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The age-herald., 1898-07-26
A CUBAN SENTIMENT Frnr, tha Philo dalp1Sio T>ip,es

Let me eat country's rations, and I care not who fights it's wars.-The Cuban Insurgents.
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The price of peace goes up every month. Spain does not seem to remember this.
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The spook ships have crossed to the other shore. Boston new sleeps soundly.
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The Cuban government cannot be To- cated, to say nothing about recognition. It has lost itself.
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Blanco can still cable to Madrid via Key West and the censor's blue pencil.
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch locates Spain exactly between sheol and the iron
 works.
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Old Mir Letter is settling Jodies debts and saying nothing. Jodie is not talking either.
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bids fair to join the torpedo boat and the war balloon and the nondescript Hollsna.
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Peace negotiations and Watson's squad ron keep the midsummer air full of ru- morS.
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The best indication of peace is the steady rise of Spanish As.
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Sit, IS so great lnat ndny FeSuldfS go about clad In cartridge belt rife and a chew of tobacco.
 The first load of General Torars army will sail away on Thursday, and in three weeks time every man of the 2I,000 sur rendered men will be either at home in old Spain or on the blue sea headed towards the Land of the Cid.
 General Wood, formerly commander of the Rough Riders will serve Santiago well as a military governor. He was physician and surgeon in Washington before the war and he knows what sanitation is.  The whereabouts of General Pando, or the one side, and of General Gomez on the other, are matters of curiosity. An island fifty miles wide seems to be as good a place to hide in as a continent
 
 Richard Croker is coming home, horses and baggage included. He has fallen out with the English turf, and American tracks and American politics will know the old-time leader hereafter.
 
 A nice point in international law has been raised by shafters conquest. It is held by some that the name of the city has been changed by it from Santiago de Cuba to Santiago de U. s. Cotton mill property in Fall River is so depressed that the authorities are over whelmed with petitions for reductions in their tax valuations.
 
 The president and vice-president are as cordial as two peas in a pod-something that never before occurred in the history of the country.
 If Admiral Camaras squadron puts in at Ceuta and stays there, the pillars of Her cules will soon look down on another his torical event.
 The Mole St. Nicholas is utterly beyond the noise range of General Miles guns. Let us be thankful for this much.
  The Porto Ricans who desire indepen- dence forget that a war indemnity Is al ways a first lien.
 The wounds made by Mauser bullets are not inhumane. All surgeons at Santiago agree as to this.
 The Cuban government cannot be To- cated, to say nothing about recognition. It has lost itself.
  The St. Louis Post-Dispatch locates Spain exactly between sheol and the iron works.
 - Peace negotiations and Watson's squad ron keep the midsummer air full of ru- mors.
 Old MT. Letter is settling Jodie's debts and saying nothing. Jodie is not talking either.
 The spook ships have crossed to the other shore. Boston new sleeps soundly. The price of peace goes up every month. Spain does not seem to remember this.
  Blanco can still cable to Madrid via Key West and the censor's blue pencil.
 --------- The best indication of peace is the steady rise of Spanish As.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-16
UNFAIR CRITICISM.

Mr. Israel Zangwill is lecturing in this
country on the drama and his lecture is
spoken of as brilliant" but, according to
the printed reports. the brilliancy consists
in witty and epigrammatic sayings rather
than in suggestions for the Improvement
of plays or the dramatic art, or in scholar
ly information concerning them. In speak
ing. for instance, of the necessity felt by
the modern dramatist of appealing to the
mob, he says: Scenery that appeals to the
mob is a necessity. In the great old days
two boards and passion sufficed to make
a drama. To-day it needs two sticks and
a wardrobe. When I want to give pleasure
to my maid ! buy her a seat at some re-
aiistc play, where she can see a tram car
these things any day in the streets, but it
gives her an acute joy to see them in the
wrong place." This is clever, but it is not
fair criticism. In the great old days. there
were Shakespeare and his contemporaries
whose works have come down to us, but it
is a reasonable superstition that there were
productions of more trivial sort that
better pleased the common people who
stood in the place set apart for them and
formed the mob" of that day. 1t is GER
tain, too, that this mob had not the intelli-
gence of the mass of theater-goers of to-
day because it had not the education, and
that if it attended the representations of
Shakspearean drama it was because it ac-
cepted that class Of entertainment in de-
fault of something nearer it's own intellec-
tual level. The majority of theater-goers in
any age will represent only the average in
telligence; it will be the mob, and the high
ly intellectual drama that Mr.. Zangwill is
looking for will not meet its wants. AS
the average mental standard rises, owing
to educational progress, the popular play
will keep pace with 1t. but the elect then
as now, will be dissatisfied with the pre-
vailing drama. There will be plays to suit
their exacting taste. perhaps. but the multi
tude will follow after the spectacular, the
realistic, the trivial rather than the pro-
found studies of the passions. the tragedies,
the deep emotions of human life. And this
is not altogether because the multitude is
frivolous. but is in part at least because
the actual tragedies and experiences of In
dividual existence lead its members to seek
relief in trivial things. Mr.. Zangwill points
out that life is just as dramatic now as in
the Eiizabethan age. He says africa and
China are opening up new worlds. Dewey's
victory has FASTENED the disintegration of
the corrupt forces Of European mediaeval-
ism. The Jews are looking forward TO, the
establishment of new Zion; the Socialists
are preaching new gospel of human
rights: royalty is trembling before anarchy,
the bloody, selfish murderer of the past
masquerading in a new dress of pretended
unselfshness. lola throws down the gaunt-
let TO whole nation" and so on. This is
all very true. but the people have these
things served up to them in newspapers,
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AWAITING EVENTS.


Two intelligent papers, enc opposed to
what it is pleased to call imperialism and
the other an advocate of the policy of
giving better conditions and government to
the Spanish possessions which may fall into
our hands, have been scanning the Pres
idents recent addresses to see If they can
find any foreshadowing of a policy for the
Philippines. The opponent of imperialism
picks out few sentences here and there
which in its judgment indicates the purpose
Of President Mckinley to urge that
those islands be annexed to the United
States. Such sentences, or parts of sem
fences, as I'VE have the courage of our des-
tiny 1.-THE American people will never
shirk responsibility and never unload a
burden that carries forward civilizations"
"this war, / trust, will bring us blessings
that are now beyond calculation"
quoted to show that the idea Of imperialism
is in the mind of the President, and that
he is strongly inclined to a policy that will
make the United States responsible for the
government of the Spanish possessions
which may be at our disposal.
The other paper believes that the United
States should not be prevented from terrific
rial expansion by traditions suited to the
early day of the Republic when its existence
might have been in question. This paper
quotes a portion Of one Of the Presidents
addresses and says, IF there be those who
can perceive in ii any indication of the in
tention of the administration to abandon
the Philippines, leaving them subject to the
same odious system of oppression against
remarkably far-seeing."
1t seems that both of these papers could
have discovered that President Mckinley is
waiting for events to determine the course
to be pursued If they had read the follow
ing from the Omaha address:
The faith of q Christian nation recog-
nized the hand of Almighty God in the or
deal through which we have passed. Divine
favors seemed manifest everywhere. In
fighting for humanitys sake we have been
Signally blessed. We did not seek war. TO
avoid it, if this could be done in Justice and
honor to the rights of our neighborS ana
ourselves, was our constant prayer. The
war was no more invited by us than were
the questions which are laid at our door by
it's results. Now, as them we will do our
duty. The problems will not be solved in a
day. Patience will be required; patience
combined with sincerity of purpose and un-
shaken resolution to do right, seeking only
the highest good of the Nation and recog-
niZing no other obligation pursuing no 9TH
er path but that of duty
Because the intelligent people of the
United States believe that the President has
been and will be led by the spirit expressed
in the foregoing quotation. they are not so
deeply concerned regarding the course
which the President may adopt as they
otherwise might be. Upon one thing the
American people are agreed and that is
that Spain shall not again rule the Philip
pines in injustice and cruelty. The spirit
of that idea runs through all his illusions
to what may follow the war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-16

There could not be greater artistic err
ror." says Mr.. Winter 1.-The province OF
fiction is to tell a tale--that. and nothing
else. The thought. the moral. the didactic
element. will always take care of itself, ana
it should always be left TO do so. Those
authors who write novels and make plays
for the purpose of teaching lessons, incul-
eating truths. revoIutionizing society and
reforming mankind, invariably become
tedious, and therein they defeat their own
purpose. Charles Kingsley, Mrs. Humphrey
Ward, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and
Mr.. Hall Game are types of this class;
their works are fun of ability, but also they
are full of WEAKNESS. They belong to the
family of tracts. They preach, and the
preachments announce themselves as nov
els" The truth concerning a large class
OF novels could not be better set forth.
When fiction is regarded as an art to be
produced for its OWE sake, rather than as a
vehicle to convey lesson then we shall
have 1t in better quality, and If it chance
to contain a lesson, unconsciously and un-
Intentionally, it will be all the more i'm
pressiVe.
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a gain of at least 40 per cent. he continued
the application. With many INTERRUPTIONS
from June Il 10 July ga total OF l5l hours.
The first discovery on tidal waters OF
genuine crannog. or dwelling on piles was
that lately announced by Mr.. W. A. Dom
nelly. This crannog is On the Clyde. mile
east of Dumbarton Castle. and IL below
high-water mark and fifty feet from the
river at low tide. 1t is further unique In
appearing to date back 10 the polished
stone age, with only flint and bone I'M
plements. IT is lS4 feet in circumference,
the outer circle being of piles of oak sharp
ened by stone axes. while the transverse
beams and pavements are OF willow, e:der
and oak. the smaller branches of mr.. birch
and hazel. The refuse mounds contain
bones OF stays. cows. sheep, etc. with
evidences of fire. Near by an oak log
canoe thirty -seven feet long.
The presence of a considerable quantity
of liquid carbonic acid in the rocks is among
the surprising revelations of the micro
scope The bubbles of this substance, states
Prof. e. W. Claypole. are now known to ex-
list by millions in germs and other crystal
line minerals, their size ranging between
the one-thousanth and the ffty-thousanth
of an inch, but their number being so great
as often to impart white tint to the cryS-
tai. Many specimens of milky quartz owe
their WhiteneSS solely to these innumerable
bubbles. Mr.. H. c. Sorby has found that
the cavities make per cent OF the volume
of some of the Cornish GRANTEES, every ton
of the rock yielding four pounds of the
liquid, and Mr.. j. G. Ward has estimated
that more than a thousand millions of the
bubbles might exist in cubic inch OF
quartz. Prof. Claypole calculates that the
carbonic acid freed from the primary rocks
has been abundant for all vegetation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-16
THE NATIONAL PRISON ASSOCIATION

The National Prison Association, which
is now holding its annual conference in this
city, deals with matters of vital concern
to society. The title of the association
does not quite fully indicate it's character
or the scope of its aims. They are wider
than the name implies for they embrace
the whole field of what is now known as
penology, or the study of punishment for
crime, both in its premature and it's re-
formatory aspect, as we'll as the study of
the executive management of prisons. This
is not only very broad subject, but a very
important one. In fact there is no one
phase of social science or government that
affects the well-being of society more vi
tally than the prevention and punishment
of crime and the reformation of criminals,
old and young. if that be possible. or. that
failing, of protecting society against them.
This is the object and aim of the National
Prison Association and its state auxliaries.
The association was organized in 1871 and
this is it's nineteenth annual conference,
few years having been omitted. For ten
erford B. Hayes was president of the as
ISOLATION, and since his death, in 1893, Gen.
r. Brinkerhoff has filled the position Its
membership embraces men and women
of distinction from all parts of the coun-
try. and its meetings are attended by
judges, legislators. professors of sociology
in colleges and universities, and, in short,
by all who are interested in the repression
or prevention of crime. 1t is mistake to
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ject of the association is to reduce the
hardships of prison life and the terrors of
the penalties for crime. On the contrary
as the president of the association says,
the conditions of prison life should be
hard, and discipline as strict as on a man.
of-war and all comforts received should
be fairly earned by good conduct and hard
work. Every prisoner should clearly I'M
derstand that crime is hateful both to man
and God, and that the way of the trans
gressor is hard" Mere sentimentalism has
no place in the proceedings of the associa-
ton, and cranks and rose-water theories
meet with no favor.
No State in the Union furnishes a better
illustration of the improvement in prison
management and methods and the treat
ment of criminal offenders, young and old,
that has been brought about through the
efforts CT prison reformers and influences
set at work by them, than Indiana. The
high standing of our state prisons and re-
formatories. our advanced prison legislation
and the marked change in the morale and
management of our penal institutions dur
ing the last few years are clearly due to
change in public sentiment which, though
operating quietly has been radical and
effective The capital city Of Indiana ex-
tends cordial welcome to an association
whose quiet influence has contributed ma
terially to the States advancement in penal
legislation and prison reform.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-16
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

Some family trees are very shady.-De-
troit Free Press.
Things don't turn I'D in the world until
somebody turns them up.-Garfield
Sad is his lot who. once at least in his
life. has not been a poet.-Lamartine.
If God did not smile in the sunshine the
white rose would be black-Detroit Free
Press.
Many men miss the opportunity to earn
corn bread while dreaming of pie.-Atchison
Globe.
The pen is mightier than the sword. NAV
be;-but much depends on the man behind
the Den.-Puck.
Frequently the persons we can read like a
book do not interest us much-Wood
Levette Wilson.
1t has done me good to be somewhat
parched by the heat and drenched by the
rain of Efe.-Longfellow.
1t is better to say. This one thing do.
| than to say, These forty things l dabhla
| in. Washington GLADDEN.
| Don't think for minute that there il
nothing in spiritualsm. Some mediums ara
| quite wealthy.-Chicago News.
/ look upon death to be as necessary tn
our constitution as sleep. We shall rise re-
freshed In the morning.-Franklin.
| 1t would be a better world if women
praised their husbands as heartily as thew
| do their favorite baking powder.-Chicago
| Record.
Some people," says the Manayunk
Philosopher. "foolishly imagine that this is
| the only way to spell H-a-p-p-i-n-e-$-$"
Philadelphia Record.
Every other woman you meet has either
a missionary scheme that she is interested
IN or else kitten that she wants you 10
| take care of.-The Bachelor.
| When woman arrives at an age when
She really enjoys game of solitaire she
may as Well confess that she is at last set
tied In her ways.-Feminine Observer
We have noticed that the girls who go
through course of gymnastics for their
health usually have mothers who look as
II a little rest from household drudgerv
would improve them.-Atchson Globe
Relations never did agree. and never will:
which is wise dispensaton and an in
evitable thing, or there would be none bur
family parties. and everybody in the world
would bore everybody else to death.-Dick-
ems.
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The Author of "auo vadis."
Curtis. in Chicago Record.

W. g curtis, IN CnlcagO Record.
Henry Sienkiewicz best known to fame as
the authoESpf Quo Vadis.' is expected in
Washinetonf next week to visit Thaddeus
Tyssowski. an insurance agent of this city.
and Mrs Galesh, who are his cousins. He
will also spend some time at the Catholic
University witkF DR.. Curtin who translated
QUO Vadis" into English.
1t is not generally known that Mr.. Sienkie-
wicz was formerly a resident of the United
states. lie came over in the early seventies
with a colony of other Poles. including the
actress Modjeska and her husband. Count
Bozerta. and settled In California, where he
remained until he was financially ruined by
the treasurer of the community, who alb
seconded with the funds. This crime COM
PEELED Modjeska to return to the stage and
made II necessary for SienkieWicz to return
to his friends In Poland in 1878. In the
meantime he endeavored to obtain employ
ment in New York, and remained there six
months doing fugitive newspaper work.
Like many other foreign writer's who seek
their fortunes in this country, he suffered
many hardships and nearly starved TO death.
This. together with his unfortunate expert
ence In California, was undoubtedly the rea-
son for the harsh criticisms OF America
which are found in some of his books. Mr.:
Sienkiewicz. being now fifty-three years o.
age and at the high tide of prosperity, be-
cause of the large sale of his works. will
probably see things differently. He will be
accompanied by his daughter, Jadwiga,
pretty girl Of sixteen, who is his constant
companion.
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clause was largely due to Senator Foraker,
and his present contention is attended to
give 1t force and effect. AS We have said.
in literal strictness he Is correct, but In
stead OF going to the heart of the case he
sticks in the bark He would kill the spirit
of the resolution by too strict adherence
to its letter. The spirit of the resolution
demands the pacification of Cuba and the
establishment of stable government. but
Senator Foraker would have the United
States takes its hand off the island before
either of these results is accomplished. Our
military occupation of the island cannot be
justified for moment on any other ground
than the necessity for accomplishing these
results. and it is justifiable until they are
accomplished. whether that be few months
or several years The mere independence
of Cuba, on paper, is not to be the signal
for our withdrawal. There must be a COM
plete pacifcation of the island and such a
firm administration of government as will
insure continuance of law and order. Hav-
ing undertaken the paciication of Cuba we
are bound to make thorough work of it.
and our pledge to st1eave the government
and control of the island to it's people" is
not binding until the work of pacification
shall be complete. Senator Foraker says
that as soon as the treaty of peace between
the United States and Spain is signed Cuba
will be free nation and occupation of the
island by American troops an act of hostil-
ity He is mistaken. So far as the United
States is concerned Cuba will not be a free
nation until the pacihcation of the island
is complete and a government established
and put in operation to the satisfaction of
the United States. If we were to withdraw
from Cuba with the pacification of the
island incomplete and leaving it in control
of warning factions we should be disgraced
before the world. The signing of the treaty
of peace will have no effect or bearing
whatever on our relations to or our status
in Cuba. We are there for the accomplish
ment of great work, and to leave there
before it is done would be cowardly aban-
Comment of duty and a weak betrayal OF
great trust.
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magazines books. lectures and sermons un-
til they are weary of them and turn eagerly
OF King Of Ruritania or the fortunes Of
Lady of Quality There will always be
critics of the drama, as there are critics of
other forms of literature-men who lay
down laws for the production Of such work
that no one heeds. For when the time is
ripe writer comes forward with a play
or novel that all the world approves and
in which the injunctions of the critics are
wholly disregarded. There Is probably a
certain value in literary and dramatic crit
icism. but it is probable that no great drama
was ever made the better because of it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-16

A great many very respectable. intelligent
and even intellectual people have but little
acquaintance with current literature out
side of fiction, poetry and what else they
may find in the newspapers and magazines,
but few will be as ready to confess their
ignorance as frankly as Mr.. w. d. Howells
does. In an article in Literature on the
writer's Of the Southern States he shows a
familiar acquaintance with the story tellers
and poets of that region and incidentally
mentions a history of New Orleans written
by one of these fiction writers. so far as
my knowledge goes he says, lit stanos
alone in the field of recent historic writing
in the South, though here l may be ac-
cusing my own ignorance rather than the
sterility of that field. Ny ignorance in any
direction but that of fiction and poetry is
very great, and, for all l know, there may
be in the South flourishing schools of writ
ers in history, in metaphysics. in psychol-
ogy in economies, in travel, in criticism.
There is at least one such school, and its
organ is the Sewanee Review. If some one
will send him copy of thar periodical he
will doubtless be interested in it as indicat-
ing the scholarship and culture found in
districts remote from the Eastern literary
centerS.