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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
The Use Of the Word "Ain.t.o
I'm the Kansas CITY Times

From the Kansas City Times.
1t would be immense relief IL that dread.
full Americanism, ''ain't," could be given
rest for all eternity. You hear IT SO fire.
quently. The few exceptions among we'll
educated people scarcely makes an impres.
sion with an observer on the lookout for the
phrase. 1t is surprising how easily a fau,t
In speech may be acquired by the ear. bu.
in this part of the world, where our public
schools are believed to really educate II ia
quite common to hear grammatical errors
as In localities less intellectually favored
I amt, you amt. he or she amt. thew
amt Is the unpleasant conjugation or
what verb? Amt you going to the fair?"
ASKS weii-set-up young person, who would
be highly offended If her social statum was
questioned.
"Oh, 1 amt had half of the party.' is
another from younger lips, and the nice
looking car conductor scares the life out of
you by halloing: wait till the car stops,
we amt got there YETI Purists will take
no onense at this abuse of grammar IL Ii
saves their necks, but If anyone would keep
watch over his tongue as well and note the
ANTS that now aff1ct the American lam
guage that offensive and meaningless con-
traction and negation would be abolished,
and even the primarily educated masses
might say what they mean.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
DIVIDING A BIG ESTATE.
A Milljonnire's Bequests to Educa-
ton, Charity and Reform.

ton, Charity and Reform.
NEW YORK, Oct. ls.-Charles Bathgate
Beck, the West Farms millionaire who died
week ago, 1t Is said left an estate which
will foot up five or six millions. After vari-
Gus requests the estate Is divided into seven
parts. to be devoted to educational and
charitable purposes.
The first Institution mentioned Is Column
bia College. of the law school Of which Mr..
Beck was graduate. Nearly million dol
lars is set apart to endow four law scholar
ships. to establish prizes and for the benefit
of the institution proper.
The board of Presbyterian missions is re-
membered by gift Of many thousands of
dollars.
The Peabody Home for Old Women, the
New York Hospital, the Home for Incura-
bles and DIR. Parkhursts Society for the
Suppression of Vice complete the list of
beneficiaries to whom shares of the residue
of four or five millions are either given out
right or left as an endowment.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals also comes in for big slice Of
the estate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
MIR. THACHER.s SYSTEM OPPOSED.
Over Twenty States mt the Worlds
Fair Make a Protest.

CHICAGO, Oct. 19.-Between twenty and
thirty states and territories yesterday,
through their executive commissioners at
the fair. resolved to go on record as op-
posed to the entire Thacher system of
awards.
At a meeting in the Missouri state build
ing the state commissioners appointed a
committee of eleven members to investi-
gate the whole award system as ii applies
to states and individual exhibitors.
AS one commissioner expressed 1t 1t Is
believed the state boards will wash their
hands of all responsibility Of the worlds
fair system of awards and will go on record
as uttering a final protest against the
methods adopted by Mr.. Thacher and the
national board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
SECRETARY MORTON's ADVICE.
Farmers Should Let Public Question:
Alone and Attend to Their Farms.

Farmers should Let PUBLIC &uesthohS
Alone and Attend to Their Farms.
CHICAGO, Oct 19.-Mr. Morton. Secre-
tary of Agriculture, spoke to the national
commission yesterday in a way that body
has not been In the habit Of being address,
ed The vigor and originality of his re-
marks provoked loud applause from the
commissioners.
Speaking Of the farmers he said: ''They
have been worked to use the parlance of
the day, by journeyman farmers who have,
for political purposes, farmed the farmer.
These organizations, as a rule, have at
tended to every other thing except agricul-
ture. They have instructed the public how
banks ought to be organized and how rail-
roads ought to be managed. They have
even gone 50 far as to prescribe methods of
coinage for the general government. The
many facilities which have been involved
for the allurement of the farmer for his
best interests are very catching. There is
nothing so attractive to humanity in this
world as the possibility of making some
thing out Of nothing. The teachings of
many of the journeymen farmers who have
organized societies throughout the country
are simply legal fiction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
Mails for Canada.

General Superintendent White OF the rail-
way mail service has issued a notice to all
division superintendents that all railway
post Offices exchanging mails with Canada
will exclude from the mails for that coun-
try, between November i and u next all
articles addressed to Newfoundland, st.
Pierre and Misquelon, Japan, China and
the Australian colonies ana forward the
articles for the first three points TO the
postmasters at New York and Boston. and
master at San Francisco. even though
they be addressed via Canada or Van
couver. This order is to facilitate the coli
lection OF data for the trfennial fnterna-
tionai transit statistics OF the Universal
Postal Union pertaining to articles dispatch
ed by railway post offices TO Canada
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
OUT OF POLITICS.
Ex-Secretary Whitney Not Troubled
with n Presidential Bee.

Ex-Secretary Whitney Not Troubled
With n Presidential Bee.
CHICAGO Oct. 19.--Mr. W. c. Whitney
viewed the beauties of the fair yesterday
and expressed himself as overwhelmed.
To the suggestion that he was considered
a presidential possibility in some quarters.
Mr.. Whitney said quietly. but with marked
emphasis: II am entirely out of politics
and would not for an instant entertain any
such idea"
He gave as his opinion that President
Cleveland would not accept a compromise
in the fight for the repeal of the silver pur-
chase act but would insist on unconditional
repeal, and he thought he would yet win
Senatorial courtesy" said Mr.. Whitney.
must give way to the popular demand
for immediate action. The Senate rules do
not include one calling for the previous
question. but rules can be changed. The
President is firm, and it is evident he will
stand by his message.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
RESCUED IN MID OCEAN.
Crew Taken From n Bark With 81
Feet Of Water In the Hold.

Feet OF WATER In the HOtU.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19-The steamship
Saginaw. Capt Rockwell, from Azua, arriv-
ed this morning and made the following
report:
October 10, latitude 1920. longitude 72.45.
spoke German bark Ceres, laden with
cement, seventy-seyen days London for
Savannah. partly dismasted. with six feet
of water in hold and crew unable to keep
her free. Took off Capt. Herch, his wife
and crew. ten men, and brought to this port.
Captain reports encountering hurricane on
October TO- during which he lost main and
miZZen topmastS, sprung foremost head
stove bulwarks decks, &c, and sprung
a leak. crew unable to free her. On leaving
bark set her on fire fore and aft, and when
last seen was burning fiercely. and was
probably totally destroyed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
COUNTESS BLUCHER RECOVERING.
She Did Not Die, First Reported,
From the Gardeners Shot.

BERLIN, Oct ia dispatch from
Weitzow, Pomerania, states that Countess
Butcher. who was shot on Tuesday by
gardener, is recovering from the effects of
the wound in her neck. A representative
Of Emperor William will be present at the
funeral of Count Butcher, who was killed
the gardener at the same time his wife
was wounded. 1t has transpired that an
old servant Of the Butcher family, man
named Ewald. seventy-three years of age,
heard the shots in the wood fired by the
gardener when he attacked the count and
countess. Ewald ran in the direction of
the sound, fearing that someone had at
tackled his master and mistress, and on the
way he met the gardener fastening to the
castle, where he subsequently shot and
killed himself. Ewald attempted to inter-
cept the murderer, but was himself shot
and severely wounded by the fleeing gar
dener.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
ONE DEATH At BRUNSWICK.
Progress of yellow Fever in the
Stricken Georgia Town.

BRUNSWICK. Ga, Oct. 19.-Thirty-one
new cases of yellow fever We're reported to-
day-five white and twenty-six colored
The whites Were: E. II. Mason. Mrs. NJ. a.
Mason. Mrs. Mary Legsett. VIM. Helsy and
II. T.. Hudson.
There was one death-Amelia v. Hayne
coiore,i. Observation-Disclosures, Mrs. Mary
Leggett. II. Miller and twenty-five colored.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19

Osages In Oklahoma Defy the Com.
mands of the Agent.

GREY HORSE, Okl, Oct. 19.-On a high
plateau. some miles west of here. the Usage
warriors are holding their annual war
dance. and have been joined by about 800
Cheyennes. under Yellow Bear, and several
hundred Poncas and Otoes. They have
been dancing row for four days and nights
without intermission, and will keep it up
for ten days or more, after which they will
hold a grand feast.
All the unruly Indians in the territory
are present at the dance, and it Is feared
that they will make mischief. The Usage
agent has ordered them to stop the dance.
but they pay no attention to him, and, as
all are armed. any attempt to stop the
dance by force will result in bloodshed.
The troops on the Cherokee strip have
been ordered TO be in readiness to move
over into the reservation should the In
dams make any attempt to make trouble.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
EvERYTHISG IN ITS PLACE.
Why Mrs. AstOr's Servants Are Pro.
vided With Photographs of the Rooms

why Mrs. AstOr'n Servants Are Pro.
vided With Photographs of the Rooms
Very few individuals dispute Mrs. VIM.
X. Astor's right and ability to lead New
port society when she elects to come out
into the world. Mrs. Aston has a peculiar
fad about her dining room and the drawing
room, from which the former opens. The
drawing room is Mrs. Astor's favorite room
In the Newport villa-not the one where she
Is most often to be found, but that one as
to the appearance of which she manifests
most concern. 1t Is described by the ST.
Louis Republic as not at all fin de steele
Everything Is rich and stately, and except
for few modern lamp shades and stray
bits OF bric-a-brac commands that respect
everything does after memory has had
time to attach itself. The modern pillow
loaded divan would be as out Of place here
as a ballet girl at a camp meeting Mrs
Astor evidently feels all this and more, too,
Tor she has most stringent ideas as to where
every article in the drawing room must be
located. Each chair. every table and every
jar must be in such a spot, and every cur
tain must hang in precise arrangement
of folds. -
After Mrs. Astor leaves Newport in the
fall, of course the rooms are partly disman-
tied. and many things are packed away till
next spring brings orders to prepare the
house again. This order produces a fine
excitement, for Mrs. Astor expects that
when she walks into the house on her ar
riva, every individual article in the drawing
room shall stand as 1t did when she left it.
OF course this is quite a feat to accomplish
year after year, and although the Astor
butler has been with the family twenty
four years, he found awhile ago that his
memory was playing tricks with the Astor
chair legs and the table legs had a ten
dcncy to hunt for new pastures and the
rattan chair might draw the space allotted
to the Roman ottoman. OF course this
would never do, SO a photographer was
called in. The drawing room was arranged
to dotlet, with every chair leg in its
proper place Then the photographer made
a large picture which the butler has since
been using chart to guide him in ar
ranging the drawing room.
Mrs. Astor is also quite as particular as
to the arrangement of every detail in the
dining room, and that was also photo
graphed carefully with the table in the
desired relation to the chandeliers and rugs
copies left with the butler for his future
guidance. Now the buffers serenity is not
at all disturbed, for he knows that as long
as he has those pictures Mrs. Aston Is as
sure of finding everything when she comes
back next summer in the place she had de-
creed as If the tables and chairs grew to
their respective positions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
DISTRICT GOVERNMENT.
TenleytOvn's Delegation.

This morning committee consisting of
Messrs. George A. Armes. R. /. Fleming
and Rev. DIR. Sterrett, representing the
citizens Of Tenieytown. called upon the
Commissioners to urge the erection of a new
twelve-room school house for that section.
They represented tina: there were between
400 and 500 children in that part of the Dis
trict and said the needs of better school
facilities were becoming more and more
apparent every day.
- Applied for ReappOintment.
Ex-Polceman Thomas F. Reidy has ap-
piled for reappointment on the police force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
Banner" and as we entered. the guns on
the hill fired a salute.

Thrilling Speeches.
Inside the reception room Were gathered
the khedive and his cabinet and the menu
bers Of the diplomatic corps. On being re-
ceived by the khedive / made a speech Of
about ten lines. and he replied with about
eight lines. The khedives speech was Q
nrst-rate one. L have no doubt. but Il was
IN french, ano-weli. at any rate. ] know
my remarks were excellent, as 1 sat up
nan the night preparing them. After the
speeches the khedive and 1 sat down on q
olVah ana smoked chibouks. L never quite
arose TO the height of chibouks out In
Kansas We smoke corncob pipes with a
cigar on Christmas and the Fourth OF July
but as IL was the khedive's own house i
olo not feei called on to express my pref
Exchanging Courtesies.
You have fine weather in America
said the khedive.
Quite an assortment said 1, but moth
ing in quality TO yours
America II a great country,
fes. your highness. but nothing compsr-
ed 70 Egypt In age"
Then we smoked awhile. 1 was ready
10 go. but had to walt until the khedive
was ready to have me go. When You cali
on a khedive it's different from the general
form Of calls. You can't jump up and saw:
Wei. old man. i must get along. Got an
-.
so long. Not at all That sort Of thing
won't do with a khedive. With him you
have got to wait until he rises and then
you can back out Finally, however the
kneoive got up and We shook hands and
got out Outside the band played Hall
columbia and Yankee Doodle Infan-
Try were drawn up clear to the gate and as
we drove out the cavalry fell in behind
again.
Question of Memory.
"on the way home I said to Grant. I
don't believe. you have got a very good
memory Grant denied this with consider
able feeling, and said. No, don't believe
your memory is worth shucks Why, bet
you could no more repeat what the khe-
dive said to me In that speech than you
could fy.' ft
That's nonsense said Grant, and then
he went TO work and repeated what he
said the khedive had said But Grant re-
peated IT in French. and. as i said before,
just so. However. told Grant that he had
better memory than thought and he
laughed and said that was nothing Some
time afterward. when there were a lot Of
people present Grant was bare;aced enough
TO say that he had repeated the commence
ment Of the Declaration of Independence to
me in French. Just as II did not know
the Declaration of Indeoendence There
tell you there are no people on the face Of
the globe. that are better up to the Declar-
alton Of Independence than the people OF
Kansas and the people Of Abilene. Kans.,
are even a, few inches ahead of the rest OF
the procession. However, I would give
something real pretty to know just what
the khedive did say in that speech"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
An Open Market for Glass.

dow glass trust has made an open market
for an indefinite period. A meeting was
held at the Auditorium Hotel yesterday af-
ternoon. President James A. Chambers of
Pittsburg was in the chair. and the meet
ing was largely attended by manufacturers
and jobbers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
Marine Hospital Yellow Fever Reports

A report was received at the marine hos
pital bureau today from Surgeon Murray
at Brunswick, Ga. stating that there were
forty new cases of yellow fever there
thirty colored ard ten white-and two
deaths, one white and one colored Two
new cases are reported on st. Simon's
Island. The bureau has received no ad
vices concerning the reported yellow fever
on the steamer Merjulio, from Mexico.
Guaranteed at Boston.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
? THE COMPROMISE BILL,
1T Has been Agreed Upon With the
Exception Of Details.

After session lasting, with occasional
Interruptions, until 2:45 o'clock, the caucus
democratic committee adjourned, and Sena-
tors Blackburn, Cockrell and German went
directly to the Treasury, where they will
confer with Secretary Carlisle 1t is said
that with the exception of details, the
compromise bill has been agreed upon, and
IL Mr.. Carlisle is satisfied with it, ii will
be introduced in the Senate tomorrow; If
not, then Friday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
Remarkable.


From Puck.
"fsinks has written most remarkable
novel,"
3 you'd hardly expect It,"
mo; you wouldn't. But the scene is laid
on a steamer; and he doesn't even hint that
the engines pulsated like the throb of a
mighty heart"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
Cant, Hedley Dead.

Capt. Cyrus Hedley Of the oyster boat
-Four Brothers died Of heart disease yester-
day on the deck of his craft white between
Washington and Indian Head. George Sim
mons. his coiored helper. turned the Four
Brothers up stream and landed the body at
Riley's dock. whence the boat had sailed n
few hours. before The funeral will take
place today from his late home. No. 1912 ID
street southwest. Capt Hedley was from
Coan river and has been a waterman all
his life. For several years he had been en-
gagged in the oyster and melon trade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
SINGULAR CAUSE OF DEATH.
The Patient Choked With q spoags
During . Surgical Operation.

NEW YORK, Oct ia special from
Syracuse. n. Y. says: Patrick Kansley
died at St. Joseph's Hospital yesterday.
being choked with a sponge DIR. ID. NJ
Totmap and the house physician were am
putating the mans legs. After an anaes-
thetic had been administered an attendant
was using a sponge TO remove the inucus
from Kanaleys throat when IL slipped
down HIS windpipe through inhalation.
He soon choked to death. although the
made a long incision into the windpipe.
Kanaley died in great agony. with one leg
partly cut OF. His friends have demanded
an investigation and Coroner Roberts 10
to hold an inquest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
THE GAS PIPES LEAKED.
Three Central Park Policemen Over
come In Their Sleep.

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-Three policemen
who were on patrol in Central Park last
night met at a cottage near the croquet
ground early this morning and turned in
together. With them was a fourth man, a
young blacksmith. All four Were found
senseless in the cottage after daybreak,
overcome by gas that had in some way
leaked in during their sleep. Three of them
are dead and the fourth lies dying in the
Presbyterian Hospital. The dead are:
David Lyons park policeman; James Hayes
policeman; Thomas Furey, a blacksmith.
George Rogan is the name Of the officer
who was taken to the hospital
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
ADMIRAL MELLO'S PLAN.

TO Land ana Estaoiisn u hroNso"@A
Government at DesterrO.
NEW YORK. Oct. 19.--The Herald's cor
respondent in Rio de Janeiro sends advices
that the revolutionary party under Admiral
Mello will establish provisional govern
ment at Desterro. A general plan OF gov
eminent will be arranged and program
for offensive and defensive attacks will be
mapped out. The leadership to obtain
RECOGNITION from foreign powers. 1t Is be-
Meyed that IL Admiral Mello once gets a
footing on land the people will rise in bis
favor This will certainly mean the down.
fall of Peixoto.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
DISTRICT IN CONGRESS,
To Lease Canal Street.

today authorizing the Commissioners to
lease Canal street, lying between G and
p streets southwest, provided that If the
James Creek canal shall ever be arched
over the lease of the street shall cease.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19

Why the Body should BE Cultivated.
From Lppincott.
The important subject Of physical culture
is not considered as it ought to be by the
majority of men and women, and there Is
almost absolute ignorance of the makeup
of the body on the part of even intelligent
people, with little desire for such knowl-
edge, although health, beauty and success
depend largely on the treatment given to
the body. Mental requirements are blindly
worshiped, while the essential question
of health receives little thought, and hence
it is almost impossible to find men in the
ordinary walks of active life at middle
age. who do not complain Of impaired
health and want OF vital force.
Without a sound body one cannot have
a sound mind, and. unless proper attention
is given to the culture of the body, good
health cannot be expected. Plato is said
to have called a certain man lame because
he exercised the mind while the body was
allowed to suffer. This is done to an
alarming extent nowadays Brain workers
as rule exercise no part of the body ex-
from indigestion, palpitation of the heart,
il somnia, and other ills. which IL neglected
generally prove fatal. Brilliant and sue
cessful men are constantly obliged to give
nervous prostration; the number of those
who succumb to it has increased to an
a arming extent of late years. and that of
suicides hardly less. Few will question
that this is owing to overlooking the brain
and the neglect Of body culture. Vitality
becomes impaired and strength consumed
by mental demands. which are nowadays
raised to perilous height, and 1t Is only
by careful attention to physical develop
ment and by judicious bodily exercise that
the brain worker can counterfeit the men
tai strain. Women rarely consider the i'm
portance Of physical culture, yet they need
PHYSICAL training almost than me
DO. Thousands of our young women are
unfit to become wives or mothers who
might be strong and beautiful IL they gave
a short time daily to physical development.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
Weeks ExtraditiOn Delayed.

NEW YORK, Oct. ia special from San
Jose, Costa RIGA. says: The majority of
the cabinet favors refusing the extradi
ton of Weeks until a treaty is arranged
with the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
An Extensive English Contractor
Fails.

LONDON, Oct. 19.-John Thomas Chap
peII, builder and contractor, or No. 1iy Lupus
street, has failed. His liabilities amount TO
f22C, GO Mr.. Chappell had branches of his
business at Brighton, Southampton and
other places.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
A MOnarch's Trials.
From Puck.

Mrs. Bingo-'The rajah has one hundred
and fifty wives. Women in his country
must be very different from women here"
Bingo-"Perhaps not. Possibly he was
compelled by law to marry that many.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-19
To neepen the Water.

The San Francisco hydra ulic dredge has
taken up position in the Washington chan
rel OF the River View pier and viii soon
put twenty feet of water up the front. The
need of this has long been felt Although
the chart calls for sufficient water TO noat
almost anything, coal and ice laden schoon-
ers have been going aground In that part
of the river.