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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-25

(From the Cleveland Plain Dcaicr)
Yes. she is I very nice girl -
An then she has no money"
''Why dc You infer thatz''
Because rich girls are ALWAYS superb or stun
ming, OF splendid They are never simply nice D
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-25

\ decidedly novel turn has been given
to the crusade Of the female saloon
smashers in Kansas. By the organization
of women opposed 10 their methods. One
pitched battle has been fought between
the two Amszonian forces, and we look
watch the good work II progress We
sincerely hope that It may not stop until
like a sea CT glory 1t spreads from pole 10
POI and sron. Senate TO House, where the
sad aud Ioathsome rum holes and blind
tigers still blow their cloven breaths-
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-25

There is every reason TO believe that the
West Point cadets implicated in the haz-
ing offences-even the most guiIty-wiu
escape punishment. This is wrong Young
brutes capable of the practices which the
evidence before the investigating com
mittee exposes. are out Of place IN the
army. or in the society OF gentemen- An
example should be made of dozen of the
most atroc:ous among the misdemeanants-
II they are let off altogether the kazing
system VIII be apt to spring Up and -four
ish again. - soon as the present trouble
has blown over.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-25
Thnf,s Different.
(Froln Tie Cleveland

(Frofa the Cleveland Plain Da4ierl
81 notice in an article on that threatened
asphalt that neither side 70 blame IN
the abstract
BOX gas il. IN the eoncretey"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-25

No Vote ThIS Session. VALLEY
Forge will not become Government
property this year. am afraid. -
said Representative Green Of Pennsyl-
vania- The patriotic citizens of Penn
sylvania have been working for many
years for The preservation of that spot
so interviewer with the history of Wash
ington and the Revolution By using
their own money they have been able to
do something toward keeping it from fall
ing into the hands of private corpora
lions. but they have not been able to buy
up the whole property.
Valley Forge should be owned by the
Government Representative McAIeer of
my State has introduced a bin asking
thai 100000 be appropriated to purchase
ground necessary to make a military
park Though we think that the matter is
really one of such merit that the appro-
yriation could be made practically with
out debate, we are told there is no room
GA the calendar that more importan:
matters are pressing. and that we must
be content 10 let cur measure die in the
Military Committee TO which il has been
referred. This VIII be blow 10 all the
patriotic societies of Pennsylvania as
they were intensely interested in the
success Of the project"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-25
CAPITOL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

Gerrynundering in Indiana
Though the State OF Indiana has no Sen
atorial campaign this year. the meeting of
the Legislature viii afford political eX-
element in plenty because of the inten-
ton of the Republicans to gerrymander
the State" said Representative Aiers-
about half a dozen districts in the
State are sure for the Republicans. but
there is reasonable doubt in three or four
more. The First district. which sent
Representative Hemenway, is considered
shaky. and so is the Ninth. from which
Lands comes. Hemenway had only a few
hundred votes 10 spare, and lands slua-
ton was almost as bad. Four Congress
sional districts are conceded to the Dem
ocrats.
1t Will probably be the policy of the
Republicans to strengthen the weak Re
publican districts, even if it strengthens
the Democratic districts also. There is
a small wing IF the dominant party which
faVors taking in everything. if possible.
but to my mind that is bad policy. The
political party which attempts to grasp
everything in sight aTOuses an opposition
that eventually brings it TO defeat
senator and His CIerk-This is
true story. Once upon time there was
Senator and when this story opens he had
been in the Senate three terms, He want
ed 10 get the Senate TO pass a resolution
which should give the Senate the pleasure
Of eNpending $1,000 OF more on an inves-
ugatiug committee. The Senator was
lucky in having the confidence of an aged
and experienced clerk. and being uncertain
OF the best way 70 draw up the resolution
and avoid suspicious the Senator went TO
the clerk The clerk drew up the resoIu-
lion. and when the Senator read ii he ask
ed: VIII II hold water?"
1T will answered the clerk. 'Resolu-
tons like it have passed the Senate many
a time But don't talk On it.
But must explain what it is for saic
the Senator
You need not explain" said the ex-
perienced clerk. The Senator insisted that
he must explain. and the clerk gave up
the job saying, That's your business
It happened while a number of bills
were being read by tide and passed that
the Senator's resolution came up. He in
terrupted the steady flow OF the clerk
voice and woke up the doing Senators
I want 70 explain" he said. and launched
into the details Of the scheme. That was
enough Half q dozen Senators attacked
his resolution. and before he knew it the
resolution was tabled
The Senators were all On the alert When
ever the resolution came up, and two
months passed before il was even cnnsi1-
cred again. Then there were 40 noes and
I aye.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-25

re are glad to notice that with hardly
an exception all classes and nationalities
join in coEdemning the coarse yulgarity OF
New York's Mayor in refusing 10 half
mast the flag On the City Hail out OF
respect for the dead Queen Of England
Such contemplate actions bring certain
punishment. The yeEy people sought to
be pleased resent them
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-01-25
Senator HayIey

senator HayyIey IA Weather sharp
TO Senator Hawley's watch chair there
are two ends. One leads to his right side
waistcoat pocket and fastens to a hand
soma watch: The other to the left side
waistcoat pocket and holds an aHe-oid ba-
rometer III a warm morocco leather case
This barometer is the outward evidence of
the Senator's scientific requirements He
is remarkably well informed on ali the
latest theories and discoveries OF the day,
and has special fOndness for the
Weather Bureau Investigations. He Is a
daily visitor at the big board in the Mar
Bile Room chaIked over with red, yellow
blue and white lines. and often spends an
hour there working out the problem OF the
weather posi- biiities From long study
Senator Hawley has become somewhat Of
q prognOstiCatOT. himself. End quite fire.
quentIy takes the liberty of disagreeing
with the official forecaster He does not
eoudue himself - foretelling the weather
for Washington alone. but covers the
whole United States map. Senator Platt
Of Connecticut is also one of the faithful
cues a the weather board. He. also, has
! followed forecasts and results for a long
time and has faith In his ability 10 say
what the weather VIII be
Senator Hawley's anerOid barometer is
4 deIicateIy adjusted affair, made by Stew
art, of London, ard is just about the size
OF q watch.
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Au.tIn'S Revenge.

The only being who ever succeeded in
making Queen Victoria ridiculous IS Al
fred Austin. by the grace of Lord Sails
bury Poet Laureate of England. His Vic
torian Ode on the occasion of the Jubilee
of 1891 IS still remembered with horror
wherever the English tongue is spoken or
understood.
But the AuStinian muse respects death
and a great national sorrow as little as it
did life The Queens memory is no more
sacred than the Queen herself was, and
Austin now bursts forth thus:
Queen. Empress more than Empress or Than
The Lady of the worid on high enthroned
By right divine Of duties well fulfilled.
To be the pattern TO all quecIl- all kings,
All women and the COnsCiCHce> OF men
Nho look on duty mans only right
And long and late this happy season wore.
This me-. 0ly. gracious autumn OF her days.
This sweet grave Indian summer. I'LL We grew
/ To deem il liinitless, and iEdf forgot
Nortalty's decree, and ROW ther, fails
\ sudden sadness on our lives. AID We
Can only bow diScoBsolste heaGs 4fi- weep
And look ont from our lonely he-irt'i~ ana see
The homeless drifting Of the winter mist
And hear the requiem Of the winter wind
Austin unfortunately can read i ne
cannot write. and somehow or other he
has got hold Of volume of Tennyson and
sat down in the privacy of monday TO
initiate him. There is more Of his poem
than We have quoted. but the rest is hap
PLY spared H.
The great grief Of Austin's life has been
that the Queen did not knight him for
holding her up to ridicule A sorrow
common 20 Englishmen and Americans is
that she did not at least four years ago
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-02-15

delight the progress Of the cure, marked
by Frightening eyes, reddening cheeks,
and rounding form.
Woman's general health depends largely
upon the local health of the organs dis
tinctively feminine. Irregular periods in
maidenhood, followed after marriage by
facilitating drains, and the common con.
sequences of motherhood, inflammation.
liberation, and displaced organs. ruin tho
general health. These conditions are en-
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the body blossoms in new beauty, and the
mind Is entirely freed from gloom and de-
spondency. "Favorite Prescription" Is mot a
stimulant, containing no alcohol or whisky.
I'm October 1889 gave birth to babv and the
treatment received at the hands Of the midwife
left me with female weakness" writes Nrs
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had NO health to speak OF So1 three Year,. I had
another baby which was the third child. Nv
health began to fall and had three miscarriares
50 found myself completely worn out / had
so many pains and aches my life was . burden
to me and also to all the family. for vas nerv-
my last miscarfi.ge IN 1890 was taken With
70 see me but at last found was slowiy dvinq
The doctors said had liver, lung and utefinc
trouble. ! was In bed for months and when
did get up looked like a corpse WALKING shorf
] commenced to take Dr. Pierce's Golden Mo-;
ical Discovery. Favorite Prescription, and pei
let's and ever since then I have been \ vveil
woman. At my monthly period now have no
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but before 1t was - yellow - saffron"
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mother is a barrier of reserve. Just
word of advice or counsel might
mean so much to girl at time SO crit
cal, but she shrinks from asking the
question, and the mother refrains from
opening the subject, though in the pal
i'd cheeks and dark trimmed eyes she
leads the signs of wonan's suffering.
THE NEED OF HELP.
There is a real need of help for the
young woman. Neglect may pave the
way for years of suffering. The dawn
If womanhood is one of the crises of a
woman's life, and every care should be
:aken to prevent or cure arrangements
which may have serious results in later
life.
IA heart overlooking with gratitude as
we'll as sense of duty urges me to write
to you and tell you Of my wonderful re-
:overy," says Miss Corinne c. Hook,
Orangeburg, Orangeburg Co., S. Caro-
Of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription l
am entirely new being compared to the
poor miserable sufferer who wrote you
Tour months ago. remark to my par
.nts almost every day that it seems al
most an impossibility for medicine to do
person so much good. During the
whole summer could scarcely keep up
to walk about the house, and yesterday I
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the exercise. I now weigh I7s pounds.
read in your book Of testimonials where
Z lady said DIR. Pierce's medicines were
Thousand pounds Of comfort, please
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uMy sincerest thanks for all you have
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you.'"
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is
he most valuable and reliable put-up
medicine ever offered for the cure of dis
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-02-15
Another hold.Up.

If $26 ton for steel rails is too
high a rise, as has repeatedly been
shown the past four months, SIS
would be simply extortion. Yet the
steel pool announced that the higher
price would be fixed on and after Feb
ruary l. It expects to sell an az
gregate of 1000, 900 tons Of rails during
the year 1901, and coolly notifies the
railroad companies to hand over to il
an extra 100000.
There is no fairness or justice in
this stand-and-deliver policy. There
is little reason or sense in it. It.
tendency if not q result of it, must in'
evitably be to check railroad con-
struction and improvement. It es
tablishes a bad relation between two
great industries that must end in re-
prisals-matters that should have nc
place in legitimate business. And il
may lead to advance, but unwarranted
prices in other branches of the iron
industry and thus unsettle trade to q
degree that would be calamitous.
That the steel pool means to wiring
from the railroads every dollar that
the business will stand is as plain q
sunlight. It would put the price Of
rails at $50 if it dared.
The spectacle of All American phil.
anthropist participating in q hold-up
for "a, O0O, 900 is not an inspiriting one
at threshold of the new century.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-02-15

eases peculiarly feminine. 1t establishes
regularity, dries the drains which weaken
women, heals inflammation and ulceration
and cures female weakness. For young
women it has advantages over any SINH
lar preparation, by reason of its promo
ton of perfect condition of feminine
health. and also because it is free from
alcoho' and contains no opium, cocaine,
nor al. ,,llrr narcotic. Backache, head
ache and the many ailments resulting
from womanly diseases are entirely cured
by the use of "Favorite Prescription"
81 will drop YOU a few lines to-day to
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writes Miss Annie Stephens, of Belleville,
Wood Co., W. Va. ~ feel like a new
woman l took several bottles of Fa-
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ical Discovery l have no headache
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my side. No bearing down pain any
more l think that there is no medicine
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ME your medicine has done me so
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-02-15
Washinaton Standard
THEFIERY DISK OF MARS.
1t IS No~ Visible High Up in the East
srn Skv.

srn Skv.
Mrs l. Altman, in the Oregonian.
The fiery disk Of our sister planet
Mars is in full view idst now, hasten
ing on to lis opposition, which will
occur February DIST, at which time it
will lie G3,00O,000 miles distant from
our Mother Earth. The opposition OF
a planet, paradoxical as it may seem,
means that it is on the same side OF
the sun with US, but being beyond the
earth, it is opposite the sun to us.
Mars is near the fine constellation
Leo, or the Lion, high up in the east
ern sky about or 9 o'clock. Steady
and serene in outline, yet fierce in
aspect, we can we'll understand how
it came to represent the god OF war.
When the opposition of Marc occurred
in August, the planet is only $4,000
600 miles from us, and is then three
times its present size. So large and
fierce looking is Mars at such times
that it has on more than one occasion
created panic among the ignorant
populace.
1t was at such an opposition that
Asaph Hall discovered the two stated
li,es of Mars, in 1877, with the great
Washington refractor. These two
satellites, Phobos and Delmos, are
the smallest heavenly bodies known.
The time of revolution of Phobos, the
inner moon, is hours and 80 min
utes. That is to say, it reyolves about
Mars little more than three times
in "a hours, and presents all the di!-
ferent phases of new moon, first quar-
ter, full moon, and the last quarter at
each revolution. If there are as
tronomers on Mars, what an oppor-
tunity for observing its inner moon
at a slight distance OF 1000 miles, and
several times day at that!
All the large telescopes of the world
are now turned on Mars for observa-
ton OF this interesting planet and its
Lilliputian moons.
The surface markings of Mars have
been revealed to us through the labor.
ious and persistent watches and con-
temporary astronomers, notably Per-
cival Lowell on his first vantage
ground of Arizona and Mexico. To
have traced and explained the exist
ence of double canals on Mars (mostly
due to sebiaparelle), to have defined
distant north and south polar caps. to
have announced not only that there
are seasons on Mars, but that these
seasons correspond mostly closely to
those on our earth, may be considered
achievements worthy even of the
great scientific nineteenth century.
In view of Tesla's recent promulga-
tions of signals from Mars, We may
wall ask the oft-mooted question, is
Mars inhabited? Will that be an
achievement of our new century to
traverse even so vast space?
It were hopeless to attempt to lift
the veil of the future, and yet it seems
that q wise, benefcent God would not
have created go great q universe, to
have peopled but the earth, and that
this illimitable space must hold life in
abundance, be IL whatever form it
mavl
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-02-15
Origin Of Confectionery.

The modern confectionery business
is q very large one, and it is of old
standing. If we wished to trace it to
its origin we might have to go back
not far short of 500 years, says an OK.
change. It is about five centuries
since sugar was first imported into
this country, and it is probably not
much less than that since confec.
tions" began to be concocted. They
first appeared in medical form
Apothecaries, whose notions were al
one time very generally supposed &c
be efficacious just in proportion =.
they were horribly nasty, took to the
newly imported sugar as a means oil
mitigating the nauseousness OF Their
doses. They mixed their drugs with
it and coated their boluses. That
seems to have been the origin of the
syrups and indicated candies, the
cough drops and lozenges Of one sort
and another that are now so largely
in demand. They were originally
concocted by. the doctors, and fol
many long years all sorts OF lolli
pops" were medicinal only. Sugar
was too dear and the generality Of
people were too poor to permit of its
being eaten for its own sake alone and
as mere luxury.
Somewhere about couple OF cen.
turtles ago, however, there began to
appear a new development of the
apothecary's art. CONNECTIONS" be-
gan to be made more or less apart
from any medicinal purpose, and
merely because people liked them
The confectioner's business began to
evolve as an offshoot from the profes.
sion of the apothecary, and eventually
became altogether a separate thing
though the common origin of the two
is still indicated by the syrups and
pastilles and troches prescribed by the
doctors, and the drops" and lozenges
and other things sold among the
sweet stuff of the confectioner.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-02-15
MOTHERS HOUR.
A Time for Confidence and
Counsel.

When the children's hour is a thing of
the far away past, because there are no
more little ones to have their evening
frolic or bedtime story, the hour once
devoted TO them becomes the mothers
hour. 1t is All hour in which the young
woman takes her old place at her InotL-
er's knee as she was wont when she
listened to the evening story. But now
she tells the story to the mother; the
story of her day, her fears, her hopes,
her ideals. Happy is that daughter who
can come to her mother as her best
friend, as sure of her compassion as OF her
counsel.
1t is often SO very different. The
mother does not invite the shy conf
dence Of the growing girl. She comes
10 womanhood and between her and her
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-02-15
WHEN THE QUEEN WAS QUEEN.

If Abraham Lincoln or any of his
cabinet officers were still living they
would recall the most an xious moment
of their lives, but which found relief
in the personal action of Queen Vic
toria. The occasion was the seizure
OF Mason and Slidell, Confederate am.
bassadors, on board British vessel by
Captain Wilkes. By this seizure the
American administration was placed
in the most deadly peril. Captain
Wilkes had unconsciously given Great
Britain q cause for war that the Brit
ish ministers were inclined to well
come. Lincoln's cabinet never con.
cealed from themselves the fact that
the seizure of these men was not war
ranted by international law. The
deck of that British boat had all the
saucity of British territory. The ques-
ton uppermost in the minds of the
Lincoln cabinet was how to deliver
ministers to the British authorities
without arousing the anger OF the
American people. Lord Palmerston,
the British Minister, did not possess
the instinct of courtesy that would
have helped the American cabinet
over the crisis. Palmertson dictated
dispatch in which the demand for
the surrender of Mason and Slidell was
couched in terms that would have
driven the United States into war
against the world.
This dispatch was submitted to the
Queen, and she resolved that it should
not be sent. History shows that she
sent for Mr.. Thurlow Weed, who hap.
pened to be in London at the time,
and asked his opinion as to the proba.
BILE effect of sending q dispatch, the
nature of which she described. Mr..
Weed admitted that the United States
had about as much on its hands as il
could attend to at the time, but init
mated that the two nations had fu.
ture not subject to any statute of limi.
tations. Such q dispatch meant war
1t meant something even more seri.
Gus than war; it meant the complete
arrangement of the two English.
speaking nations for generations tc
come.
The methods by which the Queen
induced her prime minister TOT SC
temper her dispatch that the United
States could without loss OF self.respec,
comply with its terms, will form ar
interesting chapter in history. The
Queen prevailed with all the dominant
forces of the kingdom against her
The ministers had the law on their side
and the ruling classes of the British
people. Even Gladstone had nothin,
to say in behalf of the American
cause. At that momentous crisis .
woman's intuitive perception of th,
right thing to do saved the world from
one OF the bloodiest wars of the cen
fury.
Male craftsmanship was for seizin,
the opportunity to crush a rival; tn,
woman's view covered a longer periot