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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25
THE DIVINE RIGHT Of MONEY

George F. Baer president of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad letter the coal strike. makes this remark
able statement
The rights and interests of the laboring will pro-
teeed and cared fornot by the labor agato but by
Christian whom God IN His infinite wisdom has given
the control of the property interests of the country and upon
the successful management Of which much depends
If the viii of God controls the universe Mr. Baer is I'M
doubtedy right but that the viii of God control
it? myself do not know; perhaps Mr. Baer does Sin and
injustice certainly exist Are they here by Gods mans will
It that the statement he makes is that Of
pou gnoramus If then the tyrant who
upon throne could justify his cruelty and oppression
by hiding behind it. IF it true Nero and Calgula
teT of nfamy could claim that they merely the
tives of the Almighty.
firmly of the opinion that whatever inevitable
and that when the power of these Christian brokers'
undoubtedly viii be when their humble workmen have be-
enlightened they viii be able claim by the proc
of reasoning that employed by Mr. Baer that they
dominate the situation by this will Of God" think,
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

Wen begin with a box. and the plural
is boxes.
But the plural OF OK should be oxen, not
oxes
Then one fowl is goose. but two are
called geese,
Yet the plural of mouse should never be
meese;
You may find a lone mouse, or a whole
lot Of mice.
But the plural of house is houses. not
hice
II the plural Of man is always called
men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be
called pen?
The COW in the plural may be COWS or
kline,
But a cow If repeated is never called
kline,
And the plural Of vow is VOWS. not
vine.
And If ! speak OF a foot and you show
me your feet,
And give you a boot. would a pair be
called beet.
If enc is tooth and a whole set are
teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of both be
called beeth?
II the singular's this and the plural is
these.
Should She plural Of kiss be nicknamed
keese7
Then one may be that and three would
be these.
Yet hat in the plural would never be
hose.
And the plural Of cat is cats. not eose.
We speak Of brother and also of
brethren,
But though we say mother, We never say
mcthTen;
Then masculine pronouns are he. his.
and him,
But imagine the feminine, she, shis. and
SHIN.
So the English. l think. you all VIII
agree,
Is the most wonderful language you ever
did see.
Penny Pictorial
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25
COAL MINING IN INDIA.

Coal mining in India is physically
very different from coal mining IN Eu-
rope The very simplicity CT it has been
q hiEdrance 20 progress. There IS no
gas: the pits are all shallow; one Of 500
feet is considered quite a deep pit, and
many are entered by iDcl3nes. which the
people much prefer, as they can stroll
in and out at their pleasure COnse-
quently any man thinks he IS good
enough to be manager, and the older
pits resemble rabbit warrens more than
anything else. Most people would con
slider an outcrop 80 feet thick as good
as a gold mine. yet the genius who
worked q quarry-it cannot be called a
pit-where this occurred managed TO tie
the place up into a knot very soon by
the simple device of putting the spoil
ahead of him instead of behind This
want OF capable managers is a crying
evil
Ali the seams worked in Bengal are
OF q respectable. and many Of them a
great thickness. 20 and % feet not being
uncommon. Bengal coal compares IN
favorabIy with the Assam product in re
spect OF ash. \ good sample contains
about 10 per cent Of ash; the worst is
little better than stony refuse Coal
mining in Bengal dates from 1887, and
the Bengal Coal Company was the
pioneer IN the industry, bringing its coal
down by water 70 Calcutta. even after
the railway was constructed. The hulk
of il is raised from shafts. and IS cut
by native miners with wedges. hammers,
and picks. In the Up-to-da.e mines ar
efficient system of underground tram
ways leads the coal tubs 20 the pit bot
tom
The Equitable Coal Company are the
sole introdueers of coal-cutting machin-
cry, but up TO nov it has not been
great success. II is in this direction,
says an official Of the Bengal Coal Com
pany, namely. cheapeniug production by
an increased output. that any improve
meut must be expected in tGe future. for
the great difficulty is labor. Although
India Is a country teeming with human-
ity. the native is indenendeDt, thriftless
and lazy by nature, the worst feature
about him beinS that you c,unot depend
on him. Holidays throughout the year
are his sole idea; he makes sufficient in
one day TO last him three or four and
Immediately knocks of work Most OF
the coiiierleS are connected with the
railway by sidings, and many of them
have their own narrow-g gauge tramway
from pit mouth to railway loading
wharf.
Bengal had an output OF 4,954, $50 tons
in 1900. and its coal goes from Singapore,
on the east. TO Perrin and Jiboutil, on
the west including Rangoon, Madras,
Bombay, Colombo, Alden, and Perrin. be-
sides supplying most OF the railways in
Bengal and Northern India and the great
mill Industries in Calcutta Delhi Gavin
pore and the northwest generally
Casters Magazine.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25
By HUGH o. PENTECOST.

therefore that bhooves the worngmen be up and doing
to bring the viii of God their side for present
evidently soTely against them # Mr. Baers ideas right
My sympathes with the their fight against the
operators They entirely right in attempting to get all they
and IN the reduction Of their hours of labor For
they have been living paupers dependent upon the
crumbs that fall from their masters table Their poverty
fghful for they have been ground down the starvation
point by the Christian into whose hands Mr. Baer says
God has given the control of the coal Of the earth
The mine and the miners themselves have equal
right to organize for mutual protection and benefit; but the
former have the advantage the latter because through
the that money gives they successfully evade the
laws that crush the latter If the miners the heat OF ndig
nation their unjust treatment they
quickly arrested and punished The time VIII when
the laborng VIII that framed ostensiby their
protection and the preservation of proprietary interests
be just and unjust the time aud that those employers
who permitted convert the law into engine for their
oppression criminals of the type
No wonder that the miners and wormen in other lines of
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25
OUR COMMERCE WITH CHINA.

asteristie thoroughness and foresight
intends to go fully prepared for fur
Their commercial conquests. He knows
as does everybody, for that matter
that you can deal very much more
effectively with a foreigner if you can
converse with him III his native
tongue, and consequently he has gone
to the root of the matter without IN
due delay. At Berlin there are four
Chinese teachers, employed by the
government, to give instruction IN the
Chinese language to persons intend
ing to tackle the Chinese, CONNER
cially, on their native heath, and these
instructors aim to make their pupils
proficient IN at least four of the prin-
eipal dialects of the empire.
Here is a pointer for the Yankee.
Let him, TOO, see to It that the young
men he sends to China TO compete for
the trade with the emissaies Of the
nations of Europe shall be as well
equipped as are those In the matter Of
hngual accomplishment.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25
PLEASURES OF A CITY PEDES.
TRAN.

The street Of one city differs from
every other. and almost every one has.
to the pedestrian, peculiar charm Of
its own. We must not look from the
tops of buses nor from the windows Of
cars, says q writer in the Review Of
Reviews if We want 10 know and ap-
preciate an interesting highway-we
must meausre its length with our
steps. On Market Street. san Fran
cisco, We meet the original types Of
our Slopers. and freeze on the shady
side while we bron in the sun on the
other. On Canal Street New Orleans.
We admire the fashions and gait of
Creole beauties, and wonder at ships
that lie on the elevated Mississippi.
above the surface. The 'Nevsky
Prospect" in St Petersburg. is crowd
ed with drojkies rapidly driven by IN
kempt, unwasEed Tartars. dressed in
long kaftans. On the 'Grande Rue de
Para" the only street in Constantine
pie where We can walk with a certain
degree Of comfort, we meet almost every
human type Of the Orient and Occi-
dent; hut encounter not as many ca
mines as formerly, nor as many as con
tinue TO hover on the crooked alley
ways Of Stambcul.
Method viii add to the satisfaction of
walking When I pass an organ or q
band Of music, I love to measure my
steps by the notes I hear; where none
are audible, I Tehearse those I happen
to remember myself Half a century
ago, when ] returned with my class in
rank and file from an outing. we kept
step TO the tunes of some favorite col
lege song, like "Gaudeamus:" | have
continued this habit humming any tune
adaptable to my step. like Yankee
Doodle" and the stirring battle hymn
Of julia Ward Howe Going with ease
at the rate Of three miles an hour. I
breathe through my nose 10 filter the
air that enters my lungs and give full
play to my swinging arms I exhale
on the second double step the air I in
hailed on the first, and lean the back Of
ny neck against my shirt collar. TO
look into blue sky or gray clouds.
when l yeer my eyes from the turmoil
Of the immediate surroundings.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25
KIrcHENER,s DRAMATIC SENSE.

Among the characteristics that distiu-
guish yiscount Kitchener none IS more
conspicuous that his appreciation OF the
dramatic. and he never fails TO make use
OF such effects to advance his own inter-
ests. There is no man who has shown
on so many. occasions a splendid insight
into dramatic situation. There has never
been ore OF his great events which has
not been so stage managed as 10 produce
the greatest possible dramatic effect.
When he was advancing on Omdurnan,
for instance. he cut the wire between
Egypt and home for several days-they
were the last days that still interyened
between him and the crowning victory.
This mysterious and sinister veil which
ali at once was drawn between England
and her forces heightened the mystery,
tbs suspense. the passionate interest in
the last hours OF the great struggle, and
when Kitchener permitted the vel TO be
lifted again il was 20 display u people
almost maddened with SUSPENSE the
bloody field On which lay crushed for
ever the broken and scattered forces OF
tie mahdi
And, again. when this victory was CON-
rieted and when Kitchener stood in the
middle of the town whore Gordon had
died, surely II was a very high and keen
sense Of the dramatic which i-npeIlei
Kitchener to hold a funeral service 70
Gordon'S memory Here, in Heed IN So
Der, solemn. unexceptionable fashion,
was the final triumph OF civilization ever
barbarism heralded ard comm eIlorated
TO all the world
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25

In the utteranees Of nearly all
noted Americans relating to the new
interests of the United States In the
far East, reference has been made to
the eventual increase Of our trade
with China, owing in part, to the good
feeling engendered toward US In the
Celestial Empire by reason of our
policy in connection with the recent
disturbances there, and, in part, to
the natural advantages given us by
the proximity of the Philippines.
These expectations are well founded,
nc doubt, but at the same time 1t may
not be amiss to consider what other
nations are doing that also are aim
ing at those Chinese markets.
Next to England, Germany is max
ing the most determined efforts TO
contest the ground, and 1t must be
conceded that, having gotten an ac-
tuaI foothold IN China, the Germans
enjoy no inconsiderabIe advantage.
Bat the German merchant, with char
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25
THE LOG CABIN CAMPAIGN

work for fairs. and children had little
log cabins OF wood. tin. and CONNECTION
cry. Horace Greeley published in New
York a paper named Log Cabin and it
mad tremendous circulation For
Horace it was the stepping-tone TO
fame and fortune, for II opened the
way for its successor, the Tribune
"All the appliances and appurtenances
of the log cabin came into favor. There
was the barrel of hard cider. to stand
by the door; there was the coon skin TO
be nailed by its side; there was the
latehstring TO admit the welcome guests;
and it was remembered that General
Harrison told his soldiers they would
never find his door shut or the latch
string pulled in. There was the rye and
Indian bread and there were the strings
OF dried apples and pumpkins and Of
corn and peppers hanging from the roof;
and there was the broom al the door:
typical of the purpose Of the wings 10
make clean sweep. Nothing was want
ing to point the contrast between the
poor mans friend and "the rich mans
candidate. as Van Buren,, the Demo
cratic nominee, was DUBBED.
During the campaign the Wings. TAX
ing q lesson from their crushing defeat
by the hero OF New Orleans, proceeded
to hoist flags, fire salutes, and proclaim
panegyrics on the hero OF the Thames, e
the defender OF Fort Meigs,' the vic
tor OF Tippecanoe-' The irrepressibIe en-
thusiasm had now burst out in song
campaign songs, campaign songsters.
giee clubs. and Harrison's minstrels
we're now in vogue. Popular airs and
national anthems were pressed into serv-
Ice; English and Scotch ballads and ne
gro melodies we're adapted 10 new words.
Eloquent speakers on the Wing side
were called into requisition 10 ad,4-ss
large audienees-Webster, Clay, Crit
tenden, Stanley, Talmadge, Preston, Cor
win. and hundreds Of others. 1t was in
vain that the Van Buren, men tried to
stem this current They called Harri-
son an old granny and styled The Wings
'coons' and cider suckers but all with
no avail"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25
CARE OF CUT FLOWERS.

People are beginning TO realize that
flowers have their feelings. Ike every
body else If rose cut from bush IS
expected TO preserve its sweetness and
Its charm Of freshness it must be pam
pered and soothed with as much tact
and discretion as one bestows upon a
zap dog or rich uncle. To cut q flower
and stick it in a vase full of water Is
the conduct Of barbarians, and no self
respecting flower viii ena.re such treat
ment beyond q few fading hours Bur
though we were perfectly aware of this
rudtmentary fact. We must confess thar
the subtlety Of the modern vase der
orator vas hidden from Us. Partially
faded flowers, We learn from conten-
porary, viii revive II placed in Eat dish
es covered with wet sand a little fine
y powdered charcoal may occasionally
be administered 10 dropping buds with
excellent effect in this case the staTks
should be allowed to rest on the char
coal Carbonate Of soda dropped into the
water OF vase will keep even delicate
flowers IN the pink % condition for
some say-a whole fortnight. Half an
inch cut from the stems Of faded flowers.
followed by an immediate plunge of the
stalks into quite boiling water. viii
cause them TO bloom again with aII their
pristine freshness BY these. and other
means. the cunning housewife keeps her
rooms healthfUi. and-what is infinitely
more to her credit-the bills Of her bus-
band down. May she find Imitators.-
London Globe
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25

Al the annual meeting Of the Ohio
Bar Association, held at Hotel Victory,
Fut-in- Bay, recently, one Of the most
interesting personalities was the Hon
Il 9 Gray, of gainesville, Lake County.
He IS the only surviving one OF the 10
members OF the Ohio Constitutional
Convention Of 1851. which body prepared
the present organic law of the State.
Mr. Gray is Sc years old, but still
hale and hearty NJ. Gray was editor
Of the gainesville Telegraph" from
1915 to 1856, editor Of the advertiser
from 1880 TO 1862, and again at the head
Of the Telegraph from 1852 10 1865.
Born in 1916, he entered political life
in the campaign of 1870, being a dele
gate TO the Wing State Convention OF
that year which nominated Thomas Cor
win for governor. The convention was q
notable one: for, . said Mr. Gray, "be-
ginning soon after the nomination of
Harrison and Tyler at Harrisburg IN
the preceding December, the popular
enthusiasm had rapidly Increased.
Some Eastern Democratic newspaper.
commenting on the pioneer habits of
the West. advised that Harrison be
given log cabin and plenty Of hard
cider 10 drink. implying that that con-
dition OF life was more betting for him
than the White House. It was an IN
fortunate sheer for the Democrats. for
Il supplied the spark that only was
needed to kindIe popular sympathy into
a blaze The Wings famed the fame,
and Harrison became the log cabin
candidate. The log cabin became the
emblem OF his pioneer life, of his mill
tary services. OF his kindred feelings
with the farmers, OF his u1requited toll
for his country. \ log cabin sprang I'D
IN every city and village. a clubhouse
and rallying place for Wings. Log
cabin raising and house warnings were
held with music and political speeches.
Log cabin medals we're struck and
passed from hand to hand. Miniature
log cabins were carried in professions
and displayed on platforms. Log cabin
pictures were hung a the barroons ami
parlors- Log cabin song books found
ready sale. Ladies made log cabin fancy
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25
Novels a Ia Node.

Like swallows that flock with the
summer,
Or leaves in the bleak autumn
wind.
Are our novelists' plots, each new
conner
Is pledge OF q dozen behind.
We'd q run OF the passions primevaI
Which seething in fury up-forge.
Whose keynotes Of stormy upheavaI
Were sounded by women named
George"
Then We passed through the cult OF
the hero
Who queens and princesses adores.
Though his fortunes, alas, are bur
zero,
He wooes them and wins them By
scores,
Then the sons Of the kailyard con
fused US
With Iargons Of lowlands and
hills;
And "Elizabeths' lightly amused US
With gardens Of feminine friIls.
Then came in red-hatted procession
The Cardinals. clad in their lawn,
Each owning some cherished posses
sion
4 SNUFF box, a conscience. Z pawn!
But. amid their solemDities busting
With ,Hoorayt for the sea-going
craft"
Stout shippers and crews entered
busJling
With cargoes Of fun fore and aft.
We have had the omnisclent detec-
tive
So calmly. inscrutably wise.
We have had the confession subiec-
tive
In sphinxlike anonymous guise,
And though next years plots be
compounded
Of cTipples. assassiDS. or ghosts.
This prediction at least is well
founded
They VIII come not II units, but
bostsi
Mary B. Whiting. in the Academy
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25
Foreigners in the Revolution

No other people in the world in their
struggle for liberty ever had the aid OF so
many foreigners of ability and influence
as the Americans had in the struggle
against England in 1775-S3. They came
from England, France. Germany, Poland,
Italy, Russia. and almost every other
great end small country under the sun.
Of course, Rochambeau, De G-asse and
the rest of the Frenchmen who came
over u-,aer orders from Louis XVI
brought CRIMES or navies with them, and
are to be considered in a different cate
CORY from Lafayette, Steuben, De Kalb.
Pulaski, Kosciusko and the rest OF the
brave men who offered nothing except
their own military skill and ives to the
cause. All. however, should be remem-
bered by the people whose freedom they
assisted in gaining. Statues Of some OF
these have been erected in one part Of
the country or other. Memorials, how
ever. should be put up to all OF them in
Washington, as has just been done to
RochaGbeau. The great nation which
they aided in founding and for which
Pulaski, De Kalb and others gave their
lives. should erect to all OF them memor-
ials. which would be prominent features
of taat nations Capital. and which
should stand as perpetual reminder Of
the debt which the American people owe
TO liberty's champions in all quarters OF
the World.-St- Louis Globe-D Democrat.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25
-HOOTINO WITH BOW AND ARROW

bow in France until the reign Of Charlie
magne. in the beginning Of the eighth
century, although we have evidence
that in England both the Angio-Saxons
and Danes employed it in the chase,
as we'll as in battle. many years before
the conquest.
The probability is that it was first in
troduced as military weapon into
Britain by the Romans But It was
under the Norman rule that the p-ac-
tice OF archery vas not only greatly
improved but generally discussed
throughout the country, SO that Eng
land soon became famous for its arch
cry, and her arehers took precedence
over every other nation
To preserve this superiority seems to
have been the study With many mon
archs- William the Couqueror is re-
puted to have been so admirable an
archer that few could bend the how
he used. and his vIs tory at Hastings
was certainly due to the skill and in
trepidity of his arehers
There is. remarks Ford. mo exer-
else more healthy or more rational, or
which returns more and truer gratif-
cation 10 the man who practices 1t. AS
N exercise for women it brings all
the muscles generally into healthy &C
don.'' Mr.. Ford concludes: That It
admirably suited to the require
nents of the fair sex in general and
Equal without being violent. Calling
he faculties both CT mind and body
nto gentle and healthfuI play, yet op-
pressing none. Withal most elegant and
;racefuIi"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25

Why doesn't some one start a revival
Of archery? asks the Philadelphia
Press" Surely no prettier game was
ever played where women acquitted
themselves more gracefully. In England
it takes q really high place among cut
door sports, there being hundreds of
archery clubs and societies The yearly
meet" for championship is most inter
esting.
The vislrss ands it very picturesque
and at times quite as exciting as the
races.
The eye IS trained up to the mark
and the muscles OF the arm round out
in a way that gives it a pretty contour
II is played in this country, but only in
certain parts. and then spasmodicaIly-
Why net archery instead OF the ever
lasting golf2
Archery is the art Of shooting with
q bow and arrow With All ancient
peoples. both ancient and barbaric. the
bow was a favorite weapon, and the
skill in the use of it was regarded by
the Seythians as q princely accom-
plishment- The Greeks and Romans
employed arehers to draw the enemy
into action. and the exploits Of the an
cient Egyptians rivaIed those Of the
Middle Axes.
In mural decorations the Egyptian
archer, in nat, profile effect, after thei-
weird art. is a subject often chosen
especially for panel decorations. and il
quite as indeIibIy associated with th5
land of the Lotus as the graceful
Acanthus to the Italian Renaissance.
There is no record Of the use of the
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25
IRONY OF LIFE.

rich man sat him down one night to
dine;
Rare was his food. superb his priceless
wine
poor man. hungry, lurked without
the gate.
And crayed a erumb from OF the RE
mans plate.
Yet neither rich nor poor man ate that
night:
One had no food. one had no appetite.
-LippincOtTs.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25

"The miners have been ground
down to the starvation point By the
Christian men into whose hands Mr.
Baer says God las given the con-
tfoi Of the coal treasures Of the
earth"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-08-25

This article was written at the
request of the DAILY News" in re-
ply to statement made by the
president Of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad in a letter which
was widely published.