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The evening times., 1900-01-20
SNmnnthy md SinceriIN.

The appearance upon the scene Of hu-
man life of a brand-new, unexpected. and
amazing champion of the oppressed, in the
person OF one who has long been pr0mi-
nently known, in quite a d&erent way, as
Senior Eugene Hale Of Maine and Spain
cannot fail to be Of at least local interest.
Senior Hale, it will be remembered, was
the bitterest public foe Of the Cuban peo-
pie during their long struggle for liberty,
and he was, at the same time the friend
and admirer of the Spanish Government
it's colonial methods, its peculiar treatment
of natives, and so on.
At no time during the revolutionary Ie-
riod in Cuba which preceded Intervention
do we remember that Senor Eugene Hale
ever raised his voice in the Senate in be
half Of the gallant people struggling for
liberty" as he does now in the case Of
the Beers. What has brought about this
miraculous conversion? What has melted
the heart OF stone that felt no touch Of
pity for the reconcentradOs? What has
softened the cruel eyes that could see TN
moved the butchery of Cuban babies in
the presence OF their agonized mothers by
Weyler's troopers?
Is it that We have a new and improved
Saul of Tarsus in our midst" or only
iuss an everyday common specimen of po-
litical pharisee and hypOcrite?
The evening times., 1900-01-20
GUNS OLD AND GUNS NEW.
Changes In Late Ages OF the Nomen-
cIature of Weapons.

(From the New Orleans Times -Democrat.)
The evolution OF the word gun forms
an interesting study in up-to-date etymol-
ogy." remarked one of a party of newspa-
per men, "A dozen or so years ago we all
understood gun to mean fowling piece-a
shotgun as distinguished from rife or a
musket Heavy and light ordnance. in
fact all pieces of artillery, without regard
to size. were known as cannon. That, of
course. was where people made an effort
TO speak English. Out in the frontier the
word gun was applied exclusively to pis-
tolls
Nowadays the nomenclature has curl
ously changed By degrees the good old
word gun has become monopolized by the
long, SLIM murderous machines that con-
stitute our modern artillery. We speak of
quick-fre guns, S-inch, 10-inch, 12inch
guns. and the word seems singularly apro-
pos. They are net cannon. Cannon i'm
mediately suggests the big numbering
black -throated smooth bores of the past
The word conjures up all sorts of curious
antique pictures naked to the
waist motionless men holding lighted
matches, frigates lashed together and fir
ing into each others ports. Sepoys bound
to the muzzle, neat geometric forts, the
charge of the Light Brigade, and lots Oh
other things too numerous to mention.
The evening times., 1900-01-20
THE PLATFORM DEMOCRATS.
They VIII Ask Bryan to Endorse
Their state Nominees.

NEW YORK. Jan. 20.-The State Com
mittee of the Chicago Platform Democrats
at meeting at Teutonia Assembly Hall
last night considered a letter which had
been received during the week from Will
liam J. Bryan, in which he made an ap-
pointment to meet the Chicago platform
men Tuesday afternoon. The entire State
Committee will go TO the hotel and have a
talk with the Democratic leader
The Chicago platform Democrats intend
to hold a State Convention during the first
week in March at which they will elect
complete delegation to the next National
Democratic Convention. Later in the year
they will nominate a full State ticket and
Bryan will be told on Tuesday that the
delegates elected in March ought to be
seated and that he should endorse the
State ticket which will be nominated.
The evening times., 1900-01-20
school DissectinG Rooms.

There is a lively protest in New York
against the teaching Of zoology as at pres
ent carried on in the public schools. In
an address to the American Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Presi-
dent John F. Haines said recently:
''wornen who get fond Of cat killing are on the
high road to homicidal mania.
Under the present system cats are dis
sected for the benefit of classes in zoology,
and the inference is that the teacher must
kill them or have them killed. OF course,
Mr.. Haines does not claim that homicidal
mania is always produced among teachers
who dissect cats, but he thinks that they
thus "accustom themselves to the sight Of
blood and the shedding of blood" and that
this habit of Staying animals tends to
create in woman a homicidal impulse, to
which she may yield on occasions Of temp
tation" He cites the fact that butchers
are not allowed to sit on a jury as evil
dence that mankind regards the habit Of
killing animals as to some extent brutaliz-
ing.
There is something to be said on Mr..
Haines side of the question, but not pre-
cisely along the line which he takes. The
benefits of dissecting animals and birds
before classes of school children are eX-
tremely dubious. In the first place a con-
siderable percentage OF the children object
to such sights, especially the girls, and if a
sensitive child is forced to see a cat or
other animal dissecjed, when it naturally
shrinks from anything Of the kind, the eff
feet on its nerves is not good. Models and
pictures give all the information on the
subject of anatomy that is absolutely neces-
sary for the average pupil; and il there
are some students who have a natural
taste for such work, and a considerable
endowment Of the scientific spirit, special
classes may easily be formed for them.
But, as a general thing, the dissecting
business is intensely disagreeable 10 many
of both teachers and pupils, and it ought
not to be made compulsory. The reason
for this is not because this method is bru-
talizing-though it sometimes is-but be-
cause it is unnecessary, Improbable, and
unpleasant.
AS for such employment producing hon.
icidal mania in the teachers. however.
that supposition is rather ridiculous, as
The evening times., 1900-01-20
Our Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The unhappy disposition Of Mr.. Lyman
J. Gage to consider himself the fountain
and final appellate expounder of all finan-
cial and fiscal law, has had many Illus
trations. We seem to remember that he
once ordered his collectors of customs to
exact duties on importations which were
at the time merely proposed in measure
before Congress. More recently, he has
seemed inclined to put such a liberal in
depreciation upon decisions of the Su-
preme Court as to raise the suspicion that
they are not binding upon him, whatever
they may be on other people. And now, a
simple. obscure United States district
court has had the hardihood to tell him
that he must not order the Collector of
the Port of New York to take certain
view Of a matter which the law devolyes
upon the judgment and discretion OF that
officer
Mr. Gage reminds us sometimes Of his
old friend and famous fellow-townsman,
one Bannion by name-a justice OF the
peace. Bannion was celebrated for the
Solomonic character of his decisions. On
one occasion he handed one down, and
counsel objected that 1t was directly In
contravention of statute and long list of
Supreme Court decisions based on the
same His honor looked with amazed hor-
ror upon the objector and said I'D have
yez to know sor, that the Supreme Coort
is at liberty to make what laws 1t PLACES
for its own binifit an convaynience. an
this coort will do the same,'
The evening times., 1900-01-20
ArraiEning the Quaker CITY.

ITIUHI CHICdgO UITUTLCIe.J
The attempt to close drug stores and cigar
stands on Sunday and to stop the sale of Sunday
newspapers is Enthusiastically and hypocriti-
cally Philadelphian. Philadelphia is the most
corrupt city on the American continent 1t is
under the complete domination of a gang of
theving scoundrels whose greed was not stayed
by the certainty that it would involve the loss
of human life. The water scandal is unparalleled
in the history of United States municipalities
The municipal building steal has gone on for
thirty years and bids fair 10 continue for thirty
years more. There is single detail Of CITY
government in which Philadelphia does not show
the blackest OF pictures. Yet the people of
Philadelphia-the pious Quakers who shudder at
Sunday misrepresentation the same scoundrels
to Office year after year and rejoice under their
yoke A city which stinks with political cor
ruption shutting up drug stores on Sunday
Heaven save us! Have these people no sense of
the ridiculous?
The evening times., 1900-01-20

a purchase at shop might start a move
ment in this direction. The process of
spelling out ones name really becomes
bore when repeated every day, sometimes
several times day. If Sienkiewicsz, the
novelist, came to this country to live he
might be tempted to wish his name was
Smith, and there are hundreds Of thousands
of people here now who have names very
much like that of the Polish novelist
Again, there are some names which can by
no possibility confer dignity on the bearer
Suppose, for example, the husband of Carrie
Chapman Gait had taken his wife's name
upon marriage. Would he not respect him
self just as much under the name of Mr..
Chapman as under his fathers name Of
Gait
The evening times., 1900-01-20
RECEIPTS IN CUBA.
The Total From All Sources for De-
cembcr S1,733, ,22I. .36.

The War Department gave out the state
ment today that the total receipts for the
entire Island of Cuba for the month of De-
cember were s1.73S. .221S6 BY items the
receipts for the month are divided as fol-
lows:
Customs receipts, $1,562, ,S40.O1; postal
receipts, $16,51423; internal revenue re-
ceipts, $50, ,4SS.07; miscellaneous receipts,
$93.379
The total receipts for the entire island
for the calendar year ending December 81.
1899, by items are:
Customs, 14072, ,11i.19: internal revenue,
$751;, ,2S3.S4 postal re eipts from July l.
1899. to December 81, 1899 $94, 4,514.23; mis-
cellaneous receipts from July l. 1899. TO
December 81, 1899. s293, ,5S451. The total
receipts for the year 1899 from all sources,
$15 217, 1912
The evening times., 1900-01-20

Mr.. Haines may see by a little reflection.
In the first place. the teacher does not
"accustom herself to the shedding Of
blood" in killing cats or other animals, be-
cause in all well-regulated dissecting
rooms this is done with chloroform. The
cat is placed under an inverted bucket or
something of the sort, with chloroform,
and that is all there is about II. There is
no emotionalism in the thing at all, no
fierce delight of killing-nothing but cold,
scientific interest, which is, If anything,
likely to counteract the average girls emo
tional impulses.
Again. does Mr. Haines mean to imply
that no woman can take life without being
in danger OF ''homicidal mania?'' What
about the multitudes of good women on
farms and elsewhere who kill chickens
every few days for the family dinner
yea, and dissect the same afterward2 Why
is it any more brutalizing to kill cat with
chloroform for scientific purposes than to
wiring a chickens neck for culinary ends?
To be sure. in many households some man
is pressed into service as executioner, and
the same man is also asked to drown super
fuous kittens and dispose of annoying rats
and other animals; but there are numerous
mothers of families-good, gentle, tender
hearted women-who are quite equal to at
tending to such work themselves in the
quickest and most merciful way when nee
essary. And whether they kill ther own
chickens or not, probably ninety-nine per
cent of the women In this land are at some
time or other called upon to "accustom
themselves to the sight of dissected ami
mails in some form. Why is it any more
brutalizing to study cat or frog in Sec
tions than to prepare the selfsame frog for
the frying-pan or stuff and roast a little
pig? Mr.. Haines seems to be making
distinction without a difference.
The evening times., 1900-01-20

The diplomatic triumph of Germany
over England in the seizure business ap-
pears to be complete. The latter not only
promises indemnity for the Bundesrath
incident, and agrees to see that the same
kind of thing is not repeated, but actually
agrees to hold German mail steamers in
the light of public vessels. and hence ex-
empt from search on the high seas-a rule
never before conceded by Great Britain,
and not hitherto regarded as good in in
ternational law.
The evening times., 1900-01-20
Why the Prisoner Wept.
LFrom Short Stories.)

SIIVIN HtOIIts.J
man was on trial for stealing money from a
house. The counsel for the prisoner, in his ad-
dress to the jury, said:
Gentlemen, my client is a poor man. He was
driven by hunger and want to take the small
sum to buy bread. for it is in evidence that he
did not take the pocketbook containing e3O0
that was in the same drawer. II he were a pro-
fessional thief he would have certainly taken the
pocketbook."
The eloquent counsel for the accused was in
terrupted by the convulsve sobs Of his client
''Why do you weep" asked the magistrate
who was on the. bench.
Because / didn't the pocketbook in the
table drawer" was the reply.
Everybody laughed except the counsel for the
defence.
The evening times., 1900-01-20
CURRENT HUMoR.
A Religious Family.

(From the San Francisco Herald)
Teacher-Bobbie. did you look up the story Of
the Prodigal Son, ! tCld you?
BObbie-Nom. Ma wouldn't let take the
Bible She's pressin' autumn leaves in il.
The evening times., 1900-01-20
A Double Use of Wires,

(From the Chicago Tribune.)
Ii is fact little known even by those who use
the long distance telephone that the same wires
which carry telephone messages are usually used
at the same time for telegraphing. Thus man
over wire which at the same second is carrying
a telegraph message to an entirely different
person The wires are used in this double way
without the slightest interruption trouble to
either system.
The evening times., 1900-01-20
St. Petersburg's Unique Laboratory.
From the Mexican Herald)

The Medical Institute Of st. Petersburg is about
to build a unique laboratory for the treatment OF
pest patients and the manufacture of pest serum.
This laboratory is being built in Cronsadt and Is
entirely surrounded by water, so that it be
isolated at moments notice. 1t is to contain
a stable with twelve horses, drug stores, dwell
ings for helpers and nurses and lazarette in case
the staff are affected by the sickness. COmmuni
cation will be effected with Cronstadt by steam
launch 1t will be equipped with steam engines
and electric and motor appliances and all the lat
est inventions and Improvements.
The evening times., 1900-01-20

The London Chronicle" is much exer-
cised over the evident intention of Congress
to pass a law for the construction of the
Nicaragua Canal, without any regard for the
provisions of that old piece of waste paper
known to chicanery and infamy as the Clay
ton-Bulwer Treaty The Chronicle de-
clares that Great Britain will be compelled
10 regard such movement as an "unfriend-
ly act The less said about unfriendly acts
on the other side of the herring pond the
better We have been obliged though not
yet officially, TO consider the Canadian at
tempt to seize part of our territory in Alas
ka as the reverse of friendly. The British
Government. press, and people should be
made to understand that trouble has not
arisen from this uncousinly conduct, solely
because of American indispositiOn to crowd
a state with more on her hands already
than can be handled comfortably. AS to
the canal matter, no amount of public or
private growing in England will make the
slightest difference. That ditch is going to
be built by and for the benefit of the Unit
ed States. 1t is amply worth a fight, if
fight is to be looked upon as the price
fixed.
The evening times., 1900-01-20
Classes i'm Cuba.
lFrnm I.eslie,s Weeklr.l

The present population Of Cuba is divided
broadly into three classes-the business and pro-
fessional men, whose interests In stable
just government; the poems, or laboring classes,
whose interests are the same; and the professional
politicians, who in Cuba, as in the United States.
hope TO make their living out Of public life. The
first class comprises all the Spaniards and nearly
all Of the white Cibans, with many of the mixed
races The second class consists of the negroes
and most Of the mixed bloods who are not pos
sessed of property or education. The third class
is recruited from the Clbans and colored people.
The evening times., 1900-01-20

There is abundant basis for the theory
that when Ananias died he went to Mon
tana and founded a large family. One Of
the witnesses in the Clark case yesterday
said: 81 do not think any statement is
ever a lie, which is made with the under
standing that it is false
The evening times., 1900-01-20

The Naval Board of Construction has re-
jected the Holland submarine boat. We
expect to hear from Wellington or Petit
grew that it was entirely on account Of
the name, and that act furnishes another
heartrending illustration of the anti-Dutch
sentiments Of the Administration.
The evening times., 1900-01-20
BoIivfa,s InhospitabIe Climate.
(From the indianapolis News.)

Agriculture makes slow progress in Bolivia.
In the lands OF the upper plateau, surrounding
La Paz and oruro, barley is grown and potatoes
sown to a considerable extent, but the yield is
poor, on account OF the very inhospitable nature
cur at night during the summer season The
grain produce is utilized for food purposes and
the straw for fodder
The evening times., 1900-01-20
A Helpful " ifc.
Trom Iife.)

Mr. Wheatpit-My failure is the talk OF the
street, At the meeting of my creditors, today. l
arranged to pay 10 cents on the dollar!
Mrs Wheatpit (after a moments figuring
Oh, Henry isn't that lovely! Then the sd
hat had sent home today will only cost yoI 81
The evening times., 1900-01-20
Two Professions.

(Erom the indianapolis Press.)
Wstts-Don't you think a lawyer requires a
better education than a physician?
Potts-To be sure. II takes good deal more
skill to separate a man from his money than from
his life
The evening times., 1900-01-20
Unlimited Opportunity.

(From the Detroit Free Press)
Miss Polkadot-My fance is generous. There
is nothing he likes better than spending money on
Others
Miss Sumnit-You ought to make him very
happy.
The evening times., 1900-01-20
Human Nature.
-. n.:. rroo pross

O'rom the Detroit Free Press.l
''Are you curious or meddlesoTer
'rsot ir the least; but when come 70 any
thing locked up | have to find out what's inside
Of It. OF die
The evening times., 1900-01-20
EipiOna Art
(Frorn I

Q'rom the Philadelphia Record)
Tommy-pop. what's a tank drama?
Tommy's Pop-A tank drama, my son, is play
that's So bad as to drive people to drink
The evening times., 1900-01-20
Plausible.
Ernm Harlem Lie }

Pennoyer-Why do so many Of these prizefght-
ers call themselves "the kidT'
Prettiwit-I suppose it is because it's so hard
to put a hid to sleep.
The evening times., 1900-01-20

Lou Payn COnference.-An impor-
tant conference in New York is scheduled
for today between Governor Roosevelt and
Senator Platt at which ii is expected the
very Annoying and stubborn Lou Payn
problem will be solved, If that prob EN-
is at all soluble. The Rough Rider, IL Is
said, has not weakened a bit in his firm
resolution TO oust the calm tempered and
obnoxious Payn from the office of supeTln-
lendent of insurance. Neither has SeGa-
tor Platt wavered a hairs breadth in his
determination to still further tar Roose-
welt with the machines stick by forcing
the Governor to retain Payn. Platt's fol-
lowers believe he so completely controls
the legislature that any nomination OF
successor to Payn made by Roosevelt will
be defeated for confirmation in the senate
at Albany and that the governor will not
incur the risk of arousing the active
hostility of the legislature by attempting
TO get rid of Payn. II he should do this ii
is considered highly probable that all of
the governors glowing political hopes
would be blasted by an inglorous defeat
for denomination, or, worse STILL by de-
feat al the polls after being renominated.
II is, therefore, generally believed that the
outcome of today's conference viii be
favorable to Payn in some form.
The evening times., 1900-01-20
RfbtfcnI Grn m mar.

(From Brooklyn I.ife.)
Teacher-Jobnpy you may define the first per-
son.
Johnny-Adam.
The evening times., 1900-01-20
No River and Harbor Biil.-At

No River and HarbOr Biil.-At
meeting yesterday of the House Commit
tee on Rivers and Harbors it was made
manifest by the attitude of Chairman Bur-
ton that the Administration is still deter
mined to play politics" with the impOr
tant question of the improvement of the
seacoast harbors and the navigable water
ways. Mr.. Burton gave his colleagues to
understand that the committee will re-
port no bill at this session, the object be-
ing, of course, TO keep down appropria-
tions on the eve of the Presidential cleo
tion. Representative Ball of Texas, who
is leading the opposition to the Admins
traton in the committee. says that at the
next meeting of the committee, on the
3Oth instant. the friends of river and har
Dor improvement will make a determined
rally, and finally settle the mooted ques-
tion one way or the other.
The evening times., 1900-01-20

A Boom for NOrtOn.-Out of the joyful
confusion created by the visit of Col. ". j.
Bryan TO Washington has sprung q new
distinction for the Hon. James Albert Nor
ton, Representative of the Thirteenth Ohio
District. Upon many lip today is DF.
Norton's name connected with the Demo-
cratic Vice Presidential nomination. The
doctor wears his fresh honors modestly.
He says he did not start the boom. has NO
idea who started it, and is doing nothing 10
increase its volume or momentum. DR..
Norton belongs TO that bellicose class OF
statesmen known as lighting Democrats,
and is in thorough accord with the party
on all the leading issues. He belongs to
the Mclean element in Ohio, and il is be-
lieved that the resourceful and determined
leader of that element is not displessed
with the mention of Norton for the tail OF
the ticket.
The evening times., 1900-01-20
POLITICAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

Senate Republicans.-That ever faith
full source Of discord, patronage, appears
to have set even the grave and reverend
Republican Senators at skies and sevens.
The meat of the contention seems to be
clean sweep of the Democratic employees OF
the Senate. with the exception of a very
few of the older Democrats on the pay
rolls whose experience makes their serV-
ices of real value and whose close asso-
citation with influential Democratic Sena-
tors who had them appointed soon after
Noah made his famous escape would cause
mighty row should they be bounced"
At the Republican Senate caucus yesterday
the element insisting upon a virtually
complete reorganization of the staff, de-
veloped sufficient strength to again post
pone action. The excuse for the postpone
ment generally given out was the declina-
tion by Representative Sherman of the
proffered Secretaryship. 1t is understood
that. of course, this had something TO do
with it, but 1t is believed that had the
'all or nothing element seen their way
clear to the accomplishment of their pur-
pose they would have substituted some
other name for that of Mr.. Sherman and
thus have started the long delayed reor-
ganization. While Senators Platt and De-
pew are said TO be still hopeful of electing
James S. Clarkson to the Secretaryship, 1t
is reported that the New Yorkers are not
SO bound to him that they could not side
track him for some other New York man
il by SO doing they could be assured OF
bringing about the wholesale decapitation
of Democratic employees demanded by the
extreme element. II is stated that Sem
ator Plat has two other New Workers on
the list for Secretary Coxs place, either
one Of whom can be elected when the ex-
tremists are ready for the caucus to act.
These are former Representative Bennett
of Brooklyn, and George w. Aldrich, the
Republican leader, of Monroe county. No
other name than that of Col. Dan Rams
dell, of Indiana, is now being prominently
mentioned for Sergeant-atA Arms. The
caucus will meet again next Wednesday,
when ii is expected final action will be
taken.
The evening times., 1900-01-20

Arthur Brisbane. editor of the Evening
Journal" is at the Shoreham from New
York. He is here looking on" and will
remain for few days.
The evening times., 1900-01-20

Francis T. Homer, a prominent attorney,
Homer is president of the company which
owns and operates the Normandie and
stated today that business was always
good in the snug hotel and the receipts of
last year were evidences Of prosperity.