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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
A Tale of Toll.

An interesting story comes from Bur-
lington. VT. telling of the toll Of a mil
lionaires son In cotton mill for dollar
and a quarter a day. 1t seems that the
young man in question incurred parental
displeasure by marrying actress. not
well-advertised actress of society
dramas. or even comic opera. but bur-
lesaue dancer Parental displeasure is
not surprising in such a case. In this
instance it took the form of disinherit-
ance. whereat the scion of wealth pulled
on his overalls-he probably had to buy
them, scions of wealth not keeping them
in stock-and got a job i'll a mill. Now
at this point the news report diferentiates
from the usual story of the rich young
man working with his hands to support
the wife of his heart. upon whom MS
parents have frowned If this were true
TO type the narrative would proceed to
describe the softening Of the obdurate
parental bosom. the forgiveness of the
son and the welcoming of the wife ana
infant child into ehe palatial home,
Somehow or other either the type has
changed of late years or else this Is q
peculiar case, for there Is no suggestion
of forgiveness, and at last accounts the
only bright spot on the horizon, as Nie"eu
from the humble home in Burlington, Is
the prospect that the young man may be
promoted soon to foremanship at Slo
week. OF course every little bit helps.
and he will probably think more of this
advance in his fortunes than he formerly
did of a 100 touch on papa. Perhaps
in due time the case will revert to the
classic type and there will be news OF Il
reunion and all that sort of thing. Few
American fathers really care to be con-
spicuously different from the story-book
style after all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
AVIATION.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
A prominent aeronaut predicted that
flving machines would be no more danger.
Gus than automobiles when the navigators
became expert in the use of the machine
And cn the day his statement was pub.
lished four fatal auto accidents were re.
ported in two cities.
From the Hartford Evening Post.
Just the same. it's queer that all these
successful flying machines that fall like
thunderbolts out of a clear sky and smas sill
themselves to fragments never iniure
the aeronauts beyond "a few Sigh,
scratches
From the ST Louis Globe Democrat.
When an airshp turns turtle and
spills its occupants to the ground the
science of aeronautics is promptly ex-
chang ed for that of athletics
From the Providence Tribune.
With a little practice almost anybody
can learn to say aviation and aero
plane"
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Just as we learned how to pronounce
chauffeur they sprang aviator on US.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
Tie Motor Race Ira gedy.

The season record Of automobile ra e
t.aseileS Is started with shol king Item
An Ita..an driver. in trying out his car
- IL. Baltimore track vas hurled
against the fence At a curve and was in
stantls killed. lie had short tine pre-
yInUsly made Z mile n 81. g, onds and
was irving 10 send his car over The course
al i ;tl-segona rate when t$kidded al !,
turG owing 10 the bursting Of a tire.
Motor ca racing on oval tracks is PROB
ABLY the most dangerous form OF auto
MODELLING. The turns being sharp and the
tI"ch not sufficiently banked 10 give the
cars their proper thrust. II is dangerous
enough on the highways. where sharp
curves are oce aSlonally encountered. Al
the ft'y-mile % e auto is going much
faster than average locomotive speed and
the chances Of side slip at turn are
very great. The locomotive has heavy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

fianses that engage stiff steel rails with
the additional advantage that the outer rail
is elevated Furthermore. the locomotive
in no case takes as sharp a turn as Is
offered by a race course to motor car.
81 little is to be gained by demonstra-
tons of the excessive speed possibilities
of the motor car in turning courses
thai il is possible to account for this form
of sport only on the ground that the pub
lie actually delights in dangerous pas
times and is fascinated by the chance of
seeing tragedy enacted. Much of the
success of the s.x-day bicycle race is UNI
doEatedly due 10 this disposition on the
part of spectators Were it not for the
chance that a bone breaking spill may oc-
cur at any time the monotonous grind of
tho riders around the saucer track would
net attract paying patronage.
such tests as that which was conducted
in Baltimore Friday impure. rather than
heris.it the cause of automobiles in this
country. The motor car has proved itself
a valua BILE and enjoyable adjunct. which
wher properly used greatly increases the
practical activities of its owner The
touring car carries the family far out into
the country in circumstances that yield
maX!mum OF pleasure ana benetQ With Out
little risk when the machine IS driven Will
proper rrecaution. For use in a city for
business purposes the motor car is high
ly practicable machine. and the great ma
jority of owners today realize that 1t should
he handled CONSIDERABLY and NOT overWork-
ed as d mere engine of speed. The machine
has passed through the experimental
stage and also the novelty phase. and 1t
is to be deplored that these speed demon
STATIONS with their almost inevitable
casualties. should continue to keep alive
in some minds the prejudice that was
early created by the fnlles of a few en-
thusiaStS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
The BlNC-BANC DAY.

From the PittsburS Gazette-Times.
Despte the well meant advice they are
receiving the small boys will proba bly, re-
fuse to have anything 10 40 with the
noiseless tirecracker
From tho PittshurS Dispatch
There ought TO he manu- acturers la
bility on those chunks OF dynamite sold
TO boys Is torpedoes.
From, TN. Chicago Record Herald.
All the indications are that we shall
have about as unsafe and insane Fourth
as ever.
From the Springfield Union.
Nevertheless. the small boy VIII ne as
tinctly disappointed If Buffalo Bill doesn't
Show that he is bigger. buster ana more
boisterous than Forterjuiy.
From the wilkesbarre Times-Leader.
II is not too soon for Young America
TO begin 70 man or a glorious Fourth of
July neither is il too early for mother and
father 10 think over the act that los peo-
pie were killed and over 5000 injured last
independence day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
The OLD RELIABLE.

When the news Is dull beyond all estimation,
When puny paragraphs begin 10 pail.
When every hing Is rank rnIteraiion.
When nobody does thing at all:
When everybody looks In cons formation
At tho columns where excitement isn't there
Then IT. time to help along the circulation
With the good old Balkan cloud story
scare.
IL anarchists ignore assassination
IL Roosevelt doesn't write ream or two:
II kings won't even think of abiiration.
II murdcrers refuse 10 leave 4 clue:
Ii candidates don't land delegation.
II nobody arrests hnInrier.
Then they help along the public's education
With the good old Balkan war cloud story
scare.
There's countcsses TO ask for separation.
There's charges 10 be laid every trust.
There's twenty kinds IF new Investigation.
There's scandal in the npiest upper crust:
There's LEGAL and signed ciminin alton.
There's stories and * ittmrnt. too. IL spare.
But the thing that ALWAYS saves thr situation
Is the good old Balkan warsc.uud story : are.
Kansas tity Journal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
The SPRiNCY fEELlN'.

I've a sorter sprncy f.clin q lnz.nes. I'll stat:
You'd never ket.h me hshn ct had Ia dig the
bait
An II i hit the river-bank-surplicd With ing
an cup
The catfish bite So brisk sir. they are shore to
wake me up
tRnther let my soul loaf
Roun' the meadows wide.
Dr,amn III. river bank.
Or driftin' with the tiic5
It comes-that ''sprinsy feeln long bout this
time q year.
When the bees are huntin' honey. an the volets
appear:
A Teller Jest can't help 1.-THE wants 10 take his
An fall asleep in blossoms 10 the lull-spng Of
the breeze.
ooh, I'd ruthcr lot my soul loaf
Rnun' the meadows wide.
Dreamin' tho ryerbank.
Or drftfn with the tida9
IF. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitutioa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
THE SHORTCAKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE

The shortcake mother used IN make
All. you Will wisely say
That in those days my appetite
Was always With me. day and night.
That lis hut fancy's play.
Well have your fling. Say have lost
The Joy Of eating for tho sake
OF satisfying hunger which
Youth only knows But. o. the rich.
Rare shortcake mother used to make
TIE shortcake mother used TO make
Was built three stories tall.
I never had 10 search with care
To find tho Juicy berries th"re,
Nor were they green small.
And when I craved n second pies,
Defyinc any future ache.
I got n without extra charge.
For il WAS frre as we'll large.
The shOrtoake mother used 70 make.
$. f.. kisar in ChieaGa Record Herald.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
Long-Distance Talking.

Long distance talking, as 1t is called. Is
not difficult for trained speaker. Such
a man finds sermons in stones, books In
the running brooks, and talk in every
thing All themes lead to his tongue
and he can twist nearly anything to suit
his purposes. There are moments In
such an exhibition when one applauds the
ingenuity displayed. But necessarily
there are periods of the most trying dull
ness, unenlivened by either wit, or logic
or responsiveness on the part of the
speaker 1t was to protect the House
against such displays that Thomas b
Reed rewrote the rules of that body, and
out the hlibuster largely out of business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
VIEWS OF Mr.. WORLDLY WISEMAN

II may seem quite the thing to do.
And yet You'll find before Won re through
You'll wish you hadn't done IT
You'll wish thar you had had the sense
To have fnre>een the consequence
Before yen had begun II
You'll ay advice i always cheap.
But always look before you leap.
It's very likely that she NAV
BE all and more. too. than you say:
Her virtues may he many.
Her beauty great. but don he rash
In thinking she has lots of cash.
Perhaps, she hasn't any.
I'll say. If my advice you seek.
Think twenty times before you speak.
I've known young men considered bright.
Who thought the maiden was all right,
A prize they'd luck in landing.
Who never took the time To
To look I'm Bradsfreet in Dun
For her financial standing.
Particularly. when you we'd.
Be sure you're right. then go ahead.
Chicago News
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
The REAL DRAWBACK

l can stand the sultry season.
Though the pcrspirat.on flows
In a stream of rlammy moisture
From my HAT band 10 my nose.
BUT shudicr III my anguish
As the fellow hsa,e> III view
With the I'D. eternal Question
is il hut enough f9r YOU
Though my collars limp and wllted
And my shirt from. is lake:
Though my clothes sticking TO me
| have III complaint IT, make.
But the horror Of the season
l. IN know the mutt Is due
With the query on each corner
is Is hot enough for you:
Nashville Tennes sceHD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
HETTY'S PRODICALlTY.

The heat will do funny things. and many
deplore.
But none "" heard IF recently can tie inns lat-
When Het,y Green cuts loose her wad and gives
up ready money
To sec herself more beautiful why. things are
getting funny.
1t may not he tho heat at all but its something
just bad.
And really at Ter age 1t seems very. very
sad
All through life she'd never part with foolish
cent.
But now kerslap. for beauty cool $500 went
BROOKLYN Times
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
PROPERLY PREPARED.

He took his fur lined ovcrcolt.
so coZy and warm,
He par ked his full length rubber boots
So useful in storm:
His heavy Swcatcr-yesf he took.
The buckskin trousers exc.
The eartahs made of hearskin
That resist rho hreezes bleak.
The chamois chest protector
And the mittenS thick and hot
The beaver hat and WOODEN socks
Were details not forgot.
And. ere departing. he made sure
That nothing warm he'd missed
Cause Why His name was first upon
TIE summer vacation list.
Puck
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
VARIOUS VERSES
ON TIMELY TOPICS
The WILLING WORKER.

Real summer days have como I" pass.
The mercury climbs UP the glass
The pc.k n hna now heads the class.
And wicker lids are all the 60.
Around ones waist belt IL. which
Helps keep EN- up-with many hitch.
And he W ho works y"arns I" h. rit.-
81 labor ne would never know.
Unless p.rchance he's In tho game
That makes nanny purses lame
About Thu time II year. the Same
That from yr;lr income takes She
To hand unto the bisy man
Who iabnrs through III. summers span
From rhe daun IL dark all that he can
To get rich selling short weight he
indianapolis News
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
Misleading.

1t is a great mistake to try
In life's complex's affairs
To judge a fellow mortal by
The clothing that he wears.
The youth in tennis shoes no doubt
Finds comfort in the same.
But possibly knows naught about
That somewhat vigorous game
And at the races don't suppose
A man Is sure to win
Because he wears with checkered clothes
A mammoth horseshoe pin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
The DELAYER.

No amount Of flibustcr can his steady purpose
filster.
He isn't moved by arguments. 10y warnings. or
by jokes
He lencthcns ont TIL, session with his usual bland
expression
And when they ask hi, meaning. why. he
smokes aud SMOKES aud smokes.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
SHOOTING STARS.
By PHILANDER JOHNSON
Self-Accusing.

Il don't believe you know much about
farming" said the patronizins man who
had just settled in the neighborhocd
No answered Mr.. Corntossel. l kind
o. think don't myself. \ man that knew
much about farming wouldn't have
bought farm anywhere around here in
the first place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
At the Library.

Alas. how oft the public shirks
Its literary chances
And scornS the scientific works
And calls for the romances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
A Sense of Injury.

is prohibition success in your town. -
1T is" answered Col Stilwell
Il suppose you drink lemonade
Yes And l must say it comes kind
o. hard when you've got a beautiful ex
rectant thirst to walk up and be handed
lemon"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

The manager of a New York department
store has discharged salesgirl because
OF her beauty. If the manager of a Wash
ington department store should consider
beauty an offense he would have to get
his s4lesgirls in some other town than
Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

Oyster Bay is to become the summer
capital" on the 10th of June. Washington
will at least have the privilege of getting
the official bulletins from the republic an
convention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

When Congress shall have passed a
law compelling publicity of campaign
contributions some reformer may intro
duce a bill for the publicity of cam
paign promises.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

The capital has ball enthusiasts
would s!aaIr r&is- a fund 10 enable
Pitcher q Young OF Boston 10 retire on
oomTetens"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

The general assembly of the Presby-
terrain Church has chosen Denver as its
next meeting place. Denver must be a
versatile city If it can attract both demo-
Gratis and Presbyterians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
Family Circulation much more than the
combined circu,a ton Of the other Wash
:ls.on dai1ies. As a News and Adver-
.-sing Medium it has no competitor.

T4e Evening Star with the Sunday morning
ssi.i,sn Is delivered by carriers within the city
20 r|dts per month. without the sunday morn
'as cditiuu At "A cents per month.
Ry mail. postage prepaid:
I1.iy. Sunday included one month. ~ cents
lai!y. Sunday excepted. one month. % cents
Saturday Star. enc yenr. Slb-
Sunday Star. year. 81 %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

Senator Davis lifted mis- tunei al voice
in Lold-thefort- tori -am-comins re-
traIn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

Mr.. Bryan is good hand at getting
delegates even If he Is little weak on
getting votes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

Washnston.s suicide record is SO long
this spring as 10 suggest that the local
stock OF good sense has begun to run
low.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

Senator La Toilette has made up in
the closing hours for the silence from
which he has suffered during the greater
part of the session.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

Congress might have put in some good
work paSsing u few unoDjectonab BILE local
bills while waiting for the Senate fill
buster 10 blow off
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
Gov. johnson and 1912.

A sure sign that easy times have come
IS that Hetty Green IS spending money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

In discussing questions of national
hygiene stress might be laid on the need
of sanitary politics
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

Somehow the name of Santos umont
fails to figure with its old-time frequency
in the airship news dispatches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

john sharp Williams doubtless looked
on ~ tie Senate nlih.ster with a very
human :e-..ue II Jealousy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31
Not Deluded.
want emplovnlento

DO you want employment
Lady" answered Flooding Pete you
means we'll. but you can't make work
sound any more nvitin' by usin' words
of three syllables."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

Mos of our ups an downs said
Uncle Eben. lis due to de struggle to
keep up appearances an keep down our
debts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-31

The President of the French Republic
and expressed the pleasure at his pros
pect!ve visit
The French ambassador. NJ. Paul Cam
bon. speaking in French, proposed the
health Of the chairman. Lord Derby,
he said, had devoted the whole of his
life to the service OF his country lie
had filled the highest positions with great
distinction: but of all the great offices
which he had filled he would only refer TO
one-he had been president of the board
of trade; that is. minister of commerce.
He was. therefore better qualified than
any one else to receive the minister of
commerce of France" He was sure that
while he was president of the board OF
trade he had acquired great knowledge OF
the economic interests OF she country. of
the economic relations between England
and France. He had been witness of
Lord Derby's activity and his ardor in
promoting that great enterprise-an en-
terprise which was entirely pri-
vate one though the two gov
ernmentS had lent it their approval
Private citizens had made the greatest
New-York tribune., 1908-07-26
THE FIRST PONY EXPRESS.

Cornelius Cole. ex-senator from California tells
IN hts .'Nemoirs" how the first pony express
reached Sacramento CAL long before the first
transcontirental railroad was surveyed Ihose
who were there to witness IL will never forget the
arrival of the first of these express messengers AZ
Sacramento. 1t was an occasion or great reJoichs
and everybody big and little, old and young,
turned out 10 see the fun. All business for the
time was suspended; even the courts adjourned Tor
the event A large number of the citizens of all
classes grave and gay. mounted on fast horses,
rode out some miles the line TO meet the incon-
ing wonder. - ., -
EThe waiting was not long. The little rider upon
his blooded charger, under whip and spur. came
down upon them like meteor. but made not the
slightest halt greet his many visitors Then
began a race of all that waiting throng, over the
stretch back TO the city. the like of which has
never been seen 1t may have been riyalled IN
speed and confusion by some of the cavalry disas-
ters during the that presently followed but the
Deaceful people of Sacramento. ! am sure, never
bebeId ANYTHING OF the kind before or afterward
THE whole cavalcade shouting and cheering.
some waving banners and bareheaded. riding at the
ton Of their speed. dashing down street. might
have been taken had 1t occurred on the plains. FOR
a band of wild cornanches but the lttle mail car
ripr paid no attention to them and kept In the
lead '-Chicago News.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-26
TRAINS ON FRENCH HIGHWAYS.
Explosive Engine Motors Drawing Several
Cars-Report by American Consul General.

Consul General Robert p Skinner OF Marseilles
furnishes the following information concerning the
running Of passenger and freight trains the
highways OF France:
There recently passed this consulate a Train
Renard,' composed OF locomotor. two passenger
cars and one baggage car. which had just arrived
from Paris under its power and over the ordi-
nary roads thus supplying 10 the public a demon
strat5on Of its efficiency. The trains men
toned are composed of elements each receiving the
energy Of a vehicle called the locomotor, which
being placed al the head Of the train, distributes
means of transmission shaft extending from one
end Of the train 10 the other. thus enabling eaca
car to utilize its adhesion TO the road surface
as a means OF advancement.
The locomotor-that Is TO say The creator Of the
energy-is therefore lighter than any OF the car .
Trains of this type completely loaded are abe 10
maintain a speed Of 2 kilometres Q5OS mllesl ea
hour in case OF passenger trains on levels and OF
fFo Is ls kilometres CsS2 to ssi miles an hour
in he case Of freight trains Ii is said that Iregt
trains OF this type are able 10 MAINTAIN an aNetlSe
OF from 10 Y kilometres (SZl 10 145 miles, tuIIg
loaded in any kind Of country
1T would be useless enter into further details
regarding these higbroad trains. as far as the
United States IS concerned, inasmuch as we are
without road system sufficiently advanced 10
MAKO Their application possible ON the oier manu.
railless roads Ia France has become not only d
possibility, but fact Already hundreds Of mac
sences, are kept in constant contact with the out
side world by means Of large auto-omnibuses,
and now Following Ifts develognnent COMES the
explosive engine motor. drawing full trains of
which IL is claimed be operated on level or
mountainous roads at an exceedingly moderate ex-
pense. In other words. II ali that is claimed Tor
these trains is realized. il will be possible to ;ye
twenty-five thousand cOmmunes In France which
do not present enjoy railroad facilities approx-
rnateIy the advantages with respect 10 ira MS
portation as the more populOus and highly favored
centres.
This illustrates how much the creation Of a
better highway system would benefit the rural
populations Of the United States, who are a
great disadvantage in regard 10 transportation as
compared with foreign communities and deprived
Of the various kinds Of satisfaction resulting from
the existence OF modern highways.