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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
BALLADE OF BWANA TUMB0.

No more Of Tristrams derring-do sing.
Nor YET the prowess Of King Cbarlsnqene
But grasp my Tyre and tune its trembling strins
And wake its echoes with n new refrain
Nor can vague thoughts of politics restrain
STILL still sing. above the strident din
OF terrible than Tamerlane-
l sing the doughty deeds Of srartarin.
4 simple thing for him the vanquishins
OF jungle deniZens: for he is fain
To choke the cheetah with bare hands: TO swing
The leopard by its tail It be slain
BY swapping off its head-a sport sans pain:
To rout the rampant rhino with a grin;
And scare the swart gnu with smile profans;-
sing the doughty deeds of Tartarin.
Who so expert as he In kodaking
The dead surrounded by his loyal train?
Who so graceful us he in pOsturing.
Rifle in hand, upon the blood soaked plain,
His foot upon the lordy lions name,
Proud and puissant a paladin,
And picturesque Cawdor's naughty thane!-
sing the doughty deeds of Tartarin.
ENVOY.
Prince this balade is short and poor and vain-
For such a theme epic would he thin;
But do not look upon IL with disiaiu-
sing the doughty deeds Of Tartarin.
Rochester Post Express.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
The WIRE MERGER.

From the Columbus Ohio State Journal.
In spite of the great merger achieve
ment of the Bell Telephone Company.
however, the line probably will still ue
busy at times when you need it worst
From the Kansas City Times.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
and the Bell Telephone Company have
merged into billion-dollar corporation.
1t will still be possible. however. to use
the deaf-and-dumb alphabet without pay
ing tribute to the trust.
From the Chicago News.
Notwithstanding the absorption of the
telegraph lines by the telephone company
it will not be necessary to begin your
kilograms with Hello.
From the Pittsburg Gazette-Times.
Perhaps the telephone and telegraph
comhiners are simply endeavoring to en-
courage the infant industry of trust bust
ing.
From the Syracuse Post-Standard.
Now we can send all our kilograms by
telephone without injury to the widows
a i orphans who subsist upon Western
Union stock.
From the Columbia State
The Bell people appear to have been do
ing some quiet wire pulling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
Messages by Phone.

III is stated in connection with the re-
cent merger of telegraph and telephone
lines under a single corporation that this
combination will permit the delivery of
kilograms by means of the telephone
Wherever the addressee has a phone con-
nection, this relaying by wire supplanting
the present messenger boy service. Thus
Is another cherished institution menaced.
Is the biue-coated. brass-buttoned, fat
capped, grimy-handed youngster. with his
stub of pencil, to be eliminatedp Is this
precocious youth, so wise in all the ways
ut HE, so nonchalant in his delivery of
messages of veal and woe. 70 make his
exit from the stage? He will be missed.
1t may be for his good, but he will leave
a Void that cannot be filled by the jangle
of the telephone bell and the unsympa
ihetlc voice or some headquarters clerk
announcing the contents of the message
There Is another phase of this proposed
innovation TO be considered At present
there is something apparently exclusively
private about. a telegram. The sealed en-
veiope suggests secrecy. OF course the
message Is known to at least two people,
The sending and receiving operators and
IN the majority of cases TO two more. the
receiving and sending clerks But the
summed flap Of the whitley brown enye-
iope, as the English say, serves as a
guarantee that these necessary sharers
n the confidence imposed in the telegraph
company by the sender are true to their
trust. What will be the effect, however,
of hearing this message, now SO carefully
shielded from view, recited over the tele-
phone by a stranger? The shock of bad
news now conveyed by the mysterious en-
Felope may be intensified by the sound Of
voice reciting the fateful words.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
Suspicious.

Uncle Groucher sits around,
Allus lookin' cherries.
His remarks. they amt profound,
Nor especial fearless.
Never seems to have no schemes,
Prospects nor ambitions:
He les shets his eyes an dreams.
Havin his suspicious.
When you mention any one
High in public service.
He drops hints of what they've done.
That'll make you nervous.
Though their time may be employed
On unselfish missions,
He declares he can't avoid
Havin his suspicious.
Next to trustin' every man
Who may come a-spoutin
Seems to me the poorest plan
Is this wholesale doubtin'
This is certain: no one will
Better life's conditions
If he keeps on sittin' still,
Havin' his suspicious.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
FOOT BALL.

From the indianapolis News
Still, it is bound to be a long time be-
fore the study of aeronautics, which a
number of the colleges have adopted, is
going to crowd out foot bal in the bust
ness Of making half-tone heroes.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The foot ball cranks seem willing to re-
form the game in every respect but its
death list.
From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
Worried mothers Of foot ball stars prob
ably feel that the Thanksgiving procla-
nations should enumerate among the rea-
sons for giving thanks the fact that the
day marks the close of the foot ball sea-
son.
From the Scranton Tribune.
Mothers who have sons old enough to
play foot ball do not exhibit much enthu-
siasm for the game.
From the Detroit News.
Still, no one has dubbed foot ball game
Slaughter
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
College faculties might have the back
bone to stop foot ball before some one of
their students is killed instead of after
ward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
The SUGAR FRAUDS.

From the Richmond Times Dispatch.
They call it the customs-house, and
upon our life they seem to have had
some mighty peculiar customs there.
From the Newark Evening News.
You may have noticed that as history
unfolds, there is considerably less knock
ing of the silent Mr.. Loeb.
From the Charleston News aud Courier.
OF course, the sugar trust would never
have used the same scales in selling to
the public that 1t used in getting the
product into the country.
From the Providence Evening Tribune.
The revelations bearing on the sugar
trust indicate that Mr.. Roosevelt left be-
hind him bigger game in this country
than he has been bagging in South At
RIGA.
From the Buffalo Express.
The sugar trust has proved itself the
best variety OF sugar beet.
From the Brooklyn Standard Union.
There were a surprisingly large number
of people who knew all about sugar
frauds but said nothing about them pub
licly till now
From The Detroit Journal.
Exposures of the sugar trusts fraud
are said to "anger President Taft'-along
with some 3O.O0O,OO0 other red-blooded
American citizens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
The Republican Division.

Warnings are in the air. There are men
and newspapers full of excitement and
prophecy. Look out for republican
crash at the coming session of Congress.
II Is bound to come. Things have reached
tho breaking point, and will break. The
party which has shown such splendid
equipment and organization. done so
much and survived SO much. has at last
re-. ched the limit. Beginning next month,
aid continuing until the session ends. the
republicans in both House and Senate will
show divided front, and their record for
the session be that of failure. Then will
follow bitterness on the stump and disin-
tegration at the polls.
1t Is true that the situation might be
much better for the republicans. Some of
tie leaders are making faces at each
other. and exchanging anything but edify-
Jig compliments. You are no republican,
is answered by 'I have no desire to be
If you are one" And so reading out of
the party goes on. Men are read out
while they wait. A scowl and a denun-
citation, and the work Is done.
Maybe, however, before things go much
further, consideration will be given to
this question: If the republican party
goes to smash at this time. to what
organization or combination will the
country turn for immediate legislation?
The democracy, by the confession Of
some of its most eminent members, is
not only divided. but disorganized. Its
incertitude and helpleSSneSs last spring
when the tariff was under revision were
plain TO all, and operated to the diSad-
vantage of the country. For had the
republicans been confronted by COM
pact opposition. we'll and determinedly
led. we should today have better tariff
law than the Payne law
AS The Star has several times pointed
out, the republicans have but started
with the task committed to them a year
ago. The tariff is but one item. There
are number of others. In his message
next month the President will show what
is yet to be done if the party in power
Is to retain the confidence of the coun-
try. 1t would be surprising, indeed. if
the party which promised so much last
year, and was regarded by the voters as
capable of SO much, should not be able
TO go. further with its task than the tariff
and should confess failure in dealing with
that.
The present leader of the republicans
is accredited with the gift OF Cancellation
certain 1t Is that he possesses good feel
ing and a most happy address. The coun-
try likes him. Men of both factions in
his party visit him and respect him. Be
fore the smash comes, therefore, we may
expect. the President to exert himself to
prevent it. Why despair with so capable
a man in command?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
FALLING LEAVES.

When autumn slow with trembling hand
The trimmings from the branches shakes
The leaves come futtering earthward and
Then straightway call for carts and rakcs
The man to whom the trees belong
Is half inclined to language strong.
The bright. artistic colors fame
Upon the trees in tintngs high:
He knows he might well be- game,
For they'll get tired by and by:
And then the trees their leaves will dor
And be will have to cart them OF.
Come girls with little mellow cries
And rave about the rich array:
On reds and browns they rhapsolize
And beg to take some leaves away.
He gives to them a goodly store
And wishes they would take some more.
Tonight he hauls six loads away:
Tomorrow six more loads will fall.
He wishes that the maidens gay
Would come again and take them all
When autumn runs her school of art
He loathes the porter's lowly part.
Chicago Newa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
HISTRIONlC ACHIEVEMENT.

He studied well the parts he played.
To him his art was dear:
Some small advance he bravely made
Year after year.
He scorned the claptrap, cheap and thin
That others used 10 win applause;
He proudly spent his efforts in
A sacred cause.
With native talents that were vast
He patiently developed skill.
Aud so achieved success. at last,
In vo-de-ville.
S. Z. kIser. in Chicago Record Herat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
EUSAPIh PALADINO.

Eusapia raladino
Is lady come from far
To show us Yankee reubens
What the truly spirits are.
Eusapia Paladino
Doesn't always show the light
When she does her demonstr RI tions
Some Of which are out OF sight.
Eusapia Paladino
Moves a lot Of things around
And by simple levitation
Lifts a table from the ground.
Eusapia Paladino
Doesn't tell us how it's done.
And we've got to put up money
Or We do not get rum
Eusapia Paladino
Hasn't got IL much on us.
We possess n greater wonder
In our we'll known Octopus.
Eusapia Paladino
Merely levitates in small,
While our Octopeacharino
Includes legislatures, senatcs.
courts. municipalities, police.
pulpfts colleges, statesmen.
politicians, hired help.
customs officials, etc, etc,
And levitates them all.
Eusapia Paladino
Hasn't got the truly bunch.
And she won't have till she minxles
With our Yankee mystery bunch.
What?
w ]. hampton, in the New York Tines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
ALWAYS A HERO.

Its roses. roses. all the way"
And all the people staring.
And homage fine we gladly pay
To the soldier for bis daring.
But having satisfied the debt
We turn him round and boot him,
And when he would remind us yet
With migrate glce we boot him.
The sailor. home from exercise
Upon the foeman's navy.
We stuff till IN his bullying eyes
The banquet board looks wavy.
Then with a sense OF duty done
We frostily dismiss him,
And when he begs another bun
With utter scorn we hiss him.
The statesman wins our wild huLzahs
In him we see salvation
From greedy gangs and porous laws
That enervate the nation.
But when we've raised him up on high
As IL we meant to crown him,
We stop our praise to Willy
And do our best to down him.
Soldiers and sailors. men Of state
Sink to Oblfyions shades,
But one there is among our great
Whose glory never fades.
We cheer him as the seasons roll,
. Each year We laud him more.
The man who kicked that famous goal
Back there IN Eighty-four!
Newark Evening NewA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
A Student of Human Nature.

That was a pretty harsh note Mr.
Clincher sent you
Eyes," answered the debonnair debtor.
But he didn't mean most of it. He has
just employed new stenographer. When
he dictated that letter he was showing
off,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
A Tragedy of the Time.

"RIiggins says he has lost his hair
through worry. What's he worrying
about?
His wife's couture bills She wants so
much hair that he has to go without
any.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
A Reversal.

II suppose YOU talked a lot OF nonsense
to your wife before you were married"
yes" answered MIR. Meekton. Before
we We're married she thought my non
sense sensible. Now when | try to talk
sense she thinks its nonsense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Getting a Move on Himself.

Getting a Move on Himself.
II got so that 1 didn't pay any atten-
ton to my old-fashioned alarm clock. "
said Mr.. Urlyrise. But I'm out Of bed
and wide awake at o'clock every morn
ing now
How did you manage it?'
81 got one that honks like an automo-
bile horn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
A Ton of Coal.

1t seemed there on the cellar floor,
Secure 'gainst interference.
Alas, We have to note one more
Mysterious disappearance!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21

Richard Croker's declaration that he
does not think may be a disappointment
to interviewers. but it should be a relief
to the men who have been trying to run
Tammany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21

Henry Watterson likes residence in
foreign lands, and might make a good
diplomat. Only 1t would be a shame to
muff1e so much eloquence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21

!" There was a time when it looked as il
the Western Union was in a position to
do any absorbing contemplated in its
branch of the stock market.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21

In five years Panama is expected to be
in line for a world festival that will make
the average exposition look like a coln-
ty fair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21

A lot of officials in Turkey will look
with longing eyes at the rake-on posi-
bilities of their governments battIeship
contracts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21

Perhaps one reason the suffragettes find
American men more polite than the Eng
lish is that our statesmen are not so
scared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21

Reports come that the Pennsylvania
woods are full of deer hunters, and that,
fortunately, this fall the hunters are far
ing rather better than the deer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21

The gyroscope car as described appears
10 be one Of these inventions which should
start with a consideration of safety ap-
plances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21

San Francisco's idea seems to be that
native CRATER is more to be desired
than an imported reformer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21

Nebraska may yet compel Mr.. Bryan to
decide whether it is more glorious to be
senator or permanent presidential
candidate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21

Frances threat of an increased import
duty on cotton-seed oil should be encour-
aging to the people who raise real olives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21

Zelaya has evidently failed to profit by
observation OF the way most Central and
South American trouble makers finish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21

Mr.. Loeb found excitement without go
ing as far from home as his former chief
travelled
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21

The selection OF Thanksgiving day as g.
favorite foot ball date seems more or less
ironical.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21

Thanksgiving day has been observed
for the past forty-six years in response to
annual presidential proc
lamations. Before 1853,
nt>..r~,.,,, however, the matter was
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-15

Your issue of 18th inst. is at hand,
and / note your editorial under the
above heading, and l want to give it
my endorsement, with all possible en-
phasis. Until we can. and do. de
monstrate" we will send out our lit
erature in vain. We are getting less
than one out of every hundred of the
immigrants that are flocking from all
the Eastern and Middle states to the
far west, and we are getting none u
the immense foreign immigration,
and while Il is a fact that we have
no object lessons to be compared with
the great west, there are other rea-
sons why people are so little inclined
to come south. The presence of the
negro at best is a reason. and one
which will ever limit the settlement
of the southern states; or until
more satisfactory settlement of the
race question" is had But the ne
gro is a ten fold more obstruc-
ton, than two deckadeS ago, be-
cause of his greatly increased ten
dency to outrage, and the ever in
creasing mob spirit of the whites.
There were mobs, or regulators, -
in the early settlements of the west
but that was before courts we're es-
tablished, or when Judge and jury
we're in sympathy with criminals, but
it is known at home. and abroad, that
there is no possib ility of escape for
the man, black or white, who COM
mits the unmentionable crime And in
cases where the mob has taken a man
from Jail and hung him to a telegraph
pole until he was dead, there are
many who could condene the act thus
far, but then to fill the lifeless body
with bullets, leaves the execUtioners
amongst the most cruel of the saw
age Indian tribes Of the past. This
may seem to be strong language, but
it is not our language. IL is the feel
ing of a vast proportion of the peo-
pie all over the north; and more, it
strengthens an idea long held by d
large number of people in the north.
that the institution Of slavery did
create a more murderous tendency
than amongst the free state people. l
know this will be denied, and l am
not stating 1t as a fact, or as my
opinion, but l am saying, that such
things on the part of our white cit
izenship unchecked by our best PEG
pie, and by our law officers. has made
such an impression all over the great
north and western states. Then again
IL we must expect outrageS on the
part of the blacks, and mobs on the
part of the whites, is it necessary 70
have every paper in the southland
publish it in all its horrible details?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-15
PEANUT CULTURE
By c. K. McQUARRIE, DeFuniak. Fla.

ash is the cap sheaf that finishes of
to perfection what the other elements
began, and unless there is enough OF
it to go around the cap sheaf will be
of a very inferior quality and small
production A good fertilizer that
could be called a we'll balanced ra-
ton would analyze per cent nitro
gen, 5 per cent phosphoric acid, and
at least per cent potash. To get
this, the farmer will have to do his
own mixing, which is the coming
method among our most progressive
farmers. For this purpose, to get a
ton of this mixture to analyze as
above, he would require 800 pounds
high grade cotton seed meal, 500
pounds Il per cent phosphoric acid
and about 900 pounds muriate of pot
ash. This mixture thoroughly COM
pounded and applied broadcast at the
rate of 500 pounds per acre will prove
a good investment in the making CT .
peanut crop.
The further cultivation o. the crop
should be shallow. The land. must Re
kept clean and hills planted three
feet apart will soon meet in the row.
When blooms set the hills should be
gone over and fiattened out with the
back of a hoe and some soil thrown
on the crown of the plant. This pro-
cess tends to increase the production
in that il secures soil for the small
spikes that form after the bloom and
seek the soil to make the nut in, for
if the plants are thrifty and vigorous
some of the higher blooms on the
plant will prove unproductive If not
treated in this way
When it comes to harvesting the
crop, the whole plant should be pull
ed up by the roots, thrown into wind
rows to wilt and the second day
stacked against a pole in the field. Ia
this way, the nut and vine cure out
thoroughly in few weeks.
Take it all in all, there are very
few crops on the southern farm that
nav better than the peanut crop,
whether planted in the spring as a
main crop, or in midsummer as 4
catch crop. but thorough preparation
and plenty o. fertilizer Of the proper
grade are necessary TO secure sue
cess in this as in all other crops we
grow
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-08-15

It sometimes happens through the
failure of some crop or lack OF help
at the proper time that farmer finds
he can make a late fall crop to pay
him. if he could make up his mind
what crop would be most suitable.
Now a crop of peanuts comes in at
that time to fill up a gap very salts
factorily,
Il have often planted a crop of the
Spanish variety Of peanuts in August
which made a better crop than tie
spring planted one In fact, tdH
planting of this crop is the most de-
sirabIe in every way, for the spring
crop ripens when the prevailing con-
dition of the weather is wet, and Il
the soil is very wet, when the crop
comes to maturity, 1t begins sprout-
ing Immediately. Now soil conditions
generally prevailing when the fail
planted crop comes to maturity are
drv. which admits Of successful
harvesting of the crop without much
loss.
In the general rotation Of crops,
peanuts should follow small grains
or beans Of any kind, and l have had
several successful crops planting them
In the water furrow of tue corn rows
after the corn was shocked, by bed
ding up the middles very low, ferti-
lizing well and planting on the bed
But whichever way is adopted or
whatever the rotation may be, the
soil must be we'll and deeply plowed
and a good seed bed made THIS,
next to the quality and quantity Of
fertilizer used, is the most important
thing about the making Of the crop.
The quality Of the fertilizer used
and the method of application are the
main points in successful crop pro-
duction of any kind.
Peanuts are nitrogen gatherer5
and store quite lot Of this most use
full element In their roots, but they
cannot do this until the vines get
we'll on TO maturity sc that We must
have nitrogen in the fertilizer to give
the crop a start Some farmers con-
tend that all we want is phOsphoric
acid, but potash cuts a more import
ant figure in the success or non-suc-
cess o. a peanut crop than either
nitrogen or phosphoric acid for pot