The Philipsburg mail., 1899-08-11
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
AND DEPARTMENT NEWS.

expenditures in 1898 This makes the
total excess of expenditures in these
three items over the peace year, 1898,
Of S1G6. 100000.
The War Department has not vet
placed limit upon the number Of men
to be recruited for the Philippines. Sec
retary Alger said this evening
that the recruiting officers We're
instructed to make enlistments until
the department ordered to the con
trary. He would not say when the re-
cruiting would stop. He announced.
however. that it was the purpose of the
department to furnish General Otis
soldiers not only to take the place of
those incapacitated by sickness and
wounds and those killed in the harra S.
ing sOrties of the FilipnoS during The
rainy season. but also to furnish garri.
sons and police for the cities AMI
towns occupied by the United States.
At present a comparatively small force
will be required for this purpose. Ar
Manila about one regiment is assigned
to police duty. while at IloilO and other
| places there are a few companies
When active campaigning is resumeh
after the close of the rainy season. and
| lut ~ IltIItItu iIIIlN Will Il llS
| force of 10000 proceeds against the
Filipinos their progress should be rap
id, and hence Il large reserve force will
be required to garrison the places cap
tured.
Admiral Schley is again to be pun
ished by the Navy Department. Some
time ago he accepted an invitation for
the Fourth of July. Subsequently the
crew of the cruiser Brooklyn. his flag
ship during the Santiago blockade. ar
ranged for series of games and a
celebration of the anniversary of the
declaration of independence. AS a
compliment to the admiral they tend
cred him an invitation to be their
guest of honor on the occasion. He
explained his previous engagement,
and announced that he would try to
cancel it. He did so. and formally ac-
cepted the invitation The Brooklyn
is now at the navy yard at New York
and the celebration was to be held
there. The arrangements were known
at the Navy Department, but nothing
was done to interfere until to-day,
when orders We're issued for the Brook
lyn to proceed to Newport and join the
North Atlantic squadron under Ad-
miral Sampson. She will therefore
participate in the maneuyerS off that
place on the Fourth. Admiral Schley
is now free to accept an invitation for
the coming national holiday. 1t is
understood that Senators. Wellington
and McComas of Maryland have in
formed the President that in their
opinion the Navy Department officials
who are antagonistc to Admiral
& III, ,,1, u 11,t, ftn1
using their offices to advance their at
tacks. They are reported to have eX-
pressed their views in an emphatic
manner. and to have requested the
President to use his good offices to sup
press the scandal.
Dr. Oscar Loewe, one of the scien-
tlsts of the Agricultural Department,
has developed to what he believes is
a point of practical use, a new treat
ment for germ diseases which prom
ises to Sllpersede the serum treatment
now in use in diphthera. fevers and
many other diseases. DR.. Loewe's
work has been carried OH for several
years in collaboration with Dr. r. EN-
merich The experiments have been
conducted in the laboratories of Mu-
Mich and this country. The results
never have been published in full, but
have been such as to warrant intro
ducing the treatment into actual hos
pital practice. The treatment is SINH
lar in some respects to the serum treat
ment, but depends on definite prin-
ciple, the basic idea being the presence
of class of ferments known as en-
zymes. which are produced by the
same bacteria that produce the dis
ease. 1t is because of the production
or rather of the over-productiOn of q
certain engine that diseases such as
they produce will run it's course" and
then die out of the system. The bac
terra in this case. it is stated are sim
ply killed by the ferment they produce
The object of the new treatment is tC
produce a pure engine, which. intro
duced into the human system. will xii
the disease germs without injuring the
patient. In this lies the difference from
the principle of inoculation for small
pox and other diseases where the OBJ
ject is to give the patient a mild type
of disease to render him immune tl
the more virulent type.
Mrs. McKinley's ill health was the sole
cause of the return of the Presiden
and his party to Washington two days
before they had planned to do SO. Here
tofore the excitement of travel an(
receiving visitors has been beneficial t(
Mrs. Mckinley and distinct improve
ment in her physical condition has
,, been noticeable when she has beer
away with the President. Largely fol
this reason the President went to New
England and arranged western trips
which he had expected to take later
1t was found. however. that instead
of the New England trip being hene
fetal, it had the opposite effect dpol
Mrs. Mckinley. and the President an'
DR.. RiXey decided it would be bette
to bring her back to Washington with
, out delay. The state of Mrs. McKin
ley's health at this time is decided,
worse than it has usually been sine
she has been in the White House. ant
the probable result will be that th
, President will remain in Washington
, practically all summer and will TAX
| little, if any, vacation, outside of thi
..;ty DraSi1ant NcKinlov'c iooto,