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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-28

with Spain can be averted by giving auton-
omy further time to demonstrate its fail
ure, they might study with advantage the
opinions of these financial and commercial
representatives.
A question has been raised whether the
reconcentrados will be in tissue" and
whether further irritation will not be
caused by the President or Congress MAX
ing a point of their condition before the
whole world. The fear is groundless Span
ish Honor withstood the wound which
was inflicted when the system of American
relief was inaugurated 1t cannot be hurt
by anything said on the subject at this late
period.
An intention to continue the succor with
out removing the cause of the starving
would be accepted by the authorities as
giving them another period for temporizing.
They might then look upon the delays pro-
posed at Madrid as giving real ground for
the hope that the insurgents would receive
no substantial encouragement from the
United States until the rainy season is well
advanced. Some of the Spanish officials
who are close to Gen. Blanco cherish that
delusion. They again talk about military
operations and what Gen. Pando may dc
if he has further time
New Recruits Nearly All There.
All but 5000 of the $4,000 new recruits
have arrived, and are scattered over the
island. With more time these officials hope
something might be done toward weaken
ing the insurrection, but 1t is a baseless
hope. the highest military officials do not
entertain it. The members of the autono-
mist cabinet do not put faith in it, They
know that the only way the insurrection
can be ended is through the United States
CHAS. NJ. PEPPER
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PRESIDENT RANKIN PROTESTS.
Objects to Proposed Disposition Of tn
Freedmen's Hospital.

Rev. j. h. Rankin, president of Howard
University, has written to Senator McAIil-
Ian, chairman of the joint select committee
On charities and reformatory institutions
in the District of Columbia, in which he
protests against some of the recommended
| tons made in the report of that committee.
DIR. Rankin says:
I'm The Evening Star of the 21st instant
it is stated that your honorable committee
recomme nd the turning over of the whole
plant of the Freedmen's Hospital to the
trustees of the Howard University of
Which 1 have the honor to be president
So far as l know this conclusion has been
reached by your honorable committee with
out any official communication with the
executive officers Of the university. l wish
therefore to submit few thoughts for the
| consideration Of the committee.
You ask the trustees of Howard Uni
Versity to undertake to run the hospital
ut is chartered as an asylum and hospital
| 1 believe) On $50, 900, the present appropria-
ticn being $54OOO.y This proposition takes
away from our income $1,000 annually.
This sum is received by us as rental for
the premises and is a portion Of the in
come which is our dependence for running
expenses. This is equivalent to Offering us
$4,000 to do a work for the government for
which the government has found it neces-
| sary to eXpend SOL 900 annually. We have
no resources on which could do this.
We now pay about 81, 600 towards the sup
port OF our medical department, giving the
pre- feSsors the tuition which amounts to
5000 or more. The advantage coming
to this department from the hospital is
not advantage in money. I am very sure
that Unless the United States should pro-
vide generous support for the hospital
the trustees would be wholly unwilling to
accept the trust. If $4,000 is needed now,
l do not see why substantially the same
sum would not be needed in the future.
The institution is partly asylum-a
town poor house, 1t would be regarded in
the north and northwest, and cannot be
restricted to the more special work of a
hospital without some change in its Or
ganic law.
Again, If the trustees are to be held re-
| spc ns'ible for the administration of the
institution. / am sure they would wish to
make the appointments and to have the
power Of removal. Mo- person should be
removed or appointed for reasons political
Il can see some great advantages to the
government and to the university in the
proposed change, but am sure the trustees
would not be able and would rot be willing
to accept the hospital on the conditions
proposed in the bill recommended by your
honorable committee
DR.. Rankin closes his letter by saying
that he would be- glad to appear before
the committee to further consult-with them
regarding this matter.
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THRONG At THE CAPITOL.
People Began TO Gather ms Early a
O'Clock.

hrcophe bcson 10 SatneF ms Early m
O'Clock.
Not within the memory of the Oldest
employee of the Capitol has such a crowd
visited the House wing as the one which
assembled this morning. Tn. people began
to gather when the outer doors of the
House wing were opened at 0 O'Clock They
were lined up in the corridors of the upper
floor long before the doors of the gallery
We're opened. BY 10 O'Clock the number Of
visitors had increased to such an extent
that the police had difficulty in handlinR
them.
To relieve the corridors the doors of tho
galleries were opened early and the peoplS
made a nsad scramble for seats Admis-
sion to the private galleries was confined to
persons holding cards issued by members
of the House. These galleries were filed
almost as soon as thu public galleries.
By IL o'clock there was not an inch Of
space I'm any gallery in the House except
the diplomatic and the executive galleries.
The doors were then closed and the peo-
PIE banked up in the corridors in long lines.
making the passage along the corridors OF
the upper floor almost impossible.
The families and friends of representa-
tives who arrived late found there was no
place for them In the galleries, and they
were compelled to seek accommodation
Ipcn the floor of the House. A large pro-
portion of the visitors today were ladies.
Only one section of the space assigned to
the public was occupied by men. and ladies
who came late were glad of an opportunity
to edge into the mems gallery.
Such was the interest in the days pro-
cee6ings that members Of the House began
to arrive at an earlier hour than usual.
They assembled In groups upon the floor,
eagerly discussing the situation and thu
outlook for the day.
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WORK IN THE FIELD.
Commissioners Evans Issues an Order
KeKardinE Spccial Examiners.

Commissioners Evans Issues an Order
Regarding Special Examiners.
The commissioner Of pensions has pro-
mulgated the following order with refer
ence to special examiners Of the pension
Office in the field:
"On and after April /, 1893, no CLERKS will
be detailed or given work as special ex-
aminers II the field carrying with such as
signment per diem and expenses whose sal-
aries shall exceed $1,000 per annrlnf''
The operation of this rule will tend to
check the general desire Of clerks for field
positions, so soon assthey have become val
liable to the bureau by reason Of thorough
efficiency. :.
The commissioner wants clerks of the
best for Office work. where the evidence
and reports prepared by the field force
must be properly attended to. A per diem
of $ attaches to feld positions, and the
special examiners are by no means anxious
to exchangc field position at tie reduced
rate Of 81 300 per. annum for bureau
portfolio at $1.400 or even 81 600. In many
rural sections the special examiners can
easily live on the allowance Of per diem.
leaving their salaries untouched.
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GARRISON TO THE FORE.
Former Commander Of the G. A.
Ready to Eight.

Former Commander of the G. A. r.
Ready to Fight.
Ex-Comn ander-in-Chief Clarkson of the
Grand Army Of the Republic has sent this
letter to Gov. Holcomb:
OMAHA. Neb.. March 26.-Should cir
cumstances arise by which the government
of the United States should call upon our
state for troops for war purposes, beg to
tender my services. A strong constitution,
vigorous health and four years field expe-
rience give me the right to believe l could
ne OF much service, as my long residence in
this city would enable me to raise a regi-
ment here in a few days. Depioring war
at this time and fully realizing its horrors.
yet l am prepared to place myself at nv
country's service at moments notice I
am, governor, very truly yours
T. 8. CLARKSON
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ARTILLERY TRANSFERS.

"A Number of Officers Assigned to the
New Regiments.
By direction Of the Secretary of War the
following transfers in the artillery arm are
made:
To the 9th Artiliery-Lieuts. Harry L.
Hawthorne, LIST Artillery; Gustave w. S.
Stevens, 1st Artillery; Louis Ostheim, I'd
Artillery; Arthur f. Curtis, I'd Artillery;
Edward A. Millar, Sd Artillery; John K
Cree, Sd Artillery; Charles T. Menoher, Sd
Artillery; William P. Stone, 4th Artillery;
Samuel d. Sturgis, 4th Artillery; Thomas
RidSway, 9Th Artillery; Edgar Russell, 9Th
Artillery.
To the 7th Artillery-Lieuts. John W.
Ruckman. LIST Artillery; Elisha S. Benton
LIST Artillery; T. Bentley Mott, 1st Artil-
lery; Henry u. Todd, jr., 1st Artillery;
Isaac N. Lewis, I'd Artillery; Cornelis Dew
Wilcox, ID Artillery: Henry c. Davis Sd
Artillery; John D. Rarrette, Sd Artillery
Elmer w. Hubbard, Sd Artillery; Lucien
G. Berry, 4th Artillery; Willoughby Wake
9Th Artillery.
The following assignments of officers to
the two new regiments are announced:
Colonel Edward b. williston, to the 9th
Artillery.
Colonel William Sinclair, to the 7th Ar
tillery. He will take station at Fort Slo-
cum, n. Y. tsr,
Lieutenant Colonel Wallace F. Randolph,
to the Sd Artillery.
Lieutenant Colonel Tully McCrea, to the
9Th Artillery.
Lieutenant Colonel Frank G. Smith, to
the 9Th Artillery.
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph G. Ramsay, to
the 7th Artillery. He will remain on duty
at Fort Hamilton, N. Y, until further or
ders.
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sICARD LEAVES KEY WEST.
Capt. sampson Has Taken Form.I
Command OF Fleet.

Rear Admiral Sioard, with his wife and
daughter. left Key West Saturday on the
steamer for Miami They are going to
Nassau and thence to Palm Beach. The
admiral expects to spend several weeks
resting at Florida winter resorts.
Captain Sampson has taken formal charge
of the fleet The usual ceremony in the
change of flags was omitted
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The dead body of an infant was found
Saturday afternoon on the dump at the
foot of 18th street The body was taken to
the third precinct station and Coroner
Carr gave q certificate of death.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-13

struggle from the time I succeeded in getting myself fired from a printing office, where my father had placed me that l might outgrow the notion of studying art, down to my meager exis- tence while, studying in Paris in 1883. I think there were very few students who lived on as small an allowance as I did. Invariably as the end of the month came around l had to live on horse meat. did my own cooking and soon got to relish a horse steak pretty we'll.
 "But pshaw! the greatest hardships of life are those we endure at home among our own friends. I remember one time when rooming with Jules Ta- vernier that I had a rather hard rub. He suggested that we go out into the country to sketch, and I had scraped all the money I could together and met him at the ferry. Let me have your money, Joullin, he said. haven't any just now, but I've got some coming. He was always like that-expecting money, and when it did come he was the most generous hearted boy in the world.
 Well, my money was soon spent, and we waited for Jules remittance to square up our debts at the hotel. At last it came, but by that time our board bill had increased to such an extent that we could only pay our 1ares to Oakland. There we Were-Stranded at the mole. While we were scheming to get across the bay, newsboy came up, who, reading the name of Jules Ta- vernier on the valise said: Hello, Jules
 Do you know me?' asked Jules quickly. If you do, let me have four bits and I'll give you this pocket-knife.
 '"The bargain was made, but when we reached the other side we had to walk up to our studio carrying our traps, and the worst part of it. to exist on free lunches for nearly a week"
 Gordon Ross has felt only for day the hardships of an impoverished
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appointed, and in my desperation took the first room I could find where could get credit. It was somewhat topsy-turvy, but the woman explained that her Aunt Martha had just died and that she would have 1t in order by night. For three days I occupied the room without noticing anything un- usual. But on the fourth, thinking that I was opening the door to the porch. by mistake I opened the one on the opposite side of the room, and for a moment I stood rooted to the spot. For there lay the fast mortifying body of corpse.
 q went down those stairs three steps at a time and demanded of the landlady to do something with the 'deader.'
 ".Oh, that Is only poor Aunt Mar tha.' the woman explained. She died with a little wind around her 'eart, and the doctor said it would be no arm to keep the good soul for a few days. We are going to bury her over the little i'll tomorrow
 ''The worst part of the whole thing was that. knowing what was in the next room, I had still to occupy mine from sheer necessity until the remit tance arrived, and that was the most wretched night in my whole exist ence.
 "The worst trials of my life," said Thomas Hill, T endured while paint ing that picture of The Last Spike. Owing to the many commissions show cred upon me by MT. Stanford, my generous patron, I made very slow progress with the picture, covering a period of four years. From time to time I changed the figures at MT. Stanford's suggestions. and one day he met me on the street and in the friend Hest manner said that he must counter mand the order, as he feared the pub- lie would think him egotistical if he had anything to do with the work I told him then that l released him
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which the rain fell in torrents The river rose rapidly and threatened to cover the island.
 The boy shouted for help, and his cries were heard by two German po- licemen and several villagers, but none of them would venture into the swollen stream.
 The boy had almost given himself up for lost, when he remembered hearing some of his playmates say, If you want a policeman, shout, 'Vive Ia France!'"
 He immediately began to shout "Vivt la Francei" whereupon the two police. men plunged into the river, seized the boy, dragged him across to the main. land and off to the police station, where they charged him with uttering sedi. tiouS cries
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from all responsibility, but that 1t was an historical event, and that if the picture were truthful l should have no trouble in finding a purchaser. He told me, however, that when l had completed the picture I had bet ter let him see 1t first, and the expres- sion on his face as he said 1t told vol umes to encourage me.
 If there was any folly in it it was all mine, but I worked with more zeal than ever before. Foremost among the stubborn facts that stared me in the face was the mortgage on my home, besides my wife and nine chllu- ren had to have bread and butter. My four years of toll, with its hopes and body and mind. The mortgage on my home was foreclosed, but Charles Crocker came to my rescue and fur nished me with the means to get out of the country, to forget the spike picture and its attendant miseries. But l never can"
 "Once upon a time." related c. D.. Robinson, "a minister tried to reform a drunken Indian by offering him a bribe to keep sober. Now, Joe,' said he, if you can keep sober for one year I will give you $5 at the end of that time The intoxicated Indian quickly pledged himself. The minister saw him no more for six months, when he found him on a glorious jag. Why, Joe,' the good man exclaimed, you are drunk again oh, mo- the Indian in- sisted; this is the same old drunk!'
 Artist William Keith said: "Oh. yes, I have had hardships; but, man alive, who hasn't? I was wood-carver and stuck to my trade until I had saved a little money, and then I began to paint: but, pshaw! when I didn't sell my pictures did I sit down and whine like a woman? No, just worked and worked at another. If had quit paint ing whenever I received disappoint- ment or failed to sell picture, darn it all. I would have been physical wreck long ago. Everybody has disappoint- ments. But if you gre in trouble, work; if you are hungry, work, and if you are in love be sure and work; it is the best thing you can do.''
 ITO tell the truth" said Amadee Joullin, "my whole life has beep
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"WORK, ]" SAID

at my easel, but could not paint was blind to color save one and that the golden twenty loaned me by my friend. It seemed to dance all over the canvas. until I had to quit work. Sev- eral more days passed, and in all of my life I can truthfully say that these were the most wretched days. Not an order; not pupil The fifteenth finally dawned, and early in the morning was startled by rap at the door. yelled come in rather unceremonious- ly. A stranger answered my summons I studied that man as closely as if he had been some distant species of ere ation, for he was the first visitor in the fortnight. He left me an order for two pictures that secured the rent. not only for one month but for three"
 "The most Wretched time in my ca- reer,' asserts H. s. Fonda, T spent in Paris in 1893. I could not speak a word of French and Just happened to stop at a hotel where there were no Americans. Upon the second day of my arrival I missed my bank drafts suspended from my neck. Oh, that hour of torment was bitterl I had saved my earnings of years for this one purpose-to study in the art schools of Paris, and now nothing remained. Be- sides, l had very little in my purse and as the hotel did not furnish meals I did not eat that day. Of course I mo- tifed the bank and hunted up the American Club at the Hotel de la Haute Loire, where I found bonhomme and consomme and, to my unspeakable delight, I also found my drafts where they had been lost in the recesses of my own pockets"
 Tn 1SS9," said Artist John Stanton. T left Paris and went up to Rochefort en terre to sketch. One day I was busi- ly engaged in sketching the fortifica- tions, not knowing there was a law against it, and was arrested by a ser- geant, who took me for German spy. I made matters worse by being sullen and was locked up in the conciergerie for two days and a night and fed on onion soup
 ''As soon as was released from here, my funds being low, I set out for Rye, England, where I expected to find my allowance waiting for me. l was dis
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1ARD LUCK" STORIES OF OUR BEST- KNOWN ARTISTS.

An amusing account of Virgil Williams adventure in Italy, showing that artists undaunted spirit, is related by MT. Jorgenson. MT. Williams, who was the first director of the San Fran cisco Art School, spent nearly ten years in Italy. During that time he made several sketching expeditions into the interior of the peninsula. and on one the funds to buy even a third-class passage on the steamboat which would take him to his destination. His argu- ment to the ticket agent was of no avail. The agent advised him to sec the captain, but he found him just as firm. They would take no one on less than a third-class fare.
 Finally as MT. Williams turned to leave the boat, he saw some horses aboard and said, Surely, captain, you don't charge as much for shipping those horses as you do for carrying the passengers, do you?'
 Of course not the captain replied. Then let me go as a horse; will stand in tn re with them
 Who are you, anyway" the cap- tain exclaimed, amazed at his persever. ence.
 !" I am an American artist MT. Will jams answered.
 Then the captain said, Whoever you are, you are all right; come along with me as my guest
 MT. Williams accepted his invita- ton, not only that time, but whenever he had occasion to cross on that boat"
 ANNABEL LEE.
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as a designer for the lithographic
 trade" said H. J. Breuer, "but when I
 had saved a few hundred dollars
 would retire with it, study and paint ! landscapes, and end by pawning the frames, before going back to toll. In 1885 I rented a studio on the corner of Fourteenth street and Broadway, New York. I had gone through the usual phases; my best clothes in hook; my watch 'spouted' at the Bowery and the ticket held by the proprietor of a cheap restaurant as security for a seven meal coupon ticket. I tried for work, but luck was against me. 1 had got down to toasting little bacon over the gas jet and a five cent loaf. It was winter, dull, shivering and silent, save the oc- casional visit of a friend, from whom l always tried to hide; but. if he suc- ceeded in getting in on me unawareS l entertained him with cheerful lies until he had gone and then kicked my self for a fool because l did not ask him for dollar.
 Well, at about that time my finances were at their lowest ebb. I heard the landlord at the door, clustering, swear ing and saying, What do you mean? Two months due tomorrow With an emphatic shove at my shoulder I gave that landlord one Diff, so. He grabbed rne and as I had had no breakfast that day I fell down and he sat on me like an undigested doughnut.
 When got up I had only two but tons left that would hold. l was busy painting my eye back to its normal color when I heard another knock at the door. I grabbed the poker this time; the door opened and 8 gentleman whom had known in better days en- tered the room. I raked at the stove and closed the damper, knowing that the stove was cold.
 Hello. Brewer said the new conner. Are you very busy?' 'Very!' said I. Sorry he said. I want you to get me up a design for the Real Estate Exchange downtown. It's competi-
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THE FATAL KLONDIClTIS.

I'd lover who was perfect Or, I thought so at the time; He would send me flowers and candy, He would write me yards of rhyme; He would visit, send me notes He would call me through the phone; But he took the KlondicitiS, And I'm doomed to live alone. I gave just fifteen hundred To a man I thought all right, He was sure of millions in it," And 'twould work just out of sight" We had planned to make splurge, And were waiting for a scoop; But he took the Klondicitis And I think Pm ''in the soup." s5 You may talk of rheumatism, lsl You may fear to get a chill, l1 ;i You may dread the indigestion, 1E9. And the latest microbe i'll; You may run the entire gamut, You may have the worst of luck; But I think the Klondicitis The most fatal thing we've struck.
 ELLA COSTELLO BENNETT.
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Joe w Grimes, who was in Savannah recently, is the heaviest bicycle rider in the world. He created a sensation from the time he reached that place until he left for Augusta. Grimes weighs 5241a pounds, and with all that avoirdupois rides wheel like a three. Year-old.
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HOW TO CALL A GERMAN POLICEMAN.

An amusing frontier incident is re- ported by the London Globe from the village of Schoelbach, in the neighbor- hood of Metz.
 A boy who was minding a flock ot sheep on a small island in the river was caught in a violent storm, during
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pocket. While I was studying in Vi- enna, by remarkable coincidence, the day my bank check arrived, another came to a man bearing my name. In
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 to an appreciation of our art
 ists at home, the public saw only the achievements, not the growth, of the painters. Some of them have climbed up to their present eminence over difficulties so depressing as would have caused less jealous hearts to weaken. Some have suffered years and others for a day the throes of agony that mark an evolution, but all have felt the keynote of despair, of fail- ure, which after all may form the basis of success.
 Here are some of the hard luck" stories of our leading artists:
 "At one time, I was fairly successful