The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-30

| the delayed payment
There is no disgrace whatever in be
| ing careful Of money. especially when
one has not much of il. II was once
said. "If.you have but siNpence. spend
it like a prince and not like "A beggar-'
! The question is how TO spend 1t like
| prince. a survey Of the private life of
| princes, and the CaTefulness with which
| their accounts are audited. would iUdi-
cate that the owner Of siNpcnce should
spend it as wisely as possible, and get
! as much pleasure out of it fCr himself
| and others as he can.
That interesting character. the Sultan
Of Turkey, appears to have entered upon
a fresh career of activity Of the kind pc
Culiar to him. lie is not only showing his
/ teeth TO France in a manner calculated
10 convey terror but. as reported. is find
ing time to supervise the regular annual
massacrcs Of Christians in Armenia. Ali
Nouri Bey, formerly Turkish Consul at
/ Rotterdam. has just published an article
in the Daily Mail" Of London. in which
he asserts that the massacre of Arme-
mans by Kurds. which has just begun for
the present season. is part of a general
plan Of determination which Abdul Ha-
mid is carrying out whenever the oppOr-
| tunity offers. He says that. this time
the number of Armenians killed will de
pend upon the cutlery raised in Eur0ps
and the pressure brought 90 bear upon
the Sultan The same horrible process
will be repeated year after year until ali
are killed European chancelleries have
been entirely too cynical regarding these
oft repeated Arm, nian outrages and have
shut their eyes 20 them, fearing that ac-
tive measures might result in rcOpening
the whole Eastern question. but il is
time that something were done in the in
terests Of humanity. The deliberate ex-
termination Of people IS not Il pleasant
thing to contemplate
Notwithstanding the optimistic report
OF our Consul at Odessa. concerning Rus
sian crop conditions. TO which we referred
Few days ago, dispatches from St Pc
tersburg AFFORD an extremely gloomy view
Of the winter prospects Of the Russian
people one authoritative account states
that the outlook has grown worse almost
everywhere during tie last four weeks.
even vegetables, incfGdEnE potatoes. hay
ing been burned up by the scorching heat
The Government, IL is said, is already
making preparatioffsf Io feed the peasants
in districts whore famipe is threatened.
II Is not improbable that the charity Of
the whole civilized world may have 10 be
invoked for the succOr Of millions of IN
fortunate moujiks before next spring.
"A Reader writes to The Times ask
ing how RObIey d Evans came 10 receive
the unofficial sobriquet Of Fighting
Bob 1t is said 10 have happened in this
way: At the battle i'm which Admiral
Schley defeated and destroyed Cervera's
squadron, all Of the commanding officers
on the American side, Evans excepted, ex-
posed themselves on the bridges or their
ships. Evans. it is alleged. alone took adj
vantage Of the greater security afforded
by the coming tower. For this feat his
! admiriug comrades. not without a touch
Of American humOr. have dubbed him
| Fighting Bob" although his correct
name is understood TO be Swearing Bob"
The great work Of reform seems to be
progressing steadily. ard with some good
results a young lady OF Ingleside. Long
| Island, is reported as having been cured
Of the gum-chewiug habit By the acct
dental OislOcatiOu OF her jaw. She was
playing tennis and chewing gum with I'M
usual vigor, when suddenly the disIOca-
ton came, and she was unable TO close
her mouth until the services Of a surgeon
/ had been brought into play Now she de-
c'ares that she is done with gum-Chew-
I ing. A COW looks well enough chewing
her cud. in fact. she looks rather COM
Portable and happy and probably she is.
for it IS an act highly conducive TO her
| digestion But young women neither look
intellectual nor pretty with their jaws in
perpetual motion.