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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
Roosevelt at Harvard.

Twenty-Five years after receiving his
sheepskn Theodore Roosevelt visits his
alma mater, President of the United States
This is either unparalleled luck or unparal-
leled strenuosty directed by high gifts Is
the point debatabIe? What we call luck
enters into many things, and Mr.. Roosevelt
has enjoyed his share of it. but his ex-
traordinlry success is socketed in things
sought for and fought for, and he has
earned what he enjoys. The most casual
examination of the record shows that he
early hitched his wagon to a star and began
a hard drive for emincnce.
This man with his means, his interest in
letters and history and his literary faculty.
might have taken a leisurely course toward
fame. He might have gone from Harvard
abroad and added to his store of knowledge
at some English or German university,
burying himself there for few years and
emerging with a Phi. D., or something or
other, and then. after making the grano
tour of observation. have returned home to
look over the ground before deciding upon
a career. In that case Mr.. Roosevelt would
be at Cambridge today an author. United
States senator, an ex-governor, or some
thing of similar grade.
But he went from school straight to the
the fray. With the down on his face he
exchanged the college yell for the political
campaign cry. and he has been in politics
ever since. He did not abandon his inter-
est in study. He kept on reading books.
and has written a dozen or more. but his
chief concern has been with practical az
fairs in a practical country. along with
practical men.
In this way Mr.. Roosevelt has impressed
himself on his times, and come to exer-
else extraordinary influence on affairs while
still young man. In one office or another
he has been in touch with our development
as a nation for the past quarter of a CEN
fury. and helped shape much of the course.
He has mingled strenuous thought with
strenuous action. and so reached the top
of the ladder earlier than any other Ameri-
can who ever climbed for it. His alma
mater and his classmates have reason to
be proud of him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
Kuropatkin.

1t is sincerely to be hoped that the report
of Gen. Kuropatkins death may prove I'M
true. He could not accomplish the task set
for him in Manchuria. partly for the rea-
son, no doubt. that the Russian problem
there had been so botched as to be beyond
the hope of success. Retreats were the
only things in order. and he conducted them
with much skill. That any sort of Russian
army remains there today is due to him.
His talents are such as his country will
have pressing need of In the near future.
Not only the Russian navy. but the Russian
army, will have to be rehabilitated. and
such lessons as have been taught in Man
churia have been best learned by the Rus
sian commanders on the ground. Gen.
Kuropatkin. in remaining to play second
fiddle after ceasing by the royal command
to play first, gave fine exhibition of both
courage and patriotism
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
Per cent of executions. ....... O.Os Q
"Don't Worry"
From the Baltimore Herald.

From the Baltimore Herald.
The learned dissertations of all the pro-
fessors and sages who tell US at this glad
season how to be comfortable when the
mercury is at 95 begin with the ancient
Chaldean maxim, Don't worry This
caution was old in the days of Babylon s
glory and knew the sharp stings of senile
rheumatism when Ireland still had kings.
And it was just as platitudinous in those
happy times and just as innocuous and
senseless and silly as it is in this year OF
grace 1905. Don't worry, forsooth! How
can man help it? Doesn't worrying mean
thinking, and has a mere human being
control over his machinery of cogitation
He may convince himself that he isn't
hungry when the sight of a ham sandwich
makes him weep. and he may control his
fists his legs, his vocal cords and his
whiskers, but he has no manner of sover-
eighty over his cerebrum and cerebellum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
The Open Switch.

The open switch is playing bloody part
In American life and death. 1t bears the
same relation to the casualty list that the
grade crossing did a few years ago. 1t
would seem that hardly a day passes that
an American train does not run into an
open switch.
1t required heavy pressure to start the
campaign against the grade crossing. 1t
had its defenders. ut was necessary be-
cause II was cheap. To eliminate grade
crossings would be such a costly proceed
ing that it would bankrupt American rail-
ways, impoverish hundreds of thousands of
stockholders and derange the business of
the land Yet the demand for the aboli-
ton OF grade crossings was so insistent
and so logical that railroad crossings at
grade began to CO. are fast going, and soon
will be gone
In the matter of switches some railroad
men are saying that passenger train on a
double track road need never run into an
open switch at high speed, because on no
road of modern equipment should the switch
open from the direction of the running
train. That Is. the so-called facing
switch" should be eliminated. A facing
switch Is merely one which faces toward
the oncoming train. On double-track
road every switch should face away from
the running train. that the only way 1t
may be entered is for the train to run by
it, stop. and back in. On the single track
road the "back-to'' switches are impossible
because they must face train coming
in one direction or the other
By the way little has been heard of late
of the Westinghouse device for making col
lisions harmless. 1t will be remembered
that when the delegates to the Internation-
al Railway Congress were touring the
United States they were given a demonstra-
ton of the harmless collision by George
Westinghouse on the Interworks railway.
owned by the Westinghouse company. The
following report of the experiment was
telegraphed over the United States:
"a train composed of fifty new steel cars
was made up and to it was attached an
ordinary locomotive. The train was then
allowed to stand idle on the track. The
third portion. to which the engine was at
tached. then moved down the track dis
lance of about two miles and rushed back
al a speed of forty miles hour. 1t
crashed into the second section of the train,
and the latter bumped into the first In
stead of cars piled up on the tracks in a
twisted mass, there was just a CULVER and
then the three sections, which had been
automatically reunited. settled down as
though nothing had happened. All the cars
were equipped with what Is known as the
friction draft gear which abSorbS the
strains. The same performance was re-
peated the second time with a single phase
electric locomotive"
It would seem that the steel car is safe
against the ordinary dangers of collision.
If baggage. smoker and day coaches were
as solidly built as the sleepers and diners.
railway mortality in the United States
would be appreciably reduced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
Dividend Disbursements.

The period for the midyear disbursement
of dividends and coupon payments is close
at hand and 1t Is computed that the sum to
be disbursed on July l on these accounts
will exceed S140, 900 900 of which bondhold-
ers will receive S0.G00,OO0 and holders of
stock in railroads. banks, trust companies
and industrial corporations will receive $780,
900 900 r.-
These great figures have a peculiar inter-
est to Americans because of the recent
heavy domestic absorption of American Sc
curities formerly held abroad. Between
1880 and 1 SOC majority of the capital stock
of such representative systems as the Illi-
nois Central, Louisville and Nashville,
Pennsylvania railroad and Reading was held
in Europe. In the period between 1890 and
1905 the foreign ownership of stock in the
Illinois Central has been reduced from 65
per cent to 81 per cent; in the Pennsyl
vania. from 81 TO 10 per cent; in the Louis
Vile and Nashville. from IS to 7 per cent;
in the New York. Ontario and Western,
from IS to Il per cent in the New York
Central, from 81 to 0 per cent; in Reading
from 81 to per cent: in Great Northern
from SO to . per cent: in Baltimore and
Ohio. from 81 to II. and in Chicago. Mil
waukee and st. Paul from 81 to per cent
There Is striking decrease of alien owner
ship In most of the other American lines.
From 1880 to 1890 there was active railroad
construction in the United States. Ameri-
mileage was increased so per cent.
Much of this construction was with foreign
capital.
The change in ownership has practically
been wrought in the last ten years. 1t is
believed that in those years the value of
stocks and bonds of the railroads named
bought in America from holders abroad
S,nn uno 900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
Running Too Much to Titles.
rom the Boston Herald.

An American journalist returning after
an absence of some years abroad comments
upon the profuse application of titles which
Is becoming frequent in this country. The
practice is essentially modern one. Dan
lei Webster in his lifetime was never
spoken of as Senator Webster. but al
ways as plain Mr." Webster. Nowadays.
however, it is invariably senator" this and
that, and almost everybody has some kind
of a handle to his name. Thus we have
''Forecaster' Jones, Undertaken" Smith.
Conductor" Robinson, superintendent of
the Poorhouse" Brown. Common Council
man" Shucks and ''Selectman" Bumps and
so on. If this kind of thing keeps on we
shall end by resting our claims to respect
and consideration upon those painfully
minute social distinctions which prevail
in Germany, where men or women inscribe
their names in hotel registers with the ad-
dition of such descriptive phrases as
cousin to an apotheeary" or "brother-in-
law to q corporal"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
A Champion of the Coolie.

The New York Evening Post applauds the
Presidents letter on the Chinese exclusion
law and hopes for good results from the de-
liverance. 1t is no friend of the law and
puts its case in the following very frank
fashion:
with the latter consent to renew trade
relations on the old basis. now that Chinese
students. teachers. merchants and travellers
ar To be treated like human beings instead
of wild animals? Or are they going to
press their advantage. encouraged both by
President Roosevelt's action and the trepida-
ton among exporters to ms st that China
shall. in the matter of immigration be
placed on precisely the same basis as Hun
gary and England, Morocco and Turkey :?
We are inclined to think that the only
action which will wholly check Chinese hos
tility will be n re-enactment of the treaty
with China of July Is. 1s6S. which affirmed
that:
- The United States of America and the
Emperor of China cordially recognize the
inherent and inalienable right of man to
change his home and allegiance, and also
the mutual advantages of the free migra-
tion and emigration of their citizens and
TO the other. for the purposes of curiosity
o. trade or as permanent residents
This policy was reversed in 1882. at a
time when there were not more than hun
dred thousand Chinese in the entire United
States. of which seventy-five thousand were
settled in California. Those primarily re-
sponsible were mobs, lawless labor unions.
and political demagogues, who foresaw the
undermining of our Anglo-Saxon republic
by an influx of Chinese. which seems trifiing
compared to the invasion of the east by
Italians and other southern Europeans.
These come literally by the hundred thou
sand. yet arouse no genuine fears for the
safety of our institutions"
Let us hope that the Evening Post will
nSur on its friends, and that the matter
le presented to Congress next winter
erms Ii suggests The real object
esent agitation. as The Star has
ned. Is to break down the law
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
Summer Mythology.

There is a bubbling fount embowered
Where nymphs do congregate;
Where nectar lavishly is showered
From early until late.
Here's Juno, most serenely fair.
And Miss Minerva. wise
The wit and beauty gathered there
Bedazzle worldly eyes.
The Ganymede is but a churl;
He bids the soda sizz
And coldly asks each radiant girl
Her preference in fizz.
Olympus is, alas! no more
The glories Joye might scan
Are less than those which pass before
The soda fountain man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
steel output of the United States. The
Iron Age. taking figures contained In O late

steel output OF the United States. The
Iron Age, taking figures contained In late
report of the American Iron and Steel AS
ISOLATION. has prepared a table which shows
the decline in the steel trusts percentage
of output. Omitting fractions the trust in
1902 produced 40 per cent of the iron ore,
in 1903. 43 per cent, and in 1904 80 per
cent: of steel ingots and castings it pro-
duced in 1902 IS per cent, 1903 63 per cent.
and 1904. 81 per cent; of Bessemer steel
rails 1t produced in 1902 50 per cent, 1908.
Go per cent; 1904, 81 per cent. There was
also decline in its percentage of output
of Lake Superior ore, coke. structural
shapes. plates and sheets and bars and nail
plate.
Other trusts that began operations with
a control of their field have lost control,
and some still retain control by recourse
to the buying-out process-a process that
cannot be indefinitely continued.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
Bad News for Summer Girl.
From the New York Herald.

There is a general impression nowadays
that times have suddenly become so ex-
trayagant that young men do not venture
to marry.-Kansas City Star.
Is 1t not social treason to spread such
horrid news just as Mother is trying to m
Guce Father to sign checks for the Girls
summer stay at the seashore? Will our
Kansas contemporary, in the interest Ct
femininity. oblige by refraining from such
tactless remarks?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28

The governor of Kansas. by refusing to
make a humorous address to the under
takers assembled in Topeka. displayed good
taste And yet an undertaken should not
be deprived of any laughs that may stray in
his direction
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28

The experiments by which a chemist
sought to show that radium Is the original
source of life have not reached success
full conclusion There are a few secrets
that Mother Nature insists on keeping
strictly to herself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
No Use,

The bonds of poverty he cut:
His fortune hourly grew.
He got a million dollars. But
He got dyspepsia, too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
The Grade Crossing.

From the Baltimore American.
The grade crossing evidently thinks 1t Is
being oyershadowed in the horrors of tho
time, and Is doing it's best to call attention
to it's own powers of murderous mischief.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28

The Gloucester fisherman who dropped a
lighted candle into a can of gasoline demon
strated that the fishing sloop may be almost
as dangerous as the automobile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
A Genuine Distinction.

why is Junius considered SO remark
abler' said the young man who doesn't
read.
Because answered Miss Cayenne. The
wrote the only anonymous letters that ever
commanded any respect"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
SHOOTING STARS.
High Finance.

Father" said the small boy, what Is
high hnance?'
My son. was the reply, sit Is the nd
that comes high for the people who actually
provide the funds"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
Hard to Down.

When you see quarrel among promi-
merit men," said one cynic, there is gen.
orally dollar at the bottom of it."
The dollar may be at the bottom to start
with. replied the other, but 1t usually
comes out on top at the finish
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28

Despite his criticisms of American gale
ties, Mr.. Henry Watterson takes to the
biythesome diversions of Paris naturally
as a thoroughbred horse to the race track.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28

Mr.. James Hyde may not give any more
elaborate advertising banquets. but he is
sure to have enough left to prevent him
from coming to coffee and sinkers menu.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28

1t is easy enough to make an airship
that will fly. The manufacture of one that
will light according to program Is the prob
lem OF real difficulty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
A Matter of Punctuation,

THAT orator is very much given to star
thing statements"
Yes" answered Senator Sorghum; Ike
thinks he Is a man of the period when he
is merely a man of the exclamation mt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28

On its arrival In Washington the dove OF
peace should be inspected. to make sure
that it does not wear spurs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28

Mr.. Bryan has found one or two things
TO disapproye of in Mr.. Roosevelt's ad-
ministratiou. and may be depended on to
find many more before 1908.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28

Having tried both first and last place.
the Washington ball club is now in posi-
ton to make an intelligent choice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28

Japan still has Rojestvensky where it can
add good. stiff doctors bill to the indem-
nifty IL il feels so disposed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28

The Panama canal is too big an enter
prise to be completed without an occasional
RESIGNATION.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28

Castro would have been glad to see diplo-
matte business affecting Venezuela limited
10 the proportions of a personal quarrel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
A Habit.


Mrs. Eddy says poverty is not disease.
1t comes more under the head Of q habit
with most of US.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28

The kaiser wants war. but not too much
al = time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
Protection Of Crime.
From the New York Times

From the New York Times.
Il Is the aim of a system of criminal law
to check and prevent crime by the prompt
and just punishment of crime actually COM
mitted. The system of law that fails in a
large degree to impose penalties at once
justly and with reasonable promptitude pro-
tects and encourages crime That Is, in
substance, the accusation brought against
the American system of criminal law by an
able lawyer. distinguished jurist and ex
perienced administrator, Mr.. Taft, the Sec
rotary of War.
Certainly his figures sustain his accusa-
ton. Look at this striking little table:
1885. 1904
murders ..................... 1soS S.4s2
Executions. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 108 116
Per cent of executions. ........ 0.Os O.o14
In other words, the number of murders
increased four and one-half times and the
number of executions remained practically
the same Roughly speaking the chances
of escape for a murderer were nearly five
times as great last year as they were
twenty years before. 1t may be suggested
that there is some doubt as to the actual
classification of murders" in this state
ment. but Mr.. Taft Is not likely to have
been careless in compiling them. and the
comparison is probably not affected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28

TIN order to avoid delays on account Of
personal absence, letters to THE STAR
should mot be addressed to any individual
connected with the office, but simply to
THE STAR, or to the Editorial or Bust-
ness Departments, according to tenor or
purpose.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-05-20
RICHMOND AFLOAT.
The New Ferry Boat Went Into the
Water Today.

A number of people from this place
and Pleasant Plains went TO Por,
Richmond this, morning to see the
launching OF the new ~ferryboat Rich
mond.
In selecting a young lady to chris
ten the Richmond. Pres ident Crom-
well, of the borough of Richmond.
has. chosen probably the prettiest
young lady in the borough. She is
Miss Mae f. Davidson, the charming
young daughter Of William Davidson.
treasurer Of the Burlee Shipbuildino
Company of Port Richmond. Miss
Davidson, who is not quite seventeen
years old, is II student OF Westerleigh
College. a member of the Port Rich
mond Baptist church, and is very
active in Staten Island select society.
She is an extremely pretty young wo-
man of the blonde type with excep-
t%ionally striking features. She will
be assisted by her sister, Miss Ger
trude, who christened the big Penn
sylvania ferryDoat Chicago.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-05-20
HOPED WIFE
WOULD DIE.
Nicholas Kennedy Arraigned Be-
for Justice Mason on Wife
Beating Charge.

II there is anything that will rile JUS
tice Mason ito when a man is brought
before him for beating his wife Tues
day night Constable McCabe brought
Nicholas Kennedy, of this borough be-
fore the Justice for beating Mrs. Ken
nedy. 1t appeared that she had just
opened a car Of Tom ,toes when Kennedy
came home from work. There were
some words and finally Mrs. Kennedy
cut her husbands nose with the can
cutter. She claimed to have done 1t in
self-defense. Kennedy knocked the
woman down beat fer with his fist and
kicked her in the stomach and she was a
sight to behold when he finished lis
work.
The Justice said to Kennedy. s''Your
wife may die" Kennedy replied, TIL
Lord be praised it she does and III get
the flowers to put OF her grave Then
the justice told him he wished there
was a whipping post here for wife beat
ers. Kennedy was bound over to keep
the peace and to appear lefore the grand
jury at the next term of court. Ken
nedy was sober, but the wife had been
i'm blbinp some.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-05-20
NEWS ITEMS.

Tuesday evening of this week Mr.. and
Mrs William Jacklip, of Sleight aver ne,
md Mr.. g. w. Dubois attended The
graduating xercises of the Nurses ut
the $. II. Smith Infirmary. They g IT
it as being a grand social affair.
Mr.. G.. w. Dubois, who as told in the
NEWS. underwent an operation at the
). X. smith lufiimary several eeks ego
10 rapidly improving and Is able to take
short carriage rides.
Elmont Bedell attended the review OF
the l3tb Regiment Natio nal Guard of
Brooklyn Thursday night.
Master Joe o'Brien who has been very
i'll ia recovering.
A, H P. Helmeyer. Of New Dorp, was
In r~ottenvll lille yesterday.
Misses Taylor, of Tottenville, are vi.i-
ting friends in Newark, n. j., for a few
days.
District Manager W. X. Adams and
Chief Inspector Thomas Corcoran, of the
New York and New Jersey Telephone
company, were In rottenville yesterday /.
Lester Rogers. of johnson avenue, has
a fine position at Elizabeth, n T., with
the New York and New Jersey Telephone
company.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-05-20
A WAS STOLEN.

1t appears that thieving has begun
again in Christ church cemetery. Mrs.
Steven Martin had among other flowers
on her plot in the cemetery and at Il Q
head of her husbands grave, a beautiful
azalia in full bloom, Easter Sunday.
AS the weather became rather breezy
the azalIa was brought away from the
CT metery for q few days until 1t became
more mild, when it was again placed Oh
the grave. One eau imagine the disai-
pointment when Miss Harriet Martin
next visited tile grave and found the
empty plot. Someone had stolen the
plant they had taken so much piide in
placing there as a tribute to their beloved
deceased husband n father. Stealing
a gift to the dead seems to me a dread.
full and also a contemplate act. There
is a reward of $25 to anyone catching
and reporting anyone committing such
an act.