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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-04
MEN AND WOMEN.

Joseph uneau, the founder Of the Alaskan
city which bears his name, has Just returned
to San Francisco, after an absence of thirty
years. He went first to California by tie
old overland trail in 1851.
WI Ting Fang, who succeeded Yang Yu
as Chinese minister to this country, has
spent considerable time in England, where
he studied law and was admitted as bar
rister. He has been in the service of the
Chinese government for the last ten years.
EX-Speaker Reed, referring TO his So 900
fee as referee for some Massachusetts insur-
ance companies, recently remarked: at is
only when man is dra wing a salary for
doing nothing that he feels he is at last
receiving what he really deserves
It's announced that, as the result Of what
among laymen would be called an election
bet, Dean Hoffman. of the Protestant Epis
copal General Theological Seminary, in
New York city, has given 10 the University
OF the South, at Sewanee, Tenn. S35, 900
in cast and property at Bridgeport, Ala,
worth SIS 1000.
If a plan now on foot is carried out Vice
Presdent-elect Hobart will call the next
United States Senate to order with a gavel
made from a limb OF one Of the old apple
trees standing on the farm where he was
born. The gavel will be highly embellished
and will bear an appropriate inscription
on gold plate.
Mrs. Eunice Russ Davis, of Dedham,
Mass, who recently passed her ninety sixth
birthday, is the daughter of Prince Anes,
who fought in the Revolutionary war at
Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill He
was of white and Indian parentage, and
Mrs. Davis mother was a Narragansett
Indian. Mrs. Davis was the only surviving
member of the Woman's Anti slavery Board
Of Boston. =
The popeis said to have asked three visit
ors recently how long they had been in
Rome. They answered, respectively, three
weeks, three months and three years. His
holiness said to the first "Ah, you have
seen Rome, them to the second, You
have begun TO see Rome,' and to the third.
"You have hot yet begun to see Rome,''
meaning, presumably that the longer one
lives in the Eternal City the more he finds
to see.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-04
SENATORIAL ELECTIONS.

Most OF the Senators have returned from
their visits to their homes during the re-
cess, and several Of them We're about the
hall or the Senate this afternoon. Much in
terest is displayed in the several sharp
Senatorial contests which are pending be-
fore legislatures that assemble this week in
different States.
Especial concern is shown in the Sena-
torial elections in Washington, Idaho,
South Dakota and North Dakota, where
the seats of sitting Senators are at stake
There is yet no certainty that either DU-
elected.
The chances OF Senator Dubois have Wis.,
bly, improved within the last few days, and
even his inveterate political antagonist,
Senator shoup, who is Just back from Fort
resss Monroe, says that he thinks Dubois is
likely to win.
II don't see how it is possible for the
opposition to Dubois to beat the whole
Democratic national committee and the
Democratic Senators They all seem to
regard Dubois as one OF them.
mo" added the Senator, 81 don't know
what the Republican party will do in the
Idaho legislature
The regular Republican part yin that body
Republicans, so-cailed, outnumber either
the Populists or Democrats, but have ten
votes less than both combined.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-04
NEW YEAR IDEAS.

This new year is not leap year. But to
ence.-New York Herald.
We wish a happy New Year to every
body but the sultan, and he'll probably have
one anyhow.-Cleveland Leader.
There have been notable triumphs in
the line of civil service during the past
year, for which the nation is largely in
debted to Mr. Cleveland Boston Globe
There's a tremendous opportunity for
the gentlemen of the United States Senate
to make New Years resolutions that will
be widely and heartily commended-Chi-
cago Record.
The talking Senators could please the
country by adopting a resolution to OBJ
serve partial silence during the year 1t
may be sacrifice, but good resolves in
volve Observation-Disclosures Journal.
Now is the time to make application to
your Congressman for seeds You may
not get them right off, but you stand
good chance of getting them some day
before spring. lS9s.-Boston Globe.
wish for happy New Year, however
graciously expressed to ones family and
associates, cannot compare in value with
determination IN ones own heart to make
it a happy one for them.-Providence
Journal.
If every nation asked for peace on
earth, good will toward men," as Spain
does, the devil could shut up shop and
retire from active business, and feel as
sured that every interest would be served
Chicago Inter,Ocean.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-04
SOME NOTED MEN.

The most famous of the ancient sculptOrs
was PhIdias His work n the Parth mon
remains the admiration of artists ana sculp-
tors to the prese Mt day.
Montesquieu may be termed THE Father
of Philosophical History" being among the
first TO search in the doings of men for the
causes of their action.
The greatest theologian was st. Angus
tine, whose body of theology 1T present
constitutes the major part Of the doctrine
of the Roman Catholic Church.
The most learned philosophical historian
was Buckle. 1t is estimated that a single
foot note in his History of Civiliza-
ton" must have cost five years research.
Cervantes was the most eminent writer
OF satire the world has ever known
1t has been said of him that his Don
QuixOte" has no rival, nor had it a model.
The first, and in most respects, the
greatest of all tragic poets was Aeschylus
His delineation of the tragic elements Of
human conduct has never been surpassed.
The leading experimental philosopher was
Bacon, who deemed that the substance Of
all philosophy lay in testing the accuracy
Of the knowledge already gained.
Virgil was the greatest pastoral poet w no
ever lived. Standing next to Homer as
writer of epics, he nevertheless. in some
passages. excelled his famous master.
The greatest of all dramatiSts in any
age or country was Shakespeare. He
excelled in every line of drama, tragedy,
comedy and history, and in each was
equally good.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-04
HITS = AT TARIFF.

1t is tile curse of protectionism that it
it always will until the chief object of
taxation is made revenue, and not protec-
tion.-New York, Times.
1t is reasonably sure that 1897 will see
tariff combining revenue and protection
enacted, and that early enough to make the
year itself once OF marked prosperity-Chi-
cago Inter ocean.
Politics in the tariff has been the eInbar-
rassnent Of both parties and the confusionof
the people, and it threatens to be grievous
embarrassment to the Republican party in
tile form it is now taking.--BOston Herald.
Let the manufacturers write their own
rates in a new bin, and in two years time
they would be just as angrily clamorous for
better protection. Yet supplemented old
John Sherman is going to take the tariff
out of politics. New York Evening Post.
The whole system of protection is
sham and fraud, and the people know
it, though they tolerated it in the last
election in preference to reputation and
anarchy. That is no reason why the pound
offIesh pledged should be exacted, and the
Republican mana gers would better recog-
nize this at once.-Louisville Courier Jour
nal.
Our manufacture of machinery fer ex-
port last year may be set down as one of
the things that go to relieve the somewhat
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-04
EN- SENATOR PALMER'S PLANS.

Ex-senator Thomas w. Palmer is said
to be negotiating for the repurchase of
the fine browEstone mansion on K street
northw est, owned and occupied by him
during his term in the Senate. This house
was financial white elephant to the gen
ial millionaire. 1t cost him some $50, 900
above the contract price to build the
house, and when he disposed of it after
his retirement he did so at a heavy loss.
The residence was occupied by Senator
EIkns while he was Secretary of War,
and is now transformed into an apart
ment-house. As Senator p almer can
hardly be seeking a property which proved
SO Improbable to him as an investment.
it is thought that his course may be in
dicative of an intention TO re-enter public
life, to which he has several times hidden
farewell, only to return in a more con-
spicuous position.
1t will hardly be the Cabinet that the ex-
president Of the Columbian commission is
thinking of, for If portfolio goes to Michi
gan, 1t las been pre-empted for Gen. r. A
Alger.
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sot down on tn bag and went to sheIIin,
ag'in. When the hens come lookin' on he
wur tiekied, thinkin' how good one Of um
would taste putty soon. He got tn corn an
shelled, an squatted down an put mis- nose
on his paws and watched UNI, Iookin'
straight at um. They didn't come up quite
as close as he wanted am to. an he crawled
along a little. Then bang went the trap,
an all could see was fox tails an legs
flynn in all directions.
II went up thar, an sure enough thar he
were, ketched In the trap right around the
forepaws an nose. I see he couldn't bite
me, so wound the bag round his hind legs
so he couldn't kick an scratch, an took
i'm to tn house, fox, bag. trap an all Il
hadn't told Hulda nothin' bout what I'd
been dom She says, What you got thar?'
an sa Us, Your chicken thief She got a
little chain, an put il On i'm, then spring
the trap an let i'm out. It hadn't hurt i'm
any, only seemed to ne his nose WIS a
little pukeder than common. hitebed tn
chain to an oiled holler log, an he went
into tn hole like scarf dog an wouldn't
come out till night fed i'm, an he went
back in thar again.
This mOrnin', after breakfast, went
out to DO tn chores. Hulda d gin i'm
suthin T. eat fore / went out. When
come in she says I've killed your fox;
says, hOw's that? Wall, she says, gin
i'm some bread fur his breakfast. an
soon as I went in the house he got up
an walked round on his hind feet in
front Of his hole an picked up tn bread,
an some hens come up e eat it an he
ketched one Of um. / went out with
tn broom an hit i'm with lt an ne fell
over dead. Wall, 1 says he killed putty
easy, seem L me, an got up an locked
out o. tn winder an that ne wuz keelin'
over heels over head, tickled t death
cause he'd fooled her so slick.
what am I goin' C. do with i'm? Wall,
I baint got i'm now; bout two hours ago
some city feIlers come along an offered
me ten dollars fur i'm an / took it an
gin it Z Hulda T. pay fur her chickens"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-04
In PARV0.
Grafton.

Mexico is now enforcing her new law
requiring the use of the metric system of
weights and measures.
Forest fires in this country destroy, it is
estimated, 81 100000 worth of timber
and other property yearly,
A new block of flats in the West End of
London displays the announcements: "To
Let, for Lady Bachelors only
While sorting rags at a paper mill in
Otsego, Mich, woman found among the
lot before her an envelope containing S65.
In Norway girls are ineligible for matri-
mony until they have earned certificates for
proficiency in knitting, baking and spin
ming.
More eyes must be damaged or lost than
people suppose, for 100000 glass eyes
are manufactured yearly in Germany and
Switzerland.
In the British Isles during the present CEN
tury seven instances have been recorded in
which the bride has married the best man
by mistake.
The head of well-known financial in
stitution in Boston said few years ago
that he would never loan q cent of money
on theater, a hotel or a church.
The deepest gold mine in the world is
at Eureka, Cal, and is 2,290 feet deep.
The deepest silver mine is at Carson
City, and has depth of 3 300 feet
1t has been judiciaIly decided in In
diana that sleeping car companies are re-
sponsible for any baggage lost by the
portcrs' dishonesty or carelessness.
A BiddefOrd, Ne, man, while in the
country the other day found a tree grow
ing through a milestone, and the tree
had lifted the stone from the ground.
In Kamschatka the inner bark of the
pine is maceratcd in water, then pounded
and made in "A kind of substitute for
bread. without any admixture of flour.
Cohn, bacteriologist, says a single
germ could, under favorable conditions,
multiply in threedaysto 4,772 zoe, 900, 900
and make a m ass weighing Z 300 tons.
1t is said that Sunday labor in the
Rand gold fields. in South Africa, is per-
United for the first time now, by recent
vote OF the Transvaal volksrand.
IOuk- oE-huO1 VOTpcuO bOdb-ueSbfoyttS
are being constructed for the Chinese gov
eminent at Elbing, in Germany. They
must be finished within thirteen months.
The largest potato warehouse on farm
in this country is being built by o'Connor
Bros, three miles east OF Hancock, Wis.
1t will hold 10 900 bushels of potatoes.
Between forty and fifty women, mostly
Americans, have registered at the Uni
verSity of Berlin this semester. At Zurich,
where there are about 100 of them, the
women students are demanding equal rights
with the men.
Public story-tellers still earn a good
livelihood in Japan. In Toxic alone six
hundred OF them ply their trade, provided
with a small table, a fan and a paper
wrapper To illustrate and emphasize the
points OF their tales.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-04
AMERICAN MISSIONS WORK.

New York, Jan. 4.-The American Mis-
sionary Association made public this
morning it's annual financial report. The
receipts from the District OF Columbia were
$7s1-47; MARY land, 1901 10; Virginia,
$1,231.s7.
The Income from the Daniel Hand Fund,
which is devoted exclusively to missionary
work among the colored people OF the
South, was $305 OPS
The annual report Of the association. of
which its financial statement is a part
shows that the association has about fifty
normal schools in the South, the sole pur-
pose OF which is to prepare and properly
equip colOred teachers for work among
their own race.
There are five chartered institutions,
or colleges, doing the same, or higher work
These are the Fisk University, at Nashville,
Tenn; the Straight College at New Orleans;
the Talladega College. at Talladega, Ala;
the TogalOo College, near Jackson, Miss,
and the TiIitSon College, AT Austin, Tex
There are several Industrial and agricul-
tural colleges.
The association has expended to date
the sum OF 81 100000 in the South. and
has educated 10000 coIored teachers,
who are doing good work, uplifting theiI
race in the rural communities. TheseschooIs
have furnished the greater number of the
colored teachers in the South today. Many
of them will be found in Atlanta, Memphis,
Charleston and other large Southern cities.
The association is now expending about
81 900 per day, or 1865, 900 per year, in
keeping up the colored schools in the
South.
The last United States census shows that
there are 25 800 colored schools in the
United States, with 16 900 negro teachers
employed, uplifting ESQ, 900 colored
children. From 20 to 80 per cent Of these
teachers We're educated in the schools Of
the association.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-04
NOMINEES WHO ARE WAITING.

When the United States Senate next goes
into executive session it viii have before
it for consideration large number OF nonIi-
nations which were sent in by the President
prior to tie holiday recess.
Among these are several Of Importance,
including the Secretary OF the Interior, the
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue, one ,
United states Judge, six cOnsuls Of more or
less consequence, a pension agent, three
registers Of the General Land Office, two
United States district attorneys, an aSsO-
ciate justice OF the Oklahoma supreme cozrt
and an Indian agent.
Among the minor appointments are 119
postmasters, about half the States in the
Union being represented. Each postmaster
confirmed now Will serve for four years
from the date Of his commission, and that
Will leave him in office, unless removed
for cause or by death OF resignation, dur
ing practically the four years Of the In
coming administration
Naturally, If there are any charges filed
now Of extremely offensive partisanship,
coupled with pernicious activity. the Sen
ateis likely to take eognizance Of them. and
it must be by piece OF rare good luck when
an appointee goes through over the Objee-
lection OF Senator, and rarer still when
a pair of Senators get their protests IN. 4
A goody proportion Of offices for
which the nominations were made are OF =
high grade, and offices to be filled under
the next administration are so few that
every one saved is so much gain.
Seventy-twO commissions under the Navy
Department are held up through the failure
of the Senate to act upon the nominations
prior to adjournment. These are mainly
promotions of subordinate officers, but
the list embraces some Of comparatively
igh-grade captains, Commanders, pay
masters and others.
1t is not anticipated that there will be OBJ
jections 20 the passing Of any Of the naval
appointments. They are not political. and
the promotions come in the nature CT re-
wards for services to those who are in the
line Of succession to the vacancies fOg D
which they are named.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-04
CURB AND CORRIDOR.

-rrI ES, he's remarkably queer genius,
that chief executive OF ours,'' said
Mr.. S. L. Rogers of Detroit, who
is stopping at the Raleigh, in speaking Of
Governor Mayor Hazen s. Pingree, who Of
ficiates just now in that dual capacity for
the State OF Michigan and the city of De-
troit
"Pingree is wonderful man, whatever
his enemies may say of him. Any man
who knows anything of his great popularity
with the masses could have told those fell
lows who were prophesying his defeat
that he would have been elected by ire
mendous majority upon any party ticket
he might have chosen to run upon. II the
Republican party had turned him down the
Democrats would have nominatedand elect
ed him. Why, even the Prohibitienists could
have carried him to victory.
Really, his principles and beliefs are
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-04

during the year 1896. Isn't this rather
disparagingto the late campaign OF cduca-
ton? ~
John j. ingalls, is willing to admit that
Kansas could not send q better man than
himself To the United States Senate.
Congressman Money will probably return
from Cuba VITA his pockets full OF genuine
Havana cigars, ana his head full OF more or
less ditto Information.
Itdoes seemasi il Nelson F. Evans was pun
fshed enough fur technical cffense seeing
that SO many actual offenders get off with u
technical punishment.
From his own accounts Weyler must have
cleared the rebelsout of Pinar del Rio by the
simple, but perhaps not altogether satisfac-
tory, method of driving them over into the
province OF Havana.
Gov. Blacks inaugural address would
be good thing for him to preserve and
read over at the end of his term. The New
York papers will assist him in its consid-
GRAFTON.
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newspaper offices: 1.-The Government is
about to adopt more active measures for
the suppression OF the Rebellion
Whether the naval movement has, or has
not, any connection with the subject OF
our relations with European powers in
connection with the Cuban revolution. there
are indications that leading nations of the
old world do not look with favor upon the
attitude OF the American people, inthe prem
Uses. England would not like to see estab-
lished the precedent of driving a European
Emperor is unfrlendly to the trend OF Amer
lean diplomatic evolution, while the House
OF Hapsburg is in a very ugly mood to-
wards us. The queen regent OF Spain is
an Austrian arch-duchess. Aside from that,
Austria does not forget either our sympathy
with the Hungarian revolution: or the en-
thusiasrn OF our reception of Louis Kos
suth. The Mexican incident. ending In
the execution at Queretaro, of the En-
peFOF DfOlitT. MdAllllllidiis Is d idbcE
and even greater cause OF dislike. If re-
ports of a European coalition against the
United States in this matter be founded in
fact, il is possibly a serious situation,
and one that might Justify the policy OF
postponing consideration of the Cameron
resolution, which was billed to appear on
Tuesday.
If darkIy suggestive intimations have
been conveyed to the administration from
over the sea, il may be well for the Con-
gress to proceed with calmness and caution.
At the sametime foreign governme need
not imagine that limitations, threats or
violence, will prevent the people of this
country from taking a hand in the Cuban
business, whenever national honor or COM
mon humanity may seem to them to demand
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-04
ROME ON HER SEVEN HILLS.

Hon Wallace II. Jones, United States con
sui general at Rome, is at the Raleigh, on
his way to New York, where he sails to-
morrow on the Columbia for Naples, after
having spent a pleasant months vacation at
his old home in LIoyd's, Fla.
Mr.. Jones has fund OF information upon
political, social and current event topics,
but is disinclined to discuss the first, owing
to the fact that his visit to Americas purely
personal matter.
Prior to his consulship n the Eternal
City Mr.. Jones occupied similar post on
the island OF Sicily, so that his ten years
experience has made him quite familiar
with Italians and their institutions.
THE people of italy have much to be
grateful for at the beginning of this New
Year. said Mr.. Jones "In the first place
the trouble between the government at
Rome and Abyssinia has been adjusted and
treaty OF peace negotiated That has al
ready had good effect upon exchange in
Rome, the premium upon gold having gone
down per cent at once.
THE Italians are really more prosper
Gus than they think they are, and while
things are not as booming as we would
all like, to see them in United Italy, vet
the government is strong, and they are all
looking forward to more prosperous
year IN 1897.
zone thing which they should be es-
pecially grateful for in Rome is the fact
that it is the healthiest of all the large
cities of Europe, the death rate being
only thirteen to the thousand. The old
scourge of Roman fever, as much dreaded
there as the Yellow Jack is in the South,
has been practically wiped out.
More credit for this is doubtless due
to DR.. Bocelli than to any other man. Dr.
Bocelli is the minister OF education in the
Italian government, and the leading ply
stefan OF the country. The people call him
the first of the Romans. 1t was ne who
first adopted the plan of a hypodermic in
lection OF quinine for Roman fever, and
under his plan Of treating cases the dis
ease has been almost totally annihlated.
= Another reason for the healthy condition
of that city is the pure water supply.
IN lSSO Jie wells Oh the Guy were Closed,
and the citizens, OF whom only few in
the new sections have water in their houses,
now procure their supply from the public
fountains, OF whioS, there are over 100.
The water comes from the springs in the
mountains, from the same source as where
Rome, the NiObe OF nations, sat On her
seven hills and ruled the world. IL is an
inexhaustible supply, and is brought in by
underground cOnduits, where, as years
ago, when Rome contained 2,000, 900 OF
inhabitants, it ran on the surface. The
surplus water is used To flood the sewers,
which adds to the sanitary condition"
Mr.. Jones was present in Rome at the
time the Catholic University matters were
being discussed, but gave it little attention,
as it was not state matter. He does not
believe that representative OF the vati AN
will he recognized at Washington, and
doubts if the pope will make any attempt
TO secure such recognition.