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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-15
DR.. SEAMAN ON ARMY FOOD,

DR.. Louis L. Seaman of No. Is West
T~hirty-first street, late surgeon major
of the First regiment, United States
Volunteer Engineers, who attended the
International Medical congress in Paris,
was a passenger on the steamer Deutsch-
land. which arrived yesterday, on a rec
ord-making trip. DR.. Seaman has offered
his services to the government for duty
in China. and his return from abroad
was FASTENED to some extent on account
of the probability that he will soon be
wanted.
DR.. Seaman read a paper before the
international Medical congress on"The
Soldiers Rations in the Tropics: It's Use
and Its Abuse" With reference to the
subject, the doctor said:
We have about {, 1000 troops in the
Philippines, and 60 per cent are sick be-
cause of excessive meat diet. The exist
ing ration, containing so much meat, is
one of the most a%stoundingly wrong
things connected with the army in the
Philippines today. 1t is more than wrong.
1t is damnable. I notice that recently an
order was issued providing for candy for
common sense. That is what the soldiers
need-sweets, uga Give them choco-
late, candy, or sugar, and you'll soon see
a large decrease in the hospital list.
Americans as a rule a a poor opin-
ion of the Chinese soldier, but I am pre-
pared to say, after investigation, that he
has far greater endurance in tropical eli
mates than our own soldiers on their
present diet. The Chinese soldier gets
about one pound of meat a week, the
remainder of his ration being made up
principally of rice and -four. His sus-
enance and pay together amount to IS
a month, with no pension, and yet in
fighting the Boxers these same Chinese
soldiers nave exhibited far greater en-
durance han our own soldiers.
In our late Spanish-American wal
fourteen men died from disease for ev-
cry one that was killed by bullets. Ev-
cry death from p~reventable disease is
an insult to the intelligence of the age.
When it occurs in the army it becomes
a crime. The morals of most wars are
cash. From a moral, then, as we'll as
from an economic standpoint, the state
should guard the soldiers health, for
nothing is more costly in war than dis
ease and afterward than the pension.
1.-The critics of the present army ration
are told that the ration i sfixed by law,
and that only an act of congess can
change it. When men are being in
valided by thousands a statement like
that is not worthy of consideration. 7
the ration is not a proper one, it should
be changed at once. I am going to
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-15

keep hammering away on this subject
until something is done.
When Il troops We're sent to the
Philippines it was noticed that the cav
airy horses could. not be induced to eat
the hay sent over for their forage. One
day a trooper who had been in the habit
of feeding his horse sugar noticed that
the horse showed evidences of tho
greatest delight over the uga and
sugar was tried with the other horses.
Just before this. it should be remem-
bered. horses had been dying by the
hundred. Then one of the army officers
suggested that the horses might eat the
hay If molasses We're put on it. AS
soon as this was tried. the horses ate
the hay with h greatest avidity, and
the sickness disappeared almost as il by
magic.
The advantages of sugar are only now
beginning to be appreciated. When en-
ergy is to be liberated rapidly with the
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-15
A GOOD AIM.


"Yes. I saw the whole weddin' party
come out. Say, 1t was a hully show!'
Did dey trOw any shues after de han.
Py pair?"
You bet dey did. One of 'em hit me-
right in de back"
Poor aim, wasn't itY"
Mop. De old mans foot was in it,"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-15

and, receiving the thanks of Chaffee. left
him. apparently dying.
But the gallant officer did not die. He
regained his health and made a host of
friends among the best citizens of Mis-
sissippi by the justice and fairness of
his course.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-15
HALLOwED OR UNHALLoWED?

The boys came to a wider and deeper
stretch of water in the little creek.
Here's the plac eto go in swimmin',"
said Johnny.
NO" said Tommy. in a shocked tone
OF voice. w mustn't 60 in here! This
u where they bring people to baptize
'em"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-15

found en- route-to supply vegetable
salts and acids-an army could subsist
for months under the severest physical
strain, and maintain it's health and yiror.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-15
LACKING IN

Il jest know them Chiny fellers amt
goin' TO treat thet ultipomatum Of Sec
tary Hays with no respeck."
What dye s'pose they'll do with it..
aurtie"
Grease their pigtails with it as like as
lt!'
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-15

1"Al ~" HEAL RHAcHH TER MP oW T Tf mk E 2F WINTER UNTIL THEY
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-02
The Parcels Post.

The opponents of the parcels post sys-
tenn are arguing that such an arrangement
would involve making an errand boy of
the Government" and that under it equal
ity before the Law could not exist The
opposition is particularly strsng in Ger
tain sections of the middle West and the
South. where the innovation would result
in throwing much trade into the hands OF
merchants in large Eastern cities. 1t is
quite natural that the merchants Of pro-
yineiaI towns and small cities should be
violently antagonistic to the proposed sys-
TEN. but the probability is that it will
come. no matter what they say or do.
OF course. this scheme is another appli-
cation of the Experimentation principle
and Objectionable on precisely the same
grounds. As its advantages are also sim
liar TO those of the department store and
the general centralizing of trade it will
probably arrive in time. according to tle
natural laws OF progress. The country
store will gradually become less profta-
lie and fall into the hands of less intelli-
gent people The increase in business
which will be given TO the large New
York Boston, and Chicago houses. we'll
known to the public will enable them to
extend their facilities They will increase
their trade enormously without having to
make corresponding enlargement in their
buildings, for no more room will be re-
quired for the display OF wares than be-
fore. and one clerk can attend TO the wants
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-02
Butler and lsw in Cuba.


AS neither Sc 4.ui nutler nor Senator
Pettigrew is known to have had any Of
fetal business to transact in Cuba. it is an
excusable assumption that they merely
went there to make mischief in the inter-
ests of some person or persons unknown.
If they are correctly reported in the Ha-
vana papers they have entirely succeed
ed Eel Cubano." Havanese evening
journal. interviewed these visiting states
men" on Saturday just before they en-
barked for Miami, Florida, on their return
to the United States. The result was a
printed resume of remarks which do not
individually identify the persons RESPONSE
BILE for them. and which, there is no rea-
son to doubt, PettigTew at least will deny
as far as he is concerned. IN the circum-
stances it will be safe and easy fer him
TO do So
"El Cubano" declares that these AUori-
can Senators asserted without qualification
that the Mckinley Administration was
working to convert Cuba into an imperial
colony Of the United States, with no in
/ tention whatever Of fulfilling the joint
resolution OF Congress providing for the
independence of Cuba. and, according TO
the interviewer. they used other language
equally improper and incendiary.
If the people Of the island only under
stood how utterly without political credit
or influence these meddling sojourners are
in their own country. not the least atten-
tion would be paid TO anything they might
say. Unfortunately the Cubans fancy that
an American Senator is of necessity great
man and a great power, in the sense that
Roman Senators were in their day, and. if
Butler and Pettigrew really said what they
are charged with, there may be results in
the direction of insular excitement. di =or-
der, and perhaps bloodshed, for which
they will be responsible.
II may be possible that the Senate is not
without means OF calling to account MEM
beers of its body guilty Of offences against
! the dignity of the country, and its peace
! in Cuba such as Butler and Pettigrew are
alleged to have committed. 1t is a serious
| matter and should be carefully and vigor-
ously investigated.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-02
THE STANDARD OIL CASE.
An Answer to the Nebraska Anti
Trust Suit.

LINCOLN, Neb.. April 1.-The Standard
Oil Company has filed answer to the suit
brought against it before the Supreme
Court of Nebraska for alleged violat ton
of the antitrust laws of the State. At
torney General Smith is the complainant
and he seeks TO have a heavy fine assessed
against the company and also TO force it 10
withdraw from business in this State I'M
the company filed motion before the Su-
preme Court attacking the right of that
tribunal TO assume original jurisdiction,
averrinS that the suit was in the nature
of criminal action, thus emitting the
company to the right to trial by jury in
a lower court and also attacking the con-
stitutionality Of the statute under which
the Attorney General was proceeding.
The court Oyerruled the motion aud or
dered the company to formally answer the
Attorney Generals complaint. The COM
pauy IN its answer admits that it is an In
diana corporation. with a capital stock of
81 600. 000 1t denies that il is a rarity to
trust or agreement operating in any
manner whatsoever in restraint of trade
and attacks the law under which the suit
was instituted on ten charges of violation
of the State Constitution and threa
charges of violation of the Constitution of
the United States. The legal representa-
tivcs of the company have announced that
it is the intention to carry the case to the
United States Supreme Court. Senator
John NJ. ThurstOn is one OF the attorneys
appearing for the Standard Oil Company
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-02
EUGENE VAN NESS DEAD.
4 Prominent BaItimorean Expires
From Pneumonia.

BALTIMORE. April Eugene Van
Ness. cashier of the banking house Of
Alexander Brown & Sons in Baltimore,
died early this morning of pneumonia
In 1871 Mr.. Van Ness was brought prom
inently into public notice on account of
his connection with the famous Wharton
Ketchum poisoning case. General Ketch-
UNI. an officer in the United States Army,
died in Baltimore and Mrs. Henry Whar-
ton was accused of the crime. She was
the widow of major in the Army who
had been warm friend Of General Ketch
UNI. On June 90 General Ketchum visited
her house and the next day Mr. Van Ness
went there in his company. After drink
ing a beverage offered by Mrs. Wharton
Mr. Van Ness became so violently i'll that
he could not leave the house.
General Ketchum became very i'll u1d
died on June Is. The remains were taken
TO Washington for interment. bur before
the burial Prof. William E. \. Aiken. of
the Maryland University. made an exam
ination of the stomach and found twenty
grains of tartar eme lie there. The case
was worked up and the woman arres ted.
The trial resulted in the acquttal of Mrs.
Wharton. Mr.. Van Ness was very well
known in Baltimore banking circles.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-02
REDUCING EXPENSES IN CUBA.
General Wood VIII Rendjust insular
Government Employees.

HAVANA. April With a view
OF cutting down expenses Governor-General
Wood has instructed the heads Of all de-
partments of the insular Government to
transmit to him a complete list of the
employees in their respective departments
with their present salaries and the salaries
recommended by the chiefs in the con-
templated readjustment. Without possess
ing positive knowledge General Wood has
reason to believe that there are too many
employees in some departments. condition
OF affairs due to political causes.
This applies to the departments III
charge of Americans as well as those
under the direction of Cubans. pressure
having been brought to bear to place IA
vorites in sinecures. If it is found that
any of the employees are unnecessary they
will have to go. When the data reaches
General Wood it will be referred to
commission to be appointed here. after
when it will act in accordance with the
recommendations of General Wood. Con-
siderable uneasiness is felt among the
American employees. who fear change for
the worse.
None of the papers this morning had
anything TO say about the interview with
Senators Butler and Pettigrew. This IS
not surprising. however. as the Cuban
press is always deliberate in making eds
torial comment
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-02
FAVOR THE CHINESE EMPEROR.
The Bow Wong Association of Homo
lulu Applies for "a Charter.

HONOLULU, March 2S-(yia San Fran
cisco. April la number of Chinese at
Honolulu have applied for charter of in
corporation OF the Bow Wong Progressive
Association, which is a local branch of t T.
Royal Protective Union, organized in Brit
ish Columbia and which has many
branches in the United States. Cuba. Mex
leo and the Straits Settlements. Its main
purpose is to support the Chinese Emperor
against the Dowager Empress. and to
further the plans of the Kang fu Wei and
Leung Chi Tso.
The Chinese Consul General here filei a
protest against granting the char ter. de-
claring it was a Highlander association,
and would lead to bloody feuds Among
the applicants are two of the richest Chi
nese merchants of Honolulu. and fully
nine tenths of the Chinese here are in
sympathy with its aim. The executive
council of the Hawaiian Government is still
considering its application.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-02
FOUND coNTRABAND LIQUOR.
south Carolina Authorities Accuse
Federal Customs officers.

CHARLESTON, S. c.. April Accom-
panied by Special Agent McAtee. of the
Treasury Department, who was sent to
Charleston yesterday. State liquor con-
stables today searched the Charleston
custom house and found traces of where
liquor had been emptied. IL is asserted
by the State authorities that custom house
officials had been storing cOntraband liquor
for blind tiger" purposes.
The constables could not gain admittance
to the building. Governor McSweeny and
Senator Tillman got the Treasury Depart
ment to send an agent here to oversee the
search. McAtee says that thirty nine
empty whisky casks were found concealed
in the garnet and evidence showed that
liquor had been emptied into the sewers
1t is estimated that 81 coo worth of it was
emptied while constables We're guarding
the building and unable TO get in.
The constables assert that the custom
house officials have been paid regularly to
store the liquors. II the charges are proved
it is said that the department will remove
the guilty persons.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-02
EDUCATING CUBAN TEACHERS.
The PInna for Summer Course of
Instruction ut Harvard.

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. April Cuban
School Commissioner Frye today had an
audience with President Eliot and definite
ly fixed on a plan of accommodating the
Cuban teachers who are to visit the Har-
ward summer school during the coming
session. 1t did not take Mr.. Frye long to
lay the details before the president and get
his approval of them. The curriculum is
rot yet definitely decided upon. but it will
be subject to change as the needs CT the
N pills shall require. Memorial Ha !, whicn
is usually closed during the SUNNI ,r term.
will be opened and, the same hoard served
to the Cubans as the college boys have
during the summer time. The d. -mitcries.
which are the property of the college, will
be given over to the uses of. the men cost
free while the women will be l-5ged in
nearby houses. The Phillips Brooks House
will be made the general headquarters OF
the party while they are at Cambridge.
Mr.. Frye expects the entire expenses
will amount to about $50. 600. President
Eliot has taken great interest il the
movement from the beginning and has
done everything in his power to arrange
for the accommodation of the visitors The
men who do not occupy dormtores will be
asked to allow the Cubans to use their
furniture. The studies that wiz ..ss offered
the teachers will be rather elementary in
nature They will consist of English.
geography, nature study, elementary sci
ence, American and Cuban history. and
the political problems that now confront
Cuba.f
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-02

With a feeling OF great satisfaction We
note that the Delagoa Bay arbitral award
is regarded with as much surprise and in
digration in England as it is in America
This fact may perhaps give the Adminis-
tration heart OF grace to reject it alto
gether: a course which we hope and expect
the British Foreign Office will take without
hesitation.
Nothing Of course can or will be done
on either side of the water, until the
formal decision OF the Swiss tribunal has
been laid before the Interested powers.
That may not happen for months to come
but when the reasons of the arbitrator for
their strange and totally unauthorized
findings are before the American and Brit
ish Governments. it will be possible to
take action
From the decision OF an International
arbitration there is no appeal but, on the
other hand, its decisions are binding only
on the conscience of the litigants, and that
conscience is governed largely by the
weight of the worlds public opinion. as
expressed in the contemporary views and
conduct of civilized nations under the &C
cepted maxims of International law. In
cases where there is strong evidence of
fraud. or collision between the court
and one of the parties TO the arbitration.
or where. through the personal interests
or prejudices OF the arbitrators, there is q
miscarriage or malversation of justice, the
findings Oh an arbltral court are not re-
garded as binding at all.
AS we have remarked In previous edl-
tion of The Times. the just claims Of the
MacMurdo heirs against Portugal for the
seizure and theft OF the Delagoa Bay and
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-02

The direct effect of the decision of At
torney General Griggs in the case of Cap
tain McCalla of the Navy. which holds
that he was advanced and promoted by
implication. when the advancement of
Lieutenant Commander Pillsbury was con-
firmed, Will be to establish the record that
the advancement and promotion of Cap
tain Higginson. to be a commodore, by i'm
plication confirmed the advancement and
promotion of Rear Admiral Schley "for
eminent and conspicuous conduct in bat
tie" It is said around the Department
that Crowninshield is furious over the de-
cision and is trying to make ii appear that
the two cases are not analogous. He is
right; they are not because they are iden-
teal
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-02
THE PLAGUE DYING OUT.
only Three New Cases Reported in
Honolulu in Two Weeks.

HONOLULU. March 23-(Via San Fran
cisco. April D.-No cases CT the plague
have occurred here for days and only three
in two weeks. Claims already filed for
loss due to fire and quarantine amount to
several hundred thousand dollars, and
more are coming in every day. The court
of claims authorized by Mr. Mckinley has
not yet been appointed.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-02

their goods. All these things will enable
the merchant to give the country customer
special prices, and it will be absolutely
impossible for the village storekeeper to
compete with him, simply because the city
establishment can give greater satisfaction
for less money.
Country people who are used to making
their selections from the limited stock
of shop in small town are reasonably
easy 10 satisfy, compared to the city Gus
toner who is familiar with the stock and
prices of all the shops in town. They will
send for samples of certainsgoods. decide
upon the color and quality which they
think best worth the money. and pay for
the purchase at once. If these purchases
are satisfactory in style and durability
their neighbors are likely to follow their
example. Such customers are by no means
fools. and it will not be possible to palm
of upon them inferior articles, for after
one experience of that kind they Will stop
dealing with the firm which has cheated
them. They will demand the best, and
pay for it; and generally get it; and when
they Hhu thlnsS bought from certdin
house to be satisfactory they will continue
to deal with that house for the next few
years. There is a steadfastness and per-
manence about this kind of trade which
makes it profitable. OF course, in some
neigh6orhoods this rule does not hold.
Where the people are ignorant, foolish. and
''shiftless" they will spend all their money
on cheap finery and run after the last new
fashion, no matter what it may cost; but
there are plenty of districts in which
trustworthy dealers could secure perma-
merit and very profitable customers.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-02
Mr. Beveridre's orntory

NTUIH IiIt IIaIVIVTI TTN1V7.T
II il such tall talk as has never before
been heard in the halls OF the United States
Congress Ii the American people. when they
come TO number $50 OO0.OO0 100000 shall be
animated by such spirit, there Will be on this
continent in place Of the PRESENT republic en-
pire compared with which that OF the Caesars
was d a cossct lamb to a lion Of the desert. This
nation, according TO the newest revelation from
Indiana, is to dominate all the other nations OF
the earth and all 10 kings and potentatcs thereof
win have to get their royal and imperial edicts
approved at Washington, before they fnd out
where they at We can only say that hithcr-
To- such conversation this has been more often
heard in lunatic asylums than outside OF them.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-02
Political Possibilities.
From the indianapolis News

(FTOm the IAulIhdIoils NcNe.l
II the Porto Riean question continues in its
intensity and results. as it now seems likely, in
tho victory OF the tariff men. forcing a measure
that no one wants. il Is not at all impossible
Thai we shall hear increasing mention OF General
Uarrisou's name, and perhaps we shall have some
nicturesaue and exciting changes in the political
outlook this year. 1t is not impossible that a.
engagements as they have been cut and dried
by the Republican parry managers might be felt
by the people of that party As more OF burden
than they could bear, and il the people OF a party
make IN their minds 20 do thing, they do it,
There is big object lesson of this kind in the
nomination OF Grover Cleveland the third time
We improve the occasion to remark that politics
ton of its probabilities taxes on additional ascina-
tiou