Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1898, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Penzsylvania Avsans, Cor. 11th St, by Tae re Ser Recta Oey, Few York Office, 49 Potter Building, ‘The Evening Star ts served to subscribgre ta the eity by carriers. on their own a-count, af 10 cents per week. o- 44 certs per montn. jes at the ¢ounter 2 cents each. By mail—anywhere in the United States or Canada—pestage prepaid—60 cents per menth. Saturday Qcintepie, Sheet Star, $1 per year, with foreten postage 5 (Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-cla. + mafl matter.) £7 All mail subscriptions must be paid In advance. Rates of edvertising made known on application. Part 2. The Foening Blae.rwsie meow WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1898-FOURTEEN PAGES. Advertising is not an expense. It is a business investment. If you want to invest your money profitably you will devine put your advertisements in such a paper as The Evening Star, that is read regularly and thoroughly ah everybody worth reaching. ie Star is the ‘ized household and family Goal of the National Capital, and has no rival as an advertising med- ium. PT NOMEN SHANE EGH8, $=7.00 ahovdesdonteegongeeseegengrageesencn gnegngnngn er eazongn renege ener GUM eanrarean tahMannar ara ea GNIS” | LLL LLL LLL MLL LLL ALLY “Get It At Mertz’s.” = Our Wonderful sale of Cheviot Suits---to - order=== is still a mighty bargain magnet for good dressers. about yourself? Tailoring exclusively. Mertz and [lertz, “New Era’ Tailors, 906 F Street N. W. How | DE LOME AND AMERICA. Expressions of Opinion as to Ameri- can Women in His Book. From the New York World. From a man so happily situated in his comestic life as Senor de Lome, and who has received so many social courtesies at the hands of American women, it is sur- prising to find such sentiments as he 2x- pressed in his books “Around the World from Madrid to Madrid,” which he publish- ed soon after his first trip to this country. Referring to American women, he said: “We all know what woman’in the United States is. She is adv2nturous and bold. She travels alone, with full liberty, protect- ed more by fear of the law than by the respect which she inspires. She is spend- thrift, elsgant and wears the most risky fashions, knowing well that everything be- comes her. She is genteel; her feet are small; her hatr is beautiful. “Is she a woman who loves hom2? I do not know. I have seen American women living at the hotels in California, in Paris, all over Europe, always extravagant, spending more money than their husbands, of whom they do not know much—money earn2d God knows how or where. “Not the Worst in the World.” “Before marriage, as I said before, they are more feared than respected. When they marry how do they behave? Who can t2ll? Peopie have been inclined to believe that they make model wives. I do not think that they are the worst in the world, but there are indications which do not com- mend them much; for instance, the mys- terious history of a certain witch, who now owns a palace on 5th avenus, and whose fertune, of which she now makes an inso- lent show, was amassed by preventing the increase of population in the great repub- lic; the ‘personals’ in a New York news- pap2r; the excursions on steamboats, whic! follow the publication of these ‘personali their trips to Europe, and the lives they lead in Paris.” Of the stability of our country he says: “It ts yet to be learned whether the American commonwealth can continue as it is now constituted. Will the United States be able to exist when it has to con- frent the social problems which now at- tract Europe’s attention? Will the United Statzs be able long to retain the cohesion the federal Constitution de- frem which rives all its force, having, as the nation has, a government lacking unity and strength, as well as a corrupt administra- tien, to say nothing of race antagonism and opposing interests of the various states?” urther on he predicts: “So many opposing interests cannot long remain united. Time wiil bring about the fcrmation of three nations, in the east, West and south of the United States. If democracy leads to unity and to the sir_ngthening of the central power, dicta- tors will eventually become necessary in these three republics. From dictatorship to monarchy there is but one step, which will easily be taken by the aust2re republicans, who nov call themselves ‘generals,’ ‘pro- fessors’ and ‘doctors,’ nobody knows why, tor they are so in partibus. No one would more willingly than they assume the title of Duke of Connecticut or Marquis of Min- nesota.”* He had only ‘ontempt for our cities and our architecture, and seemingly lost sight of our national attributes in such trivial matters as waiters’ “tips,” for he contin- wes: Ideas of Liberty. “In these free countries liberty is for ho- tel keepers, for stage drivers, for train conductors, for Pullman car negro porters, not for the unfortunate being whose lot is to foot the bill.” With such views of our country and our people, De Lome was sent to Washington. His actions there did not even please his fellow-countrymen, for upon the assassina- of Premier Canovas a petition was sent to Madrid by many Spanish residgnts tere asking for the appointment of a strong su or to the Spanish minister. Shortly after his arrival here Senor de Lome made a short tour ef inspection of th ts of Cuba. Upon his re- ted a very speedy ending of He declared that American rs did not want the truth about the island. That was in 1895. ugele is still on, and the newspapers ue to tell of events as they occur. mee -coe z Capitol Notes. Senator Hansbrough, at the instance of the Secretary of the Interior, yesterday in- troduced a bill for the enlargement of Yel- lowstone National Park so as to incr2ase the area from 3,312 square miles to 6,566 square miles. The subcommittee of the Senate appro- priations committee in charge of the forti- fications bill began consideration of that measure yesterday. The House committee on Indian affatrs as reported favorably a bill to ratify the @creement with the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache Indians in Oklahom: ees Spring Examinations. The civil service commission is preparing to hole its spring examinations. The ex- €minations for typewriters and stenogra- phers will take place March 18, and on March 21 examinations for railway mail clerks will be held. On March 23 examina- tions will be held for filling positions in the government printing office of compositors, bookbinders, electrotypers, pressmen and stereotypers. On March 28 examinations will be held for skilled laborers, messen- gers, watchmen, elevator conductors, jani- tors and other third grade examinations. SENSATION IN CARTER TRIAL. Witness Refuses to Answer the Judge Advoente’s Questions. A special to the New York Tribune from Savannah, Ga., yesterday says: Proceed- ings in the trial of Captain Carter before the court-martial were lively and interest- ing today. Captain Jacob Paulsen caused a sensation by refusing to answer certain questions put to him by the prosecution. The investigation of specifications 8, 9 and 10 of charge No. 2 was gone into fully. This charge accuses Captain Carter of making false and fraudulent claims against the government. Captain Paulsen, presi- dent of the Proreller Towboat Company and the Savannah Dredging Coripany, proved a most interesting and important witness. Becoming highly indignant at certain questions asked by the judge advo- cate, he called on the court to protect him. He sa © Was not on trial, and would not answer any questions unless he pleased. This declaration was made when he was asked if there was not an under- standing among dredging companies here relative to bidding on government work. The Propeller Towboat Company had bid against the Atlantic Contracting Company at one time and lost the contract. Mr. Blair asked the court to inform Cap- tain Paulsen that the attorney general had recently ruled that a witness need not re- ply to a question in a court-martial unless he desired to do so. “There is no punish- ment for his not answering,” said General Otis. The judge advocate became greatly excited over the interruption of Mr. Blair, and said it was not law that a witness need not answer a question, even if it was the attorney general's opinion. He would never cease to raise his voice against such a decision. Captain Paulsen did say, however, that Captain Carter was a stockholder in his company. BARRING AM ICAN FRUIT. Correspondence With the German Government. The Secretary of State, in answer to a Senate resolution, has submitted the cor- respond2nce with the German government relative to the exclusion of American fruit. The correspondence begins with a cable from Ambassador White on February 1, announcing that the exclusion decree had ben put into effect the day preceding. Several cables passed to define the scope of the decree, and on the 3d Acting Sec- retery Day cabled Mr. White to prote: egainst the decree; to notify the German gcvernment that it was Mable to indemnity to shippers without notice, and for breach of contracts for delivery. If not wholly revoked, the decree, he wired, should at least be suspended to avoid the destruction of fruit shipped with- out notice of the prohibition. Mr. White replied on February 4 that he had antici- pated the instructions and had made earn- est representations at the foreign office. The original order had been mitigated, dried fruit had been released, fresh fruit in stock was allowed to be sold again and he was hoping for speedy release of fresh fruit. The customs authorities had acted with overzeal. Secretary Sherman concludes the review of the department's action by stating: “From the foregoing report it will be seen that the action of this government and of its diplomatic representative at Ber- ln for the protection of all legitimate com- mercial and exporting interests injuriously affected by the German prohibition was prompt and effective, and that as the mat- ter now stands the admission of American fresh fruit into Germany has been secured in all cases save where the actual existence of the San Jose scale insect upon the fruit or in the packings thereof is ascertained.” — BURIED IN A SNOW DRIFT. Body of Max Miller of Chicago Dis- closed by Sun's Rays. A dispatch from Chicago says: The great snow storm of the night of January 22 buried Max Miller beneath a drift at the foot of Ohio street and concealed his death until the warm sun of today disclosed the body, Men with axes chopped out the frozen body. James Murphy, a special watchman for property in the neighborhood, saw an arm and hand protruding from a snow bank beside the fence near the foot of the street while he was making his rounds looking after the property. He investigated and found the frozen body of a man imbedded in the ice and snow, where the high wind of the storm had drifted it against the fence. It 1s supposed Miller lost his way in the storm and froze to death. —-e2-—__ House Adjourns to Monday. Th2 House was in a very bad temper yesterday, and the whole session was con- sumed In fillbustering against two bills of minor importance—one to issue a duplicate check and the other to make Rockland, Me., a subport of entry. Neither got fur- ther than engrossment and third reading. The trouble arose over the enforcement of the rules against the discussion of irrele- vant subjects, when Mr. Handy a demo- crat, of Delaware, attemptzd to reply on the floor during the consideration of those bills to a letter recently written by Mr. Thos. F. Bayard, Secretary of State under the Cleveland administration, in d2nuncia- tion of the free silver democracy. Roll call followed roll call all day long, and par- tisan feeling reached a high pitch. Finally, when {t became evident that no progress could b> made with the bills presented, an adjournment was taken until Monday. GREETING TO BOOTH Founder of Salvation Army Received With Enthusiasm. NEW YORK AVENUE CHURCH CROWDED Senators, Representatives and Other Distinguished Men Present. GENERAL BOOTH’S ADDRESS All the seats in the large auditorium of the New York Avenue Church were occu- pied last evening by those who had tick- ets to hear General William Booth, the head of the Salvation Army, who then be- gan the series of meetings to be held in. the United States in the interest of the army work. Before the hour ar- rived for the meeting to begin the church was entirely filled, and the doors were closed, much to the disappointment of a large number of people who had come to the church in the hope that they would be able to gain admission after the ticket holders had been seated. Such was the in- terest, however, in General Booth and the cause which he represents that practically all those who received invitations availed themselves of the opportunity to hear and see the founder of the Selvation Army. A large number of those invited were ac- companied by ladies, and in the audience were many members of fhe Senate and House of Representatives and men promi- nent in the social and business life of this city. General Booth and the members of his staff, Mr. John W. Foster, who was chairman of the meeting, and Rev. Wal- lace Radcliffe, D. D., pastor of the church, occupied seats on the platform. There was an enthusiastic demonstration when Gen- eral Booth entered the church, and also when he took his seat on the platform, which was renewed with still greater spirit when he arose to make his address. Introduced by Mr. Foster. The familiar hymn, “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name,” which was given out by Commander Booth-Tucker, was sung with great animation, alhough the participation by the audience in the singing was appar- ently not considered by Commander Tucker to be sufficiently hearty, and so he pre- faced the singing of the second verse by an appeal to sound it out in genuine Wash- ington style. After prayer by Mrs. Booth- Tucker Mr. Foster made a short address, introducing General Booth. He spoke in appreciative terms of the work that had been done by the head of the Salvation Army, and said it seemed appropriate that the farewell tour of the country in the in- terest of his great work should be begun in the capital city. After the applause had subsided which greeted General Booth as he came forward to speak he expressed his thanks for the kindness and the heartiness of his recep- tion, and then, in his characteristic style, Procéeded to speak on the subject which is dear to his heart, the Salvation Army and its work. General Booth is not an orator inthe strict sense of that term, but he has the happy faculty of securing and hold- ing the attention of an audience. He im- presses his hearers as being very much in earnest, and he relieves the mental ten- sion which his presentation of such a sub- ject requires on the part of an audience by telling some story or incident or mak- ing some remark which is soméwhat hu- morous and which has the effect, so to speak, of resting the mind of the listeners, so that when he resume§ his theme he car- ries his audience with him with renewed interest and attention. Not a Personal Tribute. He said, in the course of his remarks, that he was not vain enough to suppose the reception which had been accorded him was a personal tribute. He believed it was on account of the work which he repre- sented. He urged his hearers to judge the Salvation Army movement by its works, and thought they would find something in it to praise. He added: “Judge us by what, by the grace of God, we have been able to accomplish, not by what other people think about us. There are traders in the weaknesses of humanity who do not like our work because it inter- feres somewhat with their business. And yet when I was coming through New York I was told that there are in that city forty- two low drinking places where our people are welcomed to sing, to pray and to sell their War Cries. “And I would say to you, do not judge us by our creed, though I think it fs sound. Do not judge us by our methods, although I think they are good. They differ from the methods of the Baptists, the Methodists and the Presbyterians, but I think they are good methods. We change them when it is necessary to do so. The Salvationist preaches, teaches, talks whenever and wherever he gets the chance. He prays and he believes in his works. I do not claim that the Salvation Army is perfect; I do not claim that we are the only ones who are doing good. No, there are bands of others. “Our work is among the great un- churched. In London, with its population of 5,000,000, there are half a million who have never crossed the door of a church. In Berlin there are about 2,000,000, and church accommodation for about 60,000. Fifty per cent of the people of the United States do not go to church. We send Bibles and missionaries—and I wish that we could send more of them—to the people in the so- called heathen countries, but what about the heathen at our own doors? We are after the poor, the down-trodden, the dis- solute. Of course there are some people you can't save, or, at least, it is exceeding- ly difficult to get at their hearts. Still, I believe that some of these Salvationists would try to save the devil himself if they could get at him. Forces Widely Dispersed. “We have preached to the people of Aus- tralia, in Canada, among your forests of the west, in India and Java, to Hottentot and Zulu, among the wicked of our great even to the very gates of hell we pursue crime. All of this has been done in thirty-two years, Only thirty-two years ago the army was founded, and then I stood alone in the wicked section of the metropolis of the British empire, and peo- ple fled from me when I told them of what I proposed to do. “Some people have an idea that Gen. Booth has had a fine, high old time of it. But we worked! Fourteen years we strug- gled, and then the movement overflowed in every direction, to the north as far as Iceland, and I tell some of my geograph- ical friends that if they do not hurry we shall reach the north pole before they do. Today we have workers tn forty-five coun- tries. There are 5,700 societies; 13,000 paid officers; 12,000 bandsmen; 40,000 unpaid offi- cers. We preach In forty languages, have fifty-one publications, of which twenty- eight are newspapers printed in fifteen dif- ferent languages, and having a circulation of a million copies a week.” The Social Work. In speaking of the social work of the army, he said that there are 415 institu- tions where this work was carvted on, and that there are 96 food depots, where 200,000 persons are fed daily and 13,000 are shel- tered every night. There are 69 homes for fallen women, through which 50,000 girls have passed at the rate of 4,800 a year. In conclusion, Gen, Booth said that while crit- icism was welcome, it was; unjust, in his opinion, to condemn the army without making inquiry. After prayer by Rev. Radcliffe, the con- gregation dispel! _ This afternoon at 3 o'clock there was an- other farge meeting held at the Calvary Baptist Church, which was. addressed by Gen. Booth. This evening he will speak again at the. New York Avenue Preeby- terian Church, which will bring to a close ue series of meetings to be held in this city. — AN ATTACK ON THE SPEAKER, An Incident of the Debate ‘on the Indian Bill. The consideration of the Indian appro- priation bill in the Senate yesterday after- noon was continued until 5:15 o'clock, when the absence of a quorum brought about an adjournment. Considerable discussion arose over an amendment proposed by the committee, providing “that hereafter no Indian or trive of Indians shall lease,for mining purposes lands that are not patented to said In- dians.” Mr. Rawlins supported the amendment, and referred to efforts that are constantly being made by private individuals and cor- porations to secure Indian lands, particu- larly mineral lands, by lease from the In- dians, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. He said that when he came here in 1893 an application was pend- ing before the Secretary of the Interior for approval of a lease of 386,000 acres of land in the Uncompahgre reservation, contain- ing valuable deposits of gilsonite. The lease had been obtained by an individual through the connivance of the Indian agent and at once turned over to the American Asphalt Company. The agents and attor- neys of this corporation, Mr. Rawlins said, had come to Washington and, representing that they controlled senators and represen- tatives and had great influence in high po- litical circles, were trying to force the ap- proval of their lease, Ultimately, he said, a lease covering about 5,000 acr Proved. Now, he declared, those sons were endeavoring to defeat the com- mittee amendment to prevent the Indians from leasing their land. He believed in opening the mineral lands by the govern- ment, the leasing of them to individuals or companies and the application of the pro- ceeds for the benefit of the Indians. With this argument Mr. Allen (Neb.) took issue. He maintained that the Indians had a higher and better right to the land than the mere permission to roam over it hunt- ing and fishing and feeding their ponies. He held that the Indians had a right vo mine for the mineral suppesed or known to be in the land, or cut the timber growing thereon, and if the individual Indian or the Indian tribe did not desire to mine the land, they had the right to lease privileges to such persons as they’ pleased, under rea- soneble restrictions to be enforced by the Interior Department. Mr. Allen said he did rot desire t impugn anybody's motives, but he could readily conceive that those who resided near thege valuable gilsonite lands, being thoroughly familiar with the location of the mineral deposits, might be anxious to open these lands to location by white people, as such @pentng would afford them an immense advantage over people from other parts of the country who were unfamiliar with the location of the de- posits. ‘The committee amendment -was agreed to. At the conclusion of the reading of the bill it was thrown open to amendment. Mr. Kyle (S. D.) proposed’ an amendment that all or any part of the sum of $168,335, now in the Treasury to the credit of the Sioux Indians of the Crow Creek reserva- tion, in South Dakota, may be used for the purchase of such cattle and agricultural implements as will vromote their welfare. The amendment was agreed to. Mr. Wilson (Wis.) presented and secured the adoption of an amendment appropri- ating $30,000 for school buildings and re- pairs on the Puyallup reser¥ation, in Wash- ington, In view of this amendment, Mr. Allison presented and had adopted ‘a committee amendment reducing the sum appropriated by the bill for the construction, purchase, lease and repair of school buildings from $200,000 to $170,000. Mr. Wilson also secured an amendment opening the south half of the Colville In- dian reservation, in Washington, to min- eral locations. Mr. Jones (Ark.) offered as an amend- ment_to the bill the agreement between the United States commissioners to nego- tlate with the five civilized tribes and the commissioners on the part of the Seminole nation, and it was agreed to. In the course of a discussion of an amend- ment offered by Mr. Thurston, against which a point of order was made by Mr. Allison, Mr. Allen (Neb.) made a sharp at- tack upon the Speaker of the House of Representatives. He declared that it was impossible to secure the passage through the House of many meritorious measures because one man stood at the entrance of the caverns into which proposed legislation was dumped and would permit nothing to be done about that of which he did not approve. He said that “in the other end of the Capitol this one man stands for 328, and his bold, unwarranted, undignified ac- tion was a disgrace to the Congress and to the American people.” Mr. Frye (Me.) said the senator (Allen) was himself out of order while speaking to a point of order. Mr. Allen sald he had no desire to violate the rules, and did not think he had violated them, as he had not referred to any man by name nor to any particular end of the Capitol. This was recetved with sarcastic laughter by other senators, and even Mr. Allen smil- ea. Further along in his remarks Mr. Allen reverted to the power exercised by the Speaker of the House, ieclaring that in view of the impossibility of securing con- sideration of meritorious legislation the truth ought to be known of all people in the country. If the truth hurt or ff it broke any rules he was not responsible. “I want it understood,” satd Mr. Allen, “that I hold myself responsible at any time and in any place for such statements as I may make or have made on this subject.” Mr. Allison's point of order was sus- tained by the Vice: President. Mr. Allen took an appeal to the Senate from the Vice President's ruling. Mr. Hoar moved to lay the appeal on the table. Mr Allen made the point of no quorum, and, a roll-call disclosing the presence of but 39 senators—not a quorum— the Senate, on motion of Mr. Allison, at 5:15 p. m: adjourned. * ———_ CHIEF HAZEN’$ SUCCESSOR. Treasury Officials agaig Considering the Questioa. Treasury Department officials are again considering the advisability of appointing @ successor to Chief Hazem of the secret service, as exclusiyely mentioned in The Star some time ago. Several weeks ago, when Chief Hazen was instructed to devote all his time and energy to the discovery of the counterfeiters of the $1#0 silver certifi- cate, it was given out that his success in that line would do much to keep him in his position. No progress. has been made in finding the person or persons who executed the counterfeit, it is said, and the treasury is considering the advisability of changes from Chief Hazen down, Severat of the de- tectives of the force, have been quietly dropped and more are to follow. The de- termination is evinced to make the secret service one of the most effective bureaus of the government and to rid it of material which is not.p) along that line. As heretofore stated in. ‘The Star, no de- cision has beeu-reachefi as to. time Chief Hazen shall make hj; de . and no one has. been picked eut to succeed him, but the cMange is not far off, ~ While Chiet Hazen was away searching for the silver certificate couhterfeiters, Ma- jor Brackett, the chief of the appointment divison, has acted as chicf. He is said not to have found the service as thorough as he considered it should be. TALES TERSELY TOLD Some Stories of Senators and Repre- sentatives Past and Present, ZACH CHANDLER AND HIS CORKSCREW How Buchanan Was Once Inter- tupted by Simon Cameron. BILL ALLEN’S CONFIDENCE ——_—_»—___ Colonel John O. Winship of Cleveland was in town the fore part of the week. He called upon his old friend and former chum, Speaker Reed, and they together re- lated many incidents of their early life in Maine. “Meeting Mrs. Hannibal Hamlin at the Shoreham,” said Colonel Winship, “recalls the last time that I saw her distinguished husband. During the Blaine campaign, in 1884, Hamlin made a few speeches in Ohio and, when he came to Cleveland, I invited him out tomy home. He was in a pleasant mood and told a number of funny 8_Jrles. One of them, which I recall now, I tell in his own words, as nearly as possible. ‘In 1852, when I was a democrat,’ said Hamlin, ‘I was announced to address a democratic meeting with. James Buchanan at Lancaster, Pa. Simon Cameron presid- ed. The meeting was held in a large audi- torlum, from which all the seats had been removed. The hall was packed to the door by men standing up. There was a perfect sea of faces. “I was the first speaker, and for an hour or more held the undivided attention of the big audience. It seems that while I was speaking several persors in the back part of the hall had suffered the loss of -seir pocket books. The sergeant of police, who was in the hall, worked his way through,to the stage and whispered to Cameron to an- nounce that there were pickpockets in the hall and that .ne people should be on their guard and protect themselves. “ ‘Cameron, of course, intended making the announcement at the close of my speech, but in the applause that followed he forgot it. When quiet was restored, he introduced Buchanan to the audience as their distinguished fellow citizen. Buchan- an got up, and, surveying the crowd of his old neighbors, began: _ “««T assure you, my fellow citizens, that it is indeed. a pleasure to return to my old home and meet you again. I like to look into the honest faces of the people of Lan- caster. A more honest people does not ex- ist than in this dear old county——” “Cameron just at this point thoug.-. of what he had forgotten, and, interrupting Buchanan, said: “«“T am requested by the sergeant of police to state that several persons in the audience have had their pocket books stolen, and to ask you to be on the alert to intercept the guilty ones.” “Of course, there was great laughter, but Buchanan passed it off casually and proceeded with his speech.’ ” “Lew Barker,” Colonel Winship contin- ued, “was without question the best polit- ical orator that ever lived in Maine.” And Speaker Reed nodded assent. “In the democratic state convention of 1862 a resolution sustaining the war was shelved on the table. Barker was a flerce Union man and, althovgh he had always been an uncompromising democrat, he picked up his hat and left the convention hall and never again affiliated with that party. “A short time afterward he addressed a republican meeting up im Androscoggin county, and among his listeners was an old close commurion Baptist minister by the name of Burbank. Barker was a very profane man, and his speeches were few that he did not work in an oath or two. Burbank was an intense Union man, and he was pleased to hear that the republican ranks had obtained such a valuable acces- sion as Barker. He called on Barker in his reom at the village hotel the next morning. ‘I want to congratulate you,’ he said, ‘upon the noble stand that you have taken in this cause. You have been favored with an excellent command of language and you are in a position to do a power of good. There 1s only one fault I would find with your speech of last night, and that is that once or twice you used ex- pressions that bordered upon the profane. Now, you know that the people around here pride themselves upon their religious breeding and the championing of only those things that are good. If you will only moderate your talk in such instances what you say will have a vast influence.” “Barker looked at him a minute and then replied: “You are right as far as you go, Elder Burbank, but I want to say to you that if I were to come up here and tell the people that I had been a democrat all my life and did not use an oath they would think it was a d—n lie” ” Senator Zach Chandler of Michigan was found dead in his room at the Grand Pa- cific Hotel in Chicago on November 2, 1879. That year was the first time that Charles Fester ran for governor in Ohio, and Chan- dier made a series of speeches throughout the state during the campaign. Just a month prior to the day he died he spoke in the little town of Chardon, in the nertheastern part of the state. Judge Ed- munds of Vermont, then a United States senator, was announced to speak with Chandler, but he did not put in an appear- ance, so Chandler and General Garfield—it was in Garfield’s district—addressed the meeting, which was a big one. There was no building in the town large enough to hold the crowd that gathered, so a rough platform was built on the east side of the court house in the public square. In the course of his speaking Chandler brought out his jack-knife, opened it and placed it across his notes on the table to prevent a brisk October wind from blow- ing them away. He was followed by Garfield, and at the clese of the meeting a crowd of the coun- try folk called at the hotel to meet the dis- tinguished guests. Garfield knew them all, and introduced them one by one to Chan: ler. The Michigan senator asked numer- ous questions about the farmers, their so- cial conditions, ete. He learned, among other things, that the people of the coun- ty prided themselves on their unrelenting antipathy to intemperance. One man re- gretted that the Michigan senator could not be present some time at one of their Sunday evening temperance meetings. After the crowd had dispersed Chandler turned to Garfield and said: “Say, Garfield, why didn’t you tell me something about your constituents?” “Didn't I tell you that they were the best people you would find in the country?” Garfield retorted. “Yes, but you didn’t say anything about their being such fierce temperance folk.” “Well, I may have forgotten that, but you have found it out for yourself.” “During all the time I was speaking my jack-knife, with the corkscrew opened, was in full sight of the audience, and you never said a word. It's too late now. 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Money back if $7.85. showing Men's Jaunty Spring We were $7.85 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEE EE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEE EE EEE: > from Detroit to Garfield, saying jokingly that he could forgive him, but he could not ferget. Garfield showed the letter to some of his friends, and the story, which caused much merriment in the district, got cut in that way. . The friends of Representative Frank M. Eddy of Minnesota delight in telling this story A big, good-natured fellow, who wore a broad-brimmed hat and looked as if he might be a westerner, started to ent2r onc of the doors to the Senate chamber the other day just as two or three senators and representatives were passing in. The doortender, who is a Rhode Islander, and a jolly, good fellow himself, moved toward him and said: “I guess you are not a-member, are you?” “Well, how did you know that I wasn’t?” the fellow replizd. “Oh, I guessed so, instinctively.” Just then Representative Eddy came along and went in without the doortender saying a word. Now, Eddy is zot so pon- derous-looking as some of his colleagu2s. “What did you want to let that fellow in for?” asked the big man. Wien he’s all right,” the doortender re- plied. “Good heavens, you don’t mean to tell me that he is a congr>ssman?” “Yes, sir; he represents a populous dis- trict in Minnosota.” “Well, well, well, there ought to be some hope for me,” the big fellow mutter2d, as he took a fresh chew of plug and marched away. ——._—_. GOLD STANDARD IN RUSSIA. Silver Coins Will Become Subsidiary Currency. According to a report made to the State Department by Commercial Agent Moore at Weimer, the following measures have been taken into consideration by the Rus- sian government looking to the more thor- ough accomplishment of the gold standard system: The cepacity of the silver ruble as the basis of the Russian standard is to be for- mully abandoned. Silver coins become Scheidemunze (smell coin change) for use in the interior; the value of the silver ruble is also formally put on a parity with the gold ruble. All contracts, computations, ete.,- shall hereafter read in the new monetary unit (gold rvuble, or “ruble”), if no other is agreed upon. Previously existing contracts and obligations in silver rubles are to be computed at 1 ruble; those in gold rubles at 1% rubles of the new gold currency. The old imperials and half imperials are to be withdrawn at once from circulation, in order to avoid confusion. Hereafter, the coining of a new 10-ruble gold coin (which would then form the definite basis of the standard) would be desirable, and the withdrawal of the newly coined 7: ruble gold coins advisable, for this coin will not be taken up in trade on account of the difficulty in reckoning. Gold bars, gold dust, foreign gold coins and old imperials shalt be accepted by the state bank and mint at a price expressed in the new gold standard. For foreign exchange, it is important that duties be calculated after the new standard; therefore, one and one-half times the old figures. The same is to be expected for certain loans, obligations and shares. 2° PROPOSED PERMANENT EXHIBIT, Suggested That One Be Established in Paris. Mr. Gallia of Paris, who is in Washing- ton, as the representative of ten leading French papers in the interest of French and American manufacturers and of the American exhibit at the Paris exposition, yesterday visited Speaker Reed and As- sistant Secretary of State Cridler in refer- ence to the exposition. He also called on Mr. Kasson, at the State Departme! who has the reciprocity negotiations in charge. Mr. Gallia suggested the feasibility of mak- ing the American exhibit in 1909 the basis of a permanent commercial exhibit, which should be kept up to date from time to lime by American manufacturers, and which would serve as a source of interna- tional exchange, where not oniy French, but other European, buyers would always find the best samples of American goods in charge of experts especially employed to foster the trade relations between the United States and Europe. This idea is strongly advocated by the French press. Mr. Kasson said that he personally ap- proved of the plan. Secretary Bliss re- ferred his visitor to a number of influential American houses which wouldbe likely to take an interest in the enterprise. This same plan was broached by Mr. Gallia to the mémbers of the American Manufac- turers’ Assodlation at their recent banquet at New York, and several of the big New York houses already are interested in it. —$$_-o+__ Trade With Eastern Asia. Commercial Agent Moore at Weimar has made a report to the State Department in regar dto Germany's trade with eastern Asia, in which he says. “The nature of the diminished export to the far cast from Ger- many is of especial interest to Americans, embracing, as it does, manufacturers of wool, iron and dyes and colors. The Ger- mans fully realize that hard and intelligent work is necessary to keep the footing they have obtained in the east. 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