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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-21
PRICES OF HARD WOOD.
Growth in Demand in Spite of In
creased Cost


Dealers and users of hard and soft
woods come forward with the statement
that hard woods have taken a jump in
price, owing to the fact that they are be-
coming more and more scarce with each
succeeding year, and that the supply that
is now being produced falls far short of
the demand, which increases in proper
ton as the supply diminishes. 1t might
at first be thought that this rise in the
price of lumber is due to the growth of
some trust. and it is not improbable that
this has much to do with It, but ii is gen
orally conceded by manufacturers who
have occasion TO purchase large quanti-
ties of hard wood in different parts of the
country that the attempt on the part of
hard woods TO take up the high price fad
that has struck every other commodity
and material is due to the growing scar
city of hard wood forests.
A prominent local manufacturer who
purchases hard woods Of different va
rietles in large quantities said, according
to the Springfield Union. that in many On
stances some of the hard woods had taken
jump of from % to % per cent within
short time. WhitewOod. which is used
almost exclusively in the manufacture of
carriage bodies and III the making of au-
tomobiles. has gone upward in price al
most 90 per cent WITHIN the last year.
This wood, which is made use OF on ac-
count at the fact that it will take a high
polish, is now bringing from $50 TO 500 q
thousand feet, while not long ago it might
be purchased for $50 or $50. Whitewood
Is grown mostly in the south and west.
CHARTERED oak has, pefhaps. taken the
biggest jump in price. This wood could
formerly be bought for SOS or $50 a thou
sand, but now the dealers IRE asking S110
for the same amount. Mahogany which
used to bring $50, now is sold for $500
California redwood, which is not so much
used. has not gone up SO near the clouds
as have many of the other kinds. Oak
and maple and the other kinds of hard
wood. which are grown in this art of the
country, have not gone up SO high yet
but there is no telling how soon such will
be the case
In spite of these facts. the demand for
hard lumber is on the increase from
year to year, and just now is greater than
ever before. The reports show that the
annual cut of hard woods is billion feet
less than it was seven years ago. The
cut of oak has fallen off 36 per cent. yell
low poplar, which was formerly second IN
point of output has fallen of IS per cent
and elm has fallen off One-half. Cooper
age. furniture and carriage industries de-
pend upon hard wood timber. and the
rise in the price of the material of which
many household articles are made makes
difference in the prices that must be
charged for them in the markets.
The cut in Ohio, which formerly led all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-21
READY TO LIVE IN.
Renting Furnished Flats a Business
in New York

"Why don't you rent d furnished
apartment ?" said the well-seasoned New
Yorker to her green friend from he west
in answer to a bitter complaint in regard
TO the difficulty of finding living accom-
modations.
Some of the big real estate companies
are furnishing apartments for housekeep-
ing in the better class of houses in first
not cheap and fiimsy, but they are chosen
with taste and discernment.
1.-The dining room and kitchen equip
ments are usually surprisingly we'll bal
anced and complete. Silver table linen
towels, china and bedding are included
and > rule they are of excellent quail
ity.
Furthermore. the agents, who are
chiefly women, by the way, seem to have
discovered the important fact that in
renting a place furnished people want it
to be as free as possible from the idosyn-
crasies of pronounced individual tastes.
Most of the better class of apartments
that / have seen, and | fiatter myself
that | have seen a good many, for | have
just rented one for myself. are decorated
with the plain carton papers. furnished
with good. plain pieces of Flemish oak
built in the simple, obvious mission lines,
hung with draperies of plain denim, cur
peted with rugs of inconspicuOus pattern
and harmonious color.
This sort of equipment gives just the
neutral and nOncOmmittal background
against which the books and pictures, the
objects of art and other small personal
belongings that even permanently home
less people usually carry about with them
can be made to show up in such way
as to give real character and individ-
uality.'
But even So said the woman from
the west don't you think that it's very
eXtravagant way to live? Don't you think
that one would pay more for her furni-
ture i'm rent than it would cost her to
buy it?''
Very probably replied the New York
woman. But suppose you don't want to
buy anything? Suppose you don't want to
own anything?
There are literally hundreds of people
in New York who don't. They are all
FULLY alive to the comfort and convenience
and cheapness of light housekeeping over
any other way of Lying. and yet for one
reason or another, they don't want to lay
in the necessary equipment.
Some of them are people in your posi-
tion-people who have come to New York
to seek their fortune and who are not yet
ready to bring on their goods. Others
belong to the great nomadic herd of writ
ers and artists, musicians and theatrical
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-21
Why Five Acts?
Matthews, in Forum.


The fact that Shakespeare was a pro-
fessional playwright and that he had no
merely academic theories. In composing
his plays he followed unhesitatingly the
principles that had guided his immediate
predecessors. He was seeking ever to
give the playgoing public what it had
| been accustomed to enjoy in the theater
better in degree. no doubt. but the same
in kind. Like these predecessors, he kept
10 the traditions inherited from the me-
dieval mysteries, and he thought in terms,
+ not of acts and of scenes, as a modern
playwright is forced to do, but of a con-
tinuous narrative shown in action. There
is no reason to suppose that he would
have approved of the attempt of the
editors of the folio to cut up his plays.
each into five acts. There is every rea-
son to suppose that he would have been
greatly annoyed of he could have fore
seen the way in which later editors have
chosen further to subdivide the acts into
an infiHity of scenes-a subdivision which
we may be sure was never his intent.
Nowadays we have been so accustomed
to read Shakespeare in one or another Of
the trim and tidy modern editions, with a
division into acts and scenes each of
which indicates a change of place and
each of which seems to suggest change
of scenery, that it IS only by resolute
effort of the will that we are able to
shake off the prepoSsessions derived from
this misleading and confusing presenta-
ton of his text. Probably even today
majority of those who enjoy reading
Shakespeare would be surprised to be told
that there is no warrant whatever for
this alleged change of scene and for these
superabundant subdivisions of his story.
Many of these readers would be taken
aback by the unexpected discovery that
all this cutting up of Shakespeare S
text was the work of his commentators,
with Rowe at the head of the procession.
Some of these readers would feel as
though they were deprived of precious
possession if they had only an edition in
which all this useless machinery was
swept away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-21
CZENgLAnD R4Rk LOOKING ME5T EeoM Ca"NEczzcW'4N@

other states, has fallen off one-haf. More
than thirteen of the states of the west
and middle west have fallen off to an
alarming extent in their production of
hard wood. The largest body Of hard
wood timber now left in the United States
lies in the Appalachian mountains, and it
is to this source that manufacturers
must now turn for satisfaction Of their
demands. 1t is estimated that 10000, O00,-
600 feet of hard wood Is the annual pro-
duction of this belt. which has an area of
about Is 0O000O acres.
1t is well known among the farmers of
the east that the supply of locust, white
oak used in the manufacture of carriage
wheels. etc, cedar and other durable
woods has become so restricted of late
that the cost is now almost prohibitive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-21

people, who do not want to be hampered
in their movements by lot of possessions
1T is no economy for these people to
buy things, because they don't want the
things. If they buy complete house
keeping outfit one season they are as
likely as not to have to pay storage on II
next. 1t is really cheaper in the end for
these people to pay rent for their house
keeping necessares while they want them
and to be able to be rid of them easily
when they need them no longer"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-21
APARTMENT HOUSE SOLD.
Moore & Hill Real Estate Company
Effect a Deal.

The Moore & Hill Real Estate Company
has sold to Mrs. Harriet 4. Mills prop
erty 21G9 18th street northwest. This is
two family apartment house. two stories
and attic The sale was made for Frank
G. Carpenter The purchase was made
for Investment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-21

1t is regarded as rather interesting in
The present state of the realty market
which is. according to the view of some
people. rather bare of buyers. to note
the same tendency which IS manifest
when there is generally acknowledged 10
be an active naa6lsrt and that is the APP
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-01-03
SCTE TIFIC
Surgeons Knife Cures Insanity.

surgeons H!lfS lures INSANITY
The deepest interest has been arous-
ed in medical circles Owe the report
from the Bay View Insane asylum at
Baltimore over a novel and apparently
successful effort to cure Il certain form
Of insanity-that known to the profess
sion as dementia praecox-hy cutting
away n portion of the thyroid gland.
In the first case operated upon the i'm
provement was very marked within
twenty-four hours, and of the four
other cases treated three showed a like
favorable result. The exception was a
ease extremely far advanced.
Thrives on Peanut Diet.
DR.. T. ]. Allen of Aurora. ILL.,, re-
Gently finished a food test extending
over sixty days. during which time he
lived upon peanuts and lemonade only.
He ends the test in fine physical condi-
ton. He now intends to start on a
sixty day test Of bananas. which, COM
bined with peanuts. he considers the
ideal food. He says: "If people lived
on peanuts and bananas it would cost
them not more than Is cents a day, and
they would be saved all the trouble of
cooking, all the expense of servants.
1t takes an hour to eat a meal of pea
nuts, but you can eat the COOLERS at
your desk or bench while you are at
work-anywhere."
Tho Deadly House Fly. 4
According to the report Of a commit
tee of prominent medical and business
men appointed by the Merchants AS
sociation Of New York City to investi-
gate the pollution of New York harbor.
the common house fly is n of the
greatest enemies of. man. Breeding
among the sewage deposits in the VI
entity of cities and towns. 1t spreads
the germs Of typhoid fever and other
intestinal diseases in millions. In mi
case a single fly was found to have de-
posted on a gelatin plate in a labora-
tory test 100000 fecal bacteria. The
report urges as the only means by
which the evil can be removed the
strict enforcement Of the laws against
pollution.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-01-03

mates for the next years expenses be-
ing $500, 100000 over the estimates for
the current year and said this would
mean a deficit of $4,000, 600; hence
the necessity Of rigid economy and the
avoidance of new enterprises.
Later the speaker announced his va
rious committee assignments, other I'M
portant chairmanships being as fol
lows: Ways and means, Payne of New
York; agriculture, Scott of Kansas;
coinage, weights and measures. Nc
Kinley of Illinois; foreign affairs, Cous-
ms Of Iowa; immigration and naturali-
cation, Howell of New Jersey: insular
affairs, Cooper of Wisconsin; inter
state and foreign commerce, Hepburn
of Iowa; judiciary. Jenkins of Wiscon-
sin; labor. Gardner Of New Jersey;
military affairs, Hull of Iowa; naval
affairs, Foss of Illinois; p%ostofice and
post roads, Overstreet of Indiana; rail-
ways and canals, Davidson Of Wiscon-
sin: rivers and harbors, Burton of
Ohio.
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Of all the output. Maine, New Hamr-
shire, the Berkshire hills in Massachu-
sets and the Adirondacks and Cats
kills in New York are the sources Of
supply for New York, Boston and
Philadelphia and v for Baltimore
and Washington. The swamps of
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota
furnish the markets Of Chicago, st.
Paul, Minneapolis and Detroit, while
the local demand throughout the cen
trail west is mainly supplied by nurs-
cry grown Norway spruce.
Army to Buy Balloon.
The signal corps of the war depart
ment has made public specifications
for the construction of a dirigible bal
loon to be used in a series of tests at
Fort Myer next spring. Proposals for
furnishing the balloon will be opened
at the department on Jan. Is next. The
balloon is to consist Of a gas bag Of
silk to be covered with an aluminium
preparation. The material for the bag
and the hydrogen with which it will be
inflated Will be furn1shed Dy the gov
eminent. The dimensions and shape Of
the bag will be left to the bidders, ex-
cept that the length must not exceed
12O feet. 1t must be designed to carry
two persons having a combined weight
of $50 pounds and at least 100 pounds
Of ballast. A speed Of twenty miles an
hour in sits air is desired, and the
scheme of ascending, descending and
maintaining equilibrium must be based
on shifting weights. movable planes or
some method which will not necessf-
tate balancing or changing Of position
by the aeronaut. The balloon must
have all the fittings necessary for sue
cessful and continuous flights. 1t will
be accepted only after a trial fight to
be held at Fort Myer next spring.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-01-03
POLITICAL
vanderIip For Central Bank.

vanderIip For Central Bank.
Another word for the central bank
idea has been spoken by a inancier Of
high standing, Vice President Wander
lip Of the big National City Bank of
New York. He favors a combination
Of the branch system Of Scotland and
the central bank of issue in Germany.
pahIman Quotes Roosevelt.
After his return home from Wash
ington Mayor Dahlman of Omaha gave
to the press a corrected statement of
his much discussed interview with
President Roosevelt. According to this,
the president said: "Tell the boys out
west that this financial panic Is being
placed on my shoulders by reason of
the position I have taken. II this Is
true, II shows that we are on a rotten
foundation, and It only came q few
months sooner than 1t would have done
otherwise, and 1t shows we needed a
aousecleaning. You can tell them also
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-01-03
CONGRESSIONAL
Senate Committees Arranged.

In the senate the committees have
been changed so as to fill vacancies
and make places for the new members.
Knox goes to the front, as expected,
by becoming chairman of the rules
committee, where he will have the
duty Of defending the legality of the
measures proposed by the majority.
Other important chairmanships are:
Appropriations, Allison; finance, Aid
rich; foreign relations, Cullom; inter
state commerce, Elkins; naval affairs,
Hale; postottices, Penrose, and Philip
pines, Lodge.
Gore Draws Short Term.
Before the swearing in of the two
new senators from the new state OF
Oklahoma they drew lots in the pres
ence of the senate to determine which
should have the long term and which
the short. The blind senator, Gore,
drew the two year term and smilingly
congratulated his colleague, Senator
Owen.
The WilIiams-De Almond Fight.
Representatives John Sharp Will
liams of Mississippi and David A. De
Almond of Missouri created a diver
sion in the house of representatives by
engaging in a rough and tumble fist
fight Immediately after the adjourn
ment of the session. The trouble arose
through an alteration over a commit
tee assignment, during which, it is
said, the lie was passed.
Tawney to Be Watchdog.
Speaker Cannon's arrangement of
the new committee on appropriations
places Tawney of Minnesota at its
head and Livingston of Georgia as the
ranking Democrat. Tawney has come
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-01-03
GOVERNMENT WILL APPEAL
President and Attorney General Dis
Gus Denver Decision.

Washington, Jan. AT the last
cabinet meeting Of the year 1907 the
decision was reached by the president
and Attorney General B%onaparte that
the government will use every means
in it's power to bring about in the
higher courts ~disapproval of the de-
cision rendered in Colorado by Judge
Lewis that there is no law against
citizens agreeing in advance to pur-
chase coal or other public lands that
may be acquired by others under what
is known as the dummy entrylnan sys-
TEN. Attorney General ~Bonaparte said
after the cabinet meeting that it was
fortunate that congress last year
passed a law giving the government
the right to appeal in criminal cases,
as undoubtedly the government would
appeal to it's fullest extent against a
decision quashing indictments against
men charged with illegally acquiring
coal lands.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-01-03
LARGE DEFICIT SHOWN
Government Receipts for December
$8,529,l5z Less Than 1906.
INCREASE IN EXPENDITURES

ing a Total Loss for the Month of
Nearly Eighteen MiIIions-No Mate
rial Improvement in Last Few Days.
Washington, Jan. 1.-The forth
coming report of the government re-
ceipts and expenditures for December
will show a decrease in the receipts,
as compared with December last year,
Of $500, 152, and an increase in ex-
pe%nditures of $9,381,414, making the
net loss for the month $780, 66.
The largest decrease in the receipts is
from customs. where the loss is &c.
q 1859. Internal revenue shows a de-
crease of $2,76S,645 and miscellaneous
receipts an increase of $~1,135,452. The
several items of expenditure show an
increase in civil and miscellaneous of
$500, 900. in war an increase of ST.
100000; in navy an increase of nearly
$4,000, 900. For pensions there vas an
increase of $4,000 900. For public
works the expenditures for the month
were nearly double those for Deem
Der, 1906, the increase being from
s4,Sl3,711 to ss,S99, 600. The receipts
and expenditures during the last few
days Of the present month do not
show any material improvement when
compared with those for the earlier
days in the month.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-01-03
KEEPING Tab
ON THE WORLD

With "Goodby and Good Luck!"
the President Starts the Great
Fleet Under Evans on Its voy-
age Around the Horn, Possibly
! to Return via Suez-Before
Holidays Adjournment the Sen
ate and House Committees
Announced Williams and De
Almond In Fight on Floor of
H~ouse-AIdrich Promises Fl
nanciaI Measure Jan. 6-Taft
Home Again. nunctio n
Against A. F. Of L. Boycott.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-01-03
zlMRI DwIGGINs DEAD.
Event Recalls His Meteoric Career as
a Banker.

Chicago, Jan. 1.-Zimri Dwiggins,
the urbane country lawyer who came
to Chicago in the early nineties and
founded the Columbia National bank,
is no more. Dispatches say that he
died in Lincoln, Neb., but no particu-
lars are given. Dwiggins disappeared
from Chicago about thirteen years ago
and has not been seen here since. He
tried to be a master of finance, but
hardly knowing the A B Cs of bank
ing his plan went to crash.
Dwiggins, however, made remarka-
BILE strides forward and had linked
together a chain of banks which in
number and aggregate business prob
ably never before or since has been
duplicated. The Columbia National
was the keystone of the financial arch
and when it collapsed the rest of the
fabric went with it.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-01-03
SAYS NE KILLED MS CHUM
Youth of Sixteen Admits Crime of
Murder.

Pembina, N. D., Jan. flames
O'Brien of Neche has made a complete
confession of the murder Of Arthur
lie Claire, the Great Northern fireman.
The sixteen-year-old slayer finally
gave up the details Of his crime to J.
G.. Crawford, a Pinkerton detective,
who has beer working on the case.
The confession came after he had
been confronted with his bloody cloth
ing, the hatchet with which the crime
was committed, a bloody scarf and
other evidences of his guilt.
When the news was broken to the
father of O'Brien, for years a resident
Of Neche and customs officer there,
he broke down completely. Fred LIE
Claire, father of the murdered boy,
called on. him in an endeavor to con-
sole him.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-01-03

tous and signif-
cant practice cruise
of $4,000 miles
around the Horn
to San Francisco.
Before the start
Admiral e q n 8
came on board the
Mayfower to sa-
lutte the president
and give his per-
S II a assurance
t h the ships
We're ready. The
president received
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-01-03
PROTESTS TO WASHINGTON
Canadian Government Claims Action
Of Dakota Officer Was illegal.

Ottawa, Ont, Jan. 1.-Secretary of
State Scott has written to Washing
ton asking the United States govern
ment to investigate the alleged illegal
action of a North Dakota official who
recently held up the Canadian farmers
on the boundary line at Emerson and
forced them to cross over into the
United States territory and, on threat
of keeping them in jail, compelled n
of them to sign an AFFIDAVIT implicit
ing him in an attempt to smuggle
wheat across the boundary. Secretary
Scott declares that the action of the
Dakota officer vas contrary to inter-
national law.
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out %squarely for the
policy of retrench-
lnent w hic the
speaker was known
to favor. and he will!
be the recognized
watchdog Of the
treasury" during the
life of this congress.
Ina statementC Chair
man Ia whey re-
fa,.naI tN tbn ncti.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-01-03
Iona Distance Wireless Messages.

Vallejo, CAL, Jan. Five wireless
messages have been received at Mare
island and Point Iona from Sitka,
Alaska. This is tho record fer long
distance on this coast.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-01-03
ExEcUTIV
Fleet Off For Pacific.

Fleet OF For Pacific.
In the presence of thousands of spec
tators President Roosevelt from the
bridge of the cruiser yacht Maylower
at Old Point Comfort, Dec. Is. gave the
signal which started the nations great
est fleet, consisting of sixteen battle
ships under the command of Rear Adj
miral RobleY D. Evans. on its momen-
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-12-31
Feminine Logic.


George. YOU seem to be losing an
control over Jimmie"
"What makes you think SOP
'Why. he won't do a thing tell him
to do."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Editor on CareIessness.
"Yes," said the editor as he put llis
gum brush into the ink bottle and tried
to paste on clipping with his pen.
'yes. the great fault of newspaper con-
tributors is carelcssness.
Indeed" he continued rs he drop
ped the copy he had been writing into
the wastebasket and marked "Edito-
rial" across the corner of poem cnti-
tied can Ode to DEATH" Contributors
ere terribly careless.
"You would he surprised" said he
as he clipped out column of fashion
notes and labeled them Farm" ITO
see the slipshod writing that comes
into the editorial sanctum.
"A1isspellcd. unprecedented. written
on both sides Of the sheet, illegible. IN
grammatical stuff. Contributors are
terribly careless. They are
Just then the Office boy came in Will.
that dictatorial and autocratic manner
he has and demanded more copy, and
the editor handed him the love letter
he had just written to his sweetheart.
London Globe.