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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-20
SUBSTITUTES FOR
CHRISTMAS TREES

Every body knows how to arrange the
ordinary Christmas t1ee. 1t is sufficient
to say use taste In the decorations, be
liberal with bright ornaments, use plenty
of light do not overload and exercise all
possible care to avoid fire if candles are
used
For Sunday school entertainments and
others of like nature where large
number of children are to he entertained
and take part the revolving tree gives a
very pretty effect.
very pretty effect can be produced by
SO arranging the tree that it is kept con-
stantly moving round, bringing new
sights into view as it revolves.
Take three pieces of plank, four feet
long; cross them at the center in star
shape and fasten them securely. Then
bore a large hole in the center and fasten
the tree firmly therein. A short piece
of board should be nailed to the floor, into
which board a large hole. the same size
as that made in the three planks, should
be bored After passing the butt end
of the tree through the three planks, 1t
should be placed in the hole in the board
which has been nailed 10 the floor. On
the ends of each CT the three cross planks
bedstead casters or small wheels should
be fastened. Having SO arranged the tree
it will he found to revolve easily. n
small boy can be used as the motive
power. Presents hung on this tree can
be arranged in either alphabetical order
or by numbers. which may be drawn by
lot. each person receiving his or her pres
ent according to number and IN due order.
This number arrangement is especially
pleasing to the children, they enjoy
much by anticipation and, moreover, 1t
prevents squabblng. as children do when
one is apparently preferred over another
or waited on before another This num-
toned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27

nothing else No political letter could
have been fairer or more to the point
or more free from personal rancor and
abuse than this same letter of Bryan
to the President.
But one thing, anybody can see with
half an eye and that is that Bryan got
the best of Roosevelt. He was too
much for him in the end. At first we
thought Bryan was hurting his cause.
Now we think he laid it all over
Roosevelt The difference, too, is this:
Bryan yields a lawyers pen while
Teddy writes as a layman and we want
to tell you that we know just enough
about it to be able to tell you that the
lawyer gets the long end Of the string
every time. Bryan tied Teddy into Il
double bowknot. He locked the door
with Teddy on the inside and Bryan
threw the key into the well.
We do not pretend to know enough
to say what the effect Of the CORE
spondence will be and we do not know
that we care very much. 1t will not
make much difference in the final re-
suit. we feel sure. but in the last analy-
sis it must be admitted that Teddy
got his nose punched in the last tilt
with Bryan. And what pity that
Teddy is so Observation-Disclosures
GOwa) Democrat.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27

each is Drumming over with a big drop
of honey and glistening like teardrop.
Shake the flower and it "weeps" as the
big drops fall from it, soon to be re-
placed by other tears in the rapidly
secreting flower. The simple folk call
the flower Jobs tears"
The snowdrop is literally flowing
with honey, for in swollen veins trav-
ersing its fragile whiteness are rivers
Of nectar. The petals of the columbine
are ingeniously and deliberately design
ed with view to providing good places
Of hiding for the honey. Each is cir
cular, hollow, shaped like a horn. In
each the honey is secreted in a round
knob at what would be the mouthpiece
end of the horn, and the five are ar
ranged in a ring, side by side, with the
honey knobs aloft Though the honey
store is obvious from without, yet the
insects who would sip it must creep
into the flower and penetrate with a
long nose up the curving horn to the
knob
Sometimes the petals are all Joined
| together into a tube and the sweet nee
tar simply exudes from the inner side
of the wall and collects at the bottom.
This is the case in the dead nettle, the
tube of which forms so toothsOme a
morsel that some children call it suck
les" The honeysuckle is similarly
planned, and its sweetness is so strik-
ing as to have furnished it's name.
The monkshood has quaint hectares.
If the hood be drawn back there sud-
denly spring into sight two objects on
long stalks, which are sometimes like
a French horn, sometimes like cowl,
or, looked at sideways, not unlike a
pair of doves. Their presence within
the hood has provided the nicknames
adam and Eve" and 'Noah's Ark
Thus the honey bags are carefully
tucked away and protected.-Chicago
! Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
DISCOVERIES AT KNOsSOS.
Results of the Recent Excavations
by DR.. Evans in Crete.

Results of the Recent Excavations
by DR.. Evans in Crete.
May l beg a little space to inform
those interested in Cretan exploration
of a series of discoveries lately made
at Knossos? says a writer in the Lon
don Times. The news from DR.. Evans
is exceedingly good. He has been
working all the season in the large
house which lies to the west Of the pal
ace, but unfortunately is deeply buried
under the talus of hill. With great
labor DR.. Evans has now reached the
further limit of this building, and on
his way has found much. A magnificent
steatite vase in the shape Of a bulls
head, with inlay of cut shell about the
nostrils and with crystal eyeballs, the
iris being painted on the back of the
crystal, reveals to us a new technic.
In another quarter, on the north, a
greet hoard of bronze implements and
utensils, includin~ a large tripod caul-
dron in perfect preservation, will much
increase our knowledge of the finer do
= este apparatus Of Minoan civiliza-
ton. AS DR.. Evans speaks Of having
unearthed a great number Of early
vases with these tools there should be
no difficulty in dating the latter and
thereby getting standard forms.
On the south of the palace a range
of buildings has been found at a lower
level, largely buried under debris of the
palace itself. The latter included a
mass of ivory fragments, the remains
of carved caskets and Of fresco paint
| ings. Inside the south building itself,
under a staircase, a small hoard Of sill
yer vessels bas come to light-some
| bowls and a jug. These will be vel
coined as first fruits of that work In
precious metals which so greatly influ-
enced the ceramic artists Of the middle
Minoan periods, but has generally dis
appeared. We hear, too, of fine vases
of various kinds, one with papyrus
plant ornament in relief and others In
the best palace style" Work is also
proceeding actively on the restoration
of the royal apartments on the east
of the palace, and every effort Is being
made to get into the great dome tomt
found last year and to find other tombs
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
REVIVAL OF DICKENS NEAR.
Instead of Stumbling Man, She Looks
Up to Him rs n superior Being.

Instead of Stumbling Man, She Looks
Up to Him as n superior Being.
We are threatened-an there is no
use any longer Disgusting the fact
with a formidable revival of the Dick
ems girl. An audaciouS milliner, in a
thoughtless moment, reintroduced the
cottage bonnet" familiar In portraits
Of the young Queen victoria) as a kind
of blinker for motoring, and the head
gear, tied round the dimpled chin Of
pretty young woman, reminded nu-
merous elderly gentlemen of sirens OF
the sos
Like Yvette Guilbert, the first girl
who ventured to wear the coal-scuttle
bonnet had a success de grand mere.
The contrast was piquant, irresistible.
For some time past the artists Of the
younger school have been painting erin
dimes and shawls, parted hair and
cameo brooches-all the insignia, IN
short, Of the young person of the Dick
ems novel and period. And now she is
upon us In the flesh, and not upon can
WIS ut OtAluSS bonLSb anu
veil sweep all before them, the most
devout woman hater is disarmed. the
susceptible fall at one glance.
And with the Dickens bonnet viii
surely come a revival of the feminine
manners, the feminine attitude Of the
'4os and sos. 1t will be a surprising
volte-face. Missy will have to put away
her golf clubs and hockey sticks, and
take TO tatting and playing the piano
Young persons with a pretty wit and s
talent for conversation must hencefortt
sit mumchance. and their voices mus
not be heard at the dinner table.
Instead Of snrbbing and chatting Mert
Man. she will have TO PROSTATE hersel
before him as a being Of superior pow
ers. One can foreSee some divertin:
contingencies-un the heroine Of an
other and more audacious period be
comes, for the ponce, the fashion
London Sketch
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
About vegetables.

The garden should be cultivated
once q week and as soon after each
shower as it is possible to work the
ground. Sowing of early wrinkled peas
should be made at once for a fall sup
ply. Continue the succession Of beans
By making two paintings, one early in
the month and another about the mid
die. Seeds of spinach sown now will
be ready for the table in the fall. This
Dot herb will grow rapidly during the
cool fall weather Of September and Dc
tober.
Sow a few seeds Of parsley for early
crops next spring. Parsley Is hardy
and viii winter out Of doors If covered
witt, litter. Seeds Of mustard and let
tuce should be sown for fall salads.
Make a sowing Of rutabagas. These
are hardy and will not have to be
harvested before the latter part oi
October. On land from which early
potatoes and early peas have been re-
moved. set plants Of late varieties %
celery. sucb as Giant Pascal and Fin
de-siecle. A few sowings Of radishe'
will not come amiss II is not too late
to SOW some Of the big Chinese varie
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
Those Standard Letters.

The Standard Oil letters are frank 70
bluntness, not to say candor They
wanted bills beaten. suits discontinued,
enemies denied denomination, friends
favored They hired men to do this, it
was done, and they paid the men mon
ey. The defense of Foraker is that he
was, is, and yet continues to be a law
yer, while he incidentally was a Cover
nor, and still incidentally is a Senator.
Lawyers and laymen may divide on
that Defense but laymen are effective
at the polls, and lawyers in only some
courts. The declaration of the company
and the defense of Foraker are the
same as to facts and amounts, but the
Standard is not running for office. The
amounts contributed and acknowledged
seem large to laymen, but that is not
material to the principle involved.
The Standard does not lack money.
Mr.. Foraker did not fail to get some Of
it. Mr.. Monnett says he refused $780,
600 OF it. President Roosevelt admits
that he was urged by a Congressman
Sibley of Pennsylvania to let up on the
Standard, but refused to do so. This
Sibley denies-just after Hearst shakes
out letter from Sibley cOnfessing his
approach to RoOsevelt-BroOklyn Ea-
Gle
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
RooseyeIt Has Enough.

Roosevelt says he will not reply to
Bryan's last letter, because it is a per-
sonal attack and he will not deign to
notice personal attacks.
"a personal attack iorsoOth. Since
when did he get so ''touchy" about per-
sonal attacks? There has never
been a man in the White House who
has so ruthlessly jumped onto every
facts and conditions as this same Theo-
dore Roosevelt. He sentenced men to
the Ananias club with as little ado
as you would take a chew of tobacco.
He called a man an undesirable citi-
zen' just the same as lie would invite
a man to dinner And now he is touch
ed because Bryan makes a personal at
tack on him.
But assuming for the sake of argu-
ment that it is personal attack, why
did he do it? Did not Roosevelt invite
it? Did he not brag that when he got
to Washington he would put some gin
ger in the campaign; and if Bryan has
put little of the ginger into Teddy s
eyes, has he any kick coming? We
decidedly think not.
But as a matter of fact, Bryan did
not in any way make a personal attack
on Roosevelt. Far from it, he dis
cussed the issues of the campaign and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27

As a proposed compromise the Taft
Stevenson Club" Incorporated at Spring
held may be part of shrewd but futile
plans to hold in check the independent
Republican voters whose protests
against the Deneen administration now
threaten Republicanism in Illinois with
the results of 1892.
Against any such attempt, Stevenson
is rs squarely Democratic now as he
was in 1892 or as when he presided in
the Senate as Vice President of the
United States, from 1898 to 1897. The
issues thus presented are as well de-
fined now as then. He has supported
Democracy without f1inching or compro-
missing from his beginnings i'll Illinois
politics to 1900 and since. When Hi
noiS gave him it's Endorsement, with
many who had been Republicans voting
for him. il WAS on the issues of national
coutrol through Democratic principles
as he was known and as he is still
known 10 represent Them
After having been an Illinois Vict
President OF the United States he is MOI
running for Governor of The STATE
merely AGAINST Deneeu. To rua fol
| Governor merely TO evict Deneen from
Office: 10 turn out the Deneen men with
whom the public institutions of INiEoi:
have been overloaded 1T the cost Of tn;
| tsxaayers: 10 make q campaign merel;
TO get Office ana the spells of Office, i
not what any intelligent voter in Hi
/ ncis. Republican or Democrat. expect:
from Stevenson. No one needs 10 b
told that as a candidate for Governoi
of Illinois he IS running in support q
the principles he has always represent
| ed and that necessarily he is runni,e
against Taft and Deneen, not agains
/ Deneen only. Republicans cannot vot
for him inteIlisently on any other basis
He VIII be ready n tell any honest Re
publican. # any honeS' ReDunllcai
could need 10 be told that be can repre-
sent 10 one who wishes the public bUsi
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
No Profit in the Philippines.

At the lowest official estimate the
expenditure involved in the purchase
and conquest of the Philippines was
100000. The revenues of the ISL
onds fall short by 100000 yearly Of
paving the cost of the military estab-
iisbment. As a business enterprise
the investment of public funds
in the Philippines mas proved
a dismal failure. No one in
authority ventures TO predict when
the islands viii be self-sustaini1g. We
have derived no appreciate benefit
from them as n commercial outpost
for our commerce with the Orient The
PHILIPPINES are a luxury, and the tax
payers Of the United States foot the
biIIS.-Baltimore sun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27

the Omaha editor was surprised. Such
things are always likely to happen
where blind devotion to party takes the
place of reason, and a newspaper fol-
lows the candidate without regard to
right or wrong.
Congressman LOngworth's statement
continues to evoke strong opposition,
and is quite the feature of the cam
paign. Republicans and Democrats
alike condemn any plan to make the
presidency of the United States an as
set of the Roosevelt family. Long
worth's bold statement will cost Taft
thousands of votes.
Republican leaders and Republican
newspapers are avoiding all mention of
it. but the Democratic national commit
tee will see that every voter in the
country is informed fully, and many
Republicans will vote for Bryan to put
stop to the Roosevelt ambitions.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27

And irrigation is better than rain,
infinitely better. That also sounds
like paradox, but instead it is almost
a truism. What is better-to give q
plant Just as much and no more water
than it needs and just when it needs
it: or to parch it or drown 1t accord
ing to the whim of the clouds? The
rain falls upon the just and upon the
unjust alike; upon your strawberries
that cry for 1t and upon your sugar
beets that want uninterrupted sun
shine. Rain is all right in its place,
but ii is a very poor substitute for IT.
riCation. Otherwise why would the
lawns of our cities be sprinkled or irri-
gated. instead of leaving them TO the
tender mercy of the clouds? No. Arid
lands are more fertile than ordinary
lands, and irrigation is better than
rain.-Suecess Magazine
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
THE DAY BEYOND.

When youth is with us, all things seem
But lightly to be wished and won;
We snare tomorrow in dream
And take our toll for work undone'
For life is long, and time stream
That sleeps and sparkles in the SUM-
What need of any haste?" we say;
''To-morrow's longer than to-day.
And when tomorrow shall destroy
The heaven of our dreams, IN vain
Our hurrying manhood we employ
To build the vanished bliss again;
We have no leisure to enjoy,
$50 few the years that yet remain;
So much to do, and ah !" we say,
''To-morrow's longer than to-day.
But when our hands are worn and weak
And still our labors seem unblest,
And time goes past US like bleak
Last twilight waning to the west,
at is not here-the bliss we seek;
Too brief is life for happy rest.
And yet what need of grief?' we say;
Tomorrow longer than to-day"
-Waverley Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
Strenuous CAMPAIGN.

The people are wide awake now,
watching the national campaign with
an eye that cannot be deceived. They
are demanding more than they ever de-
manded before They Want publicity
of campaign receipts and expenditures
publicity before the election-so that
there will be no mortgage on the next
administration in the shape of promises
to campaign contributors. They want
open speech on the issues, frank, fiat
footed expressions that cannot be mis-
understood. They want all rotten, veal k,
and dead timber eliminated from the
campaign. They want vigor, and cOur-
age, and progress.
The first for the presidency is a
mans fight Let it be conducted by
real men, in behalf of real men! Let
the cripples and lame ducks go to the
rear and get out of sight! The candi-
date or the party that hesitates or
euuivocates in the sight of the people
this year is lost.-Washington Post.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
The Suuare Deal.

Nothing TO parallel last week's-o out
break from President Roosevelt can he
fucnd in the annals of Ali. eiicau pcli-
itics. That is strong statement to
make, but one entirely warranted by
facts. 1t is undignified for the Presi-
dent TO actively participate in political
campaigning, but it is something infin-
itely worse when the nations Chief Ex-
ecutive stoops to deliberate misrepre-
sentation to give his partisan polemics
the requisite sting
Since Mr.. Roosevelt is not himself
candidate for office the serious import
ance of his unseemly exhibition lies in
the significant fact that what he says
has the implied approval and in some
respects the direct Endorsement of Mr..
Taft, who is candidate. The judicial
temperament and the character Of fair
ness which the Republican nominee for
President admittedly possesses are mot
proof against the influences that come
from his environment. He cannot be
what his own instincts would make him,
but is compelled to become what his po-
litiCal creator would have him.
This extraneous issue. thrust unex-
pectedly into the presidential campaign,
has become at once the question Of
paramount Importance. 1t is a question
Of the square DEAL for which Mr..
Roosevelt has so frequently, so obtru-
sively, so blatantly appealed both in Of
fetal and unofficial utterances. He has
made an issue his party must meet. 1t
is not the question of the guilt or i'll
nocence Of Haskell. 1t is the greater
question of fair play and about that
the American people are united and
unanimous in their sentiment They
would have no man held guilty until he
is fairly convicted in court or before
the bar Of public sentiment That is
what they understand by the square
deal and to that sort of square deal
they are unalterably committed.-St
Louis Republic.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27

In the midst of the storm of protest
aroused all over the country by Con-
gresham Longworth's assertion that
after eight years of Taft Mr.. Roosevelt
proposed to become President again
comes a bright smile from Omaha.
Some editors believe in adhering to
certain principles, no matter by whom
those principles are laid down. Others
believe in adherence to party with a
blind fatuouSneSS that sees nothing
but good in its own party and nothing
but bad in the others. By some strange
fatality the tariff plank of the Repub-
lican platform strayed into the Office Of
the Omaha Bee under false pretenses.
Under the impression that it was a die
tum of Mr.. Bryan, Editor Rosewater
handled it without gloves on the gen
eral principle that anything emanating
from Bryan was bad.
When he discovered that his pains
taking controversion had been directed
against the platform of his own party
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
without Reservation.

When the Chicago platform declares
.'once more and without reservation for
the enforcement in letter and spirit Of
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth Amendments to the COnstitII-
ton" it prefaces this by demanding
equal justice for all men without re-
gard to race or color"
The most searching question Of the
campaign was put at Harrisburg, H.,
when it was asked what equal justice
TO all men is TO mean when the protect
ed income of a single stakeholder from
his privileges in a giant corporation
amounts to $4,000 a day.
The average income of the employees
of the giant corporation system as it
controls what is left of our infant In
dustries amounts. as officially reported,
TO SIO.OG a week, on which, without re-
gard to race or color, as is now peril
nently remarked in Illinois, they ind
no difficulty in dying poor.
As the Chicago platform states the
total wealth of the country at a hun
dred and ten thousand million dollars,
the gospel OF wealth as it is proclaimed
| from the basis of the projected income
of $4,000 a day makes dying poor a
test of patriotism I'm its benefciaries.
a proof OF the gratitude they feel for
the unequaled opportunities they have
| for living rich.
If they are to have equal justice
without regard to race or color. an av-
erage income Of S1O06 week from
/ government privileges. supported by
taxation or other incomes. would not
force them TO die poor. 1t would leavs
them all they have now Of their giant
( abilities. with all business income pos
slble from these. plus S10t6 weekly Is
/ The ? yorase ON which each Of 3.297.SI
workers protected during sixty hour:
! of hard labor ,-eelziy now subsists VA
| der the system Il This would not ll'
satisfactory. the question ~ the Chica
/ 20 platform, as il was suggested fron
. Harrisburg. H. is what equal justie,
for all men without regard to race q
color means when Il Is a question q
] being just 70 protected giants. with
ont reservation. st. Louis Republic
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
Mr.. Bryan,s Improved orntory.

Twelve years of campaigning have
not affected the vigor of the Nebraskan
unless it has been to increase it. He
is really more forceful orator to-day
than he was when he first entered the
lists for the presidency Of the United
States. This is so because his remarks
and arguments are presented in far
more conservative language than he
was wont to use at the beginning of his
national career. 1t is for this reason,
among others, perhaps, that Mr.. Bryan
is a stronger man with the people Of
this country now than he has ever been
before. That is admitted on all sides,
and was plainly evidenced by the really
wonderful reception which was accord
ed to him on Thursday by the people Of
Topeka and the surrounding country.
Mr.. Bryan has been in Topeka on sew
eral other occasions, but at no time
have so many people turned out to hear
him or have they cheered him so enthu-
siastfcally.-Topeka Journal.