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The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07

NANAEADOW LARKS sing in the air
AN{S these days, whirring up from the
1&s1y field burrows with little bursts of
song, which they continue as they fly.
This is the very height of their musical
achievements and they reserve it to cele-
brate the recurring spring season. A little
later, when they have wooed and won
their mate and are burdened with family
cares, they will still sing, but more
sedatelv, from the rocks and the fence
tops. Lateryet, in the autumn days, they
will surprise you by whistling melodiously
from the treetops, for they are birds OF
. many moods and resources. We owe
them a debt of gratitude, for they stay
with US and sing for Us the year round.
They really cannot help singing, and as
an earnest of their musical mission they
carry, picked out in black in the brave
yellow of their breasts, tiny Tyre. 1t is
hard to imagine what our fields would be
without the CHEEKY notes of these birds
singing sweetness into the wheat and bar
ley and oats.
The meadow larks set UP housekeeping
early in the season and nest on the
ground, drawing down the tall grasses IN
very clever fashion to conceal their little
homes. The small hen is herself quite a
singer and the pairs may often be heard
OF a summer evening INDUCING in soft
musical dialogues, now and then inter-
rupted on her part by an abrupt chang e to
a queer, little scolding burden with which
she assaiIs her mate, sometimes keeping
it up for some time.
Just now, however, nothing seems fur
ther from the ken of the birds than care.
The air mp here on the hills rings with
their melody and the trees are gay with
their petty huttering. 1t is curious how
prone the birds are to confi1e them selves
TO special localities. IN my immediate
neighborhood, for instance, there are no
meadow larks, but less than quarter of
a mile above me there are great numbers
Of them. To reach them l strike over the
hills and pass through an orchard where
hundreds of robins have their headquar-
ters, but l do OF find the robins until l
come to this orchard, nor will l meet
many beyond it. Just below me the red
shafted fiickers throng. This woodpecker
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07

"steddy" swinging to his arm, accosted
George Delmas, the head bouncer at
Morosco's. He was one of those who
had been put on the tabooed list of the
special officer.
Now, look-a-here, Del" he said, "my
guurl is here wild me, an l want to so into
de family circle, see! If you'll let me 60
in I'll be on de dead square,"
Delmas allowed the twain to take seats
in "the family circle" but he had to pull
them from their places during the second
act. They had gone to sleep in each
others arms and were snoring away to-
gether as if to beat the orchestra playing
down below.
But it is not always with such easy
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07

the timber belt. Then, too. when the
horns ere still in the milk they are very
soft and easily damaged. They have to
be watched with the greatest caution, and
iron rust must be mixed with their food,
as it has strengthening quality"
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07

The most valuabl fur is that of the sea
otter. One thousand dollars has been
paid for single skin of this animal not
more than two yards long by three quar-
ters of yard wide.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07

Notwithstanding that fa.igues. She
takes her French or German lesson as
usual, Madame, her teacher, requiring Of
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07

more than she can enjoy. How does she
pass her time? She is permitted
to occupy her mind with what pleases and
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07

The most unhealthy city in Europe is
Barcelona, Spain. The number of deaths
there at present exceeds the number Of
births.
Evening star., 1897-02-02
Sit Close.

10 the Eiftnr Of The Evening Star:
In Philadelphia the conductor of a street
car WHEN he finds his car filing I'D will call
out, Sit close" and the people In that
city OF long car rides for a nickel will in
order to accommodate their nefehbors
obey. making room for several adt1it, ma
passengers on each side. In winter weather
they can keep warmer by sitting close and
1t has many advantages. The conductor
can collect his fares easier and miss fewer.
than by having to climb around the pas
sengers standing. asking those who gave
up their seats for fares second time and
passing free in many instances the nerson
who took the seat. VIM NJ Singerly. editor
and proprietor of the Philadeiphia Record.
used to say he despised these diagonal Sit
tiers. He was, and may yet be- president
and mana ger Of several car lines in that
city. and i noticed while I lived there that
conductors invariably called out, "Sit close .
with the result that every inch of snace
On the seats was used. In Washington
find 1t Is different. Men will sit dia xDnaIlv
women seem to want to sit clear OF the
passengers on either side by several inches
no matter how many tired women and men
are standing, hanging onto the straps. IF
tired man enters a car and finds thase
conditions, .he doesn't like to ask the la lies
to sit close, although he can see that there
Is room on either side for three or foa,r
people / wonder whether the street car
managers IN this city would instruct their
conductors to make this request Of nas-
scngers. They need not of necessity ha
rude. believe Philadelphia aIthourh - IN
called a slow city. handles passenger tint.
nc much better than b done in this city.
They run their cars close together In the
morning and evening. when people are go-
ing and returning from business, especiallv
the working classes-store and shop niris
ana mechanics, who work from o'clock
Evening star., 1897-02-02
An Intcr.tate ,s,nm merce x,o,..,.

The interstate ed commerce commission,
IN an opinion byotContmissioner Prouty.
has announced a111Ideefsion in the matter
OF alleged unlawful mates and practices
In the transporta don & of grain and grain
products by the lAtekison, Topeka and
santa Fe Railway Company, the Chicago
Great Western Railway Company and 9th
ess' concerning a transportation practice
o. the Chicago Great Western Railway
Company. This Dce mpany, owning the
ehure stock Of the 1sIowa DEVELOPMENT
Company, which chad sbeen organized for
1ne 'aeaI purpose T of h9ldingthe title to certain
lanas OF the rahwaEo company, caused
gram 10 be purchased in: Kansas City in the
name or the Development company, trans
ported over the lines of the railway COM
pany 10 chicago, and there sold upon the
market. The development company had no
Dona nde interest III the transaction.
Neither the railway company nor the de-
veiopment company purchased the grain
TOT me purposes Of ownership, the whole
transaction being simply a device to se-
cure us transportation at other than the
pubhshed rate; and the only rate paid was
the Proht upon the transaction, which
varied with each shipment. The comm.s-
SION neld that this constituted violation
OF the second, third and sixth sections Of
sne act 10 regulate commerce. and an or
DER directing the railway company to cease
ana desfst from such violation has been
issued,
Evening star., 1897-02-02
ALMOST INCREDIBLE ATROCITIES.
Spanish Wreak Their Disappofntmen,
NOR.C0m I'm faafa

spanish Wrenk Their Disa appOintment
ON NoR-C0mbataats.
A special to the Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune from Key West says:
To counterbalance the Cuban victories in
the field, Major Fonde-Svielas' troops are
making reprisals at Guanabacoa Last
week family named Jose Rudolphe con-
sisting Of himself. wife, three sons and four
daughters, were all killed by the patrols
Old man Rudolphe was accused of being a
Cuban guide, and the patrol went to arrest
him As the troops entered the house his
eldest son attempted to leave by a side
door, but an outside sentinel shot him dead.
This made the other two sons crazy with
fury, and they attacked the soldiers with
daggers. but were shot. Old Rudolphe was
then killed by machettes. Mrs RudoIphe
and the girls were then seized and tied to
the furniture In the room. The girls were
subjected to various indfgnitfes In the
morning one OF the girls. who seemed half
dead was released fer a moment She
seized a knife from the table, and before
she could be restrained stabbed two Of the
soldiers and the officer in command, the
latter only slightly. She was cut down with
machettes. The other girls were then taken
with the band. despite the mothers en-
treaties. The girls have not been heard
from since. The mother Is a maniac
Two raids were made in Havana sl,bryrfs
Saturday night, and ten or twenty houses
burned, the Spanish garrisons in the places
retiring before the insurgents The Iieht
from the burning buildings was clearly
seen in Havana.
A special to the Commercial Tribune from
Bluffton, Ind says: =.
Hugh J. DeughteFY returned from Ha-
vara. where he has been guest of Consul
General Lee;-says the business situation fn
Havana Is SO desperate that a panic win
sweep two-thirds Of the merchants into
ruin II the war lasts 4 few months longer.
soldiers. and the Spaniaris take most of
that away In the shape OF taxes. The Sit.
uation OF the insurgents is desperate They
are brave soldiers. but lack the power OF
Cuba might maintain an independent exist
euoe.
Evening star., 1897-02-02

the third floor. and discovered the burglar
standing in front Of her bureau. The
young woman screamed, and tine burgia-.
putting his coat over his face, darted out
Of the door and rushed to the top floor.
An the occupants Of the house rushed to
the third hoor In response to tha young
voman.s screams. and when the police ar
rived they found everything in confusion.
visit 70 the upper noor showed that the
burglar had gone through the tran door
and had escaped through vacant heusa
The burglar wore dark clothes, but no
overcoat Sergt. Kaucher and Policenen
Duyan and Sawyer investigated The case
but did not aPprehend the burglar.
Evening star., 1897-02-02
SCARED oFF.
A Burglar Who Did Not Secure .
Haul.

A burglar who had made extensive prep
arations for big haul In several houses
en- the north side Of X street northwest
between 9th and 10th streets was scared
on yesterday evening. He entered two
houses throcgh the skyiightx but in each
house he was frightened on before he Sc
cured anything. It was about 6 O'Clock
whom young lady in the house Of Mr.. A.
n. Rowe, No. 927. went UP to her room on
Evening star., 1897-02-02
Tfdying Up Advised.

10 the Editor of The Evening Star:
IL Is respectfully suggested that the COM
PICK appearance of the west outer court Of
the treasury building might be improved.
The visiting thousands next March NAV
otherwise be puzzled whether 1t is the back
yard OF a grocery store or junk shop. 1t
rouid be good idea to put the whole city
IN nay shape, sweeping out all the corners
once in four years at least.
PASSER.P
Evening star., 1897-02-02

in the morning until 8 IN the evening. At
9 o'clock of an evening you would suppose
the cars had been detained by an accident
comiro out ef the business part Of the
city-same as 1t shosld he in this city from
8 to in the morning and from to 5 in
the evening. Il payA ths,companies and ae-
commodities the pvblic..,
a PHLADELPHIAN.
Evening star., 1897-02-02

DC tor many articles that usually 2 cents
len cents Tor dozen superior Shell Pins reliable
ooh Hand Brushes Sang angue Face Powder Powder
Bottle eriune Dressing Combs Pretty Puff Boxes Roger &
Galetts Best Soap Mirrors Emere Hair Pins Hose Sn
porter with belt 4ard Velveteen Best Garter
tic Whaebone Casing Best Pins, Large Cubes Prma Donna
Crper Benhar Waves Egg Daners Japanese Tavs oo
csc TOohpicks in boxe - - ' INla'
Evening star., 1897-02-02

HqDC Tor l0-yard pieces Of Narrow RibIops-So
:. All silk. all colors. Usually 25c a
piece.
First floor
Evening star., 1897-02-02
BaIIotfnx In south Dakota.

Ihe senatorial vote in joint session Of the
south Dakota legislature stood: Picker.
5S: vs. Kyle; %; Goodykoontz. Is: Plowman.
~, ~; koacks LOU 9; Bowler. p; Keller, 2 Kyle's
Evening star., 1897-02-02

The factory Of the Underwood Manufac-
turing Company, makers Of belting. etc
At ROLAND, Conn, with tenement hoi:se
adjoining and 400 cords Of fire wood, was
burned Sunday night. The loss Is estf-
mated at $50eO0.
Evening star., 1897-02-02
conpre..ea Sir New York.
tn The Editor af Tha, Evening Star.


To the Editor Of mss Eveling Star:
In Fridays issue of your paper appeared
a clipping from 81 Philadelphia paper, in
which It's New Y6rk correspondent stated
that the Metropolitan Railway Company
had decided upon the underground trolley
system. and that New York was not to
have any compressed air cars. but that tn:
underground electric system was to be gen.
orally adopted on the street car lines of
that city, While it is true that the Metro
politaE company has decided upon the un-
derground trolley system 1t Is not true that
the metropolis Is not to have compressed
air cars. The Hoadley motor. which the
Metropolitan company has been expert
mentfng with, and which is manufactured
In Massachusetts, having failed to demon
strate to their satisfaction the desirability
of its general use. the managers Of the
road, who also own the Hoadley patent
have decided upon the underground trolley
system. This decision has led many to err
roneously believe that compressed air as a
motor power is failure. Such is not the
case, as has been demonstrated by the
Hardie patent, which has been used on the
125th street cable line since last August.
The Hardie cars are manufactured at
Rome, N. Y, and the two cars on 125th
street have run on schedule time through
all kinds of weather, and during the storm
just before Christmas were the only cars
in the metropolis that run on schedule
time. The Third Avenue Cable Company
expresses itself as delighted with the per
formance of these cars, and in short time
more of the cars will be in use on its line.
In short time compressed air will have a
trial on the elevated road. The locomotive
to be used in the trials has been completed,
and will resemble externally the ordinary
elevated road locomotive. There will be no
smoke, cinders, dust or noise made by the
compressed air engine, however, and this
is one of the advantages claimed for it.
ri n Elo,,l a
car line. in New York city, says that the
line will be equipped with either the
Hardie compressed air cars or the under
ground trolley. In regard to compressed
air he says:
The improvements in that system nave
been remarkable, and they are producing
favorable results. 1t has been thoroughly
tried in 125th street. with good showing for
speed, safety. economy and ease of con-
trolling. There may have to be slight
changes made for use on long line. The
tanks are at present too small for long
run. but there Is no difficulty In increasing
their size so that sufficient pressure can be
maintained to make the 42d street and
Boulevard line round trip
JAMES E. SHORTALL.
Evening journal., 1897-12-21
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

The average man will spend as much
time telling stories about his dog as a
woman will about her first baby.-Chi-
cago News.
Washington Is active and proud now,
but let it beware. Annapolis will have
the Legislature on it's hands next
month-BaltimOr American.
The philosophy of charity is a cardi-
nal teaching of the Christian religion.
Thoselwho follow that religion should
exemplify charity as well as impress it
by precept Nashville sun.
A committee Of members of the Gsor-
gia Legislature was held up and rob-
bed in a swamp. What a queer place
that Georgia is. Up this way it is the
Legislature that does the holding up"
Philadelphia Press.
The way Reciprocity Commissioner
Kassoh is rushed with work indicates
that the movement to get all other ma
lions to combine against the United
States for a tariff war has made little
headway.-Omaha Bee.
More illiterate hod-carriers reach the
top OF the ladder chan men with col
lege educations.-C Chicago News.
Evening journal., 1897-12-21
GERNnAN THRIFT.

An American in Munich writes to
the New York Evening Post concern
ing German thrift" with examples of
petty economies he has seen in Ger
many and that strike Americans as eX-
traordinary. He tells of a stout Ger
man gentleman who came into the
lobby of one Of the picture galleries Of
Munich one day last Summer putting a
cigar After depositing his hat and
umbrella he looked around uneasily.
Big signs on the entrance doors to the
gallery warned him that no smoking
was allowed. Finally his face lighted up
as he strobe over to one corner and de-
posted his half-hnished cigar in a sort
Of metal rack fastened to the wall.
So he exclaimed, with a sigh of re-
lief, and marched in to see the pictures.
Almost at the same moment another
German, having done" the pictures,
approached the rack in question, and
having scrutinized its contents, select
ed a stump of a cigar as his particular
property and proceeded TO lgnt it be-
/ fore getting on his hat and coat. This
provision for saving the stumps Of ci-
/ gars was a novelty to me, and l eX.
/ amined it with some curiosity. A sign
| "Cigarre Ablade," placed above it in
| large letters announced its purpose
a leaving place" or "depositlng place
for cigars. The rack was of metal ant
| fashioned something like a miniature
wire rack; there was a special groove
fer each cigar but no particular mari
or number by which one could identify
one stump from another, ard no par
ticular reason why the first GOMEZ
should not help himself to the best an'
biggest cigar of the lot Fer all
know, that may be the custom. / DIS
covered afterwGrd that these cigar re
positories are common all over Ger
many in galleries, museums and cthe
places where smoking is not allowed
No better illustration of the pfennig
saving propensity Of the German occur
to me, for while the Frenchman ma,
count out the Jumps Of sugar for eacl
cup of coffee, 1 have seen in France o
| England no such provision for ciga
stumps.-Bcston Transcript.
Evening journal., 1897-12-21
CONTEMPORARY OPINION

THE VINEYARDS ON THE RHINE.
There is a railroad on each side of
the river, but ON neither side does the
traveller by rail get an adequate idea of
the vineyards; it is necessary to take
the boat for that, or better still, small
boat that can skirt the shores. Then
he sees what an immense amount OF
labor has been expended upon them.
Heretare hills on both sides that may
roughly be estimated at 800 TO 500 feet
high with the river flowing between
them and broken here and there by
rocky cliffs. Not hills rising abruptly
from the water, but sloping gently to
the summit. In most places the as
cent is not steep enough to prevent a
man. from climbing them with ease
But everywhere the descent is rapid
enough to make cultivation next to inn
possible if they were left in a state of
nature. SO for miles and miles the hills
on both sides have been terraced. Be
ginning at the bottom, they build
stone wall six to ten feet high and dig
enough earth out of the side of the hill
to illl in behind it and make a smooth
patch, say twenty feet wide, just on a
level with the top of the wall. That
makes a little field 20 feet wide and as
long as you like. Then at the inner
side they build another wall and re-
peat the process. When they are done
thei'e are perhaps twenty of these mar
row fields between the river and the
summit, each eight or ten feet higher
than the one below it. And these ter
races do not run straight across the
vineyard parallel with the river, but
go zigzagging here and zigzagging
there so that the workmen can step
sometimes from the highest point Of
onawall to the lowest point of the wall
next above it.
These thousands of miles of stone
walled terraces make it wholly unnec-
essary to ask whether this hillside
land is valuable. Only land that pro-
duces the very best grapes would be
worth spending so much money upon.
And naturally in such place the cul-
tivation is kept up to the very highest
| Point You may walk through mile af-
ter mile of the Rhine vineyards with
| cut seeing a weed. The owners do not
even waste enough of their vineland to
build their dwellings among the vine
yards. There are no dwellings on the
hillsides; only here and there a totter-
ing old castle, generally with a closed
ND tunnell at the foot of the hill be-
Meath it, a suggestion of underground
| passages. The owners and their mel
live either on top Of the hill or at its
foot, on the river bank.-New Horl
Times.
Evening journal., 1897-12-21
ABOUT LEAN INGELOW.

Miss Jean Ingelow came of q clever
family, and when she and her brothers
and sisters were children they got up
little magazine of their own, the type
being set by schOolfellows of her bro
theirs at the house of their clergyman
schOolmas.er, who owned a small
printing machine, writes a person who
knew her well. AS a child she used
also to write poems on the inside of the
shutters of her bedroom window of
all odd places, and after they were one
day accidentally discovered by her
mother some of them found their way
into print. A peculiar feature about
Miss Ingelow's life was that she never
entered a theatre. and an equally re-
markable enc about herself was that
she could remember events in her life
from the time she was II months old.
Evening journal., 1897-12-21
PAP FOR THE HUNGRY ONES.

SO pressing has become the demand
of office-hungry Republicans upon the
Mckinley administration that It has
been forced to the point where it must
modify the civil service rules put in
force by President Cleveland, and
thereby do incalculable injury to the
public service, or render itself exceed
ingly unpopular by telling the party
leaders that there are no more offices
available for them and their less-dis-
tinguished but no less hungry hench-
men.
The latest advices from Washington
are to the effect that the president has
decided to give way to party clamor
and that he will, before Congress
meets again, issue new rules which
will remove from the classified list all
bonded officials such as deputy collec-
tors of customs, deputy collectors Of
internal revenue, deputy marshals, as
sistant district attorneys, assistant sub
treasurers and maybe executive chiefs
Of bureaus and departments. 1t is given
out that the new rules proposed will
not affect the civil service law in re-
gard to clerks or other officials for
whose benefit the law was originally
intended, but that they will have the
effect of having the Cabinet officers
and chiefs of the various departments
to select their own assistants to carry
out the administrations. policy, and
still give protection to clerks and other
officers and remove them from politi-
cal influence.
It is n very pretty Republican
scheme to provide places for party
workers at the expense Of the public
service, the efficiency of which past
Democratic administrations have done
so much to promote. Here in Della
ware there are several valued public
servants who would have to walk the
plank so delicately laid for their re-
moval from public service.
1t is useless for President Mckinley
to indulge in sophistry and platitude
in the PRONUNCIATION of such an order
He might just as well couch it in plain
terms and serve notice on the Demo
cratic office-holders uhat their places
are wanted by Republicans and that
the administration is afraid to ignore
the demand.