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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-09
A wOAIAN'S LOVE FOR CUBA.
Experiences OF Mrs. Day, who
Knew MANY war Secrets

Mrs Rachel +. Day, who was private
secretary to DR.. A. ]. Diaz, the Cuban
patriot. for some time, and was thus
drawn into close touch with the revolu-
tionary movement said few days ago,
in the course of an interesting talk at her
home, No. Is West Twenty-second Street,
New York:
AT the time that 1 was with DR. Diaz
he was engaged in establishing the Amer
lean headquarters of the Cuban White
Cross Society at Atlanta Ga, as, owing
to some international complications our
own Clara Barton had been debarred
from the privilege OF extending the mer-
ciful offices of her society to the wound
ed Cuban soldiers. DR.. Diaz established
on the field many hospitals, and il was in
this work l was most closely associated
with him. II was my privilege to drape
battle-scarTed flags above the door of our
offices, and TO hold in sacred touch let
tiers from Gen. Maceo.
ITO tell of the thrilling reports that
came to us direct. of the hopes and the
fears that flashed over Us, and of the
keen watch for Spanish spies would take
too long. We did have one interesting
and sent away in rather disconsOlate
condition.
Il came near getting a Whit of battle
smoke myself. as it was the wish of DIR,
DiaZ that ] should accompany him to
Cuba as special correspondent of an
American newspaper. We were to make
Jamaica our headquarters, and to get
news direct from Gomez by mounted cpLr-
iers. Indeed, we were in correspondence
with Gomez. as well as with the president
of the Cuban Republic. Cisneros. receiv-
ing many letters with the official insignia
of that executive. II was a tempting Of
fer to one of my adventurous tempera-
ment, and the salary was not bad, but
there were peculiar difficulties just at
that time besetting the various filibuster-
ing expeditions, and L decided not to make
the trip.
'Of course. as my work was confiden-
tial, / cannot be explicit, though | might
tell great deal-in fact j was some
times possessed of information that was
almost oppressive in its Importance. but,
although a woman, I did not tell Many
horrible stories of SPANS cruelty were
brought To us by eye-witnesses. / love
Cuba, and look forward with much ankle
ty to the near future. when the Dons
will have to leave the people they have
wronged and oppressed so long
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-09
FLOWERS AS INTERPRETERS.
OF the Heart May Find
Expression in Them.


Allowing flowers 10 speak for US, says
lie Journal des Modes, is an exceedingly
pretty idea 1t is, however, supplanted
by one even more unique. As it has the
charm of novelty we shall not find fault
with the exchange. In the language of
Colors We find white expresses power,
wisdom. purity. candor, chastity.
Red is symboliCal of power, passion,
riches Kings and rulers Of earth have
always worn red nantes, and so have
the .eNecutioneers Of old, SO that this col
or also stands for cruelty and hardness.
Blue denotes fidelity. sweetness, tender
ness, loyalty. a spotless reputation. Aerial
divinities are invariably clad in blue. The
ancients allowed yellow to stand for
glory and fortune. Now it is called the
color of infdelity and shame.
Green is emblematic of hope and joy.
IT is the emblem of youth because Spring
verdure is green. Jealousy does not have
any showing in discussing this color.
Black stands for sadness. for deception,
for disappointed hopes. Internal deities
are painted black. Legend says that
Apollo turned the raven black because
it had betrayed him. Hence the raven is
called the bird of misfortune.
Pink denotes health, love, youth, pleas
ure.
Niolets is the tint allowed faith
Orange means divine inspiration and
poetry. The muses. are represented as
draped in oranEe-colored draperies.
Orange was once the color of Ilymen.
Brides in olden times wore orange-colored
wells called fiammeum and they could
not pronounce their vows unless covered
with fammeum Even now brides wear
orange blossoms on their wedding day.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-09
A MEDIUM COURSE SAFEST.
Rational Notions Concerning Changes
OF Feminine Fashions.

The Queen says women might and ought TO
insist on becoming and rational forms Of dress in
their ever-changing fashions They need not adopt
the hideous so-caled rational dress" 90 in
10 knickers OF divided skirts, abandon all the
pretty feminine fal-lals which are graceful
when kept within bounds. But they might have
some kind Of common sense in their consultations
with their millncrs and drcssnakcrs, and some
kind of consideration for others. Their present
sin is their outrageous hats, 10 which they cling
as martyrs TO a symbol Of faith. They are told Of
the inconvenience. the unfaiTness to others, coca
stoned by these hats at all public places. They
do not care the traditional "snuf PEN
II is the fashion for the moment. and they re-
gard neither the intrinsic ugliness Of these mon
strous structures the annoyance they give
others. Yet il they could see themselves with
eyes purged from the film Of Fashion, they would
see these hsts-these towers OF Babel built up Of
feathers. flowers lace, and ribbons more ludi-
crous eNaCgerations than either the horned or the
peaked head-dresses of madaeval times. 80 with
those ambitious sleeves which mounted up TO the
ewes not long ago. so with the skirts-nOw swell
ing over cages Of such dimensions that public We
hiclcs were not large enough 10 accommodate the
aiventitious bulk of few pettiCuats-nOw 50
scanty in material and tied back 50 tightly that
the figure is well defined as If Cased IN wax
ouly-now trailing yards long on the ground
costly slk and satin sweeping filthy streets, and
gathering up unmeDtiouahle UnClCanne>s for the
btspatterug of stockings and inner garments
now cut up half way 10 the knee. - with all the
fashions patrunizcd by women-ali, without eN-
ccption.
From the head to the foot forms have been and
still are eNtravagant and exaggerated. 10 an eN-
tent which makes the soher-minded spectator stand
amazed at the depth Of folly TO which women can
descend in matters which are entirely under their
own control-whie aspiring 10 push from
their seats OF power and rule the world IN morals
aud in craftsmanship in their stead.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-09
LAMPS OF THE HEAVENS.
Legends Woven Ont OF the "Twink.
Iers'" in the Sky.

Miss Mary Proctor. in an illustrated lee
ture for children, on the Stories of the
Stars" at the Church Of the Holy In
nocents, Hoboken, n. Y, after referring
to the well-known Grecian legends, told
many quaint modern legends with re-
gard to the Great and Little Dipper: the
seven fair daughters Of Atlas. the Plei-
AIDES. and myths Of the Milky Way. Ac-
cording to the American Indians this is
the Path of Souls leading to the viii
lagos in the sun. Along the pathway
travel the spirits of the dead, and the
brighter stars are the "campfires for
their solitary journey to the land of the
hereafter"
The Japanese term, the Milky Way the
SILVER River of Heaven" and tell a
pretty legend of the Spinning Maiden.
who crosses this river once year on a
bridge made of doves. On the other side
of the river she meets her Shepherd Boy,
and the meeting of the star lovers is
celebrated alike by young and old
throughout japan. According to a
Swedish legend. the Milky Way was built
by two unfortunate mortals. who, while
on earth loved each other, but after
death were doomed on different stars, far,
far apart, to dwell.
She was Saiami the taiT-
Bold Zulamith he.
The bright idea occurred to them of
making a bridge of light, spanning the
SPACE from star to star, till they reached
each other.
They toied and built a thousand years
In loves all powerful might;
And so the Milky Way was made
4 starry bridge Of light.
And when the bridge was completed
we are told that Salami the Fair and Zu-
lamith the Bold
Straight rushed into each others arms
And melted into enc;
So they became the brightest star
In heavens high arch that dwelt-
Great Sirius the mighty sun
Beneath Orions belt.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-09
MISTAKES THAT RUsKIS MADE.
His Attitude Toward Women Sot
Among the Least.

John Graham Brooks discussed Ruskin yesterday
in his usual Monday morning lecture before the
League for Political Education in the Mendclss5hn
GIee Club Hall. in New York. He began b. emu
merating what he considers the defects of that
writer, and among them he mentioned his ''glar-
ing Inconsistencies, his Constant eXaZg aTation
his ''arstccratic eNclusveness, and his attitude
toward the woman question and machinery.
Nowhere" said the lecturer. does RuSkin sink
lower than in his passages on the position oil
women"
Regarding the machinery question. Mr.: Brooss
said he thought that Rus,in did not really want
To do what Ire said he did, and was of the opinion
that lie might have spared the city OF New
YORK il he had had an opportunity to destroy IT,
as he said he would have liked TO do.
In spite of all this. however. the speaker sand
that there was much to be LEARNED from Ruskin.
We need not share his hatred for machinery. but
we SHOULD subdue it TO the proper uses and this,
he thinks is already being done.
even out of the railroad he said. ARE COM
ing some of the things that Ruskin wanted On
spIae of our older roads, which twelve years ago
were altogethr hdeous, now have beautiful
stations with vines climbing over them and beds
Of flowers around them; and in many places there
are indications that may yet get this great
ugliness clothed with beauty"
The lecturer also commended Ruskin's doctrine
of wealth. and some of his utterances regarding
the popular craving for quantity and magnitude,
and said that there may not be many adj
yantages as we think in travelling fast we
do now. There certainly is none in ifty-page
newspaper he added.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-09
COSTUME OF wHEELwoMEN.
An Episode That Made a Scene on
the Paris Boulevard.

A man who spent last year in Paris, in com
mentinG on the costumes of the wheelwomcn
who are seen riding in that city on the Boule-
vard said yesterday that all of tie French wo-
men. almost without exception, rode either in
boomers or knickorbockers
Il had a curious experience he said, Gone
dav coming back through the Bots with party
ON wheels With q demure young
French woman, who has lived for several years
in America and who believes that short Skirts
are more becoming for bicycle women than
knickerhoCkcrs or boomers 4 French woman
with aItifcially colored hair spied her. and
assuming her nationality from her dress, called
out:
- How are you, Yankees? E-
''The young woman who 50 addressed
answered pontcdly and Indignantly in pure
French which surprised the blonde woman
that she fell off her wheel. Ii is not an I'M
common sight in the summer time to French
wheelwomen riding IN knickerbockers, with their
legs bare from the knee nearly to the ankle. By
comparison, however, | think that the American
women in their short skirts are better to look at
on their wheels than the French women"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-09
Penauce Performed by Social Stars

Mrs. William Astor spends the forty
DAYS Of penance at her hotel in Paris. her
guests being her granddaughter. Miss
Van Allen, and her daughter, Mrs. George
Haig.
Mrs. John Jacob Aston will study the
Lenten customs of the inhabitants of
Honduras. whittier she is now speeding
aboard her husbands yacht, the Nour-
mahal.
Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt, Mrs. Theodore
B. Bronson and Miss Cottreal, who made
q Christmas gift of a beautiful memorial
pulpit TO Trinity chapel. have formed a
cooking class for the senior members of
the general theological seminary (Episco-
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-09

Everybody enjoys Heurich's Stock Ale
because it possesses purity. fine flavor
and strength. Phone 63i for case.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-09

/ desire to attest to the merits of Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy as one of the
most valuable and efficient preparations
on the market. 1t broke an exceedingly
dangerous cough for me in "a hours, and
in gratitude therefor. II desire to inform
you that 1 will never be without it, and
You should feel proud of the high esteem
in which your Remedies are held by peo-
ple in general. 1t is the one remedy
among ten thousand. SUCCESS to ito.
r. Downey, Editor Democrat. Albion.
Ind For sale by Henry Evans, Whole
sale and Retail Druggist, 93S F street,
and Connecticut avenueI and street
northwest, and 142S Maryland avenue
northeast.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-09
A Species of Insanity

From the Omaha World-Herald.)
MIR. Kohlsaat is still laboring under the
delusion that he is the white-winged
dove of peace with an olive branch in
his bill -i
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-09

Congressman Kulp a Candidate.
Shamokin, Pa, March 9.-Congressnan Monroe
II. Kulp, before returning to Washington yester-
day morning announced himself as a candidate
for election as q delegate TO the State convention
O. be held IN May. Ii is understood that he is
q Quay supporter.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-09

Tt is the talk of the town-Heurich' s
Stock Ale Call for Heurich's at hotels
and restaurants. Order a case from the
Arlington Bottling Co., 9th and K sts.
nw or phone 634.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-09

Off for the Klondike.
Skaguay HarbOT.
Unloading Scow at Skaguay.
Some klOndike Miners.
Pack Train, Skaguay.
Steamer Queen at Dyea.
A Blacksmith Shop.
Packing by Means Of Dogs.
A KlOndike Wagon.
Fording Dyea River.
Actresses en- Route to the XII
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-09

back, full front with wide girdle,
the new style sleeve, a neat collar
finished with narrow ruffle and
braid trimming, extra width skirt,
fifty-nine inches long, with deep
hem. AL sizes IN stock.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-09
From NEW YORK to PUGET SOUND

Across the continent by rail novel experience for re
1000 bales left Manitobas arrival
until they reach their home.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-09-10
Submerged Mountain.

A submerged island has been found
1000 miles due west from Gibraltar
which offers a curious problem for
geographers. 1t was discovered by the
Prince of Monaco, and will soon be
placed on the charts issued by the Hy-
geographic Office at Washington.
The sunken island was discovered
quite by accident by the Prince while
making soundings from his yacht Prin-
cess Alice, and the formation was &C.
cordingly named after the yacht. The
island is supposed to have been at one
time huge volcano. Its shape, which
has been determined by careful sound
ings, Is much the same as that Of q
huge cooked hat. The island Is in no
danger Of interfering In the least with
navigation, since its highest point Is
some fourteen fathoms below the sur
face of the sea.-New York World.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-09-10
nnila lola rs He Il.

u, 10 how lola is described by
,, a Henry in Hours with Famous
p o.rt.lons;" A businessman, no emo
~, .a no ideals, no imagination, no poe
=. A in his personal intercourse lie
S Az rot try to win or entertain you.
w. a. takes no personal interest In you'
nd does not expect you to take any
. =. interest in him. He talks
r.nkly and freely about everything,
INIT IN n secular way, He makes life
,perr to you merely a commercial ca.
,sor, Fiction for him Is editions OF
io.OOO francs a year. His maglsterlal
and magnificent panoramas of descrip7
dams. unequaled for their kind, are all
measured off in his mind as so many
nds of printed matter at so much o
nod. No personal magnetism, no SEN
tIment, no perfume, no rose colors. Life
bss been for him q blunt, rude, british
thing He has conquered merely be-
rousa he has worked harder than any
mo else With him naturalistic litera.
ture succeeds only by the sweat Of the
brow, What loins Of strength, never
theless! What Titanic capacities to
achieve! He towers over oil his Paris
ian contemporaries, as Victor Hugo
toVered over his epoch.-New York
Tribune.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-09-10
He received q Mound.

nromntlv on he Teceloed bouhd'
listed in Company A, OF the Twenty-sixth
Wisconsin Volunteers. In the Army OF the
Potomac our hero saw much fighting, cam
paigning in the Shenandoah Valley.
In the first days fighting at the battle OF
Gettysburg, Schiffeneder received a
wound in the right side, which afterward
caused him much trouble. With a,portion
OF his regiment he was captured and i'm
prisoned at Bell Island and Andersonville,
and afterward exchanged. He returned to
his regiment, which was transferred to the
army OF General Sherman, and marched
with him through Georgia to the sea. -,
In this campaign Mr.. Schiffeneder's old
wound began to trouble him and he was
sent to the hospital and then home. He
had also contracted catarrh Of the stomach
and found no relief for years.
81 happened to read an account OF DR..
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People about
year ago." he said, land thought that
they might be good for my trouble. 1 con-
cluded to try them. l bought one box and
began to take them according to directions.
They gave me great relief. After finishing
that box bought another, and when had
taken the pills felt that was cured. =!
recovered my appetite and ate heartily.
can testify to the good the pills did me-"
Mr. Schiffeneder is a prominent Grand
Army man in Chicago, whittier he moved
some years ago with his family.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-09-10
THE WORLDS WARS.
since the Birth of Christ 100000,
900 Men Have Been Slain in Battle.

since the Birth of Christ 100000.
600 Men Have Been Slain in Battle.
Our civil war cost 100000 lives. OF
this number $4,000 were slain in bat
tie. The vast army which succumbed
to disease was no less than 1S4,331,
while the remaining 10000 or SO died
Of wounds received.
At the battle of Waterloo 81, 900 men
were killed or disabled There were
$4,000 soldiers in that great struggle,
and 1t is estimated that one man was
either killed or disabled for every 400
shots fired, counting both the artillery
and rifle shots.
In the Crimean war 95,615 lives were
sacrificed, and at Borodino, when the
French and Russians fought, $4,000
men were left dead on the battlefield.
There were 100000 troops to combat In
that engagement.
OF the 95,G15 men who persisted in
the Crimean war $4,000 were Turks
and Russians.
At Canea, however, where the Ro-
mans suffered the worst defeat In their
history, it IS said that $1,000 Of their
soldiers were slain. The Roman army
In this battle consisted Of 100000 men
the picked Drawn and sinew of the
empire.
In the Franco PrusSian war 1900
Frenchmen were killed. The Germans
fired 100000 rife shots to attain this
result. During the same war the Ger
mans fired $4,000 artillery charges.
Since the birth Of Christ 4,000,O 900
men have been slain in battle. Before
the beginning Of the Christian era the
losses cannot be estimated, owing to
the very indistinct and inaccurate &C.
counts that have been handed down.
In none of the battles mentioned was
dynamite used. In the wars of the flu
| ture this terrible agent of destruction
must be reckoned on. Men who have
studied the mortality statistics OF the
| past shudder at the thought OF what
may be in store in the wars that are tc
come. Only recently has the use of dy
Mantle in land warfare been considered
safe for the army using 1t. The modern
dynamite gun, however, has seemingly
solved the problem, and the men who
20 to war hereafter will face an agen
of destruction beside which the charges
of Napoleon's old guard were child
play.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-09-10
,.r,d shoemaking.

- the big Lynn shoe shops made
o ~, " If ladies' boots for the Paris En-
splll VI If 1899 in twenty-four min
hlDl''VA a notary public followed the op-
St's Nm a watch in hand. For this feat
sfa' noir Of shoes went through the u.s.
'ns J, p pontlne of the shop, but at excep-
~ slaraI speed; flfty-seven different op-
tlo 1.ars md forty-two machine were
'Ia .'a,ned in the work, which required
.''Oa a,I pieces of leather, fourteen
WE '.aas Of cloth, twenty-four buttons,
Ip. pant button-holes' eighty tacks ,
Msn WEI nails, two box-toes, two steel
WsD ss and twenty yards of thread.
. .la.e that time the division of labor
gun s"on a palr of shoes has become still
u ais.tpr. and there Is q larger number
!, ~achiues employed, with the result
y ~, ~ pair of ladies' boots can now be
a lnd. complete in this factory inside ct
,rpnty minutes.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-09-10
II Feel Like q New Person."
Mrs. GEO. LEACH.

Mrs. GEO, LEACH,
1909 Belle st., Alton, ILL.,, writes:
Before l began to take your vege-
SOie compound l was o great sufferer
HOm womb trouble. Menses would ap-
pear TWO and three times in q month,
auSlng me to be SO weak could not
"a, lcould neither sleep nor eat, and
lOOked SO badly my friends hardly
took doctors medicine but did not
ssliVe much benefit from it. My drug
s sas gave me one of your little books,
I" ~ after reading it decided to try
s sulS u. Pinkham's Vegetable Com.
SsuSG' | feel like a new person. I
~ vu,u not give your Compound for ell
- uoctors' medicine in the world. I
~ not praise it enough"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-09-10

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
nny case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
We. the undersigned, have known F. J. Che
ney for the last ID years, and believe him per.
and financially able to carry out any obllga-
ton made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo
Ohio.
WALDING, K1NNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Testimonials sent free
Price, Tjc. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists
Halls Family Pills arc the best.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-09-10
Swallowed a Needle and Died.

A tailor in Chicago accidentally sWalloWeu
a nee .lo and diod as result of the intlam-
nation set up by Il - small needle. Little
things frequently hav. great power. as Is seen
In few small doses of the famous Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, which, however. has an
entirely different effect from the needln IN
this notice. The Bitters make nervous, weak
md sickly persons strong and we'll again
They are also good for dyspepsia and con-
animation.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-09-10
RECLAIMED HEALTH.
Gratifying Letters to Mrs. Pink
ham From Happy Women.
III Owe You NY LiEe.n
Mrs. E. WooLH1sER,
Mills, Neb,, writes:


Mills, Neb., writes:
DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:-I owe my
we TO your Vegetable Compound. The
uOctors said l had consumption and
uOtning could be done for me. My
ne1struation had stopped and they
slla my blood was turning to water. I
uae several doctors. They all said /
could 6 live. 1began the use Of Lydia
l. hnkham's Vegetable Compound,
and 1t helped me right away; menses
I =, and | have gained in weight.
nave better health than have had for
years. Itiswonderful whetyour Com
pound has done for me-"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-09-10

sponger-Say, old man, can you oblige
me with a cigar? Fred (who knows
him)-Sorry, but I've the only one I'm
smoking, and another which l shall
smoke shortly.