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stand, how cheerful and inspiring even
a very ordinary existence may be. and
il also illustrates in a practical manner
Tie hardships Of men who work with
their hands, and do not live sheltered
life. There is nothing Ike loush-and-
tumble life, where men stand for what
Ihey are worth and no more, to take
the conceit out of man.
By-the-by. in an English novel not
long since an English nobleman, having
gambled away his own and his wifi s
fortune, said To his daughter-in-law:
You have race: you will understand
why | could not live any longer, and
then shot himself. For generations his
fOrefathers had believed that the only
honorable way out of dishonorable COM
rlications was suicide: and he could
not take any other road. The implica-
tion Of the author was that there was
something higher and finer in this view
than in that of the common man; that
his determination to die, and leave his
wife and family TO get out of their
troubles as best they might was some
and noble spirit, which the common
man could not understand. The as
! sumption is that his pain was greater
! than that of man of lower rank would
] have been.
| AS TO the degree of pain, ii is i'm
| possible to judge. No man can know
whether another is suffering more or
iG
capable Of enduring The uncultivated
man often appears stolid when he is
merely stoical. without words to express
| his emotions. Sometimes he has not
meantI Of expressing them even in
thought: but the emotions remain,
! sometimes all the stronger for being
! denied an outlet. And as 10 this hered-
| itary impulse to commit suicide, that
/ is not confined to people of birth and
| breeding. 1t is the first thought of
many sensitive and proud people, when
| confronted with disgrace of any kind,
| that it would be far easier to die. But
! there is a type of common man, whose
family traditions are nodded through
1 ages of poverty, perhaps of want, whoss
nature may or may not be rude, in
whom there is developed a hereditary
impulse of quite a different sort. A
workingman of this type, confronted
with such prospect as that of the
| English nobleman above mentioned
might have the impulse to shoot him
self as the easiest way out of the diff
| ficulty, and one which would be least
| CALLING TO his pride; but there is a
contrary impulse. which causes him to
| regard such an act as dishonorable
and cowardly. Such a man will not
! consider any disgrace, any trouble, as
| justifiable cause for suicide so long as
he has wife, or children, or PARENTS de
pending on him for their bread
hereditary impulse in the nobleman to
yield TO this temptation, the sense of
something cowardly and unworthy in
thus running away from the conse-
qGences of ones own acts, and leaving
| others to bear the brunt Of them, has
developed itself in certain classes of the
| unpedigreed. There is race in this
view, also, and it may be questioned
whether the pluck which leads mar
to take UP his broken life and make tht
admiration as the selfishness which es
capes punishment by death. 1t take
some people a long time to understand
that all kinds Of inhabitants are needed
/ To make a world
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What particular objection the Euro
pean continental powers can have to our
taking the Philippine Islands is difficult
to understand We must have coaling
station in Asiatic waters, and we are
entitled to seize Spanish territory to hold
by way of indemnity. Russia England
and all the rest of our neighbors know
well enough that we do not desire to
annex islands off the Chinese coast, and
there should not be any question of our
bona fides in the matter.
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satisfactory.
Trom the Chicago Journal. }

y I'IH VlIV tlIIIVIFV 'VHIIldI'I
If some historian would visit the various re-
cTuting places in Chicago he could get material
for a volume which would stir the next genera
ton Daily things done and said that are as
patriotic as those about which we have been
reading for hundreds of years.
The other day one OF the young men who ap-
piled to Chief Engineer Harrie Webster at the
naval recruiting station at % Michigan Avenue
asked What will | get if am injured?''
III YOU are wounded" was the blunt reply,
''you will get a pension ii you 90 to the bot
tom YOU viii have drge sung over You"
That will satisfy me" said the man, and he
enlisted
The times., 1898-05-01
Melbourne During the Gold Eeyc

From the Pail Mall Magazine.)
Gold threatened to become as common
as silver in the days of Solomon In
one year G12 600, 600; in eight years. $50.
900 600 were won. Some men at Gold
Point made as much as e4OO day. An
other exceptionally lucky party unearth-
ed "a pounds of gold in one day. No Won
der that such pockets were termed
Jewellers shops Occasionally a nugget
worth G10000 was unearthed. The re-
suit of this sudden influx of wealth al
most without labor, and with risks
which are infinitesimal as compared to
Klondike was the temporary demorali-
zation of the population. Melbourne in
the height of the gold fever, has been
described by one who knew it well as
"a fevered. drunken, deliriOus Pandemo-
num-" The lucky ones-and there were
thousands of them-squandered their
riches in the most reckless fashion. Some
| of their fantastic tricks would scarcely
! be credited were they not attested by
witnesses still living The game of nine
| pins. we are told was played with bot
| ties of champagne. for which he who
| broke least had to pay; dozens of the
/ same costly wine were emptied into tubs
| and drunk from tin pannikins, spirits
| and beer being added to give body to
| the beverage; one man, IN imitation of
| Caligula, shoed his horse with gold; sand
| wiches made of banknotes were de-
| voured; silver wrapped up in banknotes
| was thrown to popular actresses instead
| of fiowers-in fact, money was so plent1-
| full that the reckless diggers could not
knock it down" fast enough They
| thought they only had to dig a few feet
| in the earth 10 get plenty more. and for
, a time it almost seemed as if this were
| so. Such were some of the character.
| istics of Victora's hot youth
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Popular Opinion i'm France

tfIuIN inc toy IIIItt@'I
Passengers on the French Line steamer La Nor
mandie, which arrived al New York yesterday.
assert that while the French press IS hostile to
this country the French people. a rule, syJa-
pathize with Us This is likely to be the case. it
being a we'll established tact that he newspapers
of Paris represent only the opinions OF their OVID
ers and these opinions are always subject 70
change Tor a financial consideration. French hold
ers of spanish bonds are doubtless responsible for
the anti American attitude OF the press But
that attitude causes worry whatever to Uncle
sam.
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Cadets in Great Luck.

(from The PhlIadeIpha HecOrd.)
The lfty-two members Of this years graduating
class at West Point will doubtless be glad to get
into military harness at once, instead of await
ing the class day exercises two months hence
These heroes OF the future have been favored by
fortune with opportunity such as rarely falls
10 the lot OF men at arms in these latter days
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TALKS BY THE WAY.

This little tale concerns Mark Hanna. a
necktie and trio of jokers in the Senate
press gallery. In diplomatic parlance the
incident is now closed. but it was funny
for minute.
The Joker in chief of the Senate press
gallery is gentleman connected with a
Iexas newspaper and his name shall be
withheld because-well. because he likes
TINS sort of advertising. The other morn
ing he appeared with bronco-taming
grin and cautiously displayed to several
contemporaneous associates one of those
patriotic white satin necktie affairs deco
rated from the trade mark to its flowing
ends with the Cuban flag and ''Oid
Glory, both worked out in flowing cOiOrs-
"Juever see one of these before?" in
quired the gentleman from Texas.
Nope" answered his admiring au-
dience.
Well, you just wait and see what l 10
with it," commanded the owner of the
neck piece.
Presently the gentleman from Texas
might have been seen a one of the east
doors of the Senate chamber engaged in
vigorous consultation with a page FinaI-
coin were surrendered into the pages
hands with instructions, and the gentle
man connected with the Texas press went
back TO the press gallery 20 await de-
yelopments
About ten minutes after the Senate had
convened the subsidized page delivered
into the hands of Mark Hanna small
parcel quite remarkable for the occasion.
IL was done up in manila paper, on which
was printed remarks about buying your
clothes at Moses Ikensteinfelds. or some
thing similar at No. 1097s2 Pennsylvania
Avenue. The Ohio statesman looked at
the parcel curiously turned IL over and
over in his fingers and finally undid it,
The gorgeous necktie fell out on his desk
as did also brief note inscribed: with
their compliments the gentlemen of the
press have reported this back to the
chairman of the committee on how to
make Presidents, and hope he will wear
it.
'Wherediu get this?" demanded Mr..
Hanna of the page.
1T came from the press gallery re-
piled the page. who. now that he faced
the wrath of the Texas joker's august
victim, had exceeding great regrets of his
part in the joke. The Ohio statesman did
the parcel up again. note and all. and
beckoned the page closer for a whispered
consultation. Suddenly the page came
once more into possession of the necktie
and incidentally two dollar silver certi-
ficate also.
Later in the afternoon a colored news
boy who sells papers at the Capitol en-
trance staggered around under the weight
OF huge white satin cravat with red
white and blue Cuban and American
flags all over il.
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The worst of it is that we English
speaking countries have no such excuse
for our mistakes-or rather ignorance
as the Latin nations have for laundering
in our language. They try, but find
themselves tioored at once by inconsist-
ency and lack of system. The well-known
"ough' is example enough with its
many different pronunciations; off uff
long o, short o. 90 and ow. But II offers
no analogy to a foreigner. either; for
long as it generally is, there are words
like rule, in the Latin tongues. except
French plain is always 90; there are
no exceptions The Germans put out a
flag in the shape of a diaresis. or 'um-
laut" when they wish to modify their
90; so there really is no excuse for as
We have just one simple precept to learn.
There is no short u, like ours: junta is
"hoonta' and all languages of Europe
are equally simple about that.
Common words that are not English
we should not try to use, since we cannot
or do not try TO pronounce them properly
Proper names that must be spoken we
could easily master if we chose And
although ii is too late now TO begin to
call ii country we are al war about by an
unfamiliar sound, ii seems a great pity
that we should not have begun long ago
and that we should not at least know now
that we wrong. The argument that
usage sanctions an error will not work
else why do we take pains to say "hoon-
ia? Why not junta, and let it go at
that? If all England and all the United
States decide to call Hispania Pain
killer" instead of Spain (Which is just
about as arbitrary we should find our
selves uttering the name with bombast
and stern look Of superiority 1t is our
way. And It is a poor one
The times., 1898-05-01
An Argument From Spain.

From the New York Tribune.)
FL Epoca, of Madrid, demands that coal shall
not be declared contraband of war, because with
out it modern warfare is impossible. The same
argument might be used in favor of considering
arms and ammunition not contraband.
The times., 1898-05-01

The advice of Mgr Martinelli to the
Vatican TO avoid expressions of sym
pathy with Spain is sensible. All Amer
leans are united on the question of the
war. and anything calculated to create
dissension would be regrettable. We do
not want any divisions, political or reli-
gious. until we have finished the fight.
The times., 1898-05-01

1t is our impression that the Spanish
government will have cause to regret the
attack Of a mob upon the British consul
late at Santiago de Cuba. Our English
cousins have an ugly way of Furnishing
such little affronts.
The times., 1898-05-01

The Department of Agriculture has just
issued timely document on Spain s
Foreign Trade" prepared by Mr.. Frank
II. Hitchcock, chief of the section of for
eign markets. The same official now has
in press a detailed statement of the trade
between this country and Spain from
1883 TO 1897, which will shortly appear, and
to which we look forward with interest.
The times., 1898-05-01

1t is with pride and JOY we notice the
fact that the Navy is protecting the
coast of Maine, although exactly why
that is necessary, considering the reIa-
tions between Maine and Spain, is puz-
zling question.
The times., 1898-05-01
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

Readers Of The Times who may at any time
BE- unable to procure copies of it at any news
stand railroad station or on railroad trains viii
coHier a favor upon the management by sending
90 this Office information Of the TACT.
Communications intended foT publication in
The Times should be tersaly ana plainly written,
and must in all cases be accompanied by the
Name and address Of the writer Rejected com
rnuIicatlons VIII not be preserved and only man
uscripts Of obvious importance viii be returned
90 their authors.
The times., 1898-05-01
Prayers in Jersey.
From the Chicago Dismal

IFrom The chicago Ulspatch.l
A spray of kerosene stagnant water viii
kill the mosquitoes. Down in Jersey the pious
people are still saying, Let US spray"
The times., 1898-05-01
NN'I,yt

From the Chicago News)
Why does como down in winter and ice
go up in summeri
The times., 1898-05-01

a captain of regulars. 40 years old,
was buried in the quartermaster's de-
partment for more than a year after the
war began. A Michigan regiment of cav
airy was in need of a colonel. Some one
called Gov. Blair's attention to the plod-
ding quartermaster. Would he accept the
command? He slipped away from his
piles of oats, corn, hay and other goods
and vaulted into a saddle without a mo-
ment's delay. and a few days later was
winning victories. and during the next
three years he did little else but win
victories. 1t was in Phil Sheridan to plan
and fight, as it was in Grant and Sher-
man.
The times., 1898-05-01

John A. Logan. an Illinois congress-
man. left his seat to lead regiment He
reached the highest honor given 10 a
volunteer in that war-the command of
a great army, having been a successor
of Grant. Mcpherson and Howard in COM
mand of the army of the Tennessee
Who will be Illinois's black eagle
John A. Logan? Her Dick Oglesby. John
NJ. Palmer; her Hurlbut and Farnsworth? ?
Who will be Wisconsin's Ed. Bragg
Ruger Hamilton. Fairchild Tom Allen
Jerry Rusk. Rufus r. Dawes. Henry
Harnden and others who stepped from
the ground floor to a high round
VINO will be Michigans Alger. Morrow.
Williams Cutcheon?
Who Indiana's Hovey, Sol Meredith
Ben Harrison Lew Wallace?
Who Ohio's McCook. Wallichs, Leg
gett. Hayes and Garfield?
Go down the line of States and ask the
question, and then. as the war progresses.
watch for the answer.
The times., 1898-05-01

We have with us the gentleman who
predicted it all, who told you so" How
could we expect to run a war without
him? He is a ubiquitous person. He
standeth upon the street corners, he hold
eth down the foot rails in various bars
He doth sit by the hour in the hotel
lobby, he haunteth you in Your dream
ings. His voice grateth upon your ear
in the street cars and his feet trampeth
upon your corns while he telIeth YOU to
remember that in 1858 he predicted war
with Spain, in 1890 he prophesied the free
dom of the isle of Cuba, in 1896 he
said that Mckinley would be elected to
do the deed, and on the 10th day of Feb
ruary last he told you the Spaniards
would annihilate the Maine, and so on
and on until the conductor says, flares.
please" and the prophet interrupteth
himself long enough TO dig up five pennies
from the depths of his bankrupt pockets
Oh. well, war is not without its misfor-
tunes.
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Now far be pedantry from the leaning
of this merely suggestive little piece.
To begin suddenly to call the word on
everybodys lips now by its proper sound
would be to make oneself conspicuous
and foolish. But to know and admit the
fact of our mispronouncing the name does
not make one conspicuous and foolish;
and that is all that is asked at present.
"Cooba"' said wel-known business man
in the hearing of the writer. - 'Cooba.
Absurd! 1t is 'Cewba. of course. And
if it isn't it ought to be- Yet that same
gentleman made various "alloosions" to
'doods' in the course of conversation,
and otherwise showed his own inability
to cope with the intricacies of his own
tongue.
Suppose that Spaniards or Italians in
variably spoke OF one of our States as
Massachusetts, applying their own
rules. Suppose they called our country
the Connected Stah-tes ".as they have a
perfect right to do. They hear us saying
Moo York, it is true and may not be
able to CLEAN from our utterances any
idea of the correct way to pronounce
much of anything. There Is no excuse for
us; for if We have no rules without
dozens of exceptions we have the rules
mastered them by this time. Moo York
and "Cewba! Howsthey must laugh at
usi
We owe this fpeet1iarity of twisting
foreign names to suit ourselves to the
example of EngIsnd,it is true; but why
follow this, any more than other exam
Piles OF hers We carefully avoid follow
ing? If some dense sea captain once,
with a bad ear. =garbled ''Liporno," that
musical name, into the hard and ridicu-
lous "Leghorn. why did we Initiate
such a miserable mistake? Why do we
print on our maps the ignorant error of
some fool?
Munich. Florence, Venice. Paris. Vi
emma, Italy, Spain. Egypt Gn which the
is really hard are few of the AFRO
CANT insults the English have perpe-
trated on geography; but these places
are far away, and we have enough to
do possibly. without correcting foreign
mistakes of ancient origin. There are
countries nearer. like Cuba, Haiti and
Jamaica which we might have set about
to give their lingual dues-not ''doos"-
long ago.
The times., 1898-05-01

Who thirty-seven years ago. now,
would have picked out these three cap
tains. West Pointers, two retired and the
other an issuer of forage for mules, as
the three men who four years later would
be recognized as the most eminent among
the land forces?
/ heard Uncle Jerry Rusk tell this story
about Sheridan. When an Ohio congress-
man went to Pills father to look over
boy for West Point he was inclined Ia
favor another brother. The father said
Don't take him. He is full of peace.
Take Phil, he is full of fight. He fights
all of the boys about here That settled
it in the mind of the congressman
By the way. Phils fighting and mischief
nearly cost him a West Point commits
sion. He was sent home for a year. as
it was. That is why it required five
years-from 1S4S to 1S53-to get him
through the academy.
The times., 1898-05-01

a captain of artillery was in Utah when
Lincoln's first call was made. He reached
Washington in the fall of 1861. The fol-
lowing spring he was promoted to brig
adler general of volunteers and placed
over four Western regiments, three from
Wisconsin and one from Indiana With
him to this command went his old bat
terry. Six months later, after he had
made name for himself and his brigade
in four great battles. John Gibbon was
made a division commander. placed over
COCO men instead of the 100 he had a
year before, and before the war ended
he had a command of over 10000 and
was known as a superb fighter. In 1891
he retired brigader general; in 1895 he
was made commander-in-chief of the
Loyal Legion. He died last year What
captain of our present artillery will be-
come the John Gibbon of this war?
The times., 1898-05-01

Mr. Charles E. Hands, travelling cor
respondent of the London Daily Mail.
drifted through Washington last week en-
route to the scene of war. Between train
hours he looked in at the Capitol and
found his way 10 the House press gall
lery.
Are YOU a Journalism inquired Mr..
Hands of a correspondent who was
leaning against the fire crate fnhaIing a
cigarette.
Il am not: l am a newspaper man.,
What's the distinction between the two
in your country?' asked the London cor
respondent rather surprised at the an
swer.
The principal difference is that the
Journalist borrows money from the news
paper man when he can and goes hungry
when he can't" and the gentleman con-
nected with the London press thought he
understood.
Mr.. Hands says English sympathy is
almost unanimous in support of Amer
ica's cause in the war with Spain.
There is no doubt" he declared 'sof
the ultimate result of the conflict. but
English people are anxiously awaiting
the things TO be learned from a modern
naval battle. II may revolutfonize our
ideas of warfare. and incidentally make
vast wealth for inventors of new kinds
of warships. Anyway, Spain gets but
little sympathy from our people"
The times., 1898-05-01

slim, pale-faced dry goods clerk in
Boston, with no military experience in
1861, was major general in 1865. and he
is now major general of regulars at the
head of the American Army.
Where is the clerk of today who will
develop into a Nelson A. Miles?
The times., 1898-05-01
FOREIGN WORDS.

War, like any other species of ad-
versity, has itseuses; and one of these
aside from the sterner lessons it en-
forces i'll the regular line-it is TO be
hoped. will be the teaching OF our people
that we make fqolssof ourselves by mis-
pronouncing foreign names as we dehh'
erateIy do. And by deliberately is meant
to include the idea that ignorance is
chosen willfully; that we refuse 10
know. P
No one can afford to be mlearned, or
to seem stupid;i and when the mass OF
our population puffs itself up and refuses
to be corrected in the foolish error OF
its pronouncing ways-it presents an an
iect and pitiable spectacle of stultihca-
tion, and not of superiority, as IT fondly
dreams. Thousands of instances present
themselves; but the most prominent ana
most timely is the universal American
mistake of calling the unhappy isiahd
which is at present the bone or cohteh-
ton between ourselves and those VINO
named it-"Cewba4 (of "Kewba } instead
of s'Cooba. as it should be called
BY certain illogical process common
to the ignorant Americans-who enforce
their own English ''u' strictly where II
does not belong-entirely omit the en-
forcement- in words where ii does belong
Witness "dooring for during and mood
for nude, "loogoobrious'' for lugubrious'
"sooperior' for superior. They reserve
the right. however. in foreign words to
be particular about ponouncing the eX-
actly as they should pronounce it in En-
glish, and don't: and exactly as 1t should
not be pronounced III the language they
are mangling. Curacao is one of these
cases. and Cuba" is another. There is
no long in Spanish, and there is one,
which is almost invariable, in English;
so YOU hear. or might easily hear, an
American say: I'm Kewba they are in
oored 10 hardships and drink great deal
of kewracoa;" whereas he should say,
to be strictly correct: In Cooba they are
inewred to hardships and drink coora-
Goa" And the letters are not to blame,
either
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