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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-31

VIII String His Army Corps Along the
East Coast of Florida.

TAMPA Fla, May 3O.-Plans have been
outlined by Major General Lee for placing
of the entire Seventh Army Corps at Jack
sonville and along the east coast of Florida.
1t is contemplated to establish the head
quarters of the corps at Jacksonville, where
the main body of troops will be located, but
regiments win be placed also at st. Angus
tine Miami and probably other points.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-31
LANG Parade Mt LouisviIIe.

LOUISVILLE, May 3O.-The graves of the
federal dead in Calvary Hill Cemetery were
decorated to-day with appropriate cere-
monies. The parade was one of the longest
ever know here on Decoration day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-31
Al IincoIn,s Monument.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,. May 30. - Services
were held at the historic Oak Ridge Gene
terry to-day at the base of Lincolns monu-
me MT Dr. D. F. Howe addressed the Spring
field G. A. r. posts and kindred organiza-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-31
The Dupont Damaged.

MOBILE. Ala, May 3O.-The torpedo boat
Dupont arrived here to-day to go into dock
for repairs to her hull. she having been in
collision with some vessel at Key West. She
will be off in two or three days.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-31
EDUCATIONAL.
ROSE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

A College of Engineering, Mechanical. Electrical.
Civil Engineering; Chemical Courses: Architec-
ture. Extensive shops. Mo6ernly equipped labora-
tories in all departments. Expenses low. 18th
year. For cataog address
c. l.. MEES. President, Terre Raute. Ind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-31

iy they march under the star and stripes
which guarantee liberty forever and bleed
ing Cuba shall be free
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-31

Cameron pianos are fine. At wulschner's.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02
How China Trent. D.,,,,,.r.

A recent number of the Pekin Gazette.
the Oldest parer in the world, and. for
5000 years the official organ of the Chinese
government. contains the following edict
of the emperor, Tsai-Tien:
I'VE have received memorial from
Shin Nien-tsu. governor of Kiangsi de-
nouncing the conduct of Pien Yung-ch'un
ex-magistrate of Hsinganhsien, Kuangsi
province, who, having retired from his
post, was discovered to be considerably in
arrears in the payment of the taxes COL
lected by him. When applied to for the re-
payment of the said taxes by the pro-
vincial treasury officials, the ex-magis-
trate paid no heed to their demands, show
ing contempt for the law which should
be punished. We hereby command that
the said ex-magistrate be cashiered and
arrested and placed in prison until he re-
funds the whole of his Indebtedness to the
government. We further command the
governor of Yunnan, the native province of
the accused, to investigate and confiscate
any properties that may stand in the &C.
cused officials name in his native and
other towns in Yunnan. Let not the pro-
vincial treasury suffer through the dis
honesty of the officials
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02
JUST BETWEEN SEASONS

Say. do you notice how shabby every
body's looking just nowr, inquired a Wash
frgton man who puts in lot Of time
noticing. IF you watch the people on
the street closely. you'll see that about
nine-tenths of them. men and women, are
wearing buds that have a sort O. frayed,
changed-color, had-lots-of-use appearance.
I'm not speaking Of the corps of dead
swells that tog out in purple and fine linen
all the year round, but just the everyday
Push that you run against. You see, we're
now right in the middle of what call
the shabby season. It's bit too early for
sIring raiment, and the air is nippy enough
at times to make winter clothes feel COM
fcrtable. We're all trying to get all the
wear we can out of our winter outfits.
Some of us will pack away our winter
clothes for use when the cold weather
comes again, but just as many of US will
sen EN- when We get through with 'em
tEis spring or give EN- away altogether.
We're all dead sick and tired Of every
tning were wearing, but We feel that,
even II the collars of our overcoats are a
DIT rubbed, or the bottoms of our winter
trousers considerably fringed, we might as
well get all We can out Of them before the
balmy season puts 1T up to US to blossom
out gorgeousiy In spring rigs. A lot of
the men KIM OF keep up their fronts at
this season by showing up in top coats,
but most of us, when we slough off the
winter overc3at, abandon overcoat wear
Ing altogether until the chilly weather
comes around again. A good many men,
OF course, nave already treated us to their
spring clothes, but the season for spring
suits is so early yet that they look con-
spicuous. The women you see the
streets look just weary of their winter
clothes as the men. A considerable num-
Der of them have already made their ap-
pearance on F street in their light-cloth
spring frocks. but they, too, look If
they were trying to force the season, and
the women still wearing their winter toy
gerry make such remarks as She just
couldn't wait minute, could she. to show
that dress?
you'll notice. too. how much 'on the
bum mems hats are just now The derbies
are all worn and green-looking around the
edges. and the soft hats have generally
lost their shape from being rained upon.
The men are holding off, too, before they
get their lighter-soled Shoes SO that their
footwear looks a heap run down just at
this between-seasons. All the same, when
the trees begin to get leafy. and the lilacs
and snowballs to burst, we're about as
warm a community in the matter of clothes
as any town of our size on the map"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02
NEED A LITTLE EDITING

The variety theaters are surely getting
good deal out Of the Maine disaster. The
serio-comic women are all singing writ
ten-especially -for-me" songs about it, and
they infallibly get terrific hands" when,
at the conclusion of their songs, they edge
over to the wings. grab an American flag
out of the hands OF a property man, and
wave it frantically to the swing OF the
choruses of their songs. This is all right
1t Is as it should be. It would be a queer
thing, indeed, If silence should follow such
a bit of stage work, and in these days the
very calmest and most self-contained men
under ordinary circumstances find 1t i'm
possible to refrain from joining in the tu-
multuous approval Of the palms in impact
when they see their colors exhibited under
any old circumstances. But, for the sake
OF even approximate exactness, some of the
Maine disaster songs, and all of the Maine
disaster Rotations, ought to be edited.
In Washington variety theater this
week slam-bang comedian, whose regular
stunt Is knockabout turn, becomes sud-
denly serious at the conclusion of his act
ana recltes little story, erected in de-
cided!y lumpy verse, of the Maine disaster.
1t is done TO slow music, and at every night
performance and every matinee it has
SIMPLY torn the house apart, both ends
from the middle. up and down, going and
coming. 1t Is a story of Tiny little mid
snapman," whose SNUG, babyish face, brave
manners and all-around dead-gamness
earns for him the love of all the hoarse-
voiced, barnacled, heavy-weather men of
the Maine on the trip down to Havana har-
Dor The tiny midshipman is pictured as
having been on terms of the easiest famil-
larity and confidence, both fore and aft,
and there is 4 lot of mother-is-sadiy-wait-
business in the recitation OF
course, the tot of a MILDLY gets blown sky
high in the explosion; of course, he is
picked up in the harDor by one of the
aforesaid old deep-water bluejackets, and
OF course. he dies on q cot in a Havana
hospital. uttering brave words of cheer for
the United States navy, and sending COM
PORTING, elevated messages to his mother
and sisters at home.
There is. of course. such a thing as poetic
license. But when it is reflected that there
haven't been any midshipmen in the United
States navy for about forty years this re-
citation certainly seems to be bit beside
the mark. There are enlisted apprentices
In Uncle Sans navy-none of them under
seventeen years Of age-and if anybody has
ever been able to discover anything tot
like in the carriage or manner Of United
States naval apprentice he must have had
peculiarly discerning eye.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02
Spafn's Government,

From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The government of Spain at present is
ncminally a constitutional monarchy. The
present constitution of Spain, drawn I'D
by the government and laid before a cortes
CONSTITUENCIES. elected for its ratification
March "a. 1876 was proclaimed June 30.
1876. 1t consists Of eighty mine articles or
clauses. The first Of them enacts that
Spain shall be constitutional monarchy
the executive resting in the king ana the
power to make laws i'm the cortes with the
king. The cortes are composed of a SEN
ate and congress. equal i'm authority. There
are three classes OF senators-hrst, SEN
ators by their own right, or senadores de
derecho propio: secondly, one hundred life
ser ators, nominated by the crown-these
two categories not to exceed one hundred
and eighty, and thirdly. one hundred and
eighty senators, elected by the corpora
tioLs of state-tnat is. the communal and
provincial states, the church, the universe
ties. academies. etc.-and by the largest
payers of contributions. Senators in their
Own right are sons. il any. of the king,
and of the immediate heir Of the throne
who have attained their majority: gran
dees. who are so in their own right, and
who can prove an annual rental OF tDo00
pesetas or e. 400: captain generals of the
army, admirals of the navy, the patriarch
of the Indias and the archbishops; the
presidents of the council Of state. OF the
supreme tribunal. of the tribunal of Cuen-
tas del RENO. and of the supreme council
Of war and Of the navy, after two years
Of Office. The elective senators must be
renewed by one-half every five years and
by totality every time the monarch dis
solves that part OF the cortes. The con-
grees IL formed by deputies named in the
electoral juntas. In the proportion Of one
to every $4,000 souls OF the population.
The present king h Alfonso XIII. son of
the late King Alfonso XII. Maria Chris
tina, mother of the king, n known as the
queen regent. having taken oath to act
IS such during the minority OF her son.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02
Alabama In the War.

A half dozen or more of the many visit
ors ut present in Washington from all over
the Union were talking a few evenings ago
at an uptown hotel where there is always
q southern contingent Naturally the sub
ject was the war with Spain.
Let the war fight proceed" said a long,
legged man from Alabama. "but 1, right
here. as an Albanian. representing the
best interests and the patriotism Of that
Eoble and long-sufEering state, want to
warn you northern fellows to keep your
hands on. You say that $4,000 troops viii
be all that Is needed to walIop Spain OF
the earth. do you? Well, Alabama can
send 100000 and still have reserve left,
and. what is more. we propose to do 1t and
to carry on the war ourselves You Eel
lows up north in the last war had things
In your own hands and swiped all the PEN
sions. and now IL there is to be another
wag Alabama intends to do all the lighting
herself and get all the pensions. Do you
understand that, Yank? IL you don't, you
had better take something to clear your
thinker with In order to get out of the way
when the Aiabana troops get the word to
charge. Seer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02
A Case of Differentiation.

Everybody in Virginia who is anybody
knows Col. Tazewell Elicit of Richmond,
and most of them have an affectionate way
of referring to him as '"Taz." He was in
town the other day on his way to New
York and in the course of a few incon-
gruvial remarks he told this story on him
self to illustrate a point.
Some years ago." he said, II had occa-
sion to stop at a hotel in Baltimore where
a friend of mine had been living for seven
years. One morning after had been there
three days / wanted to find this friend.
whom l shall call Maj. Rockbridge, and l
asked the clerk if he had seen him about
the Office during the last half hour. He
said he had not and referred me to an old
darby VINO presided over the boot blackery
in the adjoining back hail.
"'Have you seen anything of Major
Rockbridge this morning, Uncle Joe?' l in
Quired.
~ don't know no SIGH gem'n, suh,' re-
piled the old man.
Don't know him" + said in surprise.
of course, you know nim.'
No, sub: l dunno no Majah Rock
bridge, round yeah, Suh.'
II couldn't understand the situation. and
went after the old fellow on the trot.
Now, look here, Uncle Joe,' I insisted
you know me. don't your
oh. vas, sub: you's Cunnel Elicit OBJ
Rtchmun'. Euh.'
that you know me, when I have only been
here for three days, and you don't know
Major Rockbridge, who has been here for
seven years.?
THE old man began busting my coat
with the wisp in his hand
Use gwineter 'splain dat right now,
boss he said. cautiously. You see, SUN,
dars some folks wat makes themselves
more notoriouser in three days dan some
udder folks does in seben years. Da's lis
how dat Is, suh.' and 1 agreed entirely
with Uncle Joe"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02
A MARYLAND CUSTOM.
Young Men Who Crow to Warn Late
Sitting Lovers.

Sitting Lovers.
THE cry of Observation-Disclosures in imita-
ton of the growing rooster" says an OBJ
servant resi- lent OF Maryland, has been
put to good use in my section of the state.
Some months ago a party of young people
came to the conclusion that it would be
well to give counting couples a hint that
the hour was growing late by Growing as
they passed houses in which lights in thu
parlor indicated that sweet things were be-
ing SAID. At first the Growing was not in
dulged in until II O'Clock arrived, but dur
ing the winter evenings. when nights were
long, thu hour was anticipated, and recent
ly bellies and beaux who feared to be crow
ed at have closed their sessions by 10
O'Clock. The boys. however. have not
ceased to crow. and many as they drive
along ths roads make q practice Of crow
ing II they see q light in a house after o
O'clock. The chickens themselves have
been educated by this practice and the
cocks. which heretofore have remained
quiet till after midnight. now commence
growing at any hour after nightfail II they
hear a horse trotting along the road So
well understood IL the hint conveyed by a
young man Growing that spoony couples
will sober down at the hast Indication that
Grower L. about
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02

Il have been misquoted," remarked Col.
Stilwell, Sin various ways and upon divers
occasions, and 1 feel, sub, that the time
has come fob me to set myself right
Whats the matter, colonel? Are you
going into politics?'
do you mean. sub. to insinuate that L
have evuh been out Of politics? No, sub.
But the mattuh of which 1 speak IL of an
entirely personal character. I find, how
evuh. that 1 am represented as giving ex-
preston to certain emphatic opinions to
how a battle ship ought to be christened."
Il can guess your sentiments in that
connection" was the facetiously intended
comment.
Possibly. But want to make IT clear
sub. that / have no prejudices as to the
liquid employed"
after all. 1t is only a formality"
Yes. But understand i don't mean to
belittle the significance of the ceremony.
Not in the least. They may break a bot
tie Of champagne If they choose to, as a
sign that there is nothing too good for the
country she represents or they may shat
ter flask of Kentucky spirits to show that
We are full of action and always mean bust
ness, or with clear water to imply that
the vessel is dedicated to the crystal and
unsullied truth. 1t makes no difference
what the bottle may contain. it's con-
tents when liberated to flash for a moment
in the sunshine before II mingles with the
sea will be respondent with poetic and
patriotic suggestion. Any beverage will do
with one important exception, which 1
can scarcely bring myself to mention"
What is that, colonel?"
hope with all my heart. sub, that we
shall nevrh see the day when this country
is called upon to christen q battle ship with
q bottle of nerve tonic"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02
Two Cheap knights.
From the Troy Times.

From the Troy Times.
An amusing story is told Of Sir Ellis
Ashmead-Bartlett, the American-born
knight who has just been explaining to
Britons their defenseless condition and
their need of an alliance with the United
States. Sir Ellis, who is brother of Baron
Burdett-Coutts, whose aged bride on their
marriage gave him her name and $3.50 coo
year for life, owes his knighthood to the
fact that when Lord Salisbury formed his
third ministry Mr.. Ashmead-Bartlett was
left out of the calculations. In the first
two ministries he had figured as a lord Of
the admiralty. At the same time he was
knighted to salve his feelings, the same
dignity was conferred on Blundell Maple,
millionaire furniture dealer in Totem
ham Court road. shabby sort of district
in London. Immediately Lord Salisbury re-
ceived from each Of the prospective knights
letter protesting in the strongest terms
against the knighting of the other as tend
ing to cheaper the honor conferred.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02
SHE WOULD AND SHE WOULDN'T.
The One Thing That Kept Her From
Going a War Nurse.

The One Thing That Kept Her From
Going as a War Nurse.
well, If you go, I'm going as a nurse,
and that's all there is about it!'' she said
to him the other night, when he threw it
out pretty strongly that he'd probably be
fighting for his country in Cuba in about a
fortnight.
oh" he replied; chats out of the ques-
ton, you know. You'd get the fever"
Don't care"
"And even if you didn't die, you'd be the
color of an unripe orange for the rest of
your life
Don't mind that"
Then you might get beri-beri People
that live after having beri-beri are holy
rights for the remainder of their days"
"All right"
And you'd never get the smell Of car
bolic acid out of your nostrils"
Very well. If you go, I'm going too"
OF course, you'd have to have that fine
lot of hair of yours cut Off, to prevent in
lection
Eh-don't mind that, either"
And you'd have to wear rubber gloves
thatd make your hands look bigger \
hams"
That's immaterial"
Fellows that have been down there and
know, tell me that the Cuban hospitals are
simply alive with rats and mice
Goodness gracious! George, must Won
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02
DROPPING FROM A TOP STORY.
An Experience That Was Not Alto
gether DisaEreeable.

An Experience That Was Not Alto
gether DisaRreeable.
A couple of tourists were in the top Of
the Washington monument the other day.
and as everybody else does at that giddy
height, they talked of the discomforts of a
fall. At least one of them did. The other
listened to him awhile.
Il am willing to admit he said that
a drop of 500 feet to a stone pavement is
not pleasant thing to think about, but
1 am witness to testify that more de-
ightful death could scarcely be imagined.
Were you ever killed that way?' in
quired the other. in tone of doubt.
Not exactly, but went through all the
notions
How do you mean?"
Listen. Fifteen years ago or there
abouts l was holding down a job in the
old Gazette building in Cincinnati, a six
story structure, which was considered a
sky scraper in those days. I was twenty
five years old then and not in as good fix
as I am now. and 1 did not kick when the
boss told me to wash the windows on the
top floor. I was doing very well at it, and
had got myself seated nicely on the sill,
rubbing away at the glass, when l lost
my balance in some way and out l went.
What did in going 1 cannot say. What
L thought l cannot say. All / remember
was an inStant'S consciousness that 1 was
falling backward, but where or how was
not clear to me. There was certainly no
sense or knowledge that 1 was falling out
of a top-story window and would be crush
ed to death below.
when consciousness came again was
at home. and it was twenty-four hours af-
ter the fall, did not even know, when I
came to, what had happened They told
me had fallen from the sixth-story win
dow and that had struck on the roof of a
low shed in the back area, which had
broken the fall and saved my life. This
nod r<Afv 40
port except at the ends, and 1 had gone
through them to the pavement below That
l was not killed was only the luck that
comes to people sometimes. didn't even
Dreak bone, but l got shake-up that
kept me in bed for two weeks and made
me sore for three months. This monument
Is some higher than that building, but I
fancy thu feeling in falling is about the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02
AN EQUINE INEBRIATE.
Story of q Horse That Was Too Fond
of Whisky.

StoFy OF q Horse That Was Too Fond
Of whisky.
Several men in a Washington hotel were
discussing picture in a New York Sunday
paper of horse drinking dram of
whisky or other intoxicant, and a majority
at once voted that it was only delirium
of yellow journalism, without foundation
in fact.
Perhaps put in an internal revenue
man with large experience, land then.
again, perhaps not I am ready to swear
that when l was riding through the noun
tains Of West Virginia and Kentucky in
quest Of moonshiners and my daily bread,
I had a horse that would drink his dram
as regularly as anybody. You know, or
would If you tried it while, that the bus
mess of mountain riding is about the hard
est work on earth, not only on the man,
but on the beast under him. Moonshne
liquor IS about as vile drink as a man can
get outside of. but many's the time that
have been 50 dead tired when I got off my
horse In the evening that moonshine act
ually was nectar to me, for the reviving
effect of any kind Of whisky is remarkable.
knowing about the good it did me, tried
1t one day on a new horse that l had just
brought up from the blue grass He was a
good one, but the unusual work had nearly
broken him down. He refused it, of course,
but l held up his head and poured a pint
oOWH LIAl, anu III i've minutes ne showed
signs of improvement, and the last five
miles rode him he was almost frisky. The
next day, along in the afternoon, when he
began to fag, l poured some more into him,
with the same result as on the day before,
and 1t wasn't half so difficult to get him to
take 1t. The third day he took it very easily,
and after that he took his jorum of liquor,
red or white, with as much facility as
did. l had always carried bottle for my
own use. and after the horse got the habit
I carried a larger bottle for him, and he
would take a glassful with the greatest rel
ish and good effect in the latter part OF the
day. when the work began to tell on him.
/ suppose he would have got drunk If he
had had the chance, for I have seen him
when it was all l could do to stay on his
back. and that too when an hour before it
was all he could do to stay on his feet
from WEAKNESS.
Whatever became of him do not know,
but l suppose he is a confirmed topper by
this time, if he is still alive. for I Turned
him over to deputy five years ago who
liked a horse we'll enough to give him
champagne three times day If he ask
for