The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 23, 1898, Page 5

THE SAN HOW THE NATIVES VIEW THE CHANGE IN THE FLAGS Already Beginning lto LLook Upon the America n Nation as Their Friend. Express Deep Regard for Admiral Miller, Who : Has Treated Them With Marked Consideration. BY HORACE WRIGHT. Special Correspondence of The Call. HONOLULU, Aug. 16.—Hawall sends her first greeting to her fellow citizens across the seas. Happily it is one of e and tranquillity, for no unpleas- t episode arose to disturb the solem- nities attending the marriage of this emerald gem of the Pacific to the giant republic of the western hemisphere. There were tears shed and there were such wrenches of the heart as come to all once or twice in a lifetime to re- mind us that we are but transients, born of sorrow and nourished in diffi- culties, and that politics and patriotism | pften temporarily sever the links of | friendship to knit the heart chords | more closely together in the future. | - The native Hawailans, with but very few exceptions outside of the large number of Government employves, ab- sented themselves from the actual cere- mony of the transfer of the sovereignty of the Hawallan Islands to the United States, but in the evening they flocked by the thousands—men, women and children—to the former palace and its | beautiful grounds to delight in the | peace-making illuminations and pyro- | tec ics. Their woe and grief had, on | the surface, passed awa April | showers over a spring picnic. They are still at heart, however, for the: 4o not nor will they for some time, un- derstand or appreciate the cause of or the necessity for the change of 1ilag. | They accept the conditions with p(‘r-[ plexity Here is,” say they, “the same Gov- ernment and the same men who rule E name, ‘the republi> of | ther flag, and that is ¥ cha we see. The American ships and sailors are the same as ever, ‘American soldiers going to baniards don’t fight us, but good friends as all of the (foreigners). Why then - flag away and say you have our land when we see no change They are beginning to understand, ven in the few short days d since the destruction their nationalit that America hes to be thelr true friend and not taskmaster, and that sbe, | a mother than a father (for | the mate 1 instinct is stronger in this | 1nd where descent was traced through the mother), opens her arms to welcome them as her children and to give taem rights and privileges they have never vet thoroughly enjoyed. Let it ever be remembered, whe: heir hesitancy ‘‘to come into the fold” is considered, that it was the same “missionary” eleme that procured annexation as taught | them their alphabet, clad their golden bronze and sinewy limbs with unac- customed and inconvenient garb, de- spoiled them of their innocence, their true life and spirits and tabooed all | their wholesome and interesting games, sports a No child ever fg ed with his t day and night at t school away from home influ.- | Our Hawalians are experiencing | ons, and kindly Time, school boy, will lead tc ip and esteem. 5 ever wrought so much, y and beneath the stream, however, that have of No man and so quie to .bring about a frankly cordlal feel- ing of friendship between the Hawali- | and the Americans as Rear Ad-| ral Joseph Nelson Miller, U. S. N Already they almost ldolize “Admiral | Nelson,” for they ve learned (how I| know not) that it was through his per- 1l influence and pleadings with | sident McKinley that the ceremon- | ending the transfer of sover- were shorn of all features tend- wound their gentie sentiments ympathies and affections for to their birth land and its flag. To him, personally, they claim, is due the busi- nesslike simplicity of the function and | the marks of kindly respect shown 1o their irrevocably lost flag and inde- pendence. The admiral in all his trans- actions with them, in all his conver- sations and advice, has made them feel that he is their friend. You can guide a Hawailan by friendship, where other- wise he would sulk in his tent and be- come a nuisance, hiding his intelligence in assumed cross stupidity. It is too soon to assert at present the course the Hawailans will pursue before the Congressional Commission, although it that they will, if not spontaneously, then only rather reluctantly, recognize | the fact that they are American citi- | | zens, and that as are their dispositions so will privileges be conferred upon them. So far, the very large number of Hawalian employes in all branches of the Government have almost unan- imously taken the oath of allegiance to | the United States. A few, a very few, momentarily hesitated. It should be understood that in all official, including judiclal, proceedings | peculiar though it strikes us all, and | more especially the natives, we are still the “Republic of Hawali” (and ex- pect to be such until January, 1900), and there has been no change in the| officials, their duties or their titles, ex- cept that the Minister of Foreign Af- fairs is shorn of his diplomatic func- tions and will have more time to attend to his duties as Minister of Education, a position which he fills with credit to | | himself and the cause of education. It must be admitted that there is | hard work to be done to bring the Ha- wailans into line for their own benefit, for not only does there linger in the minds of many, especially among the elders, the impression that the flag has only been raised until the war with Spain is over, and that then 1t will again be replaced with the Hawailan, as In the days of Admiral Thomas in! 1843 and President Cleveland in 1893, | and that the Democrats may undo what the Republicans have done, but ! of their anti-annexa- | also that many tion leaders are instructing them that the greater opposition they make to the involuntary alliance on their part the greater consideration will be shown to them. A thorough investigation, how- ever, leads me to think that the vast majority of them will accept the situa- tion in the firm hope that Admiral Mil- ler will, as a semi-divine tutelary, lead them Into the pleasant paths and ways of peace. It is difficult to the intentions of the Portuguese, for the information obtained is directly contradictory. It may be predicted that they will patiently await the ver- dict of the Congressional commission, for there are but comparatively few naturalized Hawailans citizens, al- though a large number of ‘special rights citizens” (men who assisted in the revolutions of 1893-85), whose posi- tion in the political modus vivendi has to be determined. It is possible that a large number will leave the country if the new conditions do not prove satis- factory, but on this subject they are reticent. Now that Hawall is actually a por- tion of American territory and her citizens are co-citizens with yours, it will be only kind to Hawalians are not uncivilized, unclad, illiterate pagans, and that they have | | no connecting link with the African contrary, in many things, nay most, that are presumed to be the exclusive property of western civilization, they are head and should- ers above many more pretentious places, and as regards the ‘Three R's’ negro. On the | the percentage of literates over illiter- | ates is greater than in any country in | the world, the United States herself not excepted. If you desire also to enjoy yourselves when you visit us, please drop the color line or we shall with draw Into our shells and become ver exclusive and one-half of the delights of the Paradise of the Pacific will be hidden from your gaze. HOW WAR HORSES ACT. When he are hit in battle they stop, tremble in every muscle and groan deep- Iy -while their eyes s stonish- ment During aterloo the es g re “ir wounds, fell to eating the them, thus surrounding »s with a circle of bare ground, ted extent of which showed their eS8, Othe of these interesting : were observed quietly ,grazing the middle of the field between the 0. hostile lines, their riders having n shot off their bacl while the balls t fiew over their heads and the tumult behind and before and around them caused no Interruption to the usual in- stincets of their natur v also observed that when a valry went past, near to any of 1 ray horses mentioned, they would- set off, form themselves in the rear of thelr mounted companions, and, ithout riders, gallop strenuously h the rest, not stopping or even ching when the fatal shock with the my took place. the battle of the Kirb, in 1754, Major nald, having unhorsed an English possession of the horse, beautiful, and immedi- When the English cav- v with his A face officer. took tanding all his efforts to restrain him; nor did the animal stop urnitil it was at the head of the regiment of which, apparently, its master was the commander. * The melancholy Judicrous figure sented when I tim -of hi horse, which and at the same time which Macdonald pre- thus saw himself the vic- mbition to possess a fine Itimately cost him his life upon t old, may be easily con- ceived.—New York' Tribune. —_—— MILITARY ROADS IN CUBA. General Roy Stone, formerly the road expert of the Agricultural Department, . and now on the staff of Major General Miles, has undertaken to solve the problem of road building in Cuba in a mariual Issued for the use of the Fed- -eral troops operating on the island. Except in the immediate vicinity of a - few of the larger cities, and for about forty miles eastward and westward from Havana, there are no roads in Cuba which could be used by a military force in the transportation of troops, supplies and artillery. General Stone’s manual gives in- * structions for the construction of prac- ticable and solid roadways, the founda- tion being fagots or fascines of guava - ‘bushes, which grow in luxuriant profu- sion_throughout the island. Roads bullt on this plan, it is affirmed, are better than the ordinary corduroy road, the bundles of bushes packing together as solidly as a compressed bale of hay or cotton. The fascines are laid length- wise, one bundle overlapping the other, like shingles, and all are bound to- gether and covered with a thin layer of earth. The construction of roadways on this plan will probably be one of the first undertakings of Shafter's corps of engineers, since without such efficient alds in campaigning the movement of heav siege guns would be practically mpossible in the vicinity of = Philadelphia Record. WE —_——— HIS BUSINESS INSTINCT. One of the brightest traveling salesmen in_modern commerce was thinking se- riously of going to the war. “You see,” he was saving to the old military man whose stories of adventure and achlevements had kindled his ambi- tion, “I have had experience in every branch of trade that amounts to very much except fighting. “‘I have sold nalls, barbed wire, cigars, | dry goods, paper, paints, oils and a num- ber of things. like to handle lead for the Government nw){'no." S 5 “You would have to undergo a good many_hardships.” remarked his friend. “I"don’t care. 1 am not married—no- body but myself to think about, and I'd like' to see if I can't do something. But I'm willing to take my chances at getting a monumcnt some day, with the rest of them.” “Of course, you would want to go as an officer,” remarked the old military man. “I'd like to. But if I found it couldn't be arranged I wouldn’t stay away for that reason.” “Young man, 1 like your spirit. Any- thing I can do for you T will gladly under- take. I'll see If it can be arranged for you to have a commission.” The salesman looked startled. “No." he exclaimed. “Don’t do that. Of course, I don’t like to seem mercenary, but I don't want to do anything on that basis. I have tried it over and over, but T never got any satisfaction out of work- ing on commission. Give me a salary every time.”—Detrolt Free Press. —_—— HYPNOTIZED BY THE “WASH.” The British steamer Howick Hall, on arrival at Colombo from home, says' the Bombay Advocate of India, had to re- port the loss of her third officer on the way out under rather unusual circum- stances. The officer, Francis Barnes, held the same office on a salling ship before he joined the Howick Hall recently. Tais was his first voyage on a steamer; and he was frequently seen looking over the stern rail, and a few days before making Colombo, when the sea was very rm:-fh‘ he was seen by another officer = peering is almost safe to predict | correctly ascertain | remember that | Now. it strikes me that I'd | over the stern. Later on he was missing. The vessel was turned round at once and boats were launched, but, though much time was spent in_ looking. for him, no trace could be found. He must have been hypnotized by the ‘‘wash’ of the screw. \ASTOR BATTERY ARRIVES AND WADES ASHORE Hardships Confronting the Blue- Blooded Fighters From New York. BY SOL N. SHERIDAN. CAMP DEWEY, HEADQUARTERS FIRST CALIFORNIA REGIMENT, BEFORE MANILA, July 27.—The As- tor Battery was landed in the rain to- day, and is a fine looking body of men despite the bad impression it created in San Francisco. The men came ashore in cascoes from the Newport and stripped and waded into the surf to bring their goods ashore just the same as though the blue blood of Man- hattan was stranger to their veins. The rain falls here as in Biblical times, and the waters of Manila Bay take as many liberties with fine-blooded bodles as with the most common clay. I fancy John Jacob Astor would have held up his hands in horror and a chill would have run all along the avenue and out | Riverside drive if the swells could have seen their pets of clubdom pattering about in their bare legs while the surf sported with them and a tropical show- er drenched them—and yet that is pre- cisely what we, who were so fortunate, being upon the ground first, to be better clad, were witnesses to, and that is what war on the Island of Luzon will mean to these men who have crossed to many men as brave who have not come so far. It will mean much tire- some marching over muddy roads, much sleeping in damp clothing, much suffering from hunger and fevar, many graves, perhaps, in miasmatic swamps haunted by the small green lzards, whose cry, “Guckoo! guckoo!” makes night more a solitude here than any- where else on earth. All this will come later, when we have the natives to deal with—to hunt down in the tropic jungles as we once hunted the Indian of the plains. Just now the boys are all eagerness to get into Manila and settle the case of | Spain. The one prayer is that General | Merritt and the admiral will move—and move quickly. e | i [ END OF THE REGATTA. Drowning Accident Mars the Last M~7's Snort at Astoria. ASTORIA, Aug. 22.—At the last day of e second race between the outrigger skiffs was the most interesting event. Ochs, Dennis and Thomas of San Francisco were the first entries and t v made a beautiful race. The start and the first half-mile was made with scarcely a lap between the boats. Ocha | made the buoy first and turned berure | Dennis. Thomas, who followed inside, turned last, three exciting. Time, 11:45 4 | Dennis was second and Thomas third. In the gig race between two crews of | the United States steamship Columbine, | Lun, the cockswain of crew No. 1, won from Jones, No. 2, in 14:52 4-5. The course was a mile and a half. { _The Whitehall ]'rw&‘lnfi Nace Grant and Jack Hil half, was won by Hill in 20: race between I, mile and a 10 2-5. and Columbia of Shoalwater Bay made an interesting cont the Pearl winning. Time, 26:51, over course. | The first fatal accident of the regatta | occurred this afternoon during the fishing boat race and resulted in_the drowning of John Palto of Charles Wilson's boat. A stiff breeze was blowing and the boats were coming in on the home stretch when Wilson's boat was capsized, just after rounding the tank buoy —_—————————— INDIAN SCHOLARS. Hoopa Reservation Children for the Government School at Phoenix. A party of young Indian puplls arrived in the city yesterday morning on the steamer Orizabo and are at the Russ House. They are in charge of Emma H. | Denton, matron of the school on the Hoopa reservation in Humboldt County, where they have recelved instructions for some time past, and this morning she will | turn them ove to Superintendent Mc- Cowan, who will take them to the Phoe- nix Government Industrial School, where | they will receive the finishing touches to their education. The Indians are nam- ed 1da Buker, Linda Griggs, Carrie Rob- | erts, Emmie Peterson, Lucia Merrill, Jo- seph Donohue, Jerry Horn and Frank Rob- ert. They range in age from 14 to 18 years. Few people,” said Superintendent Me- Cowan, “have any idea of the magnitude | of the’ Phoenix “school. We have over thirty buildings of various sizes for the | accommodation of our seholars, a staff of thirty white people who are 'teachers in the literary and industrial arts and at the present time we have over 700 Indlans on our rolls who are uniformed in cadet grey. Next to the institution at Carlisle, | Pennsylvania, it is the largest Indian school in the United States. I have been engaged in gathering the more advanced puplls on the different reservations and will take the nine from Hoopa away with me Tuesday morning. They will have a five-y ar term. There are thirty-three tribes represented among the pupi We have formed a military company of sixty members to | whom the Territory has loaned guns, anc. | they are a well drilled body of men. We have also a football team composed of fine specimens of the Apache, Papago and Pima tribes. Their captain and lead- er is Cyrus Sun, a full-blooded Marico- pian and a sprinter of no mean abllity. 1 ropose bringing the team to this coast in yvember for a series of games, and I am quite certain that the proposi | carried out.” AR | GAVE HIM MORPHINE. | Clever Trick of a Woman to Obtain the Deadly Drug. | Lenora Lewis, a middle aged woman, | was arrested Sunday morning and | charged with vagrancy. While confined | in the City Prison yesterday she feigned | fliness and was removed to the Receiving Hospital. A short time after she sum- | moned a young man named McCann, who as passing the rough ward, and asked | him to take a sealed note toCarroll's drug store at Market and Stockton streets. | McCann delivered the note and was given a suspicious looking package to be hand- ed to the Lewis woman. Suspecting that it contained poison McCann, on reaching the hospital, told Dr. Maher of his sus- picions. The latter opened the package and found that it contained 60 grains of | morphin. Dr. Weil, the police surgeon, was in- | censed when he learned of the trick, and at_once communicated the facts to the olice. To-day. it is said, a warrant will | Be sworn out 'for the arrest of the drug- | gist charging him with selling morphine without a doctor's prescription. The doctors at the hospital are con- | vinced that the woman sent for the drug | intending to commit suicide. | —————————— Boy Burglars Caught. James Johnson, aged 9 years, and | Charles Meyers, aged 13, were lodged at | the City Prison_after midrilght, charged with burglary. They were caught coming out of 53 Folsom street, and had in their possession a pistol and an accordion. about a week ago the same boys stole from the same house a gold watch and chain and $50 in money. —_— e | Shoplifters in Court. | Tillie Feix and Ella Shearer, the two { girls arrested in the Emporium Saturday | for shoplifting, appeared before Judge Mogan yesterday. They were represented bv counsel and ~ pleaded not guilty. At | ¥riday. The Shearer girl Is still in prison, being unable to procure $200 bond. g 2 S L e THE GLORIOUS PATHS OF PEACE. After a hundred diys of war the United | States will enter on the paths of peace glorious. These paths are broader and | more inviting than any nation ever had laid out by a beneficent Providence, and if rightly followed they will lead to many a glorious victory that will be no less renowned than those just won in war.— Pittsburg Post. a continent and an ocean to fight—and | | In the free-for-all-sloop race the Pearl even and a half mile | | their request the cases were continued till { | better prepared than ever to make them | SPAIN ANNOUNCES HER COMMISSIONS Gets Within the Ten Day Limit. CAMBON NOTIFIES MKINLEY LIST DIFFERS FROM THOSE PREVIOUSLY GIVEN. Appointment of Montero for Cuba Indicates a Purpose to Go Into the Island’s Futurc Government. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—The State Department to-day received a call from M. Thiebaut, Secretary of the French embassy and in charge during the ab- | sence of Embassador Cambon, who bore a notification from the Spanish Govern- ment of the military commissioners for Cuba and Porto Rico. Under the peace protocol each Government was to name its military commissioners within ten days, their meeting to begin within thirty days. The ten days were up to- day and accordingly Spain gave the official notice of the appointments. | They are as follows: ! For Cuba—Major General Gonzales | Parrado, Rear Admiral Pastor y Lan- \dero, Marquis Montero. | For Porto Rico—Major General Or- | |tega y Diaz, Commodore of First| Rank Vallarino y Carrisco, Judge Advocate Sanchez del Aguila y Leon. | The foregoing official list differs from | some of the lists glven in previous dis- patches, which have included Admiral Montijo, General Blanco. General Ma- clak and several other prominent Span- ish officers. Considerable significance attaches to | the naming of Marquis Montero on the Cuban commission as it indicates a purpose on the part of Spain to go Into the future Goverhment of Cuba. He is | the only commissioner, Spanish or | | American, taken from civil life. He is Secretary of the Treasury of the Cuban autonomist cabinet and all his interests are connected with the government of | Cuba rather than with the military | question of the Spanish evacuation of Cuba. He is named, it is belleved, in order to carry out Spain’s desire to have an understanding as to the future government of the islands being inti- mately famillar with the questions of the civil administration of Cuba. As secretary of the Cuban treasury he is also familiar with questions affecting the Cuban debt. A SUPERB ARMY. Tt is natural that the veteran of the | Civil War, being human, should be crit- ical respecting armies of which he is not a part. Yet as he salutes the new volunteers on their way to the tropics he invariably concedes their physical | superiority over the soldiers of the six- | tles. This superiority is an obtrusive fact to all who remember the events of that other war. The average age is lower and the stature, weight, strength, and agility higher. Undér Lincoln’s first call some attmept was made to impose conditions of enlistment, but it amounted to little more than the tem- porary rejection of persons who lacked inches in height. Later, even this lack was not a bar to enlistment. Yet the men of the Civil Waf were not weak- | lings, North or South, but displayed prodigies of endurance and valor that surprised mankind. . The physical excellence of the new army is a revelation and a rebuke to those doleful persons who have de- plored the imaginary deterioration of the American. The examinations con- ducted by army surgeons are severe | enough—nearly as exacting as in the | case of persons who apply for enlist- ment in the regular army—and the ap- | plicants have shown an unexpectedly | high percentage of young men with | physical qualities above what is re- garded as the average. The superb physical appearance of the new troops Is significant. An army of nearly 300,000 young athletes sug- gests a people as far advanced in bodily vigor over those of a ~eneration ago as this army is over that of the sixties. Habits of personal hvglene that were then exceptional are now general. The prominence of athletics in college life is merely a reflection of the widespread interest in health-giving exercises and sports. The necessity of a sound body to a tolerable existence is universally recognized, and the popularity of wheeling, golf, tennis, boating and | other outdoor amusements is a result of an intellgent study of hygiene. Be- fore the advent of croquet some thirty years ago life was carried on indoors as far as possible.—Washington Post. ———— JULES VERNE OUTDOWE. Simon Lake, the inventor of the sub- marine boat Argonaut, built by the Co- lumbla Tron Works and Dry Dock Com- pany, Baltimore, has been talking Inter- estingly of his 200-mile trip under and on | the surface of the Chesapeake Bay in his wonderful little craft. He says: “During the trip we made various ex- periments to demonstrate the practica- bility of our system of submarine naviga- tion. The whole trip was made with our own power. The Argonaut was handled very easily efther under the surface or when running on the bottom, and we proved that the boat was perfectly sea- worthy. On hard bottom, where the wa- ter was comparatively clear, the door was opened and it was a beautiful sight. We plcked up a few oysters as we were traveling along. We discovered that we could see farther under the surface at night with our electric lights than in the daytime. The greatest distance seen in the bay was about twenty feet. We hope to get into the ocean next week, where we will get clear waters, and see much farther. Our divers were sent out from the boat and demonstrated the entire practicability of our system.” Mr. Lake expresses confidence in being able to destroy mines laid to protect any harbor in the world.—The Seaboard. —_————— LORD BYRON’S MOTHER. John Murray's new edition of Byron’s works contains several letters of inter- est. In a letter written by John Byron, the poet's father, to his sister, from the Continent, whither he had fled from his creditors, he thus refers to his wife: “With regard to Mrs. Byron, I am glad she writes to you. She is very amiable at a distance; but I defy ycu and all the apostles to live with her two months, for, if anybody could live with her, it was me. Mais jeu de mains, jeu de vilains. For my son, I am happy to hear he is well; but for his walking, 'tis impossible, as he is clubfooted.” Byron himself found it no less diffi- cult to get along with her. He writes as follows to his half-sister Augusta in 1804: “I seize this interval of my aim- able mother’s absence this afternoon again to inform you, or rather to de- sire to be informed by you, of what is going on. For my own part, I can send nothing to amuse you, excepting a rep- etition of my complaints against my | tormentor, whose diabolical disposition (pardon me for staining my paper with 1% harsh a word) seems to increase FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 189S. vzlth age and to acquire new force with time. “The more I see of her the more my dislike augments; nor can I so entirely conquer the appearance of it as to pre- vent her from perceiving my opinion; this, so far from calming the gale, blows it into a hurricane, which threat- ens to destroy everything, till, ex- hausted by its own violence, it is lulled into a sullen torpor, which, after a short period, is again roused into fresh and revived frenzy, to me the most ter- rible and to every other spectator as- tonishing. “She then declares that she plainly sees that I hate her, that I am leagued with her bitter enemies, viz., yourself, Lord C(arlisle) and Mr. H(anson), and, as I never dissemble or contradict her, we are all honored with a multiplicity of epithets, too numerous, and some of them too gross, to be repeated. In this society, and in this amusing and instructive manner, have I dragged out a weary fortnight, and I am con- demned to pass another or three weeks as happily as the former. —_——— WOMEN AS PHYSICIANS. It is over half a century ago that Eliza- beth Blackwell applied to the faculty of the Geneva Medical College in Western New York for admittance to the ranks of students. She took the five years' course, graduated with distinction and was the ploneer of the nineteenth cen- tury in the profession, so far as women are concerned. Other women who fol- lowed in her footsteps had a hard time, for the next twelve applications to va- rious medical colleges were refused by the cold-hearted faculties. Some refused without qualifications and others stated in no unguarded terms why they con- sidered women unfitted for the medical profession. On faculty stated that it refused women | admission to its medical school he(:ausel women by nature were assigned to a de- pendent position; because men had a pe- cullar and exclusive right to the art of | healing, and because the study of medl cine was demoralizing or ‘‘defeminizing. Nowadays women have proved that they are not content with a dependent posi- | tion. It would be interesting to discover by what right men hold the exclusive right to practice medicine, for ancient | history tells of many women who were | doctors. | The Athenians tried to put to death| Agnodice, who practiced medicine. In Rome there were recognized women phy- | sicians and the names of some of them | have been preserved to us through ‘n- scriptions. There were Flavia and Mi- | nucia and Sententia, who were well | known. From the time of the ancient Greeks up to the middle of the eighteenth | century, when Anna Mazzolini qualified | and became professor of anatomy at Bo-| logna, women have been numbered among | the medical practitioners. In regard to the ‘‘defeminizing” influ-| ence of the study of medicine, that ob-| Jectlon has been rafsed in turn against every art and profession women have | taken up. At one time art was consid-| ered quite beyond the pale and yet now | none of us would be willing to give up | the works of sculpture and painting which have been bestowed upon the world by women of talent. The second wo- man to study medicine was Elizabeth Garrett, who started the move in Eng- | land. In 1860 she began to study and | met many obstacles, the least of which | was her exclusion from some of the classes so that she was obliged to have | the necessary course of lectures delivered | to her privately. But she triumphed in the end. —_—e———————— { PUBLICATION DURING RIOTING. When the riots broke out in Milan re- | cently the compositors of the Corriere | della’ Sera were unable to reach the | office, and in order to fill up the editor | was obliged to use a long article in type | entftled “The Reform of Architecture.” It cut a strange flgure beside the graphic | accounts of the disturbances then going | on. Stranger still than the publication of the article was the action of a well- known Milanese artist, who went to the | office next day, while the crack of the | soldiers’ rifles could still be heard in the neighborhood, to discuss the ideas on architecture—€xpressed in the article and | to_ask permission to write a reply. The | difficulties of publication increased by de- | grees. The supply of paper began to run out, gas was lacking for the engine which | drives the printing machines, and the | workmen who remained in the printing | room recelved notice from the rioters to cease work out of sympathy with the | men_employed by the Secolo and Italia del Popolo, which had been suppressed by the authorities. However, the Corriere della Sera overcame all these difficulties, thanks to the loyalty of its workmen. —_————— PICKETT’S MEN AND THE G. A.R. | At a meeting of Pickett Camp of Con- federate Veterans recently it was unani- | mously decided to accept the invitation of | the Grand Army organizations of Phila- | delphia to be their guests during their re- union, August § to 14, inclusive. The in- vitation was considered in executive ses- sion, and the generous hospitality of the | Grand Army veterans received warm raise from many members. The mem- ers, including the survivors of Pickett's division, are asked to become the guests of the ‘organizations for six days, the cost of their transportation even being paid by their hosts. About 100 Confeder- ates, members of Pickett Camp and sur- vivors ef Pickett's division will attend the reunion. The reunion, or encampment, as such gatherings are called in the North, will be held in the celebrated Washington Park, on the Delaware River, eight miles from Philadelphia. It is need- less to say the ex-Confederates anticipate having a time such as they never enjoyed before.—Richmond Dispatch. —_———— HELD UP IN ALASKA. “Twelve capable and experienced offi- cers of the United States army,” says the Boston Transcript, “are in the wil- derness of Alaska on a Government surveying detail, hoping that the pow- ers In Washington will allow them to shift their details and join the army of invasion of Cuba. Some of them have had as many as twenty years of active and honcrable service, and all of them are filled with an ambition to earn glory and laurels in mortal combat with the Spanish oppressors of the Pearl of the Antilles. Thelr formai ap- plications to Major General Merriam, formerly commanding the Department of the Columbia, who succeeded Gen- eral Shafter in command of the Depart- ment of California, for rellef from Alaska detail were recently sent to him. All save two of the twelve officers were ‘turned down,” as they will probably express it when they learn, as they will in the course of ten days or two weeks, that the War Department has decided it to be impracticable to abandon the Alaska surveying expeditions.” —_——————— WATER EFFECTS ON THE TEELH. The question is to what extent the al- kaline earth salts in drinking water af- fect the decay (caries) of teeth has oflate been studied in several quarters. Stati: tics have been collected by Rese in_se: eral localiities in Bavaria_and by Foer- berg in Sweden. These have revealed the interesting fact that the extent of de- caying tecth bears a definite relation to the hardness of the water,in other words, to the quantity of calcilum and magne- sfum salts in the earth through which the water passes. The harder the water the better the teeth; the smaller the quantity of these salts, the greater the decay of the teeth. — —e————— . BACHELORS' BASKETS. Everybody has heard more or less about baby baskets, and most women at one time or another have dressed and fitted out one of those dainty affairs with ail the little toilet articles, pockets and so on that go with them, but a new basket has appeared in a haberdasher’s window. The novelty is the bachelor's basket. It is the same basket in shape and size, about two feet long by one 1oot wide, and a little deeper than the cuffs. It has, how- ever, a cover of the same wicker material to keep out the dust. This basket is to be had without any ..ning, an. may be tted with sachet pads ou the bottom, sides and inside of cover, plain or shirred, in the fancy delicate hues most admired by the prospective owners. These pads are to be filled with sacuet powder of his favorite perfume and tied in place by ribbons finished with love knots. A large and handsome sash bow of the same tint adorns the top of the cover, and smaller bows of narrow ribbon finish the corners. The basket is intended to keep the collars, | mand. | ton special to the Herald says: of population, for by far the larger part tury. It is owing to the fact that most cuffs and fluffy ties in sh: ‘without mussing tnem, and is a improve- ment on the collar and bo:zes and tie holders. - BITTER ATTACK ON SECRETARY ALGER Newspaper Prefers Se- rious Charges. ALLEGED PLOT AGAINSTMILES TELEGRAMS SAID TO HAVE BEEN SUPPRESSED. One Message Was From McKinley and Directed the General to Take Command at Santiago. Special Dispatch to The Gail. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 22.—A sensa- tion was caused here this morning by the publication in the Times of a bitter attack on Secretary Alger, who is ac- cused by the Times of having, with other War Department officials, stolen and suppressed a telegram sent by President McKinley to General Miles. This telegram is alleged to have di- rected General Miles to take command of the army at Santiago, relieving Gen- eral Shafter. It is charged that the conspirators substituted a telegram to General Shafter informing him that General Miles would not take com- Further, the Times prints tele- grams alleged to have been suppressed by the War Department. The tele- grams contained orders from General Miles to field officers, and are declared to have never reached their destination. NEW YORK, Aug. 22—A Washing- The grave charge printed this morning in Philadelphia that there had been sup- pression of an order intended by the President to be sent to General Miles is much deprecated here. It is believed, moreover, that when General Miles re- turns and becomes cognizant that fric- tion is thus bitterly alleged as existing between him and General Shafter and the Secretary of War he will deny that such friction existed. The Secretary of ‘War holds in high esteem the conduct of General Miles in Santiago and his campaign in Porto Rico. Speaking to me about the matter, Secretary Alger said: “I hardly care to reply to the charge that there was any suppression of any orders. It is absurd, brutal and beyond bellef. There could have been no frie- tion between General Miles and Gen- eral Shafter, for in looking over the list of namés of men available for the com- mand of the Fifth Army Corps General Miles was called into the conference, and said he thought General Shafter was the strongest man. It was largely upon this opinion of his that General Shafter was chosen. It is very unfor- tunate on all sides that there should be such agitations involving good feel- ing between friends, especially when they are absolutely groundless.” OLD AND NEW FURNITURE. Early in the second decade of the century the fashionable cabinetmaker of that day made for a New Yorker exiled to Philadelphia a quantity of mahogany furniture. The bill for that furniture has recently come into the hands of a cabinet maker of to-cay, one that loves his trade and its traditions and that makes faithful reproductions of the very articles named in the bill of more than elghty years ago. The old bill and the present cabinetmaker’s scale of prices afford an opportunity for interesting comparison, and the comparison shows that prices in that period of nearly a century ago have undergone no very marked change. The chairs made by the cablgetmakers of eighty odd years ago at something more than $21 each now fletch $25 each, and the change in the prices of other articles is less rather than greater. Meanwhile the cost of the raw ma- terial has somewhat increased. Tools are perhaps better than they were in those early days, and the wages of the journeymen are somewhat better now than then. Profits, or at least so much of profits as is represented by interest on capital invested, have decreased. Meanwhile the demand for cabinet- made furniture has by no means in- ereased in proportion to the increase of the furniture now made is turned out by the wholesale from factories equipped with labor-saving mechinery unknown in the early part of the cen- of the demand of to-day is supplied from this source that the price of cab- inet made furniture of the best quality has not doubled and trebled in the last eighty years. The cabinetmaker of to- day is, indeed, in a better situation than the old-fashioned shoemaker and the old-fashioned harnessmaker, but he is hard pressed by modern machinery. That human nature has not greatly changed in one respect during the last eighty years is shown by the fact that the Philadelphia customer of eighty years ago failed to pay his bill for a year after his furniture was delivered. New York Sun. —_———— CELEBRATION AT WINDSOR. The first English settlement in Con- necticut was commemorated at Wind- sor, Wednesday, June 29, by “unveil- ing” a memorial stone on the spot where a part of the Plymduth colony first landed in that State. The stone, a great boulder, is placed on “the isl- and,” beside the highway, opposite the spot where the first house was built. It bears this inscription: “This rock marks the first English settlement in Connecticut by members from the Plymouth colony, 1633. Dedi- cated by the Abigail Wolcott Elisworth Chapter of the D. A. R., June, 1898.” This named chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution carried on the exercises of the occasion, which in- cluded a meeting in the Windsor Town Hall, whereat Mrs. Sara T. Kinney, State Regent, gave an account of the organization, and showed that it is an Yactive factor in the hospital service of the present war, as well as working for the preservation of ancient landmarks. To Deacon Jabez Hayden was given honor for his assistance in this latter line, and an honorary daughtership was suggested for him. A paper by Jabez Haskell Hayden about the pio- neer days was read by Miss Lulu Al- bee. After these ceremonies came the “unveiling,” for the stone was covered by an American and an English flag, which were removed by Mrs. Kinney, after which the Rev. F. W. Harriman made an oration, in which he urged upon the Daughters of the American Revolution the erection of a suitable monument to the settlers who came from Dorchester. He said it must bear the names of Roger Ludlow an@. John Mason, of Thomas Wareham and Ephriam Hew- it. He enlarged the scheme to include names of men who fought for inde- pendence or in the civil war, and even “any son of Windsor who may give his life in the present struggle for the liberty of Cuba.” But. perhaps these generations had better be severally than jointly memorialized by monu- ments, and Mr. Harriman's concluding idea was that the great comprehensive memorial should be a public library. —_———————— ALMOST SPANISH NAVAL YARN Perhaps the most humorous story in connection with the st of June, Lord fowe's victory, is the amazing fable of the Vengeur, which is due to the patriotic imagination, unrestrained by any regard for prosaic accuracy, of Barrere. Bar- rere reported to the convention that the Vengeur went down with all her colors fiying, scorning to surrender, ‘Vive .a Republique, and a_universal ‘volley from the upper deck being the last sound she made.” “Glorieuse affaire du Vengeur’ became for the French a national myth. Tt has inspired innumerable French songs. A wooden model of the Vengeur Was solemnly consecrated and placed fi the Pantheon. Carlyle embodied the story in his “French Revolution.” *“Lo! he wrote, “all flags, streamers, jacks, every rag of tricolor that will yet run on rope fiies rustiing aloft. The whole crew crowds to the upper deck, and with uni- Versal soul-maddening vell shouts ‘Vive la Republique,’ sinking, sinking. ‘Carlyle later on discovered how wild a flight of fiction the whole story was. Ex‘\:rrere was a liar of Titanic scale; but the Vengeur myth, Carlyle declared, must be pronounced ‘“Barrere’s master- plece; the largest, most inspiring plece of blague manufactured for some centuries by any man or nation.”” At the time the Vengeur went down the battle had ceased for some hours; her captain was peace- getting his lunch in one of the cabins of the Culloden, and some 400 of her crew had been rescued, much to their own satisfaction, by the boats of the various British = ships!—Cornhill Maga- zine. —_———— JUDGE OBLIGES A CRIMINAL. Obviously the thing when one is sen- tenced to twelve months’ imprisonment is not to lose one’s presence of mind. If you do it may cost you a month and five days’ extra incarceration—a seri- ous matter when time is jail. A pris- oner represented this to Judge Murray at the sessions the other day. ile was sentenced to twelve months’ imprison- ment, and he appears to have accepted the result like a philosopher, his only comment being to ask the Judge to make it one month more. His Honor was staggered by the request, but was quickly enlightened. It seems that in any sentence over twelve montns a prisoner is entitled to a remission of two months and five days for gool conduct, but with sentences of tweiva months and under there is no rebate. It is the principle, I suppose, of taking a large quantity at a time. His Honor at once saw the reasonableness of th2 request and gave the extra month as desired.—Sydney Herald, —_————————— “JACK STRAW’S CASTLE.” A Famous Old English Inn in Pro- cess of Modernization. Jack Straw’s Castle, on the heights of Hampstead, says the London Caterer, is in process of transformation at the hands of the builders. 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