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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-26
BREAKING TRAIL
In the Frozen Wilderness is the Mean.
est Of All Tasks.

From Scrbner's Magazine.
To break trail is to pack with your
snowshoes the soft and uncrusted snow
into more solid path, so that the dogs
and toboggans may be brought forward
to where you can make camp Even the
snowshoes, two feet in width, sink foot or
eighteen inches at every step. The snow
crumbles and piles In on top of the web, so
that you have to tear each step with
wrench and kick and a cloud of frozen
white You go forward, you rest you go
forward again. forcing your way laborious-
ly through no one con say how many feet of
snow. The WEAKNESS enters into the very
marrow of your bones. The snowshoe
strap moves back and forth just enough
across the moose-hide moccasins to gall
the foot to the flesh of the toes, the mus
cles across the instep ache with knifelike
cuts with every step you lift the heavy
weight of snow that covers the shoe out of
sight
| remember the first day out we stopped
midway across the lake to rest The
guides dropped the tumpline from the
forehead to their shoulders, cut some to-
bacco from a plug, rubbed it between their
hands, and filed short black pipes The
dogs lay fat on the snow and bit and
chewed at the solid Jumps of ice that had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-26
SONS OF JONADAB.
| Empire Council Celebrates It's 18th
Anniversary-Chief Remembered.

The celebration of the seventeenth ami
versary of Empire Council No. A. Sons of
Jonadab, was celebrated Monday evening,
May %, at its hall, Sth and l streets south
east, which was handsomely decorated with
rich blooms and artistic draperies. The
event was of more than ordinary interest.
The history of the council from its incep-
ton was read by Worthy Secretary Lentz,
which revealed the work of this council in
Southeast Washington. Empire Council is
popular throughout the southeast section.
Its members are always on the alert for
new members. They have won for them
selves the enviable reputation of taking the
initiative IN every undertaking II the order.
. There were about eighty present to wit
ness the initiation of three new members
Tuesday evening
One of the principal features of the even
ing was a testimonial In form of a hand
some gold-headed silk umbrella suitably
engraved, which was presented TO Worthy
Sovereign Chief S. II. Wiley. in recogni-
ton of his faithful services and expressive
of the esteem of which he is held by this
council The presentation was made in an
eloquent address by Sovereign Deputy John
Berry, who referred to the wonderful work
that had been accomplished since Mr.. Will
ley was installed worthy chief of the
order. The presentation was a complete
surprise TO Mr. Wiley. but he responded
gracefully. subsequently reading an origi-
nal poem.
After addresses by other officials of the
order the entire body adjourned to the BAN
quet hall. where tables decorated with rare
and beautiful plants We're also laden with
delicious fruits. The evening was bright
and enjoyable one and added greatly to the
laurels of Empire Council. There was a
special musical program, under the leader
ship of Prof. Taylor, at the conclusion of
which those who desired adjourned to the
ante-room to indulge in a smoker
The officers of the council are: Past
chief, John Kidwell; worthy chief ]. Her
bert Warner; vice chief. John Middleton
patriarch Josiah Gray; financial secretary,
Joseph Murphy; recording secretary. Fred
! o. Lentz; treasurer. ]. j. Cooksey, inside
watch. Charles McGowan: outside watch,
William Frost; guide, John Lowe; assistant
guide. j. r. Ihre.
Empire Council was instituted May 10,
1883. ana its career, 1t Is claimed has been
a most successful one The members have
adhered to the custom of giving an annual
celebration of the date. Several years ago
this council. on its anniversary date Sc
cured the services of the United States Ma
X-ne Band, and forming In line to the
strs.ins OF music marched from the Navy
Yard to Georgetown, where they serenaded
one or the pioneers of the order This in
cident attracted much attention at tho
time.
The visitation of the sovereign officers to
Empire Council will occur Monday night,
June 10.
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gathered on the paws. With the handle of
my ak 1 scraped from my snowshoe the
frozen masses of ice that gathered under
my moccasins and Were wearing blIsters
on my feet. We rested here only a few
minutes, and then the bitter cold drove
us on again, for no man darcs to stop
long in such a temperature.
This breaking trail Is very picturesque
to an outside observer. Oftentimas after
ward, when, unincumbered, l had gone on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-26

ahead, I would stop and turn and watch
the guides-black pigmies struggling
through the boundIess stretch OF white.
with their heavily loaded toboggans in
great clouds of snow With their should
ers thrust forward and their heads bent
to the trail. they would swing along at an
even stride across the level expanse of
frozen snow. broken only by the thin line
of trail stretching behind them off into
the distance, and by the many still mar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-26

the president announced the time had ar
rived for The election of officers for the en-
suing year:
Mr.. Marshall Smith, chairman of the ex-
ecUtive committee. was recognized by the
chair.
Mr. Smith said the executive committee
had carefully considered the subject of new
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-26
Expert Hunter, Peerless Executive.

Expert Hunter, Peerless Executive.
at is fortunate indeed that we have such
an expert bear hunter in the person of our
fearless and peerless chief executive Pres
ident Roosevelt, and it is to be devoutly
hoped that he will soon muZZle the political
bear by placing the postmasters of the sec
ond and third class within the pale of civil
service IL order that they may be enabled
to render unto the department and the peo-
pie the efficient labor insured by the merit
system, and thus make of the postal serv-
ice a legitimate profession worthy of the
time, talent and energy of any Industrious
individual.
THE postal system of the United States Is
a splendid creature of evolution. but the
highest attainment thereof is yet to come.
In the days of Benjamin Franklin there
were just seventy=five post offices in this
country, while under the administration of
George b. Cortelyou there are almost as
many thousand"
Postmaster II. A. Hopkins of st. Clair.
Mich. the secretary and treasurer of the
organization, read his report and was fol-
lowed by former Auditor Henry A. Castle.
Discussing the annual S15,0O0,0O deficit, he
said it could be partly made up by charging
up to other departments the use of the
franking privilege. At the meeting last
night the convention heard Postmaster
Marcellus of Leroy, n. Y. who read a pa
per upon the tendency of big corporations
to embarrass the small postmaster in the
purchase of his stamps and money orders
because the postmaster did not make some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-26

BERLIN, May o6.-There was frost i'm
Germany Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
the thermometer registering six to eight de-
grees below freezing. The cold weather
caused much damage 20 fruits and vines
especially in the Moselle wine district
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OFFICERS REELECTED
Unanimous Action of Asso-
citation of Postmasters.
VISIT DEP ARTM EN- T
REcEIVED BIZ POSTMASTER GEN
ERAL AND ASSISTANTS.
Ordered That Next Meeting Shall Be
Held in Detroit-President
Lawson's Address.

The visiting postmasters preceded their
besson this morning by an official call at
the Post Office Department, where they
were received by the assistant postmasters
general. was 1880 o'clock when the
delegates arrived. and in company with
Postmaster Merritt repaired to the Post
master Generals room, where they were
deceived.
There were at least 200 present. and they
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Secretary and Treasure

SttTVtHFy HHu ITedSuItI
political appointment pleasing to the firms
His paper was in advocacy of the extern
sion of the civil service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-26
Frost Damage in Germany,

rover tracks OF the fox criss-crossing here
and there on the smooth surface
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mails on Sunday or lose his beloved job, so
that he must keep one eye upon the poll
ticians and the other upon the civil serv-
ice commission during the week. and on
Sunday serve a cosmopolitan public and
take his chances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-26
Wedding Announcements.

Ga 40 for 100 announcements en-
grayed on copper plate.
complete with inside and outside en-
velopes. all for 81 40. Samples here
proving that the very best results
are assured. References-the elite Of
society.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-26
ST to S. Dresses, Sac and S.. 80.

Children's Dresses of
white lawn and cOlOred
Chambray. made in all
the new styles trimmed
with fine lace. en-
brOideTy or f a n Y
braid: sizes . to ii
y, years ar $1.oo to SIC
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WHITE YELLING.

White Crepe Chiffon Veil
ing. the latest novelty; IS
inches wide and b~
W a h b e; AGO.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. So
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SIPS for ST. Combs.
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WHITE HOSIERY.

Plain and All-over Lace
Hose. Lace Ankle Hosiery.
Fine White Gauze Hose,
25c., S5c., SOC.
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$2.75 for S. Combs.
SI.0S for $3.50 Combs.

SI.4S for $500 Combs.
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WHITE LINEN COATS.

Some very handsome all
linen Embroidered Coats
Will be specially priced to
morrow at so, $3.50 and
$3.50.
Another special lot of
plain, All
i, . sansr , s !; $1,000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-26

o8c for $500 Combs.
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Please Be EARLY.
10 Per Cent Discount Before Midday.

With Decoration Day holiday and with
the coming commandments, the Children's
White Dresses are an important consideration
A very busy day here tomorrow. Call before
midday, pick out any S. to $50 Dress, and it
shall be yours at one-tenth less than the price
mark tells you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-01
Gotten in Alabama.

Cotton says one correspondent in an Alabama county 'has large weed and is not fruiting we'll" A wet August and by-no-means dry July has put the crop in the condition mentioned. It is too far between the joints of the Ala bama cotton plant. Upland cotton is doing better than cotton growing on lower grounds, but daily rains have worked injury even on the red hills of this state.
 The size of this years commercial crop in this state has not been ascer- tained as yet, but it will not be far from 1,450000 bales, which Is much the largest crop ever grown in Ala. bama. It will long stand as the states record crop, and it will stand as such until labor becomes more abunllant in Alabama. This state could readily pro duce two million bales if the labor or the small farmer were here, for only about one-third of our acreage is cul- tivated.
 It is very difficult to say what the crop grown this year will be. It might be well to put the maximum at 1,200,- 900 bales in case the rest of the sea- son be fayorably dry and the mini mum at 950,000 bales If September be- comes a wet month. A difference of 250 ,0O0 bales is a good deal, but the effects of wet and a dry September call for a big difference between maximum and minimum estimate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-01
ReaardIna Freight.

'T believe that the freight business in the south this year will be very large," said Lee Clary general agent of the freight department of the Louisville and Nashville railroad in Birmingham. q have just returned from Nashville where a meeting of all the traffic men of the freight department was held to discuss the good of the service, and the reports from all sides were encouraging.
 There were a number of representatives from all over the south present, and all of them seemed optomistic. They all be- lieved that this fall and winter the freight traffic will be very heavy, and they so expressed themselves.
 By the way the next meeting of the freight traffic people of the Louisville and Nashville will be held in Birming- ham in about year. The company calls its traffic people together annually to discuss the service and any improve ments that any member might see fit to suggest. There is a social side to tho meeting also and we become better &C., quainted with each other.
 'The meeting in Nashville was the second the first having been held in Louisville. We had a most enjoyable time in Nashville and I think that the meeting was of great benefit to those who attended"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-01
Primary Elections.

Virginia has just held primary election, and she is well pleased with the first trial of the new method It aroused the people to an interest in the election, affording as it did to all a chance to see and to hear the men who sought their votes. Nothing serves so we'll as the prmaty in doing all this.
 Nor Is that all. It has taken out of the party bitterness and division and cliques. All such things were spent at the polls, and Governor Mon- tague, who was defeated for senator, will take the stump for Senator Mar tin, his successful rival, and Lieuten- ant Governor Willard and Judge Mann are to speak for MT. Swanson, who was nominated for governor. There is harmony in the party, and no talks about bargain and sale and intrigues, such as follow every convention, and truthfully at that.
 Before the primary was held the customary talk was heard. Those who preferred a convention said the pri- mary would simply manufacture ma terial to be used against the party in November, but it did nothing of the sort. Nearly one hundred thousand democrats went to the primary and voted, and every one of them consid- CTS himself morally bound 10 support the nominees.
 The south and west will soon elect all their senators by popular vote. and the result will be so satisfactory that even the boss-ruled effuete east will after a while fall into line. The con stitution is as much of a failure in the selection of senators as 1t Is in the se- lection of a president. and the people
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-01
Responsibility of the Forty-Nine.

The recent answer filed in an Equi- table suit brought by the attorney gen. eral of the state of New York was the answer of the Equitable society as a whole, and the individual answers of the forty-nine directors are yet to be filed. Each one of the forty-nine must now defend his action as director, for each one of them was made a de- fendant by the state of New York. Each one of the forty-nine now finds not only the state of New York and 600,O00 policy holders arrayed against him, but also the Equitable society itself Each one must answer to the state, to the policy holders and to the society for his acts on dummy lines.
 Thomas F. Ryan was recently inter- viewed at Seattle, where he spoke, among other things, as follows:
 As to the investigation by the New York legislature, nothing could be better for the policy holders of the Equitable. MT. Morton will afford the committee every facility and will aid in every way to the end that full and thorough in- vestigation shall be made If anybody connected with the company has been guilty of wrong doing he should suffer. and if anybody has anything in his pos- session belonging to the company he must give 1t back.
 This Is the correct spirit, and the dummy director who sheltered himself behind "the board" and neglected to perform his duty in shielding the pol icy holders from waste and extraya- The dummy director is in way to get lesson he will long remember.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-01
HOUSE OF MANY TONGUES.

Porthmouth 1N. H.) Letter to New York
 Evening Sun.
 Probably this is the most polygiot as- semblage that ever filled a New England hotel since the Pilgrims made that stern and rock bound landing of theirs. The envoys, their staffs and the correspond ents foot up a total of some ten national ities, but that isn't all by long sight. The three hotel cooks are Italians, the steward is Frenchman. The head porter is German, his first deputy negro, and one of his lesser scene shifters who jug gles trunks, Swede. The male walters are mostly Frenchmen and Swiss with one Englishman assigned to the palm gar den. The dining room girls are all either school teachers or college students. Two are Wellesley undergraduates, four are from Smith, and three from Vassar The rest are scattering. Every bell hop Is a negro, and Pokotiloff has a Chinese man servant. The night clerk hailed originally from Canada. One of the twenty telegraph operators was born in Ireland and an- other in Mexico of American percentage. Can you beat it outside of Coney Island or an ethnological congress-?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-01
Unprecedented Business.

'.one does not have to travel from Bir- mingham to learn that prosperity is in evidence, but visit to New York, the countrys great metropolis, certainly opens ones eyes to the fact that the volume of trade is unprecedented, said Simon Klotz. who recently returned from the east.
 New York's wholesale business has been simply marvellous this summer and with the advance of autumn the volume of sales will increase. One hears on every hand talk of big crops, big prices and rush of business. A trip to New York is interesting at all seasons, but never before was 1t so stimulating from a com mercial point of view as during the dog days just gone'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-01
A Good Pen Holder.

Deputy Clerk and Register Morshemer of the ehancery court has hit upon the best scheme for an up-to-date penholder that I have eyer seen," said a lawyer yesterday.
 MT. Morsheimer has large Irish po- tato properly secured to his desk, into which the pens not in use are stuck. The potato serves as an excellent holder and absorbs the ink rapidly. When taken from the potato the pen point is as bright and good as new. The potato holds the pen firmly, and one potato will last for sev- eral weeks or more in @ busy office. Where 1t is not used often 1t will last longer The expense for these pen holders provided by nature is trifiing. and anyone can, get tlfem from the pantry
 "The versatile potato may not have been intended by nature for the use to which Mir. Morsheimer has put it. but at any rate it serves the purpose we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-01

Therefore we would urge the prominent men of every southern state to join hands with Governor Jelks and use their best efforts to cause their respective states to fall into line to the end that the demand for Federal marine quarantine may be universal.
 Louisiana, benehting so largely from the Federal marine service, should be the first to take this position. Mssis- sippi. forced to borrow money to fight the plague will doubtless recognize the economy and wisdom of transferring the battle to the Federal authorities Geor- gia, South Carolina and Florida will doubtless be glad to fall into line. Ten nessee, we are certain, will not be found backward, and if the people of Arkansas know what is good for them-and we think they do-they will make the fight of their lives to secure protection along the coast which will eliminate for the future political wrangling over the states health
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-01

hour of victory she WAS magnanimous. and, secondly. she gains freedom from Russian aggression and duplicity in the Far East. Russia can be trusted hereafter to let the Far East severely alone. and plucly, far-seeing Japan will see that she does 1t. Japan can grow, colonize and expand her indus tries as well as her fleet. She can make on the mainland her own bread stuffs, and she can catch salmon and herring in her own waters. She has won all honor and all glory, and, best of all, she has won potency in the Far East. No one will hereafter question her privacy there, least of all Russia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-01
What Japan Gains.

Japan gains all she went to war for control of Corea, restoration of Man churia to China, and the transfer of the China Eastern railway and Port Arthur and Dalny. She has in short driven Russia from position in which the latter threatened her existence and the integrity of China. Hereafter Russia will hold on the Pacific but one useful port, Vladivostok, and it is closed half the year by ice.
 In Corea, Sakhalin and Manchuria Japan will have ample room for ex- mansion during a generation to come. She now becomes mainland power and Russia ceases to be one on the Pacific. Russia will in fac. be frozen out.
 Nor is 1t true that Japan will re- ceive no indemnity. She gets the Chinese Eastern railway south at least of Kirin Junction, and 1t Is worth per haps $75o00,0OO. She is to receive pay for the care of Russian prisoners, which may bring her $25,oo0.Ooo more, and she is adding Russian ships to her navy, and their value cannot be less than $50,000,000 So that after all the fruits of her splendid victories are considerable in all directions. Her fisheries are enlarged; her available territory nearly doubled, and her navy handsomely increased.
 But her two chief gains are the siendship of the world, valuable as-
 t. which comes to her because in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-01
THE LAND OF USED TO BE.

By James Whitcomb Riley. Beyond the purple, hazy trees Of summers utmost boundaries; Beyond the sands, beyond the seas. Beyond the range of eyes like these. And only in the reach of the Enraptured gaze of memory There lies the land long lost to me
 The Land of Used to Be. A land enchanted, such as swung In golden seas when sirens clung Along their dripping brinks. and sung To Jason in that mystic tongue That dazed men with its melody; Oh. such land, with such sea, Kissing it's shores eternally,
 Is the fair Used to Be. land where music ever girds The air with bells of singing birds. And sows all sounds with such sweet
 words
 That even in the lowing herds meaning lives so sweet to me; Lost laughter rippies limpidly From lips brimmed OCT with all the glee
 Of rare old Used to Be. land of love and dreamy thoughts And shining fields and shady spots, Of coolest, greenest grassy spots Embossed with wild forget-me-nots, And all the blooms that cunningly Lift their faces up to me
 Out of the past kiss in thee
 The lips of Used to Be. love ye all. and with wet eyes Turned glimmeringly on the skies, My blessings like your perfumes rise, Till o'er my soul silence lies, Sweeter than any song to me. 6weeter than any melody Or its sweet echo, yea. all three.
 My dreSns of Used to Be