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Evening star., 1896-03-24
LOCAL MATTERS At ANNAPOLIS,
Whee1men's Club House Near Laurel
Opposed.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star
ANNAPOLIS, Nd, March PA strong
lobby is working against the bill to consoli-
date the proposed electric railways between
Baltimore and Washington. The Pennsyl-
vania and Baltimore and Ohio roads are
fighting the bill, and their representatives
are on the ground continually.
Ex-Congressman Barnes Compton ap-
peared at the state house today to protest
against the bill to permit Washington and
Baltimore wheelmen to erect a club house
near Laurel, and to carry on the sale of
liquor therein. The bill was reported un-
favorably in the senate. but an effort is on
foot to have the vote by which the un-
favorable report was adopted reconsidered
and it is against this movement that Mr.
Compton protests. The bill was originally
introduced in the house by Delegate Holmes
of Prince Georges.
Gov Lowndes has sent message to the
assembly advocating the appointment of a
joint committee from the house and senate
to meet a like committee appointed by the
general assembly of Virginia to consider
matters relative to fishing in the Potomac
and Pocomoke rivers and Pocomoke sound.
Evening star., 1896-03-24
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS.
The Introductory Review Now In
Press by the State Dem rtmenf

The Introductory Review Now In
Press by the State Department.
The State Department has now in press
the Introductory review of the commerce
Of the world compiled from the Com
mercial Relations of the United States
with foreign countries. While the Com
mercial Relations have appeared with reg
ularity the publication of the introduction
has been suspended since 1881, owing to
lack of clerical force. AS this introduction
was in reality a summary of the COM
mefcial Relations and embodied the con-
clusions which might safely be drawn
from the vast array Of facts comprised
in the full volume. the loss Of this feature
was severely felt. The main object of
this summary is to set forth the special
conditions of trade in the various conn
tries which seem to offer favorable OPEN
ings for the introduction of United States
produces, in order that the hindrances as
well as the-opportunities for the expansion
Of our commerce may be understood.
Evening star., 1896-03-24
Personal Mentiou.

Judge Nelson Case Of Oswego, Kan, is at
the National He is here to argue before
the Supreme Court a case involving the
title to portion of the city of Chetopa,
Kan, in an ejectment suit brought by the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad.
Capt. j. o. Watson, governor of the Naval
Home. Philadelphia, is in the city on leave
of absence.
Col. o. H. Ernst, superintendent Of the
Military Academy, is on visit to this
city on official business. - @..-2-
Mrs. VIM. r. Hodges. 1877 . street north
west. is again Ill with the grip.
Representative Dockery has been sud-
denly called home by the announcement of
the death Of his brother-in-law, Judge J. e.
Lincoln.
Evening star., 1896-03-24
Mr.. DAVIS OUT OF 1T
The Minnesota Senator Announces
His Withdrawal.
ACTION OF DISTRICT CONVENTIONS
They Refused to lndorse His Can.
didacy.
M'KINLEY GAINS VOTES

MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. March 24-Just
before the state republican convention was
called to order this afternoon, it was an
nouaced that Senator Davis had wired Con-
gresSman Tawney drawing from the
presidential race. This action was due to
the refusal of three of the five Minnesota
district conventions of yesterday to in
dorse his candidacy. His determination to
withdraw makes 1t certain that Mnneso-
ta's eighteen votes at St. Louis will be for
Mckinley.
Senator Davis message reads as followss z
Washington, ID. c., March "a, 1S96-'To
Frank B. Kellogg, James A. Tawney, Hen.
ry A Castle, c. A. Severance: L am bound
to always and do most Loyalty respect the
wisnes Of the people of Minnesota For
that reason. l request that my name be
not considered in the deliberations of the
Minneapolis convention. Give all my
friends my most enduring and heartfelt
thanks.
minnesota republicans should I'm my
opinion. declare against the United States
undertaking the unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of sixteen to one, should also
deciare Tor protective tariff that will en-
courage, secure and perpetuate domestic
production Of everything agricultural min
ing or manufactured that We can produce
or make; that will in consequence cause
steady employment to be given TO the
american wage Garner at wages adeuua te
to the American standard of living: that
Will also pledge the republican party to
protect American industry and manhood
against the competition now threatening
tnem from the orient, particularly Japan,
that VIII also By provision for reciprocity
eniafge our foreign commerce with nations.
who produce what we can't produce. Ii
should also assert the policy of the United
States as declared by James Monroe and by
every one of our statesmen since, declare
that the people of Cuba ought to be recog-
nized as belligerents, declare for coast de-
fenses, and such other naval and military
preparations as will surely make us able TO
secure peace by our manifest invincbility
in war"
The Convention.
1t was nearly ] O'Clock before the con-
vent:on was CALLED to order by Chairman
Tams. Congressman James A. Tawney
arose before anything else was done and
read Senator Davis telegram Of withdraw
al.
There was unbounded excitement. But it
cleared the atmosphere wonderfully.
The first clash was on the temporary
craftsmanship, the two candidates being ex/
Lieutenant Governor A. E. Rice of Willmar
and ex-Lieutenant Governor Gideon S. Ives
of st. Peter.
Rice won, 632 to 800. Hennepin divided
evenly on this vote, while Ramsey went al
most solidly for Ives
Evening star., 1896-03-24
FRIENDLY SETTLEMENT LIKELY.
France and Great Britain Discussinl
the Egyptian Question.


LONDON, March 24.-It is understood
that France and Great Britain will have
settled their Egyptian difficulty before the
next meeting of the Egyptian debt COM
mission on Thursday next. Explanations
of a satisfactory nature are proceeding.
The Baron De Courcel, the French am
bassador here, who was. suddenly recalled
to London after he had left this city on
leave of absence. will return to France on
Saturday, and the Marquis of Salisbury
has arranged to start for Beaulieu on
Thursday.
PARIS, March 2i.-The cabinet council
today was devoted to discussing the nego-
tiations between Great Britain and France
relative to Egypt.
NJ. Lockroy, the minister of marine, an
nounced that the French northern squadron
would not go to its usual cruising grounds,
but would shortly proceed to the Engl.sn
channel and the Bay of Biscay.
Evening star., 1896-03-24
The Case of waiter Dyenrt.

Consul General Williams ct Havana has
telegraphed the State Department that he
has made two applications to the governor
general of Cuba for information as to the
case of Walter Dygart, citizen of Illinois,
arrested by the Spanish officials for COM
plicity in the rebellion. So far he has re-
ceived no response to his applications.
Evening star., 1896-03-24
THE SUGAR CASES.
Mr.. Chapman's Appeal Was Argued
Today.

The Court of Appeals today was occupied
in hearing the appeal of Mr.. Elverton R.
Chapman, who was convicted several weeks
ago before Judge Cole of refusing to an
swer certain questions asked him by the
Senate sugar trust investigating commit
tee. and sentenced to thirty days in Jail
and to pay fine of 500.
Mr.. Chapman's counsel base the appeal
on the rulings made by Judge Cole during
the trial, the alleged errors of the court
being two score or more. Ex-senator Ed
munds of Vermont, and Judge Dittenhoef-
fer of New York addressed the court today,
District Attorney Birney following. Mr.
Jere NJ. Wilson will probably conclude the
arguments tomorrow on behalf OF Mr..
Chapman.
Evening star., 1896-03-24
PREPARING TO FIGHT.
The Transvnnl Burelters Assuming
an Alarming attitude.

an Alarming attitude.
LONDON. March "A dispatch to the
Pail Mall Gazette this afternoon from Jo-
hannesburg says that the Transvaal
burgher; are assuming an alarming atti-
tude. 1t is added that strong feeling
Africa, and that they afe nervine them
selves fer supreme stfuaeIe with Great
Britain.
No reason is assigne6 Tor the sudden
withdrawal of the bail.sofl four members
Of the reform committee They had been
permitted to go to JohAan4sburg in order
to attend to their private taKairs; but all
have now been arrested sand are kept under
guard in private house at Pretoria.
Evening star., 1896-03-24
Government Receipta.

National bank notes received for redemp-
tion today, $237,O3s. Government receipts
From internal revenue. $250,O41; customs,
$57, ,661; miscellaneous, $4,000.
Evening star., 1896-03-24
THE HOUSE.

Over hundred members have taken ad-
vantage Of the fact that the. House has no
important matters pending at this time to
go home, and the attendance consequently
is very slim. The pending question after
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The San Francisco call., 1896-08-09
Photograph
he Mountain Lakes Of California
LAND NATURAL WONDERS AND MARVELLOUS BEAUTIES

Once upon a time some notable who
spent week upon the Pacific Coast re-
GREETED ''the sad fact that there were no
lakes in California. Another tonrist OF
the same kind told US that we had no but
terhies, and a third bewailed in moving
phrases our total lack of singing birds.
That was before we Californians had fairly
begun to think for ourselves, and most of
US, bowling to fame and authority, mur-
INJURED that these things must be true !;
but some, with reckless audacity, using
their own eyes, saw that we had butter
flies and mountain lakes and, using their
own ears, heard the singing of our larks
and orioles. After little, when the
began to dawn upon Californians, we dis
covered that our lakes were not surpassed
by those of any other mountain region Of
the United States. The hasty generalizer
was wrong, as he generally is.
State maps show little OF the Sierra lake
system. The sheets of the admirable geo.
logical survey and those of the active,
well-managed Sierra Club show many
mountain lakes as yet unnamed, and still
fail to show some that are known to fisher
men and hunters.
Many of these small mountain lakes
will some time become the pride and de-
light of persons of culture and refinement.
They will be stocked with fish, if not al
ready so, and will be under private owner
ship or will become noted public resorts.
The late Professor John LIE Conte says
somewhere: Hundreds of little Alpine
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giant rock pinnacles, strangely shaped
by prehistoric ice rivers. The pioneers
have named many of the stone
faces that overlook the canyons =
Roscoe Conkling, Shakespeare, Belya
Lockwood and half score of
others. One sees also the 'sDeviPs Black
smith-shop," with huge anvil of perfect
shape left in the rock; the Devils Play
ground magnificent moraine, and the
Devils Oven" besides many other freaks
of nature.
Ordinary guidebook publications give
surface details about Tahoe. They tell one
about the stage-route terminus at Tahoe
C1ty-not so picturesque place as some
others, but still very interesting and evil
IDENTIFY popular resort; they describe to
some extent the private villas, such as
Sunnyside and 1dlewild; the public re-
sorts, as McKinney's, Rubicon Springs,
Emerald Bay, TaIlac, Yanks, Bijou,
Glenbrook and others. All of these are
mere beginnings, extremely creditable, to
be sure, but little indeed to what they will
be in few years more under wise and
businesslike encouragement of the travel
ing public of California and Nevada, not
to include the rest of the Pacific Coast and
the Eastern tourists. Every Christian
Endeavorer coming to California in 1897,
for instance, will see Tahoe if given half a
chance.
The general impression one gets from
trip around the Tahoe resorts is that of
comfort, healthfulness and variety.
People can have style and fashion or they
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Francisco. You will probably catch a
glimpse of the "Dead Man Laid Out" on
Tamalpais, and register VOW to~come
back here when the rains have
cleared the air, but when you have
eaten your luncheon, this time, you
Will push on, free from care, for
you)are on a road where none molest or
make afraid. and descending by an easy
grade into delectable forest, where red
woods, madrona and laurel tower above a
tangle of manzanita, and ceanothis, cur
rant. witch hazel and azalea; where the
yerba buena runs in and out along the
paths, and where, everywhere, just at
present. huckleberries are growing 'sthick
as bees" You will have to get permis-
sion to pick these, if you are of the people
OF sincerity and respect the rights of
others, but it is decent treatment and not
the earth that the Ian dholders therea bouts
desire, and you will not find this difficult
ou VIII be dusty and hungry when you
reach home. Warm, too, in all probabil-
lty, and this holds good of all occasions of
return nom long tramp. You will avoid
the plunge bath, warm or cold, for which
you think you are longing. Do not put
the feet In water. Sponge them off in
tepld water with little ammonia added,
and you may take quick tepid sponge
bath, taking care to expose but a small
part OF the body at a time to the air.
Then a light supper and long nights
rest, and ten to one il you are not. in the
best sense of that word, "a new woman,
in the morning. PENELOPE PowELsoN..
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and is as well worth ones admiration as
Lucerne or Geneva.
Figures do not tell much, but sometimes
they help. Our Tahoe covers an area of
nearly 200 square miles. Its greatest
length Is twenty-five miles. and its great
est width is twelve miles, while its great
est depth is about quarter of mile, and
Its surface is more than a mile above the
ocean. In round numbers then, the eleva.
ton of Tahoe is OVER 600 feet, while that
OF Lake Geneva is only 1150, and its great
est depths over 100 feet, while that Of
Geneva, near Evian, is 920 feet While
crescent-shaped Geneva is fifty miles long
its greatest width is but eight miles. 1t
has Mount Blanc, to be sure, but Tahoe
has snowy Tallac, nearly 10000 feet high,
from whose sides score of mountain
lakes can be seen in the wild Sierra can
yons. True, Geneva has its famous castles
and ancient towns; the historical charm
and glamour brood over its lovely waters;
on one side is Savoy, OH the other the
beautiful Pays de Vaud; there flows the
arrowy Rhone. And yet our own Tahoe,
with its literary and historical cha rms
only beginning to be created, appeals
forcibly to every healthy imagination by
reason of this very fact
On one side of gray Nevada, the silver
and sagebrush commonwealth; on the
other is the main axis of the Sierras and
golden California. Here, in all its un-
spoiled freshness, is vast mountain
amphitheater, wherein human interests
must increasingly gather for many genera
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lions 10 come. Arrow-like Truckee.
speeding down the glacier-hewn canyon
from Tahoe past Reno. offers az MANY
bold promontories for summer castles &c
does the Rhone. As for Tahoe itself the
.ilne VIII come, after the great valleys are
iuii OF people, when this magnificent
iaKe Will be fairly girdled with towns,
cottages and stately mansions. Thousands
oi Guy oweliers will come here, not only
ior 'he nr-fragment summers. but for the
superb winters OF our high alps; our st.
retersDurg OF Ice palaces and sleigh bells
wiz De on the shores of Tahoe and in the
hollows of Truckee.
lance mas had sudden popularity this
season. Never before was its lines OF trans
porlatlon so severely tested. New and
larger noteis, more cottages and better ac-
commodatlons are foreshadowed. Perhaps
IN lew years Truckee will have branch
raliroad to the lake. It is probable that
large part OF this great increase of travel
Is uue 10 the energy which built the new
seealher Iahoe, one of the swiftest and
most exqulsitely proportioned pleasure
Iraies IN America and great credit to the
ohioh Iron Works. This vessel, with a
iehstn OF l6o feet, extreme breadth of less
tnan 10 feet, displacement OF 152 tons,
horsepower of 1000 and speed of 25 or 26
miies per hour, is licensed to carry 200
passengers. She makes daily tlips around
.ne laSe, and with her powerful search
ilgh.s Is especially adapted to night ex-
cursions. The thoroughly organized stage
coach system by which connections are
mace with Truckee deserves high praise.
Inc toilroad is excellently kept and no
Wnere else IN California can more attrac-
tive hfteen-miie stage ride he found-nast
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you ARE ON ROAD WHERE MoLEsT OR MAKE AFRAID

lakes, with their clear, deep, cold, emerald
waters, are embosomed among the crags
OF the Sierra Nevada Mountains" He de-
scribes many OF them and the processes by
which they were formed among the pine
crested ridges of granite that rise to such
giants as Shasta, Lassen, Lyall and Whit
ney. From the summit of Lyall party
OF university students not long ago counted
thlrty-nine lakes in plain sight
A large number of very attractive noun
tain lakes are scattered about in the
central Sierra region, around the forks of
the Yuba and American to the Summit
and beyond. Many of these have as vet
no name, though well worth mapping.
Every year new trails are laid out and
these wild places are made more acces-
sible. Lake Fenner, Lake Eleanor, Lake
Angeiine, Five Lake Valley, Lake Pleas
ant, Eureka, English, Stirling, Meadow
and many others will long be remem bered
by those who visit them. 1t would be
easy to give list of hundred such, all
charming and well worth an extended
description.
But the finest lake region of the Sierras
is along the line of that glacier hewn
Alpine valley, the Truckee basin, between
the east and west divisions of the vast
mountain range-in that immense cleft
extending almost north and south, wherein
are Webber, Independence Donner and a
score of lesser lakes. in which wild tor
rents flow. not oceanward, but inland,
toward the desert, and in which, greatest
OF all. our sealike Tahoe reposes among
its purple crags ana transcendent PEAKS
OF snow. our pre-eminent Californian lake,
that certainly ranks among the three or
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can live plainly and comfortably in tents
or cottages in go-as-you- please colonies
There is room and to spare for every
grade of expenditure and for every class
OF tourist.
The territory accessible from Tahoe is in
deed most attractive. and every year more
people explore it. The other day l heard
John II. Budd of Stockton, regent of the
university and brother of our worthy Gov
ernor, remark that he was going on a fish
ing trip III Faith, Hope and Charity"
That is charming spirit in which to
start" said the person to whom the re-
mark was addressed. ssThe leading ques-
ton, however, is whether it will be prac-
ticable for one to come back in the same
frame of mind"
Faith, Hope and Charity. be it UNDER
stood, are three small valleys of Alpine
County. The late Ross Browne when he
made that notable journey of his on foot
across the Sierras on the s'rush to Washos"
in 1860, happened into Hope Valley in a
snowstorm. Worn out and hungry be
hobbled up to the only cabin it contained
and asked big, buriy mountaineer who
sat on pile of foxskins by the doorway if
he could stay there all night.
The mountaineer, holding large white
bulldog by the ears, replied with visible
emphasis:
"Bull an me thinks you'd better light
out and go twelve miles further!'
This point OF view was steadily main-
tanned, and poor Ross Browne trudged
hopelessly out of Hope Valley. His only
satisfaction was in labelling the noun
taineer as Diogenes when he published
the story. CHARLES II. SHINN.
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| something to brace his muscles up. Only
rare and special effort should make such
a stimulant necessary. Exercise, as reg
| ular thing, should never be INDUCED in to
such an extent as to leave the joints and
muscles stiff. Take my advice and use al
cohol externally but once week, and in
ternally, never!
Walking, as style of racing, has many
objections. First, it is not practical. 1t
is fine exercise, admit. but that is not
everything. Twenty years ago if man
wanted to cover fifty miles he would walk
to-day he would go on dog trot, and
get there long way before his walking
companion. | repeat, it is not practical
except as mere exercise
Second-As there are very few men who
are capable of judging walk, it place >
the competitors very often in the hands of
incompetent men. Sometimes good men
are appointed to serve, but something
lnterferes and the men are at the mercv of
well-meaning, perhaps, but inexperi-
enced judge of walking. The rules Of
athletics say that the decision of the Judge
shall be final and without appeal: but
this rule, wise as it is (for it shuts off end
less controversy, actually places a walker
In the power OF prejudiced or unprinci-
pied official.
Ihird-An honest walker cannot tell
when he is "lifting," SO that when he is
disqualified he feels very bitter against the
luoge. he tries to walk fairly, but if his
style is detective he does not know it. If
you hear man stoutly assert that he was
walking perfectly fair don't pay any at
tentlon to him. or if his friends say the
same remember that "love is blind,' and
IN this case possibly ignorant. The evil
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The Queen of England has personally
opened twenty-five sessions OF Parliament
during her reign.
The National tribune., 1896-02-13
PERSONAL.

Thirty-one years ago Capt Thomas Gallo
way, 1st Md. Cav, picked up on the battlefield
of Cedar Creek a brass medal. on one side Of
which was stamped &C. :. Kidder. Manchester.
N. H., LIST Reg't N. Z. Cav, Troop VI, 81 Batt."
Capt. Galloway has kept the medal ever siRcc.
Recently it was discovered through the Army
and Navy Survivors, Division of the Pension
Bureau that there is C. 5. Kidder, who Was
Commissary-Sergeant of Troop VI of that regi-
ment, living at 90 Appleton street. Manchester.
y. H.. and he has been written 70 10 ascertain
if the medal belongs TO him.
Col Sam Holloway. formerly Of the s,h Ky
Cav. is one Of the ANTI Blackburn Senators Of
the Kentucky Legislature, but on Wednesday
of last week he voted for Blackburn for the
first time. and was loudly applauded by bis
acknowledgements.
COmTade Henry Nasterman was installed ~
Chaplain of Farrsgus Post 25, Lincoln. Neb.,
the other evening. Chaplain Masterman ia
now serving his 18th successive term, he hav-
ing been elected to the Office on the organiza-
ton Of the Post. Chaplain Masterman is just
completing his SD year, and during the is
years of his Chaplaincy he has Off ciated at
the burial of I02 Of his comrades. not one OF
whom was old as himself During the IS
years existence of the Post he has missed but %
meetings. 1t is conceded by all members Of
the Post that Chaplain Nasterman has made
more calls upon the sick and those in distress
than any other member OF the Post, and his
long service in the sacred Office attests the es-
TEEN in which he is held by the comrades.
Chaplain Masterman served faithfully through
the war as a member Of Co. G., 2Sth Iowa AL
though he was born in England. be says he is
not to blame for that. and that he has done all
within his power 10 correct his early mis-
fortune by being a good soldier and citizen OF
the United States. All comrades of Farragut
Post join in the wish that Chaplain Mastermsn
may yet serve in the capacity for which ne il
50 emineutly fitted many more years.
Past Commander-in-Chief Paul Van Der
WORT is the editor of a new magazime-TAs
NatioB-publshed at Omaha, Neb, and devoted
t1 general literature and the discussion of
economics 10 is very neatly gotten up and
flied with interesting matter. Comrade Van
Der WORT is a vigorous thinker and writer,
and knows what the people want.