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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-25

fellow-men. He is apt to consider his ma
ture as normal and to take pride in the
successful accomplishment of a job; and
he would probably regard the professor OF
mathematics with much the same con-
temptuous lack of comprehension and
sympathy with which the professor would
look at him. This being the case, it is
hardly wise to allow the experienced thief
! TO teach all that he knows TO the youth
who has leaning that way. 1t is bad
economy. politically, financially. and NOR
| ally.
The perception of this led to the es-
Enlistment of :he reform school. The
trouble with most such schools is that
they have so few officials that it is i'm
possible to do any individual work with
the inmates. Such work is even more
necessary with children of this type than
in an ordinary school. and everyone can
see the advantage of it in the public
schools or in family life. The child born
of criminal parents and brought up by
respectable and kindly family gener-
ally turns out better than the one reared
in an institution" owing TO this individ-
ual influence To be sure. if the child
is tainted with its origin by these same
respectable people, the effect is bad.
sometimes worse even than that of as
ISOLATION with people who are not re-
spectacle.
The need in the reform school, then, is
influences of one kind or another which
will keep the child's mind from absorb
ing evil You cannot drive the darkness
out of room except by letting light in.
Healthful occupation. varied enough to
be interesting, is one of the most useful
agents of reform in the world. Anyone
who has mad much to do with children
knows that there is a time, during the
years of immature and crude growth,
when childhood has ceased and manhood
or womanhood has not begun. in which
all sorts of vicious impulses sometimes
betray themselves. and the parents or
guardians of the child are often in de-
spair because it is SO ''deprayed." Some
of these impulses a healthy child will
outgrow; others will harden into habit
If they are not checked in some way.
The best way in which this can be done.
as rule. is to find out what tastes the
young creature has, and IL there is
decided liking or talent of any kind, to
afford means Of gratifying that liking
through congenial occupation. II a girl
of fourteen or fifteen is Unfortunately fond
of fine clothes, let her be taught to make
them for herself and others: IL the boy
is fond of exercise, let him have an ac-
tive occupation which will give him
something to do with his overlooking en-
ergy. Repression is, as rule, the wrong
means OF reform with boy or girl at
this age. 1t creates reserve. stubborn
ness, and too often slyness and deceit.
II girl Of sixteen steals 1--WE dollars, 1t
is not necessary to infer that she is to
be thief all her life: but if this is not
to happen, some effort should be made
to ascertain the cause of her dishonest
impulse and remove it.
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these things the business of the employer

these things the business Of the employer
or are they not?
In the old-tim industrial community
4 farming village. for example-the in
habitants generally had. in some way or
other, every one of these things which
are now supposed to be provided by one
rich man. They had their church. their
industrial school-which was a home af-
fair-their social clubs and singing
schools. their bank and often their public
library. and all these things they sup
ported out of incomes which were not
enormously large. Edward Bellamy re-
cords the fact that the average farmer of
western Massachusetts during the years
following the Revolution did not see
Two hundred dollars ready money in
year, and there are many New
England farmers of whom that is true
at the present time. If the factory
employee or miner of the present day
does not have money enough to provide
himself with the things in this list. or
to take care of his family when sickness
comes, and the employer does have It,
where did the employer get it? That is
pertinent question. The miners of Lam
cashire and elsewhere support clubs which
provide for those who are sick. after a
fashion, and bury the impecunious, by a
sort of insurance system Would 1t not
be better for the workman to be raid
money enough to enable him to gave
something, or support some kind of social
institution, rather than to depend upon
his employer for all that he has, even
If the capitalists provision for him Is
better than anything he could provide for
himself? Finally. how does this condi-
tion of things in which the proletaria' is
fed, clothed. housed. instructed. preached
to. and amused. by the capitalist, differ
so widely from the socialism Of Edward
Bellamy's famous book? There really
seems to be very little difference between
the two ways of living. except that in
Looking Backward the people had
rather a better time of it than they are
having in the Pennsylvania coal mines,
and If they suffered from paternalism
they had the State for father. instead
of Mr.. Havemeyer, John ID. Rockefeller.
and the rest of the multi millionaires CT
the United States
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Sir Arthur Sullivan,


II does not much matter how Arthur SuIlivan's
grave is marked IL is not by bronze, or marble
or granite that his memory will he pre,nrved in
the world nj wllici; he has been benefscior God
cunilrd 20 him in trust a beautiful talent and
beautiful was the he made Of it. Others of
our time have written noher music; who OF them
all has given much innocent pleasure with his
AIT TO such tnnunbcfed multtuics OF plain un
cultured. Eucrtioa mn and won!en, weary from
the days toll and hungry Tor an hour or two OF
refreshing jolityY The cnpiiasi, here is ON tho
word innocent. Compare The SuliivsuCilbcrt Gu
tefiaiDnent with that purvcye.l-iu-t acrtSs the
Channaby the uirenbac'ls and llalevys oi French
comic opera. The i, clean and wholesome
as a Su,scx orchard: the other sHell, at its hest
OF absin:rc, aud. At ita worst, OF the bottomiess
pit itself .4---i-.-
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-25
Reform schools.

The reports Of the officers of the reform
year ending June 80 have been made to
the Attorney General and in these II is
urged that provision be made for indus
trial teaching in these institutions. The
recommendation seems to be good one.
The maintenance of reform schools is 4
thing in which the public should certainly
take more interest than in most other
criminal problems. The old proverb that
an ounce OF prevention is worth a pound
of cure does not receive as much attention
as II might, and II is especially applica-
bic to the criminal problem. The reform
school idea is good one and if carried
out skillfully may easily be profitable to
the community. On the other hand, If not
well managed, these institutions become
hGtbeds of crime.
There is always a question as to the
wisdom of segregating criminals, espe-
cially young criminals, in large numbers.
The atmosphere of prison. from moral
point OF view. cannot be reformatory. The
young malefactor is under the influence
OF scores Of men older and more depraved
than himself and he unconsciously falls
into their ways of thinking. In recent
book of stories Of criminal life, by Josiah
Flynt and Francis Walton, there is a tale
of 4 bright boy who was literally educated
In the art OF thieving by an old and ex-
perienced feliow-conyict. who took as
much pride in the task as a professor of
mathematics might in explaining geom-
etry or difrerential calculus to an I'M
usually brilliant student. II must be re-
membercd that the thief does not, as
rule. regard himself with that mixture OF
horror and contempt which he inspires in
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-25

tfrom the Springfield Republican,
In the time OF wooden ships the United States
had no difficulty in keeping its place on the
ocean in free competition with the world. be-
cause for one thing especially i. controlled the
cheapest and most abundant supply Of ship
building material. And in a time OF iron and
steel ships the United States can recover and
easily hold its .ormer place on the ocean wien.
ever 1t can le.u the world in the chcapncss and
abundance Of iron and steel.
At time in fifty wears could tine subsidy
proposition lac urged with 30 little good reason
a. today. And yet no time in fifty wears ba,
tue scheme Of taxing all the people TO pour mil
lions ot dollars year ncedlcSsiy and sratiui-
tollsy into the pockets OF few ship corporations
attained greater promise OF success than at this
moment
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-25

The matter of the Hongkong Filipino
Junta has been laid before Lord Sails
bury and referred TO the British Colonial
Office. 1t is doubtful IL anything more
will be heard of it-at least until the
ministry finds out what the Senate is 60
ing TO do about the Hay Pauncefote in
EQUITY. which, as We understand, Great
Britain will not permit us to amend in
any particular. II we want juntas sup
pressed we must pay for it.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-25

In all these schemes there is lesson for the
negro OF the extreme South which he would
dc well to learn. lie should be convinced BY
this time that his political future rests largely
with himself and that long rs he remains
in his present imDecunious and illiterate con.
dition there will be no hope for his elevation
as 4 citizen for the exercise OF the right
of suffrage. When he shows the disposition To
change his present environment, to accumulate
property by industry. and to educate himself. he
will not lie without help from the North. bue
he must take the initiative. His future rests
chiefly upon his cwa achievements
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-25
The Mai; for Ca.h.

TFrONl ti!S fHOlaHIpOfIs NeWs.I
The National Irrigation Congress meeting in
Chicago this year has great list Of eminent
people down for addresses and Is to make an
unusually enthusiastic and unified onslaught for
appropriation There is general idea abroad
in the West to ask for SI5. 900 600 from Congress
beginning. with other millions in the future
1t is estimated that 100000 acres of land nav
he made fruitful by irrigation and support
population OF 2.50O0OO people. With irrigation
for land and steamship subsidies for water with
the river and harbor appropriations not to speak
of the increasing needs OF army and navy. the
great future of the United States looms as
lime OF great expenditure at least
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-25
sympnthy with Misfortune
CFrom the New York Commercial Advertise

tFrcm the New York Commercial Alyertiser)
TIE reception to Paul Kruger the Continent
bear out precisely the parallel OF his visit there
an. that OF Louis Kcssu,h to England and Ameri-
CT. Even by the populaee he is treated as an
exile whose cause is lost, whom the most friendly
Governments cannot aid. and whom popular SYM
patty only console. By the manner Of this
reception the proBoer peoples of Europe accept
neNation Of the two Republics to Great Britain
as dcfinitively as pro-I5oer Governments have ac-
cepted it, By friends and foes alike he i. treated
as one who's. course is run and his history finished
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-25
Abdul Hnmid and Hi. Hopes.
From .he Indianapolis Press

The Sultan says that he is greatly rcioiced
the reelection of Mckinley. He seems to
have fuith that he will still be allowed to post
pcne the payment OF his indemnity to this
country: but his expectations in that regard are
likely to meet with disappointment. Now that
the election is over and things getting quiet
or in the Philippines. it il than probable
that public attention may be strongly di-
rected TO the Sublime Porte. with demand
that the sublirfity claimed in the title may have
some substantial basis in an apparent disposition
10 nav debts.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-25

'1FFd'lNTTIrII
There will he no Republican caucus at Harris.
burg the Senatorial question. There may be
a Quay caucus and there may not be Quay
caucus: but whether there shall shall not he
one will be determined solely by Quay himself.
caucus is intended TO br.ng together represen-
tatives of the party>to consult and determine what
is best for the party TO do: but caucus that is
commanded by an individual. that will he held
or not held as that individual may decide. has
more right TO be called party caucus thar
would dog fight.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-25

Nlarscilies howcd itself hoarse over Uncle Paul
yesterday, and the old Dopper preacher made a
spqe.h iull> OF sto!d stubborn defiance The
Bocr, will go right fighting, ne says, until
they are eStcrminated. That is wild talk and
foolish talk. A third OF a century ago Cen RoL-
ert +. Lee and other magnificent fighters OF our
own race and blood fought until they saw that
the time had come to stop; then they surrendered
gave their paroles. and betook themselves 10 tn
tasks of peace like the sensible sodtrs and gen
tlemen that they were. The world has thought
better Of them for it since.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-25

AS Abdul Hamid refuses an exequatur
to Mr.. Hunter. who has been appointed
our Consul at Harpoot, the latter has been
instructed to get along without one and
proceed to his post and to business. II
will then be the Sultan's privilege to take
such further action as he thinks he may
venture upon. We will plaster him all
over with consuls, three deep. if he does
not soon develop a more amiable DISPOSE
ton
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-25
An oyster Pirate War Menace.

While war is brewing in China there is an
ominous cloud nearer home which is even now
casting baieful shadow two great American
sovereigntcs. To judge from the accounts whici,
being received therefrom, the oyster situation
IN the lower Chesapeake IS such as does moi give
pron,ise of peaceful relations in the great States
OF Virginia 5ud Maryland.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-25

Nrfo'" TIC CaHeaSV N'''U1IfcIr'J
The average Republican editor begins to sweat
and claw the air even now when William J. Bry-
ans name Is mentioned. This indicates that while
Mr. Bryan may be mistaken respecting mat
tens of political policy he is still held in whole.
some ave h. the oppooitioA.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-25
From the Philadelphia Ledger.l


On general principles, everything that will
diversity the industries OF the South Is to be
welcomed but the device OF making paper
from cotton seed hulls is to he specially eneour-
aged. as it not only contributes a industry
TO that section and enables il TO utilize a pr'-
duet that has hitherto been waste. hut it will
tend to spare the Northern forests, which aee
now being rapidly denudled by the paper makers.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-25

1t is announced that the Pope has or
| dered the melting of the great stock of an
tique weapons in the Vatican arsenal in
order TO sell the metal. This strikes us
as being bad piece of economy and pos
! tive loss to history and art. 1t is almost
| certain that so great and probably fine a
| collection of curios could be sold to Amer
| lea for much higher price than the old
iron will bring. 1t is pity that some
body should not have thought of this and
suggested it to the papaI authorities be-
fore 1t was too late.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-25
Sterilixed MIX.

Mr.. Nathan Straus, the philanthropist
who has for several years supplied steril-
lied milk to the poor children of New
York. has sent out circular urging that
there be stricter supervision of the milk
supply in cities. He says:
when the news o: a railroad wreck and accom-
panyns loss of life is telegraphed across the con
tnen., it is followed by shndder OF horror and
if any rfe-sayinQ precautions have been lacking
there is raised cry Of vengeance against the
'soulles. corporation, whose duty it is to provide
every safeguard for life. But what of the thou
sands of infants whose lives pay the penalty OF
lack Of precaution? No shudder Of horror passes
over the land no cry for reform is raised. yet
just as surely the proper precaution would have
prevented that railroad catastrophe. Just so surely
would the lives OF the thousands of these heipless
infants be saved did our municipal authorities
adopt the preventive measures here shown TO be
effective"
The preventive measures which Mr.
Straus suggests are the municipal propri-
etorship and operation Of milk Pasteuriz-
ing plants.
He gives numerous figures proving that
such plants would save the lives Of thou
sands of children who now die Of diseases
caused mainly by impure milk. AS any
| physician will testify. milk is "a liquid
which receives and transmits germs OF all
kinds, and is one Of the commonest means
of spreading contagious disease. The re-
port of the Washington Board of Health
on the subject of tuberculosis states that
this disease OF which on an average four
teen persons die here each week, is often
transmitted through infected milk. and
that one half those who die of it are
children.
Aside from Mr.. Straus' figures. these
statistics ought to demand attention. The
whole matter of the milk supply is one to
which every city should give the most
thoughtful consideration. 1t must be re-
membered that the death of the infants
who perish from diseases caused by i'm
pure milk is only one of the evils result
ing therefrom. Other children. thus in
fected with the germs Of some deadly or
losthsome disease, live to maturity, and
then, perhaps. under some severe strain,
the weakness of the system contracted in
infancy causes them to succumb. A child
who has had a severe attack of diDh-
iberia or of some disease OF the digestive
organs may recover, but retain through
life certain weakness in the organs af
fected by the disease. Death is not the
worst thing that can happen to a child. 1t
may suffer the greater misfortune of liv
ing twenty, thirty, or forty years, suf-
fering and feeble. to die at last just when
life seems best worth living. Are such
sacrifices worth while, when they can be
prevented by little thought and trouble :?
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-25

4 sign OF good timcs-cverybody is drinking
IIeuriciI's beers Phone e3i. Arlington Bottliu-
Co.. for n case OF MaeTzen. Senate. or Lager. 80
rhat you c,s;i cnioy pure and wholesome beer
with your meals.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-05-25
Initiating Old Venice.

Representative Levy, of New
York, introduced bill in the
House which provides for the print
ing of international notes, to be
payable in gold coin, and on which
The Secretary of the Treasury may
indorse Its value in the monetary
anti of any foreign country. Gold
coin may be deposited and ex-
changed for these notes.
This is something after the old
Bank of Venice financiering method.
The Bank of Venice never paid out
any money to depositors, but issued
the deposition bills of credit and
gave them credit on the Banks
ledgers. Those bills of credit went
all over Europe and were al high
premium over gold. Similar bills
of the United States Treasury
would doubtless go to a premium;
and if the United States did the
banking for the country in place of
allowing ten thousand private cor
poration to do it, the ordinary cur
rency of the government would
probably pass 10 Europe as freely
as the gold certificates against for
eign coin proposed by the bill intro
duced by Mr.. Levy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-05-25
A. Palmer SllockIey.

A. Palmer Shockley of Elkton,
died of cancer in the face, from
which he had been terrible suf
ferer for several months, on Tues
day afternoon, aged 63 years. He
held the position of bailiff for over
thirty years, and was cryer of the
Circuit Court at the time of his
death. He was one Of the leading
sportsmen of Elkton. In firing
salutes on July 4th, 1876, his right
arm was so badly injured by the
premature discharge of % cannon
which he was loading, as to require
amputation. A widow, who was
Miss Elizabeth Alexander, and
three children survive him. They
are Mrs. Sarah Witworth and Mr..
Levin Shockley, of Wilmington,
and Miss Lizzie Shockley, of Elkton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-05-25

A bit of Cecil Wing. financial news is
that-"The per capita circulation Of the
country was $a6. IS on May I. 1t was
only $2I. 10 when Bryan was nominated
in 1896. The failure of free silver has
certainly not checked the circulation"
The Treasury Department has its statis-
t;ciau looking for $500, 900 900 gold which
so far he is unable to find, but thinks
600. ooo, 900 Of it is in peoples teeth.
This lost gold till found must be deducted
from the alleged ''per capita. which will
put the per capita back to $2I.Io. Now
deduct another hundred millions from the
.'per capita" for lost and destroyed green
backs, national bank notes and silver
certificates, which the Treasury Reports
continue to count in, and the ''per capita"
will be decreased some more.
Had the $74, DOC, 900 silver been turned
into money which our mines produce
every year, the lost gold and paper
money deficits would have been largely
made up and the per capita" would
have been in the peoples pockets in
place of only in figures on the pages Of
the Treasurer's and Comptroller's Re-
ports. Lies have short legs, and it re-
quires ten to carry one. the old proverb
says.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-05-25
GoIdbug BaIderdash.

The goldbug daily press is in
much concern and has been for
good while, over the condition of
the Democratic party and what it
calls "Populism" and "Bryanism. =
Pick up any of their papers any
day in the week and you will find
a lugnbrions lament like the fol-
lowing, clipped from the Philadel.
phia Ledger; full of crocodile tears:
"The denomination of William j.
Bryan and the reaffirmation of the
Chicago platform will spell defeat
for the Democracy in the Novem-
Der contest. 1t is idle to expect
that the West and South will pro-
test against Organism. Any de-
mand for return to the genuine
principles of Democracy that were
discarded in 1896 must come from
the North and the East. Do the
leaders of the Pennsylvania Democ-
racy propose to rise to the occasion
and insist upon throwing off the
fatal incubus of Populism, or are
they so lacking in conscience and
sagacity as to make another sur
render of their convictions to the
pseudo Democrats that dominate
the national counsels of the party?o
If they really believed that the
nomination of Bryan on the Chicago
platform spelled defeat there is
nothing they would delight in
assisting So much as his nomination.
If the patty could be persuaded
to go back to CleveIandism and its
goldbug wallowing in the mire, it
would he a long farewell to the
Democratic party. If the traitors
to the peoples rights should by
the aid of some genius ever succeed
in spiriting back the party to the
crooked paths it meandered in for
thirty years before the Chicago
convention, a new party would i'm
mediately appear. as the old Dem.
ocratic party disappeared, with
principles in its platform so far
advanced beyond what the gold
bugs denounce as Organism, 'that
they would realize their day of
judgment had come, when they
we're to he summoned before the
bar OF the American people to
answer for the crimes the trinity of
criminals-the gold trust, the paper
money trust. the anarchists of
wealth, stand charged with. IF
the Democratic party does not adj
vance and attempts to turn back,
as these false friends advise, it is
lost.