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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-05

Where all the needus OF tourist smallest
collar boxes the largest basket trunk for
that only best manufacturers
permitted representation here and that large portion OF
stock especially can
that line
Gated elsewhere in the country.
have found, long experience that
has been eliminated and the weak points the ordinary article
thoroughly modern department. newness quail
ty of stock shown as do
price marking than all else made
greatest progress Our purchasing
S the moderateness of our prices
We show a complete line of Trunks fromthe Pack
inc Trunk at ST 25 to the handsome Bridal Trunk at
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1900-05-11
Limitations Of Wealth.

The magnificent Metropolitan Club
OF New York City has been obliged to
make the humiliating admission that
the patronage OF It's 1862 members IL
not sufficient to pay its running ex.
penses.
The announcement conveys a pain.
full revelation OF the sad condition OF
world, wanting In wealth, Is prone to
consider riches as the source and sum
Of all happiness, especially OF the en-.
joyment OF the good things Of life II
pictures the fortunate millionaire In
an ideal existence OF Capuan luxury
and Sybaritic indulgence.
The melancholy truth Ia that the
average millionaire has a disordered
stomach, a torpid liver. or weak
heart, and does not enjoy the society
OF his fellow plutocrats. Instead OF
feasting like Sardanapalus, he care.
fully lunches on graham crackers and
milk.
A single indulgence in terrapin and
champagne would probably separate
him and his millions forever. He Ia
usually In bed at 10 o'clock with pill
box close at hand. a hot-water bag AT
his feet and a flannel nightcap on his
bald head.
The average wage Garner In New
York may earn from t12 10 $40 @
week, but he has to keep his stomach
in good order 10 earn his money. and
with his health-of body and Of con
science-he certainly gets more fun
out OF life than the average million
aire clubman. New York World.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1900-05-11

ona vast and teemis game range.
not only were the buffalo in millions
acl oss the Mississippi, but other lnrsr
game were fully as abundant. though
less conspicuous. Herds OF elk. mum.
oering ten or fifteen thousand, were
commonly seen along the upper Mis-,
souri, The antelope ranged, the hlgh,
plains in herds of thousands. white.
tail deer, though less gregarious! were
seen In bands OF hundreds while big
horn sheep, though still less disposed
to gather In large fl&ks, we're rarely
out OF sight In the lower parts of the
eastern Rockies. and II was quite
usual to see several hundred bIacktall
In the course of a single days travel
But change set IN when the plon
eer Americans, with their horses.
their deadly rifles, their energy and
their taste for murder, began to in.
wade the newly found west. The set,
tiers Increased In numbers, and the
rifles became more deadly each year;
but the animals did not improve In
speed, cunning or fecundity in an
equal ratio, and so were defeated In
the struggle for life and started Oh
the down grade toward extinction,
Aside from sentimental or esthetioii
reasons. which shall not here dlsit
cuss. the extinction of a large or high,
iy organized animal is serious mat.
ter.
l. IL Is always dangerous to disturb
the balance OF nature by removing
polse. Some OF the worst plhg,ies
have arisen In this way.
2. We do not know, without much
and careful experiment., how vast
sevvlce that animal might have done
to mankind as domestic species.
The force of this will be more ap.
parent II we recollect how much the
few wellkhown domestic species
have done for the advancement OF
our race Who can decide which has
done more for mankind. the COW or
the steam engine. the horse or cleo.
tricity. the sheep or the printing
press, the dog or the rife, the ass or
the loom2 No one, indeed. can pro.
nounce on these, yet all on reflection
feel that there is reason In the com.
PARSONS. Take away these Inventions
and we are put back a century, or per.
haps two: but further, take away the
domestic animals. and we are re,
duced to absolute savagery for Il was
they who nrst made It possible for our
aboriginal forefathers to settle In one
place and learn the rudiments Of civil
ization.
And It is quite possible, though, OF
course, not demonstrable. that the
humble chuckie barn fowl has been
Gylarger benefactor OF our race than
any mechanical invention In our pos.
session. for there is no Inhabited
country on earth to-day where the
barn fowl Is not a mainstay Of health.
There are vast regions OF South Amer.
lea and Europe where It is the main,
stay, and nowhere is there known
which Is probably more than can be
said OF anything In the world Of me-
chanics
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1900-05-11
TRANs.sIB ERiA.
A Railway to BE succeeded by Other
Vast Trunk systems.

A number of new railroads are con
templated in Asia. The lines now In
existence have total length or abont
10000 miles Of which two.th f,dsl ba.
long TO British India. The poptIonA
of the Trans Caspian and the Trans.
Siberian railways already constructed
have length OF 5000 miles A mum.
Der OF European syndicates have oh.
tained concessions for $500 miles Of
railrond In China, which will traverse
regions rich in minerals and agricul.
ture; many Of these lines ara already
In progress Of construction.
The Chinese government owns
about 400 miles OF railway. These
linas are very remunerative, especial.
ly that from Picking to Tientsin,
japan Is well provided with railroads,
the present length being 5000 miles.
French Indo China has at present
only l20 miles. but the French pos
sessions In Cochin. China, Anam and
Tonkin will soon have 2,400 miles,
which will greatly help TO develop their
mineral and agricultural resources.
The Dutch indies are well supplied.
Java alone has 1000 miles. There
are as yet no railroads in Persia Of any
consequence: but Turkey operates
/ 1000 miles In Asia. and 500 miles more
are In construction or projected.
The Russian commission which for
months past has been busy with the
DrelimInaries for the construction OF
a railroad from Astrakhan up the
River Volga has completed It's labors.
The plan Is to lay the tracks on the
left shore Of the Volga and TO connect
with the general Russian railway sys.
tenn. The railroad will become OF the
utmost Importance for the whole corr.
merce OF Russia with Central Asia
and Persia--the more so because. ut
the same time the Volga channel
through the Caspian Sea will be deep.
ened to enable steamers TO proceed
directly to Astrakhan without being
compelled to reload on na'.bottomed
lighters.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1900-05-11
An American on Joubert.

The London correspondent OF the
Matin has wired some extracts from
the letter OF an American volunteer
with the Beers. The writer describes
General Joubert as an old fox, who
knows his business well and who will
not move unless he Is sure OF success
lie says that he leaves the attack TO
the English. the result being that
while they lose Ave men he loses only
one. The English artillery Is good.
though the guns are inferior In range
to those OF the Beers. but the English
cavalry is far less useful than theirs.
London Telegraph.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1900-05-11
SHERMAN'S POKER STORY
MONEY PLAYED FOR ON THE
MARCH TO THE SEA.

The General Tells Why He Did Not
Break Up the Little Party--NearIy
a Million Dollars Depended Upon
the ResuIt-A Liberal Proposition.
The last time General Sherman at
tended commencement at West Point
was in June. 1889. The members OF
the graduating class received the d.
plomas from his hand that year and
he also delivered the commencement
address. The beautiful summer even
ings that followed the old general
sat on the wide verandah OF the hotel
and told stories.
Il heard Of some pretty big games
OF poker in the early days out west
he said, land maybe saw one or two.
But the biggest one | ever saw or
heard Of was during the war It
would have made your head swim
to have heard the bets that | heard
made that night 1t was just after the
march to the sea. when we were In
North Carolina. took II into my head
that night that | would make quiet
round OF the outposts myself and see
how things were coming on. In some
bushes in the woods. well within our
lines. | saw light cleaning and a
number Of forms clustered around 1t,
all evidently very intent on some
thing. | came quietly up toward them
without attracting any attention.
They were all too much absorbed to
notice the cracking OF twigs or the
rustling Of leaves under my feet. At
last was near enough to distinguish
voices and make out what was being
said. And the first words | heard
were:
81 see you 100000 and go you
$3.50 900 better
"Whew! The figures fairly took
my breath away. And they were
privates. too! 1t was easy enough to
make that out. They had blanket
spread out on the ground and were
all squatted II or beyond its edges,
some bending eagerly forward, peer
Ing over the shoulders OF those who
were In front OF them. A couple OF
candle ends stuck In bottles afforded
the Illumination And NV thIs dim
HIGHT saw cordad nm stacks and
stacks of Nils reg,la,. bunaIea tand ]
bales Of them II was like looking
into a United States Treasury vault
The sight made me, bllntt with won.
der.
"Tu raise YOU sSOO00O'
"That WINS the next thing I beard
Il was said as nonchalautly as tbough
II were a question of 3 cent chips.
And the players did not look like
Croesuses, either You have heard
about Shermans bummers. Well,
these we're Sherman's bummers, and
they looked II. or course. that game
there was Just little bit irregular,
but could not bear to break It up
got interested in It, | felt as though
| would like to see the limit reached,
hear somebody called, and, Just for
curiosity, know who II was who raked
in the million or SO dollars that prob
ably would be in the pot when that In
teresting event occurred. did not
have to walt long. | have forgotten
Just the amount that changed hands,
but 1t was somewhere up around a
million. The winner tok up an arm.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1900-05-11
Matrimonial Facts.

Some curious secrets as TO matri.
mony are seen In the following stats.
tics May and November are the most
marrying months. Fewer people are
married in March than In any other
month. When bachelors marry wild.
ows the widow IL generally the older.
and when widowers marry maids the
maid IL usually the younger.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1900-05-11

r. ". Vinson has nice line OF Rogers
and Wostenholm's Pocket Knives and Ra.
zors. Also Razors of Wade Il Butchers make.
For sale ut low prices.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1900-05-11
cows, OR STEAM ENGINES.
Which Have Done the Most for tho
Advancement Of MankInd7

Ernest Seton.Thompson, author Of
wild Animals I Have Known" "The
Biography OF Grizzly" etc, In writ
Ing In the March Century OF "rhe
National Zoo ut Washington" raises
an interesting question ~ to the relo.
tive value OF domestic animals and
human Inventions.
Al the beginning OF this century
the continent Of North America was
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1900-05-11
stsrtlIna instances.

Last week q delinquent subscriber
said be would pay up N he lived. He
died. Another said: II will see you to-
morrow" He's blind. stu another
said: "I'll pay you This week or 60 to
the devil" He's &c !. There are hun
dreds who ought take warning Of
these procrastinato' and Ray ~ now.
Finley (S d. Sic
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1900-05-11
Best Made Saddles. Brides & Harness.
HIN iii. MICH LIS.
GAITHTRSBUR0, MD.

MID.
HAVING ENLARGED HIS FACILITIES FOR MANUFACTURE
Of all Goods his line prepared offer Mouteom-
cry county and the public generally, full line o.
Saddles, Harness, Collars LapRobes Whips Sleigh Bells
and fact everything the saddery trade Akinds of BROAD
IN STOCK Also afu line of the best BREAST
CHAINS SPREADERS TRACES 60, kept constantly on hand
Let any desiring anything line embrace
plying themselves figures BESTFREDERiCK
USED. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED in all cases
Address all orders to JOHN n NIcuoIIs Bill
jan 16-nOv Stf Gsibesburo Ma
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1900-05-11
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LARGE POSTERS, HANDBfLls.
CIRCULARS,
CARDS, RLANxs
BILL-HEADg.
Together with every other description Of
PLAIN AND FANCY PRINTING
Executed with neatness and dispatch

Yearly advertisers will be allowed Ia
change four times during the year without
charge. Advertisements should be rarkcj
with time and space they are to occupy, !
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-08-10
ALLIES ADVANCE.
REPORTED EIGHTEEN MILES ON THE
WAY TO PEKIN.
TRYING TO RUSH CHINESE.
At the Outset, 1t is Reported, the Jap
anese Met Reverse, Losing $50 Killed
and wounded Strenuous Efforts to
Prevent Forward Movement Being
Made w Ii Hung Chang.

Washington (SpeciaD advance
of the alliedstroops from Tientsin has
begun and they are reported to have
met with a reverse at the outset.
Definite news of the advance has
come to NJ Favereau, Belgian Minister
of Foreign Affairs, in cablegram
from the Belgian representative at Ia
ku. This message states that the allies
have already covered Is miles of the
IS between Tientsin and Pekin An
other dispatch says that the japanese
vanguard of the allies has been re-
pulsed with a loss of $50 in killed ana
wounded.
About $4,000 troops, it is estimated
in London, were available at Tientsln
for the advance. Thirty thousand
more have landed at Taku and Chefu,
but have not yet gotten to Tlentsin.
Kogoro Takahira, Japanese Minister
to the United States, says Japan's con-
tingent for Chinese service will num-
her but $4,000 men. According to the
National Zeitung, of Berlin, the Ger
man contingent at Tientsin NUMBERS
but 300.
A letter dated July "a from Sir Claude
Macdonald, British Minister at Pekin,
has come through. He said that II
the Chinese did not press the attack
the foreigners could hold out 10 days.
The Pekin Government, he added, had
done nothing to help the foreigners.
DR.. George f. Morrison, the London
Times correspondent in Pekin, has
managed to send message to his pa
per under date of July 81. He says
the Chinese Government encouraged
the Boxers until the advance of the
allies from Taku caused change OF
tune. Baron Won Ketteer, he states,
was murdered by order of Chinese
imperial officer. DR.. Robert Coltman,
Jr., correspondent of the Chicago
Record in Pekin, has also been heard
from under date of July 81. He says
the foreigners were living on rice and
horse flesh. A truce was in force af-
ter a long period of fighting. The
United States marines, commanded by
Capt. Jack" Myers, hold vital posi-
ton on the city wall and had fought
like heroes. DR.. Thomas M. Lippitt,
assistant surgeon with the United
States marines, had been wounded He
is from Berryville, Va.
1t is now beginning to appear clearly
that if the Ministers in Pekin are
saved it will be chiefly due to Ii Hung
Chang He has memorialized the
throne to have the Ministers escorted
out of Pekin to a place of safety or
that they be allowed to communicate
freely with their governments. Ii is
using all his great influence at this
time in behalf of the foreigners. Ac-
cording to a dispatch received at
Shanghai he has learned that the for
eigners were safe up to- July %.
The Novoe Vremya. st. Petersburg
newspaper which frequently echoes the
sentiments of the Russian Foreign Of
fee, advocates an alliance between
Russia and the United States in China.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-08-10

/ .:e validity of the new Jim Grow"
law, which went into operation on July
l last, is to be tested before the Su-
preme Court. A case has just occurred
which will cause a test to be made of
the new law. 1t remains to be seen,
however, whether it will involve the
full merits of the statute, or only some
essential points. The case grows out
of request of Conductor Bailey, of
the Peninsula division of the Chesa
peake and Ohio road, to permit Guard
l.. W. Baker, of the penitentiary force,
to carry a colored prisoner in the white
car on his train. Baker refused to go
into the car set apart for negroes, as is
provided by the new law. Then the
law was produced by the conductor
and he assigned the prisoner to seat
in the ''colored" car The guard re-
fused to go, saying he was acting I'M
der instructions, and Conductor Bailey
requested him to leave the train,
which he did at Newport News, and the
train came on to Richmond leaving the
guard and his prisoner. The railroad
company intends to make test of it,
being confident that under the law it
is intended that the negro prisoners
shall ride in the "colored" coaches.
They say the whole intent of the law
was to compel the negroes to occupy a
separate compartment, and that to per-
nit them in the other coaches would
both be a violation of the letter and
spirit of the law. This is the section
under which the conductor relied for
his course: BE it further enacted, that
the provisions of this Act shall not ap-
ply to employees on railroads, Or per-
sons employed as nurses, or officers in
charge of prisoners"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-08-10
DEMOCRATIC SWEEP.
Amendment Carried by 10000 Majority
In North Carolina.

Raleigh, N. c. (Speclal) This State
has given more than 10000 majority
for the Democratic State ticket and the
suffrage amendment. The Legislature
is overwhelmingly Democratic, insur-
ing the election of Chairman F. M.
Simmons as Major Buffers successor
in the United States Senate.
There were no disorders or riOting
anywhere in the State so far as can be
learned.
The colored people took little inter-
est in the election, and this accounts
in a large measure for the absolute
quietude that prevailed. Many cOlored
men voted for the suffrage amendment
and scratched the Republican State
ticket. The Democrats have made
gains in every section of the State;
in fact, the Fusionists have carried
less than a dozen counties.
Senator Butler declined to comment
on the returns
Democratic State Chairman Sim
mons said he had figured that the State
would go Democratic by $4,000 ma
jority, but that the returns insured a
majority of $4,000. He says If the pres
ent ratio of increase continues the ma
jority will exceed 10000.
1--WE have so members of the Legis-
lature," Simmons said.
The suffrage amendment, which will
have the effect of DISTINGUISHING the
lIliterate coIored men, will receive a
majority nearly as large as that given
the State ticket The vote for the
amendment will run several thousand
behind the vote given the State ticket.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-08-10
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

Onoto Watanna, the only Japanese
writer in this country, is a very rapid
worker.
Worn out by Oyerwork, Gov. VIM. j.
Stone. of Missouri, has determined on
a trip to Europe.
The house once owned and occupied
bv Washington Irving at Irvington,
N Y. has been sold to Henry Graves,
Jr.
Senator Hoar, Of Massachusetts,
takes most of his exercise before
breakfast, when he walks mile or
more every clear day.
George F. T. Cook, who has just re
tired from the office of superintendent
of schools for the District of Columbia,
has held that place for 81 years.
DR.. Mary Walker went bathing at
Manhattan Beach, L. l., day or two
ago and surprised everybody by her
skill as a swimmer and diver
Col. Samuel S. Sumner, Sixth United
States Cavalry, has been relieved, at
his own request, from duty in London
as military attache, in order that he
may join his regiment, which is now
on the Pacific en- route to Tientsin,
China.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-08-10
SITUATION IN CHINA.

The War Department was advised OF
the arrival of the LenOx and Cone
maugh at Kobe, Japan.
Nine members of the China Inland
Mission were reported to have Deea
murdered at Hangchow.
The cruiser Buffalo arrived at Hong
Kong and sailed for Taku with RELIEF
men for the naval crews.
Gen. Tung Fuh Tiang is reported to
have threatened to kill the Ministers II
the internationals start for Pekln.
The transport Hancock sailed from
San Francisco for Taku, China, Win
four batteries of the Third Artillery.
1t was reported at Shanghai that an
imperial decree had been issued order
ing all the viceroys to prevent the
march of the allies to Pekin.
Orders have been issued to the vari-
GUS factories in this country making
government equipment and clothing,
looking to a long and arduous cam
paign.
The wave of massacre is said to be
spreading in China. and orders are re-
ported to have been issued to prevent
the escape of foreigners now in the IN
terror.
A letter was received from Mrs.
Woodward. who was visiting Minister
Conger in Pekin. telling of the inetec-
tual attempt of the women to get out
of the Chinese capital
Cable messages received by the Pres
byterian Board of Missions and the
American Bible Society corroborate the
report that all the missionaries at Pao
Ting Flu were murdered.
Secretary Hay made the statement
that this Government was tired or the
mystery and assurances, and was more
than ever urgent for an immediate
movement toward Pekin.
Both Secretary Hay and Minister
WI discredt the report that Ii Hung
Chang had been ordered to Pekln 10
assume command over the imperial
army against the foreigners.
The British Government issued
blue book" showing that Sir Claude
Macdonald had warned the Chinese
Government of the dangerous tenden-
cies of the Boxer movement.
The Chinese general Ii Ho Kel, is
reported to be marching to Pekin. His
orders are to exterminate the Chris
tians. and he Is said to have killed
French priest and two to three thou
sand natives.
Minister WI communicated to Secre-
tary of State Hay an imperial edict, In
which the Emperor insists that the
Chinese Government has provisioned
the ministers, who are safe. A similar
message was received from Prince
Yuan.
The London Daily Mails Shanghai
correspondent sends another story,
brought to Shanghai by an influential
banker from near Pekin, who said
that the Ministers, finding death in
evitable, killed their families, and that
Sir Robert Hart committed suicide.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-08-10
THE NATIONAL GAME.

Catcher kahoe. Of Cincinnati, is Il
lightning tErower to bases.
Laioie's return TO the team has great
~ braced up the Phiiadelphlas.
Just now the New YOrks are play
ing the best ball in The League.
Brooklyn leads the League. with
twelve no-error games to its credit.
Wallace. of st. Louis, has not been
as steady ut short this season as he
was last year.
Manager Hanlon considers Ely, of
Pittsburg, the greatest fielding short
stop in the business.
The return TO his old place of Her
man Long on the Boston team has
done wonders TO help the team along.
Pitcher Doheny has been ''farmed'
out by the New Yorks TO C0mSkey'S
Chicago team Of The American League.
There are probably more baseball
cranks among the railroad men than
in any other business and profession
Pitcher Kitson says that with re-
duced pitching distance no-hit games
would be as plentiful as blackberrics
in July.
Warner. New York's crack catcher
broke his left arm in game recently.
and it is possible that his career as Il
ball player is over.
Hans Wagner, of Pittsburg, prom
Uses TO lead the League batsmen this
season. He is increasing his per
ccntage from three to five points &
week, and now easily leads the League
batsmen.
Collins, of Boston, practically stands
alone among the League third base
men as fielder. The ease with which
he stops the hardest balls and the
grace and accuracy of his throwing
are pleasing to the eye.