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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20

dangers but one night he says, Il
found out they were talking about me,
and planning how they could get rid OF
me, so / stood up and shot one or them
with nv revolver After this uncanny
experience he stood on table till morning,
with cocked revolver, fearing that the
dogs might spring on him. IL there is any
thing more gre wsome than that in all the
works OF Poe or Kipling, let it be pro-
duced
The sense of right and wrong is dulled
case in an overmastering passion. The
cocaine fiend becomes absolutely de-
generate; bent on nothing except obtain
ing his drug. What the cure for i may
be has not yet been full determined Tie
most effective treatment consists in
perfect change of surroundings. so that
there may be nothing to remind the pa
tient of his former condition. But the
Melbourne physician adds, with a pitiful
kind friends who will remind him of
things which he has done and of which
he is now ashamed: and sooner or later
lac will take to it again.
The kind friend who exercises kindness
by continually reminding his friends OF
their faults is rather a familiar obleo..
He is somewhat more deadly in this case
than in ordinary life, that is all. The art
of knowing when to say nothing is one
of the most valuable in the world And
it appears that in the case Of the cocaine
patient 1t is emphatically best to Sd moth
ing, even for the purpose of bringing him
to suitable sense of his wrong-doing. :.
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National-Digby Bell.

"A Midnight Bell which is the attrac-
ton a t the National this week, is a Hoyt
farce which is said to have ha some diff
Guilty IN getting staged 1t was tried sew
eral years ago, and then laid aside for a
time For some reason or other IL did not
go. ThomasQ. Seabrooke, however created
the part OF Deacon Tidd on the next APP
pearance of the play. and il proved a sue
GEES The part OF the deacon is now taken
by Digby Bell, who is very well known as
a comic opera star. Like other comic
opera stars who have migrated into COM
edy, he rs riskiDg something by the change,
but he is very satisfactory, because he
is Digby Bell His comicalities of face
and voice are all there, and easily 10 be
recognized; and so is his acting Mr.. Her
man Hirshberg, who plays the part OF one
OF Hoyt's happily named people, the city
lawyer. Napier Keene. is also very good,
and so is the pretty bi { Of womanhood with
whom he falls in love, the ministers SIS
ter, played by Miss Mabel Strickland
Laura Joyce He'll is as enjoyable as ever.
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A Woman,s Love.

A sentinel angel, sitting high in glory.
Heard iris shril wall ring out from Purga-
tory:
Have mercy, mighty angel; hear my storyi
Il loved and blind with passionate love
Love brought me down to death, and death
to He'll;
For God is Just, and death for sin is well.
II do not rage against His high decree,
Nor for myself do ask that grace shall be:
But for my love on earth, who mourns for
me.
'.Great Spirit Let me see my love again,
And comfort him one hour, and wouldfain
To pay thousand years of fire and pain
Then said the plying angel: Nay, repent
That wild vowi Look, the dial fingers bent
Down to the last hour of thy punishment
But still she walled: 'Ipraythee, let me go!
/ cannot rise To peace and leave him so,
Oh, let me soothe him in his bitter Woe
The braZen gates ground sullenly ajar,
And upward, joyous, like a rising star,
She rose and vanished in the ether far.
But soon adown the dying sunset sailing,
And like wounded bird her piDions trail
ing,
She fluttered back, with broken-hearted
wailing
She sobbed: 81 found him by the summer
sea,
Reclined his head upon a maiden's knee
She curled his hair and kissed him. Woe
is mef'
She wept. Now let my punishment begin.
/ have been fond and foolish. Let me in
To expiate my sorrow and my sin.''
The angel answered: Nay, sad soul. go
, higheri
To be deceived in your true hearts desire
Was bitterer than a Thousand years of firei'
JOHN HAY.
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RISING SUED FOR DIVORCE.
The Popular Actors Wife Alleges
Non-SUppOrt.

Will Rising, the actor-singer, has been
sued for divorce. Mrs. Rising is at pres
ent in Yankton, s D, where she has ac-
quired a residence during the past six
months The suit is brought there. Mrs.
Rising asks for the custody of the two
children, Willie, aged seven, and Philip,
aged sixteen. She alleges non-support.
Mrs Rising was Eliza Jordan Conners.
the daughter of william c ConneTs, of this
city, the niece OF Sub-Treasurer Jordan
Her father was county clerk of New York
county, and was sheriff when Boss Tweed
escaped. He refused the nomination for
mayor at the TIME William K. Grace was
elected She was married to Mr.. Rising a.
Geneva Switzerland. in 1878, Atthat time
Rising was an attache Of the American le-
CATION in Paris, and was completing his
musical studies abroad.
The actor comes from an Ohio family.
He spent his boyhood days in Lancaster,
in that State, with the Sherman and Ewing
families. Besides his dramatic and vocal
ability, he bears the reputation of being
one of the hest amateur boxers in the pro-
fessiOn. He is also an expert ball player.
His oldest boy is employed in a boxers
office in Wall street.
Mr. Rising will make no defense He ac-
knowledges that he has not supported his
wife in the way she desired in recent
years, but he asserts it was mOle the fault
CT the pocketbook than the heart. He
has been engaged in a number Of theatrical
enterprises to his financial sorrow and all
his earnings have gone in the past few
years to pay losses incurred when he had
the managerial fever. The couple sep
arated about eighteen months ago, and
the assertion is made by Mr. Rising that
the suit would not have been brought had
not kind friends poisoned the mind of
his wife against him and made a recon-
citation impossible.
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Now, Mr.. President.

With all possible earDes.ness. we ask the
attention of President Mckinley to Tho
bloodcurdling account, published in The
Times this morning, OF the fiendish butch
cry 10y Spanish troops of one hundred
wounded men and their devoted women
nurses, surprised in Cuban military hos
pital. The details, which must be IA
milar to the President, are too sick enin.
for unnecessary editorial reproduction
Without stopping to argue the question
at this time, we urgently ask the Chief
the great mass of his fell9w-citizens boil
ing with righteous rage at such atrocities,
in the name of God, the honor of our flag
and outraged humanity, to put a stop
to these horrors at once. We beg him as he
is man and a Christian, not to be over
come by the specious pleadings Of the
Spanish agents and influences that sur
round him; not to stand upon ceremony or
diplomatic etiquette; but to act as Wash
n
have acted in like circumstances
With all possible respect, we ask him
to do today what he knows the whole
American people wish and expect him 10
do, and that is to notify the Spanish
minister that the United States viii rot
tolerate this state of things in Cuba an
other hour, and that, unless bonds for good
behavior in relation to the treatment of
prisoners, peaceable citizens, women, girls
and children are promptly given by Spain,
this Government will interfere and wipe
out what is left OF the Spanish power on
the island
MIR President The situation is too
awful to Justify delay in waiting for the
results of Judge Days Investigation. The
American people have been very patient.
They were patient under your predecessor,
largely for the reason that they believed
right, justice and mercy would prevail the
day you reached the White House. They
have heen patient under you, believing
that you would not stand upon technical
tiles, tut would redeem the name OF the
country. and demonstrate to the world that
the United States has some higher idea of
its mission. as the great power OF the West
ern hemisphere, than to stand idly by and
witness the most frightful prosecutions,
outrages and hutcheries perpetrated against
helpless prisoners and innocents in all hu-
man history, al our very gates and under
our very eyes.
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be paid salary for attending school
This viii undoubtedly have the effect Of
overcrowding the schools, and some of our
aldermen, authors. secretaries OF clubs aud
other people who did not have advantages
In their youth will find out about grammar
and spelling.
The most remarkable of all these new
departments however, is that represented
by the Secretary OF the Laundry. His bust
ness viii be to establish public laundries in
all parts of the country and see TO it that
the water is changed with every new lot
of clothes 1t looks very much as if the
Secretary of the Laundry would have to be
q Chinaman.
Senator Pettigrew is said to admit y
that he does not expect this bill to be-
come law.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20
Senator Pettigrew's Great Idea.

The freak bill has penetrated with its
Jaundiced aspect even to the halls Of
Congress Bills have in past times been
introduced, which had more or less ap-
pearanoe of freakishneSs, but Senator
Pettigrews hin has all the symptoms, and
may he caHeda genuine and well developed
case. 1t is a bin for the creation OF no
less than forty new executive departments
OF the Government 1t is such a bin as
Bellamy might have conceived after his
wearied hand penned the last pages of
"Looking Backward" if he had eaten a
Welsh rabbit and INDUCED in large roseate
nghtcap and then gone to bed. The bill,
which ne might have imagined in his
dreams, is Senator Pettigrew's
One of these new departments is to be
the Department of Public Communication,
and the duties OF its secretary the exten-
sion aud regulation and cheapening of the
telephone service. This. it is said, would
make the land one vast whispering gallery,
forevery voting precinct would be connected
with every other, and the peDratons, and
eNordiums and other oIatorical flourishes
of the Senate would be indefinitely ex-
tended. This VIII be an unpopular depart
nlent with everybody who does not love TO
Lear politicians talk.
Another department is TO provide all
persons employed by the Government with
dwellings in such way that the various
ages, classes, races and sexes shall be
able TO live togetherin peace and harmony.
The ianitor of this department, for that
t. what he will be, will have heavenly
time listening to the complaints about gas
ami water pipes, seeing that the babies
don't cry and disturb the neighbors, and
trying 10 invent some way to dea den walls
Go the sound of a piano. That is one Job
which even the most ardent offfceseekcr
will hesitate TO accept Not only will the
office have to seek the man. but the prob
abilities re that ii will never find him
The Secretary OF Public Education is TO
zee that no scholar studies more than three
hours a day II necessary, pupils are to
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20
The BiORraph.

The Biograph entered upon it's twenty
first week yesterday at Wizards Hall,
with an audience that filled the house,
causing those who came late to take stand
ing room only. There were added to the
list yesterday about fifteen new views.
which snrpass any that have yet been
placed on exhibition. The horseIcss fire
engine is perhaps the most wonderful view
ever shown All of the fifteen new views
are equal in merit and interest to any that
have ever been placed before the public.
Those deserving OF special mention are the
children's pillow-nght, the new Easter
hat. as seen in the theater; the new Con
CHEESEMAN'S maiden speech in the House
OF Representatives the ocean vessel ieav-
ing New York harboT, the sound steamer
'Afiddletown;' the Keystone Express
two new views OF Joe jefferson ill
scenes from rip Van Winke," and the
wrestling pony.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20
Bijou-J. f. Toole.

j. E. Toole and a company of capable
people came to the Bijou last night, and
crowded house was a pleasing scene after
a week of regretable darkness. xii
larney and the Rhine is tie title of the
play, and it's many familiar scenes and
characters recall the familiar plays of the
lamented Emmett, and in j. E. TCCle that
inimitable tleIineator of the German char
acter has an able prototype.
John E. Lane,as Harvey LIE Moyne, the
scheming william and unrequited lover.
was strong, and Richard Anderson, as
Reginald Carey, the hero, and falsely ac-
cused young Fenian, was manly. Lillian
De Woolf, as Ely O'Neil, was fresh and
winning, and her several songs captured
the house The others were what the fit
ness of things suggested might be ex-
peCted.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20
Academy-Edward Harrigan.

"Old Law ender,'' that touching and
faithful picture of the ups and downs of
New York life, is the attraction at the
Academy, and a crowded house was on
hand last night to greet Edward Harrigan,
its author and star, whose pathetic M
personation of the broken down bank
clerk, and quantity delightful character
study OF the slums he has made jnimitably
his own Despite the fact that many had
seen the play before, each scene and Incl
dent was as fresh and en- jOyable as of old.
AS Old Lavender, the outcast and the
pauper, the gentle and noble personality,
clothed in the rags of the shabby gem
teel,'' Edward Harrigan's work needs no
comment. His power to touch the hearts
and bring twinkle to the eye, is as
strong as of old. The rest Of the company
are clever in their roles.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20
DEALT A MTRDEROUS BLOW.
A Woman Decapitates Her Mother
in-Law With an AK.

Parkersburg, W Va, April 20.-The
widest kind of excitement prevails at
Barboursville, Fayette county, tonight over
a terrible tragedy enacted there yester-
day The daughter-in-law of Mrs Amos
Reynolds went TO the home Of Reynolds
and renewed a quarrel that was supposed
to have long since been buried.
The women finally came to blows Mrs
Reynolds was whipping her daughter-in-
law when the latter broke away. and run
ming Into the yard, grabbed up an ak,
returning TO the house. She struck the
Reynolds woman and Knocked her down,
and leaning over her then almost lifeless
body took good aim and raised the weapon
far above her head, bringing i down with
such force that it completely severed the
head from the body.
The nurderess was Immediately lock ed
up, but as the feeling is intense she will
be removed to another Jail.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20

Up tc this morning the State Depart
ment had not taken the press into its con-
fidence in the matter of Minister Terreil's
urgent dispatches from CoDstantinople 1t
sionaries is imminent; in which case the
usual course would be TO send commits
sioner to Turkey to investigate, and wait
for his report before doing anything about
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20
A SENSATIONAL. Robbery.
Two Women Knocked Down and
Their Jewelry Taken From Them.

Cincinnati, Ohio, April 20.-Mrs. Kra-
lage, better known as the Countess Won
Butcher, who claims to be a direct descend
ant OF the Waterloo hero, and another old
lady, a relative, were assaulted and
robbed in highly sensational manner
at their home in the heart of the city
yesterday afternoon The countess is a
fortune teller, and while she was IN folding
the future to one of three strange men who
came together, one of the visitors struck
her on the head with a revolver, rendering
her unconscious. She was then bound and
gagged. aud robbed of valuable finger rings
earrings and other jewelry- the whole
valued at several Thousand dollars.
The other woman was also struck down
with a revolver. The robbers escaped.
Both women are seriously hurt, and at the
hospital. There is no clue to tie despera-
does
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20
um-Twentieth Century Maids.

After an absence OF several weeks Harry
Morris and his bevy Of Twentieth Century
Maids returned to the Lycenm last night,
and big house greeted them. The Girl
Bachelors Ball. a clever skit on the new
wo1ia l. led Off the olio, in which Lew Ran
dali gave some clever dances and some
biack-face business, Annie Carter and Lou
Use Auber sang budget of late songs, Carl
Anderson rendered a novel cornhin alton of
song AID electricity, and Viola Thorniyke
posed in a series of artistic reproductions
of famous paintings and statuary. an
nouiced iii a pleasing way by dainty Daisy
Randall. Nettie De Coursey made a lit
VITA Woi'o YoI MacryM ;? " nj Tpomp-
son and Collins, a duo of clever wits, crack
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MURDERED FOR HIS MONEY.
Negro Boy Clears the Mystery Sur
rounding "a Drummer's Death.

Rome, Ga, April 2O.-John Hooper, a
farmer, brought mulatto boy TO Rome
yesterday and formed him over to the sheriff
He had given the boy shelter, and while
being fed said he and a white man named
Luke Cavins, living at Chesterfield, Ala q,
went out huntington April and met man
on horseback
AS the rider passed them Cavins asked the
colored boy TO let him have his pistol. and
the negro did so. Cavins then turned
around and commanded the rider to halt.
AS the MIN turned Cavins shot him twice
in the side, killing him almost instantly.
Cavins then robbed the body of a gold
watch and some money Cavins then Of
fered the boy SO TO leave the county and
never say anything about the killing. The
negro accepted the money and left.
The man killed was a drummer from New
York whose friends have been hunting him
a lon time, spending great deal of money
in the search. The body has been found
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20
A HUNDRED-YEAR CLOCK,
The Monster Timepiece Made by
Maryland Genius.

The Monster T1mepiece Made by n
Maryland Genius.
Union Mills. Md, April 20.-Mr Theodore
II Bemiller, a watch aud clock repairer at
Silver Run, has recently completed a mon
ster clock, made entirely by himself, which
is calculated to Jun, and indicate the year
month, day of the week day OF the month";
hour and minutes and phases of the moon
for the next hundred years. Every two min.
utes is noted by the ringing OF a light-toned
bell, and the half hours are sounded on a
gong of a different tone from that which
sounds the hours.
Through window in the lower part of
the case are seen couple Of children. who
have started on game of see-saw that is
destined to be continued day and night
without interruption for the next hundred
years.
The clock is between six and seven feet
high, and the frame containing the various
dial plates i s about three feet square
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20

Senatorial matters rapidly are tending
toward a condition of friction The Repub-
1cans, being in a minority, are naturally
anxious &c act as il they were in q ma
jority. The opposition is only harmonious
in not knowing exactly what to do about
it, Still thelatter has the nurnericalpower,
if united, TO kill the Dingley bill and serve
the country gloriously
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20
GIGANTIC SNOW SLIDE.
1t Results in the Death of Two Gea
Others Were Rescued.


Ogden, Utah, April 20.-A gigantic snow
Slide occurred at Garfield Nine, about four
miles north OF Brigham City, this morning,
which resulted in the death of Fred j.
wolhaupter, of this city, and Edwin Nav.
of Play City. John Dalton, of Willard,
and David Russell and William j. Turner.
both OF Ogden, were also caught in the
slide, but were rescued uniDjured
Turner was in the engine room, which
was buried in snow, and eight hours
elapsed before he was rescued. Dalton
and Russell were in the tunnel, the mouth
OF which was Blocked with debris, but
aid soon reached them.
The two men killed were working in the
blacksmith shop, which was directly in the
course of the slide. Without the slightest
warning the avalanche descended, carry
ing everything before it.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20

To avoid confusion ON the subject, we
desireto explain that the bars behind which
tempt will haveto serve for thirty days, are
not the bars connected with the Senate and
House restaurants, but are of the dungeon
keep" order of barchitecture.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20

ColOred Republicans will take courage
and expect recognition, now that the
President has enjoyed a private banjo
concert in the Blue Room. Col. Carson and
the boys should take their national in
strument along when they go to ask for
office. The polarity between the musical
PUNK of the banjo and the savage breast
OF patronage is notorious
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20
Grand Kodak Comic Opera Co.

The veteran comic opera manager, James
Barton Key. and Mr.. Watty Hyde, 8 dis
tingUished musical director, have brought
TO the Grand Opera House An organization
called The Barton-Key Kodak Comic
Opera and Vaudeville Company" 1t gives
snapshots atopera, comedy and burlesque,
and is, to that extent ut least. something
new in the world of amusement
The company embraces Miss Edith Howe,
Miss Ethel Du Freas and Miss Louise Ham
ilton and Messrs. Charles j Campbell,
Fred FTear, Bert Clark, George Z. Fortes-
cue. Walter Howe and Seth Crane Those
who have heard the comic operas of the
last decade will in these names recognize
people who at one time or another have
stood high in popular favor. All of them
are cleve but it is to be regretted that
they have not better opportunity to dis
play their abilities than is afforded by
several Of the cperettas making up the
program.
Miss Hamilton and Mr. Clark are origi
nal and ingenious in musical IT a-ra-ra.
Miss Howe, Mr.. Campbell and Mr.. Frear
cieverly perform The Rose of Auvergne"
There was a good-szed audience and it
enjoyed the comicalities of the actors, and
would have been immensely pleased had
there been larger opportunity to show
their appreciation and friendliness
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20

A crevaSse in the Glasscock levee, in
front of Concordia parish, La. is regarded
as a serious matter At Baton Rouge
the river was still rising, and from that
point southwark the situation last night
was considered additionally grave, if not
entirely discouraging.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20

The Supreme Court has decided that Mr..
w. II. Moses, who was one of Capt. How
of the bond, amounting 70 $4,000. This
is rather hard on the unfortunate citizen,
and indicates that the cratic captain had
both Moses and the profits.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20

When we contemplate the list of pa
triots who stand before Secretary Gage
waiting to be rewarded, and profanely de-
claring that they will be Organized il
they leave before getting slice of some
thing, we arc almost moved TO forgive him
for his single tax opinions and a little bit
OF bis gold standard vagaries
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20

brethren, who are praying for the Presi-
dent, TO say few prisons for the new
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who began
his official connection with the depart
ment by swearing.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20

While there are so many political found
lings in our midst, the Government should
think twice before abolishing that kind Of
asyiums. What would become of David
Bennett Hill and John NJ. Palmer, not to
mention others too numerous?
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-20
Hon. Champ Clark, Prophet

tFrom the Omaha World-HeraId)
Champ Clark said that the Dingley bill
would force every merchant in the country
to make Democratic speeches across the
counters, and the advertisements in the
daily papers prove that Champ knew
what he was talking about