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The times., 1899-06-30
silence in Court.

| The world, or rather the newspaper
world, will be inclined to laugh over Cor
! bins order of silence yesterday. Here
after no clerk. messenger, or scrubwoman
will be allowed to translate Manila cables
for the benefit of the press. and no infor-
nation IS 10 be exuded save under the
John Hancock of the Adjutant General.
It is really the reverse of neighboriy to
refer to such little matters of detail, but,
if the War Office will be funny it cannot
expect people TO refrain from laughing.
We understand. of course, that the or
der is issued for the benefit of the Presi-
dent. He must be made 10 think that pub
lie opinion. regarding the romantic news
that has been spread from the War De-
partment has been rendered necessary by
the wickedness of subordinates who have
been responsible for leak OF real Philip
pine information. as he has been away, and
may only have read the genuine messages
from Otis, it is possible that he does not
know concerning several things that have
transpired over the Luzon grapevine line.
Fer instance. it is a safe wager that
President Mckinley has not been advised
of the general friendliness of the ma
tiyes," wherever our troops have gone.
He may still be under the delusion that the
Tagals in civilian clothes. who received
Wheaton's column with tears of Joy, were
the same Maiays who attacked it in
front, flank. and rear a short time ago.
We DO not believe he has been daily ap-
prised that the rebels will not make in
future any determined stand in the
South" as the country has been. In short.
the probabilities are that the Intelligence
from Manila. communicated to the Com
mander-in Chief. has been very different
to that given out TO the public.
Doubtless nothing would have been said
on this score if The Times had not found
means TO sift the wheat from the chan.
and to give its readers a fair idea of the
actual conditions in the Philippines. in
spite OF the press censorship and the War
Department editorship. The authorities
seem to assume that This could only have
been done through leakage among en-
ployes, ignoring the fact that their own
inartistic method Of fabrication has made
a gift enterprise Of their utterances.
1t does not matter The evident inten-
tion is TO surround the enlistment of the
Provisional Army. as well as the move
ments of our troops in the Philippines.
with impenetrable mystery. Consequently
any watchman, elevator man. or laundress
seen talking 10 a newspaper reporter or
messenger will be held guilty of trans
lsting and publishing Otis dispatches. The
whole thing goes to show that when the
Algerian satellites are not mischievous
they are ridiculous.
The times., 1899-06-30
TEXAS RIVERS ON A RAMPAGE.
The Hrazos Two Feet Higher Than
Ever before Known.

Dallas, Tex. June 29.-Another flood has
started in Texas rivers. Almost continuous
rains have fallen during the last fortv
eight hours in Northwestern, Central
and Southern Texas. The heaviest rain
iall Is reported from the Brazos Valley
Inc Brazos River made a tremendous rise
at Waco today. At noon it was reported
that the water lacked only six feet OF
reaching the highest point ever known
and was rising at the rate of ten inches
an hour AT 8 o'clock today The Times
correspondent received the following bull
letin:
THE Brazos is now two feet higher than
ever before known. The water is doing
much damage to Waco. There has been a
pouring rain here all day, and it continues
tonight"
Another#report says immense quantities
OF hay, grain and. farm produce and small
farm buildings are floating past Waco. to-
night. Many country bridges are reported
swept away.
Horace Robertson, negro preacher. was
drowned this evening in the Brazos, at
Waco
Austin. Tex, June 29.-All of the streams
and rivers of Central Texas are on the
greatest rampage known for many years.
The International and Great Northern
Railroad track is under water for ten
miles and washouts are reported at numer-
Gus places near Bearne. interrupting traf-
&c between st. Louis and Mexico since yes
terday. The bridge of the NJ, X G. T,
over the Brazos River, near Smithville.
was washed away this morning.
Several bridges on the Houston and
Texas Central road southeast of here ar,
reported TO have been washed away. and
there has been no road communication
between here and Houston and Galveston
since yesterday. The San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass Railroad, between Waco
and Yoacum. suffered serious washouts
and that division is reported 10 be COM
pletely tied up. The Brazos River and
all of its tributaries are flooding thousands
of acres of cultivated lands and the dam
age to crops and other property caused
by the overflow Will reach several hundred
thousand dollars
The times., 1899-06-30
Theodorrs nrd wnheIr,.

Contemplating the ever youthful and py-
rotechnie Roosevelt on his travels, we are
again impressed with the strong character
resemblance he bears to certain impor-
tant and powerful parsonage in Europe
Indeed. we are tempted to say that the New
York Governor is the Wilhelm II of Re-
publican party politics in the United
States.
Like his prototype, the Kaiser, the only
thing that can ever be safely predicted OF
Theodore Roosevelt is that he is certain TO
break out in a fresh spot. at some future
time not mentioned, bat always presumably
within few days. His recent personal his
tory is interesting, instructive, and emf
nently suggestive. He left the Navy De-
partment at the outbreak of the Spanish
war in the fever and ferment of a motive
mixture composed CT love cf adventure, pa
triotism, and political ambition. Coming
back from the Hill OF San Juan. he shook
his lariat and waved his cory sword and
got what he wanted. He has not recovered
from the impression that he can still get
what he wants and at the time best suited
to his wishes.
II is said that Mr.. Hanna went to Eu-
rope satisfied that Roosevelt would not be
disturbing element in the Republican
camp in 1900, relatively. to the matter of
Mr. McKinley's denomination. How far this
conviction may have been justified by the
Governor in terms We do not know Pos
sibly at that particular time the buoyant
Rough Rider may have thought that he
would rather be friends with the Admins
tration and its control now than take the
chances of postulancy before 1904 Cir
cumstances alter cases, and the incsnse of
popular acclaim which is intoxicating to
the nostrils of ambition, may have excited
the delrious second thought in the bub-
bling brain OF the man who would be first
to frankly admit that he ought TO be the
coming one At least it would be just as
well for MIR Mckinley not to be too sure
that he has an easy walkoyer for the party
hcnors next year. Abraham Lincoln once
sententiously observed: When the Presi-
Dental maggot gets into a mans head, my
God, how It does bite,''
Very likely it has been represented to
Mr.. Roosevelt that. if he viii be truly good
now, his calling and election will be sure
Eve years hence But intervening pros
poets and possibilities may not appear as
satisfactory TO him as those who would
presently pacify him might wish lie real
ICES perfectly that New York is normally
a Democratic State: that another term as
Governor might not fall to his bow and
spear. cheerfully as Plat and Hanna might
promise it. He also knows that an emf
nent American, when once allowed to
retire TO the sweets of private life,
Is very rarely ever afterward dis
turbed in the enjoyment of that
Tepose. Let it be added 10 these con-
siderations that Theodore Roosevelt has
been given some excuse. in the course OF
his Western tour. for looking upon him
The times., 1899-06-30

the trust idea had its birth. Trades union
ism sprang up as natural corollary of
the trust. AT the focus of these indus
trial forces has been generated social dis
content, which has found voice in brain
less populism and mad communism. True.
this discomfort is localized at present; but
it is only question of a short time be-
fore it will be national if the present fiscal
policy Of the Government, based upon the
selfish and unscientific economic founda-
tion Of Republieanism. continues much
longer.
The general expression of fear, there
fore. that the Democrats of Kentucky will
lose the State this year can be regarded
as protest against the platform adopted
at Louisville. II is an expression of in
stinctive Democratic principle. The party
hibitive tariff, with its attendant features
of restricted markets and foolish opposition
to the strongest and most indestructible
rule of healthy commerce-the law of sup
ply and demand.
There is, however, a compensating view
of the case in Kentucky. Defeat at the
polls this fall will relegate to the back
seats in party councils every narrow
visioned and timid Democrat now raising
his voice in calliopean protest against the
trend of forces national and industrial. The
sooner the party is purged OF this element
of leaders the better it will be for the or
ganization and stronger will become the
hope of every Democrat for the contest of
~
The times., 1899-06-30
Fortunes From peuteh,and.

tfTom the Philadelphia Record)
By way OF reply to numerous recent letters Of
enquiry from American heirs to millions supposed
to be awaiting claimants in the Bank of Iol.
land the United States Consul at The Hague ha,
reissued circular Of warning to all fortune seek
crs to waste 10 time or money in the pursuit of
a will-o' -wisp. There is no Bank OF IIol-
land" and there is no fabulous wealth locked up
in the Golfers OF the States General of the Neither
lands for distribution among lost heirs. BY law
enacted by the Dutch Parliament in 1872 all un-
claimed inheritanccs are irrevocaby escheatcd to
the State after lapse of five years and if any
OF the old Dutch claims so much noised about in
the United States ever existed they have passed
forever into the possession of the Dutch Govern
ment. The supposed heirs of Brandt, Mctzger,
Weber, Letner, Van Fleet. Dubois and others
are requested hy our Consul to take notice OF this
fact, and assured that all persons inviting
them to spend money in the prosecution OF ac-
tions Tor the recovery OF supposed estates in Ho.
land age swindiefs.
The times., 1899-06-30
FRIDAY. JUNE 80. 1899.
A Colonial Portfolio.

Quite year ago, when the results of the
war with Spain were foreseen, The Times
suggested the creation by Congress OF an
additional executive department to mset the
exigencies OF the new responsibilities OF
the Government IL that juncture very
little sanity apparently resided in Con-
sress. and against the demands of an in
evitabie situation the alarmis;s rang the
changes on the noEsensical cry OF impe-
rialism.
Now that Porto Rico, Hawaii. and the
Philippines are OURS, with Cuba seemingly
getting ready TO ask for annexation, We
are that dreaded thing. a colonial power %
whether we viii or 70. To p1opefly admin
ister these possessicns-and who knows
but that Others are 10 come?-wni require
a special department OF the Government.
We do rot care what il is callsd. II the hys-
tsricai anti-expansionists are to have ft
every time the word colony is uttered in
connection with the Federal Government
We are willing that they be allowed to
give name 10 the new department that
would not wholly derange their nervous or
ganlzations wien it is necessary to refer
to it either in print or speech. OF course
the title Of the Department Of the Colonies
would be the proper and appropriate no.
menclature.
But this is q detail of triviel Importance
The department can be called by any name
the lawmakers may fancy, so far as we
are concerned. The point OF encourage
ment is that the creation of the new port
folio seems now alncgt inevitable. And
we particularly rejoice thar Mr.. McKia-
ley not only sees the need of the depart-
ment, but also that he appears to have
made up his mind to recommend its crea-
tion to the next Congress. Ii has been
made evident that the affairs OF cur in
sular possessions cannot be properly ad-
ministered for the personal benefit of Mr.
Ayers political or other friends The
effort to DO so has been persisted il long
enough to demonstrate its futiIity.
We hope the report is true that sIr. Nc
Kinley. having determined to urge upon
the forthcoming Congress the necessary
legislation for the proposed portfolio. has
in mind for the first head of the depart
ment Gen. Leonard Wood. General Wood
has demonstrated a high order of admin
istratiye capacity and constructive skill in
the trying position of Military Governor
of the Province OF Santiago. He brought
order out OF chaos in his division of Cuba
in a notably short time, and has exhibited
a tact and intelligent comprehension Of
The affairs of his Office which we wish
could be said of ell the other persons in
similar positions. appointment to the
head of the new department would be
fitting recognition by the President of
General Woods meritorious services un-
der the hampering surveillance and tyran-
nleai dictatlon of incompetence and dis
honesty in the War ohce.
The times., 1899-06-30
1 Narcorama.

UFIom the New orleans Times Democrat)
'From present Indications" said a local steam
ship agent, who has recently returned from a trip
abroad, "the big spectacular feature Of the Paris
Exposition is going 10 be the Mareorama. / saw
the building under construction, and was i'm
pressed by It's enormous size. The frontage looks
great deal like that Of The ST. Charles Hotel.
but it is not quite so high. The Mnreorama is
simply combination OF optical Illusion and old.
fashioned rolling panorama. One passes through
a vaultsd entrance and emergos on the deck of
huge vessel which to start off on a voyage
10 the Suez Canal of course, tie ship stands
STILL except for rocking. and the scenery moves.
You get the illusion reversed by looking
out Of the window Of railway train and watch.
ing the flying landscape. When | was there they
were putting in the machinery on which the shin
is to be poised ard other machinery to move the
canvas. 1t looked very massive and complicated,
but l was told that the whole thing will lie por.
table. and IS 10 be brought to America after the
Exposition Another big illusion OF an astro-
nomieai character is going up nearby. but the
building shrouded with canvas and nobody
allowed % come anywhere near
The times., 1899-06-30
PREACHERS FORM a TRUST.
Object to Raise the Price for Ser
mons ut Public Institutions.


mons ut Public Institutions.
Des Moines, Iowa, June 29.-The State
board of control is in trouble with new
trust. The ministers of Marshalltown have
announced that they will not preach ser
mons at the institutions for SO each This
is the boards schedule rate, and the Min
isterial Association, OF Marshalltown. in
sists that after July 1 the rate must be s.
q sermon. But the board of control is
composed OF men qualified TO meet any
emergency Governor Larrabee proposes
to speak to the members of the Soldiers
Home a week from Sunday. and the mem
bers of the board will, If necessary. take
the places of ministers who cannot preach
ct the State rates. Governor Larrabee
says he will make an antitrust discourse.
and incidentally will refer to the advice OF
St. Paul to the bishops in one of the Epis-
ties.
A short time ago a letter was received
indicating that the Ministerial Association
of Marshalltown had determined that after
July l its members will not continue to
preach for So a sermon. The board dis
cussed the situation. 1t was found that no
expression of dissatisfaction had come from
any other institution. Nobody else had
asked for an increase. An investigation OF
the acts of the legislature proved that 5000
had been appropriated for the preaching for
a biennial period at the Mitchellville Re-
form School This was less than 81 a SER
mon The board concluded that SO was a
fair price for sermon.
A letter was directed to the secretary of
the Ministerial Association of Marshall
town saying. in rather curt terms. that the
board would not reconsider its ultima UNI
The board members have not had much to
say about the matter, but they allow it to
be pretty generally understood that they
will not pay more than SO. We don.
want anything said about this subject
which will give the impression that we
take an irreverent view of it." said Mr..
Cowne, of the board of control. We are.
however. willing. if necessary. to under
take TO do our share of the speaking at the
institution rather than that the custom
should be discontinued. Governor LARA
bee has agreed to make the first address"
The Roman Catholic priests at Marshall
town are not members of the Ministerial
Association. and it is understood that the
beard of control will ask for their services
at the Soldiers Home. 1t is believed they
will do as requested.
The times., 1899-06-30
DANGERS OF ovERsruDY.
New York Committee ON Education
Warns Against Pushing Scholars.


New York. June 29.-Overstudy as a
prevalent defect in New Yorks public
school system is the startling accusation
made in the report of the committee on
education before the North Side Board of
Trade, at 1Ssth Street and Alexander Ave
nue.. on Tuesday night The unanimous
adoption OF this report and the discussion
which brought it about comprehend the
most radical opposition offered to the ae-
cepted curriculum.
Our attention has been called" said
w. Stehbins Smith, the chairman. ito
what would appear to be almost physi-
cal wreck of some OF our brightest and bes,
scholars in the public schools. caused, as
We believe. by the great amount of study
forced upon them; and we deem it our duty
TO suggest that the children in our schools
should have fewer studies
We believe in making haste slowly. es-
pecially when 1t comes to educating little
children. particularly girls. We believe
that more thorough and exhaustive sys-
TEN OF gymnastic exercises should be at
tached to our schools and made a more
prominent feature"
Dr. Emil Heuel introduced his little nine
year-old daughter as sample OF the re-
She comes from school complaining of
nervous headache. II is ridiculous for
child at her age to know anything of such
an ailment. TIE fact is that children are
being pushed too far mentally for their
physical development. l believe in more
primitive methods. Nature study. music,
manual training. all added TO the regular
studies. make so much work that children
are obliged to prepare tasks at home. This
Is contrary to the regulations and inimIcaI
to the child's health. More physical ex-
ercise and less mental would be my pre-
scription." The doctor deprecated the in
production of foreign languages into the
ordinary school course.
''If the rudiments of eddcation are thor
oughly taught accomplishments may bo
added later. The children want frs. a
thorough knowledge of their own Ian
guage.''
His contention that college women are
not the best wives and mothers because
they have usually lived at too high pres
sure and are suffering from exhausted
nerves carried its weight.
Others urged that teachers, as well as
children, are overtaxed.
1T is preposterous." urged one speaker,
that any one man or woman in the short
space of life can assimilate all that is ex-
pected CT our public school teachers today"
The times., 1899-06-30
Race Hatred.

(From the Hartford Tmes.)
One of the strongest and most persistent forces
in history IS race hatred. This is especially true
when the natural aH;asonsn OF race is height
cned by differences in complexion or tempera-
mcnt. The lawny inhabitants Of the Soudan were
massacred by thousands because their feeling to
ward the English was an obstacle 10 the spread Of
civilization ana was ineralicab,c. The antagoa-
ism between Celt and Saxon, dating from the
time OF Queen Elizabeth, still survives, thorn in
tine side Of England though the advance Of civil
zation has Eearly removed the cause Of irritation
England was fortunate in finding in India at lels,
three races mutually Hostile and III being able To
utilize to her own advantage the haired OF the
Hndoo and the Mohlmmcdan. We are fortunate
in that the African negro is by nature dociie and
good humored, His very thoughtlessncss renders
him unsusceptbe 10 race hatred toward tbs
white man.
The times., 1899-06-30
NEW COAL MINES opuNED.
statistics of the Georges Greek.
Cumberland District OUTPUT.

statistics of the Georges Creek
Cumberland District Output.
Cumberland. Nd, June 29.-The coal out
put of the Georges Creek Cumberland re-
gion showed an unusual increase last week.
being nearly 1000 tons more than the pre-
ceding week of 1899 and 2O,o62. "a tons more
than during the same week of 1898 The
total shipments last week amounted to 81
C03.01 tons. of which 6,1111s tons went by
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. The ship
ments for the year to June "a inclusive.
aggregated 2,053, ,397.01 tons, an increase of
S0.ls6.99 tons over the corresponding period
of 1898. The canal shipments to date ag-
gregate 6O.O3l.05 tons, or 15,562.01 tons less
than last year.
OF the output to June "a 1893 $50 10
tons were delivered to the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, an increase of IS, cog SO
tons, and 593,S35.06 tons to the Pennsyl-
vania. an increase of 57.79l.19 TONS COM
pared with last year.
During the week 33,s37.12 tons of coal
and 5,69S.12 tons of coke were shipped
from the Elk Garden and Upper Potomac
region of West Virginia. The total output
of the region to June "a was 544 s42 10
tons of coal and Ill, ,92305 tons of coke,
an increase of 11S.S36.16 tons of coal and
a decrease of 6,e51-12 tons of coke, as COM
pared with the record for the same period
in 1898.
The seaboard soft t-coal trade is reported
to be in most prosperous condition, the
contract business in many cases being 50
heavy that transient orders have to be de-
cllnsd. Transportation from min to tide
water Is good. 1t is believed that with
SO much coal under contract selling prices
are likely to continue low.
No strike will occur in the Georges
Creek Cumberland region. the agitators
realizing that it is too late in the season to
expect the companies to pay higher prices,
most business being covered by contract.
Bowery Mine. near Frostburg, continues
to work day and night. 1t is estimated
that it will last three weeks longer. This
will mark the close of one OF the best
equipped mines in the Georges Creek re-
gion.
The Wilson Bros, at Wilson. W. Va,
near the Garrett county. Maryland. line.
have opened vein showing eight feet of
clear coal. The opening is about three
miles west of the West Virginia Central
and Pittsburg Railroad.
The Homecoming Coal Company. recent
ly organized in Baltimore, will develop a
tract of thirteen and half acres of big
vein coal near Homecoming. The Ameri-
can Coal Company, Lonaconing, has COM
menced to develop what is known as the
small or 4-fcot veins.
The increased output of the Georges
Creek Cumberland and Elk Garden regions
for the first half of 1899 is over 200. 600
tons more than the record for the first half
of 1898. or nearly as much as the entire
output OF the Georges Creek region in 1851,
nine years after its opening.
The times., 1899-06-30
cLINGs TO AN ADOPTED CHILD.
Actress Refuses TO Surrender Her to
Her Mother.

Newport News. Va, June 29-Maade,
the three-year- child of Mrs. Mathilde
Leonine Reville, of New York, was found
to be in this city today. but will not
be restored to her mother unless the law
compels it. She is in the custody of
an actress, whose stage name is Blanche
Raymond, but whose real name was Maud
Wilbane until she married Frank r. VIII
son. manager of the Auditorium Theatre
about month ago.
Three years ago Mrs. Wilson was living
with Harvey Ramsey, the New York the
atrical man, who was murdered last Satur-
day by his wife, and was known as Mrs
Ramsey. In December. 1896, Mrs. Reville,
who had been reduced to straitencd cir
cumstances after the death of her husband
advertised her three-year- daughter for
adoption.
Ramsey and the woman known as his
wife answered the advertisement and took
charge OF the child. Not long afterward
the supposed Mrs. Ramsey quarreled with
Ramsey and left New York, taking the
child with her Several months ago she
came to this city with the little girl and
has been appearing at local variety thea
tres.
When Ramsey was murdered Mrs Re
vile decided that she wanted to regain the
child. but t~the actress says she legally
adopted her and refuses to give her up.