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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07

1t will be seen that there Is nothing
particularly new in this prescription. a
part of the medicine being the arsenic
and haisam of Peru which have long been
given to people with consumptive tenden-
cies. Prof. Hoff does not claim that his
discovery will do away with consumption,
or that the medicine will cure people
with large holes in their lungs. He does
state, however, that mild cases of the
disease can be cured, and If this is SO, he
has made most important discovery.
The chances are that consumption is a
legacy bequeathed to the human race
from ages past in which people common
ly had insufficient nourishment. shelter,
and clothing and were overworked and
abused generally. Although the exact
cause of the disease cannot be ascer-
tanned, it is certain that it attacks the
system when the vitality is low, and that
il is transmitted mainly by heredity.
The person with a consumptive tendency
is bound. therefore, to take particularly
good care Of himself physically. to cuiti-
yate a cheerful disposition, eat proper
food, refrain from overworking. and keep
away from places in which the climatic
conditions favor the development of the
malady. OF course, he may not be able to
do these things, and even if he does them,
inherited weakness may be too strong for
him: but at any rate he stands better
chance than he otherwise would. not only
of escaping the disease himself, but OF
transmitting to his children coed costftu-
tiops. The old-fashioned way of looking
at disease was to regard ii as heaven
sent scourge, intended for the moral i'm
provemcnt of mankind and TO be ale
waited, but not destroyed. In these days
the scientist contemplates the absolute
wiping out of some diseases and the d.
minishing of fatalities from others.
SMALLPOX is no longer the dreaded scourge
1t once was; people do not so generally
suffer from skin diseases and ferers as
they did century ago, and contagious
will take time to overcome the inherited
evil of past centuries, for sins against
the body are not forgfven-they have to
be outgrown. But II is entirely possible
that consumption may some day become
the remotely dreaded evil that the bu-
bonic plague and the cholera are today.
If Prof Hoff has helped to hasten that
time he will deserve a monument.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07
AN ANTI-sEM1TIC STRIKE.
Rubber Mil Employees Refuse to
Work With n Hebrew.

MILLTOWN y. j.. Dec. 6.-The peeu-
liar feature about the strike which has
closed down the india rubber factory, the
single industry of this village. is that it is
led by Adam Wagner, an old German resi-
dent who is a stakeholder in the COM
pany. Wagner objects to the influx OF
Jews into the colony. which has heretofore
been composed almost exclusively of Ger
mans. IL is model village for neatness,
thrift. and good government.
The factory is regarded as an interest
ing industrial experiment. 1t was pro-
jected and started in order to supply en-
ployment TO the rubber workers of Mill
town. when the Meyer rubber factory.
the villages sole employing industry. was
acquired and closed down by the so-called
Rubber Trust. Mayor Evans. OF the viii
Iage. is president of the company. and q
large proportion of the stock was sub
scribed by residents of Midtown who are
employed in the factory.
The strike began yesterday when the
employees of the cutting department in
formed the superintendent that they
would not work IL Nathan Meyers. a He
brew, was continued in their room. The
superintendent refused to discharge Mey
ers.
There are only about twenty men in the
cutting room who have gone on strike,
but their being out prevents 300 or more
men in the entire factory from working.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07
GoMPERs DISCUSSES STRIKES.
The Convention of the American
Federation of Labor,

The Convention of the American
Federation of Labor.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Dec. 6.-The TWEEN
tieth annual convention of the American
Federation Of Labor began session of
nine days at Music Hall this morning.
More than 200 delegates are In attendance.
including two fraternal delegates, John
Weir. of Glasgow. Scotland, and Peter
Curran. of London. England. representing
the British Trades Union Convention.
Only the reports of officers and some pre-
liminary work was done today. the read
ing of President Gompers' annual address
consuming about three hours.
The report of the Credentials Committee
represented sixty-one national organiza-
tons, ten State organizations, forty-two
central bodies. and fifty-nine local bodies.
The report of Secretary Frank Morrison
said that the total receipts for the year
were s42.G95. The expenses were s6s.3I3.
The tabulated statement shows that 3,'i3
unions were chartered during the year. Tine
gain in membership is 300.44o.
The feature of the day was President
Gompers' report. The part devoted to
strikes said:
The statistics prepared and presented
in the secretarys report indicate very sub
for the past year. 6SS strikes were re-
ported, and 213.ia0 persons were involved.
OF this number 455 strikes were success
full. 1906 were lost. Il compromised. and o3
are still pending; 2lI,i93 persons were di-
rectiy benefited, while IL, PSI were in
volved in lost or compromised strikes, thus
showing that even of the small number OF
strikes lost the number of persons involved
in them was comparatively small to those
who gained"
In concluding. President Gompers tells OF
his visit to Havana. where General Lud-
low broke the strike for an eight-hour day.
Mr. Gompers said he protested to Gov
ernor General Wood and President McKin-
ley.
Without at all attempting to take or
attribute credit to ourselves or to any
one Mr. Gompers adds. lit can be stated
that within a few weeks General Ludlow
was relieved from his command as Gov
ernor General of Havana
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07
ABSORBS ITS MAIN RIVAL.
An Electric Motor Company Seeking
to Control the Market.

~ NonkEOI lhe
NEW YORK. Dec. 6.-The Electrical ve-
hicle Company has bought the entire 81
600. 900 capital stock of the Riker Motor
Vehicle Company. its largest competitor
and will probably increase its own pre-
ferred and common stock each by $1,000
O0G George H. Day was today elected
president Of the Electrical Vehicle Com
pany succeeding Robert McA. Lloyd, who
remains a director
+. C. Stevens. President OF the Metro
politan Street Railway Company. OF Wash
ington, who has been the president OF the
Riker Company, was made director OF
the Electric Vehicle Company. Incidental
ly it might be mentioned that notwith-
standing Mr., Stevens business associations
with automobiles. he was the winner OF
the greatest number OF prizes for hack
neys at the recent Horse Show.
Mr. Byllesby. First Vice President of the
Riker Company, was chosen First Vice
President OF the Electric Vehicle Company.
and w. II. johnson. who has been general
manager OF the last named company. vas
elected its Second Vice President. Presi-
dent Day Is also the President OF the
Electric Storage Battery Company, which
has monopoly Of the storage battery sys-
TEN that supplies storage batteries for the
vehicles Of the vehicle company.
AS result of the sombination, be said
he believed the two companies now owned
practically all the patents of any COM
mercial value upon vehicles moved by
electricity, the vehicle company having
monopoly Of the basic patents upon the
running gears. William C. Whitney and
his associates are understood to control
both the vehicle company and the storage
battery company.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07

young soldiers to go through a Moqtii
snake dance as an initiation in the duties
Of warfare. Even the Indian is more SEN
sible in his training than these West
| Point youngsters. When he compels his
| growing boy to endure long period of
| fasting and loneliness at a certain time
| in his life. it is because he will. in the
course of his life as hunter. have to
learn TO do without food in an emergency.
But there is no emergency in the life of
the ordinary soldier in which he will have
ness for command.
The fact is that at both West Point and
Annapolis there is altogether too much
hazing and too much pugilism generally
VI course, there must always be fighting
in boys schools. There are always a few
DULLES where crowd of boys are gath
cred together. and they must follow their
bent. But when the authorities range
themselves on the side of the DULLES the
state of things is not pleasant to contem-
plate. Government institutions are not
places in which brute force should be the
court of last appeal
A very casual glance through history
will show that the greatest generals the
world has ever known have been men
who. under the West Point pugilistic sys-
TEN. would have run some risk of being
killed before they had done anything Ma
poleon was small slight and extremely
sensitive in his youthful days and it is
quite possible that he nigh. have re-
fused to stand up and be pummeled by
man of twice his strength Nelson was
small man; so was julius Caesar: so is
Dewey; and there is hardly a great SOL
der in history who is conspicuous for
skill with his fists, Strategy. not muscle,
is required to win battles.
There was time when this rough and
tumble plan Of educating boys was con-
sidered the only proper thing by English
school authorities but that day is past.
The time has come. however. when it
should be recognized that a boy goes to
school or to college to study. not primari-
ly to fight: and while he should be al
lowed to develop his muscle if he is in
clined that way. and encouraged to be-
come strong and athletic, he should not
be beaten. abused. and tortured il he hap
pens to prefer the work of the brain to
that of the prizefighter. Other colleges
have abolished hazing and 1t is absurd TO
say that West Point and Annapolis can
not do the same
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07

The House Committee on lnsular Affairs
yesterday granted hearing to a delega-
ton Of the W. C. T. u, which organiza-
tion is much interested In Representative
Littlefeld's bill TO prohibit the sale Of
opium and intoxicating liquors to the in
habitants of our Pacific islands including
of course, the Philippines. We have no
doubt that a drastic measure of the
kind desired will be enacted into
law, and perhaps at this session.
Such action on the part of Congress
would be an edifying concession to moral
sentiment. That II would be without any
possible utility hne nothing to do with the
principle involved. There is not an island
in The aggregate bunch. Guam possibly ex-
cepted, where the natives do not produce a
local liquor compared with which the brain
paralyzing rum of New England is toast
water. What is more, they make and con-
sumo II on a basis of about fifteen or TWEEN
ty cents gallon There will be much
hilarty in Porto Rico, Hawaii. Luzon,
Mindanao. the Sulus. and so on. when the
aborigines learn that they are TO be freed
from the curse OF American compounded
high wines at four dollars a gallon. The
next number on the reform programme
ought to be a hill to prohibit the sale Of
tobacco to the Cubans.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07
sEABoARD OFFICIALS CONFER.
Thought to Have Considered ALL
ance With the Southern.


ance With the Southern.
NEW YORK. Dec. GA conference was
held at the Waldorf-Astoria today be-
tween President John SHELTON Williams
and Directors Middendorf and Davidson,
of the Sea board Air Line Railroad Com
pany, on one side, and unnamed persons
on the other. Final settlement of the lit
igation instituted by Thomas F. Ryan
against the Seaboard was believed TO be
one of the subjects under consideration.
Another matter under discussion. it was
rumored. was the effecting of closer re-
lations between the Seaboard Air Line
and the Southern. One of the Seaboard
directors was quoted as saying that the
negotiations for the consolidation OF the
Seaboard Air Line and the Southern Rail-
way interests were more favorable than
at any time heretofore"
Careful enquiry. however failed to dis
close that there have been any negotia-
tions for such a consolidation Of interests.
There is good reason TO believe that there
is no prospect of any consolidation or
combination of interests Of the Seaboard
and the Southern Railway systems. Ex-
isting relations between the two compa-
MES are not unfriendly and there is no
likelihood that any important change will
ba
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07
THE BEER POISONING CASE.
The Lancet Urges Steps To Prevent
AdulteratiOn.

LONDON. Dec. 6.-The Lancet" today,
in discussing the heer poisoning cases in
Manchester and other places, says:
We are pleased to learn that definite
steps are being taken to stop the sale of
arsenical beer. We have examined a
specimen Of invert sugar Ia variety Of
sugar., consisting OF a mixture of dextrose
and levuiose. found naturally in fruits. and
produced artiicially by the inversion of
cane sugar fused in brewing). and found
tina; it contained three grains of arsenious
acid per pound Hence glass OF beer
might contain one-ffth of grain OF ar
senic A careful examination of the form
in which arsenic existed in this sugar
shows that it was mostly arsenious acid in
small quantities. Arsenic acid was also
detected.
TIE Lancet" appeals to the Government
10 define beer as liquid brewed exclu-
sively from barley malt and hops. so that
beer made from substitutes of these in
gradients will have 10 be called by another
name. The Lancet" adds that arsenic
was found in beers manufactured from glu-
cose in other countries years ago. A re-
port made by the authorities in France in
1878 said that glucose used in brewing
contained arsenic. The use of substitutes
for the regular ingredients is absolutely
prohibited in GERMANY
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07
When Democracy Was on Deck.
,Ernm tho pbilad.lDhia imes)

In the old days. when the sails OF mer-
chantInon whitcned every sea. an American ship
owner or captain would have laughed at the sug
gestion that he required assistance from the
Government to carry on his trade. Those were
Democratic days. when public taxation for pri-
waite benefit had not been heard Of The
mcrcc of the country under the American
flag because Americans built better ships and
sailed them better than any competitors; they had
the enterprise and the seif-reliance needed for
great ventures and the laws OF the country i'm
posed on them burdens they could not light
~ bear. All that they expected OF the Govern
nent Of the United States was Ia secure 10 them
their rights Ia The freedom OF The sea-
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07
Our Military Estnbiish me emf.

(Frum the Philadelphia RcCord)
IN the greatest emergencies of the country-in
the war of 1872, in The war with Mexico, and in
the civil war-no President received OF
sought the power OF increasing At will the forces
OF the regular Of volunteer army. Yet this au-
thority is asked for IN the presence of no more
serious military problem than the crushing of the
Filipino insurrlction. II is certainly no want OF
respect for President Mckinley to say that there
is nothing in his character OF in existing cordi-
lions TO entitlc him 10 a high preroeative which
ia times OF war vas not given TO Washing on
jefferson. Madison Polk. Lincoln. Not one
Of these Presidents, ii should be added ever
dreamed OF seeking such power at the hands Of
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07
POPULAR IDEALS TOO Low.


bishop fotfer's Address on "W enlth
and COmmonwe
NEW HAVEN. Conn, Dec S.-Bishop
Potter, OF New York. spoke this evenir
on Wealth and Commonwealth
annual banquet of the Episc-
Club. of the diocese of Con
said in his address:
THE subject of this evening
choice. / chose it because of
mount Importance. Divorce, drum.
crime. corruption in cities. all ha
root--the lust of money. Our Ans an
disease do say? Nay an American mad
ness.
For what is the one eager, dominant
hunger which in one form or another Is
expressing itself through combination,
conspiracy, or other ways from end to end
of this broad land? 1t is the passion, the
hunger, the greed Of gain. What is it
that more than any other single influence
determines our policies. shapes our man
ners. inspires our maxims? II material
wealth be the end of being. II the buying
of Legislatures be the proudest distinc-
ton possible to modern manhood, then We
must needs look in the face of the peril
that in our time and our land are in
creasipg.
For one have no smallest hope that
any mechanism Of legislation will in the
remotest degree remove these perils. The
Church of God must go up. must stay up,
on a much higher plane. The prominent
danger to our social order in this day is
FIRST the growth Of wealth and then the
abuse of it.
Has 1t ever occurred to you what
sooner or later would be the effect on the
mass Of their fellow-beings. II company
Of men and women should bind themselves
together to illustrate in their habit of life
simplicity of attire and ehasteness in their
dwellings, to discourage the accumulation
OF great wealth. and to employ for art,
science. philanthropy, and religion all be-
yond certain amount of their income" In
what is it that this age differs. it Gfay be
asked. from other ages that have gbne be-
fore K? Well. the chief difference. should
be disposed to say. is in its popular ideals"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07
A SERIOUS RIOT IN CUBA.
Refusal to SsaIf-Mnst n Custom House
Flag the Cause.


Details Of serious riot at Batahano,
Cuba, have just been received at the
war Department. tragedy was mar
rowiy averted only BY the prompt &C
ton of Special Agent Hanson, of the
Cuban customs service, Of Havana. The
trouble had Its origin in the refusal OF
collector sguro. at Batabano, to pirce
the revenue flag Of the custom house at
half-mast out of respect to the memory
OF the Cuban students executed by the
Spaniaids in Havana twenty-nine years
ago.
mob headed by band went to the
cafe Dos Hermanos, where Collector
Agriro and his brother. Antonio Aguiro.
and Inspector Hanson were dining, and
yelled Down with the captain OF the
port and "Out with the collector OF
customs The mob then started to take
possession of the place, when Mr.. Han
son called upon the police for assist
ance The police refused to interfere,
ana Inspector Hanson determined to act.
Pulling his pistol and pointing it at the
crowd, he commanded the men to dis
perse. They decided to obey his order,
when the assistant chief of police started
after the mob with his assistants. Mr..
manson fe-entered the cafe and was up
braided by the police official for drawing
his police. Mr.. Hanson showed his badge
as special agent and insisted upon his
right to do So
Seeing that the police showed no in
cilhatton to suppress the rioters, In
spector Hanson sent a telegram to the
chief OF the bureau of special agents. in
Havana, to report the affair to the mill
tary government While awaiting a reply
he was summoned to appear before the
municipal judge to answer charge OF
participating in an unlawful manifesto
ton. Inspector Hanson refused to re-
spect the summons. He left Batabano the
day following. and has made complete
report OF the occurrence. which was sent
to General Wood for action.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07
TELEGRAPHERs ON A STRIKE.
No Regular Trains Moving ON the
santa Fe's Gulf Branch.


Santa Fe,s Gulf Branch.
FORT WORTH. Tex, Dec. Not a
telegraph instrument is ticking today on
the entire Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
system. This condition was precipitated
by an order of the Order of Railway Tel
egraphers that promptly at II O'Clock
every operator should leave his desk.
The command was obeyed. and as result
the strike is on from one end of the line
to the other. Not train is moving be-
tween Galveston and Purcell. ALI trains
caught between stations at IL O'Clock
went to the next station, where they are
now tied up.
The strike not only affects the bushes
Of the Santa Fe company, but all express
matter Orders have been issued from
Santa Fe headquarters instructing agents
to sell no tickets to passengers until
further orders. The mails. it Is under
stood. will be transported by special
trains.
The cause of the trouble. briefly. is that
the Santa Fe Company refused TO submit
questions of rules and regulations TO ar
btration. The officials of the order have
been negotiating with General Manager
Polk for some time in an effort to have
the differences arbitrated but he has re-
fused. This brought on the strike. Man
ager Polk however showed Willingness
to arbitratc the matter Of a wage scale.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07
FOreign-Born Members
in CONGRESS-

There very few members either OF the House
or the Senate who not OF native birth 70
he exact, there just sixteen Representatives
and six senators who were not born in the United
States In the Fifty-siNth Congress. curioriSv
enough one of the members is Henderson the
Speaker. who is Seotehman. but he is as gen
uine an American there is in the land Con
sidering the proportion OF foreign to native born
in the United States the percentage is insight
hoant- especially when it is remembered that the
average men Der of Congress is who has been
given 10 moving about the world and shifting
his environment One thing can be said about
the great representative hody. and that is that
every member who has ever tasted Maerzen Sen
ate. or Lager SAYS Heuriehs beers without
Ttion, the purest and most delicious Of
all beverages. Pcop,e are beginning 20 appreciate
or eG,r,s TO brew anil maintain standard bev.
eIasr that annot he ;mpeaehed for purity xn1
wh,ifsc..oie,s