Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-09
IN THE HOTEL LOBBIES.

Senator Lindsay of Kentucky is in the
| city, stopping at the Riggs. The senator
| finishes his public duties the 4th of
] next March, and it is not probable that he
| will again take an active part in politics.
| From present prospects it is believed he
will remain in this city after the c,ose of
| his term as a senator and will resume the
practice of law here.
Mr.. Harold NJ. Sewall of Hawaii is a
| guest at the Shoreham. Mr.. Sewall is a
son of Mr. Arthur Sewall Of Maine, the
vice presidential candidate with Bryan in
1893. and has been a resident of liawii for
several years.
London is just now very much inter-
ested in the fight which Mr.. Labouchere
is waging on tipsters through the columns
of his paper, Truth" Mr.. Cecil Durham Of
that city told Star reporter at the
Raleigh 1T appears that there has been a
large increase in the number of betting
agents and tipsters who advertise in the
daily journals to catch the unwary betting
man. They not only advertise in the news
papers, but they send post cards and postal
circulars to every man and woman they
can reach. No one is safe from their
schemes. There was time when only the
officers Of the army and men known to be
patrons Of the turf were the ones to re-.
the clergy as well as the laity are ad-
dressed.
lone of the cleverest of these circulars
fell into my hands little bit ago. The
sender states that she is the widow of a
well-known jockey, and finding 1t impossi-
BILE to educate her children in the manner
she desired, she resolved to turn to ac-
count the information she received daily
from her sons, who were In two of the best
racing establishments in the united king
dom. She desired 1t to be distinctly under
stood, however. that she required no re-
enumeration until the results justified the
information she was in the position to sup
ply l made inquiries at Brighton, whence
this circular was addressed, and found
there was no widow in the neighborhood.
The local police surmiSed that the circular
had been the work of a man they had long
had under surveillance and who had been
internationally at the address given in the
circular. How Truth will come out of the
fight l cannot foretell, but l hope some
thing will be done to suppress the tipsters,
who make fortunes in swindling the pub
lie. / understand the people of this country
are pestered with the same class, and
earnestly hope the experience will not be
as expensive as it has been to the people
of London.
1.-The Philippine problem will probably be
solved just as the Indian perplexity was
dispelled after the mutiny,' said Rev. Syl-
vanus Gardner, lately connected with one
of the Bible stations in India. THE matter
has been of great interest to me ever since
the battle of Manila bay. 1 saw then that
the United States had taken up a PROPOSE
ton about which they knew nothing. 1t
was the same way with the British when
they first went to India. The natives of the
English colony are of little higher type
than the Malays of the Philippines, but
the conditions were almost the same. For
years India had been the hotbed of an
archy. Every tribe was at war with another
and each little prince wanted to enlarge
his territory and make slave Of one of
his royal cousins. Even after the COM
mencement of the English settlement of the
place war reigned among the natives and
a large force of troops was required to
keep down disorder and prevent the massa-
ere of the Europeans.
when the mutiny showed the British
government that the native of India was
not to be trusted means was soon found
for making life less dangerous and pre-
venting petty wars between rival monarchs.
The most obstreperous of the latter were
transported far from the scenes Of their
struggles as a preface, and then the troops
proceeded to disarm every native. Not even
the INDIAN police are allowed to carry arms
or have them concealed about their prem
ises. This was effectual severe punish
ment is now inflicted on the native found to
be possessed Of deadly weapons of any
kind, and conviction is swift and sure.