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The evening times., 1899-02-15

too old to earn large wages in first -clazs
shop-and there are many such women
nowadays Under her direction poor
women who need employment and can do
plain sewing take these garments and
mend and remodel them, so that the
money which goes for new material to
put with the old and for the mo oierate
wages of these women gives far more
comfort than ii would if expended direct
ly. 1t serves two purposes-it gives en-
pToyment to those who need it and doub es
the supply of warm clothing for those suf-
fering for want of that.
There are dozen other ways in which
this principle could be made to wo,k.
When money is given to build an inst tu-
tion for the helpless it ought to give work
TO some of the unemployed In the mu
nicipal lodging house of Boston men are
given a comfortable nights lodging and a
breakfast and pay for it by wood saving,
and the bread for that lodging house is
made by the women of another municipal
institution. This dovetailing of one char
liable institution into another, making
them mutually helpful is a good plan to
adopt wherever possible. Not seldom it
will be found that the poor know how to
help their neighbors when they have the
means very much better than the rich
know now TO help them. Somebody once
said that 1t is the one next above us who
can help us most-not the person sep
arated from us by a great difference in
fortune and experience-and, as rule, it
is best to encourage the man who las
just climbed out of the gutter to give a
hand to his brother who has not climbed
out.
The evening times., 1899-02-15
End of the Oncra ROuffe.

The alleged surrender of the Spanish
troops that held Manila was the most lu-
dicrous spectacle ever seen off the comic
opera stage. and it has had an appropriate
ending. Some seventeen thousand soldiers
stacked arms when General Merritt enter
ed the city and appointed a commission
of officers to draw up the terms under
which they were to be held.
The agreement with Spain was that this
Government should provide the transports
that would carry the seventeen thousand
soldiers back TO Spain. Recently the con-
tract was awarded TO a transportation COM
pany, but now General Otis notifies the
War Department that of the seventeen
thousand only three thousand remain. 1t
as understood that many of them have
Joined the rebels and have been engaged in
fighting the Americans.
They were never regarded as prisoners
OF war-eXcept that they were to be fed os
prisoners. Nobody in this country has
been able 10 understand the situation eX-
actly. II is known that some arrange
ment was made by which the Americans
and Spaniards were to fight for possession
of the town, but that our soldiers were TO
protect the SpanIards from the insurgents.
While the battle waged. the insurgents
started for their old enemy, when General
Merritt took command of the Spaniards and
led them into the town where they were
defended from the natives by the Ameri-
cans. In his annual report, Secretary AL
ger said that at Manila We had captured
seventeen thousand Spaniards, many thou
sand stands of arms, much ammunition,
etc. 1t appears, however that the COM
mission OF American and Spanish officers
agreed that the Spaniards were not to be
regarded as prisoners, although they were
10 be fed by this Government, and that the
arms were TO be returned to them when
either the Americans or Spaniards should
leave the Philippines. Why any such ar
rangement should have been made is as
incomprehensible' as that the American
commander should. in the midst OF battle.
take command of the enemy.
This grotesque agreement is fifty ended
by the mysterious disappearance of some
fourteen thousand of the seventeen thou
sand alleged prisoners. Whether they
took their guns and ammunition with
them we do not know. but probably they
did, as that was necessary TO the appro-
pirate ending of the farce. 1t is interest
ing to consider that the Spanish soldiers
were nearly starved when we took Ma
Mia. They were out of food and were not
only reduced to skeletons, but two-thirds
of them were so Ill they could hardly
stand. Our Government has cured the
sick and fed the hungry for months.
When they had all become fat and strong
they quietly vanished and cast their for
tunes with Aguinaldo's rebels. adding
their considerable strength and experience
TO the enemies of those who had taken
tender care of them. Nobody has accused
the Spaniards of honesty, but this act OF
perfidy goes a little further than anything
on record. OF course, they were under
parole not TO take up arms against the
Americans. a full history of the entire
affair would add a good deal to the gaiety
of nations.
The evening times., 1899-02-15
First Principles in Education.

A Western paper puts in claim for less
attention to drawing and more attention
to penmanship in the local public schools
This is a good idea, and one which it will
do no harm to repeat. Penmanship is al
most as good a training for the eye and
hand as drawing can be for the majority
of the children in our schools, and it is
far more useful. The average man is sell
dom required TO make a sketch of any
thing, but nine men out of ten are at some
time or other in a position where it would
be an advantage to them to write a good
hand. 1t is not necessary that all should
be trained to write uniform copybook
hand, but legible, beautiful, and swift
writing is rare and eminently useful ac-
complishment. 1t is not necessary to sac
rifice beauty to speed, or speed to beauty.
Some of the authors of the present day who
turn out the greatest amount of copy
write a hand that is almost as clear as
print.
This branch of education, unlike some
others, is more easily taught in early life
than afterward. There are certain funda-
mental studies which should receive atten-
tion as soon as the child is able to learn
anything. Reading and writing are two of
them The child who learns to read early
is more likely, as a rule, to spell correctly
than he who learns late. The reason for
this is the illogical principles of English
orthography. There is absolutely no rule
by which anyone can learn to spell. If a
child learns words by sound he will be
more or less inclined to spell phonetically
and that is the worst plan imaginable for
spelling English. II he learns the look of
a word almost as soon as the sound of it
he will be likely both TO pronounce and to
spell it correctly. 1t is mere matter of
training the eye.
Penmanship should receive early atten-
tion because IL is matter of training both
the eye and the hand, and should, In after
life, receive no thought, the motions being
entirely automatic. If the books which the
child reads are printed in large, clear type.
and he is not kept too long at either read
ing or writing, there is no chance that
these lessons will injure his health, and
they will save him an immense deal OF
trouble in the future. 1t might be added
that If little girls were taught to sew by
short and easy lessons as early as possible
The evening times., 1899-02-15
HEBREW PUPILS RETIRED.
Excitement Over an Order Issued by
Convent Authorities


Omaha, Neb., Feb. 15-Much discussion
has been caused here by the fact that sew
eIal young women, daughters of Hebrew
citizens of high standing and influence. no
longer attend the fashionable boarding
school conducted by the Sisters of the Sa-
cred Heart in this city. Although the re-
ports concerning the matter are conflict
ing, it seems that all OF the Hebrew pupils
in the institution have been asked to leave
Prominent Catholics, representing both
clergy and laymen, have been expressing
indignation over the position the convent
authorities have placed their church in by
the order, and Mother General Digby, who
is now in Mexico. is blamed.
Bishop Scanned is urged by many Catho-
lies to interfere and set aside the order of
the mother general. Mother Superior Tib-
bits has admitted to the Bishop that she
requested the young ladies to depart On
the order of Mother General Digby. She
says. howver, that the mother general did
not order her to expel the girls because
they were Hebrews, but because they could
not accept the doctrines of worship as pre-
scribed by the convent rules. When 1t
was pointed out that many Protestant girls
attended the seminary and were excused
from the worship, Mother Superior Tib-
bits was silent
Father Colinari, secretary to the Bishop,
says the Bishop cannot interfere unless
the parents Of the girls who are involved
request it. This they refuse to do.
The order OF the Sacred Heart virtually
controls all of the Catholic seminaries for
young women in the United States. Mother
General Digby has the same control over
all the institutions as she has over the one
in Omaha. The largest Seminaries of this
order of the Catholic Church are located
in Boston. Albany. New York, Cincinnati.
Louisville, Lexington, New Orleans, and
San Francisco.
The evening times., 1899-02-15
ImperishabIe Glory.


In brilliant actions by land and sea the navy
and the army have won fer the United States
new empire and for themselves imperishable
glory. They may well appeal to the considerate
judgment of mankind upon their performances
confident that when carping criticism shall have
been silenced they will receive their fitting re-
ward in the thanks and praises of the generations
yet TO come We hope that the coming year will
show that the lessons of the war will not be lost
upon the country and that the regular army will
be recognized in its department as the regular
navy has always been in its sphere as the bull
wark of the national defence. When General
Knox declared that a national militia was the
cheap defence Of nations, he had in mind as his
often msquoted letter will show, people trained
ia arms as they are today in Germany and
France. He laid the greatest stress upon the need
of such training, and until Congress provides
Tor IT, as 1t is provided for abroad. the trained
soldiers of our regular army must be- with their
eompeers of the navy, the country's reliance for
tranquility at;home and security abroad.
The evening times., 1899-02-15
The PeriIs of Coastine.
From the Baltimorc Herald.l


Thursday nights fatal accident at Georgetown.
d. c., is but of many illustrations of the
peril attending the use OF bOb-sled on city
thoroughfare, in any locality where it is liza
BILE 10 collide with other vehicles. In conse-
quence of this particular instance of reckless in
dulgence in the popular winter sport of coast
ing, one young killed, while five of his
companions seriously injured, their sled hav-
ing crashed into of several electric cars
which following each other at short inter
walls upon cross-street 1t such an accident
as has often happened in various places. vet il
is stated that the coasters generally appreciated
the danger Of crossing the car tracks, and US
ually employed boy TO watch the crossing for
them and give warnings with lantern, but, for
some reason unexplained, they failed 10 do so
in this case Coasters should take fresh warning
from this lamentable occurrence. Let them in
dulge themselves to their hearts content upon
the hillsdes as long the snow lasts, but they
should also take every precaution to guard
against such fatal occurrences at that reported
from Georgetown. Coasting is distinguished by
.langer sufficient TO make it exciting. but il
4 81. not be surrounded by needless perils.
The evening times., 1899-02-15
The Philippine News.

The insurgents who held Iloilo, mostly
Visayas and savage hill men, displayed
less courage than the Tagalos at Manila.
Although they had undisturbed possession
OF the town for many weeks and knew tnat
soon or late General Miller's force. then
on transports and in plain sight, would
attack them. they made no preparation for
a prolonged defence. They were whipped
by the raking fire Of the gunboat Petrol.
so that there was almost no resistance
when the sailors rushed into the burning
city a more determined stand was made
a Jaro. but thousand men were driven
out at the end of an hour by a detachment
Of General Millers troops.
II is now quite clear that the great cour-
age OF the rebels at Manila was due TO
their delusion that the Americans would
not fight They were so confident OF an
easy victory that they could not believe
they were beaten until the Americans were
driving them like panic stricken sheep far
back of their original line of entreuch
ments.
They are al home, however, In the jun
giles There they can follow the Indian
ultiuOuSs NOuN6diluS tnSLASSlNSS III AHS
bushes and behind trees and scattering
when charged. II is on their familiarity
with this kind OF fighting that their lead
ers rely for a prolonged warfare, and it is
this that makes Admiral Dewey doubtful
as 10 the early termination of the con-
nict But we are to consider that the
American officers and some of the regular
soldiers are old Indian fighters. and can
give points 10 the Filipinos in woodcraft.
The volunteers, too, have shown them
selves, not only as brave as men can be,
of fghting If the insurgent leaders hope
10 entrap the Americans as the Indians did
Braddock they viii be the most surprised
beings on earth. Wherever the rebels
make a stand they will be scattered or
captured and when driven 10 the hills they
will starve TO death. Owing to the char
acter of the Spanish soldiers and their
methods Of fighting, they were the easy
prey of the Cubans and also of the Fill
pinos. who hung on the fanks of moving
detachments, made an occasional dash On
provision trains, and captured supplies
enough 10 live fairly well. There will be
none OF that with the Americans. There
fore we may believe that if the Filipinos
do not all come in and surrender they will
not worry our troops in the least and will
be defeated by hunger at last.
The evening times., 1899-02-15
Preservation of the primrose.
(From the London Morning Post.)
A primrose by the rivers brim,
A yellow primrose was to him,
Aud ,r-uS nthinO moro

(from the London Morning Post
A primrose by the rivers brim,
A yellow primrose to him,
And it was nothing more
But Wordsworth does not tell us that the idiot
boy destroyed it: he only regretted that he pass
ed by with indifference, having no soul TO ad-
mire its sweetness Now our poor little wayside
beauty has something far than lack of ad-
miration to complain of. Having been chosen for
the badge of an important political league, its
case is like that Of some human beings-eeva-
tion means destruction. For the love of gain
it is torn up ruth1essly by the roots. Tramps in
their eager haste to All their sacks and baskets
in time to supply tine London markets invade
our thickets in swaims, despoil our banks, and
tread underfoot those they do not gather. When
we read that several tons of these flowers are
sent TO town April 10, it does not take much
foresight TO predict eStirpation the result and
that at no distant date it IS possible that in
the coming century the primrose will be as rare
as the great aux. Why should not members of
the league condesccnd to wear artificial prim-
roses? They would do no less honor to the MEM
ory of Beaconsfeld, and would encourage an in
dustry and, as they are merely required for a
temporary purpose, they could be made slightly
and of inexpensive material, and thus could be
furnished at greater cost than the real flower,
while all lovers of nature would rejoice that the
glory of our hedgerows should h:-e a threatened
danger removed Let those who complacently
pin in buttonhole Primrose Day pause and
consider.
The evening times., 1899-02-15
GIRL MOUNTAIN CLIMBER.
Miss Campbell Plants the Stars and
Stripes on POpOcatcpetI.

City of Mexico, Feb. 15.-Miss Mabel
Campbell, of Dallas, Texas, has succeeded
in climbing to the snow-capped summit of
Mount Popocatepeti.
Accompanied by two Americans, w. E.
Eldridge and Nelsey EweH, and Cap ain
Gabriel Gonzalez, of this city, Miss Camp
bell set out on Saturday for the arduous
climb. The start was made at a. m
from the little village of Hamacan and
the party made excellent time to the snow
line.
There travelling became difficult, but the
plucky American girl pressed on, showing
great endurance and climbing skill. As a
reward for her courage and strength she
had the satisfaction of waving an Ameri-
can flag on the summit of Mexico's lofti-
est mountain.
The descent was made without special
difficulty, and Miss Campbell returned to
this city feeling no i'll effects from her
hard journey.
The evening times., 1899-02-15
FEEDS A FIRE ENGINE.
General TiIlinghnst Carries Coal to
Keep Steam Up.

Troy. n. Y. Feb 15.-The entire fire
department of this city was called out at
10 O'Clock Monday night to a fire which
started in the warehouse in the rear of
Daniel Klock & Co.'S wholesale rubber
goods house at Z27 River Street.
The fire soon made its way into the main
store, and within an hour ii was in ruins.
Next the flames ate their way into the
store OF Mcdonnell & Bridgeman next
door, and destroyed the building and stock.
One of the incidents of the fire was eX-
Adjutant General Tillinghast carrying coal
to the engines. His store is located in the
block where the burned buildings were.
The snow was so deep that the supply
wagons had hard work getting TO the en-
gines. The engineers whistIed for coal
and soon General TiIlinghast who is an
enthusiastic fireman. was seen coming
from the cellar of his store with hOd OF
coal in his hand. He supplied the engines
until the wagons arrived.
The evening times., 1899-02-15
WON THE SUIT AFTER DEATH.
Farmer Trimmrr's Fight against "A
Railroad.

PhillipsbUrg. y. j.. Feb IJ.-The suit OF
August Trimmer against the Pennsylvania
Poughkecpsie and Boston Railroad Com
pany for damages. which commenced ten
years ago. ended Monday with a verdict
CT $3.50 for the estate Trimmer was
farmer, and the railroad caused the dam
ages by running through his farm. Before
the case Was decided Trimmer died. but
this did not end the litigation. as. by the
provisions Of the will he said the fight
must 90 on until the railroad company
was yanquished. and he left money 10 car
~ on the case
The evening times., 1899-02-15
The IncmnIoNed.

Two students of political economy have
lately been dealing with the problem of
the unemployed. Washington gladden.
takes the ground that whenever possible,
work should be given to the poor in place
of direct charity. Thomas Kane writes
an article TO prove that work given for
the sake of employing the poor is charity,
just as much as an out-andout gift OF
money. But he does not suggest rem
edy for the evil of the unemployed.
AS generally happens in a discussion
of this kind, both sides are partly right.
IL is undoubtedly less demoralizing to a
man TO work for his money than to have
it given TO him, because employment is
better than idleness, and independence is
better than the existence Of a parasite. At
the same time, If he knows that the wolk
is given him out of charity, perhaps there
is not so much difference between that
and a direct gift of charity. One kind of
work which the poor can be given, and
at which they can earn all that they get, is
that of making the most of the money
contributed for the support of the desti-
tute. In a community of well-to-do pso-
pie it is an unutterable disgrace If any
person unable TO help himself dies OF
want; il ought to be Just as much of a
disgrace that men and women willing to
work and support their children, old fox
and other helpless dependents, should not
have some means of doing so.
A New York charity bureau has estab-
lished a sort of tailoring establishment
for the repair and manufacture of gar
ments for the poor Boxes of clothing haif
worn, but of good material, are frequently
received by this bureau together with
money for the purchase of new goods This
half-worn clothing, if given away in the
condition in which ii arrives, would often
be of little use to the recipients A poor
woman who has TO support herself and her
children by washing, sewing, or scrubbing
has no time TO patch and remodel old
clothing, even if she understood the art.
If she gets these half-worn garments just
as they are they last about half the time
that they would if put in thorough repair,
and the wearer is ragged and uncomfort-
able all the time. The plan of the charity
bureau is TO put all these garments in the
hands of woman who understands such
miscellaneous work. but who has grown
The evening times., 1899-02-15

The London Times in commenting,
unfavorably, as every honest and intelIi-
gent reader must, on the report of the AL
ger Relief Commission, and having
knowledge Of the nature of the Hull army
reorganization measure, says that il the
faint of politics is once fastened on our
colonial policy there can be little hope of
its future. There will be no such faint.
The American people are masters when
they choose to be, and in this case their
conscience is engaged. They believe they
are charged with an enormous RESPONSE
bility in the case of islands acquired from
Spain. and they are alive to all the dangers
of corruption that follow the administra-
tion of affairs far removed from the States.
They will insist on a more careful and
honest government there than in our own
country, and when they insist they sue
ceed.
The evening times., 1899-02-15
DEATH IN A COLLISION.
Two Killed and Two Hurt in Rail-
road Smash-Ip.

Coatesvlle, Pa. Feb. 15-A bad railroad
accident. resulting in the death of En-
gineer Smith, of Harrisburg, his fireman,
and the probable fatal injury of two other
railroad employees, occurred short dis
tance west of Downingtown, on the Penn
sylvania railroad Monday
The accident was caused by the second
section of No. fast line, running into the
first section. which had been stopped at
Thorndale Tower for orders.
The first section of the train was made
up of sleeping cars, which prevented a
great accident.
The evening times., 1899-02-15
MYSTERY IN A DEATH.
Body of Man With n Knife Wound
Found at TOwanda.

Towanda, Pa, Feb 15.-About ten days
ago a small boy while skating discovered
something like a body frozen in the ice
at the point of the island opposite town.
Undertaken Meryott and his men chopped
out the body of a man. 1t lay face down
ward. in about feet of water, frozen TO the
sandy bottom. No trace of identity can be
found.
There is an incised knife wound about
l 1-2 inches long on the right side Of the
neck near the iuguar vein. The coroner
says there is no doubt that his death was
caused by this wound and then the body
was thrown in the river.
The evening times., 1899-02-15

they would find less difficulty in meeting
The woman who learned to use her needle
before she can remember, does any small
job of sewing much more easily, as rule,
than if she had learned Jlater in life, and
there are times when such an accomplish
ment is more valuable than almost any
other
In short. 1t may be stated that any
branch of knowledge which requires auto
matte action of the eye and hand shou, d
be taught as early as possible in chi d S
life to insure the best results; and as there
are but few of these matters which are
really necessary for ordinary men and wo-
men to know, these lessons need not Over
tax the child's mind. or course, in train
ing violinist. or a dancer, or basket
weaver, special lessons are necessary in
those arts, at very early age, but thsre
are few children who will have any use
for these accomplishments, and to teach
them to all would be a folly which even
the most advanced Gradgrand would not
contemplate. The true education will give
thorough instruction in few things to
the child under ten, answer the multitude
nous questions of the child between ten
and fifteen, and give as wide an opportu-
nifty as possible TO advanced students who
really know what they want Between
fifteen and twenty the Overwhelmingly i'm
portant thing for most of our young folk
is to know how to earn a living. When
they have reached their majOrity IL tn ey
have had a year or two of work at some
trade or business, they have usually def
mite idea what to study next and they
should be helped to this further education
in every possible way.