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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08
LITTLE UNFORTUNATE WAITS.
Two Children Noticed in a New Or
leans Charity ASYLUM
From the New orleans Times -Dcmoerat)

From the New Orleans Times -Democrat)
Il paid visit TO one of our charitable
institutions the other day." remarked q
gentleman who is interested in phian-
thropic work. and among a group of chill
dren saw two whose history, as told me
by an attendant. made a deep impression
on my mind The first was a little girl OF
perhaps eight years who had one of those
strange, thoughtful faces that have the
features of child, yet, somehow, the look
of woman. She had smooth olive COM
plexion and large dark eyes. She is not
exactly pretty now. but | take it that she
will be very handsome when she grows up
handsome in most unusual way This
little girl was taken, so they told me, from
an island on the south coast four OR five
years ago. 1t was a desolate. rocky key,
inhabited by half barbafic negro fishermen,
one Of whom claimed she was his daugh-
ter. IT is easy to see that she hasn't drop
of negro blood in her veins and she was
simply taken possession of by the officers
of the institution. Somebody christened her
Victoria and she has no other name. How
did she come TO be on the island? God
knows! Perhaps she was saved from sonic
wreck; perhaps she was the daughter OF
some unknown refugee who wandered
down to the coast and died and left no
trace At any rate, whatever links once
bound her to the past seem TO have been
broken forever. / noticed, by the way,
that her hands were small and her fingers
long and slender.
THE other case was that OF half wit
ted boy who had curious, long scars on
his arms and chest. The attendant was
little reticent about his history at first, but
finally told me he had been taken from
surgeon who had used him for skin graft
ing In other words. he had been kept
TO be layed. as convenient. for the benefit
of patients. |, shuddered and asked no
more questions. The attendant changed
the subject"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08
ANCIENT ERA COSTUMES.
A Move to Revive Fashions Long
Ago Obsolete.


The club has been started in this city.
having for its object the revival OF an OBJ
solete style of dress, or rather of a COM
bination of the different costumes worn
at various times by Americans. Thus the
neither garments OF the male members Will
consist of the very tightest knee buckles,
such as those in vogue in the reign of
wide-skrted affair. which. with bag wig
and sword gave such a courtly air to the
gentlemen of the reign of George II.
Regarding the arrangement of the hair,
much latitude is given to the members.
The wig Will from present indications I'M
doubtedly be the favorite style, both pow
dered and unpowdered At all events the
shorn crop of the present day is found to
be by no means in harmony with the cos
tune adopted, while the bag wig forms a
most graceful and elegant appendage.
The long flowing locks of the reign of
Charles ii have also come in for their
share OF preference by some members of
the club, and the effect is found by no
means homogeneous.
The hat worn is also left more or less
to the taste of the individual members,
with the proviso that ii shall neither be
"stovepipe'' nor a derby The plumed
and ieweled hat with soft, wide brim and
ostrich feather which formed such grace
full feature of the costume of the gallant
of Charles Seconds time. will doubtless
be worn, and the less pretentious three
cornered hat, popular throughout the last
century, has already graced the heads of
several members of the club in their pri-
vate rooms.
The club is composed entirely of gentle
men. and it is designed to inaugurate the
movement Of dress reform at grand
ball which is to be given at one of the
large halls in this city.
On this occasion it Is understood that the
ladies will be expected to wear the cos
tunes of past centuries. The affair will
thus resemble fancy dress ball.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08
MAKES GOOD RAILWAY TIES.
| New Wood Found in the Argen-
tina Forests.
From the New York Press)

tfrOm the new lo4N A4t97-J
A new and thoroughly suitable wood FOR
railroad ties has been found in the forests
in the northern part of the Argentine Re-
public. 1t is the red quebracho. 1t is ex-
ceedingly hard wood and in its interior.
not alone in the bark, is 10 TO 20 per cent
of tannin, which keeps the wood from
rotting, no matter in what substance it
is buried The wood has been used in Eu-
rope for tanning, but outside of the Ar
gentine Republic its utility to railroads, 1t
seems, is yet to be discovered and appre-
ciated Posts made OF this wod which
have been buried fifty years in land fur
rowed and quilted by the torrential rains
of summer have been found to be in as COOL
condition as if they mad been felled recent
ly.
In the Argentine Republic ballast for
railroad beds is unknown. and the ties are
laid on the ground, which frequently is
sandy and exposed to heavy rains and dried
by intense heat. So iron cross ties were
used until it was found that the red que
bracho was undeniably the best wood that
could be used for the purpose. II not only
is so hard wood that il has to be bored
before spikes and bolts can be driven into
it, but it is unusually heavy. It does not
split or become compressed with blows.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08
WARRIORS AND GENTLEMEN.
Chivalrfc Methods of the Native
Tribes of View Zealand.

(froni the London Mail.)
We are accustomed to speak of the hui
name and chivalrous manner in which
modern fighting is carried on, and to con-
graduate ourselves upon the advance
which has been made in this respect.
But is this advance as great and as real
as We imagine? For example, how do
our present day customs of war compare
with the old-time fighting methods of the
Maoris, the natives of New Zealand? 1t
Will surprise good many people to hear
that when a band of Maori warriors was
going to fight the warriors of another
tribe it was not unusual for the numbers
it was proposed to place in the field TO
be communicated to the enemy; moreover,
one side often provided the other with
arms and provisions. so that the enemy
might not be placed at too great disad-
vantage.
Here are a few stories which illustrate
the generosity which the Maors OF former
days displayed toward their enemies
chief was asked why. when on a certain
occasion he had command OF the road. he
did. not attack the ammunition and provi-
sion trains Of the English. The Maori
utterly astonished at such a question. ex-
claimed: why. you fool if we had
stolen their powder and food how could
they have fought?"
Another chief, who considered that he
had been insulted by the chief of a neigh
boring tribe. said that the other chief,
had he not been much the stronger of the
two In arms and ammunition. would not
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

cant houses. Husbands and fathers IN des-
pair Of caring for their wives and children
are abandoning them to their fate; and
thousand of families are wandering ir-
responsibility about the mud deserts, the
jungles, and the streets of the towns
looking for food or awaiting merciful
death. 4r .a. -t
Dr. Louis Klopsch has issued pathetic
appeal 10 American mothers. husbands, and
fathers in behalf of the furnishing in India
Referring to the good that contributions
will effect he says
Remember that cents will support a
life one day. One dollar will keep man,
woman or child two months from starva-
tion. Ten dollars Will save five lives for
four months
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08
EXPOSITION JURY TASKS
Work of the Congresses at the
Great Paris Show.
A Multitude of Applications for Po-
sitionS as Jurors to Decide Upon
the Merits of the Exhibits at the
worlds Fair-Tact. Executive
Ability and Experience Necessary.

Besides the crowd of pleasure seekers,
who will visit the Paris Exposition merely
for the fun and excitement TO be had, or
with, at any rate only a passing interest
in its manifold treasures there will be a
large percentage of knowledge thirsty in
diyiduais whose delight is in the why's and
wherefores of things. who will want sys-
tematic mental grasp of the panorama
spread out before them and perhaps a dig
down into the bed rock of some particular
features.
For these, nothing connected with the
Exposition will have greater attraction
than the conventions of International Con-
crosses, TO be held in the building erected
for the purpose and called the Palals des
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

have dared to act in so insulting a-manner.
This speech came to the ears OF the neigh
boring chief, who thereupon divided his
arms and ammunition into two equal
parts, and sent one-half, along with an
invitation to fight, to chief No. /.
On another occasion a chief who was
fighting against us, and who was short of
guns and powder, sent this message TO
the Governor: MY custom with regard
to my enemy is, if he have not weapon
| give him one, that We may fight on
equal terms. Now, oh, Governor, are you
not ashamed of my defenceless hands?''
clergyman who lived long time in
New Zealand relates how. in one of the
inter tribal wars. the besieged sent word
to the enemy that they were short of pro-
visions. and the besiegers at once handed
over a supply of food.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08
kansas city Up and Doing.
tFrom the Baltimore SUM-

The burning Of Convention Hall in Kansas City,
while serious blow, not only TO the Democrats
Of the town at The mouth OF the Raw, but 10
every nhabitant irrespective Of political sfiiI:a-
tion, has demonstrated the unterrifed quality OF
Missouri Democracy, il demonstration were nes d.
ed. Instead of sitting down TO bewai the unkind
fate that had oyertaken Them, the party leaders
Immediately set about. repairing the ciiy's loss
Almost before the roof OF the big hall crashed
downward subscription blanks were being pre-
pared. and before the ppernen ceased playing on
the ruins enough money. lacking $50. 600 had
been pledged for rebuilding the great auditorium,
Such energy as this will cause general belief In
the promise Of Kansas City that she will com.
pete the new structure in the short time left for
the work.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08
THE FAMINE IN india
Millions of British Subjects Suffer
ing for Food.

Maternity Loses Its SubIimest Glory
in the Face of Destitution and De-
spair-PracticaI Work in an Effort
to Relieve the Victims of Hunger.
Appeal of the Christian Herald.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04

Wear Button" The saleswomen in the
large department stores displayed the
badges with which they had been provided,
and reminded wouId-be purchasers that
they must bear the same hallmark OF good
citizenship before they could be served
Even the travelling statesmen who visited
the city had TO pay tax on their COM
merce, not so drastic, but equally as eff
fective as Mr.. Payne's, since they could
make no sales without the sesame in their
button holes. Nor was the fear of punish
ment more conspicuous than the correlative
hope OF reward. The restaurants set aside
a day when those who. in a new sense,
were what Dickens called ''buttoned-up
people, were served free. The BARRIERS
entered into the sport of the thing and took
turns in shaving them free. and finally the
bootb!acks ''shined'' them free.
When the button craze died out the
necessary amount had not been raised but
the Kansas City merchants had become so
much interested in the plan that they
oheerfully contributed goods to be disposed
Of by lottery Before the roof was on the
Convention Hall. the full amount of money
was on hand, and the prize drawings we're
held in the new building.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04
The President and the Canal.

The American public has been unpieas-
| antly surprised by President Mckinley
| action in approving the plot of his party
| associates 10 Cypress Porto Rico, not only
| in defiance of every conception of justice
and good faith. but in violation of the Con-
stitutiou, and of his own declarations. 1t
will be less surprised when it is realized
that at the dctstion of influences behind
him he has sidered the obstruction of
legislation favorable to the construction of
the Nicaragua Canal.
1t is announced in behalf of Mr.. McKin-
ley that the rejection of the Hay-Paunce
fote Treaty and the passage of the Hep
burn Morgan bill will be regarded as an
insult. Let us consider in what this in
suit would consist, The Hepburn Morgan
bill contemplates and provides for a strict
ly American canal; to be built. owned. op-
Grated, and defended by this country. That
is the sum of its offence The Hay-Paunce-
fote Treaty, if ratified would involve the
building of an inter-oceanic waterway by
the United States under conditions which
! would make the facility source of posi-
tive danger to the country. 1t would have TO
be neutral in war as well as in peace. If
we were engaged in a struggle with Great
Britain, as inevitably We shall be one day.
it would compel us to facilitate the pas
sage Of British war vessels to lombard
our Pacific Coast. 1t forbids us TO fortify
our own canal, and, in the absence of
American fertilization, the work would be
thoroughly under the naval control u.
England. The Hay -Pauncefote Treaty rec
ognizes and seeks to revive the infamous
and abandoned Clayton Bulwer Treaty,
which it was the Presidents duty, under
resolution of the treaty ratifying branch
of the Government. TO denounce and get
rid Of. Beyond all this the Hay-Paunce-
fote Treaty surrenders the Monroe Doc
trine. Objection and opposition to these
obnoxious and almost reasonable designs
are considered insulting in the White
House. We have fallen upon evil times.
The Hepburn Morgan bill would wipe
out the Clayton Bulwer Treaty and would
give us canal between the oceans. abso-
luteiy American. 1t would render impos-
sible the British suzerainty over this
country but half concealed in inc infa-
nous terms of the Hay Pauncefote Treaty.
1t would defeat the purposes of the Ad-
ministration to barter away the paramount
position of the United States in the West
ern Hemisphere.
For what do Mr.. Mckinley and his ad
visers desire to sell their country? That
would be a hard question to answer. We
can see on the face of things why they are
willing to trade the Constitution and a
famine in Porto Rico for campaign sub
scriptions from the oil, sugar, tobacco, and
rum trusts. but what do they get for the
British canal and for surrendering the
Monroe Doctrine?
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04
APPROVED BY SECRETARY LONG
The Naval boards Report Concern
ing Vessels Entitled to Subsidy.

The Secretary Of the Navy has approved
the recommendations made by the Naval
Board on Inspection and Survey, regarding
merchant vessels under construction which
shall be entitled to subsidy when in serv-
ice, on condition that they shall be turned
over to the United States Government in
time of war, if needed.
The Governments plan Is to have mer-
chant vessels being built SO constructed
that they can be converted into fighting
craft at the least possible expense and
in the shortest time. The construction, ac-
cording to the boards plans. will in no way
interfere with the use of the vessels for
merchant ships.
Under the rules of the board all fire
mains and steam exhaust pipes to steer
ing engines must be below the water line
and must be controlled by valves below the
water line. There must be efficient water
tight Subdivisions. including middle line
longitudinal water-tight bulkheads be-
tween engine rooms in all twin-screw YES
sells. Every vessel of the first and second
classes must be fitted with a complete
double bottom with means of flooding and
draining it.
The boilers and engines must, where it
is possible, be placed below the water line,
and have sufficient coal protection at the
sides and fore and aft. Efficient stiffen-
ing of the structure of each ship will be re-
quired for the proper and speedy installa-
ton of batteries and magazines. All yes
sells of the first-class are to have their
steering gear and rudder-hea below the
water line. The board says that the
water line is not to be considered the deep
load water line of the merchant vessel, but
the load water line of the vessel v hen used
as an auxiliary cruiser
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04

ers to awaken ecstasy and terror by APP
peals to the imagination of a crude people
When the sinner was once converted,
it sought to keep him in the fold by for
bidding him to indulge in any amusement
or luxury which could lead his mind to
dwell upon the world. 1t was ascettc as
well as emotional. The only outlet wblcn
it gave to the esthetic nature was that OF
religious song and service. Those who
had eloquence might eXhort; those with
fine voices might use them in singing
hymns: those who enjoyed excitement
could find it in the endless pictures of
heaven and hell, and in the work of the
revivalist. 1t was a primitive faith, and
singularly well suited to the needs of
pioneer people like that of the Middle
West fifty or sixty years ago. or to certain
classes of the working people of England.
But as Methodists grew more cultured,
refined. and intelligent. their emotionaiism
disappeared the natural. human love for
beauty and knowledge reasserted itself,
and they became very much like other
Christian people. At the same time they
became less adapted for work among those
who can only be reached by extreme emo
tional methods, and the Salvation Army
began to do what the Methodist. Church
had done, and 10 reach a class of people
which the latter organization could lot
have held. Times change. and customs
change with them. The class meeting and
the discipline would not have much in
fluenee. perhaps, over a convert from the
sluns of New York. while the Salvation
Army, having. secured such a convert. turns
him over to whatever Church best suits
him. We need in these days a Church
organization which is infinitely varied and
elastic in its notifications. This the old
time Methodism emphatically was not. If
the modern Methodist Church is TO be re-
generated in a way which will do any good,
it will have to reach the people by new
methods instead of old It cannot ignore
the higher criticism, and that. will be the
best tonic for those afflicted with the de-
fusion of belief in the impossible COM
monty called Christian Science.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04
THE EARL OF DERBY.
History OF the New Censor of British
News From the War.

NEOH tut NeN..1
The Earl of Derby, the newly appointed
censor of the British news of the Trans
vaal war, is the sixteenth of his family to
bear the title. He was born January 10.
1871. in London; was educated at Elton Col
lege, and at the age of seventeen entered
the Grenadier Guards. He represented
Lancanshire constituencies continuously
from July, 1866, to his elevation to the
peerage in 1886. Under various titles he
was Lord of the Admiralty, Financial Sec
rotary of War, and Financial Secretary OF
the Treasury. In 1880 he went out of Of
flee with his party. In 1886 he was raised
to the peerage under the title of Lord
Stanley, and in 1883 was appointed Goyern-
or General of Canada. He was succeeded
in 1898 by Lord Elgin. On the death of his
brother in 1898 he succeeded to the title
and to the estates amounting to- 50 900
acres, principally in Lancashire. When
the Paris Embassy fell vacant in 1896 it
was offered to the Earl of Derby, but he
declined it.
The countess, his wife. is the Oldest
daughter of the fourth Earl of Clarendon.
The earl's father was thrice Prime Min
lister of England. and on account of the
peculiarly telling nature of his oratory he
was styled the Rupert of Debate
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04

It has been decided by the Methodist
Episcopal Board of Bishops that modern
Metho6ism needs another Wesley. The
reasons for this decision are numerous. 1t
is declared that the Church has stood aloof
from modern labor troubles, neglected the
submerged tenth" INDUCED the reading
of light literature, abandoned camp-meet-
ing traditions, and gone after strange gods,
including Christian Science and the higher
criticism. There seems to be considerable
alarm in the minds of the Bishops over this
alleged condition Of things.
1t would be impossible to say, without
mere thoroughly tabulated statistics than
are at present available, whether The Meth
odist Church Is really in a state Of deca-
dence or not. The three causes which
have contributed most toward this supposed
degeneration are said to be Christian
Science. the higher criticism, and indiffer-
ence to the condition OF the poor. This
grouping seems. to the impartial observer,
curiously lacking in logic.
How can Christian Science and the
higher criticism both affect the Church
adversely? One is the exact opposite of
the other. The higher criticism teaches
us to believe only what reason declares
true; the Christian Scientist adjures US TO
throw aside our reason and believe the i'm
possible. II may be that these two infiu-
ences are depicting the Church at opposite
extremes, one removing the oyer-credu-
lous the other the captious and critical:
but they surely cannot act upon the same
people without counteracting each other
emphatically.
AS for the main question, there IS little
doubt that MethOdism has changed IN The
last hundred years; the same is true of
other sects, especially those which an
Englishman would call Dissenting"
Churches, since their very foundation is
the freely formed opinion of the members.
AS this changes. owing to the influences
OF the time. the constitution aud charac-
ter OF the Church must be modified if Il
is TO hold together. Methodism, owing TO
its original nature and the circumstances
of its growth. has probably unde-g gone more
notifications in this country than the
Congregational, Presbyterian, Baptist or
Unitarian sects. 1t undertook, in the be-
ginning. to hold each COMMUNICATE to strict
account not only for his belief in certain
religious matters, but for his dress. amuse-
ments. social relations, and all the acts of
his daily life. The old-fashioned church
discipline" was wonderfully circumstantial
on these points. Harold Frederic, In his
great novel, THE Damnation OF Theron
Ware" brings out this fact when he makes
the minister's young wife ask her husband
If she is really required by the discipline
20 buy potatoes of a member OF his church
rather than OF another dealer. He tells
her that she is. The elders also dictate
to the clergymen not only the character
OF the sermons which he shall preach, but
the pattern of his wife's bonnet. That is
what the old-fashioned Methodism meant.
It was an emotional religion. depending
largely on the power Of sensational peach