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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-01-26

The Boys on the Printing Office Tax.
To the Editor of THE EVENING STAR:
In response to a call for their opinions. and in
answer to TYPO" in last nights STAR, 1.-The
boys" will speak their mind on the printing
ONCE tax question. The 'back-a printing
Offices do get little work, but what is It?
Necessarily small. for their presses and offices
are so dlminutve, and at necessarily reduced
rates, for they must compete with professional
canvassers, regular patronage Of business men.
union wOrkmen and steam presses Take a
lawyers brief for example: 80 pages; 100 comics
The JOB Is much more likely to be given to a
man than to a hoy, and perhaps the printer has
an agreement with the legal gentleman to do
all his work-small forms az well as those too
large for an amateur press or q 'sback-attic"
office the type-setting is far easier for the pro-
fessional workman, the paper costs them lust
the same and the printing Is done sirseen proes
at a Tune! The entire press-work is accom-
plished In say two hours at the outside. as
work by the industrious lad! What fair-minded
person 0rudges him his hard-earned mite.
and what other check IL there on
the printers; where is there another
anti monopoly industry? No wonder the
professional prof. lsi- ofnces hate u.s. and the bust
have one small enough. And If we are enter
prising enough to print a half-dozen packs of
visiting cards and buy ourselves sign, there is
patronage for the card seller and the sign
painter Our presses and type have all to be
bought to commence with, too. and there is
more patronage for the business men Not half
Of the amateur offices set up ever pay fer
themselves, and fully a third are supported en-
tirely by the young typos fathers or older
brothers custom. ''SlOp-shOps' is good 1t ia
because the printers cannot charge exhorbitant
prices on small jobs, on account Of our existence
and competition, that We are sought to be
crushed by this heavy tax.
Jan. %, 1854. ONE OF THE BOYS.
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Old Songs.

'rtten FOR THE EVENING STAR
/ sat by the open window,
Mid the gathering dewS Of night,
When voice came thro' the darkness
OF a singer out of sight.
Twas no great masters ara,
But only simple lay
That sweet voice softly warbled,-
TWAS a bar of nelly Grey"
What golden memories Weakened
At that old songs simple strain!
The weary years are vanished,
And I'm a child again.
Across the purple mountains
My vagrant thoughts have flown,-
see cottage meath hill,
With roses Wild cer-grown,
And at the open window
Two voices, young and gay,
Blend In the ''newest song that's OUT
The song OF ''Nelly Grey"
While In the moonbeam'S silvery light
The rOse-treeS shadows dance
All, what,-have been dreaming?-
Hark. she sings I'VE met by Chance.n
Twas on the rivers messy bank
We sang that 0lden lay;
Twas In the merry month Of June
Can forget that day?
The hawthOrnS were in blossom
When he breathed that old, Old tale,
That is ever new;-but she's singing now
The Belle OF the Mohawk Vale"
OH those old-tine songs. they stir the heart
With pleasure born of pain;
And take us from our present cares
Back TO childhood's joys again,
And the happy scenes Of long ago,
Vi,ny. Won't !, f,,l l..o,
But, the lights are out tits growing cold
And shes warbling, low, "GOOd Night
DORA DARMoRK.
Washington. Jan. p, 81
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The Millionaire.
Written for THE EVENING STAR.

Written for THE EVENING STAR
The rich man with his lots and lands
And piles OF bonds and stocks,
And credit that great sums commands.
And gold meath ponderpus locks;
With millions that have come with age
And grooved his brow with care,
And tested hts ambitions gage,
Is called millionaire
But with It all he has his fears,
Though cautious, shrewd, and brave;
His money will not br1be the years
That push him to the grave.
Then analyze It as you VIII,
And view 1t here and there,
The old man may his Golfers fill
Youth is the millionaire.
JEROME BURNETT.
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The Snow Law.

The Snow Law.
To the Editor of THE EVENING STAR:
As opinions in regard to the proposed new
snow law seem to differ. let me present and try
to answer the following question:: What is the
cheapest and most effective method of keeping
our sidewalks free from snow?"
l. Let the whole city be judiciOusly divided
into proper number Of distrcts-say forty or
more.
g. Let the superintendent of the police. under
the authority and directions of the District
Commissioners, be required to select one or
more reliable men In each district, who shall be
required to clear all the snow from the side
walks in his district. as soon as daylight will
permit, after snOw-stOrm, when so ordered by
the superintendent Of police.
3. Let each OF these sub-superintendents of
streets have fired fee for each time he NAV
thus clean the sidewalks, and be paid from the
funds OF the District upon the voucher of the
superintendent of police.
4. Let this additional expense be added pro
rata to the tax Of all property-owners thereby
benefited.
The undersigned believes that the execution
OF such law would give universal satisfaction
lnasmuch as the sidewalks would thus be we'll
cleaned, In uniform manner, at the least posi-.
Ole expense. Yours, DC, T. RICHARDS.
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The Amateur Priuters
To the Editor of TRE EVENING srAn.


Typo Is right in what he says in regard to
"back attic" printing shops. For man in the
printing business who Is under heavy Office ex-
pcns's aud has a family 10 support It is s;mnIv
Impossible 10 coinpeJe with these ..amateur'
printers have been compelled to discontinue
one 'f'hch oil my business on account of the
ridscuiOus!y low prices given bv these aadga-
Llos III tie business. PRACIiCAI PRISTrR
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The Snow Law Again.

To the Editor of The EVENING STAR:
Chief among the absurdities In the proposed
new snow law is that lineal foot affair and that
two cent affair What is lineal foot of pave
ment9 Is 1t to be reckoned latitudinally or
longitudinally3 II reckoned parallel with the
building line then the hardship is obvious. as
some have, like our own" twelve feet front,
Others ranging from twenty to forty feet 'front.'
age. So II it be reckoned from building line to
curb the same discrepancy will appear, the width
Of pavements varying from eight to forty feet.
Now, will they whose business it is please show
their fell0w-citizens how this said snow is to be
measured 50 that the cost Of cleaning of will
be proportioned to the amount Of surface to
clear. Anything short of that would be oppres-
sive. Now, II you ,riH have the snow measured
do adopt some practical method Of measure
ment which ordinary minds can comprehend
Say the superficial yard, at one cent a yard
labor, and that labor paid out Of the fine i'm
posed in such cases. x.
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Goals Of Fire.
From the Philadelphia News.

fTOfn tht PnIIadelphlA NeW1.
An uptown grammar school boy became 90
obstreperous yesterday that his teacher, new in
her vocation, young and pretty, determined to
try the plan Of keeping him in. After scboo,
she sat with grim determination until it became
DARK, ana then she let him depart. What was
her establishment at the gate to find the vomth
awaiting her. He greeted her with. "It's TOO
dark for young lady to be alone on the streets
viii you allow me to see you homer"
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From the Middletown Transcript.
"Ah." said the nice young man with bangs, as
the little boy let him in the other evening, "Ah,
my little man, is your sister at homer" Eyes,
she's at home, but she amt expecting you"
s'And how do you know she isn't expecting
me3" "'Cause heard her tell ma that you're
too mean to hire horse and sleigh, ana she
didn't expect to see sight Of you while the
snow lasted" The little boy is now saddest
when he sits.
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Bills amounting to O., $500 for damages
been introduced into the present Congress.
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CITY AND DISTRICT.
THE REG Err FHGNI
The Great Public Landing OF the Near
Future.

THE HISTORY or WATER STREET WAS IT EVER
UNDER wATER?-THE CONTEST OVER RIPARIAN
B5GETS-DECISIoN IN FAVOR OF The UNITED
sTtTLs-LEGISIATIoN ASKED By TIE DIS
TRiCT COMMISsIlNERs.
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FOusn Hills ana TaVlleS. all Qensely tlmbered.
passing some Of the largest cedars, reaching
upward from 200 to $50 feet in height. and from
8 to IL feet diameter, also magnificent fir trees
straight as az arrow, l20 feet to the first limbs
and from Is to "a feet in circumference; besides
hemlOck and other trees of somewhat Lesser nre-
tensions, yet oil fine timber. ranging from twenty
to fifty million feet Of lumber per square mile.
Among the underground were ferns of large
SIZE five to six feet in height gracefully curytnp
outward; the DEVILS club, straight. upright
stick three-f0urths OF an inch diameter, and
four to eight feet high, thickly covered with fine
needle-like peints aRd surmounted by wborl
of very large umbrella-like leaves also coyered
with spines. 1t is very troublesome to penetrate:
stumbling along over unseen logs and CATCHING
at anything fSr q support, one is apt to grasp
with innumersble irritating prickles.
KoT LOOKING FOR BEARS
Bears are In great numbers: we saw m.nv
tracks and deps, could smell them. knew they
were within q few feet of us, saw ponds Of water
where they had just walowed, found skunk
cabbage which they had recently been eating
from. but In hundreds Of miles travel thrnnoS
the forests ! did not see one was not par
ticu!ariy anxious to encounter his majesty-was
9ot looking 19r game; 1t was as much as could
90 20 look out route for travel; yet they did
not modest U.S. ~
The old fallen timber wac lying in every con-
ceivable situation. Of all Sizes and in ali sts0es
OF decay; we step on one; it falls to the earth
under our weight. 1t sprung from a seed a
thousand years ago, and has probably lain pros
trate for three centuries, for were there not
trees about 1t fully Of that age that have grown
since it fell2 Another, covered with moss and
plants, yet sound as q dollar, has evidence of
having lain in this position for fifty years. Again
we cross deep. narrow canyon on mighty
monarch that fell but yesterday.
Not rod OF ground is passed over bat is q
mass OF fallen timber at times fiat upon the
ground, We climb over; again laying across
others. we tall upon hands and knees to crawl
among the moss and ferns beneath Seldom
can We see any distance ahead. and are con-
stantly taking sight with pocket-compass, as the
sun is obScured by clouds all day Frequent
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ltllS III Win d SLICK, Well-ltu, gay ana clever
buncO man. The bunco man takes him in. A
few moments later the bunco man shows the
deacon q game by which, he Is told he can
make thousand dollars by risking one hun
dred The coEntryman knows that it is skin
game, but he expects to make money out Of It,
So he goes merrily ahead. Right here observe
that he is as wicked as the bunco man himself
He is trying to get money without earning it
legitmately. One Of them falls by the way
side; 1t is never the bunco man. After all won
der if philosopher could not evolve the theory
{ hat buncO men are more OF blessing than q
curse. One thing is certain. their victims are
always either foolish or dishonest.
BuncO men make o good living, dress well,
eat well, and seem happy and contented. There
are not few little tricks at which they can turn
their hands, and they are tied close together In
the bonds of brotherhood. The bunco men At
into all sorts of situations with ease and grace
Ii one of them Is a little short and needs five
dollars he makes it by becoming q stoo-pigeon
at ''cigar box racket" This game is a very
old one, but still very profitable. A swindler
lous thoroughfare, hangs out an auctIoneer's
sign, gets up on the connter and begins to 'sell"
cigars at q surprising rate of speed. They are
cheap cigars, bought at some auction for fifty or
sixty cents q box. In front Of the auctioneer
are ten or twelve c0nfederates, each of whom
gets about I've dollars q day for his work.
These confederates stand around the door
smoking, and bid furiOusly for the cigars when
they are put up by the auctioneer. After q
while green horn comes in. The auctioneer
holds up box of cigars that look like "Reina
FictOrias," and they are knocked down to one
OF the stool pigeons for dollar box. The green
horn looks on in amazement. He knows the gen.
uine cigars are worth fourteen a box He stands
In Open-mouthed establishment as box after box
Is knocked down to the well-dressed men around
him. Then the auctioneer casts his eye on him
and he makes a bid himself By carefully re-
hearsed competition they run the price Of the
boxes up 80 that the countryman bids up as
high as say four dollars. Then he trips up
merrily to the desk to buy his box Uf cigars. and
is asked for $40. He protests and says that the
cigars are only o. a box. The clerk at once
agrees with him, but says they are only sold in
lots Of ten boxes each. He again protests. and
is roughly expostulated with. The crowd whom
he never suspects OF being In colinsion with the
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-08-29

FROM tho very opening note Of the
current Presidential campaign it was
quite apparent that the temperance ele.
'nent would cut big figure in the con-
test. The Republican leaders affect to
whistle this movement down the wind;
but, MS matter Of fact, it Is portentous
of disaster to the cause Of Blaine and
Logan. From the moment the total ab.
stinence people cut loose from the Re.
publican party the result at once became
doubtful in such hitherto staunch Ro.
publican States as Michigan, Ohio, Kan.
sas and Iowa. The nomination Of q
Presidential ticket OF their own simply
means that the cold water people are
determined to compass the defeat of the
men with whom they have aforeiime af-
tiliated in order to coercc them into an
acceptance of the extreme programme
which they have announced and whose
propaganda they are pushing with unex-
ampled vigor. The meaning Of st. Johns
candidacy is that fully half million
votes which would ordinarily 60 for the
Republican candidate will this year
count as half votes for the Democratic
party. Besides, the issue operates as
two.edged sword on Blaine, who will be
obliged to posturize in favor of the pro.
hibition amendment to the Maine Con-
stitution, and who will thus tear violent.
ly asunder the ligature which bound
hundreds of thousands Of Republican
votes to him. Take IL for all in all, the
situation is decidedly interesting one
to the Democracy.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-08-29

The people Of Ban Francisco are at
last beginning to realize thst their EN-.
piry Of this coast. by right Of prc.emp.
ton. has come to an end. Portland and
Sacramento have filed entries from the
North and Los Angeles from the South
on a domain which the City Of tie
Golden Gate regarded as exclusively be.
own. Oar neighbor. tbs Toll Talser.
may squirm and wriggle rs much as she
plea-es, but sho cannot change manifest
destiny, and her business men will find
that II Is useless 10 kick against the
pricks. What they ought to do and st
once is to change the policy Of extortion
which has prevailed there for so many
years and replace 1t by an enllghtaned
and broad-gauge system Of doing busi-
ness. The commercial supremacy Of
San Francisco was necessarily OF ephem.
eral duration. Nothing Is more sure
than that several great commercial cen.
ters are certain to spring up On Pugets
Sound and on the Columbia river, while
Los Angeles has elements Of growth
quite as extensive aud important as
those Of the bay City herself. The
completion Of the Sunset route and Of
the Northern Pacific strikes the dead.
licst kind OF blow at the former inso-
solent pretensions Of San Fran
cisco. II curiails the prism Of
her trade by tens Of thousands Of square
miles aud opens up to the Eastern drum.
iner new and most inviting territory. No
intelligent man disputes the fact that the
City Of tho Golden Gate is destined 10
be one Of the great commercial centers Of
the world. but ten or twenty years Is
nothing In the evolution Of great city.
At present our northern neighbor Is
fully decade In advance Of tho com
mercial requirements OF the country
which now romans tributary to her. A
consequent period Of stagnation Is inev.
table. The wonderful output Of the
Comstock lode pushed her growth en-.
tircly too fast and she must suffer for
awhile for this precipitancy. Resolu.
tions Of commercial bodies and meetings
Of merchants will not improve the situa.
tion In the slightest degree. Angclenos
would have more sympathy with the dis.
tross Of her neighbor were II not for their
recollection Of the recent attempt Of the
Chamber Of Commerce Of San Francisco
to take away from the interior citie. the
trade privileges conceded to them by the
enlightened policy Of the Central and
Southern Pacific Railways. The spirit
that was shown In that effort has done
much to deprive the people Of the me-
tropolis Of both the trade and good will
Of the interior cities.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-08-29
wARIN rEHU.
A BIoedy Revelation Begun Il
South America

CnARELLos, Peru, Aug. 2S.--ln Lima
yesterday there was storm OF bullets
Tor over six hours. Caceres entered the
city with his rabble, yelling and firing.
The night before all Of the government
troops were withdrawn in to Quartet and
the Palace, and the entry Of Caoeres, al
though not unexpected, was somewhat
Of surprise. His men captured Guar
tel and the Churches Of Mercede and
San Augustin, from which they kept up
fusilads. They also attacked
the Guadaloupe railroad station. About
hundred and fifty persons were killed
in Merceds and Bodegons in the streets
and near the palace square where the
fire was the hottest. Finally the gov
ernment troops made sortie and drove
out the mob. Caceres was acc, mpanied
by about ninety horsemen. Tn.y ap
pesred 10 have been travelling all night
and we're not in condition TO fight with
troops well fed and fresh from
their beds. Three hundred pris-
oners were taken but Caceres escaped.
The German proprietor Of a cigar stor@wa,
killed while looking from his balcony.
All telegraph wires were cut for miles
out Of the city, and no trains run. Moth
ing occurred at Charellos. The cable
staff Is all right. Heavy gunsw.re Leard
for some hours at Charellos, but no news
as 70 the locality Of the firing was re-
ceived up to 9,30 A. NJ. All is quiet this
morning in Lima. The dead men and
horses are being removed and
the pools of blood cleaned up The fight
in San Augustine church proceeded with
closed doors. Caceres Is said TO have
1900 disciplined troops. who were 10
have attacked Callao, and these may re.
turn. Last night there were no guards
in the streets, as all were in Quartet and
the palace.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-08-29

now have new and ,omplete outfit for bor-
kax wells and am Ut work on the Santa Anita
Rancho. VIII be glad 70 make contracts with
al parties wishing wells sunk.
aug24 I'm LACTA hEiT
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-08-29
DAY DISPATCHES.
The French Capture the Min
River Forts.
SHANGHAI soMsARDED-
A Lady's Act for the Church
etrange CsiIisses Between
Race Horses n. storey
AdjadGed 1nsane-A Pre-
iIne Cow.

CHICAGO. Aug. pa Shanghai dis.
patch Of yesterday says: The Mipgan
forts below Foo Chow were siIenced
Tuesday evening. To-day heavy can
nonade took place between the French
fleet and the Kinpai forts. which are
situated at the northern mouth Of the
| Min river.
A Times dispatch says: "The Kinpai
forts we're destroyed"
A later dispatch frsm Foo Chow cor
respondent OF the Times says; II have
Just returned from Kinpai. All the de-
lenses along the Min river are gone. The
Chinese troops bolted. The French fleet
can lombard, but the occupation Of the
main land il impossible"
Admiral Courbers Report.
PARIS. Aug. 2s-Ths following Is
AdmiralCourbet's report Of his operations
on Min river up 10 last evening;
Min RIVER, 6p. IN. Aug. 2i.--OuI
operations against the Mingo forts has
been successfully concluded. All theChi-
nsse batteries were destroyed. We have
shattered all their cannon with gun cot.
ton. An attack on Kin Pal will be
made to-day.
Bembardment of Shanghai Com
menced.
LONDON, Aug. pa dispatch which
left Shanghai at 5p. m. to-day says
that admiral Courbet began bombarding
shanghai yesterday. Heavy cannonad.
ing still continues.
China Not Treated a. q CivIlIx-
ed Nation.
PARIS, Aug. 2S.-Minister Ferry has
no intention at present Of summoning
Parliament. He says that owing to
Chinese treachery it has been impos.
sible to treat her as o civilized nation.
Courbet Ordered to XaInan.
PARIS, Aug. 2S Admiral Courbet
has been ordered to Xainan after taking
Kee Lung.
President Ferry ON the War.
LONDON, Aug. 2s.-The Paris corres-
pondent Of the Times says: Ferry, in
private conversation, complained with
much vehemence of the structures of the
Times regarding Courbet's conduct at
Foo Chow. The French press, he said,
showed no such spirit when the English
bombarded Alexandria. The English
press, by egging China on, is siding
against Europe, and the confidence It
gives the Chinese may next be turned
against England. Commercial nations
are naturally uneasy at our action, but
once resolved on redress, we must deal
blows which will tell. Ferry disavowed
the policy of colonial conquest "My
whole duty" he declared, ''is to finish
the enterprise, originally ill-conceived
and ill.managed. We want the peace
full occupation of Tonquin and want to
enforce on China the respect she owes
us. European interests need not be
alarmed at this as we are acting for the
civilized world"
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-08-29
A FATAL COLLISION,
Two Valuable Race Horses Killed

HARTFORD, Aug. 2S.-While the
racers were exercising to-day on the
track for the 2:l7 class, fatal accident
occurred to two valuable horses. James
Golden was driving "Princess" down
the track, and "Knapsack" Mccarthy
was driving George D." up the track,
both going at rapid pace. On the
home stretch, when they tried to pass
each other, both drivers pulled in the
same direction. The result was that the
horses came into collision. Both went
into the air and fell fiat on the ground.
George D. got on his feet and walked
aiyard or two and fell dead. Princess
was fatally injured. George. d. was
buried within the grounds, IN plain
view of the people, and the band play
ing dirge. George d. was owned
by Frank Russell, of Boston and had
2:l7 record. Princess was the prop.
srty of Hans PeEn. of Pittsburgh, and
had record of 2:l9t. Each horse was
was valued at about 5000. Golden
the driver of Princess, was thrown
from his sulky and sprained his ankle.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-08-29

A MORNING contemporary seems to be
very much disgruntled because the
Cleveland Guards. the other night, gave
three cheers for popular German and
ga good glass Of beer" 1t seems to be
generically incapable Of reporting cor.
rectly even such jovial and trifling in
cident, for it represented the cheers to
have been given for good glass of whis-
ky instead Of beer. This is q distinction
with difference. In the blue grass
region OF Kentucky or the Monongahela
valley, in Pennsylvania, cheers for
whisky would have been in place.
Here, however, we make no whisky
aud Republicans mainly drink it. The
Democrats prefer the mild and assimila,
tive wines and beers of the country in
which they live, which cheer but not in.
ebriate, and they are determined to keep
step to the music of the little German
band, whose divorce from the Republi.
can party means that the discontinue Of
that organization in Los Angeles county,
in the Sixth Congressional district and
in California, to say nothing Of such
cardinal States as Ohio, Illinois, Indi.
ana and Wisconsin, is assured.