Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1897, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR. prsbel Ad PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania owe Cor, 11th St, by The Evening Star Ne Com 8. H. RAUF! MANN Z Preset” : 49 Potter Building, The Evening Star ts served to subscribers fn ¢ city by earriers, on their own account, at 10 cents per counte week. o- 44 certs per month. Copies at the 2 cents cach. By mail—anywhere in the States or Canada—postage prepaid—50 cents th. tarday Qrintuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with reign pestage added, §3.C0. (Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C. as sevond-cls. 3 mail matter.) 1 subscriptions must be paid in advance. ertising made known on application. De you wan ter evidence that i pop: ular prices now pr 3 Go to Siceardi’s FOR BARGAINS IN HUMAN HAR Hair Switches at Great Bacgains. 00 Switches reduced te $1.50. 00 Switches red d to $2.50. 1.00 Switches reduced to $5.00. Gray and White Hair reduced in same proportion. Pime. Siccardi, 711 31th st., next to Pelais Royal. 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Evans’ Drug Stores?egan4 Conn. ave. and S st. and 1428 Md. ave. " de22-16d Dr. Haines’ Golden Specific Cures Drunkenness. It can be given WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PATIENT tn coffee, tea or articles of food; will effect a ——— apd cure, whether the patient Is a moderate drinker or an alcobolic wreck. Book of —- free, to be had of F. 3. WILLIAMS & CO., cor. 9th and F sta, n.w.; EDMUNDS & WILLIAMS, 3d_and Penn. ave., Washington. GOLDEN SPECIFIC Co., eee Cin. eionati,” Ohio. ‘fe2T-s, tu&th-iser THE STORY OF 93 Narrative of Queen Liliuokalani’s Overthrow. FACTS OF THE HAWAIIAN REVOLUTION Attitude of the American “Repre- sentatives at Honolulu. —— WERE ABSOLUTELY NEUTRAL > Seecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, December 9, 1897. That Queen Liliuokalani was dethroned end the “Dole government” established by means of the United States naval forces under the direction of United States Minis- ter John L. Stevens is a falsehood so persistently and incessantly reitcrated that people have become weary of contradict- ing it. No doubt many, even of the friends of the annexation of Hawail, have come to believe that there must have been” much basis of fact in it. The wrong alleged thus to have been done to the Hawalians and their queen is vehemently urged as a reason why the United States should pei renently be debarred from annexing Ha- waii, because thereby they will avail thein- selves of a flagrant wrong previously in- flicted by thelr own public — servants. Prebably this plea will be emphasized in debates Ia Congress this month. “Stevens created the Dole government, and now it is sought to use that creation of your own wicked servant to rob Hawaiians of their ge to Congress of December sident Cleveland indorsed that rue allegation as follows: The iawful government of Hawaii was overthrown without the drawing of a sword or the firing of a shot by a process h, it may Safely be as- y traceable to and de- access upon the agency is direct it for its the United States acting through its diplomatic and naval representatives.” » Mr. Blount's Report. Mr. Cleveland based his conclusion upon the repert made by J. H. Blount, whom he had sent to Honolulu to investigate the subject. Mr. Blount, however, had been one-sided in his inquiries, and had given the Dole and Stevens parties accused ne opportunity to rebut the numerous state- ments and affidavits of their royalist a cusers, or even to know of thcir existence until published in nis printed report. His work was an industrious collecting of evi- dence for the tion, and not at all an impartial inquiry into the truth, The President and Secretary Gresham, how- ever, treated his report as if it embraced all the truth. Two months Iater, the senate committee. on foreign affairs, through their chairman, Mr. Morgan, submitted a report on the same subject, reversing #lount’s conclu- sions, and declaring that “the committec find no cause of censure either against Minister Stevens or Captain Wiltse of the Boston.” This conclusion is supported by a large mass of printed evidence, most of which had been in reach of Mr. Blount, Lut was not sought for by him, notably the evidence of officers of the Boston, of leading members of the provisional gov- nment, and that of Minister Stevens himself. That evidence concurs in proving that throughout the whole revolution Minister Si ns and Captain Wiltse kept rictly within the bounds of their official duty, and lent no aid whatever, elther to the queen or to the party who’ dethroned er. I was then and ever since a resident of Honolulu, and a close watcher of the prog- ress of affairs. I was somewhat intimately acquainted with Minister Stevens, and with 5 1 leading members of the provisional government. I never supposed at the time that Mr. Stevens was rendering any ald whatever to the revolutionists, beyond that of the enlightened sympathy always due from a patriotic American to other Ameri- cans struggling for liberal and constitution- al government, as our pe had been do- ing for a long Ts against the arbitrary and despotic tendencies of Kala- kaua and Liliuokalani. The landing of forces from the Boston was well under- stood by all parties at the time to be only the proceeding customary at times of pub- lic disorder, and to contain no element whatever of menace to either of the parties in conflict. Such landing of forces had oc- curred several times, and was a familiar proceeding. I personally witnessed it in July, 1887, when the whites rose in arms, and extorted a new and liberal constitution from Kalakaua; and again in 1889, when Robert Wilcox seized the palace premises, and the same whites subdued him. The ob- ject of such landing forces was at the time defined by Secretary Bayard to Cleveland's Minister Merrill to be ‘“‘to secure the safety of American life and property, and to as- sist in preserving public orde: No Evidence of a Plot. There 1s not a single trace of document- ary evidence that- either Minister Stevens or Capt. Wiltse in 189% transcended those clear instructions in one iota, or took active part in behalf of either of the contending parties on shore. While the proclamation of the committee of safety was being read at the government house, before their own troops had reached the spot, Mr. S. M. Damon, who was not on the committee, asked C. L. Carter to go over and ask Lieut. Swinburne to send them a guard. Swinburne refused, saying, “Capt. Wiltse’s orders are that I remain passive or neu- tral.” Presumably no member of the com- mittee would have sent such a request, knowing its futility. I saw the provisional forces arrive a few moments later. Ste- Yens’ written requisition of forces from Wiltse and the latter's instructions to his forces are on record, and clearly prove the neutrality of their attitude. The charge that they aided the revolutionists is totally against the written evidence, as well as the testimony of the officers employed. John L. Stevens was an unlikely person to commit such an unlawful act as to as- sist in an insurrectlonary movement, how- ever just or promising of success. He was experienced in diplomatic service, having been for several years minister to the Argentine and later to Sweden. At the former post he had occasion to order the “landing of United States naval forces for protection of American citizens, and was familiar with that duty. In an affair like that which had been in progress if Hono- lulu for three days, and was about to cul- minate on the fourth, evidently no time was to be lost. Agitation was great and general, and public disorder was imminent, while the authorities were paralyzed. The minister would have been grievously dere- lict in his duty had he not caused the = forces to be landed as soon as he id. America Forces Neutral. From first to last those forces continued entirely neutral. Thelr written orders in- dubitably prove that such was the inten- tion, exactly as in 1887 and 1889. There was nothing whatever in their actions or attitude to prevent the queen’s forces from attacking those of the provisional govern- ment. Much has been made o7 fhe fact that the United States forces were quar- tered in the vicinity of the government house. That was proved to be accidental, and without forethought, the use of the building occupied having been secured late the night before, after unsuccessful ef- forts to obtain other quarters. It w: afterward alleged that an attack upon the provisional forces would necessitate firing also upon the United States troops. This . could not be true, because the latter were massed behind two large buildings inter~ posing between them and the government building, ‘and in case of a battie, might reasonably be expected to fetire to a dis- tances $ That the pressure €f the naval forces contained any menace to the queen's forces was wholly an afterthought adopted as a convenient plea for non-action. am cer- tain that no one belleved such a thing be- fore actual conflict became imminent. All were well.used to seeing naval forces land- ed in times of disorder, and read in it no threat to either party, but only that lawless destruction of property or of lives of non-combatants would be prevented. When the provisional government had been proclaimed with abolition of the monarchy, and the new government was in possession of the public offices, archives and treasury, and attack to recover these must be made at once if at all, the queen’s people had to hunt for a decent reason for shirking the conflict they felt unable to engage in with the determined and warlike whites. They found it in the pretense that they feared such attack would bring them into collision with the United States forces, who were really doing nothing to justify such pretense. Natives Without Courage. No one familiar with public affairs in Honolulu could think it probable that the natives would make any Stand against the resolute white men. The queen's four min- isters never thought so. They were palsied with fear from the ntoment that she under- look to proclaim a new gonstitution, whic they well knew would precipitate the wra of the whites. In their terror they hurried to give the alarm to the whites in hope of deterring her by the commotion made. Her own personal favorite and trusted marsha Wilson, a resolute man, warned her of the fatai consequences of such a step. The 180 rifles of the provisional government were amply sufficient to meet any native force that could be rallied against them. It would have been absolutely imp¢ ible to induce the natives to expose themselves to the sure and sharp fire of those rifles, and the queen’s officers wel knew it. Th good reason was that twice before, in 18 and 1889, the native forces had igne- miniously given way before those armed whites. On the second occ when the natives were holding the yard, behind six-foot stone lls, a num- ber of them were killed by sharpshooters, and all surrendered. ‘They had heen taught to feel the prowess of the whites _trresist- ible, and their officers knew ft. The con- fidence and courage with which the whites were acting were born of those previous conflicts which had been an effective edu- cation to both parties. To attribute the courage of one party and the fear of tne other to the very quiet ani undemonstr: tive presence of the naval forces is the grossest_ of errors, whatever Mr. Blount may profess to have disceycred. In farther confirmation ef the unfounded nature f this pretense, I adduce the testi- mony given at the time-by the Eveni Bulletin, an unusually ageurate chronicler of events, which was the ¢hief organ of the queen's party. On the evening of the proc- Jamation of the new government, the Bul letin made only the briefest allusion to th nee of the n: forees as if a fact and said that they were entire- ‘ot for more than a week did timations begin to appearin the paper t those forces had some ageneyin the re the ex-queen having then»decided 40. pr cute an appeal to the President upon that pretense. That she thought ef really mak- ing such appeal occurre@ to none of th: public at the time of hervsurrender, simply because the United States forees notoriou: ly had nothing: to do with that event. Th intimation of such intention made in he letter of surrender was looked upon by Mr. Dole and everybody else as being merely form of speech adopted in order to mitigate the shame of so speedy a surrender. The fact was too notorious that the Unite States forces had no connec tion whateve with the affair. Her transparent preten: ly quiet. proved, however, to have been a measur very successful with Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Stevens Character. Mr. Stevens was an earnest and spoken man, strongly American in ment, a out- enti- 1 loving liberal government. The bestial corruption and caprice of Kalakaua had deeply disgusted him. The hopclessly arbitrary leanings of Liliuokalani had of- fended and alarmed him, Her covert sup- port of the lotiery bill for several months had awakened his hostility, and her final open adoption of it completed his convic- tion of the near end of the monarchy, in which event he saw that the time would arrive to fulfill the long mahifest destiny of the islands to belong to the United States. All these things the minister diligently and dutifully reported to his superiors at Wash- ington, and those secret reports were af- terwards published and uscd against him as evidence of his complicity in the de- thronement of the queen, of which he had been merely a much-interested observer. I knew Mr. Stevens weil as an honest and upright man. In early life he had been a Universalist preacher, and continued to be an earnest Christian, with much of the old- fashioned Puritan in his tone. Lam mor- ally certain that he had no secret or covert policy. He was outspoken in his disappro- bation of royal despotism and corruption, and took no pains to make himself popular with the royal party. He was in strong sympathy with our large. and flourishing American colony, and did not hesitate to make that ‘sympathy understood and felt. When our hour of trial came, and we were compelled to take up arms in behalf of civilized and constitutional government against barbaric despotism and caprice, we knew that the American minister's heart was entirely with us, as it ought to be. But at the same time we. expected no di- rect assistance from him, nor did he ever in any way encourage such expectation. Our people knew that they had to work oui their own salvation by their own efforts and resolve; and that they achieved them- selves without aid. It is equally a dispar- agement of their purpose 4nd courage and of Mr. Stevens’ honesty, to make him the author of our well-conducted revolution. KAMEHAMEHA. 2+ IMPORTING SEAL SKINS, New York Importers Confer With As- sistunt Secretary Howell. A number of New York manufacturers of fur garments and importers of furs called at the Treasury Department yester- day and had a conference with Assistant Secretary Howell in regard ‘te the regula- tions which will be necessary “to carry out the provisions ofthe bilt recently passed by Congress, should it receive the approval of the President, prohibiting the importa- tion of what is known as pelagic seal skins. Under this act all seal skins not taken on the Pribiloff Islands are subject to confis- cation on importation into this country, and the New York importers who favor the bill asked that every possible precau- tion be taken by the department to prevent the bringing into the United States of the proscribed skins. Ex-Secretary John W. Foster, who accompanied the delegation, stated that. all. skins taken on the seal islands were numbered, so that United States consular officers would have little or no difficulty in determining which were contraband skirs before issuing his certifi- cate. The department's regulations will be is- sued as soon as possible after the bill has received the signature of the President. o—_—_ Cherokee’s Trip Was in Vain. Comnuisstoner Jones of the Indian office, with a delegation ofGherekee Indians, vis- ited Secretary Bliss Yesterday afternoon. The object of the vish wam to present the delegation, which called to secure a delay in the date at which federal jurisdiction Is to be extended over the Indian territory, which, under the law, becomes effective January 1. Becretary ‘Bliss informed the delegation that Congress alone had the power to change the date, and, as it had adjourned fur the holidgys, nothing could be done. FOREFATHERS’ DA Celebration Under Auspices “of Con- gregational Club. HEROES OF PLYMOUTH ROCK EXTOLLED Addresses by Chauncey M. Depew, Webster Davis and Others. GUESTS AT THE BANQUET —— Forefathers’ day was celebrated in a most fitting manner last night by the Washing- ton Congregational Club at the First Con- gregatfonal Church, on 10th street. About two hundred guests sat down to a fine pan- quet at 6:30 o'clock, having met in the par- lors of the church and indulged In a social session of about half an hour. It was with smiling faces and happy countenances that the officers and members of the club and the invited guests participated in the feast prepared in honor of the landing of the pil- grim fathers in New England in 1620. The presence of Chauncey M. Depew, who came over from New York to attend the celebration, and that of Mr. Webster Davis, sistant secretary of the interior, both of whom made splendid addresses, added in- terest to the occasion. Rev. Wallace Rad- cliffe, D.D., pastor of New York Avenue Fresbyterian Church, also made a stirrmg add: Mr. Depew had notified the reception committee thit he could not arrive until late. It was after 9 c’clock when he en- tered the banquet hall, and his arrival was greeted by an enthusiastic outburst. The este nt Table. The distinguished guests, with Rev. Isaac Clark, D.D., the president of the club, oc- cupied seats at-ihe table on the platform. Mr. Depew occupied the seat of honor at the table, Assistant Secretary Davis and Rev. Dr. Wallace Radcliffe occupied on the right. lace Radcliffe and Rev. president of Howard Universit with Mrs. Rankin. Among those present at the other tables were: Representative Nel- son Dingley and Mrs. Dingley, Charles W. Dr. J. E. Davis, Alfred Wood, Mrs. Helen M. Wood, Mrs. Sarah EK. Smit L. Mill- mor Mrs. J. owell, Re nd . Newman, Mi: Helen C. New- Lulu: W. Cummings, Mr. and Mrs. Elphonzo Youngs, Dr. s nnison, Mr. and Mrs. Gi s. J. M. Craig, Mrs. a Smith, Marion Smith, M. Catlin, Jerome GB. Johnson and wife, Mis rtlett, Mr. and Mr KE. EB. Claflin, John § . Farabee, E. R. Wiley Mrs. A. §. swell, Mr. and Mrs. William Lamborn, M. C. Rugg, Mr. and Mrs. A. Caywood. Mrs. J.P. Garrett, W. C. Nathan Bickford, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Crai Miss Mary Blizabeth Pond, Kirk Hoime: Miss Grace Holmes, Miss 1. A, Green, Sel- den M. El M. A. Brew Ben i W. Pond, Baldwin, B. Pond, Miss 8. D. H. Camp, Miss Effa » Mott. Miss Mott, Miss . and Mrs. W. E. . Rand, Mrs. M. Pherson, Mrs. A. M. Parker, Prof. and Mr George J. Cummings, Rev. and Mrs. M. Mr. a . Mi: Mrs. R. I. Proctor, . Hi. Clark, Stuart Ross Fishburn Mr. E. T. Clz C. Johnson, Miss Frances Wickham, M and Mrs. L. H. Harriman, Mrs. D. G.’ Pur- man, Misses Purman, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Pratt, Mr. ‘armody, Horace M. ls ade H. Bradford, F. L. mpbell, Mrs. F. L. Campbell, H. C. Surguy, Mr. and Mrs. ¥ nd Mrs. ohnson, T. Hughes, B. F. Bingham, Mr. George C. Maynard, Mrs. J. 'T2 Loren B. T. Johnson, W. G. Fowler, M~. and Mrs. Edward I. Morris, Mr. and Mrs. John Tweedale, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Bi Mr. Arnold Burges Johnson, Charl: W. Ellis, Mr. and Mr: iel Fraser, Fred I. Dean, Mrs. F. Johnson, Augustus Smith, J. W. ing, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wilkinson? J. Jennings, Dr. W. W. Foster. Mrs. F. Monta P. C. Claflin and wife, M Mabel lin, Mr. and Mrs. aa Cc. Squires, Prof. H. A. Hazen, William L. Pe: und wife, Mrs. S. L. Bliss, G. A. field, Misses Merrifield, Martha F. ice, Walter Allen, Annie Louise Powell, J. Walter Humphrey, Dr. J. W-. Bischoff and wife, Hattie Meads Smith, Douglas G. Miller, J. S. Raymond and wife, Nannie White, Sara L. Snell, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Reed, Helen A. Davis, Mrs. Charles W. Davis, Rev. H. P. Higley, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Perham, Mrs. Mary J. Seymour, Julia M. Pond, Harry B. Bradford, H. W. Birgo, Miss Anna Birgo, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Marsh, Mr. and Mrs. H. Clay Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Dingman, Miss Ding- man, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Duncklee, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome F. Johnson, Miss Grace B. Johnson and T. T. Stewart. Committee of Reception. ‘The reception committee of the occasion was composed of Prof. Geo. J. Cummings, 0. M. McPherson, Walter Allen, William Lamborn, Prof. H. A. Hazen and J. B. Sle- man, jr. Music was furnished by the First Congregational Church Choir, under the Girection of Prof. Bischeff. The feast was begun with ptayer by Rev. Dr. Rankin. President Clark introduced Mr. Depew. His address was on “Pilgrim Civilization.” Mr. Depew's Address. He said, in part: “That I skould leave New York late this afternoon and travel two hundred and twenty-five miles to dine with you, seems to justify the charge so often made against me that I will travel any distance for a dinner. But the fact that the dinner is the frugal fare of the Puritans also proves that 1 am not particular about a dinner. “Nothing better illustrates the progress of our century, and the difference between Forefathers’ day and our own than this trip. A busy man of affairs, I left New York at the close of business hours, I am in Washington in time for this celebration, having prepared my speech on the route. and, sleeping comfortably on the car, will be at my office again before business hours in the morning. “My ancestry having arrived in this country among the early settlers, on the cre side in New York, on the other side in New England, and having fallen in love and married in the old-fashioned way, without regard to race or creed, I can claim a membership of nearly every one of the national societies. “First, comes the Scotch, whose dinner is digested by bagpipes and indigestible with haggis, whose glory in literature and phil- osephy no one can dispute, and whose na- ticnal characteristic is that they keep the Sabbath, and everything else they can lay their hands on. “Next comes my own Dutch Knicker- bocker compatriots, believing that Holland kept alive the spark of civil and religious liberty, and happy in the wisdom of their far-sighted ancestors, who pre-empted the lard on Manhattan Island. “Then St. Patrick revels in wit and elo- quence, while the Welshman displays the intellect of Gladstone and the obstinacy of an army mule. Yankee Takes the Palm. “But for real, solid, unmistakable and honest claiming of all that there ts in this country, and much that there is in the world, of which the nineteenth century can boast and the twentieth century hope for, the Yankee takes the palm. Yet no stu- On the left were Rev. ! dent of American history and no American can fail to accord to the forefathers nearly everything which their descendants claim for them. The Homeric epic, the immortal poem cf Virgil, d the Niebelung Lied, have interested and inspired all the age: but the simple story of the pilgrim fathers leaving their comfortable homes, abandon- ing their propert and risking their lives crossing an inhospitable ocean and settling in an inhospitable wilderness, simply for | the privilege of worshiping God according to the dictates of their consciences, and enjoying the priceless benefits of civil and religious liberty, far and away is nobler, higher and more impressive education than all the deeds of the warriors and all the conquerors in the epics and the histories of the past. “We draw the line between the pilgrim and the Puritan. The pilgrims learned valuable lessons during their eleven years in Holland. Dutch hospitality, the open doors of the Dutch University, the benefi- cence of universal education and the bene- fits of religious tolerance made upon them an indelible impression. The forty fam- ilies who, in the cabin of the Mayflower, signed the immortal charter, first in the history of our race of the equality of all men bef the law, did more for liberty, for the upbuilding of these United States, than the twenty thousand Puritans who came after them. The pilgrims burned no Witches, banished no human being for conscience sake, but lived their godly lives at peace even with the Indians. They wel- comed and protected all who would come to them and share their fortunes. The Lawyers Excluded. “But the Puritan forefatiers, imbued with the spirit of the Old Testament, were very differ-nt persons. For seventy years they would not permit a lawyer in their colonies, which, perhaps, was not an un- mixed evil; but the clergy wanted to make and execute the laws. They created a theo- cratic government. We find mzny of their peculiarities in our own time. They were the progenitcrs of the political leader, whom we sometimes dexignate as the ‘bess.’ They believed in liberty, but only for those who agreed with them. believed in free speech, but only for thos who preached from their texts. They treated summarily the mugwumps of their y. They flogged them and bored their The mugwumps were the Quakers. they pu ed, and the Hutehin- sons, whom they expelled. The leader of independent thought and independent ac- tion in the church, which was then the political party, was Roger Williams. He found that there was no place for an in- dependent politician in the Puritan theoc- and so he set up, upon Narragan- , a republic of absolute tolerance and freedom of thought and Old Cotton Mather, the im- perious leader or boss, denounced the Will- jams settlement as the home of every thing that was vicious, revolutionary and criminal in religion and politics. Ammu- nition was searce and dear, and so they passed laws punishing any who wasted it Ty fusillades, except the gun zainst wolves or Indians— close season for shooting whom was directed there was no Indians, Talent as State Builde: hen A. Douglass once said that New gland was a great place to emigrate irom. The roving peculiarity of the Puri- tan and his descendants has been the sal- vation of the United States. They have gone into our new territories and with their inherited talent as state builders they have erected commonyealths which now form, from the west and the northwest, and the Pacitic slope, the strength, the glory and the hone of our country. Though always outnumbered, they have impressed their individuality’ upon the institutions of these states; they have carried ¢ the church 2nd the school house; religion and universal education have been their methods of solving popular discontent and promoting popular prosperity and happi- ness. They have believed and demonstrated the truth of their faith, that a home is not territorial and anc , but is the spot where the man has worked out his own problems in life, and, in working them oui, hi promoted the best interests of the family, of the community, of the state, and of the count “Plymouth Rock is row only a portab! stone, inclosed in the park in the old vil- st age for the reverence of e one, but there is no part of the United States where we ¢ mouth Rock hens and f Peace. “For the twentieth century the mission of the United is pe that it may capture markets of the world; peace that it may find the places where its surplus products, not only of food, but of labor, can meet with a profitable re- jent McKinley has struck the key- his nding policy of cour try, and recognized that our mission has changed from i velopment purely in the note which unded so loudly and so clearly for to external commerce, he has ce. ‘Thus the twentieth ceptury will reverse the nineteenth, the eighteenth, the seven- teenth and the sixteenth, and the United States will enter hopefully upon its larger mission.”” A Remarkable Age. Assistant Secretary Davis followed Mr. Depew. He said, in part: “This age in which we live is indeed a re- markable one. It is an iconoclastic age. Things that have long been accepted as established truths are being doubted by our so-called inodern thinkers. Some people to- regard as legends the story of St. Paul ith severed hy ; of Alexander the Great vceping because there were no more worlds to conquer; of Napoleon on the barren rock of St. Helena dreaming of faded glories. Scme doubt whether Nero was a monster, or Richard IJ a bad man. The children of the Tiber, wolf-nurtured, are at best re- garded as allegorical; William Tell has been relegated to the realms of myths, and Mazeppa, dear to every youthful heart, is aid to have never taken the ride which he im:posed as truth on Charles XU, after the fight at Pultowa; that he was not even a Ccssack of the Don, but that he was born in Poland and died in Turkey. “These and countless other hitherto well settled truths are often questioned, but no one dares to question the fact that the pil- frims did land on Plymouth Rock, and planted the germs of that development which we today are enjoying. And that Miles Standish, John Alden and Priscilla, the beautiful Puritan maiden, did live and flourish among those founders of the re- public. All honor to the pilgrims, When Danger Comes. “As heirs cf a splendid heritage, we should love our homes and our country. It is only when people lose their patriotism and become stupid and careless from too much revelry in luxury, peace and pros- perity that they are in danger. This has heen the road along which many nations and many peoples of all the ages in the past have gore down to ruin and* decay And the wrecks of their cities are strewn along the banks of Time’s fretful stream. So it was with Tyre, the queen of the des- ert. Her atmosphere was ever fragrant with the sweet aroma of spices brought to her fairs by caravans from distant clime: her raiis of commerce whitened every sea; the world was filled with her renown. But where now the splendor of her palaces, Where now the glory of her fame? Let the fishermen who dry their nets where Tyre once sat in glory answer the question. “Thebes, too, once the brightest star of her time, with her public places filled with wondrous works of art, challenging the ad- miration even of the antiquarian, who now éigs and studies amid her historic ruins. With cclumns and temples unsurpassed in the history of mankind, where the artists of the renowned studios of earth brought the products of their brains and hands to win the piaudits of the world’s lovers of art. - “Babylon, too, with her towers, her gates of brass and her granite walls, and with palaces wherein were gathered riches unsurpassed. Her hanging gardens, also, with trees of rarest foliage and flowers —_—. Advertising is not an expense. It is a business investment. If you want to invest your money profitably you will therefore put your advertisements in such a paper as The Evening Star, that is read regularly and thoroughly, by everybody worth reaching. The Star is the recognized household and family journal of the National Capital, and has no rival as an advertising med- ium. of varied hues yielding their rich perfame to make fragrant each passing bi ze, with fountains sending up their silver sprays to glitter in the sunshine, while amid the spreading boughs of the tr birds of wondrous plumage chanted their sweetest songs, until they il = melody the waving wo But finally the umbled | and the walls 1 bane queters, hastenin es, Join- ed the revelers in the garden groves and in terror together we The Conditions Today. “Today the pilgrim ik on that scene of desolation, and from the broken stone: and pottery they read its history. The owls and bats have their homes amid the ruins of the once famed palaces, and. amid the awful surging of that billow of desolation that now rolls over the place where Babylon once was, they hear the wild waves saying, ‘Babylon, oh, Babylon, in the midst of thy glory ‘and grandeur, thou didst slumber in the dreamy realms of wealth and luxury and fnactivity. Thou! didst lose thy pride and patriotism, and now. thou art no more.” So it was with them all, they slept the sleep of the slugeard, ard the wily enemies from without and from within their borders accomplished t down into oblivion,’ their ruin and downfall, so that now they te » only in legend ana story. Y patriotism and love of country tloom and blossom in the hearts of the present generation of free men a women, more than they did in the hearts of ‘athers and mothers who blazed the through the primeval forest for this unexampled civilization, and as they now sleep in their quiet home covered each springtime by wild flowers—nature’s Sweetest emblems of love and affection, may their children continue the work which they so nobly began. May the y guard well their beloved institutions and protect them from dangers from within as well from without our borders. and on these memorial in a mighty anthem of a a siving until their land shall be filled h melod, iy ee “Great God, we thank Tt 1 Where wanderers trom afar may cone Rev. Wallace Radcliffe, D. D., spoke om he Pilgrim F ner _——— PULL REPARATION PROMISED, Japan's Axsuranes Murder of Americ Further ¢ ils of the killing of the two American ached to the United States fleet in Japan have been received her Montgomery, it appears, was killed in Yokahama, September 2 last. He was Tot intoxicated, but was murdered y boat- Epps’ case was similar, except that was killed at N ki during t €nt month. The J Regarding m Sailors, the sailors at pres- panese government wag led to in each case. and, while some! have been made, the American con tingent in Japan feel that the perpetrators of the murders are still at large. At the Japanese legation it was stated that the Japanese government gives the amplest protection sailor: ity in the to foreign citize i that if there has been any lax- e s the government undout diy will make the fullest inquiry and rep- aration. In the affray at Kobe, Japan, September, in which a number of ailors from the Yorktown were said that the trouble was be- $s and coolies, and that the ame to the The cases are to be substantially similar to a number which have occurred in the western states, in which Japanese subjects have been as-| aulted by mobs, Several of thi cases are now pending before the Department, complaints having be by Japan, Japanese police the American sailors latter. 5 BOUND For 1 KLONDIKE. afer With Packs wed Food. Capt. Brainard to ¢ ers of Conde: David L. Capt. Brainard of the subst ence department of the army left here evening, after consultation with Gen. Miles, for Chicago, to confer with manufacturers view retief f condensed food preparations with to getting a supply for the Yukon expeditions, He will procced meet Gen, Merrian: at Vane T iain has been placed in f of supplies and their purci packing. He will go with the fir pedis tion to Alaska and thence through to Daw- all son, where he is under orders to meet and conier with Capt. Ray, who has not been heard from since September, when he was © City pursuing the inquiry into the 2 of things in the mining country. . D. B. Devore, military secretary to ary of War, has been order y Dr. Jackson to Lapland sing officer of =he party, and they on the Lucania next Saturday for Liv- erpool, proceeding thence to Christiana, Norway, and to Alten, where it is sw a the reindeer n has been gathered. Lieut, Devore is authorized to charter a vessel for tie transportation of the herd of GM) to the United States if found necessary ta do so. - —— OVER GEN. BULKNAP’S GRAVE. A handsome granite monument, erected national cemetery, at the grave of Maj. William W. Belknap, who was Secretary of War during the ad- ministration of President Grant, was turn- ed over to the government yester The monument was erected by Gen. Belknap's comrades of Crocker's lowa Brigade, the 11th, 13th, 15th and 16th lowa Volunteer Infantry, and of the Army of the T sec, companions of the military ¢ the Loyal Legion of the United State other friends. Above the ins in Arlington and cription on the monument is an heroic size bronze medal- licn, a likevess of Gen. H. Rood of lowa, pre lowa Brigade Associatio Higley of the same state, chairman of the committee, had cha of the selection of the design and butiding of the monument. PASSING CONFEDERATE MONEY. Belknap. Col. H. dent of Crocker and M: M. A. Arrest of Two Men in Iowa by Secret Service Officers. The secret service officials have arrested two men in Iowa on the charge of passing confederate money. Ordinarily the secret service could do rothing with a case of this kind, as con- federate money cannot be regardej as a counterfeit of government money. The men arrested, however, tinted the backs of the confederate bills green, and Judge Mun- ger held that this was with the intention ef deceiving. The men passed hundreds of dollars in $% and $10 confederate bills on farmers throughout Iowa. They went all through the state buying small quantities cf potatoes, passing the bills and getting good money as change. ———_-_____ Reciprocity Negotiations Suspended. The reciprocity negotiations between the United States and Germany are practically suspended. They never got beyond the initial stage. There appears to have been 9 willingness cn the part of both govern- ments to lock into the subject, but the inquiry did not develop any prospects of material concessions on either side. It was thought that the arrival of the new Ger- man ambassador, Dr. von Holleben, would give an impetus to the negotiations and perhays result in the conclusion of a treaty with Germany; but, on the contrary, the subject has lapsed and neither government is shoting any anxiety to urge the matter to a conclusion. The reciprocity negotia- tions with Great Britain as to the British West Indies are proceeding slowly, but an agreement is not expected in the near fu- ture. “