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eions of the water syeteni, which we
so acutely need, could be at once un
dertaken and the thirst of the F
street people be in the way of assuage
ment. The P street well water is un
fit for stock whose open air, barefooted
existence counteracts most poisons; on
human beings the effect of the water
is very injurious. The alkali corrodes
and finally destroys the tissues of the
body just las it does lead pipe, iron,
IB GNRIER PR1MTIHG IID P0BLISHIK6 GO andstoue. This hot weather the suf-
fering of those who must depend upon
the F street well for drinking water is
genuine.
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The residents in the southwest quar
ter of the city, where the mains are
filled from the F street well, are com
plaining of the acrid, unsatiating
quality of the water they pay taxes
for, but cannot drink. Their com
plaints are answered by the statement
that the city is in no condition to put
in more wells, and that the mains can
not be filled without the supply from
the-F street well.
Yet, last winter, on account of de
fective city scales, the city paid for
thousands of dollars worth of coal
which was not delivered. The blunder
was the fault of city officials, whose
business it is to see that true delivery
is made. With that money exten-
The stereotypers' strike seems to be
founded on a reasonable enough de
mand. Tho hourly issue of extras
doubles their work, and so far the
publishers have refused "extia" pay
for it. The stereotyping room is a red
hot place, where the perspiration
pours from fhe workmen in streams.
A few hours in the heated atmosphere,
full of the poisonous vapor of anti
mony ia very weakening to a man not
accustomed to it, and Jthepiealth of
tlie streotypers"'themselves js injured
by the excessive heat and slow lead
poisoning.
The stereotypers ask to be paid for
this extra time. If the publishers can
not afford to pay the workmen for it
they cannot afford to -get out the ex
tras. According to the present cus
torn "extras" are wrung from the
workmen, costing the publishers only
for composition, which is very little
on an extra, and for paper, which is
somewhat more. The enterprising
publisher who makes the stereotypers
do the work, while he pockets the ex
tra pay and reputation, is on the
wrong side of human rights, and the
Courier's sympathies are entirely
with the stereotyper and their cry of
"no extra pay, no extras."
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Neither the French in France, the
Russians In Russia, nor the natives of
any country across the seas, attempt
to speak English as she is spoke
here r by English people. But
we foolishly do try to get
an accent we can never acquire,
We say Paree, Koeln, Vith-ky-a Vic
tor A-manooa-lo and a great many
other ridiculous things. Would it not
be better to pronounce them. accord
ing to the rules of pronunciation ac
cepted by the greatest race on the
face of the globe? Parisians assume
that we are too ignorant to pronounce
our language correcly and do not
bother to learn our rules. Our painful
efforts to speak the French of Paris
they only laugh at. An instance of
the conscientious search for foreign
words is in the pronunciation of Miss
Agnes Repplier's name. She pro
nounces it just as it is spelled, Rep-pll-er,
with the accent" on the first
syllable, but one heard of.her in Den
ver as Miss Rep-ple-a, with the accent
on the last syllable. Miss Repplier is
an American of Americans, nasal
accent, cynical humour, independ
ence and all. It is too bad to let our
suspicions of her French origin retro
vert her, perhaps for centuries.
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"Rupert of Hentzau,'' the sequel to
"The Prisoner of Zenda," is finished
in the. current number of McClure's
magazine. It is not any worse than
most sequels, but I should have said
beforehand that Anthony IIopo would
have been equal to the supreme test
of skill, taste, and inspiration, viz.,
writinga sequel to a popular success.
But Rupert of Hentzau vulgarizes
Flavia. In the last pages she is at
times a trifle maudlin. She never men
tions the people or her kingdom of
Ruritania. She is not queenly; she
lacks dignity. Rudolph, the English
red Eiphbcrg, would-have made-n good
king' had-lienbt x,eused to be an imV
postor, even for the good of the people'
of Ruritania and for his love. That
lie had dete 'mined not to accept the
false position no one can doubt,though
he is shot before he can announce to
old Sapt the result of his moon walk.
Mr. Hope has left the question to be an
swered, like the problem in the "Lady
and the Tiger,'' according to the rea
soning in use by each reader. Rudolf
would not wear a crown that was
not his we know that but we know
also that he would do nothing that
would cause Flavia to be gossipped
about. As he strode up and down the
garden, just before he was shot, Sapt
and tho watchers at the windows saw
him throw up his head, smile, and
forthwith all signs of indecision left
him. He had discovered how to be
plain Rudolf Rassendyl, and to pro
tect the queen. What was his plan?
The Courier invites the readers of
this story to sketch a course of action
satisfactory to Rudolf and to Rudolfs
conscience, and to his Jove for the
queen, and send it in in timeforpubli
cation next week.
We cannot rejoice over Sampson's
victory with the unalloyed, trium
phant satisfaction with which primi
tive peoples celebrated their victories.
It is impossible to forget the loyal
Spanish sailors who fought their des
perate fight just as bravely as though
they had a chance of winning it. Poor
marksmen, cruelly misgoverned and
deceived, degraded by national insti
tutions that have survived the dark
ages which brooded them, the Span
iards have the saving grace of bravery
and love of country For the swarthy
hundreds of Cervera's fleet who were,
drowned and shot by the unerring
guns of Sampson's ships, for the wives
whom they made widows and the little
brown children who will never see
their fathers, it is not un-American to
weep. A victory in which so many of
a brave enemy were killed cannot set
a civilized people to ringing bells with
the abandon and unmitigated joy of
our ancestors, for one reason we have
but lately recovered from a civil war in
which a victory of either side meant
the death of fathers, sons, brothers,
and friends in both armies. Our
brother of Spain has been out of the
procession for along time. He has
not submitted himself to the influ
ences of evolution. He has refused
to lay aside that which degrades while
it amuses. He has not applied his
mind, to self government, and abso
lutism has taxed him, neglected his
education, but kept him good-natured
with bull fights and brass bands..Thte
being" the case, the America "jrtfpj"
are sorry for hlm-and regret the ne
cessity of slaughtering- him; for sure
ly, when evolution begins to improve
him it will have a substratum of man
liness and homely loyalty to work
upon.
The sinkingof the Merrimacln San
tiago harbor was a brave act on the
part of Lieutenant Hobson, but It did
not prevent the enemy's ships from
sailing out. The Merrimac was a cost
ly mistake in naval architecture The
mud of Santiago harborwill gradually
engulf a .part of the United States
navy that it is said nobody knev how
to dispose of. The proof of the fu
tility of sinking the ship in the har
bor strengthens the suspicion that the
naval department's real object was not
to block the harbor,but partly to rid it
self of an unseaworthy ship. Of course
Lieutenant nobson's intrepidity was
not lessened because the object of his
expedition is only partly known to the
public. The newspaper hysterics
which follow an act of daring by any
one of the hundreds of brave officers
in the army and navy increases the
jealousy among the soldiers and sail
ors themselves, and creates a suspicion
in the mind of the public that the
thing is being overdone. It is not
necessary, for instance, to print pic
tures of Hobson in long cldthes, and
as he appeared after his mother put
him into short clothes, of Hobson
barefoot, with an unknown playmate,
of the Hobson house, and servants
with the family, mother and father
in rocking chairs on the porch with
four daughters sitting stiffly and con
sciously on the steps in ffnt of them,
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