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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02
ALMOST A WILDERNESS NOW.
Hayti Gone to the Dogs. Being fncap-
able of Self Government.

Not the least interesting feature OF the
place is the barracks. where is quartered a
portion of Hippolytes valiant army. says
a writer in the Providence Journal. The
only attempt at uniform is a suit OF blue
overalls, generally in the last stage of d.
lapidation, and cap ornamented with red.
yellow or blue braid. according to the fancy
of the wearer. Some few have shoes or
straw slippers, but the majority are bare
footed. They are armed. however. with
fairly good muskets. and many OF them
carry ugly looking knives. | saw large
numbers of the soldiers on the plaza or
public square. some playing at dice or cards,
some talking. others sleeping, and all lazy,
dirty and ragged. This plaza. which was
originally well laid out and which actually
boosted an ancient fountain in the center,
was Uttered with refuse. rooted up by hogs
and filthy with house offal and dung. The
ancient paved walks which originally ira
versed ii were badly broken and the loose
stones were widely scattered by the hogs.
Outside of the town and as far as the eye
can reach extends hilly country covered
with forest. In long tramp through this
country we saw no cultivated land. And
yet this land is said TO be extremely fertile
and TO yield largely any tropical product that
is planted upon it. From an examination
of an outcropping ledge of rock I decided
that the soil was Underlaid with limestone
and such a soil is nearly always rich. But
the richness of this island is wasted. For
even the old plantations which were well
set with coffee. oranges ard cocuanuts are
grown up to tropical forest and Yield next
to nothing. Right in the midst of q Jungle
OF wild trees and bushes / found traces of
an Old orange and mango grove. Indicated
by the remains of straight rows in which
these trees were originally planted. And
with the decline and ruin Of the plantations
has declined everything in connection with
them. Even the old carriage roads which
originally traYersed the island and formed
a channel for conveying the produce to the
ports are now only bride paths beirg COM
pietely overgroTn with forest and bushes
And this IS Hayti. the Hlspaniola Of CO.
lumbus. the pride and glory of the great
admiral, For it Will be remembered that
after examining the other large islands OF
the West Indies. Columbus decided that
this one was the richest and best. And
later, when under French rule, il was one
of the faireSt and wealthiest spots in the
civilized world. The whole republic. i'm fact.
is a gigantic farce. No nation has ever
shown itself more utterly incapable Of self
government than the black republic In
some eighty years of Haytian independence
there have been more than ninety revolu-
tons. The children, with a few exceptions
grow up in absolute ignorance, and with a
deep Unborn hatred OF the white man. The
rulers are bloodthirsty tyrants and the
country has degenerated into a tropical
wilderness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02
Hrs. John D. Rockefeller.

As the two men enter the building they
gre .r-.ted by the big guard at the dooc
'Tkev pass quickly 10 their Offices on the
second floor and each goes TO his desk and
t. wor<.
one might think that the heads of so
great q Carpp alton would be overwhelmed
with work ard woJ.ld need to have about
them a horde of clerks receiving instruc-
tons. rushing 20 and fro. making q fuss
generally Nothing Of the kind is to be
seen in the offices Of the Rockfelers A
host of letters are received every hour adj
Crsssei 10 one or the other of the two
l-gthers. A trusted assistant handles this
mail and shows his chiefs only such as it
4: really necessary for them to see. The
system maintained is perfect even to the
smallest detail. and the discipline OF the
great establishment is remarkable.
in the rScmS of the brothers are tele-
graph tickeTS, and near their respective
desks are swift fingered stenOgr3pEe-s and
typewriters. The rooms of the two brothers
are near together and now and then they
hold short consultations.
As they go to their desks in the morning
they hud awaiting them a small pile OF
mail. a very small part OF all that came
Into the hands OF their secretaries. the
lrtte-s are real ana in many cases a note
OF instruction is dictated to some head of
department and tie letter and inStruc-
tons are sent - him. There are scores of
Ncll-pald employees OF the Kochefeilers who
have ns-rr he'll any communication with
their chiefs save through the medium of
these typewriter messages.
1y John II. Rockefeller ne probably answers
hot more than score himself Letters
hay come detailing the loss Of a STANDARD
oil steamship IN the China sen. II Is sen
gIJng TO the proper department: and So II
i with hundre! and one things # more
Or less import There is no hustle or harry
Enl less tnan two hours q d. IS given 10
correspondence b. these engineers OF 4 vast
enterprise.
There are no two men in this country
whom II Is more hard % see than these
Standard OH kings. There are scores Of
their employees who have never seen them
~ their offices, There are many others
10 IL, no, know them il they ct
then on the street Once in their Offices.
In" doors clsse'l behind them, he is an i'm
rOria1t mar upon business Of moment who
can ain admission. Probably a hundred
o. more men call e.sry day-rnea Of some
fnDortaEce. too. and try TO secure inter
views with either Of the magratas. They
41Farft ably find themselves turned over TO
q q mercy OF sO9le er,f1riiHate. On many
days john ID. Rockefeller does not see half
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02
American Life,
from the Ninetccth Century.

From the Ninetccth Century.
This business life Of American gentlemen
is one of the hardest problems for an Eng
lishman to understand correctly Till COM
paratively lately in England commercial
business, except banking, has not been
thought highly of for gentlemen. Politics.
the church. the army and navy, the bar,
&c, have been the outlets for English
younger sons, In America it is quite diff
ferent. Among the many reasons for this
1 will mention but the one important one.
that the pursuits above mentioned afford
but few openings, comparatively speaking
The church is a poorly paid profession for
the sons of the wealthy merchants, and the
army and navy SO small in number that
they do not afford a field for more than a
few. The bar is, of course, open, and is
crowded in America in England. Poll
ties, for some inscrutable reason, do not
seem to attract many of the higher grades
of youth. Consequently, the young Ameri-
can seeks the commercial field, and in
every American city, especially in the
west, one finds at the head of cultivation
and progress men whose rise has been due
to successful commercial enterprise. 1t is
well for the individual that success should
be so rewarded and it is well for the COM
munity, also, that the man of business
who has gained his success on legitimate
lines. should be its leader. In new and
partly unsettled country like America so
no foreign policy, and to fear no foreign
enemies. the creator or the distributor of
wealth is far more valuable man than
the politician or the soldier.
The sanguineness of the American is an
other feature especially striking to an OUT
slider. The whole temper of the people is
one of hope. No young man enters life in
any line without the fullest belief that he is
going to succeed, and going to make a
great deal of money, and do it all very
quickly. This may be true of young men
everywhere. but it is especially so in the
states. And men are justified in their
youthful hopes.
Practically any young man of reasonable
brains and industry is sure to succeed.
Openings are numerous, and the sharp
witted American is quick to take advantage
of them 1t is a curious fact, but one that
] have often heard employers of unskilled
labor comment on. that none of their work
men were American born, unless, possibly.
some of the fOremen. AS an Englishman, |
am glad to add that rarely are Englishnen
either found as unshilled laborers in Ameri-
wOr<ShOnS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02

of their own. In addition they are at the
head of the great Standard Oil Company,
q corporation that extends its tentacle5
not alone all over the United States, but
all over the world. from New York to Hong
Kong and from Hong Kong to Liverpool
Its pipe lines and railroad connections
stretch over thousands of miles of terri
tory. 1t owns thousands upon thousands
OF acres of coal and oil lands. 1t employs
an army of men and it's steamships may
be seen in every civilized port.
once in the witness stand Mr.. John D.
Rockefeller told committee that was
investigating the Standard Oil Trust that
he had no idea as to his own wealth. and
still less TO that of the company of
which he is the head. That il was enor-
nous he admitted.
The two Rockefellers dominate this vast
property. To be sure there are partners
H. NJ Flagler. ex-Sccretary of the Navy
VIM C. Whitney. representing the inter-
ests of the Ohio Paynes. and others largely
interested in the Standard Oil properties.
But the Rockefellers are the strong men
of the great combination.
There may be men somewhere who are
more plain and more unassuming than
these oil kings, but l have never met Them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02
John ID. Rockefeller.

The brothers are alike in stature. both
Just a trifie above the middle height. John
ID. wears a rather closely cropped grayish
mustache and his brother affects side
whiskers that run down a couple of inches
below his ears. Both men were dressed
IN ioose-itting dark clothes that We're
plainly not made by any fashionable tailor
Indeed they looked more as though they
might have been bought at a bargain sale
In some ready-made clothing house.
No one recognized the two men as they
passed along and they paid no attention to
any one they met, being absorbed in what
ever affairs they We're discussing together.
Not even the most acute observers on New
York citys most busy thoroughfare would
for a moment suspect that these plain
dressed. quiet-mannere1. farmer-lke men
We're the much discussed, often abused
Standard Oil kings.
IL was quite early in the day when / saw
the ROckefeilers on Broadway, and yet
the two men had walked from 5ith street
and 18th avenue to Bowling Green, a good
live miles. and accomplished the distance
in little over an hour. This is the almost
daily custom Of John ID. Rockefeller, who
Is famous pedestrian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02
THEY EAT TOO MUCH ARSENIC,
Australian Women Sacrifice Health
for Good Com plexfOn


for Good Conn lexiOn.
The majority of the female beauties OF
Sydney, according to an English observer
have peculiarly delicate compilations, Ian
guild expressions, fragile physique. and a
die-away look in the eyes, which are more
suited to the enervated temperament of an
old civilization than the active vitality of
new world. 1t was easy even for a novice
to detect that these ladies owed a good
deal to their perruquier. The mystery of
badness and unusual delicacy of complex
len was explained by the fact that these
women ate arsenic in order to produce the
aristocratic pallor and languor and found
to their horror that another effect of the
drug was to make the hair drop out. VaIu-
ing their complications above their hair,
however, they sacrificed the one to the
other. What woman will endure for her
complexion may be estimated by this and
also by the fact that these arsenic eaters
rarely live past forty-five. There is no
pleasure, moreover. in the consumption OF
the poisonous drug. The arsenic is made
up into dainty-lCukiag caramels, which
fashionable DANES viii produce from pre-
ciOus little bonbonniereS and suck quite
openly, just as the American girl chews
gum or the English girl chocolate. The
arsenic question, the EngliShman says. was
becoming quite burning one in the antip-
otes. When man married a young look
ing. lovely creature, adorned with luxurious
ringlets. ne was Disguised to find after the
ceremony that she was really semi-baId
p-e,na tureiy elervated woman who was
shortening her life to please her own vanity
and was incapable of fulfilling the duties
of mother to debilitated children which
she brought into the world. Moreover, the
suff ering which she would go through In
any attempt to overcome this pernicious
habit was quite enough to make her break
down. IT, indeed, she could be persuaded to
bear ii at all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02
The Doctors Presence of Mind,

From Puck
Speaking of doctors bills" said Cooper,
as ne elevated his feet and lit a cigar,
IL have recently had revealed to me a
depth of nerve which 1 supposed was pos
sessed only by gas men and plumbers. You
know young DR.. dePloTa?"
Yes"
well, you know when he was graduated
and came here to practice he was pretty
sweet on my daughter Grace for awhle?"
YES"
well, one roasting day last summer she
met him down town while she was out
shopping, and he asked her in to have
glass of soda water at Fizz & Foam's.''
Very nice
Wait Little while after that he popped,
and Grace threw him over"
Poor fellow
Yes. Poor fellow But he had his wits
about him. and yesterday / got this bill:
James Alfred dePloma, NJ. d.
Office Hours,
1201 am. to IL SO pm.
G.. Cooper, DR.
July 4th. To Treating Daughter. s.. 90
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02


visibly. Both edges of the front are gar
nished with rich jet GALLON, and a SINH
lar, but wider, trimming comes around the
bottom and trims the circular collarette
which is open in back and is lined with
rose-colored faiile. The back of the bodice
part is trimmed with narrow Jet passe-
menterie that ends in fancy ornaments
The balloon sleeves have cuffs of embroid-
cry, and the high Meiici collar is also en-
brodered with jet. The coat is lined with
rose-pink faille, and the jet embroidery may
be done on black faille, none but the
most experienced hands can do it on the
velvet direct There is presented in the
same picture a jacket equally elaborate in
cut and adornment. 1t Is in beige-colorei
cloth. hooks in front and is lined with
white faille. 1t is very heavily embroidered
with a spreading design in jet and steel
beads down the front, around the bottom
and as far as the center of the bodice part
behind. The embroidery is especially or
nate around the neck and rather deep
around the bottom. The sleeves are gar
nished with four serpentine ruffies lined
with silk and also embroidered. The wrists
and standing collar are trimmed with
black marabouts.
Rich and snowy ornamentation is used
too. on the spreading revers of the Jacket
Of the last illustration. The complex pat
tern there shown is done I'm myrtle braid
freely sprinkled with gold. The garment
itself is wide at shoulders and hem. is
myrtle green in color. and is worn over
dress of the same shade, having a very wide
skirt. With II come collar and plastron
of skunk fur
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02

with heecy black, and finished about the
skirt with two-inch edge of astrakan and
around the bodice with a two-inch friii of
the FUR. An astralsan butterfly collar COM
piefes charming rig. Coats and Jackets
are superseding the pretty capes. but on
the warmer days the young woman who
wishes to appear Indifferent to cold may
wear SUCH a costume as that in the second
picture in this column, wherein the Jacket
is short and open. 1t is warmly lined how
ever, the fronts ornamented with large and
handsome buttons and it's revers extend
into fairly broad turn-down collar Be
heath the jacket there is blouse made of
old rose and white striped silk with a full
and very pretty jabot of ecru lace at the
neck. The pointed corseiet belt is heavily
whaleboned, hooks in front and has small
pieatei skirt attached to it that is finished
with machine stitching. The material is
a warm and heavy beige-colored cloth
While capes are getting the go-bye as the
cold weather strengthens. yet if you have
cape and will cover it all over with braid
and line it handsomely with rich silk you
may wear it on the street, bat you must
Icok at the coated woman with an air SO
scornfui that they won't dare look the
same way at you. In other words. if you
must wear cape, the only comfort You
can find will be to make other women dis
contented with their better fortune. Coats
are made in heavy smooth cloths, they fit
trinity over the bust and about the waist
and out on to the hips. and from there
they flare into big fluted skirts If one
skirt and all its flute does not satisfy the
frantic tailor he goes into a regular whirli-
gig frenzy of double skirts, sometimes as
m any four each little shorter than the
last and each fiutier. What is even worse
on each skirt he puts little ruffie, and
the result makes one curious to know
whether the wearer has any feet or if she
is really penwiper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02
of skunk fur.

A gown of red brown cloth. with a novel
trimming of brown serpentine braid. is
a plain bodice, having pretty bolero jacket
with revers.
Just now gowns very much like spring
dresses are much seen. Indeed, it is wise
woman who gets dressy light gown made
up in a dainty fashion, not too pronounced.
and looks sweet and fresh on the street.
for she can lay away the gown after a
few weeks wear, to take it out next spring,
when IL Will again seem brand new.
Such dress is made with wide
skirt, the width OF the goods being
used for the length OF the skirt ana
the seams tapping deeply. The bodice is q
queer little affair, sort of Eton jacket
with triple collarette added which fast
ems at the shoulder. The jacket seems TO
open on a seamless vest of the cloth. The
sleeves are very big at the top and taper
slowly TO the wrist, and the flaps of the
collarette hang well over the shoulders.
AS matter of fact the whole bodice comes
of at once, the vest fastening at the side.
The jacket is lined with striped taffeta and
the whole is as dainty and crisp can be-
made Zip in oyster cloth. and will be as
pretty as ever five months hence.
Cloth gowns in oyershot goods, with
points here and there Of velvet TO match
the bright shade, are worn with butterfly
coats. The latter garment is a sort Of sub
limate3 cape. 1t Is, indeed, hardly more
than collarette with sleeves attached. and
is queer enough to look at in the hand,
though it is stylish as can be when on.
These are made with velvet and pointed
with fur. They consist of many little cape
lets over an abbreviated bolero. said Jacket
not being open like a self-respecting bolero.
but buttoned. The sleeves are the usual
big ones. If you took long coat that was
especially we'll supplied with collar and
frills and cut il off just under the arms
low enough to take in the armholeS and
sleeves you would have a butterfly coat.
And the way of getting il would cost
less than TO buy ii outright, for il is down
in fashions price list that three-ffths Of
q garment cost more than the whole of it,
when II is newly fashionable TO wear only
the former fraction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02

such coat Is OF use. but il gives any timid
person shock 10 see a woman taking off
her dress a. not caring bit, and that Is
what IL looks Ike when miladi diyests her
SELF of this combination.
A handsome and itch full-lea~'h coat is
seen in tine next sketch. The fabric used
for il Is black velvet and IL buttons in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02
Goats and Gowns Must Be Heavily
Trimmed.
CAPES ARE GETTING fHE COPY.
Styles Suited to Cold and Short
Purses.
MANY TIMELY SUGGESTIONS.
NEW YORK, Dec. /, 1893.

L & III l. \ Nj A ID T.
street dresses al
ready appear heavily
finished with fur.
Brown cloth is deep
ly vandyked with
seal about the skirt
and waist and across
the breast. Astra-
kan is also much
used. chiefly the
black. A very stun
ming notion for a
street gown is a blue
rough cloth oyArShnt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02
A H 0 R Sc THIEF.
= BY ALICE MCGOWAN.
Written for The Evening Star.
~ RACE PENDLETON

rode into the ranch,
jumped lightly down
from her pony, and
shouted once or twice,
thereby discovering
that there was no.
body on the place,
even old Felipa hav-
ing thought well to
give herself a holiday
while her young mis-
treSs was away.
SO Grace unfast-
ened the parcels from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02
A Possibility.
From Puck.

From Puck.
I'inks-"Yes. sir; I have photograph,
and among my collection is a song by Patti
Think what 4 priceless thing that will be
TO the coming generations when the great
Iattis voice Is stilied foreyer!'
'nkS-''Eut, my dear sir, from present in
oicatiCns, Patti will outline the phono-
graph
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02

F ALL THE MIL
lionaires in New York
city. and there is no
lack of them. there
are none who are
such moving forces
in great business
channels and yet so
little known to the
general public as
John ID. ana William
Rockefeller.
These two between
them are worth not
far from 500, 100, wv
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02
TWO MONEY KINGS.
Wonderful Career of The Rookie
fellers.
THEY CONTROL UNTOLD MILLIONS.
Yet Are Men Of Simple Tastes
WithaI.
BOTH HARD WORKERS.

special Correspondence. Of The Evening Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02

Come she drew him with her to the
kitchen, and dragged out from L little loom
beyond some women's clothing. She hur-
RED a calico dress onto him. bound red
Mexican handkerchief over his head and
Then she caught up a pan, filed ii with DO
tatoes and thrust it into his hands along
with a sharp knife,
Tombstone epitaph., 1893-08-30
How we grow Old

The thread that blinds us to life is most frequently severed are the meri- dian or life is reached in the case of persons who neglect obvious means to renew failing strength Vigor, no less the source of happiness than the con- di.ion of long life, can be created and perpetuated where it does not exist. Thousands who have experienced or are cognizant-including many phy- sicians of eminence-of the effects of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, bear tes- timony to its wondrous efficacy as a creator of strength in feeble constitu- tions, and facilitated and shattered systems. A steady performance of the bodily functions, renewed ap- petite. flesh and nightly repose attend the use of this thorough and standard renovant. Use no local tonic repre- sented 10 be akin to or resemble it in its place. Demand the genuine which is an acknowledged remedy for iDdi- gestion. malaria, nervousness, cons tipation. liver and kidney complaints and rheumatism. A
Tombstone epitaph., 1893-08-30

The Star says: The last game of the series between the Tucsonites and the Tombstoners was played on Sun- day morning and easily won by the home team, the score being Is to B. The Tucson boys came home on Sun- day nights train. They all say they could not have been treated better than they were. The Tombstone peo pie did everything in their power to make the visitors feel perfectly al home. Hon. G. w, Cheyney and others took the boys to the Lucky Cuss mine and showed them about.
Tombstone epitaph., 1893-08-30

THE feeling over the vote on the free coinage bill in Tombstone was
 one akin to that "tired feeling" which is so often mentioned in the medicine ads. One half of our citizens took 1t out in swearing; the other half took it philosophically. Women and chi,d = ren had anxious expressions on their faces, as the stoppags of silver mining means the confscation of their homes.