Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1896, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT TH# STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. llth Bt, by The E Newspaper Com; 5. H. Crea ree New York Office, 49 Potter Building. The Evening Star is served to subscribers In the eity by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents per week, or 44 cents per month. Copies at the ccunter 2 cents each. By mail—anywhere in the United States or Canada—postage prepaid—50 cents per month. Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with foreign postage added, $3.00. (Entered at the Post Otfice at Washington, D. C.. as second-class mail matter.) (7 All mail subscriptions must be paid in advance. Rates of advertising made known on application. Part 2. Che Fy ening, Siar. Pages 11-14. WASHINGTON, D. ©, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1896-FOURTEEN PAGES. Qrinters’ In& (he fittle scBook master of advertising), saps: JE is claimed for the Washington Stor, and profaffp trut$tuffp cfoim:>d, Gat no otter netospaper in fe counfrp goes info 60 farge a vercenfage of aff fhe Gouses tiffin o radius of fwenfp mifes from $e office of pubficafion. Gerome Desio’s Retiring Sale —offers an unprecedented chance for the looking for Wedding and Chr s Gifts to secure a much handsomer erticle for the money than possible to obtain under ordi- nary circumstances. We have a beautiful stock of Clocks, Bric-a-brac, Gold and Silver y We have never sold e qualities, henee every- we sell can be absolutely relied Pri cent under their regular va Store for rent! Fixtures for vale! s haye been cut 20 to 33. per jue! Gerome Desio, IMPORTER, i107 F St., North Side. Td nol re Ends Saturday Night! We want every housekseper who reads this to consider—car2fully — her she can afford to shut her to this reduction « When * clock strikes sever Saturday t—it is ENDED! xe eee ee Until then we shall offer a choice of every Patlor Suite marked $35— $37.50 $40 $42.50 $45— f dozens of brand-new styles O i and upholsterles—cholce..... | Also a cholce of every Bed Room Suite marked $35 — $37.50-$40— $42.50 or $45—all in solid oak — handsome carvings — large mirrors in aeouere O | choice a \ This is only the BEGINNING of the reductions; they extend through every department of our stock. ‘These reductions are doubly tempt- ing when you stop to think that YOUR IT TS GOOD! Pay the bill as you can best spare the money—weekly or monthly. We make—lay and line carpets FREE-no charge for the two or three yards wasted In matching fig- ures. GROGAN’ MAMMOTH CREDIT HOUSE, S17-S19-S21-S23 Seventh street n.w., DolyS4d Bet. H and I sts. GRE 0S) | CXEREEE EERE ERERERES ~~ Another Chance (The 93-50 Shoes = $2.98. : That offer of ours to give you women our $3.50 Shoes for $2.98 was a great card. We'll continue it throughout the week. Glazed Kid, with patent tips, lace and butto:, and Box Calf Shoes, tip WS instead of $3.50 this Edmonston, 1334 F St. —~ nol9-42 Housekeepers Like Coke bes use it fa such a clean fuel— dee it leaves no dirt or ashes to clean up. The head of the house likes Coke be it costs him less than any other fuel! Why not order some? 40 bu. Uncrushed Coke, $2.90. 40 bu. Crushed Coke, $3.70. f Washington Gaslight Co., 413 Ioth St., . J. ZEH. 920 20th (Phone 475.) 3 rN sees : E J | jYou Can Have New Teeth By Christmas— ‘Those old, aching teeth shouldn’t be al- lowed to mar your Ckristmas happiness. By coming now, we can furnish your new teeth before the holidays. Allowance made in price for extracting and refitting. Low- est prices In city for high-class work. Ex- tracting, 50e. Artificial Teeth (Set), $8. Evans’ Dental Parlors, 1309 F ST. N.W. nol4-24d Get The Best, ‘The Concord Harness.’ Beware of imitations. Every genuine Con- cord Harress is stamped with maker’s name ani trade mark. We are sole D. C. agents. LUTZ & Co., 407 Pa. ave., adjoining National Hotel. Horse Blankets and Lap Robes in large variety and at lowest prives., - oe26-204. MILLS AND HOMES| TE Batt Inducements Offered by Washington to Manufacturers, BLIGIBLE SITES AND WATER POWER Steam Railroads and Transporta- tion by Water. PLANS OF THE FOUNDERS In its report, recently submitted, the board of trade committee on commerce and manufactures said: “Your committee on commerce and manu- factures respecifully reports that it has had several meetings during the year. At thes have been discussed inquiries addressed to the board by parties abroad asking about sites and seeking-to leern what induce- ments are offered those who would come aere and locate plants of various sorts. Your committee has also considered sug- gestions as to increasing these inducements to newcomers. “Careful study of the subject will quickly prove to the inquirer that within the ter- ritory set apart for the seat of the national government that gove:nment can never offer any inducements te investors of cap- ital not offered by it to investors in all the states and other tevritories. Inducements like those freely offered in so many places in the states, such as remission of taxes, cannot be offered here save under authority conferred by Congress; and this authorit for reasons easily apparent, no Congres will ever grant, as it would necessarily take the torm of a rational kenus, to which the American people have ever been opposed. “Further, it will appear that the policy of the fcunders of the republic, in securing the domain known as the District of Columbi gave special heed to thcse protests agains: the proposed ten miles sauare, which were besed cn the assumption that in that Dis- trict, thus set apart for national control, special consideration would be given to manufacturers to Jocate there and thus in- directly aid in upbuilding the new city at the expense of other cities and their fast- growing tewns. To prove that this assump- tion was groundless the newly formed na- tional government among other acts per- mitted the only establishment under its auspices that could be called a manufac- turing plant, cnd known as the mint, to remain at the then seat of government. ramely, the city of Philadelphia, where it remains to this day and as it ever will re- main—a mute testimonial to the purpose and desire of the founders of this nation tkat its seat of government should, as far as possible, be free from the hurly-burly of comm=rce and from the noise, etc., of large manufacturing establishments, where, free from the interests and importunities of any Iceal manufacturing, commercial or other influence, the several branches of the gov- ernment—the executive, the legisiative and tke judictal—could dispassionately make and pass upon laws that would work abso- lute justice to all localities remote and near. Purpos: of the Founders. “This desire and tiis purpose on the part of the founders of the republic have been recognized at all times hy the courts of the District of Columbia, whose learned judges, with the full knowledge of all these facts, have from time to time rendered decisions which, if rendered in other jurisdictions, would have been overruled; but which, on the a:sumption that this, unlike any other city in the nation, has been set apart fcr special uses and needs of the national gov- ernment, have been invariably confirmed on appeal. While these needs and uses of the rational government are not considered with the encouragement end iocation here of large manufacturing and commercial es- tablishments, this District is, as compensa- tion therefor, becoming more and more recognized as more suitable than any other for residence purposes, where, in the as- sured absence of large commercial and manufacturing interests, and the presence of the e increasing number of govern- mental officials of highest station in every department, those who dwell here can be freed from many annoyances incident to manufacturing places. Thus this city has become the home—the femily hearth—of the nation, where that nation’s household gods are put in erduring place; toward which—let the personnel of the government change as it will—the people throughout this favored land look with ever-increasing interest and devotion. As a natural se- quence this city and District has been made the home of a large and fast-increasing tmumber of deople of culture and wealth. And now, almost tardily, have lately come in rapid succession inst‘tutions of learning. which today are the nuclei of what may give this city further distinction as the greatest seat of learning of the twentieth century—every year seeing these institu- tions increase In endowment, in power and in facilities for instruction in every branch of learning. “At the start, therefure, your committee, in its effort to secure the introduction here of additional manufacturing and commer- cial establishments, is met with a difficulty not had by boards of trade in other cities, who, from willing aldermantic and legisla- live assemblies, can secure authority to grant inducements such as the remission of taxes, grants of land and other privileges of great value, which this board of trade is unable to do. Your committee, however, believes that, notwithstandinggthese draw- backs, there are other inducements within sight to those who would locate here suffl- clent to offset those to be had elsewhere. Among these are, in brief: “1. A large 2nd corstantly increasing number of unemployed men and women, many of whom are graduates of manual training and scientific schools in the city, all anxious and willing to labor at conge- nial and fairly remunerative work within reach of their homes here. “2. Next in order is the number of pecu- larly eligible sites, where water power can be secured or steam generated at an ex- Bense little above the ccst of water power, these sites being in localities remote from residence sections of the city and very ac- cessible by railroad, by canal or by river. The facilities here for handling material, manufactured products end the abundance and the cheapness of the coal supply are great. Five different lines of steam rail- reads center here; here is the terminus of the great Chesapeake and Ohio canal, while the Potomac river, with its channel deep- ered to meet the requirements of the larg- est ships, gives facilities for a water traffic of ever-increasing size and value. “8. Further, is to be remembered the fact that within this District are gathered peo- ple of wealth and culture and influence not only from ell the states of the Union, but from abroad, whose patronage secured here means much for any article of wide use whose use elsewhere, especially in dis- tant places, is an object of great desire. “The field here is open for many addition- al manufacturing and commercial estab- lishments. We now have fron and brass foundries, mills for lumber, mattress and cabinet-file manufactories, lime works, mor- tar works, brickmaking, paving block and electric light and power plants, breweries and ice plants, besides many not above enumerated, taking power from electric ants. There is aoundance of room h=re ‘or many others like the above and, as stated in a prevfovs report to your board, a wise and broad-spirited public policy dic- tates that the board of trade use its best efforts to promote the development and lo- cation in this city and in adjoining sec- tions of Maryland and Virginia of such manufactures as will ficurish in successful competition with the localities and which at the same time will not tend to injure the nation’s capital by affecting harmfully its grandeur or beauty or the welfare of its inhabitants.” = The report is signed by Samuel W. Curri- den, chairman; Levi Woodbury and Robt. N. Harper. Where General Weyler is Trying to Crush the Patriots. Maceo Supporting the Families of Many Recruits Who Came to Him in Pinar del Rio. From the New York Sun. PINAR DEL RIO, November 14.—The condition of the country people in the province of Pinar del Rio was never very favorable, even @n times of peace, when they were obliged to mortgage from one year to another the outcome of their small farms to get money to continue their work. The tobacco business ts a good one for all concerned except the farmer. While the excellent Havana cigars, made of the best leaf of Vuelta Abajo, which is grown in this province, leave a lot of money in all hands until they reach the smokers, the men who produce the material are poorly paid, and after each crop they find themselves in debt for the next. What terrible misery has prevailed throughout Pinar del Riv since the day when fierce war and the in- vasion of Maceo’s army put an end to aii work and enterprise! One of Maceo’s greatest difficulties, whe: he >egan to organize nis army with the 1 tention of remaining in the province, w to safeguard the large number of familie: of his newly enlisted soldiers of La Vucit: Abajo. The Cubans generally marry vei; young, and have many children. In thi= country, where resources for living arc scarce, a newly married coupl: re side either with the wife’s parents or the husband's. They contribute to the zenerai support of the family, which is alway. cheaper than to establish their own home. The traveler is surprised to fin] on ever the poorest farm in Cuba eight or ten wo- men and a regiment of chiidren. Every on: works after he is six years old. The boy- go with their fathers to the field to lear. how to sow, arid to take care of the to bacco leaf. The girls help their mothers in the house, washing an cooking, and go to the nearest country grocery to buy pro- visions. When his ‘new recruits joined the army o Maceo, they were obliged to take families with them. Maceo refiised at firs! to receive the soldiers under such condi tions, but he was compelled to do it later by considerations of convenience and human ity. The Cuban's love of wife and childre: is as great as his patriotism. Before leay- ing his family to starve and to be expose. to the terrible persecutions which the Span ish army inflict on the pacificos, or neutra! inhabitants, he would prefer to go to the city of Pinar del Rio, now in the hands of the Spanish government, or to Havana. As Weyler’s troops left Maceo undisiurb ed for a long time, he availed himself 01 this opportunity to organize in the moun tains stores of provisions and a onvenieni shelter for the non-combatants. A weil informed person in this city said to the cor respondent of the Sun that the non-fight ing people Maceo has under his care num ber more than 30,000 persons. The Cuban leader proved this time to b. not only a gallant fighter, feared by th. Spaniards and admired by the Cubans, but a great organizer as well. All his soldiers adore him, and every one carries out bis orders and submits to his discipline with a degree of self-abnegation that could hardly be expected of volunteers never trained be- fore in a soldier’s duty. In the cities held by the Spanish govern- ment Maceo has strong sympathizers who help him by communicatirg to his van- guard all the plans and intended move- ments of the Spanish troops. The preju- dice which prevailed at first against him when the Spaniards said that Maceo was a mulatto has all disappeared. Now thc whites are his most enthusiastic parti- sans, and with his gentle manners and social ability he conquers the hearts ot the proudest. He is considered among the insurgents as the reverse of Gen. Gomez. The latter is feared, for he is rigid and severe, while Maceo, without being unduly familiar with his subordinates, is kind and polite to all. Maceo’s staff is composed of young men belonging to the best Cuban families and famous as shoc. The bullet which struck Gen. Echague in a recent engagement was fired by one of these officers of Maceo’s staff who was at the moment with Perico Delgado carrying out the orders of the general. It is doubtful if Weyler and Maceo will come to a severe engagement. The Cuban leader has distributed his vanguard under the crders of Delgado so as to keép up a guerrilla fight with the Spanish columns, distracting their attention from the strong corps of the insurgents, and tiring them continually. No man is better fitted than Perico Delgado for such a task. He knows the province cf Pinar del Rio thoroughly, and he is highly appreciated by Gen. Maceo for his reckless courage. The Spanish advance in heavy bodies with their artillery, which is proving to be more noisy than effective. When they are fired upon by the Cuban vanguard they ar- ray themselves in a line of battle and be- gin to use their cannon. They continue sending cannon balls into the air lony after the enemy has disappeared from the field. The usual result of these engage- ments is that some Spanish soldiers are Killed by the first shots of the Cubans, and a whole day, and sometime two or three days, are lost by the column in its march. Later, the engagement is always reported by the Spanish commander as an important victory, and then the column enters some town to take a rest. Fortunately for Maceo, who {s a native of the province of Santiago de Cuba, and never fought in the west before, as dur- ing the ten years of the revolution of 1868 he fought only in the east, the topography of Vuelta Abajo is very similar to that of Santiago de Cuba. After the Orient, Pinar del Rio is the most mountainous part of the island. The plan of Gen. Weyler is to compel Maceo to withdraw till he reaches Cape San Antonio, the eastern extremity of the island, and then oblige him to surrender or to try to escape by sea. This is the subjcct of every conversation among the Spaniards in the city of Pinar del Rio, as well as in Havana, and the fact that Wey- ler started for the field in company with Senor Barrera, chief of the Havana police, is an indication, in their opinion, that Maceo will be taken prisoner and carried to the capital. But the prospects of the campaign do not look at all favorable to Weyler’s suc- cess. The Cuban sympathizers belleve that Weyler will soon have to return to Havana defeated. ANTI-SILVERITES NOT EXCLUDED. Free Coinage Not Put in the K. of L. Preamble. ‘The Knights of Labowat Rochester, N. Y., voted yesterday afternoon not to put the free coinage of silver plank into their pre- amble, but adopted the plank as a principle. The idea of putting the plank into the preamble originated with General Master Workman Sovereign, but the knights thought that by its being put into the pre- amble it would bar from the organization all who were not free silverites. The dis- cussion occupied a greater part of two days. A strong declaration against the Balti- more banking scheme was presented to the general assembly. The knights con- demned the measure and the assembly committee was instructed to take action to- ward its defeat. - ‘The committee on law reported on propo- sitions from various districts to reduce the executive board to three members. The proposition was lost. The section of the constitution that pre- vented the formation of a compulsory ben- eficial society within the knights was struck out, leaving no rule against such formation. LEFIELD OF CUBA|SAVING THE The Work of Seining the Canal Now Under Consideration. Co-Operative Measures to Be Adopted to Make the Undertaking a Success, The New York Sun Sunday contained the following dispatch from Shepherdstown, W. Va.: “The game and fish protective assecia- tions of Maryland and West Virginia have made plans for restocking the Potomac with bass. About December 1 of each year the water is drawn from the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and in most of the levels pools are left. In these pools great num- bers of bass, carp and catfish take refuge, and the pot hunters have things their owr way. With small seines they can get ai- most every fish in the canal, and they lyse no time in bagging everything in sight. If the cold weather comes too sud- jenly they kill the fibh through the ice this whoiesale destruction will not be per mitted hereafter. Dr. George W. Massa- shore, deputy game warden for Maryiaud, has enlisted the assistance of the vari shing clubs along the river and of tt esident sportsmen tu save the bass. A valuable ally has been secured in Col, G. . Nicholson, superintendent of the cana s ued orders to lock tenders a: structing them ty ronibit om fishing ia the anal except the employes of the Game anu ish Protective Assoc.ation, who will se cure the bass in the poo.s and deposit tucin in the river to ine F 5 section of the canal that will be io! soon as th awn off rom Littie above Waste o Hancock, 2 - Of about loi a, fand seines wiii and the work ve done thoroug of ali. siz be placed river. Lae and other fish of g 4 war will h have pro} . er fsa. preference fom spawn, and 5 having a serious effect o f bass and other game fis nac. Some years ago many farmers i: his section were induced to stock pond= with carp. They were told of the favor in vhich the carp heid in Germany, an: he p i pspect of having great quantiie: sh fish right on the farm, just wai ot or a chance to get tito the frying feated a considerabie demand for carp ew persons succeeded in cultivating then atisfactorily, and these who did s: ouldn’t cultivat an appetite for the mud wallowers after they hdd them. The craa soon died out, but in the meantime man) »f the fish had got into’ the Hotomac rivei They grew to enormons size, and in cies water could be seen lazily disporting ther selves.” In relation to the above, the gener: matter of which was published in The Sta: ome days ago, it may be stated that n orders such as those attributed to Ce Nicholson have yet been issued, but th Ss no question that they will be. The w: n the canal n off abont Decemix 2). The only Ity that row appear t lie in tke we ying out the proje: which all fishermen aweg will be pf 4 told value in adding to the bass Fup) of the Potomac is a lack of funds. D Massamore, who, in addition to bel Maryland deputy game warden, etary and urer of the Mar! State Game and Fish Protective s tion, In a letter written to Dr. We Harban of this city. under date of Nov ber 10, said: “If all hands chip in a fitt! I have a scheme on hand to fish the can: Don't you think your club (The Live ay Red and Gun Club) and the Woodm): Club would pay $5) each. That would én be an assesSment of $1 on n If you will do that I can raise the bai. and have it done. We must not let th scheme die out. I am coming down t Washington in a few days and mea . will see Col. Nicholson. The Blve Ridge and Woodmont cini will probably decide to take rore helpt measures than the mere subscription money, and it is expected the ar; tions will take upon themselves the of seining a considerable portion canal in the vicinity of their club houses. It is als if States Fish Commi assistance to the good work. = SIDDONS DEAD. of MRS. SCOT The Once Famous Dramatic Reader Passes Away in Paris. Mrs. Scott-Siddons, famous for a ‘nun ber of years as a dramatic reader an actress, died in France last week, and he body was shipped to New York Tuesda; She had lived abroad in the latter years « her life in broken heatth. Mary Frances Scctt-Siddons was a linea descendant of the great Sarah Siddons, hi father, William Young Siddons, being ti son of George, the eldest son of Mrs. S) dons. Mrs. Scott-Siddons was born, in 1Si+ in India, where her father was a gapiain i: the British military service. Here she rv sided until the death of her father, wh died at an early age, when she returned England with her mother. She was sent to Bonn, where her educa tion was completed. Six months later si. made her debut in German comedy, an her performance was said to Rave beer remarkable for a child of her tender yea On leaving Bonn she took up her resi- dence at Winchester, where, at the age oi seventeen, she met Lieutenant “Scott, i young naval officer, to whom she'Was mar ried in 1862. She had meanwhile beer studying the Shakespearean characters and succeeded in making her debut thc next year at the Theater Royal, Notting ham, in the character of Portia, in which her famous great-grandmother also firs appeared upon the stage. ‘A successful engagement in Edinburgh was followed by a provincial tour, and in 1868 she gave a series of readings in Lon- don. Her success in this venture opened the doors of the Haymarket Theater to her, and she made her debut on the Lon- don stage as Rosalind, a character in which her youth, her beauty, and her il- lustrious name enabled her to achieve the greatest success of her career. Another successful provincial tour followed, und then she played Juliet at the Haymarket for thirty-six consecutive nights. In the summer of 1868 Mrs. Scott-Sid- dons came to this country, and made her debut as a reader at Newport, R. I. In October of the same year she gave suc- cessful readings at Steinway Hall, New York, and finally made her first apoear- ance on the stage in this country at the Boston Museum, as Rosalind. A tour of the country followed, Rosalind and Viola being the parts in which she generally ap- peared. In 1872 she returned to England, but soon came back to this country. She subsequently played in rman in Vienna, and also made an Australian tour. Her later public appearances were chiefly as a reader, and for fifteen years past she had lived in retirement. Probst Constractiog Company Fails. The Probst Construction Company of Chicago assigned yesterday afternoon to Gustav Wilke. The company is one of the lsrgest contracting concerns in the country and its héadquavters are in Nyw Xork. No statement of assets and liabilities ‘was filed. ‘The company built the Coliseum, Schiller building, thé peristyle at. the world’s, fair, the fisheries building, Hagen! building in the Midway, court house at Fort Worth and other notable buildings. Oficial Vote of Delaware. The official vote of Delaware is: McKin- ley, 20,450; Bryan, 16,574; Palmer, 968. Mc- Kinley's plurality, 8,876. BASS/MR. WATSON TO LEAD|3°*°"*"* Populists to Look to Him Four Years , Hence. MR. BRYAN AND HIS ISSUE DONE FOR L. C. Bateman, Populist Candidate for Governor of Maine, Talks. NO MORE FUSION pondence of The Evening Star. LEWISTON, Me., November 17, 1896. Every indication points to the report that the alliance which existed between the populist and democratic parties during the recent national campaign can no longer exist. L. C. Bateman, who was the popu- list candidate for governor in this state during the last Maine campaign, is con- stantiy in communication with the leaders of the middle-of-the-road populists, and they declare im the most emphatic of terms that the fusion between the two parties shall no longer exist, and they will carry with them the rank and file of the Cor: party who voted for Bryan. These men wili follow the standard of Tom Watson, whose name Bateman has already put at the head of the columns of his pap ndard Batemra and in the Maine Populist, as the arer of the party In 190). Mr. fought fusion in this state, the popuiist party organization. Bat the Maine res re man, who agitator rather than a k.ied diplomatic poiitician, has a large following in the east among the populi: th ngle tax men and others who w: not act with the republican or democratic part’ Mr. Bateman former; lived in the third al district and was three times f of his party against Seth iken, u.d has three times been candi- gute for governor. He is a skilled speake! and has sifiicient property to enabl to live upon the income thereof, even it his paper, wh.ch is now entering upon its second year of existence, should not prove sio ap g investment. Upon being asked by The Star sponient to give his views of the of the pcpocratic defeat, and the of the ‘populist party. Mr. Bateman Fusion Dealx Caused Bryan's Defent. “It is somewhat d:fficult to answer your tio! without resorting to the old tout, ‘I told you so!’ Still, as my pre- dictions gre on record in The Star and also .n maiy other papers, perhaps 1 may be pardoned for the allusion, Bryan's di ieat was inevitable from the moment t ihe democrats began their fusion deals, a order to cheat tLe populists. A more tran! fraud was never attempted -Amer.can politics. There was not the gho: of a chance tor Tom Watson or his party fue fusion deals were all made in the sonai cnterest of Mr. Bryan, and with he democrats it w se of ‘Heads, 1 in, ta, you lo: populists were i ue eived .n the least. No cordial union be effected under such circumstances, a Wsorganized mob contending ta trained army. But it ts useles about the past. Waat of the future? I will tell you. bryan and the democratic party are in the position that Daniel Webster and the whig party were in 1 The .ave pinned their faith and fortunes on al ssue and have lest. Had their issue been true one, there would still be a future or them; but unfortunately it is not sv it is but a makeshift and a compron;ce. Free cuivage is to the morey questjon wn: he Missouri compromise was to the slavery juestion. No question is ever settled until t is settled rightly. Free coinage would wring no permanent relief, neither would t seriously cripple the money kings of the world. “It would not touch the question of na- ‘icnal banks, of transportation or of land In fact, it is of so little value to the com- son masses of the people that I look to see he republicans give us a silver bill them- elves. They have been thoroughly fright- sned in Unis campaign. They do not wish © repeat this siruggie four years hence hey have every chance now to cut the wind from the democratic sails. Their platform calls for international bimetal- sm. This will give them an excuse to ain hands with the European financiers and boich up some sort of a silver bil the people are very easily satisfied, ith this accomplished the republicans owd go before them on the next cam- n, and say ‘Behold, we have given you ai you i for,’ ete. It woatd be then vbsoluicly imposs.ble for Mr. Bryan to ral- y his followers again upon that issue. b und His Issue Done For. No! Mr. Bryan and his issue are done or, Had he boldly planted himself upon he full populist platform he would have a future. He did not have the nerve to do and he is lost. Dgniel Webster made same blunder fifty years ago, and with ular result. Certainly no one will claim at bryan is a smarter man than Webster Their cases are parallel. Reforr started always go farther than their intended. The French revolu- he nee sremoters tion started with a simple question of eti- «quette; it ended in the bloody scenes of the suillotine. The slavery question started with the demand of non-extension into the erritories; it ended with the destruction of he whole system. The money question has commenced with the mild demand for free coinage of silver; it will end in the den.cnetization of gold. “That is the mission of the people's party in the future. We shall demand the utter overthrow ef the whole metal basis system and the establishment of a purely scientific paper currency, based upon the entire wealth of the country. The city of Venice maintained a sysiem of this nature for 1,300 years, and it was under the influence of that paper money that the magnificent structure arose out of the blue waters of the Ajriatic that has been the wonder and admiration of every traveler. That was the only fair trial that a full legal tender paper meney has ever had, and it was a glorious success. Certainly we are mofe powerful than Venice during the middie ages. This will be the shibboleth of our party in the future. We shall also demand the government ownership of railroad: telegraph and telephone lines. Direct le: lation will also be one of our important de- mands. The Populists the Coming Party. “The democratic party dare not touch any of these great questions. With the passage of a silver bill by the republicans I look to see the silver democrats unite with the gad wing of the party and go back to their old position of an ‘opposition party.’ Only this, and nothing more.~ ‘the populists are the coming party. Even Sen- ator Butier has come round to this way of thinking. In the last issue of his paper he boldly stated that he was forever done with fusion, and that if Bryan wanted to continue as a leader he must come into the pepulist party. This is very significant, as Butler has played the fusion racket to its full extent this year. By thus renouncing his policy of fusion he confesses that the middle of the road men have been right. “Tom Watson will be our great ‘eaJer four years hence. The present fusion man- agers have made u mess of it, and are 1.0w thoroughly discredited. The rank and file will have nothing more to do with them. Some of them will go to the democrats, ard the rest will be sent to the rear. Their policy has been tried and found sadly Take your time ¢ seeseedensenseeseesea teed those asked by cash dealers. odvtetetetn In Paying forFurniture beught of us. No need to “pinch” yourself so as to pay cash. Our Credit System calls for the easiest of easy terms. Prices asked are low, and in some instances lower than Here are a few specials 6-pc. Tapestry Parlor Suites, $30. Solid Oak Sideboards, $8 up. Solid Oak Chamber Suites, $15 up. Good Quality Brussels Carpet, soc. ya. Good Quality Ingrain Carpet, 35c. ya. All Carpets bought of us are made, laid and lined free! Fe es se ee te Seed we) Lentententectente we $ wanting. These men will never lead our party into disgrace again. I ve steadily maintained that the fusion idea was wrong, for the moment we unite with the demo- crats we preclude the possibility of gaining any recruits from the republicans. We must stand entirely by ourselves, 1nd bold- ly proclaim our principles. ‘Phose prin- ciples are founded upon the rock of eternal truth, and they will surely prevail.” es FOR CURRENCY REFORM. The Business Men of Indianapolis Start a Non-Partisan Movement. The board of governors of the board of trade of Indianapolis held a well-attend a meeting Wednesday night to consider the financial situation of the country. Justus Adams presijed. By invitation Hugh H. Hanna, a prominent manufacturer, but him- self not a member of the committee, read a paper outlining the plan of the movement. He said that since the far west will not move in the direction desired, and such a movement instituted by the cast would be met with the prejudices that pervade the west, it was left to the business men of the central west to inaugurate a move- ment by which, he predicted, some desira- ble ends may be attained. He proposed that the Indianapolis board of trade invite the boards of trade of the fifteen or six- teen cities of the seven states lying east of the Missouri and west of the Allegheni to meet in Indianapolis December 1 and prepare a plan for a meeting of the boards of trade in the United States later in the month, The scheme includes an extended discus- ion by representatives of all the sections, so that a commission to be appointed to frame the definite propositions put forth may know what the sense of the organiza- tion is. The commission is to make its report to Congress, and Mr. Hanna said he believed that such a report, coming from the business men of the country, would have greater weight with members of Congress than any other memorial or petition or address that could be prepared. He predicted that it would have a marked influence in lifting the delicate subject out of the strife of political parties, and would in the end produce a stability of currency that would make impossible such an sault upon the business of the country as was made in the last six months. The views of Mr. Hanna were made of record by resolutions adopted, and Presi- dent Adams appointed delegates to the convention of December 1, naming Mr. Hanna, E. B. Martindale and George R. Tanner. The Commercial Clud of Indian- apolis was aiso invited to participate in the entertainment of the delegates, so that t combined business interests of the ci are interested in the movement. The citi whose boards will be invited to participaie in the first convention to prepare for the larger_national one are Cincinnati, Louis- ville, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Chicago, Des Moines, St Paui, Minneapo lis, Kansas City, Omaha, Peoria and Grai Rapids. 2 + e+ REFORMERS SEE A FIGHT. Dr. Parkhurst and Mr. Roosevelt Sur- prise New York. New York Correspondence of the Ralto, American. New York has made much of a sensa- tion out of the approval given to prize fighting by Police Commissioner Roo: velt and the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst. Mr. Roosevelt witnessed, and to ali appearances keenly enjoyed, the bout of Monday night between Maher and Choynski, in which the latter was knocked out, and the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, in commenting upon Mr. Roosevelt's presence at the fight, said that boxing exhibitions were well enough if no blood was spilled. Acting upon ‘he hint contained in these events, President Gen- slinger of the Bohemian Athletic Club rush- ed to the wire to make his offer for the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, and people lire began to talk of Messrs. Roosevelt and Parkhurst as advocates of slugging matches. In this afternoon's outpour of newspaper caricature Dr. Parkhurst is rep- resented in two of the cartoons as the referee of a prize fight, and in two of them Roosevelt is pictured as a participant in a ring fight. The clergy have been gencral- ly interviewed upon the moraiity of ging, and the familiar old prize fight is ing discussed as though it was of recent invention. +o2+—___——_ ‘TRANS-MISSISSIPPI EXPOSITION. Stock of the Association Subscribed to the Extent of $250,000, President Gurdo W. Waitles of the trans- Mississippi and International Exposition Association has addressed a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury netifying that officer that the conditions surrounding the appropriation of $200,000 by the govern- ment for a building end exhibit at the ex- position have been complied with. The con- ditions specified in the act passed at the last session of Congress was that the ex- position should sccure subserivtions of stock amcunting to at least $250,000 before appropriation would be made by Coneress and pledging an appropriation of $200,000 in case the 2mount named was subscrived. OO — Bering Strait Never Frozen. A letter received in‘’London from Harry De Windt, dated Ounwijka, on the Si- berian coast of the Bering straits, says he has been obliged to abandon his provosed journey by land from New York io Peris, as he finds that the straits are forty miles wide at the narrowest point, but that they are never fzozen over. De Windt cxnccts to return in a whaler toward the end cf the month. | children be Rudden’s Credit House, 513 Seventh Street. wosSondondosdosdoadonfondondondoadondoadeadeasonsessesiessoesonseesosSesses season sees os ese easegestediontedtedtodtedtodtodfodins MANITOBA SCHOOLS. The Controversy Settled on Terms Satisfactory to Both Siden, The Manitoba school question, which has more than once during the past three years threatened a disruption of Canadian con- federation, has been settled on terms which, it is believed, will be sufficiently Satisfactory to both sides to put an end to the controversy. Following are the main features of the terms of settlement, which have been ac- cepted by the Manitoba government, and will be embodied shortly in an act of the legisiatcre of ihat bod All schools are to be under pro- vineial control, and subject to the same regulation and inspection. The me text books will be ised, a teachers will be p ing the provincial e i the prescribed normal school course. School work of a purely secular charac- ter will occupy the whole of the school day except the last half he when the rep- ative of any religious denomination will be allowed to come in ana instruct the longing to his denomination, provided the parents are willing to have them remain. In cases where th: people decide not to have this religious instruc- tion, the regular school work will go on of the school hour ple of local option is nm princ! throughcut. The proviso that is intended to make the schcols acceptable to the minority is that districts having an average attendance of twenty-five Roman Catholic school children shall be entitled to have a teacher of thar own denomination, who must be fully qualified according to prov.ncial national Scheol standards. . In districts where the children speak French wholly they are to have a teacher speaking both English and French, so that they will learn English as rapidly as pos- sible. The readers used in such schools will be bilingual, so that the children will grow up from the first accustomed to English. ognized ~2ee- TWO NOTED PREACHERS. Amusing Stories Witty Encounter BE . Va, 1896. The revival in the Baptist Church, re- cently closed, and one row being conducted by the Methodists, have both been attended by remarkable success, as already reported in The Star. The amity and fellowship be- tween these denominations are in striking contrast with the feeling displayed in the beginning of the century, as manifested Told About the then by the leading exponents of thos churche: Then there were very few churches in this section of the country and the preachers rode long di and held services on Saturdays and ‘arely getting to any one church than ence a month. The old men of today recal] this period with great pleasure and never tire of relating their recellections of those 00d old times. The most noted expounders of the Gospel in northern Virginia then were the Revs. Roszell of the Methodis' Church and Gilmore of the Ba) T were rigid and unyielding believ ach in the tenets and doctrines of his ow faith and advocates of the chureh amili- tant. considering it their duty to “hew to the line, let the chips fail where they may. In upholding their doctrines they not on attacked the opposing principles of t other church, but these two being almo: the only preachers of their respective de- nominations in Loudoun and Fauquier, the frequently indulged in sharp and vigorous personalities in the pulpit and elsewhere, which at thi pt to beget an unending animosity. A recent rainy-day talk with one who has a lively recollection of these mesterful preachers recalled a number of interesting cdotes which have never found their way into print. On one occasion they both had appoint- ments in Leesburg on the same Sunda: and, as was the custom in those days, received new members into the c the close of each series of meetings. Re- turning to their homes after church the two congregations met on opposite sides of the same street. The Methodist divine, thinking to deliver a smarting thrust in the hearing of almost the whole of both flocks, called across the street to the shepherd of the Baptis “Mow dye do, Brother Gilme your members joined our chy “Ah ha, that’s all. righ plecid immersionist, “back-sliding Baptists make very good Methodists Constant themes of difference between them, upon which aa opportunity to cross swords was never suffered to pass un- not'ced. were close communion on the one side and the insufficiency of infant baptisia on the other. One communion day in the Baptist Church, Rev. Mr. Roszell made it a point to be present, having no service at bis owr. church on that day. He had a seat on one of the front benches. Mr. Gilmore spread the communion table with great care just in front of where the Methodist divine was sitting. and when all was ready he cleared his throat and .with great solemnity said in his powerful and im- pressive voice: “Brother Roszell, if this were my table I should invite you to partake; but being my Father's I dare not Instead of sinking through the floor, Mr. Roszell calmly replied: “Brother Gilmore, if this were your table I should await your invitation; but being my Father's I shall help myself! and, suiting the action to the word, reached over and with great seriousness and solemnity took the bread and wine, without molesta- tion, to the intense amusement of the con- gregation. They were both great lights in their churches, dearly beloved by their peopie and possessed of a vigorous Christian fer- vor that made itself felt and resulted in great good whcrever their ministrations were carried on.