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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-04

Suits, Coats and Skirts.
new Suits of Gray Novelty Cloths
3 in Elton style. I In pony. Jackets
. are satin-lined and hand
somely trimmed; sizes "a, d. NJ
36 and 50; $1,000 values. SS.vS
. e. I. p.
>. 8 Fancy Elton Suits of Novelty Cloths
and one Of blue Panama, satin-lined
> and braid trimmed: sizes 49, ~e
"a: SO and 80; worth SI.WS
. $500. G. T. P.............
Stylish Suits of blue or black broad .
cloth and 1 Checked Novelty Suit. Choice ,
jackets, satin-iined: $500 So .O5
values. G. T. P...........
Collection Of new Model Suits in
broadcloth. chiffon Panama, cheviot
. and novelties: pony.
Elton. blouse or cutaway R , nR
styles Worth sa5 to 9l3.VS
; / handsome White French Serge Suit
; in fancy Elton style elegantly trimmed
; with MORE silk and silk braid. and
; taffeta lined; slightly soiled from win
dow display. but IN may az 80 Or
. be easily cleaned; $500 ID hZsyO
; Odds and ends of Spring Coats: worth
; to $500: materials are fancy mixtures,
In Y lengths, and English
covert and black broad q = nE
cloth in short jackets. epO.yO
, G. T. P.
Covert Cloth Jackets. made in box
or fitted style, with
.. strapped seams; lined with q A M
. satin: $500 value. G. cDFoSO
. T. P.........
: The fashionable New Hip Jackets.
tailored with 90 straps in g mE
: corset effect and satin OZ eVO
lined; worth $1,000. G. T. p.
. - Coats of black taffeta silk in Elton
STYLE, lined with white or gray satin;
effect: 500, values. G. SAeVS
I. p. ...:.......-.....
. Black Panama Skirts in box
. pleated full-kilted or knee-kilted style;
. trimmed with straps and 60 zE
buttons; worth 81 to $40. epOs n ~
: G. T. P.
70 skirts of elegant black Sicllian ana
. 1 of blue, in the most ap- CO AZ
. proved closely pleated eff aDZeFO
fects:-worth $500. G T. P.
i. a stylish skirts of black Panamas
or sicilians and light and dark gray
R i1e designs: Worth worth S. and S3.4 AS
: ST. G. 7. P........-......
: Handsome $1,000 Spring Skirts Of
black. blue. brown and gray Panamas,
. and black wolfe. made in RR MR
.. box or side-pleated or SO.VS
. killed styles. G. T. P. ......
. sn,endidly fashioned Skirts of black
CHIFFON taffeta in regular and extra
sizes. showing elaborate GO MT
pleated effects; s12.9s 0S.VS
. values. G. T. P...........
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-04

THE STAR has . regular and permanent
Family Circulation much more than the
combined circulation of the other WASH
ington dallies. Az . News and Adver.
Using Medium 1t has no competitor.
Mexico Missouri message., 1907-08-22

owners loved? I remember wildly
how perplexed he was when. at the be-
ginning. the Wilson's would show him
that the investments were returning
unusually large profits.
LIT Is not right. Beulah.' he said to
me one morning after receiving q let.
ter from Baltimore to the effect that
Seaboard stock and bonds had ad.
vanced until his investment showed
over so per cent. profit, II Is not right
for US to make this money. No man
in America should make over legal
rates OF interest and fair profit on
an investment. that is, an investment
OF capital pure and simple. particu.
larry in q transportation company,
where every dollar Of profit comes
from the people who patroniza the
lines. have worked Il out on every
side. and II is not right: Il would not
be legal II the people. who make the
laws for their own betterment. un.
derstoOd their affairs an they should.
He was always writing TO the VIII
sons to conduct the affairs OF the Sea.
board so that there would be remain.
Ing each day only profits enough to
keep the road up and the wharves In
good condition and 10 pay the annual
interest and a fair dividend. And
when the Wilson's camo to our house
to lay before him the offer OF Re's.
hardt and his fellow plunderers 70
pay enormous PROFITS for the control
OF the SeaboaFd. he was indignant and
argued with them that the ofier YES
an insult to honest men. II was he
who advised the trusteeship control
OF the seaboard stock 70 prevent
Resnhart from securing control. Isat
In the library when he talked to the
elder Wilson and the directors.
Cro BE CONTINuEDl
Mexico Missouri message., 1907-08-22
Inventor Of the Boomerana.

The boomerang Ia rather a puzzle.
One might think that the highest laws
Of mathematics had been laid under
contribution In the perfecting Of Il.
The convexity on one side, the Fat.
ness on the other. and the sharp, knife
like edge on the inside OF the con.
verify have the air OF having been
carefully thought out.
Yet the people who invented this
singular weapon cannot count higher
than fiye and are destitute Of all the
arts and amenities OF life. Theirs 10
perhaps the lowest plane OF human
life.
Some people have assumed that the
boomerang was the creation OF an old.
or and higher civilization, but for this
there 70 no evidence. II must be the
product Of one aga lons empirical us-
4 throwing wsapvaA
Mexico Missouri message., 1907-08-22

man would map cut FOR himself II nix
Maker granted him the privileEl. You
would have to visit at our home to ap.
preciate my fathers character and to
understand how terrible this sorrow 10
to him. Every morning OF his life he
spends an hour after breakfast with
my dear mother. who Is a cripple from
hip disease. He take her In his arms
and brings her down hom her room TO
the library as II she we're a child. He
then reads to her-and he knows good
books as well as he knows his friends.
After he takes mother back TO her
room. he gives an hour TO our people,
the blacks OF the plantation and his
white tenants throughout the county.
He IN a father to them all. He settles
all their troubles, big and little. Then
for hours he and go over his business
affairs. Every afternoon from four to
Ave he devotes to his estates and the
men and women for whom he acts as
trustees. He has often said to me:
We have q clear million OF money and
property, and that Is all any man
should have In America. II is all he
is entitled to under our form OF gov.
eminent. ANY more than that an
honest man should in one way or an.
other return to the people from whom
he has taken II. never want my
family TO have more than q million
dollars when he went into the Sea-
board affair. he explained TO me that
II was to assist the Wllsons-they
we're old friends, and he acted as their
solicitor for yoars--in building up tho
south. He discussed with me the
right and advisabillty of putting in the
trust funds. He said he considered II
his duty to employ them as he did his
own in enterprises that would aid the
whole people Of the south. instead OF
sending them to the north to be used
In Wall street as betting for the 'Sys.
tenn grinder. These fortunes were
made In the south by men who loved
their section OF the country more than
they did wealth. and why should they
not be employed to benefit that part
OF the country which their makers and
Mexico Missouri message., 1907-08-22
USED BY THE DOCTORS.
Ninety Per Cent Of the Druss Pre-
seribed Are Patent Medicines.

Despite the opposition Of physicians,
has been neither far reaching nor
profitable. to patent" medicines, nine
ty per cent Of all drugs that physi-
clans use are put up and compounded
by manufacturing concerns.-are. In
fact, patent" medicines Just as truly
as II they were advertised In the
newspapers.
The average doctor knows little or
nothing OF pharmacy and is, there
fore, glad TO depend on the very medi-
cines, which In public he condemns,
Just as he Is obliged in many cases
to depend on the diagnosis OF the pa
tient himself. even while publicly de-
crying what he calls "self-diagnosls."
How rapid has been the growth of the
professional use Of patent" or PRO
prietary" medicines Is shown in an
article written for the Journal OF the
American Medical Association for
September 20, 1906. by A. jacob, NJ.
d.. LII. d. He relates that $4,000 pre-
scriptions, compounded in several
drug stores we're carefully examined.
From 1850 to 1870 no prescription was
found for patent" or proprietary"
medicines. In 1874 but one prescrip-
ton In 1900 called for ready-to-use
remedies. Between 1875 and 1850 the
number calling for patent" or pro
prietary" medicines equalled two per
cent Of the total. This increased to
s per cent in the period between 1880
and 1890. In 1895 It was l2 per cent,
In 1898 1t was Is per cent. and in 1909
1908 was from 20 to 20 per cent.
Or. jacob says that In a large
store he was assured that 20 per cent
Of the prescriptions were for patent"
or proprietary" medicines. and this
probably is approximately the correct
proportion at the present time. From
this 1t would seem that II the patent
and proprietary" medicines are good
enough for physicians 20 prescribe In
seven cases out OF ten they are good
enough for family use In cases Of
necessity and where the symptoms
are we'll known and as easily under
stood by the people as by the doc.
tors.
Mexico Missouri message., 1907-08-22
SLOW ron RIA INspEcroR.
chInsmsn Was Different from Any Ne
Had Had Dealings With.

When former Minister Wa Ting
Fang left this country he was accom-
panied by an extensive retinue and aS-
tended TO the steamer by a delegation
OF local Chinese merchants.
The customs oflicials, who then were
also immigration inspectors, carefully
took the names and count Of the local
Chinese as they went on board. This
precautlon was TO prevent some de-
ported or otherwise not welcome celes.
tial from effecting a landing by Joining
the merchants as they came ashore
after taking a ceremonious farewell
OF their distinguished countryman.
Half an hour or so after WI and his
friends had gone on board one Of Wu's
secretaries arrived on the dock and
was hurrying up the gangplank when
customs inspector seized him by
the arm and pulled him back on the
wharf.
'Washamalla you, John, no takee
name, you no can come back. Who
you belong?" said the inspector. smil.
ing at some girls with whom he had
been talking.
The Chinese shook loose the inspec.
tors hold on the loose sleeve OF his silk
robe and with quiet dignity remarked:
This violence is unnecessary. sir.
and my name is a matter OF no inter.
est to you. am a member of his ex-
cellency's suite. go on board this
steamer to leave this country. never
again. hope, to return"
That customs inspector Is still on
the force. but never since has he tried
TO be funny with a Chinese gentleman.
San Francisco Call.
Mexico Missouri message., 1907-08-22

dom, showing growth OF about $751;
100000 over the preceding year. Pig
iron alone shows an increase in the
IL months ending with May of nearly
S7.OO0.000 from the United Kingdom
alone, pig tin an increase u S3,500.00
and cotton cloths. cotton laces. silk.
crude India rubber and manufactures
of various sorts. as we'll as many other
less important articles. show a cOnsld.
cradle growth.
From Germany imports show an Rd.
vance Of about S26.0O0.0O0. This oc-
ours chiefly in beet sugar. chemicals,
lid gloves. silks, knit goods and paper
manufactures. the largest single In
crease being in sugar. which alone
shows an increase In the IL months
ending with May OF nearly S6.O00.000
compared with the Immediately pre-
Geding year. From France the Inn
ports show a gain OF about SCI 600. 900.
chiefly In silks, iaees. diamonds. gloves
and other manufactured articles.
Mexico Missouri message., 1907-08-22
INCREASE In IMPORTS
BENEFITS WHOLE WORLD

A LII the world. or at least all the
n grand divisions OF the world. have
profited from the large increase in i'm.
portations during the fiscal year just
ended. This gain. as-already announced
by the bureau OF statistics OF the de-
partment OF commerce and labor.
amounts to over S200.0OO.0OO com.
pared with the preceding year.
or this increase about $4,000. 900
10 In imports from Europe. $33,OOO.OO
in imports from Asia, S25. 100000 in
imports from North America. about
100000 In imports from South
America, nearly 100000 in imports
from Africa and about 100000 In Inn
ports from Oceania. The United King.
dom. Germany. France. Brazil. Japan.
British India, Cuba. Italy. Egypt and
China are the chief benefciaries from
foreign purchases by the people OF the
United States.
The largest increase In imports from
one country IL from the United King.
Mexico Missouri message., 1907-08-22

stock he would have to make public
an announcement OF his condition. as
there could be no sale without the
courts consent. His closing was:
My dear daughter. no one knows. better
than I the almost hopeiessness OF Expect
Ing any relief from your operations. But
SO hopeless have become OF late, 10
much am l reliant upon you, my dear
child. and eternal hope so springs IN all
OF US when confronted with great ncces-
stiles. that I have hoped and sim hope
that you are 60 be the savior OF your
family: that you, only a frail child. are
through Gods marvellous workings 10 DO
the one to save the honor OF that name
we both love more than life; the one TO
keep the wolf OF poverty from that door
through which so far has come nothing
but the sunshine OF prosperity and hap
piness: the one. my dear Beulah, who In
to save your old father from a diBhonored
grave. Dear child. forgive mo for plne-
ing upon your weak shoulders the addi-
tional burden OF knowing am row help
less and compelled 20 rely absolutely
upon you. After you have read my letter
II there IA no hope, I command you to tell
me 80 at once. for although I am now
financially and almost mentally helpless
am sim a Sands, and there has never
yet been one OF the name who shirked his
duty. however stern and painful Il might
be.
When handed the letter back to
Miss Sands, she said:
"MF. Randolph. let me tell you and
Mr.. BROMLEY little about my father
and our home. that you may see our
situation as It Is. by father Is one OF
the nObIest men that ever lived. ! am
not the only one wing says that--it you
were 10 ask the people OF our state 70
name the one man who had done most
for the state as a state, most for her
progressive betterment. most for her
people high and low, white and black,
they would answer. Judge Lee Sands.
He has been. and is, the idol Of our
people. After he was graduated from
Harvard. he entered the law Office Of
my grandfather, Senator Robert Lee
sanda. Before he was 30 he was In
congress and was even then repnted
the greatest orator OF our state. where
orators are SO plentiful. He married.
my mother. his second cousin, Julia
Lee. OF Richmond. AZ Is, and from
then until the attack OF that Ruthless
money shark. led life such Is q true
Mexico Missouri message., 1907-08-22
CAMPAIGN ON TO RAISE
PAY OF OUR SOLDIERS
VIZ AsHINGToN.-Apply at the re.
w cruitinR ONCE early and avoid the

VIZ ASHINGToN.-Apply at the re.
w cruiting ONCE early and avoid the
rush.
A move IL on foot to increase the
pay OF United States soldiers and sail.
ors. which was fixed more than so
years ago. and It was expected that
when the increase is granted there
will be a rush Of recruits.
II has been generally assumed that
Uncle Sans soldiers were by far the
best paid in the world. and that belief
has in large part been the cause OF
the failure of attempts made In the
past to secure increases in pay.
But now, in connection with the sys.
tematic preparations that are being
made to lay the subject OF something
wrong In the army" before congress at
the next session It has been discover.
ed that this belief is founded in error
and that several nations are much
more liberal In the treatment OF their
soldiers than IL the United States.
The fact will be brought to the at.
tention Of congress In connection
with the subject OF q general In.
crease in the salaries Of both army
and navy.
Mexico Missouri message., 1907-08-22
NO TRIAL FOR TUCKER
ON CHARGES OF WIFE

affairs Of army Officers, and that the
family skeleton is not paraded ex.
cept upon occasions which cannot be
avoided.
Mrs. Logan and Mrs. Tucker are in
Washington. When informed that
the report OF the inspector general
had been sent to Secretary Taft they
both said they had no advices con-
corning the status Of the case, that
they had not been called upon for tes-
timony by the inspectors who were as
signed TO the case, and that they had
no knowledge Of the substance Of the
report.
1T would be highly improper for Us
TO say anything at this time" said
Mrs. Logan. I'VE do not know that
the report has been prepared. We
must await its publication and know
officially Of its contents before we can
make any statement"
Mrs. Tucker shares the opinion OF
her mother and will not discuss the
case in advance OF the publication OF
the report Neither she nor Mrs.
Logan would at this time give any ex.
preston concerning plans for further
proceedings In the event the report Is,
as expected, adverse TO the charges
made against Col. Tucker. II they
contemplate TIE institution OF civil
proceedings n the courts that fact
will not - discussed until after the
report is published.
Mexico Missouri message., 1907-08-22

not settled what It is pest TO 40 about
fathers AFFAIRS"
After . little We did begin to talk
business. and finally agreed that
Beulah Ehould write her fagher. word.
Ing her letter as carefully as possible.
10 avoid all direct statements, but
showing him that she had made but
little Roadway on the work she had
come north to accomplish. Bob was a
changed being now; so. too. was Beu.
lah Sands. Both discussed their hopes
and fears with n frankness In strange
contrast 10 their former manner. But
there was one point on which Bob
showed he was holding back. l finally
put II to him bluntly: Bob. are you
working out anything that looks like
real relief for Miss Sands and her
father"
Il don't know how to answer you,
Jim. can only say have some IDEAS
radical ones perhaps. but--well. l am
thinking along certain lines"
saw he was not yet willing to take
us into his confidence. We parted.
Bob going along in the cab with Miss
Sands.
Two days afterward she sent for us
both as soon as we got to the ONCE.
II have this telegram from father
II makes me uneasy: Mailed to-day
important letter. Answer as soon as
you receive"
The following afternoon the letter
came. II showed Judge Sands In a
very nervous. uneasy state. He said
he had been living a life OF daily ter
ror, as some of his friends, for whose
estates he was trustee. had been re-
ceiying anonymous letters. advising
them to look into the judges trust af
fairs; that the Reinhart crowd had
been using renewed pressure to make
him let go all HIS Seaboard stock
which they wanted to secure at the
low prices TO which they had de
pressed II. In order that they might re
organize and carry out the scheme
they had been so long planning. Judge
Sands went on to say that the day he
was compelled to sell his Seaboart
Mexico Missouri message., 1907-08-22
TWO WAYS OF LOOKING At IT.
wlfs's snserIns Comment Met with
sharp Answer.

oelett Burgess at the recent dinner
Of the American Booksellers associa.
ton Of New York said: Il once knew
. San Franciscan who married q girl
for her money. She was not q pretty
girl, and a. time passed and love
Cooled. she developed u rather tart
tongue.
''one day her husband bought with
his quarters allowance q 20.horss.
power automobile. He took the car
home gRyly and brought his wife out
to the front door to look at L. She
gave one sneering glance. and then
said:
It's very fne, but II Il hadn't
been for my money, Il wouldn't be
here
"'wsll. Mamie said the husband,
quickly, II Il hadn't been for your
money you wouldn't DO here your
sOlf's
Mexico Missouri message., 1907-08-22

n OIL. WILLIAM F. TUCKER Of the
~ pay department of the army. hus.
band OF the daughter Of Mrs. John A.
Logan, who is now stationed at Chi.
cago. will not be court.martialed on
the charges preferred against him by
his wife.
This 10 the opinion Of army officers
who are familiar with the contents
of the report which has been made
after a full and careful investigation
OF the charges. The inspector general
of the army has had several OF his
best inspectors at work on the case.
and testimony has been sought upon
the Pacific slope and In the Philip
pines.
The report has been prepared and
forwarded TO Secretary Taft, who Is
at Murray Bay enjoying a vacation.
II 10 expected that Secretary TAFT will
act upon the report before starting
for the Philippines.
Army officers who are In a posi-.
ton 10 know the substance OF the re-
port say that the inspectors have
not found sufficient evidence 70 war.
rant the department In ordering a
court.martial. Mrs. Tucker has the
civil courts open to her for redress
II she desires, and may sue for a
divorce without consulting the ON
ciAls OF the war department. but ON.
cials say the department goes slowly
In all matters affecting the private
Mexico Missouri message., 1907-08-22
NAVY WITHOUT DENTISTS;
, TEETH OF SAILORS BAD

OF dentists to attend to the needs OF
the enlisted men in the service and
the creation Of 4 corps OF women
nurses. In his last report Gen. Rlxoy
showed. and also when he appeared
before the house and senate naval az
fairs committees. that a very large
percentage OF the sickness In the navy
was directly attributable 20 tho ZACH
Of dentists aboard ship and AZ the
various naval stations. He said be
considered this one Of the most knpor
tant matters upon which congress-
could act. as the whole ability Of ths
Galore properly 70 psFsorm their do
ties was dependent upon their physk
cal stAtA tNt t~ kfl i3
Mexico Missouri message., 1907-08-22

VIZ It'll $4,000 enlisted men in its
w service. dependent almost wholly
ON the aid they receive aboard ship.
there Is not dentist In the whole
naval. service. This Is the showing
that Surgeon General Rixey viii make
to congress at It's session this winter.
Gea- Rixey will urge three impor.
tant measures. upon which he Is now
workibg. and which will later be in.
eorpUrated In hts annual report 70 be
submitted TO the secretary OF the
navy. He win urge In the strongest
terms possible that congress pass a Law
authorizing the reorganization and en-
iArgement Of the naval hospital corps,
the smploTnsnt Of 3 sufAelsat aumbsI
Mexico Missouri message., 1907-08-22
GIs sSTSIi5I ISFeST7TSsS o1scTR
esS9sa

A Canadian sergeant, for instance.
enters upon his service with a wage
OF one dollar per day, which increases
according to the provisions OF the lon
gevity laws to 1l.25.
The American sergeant gets SIS .
month at FIRST. and the expenses are
larger than the Canadian non-commls-
stoned officer. because Of the consider
able difference In the scale OF living
and the lower tariff rates upon the
necessities OF life IN Canada
Even Cuba pays her soldiers threa
times as much as the American pri-
vate. The Cuban rural guard gets
the pay Of n New York policeman.
Other countries than these two ex-
coed America in the pay allowed their
soldiers. and data IL being gotten to-
gether to mako up q strong case TO
demonstrate TO congress that the real
reason for the numerous assertions
from the American army Is not dissat-
isfaction with the hard work, or dis
like for some particular oficer. nor
even the lack of a simple and we'll reg.
ulated canteen. but the small wage
paid to the soldier compared with the
compensation In civil life.
Mexico Missouri message., 1907-08-22
WIaeonnln Mink Farm.

A recent venture not yet listed a.
paying or otherwise 10 a mink farm.
started BY man In northern Wis.
consin. who. noting the popularity OF
mink and the scaroenesa OF gOoa
skins has turned his few acres into q
mink farm from which be hopas ~
make tig profits.