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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
The English Mission.

Our diplomatic service fares well in the
announced program for the coming four
years The higher places are all to be
filed with men who. represent not only
ability, but experience in their work. Such
changes as are made will keep in commits
sion officials who by their performances
have justified fully their original appoint
ments This is a subject for congratula-
ton, as for many years we suffered as a
nation from the just reproach of making
cheap spoil of these places at the behest
of political bosses.
The most important of the announce
ments relates to the English mission. Mr..
Choate retres and Whitelaw Reid takes
the place. We lose an excellent man and
gain an excellent one. Mr.. Choate has
maintained the best traditions of the post,
in his capacity for business, his abundant
and graceful hospitality, his tact, his wit
and his ability mixer. He has taken
rank with a line of predecessors repre-
senting the pick of what we have had to
show. In him the English people have
seen us at our Sunday best When they
have negotiated with him they have found
him alert and informed; when they have
hobnobbed with him they have found him
a very choice companion.
We are sending to succeed him a man Of
different training, but one in every particu-
lar as well qualified for the duties of the
office, and certain to be highly acceptable
to the English people. Mr.. Reid, who knows
diplomacy from the inside, is a writer of
distinction, a man of serious mind and
executive force, journalist of the best
school, and an American all over He
knows his country is in sympathy with it's
best aspirations. and any of it's business
committed to his hands is certain to receive
the proper attention. His private fortune is
large, and no feature of the social side Of
his billet will lack for finished expression.
He has been in town before; and London
will like the regular ambassador quite as
much as she did the special ambassador,
who acquitted himself so well at Queen Vic
toria's jubilee celebration and at King Ed
wards coronation.
Everything is going we'll for us in Eng
lish life, political and social and Mr.. Reds
appointment shows our appreciation of the
value of English friendship. and the wisdom
of continuing to send of our best to repre-
sent US at the English court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
In Darker Washington.

The retiring grand jury, like the grand
jury in 1895, which set the example declares
in favor of the whipping post for wife beat
ers and those guilty of petty larceny. The
grand jury also recommends that the clerk
of the court before issuing marriage IL
censes be required by law TO nterrogate
the prospective bride and groom to ascer-
tain whether either of them is suffering
from any loathsome or infectious disease,
and when he has reason to doubt the an
swer to insist upon a physical examina-
ton and a physicians certificate In other
words. the grand jury is of opinion that the
local conditions are such that men and
women of Washington about to marry must
produce evidence that they are free from
loathsome or infectious diseases before
being granted license to marry" Extraor-
binary evils require extraordinary remedies
since the national capital is conceded by
some OF its own people to be so peculiarly
and fagrantly community of brutal. wife
beating husbands to demand the resur-
rection for its special benefit of the brutal
lash and whipping-post. repudiated as a
penalty by the civilized. Christian world.
there should be no difficulty in convincing
Congress of such prevalence of loathsome
and infectious diseases among the unpar-
rled or the people of Washington as to de-
mand the official interrogation or physical
examination as to her condition and heredi
tary tendencies of every prospective Wash
ington bride.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
The Ice Breakers,

The action of the Commissioners in de-
sroying the ice in the tidal basin SO that
skaters cannot venture upon it to the peril
of their lives is TO be heartily commended
by the community. This sheet of water is
an annual menace to the people who fire.
quent it when it has been frozen. This win
ter there has been considerable ice of fairly
good quality for skating and the danger
heretofore has been slight enough to be
disregarded- But the recent thaws have
so weakened it that any use of the basin
by skaters would be accompanied by a
grave threat of disaster.
1t is always contended on behalf of the
skaters that their judgment can and should
be relied upon and that the authorities
should not interfere to destroy the ice. This
is fallacious reasoning and is not to be
Needed. II that principle were established
in one instance its extension to other lines
might logically follow. and the results
would soon be demoralized and dangerous
state of municipal affairs. AS wen might
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

completely showed under at the polls. Mr..
Hill and his party were left in plight the
most deplorable.
No man stays in the front rank for many
years and fights hard in politics without
making enemies. Mr.. Hill has his share
of enemies, made in this way, and. as a re-
suit good deal of factiona1ism exists in
his party in New York. The cries are Hill
and anti-Hill, and the cause of 1t all has,
we are told, grown little tired of the
racket. He is not gutter, as that word
is ordinarily used, but feels that he has
had his share of the excitement and re-
sponsibility and will make way for a new
man.
His friends should on Monday promptly
reinvest him with the honor he today lays
down. He is only sixty-one. and is in fine
health. His law practice is large, but
what is there in the law to compensate
him for the loss of politics? What can
take the place of water with the fish?
What pleasure does the sailor see away
from the rolling of the blue waves? The
New York democrats must have leader.
and Mr. Hill while he lives will possess
unusual qualifications for the place. And
maybe his hard luck is on the point OF
turning. Extend his time.
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Hill and Retirement.

The weary Titan" of Wolfert's Roost to-
day puts OFF his heavy load That is To
say this Is the day appointed for that cere-
mony. But will 1t take place?
1t has been twenty odd years since David
b. Hill came into prominence as a political
leader. He was elected lieutenant governor
OIL New York on the ticket with Grover
Cleveland. and at once demonstrated his
capacity for affairs. He had been the MAYOR
OF Eimira and Mr.. Cleveland the mayor of
Buffalo; both were old bachelors. and it
was related that after the ceremonies of in
stailations at Albany were over Mr.. Cleve-
land grasped Mr.. Hilrs hand and said:
NOW let's show the people of this state
how good an administration of their affairs
Two old bachelor eX-mayors can give them.
When Mr.. Cleveland was elected Presi-
dent. Mr.. HILL of course, became governor
OF New York, and he was twice elected TO
the office. During his incumbency he made
himself The master of his party, and in
1881 was elected 10 the United States SEN
ate Then fortune deserted him. Mr. Cieye-
land defeated him at Chicago in 1892 for
the presidential nomination. Levi p Morton
defeated him for governor in 1894. he made
an unsuccessful fight for a sound national
platform, both in 1896 and 1900 and this
year the democratic national ticket and
platform, distinctly Of his making. were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
January /, SUNDAY,

The new year 1905 will begin on a Sun
day, tomorrow being the first in a series
of fourteen such openings which will occur
during the twentieth century. A reader OF
The Star has computed these occurrences
showing that in this century January ]
will fall on Sunday as follows: The COM
mon years 1905, 1911. 1922, 1888, 1889. 1850
1861, 1867, 1878, 1889 and 1895, and the leap
years 1928, 1856 and 1884. This is a frac-
ton less than the usual number computed
in point of averages, the first and the last
of the Sunday beginnings falling five years
each from the close of the century. It is
possible for January 1 to occur on Sun
day fifteen times in a single century.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
Long-Distance Sympathy.

There are signs of an unwholesome re-
action of public feeling on the subject of
Nan Patterson, the young woman who
was lately tried in New York for murder
and is now held for the further DISPOSE
ton of her case, the jury having dis
agreed. From Cleveland long petition
has reached New York, signed by women
residents of that city, asking the district
attorney to abandon further prosecution.
1nasmuch as Cleveland is out of the met
ropolitan jurisdiction it is likely that this
expression of sentiment will have no
weight whatever in determining the flu
ture conduct of the case. From Fairmont,
West Virginia, has also reached New
York an offer, signed by four men, to
furnish bail for Miss Patterson to the
extent of $4,000 if necessary. 1t is prob
ably a perfectly safe offer.
These expressions of sympathy for the
accused woman are doubtless the result of
a feeling that she has been prosecuted,
which has been engendered by the re-
| ports of the trial. The bitterness of the
prosecutors attack upon her had its per-
fectly natural effect in evoking resent
ment, especially in the light of an unde-
niably f1imsy chain of circumstantial evil
dence adduced against her. But, on the
other hand, it may be questioned whether
any good end is served by these long
distance outbursts of indignation and
partisanship.
Whatever may be the moral effect of
the affair, the receipt of these commune
cations illustrates afresh and clearly the
fact that despite its vast size the United
States is really a small place, measured
by the facilities for communication and
the feeling of nearness between members
of physically separated communities
What happens in New York interests the
residents of San Francisco and the af-
fairs of Cleveland are of concern to the
people of Boston provided the chords of
understanding and sympathy are touched.
Human nature is very much alike every
where. and it is difficult to scan a news
paper from another city without finding
that the great bulk of the news pertains
to conditions which are as readily under
stood as though Immediately local.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
Togo and Kamimura at Tokyo

With Admiral Togo and Vice Admiral
Kamimura in Tokyo. it would not appear
that the Japanese are expecting the Baltic
fleet in Chinese waters tomorrow, or are
panic stricken at the thought of its ap-
preach. OF course, they will discuss the
fleet with the authorities at home and ex-
plain their plans of action when the time
comes for action. but we may believe that
they still have their wits about them. Even
the Russians will probably admit that the
enthusiasm at Tokyo over the two great
sailors is fully justified. They have shown
themselves to be very much alive on the
water. whether in attack or in the more
trying duties of a blockade. The world
has not in any age witnessed greater in
trepidity or vigilance in men sent against
an enemy with instructions to find him and
clean him I'D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

the authorities neglect the precautfon to
place warning lights before excavations, on
the theory that the pedestrians and drivers
should use their eyes. As well might they
abolish the fire department on the theory
that the people should he careful in the
handling of fire.
There is 40 denying the rare exhilaration
of skating. With good ice and fair
stretch. pleasant companion and no pres
sure of time or worry. there is nothing
quite comparable to the sport of ten-mile
spin on the ice. In this latitude such an
experience is practically impossible. At
best the skating must be done in small
spaces. and on ice used over and over again
until its crisp quality that gives skating its
greatest zest IS lost. 1t comes. too, but sell
dom in sufficient thickness to warrant use
and it is undeniably shock to the feelings
of the skater to see what seems to him a
safe stretch of good ice ripped up by the
PROV of tug But the individual skater
is one proposition and the aggregation of
skaters is another, and it is the danger that
comes from the large number that the Com
missioners must consider
The disaster of few seasons ago, which
caused the loss of several lives, was the
result of just this element. The ice was
greatly oVercroWdeo at Inc point VI exit.
1t is true that with better provisions for
the handling of the people the accident
would probably have been averted. but
there was then and there is now no public
fund for such provisions. 1t is to be hoped
that the Commissioners may secure appro-
priations annually henceforth which will
enable them to construct guards and gang
ways and other equipments for the skating
ponds. Meanwhile all wise owners of
skates will make sure of their ice before
venturing forth, whether upon the river or
the creek or any pond.
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1904,

Old year is a-goin',
Lookin' kind o. shamed.
Didn't prove to be thing
That at fust was claimed.
Had a heap O. trouble,
With little bit O. good.
But there's no use bearin' malice,
Cause it did the best it could.
The young years full O. beauty;
But, as it fades away,
The best thing you can say for it
Is that it's gone to stay.
We've had our disappointments,
An we've been misunderstood.
But there's no use bearin' malice,
Cause it's done the best 1t could.
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Winter Sunshine

Little bit o. sunshine
Laughin' through the trees:
Jes a recollection
OF clover bloom an bees.
Jes' passin' picture
OF days OF long ago;
Jes' a small assurance
That there's something more than snow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

The utterances of some of our college
professors display so much piquant fancy
mat the old impression that the road to
iearning is long and gloomy way is en-
tirely dspelled
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

1t would be relief if the weather bu-
reau could offer the assurance that Wash
ington has had it's full quota of snow for
the winter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

1t would be unfortunate if Cuba, in its
anxiety for commercial advancement,
should become careless of the sanitary
advantages now within its grasp.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

"Givin' good advice is easy" said Uncl,
Eben. "but it takes a smaht man to recog
nize it when he sees it an git de benefi
of it,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

The establishment of Senator Depew
in public life is a grateful assurance that
the after-dinner speech is not to become
a lost art.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

Congratulations are being showered on
Admiral Togo without any account being
taken Of what the Baltic fleet is supposed
to do.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

President Castro hopes to be as perma-
nent as President Diaz without squander-
ing nearly so much time in the pursuit of
popularity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

If the whipping post is revived there will
be some men mean enough to demand the
ducking stool.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

The complaint that New Workers. hurry
too much fails to take into account that
most of the crowds are hurrying to get out
of the city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
Repetition

Are you going to make any new resolu-
tions?"
mo. Merely the same resolutions over
again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

Senator Platt knows too much of public
life to heed a resignation rumor concern
ing himself or anybody else,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

Judge Parker cannot possibly blame
David B. Hill for the fact that he lost his
first case after his resumption Of law prac-
tice
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kuropatkin denies that he is i'll, but ad-
mits being a little worried
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If Mrs. Chadwick is mentally deficient
what IS to be said of the people whom
she Swindled?
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SHOOTING STARS.
Artistic.
NO., answered Mr.. Cumrox.

Aren't you going to see that perform
ance?"
No" answered Mr. Cumrox,
But it is said to be very artistic
That is why l am not going When peo-
pie say thing is highly artistic they are
so often trying to apologize for its being
unpleasant"
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Prepared for Anything

do you believe in a government owner
ship Of everythingT'
II don't mind answered Mr.. Dustin
Stax. 1.-THE only thing is that we would
have to perfect a system by which we can
take our profits from the government direct
instead of from the people"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31
Next Year.

From the Baltimore American.
1t is now in order to make the annual re
mark that tomorrow Is next year.
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Saints, the Limit.

From the Houston Chronicle.
If the Mormon saints are up to all they
are UP to, what can Mormon sinner do to
distinguish himself?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

After tomorrow the bashful males will
have to do their own proposing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

BY burning cotton it becomes possible to
make 1t hot for the boil weeviI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

the japanese have done their best to
make New Year call on General StoesseI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The paper trusts own pager viii be used
against It.
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Palais
y Royal
cLbsEb MONDAY.

OA>oID AOASOAAs
A Happy New Year to old
patrons and new.
Will the many new patrons
learn more of the Palais
Royal?
Thousands came here for
Christmas presents and many
voiced their sentiments of
pleasure in finding tasteful
and worthy articles at mod
crate prices.
Will these new patrons
kindly judge the Palais
Royal from another point of
view, that OF the everyday
need store?
New patrons will soon note
the entire absence Of trashy
goods, and learn that a cash
business enables less than
usual prices, a difference in
their favor of 10 to IS per
cent. s
The Annual ''White Sale"
will begin shortly, with un-
dergarments as good as
home made and at prices less
than they can be made for
at home.
Before. the "White Sale"
comes the Annual Clearing
Sale OF Winter Stocks,
with reductions in prices to
create q. quick distribution,
not delaying the white
Sale" an unnecessary mo-
ment.
Page 6 of Mondays Star
will contain details of the
Clearing Sale" and new
patrons are earnestly invited
to test the store from this
point of view.
Old patrons and friends
are extended heartfelt thanks
and the assurance of a New
Year Of great results for
their favorite store.
Palais
Royal
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Dress Goods Department

Dress Goods Department
ed floor, q street).
Tuesday, Preliminary Opening of
The New Spring of 1905
7igf1=Grade Wash Goods
Advance Foreign and Domestic Nov
elites, including i'm part:
French Printed TuIle (or metz,
Organdie Lisse,
Mercerized Eolienne,
Printed Silk rgousselines.
Belfast Dimities, i'm cluster cords and
checks, etc.
And quite variety of new styles I'm
David and john Anderson Ginghams and
Madras and new weave i'm Oxford
Cheyiot.
This early showing OF the spring cottons is par
culary interesting to those going south, it affords
N opportunity for the selection OF the most beautiful
designs, which always among the first shown and
often not duplicated.
G
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Woodward & LOthrOp
~ New York-WASHINGTON-Pari
Store will remain closed Monday.
Thereafter and until further notice will close

VIII US HROFS Ut less interesting 10 tnc
shopping public.
Our 8 ammarp
(1@O5)
QlWJbfte Sale
Begins ON Tuesday, the Third. Almost
everything is entirely new, and we have
taken the most particular pains that 1t
shall be just as good as we can make 1T.
Our buyers have searched America,
England, France, Germany, Switzerland,
Belgium for the goods that make up this
January sale.
The goods include:
r1uslin Underwear,
Muslin Bed Clothing,
Muslin by piece or yard,
Household Linens of every
sort,
Lace and Muslin Curtains,
White Enameled Beds,
Blankets and Quilts,
Handkerchief,
Embroideries,
Mems Furnishing Goods,
Stationery
(both social and businessl
China and Glassware,
Bric=a=Brac.
A collection of practical, useful.
everyday requirements, representing
values that are extraordinary and UNI
usual-brought together for this occa-
sion.
Prices are special; lower than usual
i'm most cases-but not all-rnarked on
such basis as only our great purchas-
ing facilities and outlet make possible.
We call this 1.-THE White Sale,'' be-
cause White Garments and White Tex
tiles supply the principal items of mer-
cH1andise especially offered.
Tuesdays Star and Wednesdays Post
will contain Muslin Underwear, ETC., in
detail.
Others will follow i'm quick succession.
Evening journal., 1904-03-12
PIE.couNTER sTATEsMANsHIp.

Yesterday after the indignant Con-
eressmen mentioned in the Bristow
report had vented their wrath
in speeches containing express
sions more or less unparlia-
mentary. the good sense of the leaders
prevailed. and the Mccall resolution
providing for select committee to in
vesiigate the relations of members to
the postofnce department was adopted
In the heated discussions preceding
the adoption Of the resolution certain
OF the members. perhaps in an un-
guarded moment revealed the princi-
pies which guide them IN their work
OF craftsmanship. Patronage II seems
is bread and meat to the average mem-
Der. Mr. cowherd. Democratic mem
Der from Missouri, succeeded IN maxi
ing plain his opinion that congress-
man is entitled to poster the depart
ments with requests for special favors
which to grant would require the
stretching Of the authority OF the de-
partment and that under such circum-
stances the congressman Is well within
his rights He said:
"The charges in the supplemental re-
port are true. Beavers did usually COM
ply with. the requests Of members OF
Congress, regardless OF the merits OF
the case But are members OF Con-
gress TO blame? Certainly not. zap
plause.l Beavers and his department
are entirely responsible" rApplause. !
That may be a good sentiment for
Mr. Cowherd to preach to- the voters
OF Missouri, but It lacks the first ele-
ments Of honesty. nevertheless. A
member of Congress. a sworn officer OF
the government appeals to an official
Of one Of the departments. He makes
improper requests and uses all the in
huence Of his Office to have them grant
ed. Then when he is successful he re-
fuses TO bear any share OF the blame.
And yet II he is a powerful congress-
man he has a subordinate Of one of
the departments at his mercy. for he
may see that appropriations are with
held. and he may devise hundred
methods OF retaliation.
Such sophistry is unbecomlng in a
congressman. For public official like
an individual, must be held accountable
for improper suggestions. The lust for
the pie-counter is responsible for a
very peculiar form OF defense.