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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-05-06

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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-05-06

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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-05-06

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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
MODERN

"Curios, isn't It," said the man from
Wavecrast, as the train pulled out of a
Long Island station, "that good people
should be so eccentric? Now, there's old
Croesus, who owns half of this place-all
those houses up there on the hill are
his--and is called a philanthropist and a
public benefactor and other nice names.
He built a house for poor children last
year and brings them out here for a Whit
of fresh air every week in summer. He
converted the old Croesus homestead into
a house for poor seamstresses and they
bless his name. That big field on the
right, where the wild stra wberries are
ripening among the daisies, is reserved
for the horses of his street car
line-sold to the trolley now-and the
whole place is fragrant with his good
ness"
Yes, SO I've always heard" said the
woman on her way to town for a days
shop-haunting.
well, how do o suppose he got the
money to do all that? In business? Oh.
yes; he got most of it that way. He's
sharp enough. But a man needs a start.
and he got his by forging a check and
then stealing his sisters patrimony.
Don't look shocked. It's quite true, and
everyone knows it, but they try to for
get 1t, because he's such a public bene-
factor. l have an animus in telling you
about it. Last week I asked him to take
an overWorked, invalided seamstress into
the home for a week. She had excellent
references and was very deserving, but
he wouldn't take her, because she wasn't
Il Baptist. He was awful sorry. Her pale
face quite haunted him, he said, but his
religious scruples were very dear to him
and he really could not admit any stray
sheep OF other nocks. So you see, I have
an animuS.
"When old Croesus was a young man
he was wild. His father cut off his al
loWance, and young Croesus forged the
check that founded his future. When
the father died he disowned the scape-
grace and left the old homestead to his
two daughters. They We're older than
their brother and not modern girls. They
could do needlework and make cake, but
! don't think they could nave battled with
the world for bread, SO it was a good
thing they had a roof of their own over
their heads. Young Croesus didn't see
it in that light. He contested the will
and was thrown out of court. Then he
prosecuted and pleaded and threatened,
and at last actually made up with his
sisters in order to secure at least con-
troll of their property. Then they let him
control it. One of them died of a broken
heart. The other married a farmer and
still lives somewhere in peaceful power
ty. But Croesus flourishes like a Green
Bay tree. A few years ago, when BUSH
ness and pleasure began to pail on him.
he turned philanthropist, and the old
homestead that he stole from his sisters
is now filled with specimens of the in
dependent wage-earning women gone to
seed. The poor souls haven't much spirit
left when they reach Croesus' place, but
they think he is a saint, and his aureole
of silvered hair and benevolent smile en-
nance the illusion. "-New York Commer-
cial Advertiser.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01

my high admiration of the amiable con-
duct of the African females towards me.
In sickness and in health, in prosperity
ana adversely, their kindness and affec-
ton were ever the same. They have
danced and sung with me in health,
grleved With me in sorrow, and shed
tears Of compassion at the recital of my
mls1ortunes. When quite a boy, and suf-
Ierlng from fever in the West Indies,
women of the same race used to take me
In their arms or on their knees, sing and
weep over me and tell me not to die, for
that my mother would break her heart to
hear the news, and pointing to the ocean.
they cheered my spirits by saying that it
laved the shores of England, and would
shortly bear me on it's bosom to my dis
tant home. In fine, through whatever
region | have wandered, whether slave or
free, AVE invariably found a chord Of
tenderness and trembling pity to vibrate
IN the breast of an African woman; q
spirit ever alive to soothe my sorrows
and compassionate my Affections and T
never in my life knew one of them to be-
stow on me a single unpleasant look or
angry word"
l, infinitely inferior to Lander, and only
a woman of his race at best, yet with a
wide knowledge of African women, say,
with all my heart, his appreciation OF
them has been justified in my experience:
and never a single unpleasant look or
.angry word have I had from an African
woman. Many a time have I had angry
words from African men, and have just
said Stuff; don't make a fool of yourself.
Where is your mother?"
III tell your mother" is no idle threat
to a West African, who is a man, and not
a mere b~y-product, as chemists would
say, of what is called civilization, for the
African man loves his mother with a
love he gives no other living being.
Elsewhere I have tried to tell you how in
West Africa women have their private
property legally on an equality with man:
how they form great triba societies:
how they car only be kept in order by the
men playing some variety of Mumbo
Jumbo upon them. They never COM
pletely believe that the mems secret So
ciety is really a great spirit. They have
a great secret society of their own, you
see; but. nevertheless, they fear the Sc
cret society of the men because it can
take their children and their chickens
and hit them with whips, nay, even kill
them. and, similarly, their secret society
is feared by the men, for the women do
the cooking, and can put bush in their
chop, and the West African man knows
what that means-sickness and trouble.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01

tax paper, were smitten with an ardor for
agriculture impossible adequately to de-
scribe in brief, but your trader never
recklessly plunges INTO wild expenditure.
"Sufficient is enough" and the head
agent decided that manioc Just dotted
about the property, sufficiently far apart
to allow each plant having a chance of
developing unhindered by the shade of its
%neighbor, would be the best form of agri-
culture to meet the case.
Now when the head agent of a factory
thinks a thing, it is like a sea captain
thinking. The thing in question is done
and, unless Fate interfereS-there are no
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
MEN WITH GREEN HAIR.

In he districts surrounding the copper
mines of Cornwall. Cuba, Chile and other
places where the ore is ~abundantly found,
a curious sight is to be seen in the shape
of men with hair that is quite green. This
is not, as might be imagined, a fashions
able fad. but the grave results produced
by the mems surroundings. The crude
ore, in order to secure a more markets
able article, is roasted in enormo fur
naces, and it is some strange emanation
from the smelted copper that effects this
chemical change in the hair of the miners
and turns it as green as grass. Invests
cations have proved that the fumes from
the furnaces contain a certain quantity
of arsenical matter, and this causes the
change, although the texture
and growth of the hair suffer no injury.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
WEST AFRICAN WOMEN.

Mary Kingsley, in The London Tele-
graph: 1 do not desire to say anything
uncivil about any lady, but I sincerely
wish that the African woman had not
imposed upon the mind of the African ex-
plorer the idea that she was a down
trodden worm, because, by so doing, she
has mad it almost impossible for any
one to write about her calmly without
coming to be regarded as unfeeling. Now,
if | tell you that the African lady is a
very cheerful parsonage, that she has a
temper of her own, and so on, what would
you think? Most likely that I am unfeel-
ing, or being a woman, spiteful-and you
would be wrong, and 1 should uninten-
t%ionally have led you astray; for, ruth
to tell, I do not think any one is fonder
of African women han I am, and I am
sure no one esteems more highly their
kindness, shrewdness and sound judg-
ment. But I cannot weep over them as
worms. If I had a tear for their affairs,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01

| would drop it for the man who reused
the anger of the African woman.
l remember two minor tragedies that 7
think justify me. Once upon a time down
in Ka kongo there was anxiety in the
hearts Of some friends of mine, white
men-traders, | need not say-who had
acquired from the government a large
tract or land, and left ii as it was, I'M
used. The government, intent either on
progress or acquiring money-the things
are SO mixed in West Africa that it is
difficult to decide which-determined to
levy a tax upon all land that was not cu!-
tivated. My friends, on receiving their
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
The Fashionable Outing Dresses
VERY NEAT GOWNS THAT ARE BEING MADE FOR AMERICAN GOLF
ERs-THE NEW TENNIS BLOUSE.

short but the yachting gown is built upon
a diHerent plan. 1t is long and in fact
is quite the parlor length. 1t is quilt
upon the plan of such gowns and the girl
VINO goes aboard a yacht finds herself
trailing the decks in a dress which is
realty like her reception gowns, in
length and hang. An effort was made by
the Henley girls to introduce the short
yachting gown to the world, but to no
avail.
But the material for yachting is differ
emit. The fine, soft Woolens are best for
yachting, for they do not lose stiffness
and will not shrink if made over a silk
lining. The favorite trimming is braid
and the skirt has the many-skirted APP
pearance.
A yachting dress of wood brown cloth
had a perfectly plain underskirt with an
oVerdress effect arranged by sewing on a
braided trimming in such a way that 1t
appeared to be separate. This is done by
attaching the upper edge of the braid to
the skirt while the lower edge hangs
free. The braid was brought up in the
front to the belt line in two rows, a foot
apart, gradually coming together at the
belt.
The waist had a vest of white linen
with cravat, which could be changed for
one OF red or yachting blue.
A rather move waist trimming was
made by arranging the braid in such a
way that it formed revers and a false
vest.
A very broad ribbon of Savoy blue red
was brought from the arm holes and tied
IN a bow knot at the bust. This ribbon,
too, could be changed and one day the
yachtswoman could wear a blue shirt
front with broad ribbon of red, and the
next day a white shirt front with ribbon
of blue.
The Girls club of Paris went on a
yachting excursion recently dressed in
the patriotic colors, white gowns with
vests of scarlet, and blue ribbon trim
mingS.
TINY BUCKLE FAD
The tendency toward the small buckle
is growing. Many ON possessed of
old canoes have mounted them into
buckles and are wearing them. Canoes,
no larger than those in a ring, are used
for buckles. Old of all kinds
are impressed into the service and a
buckle collection is one of the boasts Of
the fashionable woman.
American women are arriving every
day, for the exposition rush has begun;
and when your correspondent crossed
there was scarcely a stateroom to be oh
tanned. The best and the prettiest of
everything in the shops is reserved for
the American woman, and she will go
back home with a very fine wardrobe if
she will put herself in the hands of a
modiste.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
HAVANA CLERKS PAY.

Clerks in Havana receive from $35 to
SOS per month, according to their value.
those speaking English commanding the
best wages. A suit of clothes costs from
$25 to $50, a dress suit anywhere from $50
to S100
The evening times., 1899-10-20
Colonial Practical Politics.

From the earliest dawn Of civilization it
has been noticeable that provincial and
colonial capitals have always been more
or less microcosms OF the larger wealth
importance, politics, and life of imperial
capitals. Thus, certain Canadian types as
seen in Ottawa are more English than auy
Englishman, and there are ginger-colored
statesmen TO be encountered in Kingston,
Jamaica, who, in their accent and aspirates
are more excruciatingly Cockney than peo-
pie who live and die within sound of the
Bow Bells
We begin to observe something analogous
to this in the phenomena of our new CO.
lonial possessions, and in our military PRO-
tectorate Of Cuba. At Manila, for exam
pie, there is presented a most complete
example Of good politics." combined with
the sound business methods" which have
given the Hanna period in American his
tory its chief fame. The picture, like all
provincial limitations, is naturally an ex-
aggerated one, but the systematic princi
pies are present and accounted for in un-
mistakable forms and deafening colors The
patriot with pull in Washington does not
there arrange a friendly deal with the Gus
toms authorities to have the Government
wink al commercial enterprise, involving
the clearance Of a vessel with a cargo of
arms to be sold to public enemy. The
proprieties of public life, not to mention
morals. are too fully recognized for eny-
.hing of that kind. At the same time,
there are some people OF influence who
are not the poorer because the country had
TO buy ocean liners. yachts. petroleum
tramps. cattle ships, and old tugboats, for
use as army transports during the war
with Spain. And millions upon millions OF
pounds of earrion meat were not issued to
our army without somebody being the
richer for It.
In Cuba We obtain an enlarged view of
The evening times., 1899-10-20
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 20. 1899.
schurman ON Practical Expansion.

Schurman on Practical Expansion.
President Schurman, of Cornell Univer
sity. is an honest and thorough-going
American, and a man of heart, brains, and
shrewd common sense. He has clearly and
brilliantly demonstrated the largest los
session of these qualities since his return
from the Philippines, whittier he went as
Presidential Peace Commissioner, and went
much prejudiced against the policy Of eX-
pansion. He came back, however, full
fedgsd eXpansionist. and has shown him
self ever ready to defend his new faith
with a converts zeal. If The Times and
other independent and patriotic journals
have not always accorded him the conf
dence and honor he has lately been found
to deserve, President Sehurman will ind
the reason illustrated in the pages of his
tory, in the celebrated case of one Tray,
who was hanged for being caught in OBJ
nOxious company. He must remember
that. according TO popular belief at the
time, he was sent TO Manila as a sort of
respectability annex to his associate. Colo
Iel DENLY. Let the dead past bury its
dead. DR.. Schurman is known to be all
right now.
In q speech at a banquet given in his
honor by the Aldine Association, in New
York Thursday evening. DR. schurman
presented the position and duty OF this
Government and people in the Philippines,
in a strikingly conclusive and unaHswera-
BILE way. He declared that under the Law
of nations the United States has unim-
peachable sovereignty over the Philippine
islands, This he continued, involves
responsibility for their government. Now,
the primary ends OF government are, frsI,
peace and order; secondly, security of life
and property; thirdly, justice and equal
rights, and, when these are assured, lib
erty and government
DR. Schurman holds that the Govern
ment should be supplied with all the men
and means necessary TO put down the Agui-
naldo insurrection, which only involves
part OF a tribe at the outside number
ing a million and half souls out of
an otherwise friendly, peaceful, and loyal
population of from six TO seven millions. In
recognition of the acceptance of American
sovereignty by vast majority Of the island
ers, he thinks it would be well for Con-
gress to adopt some definite declaration OF
our national purposes to endow these peo-
pie with the advantages and blessings of
liberty, and to permit them voice in
local government as fast and as far as
they may fit themselves for its safe and
proper exercise. President Schurman
urges that by telling the pacific Filipinos
what we are willing to do for them, the
non -belligerents will be drawn more close
ly to us, and the influence of the insur-
gent Tagal leaders and plotters weak
ened. This" he says, lis Lincoln's bor-
der State policy applied to the Philippines,
where you will note the dubious neutrals
far outnumber the belligerents"
The evening times., 1899-10-20

the workings ot that demerit system In the
public service. TO which the present Ad-
ministration has returned with much cheer
fulness and pious JUNCTION. Brigadier Gen.
eral Ludlow. Military Governor of Havana.
has Just protested to the Governor General,
that the force of enumerators appointed to
take the island census. is largely
composed OF criminals, chronic misdemean
ants, swindlers, confidence men, and per-
sons under police surveillance. Again We
recognize the dominant principle, with the
provincial initiative exaggeration of course
which controls the appointive system OF
spoils, nepotism, and fayoritism. In minia-
ture we are able to discern the practical
politics upon which dear Mr.. Dick" aid
ed by a fund wrung from Federal office
holders, depends TO carry the Ohio election
next month
Manila and Havana offer US useful object
lessons. We should take them to heart, and
those of us who have votes. should also
take them TO the polls.
The evening times., 1899-10-20
THE CASE OF DIR. DE COSTA.
Discussion as to the Future of the
Late Episcopal Clergyman.

Late Episcopal Clergyman.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-The Rev. DIR. B.
F. DeCosta, late rector of the Episcopal
Church of the Evangelist, and who was re-
Gently deposed from the ministry by Bishop
Potter at his own request, has been spend
ing some time al the Catholic college at
Dunwoode The Very Rev. Edward B.
Dyer, DID. J. c. l., president of the De-
partment of-Theology, was seen at the SEM
mary and he was asked if the late Episcopal
divine was there. 80
He is not now.'' was the reply. He
has been here?" Yes" will he come
here aagin?" Il would prefer that Dr.
DeCosta himself answer that question" 4"
Does he intend TO take a course of study
here?" ASK him." Reports have frequent
ly been circulated before that DR.. DeCosta
was about to join the Roman Catholic
Church. He has always denied them most
positively.
woodie Seminary seems to be general in
circles that are we'll informed as to what
is going on in church matters.
At the Church of st. Francis Xavier in
Sixteenth Street, a Jesuit priest, who ask
ed that his name be not used, said that he
knew Dr. DeCosta has been staying at
Dunwoodie, but believed that he was do
ing so merely as an old personal friend
cf Father Dyer. You know he could not
become priest explained the Jesuit, fa-
ther. He is married man. OF his in
tentions regarding entering the church, I
have no knowledge. Ask him."
At the apartments in Twelfth Street oc-
cupied by DR.. DeCcsta. information was
refused to reporters, and 1t was said that
he could not be seen. st. Joseph's Semi
nary, Dunwoodie, is the theological school
of this archdiocese. 1t is in charge Of
secular priests with the Very Rev. DR..
Dyer at its head. The report is that DR..
DeCosta is taking a course of instruction
there, preparatory to being confirmed in
the Roman Catholic faith.
The evening times., 1899-10-20
Uniformity i'm Dress.

Some moralizer on public affairs has
been directing attention to the lack of
individuality shown In the dress of the
American woman. The topheayy felt hat
with an obtrusire quill in it, the shirt
waist and the cloth skirt make a sort of
uniform for women both young and cd.
and of types most dissimilar. The phil
osopher above mentioned thinks this is
very foolish, and iutimates that each wo-
man ought to wear what is becoming to
her.
Several things could be said in this con-
nection. In the first place, woman might
;etort that she has as much individuality
as man so far as dress is concerned. Look
at crowd Of men In summer. with their
straw hats and business suits. Look at
The evening times., 1899-10-20
POLITICS IN VIRGINIA.
Governor Tyler Explains His sena-
fOriaI Ambition

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 20.-The talk of
Governor Tyler's attitude in the Senate
rial contest only intensifies the interest,
had tagged. The new phase which the
fight now presents is attracting more at
tention than any other since Governor
Tyler entered IT, The executive is per-
fectly serene and enjoys the situation.
When asked as to the attitude OF the
independent candidates the Governor de-
clined 10 discuss politics. He has, how
ever. pointed out the fact that in first
announcing his candidacy for the Senator
ship he declared that he was a candidate
for the Democratic nomination. This. of
course, could only be bestowed by the
legislative caucus. The Governor eoAsid-
ers IL offensive to have any question pro-
posed to him which leaves any doubt of
his perfect party loyalty. Since the Mar
tin people seem disposed to submit to in
terrogation, it is not improbable that the
Governor may emulate this example.
The more independent or other non
Democratic candidates elected to the leg
islature the fewer number of members 1t
will take TO secure the caucus nomina-
tion. 1t is assumed that there will be
thirty Independents or Republicans. II
ffty-six members to nominate in the Dem
ocratic caucus.
Il know of over 100 and possibly us,
loyal Democrats who have been nominated,
and who cannot be beaten. who are favor
able to me as my own successor in the
Senate and l have no fear as to the re-
suit l am working for the success of
every Democratic nominee for the legisla-
ture who has been regularly put forth by
the party, regardless OF whom be may ia
vor for the United States Senate"
Senator Martin spoke of the methods en-
ployed by some of the independents, and
in referring again to the election of any
of them to the legislature, he said; Il
do not believe that anybody who knows
me in Virginia would have to be told, but
l would not go to the United States Senate
save as the nominee of the regular caucus
of the regularly chosen Democratic men,
oers of the legislature, and it is only
through them that l ask any consideration
in the coming election"
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. now at Quamada,
Cuba, viii be here on the 3lst of this
month. OF course, it Is a mere coincidence,
but 1t is nevertheless interesting that Gen.
eral Lee will reach Virginia at the most
intensely interesting period of the fight for
the United States Senatorship. The gen.
eral comes here to spend two weeks fur
Tough. and supposedly has timed his visit
to accept the invitation to be present on
October 81 at the launching of the torpedo
boat Shubrick. The general, who was de-
feated by Mr.. Martin for Senator in 1893,
telegraphed today: Il am able to say now
that l will be there unless something un-
foreseen happens.