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The Washington times., 1904-01-19
MoonShine Whisky.
The Difficulties of Stopping the
Traffic

An old revenue officer Is quoted Us
saying that he does not believe that
the making of "mOonshine" whisky
viii ever be entirely suppressed. He
gives as a reason the enormous profits
which accrue from The traffic. One
gallon of cheap molasses, 30 cents;
two bushels of meal, $l.30; water, o.
these are the materials. This com
bmation makes forty gallons of whis
ky, which can be sold for 81 a gallon
1t is doubtful, however, whether the
money profit is responsible for the IN
eorrigible lawbreaking of the mouu-
taineers who make this whisky. OF
course the money is a temptation to
a man whose estate consists Of a log
cabin, a patch of attenuated corn
climbing up a side hill, some tobacco,
a COW, and a few consHmptive-looking
hogs, but the real trouble goes deeper
than love of gain These mountain
GERS do not understand why the Gov
eminent should persistently hunt them
down for making their own corn yield
the largest price it can be made to
yield They are tenacious of all the
customs of their fathers, and then
fathers made whisky in America as
the farmer of old England made ale
or the peasant of southern France
makes wine-for their own benefit
not for that of the government. They
are hardy and independent folk, these
mountain Americans, of Scotch Irish
stock for the most part, and they vii
fight as readily for what they con
eeiye to be their rights as any people
on earth.
The real remedy for the moonshinC
business Is not so much revenue hunt
ers as education and modern civiliza
ton. Where schools have been estab
lished the people have been eager fOI
them, and where towns have grown NJ
the people readily learn to Do all kinds
OF productive work The coal MINIS
OF the Cumberland, the summer hoteh
Of the French Broad River, the more
recent movement toward arts ano
crafts handiwork, which is said TO b,
under way among people who hav'
not yet forgotten how to spin, weave
and make rush-bottomed ehairs-thes'
will do more than the force of the Law
toward ihe abolition of the stills
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
F1Rsr AMERICAN sHoEMAKER.

II is said that the first American shoe
maker was Thomas Beard. who came
over on the Mayfiower with hides. both
upper and bottom. The governor gave
him lodging and diet and fifty acres
Of land Some OF his descendants are
making shoes yet But the gentle
craft Of St. Crispin is about wiped out.
The lap-stone, waXed thread, hog-bristle
and awl Of olden time have been re-
placed with the most wonderful ma
chinery There is a machine which
sews the soles on $50 pairs OF shoes in
a day. There are enough or these ma
chimes Ia use 10 sew 2oJ 100000 pairs IN a
year There are heeling machines
which press into solid mass the
leather heel and set tho nails ready for
driving one man today does the work
that twenty could not do by old
methods.-New York Press
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
Snow
Philadelphia Citizens Shi1k Their Civic
Duty.

Several thousand persons in Phila-
delphia have been summoned to the
police courts to show cause why they
did not clean the snow off their side
walks. Some of them did show cause.
They said that one recent snowfall
came on Saturday night, leaving the
streets covered with snow OF Sunday
morning, and work on Sunday moi
being legal in Philadelphia, they had
to leave il where it was till Monday
Ii was further proved that the ordi-
nance called only for the cleaning of
Of snow, not of ice, so that if the
snow turned into ice il was out of the
jurisdiction of the shoveIers.
This, together with the experienc,
Of Washington under similar condi
tons, proves anew the necessity OF
having snow cleaning done as street
cleaning is done, by the municipal
government, and moreover, the neces
s;ty of having it done well. Where Is
the sense of cleaning the middle OF
/ the road before a mans door anC
lllsking him clean the section of side
walk himselfl Where is the sense OF
leaving all the sidewalk uncleaned BY
private property owners, menace {,
the public, so that the streets presen
the appearance of a checker board
here a patch of snow and there
patch Of asphalt? However beautiful
the snow may be III the country, it il
not beautiful in city far enough
south to have no sleighing weather. L
should be cleaned off, and that wit
speed.
Such work as this cannot be don
satisfactorily by private persons
There are always some who are lazy
end some who are careless, and> som
who find it cheaper to pay the dn
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
Robert E. Lee.
Today the Ninety seventh Anniversary
of His Birth.

Ninety-seven years ago today Rob
ert Edward Lee, whose memory is vet
cherished by millions of people in the
land to which he gave his life, was
bern in Stratford, Westmoreland
county. Va. While the Lees had been
for generations men to be counted ON
III the public life of this country, no
enc could have predicted, in 1907, the
career which this most famous of the
Sons Of the house was to have His is
the distinction of having been the
leader of lost cause, the idol of d
failing army, the hero of land de-
feated under his leadership. Few
E,en have received so great an honor.
1t Is easy to win honor on the win
ring side-sometimes. 1t is not diff
cult to bear the honors of a victor
gracefully the victor is the right
sort of man. But to stand for months,
or for years, between ones followers
end imminent defeat, to keep their
confidence in the very moment of de-
feat, to retain their love through all
the vicissitudes of reconstruction in a
conquered country -this, indeed, IS a
proof of greatness,
Lee was not one of those Southern
generals who threw themselves into
the fight for the Confederaey with en-
iLusiastic belief in ultimate success
lie went into it deliberately, solemn
~, after weighing all the conse-
quences; he had no illusions and Nc
disposition to be reckless. He was not
one of those who believed tina; the wal
would be over IN sixty days II,
knew 1t would not, and his was the
fight of patriotic devotion, not q
daredevil rashness. The recognitio,
of these facts. of these traits in hit
character, has led North and Souti
alike to honor HIM.
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
SHAW AN EARLY BIRD.

Arguments Of clerks and employ at
the Treasury Department against the
lengthening Of the department work day
lose something Of their edge rom the
fact that Secretary Shaw puts ia longer
hours than any Of his subordinates. nm
less II be Private Secretary Edwards
IN fact, he works more hours each day
than any other Cabinet officer. Watch
men used to be surprised ID see The Sec
rotary coming into the building at
O'Clock in the morning. but It happens
so regularly now that it creates 10 as
constituent
The Secretary gets to his 0ffcs az
O'Clock or a few minutes late> every
morning when he is in the city. E.s sec
rotary usually preeedes him by few
minutes. He attends TO correspondence
for the next two hours and generally
gets urgent matters disposed Of before
visitors begin To arrive He does no.
leave the building for lunch. and WORKS
steadily until $50 o'clock. Sometimes h
is at his desk until later tEal that.
When he has speeches to write DE works
upon them at night
The Secretary likes nothing better
than working under pressure. and in
preparing an address It frequently hap
pens ne puts il OF until the last mo-
ment and then hurries it out in an -r
or two. N
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
Washington. Jan. ls.
The Proposed s1a Pension.

To the Editor Of The Washiezsoa Times:
The papers announce that a bill has
been introduced or ls TO be introduced
10 pay all surviving Union soldiers in
the war Of the rebellion when they
attain the age Of sixty-two years. the
sum OF So per month wfthcat reference
10 the length Of time they were In their
country's servic
il seems 70 be about tine TO cease
Juggling with the pension problem. II
a young man. at the age of eighteen
or less. entered the service OF his coun-
try when NJ ought 20 have been in
college acquiring an education. and was
paid SIS a month in a currency worth
forty cents on the dollar, did he not
make "a sacrifice that should now re
ceive some recognition? The man who
remained at home and engaged In busl-
ness enterprises had the opportunity,
in safety and with ease. TO accumulate
fortune. Why shall the soldier, whose
losses by deprecated currency were
never made good TO him as they were
20 the fortunate lender of money TO
the Government, be compelled to wait
until he is sixty-two years old, more
/ than double the average age Of the
race. before he receives any sort Of
recognition for his serviccs2
There has been too Inuch Of class
IIegislation-the giving of ezSorbitant pen
sions II some favored beings, and none
4 10 others If a So pension is 10 be
giveE to all unpensioned Union sol
diers. let IL take effect with the paSsige
4 of the act, and not wait until the~1lS-
/ jcrity OF tEom have died. That IS ma.G
testify whal should have been done w
/ ago Let there be no more Juggling
with the tension business
j. FRAIsE RICHARD.
] NK-.g,tD an Ian Is
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
The Chances for Peace.
War Talk Diminishing in St. Peters
burg, and Why.

The pacific utteranees of Emperor
Nicholas at the New Year reception
on Thursday last already have borne
fruit. Not only, so st. Petersburg
dispatches inform us, has the volume
of war talk in army and navy circles
been diminished perceptibly by the
Cars remarks TO the representatives
o. foreign powers, but even the news
papers most chauvinistie IN tone only
few days ago are today either say
ing things eommendatory of the Inn
proved prospects of peace or else pre-
serving an eloquent silence. Great, in
deed, is the power of the throne-in
Russia.
While all danger Of war is not abb
solutely averted, however, by the
peaceful disposition Of am autocrat, it
Is safe to assume nowadays that the
chances IN favor of diplomatic set
tiement as against an appeal to arms,
IL case Of a conflict of interests affect
ing two such nations as Japan and
Russia, are almost nine out Of ten. If
there is any disposition TO 90 to war
in the present instance, it has certain
" not been shown by Russia She
has, II strikes us, done a good deal of
"blufiing," but we doubt whether she
is prepared tC fight; and no one must
know this better than she Even her
enormous resources might prove un.
available at distance such as that
which would separate her army IN a
, theater of war In the Far East from
its base, with no communication by
water and only a slender thread of
railroad to depend on for bringing up
supplies and re-enforcements.
Japan, on the other hand, is cred.
lied with a desire to bring the ques-
tion TO a head She thinks she has 8
better chance TO win now than later
on, when Russia has fully developed
her resources IL the East Possibly
there Is something in this, from ;
japanese point Of view; but it doe
not appeal to the civilized world. Il
does not appeal TO England, for Eng
land would morally be bound TO fur
nish Japan with money to carry OF
the war. 1t does not appeal to France
for France would probably be com
PEELED TO give her support TO Russia
the minute England took hand il
the quarrel. Ii does not appeal {
Germany, for Germany could not af
ford to jeopardize her present pres
tige and position in the Far East b,
siding with either one or the othe
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
.FlLIPINOS ACCUSED
OF MAKING CONSPIRACY
Detective Testifes About Plan to Form
New Republic.

MANILA. Jan. ls.-Constabuiary De-
tective ScareIla, testifying in the case Of
Gomez. who is accused of conspiracy
to overthrow the American government
in the philippines. swOre that the con-
spirators. including the well known
Generals MaIvar. Lueban and Noriei.
frequently conferred in the Manila CLUB
as recently as September last
At these conferences it was arranged
that DR. Gomez was TO be elected
president of the new republic Mean
time the prosecution is investigating
ScareIla's tardy Information
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
The Maehen Trial.

Democrats in Congress are displaying
unusual interest in the trial OF August
w Machen and his co-defendants on
the charge of conspiracy. and are care
fully watching the proceedings from
day TO day. Many Of them believe that
good campaign material is being made
for use this summer. and that the facts
being brought 20 light will help along
an issue which they expect 70 make
prominent in the coming s0ntest-that is
the issue OF official recklessness and
carelessness which they contend in some
instances amounts almost TO criminal
negligence They declare there should
be a clearing out OF all the departments,
not only the Postoffice Department but
other departments, where they believe
much the same conditions prevail as in
the branch presided over by Mr. Payne.
Democrats point to the fact that First
assistant Postmaster General Wynne
admitted upon the stand that his Office
expended annually something ike So
6g0. 900. and that a large portion OF IL
was paid out without knowledge on his
part as to what 1t went for-that Is. ne
signed what amounted 10 warrants up
on the Treasury without knowing the
character OF the paper to which his sig
nature was attached. For instance. the
reply which Mr.. Wynne made TO a
question BY one OF the attorneys for
the defense is being made use Of as
capital by TIE Democrats with the
knowledge that Mr.. Wynne is an ardent
Republican
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
The Reform of Habits.
Advice Given on the Subject Free and
Unheeded.


Somebody has been discoursing on
the evils of reading in bed. This per
son saws that it Is not harmful to read
in bed if one packs the pillows so as
to read in a sitting position-a work
manifestly difficult to those who re-
side in boarding houses and have to
depend on the attenuated pillow OF
commerce. But if the reading is done
while the reader lies fat on his back,
il is bad for the eyes.
This discourse arouses wonder
whether such advice ever causes any
particular results, whether, if a habit
has been formed, il Will be abandoned
on any such general sermonizing. All
mothers know that the more they talk
to a child about some irritating trick
Of manner, the more the child seems
inclined to persist in that trek, and
all good wives know that there were
habits acquired by their husbands,
which they vowed on ali the Lares and
Penates of the household to eradicate,
and have not yet caused them to aban-
don. Habit is, according to the Latin
derivation, the thing which has you
Some scholars say 1t is the thing which
you have, but experience proves the
contrary.
The real good which such sermons
do is that they enable a great many
persons who are not possessed of the
habit to point triumphantly to the ar
t;cle as a proof Of what they have al
ways told some guilty relative. Now
| always said you would ruin youi
eyes reading in bed, John Henry, ane
see what this says?' or 4 never die
think pie was healthy and here Is an
article about dyspepsia in tins eoun
TRY" etc, or, "Now, Ellen, YOU know
the doctor said you must give up eof
fee. and just see what it says IN thu
advertisement"
1t is an innocent amusement, tins
Ilecturing on ones personal tricks an'
manners, but alas, how hard 1t Is OF
poor creatures of habit
Il
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
EUROPEAN CAPITALISTS
AFTER TEXAS OIL

AUSTIN. Texas. Jan. l9.--J. D. Henry.
editor of the petroleum World, OF
London. England. announces that
group OF capitalists in London, Paris
and Italy are at work on scheme 20
supply Great Britain and Europe Win
American oil.
The plan, he says, is to form "a
$50. 900 900 company. acquire oil lahus IN
Texas and copy the methods OF the
Standard Oil Company. Immigrant
are to be carried on the passage OUT
I'm tankships fitted for passengers ana
take oil back
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
NOT CLEARLY ADDRESSED.

A letter that Involved at least or
persons in a most curious man7f vas
received at the Treasury the etleE. aay
II was addressed: Hon John " Sfaw.
Secretary of State.
IL said. Please send :ne latest "a ~ r.
OF the Department OF Agriculture
John w belongs 70 COMMISSIONS
Yerkes of the Internal Revenue Bureau
The confused idea OF the writer as 20
the functions OF Secretaries Shaw. hay
and Wilson is apparent. The letter mrs.
went 10 Secretary Shaw and ultimately
landed in Secretary Wilson's depart
menJ
The Washington times., 1904-01-19

goes over his desk that he is unable to
inquire into the merits of all the orders.
and has to rely upon his subordinates TO
some extent. Nevertheless the Demo-
Gratis are making much OF this and
other developments which they con-
tend tend TO show how careless the
Republican Administration is in the ex-
penditure Of the peoples money and
they maintain that if such conditions
exist in the Postofiice Department very
likely they exist IN other branches of
the service. and, therefore the way to
retrenchment and reform is 10 Gust
the party in power.
This promises 10 make an effective
argument on the stump. especially as
there are recurring periods in politics
" hen the voters think the issue Of "tura
the rascals out" is the proper one and
then proceed 20 do so. At any rate
the Democrats are planning 10 make
the most out of tie POstoftice trials
and declare that already they have
some good material
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
Judge Parker,s Loyalty.


Some OF the anti-Parkcr men are
questioning Judge ParSers loyalty 20
the ticket i'm 1856; il is even said that
he voted FOR Palmer and Buckner Ia
that year, and further that he was part
OwueR OF Long Island newspaper
which bolted the regular ticket in that
year and gave aid ard support 70 the
enemy. all of which IS most serioi;s
crime I'm the Bryan political decase1 Ge.
In answer Judge Parker's friends Who
have come 70 realize that II their av-
orite is 70 be nominated he must not
have the antagonism Of Bryan. are max
ing emphatic denial, maintaining that
the Judge has always been regular and
loyal In support of this they pro-
duce correspondence OF the following
year when Parker was a candidate for
the court OF appeals bench and WIS
elected. thus causing his name 20 be
coupled with the Presidential nomina-
ton. in which ne wrote Elliot DanfOrth.
chairman of the State committee. ar
hrning his loyalty 20 Bryan I'm 1896.
In this letter he did not say that ne
Indorsad The platform. but ne declared
that he supported the Democratic ticket
that year as on all previous years since
attaining his majority.
The Bryan supporters. TO ease whose
minds this letter was written. mo II
have accepted his statement as truth,
for they turned IN and Parker was
elected. overturning the Republican ma
jorfty OF 2s5.000 Of the year before, and
/ winning himself by something like 5000
ma51rity Now Mr.. Bryan Is coming 20
/ investigate for himself. il is said, and
the question is What does IL near
/ Does it mean that Mr.. Bryan. II -
finds that Parker was loyal in 1855 VIII
accept Parker as the Democratic nomi-
nee2 If 50. that will be d big point
scored for the New York jIrist. Con-
seouentIv. this visit of Mr.. Bryan 70
/ New York may be OF far-reaching inn
pOrtance-
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
VERMONT TO INVITE
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

President w II. Buci1ham. Of the Uni
versity Of Vermont. Will come to Wash
mgton next week TO invite the PreSi-
dent 20 Burlington next june 70 the
commencement exercises of the lnsu-
tuition The annual banquet OF the i9cal
Washington January 30. sir Buckham
viii attend
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
EDITOR CAN'T EAT
TEN DOLLARS WORTH

sTROUDsBURG. Jan. 10 Speaking
Of the proposed Republican dinner at
Philadelphia 10 Senator Fenrose, ana
acknowledging the receipt of an invita-
ton 90 the same, j. HicSs NanatIaIl.
editor OF the pike County Press, say : :
THE dinner rate is so. We can eat
that much, and are shy Of the price II
we could"
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
THE
PERSONAL
SIDE
COMMEND Mr.. BURKE.

In accepting thc resignation Of Mon
cure Burke as secretary 20 the Engineer
Commissioner OF the District the Com
nnissioners made the following compiI-
mentary note with reference to Mr.
Burke and his efiiciept services while an
employe Of the District government.
THE Commissioners take occasion r3
exposes their deep regret that the Die
trict government has lost the services
OF Mr. Moncure Burke. who has been
one OF its employees since 1881. ana ia
that period has continuously acted as
secretary TO the Engineer Commissioner
and has been held in the highest esteem
both Tor sis parked ohicis. abilities ANA
his high personal character.
The Washington times., 1904-01-19

Some one writes to the New York
Times" asking that unprecedented
sneezlng as well as splitting be pro
hibited in street cars. II that individual
knows any way to stop an unpremedi-
tated sneeze he can make more Of a
fortune out of that than by agitation
against germs.
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
CINE on Mr.. BRIsTow.

The investiga tion OF the affairs II the
Postoffice Department has given Use 10
many short stories and sketches 81 men
prominent in the kousecieaning-
Here is one which leaked out recently.
In which the laugh IS or the bon 5o-
seph l. Bristow. Fourth Assistant Post
master General Mr.. Bristow has many
friends. but. ike al public men. boaNts
few who dislike him
About two years ago a deputy auditor
OF the Treasury Department met sud-
den and violent death. one Of the tele-
phone girls al The Capitol overheard the
story ana attempted 10 relate il 20 a
certain Tennessee Representative wh0
stood near by.
Il couldn't catch tine man name.
said the girl. "bus ne was an ofiicious
SOFT Of an individual gruf, and almost
devoid OF sentiment He was hish OF
fetal in one Of the departments, aidn {
hear which. bet nobody seemed 20 Ike
him. and he was always getting some
body else into trouble.
The Tennessee man threw ~ his
bands and exclaimed: My Cod Iris
tows been killed
The Washington times., 1904-01-19

The closing Of the churches may per-
haps awaken some Of the good Chicago
people who do not go to the theater to
the fact that there ought to be building
laws in that city.
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
ALMosT METHUsELAH,S ace.

NORRISTOWN. Jan. l9.-At the fu-
neral of Benaiah Bradford, at Trappe
there We're eleven residents of Trappe in
attendance, whose aggregate age was
$50 years.
The Washington times., 1904-01-19

The fact that the Cramps have two
more battleship contracts does not indi-
cate that our navy is cramped; quite
the reverse.
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
Mr. Wynne's Statement.

Mr.. wynne said he had signed an
order for 5000 GrofT fasteners. that he
did not know a Gron fastener from a
locomotive. and that II the order had
read for the purchase Of locomotives
ne would have signed Il just the same
on the part of Mr.. Wynne tris answer
was of course given with characteristic
frankness. and was intended . Illus
trate the fact that so much business
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
He Wants to Know.

II, the Editor Of The Washington Times:
Can you. or viii you, relieve an in
curing mind2
Oh. Uncle Sam. dec j'dcle sam,
Will you please let Is know
Before winter ends. on which to de-
pend
Groundhog OF Weather Bureaus
5. S. L.
The Washington times., 1904-01-19

than to have the work done. 1t should
be done by the city, for the good OF
the public, and charged zap TO those
who paw the taxes.
The Washington times., 1904-01-19

That miniature volcano which is in op-
Grafton at Louisville Ky, is now said to
be a case of Henry Watterson- But Mr.
watterson has never been successfully
buried or suppressed.
The Washington times., 1904-01-19

Perhaps AL these bogy rumors which
are fying around about the Republican
and Democratic possibilities were caused
by the ghost walking somewhere.
The Washington times., 1904-01-19

1t has not yet been settled whether
every Hearst organ viii be supplied with
a monkey.
The Washington times., 1904-01-19

Can it be possible that Mr.. Hanna Will
not talk because. like the dog in the
express car. he has let his tagy'
The Washington times., 1904-01-19

The Mothers Congress intends TO DIS
tribute literature on the evils of Nor
mouism. but It is rot thought that any
Of the mothers viii go to Utah and
make personal investigation Of the evils.
The Washington times., 1904-01-19

Mr.. Cleveland sun prefers duck to
crow az a diet.
The Washington times., 1904-01-19
AnnOys dis Passengers.

washington, Jan. le.