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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14
A Juvenile impression.

My folks all say I'm bout as bright
AS any boys could ever be;
Those who are dull or impolite
Are told to pattern after me.
I never fail in anything.
They look at me with pride and say.
Hes wonderfully promising,
He may be President some day."
But Presidents must miss, I know.
A lot to pay for all their fame.
To circuses they never CO.
They never see base ball game.
think it must be very tough,
The serious way their lives are spent.
guess I'll just be bad enough
To keep from being President.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14
Queer News From Portland, Oregon
From the Portland Orepnnian

AS exclusively announced in the TeIe-
gram yesterday. George B. Cortelyou has
been appointed Postma ster General to sue
coed the late II. c. Payne. whose death was
also exclusively published in this paper
During the past few years Mr.. Cortelyou
has rapidly advanced in public affairs be-
ing appointed to one high office after an
other. Mr.. Roosevelt has implicit conf
dence in the ability of his former private
secretary, and it may yet occur that Mr..
Cortelyou will attain the portfolio of Sec
rotary of State, the most important posi-
ton in the country aside from the presi-
dency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14
The New. Fashionable Colors.
ON the Albany Times Union.

FfUm the AIDHHy I1Ihes- UulOH.
Why not put on the market these new
colors? Mashed-potato white, hassen
pfeffer brown, cream-puff yellow. smoked
sturgeon buff, misunderstanding gray
dried-prune black, scorched-zwiebaci
ebony, speckled-lemon green. fried-egt
orange, stewed-spinach emerald, frontage
de-brie yellow. plant purple, breakfast
food straw, tribe tints.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14

When a boy runs away and tries to be-
come bandit the reason usually assigned
Is that he read dime novels" The recent
tragedies among sentimental young people
are calculated to put the cheap love story
under much suspicion as the tales OF
border rutfianism.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14
VIGOROUSLY Short-Lived.
From the Boston Herald.

1t seems to be the popular verdict that
this latest great motor vehicle race Is
the last one that will ever be run on the
public highways. though we think we've
heard that statement made before at the
conclusion of similar performances Public
indignation on some subjects Is VIGOROUSLY
short-iyed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14
SHOOTING STARS.
Rewards and Penalties.

'It is difficult for people to get what they
really deserve In this life
1T is difficult for some of u.s. answered
Miss Cayenne; "others have to dodge"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14

Some scientific wag is asking what be-
comes of a light when 1t Is blown out.
Some of the new congressman who arrived
in Washington in former years ought to be
able to solve the problem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14
Too BUSY to Bother,

"Who does you reckon will be In de White
House mex year?'
Deed, honey. l has'n' stopped to figger
1 hasn' got my own rent paid yet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14
Druggists Should Be Punished, Too.

Further Investigations by the New York
police have disclosed the fact that several
hundred druggists in that city have been
patrons of the men who dealt In counter
felt patent drugs. One man has confessed
to making $3.50 a week for two years selling
these drugs. There should be a way to
punish druggists who knowingly bought
these articles as well as the men who pro-
NOTED the swindle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14

Gov. Odell's opinion that it is all over but
the shouting has not inspired any enthu-
siasm in Senator Plat beyond few fer
vent hopes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14

General Corbin's views on matrimony
have accomplished little more than to en-
phasize the impression that war is ex-
ceedingly cold-blooded business
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14

Judge Parker is said to spend much of his
time talking with Mr.. Taggart. There Is
no doubt that Mr.. Taggart can be depended
on as friendly audience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14
In the interests of HARMONY

what do you think of the nobleman
whom your daughter is to marry?''
Il refuse to be interviewed" answered
Mr.. Cumrox. There is tacit understand
ing between the young man and myself that
neither of us will express his opinion of the
other"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14
An Equivalent.

She takes her hat off at the play;
Our pleas she can't resist;
But wears her hair In such a way
The hat is never missed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14

In so quiet campaign some of the
moneyed people are justified In wondering
what the politicians would do with large
contributions If they had them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14
A Danger.

Don't you have to think very hard In
order to evolve your novels?"
NO. answered the eminent author. eff
you stop to think you are liable to lose your
courage"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14
Forgot Himself.
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch

In Mr., Watson's long letter Of acceptance
he took up so much space telling what
other candidates had done or would do he
entirely forgot to tell what he will do IL
elected. But maybe he thought that would
be waste of time and ink.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14

There are democrats who insist that
Judge Parker ought to get out and make
speeches instead of combining himself to an
office business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14

Mrs. Carrie Nation, having demonstrated
that alcoholic indulgence does not cause all
the cratic conduct In the world, has con-
cluded to retire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14

The war correspondents in Asia are con-
tinuing to wonder whether the novelty Of
the material they are sending justihes the
expense account.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14

King Peter of Servia is managing to do
so well that in the course Of time the in
surance agents may begin calling on him
again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14
Ill-Concealed Impatience

From the ST. Louis Globe Democrat
Colonel Bryan cannot conceal his anxiety
to get through with the Parker deal, so he
can return to the more congenial labor of
whooping it up for free silver and the
Kansas City platform.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14

When wood alcohol is sold as whisky in
New York the dealers who merely indulge
In the ordinary authorizations feel COM
paratively angelic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14

The Russians never experience reverses
so bad that they not cheerfully con-
WINGED that their misfortunes might be
worse
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14

The japanese army continues to capture
enough guns to relieve the minds of the
taxpayers as to the expenses for artillery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14

personal absence, letters to THE STAB
should not be addressed to any individual
connected with TIE ONCE, but simply to
THE STAR, or to the Editorial or Busi-
ness Departments, according to tenor or
purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14

Mr.. Machen and Mr. Beavers are unable
to foresee anything that looks like a suit
able administration of post office affairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14

1t is beginning to look as if Weinseimer
had entirely failed to profit by Sam Parks
experience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14

THE EVENING STAR has a regular and
permanent Family Circulation much
more than the combined circulation Of
the other Washington dai1ies. AZ .
News and Advertising Medium Il has
no conn etitor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-20
x x x THE TRAGIC ROLE OF EMPEROR X \ X

beset with apIrehenSiOns for his life
and sudden suspicious of the fidelity OF
those around him.
ITO the instability Of the cars pur-
poses his ministers attributes those va
riatiOns in policy that Sd frequently
give the impression abroad Of insincer-
ity and double dealing. This was why
Japan's intentions were misread, why
preparations for war were only par
TALLY carried forward. and why the
contest between the peace party and
the war party delayed Russia's reply
beyond Japans patier,ce. The great
mobiles especially those around Mos
COW: the military services. the minis
tiers even. have q feeling that his ma
jesty's hesitation and his nefveless hold
on the administration are responsible
for the misfo<tunes that now humiliate
the country. The talk ir. the upper
classes, the props and defense Of the
crown. is that his majesty is too weak
for his work. too weak for Russia. and
that IL were well for the state if he
were dead or replaced by another. The
car is aware Of this hostiIity-not so
far-reacning. probably, as he imagines
and he is afraid.
Enormous increasing luxury at the
court offends those excluded from il.
The night Russias answer was tele-
graphed to Alexieff court ball took
place, at which $500 persons were en-
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tertained. In the supper rooms were
l,5OO walters in gorgeous iiveries. in the
kitchens 500 cooks. Everything that
two continents could supply was served
and the wines We're impossible. Several
thousand trufiies were provided that
cost ten rubles $50 each The cost
of this one evening could scarcely have
been less than a million rubles. Their
majesties.. the ear and czarina. ap-
peared for a short time among the
wilderness Of uniforms and after that
the gluttons conquered.
The blows OF Japan from without
and the inability of the autocrat within
10 combine and WELD the states vast
resources make Russians. even the in
veterate bureaucrats. think that Rus
STA possibly is backward in her growth.
and that. after ali. her institutions
might be modified by a limited partici-
patton of the governed in the govern
ment. The agitators at the bottom are
also saying that patriotic Russiars
ought now 20 see the inadequacy Of the
system: that every shot of the Japanese
is a shot for partial freedom Of speech.
for a rudinentary press for a mere
beginning in parliamentary institutions
,-recognizing the unfitness of a people
SO long dwarfed by absolutism for any
thing more than a lengthening of the
chain. a iOosening up of the manacIes
where they chafe most"
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the word should come that their train
was waiting. All night long, every day,
the embarkatiOn goes on in the same
Uniform way. as If the working day
were twenty-four hours long. Sundays
included. Only the horses break into
the cut-and-dried programme. The in
termixture of foreign blood has not bred
the character that the brush Of the
Japanese artist has given them. You
can see the same twist of mape and
tail in action as that which has seemed
impossible to the Occidental eye The
Japanese horse is the only living thing
in Japan, apparently. that does not
long TO go to war in Manchuria He
backs at sight Of the train and bites,
and once he has been rOped in 80 fast
that he cannot even shake his head. he
beats a tattoo of protest against the
walls of the box car. No horse in the
world seems to need so much looking
after. Two sets of four are put into
the box car facing each other. with the
troopers and their baggage between
them. However enthusiastic the for
eigner may grow over the infantry and
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While the armies are clashing i'm the
east and the Russian bear, stung by
the mikado's wasps, seems TO wake and
to begin TO shake out his great strength.
Just what does il mean TO the ear Of
all the Rusgtas2 This may seem ex-
aggerated." writes our Berlin CORE
spOndent. but have il from one who
has recently seen the car and talked
with him. The most sorrowful figure in
the Russian court is the autOcrat from
whom all power and splendor radiate.
He prays much for wisdom to bear the
int0lerabi weight or the empires af-
fairs. He leaves his closet tranquilized
and his spirit elevated to enter the
council room, where keener. ADLER men
than ne screen their ambitions by ear
nestness for the welfare Of the state
and defererce FOR the person Of their
sovereign. The policies OF groups of
individuals having access TO their mas
ter differ, either from conviction or
from the necessities OF private war.
one with another. The czar's intelli-
gence deals Intellectually with questions
thus presented. He leans first toward
one decision ard then toward another.
He postpones conclusions. striving TO
reach a clear judgment. or accepts one
view today and abandons II tomorrow,
having in the meantime met other
minds or yielded TO other impulses. His
sense Of his own heiplessness is nearly
always present with him, and he is
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-20

In columns of twos and threes-an
in-ligted city serving a pictorial end
winding in and out through the streets
ran the yellow balls of light. ciear-cut
against the darkness. while under them
was the-roar of song and cheer. They
went to the admiralty. and from the
steps of the big building OF European
architecture the minister OF marine
made them a speech. All this was Oc-
cidental. The foreigners interest lay
farther on when the parade. with its
crest of moons, passed across the moat
and through the double gates that open
at the corner of the palace Enclosure on
TO the park that faces the gates through
which the state carriages pass TO the
most exclusive courts.
Across the length of the park the Ian
tern bearers formed in close order. Ev-
cry face was turned toward the palace.
The lanterns were raised high as the
"BanZaiS," rang o1t, ''Dia Nippon
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taken Mukden and Hardin ooh. you
cold, phlegmatic English you of the
wild orgy Of a Mafeking night in Lon
don, If you would really study self
control, observe another island people
who at this hour think they have won
a victory meaning as much 10 them as
Trafalga TO YOU'D
At night the sun had a picturesque
substitute, The japanese lantern does
not belong in a land where you read
from left 20 right horizontally, but to
a land where you read from right to
left perpendicularly The lantern goes
with the people. their houses. their
costume, and their manners. You must
come to Japan 10 understand the Ian
tern: you must be in Toxic on the night
Of victory TO realize that it is living
thing. The lights began TO appear just
as official confirmation of the extras
swept over the city with joyous au-
thOTity.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-20
JAPANESE DESERTIONS

In one respect the Japanese differ
greatly from the soldiers of other ma
tions. especially those nations whose
fighting men are gathered by conscrip-
ton. He likes his job, and would
rather be a soldier than anything else,
Most soldiers are keen in time of war,
hut the Jap is even keen in time of
peace.
All able bodied japanese are soldiers
i'm theory. for the second landsturm
of the army is composed of all men
between the ages Of Il and 40 who are
not i'm any of the other branches of the
naval and military service. In practice.
many thousands of japanese who would
like to serve in the army are disap-
pointed because their names are not
drawn in the limited CONSUMPTION The
officers in command of the various milf
tary depots have to turn away crowds
of applicants who want TO serve be
fore their time comes.
The popularity OF the service IS
shown by the fact that assertions are
rare, the percentage being much lower
than in any other large army in the
world. The officers treat their men
with much more consideration than is
usual III European armies, and there is
! real genuine cOmradeship between
them. Then men are so willing that
they can De perfectly coHlIoueO DA Il
mild discipline which would shock a
Russian or German martinez
There are two qualities which ] can
claim the soldiers OF my country pos
sess i'm supreme degree said a Japan
csc resident OF New York, who was
formerly an officer i'm the Mika6O's
army Thy are the best educated
troops in er- world, with the possible
exception of the American. and they
are certainly the best marchers.
LAS for their marching they receive
herd and almost daily practice in il
during their training. As a result, they
were able TO cover forty miles a day
through the deep SHOWS in Manchuria
during the war with China: and in good
weather on good roads they did As
much as fifty and sixty miles.
They a. Injured 10 the greatest
hardships During that Manchurian
winter large bodies of our troops had
no winter clothing. They marched and
fought in their linen suits. and slept out
on the frozen ground in them. with
only thin blanket or overcoat for
covering.
ION hard campaign The troops gen
orally throw away their regulation
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ARE RARE

leather shoes and make sandals for
themselves out of straw. The officers
readily permit this. for they know the
men will march better in tho sandals
The fighting qualities OF the japanese
infantrymen were amply proved during
the war with China and again in the
march 10 the relief of the Picking lega-
lions The Chinese war. in particular.
ab0unded with heroic exploits. On one
occasion five JapS led by d sergeant
named Kadoda, charged a Chinese reef-
meut they had been seat to -ecoE-
noitre at night, and actually routed it.
At the siege of Ping Yang an infan-
tryman named Harada snesked up to
the wall after the japanese had been
beaten back. quietly scaled it while the
Chinese We're celebrating their victory.
dropped down among hundreds Of them
and ran 10 the gate and opened it be-
fore they realized what he was doing.
he fought of the entire crowd until
his comrades dashed in and captured
the fort. He escaped without scratch.
and is now one Of Japan'S national he
roes.
Japan has supplied her soldiers with
the lightest rifle known among armies.
Extremely short. this weapon has an
effective range of 1000 yards 1'he
rifle is the invention Of "A japanese and
/ an adaptation of the best points of the
Mauser and other arms 10 the needs
o. the Japanese service.
Except for her warships japan has
armed herself. Her small arms are
her own manufacture, her equipment
/ for mountain and field artillery has
( been turned out in her own arsenals at
! Toxic and Asaka, and she is prepar-
ing now 10 build the largest guns re-
quired in her navy. BY incessant
study she has learned all that other
nations could teach her in the line Of
armament, and she has taken what
she wanted in the way of ideas and
gone ahead quietly, but steadily. and
equipped herself. She makes her own
powder. and the material used IN the
uniforms is woven under government
/ supervision. The government even
: breeds horses TO improve the quality
! of its army mounts II buys animals
/ when colts and feeds and trains them
/ before il sends them out TO the differ
/ ent troops of cavalry. Her army and
/ her navy are the idols of Japan. and no
| detail has been too small for the gov
! eminent TO attend TO in order to bring
/ the service 10 the degree of perfection
] desired.-New York Press.
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If this had been St. Petersburg. and
the Russians had won. we can imagine
how the car might have appeared in
doorway for moment, under a blaze
of light. That would be "A part of the
mise en- scene for thai land; a part
that would receive the approval Of Da-
vid BelaScO. Japan is different-al-
ways different. This is an emperor
whose ancestors have sat on the throne
from time immemorial. If Palestine
were today a free Jewish nation. and
the Jews an inherently warlike people
who had never known conquest, the
descendants of Moses, who sat on the
throne, would mean TO them what their
emperor does to the Japanese. The
services and the surroundings Of di-
vinity hedge him around. The house
in which he lives is not in sight of the
park He could not see the dancing
lanturns that leaped slSS'ward with the
cries of ''Banzaii" If he had wished
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the artillery. when it comes to the cav
airy he has to confess to some indif-
ference. Besides those of Europe, if
not America, the Japanese mount
makes a poor comparison. / should
have said OutWardly a poor COMPARE
son. The horse is OF a part with the
riders habitat-and one is accustomed
TO have the japanese surpass expecta-
lions. Being surprised at nothing IN
these days. one may sopn bs accepting
as a commonplace the superiority of the
Japanese over the Cossack cavalry.
The other morning I was awakened
before dawn by the cheers in honor of
the departing soldiers. which show that
the little bronze images are beginning
20 take notice in a most western fash
ion. We are psychOlogically in what
might be called the third period Of the
war: The first, that of its beginning.
with its silence; the second, that of vic
tory. with its awakening from dumb in
tensity to enthusiasm Cloth of which I
have described); and, finally, that OF
the real hurrah period. Those first few
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py rumor that ink makes on paper and
SENDS broadcast with clarion voice
price. ora sen.
The japanese does not cheer until he
mas won. The population OF the town
seems twenty times what il was the
night war began. Toxic having some
thing TO be proud of, opens its doors
and shows its head. The little Budd-
hist images. with far-off. subtle smiles
wake up and blink The paper win
lowed houses that husbanded doubts
and fears. and the tense expectancy of
a people who think of their emperor 8
fortune before their own. send their
occupants forth. if not to merry-mak-
ing, AT least TO walk up and down.
Streets that were dark last night dance
with. globes Of yellow light tonight.
Since noon a mild form of insanity
has prevailed. I say a mild form-the
violent form which other races would
have shown may come when we have
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banzaii Dia Nippon banzai, Banzai.
banzai. banzai," The dim light showed
the students Of the naval school In
their neat-fitting western uniforms
they who had missed fighting for their
beloved country by being born three or
four years too late The classes ahead
OF them were Keeping watch on decks
i'm the cold northern seas. The best
that they could do was To split their
thrOats ia the cold, moist night air.
At their heels. in the freer garb OF XII
monas, were the students of the uni
Nersity. with their future of develop
ing and civilizing the lands that the
navy and army should win.
Isn't it pretty near time that the
mikadO showed HIMSELF" a foreigner
asked All faces were turned toward,
all eyes were looking toward, a wall
of darkness. Out of il was visible only
the white sides of one of the buildings
in the inclosure.