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West Point Hazing.

The testimony taken in the last two days
at the military court OF INQUIRY at West
Point attesp the truth of the popular belief
as to the practice Of cruel forms Of hazing
there Whether or not Cadet Booz came
TO lris death from hazfng. which is unlikely.
it is evident that for long time back this
brutal form Of sport has been in vogue at
West Point. At the hearing on Friday
1t was proved that men had been ha2cd
into convulsions. so that In one Instance at
least the victim asked his tornentors to put
cotton into his mouth &C that his outcries
should not be heard. The humorous
kidding as II was characterized In the
early days OF the investigation. was shown
10 be sufficient to produce iainting and
injuries in many cases. The commandant
OF cadets admitted on the stand that
hazing had been carried to far greater ex-
trenes than he had imagined.
There Is no doubt that 1t VIII be very
difficult to stop this sort OF thing. Tho
cadets seem to have code Of honor which
they consider superior to that OF the Acad-
enry itself and Of the army regulations.
and under this the bullies among the upper
class uen can work their will upon the un-
der class men undiscovered. 1t seems. how
ever, that the root of the matter Lies in the
practice Of fst fighting at West Point.
which the authorities there freely admit
goes on and which Is not punished. II
it is not practically encouraged. The
cadets testified with great unsn!mity that
the invariable penalty visited upon any
men who declined to be hazed was a cha!-
lenge to a fight. In tolerating fighting.
therefore. the authorities Of the Academy
virtually tolerate hazing. We incline to
think that II every case Of formal fist
fighting was visited with the instant dis
mlssal Of everybody concerned In 1t. there
would net be a great deal Of hazing at the
Military Academy.
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Tho investigation into the treatment OF
inmates az the MIN, Training School at Belle
vue Hospital. caused by the death Of a patient
as the result Of alleged Injuries there and
the collateral inquiry that has also occurred
into the affairs Of Bellevue Hospital proper,
show clearly that there have been grave
abuses In both places. the testimony
taken at the coroner's inquest On Friday
be not disproved. II is difficult to SEQ how
the nurse who had HTLLIAHD in charge can
escape conviction upon one Of the degrees
Of murder
One trouble at the Mills Training School
Is doubtless that the nurses are merely pupils
getting only so a month for their work in
the hospital which is part Of their training.
Student employees " this description should
not be put in such responsible places. Tie
diffic ulty at Bellevue seems to be the
old evil OF political management, Abuses
Of this sort are always possible in hospitals
and similar places whern those in responsible
charge do net come 70 close contact with
the inmates. The cruelties disclosed at
Bellevue will lend great support to the move
ment for placing all these places in our city
under the control Of an independent board
Of physicians.
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attempted successfully n few months aRo;
~" sud,lsp mobilization ~ feet, and ~
crihu" under var conditions, 90 far ~ they
may lie rcnli,ed IN peace. With fill reports
on tho condition and value IN fleet ~ each
y@ael llo wo'h have .uch u f"et Try
'ha conditions ~ the stpro houses main
tllnod NJ foreign stations. b. drawing
on them for fnll equipment oven II only
part thereof IL needed actually llc would
have certain ship. pat ont ~ repair In
theory at all events ~ that tho capacity
~ shipynrla might DO tested. IA we'll as
tho ability ~ N" engine room foroo- on
board IN view of tho constant troubles
With tho machinery n war vo-srls. this lat
tor suggestion sccm. perhaps unnecessary.
Another really important suggestion
rofcr- to tho need Of homogeneous vessels.
point dvclt on IN Admiral SAMrsOS's
reports during the Spanish war. when tho
slow rate at which some Of tho vessels Of
his ,lect moved wns given as the cause of
certain delays Tho fact was made plain
then tina, the slowcst vessel was the weakest
link in the chain. whatever It's fighting
powers might be
Little rs tho foreign officers appear to
think Of our army, they have adopted
some OF our American military devices
campaign hats and our fighting formation.
among others From Sir JoHN HopKiyss
lecture. IL seems "a II many OF our naval
customs had approved themselves to British
experts as well.
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ars far bstter paved and moro thoroughly
oleansed, 30 that now with regard N them
S"w York has No superior among tho great
capitals of tho world and especially u
this tho cvo ~ tho districts NJ the town
on whose wrctohednesa Mr. Hrvfrr do
scantod. Tho Improvement In Now York
sinca ho became Mayor has been oontin-
up,s and decided. Docs that look like n
breakdown of popular government IN
great cty1
After one term ~ Mayor Mr. HEWITT
ran again for tho office IN 1898 The first
time he hal been tho Tammany candi-
date. but now he wU put M against
1anmany What happrncd2 The people
Of tho districts inhabited by the Industrial
population moro specifically wanted him
In Office no longer and Hrdu GRANT. tho
Tammany candidate for Mayor. was elected
over him by a large plurality made mp OF
their votes particularly, Mr.. HEwiTTs ono
term was enough for them. They wanted
different sort Of government and they
voted for II. IL was not imposed on them
by the rich. for tho rich Democrats almost
unanimously voted for Mr.. HEWITT,
NdH uiut Dc Clteb dS pTOoi VI oui ihoph"y
for popular municipal government Was
not the municipal administration under
Mayor GRANT practically a. good a. 1t
had been under Mayor HEWITT
We again to have municipal election
noxt year and thcre is every reason TO hope
that the opposition to 1ammany viii be
successful. IL surely ouGht TO be: for
Tammnny has abused outrogeeusly the
power 10 which IL attained in the conscl-
dated city. Whether the new government
will receive popular favor, 40 that 1t will
he continued by another election, or Tam
many shall again be called back will de-
pend largely on It's freedom from the whim-
scalites and the false conceptions Of the
popular desires and requirements which.
we regret to say. distinguish the little
school Of which Mr.. HEWITT s a represent
ative in his distrlst Of popular self
government.
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The petition for the opening Of wsvcrley

The petition for the opening Of wavcrley
place from Broadway to Lafayette plao e.
passing through the building formerly know n
as "Old London Street" now the Broad
way Athletic Club. and finally connect ing
W tn Sixth street calls attention to a peculiar
feature OF yards Nine and Fifteen.
North Of Houston street and south OF Four
teenth on the West Side. several streets come
suddenly 10 full stop. Such is the Bed
ford street which runs into Christopher etreet
bet.een Hudson and Bleeclcr. Fourth
street. begins at the East River and terminates
abruptly In a row of houses on West Thirteenth
street. Washington street stops summarily
at Fourteenth street. Charles. Weehawken
and Perry streets have a like chart. Waverley
place now begins at Broadway and runs
to Bank street where it stops at a row Of
houses, 1t Is some years since laurcns
street was cut through from Third to Fourth
to establish the thoroughiare South Fifth
avenue" Mercer and Greene streets both
end abruptly at Eighth street. The pro-
posed cutting through OF Waverley place
may be a forerunner Of similar changes in
the aame neighborhood. leading TO changes
In the residential district Of the lower West
Side.
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No. n R'c'd'i Arc'rgs vtIr
biti1, IN a..h Ofhi'!f Tfflrh

1t Is fairly clear that tho statistics for
the eighth generation given In the last
line of the table are not complete. If tho
eight generations are all included 1t fol-
lows that the first ancestor. who was born
in 1897. had i.26s descendants and that
the average length of a generation in this
family was 80 $40 ycars-exactly a third
Of n century. II the last line il omitted.
the length of generation results as 341,
years.
The statistics for other families have
been studied in n similar fashion. and the
conclusion from all Of them is that the
more nearly complete the record Of the
births In each generation is. and the greater
the number OF generations included in
the examinations may be. the greater is
the approximation 10 an average period
of thrty-three years For New England
stocks, then. between the first settlement
Of the country and the present time. we
may safely assume three generations TO
each century. For other stocks. in other
countries. under other conditions. special
Investigations must be made.
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WINTER Talk ~ DAWSON.
Il Ran What They would DO when They
Returned. and One Q uessed Il.

From tho Nsv Orleans Tim,s-Dersoerdt.
A man whs speut the winter Of 1875 IN Daw-
sen City was relating some Of his expertesces
to a party Of hieads: From November
clear On to Mayoh." Aaid he. 1T was fur too
eeld for any kind Of work. and all we eeuis
do was to hadAls around the tres and MIX
II was the most tafkatve winter OF my Me.
yet there was one topic we never ex hapsted,
In fact, we invariably dJ6ted aTound to II. no
matter what We started That was what
We would do when We got back TO Gods
country with a big stake. A good many
Of the boys had the gold already stored away
in tin cans under their bunks. but not one OF
us doubted that he would strike it rich before
lie lett. so we were all on an equality when
it came to discussing future plans
Il remember big. !ovtal lrishman by the
name OF O'IIaleran. who had accumu ulatsd
1900 ounces. worth gbout .Sis,0oo, and, WHO
when he got home w9uIt be TO buy 4 hack.
hs WAS 1ways S da' aR2r o6 61,orS "S ne Sae
IN which he had fede in hacks with his Ices
through he Tindoys, sh,3!tns bacchnns.isa
the clim9E Of han iItSHy Siny "a ahd Soia TO 11ye l'S
continually without being 'braced' for fare.
csuli go no further
Another, lucky gold hunter was yonng
In Frisco Restaurant and whose faSiilarry
With numerous bish-toned drhoaCfes, ac-
qIrea BY studying the bill oi fare gave
him cons dcra abb setll prestige. he used
10 tell whlt he wculd ent when he .ct back
and the recital nsv e- tailed IN ihtcsest a large
"rdsr ror onsras .Sl W%t son$fod, @ 'Ia Isa,ud
suggest and he would proceed to reel Of
a section II r.pnu card in French while
his listeners licked their chops and rolled
their es'es In ecstaty. Aftsr loox diet OF
bacon and t'lns. Andrewss Glonolt que.
were rosiivelc Nadacning. oas sf the
siin-lest est-mindei AT the crowd was a chap
from Iowa. VINO conh never he Induced 70
eyrrrss a wish for ayy tbnr ey cent a silt Of
pink Elk pnS.rciothes. lie lslew a faro dealer
NJ S01'He who possessed such gar-ests.
Tact that they cost Ia a sct. has arpeaio4
powerfully to his IMAGINATION He. had
iuy .co no 'rlasted' in IN o'd ii can, but he
rink silk undcrAo'hos | trust he Is wear
The orly man who | knew who made
whom no .trIck civilIsntisr waa a big pro-
feSs!opal prosrectcr named joe Bspl- who
had cleaned NJ about $4,000 on BONANZA
C-eeE. As soon a ! hN Frisco ha said.
i will get good and drsni; then III 60 TO
some .garblinr Joint and hlow IN ny m1noy;
thcn m land in the cooler We caNln dov u
On the. same boat, and his cred, ton .va'
fnla'led 70 the letter. got him out Of the
statisn mySef.
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hls dinner viii hs three different meals
IN substance ne we'll NJ IN name. but IN
vain do most of tho n-b ~ tho sea and
tho fowls ~ tho air appeal 10 him. In that
great ocean ~ bill ~ fare he hna HE thrc"
regular routes Reduce them 10 IN" and
you have tho simple system n what N"
Boston Town Clerk called tho pore
scolcrs of IIetvert College Tho simplicIty
~ tho hskcd.potato. bread d-hot-vhter
proposition ia n merit The amount of
nervous tension and wear nade necessary
by the study Of bills of fare. the amount
of heat. III temper and disappointment
caused by the daily attempts to make now
ventures and experiments i appalling
In the strict sense. tho Randall Hail i've
cent meal IA not scientific In n higher and
better sense II IA phiosophiC. IL avoids
friction. IL Is certainty and n relief. The
machine must he kept up. This will keep It
up and keep II mp well. The young man
In question appears "a powerful to-day as
when on the football field on the Pacific
Coast He Ia not trying TO force his
method OF stoking upon anybody else.
But II Ia, good enough for him and costs
only t.O5 week.
II Is rather strange that nobody, SO far
as We remember. has Initiated Dr. DIo
LRwIs's experiment Of living for time
upon baked beans. The Harvard philoso-
pher who will try that can live easily and
abundanty for a good deal less tran
dollar a week. Cambridge rs near the heart
Of the Great pcan DISTRICT and should be
true to the trancendental staple. II is
true that Crr.o somewhere exphuns
the aversion of the Pythascreans TO beans
on the ground that beans produce "an in
fation Of the stomach which makes against
the tranquility of the mind seeking for
truth" but who seek truth more earnestly
than the Bostonians? They may not find
it. but they And the beans and they can
" find themselves cheaply by means
Of beans Baked potatoes. bread and hot
water are an excellent good meal. but in
beans is mystical virtue.
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The New Tribes 9 IsrAeI.

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SuN--Sir! Having
read with great interest the editorial in your
paper Of Dec. 20. entnied is the Twentieth
Century to be MArked by Religious Revivalf"
portaft Iae TO call your attention " q email
ssaool of eGnsst rlsu who believe. and what
is moro cun show reasonable grounds for their
belief that tho Anglo-Ssxons aro lineal de-
scendants OF the ten tribes Of Israel that
were lost after the AssyriaA captivity about
T?i Is. G.
The ar Suments for and against this belief
are tso many and toe long 70 be even touched
on here. but these men believe that II there
j. to be a successful religious revival In the
corning century II must have this fact as its
motive fQrcc or IL Wall be but TEMPORARY
II Is also the opinion of these men llat
Just such revival will take place this ec9.
tury; and one Of The rireN sIgns az it 70
those NhS baye looked Into tbe pattef. 10
the so-oaIled Zionislp. Jewish krsdentniim.
and the general agtsition AMONG Ne yewa
v fayer 81 q reurn ~ Palestlns, wtLeA Ii
vas iSryteld would ttlr plaSs sbou{ me
Pine tssesls qwSzlesaane y6 lmowSa2es Of
sEas sEs,ss'ss 3 t e ssrA sad tsisn dc de.dass
GSv 9AvEa. Dec, ~.
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Our Navy 40 . Model.

Admiral Sir JOHN OMMANKY HOPKINS,
who became pleasantly known 10 US in
1893. when he commanded the British feet
sent to take part In our Columbian cello
brations. delivered q lecture recently be-
fore the Royal United Service Institution
in which he set forth certain ideas which
he hoped might be put into effect by the
British Navy during the coming century
Tho time he allowed for putting them into
practice removes the edge Of sensational
ism from his suggestions which yet have
interest for us. on account both Of tho
speaker and OF his subject. for though
he did not admit that his ideas came from
our navy. II is nevertheless fact that
many Of the plans suggested tentatively
by him have been put into practice euo-
cessfully on this eide Of the Atlantic.
Sir JOHN HOPKINS suggested the possi-
bility Of drilling the orews Of pri-
vate yachts during the close season for
yachting. and the instruction of police
men In gunnery. These suggestions are
possible Of execution only IN q highly CEN
tralized small country. but are interesting
as showing the tendency Of the time toward
the need Of definite scheme Of naval
mobilization, and Of . system Of coast
defence In which both land and naval forces
should cooperate Being himself a naval
man. he deemed II necessary that the chief
command In suoh defence should be con-
flded TO a naval ofY1oer. A similar plan
of coast defenos might well be worked
out by our army and navy: our future
army war college win fnd the subject
capable Of much study. and undoubtedly
will not reach Str Jonr HorKINs's con-
clusions as 70 the chief command. But
the suggestion b good
In the future sJ JOIN hoped to see more
second-Class bAstieships. and more cruisers
His most interesting suggestion, however
was that the navy should use sailing ships
for collicr@ and store ahirs. The crews
OF these sailing vessels should be large
In order % get as many men as possible
through the school: few rapid-fre guns
should be fitted to each such vessel, and
rifles should be supplied: thus the mon on
board would learn seamanship a. well "a
gun drill. and could not fail to develop
into good sailormen. We have sailing
ships FOR our training vessels both for the
cadets and the boys who later Will bs rated
"a seamen: and the Naval Militia OF this
city Is trying to obtain a sailing ship for
It's use. 1t Is evident that the old sailon-
man. " he Is gone, Is not forgotten. but
so!i has his USES on floating machine
shop' As the modern man-of-wH has been
called Sir JoHN HorKINs also suggested
oonvTuole npnrt-hospital ships. and
oondensins ships to supply fresh water
70 the boilers Of Aghting ships. Though
ne does not admit having read recent Amer
lean naval literature. ii is quite evidon,
That the former Naval Lord Of IN. Admiralty
has read and inwardly diges,ed our ra-
ports on the Spanish war.
lie suggests another plan which -
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Distrust Of Our Political System.

Mr.. HEWITT, In his remarks on tho CON-
dit!ons Of our industrial population. said
there Is one thing which perhaps Is even
more melancholy than the neglect Of them
by the rich and he thus described it:
while society Is organized for the rood Of the
people, governm-ntS is not Public ON eialS paid TO
punish evndoer, are. instead prc'estng vs and
iniqui,y and growing ias on the revsBse, On every
side M.re Is an smos! wsntsn display a luxury and
spcndor. We are Undertaking great public works.
and get. pcor miserable beiags that we are. are
no, able to establish among ourselves = pure and
decent civic governmen&'
The government Of New York Is organ
tied by the people Of New York and 1t Is
as they want it to be; and the great ma ajority
OF the people consists Of the industrial
population OF whose condition Mr.. HEWITT
gives 30 deporable an account. The dis
tricts OF the town to which no refers
more particularly are the very districts
from which the present Tamnany govern
ment received it's solidest support and
upon whose votes 1t can always rely most
confidently at an election. II We have
not pure and decent government it is
not because we are not yet able to estab-
want it. according to the ideal OF Mr..
HEWITT
As us have been taught BY repeated
eIpsrisnoe. whenever Tammany Is driven
from power by wave OF moral or reform
sentiment II is called back by the people
after q single trial OF the new govern
ment and by the very people whom Mr..
HEWITT describes as so shamefully neg
leeted reform Mayor has always
been a single term Mayor only. A sue
csssf,l reform agitation sweeps away
indulsences for which there is popular
craving and 1t INTRODUCES aspirit and ethods
so ungrateful to the people that they seize
the first opportunity to get rid OF il.
Mr.. HEWITT. therefore. in lnvcighlng
against our inability as poor, miserable
beings TO establish among ourselves a
pure and decent government" really max
an assault on our whole republican and
democratic system Of government. He
Assumes that the people are incapable OF
respectable government, so poor and
miserable beings are they; and this break
down Of popular government. if there is
any such breakdown. cannot be attributed
to the rich. for the government Of New
York u by the actually or relatively poor.
The great volume of tho support upon
which TAmmAny rests Is the industrial
population Of tie crowded districts
Now. does the history Of New York jus-
tify hh assertion OF the inability OF its
people 10 establish pure and decent gov
ernmentf Could they have chosen for
Mayor a pur~ or deoenter man than they
did when they slsotsd Mr.. HEWITT In 1855?
Since that tina, the whole condition Of the
tenement house population has bern i'm.
proved greatly. the death rate haz declined
and the laws governing the construction and
care Of dwellings inhabited by the indus
tlal population have been made more
rigorous and are enforced on builders
and landlords more ssverely. The streets
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AIgcr, Eagan, MI IS AID Shafter.

~DoubtleSs the Hon. RUSSELL A. ALoBR
prepared tho article in the North American
ReiICr on The Food oi the Army During
the Spanish War" because he thought that
the time had come for removing the last
ve~tigcs Of the very foul dclIsions con-
ccrnnE The administration Of the war which
were created by Gen. MILES. 10 rest ore
t. Gen. LAGAN, formerly Commissary Gem
eral. the public regard of which Gen
MU.Ess ml1ness. or worse. had led to his
deprivation and to render common justice
to Gen. SI!AFrER.
The facts of the "embamcl beef" episode
which Gen ALGER now reviews were made
known originally by the Court Of Inquiry
presilel over by Gen. MERRITT. The
decision of that board a. 10 the utter ground
lcSsness. not to say viciou5neas. Of Gen.
MILEs'S accusations against the War De-
pa?tment was so irretutable that no
impartial mind could fail TO approve it.
1t left Gen. MILES convicted either OF
mental unSoundncss or Of malicious abuse
Of his superior officers and outrage against
military propriety which under ordinary
circumstances should have caused him
TO be relieved OF active duty or ca,hiered
from the service with disgrace Tho
ability with which the former Secretary
Of War assemblies the facts OF the case.
however, gives TO them new force. and the
subsequent developments that he points
out call for fruitful consideration.
The canned beef which figured in the
Miles charges continues in Use all over
the world. The one fault possible to be-
charged against Gen. EAGAS. apart from
tho language for which he was punished,
was that he bought too much Of the canned
beef for use AT the time, but We imagine
that IL has not been wasted. EAoAN has
been retired. MILES is Lieutenant
General, seeking for a GeneraIship. the
rank held by GRANT. SHERMAN and SHnRI-
DAN. But to SHArTER. In whose name
stands the capture Of Santiago. q Major
Generalship Is denied.
Splendid as was our warfare with Spain
in its triumph it was a nightmare in the
fury with which its leading actors were
assaiei by a large portion OF the public
press and In the failure OF Congress to
award the honors 40 justly won, The pub
lilo fury Is over. but Congress st!! refrains
from seeing fair play.
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Drunkenness Cured by Medical Science.


From tbs ST. Louis Medical R>risp
T. d. Cro.he.s believes that when lnrbrlcty shan
be more generally studied and treated as a disease
by the profession, degree Of clrnbi'ltv will be OBJ
ta!ned far beyond any present eIpec alton. The
continued or occas oaal excessive use of spirits 10
intoxcauon is not the disease. but is a symptom Of
some c1iral irietion and exhaustion: also Of pois
onns and starvation. Many Of these cases are SELF
limited ard follow certain coursc dying away after
tine. The subsdencc OF the dirk SYMPTOM By
the removal of the exciting causes anu building I'D
the system TO greater y!gor and health Is the only
rational treatment. The highest medical tudrmen,
Will be needed to determine the exae. condition In
each case and the possible range OF remedies re-
qurtd-not any one drug or combination OF drugs
not so called moral remedies not appeals TO the Will
power. but o,Car, broad. teicn,lnc application of
every rational means and measure demanded
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A new nctd Of usefulness has been dis
covered for the snnerAtous man, and woman
who 1--we 10 a 1vstth street apartment house
vouchcs for the discovery.
Her toll rang on Monday morning, and
the eolored maid announced that "de wash
mnn hab cum The wa ,hman? 1ou mean
washcr-woman. don't you?" exclaimed
her mistress Nom; IS de washinan now,
SAID liza. "De lady w'ot done uster do de
washin' is n frcn' 90 mine. an Al dore got
on Locust street We'll Then, who's IA
Why d. wasbman Hes done yerc now
said Liza "fie's de hushan' o my lady
fricn' w'ot used 10 do de wasn'. Fe's
n no count riGGah, an now she's got a stddy
Job he's gwtne do her washiu' fer his bod