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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-09
Presidential Nominations Confirm ed.
The Senate has confirmed the following

nominations:
]. o. Smith of Cortez agent for the In
dams Of the Southern Ute agency in Colo
RADIO; Albert D. Chamberlin. register of the
land office at Douglas, Wyo.: T. A. Thorn
son Of Austin, Texas, census supervisor
tenth distric. of Texas. Also some naval
promotions.
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II you want work read the want columns
Of The Star,
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1t is estimated that the population OF
Europe doubles itself every go years.
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Ladies' Gloves. 83c.
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W
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But WE guarantee them.
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Sport Through the Ice in shanty on Run
ners.
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strongly hoped; large size. T9c.;
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Ladies' Neckwear, SOC.
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Worth 6oc.

CFIrst Floor, West. Center.)
Worth 69c.
New lot of Liberty Silk Ties, in
Blue, Pink, Black, White, Lavender
and Lemon, ends finished with self
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long-and the latest fad. First here,
as usual, with novelties.
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100 pairs BOYS Knee Pants. in neat serviceabie
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-20

Philadelphia Inquirer.
There are a few things worth knowing
that the Kansas City Times does not seem
10 be aware of, judging from the follow
ing criticism in its columns
philadelphia doesn't feel as IL 1t is going
to get anything like its moneys worth
out of the Mckinley ratification meeting,
and that was one reason why it's citizens
nave been SO slow about coming up with
the 500. 900 Hanna demanded as the price
tor locating his show"
In the first place. this city knew that
the convention would be a ratification
meeting before it bid for ii, and we were
further satisfied that ii would be the great
est of it's kin on record. That is the
reason that the money for the conven-
ton was paid promptly to Chairman
Hanna. Every Philadelphia will get his
moneys worth" as the Kansas City
Times expresses II, but without robbing
the delegates and visitors during their
stay. In this Philadelphia will differ from
Kansas City. Moreover, We will show the
leading men of the United States a clean
and a beautiful city. which is more than
the delegates to the Democratic circus will
see when they turn themselves loose in
chosen as a meeting place this year. On
the whole, Philadelphia is fairly well sat
isfed with her bargain, and We believe tina
the delegates will be equally well satisfied
when the convention breaks UP.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-20

Hartford Courant.
Among the interesting lessons of the war
in South Africa is one that we in this
country ought to heed with closest atten-
ton. 1t is the change in the relations
between land and water.
1t has always been our boast that in our
$500 miles of seacoast lay our strength.
and that the great Atlantic was our ample
protection. Now we learn that each port
is an opening in our defense. and that the
ocean is merely the easy way to it.
Within a few months England succeeded
in landing over zoo. 1000 men in remote South
Africa. She impressed the great steamers
of her merchant marine and had the means
at once available for moving her troops.
Germany. with the mighty fleets OF her
North German Lloyd and other lines. could
command as ample facilities, and either Of
these countries, should hostilities develop
with the United States, could pour troops
over here so as TO have on our soil in a few
weeks twice as many trained soldiers as
We have in our entire army-here. In the
West Indies and in far-away Philippines
all together.
Instead of keeping them off the ocean
would bring them to us The steamship
makes fast time, rides through storms,
holds to her route and gets there Given
NtOo6h SOloACA dlo SlOoe CA&iRo tallo otN-
eral European nations have them, and
We should have our hands full of trouble
here if war broke out.
The only sure defense would be a navy
of such magnitude that 1t could patrol the
whole coast. and do hat in sufficient force
to overcome the war vessels that conveyed
the hostile fleet. 1t is true that one or two
thousand soldiers on an unarmored ship are
In a pretty defenseless predicament and
that, If they were adequately met On the
water. they would be easily disposed of.
Tampa on board the transports a week or
on the coast, shows the tfmidity
of soldiers in the presence of a peril that
they have no way of averting.
But, for our coast, an immense fleet would
be necessary. Think of all the opportuni-
ties between Portland and Galveston. Have
We any such outfit? Manifestly we have
not. England has a navy that can protect
her whole island front. But our little navy,
fine as Ii is. would be hopelessly inadequate
modern power would throw upon Ii. We
need large and constant additions to our
ships, and to get rid of some of the fat
witted optimism that boasts Of what We
might do-and then does nothing. The
time to lay keels, to drill soldiers, and to
get ready to defend ourselves isn't after
hostile forces have set foot on our terri
tory. Let that happen and our legislative
optimists would be the first TO take to the
woods-just as those who forced the Cuban
war on the country are now the loud
mouthed denouncers of the policy of con-
quest"
We've got to rely on ourselves, not on the
Atlantic ocean hereafter, and the fact has
been made clear to us.
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A current item has it that Miss Elizabeth
Smith. of Derby, Conn.,, a millionaire in
her own right. has become a s~tenographer
at a small salary. believing 1T is the duty
of every woman to work. If Miss Smith
has no other conception of useful work
than that which brings a money return.
then she has much to learn before she is
properly qualified to possess a million dol
lars. A woman of wealth who cannot find
enough important tasks to occupy all her
time without entering a crowded profession
and taking a place needed by a poor girl
has a limited view of her duties to the
world. She should be so busily occupied
that she would need TO employ a STEM
ographer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-20

The coming departure OF Rev. b. "A.
Jenkins, president of the University of
indianapolis, to a new field of labor, which
has just been announced, will be a decided
loss to local educational circles. While his
work in behalf >of the new university has
not produced all the results the impatient
public hoped for those who are informed
on the subject know that he has been in
defatigable in his efforts to promote its
interests and that he has done much to
pave the way for more rapid dvances in
the future. The first steps in such an en-
terprise are the most difficult. but these he
has taken TO the satisfaction of those who
are interested with him. and they will re-
gret his going.
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Prosperity I'm Indiana.

New York Tribune.
Nathan Norris. a lawyer, Of Indianapolis.
in spanking of the present aspect OF polit-
ical affairs in the Hoosier State. said yes
terday at the Waldorf-Astoria: 1.-THE won
derful prosperity OF the country in the
last few years has been enjoyed to the
full by the people OF Indiana Where three
years ago large numbers OF men were un-
employed, factories closed and business in
all lines running on a restricted basis. to-
day there is work for everyone. business 10
booming and our factories are all open
and running on full time. Our wheat crop
is ruined, but in everything else we are in
good estate. All this will help President
Mckinley in his canvass for. reelection.
for the people will not forget that IL was
Under his administrators that this happy
state of affairs came TO pass and Indiana
enjoyed the most prosperous years I'm its
history. The magnificent and efficient man.
ner in which the Spanish war was carried
TO a triumphant conclusion is another
strong point in the Presidents favor. and
we appreciate. as well. that IL was owing
TO this war and the energy with which IL
was prosecuted that for the first time we,
as a nation. took our rightful place I'm the
front rank of the great powers Of the
earth"
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That Census Episode.

r. NJ. Field. in Chicago Post.
All Indiana is burning with rage to-day
at the affront put upon Mrs. May Wright
Sewall, of Indianapolis, by the census
enumeration. Conceive the wrath. the rage.
the fury of Mrs. sewall when she was bonn
barde6 with these questions:
Are you male or female?
White or colored?
State whether you can read and write?
There is nc doubt that the fellow who
presumed to get gay with Mrs sewaA is
not the gentleman from Indiana" we have
heard so much about. and We shall lose our
faith In the wisdom OF our national govern
ment IL he is not promptly discharged from
place. There may be a slight suspicion tina.
the enumerator had heard the echoes OF
the colored line war I'm Milwaukee and took
this opportunity 70 make merry with Mrs
Sewall, but IL was an ignoble lest and &C.
mands the severest censure. We shall be
grateful 10 Mrs. Sewall and her sisters II
they suffer the matter TO drop with the ex-
pulsion Of the offender n do not carry
their resentment 10 the complete overthrow
Of all plans for the census Of 1900.
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sion is forced upon one by studying the
man at close range. The caricaturist
may perhaps be pardoned for not coming
nearer the truth. when the TACT is taken
into consideration that even the photog-
iapher usually fails to catch the details
OF the senator's facial characteristics.
There is an indescribable something about
the man that deies reproduction. His is a
remarkable face in many respects. full of
Hgnt and shade, expressive to the extent
OF being almost panoramic, ever changing
with his own mood or the moods of those
about him. 1t is a rugged face. such as
you see ON those actors who change their
plastic features at will In giving limitations
OF famous men. And yet at times Ii seems
TO be as unfathomable as the face OF the
very Sphinx. Small wonder that the arts.
fails to retain its elusive characteristics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-20

Vice President Should Be Chosen with
a View to Possible Promotion.

New York Letter in Philadelphia Press.
Last winter a distinguished Republican,
who holds an Office of great honor, and
gates at the national convention next week,
was in this city and met one evening a
group of friends who asked him If the view
of President Mckinley as to the vice presi-
Dental nomination had been made known
to any one. This meeting took place at a
time when much discussion was going on
In public and private as to the probability
of the unanimous nomination of Governor
Roosevelt for Vice President.
The answer to the question was in effect
as follows: The President has been invited
by many of his friends in Washington and
by others who have visited Washington to
express his opinion as to the proper course
respect to the vice presidential nomination.
The President was found to be in a recep-
tive rather than a communicative DISPOSE
ton, excepting upon one point; he was
glad to hear whatever might be said in
favor of this one or that one, and was even
disposed to draw out full and frank opin-
ion. But when 1t came to committing him.
self to any one or even to speaking with
disfavor Of any one, the President was
careful to conceal his own view.
But upon one point he was emphatic and
most persuasive. He said that II seemed to
him that the Republican convention should
first of all consider the very contingency
which the trainers of the Constitution had
in mind when they created the Office of
Vice President. a contingency which alone
accounts for the creation of that office.
That was the succession to the presidency
in case of the death, resignation or dis
ability of the President.
The first question. therefore, that the
delegates to a national convention should
ask when considering any proposed cam
didate for the vice presidency was, In Pres
ident McKinley's view, this. namely: Is he
a man whom this convention would feel
honored justified in nominating for the
presidency? Is he a man whom the party
and the entire Nation would have conf
dence in were the constitutional contin-
gency to arise by which the succession
were devolved upon him? Having answered
this question i'm the affirmative, then there
were other subordinate or less important
questions to be considered by the national
convention.
The distinguished politician who asserted
to his friends that this had been the in
variable positive statement made by Presi-
dent Mckinley, with respect to the vice
presidency, said that If this view were fol-
lowed by the Republican convention it
would, of course. eliminate certain compar-
atively inconspicuous persons. whose in
considerable friends were urging their nomi-
nation for Vice President.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-20

A London cablegram. summarizing the
recent Ascot races, shows a remarkable
degree of success by the American Jockeys
number of races and much larger amounts
in money than any equal number of Eng
lish jockeys. The leading sporting paper
OF London comments on this "extraordi-
nary success of the American Jockeys 1t
says they had to fight prejudice and over
come ridicule. that the position that they
have won has been gained by sheer merit
and that they win because they ride with
their heads as we'll as their hands,"
1t Is a national characteristic to take
pride In the victories and successes of
Americans in whatever field of action they
enter. In literature or In art, in science.
invention or discovery. in commerce or in
manufactures. in war or in peace, in sink
cans are engaged we like to see them win,
and If they do win We feel as II IL were
something added to the common stock of
national achievement in which all may
share. Three-quarters OF a century ago.
.o0f
when Sydney Smith sneeringly asked, I'm
the four quarters of the globe. who reads
an American book. or goes TO an American
play. or looks at an American picture or
statue?" the whole American people felt
the sting. Now they all share I'm the re-
Election that American books and plays
are as popular in England as in the
United States, and that American artists
nave taken more medals at the Paris ex-
position than those Of any other country.
In the same way we all share I'm the pride
of having gradually outstripped and beaten
England in almost every one of the fields
Of manufacture in which formerly she
scarcely had a competitor. 1t is but little
more than a hundred years since England
was holding her American colonies in lead
! Ing strings. feeding them with a spoon as II
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mistaken. No mans chances for the presi-
and acceptable service in the second high
est elective position in the government The
vice presidency is not an obscure position.
and even If It were the people now where
10 find a man if they want him. and faith
to make them want him any the less for
the higher Office. Governor Roosevelt may
or may not be as popular four years hsnce
as he Is now. but election to the vice pres
idency could not operate to make him less
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Philadelphia Letter in Chicago Journal.
1t is Hanna first, last, and always. He
mentions a name, and hat is sufficient to
start a red-hot boom: he looks pleasant
when somebody else mentions a name, and
the result is similar. He says, 81 hope
not" and everybody counts that man out.
A veritable Hanna mania has seized upon
the city. If he actually wore a suit of
clothes checked with dollar marks and ate
gold dust and greenbacks, he could hardly
be more of a sideshow. Crowds follow him
in the street; mobs block the entrances and
windows of the Walton cafe when he
lunches; so much so that special uniformed
police have to be stationed at the doors to
keep a passage until he shall have finished.
The fascination extends even TO his pic
lures and there is a free exhibition Of the
originals of Davenport's famous cartoons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-20

When the British surgeon, DIR. Treves,
lately returned from South Africa and spoke
in uncomplimentary terms of the fine ladies
who went down there with a pretense Of
wishing to be nurses. but who really got
in the way and were a nuisance, he was
criticised by London papers for speaking
in such fashion, and it was said of him
that he did not appreciate the good inten-
lions of the women. But a professional
nurse who has lately returned to London
In charge of patients on a transport con-
firms DR.. Treves's statement and goes even
further. She says. grimly:
DR.. Treves was perfectly right. 1 don't
spectacle than these ladies coming out, in
quite a holiday spirit. with a wardrobe of
new dresses. and thoroughly prepared to
have a downright good time. What L can't
make out is why they were allowed to
come at ali, hindering good work and get
ting terribly in the way. / daren't tell you
some of the things I've heard about them.
l can say this, however, that they think
the duty of nursing. or rather fashionable
nursing, as 1T should be styled. consists in
smoothing the sufferers pillows and bath
ing his forehead with a little scent.
War with a society attachment is one Of
the developments of modern times which
there has not yet been time to regulate.
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FoOtnOtes.

What time o. day 1t is often depends on which
way you hold your watch.
Men are as deceitful as women; when a man
gets bald he always acts as II he likes it.
The woman who says she never has the blues
merely means that she can always pretend she
never has them.
Some women are so meddlesome that even the
neighbors' funerals don't go of as they would
have managed them g.
When a man claims that the world owes him a
living it indicates that he is getting tired OF
earning IL for himself.
OF two women who stay all night together,
one wants to talk all night. and the other one
wants to go straight to sleep.
The weather man gives us hot weather to pay
US up for finding fault with winter: and cold
weather to pay US up for finding fault with
summer.
A woman seldom abandons reading a poor
novel; IL the hero and heroine are as stupid as
owls. she sticks TO them until the last chapter.
to 'see how they come out"
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were. and insisting on the right of supply
product. To-day they are not only her
chief rival in the markets of the world.
but her victor in many and beating her in
numerous lines Of manufacture of which
All this is matter for madonna congratula-
ton and legitimate pride.
What is the secret of this success and
of the victories which Americans are con-
~tinually winning in every field of action?
The London sporting paper revealed 1t
when. in trying TO accountffor the extraor-
binary successes of the American jock
eys, it said. They ride with their heads
as well as their hands That is it. Ameri-
cans do everything with their heads as
well as their hands. Riding a horse race
Is not a very high order of action. but 1t
seems that even there there is room for the
exercise of the characteristic that has
brought the American people to the front
century of their national existence world
leaders and almost world beaters i'm every
field of human thought and action.
Whether 1t is constructing locomotives for
foreign countries, shipping iron bridges to
Egypt. flooding the British islands with
manufactures, building warships for Rus
STA and Japan, storming the fortified
heights of F. Caney, sinking the Spanish
ships in Manila bay, or Cervera's fleet at
Santiago. whipping the Spanish, pacifying
the Cubans, chastising the rebellious Fill
pinos. opening the door of China with one
hand and gathering in the trade of the
Pacific with the other-'they ride with
their heads as well as their hands," Head
work and brain work is what is making the
United States the manufacturing and COM
mercial mistress of the world. 1t is not
our big guns hat sink an enemy's ships
as much as ii is the men behind the guns.
Foreign experts who watched our soldiers
in the war with Spain said they beat the
world for taking the initiative and fighting
on their own hook" Thus in the comment
of the London paper on the success of
American jockeys in beating the English
at their favorite sport and on their own
ground we find the secret of American
success in everything-"They ride with
their heaus as we'll as their hands,"
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II The report is true that Lord Roberts
has mustered out the Natal troops and is
preparing to send a division OF Buffers
men to China 1t is evident that he consid-
ers the war IN South Africa near its end.
II such should prove to be true the dema-
gogues who hope to fight a pro-Boer cam
paign in the United States will find the I'M
dertaking a most difficult one. The Boer
war ended. the Boer campaign in the United
States will be neither brilliant nor effec-
tive
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Pennsylvania and the Chicago & Western
Indiana railroad tracks. passed by the Chi
cago Council on Monday night, has been
accepted by the roads. and they will ele-
waite $50 miles of tracks at a cost Of SIS. Co.,
900. An ordinance affecting other roads en-
tering the city is expected to pass next
week. The days of grade crossings seem
to be numbered in all large cities.