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freeing the President.

Mr.. Tiliman is developing into a philos-
opher. He showed a willingness the other
day to compliment several republican
statesmen who are dead. and he confessed
yesterday that the present strenuous play
by the minority of the Senate to embar-
rass the President in the Panama business
is purely partisan AS he sees the matter
republican President Is up a tree" and
he and his democratic colleagues are sim
ply barking at him. The figure Of speech
is from coon-hunting country, and, while
little free, is yet very expressive But
the keenest-scented pack. cheered on by
the lustiest master of the hunt, is some
times mistaken Is Mr.. Tillman certain
that he is barking up the right tree? Is
he certain that the President is at present
up any tree? Mr.. German was once a good
hunter, but since the presidency was drag
ged across the trail he has been running
wild. And Mr.. TiIlman is but following
his leader.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
The Mall and the Park Plan

1t Is possible TO sympathize with Chair
man Wadsworth of the House committee
on Agriculture and his colleagues who OBJ
ject with him to the proposed emplacement
of the new building for the Department of
Agriculture without sharing his pessimistic
view that Congress will be at least fifty or
sixty years in providing sufficient money 10
execute the plans of the Senates park COM
mission. II may be the fate of Washington
to wait half century for this evolution.
but in the light of the recent national
awakening to the Importance of the federal
city and the evidence that the country de-
sires It's development along the lines of the
park commissions project 1t is hardly to be
believed that Congress win actually permit
the years to go by without making at least
a definite beginning on the work or else
substituting some other comprehensive plan
and proceeding with its execution.
AS for the location OF the new agricul-
tural building. the objections raised by the
members of the committee of the House
seem to be at least worthy of earnest con-
sideration before the work on the construc-
ton is actually begun. The Star has always
felt that 1t was undesirable that this
structure should be placed in the Mall even
though it Is to supplement a building al
ready there established. 1t is impossible to
conceive any architectural harmony be-
tween the present building and its finer,
modern associate as planned 1t is unpleas-
ant to contemplate a development of the
Mall on this basis of close association be-
tween structures of totally different design
and materials. Witness the jumbled mass
of structures In the Smithsonian section Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
More Snow Money Needed.

By the exercise of careful economy the
District authorities managed to save lit
tie more than half of the dole of snow
cleaning money they received from Con-
greSs when the early January snowfall
occurred. This was accomplished without
any particular corresponding happiness on
the part of the street users, who would
doubtless have been pleased to have the
whole of the generous appropriation of
5000 used up to give them relief from the
sush. With the money now In hand the
Commissioners can manage to clean the
crosswalks and cutters of the snow which
fell last night and today. If more snow
comes this will not suffice, and so the Com
missioners are asking Congress for another
allowance, this time of $4,000, to tide them
over this storm and the next.
So here is the pleasant spectacle of the
city fathers compelled, through congress
sional economies. to keep running to the
Capitol to ask for snow-cleaning money
whenever the skies shower down flakes.
They start the season without a penny, for
it does not seem to occur to the mind of the
dispensers of public funds that it can pos
sibly snow in this city. Perhaps the theory
has been formally established that there is
no need of such general funds as other
cities have inaSmuch as the District gets
it's allowances from Congress and Congress
is-almost-always in session during the
snow period
But it sometimes happens that snow falls
when Congress has seen fit to adjourn for
few days, as for the Christmas holidays.
So that the theory does not always work
out in practice and the Districts records
bear repeated testimony to the insufiiciency
of this hand-to-mouth system of snow APP
populations
The proper plan is to write this item into
the annual budget along with the ailot-
ments for schools, police, bridges. street
pavements and such like. A fair average
should be struck-if the really safe method
of providing for a maximum need is not
pursued-which will at least insure that the
District will have snow money during De-
cember and January in sufficient amount to
enable the authorities to attack the streets
Immediately after every storm and put
them in decent condition for travel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
The Municipal Building.

Deducting the cost of site and prepara-
tory expenses and architects fees 1t is
estimated that the sum Of 81 .4O0, 600 will be
available for the actual work of construct
ing the new municipal building. Surely.
this sum must impress the appropriations
committees iE Congress upon mature re-
Election as rather meager allowance for
the construction of a permanent home for
the federal municipality. In these days Of
large buildings, handsome designs and high
costs this is no such amount as the capital
of the republic would be expected to devote
to its official residence. The site chosen Is
conspicuous and the building win be st-ik.
insly in evidence for all Time II con-
structed of cheap materials on severely
plain plan 1t will impress all beholders with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
Money Changers and the Country.

Replying to a question in New York On
Wednesday Mr.. Bryan said THE para
mount issue of the coming campaign is,
Shall the money changers rule this coun-
try2''
If by money changers Mr.. Bryan refers
to the great trust magnates his first con-
sideration should be for his party. That
will be in peril before the country is
reached. The trus s have failed in their
efforts to control the republican organiza-
ton, and are massing their strength with
the view of capturing the other side. If that
fails, then the trusts as would-be political
dictators fail. Mr.. Bryan should exert HIM
self between now and July to help put'th
trusts out of political business. If he will
use his best endeavors toward keeping the
ST. Louis nomination clear of the trust
hallmark he will be serving both his party
and the country. If there is assurance in
the person of the one candidate as of the
other that however the contest may result
in November the antitrust laws will be en-
forced, Wall street will sing small
There money changers and money
changers. Every man of business is. in a
sense, money changer. Wage-earners are
money changers, and especially that large
number of them who put their surplus in
savings banks. Good times and good money
are everything to these men, and they are
DESTROYS that the country be blessed with
good government. They are active in cam
paigr years in the exercise of their highest
rights and privileges. and they twice voted
for William Mckinley for President.
But they have never been. are not now,
and never will be a menace to stable values
fair dealing or prosperity. They are not in
sympathy with Wall streets schemes nor
do they desire to see Wall street control
either of the two great parties. The execu-
ton of the antitrust laws has not alarmed
them in the slightest. They are making
none of the noise we hear about a reckless
and spectacular chief magistrate who seems
bent on hurrying the country to destruc
ton. They are a great army of conserva-
tive men. who are prospecting and who wish
to see others prosper.
Let Mr.. Bryan differentiate between the
money changers. Let him separate prop
erly the sheep from the goats, and keep his
eye steadily on the goats. They are not
very numerous, but they are powerful and
dangerous, and in the public behalf should
be defeated In all of their present aims,
monopolistic and political
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
What Causes Dandruff.

GREATEST EUROPEAN AUTHORITY ON SKIN
DISEASES, SAYS IT'S GERM.
The old idea that dandruR is scales of skin
thrown OF through feverish condition of the
scalp b exRlodsRs Prof. Unna. Hamburg, Germany.
European Authority ON skin diseases, says dandruff
is germ disease, The germ burrows under the
scalp. throwing up little scales of cuticle and
sapping thensitaiity of the hair at the root. The
only hair preparation that kills dandruf germs is
Newbro's Herpicide. Destroy the cause you re-
move the eject I'd Not only cures dandrufr but
stops falling hair and permits luxuriant growth.
Delightful 1airE dtssng. Sold by leading drug
gists. Send 10c. in stamps for sample to The
Herpicide Ca. DetFoit Mich. EDWARD STE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

the park, where three buildings stand hud-
died together without single line of archi-
tecturaI relationship between them, each
impairing the attractiveness of the other.
If public buildings are to be let into the
Mall they should be treated as parts of
great whole, not as mere individuals which
need ground spac. The CREATION OF the
proposed SO0-foot boulevard or vista, or
whatever 1t may be styled, through this
SPACE, will unquestionably yield the effect
of more closely crowd1ng the already built
spaces 1t is suggested that it will neces--
state the destruction of the only really
artistic building in the whole space area,
the only one which is suited to its park
setting, the Smithsonian. Against such an
outrage all Washington will surely rise in
revolt, and the whole country will respond
to the extent that it Is aware of the sac
rifice contemplated.
1t is possible to evolve the park commits
sion's general scheme without this objec-
tionable feature of a great boulevard or
vista. 1t Is possible likewise to develop
the plan without overcrowding the Mall
with additional public buildings. In the
great triangle between the Mall, Penn
sylvania avenue and Fifteenth street is
room enough for all the structures
which the government now requires or
ever in the future will need. They
can be given semi-park settings and will
remain within convenient access from the
other points Of pubic interest and activity.
Assuredly, all future emplacements should
BE- within this territory, where the mag
nificent park will serve as the background
and Pennsylvania avenue as the chief line
of approach. There is yet time to prevent
this wrong start, and it Is to be hoped that
the President, to whom an appeal has just
been made. will take up the matter and
review it in the light Of the real needs of
the Greater Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
Mississippi's Insurgent Senators

1t is announced that the Mississippi SEN
ators. despite their virtual instruction by
the legislature which has just reelected
them to vote for the canal treaty, will stand
by Mr. German in opposition to ratification.
1t appears that the legislature put its reso-
luton In the form of request which
the senators now propose to ignore. This
course is permitted or encouraged by
the fact that the senators in question
have long terms TO serve. in one case
until 1918 and in the other until 1911,
without interruption. The other day The
Star. in commenting upon certain dis
patches, suggested that the Mississippi leg
islature might better elect it's representa-
tives in Congress for life than go to the
trouble and expense of recurrent re-elec-
tions. now that the process of popular bal
loting has been reduced to the merest form.
This proposition receives additional force
from the attitude of these senator's to the
treaty. VIII the legislature which has just
reelected and advised them specifically
as 10 their duties take umbrage at the an
nounced purpose to disregard the instruc-
tons? Or will it pass the whole matter
over, feeling that it has done it's duty to
the state. especially inasmuch as the canal
treaty is certain of ratification anyway? 1t
will have taken it's place before the term of
either recalcitrant senator expires. VIII It's
successor feel Under obligations to maintain
the prestige of the legislative branch of the
state government by refusing to re-elect the
senator who has thus violated his billet?
Certainly there would seem to be ground
for the consideration of a new idea in Mis-
sissippi, namely. that of electing senators
conditionally. inasmuch as the custom of
holding quadrennial sessions seems to have
been permanently established. senator
ship with strings attached to 1t would be no
novelty in point of fact. but the actual
pulling of those strings by an angry legis-
lature would be a decidedly new thing in
American politics. Perhaps the state will
now find it necessary to devise oath of
office. to be administered by the legislative
officials to the men who receive the COM
mission to sit in the federal Senate binding
them TO specific performances or to political
hara-kiri. Certainly, the rebellion of these
statesmen involves some entertaining pos
sibilties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
Roosevelt and Cleveland.
From the St. Paul Dispatch.

Tue Fdui DfSpatch.
We have never taken stock In the ef-
fectiyeness of the Roosevelt opposition. Its
nature. its motives, its objects were too
transparent. It has been overestimated
simply because 1t clamored while the mass
was silent. Persons have mistaken its ex-
tent and strength just as the bowling OF
two coyotes made young Grant fancy that
there were hundreds Of them. Conditions
parallel those in the democratic party from
1888 to 1892. The same clamor impress ed
people with false notion OF the strength
of the opposition to the denomination of Mr.
Cleveland. But when the convention met
and the men came up to represent the
silent mass. the opposition were swept on
the earth It is so in our party. now, and
so 1t will be when the convention meets In
June.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

The man who perennially signs Tor a
good, old-fashioned winter" will find MS
favorite topic of conversation of little serv-
Ice this season. Certainly this present sue
cession of SHOWS is enough to make the old
est of the old inhabitants sit up and search
diaries for parallels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
A Winters Tale.

Good old-fashioned winter:
Good old-fashioned freeze;
Good oId-fashioned shiver;
Good old-fashioned sneeze;
Good old-fashioned hoarseness;
Good old-fashiOned chill;
Good old-fashioned doctor;
Good old-fashioned bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
Not Regretfu1.

"Do you ever regret the time which In
your youth you devoted to recreation in
stead of study?'
mo" answered the good-natured citi-
zen ST once knew a man who read books
all his life and never played base ball or
went swimming, or played marbles; and he
wasn't much good"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

Mr. Bryan's devotion to 16 to 1 is so
complete that he has neglected the rhetor-
ical pyrotechnics that were expected from
him on the Panama question.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

There is no taste in weather which can
not be gratified by a sojourn of few
days in this part of the world. If the de-
sired temperature is not in stock it can
be produced by little waiting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

Chinaman who married twenty-five
years ago and then left his wife to come
to this country has been sent home An
oriental version, of Enoch Arden may be in
order
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

The kaiser is not disposed to say any
thing to help along the irritation over Ash
attic affairs. He is not so enthusiastic an
advocate of war as to be incapable Of
thinking twice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

Mr. Dowie is now on his way to Austria
lia and the Zionites are earnestly hoping
that he took the trouble to provide himself
with a round-trip ticket.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

This is the day of the man with the
shovel, when the hoe is relegated to the
cellar. Early morning exercise with this
implement is good for the digestion. but
hard ON the fingers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

II it is decided that an official cannot be
provided with carriage, it would be only
decent in the government to give him an
occasional package of car tickets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
Vox Populi.

We're gettin' right suspicious here at Po-
hick on the Crick.
Whene'er we read of some great man that's
been a-feelin' sick,
An see his pictures printed: we are learnin'
now to look
For some long puff about the kind O. medi-
cine he took.
When an actress loses jewels we are gettin'
pretty wise.
We know It's like divorces, jest a way to
advertise;
And when some politician rises up an gives
his views.
It's 1es' write-up for hisself. 1t isn't
regular news
I've bout decided. after readin' pieces day
by day,
A school of journalism is thing that ought
to pay.
They'd ought to teach reporters how to
write up things right here:
How Billy Jones was chased cross lots by
Ezra Martins Steer
How Whey Thompson sprained her limb,
and. though the truth may shock
They ought to name folks that stay out
till after II o'clock.
I guess I'll start a paper, cause It's such
an easy trick,
An show how we can edit here at Pohick
on the Crick.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

Russia probably cares very little who gets
the better of the argument so long as it has
all the time it wants for warlike prepare
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

Every now and then Chicago professor
says something funny enough to entitle him
to the chair Of humor in school OF jour-
naliSm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

The King Of Servia and the Emperor Of
Korea might get together and see If they
cannot organize a monarch's protective as
ISOLATION.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

Presidential booms are plentiful at this
season. But the guaranteed variety Is
scarce as ever
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

The story of that Cleveland defaulter is
painfully commonplace: speculated with
borrowed money. lost and kept on speculat-
ing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

The way in which the English nobility is
taken in by bogus financiers makes the or
binary gold brick game seem tame and in
consequential
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29

Spain wants navy, but has not gone
far enough into the question to decide
what it wants navy for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
SHOOTING STARS.

Whitaker Wright was picturesque up to
the very end.
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Calculations.

you can't get around the fact that two
and two make four" said the man who
argues vehemently.
THAT rule does very well for small
amounts" answered Senator Sorghum
blandly. But when you take two million
and two million and put 'em together In
trust there's no telling how many million
they amount to-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-29
Sensitive,

'What was the matter with that au-
dience?" asked Mr.. Stormington Barnes.
Don't the people here like Shakespeare
II should say they do" answered Bronco
Bob.
Then why did they shoot out the
Iights?'
"Well, you see they called for the author
and when nobody came out they felt kind
o. sighted"
Some men," said Uncle Eben, talks SO
much bout whut dey's gwine to do dat dey
gifts discouraged over de mount of work
deys piled up ahead Of 'em an dom do
nuffin'." -... ...-.-
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-10-25
isTHMUs UNEASY.
Marines to Be Kept There to Main
tain Order.

Washington, Oct. 21.-Amer1can
marines will be retained on the 18TH
OF Panama for the present, pre-
pared to meet any emergency which
arise as the result OF the dis
gruntled elements in the new repub-
lie and orders have been issued for a
new battalion Of marines to go to the
isthmus about November Is to relieve
the battalion which has been there
for a year. The new battalion will
be commanded by Lieutenant Colonel
Thomas Wood.
That the situation on the isthmus is
still not all that could be desired is
the news which comes to Washington
in a personal letter from an official
now in Panama. While the Panama
government is entirely loyal, it seems
that there are certain dlsgruntled e1e-
ments in the isthmus, and in view OF
the ease with which revolutions are
started in Central and South America
it is the official opinion there that the
marines should remain there for the
present.
1t is hoped that the mission Of Sec
rotary Taft will have a ~far-reaching
effect in bringing all elements on the
isthmus into harmonious accord with
this governments policy.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-10-25
Climbing Mountains

Is a fascinating and in%vigorating past
time. 1t develops not the body only,
but the mind. The Alpine Peaks OF
Switzerland have their counterpart in
our own country, in the Sierras, the
Cascades, and parts of the Rockies.
The greatest glacial peak of the
United States is Mt. Rainier, in Wash
ington, more than 14,500 feet high.
This magnificent mountain has Is or
more giant glaciers creeping down its
sides and discharging their glacial
detritus into the Columbia river or
Puget sound.
A climb to the summit OF this peak
is q mountaineering feat worthy OF
any mountaineer. For Is cents A. M.
Cleland, general passenger agent OF
the Northern Pacific railway, st. Paul,
Minn.-will send to any address an IL
Illustrated booklet called climbing
Mt. Rainer," describing a climb over
the glaciers to the top of the noun
tain. u
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-10-25
MURDER OF GEORGE FARRANTs
Is EXPLAINED.
AN AK THE WEAPON USED
Cement Says He Was On His Way to
Give Himself Up When
Taken.

Glendive, Oct. 21.-Under Sheriff
Andrew Larson, Coroner W. B. Fos-
ter and County Physician r. E. Hath.
away returned last evening from Jor-
dan, where they went to investigate
the murder of George G. Farrants.
They had in their custody Charles
Comment, suspected OF being the MUIR
derer. The details are as follows:
Farrants had been in the employ OF
Charles Curnett, but had quit October
IL, saying he was going to Miles City.
had a camping outfit and he made
camp in the afternoon about seven
miles from Jordan.
He met Comment, who had also
camped there for the night. Comment
sent Farrants back to town to tell
Comments wife that he was sick and
to bring her out to the camp. Far
rants went back to town and there
learned that Comment and his wife
had quarreled and that she had re-
fused to have anything more to do
with him. He Immediately returned
to camp without seeing the woman,
saying he would rather make Com
ment pay him for the trip or give him
a whipping.
Charles Curnett and a man in his
employ discovered the crime the next
day, and suspicion at once fell on
Comment, who was pursued by a
posse ond overtaken near the Sheep
mountains.
According to his story, after Far
rants returned the men q%uarreled and
Farrants gave Comments a whipping.
Then, as they were making up their
beds and Farrants was STOPPING over,
Comments hit him on the head with
a %neckyoke. However, from the ap-
p%earance of Farrants' body it would
seem that he had been killed, while
asleep, with an *. Revenge was evi
IDENTIFY the motive, as no money nor
valuables we're taken from the body
Comment said that after the crime he
had taken Farrants' gun and started
for Glendive to give himself up.
His preliminary hearing was set fol
tomorrow. Lentz and Leiper are the
attorneys for the defense.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-10-25

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