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in the history of war. The plan was ex-
cellent, thanks to General Miles, and it
succeeded, thanks to the timely interfer-
ence of General Miles-but the army
was without an active commander and
without quartermasters. commissaries,
hospital system, camp equipments. and
all the other things without which no
army ever moved-not even Napoleon's
in the retreat from Moscow. This is ap-
parent not only from the sufferings de-
scribed by Colonel Roosevelt and other
persons who were with the army, but
also from the bewildering fact that no.
body knows who was TO blame. DR..
Conner. one of the Alger Relief Com
missioners, gave voice to his despair
when ne exclaimed:
That's just my luck thought at last / had
found the responsible. | have been going
from post to pillar for months, and am still no
nearer than when started.
If Dr. Connor is seeking subordinate
scapegoat. he is right. But he is very
much nearer the real cuIprit than when
he started. He is Secretary Alger. The
further the inquiry goes, the more clear
ly it reveals that fact It was the reck-
less military ignorance Of Secretary AL
ger in restraining General Miles from
active participation in the war that
caused an army to leave Tampa
without its necessary officers, with
out supplies-from wagons and am
balances to food and medicines
and especially without the ample
means of handling everything on
which General Miles insisted so strong
ly. An added cause was the breaking
up of the Office of the inspector general,
thus cutting off the source of informa-
ton as to the condition and needs of the
army. Without responsible officers 10
take charge of each department, what
| could result but the confusion and all
the suffering that Colonel Roosevelt de-
scribes?
There is not regular army officer
| but knows exactly where the primary
fault lies: and every army officer knows
that but for the good judgment and
| courage of the subordinate officers and
the amazing bravery and tenacity Of the
men, the campaign would have ended
disastrously before disease began its
work. Colonel Roosevelt repeatedly
urged the Commission to get his secret
| ed report. which is said to contain a
more complete statement of the imme-
| diate causes of trouble. Search where
the Commission may, however, 1t will
! come only to the one superlative fact
that the primary and pervading cause
\ of the unparalleled blundering was Sec
! retary Algers determination to make
| amateur war for his own glory and the
/ benefit of his favorites. What's the use
! of catching a small offender if he is 70
/ go free? Does DIR. Connor think the
( American people will be satisfied II
some petty underling is brought up for
his incompetency and allow his creator
To escape?
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ARMY AND NAVY EXPENSES.
subcom mittee on Deficiency Appro
priations Getting to Work.

Representatives Cannon of Illinois, and
Barney of Wisconsin, members of the
subcommittee of the House Com
mittee on Deficiency Appropriations,
held an informal meeting at the
Capitol yesterday. Representatives Liv-
ingston of Georgia, and sayers OF Tex
as, are expected to arrive this week, and
the subcommittee will then get to work
on the estimates for the extraordinary
expenses of the army and navy, from
January l, 1893 to July l, 1899. on De-
cember 81 the appropriations made 1.-THE
last session of Congress for the expenses
of the war, will cease, according to the
terms Of the bill. This makes it impera-
tive that legislation should be had on this
important matter before Congress ad-
journs for the holidays
Representative Cannon said last night
that he had obtained no data. not even
unofficially. from the departments, on
which to base an appropriation bill. but
he believed the amount would be some
what less than the previous appropriation
for that purpose.
When the treaty of peace between the
United States and Spain is ratified by the
Senate the present volunteer army will
so out of existence. and Mr.. Cannon said
that he did not know on what basis il
would be reorganized. but speaking mere
" as a member OF Congress, he should
think that an army of at least 10000 men
would be required to maintain military
posts in our new possessions. Whatever
organization is made. should be on per-
manent basis.
In speaking of an extra session Mr.
l Cannon said that, so far as the apprO-
priation bills were concerned, he saw no
need of an extra session He added.
however that other matters might make
an extra session desirable.
Mr.. Cannon contemplates little difficult
ty with the other appropriation bills, and
was Of the opinion that TO attempt to
keep Congress in session during the holi-
days would be useless.
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GIRLS AND AGRICULTURE.
The Institution Established by the
Countess of Warwick.
Fr0m the NeW ~. MoIIdl

lrEun tLe NcW I0rH Noitu-l
The beautiful Countess of Warwick is
at last turning her attention to serious
things. The countess, then Lady Brooke,
some years ago earned the title of Bah
bling Brooke" society suspecting her of
having told of the gambling scandal at
Tranby Croft. in which the Prince of
Wales was concerned and which was the
ruin OF better man. Sir William Gordon
Cumming. The countess is now serious.
She has established at Reading. a large
town on the Thames above London, a
new institute for teaching young women
the practical arts of dairying. poultry
raising and horticulture. over her own
signature the countess writes for the
press the following account of her enter
price:
That n certain. though moderate,
means Of livelihood can be obtained in the
lighter branches of agriculture, such as
dairying. the growing. packing and mar
keting Of flowers and fruit, the cultiva-
tion of tomatoes and mushrooms and the
keeping of bees and poultry, has been
demonstrated again and again. Ii is with
the object of Offering increased facilities
for young women to obtain this most nee
essary training that l have decided to
found a hostel in connection with Read
ing College. Here women over the age
of sixteen will be enabled to obtain thor
ough and systematic teaching, theoreti-
cal and practical. in all the lighter
branches of agriculture.
In the foundation of this hotel I have
had in view the development of the sec
ond section OF my agricultural scheme
viz, the formation of settlements of
women in different parts of the country
for the cultivation of the land. thus en-
abling them to add TO their incomes by
the sale of fruit flowers. vegetables.
poultry. eggs and honey. the produce of
their gardens and poultry runs. The
course of training will extend over two
years. though arrangements will be made
for short courses on special subjects. The
hostel before all things, aims at being
practical. The theoretical and practical
work will be carried on side by side. In
agriculture there will be work and prac-
tiee on experimental stations and farms.
The dairy work will be conducted at the
British Dairy Institute. Reading. Here
the instruction will include the making
of milk and cream. the making. packing,
preserving and marketing of butter, the
making of hard and soft cheese. and in
struction in the by-products of the dairy.
The cultivation of bush fruits and or
chard trees will be carried on. In bee
keeping demonstrations will be made by
experts, and in entomology visits will be
made by the students to museums at
Oxford and London for the stuffed speci-
MEMS
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ments, has also the power to produce
men and women capable of devotion to
the mitigation of human misery; but
under the iron heel of a united nobility
they are helpless, or able TO prove only
by the bitter penalty they pay that
they would rescue the millions If they
could. OF the hard lot OF the great
body of Russians there is no doubt. 1t
is an amazing thing in the closing
years of the nineteenth century. This
gives to the Nihilist an excuse for regi-
eide which the Italian assassins do not
have. 1t is not a sufficient excuse for
the murder of a ruler who wants to be
just but dare not; it is an outrage of
reason. A condemnation of Nihilism
does not mean approval of Russian in
stitutions, and if regicde could lead to
Improvement it would be justified The
present Czar probably does the very
best he can for his people
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SUNDAY. NOVEMBER q. 1885.
Spnin's Surrend er.

After weeks of useless and foolish re-
sistance Spain has accepted our terms
and surrendered under protest. The fact
that the Spanish government will sign
a treaty of peace on the conditions i'm
posed by President Mckinley will give
widespread satisfaction throughout the
country The other fact. that il is done
under protest, is interesting only to the
Spaniards.
It will remain for the Senate TO ratify
the treaty when signed. 1t is said that
the President is a trifle uneasy in that
connection. but, if the treaty is an hon
est one and does not conceal any cor
rupt or larcenous deal. he need not be.
In other words, if the twenty million
dollars provided as indemnity for Span
ish Improvements in the Philippines, is
to be paid directly into the Spanish
treasury, and not impOunded or divert
ed in the interests OF bond sharks or
other illegitimate persons or influences,
then we do not believe Mr. Mckinley
has the least thing to fear.
Some opposition, of course. is TO be
expected from notorious Spanish SYM
pathiZeTs like Senators Hoar and Hale,
and possibly the little gang of a dozen
provincials including themselves. whom
they lead, may think it brilliant play
to snap at the heels of the Administra-
tion by talking for delay. But the ma
jority Of the Senate will not be likely
TO ignore the nearly universal demand
of TIE country. and will certainly not
haggle over a comparatively small mat
ter like twenty million dollars in COM
parison with the magnificent island em-
pire We get in exchange.
The fate of the treaty in the Senate,
it may be safely predicted, will largely
depend upon the bona fdes of the Ad-
ministration in making it. If it is clean
and clear of any secret deal with or
plot for the benefit of the bond syndi-
cate, it viii not be possible to find the
thirty-one votes necessary to kill it.
What would happen if the heads of the
Atkins and McCook aggregation were
to be discovered under its drapery is
quite another matter
As the matter stands today, and on its
face, we feel like congratulating PresI-
dent Mckinley upon having achieved q
great and splendid victory of diplomacy
for his people and for humanity.
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New United States.
(Fr0m the Chicago Nevs.)


Tie new United States of Central America.
composed of the republics g: S,.cs.=gua, salvador
and Honduras which had its birth November /.
has an area oi l1O,OoO square miles and 4 popula-
tiou Of 2,O0J.CG0 Its great impoTtance i due to
the remarkably large coast lire on the Two oceans
and the fact that in it will lie the Nicaragua
Canal. Its construction i similar to ours, but
third terms provided against by 4 clause
which forh.ds immediate reelection. II l. char
acteristic OF the latitude that the presidential
election occurs the first Sunday in December
and al the same time representatives, to the new
house cf representatives. will be choS Il The
senate Will have twenty-one members and the
house about seventy. Congress meets March l..
the president viii be inaugurlted March Is. and
meanwhile the government rests IN a council Of
three-NItus. OF Nicaragua; Gal'ez :, OF salvador.
and Ugart. OF Hondu as. These republics uow be-
come states, and Guatemala and Costa Rica may
come in on the same terms whenever they choose.
\ federal district, like District of Columbia,
has been ceded by each state. The center OF gov
ernment is expected TO he the Cult Of Fon-
SEGA on the Pacific side and the capital is tempor
aTily Al AmapOla
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The Real Culnrif

1t is the testimony Of Colonel Rcose-
Welt that there was everywhere in Shat
ter's army a lack of system. Nobody
had charge of anything and the COM
manding general was less informed and
more Indifferent than anybody else.
There was 40 head and not even a tail
to the transportation department. the
quartermaster was never to be found
and knew nothing about his department
when he was encountered by accident,
and there was no one in charge of the
medical service. although the regiments
had been deprived of their hospitals.
The inevitable consequence was confu-
sion on every side, deprivation. expos
ure, starvation, sickness. death. The
strangest thing of all is that nobody
knows who should have attended to all
the vital things that were neglected
The Secretary of War says he could not
know what was going on down south.
and the heads of department say it was
impossible that they should have per-
sonal knowledge of defects in a corps.
division, brigade, or regiment But one
would think they should know what Of
ficers should have been charged with
the duty of seeing to this, that and the
other thing, without which an army
must perish 1t seems that the War De-
psrtment, after adopting General Miles S
plan and practically suspending him,
paid no attention to his instructions
about transportation. supplies of all
kinds. means of landing. etc. and each
regiment was left to fight for trans
port and TO carry its own supplies OF
go without.
Such campaign was never known
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MARINES SENT 70 PEKIN.
United States Minister Conger Made
Request for Protection.

Request for Protection.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Allen re-
ceived a cable message yesterday from
Admiral Dewey, at Manila, reporting that
he had been advised by Capt. Wiides, of
the cruiser Boston, now at Tien Tsin.
China, that at the request of the United
States minister at Pekin. Capt. WI dss
had sent detachment of marines to
guard the American legation in the Chi
nese capital.
Acting Secretary Allen, of the Navy
Department, took the dispatch to Presi-
dent Mckinley, who sent for Secsetary
Hay. The State Department had rec sive.l
nothing from Minister Conger to indicate
that he was In any personal pe.il. and
as Admiral Dewey's dispatch did not say
that an outbreak was imminent, the Off
Gals were satisfied that the marines had
been sent to Pekin as 4 precautionary
measure.
Tien Tsin is in the Pei-Ho River dis
trict, some distance below Pekin, and as
the Boston cannot get up to the capital
on account of the shallow channel above
Tien Tsin, the marines will probably be
sent forward in launches.
w liic DOSlou Tie ilttic
Petrol We're sent to Tien-Tsin several
weeks ago at the request of Minister
Conger it was arranged that maj iles
should be sent to Pekin from these yes
sells at any time the minister desired.
The situation caused by the Dowager
Empress's attempt to suppress the re-
form movement was then threatening,
| and 1t was feared that an insurrectionary
movement would be started In Pekin
| No trouble occurred, however, and the
Petrol was withdrawn to Shanghai. leav-
ing the Boston in the, Pei-Ho.
Minister Conger encountered opposition
| from the Chinese government in his ex-
| pressed intention to send for United
| States marines If the situation became
| more threatening, but as nearly all the
other foreign legations had secured ma
| rine guards, ne adhered to his purpose to
| summon men from the Boston If he te-
lieved II to be necessary. In the opinion
of the State and Navy Department off,
cials there Is not likely TO be any out
| break at Pekin just now.
The times., 1898-11-27
Gladstone and His Breeches.
From the LONDON News.l


An article the Prince OF Wales in the New
Penny Magazine illustrates a part OF the bust
ness Of the equerries in receiving visitors by an
aneedote OF Mr. Gl.dstone. The occasion was a
ball. Mrs ard Miss Gladstone were announced
Mr.. Gladstone wished TO speak to the equerrv in
the courtyard Naturally, the official went out
and found that the great man wished to apologize
for not entering. as, by an oversight. his neither
not clothed in tights and silk stock
irgs-the regulation costume Tor all Marlborough
House entertainments. OF course Mr. Gladstone
invited to enter. and assured that the Pine
OF Wales would certainly excuse lapse Of et-
quette in a man OF his eTninenee. who had some
thing else to think OF besides his breeches. But
argument ard invitation were unavailins. and Mr.
Gladstone went away only too glad. most likely
TO find pretext for going quietly to bed II
would have delighted The .rlthor OF Sartor ResaT-
tus Che writer in the New Penny Magazine
thinks that the prime mini-ter of England sl0u{
have been in difficulties about his clothes
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The worId,s Debt to Alexander.
prot B. j. wheeler in the century,

(Prof. B. J. Wheeler IN the Centlry.)
No single personality. excepting the carpenters 5
son of Nazareth hss done much to make the
world of civilization We live in what il is as
Alexander of Macedon. He leyeled the terrace
upon which European history built. Whatever
ay within the range of his con1uests contributed
its part to form that Mediterranean civilization
which, under Ronle's administration, became the
basis of European life. What lay beyond was as
il another planet Alexander checked his
eastward march at the SLtIei. and India and
China We're left in world Of their own, with
their own theories of God and the world. Al
exander's world, to which We all belong, went
on its own separate way until, in these latter
days new greed of conquest, begotten OF
commercial ambition, promises at last TO level
the barriers which through the centuries have
stood as monuments TO the outmost stations of
the Macedonian phalanx, and have divided the
world of men in twain.
The times., 1898-11-27
An Awful Mistake.
From the Chicago News.)

A good story of the ''thngs would rather
have expressed differently type is being whis
pered about Gloucester. England Some crank
that during the festival he was rot admitted TO
the cathedral free, that being place of worship.
The crank turned up at the cathedral the
other day and was told he could not be admitted
without a ticket. DO you TO tell me-"
he excitedy argued. that shall require ticket
to enter the kingdom Of heaven2" ''Well. no.
explained the polite steward. ''but YOU won't
hear Nine. Alhani in heaven" And then, when
the enormity Of his remark dawned upon him,
that steward turned and He'd
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Humane Bullets.
CDR. Delatour, in the Independent.

Or. Delatour, IN the independently
The most striking fact encountered by the
surgeon is the great saving of life and limb by
the new small-arm proiectiles. The Mauser and
Krag-Jorgensen steeliacketed bullets are not near
ly so deadly as the old leaden Springfield mis-
siles. Wounds that were certain death now heal
up and hardly leave scar. We had seventy
surgical cases caused by bullet wounds, at the
Long Island College Hospital, and out of all those
only one death. though a very large percentage
would most certainly have died from the same
wounds if inflicted by the weapons of 1851.
1t would seem, therefore, as il war under pres
ent conditions has been robbed of much of It's
horror There will be a notable absence OF arm
less and legiess and men permanently in
jured by their wounds, among the veterans of the
Xar with SPAIN
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The Power of Adaptation
rFrom tbe Detroit Free Press,

Lord Seaforth, who was born deaf and dumb.
was one day to dine with Lord Melville. just
before the company arrived Lady Melville sent
into the drawing room lady of her acquaintance
who could talk with her fingers. Presently Lord
Guilforth entered the room, and the lady. tax
ing him for Lord Seaforth, began 10 ply her
fingers nimbiy. Lord Guilforth did the same.
They had been carrying the conversation in
this manner for ten minutes more when Lady
Melville Joined them. Her friend said: well,
| have been talking away to this dumb man.
Dumb exclaimed Lord GuiIforth, 'bless me,
I Thought you were dumb.'
The times., 1898-11-27
Princess Beatrice.
fFrnm the Mestminster Gaz,tte

(From the Westminster GazPttel
\ story relates to Princess Beatrice, who. when
a little girl. used to play at eOoking. She had
on one occasion made some cakes which were
more than usually bad, and all her friends dc
clined TO taste them. Very well. them said
the little pfincrss. ''as Dr. Stanley is not here.
shall give them 10 the donkey" The late
Dean Stanley n great f1voTite with the
Queens younger children; he had many en-
tertainng stories TO tell. Princess Beatrice was
well aware that he had neither taste nor smell,
hence she considered him most proper persou n
for the consumption OF doubtful pasterieS-
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The Passing of keely.

After five and twenty years of mumbo jumbo
business in the way of turning out magical
mechanism, Keely, of Keeiy motor fame. is
dead, and he leaves behind him a group of in
vestors in his enterprise who by this time at all
events ought TO Ire fairly dsanchanted. Never
has human gullibility been more curiously
demonstrated then in the case OF the persons OF
wealth and intelligence who sank their money in
Keely's endless undertaking. That any should
be able to support himself for a quarter of 4
century on the strength OF a rainbow theory,
every test of which proved failure, is of
the marvels of modern civilization
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Acquitted a Dead Man.
fFro,n the Lopdon Chropicle.l

tFrom the LonsIoh NHTohIcIeI
In a certain meteulousness OF judicial proceed
ure the Germans to come very near the
Chinese In 1857 a high-class schoolmaster Her
Engier was condemned by the criminal court
of onenburg for act of immortality short
time ago he died insane. and careful post
mortem made ef his brain. The Physicians
reported that he was undoubtedly not responsible
for his acts at the time his OfeRse was com.
mitted, and the court has retired the case and
acquitted him.
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II is worthy of note that the few
preachers who in their Thanksgiving Day
sermons, expressed their opposition to the
policy of territorial expansion. had moth
ing to say about how the Philippines
could be disposed Of If we should abandon
them. Not one minister of the gospel
dare advise the return of Spain to take
vengeance of the unhappy Filipinos yet
that is the only practical alternative.
The times., 1898-11-27
Church Bell. In Jerusalem.

ttrom the LONDON Chronicie.t
The ringing of bells at the new church at
Jerusalem is an interesting new departure in
Christian worship in Palestine. There three
bells. and the right to use them Is OF the
minor concessions of the suit&n 10 his friend
the kaiser. Fer over 800 year, the of bells
has been forbidden to the Christian churches in
the Holy Land. The ni1ny sufferercs ircm tangled
nerves who live within earshot of London church
bells will he inclined, We fancy. to inpute that
prihibition to the Turk Fer righteousness.
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The answer to the question why Mr..
Vanderbilt does not take the New York
senatorship himself is that he employs
subordinates to relieve him of all unneces-
sary work, and there is no reason why he
should not have Mr.. Depew bear the an
the hold of the railway maguate on SEN
ator Platt is the dependence of the lat
ter's express company on the favor of the
railway. Neither is in political. railway.
or express business exclusively for pleas
ure or as sanitary measure
The times., 1898-11-27
The SIN Is ON the Farmers.

(From the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.)
After all, South Dakota defeated woman suf-
frage and all account of the vote in the
rural regions This seems easy OF explanation
as the farmers want the women TO keep on in
the old sweet way Of tending to the household,
while they hold down the nail kegs in the coun-
try grocery. Still, if the women want to vote,
all they have to do is to so to Wyoming, Col
orado, Utah, or Idaho. In these States unlimited
women suffrage prevails. or WILL and woman
is as good as a man on election day.
The times., 1898-11-27

The alleged defense of General Shafter
carefully ignores every charge that has
been made against him, and is, in fact,
a mere apology and the offer of an eN-
cuse that is by no means satisfactory.
The times., 1898-11-27
Mr.. Rurrors,s Home.

Grom the Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
Il begins to look as il Mr.. Burrows chances
for the Michigan Senatorship had narrowed them
selves down to forlorn hope that the other fcl
low in the race will be taken with cramps.