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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-05
A Serf's FOrethOught.

From the London News.
Count Scharemetef, an immensely wealthy
and powerful Russian noble who lived in
the early part of this century, had among
his serfs a man named Schalouchine who
had amassed an enormous fortune. He
lad offered as much as $25O, 900 for his free
Com, but in vain. One day Scheremetef
gave dinner party, and to his disgust
there were no oysters to begin the banquet
with. They were not to be had at any
PRICE, replied the steward. At that mo-
nent Schalouchne was ushered in among
the guests, and Scheremetef bullied him as
usual. Your freedom he yelled ''ycu
cannot have it If you offered a million of
rubes. million. pshaw. a few dozen
oysters would be worth more than that to
me at this moment" DO 1 understand,
then, ny lord. that you would grant me my
freedom II l procured them for you?"
Yes" was the answer. Schalouchine had
brought barrel of oysters, having heard
Of the dinner. The deed of freedom was
Immediately signed, Schalouchlne took his
place among the guests, and his descend
ants are not only the wealtniest bankers in
Russia, but were ennobled about a quarter
of q century ago.
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1T WAS ALL ACTING.
Queer Episode In French
Thentcr.

Paris Letter to the Chicago Tribune
What born actors these French people
ere, There was brilliant scene in which
a tall and statuesque young actress had
Just made her appearance, when audible
ard disparag iDg remarks were heard from
an upper box. y loudly dressed and mas
ouliDe-looking woman was seated therein,
and did not scruple to make known her
opinion regarding the leading lady. Good
ness gracious" she said. or words to that
effect, this is too much, Why, 1 could do
better than that myself"
Then a quiet-looking man. in strictly cor
rect evening dress, Grose from his seat In
The parquet, and politely suggested that it
would be in better form if the lady in the
box would cease TO interrupt the play. The
big woman in the box wanted to know if
IL was any affair of his. and he replied it
was the obvious duty of a gentleman 10
protect from insult q lady who was not in
d position TO protect herself. The big wo-
man said she had paid her money to be en-
ttrtained, and that she was not going to be
bored without protest. At this a rough
voice from the topmost gallery added de-
riSive remarks, which applied 10 stage and
audience alike. and the actresses, who had
been endeavcring to go on, gave up trying,
and stood herplesSly by, while the stage
manager came hurrying from the wings
advanced to the footlights and begged the
d;sputarts to desist, or he would be obliged
10 ring down the curtain. The big woman
N the box suggesting that he couldn't do
wiser thing. the man in the parquet re-
nlonstrating about honest people being
thus cheated Of their moneys worth. and
the voice in the gallery bidding them both
shut up. the enraSed manager gave the
signal. and the curtain fell.
Having nothing left to distract them the
woman in the box and the man in the par
quet began to argue 1t out anew, the man
standing courteously and with his eyes
fixed on the woman's coarse face as she.
exclaimed and gesticulated vigorously.
Suddenly a pretty girl in evening dress
stood up in the dress circle and gently
added her plant. and another woman
young and good-lo oking contributed hers
from the opposite side of the house. They
were youthful and ladylike. but they were
firm in protesting tfeir objection to this
sort of thing going on in a theater patro-
r:zed by people who wanted 10 be amused
from the stage, not bulled from the stalls
There was a lively ten minutes, and it was
rot until the curtain had been rung Up
again, when the Woman in the box, the
man in the parQuet, the youth in the gall
lery and the two pretty women quietly
arose and departed in unison, that all the
audience realized that this was carefully
rebearsed bit Of by-play. calculated to af-
Iord good curtain" and beGuile the long
cntr'aCte Necessary fer the arrangement OF
an elaborate stage set"
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''NlNTH AND THE AVENUE"


asking much cooperation. The palace
knows what 1t all means and knows that
something else may follow. So do the
commercial classes and the army officers.
The promise of Spain to feed her people,
which was given by the President q
reason for not intervening on humanita-
rian grounds, having failed, failure has also
to be recounted of another promise. This
was to afford sufficient military protection
for the resumption of peaceful agricultural
pursuits and productive industries. The
sugar planters have their choice between
depending on Gen. BlancO's promise and
bag Some of them elected to rely on the
troops for protection. Idle sugar mills and
burned caDefeldS were the result They
are turning again to the insurgents for
protection, and even asking the military
authorities to take the soldiers away. The
presence of a garrison on a plantation Is
certain evidence that the sugar crop there
will be small Mr.. Atkins and the other
Boston planters who for two years have
been carrying news to Washington that the
insurrection was ended, do not seem to
have been spared the latest visitation. The
Marquis ApeZteguia reported at the con-
sulate the other day that he saw great
deal of burning cane on the Atkins planta-
ton AS the marquis own plantations are
in the vicinity of CienfuegOs, he is not
likely to be mistaken. The amount of cane
burned has not been large enough to seri-
ously affect the crop. 1t has been quite
large enough to demonstrate that the
military authorities are not able to give
protection. The sovereignty of the insur-
gents is acknowledged on the sugar planta-
tons where the mills are grinding.
CHARLES NJ. PEPPER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-05
Boston and Her Beans.


A Chicago newspaper asserts that thou
sands of cans Of Boston baked beans are
put up IN Chicago and shipped east to con-
sumers Possibly, possibly! but this at
tempt to SANDER the Hub will fall fat like
any other baseless rumor. For who in Bos-
ton or the suburbs knows anybody who
knows anybody who knows anybody else
who ever eats canned beans? Once in
awhile a Bostonian returns from Paris or
Japan after a long absence and tells of the
rapturous content experienced at sight OF
canned beans served hot from a chafinp
dish on some eXpatriated Boston citizen
table. Once in awhile travelling English
man from the Nile or Australia or Bombay
appears among US and cheerfully describes
a meal enjoyed somewhere of timed
beans, of a sort. they say, you live on mere,
don't you know" Probably, after all, the
orient is the east" meant by the Chicago
journal as the destination of the prairie
beans canned in the city by the lake They
may ship them to that east, to Yokohama
Hong-Kong and Calcutta, and welcome
But in Beverly the bean vine will flourish,
and in Boston, Chelsea and Saugus the
bean will still be baked fresh every week
as of yore and consumed on Saturday even
ing or Sunday morning with true Yankee
fervor of the olden time. By the by, GER
tain eminent Bostonian whose travels in the
other east have made him expert in the
use of Japanese chopSticks, takes his baked
beans of Saturday night by aid of these
been said that East is east, and west is
west, and never the two shall meet" there
is proved an interesting means of rap
procurement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-05
DINING CHAIRS
TO IL OF a PATTERN
TO BE CLOSED OUT AT
REMNANT PRICES.

There's the whole story in few
words. Remnants will accumulate
and take up room. Their space is
more valuable to us than the chairs
themselves. Closing out is impera-
tive. You'll see some astonishing
cuts to tempt quick buying.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-05
Wife Beating in En- Y Gland.

Henry Roinelke In the New York Times.
In view of the six months sentence for
wife beating in the Radcliffe case. 1t may
interest your readers to know how such
crimes are, or. at least. were. punished in
Fl gland In 1884 | collected from the
British press during three months all ac-
counts of convictions for wife beating
The result was published in a pamphlet
which ] called THE Wife Beaters' Manual:
y Guide to Husbands Connubial Correc-
tiOEs." with a list Of prices attached. Fol-
lowing are few extracts from this
pamphlet:
TWO shillings pence-Throwing the fire
irons at the head of his wife.
Five Misunderstanding his wife on the
head with a piece of wood two months
after marriage
Six Misunderstanding his wife several
times, kicking her with his feet in the
breast, tearing her hair out. trying 10
sirangle her ana knocking her against the
bed. another pushing his wife in the fire
and burning her hands.
One pound sterling-A black eye irving
TO cut his wife's throat. kickin;; her with
his head in the breast, throw ing a cup of
hot tea in her face, after having boxed
her ears.
Two pound steriing-Two black eyes
knocking her over TIE head and splitting,
1t open.
Three pound sI,rlinS-kicking her in the
stomach. disabling her fer weeks to do
any work.
This hist is much longer, but I only want
10 quote what fun man may have in
g. England for six months imprisonment
Here is a case: Cutting his wife's face
with knife, beating ner with lamp
tearing OF her clothes and burning them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-05
Underground strea ms.
From Lippincott's.

trcm Llpplncotts.
There are facts which leave us little room
for doubt that the great volume of moving
water in the ara west Is not embraced by
the banks Or itspstreams, but that is exists
beneath the surface of the earth, that these
subsurface reservoirs must first be filled be-
fore the exterior plane will shed water and
that the fluid which flows to waste is the
surplus which will not infiltrate into the
porous substances beneath.
Throughout, the whole country is under
laid with immense strata of rock, whose
mass Is sufficiently dense to resist the
superimposed pressure, yet whose structure
is so cellular as to permit the ready seep-
age of water through its aggregate These
rocks are sedimentary, and belong mostly
to the sandstones. They are never meta
morphic, such as granite or the schists,
and rarely ara they limestone. This latter
class of rocks may occasionally permit the
now of water through its body, because of
assures which allow the fluid to run in
channels or veins: and sometimes the rock
substances become so dissolved by water
that great subterranean caverns are
formed, as Is the case in Kentucky; but
generally limestone, as a water-bearing
rock, is unreliable, even where assures ex-
ist If the movement Of the water is OBJ
structed. 1t win deposit calcareous matter,
and so fill the tubes and close them.
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An Electric Mail Box.
From Electricity.

From Electricity
A Swiss electrician mas invented an cleo
trio mail delivery box which is now in use
in several Of the larger buildings in Geneva
The box has a compartment for each of
the stories OK the building, and when let
ters are deposited on the ground floor the
carrier delivers them as required. The
deposit of a single letter makes an electric
contact which starts a bell going on the
respective floor, which does not cease ring
ing until the letter is taken out At the
same time it opens the faucet Of tank on
the roof Of the house. which causes water
to flow into the cylinder forming the coun-
terweight Of the mail bcx elevator, until
the weight is heavier than the box, when
the box asoeHds, and the flow OF water
ceases simultaneously. As the box passes
each story. the mail intended for it-let-
tiers, papers and small packages-falls into
boxes in the corridor on that floor. This Is
performed very reliably by a little spring
at the bottom OF each compartment in the
elevator mail box. which causes the bot
tom Of the compartment to catch for a mo-
Msut. and the release throws out even Q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-05

Chairs OF which there are only
one OF a pattern-just what YOU
want for bed room chairs, etc, go
at about half price-from ST 90 up.
W B. MOSES & SONS 1t
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IL Solid Oak Saddle Seat
Dining Chairs. high backs. c. f.
Were 81 each. To close. Yi
QUartered Oak Cane Seat
Chairs that We're $50 each. q ~.
To close. Observation-Disclosures. ~ SO
d Chartered Oak Cane Seat
Dining Chairs that We're $500
each. t. cl 'se............ S--o0
6 Mahogany finish Cane Seat
Dining Chairs that were $500 .,
en- h. To c.osr- ...--.--..-.. PS )
: Oak Leather Seat Dining
el ssl'' 'ha' were 500. 10 $3.50
:; Oak Can. Seat Dining
T" T" Else s'a ... were "' ea." S2.25
CHARTERED OAK Sole Lea
theI seat Dining Chairs that G. ~
$3.50 each To close. 80 ~
CHARTERED Oak Sole Lea
,R' re SIT slid pn Ts e aaa.ls that $50
- CHARTERED Oak Dining
Clans. 5uls leather seats and
lacks. Were $3.50 each. To & -
doc pO-/ )
QrYrte.ed oak Leather
Seat Dining ChaiIs. Were 81. c, ~
10 close. pO.,O
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single piece Of paper thinner than postal
card into the stationary box provided for
ITS reception. When the box has PASSED the
uppermost ncor, the cylinder filled with
water strikes bolt provided at the bottom
which allows the water to flow out, and by
Its own weight the box descends to its
place on the ground floor. Should by any
mlschance single piece of paper have re-
NAMED In the elevator. upon striking the
bottom it will Al once go through the same
series OF movements as before
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-05

The Evening Star Almanac for 1893.
OF valuable aid to the sporting fraternity,
as it contains many notes dealing with ath-
letic and sporting topics; 4JO pages On
sale at The Star Office and newsdealers.
Price, % cents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-05

The employees of the ten-inch mill at the
Homestead mill Of Carnegies refused to ac-
cept the new scale OF wages. and the mill
has been closed down Indefinitely All other
departments are in full operation.
The record-union., 1898-12-09
MONEY FOR The
ARMY AND NAVY.
Continued from First Page)

trolling or operating any oceanic canal
across the isthmus of Darien.'
The anti-scalping bill passed yester-
day by the House was received, and at
the request of Cullom, Chairman of the
Committee on Interstate Commerce,
was laid on the table, instead of being
referred to the committee. A similar
bill has already been reported by the
Senate Committee on Interstate Com
merce.
A considerable number of pension bills
had been passed before the Senators,
one or two at time, began to leave the
chamber. Finally, true to his warn
ing, Vest, raised the point Of no
quorum. Ferty-eight Senators re-
sponded to their names, and considera-
ton of the pension bills was resumed.
At the expiration of the one hour al
lotted to the consideration of the pen-
sion calendar, twenty-six bills had been
passed.
At 11:5O o'clock the Senate went into
executive session.
At 2 o'clock the Senate resumed bus
mess in open session.
Morgan called up the Nicaraguan
Canal bill, with a view to making it the
unfinished business. He moved that
the Senate proceed to the consideration
of the bill.
Pettigrew moved to adjourn. De-
feated-13 yeas, AZ noes.
Morgan's motion to proceed with the
consideration of the Nicaragua Canal
bill was then carried, and after the bill
had been laid before the Senate, thus
becoming the unfinished business, the
Senate, on motion of Morgan, at 2:25
p. m. adjourned until Monday.
The record-union., 1898-12-09
The Colleges of Oxford.

Each college is built round
quadrangle with a large entrance gate
way which often rises into quasi
tower The rooms Immediately over
the gateway are invariably designed
for the residence of the warden. pro-
vost or principal of the college, so that
the eye of the master may be over ali
who enter or leave the place This
mode of building still exists in india,
being introduced into Europe by the
Moors when they conquered Spain,
where we find that the compound, or
quad. is still used for the tetherin;,
of all kinds of animals. Around the
quad are arranged the chapel, library,
hall or refectory, presidents lodgings.
buttery and kitchen; the students
rooms generally occupy the upper
floors. William of Wickham, the cele-
brated architect, wisely placed his tail
er buildings, the chapel and hall, on the
north side, to keep off the cold winds,
the lower buildings on the south more
freely admitting sunshine.-J. w. Parry
in the Engineering Magazine.
The record-union., 1898-12-09
TEARS OF THE GREAT.
Instances of Sovereigns and States
men Who Have Went.

Many of the great people who have
written their names large in the his
tory of their time have been known to
shed tears. The majority, however,
wept for others woes, but smiled upon
their own.
Queen Victoria wept when informed
that it was her destiny to wear crown
and rule a vast empire. The incident
was seized upon by Mrs. Browning for
one of her most beautiful poems, ''She
Wept to Wear Crown" and her ma
jesty has ever since been a warm ad-
mirer of the writings of this poet
Sixty years later, at the Jubilee last
year, the Queen sobbed before thou
sands of her subjects. Another notable
occasion was at the funeral of Prince
Henry of Battenberg. AS the burial
monarch was seen to be crying piteous-
ly.
One will never forget the universal
lamentation aroused by the death of the
Duke Of Clarence. When the end
came the Princess of Wales. who had
throughout her sons illness watched
him with the greatest devotion, utterly
collapsed, and cried for some time as
though her heart would break. A few
days later, as the funeral procession
left Sandringham for the railway sta
ton, followed on foot by the Prince of
Wales. it was impossible to hide his
grief, and the heir apparent was forced
to find relief in copious tears. The
Duke Of SAKE Coburg Gotha has also
been seen to cry in public. In April.
1896, while the marriage ceremony of
The record-union., 1898-12-09
More Irish Bulls.

The following bulls may be added to
the amusing series already published.
One of the finest specimens of a real
Irish bull was perpetrated by that clev-
er and witty but blundering Irish
knight, Sir r. Steele, when inviting an
English nobleman to visit him. IF,
SIR" said he, you ever come within a
mile of my house, I hope you will stay
there A rich bull is recorded of an
Alderman at cards, who, on inspecting
the pool, found it deficient Here's a
shilling Short said he, ''who put it in? ?'
AT the time of the home-rule difficulty,
and when the cause seemed to be Ian
gushing, a meeting was held, and one
of the speakers thus addressed the aud
ience: Friends, the cup of our trouble
is running over, and it is not yet full"
An Irish member of the Ventnor Lo-
cal Board, some thirty years ago, pro-
posed that ST. Boniface Down should
be planted with some fine old oaks
Horace Walpole records one. which he
pronounces the best he ever met with.
Il hate that woman said the gentle
man, looking at person who had been
his nurse. Il hate her, for when I was
child she changed me at nurse" This
was perplexing assertion, but a SINH
lar instance is recorded in the autobi-
ography of an Irishman, who gravely
informs us that he ran away early in
life from his father on discovering he
was only his uncle.''
The following is very comic. An
Irish workmen, being at a lodging
house, and having to rise very early
for work, arranged to be called After
he had gone to sleep some of his pals
BACKED his face. When Pat got up and
looked in the glass he exclaimed, ar
rah! and shure they've called the wrong
man.
have met with some bulls made by
Australians. [ heard clergyman
make this remark at public meeting,
whichs was disappointingly small: II
am sorry toi see so many absent friends
here
State school-teacher at Queenscliff.
in Victoria, had a note from the mother
of one of his pupils requesting him not
to fog her boy-thus, You are not to
cane my boy, or he will drop down dead
at your door, the same as he did at
Mrs. Cary's."
Another, being told that so-and-so
was buried in a stone coffin, said that
was very sensible, as it would last him
a lifetime. London Telegraph.
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Water Getting Scarce.

SUISUN, Dec. S.-The long dry spell
is commencing to show its effects upon
the Vallejo and Suisun waterworks, and
another dry year will surely bring a
water famine to both these cities. The
Vallejo storage reservoir contains but
twelve feet of water, and the Suisun
storage reservoir is completely dry, and
the distributing reservoir contains but
ten feet, equal to about 100000 gallons.
Springs are running very low.
The record-union., 1898-12-09
Troops to Garrison Havana.

WASHINGTON, Dee. S.-The steam
er Roumania sailed to-day from Savan-
nah, Ca, carrying the entire First
North Carolina Regiment TO serve as
part of the garrison of Havana. The
Second Illinois Regiment is loading to-
day at Savannah for the same destina-
ton. The Quartermaster's Depart
ment is making satisfactory progress in
the preparation of docks, railroads and
camp sites in the neighborhood of Ha-
vana for the reception of the troops.
The record-union., 1898-12-09
HALE AND NoRCRoss CASE.
Proceeds of the Judgment Nearly
All Distributed

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. So The
funds resulting from the judgment in
the Hale & Norcross silver mining case
have nearly all been distributed, in ac-
cordance with the recent final order
made by Superior Judge Hebbard. On
Wednesday Judge Hebbard signed an
order authorizing Receiver Groom to
pay out $9S,000. To-day he signed an
order for an additional payment of
S43,015. This disposes, together with
payments heretofore made, of the bulk
of the proceeds of the judgment There
remains 1900 out of 112,000 shares
upon which dividends are to be paid.
The record-union., 1898-12-09
Regulars to be Sent to Manila.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. S.-Prepara-
tions are now being made by Lieuten-
ant Colonel Long to dispatch a fleet of
transports to the Philippines From
Washington the information has been
received to the effect that shortly sew
eral regiments of regular troops will
be sent to Manila, for the purpose of
relieving the volunteer forces now there.
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ing for?" Tooke replied, ''He is crying
to think what a small Inheritance Ell
don's children are likely to get"
From the examples given it may be
concluded that it is not always un-
manly to weep. Indeed, as Henry Ward
Beecher said, tears are often the tele-
scope by which we see far into heaven.
London Mail
The record-union., 1898-12-09
Major Cirque, Who
Took the Town by Storm.

That was great conquest that Major Cirque,
the genial little man, made yesterday. He made
his first bow to the Sacramento public yesterday
morning, and before night thousands OF people,
young and DID, had called to see him. He is clever
little fellow and entertains his audiences very
well, indeed
You will find him in the downstairs part of
the store, near Furniture Department, from 9 to
II a. m, I to p m.
Santa Claus is also to be seen to-day and to-
morrow, but probably not after this week.
The record-union., 1898-12-09
Railway Emp1oye Killed.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. Sword has
been received here that Rocanio Esca-
rareZ, a Mexican laborer employed on
the Southern Pacific Railway at Indio,
was killed this morning by a heavy rail
falling upon him. It is not known just
how the accident happened.
The record-union., 1898-12-09

TO investigate the affair We learned
positively that Elliott was there on the
day in question. He was seen talk
ing with a stranger, who gave him
letter. No one knew who this stranger
was
An employe of the depot saw Elliott
and the stranger He saw Elliott take
a revolver from his pocket and give 1t
TO the stranger He saw the stranger
give him some money, but did not hear
any of the conversation