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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01
ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON.

George Washington. my father says,
Was never known to tel He;
he once chopped down q cherry tree,
An told his father 1T was !.
An ever since they've praised dis name,
But this is what I'd like to know.
II George a neighbor's window broke.
Would he have told his father so?
Twas very good Of him to tell
That he chopped down the cherry tree;
But did he ever skip from school,
An write his own excuse, like mef
Did George ever tie . can
Unto his neighior's fayrit cat.
An when the neighbor kicked. go straight
An tell his father II did thatT'
Did George ever steal the jam
His ma had hid upon Q shelf?
An did he own right up an say
II ate that jam all BY myseHr'
/ never spoiled q cherry tree.
An II I had, I'd gladly tell;
That's different to owning up
You broke in school an stole the bell.
I'm not denyin' George was good
But this is what I want to say:
That times are different now than what
They were when George used to play.
There are 80 many things boys do,
That get us licked, IL we admit:
II honest George was here right now
I'll bet he'd even - bit
Detroit Free Press
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01
A MEETING.

We met by chance. and as we met
She clasped me In a warm embrace:
] seem to feel her clinging yet.
With one soft cheek against my face.
She did not know my name. while
Ere then had never viewed her charms;
And yet she breathed a grateful sigh
As round her waist I fung my arms.
The girl had not mistaken me
For any member Of her set.
Nor did she care who I might be
Twas at a skating rink we met.
Chicago Record Herald.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01
LOVE NE AND The WORLD IS Mine. -

Trouble? Surely! I've a peck.
No relief as yet I've founH.
I'm a shattered, nervous wreck.
Trembling at the slightest sound,
Starting as I look around.
Chills are running up my spine.
You have heard 1t. I'll be bound:
Love me, and"
Truly have suffered woe.
Pray. excuse these falling tears.
You'll excuse me, too, | know,
II madness soon appears.
Now a barrel organ nears.
Cruelty they thus refine:
Wait until l stop my ears.
Love me, and"
Every sentimental maid.
Every mawkish. mushy youth.
With some cracked pianos aid.
Has to sing that song. fOrsooth.
Every little 10-cent booth
Even where I go to dine
!, too, hum it-thaf's the truth.
Love me, and"
Chicago News
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01
THE Will OF The PEOPLE

Said Governor Hughes.
''If you ask II of me,
/ cannot refuse
To be your nominee.
If the people demand
That / run for the place
I'll obey their command
And jump into the race.
HAD I my own way"
Said Governor Hughes,
I'm retirement I'd stay,
But as / cannot choose
You may do with me now
As you will, 4 don't care
Then he wiped or his brow,
And be shifted his chair.
deeply sensible. too,
OF the honor I am:
] am telling you true,
Without cavil or sham,
] don't want the place.
Do not leave me, i beg;
/ will enter the race
If run OF leg.
81 would not presume
Such an honor to ask;
Myself I'll not boom.
II Is too great a task.
II the people declare
That they want me to sit
In the Presidents chair,
/ will gladly be it
against my own will,
And against my desires,
Your ticket I'll fill.
But I'll pull on no wires.
II I'm forced In the race
I'll accept It. Of course;
don't want the place.
But I'll run like a horse"
Detroit Free Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01
POOR mere man.

He's led to believe he Is learned
On everything under the sun,
That he Is authority fnal
On just how a thing should be done.
But after the wedding is over
He finds, as a general rule,
She doesn't mind letting him know that
She always believed him q fool.
He's told his opinion Is valued
On intricate matters Of state,
And saving the country from ruin
Depends on his intellect great.
But after election is over,
And politics settle and cool,
They never mind letting him see that
They always esteemed him q fool.
-McLandburgh Wilson. In N. Y. Sun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01
VARIOUS VERSES
ON TIMELY TOPICS
MERE TRIPLES.

Ny wants are few and simple:
I'd like a private car,
A castle on the Hudson.
ffty-cent cigar.
A wife worth forty millions.
rentproducing fiat.
A stylish horse and buggy
And little things like that.
j do not wish for haubles
Or gaudy trifes vain.
Give me the things substantial.
Though modest quite and plain
A steam yacht for q starter.
Where one at home might feel,
With spots to touch the button
And order up a meal.
! want no bonds to worry
Nor stocks to fret my mind
Provided they are what you'd call
The dividendless Md.
A nonproducing gold mine
I'd count as worthless trash.
Give me the little that get
In good and healthy cash.
IT'S not SURPRISING riches
That bring true happiness.
No one need want with millions
Nor starye with even less.
In making me a present
My wants. you know, are few.
But II you have IL handy
The earth perhaps might do.
Nashville American
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01
Success.

What is success? To hear above the din
OF ruthless battle the barbarian's cry
For mercy; to extort or boldly win
The treasure that allures the envious
To stand forth iron-nerved and pitiless
And rise DER those who falter in the
stress
Is this success?
Or is 1t to reach forth and stoutly grasp
The hand of him who weakens on the
way,
And lead him on with firm and friendly
clasp
Toward high ideals-toward the light of
day;
To speak the word of strength and kind
illness:
To leave an honored name that men shall
bless
This Is success!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01
SAFETY In NUMBERS.

Some automobiles have a string
OF numbers at the back
So long that, II one ever Mapped
To bunt you OF the track,
You'd have to chase the thing till IL
And you were miles from town
Before you could begin to take
Half Of its numbers down.
Houston Post
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01
INTERCHANGEABLE.

And still with competition rash
Men play the same old game
The struggle to get fame with cash
Or to get cash with fame.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01
A Political Paradox.

"You admit that you sometimes make
mistakes" said the intimate friend.
you are wrong" answered the eminent
statesman. IT sometimes make mistakes,
but ! don't admit it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

| Emma Goldman is so consistently op-
posed to law that claim of legal resi-
dence Is scarcely to be expected from her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01
STILL AT IT.

Prom hyms that tell Of martial deeds
Some folks would try to wean us;
Which will recall to one and all
The moliycoddle genus.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01
Going Too Far.

Justice is always represented as blind, -
remarked one judge.
EYES," answered the other: land some
Of our lawyers shout as if she were also
deaf"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

Tom Lawson as financier may give
up the fight, but as literary man he
will continue to talk about himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01
SHOOTING STARS
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Oistrust,

YES" said the publisher cheerily, Il
think your novel will turn out to be a
best seller"
''In that CASE said the ambitious
young author gloomily. II think I'll pub
lish under nom de plume
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

Philologists are inquiring whether New
York has a dialect Commissioner Bing-
hams mode of speech while not exactly
a dialect is said to be distinctive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

BY having his league nominate Mr..
Roosevelt for the presidency Mr.. Hearst
could realize a large share of the fun and
excitement which appears to be the
leagues principal object.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

Suspicious on the part Of Mr.. Bryan
that money is being used to defeat his
nomination at Denver shows disposition
to be on hand early with a familiar line
of political explanation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

| The treatment accorded suffragettes
makes it even more remarkable that they
should be willing to take chances on the
| crush at the polls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

- If the use of Mr.. MaXm's noiseless fire
arm could be made compulsory on the
Fourth of July its benefit would be more
obvious
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

Sympathy for ]. B. Foraker is wasted
He Is the sort of man who would rather
be whipped than not be in the fight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

Very little that pertains to the art of
the CRATER appears to have been neg
lected in connection with the Harrisburg
capitol.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

Minister WI declares that he is not
man to give evasive answers. Mr.. Wu's
forte is not answers. but questions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

Statesmen will note with some perturba-
ton that recent events leave Mr. Harri-
man more than ever accustomed to have
his own way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

AS time elapses it looks as If Prose-
cutor Jerome had pretty much his own
way in the disposition of the Thaw case,
after all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

The Boston policeman who arrested a
man for whistling off the key knew what
was due a city of culture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

The discoverer of the second elective
term may become almost as famous as
the original Roosevelt man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01
THE STAR has regular and permanent
Family Circulation much more than the
combined circulation Of the other Wash
ington dailies. As News and Adver-
Using Medium 1t has no competitor.

The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning
edition is delivered by carriers within the city
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ing edition al A cents per month.
BY mail. postage prepaid:
Daily, Sunday included one month, GO cents.
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Saturday Star, year, 81 90.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01

Sometimes said Uncle Eben. 81
ketches myself lambastin' a mule fob do
in purity much de same as 1 would do II
was in de mules placer
The Washington herald., 1908-01-26

waves issuing from the voweslren hundered upon the
undeveoped auditory nerves and membranes with blows
OF the powerfully disturbed atmospheric molecules every
wave of sound mpngng with fresh force dor
mant, almost dead tissues of hearing must respond
Results which he secured upon his early trials led
him onward to series Of formal graduated experiments
upon four pupils all previously considered stone deaf
The Academy Of Medicine, with an assemblage Of hun
dred leading physicians and surgeons witnessed the
crowning achievement Of his system
Before that distinguished gathering DR. Marage pre-
sented one Of his pupils. beautiful intelligent girl
twenty years Of age who, two months previously was
known 'Tncuraby" deaf mute She sang bril-
liant SOLO demonstrating the fact that she could not only
hear after the first awakening dormant sense by
means Of the vowesren but had already formed
acquaintance with tone values exceUng that of the
majority Of people born with the full endowment Of
hearing
When the wondering physicians in her audience were
invited TO converse with her they hastened 70 accept
and she answered their questions manner that showed
greater strain attention on her part than there was
theirs for the hearing Of her replies
What the discovery by Dr. Marage means to the human
what it viii mean for the future If an exten
sion Of his stimulating process prove as valuable as have
these initial experiments can appreciated only by re-
Of the dire consequences which have attended all but
few of the methods that have been pursued in the past
Deaf mutes deemed impossible OF instruction IN
their highest estate-Arstoe himself said il The laws
Lycgus left them exposed helpless little children TO
perish of whatever prvaons accident might remove
them from the world their useless bodies numbered
Romans, equally remorseless but more summary IN
their method. flung them into the Tfber to drown Obser
walton of deaf mutes who lived 10 maturity had convinced
the ancients that they little any, better than i'm
beetles
In the times when the state considered and valued the
individual It's prime asset such citizen was regarded
purely incubus the body polite, and the body
polite would support parasites all deaf mutes per
shed for ages up the those civilizations which
in their selfish of luxury intrigue devised need
which the uforunaes could satisfy by of their
very shortcomings
to betray the they would-savage brutalized
yet devoted to their masersdeaf at length found
place IN the social structure.
That place. for long time was so needful, that
The Washington herald., 1908-01-26

tongues by learning vocal language with their
from the mouths of speaking teachers
The deaf who can. apparently, hear and in reality.
speak, little different kind that no
superable bar against marriage with the fully endowed
arises and the offspring instead being handicapped
with constantly increasing percentage Of chances against
their ability hear, with natures wonderful
powers Of reversion to type working IN their
Yet thus far nearly quarter Of century after DR..
Bells Illuminating exposition Of the WISE course
and Of the imminent danger any departure g.
principle Of the spoken word IN teaching
has been carried to its logical eztsL IN only one inst-
tuton ''The Home for the Training Speech OF Deaf
Children Before They Are OF School Age"
The whole Of that foresghted truly scisn-
tlfc adventure in philanthropy by twc women
Emma and Mary s Garrett Of whom the second sister
still survives direct work IN the exten-
sive buildings IN Philadelphia, in title
Teaching the Young
Before they ara Of scnooI age is the only kind OF
teaching which thus far. in the absence discovery
OF science which shall endow them with their lost sense
OF hearing has suffced work perfectly system
for which Dr. Bell earnestly and convincingly argued
nearly twenty-five years ago
Miss Garrett and her corps instructors
make attempt to teach the children TO hear They
have never considered the possibility glorious con-
summation, But they endeavor 70 secure their little
pupils when they arrived at the age at which, were
they born with the faculties Of children they
would begin TO pratte at their mothers knees.
Two years is infante for the willing patient
helpful home take them in
Then. as though they play with young and
lovely big sisters they learn TO see the spoken word
with their childish eyes learn really TO articuate It
with their normal mouths, very very few children
however into the world deaf are born lacking
perfect organs Of speech.
When they leave the home. they are fitted to enter
the ordinary public schools where even their classmates
ind little to remark in the way Of difference from them
selves
All trades, and nearly all professions are open 20 them
Many who have led their classes in the common schools
OF their native towns and cities lead the normal un-
hampered life Of the hearing and speaking man OF woman
working enjoying. loving rearing children precisely
do the people about them
If that marvellous labor OF only served now as the
prototype for similar institutions throughout the world
instead OF being still sui gene isolated in its exceptional
class the menace which overshadowed humanity since
began 10 commit its splendid mistakes Of mercy would
vanish within two generations
IT, now. science has really found the miraculous way
out by the direct demand the rudmentary faculty OF
hearing that it must and perform the Office negl-
gent nature was willing let It shirk all the human
race has cause for profound gratitude
The Washington herald., 1908-01-26

society ofenmes out the tongues Of its slaves IN
order to supply by artificial means demand for speech
less servants which nature her inconsderate dlsre
gard Of the growing wants Of mankind neglecng
satisfy
Had not the deaf mute been Vigorously extermnated
for so ong time wholly the civilization Of our day
The Washington herald., 1908-01-26
How Wonders
Are Accomplished
in Preparing Little
Mutes for the Schools
4 DEAF mute Vayiety of human species.
- 4 distinct, completely segregated di-
zision of the htsnar family, numbering

Il dSHHC9J COHPtetety SeSIS8UISU u
gfsion of the hfanan family, Numbering
thousands, cut off from likeness TO their kind by
Hss total loss of tOO of the most important taeal-
ties qgih qgHich as natures inahienGble inheritance,
almost the zclrols animal ay0rId is erdO9yed
Such seemed the fearful fate aloGiting those
pnfortpGtss aoHo agittoat the POgvey of speech
or hearing, 5osrs entirely at the mercy of those
1yho kne5v not ho70 TO aid them in their iufymity.
For less than the life span of generation. and
to fegv enlightened experts only has il been
knoo7I that there is as much of promise TO those
born deaf aid dumb as TO their more fortunate
brothers Grd sisters.
Al that is needed is Pafence in treatment and
devOtiOn to the cause of aiding the mates.
1t the Academy of Medicine, in Paris recently,
] prominent French physician demonstrated the
The Washington herald., 1908-01-26

heroic OF He is always under mental strain: the
condition Of his patients Is continually weighing upon his
mind,
His life is irregular, he at all hours is likely
to be aroused from sleep at any time One could not
enumerate the hardshps Of physicians life His work
each day causes him to up flights stairs-how
often?
I'VE never know; we never think of it at the time The
The Washington herald., 1908-01-26
Cl7 a NIGZW%e -0IUQzI

minaton Of separate distinct Of beings might
have already become reaI;y-rnlght have become a
reality fixed apparently eternal order Of crea-
on that rash science as embodied in French ply
scian would not have dreamed Of questioning It.
But nature limited until very recent centuries to her
unaided sporadic production Of deafness and
unaided by meddling Of man IN the establish
ment Of heredIty through marriage gave forth but lin
tied numbers Of these departures from her regular type
Nevertheless in the short during which man has
undertaken remedy oversigbts. by educating
deaf mutes the process Of seecve evolution has pro-
gressed far that long ago as 1888 It appalled, Dr.
Alexander Graham Bell inventor of the telephone and the
scientific phanthopist the deaf whose proege Helen
Keller is the living personacaton Of the wisdom Of
cherizhng the afflicted It was to the National Academy
Of Sciences at New Haven that he gave hts astounding
paper The Formation Of a Deaf Variety Of the Human
Race"
He showed how the whole existing system for the
training and teaching of the deaf tended
ton OF tile variety of humauy-had already created
distinct groups tie shorcomng was transmitted
almost inevitably tails transmitted TO monkeys
Quoting late statistics he showed that OF 21oo pupils ad-
mtJed to the American asylums 6 nearly 90 per cent
were known To have deaf mute relatives
Tables show saws Dr Bell, that Of 2252 congenal
deaf than OF SO per cent had deaf
mute relatives and that the case Of those pupils
who became deaf from apparently accidental causes lsS
per cent had other members their families deaf and
dumb II is certain that the proportion OF deaf mute Of
spring born 20 deaf mues many times greater than the
proportion born 20 the people at large.
Thus it happens that have here and there scat
tered over the country of deaf families con-
nected together by blood marriage The Ouat fam
Hy Of Illinois had members who entered the Illinois
institution in 1893 and 1862 reported of them in the
l that there had deafness in the family for
five generations.
Deaf Mutes Increasing.
Indications that congenial deaf mutes Of the
country increasing greater 1 ta, the popula-
ton at large; and the deaf children of deaf mutes
at greater than the congenital deaf mute popu-
lation"
Seeking the origin of the dsnaying proportion Dr.
Bell found it in the instruction OF deaf mutes in the sign
language the debarring Of them from normal intimacy
with normal people the segregation them into coteries
practically from the communities in which they lived
and consequently the practical compusion of marriage
between afflicted persons direct transmission Of their
common defects to the hapIess offspring.
His efforts great strength to the movement which
aimed to teach deaf children speak, with their own
The Washington herald., 1908-01-26

eAerton continually wears and weakens our sy-
TENS one who IS not physician scarcely realize
What strain we are under: how minds dwell upOn
the people under tremendous responsi-
binty of life and death that always confronts US
suppose we have important in hand: Il Is
question OF fighting death by hour hand 70 hand
People do not realize the intense interest which phvs,
clan takes In his case how racks HIS brain n anA
medicine. S
rs it wonder the nervous system gives out IN time
ton? p''0 PO'i-
Men outside the medical profession do not realize.
etheF now many physicians experiment on themselves
There Is hardly doctor who has not done this
TAKE some Of our most eminent specialists-the often
Try upon themselves the potent drugs TO study the
results occasionally one viii die. They most care
ful, however and the fatalities are rare
Few physicians. Investigations show are addicted
to drugs Few suceumb insanity or die OF confaglou1
diseases This may seem remarkable.
Dangers of Carelessness.
But doctors precautlon against dzeass. te,
are careful and know that the danger Of
IS carelessness and neglect
Comparatively few doctors commit suicide 0F 2oo
deaths in record there only fourteen suicides
BY accident thirty-one died There were IN this number
twentyeight of typhoid six of blood roisopirg
twenty-five from consumption, and sIxty-fve cases az
heart disease. "
physicians do live as long comparatjvev "a d,
men IN other professions Ny record which is an aver
shows the number OF deaths IN twentv-year eds
10 be follows There 16l between the ages OF On
and 40; S between 30 90; 427 between 0 and 81 ana
l0 over So OF the last number thirteen lived to be 90 and
to be 101. ~
According to statistics the order OF longevity ranges
thus: Farmers, cIergymen. lawyers and doctors Doo
tors last,
And four-ffths of deaths Of physicians are nm
douDedy due TO worry, mental anxiety irregular hours
the sacrifice We make to save the lives of others"
The Washington herald., 1908-01-26

According physician. the average age at which
physicians die to-day is sixty years against fy-seven
forty years
One physician reported that 200 Of professional
had called upon him consultation and
advice greater number suffered from tuberculosis
From a record Of deaths made from the Journal Of
the American Association Weekly from December
1867 numbering 1900 in all famous physician has found
principal of death be the heart
Of the crcuatoTy system, diseases nervous svs-
tenn pneumonia. Brghts disease and tuberculosis.
Few physicians he said. die of contagious dis
eases They mostly from diseases superinduced nv
the strenuous life they lead.
In Beard a famous neurologst of New York
City compiled record Of the raortaity of physicians
found the extent Of their to be sixty
four and three-tenths years. Oagle calculating few
before. found the average to ffty-seven
The OF deaths of doctors in few years
shows the average of life to-day be sixty and
six-tentls years.
to nervous disorders There is profession, perhaps
which demald strenuous life that medicine
The doctor is Of the self-sacriicng and