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The evening times., 1899-06-21
WAR sTREsGrH OF The BoERs.
Can Pat :5.OOO Men in the Field
Armed With Mnusers.

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In view Of the possibility of rupture
between Great Britain and the Transvaal
the War Department Intelligence Bureau
| in Washington has collected a mass Of
| valuable Information regarding the arma-
| ment and equipment Of the Boer govern
ment. According to the data at hand it
| is learned that the Transvaal authorities
| within the last four years have equipped
| the artillery branch of the army entirely
with Krupp guns. The pieces embrace
standard field guns of 2.95-inch calibre.
and, in addition. mountain guns Of 2.36-
| inch calibre, and bush guns Of 1-46-inch
calibre. The field guns are mostly OF the
lighter Krupp variety Of 2s calibres length.
1t is this type OF weapon which the Chill
can army used in the late war in Chile, and
for rough country work the Krupps de-
clare it to be the best piece of ordnance
turned out in Europe.
The 2.36-inch mountain gun is capable
of being transported on the backs Of three
mules; one mule carries the barrel. Sec
ond the carriage, and the third the wheels
and shafts. The nominal weight for each
animal is about 1893 pounds. To this must
be added the weight of the saddle and
equipment. IHdhiHS u tOtdi VI -ot pounuo
per animal. In the United States 300
pounds is deemed maximum pack weight
for a strong mule. The Krupp bush gun
in the possession OF the Beers consists of
piece of very light weight. and one ca
pable OF being transported in all places.
even the most difficult ground This type
OF gun has been used in a number of
punitive African expeditions.
The Boer infantry Is now armed with the
latest type OF Mauser rifle. the handiwork
of the Loewe works of Berlin. The cav
airy carry German regulation revoiyers
and sabres. According to the military at
tache's reports, the Transvaal forces are
essentially German in equipment and drill,
and the fact Is also noted that many com
missioned officers in the Boer service
learned the art OF warfare in the German
army. There is good reason to believe that
there are even now. many German officers
with the Boer troops. who are simply alb
sent from their regiments in Germany, on
leave. The fact that the German govern
ment permitted, openly, German officers to
take service with the Turks in the war be-
tween Turkey and Greece lends additional
confirmation TO the report.
In the opinion OF many well-posted
American officers. the Beers are in far bet
ter shape today for war than is generally
supposed. A war between the Beers and
England will mean. it is said in official
circles here. a much stouter affair than
Great Britain has had to deal with in the
last thirty-five years The Beers, at the
present time, are in much better shape,
and are more ably officered than they were
in the last struggle with the English. 1t is
estimated by the various reports that the
Beers are able to put into the field $1,000
welI-equipped and well officered men.
The evening times., 1899-06-21
4 Novel Thief-Catcher.
paris Correspondence London Post. }

rich American, residing in the st. Georges
quarter here, had been for some little time past
the victim of systematic thefts. Banknotes and
money not left under lock and key disappeared
regularly. NJ Cornette, the commissary of po-
lice, was informed Of the robberes. He found it
would be impossible to keep an effective watch
on the bedroom where the thefts occurred but
he adopted a stratagem which turned out sue
cessfuily. small vial containing a mixture of
picric acid and fuschnc was placed in a metal
case for holding gold and few Napoleons were
placed on top. In order to get out the gold the
metal case had to be held upside down, and
then, of course. the chemical preparation would
run out and stain the thiefs hands q bright and
indellible yellow. As as some Of the gold
was missed N. Cornette summoned all the serv.
ants to his presence. The valet's fingers be-
trayed him. Realizing the uselessness of deny
ing when caught yellow handed, he confessed,
and was duly locked up.
The evening times., 1899-06-21
Curious Christfan Names.
iFrnm Notea and Qnexiesl

remember hearing the following story from
Names and Surnames.'' There once 4 woman
"a little 'cracky.' ! think said the Canon
by way of parenthesis-who had son whom
she had christened what Her idea seems
to have been that when in after days he was
asked his name, and kept saying what" anus
ing scenes would follow, which was likely
enough, especially il the boy was careful TO
pronounce the aspirate. Such a did,
believe. occur once when he went to school, and
was told, n newcomer, to stand up and fur
nish certain particulars. "What is your name?''
asked the teacher What" blurted out the
boy, amid the laughter Of the class "what is
your name?' asked the master agin with more
emphasis what" replied the boy ..Your
name,- sir!'' roared the infuriated pedagogue
.'What, What!'' roared back the terrified urchin.
The sequel forget, but / believe it was one of
those cases in which the folles of the parents
ar visited on the children of the first genera
The evening times., 1899-06-21
Fined for Failing to Cure.
From the New Orleans Times.Democrat.


''An advertiser has to stick to the truth in
South America" said the representative of
large shipping concern. Il know that seems in.
credible. but it's absolutely true. Some years ago
a dealer in New Orleans sent assorted lot of
patent medicines to American agent ut Santi-
ago, Chill. Among the stuff was a lot of tooth.
ache drops. which were warranted on the bottle
to cure the worst case Of toothache in ten min
utes. Here nobody would take such an assertion
seriously. but down there it's different The first
man who bought bottle made an immediate
application, and then pulled out his watch When
ten minutes elapsed, and the tooth calmly CON
tinued TO ache, he furious, and at once had
the agent arrested The poor fellow was fined
8, 900. and sentenced to three months in Jail
Through the efforts of the American consul, the
imprisonment was knocked off. but he had to pay
the fine. and it broke him up in business That
story is absolutely true rs can be testified to by
a dozen people now in the city. 1t is sad to
fancy the effect on commercial circles generally if
such law enforced in the United States -
The evening times., 1899-06-21
CieyeInnd'. Reign of Terror.

The disastrous effect of Mr.. Hanna's alb
sence from Cleveland, Ohio. at the present
time is painfully apparent His home town
is in a state of violent insurrection, and at
the mercy of a brutal and bloodthirsty
mob. which clubs and abuses unfortunate
street car employees, attacks and destroys
corporate property, and Is completely mas
ter of the situation. Manifestly the Cleve-
land municipal government is helpless to
restore order; but we do not hear that the
State authorities are interesting them
selves in the matter or have been appealed
to for aid. The only local hope seems to
be that the traction people will surrender
to the strikers on the terms proposed by
the latter and so end the trouble.
Doubtless that is the easy way out of
the difficulty as the demands of the union
men do not appear to be unreasonable
They merely insist that when the company
discharges a man. reasons for such action
in writing shall be given Oh the request OF
a committee representing the employees;
and that differences between the corpora
tion and its servants shall be subject to
compulsory arbitration. The reinstate-
ment of all employees now on strike is made
condition.
1t is stated in the dispatches that, in
submitting these terms. the strikers de-
plcred and denounced the violence that has
been committed in their name, and dis
avowed all responsibility for it. The trades
union view CT the outbreak is that the
vicious elements of the city have taken
advantage of the occasion TO cut loose and
create riot. with the idea of promoting
their chances for loot and robbery during
the confusion.
Acce pting that explanation as true, the
city government is highly reprehensible
for not calling upon the State for aid the
moment It was discovered that the local
peace powers were para!yzed and unable
TO protect persons and property. But ev-
erybody in Hannaville seems to have lost
his head. 4 place which for so long a
time has depended upon the will and ini-
tiative of one man. is apt to go in pieces
when he is away. Many a Cleveland heart
has ached because the villages Uncle
Mark is on the far side of the Atlantic. A
little later it may dawn upon his neighbors
that something beside rheumatism took
him cut of the country just at the begin
ming of the strike. He knew well enough
what was coming and he declined to be
there to catch any Of the remarks that
might he made on the subject. Mr.. Hanna
has net forgotten the normal effect of
strikes upon Republican politics. as ex-
emplifed in the celebrated Carnegie Pink
erton case at Homestead. We are quite
confident that peace and a resumption of
friendly relations between capital and la
Dor at his old home will do more to cure
the Senator's rheumatism and bring him
quickly back to us than all the mud baths
be can take at AK les Bains. or that he
will be subjected to less voluntarily dur
ing the next Presidential campaign.
The evening times., 1899-06-21

the trouble Of drawing up the papers and
so forth. He thus lodged the consequences
of his performance. Before his New York
career began he lived in Philadelphia.
where, one fine morning, sixty-five usury
charges were brought against him and his
brother. Somehow or other they wriggled
out of the clutches of the law in that city
and went to the metropolis. And now
Mr.. William Dunlap is setting up in bust
ness as an evangelist. 1t may be that
his Intended proselytes are afraid that he
will charge them for services, whether they
are converted or not. AT any rate. they
disapprove of him emphatically.
1t appears that Mayor Van Wyck, like
Gamaliel Of old, cares for none of these
things. He is not disposed to punish the
Hebrews whose ears are offended with Mr.
Dunlaps remarks. nor does he intend to
interfere with Dunlap so long as the latter
keeps within the bounds of decency. But
this is what he says, in plain, blunt Eng
lish:
l will not tolerate attacks on anyone's re-
iigion on the public streets. II you want to
duct crusade hire ball get church. II
you pitacniflS against tne flebItWs
on the streets I'll revoke your license.
There is nothing uncertain about tn at
1t sounds the death -knell of Mr.. Dunlap's
sort of preaching, and it is to be hoped, for
his own sake. that he will have the sense
to see 1t. Mayor Van Wyck intends that it
shall be possible for a decent, we'll behaved
citizen of any religion to walk ON the street,
or sit in his own house with the window
open. without hearing abusive language
directed at the things which he may con
slider holy. The mayor reasons that those
who are for any reason anxious to change
their faith will go to hear a speaker in a
hall. where no one need listen to argumen
displeasing to him. He does not believe in
stufling mans ears full of talk ABOUT re-
ligion-no matter what reiigion-while en-
gagged in the pursuit of his business. He
has behaved in the case of Mr.. Dunlap pre-
cisely as he would behave if Mussulman
fanatic from the wilds of the Khyber Hills
should prance through the streets pro-
claiming Mohammed and denouncing
Christianity. And by his action Mr.. Dun
lap has put himself on the same legal foot
ing with that fanatic, while by his previous
life he would appear to be considerably in
ferior to a respectable and honest Turk.
The evening times., 1899-06-21
A story Of Nile. CnIye.
(From the London Chronicle.)

Apropos Of the announcement that Mile. Emma
Calve had ordered her tomb to be made with
representation of herself Ophelia, N. Jules
Claretie recalls pathetic story concerning the
great singer. embodied in a letter which Mile
Calve had addressed to himself Some years ago
Mile. Cave gave concert at Nice for the benc-
fit Of three very poor families. One of the re-
cipients, concierge, had poor little girl Of Is
hunchbacked and with psralyzed legs. Mile.
Calve advised the mother to have her taught
flower making, and paid for her apprenticeship.
Some months after the little hunchback, weak,
and dying of consumption. arrived in a small
cart drawn Icy her mother, with some beautiful
artificial field flowers she had made, some one
having told her that Mile. Calve playing
0phelia, and that it necessary for her TO have
field flowers. The singer deeply touched. The
poor little ccnsumptive flower maker has passed
away. and in memory of her Mile. Calve has or
dered marble flowers for her tomb, flowers Of the
field, such her little protege had made for her
The evening times., 1899-06-21
DUALIsM AMONG CATHOLICS.
Mgr. O'COnnell Talks of Complaints
fn south America.

IN SOutn hmtThcus
| Paris. June 2l.-The "Herald's" Euro
pean edition publishes the following from
its correspondent at Rome:
Il met this morning Mcnsignor o'Con-
neil. friend Of Monsignor Ireland. and he
confirmed the announcement that the
| Archbishop of st. Paul will shortly visit
London. The date Of Monsignor Ireland's
return TO America is not yet settled. but
it is now certain that he will not go back
to Rome before leaving Europe.
Il took advantage OF the opportunity to
ask the former rector of the North Ameri-
can College his opinion on the work Of the
Latin American council. nov sitting in
Rene. Monsignor OConnell seemed to
think that there exists a sort OF antago-
nism or latent dualsm between the Cath
o'ics OF North and South America. When
the South American council was convoked
by the Pope there was an impression in
the United States that 1t was intended 10
consolidate Latinism in the New World,
in order to oppose il to the Americanism
which prevails in the North. and the i'm
preston remains.
If such were the object of the council,
it will have no influence upon the Catho-
lies of the United States, from whom those
of Latin America. from Mexico to Cape
Horn, are more remote than Europe. But
since the arrival in Rome OF the Bishops
summoned to the council. Monsignor
O'Connell's personal Impressions have
been modified. lie has observed with pleas
ure that the South American episcopate is
not 50 much animated By Spanish ideas as
in the past. and that it is not, like the
Spanish episcopate. mere Catholic than the
Pope and blindly obedient to the will of
the Roman curia.
"A certain amount of bad humor prevails
among the members of the South American
episcopate. who openly complain tina. they
have been neglected By the Vatican. The
Pope and these in immediate contact with
him perceive this. and are seeking how the
discomfort may be dissipated.
MonsignoT OConnell believes that
South American cardinal will be created
shortly. Doubtless the possibility of this
creation induced the majority OF the coun-
ell not to elect its president, but request
the Pope TO appoint him. with the idea that
the president chosen by the Pontin would
be the bishop destined to be raised TO the
cardinalate.
In any case. whatever may be the reso-
lutions Of the council. they will in no way
modify the conditions OF existence or the
tendencies Of Catholicism in Anglo Saxon
America.
Such. in brief, are the views
of Monsgnor O'Connell. expressed
to me in the course of short
conversation. Before leaving +
informed him that Archbishop Rsstropo. of
BOgota. wished II to be known that the
members OF the council are not Spania rds
but Americans, and that their sympathies.
especially in matters OF religion, are not
with Spain but with Americansm as un-
derstood and praeticed in the United
States. and that this truth will sooner or
later be recognized at the Vatican 1t
may be So. said Monsislor OConneH
struggling his shoulders. Archbishop Res
trepo is very intelligent serious. and /
broad minded but the rest or at at any |
rate most of them. think otherwise"
The evening times., 1899-06-21

The protest of the people of Porto Rico.
against the Algerian conditions to which
they are subjected under the Stars and
Stripes, would make pretty good Demo-
cratic campaign document. Although the
island is an integral part of the United
lection as Americans, but only as native
Porto Ricans'' and foreigners. Although
every official is American and the flag floats
over its custom houses. American vessels
must pay outrageous tariff taxes and port
and tonnage dues: and the situation of the
inhabitants is infinitely worse and more
hopeless than it was under Spanish rule.
Porto Rico is being Algerized and Ding
leyized to destruction.
The evening times., 1899-06-21

Senator Hear has been trying TO hide his
light under bushel for some time past,
and has not appeared much in evidence in
connection with his "anti-imperialists"
coparceners. The speech of the Hon. John
Barrett in Boston will serve TO bring him
again into prominence. Mr.. Barrett de-
ciares that the anti-American part Of the
Senator's speech against the Peace Treaty
was promptly wired to Hongkong and
thence transmitted to Aguinaldo. who had
it printed and distributed thoroughly
among the insurgents, much to their Joy
and encouragement. And yet this man
holds down a seat in the Senate, once dig
nifed by a Webster,
The evening times., 1899-06-21
sHIPYARD RIvETERs UNEASY.
Fears of Biis Strike at Newport
News. Va.


Newport News, Va. June 2l.-It is re-
ported that the riveters at the shipyards
have made demand for higher wages and
that they expect their answer Thursday
morning. There is talk of threatened
strike all over the city and the rumors
have worked up considerable excitement
among the people who have not forgotten
the strike of May, 1896. when 5000 men
went out because the Bundy clock system
was not abolished and from the effects O.
which it took the city year to recover.
1t is said the riveters want an increase
of 81 for every 100 rivets. 1t is also re-
ported that the boiler makers are holding
meetings. The hope is expressed that the
affair will be amicably settled before the
men make a movement to quit the yard.
The officials of the company will have
nothing to say other than that the men
at the yard are the best paid in the cOun-
try and have no ground for complaint. A
number of boys who are assistants to the
riveters have been out on strike for the
past few days.
The evening times., 1899-06-21
Honeymoon Amenities.

(From the Cleveland Plain Deaicr.)
II didn't sleep well.'' he said.
''What was the matter?'' she asked.
'.The bed seemed full of lumps," he answered.
Il suppose it wasn't Like the beds your mother
used to make?'
No he drily replied. ''it wasn't"
II don't wonder at that" she smilingly said.
''If remember rightly, your mother once cooked
on canal boat and slept on SHELF
The evening times., 1899-06-21
Almost cr,ninal Neglect.

(From the Chicago Times-Herald)
Here" said the statesman, who had been tenn
porary chairman Of the convention. I'D like to
know what kind of party organ you're run
nin',- anyway"
why" the editor asked, whats wrongs"
In your account Of the proceedings you have
not once referred TO my speech as a ringing
address'Y
The evening times., 1899-06-21
A Good Memory.

(From the Yonkers Statesrnanl
He (as they are seated in a quiet nook near
the links)-Are you quite never met
before this season?
She-Yes; quite positive.
And you haven't a sister?"
''No; why do you ask?
''Well. I'm positive I've hugged that shirt waist
before somewhere -
The evening times., 1899-06-21
1t Does Seem Queer.

(From the Hartford Courant.)
Perhaps the law has power to regulate the
use and abuse of words, but it is more than dis
grIsting to read in the New York papers OF JET
fries the prize fighter, taking part in a
sacred concert at the Casino Sunday night.
Is there 10 protection for the word ''sacred?"
The evening times., 1899-06-21
A Rad Place for Actors.

(From the Chicago RecOrd.)
First Tragedian-Just listen to this: "In Cali
fornia there are ostrches' eggs weighing three
pounds
Second Tragedian-Grcat Scott! Isn't il lucky
our troupe didn't get chance to play in Cali
fornia this yeari
The evening times., 1899-06-21
CURRENT HUMOR.
For Tropical weather.

(From the Detroit Free Press)
"Our naval officers ought to adopt Rudyard
kipling's formula for good health"
whats that?''
keep your pores open and your mouth shut
The evening times., 1899-06-21
Infrcn;l NAufl

(From The Chicago News.)
Hc-Do you really believe that there are mi
crobes in kisses?
She-I have reason for doubting it.
He-Well. I'm getting tired of the same old
microbes: let's exchange.
The evening times., 1899-06-21
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The evening times., 1899-06-21
st. Louis Economy.
(From Puck.)

Mrs. Pine Strtete (of st. Louis)-My dear.
what you wearing your old dTcss-sIit for?
Why don't you put your new one?
Pine Streete-I thought l would keep that one
for dlv-timCs
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Smyrna times., 1899-11-08
A Bullet In His Brain

A hospital physician pointed out an
orderly to a gentleman who was visit
ing the institution recently and said.
THAT man has for five years carried
around a bullet in his brain. Five
years ago he became despondent he
cause of poverty, put a 80 caliber pis-
tol behind his left ear, pulled the trig-
ger and fell apparently dead. The
pail made small, round hole and re-
mained lodged somewhere in his head.
A few hours after he was brought here
he regained consciousness, and. great
~ TO our surprise, he made a rapid re-
covery. The wound was never probed.
and no effort has been made to locate
the bullet. After he was able to walk
about we noticed that he was a tritie
lrrational-not mad you know-but
weakminded. A considerable portion
or his brain must without doubt be en-
tirely destroyed. The human animal
is certainly the hardest thing on earth
to kill."-New York News.