Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1893, Page 12

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©, SATURDAY. sanvafey 7, 1893-SIXTEEN PAGES = tor fish, Palmer was for @ time in the | building anew mill and that he will back you | F to the telegraph office were not far and | with a company of young people who wish to | = WAYSOF LEGISLATORS xtc eres estas tation | m yonrnlt fr alt be worth ae | SUPPRESSING NEWS. Frente armed the kno of the dor mtg | [INNOCENT AMUSEMENT fier aticanteomie meres tye toe | THOUGHTS JAPANESE. near bis Inke and put up @ steam engine, offer nator Sawyer Senators Who Are Making and had one of the prettiest little pieces anuaily kept pumping water into it, He of and Sawyer said: ‘How much is amount of your lose?” the total bers of Securing Authentic De- gave tho visitor a casual glance, the bright but- tonsand braid completely disarming them of It is the Most Conservative Thing in the waltz quadrilie and kindred dances are de- cidedly complicated and there are not many 'Some of the Peculiarities of Their . . . any suspicion that was not a lar fre- people who can remember the evolu- | se ine in Mi ing water in th try. Itwas clearas| “‘It figures up just $200,000," replied U; tails of Railroad Accidents. enter. Ambiing over tothe blackboard on World. |tions. In country districts this difficulty is ob- | Curio: Losing in Mining. SS ees Dama, “Dorin that 1 inckene my oe eek oe iehich tho. Gas (0a GalspeA tiomee, oor viated by the musician calling out the figures | us Langu ss lumber, which I had to eell, and my_ mill you chalked he glanced up at them carelessly, and — and it is quite amusing. too, because he is very ee Maat s eee gece know was an old one and pretty well worn, then pulling out a newspaper coolly seated him- How Senator Wolcott Made $125,000 Last Year—Senators as Farmers and Fish Raisers—Cnole Jerry Rusk on Wisoor Statesmen Stories of UncleFhiletus Sawyer - | With this @150,000 I could rebuild my mill and start on a better footing than I had when I was loaded down with old lumber and an old mili before the fire.” “Then,” replied Senator Sawyer, ‘I think you had better take it," “And take it he did.” concluded: ‘Secretary Rusk, nd be is now aricher man than ever. wonder that he withdrew at the request of Tt was Sawyer, and the Senator has scores of just such friends scattered all ov: OVER-ZEALOUS EMPLOYES. ‘Withholding News of Accidents a Fad With Railroad Men—A New Idea Advanced by = Railroad Oficial—An Obsolete Book of Rules the Stumbling Block. ee Se self in a chair near by. “How long he remained there was never fully determined, but he had evidently remained Jong enough to meet his ends and secure all the news he desired. Finally he arose, and guing over to the desk calmly leaned forward as if to secure a few details that had no donbt escaped him. It was while in this position that one of the operators glanced up and discovered the de- ception he was practicing. Being a friend, he DANOING, OLD AND NEW. ———— | ‘The German Dares Back to the Times of the Pharache tn Egypt—The Waits as the Acme of Saltatorial Enjoyment—People Have | Danced Since the World Began. apt to invent them as oes along. i > - > rhe cnpbody chess $0 pg the subjet to| PECULIAR EXPRESSIONS. the end he would find. task of colossal pro- | rtions on his hands. But if any man who | not know bow to dance wishes to learn he can do eo without much trouble. Let bim frst | of all master the waltz, then let him enteh the | polka and he will have sufficient dancing edu- cation to carry him through, for the square | dances he can pick up as be along. | Some people disapprove of dancing, but| ~ ‘The People Are Very Fond of Using Honor Gce—No Oaths in the Language, but They Are Learning Profanity The Publie Schools Are Teaching English. ee is Ng Seance nie the state, He is one not like to see him hanaled roughly, so he HE MOST OON-'really the modern American dance is perfectly | Correspondence of The F- Stas ha oncastaptbeeina peter ee N of the kindest men we have in the northwest Ae oe nag OST | gave him a wink of recognition and by secret servative thing in the | harmless, If the young people who go to, Nsoasare, Saran, Dee. .” 80% — | at and one of the honestest. He does favors because difficult tasks that con-| movement warned him to leave the room. “aa” parties turned dervishes and whirled and! 7, uusghts of thn temas more talk about gold SENATOR PALMER'S FISH POND. he likes to do them, and though he lives with fronts » reporter on@} “That incident occarred in a nearby city, : | Whitled around in @ frenzy there would be oF the different uations mat mines than politics at | 441 and ite wares sparkled like diamonds | no view tothe future a great deal of his bread is daily paper is the|and if you ever come across a reporter that is Such wae the remark | good ground for prohibiting dancing, andso | Ufally mold their means of expromion inte the Capitol this week. Gcder the «un. Palmer had some fancy boats | like that cast upon the waters.” securing of details of « | Conversant with these facts be will tell you that made by a Washington | would there be ‘f they transformed themselves words, and, vice versa, the language must give The recent discoveries | on it and he was enjoying #8 when one day he| “By the way,"said Gen. Rusk,‘‘have youever railroad accident, No| that accident furnished one of the smartest society man toa writer heard of Senator Sawyer’s base ball game? The into wild Indians and danced among rattle- one an insight into the id and modes of ‘ob onelnded dd some choice fish to it, AsT newspaper ‘beate,’ ae you call it, that had ma- for Tae Stan recently, | *2«kes or with flourishes of tomahawks. But b ke meme < " near Durango in ceattee iee nesey be daar boon exptiiing | Otaee ie corset oll over Wimenttn cok ts Sia. matter how direct or lized for quite a lengthy period. The He meant simply thas | "Bere comes in the harm of waltzing or danc- | OWRD! Of ite. sreakens Ped crag tec redo have excited oar | Uv" vasb, but he was told that the German | trates how Senator Sawyer believes in putting accurate a rumor of| paper to which that reporter belonged used < vd ing polka or execating a decorous lancers? | ™0re true than > Tapeeeeh, whee tee leading statesmen wh syd reeders and he concluded | money into things to make them succeed. He the disaster may be to | the acourate details only, but they were of such densttg Oh most carp were splendid b guage ie redolent of the prej , 1 Y There are plenty of wicked people in the world, ices and opia- bave made or lost to start out with them. He erent to the| lives, you know, at Oshkosh. When this base have it confirmed is|® sensational and harrowing re that the conervative thing in / and it is fair to presume they areas wicked ions of the inhabitants of Nippon. Deeply money in mines and fish commiasion and they gave him plenty | ball craze went over thecountry the Osbkoth almost an impossibility, | Feding public was satistied they were true and the world, and, taking dancing as they are sitting down. There are, | rooted in every Japanese mind ase Srst prine von bear more gossip of spawn. Ho planted this and awaited | boys wanted to establish aclub. Edgar Saw- The usual reply toa | TOUd bave no other. Tam personally ac- the sentence with some | sito. excitable and over-emotional natures that | cinie, a sine qua non, i politemeas, and it eciese results. Within afew months his waters were | yer, the Senator's son, and who by the PI quainted with that reporter, and he is now bus- grains of allowance for | *F¢ injured by dancing, but to ordinarily con- | OP * <ihabineh ant guamnieraaln sbont fortunes in gold | ve saing with fieh and he was surprised to find| Way looks almost as old as the Sen- query put toa railroad | iness manager of tho paper he served so well on Goa ae stituted young people dancing is as innocent |‘ ® form so P Wit and silver than about | that with tneir advent his lakes bad lost their | ator himeelf, anxious to see the official is that he knows | that occasion. exaggeration, it ie true. an occupation as any other. is the fret thing that greetas foreigner on hie the metary confer-| heante. They had become as muddy as a mor- - ee ee — == nothing of it, while in fact he is loaded to the Pale aid cated cone = beg People bcp singascienyy nee mise = end See quays Ce ay dd ~4 - ence or the new ing the tar bed. and though he kept his engine running | to orga: get g men ployers. | syes with information and secretly bewailing o way e @ priv any people in the world, and the savages o! [TRB CATHOLICS AND THE scnoots, | oY" ie Gee t nnd day be could not make them clear. | Somehow or other the team was not a success. telegraph operator and his apparatug with | Central Africa are very likely dancing a ger- cane nt Petia Nearly & . etme Te then learned. what every one finds | ful one. It was beaten again and again, and at | his bad luck that his division should be the | them. Wouldn't it be a good png pry loa ch las Gi be aa are ae eecine been caguged ta: andquitea O° "gs enon as he begins to breed | lat the Minneapolis club came down to play it. | ecene of the wreck. report of the accident was immediately put on | mA St the same time that one is being held at | lovement Among the Clergy of the sare inter- d this is that they aro a mud fish | The Minneapolis team was a celebrated one in| The agents of steamship linen’give ont all the | the wire by this telegrapher for the benefit of | the capital of the United States. Wherever | Archdiocese of Baltimore. The late Sen- | rather than a water fish. They are the bogs of | the northwest and their coming to Oshkosh vias the press and public?” suggested the reporter. in the Caro 1 to k one have been f ae trees.” Inst bim abo He said he supp > a large ex od with wea, and th tion, bat I wou in your exp carp to him.” 4 advise you to be dij TORIES BY UNCLE JERRY RUSK. : th me near Thomas Circle. He liv part of the city. He V of Washi juiet chat in week with Secretary gton and has a big house hey wallow in the dirt at the bot- the water and keep it always maddy 1 the best he could to get rid of them, 4 bury themselves in the mud the water, and as soon as he ain they wonld commence wag- and come up to the enrface, | y to make his beautiful lakes yellower than I don't know how he settled the ques- matic sion if you ever mention the sub- es in’ society his parlor | Washington very philosophic quite anevent. Edgar Sawyer took his father ont along with him to see it and the two rat side by side the grr a stand. The Minneapolis club whitewashed the Oshko=h boys from the stam. The send a ball out of reach of the fielder, and the man would get ina home run without trouble. man would send a ball field, and he would make into right strikers would field awav ‘The next y over into the left other home run. ‘This went on for several innings, until at last the Senator could stand it no longer, and left. As he went ont he said to a friend: and with shis the old Senator went off dis- gusted, shaking his keys with an angry shake and wondering why under heavens Edgar had not twenty men in his base ball club instead of Fraxk G. Carp STER, A CURE FOR SNAKE BITE. A Common Plant in Maryland Mount Said to Have Won erful Propel rites. In the mountains of Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania there are so-called “snake doctors,” who profess to be able to cure the bites of venomous serpen It isa fact that the patie seem always to recover, and the nature of this vegetable specific has excited much specula- Perhaps, unfortunately, it has alway been kept secret by tho tion. The identity of the pls discovered by*Dr. W been 8 whom acquainte: t ing of the ethnological bureau, who by means of @ plant. they treat d with its tion has re- Hottman traveled news they possess as regards the detention of an overdue steamer, but this can be accounted for from the fact that they know no more than the questioner, and, therefore, give away some- thing they are not custodians of. With a rai road it is different, looking at it from an official standpoint, Some years back when railroading waa far from the nearly perfect state it has now reached and « dollar was appreciated at 1ts full value the railroad corporations, nervous people were known to return the tickets already bought, demand the refunding of thelr money and go back home on a rumor reaching their ears for a matter and it has now become quite a hob! railroad man to know nothing about he has knowledge of from A to Z. A STRIKING ILLUSTRATION. Among the good things printed in the Christ publications that aptly illustrates this point the following: he scene is a nursery. Four boys of tender age are playing with two trains of cars. They have things jammed together and are quarrel among themselvesas to where to place the blame. It might be added they are the sone of high railroad officials. dispute the father of on enters the room, takes a seat and cails to his side. “I see, Bobbie,” he said, “that you gota train of cars for Chriatmas and they have had an accident. ‘Tell me all about i “can't say a word,” replies Master Bobbie, with a sagacious shake of his head. “You see, Lam one of the oficers of the road.” ‘This story is told at the expense of one of the most prominent railroad. officers in the is son HOW NEWS COULD BE ORTAINED. “Well, I don't know,” replied the railroad official, “*that would be running matters for the benefit of tho press and the public. If the tailroads were under the control of the national government then your idea would perhaps be a ood one, but as they are private corporatio is not likely taat they will look after any before their own. The wreck- ing crew always goes out under orders to get matters straightened out as soon as possible and the ‘dear public’ is the last thing in the take bin along in the wrecking car. It usually takes from ten to fifteen minutes to get the crew together and shift the car on to the main track, and it would be a slow reporter indeed who would miss euch an opportunity tosectre good item. If such an idea would be adopted an auxiliary, am telegrapher, would be always ready for instant service and when the scene aid of his companion, could couple on to one of the many wires running along the road and load bis paper to the gunwales with an elabor- ate report of the disasier.”” Has it ever como under your notice that when a wreck occurs a newspaper man ‘bas been on the train and lived to tell the tale?” asked the reporter. “I might say yes and no to that question and answer it correctly. I have heard of a reporter, or I might say know, of @ reporter being on a wrecked train, but he was alittle late writing up the story. ‘I can't say whether it is because the good die young or the Lord looks after the the person of a first-class | fan accident | would be reached the newspaper man, with the | there are men and women there is dancing, just | as much 60 as there is laughing or crring, ind all dancing issimilar. A circle of natives ait- | ting in the heart of an African forest, beating | sticks and clapping hands, while one goes into | the center, dances and then chooses a partner | from those in the circle—there you have every | essential of the modern german; or a good In- dian ghost dance, with hopping and skipping about, would do for a german, too, although it would be a pretty lively one. It fe not strange, therefore, that there have been no new dances invented recently. On the | stock dances. Your grandmother indulged in | themand so wili your grandchildren, unless, peradventure, they degencrate aud become too | THE WALTZ A OFNUS OF DANCIXO, | Bat the waltz must be considere of dances, as it were, of which th ber of different subdivisions, teen years azo | Boston” or the “Boston dip, | ing in the world but the steps left out. asa genus | e area nuin- | Thus about fif-| ng “the | h was noth- tz with one of the The redowa has seen days | of popniarity, and that is merely a variety of | op waltz, ‘There was an abomination termed | “society” once let loose in the shape of a kick- | ing waltz. It was the old waltz with all the | grace left out, Theresecmstobenodoubtamong | dancers that the waltz is the greatest of all the | dances, and perhaps one reason why it is so is | | that it has been so fortunate in the mnsic that | has been composed forit. When a good orchestra pissa one of ins great airs it would seem to pe almost impossible that any but a lame man Priests and laymen of the Catholic Church in the archdiocese of Baltimore have been 80 izapressed by the views of Archbishop Ireland on the school question, says the Baltimore | Sun today, that some of them are considering | and the ordin the advisability of submitting a proposition to | talks of his aadite the city authoritiesy provided the cardinal | *Ponks of himeelt agrees to their plane, The following circular, | for the feet penwons which embodies the views of Archbishop Iro- niainaiean ‘a dima land, wit! be distributed among the clergy: apy ; , “The discipline of the Catholic Church @i- Sane see eee oe | | should enter as de express th inbred « toe at aay there the polite the praker n which he One may alme in Japan remarkable degree. two languages « _ deprecatory one In the mo et a of honorifics ie carried to excess and recta . 1 dueate their children in ba bh ca oe Se mace universe they are thinking about at suc . | Contrary, the tendency is to return to the oil | > S sounds rather absurd to Enropeanears & cae an awver bouzht abor he put $2,200 Tato Tt Ca aacke erect there, and | that m wreck had occurred on the road over | Univer Mee Tae ar or Ce nie nichts | waltaeal polka: “Descieg ina best" chick | Schools which onder esenlar | shasatl women of the lower cles Gh, ‘Ser teceneh, this gobd land and set experts to mining playing bail I would run my ball Jost as T do | Thich they anticipated traveling. This caused | tease, would take up five. minutes’ time, that is | PAA so popular two years ago, and the “New| Feligious tratning. But when we consider that | epeck of thet Aispensab) the honoree tamping mill was put up and sbafcs my business. would not kimp it, | pu Order to be issued to the effect that no in-| Q'i7 delay for trains that are required to make | Port,” which hada narrower ‘popularity, and | {he Constitution rests upon civil and religioas | ble tea,” and they clap th by entreat- I understand today that the ontpu: and I would eock enough money into | formation as regards accidents of any kind was | co nections for the east oF far week the “racket,” which was the rage for eighteen | liberty and that every man may worship God | ing the household eat honorable comtr Gaty and seventy-five thousand dol it tomake it a success, Why, he hasn't got half | 0, be given to the public and this order can | "Mt idee would be for the railroad officials | months, as well as numerous other dances, have | according to the dictates of hisconscience, both ” This is surely “throwing gold col fraososis 1, the enough men there. if Twas'him 1 would have | still be found upon the pages of the obsolote |) M¥ idee mould be for the railroad offictale | Moniha, ax well a2 ated to the | the civil and religious powers mast aid without about the Senate who have two extra men in thatright and left field if they | OTe books, But it stili holds good, coming | ¢? telephone the newspaper offices the fact, and | grave that receives detunct fashions and fads. | infringing on the prerogatives of the other. pearls before swine.” But despite at the Innd facetiously say coat me $25. day per man toketch them balls,’ | dorm from decade to decade in averbal manner, | if one of their men make the etation in time to | But the waltz and polka remain alwaye as the | “Education and Christianity must go hand buses no one can hear the graceful things rou can raise on it are P in hand and ought not to bi an equilibrium which exists between cir and religious liberty and which cannot be in- {ringed ‘upon without resulting tnjuriously to poth. The religions and secular education of the ‘ing generation is of the greatest importance. every way that th It will be # burrior to izpiety, a most effectual | lowly to be applied means of inculcating obedience to the laws and | of promoting peai der in society. “The advantage of religion in the guidance of civil government is forcibly expressed in the farewell address of Gen. Washington. He tells that region and morality are the indispensable supports of political prosperity, the great pillars of human happiness, and the firmest ties of men and citizens. ‘Now, since the Constitution of the United | States directs Congress to make no law prohibit- ng the free exercise of religion, we therefore | feel aggrieved that we have to pay double taxes, one in obedience to the civil law and the other in obedience to conscience. “All these difficulties could be remedied by | legislation. There n without jem of cour- that it governs all classes, To ev the Japanese er friend or stranger th superior to him tm phrases xo replete with self-abneeath a feeling of admira person he if nor the most adatory too good for the praiseworthy person to whem his remarks « thought of hope or fear ever ent ind when bis friends are in question. A Japanese never say#: “I hope your brother is well,” bat how “your anuguet brother Such jx trifle as sickuess can trouble 0 exalted a personage unless he per- mits it. Although in Japanese there is no word for the humble pronoun “I,” there are many substitutes, all of different degrees of humility. The most’ common is the fariliar watekwhi, which Mterally means “selfishness,” others are i dress the honorable person wicked, but to come across a newspaper man injured or killed in ® railroad wreck is tho acme of rareties. WAITING AND READY FOR AN ACCIDENT. “You have heard, of course, of the story about the man that followed the lion tamer could keep quiet. But there must be no mistake that among | modern dances it ie the American wi | the most beautiful, The deux-temps, which is Ja whirling, dizzy, two-step waltz, is danced very well by foreigners, but the best dancing | in the world won't make ita good waltz. Nor can a quickstep waltz without reversing be said to be beautiful, and in Europe they never reverse. It remaiued for this country to per- country and emphasizes the old saw, like father like ton. How often has the average traveler come | across the scene of a depot crowded with ansious inquiring people, half distracted over the situation of loved ones out on the roxd on | which « wreck is reported to have occurred. | a circus from city to city to see him torn to inst one officer of the line and then another | pieces, a fate he had wagered he would meet and another are questioned until the entire | Eventually? Well, I knew of a cate on aituilog to whom one speaks # periphasis must be used, our word “yon' rally rendered, our schools to the public schools, placing the | “anata,” meaning “beyond “that side.” Om r education under the superintendent of | either side of this word are groups of others me. _ | of greater or less degree of politeness, #0 that (Second. By renting our schools at anominal | ll classes may be accommodated. One of price. which would exempt the state from a very | these, occupying the lowest rung on the Indder, considerable expense, some hundreds of thou- | is “kisama,” a word illustrating another feature sauds of dollars, | of Japanese, the deterioration of the honorifics, “Third. That our teachers be Catholic. This word originally signified “exalted sir,” much and studied all sor | those regions, It is the the election and his only man will be chosen as Seer cand that the great farming nity will be cared for, r story teller at the capital than Rusk. He ia packed full of totes about the public men he ¢ almost as weil as of living things in Marylandica, mon botanical name for which is This in xpi nging toa veg- was known to the ancient times, as having cur tive powers in cases of snake bite. The popular name for the tains where it g sis the meaning of which is that it is master of the irst. If the cityand state would aiiliate sn Womens Giaee G, | gemnt, from the superintendent down to the | mine ts nid bo > RAISE isa. much of a money nator his defeat a: nothing yet,” was the reply, back to bis law practice, and pooner was candidate for gov- self from now on to making ris one of the finest lawyers a his_ practice, ming to Wash: worth Te on, and he Senate, He got a taste ng as he saw a chance Tt was for thi iit is © SPOONER W get the nominatio 8 NOMINATED. ough Senator Sawye! reason i to be governor of Wisconsin, said, te come back tu the in sand he can make $25,000 a He lost a great deal by , I venture, than he was when he was first He has not made much of | ter its flesh pots | hat he didn’t care to do of jerstood that one of the had the lead up to the time of Sawyer isa great friend of hawhelped him in the past pooner the nomination. ‘tial candidate (I think Secretary was Upham) had the win- “I want the place myself. nat Lean take the governor- I would like the position . said Senator Sawyer, “that your not vet come and I wish’ you would let John Spooner have the place this time. You are # good man and you know I like you, but we think we can elect Spooner easier this wns the reply. hy » if I tried. ¥ votes for Spooner.” I will cast aside for Spooner. W SENATOR SAWYER SAVED HIS FRIEND, en. Rusk. and be 000 an hour at this time. @ rains ages ond was, I thi St. Peal, n we can youand Iam anzious to see », Senator, I will of course But I bare the dele- would elect me and I could have the However, if you say no k you had better let Spooner time,” replied Sawyer, and with gave up bis ambition and stepped agreat friend of Senator doa thing of that kind. . “He ia a type | friends that Sawser has in Wis- | is under euch obligations to hat he would be the soul of ingratitude tarted a fire in bis lumber paceof two hours he loat it all. ber wore worth $200,000, and As! e concluded to | from the railroad. The | . the Chicago, Milwankee the rich railroad | the United States. Upham serpent. principles. Up to the present time medic: watinfncto not hit upon bite, though savages in v: world profess to be acquai which serve the purpose. that the mongoox bitter foe to the fi al men on 8ci ious par: nomor In India it small mammal, which is a| ree and v xperiments will doubtless now be made with it by me Tf, as does not seem uni scientific ience has for snake tx of the ‘ed with plants | said | serpents of that countrs, after being wounded in a con- flict with one ‘seeks a peculiar herb and pre- serves its life byreating it. In ti world cures are undoubtedly tive doctors by ular physicians. their art appar some relation to tha snake charmers, atl restricting the ci ligat ures thi of the searcely anything tha a patient who has been bitten by a deadly serpent. wy > -- OF COURSE! rt of the r to teg- tly having | said a commercial traveler to a STAR reporter this morning in an uptown hotel, “and place. “Heretofore I had bestowed the biscuit upon San Francisco. Now I give the whole bakery and wheat field to Washington. Out in 'Frisco, in the popular-priced restaurants, they ba’ you can live what they term a ‘three-ten-cent-dishes-for- twenty-five cents’ system. That order a plate of soup, a piece of meat, fish or coffee or any three 10-cent dishes for ‘two bits’ or a quarter. you can “‘Just now,” continued the drummer, with a don’t-give-it-aw in, “I'm doing the eco- eri nomical act. ‘That is, I'm living in a furnished room, eating in low-priced restaurants and chargifg up @6aday hotel Dills to the firm. I'm going to Ne some spending money. “Candidly, I was dumbfounded. In some of the big restaurants—and the little ones, too— which are such a distinctive feature in Wash- ington, one is served with soup, roast beef or other meat, two vegetables, coffee, milk or tea, brend and butter and pie or pudding. eight individual articles of food. The price is 15 cents, or 2 cents each. ew York tomorrow and I want Here are And the joke of it is that everything is of excellent quality and with- out stint. wom For 25 cents this allowance is nearly ‘And this calls up another feature peculiar to hington, namely, the independence of its They constitute nearly a third of the restaurants’ customers. They dine alone. Nothing strange about that? N . not here: but you don’t see ladies unaccompanied by escoris atdinner or breakfast in New York—thai ie, very rarely. Here it is the natural result of the emplovment of so many females in the govern- colored porter. has been run, but the unvary- leas, but under different circumstances. This ing negative reply is always forthcomin: M of the railroaders consider thia the | | wisest’ course to pursue under the circum- | stances, no doubt basing their opinions on the Krot that “where there's life there's hope” | and a prompt and perhaps erroneous report of | an accident might lead to fatal results to the | questioner from shock. A reporter of Tux Evenixc Stan, in the | course of a chat held recently with a prominent | railroad official, brought up the subject of sup- | pressing news about wrecks and inquired the | ys and wherefores, AN OLD ORDER THAT STILL HOLDS Goon. “You are right, being issued to that effect many yours back and still holding good. Ihave never received or- ders to suppress news as regards ace the road, bat it is one of those things that are understond, rs back Iwas shown a josity in the thape of an old book of rules, and ue of the most important orders therein was the one dealing with the suppression of news about wrecks and accidents. I bave no- ticed that the elevated railroad employes in New York are, if possible, more strict than we iu this matter,and I'll venture the assertion that | the prime cause of the ‘know-nothingism’ is ‘ot long since an order wasissued on one of the roads running into Chicago from the west to the effect that all in- formation as regards wrecks and accidents was take a special order to get the employes of the eastern roads out of the old rut of keeping back the news “Then again, it would rob many of the minor employes of the opportunity to appear im- portant in the eyes of the anxious public. It is astrange anomaly, but nevertheless true, that the smaller the position the greater the dignity when the opportunity affords. I have known several of the car cleaners out there in the depot to hold a crowd spellbound with the re- cital of the horrors of a particularly disastrous wreck about which the public was anxious, while in reality they were as ignorant of th details as a child unborn. WHERE THE REPORTER GETS HIS XEWS. “It is from this class of employes that the shrewd reporter generally secures his news. I say ehrewd, because if he goes to an official of any prominence and inquires about the par- ticulars of a wreck and the official feels so in- clined he will tell him the bare facts, while the subordinate, although he may know nothing, will call _upon the innermost recesses of his imagination, and the result is a story totally at rariance with the true state of affairs, but still good story, Itis beginning to dawn upon the inner workings of a railroad system will be like an open book to the reading public. ‘There is no cause for the myetery that surround rulroad’s management, and the quicker it is dispelled the better it will be for all. “I know of frequent endeavors on the part of the reporters to secure news of a reported wreck that have been dire failures, but then | again I wn also aware of cases where ihe nows- | bound. | children on their way to achool. man was a newspaper commuter; that is, he worked asa reporter in the city and lived several miles out in the country on the line of the railroad. He made two trips daily to and from his office, and the subject of wrecks be. came his hobby. He Swould continually talk about the probabilities of a wreck to. the rail- road men, and at last they began to shun him asa sort of hoodoo. Ifhe could only secure a first-class iron-bound ‘acoop" he could be happy, and I actually believe that man wished wreck and was willing to take his chances of being hurt so tong as he could beat his fellow | reporters, He was a first-class telegrapher and carried a pocket instrument with hitn, #0 as to | be fully prepared when the emergence: He alw 8 Wished for an accident on the train or the city because, as he put it, he wanted to be the author of an extra and plenty of time to work it up successfully. he opportunity of his life came, and on the train he desired. 1 am fully conversant with the details, as T'was a conductor then, and had charge of ‘the train the hoodoo was on. We were bound for the city and on the train were fully two hundred suburban residents, compris- ing business men, wives going shopping and When such # large number of passengers are picked up a de- came. “The morning in question was a clear, cold and crisp one and the steel rails under the cars frequently gave forth the well-known imagin- “At a point where the main track was tapped by asidinga bolt was snapped in the switch bar by the cold weather and jar of our train, Half tho train was over the switch when the break occurred. The broken boit released the spring attached to the lever rod and threw the switch open. This threw the Inst three cars on to the siding with a territic jerk and in an in- stant they were dashed against a couple of loaded coal cars and almost reduced to xplinters ‘When I tell you that we were making fully fifty miles an hour when the accident occurred the force of the collision of the three cars can be better imagined than described. ‘The front part of the train was quickly stopped ard one and all rushed back to the aid of the ill-fated fellow travelers. For a weck previous the hoodoo reporter and I bad not spoken on account of a quarrel over his hobby, but being brought face to face with hia ideal desire I began to wonder if he was making the ‘scoop’ of his life. “One by one we removed the passengers from their perilons positions, and, strange to say, none were hurt very seriously excepting our hoodoo friend. He was jammed in among broken seats and splintered flooring, and when we at last pulied him out he was unconscious. pulled out these uten- sils and went into the final crash thus pre- red. PutHe was confined to his bed for six weeks with a couple of broken ribs anda fractured thigh and we never saw him again on our road. He was doubtless cured of his hobby and afraid to face the railroad men who were acquainted with his weakness for ‘scoops.’ ” for aj fect the waltz in giving to the world the glide waltz with the reverse movement, that permits | the dancers to enjoy themselves for some time without fatigue. e realizes the fun- all dancing, since more than any other, thé art of rhy!hmical movement. ANTIQUITY OF THE GERMAN. j To return to the german, which was spoken ofasnmere modern adaptation of a very old system of dancing, there can be no doubt that this is susceptible of very good demonstration. In Egypt more than 4,000 years ugo there were dances with figures such as are used now. One has come down to us, described as follows: “There was a fignre dance common throughout the country in which two partners advanced toward each other, stood face to face upon one | leg, and, hav formed a reries of move- ments, reti in opposite directions, con- tinning to hold each other by one hand and concluding by whirling each other arow..d.” Here iva figure which could be adapted for h may be given neat week. tof the ancients and their views of dancing it will be interesting to note what one of the Roman writers thought was | necessary to make a thoroughly er. | | He must first be fan : = If the Catholics of Baltimore decide to make Just One of Washineton's Many Advantages | lay is certain to ocenr. = The engineer knew | dancing is itself merely poetry acted to music. | | 7' '0e ' iti wanted to see him governor. Senator Discovered by a Drammer. the old one —an aversion to losing patfonage. is and between the little stations ran the train | Second, he must know geometry, for he must | oe ave) ad < Jand’ pense —— s the best friend a man can mason ‘the west is leading us in regards to taking « | with the apeed of the wind, | execute a great variety of mathematical figures | *dopt Archbishop Ireland's plan asa af 1s the only man who ty city in the United | jiperal view of such matters. and cannot do it correctly unless he knows what figures are and what are not correct. He | must know music of course. He must be a tapi taught before, during or after school hours. Ifranily confess that better on i .®as | ary warning notes. ‘go en! philosopher. ‘This is going rather far, but the | [uht bef hours hand, but Senator Sawyer oe oe ; the public as ible. aul, : ®| Religious instruction would then be given in ‘cked him to support Spooner, | 1€88 money in Washington than in any other | $0 be given to the put vighl daotion bern ot UNABLE TO DO THE Wonk. eee eee ne nal mele Se | a calrehacts ants. Motiagieiais besten He for of He Ww tions without having a reason for them. must also be a good rhetorician, he has to express the passions the soul in a purely classic manne must know painting and sculpture, and quite essential, as he cannot produce artistic ffect unless he is himself an artist. He must be inventive, but that goes without saying. nally, to cap the climax, it is insisted that he ‘must have a profound knowledge of the past, present and future! It would be hard, indeed, to ayy is standard of ex- cellence to the dancers of America of the pres- ent day. Ifyoudidso you would have the best dancers in the Senate, among the pro- fessors at the universities and among the sol- emn members of the clergy, with a few long- haired poets and artists thrown in. Here is what fs neceseary to make a good dancer at the present day in the city of Washington: First of all be must learn the steps and practice them “so much that they come to him without effort on his part. Second, he must have good muscles, well trained and supple. Third, he must have a good ear for music. If he has not he cannot follow the tune and will be pretty sure to go wrong. ‘Then he must have light feet and be graceful; and, finally, he must have a merry disposition. While the german as a general echeme is 8,000 of years old the german of today is nearly half a century old. It was first introduced in New York in 1844, but before that it was danced in Germany, and there is a description of something very much like it in one of the Inte Field Marshal von Moltke’s letters to his mother. He danced itas a young man at the | be satisfactory. urth. That we grant to the commissioners | but now has fallen to a word of reproach. of the public schools the right to examine our | teachers, also the right to examine the pupila| , OPPORTUNITIES IX NEWAPATER WRITING. to know if their progress in secular education | It is easy to see how in newspaper writing and in political speeches many a aly tap may be m all the rights given under cover of the same honorific con- fc schools for the | struction, and in these modern times bat f ort of our schools, | opportunities are “These are all the conditions the state whether for good or bad. Still these forms of requires, and hence we demand all the rights extravagant courtesy throw a light on ancient and privileges of the public schools, It would | Japanese history that renders intelligible many add immensely to their usefulness. | things that seem absurd to our Anglo-Sexon E duty to God and ideas. Nearly every one has read the famous If faithful to God | history of the he will also be faithful Hence | Japanese call it, the father of our country tells us that itis im-| tainers.” It is one of the most possible to have civilization without morali istorical romances of Jay nd we cannot have morality without religion: | with the death of the daimijo whose sam: ‘As the state is not united to any particular the forty-five were, and it is this death Teligious denomination it i not expected to | impresses Europeans aa being #0 unnecessar; teach religion, but it can be supplied by public | The lord in question being coldly received denominational schools. Then the rights of | his immediate feudal superior returned home conscience would be secured, and Maryland | and committed hari-kari,or to use the term the would render to Cwear what belongs to Cmsar | Inte lamented wou.d probably have given and to God what belongs to God. Our first | “sempsatsu.” The rest of the tale consiate duty is to seck the Kingdom of God and His | the adventures of the forty-five ronin, who Justice. His revelation is the light of the world. | avenged their lord’s death by killing the noble- Hence we conclude that education, in order to | man who received him with so much coolness, be complete, must be built upon religion gs the | Reading a tale like this one realizes the neces- basis of all human knowledge.” i “Fifth. That we would ce! and privileges of the pu they may offer to let the city take the parochial | schools a8 a part of the public echool without a stipulation that religion shall be determined upon yet. The only facts at present are that the circular quoted above will distributed and that the subject is under consideration. ———+e+—____ DR. STEELE MUST EXPLAIN, Chinese is the source from which many Japanese words are derived, but, though they retain in many instances their pal form, yet their pronunciation is so there from that of the seven dialects that no He Must Tell the Court Why He Is Mak- ing a Prisoner of His Wife. Justice Barrett, in the New York supreme j could understand it. In fact court, yesterday issued s writ of habeas corpus | rather systems, as there are two, for the production of Mrs. Edith Steele, said | tion followed existed in Chit to be imprisoned by her husband, Dr. Theophi- | "€° | Whenever one lus Steele, at the Gilsey House, in that city. | 3°) tut erring trom On January 3 Mrs. Steele wrote to her lawyers | Chinese derived words are invariably saying she had urgent business with them. than their Japanese equivalents. A junior lawyer was sent to see Mrs. Steele, | cept in compounds they are and she gave him instructions to bring an ac- comely & te considered tion for separation agninst her husband on the | "f°Cpveers origins at momsibla ground of cruelty. She said he had threatened | hate the Japanese bave for her life and had made her give up to hitn her | selves. income from an extate valued at $42,000, and also the income from the estates of her children by a former marriage. [ iif i E i i iD j fil F f rs But it is when one comes to diecovered how heavily handicap; |ese student is There are | systems, first, the Chinese f i : j ate F ai i an : oni The next day tho lawyers received a letter ‘rare occasions; second not oblige Lim. Sawsermade two for-| doubled. How they do it, pay their bills, wais- | th¢ railroad officials, who possess a small mite | Tienes clasped in one hand was a repor Given all of these churneteristics and it is not | aging them to discontinue the suit. By the | Coe, Soon colina of the ham. In the tirst place he started i, &e., is u mystery to youre faithfully, | f Solomon's wisdom, that a closer affiliation | 2gUpy ceed ins other the telegraph instru- | Of much consequence that he know rhetoric | came mail came another letter eaying: “I am | characte’ Thus moe ta ‘and when Upham had grown | fn’ Now York we pay 16 cents for a plate of Petween the railrondy and newspapers should | ment. When the first Jolt lind come be no | OF 8¢ometry, and he need not be a philosopher. locked up again in the Gilsey House. implore | used by all Classes, The tieat et = mugh Sawver's start a spark from | soup, be brought about, and when that time comes | doubt had automatically THE GERMAN OF TODAY. you to come to my aid at once. Believe noth- kota kana, or broken significs, made up of characters. The secon hana, ing you hear, but come.” Mrs. Steele also said that she had been dosed with drugs by her husband. j A lawyer was at once sent up to the hotel to | Mrs. Steele, but was denied admittance to her presence by instructions from the woman's | jusband. ‘The writ was served upon Dr. Steele at the i EP on: FE ye ere bared 7 Gilsey House yesterday afternoon. He at first | stened suit against them, but they laughed ‘mente. Ye here, thes are | Papers have had more news in their papers min palace in Berlin, ‘the favors” being artificial | refused to accept the document, throwing it eusaros © eenlsiioe They knew that he ‘was poor and that | ment Sepertment._ eat. T like to see It, for | hn the railroad officials possessed themeclves, as flowers, It was known in this country as the | upon the floor and displaying a violent tenner: | porary ie . : oe 14 not possibly stand the expense of a| Qvery American admires his countrywoman's | These cases are, of course, rare, but worthy of german cotillion at first, but He foal t big protracted uit. 000 as aloan with whic They at inst offered him €75, b to rebuild his rolling inde| pendence ili to care for herself.” ——>—__ Public Installation of George H. Thomas Post. On Friday evening Arthur A. Hendricks, as- sistant adjutant general, Department of the Po- tomac, pybliély installed tho following officers of George H. Thorias Post, No. 15, G. AR. at their hall, 8th and I streets northeast: Benja- mention. “Some four or five years back, I think about 1887, a wreck occurred on our Toad in which several persons were lalled and many injured. ‘The names of the unfortunate passengers were hard to secure; the road so jammed with trains that all the wires that could possibly be used were taken ion of for the purpose of getting matters righted again, and asa result Very little néws came to the city papers, where jually the last became sim- word came to be dro} a a aliengn soe of ply the also as ‘The government in Japan appreciates the that the greatest aid of the nation im its for ward must come from the public | Sormaks chataldies quet ae setae eee Mr. Coolidge, the United States minister to Gay one sect in the recta of ahh nese wae Paris, entertained a select company the other | large groaps of school children in day with an original matinee performance given | went uniform going toor from their schoola. by Miss Loie Fulier. A theater was impro- writ vised in the salon of his resience, the stage ly picked it up and walked away. writ is returnable at 10 o'clock today. ——_+oo______ Lole Fuller Dances Before Diplomats. ahi japan, there were many anxious friends clamoring being hung with black drapery — fu min F. Fuller, commander; Theophilus Fitz-| for details. —— and the room children for s rald, senior vice commander; H.F. Olmstead, | ‘It came to our knowledge afterward that one oe fq them junior’ vice commander; Phineas W. Smith, | of the papers had on its staff an old-time te- then at on them quartermaster; H. A: Dobson, wurgeoa. (third | legrapher) who bad forsaken the Key fo = Bet for the term); S. F. McBride, adjutant; William H. As soonas the wreck had od I own are Honn, chaplain; Charles rdi, officer of —- 4 Siting chad of B the day; C. N. Holford, outside guard (absent); = 1g lakes in J. 1. Thompson, sergeant major, and 0. P. Seavey, quartermaster sergeant. ‘The exercises were opened by prayer by the Rev. Seymour of the Congregational Church and music by the choir of the 4 SENATOR SAWYER'S BASE BALL GAME. i i f that region you seem | F home rawa. ——— than else °. mill oud start business again. He saw no other | morial Church. After the exercises of in- say TE moos oF sax ara. | chance of Fecaperasing bt fortune, and be was | ealaton, which were very imprescive and in Memiguer bleed Mecupe ars ies; — Be: Teller went on about to take it when he concluded to present | terest many spec present, many v seg gine citcer staked | the matter fret to Senator Sawyer. He weat to | of whout were ladies, wore made by | sages taken from the relay. who is associated with the Natfonal Federation y “a ist pond? Sawyer and told him bew he was situated and | several of the including Chaplain] ‘tHe was fully conversant with the of America, has received a letter from Mr. John Senator has. you know, « place of about | said that he thought he bad better takethe loan. | Honn, Mesera. J. L. ‘Thompson, Entrican and | he had fo overcome and like a good newspaper Byrne of New York Jap. 8 wres right on the edge of Detroit, He 4#| Sawyer slapped the keye with which he was| Hendricks, ‘Surgeon Dobson and Rev. Mr. Sey- | man decided to do his best to secure what he used, Worth several million deUiars, and thi is playing down hard upon the table and said: . | mour. was sent after. inereasing so fast in value that it materially “Don’t you do it. Don't you takeacent nor} The choir fine selections HOW ONE MAN GOT & “‘scooP.” odds to hiv fortane He is very proud of | hearto any sort of a compromise, I will deposit | during the exercises efforts were well | «yy, into the pot. he. Mt, for it belonged to hie father and was, | @100,000 in the bank for you and with that you | received. it A te pes! main depot. be grested think. entered by him. A street railroad runs | cau begin your new mill, and if you wili do ex- | from George ‘of Vet- | Several of the attaches of the roai with whom to the edge of it and Palmer can go to hiscoun- | actiy as Tiell you I think we can bi the | erans, present the cause of the Sons of a try home on electric cars. He does all sorte | railroad to terms. Bat you must do ¢: ‘as | Veterans and announced tertainment for ef fancy farming om it and be has, I have been | I tell you. In the first you must start | the benefit of ‘27th and asked told. = log cabin there which cost him | your workmen on the mill, then send to your | for the He paid an $12,000 to build and it was right in front of | lawyer in New York and instract him to bring | eloquent to the old soldiers as be told hie shat he set a gang of men to work to make hie suit. Have him say to the railroad that | what the Sons of Veterans intended to do when © lake. They dredged out the ground and | soa will not accept their $75,000 as a| tho G. A. R. should be only s memory, a mem- & winding depression, with elevations | loan and that you to fight the case to| ory. they should ‘The ‘exercises and there to be ued as islands, when it; heend You Ded eye bas say that Sar closed by Through Georgia” Was found that there was no water for the lakes | bas loaned you enough money to and comrades old-time vigor. ~