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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-04

Tonight viii occur the meeting OF the
District Central Democratic Committee,
at which the special committee appointed
some time ago 10 prepare rules and regu-
lations governing the primaries on April
10. will make its report The fact that
this committee Is composed principally Of
Norris men. and that IT is expected TO
report IN favor Of the appointment Of
primary Judges and secretaries by the
Central Committee. rather than their selec-
tion by the voters makes the meeting Of
particular interest.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-04

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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-04
TRUE 70 BRYAN'S CAUSE
BrightwOOd Democrats in Mass
Meeting Voice Their Sentiments.

Ringing Speeches by Representa-
dives MiIiinm \. jones and j. =.
Rhca ia support Of the Nehrnsi>nn
-RcsoIutfous Demanding That the
District Delegates BE Instructed.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-04
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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-04
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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-04

Mrs Georsette a. Chsmberlin with
party Of friends, sailed in February for
the Orient. She will make a tour Of Egyp,
and the Holy Land, and spend an indefinite
time in Continental travel The party is
being conducted by Mr. Frank G. Clark
former Consul to Jerusalem.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-04

The League of American Pen Women
cordially extend an invitation to all OF it,
members. their guests and visiting liter
airy and club women in the city to be
present with them this evening at 7:2e
clock at headquarters Of the League 1929
New York Avenue An interesting pro-
gramme has been prepared and refresh
merits viii be served
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-04

The Cradle Songs of Many Nations
will be given at the National Rifles Ar
mory next Friday evening for the benefit
Of the Summer Home OF the Washington
Founding Hospital The entertainment
will be given by $50 children under the di
rection of Miss Helen Hayes. and promises
to be a delightful affair.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-04

Democrats who crowded Brightw0ol
Hall at the rally last night were per
fectly united in their support of William
Jennings Bryan. and in their determina-
ton to instruct the District delegates to
Kansas City to support him. That deter
mination was voiced in the following ring
ing resolution. which was carried without
Fiegavr-
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-04

The President and Mrs. Mckinley took
an hours drive together yesterday after
noon, it being Mrs. McKinleys first ride
since her indisposition two weeks ago.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-04

ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.. 100 WILLIAM ST. NEW YORK
The evening times., 1900-02-14
Momen in Hmsiness.

AIr Charles T Yerkes. a Chicago mill
lionaire. has written magazine article
about women in business His account of
women's knowledge of business affairs re-
sembles that which a certain historian
gave OF the snakes in ireland. He says
that they do not seem to have the most
remote idea of what business means, and
that few women know what bank check
is or how to draw one He says also that
girls leaving school "are educated almost
entirely for the social world. and do not
give thought to taking care of them
selves
There are Two ways in which this arti-
Gle may be taken. Considered as a protest
against certain faults in the education Of
women. it is right in the main. Consid
cred as 2 dissertation on feminine capa
bilities. ii is inaccurate. It is true that a
great many women do not know how a
check should be drawn-comparatively few
of them have any occasion to do such a
thing more than once or twice in a life
time The workingman's wife may save
her husbands s money to be put in the
bank but the husband generally attends
to the formalities for obvious reasons: and
money thus deposited is apt TO stay where
il is put until some great emergency re-
quires its withdrawal. Until a compare
lively recent date. nobody ever heard of
woman's having a separate bank account
If she had a father. a brother. a husband
or . son to take care of her money. he did
so and gave her what she required in the
form of currency. In fact. only within
two generations has a woman had any
right to own property if married. The
education of women in even the simplest
of business matters is therefore of very re-
cent date.
1t is also true that a certain class of
girls are educated almost wholly with
view TO their social life; but this class is
growing smaller and smaller. In this
country nine tenths of the girls who have
as much as high school education intend
to support themselves, and do So at least
for time 1t is safe TO say that ninety
per cent of those who go to college have
some plan about their future lives which
will depend for its fulfillment upon their
ability TO earn a living. As for the girls
who are daughters of workingmen. or poor
men in any class of society, they expect
to work just as their brothers do. some
becoming teachers. some typewriters. some
saleswomen, some factory operatives,
The evening times., 1900-02-14
MANY WORDS. BUT NO DEEDS.
william Mcnderlein Likes to Preach,
But Hates to Work

NEW BRITAIN. Conn, Feb. f4.-Sw0rn
testimony proves that William Menderlein
is brother TO all men, but a very unfeel-
ing husband and father.
He breaches at every good opportunity;
he occasionally gives 10 cents to his wife.
His heart overfows with charity; Mrs.
Menderlein had TO apply to the town 10 sup
port her and her four small children.
Menderlein the sympathetic, has scrub
bed floors for the sick and the poor. his
wife gladly works by the day that her lit
tie ones may not starve. He says he needs
all his time to spread the gospel; he may
pass few weeks in Jail. For his patient
wife had him arrested. charging that he
does not support his family.
Here is some of her testimony: He faS
not worked since last October. Once in a
while he gives me a dime. ] certainly do
not object to his preaching if he will buy
bread for US.
And here are some of Menderlein's utter
snces in court: Il have been Christian
for fifteen years | will preach in spite OF
all obstacles. Church people have scan
dalized me. but | will bear it with forth
tude. | do not like to work in the factory
because it gives me a headache.
The Judge adjourned the case until Feb
ruary "a to give Menderlein chance 10
learn that charity begins at home
The evening times., 1900-02-14

grim laborer enjoys today comforts and
conveniences of which kings of old never
dreamed that. as a rule. when the respite
from the task comes, there is cheerful
home waiting for him: that he is out of
bondage. and has the privilege of choosing;
that this is his happiness.
Nordau makes the bold statement that
happiness does not depend upon economic
conditions and then declares that it is
condition of mind. BY what philosophy or
occult power he pretends to be able 10 ex-
anime the mental sensations OF humanity,
put them through a biological process, and
determine whether happiness exists or
does not exist it is difficult to understand
To the majority of men. the necessity of
providing for themselves and Others Incl
dentally aiding the less fortunate. is pro-
ductiye OF happiness, as it is understood,
The satisfaction which follows any achieve
ment is happiness. Happiness exists in
manifold forms. as varied as individuality.
According TO Nordau. since that mental
pleasure does not depend upon economic
well-bcing. none should be happier than
the submerged tenth; yet it must be ad-
mitted that in their case economic we'll
being is the thing devoutly to be wished
the process regenerative.
Just how happy the individual who was
then in his prime and had the available
material benefits of century ago may
have been, not even Nordau can reason
ably pretend to judge. But it is to be
presumed that, whatever his bent. if he
were intelligent, the world today would
offer thousand new things that would
bring him greater qualification.
Nordau makes plausible arguments
The pessimist. in search of them, will
never find a lack of specific instance to
illustrate his monotonous text and elab-
orate his sermon on the gospel of dissatis-
faction. Nordaus actual plea appears to
be for the restoration of savagery, the
annihilation of knowledge. Because man
can never attain perfection. he does not
believe that it is worth striving for, mas
much as it increases human sensitiveness
and is therefore conducive to a keener ap-
probation of pain.
OF material evolution productive of bene-
fits which the apostle of degeneration evil
IDENTIFY finds it impossible to comprehend.
Yet We venture TO express the opinion
that. when Nordau has evolved some new
and intricate form of iconOclastic argu-
ment which he regards as convincing, it
gives him certain amount of happiness,
though he may be unwilling TO acknowl-
edge the fact. And if he were compelled
to sit in a rude hut, before miserable
fire, with only the light of a tallow candle
and with neither books nor writing ma
terial, we are prone to believe that he
would be more unhappy than he now pre-
tends to be: that he would speedily dis
cover the fallacy Of the statement that
happiness does not depend upon economic
weIl-being and is not determined by eX-
ternal circumstances.
The evening times., 1900-02-14
AGAINST PROFESSIONAL BIDS.
A New Order Regarding the star
NniI Routes

During several sessions of Congress the
Postmaster General has sought to obtain
the expressed right to refuse all bids for
star route contracts except such as come
from contractors living on or adjacent to
the routes concerned. A large class of
professional bidders has sprung up
within the past twenty years. These men
obtain contracts by the thousand and sub
let them at about s10 a year less than
their own proposals. a practice which
makes it necessarily difficult for the De-
partment to compel good service.
On looking into the subject more recent
Iy, however, the Second Assistant Post
master General has concluded that the
Department has been already given the
authority desired. All contracts provide
that the bidder shall submit sufficient
guarantee for faithful performance" and
MIR. Shallenberger has decided that no one
who lives away from the route involved
can give such guarantees.
Accordingly a general notice has been
published announcing that no star route
contracts will be awarded in the future
except to contractors who live on or ad-
jacent to the routes. This is not TO apply,
however. to contractors who intend TO
move near the route or to the reletting OF
a route made necessary by a failure under
the existing contract.
The evening times., 1900-02-14
NEW CLASSIFICATION OF SHIPS.
4 Favorable Report on bill Re-
GarIing Naval Vessels.

While the United States Navy is in every
way modern it is still officially classified
under a law passed in lSJS before the ad
vent Of armor-clad vessels. That act rated
as vessels Of the first class steamships
which carried forty guns or more, as SEE
ond class hose carrying less than forty
guns or more than twents guns. and as
third class those carrying less than twenty
guns y bill reported favorably by the
Senate Naval Affairs Committee has for its
object a classification Of the vessels on
an up-tO-daye basis
II provides that vessels OF 1000 tons
displacement or more shall be Ciassed as
first rates. those Of ) Zoo tons or more and
below !. 600 tons as second rates. those OF
l. coo tons or more and below 1000 tons. as
third rates those Of less than 1.0C0 tons as
fourth rates.
The bill also prescribes the grade OF OIL
GERS who shall command each class thus
First and second rates by captains. sec
ond and third rates by commanders fourth
rates by lieutenant commanders and lieu
tenants torpedo boats and other unclassi-
fed vessels by officers below the grade o.
lieutenant commander.
The evening times., 1900-02-14

while a few are ambitious to enter the
professions. Such girls as these must of
necessity learn something of business af-
fairs in order TO take care of themselves.
They are tremendously hampered, of
course, by their sex, since boy has a
hundred chances TO become familiar with
the details of practical life where girl
has one. But no girl can be a stenog-
rapher writing dozens of business letters
every day, or cashier, keeping accounts
and drawing checks for her employer, or
a bookkeeper, answering hundreds of ques-
tions regarding her employers affairs,
without knowing something about business
before many months have elapsed. And
in any general discussion of women's
knowledge and capabilities it will not do
TO consider one class alone, and that the
class which is educated especially for So
cial life; il will not do to overlook the
fact that many women are ignorant sim
ply because they have been kept in ignor-
ance by those on whom they must de-
pend for information and support.
All the same it is certainly true that
most women need more knowledge OF busl-
ness than they generally have. Girls should
be brought UP to attend TO their own af-
fairs. to buy their own railway tickets, TO
plan their own journeys, to purchase their
own wardrobes, and to invest their own
money if they have any. They will be
obliged, of course, to rely largely on the
advice and experience of men, but they
viii be saved much Inconvenience and NOR
tification by knowledge Of small details
connected with every-day business. 1t is
very picturesque in pretty girl to be alb
solutely ignorant of such matters, and
clingingly dependent and trustful, but il
her trust happens to be given to the wrong
man ii is liable to be disastrous and If
she be not pretty and attractive, her de-
pendence is apt to bore somebody. There
is nothing much more distressing to a
woman than to feel herself absolutely
adrift, obliged to depend on herself in mat
ters of which she knows nothing, and the
wise father will save his daughter, if he
can, from ever being placed in this posi-
tion.
The evening times., 1900-02-14
The Trolley Car Motor.
(From Appleton's Popular Science Month

(FTom AppletOns Popular Science AonthIy.)
In almost every instance railway cars are pro-
vided with two motors. This arrangement is
adopted not because one motor not furnish
all the power required. but simply for the pur-
pose of making the equipment more reliable.
Everything of human make is liable TO fail; hence
if only one motor were used there would be more
or less liability Of its giving out at critical
moment and then the would be helpless If
two motors are provided, should one give out the
car would not be disabled, for the remaining
machine would be able to it to its destination.
In order that this result may be successfully acom
plished each motor is made of sufficient capacity
TO run the car without being overtaXed, unless
the load is abnormally large; but even under the
latter conditions the machine will in ninety
cases out of a hundred withstand the strain.
Some roads, in small towns. where the traffic
is light and the expense must be kept down to
the lowest point, single motor ears as to
effect a saving in first cost. This course, however.
is very seldom followed, except in places where
there are no heavy grades where there Is very
little probability of the loads becoming excessive
except at rare intervals. II the are provided
with a single motor, when one becomes disabled
from any cause it has TO wait until overtaken by
the car behind it, that it may be pushed ~
the latter to the end OF the road.
The evening times., 1900-02-14
coal SCARCE IN ITALY.
Ambassador 4 Draper Sees OppOrtuni-
ties for American Enterprise.

Ambassador Draper has sent to the State
Department from Rome a translation of an
article concerning the scarcity of coal in
italy, which appeared in Il L'Italie. 1t
follows:
The increase in the price OF coal IN
England threatens to have serious conse-
quences in Italy II is known that English
dealers have taken advantage OF the pres
ent war to maintain and increase the price
of coal. which has now become even in
England luxury and has reached in GER
tain towns the price O< $3.50 per ton.
Moreover, it is known that means Of
transport are becoming insufficient, the En-
glish Government having hired a large
number of boats belonging to companies
and to private individuals. The result Of
il is that coal may very soon reach the
price of 1855 per ton in Genoa and Sll.J8
in Milan. We are today informed that, OW-
ing to the lack of coal. eight Industrial es-
Establishments of BOvisa may be obliged 10
shut down Thousands OF workmen would
thus be thrown out of work. The prOprie-
tors of these establishments have requested
Signor Lacaya. Minister of Public Works,
10 secure the prompt assistance Of the
Government at d time when, owing TO the
industrial revival witnessed in Italy. ees-
sation Of work would have disastrous con-
sequences.
we understand that the Minister of
Public Works is studying the best means
TO prevent such a crisis and 10 insure pub
lie enterprises and at the same time as
sist private ones.
Commenting on the facts stated, the
Ambassador says
'"The situation, l think. is worthy the
attention Of the coal-miniug enterprises IN
the United States. Italy depends mainly
upon England for coal. and the price 10
the consumer il always high. even in times
Of peace; now il has gone up enormously.
In view of these facts-the Italian hlgn
prices the low cost per ton of American
coal at the seabCard and the ocean freight
rates-it appears 10 me that large mar
gin OF profit is offered to American coal
exporters.
Il may add that some exporters in Eng
land deem il wise. when they fill an or
der for Italy. to insist upon payment upon
delivery of invoices: otherwise. veXatiOis
objections are apt TO Be made and the
cargo may BE- disposed of at a dis5d-
vantage.
The evening times., 1900-02-14
The Treaty ina the senate.

Senator Platt of New York and other
eminent Republican statesmen who are in
terested in the proposition to build a
British Nicaragua Canal at American eX-
pcuse. aud to surrender the Monroe Doc
trine. are good enough to say that there
is no particular hurry about ratifying the
-Pauncefote Treaty and that such ac-
ton may just as we'll be deferred until
after the passage OF the Hepburn Morgan
bill.
We sincerely admire the naivete Of this
announcements OF course. ii has never Oc-
CURED to Mr. Platt or TO any other of the
Administration spokesmen. that if the
Hay Pauncefote Treaty were to be ratified
first. the Canal bill unless redrawn to
agree with the British terms. would abro-
gate il ipso facto. on the other hand, If
The bill should be passed in advance. rati-
fication OF the treaty would leave that in
strument as the latest Law, and would ac-
complish finally and irrevOcably the ac-
ceptanco by the United States of British
suzerainty over the Nicaragua Canal, and
the REIMBURSEMENT of ali claims TO Ameri-
can paramountcy in the Western Hemi-
sphere.
Senatorial attention is called to he vigor
with which Great Britain is inc' easing lis
fortihcations and other works on the Isl
and OF Jamaica. A costly military rad
has Just been completed. connecting the
forts and batteries. and it is ilCetiously
called the Jamaica road 20 India The
moral of this tale would seem to be that
he canal Is bound TO be protected by
somebody and that England Is willing.
eager. and determined 10 undertake the
The evening times., 1900-02-14
THE PoPULIsT COMMITTEE.
\ Meeting to Decide ON the Place
for the Convention.

for the Convention.
LINCOLN. Neb.. Feb. 1.-THE National
PopuIist Central Committee convened here
today to determine the place of meeting of
the National Convention. New York Demo
Gratis have sent letters to a number OF dele
gates in favor of naming Representative
Sulzer of New York. as Bryan's running
mate. but this is bitterly opposed. The
middle-of- the road element will not be ap
peased except by Populist Vice Presiden-
tial nominee II they agree to accept
BRYAN at all il will have to be on definite
pledge that the second place shall go to
some good Populist. Otherwise the middle
of-the-road element threatens to hold
separate convention at Kansas City and
nominate a full ticket.
1t is settled that Kansas City will be the
place of meeting. and this is a distinct vic
tory for Bryan. Through Senator Allen he
insisted on Kansas City as place of meet
ing because from this point the Western
Populsts can be reached and a big at
tendance of those who favor Bryan is ex-
pected In this way the leaders can eXer-
else considerable influence on the Eastern
delegates. The committee will issue an ad-
dress to the public touching national issues.
The evening times., 1900-02-14
Progress and Happiness.

That well known prophet of pessimism
Max Nordau. has issued what must be
properly regarded as a manifesto against
progress. since its purpose is to prove that
human happiness is not increased by ma
rerial advancement. His argument is that
the enlargement of our knowledge. far
from increasing many pleasurable sensa-
tions. which constitute the feeling Of hap
piness. rather tends to diminish them con-
sderably. and be declares that. in spite,
or rather because of its great progress,
civilized mankind does not feel happier to-
day than hundred years ago. Mr.. Nor
dau further asserts that happiness does
not depend upon economic well-being. and
adds that it is a state of mind not de-
termined by external circumstances. He
defines the thirst for knowledge as only a
higher form OF the instinct of self-preser-
walton.
According to Nordau's theory, he is no
happier to-day than he would have been
as a half-starved, ragged peasant of a
century ago, without a light for his hovel
or a book for his mental delectation. or
the crudest creature comforts. Therefore
Nordau, as a shoelsss digger in the earth
looking hopelessiy at the passing carriage
of state. with its well-fed and handsomely
attired scions of the ancient aristocracy
and comparing in his minds eye his own
fOrOrn condition. his own inesoapable
bondage would have been quite as happy
as the present Nordau, surrounded by the
shings that progress has wrested from ma
ture to serve the comfort Of mankind.
He fails to perceive that the unit of the
masses has been elevated, that even the
The evening times., 1900-02-14
Reminder of n Tradition.

Now that Holywel Street is about to be re-
moved attention is being given to the site of the
well from which il derives its name. Tradition
fixed the well beneath the old Spotted Dow Tav-
ern which was pulled down in 1864. after stand
ing for two centuries; but the late George Angus
tus Sala was able to show that the well beneath
that house had no claims TO be regarded holy,
being a very commonplace affair which had long
been dried up. In 1871 however, builder making
repairs in the basement of one OF the houses be-
tween the Strand and HOlywell Street found a
well about seven feet underground, the water in
which. sope twenty feet below the surface, was
remarkably pure and sweet This is believed to
be the holy well, and when the property is pulled
down an attempt to trace it is to be made.
Probably it is supplied by the spring which
feeds the old Roman bath, nearly opposite on the
other side of the Strand.