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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-05
Hoover & Snyder,
Now H2II f st.
OUR New
Quarters

have been very much admired. and
--- we thank friends and patrons for
their kind expressions and well wishes.
This new store also means o new
- stock-a larger stock-a finer stock
AMI yet the same reasonable prices
will prevail. No doubt you can find
lower prices than ours Cheap quail
tics) but you cannot find high
- grade qualities at low prices, for
We have Ladies' Shoes for So, $3.50
and 81, which We know 10 be from
SOC. to 81 per pair higher elsewhere.
Pleasant surroundings, experienced
shoe statesmen mot school boys, the
best service. the best shoes, and alb
solute satisfaction. or money returned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-05
The Suits.

Two specialites- s.4s FOR the New Spring Style
Chrviot Suits with Etor Jacket and organpipe
skirt
$3.50 for the suit with Double breasted Refer
Jacket. Well made and genteel looking costumes
though so low in price. See ehem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-05
Ladies' Department.

To repea the remarks of many who have visited the
Election respected competitors. The equally flatter
ing criticism of the Parasos, Dress Goods Trimmings
Ready=to=wear Waists and Skirts, etc., prompts the
claim of such superiority that NOT to Them is to do
injustice to yourself, mot less than to the Paais Royal
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-22

mauga. The nation turns it's back
on its recent past. 1t resumes its
forward march unhampered by sus-
picion, distrust or hatred, Here and
there may be creatures so small as
to try to revive dead feelings, but
they will get no hearing before the
great tribunal of the people, glad in
their peace. The North accepts the
assurance of Herbert that the men
who wore the gray are as true to
the flag as are those who wore the
blue; that 'if the government that
ordained the dedication of this ma
tional park is your government, so
is it also their government. Its priv
ileges are theirs and its promises
are to them and their children.
They take pride in its power and
prestige among the nations of the
earth, and this loyalty to the Union
of the Confederates who once fought
so bitterly against it is the crown
ing glory of the heroes in blue"
And so, leaving the dead past to
bury its dead, let us go hand in
hand, unitedly forward, each doing
his full duty to make eternal the
foundations of the great republic.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-22
ANOTHER VANISHED VISION.

Among the visions of the future
was one of the concentration of
food. Some time ago it was soberly
claimed that the essentials of food
could be so compressed that a Whole
meal might be taken in a capsule,
and a picture was drawn of what
would be the conditions of our lives
when this became universal. The
imagination of the writer ran un-
checked by bit or rein over the broad
topic. The government, or rather
the army branch of it, became i'm
pressed with the value of this great
discovery, and adopted for test an
emergency ration, several days sup
plies of which could be carried in
the haversack. Old soldiers will re-
call how the three days cooked ra-
tions" bulged out their haversacks,
but several days emergency rations
made little more bulge in the grub
bag" than would a days ration of
hardtack.
The discovery was put to the test
by the troops at Fort Leavenworth
recently. A company of fifty men
were detailed for three days forced
marches among the foothills near
Denver, supplied with coffee tablets
and compressed soup and the other
articles forming the emergency ra-
ton. A medical officer was sent along
to weigh the men and watch the
effects of the ration. The first day
out was enough. Back the surgeon
posted for relief from the order,
with the information that thirty of
the fifty men were down sick with
gripping pains, resulting from the re-
bellion of their digestive apparatus
against the scientific ration. But
army regulations are rigid affairs.
No gripping stomachs make them
yield, and the surgeon was told that
the men would have to keep up the
march and their consumption of the
emergency ration for the remaining
two days. The outcome is not re-
ported, but it is evident that, if the
ration is continued, desertions will
soon leave nothing of the army but
the officers.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-22
FOR THE RAIN GIVE THANKS.

Let us make acknowledgment of
our thanks for the generous rain that
fell yesterday all over the North
west. Not only did it make the
parched earth glad, but there will be
surcease now Of those gruesome spe-
cials that began to come, in increas-
ing number, last week from the prai-
ries, of the fires that were sweeping
over them, wiping out the fruits of
the seasons toll on the farm, crush
ing the hopes a bounteous harvest
had raised, and leaving, despair to
sit among the ashes of homes and
crops. Recalling the forest fires that
swept SO destructively over portions
of our own and our neighbor state
last year, apprehensive eyes were
repetition. Prairie and wood were
sun-dried and ready for the spark
that would start the flames on their
career of destruction. That danger
is now happily averted, and we may
be grateful for the showers that
have banished it.
Provision, so far as legislation is
able to guard, has been made against
the beginning of timber fires. Off
GERS are charged with the duty of
watchful care. Placards are posted
at all points, reciting the law and
ments. But so far the equally great
danger of fires on the prairies after
harvest, when the fields are covered
with thick stubble, dried to tinder,
and as infiainmabie, has had no suffi-
cient attention. Self-preservation
makes the farmer cautious; and the
railways, mindful of damage suits,
guard their right of way against in
itiating fires. 1t is the careless and
hunter, pursuing the game of the
prairies, to whom the fires can be
traced. The wad Of a gun, or the
match carelessly dropped after light
ing the pipe, is as frequently as any
the cause of the fires that are so
disastrous. Legislation guarding the
timber should be supplemented by
enactments protecting the prairies.
But the rains have come and the
danger for this season is past. With
the passing of this risk comes the
softening of the sun-baked soil, per-
mitting the plow to run it's course,
preparing the soil for another seed
ing and harvest. The sources of the
wells will again be filled and shrunk-
en- streams replenished, and the year,
that has been SO bountiful, will round
out it's well-filled course. For which,
again, let us all be grateful.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-22

benefit or their detriment. 1t could
give to them at best only a moral
support, while lit would put into
the hands of their oppressors some
weapons which they do not at pres
ent hold. We do not favor the ex-
ploitation of the Cuban question for
political purposes, which is what the
Republican party has now in mind.
We do favor any action by the
United States that will assist the
Cuban people, or brighten their
prospects in their long struggle for
liberty 1t is to the American pa
triot, and not to the American dema-
gogue. that this appeal must be
made.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-22

either created or changed by outside
pressure. There may be a servile
imitation as long as the pressure
remains, but when this is removed
there is a speedy relapse to original
conditions. The Indian pitches his
tepee alongside the house a benign
government has built for him. He
doffs the raiment of civilization and
resumes the freedom of his blanket.
I'VE may despotically force a bald
and senseless imitation of our ways
on another people," says the pro-
fessor, ''but we shall only destroy
|. their life without implanting any
vitality in it's place. No change is
legitimate or beneficial to the real
character Of people except what
flows from conviction and natural
growth of mind" We try to i'm
/ pose on simple peoples, whose de-
velopment is far. below ours, our
system, 'the most complex, unnat-
ural and artificial that has ever been
known" The outgrowth. the devel-
opment of our own racial character,
1--WE attempt to force on the least
developed races, and expect from
them implicit subservience to our
illogical law and our inconsistent
morality. The result is death. We
make a death house and call it civil
ization. Scarcely a race can bear
the burden, and then we talk COM
placently about the mysterious de-
cay of savages before the white
man"
Sentiment will take offense at the
plain, blunt truthfulness of this pro-
fessor, who speaks from his abun-
dant experience as an Psychologist
and anthropologist, but common
sense recognizes the force of his
Judgment Our race is confronted
with a weightier and more difficult
problem in it's own development. We
boast of our civilization, with evil
dences Of barbarism all around us.
We weep over the conditions of the
contented native of Borrioboola-
CHA, and send our missionaries to re-
form and reconstruct him, while at
our doors are our own Anglo-Saxon
savages needing our attention. Here
we have a character that can be
aided to better conditions by a bet
ter environment, one at least capa-
BILE Of growth; there we have a char
acter incapable of change or growth,
suited to it's environment and happy
in it. Until we give their place to
these inalterable facts, great part
of what is attempted to be done i'll
the name of civilization and prog
.ress will continue to flower only into
sentimental futilism.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-22
SENTIMENTAL FUTILISM.

A marked characteristic of the
Anglo-Saxon is the desire that every
one should conform to his notions of
the conduct of life. Everywhere he
is a reformer. Satisfied that some
things are good or some are bad for
him, he would persuade or compel
every other one to adopt what he
deems good, and eschew what he
regards as bad. This disposition
manifests itself in every direction 1t
crops out in the legislation of states
and cities. 1t interferes with the
trades and the customs Of people.
It attempts to regulate pretty nearly
everything. It's plea is the general
welfare. Once it attempted to regu-
late the clothes people should wear
and the food they should eat An.
English monarch Illuminated blast
against tobacco; another prescribed
diet and apparel. Believing that re-
Iigion was essential to the good be-
his only salvation from an eternity
of torment thereafter, governors at
tempted to compel every one to he
religious. AS sects differentiated,
that one which could WELD the arm
of the state used it to oblige sub
mission to it's dogma. But that is
long past. The futility Of those ef-
forts was long ago seen and they
were abandoned.
But the same activity runs out in
other directions, as yet unchecked
by any realization of it's uselessness.
Failing to recognize immutable facts,
the progressive races have looked
on the races whose development was
either arrested at a certain stage or
has never begun, and the sentimental
in them have wasted time and
money and lives in trying to mold
them over into our civilization; UNI
daunted, as yet, by the complete
failure of their purposes. Prof. Petrie
startled the members of the British
association in London last week by
his sharp criticism of the efforts of
the sentimentalists to spread our
civilization among the inferior races
of the world. Civilization is a mat
ter Of character, and that cannot be
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-22
A PROMISING WRITER BEI,ONG.
ING TO THE SCHOOL OF
BARRIE.
IAN IMAGINATIVE MAN.
NOVEL OF MERCANTILE SOCTE
TY IN LONDON AND HAM
OVER.
MANY FRENCH TRANsLATIoNs
Fall Announcements of PubIisb.
ers-FOrthcOming Books
Literary Notes.

"A Street in Suburbia" would
nave been such a capital title for one
OF Mr.. Burners stories of that dis
tr1ct OF North New Jersey whose
male inhabitants daily take the $50
train for New York, or for a study
py MT. Howells of social life in the
envarons of Boston, that one feels a.
pang OF regret on realizing that the
SUBURBS Of Mr.. Pugh's book pertain
10 London, and are infinitely less at
tractiVe places than Brookline and
Engiewood. They belong possibly to
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-22
CITY FINANCES ONLY.

There appears in another part of
the G 10 b e a communication from
a citizen referring to the fact that
the G o articles upon the bond
ed debt and the interest charge of
st. Paul do not include that portion
of the principal and interest of the
county bonds which must be as
sumed by the city. We give his
statements and estimates in full,
for the public information. They do
not, however, constitute a part of
the work which the G / o be set
itself to do. This was to furnish a
comparative statement of the mu-
nicipal finances of four cities, from
which the taxpayer could obtain, at
a glance, all the information relating
to the revenue and expenditure of
the city itself. We excluded from
this, Intentionally, the item of coun-
ty debt and county expenditures.
The work which we undertook and
are now carrying forward, with the
appreciation, we are pleased to find,
of all thoughtful citizens of st. Paul,
is difficult and complicated, involv-
ing an immense amount Of labor.
1t would have almost doubled this
work and added to its complexity,
without increasing its value, if we
had proposed to cover county as well
as city finances. No fair compar-
ison could have been made had this
been done in one instance, without
doing ut in all. If, in the financial
statement of ST. Paul, we included
its proportion of the debt of Ram
sey' county, we must necessarily have
done the same with Hennepin coun-
ty, and with the counties in which
Omaha and Kansas City are situ-
ated. There would be little gain and
an obvious unfairness in this. The
area of Ramsey county outside of
st. Paul is so small, as compared
with Hennepin county outside of
Minneapolis, for instance, that the
cost of the county government in
one city is largely increased over
that in the other.
Moreover, what we are aiming at
is a lowering of the city tax rate,
which cam hn b,>o,iorb+ about I
by the action of city authorities.
Any showing of the county finances
would appeal to different set of
authorities, and should be made the
subject Of separate consideration.
To have united these would have in
troduced confusion and doubled Ia
Dor, without increasing the value of
results. One thing at a time is a
good rule for those who desire to
make practical progress. At the
same time. in considering the ag-
gregate burden of the taxpayer. the
county debt, and the expenses of
county administration as well, have
their proper place. For this reason
the communication of our CORE
spondent is pertinent, and the facts
which he supplies simply add addi-
tional force ito the demand for mu-
nicipal retrenchment and a lower
tax rate for city purposes.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-22

vile and mischievous animal called
the people," 1t is the motive idea
underlying the scheme of govern
ment Hamilton submitted to the con-
vention that framed the constitu-
ton.
'We, the Republican party, can
not give the people local option"
And who. pray, are the 1--WE" who
thus assume the right to say what
the people shall and shall not have?
From what source of supreme wis
dom do they hold their commission?
Where did they derive the ability to
judge and the authority to enforce
what a man shall or shall not do.
or how majority of the men in
any community shall or shall not
conduct their local affairs? Are they
better or holier than other men?
Are they better educated or wiser
than others? In what school have
they learned all this? Where did
but only gifts to be doled out to the
people as the wisdom or the mercy
or the whim of these directors of
society may elect? Who there in that
convention were the "we?" War
ner Miller, pulp manufacturer, who,
as senator, made the dear people pay
more for the paper they used that
he might be the richer and the more
pious for it, and the morality of
the working classes be preserved?
And the boss, whose puppets dance
as he pulls the strings? Miller and
Platt; Chadband and Machiavelli;
sniffle and cunning; these, there and
everywhere, are the 1--WE" who gra-
ciousiy give" to the people per-
mission to live.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-22
AT THE THEATERS.

Julia Marlowe Taber delighted a large
audience at the Metropolitan opera
house last night with her exquisite i'm
personation of Viola, in Shakespsare's
beautiful comedy Twelfth Night"
The performance was thoroughly en-
joyable. Mrs. Marlowe Taber's Viola
is one of her sweetest characterize
tons, while Mr.. Taber's portrayal of
the vain and love-sick Malvolio is un-
questionably one of his ablest efforts.
AS for the Sir Toby Belch contributed
by William F. Owen, it is conceded to
be the finest Interpretation of that
character to be seen on the stage.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-22
SYMPATHY WITH CUBA,

There is room for a suspicion that
the stir among the people for some
action by the United States on the
Cuban question is a move of the pol
iticians. AS the time for the meet
ing of congress draws near, the lead
ers are looking about them for some
thing with which to fire the public
heart" The Hawaiian issue is dead.
The people Of this country univer-
sally sympathize with Cuba. This ap-
pears, therefore, to the aspiring DO
litical leader an excellent opening
for the exhibition of what he calls
patriotism. No doubt there are be-
ing prepared, by the private secre-
taries Of any number of congress
men, spread-eagle speeches to be de-
Hvered as soon as possible in the
new congress, telling what the gov
ernment Of this country has done
and has not done, ought to do and
ought not to do with reference to
Cuba.
The proposition to send a commits
sion to examine into the condition of
affairs in Cuba strikes us as bit of
gratuitous impudence. AS a govern
ment, we have nothing to do ait pres
ent with the internal administration
of that island. No outrages on
American citizens have been report
ed, and no warrant for that par
ticular kind Of interference exists.
The action which the United States
must take, if any, is conditioned
| upon the position of the Insurgents
themselves. There is a general dis
| position in this country, which is
shared, we doubt not, by the ad-
ministration, to help the Cuban pa
| trlots in every way consistent with
the obligations imposed upon us by
| international law. That the United
States will accord recognition to the
Cuban belligerents ait the earliest
opportunity, we believe. The initial
steps must be taken by them. The
| recognition of their provisional gov
ernment as an independent power is
matter for later consideration. Up
to this time 1T must be remembered
tnat 1t is an open question whether
to accord belligerent rights to Gu
bans in the field would be to their
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-09-22
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Notes.

1t is reported that a firm of Amer
lean publishers have offered Bern
hardt $4,000 for her memoirs.
The same firm also announce that
they will bring out the Last Poems
of James Russell Lowell in a form
suited TO it's Importance. The volume
VIII contain new portrait of the poet.
George Macdonald has broken his
long silence with a new romance, Lii
ith, which is said to return to the
manner Of his earlier work and to be
regarded by the author as the crown
ing achievement of his life.
Mrs. Cheney, wife of Bishop Cheney.
or Chicago, has written a story de-
scrlblng the workings of social Set
tleInent In the slums. 1t is called
NO. AZ Tinkham Street" and will be
puDlisied oy A c. McClurg & Co.
The fall announcements of the pub
llShers promise an unusually large har-
vest OF readable books. Scribner's
are bringing out in book form Robert
Grants graceful if inconclusive papers
on '"The Art of Living" and Con
stantinople," by the omniscient Co.'S
| mopolitan, f. Marion Crawford.
In the current number of the Chap
Book the publishers offer a list of
French posters which will attract the
attention Of all admirers and collectors
Of these bizarre objects of art. Their
set of examples of Cheret, the chief
of makers, is especially COM
plete, and includes some which are
already difficult to obtain in Paris
itself.
Scribner's have received $1,000 ad-
e.,
son Burnett's new book, 1.-TWO Little
Pilgrims Progress which will be is
sued early in October. The story is
one of child-life in the West. invoIv-
ing a journey to the worlds fair. 1t
is about as long as was 'FauntIeroy,"
and will be illustrated by Reginald
Birch.
Houghton & Miff1in announce a new,
complete edition of Browning, one of
the poetical works of Oliver Wendell
Holmes and a. beautiful uniform edi-
ton, limited to thousand copies, of
the works of John Burroughs Their
new fiction will include volumes of
short stories by Kate Douglas Wig
gin, Sarah Orne Jewett, F. Hopkinson
Smith and Charles Miner Thompson,
Of the Youths Companion, whose story
of newspaperdom in the last Yellow
Book has received much favorable
comment on both sides of the Atlantic.
An English writer who processes to
read the signs of the times announces
that during the present year contem-
porary art, literature and manners
have taken turn toward sanity; that
the era of the emancipated woman is
passing and the Decadence itself is
decadent. He attributes these wholly
desirable results to Nordaus book and
the knighting Of Sir Walter Besant.
Are the remedies better than the dis
ease? 1t may be-though many doubt
it-that the times were so out of joint
as to need Nordaus rude surgery, but
surely our decade has not been so
rocco. bizarre, fin de steele, as to
require for antidote such an Apotheo-
sis of the Average as is involved in
the knighthood of Besant.