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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-04-09

DEATH OF Lillian OLcorr.-Iilian Olcott, the
actress died at the Westminster Hotel at lOoclOck
sunday morning OF inflammation OF the bowels
she engaged a room at the hotel about two weeks
ago, and on Wednesday last called ia q physician
10 whom she said that She was suffering from a
cold contracted during the blizzard. On Thursday
she was feeling letter, but Saturday her illness
Her maid was her only companion at the hotel,
and she asked the physician not 10 announce her
illness TO her parents lest II might worry them.
Miss Olcotts father, DIR. Cornelius Ocott of
Brooklyn, was promptly notified OF his daughters
death, and late in the afternoon the doctor and
his wife came 10 the hotel. The body was re-
moved TO DR.. Olcotts residence In Brooklyn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-04-09

TEENER HAD A WALK-OvER-Teemer Mckay
and hamm rowed scuning race on the st. Johns
River, 1t Jacksonville, Fla, Saturday afternoon
$500 divided. The course was over three miles
Ieener had walk-over. Toward the fnish
Heinm dropped out, owing TO the fact that his
ahes niled With water. Teemer's time was %
minutes and 10Y seconds. The attendance was
Shall on account OF the storm.
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LADIES GOODS.

GEo. WHITE LADIES' TAILOR AND HABIT
VI maker, 1106 st Satisfaction guaranteed Just
received from London n consignment of fine Spring
weight Cloths for Tailor-made Costumes and Hiding
ANNA mi
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PROFESSIONAL


NINE ROSS: THE RELIABLE CLAIRvOYANT
and future. Born with veil and has wonderful sifts
The madame has no equal; cures sickness. She can
sethsr and convert misery and dissenton into pleas.
is Invaluable She points out your enemies and de-
views and those at distance sending their
hnes Of their life Residence 1910 1lth NV. Once
hours from 10 .. m. to p. m, except sunday.
sittngs SO cents and 81 llth street cars pass the
door. al,4-3m
MME. BROOKE TELLS ALL THE EVENTS OF
VI LIFE. All business confidential Ladies' and zen.
0emen 90 cents each. 406 street. between 4th aud
9th streets northwest O6-3Ovs
pRoF. CLAY. WONDERFULLY GIFTED CLAIR
Il voyant Astrologer and Spiritual Medium Born
with second sight and veil Every hidden mystery
hidden tssasurss. Gives lucky 1um6sr. Causes
snecess r. businsss RemSyss al tamiiy troubis.
BY efforts Of others Judge not Al alike the fofesor
cities WI save time and calling on
Ssed. where az Others tail md adysIti.e only what
receipt Of 81 Name lock u hair, date Of birth Hour
to 8. Open SundayB from to pm.
Ws
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THs RALEIGH BANK FoR0ERsL-whHe and Cross
the Kaleiyn bank rorgers, left Toronto for Raleigh
IN chargc or Chief OF Police Heartt on the noon
ualh saturday. An as'eement regarding the
money FOUND on the prisoners has been made TO
lEe cuect that IL be sent by express to a bank In
New YORK, 70 be held in trust 10 the Joint order
Q, the cashier OF the Norfolk Bank and OF the re-
cenSr CT tne state National Bank OF Raleigh
ueternineo Dy the proper court In North Carolina.
ssate Attorney Busoee signed an agreement also
Charges OF forgery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-04-09

GUARANTEE TO TEACH ANY ONE TO MAKE A
~ ine-size crayon portrait in fifteen lessons; no
hhowiedge OF drawing Necessary. J. W. REYNOLDS,
ap7.2ws
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CPECIALTY N BOoKBINDIN0.-HARxE A11
~ Contury Magngi1eo bound Ter 81 qD4l6 e0o
Tax LXC6TT HlmD3nx SSsees.s1;se 1CesA ~ ~
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Reduced Postage.

The third assistant postmaster. .gen-
eral, in his annual report on thebusi-
ness Of the postomce department,
makes the suggestion that if ono cent
postage should be adopted thu -ould
be only two. 0Sta ,e5 OF mail matter,
Lofty B0e'the matter now included In
,kney Lhrd and fourth classes, that is,
general printed matter and merchan-
disc, being included in one classat the
rate of 1 cent for two ounces, and
newspapers and periodicals sent from
offices Of publication in another at the
rate OF 1 cent per pound as at present.
The proposition to reduce the letter
rate from Q cents for one ounce to
1 cent for two ounces and make it
the same as the rate for casual news
paper or magazine or book seems
rather startling, but in point of fact it
would not bo SO greatly different in
effect from nero reduction to 1 cent
for the weight now allowed. The
great bulk of the letters written would
not be increased in length or in weight,
and there would be great gain in
simplicity in having no distinction in
the rates for matter mailed in the usual
way, whether sealed or unsealed or
containing. writing or no writing. A
source Of petty fraud and evasion and
equally petty search for it would be
avoided. The only serious question
relates to the effect on the revenues
and expenses of the postal service,
which ought substantially to pay for
itself. This aspect of the suggestion
calls for careful consideration. New
York Times.
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atart alititss md the Current sgsus of the s9ap
TIE Poor OF Mexico.

The peou laborer who earns 81
cents will not grudge q third of his
pay to some unfortunate comrade.
What rich man with an income of
500 a day will with equal readiness
hand out $S3 to poor fellow mortal3
know a case where poor serving
woman took her little bed and gave Il
to a sick woman, and herself slept on
the hard floor for weeks thereafter. A
poor paralytic comes TO my door every
week and gets aims; it is hard TO keep
q silver quarter in the pocket when a
deformed man crawls by on his hands
and knees. How many Of these poor
wretches one sees on rainy afternoons
crawling along through the mud and
dirt Of the streets. Many say, care
lessly, that these poor people should
be in the hospitals, but they pre-
fer, when able to do so, to
get out into the world of
their fellows and trust to the
charity Of the fortunate who have
lmopey to .feen fhem from staFvaiIyM. van rI
lKnUw q poorSwonian, paralyzed from
the knees down, who, with her babe
in her arms, kneels in one of tho pub
lie gardens and receives tho charity
people bestow on her. If she gets
twenty-five cents in day, she lives
well and has a little meat and possibly
o drop of coffee. If she gets but six
cents she lives on that, and thanks
heaven. In the lottery of life some of
us draw prizes-sound limbs, good
lungs and clear heads, while others,
equally worthy, get the blanks. 1 can
not help thinking, as walk the streets
of Mexico, that it is good for the pros
porous, the comfortably off, to see
these poor cripples, these blind men
and women, these strange beings, half
human, who crawl at your feet. Shut
them up in hospitals, and ono forgets
that they exist. The charity which
one puts into plato at church. goes
only indirectly to the afflicted. Half
the pleasure Of doing good is lost.
For years there was seen around the
streets here a dog faced lad, who
walked on his hands and feet like an
animal. / have not seen him for
months, and perhaps he is dead. Tho
story went that this strange, fantastic
freak Of nature was born the son of
well to do parents, who, disgusted at
his horrid shape, turned him into the
streets. On chilly winter mornings he
went about In cotton, for he was de-
Gently covered, but his expression of
sadness and hunger and WEAKNESS
went straight to the heart To see
this poor fellow made one ashamed Of
being able to walk upright. Those of
us who gave him small coins now and
then do not I fancy, regret it. now
that he has gone from sight. For the
student of hAman development this
lad would have been treasure. He
was human, but he was also british.
Sights such as these mako the blood
run chill in the veins, but they also
prompt little ects of charity which
make giver and recipient feel their
common humanity.-City of Mexico
Cor. Boston Herald.
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MAGNITUDE OF THE PENSION SYs-
TEM.-The gigantic proportions of the
pension system of the United States
are seen in the report of the Secretary
of the Interior There is no such sys-
ten in any other couotry Of the world,
and it is growing at wonderful rate.
The Secretary shows that in the fiscal
year ending with June last the amount
paid for pensions to old soldiers was S7S,
IT'S, 1862, or an increase of S5,3O8,2S0
over the previous pear. Tho cxpendi-
lures Of the Pension Bureau for the
year constituted 81 per cent. of tho to-
tai disbursements Of the government
and 213 per cent. of its total gross in
income. Truly, no one can deny tha,
theiveteraps of the war arc liberallv dealt
with. All that we desire in the case i.
that the legislation regarding the grant
ing of pensions be consistent with COM
mon sense, and the Same desire is ED
tsrtained by all who were honorable sol
diers of the Union.-Ne,o York Sun
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a HIGH LICENSE MOVEMENT AMONG
BARKEEPERs.-Several of the most
prominent saloon men in the city waited
on some of the City Council yesterday
morning presenting petition signed BY
six of their number asking the City
Council to increase the license tax on
SALOONS from S400 to 81 900.
The saloon men whose names were
signed to the petition are George Black
Holcombe g. Simmons, II. Knebcl u
Bro, Tork & Logon j. w. Burgess 4
Co and Jas. B. Williams.
Those saloon keepers who have signed
the paper arc earnest in their advocacy
s.a as i tends to decrease
prices for liquor, at the Sausssas4s.-the
proving the class of the places where
liquor is sold. 1t is very seldom that
movement of this kind has been
headed by saloon keepers themselves,
but the wisdom Of their movement
may be readily observed.
AS the supply ordinance has already
been passed and published by the City
Council, it is not probable. that the mat.
ter can be re reconsidered, and if it is
brought up there are some members OF
the body who will oppose such an amend
ment 10 the ordinance. - GreenuiNe
NeDS. spf- ri
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Nevada end tho Eclipsc,

The astronomers who visit Nevada
for the purpose of observing the total
eclipse of the sun, next January, will
occupy the most favorable position to
be found in the United States. They
will be in the center of the path Of
totality, and on the top of Winnemucca
mountain they will stand 6,OOO.feet
above the level of the sea. This alti-
tude, however, is not the great advant-
age to be derived from the locality.
That which will most aid the astrono-
mers is the dry atmosphere of the
Great Basin region-an atmosphere
almost destitute Of humidity. With
good instrumentsSette results will be
obtained by the observers statponed on
Winnemucca than by any other party
in America.
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CAN THE. CITIZENS OF THE COUNTY AZ
FORD 1T


1t isstated that there is to be two other
bar rooms opened here the first of Jan
uary. That will make nine for our little
town. This increase comes when there is
ageneral feeling ofdepressiou in the coun-
ty. Every crop is under as average this
year except cotton. There is gen eral feel
ing of close times, with bard times in
the future. There are more horseless
tenants this year that there have been
fer several years. The general conn plant
comes up that farmers, who depend on
tenants, cannot get those who are pro.
vlded with work animals. Flour, bacon,
and large amount Of corn and hay have
to be bought by farmers. BY the first
OF March ten per cent of them will not
have ready money to purchase these artic-
les. That is their condition to-day and
InpM thaY, with the ,assistauce of peo-
pie living la aIuwurr~-vrsgru T6come5up-
tothe .supporkssof Two more bar rooms.
This shows that the barroom men have
unlimited confidence iu the drinking
aud paying capacity Of the people who
have to pay all the necessary expenses.
Rent. insurance, gas, licenses, taxes,
servant and clerk hire will cost these
nine barrooms thirty thousand dollars.
Add to this the cost of whiskey aud the
amount willruu up to $50 900 to 5000,
600 for one year. The people are ex-
pected to pay this and they will do it uu-
less they change their way of doing. Can
the county afford it? We have about
$4,000 population. That is equal to a
tax Of four dollars on every one from
the cradle 10 the grave.
1t is no wonder that our people say
the poor are getting poorer every year
and they will continue to do SO as long
as they pay this immense, tribute to the
saloons. The money spent for whisky
here would buy corn enough to bread
the county four or FIVE months. 1t
would build and equipa large cotton mill
every Jeer' 1t would put the highways
of the county in first class condition. II
would build and furnish $50 fuc school
houses, giving to each one six hundred
to oight hundred dollars Now the peo-
pie are asked to take this immense cap
ital and tear down instead of build up
with it. They are expec,en to come
out by tn, hundred on ordinary days
and by the thousand on all public days
and put in to the pockets of these saloon
keepers this money which they cannot
spare. Can they afford it? This is
written to abuse thesaloon keepers. They
are acting under tho law when they do
not violate it by keeping painting screens
in trort and unpanted doors in tho
rear which turn - .hair
hinges
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SOUND LosIoas-A 5disRasqb ,affpm
Munro,N N 'C.i says! OsT The if n d,ers AL


SOUND LoaIcas-A bdispa,ph ,affpm
Munro,N 'O!i says; osThs III ners AL
lance Of this.'9 couhtyid wiias, ,od,by =
common contributfop" Or ,,a6bht % 90
from each member, upitsa inba 'st9re.
1t is making preparations rori quite o
heavy stock of goods. Il Union is ono, Of
the stroneholds Of the Alllancci hos Co
operative stores have Succeeded ID man.
ufacturing centres where money, Id re-
ceired every week and cash paid for all
goods. 1t is gravoly Questionable
whether they can ever succeed ,in our
country under credit system. The at
tempt in Texas involved that Alliance
in bankruptcy. 5.', 1 ~a>
In merchandise two things are nee
esary: Capital, TO purohaso;s andlabor,
to sell. The merchant furnishes the
capital and pays for the labor. III; with
his strictest attention, and biz, ,cateful
oversight, he is able to make 'geoa in.
forest on his invesiment ahd pay hiuSself
far salary Tor rry rytvus-shS Ia well
content. The prott on the goJds 500
pays these expenses. Competition aud
his own interest forces him to buy "a
cheaply and sell as closely as his expeu-
ses will permit. .......a.
If the Farmers Alliance become the
proprietors of the store, thess same ex.
penses must be pad-they must supply
thesapitol, and pay the interest on it.
They must pay the salesman for lheir
labor. Profit must be added to ,. first
cost of goods to pay these expenass in
both cases. '' '"i s."
1t is hard to see how the manager can
pay these expenses aud sell goods, on a
much smaller profit than his competitors.
He can only do SO by buying closer, and
hiring clerks cheaper. and, it ioappot DO
expected that hired agent will do, more
in this direction" than experienced 1mer-
chants whose own money Is at stalks.
If the merchants were. rapidly sci fling
rich it would prove that their 1pEo6ts
were unnecessarily large. Sevent five
per cent of the merchants fail, ah this
po:ntst tho truth that -in. .geneExf M
profits on merchandise, arc not 5dhpie- =.
to pay the expensessof the business.
SpdrtdnJu,g Herald. sncH
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He HOLDS THE FoRT.-Louisyille
Dec. 6.-An effort was made last night
to arrest Harrison Hogan, wealthy
farmer, three miles above Jeffersonvile,
Ind, on warrant sworn out by his d.
vorced wife. He took refuge on a fiat
boat in the river, where he had a barri-
cade we'll stocked with arms and ammu-
milton and defied Deputy Sheriffs Linck
and Howell. A fight ensued, Hogan
using shotgun, and firing through loop
holes in his barricade, and the offers
using their revolvers from a drift pile
on the bank.
At night they went into the woods on
the bank for consultation. Hogan got
quietly ashore and surprised them with
shot into clump of bushes where
they were building fire. They took
refuge behind trees, aud the fight con-
tinued until Hogan got the drop on
Howell, when an armistice wa. agreed
upon. The officers returned to Jeffer-
sonville aud party of four were sent
out to make the arrest. They had not
succeeded at last accounts.
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Causes OF Cancer.
DR.. Mackenzie in his
about the crown prince
lnant boa a foyu ,,orfipo


about the crown prince
-lnapt has few pertine.
fIhoA - ~--se no A-z- ;SLlOni
determining cause of its appearance .s
in many cases an injury, such 'as
blow, or condition resulting from an
injury, such as a scar, or the persist
ent application to particular spot of
something that keeps the tissue in
hamed and angry, such as O Jagged
tooth which chafes the tongue. Work
ers In paraffine and petroleum are pc
cularly liable to cancer of the parts
which are habitually exposed to tho
action of these subs noes. 1t is we'll
known that a particu form Of cancer
which formerly wa, common enough
in England is nov almost extinct,
simply owing to the ! lct that the cause
which produced 1t us ceased to exist.
When SCOT commanded a good price it
had to bo sifted This operation na-
turally involved much of friction
against the skin, whereby irritating
PARTICLES were rubbed into it, and
chimney sweeps cancer was o frc-
quent result Nowadays it does not
pay to sift the soot and tho disease to
which it gave rise has disappeared.
ton heat Is certainly one of the most
active. BY far tho most common seat
of the malignant disease in men is the
mouth, which is more exposed than
any other part of the body to irritation
by hot substances Every surgeon is
familiar with this fact. Whether it be
lower lip, on which the hot stem of
a clay pipe or the smoldering paper of
cigarette has rested day after day, or
tongue exasperated by the frequent
contact Of acrid tobacco smoke, or the
mouthpiece of foul pipe, or made
raw by ardent liquors, or stung and
blistered by fiery condiments, the cause
is essentially the same-viz., tho scar
ing of the superficial covering by pro-
longed heat. In some places, where
hot brasiers aro often applied t. the
abdomen and thigh, cancer of these
parts is not uncommon, though all but
unknown in either of these situations
elsewhere. IN. J.. Holbrook, M. D.,
in Herald Of Health.
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The Biggest Man I'm the World.

During this trip have been over a
large part of this state, and find Iowa
has the largest and best corn crop that
has ever been raised in thestate Iowa
does not only stand at the head of the
list as q corn state, but stands at tho
head, also, for large men. I was one
of the two largest men on train last
week, and the two of us weighed Just
two pounds over half ton. weighed
210 pounds, and the other fellow
weighed just 792 pounds. His name
was j. H. Craig. He is feet45 inches
long, and was born in Iowa City
thirty-two years ago. He is said to be
the largest man in the world at tho
present time. He is we'll proportioned,
full of fun and as playful as a kitten.
He told me that when he went to
church he put 81 in tho collection
basket and took whole seat for him
self. He has weighed 833 pounds,
but uses tobacco now to keep his
weight down below So0.-Davenport
Tribune
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The number Of fashionable women iD
London who are going into business is
increasing. Lady Granville Gordon hav-
ing successfully established a millinery
shop, Lady Mackenzie, Mrs Stuart
Menzies, Mrs Pocklington and Mrs Coo.
per Oakley have followed her example.
Mrs Wheeler, one Of the fashionable
beauties Of the Lanstry type, has open
ed a bric-a-brac shop, while Mrs " Char
ley" Carney has gone into dressmakiDg.
Mrs Keer, Lord Dupraven' sister-i in-law,
makes and sells bonnots and hats. Mrs
White has an art repository, and Lady
LOTUS, wife Of the exam bassador to
Russia, has gone into dressmaking.
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Domestic Recipes

To Cook ToUaH MEAT.-Buy
thick slice Of round steak with but littl
bone aud fat. Split it so as to mako one
thin piece. Prepare largo cupful OF
bread crumbs, season them with salt
pepper and thyme or summer savory
moisten with milk and o little butter
mix we'll together and spread it over,
the meat. IF the flavor Of onions is liked
chop very little of it, aud add to the
dressing. Roll "''"- - 49,
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HORRIBLE FATE OF Two YOUNG La
DIEs.-Nashville December IA
special from the American, from Knox
vile, Tenn, says:
"Nliss Binum. age 20, school teacher,
and Mrs Lewis, age IS, were run down
byan incoming express train on the Wes-
tern North Carolina Railroad, near
Alexanders, N. G., last erening, and
both horribly mangled. They were
literally groucd to pieces. The accident
occurred on trestlo iu sharp curve of
the road,
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A distinguished Democratic leader who
recently talked with the President re-
garding the election quotes Mr. Cleve-
land as SAYING" am told that without
the tariff issue in the last campaign We
should have carried the country. That
may be true, but the time had come
when the issue between the two parties
had to be made, and the Democrats
made it. | don't regret it. 1t is better
to be defeated battling for an honest
principle than to win by cowardly
subteriuge. Some of my friends say We
ought to have gone before the country
on clean administration we have given
the people. l differ from them. We
needed tlean-cut, well defined issue.
We were defeated, it is trae, but the
principles Of tariff reform will surely
win in the end"
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DEATH UNDER DISTRESSING CIR
cUMsTANCEs.- Mrs. Nancy Bagley,
who lived about four miles from Winns
boro, on plantation adjoining that of
Mr.. D. A. Hendrix, died on Friday.
She was quite aged, about IS, and her
death was the result of old age, lack of
proper food and cold weather. Although
having fifteen children and a number
ofgrand and great grandchildren, she
has in her later days been an object of
charity. Although she died on Friday,
she was not buried until Sunday, owing
to the fact that no gravo could bo pre-
pared until some kind friends had it
dug. IVinnSborro We,os and Herald
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Fitting Them to BE Soldiers.

Franco has now National league
for the promotion Of physical educa-
ton, designed to flt her citizens to be
soldiers. The programme which has
been completed includes outdoor
gtsnes throughout the land; for which
Il local authorities will set apart a
g seen" whereon tho children shall
regularly "play."-New IoTK w.. 4.
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A count of the vote Al ows that IN,

A count of the vote 81 ows that the
majority Of the people of tho United
States are not opposed to Cleveland and
reform. He was defeated because of
the cumbersome and tcrtuous machinery
of the Electoral college; but he secured
10000 more votes than Harrison, 49,
600 more than he received four years
ago. The majority cfM people are for
tariff REFORM