Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1897, Page 4

4 THE- “EVEN ING STAR. } *llver republicans joining the democrats In WASHIN GTroN, WEDNESDAY. .......December 1, 1897. CROSBY S. NOYES. As a News and Advertising Medium it has no eempetitor. _——————— Gln order to avoid delays, on ac- absence, letters to dressed with the ly ial THE STAR, or to or Business Depart- to tenor or purpose. A Boss on Exhibition. Richard Croker is at present giving the country a@ striking exhibition of what a political boss is, end of his power. Some People affect not to believe in the existence of such an office. Let them consider Mr. Croker. and his movements and deliver- ances and reccgnized importance, and they will be sufficiently instructed. Mr. Croker holds no commission from the people to perform any service. He is not responsible to anybody for his actions. And yet he is ef more consequence in deter- mining what shall be done with the recently achieved democratic victory in Greater New York than are all of those put togeth- er who will hold the offices then secured. This is made apparent in every way. He is the center of attraction wherever he may be. He is consulted by everybody having an axe to grind with the incoming administration. He ts sought by all re- porters for the latest news respecting the Probable policy of the new administration. In a word, he ts recognized as being the cock of the walk, and when he crows there is attention Mr. Croker accepts all this homage with no evidence of surprise or displeasure. He seems to consider that it is his just and natural due. There is no toying with or mock puting away of the crown. He is “a plain, blunt man,” who knows his value to his party, and does not hesitate to im- presc the fact upon others. He agrees entirely with those who consider that he ts at the head of things in New York, and that his friendship and support will be in- dispensable to success in all matters of business with which Tammany Hall re- stored to power will have to do. Ani what is now so conspicuously in evidence will continue in evidence more or less conspicucusly during the next four years. This man who has not been com- missioned to do anything will have a potent voice in everything that may be done. He will control the men into whose hands the people have put their affairs. He will, in effect, have a vote at council voards where he has 20 seat. Nobody seeking employ- ment with his influence behind him will fail to secure it. The Croker nod will pass things; the Croker negative will kill things. And this it ts to be a boss; to contro! and work a political machine; to have a trusty xang in leash, ready and willing and trained to go after whatever the boss points out. At a fair, with bosses on exhioition, Mr. Croker would easily take the blue ribbon. —___ + +e ____ A Level-Hended Diplomat. Prompt action on the part of the Ameri- can minister to Hait! probably alone kept the little republic from a grave crisis through the anger of Germany over Haiti's treatment of the man Lueders. According to the dispatches now at hand, the case had progressed to a critical juncture owing to the impetuous arrogance, it would seem, of the German diplomatic representative at Port au Prince. It is somewhat difficult to arrive at the exact truth of the circum- stances leading up to Germany’s demand for indemnity. According to the story from German sources, Lueder was shame- fully treated, while the Haitian version ot the affair serves to indicate that the man is in no wise deserving of such considera- tion as would warrant the excessive indem- nity demanded by Germany. However, the affalr may stand as to the equities of the Lueders case itself, it appears certain that the German minister at Port au Prince acted toward the officials of the republic in an overbearing and irritating manner, and gravely complicated the case by his undiplomatic conduct. It is impossible to outline exactly what might have occurred had not the American minister been equal to the emergency that presented itself. His request to the Hai- tian government for the release of Lueders, thus ending the good offices of the United States, was practically the only thing that could save Haiti from suffer- ing from active coercive measures on the part of Germany. With Lueders out of jail the case no longer demanded harsh treatment and resolved itself into a diplo- matic adjustment regarding the indemnity that might possibly be due from Haiti. ——_++2—___ Senator Wellington will not follow the example of Senator Gorman. He will lead his forces against the other side of the newspaper company’s ledger. ee Mrs. Nack and Martin Thorn have the satisfaction of knowing that they have come pretty near breaking the confessing record. ——~>+e—____ Mark Twain is inclined to think that there fs too much realism in the reichsrath tor the purposes of real art. ——_+ += ____ ue History to Remember. When Congress takes up the currency question we shall probably hear a good deal about the failures which have attend- ed all the financial legislation of the past twenty years. The record, it must be ad- mitted, is by no means inspiring. First came the Bland-Allison act, which, it was thought, would dispose permanently of the silver question. But it did not. Friendly as the law was to silver, the friends of silver soon began to move for Its repeal and for the enactment of a free coinage law. They manifested considera- ble streagth from time to time, but it was not until 1SW that they found themselves with strength sufficient in Congress to force a new measure through that body. Ther first play was for a free coinage law, but they finally compromised on the Sher- man act, which provided for the purchase of stiver bullion by the government nearly if not quite equal to the amount of the an- ual output of the mines in this country. The Sherman act failed of {ts purpose. Despite the government purchases, the price of silver buliion continued to decline. Then came the demand from the friends of sound money, headed by Mr. Cleveland, for the repeal of the purchasing clause of the law. A bitter fight followed. The sil- ver men, although by no means satisfied with the Sherman lew, resisted the effort at repeal. Thus the two sides appeared to reverse themselves. The sound money men, who had drafted the law, now in- sisted upen doing away with it. The silver ™men, who had reluctantly accepted it as @ compromise, now insisted on holding on to it. They claimed that, unsatisfactory as it was, it was all that stood between silver and silver’s annihilation. After a bitter struggte, the purchasing clause of the act was repeeled. Then began the agitation which culmi- nated in the extreme deliverance by the democratic party at Chicago last year. The lines between bimetalism and silver monometalism were gradually drawn tighter and tighter. until at last both per- ties were affected by the divisions, sound money democrats joining the republicans 4m supporting Mr. McKinley and extreme s. supporting Mr. Bryan. The silver question is of course not di- rectly involved in the currency question, but they are intimately connected in the popular mind, and it is easily to be seen that much of the doubt expressed as to the wisdom. of taking up the currency question now proceeds from the fear that Congress may undertake to consider it and decide it more from the standpoint of party politics than from that of a sound business-like public policy. If Congress disappoints this expectation It will do a very wise thing. In a certain sense, all questions of im- portance presented to Congress are polit- ical. But there are some that call for treatment upon broader lines than others. The history of the silver question is direct- ly in point. The compromises effected at every stage of the game in Congress were dictated more by partisan than by real financial considerations, with the result that the legislation enacted was not only shortlived, but unsatisfactory while it ex- isted. It failed of every purpose; and so will any currency legislation fail, if enacted more with a view of reaping temporary party advantage than subserving public in- terests in a straightforward manner. + es __—_. First Productions in Washingt A disposition is noted of late among theatrical managers to utilize this city for the production of dramas for the first time on any stage. The last three seasons es- pecially have been marked by a large num- ber of these initial performances, some of the most notable successes of several lines of dramatic effort having been first wit- nessed by Washington audiences. There is something more than mere cOdincidence in this fact. Managers who are spending thousands of dollars in these dramatic experiments are anxious that their plays and operas should be heard under the most favorable auspices possible and to this end they are eager to appeal at the outset 10 a high order of intelligence. Washington's population is peculiarly adapted to such an enterprise. It is composed, in larger Proportion than other communities, of people of comparative leisure and means and fs, in the language of the stage, one of the best “theater towns” in the country. It has obtained this reputation because of not only the generosity with which it sup- ports the theater but the discriminating taste it shows In Its patronage. These are ideal conditions for the purposes of the manager who wishes to test the practical qualities of his new production. The old phrase, “trying it on the dog,” has lost much of its meaning in the later tendency of things theatrical. At the time of its coinage and most general use it was con- sidered smart business for a manager <0 take an’ experimental production to the “provinces” for testing purposes, but latterly, largely through the intelligence ard critical judgment that Washington gives of the new dramas produced before it, “the dog’’ is recognized by the profession as possessing a clear sense of discrimina- tion. Washington has risen above the stage when its so-called provincialism might be flattered by such attentions from managers. It would indeed sometimes be more desirable from the average point of view that finished and polished perform- ances should take the place of these first productions, which are largely dress re- hearsals, but it is nevertheless gratifying to observe the faith that the managers now have in the critical judgment of the capital, a judgment that is almost in- variably borne out by the subsequent for- tunes of the productions first presented to it. —\~>+o—____ Short Skirts and Kaickerbuckers. The school authorities of Orange, N. J., are considerably disturbed over the matter of bicycle dresses worn by the women teachers. These young women, like many thousands of other American girls, ride wheels. They find the bicycle of material assistance to them in getting promptly to school and in giving them access to the invigorating influences of nature that serve to restore their flagging energies. Indeed it may be accepted that the bicycle enables them to do better work and the schoé! au- thorities, instead of quarrelling with the teachers for dressing In order that they may utilize their machines to the best ad- vantage, should ald them in every way Possible to obtain health, recreation and pleasure from the rational use of the wheel. There may be cases, of course, where the teachers go to extremes in the adoption of their bicycling costumes, but the action of the Orange authorities as reported is entirely too radical for the times. It is stated that they have prohibited the women teachers from wearing abbreviated skirts to school and trouble may result. This matter of wheeling costumes is causing some conservative sentiments to be gravely shocked. It remains to be seen whether @ general dress reform, such as in some directions is really needed, may not result from the wonderful popularity of the bicycle. The men who wear knickerbockers no longer feel timorous about appearing in them without the sustaining presence of a near-by wheel and the average attire of the male citizen has been materially amended. doubtless to his greater comfort, during the past few years. Judges, how- ever, protest against the invasion of the halls of justice by the knickerbockers and the golf stockings and some commercial establishments do not permit thelr em- ployes to wear their convenient and usually becoming bicycle costumes during business hours. But the wide use of the wheel and of appropriate clothes is gradually over- whelming these objections and the next century may open with both men and women enjoying far greater lee-way in the matter of accepted attire and far more reasonable and sensible dress than ever before. —— >+e—___. It will be hard for many a man in Alaska to understand why anybody should perpiex himself over bimetalism when there are questions of so much greater practicai im- pertance. ——++e___. Perhaps General Blanco would find the insurgents easier to handle if the fable of the spider and the fly had never been trans- lated into Spanish. . ———»ree—____ One of the greatest dangers connected with foot ball is the natural ané unavoid- able worry it causes paren:s and guar- dians. ——_~ 0+ ____ Mr. Hanna has the grip. Mr. Foraker appears to be losing his. —_~+ = —_____ General Buckner’s Letter. General Buckner of Kentucky, who ran for Vice President last year on the national democratic ticket, has replied in a letter of some length to an inquiry as to the future of the rational democracy. He writes clearly, and with his customary frankness and courage. He does not regard the move- ment as ended. On the contrary, he eees the same necessity for the organization to- day that existed last year when ft was brovght into existence. He propounds, in dignified phrase, the old inquiry: if it was S80 soon to be done for, what was it begun for? Defeat, twice sustained, does not dis- courage General Buckner. He refused to support the Chicago platform last year not alone because it was undemocratic, but be- cause, as he thought, it carried a menace to the government itself. The men who adopted that platform in the name of democracy still adhere to ft, and he still ad- keres to his opinion of the instrument. He cannot, therefore, as he very frankly states, affiliate with men advocating a policy dangerous to the country. Neither does General Buckner see his way clear to affiliate with the republicans. The policy of protection is obnoxious to him, and its latest legislative expressi@n, in the form of the Dingley bill, embodies, as he believes, its most objectionable features. And he doubts whether that party has the courage to rise fully to the emergency in the proper solving of the financial ques- tion. So that, driven from home by the extremists of his own party, and repelled by the policies of the republican party from taking refuge there, General Buckner Gecides to remain at the half-way house constructed at Indianapolis last year until things improve all around. Unless all signs fail, General Buckner will find his present position, honorably taken as it has been, an uncomfortable one to occupy for very long. A contest is coming which promises to make a mere Protest on any earnest man’s part not only unavailing but positively unwise. That contest will be between the democratic party as now organized and the republican party as now organized. The man who holds aloof from both will virtually throw his vote and his influence away. The sound money democrat will be callea upon to choose between silver monometalism linked with a tariff for revenue only, and sound troney linked with protection. And the free silver republican will face the same neces- sity. One or the other of those two policies will triumph at the polls, Confronted with such a choice, will General Buckner again content himself with the personal comforts of the Indianapolis deliverance? People who love to ridicule Governor Pingree will now do their best with the Proposition that potatoes cannot possibly be raised in asphalt. — Thorn’s alleged confession may have been the result of. a transitory emotion which made him prefer the electric chair to sny more legal debate: ——~-+e—_____ All that the reichsrath needed to make the occasion complete was a band to play “A Hot Time in the Old Town.” —>ee____ Senater Wellington will insist on parading the harrowing details before the public eye. —~+e___. SHOOTING STARS. An Effort to Be Just. “Father,” said the knowledge-seeking boy, ‘what's a fad?" - And after some thought the candid old gentleman answered: “A fad, Rollo, is something that most everybody enjoys except yourself.” Perhaps. Perhaps we would escape distress If toil which statesmanship exacts, Were spent on elocution less And tore on getting bottom facts. Slightly co m going to move,” suburban citizen. “This is a very nice place,” suggested his wife. “I know it. But thts thing of a fifteen minutes’ walk to the station is very fatigu- ing. And besides it takes up time that 1 might put in playing golf.” Looking at the Bright Side. “I mus’ say,” said the neighbor who had stopped to leave some mail; “that Uncle Sam is mighty slow in findin’ out an an- swer to this Cuban question.” “Yes,” replied Farmer Corntossel. ‘“‘But the situation has its hopeful side. When anybody spends a lot of time thinkin’ about a conundrum, it’s a purty sure sign he's determined not to give it up.” intent. exclaimed the Preparing for Real Life. “In some European colleges students have frequent duels and slash one anoth- er’s faces.” “I think I'll send my boy to one of them,” remarked the elderly gentleman. “It’s the only course of training I know of that will erable him to face the average barber with manly fortitude.” Preparing for Congress. Hear the pens ‘scratchin’ through the country, fur an’ wide! See the blotters flutterin’ so’s to git the ink well dried! Feel the telepathic waves a-comin’ ‘long your way! A million minds ts thinkin’, thinkin’, thinkin’, night an’ day! They write on economics like big leather- covered books; They'll reform the population, all but hired men an’ cooks; Petitions ts a-rustlin’ like the leaves where light winds stray, As these million minds go thinkin’, thinkin’, thinkin’, night an’ di ———__+ + ____ Don't Worry. From the Chicago Times-Herald. It wes lorg since acknowledged that “care killed a cat” and that worry slays its tens of thovsands where work kills its hundreds. Science comes to the defense of this philosophy and produces actual proof that worry kills as certainly, if not us suddenly, as typhoid or scarlet or yellow fever, and that many a disease thet is attached to some other vital organ originates in the brain. Occasional anxiety or care and trouble at interva¥s may do little harm. But in- cessant worry, disturbing the brain cells from day to day and week to week, will injure the brain beyond repair. The brain being the nutritive center of the body is thus unable to nurture the other organs, some of which will give way, and the vic- tim, though said to die of heart disease or lung trouble or disorder of the liver, ts, as a matter of fact, killed by worry. So, if the brain 1s exposed to that reiterated hammering of an unpleasant fear it will finally succvmb, and the human structure which it inhabits will tumble into ruins. The microscope is even able to detect this degeneration of the brain cells from week to week. Don't worry. ———— ~see____ Mr. Dingley’s Paper on Free Silver. From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Much as every true friend of American interests may deprecate it, it may now be regarded as settled that the congressional campaign of next year must be fought out on the line of 1896. When a state like Ken- tucky turns its back on Carlisle to follow Bryan, and a state like Nebraska, which sees before its eyes In every market the refutation of the Bryan theory that silver and wheat are linked together by the Al- mighty, still persist in bowing down to the silver idol, it is useless for sound mon-y men to lose sight of the certainty that the sixteen-to-one silver fallacy 1s only scorch- ed, not burned. Business men may as well prepare to meet this issue next year, when we hope it will be settled forever. ree ____ Riotous and Picturesque English. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. Already the free silver fetish exudes the phosphorescence of decay. It is but a bit of fox-fire, giving neither | ight nor warmth, and only visible to the eye by night! He who is deceived by it will have reason to regret his credulity. But the broad prin- ciples of democracy, unterrified and unde- filed, like the sun in heaven, shine for al, emitting through their Loren the light and warmth of responsible conservative government. ——r+e—____ Results of Nice Diplomacy. From the New York Tribune. Getting all Americans out of Cuban ons has been accomplished with tints little Pant but it is a bit of work of far greater prac- tical value end far more creditable to the administration than all the beating of tom- toms and burning of red fire and issuing of “ultimatums” in ell the world would have been. ————++e—__ What to De With His Scrap. Frem the Wilmington (Del.) News. Mark Twain was forced out of the Aus- trian reichsrath on Saturday and was as- saulted by a Czech delegate. If Mark shows his usual shrewdness he can sell the story of his for more than enough to Vienna, pay his board for « month in| Center—K Street—Western and O THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1897-14 PAGES. ) Everything fine and the finest of everything At G@. @. Cornwell & Son's. Judge a Grocer —by the Tea and Coffee he sells and you'll Jedge ly! He.sees a chance to make Profit because so few people are judges of tea and coffee, and will accept almost anything he sells them. We do Just the reverse! We are more conscien- tious abeut our Tea and Coffee than any other line we sell. We want-the best the world produces, and it is here for those who are connoissours. About Tea. It 1s practically admitted that nearly balf Qf the tea imported to this country is im- Pure, and that the law for its detection and cenfiscation is inadequate. What becomes of all this impure tea? Many grocers are {experienced and ignorant of the quality of tea and are readily deceived by the ap- Deurance of it, which is deftly prepared to deceive the eye. If you are not a judge of tea you may, through indffference, be con- suming a slow potson instead of a healthy beverage. Some tea is yet packed In China by Chinese hand and foot power. We han- eV dle only the purest cultivated machine packed teas, most of it being secured from the importing agents of the cultivators themselves, which insures its purity, for 50c.—better than any this price cau obtain elsewhere. ‘We especially recommend our 85c. Oolong! 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Tan Leather, Satin-lined Music Rolls............+2.++-» $1.00 Leather Chatelaines, in all colors and different makes of leather— 25c. to $1.89 Boston Leather Shopping Bags «+» $1.19 Ladies’ Leather-trimmed Sateen Shopping Bags.25c. and 48c. A very complete line of Fine Empire Evening, and Opera Fans— 69c. to $3.75 Dress Trimming Dept. 24 yards of Soutache Braid—all colors—for.................18¢. Navy, Brown, Green and Black Military Sets, four loops and seam pieces—for........ SBS 5S ss oy / All Colors of Silk and Tinsel Mixed Braids........... 2%c. yd. — Oe All Colors of Mohair Diamond Tubular Braids. ee 2'4c. yd. GLOVES. Ladies’ 2-clasp Mocha, 2-clasp Glace, 2-clasp Pique—in all the cor- rect shades and stitching. Cingler’s Dogskin—just the thing for walk- ing, cycling, shopping, and also some styles in these for evening wear. AC. LOTS OF CHEAP e Our Special Sale of Handkerchiefs is still on. 10,000 Handkerchiefs, including kind with initials........... 5¢, —— 200 dozen Fine Line Hemstitched.......................... 7¢, 10c. 1,000 doz. of very choice styles in Linen and Swiss Lace Borders— scalloped borders, plain and cy centers and corners, Values up tO 25C..-sacneeerereceesrscesertteseseetescecereseseeben sell DAC, S. KANN, SONS & CO, 8th St. ae Market Space. Seventh Street Entrance, Family Shoe § Store, 500 doz. Fine Swiss and Cambric Embroidered........... Shedd’s, 432 gth St. “The Shedd” In- candescent Gas | Burner, $1 | —put on ready to use, $1.25. 4 This Peerless Burner will : produce from gas a far more brilliant light than electricity— is easy on the eyes—and con- sumes LESS THAN HALF as much gas as an ordinary jet. Price, $1—put on $1.25. = Man (a0 charge for adjusting 40C, ©7Call and see it practically demonstrated if you want » THE BEST light at the mini- * ne cost. : '& SHEDD 3! | f cata Stoves, Lamps, Etc. 432 9th St. ae Astrakhan Reefers, $4.00. Just in--a special lot of Boys’ Astrakhan Reefers, that ought to go like hot cakes. They’re as handsome lit- tle garments as you ever laid eyes on--fine fitting and made in our~ usual good fashion. Just about a hundred in the lot--and we’ve marked ’em $4 instead of $5. Ages 4 to 8. We have about 15 dozen “Mother's Fri Shirt Watsis left. Some are piain whi Some of each sige iu the lot—balf price for choice. Eiseman Bros. Cor. 7th and E Sts. N.W. 1t NO BRANCH STORE IN WASHINGTON. Pease ee ee Ss ae aww YT RE iin ei EIS, FINNS an LE ‘ Fine Stoves ? ° Really Cost ; Se Very Little ( HERE-that there's no need for buyers 2 to purchase “cheap” stoves at “cheap” « prices. ) Rest makes of Ranges—$8.50 ( Best makes a Self-feeders—$7. Best mi if Egg Stoves— $2.5 makes of Oil Heaters, $2.49. fe Barker, yap | Best iY) & D. s.w.% STOVES, HOUSEFURNISHINGS, CHINA, —_? You'll Desiate —Holmes’ Home-made Pies the most de- Hiclons pastry you've ever tasted. ‘They're good from crust te crust, and can be eaten with the assurauce that ne ter or more wholesome in the was ever baked. Order by postal or ‘phone 1564. Delivered anywhere. Holmes’ Landover Mkt., 1st & E Sts. oc?0-8m.16 DOPE AL AHEOR ES OOERED SE REID iGive a man a Suit Case. He'll thank you for it. A “ good one costs very litte money. —Any case you get here you can rely on to gion We make our COEOLIVF9OG% own Suit Cases-—and can asyure you they're right in every particulier, You can miake a present of one with con- fidence. It'll be satisfactory. $2.75 $3.25 $3.75 ‘The prices for a Strong Leather Suit Case, leather corners, brass lock, lee. iy faished. light weight. 20, 22 and 24-inch $5.00 $5.50 $6.00 For Cases a uittle better grade: aol'd leather, frame, solid” brass ined.” 20, 22 and 24-Anch sizes. Sates, : : : A Good Gift | Cauaie | sizes, for a Woman. The New Oxford Bag. new siyle, » naw Right shade of Seether. F.ne brass trim covered frames, Teather lined, pacent ‘sliding locks and catches. To introduce it the prices are $4.50 $5.00 $6.00 For the different sizes. We're showing a more extensive line of Bags and Batchels this year than ever. —wNew effects in leather and trimmings—fine grain leath- er and alligator bags at every price. ‘Topham’ S,i ‘Travelem’ and Fine Leather Goofs Mane- 1231-1233 Pa. Ave. lenis po = st. Christmas Gifts—Useful, Ornamental, Satisfying, for all the household. Burt’s, 1411 F St. Arthur Burt.