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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-21
Will Be Bartolome Maso, Father of
the Revolution.
WASTHE FIRST MAN TO TAKE up ARMS
He is a Man of Uncompromising
Spirit, Decision and Tact.
HEROIC SELF-SACRIFICE

Recent dispatches brought from the island
by Special Messenger Mazora render 1t
almost certain that Gen. Bartolome Maso
will be the next president of the provisional
government of Cuba.
There is probably no man living who is
better fitted or more entitled to occupy the
presidential chair than this intrepid and
incorporating defender of Cuban indie
pendence.
In no other way can Cuba show her graf
itnde and appreciation Of those sterling
Qualities which have caused Maso to be
loved and admired by the million and
more of patriots who are praying and fight
ing against overwhelming odds for liberty.
But it is not gratitude alone which prompts
the selection of Maso to fill the position of
chief executor.
He is in every way eminently fitted to
successfully handle the reins of govern
ment during these trying times of war,
which require happy combination of firm
ness. tempered with tact; Of decision, min
gled with diplomacy.
MaSo is not an obtrusiye man. but his
presence In quiet council or heated debate
is always felt He is effective orator.
legislator or fighter. He is the Richelieu
OF the Cuban republic. Small of stature
ard slight In build, he is still a most mag
netic man, and one can almost feel the
thoughts that emanate from the mind be-
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Faithfully Guarded His Master.

From the Hartford Ilmes
Ludwig Lem of Bridgeport is subject to
fits which are liable to come upon him at
any time. On a recent evening he was I'M
fortunate enough to suffer from one while
enjoying quiet walk. He was accompa-
MED by big Newfoundland dog. a hand
some animal, and one which has been a
favorite of the Lem family for years. When
his master fell to the ground the dog went
to him and began to lick his face in vain
endeavor to restore some evidence of ami
nation. The pitiful attempts of the dog
aroused the sympathy of the bystanders
WHO had noticed him fall and they at
tempted to assist the sufferer.
Here an obstacle was met in the shape of
the dog. He was faithful to the trust re-
posed in him by the members of Mr.. Lein's
family and would not allow any one to
come near his master. Several tried and
succeeded in getting within a short distance
of the man, but here the dog interposed.
He growled, crouched, and showed every
inclination to interfere with the first one
who dared to lay hand on Mr. Lein. The
Newfoundland dog kept up a constant
barking and several times made dash for
the crowd when it came too near. He would
not leave the spot, neither would he per-
init his master to be helped
After little while the attempt was given
up and a call sent in for the ambulance.
Before 1t could respond Mr.. Lein had so far
recovered that he was able to make his way
home.
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Now, ever since the cloth began to assume
form, this idea had taken shape in my
mind, and l SO told Singer. We drew lots
to see which should try 1t, and my COM
panion won. In my anxiety to see how
singer made out / kept awake all night.
On larceny intent. he left my side about
an hour before daylight. watched him
moving to where Cooper lay, about fifty
feet away. Then followed long silence. A
half hour passed. and l was wondering at
singers slowIeSs, when Cooper's angry
voice broke the stiffness:
man who'll try to steal from fellow
soldier In prison is no man at all!' he said;
but he did rot raise his voice so as to be
heard by the guards outside.
But the stun isn't yours; it belongs to
the enemy" Singer protested, hotly.
Belongs to the enemy, Ell? Not by a
long sight 1t doesn't. That uniforms mine
why, confound you, ever since La Touche
!eft this afternoon I've been at work re-
oucirg the girth SO that it'll fit myself"
You are going to try it yourself?'
am, Captain, chuckled Cooper. Now,
old fellow. go back to your blanket; and IL
you keep your mouth closed and your eyes
open, you'll soon see one of the best-dress-
ed confederate officers in Richmond waltz
Ing out of this prison, with hundred dol
iars IN graybacks in his pocket" Singer
came back. but there was no need to re-
port, as l had overheard all.
superb Goodness.
Cooper's purpose was soon known to all
Al
that the doctors came in at 8 In the morn
ing, and that La Touche would be on hand
for his uniform at IL. and between these
hours Cooper must make his attempt. The
doctors left at $3.50, and the guards about
the prison were changed at 10. AS sool as
the doctors went out, Cooper, who kept on
his old clothes. for he was a thin man-we
were all thin theE-slipped on the uniform,
which included gray cap, with a perfect
maze OF gold lace on the crown. We had
never seen such a Transformation. The
new guard had been on about five minutes
when Cooper laid his hand on the door.
He took no leave and made no fuss. He
reasoned very properly that the new guard
seeing he was an officer, would suppose he
had entered the hospital while the other
guard was on, and had just completed his
mis- sion.
At this instant Coopers GOODNESS was su-
peru. His eyes were clear and steady, and
tray the nervousness he must have felt.
At length. to the great relief OF all, he
swung open the door and stepped out
through the brief opening we saw the
guard saluting and the officer returning
It. Then the door closed with a bang. ana
Cooper was free. The next we heard of
MIN he was safe in Washington
have seen some apoplectic anger and
nave heard much fierce swearing In nv
time, but 1 never saw so angry man as
Ad1utant La Touche when he came in for
MS clothes at noon and found the tailor
mad carried them off on his back The last
tnlng La Touche said, as he bounced ont
of the hospital. was:
catch that fellow Cooper I'll shoot
MN! never heard of such a doegone Van
nee LICK. ALFRED r. CALHOUN
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what step would he for the best. Maso
alone stood out for independence absolute
mere Is no other way out of the diffi-
Sui.y' ne said; we must either he free
men or De slaves. Spain will permit no
cuban to be anything but a tax-naytnp
seri. III We would have self-respect we
must nave independence. This Spein will
never give until compelled to-
II we cannot enjoy freedom ourselves lat
us light and win IL for our children. To
me, the very thought OF autonomy under
the Spanish flag is degradation and dis
grace. Rather than submit to il L would
go TO the mountains and live the life of a
hermit There L might at least be free to
think without paying tribute TO Spain"
Maso: like all Cubans. is a great admirer
on me United States. Il have studied your
republic carefully" he once said to me- Il
have great confidence In your people and
IN your institutions. but still do not I'M
oerstand them. Your government Is sup
posed 10 represent the people. II Is select
ed and placed in power to carry out their
VIII, and yet this II SO often seems to fail
to do. Your rulers, when I'm office do not
seem to be studying the desires or the well
rare OF the nation. To me they seem rather
to be trying to see how few promises they
may fulfill and still remain in Office.
Hir Opinion Of the United states.
Il trust the United States tthe people).
and do not trust her. That is 1 put hut
little faith in the party pledges and admin
istrative promises which are so often held
out to Cuba. Your congressional resolu-
lions and legislative expressions of SYM
pathy have many times raised great Lopes
in our breasts. but the irresponsible and to
us cruel Indifference of your administration
has put an end to such thought long ago.
We feel that from the United States. at
least, We are entitled to the recognition of
belligerency. We will be grateful IL il ever
comes. but we have ceased to expect IL.
The single star of our flag is emblem
atical of our fate. We have got to fight
our battle for freedom alone. This century
seems too busy to furnish with a Lafay-
cite. But, what is il you say in English?
We will get there, just the same"
GEO. RENO.
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knows what this reason happens to be
True, they are made TO serve occasionally
as receptacles for flowers. and. it has been
Observed, the flowers always match the
ribbons, for the marketing-fad young wo-
ren know their color schemes as they know
their Omar Khayyam.
The other morning a Star man was
watching a bowed old lady with a Paisley
shawl a poppy-laden poke bonnet. and a
gigantic basket devised for business and
tammed to the brim with cabbages and
carrots and things. when the old lady's
shrewd eye caught sight of one of these
Marie-Antoinette-at-V toy baskets
hanging daintily to the arm of a tailor
made young woman whose waist was en-
elasped by an oxidiZed gold girdIe with a
few dozen mysterious. jangling chatelaine
things suspended from it-.'like junk" as q
brutal man hath said. 1t was delightful to
see the gaze of ineffable wonder and pity
with which the heavily burdened old lady
regarded the young woman and her basket
Still more delightful was the flash of wrath
In the eyes of the same young woman when
lowering black urchin. with fine sense
OF the ridiculous and a soupcon of sarcasm
approached her. grinning. and pointing to
the empty doll basket, inquired:
Garry yo' basket, lady?'
Where She Shows Her Judgment.
The marketing-fad young women look
dreadfully wise and experienced when they
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Meats they poke with their fingers-poke
EN- hard and often (this being an infallible
way to pick out meats)-to the intense
but suppressed inward joy of the STALL
men. Judging from the way they go about
it, they can't be gold-bricked on the meat
question at all. One would carry away
this idea if he were not Informed by a
calloused. case-hardened butcher that the
wise young women with the poster baskets
Invariably wind up by selecting the tough
est, most decrepit and most outclassed
meats OF. on the counter-meats counted
among the "alSo rams" as the butcher,
who is sport" put it. Moreover. the
butcher says that they can't be dissuaded
from doing this, and that it is the part of
wisdom not to attempt to dissuade them
else they'll Immediately conclude that the
crafty butcher man is saving that especial
bit of meat for some other customer, and
grow aggrieved over it.
When the marketing-fad girls want to
buy butter they infallibly taste any num-
Der of different samples of 1t all over the
building. They seem to do this as a sort
of penance, for they certainly make dis
tressingly wry faces over it. They bride
up at suggestions from the boothmen as
to buying and look as if they desire it to
be distinctly understood that they've been
engaged in the table-supplying business
for any number of years. all by themselves.
They are extremely we'll versed on prices
after tour of the building. Incident:
"Canteloupes just like this. same size
and everything, are five cents apiece cheap
eT riSnt at the next StdI, SAID young
woman to a wax-mustached boothman the
other morning.
Madam said the wax-mustached booth
man. urbanely, 1.-The proprietor of the next
stall is a close business associate and in
innate personal friend of mine. He chris
tened all of my children But he is poor
and struggling and has to undersell me to
get along Buy of him, 1 pray YOU
And the young woman actually got mad
and sailed away in a pet.
The Bicycle Girl Means Business.
The bike girl in the bike costume swarms
through the Center market corridors in
large numbers. She carries no basket
whatever, and has everything she buys
''sent up" She looks neither wise nor pro-
found-apparently doesn't want to look
that way-but she knows precisely what
she wants, and gets the best of it all the
way through, for she has a nod and smile
and a euip for this and that boothman
known to her. and the boothmen fall over
each other in giving her the best they've
got in the shop. The bike girl carries no
tiny celluloid tablet scrubbed over with q
list of things she has set out to get. She
carries the whole thing under her Tam
OShanter. and never comes back with
"Oh, I forgot etc.
is enc of the first arrivals of the morning
any number of him. He has plenty of time,
and he employs it all. He doesn't use his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-21
GIN VINO vERITAs."
Physician DenOunces the Ancient
Axiom u Fraud und a Fallacy.
From the New York Mail and ExnreSS.

Physician DenOunces the Ancient
Axiom as u Fraud nnd a Fallacy.
From the New York Mail and Express.
mo greater fallacy has ever been ut
tered than in vino veritas,'" said we'll
known physician, land none that has mas
queraded so long as an axiom. 1t became
a saying long before there was accurate
scientific knowledge of the effect of alco-
hol on the human organism. There Is no
truth in wine A man under the influence
of liquor does not, as many people believe,
speak his innermost thoughts and show
his true nature. The dilation of the blood
vessels dilates his mental processes, and
he becomes, not his real SELF with his
heart upon his sleeve, but an exaggerated,
distorted libel of himself.
II have half dozen patients now I'M
dergong treatment for alcoholism. One
of them is physician Of refined tastes
and cultivation. Under the stimulus of
alcohol he will seek for companions the
longshoremen and dock laborers of West
street and discuss the most commonplace
subjects with them, forgetting for the
time all his knowledge OF the law or his
rich store of literary treasures. 1 doubt If
during these periods he could tell whether
Vanity Fair was written by Cervantes or
Thackeray.
Another case is that of merchant who
goes astray once in two years. He be-
comes maniac for the time being, pos
sessed of homicidal and suicidal mania.
He becomes completely transformed, and
seeks to injure those for whom he has the
greatest love and affection, following with
the most violent attempts to do himself an
injury.
Still another is man who is a fluent
French and Spanish scholar, and who, I'M
der the influence of liquor, is unable to
ticulate word In either of these Ian
guages. His vocabulary in English is re-
duced to eighty or ninety words. and he
spends his time in low bar rooms, treating
everybody until his money is gone. 1t is
impossible to arouse him into sense of
his degradation until the alcohol is all out
of him.
mo, sir, in vino veritas' should be
based on ignorance and has lived so long
that its great age gives it an air of veri-
Similitude'
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brcwbeat the cart boy" for a good five
minutes bt fore the buffers wrath was APP

brcwbeat the cart boy" for a good five
minutes b fore the buffers wrath was APP
pc ased.
The stallkeepers also welcome the board
Ing house mistress. They know that they
are to be token by assault when she ar
rives, but they are used to this, and don't
mind it. From the instant the boarding
hcuse mistress makes her appearance at
the far end Of the building the stallkeep-
ers assure their Apologize mask They
know that everything they sent up to the
% arding house mistress yesterday albeit
she picked it all out very carefully HERSELF
" as no good. not fit to be eaten by civil
lied human beings, had to be thrown out,
etc. ETC., etc. So when they perceive her
In the ofhng they stand by to comfort her
as best they may. They admit they are
thieves. They own UP to being daylight
robbers. They ask the boarding house
mistress prayers for their sins-and sell
her another big basketful. For the board
ing house mistress (after she has delivered
herself of the scathing criticism on yes
terday's batch of STUN is. as a rule, amen
able to reason; and If she is on the hither
side of fifty Gas good many Washington
boarding house mistresses are), and there
fore, susceptible to flattery, as often as not
she departs from the market beaming-for
among the qualifications of the men with
the long white aprons diplomacy is not the
least.
Others Seen Occasionally.
The suppressed man Is occasionally seen
with his wife on q nid-morning market
tour. His appearance at such an hour is
apt to suggest reflections as to what he
does for living. He is pretty quiet, the
suppressed man with his wife, and he al
ways has recedirg chin-which probably
accounts for his suppressed condition of
servitude. He carries the basket, and, If
he is wise in his generation, saws wood. A
few of him were observed to make mild
suggestions to their wives the other morn
ing as to certain purchases. The penetrat-
ing stares with which their wives regarded
them were i'll augurs for after seances on
the way home, and the. suppressed hus-
bands looked as If they felt the fact
deeply.
The d. eamy-eyed, very-much-bored-look-
ing young woman being instructed in the
prosaic, carnal science of marketing by
her fat, forid-faced mother, Is often seen
floating through the aisles, as much inter-
ested in the busiress in hand apparently
as the Lady Of Skallott or Sappho might
have been in turnips. She gravitates nat
Crally in the direction of the flower stalls.
and can only be led away from them by
the exercise of main force on the part of
her mother. Sometimes the mother grows
impatient with her daughters impassive
ness on the question of spinach, roast pork
and such.
"Etheldreda," she says, in an expostula-
tory tone, ARE you never going to take an
interest in things you ought to know"
mo, mamma never" Etheldreda replies,
and continues humming the first three bars
of noctuIne
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The Passing of Paradise Alley.


From the New York Journal.
Every Sunday, down to her home we go;
All the boys and all the girls they love her SO.
Always jolly, heart that Is true, I know;
For she's the sunshine Of Paradise Alley.
Paradise alley-famous in Song, notorious
in crime-will pass into history within a
issued the fiat that the old building in the
alley, which has sheltered over 1000 hui
man beings at one time, must go, and the
other day the last tenant moved out. Yes
terday the work of demolition was begun,
and the policemen on the beat viewed the
proceedings with feelings Of gratitude Par
adise alley ran back from No. SO Cherry
vous of members of the Cherry Hill, Whyo
and other gangs of desperadoes. Many q
policeman has left its shadows manned and
bruised, and many a dark crime has been
perpetrated there. Yet the old place is
dear to certain people. Some of those who
lived In Paradise alley have been law-abid-
ing, honest, Woodworking people, with
their moments of light heartedness The
plunkety- PUNK Of the BANJO the drone of
the concertina and shrill II not always me-
lodious voices in song have often sounded
thence in token of easy conscience. This
brighter side of the alley has found express
does not know the daughter of Widow
Mentally, the Sunshine Of Paradise Alley?'
Her fame has spread wherever the English
language is sung or spoken, and even the
cafe chantants of Paris are now stirred
nightly by the ditty. done into French But
the doom of Paradise alley has been pro-
nounced. and soon 1t will be only memory.
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MORNING OR EVENING PAPERS.
Which is the Best Advertising Me.
dium3
From the Rochester Times


dium1
From the Rochester Times.
The morning paper is bought on the street
or delivered In the driving, hurly-burly
hours of business, and it becomes relative
ly stale and is crowded out by the pushing
evening journal later in the day. The bust
ness man, If he rises early, may look over
his morning paper before breakfast, or on
a street car perhaps. If he does not ride a
wheel, but the telegraph and local news,
with display headlines, first attracts his
attention, and more than likely before he is
done with that he is in the midst of his
work or business whatever that may be,
ard the next daily that comes into his
hands is the wide-awake and cheap after
noon paper.
This contains the latest kilograms, local
transpirings of the day and editorial COM
ments, and will be taken home and read
and discussed by the family in the leisure
hours of the evening. This gives opportu-
nifty to see what business as we'll as news,
the paper contains, and prospective pur-
cfasers in any particular line will make up
their minds just where they will look for
bargains. perhaps the following day.
The evening paper may or may not have
a larger circulation than its morning con-
temporary. If it should, in any given in
stance, have less. still, 1t is the testimony of
experienced merchants that its columns
usually pay them best.
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IN THE GuMBo OF MONTANA.

"A SOIL Which Has the Staying ouaIf
Tics Oh Glue, as Travellers Found Ont
from the Helena Independent
II. M. Parchen and Henry Klein have
returned from trip to Cascade county.
Everything went well on the trip out. but
returning they encountered a heavy thun-
oer storm with fall of rain, and in a few
minutes the road was made almost i'm
passaple. The soil is thick clay, of the Or
oer known in some localities as gumbo.
ana when little water comes in contact
with 1t a substance not unlike Glue is
the result The wheels soon became so
weighted with the stuff that travel in the
wagon was impossible, and it was resolved
10 take chances afoot. There is a pecu-
Adrity ABOUT gumbo that it sticks like fly
paper TO everything that one doesn't want
1t to remain attached to, and 1t somehow
went stick to the ground long enough to
step out of it. The members of the party
nfst tried tiptoefng along. Gradually the
sucky substance accumulated under the
calls of their feet until they were lifted far
from the surface of the ground and still it
accumulated more and more. Gumbo is not
as light as some other substances either
facn loot that pedestrian raises from the
ground adds several pounds to his burden
of woe. There is limit to a mans carry
Ing capacity: When he has acquired stilt
on each foot that weighs 125 pounds or so
ne reels like stopping to rest or rid himself
OF the burden, or both
MI. Parchen was the first it is said, to
try to Kick himself loose from his appen-
dage of mud. Poising himself on one heay-
lily laden foot, he kicked out with the other
with all his might. But one can't kick
gumbo from his shoes. The stuff has been
known to resist the efforts of the pick
Mr.. Parchen had not calculated on that
When he kicked the momentum of the
heavy weight carried him forward on that
foot, and to save himself and recover his
balance he was forced to thrust his other
foot forward with considerable vehemence
That foot too, was heavily laden with the
same sort of mud and the momentum of
It had a similar effect. AS each foot be-
came heavier by the accumulated weight
of gumbo each other foot became heavier
too, SO that the increasing brake upon the
pedestrians speed was compensated for by
accumulation had grown to alarming fig
ures, If expressed in pounds, when Mr.
Parchen encountered an up grade and was
saved. He secured implements fitted for
the purpose and managed to scrape off the
bottom of his shoes. making a nice new
surface for more mud to cling to.
The experiences of the other members
ded along the line of the Great Falls and
Canada railway into the city, which they
reached at midnight. They were in a bad
plight Their horses had been turned
loose, and they reached home later with
balls of mud clinging to their tails as big
as foot balls and smaller spheres of mud
hanging pendent from their names. Mr..
the animal lay down in the mud to roll.
So much of it chung to her that it was
with difficulty that she dragged herself
into the CITY,