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@tntn Den qsnpiertrnit.

Waibingion. Q. g., 8. Npril.
Der Sausiuiti5nusihub uobm beu.
te pinitimmIg oie pom Spreher Gan.
non eiugereiften geidIiiiie an, ourd
uelde Ser @euerulonmolt un0 Sou.
belsniuiiter alii9eforoert iper6er, Dem
Sode gliiibeiluuqen 5u MAIDEN,
nelhe Sdritte bis iebt bic beioen
Gepariements gegen ben Popiertruit
unternommen haben.
Nord stern. [volume] (La Crosse, Wis.) 1856-1921, 1908-04-10
Gine CpinmbrhJrbr.


Durb Elm faiicrlihes eOjft miro
cine io9cnauu;c Opium 9eboroe"
seidaiien, orren' 2lui9abe es icir
iou, ole d)inciiihen 9eomten IN Der
2anocsbauptitaot arplih mterill-
den 5u IeiIen, Oh tie Dem Spumge,
nuB irobncn o0er uidt. @eipobn.
s.Opiluuraudler iolcu obue @el.
teres aus Dem Di9nit entlaiien per.
ben.
Nord stern. [volume] (La Crosse, Wis.) 1856-1921, 1908-04-10

Soiiniina. Sic 1elierlmg ST itiir3en.
iowocrn in Der 6nuartung. cine Gan.
oune amerifaniiher Niarincioloaten
nit nodlfol9en0rr Suierpention 8u
oeronlaiien.
Nord stern. [volume] (La Crosse, Wis.) 1856-1921, 1908-04-10
GcnictlauO.
aadl @cnieclanb wirO bcind,t.

@eaington. 9. 9lpril.
tbs amerifaniihe Sdladltidif
oddnpaoer miro aud g}cuicclanO
bciuden. Oa Sic amerifnniide Rcaie.
rlina 0ie oobin aebeR0e Gnla0uH9
9IeuieelanOs anpeuommen bat.
Nord stern. [volume] (La Crosse, Wis.) 1856-1921, 1908-04-10
96enrer Ra6att.

@rono Ropios. Wfidl, 9. 2lpril.
Ter Hihier auapyeu bonn Beiigen
BrnoesIreis9eridt perirtbeiIte beute
bic Sinrns Gait s. giaHber Com.
ponp bon 2u6ingtcu. wlif, 5ur Bah.
lung elmer gube bon $4,000, neil
fe BON Der Qere W1rqaiette gabn
cine Rabati3oblurg nf Suodtselo
tiir cine SolJenoiing anrdbm.
Nord stern. [volume] (La Crosse, Wis.) 1856-1921, 1908-04-10
9as @abIreinItat in SllinOis.

Springfielo, 81, 8. ApriI.
9ei Der geitrigen 8abI mar Die
Nbitimr1ltng ilber o9ocaI Option" in
"a Counties ocS Staates foIgen0e:
Nord stern. [volume] (La Crosse, Wis.) 1856-1921, 1908-04-10
Rei,ltate
Ser 1pabls,,*

IN 11lilwoufee iieste 1l1ayor Roie pieoer. pro.
hibition mad,t in Jllinois uno 11ebrasfa
Sortid1ritte. 5pan,ie Counties in 3uinois
uno 5weiorittel Der Stdote in 11ebrasfa
vtroden" Ranias City oemofratiih. Die
Dahlen in Disconln
Nord stern. [volume] (La Crosse, Wis.) 1856-1921, 1908-04-10
aanaba.
Rentcrci anf 6O6rr Scr.

8ictoria, 9ritiid aolumbia, 9. slpriI.
Ter aapit1n 0eS beute bier einae.
iroiienen Ganpiers oglorama" be.
rid,tet uon elmer Wcuterei un0 Nloro,
oie iih olii Dem itaIieniiden Sd,oo.
ner ..glcilures 1igre" pon Gdano IN
ser Suoiee ereigneien. Grei lfatroien
ariien 0en aopii0n uu0 9ootsmaun
oes Ghooncrs nit geiIen an uno
spangcn iie, iiber 9oro 3u ipringen.
gei6e crtranfen. Die g}euicrer nab.
men Damn geib BON Dem Shiiie.
6as baL0 ooroui unbe Der @iIbert
eynieln Shifibruh lit. Die ihiff.
brilhiQen Meutcrer ipur0en ipdter
pom Sbooner o2murel" nui9cuom.
men un0 unier Der glnflagc oes
Wloroes uno Der Seerdubcrei Sen
gs6or0cn in SuDa, geru. iibcrgcbeus
einer Der 01euterer legte ioiort Elm
nb.
Nord stern. [volume] (La Crosse, Wis.) 1856-1921, 1908-04-10
SelbitmorO i'm 5rriuabn.

giio DC 15oueiro, g. 9lpril
sSu Gucu Srrenbnuie i'm Stadte
Gao @aulo beging Der @rof g|iin.
tier, Gin ]lciic ocs fritbeten 0eutld)en
gotidoiicr5 in 5ronfreih un0 Bra
iilieu, Scibihnoro.
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Brdiibsnt glOOisuslf tritt fir bic
gleqer tin.

Baibington. 9 G., 9. april.
Ger BrGiioent gooie6eIt oronets
beute observation-disclosures 0es 6en@s.
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Sic 0Sablen.
q Q fs fisstl

N(tltu1utee, 3. Npru.
Sier 1T gr' Mabpr 9auio 9. HoIe
misosr, jssi nliO gum ie6lten Mule.
snm BiiraermeiIter ertpdblt iporoen NIT
elmer Blurolttdt bon 2247 Stimmen.
SIN Stnotrntb haben ole 9emotraten
Die 0lniuritdt. emil SsioeI, @nnoibnt
Der SOcialiisn, mar Roie oidt auf ben
JerIen. 91oh befsr ols 6ois lief Ga.
min als Comptroller unb SdOnsder oils
Shnbmsiiisr. Die ROis'Gnbdneer ma
rem uie nirriih Dor 5reuoe, uHo
9loie srildrts bies ais ieinen er6Btsn
Siss.
9elOit, Bis., 8. Gpril.
Die Brobibitiouiiten rurbsn ON
9ien1ine in Bsloit init elmer Stimmsn'
mebrbeit uon 800 eeitluesH. 8. 6.
Cunningham tpurbe fir sinen peitsrsn
9ermin gum Wanor ertudblt.
2ebrnsfa far Brubi6itiOu.
Omaha, Nsbr., Z. Gpril.
giah ben lpdrllnen Sert9ien uoer
ben 9IusfalI Der @unicipalpnblen i'm
Stants Rsbrnstn Su urtbstIsn, bat oos
probibitioniitiihe Clement entihieoene
6ortihritte 5u aerSsihnen.
Sn 9incOln, Der Soupiituot oes
Stnntes. iieets ons Iibsrnls Clement
nit Der fnappsn gluraft6t uon ia
Stimmsn BET elmer Stimmsnabsabs
bon 1900.
3anias Gitp bemotratifd.
annins gitp, NlO., s. Gpril.
Eas esiammte osmofrntiihe Stabt,
tifst. an osiisn Spite Thomas z. grit.
tgnoeu ir. nls Raporscanbioot itano,
tpuros ON EisnItns bel ben Stnetunb.
len bier srfpdblt, uno 5iDor init elmer
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WadJ arftiidlcn gicgiOncn.


@eqen Gnoe oieies gionnts miro
Der glor0poliaGrer &ii6iamur Stef.
fanion inn gIuitrage oes g9lnercan
Wluieum OF g6ohiral Siitorn" cine
GoridJungsreic mad Den arftiihen
9iegionen unicruc6men, nm ipejiell
bel ocnieuigen Gsfimo Stdmmen
Stu0ieu 5ll MAIDEN, Ole bis Jest teiH
Weiber beiudlt bat.
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Die ,,>Ieroitern "-3ettun
gen haben Ole 6eieRiebte
BON "a Greiie nictt MUIR
ntiticbreiben ionoerm nit
macRen helfen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-13

not bring a rifle some other weapon of
protection along with you.
District line says the conductor. and
you climb off. walk Il short distance and
arrive ut the building where the weights
and scales are tested.
OF late there has been a movement,
heartily seconded by the employees of the
town. Whether this swill be done or not
it is impossible to say. The prevailing
opinion is that it will not.
Grants War Headquarters.
Perhaps the most interesting of all of
Uncle Sans peculiar and out-of-the-way
edfices is the depot quartermaster's office,
located at the corner of 18th and + streets
northwest.
Standing in the shadow of the magnifi-
cent War. State and Navy building, this
little colonial home looks strangely out
of place. 1t is here that all of the supplies
for the troops in this section of the coun-
try are sent out for distribution. large
force of clerks perhaps fifty, labor in the
depot quartermaster s office from . in the
morning until 400 in the afternoon. trans
acting large amount of vitality important
business
This building was erected over a century
ago, when one of the olden time statesmen
decided that the city of magnificent dis
tances was an ideal spot for rest and
recreation At the time of the erection
less Importance than some of it's suburbs
are now from question of size and COM
mercal activity
The building was erected before the
days of progressive real estate agents
1t was solidly and substantially erected in
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Look at the Russians. for example. 1t
seemed TO me that, as Russians so, they
were doing very we'll under an unlimited
despotism, which is something ike being
under the Standard Oil only not so Sc
we're, and in their simple Russian way
drinking the kerosene out of the family
lamp and living on those little greasy
mnnows that reside in can. But they
got a duma and the duma got the constl-
body who could eat a caviar sandwich
and enjoy it. they had the disposition thai
carries things to extreme. But the
grand dukes got to the car first and
made up his mind for him the other way,
it being that kind of d mind, and on.
snowy forenoon. shortly after this time.
chains on log wagon and persons re-
siding along the road to Siberia looked
out of the front windows and saw the
leading spirits of the recent duma start
Ing on tic IlTSl Jullhel III Tie
history of their country.
so now any Russian statesman who
thinks his land needs constitution and
wants to make d speech on the subject
goes down in the cellar and turns out all
the lights and confdes his remarks to u
semi detached rat hole.
But in Turkey, from what l can gather.
il was the ladies that really started it.
Ever since the days of the Prophet, up
until quite recently, the high caste Turk
ish lady had been content to stay in Il
harem. which is the institution on which
most of our county jails in this country
are modelled. She had the lower part of
her face buried in a nose bag the same as
truck team at high noon. and sent hcr
time developing figure that helped lot
toward carrying out the comparison of
Norman horse immersed in oats. For to
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United States Custom House, Georg etown.

tive organs Sometimes the young men
gather about the doctor because a light
ness Of purse tells them that il is better
to eat poison free than 10 pay for it at
Il cheap lunchroom. For various reasons
they gather about the philanthropic doc
tor and for d period of time are boarded
like kings.
The doctor judfciously poisons them. 4
little bCraX is used now. a little some
thing else tomorrow. The dining room
has gained fame through the various
delcacies offered. and scores of appli-
cantS were turned away at the last series
ut experiments.
At the close of the free board the doc
tor weighs his patientS-no, his boarders-
carefully, calculates what they have lost
in weight and the government in proven
der. hrs general balance and makes a
report.
With the erection Of the new Agrfcul-
tural building it Is probable that DR.
Wiley's dining room will be no more
Probably it will be used as a stable after
the doctor has moved. Nobody appears
to know or care what its end will be.
There is unqueStionably finer variety
OF buildings used as branch post offices
than in any other branch of the executive
government. Drug stores. grocery stores
feed stores and many other kinds OF
stores are used by the Post Office De-
partment as city branches for the de
livery and distribution of mail
One OF the most delightfully."- uncOnven-
t!onal buildings is that one standing at
the corner of 18th and Ohio avenue south
west. This building is a carpenters shop.
and in addition does a fourishing mail
business. to say nothing of its picture
postal card trade.
Some evening when time hangs heavily
on your hands it will be well that you
Journey to Eth street southwest and be-
hold some of the buildings that house
Uncle Sans employees. Near DIR. Wiley $
story frame building that houses the to-
bacco investigation bureau.
In this building the tobacco of the coun-
try is examined by wise gentlemen who
seek to discover why it is good or why
it is bad. and if il is better this vear
than ii was last year, why il should have
been worse the year before than the year
when it was better than
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THEY JOIN THE IN-BAD SOCIETY.

the situation was one which could not be
relieved by any ordinary means such as
off few of the Christians who occupy
the same position in the political arrange
ments of that country that the demo-
Gratis do in this. So they decided TO have
a constitution. They are now engaged in
having it. And after they have it l won
der what they'll do with it."
1.-THE paper says the sultan old Abdul
Humid, or wotever his foolish name is
has been raein' like a Gagged lion" said
the House Detective.
well, l don't know how Gagged lion
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Weir MitCheII'S Bore.

HR. WEIR MITCHELL, whose brilliant
II medical career is only eXcelled by his
brilliance in literature. is noted in Phila-
delphia for the detestation that he has
for boreS.
Only a bore can ruffie the gracious and
gentle Siavity of DR.. Weir Mitchell s
manner. and even with bores his reproofs
are delicate rather than rough.
They say at the Franklin Inn, Philadel-
phia's literary club. that a bore accosted
DR. Weir Mitchell one day on Chestnut
street and insisted on walking with him
10 the Philadelphia Library. During this
walk the bore's flow of talk was incessant.
DR. Weir Mitchell walked on amid the
deluge frowning silently.
But as they turned down Juniper street
a man across the way stretched out his
arms and yawncd if to dislocate his
jaw.
DR. Weir Mitchell took the hore's arm
and nodded toward the yaWning man.
Hush he said. Don't speak so loud
People can hear you.'
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the invader to march out on the
serried field shooting firecrackers and go
through the parasol Irritation. But it only
took one short summer for our other
friend, the Japs, to cure them of the
delus.on that the fan drill was mightiec
fare: and I've notion that if the Turks
tackled the Chinese now there'd be more
widows in the rug store than in the hand
laundry. And / positively shudder %
think what would happen to the blood
thirsty Albanian bodyEuard if it ever got
snarled up with the reserves from the
West Both street police station"
<
The way l dope it out a constitution
amt fifteen for any race that's not civil
lied all the way up said the House
Detective
quite right" said the Hotel Clerk.
There's lot OF things besides constitu-
tons that the Turks and the rest of the
unciviized nations couldn't assimilate
without a severe course OF training. Now
there's the Filipino headaunter. He's Il
poor untutored cuss that goes about
dressed up in the scenario of pair of
pants and toting a spear with head on
il like one of those tools that lodge uses
when it's la wing a corner stone. But hos
a good sport according to his lights.
About once in so long he cncases his
person in skctchy first act of a suit of
clothes. made out of grass with a sea-
shell waistband and goes forth and puts
a dent in his tribal foe that looks like
After which he harvests the other fellows
head and takes his foot in his hand ard
hurriealy steals away. So far, so good
There's one dark brown gentleman that's
dead and another that's beating it back
through the Samar high grass in the gen
eral direction of Posey county. If the
friends of the deceased should happen to
simple in the extreme They merely leave
part of him there and take the rest Of
him home with them on the end of
pole. There's another vacant bolo in Bo
logna aud new face, with set smile
on it, over the garden gate of the oppo-
sition village. The incident has been
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closed III a manner satisfactory to ali
concerned.
IF you should suggest to this crude
savage that instead of being slaughtered
on the spot he ought 70 enDer an insan-
ity plea, he wouldn't grasp your meaning
vantage of his lack of education to- ~
him along. and he'd feel asgreved f.
cause YOU didn't go ahead and edit Finn
down with a war-aN and cease your frie-
olous and ill-timed testing. And if he'd
carried his brother along with him to
see that it was finished job and YOU
as his lawyer should advise that it would
be easy TO prove by competent alieuists
that both of them went crazy together.
having been seized simultaneously with
the new variety of insanity known as
family group homicidal melancholia, the
gentle head-hunter would probably double
up in an uncomfortable outburst of laugh
ter. He'd never get it through his skull.
You're quite right, Larry, in what you
said just now. There are many things
about the higher civilization that you
couldn't get a savage nation to accept yet
awhile, and I'm afraid they'd never be-
leve in an up-to-datc insanity defense
such We have i'll more expensive muir
der cases.
In fact. Larry, l never heard of any
body that would believe in en- except
some jurics.
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wasn't any more popular in a harem than
1t is at the Chicago stockyards.
NO sir. May Irwin wouldn't have last
ed a week in Turkey They'd a-kidnaped
her. Some dark night there'd a-been Il
furniture van backed up at the side door
of her hotel and in the morning she'd be
her she'd be massive but helpless pris-
oner immured i'll the scraSlio of some
powerful pasha, closely guarded by the
same group OF daring piano movers that
were hired 10 commit the abduction
That's the way it used to be-
But all of sudden a wave of female
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Squad"

ing and groStesGue specimens of arChi-
lecture being added almost daily.
Some of them are wonders. too, from
a point of construction They look. some
of them. as though the gentlemen who
had attempted their erection had either Il
genius for Chinese puzzles or We're the
blessed poSsessors of an inordinate sense
of the humorous. Some of them so
low that the second story windows arc
within six inches of the roof. Others
have winding porches. sloping roofs and
wild. uncared-for lawns. Still others have
neither lawns nor porches and appear
TO be in nOWiSe worried about 1t.
The introduction of the out-of-t he-Wav
office building has been the natural result
of the greatest increase in the working
force of the departments within the las;
quarter century. Where twenty five years
ago buildings erected were ample for the
needs of the clerks they are now crowded
past all endurance.
Bureau of Standards
All four corners of the city are repre-
scented in this array of out -the-way
government buildings. Away up to the
northern boundary of the District is the
bureau of standards. OF course. this is
one of the most modern of all the public
departments. having been built only for
about five years. Nevertheless tits
great distance away from the usual bust
ness center of the city, and causes the
employees of the bureau to set their alarm
clocks for an earlier hour every morning
than their more fortunate brethren who
work in more accessible parts of the town.
There are very few departments unds-
the government which undertake such
scientific work as is done at the bureau o.
standards. Every manufacturer of weights
or scales has the privilege of sending his
samples to the bureau to be tested for
accuracy Scientific Instruments for lab
oratories graduated here and stamped
with the hallmark of approval,
And this important bureau. which
passes upon and tests weights or scales
for business houses throughout the Dis
trict is located in a section of town that
gives the business man palpitatiOn of the
heart every time he thinks of going out
there. 1t is a small edifice. built appar
emily for a private dwelling when II was
originally put up.
On visiting it you suffer a depressed
'oh-how-sad feeling that will not leave.
You climb street car and ride until the
conductor puts you off. Then you get
transfer and mount another car and CON
tinue TO ride. The trip carries you through
leafy forests, plowed fields and neat little
You commence tn wonder
whether the bureau of standards is an in
stitution built in the center OF some wild
and vast plain, and regret that you did
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rather unkcmpt and with grass of u
riotous and unruy disposition. The old
hearthstone at the main entrance has
been worn, worn worn by the passing of
distinguished feet now quoted forever,
until it looks as though it had been
scoOped out in the middle.
Another government building which is
not at all inviting is Doc Niley'S Hotel.
Everybody knows the doc. He Is the
genial smiling person who sits behind a
desk at the Agricultural Department and
SquintS though "A little Spyglass arrange
ment at things that humans eat and then
blandly sits back in his chair and re-
marks that all preserves contain boracic
acid and bOracic acid is one of the chief
causes of death by acute Indigestion: also
that beer Is unhealthful and leads to kid
ney trouble. that candy contains analine
dye that-Oh, Doc Wiley is the person
who seeks to explain that if we will only
stop eating we will save money and be
much healthier besides
Most OF US know that the doc is the
prosperous proprietor of a pessimist' 5
hotel commonly known the dining
room of the poison squad. This hotel is
located on 18th street southwest and after
taking a single look at it the average per-
son longs to continue to pay his little
eight week rather than go there and
dine free.
This building is under the kind pfotec-
ton of the Agricultural Department. a
fact which does not appear to concern the
department in the least. The building
looks like an unworthy son that had been
cast off The impression gained by look
ing at the building is that the Agricul-
tural Department does not care one single
whoop whether it stands or falls.
IT is double house. two stories hlgh.
with a fiat roof and no scheme of archi-
lecture 1t is of light brick and built so
low that the windows on the second fioor
almost extend beyond the roof
Inside it is comfortably furnished with
chairs and tables. The cooking is done
upstairs.
With the Poison Squad.
In this building DR.. Wiley periodically
gathers together circle of bright young
men. eager to aid in the sacred researches
of science at the expense of their diges-
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a manner that puts modern apartment
houses to shame. Built of stone with out
side walls foot and a half thick, it
stands as Stanchly today as il did at the
time il erected
1t is a three-story building of a dark
brown color. with an old-fashioned porch
in front. Entering it. the visitor finds HIM
self in a large whitewashed hallway. on
which hang maps and a few old prints.
magnificent staircase invites him to
ascend and visit the upper rooms.
The building throughout is built in
solid and substantial style. Desks and
the hustle of modern business cannot take
away the charm of the old edfice. Stories
and traditions of century back cling
around il thickly the ivy once
climbed about its moldy walls Upstairs
YOU will see the room in which Gen. Grant
once mapped out a campaign that cost
thousands of lives and millions of dollars.
The depot quartermaster office was once
used by Gen. Grant his headquarters
Shortly after the great fighter took com
mand of the Army of the Potomac he Sc
lected the old colonial house as his head
quarters because OF its proximity to the
White HeuSe.
Presidents Visited It.
Lincoln. Harrison, Cleveland and other
beneath the sheltering roof of this odd old
government building. Gen. Grant left
this building for the Capitol on the day
of his inauguration as President OF the
United States.
The old building sits off the main thor
oughfare as though in its age it seeks the
retirement of one who has seen all and
would rest. 1t is fronted by little lawn,
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WORKING Homes of the
" Department of Agri-
culture Employees are in All
Kinds and Conditions of
Buildings, But They Will All
Disappear When the New
Building is Completed
Some of the Unique Houses
in Which Other Branches of
the Government Have Their
Being-The Old Depot Quar-
termaster's Office, Where
Grant Had His Headquarters
During the Wharf.-The Old
Ford Theater and Its History.
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west and southwest are little, obsolete.
out-of- the-way. almost forgotten build
ings in which Faithful employees of pa
ternal government constantly labor at
their particular work.
All sorts and kinds of buildings you
will meet Carpenter shops, drug stores.
former dwellings and buildings that might
al less happy period in their existence
have served as anything from stables up,
YOU will discover in your rankings.
building we all know and admire. Few
of us have not seen the Capitol, the
Library. the State. War and Navy build
ing and the White House. But the aver
age citizen is not aware of the fact that
in his daily peregrinations he probably
passes half a dozen government build
ingS. real government buildings in spite
of their unprepossessinS appearance, that
transact work that is perhaps as i'm
portant as that done amid the marble,
mosaic and statuary of a huge stone
edifiCe.
The Department of Agriculture is prob
ably possessed of the most Unkempt
working houses for it's employees All
sorts and kinds and conditions of build
ings have been forced into service during
the erection of the new departmental
building The work is constantly grow