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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07

of commission houses. junk shops saloons
and other establishments appurtenant to
the market and the rendezvous OF farm
ers To ask the visitor to Washington to
pass through this line in order to reach
the National Museum building is to offer
an insult which will without doubt be re-
scented by many tourists Already the
unseemly conditions of this approach
have been commented upon unfavorably
by those who have attended the tubercu-
iosis congress.
According to the present policy of taxi
ing the land within the triangle square
at a time doubtless some day one of the
blocks 1anking on this approach will be
acquired by the government, leaving the
other side unsightly as at present. There
is no inducement to the. owners to i'm
prove their properties as long as they re-
main under the ban of possible condem-
nation. The neighborl1ood is generally de-
voted to one line of enterprise and there
is no possibility of a change for the bet
ter so far as appearances are concerned,
until the government acts in the prem
Uses. 1t is due to these owners that they
should be assured of their future. Some
where in Washington a market colony
must eventually be established. and it is
right that this should be done in the near
future with an assurance of permanence.
No move. however. can be made or, at
least. will be made. as long as Congress
remains inactive from year to year with
such measures as the Hepburn bill pend
ing.
Every consideration of utility and cap
ital development demands the prompt ex-
ecution of the plan of taking this land as
an entirety for public building purposes.
Postponement means only the gradual in
crease of the cost. as the taking Of par
cells either as single squares or small
groups of squares adds heavily to the ulti-
mate cost Of the absolutely necessary
TRANSACTION $500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
Chicago's Smoke.
the Chicago Record Herald.

From the Chicago Record Herald
Chicagos smoke has been a by-word
and a reproach about long enough. The
Anti-Smoke League is moving against the
prime offender. The residents Of the sec
ton traversed by it's rolling volcanoes
know what the menace is to the home ex-
ternally and internally. to the health OF
its occupants, and the unpreventable
damage that results The city's visitor
in a normal summer, when nature intends
Chicago to be all that is enjoyable, finds
the lake breeze a mockery. and 9S de-
srees of heat without filth an actual re-
lief in many respects. No breeze de-
serves poetic praise when it defiles every
thing not Theoretically sealed.
From the purely business and economic
standpoint. are not the financial losses to
some hundreds of thousands of citizens,
through damage to house furnishings and
clothing. worth as much consideration as
the saving to a thousand or more corpora
tons, rendered possible by soft coal and
unconsumed smoke? Apparently the Anti
Smoke League thinks so. and is acting
accordingly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
Registration and Gov. Hughes.

Heavy registration in what are called
the race track districts in New York is re-
ported. Turfmen, and their employees
from trainer to the humblest stable
hands, are alive to what is in IT, for
them. and are preparing to go to the polls
in force. Their number Is large. and
their organization perfect.
The movement is anti-Hughes. These
men hold Gov Hughes responsible for
their loss of business and jobs. and want
him defeated. They seem to think. too.
that if he is defeated 1.-The good old times
will come again, and everything at the
tracks will once more be wide open.
They are figuring on a revival of their
sport in all of it's allurements for the
idle, the vicious and the immature.
And yet if these hopes are to be realized
something more will be necessary than
the defeat of Gov Hughes He has but
insisted on the execution of the law. He
found the race track gamblers enjoying
forbidden privileges. and he put a stop
to them. Even if so disposed. Mr.. Chan
Ter In the governors chair at Albany
could not restore the gamblers to power.
He will be obliged to execute the law,
and the law is on the books.
But victory for Mr.. Chanler will be
step in the direction of changing the law
to suit the gamblers purposes. First
governor elected on a protest against the
Hughes policy. and then a legislature to
do the rest. Rome, there is good author
fly for saying, was not built in day.
:. Now what is to be the response to this
in the districts where men of substance
and higher callings reside? It was in
those districts sentiment was found which
brought about the denomination Of Gov
Hughes The machine element and the
sporting element in his own party did not
want him. They pulled every available
wire in an effort to control the Saratoga
convention against him. But the bust
ness men of the towns and cities, and the
farmers very largely. approaching the
general high tone OF the administration.
insisted there should be another term OF
it, and. in response to the sentiment, Gov.
Hughes was again made the republican
candidate
1t is up to these districts to support at
the polls the man they successfully sup
ported at the nominating convention. Gov.
Hughes is distinctly their candidate. But
for them he could not have won at Sara
toga- Even with them he had difficulty
to win. Will they permit their registra-
tions to languish? While the gamblers
are hust,ing against Gov. Hughes. will
they go about leaden-footed? 1t Is in their
power to win on election day, as they
won on nomination day. But they must
take the time to register and go to the
polls.
reforms are incomplete and shortlived
because reformers soon tire. hula haloo
of one year is followed by apathy or dis
gust the next. The business man is too
easily winded. The politician and the
sport. when 1t comes to their interests.
are four-milers. They can, and do, go all
day. If Gov. Hughes is defeated next
month it will be due to the carelessness
and Indifference of those who have ex-
pressed publicly the highest appreciation
of his services in office, and have the most
at stake in the proper conduct of the
states affairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
The National Museum Approach.

If there is any one who remains skep-
teal as to the propriety of immediate con-
demnation by the government of-the en-
tire Mall-avenue triangle for public pur-
poses. i, is necessary only for him to
stand at the corner Of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and 10th street and look southwark
at the new National Museum building.
which closes the vista. 1t Is structure
of rare attractiyeness and when finished
will form conspicuous item in. the cap
ital equipment Yet the approach to. it
from the north. though it is situated in
a beautiful park, Is an unlovely stretch
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07

sentatives on the diamond remain unde-
termined. 1t will be at least two weeks
and perhaps longer before the American
people may be said to have fully settled
back upon a campaign basis. 1t is un-
reasonable to expect the resident of one
Of those towns to fret his mind over de-
post guarantees or postal savings banks
while no one knows whether the Giants
or the Cubs or the Pirates are to repre-
sent the National League in the great
final games. Washington alone of all
American communities can take its base
ball unhampered by any prickings of po-
litical conscience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
In the Lone Star State,
From the Galveston News

FrOm Tue Galveston NeWB.
1t has been estimated that this great
state is capable of easily sustaining a
population of 100000 and it should
be the pride and ambition of every true
and loyal Texan to contribute as far as
he is able toward the development OF
all wealth-producing forces until the
state reaches its proper rank among the
states of the American Union. Let us
awake from our lethargy, throw aside
the spirit of Indifference, exchange old
hasten the day when Texas will become
the controlling factor in shaping and
guiding the political. commercial and in
dustrial policies and activities of the ma
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
Simplified Campaigning.

What's the use
OF argument.
Language loose
And discomfort?
All you need
In seasons vexed
Is to heed
This tiny, text:
IT'S polite,
And not too long:
"We're all right,
And you're all wrong"
Wherefore try
Their need to show;
Tariffs high
Or tariffs low?
Wherefore shout,
In language warm,
That we're out
For more reform?
Just recite
With voices strong:
Were all right.
And you're all wrong"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Capitalization.

Il see that you look out for number one
in all your financial and political trans
actions"
Yes" answered Mr. Dustin Stax;
when I studied grammar as a boy, one
of the first things learned was that the
first person singular should always be
carefully capitalized"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
The Fleet in Japanese Waters.

If the Americans do not leave Japan
with sorely impaired digestive apparatus
it will not be the fault of the little coun-
trymen there. But out of the indigestion.
the fun and the frolics it may be proph-
esied that a new relationship between
the two countries will take birth to eter-
nally hush the takers of jingoism. The
Japs are our friends. and they mean to
show it during the week beginning Octo-
Der II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
Aboriginal Discipline.
From the Portland Oregonian.

From the Portland Oregonlan.
The noble red man. George Sloane by
name. who has kept his daughter-a girl
of sixteen-chained to the floor Of barn
near Tacoma on some flimsy excuse must
be first cOusin-perhaps brother-to the
Tacoma man who some months ago was
hailed before the courts on q charge OF
tying his young wife to the bed and leav-
ing her thus bound day after day as a
means Of discipline. The step between
savAgery and civilization is In some cases
exceedingly short.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
THE STAR has a regular and perma-
ncnt Family Circulation much more
than the combined circulation Of the
other Washington dailies. AZ News
and Advertising Medium it has no
competitor.

3GIn order to avoid delays on account
of personal absence letters to THE
STAR should not be addressed to any
individual connected with the ONCE. but
simply to THE STAR, or to the Editorial
or Business Department. according to
tenor or purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
At a DISADVANTAGE.

Your family seems to enjoy going to
Europe"
YES answered Mr.. Cumrox. Mother
and the girls have observed that 1 am
weak on getting the value of foreign
money. Things are ordered and paid for
before have time to make any intelligent
inquiries as to the expense
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
Enemies on Either Hand.

"What would you do if trust should
offer you money?
We'll answered Senator Sorghum, 'if
I accepted it I'd expect the voters to re-
tire me. and If Indignantly refused it I'd
expect the trust to put me out of busi-
ness
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
Not Our Fight.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

In all the long. bloody and agitated his
tory Of the Balkan situation the United
States has never had any ENHANCEMENT
Our new world politics does not touch
the provinces of the peninsula. Marco
Bozzaris'' and Henry Clay's speeches
marked our nearest approach to meddling
with Turkish sovereignty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07

Cholera in ST. Petersburg justifes sus-
picions that the street cleaning depart
ment is as deficient in resi- visibility as
most departments of the Russian govern
Ynent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07

In the excitement of campaigning the
customary announcements of how long
1t will take to complete the Panama
canal are being overlooked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07

Mr.. Hitchcock's methodical mind should
have foreseen the necessity of a special
clerk to attend to the affability depart
ment of campaign work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07

An offer of $4,000 a year is open to
Mr.. Bryan to edit a newspaper in case
of his defeat. This may make John Tenn
pie Graves feel a little envious.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
A Neglected Civilization.

do you remember any of your Latin?"
Yes" answered Mr.. Blfggins: enough
to convince me that what Rome needed
most was spelling reform movement"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07

There Is hope that the Bulletins from
Archbolds letter files are all in and that
the campaign can proceed on the custom
airy lines of economic discussion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
The idea.

The man with nothing much to do
Is happy, free and gay,
And loves to keep reminding you
: That you are not that way!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07

Mr.. Roosevelt will soon have an oppor-
tunity to show how serene and confident
he is by issuing a Thanksgiving proclama
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07

A 100000 contract for Wilbur Wright
should convince the most skeptical that
the airship has practical value.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07

Bulgaria did not see why it should not
follow the present fashion of taking a
slap at the Sultan of Turkey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07

If Emma Goldman gets seasick during
her trip to Australia lot of people will
think it serves her right.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07

Unfortunately for the political workers.
the tag idea seems to have no value what
ever as method of collecting campaign
funds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07

Somehow or other the news of Castro's
illness conveys reminder that in a
short time possum will be in season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07

From the Cleveland Leader.

Cleveland has lost out on the worlds
championship games, but there's no rea-
son to fear lack of spice In life while the
traction question remains.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07

As a lawyer Gov. Haskell must know
how little the average libel suit really
amounts to.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
The Penalty of Greatness.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
The cities and towns that prefix Great
err to their names are usually sufferers
from growing pains.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
Epilepsy, Fits

Every part of the body has its
nerves. It's the channel through
which energy-nerve force-is
transmitted. If too much nerve
force goes to part, it is irritated,
causing pain, congestion, spasms,
fits, epilepsy, etc If not enough
it is enfeebled, and if none at all
paralysis results. DIR. Miles
Nervine soothes the nerves, as
sists the nerve cells to generate
nerve force, and ir this way re-
stores nervous energy.
my eighteen year old daughter had fits for
FIVE years as often two and three week.
She began TO take DIR. Miles Nervine, and sue
has not had attack for two months :"
PETER McAULEY, Springfield. Mass.
II first bottle fails to benefit. money lack.
Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-12
PASTOR FIGHTS PROHIBITION
ONE HUNDRED SALOON MEN
JOIN HIS CHURCH.
All Unite in War Against Local OPP
ton in State of Mary
land.

BALTIMORE December 1o-The Rev
Alfred +. kurtZ. pastor of the Lutheran
church of the New Dispensation. has
taken more than 101 saloonkaepers within
the told of his church. and announces that
he is to fight the -Ant-Sa loon League. in
which other clergymen are prominent.
The Rev. Mr. Kurtz believes that a man
should have d drink if he wants it. and
he headed band Of saloonkeepers that
went before the state legislature this
winter to oppose local option
Since then he has enrolled los men who
dispense alcohol for a living into 81.
Lukes Brotherhood an organization
identified with his church 4 majority
OF these saloonkeepers are members of
the congregation of the Church of the
New Dispensation. having joined this fall
and winter.
In return for the pastors interest in
thelr cause, the saloonkeepers probably
VIII build new church for the Rev. Mr.
kurtZ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-12
ToWBOAT OPENS CHANNEL
Method of Coping With Sandbars on
Drina River.

From the Boston TRANSCRIPT
On the Drina. a stream Of the Danubian
system. originated one of the most inter
that of carrying their own ready repair
Appliances with them for opening the
enamel Towboats in that stream were
so often caught behind shifting bars that
some ingenious captain bethought himself
of CARRYING at his bow a big barrow on a
chain. with which to encourage channel
deepening. One sees them everywhere now
where there is danger of slack water
out on the bOwprit, instead of the usual
anchor ready TO be tripped at the first
sign of trouble, hangs a great iron rake
or harrow. with a massive frame and with
spikes or teeth foot in length and made
of heavy iron bar sllarpened at the point.
When the towboat, advancing up stream
and sometimes also coming down-tnds
ahead of her either by sounding from A
skiff or by inadvertently running against
IT, new bar the tow Is anchored, the line
released and the steamboat steamS to the
attack. The harrow is advanced as far
as possible by means of a lighter or Is
dropped directly from the bow of the
steamer and then the steamboat backs UP
at full power and drags the harrow
through the bar.
Any one familiar with the case with
which swift river follows up such a stir
ring and erodes its own bottom will APP
preciate the result of the scheme In
short time the channel is cut through TO
the necessary depth. the rake is hoisted
in. the tow picked up and the steamboat
proceeds on a sufficient way. II is really
not very different from the Wells Scraper
with which the Mississippi was opened to
ST. Paul about 1870.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-12
BUSY LOT OF BEAVERS.
Build IS Dams and Hold Up a City
Water Supply.

Marquette Cor Minneapolis Journal
Supt Retallic Of Marquettes munici-
pal lighting station. who took several
open beaver dams in order to release
some of the water held up by them SO
that the supply in Dead river could be
replenished, is of the opinion that the
busiest lot of beavers TO be found any
where are at home III the district
In Rainey Creek they have dams about
every 300 feet. About half a dozen
dams were opened, with the result that
the level of water in Dead river has ap-
preciably raised. and at that Mr. Retail
lie has now learned that he missed the
largest dams located higher up the
stream.
There are twenty five or more distinc,
dams in the creek. AS showing the capac,
, itv of beavers for woodworking, the
superintendent relates the following in
cident: Close To the power station fam
lily of beavers recently established them
selves in the river and constructed q
ruOmy house. one morning the past week
the men found five trees that the beavers
had cut down. The stump of the larges,
was nine inches through and the Others
were not much smaller. The next morn
ing these trees had been cut up. branches
and all, and Nsed by the beavers in tn.
construction OF their house. The trunks
had been cut accurately in four foot
lengths
Beavers are protected by law, and ol
late years they have been spidly iucreas
inS In numbers There are hundreds ol
them in the colonies established ia TIE
Dead river district.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-12
REFR1GERAToR WITHOUT ICE.
Drops into an Opening Below the
Surface of the Ground.

A refrigerator which keeps food and
viands at a desirable temperature wholly
without the use of ice or any recognized
refrigeratfng agent has been recently
introduced to the housekeepers of the
country. The device consists of a circular
receptacle made of galvanized sheet steel
fitted with vertical sliding door of the
same material and provided with simple
and convenient mechanism for lowering
and raising in and out of well. cistern.
cellar or a special hole dug in the ground
in a convenient place. This mechanism
consists of a ratchet lever by means of
which is driven gear meshing with a
smaller gear attached to galvanized
wire cable the lower end of which is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-12
PARTIALLY IN STATUES.
Complaint That Soldiers Get More
Than Their Share.

From the Outlook.
Under my window in Boston was dedi-
Gated the other day a statue of Gen
Banks Still nearer my window is the
great equestrian statue of Gen. Hooker,
quite dwarfing the modest figure of Daniel
Webster and Horace Mann further back
in the state house yard
Now / have a very considerable re-
spect for Gen Banks and Gen. Hooker.
but 1 cannot forget that there is no stat
ue in Boston of Emerson or Lowell or
Whittier or Longfellow. whom there is
vastly higher reason, as there would be
vastly greater benefit, for Boston to hon
or.
There are statues of Gen. Glover and
Col. Cass, of whose services not one
reader In a thousand could give the
slightest account. but there is no me-
mortal of John Adams or John Quincy
Adams. the two great Massachusetts
Presidents of the United States.
The streets and squares of Washington
swarm with statues. but 1T is no eXaSger-
alton to say that three-quarters of them
are of generals and admirals, and most
of these men of whom even the high
school boys of the city know but little.
There is next to nothing among them
to remind the visitor from Mars or from
Maryland that the nation of Washington
and Jefferson and Franklin-whose juds-
ment of war and of the proper promi-
hence Of the soldier in their new republic
is remembered by some of us-eVer pro-
duced a poet or historian, a scholar or
teacher. a painter or sculptor. phi
losopher or philanthropist. a statesman or
a man of science worthy Of notice or that
up to date it really honorS. enough to
spend any money to show it, any voca-
ton save the warriors. 1t is the meas
ure of our barharism.
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this intrusion. and abandoning aero
plane" to any ignorant foreigners who
may choose to pick it up they are at
present hesitating between 'autociel'
'homovol.' ''aeroscaphe,' 'anemo' and
automobile
'Homovor' and "anemo" obscure the
vital fact that the vehicle has gaSolene
engine: so perhaps does "aeroscaphe,"
for those Grecian barks of yore were
only roWed or sailed ''Aviomoblle"
means nothing to the point either, though
it would correctly describe the car of
Venus; SO we are left with ''autoclel.
which is tempting at the first sound. but
at the second to our Puritan sense at
least, seems to infringe somehow on the
patent of the angels.
Perhaps the French had better try
again Why not engage the services OF
an Esperanto expert?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-12

fastened to the bottom of the refrigerator.
BY working the lever backward and for
ward the refrigerator is raised above the
floor, and by pressing the handle to one
side friction brake is applied. lowering
it again slowly or rapidly desired.
While the hole may be made as deep as
desired, 1t is unnecessary to 20 farther
than eight feet at that depth tenn
perature of from 40 to 30 degrees may be
maintained. which is sufficient TO keep
most edibles in a good condition for a
reasonable length of time.