Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-17

vote for national issues, but we have by no
means abandoned our old feeling CONCERN
ing white supremacy, and the new repub-
Leans are not to be found following the old
time leaders, and there will be many sur
prises awaiting the politicians when nomf-
natng conventions and elections are held
throughout the SOUTH"
Among the guests at the Ebbitt ia VIII
Holloway, who is by no means a stranger
In washington. The first time he came to
the city, which was during President Ar
thurs administration, he secured an office
and was credited to Illinois While Prest-
dent Harrison was in the White House.
VIII secured an office as Kansan, and he
now lives in Camp Douglass, Wis, register
ing from Chicago, as he says, because it ia
close and he likes to advertise the city,
Wherever he has been, and there are few
places that have not at one time or other
Claimed him as q citizen, he is regarded as
one OF the best practical jokers in the
his best last night
"A friend of mine, living out in the coun-
try, had dog called 'Dan,'" he said TT
was one Of the smartest of the collie spe-
c1es, and two or three families left word at
the post office, six miles away, to let Dan
nave their mall. The idea struck me that
ne ought to receive some benefit from 1t,
SO had q petition prepared, and in due
~
and the dog duly appointed postmaster.
my friend and ] making out the necessary
papers. The Office was abolished, but for
one year that dog was a government off,
cial, and don't believe the department
ever discovered the fact
Il notice that they have discovered oil
again In my section Of the country" said
DICK Barnard Of Pikeville, Tenn, to some
friends at Wizards. That is funny.
Every few months the correspondents in
the mountains awaken to the fact that it
Is time to discover oil, and they send out
reports of new field. When 1 was a boy.
which was several years before the civil
war. the principal source of income in that
section was from the OIL which was placed
in barrels and floated on RATS down the
Cumberland river to Nashville Some wears
later the Standard Oil Company bought
the principal wells and leased the most of
the lands. They are now opening up the
field, and during the past three years have
dug several new wells. The fact that oil
has been discovered in Kentucky and Ten
nessee is not newer than the fact that oil
has been discovered in Pennsylvania"
''Ths Chinese have peculiar ways of set
ting AFFAIRS said ". E. TiIton of Spokane
at the Raleigh. What they cannot ad-
just under the very stringent rules of their
peculiar secret order they refer to the Six
Companies, and the decision is final, no
matter what it may be. A few days before
L left Spokane Chinaman and woman
purRorting to be his wife arrived from San
Francisco. The next day the husband of
the woman came and demanded his wife
The clipping couple declined to be separated,
and the injured husband appealed to the
Masons, who called upon the wife to return
to her lawful spouse. This she refused to
do, and the entire matter was referred to
the Six Companies. Pending decision from
that arbiter in all moral, financial, per-
sonal and domestic troubles the husband
where his wife is living with her para
mour. No thought Of, revenge before the
Six Companies las acted enters his head,
but If the decision should be against the
despoiler of his home, when 1t is an
nounced, every Chinaman in Spokane will
assist in carrying out the decree and pun
ishing the offender.