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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

President Cleveland will soon have an
opportunity to consider the case Of Private
Thomas Gill Of the 4th U. s. Artillery, who
was recently sentenced, by a court martial
sitting at the Washington Barracks, to
four years of Imprisonment for assaulting
Lieutenant William E. Birkhimer of the
Sd Artillery. To forecast the effect of a
strong petition for reduction of the SEN
tence is not now possible and it may be
that the effort will fail, but whether Gill
does or does not get any good out of the
effort which a large number of business
men and officials are making in his behalf.
1t will nevertheless be easily established
that Mr.. Birkhimer is an officer who deems
1t essential to the maintenance of his
standing in the army that all enlisted men
should be regarded as distinctly inferior
beings and should be compelled to realize
at every possible opportunity how wide
and deep is the gulf which separates a
martinez officer and the soldier whose re-
Enumeration is small and whose clothing is
entirely without decoration. 1t does not
seem to be insisted by any of the persons
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

Tammany and all the other New York
municipal government have done their best
to annoy the reform administration in New
York city. One of the conspicuous marks
for the mud-throwers has been Street Com
missioner Warning, who has convinced ell
rational New Workers that the city can be
kept in a state of healthful cleanliness Cor
very little more of cost than kept 1t con-
tinuously dirty under the Tammany regime
Now, there being nothing else to find fault
with in Commissioner Warnings depart
menr, the hypercritical are saying unpleas-
ant things about Warning because he insists
that the STRENGTHENING force of fifteen
hundred men-clad in white duck during
the hot weather-shall keep the coat full
buttoned and the belt fastened; the penalty
for disobedience being more or less of a
compulsory holiday without pay. Commits
sioner Warning insists that there is no
hardship In his order and intimates that it
Is the duty of uniformed employees of the
municipality to maintain neat appearance.
Washingtonians may wonder what would
be the result should that idea occur to the
local police authorities. Just now the wide
open summer jackets of WaShingtons
finest" display hundred or more varieties
In outing shirts and a bewildering assert
trent of neckwear. The Metropolitan police
force is undoubtedly a good one, but its
slouchy appearance would be likely to de-
ceive a stranger.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

Sufficient scaffolding for the protection of
the iron-workers on the city post-office
building will surely be provided. and here
after all necessary provisions to render
loss of life unlikely will be seasonably at
tended to. This is just as things should be.
but 1t is unfortunate that four men had to
be dashed out Of existence before any at
tention was given to the safeguards which
everybody now admits are necessary. In
fairness to the contractor for the brick
work, it should be stated that from the
time when he commenced to fill his con-
tract he has seen to it that scaffolding of
extraordinary width made movement on
the part of his workmen just as safe as it
possibly could be.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

Western humor is often practical, and a
notable specimen of the western joke comes
from Chadron. Neb., where three British
tourists were arrested for fast bicycle rid
ing and were fined $50 each. The cyclists
refused to pay their. fines although they had
plenty of money; then they were ordered
out to work on the streets, but they re-
fused to work; Furthermore they are said
to have appealed to the British ambassador.
There is nothing very funny in the fact
that these visitors were fined. nor is there
even the appearance of humor in their
declination to work out the fines which
they refused to pay, but there is something
intensely laughable in the primary fact
that anybody should be arrested for speed
ing bicycle up or down the one street
which Chadron boasts; a thoroughfare
which Is bounded on two sides by saloons
blacksmith shops, two or three general
stores and couple of frontier hotels; other
boundaries there are none, for not even a
surveyor could tell where the street ends
and the prairie begins. Ever since Chadron
commenced to be it has been the custom
for more or less intoxicated cowboys to
ride at full speed along the either very
muddy or very dusty boulevard and coin
much yelling and whooping and pistol-fir-
ing and other western accomplishments to
full-grown mounted jag. Therefore it Is
very funny to those who know Chadron to
read that three respectable bicycle riders
have been arrested and fined for fast riding
in Chadron.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

Few cities have more efficient fire de-
partment than Is to be found in the Dis
trict of Columbia, but great many cities
have fire-alarm service SO very much SUI
perior to what We now have that compari-
son would be ridiculous were not the sub
ject serious one. Superintendent Miles of
the District telephone and telegraph serv-
ice-whcse annual report was printed yes
terday in The Star-asks for the money
needed to properly equip every portion of
the District with sufficiency of fire-a alarm
boxes, and calls also for material extern
sion of the police patrol telephone serv-
ice. That the Commissioners will do other
wise than approve the recommendations
made by Superintendent Miles is not prob
able; they should, when Congress meets,
urge most liberal treatment of municipal
service in which everybody must be inter-
eSted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

In the matter of garbage collection the
District Commissioners are evidently in
earnest, evidence Of which condition Is to
found In the fines that are daily being as
sessed against the garbage contractor. At
this season of the year there is perhaps
TO phase of municipal government more
deserving of the closest attention than that
dealing with the collection and disposal of
garbage. Comparatively little careessness
In collection Is provocative of disease, and
during the warm weather diseases such as
result from atmospheric impurities are
much more likely to be fatal than at any
other time; every precautlon should, there
fore, be taken by the authorities to prevent
the accumulation of decaying vegetable
matter, upon which the contractor has
until now looked with profitable compla-
cency. Unless there Is unwearying inspec-
ton service, followed by fines when the
collections are defective, it pays the garb-
age contractor to be careless. Again and
again has The Star insisted that the entire
garbage system here was fatally defective
in that it encouraged the garbage collector
to refrain from collecting but for some
reason or other-probaoly political-the
District Commissioners have been content
to let matters Jog along in the same old
fashioned. wasteful way, long unknown TO
communities at all careful as TO hygienic
conditions within their borders. There Is
likelihood that somewhere in the not far
distant future We too will take long step
forward in this most important matter,
and will, by demanding the reduction of
garbage, make it to the contractors inter-
est to collect every pound of the threaten
ing refuse. Fairly close collection may be
brought about by strong and competent
force of conscientious inspectors, but that
plan is not an economical one, nor can it
possibly be satisfactory as one which
makes it to the contractors direct pecun-
larry interest to fulfill all the requirements
Of his contract
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

There must be more than one sea-Serpent
Perhaps that ought to be self-evident fact
to anyone who has given a thought to
natural history, but 1t is nevertheless true
that the popular mind either believes in or
sea-serpent That there are at least two
will have to be admitted even by the skep-
teal. for one of the strange creatures has
been disportirg himself or herself along the
New Jersey and New England coasts. while
at the same time the other he or she was
enjoying the cool weather which is COM
men even in the summer time on the sur
face of Lake Manitoba. The reliable wit
ness who saw the northwestern member
of the sea-serpent family lives at Mime
wakan and is a person whose morality is
conspicuous even in Manitoba and whose
veracity Is sworn to by a number of other
residents of Minnewakan who are also
deemed trustworthy. The Manitoba sea-
serpent was, a little more than a week
ago, quite forty feet long; its head resem-
bled that of a bulldog and the upper part
of it's head and such of it's body as was
visible was covered with long. gray hair.
All the probabilities point to this being the
original sea-serpent, for none of the others
that have obtruded themselves upon mortal
gaze of late years have had that testi-
mony to old age which is frequently to be
found in gray hair. The probabilities are
that this gray-haired snake is in the last
stages of senile decay, for no sea serpent
possessed of any sense at all would re-
main long enough in Manitoba to give any
body a chance to see what he or she looked
like
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17
Familiar History,
BIOomers in the Bail Room.

From the Chicago Evening Journal.
Bloomer-cad sylphs in the schottische
and the galop! No. The imagination re-
coils, reason reels and an inextricabie
chaos of legs reigns. The floor manager
at Jackson Park has the true esthetic
sensibiity. If the boomer must bloom let
it be a-wheel by the wayside. Beauty and
the beast may consort in fiction. but the
bea uttful and the bloomer are divorced
by the absolute incompatiblity of their
charac teriStics
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

From the Chicago Record.
Those presidential candidates will simply
be the death of u.s. There's that tough,
flirtatious old Bill Morrison, for example.
Just see how he bushes and ducks his
head, and just hear how coyly he muir
murs, ASK mother"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17


Ex-senator Matt Ransom has real
grievance In response to request made
by this administration he accepted appoint
ment minister to Mexico, and now the
administration refuses to pay him either
salary or such expenses as he has officially
incurred. 1t is rather remarkable that some
one of the many accomplished legislators
and clever lawyers who were and are Mr..
Ransom's friends did not foresee the situa-
ton as it now is. The Constitution says that
mo Senator or Representative shall. dur
ing the time for which he was elected, be
appointed to any civil office under the au-
thority of the United States which shall
have been created, or the emoluments
whereof shall have been increased, during
such time" Senator Ransoms term did
not expire until March last, but he was
nominated and confirmed minister to Mex
leo February %; the fact that the President
did not sign his commission until after the
adjournment of Congress was depended
upon to outweigh the other fact that dur
ing Senator Ransom's concluding legisla-
tive term the salary of the minister to
Mexico was increased $1,000 a year. But
now come the auditor of the Treasury for
the State Department and the solicitor
general and acting attorney general, who
insist that Mr. Ransom is not and has hot
been minister to Mexico and cannot, there
fore, be paid one cent for the services
which he has rendered the United States
since the day when he supposed he was
taking the ministerial oath of Office. Maybe
it will take an act of Congress to pay the
suspended salary and expenses up to date
appointment at this time would be unques-
tionably legal-but the chances are that the
Secretary of State will find a fund out OF
which Mr.. Ransom may be compensated
and reimbursed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17
4 Matter OF business.
the Detroit Free Press.

FTOm IEe DetF0lt Free PreSs.
The decision Of the Spanish government
to pay the Mora claim without interest is
an Illogical one. If the claim Is a good
one, as Spain comedies in deciding to pay
it, the interest is just as honestly due as
the principal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

The joint debatists and convention hold
ers are doing their best to stimulate an i'm
preston that the country is going to the
demnition bow-wows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

Tammany's declaration that it is re
formed carries with it the implied assur
ance that it knows just how far to carry
its reformations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

Mr.. Breckinridge's announcement that he
is out of politics distinguishes him as the
tardy convert to that way of thinking.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

The democratic presidential nomination
is developing a great deal of modest self
effacement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17
The Flirtatious Morrison.

One hundred and five men were at work
On the new city post-office building today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

" no are acquainted with tho facts in the
case of Birkhimer vs.. Gill that Gill did not
assault the lieutenant, but 1t is insisted
that Gill was provoked to his misconduct
by the enc who primarily suffered from
the encounter. Under the circumstances
1t might therefore be a good thing for Mr..
Birkhimer If he could display before the
public reputation for amiability in his
dealings with those who were his subordi-
mates as to rank, but such a display, ac-
cording to the general testimony, seems to
be impossible To the signers of the petit
tion-some of whom are prominent citizens
of Washington who will never forget their
bitter experiences while in the signal SER
vice under Mr.. Birkhimer-the sentence
which Gill Is now serving has the appear
ance Of being unduly severe and they will
doubtless do their utmost to humiliate Mr..
Birkhmer by pressing for radical reduc-
ton Of the term Of Imprisonment. One
feature of the case to which reference is
made in the petition deserves passing at
tention. The language there employed is:
1.-The offender was under the influence of
liquor at the time of the assault, and there
were other mitigating circumstances. The
civil courts would punish such an offense
with five or ten days Imprisonment, or a
fine of five or ten dollars. Is not this sem
and cruel, and is it not out of place in this
country and in this age?"
Drunkenness is not palliation; 1t can
not be properly called "a mitigating cir
cumstance;" 1t is rather an aggravation.
Then too it will be difficult to establish a
parallel between a case of ARRAY in civil
life and an ARRAY between an enlisted
man and an officer in the army; in civil
life there Is no discipline save that en-
forced by the police, but in the army
things are run differently, and 1t would be
destructive of that organization were the
striking of an officer made a trifling Of
Tense. Four years Imprisonment, though,
is undoubtedly a severe sentence. and If it
iS made plain to President Cleveland that
Mr.. Birkhimer practically compelled Pri-
vate- Gill to assault him, the conclusions of
the court martial may be seriously modi-
fed or completely overturned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

1t looks as If the Spaniards had captured
the Cuban stenographer and typewriter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17
A Gauzy Explanation.

did yer done hyah whit 'Rastus Pink
ley says he is?''
mo, I ain done hyah it,
HE says he's er min readah."
Huh! Da's err mighty poh 'pology fob
de way he played dat pokah game wifi me
las night. Mighty poh"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17
SHOOTING STARS.
Her Suggestion

do you find this weather oppressive?"
he asked.
Eyes" she replied; its very hot and
tiresome"
would 1t make matters more endurable
If I were to propose to your
"Oh, yes. Do propose ice cream soda and
a drive"
All Right as an Employer.
This governments going to ruin,
The sorrowing patriots sob:
Yet each of them seems very willing to
take
His chance on a government job.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

China is the Oldest country in the world,
and yet is not old enough to know better
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

Dln order to avoid delays, on nc
count of personal absence, letters to
THE STAR should not be addressed
to any Individual connected with tho
Office, but simply to THE STAR, or to
the Editorial or business Depart
ments, according to tenor or purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17
Two Unparalleled
Handkerchief Bargains.

Mems An-linen Handkerchiefs, good quality, full
size, hemstitched, l and 1h-in tems. Each. loo
Women's All-linen ndkerchefs, hemstitched
hand-embroidered initials. Six In neat box for
Toe. Each. .l2L2c.
Qst floor. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. I'd annex
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17
All Right as an Employer.
Punctuation.

Jeremiah" said Mr.. Jingle's wife, as
that gentleman came home somewhat late,
you don't write me touching apostrophes
as you used to-
NO" replied Mr.. Jingle; land you didn't
use to talk question marks and exclama-
ton points as you do now"
''Yoh kin tell err good deal bout er mans
early hah'dships or Injuries" said Uncle
Eben, "by noticin' wheddah he calls dali
sizes viii flowers or Weeds"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17
Expansive.

She's merry, we shall still believe,
Though otherwise she's quoted,
For she could laugh within that sleeve
For hours; 'twould not be noted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17
Our DC Corner,

OSau VS SVA AASHs
Any of these articles at seven
cents. 1t is said that folks pay 10
cents for the identical things at some
of the nickel and dime stores, and
imagine they have secured some
thing wonderful Look through our
corner and see if you can't duplicate
nearly every Ioc article in the house
hold line here for SEVEN CENTS.
There are Hat Racks Saucepans-Gas Stoves
Garden Rakes-3-lt. Buckets-Funncls-C Coffee
Pots-Salad Sets-Lemon Squeezers-Cuspidnrs-
Towel Roliers-China Egg Cups-Cream Pitch
ers-Potato Mashers-Iarse Hammers-Doycr
Egg Bcaters-Rncking B7ishes-Scrub Brush
os-Soap Shakers-Ki Forks-Clothes Lines
Wash Basns-Tca and Coffee Canisters- FRYING
Baskets--Sohp Lades-Baking Pans q sizes -Prd-
ding Pans-Niilk Pans-Tea and Coffee Straiaers,
and thousands Of other useful and ornamental
articles for tile house-Any of them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

WOMEN'S SHEER WHITE LAWN
WAISTS, large full sleeves, embroidered
collar and cuffs, tucked front and back,
thoroughly finished. Regular $1.50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

WoMEN'S SHEER WHITE SWISS
LAWN WAISTS, soft, full front, yoke back
Of clustered tucks. collar and cuffs trim
med with Irish point embroidery. Regu-
lar $500 Waists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

WOAfEN'S EXTRA FINE WHITE
INDIA LINoN WAISTS, two styles,
handsomely trimmed with fine open
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full sleeves. Regular s.. 80 Waists. ~leSV
cd hOor.. ...-............ 10th ST. blds)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

W0MEN'S IMPORTED MADRAS
WAISTS, pretty patterns, that have
never before been shown in Washington,
laundered collar and cuffs, perfect in
every respect, all sizes. Regular $3.50
Waists
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

WOMEN'S WHITE LAWN WAISTS,
Numbered collar and cuffs, all sizes. Reg
ular S1.75 Waists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17

Table No. E3.
25c Silk Crepes-in white, pirk, blue
cardinal, navy. brown, yellow. Nile
and lavendcr-for. Observation-Disclosures 5c yard
Soc White Jap. Silk-27 inches wide
for ......................... SOC yard
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-15
ENGLAND's PARTY ALLIES.
The Duke of DevOnshire Suggests
the Name of Unionists.

the name OF lniOntsfs.
London, June l4-The National Union Of
Conservative Associations gave banquet
in this city this evening. Among the guests
were the Duke of Devonshire and Joseph
Chamberlain, liberal unionists.
The Duke of Devonshire made a speech
in the course of which he said this was
the first occasion of which Liberal I'm
ionists had been guests of the National I'm
ion of Conservative Associations. He con-
nected the fact with the recent unfair at
taoks on Mr.. Chamberlain and declared
that the leaders of both sections of the un-
ionists always had absolute mutual conf
dence. He diated upon the progressive
change in the attitude of the conserva-
tiVes, ascribing il to the influence of A. j,
Balfour. the late Lord Randolph Churchill
and the men like them. and TO closer con-
tact with public feeling.
The unionists alliance, the duke added
must be strenuously maintained until the
danger of disruption of the empire shall
have passed. Meanwhile the unionists
would try to effect the social reforms
upon which they were agreed. The time
was nearing when new government
would have to be formed and the power
shared by the two sections of the union
lists enthusiastic cheers). Whether II
would be union, fusion or coalition was
of small Importance. for difficulties would
be incurred anyway. The conservatives
could not be expected to call themselves
liberals, while the opinions Of many lib
eral unionists prevented them from adopt
ing the name of conservatives, but there
was a growing disposition on the part
of both to adopt the name of unionist to
the exclusion of the older and narrower
party terms. Most of them were pre-
pared TO merge conservatism, liberalism
and radicalism into the nobler title of
unionism. This might result in the alli-
ance becoming permanent and the forma-
ton of a party TO be called a national
ono Qoud cheers).
Mr.. Chamberlain said he eoncurred in
the remarks of the Duke of Devonshire.
He added that the occasion marked the
advance 10 completeness or their union.
He hoped that both sections would en-
deavor to make the alliance permanent
The conservatives had proved that they
were not opposed to ieasonable reform
and were not reactionary. The liberal
unionists looked forward to cooperating
with them in useful constructive leglsla-
tion (cheers).
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-15
TRooPs orr IN CAROLINA.
They Go to Suppress n Threatened
Rnce Riot at Mount Carmel.

They Go TO Suppress n Threatened
Rnce Riot at Mount Carmel.
Columbia, S. O., June 1.-THE states
special correspondent accompanying the
Abbeville Rifles. ordered to the scene by
Coy. Evans to suppress reported race
riot. arrived at Mount Carmel, a little town
in Abbeville county, at o'clock this
morning The soldiers made part Of the
journey on a special train and then took
wagons for ten miles. The town was quiet
when the troops arrived. The trouble had
been caused by the killing Of negro who
resisted arrest by two white men. This
section being thickly settled with negroes
they became demonstratiye, and made
threats but It Is not believed there was
real danger OF a conflict.
Upon arriving at Mount Carmel, the
sheriff, backed by the troops, arrested the
following negroes who took the most
prominent part In nstigating trouble,
Harry Vincent Israel Bun, Arthur TIL
man, Sim Dunlap, Burrer johnson and
Poldo Bull A preliminary examination was
held and they were bound over 10 court,
and taken to jail at Abheyille court house
this afternoon.