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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19

KNk celebFation-juSt ono Easter
w custom that Ia all her own
custom that Is still pic.
turesque in theory. no matter how Il
may have degenerated in practice. That
is the annual Easter Monday White Lot
egg rolling
Easter Monday is the one day while the
Presidents family is in residence that
the general public Is admitted to the
back yard of the White House. The
grounds In front of the executive mansion
are open to everybody every day In the
year on the same terms Of good behavior
as any public park. But those in the
rear the south lot or White Lot. as IT is
popularity called-are the presidential
family's private garden, surrounded by
gh iron palinS, the gates Of which are
always locked from October when the
family Is presumably in town, save for
this one day. Easter Monday of each
year During the summer the grounds
arc open for an hour about shutdown once
a week. when the Marine Band gives con-
certs there, to which the public is ad
mitted.
The admission to this Easter Monday
egg rolling is not by invitation. The only
ticket OF admission that the guards will
recognize Is a child-children may come
in and the grown-ups in charge of them
none others. The gates are opened at 8
O'clock and about that time and from
then until noon the street cars are
swarming with eager youngsters. all In
their best bib and tucker. guarding with
anxious care their dainty little baskets
of bright-colored eggs.
1t il to the east entrance Of the White
Lot that they repair-the entrance OPP
posite the Treasury-and it is on the
slopes nearest that entrance that the
early corners generally establish them
salves. BY noon. when the fun Is at its
height however. the entire lot Is swarm
--ing-with children and the ground Uttered
Nth zmulticolored ezgshells and bits OF
egg OF course. the crowd is largely
Question of weather. but Il Easter Mon
day ie q fine. balmy day there are likely
to be not far from 20 600 youngsters ad-
mitted by the big east gate. The rolling
lasts from q to for children only. At
in the afternoon there is a band concert.
to which adults are admitted.
The children who really want to take
part in the traditional Easter Monday
egg rolling esta blish themselves In little
groups on the slopes of the lawn. Rival
eggs are started down the slope in con-
verging tracks, the youngsters urging
them on with much the same interest that
their elders give to the favorites at Ben
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minds that ever figured up a batting
average? Would Nine. Anna Gould marry
the Prince Helie-that's short. Larry, for
Heliotrope-Helie de Sagan in time for
him to get his spring wardrobe and the
family jewels out? Would the Duke OF
the Abruzzi win the hand Of Miss Elkins.
and thus relieve the feeling Of tension
prevailing not only among the folks back
home in Abruzziville. but In several OF
the adjoining counties?
would the Emperor OF Germany allow
our new ambassador to pick out a good
two-family house in a quiet Berlin neigh
borhood and move in. notwithstanding
the deplorable fact that the new anrbas-
sador's wife only had one hired girl when
they first kept house at Rochester. this
state? Could the kaiser consistently ad-
NIT to his court q man who was known
to be guilty of the crime of detached
cuffs and suspected OF the still more
hideous outrage Of shirts that open in
the back and ,have little tabs with but
toEholes In 'em at the south end OF the
all-linen bosOms? Or would he force our
President to search all the retail clothing
stores OF the country for q diplomat OF
the Charlemagne Tower school. with box
alder sidewhiskers knee breeches and an
club butler?
But on the whole think L was more
interested In Abruzxi than 1 was in de
Sagan. Abruzzi is good comedy name.
something like Pazaxas. I like it. 1t
makes you think Of the night wind
mourning through set of whiskers. Be-
sides Abruzzi ID q regular duke. with
steady work at his trade. while the de
Sagan bunch were laid OF some time ago
on account of elackness In the prince mar
ket In France. I've always. contended
that any duke who behaved himself and
was good provider around the house
was almost good enough for a. sweet
American girl. So Abruxzi looked like q
lucky man to, me. II he won out It
couldn't be a matter of money that stood
in the way because Grandpa Davis. who
ran for Vice President four years ago in
an almost nOiseless manners said IL it
was a detail of cash that made the prince
SO backward that DE didn't call at the
Eikins home much oftener than the post
man did he'd be right there with large
bundle OF the green trading stamps: To
be sure. this may have looked as II the
old gentleman was making cold bid for
the solid duke vote In case the demo-.
cratic party should ever again feel like
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Why Gold Rises and Falls.
From the Reader

Gold Is the measure of value and the
most exchangeable of commodities. 1t is
the fact that II possesses these qualities
which gives it special value in periods
of impaired credit and commercial strain.
At such times the value of gold rises as
prices fall. and gold stands out as the
most desirable Of created things-the one
product for which men contend in the
worlds market places. The reverse Is
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LENT MAY SOMETIMES THREAT BUT CASTERS PROMISE

sat in and took out large stack. for a
dollar-small stacks were fifty cents
there was something about his manner
that seemed to tell you he was going to
need a pair of felt insoles before the
evening ended. Even at that early stage
he played 'em in such close proximity to
himself that he had to unbutton his vest
to read the spots He subsequently be-
he cannot bear confinement he is now
travelling for his health in countries where
the extradition processes are directive.
But even at that time, when little more
than a boy. he would manifest a conserv-
atism regarding the uplifting powers OF
a full house that was perfectly incom-
prehensible to me. because I've always
been able to detect a great deal Of lever
age in a simple two pair. And along to-
ward the shank of the evening he would
be overtaken by chronic suspension of
circulation below the ankles, and he'd
fade away, leaving me and the others con-
templating large mutual deficit and a
debilitated kitty eof the Maltese variety.
suggests a double cross. Clever conceit.
Is it not?
ut is not? Oh, very well, envious ona.
can tell when a crouch is sore because
I've beat him to palpitating one. But
as to poker playing. the habit of swear
ing off and the habit Of getting on again
have ever walked hand in. hand with
me through life. notice that when
have annexed a tidy little winning am
able to look with more tolerance upon
the vice than when I emerge from tenn
porery smokehouse at $3.50 am, with q
taste in my mouth like q brass key ring
and a deep dimple. bordering on q crease,
in my salary pocket. after having made
an Intellectual effort to compete against
one Of those human repertoire troupes
who can simultaneously present the Man
in the Iron Mask Upstairs while his
principal vital organ Is offering spirited
rendition Of the Marble Heart and his
feet are starring in The Sea of Ice
It's been a purity quiet Lent. seems
to me-" said the house detective.
And yet there have been matters OF
national moment to the fore almost con-
SANITY" said the hotel clerk. For a
while l could hardly wait for morning to
come SOS I could get a paper. Would
Ty.us Cobb sign with the Detroits for
fiv. thousand year and food thrown In
1T often is thrown in by ball PLAYER,
Larry-or would he stand aiOof and fur
Their complicate a situation that had
acutely distressed some Of the greatest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19

RASHINGTON has Just one dis.
tinctive and individual Easter
W. celebration-just ono Easter
w custom that Ia all her own
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recollect you started out by
denyin yourself quite lot Of
things
Something OF the sort did occur. l be-
lieve" said the hotel clerk. with the air
of one trying to remember the forgotten
events Of a misty past. But you may
have noticed that as time passed on !
sort of relaxed. and so now. on my return
to the world. the flesh and the devil. you'll
hardly be able to notice the difference
as once more merge my interests into
that old and reliable firm. Sometimes.
Larry, I'm afraid I'm too soft-fbered. i
can deny myself anything. but l can't
deny others. In Lent. as at other sea-
sons, it's easy enough for me not to take
any drinks that ! have to pay for. but
frightfully hard for me to refuse any
drinks that somebody Else Is willing to
pay for.
Swearing of is a fine discipline for the
human mind If you don't let 1t make a
bigot of you. Personally. / do not pre-
fer the II 2 o chariot, sometimes known a.
the water wagon, for steady purposes dur
ing Lent. AS a regular vehicle 1 would
cordially recommend the hippo. l speak
as one who has used this amiable creature.
The hippopotamus. Larry, Is broader
minded than the water wagon. Part OF
the time the hippo is dry. but the rest
Of the time he's just pleasantly moist.
The amphibious style of abstinence ap-
peals to me greatly. l have strong ideas
OF forming the Hippo Riding and Driving
Part-time Temperance Club and putting
the puritanical and narrow minded water
wagon back into the same class with the
high-wheel bicycle and the Deadwood
Coach.
Forty days ago said to myself: Wine
Is mocker. especially the kind of wine
you get at a sixty-cent table d. ote and
strong drink of recti1ed Is generally rag
ing. Moreover in the end il biteth like a
serpent and stingeth like an adder-like a
patent adder stings you when the book
keeper Is using II to figure up your ac-
count for incidentals at summer hotel
! shall cut 1t out during Lent. Maybe I'll
cut 1t out forever
That's what l said to myself, Larry.
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and when you came In that evening l
was. as 1 recall, humming that jolly old
drinking song as revised by the w. &. T..
u. entitled Fifteen Men On "a Dead
Mans Chest. Yo Ho. and Bottle of
Citrate Of Magnesia.' You made me a
proposition touching on a mild libation at
the shrine of Bacchus, Gambrinus, O. F.
c. Taylor e. Company. Do you remember
stated that there was positively nothing
doing?"
"Yes, and the very next time l seen
you, you was stewed," said the house
detective. ::
Not stewed. Larry" corrected the
hotel clerk. II may have been gently
simmering. but l submit that / was not
stewed. The drouth lasted two Of the
longest and most arid days I ever re-
call. had feeling inside of me ike
dulge in a little Of the harmless fiuid
known as creme de menthe 1t gave me
pleasing breath. like .camphor ball.
and 1t had a soothing taste going down.
but somehow the green tint didn't seem
my thirst. 1 had a dawning conviction
that the stage setting demanded red
interior-and l got 1t. But that's the
only way to deny yourself. Larry. DO
1t, but do 1t without being fanatical
ITS the same way with the exhilarating
indoor sport known as draw-poker. About
once I'm so long I find myself making a
high resolve to quit poker following on
q session where the utmost skill and
finesse on my part has still been fraught
with dire disaster as opposed to the we'll
nigh incomprehensible luck of some mere
novice; or else it's after I've shattered
my brave three-masted bark against one
of those human icebergs with a cold gilt
tering eye, who always says he only plays
for the fun OF the thing, but invariably
puts on a style of parl0f magic which en-
ables him to vanish with the only ma
terials that'll buy the said fun. I've oeeh
| hit oil
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I'VE were bright set in our nome
town. bright and spontaneous-put al
ways brighter and more spontaneous just
after the Primrose & West Ministries had
been at the opera house. And We had
rich sporting fluid coursing through our
veins. There was but one among our
merry number that had what you might
cali a calculating nature. AS soon as he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-19
BY IRWIN s. COBB.

BY IRWIN s. COBB.
~ SPOSE you're kinder glad Lents
over" said the house detective
OF the Hotel St. Reckless. LAS
I recollect you started out by
de1yin yourself quite a lot Of
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-01-24
NEW ELECTRIC ROAD.

An electric railroad from WILCOX
10 the Arivaipa Mining district may
be constructed within a short time
according to report which parties ar
irving from WILCOX bring to Tucson.
Wilcox people are already consid.
erihg the electric line certainty and
are much enthused over the project.
They state that Pittsburg capitalists
are interested in the project and that
in the event of their taking over min
ing properties In the Ariyaipa district
they will construct the line for the
hauling OF their ore to Wilcox which
is the most convenient railroad point.
The distance from Wilcox to the
Arivaipa mining district is sixty
miles The grade is comparatively
easy and the cost Of the line would
consequently not be excessive. IT is
stated.
Engineers are now examining the
properties sought by the Pittsburg
people and Upon their decision De
ponds whether they will be taken or
not by the eastern capitalists.
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STURGIS gave
DICK A VOTE
VS.. ARIZONA
Was Busy Pulling For Cassidy
and Sent His Proxy to Chair
man Dick of the National
Committee.

PHOENIX, Jan. 23.--Every time a
republican is prodded these days with
the statement that National Commit
teeman Sturges is fighting against an
instructed delegation from Arizona
for Secretary of War Taft, he comes
back with a funny story about Sturges'
proxy in the recent meeting of the
national republican committee.
TheGgh a member, Sturges could not
leave Arizona to attend the national
republican committee meeting. About
that time he was trying to beat out
Governor Kibbey and get the appoint.
ment of territorial secretary for Mike
Cassidy of Bisbee.
So Sturges sent his proxy 10 Chair
man Dick with instructions to vote IL
for Kansas City for the next national
convention The anti-Taft convention
wanted Kansas City for the reason
that Taft stands deuce high in that
section.
When the question of the number of
delegates Arizona should have in the
next national convention came up,
Dick voted Sturges' proxy to allow
Arizona but two instead of six dele.
gats, and the motion carried with the
assistance of the proxy sent by Stur'
ges to Dick.
Followers of Governor Kibbey, who
Just now wants things different than
does. Sturges ct al, are telling this
story on Sturges every chance they
| get. To them it is a huge joke on
the other fellow.
| Sturges has not yet had a chance
to be heard regarding his vote being
cast for two republican delegates from
this territory. from which six have
gone in the past. In fact, Sturges has
been remarkably quiet since Kibbey
beat him out and got the territorial
secretaryship for John H. Page
Leading republicans now state tina,
only two delegates will be named for
Arizona to the national convention in
Chicago. It was first their intention
to name six, and take the chance oil
their being seated after they get tc
Chicago. ...
But the powers that be in the ma
tional committee has sent word tc
Arizona that the republicans will get
/ just what is nominated in the bond
and that to send more than two will
be a waste of time, and result in
much disappointment that can be
avoided by taking just the number OF
delegates provided in the national
call.
| Governor Kibbey and Chief Justice
Kent are said to have counseled
against sending more than two dele,
gates.
In the meantime. Sturges is busy in
the south and District Attorney Nor
rison in the north to pick these del
egates out of the ranks of the anti-Taft
forces.
Governor Kibbey and Chief Justice
Kent are by no means idle.
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WOULD INCREASE GOLFERS.

Negotiations are. pending between
the Douglas and Ell Paso Country clubs
for a change in the number of men on
the teams to meet Sunday in the first
contest for the cup. The Douglas boys
are very anxious for twenty-men
team and a letter has been written
the FL Paso club asking that that mum
Der be accepted in place of the fifteen
men, as was originally intended. The
reason stated being that the commit.
tee of the Douglas club Is anxious to
stir up as much enthusiasm as possible
in the event and they believe they can
do it better if more men are involved
in the game Acting in the belief that
the proposition will be accepted, the
committee selected twenty-man team
which is composed as follows: H. G.
Todd, H. F. Cuthbert, Walter Douglas
R. H. Pelton, R. l.. Scott, T. NJ. Smith
c. o. Thomas, J. A. Holden, S. W
French, s. S. Badger, Robert Rae
Wash Smith, ]. B. Speed, P. Butler
Arthur Hcule, A W. Flickinger, ]. G
Cowan, P. c. McMullen, T. w. After
bury, G.. w. Cass and John Adams
the club expert.
However, in case the FL Paso team
is unable to get together twenty-mar
team and insists on the number pre-
viousIy agreed upon, team Of fiffeer
viii be selected from these twenty
names. The club is anxious that as
many other as can will accompany the
= I..d
by the railroad company and the spe
cial rate of one fare for the round triT
has been made.-Douglas Dispatch.
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For Review 800 and sssaa.s. offlc
call phone 50.
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TO PROMOTE TRAINING.

CHICAGO. ~, Jan. 23.-The inn
portant problem of industrial educa-
ton was taken up for discussion at a
conference opened here today under
the auspices of the National Society
for the Promotion of Industrial Edu-
cation. Delegates TO this meeting had
been appointed from a majority of
the states, and prominent statesmen,
labor and religious leaders, scholars
and business men were present at the
opening. The conference is TO remain
in session three days.
The conference marks the formal
opening Of a widespread campaign TO
arouse public interest in the subject
of Industrial training, and to work
for legitimate action in support of in
dustrlal schools, where such action
seems desirable. Through this cam
paign the national society hopes to
bring about a broad discussion of the
whole matter, and to influence the
establishment of local and state
schools that will materially assist in
the thorough training of skilled work
men for the industries. The society
hopes through the medium of agen-
cies already established in the var
ious states, to bring out the defects
of the public school system. under
which thousands of children annually
leave school for undesirable employ
ment before they have reached an age
where they can enter trade. In
the opinion of the promoters of the
present movement, theseF conditions
are such as to constitute a serious
menace to American industrial SUI
4 macy which il is imperative to
remove.
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NEW HoMESTEADERS.
DOUGLAS. Jan. 23.-(specia

DOUGLAS, Jan. 23.-(Special.)-
The city of Jennings, Louisiana, Ia
preparing to send nine families to taHe
up homesteads in the San Simon val
ley, according to the statement of ]
w. Richhart of that city, who has beer
in Douglas for a day or two.
Mr.. Richhart is a forerunner of the
caravan which will soon start for the
west from their homes in the east He
has been sent out to arrange matters
and prepare for their reception. He
and is highly pleased with the pros
pect he sees for the future settlers
of that valley. In the last three months
there have been forty-five homesteads
taken up in that section and when the
Louisiana delegation arrives he says
the number will be nearly doubled.
The land which has been selected
for settlement is near the station oil
Apache, on the FL Paso & Southwest
ern, about sixty miles from Douglas
A large number of Douglas people
have taken up land in that neighbor
hood and have built up quite settle
ment near the station. It is the plan
Of the newcomers, though, to build q
settlement of their own and with that
end in view, a new townsite has beer
chosen and lots win be laid on to those
taking up homesteads on the outskirts
MFR. Richhart said that when this dele
cation arrives and is comfortably set
tied and return good reports of the
country to the people at home, there
win be quite an emigration to the val
ley. Many Of them, he said, are quite
well 10 do and will be able to develop
their homesteads at once.
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STRANGE MAGADY.

GENEVA Jan. 23.-An heroic at
tempt is being made by a number of
young women in the Alpine village
of Tenne in the canton of the Gri-
sons, to stop a dreadful hereditary
malady. The disease, which passes
from generation 10 generation with
growing intensity. is popularity known
as addition to bleeding" In those
afflicted with it the slightest scratch
causes a terrible loss of blood, in
some cases nothing can stop the
bleeding, even from a pin-prick, and
a scratch of any depth is almost GER
tain to cause death.
In Tenne the malady only appears
in married women. For that reason
the daughters of the families affected
have bound themselves by oath new
er to marry, hoping by their Austen
ton from the joys Of matrimony they
may free their village from the dis
ease that has made it notorious.
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BIG BILLIARD MATCH TONIGHT

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 23.-Be-
fore hundreds of students of the
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YOUNG MAN TRIES
TO QUIT AGED WIFE
But She Has Him Put In Tucson
Jail On Charges OF
DeSertion,

TUCSON, Jan. 23.-The matrimonial
difficulties between H. F. S. Hunting
ton, of local theatrical fame, and his
aged wife continue, although it appear
ed for time as if a truce had been
arranged after their affectionate re-
Cancellation in the police court sew
eral days ago.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Hunting
ton caused the arrest again of her
young husband and he was booked in
the police record on charge of non
support, cruelty and desertion.
He was placed by the officers be-
hind the bars and was compelled to
remain in the chilly city prison all
night, as he was unable to give bond,
his financial assets amounting to but
40 cents, according to Z the police
book This morning, however, he
was released as there Is no provision
in the city ordinances for handling
desertion or non-suport charges and
the county authorities did not consid-
er the case of enough importance to
be taken before a justice.
Mrs. Huntington in her story to
the pohce, stated that her young hus-
band had purchased tickets for two
TO Phoenix and then after the train
started had jumped off, taking the
tickets with him and leaving her
alone on the train. She left the train
at Red Rock and returned to Tue
son as soon as possible and had Hun
tington placed In jail over night.
She complained to the officers that
Huntington showed more attention
to the young woman he says is his
sister than to herself and she aske
them for aid, but was told that they
were powerless to render the assist
ance she asked.
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green table sport Albert Cutter, the
young Boston challenger, and Jacob
Schaefer. the aged veteran with the.
cue, will contest for the worlds
championship at the eighteen-inch
balkline, one shot in the masters
game of billiards, in horticultural
hall tonight. No billiard match ever
played in this city has aroused more
interest in the sporting world, and
practically every seat in the big hall
has been sold.
For over a month each of the prin-
cipals has been training and practic-
ing for the big match, and in their ex-
hibition work each has made some
wonderful averages. The game will
be at 500 points, and the winner will
obtain possession of the gold cham
pionship trophy now held By Schaef-
err.