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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-18
William Otto Miller,
Sir Robinson Crusoe."

next week, there IS the knack to develop
new stars as soon as the old ones fade and
disappear. A long line of skillful players
has come and gone and still the Mask and
Wig turns out new lot whenever the oc-
CaSiOn warrants it.
Fifteen years ago some students in the
University of Pennsylvania decided that
'Penusy" should have a dramatic organiza-
ton which would outrank the famous old
Hasty Pudding Club of Harvard. Taking
the Hasty Pudding as a criterion, they
started where the Pudding had stopped
after almost fifty years of successes. On a
hot summers night early in June, 1889, the
first production was made. 1t was a sue
cess. and the productions each year since
have been successes.
1t is one of the oldest institutions existing
at Ben Franklin College. 1t has primarily
q social side, and its members are grad
yates and undergraduates of 'Pennsy."
Each year new play is produced and pre-
scented the Saturday before Easter at
Atlantic City, and then presented for a
weeks run in one of the Nixon G. thinner
man theaters.
An Artistic Club House.
A unique and artistic club house is owned
by the members This ornate structure
was once an Evangelical Lutheran church.
Ten years ago the property was pur-
chased. the churchly edifce having degener-
ated into stable. Mr.. Wilson Eyre, one
of Philadelphia's architects. was chosen to
draft plans for the remOdeling of the old
house of worship into modern club house,
with the accessories specially needed by
the club. He was successful. The grill
room Is the piece de resistance of the novel
club. Quaint fireplaces. Window seats and
alcoves are all in weathered oak and with
huge oaken rafterS. Quaint and original
paintings are on the walls. and in particular
large canvas, covering entirely one wall
or the grill room, a fantastic odd King
Cole. executed by Mr.. Mansfield Parrish
The immense rehearsal hall is beautifully
decorated and equipped. with an oaken OBJ
servation balcony. Here the annual pro-
auctions are prepared gradually during the
long fail and winter months.
The New Production.
The work of the annual new production Is
well in hand early in February Prelimi-
naries are given in the rehearsal hall to
seek for new material among new MEM
bers and annually the old members turn
out with enthusiasm to inspect the new
talent. Mr.. William Ernst, jr., and Mr..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-18

She-"Just see how much your little wife
loves you. She made this cake for you all
by herself.
He-"Yes, darling, and now If you will eat
1t all by yourself shall possess undisputa-
BILE proof Of your devotion. Chicago News.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-18
Onslaught Upon Society.
From the London Truth.

From the LOndOn Ifutn.
Not content with selling worthless shares,
ill-conducted horses. impure wines and I'M
smokeable cigars. the ladies and gentle
men" Of the day apparently sell each other
to middle-class aspirants for social dis
tinction and to tradesmen! They complain
that their servants receive commissions,
and accept commissions themselves. Our
selling society is combination of touts for
all the tradesl
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-24
PuN1sHrNa voTE-sUYINa.

Some of the Indiana Legislators are try ing, with somewhat indifferent success, to have a law passed which will prevent vote-buying at elections. Under the present law in that State man who sells his vote can be punished but there Is no penalty against the buyer. The law they l are now debating reversss this and
 punishes the one who buys. and not the seller.
 Indiana formerly had law, enacted by Democrats, which put all the penalty on the purchaser of votes and none on the seller, but the most singular feature of the law was the provision which gave the seller rigbt of action for $500 and attor- ney's fees against the buyer and against any one who furnished the meney. The Indianapolis Sentinel wants that law re- | enacted, but we can hardly Imagine a
 more vicious law. It puts the buyer at
 the mercy of the seller, and that part of
 far towards abating the evil, but the other
 provision really places a premium on
 vote-selling. The man who sells his vote not only goes unpublished but can get $300 for his own rascality. We have | rarely heard of a law which would more certainly nourish the business of selling votes, or make 1t more profitable, than this. Under 1t there would be men in
 every community who would sell their
 votes and then find a lawyer to bring
 suit against the purchaser. True, as this law would put the briber at the mercy
 of the other scoundrel 1t would have a tendency to discourage the custom. In that men would be afraid to buy votes, but at the same time 1t Is most certainly
 wrong and vicious in principle. It is almost as If a man could steal without fear of punishment and could also bring suit against the loser
 The law as 1t stands Is partial and one sided. To punish a man who sells his
 vote and not punish the buyer is not
 strict justice, by any means. That puts l the seller absolutely at the mercy of the
 buyer. against whom there is no penalty. Strict and impartial justice would punish
 both, and in no other way can the custom
 be broken up. The man who sells his
 vote Is equally guilty with the buyer and
 the same punishment should be meted out 1 to each.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-24
It Would Be Political Suicide.

Mobile Register.
 Since we said that the Democratic Party will not make the demand for in-
 dependence of the Filipinos a plank in the party's platform, we have been the ob-
 ject of something like a shower of letters
 from New England. the home of the anti
 remember that such distinguished Demo
 crats as James M. Griggs. E. W. Car
 mack James K. Jones, John F. Shafroth.
 Tom L. Johnson. William J. Bryan and
 the like, have time and again pledged
 themselves to stand steadfastly by the
 program represented or expressed by the
 bill offered by the upnanimous consent
 of the minority in Congress at the last
 session.
 Nevertheless, we are of the same opin-
 ion still. Why? We'll, because the party
 has had pretty fair run in the field of
 political foolishness and IS tired of feed
 ing on the thistles of defeat that grow there.
 Inch of American territory can win There never was q more just act than that of MT. Cleveland's in rebuking the robbers and returning the stolen goods in the
 Hawaiian case, but that act was char
 acterized as pulling down the flag" and
 MT. Cleveland and his party did not sur vive it. How much greater the force of
 popular condemnation would be were a
 proposition made to pull down the flag
 that flies over a country legally and just
 ly our own, we leave to anti-imperialists to answer; although, to speak frankly, it does not much matter what they answer The Register has always since the event, regarded the taking of the Philip | pines unwise: as incurllrg r,,l .dtt | of great responsibility. wit OF ptou .s5 of adequate reward to us or af rr" | to the Filipinos, but the thir na- n-.- | done. We have got them, and we are going to keep t, | whole history, since the time VI r son purchased Louisiana and West t-< proof enough of this 'theI
 1t wac d.Aeht to get them or right to keer | them -,ot the question at all We may | argue isNts a subject upon which to whei | our mentality, but in the field of practical | politics such question does not exist. The | party that raises such question. even | as a question, will commit political sui. | eide; and we believe the experience that | followed upon the almost fatal perform ance in 19H, at Kansas Citq, is enough to teach tha' the prospect of political sui- l eide Is no longer attractive to the Demo cratic Party.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-24
THE ENEMY IN THE HOME.

The Portland oregonian in a recent editorial has a graphic picture of the in- humanity of child labor in New York. and of the difficulties encountered by those who are trying to correct the evil. and adds:
 It is a common error to suppose that dire necessity is always behind these lit- tie ones. scourging them to their tasks. Investigation systematically carried on proves that this Is not true, since In a vast majority of cases there is no other reason for punishing the children out In their tender years as wage-earners that is not founded in the greed of parents or in habits of incidence and insobriety. Ii from the greed and exactions of employ. CTS. as compared with the greater task of protecting them from the greed of parents. The enemy within the home is always more difficult to deal with than the enemy without And in the just con- feels toward the employers of child slaves whether these are tndentured to cotton manufacturers in the South, coal operators in Pennsylvania. the bottles drivers of New York and Chicago. let the fact that this indenture would be lmpos- ble without the connivance and false swearing of parents not be forgotten.
 Friends of the children are sura 10 find themselves confronted by this difficulty. in Alabama as elsewhere Of course there are many honest end conscientious parents who will not try to evade tho law and win not falsify the age of their children but not all are of this class. An able-bodied man who will live on the earnings of his children in the mills while he spends his time in likeness and dissipa- ton will not hesitate to deceive the au- thorities as to the age of the children. In many cases no record is kept of the births, and if parents are willing to falsify the ages of their children 1t will often be found difficult. and sometimes impossible. to detect the imposition. So many parents think they have inalienable rights to deal with their children as they will and 80 many trifilng fathers will re- sent any measure which cuts off their easy income, that the enforcement of child labor laws will be difficult and in some cases it may be impossible to com ply with the letter and spirit of the law.
 None of these considerations should
 
 discourage the friends of the children. There will always be crime and wrong doing in the world as long as human nature remains as 1t is. The most that our lawmakers can do is to enact just and impartial laws. The most that the people and the officials can do is to exc cute the laws as thoroughly as possible. All the wrong cannot be driven out of human life, but the wrongs done the children can be wonderfully lessened and the hardshlps of. those who are really worse than slaves can be greatly tighten ed if the laws are enforced. Both the law and public opinion can be brought to bear on those who would sacrifice their own flesh and blood, and ii child labor in the mills and other deathly places can not be wholly prevented it can be vastly reduced. "The enemy within the home" will be the greatest obstacle. but even he may not be invincible.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-24
ELECTIONS FAR IN ADVANCE.

Senator McLaurin's term as United States Senator of Mississippi does not ex- plre until March, 1907. yet the Legislature of Mississippi that meets in January of next year will elect him for another term, and his service will not then end until March. 19l3,. This curious situation is brought about by the fact that the Missis- sippi Legislature is elected every four years, and meets every two years. The law requires that the first session of the Legislature shall elect the Senator whose term expires during the existence of the Legislature. The next session of the Legislature will be in January, 1901. The Legislature that meets then will be elect ed this year, and will be in existence un- til 1908. AS Senator McLaurin's term ex- pires in 1s07 the Legislature must elect his successor at its first term, and this necessltates so early an election. It Is fact not generally known that the Legislature to be elected in Alabama in Senators Morgan and Pettus. The term of Senator Morgan will expire March 4th, 1907 and that of Senator Pettus March {. 1909. The legislature which meets here in January 1907 will be the only one In session until after the expiration of the terms of both Senators and the legislators will have the unusual duty to perform of choosing two Senators. This does not often happen in any State.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-24
TO PROTECT THE BYsTANDEA
New Cartridge to Be Used to Sup
 press Riots

Washington, Feb 23.-The War Depart ment has sent notices to the Governors of each State that it Is prepared to supply them on demand and according to their legal allowances with riot cartridges |" This is a new form of ammunition pre- pared by the experts of the Ordnance Blu reau to enable officers of the law and sol ders to repel rioters with the least pos sible loss of life to the innocent specta- tor"
 The shell is like that of the regular shell used in the army rife with the i'm portant exception that instead of the long nickel plated and steel clad bullet, two balls are placed in the mouth. The design was apparently to secure something of greater range than buskshot, yet not dan gerous to persons al a distance The cart ridge is charged with about 34 grains of smokeless powder It has sufficient ac- curacy for effectiveness at 200 yards.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-24
SORE NECK

Take Scott's Emulsion fo, scrofula. Children often have sores on the neck that wont heal up. The sores may come and go. Parents may not know what's the matter nor what to do. Scrofula is the trouble and Scott's Emul- sion is the medicine.
 Scott's Emulsion heals the sores. But that is not all Scrofula leads to consump' tion. This is the real danger
 Scott's Emulsion is the "ounce of prevention that keeps off consumption.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-24
HAS THE oPPoRruNrrY

The Philadelphia Bulletin, Republican, argues that the President ''now has an- portunity to unload Addicksism and wash his hands clean of complicity with 1t by withdrawing the Byrne nomination" Oh. yes, the door of opportunity is wide open but Roosevelt is not the man to mass through it, He sent in the name of Byrne for United States District Attor- ney with the full knowledge that he is and has been willing and servile tool of Addicks. He is fully aware of the fact that Addicks is one of the most dlsreputable political scoundrels who ever bought a Legislature or disgraced A State.
 All this is as well known to Roosevelt as 1t is to any one else. He knows what manner of men Addicks and Byrne are. and he knows that in nominating the former to an important position he was lending the weight of his administration to Addicks and to the furtherance of his schemes. Of none of these things Is he ignorant, nor was he ignorant of them when he made the nomination. Possibly he failed to realize the almost general storm of disapprobatlon the act would cause. but he knows 1t now. If he were the manly man his friends claim that he is, willing to admit and undo an error he would withdraw the name of Byrne and thus relieve himself of the disgrace
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-24
DoUBLR GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses cer- tain signs to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole neld of nswspaperdorn which comes under it's notice. and one of these signs is the mystic symbol 0l denoting golden" which stands for high quality. and is thus explained;
 ''Advertisers value this papsr more for ths elaas and quality of it's circulation than for thu mere number of copies printed.''
 Such papers are credited with a single gym bol: but there Is a higher grade, according tC this standard authority. which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require ths DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL 0V to describe adequately their standing.
 The Advertiser has been accorded this double golden symbol I00l and Is the only paper so distinguished in this section of the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-24

need of a sympathizing member of the family of nations. For this reason, If for no other. 1t becomes our duty and our privilege to encourage English and Ger man colonization of that magnificent con- tinent to the south of us and so near our doors. The same battle that we now fight against the Roosevelt-Booker Washington combination, would be fought in South America for many years between English and German colonists and the colored na- tives there. Political sympathy with the South would operate to bring the white colonists there into close trade relations with us and instead of South American commerce passing seven thousand miles over the seas to Europe. 1t would stop at our Gulf ports and South Atlantic ports.
 A glance at the map will show that the sources of production of American cotton, wheat corn. packing house products, gold and silver bullion. etc, now comprising the chief American exports-that these sources of production are hundreds Of miles nearer Galveston. New orleans, Mobile. Pensacola, Savannah and Charls- ton than they are to New York or Bos- ton.
 The Monroe Doctrine of 1922 was devised to give this slave republic close ally in the slave republics of South America. That original conception Is now exhaust ed. The Roosevelt Booker Washington combination of 1903 is founded upon un- American influx of the Latin race from Europe, annually increasing, and the ne- gro of the North. It Is the most vulgar political quantity on the face of the earth. No elements of population more incompe- tent to sustain republican institutions can be collected en masse than that balance of power led by Theodore Roosevelt. All suggestion of bad influence over 1t arising from contact with English and German colonization of South America Is worthy only of a circus clown.
 The operations of natural forces hold out a promise to us. England and Ger many want land. The South should lose no time in securing a neighbor. Let us educate our Senators and Representatives In Congress to encourage English and German colonization of South America. The Democrats of the South should see to 1t that the renunciation of the Monroe doctrine shall be a plank in the Demo- cratic national platform of 1904.
 We are told South America Is unfit for inhabitancy of the white race. That is not the truth. Carthage. Alexandria, Babylon, Jerusalem and the Garden of Eden were in warm attitudes. We have dynamite to dlsplace the pick, steam to propel the blow, electricity to turn the fan, ice that is made by the machine. South America Is the richest area of the world, a pearl cast before the Monroe Doctrine to be tramped on. J. W. D.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-24
AN Ex-ALABAM1AN's SUCCESS

It will be a matter of qualification to Dr. George F. Mellen's friends in Ala bama to read the following items from a recent Knoxville Crenn.) Sentinel. Dr. Mellen was reared and educated in Ala bama, and for some years was principal of schools in Sumter and Marengo Coun- ties, where he made reputation as a teacher and is still held in warm esteem. After taking his doctorate at the Univer- Sity of Leipsic in Germany, he became professor of Greek in the University of Tennessee. a position he filled for nine years. At present he is largely engaged in literary pursuits, being a regular .con- tributor to some of the highest class magazines in the country.
 Mir. Charles A. Whittle, literary critic pf The Sentinel, says:
 pr. George Frederick Mellen of Knox, vile, is doing an invaluable service to history in chronicling the service of those men who have shaped history more than wars and statemanship, the editors He does 1t, too. with such a delicious pen and with such art and appreciation of his material, that to read is inviting. The February number of the New England Magazine contains an article entitled New England Editors in the South" It will be a revelation to most people the extent of the influence that was wlelded through the medium of the press by natives of New England previous to the Civil War. Perhaps none in the South has as full knowledge of the history of the Southern press as has Dr. Melen He treats the material. which he has gather ed by several years investigation, with the broad spirit of the true historian. He recognizes the value of the work done by the fine type of editors which New England contributed to the South, some of whom so fully identified themselves with 1t as to be its warmest champions in the testing times of the Civil War. The contribution of New England to the press of Tennessee is given consideration in an Interesting manner.
 Dr, Mellen Is due a debt of gratitude for his work in thls field of history, and future contributions of the kind should find a wide reading.
 In re-publishing the article from the New England Magazine. an editorial in The Sentinel thus speaks of pr. Mellen and his work:
 Attention is called to Dr. George s. ,Mellen's article on New England Editors in the South" which is of very great historic value. Through the courtesy of the New England Magazine 1t is printed in full else where in todays Sentinel pr. Mellen has done and is doing some very valuable and highly appreciated literary work and historical research. He easily ranks as one of the South's most prolific writers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-24

of Addicksism. but when and on what
 occasion. did Roosevelt admit that he
 was wrong and when did he recede from a position?
 It is well enough for e public man to be firm in the discharge of every duty. and 1t Is proper for him to adhere to his convictions when he feels himself in the right, but in the present case 1t is simply impossible for the President to delude himself with any kind of belief that he is right, or that he Is doing a duty by adhering to Byrne, or that he is doing himself or his administration any credit by countenancing Addicks. Such course of bullheaded obstinacy for which he Is being censured by Democrats and Re- publicans alike in all parts of the coun- try.
 If anyproof is needed to show that Ad- dicks is sure of the support of the admin istration that proof is furnished by the man himself in his usual brutality frank way when he publicly announces that no man who refused to vote for J. Edward Addicks in the Legislature will ever be allowed to hold any office in Delaware, and backs this up with the further as- sertion, nor will any bolter sympath!zer be permitted to come to the front" If he is not perfectly sure of his posi-
 ton, and if he Is not certain of his hold on Roosevelt how can he assert so posi- lively that none of the Republicans who
 have refused to support him shall hold
 office? He must believe and have good
 reason for feeling assured that any bar
 gains he makes in the name Of the Presi-
 dent will be carried out and that any
 pledges he makes will be fulfilled. That
 is the condition of affairs in Delaware
 and Washington.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-24
The Southern States and South
 America.

Editor The Advertiser.
 The situation m South America pre-
 sents to the people of he Southern States
 the opportunity Of the widest policy of StateCraft.
 If Italians, lIungarians. Russians Turks. Persians. ,2reeks, Arabians are re- ceived Into the United States and wei
 comed as voters hundreds of thousands of them, every year. why should South America be closed by the Monroe Doctrine
 to English and German colonization? If the Indian of North America is excluded from the government of himself. in the United States. and :he negro excluded from the government of himself in Alaba-
 ma and in every State of the Union, by
 the whites of all nationalities in the | United States. why should the amalgam now inhabiting south America. compos-
 ed of low Spanlards, Indians and ne groes, be protected by the Monroe Doc Urine from English and German colonlza- ton and control of them and their coun- try?
 The Southern States are very much in
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-24

They do things differently In Pennsyl- vania from what they do In some other places. At least We judge so from seeing in The Lancaster Intelligencer an allu- makes 1t proper for retiring State officials of high degree to take along with them their chairs and desks.' That Is a GUS tom which, in our opinion, may very well be Ignored if the State should ever get d full set of honest officials.