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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
New York.

The most interesting feature of the news
from New York is not that Charles F..
Murphy holds his own in Tammany Hail.
but that David b. Hill is again sitting
in the game. That is news which all should
welcome. 1t means business on an old
time basis. and at least a check for the
faddists who of late have been having
their own way in the democratic party
over there. Mr. Hearst of course will
continue active. and Tammany under the
Murphy leadership will be open as always
to deals for spoils. but if Hill and McCar-
rem and Mcclellan organize for real work
they should give us situation worth while.
The stake Just now is the control of the
New York delegation to the next demo-
cratic national convention. and it is so
valuable that the fight for 1t will arrest
national attention and the result will be
likely to influence to some extent the action
of that body.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
What Did Eve Hand to Adam?

1t was inevitable. 1t had to come Sooner
or la ter some one was sure to suggest that
the fruit Eve handed to Adam in the Car
den of Eden was not an apple, but a
lemon. There modern instances to
strengthen the theory.
This important question of pomOlCgy is
to be debated by members of the American
Modern Languages Association at New
Haven tomorrow, with Leland Stanford
University professor in the van. Note the
force of the combinaton--modern language
sharps discussing a question of Mythology,
and a representative of the home of the
citrus fruits presenting the claims of the
lemon as the most celebrated of all the
products of nature.
Until these grave debaters have reached a
conclusion it is useless to consider the
question on its merits. There is no doubt
that the lemon theory will be popular Man
has been making a wry face over the
errors of his male ancestor for many many
generations. The episode will seem far
more logical if it be proved beyond a
doubt by the philologis;s in session at New
Haven that Adams bite into the fruit
handed to him caused the first pucker on
record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

was anxious to see him and glad to see him,
and at times the pressure was not only Ia
miliar but boisterous. At one place the
crowd grew impatient and yelled. Where
is Heinrich? Trot him OUT Prince Henry.
who had heard it, stepped forward with
out further delay. and laughing heartily
with the rest. introduced himself: This
is Heinrich and l am very happy to see
you Probably the kaiser in America
would capture crowds in the same fashion.
Reverence for authority and for those
who represent it is at times too small with
us, and some social philosophers attribute
the trouble to the popular taste for paro-
dies and humorous doggerel. If they could
have their way. all punsters. parodists and
doggerel spnners in the land would be cor
rallied and lynched. But it would be very
dull country without them. Where they
cross the line once they stay on the proper
side thousand times. and contribute not
only good fun but sound sense to the DIS
cuSSions of the day
AS we do not spare cur own, and do not
injure them by such means why should
we be very particular about outsiders?
Let the kaiser take pct luck with the Presi-
dent and the rest. Those Cincinnati fell
lows should come off.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
CONGRESS and Salary.

The Senate is to face the proposition for
an increase of the congressional salary.
VIII it approve? Or will it follow the House
and quail before the record and the fear
that the people are still unconvinced on
that point?
This question is ninety years old. and was
first made famous by the wit of Henry
Clay. In 1877 the pay of member of Con-
Sress was So a day. A proposition to in
crease it to 81 $50 per annum carried, and
Mr.. Clay was among it's supporters. He
frankly declared that the old figure was
not large enough to make both ends meet.
Washington prices were in evidence even
then. When he returned home Mr.. Clay
found his constituents disgruntled over his
vote, and at one of his meetings he was
heckled by an, old hunter on the subject.
II was then that Mr.. Clay asked the hunter
about his rife and if it had ever failed him.
Once the hunter replied. And did you
throw it away" Mr.. Clay inquired. mo;
| picked the flint and tried it again, and
that time brought down the game Then
Mr.. Clay had him. He had failed but once
and why throw him away?
The Ashland constituency picked their
flint and tried MIR. Clay again. But his ma
jorty was small, and warned by it, upon
his return to Washington, he voted for the
repeal of the salary increase. giving as his
sole reason the unpopularity of the meas
ure. But the battle was not wholly lost
The pay of members was raised from Sc to
So day, and the voters did not resent
that
A much later incident of like chara cter-
known as the salary grabs within living
memory, but illustrates only the panic OF
politicians. There was not man voting
for larger pay at that time who did not
think it fair and just, and who before his
constituents could not have returned bill
of legitimate expenses sustaining his vote
before it like sheep, and the old pay was
restored.
We all smile today at the thought of
$1,000 for the services of such men as Clay
and Calhoun. Although it was an early
day in our history the governments work
was very important. and public servants
of a high grade We're necessary to the pub
lie welfare. And yet they were obliged
against their own ideas of fit compensation
to accept Sc a day-the pay of a fairly COM
petent clerk Public servants of the pres
ent time. as rule, do their work WELL and
among them are some of the foremost men
of the period When all things are consid-
cred, $4,000 year is small pay for their
services. and they should have the courage
to take the sense of the country on the
subject.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

it's business as well as New York. Fur
thermore. the farmers have not this sea-
son received their returns from their crops
as promptly as ordinarily, owing to the
enormous yields and the scarcity of labor.
So the Street Is suffering from a strin-
gency of cash that forces liquidations to
meet bank calls and at the same time pro-
notes the enterprise of the bear party,
always quick to take advantage of condi
tons favorable to fall of prices.
That a reaction is due as soon as the
bank examinations have occurred and the
street has passed the uncertainties of
the holiday season seems to be the general
belief. 1t is urged by some that a slump
is likely to come because the present range
of prices is too high to last With the
mines producing abundantly, but yet not
sufficiently to meet the demands; with the
mills failing to keep pace with the orders;
with the railroads congested with freight,
in fact with every material element in our
prosperity in wholesome, progressive activ-
ity and with no political menace at this
time conceivable, it is difficult to accept
this rather jaundiced view of the situation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
Solemn Folk at Cincinnati.

The German Alliance Of Cincinnati TAX
ing offense at some current doggerel with
the kaiser for text has instructed its at
torney formally TO protest against them.
Why magnify such a trifie? Why assume
that the friendly relations existing be-
tween Germany and the United States are
at the mercy of trtfes? This. more than
ever, puts the joke on the kaiser. His
friends, shouldering forward in this fash
ion for his protection. will swell the vol
ume of the amusement caused by the dog
gerel. Even kaiser, il seems needs now
and then to be saved from his friends.
What's the matter with i.lese Ohio folk?
Hans at home enjoys a joke as much as
Uncle Sam. Ii the kaiser is little severe
about his dignity with his own subjects
IT is for purposes of discipline For all
the public knows he may have chuckied
zeal filings of those whom he sent to Jail
for lese majestic. He is the kaiser in Ger
many, and must take the kaiser's view of
things. In America he would probably
take the American view. and instead of
sending the humorists 10 Jail would in
wife them to lunch.
His brother while visiting us had no
trouble In falling in with democratic ease
and unconventionalty. He was every inch
a prince when ceremony was involved,
but plain. unpretending gentleman when
In the presence of the crowd. Everybody
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
Senator Foraker.

The Presidents side of the Bro wnsville
matter will not be helped, his friends
should know. by any rdicu.e of Mr.. For
aker Neither will the Ohio senator be hurt
by such tactics. He is quite beyond the
reach of such influences, and stands four
square to all the cheap scorn that blows.
Mr.. Foraker has always been an aggres-
siye and independent man in politics, and
owes his position and influence as well to
his Temperament as to his high ability In
his younger days. while combining his ac-
tivties to his own ate. his opponents
thought to dispose of him by means of
nickname. They dubbed him "Fire-alarm
Foraker, in reply to some pronounced
views he entertained about certain public
questions. and was in the habit of ex-
pressing in very pronounced terms. In fact
1t was about the only reply they ever at
tempted-about the only one they could
make. But it was wholly ineffective. He
was too much of a man ID be snuffed out
by puerllity. He continued to sound his
alarms. and thrived on them.
In his own party he had hard fight for
entrance into the national field. and won
It. not by bowling and scraping to those on
deck. but by frank s,and for his own
opinions and the force with which he stated
them. Mr.. Sherman was potent in Ohio
at that time, and his lieutenants were
rather truculent toward new and ambitious
men. Mr.. Foraker entertained a great ad
mratiOn for the veteran statesman, but he
never became lowly worshiper and with
out taking that attitude reached the Senate.
As member of that body, too. he promptly
to the standard Ohio early established
there. and which since the civil war Sher-
man and Thurman and Pendleton kept
high. He is one of the foremost debaters
on his side of the chamber and in the rail-
road rate debate elected the praise of even
the men who differed with him.
1t is impudent. therefore for anybody to
imagine that such man can be driven
from the field by the claptrap of everyday
politics. or the resurrection of old-time cpl
thets. He stands in his own shoes, and is
responsible to his own constituents, and
what man and lawyer and senator he
sees in the treatment of the soldiers who
have been dismissed from the army in dis
grace because of the Brownsville episode is
worthy of the Senates and the countrys
attention. Mr.. Foraker. like every strong
man. sheds ridicule easily. He has never
been conquered by it. and cannot be con-
quered by it now. Better try argument and
a few facts. we'll authenticated in the pres
ent case
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
Mistaken Identity.

New York has just been enjoying another
mistaken identity case that promises to
result in a shake-up of police methods in
the big town \ woman was arrested
Christmas eve on the accusation of young
man who claimed that she had picked his
pocket two nights before. She was taken
to a police station and locked up, despite
her protestations of innocence, her evident
responsibility and her demand that her
husband. a reputable physician, be sum-
moned. Yesterday she was discharged as
innocent after a trial when clearly estab-
lished an alibi for her, proved her social
standing and seriously dscredited her ac-
cuser. The public is now asking pointedly
whether the police are not blameworthy for
having lent themselves to this outrage.
A very serious situation develops when
public confidence in the integrity, intelIi-
gence and reliability of the police is shaken
Owing to the immense growth of our cities
the police system has assumed an impor-
lance which il never before possessed
The welfare of Individual citizens is in
vOlved more distinctly. and in the degree
that the Officers of the law" are hasty
or lax, or stupid, greedy for gain, the
community suffers seriously 1t is of
course. inevitable that mistakes will be
made when vast numbers of people are
crowded together. but the responsibility for
reducing those mistakes to a minimum must
be concentrated upon the police in order to
ensure safe standard of performance. In
these days of telephones Identities can be
quickly established and in any event the
city that fails to provide a decent method
OF treating women who are accused of Of
lenses fails in one of its first duties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
ProsperitY.

Wall street is having rather serious
struggle in these closing days o. the year.
Money is scarce for speculative purposes
and interest rates are high. Banks are
dressing their windows for the January
examinations. and the currency stringency.
due TO the outgrowth of the system by
the country's prosperity, is in no material
degree lessened by the release of the cash
required for the harvesting and moving of
the crops. 1t is becoming apparent that
New York cannot command the financial
tides as thoroughly in other days. The
money sent out in great sums to the I'm
terror for crop-moving purposes is not re-
turning in the usual volume or with the
usual rapidly. The interior needs it in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
The Beneficiary.

De 'possum steal de chicken.
An de 'possum eat de egg:
An he ought to hab a lickin',
Till he cry out loud an beg.
But dar ain no poultry Twin
In my back yard-not desc days.
So feels halfway fohgivin'
Toward dat 'possum fob his ways.
Dat diets mos improvin';
Boun' to make i'm fat an sweet.
is time to be a-movin'.
An bring home some 'possum meat.
An when OF mammy's kneelin'
Fob de cook stove-well, / guess,
While OARS muffin wuss dan stealin',
Everything is fob de bes'.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
Golden Grain.
From the New York Sun.


The Department of Agriculture estimates
our cereal crop for the current year at ap-
proximately 5.0C0,OOO,CGO bushels. This in
cludes corn. wheat. rye, oats. barley, flax
seed, buckwheat and rice. Its production
involved the cultivation of nearly 100000
square miles of land. The value of the
product is about $1,000, 100000. 1t would
take all the gold we have dug In thirty
years to pay for this single years crop of
cereals. 1t has been a fat year Little
wonder that there is railway car
shortage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
Famine-Stricken Chinese
From the indianapolis Star.


The Presidents appeal for aid of famine
stricken China ought to meet with generous
response in a country SO abundantiy blest
as ours Is at the present time When one
considers the frugal, patient character of
the Chinese masses and reflects how dire
must be the straits when even the miser-
able pittance which ordinarily suffices them
is denied, the extremity of their situation
must be apparent. Whoever opposes the
entrance of Chinese into the United States
must concede that the sight of them starv-
ing in their own land appeals to every
charitable impulse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
Conveniently Arranged.

you say you would not think of touching
a penny that did not belong to you?' said
the magnate's questioning friend.
Certainly not answered Mr.. Dustin
Stax. You see I've got the business of
the country so systematized that every
penny 1 touch legally belongs to me-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
7 able Denicacies.

Imported Table Rasins. lib carton Soc:
5-ih layer. ......................S 81 -
Mixed Nuts, h. Doc: 5ik his ............ 81 90
Plum Pudding lib. can, 23c.: 2lb. CAN. 45c.
Fruit Cake. lib. carton. .3Oc
Choice Layer and Whole Figs. ID. .15c. to 2ac.
Fancy French Prunes, jar 13c.
Choice Florida Sweet Oranges. dozen. Doc. TO Doc
Extra Fancy Lemons. dozen. .2Sr and !5c
Selected Eating Apples. basket 2Dc. to zoe
Fancy Florida Thin-skin Grape Fruit, each.
&c. to 15c
Extra Fancy Malaga Grapes. III. pc
Fard Dates. H.. he: stuffed. box. .25c
AIaraschno Cherries bottle &c to a9c
Large Black Cape Cod Cranberries. quart. .l5c
Cranberry Sauce 2-lb can. 2ic.: large glass
Colonial Mince Neat 2, 3 and 5-lb. sanitary
..S,aior.ai, New York State Pure Apple Cider.
gal Zoe.
Colonial Minnesota Spring Wheat Flour.
l-i6 Zoe: ~ 75c.; -. 81 80: barrel 81. -
Vermont Sage. Imported Sweitzer, Roquefort
Camemhert. Sap Sage. EdaT, Pineapple. Eng-
lish Dairy. Neufchatel Philadelphia Cream anf
New York Full Cream Cheese
Freshly Baked Cakes from. ...........--...-25c
Choice CONNECTIONS. lb. .25c to soc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

Scientists are basing calculations on a
skull discovered in Nebraska to show that
the average height of man on this continent
10000 years ago was seven feet. This is
interesting. If people continue to Shrink
at the rate of foot and some inches every
2Oo.000 years, in the course of time the
average fiat will be abundantly roomy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

MI Bryan has dissuaded the populists in
Kansas from disbanding. They may prove
useful to the Nebraskan's ambitions. al
though Mr.. Hearst's recent experience Of
fered a warning of the difficulty of trying
to handle too many parties at a time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

1t would be relief to have life insurance
controversies settled SO that the silver
tongued agent could resume his eloquent
dissertations. The silence of the life insur-
ance agent represents a distinct loss to
oratory and literature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
A Big Job.

From the Chicago Record Herald
Z. H. Hartman is reported to have said
that he is willing to spend $10.00000o in
having Ex-Governor Odell of New York
rehabilitated. How would you like to be
so far down that it would take as much
as that to rehabilitate you?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

The attitude OF some of the democratic
members OF Congress toward the Browns
willie incident shows in an unexpected man
ner the Presidents faculty for effacing
uartN lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

A Chicago man says that by merely eat
ing an ample he can forget his troubles.
Mayor Dunno might testify as to the effect
on mans disposition that lemon day
would have.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

Mr.. Carnegie is now interested in health
He cannot be chershing
even the faintest hope of persuadng ply
sicians to write their prescriptions in re-
formed spelling
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
Inopportune.

When pleasures should be holding sway
Our griefs. alas. begin:
They wish us "Happy New Year day
And then the bills come in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

The democratic members of Congress are
devoting the holiday recess to an effort to
show that both sides are wrong in the
controversy now in progress among the
republicans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
SHOOTING STARS.
Slow PROGRESS.

"How does your speech begin?" asked the
interested friend.
1T begins Mr.. Speaker answered the
new member of Congress, land that is
far as l ever get when 1 try to deliver it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

Secretary Wilson is making Investigations
to find out exactly how whisky is made.
These questions of mere chemical formula
are becoming more and more obtrusive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

Perhaps there would be more chance for
some of the little fellows to lay some
thing by for a rainy day if John D. Rookie
Teller had not been so busy about it him
sole
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
Chance for the President.

From the Louisville Coarier-Journa
For the benefit of those who are wonder
ing what Theodore Roosevelt should do
when his term expires 1t might be sug
gested that he open q correspondence
school
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

The congressman who waits for LIS con-
freres to increase his salary should not i'm
agine that he is getting credit for modesty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

The President has arranged to let Con-
gress do the hard thinking while he enjoys
a genuine outing at Pine Knot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
Not Advertising.

"Why don't you come forward as re-
former?'
81 don't need to- answered Senator Sor-
ghum i'll a tone of surprise. 81 already
enjoy national prominence and a good in
come"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

Miner Hicks must at least be welcomed
as a man with brandnew pretext for go
ing on the lecture platform
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

Some people think that if there had been
canteen there would have been no
Brownsville incident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
Pressed Glass.
Lamps, Candles and
AccessOfiess

Candles for the drawing room, dozen. soc. and 4Oc
PaDer Candle Shades. each. ...... .I0c and up
silk Candle Shades. each. .......-...2 oe- and up
Electric Light Shades each. .15c. and up
Adjustable Candle Shade Holders. &c. AMI up
Mia Innings fer Candle Shades. doZ. .isar. and mp
Glass Bobechas dozen. .............. SOC. and up
Candle Shade Holders. with weighted
hCtfonS. each ~ anu up
Twilight Candle Lamps thurn oiD each. .10c.
Phoenix Candle Lamps. each. Soc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

don tell hard luck stories said Uncle
Eben; cit don't do you no good an gets
folks in de way of regardin you as
JONAH
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

UIn order to avoid delays on account OF
personal absence, letters to THE STAR
should not be addressed to any individual
connected with the Office. but simply to
THE STAR, or to the Editorial or Busi-
ness Departments. according to tenor or
purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
t able REQUISITES for New Years day.

:Upefl=StOcK
DINNER Ware.
We are showing more than 70
patterns OF open-stock Dinner Sets,
from which may be selected the
pieces needed instead of useless
pieces SO often found in factory as
sentiments. We call especial atten-
ton to the new Donatella white and
gold pattern of real china, which we
are now offering in Ioo-piece sets at
$500 per set.
Also sold in single pieces
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

One Imported Black Silk Sicilian Coat.
43 inches long. beautifully trimmed wit h
hand-embroidery and braid; lined with
white brocaded Sa tin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

One Imported Back Satin Cloak 46
inches long, northumberland collar. cuffs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28

the neck in profusion of exquisite conceits.
Feather Boas in all the fashionable colors, Coque
Marabou Feather Boas all the acceptable street and
ing of Du Barry Scas in plain and
effects Collar and Cuff Sets of the popular Irish
imported Fancy Linen Collars Dainty Rulings for the
neck and trimmings for sleeves waists etc.
lain floor
Gloves lengths dressed and ndessed white black and
delicate Silk Evening Gloves, 10 and 2o-buton
lengths; black, white and colors.
fo.
handkerchief Novelties from France and Ireland exquisite
and charming trimming. Plain hemstitched richly
edged Real Duchess lace point lace and
Valenciennes lace; superb effects
Mali floor,
HOSierY-Sk black white and all shades
the toilet sppers-pan, lace ankle lace aliover
fine dropstch silk clocked hand embroidered
Orders for special designs executed at short notice
fr F
SGippefs-Blac Suede with Louis XIV heels Black kd
Leather Ties colonial shapes and sailor tie
Beaded Patent Leather with straps; Patent Leather
Operas strap; Pink, Blue, White and Red Beaded and
plain.
Third horT