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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-13
NO ORDERS TO SINK VESSELS.
Germans and Brltons Were Merely
Told to Capture the Boats.

Berlin, December 12-As the result of
fresh inquiries made regarding the re-
ported sinking Of Venezuelan vessels on
LaGuaira, the correspondent of the Asso-
ciated Press is informed that the orders
gwen fp the asgWan and British eaz1ai
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-13

Tangier. Morocco, December 12.-
The Sultan arrived outside Fez today.
He is sending the bulk of his army
against the pretender, who is still at
Taxa.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-13

official should be content to endure, and
/ respectfully urge that such steps be
taken as will vindicate the integrity OF
the public service and do neither moro
nor less than exact and even handed jus
tice as between myself and the postmas-
ter. With profound respect,
E. ]. HUGHES,
Money Order Clerk, Montgomery. Ala,
Postoffice. a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-13
Minister PeIIetan Has Not Reslaned

Paris, December 12.-Minister of Ma
rine Pelletan has not resigned. An un-
authorized rumor that he intended to do
so was In circulation yesterday. 1t is not
probable that M. Pelletan will consider
resigning while the strike at Marseilles
yemanis unsettled.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-13
GERMAN FLEET.

manders were to capture the vessels be-
fore beginning the blockade. No orders
were given to sink them. IT, however
any vessel has been sunk, there was a
military measure necessary in carrying
out the foregoing orders. No report has
yet been received from Commodore
Scheder, the German commander. re-
port was received from Herr Pilgrim
Baltazzi. which is as follows:
-Four Venezuelan vessels captured.
One Of them disabled. Two German ves-
sels the vineta and Panther, and one
English the Resolution (probably the Re-
tributon) participated In the seizure"
The foreign office here refuses to be-
leve the vessels have been sunk, and
will not credit the report until confirm
atory news Is received officially of the
German representatives on the spot. At
sunk. 1t was the result of joint action of
both squadrons, and in consequence of
resistance.
Nothing Known of Seizure.
Nothing is known at the foreign office
here about the reported seizure Of the
French steamer Ossun. and the German
cruiser Wake going to Puerto Gabello Is
understood here to have been for the
same purpose as the operations at La
guaira. IT. as reported a British collier
was seized by the Venezuelans at Puerto
Cabello, the Fake may land marines and
retake her.
The naval orders published today report
the German schoolship Stosch as sailing
from Curacao yesterday for LaGuadra.
The newspapers, which have been alb
sorbed for weeks over the political broils
in the reichstag. now comment at length
editorially on the Venezuelan situation.
Generally speaking, they treat President
Castro's proceedings lightly and ridicule
the disproportion of officers in the Ven
ezuelan army to the men. The paper
which treat the subject more seriously,
say that no matter how unpleasant the
Venezuelan business is growing, 1t may
be seen through, for It would be impossi-
BILE otherwise for Germans to protect
their concerns in that country. 1t Is
ADDED that without Great Britain's par
ticipation would not have been worth
the risk of incurring the Ill will OF the
United States ----------.-- ----.,.----------,
An the newspapers having government
leanings carefully bring out the fact,
that thanks are due TO the United States
for its resolute protection through Min
lister Bowon Of German and British sub
tects at Caracas. Throughout the Of
ficiaI press there appear inspired reanirm-
ations of the statement that Germany
does not intend the slightest infringe
ment Of the Monroe doctrine, as de-
fined by the state department at wash
ington.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-13
FOREIGN RESIDENTS TAKING
REFUGE ON THE WARSHIPS
HOSTILE VESSELS NOW
OFF VENEZUELAN COAST

oLLowING is of the
to- trolling established
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-12-13

London, December ia dispatch
TO the Daily Mail from Wlemsted,
Curacao, December II, says that the
foreign residents of Puerto cabello
are taking refuge on board the Ger
man cruiser Vlneta and the British
cruiser ArIadne, and that these vessels
are threatening to lombard the port.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17
DON'T BE A GOVERNMENT CLERK

A dispatch from Washington quotes an
ing that the stories of distress he hears
every day from applicants for Office, espe-
cially discharged census bureau clerks,
would melt hearts Of stone. Weeping
women come with their children to tell
tales of starvation and men roam the
streets for lack of money to pay for a
bed. A former millionaire, who came to
the republican national convention. in
Minneapolis ten years ago In special
car, has succeeded in getting s2-a- day
Job with the assistance OF senators who
were his guests at that convention.
This sad tale sounds like some OF those
we used to hear eight years ago. But
those were hard times. Millions of hon.
est workmen, many Of them skilled and
we'll educated for their work. were out
times. It is doubtful whether there were
ever in the history Of the republic times
more solidly prosperous than these. The
newspaper of every city have columns of
Positions offered" or "Help wanted" and
any willing man, even unskilled, who
is glad to do what awaits his hands,
can get employment that will at least
keep him from beggary. Why then should
there be such misery in Washington?
The cause is to te found in the public
Office habit. Most persons who once get
into public Office, no matter how petty
or obscure the position u.s. are spoiled for
other work. II they lose their positions
they are helpless They do not know
what to do except to beg for another gov
eminent position. They might find other
work at hand, but that isn't what they
want. They would rather starve than do
other work. They have lost their ability
to depend On themselves. A government
clerk is such hopeless part Of a great
machine, and there is SO little incentive to
originality and 50 much to lead him to
work like part of a machine, that when
he is put out Of the machine he is as USE
less as any old piece of junk in a scrap
pile. Il.
A clerkship is we'll enough as an APP
premiership for the man who aspires to a
political career, but it holds out only q
dreary prospect for the man who thinks
that he can make 1t career, IS
$ Is T.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17
ENJOY THE PARKS

They who think that they must wait
for their summer vacations to get taste
of nature or think that the city parks are
not suitable places Of resort before June
or July have missed some rare lopportuni-
ties for pleasure and recreation In the last
two weeks. Between the numerous and
refreshing spring rains the parks have
been more restful than ever. The trim
ones have enjoyed a richly dressed ap-
pearance and the wild ones have been
more charmingly natural than they will
be little later when the park caretakers
have cleaned the paths, painted the fences
pruned the trees, cut the grasses, and the
police arrested few people for picking
the flowers.
The glen in beautiful Minnehaha park
has been valley of bliss to a nature
lover. The crowds are not yet there and
the quiet of nature and 1.-The sounds Of ma
ture have the glen to- themselves: Per
haps it is because the birds realize that
a. little later the park will not be theirs
that they now fill it in such numbers and
make the air vibrant with their songs and
calls. In the glen bird orchestra plays
every evening and every morning, sending
forth such a volume of sweet sound as is
uncomfortable to any who have not en-
joyed it.
The trees, in their first delicate foliage,
soften the sides of the hills and the edges
of the stream with folds Of velvet and
/ draperies: of lace Minnehaha creek, fed
by recent rains, runs bankfull, the falls
are enjoying brief revival of volume
and down at the foot OF the glen the wide
and deep Mississippi rushes by swiftly,
powerfully, sweepingly between bluffs
clothed in cool, fresh green and among
emerald islands, spotless from the recent
rains. ,@.... ss.
A little later you will travel hundreds of
miles for the rest and change and delight
in nature that you may now find at beau
tiful Minnehaha, at your very door.
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17
WAR Is CRUEL

The discussion of the cruelties of war
fare in the Philippines has brought out
some amazing ignorance of the nature Of
war; Eager critics of our. soldiers have
assumed ttat.war is not necessarily cruel,
that retaliation and summary measures
are not to be tolerated. that no matter
what Irregular. unusual and battling
methods Of warfare the enemy resorts to,
our soldiers must strictly adhere to pre-
cisely the methods that obtain in warfare
between the nations of about the same
rank of civilization and about the same
ideas of what is permissible in war.
War is waged for victory. If superior
strength and superior skill in ordinary
warfare are foiled as they formerly were
In the Philippines by resort to methods
not usuall. encountered by the armies
OF. CIVILIZED nations. must the superior
force still keep to methods that have been
proved Intellectual when experience has
PORTED out the way to those that will
succeed? -
At this point critics of the inexorable
policy that declares that all Filipinos
must be plainly for or against Americans
say that we have no business in the Phil
irpines anyway. Possibly, but not con-
coded. Still we are there, and. we are
there to maintain and establish American
authority ard rule and our soldiers are
not accomplishing our purpose SO long as
they do not bring the war to an end. If
tho enemy fights to-day and poses as a
friend tomorrow and skulks and fights
again. he il clearly responsible for the
adoption by our troops of methods which
shall make him real amigo or keep him
in the field.
The concentration policy in Laguna,
Batangas and Sanlsr and the adoption of
a practice of making it exceedingly I'M
pleasant and uncomfortable for any man
to oppose the United States was thor
oughly justifiable and in the end the most
humane policy, A few months ago there
were reports Of daily skirmishes in those
provinces and there were long casualty
lists in the papers. Now they are paci-
fed and the war is over. Under the old
method of sallying forth to chase IN
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17
THE TOP.HEAVY "FORGE'''.

The Board ofsrDirectors Of the Mer-
chants Association Of San Francisco has
made up its mind that San Francisco has
not enough policemen. 1t has 500 patrol
men, or one for every SIS of the popula-
ton. New York has one patrolman to
every 46S people; Chicago one to every
$40; St. Louis one to every 446,: Boston
one to every ASP; Buffalo one to every
500. Minneapolis has a police. force of
223, which is approximately, one to a
thousand of population. But the top
heavy policy of the present administration
has greatly reduced the actual protection
given the city. -. 49, Ne
In total police roll Of 22S Minneapo-
lis boasts more officers than Cuban or
Filipino regiment. There are one super
intendent, two secretaries, eight: cap
tains; twenty one detectives; sixteen
,leutenants, inspectors and desk officers;
twenty-one sergeants; three telephone OPP
orators; nine jailors; seven drivers; three
janitors. This makes total Of ninety:
one, leaving 1873 plain patrolmen; or one
to about every 1900 people. If the, TWEEN
ty-one sergeants~ are included in the. act
ual protective force the showing is slight
ly- better. But as the patrolmen need
lesssly work on eight hour shifts there
are actually on effective duty at any one
time only about third of the whole force
or. about one officer to 1900 people.
There was doubtless some force in
Mayor Ames' demand a year. ago for, q
larger police force, but the: council did
we'll to refuse to grant it, and will prob
ably continue to do so. until we have an
administration, that will. use effectively
all the men it has. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17
IN A NUTSHELL

London-The Earl of Egremont was arrested
for being drunk in Piccadilly.
Manila-Another secret revolutionary soci-
ETY. is unearthed and suppressed.
Chicago-Adventists think the end of the
world is near and are holding services.
Chicago-Lewis 6. Toombs was sentenced to
be hanged June Is for the murder of Carris
Larsen.
Victoria, B. C.-Mrs. Wolff, missionary,
was eaten by cannibals in German New
Guinea.
Billings-while endeavoring to extinguish
a gasolene FIRE, Mrs. George ". Robbins was
badly burned.
Port -au- Prince-There has teen more riot
ing, the presidential guard firing on mob
attacking the palace.
Mentreal-Gaynor and Greene, alleged
swindlers Of the United States government,
are to night extradition.
San Juan, Porto Rico-The mob attacked
the labor federation and there was some
shooting. Arrests were made.
+ London-London dressnakers bring enough
influence to bear to cause King Edwerd to
order ladies to wear trains at court.
Chicago--John B. Scott and G. B. Van Kirk
got into fist fight at the Board Of Trade
and pummeled each other for fifteen minutes.
Helena-By the appointment OF James NJ
Burlingame and Judge Charles II. Benton as
register and receiver, respectively, OF the
Great Falls land Office. President Roosevelt
honored two former Minnesotans.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17

enemy wLo easily dissolved into the all
legged peaceful population, the war might
baye continued for years; as, indeed, K
had continued for centuries under the
spaniards. General Chaffee stated the
case succinctly when he said:
do not understand that the authority Of
the United States in these islands can be in
definitely disputed by armed forces without
efforts to terminate the resistance to that
authority. On the ether hand, ! understand
that all means which are justified by the
laws OF war are to be applied In such form
as will meet and defeat the methods OF war
fare adopted by the enemy. II desperate In
the last case. more desperate must be the
attack to end 1t.
Excepting water cure atrocities, which
have often been accompanied by extenu-
ating circumstances, and other individual
cases. of unnecessary cruelty which should
be severely punished, and General Smiths
revolving oral order to Major Waller to
kill all boys over 10, an order which was
probably not literally meant; the meas
ures taken by General Smith and General
Bell, with the approval Of General Chat
fee, have been within the rules OF war as
laid down for the governance of the union
army In the civil war, In general orders
No. 100. Though those who believe that
war is not necessarily cruel land bloody
and accompanied by individual injustice
and wrong and hardship will find little to
sustain them in these orders. they are
regarded as the most advanced codifica-
tion of the laws OF war yet offered to the
world. significant clause from this
code is the following:
If, however, the people Of q country or any
portion OF the same already occupied by an
army, rise against it, they are yiolators OF
the laws OF war and are not entitled to their
protection
Moreover, wherever guerrilla methods
developed during the civil war or where
either side charged the other with yio-
lations of the rules Of war. there was
prompt and cruel retaliation. And yet
the civil war was probably. fought IN
closer observance of the most advanced
understanding of the laws Of war than
any other war before or since.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17
The Nonpareil Man
Ca.unIly Observed.


The seed mans wife Is now trying to butt
into the social strata occupied By the ice
mans lady
There was little precipitation. Weather
Bureau.
The nutty hat fad has been raging a! the
university. Nearly everybody is topped by a
lid that the horse SHES at.
All church rows ought to be kept in cold
storage.
The latest dispatch from Haiti reports That
the supreme court thinks that it has discov-
cred what the fighting Is about Two Phila-
deiphia lawyers are hard at work on the case
The sea bottom seems to have siumped in
several places in the West Indies. It must
have been great shock to those Holsters
down there.
The Rev. G. L. Morrill, once referred to a
certain condition of municipal affairs as one
that made hell roar and the angels weep. >
If DR.. Morrill, should slip into the mayoralty
we might lcok to see the angels roar and
hades turst into te.rs,
The Amalgamated Association OF Coal EN-
perors got their shoulders under and lifted
prices dollar yesterday. Let 'em lift. Our
furnace struck work last week.
Carrie Nation was given thirty days for
that eloquent gesture with the Ratchet last
winter.
A St. Paul tanglelegerie was convicted of
selling Dead Shot whisky. All whisky has
been beS since the war.
The northern part CT st. Vincent is covered
with ashes eighteen inches deep. The CID
coal furnace. has hitherto held the belt as an
ash: producer. but it has taken a back seat
since Pelee and Soufriere took hold.
The cable brings reports from Madrid Of
fifteen bull fights and the slaughter OF a hun
official ceremonies to celebrate the accession
of King Alfonso the T'irteent'. The attrac-
ton of bull fight to the Spanish mind is
something remarkable. Recalling several in
stances during our childhood when the cow
masculine relative lost his temper, the sight
as We remember it was not an edifying one.
The animal paved the ground with his front
foot and his tail stood UP in a way that toid
all little American Toys that they should al
once climb the fence and climb 1t quick
There is verve an6 initiative about good
dog fight that an American can understand
| and, to an extent sympathize with, but when
it comes to a ponderous he-cow ingloriously
stabbed to, death by "a few picturesque little
men smelling OF garlic, the Yankee goes OUT
and gets something to take the taste out OF
his mouth. - -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17

tho gross farm income of the state was
SIPS, 00O, 900. This income came from 1884,
$50 farms, whose value was S669,522, 315.
The number of farms has greatly in
creased in the last ten years. A crafty
ing feature of the report is Its showing
that l27,eo4 of the farms are operated by
their owners in part or in whole. The
growth Of diversified farming is proved,
too, by the fact that over s45.00O,0 900 Of
the farm product is credited to animal
products"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17

Andrew Carnegie says that he actually
offered $40, 900 900 to President Mckinley
as reimbursement for the $40 1000, 900.
America paid to Spain for the Philippines:
provided he would be given authority to.
declare the islands free, Mr.. Carnegie
talks as If he was under the impression
that all the United States wanted of the
Philippines was to extract $20,o00,0Oo from
them. Mr.. Carnegie is a, big man, but he:
doesn't comprehend the magnitude of-thej
purpose of the United States in taking
the Philippines.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17

tine United States who wish TO be presi-.
dent and would fiji the once we'll, is no
reason for reducing the salary. 1t is a
measure of the Importance of the Office.
similarly college professors should be
pal PAID II. In some proportion to the value OF
the services they perform to the COM
munlty. Until that is done the faculties
VIII miss the services Of many men who
would have made the best kind OF pro-
fessors because they have the natural
abilities OF leadership and leadership.
such men are apt to seek places where
their worth is recognized.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17

subscribing for the relief of Martinique.
The popular subscriptions now amount to
100000 francs. The press of Europe is so
inferior to that of the United States In
producing an impression in proportion to
the Importance OF news it chronicles that
1t takes popular sympathy longer to
arouse itself. The American newspapers
have educated the American public up to
quick comprehension of the relative
Importance Of news.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17
THE STRIKE MENACE

Perhaps the only way in which to bring
about strong realization of the injury to
all public interests by resort to great
strike as is now: proposed: by the an
thracite miners in the >Hazelton district Of
Pennsylvania, and which means the ces-
sation of work, not only by the anthracite
miners, but in the whole bituminous dis
trict, cutting off the entire supply of coal
portation interests.
The operators who have refused conces-
sion or arbitration sthe miners and will
reap big profits from their large supply Of
stored surplus coal, have nothing to lose
apparently by this strike but if the strike
goes on, business will sorely suffer in this
country and we shall lose a large amount
of our export trade. ~ ~
One of the causes of the loss Of British
trade which began three OF four years
ago, was the strike of the machinists, the
workers in iron and steel, who quit work
for year nearly compelling Gust omers
to send their orders to the United States
uHQ GeTHduy ana Cul6Iy TO LQlS country
a process whereby the superiority OF
American goods was learned by many for
the first time and they then continued to
order here. The results of the machinists'
strike, therefore, of necessity entailed up
on England the entire transformation cf
her industrial system, adopting the
American methods. In this work England
is now engaged and receiving object les
sons in structures like the Westinghouse
electric power. house at Manchester,
which has, under American supervision,
been erected for use in less than year,
although the British contractors said they
could not possibly do the work in less
than five or six years.
Let US beware of labor troubles which
may suspend even temporarily our indus
trial and business activities or divert our
foreign trade to other channels. We are
ahead of; the rest of the. world in in
dustrial progress. We are teaching the
civilized world the canons of industrial
prosperity and success. We must not let
ourselves be tied up by selfish: and
sordid coal trust. which seems to be de-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17
The Flags on MORO Castle.

New York Mail and Express.
He must be dull American whose heart
does not beat little faster to-day as he
reads the accounts of the hosting by. Ameri-
can hands. of the Cuban flag over Moro
Castle 1t is a little act in itself. A rather
fantastic bit of bunting, vaguely resembling
the stars and stripes, is run up ito the sum-
NIT. of staff by the side of the American
flag, and by and by, when the Cuban presi-
dent. has passed, it is hauled down, leaving
Old Glory alone again. That is all. Yet at
the sight of a newborn nation thrills with
the highest Joy that a people can feel-thc
Joy of liberty and independence gained after
long and bitter struggle.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17
Apology in Senate Not Enough.

Chicago Inter Ocean.
The fate Of the Rawlins Cermac Patterson
CLIQUE in the senate will be practically the
same as that Of the Richardson clique in tho
house 1t will be suppressed and apologizcd
for But the democratic managers must bear
the responsibility for the onslaught on the
army unless they repudiate the speeches OF
these gentlemen printed for circulation in the
west Their apology, to be effective with the
people, must be complete. To stop the att
tacks in the senate is not enough Democratic
managers must apologize for those that have
been made.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-17
Where 1t Hurts
: Pni1adejnh.a Times

=. Philadelphia Tlmes. = = -.
OF course the coal Strike must hurt the
consumers, who, asa body, are the best
friends of the strikers THIS is one Of the
ironies of injustice. = sta:s