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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

THE Senate cannot keep it's own Sc
crets," once said Senator Hoar in a
speech showing the difficulties in the
way of our country's entering into the
struggles and turmoil of European dip
lomacy. What secrets, 1T may be asked.
does the Senate have to keep, and why
does 1t fail to keep them? Under our
constitution the national Senate. which
is part of the lawmaking branch of
the Government, shares with the Presi-
dent in the treaty making power. The
President or his diplomatic agents may
make treaty, but before 1t becomes
valid 1t must be ratified by the Sc nate.
In dealing with a treaty, it Is Just as
important, therefore for the Senate to
keep It's own counsels as for the Pres1-
dent and his advisers, and In diplomacy
there is often necessity that its Sc
crets should not be violated. Accord
ingly, whenever the Senate Is discuss
ing treaty with a foreign nation, its
sessions are held behind closed doors.
Newspaper correspondents and specta-
tors are rlgidly excluded The few
officers of the Senate allowed to remain
are sworn to secrecy, and 1t Is a point
of honor with the Senator'S themselves
not to tell what takes place within the
chamber. Experience proves however,
that secret entrusted to ninety men Is
pretty sure to leak somewhere. The
newspapers contain almost as good re-
ports of what takes place in the secret
sessions Of the SpData aS I'm fbosa +l,,+
are open. This has led mary persons
to believe that the attempt at secrecy
had better be abandoned altogether.
This is a pessimistic view. Whatever
1t Is right for the Senate to do should
be persisted in until 1t can be success
fully accomplished. Strictly speaking.
there is a distinction between an execll-
tive session and a secret session, but IN
popular p3rlance the terms are almost
interchangeable. An executive session
Is for the consideration of executive. or
presidential, business, and as such IL Is
usually a secret session, although not
necessarily. Besides its work on the
treaties, the sessions of the Senate call
ed to act upon the Presidents nomina-
lions of Office holders are executive ses-
sions, and appropriately secret in order
that the qualifications of each nominee
may be fully presented and discussed.
In addition, either House or Senate NAV
close its doors for the consideration OF
other kinds of business besides the tex
ecutiye,' and then the deliberations be-
come secret sessions.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

The extravaganza theory of the young
people as to the necessity for keeping
up certain style is the reason why SO
many of them put off marriage year
after year, and finally drift into the
irremediable stage of celibacy. Girls
without fortunes are supported in idle
ness and luxury by over-indulgent
parents and expect to be thus cared for
after marriage. The annual cost OF
such girls maintenance is more than
the income of a young man, unless he
be exceptionally fortunate The fault
lies with parents Unless they are pre-
pared to give fortune with daughter
when she marries, they have no moral
right to make her unfit for the position
of wife in the home of young man
who has his fortune to make. And this
is not trivial mistake, for it is a great
and increasing source of personal uu-
happiness, and it inevitably promotes
immortality. Instead of thousands of
bachelors and spinsters in boarding
houses in Baltimore, Washington and
other cities, there should be thousands
OF modest homes, in which young mar
ried couples would be helping each 9TH
err to realize the dreams of their youth.
The old fashioned virtue, thrift, domes-
tic economy, saving up for a rainy day.
needs revival, not especially in the
homes of the very poor, but in those
VINO have fair incomes and whose am
bttion to make show prompts them to
adopt the habits and ape the ways of
the very rich
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

The New Jersey corporation laws are
80 popular that LOB new companies
went to that State last year for their
charters. These represent total CAPT
talization OF nearly one billion dollars,
Invested almost entirely outside the
State. New Jersey profits, from the
sale of corporation charters, amounted
last year TO nearly $2,500,0O The filing
of certificates alone brings fees amount
ing to S162 900, and the income makes a
State tax almost unnecessary. Some
people are in doubt whether the dis
tinctlon is not after all a costly one.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

An alleged burglar, arrested while
struggling with a citizen whose house
he had entered unbidden, Is quoted as
saying that he expected to get two
years in the penitentiary, but two
years is not very long" In busy
mans life two years is mot very long"
yet 1t is time enough to accomplish
much for good or evil. In criminals
life two years is all too often merely a
period of physical restraint to be fol-
lowed by another course of crime.
Crime viii become less frequent when
criminals are committed for an indie
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

BY the end of another decade Eng
land win be obliged to accept second
place as commercial nation compared
with the United States. With our vast
and varied wealth of national re-
sources, with our wonderful power Of
production, with the skill of our work
fngmen and the enterprise of American
business men, manufacturers and ex-
porters, the first place as n commercial
nation is within our grasp.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

of 1t was the Russian peasant woman
frantically trying TO save some of her
household goods by dragging them
with one hand further from the course
of the fire, while in one arm she clutch
ed the baby, around which she had
thrown IA wet shawl to protect it from
the heat.
why didn't you rum" cried Alice
as she jumped from the horse; don't
you see, the fire is almost on you? You
can't save your things: run for the
creek! Run. say. or you'll be burned
TO death"'
Alice caught the child from the
woman's arms and sprang up into the
saddle as best she could. The woman
stood as if stupefied. the red glow from
the coming flames lighting up her stolid
face. The fire was coming on faster
now; they could hear the roar and
crackle as 1t swept through the long,
man-high grass of the swaIe beyond
the fence.
Quick! quick. say! no. you can't
run fast enough now to get to the
creek; jump behind me. quick! quick.
or we shall all be burned. | cant leave
you here TO die"'
The woman's stolid nature was
aroused at last by the animal fear of
danger, and while the heat grew more
intense every minute. she clambered
up behind Alice.
ri ~,
fire He had not moved since he
reached the spot; he seemed like some
beautiful statue, his body motionless,
his ears sharp erect. his nOstrils dis
tended; the awful fascination of the
fire was upon him.
Alice pulled at the bit TO turn him.
He paid no attention. She spoke
sharply but he only moved uneasily:
he would not stir from the spot. Swift
er than an electric shock came the
thought to her mind that horses In
burning buildings would stay and die
in the flames before they would be led
out. 1t would be impossible to reach
the creek on foot: in half a minute
more the flames would be on them.
Snatching the wet shawl from the baby
with one hand, and swinging the child
backward to its mother with the other.
she threw the shawl over the horses
head. With the sight of the fire shut
out he quivered, turned as the bit gave
him sharp twist. and. just as the
flames were leaping over the sheds
hard by the house, he sprang away.
1t was a race for life now-for three
lives; for the wind had increased to
gala and there is nothing more terrible
in this world than such a relentless
ocexn Of flame as was rolling over the
grass grown plain
Alice thought of Jlms parting adj
vice:
Hes never been licked In his life:
but If you have ter, give 1t to him red
hotr'
With a sharp cry. urging the horse
on under his heavy burden, she struck
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

1t may not be generally known, but
the longest war in recorded history
was waged on American soil. 1t was
between the Wrangel and Chilcat In
dians In Alaska. After going on for
900 years it has just been ended by a
treaty of peace.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

this central organ literally underguea
repair and renewal during sleep. The
slowing down Of the blood permits the
deposit OF nutritive particles, Just as
the slowing of river permits 1t to
drop its sediment There is wisdom as
well as wit in the Quixotic saying;
Blessings on him that first Invented
this same sleep"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

An umbrella trust with a capital OF
S2,000000 is a recent New Jersey incor-
poratlon. The man who would buy an
umbrella and trust his friend who bor-
rows 1t to return 1t must now pay the
trusts tax first.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25
Nutrition In OYSTERS.

A quart Of oysters contain, on the
average, about the same quantity OF
nutritive substance as a quart of milk
or pound of very lean beef.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

More sleep, with more regularity In
taking 1t, is a prime need of our ex-
nausting modern life. People talk of
giving rest to their minds; but 1t is
not likely that the mind Itself ever tires.
The brain. or some oYerworked tract OF
81, may need repose; and 1t seems a
vell-established physiological fact that
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

LILLIAN Russell says she has been too
busy to think of marrying again This
seems to settle doubt that has linger-
ed in some minds as to what really was
Miss Russell's professlon-marriage or
the stage.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25
Observation-Disclosures
|. TIMELY TOPICS. 3
= =
NA,AR1AAAAR AAHANVlS

Necessity may be the mother of In
eention. aud it's also known who is the
father Of lies.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

BOSTON poet breaks into song in
poem entitled THE Lay We Love
Best" OF course, this Is a pean to the
helpful hen.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

The Australian ballot system of vot-
ing does not stand in nearly as much
need of reform as does the check book
system in vogue in many of our State
legislatures.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

A good way to prevent lynchings ia
60 hang criminal according to law
@nce ia "A while
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

Surprising trusts generally have the
country In shacbles, laundry trust is
like putting 1t in irons.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

The clergyman who remarked, as he
counted the buttons in the collection,
eli wish | could find four of kind"
was not necessarily poker expert.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

A Boston paper says ieebergs live for
centuries If there is any moral In this
fact II must be that 1t teaches the wis
dom of keeping cool.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

The latest returns indicate that all
che nations OF the earth, except SPAIN
were on our side during the war.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

1t appears Ii Hung Changes leg all
ment is arthritc rheumatism. More
trouble with Chinese joints.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

Now that they are talking of printing
newspapers with the aid of typewriters
snstead of with type, old Butch Weyler
needn't be afraid of ever being out of
work
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

The London Globe speaks of THE re-
puted millionaire, w. W. Aston" Thus
our English cousins trife with Amerl-
can regulations
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

new trade corner in what are
Rnowu as breakfast foods" seems to
have been conceived on the principle of
che early bird getting the worm.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

In assuming the white Mans Bur
den, according to the poet the Cauca-
sian binds himself to carry 1t by taking
real estate security from the other fell
low
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

A certain amount of ignorance Is nee.
essary 70 the enjoyment OF our exist
ence.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-25

When girl thinks she IS better look.
ing than she really is, 1t spoils her for
what little good looks she has
The times., 1899-08-23
Fighters nations.


The betterment in the rations, clothing,
ETC., OF the American common soldier
speaks of the advance in the condition of
the common soldier all over the civilized
world. Once the soldier was a peasant,
dragged from his hut to serve his lord.
who in his turn, served the king. How
can a man live without his lord?" asks an
ancestor of the present French soldier, in
one of Victor Hugo's stories. The rank
and file of the British army. which fought
and whipped the French in Spain. was, in
the estimation of its commander, We'll
lington, a mass of vagabonds, the Off
securing of the British isles. The British
sailors who fought under Nelson. and Col
linwood and a score of great sea fighters
were dragged into the navy by the press
gang. and it was they who invented the
saying: Hell and a man war refuse
no man."
Fhe rise in the condition of sailors and
soldiers began with the prominence OF
the American Army and Navy. Every
army and every navy nation capable of
learning anything has been better treated
and better fed since the United States
came to the front. 1t is fitting and proper
that the United States volunteer should
have the best of everything.
The times., 1899-08-23

shall conform to the ideals and methods,
the results of long experience, in other
civilized States. II is simply notorious
that If we had had general staff like that
of Germany at the outbreak of the Spanish
war, with a chief officer like General Miles
at its head, the corruptions, scandals, and
crimes which have biaekened our record
in the conduct Of the adventure, could not
have happened
A permanent, irremoyable, unchangea-
BILE lot of bureaucrats as staff officers is a
proposition to make professional militar-
lists laugh. Such system would be re-
garded as ridiculous as well as fatal in
England, France, Germany, Austria, Rus
sia, or Japan. But we are uncivilized and
remarkably Chinese in many of our tastes
Until very recently we have shared the
tactical organization given to our Army
by Baron Steuben a century and a quarter
ago only with China, and possibly Abys-
sinla, years after the like had been shelved
by all other powers. We still stick to a staff
system which even the pig tailed Celestiais
have outgrown, and which would be con-
demned as obsolete by Persia and Afghan
istan
1t is greatly to be hoped that Secretary
Root may have influence enough to secure
some measure of adequate reform from
the next Congress. We need il sadly in
our military business
The times., 1899-08-23
The Germnn Waterway BfII.

tFEDin tne Philadelphia llIreS
Here is nice state OF affairs truly. and
no wonder il is that William Is absolutely
furious. Where is the divine right OF
kings? Where the God-given prerogatives
OF the Lords anointed2 Most people be-
lieve that an Emperor can do anything.
yet here is the most powerful and most
pompous Emperor in Europe who fails TO
get passed a bill that third-rate lobbyist
in Washington would regard as an absO-
lutte "einch." In the olden days the sibbet
and the triangle and the thumbscrew-to
say nothing of the baronial dungeons Of
the Black Forest-would have brought the
members of the Diet to terms very effect
ueliy, bat in the twilight OF the nineteenth
century those methods are not resortad to-
and William must take other steps TO con-
vince his fractions BrandenburgeFs and OBJ
streperous Silesians that he Gone is Prus-
sia's King and will have his way.
The most curious thing about il ali IS
the Diet entirely wrong. Such a waterway
as that suggested would be of immense
advantage to Germany's commercial in
terests, opening up as il would a large tract
OF the Empire that is now practically shut
out from commercial intercourse with the
world II would also be OF great strategic
value, so great indeed that General Won
Moltke advocated its construction as far
back as 1888. OF course individual in
terests, particularly those of the large mine
owners of Westphalia. who now control
a monopoly. would be iniuriously affected.
but individual interests should not stand
IN the way Of the general veal.
The times., 1899-08-23
street Noises.

The people of Philadelphia, and OF some
other cities in this country, are struggling
to decide what is and is not legitimate
noise. There are some noises which must
be allowed in great city, and others
which are unnecessary and annoying AMI
need to be suppressed, and the question is
where to draw the line.
In the case of Philadelphia the authori-
ties have forbidden the beating OF drums
by the Salvation Army. Some people are
inclined TO ask, Why discriminate against
the Salvation Army? Is that noise any
worse than the blowing of horns by fish
vendors, the ringing of church bells on
Sunday morning, the German band. the
street organ, or the amateur piano player? !?
There is no doubt that in the city of the
without question will be forbidden by law
When this is done. the peculiar disease
known as Americanitis will be on the
wane. We shall have vehicles with rub
Der tires: street cries will be forbidden
and piano playing restricted, and various
other noises, musical and unmusical will
be siienced. The city may seem a little
queer and dull to the man who returns
from foreign lands. expecting to find the
Now York or the Chicago of his boyhood
hut it will be more restful than it is now.
In regard to the Salvation Army drum.
end the church bell. one thing should be
clearly understood. An attack on these
The times., 1899-08-23
schurman and the Philippines.

Aside from the Carter case 1t is believed
that the President viii devote considerable
attention this week to the situation in the
Philippines Secretary Root will be with
him and SO VIII General Merritt and Peace
Commissioner Schurman. The two last
named know something of the conditions,
military and civil, in Luzon, and perhaps
can inject enough information to form the
basis Of policy, when backed by the yigor-
Gus personality of the sturdy new War
Minister.
1t is interesting to learn that Mr.. Schur-
man has decided views which have been
partially acquired in the course of various
visits to the firing line when our troops
have been in action. He has seen American
soldiers in actual combat with the Malay
rebels; something We do not believe the
general in chief command at Manila could
pretend. 1t is, therefore, probable that he
may be able to tell Mr.. Mckinley things
which his shoulder-strapped confrere could
not, OF personal knowledge.
OF course, we are quite aware that War
Department opinion, for publication, is
that there will be no change in the COM
mand of our Philippine forces. Three days
before Alger was forced out of the Cabinet
it was announced with equal force that he
would be tte man of the War Office to the
end of Mr.. McKinley's tenure. But. in
spite Of official denials. the general i'm
preston is that Otis will be removed very
shortly, and that real general will be
put in his place to command the consider
able army which is being gathered to put
an end TO the Tagal mutiny.
The time is past when the Administration
could afford to defy the sentiment of the
country, and much as it may be desired
TO protect Otis, or TO let him down easy
the political consequences of standing by
discredited commander are believed to be
too threatening to incur. The Hotel Cham
plain conference will not dissolve before
decision has been reached on this preg-
nant question, and, while the present ar
rangements at Manila may be allowed to
stand until nearly the end of the rainy sea-
son, the country viii no doubt be assured
that satisfactory change will be made be-
fore the opening of the next campaign.
The times., 1899-08-23
Carter mt Hotel champIain.

The joint high conference OF the Presi-
dent with Secretary Root and Attorney
General Griggs at Lake Champlain this
week. may mean only that the Philippine
situation is 10 be discussed: but the better
opinion seems to be that the Carter case
win form the piece de resistance of the
symposium. Many considerations make for
this theory. Under pressure Of public irri-
tation over the maiversation Of justice OF
-ghich the Administration has been guilty
In this scandalous affair. II has pleased
Griggs to let il be announced that he will
hand down a decision shortly after his
gracious return to Washington. This we
take TO mean that Mr.. Mckinley thinks
he has tried national patience about as long
as he dares to. in view of 1900. and Theo-
dore Roosevelt
So we are justified in expecting that the
meeting Of the three most important off,
cials in touch with the Carter case. will
serve to bring it TO a focus, after fifteen
months of Illegal. needless. and scandalous
delay. While il shall be under discussion
in the cool breezes that Ethan Allen used
20 snuff we do not doubt that Mr. Root
will remind his chief of a source of con
siderable public resentment in the con-
nection. Since Carter has been at large
under a benigniy suspended decision. the
President has promptly approved sentences
involving dismissal and disgrace in the
cases OF two other Army officers. One was
that Of poor devil second lieutenant, ac-
cused OF borrowing three hundred dollars
fllegitimstely. In the other, lieutenant
was convicted OF Irregularities amounting
in all TO sixteen hundred dollars Previous
good conduct dependent families and such
things were urged as reasons for Execu-
tive clemency. But the same amiabIe
Commander Chief who has moved
heaven and earth TO shield the convicted
embezzler OF million six hundred thou
sand dollars OF Government money was
stern and inexorable when the pleas for
mercy were presented in behalf of incon-
.sequential fellows who had not Senators
st their backs. or incriminated partners
who had been liberal contributors to the
Hanna Mckinley fund OF 1896
II is because the Administration tardily
fezlizes that knowledge Of such dlsgraeefuI
contrasts Is sapping the chances Of its
candidate. and of the Republican party
next year. that the bell wethers feel they
nust hold court OF oyer and terminer
this week on Lake champlaIn. They begin
20 observe the handwriting on the wall.
which they might not so much mind II a
cartoon OF Roosevelt, the Rough Rider,
were not under. or over, the legend
Their outlook, whether prodmate or
ultimate. Is not pleasant. On the one hand
Carter must have new trial, equivalent
20 acQuittai, for the material witnesses for
the Government are dead or vanished. or
Fiat. GAynor, Greene. and their combina-
ton will turn upon the President and
rsnd htm. On the other. n Carter should
sansps. there would be such an outcry and
such party revolt that q new Presidential