The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-15
interesting Gossip Cleaned Among Employees
of Government Bureaus.
HOW ABILITY TO SPRINT CANE IN HANDY
Mr. Maioney and His Experience With Two Dark Knights
of the Road-Reunion Of an Old Family That
Has Helped to Settle Western States

conservative classes oppose any Iegis!a-
ton.
The present contest differs from for
r2eT important questions tried in South
Carolina in the respect that y-hiIe the
Northern PAPERS and pubIicists are hav-
ing great deal 10 say on tbs subject
they are rot snOweTing blame on the
southern people for the uutowe I'd stats
of affairs. They are severe on thu
Northern men who control the mills in
the South and who encourage OF at
least permit child labor. The wages
paid children are painfully small, and
the conditions n the mills are far from
ideal
The present campaign in South Caro-
lima Is therefore Of vital concern to the
whole country, being the first occasion
Tor ceCs-s Of opinion on the question
OF child labor The condition OF me
operatives in that State IS generally
EOod and there 5Ce many schools ly-
Ceums and libJ9r ics maintained 10y the
mill owners, bvt there is q demand for
law against the employment CT II
fants and On August 26 the issue viii De
fought OUT at Inc polls
j. OF the people going from this city
10 take par. in the election probably all
viii he in favor OF the child labor law.
=
subjected % labor union Influence
Mr.. Thomas c. Doty. who Is a native Of
OnlU. IS on" Of the most popular men at
re Government Printing O5ice He is
prominent in several organizations and
IS 4 - Cd all round ,gorze- ,ge has
beer a 2rociTeader for the aast few
years he was appointed from Vision
sin
The krinkled philosopher of the Post
Office Department has no particular n
terest in sham battles. He has seen the
real thing. and despises tin sold ,ers
Speaking OF the war-navy games soon
10 be had, he says.
But what viii Dewey dc when the
stXteen-inch gun i turned loose on him
with its blank cartridga2 VIII he con
tend that he is not hit even though
Miles claims that he is sunk?
Miles nay have both legs shot OF
and continue to walk around 20 make a
bluff that he has not been injured There
VIII probably be an umpire 20 settle
these small matters, but occasions have
been known where an umpire's word
was net taken as final and where his
reverend head was punched by one or the
other Of the contestants. Suppose the
umpire should decide that General Miles
legs were shot OF, and the General. TO
demonstrate 10 the contrary. should give
him a swift kick Who should decide
when these doctors had disagreed? The
ignorant public would doubtless hold
that the swift kick was conclusive proof
that the legs were stiIl in working order.
but what does the general public know
about these things?
The history of warfare cHQyrc that
impregnable foTtresses have been CAP.
tUred and impossible victories have been
won. The defense Of Sabine Pass in our
little family quarrel some forty years
ago. demonstrates that one is not whip
ped sGntil he knows he IS whipped. and
the capture Of . Federal gunboat On the
Teche by single Creole cavalrynan on
a "tacky pony is evidence that The i'm
possible is very possible IN war. \
board Of experts would decide that d gun
boat could not be captured by a cavalry
charge. and especially by the charge of
a single cavalryman- but the thing was
done simply because the cavalryzzan did
not have any better sense Had he
known anything about war - would
never have captured the vessel. and Gen
Dick Taylor would rot have had the sat
isfaCtion 10 the day of his death Of re
counting how the impossible thing hap
pened. and how the Creole explained
that he was compelled to kill one dom
thicker Commodore after another in
order 70 achieve the feat
When the theorist speaks the matter
is definitely settled, unless some practi-
cal idiot comes along 10 Undo his scieu-
tifc work. Il was absolutely known that
the ColCn could ouJsaii any vsssel in
the American feet. No cruiser On this
side the water could touch her. and Yet
she was overhaUled by a heavy battle
ship which had 10 right to come near
her Il was a case Of theoretical grey
hound being run down by a practical
bulldog. an impossible thing. Of course. /
But it is the impossible that happens in
war Andrew Jacks0n's defense OF New
Orleans vas an utterly Impossible (
thing, and a military expert once told
NE that sam Houstcn's victory at san
Jacinto could not have occurred. That /
it did occur was consequently absurd and /
irregular"