Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1896, Page 3

o— [THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY,; MARCH. 23, 1896—TWELVE. PAGES. SPECIAL NOTICES. . WE HAVE NO SPECIAL DAYS CONFECTIONERS’ AND BAKERS’ SUPPLIES. ‘We're headquarters for everything that’s re- quired by bakers und confectioners. We handle goods of a satisfactory quality ONLY, and gusrantce LOWEST PRICES. If you are not dealing with us—it's time you made our ac- aintance. We believe we can save you money. lephone us for prices. O CONSUMERS SUPPLIED. B. B. EARNSHAW & BRO., Wholesale Grocers, 3105-9 11TH ST. S.E., AND 1000-2 M ST. SE. it I HEREBY WARN ALL PERSONS , AGAINST Mr. J. H. HARPER, who fn no way ha to do with my businee= or property. I understand he ts himself as my agent. ‘This he is not, and I will not be responsible for anything be do-s io my me. name, or as acting for me. mb21-3t® MaRY J. WRIGHT. OFFICE UF THE ASSESSOR, DISTRICT OF CO- lumbia, Washington, March’ 17, 1896. —Notice is hereby given that on the THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH, 1896, will expire all Hcenses given by the District of Columbia to peddlers and pro- duce deaters trading at large. Said Hcenses must be promptly renewed by all persons who desire to continue business after that date. By order of the Commissioners. MATTHEW TRIM- BLE A D.C. mb21-6t SPIRITUALISM, MRS. EFFIE McNEUL, business and test me- dium, has resumed practice for the fall and win- ter,and will be at home daily until farther notice. ness examinations a specialty and ss tion guaranteed. 1914 Pa. ave. ml & COMPLETE LINE OF 1396 RAMBLERS AND SHELBY IDEALS will be found at our exhibit in the WASHINGTON CYCLE SHOW, spaces 47- 48, during the entire time, MARCH 18-28, and intending purchasers are cordially invited to in- spect them at their convenience. 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Adams,512 Tihst. “THE PRINTER WHO NEVER DISAPPOINTS.”” mh21-14d A lazative, refreshing fruit lozenzer, very agreeable to take for CONSTIPATION, hemorrhoids, bite, loss of appetite, gastric and intestinal troubles and headache frot T4N4E INDIEN F. GRILLON. 38 Rue des Archives, Paris. Druggists. GRILLON, apls Sold by all -mnism-3p A POLICY SHOP RAIDED. Two Persons Connected With the Business Sentenced Today. ‘The police zre ccntinuing the war on the violators of the policy law, and the bridge walkers who carry “4-11-44” and other rows across the river to the Virginia policy shops are not having an easy time to get along. For a number of menths the business has been done exclusively by “‘curbstone writ- 's,” but Saturday the South Washington police got word that a regular shop had been established at the home of an elderly colored woman named Sarah Childs. She did not conduct the policy business herself, so the police were informed, but she rented the room and furnished everything in the business with the exception of the actual writing. Acolored man known as “Jack” Minor is suspected of having done this part of the business, and the police are anxious to get im. e Men and women had been seen going to the house, and when the police learned what the attracticn was they decided to make a raid at the earliest moment pos- sible. - Saturday Sergt. Daley made the raid, and found all the paraphernalia necessary to conduct the policy business, but the alleged writer was not there. Sarah was at home, and, as she had been suspected of having conducted similar bus- iness before, she was arrested and locked up. Being unable to make a good defense this morning when the case was heard in court, Judge Miller gave her ninety days in jail. Ananias Spencer, an elderly colored man, who probably thinks he fs too old to work, but not to “run policy,” was in the toils because Policeman Pat O’Brien had arrest- ed him when he had policy papers and money in his pockets. He was on his way to the shops across the river from Georgetown at the time of his arrest, and instead of being permitted to go over there, he was given a resting place behind the bars. As his case was not quite so serious as that of the woman, he was fined $50 or sixty days. —_——__ Attempt to Burglarize a Grocery Store At an early hour yesterday morning an attempt was made by three men to bur- glarize the grocery store of Johnson & Foley, corner of Florida avenue and 3d street. Policeman Jett, who lives over the store, was aroused by the smashing of the glass, and he pursued the supposed bur- glars, but they escaped. eS To Honor Veterans Congress. The Department of the Potomac, G. A. R., propose to recognize the presence In Congress of so many veterans of the late war, and arrangements are in progress. for @ reception to be tendered the soldier mem- bers of Congress, which is to be given on a eas of the surrender of Lee— es Sir H. H. Kitchener, brigadier general in command of the Egyptian forces, and Slatin Pasha have started from Csiro for the front to assume direction of the Nile e@pedition. PLANS OF THE A.P. A. Conference of the Supreme Body Soon to Be Held Here, 10 TAKE PART IN THE CAMPAIGN Claims Made by Members of the Organization. METHODS Se POLITICAL Congressman Linton’s fight in the House against appropriations for sectarian insti- tutions, and against the placing of the Mar- quette statue in statuary hall, has brought the American Protective Association to the front in a prominent manner. The next annual meeting of-the Supreme Council of the association will be held in this city the first week in May. The su- preme officers of the order are as follows: Supreme past president, Henry F. Bowers, Iowa; supreme president, W. J. H. Traynor, Michigan; supreme vice president, Judge J. H. Jackson, Texas; supreme secretary of state, E. H. Dunbar, Massachusetts; su- preme chaplain, Rev. J. M. Taulbee, Ken- tucky: supreme secretary, Chas. T. Beatty, Chicago, Ill; supreme treasurer, Francis C. Campbell, Minnesota; supreme sergeant-at- arms, J. H. Woolman, California; supreme guard, John King, Missouri; supreme sen- tnel, W. B. Howard, Nebraska. The order is provided with a supreme judiciary board, @ supreme executive committee, and a n: tional advisory board, the latter correspond- Ing somewhat to the national committees of the political parties. It is the duty of this board to look after the active politics of the organization. Out of this national committee or board is selected an executive committee of thirteen, the headquarters «* which is at present in Boston. This com- mittee maps out the practical work of the order, which, during the coming national campaign, will be vigorously pushed through the channels of all political par- ties, with the object of securing the nomina- tions of candidates in full accord with the principles of the order. The order is, its members claim, so well organized that the secretary of the national advisory board, who is also the secretary of the national executive committee, is in close touch with every congressional district and every county in the country. _A meeting of the advisory board, pre- liminary to the sessions of the Supreme Council in May, is to begin here tomorrow. Purposes and Principles. A Star reporter has secured from Con- gressman Linton and others some particu- lars about the purposes, principles and power of the organizaticn. The following is an epitome of the dec- Taration of principles of the order: Restriction of immigration. Extension of time for naturalization. An educational qualification for suffrage. One general, non-sectarian free public school system. No public funds or public property for sectarian purpcses. ‘Taxation ef all property not owned and controlled by the public. The opening to public official inspection of all private schools, convents, morasteries and places of a reformatory character. No support given for. any official public Position to any person who recognizcs primal allegiance in civic affairs to any foreign or ecclesiastical power. “It is upon these principles,” said a mem- ber to a Star reporter, “‘that tre order has been operating so successfully. It was upon these principles that {t operated in the elections of 1894, when it defeated many members of Congress. Its members dis- avow any antagonism against any class of citizens on the ground of religion. They claim, however, that no man can be a true and loyal citizen of the United States who maintains a qvided temporal allegiance. They recognize ro creed. A member may be an adkerent of any sect or of no sect. But they maintain that subjection to ‘any ecclesiastical pov.er not created and con- trolled by American citizens, and which claims equa], if not greater, sovereignty than the government of the United States, is irreconcilable with civic citizenship." 1t therefcre ‘cpposes the holding of offiges in national, state and municipal government by any subject or stpporter of such ecclesi- astical power.’ It ts in this respect that the order is charged with opposition to the Roman Catholic Church, but which, its members claim, constitutes opposition only as that religious organization seeks by its ecclesiastical power to control the politics of this country.” Claims of the Order. Regarding the political power of the organization, the member who talked to the reporter alluded to the recent syeech of Representative Linton, ir. opposition to governmental appropriations for sectarian institutions, in which Mr. Linton said that “men whose faces have been familiar in Congress for many years are now resting quietly by their firesides wishing they had voted upon certain questions in accordance with the desires of almost their entire constituencies.” When asked to explain what Mr. Linton meant and to say who the order had defeated in the elections of 1804, the gentleman sald: “Why, what, for in- stance, retired Mr. Bland, the great sil- ver knight and champion of the white metal? His constituents were almost whol- ly without him in his financial views. Noth- ing defeated Mr. Bland but the fact that he yoted in favor of the Indian appropriation bill in 1894, allowing public moneys to be given in aid of sectarian schools among the Indians. For this same reason Senator Dolph was defeated by the A. P. A.’s of Oregon. It was the same case with Hol- man, the chairman of the committee which reported the bill appropriating money for sectarian schools. Everybody thought that the seat of the ‘watch dog of the treas- ury’ was assured him as long as he lived. Many other conspicuous cases could be cit- ed in proof of the power of the A. P. A. in politics. It points with special pride to Maryland and Kentucky, two stanch dem- ocratic strongholds, both of which were completely turned topsy-turvy by the A. P. A., rot because they were democratic states, however, but because the dominant party in these states had seen fit to de- nounce in their respective platforms the principles of the A. P. A., and nominated men who were avowedly antagonistic to the order. Thus we claim that all other ques- tions—tariff, finance, or whatever else—are subordinated by the order to these prin- ciples, which we hold dear. “The order is growing,” said the mem- ber, “at the rate of 50,000 members a month, havittg increased in two years from 2,000,000 members to 3,500,000 members. It has at this time 108 members in Congress, including, both houses, and governors of several states of the Union. The member- ship is not-only increasing rapidly in the north, but also in the south, where the leading members are in the democracy, just as in the north they are or have been re- publicans. It is already evident that the order in some portions of the south is to be to the democracy what it is to the repub- lican party in the north—a balance of power. Its Political Plans. “The advisory board of the order has fixed upon this plan of operation for the coming presidential campaign: If one of the great parties ignores, and the other recognizes, the order and its principles, the membership will throw their influence to the one so recognizing them in its plat- form and the public declarations of its can- didates. Should they straddle the issue, it will be the business of the order to ascer- tain to what extent church inftuence dom- {nates the party so doing. If the records and acts of both parties are clear, they will vote nee regular parry Gos should both and all parties completely ignore t! A. P. A., then a new and distinct American party will be formed by the fusing and coalescing of the membership of the half dozen patriotic orders, numbering, as they claim, not less than six million voters. “At the meeting of the Supreme Council in this city in May all details concerning the order and its participation in the com- ing important campaign will be gone into and definite plans decided upon, and what- ever these shall be, the order at large will see that they are strictly into exe- cution.”” ——+ e+ _____ Charies P. Kearney, a well-known young democratic politician, himself _to a beam in the cellar of his home in Balti- more yesterday. ———s THE OFFICIAL WEATHER MA As ‘Qbear @ Partly Cloud © Cloudy EXPLANATORY NOTE: Obeervations taken at 8 a.m., 75th meridian time. Solid lines are 1so- bars, or lines of equal air pressure, drawn for each tenth of an inch. Dotted lines are isotherms, or Ines of equal temperature, drawn for each ten degrees. Shaded snow has fallen during preceding twelve hours. The words “Hig! Small arrows fly with the wind areas of high and low barometer. eas are regions where rain or and “Low” show location of MORE SNOW PROMISED. The Weather That is Predicted for Tonight and Tomorrow. Forecast till 8 p.m. Tuesday.—For the Dis- trict of Columbia, Delaware and Maryland, snow and colder tonight; Tuesday, prob- ably snow; northeasterly winds. For Virginia and North Carolina, threat- ening weather, with rain, and colder to- night; Tuesday, clearing; northeasterly winds, probably high on the coast. Weather conditions and general forecast. ~The area of high pressure central Sun- day morning in Minnesota extended rap- idly eastward to the New England coast and also southwestward to Texas, the pressure now being high In all districts from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. The barometer has risen in all districts, except the east gulf states and the extreme north- west. : The temperature has fallen decidedly in New England, the middle states, the Ohio valley and Arkansas, and on the southern Rocky mountain slope. It has risen in the upper Mississ:ppi and the Missouri valleys. The cold wave covers New England and the Ohio valley. Light snow is reported in the middle At- lantic states, but heavy rain or snow is now falling in the Ohio and middle Missis- sipp! valleys. The following heavy precipitation (in inches) was reported: During the past twenty-four hours— Springfield, Mo., 1.42; Chester, IIL, 1.63; Arlington, Mo., 1.70. Snow is indicated generally for southern New England, the middle Atlantic states aud the Ohio valley, and rain will extend over the guif states tonight and Tuesday. It will continue cold In New England and the middle states, and it will be colder gen- erally in the east gulf states tonight and Tuesday. Warm weather is indicated for the west gulf states Tuesday. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of water at 8 a.m.: Great Falls, temperature, 39; condi- tion, 2; receiving reservoir, temperature, 41; condition at north connection, 8; condi- tion at south connection, 2; distributing reservoir, temperature 42; condition at in- fluent gate house, 3; effluent gate house, 5. Tide Table. Today—Low tide, 8:26 a.m. and 9:22 p.m.; high tide, 3a.m. and 2:38 p.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, 9:40 a.m. and 10:24 p.m.; high tide, 3:08 a.m. and 3:40 p.m. ‘The Sun and Moon. Sun rises, 5:58; sun sets, 6: 3:13 a.m. tomorrow. The City Lights. Gas lamps all lighted by 7:22 p.m.; ex- tinguishing begun at 4:52 a.m. The light- ing is begun one hour before the time named. If clear, less lighting may be or- dered. Naphtha lamps all lighted by 7:22 p.m.; extinguisning begun at 5:07. The moon schedule does not apply to naphtha lamps. Public arc lamps lighted at 6:52 p.m., and extinguished at 5:37 a.m. Range of the Thermometer. ‘The readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau today were as follows: 8 a.m., 36; 2 p.m., 31;.maximum, 37; min- imum, 31. Moon sets, THE WEATHER FORECASTS BY FLAG SIGNALS. No. 1. Rain or Clear or fair weather. enow. No. 3. No. 4. x Local rain or snow. ‘Temperature — Cold wave. signal. Explanation of the Flags. ‘The flags are hoisted each day upon the issue of the morning weather map and foat until dark. They indicate the weather that may be expected during the following thirty-six hours, but more par- ticularly the last twenty-four hours of that perlod. They are to be read from the top of the staff downward. If more than one kind of weather is predicted for the period from 8 p.m. to 8 p.m. the condiifons first immed in the forecast will be represented by the uppermost flag. When a warning of a “‘cold wave” fs included in the forecast message, the cold-wave flag wili be displayed below the proper weather flag. "The temperature flag, when placed above numbers 1, 2 or 3, indicates trarmer weather; when placed below numbers 1, 2 or 3, indicates colder weather; when not displayed, the indications are that the temperature will remain stationary. QUIET IN THE “DIVISION.” Effect of the Recant Activity of the Police. Waiting for Acifon in the Case of “willie”? Gilmore—The Sale of Liquor Stopped for Awhile. Since the conviction in the Police Court Friday of ‘Willie’ Gilmore, on a charge of keeping a bawdy house at 13th and D streets, in the “Division,” matters have been extremely quiet and duil in that locali- ty. The frequenters of the places there evidently have feared further raids by the police. Saturday night, so the police say, the houses had but few visitors, and the police express the belief that no liquor was sold in any of the houses. The women who keep the houses have always claimed to the police that without the sale of liquor they would have to close their houses. Since the order of the Commissioners directing their prosecution for illegal liquor selling was given at least two of the houses have closed their doors. Counsel for the convicted women have four days from the date of conviction in which to file a motion for a new trial. The time for filing this motion will expire Wed- nesday afternoon, and it is likely that the motion will not be filed until the last day. Lawyer J. J. Johnson, who appeared with Edwin Forrest as counsel in the case, was in Judge Miller's court today to inquire about the time allowed for filing the mo- tion, and was told that the paper must be filed not later than Wednesday. - Upon what grounds a new trial will be asked is not definitely known, but it has been hinted that an attempt will be made to impeach the jury. Prosecuting Attorney Mullowny told a Star reporter today that he had been in- formed that counsel would claim that the jury contained a man who had been a vis- itor to the house of ‘Willie’ Gilmore and that he owed her a bill for wine. Even if this be true, said Mr. Mullowny, it will not be sufficient grounds for a new trial. The defendant and all the other women in the “Division” are interested in the question of sentence, but just what Judge Miller will do is not known. It is generally thought, however, that a jail sentence in additicn to a fine will be im- fesed. Thera is ncthing new in this par- ticular case except that it is the first one followirg the denunciation of the “Divis- fon” by social purity organizations, and more interest is manifested in it for this reason. In other cases of the same kind some have been disposed of by the imposition of fines, v-kile in a few jail sentences were imposed. The jail sentences, however, were usually imposed upon persons who had either been in court before or who had been complained against for some good Teason. The cases of Lottie Tillford and Grace Ferguson, whose houres were raided at the time of the arrest of ‘‘Willle’ Gil- more, have been postponed to await the result of the latter case, and the dispost- tion of this case will determine what ac- tion will be taken in the others, Acting Lieutenant Shilling, who conduct- ed the raid, baid that the “Division” was unusually quiet Saturday night and last night. Three or four “drunks” were lock- ed up Saturday, but there was not a single arrest last night. “I think that ro liquor was sold Saturday night in any of the houses,” he said to a Star reporter, ‘and last night the ‘Division’ was as quiet as a graveyard.” He said that the officers would make arrests when they had good reason to belleve the liquor law was being violated. ‘The members of the Wisconsin Na- tional Guard recently passed a res- olution calling on the Wisconsin mem- bers in Congress to secure the pass- age of a law forbidding, under heavy penalty, the use of the American flag for advertising or for any purpose other than that of being carried in a military proces- sion. The resolution is sweeping in its terms, one clause forbidding the use of the flag for “political or partisan purposes.” SUSPECT! ED STOLEN PROPERTY. Quite 2 Lot Recovered From a Store on Second Street. John Brown, colofed, thirteen years old, arrested by Précinct Detective Sutton on a charge of grand larceny, plead guilty in the Police Court tocay, and was held in $500 security for the action of the grand Jery. He stole a valuable gold watch from the room of Mrs. Sarah W. Ellis, in the Temple Hotel, where he went to deliver some washed clothes for his mother. ‘The watch was recovered from Harbour's store, No. 710 2d street, where the boy had left it_with Mrs. Harbour. When this watch had been recovered a search warrant was sworn out, and Detec- tives Carter and Gallaher and Precinct Detective Hartigan served it. In the store they found as much as.two wegon loads of Property of every description, including silver-plated ware, jewelry and clothing. This property included 4 silver and 2 gold watches and 7 napkin rings, 6 small tea- spoons, 20 tea an:] mustard spoons, 11 large spoons, 2 fish knives, G metallic stands, 4 butter knives, 3 forks, 1 cake knife, 2 frait knives, 3 cream pitchers, 2 cake baskets, 2 sirup pitchers, 4 goblets, 2 cups, ladies’ toilet companion, 1 plate stand, 1 case, 1 ring box, lot of scrap jewelry, 8 breasi- pins, 15 rings, 7 purses and pocket books, 8 thimbles, 2 chains, 1 tape line, 2 sugar tongs, 1 bracelet, 1 stamp box, 1 shell, druggists’ weights and other articles. These articles are at headquarters for identification, but che police did not take the clothing. ——.___ Hotel Arrivals. Hamilton—E. F. Wesche, New Orleans, La.; J. T. Merrill, Toledo, Ohio. Cochraa—G. R. Warwick and wife, To- ronto, Canada; A. E. M. Chesney, Syracuse, N.Y.; Miss S. Fleming and W. Fleming, Fort Wayne, Ind. Normandie—C. A. Bennett and J. Felbel, New York city; Ed. Riley, Paterson, N. J. Raleigh—J. H. Hamson, Geo. N. Hart- man, J. W. Edwards, F. R. Kruger and W. J. Huber, New York; J. E. Allison, Nash- ville, Tenn.; Dr. E. W. Clarke, Baltimore, Md.; Miss Dorothy Usner and Lloyd Kin- ney, Chicago, Ill.; B. A. Beal and S. Pick- ford, Brooklyn, N. Y, di Arlington—L. H. Hole, E. Bradley, Mrs. E. Bradley and Miss Alice Bradley, Chi- cage, Ill.; H. T. Jennings and Maxwell Ev- arts, New York; D. H, Kanner, Austria; C. ep Savannah, Ga.; L. Fowle, Boston, Shoreham—F. Jelke, jr., Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. ‘S. B. Whittemore, Miss Whittemore and J. Turner, Boston, Mass.; H. Haynie, Parls, Fraace; J. F. Gaynor, Syracuse, N. ¥.; J. M. Pennington and C. H. Vick, Roch: ester, N. Y.; A. W. Kreck, St. Paul, Minn. Page's—C. E. Smith and wife, Mobile, Ala.; Miss E. M. Johnson, Miss N. Potts, Miss C. B. Ross and R. P. stoss, Frederick, Md.; 8. Fitzpatrick and wife, Brooklyn, N. Y¥.: C. B. Hall, St. Loulg, Mo.; 8. P. Dennison, Chicago, ML. , Oxford—J. T. Redmét, Philadelphia, Pa.; C. Howard ana . C. Baker, New York; G. T. Weat, Soils: Nese NOP K. Rickey, St. Louis, Mo.; A. ppises~J- Blakeslee and C. Hunter, Coal Glen, Pa. ec Page and Miss & Page, Portsmouth, N. ea Butte, Mont.; A. A. Hub- pita, Pa » Mass.; H. O. Smith, Philadel- ebbitt—N. Betts, cmeinnat!, Ohio: H. A. West, New York; Mr. and Mrs, J. Dunn, hicago, Ill; G. Py Heith and wife, Hud- son, Mass.; Wm. in, U. S. N.; J. C. Elston, Crawfordsvilie’ Ind. vee Willard’s—J. B. jacobs, G. M. Beavers, ¥. G. Phelps, New York; T. Marshall, Pitts ee Pa.; W. L. Valentine, Brooklyn, N. 3 C. C. Eggert, iladelphia, Pa.; I. A. Sheldon, Los Ange! , Cal. St. James—J. Shelton and _ wife, Bridgeport, Conn.; J. A. Morris and wife, Bridgeport, y*Richard Binger and ee ee wif>, 4 ul, Boston, Mass.; W. T. Fowler, Boston, Mass.; W. N. Stevens, Boston, Mass.; A. M. Felter, Philadelphia, Pa.; -F. G@. Sutor, Philadel- phia, Pa.; J. Paui Taylor, Danville, Va.; Chas, A. Clark, Cedar Rapids, Mich.; W. J. Cahill, Worcester, Mass.; A. R. Smyrth and wife, St. Louis, ‘Mo. Natioral—8. W. Holt, Richmond, Va.; 8. G. Hecht, New York; F. E. ‘Whiting, Plain- ville, Mass.; W. Salier, Pittsburg, Pa; L. Kahn, Philadelphia, Pa; H. R. Kendall, Cincinnati, Ohio; J. W. ‘Wiggin, Boston, Mass.; J. E. Campbell, Louisville, Ky, ee ATES George A. Banker well-known France, of Pittsburg, Pa., the Dicyclist, is dead ‘at Nice, MANY SPANISH SPIES Keeping Close Watch on the Cubans in Florida, HIGH CHARACTER OF THE LATTER System of Contributions to the Revolt. WHY PLANS LEAK OUT —___-—_—_—_ Staff Correspondence of The Evening Star. TAMPA, Fla., March 21, 1896. Spanish agents swarm in Tampa. One meets you when you step from the train, another sees your signature on the hotel register before the ink is dry, and another can tell your day’s itinerary—where you have been and who you have talked with— and the chances are, eventually, what about—when you go to bed at night. One day several months ago Robert Pinkerton came over from New York to Washington and took a yellow car on the Metropolitan line. He got off at Minister de Lome’s res- idence, away out Connecticut avenue, and an hour later was on his way to the depot again. In that time there had been ar- ranged the details of the most stupendous system of espionage that one governmen: ever established over the citizens of an- other. The keenest men in the employ of the great Pirkerton agency were chosen to watch the various Cubans who were at work in the United States in behalf of their struggling brothers, as well as to report upon the actious of their Ameri- can sympathizers. The ramifications of this service extended all over the eastern part of the country, and its most im- portant branch was given headquarters in ‘Tampa. Tae So, today, the city and its vicinity swarm with Pinkertons, representing, apparently every class in life. In the garb and with the habits and language of cigar makers they associate with the Cubans who work in the factories at Tampa and Ybor City, a few miles away, participating in their sports and pleasures, living with them and noting every word that may give evidence of the plans and purposes of the revolu- tionists in Cuha and in this country. Clad in the habiliments of ease and leisure, they lounge in the hotels, and freauent the salooas, eager to hear some enthusiastic sympathizer with the Cuban cause forget himself in his cups and tell secrets in a moment of thoughtless braggadocio. They are at Fort Myers, Punta Gorda, Cedar Keys and more of them are at Key West, and on each of the inhabited Florida where it is possible for an expedi- tion to form or boat te put in for stores of war there is sure to be one or more Pinkertons. Vigilance of the Pinkertons. Tha Cuban leaders here complain that every plan they make is known to the Spanish authorities before it can be car- ried into exscution, and that no matter how secretly arms and ammunition may be secured or how dexterously a boat may be loaded wita them, the news Is sure to go to Washington, and government inter- vention ensues. There are no traitors in the Cuban camp to tell about these things. The only way they become known is by the ceaseless watchfulness of these same Pinkertons, whose suspicion never sleeps, and who jump at conclusions if there is even a hint of something unusual. Then, again, the southern nature is a contiding one, avd Cubans display this trait to a greater degree than any other branch of the Latin race. They welcome sympathy and can be easily won hy the appearance of it. The Pinkertons know this and utilize their knowledge to the full. Suppose one of them meets Manuel, who has heard good news and is dying to tell it. These detectives are rare students of human nature and can discern what is passing in another's breast sometimes. Manuel is asked to drink and deftly led to talk of the war. His guard is soon broken by the eloquence of the American cn Cuban’s wrongs, and his fierce denunci- ation of Spanish atrocity. Manuel is won. It will soon be over, he says. There are great schemes in progress. Why, many boxes of arms and cartridges are even now being made ready for shipment. He grows more loquacious. He has heard enough to let the lquor he is being plied with make him imagine that he knows everything. Oh, yes, the boat has already been secured and will soon sail. Cuba libre! The detective has a clue, and in an hour @ score of others are in possession of it. « If Palma, Quesada, and the other brainy and deliberate men engaged in the Cuban cause could only place a seal of silence on the enthusiastic lips of their compatriots the Pinkertons weuld not be able to give Mr. de Lome and the other Spanish rep- resentatives in this country such valuable it:formation. Character of the Cubans. I have frequently marveled at the de- liberate misrepresentation indulged in by Minister de Lome about the character of the Cuban people, who are now slowly but, nevertheless, surely winning their freedom from Lis masters in Spain. They have been held up as bendits, disorganized and undisciplined, and held together only by a mutual love for disorder and devasta- tion. Unless Minister de Lome would have the intelligent American public believe that every decent and respectable Cuban has fled from the island long ago, he has :n- sulted it by maligning a good and generous race, which has all the sympathy and good wishes of that public. Certainly, a people must be judged by those of them who go to other countries, and there can be ro doubt that the Cubans in Florida and else- where in this country are fit representa- tives of those at home. What do we find here? Earnest, intelli- gent, industrious men. In every old city or town in Florida are Cubans found among the best class of citizens, occtpying hono! able and important positions in the busi- ness and social community. In Tampa, Ybor City, Jacksonville, St. Augustine there are scores of them, highly respected for their probity and commercial standing. Then, there is the great army of workmen in the cigar factories, honest and energetic, doing their work capably and intelligently, and all burniag with zeal for the cause in Cuba. It is simply inconceivable that all these men would be giving their ardent and ceaseless support to a series of sorties Ly brigands and bandits, such as the Spanish minister would have us belizve the war now consists of. It is insulting to the in- telligence of the American people. Contributions to the Cause. The Cubans here do not confine their enthusiasm in behalf of freedom to mere words and high-strung eloquence. The rich, the well-to-do and the workingmen alike give enormous substantial support in the way of contributions. There is not a Cuban cigar maker in Florida who does not give a large portion of his earnings to the Cubrn freedem fund, and gladly give it, too. The best sort of system is follow- ed in the collection of this money. There are dozens of societies among the workmen which have various objects. Nearly all of them have benevolent features, 1 member being cared for when sick, buried when dead and a certain amount paid to his heirs. There are other organizations of a purely social character, and, of course, sev- eral of an exclusively political nature formed for the so'e purpose of furthering the fight for freedom: But even these lat- ter, with their distinctive objects, are not more thoroughly devoted to the cause than the others, whose original intentions were so different. Instead of paying the regular small dues provided for in the constitution of the as- sociations, the members now pay a certain percentage of their earnings, whether they are employers or employes. In some s0- cieties the regular contributions of this sort run as high as fifteen per cent cf a member’s income, and he is never delin- quent. The first use he puts his wages to is the payment of the Cuban contributicn. And still the attempt is made to have a great people believe that all this noble self-denial, all this sacrifice, is made to support the forays of “a horde of bandits and brigands and lazy, indolent, vicious negroes. It ts pointed out, too, by the oracles of Spain that in the ten years’ war no negroes were engaged. It is easy to see why. The negroes in Cuba were all slaves during the last rebellion and had no incentive to fight FINANCIAL. THE QUARTERLY DIVIDEND OF 13 on the capital of STORAGE facilities perfect. Nearly 300 large, elegant storage rooms. All new, well ventilated and desirable. Most central location—largest_and_ best quarters. ‘Trunks stored, 2c. month. Pianos stored (even temperature), $1 month. Storage hauled free to our Fearigs) rooms during MERCHANTS’ Farce. Jak DELIVERY ©O.,_ 920-031 D St- Phone 659. ON DO LiFE INSUR“NCE AND ANNUITIES WRITTEN in reliable cumpanick. Information furnished on application, - THOMAS P. MORGAN, Jr., mh23-3m_ 1333 F'st. nw. 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Now they are freemen, so far as owners Of their flesh and blood are concerned, confronted with the problem of self-support, and compelled to bear their share of the burdens heaped upon the island by the Spanish system of taxation. So they fight in a common cause, knowing that freedom means better times when it is freedom from a despotism that affects their dearest and most cherished interests—their self-interests. And why a black man shouldn't desire better conditions as well as a white one, why he shoulin’t fight to secure them when necessary, are questions some physiologist will have to answer in the affirmative, if possible, as they are beyond me. There is another feature of the present war which makes it more promising to the insurgents of success: The tocsin of the ten years’ war was “Death to the Span- jards.” It was waged almost exclusively upon the theory of extermination contain- ed in that cry. 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