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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-21
A Suffering Prisoner.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean,

FROM the Chicago Inter Ocean.
A certain policeman who patrols q heat
near calumet avenue and 23d street had
not made an arrest in three years. It is a
quiet neishborhood and really nothing of a
riotous nature happens there.
Nike said the captain one morning
last week. you've got to- get to work. If
you don't make some arrests pretty soon
III turn you off the force"
Mike left the station desperate and fully
determined on arresting the first man he
met. lie overlook a very mild and unas-
stunning gentleman who was walking from
the Illinois Central train. Mike placed him
under arrest. The man, it turned out
suffered dreadfully and was not able to
make much protest. Mike really knows SO
little about the law that he imagined he
was within his rights in running anybody
brought up at the station.
What's your name" roared Justice
White, who had an attack of dyspepsia that
morning.
"st-s-s-t." sputtered the frightened little
defendant.
whats your name?' demanded the JUS
tice, still more severely; don't you trife
with this court sir!'
S-s-s-t-t-t," suffered the helpless man
again.
Officer, what's this man charged WITH
said the Judge in disgust. turning to Mike
Il don't know, your honor" stammer.
ed Mike. Soda water, guess"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-21

the profound argument of The distinguished
statesman should be in the hands of every
voter, and that I had made a characters
tically humorous speech. The story and
the witticsm which occupied fifteen minutes
of the one hundred and twenty had destroy
ed the serious value of the effect for the
critic who read carelessly and commented
on the strength of humorous reputation"
But do you think a hard-headed body,
like the Senate, is affected a popular
audience would be?'
1.-The Senate is swayed by argument when
a man of ripe years long public experience.
thorough knowledge" and "the faculty of
speech addresses it. John Sherman used to
make speeches which nodded history. 1t
was a great national event when John
Sherman arose to speak at length on any
public question.
His View of the Senate.
''The Senate is a body of practical men.
They are not students. Few of them are
experts in questions like that of the cur
rency. They haven't had time to become
experts There are probably one-third the
Senate who have thorough knowledge Of
finance. A man who can lay before the
other members of the Senate clearly the
Interchangeable scientific facts about the cur
rency and can make them the basis of
clever argument will gain votes. The Sem
ate is not emotional; it Is practical and
business-like. l have no idea, though, that
oratory has lessened in Importance in the
Senate The old oratory has not survived
the test of the Senate's business develop
ment: but the new is no less effective.
WoIcott is always effective; SO are Hoar,
Aldrich, Vest, German, Morgan and others.
However, l mustn't say very much about
the Senate or they will think me
bumptious person, and ! shall find that L
am handicapped when 1 go to Washington.
l certainly do not claim to have their
power 1t takes time to get hearing
L asked Mr.. Depew if he prepared his
speeches and committed them to memory.
About four times a week. he said, Il
go home from my office and sit down to
the preparation of a speech to be made that
night. l do not memoriZe it, though. [
have no verbal memory. | sketch it and
fill my mind with the material, and when
l get on my feet ] am likely to make
wholly different speech Orations and
formal addresses l write or dictate to a
stenographer with care"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-21

cIined it because he had promised his sup
port to NJ Evarts-
Il started with no capital but these hands
and this head" said Mr.. Depe" to an East
side audience in New York That was the
statement that brought forth the famous
retort from the gallery, And that heads
a peach, Chauncey!'
His Earlier Career.
Mr. Depew graduated at Yale and re-
turned to his homo in Peekskil to practice
law. He got into politics almost imme-
diately and stayed i'll politics until his good
hard sense warned him that he was vast
ing time which he ought to devote to bust
ness. So he took up the practice of law
more actively and became counsel FOR the
Harlem railroad. He Oil not get the place
7 through any favoritism. nor did he advance
within ten years to the position of counsel
for all the Vanderbilt railroads through
/ faVoritism. Comm odorc Vanderbilt was
/ too practical a man to advance any one
to position of responsibility who was not
/ fit to fill the position to the advantage OF
| the Vanderbilt interests. From the position
| of counsel Mr.. Depew rose to that of presi-
/ dent Of the New York Central railroad:
[ then to the chairmanshiD of all the van
derbilt lines Meantime he had been elect
! cd by all the conflicting railroad interests
| representing two-thirds of the railroad
capital of this country chairman of the
! Joint Traffic Association position he held
until the association dissolved under
decision of the Supreme Court.
1t is curious fact that Mr.. Depew should
] have been the adviser of three generations
of the same family. 1t has been the rule
in the worlds history that the second gen.
Grafton of a family seeks new advisers.
Mr. Depew's counsel has not only satisfied
/ three generations of NanderbiitS, but with
each succeeding generation he has been
advanced to posts of greater responsibility.
The speech-making, storytelling side of
Mr.. Depew is well known; the railroad side
of him less well known; and there is q
third side cOna1lV imnOFfapt which * mi
known publicly at all. Mr.. Depews salary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-21
Pistoi-Carrying Legislation.

FROM the Chicago Tribune.
One of the reforms which it is PROMISED
the Tennessee legislature shall accomnIisb
is the prohibition of pistol CARRYING. Some
of the leading newspapers in the STATE
earnestly call for legislation on the snh-
ject. The Nashville American saws that
human life has become cheaper than the
life of dog, and confesses that in Ten
nessee it is of little value Nearly all of
the states have laws against the carving
OF concealed weapons. In the state of
Illinois, and in other states as well, the
law is dead letter to most intents and
purposes. When the penalty occasionally
is enforced it is against tough Characters
caught with weapons ON their persons and
serves merely to reinforce a "disorderly''
or suspicious" charge against the prisoner
The law is dead letter in other RESPECTS.
Any one who cares to carry a pistol around
with him does so usually without dreaming
he is breaking the law. The remedy for
this evil is not SO much in legislation as n
is in a healthy public sentiment II human
life Is cheap as dirt in Tennessee il Is he
cause public sentiment favors it So Ions,
as one may take the life of another VIII
practical immunity, so long will 'homicide'
and pistol carrying flourish in Tennessee
and the rest of the south. II Tennessee will
convict and punish its murderers there will
be fewer of them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-21

governor in 1872, but the next year he re
turned to his Old allegiance. With that eX-
ception, he mas not been a candidate for
oihce for thirty-ilVe years, though he has
taken active part in all national and
gubernatOrial campaigns. He Was twice a
candidate for the presidential! nomination
In national conventions. ard once carried
to Chicago a unanimous New York delega-
ton, which was more than Levi p. Morton
had at St. Louis.
offered Cabinet Place.
When Mr.. Blaine withdrew from Presi-
dent HarrisOn's cabinet just before the
meeting of the Minneapolis convention the
President offered his place 10 Mr.. Depew
Mr.. Depew declined it on the ground that
he could not afford to sacrifice his bust
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-21

as a railroad officer Is more than $4,000 a
year, but his income is more than twice
that amount. The other part of it comes
chiefly as fees for advice in business and
legal matters.
Few professional men in the worlds his
tory have received a single fee of $500, opo.
mat Is the amount said to have been paid
to ex-Secretary John W. Foster by the Chi
nese government for negotiating a treaty of
peace with Japan Mr.. Dcpew received a
fee of s2oo,oO0 for saving AN estate from
bankruptcy. he DID not put In any bill for
his services; If he had asked s5to OOO n
would have been paid.
Most of the trusts which Mr. .,epew has
fulniled have been confidential Men seek
him al his home to tell him their troubles
and ask his advice. One night a we'll
known business man came to him, his face
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-21

ness VINO mas made for many years an in
com i'll excess Of $100 ooC year by brain
work Tina; Is not the amount he receives
fl m the railroads whose interests he rep
rssents. Int n aggregate of salaries and
fees from many sources.
Very few people know Mr.. Drpew as q
lawyer: fewer still know him as a financial
expert who has managed great estates and
increased th-ir value many millions.
Most of the men ana women who hav,
heard Of NJ. Deprw know him only as
maker of afterdiuuer speeches.
There is another Depcw, and 1 am very
much mistaken if he dos not cut a pretty
wide swath in the Senate In knowledge of
public afrairs ne stands on a par with .he
best known members Of tn Senate; he can
make "a speech quicker than any Of them
and ne can make a more convincing argu-
ment than Eine-teEths of them. This is al
individual opinion. bug il is based on pretty
close familiarity with the subject.
Not IL Public Nam
Il ~-ems odd that the best-known man in
America should not b. in the commonly
accepted sense public man. The New
York senatorship viii be the first office
MI. b-pcw has held since he was secretary
OF stat. mJse Ihan thirty years ago. Yet
Mr.. papeT has been in a way a very sue
CtsSi4I politician. Before he was thirty
years u'd he had been elected to the legis-
latu:- twice and in his second term had
been lr.tteT q th- house and speaker uro
temper m The absence of the presiding Off
Ger Tor the cTtlTs session, II was elected
secretary Of state Of New York at twenty
eight BY majority Of more than $1,000
reversing the verdict of the year before
wren Seymour ran for governor. During
that time Mr.. Depew spoke twice Il day for
40
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-21

ness interests for d nine months appoint
n1ent even at the head of the State De-
l;artment That is a matter of history.
Iut ii is not known to any but Mr.. Depew'S
friends that if President Harrison had
been elected for another term Mr. Depew
would have been at the head of his cabinet.
One more chapter COMPLETES the epitome
of Mir. Bepew's political career. In lSS,,
Mr. Depew could have hal the caucus nomi-
nation for senator from New y ork. 1t wac
unanimously rendered to him, but he de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-21

I HE MOST INTER-
esting figure in the
Fifty-sixth Congres
Will be the Junior
senator from New
York.
The average read
ers of newspapers see
Mr.. Depew's stories in
circulation and asso-
ciate his name with
what is light and
frivolous. They don't
regard him as thu
serious man of bust
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-21
Knives and Pistols That Were Used
in Famous Grimes.
BUT FEW HAVE BEEN PRESERVED
The General Rule is That They
Shall Be Destroyed.
AN ANCIENT SUPERSTITION
n IT ANY MAY REGARD
IWW in the light of super
i Y Ii stition that act of

Stltltil liidt act u
the last day of the
last month OF last
year, in G e n e va,
whereby the weapon
was destroyed with
which the Empress
of Austria was killed.
But it is a supersti-
ton almost as an
cient as the thrones
longest eXtant in Eu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-21

1t pays to read the want columns of The
Star Hundreds of situations are filed
through them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-21
An ABLE MAN ALONG MANY LINES
Lawyer and Financier as We'll as an
Eloquent Speaker
STORY OF HIS CAREER

copyright, 1899. 10y Balm and Johnson)
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, January ~, 1899.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-21
FertiIizing the blossoms.

The question of polarization requires at
tenticn from the date farmer or he will
get no crop. A good deal of skill is re-
quired to distinguish the two sexes and
regul3te this matter of fertilization. Last
year a large number of female trees at
Tucson and Arazola We're successfully fer
tilized with pollen sent by mail from Phoe-
nix. In Algeria and Egypt every spring
panicles of staminate flowers are sold in
the market places to be taken home by the
purchasers and supplied to the blossoms On
the female trees. Some idea of the COM
mercial demand for dates in this country
can he understood from the fact that last
year We imported over 12,000000 pounds
There are but few insect or other enemies
of the date palm, birds and grasshoppers
being the principal ones, and these are
easily suppressed. The success already at
tanned in Arizona justifies the department
in the belief that date culture in Arizona
is not only feasible and desirable, but prom
Uses to become a profitable and important
industry. Further importations of suitable
varieties from Egypt and Algeria and
other countries where the date grows sue
cessfully will be made and IL is believed
that the difficulty of propagation will be
overcome.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1899-11-25

Scott, Long, Hindman, H. E. Woods
Guthrie, Pickett, Billmeyer, F. r
Campbell. D. A. Campbell, William
Clark. Holman, Atwood, Van Brunt
Parmele, Of Plattsmouth, O. w. Web.
ster, LOOMS, Plum mer, G. 1. Jones'
Polk, Van Brunt, Chambers, Howels
Waite, Babcock, Candy, G. E. Yates,
Nc Creery. Rhodes, Jamison, ]. B,
Wright, Miss Eulass.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. 8. Rhelaender enter
tanned six handed euchre club Wed.
nesdsy. The club is composed Of neigh.
bors and the meetings are always in.
formal and delightful. The members
are Messrs. and Mesdames Wilkinson
Bignell, CD. Guensel. O'Conuell, Eos.
ter. Bert Richards, Steve Hoover, Frank
Harris.
Thh Reverend Curtis, Of Chicago for.
merly pastor OF the First Presbyterian
church of this city, lie visiting old friends
in the city.
Miss Helen WEIGH gave dinner Wed.
nesday evening for her guest, Miss Cur.
tis, Of Chicago. Covers were laid for
Misses Blanche Gsrten. Gertrude Ma.
comber. Ethel Turkey. Fanny Cole;
Messrs. Bert Watkins. Harry Turkey,
Orlo Brown, Dan Sherman, Earl Nc.
Creepy.
The Presbyterians will give recep.
ton for their former pastor, the Rev.
Curtis, Saturday night in their church.
Miss Lena Deweese will give card
party December I'd at her home, 536
South Sixteenth street.
Miss Minor, Of Blue Hill. Neb., is Wis.
ting Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Gund.
Mrs. Henry gave a email luncheon
Monday afternoon. The ladies after.
wards attended the woman's club to-
gether. The following ladies were pres.
emit: Mesdames Marslsnd. Milton Scott,
Nc Laughlin, Gund and Miss Minor, Of
Blue Hill, Neb.
The Cotillion Club met with Mr.. and
Mrs. Buckstsd Friday evening. The
cotillion was given 10 honor Of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. G. Be, son and Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Burr. and was led by Mr.. and
Mrs. Oliver Rodgers. Beautiful favors
were given to the following dancers;
Messrs. and Mesdames Dorgsn, Howe,
George Woods. Carl Funke, w. B. Har-
greaves, Crittenden, w. A. Green,
Wright. Rodgers, Ladd, Marshall, Cur.
tice. Wilson. Mrs. Griffith. The invited
guests were Mr.. and Mrs. L. G. Bury
Misses Burr and Hoover. Messrs. Joycs1
and Thatcher.
Mrs. William Leonard entertained the
Bohemian club Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. 7. H. Marsland expects to visit
In Nc Cook next week.
Mrs. II. A. Babcock gave large re-
ception Friday afternoon in honor OF
her daughter, Mrs. Royal Babcock, Z"
Omaha. Palms and chryssnthemums
we're used in decorating the parlors'
The receiving line consisted OF Mesdames
A. d. Babcock, Royal Bsbcock, u.
Babcock, Curtis and Nc Creery, assisted
by Mesdames y. w. Webster. Hodemsn
Candy, Scott and Plummer. Mrs. v.
M. Thompson, gowned in pink, serVe0
the ice. A pink umbrella was Gus
pended over the table and pink roses
decorated the table. A large looklnY
glass, draped on each side with sml'%
and white chrysanthemums, served I"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-02-03
Opening and Closing of the Mails.

Northern mails, week days, close st 7 &C
and IL As .. N. and l. L. 2 SO, 6 so aud
so p. IN. Open at s 90 a. M, ID 90 m
and 90 p. N. On Sundays Northern mails
close at II Ia o. m. and 20 p. m.
Southern mails via Charlottesville, Close
st 7 90 and 10 SO a. IN. and Is and
s 10 p. N Opea st s 90 q. m. and 2 &c
and 4:3o p. m.
Southern mails, Wis Richmond, close 4,
10 20 q. N. and 3 13 and 80 p. m.
Manassas Division mails close st Z 90 @. n
and As p. m. Open at 1 p. m.
Alexandria and Round Bill mails close al
s 40 8. m. and & 90 p. u. Open at 9 90 .. m
and 30p.m.
Chesapeake and Ohio nails close at Is
p. N. and 8 80 p. II. Open at 8 0C q. NJ. and
80 p. N.
Washington mails close at 2 50 and II 45
&. H., and 1 15, 2 So 6 so and 8 80 D. M
Open at 8 90 a. M, IL 90 m. and 3 90 and
80 p. N,
Office Hou-open at 90 8. N. Close al
sunday Hours-opan st 900 a. m. Close
st 9 80 a. IN.
Carriers' STANDARDIZATION made or
inside routes-6 80 and 10 90 s.. m. and
3 90 and 30 p. m. Full rcute-6 80 a. N
and 80 p. m. Sunday collection 90 D..
m. Carriers window open Sunday 8 90 q. m
and close 9 80 q. IA.
Deliveries made s 90 a. No., 1 90 p H. and
40 p. m.
All mail should be in Office ten minute:
| before hour indicated for closing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-02-03
VOCAL CULTURE.
The First Step Is Keeping the Mouth
Shut, Asleep or Awake.

The First Step Is Keeping the Mouth
Shut, Asleep or Awake.
proper breathing Is so essential in
voice production that it must receive
first attention, and the first requirement
is to keep the mouth shut" writes
Katharine E. Junkermann in The Wo-
mans Home Companion.
"Of course no tone can be either
strong or pure if the lungs are cramped
so that the air cannot find room In or
der to increase the size of the lung ca
pacity raise the chest and keep the body
well and strongly poised.
$50 much harm has been done to
voices by allowing the mouth to become
the regular air passage that the need Of
care cannot be too frequently empha-
sized. Besides the injury done by the
unwarmed air entering the lungs the
mucous membrane is hardened by the
saliva being dried up, and the muscles
of the tongue and throat grow stiff and
less responsive. 1t is comparatively easy
to control ones breathing when awake,
but when asleep the harm goes on To
remedy this involves a slight discom-
fort, but one can endure it patiently
looking to the end Cut court plaster In
to little strips about one-fourth Of an
inch in width and paste several across
the lips, placing them up and down,
with the lips held naturally. If one is
tempted to give up rather than endure
the discomfort this method involves, q
walk through an ordinary day coach or
q night made hideous by the presence
of snorer in a near berth will cause q
solemn VOW to be taken never to do
likewise -
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-02-03
CONDENSED MILK
The NIagic of Rome.

The story of Rome is tale of muir
der and sudden death. varied, chang
ing, never repeated in the same way;
there is blood on every threshold; a
tragedy lies buried in every church and
chapel, and again we ask in vain
wherein lies the magic of the city that
has fed on terror and grown old in
carnage, the charm that draws men to
her, the power that holds, the magic
that enthralls men soul and body, as
Lady Venus cast her spells upon Tam
hauser in her mountain of old. Yet
none deny it, and as centuries roll on
the poets, the men Of letters, the must
clans, the artists of all ages, have come
to her from far countries and have
dwelt here while they might, some for
long years, some for the few months
they could spare, and all Of them have
left something, verse, a line, sketch,
a song that breathes the threefold mys-
terry of love, eternity and Death
"Studies From the Chronicles of Rome,
by Marion Crawford.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-02-03
!Alexamarfs 6ssetbe.
A VICTIM OF TELEPATHY.
His Absurd Delusfons Finally Ban
ished by the Hypnotic Route.

His Absurd Delusfons Finally Ban
fshed by the Hypnotic Route.
There came to me late one night
stranger in widest despair resolved to
commit suicide that night if I could
not help him, says Professor Munster
berg in The Atlantic. He had been
physician, but had given up his prac-
. tice because his brother, on the other
side of the ocean, hated him and had
him under his telepathic influence
troubling him from over the sea with
voices which Knocked him and with i'm
pulses to foolish actions He had not
slept nor had he eaten anything for
several days. and the only chance for
life he saw was that o new hypnotic in
huence might overpower the mystical
hypnotic forces
soon found the source of his trou-
BILE. In treating himself for wound he
had misused cocaine IN an absurd way,
and the Authorizations of voices we're
the chief symptom Of his cocainism
These products of his poisoned brain
had sometimes reference to his brother
in Europe, and thus the telepathic sys-
tenn grew in him and permeated his
whole life. hypnotized him. and sug-
gested to him with success to have
sleep and food and a smaller dose Of
cocaine Then 1 hypnotized him daily
for six weeks After ten days he gave
up cocaine entirely, after three weeks
the voices disappeared, and after that
the other symptoms faded away. twas
not, however, until the end that the
telepathic system was exploded
Even when the voices had gone he
for awhile felt his movements controlled
over the ocean, and after six weeks,
when I had him quite well again, he
laughed over his telepathic absurdities,
but assured me that if these sensations
came again he should be unable, even in
full health, to resist the mystical inter
probation, so wildly had he felt the
distant influences.