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A Native Of the District,
PLAY Halls for Steamships.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON, October "A dispatch to the
Evening News from Liverpool states that
the Cunard Steamship Company has ac-
copied Charles Frohman's offer to provide
suitable plays and concerts. and that a
hall specially designed for such perform
ances will be provided on each of the three
Cunard steamships that are now projected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-02
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out. All high grade makes, and
every instrument is in perfect
condition. Here are a few of
the bargains:
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Gen. Franz Sigeps daughter. Mrs. Leila
Solohl. pulled the cord which loosed the
civil war hero on the slope of Woodlawn
cemetery, New York, Sunday. There were
gathered about the monument the children
and grandchildren and other relatives of
Gen. Sigel, members OF the G. A. r. COM
rades and members of the United German
Singing Societies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-02
DUVALL IS SELECTED.
Appointed Major General to
Succeed McCaskey.
WOTHERSPOON ALSO RAISED
Question of Seniority Ignored by the
President.
CONSIDERATIONS THAT RULED
Funston the Senior Brigadier General.
Interesting Competition in
the Army Ended.
CONSIDERATIONS THAT RULE1

1t was announced at the War Department
today that the President has appointed
Brig Gen. William P. Duvall major general
In the army, vice Maj. Gen. William 8.
McCaskey. commanding the Department OF
Dakota, at st. Paul, who was retired to-
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-08
OF COURSE HE DID.

He was a Pittsburgh millionaire, and
life was sweet to him. He sat in his
library felicitating himself on his good
health and the size Of his bank account
when his butler entered and handed him
a letter on a silver salver. 1t was none of
your triple-plated affairs, but the genuine
stun. II made the butler's arm ache to
hold 1t out.
The millionaire was used to receiving
kilograms, but as he held this In his
hand something told him that he was
sitting In the shadow of death For a
moment he felt weak in the knees. and
the butler was about to take advantage
Of the fact and ask for raise OF wages
when the man braced up ana opened the
envelope. The message contained but two
words-"Come on
\one who knew. 1t meant that he must go
}fo the metropolis on business.
W He telephoned to his lawyer.
VA The lawyer came and drew up a will.
Y Then he called his wife In and bade her
goodbye.
Then he went to the nursery and kissed
his two sleeping children.
Then he telephoned to three different
parties that he was about to die, and that
he had named them as executors Of his
will.
Pausing for one last look around him,
the man then thrust the quarterly re-
ports of railroad accidents for 1907 in his
pocket and was conveyed to the train and
q sleeper. An hour later, as the train
sped on through the darkness. there was
a head-on collision. Both engineers had
forgotten" Both conductors were play
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-08
A COPS REWARD.

was ready to commit suicide In fact,
was on my way to the river to END all
when / encountered you. Same man.
same red hair and whiskers-same sneer
in his voice But you were good to me.
You at first started to club me. but when
you saw tears In my eyes you put your
arm around me and asked what was tho
matter. confded all to you. When !
had done so you put your hand in your
pocket and handed me out fve-dollar
bill and told me to 60 and try again.
You must remember me?"
The cop didn't. He hadn't been on the
force year. But he thought be saw
something coming to him and ne lied
about 1t.
"Ah, I knew you would remember"
continued the other. with the fve dol
lars and your blessing I went away.
went to South Africa. I discovered dia-
mond nine made millions. Every day
and all the time l thought of you, and
now, at last, / am here to reward you.
Take this sealed envelope and remember
that kindness is never thrown away,
and that virtue is its own reward"
The man placed sealed envelope In
the officers hands and walked away. The
cop turned to the gas light and opened
it with his heart pounding his ribs. II
contained a note of hand, due ten years
hence, for million dollars. He saw the
tramp in the darkness and started for
him on the run, but he wasn't in 1t.
There was humping Of the pavement
ahead of him for a moment, and then he
was all alone on the street.
JOE KERR.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-08
RUNNING A. CHICKEN FARM.

you will thus<be realizing on the capital
invested all the time.
If hen refuses to set argue the point
with her. If she Is still obdurate spite
her to the nest.
BY turning the lamps In the incubators
up or down you can have either cold or
roast chicken. Buy your lime b.. the car
load. Own your own gravel bank. It's
wonderful how much patent chicken food
you can buy for thousand dollars spot
cash.
Keep whitewashing the coops
Keep doctoring the hens for the gapes.
own your own mill and grind your own
corn meal.
own your own oyster beds and furnish
your own shells.
Don't let the fellow with gold mine
come around and make you tired.
Never mind the chap who has made a
million out Of wheat
The man with diamond mine isn't in
It, You have got big thing-a rich
thing-a fortune right under your thumb.
Stick right to It, and after you have made
several millions at It come out Into public
view and let US run you for Governor OF
the state. JOE KERR.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-08

pick up ten acres of land somewhere,
and don't be too particular about 1t,
Many man who might have made tens
OF thousands of dollars in the chicken
business hasn't made a Gent because he
was too particular
Pick up a house and barn and team OF
horses with the land, If they happen to
come to hand Also. couple OF thou
sand In cash to buy chickens and incqba-
tore. You can steal SOME Of your chick
ems, but not enough to make any snow
with.
You want to engage a good man. You
don't want preacher nor coDDier; he
must know something about the chicken
business.
Then You want chicken yards Pick up
a hundred dollars worth Of lumber ana
three hundred dollars worth OF wire.
Take a dark night for 1t.
Then You must have carpenter and a
laborer, but when through with them
stand them off for their pay Ihe more
stand-offs In the chicken business the
more money for you.
Get about two hundred roosters 70 the
same number Of hens. If the hens fan to
Law the roosters won't fail to crow, and
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-08
snapped the line and got away.

snapped the line and got away!
accommodates Thought he might get one
little bite, perhaps just little one to
brag about and make the stay-at homes
enyious.
Rowed over to the usual spot.
Spat on the bait in the usual way.
Sat and ished for a good hour and
hummed the air of Old Black Joe to
himself Also, hummed other airs. Also.
cussed more or less. Was still humming
and cussing
When all of a sudden
And with no more warning
Than when a butcher presents a bill
for eight dollars. he grabbed the bait.
Who was be? Why, a twenty pound
pickerel, of course. Regular old patriarch.
Regular old soaker. Must have been at
least ten years old. Must have been the
boss of that lake Yes, sir, he seized and
grabbed and yanked and hauled and
pulled, and / was never SO scared in my
life. / had fnch-rope for a line and a
hook that would hold horse, and went
at 1t to play him.
Played him just one hour and half by
the watch. was as wet through as IL
had fallen overheard. That fish towed
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-08
BY all the signs Of nature
September days are here.
With autumn's best of weather
And autumn's best Of cheer.

rod and left the frisky humble bee very
severely alone.
But, alas, the day came when they
must part They held hands and looked
into each others eyes.
Ronald, tell me Of yourself" she said.
"Floor-walker for swipes & Co. at SIS
per, and no show for advancement" he
replied. ANA now Of your
! ''saies girl in the celluloid department
of Johnson & Day at 81 per, and l ex-
pect to be cut to six when I get home.
No wonder our souls have been In unison.
Shall you ever forget?'
Hardly ever. Farewell"
JOE KERR.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-08
THE PARTING.

They had reached the summer hotel the
same day-a month before. He was a
young man of twenty three, and she a
young lady two years younger.
They had been attracted to each other
from the first. She had a cunning dimple
in her cheek. and he had two gold.flled
teeth. From this they knew that their
hearts throbbed in unison.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-08

They had sought each other out and
talked of the poets, the sunrises. the
sunsets and the sad sea waves. They
were In accord, even to saying that the
landlord was hog for setting such meals
as he did before them.
In the delightful evening, while the
other guests were playing poker and skin
ming each other, Ronald and Gussie sat
In the darkest corner of the veranda and
squeezed hands and wondered If there
were any onewinged angels in Heaven.
Sometimes they rowed on the millpond.
He rowed softly that they might listen
to the voice Of the big bullfrogs and the
plaintive notes of the whippoorwill. and
the water leaked in until their ankles
were wet and they said nothing.
And sometimes they wandered MAR
DER the lea, If you know what that is.
and they culled the daisy and the golden
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-08

1t happened just week before he had
to start for home.
Oh, yes. he had been fishing forty diff
ferent times, but he hadn't had SO much
as a nibble.
East winds, you know! Fish all lying at
.he bottom. Weather too hot or. too cold.
Didn't feel exactly in the mood for haul
ing out the hnny tribe.
Was advised to have one more try at
1t. Hadn't much hopes, but wished to
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-08
THE USUAL RESULT.

the boat over two miles, and just when
! thought had him tuckered out and
was going to land him
He
Snapped the line
And got away!
JOE KERR.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-08

/, The big bells and the little bells and all
the clocks in town were on the point OF
striking midnight when the cop who was
about to lean up against lamp post and
catch a few minutes sleep was ap-
preached by a trampish looking man who
began:
''sir. was In this town fifteen years
ago."
''weI, what of itT' asked the officer.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-08
THE OPERA MANAGER.

He gazed upon the distant sky.
With consultations cleaning;
He caught his breath and heayed sigh
And murmured, Am dreaming?
II never hoped-and still I doubt
My fancy overzealous-
TO see so many stars come out
At once and not get Jealous"
Mrs. Hixon-willie seems to be quite
sick the last few days.
Mr. aixon-schooi opens pretty soon
now.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-08

ing poker with drummers. Twenty-three
persons killed and forty injured. and
among the killed the millionaire. But he
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-10

members of the House Naval Commit
tee in the last House on a trip of in
speetion to Eastern yards. OF course
the government is spending large sums
of money annually in the maintenance
and Improvement of the navy yards,
beginning at Portsmouth and Boston
and extending far down the Atlantic
coast. 1t is necessary that the commit
tee on naval affairs should be possessed
of information at first hand in legis-
lating on such an important appropria
tion bill as the navy bill has come TO
be. At the same time it is nice cool
cruise for the committee to take in the
middle of August and, of course, no
member of the committee pays any
thing for the long and pleasant ocean
sail on the Dolphin.
For several years she has been max
ing two annual cruises that have come
to be looked upon as warranted by Off
eial precedent. One of these is a spring
cruise to the West Indies. That Is
taken usually along in March, and never
later than April. Mr.. Justice Moody,
of the Supreme Court of the United
States, was one of the first to start this
practice. As Secretary of the Navy
he used to take party of prominent
official friends down to the West Indies
every SDriDp NOmiually tho cruisa yvas
for an inspection of the naval station
at Guantanamo or something like it.
To be sure the Secretary and other navy
authorities, including often Speaker
Cannon, gained information for the ad-
vantage of the government on the trips.
But the West Indies teemed with
problems that the statesmen felt they
ought to study. They improved the
opportunity for studying the conditions
in Cuba. That assured them an oppor-
tunity of visiting Havana at the height
of the pleasant winter season. More
over, the Secretary and his friends were
generally weary of official duties at
about the time the West Indian cruise
was proposed. 1t gave them a splendid
chance to reeuperate. Mr.. Bonaparte,
as Secretary of the Navy, was not
strong on cruising, although he used
the Dolphin for giving some official en-
tertainments, as did John D. Long. when
he was Secretary. But Secretary Net
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SWIFT GOING
NAVAL SCOUT

QUINCY, Mass, July pa new
type of war vessel and one that IS
expected to add greatly to the efficien-
cy of the navy in time of war, was
launched today from the yards of the
Fore river shipbuilding company, The
vessel is the scout cruiser Salem
whose duty it will be in time of war
to look for and report the movements
of an enemy.
The Salem is to have a speed of "A
knots. This is greater than that of
any cruiser in the navy. Several scout
boats now building for the British
navy are to have slightly greater
speed, but the American scout is ex-
pected to maintain its speed in any
sort Of weather and win have twice
the coal capacity of the British ship,
thus giving it a much greater radius
OF action. No other vessel in the navy
has so high a freeboard as the Salem.
This insures good seagoing qualities,
gives stability and provides safe
and dry vessel under all weather con-
ditions.
The Salem is 423 feet inches long,
has breadth of 46 feet inches and
a draught of 10 feet l IL inches. It's
displacement, fully loaded, is 1910
tons. It's battery viii consist of three
5-ineh rapid fire guns and it viii have
two submerged torpedo tubes.
Propelling power for the new cruis-
er win be supplied by Curtis marine
turbines and there will be II water
tube boilers. Quarters for IS officers
and ala men will be provided.
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p. G.. JONES STANDS UP
FOR AMERICAN FLAG

japanese boats, because of their speed
What will be the effect upon on
| Pacific Mail vessels? They will b.
forced to give up this port and go di
rect TO and from the Orient and the
Coast. The Pacific Mail Go. has five
fine ships under the American fias
touching here TO and from the Orient
and TO have these boats removed viii
/ be a great loss to this Territory.
/ With slight changes in their sailings
| better accommodation can be given to
our people here. There are four other
vessels now plying between this port
and the Coast under the American flag,
but let other nations come in and take
the cream of the trade, and these
steamers will all leave US and we shah
be completely at the mercy of these
foreign vessels. can not feel that we
as good Americans can turn our backs
upon the American flag and give our
patronage to foreign flags. 1 consider
it an unwise thing to advocate the
change in our laws regulating our
shipping.
II reminds me of the action of some
of our Americans during the Civil War,
placing their ships under the English
flag TO avoid capture by Confederate
vessels. I once entered an English
vessel consigned to our, house, at the
custom house. Col. w. F. Allen was
the collector. Mr.. Allen asked the
captain his name, which he gave; he
then asked him if he was an English
man: the captain replied: MY name
is James Madison WincheI, and have
a twin brother whose name is Andrew
Jackson Winchell. Does that sound
EngIish?''
He evidently was proud of his name
but ashamed of the flag he was sailing |
under, and 1 should think all English |
men would have been ashamed of him. |
[ certainly was.
I firmly believe that to remove the |
now in force to protect !,
American shipping viii result in driv-
ng the American flag from the Paci-
&c ocean.
1t may properly be asked, What
would you do about it? 1 answer: We
nave heard from many of our repre-
sentatives who visited us lately, that
we Islanders viii have a strong and
powerful influence in washington. Now
If this is so, and / believe it is, I
would suggest that we all unite (every
society here), and make a strong plea
% Washington to preserve the Ameff-
IAN flag in the Pacific ocean by pass
ng a substantial subsidy for American
steamers, to enable them to compete
with steamers of England. France,
Germany and Japan, all of which are
now heavily subsidized by their re-
;pective governments, and would ad-
vocate sending two or three of our
pest men to Washington to press this
all important matter before Congress.
Better suffer the ills we have than
Nv to others we know not of
Honolulu, August 9, 1907.
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An afternoon paper contains the fol
lowing monograph by P. C. Jones OF
the question Of suspending the coast
wise shipping law for the sake of pro-
vfding needed transportation:
1 regret exceedingly that two press
ing engagements prevented me from
being present at the meeting yester-
day TO hear the addresses by Messrs,
Thurston and McCandless and the re-
DIV of Secretary Straus. I noted the
earnest pleading of Mr.. McCandless to
have the restrictions removed in order
that our people and tourists might
travel on foreign vessels between here
and the mainland. I wish TO present
the other side of this question, which
] will call the patriotic side:
Our papers and our people have been
urging for the last few years the neces>
sity of Americanizing these islands,
and our planters have expended hun
dreds of thousands of dollars for this
object, by introducing a class of labor
ers who could be Americanized, and
are willing to continue this for that
not assisted in this work by any finan-
cial help.
Now our Promotion Committee cries
out to have these restrictions removed
so that people can travel on vessels
under foreign flags. Is this good Amer |
icanism? 1 should say not.
American steamers are now strug- !
Cling along, trying to compete with
other nations. more favored by their
than the United States
and some of our Ameri-
can lines have been forced to withdraw
their ships after losing millions of dol
lars in their efforts to keep the Ameri.
ran flag afloat.
The Southern Pacific Railway Co.
expended last year 100000 in adver-
Using these islands, hoping to draw the
tourist travel this way, and proposes
to spend double that sum during the
present year. Is # fair to treat this
company by urging our Government to
remove the present restrictions and al
low English and japanese steamers to
come in and reap the benefit, these
foreign vessels being subsidized by
their respective governments?
We read in the papers that both the
English and Japanese boats are to be
placed on the routes, boats capable
If making twenty knots an hour-the
English boats from Australia to Van
,ouver, and the Japanese boats from
The Orient to San Francisco-the for
ner running direct and not stopping
at the islands, while the latter viii
make this a stopping port. Now, sup
pose the restrictions are removed, 1
venture to assert that every English
boat viii stop here and get large
trade in passengers by so doing, While
,ur people will be sure to patronize the
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@fhat man going along
with his head in the air. shifting with
his nose? Gotham-Yes; I know him.
Church. suppose he believes in taking
in the good. pure ozone? Gotham-No:
he's hunting for an automobile garage,
I believe.-Yonkersa Statesman.
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Il hear there's a new baby at your
house" said Gilman. Yes" replied
Subbubs: and such luck-it's a girl
But I thought you wanted a boy" II
did at first; but then our cook an
nounced that she didn't like boy
babies. ''-Philadelphfa Press.
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Young Lady-You are a wonderful
master of the piano, I hear. Profess
scr Won Spieler (hired for the occa sion)
I blay Accomplishments zometn .es."
Accomplishments TO singing?" "Ag-
compartments to conversations. -
Taller.
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SUMMER DAYS
IN WASHINGTON
CONTINUED from Page one.)

Continued from Page One)
cordial relations that have existed so
long between two friendly nations.
The progress of Japan in taking hold
of the government of Korea and in de-
posing the emperor is followed with
keen interest at the capital as it is at
Oyster Bay. The deposition of the
Emperor, however, was no surprise to
the President or to those in his conf
dence. Secretary Taft ON his last trip
to the Philippines visited at Toxic and
was informed of the plans that Japan
had. He was told the Koreans had so
degenerated that some strong removal
ting influences were necessary and IN
the Judgment of the japanese officials
this could be effected in no other way
than by the occupation of the country.
THE BATTLESHIPS.
The President seems to have put his
ban upon further extensive advertise
ment of the preparations for sending
the battleship fleet to the Pacific. While
these preparations are understood to be
going on, less is being said about 1t
and the country is paying less attention.
Some think that the battleship fleet
may not sail as early as was announced
at first. The denuneiatiOn of the spec
taeular plan was almost nation wide.
The President came in for criticism in
that connection and Secretary of the
Navy Metealf was roughly handled by
editors and publieists.
OFFICIAL JUNKETS.
A summer incident at the Navy De
partment, which has called forth the
usual cynical comment, has been the
preparations of the good ship Dolphin
for cruise to the North Atlantic. She
is the great junket ship of the navy and
has taken more officials around on free
pleasure trips than any boat now in
commission. This time she is to carry