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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10
The New York Avenue Bridge.

1t is gratifying to the citizens of the Dis
trict that the plans which have just been
adopted for the New York avenue bridge
over the tracks leading to the union rail-
road station promise an ornamental as well
as a substantial structure. 1t is also sat
isfaction to be assured that there is no i'm
mediate prospect of a move by the railroad
company to delay the construction of the
bridge until such time as New York avenue
needs opening beyond the tracks. The fact
that this thoroughfare is not now opened
east of the tracks where they cross Florida
avenue is no reason for delaying it's extern
sion. City growth is fostered by keeping
the streets opened little in advance of the
actual need. and the need in this case is
certain to occur Immediately upon the COM
pletion of the terminal. Indeed, there is
some demand now for direct means of ac-
cess to the region lying back of Gallaudet
College. When the terminal is completed
many interests will demand a route to this
part of the District, and the bridge over the
tracks will be of great value. A delay of
two or three years would seriously check
the growth of that corner of the capital and
discommode business traffic connected with
the railroad establishment.
The bridge is to be combination of steel
and concrete. and the preliminary plans
promise structure that will be pleasing to
the eye well convenient and safe.
Throughout the preparations for the union
terminal evolution a commercially high
standard has been maintained by the Com
missioners in the artistic phases of the
work. They have insisted upon an ac-
acknowledgement in these matters of the prin.
ciples which the American cities are now
tardily recognizing and establishing. Mu-
nicipal art is a by no means negligible guam
tity in these days. Throughout the United
States the spirit of practical civic progress
Is everywhere tempered by the recognition
OF the esthetic essentials. No longer are the
people satisfied with mere barns for public
buildings, or trestles for bridges. They
have come to understand the educational
advantage of the city beautiful and to APP
preciate the relation of the art principle TO
the business of administration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10
Mr.. BRYAN and 1908

II is rapidly dawning upon the democratic
leaders who are opposed to him that MIR.
Bryan is in the field for another presiden-
tial nomination, and that his drawing pow
ers as public speaker are undminished.
Wherever he goes there is demand to hear
him. and wherever he appears the crowd is
cordial. He has become a master of the art
of entertaining. Any topic fits his tongue
He OF course prefers politics Wendell Phil
lips in the high tide of his fame used to nut
a price on his lectures, but generally wound
up by telling the committee that If they
would let him talk slavery he would
come for nothing He was in comfortable
circumstances, and put the theme nearest
his heart above all money considerations.
Mr.. Bryan has reached this same point
He has husbanded his earnings. and is now
well 10 do. He has lectures of more or less
interest, and he delivers them we'll for a
price at the door But il is never difficult
TO hear him for nothing on the subject of
politics. He is always primed on that. and
his followers in any community have only to
get up a little dinner in his honor or nau-
gurate a campaign of local importance and
invite him TO join them, TO enjoy the pleas
ure of his presence. And he is always at his
best on such occasions.
Mr. Bryan's calculations for 1908 are plain
enough. Mr.. Roosevelt will be out of 1t
by his own choice, and in his place as the
republican leader. as Mr.. Bryan figures
viii be some man of different tempera-
ment and probably from different Sec
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10
Morbid Crowds.

Few more disgusting spectacles have ever
been witnessed than those reported from
New York and Chicago incident to the de-
parture and arrival of Johann Hoch, the
alleged bigamist and wife-murderer. The
thronging of men and women to the railroad
stations to catch glimpse of the accused
man was sign of the morbidity that at
tracts throngs to watch the agonies of a
dying horse in the street, or the writings
of a drunken person. 1t draws them to
the outer walls of prison where con-
demned person is being executed beyond
their gaze. 1t causes them to stand for
hours in front of a house where crime
has been committed. In the case of Hoch
there was an element of personal interest
The curious crowds wanted to see the man
ner of man he was who had attracted so
many women. 1t is to be hoped they were
edited and improved by their experience.
They saw coarse featured, commonplace
fellow without single attractive feature,
gloating over the interest he was attract
ing and complacently regarding himself as
parsonage of Importance in the eyes of
the world. They contributed to his vanity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

quitoes OF the sixth century do not all exist
now. and that the 424 kinds of malaria
have been modified and simplified and les
sened in number since then. There are
enough breeds of bugs now and too many
styles of disease. Indeed, our present ten
dency Is to multiply the ailments, and there
is reason to fear that the discovery of TINS
Singhalese record of fourteen hundred
years ago may stimulate some of our lat
ter-day psychologists and entomoiogists
to renewed efforts to pile up the species
and the diseases to offset this showing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10
A Common Humanity.

We're all just human folks.
A kaiser or a car
VIII weep at grief or smile at jokes
Unless they go too far.
They all breathe ordinary air,
Although you darent say
Too much about it over there.
It's lazy majestay.
The kaiser eats his bread and beef,
Nor views them with disdain.
The car must sometimes seek relief
From a neuralgia pain
And maybe when the mood provokes,
They speak a bit too free,
Cause they are all just human folks.
The same as you and me.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10
Pleasures of Reading.
From the British Weekly.

OF the many well-read persons we have
encountered, we never knew one who was
not greatly raised in the scale of being by
his fondness for books. There is no such
deliverance from narrowness and from mar
rowing careers. The man or woman who is
conversant with books shows by degrees
certain superiority even in outward aspect
and cannot help lifting the talk above the
ordinary low level.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10
Surprised.

Did that medium show you anything
that surprised you?"
Yes answered the inquisitive man.
after certain demonstrations with a guitar
and tambourine l was astonished to find
that my friends in the spirit world had
become such bad musicians"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10
Bones of Paul Jones.
liladelphia Inquirer.

I
If it were possible to secure the bones of
Paul Jones there is no sum which Congress
might not properly appropriate to get them.
Ambassador Porter thinks that some thou
sands of dollars will. If properly expended,
discover the remains and make 1t possible
to bring them to this country, where they,
may be properly inferred and monumented.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10
SHOOTING STARS.
His Ambition

why don't you try to make a name that
will be respected by future generations?''
MY dear SIR" answered Mr.. Dustin
Stax, my vanity does not go so far. I am
content to make fortune that is respected
by the present genera ton
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

TIN order to avoid delays on account OF
personal absence, letters to THE STAR
should not be addressed to cny individual
connected with the ONCE, but simply to
THE STAR, or to the Editorial or Bush
ness Departments, according to tenor or
purpose
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

The police OF this city feel perfectly able
to handle the Inauguration crowd but
would not object if the Pennsylvania troops
would make ii a point 10 help out in the
preservation of order
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

The college professor who cannot say
original and startling for public
print will soon be regarded as deficient in
his duties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10
Too Extensive.

Have you ever studied the phenomena
of dreams?' said one scientist.
Some" answered the other.
Have you any theory as to what causes
them?'
mo. The field is too broad. They may
be caused by anything from a bad con-
science in a Welsh rabbit"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10
The Deadly Diurnal Dose.

There once was a jovial colonel,
Who INDUCED in cocktail diolonel.
He took more and more
Till his system grew sore
And his temper was something infolonel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

Ii is a shock to discover that Philadelphia
finds it necessary to suppress disorderly re-
sorts. There was a general impression that
disorder was unknown in Philadelphia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

The Russian authorities have Maxim Cor
ky in prison, where he has nothing to do
but plan future literary work of an uncom-
plimentary character.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

Representative Adams might be moved
to suggest that a juvenile court would be
made especially useful if judiciously equip
ped with spanking facilities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

1t will be some little time before the
prohibitionists entertain any serious ex-
pectations of controlling the Oklahoma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

The congressman who expects garden
seeds to help his popularity should have it
explicitly understood that he does not guar
antee the goods.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

The railways may yet find it convenient
10 remind some insistent shipper that a
rebate is forbidden.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

The success of previous naugurations
quite justifes the confidence reposed in the
citizens of the District of Columbia in this
connection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10
He Does Not Think.

From the Chicago News. -
Gear Nicholas thought he was in favor of
reform. but that was before he had con-
suited with the grand dukes as to what he
thought.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

Mrs. Chadwick has not yet become so
discouraged as to lay the foundation for a
kleptomania plea
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

DE man dat bets an WINS, said Uncle
Eben, ain no better dan de man dat bets
an loses. But he sholy feels better"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

Johann Hoch has been joking with the
police There is no reason to doubt that
Johann can be good company if he tries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

Utah is entitled to no credit for the fact
that its proportion of marriages is large
and that of divorce small.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

The decision that beef trust does exist
is an explanation, but not relief.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10
Don't Work Both WAYS.
From the Philadelp.aa Record


The people who are most eager to share
their troubles are usually those who are
most stingy with their good luck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

The Delaware deadlock must be given
credit for consistent performance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-10

THE EVENING STAR has a regular and
permanent Family Circulation much
more than the combined circulation OF
the other Washington dailies. As
News and Advertising Medium 1t has
no competitor.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21
Queer Uses of Telephone

Some very amusing stories of the
new uses to which the telephone is put
in Iowa are told in the April Worlds
Work A few of them follow:
Nearly every day some. one invents
or discovers new use for it. One day
the girl at Central" received this
message: Hello! Say. Central.
have put the receiver of the phone in
the babys cradle, and IL she wakes up
and cries call me up at No. H."
1t must have been an unusually alb
sent-minded woman who sent in the
message: "Oh, Central! Ring me up
in fifteen minutes so that l won't for
get to take the bread out of the oven"
If some one finds it necessary to take
a night train the operator at the ex-
change will receive some such message
as this: Central, ring me up a half
an hour before the 2;17 train in the
morning. See If it's late before you
call me, please"
Go into the exchange during rush
period"-say at 9 o'clock in the morn
ing-and you will see the telephone girl
stand up, push her chair into corner
and throw the plugs with which con-
nections are made as fast as her arms
can fly, for an hour at stretch. All
she will have time to say TO you will
be. every woman in town is ordering
things for dinner"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21
SONG OF THE AUTOMOBILE

Lord of all moving things,
Speeding on hrazen wings,
Gaily dash through the highways bright
CLEAN.
Sharply the iron rings,
Vital its quiverings,
AS go flashing past meadow and stream!
Loudly my heart doth sing.
AS to the wheel / cling
Pulsing In time TO the motors swift beat.
Joyous all care 1 fling,
Bidding the rushing Wind
Bear II away TO some distant retreat.
Madly the horn I sound.
Daring, l dash around
Curves that may end in the ditch and the
grave.
Coursing like heetest hound,
Hot on Times fleeing trail.
o could catch him, the life stealing knavel
Wildly the people stare
AS / dash here and there,
Shooting like comet with long tail Of dust.
Scarcely my JOY they share
Judging from shouted prayer
"Htpe your darned auto will dry up and bustl''
Edmond De Luce in March outing.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21
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Ma dic1na During
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Clusters heart, and Rain-in-the-Face
admits the deed.
The writer, finding Northumberland
under the influence of "firewater"
one night. and consequently in a talk
ative mood, asked him the truth re-
garding these tales and he did not
hesitate to answer although the story
of the fight is a sealed book among
the Indians, as rule. Rain -in-the-
Face said, in substance, that he did not
recognize either of the Clusters during
the fight, although so close to the
soldiers at times as to be able to touch
them with coup sticks" and it was
not until after the battle that they
knew that they had met Custer and
his command. The reason given for
their inability to recognize Custer was
that the general, who always wore his
hair Tonga fancy suggested by the
early frontiermen-had recently had it
cut short, and that he wore a buck
skin hunting jacket, such as any scout
might wear, and was absolutely with
out insignia of rank of any kind. Be-
sides, Rain-in-the- says the ex-
citement was so great the smoke so
dense and the air so full of dust, that
at times it was impossible to distin-
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fessed to the general that he was the
murderer, and boasted of it and of the
brutal manner in which it was done.
That he had shot the elder of the two
first but not fatally. and that he
beat out his victims brains with a
tomahawk and then shot their bodies
full Of arrows and finally scalped both
men. Neither of the murdered men
was armed.
The chief was confined to the guard
house until further disposition could be
made of his case. A fellow prisoner
was citizen who had been imprisoned
for some minor offense, The guard
house was poorly built and without
necessary furniture, and for several
months Rain-in-the-Face and his COM
panion lay in chains, with the floor
for their bed.
Winter came, with its piercing blasts
from the north, and Rain-in- the Face
lay upon the floor without as much as
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

a blanket to cover him, and at times
the snow would drift in inches deep
1t was in this miserable prison that
he first conceived the intense hatred
he bore both the general and his
brother and which suggested that re-
venge so amply fulfilled upon the
banks of the Little Big Horn.
Rain-in-the-Faces companion re-
ceived from outside sources a black
smiths file, and one night, when the
vigilance of the guards was relaxed,
both prisoners filed through their
chains, cut a hole in the guardhouse
wall and made good their escape.
In the spring of 1874 Rain-in-the-
Face Joined Sitting Bulls band of hos
tiles, openly proclaiming that he would
"cut the heart out of Tom Custer and
eat it," Nothing further of him was
heard until the memorable massacre
of Custer and troopers, June 26, 1875.
II this fight he distinguished himself
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21
Model City of Washington

To make the national capital an ideal
city as model for the other cities of
the United States is no new PROPOSE
ton. In some degree it has been kept
in view from the very conception OF
the federal city on the banks of the
Potomac. In a measure the dream has
been realized. In it's general plan, its
wide, well-paved, tree-lined streets, in
It's parks and boulevards and in much
of its development it is nearer what
an American city ought to be than any
other in the Union.
President Roosevelt takes up the idea
of making Washington a model city,
but from a new point of view. He
would have the national capital not
only magnificent and attractive in it's
better portions. but he would have
nos slums.
Washington must have It's share of
the poor, and even occasionally Of the
destitute, but It need not have slums;
The squalor of the Washington alleys;
insanitary dwellings,, overcrowded ten
ements are evils which the president
sees in some parts of Washington, and
which he would abolish.
The national capital. being under the
direct control Of congress. and being
measurably free from conditions which
breed slums, disease and crime in man
ufacturing and commercial centers. can
and ought to be a model city. not only
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

There are about thirty subscribers
who are called regularly every morn
ing by the telephone instead of by an
alarm clock. The Central girl is
supposed to know the time of all rail-
way trains, and If train
happens to be late, how many
minutes behind time. She is often
asked the time of day, because some
one has let the clock run down. When
there is an alarm of fire Central" is
supposed to know where it is. The
exchange Is just across the street from
the fire house and fire alarms are often
telephoned into the saving of valu-
able time.
Toward the end of long, cold drive
on a raw autumn day was met at the
gate by a farmer friend, with the
words; "Come right in. The wife has
some hot coffee ready for you. We
knew you were coming. Miss Rankin
seen you go by and she just telephoned
to u.s."
Sometimes the rural telephone has
been used to stop travellers less willing
to be stopped. There are sections
where chicken stealing has become a
lost art, because the rural telephones
make it possible to block every avenue
of escape as soon as the crime is dis
covered. Many Industrious chicken
thieves, and some bold offenders, have
been caught "red handed" through tel
ephone messages which have prompted
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21
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muscles tear loose, thereby releasing
the slzeWers. Should the brave thus
qualifying for the warpath faint or
surrender to the eXcruciating pain ne
is considered a squaw and prerogatlVes
of a warrior are denied him. Raln-ln-
the-Face, in order to show unusual
bravery, underwent this torture Sec
ond time by tearing the muscles In the
right and left shoulder.
The brave who hung Rain-in-the-
Face to the sun pole was the cele-
brated Long Soldier seven feet tall.
who placed him as high as he coulo
reach. Rain-in- -the-Face carries upon
his, body numberless scars received in
his first sun dance many years ago,
fitting evidences of his stoicism.
1t Is through his connection with the
massacre of General Custer and men
that Rain-in- -the-Face is principally
known His role in that historic drama
goes back some three years previous
to the fight, when surgeon in the
army and a civilian trader attached
to General D. S. Stanleys expedition
were murdered as they stopped to feed
end water their horses on the Red
river.
Some eighteen months later Charley
Reynolds, a government scout, subse-
quently killed at the battle of the
Little Big Horn, brought in informa-
ton to General Custer, at Fort Lin
coin, that the Indian who had muir
dered both men was Rain-in-the-
Face, then at the Standing Rock res
ervation drawing government rations.
General Custer Immediately detailed
his brother, Colonel Tom Custer, and
cavalry captain and escort to ar
rest the murderer. Rain-in-the-F
was found in the traders store at the
agency and personally arrested by
Colonel Tom Custer.
When the prisoner and his captors
returned he was brought before Gen
eral Custer. The general questioned
the prisoner closely, but to no pur-
pose. The Indian remained imperturb-
able. The next day, however, he con-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

among his own people by his bravery
and generaship.
1t has been many times stated that
he personally killed General Custer,
and that he cut the heart from the
body of Colonel Tom Custer and rode
about the field with a part of the
grewsome trophy between his teeth.
Both stories lave been affirmed and
denied many times. Mrs. Custer, wife
os the general, however, is authority
for the statement that he cut out Tom
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

farmers to meet the malefactors with
shotguns on the highway.
A farmers wife on a rural telephone
which had been in operation only a
few months was asked how she liked
the telephone, She naiveiy answered: {:
well. we liked it lot at first, and do
yet, only spring work is coming on
so heavy now that we don't hardly
have time to listen now"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

At Rangoon, the capital of Lower
Burma, is situated the famous pagoda
of a Buddhist temple the whole of
the interior Of which is one mass OF
shimmering gold. This generous coat
ing of the metal is the result of years
and years of votive offerings to Bud
dha, for devotees frem all parts Of the
world go to Rangoon and take packets
of gold leaf. which they place on the
pagoda.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

in appearance of It's spectacular por-
tions, but in the humble quarters Of
the poor as we'll.
This subject of municipal adminIstra-
ton has not heretofore been sufficiently
dwelt upon. President Roosevelt will
make his administration memorable for
good if ne succeeds in giving a strong
impulse to the development of the ma
tional capital which shall eliminate the
insanitary and squalid sections and
make the city model in its alleys as
we'll as its avenues.-Pittsburg Dis
patch.