locusts
which was two hours in passing Went
into five acre mealie patch, and some of
the insects were saturated with a solu-
ton from the ground up powder and set
loose again. In couple of days the
swarm was visibly affected. the locusts
remaining stationary on the mealie
stalks. A little later they were all
dead, and the farmer declares that he
has not single locust on his whole
farm. If the story is true, it points to
an effective method Of treating a long
list OF farmers pests.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-08-12
German Experience with the Grip.

An extensive Investigation as to the
spread of the grip in the German army,
assuming, as it did, the form of an cpl
demic, has given defniteness to medical
opinion as to its being disease that
owes its origin to certain miasmatic ex-
ternal causes, while, on the other hand,
there is not assumed to be any sure evi-
dence of the influence of weather, cli-
mate, wind OF soil or the season of the
year. To the contrary, indeed, the num-
Der of those cases in which the spread
and the mode of spreading of the all
lnent is attributable to human inter
course was considerably increased by
the experience of the last epidemic But
authorities are still in state of doubt
as to whether the infection is carried
directly from person TO person or
whether the Infectious material is car
ried by the intervention of inanimate
objects through the air. OF the real
germ that causes the disease there is no
precise knowledge. Reasons are given
however, for believing that inani1nate
substances may house the real germs of
the disease and convey them far away,
and it, therefore, dead substances can
thus contribute to the spread of the dis
ease germs such a fact may perhaps ex-
plain the appearance of the disease upon
ships on the high seas