Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-19

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| ward toward the vision of blonde hair and
| blue chiffon.
| 'Will you eat 1t here or take 1t with
your he asked drowsily. The lady's smile
| gave way to a puckered mouth and a
| slightly upturned nose.
Il would prefer to do BOTH said she.
| coldly. 1T would be unpleasant to eat 1t
here and then not be permitted to take 1t
| away with me-"
The sleepy individual handed out the
| sandwich and the lady did the rest Up to
| date the proprietor has not caught the
| drift of the lady's remarks
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| Three glasses only for Nickel" was the
| sign that was prominently displayed in one
OF those stores where mineral waters and
pure water are sold. The sign referred to
the pure water. as the proprietor ex-
planned, and when he was asked II he ex-
pected his customers to turn themselves
| Into reservoirs he replied that was exactly
what some had been doing. and so he had
been obliged to fix a limit.
We have stores all through the coun-
try" he said. land in all of them, including
| the one in this city. the practice was to
serve as many glasses of certain waters
TOT nickel as were called for This Is
still done in all our stores except the one
In this city. and there was no thought
OF making change until the situation here
became such that 1t was. found necessary
10 make the Washington store an excep-
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DO you know he went on, "that men
were IN the habit of coming in here and
drinking eight. ten and twelve. glasses of
water before they left. In other words
they We're getting a quantity Of water that
| we would sell for 40 cents for cents
SUCH extraordinary water drinking was
pnvr IL
this respect Washington takes the lead.
1t Is the banner cold-water town in the
country, according to our experience
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Il see by the newspapers" remarked a
naval officer of the old regime to a Star
| reporter, that there was a movement In
| Kansas to prevent the use Of wine in the
| ceremony of christening the new big bat
| tleship Kansas. launched by the New York
Shipbuilding Company at Camden, M.
That reminds me that Farragut's grand old
| flagship Hartford was christened with wa
ter instead of wine, and that the same
course was followed with another of the
famous ships Of the old navy-the Wabash,
which has been doing good service as a re-
ceiving ship at the Boston navy yard for
many years past,
When the Wabash was launched at Phil
adelphia about fifty years ago. she was
christened with water from the river bear
| Ing the same name. This water was brought
to Philadelphia in decanter by Phila-
delphian who had been temporarily in what
was called the west in those days. and
who Is still alive to tell the tale. The
Wabash was famous ship In her day and
carried the flag of Admiral Dupont in the
| battle of Port, Royal. AS one sees her to-
day she bears little resemblance to the trim
frigate she was in her prime"
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In a recent issue of The Star I noticed
articla bat b,d
America an example in enterprise by NOV
ing an entire town. said a resident of
Washington who formerly lived in Mime
| sofa, to. Star reporter the other day But
! that statement Is not correct. Not even TN
the moving of whole towns bodily are we
outclassed.
I'm northern Minnesota there are situated
some of the richest iron mines In the world,
and the largest of these are near Evelyth a
thriving, hustling, well-built city of five or
six thousand Inhabitants. One day it was
discovered that the whole foundation of the
town was splendid bed of iron ore The
presence Of solid brick buildings and many
large frame structures did not deter the
enterprising miners from developing the
| newly discovered mine. A new town site
was secured, moving contracts were let
and within comparatively few months a
large open mine was being worked on the
former site of Eveyth.
went on In the banks and stores boarders
| still roomed at the hotels, housewives did
their household work. and men still set 'em
| up In the bar rooms
There may be good and bad trusts /" said
a local tobacconfst to a Star man yesterday
but am ready to assert that IL we are to
| Judge the righteous man by his fruits the
| tobacco trust Is distinctly bad. I am not
| down on the trusts on general principles. as
| so many people are. I think big corpora
tons in some cases may serve the public In
| hrst-class fashion and make money for
themselves at the same time. But when
| ever a combination of separate industries
results in giving the public poorer goods for
| the money expended I take 1t the result is
distinctly bad. because the combination nee
| essarily results in smaller cost to the pro-
| Queer of the goods.
| 1T is for this reason that I say the to-
| bacco trust is distinctly bad Take 5-cent
cigar today. 1t is not worth smoking. 1t is
| no better on an average than cheroot
| Practically the tobacco trust Is wholly re-
| sponsible for the deterioration of the scent
| smoke. You must pay 10 cents nowadays in
order to get cigar worth smoking Even
| then you ore not assured of the uniform
| quality that was formerly given you. / tell
you, along every line of tobacco handled by
| the trust there has been a decided deteriora-
| ton. And, what Is more, the trust gets a
| bigger profit far than was ever before Sc
| cured. They get the bigger profit by put
| ting in poorer goods. by cutting the rate
| OF profit that the retailer may make and by
| reducing their expenses in various ways
| why. as an instance of the profit the
| trust makes from its sales I can cite a
| single case Of box of tobacco for which /
| pay, wholesale. 81 CO. and am positive that
| the article does not cost the trust more than
| 40 cents. That is what 1 call extortion
| The fact that many people look upon
money spent for tobacco as thrown away
| greatly worked up over this as 1t Is over
some other of the trusts. But, take my
| word for II, the tobacco trust is sapping the
| business of all there ever was in it,