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that should not be INDUCED in But Wash
fngtonians who are interested in the great
instrument which this unfortunate man es-
says TO play should really hear the music
he extracts from it, If they, wish to form
any sort of conception of the depressing
mournfulness of which the fiddle or violin
Is capable. This blind man plays Moody
and Sankey hymns to the exclusion of all
other music. Moody and Sankey hymns
simply cannot be played upon the violin or
fiddle, any more than Berlioz's "Pizzicatto''
can be played upon church organise that
the blind man at the corner of Sth street
and Market space throws a pain of gloom
over the people who pass that corner even
upon the most brilliant day. The advan-
tage OF this may consist i'm the fact that
1t makes passers-by reflect upon their finai
days upon earth, and thus charitable: for
the sightless grasper of the bow at its
mldne seems to have many almoners.
Excites Curiosity.
The yelled woman who grinds out un-
speakably doleful sounds from a wheezy
barrel organ in miniature near the corner
of 18th street and Pennsylvania avenue has
excited the curiosity of u good many WASH
fngton people. Her face has never been
seen. and there is no method of determining
whether she is a very young woman bum
died up in a shabby old black Gress with a
black sun bonnet for a head covering, or a
genuinely old woman, as the makeup
Wouiu inu1cate. she sits on the cold flag
stones until the theater crowds begin to dis
perse after IL O'Clock at night, producing
smothered sounds from the black box with
the handle as monotonous as the monotone
OF the sea, and depends upon her sex chiefly
for the coppers which flow into her tin cup
swiftly enough when the passing throngs
are thick. Oddly enough. the nand which
darts out from beneath the old black
shawl to empty and replace this cup is by
no means the hand of an old or even an
elderly woman. 1t Is the unwrinkled hand
Of a young won,an-a hand that looks as IL
1t had known no labor.
The man with the fox terrier pups for
sale stands most often at the intersection
OF Pennsylvania and New York avenues.
He IL man who looks his part Of dog fam
cier. and he certainly possesses the love OF
dogs Ordinarily, he has two fox terrier
pups attached to two chains. and the great
est dfmculty he appears to contend with IL
to prevent the pups from running up his
legs out OF pure affection He has been
Seen to sell q pup now and again, md the
lCok OF entire misery and despair and the
Whispering beseechings of the pups, car
rled on by their purchasers from the dogs
human idol. are matters to make one think
better of the dog fancier.
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row seven vessels scattered along the Yu-
kon filled with provisions, but so stranded
that the food cannot be utilized. / venture
that there is something like 1900 tons of
provisions lying along the Yukon. There
are $50 tons at Fort Yukon. 325 miles below
Dawson City. Much Of this will be taken
up on sledges to Circle City, which is only
eighty miles away and it may be that by
means of reindeer or by other kinds of re-
lief expeditions supplies could be carried
from here to Dawson City. I see that
Sheldon jackson states there are something
like 1880 reindeer at the four stations in
Alaska. These are widely scattered, but
enough of them might possibly be gotten
together to be of service. There is no
doubt, however, that something should be
done, and that quickly.
FRANK c. CARPENTER.
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shallow water-the run of them drawing
quite ~ feet under like conditions.
The fighting power of the ships will be
conferred principally in three batteries con-
sisting in each as follows:
Main battery I3-inch B. L. r.
S-inch Il. L. r.
Secondary battery II 5-inch rapid fire K
Auxiliary battery % 6-pdr. rapid-fire
sos 1-pdr. rapid-fire
Gatlings.
! field gun.
To this force may be added the torpedo
equipment, composed of four tubes, two on
each broadside amidships and a mining
and counter mining outfit. including the
usual mines and their deadly charges or
gun cotton.
The Bis Turrets.
The thirtsen-inch and the eight-inch
guns are housed in two novel double-decked
tUrrets-the eight-inch guns occupying The
upper half-and each can be trained
through arc of 270 degrees. The eight
inch guns are sheltered by hardened steel
nine and eleven inches thick, and the thir-
teen-inch guns are shielded by similar
metal ranging from fifteen to seventeen
hches- The upper and the lower guns
point in unison. and are not susceptible of
independent action Each turret is sup
ported on Il massive column of Harveyized
steel. composed of fifteen-inch metal. which
riSes from the solid foundation of the pro-
tective deck Within these sheltering walls
the turning. loading and controlling me
chanisms are housed and up through this
armored passage the ammunition is safely
carried to the guns.
The five-inch rapid-fire rifles are placed
on the main deck within the )ctaSonal
sCperstructure, and are completely sur
rounded without by the eight walls CT six
inch steel Within. each gun station is
separated or stalled from the other by a
civ ding wall of two-inch steel. that dam
age to one may not affect the others. This
unbroken protection to the rapid-fire guns
Is unique. and promises to make the be T.
terry extremely effective in action The
eix-pounder guns will be placed forward
and aft on the berth deck and dip in the
euperstIucture above the five-incn battery.
They will be protected only by the small
shields they carry, and their most efficient
service will be against torpedo boats. FOR
they could hardly be manned in action be-
tween heavy ships. The one-pounders and
gatling guns will be placed In the military
tops. and will have practically the same
service that for the six-poun1.rs.
In a broadside action, either of these
ships will be able to fire. in a minutes time.
300 pounds Of powder and three and a
falf tons of hardened steel. In that min
ute the guns in the main battery will be
able to fire but once. but the ffvc-inch
rifles viii be able to send their fifty-pound
projectiles with a destructive frequency of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-20
BISHOP GAINES OF GEORGIA,
Notable COlOred Man and His In
terestfnE Theories.

- Nstaoie SOlOFed Nan and His In.
terestfnE Theories.
From the Kansas City STAR
Bishop Gaines was owned by the late
BOD Ioombs of Geogia. and the two men
were descended from the same grandfather
Ii the bishop could have had his say about
the matter, it would have been his choice to
nave beer a pure African, but he does not
disguise the satisfaction which ne feels over
the undoubted quality of the white blood in
his veins. .-'--
Bishop Gaines is the author of a book in
which he sets forth the belief that the solu-
tion OF the negro question in this country is
the absorption of the black race by the
;"nlte. 1t is his opinion that few hundred
years, at the farthest, will witness nv ad
mixture, the disappearance of the Africa
In America. He is radically hostile to the
scheme OF Bishop Turner for deporting the
negroes to Africa.
The place for the Afro-American," saws
bishop Gaines lis in this country, and he
is better off in the south than in the north
Ihat Is, he has better opportunities FOR get
ting on in the world. He can buy land
cheaper and find more work In the north
negro aspires to be a barber a hotel
waiter or Pullman porter In the south
ne wants to be professional man. He is
eager for an education and wants To be as
nearly like white man as possible. In nv
preaching try to save the body as well as
the soul: tell my people that if they don't
get USED TO shoes here they needn't expect
10 wear any golden slippers in heaven. 1
say 10 them: Get home, and bank ac-
count, and few bales of cotton, and it
Will hide your COLOR
When asked about the faculty of the ne
gro for accommodating property, Bishop
Gaines said: When 1 began to preach in
Atlanta in 1866 there was not a colored fam
lily in the town owning their own home
Now the negroes there pay taxes on two or
three million dollars worth of property
and L Know colored men who have a dozen
houses or more to rent. The trouble about
voting Will be settled when the negroes
learn to improve their opportunities; when
they become educated and acquire enough
property to obtain a standing In the COM
munity.'
Bishop Gaines has always preached a
policy of Cancellation between the whites
and the blacks. the responsibility of the
negro as the architect of his own fortune.
the the necessity Of patience in working out
his destiny, and by following this course
he has obtained support from the whites to
the extent of 100000 for the schools aid
churches which have been built through
his efforts.
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Source of Color.

The sources of color used in the arts is
given as follows: The cochineal insects
furnish the gorgeous carmine, crimson,
scarlet and carmine lakes; the cutie fish
gives sepia, which is the inky fluid which
the fish discharges when attacked; Indian
yellow comes from the camel; ivory chips
produce the ivory black and bone black;
the exquisite Prussian blue comes from
fusing horses hooes and other animal mat
ter with impure potassium carbonate; va
rious lakes are derived from roots, banks
and gums; blue black comes from the char
coal OF the vine stock; Turkey red is made
from the madder plant. which grows in
Hindostan; the yellow sap of Siam tree
produces gamboge, while raw SIENNA is
the natural earth from the neighborhood
of Sienna. Italy. and raw lumber is an
earth found near Umbria. India ink is
made from the burnt camphor; mastio is
made from the gum of the mastic tree,
which grows in the Grecian Archipelago
Bistre is the SCOT of wood ashes very lit
tie Observation-Disclosures from the precious
lapis lazult-is found in the market Chi
nese white is zinc: scarlet is iodide of mer-
curry. and vermilion is from quicksilver ore.
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observers only fleeting glimpses of their
grotesqueries. their Affections, or their
skillfulness In wheeling. and then pass out
On the ever-fowing current and are seen no
more. nor missed. But there is a stock of
permanent characters of the capitals paves
whom Washingtonians would unquestion-
ably miss should they be borne onward by
the tide of time either to another earthly
or to more mysterious bourne.
For example, what promenader of the
avenue in the neighborhood OF 4 o'clock in
the afternoon would not experience a GER
tain indefinable sensation of something
lacking should he not be accosted at some
point of his stroll by militant Evening,
Star Mary" with the bundle of evening
newspapers under her arm, the ready par
ry Qn Erin's richest patois) for all the
gcod-natured thrusts of customers she has
served for years, and the long arm of
wrath for newsboys who recklessly infringe
upon her demeSnes? 1t makes no difference
that Evening Star Mary, has pre-empted
all of the avenue territory from 18th street
to 18th and F-she holds it all as of right:
and the newsboys must take the middle of
the street to pass her, or tiptoe behind her
and dodge beneath the old shawl that has
sheltered her from so many rains and
SHOWS and sleets and wintry blasts
Evening Star Mary" is as active and as
obstreperously busy on her chosen ground
today as she was when she purveyed Even
ing Stars composed Of four pages. The old
lady could not have been born very far
from the Castle of Blarney.
why don't you retire on your income,
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of PCS feet, maximum beam of ~ feet )
inches and a draft of - feet & inches
upon 81 normal displacement or total weight
of 1l,325 tons. When fully laden for service
In time of war-ie-. with a full supply of
coal and of ammunition on board-they
will have maximum displacement of
12,323 tons and will then draw but . feet
of water. This moderate draft assures
their entrance into any harbor of i'm
portance along our coasts, makes them less
difficult of docking. and would enable them
to carry or IN aggressive warfare beyond
the reach of retaliatory approach There
are no European ships of like power of
of1ense capable of acting efficiently in such
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one every ten seconds, and to pound their
way through the average Profession to
similar guns. 1t was the dire effec. of
just such guns that opened the eyes Of
the naval world after the battle of the
Yalu. and it is in response to that awaken
ing that they have been placed on these
ships. and, too, their method of protec
ticn is the result of another lesson learned
then. The six-pounder, one-pounder and
Satling guns have not been included in
this estimate, because their positions
would. in all probability. become untenable
in hot engagement. One naturally ques-
tons how an anita gonist could stand
against such frightful fire, and the answer
is. He couldn't If he came near enough
to be hit with reasonable frequency" In
the coming actions, ships will fight at
range of two or three miles at least, and
the chance of hitting with the guns effec-
tive at that distance would be hardly more
than one in four. If they should steam
into close action and then fire-wel roth
ing could resist the might of those murder
Gus weapons; but it is safe to say that
will never happen till one the other
has been seriously crippled by cnance
shot
Down IN the magazines and shell rooms
of each of these ships will lie 800 and more
tons of ammunition, to await the coming
of a foeman worthy of that powder and
hardened steel, and then to be husbanded
with care till every shot will add its weight
to the certainty of victory.
Ponderous Armament.
Defensively, modern battle ship is real
ly a monitor in principle with ship-shaped
form built about its heavily armored por
tons for the sake of added accommoda
tons ard seakeeping qualities. AS the
small sketch of the distribution of armor
shows, the ends may be shot away, but so
long the arnor remains substantially in
tact the craft will float. and SO long as her
guns remain unsilenced she will be an an
tagonist to be dreaded. In these ships
this null protection consists primarily of a
I12-foot belt of hardened steel running from
the after bar5ette forward to the stem. It
has a maximum thickness of 1864 inches,
tape-ing al the bottom to 912. At the
normal draft, 81 feet of this belt will be
above the water. AT each end of the thick
est part of this belt an athwartship bulk
head turns squarely inboard and ends
against the heavy column of the neghbor-
Ing barbette- Forward. this bulkhead is
ID inches thick, aft it is II. Flatly, on top
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famous battle Of the Yaiu-the deciding
struggle between the, Japanese and the
Chi2ese-and are interesting examples in
many ways of what actual modern war
rare has shown to be. needful in the ship
that must bear the brunt of future fights
The kearsarge and the Kentucky are
floating fortreSses of a ponderous order
and have possibilities such as even their
designers can express only in abstract
terms Each vessel has a water line length
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Unique House I'm Yellowstone Park.
Prom the Chicago Times Herald.
w. p. Howe Of Upper Geyser Basin, YELL
lowstone Park, has dollhouse. 20 by 80
feet. built Of rough slabs over q natural hot
spring Ave inches In diameter, with tenn
perature OF 120 degrees.
Cucumbers Of six weeks growth showed
vines ten feet long, bearing fruit six inches
In length. A smaller, experimental hot
house, abandoned from December until
June. disclosed uninterrupted growth and
maturity Of vegetation. and q luxuriant
new crop Of lettuce, with leaves ten inches
long. The steam had supplied all necessary
moisture
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The Extinction; Of the Beaver.
rom the Springfield MO, Ies,der.Deu,oc-..

Inc teaver Is now almost extinct In
southwest Missouri. where once the indus
trious and cunning animal could be found
In every stream. The presence of this in
terestinS creature. whose fur has always
oeen SO much priced drought the world,
caused the early settlers Of the Ozarks to
give It's name to many streams that feed
White river. South of Springfield the creeks
were full of beavers a generation ago. and
now and Their survivor of the disappear
ing family may still be found but trappers
have ceased to expect such desirable
catch The otter mas also about vanished
frcn the waters of this country, and Spring.
Held fur dealers max. a special display OF a
hide when they secure one.
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mired in trip across Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. Yet his outward semblance IL not
that Of man who has patrolied the main
thoroughfares OF a city for so many years.
He looks like q Virginia agriculturist in
measurably good circumstances, and talks
with the twang Of the lumbermen at
Aroostook. Maine. Storm or shine is
nothing to him; the man who sells cough
drops cannot afford to possess q boromet-
rio Temperament With his tin box OF mag
ical -dsspealers slung In front Of him
by q strap. he appears upon Washington's s
main thoroughfares with the first en-
browning Of the leaves Of autumn, and he
sings his not unmusical chant along his
Flooding way until the temperance OF
the crocuses and the cold-dispelIine
sephyrs from the southland. Then he dis
appears. and men know him no more until
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Kearsarge and Ken
lucky. now half COM
pleted. Will be ready
for launching in a
very few weeks. and
in the record-making
time of only two
years from the date
Of award of contract.
These great vessels
are the first of our
craft to bear the di-
rect Impress of les
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the Alaska gold discoveries are good
thing for u.s." :
The Gold Mines of washinxton.
''How about the gold mines Of your own
state, senator? HaJe1Hny developments
'New discoveries }fc1 being made right
along all over the wl bt. The various min
ing districts are being worked over and re-
prospected l visited the old mining camp
far from The bonndarf lWashintton. - The Us
gold theF4 was foundf4 basin surrounded
by mountains. The ba6h was just about
gold was In the shap& bdnuggets and dust.
and along in 1862 more than fifty million
dollars worth of metal was washed out of
the grass roots. The camp was then given
up. Gold is now beiHGfaund much further
down. 1t may exist for a hundred feet be-
low the surface, and Il 90 a vast amount of
free gold win be 'dist6tered In the Occur
we have valuable mines OF lead and silver.
The Standard mime there is paying S75. 600
month in dividends. The LIE Roy gold
mine, in which Senator Turner is interest
ed, Is paying dividends of $50 600 a month,
and there. are valuable mines on the Cox,
Vile reservation. There is considerable
placer mining. I am doing something of
t TINS myself on the salmon river, in Idaho.
from which we are wEshingti in the river to
get out the gold. W4sfind about 10 cents
worth IN every cubic yard, and can clean
up from ten to fifteen thousand dollars a
year. This is not great deal, but the
property costfNx very little, and it gives us
big percentage on The Investment
Our Golden Empire of Alaska.
Il suppose you have good facilities on
Puget sound for. getting. information con-
corning Alaska, senator?"
eyes replied Senator. Wilson. "Our peo-
pie talk little else Thin gold now. 1 have
met scores of men who have Just returned
from Alaska. and a number who have pros
pected in other parts of the territory than
along the Yukon There is no doubt about
me enormous amount of gold on the Klon-
dixie, but believe if anything that there is
more gold in Alaska than in British Co.
iumbia. Old prospectbrs tell ME that they
have never yet washed earth from an
Alaskan stream which has not shown some
color Nearly all the beaches of the
Alaskan Islands have gold mixed with their
sand. On the big island of Kadiak there
are men who are always washing the sand
to get out the gold, and they make "a good
profit. The Alaskan Commercial Company
has mines OF one. of the. islands which paw
them $4,000 month. The great Treadwell
mine keeps pegging along turning out more
than BALI q million dollars worth of gold
every year. and there are undoubtedly great
quantities of gold about Juneau There is
gold at Cooks Inlet and on the Copper
river. and you have Heard of the recent
new discoveries'in the 'Munook region below
Fort Yukon. :s5s =
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of the four walls formed by these two
bulkheads and by the amidship, inlaid, por-
tions of the water-line belt, is placed a
protective deck. ~ inches thick, COM
pletely roofing over and comprising the
spaces occupied by the "vitals" as the
engines, boilers, magazines and shell rooms
are called. Forward and aft of the heavy
athwartship bulkheads. this protective
deck runs slantingly to the ends and is in
creased at the sides to three and five inches
f1ve-inch armor. reaching from the top of
the water-line belt up to the main deck
line, guards the ship from the middle of
the after barbette forward to the other
baroette- This wall of armor is further
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of Washington has
Just returned from
Puget Sound, bring
ing with him WON
derful tales of the
prosperity of the Pa
cific northwest. He
says the good crops
and the Klondike
have entirely chang
ed the condition of
the states Of ash
ington and Oregon.
Said he to me last
night:
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"A Spokane Mans Rich Find"

1T Is a, question whether southeastern
Alaska will not prove, to be bigger gold
field than the Klondike. There is a man
named Smith from my town of Spokane
who has just come back. bringing a big lot
Of free gold With him. He has been pros
pecting along the Stickeen river, near Fort
Wrangei. and he says he has discovered
gold which will assay 100000 to the ton
The gold is free gold.. You can see it in
his samples. The yellow specks stick out
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Those Familiar Figures Along the
Avenue and F Street.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NDMUSICIANS
Some of Them Could Doubtless
Tell Interesting Stories.
BUT IT'S NOT AN EASY LIFE

| HE STREET CHAR
aeters of Washing
ton are not SO
ephemeral as they
are in some other
cities. They are
mostly s I ay rs -
which is an impl.ca-
ton that they know
a good thing when
they meet up with 1t.
True, there is a hot-
sam and jetsam of
oddities who afford
Washington street
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Senator Wilson Talks of Some of the
Recent Discoveries.
LATE REPORTS FROM TEE KLONDIKE
The Puget Sound Country is En-
joying a Big Boom.
MILLIONS FROM THE SOIL

copyrighted. 1897, by Frank G. Carpentcr.1
Written for The Evening Star
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The Spanish Soldier In Cu,,.

me Spanish Soldier In Cuba.
FROM the Westminster Review
Ihe Spanish soldier is probably the hest
hshting material in the world. He is brave
why. easy to feed and house and o,u.vs
accompanying But as his disposition 10
excellent, SO is his officer worthless. the
spanish aristocracy corrupt and good for
nothing, the Spanish plebs serviceabIe
ooedient and ductile. The simplest ma
reuver Is to the Spanish officer an I'M
known quantity. But the most deliberate
and deviiish evil of all is the dishonesty in
h1sh places The amount of money.the
property OF the Spanish people-misan-
Pfopriated by the officers of the Spanish
army arm must amount to millions Of pesetas
per month. I'VE know it" said an ex-
minister sadly to me in Madrid, a week
ago. we know 1t even over here
DEAD soldiers are kept upon the listed
strength for month after month. AMI their
lay continues to be regularly drawn Iy
their captains. Moneys that were destined
Tor the commissariat are cooily peryert I'D
INTO regular sources of official income. A
uid.be-next-to-penniless captain. living
ike lord In one of the costli EST hotels ~
Havana, readily owned to me that he had
been able to send home to his wife's Keen
ins $GOOo in half year.