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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
Diplomats and Their Work.

The banquet given by the lord mayor OF
London Friday night in honor Of Ambas-
sador Choate was attended by the flower of
English official life, with Mr.. Balfour at the
head. Everybody was in amiable and elo-
Quent mood, and the speeches all pledged
stronger friendship between the two Eng
disappearing nations. Yesterdays Lon
don newspapers treated the function SYM
pathetically and with great respect, and the
Morning Post concluded Its editorial in
these words:
THUS the lord mayors banquet may be
a great international act, better product
Of diplomacy than sheaf Of treaties"
Treaties are Of no force unless backed by
a lively public sentiment. The strongest
alliance is that of mutual respect and a
good understanding. Mr.. Choate is an able
and alert man. and a negOtiator knows
his trade thoroughly, but his best services
in London have been those proceeding
from a personality at all times gracious
and sincere. He has kept in touch with the
people to whom he was accredited, and
in respecting them has earned their re-
spect. His work is of more value Inan
would be "a sheaf of treaties"
The English in their present sovereign
have great agent for good Of this kind.
King Edward is a diplomat of the first
order. He has just returned home from
a short foreign tour, during which he
strengthened British interests wherever he
visited. He was especially effective in
France, where for the first time In many
years sentiment toward England Is cordial.
The two governments have recently en-
tered into close treaty relations with each
other, but the kings personality is OF itself
a great influence for good In the equation.
He knows and likes the French character,
speaks the French language, takes pleasure
In French society and customs, and feels
himself quite at home in Paris. His good
will and personal address in such a coun-
try are worth "a sheaf of treaties"
The old-style diplomacy was not all bad
as Is the custom to contend. 1t was not all
lying and blather-the conceaing of sin
lister purpose under smiling exterior and
string of neat phrases. But the new-style
diplomacy Is generally to the good. Whether
1t be called the shirt-sieeve diplomacy or
not. 1t makes for frankness, for conserva-
tism, and even for good nature and the man
competent for the work has better op-
portunity of serving his country and con-
tributing to the peace of the world than
ever before
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
Ireland and Emigration.

The Earl of Dunraven. in a pamphlet just
published. makes appeal for better gov
eminent for Ireland. and paints a sad pic
ture of the existing conditions In the island.
He declares that "Ireland's best are con-
tinually drifting out, while its worst are
drifting toward lunatic asylums. and the
remainder will remain in Ireland only by
necessity He says of the Irish people that
they ARE not lazy or devoid of intelligence,
and points out that they do good work and
become leaders of men in every quarter of
the globe. Their need at home, he says, is
that teaching which the responsibility OF
their own affairs alone can give
We may all earnestly wish for better gov
eminent for Ireland The country Is poor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
NOTES OF MEN AND WOMEN.

Jules Verne did not write his memoirs and
disliked having his personality brought for
ward in the newspapers
Mrs. James W. Smith of Newark. N. j..
has highly treasured unpublished bit of
verse by John Greenleaf Whittier,
Payne Whitney is encircling his estate at
Manhasset L. l., with an iron fence. to
cost $4,000. Deer will be kept in the in
closure.
The King of Siam. who is a connoisseur
OF precious stones. has one of the finest col
lections of jewelry in the world
United States Senator-elect George S.
Nixon of Nevada. now many times mil
lionaire, was telegraph operator twenty
six years ago.
DIR. w. c. Farabee of the anthropological
department of Harvard University will con-
duct an expedition to Iceland during the
present summer
Gen. James A. Buchanan. a native Of
Maryland, has been appointed brigadier
general. He is a MISREPRESENTATION OF
Gov Samuel Ogle, a colonial governor OF
Maryland.
Johns Hopkins University has conferred
the degree of doctor of laws upon Major
General Albert Won Pfister, the King of
Wurtembergs representative. who brought
the bust of Schiller to THIS country.
Miss Kate E. McWilliams of Brooklyn
has broken the record for school teaching.
Resigning from her work recently, she has
to her credit fifty consecutive years of serv-
Ice In the Brooklyn public schools, forty
eight being in one school as principal.
Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell of
Elizabeth. N. j., the first ordained woman
minister in the United States and probably
In the world. will pass her eightieth ami
yersary May 20. In June she means to at
tend the national woman suffrage conven-
ton at Portland, Ore.
The association, including many we'll
4wrc y,nou q which WI formed
for the purpose of providing lasting me-
mortal of the late Mrs. Gilbert. is rent by
dissensions. Various projects are In con-
fict One Is to provide stained glass win
dow in a church and another is to erect
a statue of the actress, to be placed In one
of the public parks Of New York. Mira. 3.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

and the people are disconnected largely as
the result of the government that exists.
Many Englishmen OF note advocate a
change. and the Irish are impatient for one.
But IL change of government were fmme-
diate2y granted, and their opportunities at
home improved. would the more adventur-
Gus of the Irish remain and take advantage
Of them? 1t is to be doubted.
In the south for few years after the
civil war an appeal Of this kind was made
to the young men, They were advised to
stay at home and help lift their section out
of the ditch. Many of them did not heed
the appeal but went north or west to i'm
prove opportunities which were in every
way alluring. They were not unpatriotic.
They loved their old homes. but, being
young and ambitious. followed the bent OF
their interests. They succeeded in their
new fields, and their places in the old fields
were taken by men from the north. In this
way the south has helped the north and
the north the south. The reunion of the two
sections has been due but little to oratory
and after-dinner sentiment. 1t is socketed
In material things and the shifting Of popu-
lation.
1t Is for the very reason that the Irish
man in his best estate does good work and
and will continue to seek avenue the
best suited to his ambition and energies.
He Is a familiar and a welcome figure In
this country. We have known him for
years. Conditions at home may have has
tened his departure, but nothing probably
would long have detained him. Ireland UNI
der the best rule would not compete with
the United States a country with prizes
for young men of an adventurous spirit and
capable talents
Ireland, however. under better govern
ment would attract men from the outside
who would see opportunities there and take
the places of natives who had left.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

ST. John Matthews, one Of the best known
women sculptors in this country, has pro-
posed model for the statue, showing Mrs.
Gilbert in the role Of Granny.
The library Of the late Prof. York Powell
shows that he had an amazing range as a
reader. Works in Persian, Pail, Sanscrit,
Hebrew, Tamil, Syriac, Eskimo, Rouma-
MAN, Swahli. Polls and yei-some of these
being gfammars-are on the list, as we'll as
books in all the familiar European Ian
guages
The Oldest editor in Missouri is Lewis
Lampkin of the Lees Summit Journal, who
has just celebrated his seventy-third birth
day. During sixty years of his life he has
been in the newspaper business. When he
first began this kind of work in 1S47 there
were not more than score of newspaper
or printing establishments in the state
In conversation recently with President
Hadley of Yale University. Gov Warfield
of Maryland astonished that distinguished
scholar by claiming to be IAN alumnus Of
Yale, once removed" The basis of this
ernor's education was laid by Yale gradu-
ate who taught in the log school house
nearzthe Warfield plantation and who after
ward became tutor in his fathers family.
The number of British society leaders
who are taking to trade grows steadily.
Lady Wimborne owns and manages book
store, Lady Essex and Mrs. Hwfa Will
liams run smart laundry, Lady Duff Cor
don Is a fashionable. dressmaker, the OUCH
ess of Abercorn derives quite an income
from her dairy business. Lady Rachel Byng
sells artistic needlework, and Lady Aileen
Wyndham Quinn makes a good thing out
o. violet farming.
The retirement Of Modjeska, the actress,
which was recently marked by a special
performance in New York, lends special in
terest to the following table of the ages of
The older women of the stage. which has
lately been compiled by writer who de-
clares that 1t is absolutely authentic:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
The Man and the Lamp-Post.

An auto-truck struck lamp-post, the
post fell. and falling struck q man. telling
him. This is in New York. The accident
was unique even in New York. where ia
varieties OF accidents appear in each edi-
ton of the papers.
There Is little doubt that though 1t was tie
first time that particular lamp-post ever fell
on a man. it has appeared to many men to
be an unstable lamp-post. OF course, that
lamp post has appeared in different ways to
different men. It Is we'll known that when
conditions are favorable a lamp-post can
assume more shapes than Proteus To
some it has appeared to sway to and fro
like spar buoy on the palpitating bosom
Of surging sea. To some 1t has seemed to
swirl round and round with graceful gyra-
tfons suggesting to the delighted fancy the
sensuous Waiting of terpsichorean houri.
To other men it has appeared as two lamp
posts strolling down the street arm In arm.
Still, to many other men 1t has seemed just
about to topple over as they have lent 1t
their support.
Many men have expressed a tender re-
gard for that lamp-post. Some have held
1t in affectionate embrace: some have
clasped it to their bosom with gentle
pressure Of endearment; some have lain
their troubled brows against Its soothing
GOODNESS. Many have used 1t as resting
place along the tangled. Jagged way, and
many have used 1t as q vantage point from
which to make a fresh start There are
few lamp-posts that have not had varied
experience with frail man. But 1t is very
seldom that the lamp-post itself falls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

ing OF the sewer must have been anticl-
pated by those In charge Of the work and
the officials In supervision. II It was Inn
perattve that pier be placed at that pre-
else point all precautions should have been
taken to insure rushing of the work from
the first moment Of the opening Such labor
as this should be pressed night and day.
with triple shifts. IL necessary. In order that
the menace to the public may be brought to
the lowest point. II matters nothing that
the population in that region is compare
lively sparse Those who do live In the
vicinity are entitled to protection against
disease equally with those In the more
densely inhabited sections of the city
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
CHICAGO.
ew York World.

From the New York World
Chicago has played with lawlessness .
many years that her administrative fact
ties are paralyzed. New policemen Q 3
sworn in by the hundred. but riotng and
violence continue unchecked. Nobody -
poets the police 20 restore order. The a y
authorities do not even appreciate -, >ir
helplessness. Chicago in various ways s
paying heavy price for long-contin Ell
bad government at the hands of its dem
gogues.
From the Kansas City Star.
Just about this time Mr. John NJ Hsr-
Ian may be approaching the advantages of
being defeated for mayor of Chicago
From the St Louis Globe Democrat
Chicago now monopolizes the news from
the front. Manchuria is eclipsed by tla
sphere of hostilities Lake Michigan.
From the Newark Advertiser.
Chicago teamsters seem to think that mu-
ntcipal ownership has come and that they
are the municipality.
From the st. Louis Republic
Chicago ought to be more careful in
scheduling it's disturbances. however. 80
that we may avoid being compared to other
and ill-behaved countries. When something
is coming of In Poland. In st. Petersburg.
in Paris or in London, Chicago should Lee
considerable enough to postpone its demon
stration till another day.
From the Atlanta Journal.
Twelve labor leaders have been indicted
Dy 1snicago grand jury. ms tin0 II was
a Transfers dozen instead of a bakers
dozen.
From the Newark Evening" News.
Before rescuing the Chicago streets from
the trolley companies. Mayor Dunno will be
obliged to hquidate the mortgage which the
teamsters appear to have placed on them.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Plainly a movement for the universal
disarmament of private persons would
meet a severely felt want in Chicago.
From the Kansas City Times
Some OF the strike breakers in Chicago
struck for higher wages yesterday and the
employers granted their demands rather
than import some more strike breakers to
break the strike breakers strike.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
MUTSU HlTO.
BY CASPER S. YOsT.

Son of hundred worshpped kings.
He steps from out the mists OF ages past.
Uplifts his magic scepter and at once
Dfspels the darkness Of unnumbered years.
He finds empire rent by civil strife;
He makes of 1t a land where every man
Is brother to his fellow where the sword,
Reyered as emblem of the nations might,
Is raised no more, when the foreign foe
Threatens the realm; but then from shore to short
Each sire and unsheathes the glinting steel
And presses to the fray, rejoiced to die
Unknown unhonored, II his country's cause
Is given progress by his sacrifice.
He 16niI IA people slaves to feudal lords:
He breaks their bonds and gives to all. unasked,
That priceless boon for which In other lands
A price was paid In blood and years of strife;
And still In others is withheld by those
Who call themselves appointed Of the Lord,
Yet answer cries for liberty with death.
He finds an island empire, isolate;
Unknown, unknowing, satisfied to stand
Forever in the shadow Of its past:
Cleareyed and WISE he looks beyond the walls
Which prejudice had raised about the land;
Sees that the world holds much his people lack.
Throws wide his gates and bids the nations come
Sends trusted messengers abroad to CLEAN
The knowledge which the strangers had acquired
By centuries of ceaseless grinding TOLL
Determines what is good. rejects the bad,
And to his subjects freely gives the best.
Lord OF Japan. We of the Occident
Find much in thee cannot comprehend;
But we have seen thee bring hermit tribe
From deep obscurity to MI place
Among the first Of nations of the earth;
Have seen thee from horde uncouth, unframed,
Create an army that has put to rout
The seasoned legions OF the northern bear:
Have seen navy grow in one short life,
From fishing boats to fleets that sweep the
But better STILL we've the arts of peace
Make progress swift beneath thy guiding hand.
Incessant hum thy wheels Of industry;
The furnaces aglow with constant fires,
The rice fields radiant in their robes of green,
The multitudes within the city marts
Bespeak busy. prosp rous happy land,
Where crushing poverty more abides
And domineering wealth is yet unknown.
All this we see and seeing wonder still,
For back of this. thy work, there something II
Beyond the ken of western statesmanship.
An autocrat who rules by love alone.
Whose justice is unwarped by gold or class,
Who practices the precepts we have thought
To be our own, but which we neer observe,
Is worthy of the tribute which pay
His wondrous wol K: and stu more wondrous worth
Banzai! Thy loyal subjects cry
IL echoed by admiring millions here.
Banzaii Thousand years. oh. princei
thousand happy years II thee and thinei
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
why Italians Stay in Cities.

One impeiling reason for the settlement
of Italians and other immigrants from Eu-
rope in New York and other large cities of
the east Is that when they reach this coun-
try they are compelled to find work at once
and the daily wage offered being SO much
In excess of anything they have known they
settle easily in the rut, adding to the con-
gestion. If given an opportunity to reach
other parts of the country, and especially
IL given the opportunity to own land, they
would gladly seek fields more promising
and better for the country as well as for
themselves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
A Preiudiced Opinion.

Suppose the government insists on fixing
railway rates?"
Well" answered Mr.. Dustin Stax, eth
be hard job. Under the present system
the stockholders are content. If the gov
eminent takes a hand neither the stock
holders nor the public will be satisfied"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

Some of the railway men, after inspecting
the profits of the Post Office Department,
will suspect that there is not much use in
owning line If the government is going to
make the rates
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
OutcIassed.

Oh, sage and statesman, strangely small,
Are all the honors you can claim
Compared to those which now befal
The hero of base ball game?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

Some of the cigar manufacturers may put
forward the claim that they are not liable
to investigation in connection with the to-
bacco trust. owing to the fact that they do
not deal in tobacco.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
An Impossible Suggestion.

What a pity real detectives are not as
brilliant as story-book detectives"
"It wouldn't work" answered the police
officer. They'd all resign from the force
and write novels"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
Feminine Intuition,

"a woman should know without asking
whether her husband is happy" said the
model wife.
II can tell" answered young Mrs. Tor
kins. when Charley comes home late to
dinner and can't speak above whisper
know the home team has won another
game"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
On the Way to Jail.

From the Dallas News
Some young men think that shrewdness Is
ability to live without work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
Eligible.

From the Providence Journal
The lady who has lost three husbands by
death and four by divorce ought to be a
welcome recruit to the ranks of the 'smart
SET Certainly she would find herself II
admitted, in a sympathetic atmosphere.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

Remembering the fate that frequently
awaits the umpire some of the policy hold
ers would prefer not to referee the HYDE
Alexander battle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
The Boat Rocker.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
The fool who rocks the boat differs from
the TOOL who points an "unioaded' gun In
that he does not usually live to repeat the
performance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

II Nan Patterson should go on the stage
1t might please her to have Mr.. Rand en-
gagged as the heavy villain who is constant
ly foiled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

The monkey arrested In Indiana for using
cigarettes was taken In the act Of throwing
away one that was half consumed. Perhaps
he was Just reforming.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
SHOOTING STARS.
A Yearning for Peace.

Don't you think that Chicago ought to
try municipal ownership
WELL" answered the nervous citizen, at
might be good thing If we could arrange
for possession of all the arms and ammuni-
ton"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
Shearers.
F.rom the Houston chronicle.

From the Houston Chronicle
A seat in the New York stock exchange
Is quoted at $4,000; or with the same
money you can buy an excellent sheep
ranch and raise lambs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

The small dealers find that the beef trust
has not made away with any books that
will interfere with the usual work of getting
out bills
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

Tom Lawson still refrains from telling his
readers Just when 1t will be time to get in
and profit by the market upheavals that are
coming.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

Rojestvensky clings to his judicious deter
mination to say nothing until he has some-
thing to say.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

The tobacco trust investigation has not
yet disclosed what it is that makes cigar
cites smell so queer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

Gov. Davis is compelled to realize that the
malaria microbe Is no respecter of persons
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

From the Chicago Tribune.
Chicago has found out that there are
worse nuisances than the smoke nuisance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

The charges of graft in the New York
state legislature are liable to awaken envy
In the New York city police force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

A food famine in Chicago would give the
beef trust chance to show that 1t is phil
anthropic at heart.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07
Gets the Rings.

From the Chicago News
A summer girl has many engagements.
but the telephone girl gets the most rings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

A motor test that breaks a record and no
bones is indeed an achievement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-07

Mr.. Rockefeller is man of determination,
whether trying to make money or give it
away.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-05-04
Self Protecting Plants.

Plants protect themselves much the
same as insects. One of the uses of
the movements of the sensitive plant is
to frighten animals. A venturesome,
browsing creature coming near it is
afraid to touch plant which SO evil
IDENTIFY is occupied by spirits. The
squirting cucumber of the Mediter-
ranean alarms goats and cattle by dis
charging its ripe fruits explosively in
their faces the moment the stem is
touched. The cucumbers contain a
pungent juice, which discharges itself
into the eye of its opponent, and the
smarting sensation which results is hard
to bear. The dainty grass of Parnassus
is beautiful, but dishonest. 1t is bog
herb, has glossy green leaves and pure
white blossoms and is supposed to be
the poets flower. It's milk white flow
ers are lovely, yet they are deceiyers.
The drops of honey which bees and in
sects fancy they see inside the petals
are solid, CLASSY limitations of honey,
which fool the bees, which are lured in
this way that they may carry off the
pollen to other blossoms and are held
fast until they die.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-05-04
Too Much Hostess.

"There is such a thing as entertain
ing ones guests to DEATH" remarked
the popular woman. Nothing makes
me SO nervous as visit to house
where every day has been planned out
beforehand. l feel as if an invisible
arm were pushing me all the time, and
/ want to sit down, fguratively speak
ing. in my tracks like baking horse.
THAT sort of thing is all right for
children's party, where complications
are apt to arise if the children's atten-
ton is not kept distracted all the time.
but the average adult wants some
blanks in her day that she can fill to
suit her own fancy. She is even glad
of a chance to lounge around bit, to
read book or merely TO have a heart
to heart talk and become better ac-
quainted. Try taking it easier when
you have people at the house, and, be-
lieve me. they will enjoy their visit
much more. MAUD ROBINSON.