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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
AT THE PARIS MORGUE,
How the "Third Degree" IL Worked
on Murderers in France.

on Murderers i'm France.
From the London Standard.
A law that has recently come into opera
ton gives prisoners the right of communi-
eating with counsel within twenty-four
hours after their arrest. One of the imme-
date consequences of this measure may be
to put stop to those "confrontations" at
the morgue which are so dramatic a fea-
ture of French criminal procedure. With a
view to bringing a murderer to confess, he
is taken to the morgue, and there brought
face to face with the body of his victim.
Every artifice is used to make the eonfron-
tatlon as impressive as possible as it is
hoped that the terrible sight he is COM
PEELED to gaze on will SO trouble the muir
derer that he will lose command over him
Sel1 and make a clean breast of his crime
in his agitation. When he enters the room
be can see nothing. as the stone bench on
which the body is exposed is concealed by
curtain. The examining magistrate
presses him with questions and then, at
what he considers the opportune moment
gives the signal for the curtain to be pulled
back.
The murderers who have stood this ordeal
without nInch.ng are comparatively few
The majority of them exhibit the utmost
terror and implore to be taken out of sight
OF the corpse. There Is a chair in the room
where the cenfrontations take place. in
which the majority of the most notorious
murderers of the last thirty years have
been seated. Their names are inscribed on
Its back, one of the first being Troppmann,
VINO, just before the Franco-German war,
butchered an entire family. French crimi.
nal counsel have found that these confron-
tatfons almost always result in the confu-
sion OF their clients. have looked into the
matter, and believe they have discovered
that the examining magistrate has no legal
right to subject a prisoner to this ordeal.
For the future they are going to advise
their clients to refuse to allow themselves
10 pc taken to the morgue. and it seems
that it is a moot point whether the author
tiles will be able to convey them thither by
force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
REVIEW OF ITS BUSINESS.
Town Council Summarizes the Work
of Past Year.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
FALLS CHURCH, Va. June 27, 1899
The town council met last night to close
up the municipal affairs of the fiscal year
ending June 80. Councilmen Ellison Lynch
Parker, Hawxhurst, Church and Nowlan
were present. The annual statement of the
town sergeant of receipts and disburse-
ments was examined and approved. The
receipts from all sources were $3,36 .53. The
amounts expended In the wards for street
and sidewalk purposes were: First ward,
s613.J6; second ward, S5T1.S3; third ward
$23490, total of $134202e. The other prin-
cipal items of expenditures were: Fire de-
partment, s179.42; title5 s129.5S; lighting
street lamps, s136.19; street sprinkler ex-
penses, $11943; town sergeant, $102.45; road
machine, $10210; W. E. Parker, 500; board
of health, $780, printing, SLIP; sidewalk
front of Presbyterian Church, $50; town
clerk, $50. The total disbursements We're
So, 09G.62.
For school purposes the sum of s2,14561
was raised, and 81 ,312.3:3 disbursed Four
teachers We're employed in the public grad
ed school Of the town at cost of s1613.6o.
Mr.. {. w. Parker, committee from
the Village Improvement Society, in
vited the council to take part in the Fourth
of July parade, which was accepted. Mr..
Parker also requested that council author
lze the fire department to turn out on the
same occasion, and it was so ordered, and
Mr. Geo: 7. Mankin appointed to have
charge of same.
.. T. c. Quick, chairman board of
health, called the attention of council to
the killing of dog supposed to have been
mad, which, it was reported had bitten sew
erai other dogs, ana the mayor was in
structed to issue proclamation requiring
all dogs to be muzzled for twenty days and
requesting all owners of dogs to keep them
Chained Tor the same length of time
The ordinance requiring a license from
livery stables was repealed. Council add
Journed to meet the first Monday in JULY
when the new members elected in May last
Wall take their seats and
sergeant and clerk for ensuing year will be
elected.
All arrangements for the Fourth of july
celebration by the Village Improvement So
ciety are perfected. The street parade will
be at ] pm, Exercises at CHEESEMAN'S
Grove from ? to i pm, closing with ath-
Mt Pleasant Band of twenty-five pieces
has been engaged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
FAVORS SPANKING MACHINE
Maj. Sylvester Believes It's Should Re
Introduced Here

Maj. Sylvester favors the adoption of the
spanking machine in prisons and reforma-
tories in the District. This machine he
said, is In use in Colorado, and it has given
great satisfaction to the officials
Speaking to Star reporter Maj. Sylves-
ter said there is nothing barbarous in the
use of the machine, and, while the paddle
stings, the degradation and humiliation of
the victim is something calculated to effect
good. Even those who are opposed to most
forms of punishment, he says, would have
no reason to object to this machine, for it
does not draw blood or disfigure the person
corrected. 1t is always used in the pres-
ence of other inmates of the institution.
and this is what makes the machine seem
horrible
For males a wooden horse is used. the
person whipped being strapped on, while
for females a chair without a bottom is
brought into requisition. The major hopes
to see the day when the machine will be
tried in this District, and he feels certain
that 1t will accomplish good results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
ices are.held. for this is a Spanish Catholic

fees eheld. for this is a Spanish Catholic
country, and all religious observances are
encouraged by the euthogities.
AT Tamisco they hang in the boiler room
some stringed instrument played by boys
in the balcony overhead.
When the handsscan,e in to be paid off
the boys sang an veaMaria' In a most
asst Isl 1sa crude maansr and one by
paymaster, they saiS saipting, Three days
signor, by the gracD Of kodr Tor as many
days as might be-. rec wing a portion of
be to lose his servi ses nfil hunger drove
him to work againS q
Another building vi occupied by a
distillery, In which AguEdiefte fire water
or RUM Is made from seme portion OF the
cane. For hundredshof Years this business
has been carried on In all essential ways
just it Is now, and everything bears the
signs of age-even the stone hedges and
wall being largely made o. the pieces Of
broken red pots, the conicM sugar pots of
the mill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
IN THE CRIMINAL COURT.
William Farnsworth Proves an Alibi
Other Cases Disposed Of.


Other Cases Disposed Of.
In Criminal Court No. 1 this morning,
Justice Clabaugh presiding, VIM. Farms
worth, alias VIM. Johnson, charged with
obtaining money under false pretenses, was
tried and a verdict of not guilty returned
by the jury, after being out but few mo-
ments. 1t was claimed by the government
that Farnsworth met James w. Fu.tz,
March 10 last, at the Baltimore and Po-
tomac depot and borrowed $40 from him on
the ground that the money was to be used
to pay the freight charges on large con-
signment of goods held in Farnsworth's
name at the Baltimore and Ohio freight
depot. The goods were to be sold and the
money refunded with interest.
F'arnsworth was represented by Mr.. An
drew Y. Bradley, who, in his statement to
the jury, said he knew his client hadn't the
best of records, but he was not guilty in
this particular case. His defense was an
alibi.
The defendant was recognized by Fultz as
the man to whom he gave the $40.
When Farnsworth took the stand he
frankly told of his past. He said he had
beer in Jail, In the penitentiary, and was a
gambler by profession. His trade was that
of printer, but 1t was seldom he worked
at 1t. On the day he was alleged to have
"roped inn the prosecuting witness Farms
worth said he was in Newport News, Va.
Several witnesses substantiated this, and
the jury was not long in acquitting the ac-
cused man. He was discharged from Gus
tody.
Mary Brown, colored, who has been in
Jail since February, charged with murder
ing her grandchild, was brought into court
and released on her personal bond of 800.
The governments only witness has made
several contradictory statements, and could
not be depended upon. The defendant
claims the child was born dead.
In the cases of Morris L. Goldberg an
Morris Citrenbaum, charged with house
breaking, and Mary Sullivan, charged with
forgery, the government entered nolle
presses.
Sentence was suspended in the case Of
Peter Hend arson, found guilty of embezZle-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
An Interesting Decision,
From the Philadelphia Record

From the PhlladeIpn1a RECORD
Philadelphia women who are fortunate
enough to be possessed of sealskin gar
ments will be interested In recent de-
cision OF the Treasury Department, It
seems that a woman OF this city recently
wrote to the department. stating that she
intended to go abroad and take with her a
sea1slin garment Of foreign make which
she owned. This she proposed to have cut
up and made into smaller Articles of wear.
and she desired to know whether or not the
garments thus made would be liable To
duty upon being brought into this counts-v
again. She has been informed in a com.
munication from Assistant Secreta nv
Spaulding that since the identity of the
present sealskin garment would be changed
in the cutting-up process, his opinion is that
duty must be assessed upon the smaller ar
icles when brought back to this country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
A Feathered Frog.
From the, Harrodsburc pemocrat

= IOu tHe dNIfOQSUufg Dem0crHt.
Little Roy Semonis, son of Mr.. Robert
Semonis Of the Nevada neighborhood, killed
frog on Jim Tewmy's farm Monday that
was one of the greatest freaks of which
the Democrat has heard recently. It's back
was covered with green feathers half an
inch in length, and its nose resembled that
characteristics of the ordinary buI1frog.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
Her Lucid Reason.

From the Chicago Posf.
Don't you wish" he asked, looking SOUL
fully into her eyes, that the tunnel on
this line was ten times as long?'
NO" she answered.
It struck him like dash of cold water
in the face. Instantly it dawned upon him
that she no longer loved him.
They always light the car lamps when
coming to the long tunnels" she added,
| 'tand they don't for the shaSt ones."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
Funeral of Capt. Campbell.

The funeral Of Captain Alberto Campbell,
whose death was announced in The Star of
yesterday will take place from his late
residence, 119 18th street northeast, tomor-
row. The services will begin at 1:3O pm.
Interment at Arlington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
Advance In Salary,

Upon the recommendation of Mr.. H. H.
Darneille, the District disbursing officer the
salary of Mr.. Charles c, Rogers, his assist
aut, was today raised by the Commission
ers from 81 to $3.50 per day. the order to
take effect July l. 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
Lamp In.pectort Assaulted.

Lamp Inspector Burgess was assaulted
by two young mew on the Anacostia road
late last night Her reported the affair to
the police, and today William Loveless and
James Laurie were arrested by Policeman
Hagan. They are charged with the assault.
The inspector was not badly hurt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
A Treasure.

The Supreme Lodge, Ancient Order OF
United Workmen, has decided to enlarge
the limit of the beneficiary department In
order to include an affianced wife Here-
tofore only blood relatives have been aos
cepted as beneficiaries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
Good Answer.

Teacher in primary grade ruts a hard question
out gets prompt answer-'CTn any tell IL
goes into IT, Johnny Bright Yes; Mrs. Close
buyer told my mamma she could get In ! at
Gfasty -quaiity-styie and low pfice-in those
Shirt Waists Wrappers and Ladies' Underwear"
TEACHER: Thanks. Johnny. I glad 10 know
Ii. Your next report will have X L, n t.
Now this little fellow was honest in telling his
teacher. We are just honest I'm telling YOU
with this difference, he got paid and We have 20
pay for the telling.
Ladies Shirt Waists, Iec.
Real DOuble-face Cheviot Outing Shirts 25c.
Best quality Light finished Door, Spring Hinges,
&c, regular 81 % one. CSC.
Ice Boxes, SIPS
limit. Cut Glass Gohleis, Sc; regular iOr ones.
Stone MIX Crooks, &c. size. Sc; loo one Be-
Lamp CHimneys, all sizes DC.
GalvaEized Wash Tubs cannot fall down, 80
Go and 75c.
l3-in. Block Tin Wash Basin sc.
Garbage Csns, So Go and 95c.
Good Mexican Grass HammOcks 20 and poc
extra long and strong.
We have stores fairly putting out with good
things-for any room in your house. Dry Goods,
Furniture, Msttlngs Window Shades. &c
We viii save You something right along. Don't
doubt till you try.
GRASTY, THE PUSHEP,
15os-1510-1512 TTII NV, BET. Z AND O.
je2i- tn, f-46tf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
The sugar-Makins Industry.

Sugar making is the great industry of
this Countrywide cane grows wild in pro-
fusion yielding two crops in fifteen months,
without replanting-one planting lasting
from ten to thirty years. with little or no
care. The stalks grow so luxuriantly and
cast such a dense shade that weeds will
not spring among the canes, hence the
Mexican finds his means of support ready
at hand. The sugar industry predates the
coming of Cortez.
THE sugar mill of Tamisco runs night
and day. employing about 400 men the year
round. the continuous crops of cane fur
nishng constant material for work. The
oxen. drawing carts loaded with sugar cane,
and driven by Indians in picturesque gar
ments of white cotton, were everywhere in
evidence.
The hacienda is inclosed in stone wall
some ten feet high, opening through mas
sive and handsomely decorated gateway.
The mill itself comprises number of build
ings and sheds built about an open court,
upon which the buildings open, and in
which most of the work is done. Close
beside the MILL on the slope above. is the
village, consisting of stone houses or huts,
mostly with matched roofs, built about a
primitive little chapel. The hacienda is a
complete town, sufficient unto itself, in it
self; raising its own cane, furnishing it's
own fuel, having church, stores and people;
even making its own pottery within its
gates; exporting sugar, molasses and rum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
The CITY of Mexico.

1.-THE City of Mexico, where we made our
headquarters, is the center of a region rich
in material for the student of history and
anthropology, and as yet almost unstudied.
The city lies in a broad basin in the center
of broad and wonderfully fertile plateau,
some 1890 feet above the sea, which is rim
med in by hills and towering ranges and
yet beyond by lofty submits that reach
the sky. In every direction these ranges of
hills and mountains frame in the great
plain, forming a background to every view.
The level Is picturesquely varied by low
hills and beautiful lakes, making of the
lofty valley a veritable earthly paradise.
From this center the railroads pass out
north, south, east and west over the rim
of the valley into regions of the most alb
sorbing interest to students, who find, sur
rounded by clusters of dark foliage nestled
at intersections in the map-lke tracery of
hedges, fading into the mist as they retreat
toward the far-off city, and close at our
feet hay foreground of rugged pines, bare
rocks and volcanic earth, in sharp contrast
to the Elysian fields beyond and below.
The rapid descent into the valley below,
winding about over slopes covered with
rough crumbling lava, with volcanic cones
to right and left, opened out before us a
vista that might best be described as one
vast flower garden, no less beautiful than
the valley we had just left. Before US, on
the plain, could be traced the courses of
the rivers that ran toward the Pacific, OBJ
ScuTe ranges Dur1ed IN the Nl1StS ana, near
al hand, nestled close at the foot of the
range, the domes and roofs of Cuernavaca.
I'VE stopped here for the night, and were
entertained by the administrator, who
kindly gave US an opportunity to witness
the transformation of sugar cane into loaf
sugar.
THE methods of sugar making are but
little altered since the time of CorteZ
though this is fast changing-this mill in
particular having already placed an order
for modern machinery, and modern meth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
How Sugar il Made.

THE cane is crushed between three large
cylinders-the remaining cane pulp being
earted out to dry, and afterward used as
fuel, while the resulting sap is run off into
huge copper watts, connected by an intri-
cate system of tubes, and boiled After
boiling the syrup is run into conicaI earth
enware vessels, having perforations In the
bottom or pointed end. which are stopped
with husks that are removed when the
sugar has crystailized, permitting the re-
naming syrup to escape. These conicaI
vessels stand in small basins by the hum
dreds about the floor and men go continu-
ally from vessel to vessel stirring the con-
tents as the syrup tends to crystalline In a
crust on top, until the process Is complete
The vessels are then carried to the roof Of
a nearby building and the resulting cone
deposited to dry IN the sun-a collection of
small mountains of sweetness not Alto
gether enticing to one who has seen the In
dams handle it, though the warns of bees
that haunt 1t find 1t none the less sweet.
There is much coming and going of
picturesque figures, song and laughter
about the MILL but found thu boiling room
most interesting; the furnaces; the huge
copper watts and boiling strip; the figures
fitting to and fro stirring the strip in the
conical pots; men carrying great cones of
the coarse sugar sometimes weighing a
hundred pounds, on their backs; the arrival
and departure Of the OK carts In the sunlif
court outside, made q scene OF great AMI
nation.
The Lab0rers.
'Tn most Of the mills and distilleries
small shrines are placed against the wall In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27
Sugar Making According to Methods
of Cortez's Time.
A SUGAR MILL OF TODAY
What Prof. Holmes Saw or His
Recent Expedition.
A NATIONAL INDU ST r Y

Professor w. H. Holmes recently returned
from an expedition into Mexico for the pur-
pose of examining some of the ancient his
tCrical ruins of that country. In The Star
recently appeared a very interesting de-
scription of the ruins of the Hill of
Flowers and the remarkable and signif-
cant carvings and inscriptions on the walls
of the temple During his travels, Profess
sor Holmes otserved other things than an
cient ruins and the following description
of the sugar industry in modern Mexico,
which he gave a representative of The Star,
will be found unusually interesting:
Over Plains and Through Valleys.
The trip to Cuernavaca by railroad, car
RED us south and west from the City of
Mexico, over the beautiful plains and up the
rim of the valley to the mountain crests,
crossing the range at La Sima, at height
of some 10000 feet-one Of the highest rail-
road passes in the world. Looking backward
as the train climbed height upon height, one
beholds a panorama of marvellous beauty:
The city in the far distance, with its shin
ing doma sand towers grown tiny and dim
in the glittering opalascent mists; the sill
very level of Lake Texcoco shimmering
softly through the haze, and hanging over
head, seemingly fixed in the sky, what ap-
pears to be two Shadowy clouds floating
there-the snowy peaks of Popacatapetl
tthe white womam of the ancient Aztec
people.
Stretched out between us and the distant
city lay the plain, traversed by hedges in
closing variously colored patches, with try
hamlets in support of the axiom-that like
conditions produce like results-or that un-
der like conditions man will develop along
the same lines: whether a some remote
period there might not have been land con-
nectlon between old Egypt and South
America-in fact, lost Atlantis
Beyond the City of Mexico number of
nils rise from the gray plains-hills that
aaVe been occupied at some time by the
ancient peoples. One of these a crag that
rises about 500 feet above the plains
said to be inaccessible to any save the most
intrepid mountaineer, has a city upon its
summit that has never been fully explored
and described
Far beyond in the dim distance rises
another HILL the object of our quest
XochicalcOs, the Hill of Flowers Leav-
ing the railroad at Cuernavaca we
took horses and a guide and rode south
down the slope, over road built by CorteZ
leading down to the sugar plantation. or
hacienda, of Aamisco. said to have been
once the property of Cortez, and surely of
great antiquity.
paved with stone, is now a crumbling ruin,
snare set for the feet of the unwary, no
longer passable by vehicles of any kind
all travel and transportation being by
mules.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27

"In most Of the mills and distilleries
small shrines are placed against the wall In
some quiet corner, and between the shifts
OF night and day laborAp short song eery-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-27

GOOD FOR WELL PEOPLE AND SICK ONES
Liebig Company Extract Of Beef.
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