Evening star., 1900-10-27
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generals of the regular army. 1t held the
boards but briefly, for it was soon covered
by the Philippines, and maps of the group,
of separate islands and of the military dis
tricts in Luzon follow each other. But
even the Philippines, with our $1,000 troops
fighting the FilipinOs, had to give way to
maps of South Africa when the Boer war
was on. While we had no troops there, the
people of this country were intensely in
terested in the events. and puzzled over the
Dutch names. as we had previously done
over the Spanish names of our island pos
sessions. Next in order were maps of
China, and especially detail maps of that
portion of the celestial empire within
/ few hundred miles of Pekin. And at pres
| ent the Chinese maps are on top of the
pile. But who can tell how long they will
stay there?
| When the excitement over the Chinese
| situation was at its height and there We're
| hundred rumors to one fact in circua-
| ton. it was hard to distinguish what was
| truth and what was false. when this is
ali over said General Corbin, about the
| time it was known that Minister Conger
/ and the other Americans were safe II am
| going to suggest the formation of a new
| organization to commemorate the Chinese
| complication. 1t shall be known as the
| Liars Club of the Chinese Disturbance of
| 1900 Probably 1t might be called simply
! the Supreme Liars Club in which event
| everybody will know that it grew out of
| the Chinese situation. The chief members
| ard perpetual controlling officers should be
| the correspondents of the London Daily
| Express and Daily Mail, who so graphically
| told the story of the slaughter of the lega-
| TONERS. Also a Russian correspondent, who
| described how the Russian minister was
| boiled in oil, while his helpless wife was
| compelled to look on in wretched agony,
and the German banker who came down
from Pekin with the tragic story of how
each and every foreigner was butchered.
| The club house should be erected in Shan
| ghai and the portraits of those who have
! been SO successful in telling what is not
| true should adorn the walls
| X
'All the signs in the woods" explained
an experienced woodsman to a Star
porter, point to a very severe winter,
| though it may be a short one. The squir-
rels have already begun laying away their
winter store of nuts, though in the imme-
| diate country around Washington the nuts
| have not begun to fall to any great extent.
| The crop of acorns, hickory and chestnuts
| is unusually large this fall some trees that
| have come under my observation bearing
at least double the quantity they did last
| year. This is a very reliable sign of Sc
we're winter. Another sign is the crop of
! persimmons, which is also extra heavy.
| The few frosts that we have had have not
!
| many of them are yet green. My observa-
| tion convinces me that these signs are en-
| titled to some dependence, though, of
! course. they are not recognized infal-
| lible by the authorities on the subject |
| think | have satisfied my own mind on the
| bearing the persimmon has on the weather
! that is to follow, and that this is
| Controvertible: If the persimmon ripens
| and falls early the winter will be brief, but
| if it holds on to the tree late into the fall
| the winter is very liable to be late in its
! wind up and severe while it prevails. The
ANIMALS are preparing for cold winter,
and there are some reasons for believing
that they know what they are about
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! The various state an other political
| organizations are doing their utmost to
| send voters to their homes" observed
! gentleman who is prominent in the work,
| to a Star reporter but, for the first time l
think, they have run up against an un-
! usual amount of pairing. Washington life
! tends to take a great deal of political en-
! thusiasm out of many men, as far as the
! hustling and active work of running about
| is concerned. and while they wish the work
| ers well, they are not inclined much to do
| active campaign work. There are excep-
| tions, of course, to this rule, but 1 do not
refer to the exceptions. The precedent for
| pairing is obtained from the congressional
! pairing, which of late years has grown so
! Senate and House of Representatives has
| a committee formed expressly to arrange
/ for and look out for pairs. This is prac-
| tically new injection into political life for
| while pairing has been in practice for many
years it was until the past ten or fifteen
years regarded as a personal rather than
| a political matter. Under the circum-
| Stances therefore, it is not surprising that
| 1t has extended its growth. The first case
that came under my notice when two
Ohio clerks of different political parties
registered pair at their homes, and gave
| their political friends notice of it, so that
it should not be violated. They agreed be-
| tween themselves that both should remain
| here instead of going to their homes to
| vote. In this way both votes counted,
| though, of course, in a negative way.
Il do not think that political associations
would like to go as far as to 1ndorse lndls-
| eliminate pairing, for the reason that it is
| a negative kind of politics, but they cannot
| help but recognize the fact that pairing,
| especially in Washington, is steadily In
| CIeasing. The argument that 1t means
| overCoats for those who pair rather than
! follows if both go home, is hard to answer
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| The operations of the so-calied Jim
| Crow" law are ofttimes highly amusing
to a man who for the first time visits one
of the states where the statute Is in force
| While in Danville, Va, few days ago a
! Star reporter witnessed the singular spec
| tacle of a colored man expelling a num-
Der OF white men from the side of the rail-
way station which had been apportioned
| to the use of colored men. The station Is
! divided into two parts of equal size and
| furnished with exactly the same kind of
| seats. In the instance referred to the
| seats devoted to the white men were filled
| to their capacity, and some of the latter
| ventured to occupy some of the others. AS
soon as a colored employe of the company
| noticed this he went to the white men and
| said: Gentlemen you must not sit here,
| these are for colored men exclusively"
| And despite the fact that there was not
| a single colored passenger around the
| building and there was no place for some
| of the white men to sit down, they were
| compelled TO keep out of the other places.
| Awaits Developments.