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The times., 1899-05-06
Trophies From the soudnn.

Gondon Correspondence Birmingham Post.)
A visit to Wellington Barracks today
for the inspection of the trophies the
Guards brought home from the Soudan,
showed that such a collection has never
before been brought together in this coun-
try. Perhaps the most curious fact about
the rifles is that they are almost every one
English made, but they are of such varied
designs that even the military authorities
are at loss as to their origin or date of
manufacture. Among them are old flint
locks. catbines tsuch as We're served out
to the yeomanry in this country fifty
years ago). muzzle-loaders. and a most
miscellaneous collection OF present day
guns. There was apparently no method in
the arming OF the followers of the Khalifa
No matter what the arm might be, it was
pressed into the service irrespective of the
all-important ammunition. This, no
doubt, accounts for the fact that the Der
wishes so largely depended upon their
spears in the fight at Omdurman. The
collection of spears is a very striking one.
Some of them have heads inlaid with gol-
den threads carefully worked in quaint
designs, and the different Sheiks are rich
ly ornamented with gold and silver II
was noticed that, although many of the
sheaths of the swords were of distinctly
Oriental design, they contained blades
with a Sheffield or Birmingham trade
mark upon them. | may add that when
properly classified these trophies will be
placed on exhibition prior to their distri-
button among those of the regiment who
secured them on the battlefield.
The times., 1899-05-06
PAYNE WOULD BE SPEAKER.
He Speaks of Himself ms the Logical
Candidate

New York, May 5.-Congressman Serene
E. Payne, of Auburn, arrived in New York
today, after spending two weeks in Atlantic
City attending the meeting OF the Con-
Sressional committee appointed to ire
pare currency reform measure. He spent
tue morning at the headquarters OF the
republican State committee in the Fifth
avenue Hotel, and talked with several local
ana upstate politicians. He did not dis
cuss currency reform with them. however
Ihe only subject talked about was the
speakership of the House of Representa-
tiVes and Mr.. Paynes chances OF carry
ing on the prize
After his interviews with the politicians
Mr. Payne declared that he had lood
hghting chance for the Speakership 1T
is too early to make any calculations about
the vote for Speaker he added, but can
say that many members of Congress from
New York and other States have told me
that am the logical candidate on account
OF my position at the head of the Ways
and Means Committee. my ten years of SER
vice on that committee, and my sixteen
years service in Congress. / do not know
yet how all the Republican Congressman
from New York will stand in the contest,
but / have many friends among them, and
1t seems to me that If the New York dele
cation gives its solid support to any can
didate. he will have fair chance of
winning
rs not Congressman Sherman also in
the field?'
Sherman" repeated Mr.. Payne. "oh,
yes; Mr.. Sherman, Of Utica. But really, l
know nothing about his candidacy. You
will have to ask him about it,
When Mr.. Payne was asked whether he
had received any pledges of support, and
whether the Republican organization of
New York was supporting him, he replied:
Some pledges have been given: how
many, ! do not care to say As TO the
Republican organization, 1t has taken no
action yet. have not seen Senator Platt
lately. and l do not know when / will
see him, as l understand he is in Wash
ington.''
Speaking of the meetings Of the Con-
gressional committee in Atlantic City. Mr..
Payne said: I'VE prepared currency
bill, but / can say nothing about it till it
Is submitted to the Senate committee
which was appointed to act with US. The
Senate committee was to meet us at At
lantic City, but it failed to appear, be-
cause Senator Aldrieh was in Europe He
is expected to reach New York tomorrow.
II he arrives on time. / suppose there will
be joint meeting of the committees OF
the Senate and the House of Representa-
tives, and the currency bill will be fur
ther considered
The times., 1899-05-06
FOLLOW THEIR MASTER.
Three Valuable Horses Killed to
Garry Out IA VIII.

Montreal. May 5.-Three weeks ago DR..
Wardle. a well-known young veterinary
surgeon and sportsman. died rather sud-
denly, aged thirty eight. He was the own
er Of several well-known steepie chasers,
among them "Bushbolt," winner of the
Herald Cup at Belair track; "Felix."
which he purchased from Mr.. j. E. Sea-
gram, NJ. p, OF Waterloo, Ontario, and
Billy Mckinley" his own personal steed.
Today those three animals lie dead hav-
ing been killed at the request of their mas
ter DR.. Wardle's will contained this re-
quest: 1T is my wish and desire that
week after my death my three horses.
Billy Mckinley Bushbolt' and Felix
shall be put to death in the most painless
manner possible. This is my desire, be-
cause l would be much grieyed should
the animals. after the affection and care
have had for them. fall into the hands
of people who would treat them cruelty or
would make them suffer-
Confronted by this unusual clause in the
will the executors had no alternative but
to obey and so the other day the three
valuable animals were taken cut TO the
clubhouse of the Montreal Hunt behind
Mount Royal. and there killed. each in his
turn, by shot from revolver in the
hands of DR.. Ernest Thurston.
1t is said that Billy Mckinley. was so
broken. hearted at the death of his mas
ter, whose body he followed to the grave.
that he refused to eat anything from the
time he missed the features which he
loved so well.
The times., 1899-05-06
rnc passing of the Classics.


r-,ors may be observed in the books and
oratorv of today a tendency which, ID we"
of other things in American me-
slightly significant. 1t would hardly pe
,oticed unless the literature and speecheS
% to-day were compared with those oil
ante-bellum days-say ls4o-oo' lhls tsh'-
oncv is TO refrain from classical ILLUSIONS
:. NJ coarse the thoroughly educated
oaI.sr and writer of modern times has
studied the classics, and knows "h"'
NEUROLOGICAL reference means; but ne uses
such phraseology but seldom. NOW ana
then he draws an illustration from poor
overworked Rome. when arguing about the
dangers which threaten nations; ana some
n, the Latin phrases which, by long use,
have become almost part OF the language
are stin TO be heard: but nobody quotes
p,utarch. and Horace, and Virgil any
more. Even Shakespeare is not consciously
quoted. though some of his phrases are
used by almost everyone without any dis
tinct idea of their origin. The change is
somewhat marked, both in writing and IN
sneeeh. hut il is much more evident when
the oratory of today Is compared with that
of half century ago. What is the cause
of this change?
There, are two or three causes which may
he alleged. besides the general one of
change of fashion. Before the war the
Southern orators were easily the first in
eloauenee. influence, and command OF Ian
guage. Accustomed almost from boyhood
to address audiences of varying size they
took to oratory like ducks to water. and
practically set the fashion for the entire
country. In the old South newspapers
were few and far between, but political
meetings were many. The people obtained
their culture more through conversation
than through books; and when they read
were apt to read the classics. the South
ern gentleman usually had library which
had been his fathers before him. and pos
sessed fine editions Of all the old classic
authors, while he had no particular ad-
miration for the American literature which
sprapg up during the first half of the cen
tury. preferring rather TO read English
periodicals and books. In England the
public school gives all educated men
more thorough drill in the classical au-
thors than has been possible here. Every
thing, therefore, conspired TO give the
Southern gentleman thorough and ia
miliar knowledge of the Latin and Eliza
bethan authors. and he quoted them as
easily as the old-time Puritan quoted the
Bible II was the most natural thing in
the world that his speech should be full
of classical phrases and sonorous Latin de-
riyatives and stately sentences; and in
Southern newspapers and books OF today,
especially in the Carolinas and in Georgia,
one may see traces of the old style of ex-
preston, alternating with the more homely
phraseology which always grows up among
long settled English speaking race.
Since the war. however. there has been
a mighty change. oratory no longer gives
a man pre-e eminence, and some of the
strongest public men Of late years have
been very poor speakers. The power OF
the printing press has steadily increased;
and With 1t democracy In literature-a
The times., 1899-05-06

family and her emotions. When things go
right with her. she is very domestic
person, and delightful, as house mistress,
To bring out her particular talents she
should be fully employed in her chosen
field. Otherwise her children will be
killed, either physically or morally. by too
much discipline, coddling. or fussiness;
her husband will be made miserable by
her inability to see that he has any right
to leave newspaper on the parlor table
CT track on the kitchen floor. and her
friends will be entertained only with re-
ports of the children's measles or the
state of the closet. The second
type of women takes up housekeeping just
as she would any other business in which
she might be engaged, making it means
10 an end-the end being happy home.
The third class dislike housekeeping,
children, and homes, either because they
do not like manual labor or because they
do like admiration and excitement. But
the serious work of the professions is
usually too much for them.
The times., 1899-05-06
Call Ont the Volunteers.

The character of the fighting in the Phil
ippines shows only too conclusively that
more troops will be needed to suppress
the mutiny. 1t does not matter that the
Hoar and Atkinson mutineers are regularly
defeated and driven back by our soldiers
The rebels are so numerous and the thea
tire of war so large that crushing blow
appears TO be impracticable. As fast as
Macarthur routs the enemy in one spot
1t retreats only to reassemble and strike
him in ether. II is evident that We have
not force enough to surround and smash
the Tagal army. The twenty-seven thou
too small for the task, and We shall either
have TO abandon the enterprise alto
gether or tackle it with adequate means.
Instead of the small army now on the
Island of Luzon there should be at least
sixty thousand men,. Then the towns
could be kept garrisoned while adequate
columns took the field and the mutineers
might be rounded up and pacified or ex-
terminated the latter We
might as well get down to the necessities
of the situation first as last. Otis and
Macarthur are not going to suppress the
Philippine trouble with the troops they
have Il was always foolish on the lace
of things to expect them to do So Inc
military proposition is simple one. win
sufficient force Aguinaldo could be cut OH
and cleaned out. At the worst he could
be driven into the inhospitable hill coun-
try and kept from escaping from il in any
way except by surrender. AS matters
stand there is nothing in prospect but an
inconsequentiaI chase around Robin HOOD
harm. with much expense and an annoying
loss of blood.
Mr.. Mckinley has known all this for
some time. but he has also felt that to
call out the volunteers he is entitled TO
ask for would be TO precipitate the ques-
tion of Algerism. AS a matter OF course
il Alger were out of the War Department
and any competent, honest man were IN
his place, there would be not the slight
est difficulty in procuring thirty-hVe thou-
sand or three hundred and fifty thousand
volunteers for any national service. Win
Aleer AT the head OF affairs, friends of the
Administration A admit that the Governors
of several states Wouiu pe iaoie "
the Presidents call and TO denounce the
current conditions in the War Department
in a most embarrassing way.
But we shall have to send Otis re-en-
forcements beyond what can be spared
from the available force of the Regular
Army in home territory, or else give up
the effort TO suppress the rebellion. All
talk about insurgent surrender as long
as Ae1inaldo. Luna and other leaders are
able to see our inability 10 destroy them
is sheer nonsense. sooner .,
late the volunteers will have to De calieu
out. and it would be very well for MI
Mckinley TO remove Alger before resort
ing TO that action. Otherwise. some things
will happen calculated to cause him con-
siderable modification.
The times., 1899-05-06
American Statesmen.

CFrom the New Orleans Times Democrat
The careful reader OF THE Messages and Papers
Of the Presidents can hardly fail to be struck by
the high level OF ability displayed by the Chici
Magistrates, from Washington down to Mckinley
OF COURSE our Presidents have not all been states
man of the highest order; but they have been
without exception, quite out Of the com
mon, and some of them, as all the world knows
were pasi masters in statecratt. The most medi-
ocre of them all would have been hailed as an
extraordinary King. as monarchs go in the mos,
civilized countries across the water.
One salient fact stands out from the record
Two Of our Presidents uneducated men, in
the general acceptance of that much-ablsed term
Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln We're
Graded in the direst poverty, and entered upon
the struggle of lit, with training beyond
that Of the common school. Their lives were
passed amid the distractions of war and con-
troverses Of the most absorbing sort, that they
never had the culture which a great university
gives to It's humblest alumnus. Yet these two
mighty sons Of the people possessed the secret
OF style in perfection, and their English is alb
solutely perfect, in the technical sense. Indeed
the history of literature affords luminous
instance OF the truth of Bufon's dictum, lie
style est rhotnme meme
Edward Livingston was Andrew Jackson's secre
tary OF Slater William II. Seward stood in the
same relation tu Abraham Lincoln. Both OF
those statesmen publicists Of superior native
ability which had received the polish of the most
careful culture; but a comparison Of their Official
utteFances with those OF their chiefs shows that
they had not the subtle force which was the
inalienable birthright Of the wonderful men
whose Ministers they were On the historic ami
versary at Gettysburg Edward Everett delivered
a most elaborate Grafton. Mr.. Everett was one
Of the fine flowers of culture Yet his address
lies buried beneath the waters of oblivion, while
Lincolns brief discourse stands in literature be.
side the immortal oration of Pericles in honor
Of the Grecian dead
The times., 1899-05-06
Tbe PIatform vo,,,,

Mr. Edward Box is in trouble For sev-
erai years this gentleman has made it his
business, If not his pleasure TO study and
cater TO the tastes of womankind Men
of less pronounced courage and tact have
often surveyed him with amazement, and
wondered how long he would be able to
pursue his devious and difficult path with
cut catastrophe. 1t appears that the
catastrophe has now come upon him. Some
people may consider it retribution, and
some persecution, with resulting martyr
dom, but at any rate it is here.
Mr.. Box saw fit, the other day, to re-
mark editorially:
The platform woman never has been credit
TO, but ever blot upon, American womanhood
hGFe seen the rOoIns OF their homes left in wild
disorder; ] have seen their servants sitting in
idieness with work on every hand to do; have
seen the children neglected and left to their own
devices
The most casual of observers could have
told the author of these remarks that when
ne attacked the club women of the United
States things would happen to him. There
are great many OF them, and they are
very thoroughly convinced that they are
elubable, and that 1t is not the business
Of anybody except their husbands If they
are. Some of them, naturally, are bad
housekeeperH-there has never been
time when every woman was good house
wife, or every man an excellent farmer or
mechanic-but most of them know as
much about their proper work in the world
as Mr.. Box knows about his; not that
that is paying them a very extravagant
compliment. to be sure.
They will not resent his remarks seri-
ously. They will do worse than that-in-
fnitely worse. TO man of his sensitive
and delicate nature. They will make fun
Of him. He, posing as the editor of the
leading periodical devoted TO woman's in
terests. does not know any more about his
particular public than that. He will be
held up to the smiling audience at every
women's convention as the man who was
rash enough TO slander club women in a
periodical devoted to feminine interests.
The sharp-tongued quick witted speakers
will have more fun with him than Speaker
Reed ever had with choleric Represen-
tative. For once in his life he will know
how women talk at sewing societies, when
there are no men about, and their tongues
are let loose for. 1.-The characterization-Iet
us be gentle--of their acquaintance. He
could not have foreseen this when he dug
up that musty old literary fossil OF rhetoric
from ante-bellum days and presented II to
his readers.
There are three kinds OF women. con-
sidered from housekeeping point of view.
and they are all TO be found among the
women Of the clubs and political gather
ings and literary and artistic professions,
Just as they are in the society OF Podunk.
There ia the woman whose whole mind
is bound up in her housekeeping and her
The times., 1899-05-06
SECONDHAND CHURCH PEws.
Customers Found for Them by a New
York Dealer
(from the New York SUM-


Standing close up together on the fiat
roof of one of the buildings occupied by
dealer in second building mate
rials were a lot of church pews. When
a church is torn down TO be replaced by
new one, or perhaps by business build
ing, the old structure is sold to the dealer
in secondhand building material The
pews are sold, most likely. for use in some
country church that is being fitted up eco
nomically. Such pews are occasionally
sold for use in schools.
Secondhand church pews are by no
means an everyday item OF the dealers
stock-churches are not torn down every
day-but they have long been an occa-
sional item Of it, and there is always a
market for them. They may not sell the
first day they come in, nor the first week,
put sooner or later somebody buys them;
and the same is true of everything. with
out exception, that comes into the dealers
possession, however odd it may be- There
was taken. some years ago, from an cid
building torn Down in this city a big
stone head. an animals head of some sort,
grotesquely carved, resembling somewhat
the head of a giant dog. This curious
stone head. placed outside the dealers
office, attracted attention and comment,
and yet II would scarcely seem as though
anybody would want to buy 1t; but some
body did. and it brought fair price. IL
was sold to the owner or a seaside resort
With the great growth of the city the
second hand building material business has
grown Just like any other business. and
there are now probably half a dozen ex-
tensive dealers here. The number of GUS
toners has. OF course. increased as we'll
with the city's growth, and with the in
crease in population in the neighboring
region that draws upon the city for its
supplies The existence of the business
is now widely and Familiarity known, as
indeed it has long been, and customers in
search OF some particular material or OBJ
ject or fittings may go from one place to
another. just as they would for things
handled in any business, until they find
what they want
The bulk of the second hand building
material sold here is used in this city or
its neighborhood, mostly within a radius
of from fifty to a hundred miles. Things
are sometimes sold to be shipped much
greater distances. city dealer has lately
sold some building material to go to Tex
as. Secondhand materials have been
shipped from here as far away as Cali
fornia. Such shipments are likely to be
of such things as fine, heavy. solid. old
mahogany doors. or old mantels. For old
interior house fittings of this sort, of fine
quality. there is always a demand.
The times., 1899-05-06
TAMMANY's CELEBRATION.
Speakers Must Not Refer to Bryan or
Silver.

New York, May 5.-The Tammany So
ciety will meet in few days to appoint
committees and arrange for the customary
celebration of the Fourth of July. The
organization is prosperous and the celebra
tion this year is to be on a big scale in
the way of food and drink, but it is under
stood that there will be dearth of Doliti-
cal oratory.
Before sailing for England Mr. Croker
left orders that the speakers at the Fourth
of July celebration must not say word
about free silver or W. ]. Bryan. The
committee On speakers will have to select
men who will be willing to have their
speeches blue penciled by Acting Leader
Carroll and to promise not to say word
that will give the audience chance TO
demonstrate that the rank and file of
Tammany are for Bryan and the Chicago
platform. The task will be difficult one.
Some of the Tammany leaders favor the
selection of Gen. Joseph Wheeler to make
the long talk at the celebration If he is
in the country at the time and can be
prevailed upon to accept.
The times., 1899-05-06
A Desirable Chnnre


ihe two men executed in the District Jail
yesterday were murderers of women. The
murder of woman is as vile a crime as
can be catalogued, whether committed in
the heat of passion or after long premedi-
tation, The criminals deserved their fate,
and their protestations of religion at the
last moment will not change the verdict
OF the community as TO the justice of their
fate.
question that may not improperly be
asked in>this relation is: When is the
gallows to be abolished in the District of
Columbia and the electric chair substi-
tuted?" The gallows is relic of bar
barism. 1t is bungling instrument of
execution in the majority of instances. On
the other hand, death by electricity is con-
ceded to be in keeping with the most
scientific and humane standards of the day
The times., 1899-05-06
DALY,s FIGHT ON CLARK.
An Alleged Purpose to Garry 1t Into
the Senate.

Helena, Mont, May 5.-Another sensa-
tional result of the recent senatorial fight
was given publicity today by the appear
ance before the Supreme Court of former
State Senator Fred Whitesides. who de-
sired the disbarment of one OF the States
leading attorneys, John B. Welcome, OF
Butte, who was Senator Clark's campaign
manager. When Whitesides made his IA
nous charge of corruption the first day
of the recent legislative assembly he pro-
duced thirty $1,000 bills and said that they
were paid him by Welcome 10 buy votes
for Clark 1t is on this ground that White
sides claims that Welcomes actions were
unprofessional. The case will be heard
later.
The Clark leaders claim that this pro-
ceeding as we'll as the damage suit filed
against Senator Clark and the Butte
Miner" are but part of a plan on the
part of the DAILY faction 10 prevent Clark
being seated by the Senate this winter.