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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-14
New Telephones at Washington
Barracks

Mr.. j. 3. Hench. assistant electrical en-
SINGER. signal service at large. New York
cIfy: First Glass Sergt. Charles Boelsterli,
Signal Corps, at Governors Island, n. Y;
Sergt Harry l.. Mabry and First Glass
Private Otto II. Kuhn, Signal Corps, at
Fort Wood, n. Y, have been ordered to
Washington barracks. d. c., for tenn
porary duty in connection with the recon-
structou of the telephone system at that
post. and upon completion Of that duty
A!ll return to their proper stations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-14
TO IMPROVE NATIONAL GUARD
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS. TO
THE DICK MILITIA LAW.

An agreement on the provisions desired
by the representatives of the Interstate
National Guard Association for amend
ments 10 the Dick militia law has been
reached as result of the conferences
held between Gen. Oliver. the Acting Sec
rotary of War; Gen. Bell. the chief of
staff and other officers of the general
staff and Senator Dick. Gen. Drain and
other officers of the association. These
are to be put in formal shape and sent
out to the various state National Guard
organizations. SO that they may be care
fully studied by them preparatory to the
general convention of the association to
be held at Boston January H.
All the proposed amendments have in
view the progress and development of the
militia. with an iGea of its greater useful
ness. both to the state and to the ma
nonal government. when necessary, and
its more immediate availability for imme-
date service in aid of the national de-
Tense. thereby forming "a valuable ad-
Junct to the regular army.
Extension of Time.
Not all the state organizations will be
ready to conform to the requirements of
the Dick law during the coming year. as
that act provides. and a joint resolution
probably will be put through Congress ex-
tending until 1910 the time allowed for
that purpose.
discussed, with the result that most of the
participants in the council have given 1t
their assent, was the proposition to re-
move the present restriction upon the en-
ployment of national militia in the service
to nine months. 1t was admitted that mod
ern conditions of warfare make that
period entirely too short; in fact. 1t would
scarcely be practicable to do more than
organize a volunteer force and transport
1t to and from the Philippines in that
short period of time.
1t is fully expected that opposition will
be manifested by some of the National
Guardsmen to the emoval of the nine
months restriction. but in view of the
fact that the national government has
been badly hampered in every war for
nearly a century by impracticable lim-
tations upon the use of the militia. both
as to the time of its service and as to
its employment outside of the United
States. 1t is believed that something can
be done to relieve that condition at the
next annual meeting of the militia or
CARNATIONS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-14
At THE WHITE HOUSE
Several Post Office Cases Dis
cussed Today.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS
Mr.. Meyer to Get Some Friend to In.
troduce the Bill.
WOMEN ARE FOR FAIRBANKS
What One Former Wyoming Belle
Said to the Vice President
This Morning.

several post office cases were discussed
with the President today. Representa-
tive Livingston of Georgia talked with
the President and Postmaster General
Meyer about the case of Mrs. Mary A.
Melton postmistress at Conyers Ga. Mrs.
Melton has been in charge of the Conyers
office for fourteen years and is much liked
by the people of the town. A few days
was sent to the Senate as her successor.
The townpeople Immediately wired many
protests. and Senator Clay held up the
nomination in the Senate. Mr.. Living
ston has Joined in urging that Mrs. Melton
be permitted to remain. Postmaster Gen.
eral Meyer will consider the matter before
doing anything.
The President and Mr.. Meyer today de-
cided to give another term as postmaster
of st. Louis to Postmaster Wyman, who
had the opposition of the three republi-
can representatives of that CITY,
Capt. w. T. Short. who feels sure that
he will be made postmaster at Richmond,
KY. was introduced to the President to-
day by Kentucky representatives.
Will Proceed Carefully.
Postmaster General Meyer. who is
drawing up his ideas of the right sort of
legislation for postal savings banks, was
asked what he intends to do about get
ting his bill before Congress
I'm view of the bumps Secretary Gar
field has been getting from the Senate for
sending his pet measures there without
due permission. what will be your pro-
cedure?" Mr.. Meyer was asked.
fn ha icy1f f,,I ,l1I
the Postmaster General. II will have to
get some friend to introduce it,
Women Are for Fairbanks.
Vice President Fairbanks is assured
Of the support of western women, one
very beautiful woman told him today
The Vice President went to the White
House to ascertain If January 10 would
be the proper date for a reception to the
Senate. the President and House of Rep
resentatives. He didn't want to mix dates
with the White House. He found that
date all right, and was about to go away
when Representative Mondell introduced
him to former Wyoming belle, who is
married and now lives in Omaha.
|. But you will lose you vote by living in
Omaha" said the Vice President to his
fair friend.
mo. 1 won't. if you are nominated"
she said. Il will go at once to Wyoming.
and stay there SO as to vote for you."
and she thereupon assured the Indiana
statesman that the women of the west
are his stanch friends.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-14
Presented With Loving Cup.

President Roosevelt today received a
loving cuP from which was drunk a toast
ITO the President of the United States"
at the recent great banquet to Secretary
aft at Manila. The presentation was
made by First Lieut.. Louis j. Van Schaik
of the 4th United States Infantry, who
has just arrived from the Philippines. The
cup is sent to the President by the al
calde of Manila, Senior RoXas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-14

Charges preferred against Rev. DR.. Will
liam Fl. Shaffer. presiding elder OF the
west district of the Philadelphia NJ. T..
conference. will be presented before an
ecclesiastical court at Philadelphia De-
cemoer 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-14

Record-2549 miles laps. made by Miller and
Waller in 1899.
Last years score was LAG miles and laps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-14
One O'Clock Score.
Two O'Clock Score.

ears record. 131 miles l lap.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-27
The Silk Supply of Spiders.

FTom haTptr
The spider is able to secrete at least three
eolors of silk subtitle white. which forms
the web. and the enswathement OF captives
and the egg-cocoon; the brown mass that
nils the cocoon interior; and the fiCssy yell
low between that and the inside of the
sac. The glands end in minute ducts which
empty into spinning spools regularly ar
ranged along the sides and upon the tips
Of the six spinnerets. or spinning mann
mails" or spinning fingers" which are
placed just beneath the apex of the abdo-
men. The spinnerets are movable and can
be flung wide apart, or pushed closely to-
Eether and the spinning-spools can be man
aged in the same way.
The silk-glands are enfcided In mus
sular tissue. pressure upon which. at the
will Of the SPIDER. forces the liquid silk
through the duC; into the spool. whence It
issues as a minute ilI'nent. since il hardens
upOn contact with the air Cnc thread as
seen in a web may made IN o. a number
OF the fiiancu;s. and is formed by putting
the tips of the sPools together as the liquid
1ets are forced oat Of the ducts. When
the spinntrc,S ara joined and number OF
the spCols a.r cTp;isd Al once their con-
tents merge. and the sheets ribbons are
formed which one sees IN the enswathe-
nnent of a captive or the making OF Argi-
spe's central shield. This delicate maehin-
cry the owne: operates with utmost skill,
bringing into play now one part and now
another. and again the whole, with uBfail-
ing dizziness and a mastery complete.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-27
Death Of the Alfalfa Man
From the Kansas City Journal.


Under a Topeka date line comes the an
nouncements in five-line dispatch that
Harrison Parkman, who first brought alfal-
ia from South America and planted it in
the United States, is dead, aged seventy
three years. With this simple statement
truly public benefactor. The old saying
Is true that "he who makes two blades of
grass to grow where only one grew before
Is public benefactor" What could be q
proper measure o. benefaction con-
ferred by man wno made the western
dessert, once as bare as a mans hand,
bloom with verdure? Alfalfa has proved
to be the salvation In a material way Of
the farmers of western Kansas. Nebraska.
Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona-in
brief, of all that vast section of country
which was formerly described in the geog-
raphies as the Great American desert"
1t is the one sure crop that saves the farm
ers In that region from ruin. The brave
and hardy spirits who first essayed the
task of converting this bare and arid soil to
mans uses encountered hardships that tried
mems souls to the utmost, and these pion-
GERS suffered privations beside which those
OF the Argonauts and the arctic explorers
seem almost like petty trials. But grad
fnsurmountable, and today all that once
arid country blossoms like the rose with
rich returns for mans labor. In achieving
this wonderful triumph over nature alfalfa
was the most conspicuous factor, with its
heavy crops repeated twice and three times
in a year. The man who brought this
priceless boon to aid the pioneers in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-27
WAS ONCE A RODMAN
New President of the FennSyl-
vania Railroad.
CAREER OF JAMES McCREA
By Slow Advances He Reached the
Top of the Ladder.
WAS ALWAYS A HARD WORKER
Has Eschewed Politics and Society
Thoroughbred Horses and Golf
Are His Hobbies.
WAS ALWAYS A HARD WORKER
Written for The Star.

Written for The Star.
Another proof that this is a democratic
country and that the highest offices are
open to the humoest IL they have the
ability to rise to their opportunities has
just been furnished by the Pennsylvania
railroad. 1t is not so long ago, within the
memory of many officials of the Pennsyl-
vania. that James McCrea, who has just
succeeded to the mantle of A. ]. Cassatt,
was only plain Jim McCrea, and figured
on the salary list of the road as rodman,
He was a good rodman, a hard worker.
He has been the same in every other posi-
ton he has held in the forty-one years
he has served the road.
The character of result achieved by the
tall, muscular, silent, gruf-spoken Jim
made him a marked man before he had
been rodman for two years. Then came
promotions. and four presidents of the
road took a pleasure in aiding his ambi-
tons. He went up, up, up through the
stages of engineer, superintendent of vari-
Gus divisions, general manager of various
roads, fourth vice president, third vice
president second vice president and first
vice president.
His election to the presidency of the
entire concern was no surprise, for 1t mad
been known for a long time that he was
President Cassatts preference, and for
couple of years prior to his death Mr.. Cas-
satt had been grooming McCrea for the
place
This was not alone friendship on the
part of the late president. He recognized
in Mr. McCrea the one kind of man who
never failed in any task imposed on him
by the road. He could carry along the
huge projects Mr.. Cassatt had planned.
there need be no panic when Mr.. Cassatt
passed, provided the steady hand Of Jim
McCrea took the throttle.
That happened, and the wisdom Of the
choice is shown in the complete absence
of even furry in the stock market.
A Relentless Worker.
There is no particular romance in the
life story of this man. big mentally and
physically. His success has not proceeded
from strokes of daring, or from sudden
inspirations. Hard, relentless work has
been the only system he knew.
Even those Pittsburg friends who have
known him as neighbor for many years,
and who love TO speak of him as man
with a heart big as his frame, who loves
his fellow man himself, who is every
body's friend and lacks the luxury of a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-27

take him all the way to the top. and be.
came assistant engineer Of construction on
the Benefits branch extension.
He stayed in this position until 1871. ano
then took another big upward step, when ne
was made assistant general engineer OF con
struction for the entire Pennsylvania rail-
road.
Assistant engineer for the maintenance OF
WAYS, Philadelphia division, was the next
good thing that came to him; then in 1871;
he assumed the duties of superintendent OF
the middle division of the road.
Gradually Moved Up.
He left this to go into the superintend-
ency of the New York division.
Then in gradual steps he moved up in this
order:
May /, 1892 to October 10, 1885, manager
of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and st. Louis
railway and Chicago, ST. Louis and Pitts
burg railroad; October 10. 1885. to October
%. 1887, general manager of pennsylvania
lines west of Pittsburg; October %, 1887, to
March l, 1890. fourth vice president ano
general manager; March l. 1890, to April %,
1891. second vice president; April ., 1881,
to date, first vice president Pennsylvania
lines west of Pittsburg; also president OF
the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley rail-
road Terre Haute and Indianapolis railroad
and it's successors, the Vandalia railroad,
Grand Rapids and Indiana, and Cleveland,
Akron and Columbus railways.
Mr. McCrea makes no secret that during
the entire period his goal was the presidency
Of the road.
This looked to him greater honor than
most men would find in the presidency OF
the United States The Pennsylvania rail-
road was. to him more than mere employer.
He had been part of 1t so long that event.
ually it became part Of him, and to sit at
the desk of those men under whom he had
worked-Seott, Thomson, Roberts and Cas-
satt-was to attain the limit of honor.
In religion Mr.. McCrea is a strict Episco-
palian of the highest church. In his Pitts
hI1rpr nfrrQCr pa ha WA a 20 ar vfnq IF
the Church of the Assumption, and gave
himself great pride because he had superin-
tended the erection of the building. This Is
one of the finest in the entire commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Mr.. McCrea is only moderately rich. most
of his money being invested in the road.
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who have come to him to have their defec-
tive educations remedied. Our fashionable
English public schools" he said to me,
ARE about the worst in the world. Useful
studies are neglected for Latin and Greek,
and even these are i'll taught The schools
are hotbeds of snobbery. They kindle no
desire for intellectual life. Compared with
the graduates of American colleges and
universities, their graduates are simply
not in it"
But they are in the hands of old fogies
Tor the most part. men who live on the
traditions of the past, and it is not at all
likely that Sidney Lee will be able to wake
them up:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-27

together. That L eos.s you less Is due simply
to our coffee business being 50 much greater
than any competitions. p fact il is larger than The
nezt four largest firms in the world combined.
We naturally can and actually do give better
coffee in ARIOSA than anyone else can give
foe tho price; Beng the standard article 4 is
sold It the nanowet margin d profit
Some grocers will Try to sell
you instead loose coffee which the
rooster IS ashamed to sell IN a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-27

TOT -oVer ulAty yedIS, = Waate3 q
gentleman N Los Angeles, Il have
used Arbuckles' Coffee. Many times
my family has tied other coffee only to
comeback to our old reliable. unchanse-
able Arbuckles.' No other coffee has
this miorm never failing aroma. care
not at what price. have often wished
Icoud tel you this" Many other
people have the same opinion
A1buekles' ws tie frk roasssd pseksssd
eofee. aid il sales exceed an the o,h-rs put
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-27
Unwritten Laws.

From the Kansas City Journal.
The great trouble with the ''unwritten
laws" sthat most Of them are neither writ
ten nor right. They are merely excuses for
unlawful acts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-27

From the Lachendes Jahrhundert
GovernessI"Franz;. If you're not good.
I'll call a policeman"
City Child-'Don't mind bluh like that:
when you want a policeman you know
you can't find one"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-27
P raie of American
Speech Resented
Special Correspo .dence of The Star.

Special Correspo dence of The Star
LONDON, January 16, 1907.
TT is the truth that hurts most. Sidney
Lee, the great English Shakespearean
scholar, has brought a hornets nest
about his ears by telling the English people
some plain truths about themselves. The
occasion was the first public meeting of lie
recently formed English association, insti-
tuted to promote the correct use of English
and TO secure for English subjects for =
most place in the curriculum of every school
and college throughout the British empire.
Mr.. Lee said that the rank and file of the
American people spoke and wrote better
English than the average Englishman.
Furthermore English was better - Tht in
both the low and high grade schools in
America than in similar English schools.
AS proof of the greater tho. oughness with
which English is taught in America he in
stanced the fact that at Harvard Univer-
sity there were twenty professors of English
studies, while at oxford there was practi-
cally only one. In advanced English schol-
arships, America. he said, was outstrippins
England.
There is no man better qualified to make
the comparison than Mr.. Lee. He is a mas
ter of English literature. He is well ac-
quainted with the educational systems of
both countries He has filled lectureships
at Lowell Institute. Johns Hopkins and
Princeton universities in America. But that
does not make what he says. any the more
palatable for English felix.
Some of the attempts made here to refute
his statements are ludicrOus. great Lon
don 2-cent daily has recourse to an anony-
nous interview, and an obviously faxed in
terview at that. 1t quotes IAN American
gentleman staying at the Savoy HOTEL as
saying: 81 guess we know considerable
more about your language than you do
yourselves. Sidney Lees got right there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-27
package bearing his name.

package bearing his name.
Don take Il. neither the looks nor the pio
indicate its cup quality. No matter where 20,
buy Arbuckle. ARIOSA. or what you pa,
for il, its the came old Uniform Arbuckles
ARIOSA Coffee.
Hyow grocer viii not supply. write &c
ARBUCNE BROS,
49,, vi C.tv
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and l reckon he's sized you up o. K. We
have real live professors in our semnaries
and what they don't know about the Brit
ish language amt worth knowing. Shucks,
any guy who says contrary don't know
enough to keep out the rain And that's a
fact
This is the sort of stuff which dignified
English journal sets before its readers as a
fair specimen of English as she is spoke"
by American gentlemen" AS we'll might
one quote the language of a costermonger
as typical of that of the swells of Mayfair
and Belgravia:
The neglect of English studies at the much
Wanted English public schools-Eton, Har-
row, Rugby and similar famous institu-
tions-has frequently been denounced by
Englishmen of weight and prominence. as
scandalous The classics-dead languages
take their place in the curriculum. At the
close of the Boer war, with its numerous
''regrettable incidents. various learned
commissions held inquiries into the mental
status of the British officer, who in nine
cases out of ten, is a product OF these same
public schools The result was a sweeping
condemnation of their educational methods.
And that denunciatiOn has been going on
ever since. Consider this for instance. Soon
after Lord Kitchener went to India MEM
orandum was issued stating that many Of
the officers who had recently joined were
80 wanting in elementary education that
they are unable to cope intelligently with
the professional subjects, a knowledge Of
which is essential for the officers in the
army, and, therefore, time and labor would
be only wasted in subjecting them to q
course of garrison instruction Most Of
the young men thus scathingly referred to
were public school graduates. Yet they
were hopelessly deficient in elementary
education"-the sort of education that the
average American boy is well grounded in
before he enters his teens.
Not long ago Gen. Hutchinson issued q
report in which he complained that large
number of the officers who submitted them
selves to examinations for promotion had
been so imperfectly educated that their
spelling was "wretched'' and they were un-
able to express themselves clearly"
Dr. T. Miller Mcguire. the famous army
coach. has had among his pupils many rich
mems sons from these costly public schools
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-05-11
NICKNAMES OF STATES.

The nicknames of states are:
Alabama, Land of Flowers: Arkan-
sas, Bear state; California. Golden
state; Colorado, Centennial state:
Connecticut, Nutmeg state; Della
ware, Blue Hen state: Florida, Penin-
srlar state; Georgia, Cracker state:
Illinois, Sucker state. Indiana, Hoo
sier state; Iowa. Hawkeye state;
Kansas. Sunflower state: Kentucky,
Rlue Grass state; Louisiana, Pelican
state; Maryland, Old Line state;
Massachusetts, Old Bay state: Michi-
gan, Wolverine state: Minnesota.
Gopher state; Mississippi, Bayou
state; Missouri, Bullion state; Mon
tana, slnged Cat state; Nevada, Sill
yer state; New Hampshire. Granite
state; New Jersey, Garden state; New
York. Empire state: North Carolina,
Tar Heel state; Ohio, Buckeye state;
Oregon, Webfoot state; Rhode Is
land, Little Rhody: South Carolina,
Palmetto state; Tennessee, Volunteer
state; Texas, Lone Star state; Utah,
Honey Bee state; Vermont. Green
Mountain state; Virginia, Old Do
minion: West Virginia, Panhandle
state; Wisconsin, Badger state.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-05-11
THEFT FOR TEMPORARY ENDS.

Warren L. Mitchell of Delawanna,
N. j., early one morning found q
window open, his sideboard stripped
of silvcrware and on his dining table
this note:
"Mr. Mitchell: I am borrowing
your tableware for a few days.
expect some friends at my house and
for business reasons I want to make
a show. I haven't enough money to
buy silver, so am just going to bor-
row yours. I will return it surely. L
hope you will not be embarrassed in
ary way. I knew IL asked you to
lend me the silver you would. But
don't want to because Of pride
pride that makes thieves of so many
men. Don't say anything about this
to the police and you will be all
right"
Every piece of silver that was TAX
en- was found in a basket outside the
rear door of Mr.. Mitchell's house yes
terjay morning. In the basket was
this note:
"Hcre's where keep my promise.
Thank you very much for the use OF
the silver. I am sure 1t did me good
and I know the sight of 1t on the
table made my wife feel 10 years
younger. Do you know it's hell to be
poor after once having had plenty
Of money. If you don't know. hope
you never will-from experience"