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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02
washinston Compared to Hannibal
Senator Lodge in Scsibnef's.

Senator Lodge in Scs1bnef's.
With a beaten and defeated army oper-
ating against Overwhelming odds, he had
inflicted upon the enemy two severe de-
feats. No greater feat can be performed
in war than this. That which puts Han
nfbal at the head of all great commanders
was that he won his astonishing victories
under the same conditions. There was one
great military genius in Europe when
Washington was fighting this short cam
paign in New misrepresentation Of Prussia.
Looking over the accounts Of the Trenton
and Princeton battles. he is reported to
have said that 1t was the greatest cam
paign of the century. The small numbers
engaged did not blind the victor Of Ross
bach and Leuthen. He did not mean that
the campaign was great from the number
Of men involved or the territory conquered.
but great In It's conception, and as an Illus
tration OF the highest skin In the art of
war under the most adverse conditions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02
The Rrothern.
Clinton Scotland in the Independent.

Clinton Scotland in the Independent.
In im-litten room
saw a weaver plying at his loom
That ran as swiftly az an 4terant rhyme;
And 10! the workman ut the loom was Time
Weaving the web Of Inea. &C
Twas parti-colored wrought of Peace and Strife:
And through the arpfhsr66f
Shot little golden threads OF Joy md Love.
And one stood by whd6S eJ1S were brimmed with
tears, II -
Poistng tho mighty shears -.
Wherewith when BeerA6d tho Weayer's viii at ehb
He cut the wondrous Deb.
t. III
Time weaves and weafev; lid his dark brother. h.
WIZ one day cut thes3eb 6or Jon and me.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02
RANDOM VERSE.
"Lest We Forget"


ritten for The Evening Star By David Gr,ha,
Adee-
Will We forget the sudden death
Mid blood and haimahg of our slain,
The best and b sJest GOD gave breath,
pc murdered stiiofs Of the Maine'
viii we forget the gallant men
Who, dreaming IF their loved ones far,
We're butchered N Slaughter pen
Without a Thought ", lurking war,
:. Will we forget THE prsSers and tears
OF homes hsar7rokes by a crime.
A Satap's sin whose hue appears
The b.aekest. Basest of all timer
Win we forget our brothers true.
Our brave boys blown up in the bayf
Not whale our heroes wear the blue,
Or grand Old Glory greets the day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02
Curious Reward. for French Widows

Curious Rewards for French Widows.
France has a singular mode of reward
ing the widows and orphans of public men
by comforting upon them tobacco shops.
Last year 2G concessions Of the kind were
made, among the recipients being Nine
Jules Simon, widow of the eminent political
economist: Nine. Lades-Gout, mother-in-
law Of the ambassador at the vatican, and
the reiicts OF several generals, admirals
and deputies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02
whe oueen,s NAH.

About 5000 letters are addressed to
Queen Victoria yearly from her sub5ects
Those that are not stamped are, not for
warded BY the ofacials. The queens let
tiers have precedence Of all others, and
are forwarded to Windsor by special mes
ssnger from the general post odice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02

Written for The Evening Star By David Graham
Iron County register., 1898-12-29
AMERICAN TROOPS I'm CUBA.
The War Department Making Strenuous
Efforts to Send Suficient Troops
to Meet Any Call.

Washington, Dec. 24.-There is every
evidence in the war department that
strenuous efforts are making to put
enough American troops in Cuba to
meet any call upon them through the
speedy evacuation of the Spanish gar
risons. All the transports available
at Atlantic ports are being prepared,
under rush orders, for sailing south.
The Spanish are carrying out their
evacuation contract with unusual ce-
lerity, and there is some questions
whether American troops can be con-
centrated at certain points before the
Spaniards leave. Meantime, the Gu
bans are preparing FOR demonstrations
during evacuation week, and it is
thought very desirable to have an ade-
quate force on hand to prevent any
outbreak that would jeopardize the
American entente at the outset.
Iron County register., 1898-12-29

college But it sufficed for Abel Tap.
Pan very well.
Forty-two, forty-three, forty-fcur
forty-five e-Wyncoop; that's your
page" he said. 'And I declare if Page
46 amt the McKie page, right across
from yours. I'd forgot that. Twenty
nine-twenty-nine dollars and eighty
three cents. There you are, Mis- Wyn-
coop! You better reckon it up yourself
and make sure it's all right. We're all
as liable to mistakes as the sparks that
fly upward
He tilted up and down on his toes,
mildly inCredulous of any possible er-
ror in his reckoning, while Drusilla
Wyncoop went over the columns from
the top downward. Her lips chippered
audibly over the task.
Yes; that's just right. Abel. and I'm
only thankful it isn't any more. Lord
of liberty! who'd believe nutmegs an
pepper m salt would cost most S30!"
Her eyes rested on Page 46. still lying
open on the counter. Her own page. op-
posite, looked almost empty in compari-
son.
From top to bottom and from side to
side, Page 46 was full of minute, un-
steady words. traced with cramped
painstaking and fianked by relentless
column of figures.
what a pagefulI" she exclaimed
''You don't say the McKies owe the
whole of that? Land of liberty! don't
see how they get wink of sleep. and
New Year right on the verge, too! [
couldn't"
81 guess it don't keep them awake
any. Shiftless folks can sleep with their
heads under water
Mr. Tappan's voice loud with scorn.
echoed back from the high rafters.
Mrs. Wyncoop shook her head re-
monstratingly. The words issued lit
tie twisted out of shape by the fat
shawl pin between her lips:
20, no. no. Abel; you shan't call them
shiftless / don't know about jerome
McKie. but his wife amt. She's real
devoted woman, and works dreadful
hard. Maybe she don't know how to
make the money spend as wells she
might, but that amt shiftlessness. And
I never saw tenderer hearted mother
than she is to that little sick girl oi
hers. ! guess she humors her to pieces
Poor little thing!"
Abel Tappan stirred uneasily. rev
of golden lemons on the shelf looked At
him with silent reproach. "The water
don't taste good" a boys eager voice
said in his ear.
''She looks like your little grand
daughter. too" Mrs. Wyncoop went on,
driving the shawlpin home with in
trepid dain-''everybody noticed it. Be-
Iron County register., 1898-12-29
WILL AIMyANoTHER ISLAND.


Washington, Dec. 24.-The govern
ment has determined to hoist the flag
over an island far out in the Pacific
ocean, and orders were sent out late
yesterday afternoon to the commander
OF the Bennington, Capt. Tassig, to
proceed at once to take possession in
the name of the United States govern
ment of Wake island, lying in latitude
10 north, longitude 166 east.
Location of wake Island.
It is distant about 1000 miles from
Nihau, the westernmost of the Ha-.
waiian islands and 1900 miles east
from Guam. 1t is almost in a direct
line between these possessions of the
United States, and is admirably
adapted for use as station for Pa
cific cable to connect the Philippines
with Hawaii and the United States. 1t
IS about three miles in length, and in
closes lagoon of salt water. The
average height of the island is eight
feet above high tide. 1t is scarcely
capable in itself of sustaining life, but
1t is expected that cable station can
be maintained without difficulty by
the erection of a condenser to supply
fresh water.
Its Possession by the United States Abso-
iuteiy Necessary.
Some station in this locality is
deemed to be absolutely necessary to
the maintenance of a cable, and for
that reason the American peace COM
missioners at Paris endeavored to Sc
cure one of the Caroline islands, but
without success.
Wake is said to be by right already
American territory, for in 1851 Admiral
Wilkes surveyed theplace and asserted
title. 1t is not inhabited, so far as
known, at the present time, but in
the past some guano gatherers have
temporarily lived on the island.
How the Order will be Executed.
The Bennington is now at Honolulu
and the orders to her go out by steam
er. After hoisting the flag on Wake
island she will proceed to Guam and
make the survey of the island, which
was ordered some time ago. She has
already completed a survey of Pearl
harbor, seven miles from Honolulu,
which will form the foundation of the
government plans for the enlargement
OF the harbor there and the straighten-
ing of the channel connecting the in
uer harbor with the ocean.
Iron County register., 1898-12-29

fore she fell downstairs and crooked
her back the teacher-she boarded with
me then-said you could hardly tell
those two children apart when they
were together. She used to get en- ali
mixed up at school. Same coiored hair,
with the same kinks in it, and their eyes
Just alike. and even their little dimp'es
matching! The little McKie girl WAS
fat and we'll ther. like your Becky"
The lemons b!inked their yellow eyes
reproachfully. Mr.. Tappan strode be
hind the counter and swept them. with
a succession of cIatters. into the money
drawer. out of sight. He was mentally
reviewing the items of Page 46. He
knew them by heart. How many. many
of them were little unpretending lux
uries that a little. peevish. sick child
might crave! How few of them-heT-
rings now and then. and salt Goldfish
or oatmea!-were necessaries! II had
nettled him over and over again t.
think of it. but now. somehow, =
touched him against his Will.
Yes. o. yes. lie knew they used to say
the little McKie girl-Love. Dove. what
was her name?-lool<ed like Becky
His Becky His little round. roly poly.
happy Becky!
After Mrs. Wyncoop's departure ABB
Tappan took the big brown ledger back
to the corner desk still open. Doggediy
he turned the pages and went to work.
With quick steps the little New Year
was hurrying to meet the Old Year.
His light footsteps made no creallirg
ha E1auPn-nI9rfpr Ter
-half-past-how close they were, al
most touching hands!
a little voice reused Abel TGppan ay
and by-Becky's-but he had nevar
heard Becky's voice from such dis
tance before. He seized the lamp and
hurried upstairs. where he and mis- little
beloved. motherless Becky and o!d
Nance lived.
The child was tossing on her bed, frct
ting plaintively Her little face. in tie
lamps feeble glimmer. looked unduiy
flushed and thin.
ssMy back aches so." she whimpered.
Becky's back ached sol Becky's lit
tie straight-no. o. Lord have mercy,
it w.s crooked! 1t bowed cut pitifullv
against the little white sheets. Becky's
face was sharp With pain.
Abel Tappau shuddered from head to
foot. The lamp shook in his hand un-
safely. Through the blur on his glasses
the little tossing head on the pillow
seemed strangely far away from him
Was it his little. plump. rollicking. dam
eiS- BecRy-his straight Becky he had
been so proud of always?
"I'm so thirsty in my throati"
moaned the little crooked Becky on The
bed.
He bent down Gnsteadily and kissed
her. His heart broke in the kiss.
.sDaddy'll fetch Tou drink right off,"
he faltered.
Iron County register., 1898-12-29
AS THE YEARS ROLL BY.
Over to the Next a World Bet
tered by Doing Good.

There was a time in the long ago
when this observation would have
meant little. Back in those periods
when nature was here all alone and
was doing everything SO leisurely in
her own way, when there was no agony
of human life, no cry from the lips
of men and women, no anxious thought
beating upon the perplexed mind. no
hope striving against fear in the
troubled eseart, back in those great
stretches of space, in that vast fear Of
illimitable and unutterable transac-
tions of fire and mist and water ard
sand and sea, where geologists delight
to spread out ages and pile up GEN.
turies, what would it have mattered
if some voice had sounded above the
explosions of immeasurable volcanoes,
the rise and fall of continents. and tho
roar of overwhelming seas, and cried:
"The years are rolling by!" If scma
lone geologist could have stood upon
the pinnacle of a favorite theory in
that manless world and answered that
cry, he would have replied: Let them
roll, we have millions and to spare"
no longer belong to nature but to man,
and that the fret and fever of life will
not permit events to edge slowly along
through numberless ages, and that
each generation is shut up to its little
span of threescore and ten, the voice
which warns US that the years are roll
ing away falls upon our thoughts like
the sob of wave dropping down the
shore. It is not that the years of all
time are rolling by. but that our years
are going, which puts such serious cast
upon the phrase. The world will roll
on, the procession of events will move
down the future, and millions of hui
man beings will swarm on the earth
ages hence. but the years to which we
belong, in which we must make our
stroke high or low in history, are fast
passing.
Personally, it is pathetic enough, but
no doubt it will be all right in the sum
of things. For it is not at all certain
that it would be better if we kept on
through the years. We might get in
the way. The world must be greatly
changed before the millennium comes.
and we might be in too soft place to
want a change, or we might be rusted
in the old grooves and refuse to ge:
out, or we might be so full of old no.
tions that there would be no room for
a new idea, and our heads might hard
en- to such degree that nothing but
a surgical operation would let in a new
ray of light. New men will arise with
new views, and women newer even than
those who are now on the platform
may come to the rescue of the race,
and there must be ears to hear their
messages. AS long as human limita-
tions are such that an old generation
cannot keep young heart and young
hope and face set full to the future,
there is no way but to let the race come
and go with the years. But the mission
IF each generation is plain. 1t is not
to reach the final goal, but to do as
little harm and as much good as pos
sible. and to hand over to the next gen
Grafton a better world than we re-
,eived from our fathers.-Chicago Ad-
vance.
Iron County register., 1898-12-29
ANOTHER NEW YEAR.
Age Recl&Oned by Inward SiEns-0ld
Only as Our Growth in Manly and
yomanIy Virtue Would show.

A modern author suggests that if all
record and measurement of time by
hours and days and years could be
abandoned, we should gradually adop:
Il newer and truer standard, and count
our age by inward rather than out
ward signs.
If, bv transformation of mental habit.
this introspective reckoning could sud-
denly be brought to bear. in what new
aspect should we see ourselves and
our friends. How old would many
seem who are yet in the vigor of youth.
and how youthful many whose brows
are wrinIlled and crowned with silver
hair. We might not wholly separate
tine and growth. but we should meas
ure time for mortals as we do for trees,
by the indications of growth.
Who I,oes not know the difference
who lool,s back and sees how the life
less years of his past lie half forgotten
while the life OF the vital years has pow
sr still to set every pulse athrob? These
years count, the others are ciphers. We
ere as old as their grand vitality
inwrought into experience and ripened
as old as our thoughts are high and
deep; as old as our love is wide and
warm; as old. and only as old. no mat
ter how many cur years, as our growth
in manly and womanly virtue would
show. The brain may have absorbed
facts and theories and PHILOSOPHERS
about goodness and the real self be
learning the alphabet of Gods lesson
OF obedience and trust.
These being the natural food of the
soul. its real growth depends On the
souls power of assimilating what has
been prepared by Divine hand for
lis nurture. Yet on no amount of
thought about obedience. or love, or
goodness will the hungering human
nature thrive. Nc careful analysis of
foods will build up the wasting tissues
or give new strength to the growing
body, only that which enters into the
life becomes part of fiber, and blood,
and bone.-Washingto Home Maga-
zine.
Iron County register., 1898-12-29
But she th.ust away the glass he

But she thsust away the glass he
brought her.
ct don't taste good-take it away,
daddy. I'm SO thirsty in my throat"
"Yes, yes; daddyIl go get some nice
fresh water, right out of the well. You
wait. Becky"
Becky lifted up her small, tangly
head and Pazed up at him reproach-
fully.
"Take it away, daddy" she cried
''Put lemon init don't taste good.
want a squeeze o. lemon in, an sugar
I'm so thirsty"
Abel Tappan's grizzled head bowed it
self beside the child's.
"Yes, yes; daddy1l fetch a lemon
right away and make it taste good"
he mumbled in an agony of grief,
against her cheek. "Daddy'n see to it
all nice"
Back in the store again, he could
find no lemons. though he searched and
researched with dogged insistence
plenty of them. over there on the sec
ond. right-hand shelf. in row.
He moved boxes and cans. he cleared
whole shelves with a sweep of his arm.
Becky's little wall sounded on, unceas-
ing, in his ears. lie must find themi He
could not go back to Becky without
them. The yellow labels on some of
the bottles Knocked him and led him on
to unavailing hopes. The dim lights
twinkIed their eyes and jeered at him.
merry party going past outside
shouted and sang. and he shook his
tight fist toward them angrily. Where
could the lemons be? he asked himself
over and over in dull wonder. If he had
only remembered to look in the money
Till!
''I'll go down TO the Forks-they'll
have 'em at Denby's," he muttered.
Its good mile, but I don't care if it's
30i l don't care if have TO wake up the
seven sieepers, neither"
But how long it took to find his great
coat and get into it! He tried to hurry.
Heavy weights seemed to hang to his
limbs and drag them back with dia-
bolical persistence. Would his arIus
ever go into the sleeves? Was it 60
ing to take till crack O. doom to get
his hat on his head? Big drops of sweat
scurried down the seams of his hag-
gard cheeks. He set his teeth dog
gedly.
If the lemons in the money drawer
had only logged against the door of
his memcry!
iii find one-big one-steal one
he cried aloud.
Hark! was that the little voice, muf-
fed by the folds of the thick comforter,
Iron County register., 1898-12-29
CAGES CURRENCY SCHEME.
His Wildcat Banking Proposition
Finds Little Favor Even Among
Certain GOIdite Advocates.

The scheme of Secretary Gage to re.
tire the greenbacks and place the cur
rency issuing power in the hands of the
banks is certain to encounter break
ers. Already opposition to it is being
developed in republican ranks, and
when the McCleary bill gets before
congress an open revolt against its
provisions will occur. There is 20 more
determined gold standard organ than
the Chicago Tribune, which paper, in
commenting on Secretary Cages plan
and his hope that it viii be approved
by the next congress, uses the follow
ing significant language:
The Fifty-sixth congress Is not going te
turn away from the Philippines. Porto Rice
and other grave questions which will claim
it's serious attention to remodel the ma
t:oral bank act in such fashion as to en-
aole those institutions TO issue notes
against their capita! instead of against
government bonds. The proposed change
would increase the strain on the banks
greatly in hard times and panicky sea-
sons, and would endanger them and their
depositors. The next congress will do
nothing which can pave the way to re.
turn of the wildcat banking methods of
other years.
The only financial legislation which
the Tribune deems possible or prob
able for years to come" is an amend
ment to the national banking act
which win permit the banks to issue
currency up to the par value of their
government bonds Under the law as
it now is the banks can issue only
90 per cent. of the par value of their
bonds-that is, for every bond of S100
they can issue $50 of currency. The
Tribune's proposition is that for every
500 bond 500 currency be issued. In
view of the large premiums on all gov
ernment bonds, the safety of the note
holders would not be diminished. The
bonds have never been be-
low par since the civil war closed, and
for many years have commanded heavy
premiums.
The Tribune reflects the sentiments
of a portion OF the republican party
which, while favoring the gold stand
ard, is yet opposed to any wildcat
banking" scheme, such as Secretary
Gage is trying to force on congress nc
the instance of the Indianapolis mon-
etary conyention.-Denyer News.
Iron County register., 1898-12-29
AN UNPOPULAR DECISION.
The Acquittal of Waiter Rosser, Who
Killed Henry Hildebrand, Causes BAD
Blood I'm San Francisco.

San Francisco, Dec. 24.-An attempt
has been made to arouse the people of
this city to violence as result of the
aquittal of Walter Rosser, the Tennes-
see soldier who killed Henry Hide
brand.
Flaming posters bearing the follow
ing inscription were conspicuously
displayed on bill boards yesterday:
Tar and Feathers for the IL Jurors
Who Acquitted Murderer Rosser.''
Chief-of-Police Lees does not fear
trouble, but says that he will make an
effort to have Rosser indicted for the
attempted murder of Willie Lynch,
whom he fired at when he killed
Hildebrand. If the indictment is re-
turned, which seems hardly likely,
Rosser will be extradited.
Iron County register., 1898-12-29
still calling to him? Was it growing
clearer nearer?

! still calling to him? Was it growing
clearer, nearer?
''Wisher Happy New Year, daddy"
Why, it was Becky said it herself,
standing in the murky doorway?
Becky! Her voice shrilled out to him,
triumphant and sweet.
Abel sprang forward in sudden hor-
ror and caught her in his arms. Her
little nightgown fell away from her
bare toes. and ne felt the chill of them
against his wrists.
Happy New Year" he repeated, me-
chanicalIy, after her. He was huggiEg
the little cold feet fiercely to his breast,
and burying his face in the tousled hair.
1t was Becky Becky and her
checks. against his. felt round and
warm. And she sat on his arm as
straight and strong as Il little ramrod!
Then he had been asleep. He had had
i terrible dream. Thank God. he was
awake now! He carried Becky back
upstairs. feeling every step as he went,
with slow care. Then he tucked her
into bed among blankets and quilts. and
kissed her.
His lamp was f1ickering out. and he
.
The big book on the high corner desk
lay open at page 46-
What,
Abel Tappan could hardly believe his
eyes. He took eff his glasses and
iubbed them on the lining of his coat.
But when he put them on again. he
could still see two wavy, criss-cross
lines meandering from corner to corner
OF page 46.
Mrs. Wyncoop's page, opposite. was
clean and uncrossed
We'll. now, who'd We believed it,"
he laughed. in loud delight. His heart
-elt light and glad. Il did it myself.
instead O crossing out Mis- Wyncoop's!
And it can stay, too It'll remind me
that | amt going to press that poor
Nckie woman mite-not a mite-uot
if she can't ever pay up. She's got a
poor little spindling, crooked-backed
girl. and the Lord knows that's enough
afliiction. That's more'n. ! could stand"
With careful painstalling, he retraced
the slanting lines. his pen spluttericg
tiny flecks of ink upon his intent face.
"There!" he breathed softly. II guess
they're black enough to remind me if
amt stone blind. Now I'll turn over
new leaf"
At the top OF the clean, new page he
wrote. in his small, unsteady letters,
the word Lemons"
"I'll send Becky over with 'em first
thing in the morning-ifI can find 'em," )"
he added, laughing again. Then he
slapped his thigh in a sudden spasm of
recollection.
why, bless your hearth they're in
the money drawer this minute, holding
their sides, like as not. / raked 'em all
in to get 'em out o. my sight"
A sleigh load Of belated jewellers was