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FOR SALE OR RENT

8 room modern house: one block
from car; inside III mile circle.
s room house. corner John and
Xenia. room house. Thirteenth
av., Cliff Park. New furniture for
8 room house for sale at a bargain.
Room 500 Lindelle Block. Phone
1905.
EXCLUSIVE REALTY CO.
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PANTAGES

Miss Rose Bush, lyric soprano, is
one of the musical features of the
weeks bill.
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WASHINGTON

A feature of the show this week
is the Elton Polo Aldo troupe in a
sensational casting act.
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SPOkANE

when Knights Were Bold
farce with Francis Wilson in the
leading part is the bill for tomOr-
row evening.
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NATATORIUM.

Melodrama, "Where Men Are
Game" played by Virginia Brissac's
company.
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AUDITORIUM.

The Jessie Shirley Co. playing
''The Missourians," comedy and
melodrama.
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CoLUM BIA

The Lewis & Lake Co. in musical
comedy and chorus with feet fea.
ture.
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Loans on furniture, piano. horses,
etc. A. A. Barnett, GA The
Rookery.
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Play Box Ball at Natatorium
Park. ss*
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cooper C Co, collections. 4l0 Co
lumbia building. Phone 1892.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE

Detroit 10, Philadelphia 2; Chi
cago 2, Boston /; Washington s.,
Cleveland 2; st. Louis 4, New
York 3.
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Classified Ads
Miscellaneous
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Opportunities
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I1IC4LANDERS' BIG PHENOM
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

This young pitcher has been do
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fith's New York American league
club. All the eastern teams were
easy for him, and he trimmed the
Cleveland outfit, the first western
club he tackled, without a bit Of
trouble. So far he has not lost a
game. and nearly all his victories
have been shut outs.
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GONZAGA CHAMPIONS

Gonzaga college defeated the S.
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lays claim to the city champion
ship.
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DOoeVfK o.
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Los Angeles 2, Oakland 1; Port
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
St Louis 2, Chicago 8; Pittsburg
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Spokane Artificial Limb House.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11
Telephone Troubles.

Telephone troubles seem to run In
streaks For a while there will be little
else than wires busy heard from CEN
trail After this stereotyped phrase has
drummed the ear to the point of semi
madness, the young women at the switch
board begin to talk about their inability to
raise the other party" You wait for
two minutes, five minutes perhaps. with
out hearing sound until your ear grows
numb and your arm aches. and then you
jiggle the hook and get the reply, I'm
ringing south four orty-four,'' with that
rising infection which gets on the nerves
and sometimes causes loss of temper. OF
course it is foolish and often extremely
unjust to get mad at the hello girl. Be-
cause she may be right. and furthermore
she can easily shut off the flow OF speech.
Maybe some of todays troubles are the
result Of yesterdays asperities.
Next comes the wrong number bother,
one of the meanest experiences to which
the telephone user is subject. Sometimes
the impetuous talker has a very narrow
escape from serious embarrassment as he
plunges in to tell all his story to a strange
ear. Then again, to be reused in the mid
die of the night by the mistake of central
is to say the least bothersome. This sort
of error is to be attributable almost ex-
clusively to the inattention to detail on
the part of the girl at the board, or else
her swift rushing through her work. Per-
haps the pace Is set too fast for her by
the monitor. Maybe in a few cases the
calling party is not clear Of speech. Ger
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11

the most successful measure of the kind
ever drafted. required only few months
in the making. Thoroughly capable men
were at work. and they worked with the
rapidity of qualifications
But the point at last is that the duty OF
tariff revision being with Congress. that
body will. and should. insist upon keeping
the whole matter in it's own hands. And
each Congress meets its own obligations.
Why should the present Congress create
tariff commission. or make any other
provision of such nature, when tariff re-
vision is not to be taken up by it? The
next Congress Is the one upon which the
task will devolve. and that body will col
lect and digest its own material. 1t Will
contain a number of new men in both
branches, and they will approach the sub
ject with views of their own. formed upon
information Of their own. They will
not be found helplessly In the hands OF
so-called tariff experts. or dependent upon
the data and arguments of special plead
ers from the business world.
The situation ought not to be beclouded.
1t is sufficient for the present that revi-
sion practically has been ordered. We
shall see the Sixty-first Congress called In
extra session for the express purpose Of
framing a new tariff bill If republic
an occupies the White House the line
of action will recognize distinctly the
principle of protection. If Mr.. Bryan is
President he will recommend revision on
lines leading to a tariff for revenue only.
In either event the whole subject will be
before Congress. and Congress will pro-
coed in It's own way and according to its
own light
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11
A Cotton Currency.

When Mr.. McLaurin Of Mississippi pro-
posed in the Senate yesterday the issu-
ance of government currency on raw cot
ton, Mr.. Beverage very pertinently asked,
why not on pig iron?'' and Mr.. Perkins,
why not on wool?' Certainly; and why
not on tobacco-with the night riders held
at bay-and corn, and wheat, and fat
cattle? Populism is marching on. The
Mississippi senator was speaking for his
home people, and his proposition will be
Endorsed by them. 1t does not matter that
John Sharp Williams. who in a few years
will be Mr.. McLaurins colleague in the
Senate, says that government ownership
of railroads is not democracy. That prop
osition is not nearly SO extreme as Mr..
McLaurin's. If Mississippi will stand for
currency based in part on cotton she
is as far out of the middle of the road
as state can get. The currency is not,
as Gen. Hancock thought the tariff was,
local question, and has not been since
the days of wildcat banks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11
CONGRESS and the Tariff.

This paragraph appears in this morn
ings newspapers:
Representative Dalzell made an en-
phatic denial yesterday of statements pub
lished in various newspapers to the effect
that the leaders in the House and Senate
had agreed to adopt joint resolution call
ing on the departments of State. Com
merce and Labor, and the Treasury for
data to be used by Congress in framing
tariff bill.
You may say that the story is a fake
pure and simple said Mr.. Dalzell. The
policy o. legislation with respect to the
tariff will be determined by the repub-
licGn rational convention when ii meets.
and Got by a joint resolution OF the
lhc ways and means committee gets ready
hand. and not through the medi1fn of
reports from any of the departments,
Too much has been made out OF the
matter of preparing for tariff revision
While by no means holiday job, it is
not one of mammoth proportions. The
whole machinery of the government need
not be turned in that direction for twelve
months prior to action. Numerous as the
schedules are, and important as it is that
all figures be correct. an excellent tariff
bill can be put into shape in short time.
The truth is that valuable statistics are
obtainable at any time from the most re-
liable trade sources bearing upon the
whole, tariff subject. The Dingley bill.
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tainly the wrong number is menace 10
the national nervous system.
Most provoking of all. however, is the
sudden silence that comes in the middle of
a talk, that irritating cessation of re-
Spouse, sometimes without a hint Of the
cause, sometimes with the snap OF
switch. Then you call out several times,
to an unresponsive instrument, and be-
gin to ply the hook. and after long de-
lay your connection is restored. VINO
does this? You never learn. You may
call up headquarters and complain and
you get graceful apologies and promises
to have the matter investigated, but In
day or two again comes that appalling 81
lence, and you are once more marooned.
Does the girl need that lead to connect
another brace of parties? Does she
conclude that you have talked long
enough? Or is there some unsolved mys-
terry of the currents at the bottom of the
trouble? Who knows?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11
Hand Over or Be Pulverized!

The Omaha man who demanded 5000
of a banker under penalty of instant
death by explosion carried of his case
with enough nerve to get a good dinner.
at least, and at the expense merely of
small bottle and little yellowish water.
The episode. ridiculous as it turns out to
have been in some respects, nevertheless
brings forcibly back to mind the enter
prise of the crank Norcross, who marched
into Russell Sage's office one day about
sixteen years ago with satchel and de-
manded. a large sum of money-several
hundr ed thousand. dollars. Mr.. Sage, be-
ing of thrifty disposition, failed to see
why he should hand over any sum, large
or small. upon mere demand, and began
to negotiate with his visitor, playing for
time incidentally using the person of
bystander for a shield Norcross differed
from the Omaha crank sufficiently to be
in deadly earnest. He dropped the satchel
when Mr.. Sage, having Unanswered be-
hind his human barrier, declined to give
up the funds. When the smoke cleared
Norcross had disappeared. He was later
identified by button. Mr.. Sage was UNI
hurt, but the man he had held in front
of him was peppered with great variety
of foreign substances and wrecked for
life. Incidentally it may be noted that.
although he sought relief repeatedly In
the courts. he never managed to recover
a penny in damages from Mr.. Sage for
having unwilingly shielded him from
probable death or dsablement
1t is to be remarked that the Omaha
banker showed sitter nerve than did
Russell Sage He met the man half way
and invited him out to dine. using no
third parties as barricades or otherwise
showing any fear of his intrusive visitor.
Even though the bottle held nothing more
deadly than colored water, the banker
proved himself of the right stuff when
he pursuaded the man who menaced him
with it to walk quietly to restaurant.
where he could be seized neatly and
safely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11
Assassination Wave.
From the Baltimore American.


Portugal. Servia, Sweden-Where next
will attack upon the lives of rulers be
made? The quick succession of these
several attempts to murder the heads OF
nations, one of which was successful.
seems to point to the prevalence of an
assassination wave. 1t is a bad symp-
tom. Nor is there anything in common
in the countries where the outbreak OF
anarchistic or crazy violence has ap-
peared to indicate a basis for grievance
against government. The apparently in
sane man who made an attack upon the
palace of Swedens monarch, sending a
fusillade of bullets through the windows
of the edifice, from which the royal occu-
pants happened to be absent, may or may
not have been fed upon the pabulum that
makes anarchists. But it is safe to as
sert that about every other person who
commits such deeds is unbalanced.
whether or not he be member of an
assassination order. The psychologists
say that suggestion accounts for the
various kinds Of crime waves. The same
rule should hold good for their correc-
ton. The execution of every person MAX
ing attempt upon the life of ruler
would furnish a powerful suggestion to
disordered persons of the danger of graft
flying their Unbalanced propensity and
tend to discourage such acts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11
Time to Act Vigorously.

The word comes that the Post Office De-
partment officials are to take a hand in
the now notorious city mail situation and
try to straighten out the tangle. 1t is
high time something was done. The
isolated" cases Of delay and error which
have been piled up against the delivery
system have attained mountainous pro-
portions. The community Is staggered by
the naive assumption of contentment on
the part of those higher up In the local
postal service. 1t is fretting daily under
the ANNOYANCE of delayed letters. 1t is
losing money through the plumbers of the
clerks and carriers. Even the government
is suffering from the inadequacies of the
postal service and Unele Sam in bending
his brows menacingly as he slances in the
direction of the big gray house of trouble
on the avenue.
Whatever may be the cause of the
postal decentralization, it must be cured
forthwith. The state of things which The
Stars news accounts have been setting
forth from day to day. based upon the
be endured. If there is conspiracy"
inside of the Office, as some allege. to
cause the administration embarrassment
organization. the responsibility still rests
upon the higher officials. who should be
capable of coping with the emergency
thus presented. If there is incompetence
in either the subordinate or the higher
ranks the remedy is readily at hand in
replacement.
When letters plainly addressed to
"Langdon, D. c. are sent to London,
England; when three letters posted In
Baltimore the same minute reach their
destination, the same house in Washing
ton, by three different deliveries: when
letters are held somewhere in the post
Office anywhere from two to twenty days;
when letters are delivered to the wrong
houses on the same route-when these
things become. not merely the occasional
incidents of an otherwise satisfactory
service, but are the rule of the days ex-
perience, the case is desperate and de-
mands instant action. There is only
moderate comfort for. the afflicted in the
assurance that the department is consid
ering what to do. What the people of
Washington want is an announcement
that measures have actually been adopted
to put an end to the Generalization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11
Not q Horseless Age.
from the Boston Transcript.


The horseless age that has been SO per-
sistently predicted is not merely slow in
coming: the facts indicate that it Is
further away than ever and perhaps may
never come. We hope it will not while at
the same time welcoming all the new aids
to rapid and untrameled transportation.
People must be riding great deal more
than they ever rode before. The auto
mobile industry in this country has quad
rupled in value in the last three years
and has developed at even a greater rate
in the number Of machines manufactured.
But the statistics of horsetiesh keep on
expanding. There were more than ii, CO.,
coo horses in this country in 1897, but &C.
cording to the figures for the year just
closed there are 10, 746. 600 horses In the
United States at the present time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11
! Stock Gambling.
rom the Philadelphia Ledger.

Senator Tillman's reckless use of su-
perlatives deprives his appearance in de-
bate of the weight which a United States
Senator's opinion ought to have with his
countrymen. Bad as it is, stock gam
bling is not 1.-THE most pernicious. dan
gerous and deyilish of the things done in
New York. It is no worse than specula-
ton in cotton futures, nor does it affect
a larger percentage of population in any
part of the country than cotton specula-
ton affects in the region between. the
Albemarle Sound and the Rio Grande.
Yet most people would support Tillman' s
effort for legislation to stop gambling in
stocks II they believed that it could be
made effective. The authorities on the
theory of finance hold that certain
amount of speculation acts to steady
prices and make a more uniform market
for producers and buyers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11
King Alfonso.

The good wishes of the world are at
tending King Alfonso at Barcelona and
his safe return to Madrid is universally
desired. Every effort was made to dis
suade him from making the journey, but
youth and courage prevailed. At the
kings ageAa risk is temptation. The
gambling spirit asserts itself even in the
matter of life and death. A young man
Us for action. He wants to test things.
After awhile he is disposed to hear and
to follow counsel After a period of jolts
and perils a man ventures less, and wins
less. He spares himself, and sometimes
weakens himself.
1t Is easy to follow the. argument that
was submitted against the journey. Why
go to Barcelona at this time? Anarchy
just now is rampant everywhere. In
Russia, in France, in Italy. even in free
America, authority is being defied by
those who object to all authority. The
reds were never redder-never better Or
ganized or more active. This has heart
ened the reds at Barcelona. which is one
of their strongholds Better postpone the
visit until more quiet condition prevails.
OF course, the young king shook his
head To state the case was to settle it.
If the reds could shut him out of BARGE
Iona. they would move next to shut him
up in Madrid. He must keep himself
free to visit all parts of the kingdom.
He must appeal to the people. and assume
that even in an anarchist stronghold the
people were with him.
If the journey ends as it began and has
so far progressed, the king will have made
a big winning. In the first place he will
have reaped the reward of personal
courage-a quality which in ruler is in
valuable. Even recklessness is better
than timidity IN the carriage of high
official among those to whom he looks
for support, and whose affairs are in his
keeping.
In the second place it will be something
to have afforded the republicans of Bar
celona an opportunity to express them
selves on the subject of the monarchy.
and to show how far they are removed
from those whose war is not on monarchy
but on government itself. There was no
great misconception on this point. but in
this day of violent contention and cease
less activity the lines that mark divisions
of effort cannot be too sharply drawn or
plainly shown.
Spanish pride and Spanish courage, al
ways high, will respond to this appeal of
the sovereign in a pronounced way. The
throne should be strengthened by it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11
Organic
Heart Trouble

Il was a very sick woman. The
best physicians gave me up to die.
l had organic heart trouble. was
troubled with shortness of breath,
and could not walk any distance
at all. Those awful fits of cough
ing were something dreadful. |
learned of DR.. Miles New Heart
Cure, which tried with the most
favorable results. | have now
taken five bottles and am on the
sixth, so you see | did not die after
ALL" MRS. GEO. WILLIS, 34a
Indiana ST., Albany, Ore,
If first bottle fails to benefit. money back.
Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11
A Long Trip.

All aboard once more for May day.
Now the Winter stations past.
There's glimpse ahead of play day
And of summer blooms at last
We've had some floods and showing
And some ugly grades to climb,
But the old world keeps a-going;
1t Is still on schedule time.
We are Fastening toward a season
When the human race will smile,
And the light of honest reason
Will dispel the clouds of guile
Though the centuries keep showing
Shadows dark of want and crime,
This old world keeps bravely going
Right ahead on schedule time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11
Hard to Manage.

You have derived a great deal of sat-
isfaction from your great wealth.
II don't know" answered Mr.. Dustin
Star. 81 have founded lot of colleges
but / don't know how to keep the stu
dents from writing essays on the dangers
of 'congested capital such as I represent"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The idea Business.

''A1l your speech needs said the adj
miring friend is few original IDEAS"
THAT shows your carelessness," an
swered Senator Sorghum. There is
never any telling how the public will re-
gard q new idea. Never adopt an idea
unit! it has been thoroughly tried out by
some one else
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11

fg1n order to avoid delays on account
or personal absence letters to THE
individual connected with the ONCE, but
simply to THE STAR, or to the Editorial
or Business Department, according to
tenor or purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11

Panama canal critics in some instances
insist that 1t will take long time to dig
the waterway and that it will be of no
practical use when completed There is
nothing like letting a crouch have full eX-
preston and getting it over with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11

1t begins to look as if ex-Gov. Penny
ideas of Harrisburg architecture
were as eccentric as his ideas of journal
istic propriety.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11

The New York-Paris automobile race
has already given proof that the motor
car is not going to develop into much of
rival of the ocean liner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11

Mr.. Rockefeller has ordered the en-
ployes on his New York country home not
to patronize a neighboring tavern. This
is a boycott of another color.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11

Expense of grand opera in New York is
estimated at 100000. 1t seems a lot
But even more was doubtless spent for
musical comedy and vaudeville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11

A woman in black is now charged
with offenses in New York not attributed
to 1.-The Black Hand" The big city's COL
or scheme is a trifle monotonous.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11

In a few months the public will again
be wondering why these numerous
schemes for discriminating mosquitoes
were not put into practice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11

Minister WI can find enough questions
to ask about Chinese conditions without
bothering a great deal about American
manners and customs this trip.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11

Fortunately there is eVoy prospect that
further complications in Thaw's family
affairs can be settled without the use OF
firearms.