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the District They may. and again they
may not. eliminate smoke on their own
Initiative. The railroad corporations are
famous for promising reforms when re-
formatory legislation threatens. But their
performances are often far short of their
pledges. This community Is not alone in
having learned the lesson that no reliance
is to be placed upon the good intentions
of a railroad menaced with a law which
later fails of enactment.
If the railroads are sincere in their be-
lief that coke as fuel will prevent smoke,
and in their intention to use it henceforth
In this District, why should they not be
willing to have the pending bill passed?
Why the Kean reconsi, Grafton motion II
they honestly believe the proposed law
can be fully complied with by this means?
There is q suggestion of bad faith some
where In this maneuver to block the pass
age of the bill.
Perhaps the railroads are sensitive about
being compelled by laS to do that which
they are willing to do on their own motion.
Maybe they are like the small boy who
resents being forced to go to bed when he
has ignored the first parental command.
He may 60 under moral pressure, and again
he may not. Small boys have been known
to hide and slip away.
1t will be a deplorable spectacle if this
one motion should block the whole process.
Are there not votes enough in the Senate
in favor of a clean city and a high rail-
road standard to bring this bill out of its
present preposterous position? Surely the
Senate is not disposed thus to have its own
action nullified by single objection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
Peace.

The kaiser, dressed in field marshal 8
uniform and wearing a helmet, opened the
reichstag yesterday and talked peace. King
Edward few days ago, fresh from a visit
to Paris, where he had still further jolled
his latest ally, opened parliament and
talked peace. France holds together on the
most delicate Of domestic questions in order
that her influence may count in the equation
of general peace. Russia is going to The
Hague to talk peace, but her preparations
for a new navy and reorganized army go
on. Uncle Sam talks peace, but is still car
rying his big stick 1t is peace all right,
because every fellow is ready, or getting
ready, for the other thing. That condition
will remain. At this time of day peace is
to be assured by no other means War has
been hell from the beginning, is hell now,
and will be hell while man continues, as he
is slightly below the angels. So the way
to avoid war is to be good and ready for it.
The greatest and the best returns are from
the money spent in keeping fighting ma
chimes in order.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20

upon the skies to do the street cleaning for
them. They pray for rain to supplement
the efforts Of the broom brigades and the
batteries of machines. The streets at pres
ent are in a shameful condition because
nature has been neglectful of this duty.
For some inscrutable reason the regular
street cleaning schedules have been sus-
pended in whole or In part for many days.
In consequence of that neglect and the
lack of securing rains the majority of the
streets are Shiny with black mud, foul
smelling. clothes soiling. temper trying and
health menacing Save on few Of the prin-
cipal thoroughfares the pedestrian crosses
from curb to curb through thick puddles,
alternately freexinS and thawing. No
broom has touched the asphalt in at least
one-haH of the streets for more than q
fortnight.
Who Is responsible for this policy of
dependence upon the rains for public
cleanliness? Is there not money enough to
maintain the regular schedules throughout
the year? If this Is the standard of local
good government there is urgent need of
reform.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
Trusting to Nature.

Some years ago Washingtonians awoke
to the fact that the street lighting system
in vogue here was crude and unreliable.
The schedule for lighting the gas lamps
then the sole means of public Illumination
was adjusted to the phases of the moon.
When that luminary passed into the Sec
ond quarter the lamps were put out Of COM
mission and remained dark until the moon
went into the fourth quarter. AS long as
the skies were clear the city was fairly
well lighted from on high during that
period When the clouds gathered Wash
ington was dark. The result was that
citizens had to consult the almanac and the
weather DEMONSTRATING the latter credence
in proportion to past experiences--in order
to determine whether it was safe to ven
ture out of doors at certain times
This system gave rise to such deplorable
conditions that finally The Star conducted
a campaign for continuous street lighting
and succeeded in securing the abandonment
of the moon as a local official illuminant
Since then the streets have been on every
night of the year at least dotted with light
spaces after nightfali, even though feebly.
But the habit of trusting to the ele-
ments to do the municipal work has not
been entirely cured. The District build
ing authorities still rely to a large extent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
PHILADELPHIA BacksliGes.

Philadelphia has returned to the machine
rule by majority estimated from 10000
to 10000. The bosses, led by Penrose, have
elected their mayor and other municipal
officers and the reform movement has been
given a serious setback. The reformers
put up an excellent candidate and pitched
their campaign in a high key of civic
progress and purity. There was every
son for the citizens who have during the
past few years learned the truth about the
old gang to cast their votes for Potter. But
the party cries of the machine were eff
fective and the old guard rallied to the
standard Forgotten were the disclosures
of graft. Ignored Were the revelations of
shameless plundering. Discounted were
the menaces to public health involved in
dishonest work for which favorites of the
ring had received great profits The party
call was sounded and the party responded.
Such a citizenship deserves to suffer loss.
shame and disaster. 1t is fair prey for
the ringsters and political swndlers who
have prospered in the past and will doubt
less continue to thrive in the rich field of a
wealthy, careless, conscience dulled COM
munity. Nevertheless the spectacle of
Philadelphia returning to the old machine
allegiance after all the scandals and
veals the weakness of purpose which is the
main fault today of our American voters
in municipal elections. The honest citizen,
who is alive to the possibilities for evil
of a corrupt political machine, isin duty
bound to play his part at every stage of the
process. to work as diligently between
elections as in the heat of a campaign, to
participate in primaries, to lend hand in
organization. His vote is but final token
of his political activity. But in many
indeed 1t is to be feared in most--of our
cities the average honest citizen thus does
the necessary work of reform agitation
lid and precipitates a sensation. He Is
subject to spasms of virtue, and his ac-
tivity is intermittent. The professional
politician. however, never rests. With him
the control of primaries and the delivery
of votes is vocation, the direct means TO
the end of making living.
Not until the average citizen discovers
that politics is more than an avocatfon,
and that only through clean politics can
city be honestly run, and graft prevented.
and the public welfare conserved, will our
cities be brought permanently to the higher
plane to which they are occasionally ele-
waited in times of exceptional public excite
ment Philadelphia has in times past
demonstrated the possession of a majority
of honest voters. Yesterday enough of
these honest voters stayed home or Joined
the ranks of the corrupt machine to restore
to power the gang that has heretofore made
that city paradise for plunderers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
The President and the Tariff.

In acknowledging the receipt of the pc
tition from Massachusetts asking for tarin
revision the President said all that was
prudent probably at this time. Gov. Guild
and the people of the state have the as
suranCe that the matter will be considered
There is truth in the assertion. often
quoted that the Bay staters are special
pleaders in this business. They are moved
alone by local interests. The inequalities
of the Dngley law are very few in their
eyes. What they want, and all they want,
is the removal of the duty from the raw
materials that enter INTO their manufac-
lures. The rest is silence No reduction
of the schedules relating to the finished
products which they turn out. In their
opinion. that would be Unwise. 1t certain
~ would reduce their profits at that end of
the line. ., re-.
While the tariff in a sense is local
question. it cannot be approached by Con-
gress in that light. When it comes to legis-
latiun all localities and all interests must
he taken into account There are commune
tics-take Observation-Disclosures chiefly
if not solely. about free raw materials. and
resisting all suggestions about lower rates
on manufactured articles. There are COM
munties-take Louisiana-thinking solely
about protection for a local industry. but
willing to force free trade in other things
on the country.
A revision of the tariff, ii needs not TO DE
stated is a matter of give and take, Massa-
chusetts must consider other states Free
raw materials would call for reduction IN
duties on manufactures into which they had
entered. Louisiana must consider other
states Protection for sugar calls for pro-
lection for other things. And so on.
The main. the guiding. proposition is pro-
lection. In whatever is done the American
policy. which has justified itself so long, so
completely, and in so many ways, should
be kept steadfastly in view, and, it is safe
To say. will be. 1t is this fact which makes
the movement for revision entirely safe.
Business interests are. not menaced by any
threat of a doctrinaire sentiment. The Old
challenge to protection of a battle to the
death is 10 longer ringing. .. .,,
The President moves cautiously, not to
say cat-footedly, instructed probably by his
experience of a few years ago, when he
started hot -footedly for revision, but pulled
up suddenly, and rather unaccountabfy.
When next he starts he should go on: and
maybe the best time will be next winter,
when many people will be expecting word
or two from him on the subject in his regu-
Lar, vecommendations to Congress-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
The Smoke Law Blockade.

Is the bill extending the smoke law to in
clude railroad engines to die because one
senator has offered motion to reconsider
IN" vote by which 1t passed the Senate? Is
there not sufficient sentiment in that body
TO cause this motion TO be tabled?
was. not many years ago, when 1t
was as diffcult to secure from the Senate
legislation inimical to the railroads as to
drive the proverbial camel through the eye
of a needle. The channel was narrow and
easily blocked. But a change has of late
come over the legislative spirit and this
difficulty has been, at least in theory re-
duced. Here is a chance for the friends Of
the national capital and the advocates of
sanitary municipal conditions to test the
situation and ascertain whether there is any
practical lessening of the obstructive power
of the railroads.
1t should be remembered that the issue
involved in this bill does not alone at
feet the local community. Every member
OF Congress has an interest In the fate of
the measure. II the railroad smoke nuisance
is not abated it will directly and seriously
affect the comfort and health of all offic.a al
occupants of the hill group of public build
ings. With the railroad traffic concentrated
within few blocks of the Capitol every
northerly wind win bring dense clouds of
smoke, SCOT and gas into that building and
all the other members of the group. During
the days of spring and summer in the
course of long sessions the effect will be
such as quickly to persuade the Senate, II
not the House. that il would have been bet
ter to prevent this evil by legislative means
before its growth.
No reliance should be place in the dec
laration by the railroad authorities that
they are preparing to use coke as q fuel In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
ConStancy,

tbs the sunshiny song and the laughter
That give life its greatest alloy.
No sorrow that darkens thereafter
Can blot out an hour of true joy.
Though the season be bitter and cherries,
We know what the waiting is worth,
And We face it contented and fearless
Till June treads the poisoning earth.
When winter is stern and depressing.
A sky momentarily blue
Or breeze from the south, half caressing
Brings radiant visions to view.
In fancy the rose that has vanished
Blooms forth, while bird carols clear.
The storm and the stress soon are ban
ished,
But summer survives the whole year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
The Billion-Dollar Session.
From the New York Sun.


The present session of Congress promises
to be record-breaker in the matter of ap-
preparations From all present indications
the total will. come very close to the billion
dollar mark There is a possibility that II
may cross that mark. 1t is not easy to see
just where any important economies could
be effected in our budget A few millions
could be saved here and there, perhaps
but their total would be comparatively in
considerable. A few dollars could be saved
here and there by the adoption of better
business methods in some of the depart
ments, but the total would be no-very i'm
portant sum. Our navy is none too large,
and there are branches of the military serv-
ice which almost demand expansion be-
yond their present strength. Our pension
roll is enormous, but it's reduction would
meet no public approval. Our postal serv.
Ice costs vast sum, but 1t is vast bust
ness. So long as general prosperity con-
tinues we can carry our expenditures with
little inconvenience and with little under
standing of their magnitude.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
No Change Wante-. in,School Hours.

The conferees on the District appropria-
ton bill are now in session, shaping the
local budget for final passage. On one
item. which has absolutely no financial
aspect. the attention OF the entire COM
munity is now conferred. This proposes to
fix the hours of the public schools from
. am. to pm, an extension of one hour
for all grades of school. From the first
announcement of the adoption of the
amendment to this effect by the Senate
there has been an unbroken chorus of pro-
test. Parents and teachers alike have de-
clared themselves unaterably opposed to
such change, on the ground that it would
operate harmfully upon the health of the
children of Washington. The superintend-
ent of schools has announced his opposi-
ton. Notwithstanding his well-known advo-
cacy of longer noon hour for dinner. All
the subordinate school officials have spoken
in similar vein.
Whatever is done in conference to the
end of eliminating this amendment should
in all mercy to an anxious community, be
done early and should be promptly an
nounced. II is at least due to the District
that so important change. affecting ser-
Ously the welfare OF thousands, should be
debated if there is any earnest purpose to
carry it into effect. 1t had never been
preached until the amendment was offered
and accepted without a vote 1t came as a
complete surprise to everybody and there
is ground for expecting those who are
favorable 10 the extension of the hours to
advance their reasons for desiring the
revolutionary change. Ii the conferees
have any doubt whatever as to the wish
of the people in this matter they have but
10 give them a chance to express their
views at hearing and there can be no
doubt of the overwhelming demonstration
Of sentiment favorable to the retention of
the existing hours OF school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
SHOOTING STARS.
A Condition Of Doubt.

Remember said the lawyer, you have
undertaken to'tell nothing but the truth
'I'll do my BEST answered the expert
witness, but I WON'T know how far
have succeeded until I'm through with the
REORGANIZATION"
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Fortunately.

"You cannot fully explain sun spots or
earthquakes, can your
fortunately, no." answered the profess
sor. IF these things We're fully and salts
factorily explained, there would be no fur
Their demand for magazine articles about
Them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
Saving Time.

why do you insist on writing up your
own deeds?" asked the secretary
!. Because answered Julius Caesar, 81
don't want to be bothered Correcting I'M
authorized interviews"
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Manufacturers Samples
Knit Underwear.

So dozen Manufacturers Samples
of Women's Swiss Ribbed Vests and
Pants, in spring and sumner
weights. All sizes in the lot, and the
qualities are excellent.
asc., 3sc. and soc. the garment.
x, to "a less than regular prices,
Main Aeor. ~
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Mems Fancy Suits
At Reduced Prices.

AlI~vS1 f have made still fur.
nm ther reductions on a
NkAAS number of lines of
Fancy Suits. This sale
offers an excellent opportunity to
the thrifty man to secure at a small
outlay an excellent suit to finish out
the winter, or to lay aside for future
USE
Suits that were
$500, $1,000 and $500
Now $1,000 each.
Suits that were
$1,000 to $1,000
Now $I2.5o each.
AT least half of these suits are the
famous Stein-Bloch Co.'S make.
Main floor. Tenth st.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
Specials i'm
White Goods.

5000 yards 32-inch White Mer-
cerized Rep or Poplin. The yarn is
mercerized, thus insuring perfect
laundering
CSC. yard. Regularly 371ac.
5000 yards Pure Linen Lawn,
very sheer and an excellent quality.
Special price, 75c. yard
5000 yards 45-inch French Lawn
"a standard fabric with us for
many years, and the best value OBJ
tainable.
25c yard.
Second floor, Eleventh ST.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
A Bad Dream,

How did the Chinese get their idea Of a
dragon as their national emblem?"
Il don't know answered the unscien-
tific person; 'but it probably had its origin
in the opium habit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
An Excellent Value i'm
Women's Shoes.

~ PECIAL attention is called
MA to lot of Women's Dull or
~ Gnu Calfskin Shoes, made
lace Butcher style and on
one of this seasons most popular
shaped lasts.
Special price, $2.5o pair.
Regularly $3.50.
Third floor. Tenth st.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20

Pittsburg will never be able to under
stand why Washington should be so per
sistently opposed to an occasional puff of
locomotive smoke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
Character Building.
From the London Chronicle.

What Is the object of education? Is it to
teach a child or man to know something
that he did not know, or to be something
that he was not? Is it, in other words. an
intellectual or a moral process? The safest
answer is to say that 1t is both; but there
is growing suspicion among those who
have studied the question most deeply that
might be on the side Of character building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
To a Dictionary.

1t seems, in sooth, a futile mass
OF print that you're displaying
There are so many words, alas!
And so few things worth saying!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
same Here.

From the New York Herald.
After look at the city's streets one isn't
astonished when told that visitor from
Mud Flats. New. felt right at home In
New York
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20

The experience of DR.. Wylie will doubt
less serve as a warning to other experts to
come thoroughly prepared for a searching
examination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20

The declarations that Russia was wholly
unprepared for war may tend to allay the
agitation of those who regard Japan as
an irresistible terror.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20

Mayor Schmitz doubtless knows enough
of human nature to realize the impossible
ity of avoiding criticism of some sort when
he gets home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20

The prosecution In the Thaw case has an
advantage in not being compelled to ex-
pend time on settling disputes among it's
lawyers outside the court room.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20

By this time promotion must have lost
it's pleasure and reduction its disappoint-
ment for Count White.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20

National legislation is taking on an
aspect of gloom and intensity that makes
the observer long for the piquant inter-
ruptions of J. Hamilton Lewis
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Has She Met Them AllP

From the Providence Tribune.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Leases remark thai
men have not improved ANY since the days
of Adam would seem to imply a rather
wide acquaintance extending over q con
siderable period.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20

The Japanese in Honolulu are holding
mass meetings and making speeches on ex-
ciusion with as much facility as If they
had been trained in American politics.
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The War is Over.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Venezuelan revolution is ended. after
an existence of eigh. days, but as there
were only twenty men engaged in II, that
seems rather q long life for It,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20

If statesmen who advise multiplying leg
islation find their soup cold, their steak
singed and their coffee bitter, they must
not be surprised.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20

Gov Swettenham will probably appreciate
it il everybody to whom he has given a
polite answer will step forward and testify
In his behalf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20

Under system of government ownership
of railways, series of wrecks such as
have recently occurred would call for a
change of administration
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20

1t Is desirable to have gold coins as artis-
tic as possible. There is no danger of their
being cherished for their beauty to an ex-
tent that will keep them out of circulation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
Will Find It.
From the Cleveland Leader

From the Cleveland Leader.
Tom Watson is to start a chain of news
papers through the south, to be edited from
Atlanta. Tom always was looking for
frnuhle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
Honors for Actors.

From the New York Evening Pest
1t was Sir Henry Irving. Now it Is Prof.
Sarah Bernhard. win it be Richard Mans
field, Del?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-20
Department of
Decorative Linens.

TN EMBROIDERED Linen
Nix Center Pieces are now be-
~ ing put to comparatively
new use. They are made
into
Crowns for Lingerie Hats.
We have on sale a recent impor-
tation, purchased especially for this
purpose, in Is and 2o-inch sizes.
$I.oo, $I.25, $I.5o,
$I.75 and So. so each.
Second floor. Eleventh ST.