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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21

All the facts about the North sea incident
may become known after the public has an
abundance of things of more immediate I'M
portance to command its attention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21
SHOOTING STARS.
One Brand.

Father" said the small boy, what Is
pessimist?"
"a pessimist, my son, is man who looks
out of the window and says he bets we are
going to have this kind of weather on in
auguration day."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21

Kansas is experiencing coal famine
There is no kind Of trouble with which
Kansas cannot claim speaking acquaint-
ance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21
Loved Excitement, Got It.

From the Chicago News.
Buffalo Bill feels now that he should
have avoided domestic life and confined
himself solely to such safe and gentle pur-
suits as fighting redskins.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21

When a man gets a missive with 'burn
this letter. postscript the best thing ne can
do is to comply with the request and then
shut off the correspondence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21

the RUSSIAN officials are evidently pro-
ceedhs on the theory that the situa ton
must soon change for the better, as it
would be Impossible for it to get much
worse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21

Mr. Bryan will even go so far as to say
that President Roosevelt might have made
a frst-class democrat if he had not got
started wrong.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21
Frances Willard.

From the Newark News.
In honoring Frances E. Willard so sig
nally Congress is honoring all that is pure
and noble in true womanhood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21

Some of the South American countries
feel that they owe enough money to be re-
garded as important.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21

The Sultan of Turkey is said to be total
abstainer but the w. c. 7. u. declines to
point to him with pride.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21

General Stoessel realizes that the repub-
lie Is not the only ungrateful form of gov
eminent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21

The Japanese are willing to admit that II
is not quantity, but quality. that counts in
the matter of victories.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21

Maxim Gorky excels in depicting revolving
scenes He ought to make a good news
paper correspondent in ST. Petersburg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21

The Russian government prefers to leave
Maxim Gorky to the literary critics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21
Great Fighters.
From the New

From the New York World.
Frederick the Great to the War College
and the Dowager Empress Isl An to the
National Museum. Why this invidious dis
tinction between the counterfeit present.
ments Of great fighters?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21
Esopusp

From the Chicago Record Herald.
An Esopus, N. Y, girl eloped the other
day with coachman. Nobody seems to
think 1t worth while to stay at Esopus
now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21

Delaware without a deadlock would not
seem like the same old home to Mr.. Adj
dicks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21
Opportunities Overlooked.

'I wonder said the chimpanzee, why
some human beings are ashamed to recog-
nize monkeys as our common ancestors.
'Tt's our ancestors fault" answered the
ourang -outang. "Our ancestors didn't have
the foresight to pillage cities or acquire
real estate when 1t was cheap
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21
A Motto's Fate.

''Do you observe the golden ruler asked
the earnest man. 5t.sz
Frequently" answered the cold-blooded
person. 1T is SO popular as mural dec
grafton that one can't help observing it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21

The Hoch case has succeeded in tenn
porarily eclpsng the Mormon scandal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21

General Stoessel's embarrassments are not
calculated to reassure Kuropatkin as to his
future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21

Its purity hard sometimes" said Uncle
Eben, "to sympathize wifi one mans wrongs
wifout havin' another man claim you's
tryin' to interfere with his rights"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21
We Are Waiting.
a Bomb Not.

From the indianapolis News.
Come on. spring
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21

From the Baltimore Sun.
These are bomb times In Russia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21
Anniversary Sale of
4 Fancy and Odd Furniture.

~HIS of February Furniture Sale,
opened the month We have selected, however,
W this Anniversary particularly attractive lots
extraordinarily low prices. The goods
principally of wknown high
standard the foremost makers in this country There
pieces from regular Stock which at
the reduced prices exceptional values.
wetheed
Regular price, $500 Regular price, $4,000
GA
d he pcs
Regular price, $4,000. Regular price $500
Sos
Regular price, $3.50 Regular price, $1,000
OO yHandom
Regular price, $4,000. Regular price, $4,000
oaA
Regular price, 10000 REGULAR price SI6so
stored dine ns arm 925"o Turkish Chair neatly uho $IS
Regular price, P35oo' Regular price, $1,000
v
Regular price, qoooo Regular price $1,000
High OAK shoaf $1,000
Regular price, ql4ooo Regular price, $500
3h eE SIDE % $1,000 loaded
Regular price, $4,000. Sass REGULAR price $1,000
foorG
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21

TIE EVENING STAB has . regular and
permanent Family Circulation much
more than the combined circulation Of
the other Warrington dai1ies. Al .
News and Ad-srtising Medium It has
no competitor.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-01
Edit orial Section.

under the opprobrium, not of the s bfus-
ishS mob but of all right-thinking and
decent men, and where is the evidence
of hatred of the richY Rockefeller is
not disliked because he is rich, but be-
cause his riches came from the SUIT
ferings of others deliberately and I'M
necessarily inflicted by him in his man
ipulation of the railroads. The best
evidence of this is that Carnegie, who is
rich, is a popular citizen. Carnegie took
his chances and fought his fight for
wealth in the open. The result is that
Carnegie is man whose opinions are
respected and whose person is safe
from insult anywhere in the world. Rus
sell Sage is an example of another kind
Of rich man. He is not hated. He is
merely despised. - ~~-,.r-
There has always been, and will al
ways be, certain amount of envy OF
the successful. In the case Of the rich
man it takes the form of hating him
In the case of a scholar it sometimes
takes the form of hating his ideas. TX
say, however, that this class Of hater'
typify America is to 20 far from thu
truth. IL. ---
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-01
Stirring Up the Army Doctors

In the convention of military sur
geons held at Detroit, Mich, there has
been a live1 " discussion Of Japanese
hospital methods during the recent war,
Major Seaman praising the Japanese
service and Surgeon Stokes Of the army
denouncing his eulogies as extravagant.
Major Seaman appears to have made
himself extremely unpopular with the
leading amputators for at the close Of
the debate he felt it his duty to tender
his resignation Gin case it was
wanted.' e..
Why an American surgeon should
feel compelled to resign from a society
of surgeons merely because his observa-
tions abroad do not agree with those
Of some who stayed at home and did
not see anything is difficult to under
stand. One remark dropped by Major
Seaman may assist to an explanation of
the heat engendered. In the course OF
the discussion DR.. Seaman said he had
been informed within the year by the
surgeon general and two of his princl
pal assistants that there had not been
enough changes made in the army medi
cal sy stem since 1893 to prevent re-
currence of the sanitary and hygienie
failures of the Spanish war. III ~,
This seems to be the point where the
sparks were emitted. 4.
It is well known that in the Spanish
war our army medical department. was
sadly hampered by~defects in the sys
tenn and by the fact that it had little o.
no control over volunteers; that in Cube
the soldiers, acting as if they were or
a picnic, ate and drank what they
pleased and gave medical advice the go
by. Naturally we had a large number
! of cases Of illness and more deaths thai
we should have had in proportion to thu
number of men and the length Of thu
campaign. z..s
We do not know anything about
Major Seaman, but it would seem as
| tho he were on the right track in dis
cussing these things now, in the light Of
| what we have learned from Japan
The doctors are probably correct in dis
| counting the fairy tales which have
| come to us of the miraculous character
| Of japanese surgery. The exceptions
record of the Japanese is undoubtedly
due more to discipline than to any
other one cause. The Japanese medi
cal corps precedes the army instead Q.
following it. It has paramount author
ity as to the sites for camps. It goe
ahead of the army, selects camps, test
the water and approves or condemns
When it condemns a stream, the Japan
1 ese soldiers do not drink from tina
stream.
/ The American army reverses this pro
cess. The fighting arm goes ahead an
the camp is selected entirely from tn
military point of view and the private
sample all the bad water in the neigh
borhood. They get sick and the doc
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-01
Presidential Vacations.

The president has returned from his
vacation and it may have occurred te
you that a presidential vacation is
something quite different from what is
ordinarily known as a lay off from
work. The business man, when he goes
on vacation, expects to be cut fires
for time from the cares of his estab-
lishment. He puts sub on, as it were,
and gives work the go by. The presi-
dent cannot put on a sub, not even the
vice president. Wherever he goes his
work follows him. President McKin-
ley had started on his summer visit to
Canton when the Boxer uprising &C.
Cured, and he was busy night and day
| for a time with the most anxious ef'
forts to free our legation from the ter
rible peril in which it stood. Some peo'
pie will remember the letter addressed
by him to the emperor of China, and
which contained the summary OF ou1
position toward the eastern problem
1t was written at Canton and dictated
over the long distance telephone to the
state department.. Very few business
men would consider their vacation {
great success if they had job like
that on hand.
President Roosevelt since he has beer
at Oyster Bay has accomplished thu
greatest single-handed job of work eve
done by a statesman, that of bringing
the ENJOYS of Russia and Japan to
gether and ending the, war. Any pr
vate citizen would consider that some
thing of an interruption Of his vaca
ton, but with the president it was no
the only one by any means. 1t wa
sandwiched in with such problems
the government printing row, the agrl
cultural department. scandal, and tn
pursuit Of the rebaters.
Yet the president appears to have er
loved the summer because he has bee
doing something, and he can look bac
to things accomplished. The presiden
; of the United States does not expect
have time to do any rusting until he
out of office.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-01

the cause Of not little Of the foolish
ness of the world and some Of its wick
edness.
If government were purely voluntary,
as Tolstoy would have it, or not have
it at all, it would soon resolve itself
into the forms which it takes now
adays. Suppose that the tax /collec-
tors instead of having the power to
distrain tax were confined to going
about and soliciting contributions, they
would be an organization of the minor.
ity to guide the majority. The very
first contribution they received would
put them in a different class from the
rest of the community. They would
be the dispensers Of special fund
which would give them special i'm,
portance personally and an extraneous
influence collectively.
Experience has shown that it is bet
ter to make the government the ser
want of all the people rather than al
low it to be the property of a few. The
collection of taxes by force, while il
seems an act Of tyranny, is really al
evidence that all men must pay theil
share of the expenses Of the institu
tion in order that all men smay be tn
patrons Of the government and the gov
eminent be their servant and not thei
master. .-....
Theoretically, there is nothing NOR
pleasing than the dream of anarchy
We are accustomed to associate prac
tical anarchy with murder, but theoret
ical anarchy associates with poetry
Tolstoy mixes his with stirring sor
Of eloquence, but, all anarchy leave
common sense and common human ma
ture out of the compound.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-01
Hatred Of the Rich.

In an address delivered to the stu
dents of Nebraska university the other
day, Chancellor Andrews rebuked the
spirit of rage against the rich as such,
saying: eff the mob alone felt it, this
british antipathy would be less appall-
ing, but it has sympathy and support
in all classes, even the rich themselves.
Hardly a newspaper in the land but
frequently gives it voice. Pulpits are
equally Incorporate. The pity is that
this gnashing of teeth goes on against
the rich as such, without the least dis
nothing.' -....
All Of which goes to show that the
chancellor Of the University of Nebras-
ka occasionally steps down from his
pedestal as a great historian, and be-
comes not merely excited, but somewhat
incoherent. When in this state he fails
to discriminate between facts and fan
eies which may be twisted into con-
venient epigrams. ..~ : .s
There is not in this country today any
prejudice against the rich as such
is a prejudice against certain
kinds of rich people, viz:
Those who have gotten rich by the
manipulation Of the laws, as rebaters. Z
Those who have gotten rich by
4 selling the exclusive use Of some utili
ty meant for the common good, monopo
lists.
Those who. have gotten rich by cor
rupting the government, bribers ant
grafters.
Exclude these classes who are justly
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-01
Life Insurance and Politics.

ID The New York Life managers, after
confessing to having applied the money
Of the policyholders to political purpos-
es, undertake to justify such action in
the campaign of 1896 on the ground
that they were by SO doing protect
ing the interests of the policyholders.
The issue in the campaign of 1896
was "sound money! The theory Of
the defense of contributing to the re-
publican campaign fund is that it was
in the interest Of the policyholders to
help maintain the policy of sound
money" as political principle. 1t is
represented that the adoption Of the
silver heresies advocated in that cam
paign by the Bryan democracy would
have greatly reduced the value Of every
policyholder S claim upon the company.
Losses paid in a deprecated currency
would have meant great injury to the
policyholders.
Doubtless this is.true and from a su.
perfcial view the contribution to the
cause of 5sound money might seem to
De$ SouHu, tUuC JIG Lie 1uoui duCe .COll-
pany sustains a peculiar relation to its
policyholders. It is not like an indus
trial or commercial concern owned by
a limited number Of people who can get
together and decide among themselves
what kind of a policy to pursue in such
a case. Its policyholders are numbered
by tens Of thousands and they are PEG
| pie of all political beliefs. The man
agement Of the company has no right t.
| assume what is best for these policy
holders in politics. It has no duties O.
responsibilities to them other than t.
conduct the business committed to then
| to the best possible advantage unde
such laws and monetary systems as tn,
government may provide. The question
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-01
Books About America.

Books about America by English
authors and books about England by
American authors are not SO scarce as
to demand more than a passing notice.
The, thing that is noticeable is a ten
dency to improve the quality of the
matter put into them. When Dickens
visited America he rather made fool
Of himself by his ill-natured comment
upon some of the raw edges of Ameri-
can civilization.
After his time came a more careful
class Of English writers, who confined
themselves to pokfhg patronizing fun
at this beloved republic.
Still later came a band Of writers
who really tried to appreciate Ameri-
ca, but who failed rather because of
the lack Of breadth of view than from
| want of intention to do something
worth while. In this class falls the
book Of Sara. Jeanette Duncan, en-.
titled '"Those Delightful Americans. D
She introduces us to an English
couple who come to America for few
weeks impressions" and who appear
to have remained all summer at the
expense Of their American hosts, en-
gagged in a. strenuous effort to 'fpul
off - the betrothal Of an English lorl
to rich American girl. The intrigue
which is rather fiat, is redeemed in thu
end. by engaging the rich girl to al
American and causing the lordling t.
fall genuinely in love with anothe
American girl who has no money.
The line Of Americans to whom W,
are introduced may be quite common
to New York, but that fact need no
have given the author license to as
sumo that they were also common t.
San Francisco and Atchison, Kan, TO
they are not, they are strictly fro1
Brooklyn.
The main object of the book seem
to be to comment upon the most oh
vious differences between America an
England, as if they were somethin
u very vital which this particular autho
had been the first to discover. It ma
; be of some curious interest to kno'
that what we call women's shoes al
known in England as "boots,'' but
is of no Importance so long as peop]
: can walk in either.
The book is not much above th
grade Of prattle except where it fail
below the grade Of slang. One inc
: dent or two incidents are bright an
pointed, but on the whole one 500
t. tires of this kind Of book and tur1
5 with sense of relief to authors lii
Bryce and Morley, who appear to hay
a, risen superior to the discussion of me-
2 Americans. in the philosophic conside
t. alton of America.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-01

A NOVEL THAT POINTS TO THE
NEED OF MISSIONARY EFFORTS AT
WASHINGTON, D. Give have been
reading David Graham Phillips The So.
ciaI Secretary, a tale of Washington life,
and adding the Impressions received
therefrom to others gathered here and
there, we are strongly impressed with the
notion that some of our great missionary
societies could make no better use of their
money, tainted or untainted, than in ra-
tionalizing society at the nations capital.
According to Mr.. Phillips and others the
season" there is one in which those who
are ''in the swim" become drunk, inebri-
ate, on social functions and the accom-
paniments, and those who entertain large
ly spend thousands of dollars-Mr. Phil
lips heroine says hundreds Of thousands.
Here is a sample day of the senator's wife
whom 1.-The social secretary serves:
1870 to 1o-she and 1, in her room, went over
the arrangements for the ball we were giving
In the evening.
10 to 12:3O-She went to see half dozen peo-
pie about various social matters, besides doing
| great deal of shopping.
1890 to 1:45-More worrying consultation
| with me, then dressing for luncheon.
l:45 to 3:45-A' long and tiresome luncheon
at one Of the embassies.
| teas-a succession Of exhausting rushes and
struggles.
| $50 to 7:15-In the drawing-room here, with
| a lot Of people coming and going.
7:15 to s-Dressing for dinner-a frightful
| rush.
| to S:30-Receiving the dinner guests.
| $3.50 to 10:45-The dinner.
l0:45 to Notwithstanding the guests for
| the dance-on her feet all the time
| Midnight to in the morning-Sitting, but
necessarily busy.
| to Gin bed.
| GA new and crowded day.
To US Mr.. Phillips book was interesting
| chiefly because of the picture it gave OF
the whirl of life al the capital. Neverthe-
less we found ourselves ever impatient to
know what was to be the fate Of Miss
Talltowers, the charming social secretary
Of Mrs. Burke, the wife Of a new and
enormously wealthy senator from the
west, who wanted to get into society and
went about the getting in the right way
Mr.. Phillips makes the mistake of telling
his readers over and over again that Mrs
Burke is tremendously humorous, fun
n.y." just because she Is herself anC
speaks fright OUT without giving very
convincing specimens Of the humor O.
, that outspokenness. However, Mrs
Burke has comfortable, tho homely, vir
tues whose successful appeal to Washing
, tonians shows that Washington society il
savable.
, The Bobbs-Merrill company, Indianapolis.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-01
Tolstoy on Government.

Tolstoy has written a tWelve-column
letter to the London Times which is
violent and rather incoherent protest
against all government. He classes
President Roosevelt with Emperor
William, the car and the sultan as
most "immoral men, No moral man
can be legislator or hold office, says
Tolstoy. The thought Of a government
in any country he denounces as abom-
Unable.
An idea of Tolstoy's opinions Of lead
ers may be had from these sentences:
The throne of England is mounted
by an demonstrations scoundrel and
rake, Henry VIII, and that he may
get rid of his wife and marry his con-
cubine, he invents his pseudo christian
Protestant church; he forces the whole
people to accept his invented faith and
millions of men are destroyed in the
struggle for and against it.
The greatest hypocrite and villain,
Cromwell, takes possession of the ma
chine and executes another similar
hypocrite, Charles l., and relentlessly
ruins scores of thousands of lives and
destroys the very faith for which he
pretends to strive.
The first thought that suggests itself
in connection with Count Tolstoy s
letter is that almost anyone with por-
tions of his literary gift could have
scored Henry VIII. or Cromwell as
hard as he has and few would have
taken exceptions to his invective. Yet
invective, even when vigorous, does
| ~ ho of
Tolstoy to denounce all government
puts him in "a position where his per,
| sonal references become Of little i'm.
portance. "
1 Tolstoy, by his argument, announces
himself as utterly opposed to organiza
ton. In his view it is a crime to levy
taxes for the common good. It is an in
EQUITY to organize government be-
cause it is necessarily compact Of the
minority to run the majority.
He seems to have overlooked the
fact that governments are not in the
first instance imposed upon men, but
they impose them on themselves. Nc
tribe has been found so low as not tt
! have some rudiments of government
and these governments have had thei1
inception in the generous feeling Of the
community to protect the weak against
the strong. That the strong get hole
Of them and mismanage them is mo-
an argument against governments
i There can scarcely be sound argu
ment against the existence Of an insti
tuition which seems to be as necessar,
as clothes to protect the body agains
J the weather. Men are not born will
i protecting coats like animals, but pre-
! sumably Tolstoy would protest agains
!, clothes as vigorously as he does agains
governments because clothes have beer