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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08
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THE STAR HAS MORE THAN
THREE TIMES AS MANY REGULAR
SUBSCRIBERS and MORE THAN
Five TIMES AS MANY REGULAR
READERS AS ANY OTHER DAILY
PAPER In WASHINGTON. II is de.
nvered regularly by careful carriers at
the HOMES OF THE PEOPLE, AFTER
THE BUSTLE AND WORRY OF THE
CAY ARE OVER, and it is thus read
leisurely and thoroughly by EVERY
MEMBER OF THE FAMILY.
They know that IL prints all the news,
and has only the interests Of the people
Of the District I'm view, with no partisan
measures to advocate, and no private
schemes to forward. They know IL, I'm
short, to be THE PEOPLES PAPER,
aud nothing else. As an ADVERTISING
MEDIUM it is, therefore, ABSO-
LUTELY WITHOUT A RIVAL. Ii is
In fact worth more as a means Of reach
ing the public THAN ALL THE
OTHER DAILY PAPERS In THE
CITY TOGETHER.
Furthermore, In proportion to the re-
turns 1t gives its patrons, ITS ADVER-
Using RATES ARE THE CHEAPEST
IN THE CITY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08
HOW THE Ex.EMPREss DIED.
At an Advanced Age She Succumbs to
an Attack of Influenza.

The death Of Empress Augusta. mentioned
In yesterdays STAR, was announced to the
people yesterday in Berlin by the lowering of
the imperial standard from its place over the
palace. The empress passed away peacefully
As the end came the mourners knelt around
the bed and the court chaplain offered prayer
and then blessed the remains. The Emperor
William and the empress soon after left the
chamber. As early as in the morning the
doctors had perceived there was no hope of
saving the empress life. She had suffered
from the influenza for three days and bore
the malady SO well that on Monday night her
recovery was looked upon as certain. But in
the course OF the night pneumonia was devel-
oped and presented q crisis too great for her
remaining strength. Her body is laid upon an
open couch and is shrouded with white man.
tie. On her right hand Is laid spray of lilies of
the valley. Her head reposes upon white pill
lows and her face is wrapped round with a COW
ering of white lace.
HER LIFE NOT ALTOGETHER HAPPY ONE.
The dowager empress was the daughter OF
Charles Frederick, grand duke Of Weimer, and
was born III 1911. At eighteen she married the
then prince William OF Prussia, who was thir-
ty-two. The queen empress spent most of her
time at Cobientz and made herself popular in
the Rhine provinces by associating with men of
letters and dispensing royal charity with open
hands and atfaDle grace. Queen Augusta was
but little spoken of, even i'll Germany, before
her husband addressed his famous kilograms to
her from the battle fields of Bohemia and
France, and until she herself took more
active part in public life by organizing the re-
lief for the wounded during this period of
bloody strife. She had always been, above all
things, the queen consort. Never happy or
loving wife, welded from political necessity
and ruled with rod of iron by her husband,
she had never been especially devoted to the
two children born of that loveless union. She
had taken delight in the exercise of her social
functions, first as queen and afterward as en-
press. She was also an intelligent woman and
well versed not only in German but in French
literature as well, always taking care, with a
certain degree Of atfectaton, to exchange a
few words in public with the French ambassa-
dor III his own language at the great court
ceremonies,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08
THE PEACH CROP IN DANGER.
Continued Warm Weather Causing
Grave Fears Among Fruit Growers.

Dover. Del. Special to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The continued warm. spriDg-iike weather
which prevails is causing alarm among the
fruit growers. At first the mildness of the fall
was hailed by them with delight, as it gave
them an opportunity to put through the out
door work which had been retarded by the I'M
usually wet summer. But old peach growers
have been shaking their heads ominously for
two weeks past. The expressed sentiment has
been, IF the cold snap will only reach us by
Christmas we are safe, as it will prevent the
buds from swelling. II the snap does not come
you will see peaches in bloom by the middle of
January"
A ride through lower Kent and upper Sussex
counties proves that these old farmers knew
what they were talking about. The cold snap
did not come, and in many orchards the peach
buds are bursting. The scene everywhere is
like that OF late spring. Men are blowing in
the fields in their shirt sleeves, cattle graz
ing on fresh. green grass, and in many places
strawberry patches are in full bloom. To no
class OF fruit, however. is this early blooming
so dangerous as to the peach. The smaller
fruits can bloom, be nipped by the frost and
then come up smiling again III the warm spring.
But the peach can bud and bloom but once a
year. 1t Is a fact not generally understood
that peach buds come on the same wood
but once, and that each year the new growth Of
wood made by the tree is that which bears the
buds and fruit of the year following. Hence,
If the buds now swelling and bursting are
killed by the frost, which it is more than likely
they will be, full year must be given the trees
to make new wood before new buds be
expected, and ten days more Of this kind OF
weather will settle the fate of the peach crop of
1890.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08
Water Monopoly in the Far West.

Walter Gillette Bates in ScriDner
The laws of the western states and territories
everywhere recognize and protect the rights
OF the first or prior appropriation" of water.
If the first settler on the banks Of a stream
draws off i'll his ditch one-half or the whole
OF the customary flow to irrigate his farm he
has the right to take this one-half or the whole
flow forever to the entire exclusion of any sub
sequent settler. But the same rule applies to
rivers OF large size. As the quick-witted west
erner stands by the side of one of the great
rivers aud looks over thousands CT acres of
desert land along it's banks he sees d fortune in
the situation. Only get capital enough to-
gether, organize great company. dig AN i'm
mense canal, which will appropriate" all the
water in the river, and you command the whole
valley. 1t Is the position of the western rail-
roads repeated. Instead of waiting for settlers
to come and dig little bitches as they need
them an immense capital digs ono huge
canal watering thousands of farms
and then draws settlers by adver-
tisement and boom. So all over
the west, throughout Colorado, in central and
southern California, in Montana and Idaho, on
the Salt and ella rivers, in southern Arizona,
there are great companies, with capitals run
ming into the millions, putting this idea into
effect. The canals they dig are twenty, thirty
or even fifty miles long. The largest are a
hundred feet WIDE and ten feet deep, very
rivers in themselves. They follow the contour
OF the country. running back further and
further from the river as the latter falls away.
The main canal gives off lateral branches at
frequent intervals and by an ingenious system
Of gates, crossings and bitches sends water to
every foot of arabic ground between it and the
| river. The land belongs to the government
and Ii taken up by individual settlers at merely
nominal prices under the desert land act"
But the water belongs to the canal company
and it Is this water that the settler really pays
for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08

Equally does THE STAR lead all its
contemporaries I'm the publication OF the
NEWS OF OUR OWN COUNTRY.
Receiving the regular dispatches Of
both News Associations; with alert and
enterprising special telegraphic cor
respondents at all important points; and
with wires leading directly from its own
office to the general network of telegraph
system touching every city, town and
hamlet I'm the United States and Terri
tories, il is enabled TO receive and print
at once a full report of every event Of
consequences occurring during the day
citic Oceans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08
Winters Growing Warmer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Eve have sure proof that the average cold of
the winter Is not so great or extended over SO
long period as it was twenty years ago." re-
marked hardware dealer who had been in
business since 1850. 1T is true we do not sell
half as many pairs of skates as in my earlier
years. 1t won't do to attribute the decrease to
the fashion of roller skating nor to say that
young people and adults have given up the no.
ton of gliding over the ice. II we had the ice
this generation would be as quick to take it as
their predecessors were. Carry your mind
back twenty years and you will recall that there
were a dozen ice Kinks IN and about the city,
the largest and best of which was that in old
Eastwick park. Men rented the grounds,
flooded them, put up restaurants and dressing
rooms, and then made money, because there
was scarcely winter when the ice was not
good week after week. Climatic conditions
have changed SO that the man who would go
into it now would be bankrupted. Freezing
weather doesn't last long enough TO insure any
profit for the venture. We hardly sell one
pair of skates in the holiday season now where
We sold dozen in the old days OF frozen
streams and ponds"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08
Wife-kissiDg in Various Cities.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
Kansas City is all torn up over the question
whether man may kiss his wife in public, and,
if so. under just what circumstances. 1t APP
pears that prominent physician of that city
kissed his wife at the theater, and the MANAGE
ment, fearing the influence of such an example,
had him taken out of the building by police
man. As a result the whole subject has come
up as one of vital importance. and there is
great uncertainty to the decision.
Public opinion i'll Kansas City seems to vim
dictate the manager of the theater in his action,
but insists that it must not be carried too far.
Ii Is held that there are certain circumstances
under which man may properly kiss his wife
III public, but the line has not yet been drawn.
The subject has excited the attention of other
cities which freely offer Kansas City advice as
to the proper limit.
Chlcagoans think man may kiss his wife in
a railway car without overstepping the proprie-
ties but should not kiss her when parting at
putting her ON a street ear. In Denver this is
considered very narrow limitation, although
1t is agreed that it must not be done In the
theater. In that city public sentiment sustains
a man in kissing his wife anywhere except at
church. the theater or III a store. There is no
limit placed on the exercise of this conjugal
practice on the street.
St. Paul. however, looks unkindly on the
whole matter. 1t objects to a man kissing his
wife anywhere in public, with the possible ex-
ceptIon of the front door step if it Is growing
dusk. In strong contrast to this is the cOnsen-
sus of opinion in Bismarck, now putting Oh airs
Is Il STATE capital, that man can kiss his wife
whenever he pleases so long as he doesn't kiss
any other mans wife. This is the limit of
liberalism, and shows the freedom from con-
ventiOnal restraints that abounds on the far
western prairies.
SO far as Philadelphia is concerned this is
not likely to become q burning issue. Phila-
uplDllauS are not over given to kissing their
wives under any circumstances, and few in
stances of it in public are ever witnessed. A
man may kiss his wife whenever he wants to
and snc will let him, but he Is not likely to do
SO under circumstances which will be embar-
RAISING to either party or distressing to the
puhlic
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THE EVENING STAR Is a PAPER
OF TO-DAY, not Of YESTERDAY nor
of LAST WEEK. 1t prints ALL THE
NEWS, Local, Domestic aud Foreign,
LONG IN ADVANCE OF THE MORN
ING PAPERS.
This Is conspicuousIy true of all classes
OF news, but especially SO in regard to
Local News and District Affairs.
THE STAR has very much LARGER
and BETTER force of LOCAL RE-
PORrERS and SPECIAL WRITER'S
than any other paper In Washington
ever thought Of employing, and IT'S
MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT AND
PRINTING FACILITIES ARE MORE
THAN THREE TIMES AS POWER.
Full AND RAPID AS THOSE OF ANY
OTHER WASHINGTON PAPER. Its
therefore able to print each day a fun
report OF every TRANSACTION OF public an
serest occurring in the District up to
che very hour Of going to press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08
BLUE BLAZES IN ST. LOUIS.
The Electric Wires Cutting UP Capers
During the Blizzard.

Accidents from fallen electric wires have been
so numerous in st. Louis during the prevailing
"blizzard" weather as to cause little less than
a panic among people who are compelled to be
on the streets. The rain changed to sleet late
Monday, and as the temperature steadily fell
the ice-burdened telegraph, telephone and
electric light wires sagged and, in some in
stances, were displaced from the poles that up
held them. Sparks of varied hue flashed from
them here and there, threatening danger on
every hand. Two street car horses were killed
and their heads nearly burned off at 4th and
Chestnut streets by an electric wire yesterday.
The wire was stretched across the necks of the
horses, and, as they dropped to the street dead,
a cloud of smoke came up from them. The
wire burned through the flesh like sharp
knife and cut the jusular vein. stream of
blood spurted from the first horse, striking the
pavement. The wire kept on burning until cut
by tiremen, who quickly arrived on the scene
There were fifteen passengers on the car and
they scrambled out in every direction, some
trying to get out of the windows. There are
delays on all the street car lines. The fire
alarm and police telegraph system is also out
of order. no less than $50 boxes being useless
during Monday night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08
AN UNKNOWN LAND.
A Portion of This Country Never Trod-
den by White Men.

Washington has her great unknown land, like
the interior of Africa, says the Seattle Press.
The country shut in by the Olympic mountains,
which includes an area OF about $500 miles
square, has never, TO the positive knowledge of
old residents of the territory been trodden by
the foot of man. white or Indian. These noun
tains rise from the Level country, within ten or
fifteen miles of the straits of San Jaun de Fuca
in the north, the Pacific ocean in the west,
Hoods canal in the east and the basin of the
Quinault lake in the south, and. RISING to the
heighth Of 5000 to 5000 feet, shut in vast
unexplOred area.
The Indians have never penetrated it, for
their traditions say that it Is inhabited by a
very fierce tribe which none OF the coast tribes
dared modest. Though II Is improbable that
such tribe could have existed Ill this mount
ain country without their presence becoming
known to the white men. no man has ever as
certained that 1t did not exist. White men. too,
have only vague accounts of any white man
having ever passed through this country, for
investigation of all the claims OF travellers has
invariably proved that they have only trayersed
its outer edges.
Ihe,most generally accepted theory in regard
TO this country is that il consisted of great val
leys. stretching from the inward slopes OF the
mountains TO great central basin. This theory
j. supported by the fact that, although the
country around has abundant rain aud clouds
constantly hang over the mountain tops. all the
streams flowing toward the four points of the
compass insignificant and rise only on the
outward slopes of the range. none appearing to
drain the great lakes shut in by the noun tains
This fact appears to support the theory that
streams flowing from the inner slopes of the
mountains feed great interior lake But wha,
drains this lake, 1t must have an outlet some
where, and. as all the streams pouring from
the mountains rise on their outward slopes, II
must have a subterrane@n outlet to the ocean
the straits or the sound There are great dis
coyerles IN store for some OF Washingtoa's ex-
plorers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08
Lord Salisbury's Nenacing Note.

Senior Comes will answer the marquis of
Salisbury's latest note at the end of the week.
Salisburys note was of a menacing, peremp-
tory character, requiring Portugal to act at
once, as If the rectitude of England's position
in the case was beyond all doubt. 1t is believed
that Portugal cannot concede SO much, but that
the foreign minister will intimate the willing
ness Of the Portuguese government to order the
maintenance OF the statu quo in Africa pending
negotiation if England will do the same. The
main point of the Portuguese answer will meet
IN part, at least, the terms of Salisbury's de-
mand, which was that the Portuguese govern
ment should Immediately give to its agents in
Africa such instruction as would prevent the
repetition by Serpa Pinto or by any other of
acts similar to those attributed to Serpa Pinto,
as otherwise tranquil diplomatic discussion
would be impossible.
The admiralty yacht Enchantress sailed from
Portsmouth for Gibraltar yesterday with scaled
orders for the ironclads Beubow and Colossus.
There is thought to be no doubt that the orders
relate to Portugal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08
The London Club Scandal

The trial OF Arthur Newton, the solicitor
Frederick Taylorson, his clerk, and Adolphus
De Gala, the interpreter. on the charge of con-
spiracy to defeat justice in connection with the
West Fad scandal, WAS continued before Magis-
trate Vaughan in the Bow street police court
yesterday. Au ex-pOstai messenger named
Perkins testified thar AFTER he had given testi-
mony to the police against Seyloye, who took
tine witness to the house i'll Cleveland street,
and against Week. who assisted in the manage
ment OF the house, Newton tried to induce him
To 80 20 Austria. Newton said he knew some
body who would give go down and Il a week
each for three years to himself Perkins, and
the other boys, Wright, Swinskow ana Barber,
who had also given information to the police
If they would all emigrate together
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08
Not Influenza.

To the Editor of The EVENING STAR:
1t is evident that the disease prevailing and
known as la grippe" is not that usually des-
ignated influenza" nor is il one of the dis
eases coming under the nomenclature of the
many catarrhal affections. 1t is not q disease
of a special tissue. Its history proves it a
forerunner of worse and more serious cpl
demic, and in its track will be found the chol-
era. The existence of this disease. which
spans the world and spares neither the aged
nor the infant, the strong nor the weak, Is
henefcent in the respect that those who have
IL and are cured will not be susceptible to the
next epidemic. Those who pass through this
stage of the epidemic and suppress the disease,
withOu. making a cure, will be the more sus-
ceptible to its follower.
The disease is inflammation of all the capil-
laries. The arterlal. yenouS and Emphatic
capillaries are in a whirl of motion. The fric-
tiOn of the rapidly moving blood. lymph and
serum GlObules produces the chill and fever,
which partake of the excitement and are not
fixed The excutory organs cannot perform
their appropriate duties while the blood is SO
rapidly and disOrderly circulating i'll the capli-
laries. The liver is cOngested. the kidneys do
not act. the stomach IL as though is sea
sick. the lungs respire heavily, the heart works
labOriously and the brain is filled with the
commotion of the system.
For such a disease. defined by symptoms
different from those of other diseases, We CAN
not the name influenza the grip" will
do for pleasantly; it is not a ''coryZa." What
name is appropriate! ''Capiilaritis" has
merits. II Is the most extensive and charac-
teristic Inflammation of the capillaries OF the
whole system of which we have knowledge,
and II should be studied as a distinct disease.
RUFUS CHoATE, MD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08
--.Os-.

In conclusion, the public should bear
In mind this one significant fact: THE
STAR does not rely upon empty boasts
to impress the public. ITS CIRCULA-
TION Is SWORN TO; its PRESS
ROOM is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC;
and its BOOKS MAY BE INSPECTED
by any one having an interest in their
examination. These are CRUCIAL
TESTS, which few papers invite, and
which those that boast most are least
able to stand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08

BY the free use of the OCEAN CABLES
Tor REGULAR AND SPECIAL DIS
PATCHES, and with the difference of
time I'm its favor, il is also able TO give
Its readers every afternoon tine news of
the WHOLE EASTERN HENIISIREIsE
for the entire day, and up to IL O'Clock
midnight, thus leaving literally nothing
In the way Of news from Europe, Asia.
aud Africa for the morning papers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08
CITY AND DISTRICT.

- wealthy London merchant gives the
secret Of his business success as follows: Il
always feel happy when am advertising. for
then know that, waking or sleeping, hare a
strong though silent orator working for me;
one who never tires, never makes mistakes, and
who is certain 10 enter the households from
which, If at all, my trade must come" To
secure the services OF such an agent as this
shrewd merchant referred to, advertise in The
EVENING STAR 1t is read by everybody In
Washington
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08
PROPOSALS.

DRoPOSALS FOR NATURAL HYDRAULIC CE-
gress i43 hast CAPITOL street, Washington o. Jan
u2ry 4. lSso.-Seaicd proposals for furnishing a.l
delivering about lO0O barrels of natural hyiraullc
cement for me building for the Library Congress ia
TINS city VIII be received 20 tits offce until TWO
O'CLOCK PM On TUESDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST
DAl OF JANUARY, 1880, aud opened immediately
thereafter In presence 81 bidders Specl icati,s
eral Instructions aud conditions ana blank forms II
proposal may be Obtained appli, alton AZ Tins fi
BERNARD Il. GREEN, Superinisn deut and Er,c1neer
ta46,S,l0.l3,l5-6
DROPoSALS FOR FURNISHING PAVING
Il BRlChS.-tAuyertiseme l-Ofice OF the Conn.,
nissioners DC, Washington, u. c.. December so
lSS9=Sealed Proposals will be received this Office
untll TWELVE O'CLOCK NJ. on MONDAY JANI-
ARl THil.1EENTH, 1880. for furnishing 100000
Paving Bricks, less. For spe<itcatiups-
blanks which bids must be made and ali other I'M,
formation apply at this Office The right IL reserved
DOUGLASS. l.: 6; HlNE CHAs. W. RAYMOND
Commissioners ID. G lao -tit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08
Ii was Julius Wolf's Gr;Dsack.

About ten days ago an account appeared of
the loss of vaiise containing $3.50, 900 in bonds
and securities BY guest of the Southern hotel.
ST. Louis. IL was returned by a traveller who
tooA IL by mistake. At the time the name of
the person who lost the valuable grip was care
fully concealed. Yesterday it leaked out tina.
TIE man who carries about a valise worth a big
fortune and leaves 1t IN his room with the door
unlocked Is julius Wolf OF New York, wealthy
sard:ne packer and dealer III olives, who put
SllS,000 into the Lee-Deming grocery company
OF ST. Louis, which failed Monday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-08
Congressman Cheatam and the Exodus

Hon. Ii. p. Cheathan, the coored Congress-
man from the second district of North Carolina,
addressed several hundred colored people at
Halifax, IN that state, few days ago, urging
them not to leave that section to 60 away to
Kansas and other places lie told them that " hen
taken away by some sharp agent who gets pay
by the head tor all he induces away they are
treated rs slaves and will have 10 freedom II
they wish to LOOK for Il better place do so by
pay Ing their own expenses, and then they will
be under obligations 10 no one.