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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-22
ATLANTIC CITY DIVISION,

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" SNyEIGARD FDsoN ], WEEKs
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Reading TeruiI Rl, PhilRdclrhiR.
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WASHINGTON AND THE SOUTH.

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days. For Long Branch, via Seaside Park, 30
For Island Heights, 8 80 m and 90 m
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Shining car
]. b. HUTCHINSON, j. H. WOOD,
Gen'l Manager. denl Pass'g'r Agi
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-22
WHAT ONE WOMAN saw
While Working Among the Soldiers
at Camp Wikoff.
FURLOUGHBD MEN WERE TOO ILL

Miss Chadwick Declares SoldiersW ere
mnined In the Hospital-Lawyer Par
rich Says the President Made "A Pa
radc Inspection.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-22

One of the most hor-
rible things about the
nervous diseases to which
women are peculiarly
subject is the sense of
overwhelming d despair
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-22

Miss Sadie Wertheim, age ID, of Tole.
do, o, was the winner of the first prize for
execution on the violin at the Brussels
Conservatory of music. German critics
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07

With the French the idea has been
10 cover entirely the positions of the
guns and the men in the tops TO give
the navigator a chance 10 guide his
ship in action from a point well above
the smoke of the guns. and. too. TO
bear aloft the searcalights. Where
ever closed in top is found on ships
OF other nations it is Of French in
spiration.
Ihe British have almost exclusively
held TO an open Or uncovered top, the
only real protection to either guns or
men being the shields carried on tho
weapons themselves.
with lis the gunboats Wilmington
and the Helena represent the greatest
development Of the military mast In
all II means for fighting and signal
purposes, for coming the shin. and for
the carriage of that great SHINING evo
That Is to look far into the night The
coming tower. so 10 speak, is Just be-
low the lower top, and is reached
through the body of the mast proper
Just because of this curious TYNE n,
mast, one of the enemy's large auxil-
larry cruisers took one of these boats
'or battleship the other day. and lost
no time in hustling for the distant
horizon.
The national tendencies of the va
rious navies are marked by the military
masts their recent vessels bear. and
whether they seek their inspiration
from Great Britain or France II Is
easy enough to tell. The Russians arc
unsettled; Austria is equally divided;
Germany leans toward the French
While the japanese and the Italians fol.
low the English.
ROBERT G. SKERRETT.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07
The EVOLUTION OF The FIGHTING TOP.
For Centuries Before the Christian Era They We're
Used Egyptians and the Military Mast.

modern naval vessels and the cut OF
the Chitose's mast is typical.
AS the ships grew in power their
masts had to be heightened by splicing
on additional spars, and TO give spread
for the stays and shrouds that held
them in place, a platform was built
at the top of the lower mast. There
the archer and spearman found ample
room for his work, and the Saxon
chronicles of that lusty writer, Sir
John Froissart, in the latter part of
the fourteenth century give as some
very interesting accounts of the dam
age inflicted upon the French, the
Spanish, and the Genoese by the top
men of the British ships. Down up
on the fragile structures of wood they
hurled great stones that bore down
the foe in great bleeding masses, tore
through their decks, opened their
seams, and sent them to the bottom in
style that Sir John makes highly
conmendable.
In the seventeenth century we find
the tops broad and open save for the
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07

after part, where wooden breastwork
was reared to shield the topmen. Why
only the after part should have been
singled out for protection is open for
speculation; but it is not improbable
that the sails before the mast covered
TO a great extent the marksmen in the
top and behind the mast only did they
need supplemental protection. These
wooden bulwarks in the tops were va
riously painted according TO the ma
tionality of the ship; and for a couple
Of hundred years that style Of top
prevailed, and in form, square behind
and rounded in front, still is in vogue
in modern sail powered naval yes
sells.
During all the frigate actions OF the
war of 1872 the sharpshooters in the
tops Of the various ships did excellent
work. and there it was the marine
showed what could be expected of him.
even though he stood out with no
shelter other than stray hammock
or so hastily triced up for his protec-
ton.
The first Of our ships Of the new navy
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07
AfricR'e Ancient Sea.

Recent studies OF the animal life Of
Lake Tanganyika have shown that that
lake differs from all other African lakes
IN possessing inhabitants that belong to
the oceanic species. Still, these sim
gular denizens of lake TanganyIka are
not exactly like the marine organisms
OF the present day, and the conclusion is
araWn that sea, connected with the
open ocean, once occupied the parts of
Africa where Tanganyika now lies and
that the lake is the last remnant Of the
ancient sea.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07

had tops that were practically steel
duplicates of those of the late war;
and but for the presence of modern
rapid-fire guns, were really or less
defensive value than those or thirty
odd years ago. 1t wasn't till we be-
gan TO build our battleships that we
really launched out into regular mod
ern military masts, and then we foi-
lowed in principle the practices OF the
French.
The modern mast on fighting ship
is purely for military purposes, name
ly, on such ships that are without a
spread of canvas of any sort, and It's
duty now is principally for a service
that was once merely incidental to
those of the sailing ship. To bear Sig
nails is it's first mission, and then TO
carry an armament of rapid-fire guns
with which to meet the attack or tor
pedo boats, to sweep the open ports,
and to enfilade the unprotected gun
stations of an enemy. With eating
guns pouring out q veritable rain OF
bullets at the rate Of 1000 minute,
and with other heavier automatic guns
capable of hurting a hundred or more
of one-pound shell in the same time
the modern military top is something to
be considered where the hand grenade,
the stink balls, and the rocks OF the
past might be dismissed with shrug.
There is but little doubt that the
French have set the pace for the mod
ern fighting top, and so luxuriantly
have their vessels developed these
growths in riotous profusion and va
rieties of forms that ii was no wonder
we soon heard Of wanting stability in
their ships. Their most recent de-
signs are decidedly moderated, but still
bear the hall mark of great freedom.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07

AS place of peril the fighting top
of a modern man-of-war is the most
exposed position in heated action,
cut off as its occupants are from all
sheltering armor and poised high and
clear as a tempting target for an en-
emy's Quick-fring guns. Let that
mast be torn away and swept over
board by the tempest Of small shell
that ships of to-day can bring to bear
upon hnarmored parts of a foe, and
the brave defenders must go to GER
tain death without the chance of bit
Of floating spar. as in the olden days,
to hold them up till succor come af-
ter the fierce rush of conflict.
The story of the fighting top reaches
way back centuries before the Chris
tian era; in fact, back to the earliest
time when war craft might parGoIably
be called ships by virtue Of their sue
cessful struggle with wave and tenn
to-day, it is hard to trace the connec-
ton between those ancient craft with
their rude equipments and the modern
battleship, fierce and strong, by right
of the power she has piucked
from the bowels of the earth
and turned to her own purposes of
might and majestic dominance.
The carvings and drawings Of the
war craft of the ancient Egyptians and
Asia,ics. two thousand years before
Christ, bear the embryo of the mill
tary top perched at the masthead OF
the single spars that bore their sails
then. 1t was merely rough basket
like arrangement in which one or two
men might stand and assail the war
riors OF the foe where they crouched
behind the sheltering bulwarks Of
bucklers hung against the sides. Perch
ed high above, the men in the ga
bic" as later it was called, picked off,
Ike sharp-shooters, the enemy before
he could come aboard or tempted him
into open exposure and the conse-
quences such rashness brought.
Down upon the foes deck the hurt
ling spear was sent, while the top
men rested far above retaliation save
from the enemys topmen, if he had
any. During the time of the naval
struggles between the Greeks and the
Romans, the fighting tops disappeared,
for il was customary then to lower the
masts and trust only to the great
sweeps or oars when going into ac-
ton. Strange as it may seem the mer-
chant vessels alone carried fighting
tops then, and for the purpose only
of meeting the attack of pirates, with
whom nearly every sea was then in
tested. Those tops were not unlike
casks, and. with two or three men in
them, could be hoisted we'll up and
into position in time to be of service.
Many Of our large merchant liners and
all whalers carry somewhat similar
arrangement well up on their masts
to-day, and, from the crows nest. as
II is now called, most of the lookout
duty is now done. The japanese have
adopted something of the kind for their
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07

At the Washington postal congress
attention was called to the fact that
two-thirds Of all the letters which pass
through the postoffices of the world
are written by and sent to people who
speak English. There are substan-
TALLY 500,000,000 persons speaking COZ
loquially one or another of the ten or
twelve chief modern languages, and of
these about rs per cent, or 125, 0O0, 600
persons. speak English. About 90, O0O.-
900 speak Russian, $4,000, 900 German.
55,000,000 French, 100000 Spanish,
35,000.000 Italian and 100000 Portu-
guese, and the balance Hungarian,
Dutch, Polish, Flemish, Bohemian.
Gaelic, Roumanian, Swedish, Finnish.
Danish and Norwegian. Thus, while
only one-quarter of those who employ
the facilities of the postal departments
of civilized governments speak as their
native tongue English, two-thirds Of
those who correspond do so in the En-
glish language. The Situation arises
from the fact that so large a share Of
the commercial business of the world
is done in English, even among those
who do not speak English as their ma
tive language. There are. for instance,
more than 10000 postofices in Ind;a,
the business of which in letters ana
papers aggregates more than 100000
900 parcels year, and the business Of
these offices is zone chiefly in English,
though OF midas total population,
which is nearly 0.000, 900, fewer than
100000 persons either speak or under
stand English. Though 10000, QUO
speak or understand Russian. the bust
ness of the Russian post department
is relatively small, the number of let
tiers sent throughout the ears empire
amounting to less than one-tenth the
number mailed in Great Britain alone,
though the population of Great Brit
ain is considerably less than one-half
Of the population OF Russia in Europe.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07

The stars and stripes are doing hon
orable service in the public schools Of
Chicago. Little celluloid flags are Of
fered to the pupils at five cents each.
The proceeds are already sufficient 10
maintain three vacation schools, which
for six weeks of the summer bring I'M
mixed happiness and no little profit 10
the children of the very poor Long
may our flag wave over not merely the
brave, but over a people whose rica
come into kindly contact with the poor
and where the learned and fortunate
share their requirements with the ig-
norant and the forlorn.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07

The people of the United States, II no.;
the statesmen who were responsible,
have chafed at the difficulties and de-
lays caused by the short-sighted and
niggardly policy of the past thirty
years, with reference to the army and
navy. To use colloquial expression,
ii has been like pulling teeth" 70 get
single war vessel out OF congress: and
the politicians have pretended fear that
the liberties of the country would be
in danger II the army of a nation num-
bering 100000 should exceed 5000
enlisted men. Now we are thanking
our stars that our foe is poor, weak
Spain-rated as a third-class European
power. If 1t had been England, or
France, or Germany, or Russia, or
Italy, perhaps We should have conquer
ed in the end but at the beginning any
one of them would have outclassed us
hopelessly. Fortunately we have not
to cry over spilled milk this time. Yet
unless we learn the lesson of our mar
row escape, the twentieth century may
find Uncle Sam in more than one tight
place.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07
Substitute.

You want trip to the seaside? Non
sense, Jones! Put a little salt in your
morning tub, eat fish at every meal
walk up to town and back so as to tire
yourself out, sleep on the floor and ,et
the house be dirty, and your fancy
you're at Margate. Pick-Me-Up
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07

A Topeka paper suggests that Ad-
miral Dewey's service in the Philip
pines entitle him to substantial recog-
milton at the hands of the present ad-
ministration, aside from mere idle
votes Of thanks and suggests that he be
as soon as the Philippines are pacitied.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07
bargain.

Claude thought you were not 90
ing to pay more than $50 for a wheeI9
Maud didn't mean to when went
into the store, but he said IL I'd take
the $50 wheel he would let me have
dollar pump for IS cents Indianapolis
Journal.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07

Spain certainly experienced great
deal of trouble in Manila Bay, but her
Warships were at the bottom OF it.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07

A st. Louis contemporary Washing
ton correspondent wires that hustle is
everywhere apparent about the White
House." How the fashions do change.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07

There are but very few women mind
readers. but when it comes to mind
speakers they are very much in evil
deIce.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07

This war may mean more compulsory
education in giving scholars something
additional to learn about the United
States and it's dependencies.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07

The French chef broils the Spanish
mackerel, but the American humorist
roasts IT,
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07

Good limitations are sometimes SUI
perior to poor originals.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07

Winter comes before the fall--in the
price of ice.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-07-07

Strange as ii may appear, nations al
ways go to war for the sake of peace.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-15

Richmond q disnitary Of the Church. An Ameri-
can az a social party in London was asked VINO
would be the next candidate for President ne
named several prominent public men.
manded.
can.
Dean Richmond"
None OF us who knew Richmond were likely TO
make such blunder
re utterly abhorred the late Clement /. VAL
lanolGham. In 1876 the famous Union ConNen-
lion was held az the Wigwam in Philadelphia.
~ the papers in New-York Except The Tribune
pleading his cause. Coming 10 Richmond. he re-
ferred TO his record az a lifelong Democrat. ON.
= your record cried Richmond; a week -
record enough here"
This was Mr.. Richmond's last appearance In pub
nc He was then suffering from mortal illness
and returned New-York with Samuel j. Tilden.
foibles ALEXANDER WILDER.
Newark n j. Dec 30 1897.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-15

THE CLERGY'S VIEW OF THE CREED.
rR REMrNsNYDER REPELs DR. HALE's STATE.
NEN7 THAT THEY AGREE WITH DR. SAVAGE.
To The Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: n The Tribune Of this morning is letter
rom d. Edward Everett Hale. in which he says:
As 20 the statements which DR. Savage has made
regaro!1g the creeds, II IS perfectly well known by
every We read thecog.an IN the country that those
statsner represent In substance the current opin
EDWARD f. HALE
VIA, Dr. Savage had said Of the Ecumenical
chr.s.aa oreeds. received by all evangelist
cturcaes was that their statements about God
we're horrible" "demonstrsbly untrue, and that /:
there was a man IN this city to-day having such
character as they attribute 20 COD YOU wouldn't
speak to him or invite him TO your homes" etc.
Now much IS respect DIT Hale ] have 10 say
1, simple Difference 10 truth that when he says
maj these statements represent in substance the
current opinion Of The ,heologians Of Christendom
to-day 50 far as the Lutheran Church Che great
sst ty far OF Protestantism with hfty-seyen mill
Ion mernoers) II concerned this charge is without
sc.nt.lla % foundation. Our ministers all over
he world subscribe 20 those creeds freely ana
hold 10 them heartily and sincerely. To charge
them with deliberate hypocrisy and disho\I Is
not only fearful arraignnent. but II Is also SIMPLY
gratui.ous libel Not alone do our clergy in
corse their contents as Scriptural bur they also
hold that the chief in universal Use. the
Apostles Is in essence Apostocal This Is the
position taken by our first American scholar Or
Jacobs ID his Introduction 10 the Ecumenica
creeds" And the position Of our Church is thus
stated by our greatest European authority
5uercke
The contents Of the Apostles Creed are inoon-
,estably Of AuostoIic origin. All the other forms
which were Prevalent n the ancient Church are
either paraphrased or individual in'ei Sty
ne apostles creed, whose originality - merely
Manifested Nay more, II possesses Dom an an 49,
..esiastcal and historical authorIy, ron n5 ~,
uninterrupted adoption. and the Difference paiu 20
y by the whole Christian Church Which, ~ 'te 10
absence Of APOSTOLIC origin II would DC olcuIt 70
account for There exists. therefore every Poss.
PIE reason FOR acknowledging this creed 10 pc AYos
bands precisely and in every respect IN lis present
shape and form.
In view Of such testimonies one cannot u"uei
stand how one OF the character Of Dr. Hale can
risk such q prenosterous statement. For the LID
hesn Church. therefore whose one hundred thou-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-15
RAPID TRANSIT A NECESSITY.

To The Editor ~ TIE Tribune
SIR. purchased IN 1921 properties dwelling
houses etc on the West Side Of New-York at
Seventy-eighth-st and at One hundred-and- second
ST. in the hope that true rapid transit would
soon come ~ tnas I could get up nj down town
with comfort and in few minutes. 7 have written
MAYOR Van Week 70 ask him ION my Own motion
er-irelvl % do all he can consistently or course.
70 help 1t along r seems TO ne that the present
underground route all III the island is essential
10 the true interests of the city mans back
hone 20 the indivdual--the shape OF the island IS
such II has beer a matter OF continuing amaze
men. 10 ne that the project has for many years
been defeated by hostile interests with the direct
and certain effect o. driving the people Of The
Island Of Manhattan into New-Jersey and Con-
neciicut and other places instead Of keeping them
m the island where they would prefer - "a"
main.
T am sure that Judging from ny o~n Interests
there the underground system as now projected
would NJ worth untold millions 70 rhA citizens ~
Newark MAYOR Van Wyck is ir q position 70
holm the city very much II he feels Tx" doing
The old elevated system IS deluson. have
t-Ied il for seven Years. hanging generally IN the
ino Ill the way up 10 Harlem and ! assure you
nat no trIe rapid transit can come from II BE
s,Sss u is too far or from the West Side proper
- answer any satisfactory nurposs wnsteNer
!" " H NREDENBt RGH
Nev-York. January & 1872
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-15
THE BIG BILL FOR CANAL REPAIRS.
IT is MORE THAN THE ENTIRE COST OF BUILDING
THE STATES WATERWAY.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir Noticing in The Tribune that S9.oOooOO
is said to have been spent in repairs on the Erie
Canal the public would like TO know how 1t has
been spent. I have a copy Of the Controllers
report for 1896, showing that the canal, 5C3
miles in length. was built and completed in
eight years and four months at cost con-
siderably less than is charged for repairs in one
year or little more than one year. and now
II is claimed 81 600 900 more is asked. said 10
be needed to complete repairs. The statement
has been made that the expense was greater
than had been expected on account Of many old
stumps Of trees being found in the towpath.
The fact IS that the canal was built through an
almost unbroken wilderness OF trees These had
70 he cut down. drawn of. and stumps removed
from the entire length and breadth Of the canal,
and fully one thousand times more labor
was spent on II than has been spen; in re-
pairs. Yet the entire canal was completed at
less cost than the repairs Just made At that
rate il would no doubt cost $500, 100000 TO build
the canal to-day. Il the work done under
the same disastrous management that has had
charge Of the repairs. II. COLT.
New York Jan. =. 1897