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well, it's no use-no use whatever. You're
the one that got me mixed up with those
thieving Ccpout people. You sot to cug-
sermuge ering with Mrs. Copout and then
you roped her and her husband in on me,
and you knew all the time they were
sponees and grafters, and now you've
deliberately given 'em my gun, and
Oh, well, what's the use? But I'll tell
you one thing. I'm not going to stay
home on that account, and you can't
make me. There's other guns to be had.
l guess, and I'm just the cutest little
gun digger you ever saw. can see that
you're bound and determined that I
shan't have little trip to the duck
hunting grounds for myself this after
noon. but I'll thwart that.
You needn't mind the eats now. I'll
drop into the little lunch joint around
the corner and get a bowl of milk and q
biscuit or something. There isn't chance
on earth of my ever getting anything to
eat here and I'd hate to try to eat in a
place that looks Ike a fire sale on upper
It'll street, anyway.
There's the phone ringing. Why don't
you answer It? Do You think I don't
have enough phoning to do at the office
all day without dragging myself here to
answer every measly call that
'.How's that? It's Jim Giddap, and he
wants me? Oh. all right. Hello, there,
Jim. old pal. That you? Ha. ha. ha!
Ye-eh, I'm home. all right and I'll be
right down What's that? Not going? ?
You say the ducks are pretty well crean-
ed up whe we were going, and you
think we'd better wait till the main
bunch Of hunters get through down that
way before we get into the game? Oh. all
right. matey, I'm willing. Ye-eh? Uh-
huh. O. n. old boy See you downtown
tomorrow. Slong.
well, they're not going duck-hunting
after all. and of course { ct chisee ed out
of any little bit OF fun that's framed up.
and now I suppose I've got to hang
around here for the est of the afternoon,
watching the cat wash herself and
Whats that? You're CAD I'm not go
ing, because the Copouts are going to be
here at o'clock in their new touring car
and take us out IN the country for a fine
roadhouse dinner? Well, why the dickens
didn't you say something about it be-
fore? And don't you feel a little bit
ashamed Of yourself for having knocked
the Copouts the way you did. calling
them grafters and sponges and all like
that? Well. l should think you would be-,
But it's just like woman to let nice
people entertain her and take her around
and give her a swell time, and then
knock 'em-just like all women"
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THE agitation for change in the date
= Of inauGuratin1 Presidents and Vice

THE agitation for change in the date
of inaugurating Presidents and Vice
Presidents Of the United States from the
4th of March to some time in the latter
part Of April or the first part of May.
which was so lively following the fearful
weather of the last quadrennial festivi-
ties. and which later died away, has
again been revived. Commissioner Mac
farland appeared last week before the
House committee on the election Of the
President, Vice President and members
of Congress, to argue for the proposed
change of date. and he took with him a
great mass Of data bearing on the sub
jects, including practically unanimous
opinions from the governors of all the
states and letters from prominent men
all over the country.
The committee on the election of the
President. Vice President and members
of Congress of which Representative
Baines of West Virginia is chairman, is
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New York as expensive city in which
10 live; l have lived whole lot in both
towns and kept house In both: and If
there is any city on the inhabited globe
where the necessities of life cost as much
or ever did cost as much. as they do in
New York at the present time, / should
like to know the name of that place in
order that | may never be tempted to
Tamble in that direction.
There is. find, quite a widespread idea
throughout the United States that rents
in Washington are not only high, but
outrageous. Compared with Baltimore,
lously low for some reason or other
which I've never been able to understand.
the rents of houses and apartments in
Washington are. of course, bit steep.
But the Washington rents are not to be
compared for a moment with the rents
In New York.
Take for example the matter of apart
ments. / know of my own knowledge.
after a large amount of personal expert
mentation and observation, that the same
sort of an apartment that in Washington
rents for $100 a month sets the rentee
back just about double that sum in New
York And thus right on down the line
Of figures. The fairly coy little apartment
for two that you can get IN Washington
FOR $50 or $50 month costs from 500
10 $3.50 a month in this town. and all
this despite the perfectly amazing num-
Der of apartment houses OF all degrees
and kinds that are being thrown up all
over New York all the tfme-almost over
night, / was about to say.
There is a curious but very widespread
sort of a fiction that things TO wear cost
great deal less in New York than they
do anywhere else on the North American
continent I am acquainted with num-
Der of women who know Washington
and New York thoroughly who positively
affirm that this is not the case. They al
low. OF course that there Is a greater
variety o. wearables TO be found in New
York, but they are strong in asserting
that this is the only advantage OF shop
ming In New York-the diversity of goods
and articles that is. They give me fig
ures and instances proving that the iden-
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that every one of these four other fell
lows that are going duck hunting with
me found nice, ste mi 6 meal waiting
for him on the table when he got home.
even II they did get home unex. ected y.
Their wives have get some gump ion
about them, that's all. Their wives don't
Jaw and fuss with them and holler MUIR
der at them just because they want to
get away from their burdensome work
once every two or three years, and go
on a little duck hunt.
Look a-here. where's that outing shirt
l bought last year-the flannel one with
the collar attached and the pin stripe?
How's that? It was all worn out two
years ago and went into the rag bag,
and now you're using it for dust cloth!
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CULLEN ON NEW YORK SHOPPING,

simply and badly scandalous. l speak
now of the good places. not the JUNK sh
table d'hote outfits or the more or less
gummy and smelly establishments where
the claim is made by the proprietors that
they've scaled the prices for first-rate
eatables-which they haven't at ALL for
the sole reason that they don't furnish
first-rate eatables. know that the
prices for the best restaurant food in
Washington (and by restaurant food of
course l take into consideration the food
served at Washington's leading hote -
are cheaper than the prices for similar
food in New York's good. restaurants and
hotel dining rooms. Par example. as
Mary Garden is always saying: The other
night friend of mine-far be it from me
to name him right out just like that
took his wife and two of her and his
woman IT. ends to a New York restau ant,
one of the so-termed good kind, for a
mere bite after the show. They didn't
want lobster. nor crab meat, nor rarebits.
nor steaks, nor fussy or heavy stuff at
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by growing a mustache and imperial.
with apologies TO Samuel G. Blythel'
SSVY1ELL.'' said one member OF the
w House TO another az they met in
the main corridor of the Capitol. what
do you think OF this years District bin?''
HUSH" said the other, who Is really IN
terested in the National Capital and all
that pertains to IL, there are ladies
present.
<SXYIHAT do You think of Tafts nomi-
w nation OF Judge Lurton to the
Supreme bench?" a friend asked Repre-
sentative Nehemiah ID. SpeTy OF Con-
necticut the other day.
Entirely too old" replied Mr.. SperTy.
Mr. Sperry ought to be good Judge. He
is in his eighty-third year and Is the old
est member OF the House i'm point OF
years. Representative Bingham OF Penn
sylvania is the father OF the House IN
point of service.
IRVING c. NORWOOD.
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throat when. returning. they found the
cd B. & O. station on New Jersey avenue
and the not-so-old, but old enough B. &
p. station on 9Th street entirely obliterat-
ed. The first time 1 rode by the corner
where the old B. & o. station stood. and
saw nothing but hole in the ground
there. it seemed to me as II rather i'm
portant lite fragment of the changing
world land more particularly the marvel
ously changing Washington had been
rather brutally whsked out of view. 1t
seemed strange not to see the grown-up
newsboy with the unshaven face stand
ing on that corner, wa ting for the hand
book runner to heave into sight with the
days dope: the rattletybang old ca
looshes, with their meditative horses. all
gone; and no reflective, club-swinging cop
leaning against the rail, summing himself
like a lizard, enyiously watching the
Capitol folk dropping into the place across
the street for little liquid nutriment to
sustain themselves against the strain of
their arduous official lives. thought of
the years, long flown, when the national
game used to be played on the vacant lot
directly catty-corner from the old B. &
o. station; yes, and when the wagon cir
cuSes used to erect their sometimes not
so-Snowy tents on that same lot and
kindle the imaginations Of lowering boys.
4
1t seemed little wistfully odd. too. to
see the gap In nature caused by the
demolition of the station on 9th street;
one remembered the years when that
seemed the very greatest and grandest
railroad station on all the globe. when
ones most exalted ambition. in passing
near there was to rise to the glory Of
being a passenger brake, with the priv
ilege of racing through the cars with a
bunch of red lanterns. or. failing SO
lofty a berth, even to be a spick-and-
spanly uniformed news and candy butch
err, racing up and down the world under
the shelter of a fine. peaked cap, and
making the other boys of the coterie Bit
terly but hopelessly envious.
All of which fetches us down to the
rather inconsequential, but, in its way,
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OF course 1t is. You saw to that all
right! It's bound to be the maids
afternoon out when / haven't HAD any
lunch and when / come home almost
starved to death---sure thing. / sup
pose you didn't have a bunch that Id
be home early, oh, and that therefore
you send the maid a-kiting to visit
her relatives in Bloodfields? Well. II
looks mighty queer to me. that's all
I've got TO say.
AT any rate. perhaps you won't re-
gard me with loathing and look upon
me as rufiian and a brute IL l re-
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lot of discussion and stir all the consti-
tutionai and other lawyers to their sub
FINEST efforts. but probably in the end II
would pass. President Taft. having been
inaugurated within doors. on the very
worst day in point of weather for years,
probably would not be reluctant to ap-
prove anything done along this line.
n REPRESENTATIVE VICTOR MUIR
N DOCK, the fair-haired insurgent Of
Wichita, doesn't seem TO be worrying
these days even IL the Iron Duke of Hi
nois still remains in the Speakers chair
He has a laugh that would make a
chronic and pessimistic dyspeptic giggie
like a school girl and call for frankfurters
and sauerkraut with pigsknuckles and
griddle cakes on the side.
n ENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON,
~ until recently President of the United
States. has surprised his friends greatly
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But the District is used to that.

Gentlemen says the District again,
what have you done in the matter of po-
lice, that my women and my children
may be protected?'
HELD em down." choruses the, COM
mittee. "held 'em down."
And my fire department. that the lives
and property of my people may be safe?
Held it down. choruses the committee
again; left you all the old junk; bought
no modern apparatus; held it down: held
it down..
'And Fairgrounds for the little children
for the little children of the streets. what
have you done?
Nothing" choruses the committee
again. nothing at ALL We weren't taugh'
to play. Who ever heard of teaching
children to play?'
And always the answer was the same
That was all, except that when the DIS
trict, saddened. turned away, the mem
bers of the appropriations committee. re-
Stunning their patriotic enthusiasm IKE
cloak, rushed madly to the floor to labor
in season and out. for the patriotic PROV
ects involving Gooseberry creek, Peters
town and Sniffensnozzle.
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HERE are WASH
ingtonians who,
living elsewhere
now, find 1t hard
to accustOm them
selves to the idea
of re entering
Washington, on
their home visits,
by way OF the
Union station.
Not that the
Union station Is
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HATS coming off
h e r e, anyhow-a
Black Hand ex-
plosionT" grouched
Mr.. Grump. unex-
pectedly a rri wing
home in midafter-
noon and finding
the sitting room
somewhat In disar-
ray owing to sew
ing oper a ii On ..
well. 1t looks like
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HE DO 1 our
Christmas Shop
ping Early slogan
has worked finely
in New York this
year. 1t Is the first
year. in fact, in
which the mer-
chants of New
York have made a
systematic attempt
TO impress upon
the Christmas shop
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A Future Bank President.
From Judge

JuuKc.
Lover anxious for chance to propose).
Look here, little man. II you'll see that
no one comes into this room for half an
hour I'll give you dollar.
Little Brother-Gee! Three dollars! Easy
money!
Lover-How's that?
Little Brother-Why- one from you,
one from sister, and one from mother.
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lumbia appropriation bill, emerged from
their retirement to leap to the floor Of the
House and engage in labor forStheir re-
spective districts. One OF them wanted
fifty millions to dig a navigable channel in
Gooseberry creek: another had a little bill
appropriating $4,000 for a public build
ing in Peterstown, which boasts popu-
lation of 800 not counting three drum
mers and dog. Another is advocating a
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not, perhaps, the most magnificent ana
world: not that it wasn't sorely needed.
But Washingtonians who were living
away from the city for most Of the time
while 1t was bui ding could not but ex-
perience a certain little clutch at the
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WAS half-past IL
O'Clock of a bright
Monday afternoon
in I h il JOY gu S
month of Deem
Der. The members
of the appropria-
lions committee
of the House. after
having been in SEES
s | on in C e 10
O'Clock, putting the
finishing touches TO
the District of CO.
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ming nublic the advantages accrulnS 10
themselves through early holiday shop-
ming, to say nothing of the kindness anu
consideration thereby shown the sales
men and saleswomen. They got together
on the scheme in October here, and tens
OF thousands of cards were sent out 10
the charge customers. requesting them 10
do their holiday shopping early, and CIV
ing clearly and convincingly, the reasons
actuating them in making such a request.
The same request was made to the gem
eraI public through large newspaper adj
vertisements and the same reasons given.
The response has been astonishing. Mer-
chants report the largest November and
early December trade In goods or a dls-
tinctively no iday sort in the history OF
their establishments: in many cases. and
more than twice as much holiday bust
ness already has been done as has ever
been inventoried before
AS matter of fact, several of the
managers of the great New York depart
ment stores are privately stating that
right now, q little more than week be-
fore Christmas, they are virtually cleaned
out of holiday goods: so that it is GER
tainty that the latory shoppers will have
almighty small assortment to choose from
and that they will have to do their select
ing from goods that have had a tremen-
dous picking over and that are in cOndi-
ton now only or-the bargain counter.
In the meantime the not overrushed
Salespeople, used to the terrific strain of
the last fortnight or so before Christmas.
are thanking their lucky stars over the
early shopping movement, and those or
them who are organized are drawing up
resolutions of thanks to- the general pub
lie for the consideration shown them. 1t
is difficult, of course. to arrive at any
understanding as to whether the motive
meeting the public to shop early on its
own account the recital Of the strain
under which saespeope labor in the holt
days was the more cogent in making for
the success of the movement; 1t may well
he supposed, however, that a good many
thousands of habitually proerastinating
shoppers in this town took alarm when
they'd have to take the leavings of the
shops. There will be none of the out
landish crushing and pulling and hauling
and elbowing scenes witnessed in the
great New York stores this year; the big
buying is virtually over. and the rapid
scuttling about will all be done by the
somewhat peeved late ones, who even
now are up against the dismal proposition
OF paving over the discard in choosing
their gifts.
4
D ECENTLY / heard a man who gener-
~ ally knows what he is talking about
say this: That the three most expensive
cities In the United States-expensive to
live in. that is to say--were. in their or
der, first. Newport. then Washington.
then New York.
This man may have been. and probably
was, right as to Newport; but 1 think he
has dropped Washington into the wrong
spot. Washington may. possibly does.
rank third, and a good third. in the list;
but it does not, in my opinion, outrank
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in The House Used to Live In. For In
stance. In the little house right next door
at that time lived number OF superb
musicians. violinisfs and vioionceliiste,
who were members of the Theodore
Thomas symphony Orchestra OF that
time. They would practice a great deal
practice nobly as only wonderfully saxill.
ed musicians do practice. I seemed
again to be sitting at the little open win
dow rubbering upon their practice: heard
the wild, weird wailings and soughings
of the celios, the passionate larks' songs
of the violins; and, when I snapped my
self out of il to board q downtown troll
ley car, 1t seemed quite nonsensicai to
believe that seventeen years-seventeen!-
really had sped their way into the void OF
time since those haunting strains had
charmed all Of the air around The House
I Used to Live In.
But 1t is even more disheartentng, de-
pressing to come upon The House You
Used to Live In and find that 1t is not
occupied at all
There's something ghostly. something
not right about II when there's nobody
living in it. The house itself seems lone
some. suffering under sense Of unjust
desertion. Recently l saw this idea ex-
pressed in a wonderfully appealing way
in bit of verse printed in william Ma
rion Reedy's paper, the st. Louis Mirror.
Inc poem was signed LiZette NOCC-
worth Reese" and was called "Cry OF
the Old House." Here IL is:
Come back.
My tile lads. come back:
My little maids. with starched frocks;
My lads my maids. come back.
Against the keen. lone, throbbing sky;
The tang of the old box
And the dews fall.
Leave the rude wharf. the mart,
Else shall break my heart.
My days as they were not7-
The warm, sweet. grooming tunes;
The Sunday afternoons.
Wrought but for you;
You wreathed in pink and blue.
Within your psayer-bocks small:
And smelling far and fine:
The pictures In a row.
OF folks you did not know:
T1s The the the ,a s gay r''
charmed but homely red
Went fiickerng from shed TO she'd
The fasots crumblng. spicy. good.
bTo S IN from from h tss Er sS wo su,
The grave. white shapes blown to and fss.
Come back. my women and my men.
And take them all again!
Can you forget
You battle not or reap you dream nor PLAN
You cannot pluck o rose, or read q book.
But am there with all my years.
Oh, one and ALL
When at The .eyenfal.
Your slim girls sing ont the stair.
LO, ] am there.
When blow the cherry boughs 10 fair
Athwart your slender town yards FAR away,
10. all at once you have no word TO say:
i. For at your throat a sharp strange thing
An house set In an old spring.
Come back.
Come UP the still and wistful lands,
The poplar haunted lands.
You need not CALL
For / shall know.
And light the candles tall,
Set wine and loaf Arrow.
Come back
Uniatch the door,
And fall upon my heart once more.
For shall comfort you, oh, lad:
Oh. daughter, shsl make you wholly gladi
The wreck. the wrong,
The unav ailing throng,
The sing, the smart
Shall be as they were not,
Forgot. forgot!
Come back,
And fall upon my heart.
Isn't that wonderfully moving piece
Of fugitive verse? But we can't go back,
~
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Special Correspondence OF The Star.
NEW YORK, December IL, 1908.
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of course. 1t isn't possible. A Let Of us
would like to. but we are bound. But
all the same we can. and we do. fall In
to strange and no unswee. lite day
dreams when we chance to pass the
houses we used to live in.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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Oh, sure. Surest thing you know. l
only bought 1t late last autumn, and yet
you sit there and lock me right in the
eye and tell me that it was all worn out
two years ago, and I'm expected to gulp
that without salt. Go as far as you like.
But there'll be an end to all this stuff
one of these old days, mark that.
We'll, l suppose my duck gun was all
worn oft ten or fifteen years ago, too.
and that you're now using it to tune the
piano with or something. hey? Huh?
What's that? I loaned my gun to Cop
out away last fall and he never brought
it back? Dye mean to tell me Oh,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-25
From Ensiey Veterans.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 We, the undersigned members of Pat Cleburne Camp Confederate Veterans, wish to state that the article headed "Ensley Veterans Resent Efforts of Anti Leaders," which appeared in the Bir- mingham News of October 21 Is an un- fair statement of the facts regarding this camp We regret that the amendment people have attempted to drag the camp into politics as 1t is expressly against the constitution of the camp for it as a camp to take an active interest in politics.
 The statement is incorrect that the Con- federate veterans are receiving twice as much pension money as ever before, the true fact is that we are receiving much less than ever before.
 Four of the 12 signers to the article are not members of this camp; three of them are unknown to us, and one of them is not a member. It Is strange indeed that we who are active members of the camp should not know three of the sign CTS of this article. It is our opinion that three-fourths of the members of Pat Gle burne camp are opposed to the constitu- tionaI amendment. It would be unnatural for men who fought for constitutional rights for four years this late In life to forget their state and their rights so far as to follow the leadership Of Brooks Lawrence of Ohio. and aid him in talk ing away liberties that they hold dear.
 w. J. Havis, adjutant; M A. Buck ham. ex-treasurer; w. w. Wallace, first lieutenant commander; J. R. Acuff, l.. P. Arnold, Dr. J. c. Miller. J. R. Page, J. l.. Priget, w. T. Dawson, F. A. Grant, F. M. Arnold, Dr. E. R. Wren, J. l.. Benze.
 EnsIey, October g, 1909.