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The Washington times., 1901-07-31
POLITICAL COMMENT.

Forty insane and twenty-five consump-
tive soldiers returning from Manila upon
a single transport are dismal samples of
the fruits of empire. New York World
No doubt there are people who will find
fault with the Italian Government for
sending us the sort of material that APP
pears to require ynching.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
While we are about it let's have a board
of enquiry investigate Admiral Crownin-
shields super-imposed cheek.-Atlanta
Journal.
England has fallen upon evil days, in
deed, when the imperial yeomanry'' sets
food above fame and carps and cayils at
the benisnant recognition Of their glo-
rious sovereign, when such recognition
takes the form of copper embellishments
for the exterior of the person, on the
ground that the interior thereof is va
can't of food The spirit If the crusaders
Is Philadelphia North American.
The war of the envoys at Pekin has
been more protracted than that of the
allied armies against the Boxers" and
the outcome is hardly more satisfactory
Pittsburs Dispatch.
Ii must be confessed that for some years
political relations have not been quite as
cordial was to be desired, nor does 1t
seem possible for the United States fully
to agree with some of the policies put
forward by the present Government of
Chile. Commerce. however. often rises
superior to politics. anc even exerts
saiutary influence upon political relations.
There Is room to hope that such will be
the case between Chile and the United
States.-New York Tribune.
As cunningly as Secretary Long has
sought IN his order to entangIe or restrict
Schiey In testimony as to all the events
of the Santiago campaign. the breadth
of enquiry authorized in his order will
bring Sampson into court as a defendant
in fact if not in form. Let all the truth
come out--ChicaGo Chronicle.
Aguinaldo is said to be grumpy. and
whenever he signs his name he adds the
word prisoner" This is not as per ad-
vance notices. The people have been led
to understand that Aggie simply dotted
on being IA prisoner. that he liked to lOl
around and rattle his chains for Amuse
ment. and that he yearnsd to have all
mis- people with him. Should this copper
colored savage persist in his unseemly
conduct he may compel the good vii
liam to call of the IafI civil goverumen.
and restore militarism in the Philippines
in which case he viii be clearly r,spon-
sible for depriving his countrymen Of
their present blessings of liberty and in
dependence.-Albany Argus
The English are now having troubl,
about their horses for the army in Sout
Africa First it was the mules. which
lost Nicholson's Mex. Then it was tn
asses with high titles who lost various
battles Now it is the hOrsss.-Vienna
Rundschau.
The Atlanta Journal" regrets that tn,
national banking system is inelastic. Ye'
the Seventh National stretched it withou,
much trouble.-Cincinnat Commercials
Tribune.
An obvious moral OF this intcrnationa
incident is that il doesn't pay to quar-,
on board ship unless there be actual
might to back presumptiye right On,
Gatling gun in the gangway-would hav,
been worth q wilderness of national flags
-Philadelphia Record.
The Washington times., 1901-07-31

cause it is forbidden, and they cannot
dance in their own homes because there
is no room and no music. Among their
few pleasures this is about as innocent
and inexpensive as any, when it Is pos
sible to indulge in it in public place.
In Europe, where most of the East
Side population originated. this is al
lowed, and the peasant festivities are
marked by dances which are often very
ancient in their origin.
1t is of no use to say that If the work
ing people are as good as they ought to
be they will prefer libraries and prayer
meetings to dance halls and beer gar
dens Human nature is not construct
ed in that way. The workingman sees
considerably more of the serious side of
life, as a rule, than the philanthropist
who breaches 20 him; and his wife sees
about ten times as much. a woman
who has to face the world at the age of
twenty or twenty-five, with two or
three children - support, or VINO Is
obliged to toll through life with a dis
solute or brutal husband on her hands,
gets all that she needs of solemnity in
the natural course of her life; and in
addition to this, she usually knows all
about the troubles of her neighbors.
Some tenement-house women can give
points to a professional novelist when
it comes to knowledge of human ma
ture, and when charity means giving
half ones dinner to a starving neigh
Dor, those who practice it have little to
learn from people who indulge their
charitable impulses by giving to an as
sociation the money or old clothes they
can easily spare.
What working folk need is innocent
musement-rrcreation of a kind which
will give health to body and mind with
out demoralizing them from an ethical
point of view. 1t is impossible to judge
a girl brought up in a tenement exact
Iy as che would the girl reared in a
country nome, where all the refine
ments Of life are to be found; yet the
one is often as essentially pure and
womanly in her instincts as the other.
To the tenement girl there is nothing
dreadful in dancing in a public park,
because she is acquainted with most of
the people around her; and, after all.
there is certainly little to choose be-
tween this and occupying box at the
opera, in full dress, so far as publicity
is concerned Girls and boys will have
fun of some kind; the pity of 1t is that
at present they are too often driven to
find it in company with vice.
The Washington times., 1901-07-31
PRESERVE THE MONUMENT.

The Washington Monument is equipped
with line new lift, having all the lat
st safety Appliances. and the visitors
can ascend to the top ef the tall shaft
IN perfect assurance that It holds no
iauser for them. Ii is n pity that the
assurance could not be extended to the
Monument of being safe from the visit
lrs. But they continue to deface II, and
% carry of bits OF the fine stones present
d by foreign Governments and home
states, in a way that would be Madden
l0g If anyone was foolish enough to al
1w his feelings IN get worked up In this
weather If the habit of putting visitors
% the Monument into strait-jackets
had only been entered upon when 1t was
thrown open To the public. how much
would have been saved this country in
the way of modification at the conduct
Il its citizcrs in maltreating what
should be sacred d.-Ncwport Or. - News
The Washington times., 1901-07-31
PUSHING SECRETARY ROOT.

The Independent" it may be observed,
reaches editorially this week the same
conclusion the Republicans reached some
time ago regarding the Secretary of War,
EIihu Root. Ii ranks him as beyond
doubt President McKinley's chief ad-
WISER" the most forcefui and most con-
spicuous member of the Cabinet. The
"Independeut'' goes further than this. and
says that. barring the President, Mr.: Root
is now perhaps the most conspicuous
figure in American public life" At this
rate there is no reason why Mr.. Root
should not assume Presidential proper
tions in connection with the next Repub-
lican nomination. His name is already
being included in the list of available
candidates The san Francisco Argo-
naut'' last week mentioned him second in
the Republican group of Presidential pos
sibilities.-S Springfield Republican.
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1t has come to the knowledge of the
Treasury Department that in Minneapo-
lis there is large shop window full of
articles exposed for sale. which are Ia
beied as having been secured at the
"sacking of Pekin" Mr. Gage desires
the Department of Justice to assist him
in asceftaining how these Chinese GU
rios reached this country; II they were
looted in Pekin. who did the stealing,
and whether the thieves have paid duty
on their entry into this country. Such
an investigation is eminently desirable.
Perhaps the chances are that the whole
lot is the production of American indus
try. Most OF our genuine Chinese art
objects are made in Connecticut, and the
Minneapolis collection may merely be
ticketed as it is for mercantile purposes.
On TIE other hand. there is a vague pos
sibility that the curios really do repre-
sent robbery or several robberies COM
mitted in the Chinese capital In that
event 1t is important TO find out wheth-
er or not the importer has settled for
them at the custom house. AS we have
remarked, one of our struggling infant
industries is engaged In the manufac-
ture of such things. and the Republican
heavens would fan were 1t not prohibi-
lively protected. ri.-~
The Washington times., 1901-07-31

Twenty Filipino laborers. hired by the
Government to work as teamsters. re-
Gently went on strike because they were
ordered to break stone instead. A press
report from Manila alleges that the re-
calcitrants were promptly and severely
disciplined and are now in jail on a frugal
diet of bread and water. The Administra-
ton probably may find it necessary 10
enquire into the matter. and if the story
proves TO be true. take some action in the
premises. or Mr.. Mckinley and Mr. Root
will have trouble with the labor organiza-
tions on their hands. sure enough.
The Washington times., 1901-07-31

The end of the Alabama Constitutional
Convention is now close at hand. Its work
so far. while generally satisfactory to the
people of the State. does not seem to be
so in the matter Of the suffrage. II now
seems certain that the grandfather
clause" familiar in connection with the
new North Carolina constitution. will be
adopted This is to be regretted. since
it is very doubtful If it would stand a test
before the Federal Supreme Court
The Washington times., 1901-07-31

1t is possible to conceive of time in
the development of the ape when it be-
came more desirable for him to live in
caves and near the ground than In the
tree tops. He was then fitted for either
form of life. Living in caves, the tall.
becoming an encumbrance. might in the
course of many generations practically
disappear; but when it had disappeared
it would never again be developed. II
man were now placed in position
where he would have to revert to the
condition of his monkey progenitors, or
die. he would probably die. Although
there is a certain tendency to revert to
the wild state, in some species. and
slough off artificial characteristics. as
a general rule evolution does not go
backward. The horse will never be-
come by any process of reversion the
small animal with toes from which he
descended.
1t is not possible to suppose that the
human arm was ever wing; but 1t Is
possible to imagine that in some re-
mote age of the world there was
semi-developed creature having four
limbs. and that one line of this Great
ure's descendants. finding it desirable
to live in the air. developed wings, and
another line of descendants became
quadrupeds. 1t is not necessary, in
order to accept the doctrine of evolu-
ton, to assume that man descended
from an animal precisely like the
monkey of India or South America. The
original ancestor of both may have
been the same, but one line of deS-
cendants branched off into life in the
tree tops. and another line found it
more desirable to live elsewhere, and,
in time, to defend itself with club and
stones and other contrivances instead
of claws and teeth. All this. however,
happened so many millions of years ago
that it is almost beyond the reach of
the imagination. 1t is possible that II
some of the opponents of evolution were
confronted with the savages who were
their ancestors in the forests of Europe,
two or three thousand years ago, they
would conclude that they would about
as soon own the monkey for a progen-
itor. The important question to be set
tied, after all. is not whence we came,
but whittier we are going.
The Washington times., 1901-07-31

The announcement of satisfactory set
tlement at Pelin is no sooner published
than we begin to hear stories of new diff
culties and troubles. According to one of
our dispatches yesterday, Sir Robert.
Hart, Director of Chinese Customs. has
expressed conviction tiat it will be three
years before the Chinese revenue system
can be so organized and administered as
to enable China to, pa.r her first Install
ment of interest on the indemnity loan. 1t
is not probable that the Ministers of the
Powers would tolerate a proposition
of postponement based on that opin-
ion. They will most likely continue
to insist that the first semi-annual
interest payment must be made next
January. and thenceforward continuously
every six months. But suppose that Sir
Robert Hart is right In his prognosis,
That would mean default and a reopen
ing of the whole aggravating indemnity
case. 1t would also he apt to end in the
seizure of Chinese territory by the lead
ing Powers, except the United States. by
way of obtaining security. Ir turn that
course would precipitate the partition of
China. n danger TO the open door for
American commerce which has not been
finally averted by any manner of means.
The Washington times., 1901-07-31

The English Government gives away
$4,000 year, more or less, to encourage
matrimony among the women employees
of the telegraph service. Women enter
the service at an average age of sixteen.
After six years. when the operator has
reached the official marriageable age of
twenty-five. she is entitled to an allow
ance from the State For each year of
service she can draw one months pay.
As her salary is S25 a month. she can then
claim $50. If she waits until she is
twenty-eight she can draw s400 In prac-
tice the average amount paid has been
found to be about 500
The Washington times., 1901-07-31

At the International exposition In BreSt,
France, Honore Baudre. an aged amateur
scientist, exhibits what he calls geologi-
cal piano, the most curious instrument.
perhaps, in the whole world. NJ. Baudre
says it took him thirty three years to
construct it and even now he claims there
is a slight defect which he hopes to rene
dy before his death. That there are musi-
cal stones is not n new thing, but an
instrument composed of stones collected
during more than three decades Of pa
tient research in France and Canada is
a phenomenal achievement.
NJ Baudre found most of his musical
stones in Auvergne and every one of
them represents either a-petrified fish or
some prehistoric instrument. He relates
that his greatest difficulty consisted in
finding the low of his octave. For
more than ten years he searched for il,
da He says none can appreciate the joy
he felt at its discovery. Those who have
heard NJ Baudre play on his geological
piano say the music is much purer and
sweeter than that OF any other instru-
ment and IL needs no piano tuner to put
II In order.
NJ Baudre has received flattering offers
to bring his piano to America, but he
claims to he too old to undertake the
journey. and as for selling 1t. he
would not part with 1t for all the money
in the world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-18
Notes of the Flood.

PITTSBURG.-The three rivers at Pitts
burg have fallen below the danger line,
and the work Of clearing away the debris,
mud and the retaining of lost craft.
washed away by the waters, has begun.
The upper Ohio valley is still in the throes
high at man points down the Ohio river.
The loss suffered By Pittsburg interests
may reach 1900, 600.
wILKESBARRE, Pa.-The flood situa-
tiOn in the Wyoming valley shows some
Improvement. The water in the Susque-
hanna river receded ten inches more dur
ing Monday night, but the lOwlands are
still submerged and all connections be-
tween Wilkesbarre and the towns on the
west side of the river are still cut off. The
railroads are getting into normal condi-
ton again.
EASTON, Pa.-Through passenger traf-
fc on the Lehigh Valley road from New
York to Buffalo is practically open after
a tie-up of forty-eight hours due TO the
foods. No effort is being made to run
through freight, and all perishable goods
for distant points are being refused.
AUSTINVILLE, Pa.-Mr. and Mrs. Alb
ner Richards, well-to-dO residents OF this
place, aged about fifty years, were swept
down stream while e~ndeavOring to save
their poultry from the rushing water.
Their bodies were found a half mile from
their house, half buried in the sand and
debris.
SOUTH HARRISBURG-The nigh water
in South Harrisburg is gradually receding,
and work has been resumed in all the, man
ufacturing plants in that locality.
BORDENTOWN, n. 1.-THE freshet in
the Delaware river has fallen two feet,
and il is gradually passing out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-18
OF A NEW KIND.
ROOseveIt's Political Ethics Differ
ent from the General Form.

Kansas City Star.
1t is said that President Roosevelt was
surprised at the number of letters and tele-
grams from leading Oklahoma citizens Ire
ing the retention of Governor Jenkins. He
regarded them as evidence that the people
pulous sense of good taste and propriety
In their political leaders. The statement of
his reasons for the dismissal was published,
Ii Is said, to call attention to the fact that
TO the President, at least, there is not one
ethical standard for privae life and an
other for political life.
This feature of the administration has
made a deep impression upon the public.
People have become accustomed TO looking
with tolerance upon actions on the part Of
politicians which they would denOunce in
men i'm ordinary business transactions. The
politician may fill offices with incompetent
men. He is only taking care of his
friends" He may multiply positions, and
expenses and bestOw contracts on high bid
ders. 1T is all in the game" people say.
Against this dual code of ethics the Presi-
dent is protesting with all his remarkable
igor. He intends that the men in federal
office shall be governed by the ideals to
which he himself is loyal.
Against the popular belief hat politics
must continue on a low ethical plane Mr..
Roosevelt has set his face like a flint. Peo-
pie who have come TO accept the old dual
code as inevitable have received a shock.
Here is a man in the highest office in the
land who has consistently preached that
the decalOgue has its place in political af-
fairs. BY his own career he has demon
strated that a man need not sacrifice his
The country needed a prophet like Roose-
Welt to arouse il from its lethargy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-18
Purdue Athletic Changes.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Dec. 1Z-Purdue is
still without a baseball captain, as all the
ballots taken this morning resulted in a
tie between John Mckee, of Cayuga, and
John w. Cornell, of Goshen. -Four of the
five students entitled to vote participated
in the balloting. Mckee plays short stop
and Cornell holds down the second bag:
Both are junior engineering students and
on a par as players. The election was post
pOned until after the holidays.
Fred c.. Hahn, of indianapolis, right end
on the varsity eleven, was given the high
office of treasurer of the athletic associa-
ton to-day, succeeding George Olsen, also
of Indianapolis. This place Is perhaps the
most responsible one in the gift of the
student body, and this is the first time in
many years that it has been bestowed on an
athlete and a se~cOnd-year man.
Ora C. Herkless, of Carthage, Ind. was
to-day elected president of the freshman
class. He plays left end on the varsity
eleven.
Just who will be selected TO tax the place
of manager in place of j. Walter Esterline,
resigned, is a topic widely discussed at
present. G. L. Freeman, the athletic d.
rector, has been suggested for the place,
combined with the duties of trainer, and
the idea seems TO be meeting with favor.
Yale has made him a proposition to join
it's gymnasium force which he considers
very flattering and may accept.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-18
WRECKED TWO SAFES.
Burglars at WhitestOwn Secured Only
$50 and Some JeweIry.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LEBANON, Ind, Dec. 1~7.-Burglars Wis
tied Whitestow2 between 1 and ? o'clock
this morning, broke into the Citizens Bank,
a private institution owned by Preston
Smith, ex-county treasurer Of Boone
county, worked the combination of the
safe and blew open the second set of doors
with dynamite, but failed to penetrate the
vault. where $1,000 was stored. The ex-
plosion hurled a small piece of the safe
door through the front window and across
the street. After failing in their purpose
TO reach the money in the safe the burglars
wrote on a card the letters 20 X" and left
the card in a CONSPICUOUS place.
From the bank they went To Laughner's
drug store, forced an entrance and with a
charge of dynamite blew the ordinary iron
safe to pieces, secured $50 in money AMI
some jewelry and escaped. The explosion in
the drug store awoke two women who had
rooms above the store and one of them
went to the window to investigate and
saw three men drive away in a southerly
direction in a buggy.
The burglars, previous to visiting the
bank. had broker into Saul Turner'S black
smith shop and secured a sledge hammer
a file, chisel and other tools which they
left in L~aughner's drug store when they
escaped.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-18
THE DECLINE OF NOME.
Columbus Man Discusses Conditions
i'm the Alaskan Gold Fields.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, Ind, Dec. 17.-Fred G. Dom
ner, a brother of William II. Bonner, who
has large financial connection with the
American Tin-plate Company's establish
ments at Monessen and Donora, Pa, has
returned to his home in this city from an
extended visit to the Alaskan gold fields.
He left Nome on Oct. 10. Mr.. Bonner
thinks the current newspaper stories of the
fabulous strikes of gold are not borne out
by the facts. Once in a while some individ-
ual makes a fortune, but the opposite is
the rule. In speaking of NOme's decline
he saws tina before the exodus began last
July there were 1900 to 1900 people there:
now perhaps but $500 TO 5000. Many others
would leave if the means were at hand.
Regular work brings 81 an hour-that is, Sc
or 81 per day and ~bOard-but the labor sup
ply far exceeds the demand In July. 1899.
meals were $3.50 and 81 was the lowest price
for a common bed. Now meals. and better
meals than served in 1899, are 10 he had for
80 cents and sleeping accommodations can
be had for the same price. As the courts
out there are kept busy adjusting claims,
Mr.. Bonner considers Nome a good field for
LAWYERS.
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OF STEAMERS

NEW YORK. Dec. I.-Arrived: Mar
ouette. from London; Vaderland, from
Antwerp; Amsterdam. from Rotterdam.
Sailed: George, for Liverpool.
CHERBOURG. Dec. H.-Sailed: Kron-
prinz Wilhelm. from Bremen and South
amptOn. for New York
BOULOGNE SUR MER. Dec. 17.-Ar-
rived: Potsdam. from New York, for Rot
terdam.
PLYMOUTH. Dec. T.-Sailed: Patricia,
from Hamburg and Boulogne, for New
York.
HALIFAX. n. s.. Dec. T-Arrived: Cor
fnthian, from Liverpool. for ST John, ". r
LIVERPOOL. Dec. I.-Arrived: Cevic
from New York; Saxonia. from Boston.
QUEENSTOWN. Dec. H.-Arrived.
Oceanic, from New York. FOR Liverpool.
LONDON, Dec. 17.-Arrived: MInneap-
oils. from New York.
PORTLAND. Me-, Dee. H.-Arrived: Ro-
~sarian. from Glasgow.
BREMEN. Dec. 17.-Arriyed: Bremen
from New York