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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-06
Victims Of HeliOcv.

From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
In an article yesterday the Democrat and
Chronicle expressed the opinion that il careful
observation were made it would probably be
found that insanity and nervous affections pre-
vail most during periods Of great magnetic dis
turbance. This opinion was the result Of oh
ing the sun-spot maximum Of 1855, and Of
the present very marked disturbance of the sun
and the magnetic force.
The Post-Erpress yesterday took occasion to
make inquiry of the superintendent Of the poor
IN regard to the comparative number Of the in
sane. The results of the inquiries were stated
as follows in its local columns:
Last year there was q remarkable increase
in the number Of insane persons over the num-
Der OF the year previous, but the present sea-
son bids fair to beat the record Superintend-
ent Of the Poor McGonegal said this morning
that he thought the number Of insane cases
reported to him recently would average one q
day for the last two months. Yesterday he
took testimony in three new cases, and this
morning two more were brought before him"
These statements are an unexpected verifca-
cation of the views expressed by the Democrat
and Chronicle. We had no ide& that the in
crease of insanity had been 10 marked during
the present period Of the great electrical dis
turbance. The facts thus set forth may throw
much light upon periodic insanity.
The proper method Of treating such cases a
apparent. In . majority Of cases the mental
alteration h merely temporary and ceases
when the exciting cause ceases to act That
cause il undue electrical excitement Of our
atmosphere from the disturbances on the sun.
For long time the mon was considered the
cause Of innnity, and Insane persons were
called lunatics; but TIE proper name would BE-
heliotic, ~ the sun = tie real causs Of TIE
nervous affection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-06
A UNIQUE WILL CASE.
Breaking II Would Have Taken All From
the Contestants.

From the Boston Traveller
One of the famous legal complications which
Boston has witnessed managed to involve in its
lntricacles quite a number of notable men For
many Years one of the law Offices in the old Joy
building was occupied by veteran lawyer
known as Jerry" Brown. Quite late in life
this old gentleman WAS married to one OF his
clients. who not long after died. When her will
was opened it found to have been made
shortly before her marriage. BY it she be-
queathed practically all her property TO her in
tended husband. giving small requests TO her
relatives and to public charities. and also re-
Numbering her husbands nephew. J. Q. A.
Bracket. whom she named. with him. "a cxecu-
tor. The will was witnessed by Albert E. Pills.
bury.
The heirs-at-law Immediately set up an at
tempt to break the will on the ground OF undue
influence. The documents they filed stated that
among the property was a house ON the Back
Bay and a large amount of land in Kansas.
They retained as counsel John ID. Long and
Stillman Ii. Allen. The executors retained
Charles II. Train and ]. .. Teele. The will was
allowed in the probate court and an appeal
taken To the Supreme Court. There the will
was set aside. Then the executors appealed to
the full bench on exceptions. but before the
case reached trial IL was settled.
The reason il was settled was this: Bv the
laws of Kansas when there is no will the prop
erty of a wife all goes to her husband The
heirs were therefore fighting to break a will.
which. if broken. would have left them nothing
for their pains, while the isgatee under the will
wa lighting TO preserve il intact, when he
sure to get more by having the will broken.
The consequence was that he settled with the
natural heirs on his own terms.
Uncle Jerry" lived a number of years to re-
late with satisfaction the story of his triumph.
There was no such contest over his will. for he
made none. the ex-governor being his only heir
and the administrator of his estate.
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Just Common Folks.

hundred humble songsters trill
The notes that to their lays belong,
Where just one nightingale might iii
The place with Its transcendant song.
And thus fame comes, and with its smile
soul with lasting greatness cloaks,
And leaves thousand else the while
To be for aye just common folks.
II only sweetest bells were rung,
How we should miss the minor chimes;
If only grandest poets sung
There d be no humble little rhymes.
The modest, ciinging vines add grace
Unto the forests giant oaks,
And mid earth's mighty Is place
To people with just common folks.
Not they the warriors who shall win
Upon the battlefield a name
To sound above the awful din;
Not theirs the painters deathless fame,
Nor theirs the poets muse that brings
The 1ythmic gift his soul invokes;
Theirs but to do the simple things
That duty gives just common folks.
They are the multitudes Of earth
And ming!e ever in the crowd,
E!b0wing those of equal birth,
Where none because Of caste Is proud.
Bound by the mesheS Of fate
That sometimes decree revOkes:
Above the lowly, meath the great,
Are millions of just common folks.
Fate has not lifted them above
The level of the human plain;
Iney snare with men brother love,
In touch with pleasure and with pain.
One great, far-reaching brotherhood
With common burdens, common yokes,
And common wrongs and common good,
Gods army of just common folks.
-Ni1on Waterman IN Boston Globe
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Emperors Who Were Gamblers.

From the North American Review.
According to Suetonius, Caligula not only nc.
cepted the profits from games of chance, but
drew much more from fraud and perjury,
cheating freely his guests and friends, plus
mendacio. atque etiam periurio lucrabatur
&c. Al. Once having asked his neighbor to
hold the dice for him he spied two wealthy
Roman knights promenading in the vestibule of
the palace He caused them to be Immediately
put IN irons, confscated their property and
rushed back to his seat at the dice table. boast
his life.
Claudius was blindly devoted to the alea, hav-
ing written treatise on the subject He even
mad carriage built in such q way as to allow
him and his party to gamble while travelling.
Whoever wanted to make a rapid and brilliant
career at court had only to fiatter his passion
for the dice. Seneca inhicts on him an i'm
aginary but telling punishment He repre-
sents the emperor in hell playing with the dice
box. with hole at the bottom. so that when he
shakes the instrument both dice-utraque
tessera-slip through the hole-a passage which
proves that the Romans played sometimes
with two instead of three dice. Nero, whom
naturally one expects to find in such company,
was fond of a desperate game. and. according
to his biographer Chapter 800, usually put up
the stake at 100000 sesterces for each point. a
sum corresponding to Sl3.400 or thereabout
or Domitian we told that he was
always ready to resort to the dice,
quotes otium esset, even in the morn
ing hours As regards Commodus we know
from Lampridius that he turned the imperial
palace into regular Monte Carlo, devoted to
every excess of refined or brutal profiigacy
Being once pressed for money and unwilling.
perhaps, to borrow from his subjects. he simu-
lated the intention of visiting the African prov
lnces of the empire. and having thus obtained
grant from the treasury under false pretenses
he spent it all in gambling and rioting
Lucius Verns ranks foremost in the list of
Roman imperial gamblers. Such was his pas
sion for debauchery' q quote wellknown
passage Of Captolinus, chapter A. ''that on his
return from Syria he established tavern in
his own palace, to which he repaired after eav-
ing the table of Marcus Aurelius, and there he
partook of the lowest kind of food and drink
and passed the night in playing games of
chance, a passion which he had contracted in
Syria"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-06

Iuainted with the young teaeher-the SCHOOL
namutch'-to cease ewing her with interes,
And amusement. and perhaps amazement at
some Of her ways. They. to her. were curiosi-
ties and had to be handled gently. for at the
least provocation they would follow the ex-
ample Of the porcupine and cause every indi-
vidual hair to stand on end" the children
were seldom reproved
Just a. the recess bell tapped Stars black
eyes. which were too often gazing longingly
over the plaza to the trees and fish-filled river
beyond. caught sight Of Fannie"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-06

skirt and two trim fee. in brown suede walking
shoes and gaping hole in the heel Of her seal
brown hose. lady with the same party wore
remarkably handsome tailor made" of i'm
ported cloth. and the trained bell skirt was
fastened two inches too far to one side. giving
the impression that the point of the waist and
the pialfs IN the skirt were looking cross
eyed at each other
Women are too careless Of these little details.
anyway. They wear face wells too short and
pinned stragglingly with brass pins or with a
safety pm as was seen on a really stylish lady
IN church recently. They neglect to adjust
their headgear properly and present a re
markably upsy appearance with a prim toque
tipped over one ear. Buttons of of boots do
do not trouble them in the least: shoe strings
calmly drink at every puddle or trip up the
complacent wearer unheeded. while the shoes
yawn visibly for backing or varnish
White skirts embellished with three inches of
mud on sloppy days are uncalled for but COM
mon. whole dress binding seems 10 be a
novelty. vet there is really no necessity for the
fringed and tattered appearance Of otherwise
presentable gowns. Another reprehensible habit
Is that of sticking jeweled pins where a button
In the perverseness Of inanimate things has
effaced itself 1t calls double attention to the
disabled garment. Gloves. too. have a tantaliz-
ing way of ripping and shedding buttons at
inopportune moments.
TO HIDE TORN GLOVE.
Dear1e, Just run IN and get me a dozen
roses. said lady to her husband. as they
passed a florists one day last week
why, good gracious, Jen, those roses are
marked $500
Cant help it, Will. this tiresome glove has
ripped and ii will never do to call on Gen -
wearing ripped gloves. The foliage of the roses
will cover it
And ''dearie" got her the roses. while Yen
seemed oblivious of the fact that a pair of
new gloves costing even less than the roses
would have harmonized much better with her
charming spring suit than her soiled pearl
SUICIDES. with distressing rip up the finger
Somebody has said ''never mend; a rent NAV
be the accident of moment, but patch is the
sign of premeditated poverty" 1t must be a
mighty mean sort of pride. however, that will
submit to going about looking like an ''ole clio ~
advertisement rather than make ones self look
neat by taking few necessary stitches. The
careless woman with thousands of dollars to
spend upon her person will not present half as
pleasing an appearance as the careful clerk who
has only her meager salary.
Taste In dress, care in adjusting it and abso-
lute cleanliness of mind and body are a woman's
strongest weapons of conquest. but compare
lively few seem to realize it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-06

Out in the plaza by the big school house gate
was a typical Indian equestrienne. Her pony
was gay and lively one, all black, with long
silky name and tail He was covered from
shoulder to flank with collar and breast plate
immense saddle robe and flank trappings all
made of thick white buckskin beaded in various
patterns of flowers. leaves. animals and figures
edged with fringe beads and belled. The Bride
with exception of reins. of solid Navajo
silver. beaten into long. fiat strips except two
saucer-shaped ornaments that came Just below
the eyes All this was observed ~ q glance;
then We examined Fannie
Daughter of a chief who bears MANY battle
scars and walks lame from a wound in the Meeker
massacre. her mother several years dead Ia
Ute chieftain's daughter). Fannie is not tainted
with drop OF white mans blood and il a true
specimen of an Indian child. She has an In
dian name meaning hooking bird. which is
very appropriate, but is never called aught but
Fannie"
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
She Ia about seven years of age-stronger
and larger than an American girl Of same age
well-built figure, with the usual small hands and
feet Her hair short and black, except where
IT Is burned almost the color OF the coyote by
the sun. pretty round face with large black eyes.
a negro-like nose and mouth not pretty. but
containing two lovely rows of white even teeth
Az she was then in her tattered Indian costume
OF one shirt-like garment. which was put on
over her head and with sleeves opened to
shoulders. she looked picturesque. but not lovely
Later. when she took US down the sage and
cacti-bordered road to her smoke-stained wick
i-up and donned her dancing dress of buckskin
20 beautifully beaded by her dead mother. put
In her hair feathers and ornaments. around her
neck beads. wampum. teeth necklace. a belt of
solid silver around her slender waist. on her
feet lovely moccasins and above them anklets of
beads and porcupine quilts resembling her
bracelets, on her back the immense board that
held her form when she was tiny papoose
Then she was the little Ute princess; but let me
say that to this she added pair Of white cot
ton gloves and a red and blue parasol. which
was not Indian But today the children were
excused and together We went to interview
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-06

From the Brooklyn Life.
II want to get OF this afternoon" said Jack
Homer to his employer. my grandmother's
dead"
Look here" said the employer severely,
didn't give you an afternoon of month ago
because your Grandmother was dead?',.
'Yes. sir, replied the unabashed youth. "She
is still dead, SIR"
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The Truly Rural Test.

From the Boston Herald.
where am at5' is the EXPRESSION used by
Congressman Cobb which convinced Congress-
man Watson that the member was reeling
drunk Ii doesn't appear, however, that he
was not able to say ''truly rural" That il the
only recognized test Of a man . sobriety.
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great feeder of lunatic
asylums. Broker Sis
tare, who shot himself
in the Manhattan Club,
is but the latest of q
myriadvictims deprived
of sanity as well rs for
tune in the speculative
whirlpool. Within the
last ten years more than
ninety successful opera
tors in that great finan-
cial maalstrom worth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-06
GOOD AND BAD TASTE
Some Really Fine-Looking Women
Dress 0utrageously.
SUBSTITUTES FOR WATER
They Use Nostrums Instead of Liquid From
the Potomac-A Chat Upon womrn's
Weaknesses and Fads by One Who Evil
IDENTIFY Knows Them Thoroughly.
HEY WE'RE DISCUSS

HEY WERE DISCUSS
ing the good and bad
points of various wo-
men of their circle in a
distressingly audible
but practically harm
less way on an F street
car. They might have
been returning from
the races.for they were
a bit ''horsey." This
woman was "well
groomed." that one
saorriaJ har haol rolli,
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time for morning re-
cess. this lovely autumn
day, and the last class
were going to theirseats.
School had been IN
session but a month and
twenty-three children
of the forest" who oc-
cupied the old stained
seats in the dilapidated
reservation schoolhou
of Mintah, had not be-
come well enough ac-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-06

~ suppose said Miss Becker to her friend
from Cincinnati, THAT you boil your river water
before using it?''
well. no." replied Miss Buckeye. "Our
usual custom Is 70 slice it thin and dry it,
From Life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-06
True Courtesy.
From Life.

From Life.
Lambson-'T missed my new tennis belle
from my room yesterday, Mrs. Grinder, and
this morning you had tripe for breakfast
Ms. Grinder (the landlsdy, hsughtily)-
'swell. sir, what of it?'
LAmbson-'Is there anything special thas
you would like me TO get today?''
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INDIAN PICK-r-CPS.


Fannie. We tried to make friends by net
ting the horse, but when ne turned with a
vicious bite and then kick We retreated Alta
safe distance 1 said: Mike (the Ute How
de-do"), but / evidently did not pronounce il
right. for she answered with burst of laugh
ter and then (childlike everywhere) put her
finger in her mouth and would not talk After
looking us over from head to foot playfully
ridiculing the bangs. hairpins. dress buttons
and condscating ribbon, she made off,
As SCHOOL GIRL
That afternoon her father. old Snake John.
came and said to us in a very good language
(sort Of yolapuk): MY little girl heap like
you-all time now she cook nv meat. washee
my dishes-penunquaa very SOON she come to
school Then followed series of hatterng
speeches that made us doubt his sanity till he
said: Me heapy iovee you; gimme some meat -
Fannie soon came and was dressed in the
regulation brown gingham underwear red and
black cotton shirt, neat blue dress copper-toe
eslfskin Shoes her hair cleaned and braided.
and who SAYS clothes make man? Fannie was
Fannie for "a that and a that
An APT PUPIL
Never q word could she speak on her arrival.
but in one month her language wss better than
that Of any child in school. though some had
been there three years. She was q born actress,
for before she knew an English sentence she
would gather the children around her at recess
ano Dy Indian words. gestures and q few re-
membered sentences she would go over the
whole day Of school work By her acting alone
one could well understand the lessons. the study
and the corrections. Any little incident in or
out Of school was stored away in her mind for
the entertainment Of young or old, whites OF
Indiana
SHE WAS A MIRROR
and reflected everything. Did we smile-a
1aile answered. if a frown-her naked eve
brovs (as the hair IL kept pulled OUT would be-
drawn over her sparkling eyes. Cry. whv the
tears would come and go quick as an April
storm; but the only time we ever saw her cry
tnars from the heart was when with eighteen
other little Indians, she said farewell 70 her
beloved teacher. This was sixteen months
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-06
ASYLUM INMATES
WallStreet and the Stage Contribute
Them in Large Numbers.
AND THE BR AIN
Paresis the Wall Street Disease-why
Actors Go Insane-stran=e pelusions-A
Mania for Stealing shoes-Dread of
Heights-The Insanity OF Doubt.

Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-06

NEW YORK, Aug. s. 1892.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-06
DAUGHTER OF A CHIEF
Fannie, the Little Ute Knocking
Bird" at the Agency School.
CHILDREN OF THE FOREST.
a Typical Indian Equestrienne on Her Gaily
CsParisoned Pony-An Odd Mixture OF
Barbarism and CiviIizstion-In Her Pick-i-
up and in the school Room.
Written for The Evening Star.

time " for morning in : re.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-06-24
Attest: n. w. BRADFORD.
NORTH CAROLINA, TOO.


The Old Tar-Heel state Wheels Into Line
With the Peoples Party.
A decent respect for the opinions of
men requires, whenever any consider
able number of citizens determine to
adopt new line of policy in their po-
litical relations, that they set forth the
causes and reasons for making the
change. The people of this state are
called upon to send delegates to Omaha,
Neb, there to meet delegates from
the other states to impersonate IN a
candidate for president a new lineof
principles and policies; and the ques-
ton may well be asked why, with two
potential parties in the field, this Course
Of action is thought necessary There
fore wewill briefly state somelof our
'easonscT- -isif -.l-l5, 81 a---- Ill
First-Ihe people askforlawswhich
will naturally cause nmoasysthe instrIs
nent of trade, to yield to the demands
oftrade They havenotint heold pauties
,ihelperto crystalize this principle into
IaW sow 81; -1sJsvF laisaBra ;,
SeconaAThe peopleask feylawstend,
ing to abOiisb aymoaeX monopoly which
Isiconan%ally imp ysrishiHg 4heFeatth
laroducefs,yef this nation and paying
from twetto thee bpndFed millieas; of
gold annually. To- foreign nations 7as
tribute. by the free coinage voi, silges.
ind the5issue OF money direct To-. the
people instead or Of issuing is, il digset 70
explorations, thus partially relieving
Idhe people from home usurY and foreigh
Tribute. This seryies neither Of tbs. ED
parties will undertake.
Z T'hirdHTHa people ask for a hihrdrraf6SsSee
.d.Roiop5fies and trusts, and thai sAIich
iisatural aid powerful fd9s dp#6iIees wtifcR
NAY exerttIeir bafeihtff 1ffifuenee up3n
l.egislati9d be Fo~sHef bsdtthE e6f FR z
L.aeAt. TO tffis4ise ofdo tbaarfttftsas tim r
/ iesf esrG yr-1q ar; E-o-Ts.i saF j
=, .F6ursHA the BSbls-ask 4hst saif sggng I
shsh nseEswRisna' inrs6is e5untttrs , Z: and
pittat cspoEatiShsahaH ness d*h 7qzha
! let1nesdadsfsf t4eifsifsia Bdrpos I-Tbs
sqpestfsdeaiyd ~ bnI .sss-SrH 10s
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, eGAs4 assriok nsy
be reasonably asked here RisynssL sns
deayor TO convert one of these factions
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-06-24

t9 the legal tender qualities of either, and I'M
hampered by the proyiso suspending coinage
of silver after July |, 1881 We condemn the
republican policy because it demOnetized silver
ana still refuses the demand of the people for a,
restoration Of silver tora complete equality
with gold Wecondemn the republican mem.
bers Of congress from the state Of Michigan
who voted against the complete reconciliation
of silver.
Gov. Boyd and other democratic trick
sters were asked by Congressman Bryan
in the late Nebraska state convention
what they put free silver plank in
their platform for last year if they
didn't mean it. The same question APP
plies to every democratic platform in
the west, northwest and south. And
great many honest voters who have
been voting the democratic ticket for
the past twenty years under the i'm
preston that the party really meant
what it has SO often stated and re-
iterated in its platforms, are asking the
same question. Rather they have asked
for the last time. They are tired and
sick of treachery; tired and sick of
promises only made to catch votes, with
no intention of fulfilling them.
The conclusion is inevitable that the
democratic party is no more sincere in
its promises upon other important
! issues than it has been upon the silver
| question.
Its talk now about an international
agreement on ratio is but dodge to
catch the votes 'just once more" The
I gold-bugs want the ratio 20 or % to 1.
France gets along nicely Is to /. En-
gland won't agree to any ratio. She
wants silver demonetized in this coun-
try. 1t enables her to get cheap silver
with which to buy India wheat, and
she wants her American bonds topanout
$50 or 200 cents on the dollar. Heremis-
saries can well afford to play poker"
with majority Of our congressman and
let them win big 'jsck-p6ts. 81 It
sounds Just q little better. for a. con,
gpAssman to say that he won 81 900 at
NbRer than for him to say he took it as
14bfibe "Poker",has proven a favorite
7 gsfhe in this state under similar condi.
tions. - .i-i V'9-Fr - t9- !. ~
The only difference that we can see
between the democrats and republican.
1onthe silver question is that the repSB.
hcans have been honest in their plat
forms regarding it, They epposeifree
silver and uphold the law Oh $3.50, and
say so. The democrats claim 10 be fl br
free silver, but they are not, and BY
their every act prove that they, too
uphold the law of 1S9O-Chicago Sen.
T tinel.