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With two scna-
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NOT NKKDKO.tors Of thc Ullltc(1
States under in-
dictmoiit , one from Pennsylvania and
the other from Delaware , and each
charged with financial frauds and each
belonging to the republican party at the
moment dominant in the United States ,
the declaration that a new party , with
clean , new methods , is not needed comes
too often from those who are feeding
out of official troughs.
With Governor Tanner under indict
ment for malfeasance as the chief execu
tive of the great state of Illinois , who
declares a new party unncedcd in that
state ?
When negroes are shot down for en
deavoring to secure work in the coal
mines of Illinois and the national gov
ernment does nothing to protect them ,
whereas if a half do/en colored men
were killed at a riot in Alabamacongress
and the president would indulge in pat
riotic paroxysms of horror and alarm ,
why does anyone declare there is no
need of a new party a conservative
party 'i
The evidence
GUNSHOT „ , . . . . .
CIVILISATION.fl > 0m th ° PhlllP-
pine islands indi
cates that the chiefs , headmen and
braves of the principal savage tribes are
opposed to being annexed to the Chris
tian civilization of the United States.
These untutored barbarians prefer dark
ness to light. But if in our humane and
benignant judgment it is better for us
to take them , whether they will it or
not , we can knock out of American tra
ditions all that pertains to political
equality and the consent of the gov
erned and proceed to pound piety into
those heathen hearth for the sake of hu
manity.
Civilisation and Christianity by force
of arms are beautiful. Cartridges made
out of Bibles and hymn-books could be
used as educators. When wadded with
pious tracts and stuffed with sermons
iipon "duty and destiny" the gatling
guns could scatter civilization among
the islanders with great force and effi
cacy. If they do not acquiesce let
them be peppered with piety.
The report of
IIUPOKT. the secretary of
agriculture dwells
with forccfnlness and /eal upon the
importance of developing , by every
possible means known to the govern
ment of the United States , the agri
cultural and horticultural resources
of newly acquired tropical and semitropical -
tropical territory. There is little doubt
as to the value of some of the islands for
the production of citric fruits.
Experts declare that neither Florida
nor California can compare with some
of the islands as to lemons , oranges and
many other fruits.
Secretary Wilson certainly takes a
very liberal view of the duty of the
agricultural department in regard to the
Philippines , Hawaiian and other insular
properties. The producers of citric and
other fruits in the Southern and Pacific
states , who have generally asked for
protective duties , to guard them against
competition from abroad , will doubtless
hail with delight this large acquisiton of
"home market" territory for their pro
ducts. That which was foreign is for
eign , now , no more , but domestic.
If all the growlers and pessimists who
prate everlastingly of hard times would
agree to labor intelligent ! } ' half as many
hours in the year 1899 , as they have
scolded and criticised in 1898 , the United
States generally , and Nebraska partic
ularly , would enjoy unparalleled pros
perity. _
For n long time ,
sim KSTiVKor
with a commend
able showing of
executive firmness , President McKinley
withstood the importunate jingoism of
the United States and averted war with
Spain.
His attitude then and now in some
way suggests the Rev. Mr. Chadband of
Bleak House :
"Peace , my friends , " saj'S Chadband ,
and wiping the oily exudations from his
reverend visage : "Peace be with us !
My friends , why with us ? Because"
with his fat smile "it cannot be against
us ; because it , must be for us ; because
it is not hardening ; because it is soften
ing ; because it does not make Avar like
the hawk , but it comes home unto us like
the dove. Therefore , my friends , peace
be with us ! My human boy , come for
ward. "
Then stretching forth his flabby paw ,
as though Joe were an island in the sea ,
he lays it upon Joe , who doubts his in
tentions , suspects Chadband of sinister
designs and remarks like a Cuban gen
eral : "You let mo alone. I never said
nothink to you. You lot me alone. "
"No , my young friend , " says Mr.
Chadband smoothly , "I will not let you
alone. And why ? Because I am a har
vest-laborer ; because I am a toiler and a
moiler ; because you are delivered over
unto me , and are become as a precious
instrument in my hands. My friends ,
may I so employ this instrument as to
use it to your advantage , to your profit ,
to your gain , to yonv welfare , to your
enrichment. "
Clndband , is thj' name McKinley ?
An out-and-out sinner , who makes
no pretense of piety , does more good
and less evil "by his example , acts
and daily conduct than the professed
Christian , who joins a church merely to
perfect his hypocrisy , and every day , in
the rustle and rush of business knocks
off , here and there , some of his religious
veneering and exposes solid , raw sin.
Religion suffers more from its false
followers than from bold infidels like
Colonel Ingersoll.
VACCINATION.
[ Now American Cyolopirdia. ]
Vaccination ( Lat. vncca , a cowinocu )
lation for cow pox as a protection against
smallpox , first practised by Dr. Edward
Jenner in 179(5. ( On the second or third
day after virus taken from a perfect
vaccine vesicle , whether from the cow or
the human subject , is placed in contact
with the denuded dermis or true skin ,
the puncture is observed to be slightly
inflamed. On the fourth or fifth day a
vesicle is observed surrounded by a
slight blush of inflammation , and con
taining a little colorless , transparent
fluid. This increases in si/e until the
eighth day , when it should be from %
to \ inch in diameter , the blush of in
flammation surrounding it at the same
time having become more marked. The
vesicle is umbilicated , that is its center
is depressed below the level of the cir
cumference , in this respect resembling
the pustules of smallpox. The vesicle is
a compound one , being made of 10 to 14
distinct cells ; one of these , if carefully
punctured , gives issue to a minute drop
of fluid , leaving the other cells still dis
tended. On the eighth day the blush of
surrounding inflammation , heretofore
very slight , begins to extend , forming
what is termed the areola ; it attains its
greatest diameter by the llth day , after
which it gradually fades and disappears.
With the appearance of the areola the
vesicle begins to become darker and
drier , and gradually concretes into a
brown or mahogany-colored , translucent
crust , which falls off about the 20th
day , leaving a circular cicatrix marked
with minute depressions or pits. About
the eight or ninth day there is usually
some slight febrile disturbance present ,
which is often , however , scarcely notice
able. Such is the course of the true
vaccine vesicle when uninterfored with ,
either by the presence of constitutional
disease or by the accidental occurrence
of inflammation. When vaccination
was first introduced , it was hoped and
believed by its advocates that it would
afford complete and permanent protec
tion from the attacks of smallpox. This
hope has proved fallacious. It was dis
covered that those who had been well
and thoroughly vaccinated were still
liable to some extent to attacks of small
pox ; and though in general the disease
was modified ( varioloid ) and rendered
shorter in duration and milder in de-
still it occasionally resulted in death.
The degree of protection afforded by
vaccination becomes thus a question of
great interest. Its extreme value was
easily demonstrated by statistical re
searches. In England , in the last half
of the eighteenth century , out of every
1,000 deaths , 96 occurred from smallpox ;
in the first half of the present century ,
out of every 1,000 deaths , but 85 were
caused by the same disease. The
amount of mortality in a country by
smallpox would seem to bear a fixed re
lation to the extent to which vaccina-