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In the Light of History.

VOW comes Senator Lodge, scholar
M and historian of the first rank.
and with unerring logic and en-
phatc rhetoric, flays General Shafter
alive. In the May number of Harper's
the Massachusetts senator deals
with the Santiago campaign and does
not hesitate to say that Shafter was
grossly incompetent-the victorious
outcome resulting in spite of him.
Going over the official records in the
calm, dignified, impartial spirit of the
true historian, Senator Lodge makes
out a case of military ignorance and
incompetence against both Shafter and
Alger that is truly remarkable. He
emphatically declares that the San
tiago campaign was won by the sub
ordinate officers and the rank and file.
The subordinate officers repeatedly
acted upon their own volition, disre-
garding the orders of the general COM
handing whenever they deemed them
unwise.
Referring to Alger, the senator holds
him personally responsible for the in
efficient equipment, the inadequate
supplies, all the misfortunes that over
took the army. He says it was his
failure to grasp the situation which
entailed upon the soldiers the suffer-
ing, the hardships and the privations
which filled the columns of the daily
newspapers for months" Speaking of
the fact that at FL Caney there was
hat to
support the infantry and to clear the
way for the charge, the senator says:
Moreover, the battery was not only
grossly Inadequate, but it used black
powder, and Immediately established
a faring target to an enemy entirely
concealed and perfectly familiar with
the ranges. Why We're there no guns?
Why were they left at Tampa or in
the transports? The fact requires no
committee of investigation to prove 1t,
and somebody was responsible for the
scores of men shot at Ell Caney be-
cause there We're only four guns there
to open the way. Why was the pow
der black, so that a target of smoke
hung over the American position after
every discharge? Any smokeless pow
der was better than none. Even poor,
broken down Spain has smokeless pow
der for artillery. Why did we not have
it? While the war department had
! been passing years in trying to find
a patent powder just to it's liking, our
artillery was provided with black pow
der and went to war with it, and men
died needlessly because of it. No need
of committee to establish this fact,
| either. Who was responsible?'
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FRIDAY. MAY ). 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.
More Fighting.

~ yesterdays fighting in Luzon
" dispelled the hope that the Fill
pinos We're on the point of quit
ting. 1t is easy to believe that the
sharp work of the American troops has
discouraged the natives and probably
1.-THE rank and file of the Filipino army
tare ready to give up if permitted to
7 do so by their generals. 1t is great
pity that the peace negotiations begun
last Saturday could not have been
brought to a successful contamination.
The Filipinos insisted upon peace with
honor" They considered unconditional
surrender very humiliating. They could
not be made to understand that there
was nothing dishonorable in such
proceeding--that a notable precedent
existed in the unconditional surrender
that Grant exacted and received from
Lee.
If it is true that the resources of the
insurgents are rapidly being exhausted
there is hope for a speedy renewal of
peace overtures. Meanwhile BUSH
whacking fighting must continue. 1t
appears that the Americans made sub
stantial progress yesterday, gaming
several points of advantage. The ma
tives are in a bad plight. But what
stubborn and persistent fighters they
are!
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The government was censured for Of
fering a heavy bonus to undesirable
Russian immigrants for the Northwest.
while the maritime parts of provinces
We're being virtually depopulated by
emigration to the United States. Inc
balance might numerically be in favor
of Canada, but, it was claimed, the i'm
migration was of a quality decidedly
inferior to that Of the emigration The
noticeable feature of the ministerial re-
ply was the admission that the alleged
exodus was fact. There is no explain
ing it except on the theory that Canada
is not so prosperous and does not offer
the opportunities for earning a liveli-
hod as the United States.
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Clever Woman.
Ia New York Sun,

From the New York Sun.
She is a clever woman, past master in
the art of strategy. So agree all who rode
down town on the street car yesterday
morning.
She got on a southbound Clark street
limits train at Belden avenue. Every seat
was taken and almost every strap had a
man or woman suspended from 1t. She
looked about. hesitatingly, for an instant.
but every man was wonderfully interested
in his paper. Then she took hold of a
strap almost in front of young man. n
very young man. who was blushing guilt
lily as he pretended to read
While the young man blushed ana the
woman thus hung her handkerchief fut-
tered accidentally to all appearances, to
the floor. The young man looked up
lust then and saw the white bit OF cam
brio. The feeling of chivalry which he
evidently was trying to stife would not
be stified longer.
He arose and stopped for the handker-
chief This was the woman's opportunity.
While his back was turned she gently
slipped into his seat. When he turned
about and saw what had occurred ne al
most collapsed. But the woman did not.
She took her handkerchief out OF MS
limp hand, smiling innocently.
THANK you" she said, sweetly, you
are very kind
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MAKES SWEET BIRDS SING.
Southern Girl Who Earns Money by Bird
Training.

Training.
A southern woman has lately added
a new chronicle to the already lengthy
list of feminine achievements to earn
money. She raises and trains native
song birds. Miss Louise Cheatam lives
near the popular winter resort, Aiken,
S. c., and the idea was suggested by
the sale of a pet hooking bird. This
bird came to her through a negro boy.
whom she caught robbing the parent
nest. The t1edgling was the weakening
of the flock and for that reason the boy
considered it worthless and left 1t on
the ground to die. Miss Cheatam res
cued and raised it.
The second winter of the birds life 1T
was purchased by a northern visitor to
Aiken, who, CHANGING to pass the house,
heard it singing. This sale gave the
young woman an idea which she was
not slow to follow. and now she does
a thriving business with native song
birds of the south.
Miss Cheatam does not attempt to
hatch them herself, but, watching her
chance, goes boldly to the spot where
the parent birds have made their homes
and lifts the nests, with their young
broods off. This is the best and most
humane method, especially with the
hooking birds, for if a human hand
once enters their nest the parent bird
will kill every remaining tledgling, and,
according to Miss Cheatam her great
est enemies are these same parent
birds, for they try in every way to pois-
on a bird which they find Gagged.
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DR.. Briggs Again.

HE Rev DR.. Charles Briggs,
whose trials for heresy a few
years ago created so much in
'terest, and who eventually was crowd
ed out of the Presbyterian denomlna-
tion, is having a hard time squeezing
into the Episcopal church. Some of the
Episcopalians are as strongly convinced
of the doctors heresy as We're the most
orthodox of the old school Presbyter-
dams. The matter is now in the hands
sof Bishop Potter, who, it is said, is de-
termined to proceed with the ordina-
tion. If this should prove true. it is
believed that a formal protest will be
made after the actual ceremony of Or
dination has been begun. Provision is
made for challenging the fitness of the
applicant for ordination and there are
precedents for just such action.
\ According to one New York city
clergyman quoted by the New York
Herald, the admission of DR.. Briggs to
the Episcopal priesthood would be i'm
mediately followed by a large detection
to the Church of Rome. This opinion,
Ue SAID, WAS DdSSu upcIl cOI4lVicii-eS
which he had held with large number
of fellow clergymen. The chief accusa-
ton the Episcopalians bring against
DIR. Briggs is that he believes that the
actual words of Christ have been lost,
and that what we accept as his words
are practically mere matters of tradi-
ton IF that be So" they say, what
remains of the foundation of our faith
1t must be obvious that the acceptance
OF this view means the dissolution of all
the ties of discipline in the church"
If DIR. Briggs cannot get into the
Episcopal church, he should next try
the Congregational, whose liberal atti-
tude of late has been marked. It should
not be necessary for him TO go off and
start a church of his own
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AYPHENATED HYBRID IMPOSSIBLE.
No Man Can simultaneously Maintain True
Allegiance to Two Nations.

Allegiance to Two Nations.
From the New York Press.
The Coghlan incident has been an ex-
cellent test of hyphenated nationality. No
man can be loyal to both sides of the
hyphen. He may appear to be when he
foregathers formally to advance colonial
principles under the convenient shadow of
the Stars and Stripes and listens for once
to a Teutonized version of the Star
Spangled Banner" But when the blood is
up, no matter by how small an incident
stirred, the hyphen breaks and the man
shows what he is, either a German or an
American.
The Herald has been at some pains to
secure some examples of the effect of
the incident on hyphenated patriots and
from it we quote. The St. Louis West
lche Post says:
Judging from the silly, infinitely insipid
parody song on the Germans with which
the notorious kicker Coghlan amused the
educated rabbe of New York, he is a
braying jackass, and our neighbors of
Belleville, which city he audaciously calls
his native home, should at the first OPP
portunity pull his long ears
The "Nestor of the German American
press" of the same city, DR.. Emil Pre-
torious, darby intimates that revenge at
the polls which we are accustomed to hear
whenever an immigration, excise or
school law meets with "GermanAmeri-
cam disfavor.
Captain Coghlan is reckless. ignorant
and vicious His act is an insult to ma
ton and to 100000 German American
voters, who have been treated in the most
shameful manner by the Mckinley ad-
ministration.'
The Nestor also threatens the president
with the wrath of 900 German-American
newspapers
The Illinois Staats-Zeitung contents
itself with demanding Captain Coghlan' 5
dismissal. 1.-The American government,
it says, SHOULD get rid of officers of the
kind Of Coghlan."
The Morgen Journal of this city, the
German edition of a print which calls
itself IAN American paper for the Ameri-
can people, adopts the toploftical "Eu-
ropean' air of social superiority, remark
ing scornfully: with German officers
and in German society such an occurrence
is unthinkable."
There are other expressions showing
the break of the hyphen at the other end
Americans of German descent in Cleve-
land, Philadelphia, Washington. and ever
Chicago, speak, as do Americans OF other
lineage, deploring or ignoring Captain
Coghlan's speech. but all taking instinct
lively the attitude of American citizens
commenting upon the conduct OF an Amer
lean officer. There are, in brief, revealed
by the incident Germans and Americans
but no German Americans The by.
phenated hybrid is an impossibility. M
more can any man maintain allegiance t.
| two nations than faith in two deities.
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HE brutal passions of the south
ern people, unfortunately, are
MT cnnfininp their activities to

~ HE brutal passions of the south
ern people, unfortunately, are
not combining their activities to
burning negroes at the stake. They
have killed a baseball umpire down
there, and he wasn't coored umpire
either 1t seems that two Birmingham,
Ala. teams, the "blues" and the reds"
We're the contestants, and that Samuel
Powell, the umpire, in his decisions
gave the reds the best of it. In the
seventh inning Frank Mccoy, the star
batter of the blues, batted the ball to
the left field fence, bringing in two men
on bases and making a home run him
self. He was congratulating himself
on the feat when the umpire told him
the hit was foul. This enraged the
excited young man and he called
Powell sneaking thief. Powell
knocked him down and stamped on
him. Mccoy seized a baseball bat and
hit Powell, crushing his skull and pro-
ducing instant death. The life of
baseball umpire is popularity supposed
to be full of danger, but this is the
first time, we believe, when one has
actually been killed in the act. Cen
orally an umpire is attacked with moth
ing worse than profanity. But the hot
blooded southerners are going to ex-
tremes all along the line this spring.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-05
~HE commercial congress to be
held in Philadelphia promises to
be attended by a thousand

more importers and merchants of the
world as accredited delegates. The first
step in interesting chambers of COM
merce and commercial classes generally
of foreign countries in the congress was
to explain the aim and scope Of the en-
terprise to the United States ambassa
doris, ministers and consuls abroad
partment at Washington, which co-ope-
rated most efficiently with the promot
ters Nearly one hundred commercial
organizations in foreign countries are
interested in the congress.
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Current Comment.
sectionalism and the speakership.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The determination of Speaker Reed to
retire from politics has brought out a
phase of practical politics not creditabe
to the country AS soon as public Off
GER is to be chosen whose influence is
only little less than that of the chief
magistrate there is wire pulling eXtraor-
binary in behalf of the selfish interests of
this and that section. Greed, sectional
ism and prejudice are active factors in a
contest that should be decided upon the
principle of exact justice to all. The
speaker of the house of representatives,
at Washington ought to be chosen solely
with regard to his ability and his fairness
toward all factions.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-05
Trepidation in the White House.

From the Springfield, Mass, Republican.
They are beginning to discern the signs
of the times in administration circles.
Representative Wadsworth of New York
reports that the strong Mckinley breeze
which was blowing so brislhly while the
war with Spain was in progress is no.
ticeably subsiding and a decided reaction
is setting in on account of the Philippine
business and the army scandals. He
would not be surprised if the democrats
click u.s. in the next presidential election
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-05

HE lynching record for the first
four months of the year was
thirty-two-that is the number
that the newspapers have recorded. All
but one took place in the South. Georgia
leads with eleven to her credit. OF the
thirty-two only three We're whites. The
aynching of negroes is supposed to be a
punishment for crimes against white
women While this was the charge in
the majority of the cases recorded tits
wear it was not the charge in several,
nor was there clear proof of guilt
against all the negroes killed on that
charge In the case of the negro preach
er lynched with exceptional barbarity
last week there was not the slightest
evidence of his connection with any
crime. He was mutilated first and then
killed on the merest suspicion. A srlsly
story comes from South Carolina Of
combination of negroes who have de-
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ermined on a policy of retaliation as

termined on policy Of retaliation as
means of putting an end to lynching
and White Gaping outrages. According
to the yarn the negroes have agreed to
murder a white man or burn white
mans home for every negro lynched.
The chances are that this story is a
fake concocted by white negro haters
with view of making it an excuse for
any further acts of violence they may
see fit to commit.
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. ANADIANS keep coming across

~ ANADIANS keep coming across
~ the border into the states in
numbers that disturb the Cana
dian parliament. The movement of
late is said to have been much larger
than usual. In the ministerial speech
at the opening of parliament the coun-
try was congratulated that the exodus
had ceased. This statement was at
tackled in a debate a day or two ago
and the charge was made that instead
Of having ceased it was on the increase.
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Merely a Move for Effect.

From the Philadelphia Press.
If there were really any expectation
that Mr.. Quay would get a seat in the sem
ate contrary to the provisions of the con-
stitution of the United States and of all
precedent there would have been no such
haste to make the appointment. The APP
pOintment was not made with any such
expectation, however. 1t is only intended
for political effect.
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One Phase of the Cost.

From the 1ndianapolis Sentinel
The administration has decided that So
900 regulars will be needed in the Philip
pines whether Aguinaldo gives up his
fight or not-just for garrison duty. Just
think of 1t. This country got along very
well with an army of $4,000, and now 10000
more are needed to garrison few islands
that we have seized under our new i'm
perial policy.
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Satisfactory to Democrats.

From the P1ttsburg Post.
Governor Stones appointment of Quay
has accomplished what it was intended to
do in clarifying the law of limitations and
the senator and giving his confederates a
chance to hurrah, of which they awaited
themselves. From the democratic stand
point We see no objection to the fight go
ing on. We are not losing sleep on that
account But what a miserable exhibit
the governor has made of himself
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Ill-SDent Railroad Money

From the Omaha Bee.
One of the railroads announces a new
system for spotting its employees. If the
railroads would use the money wasted on
spoilers in raising the pay of the con-
ductors and other employees they would
probably achieve better results.
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Alcer and Pagan "the Country"

From he New 1OfK W OTlu.
A thick and thin admins ration organ
speaks of the testimony of General Miles
in regard to putrid beef, which has been
fully sustained by the reports and sworn
testimony of hundreds of regular and
volunteer officers as an attempt to be
foul the reputation of his country This
is interesting. Is Alger 'the country?' is
Eagan the country"
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Admiration Society of Two.

From the Boston Herald.
General Shafter is reported to have said
that 1.-The secretary of war is one of the
grand figures of the war with SPAIN 1t
would now seem to be incumbent upon
Secretary Alger to respond in his own
graceful phraseology what would imply
The same to you, SIR Then the circle
might be considered complete. We think
the public verdict generally is to the eff
feet that honors are even between these
two figures in the late contest.
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Soldiers in q irving Climate.

From the Springfield, Mass. Republican.
The tropical climate needs to be reck-
oned with by would-be administrators.
General Brooke, commanding in Cuba. Is
said to be ready to resign in order to
reach cooler zone. General Henry
has already succumbed. Sooner or later
some one should be found for those places
who can stand 100 degrees in the shade
without whiting. Frequent changes are
not wholesome for the governed
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Personal.

John Jacob Astors country place at
Rhinecliffe on the Hudson is run on a
strict business plan. Each department
dairy, stables, garden, etc.-has a head
who reports through the general super
intendent to Colonel Aston every morn
ing. Accounts are balanced monthly.
Senator Jones of Nevada is always
ready to listen to inventors who think
they have good thing. The result is
the hotels where the senator stops are
haunted by linen of genius anxious to
secure an audience with the wealthy Ne
vada man. from whom they hope to secure
financial assistance
Mrs. George Livingston Baker the
wealthy society woman of Staten Island.
has finally won her fight to have the
working time of the employees of the New
York & Staten Island Electric company
reduced to 10 hours. She has been at it
since last October with great energy and
the company has finally yielded.
Marcel Provost, the author of "Demi
Vierges.' has been elected president of the
Societe des Gems de Lettres, Jules Lee
maitre of the French Academy and of the
League of the Fatherland being his oppo-
nent. In his speech of acceptance Mr..
shame to expel like towards a colleague
and master like Zola because the mob is
now yelling at his back"
The wife of the great Hungarian paint
err Munkacsy visits him often in the mad
house and takes him out for a drive.
Sometimes he recognizes her. In the
grounds of the asylum he can be seen
leaning on two attendants as he walks
about, his once imposing figure bent and
emaciated, his snow-white hair and beard
unkempt-a mere wreck of the man who,
few years ago, was considered one of
the handsomest public characters in
Paris.
Canadians seem to be tri1e hard to
please in the matter of governor generals
Lord and Lady Aberdeen were regarded
as too democratic when they ruled in the
vice regal court. Their successors Lord
and Lady Mimic, are being put down as
too exclusive. The latter won some favor
during the winter by showing that she is
capital skater, but his lordship (who on
account of his somewhat short temper
has long borne the name of Pepper
mints') is not well received by "our lady
OF the SHOWS.
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Administration Talk of Treason.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The weakness of the administration is
made very clear by the silly cabinet talk
of treason" With the best minds in the
republican party enlisted against ''crimi-
nal aggression" disguised as benevolent
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