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A colored man named Robert Johnson
whose home is in Brooks court, was takel
suddenly i'll last night at 4th and Wash
jngton streets He was treated at thu
Emergency Hospital.
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Royal Glue
Mends everything Druggists, 10c.

A slight blaze occurred in the kitchen at
the dining room of S. I. Berens in the
Corcoran building this morning about 6
o'clock. The blaze was caused by a light
ed gas jet coming in contact with the
woodwork. Only about 50 damage resulted.
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ville). Hagerstown and return via h. and
y. r. II. Leaves station $ a m Sunday
September 4. Splendid opportunity for
country outing.-Advt.
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Every day in the year fIom foot OF 18th et,
for Fort Monroe, Norfolk, Newport News and
all points south by the superb powerful steel
palace steamers Newport News, Norfolk"
and washington
Lv. Washington. $50 pmlTv. Portsmouth. 800 pm
Lv. Alexandria 90 pm lIv. Norfolk. 80. 800 pm
Ar. Fort Monroe. 700 am Iv. Fort Monroe. { 90 pm
Ar. Norfolk 500 am Ar. Alexandria. $3.50
Ar. Portsmouth. $50 amiAr. Washington. I 90
uyThrough connections made at Norfolk
with steamers OF Old Dominion Steamship Co.
for New York and Mer .hants aud Miners
steamships for Boston.
GyFor further informat ion apply at general
ticket office. I05 14th St, Colorado bldg.
telephone Main 229ol. 7th st. wharf
Telephones Main 40 ard 1901.
JNO. CALLAHAN. I'd v Pres and Gen Mgr.
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Burnetts Vanilla Extract has outlived
criticism. 1t is the purest vanilla extract
that can be bought. Once tried always used.
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Low Rates Account Labor Day,

Sept 5, via Southern Rwy.
Tickets will be sold Sept 3, and 5, good
to return until Sept. 9. 1904. at greatly re-
duced rates from Washington and AIexan-
dria to Somerset, Warrenton. Harrisonburg,
Bluemont and intermediate stations.-Advt.
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Dancing Tonight at Chevy Chase Lake,
preceded by concert. U. S. Marine Band
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Only Water of Tested Purity

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$65.25 San Francisco and Return
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Proposed for Higher Office.

1t leaked out today that the friends of
Maj. Fred. S. Hodgson, the retiring depart
ment commander, are entering upon a cam
paign having for its object his election as a
national officer by the annual encampment
to be held at st. Louis beginning Septem-
Der 10. Maj. HOdgson was surprised to
learn of the movement when informed of
it by Star reporter. While he is not seek
ing prefermene in the direction Indicated
II is believed he will accept a national Of
flee should it come to him.
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Labor Day Harper's Ferry Excursion

From B. & O. R. r. station, SIS am. Mon
day September ). Returning leave Harper g
Ferry 100 pm. s1.OO for the round trip
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$500 Cast Iron Three Burner Gas
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station. N j. ave. and c st.-Advt.
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Coach excursions via scenic route, 90
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Out-Advt.
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S1.25 To Baltimore and Return $1.25
Via Pennsylvania Railroad every Saturday
and Sunday. All trains except Congress
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Money to lend at 4. . and per cent on
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Great Bear Pure Spring Water.
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The First of the Season, Rockeyford
Cantaloupes, at C. Engels Sons, $50 Center
market.-Advt.
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3 Cans Sifted Peas, 25c.;

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The Perfection of Munich" Beer
is admitted by all who have tried this ia
nous dark beverage. Brewed of finest ma
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v. Baldwin johnson
His Memory Defective.

Makes a specially of family coal contracts
6l2 9th st. n.w.-Advt
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CITY ITEMS.
Lumber for Apartment Houses.

Quotations made: lowest prices guaranteed
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VETERANS IN SESSION
MEETING OF DEPARTMENT EN-
CAMPMENT, DISTRICT o. S. W. v.
Annual Report of Adjutant Dolph-
Continuation of the Session
This Evening,

Delegates and past commanders, -epie-
senting the seven camps of United spanish
War Veterans, comprising the Department
of the District of Columbia, assembled
last night at headquarters. III 6tn street
northwest, and held the annual depart
ment encampment of the organization
The camps represented were General Mel
son A. Miles, No 1; Harden, Lawton, 4th
Immune, Colonel John Jacob Astor, VIII
liam Mckinley formerly Willard camp
and Dewey Naval Camp.
The department officers present were
Comma der Fred S. Hodgson, Senior wee
Commander G. Leyburn Storey, Junior vice
Commander r. 3. Leach, Medical lnspec-
tor DIR. s. Clifford Cox. Judge AdVoca,e
Fred w. Alexander. Adjutant l. N; Doiph
Ouartermaster A 3. ClaXton and X H.
Wood and George w. Brook, members OF
the council of administration.
The annual report of Adjutant Dolph
showed the District department 10 De IN
good condition as to membership anu re-
sources. The annual report OF quarter
master Claxton was submitted and mace
a good showing as to the finances ana
property of the organization me other
reports read We're those OF the felleI conl-
mittee, the employment committee, tne
board of managers of the Spanish war
Veterans halls and clubhouse at iI9 oth
street northwest. and the committee on
the recent lawn fete.
on motion of Mr. A. d. Coykendall the
encampment voted to Mr.. l. N. Dolph, the
retiring adjutant. a life membership in
the organization in view of his work Tor
the department, and he is about 10
leave Washington in connection with his
departmental position.
Annual Report Tonight.
At the session to be held this evening it
is said Commander Hodgson will present
his annual report and recommendations,
and the election of officers to serve one
year will take place The only contest thus
far visible is said to be that for the de-
partment commandership, the two candf-
dates for the honor being announced as
Senior Vice Commander G. Leyburn Shorey
of Aston Camp and Department Medical
Director S. Clifford Cox of Henry w. Law
ton Camp. Much interest is also manifest
succeed Mr.. Dolph.
Commander Hodgson today sent con-
Congratulatory kilograms to Commander
n-chef Harold c. Megrew. United Span
ish War Veterans, at Indianapolis, and
late commander-in-chief of the Spanish
Anglican War Veterans William E. En-
glish of the same city, who, it is said Will
succeed Col. Megrew at the head of the
amalgamated organization.
To COMMUNICATIVE chief Megrew the fol-
lowing was wired:
"On your retirement from office the De-
partment of the District of. Columbia ex-
tends Its appreciate ton of your splendid
achievements during your adminiStra ton
as commander-n-ch chief of the United Span
ish War Veterans
To Capt. English this was sent by Mai
Hodgson:
ION behalf of the Department of the Dis
trict of Columbia, l congratulate you on
your elevation to commander in C thief
United Spanish War Veterans, and promise
you our hearty support"
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S1.25 Baltimore and Return,
B. and O. r. r.. every Saturday and Sun
day. Tickets good returning until Sunday
night. Hourly Service Saturday.-Advt.
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CARDS the company's contention. upon the
question of whether the corporation as a
vendor, itself collects and sends the news
and arranges for Its systematic distribution.
or merely acts as common carrier to all
corners. This fact should be susceptible of
proof or disproof 1t should not be difficult
on a test for the police authorities to
demonstrate the correctness of Commission
er McAdoo's charge that the company runs
the business itself and maintains list Of
subscribers to fis pool room service. thus
selling il. the open market for distinctly IL
legal purposes class of information which
is VIGOROUSLY used for those purposes al
most exclusively.
The readiness with which special wires are
always strung to accommodate new sub
scribers, the agility of the company's line
men 70 locate the wires in obscure places,
the great interest shown by the corporation
in preventing the disruption OF these estab-
lishments, all corroborate the accusation OF
the police of New York. Furthermore there
has until lately been no pretense at con-
cealing the intimate relations between the
race gamblers ard the telegraph company.
Now that the relations have been exposed
and the fiimsy claims OF the company's Off
Gals to legal compulsion in the premises
have been advanced there is marked dis
position among certain Of the corporations
directors to demand showing which will
clear them from the suspicion of profiting
heavily from the gains of a criminal traffic.
There are suggestive signs of an approach
ing crisis in Western Union affairs, and the
public, long suffering under this heavy bur-
den of gambling waste. stands chance to
profit BY the disturbance.
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Omen Car Ethics.

These are the days of much car riding.
when all who have ticket or nickel seek
the trolleys and go far out into the country
to gain that sweet contact with the earth
which is one OF the springs greatest bless
ings. The open cars are filled every fair
day and the only serious backset to the
complete happiness of the seekers for fresh
air Is the behavior of some of those who
ride. The average open car seat will ac-
commodate five people. IL they sit close
together. Four can be very comfortably
seated. 1t often happens that passenger
will so seat himself as to cause even his
three companions to be crowded, while 1t
is utterly impossible for a fifth to find
place. Then again. the traditional end
seat hog is always with US. the man who
not only holds stubbornly to his end seat
because he got there first but who
so disposes of his person as to block the
entrance of all who come later. Then there
is the passenger who tries to crowd In be-
tween two already filed seats and to stand
in the very narrow space. which barely ac-
commodities the feet of those who are al
ready sitting. This Is perhaps the last
straw on the back Of the car-riding camel
The car companies are responsible as well
as the churls themselves. They know with
reasonable certainty what a bright spring
day means in the way OF traffic, and through
lack of either equipment or foresight they
fail to provide for the extra large number
Of riders, with the certain results of caus-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-13
A Destructive Policy.

The destruction of the piers and other
property at Dalny in rider, as stated in St.
Petersburg, to impede the Japanese land
Ing there, is calculated to deepen the i'm
preston of Russian Decentralization at this
early(stage of the war. Dalny was one of
the cars pet enterprises in the far east. a
city made to order, substantial and impos-
Ing, planned on scientific and artistic lines
a complete transfer of a typical Russian
city to the region of novels. 1t cost an
enormous sum o. money. the materials for
the buildings having been in large part
hauled vast distances. Its destruction now
represents waste which is not likely to
represent any adequate yield in results for
the betterment Of the Russian position in
Manchuria. The Japanese on capturing
Dalny would of course be accommodated by
the splendid piers and other facilities. but
their lack will rot deter them to any ap-
preciabl9 degree in putting troops on shore
and using the port for naval base
In the case of the warships at Port Ar
thur II is of course different 1t is highly
undesirable from Russia's point of view
that those vessels should fall into Japan.s
hands intact and fit for service. That would
be virtual surrender of the sea power in
the far east. But the world is watching
Russia will do with those ships when Port
Arthur is at the last extremity. The daring
cash Of Admiral Cervera out of Santiago
harbor, when his feet was hemmed in by a
superior force OF the enemy and the city
was invested by land. is fresh in the memory
and suggests similar enterprise by the
Russians now cornered
The mere destruction of the Russian ships
at Port Arthur would inflict no damage on
the enemy and merely prevent a change of
ownership. Yet IL is indicated as the possi-
bic Russian course by tie news from Dalny.
The destruction of the docks, indeed.
smacks suggestively of a Russian abandon
ment OF the whole Lao Tung peninsula,
with al its costly equipment and it's now
wrecked prestige as the Russian Gibraltar.
A remarkable change has come over the
spirit Of Russia's dreams within a very few
weeks.
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Common Carrier or Vendnrp

The FLEA of the Western Union Telegraph
Company that 1t Is required by the laws to
send all messages submitted to it regardless
OF their purpose or moral effect will not
withstand scrutiny moment as a de-
Tense of its connection with the pool
room gambling enterprises II 1t be true,
as charged by the New York police authori-
ties, that the corporation itself maintains
agents to collect and transmit the racing
rews. which is then sold to the pool rooms
on an established scale OF charges IL IL is
true that the telegraph company in good
faith receives the racing bulletins from out
siders presenting themselves as unsolicited
patrons OF the wires. 1t might with some
show of reason argue that It is compelled
to transmit those messages to their destina-
tons. 1t would IN sucn circumstances prob
ably be quite within its rights In accepting
sending and delivering such messages. and
the fact of the Illegal standing of the re-
oeivers of the messages would be a matter
OK positive PROOF in actions 10 prevent. and
rot necessarily a matter of common knowl-
edge Of which the company must perforce
take cognizance
The Issue really turns, therefore. an re-
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ing many OF their cars to look like the
branches of tree on which hive Of bees
has swarmed. That the conductors can sue
cessfully work" such cars Is beyond be-
lief. The companies lose hundreds OF fares
during the days of very heavy traffic. per-
haps In the course of q year enough to pay
for an extra equipment to care for emer-
gency rushes.
But even with the conditions necessarily
leading to big crowds, 1t is incumbent upon
the car-riding public to hold strictly to
standard Of good behavior. Consideration
for others costs nothing and helps nightly
The fact that a passenger has entered a
car little in advance OF some Of his fell
lows gives him no right to obstruct the way
or to occupy more room than Is needed, or
to annoy others. any more than the fact
Of late-coming gives the right to stand on
the toes Of others and choke of their air
or obstruct their alighting at their destina-
tom
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The Panama Canal and Politics.

In his address to the democratic conven-
ton at Indianapolis yesterday Chairman
Smith said:
I'VE favor the speedy completion OF the
Panama canal The republican party Is IN
capable OF completing this great enterprise
without subjecting the country TO humlnd.
ton and shame We therefore demand not
only the completion of the canal but insist
that the work shall proceed under the di-
rection of honest and economical admins
tratiOn-"
This was a foolish deliverance unworthy
of the occasion, and we may be very GER
tain that the democratic party Is not going
to base any part of its national campaign
on such a sapheaded proposition. The won
der is that 1t should have proceeded from
a man called to preside over the delibera-
tons of great party in one of the most
enlightened and important states In the
Union. Partisanship excuses much. but
not this much.
The Panama canal is not properly now
subject of partisan contention. A repub-
lican administration negotiated the treaty
and the Senate vote which ratified 1t was
composed of both republicans and demo-
Gratis. The democratic opposition failed
and the senator who led 1t lost 1t was gen.
orally thought. greatly in prestige. Senti-
ing throughout the country.
When 1t came to the appointment Of the
commission to supervise the construction of
the canal. Mr.. Roosevelt made 1t very plain
that politics, so far as he had the power,
should cut no figure whatever in the prem
ises A large number of names had been
presented to him in connection with the
commissionerships. some Of them those of
politicians Of national reputation and OF
proved ability. But the President, taking
the ground that the work called for profess
sfonal knowledge, put the whole list aside,
and filed the places with men without po-
any kind. He could not possibly have given
the country stronger assurance, or the
world at large better notice, that now that
the work was under American auspices 1t
should receive the best supervision possible
on business and professional lines.
There are never any votes In wild-eyed
extravaganza of statement. AS every in
telligent person knows. honest and success
ful work on the Panama canal does not de-
pend on the result of the November cleo
ton. Neither of the two great parties has
a corner on integrity or capacity The
leaders of both are patriotic men The
country IN Its entirety is committed to the
enterprise, coming Congresses without re-
gard to political complexion will appropri-
ate the necessary money for the work and
when completed, the canal will represent
the whole American people. Mr.. Smith
or Indiana should revise his judgment and
get In line with common sense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-13
Judge Gray.

The selection of Judge Gray to succeed
Mr.. Hanna as president of the National
Civic Federation is admirable. 1t in
sures continued confidence in the workings
of that body whose work up to date has
commanded unqualified public respect.
Judge Gray is not only a strong man Of
national reputation, but he believes in
bringing the best influences in the country
to bear on the problems affecting the re-
lations of capital and labor. His part in
settling the anthracite coal strike stamp
ed him as possessing qualities of a high
order for the duties of arbitrator, and since
then his popularity in both capitalistic and
labor circles has been pronounced. His
name figures in the gossip respecting the
st. Louis presidential nomination, but there
is no prospect that his party will take him.
1t Is next to certain, therefore, that the
country will benefit by his services for
some time in the important and responsible
place 20 which he has just been chosen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-13
Parker and Pivotal States.

The generally accepted calculation Is
that, In order to win, the nominee OF the
st. Louis convention must carry the states
Of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut ana
Indiana. Those four states were embraced
in the old combination of the east and the
south by which the democracy profited be-
fore Organism came In and took charge.
Inspired by this calculation the Parker
men have exerted themselves to show the
country that their favorite Is the man for
this territory, and they have secured in
structions for him In three of the four
states. New Jersey goes to st. Louis unin-
structed. but In the vest pocket OF James
Smith. jr., who, in company with Leader
Murphy of Tammany Hall, is booming Mr..
Cleveland. Will New York, Connecticut
and Indiana serve the Parker purposes?
This question would answer itself II the
instructions given had been without con-
test Of any kind. If the conventions at Al
bany, Hartford and indianapolis had been
love feasts, with Judge Parker the subject
of enthusiastic and undisputed praise, ST.
Louis could not possibly have resisted him.
But so far from being love feasts they were
prize fights, where the Parker people had
to grapple for everything they got. and,
figuratively speaking, blood and bruises
were the order of the day. At Albany
Tammany retired sullen and threatening,
and both at Hartford and Indianapolis the
Hearst people spoke the language of re-
venge at the polls in the event of Judge
Parker's nomination. What effect will this
have on the south, and in the middle and
northwestern states, where Judge Parker
Is personally a stranger, and where these
events must speak for him?
Let US suppose Judge Parker losing at St.
Louis. on the contention Of his opponents
that he has no real strength in these three
all-important states. The party cannot af-
ford lukewarmness or an open split in any
of them. There must be union and zeal in
all three for the candidate. With Parker
out, who is the man? Cleveland? Does
anybody believe that he could carry either
New York or Indiana2 German? The Par
ker newspapers in New York city declare
emphatically against him. Olney? He is
not behind his own candidacy Mcclellan?
Clean as he is personally, would the coun-
try permit Tammany Hall to name Pres
ident of the United States? 1t has never
done so. Who is the man at the mention
of whose name the democratic and inde-
pendent cohorts in the pivotal territory
would rise up and wake the echoes in the
campaign?
The plot thickens, as the novelists say.
July 4th at st. Louis is going to be a warm
day, whether the sun shines or not.
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Mourning.

We're feelin' sad an lonesome like
Since Congress went away;
Our joys have all gone out on strike
Where life was once so gay.
There amt no talk almost profane,
Nor scandals bout the Mormon reign
Away out west Life seems in vain
Since Congress went away.
1t isn't quite the same old earth
Since Congress went away;
There's silence where there once was mirth
And hope seems gone astray
Instead of words spoke at great cost,
The empty wind jes' sweeps acrost
The hill, and then in space is lost,
Since Congress went away