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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
HOME LIFE OF RUSSIANS.
It is Singularly Regular and Monot-
onous,

From the New York Herald.
The daily life of a Russian couple of the
weather. classes is singularly regular and
monotonous. varying only with the chang
Ing seasons. In summer the lord of the
house gets up about Z o'clock and puts on,
with the assistance of his valet de chamber,
simple costume, consisting chiefly of a
faded, plentifully stained dressing gown.
Having nothing in particular to do. he sits
down at the open window and looks into the
yard. Toward o'clock tea is announced
and he goes into the dining room-a long,
narrow apartment, with bare wooden floor
and no furniture but a table and chairs
Here he finds his wife. with the tea urn be-
fore her. In few minutes the younger
children enter the room, kiss their papa s
hand and take their places around the
table. AS this morning meal consists mere
ly of bread and tea, it does not last long,
and all dispense to their several occupa-
lions.
The head OF the house begins the labors
of the day by resuming his seat at the
open window and having his Turkish pipe
filed and lighted by a boy whose special
function Is to keep his masters pipe in
order The housewife spends her morning
in a more active way. AS soon as the
breakfast table has been cleared she goes
to the larder, takes stock of the provisions,
arranges the meals and gives the cook the
necessary materials with detailed instruc-
lions as to how they are to be prepared.
The rest of the morning she devotes to her
other household duties.
Toward o'clock dinner is announced and
Ivanovitch prepares his appetite by swal-
lowing at gulp wineglass of homemade
bitters. Dinner is the great event of the
day. Food is abundant and of good quail
ity: but mushrooms. onions and fat play
rather too important part in the repast,
and the whole is prepared with very little
attention to the recognized principles of ny
giene. No sooner has the last dish been
removed than a deathlike stiffness falls
upon the house. 1t is the time of the after
dinner siesta.
The young folk go into the garden and all
the members of the household give way to
drowsiness naturally engendered by a
heavy meal on a hot summer day. Ivano-
witch retires to his own room, from which
the flies have been carefully expelled by
his pipe bearer. His wife dozes in a big
armchair in the sitting ROOM with pocket
handkerchief spread over her face. The
servants snore in the corridor, the garnet
or the hay shed. and even the old watch
dog in the corner of the yard stretches HIM
self out at full length on the shady side of
his kennel.
In about two hours the house gradually
re-awakens, doors begin to creak the
names of the various servants are bawled
out in all tones, from bass to falsetto, and
footsteps are heard In the yard Soon a
man servant issues from the kitchen, bear
ing an enormous tea urn which puffs like a
little steam engine. The family assemblies
for tea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
Badges for clergymen Advocated.

From the Church Economist
Not infrequently We read of an accident
or calamity of some kind in a great city,
where Roman Catholic priest appears on
the scene and administers comfort to the
stricken or dying. 1t is seldom that we
read of Protestant minister in similar
circumstances. A priest viii be easily rec
ognized and readily admitted to an injured
man. A minister is not SO easily recog
nized. Some may wear cut of clothing
that will confirm their claims to be clergy
men. but others do not Why should not
Protestant ministers who wish to improve
every opportunity for doing good supply
ways wear. though concealed, but which
they can display when the emergency arises,
thus securing access to the center of q
burning building where the average man is
debarred? There would need to be nothing
on the badge except the words. Clergy
man, New York"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11

ner There will be no scenery but the trees
and the forest; no flies above, but, instead,
the swaying branches of noble oaks; no
proscenium except that made by twining
vines, and, in fact, nothing giving the scene
the semblance of the modern theater.
The Sylvan Players are headed by MI.
Sidney Herbert and Miss Aida Cortelyou.
whose excellent performance of the Shake
spearean roles is guaranteed by their work
here in the past. All the other members OF
the company have been identified with open
air performances in this country and
abroad for years. LAS You Like IT, with
Mr.. Herbert as Jacques and Miss CortelyOu
as Rosalnd, will be given Monday and
Wednesday matinees and Tuesday evening.
THE Merchant of Venice" with Mr.. Her
bert as Shylock and Miss Cortelyou as Por-
tia, will be seen Monday evening and Tues
day matinee. Twelfth Night will be pre-
sented Wednesday evening, with Mr. Her.
bert Malvolio and Miss Cortelyou as
Viola. The performances are to be given
for the benefit of the National Junior Re-
public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
LONDON THEATER GOSSIP.
,ee,al Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
LONDON, May 81, 1905.
The announcement that Seymour Hicks,
ex- Caiety comedian and author of various
rollicking musical comedies. is going to give
London an English counterpart of the Ober-
ammergau spectacle has proved just bit
startling.
In this enterprise Hicks will be backed by
his present manager, Charles Frohman. who
is described as deeply interested" in the
project. The actor isn't planning to give
his Passion Play until next Easter, and as
yet the essential consent of the censor
hasn't been obtained. but otherwise the
plans are complete. 1t is intended to repre-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
Broadway Burlesquers.

The Broadway Burlesquers'' is Manager
kernan's announcement for this week at
the Lyceum Theater. The form of enter
tainment furnished is of the Kaleidoscope
order. "A High Ball. Is the title of the
curtain-raiser, and THE Home Breakers"
will be the finale. Between the two traves-
ties there will be presented a first-rate olio
of European and American specialties by
Fields and Wooley, German comedians; the
Musical Craigs. Kennedy and Evans. Young
Brothers, comedy acrobats; Tascot, the coon
shouter, and Charles Falk well-known song
illustrator.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
Evident Lack of Culture.

From the Chicago Tribune
Reiative-"How did you enjoy the SER
mon this morning, Waldoniar'
Little Boston Grit lost all interest In
1t, Aunt kepzibah, when + heard the
clergyman's pronunciation OF .geneaiogy. =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11

THE real crafty married chaps the
ones that don't buy their Panamas and
then wear them home and sheepishly tell
their wives the price of them. but that
bring their wives down with them to help
them buy their straw hats. These wise boys
know perfectly well that they'll be able to
sklllfully con their wives into themselves
suggesting the purchase of good Panamas,
thus putting the odum, it were, of the
big expense upon their wives.
Il had couple like that here few days
ago. The man told me that he wanted to
see an imitation Panama of the sort we
had in the window ticketed at 81, and then,
when his wife turned her head for half
second, he gave me one of the shrewdest
and most meaningful winks I ever saw in
my life. l knew, of course, what that wink
meant
Il showed him the kind of hat he had
asked for, but l scattered number of $25
PanamaS of his size around on top of the
boxes convenient for him to pick up when
he wanted to. After he'd tried on the imi-
tation hat he took 1t Off and idly put one of
the good hats on his head.
1T looked daisy on him and had the eff
feet of the imitation outclassed by a
block, of course. 1 could see his wife's
eyes light up over the way the hat looked
on him, and SO could he, the foxy PROPOSE
ton, but he never let on nor asked the price
of the hat.
e That's lovely one.' she said to him.
'Uh-huh,' he said in an Indifferent tone.
It's just the kind So-and-So's got men,
tioning the name of a friend who, I could
instantly see. was the husband of woman
friend of his wife's
Has he one of those?' said the mans
wife, looking even more interested. Well,
I'll venture 1t doesn't look half so becom-
ing on him as 1t does on youths face is too
narrow. Why don't you take that one?'
Because, my DEAR said the man, SOL
EMMY, tipping me another swift wink, this
Is real, honest-Injun Panama, and it costs
about s25. eh?' addressing me.
Twenty-Five. said I.
II could see his wife hesitating. but finally
her cheeks got just a leetle bit rosy. and
she said to him in low tone that wasn't
meant to hear:
Well, I just guess If that stuck-up
things husband can afford one of those
hats you can, can't your
"Tut-tush,' the wise guy said to her, but
she insisted upon his taking the S25 Pan
anna, and Of course. the scheme went
through just as he had framed it up, and
likewise. Of course, he's in position to say,
in case there should be any words about the
price of that hat, that she made him
buy 1t I"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11

Panamas, however, are dead game. We've
got sign in one of our windows. or old
have, Genuine Panamas So and up. The
and up was in pretty small letters, and
these two significant words were OFTEN
missed by men who came in with the idea
that all of the Panamas in the window were
for sale at the uniform price of $12. where
as some of them went as high as $50.
But g, whole lot of them, and some that
you'd least suspect of possessing the nerve,
failed to cave when they found out their
mistake. They'd ask to be shown one of
those $12 Panamas, like the ones in the
window and when we'd show them the $12
kind they'd instantly say, of course, that
the kind we showed wasn't the kind they
wanted. Then we'd show them better
grades and most of them worked them
selves up to the purchasing point before
they left the store.
II only came in with $40 to blow on one
Of these things one of them said, and /
had to take four high balls to get myself
worked up to the $40 notch. at that. But l
might as well be hung for a goat as for O.
sheep and so you can send me that $25 boy,
and If my wife has me socked into jail, all
right.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
Playhouse Paragraphs.

Miss Laura Burt says she likes vaudeville
and will stick to 1t for while anyway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
HOg For Great FaIIsg
Ann
River
View.
d UUIING
Butchers
Benevolent
Association.
Sunday, June D 4.

BOWLING MUSIC AND ALL AMUSEMENTS-
Go with us for a good time. Take steamers ae
II a m. 2:45 and pm.
TICKETS-Adults &c.
ieQ-3t %
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11

Miss Ethel Barrymore will enjoy open-air
life In Switzerland, and will not return
home until the middle of August.
The independent., 1905-04-06
Practical Single Tax

Persons who doubt the feasibility of
the single tax should communicate
with Theodore J. Werner, at the town
Of Fairhope, Ala. Ten years ago a
few ardent single takers Of Iowa
struck out to make an absolute test of
the system they believed in. They
bought, as a starter, 40 acres of good
land on the highest portion of that re-
gion between the highlands of Never
sink and the Rio Grand river. 1t. is
on the east shore of Mobile bay, and
opposite the city of Mobile. The col
ony now owns, .unencumbered, 1000
acres of good land, wharf, 1900 feet
long, a steamboat that makes daily
trips to Mobile and return, a public
school, public library, free baths,
free telephone service, and satisfactory
supplies. The rentals for the use of
ground will this year aggregate 81 500
and the net revenue from the wharf
will be nearly that sum.
The title for all the land of the col
ony is vested for those who reside
there. The unjust taxes levied on the
colonists by county and state, because
of their owning personal property, are
met by money derived from ground
rent, and this year it will amount to
about roo dollars, leaving about $4,000
to be expended in improvements.
Fairhope has the distinction Of being
the only place in the country, and per-
haps in the world, where the people
reap all the benefits of good govern
ment and yet pay no taxes. What
they do pay, and all they are asked to
pay, is the ground rent for the land
they use and that is not tax but a
payment for special privilege, or a
franchise. Fairhope is an object les
son for everybody who desires to see
the time when there shall be equal
rights for all and special privileges for
none RALPH HOYT.
Los Angeles, Calf.
The independent., 1905-04-06
You Should Read Ii

Our readers who are interested in
breeding pure bred live stock and like
to get hold of good reading matter
should by all means take Blooded
Stock, monthly published at Oxford,
Pa. It takes up some breed of live
stock each month and handles the SUBJ
ject very thoroughly. The best writer's
in the country have been secured on
these special articles for 1905.
Look up the advertisement of Blood
ed Stock in this issue and write them
at once.
The Independent and Blooded Stock,
both for one year for $1.10.
The independent., 1905-04-06
Attractive Cash Prizes

We advise our readers to look over
very carefully the liberal offer made
by the Homemaker Publishing Co., on
page II of this paper. The Home
maker is a bright, up-to-date and
newsy story paper, which is read with
interest by every member of the fam
lily and alone is worth more than the
subscription price, besides giving such
valuable prizes.
This is not guessing contest-it is
a test OF ability and brains; the prizes
go to the ones sending the nearest cor
rect count, and in case Of a tie, to the
one sending the best plan. The prizes
will be awarded by an impartial COM
mittee and you have as good chance
as any one to win. The surest way
to take advantage of this opportunity
is to get your answers in at once and
we hope to see number of these
prizes come to readers of our paper.
The independent., 1905-04-06
The Philosophy of Freedom
An Open Forum for Single Takers

while another man who has invested in
horses, muslins, woolens or other
goods should pay none? This is SIM
ply robbery of the land owner, to bene-
fit the owner of other property, and is
in fact, worst in effect, and as vicious
in principle, as tariff to enrich one
part of the people at the expense of
the other. There must be something
more intended. Some of the early
single takers proposed this plan to
make the burdens on the land owner SO
heavy that he would not pay the taxes
and thus let the lands revert to the
government for non-paid taxes and
then the government hold and rent
the lands, make a new letting every
ten to twenty years or again sell the
lands to the highest bidder-in short
the plan was to confiiscate the lands
and pauperize the lond owner while
the fellows too lazy to earn or pro-
figate to keep the money earned,
would be no better or worse off as to
paying taxes, but every man with mon
ey or other personal property would
escape taxation and thus have his
property made more valuable for that
reason. Will our single takers give us
good reason why the burden of gov
ernment should fall on the man whose
earnings are invested in land, thereby
enriching the man whose earnings are
invested in personal property?
C. M. B.
The independent., 1905-04-06
'Incurab|e" Heart Disease Soon Cured
Dr. Specialist Weak and Dis
eased Hearts, Succeeds so Physicians Failed
$3.50 Worth of His New Personal Treatment sent Free

often complicate each case. They re-
lieve the worst cases in a day and
quickly cure So astonishing are the
results of his complete special treat
ments that Dr. Miles does not hesi-
tate to offer all persons trial free.
Nothing could be more liberal. Few
physicians have such confidence in
their remedies. Send at once for book
and free treatment before it is too late.
You may never have another such op-
portunity. Address Franklin Miles, M.
d., Dept H., COL to Gil Main street,
Elkhart, Indiana.
The independent., 1905-04-06

To demonstrate the unusual cura-
tive powers Of his new and complete
special treatments by mail for heart
disease, short breath, pain in the side,
oppression in the chest, irregular
pulse, palpitation, smothering spells,
putting of the ankles, or dropsy, DIR.
Miles will send free to every afflicted
person, $3.50 worth of his New Treat
ments.
These are the result of twenty-five
years of careful study, extensive re-
search, and remarkable experience IN
treating the various ailments of the
heart, stomach and nerves, which SO
The independent., 1905-04-06
Mt. Pleasant, Tenn.
Questions the Single Tax
A. FREELAND.

Editor Independent: / sometimes get
your paper and see by the communica-
tions there you allow all sides of a
question to be presented from social
ism to single tax. see by the single
tax advocates that principle, when
adopted is to be a cure all for every
one of our political ills. How the cure
is to be effected | do not see, nor do
the advocates SO far as have seen tell
us. This is to be tax on land values,
really on land. Will placing the tax
there make men more honest? Will it
cure grating, bribery or any other dis
honesty? Will it take the tariff tax off
of the goods needed and used by the
poor, where it is, and place it on goods
used by the rich where it is not, but
should be? Will it place the burdens
OF government on the rich who are able
to stand it and get vastly more nro-
alectlvn from the government than the
poor, who are unable to stand it but
are now compelled so to do? Will it
prevent our protected manufacturers
from selling in the outside world,
goods at competition prices with out
side goods, while they charge home
consumers more than they charge for
eigners as now enabled by the tariff
to do? fail to see how it is to ac-'|
complish these things, which are the
things we want. Is there any good
reason why the man who has earned
a sum of money and bought land with
1t should pay taxes on his investment,
The independent., 1905-04-06
A False Foundation

Editor Independent: The socialist
philosophy is based upon false foun
dation. The theory of the iron law
of wages" wages tend to the low.
est point at which labor will consent
to live and reproduce-up which the
philosophy is based. is itself based
upon a false foundation-the founda-
tion of land monopoly, which the single
tax would correct.
Karl Marx, in Capital" says: "The
= foundation of the capitalistic method
of production is to be found in that
theft which deprived the masses of
their rights in the soil, in the earth,
the common heritage of all"
The single tax would restore the
rights OF the masses in the soil, the
earth, the common heritage OF all,
thus destroying "the foundation of the
capitalistic method of production and
making socialism unnecessary.
That the iron law Of wages ope-
rates under our present economic sys-
TEN, based as it is on land monopoly,
is true; but that it necessarily follows
as a result of competitive industrial
system, is absolutely false. Abolish
land monopoly, by the SINCE tax, and
the iron law of wages" will cease to
be a "law."
The persistence of interest under our
present economic system is inevitable.
That it would persist under a single
tax regime is not SO certain. The fact
that interest, like wages, is high in
new countries, where natural opportu-
mites are comparatively free, and low
In old countries, where the natural
resources are monOpolized, led Henry
George to assume that under the single
tax both interest and wages would rise,
while rent would fall. Wages are high
in new countries because natural op-
portunities for employment are COM
paratively free, labor thus receiving
practically natural wages-its full
product; they are low in old coun-
tries because the natural resources are
monOpOlized and labor must pay a
large share of it's product, as rent, for
the privilege of using them. Interest
l1 ule,u Ill ICW COuHtllC OCCduoC Cdpl-
tai is scarce, while opportunities for
it's use are plentiful, and because labor
receiving the bulk of it's product, and
possessing little or no capital, can af
ford to pay high interest and still re-
ceive more than in old countries where
the land and capital are owned by the
few Having little or no rent to pay,
practically all of labor's product is di-
vided between labor and capital; inter-
est is low in old countries because cap
ital is abundant and rent absorbs the
lions share of production.
But suppose that in this new coun-
try the single tax prevented the mo-
nopolization of land. Then labor, re-
ceiving high wages, much of it employ
ing itself, would soon accumulate it's
own capital, receiving its return-eco-
nomic nterest-merged in wages or in
come. Soon many might be willing to
lend while few might care to borrow.
Under such circumstances interest
would tend to the vanishing point and
all would have to render service for
service"
A. FREELAND.
Mt. Pleasant, Tenn
The independent., 1905-04-06
Want a Conference

Nebraska Independent: We, the un.
dersigned populists of Loudoun county
Virginia, wish to suggest the advisa
bility of national conference of our
party leaders-editors, committeeman
and others-and respectfully urge the
Importance of such meeting in the
early part of 1905-that a more def
mite policy may be outlined:
j. l.. KIBLER,
Hillshoro, Va.
P. w. CAREER,
Daysville, Va.
B. B. KEANE,
Sterling, Va.
I@f@F b. S. JOHNSON,
Sterling, Va.
P. l.. CARPER,
Daysville, Va.
G.. w. BRADSHAW,
Ryan, Va.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01
ONLY TWO VIEWS.

With reference to the For Saloons
natition there are only two courses
that are open to the Board of Alder
men!
1. To take the ground that they
cannot touch the registration DOCKS Tor
anv purpose and can only add up the
names appearing thereon and order
the election if one-third of the names
appearing thereon petition for an
election. Able lawyers take the posi-
ton that the action of the sub-com-
n1ittee. acting under the advice or the
CITY attorney, in erasing names from
the books, was unauthorized, and that
it cannot stand.
.. To revise the books by taking off
every name not properly there ana not
considering on the petition the name
of any person disqualified from voting
in the election sought to be ordered
Able lawyers take that view
This ought to be certain: that II the
registration book is purged for one
purpose, the petition can be pursed OF
names of persons who are denied the
right to vote by the Constitution oil
North Carolina. If person registered
can be challenged at the polls ana
kept from voting for non-payment OF
poll-tax, then that same persons right
to petition for an election can be chal-
lenged and he will not be permitted 20
vote to order an election in which he
could not participate,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-01

of carrying on her just purposes to
their legitimate, honorable and wise
ends. She has gained, and will gain.
absolutely nothing by needing this
sickly appeal to sentiment, this insin-
cere cry that she must not wage war
for mere money" She has on the
other hand, lost her opportunity to
make a peace that would have guar
anteed the tranquility of the Far East
for many years, and. at the same time,
achieved her highest purposes in wag
ing this war. In a short time the
very persons who now applaud Japan's
magnanimity, will denounce her folly
in not retaining the just fruits of a
just war. She has won nothing, save
the hollow and the temporary APP
plause of a fancied altruism.