Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1898, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR. gee PUBLISHED DAILY EXCE! 2 Avy 1lA Ss, by The Eveninz Star Newspaper Company, 8. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. Few York Office, 49 Potter Building, ‘The Evening Star ts served tc subscribers i the tty UF carriers. on their own account, Yer week. o- 44 certs per monts. Co feunter 2 cents each. Ry mail—anyw in t United States or Canada—postage prepaid—S0 cen: per month. Seturday Qrirtuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with foreign vostage added, $3.08. (Ent Part 2. —_— Che Fuening Siar. Pages 11-14, ‘at Washington, D. C. as cecond-cla. 3 m 7 All ail » Rates of advert) ft matter.) scriptions must be pald in advane on application. WASHINGTON, D. C WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31 1898—FOURTEEN PAGES. Ss es a ee ee a te a ee a : peeeneeees : > oe i a a a a ad a a ae ee Ae te ts te a ee a ee ee ae Sertortordontertertontedt Player Bros. & Co. Coolest Shopping Place in Town. School & Stationery Supplies Time to be thinking of school and school sup- plies. We're making the first offers at the lowest prices that'll be quoted this season. There’s no one article in this list more special than the other. They're all far below stationers’ figure: School Companions, with lock and key..... See 5c. School Companions, with complete fittings............ 10c. S chool Companions, handsomely engraved, with inkstand, tuler, eraser, etc Noiseless School Slates, covered, 5x8 inches. Noiseless School Slates, covered, 6x9 inches. Noiseless School Slates, covered, 7x11 inches.......... Plain Leather Book Straps Leather Book Straps, with handle. Dickson’s Lead Pencils Senator Pencils (the best) Superior Slate Pencils Plain Slate Ftncil rubber ends... .. School Crayons, assorted colors, in box....... Best Penholders (red and black)...............2. Composition Books... : Tablets, all styles. cece Sponges, yood quality... . 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Pay as you're able We'll arrange the terms to Sheondonteegentendonteetecte We make, line and lay csrpets free. Waste in matching figures costs you nothing. We tack down matting without. : *Sdondonrontonioajeeinetnetoetenteeteatonetecfenfoatente sSostenteteete Sosiostolondostoesoatonieets Stteces Se te a a a a ee ee ee a ae ne Oe $ : ee our eyes may be warning you every day of their weakness—their inability to work without help. —The eyes are the “daily bread makers” for most of us. They are priceless to all. Don’t neglect them. imely attention will save future misery. —We put at your service the very finest facilities science can produce and money can buy. The services of the emi- nent refractionist, PROF. U.S. ANDERSON, for 10 vears chief examining optician for Queen & Co., are yours abso- lutely FRE He will examine your eyes and diagnose your case with care and accuracy. The new Ophthal- mometer is only one of the up-to-date appliances at his command. He will FILL ALL PRESCRIPTIONS AT HALF THE PRICE any other optician, will charge and furnish Glasses on Easy Payments. The Bargain Giver Castelberg, cision sore iY) 35 P ‘Al. Ave," Store, 108 N. Eutaw St. Established 1846. te eden edendonden ede rcoaseedondeaseencenceaenterdenseezendonconsneanranraneergnnannanegnnanngnegacontoage onsoasoageageaonseasvasoagonceaseaseaonse eso gee seegorcoaseetontedtede de sorted a a Ss i a eS Se Stee i ee 0k hs a es WW kD eae ee ee ek ee mn on on ea | Satro Will Contest Began. Four heirs of the Adolph Sutro estate bave begun @ contest of the will on the ground that the ex-mayor was mentally in- competent to exccute a valid instrument at the date mentioned in the document, Two of the heirs have not joined in the contest. PRESIDENT M’KINLEY He Shows the Effect of the Strain He Has Been Under. PLANS LOOKING 10 A VACATION More Mail Than Ever Received by Any Previous Executive. PLENTY OF ADVICE ee President McKinley shows the =ffect of the strain that has been upon him during the war. He is naturally of a buoyant dis- position and recovers quickly from fatigue, but during the war care has been con- stantly with him and he has had no oppor- tunity for recuperation. Nor are his car2s over yet. Loss of color and drawn lines in his face testify to the wear on his consti- tution. He has not been sick, however, and has come out of the many trials that have beset him better than might have been anticipated. Public attention has been so absorbed with the war that it has hardly occurred to any one that the President, while hay- ing all these cares, was also b>ing troubled by office seekers. It is a fact, howe’ that some cf the most troublesome ques- tions of civil patronage have pressed them- selv2s upon his attention and are now bothering him. A number of persons who feel and whose friends feel that they are entitled to some recognition which it has as yet been impossible to giv: them are becoming importunate and the considera- tion of their d>mands have been and still are troubling the President. The perplex- img question is how to find means to grati- fy the demands. Political questions have not been entirely obscured by the war. Plans for a Vacation. The President is now considering plans for a vacation. He feels the need of it, and expects all the debility he suffers now from overwork to disappear as socn as he can enjoy a few hours of fr2edom. It is remarkable how quickly he recuperates after a protract>d period of fatigue when he gets a few days of “liberty.” When he started on his vacation last year after a struggle of many months with patronage hunters he looked as if he were on the verge of a breakdown, but those who ac- companied him say that twenty-four houi after he had settled down for a rest, di missing all cares, he became sprightly ard appeared as if he never had been worried. In this respect he has great confidence in limself and suffers none of those alarms about his health which were so common to Prestdent Cleveland. Though he does not make the same claim to enjoyment of sport, such as fishing, that Clev:land 4id, he enjoys an out-of-door life and shows great buoyancy under {ts influence. He gets more of the poetic enjoyment cut of nature than Cleveland did. After his visit to Montauk, the President expects to take possibly ten days’ vacation, and the first part of October expects to go to the Omaha exposition. The plans for this trip are under consideration, and there is un interesting question as to what the character of the trip shall be. Feeling the need of rest, the President is inclined to take his ease on the trip as far as possible, and would like to couple with it a sail There is a demand, how that he make a tour of the country n Washington and Omaha, and pos- extended beyond that, stopping at a number of places along the line. It is re- garded as likely that this program will be carried Out, and that the President will spend three or four weeks, beginning cariy in October in a tour of the west and mid- die west, to see and be seen by the people, and, of course, making some spe along the route. The matter is now under advisemert, but is not settled. An Astounding Mail. President McKinley has a most astound- ing mail. It is a matter of office recoré that he receives more letters than has any of his predecessors in the White House. There are frequently as many as twelve hundred letters received in a day, and the average daily mall does not fall far short of a thousand. The force of executive clerks has been increased from one aimin- istration to another until now there is a considerable number, and they are kept busy from early in the morning until, gen- crally, 11 o'clock at night. Every letter re- ceived is answered within twenty-four hours after it reaches the White House. This habit of prompt response encourages correspondence, the writers feeling that their letters are appreciated and probably welcome, but the President insists that every communication, of whatever chars ter, and from however humble a citizen, shall receive respectful consideration and a polite, response. Therefore, even letters thet are from obvious cranks are politely acknowledged. McKinley has probably as wide a persoral acquaintance in this coun- try as was ever enjoyed by a man who has held high position in the government. This leads to the receipt of a great many let- ters, and they have to be read with a great deal of care. Matters which would ordi- aiong the lakes. ever, narily be to the departments are called to his attention by thousands of men who souat aay enein personal acquaintance with he President serving them if the: z him direct. De re ee: Tenders of Advice. Probably no man in the White House ever before got as much “assistance” in the way of advice from people outside as dces President McKinley. ‘The existence of the war and the discussion of a new for- eign policy has apparently excited a de- sire on the part of a large percentage of the American citizens ts in some way aid by suggestion In the settlement of all diffi- cult problems which confront the admin- istration. This giving of advice by mail is not confined to that class of citizens who win for themselves the title of crank by their superserviceableness in the way of advice to all people on all oceastons. The newspapers have on several occasions said that the President was trying to sound public sentiment so as to be able to take into consideration the wishes of the people in the matter of a national policy. These publications have been fruitful of many letters. Not an inconsiderable number of letters of advice have come from men who have figured at some time or are now figuring in public affairs. They have been received from ex-cabinet officers, diplomats —some of foreign countries—senators and ex-senators and men of local prominence of various pursuits and from vartous parts of the country. Many of those that have been received from men who have not figured in official life inclose a clipping from some newspaper reciting the desire of the President to know how the people are thinking, as an excuse for writing. Some of the communications are learned and the product of a capable mind. Of course there are thousands from unknown persons and frem thosc who are obviously cranks or theorists with a hobby. It is Boiled Down. Obviously it is impossible for the Presi- dent himself to read all the letters re- ceived. The mail Is boiled down as much as possible, and most of the letters pre- sented for his perusal are triefed. Not mere than one-third actually come to his attention, but that number is enough take up much of his time and to involve @ great deal of labor. No letter, however, goes unanswered, and it not happens that the recipient of a letter in reply to a communication to the President appears afterward at the White House and presents the letter as credential to prove that he is of sufficient importance to be given an audience with the President. He thinks that the letter from the President ought to be sufficient evidence of his con- sequence to overcome any reluctance onJ the part of the subordinates to give him free admission to the executive presence. The Grambling Soldier. To the Editor of The Evening Star: Uncle Toby records that “our army swore terribly in Flanders,” and when lying long in our early camps we veterans of ’61 to §> were terrible grumblers, and generally the greatest grumblers were the best sol- diers. Those milk and water men, who took all inconveniences and annoyances without any protests, who had no courage to “kick,” never showed any marked cour- age in the face of the enemy. Grumbling is the voice of discontent, and it is useful as a safety valve. Men, aching for activity, kept long in the horrible mo- notony of camp life, must grumble, or sink into an apathy that unmans them. Such men kad better be early discharged. What would they do at Santiago, than which his+ tory records no more fearful campaign? But there your grumblers would come out large. Growling over the monotony of the best of soft bread and the sweetest of fresh beef at Camp Alger, at Santiago you would find him gulping down his half-boiled coffee minus sugar, chewing his oily “sowbelly and rhaps knocking worms out of his ‘pan evar bright and cheerful, only begrudging the time it took to eat, like heroes, who rebuked the admiral drawing temporarily away from the for enemy to let the men have their breakfast, lly profane remark, “To with the patriotica h— with breakf What has tran the hero? Simpl thing to do, something he can se2 it: formed the grumbler into you have given him som th of, something he left home to do, some- thing that makes him respect himself. You have brought the man to the surface. And even when a bullet topples him over he doesn’t grumble. That’s business; that’s what he came for, and neither in hospital does he grumble, though he may grewl a little that the surgeon does not patch him up faster so he may have anothcr whack at the Spaniards. This is the way the men really feel, and nearly every soldier of the rebellion will vouch for it. Monotony is the great dread of soldiers, and monotonous routine is the quintescent curse of life. Three years I was in the office of the first controlier of the treasury, add, add, adding all the weary days, with no more need of brains than when I was twelve years old. Every day was a small eternity, and the clock seemed to be sta- tionary. I would wash my face half a dozen times a day to keep me awake. ‘The quarterly accounts came te me from the treasurer, and accompanying them were the register’s papers, showing that his clerks had examined them all and found them O. K.; and, knowing that I could find no errors, I had to govall over them, and in those three years never found an opportunity to change a penny. I felt 1 was preparing for a home at St. Elizabeth, and Assistant Secretary Nettleton being my personal friend, I went to him and “kicked.” He laughed long and cheerily, and responded: “Captain, you are like a lazy bulldog in an orchard.. Thieves know you are there, so they do not molest the orchard. But for knowing that they would almost strip the orchard. So keep on and je yourself with the comsciousness ‘ou are of some good in the world.” course Iam not a spring chicken, and if that were a purgatory to me, what must. the monotony of camp Hfe be to “our boys?” So let them grumtie. -Granting in all, yet most of boys enlisted to the’ world, to some variety into their lives and to gratify their love of excitement. Their first the patriotic instinct those @ week in camp, everything is new, and drill is a pleasure, and the polishing of their guns a fine art, and scarcely did “mother” ever get up such palatable meals, and look- ing up from their rough beds through their tents they could see the stars, and their lots were cast in Arcadia. But one month, two months, three months pass, and some of the troops have been ordered “to the front.” To the front! Magic words, so full of cheer, so full of hope of showing them- selves men, so radiant with the halo of heroism that is to make them heroes in their home neighborhoods. But they don't move. Do you wonder that some of them visit us and “paint the town that some who never tasted liquor before at au fou” go singing through our streets, “We won't go home till morning, till broad daylight?” Many a time a spree means no depravity that would shame their moth- ers, but only the young man's uncontrolla- ble desire to be doing something, just as a Woman, a department clerk, said to me: “I sometimes wish I were a man, and | would go off on a spree; yes, a regular jam- boree, and I believe I would return to my monotonous work a better and more etli- cient clerk.” But when the boys tell you that at Camp Thomas, Camp Alger and other home cainps they are half starved and can’t get cnough to eat, tell them for me they lie— under a mistake—and you can afford to make that dash very long. That's all rot. Never in the history of the world were sol- diers so well fed as in our home camps. A pound loaf of the best of fresh bread every day, one and a quarter pounds of fresh beef (or three-quarters of a pound of salt meat), three quarts of coffee (occa- sicnally tea in lieu thereof), plenty of su- gar, beans, rice and potatoes—that is a man’s daily ration, and no man in camp ever ate it all. My company in 1862, lying in camp for three months, saved $100 a month by not drawing all our rations, and with the money the government paid us for rations not drawn supplied our table abundantly with butter, pickles and other delicacies. Men lying around to do, less to read hot camps, with little and hope of activity dying out, eating their full rations would kill them. Think of three quarts of strong coffee a day. None too much on a march, but fatal in camp. Fresh bread (men get to loathe it and fall back on hardtack), fresh beef, coffee, some potatoes, beans and rice, three times a day and thirty days every summer month, and the monotony drives away appetite. Try it at home and you will understand the matter. When you have a fair, ordinary dinner, and you see a soldier boy passing by, -hajl him and invite him to dine with you, and you will open your eyes to see him eat, and then your wife will say, ‘Poor, dear boys, they do half starve them over there in camp.” Now, let that same wife step over to my house to dine, and she will eat so much as to be half ashamed. Variety is the spice of life, and that, not that you half starved her, explains all. I repeat it, no soldiers in the world have ever been fed and cared for as have our soldiers, and yet the reading of many of our papers would leave foreigners to conclude that we were parsimonious monsters, Let us cease to foul our own nests, z August 29, 1898. . T. J. —.___. LIEUT, COL. HENRY IN PRISON. Confesses Authorship of a Letter Af- fecting the Dréytus Case. Lieutenant Colonel Henry, who was one of the witnesses in the recent trial of Emile Zola to contradict minor points of testimony given by Colonel Picquart, and who was subsequently wounded in a duel with the latter officer, was arrested yes- terday at Paris and conducted to Fort V1 lerien by order of the minister of. war, Godofroy Cavaignac. The papers say that owing to a letter from Colonel Picquart to M. Cavaignac, revealing matters which professional se- crecy had hitherto.preyented him = ss of the general staff on the Dreyfus affair. epee Lieutenant Colonel 4 on./being pressed with questions; 3 it he Of three documents colsieiet wath te aoe o1 viction of Dreyfus. > Pt OPEC EEE EDGE EL EEO GID, settee tectetectneeeeeeeetenetetenetepetetetetetetetetetetetetetecteteceteeneneecteeeneeet D@LD 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 meJ- ium. SSeeseede NSostenseseaseetenseeters ea et te ee RR De ie Ee te at eR ee ae ee a & We've made another big purchase that results in + another big bargain for you. Castelberg’s undersellings = ,are growing greater every day. This special is a = : world) beater. | HIGH-GRADE SOLID GOLD ~ LINK CUFF BUTTONS—beautiful designs — goods 3 that never did sell less than $4, for $1.75. Think of it. RE There’s at least $1.50 worth of pure gold in each pair, to + say nothing of the value of the workmanship, etc. 3 = These are the greatest bargains we've offered yet. < ve 6) Only 400 sets—POSITIVELY ONE TO A CUS- ° 3 TOMER. z ° : All Engraving Free! : & < & And we make this offer for doubters—if your pur- $ chase doesn’t prove satisfactory after a month’s trial xe bring it back and get the full amount you paid for it. Goods to the amount of $ro or over will be sent C.? $ O. D. to any part of the United States—subject to exami- ES : nation. Prices guaranteed 20 per cent lower than any- + body’s. 3 $ : Any honest. man or woman is entitled to CREDIT: 3 = here. Small weekly or monthly payments. < 3 TEL E The Bargain Giver 3 | CASTELBERG, ™ | 5 and Reliable Jeweler, z : 935 Pa. Ave. g Baltimore Store, 108 N. Eutaw St. Established 1846. + 5 a DIVIDING THE SAMOANS Indications Favoring the Adoption of the American Plan. Proposed Parceling Out of the Is- lands Among United States, Great Britain and Germany. The State Department has not yet been officially advised of the reported death of King Malietoa of Samoa, and must, in all likelihood, remain in official ignorance of the event for some time to come, owing to the slow means of communication at the disposal of the department. It is the gen- eral impression that the death of the king will result in the overthrow of the present form of government of the islands, main- tained by the joint action of the United States, Great Britain and Germany. The official reports made to the State Depart- ent reveal the fact that this government is the most expensive and unsatisfactory of any in the world, having regard to the population of the Samoan group. In the capital city, Apia, there is maintained tripartite municipal government at vast pr: pordonate expense; yet the reporis show that only 32 rate payers are obliged to bear the entire cost. For some years back the existing arrangement, as between the United States, Great Britain and Germans, for the government of the Samoan group has been satisfactory to neither party, yet it has been continued for the reason ‘that nothing better could be suggested that would be acceptable to the three nations. The American Pian. Now there are indications that at least one of the parties is coming around to what was a favorite plan of settlement of the State Department, namely, a disruption of the present tripartite government and an absolute division of the islands of the group between the United States, Great Britain and Germany. The principal object of this government has been to retain pos- session of a coaling station, or, even better, a full naval station in the islands, so as to afford a base for naval operations in the vicinity of Austraiasia, as well as to in- sure an open port for our merchant steam- ers on the long voyage from San Francisco to Australia. The United States now holds title to some ground for a coal station at Pago Pago, on the Island of Tuitwila. This island is the smallest of the group, but is large enough to support a naval station, so that it has been the desire of the Stat Department to acquire it as a whole in th event of the dissolution of the tripartite agreement. The Division. Basing the division on the existing inter- ests of the three nations, Germany, hold- ing the largest interest, would take the island second in size, possessing the capital, Apia, while Great Britain would receive the largest of the group, but the second in commercial importance. It is probable that among the first duties falling to Mr. Hay when he assumes the office of Secretary of State will be the con- sideration of some plan to tide over the crisis which is expected to follow the death of the king. + THE 7iST NEW YORK. Private Murphy Emphatically Denies Charges Against the Regiment. Private Robert E. Murphy of this city, who enlisted at the beginning of the war in the 7ist Regiment, New York Volunteers, and accompanied his regiment to and from Cuba as a member of Company H, talked ‘with a Star reporter today over the sundry charges made against the 7ist about its alleged conduct at Santiago. , ‘All these charges against us of coward- ice, fright and being panic-stricken are ab- solutely false in every particular,” said Private Murphy. ‘The 7ist never went on { Ss Last Week of our clearing up. one of those suits at \ aS) clearing price. ( Mertz and Mertz, Tailors, 906 F Street. Ss a a a a DODDS SS SH SS + You'd better ( ) get in and leave your measure for \ SOOO DQDDDRNDDDLDDN9N9 NO DY] DODODODDDOSD DTW or twenty minutes. When we again received orders to move we went forward as quick- ly and as readily as any regiment ever did. Not a man faltered. “We lost about fifteen men killed and about sixty or seventy wounded, our cas- ualties being equal to those of any other regiment at Santiago. It’s an infernal shame that such stories should be put out to do a fine regiment an injury.” +0 <+______ Planisphere of the Heavens. To the Editor of The Evening Star: In an issue of your valuable paper some months ago I called attention to the great satisfaction derived from reading the as- tronomical articles und studying the plani- spheres of the heavens you publish the first Saturday of every month. I have placed those articles, with their re- spectiv? maps, In a five-cent blank book. The collection for a year is a most valuable volume, and affords a ready guide for intel- ligent star gazing. I have taken pains to call atiention of friends to these valuable contributions to popular science, and urged them to make their own books as I have in- dicated. If this advice were generally heed- ed by the thousands of readers of The Star I am certain their attention would be called away from earth and earth scenes, and they would, 1 doubt not, be greatly bene- fited in every rational way. I would like to suggest farther that your astronomical writer also prepare articles and sketches representing the heavens at say about 4 o'clock in the morning. At this Season of the year the heavens present, at that hour, some interesting stars and con- stellations. They will richly repay study, and your contributor and The Star will ren- der a ee ache to the interesting study of the starry heavens. J. FRAISE RICHARD. August 29, 1898. =d sik aS Pension Attorneys Disbarred. John T, Wilson, a pension claim attorney of Norfolk, Va., has been disbarred from further practice for improper execution of pension vouchers. Noah C. Pitts, pension claim attorney of Greensville, Ky., has been disbarred for im- personating a government officer. Henry F. Hill, pension claim attorney. | THE FISHERIES QUESTION. It Has Been ‘iven Some Attention at the Quebec Conference. The work of the arbitration commissi at Quebec is evidently increasing. E: day more time is devoted to the sess and last night the America canceled all social engagements session by lamp light. A matter which was not mentioned ii the general protocol will probably soon be brought to the attention of the American commissioners. They will be asked to con- sider the question of a monument for Gen. Mcntgomery, who was killed here while deading @ detachment of American troops in 775. The Gloucester, Mass., fishermen ha: plied for @ hearing before the Amer! delegation, and a representative of their interests will probably ve heard today or In fact, it is 2 fisheries question has already been taker up and has been given considerable atten- i heid a tion in the discussions. ————+o-+—____ ANOTHER UPRISING IN CHINA, American Co: Demands Prompt Suppression of Disturbances. The Kwang-Si rebellion in China, which has been quiescent for some time, shows signs of serious recrudescence. The rebels are in great force fifty miles northwest of Canton and are preparing to attack the city. Tan, the viceroy of Lang-Kwang, has protested against the surrender of Kwang- itch troops to suppress the rebellion in and protect the American mis- sionaries, the United States consul at Can-