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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-19
Regulars and Guardsmen.

Most people have an idea that regulars are
so vastly superior to National Guardsmen
that it is ridiculous to compare them ;,
a prominent National Guard colonel of
twenty-five years experience, is quoted as
saying. II tell you it isn't so. We're I'D
against an entirely different game from
the regulars. and, what's more, we do our
work as well if not better than they would
do it.
YES We'll stack up against the regulars
IN any way you want us to. It's been a
long hard fight. but the National
Guard or my state is in such a con-
ditton of discipline, is so thoroughly
equipped, has such excellent sanitary
regulations, that no command in the
world Is in better shape. Take the matter
of food. remember when the best one
days ration was So bill in your pocket
When we got to the scene of a strike in
1892 we had been eighteen hours without
food. They said we were going to camp on
a farm. A great cheer went up when we
heard the news. We could see the fresh
eggs, fine butter and chickens and nice
vegetables all being cooked for u.s. Soldier
ing wasn't SO bad after all. We were going
farm was swamp filled with railroad Gin
ders, and there was nothing but grain ele-
vatOrs and mosquitoes in sight We had
no food for nearly foFty-eight hours more"
To Be Paid Next Week.
At a meeting of regimental, battalion.
company and separate organization com
manders last evening at headquarters, the
pay rolls covering the recent encampment
were corrected 1t was stated at the meet
ing by representative of the paymaster
that the money will be disbursed during the
coming week.
Troops to Receive Pay Next Week.
The District troops will receive their
pay under the provisions of the Dick bill
next week, beginning probably Thursday
This year it is the desire of the paymas-
ter, Capt. Andrew Parker, to pay the
troops by battalions instead of by regf-.
ments as heretofore. 1t is believed that
this method Will be more convenient and
will expedite the payment. Another rea-
son for the proposed change is that 1t will
be easier to get all the men to the armories
to get their pay. AS the battalions will be
paid separately, Capt. Parker believes
something can be done to compel atten-
dance. and 1t may be that some punishment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-19
An Official Compliment

The Secretary of War has communicated
to the Secretary Of State request of Gen.
Harries that 1.-The ambassador of Russia to
this country be informed that the officers
and enlisted men of the National Guard of
the District of Columbia desire to give Of
nclal expression to the personal pleasure
and professional profit derived from assoc
citation with and the example of Col. Ras-
popoff. military attache to the embassy.
while attending the recent encampment at
Lee Va ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-19

will take the place Of the old New Ynantels,
gas fixtures and plumbing viii be installed
and the entire interior will be painted and
decorated. The house as remodeled will
make quite an addition to the neighborhood.
Mr.. VIM. Sturbetts has the contract for the
building
The remodeling of Takoma Park school
was begun this week. The addition which
rooms, toilets, ETC., will cost $4,000 Mr..
VIM. ]. Palmer is the architect. Messrs.
Burgess & Parsons are the contractors.
Mr.. Palmer has also completed plans for
a two-story cottage at AnacoStia to cost
$4,000 and for a two--story cottage to be
built on Philadelphia street. Congress
Heights. for Mrs. Fannie Lusbey; also a
cottage for Joseph F. Tice Of semi-colonial
style at Congress Heights.
Mr.. William A. Hill Of Moore & Hill Com
pany speaking today of the condition of
the real estate market said:
Never before since our firm commenced
business have we had such an active sum-
mer as we have experienced the past sea.
son. This demand has been constant, and
we were able to find ready buyers for large
houses as well as small ones. This demand
is increasing and we look for an unusually
brisk business the coming season. The in
quiries for houses to rent have been phe-
nomenal. These inquiries started the lat
ter part of July. We could rent many
turning away an average Of twenty-five ap-
plicants day."
Among the sales made by Moore & Hill
during the week are the following:
For Harry Wardman 200 N street north
west. for $3.50; for j. Sprigg Poole. 5000
18th street, Mount Pleasant. for 5000: for
George 8. May, 1904 street northwest. for
5000; for Miss Frances NJ Moore, SO U
street northwest, for $500; for the Cleve-
land Park Company in connection with Will
lige, Gibbs and Daniel, 1884 Newark street.
Cleveland Park, for $500; for Mead es-
tate 455 New York avenue northwest; for
Clarence F. Norment, several fiat buildings
on Newport place northwest: to Antonio
Malnati, 20 H street northwest, for $500;
for Wilson estate 1851 10th street north
west, for $4,000; for August s. Worthing-
ton, two lots corner North Capitol street
and Rhode Island avenue northwest.
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Stone s. Fairfax, Exclusive Agents,
500 & SOS St. w.

Yes. that's the way he gener'ly does"
And does the man always find vein Of
water?'
Mighty nigh every time"
But don't you suppose he notes the lay
Of the ground? Hasn't that something to
do with it?''
Il don't know nothin' about that"
What do you think is the reason the
switch bends DOWN.
wall. II they find water old Giles gifts
$40 I've allus thort that had somethin' to
do with the switch turnin' down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-19
The Compelling Force.

From the Chicago Tribune.
- Uncle Josiah, do you believe old Giles
can take a forked switch in his hands and
locate vein of water with it?"
Wall. I've seen him do it,
He walks around holding that switch
out. and when 1t bends down to the ground
he tells the man that wants a well to dig
there, does her
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-19
aoRMAN LEADS IN THE SOUTH.
Representative Rixey Regards Him as
the Coming Democratic Candidate.

the Coming Democratic Candidate.
Representative Rixey of Virginia was in
the city today on departmental business.
He thinks that Senator German will be the
democratic nominee for President. To a
Star reporter he said: Senator German
stands the best chancesior the nomination
Of all the eastern men who have been
named. So far as can see there is no pro-
nounced sentiment for any other man. In
Virginia the sentiment for Senator German
is rapidly becoming almost unanimous
Without special effort from any source the
boom for Senator German is making head
way, and the more he Is talked about the
more the people like him. I have talked
with a number of southern men recently,
and they say that in the south the feeling
for German is decidedly strong. Represen-
tative Sparkman of Florida was telling me
today that in that state the sentiment for
Senator German y decidedly strong. 1t be-
gins to look as IL the entire south will send
German delegations to the next national
convention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-19

Guest Tin cheap restaurant)-"Well.w wait
er, what have you got"
Waiter-'Beefsteak and f1sh-but the fish
is all out. Which'i you have?"-Chicago
News.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-19
Thos. n. Haislip,
Architect and Owner,
No. 81 v st. NV.
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extent You see the other buggy and wagon
builders are in the very same position. They
can't build the vehicle any faster than we
can, and they don't make the railroads 60
any faster than we can, 20 we're all In
the same boat"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-19
SO, 900 to 3s, 900 Good Reasons.

IS, 900 to SO, 600 Good Reasons.
There are between thirty
tkfec and thirty-eight thousand
good reasons for advertising In
The Star. Every copy Of the
paper every day is'a good rea-
son, for every copy reaches d
buyer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-19
THE NATIONAL GUARD
Arranging for the Fall Meet
ing at 0rdway Range.
SEA GRIT PRIZE MONEY
LOCAL RIFLEMEN NOT TO BE PAID
FOR RECENT TRIP.
Report on Cruise of Naval Battalion
An Official Compliment to
Col. Raspopof.

The next event in order of interest to the
National Guardsmen of the District of Co
lumbia after the Sherman statue unwilling
parade set for the 18th proxilno, will be the
annual fall meeting and competitions at the
Ordway rifle range. The dates for the
matches have not yet been selected, but
Major James E. Bell, inspector general of
rifle practice, is authority for the state
ment that they will occur between October
Is and October 20 The competitions will be
in progress for four days
All the matches of the program Of last
fall will be retained, and several additions
are contemplated. Invitations to be repre-
sented at the meet are to DE extended to
New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia and other
states, as well as to the army, the navy
and the Marine Corps. Special matches will
be arranged for visiting teams and individ-
uals. Both New Jersey and Maryland have
already promised to send representatives to
the meet.
The appearance of the Ordway range is
much more pleasing to the eye at present
than ever before. Arrangements are in
progress to the end that voluntary practice
may be resumed next week.
Disposition of Cash Prizes.
Considerable discussion is heard in Ma
tional Guard circles in regard to the dispo-
sltlon OF the cash prizes won by the local
rifiemen in certain of the team matches at
Sea Girt recently. Special attention is paid
to the prize won in the National Trophy
match 1t seems that the powers that be
take the view that the money should not be
distributed among the team members, which
Is contrary TO the ideas on the subject en-
tertafned by the latter In the National
Match the War Del sirtment requires that
each member of team that won a cash
prize in the National Match shall sign
receipt for the same Certain members of
the District team have declined to sign the
receipt, though requested to do so by head
quarters. The outcome is awaited with in
tereSt
The announcement that the members of
the detachment of rifemep who represent
ed the District of Columbia at Sea Girt re-
Gently will not be paid under the provi-
sions of the new militia law for the time
devoted to the trip will also be news to the
majority OF those comprising the detach-
ment, who have certainly expected to re-
ceive the pay in question.
II is explained at headquarters that at
the outset 1t was expressly stated that pay
under the new militia law would apply only
to the time spent in the annual encamp-
ment of the brigade.
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Report on Recent Cruise.

The report Of Lieut.. Commander r. B.
Brummett covering the recent annual cruise
or the naval battalion, has reached militia
headquarters Lieut.. Commander Brummett
states that the battalion embarked .on
board the U. S. S. Fern, under my COM
mand, the morning of August 16 1909 and
proceeded down the Potomac river and out
10 sea on It's annual practice cruise and
returned to Washington, D. c., and dis
embarked the evening of August n.
During the cruise the crew was stationed
Tor the various duties aboard ship. and the
men were exercised and drilled at their
dlHerent stations. In addition to the req
u!ar ship routine particular attention was
given to gun drills and target prac-
ace with both subcaliber and full charges;
Hre orlli. the handling of small boats with
oars and under SAIL and small arms target
practice. For the last mentioned exercise
the battalion was landed at Yorktown, Va.
In my opinion this was the most bene-
hclal and instructive cruise the battalion
mas ever made and the gratifying results
We're obtained only by the hearty co-oper
alton of both officers and men
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-27
THE TURNING POINT
An Epoch of Marvellous Ad-
vancement Predicted for
the State.

The call for a Homecoming of those who
have wandered away from the old scenes
of the Tar-Heel State, is happy concep-
ton; and the time place. and cireum-
stances under which this reunion is TO be
held, all conspire to make it exceedingly
appropriate. We always enjoy an occa-
sion all the more when we feel that
there is a manifest fitness about it.which
commends it as 1.-The thing to do
For more than a century North Caro-
lima has been pouring itself out in gem
erous contribution of the very best type
of manhood and womanhood to the es-
tablishing and building up of other and
younger Commonwealths One of the
proudest boasts of our State is the large
amount of substantial material which has
been contributed by her to be wrought
into the foundation and superstructure Of
the younger and more aggressive States
in the great West and Northwest, and
some of the Southwestern State. Truly u
has been a good State to be born in, and
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an open and desirable field for his flu
ture work when he plumes himself and
flies away.
And all directions are his. 1t is not
alone to the inviting vastness of the wes-
tern prairies that the eye of emigration
turns. For many years that region alb
sorbed the great bulk of settlers, but it is
quite remarkable what a vast number of
people are constantly moving from one
State to another, and to and from differ
ent sections OF the same State. Young
men from Northern States come South,
young Southerners go North, Eastern
boys go west and Western lads go East
all satisfied that in their new selected
homes they will do better and be happier
than in the old.
Whether these expectations are always
o. ever realized is difficult to decide, but
one thing grows out of such an arrange
ment which may be indicative OF the
guiding presence of the All Wise wisdom,
and that is that by such changes families
are separated and friends parted; but
through these desires web is woven of
golden ties that covers the whole nation
and holds it together in natural and SYM
pathetic union. Its texture is formed of
the tenderest chords of human affection
which bind and hold distant frierds and
through them their localities together
And so interviewer are these chords, SO
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citizens of Greensboro will do theirs.
''Sad-eyed October is the grandest month
of all the year for travel, and no man
or woman should miss this opportunity
of coming once more to the Old North
State. The man who thinks he hasn't
time if he has the price is standing in his
own sunlight and treading on his own
toes. There will be no pocket in the
shroud of any man who leaves this world
of toll and travail Worry, work and
anxiety are mll-stones around the necks
of all. And if there is some happiness
and recreation offered to any exile he,
should grasp in eagerness to secure it..
The Greensboro reunions offers to the nom
resident native North Carolinian what
may be but one chance IN a lifetime. 1t
is to be a gathering where there will be
happiness and joy and pleasure. And
those who have health should avail them
selves of this opportunity. The reunion
idea is one of the lofty patriotism IN
which no sordid dollar plays part. The
Tar Heels who remained, with htsrality
of mind and purse, conceived it ana will
execute without the hope of any reward
except to see the wanderers return and
accent of their hospitality. 1t is simply
family reunion on large scale, and
let us hope that there will be but few va.
cant chairs.
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In America, perhaps more than IL any
other land is the desire to seek fresh
scenes, and the impulse TO wander Tar
and wide, gratified to a general extent.
Man is by nature a nomadlc animal, ana
the most grievous burden imposed on HIM
by civilization is the necessity of staying
in one place. To every one there come
times and seasons when the all but over
mastering impulse is to go. The fever
burns in the veins, the nerves are qulv-
ering and tingling with the passion Tor
change of place. and mind and body unite
in fierce protest against the environment
which makes fixity compulsory and pro-
hibits the exercise of the innate tendency
to exploration-or vagrancy
Like all innate tendencies the strength
of this passion for wandering varies in
different people While the inhabitants
of every cline may find rising IN their
natures a disposition and ambition to
cut away from the associations of youth
and to sail out single handed into the
mid-ocean of life, there is in many Euro
pean countries-notably Scotland, Eng
land, Switzerland, Spain, and Italy-ex-
cepting, of course the peripatetic organ
grinders of the latter sunny land-a nat
ural inclination of the people, the peasan-
try and rural classes as well as the titled
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ing in foreign countries of which no sta
tisties are at hand
OF the States furnished by North Caro-
lima, Virginia stands first with 53,235;
Georgia next with 32,557 South Carolina
29,521 and next follows Tennessee with
25, 405. These States lying close to us,
would naturally receive a larger part OF
the emigration from our State However
this geographical record is not continued.
There is a long jump far across the
country and Texas stands next in line
with 23,065 of our brothers and sisters,
with Arkansas a close second with 20,O37.
Then Mississippi has received Is, 500: Flor
ida 1889; Alabama 1902; Indiana H.
SO, and Missouri 10,1O5, making all in the
five figure column. New York with it's
S,771 Tar Heels, Pennsylvania with 6,741.
Illinois with 1888, and Kentucky with s.
52z are the next largest recipients, com
Ing In the order named.
Every State and territory in the Union
has the honor of having some of the
good old Noath State blood included in
its citizenship. With the exception of
Hawaii, which has only nine, the smallest
numbers are; found in Nevada and Yer
mont, the former having 40, and the lat
ter As. Ever in far off washington there
1--we 1,670 Tar Heels, while oregon has
1859 and California 2,527 Taking the
sections of the country that have received
the largest number from us, it would be
expected that the South Atlantic division
would lead. This, however, is not the
case. The Central Division, North and
South, has 1855 100 resident North Caro-
llnians or considerably more than found
IN any other division
To make the comparison more vivid
as to those who have gone away statistics
show that there are nearly one-fifth as
many native North Carolinians living in
other States as the present total popula-
ton OF North Carolina. OF those in 9th
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burg Declaration of independence. Such
metal as was born in these men and
transmitted from sire to son would sue
| ceed-no matter where. He may not have
gone so far. Kansas, Iowa or Nebraska
may have contented him.
And while it may be, and is doubtless
| true that many of those who left so long
ago have been gathered to their fathers,
they left their children who do not for
get. And they are the ones who will come
to this reunion-come to the land that is
richer in milk and honey than that given
by God to Israel
But there are Others. Year after year,
for reasons given in the beginning OF
this article, the young men have gone to
new fields. every State in the Union now
claiming them as their own. They have
prospered, for the most part and they
should return. They may have been gone
but a few years, but the scenes they
quilted seem yet to them and will still
seem to them as but those of yesterday.
And when they do return and look upon
the transformation wrought in their ma
tive State they will doubtless think, many
of them. that, after all, North Carolina
cannot be beaten under the rays of the
eternal sun.
But the reunion Of nonresident North
Carolinans-what a world of happiness is
in the suggestion, Death is robbed of It's
terror because the Christian knows that
beyond the grave he will meet again the
ones he loved and the anticipation Of
again greeting in the flesh kindred,
friends, gazing once more
upon the faces of those separated by
miles and dreary miles; to talk over the
gossip ten years old and yet as fresh as
an egg laid yesterday; to hear what has
become of Bill and Tom and Dick and
Harry, to see boys in pants born to people
married after the wanderer had left. the
State--to see gray-beards who were quite
young men last week, as it seems to HIM
all these things must of necessity APP
peal to the heart-strings and make the
reunion of great interest and incalculable
pleasure.
The railroads will do their part-the
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slavery triumph, which so dissatisfied the
ouakers and the opening of the North
western territory to Statehood, stream
of immigration to the Northwest, we
have felt the drawing of an undercurrapt
against which it has been hard TO make
Roadway. But the tide is now changing
and we trust that what our visitors see
d,,,.;no the reunion may induce many OF
tbe sons and daughters, grandsons and
granddaughters Of the exNorth CAROLYN
;ans TO return to the land of their faith.
ers For not only has the city of Green's
horo reached the turning point in her
history. henceforth to face a future OF
large things, industrial and social but
the whole State has reach~s this point
and we face peril in the fact that our
spacious domains are to fill up rapidly,
Il may be with a new and strange ele-
ment and possibly ono ol;e- to the senti-
ment of the institutions which we cherish
most. and for which many have given
their lives.
May the reunion bring Joy to many a
kearth-stone, and may the result OF it be
the strengthening Of the bonds of patriotic
citizenship, and the bringing in of such
an element as shall enhance the conserv-
ing forces of a great State, for such i'll
every sense North Carolina is destined TO
be. II. NJ. BLAIR.