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EDITORIAL
W ILL Tilt: KO.U>s SHOIXDEK
1UK liL.LML?
it required uiexLatiuii to avert «j
ciUike uiai wuiud pai-ao tua
uusiue.^ ut tiio country. All else
AaVill£ .laii^d 11 V"i a&iUlntd l>>
t ii« I'rtbideut to Lib Ms duty u>
serve in that capacity. Tiie publi^
was iiiad. ii saw iiup« iu uliat
prolfer. Railroad managers _ auu
railroad employes have U)lii de
clared ttai tiiey u«:a willing to give
ainl 'aUe. Coanprumise »js de
sirable and possible. Tile meu.
conceded a poiut; aoid upou that
tlie railroads iiave beta a^ed l>i
I lie Fiesident to concede anotlio.
point. Tiie m.m.i^-c^a oi u« roads
liatiy refused, and the Presidents
oi iClq lines deciiue <o iiiteriere.
Suppos© that sJmll be the ulti
matum, thai too presidential at
'euiut at mediation, snail tail thru
and tilery shall jailow tile strike
tiie country u~o bveui so anxious 'm
avoid; upon whose iieatf will tiie
Lilaui« light?
lue pUUUC »^*A MV1U
responsible, jutt as u would ii^w
held the men. rcsponsiblg if eou
cess>on had bevn made b.y their em
ployers and Uuj ui turn had refus
ed to yield anything.. Whether the
railroad managers realize it or nut,
this obstinacy, as evinced. in the
Washington declaration, will create
a grand army of advocates.for the
adopt'cn of the eight-hour law ix
railroad work among tho.-o yvho up
to tbis time have been indifferent
on tb« iubject.
Tne ^oeition takoa by the rail
road managers at Washington, if it
shall be persisted in to the bUtt>r
eud, and to tiiei realization of an
ugly and prolongtd labor conflict,
will be held as s. more or It's® di
rect declaration that they would
rather the public would suffer than
tako the chance of losing the mou
cy alleged to be: involved in the
ii-ev work day, even, though such
loss is a matter of dispute. |
It is at this time an exceeding
ly unwise position for the rail
roads to assume, and tha blame for
It they cannot ayoitf if they shall
make the'r declaration final.
MKDDLLNU WITH MEXICO
The stock defense of the WUaon
administration in respect to Mexi
can blunders and Mexieum, affronts
is evidently to >ho tile claim that
the President lies felt it Incumbent
upon this country to refrain from
Interfering with. Mexico while that
distracted nation was striving to
settle la Its own way its internal
troubles and Quamis. It is said
lor th« administration that it has
fcudurtd much and borne many
grievances rather than intervene in
Mexican civil wars.
It is a dofense founded upon,
falsenocd. There has been much
American meddling ith Mexican at
tains. The Wilson administration
has grossly violated its own pro
fessed rule of keeping Its hands off
the iiilornai issues of a neighbor
ing country. It has clayed fast and
lots© with Viila and with, Carranza.
1' used its influence and even its
physical power to compass the
downfall of Huerta. it has done
its utmost for Villa and then
against him.. It has favored Car
ranza, afterard opposed him and
etill later restored him to at least
partial favor.
This long record of meddling has
J>een w« -k, uncertalu, wobbling. It
N->
lias exasperated all factions j in
Mexico. It lwa madq impossible
ua the good fulti, and fixed pur
aaytliin,; like sure dependence up
on tlie good faith, and fixed purpose
of the li aited Statea ^vernment.
Tire Mexican people iiave been giv
en grave okws fwr doubting; the
reliability and ,xaaruet» of tae exe
cutive nead of the American nation.
Haired and distrust are the natural
fruit of suck interference and such;
inconsistencies. AI
AFTKll THE WAK
The European, war h$ilps the sale
Ainenceiu machinery in Argentina,
according to Special Agent J. A.
Masst 1, of , the Department of
Commerce. (Apparently, some of
Mr. Massel's com men's escaped the
eye ox the censor in the department,
tor iney tend to contradict the as
sertion# of some of the department
officials, ••'fii© great, bulk of ma
chinery and machine toois in the
Republic are of German make and
now tuat this trade lias fre$n cut
off, there will be an increasing de
mand for machinery. fttrms in
the United. States may get an oc
casional orxlur during the continu
ance of the European war, but omce
th« war is ended; and business re
sumes its normal aspect, trade will
inevitably turn back to Kurope
again unless ia 'he meantime in
telligent organisation. be effected
and business efforts exerted to se
cure a satisfactory slwre of it for
the United States."
Tliat is just exactly what busi
ness men iave been saying- for
months. The war Is all that stops
the German export trade. As Boon
as the war is over, exports will
begin again, not only to South Am
erica, but to the United. States as j
well, fcr tie protective tariff wall
has been destroyed by the Demo- j
cratic party.. J
GIBRALTAR FOR FLORIDA.
EngUad Once Offered Spain the Great
Rock In a Trade.
You know that for everlasting sta
bllity and stillborn resistance there Is
nothing lii the world like Gibraltar.
Did you ever hear of a curious little
bargain, whi. h was never consum
mated. buf In which that great ruck
at the mouth of the Mediterranean
figured as part of the price? It had
to do with an Important part of out
own country, and yet It is seldom men
tloued In any of our histories.
The liupreguuble fortress was foughl
over by the Spaniards and the Moors
for two centuries, and It came In for
the keen Interest of Oliver Cromwell,
who thundered st the British the fact
that if they ever hoped to tieeome the
dominating sea power of the world
they must control the Mediterranean
from Gibraltar. This great necessity
was never lost sight of. but a suitable
pretext did not ailse until the war of
the Spaulsh succession, when England
and France were at each other's
throat for the mastery of Europe.
Under Admiral Sir George Brooke
the British fleet made an unexpected
attack on the Spanish defenses anil
captured Gibraltar in 1701. Presently
the English sickened of their bargain
That was long before tbe^digging 01
the Suez canal by the French and the
Egyptians, and the cost of maintain
Ing the rocky fortress appeared to be
out of all proportion to Its worth
When Spain was approached by Na
poleon for the purchase of Florida as
a blow at England from the western
theater of the Anglo-French war, Eng
land offered Spain to trade Gibraltar
for Florida. Had the trade taken
place Engl.iud would not now be un
disputed mistress of the sea. - St ix>uls
Post-Pispateb.
SCOOPING UP WATER.
How a Fist Train Fill* It* Locomotive
Tank Without Stopping.
Mr. Cecil J. Allen, chief of the civil
engineers' department, supplies la the
Great Eastern Hallway Magazine souie
interesting tacts ou "the picking up of
water" by trains at full speed ou long
journeys. Locomotives, he says, are ex
reeding bibulous creatures. The en
glues of one large British railway alone
"Onsume some 12.f>00.000 gallons of w»
ter per auuuiu An express engine un
•ler normal conditions of running will
consume from thirty to thirty-five gal
'ons of water for every mile covered
taking a general average On such a
journey as that made by the "Cornish
iliviera Limited Express." of the
Great Western railway, from London
to Plymouth. 225->i miles— the longesi
lally nonstop ruu In the world—some
four tons of coal are cnns-tin-ed agatns
un average of no less than forty tons
>f water.
The tr»rtlgbs. Mr. Alien explains
Uave usually a length of Just over h
quarter of a mile and are laid |k>i
fectly level In the center of the "fou:
foot." Water is taken from them by
means of a movable shovel shaped
•scoop" under the tender, which Is
lowered into the trough as the train
passes over it at full sjieed. The shar;
edse of this scoop cuts off. ns it were
the "top layer" of the water, which I
forced up Into a large vertical pipe anil
delivered through a mushroom head o
an elbow at the top of the tender late
the water tank. As soon as the wate1
gauge on the tender Indicates that thi
tank is full the scoop Is raised again
According to the speed at which th<
train Is traveling. It Is possible to lif.
from 2.000 to 3,000 gallons In about
fifteen seconds.—TVeatmlnater Gazette.
PRISONERS OF WAR
Iro Former Times They Were Held
as Virtual Slaves.
HAD TO EARN THEIR LIBERTY.
Than the System of Ransom Arose
and With It Cruel Abuses and a Law- ,
less Traffic In Captives—Rules That
Govern Civilized Nations Today.
a
The prisoner of war In our day Is the ;
subject of au elaborate cvnle of rules ,
drawn up at meetings of The Hague
peace conference. No property must
be taken from him except arms and
military equipment, lie must not be
kept in close confinement if tliut can
be avoided, and if possible his parole 1
must be accepted. lie may be set to
aiij work for which he Is reasonably
fitted—although others are uot bound
to work—but he must be allowed a
similar standard of life and credited
with a similar scale of pay to that
which obtains among the soldier-artif
icers of the conquering nation.
When set tree the cost of his mainte
nance w ill be deducted and he will re
ceive the bal ince in cash. He may be
shot when frying to escape, but If
caught alive he must uot be punished
except by curtailment of his liberty.
The.se are a lew of the many rules by
which all civilized nations are now
bound In regard to their prisoners of
war.
Among savtge men the destiny of a
prisoner w as to be eaten, massacred in
cold blood or tortured for sport.'until it
dawned one day upon some primitive
political economist that a live captive
had labor value, and so arose the Insti
tution of slavery. Among free peoples
like the Teutons, war prisoners were
the only slaves allowed, and they
might In time earn their freedom, j
This Idea of commutation be.ame the
custom of medieval Europe, applied
as "prize money" to ships and "ran
som" to Individuals. All officers
could claim the right to offer a reason- |
able ransom, which went Into the I
pocket of the captor. Sometimes offi
cers would ransom a whole troop of
their men.
ivings or great rapiuius «nc iau- .
somed by their nations. Richard the (
Lion Heart had n woeful time of It I
until England ransomed him from the I
Emperor Henry. King John of France,
taken at Poitiers by the Black Prince. :
was held by England to ransom until j
the Puke of Aujou came as hostage
while John went to raise the neces
sary cash. King Pavid of Scotland,
captured by Queen Eleanor, never per
suaded the thrifty Scots to pay the
whole of his ransom and became a de
pendent as a consequence.
In Froissart's engaging chronicles
you may read how bands of mercenary
troops quarreled with gnliunt and Im
petuous commanders, whose only ob
ject was the destruction of the enemy.
The mercenaries were out to take pris
oners and trade in the ransoms. This
traffic gave rise to infinite abuses, in
cluding torture and all manner of dis
honesty. Sir John PtHstaff—Shake
speare's FalstafT—was notorious for
au extensive and unscrupulous traffic
In ransoms. Yet it was not until dur
lng the eighteenth century wars that
an agreement to end the custom was
come to between the European com
mantlers. Even then It lingered on in
practice until the eve of the Naiwleonlc
wars, when It was swept away for the
newe" idea of exchange of prisoners,
rank for rank.
One great change ofougnt anoui oy
the new system was tint the prisoners
became u state care and responsibility.
Whether this change made for greater
humaneness of treatment depended in
part upon the conquering nation, but
even more upon the individual gover
nor or Jailer. This may lie seen in the
varying accounts we have of the con
ditions of prisoners of war in England
during the long struggle with Napoleon.
Lincolnshire's fens mnke good cen
ters for a military compound. George
Borrow, in "Lavengro," has given a
terrible picture of the conditions at
Norman's Cross prison, in the fen dis
trict "Rations of carrion meat," he
writes, "and bread from which 1 have
seen the very hounds occasionally turn
away were unworthy entertainment
even for the most ruffian euetny. when
helpless and captive."
In these prisons the Inmates made
various articles of commercial utility,
such as straw plait, which were
bought of them by dealers for a miser
able sum. the proceeds procuring them
a few trifling comfotts and the luxury
of tobacco, or affording the bril>es nec
essary for the smuggling out of letters
More tolerable was the fite of those
settled on parole In such towns as
Chesterfield, where they endured ac
tual confinement under guard only at
night, being free within certain hounds
during the day. In many cases, as time
went by. prisoners who had won the
confidence of their guards became
virtually free in all respects, starting
workshops as cabinetmaker*, etc.. or
teaching drawing, music or Fret .-*h to
the children of the well to do. Their
geniality and politeness soon made
them very popular with the blunt and
serious Derbyshire folk, and quite a
number of them married and settled
down in the Chesterfield district, where
the traces of this settlement may be
seen both In local names and In olive
skins and other features.—Fhlladel
phla Ledger.
It is hard to fail, but it Is worse
never to have tried to succeed. In this
life we get nothing save by effort.—
Theodc*e Ruo«e«'elt
la reallty the "WW of the hair"
mt.vk.ba Uu "«rs at the Maip." Ap
plr ' PUROLA" Hair Tone according
to dlrectlona furaishtd with ®ach
boitifc, and you wlli *ot only be
surprised, but pleased with the
wonderful result*. A satisfactory
at lot i for hair health; sold on
Its merits and satisfaction guaran
teed >r your money bach.
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Hi. Mia.IT. VislUag D: uUieiS 0>. uon
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jroiiioin cui'diikliy liriut u> atL^aa
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AJist«r. Secretary.
F. & A. M.
Wlitte Pa*s Lodge
F.U M. No. 112
meet* 2d and 4ib
Fri. Ev'gs. oI
mouui. visiting o.v.ilc.b are woi
w)me,
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&-y at 8:30 p. m.
V(siting broth
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F. J VAiCDEWAU^, Secretary
I*ione<or of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
meet* in A. 11. Hall first Monday In
every month nt 8:30 p. to.
V'siting Bi others cordially weJ
rorae.
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