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have brandy quite good in many drink
ing places in the daytime for cents.
After am. the seeker strikes another
stratum of society. Heretofore it has been
the smart quarter. One might have taken
look at WetZePS brasserie as late as j
a m. or Sylvan's up to almost 4. These two.
Ike Julien's and the American, pretend
to be quite chic. All group themselves
around the Opera and have a special
rangement with the authorities by which
they may keep open late, il being under
stood that only well-to-do folks shall be
entertained There are no such preten-
sionS in the wine shops.
In the quarters of the great newspaper
offices permission has been given to GER
tain wine shops to keep wide open. in full
blast, all night. 1t is supposed to benefit
oompos.tors and all the rest. and later on
the porters, the delivery wagon drivers and
news dealers come to get their papers early
in the dawn and market people going to
the Halles. And. also, as the daybreak
comes, a host of other little taverns for the
working people keep opening like buds
that turn to flowers with the spring sun and
dew. In summer time the morning light
Is clear at $50. and those who love to walk
the streets at dawn and take a drink at
every little shop and study human nature
and disgrace themselves by being drunk
and sleepy. casting blot upon the
scene of laboring men who drink their
bowls of coffee. find good starting place
on the Rue Drouot, just above the Office of
the Figaro where wine shop very much
in vogue Is found chuck full of a mixed
company.
Perils of the street.
Upon these worthless trips no man should
go alone; or IL he does he should not speak
to other men upon the street. 1t is not
even safe to take lady for a guide from
place to place. The Paris cabman is the
best guide. If you enter only the we'll
lighted. numerously patronized cafes or
wine shops IN the central part of Paris You
will be as safe as in your bed. The nightly
assassinations are committed on the streets
between the hours of . and am. To walk
alone between these hours Is perilous. Your
fists avail you nothing. And nothing Is
more to be deplored than the self-cohfidence
of Americans and Englishmen In Paris, who
rely upon the manly art. a sword cane
and a knowledge how to use it is the Paris
ian's defense against these fellows. who
come two by two.
A cab is regularly safe. The cabmen
are an honest set: and the fact that they
are not irresponsible. but are the employees
of companies. makes them more careful of
their actions than you might suppose. At
this wine shop on the Rue Drouot there is
fall again to honest prices. Hot milk
hot SOUP hot coffee and hot chocolate give
a new appetite. The cabman, whom you
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wide, brilliant public stairway, belching
forth its lights all night upon the darkened
boulevard; and any one may enter. 1t Is
very public. But soon the tourist sees that
ne should order supper, and not for self
alone Not one, but five, will cluster round
you. waits and remnants of the various ex-
positions of 1857, 1878 and 1889.
At Julien's you mount two fights Of
stairs to enter two great rooms set round
with little tables. The ftful tinkle of a
grand plano (on1y guests perform) calls to
the mind the ancienne gazette Franchise
and Pittsburg, Pa The dirge of Daisy
Daisy. the nightly morceau Of the most
assfduous patron, an English blonde. who
says she Is a friend Of Marie Lloyd and is
herself drawing card in all the London
ais. will reassure the timid tourist. And
soon the demoiselle will pounce down on
him. II he be Anglo-Saxon. by the right Of
sing tonight because she is a little croupy
glass Of cognac for the Group costs 40
cents at Julien's at this hour. You can
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A Crash of Croekcry-a am.

Boulevard and streets that cross IT, In the
Latin Quarter all is black. except few
beer halls. with students shouting And
soon IN the full festive quarter from the
Opera 10 the Boulevard Sebastapol the
luminous night belt will show its milky
way from out the darkness which begins
when the electric lights go out
What makes II easer to speak of Paris
life with confidence is the extraordinary
way things have of classifying themselves
m the hide-bOund French routine IL is
literally true, for instance. that certain
cafes OF severe and almost Puritan re-
Spectability Cthe small. old-fashoned cafes
Ike the Maza.in. although II. too, shows
signs of going under, as ii has set up
chestra to draw more trade) are full of
honest family folks at IL O'Clock at night
and absolutely empty at II 10. The clients
nave their habits. At li:lO they go home
Inc clients of the taverns-lIke the Pousset
tne hoyale and Cafe Riche-have their hour
also' which is am. The robust beauties
are quite gorged with food. They walk out
10 the cab stand at the curb. with swaying
capes and swishinS skirts, like queens
And soon the tavern lowers its lights to
serve a group or two of journalists and
actors. poets and musicians Ike evil
Dirds OF nlSht. VINO talk about their bus
mess. while the walters. yawning pile the
chairs upon the tables for the sweeping out
and drag the chairs antb tables inside from
the sidewalk terrace. as the law requires
out, to find the Boulevard in black. save
for the yellow points .; gas.
How the Country f. Represented.
1t is but dark ana cOnfortless along the
pleasure ground OF all the world. Some few
blocks TO the west there shine some lights,
They are the lights Of that pride of Amer
lea. the Cafe Americain.'' They must have
strange ideas Of US in Paris. Our nIus.rat-
ed weeklies are represented In all the news
paper SALES des Depeches by the Police
Gazette alone. You see IL pasted UP beside
the LcrdOn Graphic and the decent Ger
man eekiicS. and the cafe of all cafes.
which bears the name American. Is this ex-
penSiyc dive. The Cafe Anlericain has a
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Clemens Adopted Captain Sellers
Nom de Plume.

ue IIume.
Mai. J. B. Downing of Middleport, Ohio
prominent Insurance man and many years
ago one of the most widey-known pilots on
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, during a
chat with Cincinnati Enquirer reporter
the other day said: 1.-The prevailing idea
that Sam Clemens mark Twain got his
nom de plume from the soundings on the
mississippi IL erroneous. Equally incorrect
Is the story attached to the name, through
Clemens penchant for having two drinks
marked up to MIN while in the fringed
trousers stakes in Virginia City
THE correct root from which his assumed
name spraDg was this: Old Capt. Isaiah
Sellers was a steamboat commander on the
Mississippi and prepared articles for the
New Orleans Delta. Capt. Sellers was writ
ing "reminiscences of life on the father of
waters. The strange and sudden changes
In the Mississippi river channels are pro-
verbal. but Capt. Sellers stories so exag-
gerated these conditions that general COM
ment and criticism was excited on all Sides
Sam Clemens was then learning the river
Under Pilot Bart Bowen. He was a mere
STRIPPING, and. being a cub pilot was not
considered experienced enough to associate
with the old water dogs.
But when the letters of Sellers appeared
In The Delta Clemens was among the first
to constitute himself a critic, and over an
anonymous signature he wrote articles on
Sellers literary aspirations and his limited
knowledge of the Mississippi. Clemens ar
tic!es were published in the New Orleans
Picayune, and they We're so funny and made
old Sellers SO ridiculous that he being
pompous Fellow, became as mad as a June
bug in a lighted ROOM
He determined to find out the author of
the letters I'm the Picayune. So generally
were Clemens articles read that the secret
could not be kept. When he found out that
Clemens, presumptuous cub pilot, was the
writer. his proud spirit was shaken with
grief and shame Sellers stories were all
published under the nom dc plume of Mark
Twain, and upon their discrimination and
the shortly subsequent death OF the old
gentleman. Clemens, in letter TO- me says:
I stole the corpse" az q,
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temptation of their coffee. This meeting
once again In well-known cafes is a pecu-
liar mark of Paris life.
The patrons of the theaters have met in
the same way. hurrahed and eaten, paid
and rolled away in cabs. Those who have
stayed and those who come are noceurs,
and from I am till am. IL Is the noce,
the fete. While families may participate,
IL Is not family life. This particularly is
true Of all the new and splendid brasseries
and taverns. where the first days of Sep
tember ind the oysters come again into
their kingdom with the world returning
back to Paris. In these taverns the silver
soup pot boils the hard-shell crabs (ecre-
visse) all the year round, except the month
of June Here ladies sup beside their cava-
Hers. they do not sup alone. they do not
sit alone. The type is one distinct 1t al
most seems as IL the onion soup. the oys-
tiers and the coral-red ecrevisses. the hard
boiled eggs en- salade and the ham and sau-
sages and stout meat jellies of the taverns
(ss distinct from restaurants) build up
special type of femininity; never under
twenty-four years old and never over
thirty; always tall, fine. plump, with
great face like a full-blown rose; gracious,
careless. easy. habituated. solid, healthy,
With fine teeth and hair; as honeSt-looking
as an honest woman.
Disappearance of the Cafes.
A hundred brasseries are reeking with
their beer and food. tits a new thing come
to Paris. practically in the last five years.
The falling in of old cafes to bloom again
as brasseries-besr Recommendations.
The last to go was the old Cafe Richie. To-
day IL is brasserie. The Grand Cafe DE
meath the Jockey Club will be transformed
this fall into brasserie. Almost the only
osd-style cafe of great size and great i'm
portance now existing on the Boulevard
between the Opera and the Varieties Is the
old Cafe de La Paix, beneath the Grand
Hotel And ii was sold last month to the
hotel. Its old proprietor retires. Its turn
to lower its prices and draw beer will sure
~ come. This transformation of the old
style cafe into the new-style brasserie Is
looked upor by old Parisians as a curse, and
marks the fact that Paris has become as
yulgariz ed as any other city
I'D a-m--The great brasseries are still
gitteriLg In their prosperity along the
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From the Richmond Times.

FROM Inc hlcnnlOnd Ilmcs.
We repeat, ii is not ignorance of what
We have that keeps northern capital away
from the south. 1t is kept away by two
causes-cue the prevalent idea that we are
a people given to violent methods instead
of the peaceful ways of the law. and the
other the idea that We think the easiest
way to pay a debt is the best. The idea
that we are a people who prefer settling
personal differences with the pistol rather
than by the process OF the courts Is one
that has gone broadcast over the land, and
If there is anything On earth that the cap
;tallst abhors il is a state Of society in
which that notion prevails.
The other idea of our preference for the
easiest method as the best method of pay
ing debts is just as fatal TO us as the first
A great deal has transpired I'm our
history within the past twenty-five years
which has cultivated this idea as one
OF the most atural Of products. 1t is not
Necessary to so ever that, as its effiores-
cence is now seen all over the south in the
clamor FOR free silver and cheap money
The capitalist shuns the land where that is
the political philosophy as he shuns q
plaSue-striclSen district. 1t appears TO us
the height of idiotic folly to so around the
south preaching free silver and cheap
money, and then step over Mason and
Dixon's line and ask capitalists to bring
their sound dollars into that same land
where they will be compelled to exchange
them for rotten dollars.
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tend the wooden shovel to some pretty girl
all delicate and tagged out with going round
the town in company with her own dude.
She cannot help comparing the baker boys
solidity with her own dear friends fiute-l like
eXtremeties, and the workingman's royal
color with the pallor of the youth in even
ing clothes. And it is just.
The dawn is breaking. a walk down 20
the Boulevard and TO the Rue Moatmartre
to see the Halles and stop as often as Is
necessary on the way at wine shops tai
ways opening now to get the early morning
trade) will bring one to the real newspa-
per square. Here a famous brasserie, the
Cog dor, sits between two streets. the Rue
Saint Joseph and the Rue du Croissant,
rich In printing offices, so rich, indeed, that
all the little square Is called LA Grs nde
Imprimerie." where more than s!zt--c dali
lies are turned out Ii is a scene of brisk
confusion. with por:ers, wagons. messen-
gers and newsboys Cwho are not boys, but
mem mixed In a grand melee.
STERLING HELLO.
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-4.3O Am.
ask to drink will take tumbier of red
wine. his drink. with coffee, all his days
and nights.
The wine shop has an honest clientele
the scourings of the streets, among the wo-
men. compositors and printers boys work.
ingmen, and gentlemen in evening clothes
clerks on the spree and a big mob of cab.
men come to take an eye opener after their
girls from Montmartre and even some drip
pings from the Cafe American and Julien's
and you may see that same blonde English
girl who always is a little croupy. All this
feminine contingent sit about and yawn
and quarrel over bowls of soup and Jumps
of sugar for their milk. The method of
paying for ones drinks. when one Is sit
the bar is the same as is pursued all over
Paris In the cafes and the brasseries.
Along with each glass of drink there is
brcr ght a saucer with price painted on 1t.
When your glass is empty and you order
another the waiter leaves the saucer. So
II you have taken five drinks you will have
five saucers piled up before you on the
table. Wher you leave the waiter counts
them up and you pay all together.
End mt the Bakery.
1t is but one step around the corner to
the Bakery Chateaudun. Its lights HUI
inmate the somber street; It's hot bread
casts a perfume on the air. All throughout
the later night, or earlier dawn, the nee
tambules thrust out from the closing bras
series and wine shops of the quarter take
their refuge here to find final drink and
a last morsel. Bare-chested bakers men,
all red and sweating. hold themselves erect
with looks Of conscious worth as they eN-
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hides away in little hooks. with its great
center in the sordid life around the markets
and its thoroughfare the Rue Montmartre
where carts piled high with cabbages go
sulking by. One good hour In a cab will
take the tourist round the ring, the pale
track of "the luminous night belt By
public night life 1t Is meant where people
meet together freely. clothed and in their
right minds. where no electric buttons
need be pushed.
The gregarious dance halls-the Moulin
Rouge, the Casino and the garden of the
Jardin de Paris. which closes even earlier
shut up the shop at 1 am. by law. Their
latest clients shot out. with the lights, like
ball and fame from cannons fired at night.
fetch up with noise and shocks in hundreds
of cafes and brasseries. III which their
quieter comrades. who have quit at mid
pight, are already lolling lazily in con-
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From the Leavenworth 1lan) Times. 70 =
First Nighter-"The man who writes the
dramatic criticism for your paper does not
know good play from bad one" AZ
Editor-"I know it, but what can we do ?
He Is the only man on the staff who is tall
enough to see over the bonnets.'f ~
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son IOr oysters ends
In Maryland on the
l4th Of September,
though the oyster
fisheries are open
through the first
month only to the
".Ongers," or those
who fish in shallow
waters. The dredgers
will be free to begin
their fishing on the
l > t h of October.
Dredging will con-
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No Virtue Like Consistency.

TON thc NlHUO NisI'
The constant drop Of water
Wears the hardest stone;
The constant cnaw OF Iowsef
Masfltatcs the toughest bone.
The constant cooling iosrr
Carries OF the blilSllng maid;
And the constant advertiser
Ia tie oac who gets the trade
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ne ErcESI OF
the final establish
ment Of the govern
ment in the federal
city was most bene-
fetal to the District.
Preparations were
made for the con-
struction of a navy
yard on the Eastern
branch and for the
building of the Ma
rine barracks; and
private enterprise be-
gan the erection of a
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- - - - ~ ~ " n ~ =
ment OF Congress
does not signify that
the dispensing MEM
beers win now take a
vacation. Far from
II. On the contrary,
the next two months
VIII be a busy
time with them. Elec-
tons are approach
ing. and those OF
them who have al
ready secured or cx-
pect TO get renofnIna-
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ters like a brunette's
hair lit up with jew
els. From 2 o'clock
till daybreak the
ausky beauty puts
her diamonds by; no
one can tell if she be
beautiful or not. 1t
Is surprising how the
public gayety of Paris
bushes quick at =
am, and how 1t
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Effect Of the Removal Of the Gov
eminent to This City.
POPULATION AND BUILDINGS INCREASE
Opposition to Newspaper Reports
OF the House Debates.
ADAMS AND HIS ENEMIES

Written Exclusively for The Evening Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-08
MENDiNG FENCES
The Vacation Amusement of the
Average Congressman.
SOOfHES TILE DIOGRUNYLED VOTER
A Sample Leaf From the Diary of
a Candidate.
II AVE A BUSY TIME

Written for The Evening star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-08
JehersOn-Burr Contest.

The republicans Were of course, delighted
with their triumph, and jefferson, who was
the universal choice Of his party for PresI-
dent, was overwhelmed with congratula-
tons. In short time however. 1t began
t. be whispered that there was conspiracy
afoot to defeat the will Of the people. and
deprive Jefferson of the presidency by the
election OF Burr. AS the number OF votes
they each received was equal. the election
was reiegated to the House CT Representa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-08
The Closed Season Ends the Middle
of This Month.
INCREASED PRODUCT IN THIS LOCALITY
How the BivaIves Are Obtained and
Their Disposition.
STEM OF PLANTIN
Written for The Evening Star.

TsHE CLOSED SEA
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~eHE EFFECT o
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1894-03-02

In q deli in the forest we espied some
ssmavericks, ," or unbranded stock. The
punchers are ever alert for a beef with
out half Its ears gone and big HF'
burned in its flank, and Immediately
they perceive one they tighten their
cincha, slip the rope from the pommel,
put their hats on the back Of their heads
and Eight ont" Acow was soon caught,
after desperate riding over rocks and
fallen timber, thrown down and 'shog
tied" which means all four feet togeth-
er. A little fire is built, and one side Of
a cincha ring is heated redhot, with
which a rawhide artist paints HF in the
sizzling flesh, while the COW kicks and
bawls.
She is then unbound, and when she
gets back on her feet the yaqueros stand
about, serape in hand, after the bull
fighter fashion, and provoke her to
charge. She charges, while they avoid
her by agile springs and Haunting Of
their rags. They laugh and cry, bravo
toroF until she, having overcome her In
dignation at their rudeness, sets forth
down the canyon with her tail in the air.
From sIn the Sierra Madre With the
Punchers.r by Frederic Remington, in
Harper's Magazine.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1894-03-02
SPORTS IA AND rAsriMEs.


1NerASnH nhief maker Of playing
cards, Goodall. haa died. leaving $780,
600.
ARA recant race meeting In Manches-
ter, England, three horses which ran
in one race were named Tranby Croft.
Starnnd Garter and Baccarat, Tranby
Croft won.
TIE bicycle has brought about the
reopening of many OF the old-time
country hotels in France, which had
closed long ago because Of the intro
duction of railroads.
THE Paris project OF police has
warned women cyclists that the new
rational cycling costume which they
have donned infringes the law against
women wearing mems clothes. They
must dress differently.
CAPT, WILLIAM HANSEN, of New Bed
ford, who was captain Of the oup.de-
fender yigilant during her races with
the Valkyrie, has signed contract to
sail the schooner yacht Quickstep, Of
the New York Yacht club fleet, for
Frederick Grinnell the coming season
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1894-03-02
A Icruinlscsneo of Napoleon.

A series of unpublished letters Of the
first Napoleon appeared in Paris week
before last. In one characteristic epis-
tie the autocTat tells the minister Of po-
lice to arrest Mr.. Kuhn, the American
consul at Genoa, as a wearer Of the cross
Of Malta given by an agent Of the Brit
ish government. The emperor adds:
This individual, having received a
foreign decoration, is no longer an Amer
ican. am sSry, moreover, that yon
communicated with the United States
embassy. My police must not recognize
embassies. am master chez moi, and
when suspect a man cause him tobe
arrested. | would even cause the EN-.
bassador of Austria to be arrested If he
plotted against the state. "
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1894-03-02

s4sit a, Wilt OF the Baby Prince.
A man Of "a years and a boy Of as
many hours are the two most conspicu-
ous figures in Europe today. One, it is
feared, must soon clcse one Of the most
remarkable public careers of this or any
other age. The other, born in a palace,
may some day sit Upon a rather shaky
throne. All Europe has smiled indul.
gently over the extravagant welcome
with which Prince Ferdinand and his
subjects received the wee bit Of human
ity at Sofia, The royal youngster must
think this world an awful humbug.
Before he had n chance to enjoy his
first meal he was frightened half to
death by the firing Of l0i cannon under
his window. He had hardly donned his
swaddling clothes before he was con-
demned to be Bearer Of the Collar of
the Order Of st. Alexander. The poor
child would have howled in protest, but
the royal decree informed him that us
the chief Of three regiments of infan.
Try, cavalry and artillery no such weak
ness would be tolerated. Some ordina.
ry infant indulgences might be permit
ted him as prince and duke, but as a
full fedged Knight Of the First and
Fourth Glass Military Order of valor"
he must preserve the stern dignity of
bis rank.
1t was a hard week for him. In the
first place, the palace yard was thronged
night and day by his singing, dancing.
affectionate subjects. His royal daddy,
in spite Of the nurses protests, persisted
in dangling him at window several
times day, to the frantic delight Of
the cheering crowds. The whole pin.
cipality took week holiday, and the
rejoicing was so spontaneous and unre-
strained that the nation found the spec
tacle a welcome relief from the solemn
croakings about wsr.-New York Sum s
London Letter.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1894-03-02
An Archbishop on Suicides.

The archbishop Of Canterbury, at a
church convocation the other day, en-
tered strong protest against the grow
ing tendency to what IS called cod
ding suicides"
He protested against the conventional
verdict Of temporary insanity in order
to grant a Christian burial. In spite Of
the repugnance tospeak Ill OF the dead
suicide Is becoming too prevalent, and
q healthier public sentiment against it
should be encouraged. He urged that
newspaper headings. instead of being
Romantic, !" Pathetic Interest
ing" should be Revolving Self Mus.
der. London Exchange.