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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23
CONTRIBUTORY.

T don't know why I haven't more practice" complained the young Da- kota lawyer. I'm sure I always get di- vorces with celerity."
 That may be" responded the old practitioner, but the man who gets divorces with alimony is the man who commands the trade. "-Lotlisville Cour- ier-Journal.
 You are not in 1t with me, said the nightingale, with superior air. You can't touch a high note at all
 No? replied the bird of paradise "wby. even when I'm dead and enl- balmed, on a bonnet, I'll bet I'll come pretty near touching a $50 note, all right. Philadelphia Ledger
 DO you think eating late at night hurts you?" well 1t rather depends on the size of the check. Town and Country.
 say, Dick, what is this new fad they call pbonetic spelling?" 'It's the kind Jim, they used to fog you and me at school for using g'-Baltimore Ameri- can.
 You say that Faro Jim came to his end through contributory negligence?' "Yes." answered Broncho Bob. He showed down four aces in a poker game. an two of em was the ace of diamonds. "-Washington Star.
 "so you used some of the liniment l left here yesterday" said the agent. "Didn't you find that it worked well?" II should say SOL cried the lady. T mistook it for the furniture polish and it took all the skin off the plano legs in one application n"--Detroit Free Press.
 "As I watched you dancing" he said, "the thought suddenly came to me that you were poem set to music With a | homeless sigh she turned her back on him, for she knew something about poetry, and he made a study of the kinds that are usually set to music Chicago Record-Herald.
 Young Lawyer-"If you wish to get off with the minimum punishment I'd advise you to confess everything and throw yourself on the mercy of the court"
 The Accused-"But if I don't con- l fess?"
 Young Iawyer-"Oh in that case you will very likely be acquitted for want of evidence. "-Chicago Daily News.
 The good man sat in silent nedita- ton.
 After a time the spirit moved him and | he began to sneak
 What" he queried, shall I give up during Lent?"
 "WeH," rejoined the wife you might give up S25 for my new Easter head gear"
 And the good man proceeded to medi- tate in silence some more'-Chicago Daily News.
 "Is Casey working here?" asked Fin nega. entering in the quarry shortly after a blast,
 "He was, but he jisht wint away, '' replied Finnegan, the foreman.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23

the person upon whom the tax is as- sessed; land cannot be hidden. Nor can t be shifted from the land owner to the shoulders of others. At the same time the tax bears less heavily upon the class that pays 1t than does any other for in the long run it's burden tends to become imperceptible. The selling value of land is reduced in proportion to the capitalized value of the tax, and future purchasers obtain ltfseir land at prices reduced in direct proportion to the tax. Furthermore the tax promotes the utilization of land and the growth of industry. Whether the proposal in question be regarded from an economic, fiscal or ethical point of view it appears expedient that muni- cipalities should resort for the increased revenues needed in the futre to heavier taxation of land values, rather than of buildings and business Trans eript.
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there is nothing impossible in placing the whole of the rates upon the land values" And he adds "The bolder the plunge we make the greater will be the economic results" He advocates, however, not the immediate introduc- tion of the single tax by one stroke of legislation, but the gradual increase of the tax burden on land and the cores bonding reduction of the burden on in- dustry. Mir. Trevelyan's practical pro- gramne seems substantially the same as that of the Massachusetts Single Tax League.
 The main argument in favor of the land taxation policy urged by its British advocates is It's reasona bleness and justice MT. Asquith in his recent speech declares tflat the movement is founded on two principles which are in harmony both with common sense and natural equity: The first is that those who especially benefit by public in1- provements should contribute their fair share to them; and the next is that it Is right and just that the community should reap the benefit of increased values which are due to It's own ex- penditure, its own growth" These pro- positions are indisputably sound. It is right and just that the increased land values resulting from municipal ex-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23
4 RAY OF HOPE.

Connecticut isn't yet greatly agitated over the gypsy moth-perhaps not as much as it ought to be, for the pest is certainly pestiferous. Possibly before great damage is done by it in Connecti- cut somebody will learn how to greatly damage 1t. There Is already hopeful talk to the effect that the imported parasites which are expected to de- stroy the gypsy moths and the brown tail moths are doing well at Saugus, Mass, where recent examination showed them developing well in the nests of the brown-tails. Dr. L. o. Howard, who has been inspecting them, says that the plan at present agreed on Is that dozen or fifteen well-infested trees shall be inclosed in one big framework, covered with very fine netting, for the protection of the calosomas from birds when the beetles are breeding, and that as to the brown tails parasites will be bred in infested trees which are covered with very fine gauge. The parasites will also be libe- rated in the scrub oak trees in the vi- cinity. He adds that his work, if the bill in congress passes will be to keep the insects from spreading beyond the infected territory, but that there will be no holding up of trains, vehicles or persons, the same result being reached by cleaning up the highwaye so that no moths can drop upon those passing.
 Massachusetts doesn't seem to have been able to conquer the moths, but perhaps if the United States gets after them they will come down. A country that can exterminate hostile Moroe ought to be able to exterminate hostile moths,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23
THE LADY SMOKING CAR.

Much has been said lately about the spread of the smoking habit among women. The scene of the spread has been largely laid in England, though there have been some remarks about lady-smoking in this country. The truth of the talk about such smoking in England Is indicated by the fact that a smoking car reserved for women has just been attached to an express train running between London and Liv- erpool. As the railroad managers are seeking to accommodate the public and incidentally make little money for their stockholders it must be that the lady smoking-car has been put on to meet a pretty definite want or de- mand.
 Of course the lady-smoking car will not be the vile place that the gentle man smoking-car is. The ladies who use it will not smoke rank tobacco, and they will not spit on the floor. And yet lady smoking-car doesn't seem just the thing to those who are not right up at the front of the modern process sion, Still, even they will have to ad- init that ladles have right to smoke if gentlemen have right to. It may not be long before that right will be so asserted in this country that lady smoking-cars will have to be put on. The world does move.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23
LAND TAXATION IN GREAT
 BRITAIN.

LEA4ND 1EAA HUN IN UREA I
 BRITAIN.
 The address delivered recently by Sir Henry Asquith, chancellor of the ex- chequer, before q deputation represent ing several municipalities, an abstract of which appears in another column of the Transcript, definitely commits the British ministry to the policy of heav- fer taxation of land values. The speak CT assured the deputation, which pre- scented petitions urging the need of leg islation to enable cities to draw larger revenues from site taxes, that the gov- ernment was in hearty sympathy with the objects of this movement, and would do everything possible to put these objects in legislative form. It has been known all along that the lib- eral party indorses the policy in ques- tion, but Mir. Asquith's speech is the first official declaration pledging the new ministry to its active support. The kings speech at the opening of Parlia- ment was slleEt on the subject, but MT. Asquith now explains that the omis- sion was due not to any intention to skelve the land issue, but to the pres- sure of other matters in the liberal pro O. y,a4p fIa ipa IA rrtty sideration to the bent method of proceed ure The advocates of the principle of ground rent taxation may well congrat- ulate themselves on the prospect thus held out of securing legislation that will make possible at least a partial ap- plication of that principle in the British cities.
 Such legislation if enacted would be step straight in the direction of the single tax. The question naturally arises in this connection. Are the lead CTS of this British movement for heav- fer taxation of land values single tax CTS? How far are they prepared to go in applying the single tax principle, that the entire revenue of the State SHOulu DS u6IlF0u AIOlu h laA QA ground rent? The recognized parlia- mentary leader of the movement is MT. Charles Trevelyan. So far as ile is con- cerned this question is easily answered He is an orthodox single taxer of the strictest school. In a recently pub lished pamphlet on Land Taxation and the Use of Land he writes: We are faced with great and increasing evil, the burden of rates upon buildings and improvements. It is a tax on the life and industry of the community which ought to be entirely removed. Il is a question of politics, it is question for statesmen how far or how quickly the emancipation of industry should proceed. Great as the change would be 4f
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penditures and development should be assessed at an increasing rate to meet the need larger revenues arising from city growth
 Emphasis Is laid also by the land taxationists on the beneficial effect that their plan would have In promoting tenement house construction. They offer 1t as a practical solution of the city housing problem. MT. Trevelyan draws an analogy here between the present sleavy taxation of houses and the old corn laws in their effect on the working class, He states. If tax is put on corn, corn will rise in price. Fewer people can pay the required price for corn, and less will be eaten. If the tax is large enough, the poor be- gin to starve. In the same way, if a tax is put on houses, houses will rise in price. Fewer people can pay the re- quired price for houses, and fewer houses will be built. If the tax is large enough, the poor begin to be horribly overcrowded. Surely any free trader must admit the analogy. And yet we continue to tolerate house-tax of one- third of the total annual value" And MT. Charles Booth points the same comparison as follows: When for the advantage of the consumer, and in the interest of the towns and of trade, the food of the people was relieved of a large part of the taxation 1t had borne, 1t seems to have been overlooked, or not fully foreseen, that the houses that the people lived in were, or would come to be, even more heavily taxed than their food had ever been and that free in- ternal development would be hindered by the peculiar incidence of this bur then" The increase of the tax rate on land values and the reduction of that on houses would certainly relieve the present overcrowding in two ways; the heavier taxation of land values would operate to bring land into the market and te "break the back of the land monopoly" The relief of buildings from part of the present tax burden would tend to encourage tenement house construction.
 A land tax has certain distinct ad- vantages as compared with other taxes now In vogue. It cannot be avoided by
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23

the coast defence force, and in the re- port of the subject it is said in plain language that the submarine Is coming into greater usefulness and may in time displace the torpedo boat, whose seagoing qualities are bad and whose endurance is limited.
 It is expected that the monitors will be turned over to the Naval militia, and they will probably be safe for them to play with
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23
COMPARATIVELY USELESS.

New Haven is safe now, and so we can read without fear that the naval monitors are marked for extinction
 Naval officers have Ibeen particularly interested in the results of the delibe- rations of army and navy experts of high rank who have reported revi- sion of the scheme of coast defence. There has always been more or less question just what part the naval force should play in coast defence, and at one time it looked as if the navy would be intimately connected with the re- sponsible duty by means of the so- called harbor defence monitors. These are now officially pronounced to be comparatively useless, and des- tined to never be reproduced in future naval construction, There will be genuine rejoicing among naval men over this decision, as the monitor was an uncomfortable ship as habitation, and promised no great ac- tivity for those attached to it in time of war. The floating defence of the coast has developed in the last twenty years from the slow. bulky hulk of the moni- tor to the feeter, less conspicuous types represented by the destroyers, the tor pedo boats and the submarines. It is estimated that not less than one hun dred destroyers will be required for service with the fleet as an adjunct of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23

Paul Haas, student at London uni- versity has received the degree of Doc tor of Science for thesis on "The Con densation of Dimethyldihydroresorcin gene"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23

Fusan, Corea, will soon be a port of call for the regular liners plying be- tween San Francisco and the Orient. Fusan is a coming port on the Asiatic coast, being now the terminus of the new Corean railway soon to be con- nected at Liaoyang with the China Eastern and the Siberian system.
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REW HAVEN. CONN.

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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23

Are ye expictin' him baek?'
 "Yes. suppose so. Anyway, they do say, whatever goes up musht come down. Philadelphia Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23

It Is said that J. M. Barrie never writes for more than two hours day and is a slow worker.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23

A Washington political prophet de- clares that the drift of the prelimina- ries for the congressional campaign of 1906 indicates that the tariff is sure to be the important issue, and, in fact, the main difference between the parties. There is not enough difference between Republicans and Democrats on the other questions which have developed in congress to make an issue.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23

TEsH WEEKLY JOURNAL gsSusd Thursdnys, One Dollar Q Year'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23

Justice Fitzgerald of the New York Supreme court has denied an applica- tion for an injunction to restrain a dealer in automatic pianos and phono- graphs from operating a self-playing piano at his place of business on Broad way. The application was made by a dentist whose office is over the store and who alleged that both his nerves and his business had suffered from the noise made by the plano. In deciding the matter, the court took the location of the store and office into considera- tion, saying that the premises were sit- uated in one of the busiest sections of the city, "where, from the nature of things" noise and hustle are among the ordinary incidents to be continually expected"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23

Professor Macdonald of Brown uni- versity, who holds the chair of Ameri- can history, calls 1905 "the blackest year in the social and political history of the United States" He says that 'tt1at man is living in fools paradise who does not see that we are drifting rapidly into Socialism, and adds: "The choice of the voter of to-day seems to lie between the party of the few of class legislation of more or less arbi- trary exercise of power but of effective organization and business administra- ton; or the party of popular rights and liberal tendencies but torn by fac tional quarrels and diseredited in cer- tain vital points; or lastly, some third Harty which shows at present no signs xs ~ecoming of National importance" /"
 Complaints have reached the War de- partment concerning the lack of protec- tion against the climate of northwest ern army posts, and arrangements have been made to have the enlisted men who are subject to exposure to the weather furnished with the fur and blanket lined overcoats which hither- to have been issued to men performing guard duty or field service under con- ditions where exposure to the weather would jeopardize life or limb by freez- ing. It has been pointed out to the War department that there are men such as teamsters, mechanics, etc, who are subjected to the rigors of harsh climate. This much in the recommen- dations and regulations has been ap- proved by the chief of staff, No action, however, has as yet been taken in re- gard to the overcoats issued to troops stationed at posts where the tempera- ture is much of the time far below zero.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-23

There has just passed away In the person of M. Desprecher one of the pio- neers of France in ocean cables. M. Desprecher collaborated, with Sir John Fender, Cyrus W. Field, George Elliott aad-others, in laying the first cables be- tween Europe and America. He was one of the promoters of the Corsican cable, which was laid in 1861. Tn 1894 he bought the Island of Anticosti which now belongs to M. Menier. He had reached the age of eighty-three.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-25
BAD WINTER FOR
THE BOOKMAKERS
A San Francisco Racing Man
Estimates That Their Losses
Have Been Over $4,000.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

! Special Dispatch to The Star.
| SAN FRANCISCO, March "a - Johnny
| Coleman who is well versed on the
| racing game any man now on the coast
| makes the rather startling statement that
outside of Barney Schneider there is hardly
a bookmaker at the Emeryville track who is
| winner on the present racing season. In
| fact, he says that the ring is from $50, 900
| to 100000 loser, and the only reason that
the Missouri horse owner and bookTnaker is
ahead of the game is because of the many
victories scored by the horses in his big
stable
1.-THE general public Is under the impress
sion that the bookies are away ahead of the
game said Coleman, because the track
has been in such bad condition for so many
weeks. That's just where they are wrong.
as the pencilers are away in the hole on the
present season, and the principal cause OF
the slump on the wrong side of the ledger Is
due to the track conditions. 1t Is true that
when the track Is muddy for few days she
horses do not run true to form, and tn ire
are many upsets. but when the weather Is
bad for weeks at a stretch it is different
story.
when the track is fast bookmaker has
a chance to round out his book as every
play and the bookmaker can take In enough
coin on the different horses to make win
ming sheet But when the track is sloppy,
muddy and heavy for weeks at a stretch 1t
is impossible for a bookie to round out his
slate. On heavy or muddy track but two
or three horses usually figure to have
chance, and the betting public has become
SO smart that it never waivers on the out
siders who do not dope to win, and the con-
sequencefs that there Is heavy plunge on
a certain few horses. This winter the sharp
shooters have been unusually successful,
and the mudlarks who have been bet on
have generally gathered the coin.
II believe that Barney Schneider is the
only man making book in the big ring
who is winner. and that is because he has
had such phenomenal luck with his racing
string. If his horses had not captured so
| many races the chances are that the Mis-
sourian would also be loser
IT consider $150.o00 to 100000 conserva-
| tive estimate of the mount of money lost
| by the bookmakers this winter. and they
stand very little chance of recouping their
losses there will be hardly more than
| month of good weather for them to make
percentage book"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-25
MINI0NS LEAD In
STAR DUCKPIN LEAGUE

Through the strong efforts of the Minions
to. keep up their consistent bowling they
have captured the lead in The Star Duck
pin League. AS every team in this league
Is about as strong as the other it is hard
TO guess which team will finish first at the
end Of the season. The NonpareiIs, who
have been leading the league during the
past month OF so. have taken little slump
In their rolling In the last week and are
now in second place, with only 33 points sep
arating them from the leaders. The Agates
have picked up in their rolling and are tied
with the Nonpareils. with a percentage Of
800 having lost and won the same number
of games. and just as near to the Minions.
Wee Willie" Collier Of the Nonpareils
was very much surprised when Corwin de-
feated his score with 125 for the highest
individual score
Cromwell still retains the lead In the in
dividual averages with 94.1, having top
pied the most number of pins. with 1921.
Cromwell also leads in strikes and spares.
with II and 81 respectively. The Minions
now hold the high-team score with 470.
Following are the percentages:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-25
PRIZES DONATED FOR THE
ATLANTIC CITY AUTO RACES

The Atlantic City Automobile Club held
a very enthusiastic meeting Thursday night
at the Seaside House.
Commodore Louis Kuehnie promised TO
give a handsome silver shield mounted on
an oak base, which will be known as the
Katherine Kuehnle" prize, to be raced for
next month at Atlantic City.
]. Harry Lyons will give similar shield
to be known as the Elizabeth ]. Lyons,
prize. Alderman Henry w. Leeds VIII also
give similar prize.
The club decided that there would be
twenty-four events arranged for during the
meet on the 18th. 26th and 9th of April.
The approaches TO the track on the beach
below Ventnor will be put in flrst-cla IS
condition before Easter. so that owners of
automobiles can take their machines to the
track for trials. The grand stand Is also
to be repaired in the near future This work
will be done at the instance OF Superin-
tendent Lowell OF the West Jersey and Sea-
shore railroad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-25
Doubt About Ort Wells.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, March 24.-John A. Drake.
who has wintered in New York, says he is
not at oil sure his sometime great handicap
horse. ort Wells. VIII train again. The
King Eric colt has got over the cold which
threatened to turn into pneumonia not long
ago. but his legs are not in as good condi-
ton as they might be. The plint behind
is more troublesome than 1t was expected
to be. Under the circumstances IL Is safe
to predict that no serious attempt Will be
made by Enoch Wishard to get Ort Wells
to the post before the end of July. The
Iowa turfman wants his horse to have
every chance to recover his old-t;me form.
Ort Wells will not come UP from Jim Hea-
ley's farm at oceanport, N. j., for some
time yet