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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
At Chicago in June.

What Mr.. Beveridge says of the Indiana
delegation to Chicago should be true OF
every instructed delegation that goes
there 1t should be distinctly and incon-
testably on the level. 1t should be COM
posed of men who command the unquali-
fled confidence of allswho know them
both at home and abroad. Booms in such
hands will mean something, and a nomi-
nation made by such men after an honor
able contest, no matter how warm and
spirited. will be worthy, and likely to re-
ceive, the party's enthusiastic support at
the polls.
AS matters are shaping. it looks like a
tug of war. The candidates are all good
and strong men, we'll known to the coun-
try and we'll liked by all who know them.
They are fortunate likewise in the per-
sonal respect, and even the admiration.
of their political opponents. No man ever
occupied the Speakers chair who was
more popular on both sides of the cham
Der than Mr.. Cannon is. Mr.. Fairbanks
at the other end of the building is equally
fortunate. Judge Taft, wherever he goes.
holds a sort of levee. Senator Knox
both as man and lawyer. is most highly
regarded. And while Gov. Hughes has
with his rivals, he is widely accredited
with sterling qualities and great ability
There will be opportunity at Chicago
both for the orator and the organizer.
Nominating speeches rarely make votes.
but they should always be worthy of the
occasion. 1t is comfort, even for the de-
feated. to feel after all is over, that their
claims have been attractively presented;
and in the case of the winner the nomi-
mating speech does a sort of duty all
through the campaign. Ingersolrs speech
nominating Mr.. Blaine in 1876 failed of
its purpose then, but was still so well
remembered in 1854, eight years later, that
lis stirring sentences were everywhere
repeated. And Mr.. Blaine lives in the
title of 1.-The Plumed knight"
But the organizer-the man with a
genius for winning delegates over to his
side and making combinations-should
find chance for the exercise of his best
talents in June. Unless there is a radical
change in the situation, there will be no
waik-over for anybody at Chicago The
republicans in many states have their
. thinking caps on and we'll drawn down,
and are expecting consultation at the
convention OF hurrah there will, as usual,
be a-plenty, but the best hope in the
party is that hurrah be not permitted to
name this years candidate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
Better and Cheaper Gas.

This is exactly the fitting time to push
vigorously and considertly for better
and cheaper gas. The stock-increase
proposition is out of the way for many
months. The facts concerning the profits
OF gas-making at the present price,
which developed in the stock-increase
movement, are available, and throw light
on the question of reasonable gas-rates.
The figures of gas prices in other cities
have been collected and submitted for
comparison. united and concentrated
effort to improve the quality and decrease
the price of gas should meet with success.
This movement should not, it would seem,
wait upon and be delayed by other legis-
lative projects affecting the gas company.
however mertorious they may be. For
instance. the legislative proposition to
regulate the public utility corporations
by a commission or the Commissioners
of the District challenges the combined
opposition of all these corporations. and
asks for a delegation of power from Con-
gress to the Commissioners in respect
to which Congress is jealousy sensitive.
Experience has shown the difficulty in
overcoming the obstacles in the path of
this KIND OF proposed legislation. and the
delays and disappointments suffered so
often in the past by its advocates.
The campaign for the regulation OF
the public-service corporations. including
the gas company, should not interfere
with an immediate battle for better and
cheaper gas. in which struggle Congress
has TO excuse for siding with the enemy
OF for inaction, and the gas company Is
Isolated as the communitys sole oppo-
nent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
VARIOUS VERSES
ON TIMELY TOPICS
ECCE HOMO!

Dear Dudley Foulke. bein' such a friend.
1 take my pen In hand
To say what you. from end to end
Nay give to all the land.
II there's a man that says that
Have used the civil service.
Tell him that it's n precious lie:
My motto Not to swerve' Is.
Examine for yourself the list
That / have lately named:
Twas Just an ordinary grist;
l surely can't be blamed.
The 6ttcst man has been my plan
To save from confusion.
And sena tor congressman
Has helped me reach conclusion.
Just put the emphasis on this
With all the might you can;
Point To my clear analysis.
And say: Behold the man!
He's always ready to declare
Without the slightest platitude
His view OF journalists that dare
Least criticise his attitude
But don't. for heavens sake. refer
To what our southern friends
Are doing. That would only stir
Up Questions with bad ends.
We've got to keep them true for Taft
Whateer to truth the curve fs:
But We can holler-What man lauShed!-
'.Hurrah for civil service
Indianapolis News.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

You'll at least be q sister to me?
Many thanks. You're exceedingly kind.
have others: but that you won't mind.
Just at present their number Is three.
/ can take a magnanimous view
OF the matter. I won't he outdone.
Though know you already have one.
I'll at least be a brother to you.
That my sisters do love me I know,
And / know their affection I prize.
I'm q pretty nice chap in their eyes.
Their regard they are willing to show.
s'Mr Smithers" sounds awfully prm
When I'm calling you Maggie" my dear.
As my sister, it's perfectly clear
You can't get out OF calling me Jim"
And III hug all my sisters-like this
And they always return the embrace.
There's no need Of averting your face.
I'm bestowing a brotherly kiss.
Chicago News.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

She got into q street car On
A freezing winter day:
She left the front door open-O
What did the people say!
She bravely took a hammer, and
She tried to drive q nail:
The catastrophe that followed
Made every one turn pale
She started to a party, just
A half an hour late:
At the door she asked her husband:
Have ] got my hat on straight!
They got her in the courtroom, and
They asked her: whats your aRe:''
Says she: I'm own to twenty-five
Now that was pretty sage
Lovely woman!
She bought an automobile veil.
hundred inches long:
She'll have an automobile, when
They're selling for q song.
She worked and read and talked all day,
As every woman ought:
At midnight. when her husband came,
She told him what she thought
Lovely woman:
She's not at all athletic, as
You've often heard her say.
But she'd jump on the piano. n
mouse should come her way!
Can she keep the men a-hustling? You
Can simply bet your life.
Still We wouldn't do without her,
As sister, sweetheart, wife
Lovely woman!
+Somerville Journal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
Then and NOW.

I might have been a lizard sublime.'
Cake-walking down the halls Of time.
II had lived I'm that great age
When poets took to write a page
At least a year; another spent
Correcting proofs-got what they meant
''Set up" and spelled As they intended,
So that their thoughts sublime and splendid
We're not marred by that modern terror
The bane Of poets-printer's error.
No wonder those old poets shame us.
No wonder they are great and famous!
They had the talent and the time
To polish every bit OF rhyme;
Perfect it. send IL down the ages
As It should be. But then their wages!
Alas! They d cents where we have dollars,
Wore rags and went without their collars.
Perhaps we're better OF than they
At least do get better pay.
Our verse may limp on crippled feet.
But then We get enough to eat.
Let printers spoil our chance for fame,
We get the money. Just the same!
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
Raisuli.

De a tremendous drawing card. How
I Treat My Captives' ought to make an
attractive headline for a talk. Or, kid
naping and High Finance" would draw
crowded houses. My Policies and How
1 Push Them Through" should endear
him to American lovers of the picturesque
In politics. So much for Raisuli in the
lecture field.
But Raisuli in vaudeville would draw
the largest salary ever paid to a top
liner. Imagine the stage setting for his
act. the Atlas mountains on the back
drop. grim fortress-castle on the left
and the date palms and we'll of an oasis
on the right. Raisuli center, declaiming
against the tyranny of the sultan, and
one of his >American or English victims
sitting against a tree in rapt attention.
Perhaps the orchestra giving a faint sug-
gestion of the tom-tom music made IA
nous on the Midway at Chicago in
1898. Richly cloaked Arabs massed In
the background. while the first gentle
man Of Africa" rolls forth his sonorous
pigeon English and tells the tale Of Mo-
roccos wrongs.
Why should this not happen? This is
an age of education. of universal enlight-
eminent. We are learning rapidly about
the far-away lands and their people.
Every little while we pick up a bit of in
formation about some distant corner, and
that great agency Of civilization. the
vaudeville stage, is doing a splendid
missionary work to this end. Raisuli
on the boards could make good Moors OF
a hundred thousand Americans inside Of
ten weeks. If his powers are as great
as they have been described by Mr.. Perdi-
carts and Sir Harry MacLean. Whether
Raisuli is an ardent patriot or a mere
business man, the stage should attract
him If only for its pecuniary promise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
Reminder.

Be a little patient. chile! OATS all you
got to do!
BY an by a yaller flower will come
a-peekin' through
Whah de leaves lay dead an brown when
autumn days were done
Little yaller flower to tell you bout de
summer sun!
Never mind de misty chill dat hovers
roun' de do!
Yves had a heap o June-time. an ives
gwineter hab some mo-.
Violets will tell you bout de summer skies
SO blue
Be a little patient, chile! OATS all you
got to dol
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

There is a man whom respect.
Not for the money he has made
Nor for importance that he has
In any line or branch Of trade.
He has not caused a single due
To cease emitting clouds Of smoke.
Or ever helped a slave to rise
In splendid freedom from the yoke.
But accord him my respect
For his uncommon strength Of will;
With decent pride he brayely keeps
His New Year resolution still.
Chicago Record Herald.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
THE DIFFERENCE.

In the days OF old.
When knights were bold.
Their weapons seldom rusted;
When they got through
A small set-to
Two suits Of mail were busted.
In days OF new
small set-to
Brings little harm to fighters;
When w they wind
We merely find
A pair of wrecked typewriters.
philadelphia Bulletin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
MODERN MOTHER GOOSE.

The Count r. IN the counting house
Counting mp her money:
The maids are 10 the kitchen
Eating bread and honey:
Dukes are In the winer0om
Gulping down 1.-THE same:
Gladys In the writing room
Practfcing her name.
Detroit News.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
MORSE.

From the Syracuse Herald.
It is nothing more than common cour-
tesy, however, to express the hope that
Charles w. Morse is having pleasant
ocean voyage.
From the Houston Post.
1t is difficult to see how Morse managed
to blow in a fortune Of s2O,OOO,00 in a
few weeks. There are plenty OF men In
Houston who have fragments of their
January pay left.
From the Wilkesbarre Times-Leadef.
What cinch Promoter Morse would
have had with his chain of banks If the
solvent banks of the country had been
taxed to make good his default to de-
positors.
From the Nashville Tennesseean.
Charles w. Morse is to be indicted on
a charge of grand larceny-"glor!ous lar
ceny," Mr.. Bryan calls it.
From the Birmingham Age Herald.
Former Ice King Morse would no doubt
like to be captured by Raisuli and held
a long time for ransom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
TEMPUS fUCITS.

Seems but a day
Has passed away
Since writer's had their ding.
And you and L
How time does dyi-
Were kicking at the spring.
A year has flown.
Where has 1t gomez
Life is a fieetins thing.
Soon once again
Will mortal men
Be kicking at the spring.
Louisville Journal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

MIR. Taft's declaration that he cannot
predict business millennium awakens
curiosity as to whether there Is some
other kind of millennium In sight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

If at some future day the Treasury
finds $4,000 900 and accrued interest
straying into the conscience fund. it will
know whom to suspect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
DO 1T NOW.

(After Kipling)
God OF fathers, known Of old
We bring troubles all TO Thee
This new bright coin Of yellow gold.
Send few that We may see
This motto that aside set:
Please do IL now, lest We forget.
We have not had one OF our
And know not OF Its design.
Send us-that the whole truth be known
Not many. tust-say-eight or nine;
Pray do 1t soon and stop regret,
Lest We forget, lest We forget.
Houston Post
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

The theatrical season has not been con-
spicuously prosperous, and it Is feared
that the hope which springs eternal is
leading actresses to take seriously the
press agents stories about their being
heiresses to large fortunes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

The Amateur Statesman.
For currency some scheme I'd show
II plan could strike
To get enough of 1t to know
Precisely what It's like!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
Generally Placid.

Does your automobile make You nerv-
ous?"
"Only once in a while-when it isn't in
the repair shop"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

Permanganate of potash is commended
as a cure for snake bite. This Is i'm
portant to communities in which prohibi-
ton has been established.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

Another man has jumped off the
Brooklyn bridge. The man who wants
to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel
should be heard from soon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

Congress will naturally find it rather diff
fcult next summer to compete for public
interest with a presidential campaign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
Classification.

That man is a great friend Of yours"
said the campaign assistant
Which kind of friend" oueried Sem
ator Sorghum, lone who wants to do
something for me or one who wants me
to do something for him."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

A hurry" microbe is said to have been
discovered. If there is any way of ar
ranging a contest the odds will be con-
siderably in favor of that old-time cham
pion, the ''lazy" microbe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

An incredulous world is gradually be-
coming reconciled to the belief that there
was no reason for sending the fleet to
the Pacific beyond that actually stated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

A sunshiny day at this time Of year
merely awasens suspicious that the
ground hog is taking fresh start.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

Some of the charges brought against
the King of Belgium are serious enough
10 call for the insanity plea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Anticipated.

Did you ever figure out how much a
few hundred dollars put aside every year
will amount to In time?"
YES" answered Mr.. Plodden A. Long.
But the man with whom I invested it
figured it out before did and never gave
me a chance at it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

The professor who says we are in
danger of becoming a nation Of testers
affords some hope to those who feared
we were becoming a nation of dyspeptics
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

a rain after a snow saves a lot of en-
barrassing questions about city's street.
cleaning facilities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

The Sultan Of Turkey still retains his
faculty for letting the other people do
most Of the worrying.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

The Evening Star with the Sunday morning
edition. Is delivered by carriers within the city
at 30 cents per month; without the Sunday morn
ing edition at "A cents per month.
Ry mail. postage prepaid:
Daily Sunday included one month. 60 cents.
Daily. Sunday excepted, one month. so cents.
Saturday Star. year. 81 90.
Sunday Star. one year, $50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
A Fable Discredited.

A Fable Discredited.
you know the story of the hare and the
tortoise?'
YES" answered the jockey. "but it
doesn't point any moral that l can see
At any respectable track that rabbit would
have been outlawed for pulling the race"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
five TO One.

Five pints OF milk
To I'VE quarts OF water
Bring into society
The milkman's daughter.
Memphis Commercial-A Appeal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

TOO ECONOMICAL.
Ecopomy's virtue fine
Unless with greed IL ranks:
Both oarties shouldn't strive to use
The same old platform planks.
Cleveland Plain DealnRS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

THE STAR has a regular and permanent
Family Circulation much more than the
combined circulation Of the other WASH
ingfon da1lies. As News and AdveE-
Using Medium it has no competitor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
From the Birmingham Age Heral,

Former Ice King Morse would no doubt
like to be captured by Raisuli and held
a long time for ransom.
The Detroit times., 1908-11-11
IF 1T DISAPPEARS.
> IT'S ECZEMA
How 10 Tell Whether a Skin Ahee-
ton 10 an Inherited Blood
Disease or Not.

Sometimes il IS hard 10 determine
whether a skin affection Is a sign OF a
blood disorder or simply form %
eczema. Even physicians are often
puzzled in their diagnosis. The hes;
way for any one afflicted Is 10 go 70
the Central DRUG TO-. Gray & Wor-
cester's, or any good druggist who
handles pure drugs and OBTAIN 90
cents worth OF poslam. Apply this,
and II the itching stops az once and
the trouble is cured in few days II
may be set down as having been ecEe'
ma. as this Is the way poslam acts an
the worst cases of eczema. and In cur
ing acne, herpes, blotches. tetter,
niles salt -Ihenm -rASh-- BARRIERS anA
other forms II itch. scaly scalp, and
all surface skin affections.
Those who Will write 10 the Emer-
gency Laboratories, No. 80 West
Twenty -hfth Street New York, can
sccure. by mail free OF charge. "A sup
ply sufficient 10 cure small eczema
surface or clear complexion over
night and remove pimples in twenty
four hours,
The Detroit times., 1908-11-11
5000 WORKMEN
ARE MADE Poems
OF GOVERNMENT
IN CASE AGAINST A FLORIDA
RAILWAY.

NEW YORK. Nov. l1.-What was
asserted TO be the practical maroon
ing OF 5000 men in the wild regions
OF Florida and their detention there
at hard labor for several months. was
dealt with at length in the United
States circuit court in the trial OF the
government case against employers
and agents OF the Florida East Coast
Railway Co. Tor alleged violation OF
the statute prohibiting "peonage. slav.
cry and enforced servitude." The men,
it Is said were ill-fed, unpaid, beaten
and guarded by armed men 10 prevent
their escape.
The men under indictment are
Francisco Sabbia, Edward j. TRAY,
David +. Harley and Frank A. Hugg.
After jury had been selected Dep
uty Attorney General Glenn E. listed
outlined the prosecution case, con-
tending that the treatment accorded
the workmen supplied to the Florida
East Coast company by the defendants
was nothing short OF slavery. The
government will show, he declared.
that in 1906 the men had been induced
by alluring advertisements to apply
for employment In the south.
The Detroit times., 1908-11-11

NEW YORK. Nov. 1.-Refused ad-
mission To bail, Charles w. Morse
must stay in jail. The former head
OF the ice trust. annoyed by the re-
fusal OF Judges Lacombe, Coke and
Ward to liberate him on a bond for
bis appearance. spent restless night.
and early today was in an ill-humor.
Less than a year ago worth. IL Is es-
timated, more than $22 100000.
Morse's fortune seems TO have been
dissipated. and he must remain be-
hind prison bars at least until his bill
OF exceptions is filed by his lawyers.
Wallace MacFarlane. his chief coun-
sci. is busy today on the bill OF ex.
ceptions. He told the court when he
made his application for admission OF
Morse to bail that this bill could not
be prepared In less than three months,
That was when he was OF the opinion
that Morse would get bail, and that
speed would not be necessary TO get
his appeal for writ OF error before
the circuit court OF appeals.
The decision refusing Morse bail
was brief IL reads:
The trial judge having heard the
application TO admit to bail and de-
MED, we are not prepared on the pa.
pers now before us TO make any diff
ferent disposition OF the same
The motion is denied without pre-
judice TO its renewal after the bill of
exceptions Is fled
The Detroit times., 1908-11-11
A NEW TRIUMPH
NOW FOR WIRELESS

SEATTLE. Wash, Nov. 11.-Advices
received at the local signal Office show
that the signal service wireless sta
tons In Alaska have made another
record, removing all doubt as TO the
feasibility OF sending wireless mes
sages overland Fort Gibbon, at the
junction OF the Tanana and Yukon
rivers. several hundred miles inland,
is receiving messages from Nome and
st. Michael, Ave hundred miles distant,
with many ranges OF hills between the
two stations. message sent by the
steamer Northwestern, LOO miles
west OF Cape Flattery, LOO miles
Wireless Station, at Cordova, was
copied. The message Travelled about
1900 miles in an air line over two
high ranges OF mountains capped with
KNOW