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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28
GAVE ENTIRE SATISFACTION.
Test of Pneumatic Tubes Detwee
Capitol and Library

rest OF rheumatic Tubes DetWeen
Capitol and Library.
The test of the means for TRANSPORTING
books between the new library building and
the Capitol, made at the library building
yesterday, was a complete success. Mr.
John Russell YouEg. the librarian. was in
the receiving room at the Capitol, having a
list OF books made out by himself of which
those at the library had not been advised
The name of the first book, Winters Poems
was written on a slip of paper, placed in
the pneumatic tube and sent to Mr.. Hutch
eson, In charge of the reading room of the
library. The book was received at the Cap
itol in ten minutes. Two other volumes
were then sent for, and arrived in exactly
eight minutes.
A file of the London Times for lS1h the
year of the battle CT Waterloo, was sent
for, and was received at the Capitol in
thirteen minutes. When the messenper
brought 1t he said 1t missed the Carrier %
or 1t could have reached it's destination in
nine minutes.
The distance to be traversed by the car
rier' is about 1900 feet, and the speed Is
at the rate of 600 feet a minute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28
PROPOSED BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.
There IL n Great Opportunity I'm the
Home Market.

There il n Great Opportunity I'm the
Home Market.
| Mr. Edwin F. Atkins, in the November Forum.
The worlds stock of sugar. which on
August 1, 1884, was 1.0S7, 766 tons. had in
creased by August /, 1897, to 1,SS1, 800
| tons.
In the face Of such oversupply and of
ruinous prices, the United States-the lar
eest consuming country in the world-pro-
poses to establish the new industry and to
produce its own sugar. With the exper-
fence of European countries in artificially
fostering industry to point beyond
the natural law of supply and demand, Is
it wise for us TO enter upon similar
policy? With the present duty, ranging
from 80 to 100 per cent, imposed for the
purpose of protecting an industry that does
not as yet. to any extent, exist, ana with
| the experience of our past sugar legisla-
tion-duties having been changed with
nearly every incoming administration, and
per pound on centrifugals to free raw
sUgar-will capital be attracted to the new
industry?
Figures show that our exports to those
countries from which we are buying sugar
reach the enormous sum of S219, IoS, 653;
and an analysis would prove the larger
part of these exports to be of agricultural
products. The Importance Of the sugar
industry to these countries is indicated by
the fact that Of our total imports from
them, more than twenty-five per cent is
of this article AS the cane-sugar coun-
tries have. practically. only the United
states and the English markets left to
them, they would be involved in utter
ruin, IL the former should be lost to them.
Under these circumstances, they would
not be Gble to pay us for such purchases
as they might wish to make; and the
European countries, unable to sell us
sugar, would turn their attention largely
to the production of such agricultural pro-
ducts as they are now taking from us.
If our farmers should produce beets at
the sacrifice Of their market for wheat,
corn, beef, pork products, ETC., where
would be their gain?
With wheat at dollar a bushel, little
thought is given to the future. But we
should not forget that the present scarcity
in Europe is owing, partly, to the neglect
of this industry abroad-to reduced plant
ings resulting from low prices in the past.
While sugar sowirgs have increased, the
sowings of wheat have been neglected. Now
that conditions are reversed, will there
not be a tendency abroad to increase the
extreme protection, to stimulate the pro-
duction of sugar in our country. react upon
us abroad another year, when, encouraged
by present high prices, our production of
grain may be excessive and our producers
most In need. of foreign markets?
These are questions to be carefully con-
sfdered by both our statesmen and our
investors; for, II our proposed beet-sugar
industry be fostered to an unnatural
growth through continued excessive gov
eminent protection, our foreign commerce
may become involved In most serious COM
plications, and CUR farmers may be obliged
to pass through another period of de-
pressed prices for their products such as
that from which they are just emerging.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28
PLEASING SOCIAL EVENT.
Annual Tea Given by Calvary Baptist
Sunday School.

Annual Tea Given by Calvary Baptist
Sunday School.
The annual tea of the officers and teach
ers of Calvary Baptist Sunday school,
which was given at the Sunday school
house last night, was a pronounced sue
cess, and a compliment to the organiza-
ton.
About 200 Of the teachers and substitute
teachers assembled in the vestry of the
church for social greetings. and after an
hour thus spent passed to the banquet
room.
Here the company was greeted by a
pretty scene, which attested the ability
of the decoration committee. The prevail
Ing colors were red and white, and these
were displayed in the lamps and shades,
while a profusion of palms reinforced by
carnations, dahlias and other flowers gave
a tropical aspect to the surroundings.
Superintendent p. H. Bristow called the
assemblage to order and introduced as the
first speaker Mr.. E. B. Curtis, who spoke
upon the subject, "What-a Rambler Heard
and Saw" Mr.. Curtis gave his impress
siCns of politics. crops and Sunday school
work out west.
He was followed by Mrs. Annie Hobbs
who spoke Of a trip from 'The Merriynac
to the Ocean Shore"
Mr.. NJ NJ. Shand gave a vivid description
of his trip to the Christian Endeavor con-
vention at San Francisco. and paid high
tribute to the sturdy Amcricanism of the
people he met.
Miss Julia Stickney told of her college
days spent at Mt. Ho.yoke. and Of MI.
Moody's school at Mortified. Mr.. A. Ram
kin Thornton related his experiences as a
traveller on a freight train, and Mrs. w, II.
Baker spoke of some characteristics OF
Kansas under the title. "On Historic
Ground" and Mr.. II. H. Kimball detailed
q trip I'm the Realm OF Clouds''
Miss Ella D. McLaurin Of Boston. Mass.
who II In the city attending the C. e. con-
vention. gave some "Reminiscences OF her
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28
Due to a Cigarette.

A lighted cigarette dropped by thought
less clerk is supposed to have caused the
fire which yesterday afternoon practically
Quilted the white stone building at the
corner of 7th and Chestnut streets, st.
Louis, occupied by the general offices of
the Wabash railroad Every record in the
Office of the chief engineer, rights of way,
real estate, deeds and surveys of every de-
scription were destroyed. An officer of the
company estimated their loss at $500. 200.
Statements place the valuation of the
building at 100000. The Wabash company
had occupied new quarters before the fire
was under control.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28
THE NEGRO IN CRIME
It is a Question of Conditions and Not
of Race.
RECORDS ARE NOT AGAINST him
Claim That He is Unfairly Treated
in the South.
A STUDY IN SOCIOLOGY

To the Editor Of The Evening Star:
The race problem is Just now engaging
public attention to an unusual degree.
Curiously enough. just as the negro is
being eliminated as an effective factor
from local and national politics, he is be-
coming q favorite subject for sociological
investigation. The treatment OF the ques-
ton hitherto has been almost wholly spec
ulative: the drift of recent inquiry, how
ever. has assumed a more exact and def
mite shape While the painful AMI labor
ious method of the statistician is not so
fascinating as the speculative process CT
pure reasoning" the results thus obtain
ed are believed to furnish more reliable
basis for the true solution.
The criminal propensity of the negro
seems to be particularly emphasized just
now. A frightful mass of facts is being
collected and damaging differences are be-
ing drawn from their unexpla ined uylinesS
We are told that figures cannot lie, and yet
we know that such facts as the statistical
agent collects, unless they are correctly
anaiyzed ard nationally interpreted, are
more likely to produce an erroneous i'm
preston than they are to teacn the truth.
A recent unsigned article in the Star pre-
sentS the police records of the District of
Columbia, and without giving any weight
to the contributing influences, derives con-
illusions which are highly damaging to
the moral status of the colored citizens Of
the national capital I take this contribu-
ton as typical Of the general drift of
public discussion on fhe subject and will
therefore consider the larger question of
the negro's criminal status. of which the
local situation is only an incident.
A Comparative Study.
The bulletin of the census bureau con-
tanning the number Of prisoners in the
United States in 1890 furnishes the most
valuable material for the comparative
ST. dy Of criminal statistics. The following
table is computed on the basis Of the facts
thus furnished.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28
Electric Progress In Siam.
ON the London Financial News.

The electrical progress OF Siam appears
from the fact that the kings palace, some
of the temples and the principal streets of
Bangkok are already lighted by electricity,
and an American engineer has formed a
syndicate and taken over the management
Of the work from the government depart
ment which had been carrying 1t on. He
has obtained from the government a con-
tract to last for twenty years. with a
monopoly of electric lighting in Bangkok
The present capital is $1,000 in 100 shares,
fifty of which are held by American citi-
Gems, forty-one by British subjects, five by
Germans and four by Siamese. 1t is rrob-
able. however. that the capital will be
increased to four or five times its present
amount and the syndicate converted into q
limited liability company. registered as
British.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28
NUMBER OF PRISONERS TO 100 COO or pop,
LATIOy
Shine by Companion.

In so far as these figures are determine
tive of conduct. We see that the blacks of
South Carolina and Mississippi are better
behaved than the whites of Massachusetts
and New York: that a white man in Col
orado or California is put to shame by the
exemplary conduct Of the corn-feld negro
IN Alabama and Georgia. II 1t be objected
that II Is unfair to compare the rural south
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28

with the urbane north because of the diff
ference in rightly of the legal machin-
cry, or that frontier region cannot justly
he compared with well-settled country,
the force of the objection is conceded. This
concession, however does not lessen but
to circumstances and conditions and not to
race and color. 1t must be conceded, how
ever, that in the north and west, where the
legal processes are acknowledgiy fair, 50
far as the negro is concerned, the race
makes far worse showing than 1t does
in the south, where discrimination is claim
ed. Let the following table speak for it
nIf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28
Americans in Cuba Pardoned.

Vice Consul General Springer. at Havana.
has telegraphed the State Department that
the Spanish authorities have pardoned
Frank Agramonte and Tomas Julio Saenz.
two American citizens who have been i'm
prisoned at Santiago de Cuba since June,
1885, There are now probably less than
Cuba, exclusive Of the Competitors crew.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28

A general court-martial has assembled
at the Washington barracks for the trial
of number of enlisted men for various
offenses. The court Is composed Of the fol-
lowing named officers of the 4th Artillery:
Major Lewis Smith, Captains William En-
mis-. Constantine Chase and George d. De-
Sohh. assistant surgeon. and Lieuts. Alex
Hamilton, Adrian s. Fleming. Judge advo-
cate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28
A New York Embe.zIer.

The Secretary of State has notified the
governor Of New York that Ambassador
Porter at Paris has informed him that he
has caused the detention under arrest OF
Foster, the embezzlirg clerk of the New
York produce exchange and that he will
be held for the arrival of the officers of
New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28
New Trial for Luctsert.

States Attorney Deneen of Chicago, Ill.
has arranged to place the second Luetgert
trial on the docket for Monday, Novem-
Der 8.
II more time Is desired by the defense
they will have to secure II by making n
formal request for a continuance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28

Bacchante has at last found a resting
place. The statue In bronze which SO Of
Tended Boston's delicate sense of modesty
as to cause her expulsion from the modern
Athens now reposes upon her pedestal In
the Metropolitan Museum Of Art In New
York city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28
Where He Said 1t.
rom the chicago Evening Post.

Darling" he said. did you tell your
father that you were engaged" Eyes,
George. did," replied the maiden. but
she looked so troubled that 1t was some
time before he mustered up courage to
pursue the subject what did he sayr'
he asked finally. 81 don't know" she an
swered. He went out to the woodshed to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28
Marion Not Worth Repairins.

Marion Not Worth Repairing.
The board Of naval officers appointed to
examine the Marion have reported that
she is not worth repairing. and should be
condemned. She will be given to the CAL
tfornia naval militia and stationed at San
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28

II you want to buy, sell
or exchange anything. it
will pay you to announce
the fact in the advertising
columns of The Star. They
are closely studied by more
than three times as many
people as read any other
paper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28

If you want anything, try an ad. in Tn,
Star. II anybody has what you wish. you
win get an answer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-28

1t matters little what II is that you
want-whether a situation or q servants
want" ad. in The Star win reach the
person who can I'LL your need.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31
| music FESTIVAL.
Associated Choral Societies
Will Give a Series of
Concerts.
The 0ratOrio Elijah" to Be Rem
dered by the Best Foreign and
Local Talent.

The California Music Festival Associa-
tion, composed OF mum Der of choral Sc
cieties, at the head OF which is the San
Francisco Oratorio Society, will give a
series OF concer's in Metropolitan Tempt
on the evening o November and the
afternoon and evening of Noyem Der 10.
The chief work 10 be rendered is the
oratorio Elijah" in which the principal
soprano part will be taken BY Nine
Genevra tombstone. Bishop, whose mag
niicent voice and dramatic singing
electrified her audiences last spring, when
the association among other works gave
the Messiah"
The contraltos will include Miss Anna
Miller Wood; the tenors. Harry J. Eel
lows OF Chicago, Rhyus Thomas and Alois
Werner; the principal base will be S.
Homer Henley. The festival chorus will
be made up OF mem bers of the various Sc
cietIes, including delegates from San Jose
Marysville ana Sacramento.
AT the matinee and evening concert on
the 10th miscellaneous programmes OF
we'll selected vocal solos will be given
Among the numbers will be some OF Wag-
ner's tenor solos by Mr.. Werner, and Mr..
Thomas will sing The Requital," BIZ b L.
menthal. In addition to these there will
be organ ana piano solos and choral mu-
sic which will include the "pr:ze songr
solo and chorus from Wagner "Meister-
singer
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31

trade is but q harbiuger of the Improvement
which is coming and but an audendum TO the
other evidences.
All indications being consider ed, we should
confidently expect in the near future large
increase in the business done by the loan de-
partment of the more active building and loan
associations.
As indicating the favorable drift of the
times, W. Ii. Mills OF the Southern Pacific
CGmpany's land office yesterday said: :
The balances Of debts carried over bv our
department every month since 1893 have
averaged about 81, 200 900 Extensions
have been asked by purchasers and
Tanted. AT first onv extensions upon
the principal were asked, but finally they
we're reque, ed upon the interest accounts.
That was the sign the bottom WIS reached.
The symptom that money had become
easier among the agricultural class in this
State became evident a month ago, when
there was CESSATION of the demand for
extensions on the interest accounts. Last
monih was the best month we have had
since 1898. There were no requests Tor
faVors The N onsy has fairly commenced
TO flow IN liquidation of land accounts.
we received more coin this month than
during any three months since 1898. All
signs rolnt 10 tn revival of prosperity so
tar as our department is concerned"
EX-State Senator John Bcggs, the we'll
known landowner and grain-grower OF
Coiusa County, testiies in strong Ian
guage TO The revival of good times in his
section: THE last rains were enough to
start the grain growing nicely. We had
tall in Colusa and Glenn counties of "a
inches. Everything up there looks pros
porous. The farmers can get good prices
Tor their crops this year, and a good many
new enterprises arc being talked about.
Our people are paying off their debts very
rapidly, and III y are all lookin for an
increase of prosperity next season."
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31
ROBBED AN OFFICER.
Marshal Creed of SausaIIto Lost Most
of His Personal Property.

Marshal Creed of SausaIito Lost Most
of His Personal Property.
Marshal Greed of Sausalito called at the
police office Friday evening for assistance
in apprehending thief in whose capture
the rural sieuth had more than an official
interest for The Marshal was himself the
victim.
Marshal Greed has had in his empioy
for abou; two weeks a COOK named Charles
Smith. ard as Smith was an old acduaint-
ance Of Greed, he had the greatest liberty
about the premises
Thursday night Smith went on a tear
but yesterday morning he returned in a
comparative state of sobrieiy. The Mar
shal and his wife left the house Yesterday
morning and smith was in charge When
they returned Creed says the place look ed
like every one had moved out. Every
thing OF any imag ble value had been
taken and the cook failed TO answer the
rolcall. The Marshal appraises his loss
at about $500. inc uding some property
which he was holding as evidence.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31
ONE OF THE STARVING HORSES.

the published views of such mature stu
dents of penology as w. II. Mills and
Chief of Police Lees, as concerns the
treatment to be dealt out TO convicts after
sentence, are entitled to great respect,
there is an earlier stage in the history OF
each convict, which - though touched
upon at one point by Chief Lees in his in
terview-l believe, merits greater atten-
ton than it has received.
II refer 10 the grotesque inequality of
the sentences imposed oy courts upon
convicted offenders. Not only are the
differ mt Judges engaged IN the admins
tration OF criminal law utterly at variance
in their respective ideas of how to fl the
punishment TO the crime, but frequently
IN the sentences pronounced by one Judge
will be found the Grossest OF inequalities
ard OF irrational disregard of consistency.
Judges are, at best, but human, and
some of them even appear TO take tenn
porary leave of their humanity when act
ing az the mouthDiece OF The social ia brio
in passing penal sentences. 1t is impos-
sible that the statutes, in providing pun
ishment for crime, should also provide for
all tie mental ooliqutes ami logical &C.
centrlclties OF those who are 10 administer
such punishment. But in the matter of
taxation the law has found a way OF
achieving at least an approach to equality
by The establishment of Boards OF Eqdal-
iZation to review the assessments OF the
various Assessors Would not a non-po-
litical board for the review of penal SEN
tences, with power to reduce, but not 10
increase their severity, be an approach to
possibly greater equality in this most
vita fea Urr OF the laws observance?
Judge Fooie writes The CALL as follows:
II believe that every man placed IN q
penitentiary should De made 10 perform
ali the labor possible, both with view to
Iessening the expense of his mainte-
nance, which is burden borne by The
best people of the State, ana to the end
that his bodily health and strength of
miad may De kept up, so that there may
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31

be a chance that he will see the error of
his former ways.
al think that there should be q d iyis-
ion with classes OF prisoners so tnat those
who may be young and not altogether
vicious will not necessarily be thrown in
contact with those who can never be re-
formed.
lam not fully informed as to the spe.
cial treatment accorded those who have
been convicted OF murder and who are
sent to the penitenIiary with view to
their execution, but | am firmly of the
opinion that il 1t can be done with safety.
sue people should be made to work while
soiourning in he penitentiary and should
no. be accorded better food or quarters
than any other of the worst crimi-
mails. From what / can gather 1t is highly
necessary that immediate re orms should
be had in some OF the State
penal Institutions, and know of
no better way than TO have n commission
of the most honorable, firm. bray- and dis
tinguished citizens, independent of par,y
politics, whose duty it shall be, without
mpensatioD, to investigate the whole
matter and make suggestions to our leg
isiative bodies. But If that cannot De
done then / see no other way TO have the
subject called to he attention of the law
making body than by the press But I
think the whole matter should be dealt
with in broad and patriotic manner. with
no object except to bring about the desired
reform, and not with a view 10 bring any
one into bad repute as a public official
who cannot b. proved to be cuipable."
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31

by paying her 500, but that this sum did
not square the debt and so she sued for 9
balance of $500.
n his answer Colonel Trumbo admit:
that he paid Mrs. Foltz 500 at different
times, but declares it was not paid OF
account OF services as attorney-at-law
and that as matter of fact he owes her
nothing on that account.
Grove l.. Johnson and his associates
Linforth 81 Whitaker, are attorneys for
Mrs. Foltz and are manifesting consider
able activity IN advancing this suit, the
notice to take dispositions being tled by
them in the office of the clerk of the court.
1t is noted tnat the attorney for ColoneI
Irum DO is IN this litigation Carl Wester-
field, but 1t is singular fact that his
office is sci down 10 be in room 2S, %, 30
81, 81, 80. "a aud 35 of the thru floor of the
Crocker buildi ing. which by strange
coincidence Is given in the Crocker build
ing directory as the offices OF Delmas q
Shortridge. the last named gentleman be-
ing Mrs. Foltz's brother.