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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17
A SOP TO SANTA CLAUS
By liam allaceW hteloek
liam Wallace whitelook

M ARGARET was getting to be a
lVl big girl-she would be nine years
old in February-and Mrs. Darby's
heart was sad with the realization that
her baby was baby no longer.
And what's more, don't believe
in Santa Claus" announced Margaret
one afternoon in December, at the end
of a declaration of independence during
which she had renowned her allegiance
to paper dolls and declared her con-
viction that her dresses should be in
creased in length by an inch at least. Il
don't believe in any old man with a
white beard and pack on his back who
goes around clirnbin' down peoples
chimbleys, and I'm not going to let on
any more that l do. So therei"
Very well" said Mrs. Darby quietly,
you needn't believe in him if you don't
want to. If were you, though, don't
think I'd stand quite SO near the fire.
place. He might be listening up there
you know, and Christmas-time is nearly
here now"
To this Margaret made no reply, but
a moment later nonchalantly, as though
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17

without Interior motive, she moved away
from the fireplace to the window, where
she took up position to gaze out on the
fast-falling snow and the few bundled
up hurrying pedestrians. For some
time there was no sound in the room save
the click of Mrs. Darbys thinble and the
cracking of the fire.
Ma" suddenly came from the fire.
place, and Mrs. Darby looked up, to find
Margaret back in her old place, but with
head inclined over the crate as far as the
heat would permit.
Eyes, daughter, am listening"
MA" repeated Margaret in a prefer
naturally loud voice. you know what
| said to you awhile ago about not be-
heving in Santa Claus?"
Eyes, what of itf"
"Well, ma, can't you take joker" This
was fairly shouted up the chimney.
A moment later as Margaret stood
beside her mother, she asked anxiously:
:" say, ma, do you think Santa Claus
heard thatl"
Yes darling" said Mrs. Darby, ~
am almost certain he did
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for DECEMBER IT, 1905
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRI'
By Nixon Waterman

If just till Christmas, all the year,
Why them I'm I'd grow be perfection, pretty
I'd slight duty that waiting to be done,
Nor fail to be polite and kind each and everyone.
I'd Thank likewise If
And bow to older folks and do things like these;
And when had lot of I'd playmaes
AS do when Christmas Day just about
Were Christmas always arrive in a little while,
know I'd to frown--Id pleasant smile
And though somebody asked amid the fondest of
If l could pause and help them would do it right
I'd wash face and hands, nor till told
On chilly winter when the cold
I'd be as kind and cheerful and obiging all the year
AS when Christmas Day pretty nearly here
Santa Claus, 1 am told watching a time
With sparkling the boys girls of land cline;
He knows the that truly strive do the things they should
And all the year, day after day. endeavor be good
If that's the I'm half afraid he bring
The gifts that l wishing for sadly | recall
The times when kind,
AS | am to be with Christmas almost here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17
How I Grew Tall.
A Startling Story Which Will

The Height of Either Sex Can Quickly Be In
creased From Two to Five Inches These
Home Without the knowledge of Your Most
Intimate Friends.
New-York tribune., 1905-02-12
AN EXPERIMENT IN sTREEToAR FARES.

nj. c,,oro,ord Electric Company, which oper-
- a. s+rootcars of Cleveland, Ohio, is con-
ducting a series of experiments towaIu soi. ihs
one of the traffic problems. Here III ne"
all other transit questions are sWaho"eu up AZ ~
+be great one of how to get on the cars at all
Occasionally such subject as transleis 10 as
toted. but in the rest of the country streetcar
comnanios and the general public have time for
srob niceties as whether 1t is better for all con-
carned tn have a three-cent or four-cent rare
and No transfers or the usual fve-cent rare
and universal transfers. For the CleVeiahd
company is taking the public into its confidence
an unusual proceeding with street railway
managements perhaps begotten of desire 1or
more franchises or an extension OF franchlses-
and it is going TO publish reports of the results
of It's experiments from the financial point of
view.
First. for the last fortnight a three-cent fare
for limited zones Of travel and without trans
fers was tried The financial results have not
ve+ been published "The Cleveland Leader"
says of the experiment:
In common with many careful observers of
the experiment and with the Judgment or trans
portation experts. not OF this city, interestea
conspicuous failure. It did not please the
Cleveland masses 1t is doubtful if any difrer-
entail can be made popular. Without ofnclaI
information on the subject the conclusion could
safely be reached that the well exploited ana
carefully executed zone Schedula showed very
anpreciable reduction in receipts over the whole
system and very small percentage of stimula-
ton to travel
This week the trial of universally applicable
four-cent fare without transfers and dve'cent
fare with universal transfers will be conducted.
That is to say the fare is fXe1 at four cents
and charge of one cent additional is made for
transfers 1.-THE Leader predicts public dis
satisfaction with this pian- though 1t is hard to
see why.
IT will be observed that in both of these
tests the railway companys object Is to re-
duce the number Of transfers issued and to COM
pensate the public by a corresponding reduction
in the fare. Great abuses are complained of as
result of the transfer system. Passengers
who do not need transfers demand them for the
purpose of giving them to friends. This custom
is said TO cost the company hundreds of thou.
sands of dollars annually. The same abuse is
said to exist on a large scale in this city, where
a short time ago was exposed the custom of en-
ployes of certain stores who had among them
selves a sort of clearing house of transfers.
Great interest therefore naturally attaches to
this effort of the Cleveland company to solve
the transfer question If the abuse has become
so great that street railway corporation can
better afford to reduce fares in general and
make nominal charge for transfers than to give
free transfers at the. present rate of fare the
public. too, should be gamer by such a change
New-York tribune., 1905-02-12
NOTES FROM TUXEDO PARK.

TELEGRAPH TRIBTNE1
Tuxedo Park. n. Y, Feb n-Delightful wsaths-
combined with winter sports and the squash cham
pionship tourney. attracted many New-Yorke-z
here to-day. A large crowd came out TO remain
Lincoln's Birthday. Many social affairs wers
scheduled for the day at the cottages and club
house
Mr. and Mrs Charles Steele. who came out tn
day. entertained a large party az dinner tonight
at the clubhouse
Others who entertained were Mr.. and Mrs. T "
Porter. Miss Jones. Mr. and Mrs William 3. Par
sons. Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. TilfOrd and Mr. ard Mra
F. B. Keech.
Those who gave dinners and house parties at their
cottages were Mr.. and Mrs. c. L. 2 Robinson
". MacNeil Rodewald. Mr. and Mrs Spencer Trask
Mr. and Mrs. Price Collier. Mr. and Mrs J. c. Me-
Keever and Mr.. and Mrs. Amos T. French
Mr.. and Mrs. R. Fulton Cutting and Mr. ard
Mrs P C Hewitt opened their cottages to-day for
the holiday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H Hull to-day arrived AZ
their cottage just vacated by Mr.. and Mrs Samuel
Henning. who have returned to town. and Henry
W. Nunroe. who was in Europe. has arrived at
his Tuxedo cottage.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tuckerman are expected .,
arrive this week at their Tuxedo villa. recently
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Walter d. Densgre, who
have returned to Nsw-Orieans
Among to-day's arrivals Carl LumhosE
Roland Malloy. S. G. Averel. Miss Lydia II Jones
Miss Sylvia C. Psrson. Mr.. and Mrs Charles
steele. Miss Louise Steele. Mr.. and Mrs Louis
stanton. Miss Priscilla Stanton. Mr. and Mrs n
VI Ihford. Miss Tilford, T. W. Porter Reginald
Fncke. Austin Potter. GrenviIe Clark Hanson R
Duval, William Pest. z. Hale M and Mrs F. 3
Keech. Thomas s Adams. NJ La Montague 7usolnb
Nesser. Frederic A. JuilIisrd, Jay Gould Nr and
Mrs w. S. Brown, Mr.. and Mrs James Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. r. Parsons Miss Iily Lee Page
mrs j. b Tams. Miss BFeese. z. T Irwin. J. C.
Lord, o. ]. Brand, Richmond Talbot Mr. and Mrs
H. ?. Loornis. J. G. Neeser. ]. C. Todd and J. c.
Douglas. OF Paris.
New-York tribune., 1905-02-12
rAsE no BE PRESSED.

The Rauid Transit Commission has acted
wisely in resolving to begin legal proceedings
at once for the removal OF slot ana weighlhs
machines from the subway stations. The COM
many had declined to obey the COMMISSIONS OF
ders and the commission would have Deen dls-
credited in public opinion IL II hho let Ihe
nuestion rest 1t is true that the city has peen
otbor,yisa involved in litigation relating to the
same thing, but decision may be long deiayeu'
and moreover there is some reason Tor sup
nosine that the Jurisdiction lies with the COM
mission In addition to that the commission
has special advantages for pressing l's SUIT
The Rapid Transit act contains Inc Valuanie
proyision that any action brought by or against
the commission in consequence OF Its proceed
ings Hereunder "shall have preference ABOVE
"au causes not criminal on the calendar ol
"every court, and may be brought on Tor trial
cor argument upon notice Of eight days TOT any
day of any term on which the court sn"I o0
''in session"
Tn orr oninion Mr. Orr was right In resisting
tba desire of some of his colleagues that tne
subway advertising signs should De inciuded III
the action. for the reason that the coliihisslon .
agreement with the contractor, Wnetner Jusu.
eohIv or NOT authorized limited display OF
advertisements. No permission, however, was
given for the setting UP of slot machlhes anu
booths of one sort and another, WHICH 'ne ooi
pany chooses 10 feSdTu do li'e h" -. :.
napces' Of a railroad and the commission Is
not merely privileged, but bound, TO determine
the status of such business enterprises "l,ie
leaving the question of advertisements TO De
settled by a different proceeding
There are some persons who consluer lhe va
rious machines and mercantile facilities malh-
tanned in the subway benefit to the puDiic,
and we can imagine plausible defence OF tnat
oninion. But this, at least is clear, that II the
right which the company claims does not exist
If ought not to be gratuitously granted. In case
the courts should overthrow the company con-
tention. the question of accepting handsome
recompense for a lucrative privilege might De
1ebatable.
New-York tribune., 1905-02-12
THE cANTBEN QUESTION AGAIN.

reader Of The Tribune sends the following
extract from a letter recently written to men,
Der of his family in this country by an army
officer stationed in the Philippines:
Two saloons have been opened near the post
by civilians and the result is deplorable When
you were here payday was as orderly and quiet
as any other The guardhouse never felt any
pressure and a drunken man was seldom or
never seen. Now the guardhouse bulges: the
summary court grinds daily. and the night of
payday is characterized by noise. For a week
afterward the men are not themselves The
peculiar life the lead. the Immunity from
worry over board and clothes, the exclusion
from society. units them for economy or pru-
dent frugality, and they have to be treated like
children. In the days when beer was sold at
the post exchange they did their drinking for
beer, not whiskey) there. and under superyiston
and restriction. Half the money spent bv them
went to improve their standard of living and
the temptation 20 drink is as a rule nor half
as strong to man who has a comfortable horne
S TO who has not. ~
The writer of this letter Is discussing no new
or exceptional condition In army post life.
Every year hundreds of protests come TO light
against the short-sighted policy which has aboI-
fshed the garrison canteen and given free rein
once more TO the vile traffic conducted 1ust out
side the garrison lines. AT our home posts we
New-York tribune., 1905-02-12
NOTES OF SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON
LFRoM TIE 1R1RuNF RUREAU.l

IFRoM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU.1
Washington, Feb 1.-THE British Ambassador
and Lady Durand entertained dinner company at
the Embassy tonight. The guests were Nine
Van Swfnderen, Miss Oliver, Miss Gaff. Miss Bow
ditch Miss Hagner. Miss Barnes. Miss Randolph.
Miss Durand, Captain Gilmore. Captain Lassiter.
Captain Lay Lieutenant Bristol. Lieutenant But
ler Lieutenant L. s. Grant. Mr.. Beeeher and Reg
inald Huidekoper.
Senator and Mrs. Burrows were among the din
ner hosts Of this evening. Their guests were the
Mexican Ambassador and Sonora AZpirOz, the
French Ambassador and Nine. Jusserand Senator
and Mrs. Depew. Senator and Mrs Long, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. E. Curtis. Mrs. Audenried and Senator
Allison.
Miss Cannon. daughter Of the Speaker of the
House. gave a reception this afternoon. which
brought together several hundred guests from Of
hcal and general society. who were invited to meet
her sister Mrs. lie Seure, and Mrs. Loose, both of
whom are house guests. Assisting the hostess were
Mrs. Mann. Mrs Dwight Mrs. Sibley, Mrs Tim
mons Mrs. Vandenbark. Mrs. Patterson. Mrs. Bus
by and Miss Taylor
Mrs Richard Butler had luncheon guests to-
day Mrs. Gillespie. Mrs. Chaffee. Mrs Story. Mrs.
McCrea and Mrs. Pitcher.
New-York tribune., 1905-02-12

there too few removals from pubic ONCE
and that the service would be benehted IL eh-
ecutiye officers would more fully reallze theli
legal powers and more freely remove sunorui-
mates. not for political reasons to make rooln lor
political favorites. but TO get rid OF unsausiac-
tory workers to fill their places by competuoh
with other men, who in turn should be promptly
discharged if they do not meet the requirements
Of the service.
Civil Service reform properly administered
does not mean dry rot in an ONCE ana nXed
tenure for incompetents or semi-incompetents'
1t means chance for expert public service py
cutting off spoiIs and favoritism. The com
petitive system gives fair chance 10 ablllty
and removes from the appointing ofhcer the
temptation to unjust political dismissal Dy max
ing it impossible to fill a vacancy with a poht-
icaI favorite So, like a private employer MS
Judgment will he founded on efficiency IN ser
vice. and that Judgment should in generai De
untrammelled. With proper safeguards against
political removals through competition Tor en-
trance and promotion, the public servant VINO
by his efficiency cannot keep himself IN once
does not deserve to stay there. 1t should De
possible to get rid of such deadwood without
Judgment of the Court of Appeals.
New-York tribune., 1905-02-12
IRREmoKABLE CIVIL sERHANrs.

The moment when the injury to the public
Service which results from the difficulty of dis
missing incompetent or corrupt policemen is
especially the subject of public discussion would
seem TO be Ill chosen for efforts to extend the
spoiice system of tenures to other departments.
This, however, has not deferred Senator Dow
ding and Senator Burr from introducing at the
present session Of the legislature measures
which would place beyond the reach of effective
discipline employees OF the city government who
are by 10 means entitled, either because of the
character Of their work or because Of their
property rights in pension fund, to the privi-
Geges extended to policemen and iremen.
Senator Bowling is the author of a bill giving
20 employees in the Department of Correction
tenure during good behavior, forbidding their
removal except after a trial, and giving them
the right TO review by certiorari judgment of
q dismissal by a commissioner. Senator Burr
goes even further and wants TO provide some
irremovabie life jobs for men not yet in the
city service. His bill would cover in to the
city service the captains, engineers, tiremen,
deckhands and other employees of ferries which
may be acquired by the city under the provi-
sions of existing law. AS these employees are
10 be subjected to a non-competitive examina-
ton, TO show their fitness TO perform for
the city the duties which they now perform
for a private corporation there would seem
90 be no objection TO this feature Of the BILL
But it goes on 10 provide that these ferry en-
ployes shall hold office during good behavior
and be removable only after trial with an an
peal by certiorarl to the courts. The operation
Of this system in the Police Department is
enough 10 warn against its extension to en-
ployes in other departments, even If they had
Similar claims. In the cases of the men dealt
with by these bills there is absolutely no rea
son for any such tenure. They are entitled TO
protection from dismissal for political reasons.
but the Commissioner of Correction or the
manager Of a municipal ferry should have the
same power to dismiss suberdinates who do
not perform their work satisfactorily, accord
ing TO his sole Judgment, which the private en-
ployer possesses. The ferry hands are at pres
ent subject To dismissal without recourse at the
hands Of the managers of the ferry corpora
fions, and they have no right to ask anything
more Of the city.
The tendency thus 10 tie the hands of ad-
ministrRtiye officers is vicious. It is sometimes
disguised as q Civil Service reform movement.
but IL is, in truth, exactly the opposite. The
ideal OF The merit system is tenure dependent
on actual ftness-tenure practically terminable
only on conviction of crime. The safeguards
esta ablisheG by true merit system are for the
public benefit. The safeguards sought by these
end similar bills are merely to benefit indi-
viauais regardless Of the effect on the public
welfare. Believing thoroughly in the merit sys-
TEN and in the need and possibility of its
further Development we are convinced that
New-York tribune., 1905-02-12
WEDDING IN FLORENCE

Florence. Feb n.-Frederick s Minott o. New
York. and Mrs Marion Lowry Michler were mar
ried here to-day in the presence OF a few friends
MI Minott was attended by his brother Jossuh
Mlnott' or New-YOrk- Mrs. MinOtt is well known n
New-1ork. Washington and Pittsburg- She Is
daughter Of the late Commodore Reigert B Iovr
and is the widow OF Colonel Francis BIichler vas
at the time of his death on the stan OF Genera
Miles. at Washington. Mr.. Minott is a son Of the
late Joseph A Minott. OF South Orange. n j. whO
was leading official of the Goodyear Rub6sr
company. OF Nsw-York He is a graduafs st
Princeton in the class OF 'S9. and is a member Of
the University. Princeton and StruIlers clubs Of
New-York and the ROckawag Hunt Club. Mr and
Mrs Minott will take an automobile trip throusA
spring. -
New-York tribune., 1905-02-12
THE CABINET.
[FRoM THE TRInUNE BURE.

IFROM TRIBUNE BUREAU.l
Washington Feb. 1.-THE guests or the oeere-
tary of War and Mrs Taft at dinner this evening
were Mr. and Mrs. Glover. General and Mrs
Gillespie Representative and Mrs. Henry x
Porter General and Mrs Story Mr.. and Mrs Mac
Veagh Mr.. and Mrs. Board, Miss Stevens, General
Crozier and General Franklin Bell
Owing to the pressure of public business. Seore-
tary Taft has been compelled to delay ms ae-
parture for the Philippines until July. According
TO his present plans, he will be absent from this
city about thres months.
Secretary Hay and Senator Fairbanks suspended
an important conference at the State Department
to-day to shake hands with 1so students or the
Pennsylvania Normal College, at West Chester.
and the Friends Select School. at Philadelphia.
who were presented by Representative Butler OF
Pennsylvania. The reception in the Seere-
tarys office
New-York tribune., 1905-02-12

see evidences continually of the evils caused py
driving enlisted men from what were really
well regulated, self-managed and self-respect-
ing clubs to the vicious resorts which now prey
upon and utterly demoraliZe them. Now at the
remotest outposts in the Philippines the same
miserable agencies seem to be securely estab-
fishing themselves.
1t is deplorable that military discipline should
be thus obstructed and undermined. But that
is one of the fruits of our present legislative
policy BY abolishing the canteen Congress
played directly into the hands of the hoodlum
rumseller Instead of a sensible regulation or
the sale Of beverages within the post, we nave
the unlicensed sale of the yilest intoXlcants Dy
men whose interest lies not in restraining the
soldier, but in brutalizing him. Instead OF ap-
plying the profits of the traffic to betterng the
life OF the garrison, the present system dlverts
them in lump to the pocket of the diyekeeper
beyond the limits"
The post canteen had fully justified itself as
an agency for practical good in army life. Yet
under a mistaken pressure from theorists who
did not stop to choose between two actual evils,
Congress has now sacrificed a moderate and ra-
tional method of dealing with the sale and use
of intoxicants on the altar of something infinite
ly worse II is becoming clearer every day tnae
the true interests of the army were not con-
suited when the canteen was abolished. It's res
toration would mark a return to better stand
ards of military administration and discipline
New-York tribune., 1905-02-12
THE HAND OF LINCOLN.

Look on this cast, and know the hand
That bore a nation in its hold:
From this mute witness understand
What Lincoln was,-how large or mould
The man who sped the woodman's team.
And deepest sunk the ploughman's share,
And pushed the laden raft astream,
OF fate before him unaware
This was the hand that knew to swing
The axe-since thus would Freedom train
Her son-and made the forest ring,
And drove the wedge, and toiled amain.
Firm hand, that loftier Office took
A conscious leaders will opeyed.
And when men sought his word and look,
With steadfast might the gathering swayed
No courtier's, toying with a sword.
Nor minstreTs, laid across a lutte;
A chiefs upifted to the Lord
When all the kings of earth were mutei
The hand of Anak, sinewed strong,
The fingers that on greatness clutch;
Yet 10! the marks their lines along
OF one who strove and suffered much.
For here In knotted cord and vein
l trace the varying chart of years;
/ know the troubled heart, the strain.
The weight of Atlas-and the tears.
Again I see the patient brow
That palm erewhile was wont to press;
And now tits furrowed deep, and now
Made smooth with hope and tenderness.
For something OF formless grace
This moulded outline plays about;
A plying flame, beyond our trace,
Brea thes like spirit, in and out
The love that cast an aureole
Round one who, longer to endure,
Called mrth TO ease his ceaseless dole,
Yet kept his nobier purpose sure.
Lo! as 1 gaze. the statured man.
Built UP from yon large hand, appears;
A type that Nature wills to plan
But once IN all a peoples years
What better than this voiceless cast
To tell of such one as he,
Since through its living semblance passed
THAT thought that bade race be free!
~ .posn,s Now First Collected by Edmund Ciarene
stedman (Houghton. Mffiin & Co.. lseD