CABELL 269 CABLE •"aovels include "The Eagle's Shadow" (1904) ; "The Soul of Melicent" (1913) ; $ind "Jurgen" (1919). From 1916 he was historian of the Virginia Society of Colonial Wars, and from 1919 was editor of the Virginia War History Commission. CABELL, JAMES LAWRENCE, an American sanitarian, born in Nelson county, Va., Aug. 26, 1813. He was graduated at the University of Penn- syl,vania, later becoming Professor of Anatomy in Virginia. During the Civil War he had charge of military hos- pitals for the Confederate Government. He devised measures to check the yellow fever epidemic at Memphis and was president of the National Board of Health from 1879 till his death, in Overton, Va., Aug. 13, 1889. CABET, ETIENNE (ka-ba') , a French communist, born in Dijon, Jan. 2, 1788, and educated for the bar, but turned his attention to literature and politics. Un- der the Restoration he was one of the leaders of the Carbonari, and in 1831 was elected deputy for the department of Cote d'Or. Soon afterward he pub- lished a "History of the July Revolu- tion" (1832), started a Radical Sunday paper, "Le Populaire" (1833), and on account of an article in this paper was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, but escaped to London. After the am- nesty, in 1839, he returned to Paris, and published a "History of the French Rev- olution" (1840), bestowing great praise on the old Jacobins. He attracted far more notice by his "Journey in Icaria" (1840), a "philosophical and social ro- mance," describing a communistic Uto- pia. The work obtained great popu- larity among the working classes of Paris. Cabet next proceeded to send an "Icarian colony" to the Red river in Texas, but the colonists who went out in 1848 found Texas anything but a Utopia. Their ill fortune did not deter Cabet from embarking at the head of a second band of colonists. On his arrival he learned that the Mormons had just been expelled from Nauvoo, 111., and that Iheir city was left deserted. The Icari- ans established themselves there in 1850. Cabet's efforts, however, were not suc- cessful. He was finally obliged to leave Nauvoo and retire to St. Louis, where he died Nov. 9, 1856. CABINDA, a Portuguese seaport and territory, N. of the mouth of the Kongo river. The town carries on a consider- able trade, and its people are noted for their shipbuilding and other handi- -;rafts. Pop. about 10,000. CABINET, a deliberative committee <f the executive authority, consisting of 18— Vol. the principal members of the Govern- ment. The cabinet of the President of the United States may be said to be com- posed of the heads of the several ad- ministrative departments of the Govern- ment, although the Constitution does not provide for a "cabinet." They are, in the order of succession to the Presi- dency as declared by Acts of Congress: 1. The Secretary of State. 2. The Sec- retary of the Treasury. 3. The Secre- tary of War. 4, The Attorney-General. 5. The Postmaster-General. 6. The Sec- retary of the Navy. 7. The Secretary of the Interior. 8. The Secretary of Ag- riculture. 9. The Secretary of Com- merce. 10. The Secretary of Labor. They are appointed to office by the Pres- ident, but their appointments must be confirmed by the Senate, and they gen- erally hold office until their successors are appointed and confirmed. Contrarji to foreign systems, the United States cabinet ministers do not have seats in Congress; and the President is respon- sible for the acts of the Government. In Great Britain, the cabinet is the body of ministers wno carry on the gov- ernment. It is an institution which has gradually grown out of the needs and exigencies of English political life, and is now an essential part of English polity. As the executive organ of Par- liament, it is very elastic, and while sub- ject to considerations of use and wont, its action can be suited to the exigencies of time and circumstance. The cabinet includes: The First Lord of the Treas- ury, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Pres- ident of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the five secretaries of state (for Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Colonies, India, and War), the Chancellor of the Excheq- uer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Lord Lieutenant or the Chief Secre- tary of Ireland, the Presidents of the Board of Trade, the Board of Agricul- ture and Fisheries, the Board of Educa- tion, the Ministers of Health, Labor, and Transport. Other ministers, like the Postmaster-, Attorney-, Solicitor-, and Paymaster-General are not members of the cabinet. CABLE is either a large rope or a chain of iron links. Rope cables are made of the best hemp or of wire, twisted into a mass of great compact- ness and strength. The circumference of hemp rope varies from about 3 inches to 26. Wire rope has largely taken the place of hemp for tow-line and hawsers on board ship. These usually consist of six strands, laid or spun around a hempen core, each strand consisting of six wires laid the contrary way around a smaller hempen core. The wires are II— Cyc
