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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-23

bles by the railing, is a circling audience,
all in black and white, of men in evening
dress. Their red and purple faces match
the brilliant bodices of the women skaters
promenading, ogling, slipping their Manhat-
tan cocktails, sherry cobblers liquors and
punches. The yellow straws-through
which they sip cocktails-match the blond
tresses Of the brunette girls who slip and
slide.
Around the circling walls are frescoes of
the Mediterranean from near the Bay of
Naples. AS the electric light floods their
indigo-blue skies and their warm greens
and yellows. rose and salmon, you forget
the cold, the red-hot stoves, and the pneu-
rnonfa that turks amid the dollhouse palms
that give to the Ice Palace much of it's de-
ceptive look
An orchestra of thirty pieces trips '.The
though you may be sure the Frenchmen do
not know the true name of the catchy
piece. The skates tinkle on the ice.
1t all depends on the hour in the swell
skating rink of Paris
From am, to pm, all wheat. From
o p. m to 1880 m, mixed wheat and tares
AND then, from pm. to midnight. tares
all tares tares, Idle tares. know NOT
what they mean-as the poet says-thoush
scarcely from the depths of some divine
despair. On Saturdays, when all rules fail.
the pleasure loving world of clerks and lit
Tie employees whoop round the Bay of
Naples.
Dear Little Snobs
Place for the wheat! 1t surely is a place
for good society. In the morning you Will
here encounter the most aristocrauc gov
ernesses and nursemaids of Paris Who
are all these little gentlemen and ladies'
aged from six to sixteen, dear little snobs,
not only French but very much American
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-23
Love of Mixed Drinks.

ahaemlc french girls. weakened Spaniards
and kinkey-haired Brazilians.
Love of Mixed Drinks.
1t is the afternoon. The morning price of
60 cents is raised to a dollar, because these
are the hours of high society. Even the
walters carry themselves with more worth
mess because the Comtesse de Castellene is
skating, because Sir Edmund Monsoon Is 60
ing round and round, because the Comte
de Dion has just gone to change his shoes,
Two things are noticeable. First. how the
cocktails and other burners. The circle OF
small tables round the ice is handy alike
to promenaders ard skaters. Each woman,
each young bud of society, has her stiff
drink on handy table, where her mother
sits, or chaperone friend. "Garcon an
other cocktail; gin this timer The second
observation has to do with the attendants,
skating masters. or professors" as they
like to be called, elegant in dark green
suits, all edged with astrakhan. Knee
breeches show their splendid calves. They
are strong. abrasive, sympathetic, watch
ful and complaisant. 1t Is their duty to
skate with any woman who desires them.
Sometimes the women skating with their
northumberland Adonises. stop, flushed.
10 rest Then. should the band stop. too at
the same moment. you would hear her con-
foenual tone, caresSing, playful. even
tender. as young man sometimes lets him
self speak to a pretty chambermaid. Sure,
they are lucky skating masters in the
afternoon, and they look even naughty.
They must keep the ladies at proper
distance. But If any woman feels that She
has been snubDed by a naughty skating
master in the afternoon, she may console
herself by knowing that he Will he put in
his place properly this evening by tho
ladies Of the deml-lnonde The demi-monde
would scorn to squeeze his hands and lean
upon him!
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Making the Most of Hi. opportu,,tx

making the Most Of His Opportunity.
One of the western members of the House
rushed hurriedly intos the corridor during
the closing hours of the debate on the cur
rency bill on his way to lunch. At the door
he met a friend arofn the territory south of
him, and. shaking hands as he went. asked
t the friend to luneh;s' The invitation was
were soon at the table.
- The member, not klaneing at the bill of
ner?" .r,e. a - f
mo. by CAD, sirl You can't work no pork
an beans Off on yours truly, sir. 1 can
git plenty of them at home. nm honery."
And carefully adjusting his spectacIes he
began to order. He took oysters stewed
and fried. steak with mushrooms chicken
steak. minee and pumpkin pie, ice cream
and cake. a pot of coffee and a glass OF
milk. doughnuts and hot rolls.
There" he said. as he laid down the bill
of fare. "by the time git outside of that
I'll be ready for business" And the mem
Der, who sacrificed the most of a eyer
for the impromptu lunch didn't mind that
half so much as he did the hour and half
1t took to surround 1t.
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ana English! The French CONTINGENT are
the great-great-grandchild of the French
revolution. 1t took deal of mercenary
blood-ietting to float their families a hum
dred years ago. What aristocrats were not
killed ran away and lived sordid lives In
exile thirty years, long enough to do them
no good. Paul Bourget finds Americans
lack grandfathers. We might ask French
men to display theirs to us. Skate on, ut
tie snobs. your blood is just as new as ours
and not so clean. Skate on, Napoleonic
mobiles. self-made mobiles from the title
grabbing lists of the yicomte de Roger,
Polish princesses, Russian barons and Bra
lillian half breeds. The widowed noblesse
OF the Fiaubourg Saint German does not
mix with you here-for it is too poor!
prefer to gaze on our American kids, skat-
Ing In kid gloves What will become of
these boys, whose parents have escaped
all social responsibility? They themselves
escape. at the same time, all discipline,
connected schooling and all settled ways
And these little American girls, who al
ready know how to wet a red ribbon and
then rub 1t on their cheeks and lips, per-
haps they will marry titles.
Lazy and Luxurious.
The mammas also come-sometimes They
will have jumped out of bed early to please
their dear little ones. For the highest proof
OF love that rich married woman here IN
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Toward o'clock the stricter-miuded la
dies leave. They do not wish to rub
against the half-world which may be ex-
pected shortly. Gentlemen who stay now
have double duty. And to be polite to the
half-worid in the same room with ladies of
society takes all the ffnesse, all the prac-
tice of a special Paris nerve. The ladies'
who remain-we must not get these ladies
miXed-I mean the real sure-enough ones
stay to observe the other ladies' clothes
TO post themselves upon the latest fashions
as they set them. Those who have CEN
sured the noble young husband Of the
daughter of American railway king for
spending money on Mile. Marsy Of the
Theater Franchise do not reflect upon the
good she does with it. The lady is one OF
the fashion settlers. Her splendid genius
needs only unlimited cash TO create mar
wells.
So the demi-mondaines and the fashion
ables skate and drink together now till din
ner time, as amicably as the clean and I'M
clean animals in Noah's ark doubtless
amused themselves while 1t was raining.
Two hours is a long time I'm this atmns-
phere, where biting cold is mixed with heat
The cold comes from the real ice, real al
though 1t has no water under It. but only
the refrigerating pipes. The heat comes
from the red-hot stoves that line the cir
cling promenade. The building originally
was raised for a cyclorama. Being round,
with one broad, low gallery, the skating
surface now looks like a circus ring. The
circle of small tables is like the front row
of seats Sit at one now If you can find one
vacant. Danes and demoiseles sweep past
you, showing their new fUrs. The young
men-and old men-of gay Paris chatter
with them unafraid of public opinion. More
and more fouting furs, more brilliant faces.
lips too red. eyes too black, tresses too
blonde. Young girls of good society begin
to pale like the wan morning stars. The
married ladies knock their skates off petu-
lantly. Come, Lucie. Helene, il Is time to
go" STERLING HELLO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-07

It would be interesting to know what in
fuence caused Altgeld, Judge Tarvin, of
Kentucky, and Representative Lentz, OF
Ohio to go East to make speeches. Three
more radical and narrow slverites cannot
be found. AS for Lentz, he is vying with
Atkinson in his unpatriotic utterances. To a
Rhode Island audience he said:
If the flag is to stand for murder and re-
preston. for the extinction of that liberty
which is the foundation stone of this Re-
public, for denial of justice and God-giv-
en- rights to a struggling people, then 1 say
down with such flag, and make another
which shall be more in keeping with the
spirit Of our republican institutions.
In closing his speech Lentz paid tribute
to Aguinaldo, saying that he 'is one of the
most heroic men of this age and genera
tion" Has any committee representing the
Democratic organization sent these three
men out to make silver and seditious
speeches? If such is not the case, Chairman
Stone should repudiate them. Ultra silver
ism is bad enough, but to use the Ian
guage of the Democratic Memphis Appeal
the man who utters such talk as has
been quoted. is traitor The Journal is not
advising the Bryan leaders, but If it were.
ii would urge them to call off such men as
Lentz. unless it is their purpose to load
their party down with the advocacy of a
shameless policy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-07

The banding together of hoodlums and
young toughs to annoy and terrify peace
able people in different sections Of the city
is so we'll known fact that many citizens
understand Ii. even If the police DO not.
Because those who have participated In
such lawlessness are not checked the evil
is spreading. The latest report is that
band of Iawless persons has actually been
enlisted in the northeastern part of the city
whose purpose is to drive all the colored
people of that section out of 1t. That there
is talk of such a movement should cause
the police authorities to investigate the re-
ports, and, if evidence is found that such
conspiracy exists. to arrest the ringleaders
before they shall carry their plans into ex-
ecution. Negro hunting may do in sections
of the South as Democratic pastime, but
it would be embarrassing to Mayor Taggart
just now, when he is asking so much of the
colored voters. The Board of Public Safety
should waste no time in suppressing the
hoodlum element which has been making so
many local demonstrations of late.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-07
AGUINALDO AND HIS FRIENDS.

Mr.. Boutwell,. in his speech at Springfield
Tuesday nigl t, said that Wherever We
have touched the Philippine islands we have
found civilization, domestic comfort and
form of government that was popular in
its nature and agreeable to the people,"
This is a gross exaggeration, to say the
least. There are some civilized and edu-
Gated people among the Filipinos, but TO
say that we have found civilization every
where is untrue. AS for popular govern
ment. nothing of the kind exists The only
government exercised by Aguinaldo is mill
tary despotism. Continuing his misstate-
ments. Mr.. Boutwell, said:
In all the principal islands there are local
and municipal governments, on which the
framework Of a general government can
rest and be maintained in stability and
declaration of independenee hss s been ON set
up. with Aguinaldo at its head and with
the authorized concurrence of the repre-
sentative men of 191 provinces and cities
and towns. We are engaged In war with
an organized, civilized body of men. who
number eight or ten millions. even twelve
million possibly in all, and who can COM
mand f1ghting force of two millions.
These statements are not sustained by any
authority. In fact. they are fatty contra
dicted by all who have any personal knowl-
edge of the situation. There is abundant
evidence that Aguinaldo represents only a
small faction. In August 1885, General
Greene said In an official report:
There is no reason to believe that Aguin-
aldo'S government has any elements of sta
bility. 1t does not command the hearty sup
In Manila and outside, who have property
education and intelligence. This is purely
a Tagal instruction.
A statement from NJ. Andre. Belgian con-
sui at Manila, dated Aug. ., 1888. said:
THE present rebellion only represents a
half per cent. of the inhabitants" 1t GER
tainly does not represent any more now
than II did a year ago. A dispatch from
Manila in yesterdays Journal stated that
a body of 500 natives. Macabebes. had been
organized to act as scouts for General Law
ton. Commissioner Schurman said in a re-
cent statement:
The Tagals have sent out little bands OF
men to the chief towns of many of the
Islands. They send Seventy-fve or one hun
dred armed men, and IL Is easy for them TO
keep the unarmed population of several
thousand In a passive state. The principle
is the same as when three or four armed
highwaymen hold up passenger train. BY
sheer force OF nerve and guns they make
the passengers all submit to being robbed
| The Tagalos are equally high-handed in
| their methods
That is the kind of popular government
Aguinaldo is establishing and which Mr.
Boutwell, praises. Mr.. Boutwell, says Aguin-
aldo represents 1si provinces and ten to
| twelve millions of people. On the 9th OF
August. 1898. Ag,,inaldo himself only claimed
to control fifteen provinces. with popula-
ton of 100000. or about one-sixth OF the
| entire population Of the islands. He con-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-07
DEATH AND SUFFERING
TRIBULATIoNs or GOLD SEEKERS IN
THE COPPER RIVER COUNTRY.
Seven Members of q Scientific Pros.
pecting Company Dead-A Jewell
er's Body Picked by Ravens.

SEATTLE. Wash. Sept. Soto Thews.
OF Primrose, Ia. who has arrived here from
Copper river. Alaska. brings news confirm
ing the reported deaths of seven members
OF the Scientific Prospecting Company, OF
Alderman. Schultz, Peter Siegel, Butner and
.Baumgartner. George Hooker. another
member Of the party. got out alive but Is
badly crippled with scurvy. which carried
away the majority OF his companions.
Baumgartner went out hunting snd was
never seen again. The most affecting case
was that of Butner, who was driven insane
by his sufferings. His weak companions
had TO strap him down, but even then could
rot restrain him. One morning Thews,
whose camp was near. found Butner sitting
out in the snow with his clothes and hat
OF. The thermometer was As degrees be-
low zero. Butner was taken inside, but
he died in a few hours. The party was
camped at Twelve Mile. just beyond VAL
dez glacier.
Thews also brings a gruesome story in
connection with the finding of the remains
of a jeweler named Smith. who persisted last
November on Valdez glacier. Every ex-
posed portion OF the body had been eaten
away by ravens The remains were identi-
fed to be those OF Smith by the clothing
and effects found with them A purse con-
tanning $50 was found among the effects.
A prospector named Austed, a partner
of Smith. said money belt which con.
tanned sum of money was missing.
Thews said he had a close call crossing the
glacier. He fell into crevasse 1000 feet
back caught him and held him until his
companions could come 10 his rescue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-07

There is but one class of citizens who
have really good reason for voting the
Taggart ticket on Oct 10, and that class is
something by maintaining the Taggart con-
troll in Marion county. All those men who
expect to continue their places in the Tag
CART regime are naturally for him. The
large number Of persons who are candi-
dates for county and other offices, who live
by politics so far they may be said to
have living. are for Mr.. Taggart because
he rules the party to an extent that no
man can hope for nomination unless he
has the boss's approval. The considerable
body of voters to whom the statutes of the
State are an impeachment are for Mr.. Tag
CART. In the four years which Mr.. Taggart
has been mayor he has done nothing to
entitle him to the votes of any other class
Of citizens than those mentioned. He has
done nothing for the city that any other
mayor would not have done. and he has
done many things which a considerable
mayor would not. If Mr.. Harding had been
elected two years ago the city would not
have paid more than price and half for
the Taggart park lands That was not
business transaction. And yet it is the only
distinctive act during his administration
that Is entirely the mayor's-the only one.
The mayors friends are claiming great
credit for him because he has reduced the
city levy to 50 cents. They had better leave
that matter alone. If he caused 70-cent
levy to be made after three years expert
ence in office on the ground that such
levy was necessary. and, when four years
in office, discovered that a Scent levy is
sufficient to meet an increased expenditure,
Mr.. Taggart confesses that he took IL cents
on each 800 from the taxpayers this year
above the amount necessary to run the
affairs Of the city. and such an admission
is confession that he is a blunderer and
that he has laid needless burden upon
taxpayers. If 1t shall appear at the close
Of the fiscal year that he has expended
nearly all the money derived from 7O-cent
levy his 59-cent levy convicts him either
of trying to deceive the people or Of vast
ing IL cents on each 800 the present year.
If he Is trying to deceive in this matter
the mayor is trickster; If he means what
he says, and 50 cents is sufficient, the
mayor is bIunderer. The man who is either
trickster or a blunderer is not entitled
to third term by the votes of intelligent
citizens.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-07

The death OF John Y. McKane, of Coney
island. New York. recalls the career OF a
somewhat remarkable man. He was for
years a political boss In Gravesend. Coney
island and Kings county. He was inter-
ested In property at Coney island. and from
constable he rose TO be the man OF author
ny In his locality. Not a man OF ability in
any marked sense. he exhibited a wonder
ful influence locally. He was expelled from
the Democratic party organization in 1881
and helped the Republicans in 1855. turning
the vote nearly as strongly Republican as II
had been Democratic. "A McKane Republic
ar was a distinctive feature In Coney island
politics for year or two. but when Nc
Kane went back to his old place with
greater power these men followed him. This
was probably due 10 the patronage which
he dispensed. for people were taxed and i'm
provements we're made to make votes. Be-
sides. Mckane had devised an extensive
system OF repeating by false registration
IL was this that caused his downfall He
was required 20 show his registration and
refused. 1t was secured IN some way. he
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-07

was indicted, tried. convicted and sent 10
the penitentiary for six years Every effort
was made to secure his pardon. but in vain.
He came out OF prison with the loss of citi-
zenship. Irregularities In his official con-
duct were discovered which lost him the
most of his property. Mr.. McKane all these
years was leader in the Methodist Church,
superintendent of the Sunday school and a
sturdy pillar. He did not let his vocation
interfere with his religion. and certainly
whatever religion he had did not go into the
affairs OF the six secular days. He was not
worse than some other men, but he was
one whom Justice overlook
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-07

itself to Investigate the charge, positively
and strongly reiterated. that its consular
representative at Sonneberg used his official
position and the official envelopes OF the
Office to carry on the spying business for
the German government. AS a German
subject he is not amenable to American
law. but the government could peremptorily
dismiss him from Office. If the story is
true. as IT has every appearance of being,
II shows the danger of appointing aliens to
represent the United States In even the
smallest consular positions abroad.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-07

A clergyman in Boston who bears the D.
D.. which should stand for intelligence re-
garding common matters, has preached q
sermon in which he declared that Aguinaldo
was fighting to break the power of Roman
ism in the Philippines. Yet the man cannot
ind word In any OF that leaders speeches
which can be construed to have that mean
ing. 1t il very hard to believe that such
men are honest. II they are honest they
are the victims OF unbrided imagination.
Because ne sees Roman Catholic priest
IN the Philippines. the preacher declares
that God Is for Aguinaldo."
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Southland Of Brooklyn and Anton @. Holden
pyl OF Grand Rapids. Mich, whose terms
expire.
SCURvY CAUSES DISTRESS.


SAN FRANCISCO, Sept e-The steamer
Sequoia, which has arrived from Clipperton
island. reports that scurvy is causing much
distress there. Five men have died and
twenty-three others are afflicted with the
malady. There are about fifty men on the
island Those on the island were in state
of dire alarm when the steamer arrived. on
Aug. II, ii being the first vessel touching
there in four months. Only sixteen men
were fit TO be at work. The stores of the
Sequoia were levied and lime juice and
vegetables were dealt out TO those who were
Ill, with the result that when she sailed all
showed signs of Improvement.
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Ready for Indiana Conference.

Special the Indianapolis Journal
GREENCASTLE, Ind. Sept. 6.-This city
is rapidly getting in condition to entertain
the coming meeting Of the Indiana Confer
ence. The sessions beginning next week
will be held in Meharry Hall. except the
overflow meetings. which will go to Locust
street Church. The city has made all nec-
essary arrangements to entertain the 600 or
more preachers and guests who will at
tend. Bishop Goodsell will preside. In ad-
dition to the Indiana Conference being the
largest in the State and one OF the largest
in the United States, great interest centers
In the meeting this year because lay and
ministerial delegates are to be chosen "a
the General Conference in Chicago next
May. The annual conferences will be rep
resented at that meeting by an equal num-
Der of laymen and ministers. The confer
ence will be held in the week usually Sc,
apart for the opening OF De Paw. and
the faculty of the university has postponed
the fall term opening until the week follow
ing conference.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-07

The requisite number of signers having
been obtained TO the petitions In favor of
the candidates for school commissioners
proposed by a committee of citizens desig-
mated for the purpose. the petitions have
been filed and the names will go on the
ticket with others that may be petitioned
for. The persons proposed by the commit
tee are Albert A. Barnes. Frank T. Eden
harter. John NJ. Enrich, Arthur Gillett.
Charles Z. HolIenbeck. Aquilla Q. Jones.
Albert Rabb. Andrew NJ. Sweeney. Charles
]. Schmidt and George W. Weelburg
These selections were made with reference
TO fitness and location. are equally divided
politically and will make an excellent lis;
10 choose from There will be five commits
oioners to elect.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-07
More than Its Share.

Some curious things were shown by the
publication of a list of pensioners who re-
Werner, of Peoria, H. There were less
than 1900 altogether, which, under the law
of averages, would give less than one PEN
the little village of Golconda. In Illinois,
there are five. of whom four receive S72 each
a month. and one $50. Some people thought
they had explained this when they found
that former pension commissioner, Gen.
eral Raum, lives at Golconda."