Evening star., 1897-06-12

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Written Exclusively for The Evening Star.
1T may seem like a contradiction of
terms but it g a fact. and has been my ex-
perience, as it has been of a number Of 9TH
who control property here" remarked
an extensive property owner to Star re-
porter. that lease affords no protection
to property owners, though it is frequently
an advantage to those who occupy the
property as tenants. The law is defective
in that all the security Is on one side of
the transaction. I never sign any leases
now except there Is real estate security
offered. AS for making the rent on q house
by seizing the furniture 1t is all nonsense.
In the first place, the amount of furniture
ordinarily put into rented house. Is not
of enough value to pay any very serious
rent bill In the second place. the property
owner could not get 1t without a series of
law suits, which would cost more than they
would amount to- A monthly tenancy Is
the most satisfactory for all concerned. ex-
cept for business property. There the lease
is the better in the interest of the tenant,
as well as the owner of the property, for a
stock of goods is easier TO get at than Or
dinary house furniture. Some months
since L had occasion as an offlcer OF
company in which / am interested to rent
a party a house. AS agent of the company
i asked the tenant to sign lease and he
UlU so. In three months dIleTWdTu tue
tenant came to me and said he intended to
surrender it. He said he had been informed
that the lease, which ne had signed for
three years. had but little or no legal effect,
and that he proposed to move out and take
his furniture with him regardless of the
contrary conditions in the lease. sur
prised him when l concurred with him,
and told him that only had him sign the
lease matter of form. as knew 1t was
valueless as far as the owner of the prop
erty was concerned, though it did give the
tenant the use of the property for the time
stated if the rent paid"
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The open cars on the street and sub
urban railways are defective" said ply
sician to a Star reporter, Sin that they ex-
pose the feet and legs of their passengers
to an under draft of air, which to persons
who are automatically disposed,is is of serious
consequences 1 know of dozens of per-
sons, and there must be hundreds. who
have had siege of rheumatism during the
past two or three weeks of very backward
weather 1t may not make much difference
TO those who take short rides, but to those
who have to make long rides in the early
morning or in the evenings 1t is of i'm
portance enough to have public attention
called 10 it, The difficulty is that the board
under the seat only reac hes down to about
three hes of the floor of the car. 1t is
mere the feet are exposed, all the under
OF course, when the warm weather sets in
Tor good 1t will in measure remedy itself
without any thanks to the construction of
the cars 1t happens that / am a member
OF the board of physicians of one of the
large hospitals. and during a recent meet
ing the physicians got to talking of the
immense amount of rheumatism which was
prevailing comparison of notes showed
that IN every case mentioned it was the
result of riding in open street cars The
gflp car Is much safer to ride in, for the
Sues or the passage where the gripman
STANDS run down to the floor and afford
piotection except when the car runs di-
rectly head on a wind, which is but seldom
AT all other times the feet and legs are
protected from under draft. 1 make no
criticism of any particular line of cars for
as lar as the open or summer cars are con-
eerned. all are the same way ami equally
defective and Injurious
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mad an fdea," observed Judge Ial1-
renee of the pension bureau to a Star re-
porter, that all of the older colored people
men and wonderland particularly those
who were slaves. could manage and milk
a cow. / had never lived in the south un-
I'll since the war. and had picked up that
1dea from what I had read. / found by
experience, however, that the proportion
among colored people who can milk cows
Is much less than it is with the average
white man and woman. OF the thirty-three
persons. twelve of them women, in my
division of the pension bureau, but three
claim to be able to milk, and 1 have con-
siderable doubts about one of them, who
was raised in New York city, and who
thousnt that If cow was fed on snow
balls she would give ice cream, though he
did not express himself so exactly in words
1 hnd in looking into the matter of the
eolored Iolks. during slavery days. that
their owners generally had what they re-
garded as more important labor for the
men to perform, and always required the
women and girls to do the milking The
men and boys were required to look after
the horses When there was a no account
fellow about place he was now and then
required to milk cows. for the reason that
IL was regarded as degradation Some of
these no accounts became in time good
mixers. 1t was rare when there was one
man slave in each fifty who could milk a
cow Among farm hands among white men
II Is. on the other hand, very rare that
they cannot milk, though of course all
OF them were by no means good mixers
During the thirty-five years since the war
but few-i mean. of course, in proportion
TO the five millions of them In this coun-
try-have owned cows on their own ac-
count, and those who can milk had to learn
II as they would learn any other work
what are known as natural mixers, those
who in girlhood boyhood miIked the
first time they tried to do it, are better
mixers from every standpoint than those
who have to learn
There are a number of milk farms with
In twenty miles of this city and 1t Is only
during the past two or three years that
the supply of colored mixers has been
surncient to meet the demand You can
get 100 colored men to handle or look after
your horses where you will have difficulty
IN getting one who can master the art of
niIking a cow L saw bet lost only re-
Gently by a man who denied this PROPOSE
uon. and who bet that out of 12O colored
laborers who were working on the new
electric road between HyattsviIle and
Laurel he could get twenty who couId
milk But four of the entire crowd even
claimed 20 be able to do 50 and the bet was
lost"
The science of phrenology has not I'M
proved much during late years, and has
hardly kept pace with the other sciences