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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-05
THEY TRADED.
And Two Loving Hearts Were There
by Joined Together.

ana TWO Loving Hearts Were There
by Joined Together.
Il witnessed a novel marriage in Virginia
a few days ago." said a travelling salesman
to a Star reporter
"A couple on a gaunt. bony horse rode up
to the hotel where / was stopping. The
swain dismounted and took half dozen
chickens into the house to sell them to the
landlord. He was not in need of chickens,
and the man said:
'''Tain't no use, Sal Wen hev ter cum
agin 'termorrer.'
THE next morning they rode into town
again and made the round of the stores.
l watched them, and finally the man went
to the county clerks office. 1 followed and
heard the colloquy.
Mister, me an my gal wants ter git
married. We bringed in chickens ter git
money fer a license, but no one won't Civ
Us no money fer 'em. Kin sell 'em in trade
over hyar. an eff you'ns II take tn trade,
I'll buy license
The deal was made, and the couple rode
home, looking as happy as though the
course of true love had always run smooth
ly."
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not live long. the bullets. that have never
been removed. having resulted in consump-
ticn. but he is as plucky as he ever was.
At the last election he was confined to bed
with wounds received in his last battle, but
insisted upon being carried thirty miles to
the voting place. An enemy insulted him
as he lay on the litter. ard with a spring
he caught the man by the throat and fell
10 the litter with him. His wounds started
to bleed afresh. and It seemed that he
would die. but his fingers could not be
loosened from his enemys throat until the
man was unconscious. He comes to Nate
Wan occasionally and always heavily
armed. but the officers never attempt to
modest him."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-05
THE BARRIERS OPINION
OF tho Difference Between the Gold
and the Silver Platform.

1.-The difference between the two political
parties is so slight" said 9th street bar
Der. the other night, while spreading the
lather over an old gentlenan's face: that
1t isn't worth the trouble they are kicking
up all over the country"
"Huh"' grunted the old man, there's all
the difference in the world. You talk as
though ycu didn't understand the situa-
ton"
Guess do" remarked the barber pick
ing out a razor and taking hold Of the
strop. Il read the papers. and try to keep
pos ted'
well. what Is the difference between the
gold platform and the free silver plat
form?'
Just forty-seven centsr'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-05

ssAaAA q IL IL
p Dislike mus be on
settiin' yer tinker. ]
never see err man
give er dub sech er
suddint deal. Word
he do""
He didn' do nuth-
in dat time" re-
sponded Dan savage
ly, at the same time
lending an attentive
ear to the din in
progress in front of
the place, but he's
bin in ycre fo' times
dis afternoon TRIM
ter sell me er pictur
NV dat chink, Lye
Hun Chin. | showed
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Yer might ha' kilt

yer might ha' kilt
I'm, said Rafferty,,
the tailor. who had
been an interested
iisteger. were rite
erbout tn chinks.
Free 'Merican cit
'zsns amt got no rite
hCwln' down ter these
lawndry fellers. But
yer might ha' kilt tn
jood wild dat liner
men. I"
XIII i'm Wen he
tawt he WIZ drinkin'
or Chinee cocktail
like Lye Hun Chin
duz!" calculated Dan,
in surprise. wy.
r1or ha',1 nv I-,,l,
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Style in Bottle Alley.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer,

Petie-"Say. Chimmie. do you tink swtp-
sey McDougall is in lover
Chfmmie-"What's eatin' YOUR
Petie-"Why, it's de style he's trowin'
on. If he amt in love. say. why would
he go onct month an take a collar AM
pair o OUTS to de Chinyman2'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-05

furn'toor va-nish an sed it wuz good c1
I'd Civ it ter i'm fur er Chinee cocktail
Yer don't know dem State Department
dubs, an OATS straight"
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FOR NERVOUS FEMALES.
Hprsfur,i's Acid pbosubnte

Dr !. Il. ALEXANDER. Charlotte v O., saysi
''lt is 10; only pheasant to The taste. but rankf
among the best of nerve TONES Tor nervous 10
males
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-05

There is very little danger of :he Nc
Ccy-Hatf1eld feud ever being revived" said
z. K. White of Matewan, W. Va, at the
Normandie. THE Tug river Is facility
agreed upon as the boundary line, and
neither party violates the unwrltten agree
ment. One of the McCoys is jaier OF Pike
county. KY: one of the Hatfelds is jailer
Of Logan county. w. Va. Frank Phillips
the leader Of the Mccoy crowd, does his
trading in Matewan. and the Hatflelds
come there for supplies. They never so at
the same time. but attempt is made by
other side upon the other. Phillips who
IA said to have been shot nine times, will
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anu Hndue pets as 10 now long 1t would be
before he fell In. Patent Leathers won. the
time being four minutes thirty seconds.
1t was not o'clock when the young la
dies began to be afraid that mamma would
be worried about them, and the men to rec
ollect divers important engagements. 80
we t1died ourselves up as best we could,
mounted our trusty steeds and were off.
As a Brake.
We were going down hill, all in the best
spirits. which. strange to say, seemed to
increase as we neared the city, when the
Idiot began to show Scorcher how clever
ly he could use his foot as brake. Scorch-
er commended that the trick never would
work for him, but, being urged by the
Idiot to try 1t, stuck his foot in. OF
course, 1t caught fast, the wheels refused
to turn, and at this hair-curling moment
we suddenly perceived Miss Grace Full
lumber at full speed bearing down upon
him!
The idiot refused to take any blame
for the horrible scene which followed He
contended that he had said Scorcher's foot
would act as a brake; brake was used to
stop q wheel-well, Scorcher's wheel stop-
ped. didn't 1t? What the deuce did You
want 1t to do? Coast uphill?
1t never pays to dispute O point with tho
idiot"
It was not dark when we came into
Washington, and Green Sweater shouted
to me as we prepared to separate:
"Of course, you want to go again, old
picnics." And answered with as much
spirit as was left in me, "Oh, of course. y
And he said
We'll, I'll let you know about 1t In time.
and where we start from"
SO now you will understand why T am
going around with weary look on my
face trying to dodge my friends, the Art
full Dodgers"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-20
After the Raid.

American citizenship ought always
TO be a possession so valuable as 10 in
sure complete protection for every sub
feet OF the United States at any spot
on the globe as long as the subject con-
ducts himself in a manner that clearly
entities him to the shelter OF his coun-
try and his country's flag. There Is no
length to which the government of this
country ought not TO go in rightful de-
Tense of a citizen. II is the duty OF the
government to exhaust its resources
rather than permit any American cit
izen, however humble or wherever
found, TO suffer injustice in his rights
or his person, even TO a single hair OF
his head. In instances 1t has been
charged that the government of the
United States has not guarded with
Jealous care the interests of certain
citizens. Possibly there is some shadow
of warrant for this criticism.
This much in preface TO the case Of
John Hays Hammond, who is reported
10 be held under arrest by the Kruger
government for alleged completely In
the TransvaaI troubles. Hammond is
an American and a resident. we be-
lieve. of California. He enjoys en-
viable reputation as an engineer. He
is widely known to the people whose
headquarters are in johannesburg. and
he is a man of influence. The friends
of Hammond in this country are sat
isfied that ne is in a tight place and
they are turning heaven and earth foi
e1is deliverance-and nobody finds fault
with them for that. The state depart
menf has been urged TO take up Ham
rnond's case. and Mr.. Olney IS doing IL
Congressmen have been enlisted in his
cause, and even the English govern
ment has been urged TO lend a hand.
Cecfl Rhodes instigated a raid
backed by London's connivance, as tbs
people of this country are prone q
suspect-in the belief that he could
',swipe" the country that belongs 70
the Beers. That process is one Of Great
Britain's old tricks; me scheme is ons
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-20
MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1876.
They Mention Him.

Lyman Trumbull. The mention OF
his name in connection with current
politics is like the resurrecting of the
dead. The populists talk of nominal
ing him as their candidate for presi-
dent. He has turned his eighty-second
year, but they say that his eye is not
dimmed nor is his physical strength
abated nor are his mental faculties
clouded. One man who talked with
Judge Trumbull a few days ago re-
garding his possible candidacy, was
met with the suggestion from the
Judge himself that his age precluded
the possibility of his nomination. The
answer was that he is to-day in better
physical condition than Blaine was
when he made the run in 1884; and that
is likely.
A man of account was Lyman Trum-
bull in his day-that is TO say. in the
day when he was in public life. He
was in Illinois politics fifty-hve years
ago. He was in congress in 1854. ana
before he completed his first term In
the house he was elected to the senate.
He had been democrat. but the
events Lildl leu u Nht NoA iioNN u -
publican of him. He was talked OF as
republican candidate for the pres
idency in 1860, but he was the warm
friend of Lincoln. During the years OF
the war he rendered very distinguishes
service. He was one of the early ad-
vocates of the abolition of slavery, and
to him is said 10 belong the distin'
guished honor OF having written tht
first draft of the thirteenth amend
ment to the constitution, providing
that neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude shall exist in the United
States.
Judge Trumbull was one of the nv
republican senators who voted for tbs
acquittal of Andrew Johnson, at tbs
close of the impeachment trial. There
after his career with the republicans
closed, and so did his record in politics
except that, in 1880. he was the candi
date of the democrats for the office o
governor of Illinois. In the opinion o
some of the populists, the choice lie
between Nebraska's Senator Allen an'
Chicago's venerable Trumbull. In age
the difference between the two men i
q third of a century.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-20
The Senate'S Plan.

This mornings staff correspondence
of the Standard from Washington
gives an instructive forecast of the fate
that probably awaits the bond bill and
the tariff bill that are pending in the
senate. OF course, the disposition or
the bond BILL as far as the senate Is
concerned, is settled-it will be con-
verified into a free-colnage measure and
sent back to the house. The prediction
of our Washington correspondent Is
that il will be referred to the ways
and means committee, and there 1t will
remain, never TO be reported. That Is
the Reed plan for disposing of the free
coinage question during the present
session of the house.
The senate, says our Washington cor
respondence, will wait to feel assured
that the house committee will adopt
this course. Thereupon the silver SEN
ate will take up the house tariff bill,
discuss 1t and attach to it freedom
age amendment. as before. This Dill
will in turn be sent back to the house.
unquestionably to share the fate OF the
bond bill. Thus to the end the silver
men, having control of the senate, Will
pursue this policy.
After all, the free-coinage issue Is
not so hopelessly dead as the goldbug
press has been making it out to be-
The sentiment which President Cleve-
land agreed to crush out for good and
all in an extra session of congress held
more than two years ago is factor sc
vital IN current politics that 1t is able
| to-day to control legislation.
Seeing that the cause would not con
sent to die at it's behest. the goldbut
press now resorts to threats. 1t serves
notice on the silver men that the pa
thence of the. people Is about exhaust
ed that the interruption to business
has gone about far enough" Massa
chusetts journals warn Colorado sena
tors that the end OF their career is
hand-as If Massachusetts could &C
complish anything in Colorado. New
York's democratic newspapers serv
notice on Senator Morgan that
speedy accounting awaits him-as
Mr.. Morgan had his constituency 1
New York.
II IS gratifying to know that the ac
vocates of silver who are in the ser
ate press forward quite needless
those who tried to break them dow
by hinging ep.thets and failed, VIII
then tried to bury them and met d.
feat and who now proceed on the fo'
theory that they can bulldoze silver
champions.
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PROMINENT OR PECULIAR.

Sir Henry Irving is to unveil the monu-
ment to Sarah Siddons on Paddington
Green next spring.
ABE" .Buzzard, the notorious Pennsyl-
vania outlaw, now serving a term IN
prison, has become totally blind
Rev. Edward Phelps Blodgett, who has
just died at the age of 81, was for a per-
iod of Sc years pastor of the Congregation
al church of Greenwich, Conn.
Henry Watterson has been engaged by
the New York department of public In
struction to give lecture on Abraham
Lincoln" in the state normal college III
| Albany on April G.
! A nephew of Washington Irving is the
! landlord of the old-fashioned hosiery at
| birmingham, England. which is much
patronized by Americans visiting the
midlands capital.
| Ex-Representative Champ Clark OF
Missouri says of the new chairman OF the
WAYS and means committee" Dingley
| revels in statistics, and book made up
| entirely of figures has as great fascln-
alton for him as the latest novel has Tor
a girl of l6."
The. prize of 500 offered last June to
the student of Johns Hopkins university
who should write the best essay on the
| Relations of Chemistry and the Useful
! Arts has been awarded to Il. Emmett
Reid of Virginia. graduate of Richmond
college.
The queen OF Italy VINO always ldheo
the greatest interest in every new In
vention, has been lately making use OF a
horseless carriage in her grounds at Mon
"a with which she has been so much
pleased that she has ordered similar car
| riages for her other residences.
The title of "colonel-in-chief of the
British army" which the queen has con-
ferred upon the duke of Cambridge, is
her majesty's own invention. OF course
, nobody has ever before heard of such a
designation, as the colonelcy of an army
. is a thing per sc impossible, so that the
dukes odd title is exceptional in being
absolutely unprecedented. The duke will
have a generals retiring allowance.
Victor Ballet, citizen of Menin
France, now 1903 years old, is a survivor
of the battle of Waterloo. He was made
a prisoner after receiving a saber cut In
, the head on June Is, 1915, and conducted
to Brussels with the flag of the One
. Hundred and Fifth regiment, captured
= by the English. The old soldier Is still
i active and loves to tell of Napoleon, whom
g he saw many times on that eventful day
Lord Northburne, laying the founda
ton stone of a new church in England
. stated that he recently had converse
ton with Mr. Gladstone on the subject o.
the enormous wealth amassed by various
individuals of that country. Mr.. Glad
a stone said these persons could have M
: surer means of earning fame and title L
| Immortality than by devoting some larg
| portions of their accumulations to build
s ing English cathedrals.
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QUAINT OR CURIOUS.

II is said that all the burglars jim
mics in London are made by one man,
who Is well known to the police but who
cannot be arrested, as his work Is not
contrary to law Besides it is very con-
venient to be able to trace his customers.
Belgium proposes to facilitate marriage
nv reducing the legal age for both sexes
10 n years. instead of % for the man ana
q for the womna, as the law is now' ana
by making the consent of the rather alone
necessary, istead of that of both par
ents.
skunk farming has proved Improbable
on the ranch at Dixfield. Me-, about which
much has been written. The skunks took
an off turn recently and died so rapidly
that there was no profit in caring Tor
those remaining, so the proprietor killed
the survivors.
There are plenty of dictionaries or
French slang in existence, in which
slang word is explained in good French,
and the first dictionary in which the
slang equivalents for good French words
are given is to be published in Paris. 1t Is
needed apparently by the writers of sto-
ries.
Very few people among the general pub
lie know that certain class OF small
brokers and stick and umbrella sellers OF
London who have got no regular shops Of
their own make quite living out Of the
sales of articles left in railway carriages
and waiting rooms and subsequently dis
posed of at auction.
Four hundred horses have been killed
during the fall and early winter on one
range near Pyramid lake. Nevada, and
but 81 was realized on each animal. The
hide. name and tail sold for that amount.
and the carcass was valueless. But even
at this price IL was cheaper to kill the an
| imals than keep them.
Two Englishmen made a match recently
10 walk from La Turbie to Nice, the win
| ner to take $500 francs from the loser.
| stake them on the red at Monte Carlo and
/ divide the winnings with his opponent.
/ In half an hours play, during which he
won IL times running on the red. he won
! $50 600 francs. the largest sum ever won In
i a single day this year. The winner Is a
/ dealer i'm South African gold mines.
| When the Magnificent, and Majestic
| Englands new battleships were put into
| commission the other day crews had tc
| be taken from two other vessels. that OF
/ the Empress of India going TO the Mag
1 nificent while the Majestic received tbs
men from the Royal Sovereign. As all tn,
| vessels are needed right away the En-
! press OF India takes the crew Of the cruz
| ser Blake, and a new crew has beer
| scraped together for the Royal Sover
eign.
A farm laborer died recently in LYNN
ister. near Arundel, England. who's
| wages while he could work were $50
| week, as he never rose above a working
| bailiff and cowman. He was able to worl
! tin he was %. when he had saved no les
| than 81 .Ooo. on this he managed 10 live 70
| II years longer with a little help from hi
| former employer; then. as he outlived hi
| savings. he had to BE- relieved by the poo
law officials. dying a pauper at s..
Electric street car companies in Taeoma
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which the government at London has
often worked successfully under the
impious plea of Christianity or the al
legged protection of English subjects or
what not; this time the game happened
not to work.
This country condemns the raid that
DR.. Jameson led; denunciation or IL
has been as good as universal through
out the United States. 1t is not the
Standards notion to PREJUDICE the case
of Hammond-the effort to see that he
gets a fair show is praiseworthy 1t
appears, however. that some Americans
were unwarrantably mixed up in the
Jameson iasco. That is to say. they
were in open hostility to the govern
ment of the land in which they were
living, and this without the assent or
the aid and comfort OF the authority
of the United States. Now, In their
criticism of what has happened, let the
American people be too broad to dis
criminate between Americans and En-
glishmen who are in the same PAD
boat. Give them every chance in the
world to prove themselves guiltless, but
do not shelter the guilty man just be-
cause he is an American. We do not
believe that ii is the prerogative OF
American citizenship for an individual
to enlist in a lawless filibuster, get
caught and then shout to the govern
ment at Washington: Hi, there. 1 am
an American citizen. Come and take
| care of mel
The reports are to the effect that
many Americans were involved in hos
tilities against the constituted author
tiles in the land of the Beers. Mr..
Hammond is the friend of Cecil Rhodes
and a man well-known. If with him
others OF fame not so wide have been
apprehended. this government should
seek to extend the same measure oil
shelter to all OF them; that is what Mr.
Olney undoubtedly will do. Those wht
are entitled to immunity should get II
in as far as this governments goo'
offices, to their utmost application, cal
avail; those who, under any preteNt
were in open or armed hostility ough
/ alike to take the consequences. TIL
assertion that many civil and politica
rights are denied in the Transvaal I
l new corners. who outnumber the Boer
: four to one, appears to be well ground
> ed, but American citizenship does no
e commission any individual to inaugu
1 rate a war of conquest on his own hoo
e or be a confederate in rebellion agalns
r a recognized government for the Der
s eft of Great Britain, for the Unite
I States or for any other power o
earth.
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beak closely resembling that Of parrot.
The mouth of the leech Is powerful
sucker, which will ustain many times the
weight of the animal. --
The tongue of the toad and frog is pre-
hensile BY means of IL these animals
seize and hold their prey. -
The treatise of John Hunter In lih Is
considered the foundation OF The science
of dentistry in England,
Ovid, Martial and Horace all refer IN
their poems to the use of artificial teeth
as common In their time.
The mouth Of the lobster Is sman ana re
must tear his food to pieces with his claws
before he can devour It
The trouble with tongue-tied people Is
that the membrane connecting the tongue
with the lower jaw is too short.
The largest mouth. proportioned 70 the
size of the animal Is that OF the frog Ills
head is practically all mouth.
The molar teeth are hard TO pull, be-
cause their roots are birurcated. and thus
have a much better hold in the jaw.
The tongue of most serpents Is really
forked, though the member seems to be Of
no particular use to the reptile.
The mouth of a heroine in a novel Is, In
nine cases out of TO- a special object OF at
tention on the part of the writer. .a "
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-20
FAT FOLKS.

They are more numerous In low, wet
countries than in high or mountainous
onos FAT men are as common i'm Holland
and England as they are rare in Switzer-
land.
Extremely fat folks don't live long.
Folks who do live long are apt to be very
lean. at least in their later years. In mid
die life a reasonable proportion of fat
protects one against cold and provides
reserve fund in illness.
Potatoes. bread, sugar. water, beer ana
IA, meat are ali producers of fat. Indeed.
n fat man attends the words of diet
sharps he'll find there's nothing he can
eat except oranges.
Now. this is the strange thing; All the
lean folks want to get fatter ana all tne
fat folks want to get leaner. ana tnere
isn't anybody past 30 VINO Is just rish'
and perfectly satisfied.