Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1899 — Page 1

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PARIS WAR CRY 1 FRANCE ON THE EVE OF CnilS THAT MAY ENGULF THE STATE. Critical Si Imi I ion Recall* tlie Tnrbnleut Demoimlrationa in the Days of Bonlanuerisni. THE REPUBLIC THREATENED > POPULAR DEMAND OF PARTIES FOR CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION. Radically Different Reform* That Would Be Proponed in a Vcrnaillc* Convention. VICTOR BONAPARTE'S CHANCE THE PRETENDER SUGGESTED AS NEXT POSSIBLE EMPEROR. 4__ Evidence that Rimnia. I* Crowding Her Navy and Land Preparation* •-Other Foreign Ntiv*. Special to the Globe-Democrat. PARIS, Jan. B.—Not since the most critical days of Boulangerism can I recall such a degree of universal uneasiness and alarm as that which prevails here at the present moment. A few days ago I cabled to the Globe-Democrat how the government had actually gone to the length of warning the Agents de Change, or corporation of official stock brokers, to devote all their efforts toward the restriction, for the present, of speculative operations, in view of the unsettled state of affairs at home and the cloudy outlook abroad; and I mentioned that matters must be terribly serious to warrant the Cabinet in thus sounding the note of alarm. Inasmuch as the circular issued on the strength of this warning on the part of the government was not published here, but merely Issued in tlio form of a letter from the various Agents de Change to their customers, some doubt may have been entertained as to the authenticity of the news, since at first sight it seems almost beyond belief that the government should issue any such warning. But any doubt about the matter will he removed by the sensational announcement made last night to the effect that within the last fortnight nearly SIOO,000,000 have been withdrawn by small investors from the savings banks in consequence of the alarm felt concerning the unsettled condition of affairs at home and abroad. I have also mentioned in these dispatches the significant action of the Russian government in transferring most of the funds that were on deposit here across the channel to London.

And now most ominous of all signs, the war cry of the Boulanger party, namely, the demand for the revision of the constitution, is heard again. The demand for the revision of the constitution enabled General Boulanger, vulgar adventurer and poltroon though he showed himself to be, to come within an ace of upsetting the republic at a moment when 100 per cent, stronger than it is to-day. when it still possessed prestige, and had not been so terribly discredited both at home and abroad. At that time, too, it was only the followers of General Boulanger and a certain number of the monarchists who were clamoring for a revision of the constitution. To-day practically everybody has taken up the cry, it being universally agreed that the present constitution Is altogether inadequate and is responsible for the existhig unfortunate state of affairs, which, as long as the constitution remains unaltered, is calculated to go on from bad to worse. All are agreed that a constituent assembly should be specially elected by direct vote of the entire people to deal wdth the question, that is to say, to amend the constitution. But here the unity upon the subject ends, and it is difficult to find any two politicians who are agreed as to what form the revision of the constitution should assume. For instance. M. D’Audiflfret, leader of the Progressist group, which is composed of moderate Republicans of good birth, with conservative leanings, is in favor of increasing the powers of the President of the republic, and of diminishing the numbers of the deputies and senators. Ex-Minister Trouillot, who lias sat in the Brisson Cabinet and In several other Radical administrations, whllo strongly advocating the revision of the constitution of 1575 as becoming less and less adapted to the interests of the country, is strongly opposed to increasing the presidential i>owers, declaring that if Frame were to have a constitutional king it was useless to talk of being a republic. M. Merlou, another Radical leader, advocates the suppression of the presidency altogether. The out-and-out monarchists are in favor of revision, but don't conceal their intention of using it to replace the President by either a King or an Emperor. Another politician with whom I discussed the subject expressed himself in favor of a plan whereby only the prime minister should belong to the Chamber of Senate, all other Cabinet ministers being chosen from outside the legislative bodies, as in Germany and Austria. This, my friend declared. would put an end to all the lobby intrigues, which often subordinate political questions to ministerial combinations. Even President Faure Is asserted to be strongly in favor of revision, declaring that without a sufficient degree of power to correspond with the responsibility 4 which he bears in the eyes of the people at home and abroad hi? position is intolerable. I* rom this it will be seen that everybody §1 In favor of revision—lVlme Minister Dupuy, most of all, since he has for the past ten years had the presidential bee in his bonnet, and been longing for an opportunity to supplant Felix Faure, whose rival he was at the last presidential election. lie Imagines that if he maneuvers the revision well it may result in his own election. Revision has, therefore, become the order of the day. and while It is useless to look for any monarchical coup d’etat, or revolutionary rising, a political proclamation countersigned by the premier, dissolving the Legislature and summoning a constituent assembly to assemble at Versailles for the purpose of amending the constitution of 1*75 may be looked for at an early moment. Such a proclamation would be hailed with satisfaction by all and would be a popular move on the part of the present Cabinet, which by its foreign as well as its domestic policy, is rapidly losing prestige. But no man can tell what would bo the result of the

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constituent assembly. It is difficult for any unprejudiced and careful observer to see how, with the numerous views, each so divergent from the other, a majority can be obtained on any question that is brought before it, and the presumption in consequence is that it will result in chaos, from which the only outcome will be either a pacific vote in favor of Prince Victor Bonaparte, or else a rising, popular, as w r ell as a military, vote in his favor, the prince being now regarded as the only possible pretender to the throne. It will therefore he seen that France is on the eve of a great crisis, not without analogy to that which she traversed one hundred years ago, and which culminated, as this one is likely to result—namely, in the establishment of a Bonaparte on the throne of France as an Emperor by the will of the French people. RUSSIA'S WAR PREPARATIONS. No Evidence that the Cmr Think* of Dlanrmamrnt. LONDON, Jan. 9.—The Sebastopol correspondent of the Times, who has been touring in European Russia for two months to discover if possible some evidence on the part of the Russian government to give effect to the disarmament proposals of Emperor Nicholas, says all his observations were quite to the contrary. The correspondent says: “At the naval dock yards I found feverish activity. Not a man has been withdrawn from the frontiers. The ministers of war and marine have been inspecting all the important military and naval stations, urging an acceleration of the preparations for defense, but apparently never mentioning the Czar’s manifesto. The number of men enrolled in the army and navy during the months of October and November last were larger than ever. Reinforcements are being sent to the far East as fast as they can be transported, and all the garrisons along the Russo-Turkish frontier are being largely increased.” SENOR SAGASTA’S PLANS. Expected to Postpone the Unbinet Cri*l* by Queen'* Help. MADRID, Jan. B.—The partisans of the government believe that Senor Sagasta will again endeavor to postpone the Cabinet crisis by suggesting to the Queen Regent that she use her constitutional powers to ratify the treaty, when the American Senate shall have ratified it, and then convoke the present Cortes at the beginning of February, in which event Sonor Sagasta would form a Weylerist Cabinet and reconstruct his party. Senor Sagasta went for a drive to-day. A dispatch received from Havana says that all the Spanish soldiers have now left the island.

SpaniNh Troop* Home Again. LISBON, Jan. B.—Three steamers arrived to-day from Cuba, bringing 5,300 repatriated Spanish troops. ~ 4 CONVINCED OF DREYFUS’S GUILT. Court of Cu**ation Said io Believe Sentence Wa* Just. PARIS, Jan. B.—Le Soir says It learns from an indisputable source that the Court of Cassation is convinced that Dreylus was justly condemned. M. Quesney de Baurepairo, president of a section of the Court of Cassation, has resigned his position in consequence of a disagreement regarding the Dreyfus inquiry. M. Beaurepaire resolutely declines to assign tire motive for his resignation, which remains a mystery, but it Is believed that he is angry at the government's treatment of the affair. According to the Matin this morning M.adame Dreyfus has received a eublegrar. from her husband, saying his heait t is perfect. physically and morally. l/jNDON, Jan. 9.—The Daily Telegraph publishes this morning a dispatch from Cayenne, capital of French Guiana, confirming the report forwarded last Friday that Dreyfus had a serious attack of dysentery and that a physician was summoned from Cayenne to Devil’s island to attend him. Cause of Count Karolyi’* Suicide. LONDON, Jan. B.—lt appears that Count Franz Karolyi, late attache of the AustroHungarian embassy in London, who committed suicide in his apartments in Piccadilly on Friday night, wrote a letter to Count Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein, counselor to the Austro-Hungarian legation, on Friday, intimating his intention of committing suicide, but giving no reason. His colleagues believe that neither monetary difficulties nor disappointment in love, but ill health led him to the act. He had been weak from infancy, and suffered from spinal and lung troubles. Count Franz was the nephew, not the son, as originally cabled, of the former Austro-Hungarian ambassador at Berlin, the late Count Aloys Karolyi. The young man was attached to the AustroHungarian legation at St. Petersburg before he was transferred to London. London Time* Chuckle*. LONDON, Jan. 9.-r-The Times says editorially tills morning: “The announcement by the United States minister to China (Edwin H. Conger) of a satisfactory issue of tile Shanghai question is doubly welcome, for it assures us that we have secured a point of considerable importance to our commercial and other interests in Shanghai, and that we have secured it by the cooperation of a power whose friendship we especially prize. Other nations in Europe and Asia will not be slow to appreciate the meaning of our success, and we may hope that the powers interested will exert pressure at Peking to get an immediate extension of the general settlement at Shanghai.” Irish Fu*lleer>* for Khartum. LONDON, Jan. 9.—A dispatch from Alexandria, Egypt, announces that 250 men of the Irish Fusileers have been ordered to Khartum. As the Sudan lias hitherto been garrisoned only by native troops the step is variously interpreted. According to a dispatch to the Daily News from Cairo Gen. Lord Kitchener, the sirdar, has decided to send a strong expedition against Khalifa Abdullah, who is now- in Darfur with a large force of Dervishes and has been taking the aggressive against the local tribesmen, (astcllnne Sue* an Editor. Jan. B.—Count Boni de Castellane, member of the Chamber of Deputies from the Castellane district of the lower Alps, who married Miss Anna Gould, will institute proceedings against the lyes Droits De L'Hommo for asserting that, in consequence of a quarrel regarding an actress, he recently fought a duel with M. Paul Deroulede, founder of the Patriotic League and meml>er of the Chamber of Deputies from the Angouleme division of Charente. Lucie Sam'* Duty. LONDON, Jan. 9—The Daily Chronicle says this morning that the United Slates government ought to demand of Spain the pardon of Col Julison San Martin, who has been sentenced to Imprisonment for life at Ceuta, the Spanish penal colony in Morocco, for abandoning Ponce, Porto Rico, where he was in command of the Spanish troops when the tlnited States forces under General Miles landed in Porto Rico. Socialist Riot In Fere I.a Chn!*e. PARIS, Jan. B.—The Socialist annual pilgrimage to-day to the tomb of Blanqul, in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, led to riots between the rival partisans of Henri Rochefort. editor of the Intransigent, and M. (Coutiuucd on Second Page.)

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1899.

GAVE HIS LIFE THAT UNITED STATES MIGHT RE WARNED IN TIME ON HAVANA. Abstract of the Lute Col. Waring'* Report Showing Alarming Condition of Cuban Cnpital. ■ -♦ TOWN A SINKHOLE OF FILTH BUZZARDS FEED IN THE STREETS ON CARCASSES OF ANIMALS. Overflow from Vnnlt* Ran* in the Gutter* and Atmosphere Laden with Deadly Effluvia. $10 : 000,000 HOUSE CLEANING EXPENDITURE NECESSARY TO STAMP OUT ROTTEN CONDITIONS. Hon*e* Need Overhauling and Closet* Removed to Prevent Spread of Yellow Fever to This Country. WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—The War Department, division of customs and insular affairs, made public to-day a very full synopsis of the late Colonel George A. Waring’s report of his visit to Havana under the special instructions of the War Department, given him early last autumn, to inspect thoroughly the sanitary condition of the city and to make such recommendations for the future improvement of the town as might be suggested by said inspection. Col. Waring says he found the street cleaning without adequate organization or funds and the markets offensive and dangerously filthy for the distribution of human food, with the exception of two, the Tacon and Colon markets. He also found the machinery used for sweeping the streets ineffective, the garbage being thrown into the streets in entire disregard of the ordinances requiring it to be set out in proper receptacles. The work of the contractor was all done in the latter part of the night and absolutely in the dark. Any obscure sidewalk was freely used for purposes of unloading and no attempt seemed to have been made to cover or remove the rubbish. Foul pools were found in the streets, into which rubbish and filth had been deposited. which the contractor was not required to clean. This filth was turned over to the buzzards. Some of the streets in the compact part of the city are paved with large stone blocks, others with Belgian blocks and the remainder are unpaved. Those streets are filled with dirty holes, which in turn are filled up with house garbage. There is practically no sewerage- In many eases householders connect their private vaults with loose brick or stone drains just under the pavement along their frontage. These allow the liquid tilth to leak out into the ground close to the surface, enabling the householder to get out of much hiring of night scavengers to bail out and carry away accumulations.

Slaughtering pens, while superficially clean, are brutally disgusting while the work is going on. Blood and offal arc washed by copious floodings from the water supply into an adjoining creek and harbor reeking with putrid filth. There is no systematic disposal of garbage and sweepings. It is deposited on the surface in and near the town, where the buzzards feast on it to their full satisfaction. Dead dogs, cats and chickens are left in the streets until the buzzards piek them to the skeleton. Aral all this is done under an intense sun. DISGUSTING FILTH IN HOUSES. Bad as these conditions are, they are not comparable with the disgusting conditions of the domestic life. There are fewer than twenty thousand houses in the city. Sixteen thousand are of one story, two hundred are of three stories, and a very few are of four stories, and none higher. At least twelve out of every thirteen of the inhabitants live in one-story houses, the total population being over two hundred thousand. The average population of the houses is over ten. In all the compactly-built parts of the city the entire lot Is covered with the house, there being one or two courts included in the building. In the better class of houses the entrance hall is quite commGnly the standing room of the carriage. It opens Into a parlor at its side and into the reception room at its rear. Beyond this is a court, then the dining room, then a smaller court, the kitchen, stable and private vault, practically all in one. Sleeping rooms are In the rear of the parlor and at the side of the court dining room. The conspicuous feature of every house Is the private vault, and sometimes a second vault for kitchen wastes. These vaults occupy a space practically under and almost in the kitchen. It is rare indeed that these vaults have a ventilating pipe, so that they belch forth nauseating odors throughout the house and pervade the streets. Lest tho conditions above set forth should fail to do their appointed w'ork of destruction the broad marshes at the southerly edge of the harbor are at hand to furnish their quota of malaria. Into these marches flow’ a number of water courses which bear on their surface the offscourings of a very poor quarter of the town, the effluents of the slaughtering pens and of other foul establishments, while a large portion of the flat is used as a dumping ground for garbage. The water supply of Havana, says Mr. Waring, is of the purest and most excellent character. This, with the winds of the gulf, save the city from being absolutely and unqualifiedly bad. The city is a veritable plague spot. Its own people, largely immune though they are to yellow fever, which has prevailed in Havana without interruption for one hundred and sixty-three years, fall constant victims to the pernicious malaria and depressing influences to which they are always subjected. It needs only the immigration of fresh material, which the enterprise of an American population is sure to bring, to create a sacrifice such as has not yet been known. Commerce, says Colonel Waring, will carry the terrible scourge of yellow' fever to our shores, until we rise again in a war of humanity and at all costs, wipe out an enemy with which no military valor can cope. A TIMELY WARNING. In conclusion Colonel Waring says: “Would It not be wise to accept at once the fact that we are confronted with a danger compared with which war is insignificant and proceed to meet it and conquer it while we may? We cannot afford to wait until we have fed it and strengthened it with the lives of our people. The necessary reforms will call for

costly works even now. But every month’s delay will make them more costly and more imperative. We can set Rbout these reforms now calmly and judiciously. under the impulse of panic, we should work at far greater disadvantage.” Colonel Waring suggests the following improvements as absolutely essential to make Havana a healthy city: First—Organize immediately a department of public cleaning, under the full control of a singlo commissioner experienced in the conduct of such work and with authority to do all that the occasion may require. This department, Colonel Waring urges, should have for its chief function the maintaining of a constant state of cleanliness in all streets and public piaces, in all public buildings and places of public resort and in all public markets and abattoirs. It should also control the disposal of all wastes, except sewage, by cremation and otherwise. Second—Construct a system of sewers to receive the liquid wastes of all houses of the main city as far as Balascoain. These sewers should serve separately the different districts into which the various slopes divide them, and each should discharge directly either Into the gulf or harbor, as the case may be. Before such is discharged the effluent should be clarified by one of the wellknown methods, so it would carry only its dissolved impurities. The amount of sea water flowing into and out of the harbor at each tide Is about three thousand times that of a day's discharge of the clarified sewage of the harbor slope of the city, so that the dilution will be immediate and more than complete. Third—Fill up all the private and kitchen waste vaults and supply every house w’ith an adequate water closet connected with the public sewerage system. The closets so furnished should be only what is adequate and necessary for the purposes no*v served by the vaults, anything beyond this t:> be put in by the householder, under proper supervision, at his own cost. Fourth—Pave or repave all the streets in the best manner with asphaltum. Fifth Provide a completely appointed abattoir for large and small animals, adequate for all the needs of the population. Sixth—Provide a suitable and sufficient incinerating furnace for the complete and inoffensive destruction of garbage and other refuse, including street sweepings; also of all dead animals, including horses and oxen. RECLAIM ALL THE MARSHES. Seventh—Reclaim all the marshes, at least those between Calzada de Viver and Regia (about 500 acres), which will involve the care of the drainage from about 050 acres. This reclamation to be made after the "Polder” method of Holland, by diking out the harbor and the water courses and moving the water by pumping. Eighth—Establish an electric power pl?nt sufficient for this pumping, for pumping sewage where necessary and for propeling the machinery of the abattoir; say, three hundred horse-power in all. Colonel Waring states that it is r.ot possible from the data now available, to estimate the coat of all the work indicated above more nearly than to say that it will not exceed $10,000,000. It has been estimated, continues Colonel Waring, that single epidemics introduced into the United States from Havana have cost, in the Mississippi valley alone, $100,000,000 in loss to industries and to commerce, aside from the loss of life, amounting in 1878 and 1879 to 13,911, In addition to the enormous cost of the sickness of those who recovered. Colonel Waring further states that in his judgment the complete execution of the work above indicated would completely eradicate yellow fever from Havana for all time; would relieve it from the malaria which is now so fatal, and would reduce its normal death rate from its present high figure (not far from fifty per thousand) to about twenty per thousand. He says if these improvements are to be made there must be no delay and no half-way measures. All that is indicated must be done in the best and most complete manner, and it must all he done before June 1, 1859. Ts it is not all done, there is every reason to fear that yellow fever will be rife in Havana next season, because of the large number of unprotected persons, who would go there, trusting to the efficiency of the partial carrying out of the work. The mortality of the city of Havana for the week ending Oct. 6. 1898, was 536, an annual rate of 139.36 per thousand.

YELLOW PEVF.R SPREADING. Inspector Donne, of Hatnua, Stricken and House Isolated. HAVANA, Jan. B.—This morning two large Spanish flags appeared over the Clerks’ and tho Asturtanos Clubs, facing the principal plaza. Their appearance created considerable adverse comment among tho Cubans, who, it is said, requested Governor General Brooke to have the flags removed. No action was taken in the matter at headquarters, where it is generally conceded that Spanish flags may float as well as those of other nationalities. To-day Gen. Brooke appointed Colonel Tasker H. Bliss, collector of customs at Havana, to be secretary of tho Treasury Department, subject to confirmation by Washington. Colonel Bliss will begin his new duties to-morrow. Surgeon General Sternberg has recommended the old Spanish camp known as Las Animas as the best site for a yellow fever hospital for the United States troops. The proposed site is about two miles from the city, on the heights of Jesus. Inspector Doane, who was sent here by the secretary of w r ar to act as inspector of customs, has boon sick since Wednesday. Yesterday morning he was visited by Surgeon General Sternberg and other medical men, who diagnosed the case as yellow fever, already well advanced. The house was immediately Isolated. Inspector Doane, who was formerly in the New York custom house, had been attended by Dr. C. C. Jolifife. The latter is a discharged army contract surgeon, who came saying that he would establish a hospital. Dr. Joliffe was arrested yesterday afternoon by the United States authorities and locked up on a charge of practicing without a license, unlawfully wearing the United States uniform and failing to report that Doane’s case was contagious. General Brooke and staff moved headquarters to-day to the Hotel Trocha. The battalion of the Second South Carolina Regiment which has been at Morro Castle, went yesterday to Buena Vista, about nine miles out, passing the night in the rain and entirely without shelter because of the lack of preparations to receive the men at camp. SUICIDE OF EMBEZZLER. Francis Driinner Hanged Himself in Jail at Trenton, V .1. TRENTON, N. J., Jan. B.—Francis Brunner, who was arrested last night on a charge of embezzlement, committed suicide in a cell at the second precinct police station. Brunner hanged himself by tying a handkerchief around his neck and fastening it to the iron bars of the cell door. He was not discovered until life was extinct. Brunner was treasurer of the Soldiers - Germania Society, and at a meeting of the society last night he made a statement that there was no money in the treasury. He was told that the books of the society showed that ho should have S4OO on hands and he was asked to make the umount good. Brunner did not make the amount good, and as a result he was arrested on a charge of embezzlement preferred by the society's president.

CANNED BEEF ' ITS NUTRITIVE VALUE NOW BECOMES A NATIONAL QUESTION. Feared nt Washington that Foreign anil Domestic Trade Mny Suffer from Recent Disclosures. SECRETARY WILSON AROUSED TIMELY STATEMENT SECI RED FROM SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS. I’rof. AV. O. Atwater’s Extended Investigation to Show the High A nlue of Canned Food*. RANK OF PRESERVED MEATS AIORE NUTRIMENT TO THE POIND THAN IN THE FRESH ARTICLE. Manner of Preparation Shown to Be Such a* to Insure AA lioteoine Condition of the Product. WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—ln vieW of the statements which have gained wide circulation regarding the nutritive value of American canned meats, tending to injure foreign and domestic trade in these goods. Secretary Wilson has called on the director of the office of experiment stations for a statement of the conclusions of scientific experts on this matter. This statement is as follows: “The high, nutritive value of American canned meats has been established repeatedly by thorough and impartial tests, conducted by scientific experts. Some years ago Dr. W. O. Atwater, professor of chemistry at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., began extended investigation of the nutritive value of foods. Later this work w T as continued by the Department of Agriculture, with funds appropriated by Congress for the purpose, the investigation being assigned to the office of experiment stations and Professor Atwater’s services secured as special agent in charge. These investigations are still In progress and a large amount of information has been secured and the results published in the form of bulletins. Educational, philanthropic and other Institutions throughout the country have co-operated in this work.

“The food problem has been very carefully studied in Europe. Koenig, Rubner, Etinger, StutzoE, Gautier, Fassbender, Solntzer and other eminent authorities have made such investigations in France, Germany, Russia and other European countries. The value of different foods for men engaged in ordinary occupations, for soldiers in times of peace and war and persons in various other conditions of life, has been studied. A part of these investigations in America and abroad has had to do with meats fresh and preserved. In a communication to this department Professor Atwater says: “ ‘lt is unfortunate that the public at large has so little appreciation of the nutritive value of canned meats. They are really cooked meats divested of the inedible portions, bone, gristle, etc., w hich are found in fresh meats. In the cooking and canning, which is of the nature of boiling, rather than roasting, water is expelled, but the amount of nutritive material removed is very small, indeed, so that a pound of ordinary canned meat has, en the average, much more nutriment than the same weight of the fresh meat from which it is prepared. The removal of the bone and part of the water, while so little nutriment is taken away, leaves the meat in a less bulky and more concentrated form, so that, pound for pound, the canned meat has a higher nutritive value than the fresh meat. In a large number of analyses of fresh and canned meat collected at Chicago during the world’s fair and in other parts of the country before and since that time, and analyzed under my direction, the proportions of the nutritive ingredients in the canned meats have been found to be larger than in the ordinary fresh meats. This is especially true of the protein compounds, which arc used by the body to build up its nitrogenous materials, as blood, muscle and bone. Among the analyses referred to some of the largest proportions of protein were found in the boiled meats. Such prepared meats, made of good material and properly canned or otherwise preserved, are worthy of the very high esteem in which they have long been held.’ “The charge of inferior nutritive value, when applied to properly canned meats, needs only investigation for its refutation. The experience of almost every family has shown that such articles are satisfactory foods. Man requires four classes of food ingredients for the proper maintenance or life: (1) Protein or nitrogenous matter, as found in the lean of meat, casein (curd) of milk, gluten of wheat; <2> carbohydrates, as sugar, starch and allied substances; (3) fat, as butter, fat of meats, etc., and (4) mineral matter, such as phosphates and other salts, is also required. Meat is one of the chief sources of protein in the daily food. As shown by chemical analysis it is composed of water, protein or nitrogenous matter, fat and a small percentage of mineral matter. The nitrogenous matter is ruade up very largely of myosin, the basis of muscle. Meat contains also a small percentage of albumen, which is extracted by cold water, but is coagulated by heat. This and a small proportion of other nitrogenous substances and mineral matters, are practically all which can be extracted by water. If meat is plunged into boiling water when cooked, as is commonly done in canning, extremely little can be extracted. "In preparing the meat for canning large pieces are put in vats of boiling water and thus cooked. This softens the meat, makes it more tender and facilitates the separation of bone and gristle. After these are removed the meat is cut into pieces of proper size for the can. 'The top is then soldered on the can. but a small hole is left, through which air and steam escape in the heating of the can which follow's. This heating also kills the bacteria. The hole Is then closed by a drop of melted solder, and the can is hermetically sealed. The cans are then tested to see whether this handling has been done so as to protect the meat from deterioration. To this end they are kept in a warm room for a number of days. If the bacteria have not heen killed the meat will decompose, gases will be produced and the cans will swell. The number of cans that swell and thus indicate imperfect handling is said to average about onefourth of 1 per cent. The meat in them is thrown into the waste heap with the intestines and other meat refuse, and made into fertilizers. By' this common manufacturing process It would be impossible to re-

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move from the meat which goes into the cans any considerable part of the actual nutriment. “The chief difference between the meat as prepared in this way and that ordinarily cooked in the household is that the canned moat does not contain the bone and gristle, which are not edible. The averages of the analyses of American meat products nowavailable give percentages of protein in fresh beef rump 14.6 per cent., tenderloin 15.6 per cent, and other cuts not far from the same amount. The averages for canned beef are: Boiled beef 24 per cent, and canned beef 26 per cent. The proportions of fat in the canned meats analyzed was relatively smaller, doubtless because the leaner meat was used for canning. The value of meat, as of other food, for nourishment depends on its digestibility, that is, on the proportion of nutritive material that is absorbed from the digestive tract during its passage through the body. Numerous tests have been made of the digestibility of fresh meats as ordinarily cooked for eating The number of experiments made, with canned meats Is smaller, but there is no reason to assume any considerable difference between the two. Nearly all the protein of beef as it is ordinarily eaten Is digested and assimilated by the system. The high nutritive value of properly cooked canned meat is therefore well settled by accurate experiment. “In the great stock yards in Chicago, Kansas City and elsew-here, where nearly all of the canned meat is put up, all the meat is inspected on the hoof and at the time of slaughtering by government experts, who are on the ground all the time, and without whose examination not an animal is killed, and no shipment of meat can be made without violation of government regulations. This is guarantee for the quality of the meat, whether fresh or canned.” PORTO RICAN RATIO:.*., Letter from Lieut. Col. Smith in I)t----fense of the Beef. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.-Commissary General Eagan, of the army, to-day made public a letter from Lieutenant Colonel A. L. Smith, of the subsistence department, touching the use of refrigerated beef furnished to troops in Porto Rico from that landed at Ponce. In this letter Colonel Smitli says in part: “Among others to whom the refrigerated beef was issued, I remember tlie following officers as having spoken of the immense superiority of It over the native beef: Major H. P. Birmingham, surgeon of the general hospital; Captain Irvine, Eleventh Infantry, who was acting as commissary for the steamship Panama (I think), loaded with convalescents en route to the United States; Captain W. P. Evans, commanding battalion, Nineteenth Infantry; Captain Hoppin, Second Cavalry, commanding cavalry squadron. “There were no preparations made for the receiving and taking care of the beef on shore. It had to be unloaded by lighters and thrown on the floor of the commissary storehouse until the troops called for it in open wagons. It was therefore subjected to the worst possible usage in handling. It was frequently twelve to eighteen hours off the vessel before being issued. One issue to Captain Iloppin was over twenty-four hours in the storehouse. Notwithstanding this the meat was in good condition, except pieces which had not been sufficiently protected, but could be trimmed off with some loss. I inspected the refrigerator beef each morning before it was issued, and know that it w-as in good condition except as stated above. Cases where it was rejected were, I think, due to the prejudice arising from the appearance when out of the refrigerator a short time, and to the fact tljat it was known the beef had been a long time on the vessel in Porto Rican waters. The officers, without exception, to whom I spoke condemned the use of the native beef, which had to be consumed the same day it was slaughtered.” Colonel Smith also lias the following to say about rations for the soldiers: “1 further beg to call your attention to the fact that with the exception of soap and candles lor two or three days there was never a time after my arrival when the main storehouse at Ponce could not issue the complete ration, fresh vegetables not Included. These spoiled so rapidly that it was deemed best to commute the ration of them for several weeks, and give the troops the money value to buy other articles. Coarse salt was issued in lieu of line on one or two occasions. Commissary stores had been so unsystematically unloaded and stored at Ponce that it was hard to tell what articles were, on hand in the island in sufficient quantity to provide for the wants of the soldiers.

“I further beg to call your attention to the receipts filed with my July and August returns in your office from the commissary officer of each artillery, cavalry and infantry command, which loft Port Tampa for Porto Rico up to Aug. 18, with sixty days’ rations. These receipts will show r that complete rations w r ere furnished to every vessel with the exception of a small portion of the fresh vegetables, that it was well known could not keep sixty days. “I further state that about 10 a. m. Oct. 10, on taking leave of General Henry, commanding United States troops at Ponce, he requested me, among other things, to say to the honorable secretary of war on my arrival in Washington, that the rations furnished to the troops in Porto Rico were abundant in quantity and excellent in quality;” Colonel Smith was on duty at Ponce from Aug. 25 until Oct. 11, when he was ordered to Havana. A MOUNTAIN FALLS. Hundred* of Acre* glide Into Frazer River, Changing It* Course. VANCOUVER, B. C\, Jan. B. News was received here to-day of a tremendous landslide near Spencer Bridge, on the Canadian Pacific Railway. The recent thaw had the effect of loosening the sides of a small mountain, which overhangs the Frazer river at that point. This mountain has long been an object of curiosity to travelers on account of its peculiar position, its flat summit extending a considerable distance over the river, which is narrow at that point. Shortly after midnight last night, with a roar that could be heard for over a mile, fully a hunderd acres of the hill, anywhere from twenty to fifty feet in depth, crashed into the Frazer, damming it completely and sending the water in torrents over the fertile Nicola valley. The course of the river was changed completely. Now the Frazer, which, owing to the flat nature of the country, has grown into a broad, majestic but shallow stream, is fully half a mile out of its course. The district is sparsely settled and no lives have been lost, so far as known. Barns and houses, however, were caught In the flood and carried away, and thousands of acres of valuable land will never be leclaimed from the muddy waters of the Frazer In its r.ew course. At the point where the masses of earth dammed up the river flat ice has gathered and raised high Into the air, forming an imposing and picturesque sight. The collapsed mountain presents a queer aspect. It looks as If dynamite had been discharged near its ragged summit. Thoroughbred* llnve the Grip. LEXINGTON, Ky.. Jan. B.—An epidemic of grip has broken out to an alarming extent among tine horses of this section. Thoroughbreds especially are suffering, and many valuable mates are dropping Uisir foals on account of it.

SECRET NEWS IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO AVAR DEPARTMENT FROM MANILA Resulted In Immediate fonfercnco Between President and Seeretaries Alger and Long. ♦ THE SITUATION AT ILOILO STREETS BARRICADED A\D 111 ILD—TAGS READY FOR THE MATCH. ItnukM Shipping: Ont Their Tren*urcN unit Alee Consul’* Family on Board the Newport. THE INSURGENTS DEFIANT * WILL FIRE THE C ITY AT FIRST SHOT FIIOM THE GIN’BOATS. President McKinley’s Proeln mntioig Received with Ridicule When It Was Head.

WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—The War Depart* irent received another dispatch to-day from Major General Otis, commanding the United States troops in the Philippines. The oflieials observe unusual reticence with respect to its contents, but it is understood that the Information contained is not of an unfavorable character or such as to giva undue concern to the administration. So far as the officials are willing to admit tha dispatch shows no material change in tha conditions existing at the time of previous advices. One Cabinet officer to-night saidl it contained nothing of a character alarming, serious or exciting. There had been no collisions with the insurgents, he added, and not a shot had been tired. The dispatch, however, is believed to have been of sufficient importance to bring to tho immediate attention of the President, and the latter. Secretary Algor, Secretary Long and Adjutant General Corbin were in conference for some time at the White House during tha afternoon, presumably on that matter. Tha President’s proclamation to the Filipinos had been published in Manila, but General Otis did not say to what extent it had been made known to the inhabitants in the other parts of the group of islands, nor whether it had been published at Iloilo. At the latter place General Miller has been directed to land the troops under his command now _m the transports there, but the dispatch from General Otis did not indicate whether thia had been clone or not. THE TOWN “KEROSENED.” Insurgent* Will Burn Iloilo, oil Fir*t Shot from Gunboat*. MANILA, Jan. B.—Colonel Potter, tha special emissary of General Otis between Manila and Iloilo, arrived this afternoon with dispatches from the latter point. Tha situation when lie left there was practically* unchanged. The streets were barricaded, and it was reported that the principal buildings had been "kerosened,” the insurgents having threatened to destroy tha whole business section by fire at the first shot of bombardment. The banks were) shipping treasure to tho United States transport Newport and other vessels. The family of the American vice consul has gone on board (he Newport. Colonel Potter reports that President McKinley's. proclamation had to be typewritten aboard ship, as tho printers on shore declined to do the work, and when the texfi of the proclamation was read to them rbil* culed the notion that conciliation was possible. Privates Harry Silvey and Frank Kirkpatrick, of the Sixth United States Artillery, while guarding a water boat astern of the Newport were attacked by the natives of the crew. Private Siivey’s skull was fractured) fatally and Private Kirkpatrick fell overboard, but escaped with a llesh wound. The United States gunboat Petrel arrived at Iloilo on Friday, and Colonel Potter reports that tho United States troops will probably land on Guiamaras island, about midway between the Island of Panay and the Island of Negros, where a camp will bet established. There is no change in the situation hero* On Friday night public demonstrations were held in Pampangas province In. ratification of Aguinaldo’s proclamation, and the excitement was intense. All natives who enter tha city in the night time are searched, ami every other precaution is taken. Capt. Harlan McVay, assistant surgeon, was buried on Friday. Private William Rasch, Company M, Kansas Volunteers, id dead of the smallpox. S|mniartß Not Slaughtered. i G-KONG, Jan. B.—According to the s nts of people who have just arrived h com thf* Island of Balabac, south of t island of Palawan, there is no truth in the report that the Spaniards there have been massacred by the Filipinos. They say* the story is an Invention of priests to prejudice the Filipino cause, declaring also that there are not more than a half dozen Spaniards in the island, and that all who ha\a been killed fell in warfare. I’pnrrnlilf liiNurß'cnt*. MADRID, Jan. B.—Advices were received hero to-day from a leading merchant at Iloilo to the effect that agricultural operations in the vicinity of Iloilo have not been Interrupted, and that all the insurgents tespect the Europeans both at Iloilo and on the Island of Negros. General Weyler was given a second banquet yesterday by the military chiefs. CASTAWAYS RESCUED. Crew of the Glenhuntley Found on a South Atlantic Island. NEW YORK. Jan. B.—Capt. R. 11. Shaw and the crew of ten of the British .bark Glenhuntley, long given up for lost, ar# alive and well, and on their way to Liverpool. They abandoned tho Glenhuntley in a fierce gale on June 4, 1808. For 134 days tha eleven sailor men lived on Tristan d’Aeunha isle, more than 1,500 miles south by west of the Cape of Good Hope. They subsisted on penguin eggs and the llesh of sea eaglets, and shared with the seventy-two white inhabitants the scanty stock of provision* that the captain of a passing vessel could spare. After almost four months of such existence the British war ship Thrush, making tin annual voyage through the ttoutla Atlantic, rescued the castaways and late in November landed them at Simon’s hay. South Africa. A letter has been received i