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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-04
Senator Coke and the Little Darkey.

Senator Coke and the Little DaIkey.
Washington Correspondence st. Louis Republican.
Soon after the last session of Congress a
number of southwestern men started home
together. There were in the party Senator
Coke, Representative Kilgore and Attorney
General Hogg, of Texas, Representative Man
sur, of Missouri, and Senator Berry, of Arkan-
sas. All were over six feet high and well in
the neighborhood of 800 pounds each. When
they reached Louisville they had to wait for
an hour to make railroad connection. They
walked up and down the depot platform for
awhile, and finally took turn on the street.
When they attempted to return to the depot
they found the gates closed. and the gentle
man In charge, clothed in little brief author
ity, insolently refused to let them enter. Their
baggage on the inside and they felt nerv-
Gus about it, Coke pleaded earnestly for per-
mission to go on the depot platform, but the
gate-keeper was memorable. Coke got mad.
He stormed around for awhile, did some
very talented cussing, and at last in state
OF disgust sat on truck near the gate.
pulled his wide-brimmed hat over his eyes and
looked gloomy. There was little niger boy
In uniform belonging to the porter's staff, who
was close observer of the proceedings. He
viewed the southwestern statesmen with evil
dent admiration. Their great size convinced
him that they were really some distinguished
people, and belonged to some wild western
show. After while the little coon could no
longer restrain his curiosity, and approaching
Coke, who sat moodily on the truck he asked:
Say, cap'en. what troupe does yer belong ter?''
Mansur exploded Berry followed suit. and
hllSore and Hogg went into spasms. In the
meantime Coke lost patience and made grab
for the colored chap in livery. He missed and
to the tune of very. violent laughter the darkey
escaped. Coke did not recover from this incl
dent until after he parted with his associates
Every time they referred to the matter and
vent tn hearty lauuhfar ha
lie could not bring himself to see the fun of
the thing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-04
NOT ALWAYS INTERESTING.
The Bright American Girl Sometimes is
Too TaIkative.
From the San Francisco Arronaut.

From the San Francisco Argonaut
Opposed to the silent type is the young
American lady who is the victim of the talking
habit in its most virulent form. Her compan-
ions leave her society feeling very tired. She
is most vivacious and bright Her friends say
of her, ''She has a wonderful flow Of Ian
guage." Her enemies, especially the vulgar
ones-and all enemies are vulgar-say that
she can talk the hind legs off a mule" See
how different the point of view can be- When
her friends hear what her enemies have said,
they politely wonder if she has talked off
their hind legs. But why repeat these spite
FIJI determinations? This Young lady is fond
of retiring with her victim into secluded cor
ners. where she entertains him with the history
of her abnormally gifted family for several
generations back. She never loves a dear
gazelle. to glad her with his bright, soft eve.
that she does not impart to him anecdotes
culled from the family history There are cpl
sodes of her own childhood which also must
be told, and to which the familv's prowess was
merely mild prologue. Naturally these
"reminiscences of a promising past spur her
companion to emulation. He recalls remark
able evidences of genius which decked with
amarantus his brow of youth He burns to tell
them. He chafes to enter the arena. As he
pauses breathless, he cuts in with
Yes, yes; very funny. That reminds me of
when was q little chap
''And it was two years after that" she
meditatiyely interrupts, her eyes, fixed in a
stare of working memory on her foot ''that
/ fell through the ice out skating. 1t was one
of my most horrible experiences" &C. She
takes the bit firmly between her teeth land can
tiers proudly off. He succumbs but waits his
time. At the end of her recital he makes a
spring for the silence and clutches il with:
GAS l was about to remark. when | was
little chap, not six years old-my mother has
often told me the story"
''Six years old" she murmurs raising her
eyes to the chandelier in the deepest reverie
''when my brother George was six years old he
wrote Spanish poem, which was considered
very remarkable. He a wonderful child >"
She drops the words out lingeringly but he
sees with horror that she is warming with her
subject; opening vistas of recollection of
Georges distinguished powers stretch away
before her mental vision. George is on the
carpet for the next fifteen minutes He holds
his advantage bravely. The Spanish poem
was followed by Greek one at 8, and a
Hebrew translation at 10. 1t is very hard
to vie with Georges Opulent genius. Her
companion is gradually swamped by it. Like
the queen of Sheba before the glories of
King Solomon there is no more spirit left in
him." He only sits and waits patiently for the
happy time
when silence. like poultice, comes
10 heal the blows of sound
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The Emin Relief Expedition.

The managing committee of the Emin Pasha
expedition at Berlin has received information
that Lieut. wissman, who, it was expected,
would lead the expedition for the relief of
Emin Pasha, has been appointed for special
service in connection with the foreign Office.
The committee has expressed its regret at
losing the services of Lieut.. Wissman, but have
decided to dispatch the expedition at the ear
hest possible moment The expedition will be
under the command OF DIR. Carl Peters, the
president of the committee. Lieut.. Wissman
who Is now employed solely by the govern
ment, will organize the colonial troops in East
Africa
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He was All Right.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
During the recent registration prior to the
election gentleman stepped in front of the
judges and prepared himself to become a quail
fed voter in the city of Chic ago.
do you solemnly swear" &C., asked the
judge.
Il do" was the reply.
"Name?"
1t was given.
''How long have you lived in this city?'
about three years"
''Your native state?'
.'Texas" exclaimed the man proudly.
Ever been naturaliZed?'' asked the Judge,
abruptly.
The Texan gave the judge look that froze
his marrow and caused cold chills to run up
and down that individuals spinal column.
What's that" finally calculated the Texan,
drawing little nearer the Judge of election
Ever been naturalized?" repeated the Judge.
The Texan stopped down and ran his hand in
his bootleg, but before he could commit any
rash act the judge said hastily:
That's all right, sir. You are qualified. We
are all satisfied"
The man from the Staked plains withdrew,
saying, as he left, that if such man as the one
who had been questioning him ever drifted to
Texas he would never get back to Illinois.
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Railroad Train i'm a Forest Fire.
A SCENE AND EXPERIENCE ENOUGH FOR LIFE
TIME.


TIME.
From St Nicholas.
The train, lessening its speed, was soon
Obliged to creep cautiously between banks of
rose-red embers or solid cords of roaring wood
the wood which had been cut and piled for
commerce. The pine branches on the iat-car
ignited, driving the brass band into an inclosed
carriage for shelter. Men with buckets dropped
to bitches beside the track and dipped up water
to throw on the train. creeping on the platforms
again with scorched clothes and hands and
faces blistered. One who has never been in a
forest fire can scarcely imagine its intense
heat the arid. binding smoke, the suddenness
with which trees flash from root to crown
and grass blazes far from any spark. as if the
earth Itself were burning. the furnace glow of
piled logs, the heated air from baked ground
Incredible sights showed through the nightmare
of fire. Moss-inclosed stumps spurted flame
many times their own height Young ferns,
scarce unroled, sprang green and fresh from one
side OF log, while the other side quivered in
living Goals. The train stopped. 1t could
creep into retreat no further. for its track was
burned and the rails warped into fantastic
curves. Biackened and blistered paint ran
down the car sides. The doors and windows
had all been closed TO keep out smoke and sick
enlng neat. Every passenger in the carriage
gasped for breath. The floor was so hot it
burned their feet. The window glass could
not De touched. They could all see the wooden
SIDES or the Enclosure warp. When the doomed
train had hung minute in the midst of this
furnace some one opened a door and shouted
That 1t was on ire. Into the blistering. smoke
darkened air, and out upon a forest floor,
spread with embers and quivering with heat
the people all rushed. Women tainted and
were dragged up and carried by their fathers
or brothers. The escape-valve of the locomo-
tive was left open by its flying engineer but it
uttered Its steam wall briefly. being relieved
by explosion When days had cooled the forest
TO blackness distorted boiler and some rows
Of iron wheels were found where the train came
To a
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A Fighting Editor.

MATTHEWS, THE FRIEND OF GEORGE d. PRENTICE
VICTORIOUS IN TWO DESPERATE ENCOUNTERS.
From the New York Mail and Express.
l.. G.. Matthews. of Louisville. was for twenty
three years an editor in Indiana, and his repu-
tation for bravery was great that no man
cared to encounter him. He is a wealthy man
ufacturer now, and resides several months of
tle year at the Fifth Avenue hotel. Walking
around the corridor, wearing gOld-bowed spec
tacles and derby hat, no one would suspect
tnat years ago he was a noted fighter. He was
a friend of George ID. Prentice, the great editor
and poet, and the latter advised him never to
answer IN his paper personal attack. But
that precaution did not exempt him from sew
eral desperate encounters that made him known
and feared in the Hoosier state before the war.
His first triumph was to place a hurley black
smith hors du combat. He went i'll the smith 8
shop to collect bill. The smiths brother had
been shown up in Mr.. Matthew's paper, and
the former yearned for revenge. He said to
the editor:
''You sue me for that BILL and if you fail to
win II will give you a sound thrashing"
''Why don't you do it now?" pluckily an
swered the editor
In an instant the trip-hammer right arm Of
the huge blacksmith struck out and knocked
down his antagonist. The writer arose and
was sent sprawling upon his back again.
Dizzy and blind with rage he got up. drew a
penknife and almost carved the smith to pieces
1t took the blacksmith six months to get we'll
The citizens rendered their thanks to Mr..
Matthews for his heroic services. Shortly after
ward he was crossing the Ohio river on a ferry
boat when country editor approached and
asked him if he was the author Of certain ar
ticle in the New Albany Le,iger He replied
that 1t was none of his business. The rural
quill-driver struck him over the head with a
large walking cane, telling him to the hoor of
the beat. Bleeding profusely, he got on his
knees, drew a revolver and at the first dis
charge broke his antagonists arm. That ended
the fight. Those two fights firmly established
Matthews reputation, and for some years he
enjoyed halcyon immunity from sudden at
war began, and his ways are those of peace and
good fellowship.
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4 Heroine in RAGS.

SHE CARRIES TWO CHILDREN DISTANCE OF
THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILES,
From the Cincinnati Commercial- Gazette
A tall, fair-looking, but miserably-attired
woman, carrying two small children, whose
clothing told the story of restitution more
plainly than they could do attracted the at
tention of Policeman Muenlerman on Pearl
street, near Butler, shortly before o'clock
last evening. Approaching the seemingly
nigh exhausted creature, on whose face was
plainly stamped privation in all its terrors,
the officer Intercepted her as to where she
had come from and how she came to be in
such apparent restitution. In reply the
woman narrated story which reads more
like the work of a novelist than realism
She had tramped distance of between $50
and 400 miles to this city. and had carried
and cared for her children as best she could
with the limited means at her disposal on her
tedious journey; In fact. all she had on which
to sustain life was what she begged along the
route. while she obtained shelter in barns and
outhouses. Her home was in West Virginia.
on the Big Sandy river. twenty-three miles
from Pikeville, Pike county, Ky. Her name
was Nancy Coleman. Her husband. John, had
been farmer, but about month ago deserted
her and took up with woman in Pikeyille
When he left his wife he took with him their
two children, aged, respectively, two and three
years. This was too much for the courageous
woman, and she determind to regain the DOS
session of her little ones, who, she declared,
should not be brought up by a woman of dis
reputable character. Going to Pikeville, she
managed to secure the children, and with them
started on her long Journey to this city, which
she, by remarkable perseverance and endur-
ance, managed to walk into last evening. after
having been on the road over three weeks.
After hearing the womans story the officer
called Patrol company No. 2, and caused her
removal to the House of Detention, where she
and her little ones were given food and lodg-
ing. To-day the authorities will no doubt take
further steps in providing for the heroic wo-
man and her children. Mrs. Coleman, who is
thirty years Of age and good looking, is DESTROYS
of obtaining employment by which to sustain
herself and children, as it was with that view
she underwent the trials and deprivations Incl
dent to her long tramp.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-04
Think and Work Too Hard.

MAN Is THE ONLY ANIMAL THAT CAN SMILE OR
LAUGH, AND HE IS RAPIDLY FORGETTING How
From the Century.
The intensity of modern life and the DEEPEN
ing of consciousness through intelligence breed
Sadness. We think too much and work too
hard to have time for enjoyment, and if we
suddenly discover that we have need of it, we
take it in inordinate quantities. rather than in
simple and natural ways: we 90 out and buy
pleasure at so much an hour. instead of some
how cOntriving TO live mirthful life Close
observers of modern society, like Walter Be-
SAINT, have discovered that a main lack in the
lives of the poor is that of cheer and he urges
that philanthropic plans should embrace meas
ures for daily Frightening the lives of the peo-
pie by some simple experience of a pleasure
bic sort. 1t would be sOmber fact il the num-
Der of those who live through a day without
laugh or even a smile could be ascer-
tained-a strange miscarriage of ma
ture, since man is the only being within her
dominion who is capable of that action. Christ
mas has rendered the world this good service
that now for many centuries it has called men
to sympathetic cheerfulness. 1t comes indeed
but once year, but for some DAYS the cloud
on the brow of humanity lifts little and the
wall dies out of its voice. At times it has been
too obstreperous in its mirth and called for
puritanic check. but for the most it has been
true to its origin and stirred the human heart
to sympathetic gladness and hope. We shall
soon near the growls Of the pessimistic critic
over the wastefulness of Christmas gifts and
the nationality of Christmas mirth. Heed
him not; he does not know that the KEYNOTE
of the universe is Joy. and that Christmas
laughter is only a stray echo of an eternal
hymn. and nearly the only one that has reached
us, and that it is well worthy of being caught
if we would ever hear the whole. Therefore,
fathers give gifts to your children. even if you
have to lessen the daily portion, remembering
the wisdom of Mahomet, who said that if ''he
had two lOaves of bread he would sell one and
buy hyacinths, for they would feed his soul"
And. We children, stir up your fathers to mirth.
Christmas comes but once year, and the years
left to them NAV not be MANY
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FATALLY TORTURED BY Two You've FrENps.-
At Salubria, KY, recently, Sallie Wall, five
year-old colored girl. was left by Mrs. Wilson,
whom she was visiting, in charge of her two
half-grown sons while she went from home.
The boys stripped the child of her clothes,
tied her to post and beat her in a terrible
manner. Not satisfied, the young brutes then
stuck her in the fire and held her there until
her eyes had been burned out and her body so
mutiiated that she cannot possibly recover
The two boys escaped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-04
The Rage for ArmOriaI Bearings.

from AHlcrlca.
The rage in this republic for armorial bear
ings and the desire to trace descent from some
effete European line is amazing. 1 knew three
printers, two men and a woman, on a single
paper III Colorado mining camp, who spent
the best part of their time in setting up their
genealogical records. One of them bankrupted
himself in buying plates to illustrate mis- family
chronicle, and slipped off one night. leaving
all his debts unDaid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-04

AT the Union depot in St. Louis, Wednesday
night. Mrs. G. n. Louis. en- route from Beaver.
Pa, to Alton, ILL.,, became possessed with the
idea that she was pursued by White Caps. The
demented woman was taken charge Of by the
authorities
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-04
A Terrible Moment.

From the Chicago News
When a strand of feminine hair gets entangled
in masculine scarf pin it does not require a
very heavy step in an adjoining room to make
two hearts beat as twenty.
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A. s. Small's saw mill and box factory at Lin
coin, Sussex county, Del, burned on wednes-
day with machinery and contents. Loss from
$1,000 to $4,000
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ia3-3t WILLIAM STAN
rg,H0MAS BOWLING, Auctioneor.
lXECUTOR's SALE OF THE REAL ESTATE OF
TIE ~ -, LATE En- MAkT A DoNiPHAN, BEING
SOUrHWEST AND NOS. 1927 AND 1879 @
STREET SOUTHWEST.

By virtue of power in the will Of Mary Ann Doni-
phan, dec ased will oder for sale at public auction
on TUESDAY, TIE EIGHTH DAY OF JANUARY,
A. d., 1883. at -FOUR O'CLOCK 7. y, in trout OF the
PREMISES sub lot q, in square 3 situate the south
east corner of 9th and streets southwest and i'm
proved by comfortable two-story frame dwelling
This is desirable corner lot, having frontage Of ~
feet 10 inches on street and ia feet inches 9th
street.
ALSO ON THE SANE DAY AT HALF-PAST
FOUR O'CLOCK p. NJ, il front of the premises. the
west 81 feet inches of original lot D. in square
bered 296, improved by two frame dwellings, Nos
1927 and I I9 street southwest
Terms of sale: One third cash and balance in equal
installmeHts st six and twelve months from day of
sale notes TO bear interest at per cent per snnum
and to be secured by deed Of trust all cash.
of the purchaser deposit of 500 viii be required
upon No SIS st. sw. and 800 upon each OF the
other sales. Terms 20 be complied with i'll DAYS
from day of sale otherwise the right is reserved to re-
sell at risk and cost OF defaulting purchaser.
ia3-d&ds j. WALTER COOhSEl, Executor.