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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12
It's Coming.

It's coming-oh, it's coming,
You can bet your life on that,
Hear the martial music humming!
1t is-the Spanish cat!
With her little sly toTpedoes,
Aud her clustering men OF war
Comet You --- Americanos!"
Every sailor to the fore.
Yes. it's coming-oh, it's coming.
Hear the soul-enlivening druml
It's coming-yes, it's coming
But somehow-it doesn't come.
We have armored all our cruisers.
We have trebly manned each fort.
Every harbor is torpedoed;
We've done everything we ought.
And we wait with eager longing,
On our Presidents good will.
See the people, how they're throngingl
Somehow-we're waiting still.
Yes, it's coming-oh, it's coming.
Hear the soul-enlivening DRUM
It's coming-yes, it's coming
But somehow-it doesn't come.
We are keyed up, as a naticn,
To the very highest pitch.
Every warrior at his station
Can it be there is a hitch
In orr wariike preparations?
Has some fellow spiked our gun,
And in ignominous fashion
Put an end to all our fun?
No, It's coming-surely coming
Hear the martial music hunt
It's coming coming
But alas. it doesn't come.
G. L. c.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12
wisconsin Democracy.

From the Chicago Chronfcle-)
The phenomenal Democratic majority in
Milwaukee at the municipal election last
Tuesday is the result of more than a
mere spasmOdic movement among the
masses of the voters. The change since
the national election of 1896 amounts to
II. 600 votes. With this prOportiOnate
change throughout the State at the Fall
election, when State officers and men,
hers of the legislature are TO be chosen.
The Democratic majority will be as great
as ii was in the year of the Bennett
law campaign
All the indications point to a splendid
Democratic victory on the State and leg
isIative tickets at the Fail elections. The
legislature will choose a successor to
United States Senator John l.. Mitch
ell. and the indications are thai he wit
be reelected.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12
FIRST MILITIA CALLED OUT.
Naval Reserves Leave New York 10
Man the Nahant.

New York, April 12-Lieutenant Com
mander w. Butler Duncan, jr., of the
First Battalion. New York Naval Militia.
headed a delegation from that organiza-
ton that started this morning for Phila-
delphia. The men were all in the highest
spirits because theirs was the first militia
organization in the State of New York TO
be called into the service of Uncle Sam
since the days of the civil war.
Lieutenant Commander Duncan's party
consists of seven officers and ninety-fve
seamen. They will report at the League
Island navy yard for the purpose of
the monitor Nahant to this city
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12

If. as has been reported, the completely
of the hyena Weyler in the Maine massa-
ere can be established, Congress should
not wait an hour after it has been, be-
fore declaring war. The country only
waits to hear what Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
will have to say tomorrow morning, and
then there will be no liberation of any
delay whatever. Congress must not imi-
tate the dilatory tactics of the Tories.
The people will not stand it Remember
the Mainei
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12

Speaker Reed has always been known
as an enemy to the cause of Cpban free
dom and independence. and the scheme
he has concocted to play into the hands
OF Spain is the very essence of diplomatic
dewilment. He proposes to kill the
friends of Cuba with kindness. The
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12
Phases of the Money Market.

(From the Cincinnati Enquirer.)
''The money market" Mr.. Wallace began, with
that superior air a assumes when he talks
of public questions to his wife, ''the money mar
Eet-"
(Which reminds me-" Mrs Wallace int rrupted.
Reminds you of what. woman?
THAT you haven't given me the market money
vet"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12

Congress will have the kindness to re-
member that If 1t gets time to wrangle
time will be burned, and that is exactly
what the bond sharks want Mgr. Ire
land, Mr.. McKinley's envoy extraordi-
nary to the Vatican, is still hard at work,
and the President himself is not without
expectation that the European powers,
ment blunders, may step in with threat
of armed Intervention. They would not
think of such action unless it were So
licited. 1t has been solicited, yet they
hesitate. They know that it would be a
mortal affront to the American people
which would not be forgotten or forgiven
for generations. Remember the Maine,
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12
A Knockout Drop.

(From the Chicago News.)
whats the mater with Badgley? He looks as
il he had been in fight"
''He has INDUCED in a drop too much
''You don't say 50. Why, l never knew he
drank
lit wasn't drink He dropped a hint that a
bigger man didn't like"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12

1t is instructive to observe that the
Presidential message of yesterday is
everywhere treated with ridicule and con-
tempt in quarters interested in American
honor. while it is praised wherever the
sentiment is anti-American. The Span
iards would like to get mad at it, but
there is nothing in il really for them to
find fault with. In European circles dis
tinctly unfriendly to America it is ac-
cepted with much satisfaction, especially
since it seems to hold a door open for
foreign intervention by showing how
carefully the massacre of Havana harbor
has been ignored. Remember the Maine,
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12
-te EormuIa slightly Changed.

From the Cleveland Plain eI)aler.)
at appears that Ii Hung Chsng's head has
been demanded because of his alleged completely
in the Russian scandal"
THAT seems a Chinese variation OF the old
formula: 'lieadS, win; taels, you lose.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12

Polo is still over here and Woodford is
still over there. Last evening an Admins
tration organ stated that Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee would probably be sent back to Ha-
vana These straws show how the Ad-
ministration wind blows! But it will be
puffed aside by the cyclone of national
rage and modification which is rising
against the blunders and disgraces of the
Hanna Spanish polics. Remember the
Mainei a.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12

(Frcm the Cincinnati EnqufreT.)
Dolie-Iie promised 70 send back my lock Of
hair, but he hasn't done it yet.
Mollie-That's the way with these hair re-
storers-all premise and no performance.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12

(From the Cincinnati Enquirer
Milie-Did you scream when he kissed your
Tillie-No; afterward.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12

All hail to you Fitz Lee! But stand
firm against the world, the flesh, the
devil. and the Administration!
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12

Communications intended for publication in
The Times should he tersey and plainly written,
and must in all be accompanied b. the
name and address Of the writer. Rejected COM
munications will not be preserved and only man
pscripts Of obvious importance viii be returned
60 their suthors
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12

(FTom the Manchester Union)
And the Rhode Island Dutch took Holland
again
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

Readers of The Times who may at any time
be unable TO procure copies Of il at any news
stand railroad station railroad trains. viii
confer favor upon the management by sending
20 tbs Office information Of the fact.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12

1t must be thoroughly understood
that a blockade is not necessarily con-
fined to a single seaport, but may ex-
tend along the whole coast line. 1t re-
sembles a siege on land with this diff
ference, that there is no intention on
the part Of the blockading power to Sc
cure possession OF the blockaded placer
but merely to prevent anyone from
securing egress or ingress. Neutrals
are under obligation not to interfere
with the plans of the blockading power.
blockade extends beyond the so-called
three mile limit from the coast and
onto the high seas.
The various treaties and conventions
dealing with this subject ESPECIALLY
with the rights and obligations of neu-
trails in time of}waD have invariably
decided that blockades must be eff
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-12
NEUTRAL NATIONS.
Their Rights and obligations In
Time of War.


In the Franco German war of 1870
the whole of Gen. Bourbaki's army.
composed of some $4,000 men of raw.
unframed levies, being hard pressed by
the Germans under Gen. Won Werder.
fled across the Swiss frontier and
sought refuge within the territory Of
the Helyetian republic. The latter, in
strict compliance with the requirements
of neutrality, summoned to arms nearly
100000 men of its militia, taking away
the men from their ordinary occupa-
tons in civil life to guard the frontier
and to place the fugitive French troops
under arrest ass fast as they crossed
the boundary line Unto Switzerland.
They were disarhedI and while the Of
ficers were accotded a certain amount
of restricted libeSty on parole, the men
were kept underAclose guard in various
and fortified places of the little
republic until the end of the war, and
at the expense of the French govern
ment, which. in accordance with usage,
refunded TO Switzerland all that the
keep of its troops had cost. So deter
mined was the federal government to
avoid any. complaint on the part of the
German government that the laws of
neutrality had not been properly OBJ
served. that, although popular sympa-
thy in the cantons De Vaude and Gen.
eva was all in favor of the French.
can recall seeing Swiss sentinels
standing along the shore of the lake
shooting to kill at French soldiers who
were endeavOring to escape across the
water to the French shore on the OPP
posite side scarcely a couple of hours
row distant.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-02-23
No Meeting For Him.

''My good man, >" said the preacher.
sit pains me deeply to hear you scoff,
Don't you know that there is here.
after?"
''No," replied the wicked one, 'I
don't know anything of the kind.
''Weu, let me endeavor to convince
you that there is future existence
where all the mistakes committed in
this life will have to be accounted for.
You don't know what comfort it will
be to you if you can get this belief
thoroughly established in your mind
Think of again meeting those who
have gone before; Of"
"Say, hold on! Stop right there
The idea of meeting those who have
gone before is the very thing that
makes me most anxious to keep the
belief in future existence from tax
ing hold of me. If there's to be any
meeting ON the other side L want to be
counted out
''My dear sir, exclaimed the hor
ror-stricken preacher, II cannot fathom
your meaning"
"Well. if you had buried four wives
L guess you would. ."-Cleveland Lead
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-02-23
The Human Nose.

A nose thick and fiat is an unfavor-
able feature with men as we'll as wo.
men, usually signifying that the char
acter is predominated by material in
stincts, while turned-up nose with
wide nostrils betokens a vain disposi-
ton.
Especially wide nostrils are signs OF
courage, strength and pride; small
nostrils of weakness and timidity.
Noses large in every respect are usually
found among men, and when woman
possesses large nose it indicates she
is masculine in character.
The nose, the form of which has so
much to do with the beauty of the face,
is amenable to culture, and we have
1t on the authority of German ply
sician that it is beyond dispute that
during half an ordinary human life the
nose is capable of receiving more noble
form. The mental training of an in
dividual has q great deal to do with
shaping the nose.
The small, flat nose, found among
women and called the soubrette nose,
when occurring with an otherwise
agreeable cast of countenance, indi-
Gates a gracious and cheerful naivete.
combined with considerable curiosity.
Such a nose is seldom found among
men, and when man is unfortunate
enough to possess it he is character
lied by weak and deficient sagacity.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-02-23

Among the Protestants driven from
France by that astute and liberal
minded sovereign Louis XIV were a
colony of weavers, who, all the world
knows, settled at Spiialfelds in Eng
land, where their descendants weave
silk &c this day. On their arrival in
Great Britain, before the looms could
be set mp and a market found for their
industry, the wanderers were reduced
to the last extremities of destitution
and hunger. Looking about them for
anything that could be utilized for
food, they discovered that owners of
English slaughter houses threw away
MS worthless the tails of the cattle they
killed. Like all the poor in France.
these worthy weavers were excellent
cooks, and knew that at home such
'caudal appendages" were very highly
valued for the tenderness and flavor of
the meat. To the amazement and dis
gust of the English villagers, the new
arrivals proceeded to collect this ''re-
fuse" and carry it home for food. As
the first principle of French culinary
art is the ''pot au feu," the tails were
mostly converted into soup, on which
the exiles feasted and thrived.
Their poor neighbors, astonished
and envious at seeing the despised
French indulging daily in savory
dishes unknown to English palates,
and tempted like "Jack's" giant by
the smell of fresh meat, began to in
quire into the matter and slowly real
lied how, in their ignorance, they had
been throwing away the most succul-
ent and delicate food. The news of
this discovery gradually spreading
through all classes, oxtail became, and
has remained, the National English
soup.-New York Post.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-02-23

Place q saucepan with one table
spoonful butter over the fire, adding
one heaping tablespoonful flour. Cook
three minutes, without browning, and
add one cup of milk, one teaspoonful
salt, half teaspoonful pepper, snd a
small bouquet. Stir and cook ten
minutes, or until it forms a smooth
sauce. kThen strain it into clean
saucepan and add two tablespoonfuls
fine chopped mushrooms, one table
spoonful fine chopped truffle.
Cook ten minutes longer, add six
hard boiled eggs, previously pressed
through potato presser, and three
raw yolks of eggs, cooking the whole
over the fire for five minutes. Then
add the three whites, beaten to stiff
froth.
Butter eight timbale molds, decorate
the bottom with star of truffle, and
sprinkle the entire inside of mold with
some fine chopped parsley. Fill in
the mixture, and, covered with but
tered paper, place in medium hot
oven about thirty minutes, or till done.
This can be tested by trying each
timbale, before they are taken out of
the mold, with larding needle OF
skewer. If it comes out clean it is
done. Serve with tomato cream sauce.
The truffles may be omitted if not
handy.-New York Press.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-02-23
Freedom Among burmese Women.

Women in Burmah are probably
freer and happier than they are any
where else in the world. Though
Burmah is bordered ON one side by
China, where women are held in con.
tempt, and ON the other by India,
where they are kept in the strictest
seclusiOn, Burmese women have
achieved for themselves and have been
permitted by their men to attain a
freedom of life and action that has no
parallel among Oriental peoples. The
secret. lies, perhaps, in the fact that
the Burmese woman is active and in
dustrious, while the Burmese man is
indolent and often a recluse. Becom-
ing, therefore, both by taste and by
habit, the money Garner, the bargainer
and the tinancier of the household.
she has asserted and obtained for her
self the right to hold what she wins
and the respect due to one who can
and does direct and control.
Things are strangely reversed in
Burmah, for here wei see man as the
religious soul of the nation and wo-
man its brain. Burmese women are
born traders, and it is more often the
wife than the husband who drives the
bargain with the English buyer for
paddy harvest, or, at any rate, she is
present on the occasion aud helps her
easygoing husband to stand firm. So
highly Is trading esteemed that q
daughter of well-tO-do parents, aud
even young married woman, will set
up a booth in the bazaar, and, dressed
in a bright silk tamein skirt and
white jacket, with a flower iauntily
stuck into her coiled black tresses,
she will start every morning with a
tray of sweetmeats, fruit or toys on
her head, and, with gayety and
grace born OF the sunshine and the
bounteousness of the land, will push
a brisk trade all through the short
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-02-23
Russia's Landiess NobIemen.

The land is changing hands rapidly
in Russia. Statistics of land sales
show, says the London Echo, that in
a single year 5,646, 900 acres have been
sold, and of this $1,000, 600 acres
passed out of the possession of the
mobiles into that of peasants, either in
dividuals or cooperative associations,
aud local communes. Some pur-
chasers were of the merchant class.
But the important points that by this
continuous process the mobiles are be-
coming landless, and the class of
great territorial lords will soon cease
to exist. The Russian census of the
present year shows that the popula-
tion has risen to 1919, 900, 600, and it
is the millions who are growing yearly
in importance, not the few as hereto
fore.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-02-23
ON Dress Parade.

An acute observer points ont that
men are less conscious of dress than
women. OF course man in poor
clothes appears ill at ease in trying to
make his wit or other natural gifts
outshine his raiment; but that is not
TO the point. AT an afternoon recep-
ton, or better still, at a picture ex-
hibition, the eagerness with which
most young women try to show the
men how they are dressed is interest
ing to contemplate. The men stand
discreetly near the centre of the room
or walk slowly in an outer line, while
the women gather close to the pictures.
Occasionally a goodlooking, we'll
groomed, young man or an artist
looking chap will find the same wo-
man between him and the picture he
is looking at eight or ten times in 60
ing the round of the room. He should
make no mistake and not lose his
head in thinking that she is person
ally interested in him. She simply
has on new gown, and courts his
silent admiration, but nothing more.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-02-23

! nliauelphla LeuBef.
Gossip.
There is plea for luxurious Turkish
baths for women in London.
The Duchess of Devonshire has ac.
cepted the captaincy of the Royal East
bourne Ladies, Golf Club for 1898.
Miss Vaughan Lewis, of San Fran.
cisco, makes a profession of tanning
horses, and does it all without whip
or spur.
Miss Jessie Fuller has given salts.
factory service as the clerk of the Su-
preme Court of the state of South Da-
kota for some time past
The richest Princess in the world is
the Crown Princess Louise Josephine
of Sweden and Norway, married to the
Crown Prince of Denmark.
Lady Henry Somerset is very un-
well. All her engagements have been
cancelled, and she is to go to Nauheim
as soon as she is able TO travel.
Mrs. H. II. A. Beach, of Boston. the
well-known composer, is at work on
concerto for piano and orchestra.
which is to be published this spring.
A Paris correspondent is authority
for the statement that Sarah Bern
hardt is more beautiful at fifty-five
than she was at thirty, as also is Ellen
Terry.
Miss Frances f. Willard indignant
ly denies the recent report that she
tainted while speaking last Sunday
evening. She says she was never in
better health.
Lea Ahlborn, the famous woman en-
graver and etcher, of Sweden, who
died recently, was selected by the
United States Government as the en-
graver of the independence medal in
1876.
The best educated Queen in the
world is her Majesty of Italy. She
speaks, besides her own tongue,
French, German, English and Spanish
and studies such subjects as theology,
biology, geology and botany.
DIR. Marie Louise Benoit, of Lowell.
Mass, has been appointed medical in
terne in the New York State Craig
Colony for epileptics at Sonyea, Liv-
ingston County. She is the first wo-
man appointed as medical inferno in
the State hospital service of New York.
Miss Helen Lockwood, of Peru,
Ind, was to appear in concert at
Frankfort not long ago, but missed
the train at Peru. Determined to
keep her appointment Miss Lockwood
hired horse and buggy and drove
sixty-tive miles across country reach
ing her destination in time to fill her
part.
DIR. Belle Reynolds, who was one of
the most noted characters in the civil
war, is yet living at Los Angeles. and
presided at the Women's Parliament
there. She followed her husband to
the war and herself fought in MANY
battles. Her bravery led Governor
Yates, of Illinois, to appoint her
Major of United States Volunteers.
The Chinese Minister, Mr.. WI
Ting Fang, is said to be trifie un-
easy about the effect the freedom of
American women may have upon his
wife. 1t appears that Mrs. Wu is
much pleased with the life led by
American women. The Minister.
however, is great admirer of our
women and says they are 'the most
beautiful in the world"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1898-02-23

Bran lis excellent for poultry and
one point in favor of bran is that il
contains much larger proportion of
lime than any other cheap food derived
from grain, aud as the shells of eggs
are composed of lime it is essential
that food rich in lime be provided. It
may be urged that the use of OYSTER
shells will provide lime, but it will be
found that it is the lime in the food
that is most serviceable, because il is
in form that can be better digested
and assimilated than carbonate of lime.
Glover is also rich in lime, and when
mass of cut clover and bran is given
the fowls they will need no OYSTER
shells or other mineral matter as n
source from which to provide lime for
the shells of eggs. Do not forget that
in summer, however, the use of all
kinds of foods should be made with
Judgment. If the hens have a free
range give no food at all as long as
they are laying, but if they begin to
fall off let bran be leading ingredient
of the foods allowed. In winter the
bran and clover is even more essen
tial, as the fowls cannot then secure
green food on the range.-Farm News.