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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-02
Launch of Two Battle ships.

The battle ships Kentucky and Kear-
sarge, being built by the Newport News
company, will be launched early in Janu-
ary. and the builders are in correspondents
with the Secretary of the Navy on the
subject The president Of the company be-
lieyes that the event calls for unusual cere-
mony, considering that two of the finest
ships of the navy are to be launched in a
southern port at the same time. Secretary
Long has expressed himself as opposed to
any special preparations, but the builders
take a different view, and will probably, on
their own responsibility, make the day one
long to be remembered at Newport News.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-02
RURAL FREE DELIVERY
Suggestions Which VIII Contribu,.
to Its Success


MT. Heath. acting postmaster general.
has issued the following circular regarding
the rural postal free delivery:
Ihe ultimate success of the experiment
OF free delivery of mail, which is now being
tried by direction of Congress in fifty rural
districts of the United States, will depend
largely upon the promptness with which
the carriers can make their deliveries to
the patrons on their routes. This will be
greatly facilitated if those desiring to take
advantage OF rural free delivery will erect
suitable boxes by the roadside, in which
carriers may deposit malls as they mass
and from which they may collect the mails
intended for transmission. The time which
would otherwise be consumed by carriers
IN reaching residences some distance hack
from the road will thus be saved, the SER
vice will be rendered more efficient, its cost
will be reduced, ard the probability of its
becoming a permanent feature Of postal
administration will be increased
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-02
A ST AGE BEAUTY.
REDUCED IN FLESH AND MADE WELL AND
MORE CoMELY BY DR. EDIsoN's OBESITY
PILLS AND sALT-REAp WHAT MISS SADIE
STEPHENS SAYS OF THIS TREATMENT


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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-02
Jacketing a Thirteen-Inch Gun.

The Washington navy yard was the
scene yesterday afternoon of the jacketing
Of one of the big 13-inch guns for the bat
tie ship Alabama, building at the Cramps
ship yard. The operation was successful
in every respect. Eight Of the same type
of guns have just been completed and are
soon to be ready for testing. These go on
the fore and aft turrets Of the Kearsarge
and Kentucky. Twelve more will be ready
within q few months for the Alabama,
Illinois and Wisconsin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-02
COUNTERvAILING DUTIES.
A Decision Regarding Dutch Sugars
Expected This Week.

Expected This Week.
Assistant Secretary Howell is at work on
the decision he will render as to the ques-
ton of imposing a countervailing duty on
Dutch sugars. This question has been I'M
der consideration for several months and
there have been a number of hearings. The
Netherlands minister asserts that no ex-
port bounty is paid by his country, and
that the imposition Of countervailing
duty will shut out the Dutch sugars from
this country.
In reply 70 Inquiries. the Treasury De-
pa.t.niSnt has notified those interested that
a decision will be rendered some time this
week The decision may be held until Sat
urday afternoon, that stocks may be in no
wise affected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-02
Advertising is not an expense

Advertising is not an expense.
1t is business investment. IL
you want to invest YOUR money
prohtably you will therefore put
your advertisements in such a
paper as The Evening Star, that
is read regularly and thoroughly
by everybody worth reaching.
The Star is the recognized
household and family journal of
the National Capital. and has
no rival as an advertising med
ium.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-02
Chicago Lake Front Case.

The Chicago lake front case was taken
up in the office Of. the Secretary of the
Interior yesterday on appeal from the de.
cision of the commissioner Of the general
land office, adverse to the Mckee scriI
locaters. Matthias Benner and H. M. La
Toilette. The request for oral argument
was withdrawn by the scrip locaters and
counsel were given until the middle OF
January for the filing Of briefs, on which
the decision will be made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-02
Water Rent

The District Commissioners haYe ordered
that when tenants move from ons house to
another SO much of the water rent paid by
the said tenant on the premises vacated
as has covered the unexpiSed portion Of
the fiscal year may. upon application to
the water ofhoe. be credited ON the water
rent due on the ner 4remifes: pro-
same tenapt will te aI,owsAs in any one
fiscal year. and that application FOR trans
fers Of water rent must be 9ccona painted by
the receipted bill for the psepiss1 vacated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-02
KANSAS PROSPERITY EXHIBIT.
Carload of Cancelled Mortgages to CT
TO Omaha ExpOsitiOn.

10 Om;hA EXpOkltION.
A special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun
from Topeka, Kan, says: plan to send
a carload of Cancelled Kansas mortgages to
the Trans Mississippi exposition in Omaha
next year as an evidence of prosperity IN
this state was perfected here today.
An address will be issued to the people
of Kansas urging them so to arrange their
affairs as to pay off their mortgages be-
fore January /. thus enabling the promo
ters of the project to show to the world
that Kansas is almost free from debt and
that it is all the work Of one year of pros
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-02
An Aged Visitor.

Alexander Montgomery, a colored man,
claiming to be 101 years old and canvass
ing for fun6s for home for aged negro
ter General Gary's visitors yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-02
Fat Folks, Attention.

A complete line of Loring's Obes-
ity Preparations and Flesh-produc-
ing Medicines at Merits Pharmacy,
18th and +.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-02

It matters little what 1t Is that you want
whether situation or a servants
want" ad. In The Star will reach the
person who can I'LL your need.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-02
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-02

to bring them to Self-Support, and to in
duce them to become as soon as possible
helpers to others; in a word, to increase
the volunteer spiritual agencies of, the
countries touched by our correspondence
To accomplish this aim, however. requires
III many instances at present conSidera bile
years.
Reading Material.
"Allusion has been made to a dearth of
reading material suitable for children. In
order to remove this obstacle to our work
which has confronted us from the outset,
though in no sense a publishing society,
we have inaugurated or subsidized or aided
by gratuitous subscriptions in the circula-
ton OF illustrated Sunday school papers
for children in German, Italian, Spanish,
Portuguese. Japanese, French, and Incl
dentally other languages. In some cases
the papers have nearly or quite reached a
stage of self-suppOrt. In most cases, how
ever, they still require substantial assist
ance. Our correspondence bears abundant
witness to their exceeding usefulness.
They serve as an attraction to the children
to attend the school, and when carried to
their homes are welcomed and read by par
ents and friends. who are often almost
inaccessible by other means of evangelical
ton. They have proved themselves so help
full that a large part of the assistance
which we have been supplying our CORE
spOndents has of late taken this form.
Some of our correspondents say that with
out the paper 1t would be almost impossible
to carry on the school. 1t is with Geep re.
greet that We are obliged to report that
owinR to 2 reductic.. IN our receipts we
have felt obliged to reduce the number OF
papers furnished to q degree that has been
workers who receive them. Besides these
papers. by the kindness of Mrs. Walter T.
| Hatch of Brooklyn, we have been enabled
] during the past years to publish transla.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-13
PERSON AL.

L Hirata of Toxic, Japan, is in town.
N. 81. Lattimer of Seattle is at the Palace.
DR.. Louis Michael of Ferndale is in the City.
DR.. E. S. O'Brien of Mereed is on visit here
Colonel s. c. Madden of Honolulu is a visitor
here.
James O'Neil of Seattle is at the Cosmo
politap.
Francis A. Fee, business man OF MADEIRA, is
in the City.
Mrs. D. Callahan of Seattle, Wash, is at the
Cosmopolitan.
E. NJ. Cheadle of San Luis obispo is at the
Cosmopolitan.
Henry Doble OF Fresno was among yester.
days arrivals.
H. G. Hart, merchant OF the West Indies, is
at the Cosmopolitan.
State Senator Chadbourne Of Ell Dorado
County is at the Grand
S. I. ST. George Cary of London, who is fire.
quently here. is at the Palace.
F. II. Mulford, a business man of Everett,
Wash, arrived here yesterday.
W. D. Tobey, the lum ber- dealer and capi-
talist, OF Carson. is a late arrival in the City.
Professor ]. M. Schaberle of the Lick OBJ
servatory arrived here yesterday and is at the
Lick.
L. W. Eldridge, business man OF Fairburg,
Nebr., is at the Russ. accompanied by his vile
and daughter.
DR.. NJ. E. Grossman, a dentist of Honolulu,
who formerly resided in San Fraucisco, is at
the Occidental.
General w. R. Shafter has returned from the
East and is preparing to leave for his new
post at Fort Vancouver on the Columbia.
Thomas E. Hughes, proprietor of the Hughes
unfa alof ErAo 81 ia -
there, Is at the Grand. He is accompanied by
Mrs. Hughes.
A. vissavon, Consul and special Commits
sioner of France at Honolulu, arrived here
yesterday, en- route to Paris. He is on a four
months leave of absence
F. D. Fraser, mining superintendent Of
Siskiyou County, who has recently returned
here from New York. left yesterday for Auburn
on mining business, to be gone several days
General Thomas J. Clunie returned yester-
day from prolonged trip to Eastern cities.
While in Washington he paid his respects to
President Mckinley, with whom he served in
Congress.
S. NJ. Damon. Minister of Finance for
Hawaii and special commissioner appointed
by President Dole to attend the Queens jubi-
lee, arrived here yeste rdey on the Australia,
accompanied by e. N. Iaukea, an attache of
the commission who is also one OF the Land
Commissioners. They left for the East and
London last night. Minister Damon said he
would not visit Washington and asked to be
excused from talking on annexation, the pro-
posed abrogation of the sugar treaty or Jap
anese labor, as he said he believed there was
nothing 10 say that had not already been told.
J. B. Castle, Collector General for Hawaii, also
arrived on the Australia and left for Washing
ton, d. C. His visit is conceded to be in refer
snce to annexation and other matters of in
crest to the island repu ublic
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misconduct or ineficiency could be

mlSconuuct or lneIuclency cOulu DC
brought.
Had these removals been made frankly,
under the spoils system of turning out
Republicans to make way for Democrats,
the people would have regarded it with
less hostility. Cleveland, however, made
such loud claims as o civil-service re :
former, and so ostentatiously posed as an
opponent of the spolls system, that no
conclusion was possible except that these
removals were made simply because the
men were grand army veterans and had
taken patriots part in the war to which
Cleveland had sent substitute.
The people of the United States recog-
nize the full value of the debt which they
owe to the grand army of the Republic.
They take pride in showing their graft
tude and loyalty to the brave men who
defended the Union in its hour of danger
and preserved j: from those who sough. !.
to destroy it. They gladly avail the M
selves Of every opportunity to do honor
to the veterans. They favor liberal PEN
sians to all who need them, and are glad
when the Government can give employ
ment in its service during times of peace
to those who did not shrink from that SER
vice in times of war.
The Mckinley administration is
strengthening itself with the country
when it restores to Office the veterans
whom Cleveland turned out. The people
can appreciate the poetic significance of
the action of Secretary Gage in reinstat-
ing on the coming Decoration day the
soldiers whom Cleveland dismissed from
ofics on Decoration day four years ago,
and will applaud it with genuine enthu.
siasm.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-13
AROUND The CORRIDORS.

'I was in the famine districts of India re-
peatediy," said DR.. ]. II. Barrows, president of
the Parliament of Religions at the Chicago
Exposition, at the Palace yesterday, who has
just returned from India. "What l saw filled
me with sadness, the scenes were so harrow
ing.
European residents have their homes out
side most Indian cities, and in almost all our
explorations of the native bazaars we drive q
considerable distance through English can
tonments, by the side of tho bung allows in
habited by missionaries and civil and military
officers, befo.e we reach the town. Delhi, al
though it has population OF nearly 100000.
and, although its bazaars are rich with
enameled jewelry, exquisite, miniatures en-
graved gems, cashmere shswls, embroideries,
potteries and carved ivory. has the usual
squalid look Of Indian cities.
'sAs sat on the mar BILE dais where all this
splendor once cleaned, and summoned before
my Imagination the gorgeous scenes on which
the proad Emperor gazed, and as thought OF
the Persian Inscription on the nor th and south
arches of the hall
If on earth be an Eden Of bliss,
1t is this, it is this, none but this,
I felt anew not only tho transformers. but
the moral unworthfness, of the glor:es which
were made possible by the spoliation of mil
lions and by the practical ens.avement of a
whole people. There is no reason to believe
that the condition of the Indian nations was
better in the time of Shah Jehan than in the
time OF the Queen-Empress Victoria. Indeed,
IL must have been far worse. There are native
patriots to-day who imagine that the simple
LIE OF India is preferable to the Luxurious
ana enervating civilization of tho west ]
have even been asked if would like to live
the simple life OF India II by this express
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-13
POETIC JUSTICE.

1t is reported from Washington that
Secretary Gage intends to perform All act
OF poetic Justice by replacing in the Phila-
delphta Mint some thirty veterans of the
war who were dismissed from their posi-
tons by the Cleveland administration.
An investigation has shown that the
veterans were removed on Decoration day
four years ago, and Mr.. Gage will replace
them on the coming Decoration day. The
justice of their reinstatement will there
fore have the element of poetic retribu-
ton by taking place on what will be not
only the anniversary of their removal, but
the day set apart as solemn festival
for the commemoration of the services to
the Republic of that grand army of which
they are members.
The reinstatement of these veterans
will be gratifying to all patriots through
out the country. No feature of the Cleve-
land administration gave more offense to
public sentiment than did those acts
which disclosed hostility TO the veterans
of the war simply because they were vet
Grams. The country noted with profound
indignation the removal of competent
officials from Office by the Democratic ad-
ministration, against whom no charge Of
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-13
THE PREVAILING POWERS.

Greece has asked the allied powers OF
Europe for mediation in her war with the
Turk, and has submitted to them all her
interests in the terms OF peace that are to
De arranged. Nominally the alliance
which is to deal with the problem Is com.
posed of Austria, France, Germany, Great
Britain, Russia and Italy. Unless all the
portents of the time are deceptive. how
ever, the alliance which will actually de-
termine tae conditions of peace is that OF
Austria, Germany and Russia. These
seem 10 be firmly agreed upon certain
definite policy, while the others are divided
and Will have little or no weight in the
council which is TO fix the course to be
pursued.
In this alliance of the three Emperors
we have what is virtually revival of the
so-calied Holy Alliance" which was
organized in Europe early in the century.
Now, as then. the aim of the contracting
parties is to maintain existing conditions
in Europe and perpetuate despotism by
sternly repressing every attempt at free
dom wherever it may be made. The first
Holy Alliance failed utterly, partly be.
cause England was at that time under the
control OF young and resolute men who
were prepared 10 go to war rather than to
submit 10 its domination, and partly be-
cause the people of France were then
eager TO throw off the Bourbon yoke
which had been i'm posed upon them after
the fall of Napoleon. The rising spirit OF
freedom in Western Europe was then too
strong to be repressed, and almost every
thing which liberalism aimed for at that
time has now become an accomplished
fact.
The new alliance of the Emperors will
make second attempt to set linn its to the
growth of European freedom. 1t cannot
undertake to restore the Bourbons to
France nor to dismember Italy, but it
does propose to continue the Sultan in
power at Constantinople and to keep the
Greeks and the Slav, as divided and sep
arated peoples. The policy which failed
in Italy is to be tried in the Balkan
Peninsula, and the present despotisms are
to be supported against every effort which
may be made by the Slavs or the Greeks
to erect themselves into independent ma,
tionalities.
The new alliance is stronger than the
old. 1t has larger armies and is more
closely compact than that which made a
vain effort 20 establish itself in former
generation. 1t does not follow, however,
that the Holy Alliance OF to-day will be
any more successful in the end than its
predecessor. 1t triumphs for moment,
not so much because of its own strength
as because of the temporary weakness of
opposing liberalism. Sooner or later,
however. there will arise in Western Eu-
rope men who will not be content to see
the great free peoples of England, France
and Italy made subordinate to the banded
despotisms of Northern and Eastern Eu-
rope. When that time comes the Greeks
and all the people of the Balkan Penin-
sula will have strong friends to sustain
them in war for independence, and the
outcome of the new struggle will be widely
different from that which has befallen the
Greeks to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-13

sion is meant the half-clothed distress, the
p1tiful hunger of the many millions who. not
merely in years of famine, but generally, live
in mud novels without the comforts that are
enjoyed by some of the aboriginal tribes OF
North America, 1 should neither like it for
myself nor for the poorest and most abject peo-
PIE of Europe
Zone feels almost hopeless for people living
In such material conditions. OF course, the
general distress is aggravated in this year OF
plague and famine. Thousands, we are told,
have died of hunger. The British Government
was altogether too slow in bringing relief, ana
1t seems that 1T was finally almost driven to
take decisive action by the indignant ciamors
OF those who would not disbelieve what their
own eyes saw. / myself have seen pitiful
wretches, lean and haggard. gathered at the
I stations. / have been told OF deaths from
famine by those who knew the special circum-
stances. am credibly informed that mothers
have offered to cell their children for one good
meal. The camera does not lie, and send
pictures of some of the subjects OF the British
Empire taken in December at Jubbulpore,
when Lord George Hamilton was dissuading
the English people from aiding the sufferers
because the situation had not fully declared
itself!'
The San Francisco call., 1897-05-13

ing to arrange for season OF opera at Drury
Lane and II he succeeds in his plans he wants
to open toward the end of May with what the
colonel calls his american company. with
three star prima donnas added, who must be
nameless for o short time
At grand "at home" recently given by
Marquis ieri-Gonzaga at Mantua, Italy,
Mascagni entertained the guests by playing
numbe of selec tions from the new Japanese
opera that lie is writing, and which he has
already named "Iride." Every one expressed
great delight at the music, which is said to be
in Mascagni's best vein; but great surprise
was expressed that the Italian composer has
not departed at all from his Italian style of
writing There are no attempts at Japanese
coloring in the music; indeed it is probable
that Mascagni has never heard either JAP
anese Chinese band, and knows nothing
about the music of the far Orient If he does
he has carefully kept his knowledge out of
"Iride.'
The French Chauvinists have been wailing
and gnashing their teeth over the fact that,
in order to please Tamagno, Verdi's
"Otello" has been given in Italian at the
Paris Grand Opera. WHAT" they cried, "sing
in a foreign language in our national the
ater-a theater endowed by the French Gov
ernment and supported out OF the pockets of
the French taxpayers?' In spite OF this
PROCLAMATION of the national theater by for
eign tongue 'Otello" has made Juror at
the Grand Opera, and Tamagno is the opera attic
hero of the hour in Paris.
Siegfried Wagner, the Heir to the Name as
he is fscetiously called, is at'Wiesbaden taking
the cure. In the intervals of drinking the
waters he occupies his time in writing an
opera comique, the first act of which is al
ready completed.
Nine. Nordica is in Paris, where she has
sung with success, for the first time at the
Grand Opera, the role of Elsa in "Loheng grin" I"
"The March of the Stars" Miss Gertrude
Spellan's pretty composition, which was pub
lished in last Sundays CALL, will soon be ar
ranged for orchestra, and will, no doubt, be in
great request by conductors The work Is
copyrighted.
Della Rogers, the Denver prima donna, is
creating quite furor in Turin, where she is
singing in Massenet's ''Werther."
grand monument is to be erected to Henry
Vieuxtemps in Paris. The violinlst MarsicK is
one OF the pr omoters of the scheme.
On Saturday afternoon next the Saturday
Morning Orchestra will give grand concert
in Golden Gate Hall for the benefit of the
Episcopal Old Ladies' Home.
The celebrated tenor, Albert stagno, has
died at Genoa.