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The times., 1899-03-18
Little Hindoo in Chicago.
(From the Chicago Pos


There is a dear little brown Hindoo boy,
a leftover from the Worlds Fair. who is
being educated in a South Side public
school. His name is Kalid, or part of 1t is
the only part one can remember-and he
is fast forgetting all about the Hindoo gods.
In place of Brahma and Buddha he is
learning to love the memory of Washing
ton and Lincoln. How their austere vir-
tues compare with the good qualities of
India's spectacular deities one cannot say
as Kaiid is only seven times one, and is
not very well up on the subject OF compar-
atiye religions. Wednesday was a holiday
for him, and Kalid spent his day riding on
an extremely Occidental bobsled. Tommy
brought him in to play in his back yard,
and when Tommy's mother asked Kalid
Just TO hear him talk. why he had not gone
to school that day. the child, opening wide
his great eyes, said: wi, Jorshe Washn-
tons is born today. so we don't so to
school" Asked his idea of our great man
Kalid showed the thoroughness of his
training in a pretty drawl: wi, he is the
father of all the country. Wi, he was first
in war. and then he was in peace, and then
he was in his countrymen." What bleak
hero our illustrious Washington must be
to that dreamy Oriental. His mother and
father are devout Hindoos, and listen no
doubt with disgust to our national mythol-
ogy. / think myself Kalid is bored by
Washington, but he is too respectful to his
masters to resent the badness of the his
tory they prescribe.
The times., 1899-03-18
TO EXPLORE ALASKA.
The War Department Fitting Out
Two Expeditions.

Two Expeditions.
Orders for the organization of two mill
tary exploring expeditions to go to
Alaska in the coming spring and summer
were issued by the War Department yes
terday One of these will be officially
known as Cooks Inlet exploring expedi-
ton. 1t will be composed of twenty men
under Capt. E. F. Glenn, Twenty fifth
Infantry. The expedition will take enough
supplies and equipment to last until No
vember 10. 1t is expected to reach
Tyonok, Cooks Inlet, Alaska, about April
10, where camp and depot will be estab-
lished. On the way a small detachment
will be left at Portage Bay, Prince VIII
liam Sound, to explore, survey, and cstab-
lish and mark the trail from that point
to camp located at the head of Knik
Arm. From the permanent camp at Tyo-
nok detachments will be sent to explore
through TO the norfhward for the most
direct and practicable route from tide
water to the crossings Of the Tanana
River and from these TO Rampant and
Circle City. One detachment will explore
the west bank of Cooks Inlet for the most
practicable overland trail.
The other party will be known as the
Copper River exploring expedition. It
will be. commanded by Capt. w. r. Aber-
crombie, Second Infantry, who will have
with him thirteen others. This expedition
will be supplied TO November 20. 1t will
proceed to Valdez, on Prince William
Sound, about April 10, and establish a
camp and depot. From Valdez the expe-
dition will open up a military road to
Copper River and thence to Eagle City
The route outlined from the coast to
Eagle City viii be surveyed. One of the
most important features of this expedition
will be the selection by Captain Abercrom-
bic of locations for military reservations.
The reservations will be surveyed and
laid out
The times., 1899-03-18
GERMANY,s NEW MEAT LAW.
Features Particularly Interesting to
American Producers

The text of the new law of the German
empire concerning the slaughter of cattle
and the inspection of meat which was pre-
sented to the Reichstag for constitutional
confirmation on February II. has been re-
ceived by the Agricultural Department. 1t
is a voluminous document, Comprising
twenty-nine sections, and covering the two
subjects of the title in great detail. Pro-
visions relating to the importation of cat
tie and meat products of particular inter-
est to American producers are as follows
Meat imported to the interior of region
is subjected to the laws of import duties
and will be inspected by the customs Of
ficers cooperating with the inspectors. En-
ception is made in case the meat can be
proved to have already been inspected In
the country under the proper regulations
and is definitely marked for immediate
direct transit
The importation OF meat shall only be
permitted at specially designated customs
Offices. For the local trade in small from
tier towns as well as that of fairs and
markets in the frontier districts, meat may
be entered by order of the provincial au-
thorities without the inspection proceed
ings, or other relief may be granted. The
inspection of pork must include special ex-
animation for trichina. The Bundesrath
is empowered to prohibit the importation
of meat which cannot be proved to be
positively harmless to the health of human
beings at the time of importation.
Horse meat shall only be imported OF
sold when marked so as to be distinctly
known as horse meat. Meat imported
from foreign countries is to be marked as
being foreign meat. The Importation OF
sale of meats prepared in any way so as
to be detrimental to health is prohibited
The places where meats may be imported.
the fees for inspection, and all regulations
in regard to the trade in such meats shall
be fixed by the Bundesrath.
The times., 1899-03-18
The EIattery of Public Wen.
(From the Boston HeraIdD

ifluii iAt bt'lbu liCEdlul
The London Spectator, in interesting dis
cussion OF the dangers of fattery to public men.
cites Abraham Lincoln As an instance OF public
man whom hsttery could not affect. 1t is Il fact
that there has seldom been an instance OF 4
public man who was less tempted in this way
than was Lincoln. The people admired him and
were Loyalty true to him. They his greatness
sooner than did those in public life. As regards
the latter Lincoln was continually criticised and
troubled by them. There never one OF their
number to tell him that he was greater than
Washington. anywhere approaching to
the plane of Washington. He was continually
found fault with by his own party associates at
the Capital; not few OF them were inclined
to refuse him second term in the Presidency,
and some OF them intrigued to prevent his hay
ing this. The saintlike patience with which
Lincoln bore up under this was a beautiful trait
in his character. Something made him very
strong. Perhaps it was not opposition. but GER
tainly adulation had no part in it.
The times., 1899-03-18
nankcrs on Prosperity.

Wednesday night number OF the lead
ing bankers of the country dined at the
Union League Club, in New York, as the
guests of the Clearing House There was
modest repast. the cost of which was very
much less by the plate than that proposed
by the miscalled Democratic Club of New
York, in honor of Thomas Jefferson, the
advocate OF simplicity and the foe of ex-
iravagance. The subject OF most general
interest on which the assembled money
men touched was the present era OF pros
perity. which. they predicted, would con-
finue indefinitely unless some conditions
still Unforeseen should intervene. Asked
10 explain the cause of this prosperity, not
one suggested the Ding!ey tariff. They
simply said that the great demand for our
products-breadstuffs and manufactured
articles-abroad had made the money mar.
ket easy. and this accounted for every
thing.
President Mckinley is where he is be-
cause of his association with protective
tarin bill. The long overstimulation Of
production under conditions which shut US
out OF foreign markets-such as the greater
cost OF tutiabie raw UIaIsTldiS DIOHbhi
disaster on the country soon after the in
auguration OF Mr.. Cleveland. With utter
blindness to the facts, the country accepted
the explanation that il was fear Of free
trade that caused the collapse OF business
and was eager 10 carry into Office the best
known advocate of the Chinese exclusion
system.
In spite of the unfavorable conditions
our manufacturers made desperate strug-
gle for chance at the worlds markets.
The home market" fallacy was discarded
and our superior skill and greater produc-
five power were able TO overcome in a
measure the disadvantage OF more costly
materials. We have succeeded in getting
q foothold abroad and the result is that 80
often predicted by the Democracy-a reyi-
val OF prosperity in no way due TO, but
in spite of. high tariff. II has been a
revelation. Never before have bankers
met in a time of apparent but always
temporary prosperity without speaking of
the relations of the tariff to business. Now
It is wholly ignored and forgotten. Even
President Mckinley, whose stepping stone
was the Mckinley bill. does not hine at
fhe tariff as a cause Of business activity.
The times., 1899-03-18
HindOO Rhetoric.
CFrom the Chicago Record.

An esteemed Indian contemporary. the Bang
ablsi," i vernacular newspaper OF Bengal, has
Just published for its readers a critical esti-
mate of Lady Curzon. the wife Of the newly
appointed yiceroy of India. The "Bangabasi''
aifirms that Lady Curzon is like diamond set
in gold or full moon in a clear autunnal
sky" and goes on with native eloquence TO say:
'All the goddesses Of the Hindu Pantheon
must hide their heads in the presence OF Lady
Curzon.
Her color is like molten gold, its whiteneSs
having assumed tinge of red in the warm eli
mate Of this country. Her teeth are like a set
OF pearls her waist is beautifully slender.
..Her raven tresses setting off her white COM
pexion make her look like, we imagine, the
Goddess Saraswati. Her neck is like the neck
of a swan, and her voice resembles the voice OF
cuckoo
1t is gratifying to infer from this that typical
Chicago girls are received with proper apprecia
tion when they go to India.
The times., 1899-03-18
PRINCESS KAIULANf DEAD.
She succumbs to Innnmmatory Rheu-
mntism mt Honolulu.


San Francisco. March 1T-Maf advices
from Honolulu by the steamer China. which
arrived today. announce the death OF Prin-
cess Kaiulani on the morning OF March ..
lnfammatory rheumatism is given as the
cause. The Princess was twenty-three
years old.
With the premature death of Victoria
Cleghorn, otherwise known as the Princess
haiulant. the dynastic hope OF the few
Hawaiian natives who may still dream OF
! the restoration of the old island monarchy,
VIII come to an end. Not that there are
not plenty of descendants OF old savage
chiefs who would be eligible to the sue
cession. The line of the legitimate Kane
hsmeha dynasty terminated in the death
Of Lunalilo. brother and successor OF KAN
ehameha V, in 1874. from which time to
the revolution of 1893 the monarchy was
elective. Later rulers were selected from
the membership of the old feudal families
| The pretensions of Kalakaua, elected In
1874, to royalty Of blood were never SER
iously considered, and his family. includ-
ing Liliuokalani, and the just deceased
| kaiulani. owe whatever OF the true blue
| they may have inherited to the fact that
their near relative sat upon the toy throne
of the Islands by grace OF the dominant
| missionary element
On the accession of Liliuokaiani in 1891.
her neice. Kaiulani. was acknowledged as
heir presumptive. She was the daughter
OF Princess Miriam Likelike. a sister OF
kalakaua. and her husband A. s. Cieghorn,
a gentleman OF Scotch extraction long
settled in the islands. As there had al
ways been rivalry between the various for
eign interests represented in Honolulu,
kaiulani. owing to her British parentage
was looked upon as the special protege
of the English influence. She was care
fully educated in England presumably with
view to her future usefulness should she
| ever come to the throne.
kaiulani spent some time in the United
States in 1883. on her way to Europe and
was again visitor last year, on her re-
| turn journey TO the land OF her birth. Like
most of her family, she was highly intel
| ligent and attractive personally. and much
liked by those who knew her. She was the
object of whatever of loyalty TO the old
regime survived among her people In
Hawaii where she was best known, and by
many relatives and friends in this country
and in Great Britain. her untimeIy end
will be deeply regretted.
The times., 1899-03-18
cause of their suffering. but by the doc

cause of their suffering. but by the doc
tors themselves.
In one of the Vienna hospitals there was
a boy suffering from blood poisoning. One
of the hospital physicians transplanted into
this boys leg quantity of bacilli such
as produce inhsmmatory tumors or fu-
runcles. This is the doctors own account
of what happened:
The boy. who had previously been sufferer
from blood poisoning, recovered rapidly from his
original diseases, and week after the inocula-
tion described he declared out Of danger.
But by this time the pustules had developed into
full-sized furuncles. At the end of month the
boy died OF a malignant growth OF iuruncles
If that had happened in an American
hospital, and the official report had been
published in the daily papers, that doc
tor would have stood fair chance of being
lynched; and although lynching is a very
great evil. it can hardly be considered a
crime to take such a malignant, cold
blooded fiend as this out of the way of
doing further mischief. Such a man has
no more right to be in a hospital than If
he were maniac with propensity for
poisoning people. Not a patient in any
ward is safe with such a creature in au-
thority. 1t is bad enough that the poor
should be subjected, as they often are, to
the ministrations of inexperienced and un-
skiilful young physicians; but after all,
that is nothing more than they would be
obliged to suffer were they living in some
lonely country place, where no expert
enced doctor could be had. There are not
enough really capable physicians to attend
to all the people who are ill: and some
must put up with second-rate service. But
there is absolutely no excuse for such bru-
tality as that described in the reports of
these German doctors. 1t is the result
of what may be called scientific mania
conviction that the true scientific man
should never hesitate at iniicting torture
and death on fellow-being if he can add
scrap to his own knowledge thereby.
Such a man is, in plain English, muir
derer, and his proper place is in the peni
tentiary.
The times., 1899-03-18
4 Funny Congregation.

(From the New York Commercial Adyertiser)
The Cuban Assembly has a good many Of the
earmalks OF the small city council which is in
the business for what there is in it. 1t has not
corporations and street railroads TO tall back
upon for the filling OF its pockets, and it finds
the Emitted States little hard to manage. Its
latest assertion that it will plunge this country
into grewsome war unless the distribution OF
the s3COO,0OO for the soldiers be intrusted TO it
shows its keen scent in the pursuit OF money.
comcal aspect Of this terrible body is its hold
ing secret session to try to raise money to send
its commission to Washington to present its ulti-
matum to the President. 1t is ragged and out
at-elbows assembly, and one well understand
its grief and rage at not being able to make
better use of its official position than hitherto.
The times., 1899-03-18
Ingersou and the SpOOks.


Col. Robert G. Ingersoll delivered a lee
ture in the Columbia Theatre, in Brook
lyn, Tuesday night on Superstition, and
before he had ended the nerves of some OF
his auditors had been strained consider
ably. The colonei's argument was direct
ed against belief in the supernatural, and
he placed satan in the same category with
witches as being a wornout superstition.
The lecture had not progressed far and
the colonel had just declared, Where
there is no evidence there should be no
belief" when there was sharp rap from
ever the stage. Colonel Ingersoll and the
audience looked up, and then there came
a rap from below. There was a nervous
litter from some one and voice said:
'Spooks,"
Click-bang-clack ratified from all
around the stage, as though convention
OF Indignant witches or worse were beat-
ing sledge hammers on sheet iron. 1t was
obviously impossible to continue the lee
ture in the face of such opposition. Some
of the more superstitous looked at each
other with startled eyes and then peered
about as though in momentary expecta-
tion of seeing an i'll natured old woman
who had paid no admission flying above
their heads on a broomstick.
Stepping to a door at the side OF the
stage. Colonel Ingersoll demanded:
Cant you stop that hammering?'
But it continued, and a fidgety little
man in a back seat declared;
THAT jokes gone about far enough;
but there was a quiver in his voice. and
he said no more, for there came fright
full din of cracking. gathering iron. Then
it was that a practical man lifted his
voice, and before 1t fed uncanny visions.
Steam pipes. said he simply.
An usher rushed to the basement and
addressed a few hurried remarks to the
engine tender. valve was shut OF. the
cracking stopped. and Colonel lngersoii
proceeded with his work of humbuggns
Old Nick.
The times., 1899-03-18
An Argument for FIossing.
(From the Chicago NewsO


Flogeing as punishment may be brutal. and
so is the crime of wife-beating or child-beating.
A man may steal and reform, he may embezzIe
money and yet turn out honest citizen; but
as a rule, a fellow who will matrcat his family
has not manhood enough left upon which to graft
common decency. Tie reiormatory element in
punishment is wholly lost upon him. Whether
or not there is any human sort of discipline that
will answer the purpose in such cases is uncer-
tain although ii is sure that none has yet been
found and applied in this State The crime of
garroting was stopped in London by branding
one convicted of it. and possibly whipping might
end the lower and baser villainy tina, finds cx-
preston in abusing ones wife and children.
The times., 1899-03-18
In German Factories.
(From the Concord Monitor, !

While Germany is laborng to increase her
manufactures and extend her trade, in which
is met by the fact that this increase has resulted
in the largely increased number Of women and
children that brought into the factories and
that the laws governing child and female labor
not respected. The existing condition OF
things has called for the publication. by the i'm
pcria Office, OF statistics upon the subject. The
report shows that there nearly 5000 more
factories in 1897 that employ help that is under
age than there Were in 1896 while the number
Illegally employed has increased by the ten thou
sand The report shows that within the last few
years female workers have forced their way into
spheres OF labor which reserved for males,
and the employment OF young girls in such un-
healthfu occupations the manufacture OF glass
is cited instance of this fact.
The times., 1899-03-18
womnn,s work on Its Merits.
(Frcm tho Rrool,lyn r,gIaN

:
The United States Commission 10 the Paris FIX
position announces that it will make no arrange
ments for a separate women's department, and
that women will receive no special recognition.
This is a tribute to women. Their work its
merits is entitled TO examination, without the
argument of sex being advanced at all. There
will be no department Of exhibit in Paris in
which women's endeavor will not be represented
side by side with That OF men, and there will be
no label suggestive of sex. No one, nowadays,
claims special consideration for women-unlcss
they commit murder They stand on their merits.
1t is distinct advance when the idea is taboocd
that woman needs special starring in the indus
trial or artistic world
The times., 1899-03-18

The growing all-around friendliness
which has sprung up of late among the
governments and peoples of the United
States, England and Germany is causing
from numerous expressions in the French
press. The Paris Matin' calls particular
attention to the universal good feeling
toward America in Great Britain. 1t says:
There cannot be any mistake about the
sincerity Of the movement" and that "the
other nations will do well to watch it care
fully"
The times., 1899-03-18
EXAMINATION FOR PROMOTION
The Cases of schIey and Sampson to
He Treated PerfunctOrily.

1t is stated at the Navy Department that
the examining boards ordered to pass on
the promotions of Sampson and Schley
from commodore to rear admiral are
purely routine, and almost entirely per-
functory. 1t would obviously not be proper
for the Department to state at this stage
of the proceedings that all the commodores
are certain to pass satisfactorily. but it
is strongly intmated that there is not
the least doubt that such will be the
case
The times., 1899-03-18
SenDfnriul Elections.

One effect of the failure of several leg
islatures to elect United States Senators
must be to give an impulse to the move
people. We speak of it as a movement
because it has been urged in the resolu-
tons of more than one Democratic conven-
tion, although it has never been brought
into prominence as an issue.
1t is no longer possible to present a
strong argument in favor of the present
system. II does not insure the selection of
the wisest and purest candidate. 1t does
not maintain the superiority of the Senate
over the House. 1t does not prevent brib-
cry and corruption.
1t has been demonstrated that it is pos
sible for a man under indictment for a
crime to control enough members of the
legislature in his own favor to prevent
an election when he is not strong enough
to capture the prize himself. This is not
in one of the newly organized States of
the Wild West. but in the old and staid
Keystone State. In another Eastern State
man whose only quality is the possession
of great fortune-a man who is not per-
sonally prepossessing or in any way cal
culated to add to the dignity or intellectu-
ality of the Senate-has been able to pre-
vent an election. In other States there
have been instances of bold and almost
open bribery of legislators. including the
very speaker of the house. in California.
The allegation that seats in the Senate
have been bought is not new, and it Is
very widely believed. In no case has there
been as positive evidence Of bribery in
the election of State officers by the people
as in Senatorial elections. The evil is in
creasing and calls for early remedy which
is 10 be found in popular elections.
The times., 1899-03-18
Embalmed in Verse.


This old ditty, with a change, is recalled by
the embalmed beef investigation:
Three soldiers eat from out the kid
Ben Bolt ard Jack and Richard Fid
- 'Shipmates said Jack. 'twig what Eve found
For don't you see this bone am round2'
Old horse, old horse, how came you herel'
The times., 1899-03-18
The Centre of America.
(From the Boston Globe,

Which American city is nearest TO the centre
Of the United States? When the Aleutan Isl
ands ''farthest west San Francisco
about half way between the eastern and the west
ern boundaries Now that the Philippines arc
ours-Aguinaldo notwtLstanding-th central
point must be somewhere between San Francisco
and p~-.hu
The times., 1899-03-18

On the contrary, he has said that we have
ceased all tariff discussion and are reach
ing out for the worlds markets. Clearly
the Chinese wall is crumbling like the
walls of Jericho
The bankers all agree that our acquisi-
tion of new territory has frightened our
financial prospects because Of the new
fields thus opened up for commerce. The
only absurdity they cling to is the neces-
sity of an exclusive gold system. In time
that. like the protection fallacy will go.
The times., 1899-03-18

Esterhazy, the eminent bogus count and
forger of the Dreyfus dossier only wishes
he had money enough to reach the Philip
pines and help Aguinaldo to murder a
few Americans. He is without the money.
but the sentiment does him so much honor
that we have no doubt he will be at once
elected a corresponding member of Mr..
Hoar's Expansion Society-limited.
The times., 1899-03-18
4 self-styIed Congress.

(FrOm the New Orleans Times' Democfat.)
The so-called Cuban Assembly represents moth.
ing. not even the Cuban army. 1t is an organiza-
tion composed of a portion Of the officers in the
late war. organized for purposes very much like
bIackmail to squeeze much money out OF the
United States as possible.