THE EVENING GAZETTE
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SPAIN IS IN PAWN.
EVERYTHING SHE OWNS PUT UF
TO OBTAIN MONEY.
Two Hundred and Ten Thousand Troops
V" Fail to .Subdue Cuba, and the Phillip-
pines Caused No End of Trouble—A
Natural Result of Modern Tyranny.
Europe presents no spectacle more
extraordinary than the contrast be-
tween the nerve of the Spanish peo-
ple and their incapacity in action.
For eighteen months they have en-
deavored to conquer a revolted colony
four thousand miles away, and. have
in the elfort used and consumed re-
sources such as it was hardly believed
outside Spain that they could have
called up even to resist invasion.
They have actually forwarded to
Cuba two hundred and ten thousand
regular troops, 'suffieiently equipped.
This army, sufficient, one would
think, for a defensive war against
France, accomplishes nothing, but the
Spanish statesmen neither lose heart
nor hope. They are wholly uncheered
by victory, they know that their sol-
diers die like flies, and they are told
every week that the rich island is be-
coming a desert, that three-fourths of
it is going out of cultivation, that the
settlers are quitting in thousands,
while those left behind are joining
the insurgents, that the Whole ex-
penses of the island must be borne
for years by Spain, and that every
month increases the chances that the
lAmerican republic, with its limitless
resources for war, will intervene; and
still they refuse to relax their hold
Be the results what they may, they
will make no terms till the rebels
have submitted unconditionally. If
the conscripts die, the Spanish Pre-
mier sends more conscripts. If the
peasants of the city mobs object to
their despatch, both are silenced by
an unhesitating appeal to the military
law, which makes resistance to the
conscription one of the most deadly of
offences. If the Phillippines rise in in-
surrection, the Premier offers to send
an army there also, even an army of
the cavalry, if that will be the army
most required. If the people of the
.United States mutter or threaten in-
terference, the Premier ransacks the
World for cruisers ready built, or
builders who will build quickly, giv-
ing enormous prices, in some cases
three quarters of a million per ship,
for the needed vessels. If the treas-
ury is harrassed, he sells everything
that is available, monopolies to the
Rothschilds, privileges to the rail-
Ways, preferences to the dealers in
bonds. He even ventures to leave
the troops in the island unpaid, and
for four‘months no soldier there has
seen the color of coin. and has been
fortunate if bread and garlic have
been served with any regularity.
How will it all end for Spain? W'e
cannot pretend to foretell events, for
we cannot even guess the line the
Governments of \Vashington and To-
kio will ultimately take; but if history
is a guide, the Spaniards will fight on
stubbornly against all odds, will re-
ceive much sympathy for their endur-
ance and courage, but unless helped
by some great ally will ultimately
fail. They ought to win, but they
will not. Some incurable vice in her
organization, or it may be. in the tem-
perament of her people, neutralizes
all the advantages Spain ought to de-
rive from her stubborn hardihood, her
nearly perfect capacity of endurance,
and the sombre genius alike for war,
for art and for literature, which has
so often marked her sons. No race
outside her own borders, even of
Spanish origin, has ever been able
permanently to endure her reign, and
every race which has resisted her ul-
timately succeeded in withdrawing it-
self from her control. She could not
keep Holland when Holland was to her
what Ireland is to England, and she
lost the whole of the New W'orld af-
ter feats of conquest and colonization
so great and so successful that to this
day every native of the American
continent from the Rio del Norte to
Patagonia, if not a Portuguese, speaks
the Spanish tongue, professes the
Spanish creed, and so far as he is civ-
ilized at all is civilized in the Spanish
way. “'e see no reason to suppose
that she will keep Cuba any more
than Mexico, or the Philippines any
more than Peru, and suppose that af-
ter unheard-of efforts, ending in some
sort of bankruptcy. she will desist and
sullenly fall back, to await, amid per-
petual domestic feuds, the day when
a competent Government will once
more direct her splendid resources and
the stubborn courage of her children
to some end which will again make
her temporarily great—London Spec-
tator.
A Remarkable Excavation.
Very few persons have any real con-
ception of the vastness of a hole out
of which 1,020,000 cubic feet of earth
has been taken. Into such a hole
sov<.:1;tceu ordinary city houses
could be placed, and even then they
would not completely fill it. The men,
asthey worked in the bottom of this
pit. seemed like dwarfs. Such a hole
was excavated on Park Row, New
York, into which were placed the
foundations of the new thirty story
office building that is in process of
Construction.
There are many villages which
boast of a school house, town hall,
church and post office which could be
very compactly stowed away in this
hole, and would not be crowded for
room either. All things considered,
this was one of the most remarkable
holes ever dug in New York. If the
United States Army should acciden-
tally Iuarch into a hole of such dimen-
sions, it would take the bodies of
45,065) men, or more than two-thirds
of the entire army of the United
Stairs, to fill the space from which
1,62%),000 cubic feet of earth had been
taken—New York Herald.
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OLDEN Tum BAKING.
A CUSTOM OF SATURDAYS‘ THAT
HAS BEEN RUDELY BROKEN.
The Almost Forgotten Sunday Tens of Our
Grandmothers and Some ofthe Dainties
Which Distinguished the Wholesome
Dinners of Other Days.
The New York Post in reminiscent
vein, says that no more remarkable
change has come acros the social face
of American city and country life—es—
pecially in the cities and their sub-
urbs—than the gradual fading away
of “baking day.’ Less than a genera-
tion ago every Saturday morning in
the house of each family of standing
was sanctified to the use of the bak-
ing-tin, and mothers and daughters,
with whatever cousins or aunts hap-
pened to be visiting or within call,
used to spend at least half the day
in the depths of their kitchen, arrayed
in dainty print dresses and big ging-
ham aprons, only going up stairs
when the cupboard shelves were
loaded down with deftly browned
loaves of cake and rows of flaky pies.
The “girls,” which was the proper
term for housemaids, were superflu<
ous these mornings, except as hum.
ble helpers and fetehers of wood, wa-
ter and concomitants. ‘fBaking day”
was the supreme weekly event in the
households that were households.
Nowadays, save in the most old-fash-
ioned of families, the kitchen maid
has her kitchen to herself on Satur-
days quite as much as on any other
day of the week.
This has resulted in the almost com-
plete disappearance. of the rich and
solid while light cakes of many sorts
that formerly every good housewife
thought necessary to keep up the rep-
utation of her establishment. It has
made the once fashionable flaky pies
that were feminine. accomplishments
quite as much as French and dancing
disappear completely. And the ban-
ishment of “baking day” is responsi-
ble for the ending of a function that
was at one time well nigh universal—-
the 01d Sunday “tea,” which was ver-
itably a tea, and consisted of a cold
dish or two, fragrant Oolong or Sou-
chong and heaps of sweet goodies ga-
lore, oblong silver cake-baskets piled
with wedges of flaky cake, preserves,
jellies, hot biscuits and pickles.
There may be some towns in the
country where the old-fashioned bak-
ing still goes on, and Sunday tea is
still what it used to be. but these
places are few. It is no longer the
fashion for the mistress of a house-
hold to be prepared and able to make
the delightful old dishes her grand-
mother was an expert at. The major-
ity of these delicacies are beginning
to be lost in oblivion nowadays. The
cook-books and tons of recipes that
find their way into print do not con-
cern themselves with this lost section
of American cookery. They deal with
the sauces, the dressings, the garnish-
ings, and the meats of European
chefs, ’but they leave out the rich,
creamy flakiuess of the 01d pics and
cakes.
Cakes and pies, too, have somehow
come to be merely lncidentals of a
meal instead of the staple features
they used to be. The old-time rules
and recipes, {the quantity of ‘cggs,
cream, sugar and butter they called
for, would certainly shock any house-
keeper of today. These articles were
thrown in with a lavish hand and an
implicit faith in the infallibilty of the
“rule.” Housewives were not infre-
quent in those days who‘made ten to
fifteen pies and as many loaves of
cake in a single morning. While the
full glory of “baking day” was re-
flected Sunday night, and the richest
loaves and the finest preserves were
set forth then for the visitors who
were always there, the supply never-
theless was planned to last the whole
week through. Especially was this
the case in the suburbs, to which city
folks used frequently to journey on
the first day of the week to see their
relatives and friends, and when a
marriageable girl of any popularity
was sure to have four or five of her
best young men drop in late Sunday
afternoon with the full expectation of
being asked to “tea.” Nor did the in-
vitation ever fail to come, and many
a Jack proposed marriage to Jill af-
ter being hypnotized by her mamma’s
cooking.
MODERN PROVERBS
Merit causes envy in the base, and
emulation in the noble. '
He who agrees with us is a wise
fellow and well instructed.
Before you become «angry, try to
find a reason for not being so.
It is the acme of good breeding to
respect a feeling we do not share.
The foolish man strives for the good
opinion of others, a yvise man for his
own.
Learn to imitate the virtues of your
enemies rather than the faults of your
friends.
He who suffers without cause is
more fortunate than he who causes
suffering. '
The woman who banishes Delicacy
often becomes accomplice to the mur-
der of Innocence.
Forgiveness is Heaven-sent balm
that has been known to cure even the
wounds of self-love.
Self-love, like the Serpent in Cleo-
patra’s flowers and fruit, often lies
hidden among the motives of our best
actions.
He who makes an assertion with-
out sufficient data, or upon hearsay, is
apt 'to breed up a wolf that may some
day turn upon and injure himself.
Errors in religion may cause pity,
but never excite anger in a wise man.
Take a torch in your hand and try
to examine the stars by Iits light, and
you will understand how near the fi-
n-ite mind comes to penetrating the in-
finite.
r . of the Bay State has three distinct move-
g ments which, in combination, clean it
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thoroughly, quickly and economically.
Many furnace grates are intricate and com-
pleX. We have succeeded in getting the
result with simple mechanical movements,
and say without hesitation that it is the
best furnace grate made. It is expensive
to construct, but it will outlast two or three
ordinary grates. Consult your local dealer.
BARSTOW STOVE C0.
228 Water St., NEW YORK
FOUNDRIES—Providence, R. I.
BOSTON OFFICE—56 Union St.
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