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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
Germany's Marriage Schools.


In Germany they have started a new idea
marriage schools. / was curious 10 know
the working out of the scheme; It struck
me as so comical, and SO 1 only made in
Quiries- All, you will laugh; you will
point the finger of scorn.' murmared a
German friend. i tried to look grave Il
should very much like TO hear all about it,"
j replied. so far" told my friend the
undertaking has met with undoubted sue
cess No girl Is admitted to the marriage
school unless she has finished her ordinary
education Her principal instruction is in
housekeeping, although she keeps up more
or less the cultivation of her mind. At
school where / have visited about twenty
girls are admitted. Each has her own he'd
room. At the opening Of school. after
ternAthe mistress singles out four girls
entire charge Of the house. Two servants
housemaid and cook. are kept only to do
the very rough work. The four girls, then
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04

Poor bird that battlest with the storm "
To gain the beacon-light.
Then falfst wounded woefui form
Into the CULTS Of night
thousand lips that light may bless;
To thee It's the last bitterness.
A light was given to the earth,
wearing q woman's name;
A thousand tongues have told her worth
And deathless Is her fame.
But was the spent bird, that there
Salvation sought. and found despair.
+. W. BOURDILLON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
The Cars Car.


The height of luxurious travelling has
benn reached by the car and czarina, The
empress private car Is upholstered in pale
blue satin. The electric lamps are all in
the form Of lilies. and 1t contains writing
and tea tables made Of mother-of-pearl
The nursery is the next apartment, and is
as comfortable and handsome as the same
rooms in any Of the cars palaces. There
are dining rooms and drawing rooms and
several sleeping apartments; in fact. this
train is a miniature palace. The wheels
are covered with india rubber tires.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
Absence,

If not now soft airs may blow
From thy haven unto me,
If not now last autumn's glow
Thrill delight 'twixt me and thee,
Call up Memory. oh. entreat her,
In the present there's none sweeter.
One true thought and constant only
To that p!easurable time
Me sufficeth TO make lonely
All the void and hooking prime
or this summertide whose story
Pales In that exceeding glory.
John Arthur Blake,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
The Onion and Dramatic Art.

Several weeks ago bank In Shipshewana.
Ind, was visited by burglars. who blew
open the safe and secured a large sum CT
money. A famous pack Of bloodhounds was
brought from Indianapolis and turned loose
upon the robbers trail. The man hunt
tasted only few minutes. Suddenly the
leading dog began bowling dismally and re-
fused to go farther. and 1t was impossible
to continue the chase
A prisoner now in Jail at Ligonier, Ind,
has turned states evidence and given the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
The Trip Postponed.
From Harper's Bazaar.

''Silas. we can't take your umbrella to
Europe with u.s." said old Mrs. Stiggins,
The advertisement says that no cotton
will be carried on the passenger steamers !"
Inen wen stay home" said Silas. II
amt a-goin' across anything SO wet as the
Atlantic ocean without my umbrella"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
College Girl q saloon Keeper.
rron1 ho CITY Innpsal

From the Kansas City Journal.
The niece of an ex-governor Of Indiana
Is running q saloon at Wichita. She was
educated at one of the leading colleges OF
the country and II q highly accomplished
musician. She says the Kansas boon
caused her downfall. Her husband lost I'll
his money and died. leaving her psnnilssA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04
A FearsOme Prisoner.

I've locked myself within her heart
And given her the key.
In terror thus 1 crouch. for fear
ihat she may set me free.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-04

'Laroch Gaelic. site of ruined house.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-06
Whose Ok Was Gored,

The monst monstrous of all the taxes on
individual articles is the proposed tax of Ii
cents on all woods. This tax, which Is more
than double the amount that the wooden man
ufacturers wanted will be practically pro-
hibitive tax; woods will be imported, and
woolens made in the United States will be
both Of an inferior quality for the lack Of
miscine woods and will be very much dearer
than now.
But, on the other hand, the treatment
of sugar in the bill is eminently just and
proper. The fairly liberal tax which the bill
proposes to place on imported sugars will not
only allow the sugar planters of the United
States to ho!d their own in competition with
the foreign growers and manufacturers OF
sugar, but will enable them to build up and
extend their industry. In this respect the bill
il 1t is passed, will be of great value to New
Orleans and Louisiana, where the staple will
receive an impetus which it has not known
for the last three or four years Chiefly will
the bill in it's sugar schedule If not in other
schedules well. be of advantage to labor
in Louisiana 1t viii make work plentiful
and remuneration will be correspondineiy
good.-New Orleans Times Democrat
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-06

tore out the job the senate had nestled
In 1t and sent It over to the senate,
where 1t now hangs.
The reason for the strenuous efforts
to open this reservation lies in the fact
that there are On 1t large deposits Of
asphalt and great seams Of gilsonite
Our increasing demands for the former
are now supplied mainly from the
Island Of Trinidad, off the delta of the
Orinoco river in Venezuela, and the
saving Of distance is in itself quite a
profit. For several years senators~have
been trying to get these beds opened
to use under the mining law Presi-
dent Harrison vetoed the bill passed
by the Fifty-frst congress. The effort
made in the following congress failed,
and again in the Fifty-third. Both the
administration of Harrison and Cleve-
land opposed opening the reserve I'M
less provision were made in the bill to
secure to the treasury some portion Of
the values in the asphalt beds and de-
posts Of gilsonite. Secretary Smith
asked that the deposits should be sold
or leased to the highest bidder. This
was refused, but he took advantage of
the provision in the act of 1894 which
placed some apparent safeguards
around the deposits intended to pre-
vent their monopolization, requiring
that the Indians be first settled on al
lotments before the reserve was open
ed He simply made no allotments
One Of the first things Secretary Bliss
was confronted with, on relieving Sec
rotary Francis, was call for troops to
remove the "sooners'' who had rushed
onto the reserve and located claims to
the asphalt and gilsonite beds after the
bill had passed congress, and before
| it was known that the president had
| put it in his pocket. A syndicate that
secure the valuable deposits had every
| thing ready for the rush. The limita-
ton of claims to four to any one per-
son would be evaded much as our
| homestead and pre- emption laws have
| been where lumbernen wanted the
| standing pine. But the bill was vetoed,
and the secretary of war ordered out
| the troops to evict the sooners. What
| the end will be depends upon the stiff
ness Of the backbone of the house, for
there is no room to hope that the SEN
ate will abandon it's jobbing. Should
| the house stand by it's action it may
be hoped that the deposits may be re-
served until the purgation of the senate
renders possible the greater care for
| the common than for private veal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-06

The Cleveland administration having
given place to a Republican one, even
the New York Tribune feels that it
can safely be candid Commenting on
the unexpected results of legislation, so
different from those expected, it is able
to say that the silver purchase act of
1890 had not only failed to accomplish
the purpose for which it was enacted
but, in the opinion Of financiers and
capitalists and of most statesmen, had
wrought havoc with the commercial
and business interests Of the country"
Was it modesty or shame that preclud-
ed the Tribune from excepting some
editors" from the "fnanciers, capital
lists and most statesmen"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-06
ENCING THE EFFECTS OF
FLOOD.
TRACKS FAR UNDER WATER.
TRAINS EAST AND WEST STALLED
FLOOD AT ITS HEIGHT AT
FARGO.
FLOOD GATES HAVE BEEN CLOSED.
Evidence That the Worst Is Con-
sidered to BE Over on the
Mississippi.

Special to the Globe.
BISMARCK, N. D., April 5.-The
river at this point has gorged and has
been rising since early this morning,
and has covered the bottoms south of
the city at a. late hour tonight. On the
west side Of the big Northern Pacific
bridge the water is rushing over the
bottoms, carrying huge ice cakes,
which are tossing over the railroad
tracks and rendering them impossible.
1t is impossible to tell the amount of
damage done until the water subsidies,
and it is now several feet in depth over
the rails. All train service has been
abandoned between the two points. The
eastbOund through train has been held
at Mandan, and the westbound has
been sidetracked here, where it will re-
ma - until it is determined as TO whe-
Their the road can be passed over. Resi-
dents of the river bottoms here have
been leaving their homes in a hurry
with what household effects they could
load up in wagons. Residents of Man
dan, across the river, are prepared to
move, as a continuance of the gorge
below here may result in a repetition
Of the flood Of 1881.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-06

moor. The Sidewalks are floating In many
places, but are anchored in such a manner
enat they cannot foat away completely. A
nuLnDer OF small Ice gorgeS are reported from
various points along the river but no very
serious CANCERS are anticipated from that
Inc Northern Pacific is running trains reg
ussariy' put none have run on the main Rna
~ une Great Northern for several days, with
me exception OF specials between here and
Grand Forks. The branch lines of the Great
NNoFtnern are in working order, except the
Moorhead & Northern, which Is entirely
crippled. and the st. Vincent line. which. Ia
Feg0reed hooded north Of Stephen
InlS AFTERNOON the water In the Red Iaka
lLver commenced falling slowly and has eone
is feared, -'- U''A'N'oo
FHMBlNA. N. D., April 5.-The Pembina
anu small streams tributary to the Red river
otpaneu Yesterday afternoon with large
soHd 1iu Is OF water. The Red river is still
SU Th eAcep9 at the approaches.
s me weather Is very favorable, and the
sly" Is disappearing fast so that the flood
VII depend on the quantity of water coming
from tn south or from the Pembina mouns
tainS. OAAN AAOun
WINNIPEG. Man., April 5.-The Red river
Is stationary as yet, and the ice is solid. The
SNOW Is rapidly disappearing from the prairie
put IL is not thought there Will be anv flood
owing to the ground soaking up SO much bv
reason CT there being no frost,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-06

clustering about their own Importance.
Look at any question which has come
before the senate in the last twelve
months and you will fnd that its policy
has teen governed by strictly personal
considerations. To serve the interest
Of a paternalfst that elected him, to
feather his own nest by support of
job by which to hit an enemy, be he
president or private citizen, has been
the whole study not Of every senator,
but certainly of much more than a ma
jority of all of them
The case is a hopeless one 1t is
not improving, but growing rapidly
worse. The election of senators by the
people direct might do something to
check the disease, but the disposition
Of the senate itself precludes reason
able hope Of the passage Of any such
amendment to the constitution. Even
then we doubt if the spirit which has
possessed the senate, wholly that of
domineering insolence, the idea that it
is body superior to the house or the
president or the people, the same idea
that has made every such body in his
tory the assailant of the peoples lib
critics, would be got rid Of Senatorial
courtesy, senatorial impertinence, the
fixed habit of senatorial intermeddling,
the idea of a great gulf fixed between
the senator and the common people,
are too strongly embedded in the insti-
tuition itself to be SO removed. With
sincere regret, because we do not be-
lieve in sweeping changes until they
are inevitable, because iconOclasm
should be the last resource of rights
denied, we affirm our belief in the
necessity of total abolition Of the SEN
ate Of the United States. 1t will be
better for government, better for popu-
lar rights, better for liberty, better for
humanity, when this branch Of our
government, that has crystallized into
the representative Of privilege and pa
ternalism, shall be wholly Topped off,
Well might we drop all other issues
and appeal to the people for the de-
struction Of what has now constituted
itself an aristocratic branch of our gov
eminent, but merits the name Of aris-
tocracy only in it's exclusive devotion
to wealth and favoritism and political
corruption and remoteness from sym
pathy with or care for the masses of
our people.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-06

How refreshing it is to see a gentle
man where there hasn't been one for
twelve years." Senator German is re-
ported to have said on returning to
the finest gentlemen's club in the
world" after a recent visit to the
White house. The senator has his own
conception Of what constitutes a gen.
tleman. He found his visits to Mr..
Havemeyer's room during the pen
dency of the Wilson bill in the senate
very refreshing" and the gentleman
from West Virginia associated with
him in some coal mines also met his
ideas Of gentility. He need not have
made this remark to let the coun-
try know that any man who does his
duty and regards public office as a
trust is no gentleman.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-06

In the debate Ia the New York cham
Der Of commerce. on the resolutions de-
nouncing the rates OF the Dingley bill,
Mr.. Smith. formerly president Of the
chamber. said that nobody can Justly
charge this body of being In favor OF
free trade, it has always favored q
proper protection" That being true.
Mr.. Smith and his, chamber should
know that there Is no such q thing as
proper protection, - and that any pro-
lection grows legittrnately and rapidly
into the kind they are now pleased to
protest against. II in the end the
chamber gets the Dingley bill and all
the consequence the chamber deplores,
we shall feel that 1t is only getting
what it deserves and has assisted in
making. se
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-06
FATAL FIFTY-SEX.
Renowned Characters Who Have
Died at That Age.

Among the men and women Of genius there
seems to be a strange fatality connected with
the age Of S. says the Atlanta Constitution
Some of the most renowned characters Of the
world have died on reaching that limit, incl1l-
ing Dante, the Italian poet; Hugh Capet,
king Of France; Henry VIII, king Of Eng
land; Henry W., emperor of Germany; Pa
ganini, Italian violinist; Alexander Pope,
English poet; George A. Sala, Eng
lish orientalist; Marcus AureIius
emperor Of Rome; Frederick L.,
king Of Prussia; John Hancock, American
statesman; Marie Louise, empress of France;
Philip Messenger, English dramatist; Saladin,
the great sultan of Egypt; Robert Stephenson,
English engineer; Scipio Africanus, Roman
general; Helvetius. French philosopher and
author; Henry H., the first of the Plantagenet
line; the elder Pliny, Roman naturalist and
author; Julius Caesar, Charles Kingsley
English author; Juan Prim, Spanish general
and statesman; Henry Knox, American revc-
lutionary general; Thomas Miffiin, American
patriot; Van Tromp, Dutch admiral; Abraham
Lincoln, Marryat, the novelist George White
field, English founder of Calvinistic Method
ism; Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester favor
lite of Queen Elizabeth; Johann Casper
Spurzheim, German physician and phrenolo-
gist, and Frederick H., emperor Of Germany.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-06
FROM THE TENTS OF sHEM
Breezy Estfmate of the Turk, His
Habits and RELIGION.

| am back from a tour that extended tn the
t[[oplcai part of the Nile, says Truth. 1t had
Arabian Nights The East is an extraya
gahza. While Impressions are fresh il en-
chants. But one gets quickly tired of it
1t can best be compared to a mindless woman
Of intoxicating beauty, whose charms vans
aIter the honeymoon. l was in no Asiat.c
place that did not wish to get away from.
~ Inc DESTINY OF Japhet ito dwell in the tents
OF Shem' is not enviable Shem has points
put ne Is dirty and cruel. His eyes sea
woman only to lust after her. What Mr..
stead APPLY calls the sex question is upper
complications. Let his theology be what it
may, he Is furious sensualist AS a be-
never IN Allah and the prophet, he is just
what he was when he sacrificed to the OBJ
scene gods Of Syria Women 20 not 10 the
mosque on Friday lest they should turn the
prayerful man from his devotions But his
in eye Is none the less filed with Wis
Ions of the houris in paradise. Mohamme-
dantsm discovered two great intoxicants. the
Koran and alcohol. 1t has poisoned Asia and
AFRICA with the one, and Europe, America
ana Australia with the other | should in
deed, call the koran a narcotic good only
for making dancing and bowling dervishes
IL UNITS him who reads 1t diligently for ac-
tive, civilized life. The koran forbids music
and painting. 1t declares commerce vile and
unfit for believer. He who crosses the sea
twice Is an infdel. Agriculture Of a rude
sort IS allowed. The house that contains q
pillow Is never visited by angels. There can
be no family life with polygamy and the ia
c1lities the koran gives for divorce 1t so
breaks up the day with prayers at the
mosque that no work needing sustained at
tentton can be done The Turks are cred
tied with being tolerant of other religions
They had to do one Of two things, to go on
In never ending circuit Of invasion like
the Bedouins, or to tolerate the Christians
Wherever they sat down in a civilized coun-
try they soon racked it out. The Christians
not being narcoted by the koran, were able
70 work, and so were tolerated as rayahs
when they would not be renegades. Two
fenegades, the brothers Barbarossa, added
Alglers, Tunis and Bizerta to the dominiona
of the sultan. The general staff Of the Otto
man army has long been made up Of French.
hungarian and German officers. Hobart, an
Englishman, created the navy that is now
dismantled and rotting or rusting away in
the Golden Horn. Wherever there are signs
OF commercial activity in Turkey look for
Greeks. The sons of the prophet were war
rlors when war was not a science but
rude onslaught like the spring Of the tiger
They are now only good to massacre the de-
fenseless. l feel sure that II the Greeks are
not interfered with they will execute Mr.
Gladstone's bag nd-baggage programme"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-06
ONE JOB HELD UP.

The federal house Of representafi lives
did one creditable thing when it broke
away from the jamming process on
the Indian bill and struck out the pro
vision throwing open the Uncompahgre
reserve in Utah. 1t is to its credit also
that the provision was not put there
by the house in the original bill. but
was forced into it by the senate in the
last session and kept there by the SEN
ate conferees under threat Of defeat Of
the bill. President Cleveland gave the
bill a pocket veto, and it was reintro-
duced at this Msion in the house with
out amendmel0 When 1t came where
the house could get at IT, the majority
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-06

Col. Fred Grants descent has been
quite as rapid and more inglorious than
that Of less prominent seekers after
pie" He wanted to go to Paris, but
that was promised; then he would take
Italy, but that was under pledge. Then
he would take Vienna, his old place,
and all the social levers were worked
to get 1t for him. but that slipped
away. At last the assistant secretary
ship Of war was offered, and he re-
fused it and retires to his police COM
missionership in9New York city, much
to the regret Of those who would have
Teddy Roosevelt sustained.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-06
SURPRISES and Currency.

quite largely in congress. that when the ma
tlonal income largely exceeds the expenditure
the currency cannot suffer discredit Is so
found acceptance from any intelligent man.
A glance at the financial history of the United
States in quite recent dates Is sufficient to
explode the delusen. In the ten fiscal years
from July l, 1867 to June 30, 1877, every
year showed a surplus revenue, and soma
Of these SURPRISES were very large. For the
whole period the excess Of revenue over ex-
pnditures showed average Of $40, 329, 507 per
annum. Yet during the entire period the
currency was not only very seriously disturbed
but it was under the cloud OF depreciation.
With that warning exhibit in mind, no con-
gresham should be willing to argue, as some
of them have done in this tariff debate that
surplus revenue was a sure cure for all
currency trOubles.-Boston Herald.