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WAKEFIELD
READY
TO QUIT.

Hiilseii HAS broken II
so often that it is really not worth the
paper on which it is written He is doing
his work by sufferance, and because Just
mt the present moment the District can do
no better. The contract certainly has no
market value, for it is in the power of the
new agreement with some one else. They
can well afford to risk suit for dam ages,
for it is Il well-estabIis she'd principle of law
that the non-fulfllment of contract stipu-
latons voids theinstrumenta and permits he
aggrieved party to it to pr oceed as if it did
not exist. Mr.. Warfeld's plant is not of
the best, and he may be believed, therefore,
when he says that he will sell out cheap.
Though he has not much to SELL there
fore. it may yet be good policy for the
District to take the whole business off
his hands for a rea asonable amount, and
thereby get the whole job of garbage col
lection and disposal into its own hands
There wouid be at once the beginning of
the plan of day labor on municipal work
1t is hardly to be doubted that the bill
having thisin view, which failed TO become
law at the last session, will be passed by
Congress this winter. If that occurs.
the District would not be hampered with
the garbage contract, and in due time
the contract for cleaning the streets
would also be abrogated. The desirability
of the change has been SO often discussed
and is so generally admitted that fur
ther consideration of it would be mere
waste of time and space.
Contractor Warfield should be held to
the performance Of his contract, if this
can be oone. But If he wants to throw
up the Job and the District can take hold
of the matter, it would probably be the
best possible solution Of the miserable
tangie.
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room. The work had
provoked her, for s,ie
had spoken To him so
often of his careless
habits and the cx-
omple he was setting
10 theirtwO children.
So she broke loose
When she finished "A
quiet rested over that
household, and il has
not beer broken since
except by the scratch
ing of Il pen.
The last letter was
n request from the
wife To know what
she should do. His
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Greetings.

Two Americans when they meet say,
How do you do? FreDehmen say, How do
you carry yourself? Germans say. How
goes it with you? Tor in Germany the go
ing is slow. Italians ask, How do you
stay? Russians, How 10 You live? because
they are fond OF good material living.
People of Anglo Saxon extraction say, How
do you do? because doing Is their lifei
their faculties are concentrated upor
work k-Exchange.
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times llnus its way
To the morgue in the
rear.
The other night
the turtle era wled in
front of a cell which
was occupied by a
Shaky individuals who
had been on a long
debauch
The prisoners ewes
were panoramic from
the excessive use of
alcohni. and when he
saw the creeping
thtngapproachine Ills
cell door, in the dim,
ilgNt he frllnN- i'm.
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stoiy iIofil IoCnli, anu
are the star boarders
at that particular pri-
vatc ,hOstelry. The
trouble has reached
the acute stage now,
and when husband or
wife desire 10 com
municate with each
other it is done by
means OF letter.
The difficulty arose
over the scissors. The
husband came home
the other night, and
while dressing for
dinner wanted 10 use
thp shpnrs for suu,p
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OMAN say iit ; Ue
only ting we got ter
sell. An Jeems Hen
ry, he's been porcly
an ailin' all de fan,
au'long er discharge
in de weather, he's
des nacherly tuck
down sick. An dey's
been po' luck wifi de
rabbit gums, so dey
warnt nuthin' but
ter teck Abraham
down an sell i'm :"
well, indeed, ]
don't know that |
need such a mon
gtFnno fnrl-nv Nc
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stream of market
ers. When she had
made the roundofthe
stalls she sent the
small boy and the
large basket back to
the carriage, with
orders to drive home,
while she walked up,
stopping at a couple
OF places en- route.
When she had got
ten almost TO the
house she felt, as one
will sometimes feel,
a presence dOgging
her, and this, added
to a half growl from
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,THE culture of tobacco is receiv-

nTHE culture of tobacco is receiv.
ing attention in every section of
Florida" said W. j. Stone, Of
jacksonville, in the lobby OF the st. james
last night.
The interest in this new industry is
growing rapidly, and the crop this year
VIII reach "A very respectable total. The
farmers OF the various sections have formed
associations for the purpose of eettingyeX-
pcrienced men from Cuba 10 teach them
how TO cultivate and handle the crop. III
this way they viii get a practical knowI-
edge OF tobacco growing which it would
otherwise take them years to acquire.
The success, which even without this
knowledge, has attended the efforts OF the
planters in this direction during the past
year has Eeen sufficient TO assure them
that experience IS the Cne thing necessary
10 enable them to grow the very best to-
haCCO in Florida. II this movement is
successful TO any extent 1t VIII enable
Florida TO furnish much OF the tobacco
which heretofore 1T has been thought
could be procured only from.Cuba."
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His Saving Grace.

Il am not without my good points, said
the tramp. -'4
What are they: should like to know?"
asked the gruff citizen. s@e
well, for instance" replied Meandering
Mikey, Il am the original piece of labor
saving machinery. Philadelphia North
American,
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answer was 10 the effect that as soon as
he could get enough money gathered to-
Geiher he would secure "A divorce and would
20 somewhere where scissors could be found
when wanted.
All tile boarders are on to the trouble.
and are watching it with a glecfulness
that is only known to boarding house in
mates.
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st alton by Patrol
Wagon Officer Phil
Mansfield several
days ago.
The policemen are
training the little red
and brown tort ulse TO
perform tricks, and
have named it
Snap
The turtle viii fol-
low the hand al a
person about the
room, provided a
house fly is held be-
tween the thum b
and forefinrer, so
snap can see the
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around in the flelds
adjoining Kendall
Green.
But this matronly
foul got ambitious.
She sought To see the
world, and stra yed
on To the crossing at
Florida avenue.
1t was a matter of
principle with her 10
refuse to let such
a thing as a rail-
road ensineruff her
dignity.
A train rolled by,
and when old man
Washington sawthat
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Il l.. MEANS, a prominent lawyer Of
O. Iittle Kock. Ark is reciSfnrcd

L l.. MEANS, a prominent lawyer of
q. Little Rock, Ark, is registered
1.-THE st. James.
Mr.. Means, speaking of the different
Judges he has known, said that Judge c.
] arkeE, who recently died in Arkansas, was
known to have sentenced more men to be
hanged than any other Judge This is
accounted for by the fact that his district
besides Arkansas. included Indian Ter
ritory. II is said that his death sentences
numbered over two hundred.
Judge Parker disliked any reference to
this record, always saying that it was the
Law which condemned them. not he.
Nevertheless, IL was d wcll-known fact
that he had extremely rigid ideas of
justice. II is related that ON enc occasion
a mob ok four murderers out Of Jail
and was about to string them up 20 the
nearest tree, when soIne one volunteered
the information that they Were to be
tried Iefore Judge Parker.
Oh" said the rineleader, that's all
right and the men We're taken back
to jail there TO await trial
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n MONG the guests at the Ebbitt House
I is ex-Gov. Samuel j. Crawford of


When asked how the Senatorial fight in
ms State stood Gov. era wfcrd answered
that at least there was no lack of candi-
GATES The fopulist party has three or
Tour, the Democrats have as many more
and the free silver party has its quota,
with plenty OF dark horses looming up in
tie rear. The meeting of the legislature is
too Tar off To venture a prediction as to
the successful candidate.
senator Peffer, who wishes to succeed
himself, holds his own contingent of ad-
mirers, and the people of the State gen
orally are satisfied with his conduct dur
ing his term Of office. Another Populist
candidate who will show up very strong in
the vote is John K. Kelly, at one time "a
Representative from the state. Gov.
Llewellyn was at one time mentioned, but
has since withdrawn his name.
Among the Democrats, ex-senator Mar
Tin stands as good a show as any other
He is popular with the Populists, with the
Democrats, and with the Tree silver men,
ana would be acceptable to all of them.
uvermeyer also standsa good chance. The
free silver people have half a dozen good
men, any one of whom would do the State
credit
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I n the opinion of W. r. Reynolds, OF
Penria ILL WIN is nccnu,inr rnnrn :

I n the opinion of W. r. Reynolds, OF
! Peoria, ILL.,, who is occupying rooms
at the st. James, Altgeld is so defunct
politically, as result of the recent cleo
ton, that his resurrection S matter of
impossibility.
The people Of Illinois, he said, have had
enough of experiments to last them for
several generations. -Four years ago, when
they decided that a change of party would
give the State offices much needed clean
ing out, Altgeld was know only as a
promising organizer and was thought 20 lie
the man for the job. But almost his first
official act was the pardonng of the an
archists, and Illinois was Weakened from
her dream of reform. Since then, with
charge upon charge against Altgeld, she
is SO sick of reform government that the
very word reform is enough to start u
disturbance in any part of the State
one of the chief charges against Alt
geldis Inismanagem ent of the State charity
funds. which charge he has never success
fully answered. But, to do the man JUS
tice, the people of Illinois believe him to
be one of the greatest organizers before
the country today, and credit him with all
the brains of the Bryan movement, Bryan
himself having been but the mouthpiece
OF the willy governor.
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leg with the II um-
bled adrnonition, Fo
Gawd. Abr1- a. -
will destroy my rep
pertation, mos sho-
ly" Then aloud,
"'Scuse, i'm. miss.
He's de mos pester-
fyin' turkeyeber wuz
hatched. MuuU fink
he'sneber been raised
Spectacle tai"
With the sporting
instinct OF the lat
ter day girl. Miss
Deering had stepped
back 10 view the
I1N, -
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The Times has regular and
permanent Family Circulation much
greater than any other paper, morn.
ing or evening, published in WASH
ington. As n News and Advertising
Medium IL has no competitor.
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- u 80 AAA ~ Al' ~ III
he"cunjuns" "andthe
"hoOdoo." He said
to himself when he
hung the tail feath-
ers of a rooster and
the craw o a hen
around his neck that
he was going To get a
Thanksgiving chick
en-. and SO he did.
But he owes his
thanks TO a railroad
engine. A great
many dumb things,
all the way from a
horse to a jack rab-
hat try n-a .
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family on him. IL 1
only knew what lt
was he said when l
walked into him." ~"
said Pass. Say,
uncle, if you don't
teach that bird OF
yours manners, wen
have to run him in
and keep him up at
No. Z till after
Thanksgiving"
Corn. Mr.. Pas
seno, he's de onl'est
tin Use got ter sell
fer Thanks givin'.
Come cleanoverfro
Ferginia VIII i'm.
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MANUAL
TRAINING IN
PUBLIC
SCHOOLS.


I'm favor of the es-
tabiishInent of a manual training school,
Gen. Ellis Spear, the chairman of the com.
ruittee who was formerly Commissioner of
Patents, was struck with the methods pur-
sued, incidentally, as he says, to the
general cause of instruction, to direct
the eyes and hands of the children, as well
as their minds, and he notes the proficiency
attained, III limited degree, of course,
In this mechanical training o: boys and
girls. From Gen. Spears report it is to
be Inferred that very radical and very
desirable change in the methods of teach
ing has taken place in our schools, for he
says:
The central idea of the system appo ars To
us to he in harmony with the primary
meaning of the word education"
The objects sought To be accomplished
are not 50 much the cramming of the chill
dren with facts and information as the
training Of them to observe and reflect
and to express orally aud in writing the
results of their observation and reflection
The children are taught, beginning with
the lowest grade, to exercise both the
mind aud the hands Manual and men,
tai instruction go together.
The manual training school would be the
natural, logical sequel of this elementary
instruction. What is done now serves to
bring out tie special mechanical tenden-
cy and capacity of each child and to show
the way he or she ought to pursue If
the training school were a part of our
system, the boys and girls would then find
the opportunity To develop stiIl further
and more methodcally, because aided by
practical appliances. the peculiar bent
OF their respective capabilities. 1t woill
perfect, for thousands of children, the
course of instruction given them in she
ordinary grades, and place at their dis
for an active and probably immediately
remunerative occupation to bc entered
upon soon as they will have left the
school There can be no doubt, as the
Board Of Trade committee says that lit
is of the highest Importance TO a very
large class of the people that the girls
should he taught sewing and cooking and
that the boys should be taught to work
in wood and metals" The scope Of Il
manual training school, of course, would
go beyond these limits, but this is "a mere
matter Of detail and elaboration.
Let the people of the District unite their
efforts to obtain this desirable addition
to their public school system. The money
spent for it will be the best investment
they have ever made.
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Epitome OF the News in the
Morning Times.

If You miss any news in the even-
ing edition look in the list below.
What you're looking for probably
appeared i'll the morning edition,
and as The Times never repeats, you
Will have to take both editions TO
get all the news as quick as II hap
pens.
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~ APT. ARrHrR BARNEs. of the ser.

H) APT. ARTHUR BARNES, of the ser
~ geant-at-arms office OF the Senate
has just returned from a visit to his
home in North Carolina, and was seen last
night i'll the lobby OF the Metropolitan
Hotel
Capt Barnes gave 1t as his opinion that
Senator Marion Butler will retain his
leadership of the Populist party for sew
eral years longer, notwithstanding the
strenuous efforts OF Tom Watson to dis
place him. Although many of the party
in North Carolina and elsewhere disip-
prove of some OF the political moves of
Senator Butler, nevertheless, they still
retain their confidence in him as a lead. r
and organizer. and will trust the direction
of the party in no other hands.
This will place him in a position to
dictate the election of the junior Senator
from North Carolina, which occurs at the
next meeting of the legislature, as the
Populists hold the balance of power.
Capt. Barnes thinks that Populist will
be elected, thus giving North Carolina
two fopOcrats in the Upper House. Guth-
rie would be acceptable to the Democrats.
as well as TO Senator Butler. and will
probably be the man elected Pritchari
having declared for gold, does not stand
the ghost OF show.
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AAheAt NJ 1Atff7 Wv" ~ ~
gan to thicken. they
nearly walked over Il
confused bunch of
shadows on the curb
stone at the extreme
end of the line Of
country wagons up
toward the Acque-
duct Bridge. The
bunch OF shadows
made hostile demon
strations at once,
expaudingintoailugo
cloud of rutfled
feathers, that shook
and rustled, giving
an angry SLtterdl
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Tomorrow you may
have Bedding Bros ia
nous lO0=yard spool
silk for &c spool. Col
denberg'S, 926-92S 9TH
100 X StS.
AND WE LIVE UP TOIT-
No other house Goes-ever did-or ever Will
sell such sterling qualities at such low
prices AS SAKS quotes.

the niatter-of-fact reply. Il year you send
de boy an de kerridge back, an l dess
sort er KEEP yo' in sight. miss, SO eZ I'd be
yere sho when you wuZ''
We'll, think YOU managed it," said the
young lady, with laugh. as she remeni-
bered divers curious glances that had been
been cast at her along the brilliantly light
ed part OF High street. You seem to have
that turkey remarkably welltrained.'
"Yas, miss, 'e's mos like one er fambiIv.
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The Lounger.
d. VAN DuZEN of Reno. New. is a
H., laaI..

f0) u fAN DUZEN or Keno, New, Is q
~ guest at the Raleigh.
Mr.. Van Duzen, who stumped
his State for Bryan during the last cleo
non, says that the result viii have 10
effect on the free silver sentime Mt in Ne
vaca- In fact, 1T has only made the people
lhere more earnest in their efforts to at
tain their ends. If Mr.. Mckinley he says,
has no remedy for the evils arising from
an inadequate currency the people in the
silver States feel sure that the movement
which they originated will, in the next
PRESIDENTIAL election, sweep the co untry
Ihe influence which McKinley's election
mas had ON Nevada, continued MIR. Van
Duzen, Is To materially decrease the lop-
uialipn OF the State, and he fears that
heIore the emigration is over its inhab-
itahts VIII have been diminished by per-
faps haif. This, OF ourse is Il natural
result. There Is no agriculture to speak
OF III Nevada as artificial irrigation, which
would be absolutely necessary, renders it
ullirOfltsble Sheep raising in the State
Is confined 10 the 700 persons who voted
for Mckinley. 70 there is nothing left hut
the silver mines, which for the most part
are entirely idle. The miners have gone TO
other fields, many of them being ca lied so
Tar away as Johannesburg, South Africa.
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N19 UsINEss in Pennsylvania, saidP

~ B. Graffin, Philadelphia COM
mercial man, at the National, has
not lad time yet to reach the extent which
the election of Mckinley insures for it.
To be sure, have found something of
an Increase and have taken many orders
which l would not have received in the
event of Bryan's election; still the people
up my way do not find that the volume
OF their business is up to what they ha We
a right to expect. Everybody feels hope
ful, however. and predicts the biggest kind
OF seasons for next year, and, better yet,
is preparing for it.
ms means everything, for with conf
dencc on the part of the manufacturers the
feeling will spread to all the channels of
trade, with the result that stocks. will be
enlarged a nd sales increased in every dircc-
ton ~
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@A Hs-fAN hhAJ " j IA
bird, deed c is. Use
pow'ful sorry terhab
ter sell 'inl."
Miss Deering look
cd down from her
five feet and a half
of athletic young
woInanhood at the
bentandsllriveledold
form in front of her,
with the big turkey
lazny ruffling its
feathers and keeping
Il weather eye on her
terrier; and she
thcu ght well, it
.1F.nzn-t Va.t,
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DECLINED IN YOSTS FAVOR
hr. Flood Refuses to Accept the Can
YaSsers' Decision.
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challenge TO battle.
Mother 'er Mos es,' said Passeno,
startled as though the night Inspector had
jumped at him out OF a doorway whats
broke loose?" z
Look yerc, you, Abraham," said a
voice from the curbstohe why karn't yo'
act spectacle? Yo' don't look out. wont
nobody buy yo'. no morn IL yo' wuz a
tucky buzzard, Std er tucky.'
With that there was scramble and
scratching of claws on the bricks, as Abra-
ham was dragged in by the string around
liis leg, and his own er painfully straight ened
up and hobbled out into the glare of the
electric light with a monster gobbler, al
most as big as himself, securely gripped
under one arm. but with its wings and tail
spread out faH-wise almost covering him
on one side from h cad to foot
You're a fine proposition, you are" said
Berket derisively to his partner getting
stanpeded by turky gobbler. Why don't
you pinch him, and charge him with as
saulting an officer?"
''Belicve | could make out a case of pro-
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in while to knock engines off the B 4 o.
tracks, and yesterday it was a chicken.
The fcathcred beauty in question was n
big. fat Plymouth Rock that used to nick
sx.4 LII
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chicken he made grab.
''Neber touched 'er, 'cept her head"
said he, as he tucked II away in his basket.
II know ed dat conjuns was gwine ter give
me a Thanksgivin' chicken"
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Mansfield is trying to teach tie mascotto
dance to the tune Of The NJ obile Buck -
which he whistles and pats an accom- PAM
ment.
Snap is allowed to run abont the sta
tlonin quest of insects for food. and some
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agined nc had "a deep-scated case Of the
m-iarns." and shouted Justify until the
shell-covered intruder was removed from
his sight
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WILL INDORSE COL. PARKER
Mckinley and Hobart Club Calls a Special
Meeting.
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MATTHEW'S A GOOD WITNESS
Alleged Murderer of James Irwin Favor
ably lmpreSseS the Jury.
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is a rarely beautiful
exhibition of what in
slang parlance is call
d''gali." There is a
plant to sell, such as
it is; but as for a con-
tract, not a shred Of
one. The contractor
himself iaS brnl,ap ~
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The police Of the Sixth precinct, Lieut..
kelly's, have adopted an odd mascot. 1t is
a md turtle, which WAS brought to the
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ITURBIDE DENIES IT ALL
Flatly COntradiCted Admiral Walker on
the Stand.
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WANTS NO himby theState beard
of canvasserS. 1t ap-
MANCFAC- pears that some Re
publican voters, in
l. I hED TILE. stead OF writing the
full name of Jacob
YOstupon their tickets
had abbreviated it into Jake, while others
had simply put in tie initial Although,
Of course, all these votes Were not intended
for any one but the regular Republican
candidate, still the board of canv asscrs
took advantage of the technical error to
throw them out and award the certificate
to Mr.. Flood. Incidentally attention may
be called 10 the fact that the same rule ap-
piled i'll the Yost case showed the cleo
ton of a Republican eIector in the Rich
mond district, but the board got out of this
unpleasant dilemma in some way and Ger
titled the Democrat a elected.
Mr.. Flood bases his declination upon his
willingness TO hold a seat in Congress
by SO flimSy right of tenure as the tech
nicalties referred to. There being clearly
no fraud, bat simply slight irregularity
arising from the careleSSncss or Ignorance
of some voters, he does not feel like
counting himself, or being allowed to be
counted, into office, when it was clearly
the intention OF u majority of the voters
in the district to elect his opponent Friends
advised him to a different course, but he
followed the dictates of his Conscience
rare thing among politicians sand refused
the certificate. BY doing this he has raised
himse higher inthe estimation of all right
thinking men than any amount of Congress
sional distinction could have done, for he
has proved edthathissense of honor dominates
his ambition. 1t is to be hoped that the
example he has set may find plenty of im-
tators in his own and other States. If it
does republican institutions will be the
gamer.
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BUTTONS CHECKS NO GOOD
Miss Godfrey, of this City, Tells How He
SwIndled Her.
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Old man Washington. one of the colored
aristocracy, whoNiyes out near Trinidad.