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Evening star., 1897-01-30
Chapter XIX.

Continued from Last Saturday,
"You see, you are In Bohemia crieo
Barney, beaming joyousiy on his many
guests. land the delight of Bohemia is un-
conventicnality. i danced after the thea
ter till daylight this morning, and am
as ready as ever to begin again. Shaii
we not lunch because We have break
tasted, and because We dine at 4? Not so.
am ready for a dance any time OF the
night or day Now, Mr.. Musician. strike
up. ON with the dance. let joy be uneon-
fined ls the poet says"
Langly could not have played out of time
or tune If he tried. The piano. as Barney
had tr1ly said, was a splendid instrument,
and when the gay waltz music filled the
large room each couple began to float
lightly over the polished floor. The musi-
clan played On and on. mechanically YET
brilliantly, and in the pauses between tine
dances more than ole of the guests spoke
to their host of the mu5lc's excellence.
"Oh yes" said Barney, with 1aunty
wave of the hand, hes one of my finds.
The mans genius, don't You know, and
is in music what 1 am myself in painting.
Barney you always lay it on too thick,
said one of the young men, you'll turn
the pianist's head with isttery if he knows
you consider him as clever as yourself
Perhaps you imagine I'm too dense to
see through that remark" said Barney.
with the condesceEsion of true genius. Il
know your sneering ways, but let me tell
you what / meant was that both the musi-
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PARTISAN LAWYERS,
Their Life fs Very Different From
That of American Attorneys.

Lawyers in France, according to a
Rochester gentleman, who has just re-
turned from three years sojourn In Paris
do not have such an easy time az they do
in this country, says the Union and Ad-
vertiser. There, far from encouraging the
bright young men of the land TO enter into
the legal profession, ii would seem that
they are discouraged and every obstacle
thrown In their path. the result generally
being that ii is only rich man who can be
a lawyer
Under the regulations at present in
force, says this Rochester gentleman.
"barristers, after they have kept their
terms and passed a sort of three years
novitiate, during which they have the title
of advocate but have no voice in the de
liberations Of the council Of discipline and
are not inscribed on the rolls. They can
plead during the three years probation,
but it is a sort OF empty privilege in nine
cases out of ten. When an eminent bar
rister in France employs a Junior ii is GER
orally some inscribed on the rolls:
should he employ the probationer. the honor
thus accorded him must suffice. He does
not pay him.
But he must live. and here is where the
problem comes In, which Is much more eas-
ly solved by the American or English young
lawyer than ii is by his Partisan brother.
In the first place, there is the outlay tor
his gown. or beretta, which comes close to
50 francs, unless he prefers to hire Ii at the
rate of 10 cents per day. Then he must en-
gage some ore to teach him department,
for this is an essential qualihc alton In this
land, where King Etiquette rules with an
iron hand. The services OF a professor of
the conservatory must also be called In to
train his voice, unless nature has been kind
to him in that respect. But these expenses
are mere Incidents. He must. above ali,
not live IN small cha nbers and rent dingy
offices. Poverty is o poor key TO open the
pockets Of clients.
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A Ballade of nxsones.

Into what dim, unlettefed night
Do our romantic idols str,iyl
Whittier has Trilby taken flight
And where does Ben Hufss chariot swayf'
The Little Minister isuxray;
No more does Robert HsmAre pose;
Where do the fayorites delay? 4.
Nay where is sesteFypOruinss roses
Forgotten is The Manxaaan, omight;
And what Of Tess do booknlen say?
The Prisoner Of Zenda' ,pleht, ...5
Is one with Fauntleroy's a. play.
Mulvaney. Ortheris, Where lire they?
On Sherlock Holmes The Shadows closet
Why do their memories decEyf
All, where is yesternfornin9ss rose7
They walked Romance's- fowery height,
Nor Howells' self could them dismayi
Made all OF sweetness and Of light,
For which Philistines loved to pay.
Now each his unlamented way
To libraried oblivion goes
And on their fombs we toss q sprAy
OF yestermornings faded rose.
ENVOY.
Prints twas not yours the fate to stay
With all the art the era knows,
For fame In this decadent day
Is but a. yesterm0rning,s rose.
Edward A. Church in the January Bookman.
Evening star., 1897-01-30
From the statistic Fiend.

= rOm AnSWetb.
The fad for collecting ridiculous statistics
seems to be growing. The statistic fiend
has discovered how much time a man
wastes in his life crawling under the dress-
ing table In search Of lost collar stud
and he can tell us exactly how many years
we waste for the purpose of eating; then,
again. how many tons of bread. meat OF
potatoes we may have eaten in these
wasted years.
Now a reader. who lives In Glasgow, has
written to inform me that, after several
covered that one ton and some odd pounds
IL worn OF the boots OF. the London public
every day. This material II restored to It's
proper condition, would be sufficient to
form q leather strap an inch wide and ten
miles long. and. with one years accumula-
ton. would reach from London to New
York.
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How Ii Worked.
From the Boston Transcript.

From the BOSTON Transcript.
Mrs. Smarte-"It vexed me so to have
my husband spend his evenings at home
reading the newspapers that 1 Just made
up my mind I'd stop il, so / hid every
paper that came into the house."
Mrs. Lambe-"And how does Il work.
Mrs. Smarte-"Well, ] don't know ex-
actly. You see he spends his evenings at
the club now"
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She Told the Truth.

From the Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Newly, in her modern male attire
for women, was addressing a select au-
dience. Il wear no mans collar" she
shouted.
You have one of mine on now" squeaked
her husband.
Il said no mans collar" she retorted,
and Newly sneaked out the back way.
Evening star., 1897-01-30
A POWDER MAGAZINE
Making Explosives for Uncle Sans
Navy.
LARGE SIZED GRAINS NOW USED
A Visit to the Big Government
Storehouse.
NO SMOKING ALLOWED
10 SMOKING ALLOWED
Written for The Evening Star.

T ONh FoLLO" .
the road that leads
from the town of Do
yer. N. j., up among
the craggy and rock
scanned hills OF Marsh
county, he Is sur
prised on approaching
what seems to be the
summit of this DESC
late assemblage to
find himself confront
ed by a heavy gate
bearing the legend.
"TJ & Naval Powder
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Magaz.ne-No Smoking" From the top Of
the hill floats the stars and stripes. and be-
low it's frowning crest clusters group of
long, low. yellow brick buildings. within
whose walls is concentrated force mighty
enough to shake even these eternal hills
to their foundations For miles on either
side, taking in the double line Of lofty hills
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Filling It's sIis.len.

From tho New YORK Press.
"At last" murmured the cabbage. as 1t
hurried toward the footlights. .'at last
realize my histrion!c ambition. I am cast
for the star part"
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Trustwerthy Guarantee.
From the chicago rribune. z

From the Chicago Tribune.
Customer (at the livery stable}-"Hes
perfectly safe, Is he? ], don't want q slit-
tish animal" y
New Stable Boy-"An know about I'm
is that he used to be q Philadeify car
horse.
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over. the powder is taken away to the
packing room. and here the really Interest,"
ing part in the career Of the government
powder begins. The six-sided blocks are
packed in fiat wooden cases, lined with tin.
Where the sides fit on a small, slightly
raised band OF rubber runs about the edge
Of the case, making 1t practically air and
water tight when II is closed. These cases
are shipped of to one Of the powder sta
tions, say, the one among the Dover noun
tains. Where IT is possible to do so. the
powder Is usually shipped by boat. but TO
reach the Dover magazine requires part OF
the journey to be made by rail. The line
that carries the powder up among the hills
Is q curious little railroad, which has grades
as steep almost as those of country high
way, which carries little except govern
ment freight, and where there is no danger
of collisons-for the road boasts only one
engine and very few cars.
The Great StorehOuse.
The Dover magazine has been in exist
ence for six or seven years Its present
location was selected partly because the
government already owned the land and
could not put 1t to any other profitaoie
use, but chiefly because Of its isolation
Nothing is more detrimental to the sue
cessful operation of a powder depot than
too many neighbors, and it is practically
certain that this region will never be
built up.
At the magazine, which, by the way, Is
made up of a number of small magazines
scattered along the hillside a little distance
apart, the powder is unloaded and the
cases carefully everhauled and inspected,
to see that their contents have escaped
injury. Then they are stored away again
IN the numbered cases. 800 pounds in a
case. In time the government will have a
great plant for mounting ammunition in
connection with this station, but at pres
ent the powder is simply stored here and
reshipped to various points as ii is needed.
There are several other government pow
der stations-one at Portsmouth, n. H.
one at Chelsea, Mass; a temporary one
at Fort Wadsworth, n. V; one at Fort
Mullen, on the Chesapeake; one at the
Norfolk navy yard; one practically aban-
doned now) at Pensacola, Fla, and one at
Mare Island, Cal. 1t is doubtful. however.
Evening star., 1897-01-30
Chapter Xxx.


After the burial of his daughter, Braunt
sat in his lonely room and pondered BIT
terly upon the failure his life had been
ever since he could remember. Hard and
incessant toll he did not complain Of; that
was his lot, and it had been the lot of his
the work was there, waiting to be done;
yet. through the action of men over whom
he had not the slightest control. he was
doomed 10 idleness and starvation until
the capricious minds of others changed,
and the signal was given to pick up the
tools that had been so heedlessly dropped
"Ah'n not stand it!' he cried aloud
bringing his fist down on the empty table
But after these momentary flashes of de-
termination the depression habitual to him
settled down with increased density upon
his mind. and. realizing how helpless he
was, he buried his face In his hands and
groaned in hopeless despair 1t is dIfficuit
for a starving man to be brave for long
What could he do? Absolutely nothing.
He might drop dead from exhaustion be-
fore he got a chance to earn meal,
though he tramped the huge city search
ing for work. The trade he knew was al
| ready overcrowded with thousands Of men
eager for the place he had been compelled
to abandon. Even the street crossinrs
were owned by impoverished wretches who
earned what living they got by sweeping
them. II he were presented with a cross
| Ing. he had not the money to buy q broom.
Gibbons. fool though he might be- smoke
| the truth when he said workingman was
but cog In large wheel; the wheel
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It'll be off when All get there"
We'll. it's not minute too soon. Our
trades suffered"
More than your trade has suffered.
worse luck. Dom little you'll do for q
man. unless the moneys in ia pouch.
"Oh. il it comes to that, neither will
other people. We're not giving outdoor re-
lief. any more than our neighbors."
BraLnt te his food and drank his beer,
but made no reply. The barman's atti-
tude wac commercially correct; no one
could justly find fault with 1t. Money was
the master-key OF the universe; 1t unlocked
all doors. The barman did not care how
Braunt came by 1t, SO long as he paid for
what was ordered, and the workman now
/ found that courage was taking the place of
despair, merely because he had money in
his pocket. He felt that now he had en-
! ergy enough to cope with the strikers, SIM
ply because he had fed while they were
| hungry. He would wait for no meeting
| but would harangue the men on the street.
| those OF them that were assembled in
futile numbers around the closed gates,
| and most of them were sure to be there
| If Gibbons opposed, he would settle the
| question by promptly and concusively
| knocking him bowman argument easily
| comprehended by all onlookers
| Braunt drew the back of his hand across
| his lips when he mad finished his meal, and
| departed for the works. He found, as he
| had expected, the Respondent Men standing
| there, with hands hopelessly thrust deep
| in their empty pockets. Their pipes were
/ Is smokeless as the tall chimneys Of the
| factory, and that OF itself showed that
| their condition was at its lowest ebb They
| were listening with listless Indifference to
4 heated alteration going on between Glib
! bons and Marsten, as II the subject dis
eussed did not concern them.
You might have played that card last
! week." Marsten cried, ''but 1t is too late
now. You can have no conference with
the owners. I tell you they have left the
country, and won't return for fortnight,
and by that time the works will be filled
| with new men. The new men are coming
in Monday. I demand that the COM
mittee call meeting now. and that q
vote be taken"
Don't mind him, menr' cried Gibbons
Hes in Sartwelfs pay"
The men didn't mind him, and paid nc
attention to Gibbons either. What they
wanted was something to eat and drink
with tobacco to smoke afterward. II Mar
stem was in SartwelPs pay, they would
gladly have changed places with him
Braunt made his way roughly through the
crowd, elbowing the men rudely aside
None resented this; all the fight had gone
out Of them. Marsten seemed on the point
Of attackii Gibbons for the slanderous
remark made, when he felt Braunt's heavy
hand on his shoulder.
s.The time Ii past for meetings, lad
said the big man. sand for talk. too. The
meetings here. and Ah'll deal with 1t. Etoy
bothering with that fool, and stand amon1
the crowd. ready to back me up II need be. :
Evening star., 1897-01-30
The MUTABLE MANY.
BY ROBERT BARR.
Copyright. 1895. by Robert Barr)

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06
NEWS In SUNDAYS JOURNAL
Resume of Items ChrOnicIed in the
Edition of Dec. :.

The Amalgamated Association lost it's
strike at the Bellaire steel works.
Princeton won the clay-pigeon shooting
match with Yale by score of PA to 1877.
A Mexican authority denies that Mexico
is preparing to adopt the single gold stand
ard.
Attorney General McKenna will remain in
the Presidents Cabinet until after New
Years.
Saturdays statement of the condition of
the treasury showed: Available cash bal
ances, $219,s17 ,612; gold reserve. 1857, 466,005
Another uprising in Guatemala threatened.
About two hundred prisoners are being fog
ged each day by order of President Barrios.
Captain General Blanco declares that
Spain is able to care for the starving
Cubans now dying at rapid rate on the
island.
Prof. John H. Long, of Northwestern Uni
versity, refuses to be an expert witness for
the defense in Luetgerts second trial. He
was a strong card in the first trial.
Manager Comiskey of the st. Paul team,
will sue the Boston management for los
ing advance money and the services of Out
fielder Slagle whose release Comiskey pur-
chased for $3.50, but who was afterwards
sold to Kansas City.
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lower rates, both passenger and freight
with the demand for betterments, tunnels
elevated tracks in cities, at grade crossings,
and a thousand other demands, and it is a
wonder the men with their millions invested
Go not become disguised, get out of the
business. put their money in government
bonds, and let the people and laborers go to
the bOW-woWs.
The impression seems to be with too many
of our lawmakers that those operating rail-
roads rejoice every time an employe is in
jured. What nonsense. One of the most
difficult problems to solve is what they are
going to do with the unfortunate ones
They never discharge one, and are con-
tinually racking their brains to find out
how TO keep them in the service. How
many accidents occur when the impression
goes abroad that it was the fault of defec-
tive couplerS when, in fact, the couplers
had nothing whatever to do with it. The
duties of switchmen are extra hazardous,
and with all the appliances ever heard of
accidents cannot be prevented. Men some
times become careless and do things in
their work never asked of them, and, in
fact, in plain violation of orders, that final
ly end in personal injury. For example,
yard engines have a running board in front
and behind the entire width of the engine,
with hand-holdS at the corners. Instead of
standing at the side Of the track to board
the engine as it passes the men stand in
the middle of the track and depend on q
firm and sure step to securely land them on
this board. No matter the condition of the
weather, they continually risk their lives
in this manner, and it is only question of
time until they fall and are ground to
pieces. A law compelling roads to employ
only experienced men for the work would
be more TO the interest of mankind than
the squabble they are having over the ques-
ton at issue.
Any roadman that has given this question
little thought must have observed, long
ago, that air brakes are hurtful to them.
Ten years ago twenty-five cars, with a
good brakeman, were considered all that it
was safe to handle at one draft How is it
now? With ten or more air cars it has been
proven that one brakeman can do the work
necessary with train of fifty to seventy
I'VE cars. Do you not think the present
laws, if enforced, would do the working
man more good than the pushing of the air
brake to do away with more laborers? For
one, hope the commissioners will give the
changes without a great loss to present
equipment OF course, any road rebuilding
or purchasing new rolling stock that vio-
lates the law ought to be punished.
RAILROADER.
Richmond, Ind, Dec. s.
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TRAFFIC STILL HEAVY.
WEEKLY AVERAGE CONTINUES To
EXCEED 10000 LOADED CARS.
Belt Road business Exceeds All Rec
ords-Earnings of the Big Four for
October and Four Months.

The train records show that there were
received and forwarded at indianapolis in
the week ending Dec. 4 a total of 25,27O cars,
20,S7S being loaded which was 1916 more
loaded cars than were handled at this point
in the corresponding week of 1896, and 2,319
more than in the corresponding week of
1885. For ten consecutive weeks there has
been handled at Indianapolis over 10000
loaded cars per week, which is the first time
In the twenty-five years this statistical
table has been published that the loaded
car movement has been as heavy for so
long a period. Another noticeable feature
is the light empty car movement. The Big
Four lines proper handled at this city last
week 11.7S2 cars, 1902 being loaded The
Vandalia handled $50 cars, 2,247 being
loaded. Last week. east-bound, there was
an increase in shipments of grain, pro-
visions and live stock, especially over the
Cincinnati division of the Big Four, to be
turned over to the Chesapeake & Ohio,
which accounts for the heavy movement
last week over that division, it reaching
BIO loaded cars. The Chesapeake & Ohio
is now turning over to the Big Four at Gin
cinnau 175 to 200 carloads of coal per
day. The Panhandle is doing heavy east
bound business, forwarding from this point
1,123 against s25 loaded ears brought in,
and the Vandalia brought in 1,SH against
500 sent west in the week ending Dec. 4.
West-bound the loaded car movement last
week was not as heavy as for some weeks
past in the higher class freights, but in
the lower class traffic some increase is
SHOWN, each week showing more or less of
an Increase in shipments of anthracite and
Ohio coal and coke, which indicates an in
creased activity with Western manufac-
tories. The new locomotives, cars and steel
rails passing over the Belt road are be-
ginning to attract attention, and is evidence
that on the lines named the old-time actiV-
ity is returning. More stationary engines,
lathes and pumps are being shipped than
at any time in several years, and the de-
mand for cars to ship furL is greater
than at any previous time. Local business
Is highly satisfactory. Local manufacture
ers are shipping their products to greater
extent than at any time in some years, and
the shipments of merchandise are unusually
heavy. Seldom are the city freight depOts
SO overloaded with freights of all kinds,
day after day, as has been the case for the
last sixty days. The hominy MILL the GER
ealine works, the starch works and the
packing houses are large shippers, and
locally more coal is being handled than in
any December stree the use of natural gas
became so prevalent at Indianapolis. Be-
low is given the car movement for the week
ending Dec. 4 and for the corresponding pc
rio Dc. nf md
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Air Brakes and couplers.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
At the opening of the hearing of the rail
roads petitioning for extension of time
in equipping cars and engines with auto
matte car couplers, air brakes handrails,
etc, / notice p. T.. Morrissey, claiming to
represent the brotherhoods of conductors
engineers and all other railroad organiza-
lions, made a violent speech against such
extension. Among other things, he is
quoted as saying that the associations were
unit in protesting against it. 1 being a
member of one of the organizations quoted.
must enter my protest against his state
ment Under all the circumstances, l do
not believe 25 per cent. of the railroad men
favor the interference of our organizations
with the companies in their asking for
more time, and l honestly believe If the
Pennsylvania Company would intimate that
a petition from it's employees to the Board
of Interstate Commissioners for the extern
sion would be appreciated, fully 80 per cent
of them would only be too glad to subscribe
their names to such a document To my
mind such action as is being taken IN this
case is more hurtful to labor organizations
than anything else. l cannot understand
how we can expect any favors at the hands
of railroad officials when We as a body OBJ
ject To every change they may make or
ask legislation for; in other, words. their
friends We certainly know the feeling of
most every person not in any way connected
is honest" is the cry of too many. Rail-
roads have done more to develop the coun-
try than any other one thing. strike of
a very few days is all that is necessary
to convince any fair-minded man that when
YOU stop the wheels depression is felt in
every quarter.
have been connected with a road for
thirty-two years, and the improvements in
that time are simply marvellous Every
road in this country that has been self
sustaining has been making improvements
to make the work less hazardous. The law
entire equipment involving the expenditure
OF millions Of dollars, was unjust. II should
have been not less than ten, or the average
life of rolling stock. Take the depression
of the last i've years, with the clamor Tor
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The Big Four lines proper last week
handled at Indianapolis Piss more cars than
in the corresponding week of 1896.
The Detroit & Mackinaw has decided to
complete its line 10 Mackinaw City 1T now
runs from Bay City to Tawas City.
Oscar c. Murray. receiver of the Balti-
more & Chic, has been in Chicago for two
or three days studying the freight situa-
ton.
syndicate line has contracted with the
Psttsburg locomotive works for five new
engines
Coming west from Andrews. on the Wa
bash rcsad the track layers will this week
reach Peru In laying the new elghty-pound-
to-the-yard steel rail.
George H. Daniels. general passenger
agent Of the New York Central, continues
his earnest work against the scalping fra