Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-25
THINGS. HEARD AND SEEN.

THINGS HEARD AND SEEN.
Naval officers, almost without exception,
| take the part of the Spanish man-of-war
in the Alliance affair. They hold that it is
! the duty of the navy to police the seas.
and the Spanfard, in the performance of
his duty, should have fired upon a vessel
| that was suspected of carrying arms to
| the revolutionists, If the vessel refused TO
heave-to when requested. They say that
the common courtesy of the ocean would
require an officer to heave-to If another
vessel desired to speak him, or at least
l to slow up and allow the vessel to come
alongside. One old salt, speaking of the
affair, remarked: 81 would have blown
MIN out Of water If he would not answer
my signals. especially If I had reason to
suspect him.
1t Is a very good thing to be an Usage
andlan Each one of them draws about
SouU year from the investments that have
been made for them. A family Of SIX or
seven, each drawing that amount, lives
very comfortably in the Indian territory
| on such an income Many white men have
married into the tribe and have found that
they can live much more easily on the in
come OF their wives and children than by
working.
admiral Jouett of the navy, retired, was
talking the other day about the capacity
OF some citizens of the United States to
get the government into little troubles.
| was on four years cruise in the Pa
clnc said he. back in 1886, and we
toncned at a great many places. 1t seems
70 me that there was not an island in that
great ocean where there was not some
Ianhee who had got US into some trouble
with the natives, and we were constantly
caiied upon to straighten them out and
settle the difficulties. Finally we got down
no f.1r
| the captain that l guessed none of them
mad got down here and we would find that
tnere was nothing to fix up. But we had
naray got anchored when a fellow came
Alongside IN canoe. He was blue as in
dlgo, having been tatooed all over. 'Haow
dye We deu,' he called out, with a nasal
wang that there was no installing Well
L said to the captain, there is no getting
away from them Here he is And do
you know, that fellow was in trouble, too.
ne had married into the royal family and
was IRVING to get control OF the govern
menf, and he wanted US to help him Give
| these Yankees chance and they would
nave us In trouble everywhere
some Mlssourians are quite indignant
Wnen their state is classed as a southern
state. Ihey often say that it is no farther
south than Kansas or Illinois, or at least
tnat It ought not to be classed as a south
ern state as long as those are classed as
western states. And yet both her Senators
participated in the confederacy, one. Mr..
Cockrell, as a dashing officer. and the
orner' Mr.. Vest. as a member of the con-
sress Maybe that would make a state a
| part OF the solid SOUTH
| Secretary Smith does rot let the impress
SION niger long that he is subject to the
influence or great railway magnates or
corporations. Not long ago c. p. Hunt
lnston called upon the Secretary with a
request that something regarding the
Union and Central Pacific lands Should
not be done. This was followed in a few
days with the statement from the Interior
department. that precisely the opposite of
what huntington had requested would be
done.
Long ago We gave up the inquiry Whats
IN a LamsE but now We may well ask,
w hats in COLOR" The light house ten
der violet in which the President takes
ms outings, is dirty black, with the ex-
ception OF the wheels, which are a smoky
| yellow.
Dan Ransdell of Indiana, whom WASH
| fngton people will remember pleasantly as
marshal of the District. was in the city
few days ago. He says that ex-Presi-
dent Harrison has almost fully recovered
from the serious case of grip which he
had. but had not up to the time Mr.. Rams
| dell left ventured from his residence. The
ex-marshal says that the presidential bee
| is not apparently troubling the ex-Presi-
| dent, and he doubts If the candidacy of
| Mr. Harrison is ever seriously considered
| by himself. No effort Is being made by
| any of Mr.. Harrison's friends, says Mr..
Ransdell, and If the nomination comes to
| him il will be without seeking, and be-
cause the republican convention prefers
Mr.. Harrison to any other man that may
| be before it.
First Assistant Postmaster General Jones
| has been having some correspondence with
a school ma'am in Honolulu about a silk
wrapper and waist However, 1t was all
| strictly II n show
sort of stuff comes into the dead letter Of
| flee, which is under Mr.. Jones' care. The
articles wanted by. the lady in Hawaiia
| were duly mailed, but lacked $3.50 of
| enough postage to carry them so far into
the Pacific. They came to the dead let
| ter office, and a letter was sent to the lady
| for some time and meanwhile the pack
| age was returned to the sender. But final
| ly came an international money order from
| Honolulu to pay the postage but Mr.. Jones
! had to inform the lady of the return of the
package and new order was sent to her
| returning the money. 1t will take several
weeks now for this matter Of the wrapper
| and waist to he Strengthened out, and 1t is
| to he hoped that the Honolulu school
| ma'am is not dependent entirely upon this
post Office package during the time it has
! taken, and will take, to get it to the islands
of the Pacific.
Gradually we get reconciled to seeing
| women on bicycles, even in boomers, but
| 1t is still grating on the nerves TO see an
! old man with snow-white hair and beard
| perched on machine, especially when
| wearing a shiny silk hat. The line ought
| to be drawn somewhere.
A Third Indictment.
After an arraignment of the man on one
Indictment this morning, the grand jury
| this afternoon returned third indictment
| against against Thomas ]. Taylor, charg-
| ing him with the murder of his wife,
| Mamie W. Taylor, in September last. The
Indictment on which Taylor was arraigned
| this morning was, like the first one return