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The Washington herald., 1909-02-23
HOUSE.

House convened at noon.
Farewell Address Of George Washington read
Consideration q sludry evil bin resumed
Representative Rafney. Representative Burton.
Representative Lowering. and Representative
Coekrsn spoke On the PaEsua Canal
Bin introduced 70 retire classified ciTll service
employees
Bili introduced calling on New YORK FedsTal
Judge fur report on charges to grand Jury regard
ing Tennessee Ccal ard Iron merger.
House adjourned al s-i2 until Il O'Clock to-day
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senate Pes.e. Jnveni1e Ri11.

The oil introduced by Senator Cal
linger. giving the Juvenile Court power
to Issue execution on forfeiture Of reeog-
nizance, was passed by the Senate yes
terday.
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CONGRESS BRIEFS.

Commissioner mcfarland. assisted by
Auditor TEeedsle. appeared before the S:bcommittee
q the House Committee on Appropriations az
O'Clock yesterday afternoon 70 explain the District
items for the general deficiency bill
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YESTERDAY IN CONGRESS.
SENATE

Senate convened AZ noon.
Farewell address Of George Washington rad.
Present committees directed 20 hold eger during
extra SESSION Of Congress
Postal savings bank bill considered.
Three appropriation bils--agTiciitural. iortinca-
tons, and diplomatic and coasular-rspoTted-
Senator Warren gave notice he vii cal Up
agricultural bin TO-DAY.
senate adjourned at 40 until noon to-day.
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IN EXTRA SESSION
Senate Resolves to Hold Over
Until December.
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Prizes s. $50 s. Nov OF zls a. Wilson
Ticket OAiee Us So The " L F-s6ezlck
Music store
The enterprise-recorder., 1909-11-11
Company Of UnitedStales
Cavalry
In all kinds of Mon
key Drills and Riding
$4,000 Free Street Pa.
rade Daily.

6 Bands, so Cages, 10 Tableau
Wagons, Mounted People, Led
Stock, Cavalry, Wild West, 60
Ponies, 300 Horses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05
INSANE ASYLUM BURNS.
Lives of 600 Patients Endangered
by Fire.

WOODWARD. Okla. April Silk hun
dred insane persons were in danger of
death yesterday when flames. starting
from prairie fire. destroyed several
building of the state asylum at Fort
Supply.
The fire broke out in the laundry build
ing shortly after the inmates had been re-
turned TO their quarters from the noon
meal The asylum fire department was
ordered out and every effort made to con-
ceal from the patients the fact that the
building was burning. A woman. seeing
the fire. however, eXc.tedly gave the
alarm. Attendants then rushed among
their charges and narrowly averted q
panic.
The fire spread t ON the laundry to the
pharmacy supply building and threatened
the asylum itself. The inmates yielded
to the entreaties of the attendants and
maintained good order when the danger
was greatest.
BY hard work the fire fighters saved the
various ward buildings
There was no loss of life. The fire de-
stroyed the stables. the laundry the phar-
macy and the employees quartz S. The
loss is $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05
BATTLES WITH SIX EAGLES.
Giant Birds Attack and Injure Nor
folk Man.

NORFOLK, Va. April 5.-J L. DurneIl.
a lumberman. living at 53S 9th street,
Park place, had an unusual and painful
experience when he was attacked by six
eagles on l.. W. TazewelPs Sand Hills
plantation. in Princess Anne county.
Durnell was looking over some timber
land. and injured himself by fall I'm a
hole concealed by brush. Before he could
rise the eagles swooped down on him, and
he fought them with club for ten min
utes before they stopped the attack That
he did not lose his eyesight or sustain
more serious injuries is considered re-
markable.
He said that he had reached one of the
most remote spots on the plantation, when
he noticed huge eagle circling above
him. He watched the bird, and decided
that there must be a nest near him. A
few moments later he broke through a
cluster OF underbrush on the brink Of a
natural cavity, into which he plunged.
When he tried to rise he found that he
had twisted his ankle, and sat resting and
nursing the injured member Suddenly
there was a whirr of giant wings beating
the air and the hole was darkened He
looked up just in time TO dodge the beak
OF the first of the birds, and before he
could reach the level ground above him
ing the conflict with the eagles he re-
treated quarter of mile from the spot
where the attacks began.
Those who heard of the incident advance
the theory that one of the birds was a
mother eagle and that the others were
aiding her in resisting an apparent at
tack on her nest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05
NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

The hull Of the new tugboat building at
the yard of NJ. Mitchell Davis & Son, at
Solomons Island, Nd, for A. ]. Taylor &
Bro, of this city, is rapidly approaching
completion. In the latter part Of this
month the new boat will be launched. 1t
will be midsummer before 1t is ready for
service.
Capt. A. j. Taylor of this city, managing
owner of the new tug. has not yet selected
the name that will be given the craft
when it makes it's initial plunge into the
waters of the Patuxens river
The tug is 115 feet long, % feet beam
and Il feet deep and will be the largest
Of the fleet of tugooats owned at this city.
1t is designed for ocean towing as well
as for work on the bay.
In compliance with the marine regula-
tiOns 1t will have masts and sails. The
boat will be modern in outfit, will be
lighted by electricity and will be as able
towing boat as any now in service on
the bay.
The new craft will make the seventh
| tugboat flying the Taylor house flag and
hailing from this city.
Barge No. II of the Consolidation Coal
Company fleet has completed discharg.ng
about 1.6OO tons o. Maine Ice at the 10th
| street wharf of the American Ice Com
pany. and will go up to Georgetown to
load Cumberland coal for Boston No. II
Will go under the coal chutes of the Con-
solidation Coal Company as soon as barge
No. 7. which unloaded ice here last week.
gets her cargo of about 1900 tons of coal
| aboard and sails.
No. Il will be the second coal-laden
vessel to leave this city this spring. It
will probably be a month or more before
another vessel is loaded here.
The ice that was brought here by
barges No. II and No. has been stored
| in the big icehouse on the 10Th street
wharf to be used as the demand for the
refrigerating material grows heavier to-
ward early spring. 1t Is stated that the
ice made by the local factories is now
filling the demand with some to spare,
but 1t is only a question of short time
before it will not do SO and the reserve
supply will have to be called upon to
make up the deficiency.
Arrived: Bugeye Ella and Halle K,
tug Fortuna, towing four coal-laden
barges from Baltimore and Philadelphia
for Georgetown dealers; schooner Beri
cord wood from a river point to d alers:
scow Bush, lumber from a river point
to- the Eastern branch: schooner Kate,
lumber from a Virginia port to the deal
ers; tug Camilla with a tow from down
river points; tug Minerva. towing sand
laden scows from river dredges
Sailed: Schooner Mable and Ruth, light
for a North Carolina point to load lum-
Der back to this city; schooner Oakland.
light for river point to load wood for
this city: f1attie Rafting Joe. light from
a Potomac point to load oysters for this
market; tug Walter F. Meade with
tow of light scows to digging machines
down river; schooner Corsica, light, for
a bay point to load.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05
During Esster Prepa-
ratiOns,

When you walk. shop or are on your feet. fortify
ard care for your feet. Don't get footsore: get
Foot Ease, the antseptic powder to be shaken
into the Shoes for Swollen. Aching feet. You
walk for hours and not get tired il you
ALIENS FOOT-EASE. 1t is always in demand
for In Patent Leather Shoes. and for Break.
ing in New Shoes. This Is Easy Test:
Sprinkle Aliens Foot-Ease in shoe and NOT
in the other and notice the difference Order q
25c package TODAY of any Druggist and b
ready to forget you have feet During Easter
Week. Sold everywhere. 25c. Sample FREE by
mail. Address Allen s. Olmsted. lie Roy n. Y.
DON'T ACCEPT ANY SUBSTITUTE
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05

service act, and in most cases their APP
pointment was subject to confirmation
by the United States Senate"
The committee says that Mr. Roosevelt
took a decided step in advance toward
CHI cking the consequences Of activity by
Offic holders in politics when he issued
his order of June ). 1857 forbidding en-
ployes in the competitive service To take
part in political management or in po-
litical campaigns. This orGer was en-
forced in the asst campaign.
The last administration comes in for
commentator, the report says:
I'VE believe that the last administra
ton made unusual Efforts to secure COM
p tent men, and that ii has not blindly
accepted the recommendation of repre-
sentatives or senator's or PARTY commit
tees. but has made diligent effort to md
out the fitness of the men proposed.
I'm the southern states. owing to the
lack of fit nominations by republicans.
many democrats have been appointed.
Malfeasance in office has been vigorously
punished"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05

Thirteen-thirteen street.
Victor and Edison goods exclusively.
aIo-tf ,2S Phone Main 744S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05
EVIL OF CIVIL SERVICE
OfficehoIders Who Hold Power
at Expense of Party.
REFORM LEAGUE REPORTS
Southern Patronage Maintained by
Defeating Republican Candidates.
RECOMMENDATIONS ARE MADE
Extension Of Competitive Classified
ton to Limit-Severer Punish
ment for Activity in Politics.
RECOMMENDATIONS ARE MADE
Moving. Packing
Fireproof Storage
Lawn Furniture

NEW YORK, April 5.-As result of in
yestigation relative to the activity of fed
eral officeholders in politics made by a
special committee of the National Civil
Service Reform League, composed of
Samuel H. Ordway. Richard H. Dana.
Robert D. jerks, Lucius B. Swift and
Elliot II. Goodwin, the following recon-
mendations have been made in a report
Just issued:
The extension by the President OF the
classified competitive service to the ut
most limit that the law allows;
Legislation by Congress permitting the
classification of the officers whose ap-
by the Senate. but who perform purely
ministerial functions:
A clearer definition and strengthening
of the executive order governing political
activity in the unclassified service, and
The vesting of the power to investigate
cases arising under this order in the
civil service commission or some other
body independent Of departmental dicta-
OF the more than 100000 places in the
federal service 222, 125 are embraced in
the competitive classified list. but those
not on this list, the report says. are
filled by men of ability. thoroughly skill
ed in political manipulation, who. with
few exceptions. hold their places through
the recommendation of some politician,
representative or senator. In the main. 1t
Is stated, the federal service Is efficient.
Bad Conditions in South.
OF the south the report says:
"The of1ceholders in the south prac-
tically control the republican party or
ganization in their respective states and
frequently resort to unfair means in
order to retain their power. Their sup
port is a tremendous political asset to
any candidate for nomination.
LAS the southern democratic states
have as many votes In the republican
national convention as the republican
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05

$50, apart from my sincere and genuine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05
Finds Wife Dead at Foot Of Stairs

BALTIMORE. April 5.-Mrs. Mary
Schroeder, sixty-seven years old, "a North
Patterson Park avenue. was found dead
at her home at 5 o'clock Saturday after
noon by her husband, Mr.. Frederick
Schroeder. Coroner Caruthers of the
northeastern district was notified and
gave a certificate Of death from heart
failure. Mrs Schroeder was last seen
about II o'clock in the morning, when
her husband left her to go to work. When
he returned home about 8 o'clock he was
unable to get into his home. After fore
ing an entrance he walked back into the
kitchen and found his wife lying at the
bottom of the stairs. Besides her hus-
band she is survived by one daughter,
Mrs. Margaret Bauer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05

The body of Frederick w. Ripper a
prominent business man and the wealth.
lest man of Annapolis, Md. who died at
his home there, was taken to his former
home at Camden, N. j.. for burial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05

Miss Rose Lawless, thirty-two years old
trained nurse died at Lynchburg Va.
after an illness Of more than a year She
was a daughter OF Frank Lawless. and is
survived by three sisters and a brother
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05

Invitations have feen 'ssre1 for the
marriage of John Lee Lehman and Miss
Villa Hart Butcher at the howe Of the
bride Fa.rmont w. Va Apr 21
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
Senator Rayner,s PronosaI.

An expedition to Nicaragua in the sense of the resolution of the belliger- ent Maryland senator to capture Ze- Iaya dead or alive could not but be. in existing circumstances, an expedition against the Nicaraguans themselves. So long as the reins of government are m his hands he cannot be separated rom the people whom he. rules. This IS an elementary principle of interna- tlonal law. An expedition to the Mos quito coast to capture Zelaya, then, would almost certainly result in a san gu1nary conflict which should be avoided except in extreme necessity
 As Senator Rayner intimates, fair trlal for Zelaya in Nicaragua, if cap- tured by an expedition from this coun- try. would be out of the question The exultant insurgents under Estrada would be apt to. deal with him as sum- marily as he dealt with the two Ameri- can citizens. But suppose he is captur- ed at the head of his government and in the midst of his people, and brought here in a United States cruiser for trlal; that, too, on the assumption that he IS guilty of all the crimes of which he Is accused? The embarrassment of the situation would be far greater than If he were left at home. Ques- t1ons would arise as to who would prosecute him, who would constitute the jury and who would execute judg- ment on this state prisoner if con- demned.-Pk1ladelph Record,
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
SHIP SUBSIDIES.
Facts About the Question of Making
 Shipping Yield Profits.

Why ships are bought and built abroad, and sailed under foreign flags, | by Americans, is clearly and suceinctly explained-to the confusion of the subsidy hunters-by Robert Dollar,
 owner of the Dollar line of steamships,
 which operate between Pacific coast ports. In a letter to the San Francisco Commercial News MT. Dollar gives the following facts:-
 "The British steamship Hazel Dollar.
 vessel of 7,220 tons dead weight ca pacity, cost MT. Dollar $200,000,A and the best bid he could get from an American yard was $43O,000. The American steamer Stanley Dollar cost $1S4, 900 to build, and American build CTS now want S220,000 to duplicate the
 vessel. At the same time a Scotch firm offers to build a duplicate of the Stanley Dollar for $100,000. Thus in the case of the Hazel Dollar the ves- sel would have cost over $200,000 more if Mir. Dollar had bought the vessel from an American builders. On this
 extra cost interest would have run
 during the life of the vessel The high
 CT salaries paid the officers on the American ships are of less importance, amounting to but $265 per month. An extra engineer, three oilers and two
 water tenders, which our government insists must be carried on American vessels, are not employed on the for
 eign vessels of the Dollar line, and on this item there is a saving of about
 $700O a year"
 MT. Dollar did not give up with that
 one attempt to build his ships here at
 home. He is now negotiating for an 5000 ton cargo steamer. A Scotch firm has offered to build it for $223,000,
 while an American firm on the Pacific
 coast bid $560,000. It is also said that the little coaster Grace Dollar, an American ship in the coasting trade, costs $23,574.55 to operate a year and the British ship Hazel Dollar of 3,5S2 tons costs only $24 4006.05. It is evil dent that MT. Dollar is far more anx- ious than is the average subsidy advo- cate to help restore the American mer- chant marine; he has tried his best, but our tariff and navigation laws simply won't let him.-A1bany Argus.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
Half Moon and Clermont.

A good suggestion for the final dis position of the modern Half Moon and Clermont comes from Frederick w. Seward, who, writing from Montrose- on- the-Hudson, proposes that they be lowed to the vicinity of the old Kings ferry, where, between Verplanck's Point and Stony Point, they would have a commodious anchorage and be accessi- ble to visitors. MT. Seward says: "Un- der the lee of Verplancks Point is the identical spot where Henry Hudson anchored the Half Moon on his first voyage. Stony Point is already a state park, with convenient wharf and adja- cent railroad station" Certainly these two vessels, rich in pseudo historic memories, should be cared for in the future, and what better fate could be asked for them than to repose indefi- nitely in the waters of the river with which their famous originals were so intimately associated? - Providence Journal
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
About Senator Bailey.

Is our old friend, the Hon. Joseph Weldon Bailey, breaking away from the trammels that once held him per- manently imprisoned in a black frock coat, a broad-brimmed felt hat, a Shoe string ''necktie," a pair of baggy itrou- sers and shoes that amounted 10 a misdemeanor? Tn former days. when society beleaguered him and wreath ed smiles were won't to beckon hial to drawing rooms and halls of dazzling light, he was known to say that his constituents. if they heard of him in clawhammer coat, white silk waist coast and patent leather skates" would rise up as one man and swamp him in generations. Comanche coun- ty would shriek aloud for shame and cattle go moaning in the chaparral. No. no! He could not look at dress coat without loathing. He rested on the great heart of Texas and escheW- ed the garb of night.
 Now Bailey is advocating night ses- sions. at least for the senate. He does not say it in so many words, but he proposes that the sessions begin at 2 D. m., and we all know what that means. It means, of course. non-at- tendance and rosy dalliance for at least three hours after 2-the whole day, in fact, given up to private ai- fairs. the afternoon to pleasant gus- siping, and next to that. luxurious banqueting and nimble coquetry. The shaded light, the lowered board and the redundant ''fizZ," and smiles and becks and whispered nothings on the side. and then. say about 930 or 10 p. m. the days work in the senate will begin. Fair women will look on from the galleries. and the laWmak- CTS. with food and drink Altering through their systems, endued in eve ming dress and tuned to the very edge of brilliancy and pageantry will pose and show their boutonnieres and make the echoes ring with eloquence. Is that what Bailey wants? If not, what other gracious possibilities turk in the convlutions of his newly -promul- gated hypothesis?
 It is a reversion to the ancient Eng fish model. but what an evolution for Joe Bailey of Texas. formerly of Co., piah county, Mississippi!-New York Sun.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
Short Stories with an Odd Twist.

Cyrus Townsend Brady, naval acad- emy graduate author and Episcopal priest, has had a new experience. His parish St. Georges, Kansas City. be- ing without a church. the Jewish con gregation of Bnai Jehudah offered it's edifice as a place of worship for his parishioners. Dr. Brady, accepting the courtesy, now finds himself conduct ing Christian services in a Jewish synagogue. "The action of the Jews seems to me>a significant example of modern church comity." said Dr. Bra dy. Their generous offer is the first of the kind I have heard of"
 Japanese horses wear sandals of rice straw, bundles of which are attached to the saddle, to be renewed when necessary. The Iceland peasant shoes his pony with sheep's horn In the upper Oxus valley horseshoes made of the antlers of the mountain deer fas- tened with horn pins, are employed. Horses in the Soudan go in their stocking feet-their socks are of cam el skin.
 Three respectfully dressed women who were charged at the Westminster court. London, with shoplifting, were alleged to have used their mouths as receptacles for stolen brooches. AL together. it is said, seven brooches were recovered from the novel hiding place.
 Teeth are decorated in many ways in various parts of the world Some of the Japanese women gild theirs. But this is by no means the only form of decoration women indulge in. In Arabia they stain their fingers and toes red, in Greenland they paint their faces red or blue. and in Borneo wo- men dye their hair pink or green.
 A Baltimore woman has brought ac- tion against an Ohio soap company because in washing her hands she tore a gash in her hand on a nail concealed in the cake she was using. She asks only $10.G00.
 Mrs. Annie Gallagher, two of her sons and one daughter. who live at Fanaghan. County Derry. Ireland. are in receipt of old age pensions. and within year her third son and sec ond daughter will also have qualified for the pensions. All the sons and daughters live with their mother, adds the London Evening Standard
 Out in the shadows of Jamaica Bay and within the city limits, says the New York Tribune. a man by the name of Meacham owns a bit of property which is valued on the tax books of the city at fifty cents and every year the tax assessors have to view it officially. This is probably the small est parcel on the, assessment books in New York. if not in the world It is a small cherry tree, standing about fifteen feet above the water. Accord ing to the law in these matters, the tax assessors must view the property to be assessed "on the spot" and ev- cry year they TOW out to the tree and while there declare the tax of fifty cents.
 The Lincolnshire (England county court ordered a man. who was owing S90 to a money lender, to pay the debt in instalments of two cents a month. at which rate it will take 365 years to pay off the whole sum.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
French Children Protected.

According to French law a certain reserve is established which no test ator can bequeath away from his off, spring. A Frenchman with one child can dispose of half his property ac- cording to his pleasure; the other half must inevitably pass to the child. Those with two children can dispose of only one-third of their property. those with three children, of one fourth, and so on,. according to the size of the family. Stern parents oc- casionally seek to evade the law by subterfuge, but the disposal of prop erty in France is hedged around with so many restrictions that family black sheep are rarely mulcted of their legal inheritance.