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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-04
An Answer to "Doctor NJ. A.

To the Editor OF The Evening Star:
l have been to the garden referred to by
DR.. NJ. A. several times with ladies', and
have not yet seen the proceedings as
he describes. nor has any one else
He says he saw among the several hundred
people few who were of very bad char
acter. He must have been personally ac-
quainted with them or he would never have
Known them, as the manager is very par
tcular and never allows these bad char
acters to remain in the garden if they hap
pen to slip in and misbehave themselves
You will find few of them at any public
place. at the best theaters. at concerts
and on excursions. As long as they be-
have themselves they can't be kept out
This garden is in the open air. and the
smoke from cigars. &c. ascends as quickly
as it does on the streets. Those who are
opposed to smoking should not go where 1t
is. He also speaks of men talking loud
and vulgar. This is unjust to the manage
ment, as any one who has been there
knows. Let the doctor" go there and try
it and he will see how soon he will be
stopped. l think that such good people as
the doctor" should stay at home and not
let their friends induce or entce them to
enter such places. But l guess the doc
tor has been there before. J. B.
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BEER AND THE BICYCLE GIRL,
Mrs. La Fetra Thanks The Star 10
Its Alarm Bells.

To the Editor Of The Evening Star:
I think all right-minded people who be-
lieve that prevention is better than cure"
and that formation is better than reform
elton" should thank you for giving such
thorough publicity to the matter of beer
drir king in connection with a certain class
of bicycling. I have become SO accustomed
to the well-known phrase Il am a lady"
by women who are more Or less under the
influence Of beer or some other tntoxicant
or Of opium or some other drug. when
they have applied to me for help. that I
realize about how much value should be
attached to such a declaration. believe
that there Is not a better agency anywhere
Tor recruiting the inmates Of the houses
In the Division. nor a more fruitful source
OF burdening beyond endurance our soul
saving Florence Crittenden Hope and Help
Mission, than this same beer garden and
which Young Lady SO pitifully defends
II she were my daughter / would feel
that she was In imminent danger II not
, .S - to hope. What are the parents Of
to protect their sons and daughters from
going headlong into this vortex of ruin?
The warning. the command should come
from fathers and mothers while yet their
children are within the scope of parental
discipline, and the whole soul-sickehing
business Of beer and its attendant evil
Influences should be forever shut out from
the home. Young people should be warm
ed against these things as deadly vipers
Can us who are White Ribboners and
Purity Workers extremists IL you will, but
drunkards and prostitutes are not manu-
featured, in my experience, by total abb
staiLers. and this is the only safe road
for our young people to travel
The Observation-Disclosures innocent and
healthful-should not now be made a pre-
text tor ell sorts of questionable outings
and recreations which may lead to the
1uin of health and character and home
Itself. Thanks to The Star for the alarm
tells. SARAH d. LA FETRA,
President Florence Crittenden Hope and
Help Mission
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-04

To the Editor OF The Evening Star:
I have read with much interest the let
ters In Tie Evening Star enent the drink
Ing of liquors by ladies while out riding
the wheel To those who have given any
thought to the matter the subject is very
grave. The best ones who can judge Of
the harm are the men riders. Put this
question straight to them: Would you
allow your daughter to go out riding. stop
at drinking places and drink until a late
hour?' The answer is obvious. l have
been told by friends of mine that they have
seen young girls so tipsy at these places
that they could not ride their wheels. This
not at one place. but at many road houses.
l agree with Mr.. David G.. Bangs that
IF your beer garden friends are men they
will, in most every case. behind your back,
speak slightinPly Of you and give
out an impression Of you to other men at
which your parents and you would blush"
That has the right ring, for 1t Is true.
The acquaintance of these girls will go
out riding with them, drink with them,
but should they marry them would they
allow 1t then? l think not
Individually, l believe that beer drinking,
II done rightly. is not harmful but carried
to the excess to which we Americans are
addicted. with our free and easy manner
Is wrong. Our German friends, with no
thought of wrong. will go to beer gardens
with their families. from the Oldest to the
youngest. and sit there by the hour. drink
ing beer and enjoying themselves; but
would any German parents allow their
daughter to visit these places in company
with. In many cases. mere acquainta noes,
and stay out late at night and drink and
have a good time?' They would not.
derived from bicycle riders-I believe II to
be wrong for girls to drink liquor while out
riding the wheel. and that many a one goes
to ruin who does so. w J. NJ
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The seabord Air Line.

mot only has 1t not In anyway paralleled
the Seaboard Air Line. but, under the ar
rangement by which 1t uses the Coast Line
tracks and those of the Norfolk and Caro-
lima railroad, 1t does not, either directly
or indirectly. divert any business from the
Seaboard. as by said contracts it is prohib-
tied from doing any local business east of
Selma. which Is the junction point with
the Coast Line tracks.
1T may possibly be said that while this
Is SO, 1t nevertheless gathers up business
from the neighborhood OF Raleigh, but it
can easily be pointed that business of this
character cannot In anyway be considered
as new to the Southern railway. which
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AE is A CIRCUS.
yellow Dor That crews Ilks a Rooster
AHd Also I-uAt.s several AninSIs.

yellow Dor That crews IAks = Rooster
A narrator gives aA account ia the
ST. Louis Glol,c Denscrat of trip
through Missouri, in the course of
which he says: 81 was the guest OF
the Rev Frank N. Downing, who lives
in tho neishborh0od Of a small settle
ment called County Ltue. His fam
lily consists Of himself and wife and
small yellow dog. which l noticed re-
ceiYed an unusual amount of care ana
attention. As there was nothing par
ticularly attractive sbeut the dog.
which was only m0ngrel cur, | rather
wondered at their manifest affection,
and one day inquired the reason of it.
Mr.. Downing. for answer, called
Bench and placing him in a chair,
commanded him to "crOW." My as
tonishmeHt was mbounded when the
dog gave perfect imitation OF
Shanghai rooster, and without further
command followed it with the neigh
of Il horse, lowing OF COWS grunts and
squcals of pigs, meouwlng of cats, and
various noises incident to farm life.
lie could give all the yclps of u pack
OF hounds in pursuit OF fox aud in 81
realistic a manner that YOU could
scarcely help believing that hunt was
ia progress.
MIR. Downing said nobody had
taught the animal. and bis peculiar iul-
ttatlye powers we're discovered by &C
cident, The summer previous, when
Bench Was q mere puppy, the Rev. John
Malcolm, the preacher for their circuit.
Was in at Downing's house and was
made extremely nervous at night by
q rooster growing at all hours beneath
his window. The people who were at
tending could not discover the rooster
nut one morning Mrs. Downing, in pass
ing the window, was startled by seeing
the puppy throw back his head and
crew. lie quickly learned to crow at
command. and each day picked up some
new sound. Last November a neigh
Der OF Mr. DOwniDg's carried Bench 10
Nashville while the circus was there,
aud the manager offered a handsome
price for him, saying thai he was con
NiuceG Bench could be taught to talk,
Int Mr.. Downing refused 10 give him
up. In appearance Bench Is not pre-
possessing his color being dirty yell
Law, his hair coarse and wiry, his legs
short and his body rather unwieldy.
In his eyes, however, there CLEANS an
Intelligence almOst human
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sneclaI kaY.laiinn..

IT, in the atmosphere generated by the
earlier developed sciences, the Older
Growths OF biblical Interpretation have
drOoped and withered and are evidently
pen ishing, new and better GroWths VITA
roots running down into the ne 0er Sei-
Cnces have arisen.
Comparative mythology and folklore,
comparative religion aud literature, by
searching on, and laying side by side
he main facts in the upward struggle
oi humanity in various old seats OF
civilization, are giving new interpre-
tation OF these great problems which
&c gmatlc theology has long labored in
vain TO solve,
Thus, while they have established
the fact that accounts formerly sup
posed To be special revelations 10 Jews
and Christians arc but repetitions OF
widespread legends dating from far ear
her civilizations and that beliefs form
erly thought fundamental TO Judaism
and Christianity are simply based on
ancient myths, they have also begun to
impress upon the intellect and conscl-
ence of the thinking world the fact that
religious ana moral truths thus disen-
gsged from the old masses OF myth
md legend are all the more beautiful
and seryiceable and that all individual
or national life OF any value must be
vitalized BY them Popular Science
Monthly.
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At the case in Paris for damages
against the prOprietress of The men
agerie at which lion killed certain
Eysette who wished TO be photographed
together with the animal, the attendant
Gu the wild beasts. ore Aouillon, gave
the following interesting and terrible
evidence
II left Eysette outside, and went Rrst
myself into the cage, into which | let
the lion Romulus, who was lying in a
neighhoring small cage. wanted to he
photographed with him myself
"R0Dulus knew me we'll, for | have
always fed him. lie came creeping 20
me, and lay down at my feet. l doubt
ed whether would allsw Eysette 10
come in. He called out: You see the
lion is quite quiet Yes ! replied,
but Romulus does not know you.
After all, opened the door, and
Eysette came in. ROmulus raised his
head, and when he saw the stranger
he rose slowly and as slowly approached
;he man, smelt at his knees. and then
suddenly rushed upon him.
lie seized him by the throat and
threw him 10 the gropad. / got hold OF
Romulus by the name and tried in
vain to make him let Eysette loose.
The lion pushed Inc gently away with
one paw. and began quietly to drink hi,
victims blood.
II got hold of a prong within M
reach and beat ROInulus with all my
might. II WAS no use, lie would not le.
his booty 80. ] Was in despair and
ran out TO call Mr.. Lucas, the lion
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IN The American supplement To the
Encyclopedias Brittaniea, published in
Philadelphia in 1890, according to the
baltimore sun, there is an article on
Cuba 10y Senior rlutarco GonzaltA, oi
Mantanzas, in which the entire mum
bcr of Cuhans who perishcd Ia battle
"or otherwise in the ten years war
from October, lS6S. 10 FebruI Iry, 1873,
when the insurrc,i on terminated, /,
said TO be variously estimated at from
20, 600 TO 80 0ro Az the same time the
Spanish losses, as shown 10y the rec
ords In the war oili.e at Madrid, are
put at 500 officers and 1000 privates
killed or died in hospital from the
effects of the climate.
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rtinu.l,. tAfl.rnann r...

II il is a casual acquaintance, if this
as your first card TO the house, go about
FIVE O'Clock and stop not over thirty
minutes; fashionable callers will not re-
main over fifteen minutes Il ia, how
ever, not a question OF etiquette OF
time. = hair dozen more such visits
wait their paving probably. You wiz
wear a bonnet or hat, one that suit'
Your best gown 4 the9tcr bonnet I!
lad form. what would constitute yoRl
regulation visiting gown is the correc
thing. II you go in a carriage. ika
mode Of transportation allows youj Z
little more freedom in the choice Oi
colors. but TO DE uRderdressed raThei
than Oyerdresscd Is the lesser of ltwS
evils
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Thefs Are Indieatlons that u will Ne
Worn Later in the esason.
Women who study fashion in a far
sighted way have prophesled for some
time that the days OF the hustle were
about to return, says the New York
World. They have said that organ
plated backs presaged the advent Of
;he blstle and that widely hsrlng skirts
lined with stiffening would inevitably
read to the re-adOption OF that clumsy
article of attire which women gave up
50 gladly a few years ago.
The lingerie department in the shops
would seem TO bear out this prophesy.
The hustle has made its temperance
there, tentatively so far. but still with
the air OF having come TO stay. 1t is not
he monstrous article which was ban
shed when clingng skirts became fash
ionable. It is rather small and is made
OF hairclOth, sometimes black, some
lines gray and sometimes white. Ii con-
sists OF three vertical puffs, which look
Ike the abbreviated lining to an or
Lan-plaited skirt, and IL is finished by q
frill OF haircloth. It's main object is TO
give the skirt start in the right direc-
ton. A well-lined skirt will fare at
the bottom with the aid OF very small
hustle.
OF course this slight temperance of
the hustle may be followed by hustle
revival on q large scale. which will
make camel-like humps once more the
style Doctors will object violently to
ihe reintroductiOn of the hustle on the
ground of health. and artists will de-
claim against its use on the score OF
beauty, but the medical and aesthetic
world may grow hoarse with anathe-
mas against it before il will he dis
continued IL fashion once says author
itatively that it must be worn. Louis
Seize coats and the stifr skirts OF the
Marie Antoinette period demand some
Fouffancy, and this is obtained only by
| padding or by a hustle.
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sec II that planet was ready for the
resurrection day.
Arath had been absent not over
twenty.nSe minutes when he returned
and Gabriel began to question him
closely.
He learned that the whole colored
Republican ticket in Guthrie had been
elected; that all the soreheads in Okla.
homa had made their charges stick and
had secured offices; that Judge Perkins
was police judge; and that the insur.
gents on the Guthrie school board had
b,en recognized as belligerents.
"Then the time is almost at hand to
sound the trumpet" was the philo-
sophical remark OF dear old Gabriel.
CHAPTER H.
1t was an imposing spectacle. The
gates were as widely sjar as they had
ever been at the combustion OF Il state.
hood convention or an "Unclc Tom S
Cabin" performance. Gabe occupied
the foreground Back Of him the
cherubim and sersphim and all tho
solid men Of Bockiinger addition were
standing in an attitude Of attention.
With due preeaation, those Nho had
previously attended Judgment day
for other planets, had stuffed their
ears with Logan county cotton soaked
in DSnderine, and were ready for the
thunder
fhe first blast Of the great trumpet
was about to be blown, when a horri-
BILE noise was heard on the earth be
low, the surface OF which, it was per
ceived, was violently agitated
A shade OF disappointment passed
over Gabe's classic features.
Why did he not blow the trumpet?
lie knew that il would be useless,
for the Col Barnes faction had once
more attempted to organize a McKin
ley club under the beaks of the Reed
gladiators and the scrap had broken
forth again 10 all its fury.
THE ENp.
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aLAnING INcnNsIsr,,Nrr

What a spectacle of inconsistency is
presented TO the reading public by the
goldbng press in tho denunciation OF
evory public man who dares 10 antag-
onizc the single gold standard.
Just now the five western Republi-
can senators who antagonize the gold
bug wing OF the party are the victims
OF abuse and dennneiation. They are
referred TO by their senatorial col.
leagnes Of the east and the goldbug
press in general as traitors, and by
others more reasonable and moderate
a. 'bo!ters, representing the "erude
and dishonest financial theories OF the
western wilds
These five representatives OF west
ern interests, so far as Republican
can represent them. have learned
AT least few useful lessons from their
eastern colleagues, and they propose.
and TnE LEADER trusts honestly. that
tho west shall profit thereby.
The goldbug press Of the coun-
try, without single exception.
upholds aud commends in the highest
terIas the fivo goldbugs of Kentucky
who bolted their pnrty's candidate
recently because OF their silver pro.
cliSit'es. In this ease they insis. that
the sixty-two silver democrats in tho
Kentucky legislature shall give way
and surrender 10 the live goldOugs
who are determined 10 defeat Senator
blackburn and the party unless they
are allowed to dictate and control.
Why DO they not apply this same
kind Of logic 20 the fse Republican
sore headed reealcitrants in the United
States senate2 Why do they not in
sisi that the twenty-five Republican
Roldbng senator's shall surrender TO
The iige silver senators who represent
western lanAcy2'
III il proper and eNpedient for i've
Roidbngs in Kentucky 10 insist upon
debating terms 10 sixty-lwo silver
memhers, why Is il not equally proper
aud eSped.ent for five silver members
90 insist upou debating terms 10
t~eniy-tw0 goldb0gs who represent
rasiern lunacy and fol dc rol
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Ayers Cherry PectOraI
highest Aonors at Worlds Fair.
CLEANSE The srsteM vim Ayst's sarapatIIa.
A sEM1coLoN IN COM

A Legal Treatise Oh PunetI .tion ar .
Changed Method Nssded.
1t appears that If the matter has been
correctly reported, the force OF law
before the Supreme court for cOnstruc-
ton depends upon semicolon, says the
Indianapolis Journal. That mark Of
punctuation may change the whele
tenor Of an important act In the legis-
lature. lt is not the first time that the
semicOlon has made trouble in laws. A
senicOlon in two or three sections of
tariff laws has led to decisions hostile
TO the revenue and to hOne industries.
II was some trouble of that nature in
the Morrill, tariff act which gave the
tin-plate industry to Great Britain. 1t
was semlcOlon which caused thou
sands TO be refunded TO the importers
OF Women's hat trimmings, though the
| intent Of those who passed the law was
perfectly clear. In these instances, and
probably in the law of Indiana, over
whose semicolon the Supreme court is
said to be cogitating, the trouble seems
10 arise from an inability to fix the
function OF the Semicoion. In the rules
of punctuation in the old Webster $
spelling book the comma indicates "a
pause long enough 10 count one, and
The semicolon "a pause long enough to
count two" the colon three" and the
| period -four" with fall of the voice
II those who have been writing rules
for punctuating compositions had
! stopped there, we would not have had
all tuis trouble, but these teachers have
been going on making new rules for
years until no one can undertake to
| follow them, but each punctuates ac-
cOrding TO his pleasure, rather than his
familiarity with rules. Many writers
have adopted the plan OF punctnatinE
as little as possible, leaving the reader
to gather their meaning from the
clearly constructed sentences. rather
than from the interiection Of commas
and semicolons. Unfortunately, the
verbosity and intricacy of the language
and construction or lack Of construction
in which statutes are written, renders
/ punctuation necessary. TINS being the
/ case, is seems that so much trouble
| comes from the indiscriminate use of
| punctuation marks that there should be
a legal treatise on that subject, defining
the force OF the different marks as they
are scattered through the statutes. II
this cannot be done, why should not
those who must construe the laws con-
slider them with a view to ascertainins
what was the design of legislative
bodies which enacted tn Why not
have judges take the .ws without
punctuation marks. excep periods. and
Dunctuate them in a manner which
will enable them TO be construed so as 10
carry out the intent of the legislators
who enacted them--a fact which could
be aseertained by inquiry il il was not
I declared in the titles of the acts them
, selves. Why make an indefinite semi
colon, which an engrOssing or enrolling
clerk might have substituted for a
comma or some other punctuation
mark. so important as 10 annul or
change the meaning OF law?
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robin Adair" was written by Lady
Caroline Keppel. the daughter OF the
Eall oi Albemarle, Robin Was a real
charsctef young Irish doctor who
had been forced by a scandalous ad-
venture to leave Ireland aud seek his
fortune in England. Chance threw
a rich patient ia his way, lady OF
qualify. and at her house he met Lady
Caroline, and the result Was case OF
love at first sight On both sides. Her
parents objected and sent her away,
and during her absence she produced
The song
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First published in the Guthrie Daily
Leader, Feb 95, 1896.

First published in the Guthrie Daily
Leader, Feb 95, 1896
Order
for hearing petition OF guardian for
sale of real estate.
In the Probate court of the county Of
Logan, territory OF Oklahoma.
In the matter OF the estate and
guardianship of Florence G.. Rich
and Clarence II. Rich, minors.
II appearing to this court, from the
petition this day presented and fled
herein by Netta Rich, the guardian of
Florence G.. Rich and Clarence II. Rich
minors, praying for an order of sale
Of certain real estate belonging to the
said wards, that il is necessary and
would be beneficial to said wards lhat
such real estate should be sold.
1t is hereby ordered that the next
OF kin OF the said wards, and all per-
sons interested in said estate. appear
before this court on Thursday, the %
day OF March, 1896, at Q o'clock a. IN.
of said day. at the court room of said
court, at Guthrie, Logan county, then
aud there TO show cause why an order
should not be granted tor the sale Of
such real estate.
And IL is further ordered that a copy
Of this order be published for four sue.
cessiVe weeks before the day of bear
ing said petition in Oklahoma Leader
weekly newspaper printed and pub
lished ia said Logan county.
Dated this % day Of January, 1896.
). 5. LAwGENCE,
frooate Judge.
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Publication Notice

Before T. .. Jackson, Justice Of the
Peace, for the city of Guthrie, O. Il.
+, w. Ritterbusch vs. w r. Stumpff.
The above named defendant. will
notice that be has been sued In the
above court by the plaintiff in the
SUN OF Twenty-nine dollars and fifty
I've aud said case will be tried in
the above conrt on the e2d day OF
March 1886. AZ 0 o'clock a. IN
This re6'y 81, 1896.
4. ID. Jackson.
Justice OF the Peace.
r. w. Ritterbusch.
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