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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-18
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of the controller were prepared by the diff
ferent officials involved in the office of the
first assistant, and the postmaster request
ed me to prepare the complete answer for
the typewriter. l did as directed, diSclaim-
ing all responsibility. and telling the post
master the answers We're incomplete, eva
sive and in certain cases untrue. The COM
pleted answer having been approved by
considerable delay. dispatched. The re-
ceipt of this letter from the controller
brought about a crisis.
THE position of the cashier was rem
dered still more difficult; payments were
rolling due daily which had been declared
illegal and irregular by the controller. This
was especially true with regard to certain
pay rolls May 8, 1899, received the fol-
lowing command from the postmaster
You are directed to continue to pay, in
accordance with letters Of authority re-
ceived from the department making APP
pointments thereto, such persons as are
borne on our several rolls, 1t being the pur-
pose of the department to have such pay
ments of salary made on the days when
they fall DUE without delay, and you will
not take action to the contrary unless di-
rected to do so by me-
Mr.. Tulloch adds that enough irregular
tiles had been presented to the controller
to warrant his continuing his investigation
into the quarters ending December 81, 1898,
March 81, 1899, and June 80 1899, to as
certain the continuance or extent of these
same irregularities. Later Mr.. TraceweI
ordered:
Mr.. Gilmer:
You may take up for examination any
postmaster's account for fiscal year 1889,
except New York city and Washington,
d. c."
Subsequently Mr.. Gilmer was removed.
Mr.. Tulloch charges Postmaster Merritt
of this city with nepotism, and says that
during the past four years Mr.. Merritt s
household has drawn for its service about
$4,000 from the local postal revenues.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-18
VRooMAN SUED FOR DIVORCE.
Founder Of Ruskin College is Charged
With Infidelity.

A Kansas City, Mo-, dispatch says:
Walter Vrooman, founder of the Peoples
Trust, the Western Cooperative Company
and other Utopian schemes. in which he
spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. is
the defendant in divorce suit at Trenton
Mo-, brought by his wife, who supplied him
with quarter of million dollars to carry
on his plans.
Mrs Vrooman was formerly Miss Anna
Graffiin of Baltimore. She gave her hus-
band third of her fortune of $3.50. 600 to
be used In furtherance of his schemes, as
she was fascinated with the idea of assist
ing him in uplifting humanity.
Mr.. vrooman went to Trenton, Mo-,
where he founded Ruskin College and his
PEOPLES Trust and Western Cooperative
Company, operated from Kansas City as
headquarters When the last two institu-
lions failed last fall Mr.. Vrooman bought
up all of the stock and saved all investors
In it from financial loss. Ruskin College
was moved to Chicago last month. Mrs.
vrooman in her petition for divorce charges
her husband with infidelity. 1t is not
known whether Mr.. vroonan viii contest
the divorce proceedings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-18

SnHplFu nahus anu lips, anu al forfns OF cha.lng
quickly quiet baby suffering with prickly heat
any form Of rash Munyon's Witch Hazel Soap
Its soothing effect upon the little Is almost
instantaneous. l want every person troubled with
hives, who is tormented by any itching, to
battle with Munyon's Witch Hazel Soap, using
water as hot the skin can bear. Relief will he
immediate. There is not of dandruf, and
know Of scalp disease but this soap will cure.
1t is ideal for shampooing. II prevents hair from
falling out by strengthening and feeding the roots.
Ladies will find this soap great blessing as a
wash for certain irritations. weakness and dis
charges. 1t is antiseptic allays all Inflammation
and removes all unpleasant odors. Every gentle
man who shaves himself should try this soap. 1t
softens the beard and prevents the skin from be-
coming irritated and No smarting no burn
ing no need of bay rum or witch hazel for bath
ing. For the general toilet IL is exquisite lux
ury; 1t improves any complexion and makes the
skin soft velvet. II is far superior to any
other soap made the electric light is TO The
tallow dip. You cannot afford be careless about
your soap, especially IL there young children in
the family Sold everywhere.
MUNYoN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-18
IN EXCELLENT SHAPE.
No Investigation Needed Of Porto
Rican Postal Affairs.

SAN JUAN. Porto Rico, May 1S.-Post-
master Lands of San Juan says that Porto
Rican postal affairs were recently reported
to be in excellent shape. The Tulloch
charges refer to the time when Porto Rico
was under military government. Gen. Ell
lott was then director of posts. He is now
commissioner of the interior. When ques-
toned concerning the condition of postal af-
fairs Mr.. Lands said: When took charge
of the postal service the Washington office
bought all Porto Rican supplies the agen-
cies here were then merely agencies of the
Washington Office. These alleged frauds
were prior to my incumbency. When took
charge the separation of the Washington
and insular offices began. Nobody here
is in any way involved in the matter"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-18

walk town court this morning of charge
of assault. John E. Barney of Cincinnati,
a fellow student, also purged himself, but
Wallbridge Taft of New York, nephew of
Judge Taft. governor of the Philippines,
and Edward Lawrence Waite of Lowell,
Mass, were less fortunate. Their cases
were continued to Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-18
KNOX FREE. TAFT IN DOUBT.
Attorney Generals Son Acquitted OF
Charge of Assault.

South Norwalk, Conn, special TO the
New York Herald Saturday night says:
United States Attorney General Philander
c. Knox's son. Hugh S. Knox OF Washing
ton, student at Prof. Carl A. Harstrom' S
preparatory school In Norwalk, where he is
fitting himself for Yale. was acquitted by
Judge Edward NJ Lockwood in the Nor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-18

If you have not yet discovered u.s. certainly to your
district make big difference in prices, while not being
that conducting worthy of your patronage
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-18

A check for $40 has been received by De-
tective Sergeants Trumbo and Tyser for
experimenting a deserter from the United
States navy. Less 20 per cent. which will go
to the clothing and helmet fund.- the rest
will be shared by the officers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-18

than a passing interest in it, in connec-
ton with certain other prominent person
ages 1t was a well-known regulation of
the department that under no circum-
stances could the postmaster or any en-
ploye inform any one with regard to the
address or residence of any person or resi-
dent of the city. Yet the agents of this
box upon the refusal of the postmaster to
furnish addresses. brought an order from
the office of the first assistant postmaster
general directing the turning over of the
letter carriers route books to these agents
The postmaster Intellectually protested
against the unauthorized use of his name
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-18
MUNYON TALKS
TO WOMEN
Tells HowThey May Have
a Beautiful Complexion
and Grow Lux.
uriant Hair.

Munyon's Witch Hazel
Soap is really a skin food
and vitalizer. The only
soap containing witch
hazel - its success has
caused imitators to brand
their soap witch hazel;
these words cannot be
trade-marked. See that
the soap is stamped Num-
yon. Ii nourishes the skin
just as much as food
nourishes the body. lt
puts every pore into n
healthy condition; assists
Nature in throwing on
poisons from the body;
allays Inflammation. cools.
soothes and heals all irri-
tated parts. II cures
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-12
tease me so about her that l am afraid

tease me so about her that l am afraid
to do it
But she'll be offended"
Cant you explain it, he asked
His mother laughed and, meeting
Mamie's mother, told her about the
boys troubles-and such troubles are
very real to a boy.
Mamie's mother was amused and
told Mamie.
Tommy is very anxious to have
you at his party" she said, but the
boys will tease him so that he is go
ing to leave you out"
Here is where the truly feminine
appears. Mamie considered the mat
ter deeply for a few moments, and
then said ingenuously:
well, why doesn't he leave out the
boys, then, and invite me?"
When Mamie gets a little older she
will find many young men only too de
lighted to give parties on exactly
that principle, but very likely hel
own views will have changed by that
time-at least to the extent of keep
ing such ideas to herself
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-12
HER INGENIOUS SUGGESTION.
She is little, but she has the true
feminine idea.

She is little, but she has the true
feminine idea.
A boy of about her own age has
been so devoted to her that it has at
tracted the attention of his play
mates, and the result has been dis
tressing. He has been leased until
life became a burden to him. In an
effort to escape his troubles he has
forsaken her. His heart is still true,
but he dares not look at her or speak
to her when any of the other boys
are near.
This being the state of affairs, it
will not be difficult to imagine his
distress when his mother decided to
give a birthday party for him. He
made up his own list of guests, and
when it was finished his mother noted
that one name was missing.
you've left out Mamie she sug-
gested.
YES" he replied regretfully: 81
want to invite Mamie, but the boys
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-12
FOUNDED BY SERVANT GIRLS.
n Very Worthy Charity of the Pacific
Region.

Region.
Miss Clara Omen, who went to Los
Angeles in 1856 from Red Wing, Min
nesota, has established in that city
home for working girls. and deserves
all the more credit To- her enterprise,
since from the time of her arrival in
this country, tn. ;y-five years ago.
she has herself been q working wo-
nan. Five years after coming here
she returned to Sweden, where she
had hCme of her own, and was not
obliged to go out to service, but
America had gained so strong a hold
on her affections that she could not
be content in 1he old country. Re-
turning here she resumed her former
employment. She now has a place
in the family OF a well-known Los
Angeles lawyer, and announces her
intention of living in beautiful
America" until she dies.
After eight years passed in Los
Angeles, she became impressed with
the idea that something must be done
for her young countrywomen to keep
them out of bad company. Thinking
that home would be good thing,
she called meeting in the kitchen
of the house where she worked. Two
girls came. One of them soon wen.
back to Sweden; the other became
discouraged and quit. Then five other
girls joined her, each paying a mem.
bersh!p fee Of $25. They, with Miss
Omen, are now trustees of the home.
! These six heroic women went to
work to create a fund for their build
ing. They began by holding fairs
among their own people where we're
sold articles made by themselves or
donated by others The sum thus
realized, with additions from their
own savings, soon amounted to $500.
They bought lot, paying a portion OF
the price down, and becoming respon-
sible for the balance. On this they
built a two-story frame house with
modern improvements, containing
twelve large rooms, a commodious as
sembly hall and a cemented basement,
They named their building the
Dorcas working girls home, and
mortgaged 1t for $1,000. Six years
ago they opened the home, but finding
its expenses too heavy, they rented it
until the indebtedness was reduced
to 81 600 Meantime the valce of the
property has increased to $1,000. The
home is now in good working order,
and arrangements will soon be made
to free It from debt. Intended at first
as a home for Swedish working girls,
the plans of its founders will soon be
so widened as to afford a shelter and
refuge. as well as a place of rest and
entertainment for all respectable
working girls. The Los Angeles Times
speaks of this home as one of the
worthiest charities in that city. .
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-12

chambers adjacent to its bedroom;
while the flying squirrel is a complete
or true hibernator, storing up no food
and sleeping without motion in some
hollow tree or other sheltered cavity
until spring.
All wild animals, however, whether
true hibernators or not, sleep more
during the winter time than at any
other season of the year. Winter
seems to be the somnolent, drowsy
season for all Even the domestic
animals, and man himself, show a sur
vival of primitive habit in this re-
spect. How much better, as a rule,
human beings sleep in winter than at
any other seasonal fact which may.
or may not, be an argument for evolu-
ton. Certainly, however, with all
the lower animals, the tendency is
strong to be more or less winter
sleepers."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-12

tempts to flee from himself by aim
less wanderings from land to land and
| from city to city,-Cr that other speci-
men of the genus glo5e-trotter, who
goes tearing around famous places
for the mere pleasure of saying he
has been there.
Despite the righteousness of mod.
ern travel, it has many drawbacks,
Seasickness, car-nausea, broiling
suns, benumbing frosts, sitting dust
bad hotel, hard bed, ill.cooked food
tips, exorbitant charges, steamboat
wrecks and railway 2mash-ups, are
only a few OF the ills that world-rov-
ing flesh is heir to. Some countries
reek with garlic, others with sauer-
kraut: fees and other vermin infest
even the stateliest of the old palaces,
and tourists tell us that they never
suffer so much from cold as in the so.
called sunny lands of the earth.
! Others say that, outside of England,
no Europeans have any idea of what
we Americans would call comfortable
| living, and that even the English are
far behind us in the modern appli-
ances of domestic life. In the Orient
the conditions of existence for the
traveller are simply unspeakable.
The stay-athome avoids all these
discomforts ard annoyances. Placid
ly seated under his own vine and fig
tree. he is content to obtain his
knowledge at second hand, from
books, pictures, illustrated lectures,
the accounts of those who have seen
the world 1t is by proxy that he
climbs mountains, gazes down into
volcanic craters, delves in mephilic
catacombs, explores legend-haunted
and unsanitary palaces, visits art gal
leries and museums, and at no peril OF
life and limb gains a personal knowl.
edge of all sorts of out-of-theway
places. At comparatively small
outlay of money, without danger, ex-
element, mental collapse or physical
WEAKNESS. he absorbs all that his
globe-trotting friend has gained al
such an exorbitant cost.
But there is another side to the
shield. The globe-trottcrs who have
seen life in strange lands and gazeG
upon the great spectacles of nature
and the grand achievements of art,
look with contempt on the stay-at-
homes, who in eschewing travel have
missed the greatest of educators. and
have allowed their lives to shrink into
deplorably narrow limits. While the
cosmopolitan or citizen Of the world
knows from actual observation its
grandeur and its littIencss, the stay.
at-home, shut in by contracted hor-
lions, is prone to think
THE crackle Of his rustic burgh,
The murmur OF the world"
Extensive foreign travel is a coed
thing, II constant change from place
to place does not foster a spirit of
restlessness that makes the globe
trotter a sort of Wandering Jew, for.
ever on the move and never at home
anywhere. 1t is a most excellent
thing If, after all his perigrinations,
the tourist on returning to his native
country can say Of it, with Gold.
smiths wanderer:
"Where'er / go, whatever lands | see,
My heart untraveled fondly turns to
thee"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-12
TO DEATH.

o Death, be merciful to me,
AS l fear thy sting.
Come TO me as gently as the
Night steals DER the earth.
Let me not feel the horror
OF thy icy touch.
When Charon comes TO bear me
Across the River StyX,
Let me be insensible to the agonies
Thy coming inflicts on mortal.
Let me, pray thee, be unconscious
OF all emotion-bui stay,
Q, Tyrant! stay
If she, whom / love, bends DER
My bier and drops
\ silent tear, let me feel
lis full intent-let it
Scald my very soul.
For tears of sorrow from
Those we love,
Dropped on the face of death,
Are the bright lights that
Dispel the darkness of eternity.
.A1d, if she would wish me
Back again,
o Death. rob me net of II,
One sweet pang,
For It's easier to lift the
Soul to heaven by sorrow
Displayed DER inert clay
Than send Il TO hell by sin.
Therefore, = Death. let me :
Realize this pain OF parting,
That | may gain a heavenly
Inheritance and mock at
Thy sting that slayeth
The body and not
The soul.
R Bronson Peck.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-12
a SEA LYRIC.

There is no music that man has heard
Like the voice of the minstrel Sea,
Whose major and minor chords are
fraught
With infinite mystery
For the Sea is a harp, and the winds
of God
Play over his rhythmic breast,
And bear on the sweep of their mighty
wings
The song of a vast unrest.
There is no passion that man has sung,
Like the love of the deep-souled Sea,
Whose tide responds to the Moons soft
light
With marvellous melody
For the Sea is a harp, and the winds
of God
Play over his rhythmic breast,
And lear on the sweep of their mighty
wings
The song of a vast unrest.
There is no sorrow that man has
known,
Like the grief of the wordless Main,
Whose Titan bosom forever throbs
With an untarnished pain
For the Sea is harp, and the winds
of God
Play over his rhythmic breast,
And bear on the sweep Of their mighty
wings
The song Of vast unrest.
William Hamilton Hayne in At
lantic.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-12
STAY-AT-HOMES
They Have all the Better of the Globe
Trotters,

Perpetual motion and listless in
ertia as applied to human beings are
matters of temperament. Whether the
peripatetic globe-trotters or the PEI
sistent stay-at-homes are the hap
pier, is a mooted question. Thai old
proverb, "a rolling stone gathers no
moss" is offset by another homely
saying of like antiquity: "a setting
hen never gets fat" Those ancient
philosophers who set out with scrip
and stat: and trudged from land to
land with the laudable purpose of
gaining knowledge, though they
reached each desired goal footsore,
weary and begrimed with the dust of
the highways, were more to be envied
than the modern tourist who at
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-12
Wanted to Plant More Admirsls,

Admiral Schley was strolling around
the picturesque naval cemetery at An.
napolis the other day, when, happca.
ing to meet an old sailor, he said. in
his kindly way:
Jack. this is a beautiful spot"
Saluting, the weather beaten salt
replied:
AYE. aye, sir. And It'll be st,'i
finer, your honor. when some more Of
our good admirals gets planted here"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-12

President Woodrow Wilson said last
night so far as he knew the report
published that Carnegie had given
81, 100000 to graduate school at
Princeton was absolutely without foun-
dalton.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-12
ARE LONG SLEEPERS
CURIOUS WAYS IN WHICH GRE.
ATuRES PASS THE WINTER.
HIBERNATE FOR MONTHS

Snakes Often Coil Themselves To-
gether in a BaIl-lnsects That
Spin Cocoons for Cold Weather
Homes-eears Suhsist on Their
Own Fat.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-27
MARINE NEWS.

HAMBURG-Sailed, Bulgarian. New York.
 LIVERPOOIl-Arrived. IveTnia, New Nork. Sailed Armenian. Boston.
 GLASGOw-Saied. Mongolian, St. John.
 >IIVERPOOI4-Arrived. Tritonia, Halifax.
 NEW ORLEANS-CIeared, steamer Dinna- mare ut) Cahero. Naples.
 PORT EADS-Arrived. steamers Torrhesd (Br1 Thompson, Belfast; Anselm (Brl Brown, Puerto Cortez; Excelsior, Hopner, Havana Condor (NorO Rasmussen. Bluefelds; Bev- erly (Br). SeldeTs, Port Limon; tug J. M Gilbert, Port Arthur. - ,>.-> Thorsen Sagua la Grande, Cupa; Gamma (Dutch), Dekker. Havana; schooner Clara A. Phinney (Am.) Phinney, Havana. cleared steamer Martha Russ (Gero, Paulsen, Hon feur, via Freamp, France; bark Nordeh Ihus)' Paulsen, Algiers. - ,,,..... A, len Port Tampa. and sailed Tor haNanai tug Klondke, Frow, Miami.
 NORFOI.K-Saied, steamers Castano (br.l PenwelI, Liverpool; Roda lbr't' swanson
 NEWPORT NEws-Arrived. steamers Poto- mac (Br). Anderson, Baltimore. ana sSiieu for Rotterdam: Inca (Br.), Baltimore. ,
 SAVANNAH-Cleareds steamers Rokeby IBr,l Bommen, Bremen and Antwerp AeeDurs Clutch) Stasse, Amsterdam and Rotterdam Nordfarer (Dan), Brumanlch Bremen; park Earl Derby tBrD. Jackson. Buenos Ayres
 CHARLESTON-Arrived. steamers kydonla (Ger0, Ruhden. Nordenham; Arciuda stefano (Aus1. Scopinich, Hamburg humuFl 'Nor'' Boe Port Antonio. . , =,
 CKSONNILLE-Arrived, schooner Lord or Avon (Br). Tetfry, Bridgetown. Barbadoes
 PENSACOLA--Arrived. steamers Glahtoh (BrD Leisk, Tampico; Farmsu Sp9ten9' 1t,I Schurjng, St Vincent. Sailed, steamer Wind cor 1Br9 Booth, Genoa; barks Posisch (Aus) Mandrich, Alicante; Padre ut.)' ohvari' Tu-