EVERY WHERE.

EDITED BY WILL CARLETON.

FEBRUARY, 1908.

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WAS ENGLAND BUNCOED?

THERE has seldom been made a fun

nier treaty, than that of England with Japan, consummated some time ago. A clause in it was to the effect that either nation should help the other, if it became involved in a war.

In doing this, England of course had an eye to procuring the aid of Japan, in case she needed it: but had no idea that the possibility, much less the probability, would ever exist, of a tilt between Japan and United States.

This event now being threatened (although most people would like to see it averted), England finds herself in a quandary. It is next to impossible for her to fight us-she having so many things lying round within our reach, and so many other nations that would like to be our allies; and besides, her North American possessions are suffering from the same Japanese invasion as are ours.

It was a very adroit trick-this involving Great Britain in a possible future

war that would set her whole national anatomy at sixes and sevens: but of course she will get around it, and "modify" her agreement with the belligerent little Eastern nation, if necessary. She cannot very well do anything else, unless she wishes an upheaval that will change her destinies forever.

THE MARCH OF THE FLEET.

OUR battle-ships continue on their "winding way", patrolling the different parts of the ocean in which we are interested, as, presumably, they have a right to do. Some apprehensive Americans have held that the excursion means a war with Japan: but a parade is not a declaration of war. Because a pugilist takes it into his mind to stretch his legs, absorb a few breaths of fresh air, and walk around the block, it need not be supposed that he is going to fight, that day, or wants to, particularly. But the exercise makes him all the more ready for battle, when it comes: and renders all the more discouragement to his opponent.

The navy is an ocean-pugilist, and ready or supposed to be ready for fighting whenever there is need. It was not built as a series of show-places, dancingpavilions, or junketing-halls. If it stands for anything, it stands for a fight whenever the time comes. It is nothing if not active. If it lies in docks too long, it becomes rusty, as do also, by the way, officers and men.

The ambitious and belligerent old nation of the East, Japan, probably does not object to seeing our fleet in the Pacific Ocean: though it is difficult to discover what difference it would make, if she

should. Much of what she knows about

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and this tour of our war-vessels gives her a chance to learn more. Should she ever get into a fight with us, she will have still further opportunities for instruction, with illustrations 'n color.

There is no use, however, for supposing that the nation of yellow men is seeking a physical war with us. She is no more anxious to fight than we arenot so much so, if we were roused. She had rather conquer us if she could by commercial arts, and invade us by immigration.

It is claimed that there are a hundred thousand Japanese trained soldiers on our Pacific slope; that there are 10,000 in the Philippine Islands; and 50,000 in Hawaii. It is averred that there are in the aggregate more trained Japanese soldiers on American soil, than there are men in the whole standing army of United States.

If this prove true, and all these immigrants hold aloof from us and do not become naturalized American citizens, and if we have reason to believe that their sympathies are with their mother country, we must be ready to take immediate care of them, in case war should break out. We should organize all our able-bodied men into militia, as far as possible, and, while not requiring them to spend too much time away from their business, should expect them to know how to fight, if it should become necessary, "at the drop of the hat."

The march of the fleet demonstrates to the world that we have power on the sea: but there ought to be two more of equal or greater size: one for the Atlantic, and one for our colonial possessions. And we must have AN ARMY, even in time of peace.

papers, that "Cortelyou had resigned from the Cabinet, after a stormy interview with the President." His recent illness was alluded-to as "a fake", to excuse him for staying away from Cabinet-meetings.

The same papers soon after asserted that the Secretary of the Treasury had not resigned from the Cabinet; that his sickness was real, and not feigned; that he had been conducting the business of his Department, as well as he could at his own residence, although he had not attended Cabinet-meetings; and that he is not on bad terms with the President.

People have long learned to consider the "dailies" as indispensable: but many of them have also learned to have any amount of salt on hand with which to temper the statements they give.

Two newspaper-accounts of the same event, often are ludicrously unlike. Of course reporters see and hear things differently, report largely by telephone, and cannot always get things correctly. Under all the circumstances, it is wonderful that they get things as accurately as they do. And it is no wonder that they are all the time wrestling with suits for personal damages on account of misrepresentations-generally accidental and unintended. In these they help each other (having formed, it is said, a sort of insurancecompany for the purpose), and say very little if anything in their columns about their own or other journals' libel-suits.

Bless the daily papers!-we wouldn't do without them a morning or an evening, ife could. But it is well, in reading them, to have on hand that old title that used to be at the top of so many newsparagraphs in old-time papers, “Important, if true.".

IT

T would be interesting to know how many funerals there are, that do not really contain a corpse. Life-insurance companies are frequently defrauded by fictitious interments, and no doubt many people "get themselves buried", in order to disappear from their present surroundings, and start life over again, with a view to somehow making more profitable and comfortable their condition.

It was comforting to know that the late Duke of Portland was really buried, after all or at least that some one was-instead of a lot of sheet-iron: but no one knows exactly how much junk our cemeteries really hold.

THE FAMINE OF EXITS.

IT is bad enough to pack brute-beings

together in cattle-cars and other environments: but the limit is more than reached when men, women and children are thus treated, day after day and night after night, and submit to it.

Directly after a big and slaughterous theatre-fire, like that at the big Chicago "Iroquois", or the one in Brooklyn several years ago, a great rush of public indignation occurs, mingled with solicitude for future possible victims. New laws are passed concerning exits and other important stage- and hall-matters; particular attention is paid to the selection of janitors; and all goes well, that is to say, for a time.

But carelessness soon resumes its sway, all the lessons are forgotten, and these opera-house tragedies get themselves repeated again and again.

The writer of this knows of a building in New York, full of the most inflamable material; which has been there, much of it, a score of years, labelled as "curiosi

ties." Much of it is interesting to examine and study. But it has been growing dryer and dryer all these years, and little wonder would follow if a single mishap sent the whole thing into a blaze. It would be a pity to have such instructive curios destroyed in a few minutes, never more to be studied and brooded over by admiring throngs. And the place is not much more "fire-proof", than a box of matches.

But this does not come within a hundred miles of being the worst of it. In one of the upper rooms of the building, reached by devious and intricate stairways, is a box-like hall, where people are crowded in, day after day and hour after hour, to hear vaudeville and other showperformances. This goes on from the beginning of the afternoon to the end of the evening: again and again the crowds gather, and again and again they get away, safely: but the time may come when they will not.

This is only a specimen of what is going on at all the cities, in different forms and under various modifications. In many of them, the conditions are worse than those just described.

The latest big tragedy of the kind, occurred last month in a Pennsylvania town; and shows that such careless conditions are not by any means confined to cities, and that many a country hamlet has the same means for massacring the people. As an old woman set fire to Chicago while milking her cow, so a little girl burned up the people of Boyerstown by a little bit of feminine curiosity. She raised a drop-curtain to see what was going on out in the audience-room or in the gallery, two or three kerosene lamps used as footlights were overturned and ignited, and the carnage began-only to end with hundreds of people killed and

maimed and perhaps crippled for life. But not only theatres prove unsafe: church-buildings are notoriously the same. Meetings take place every day and every evening, where an alarm of fire-false or true--would cause the loss of life-and much life. The great tabernacle that once stood at the corner of Greene and Clinton Avenues in Brooklyn, was filled one Thursday evening and one Friday evening with audiences limited only by its walls. Its pastor, Dr. Talmage, was about to take a transatlantic trip, and these were the distinguished clergyman's farewell greetings.

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In the second place, every hall should be in an isolated lot, with plenty of room all around it.

In the third place, not only should the doors be well adapted for egress, but THE WINDOWS, when necessary. These should have the capability of being thrown open at any moment when there is need, with drawbridges that reach safely and conveniently to the ground.

"Impracticable!"

some one shouts. "Think of all the fuss and bother it would make everybody!"

But a funeral is some trouble: and then multiply that mournful event by hundreds!

THE EXPENSIVE CANAL.

The last lingerers had hardly reached the street, when this large building burst into flame, which came very near enveloping and destroying even the pastor himself, who escaped by a back door. The whole vast auditorium, where three immense audiences had assembled within the half of a week, was a furnace before fifteen minutes had passed. The fire, which, it was said, originated by the careless crossing of electric wires, might have occurred at any time, and if at the wrong moment, not one in a hundred of the thousands there, could have escaped: for the means of exit were shockingly limited, even had there been plenty of time to get out.

What is the remedy for all these dangers? The answer is, MORE AND SUFFICIENT EXIT!

In the first place, no public hall or meeting-room should be allowed to exist, that is not on the ground-floor.

pacities for growing, and almost every public work has cost more than at first expected. It used to be the way of Hartford people, when their state-house was a novelty, to remark proudly concerning it, "It was built within the appropriation!"

So uncommon is such an event, that the fact in this case was considered worthy of emphatic and persistent mention. There may have been other cases, but we do not hear about them.

The big Panama Canal is in fashion: it was expected to cost $135,000,000, and is going to cost $300,000,000-even if the estimates are not again increased-as they are likely to be.

But whatever the expense, the canal will be worth it. There may be pickings and stealings, but we can stand them-much better than can those who unfortunately are guilty of it.

When done, it will be one of the greatest pieces of property that America or any other country possesses,

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