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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-11
LOYAL, SAYS P|NCHOT
Denies He Is in Anti-Taft,
Pro-RooseveIt CabaI.
PRESIDENT TO BE WARNED
Friends Fear He May Regard Al
legged Conspiracy Lightly.
AFRAID, TOO, OF RIDICULE
Vice President Sherman Does Not
Believe There Is Anything
in Story.
PRESIDENT TO BE WARNED
TOO, OF RID1CULE

Forester Pinchot just laughed when,
upon his return to town last night, he
was asked about his alleged connection
with a reported conspiracy against Presi-
dent Taft in favor of Roosevelt BOOM
Then he said he was not in a conspiracy
with anybody about anything, and let it
go at that.
Information is at hand to Justify the
statement that some of President Taft S
political advisers not going to the
length of charging any specified person
by name with hostility--are urging the
President to take notice of what they
consider determined efforts to disparage
the present administration by contrast
with the activity of its predecessor along
certain lines.
Discussed in Cabinet.
1t Is stated that this subject has been
discussed by the cabinet with varying
opinions in that body upon the necessity
as well as advisability of the President
paying attention to the situation-if there
be q situation
Some Of his friends are said to be afraid
that the President, having had virtually
q bath In the milk of human kindness
on his recent trip, may minimize the al
legged efforts to arouse discomfort with
his administration. They are a little
afraid. too. that they may be charged
with seeing things at night" and get
the laugh. as President Roosevelt did over
his famous ''ive-million- dollar conspir-
acy.''
But at the same time. some of these
folk are mighty earnest in their belief
that conditions warrant the President
looking around him a bit and discerning
friend from hidden enemy
You bet It r. would smash 'em out
In similar circumstances they frequent
ly say, whereupon others of the Presi-
dents friends remark that Mr.. Taft is
not In the smashing business. 1t is
an interesting situation. anyhow, and Of
icial circles are buzzing with suppressed
excitement.
Sherman Is Skeptical.
NEW YORK, November I1-Vice Presi-
dent Sherman was urged last night t.
Washington that adheren:s Of former
President Roosevelt are working to bring
about Roosevelt's denomination in 1912
Mr.. Sherman said:
II don't believe that any such move Is
being made either with or without the
consent OF Mr.. Roosevelt.
President Taft is In stronger posi-
ton today than he has ever been since
his election. His straightforward state
ments to the people of the west and south
on his trip made a favorable impression.
II cannot believe any important wing
of the republican party Is working against
him in any way
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-11

the Presidents formal letter the retiring Commissioner will be
made public few days. the President finds time to
his formal of Mr. Vests resignation In his let
President Taft will formally his regret Mr. Vests
decision to retire from the government service
Commissioner West serving his third three
having reapponted by President Roosevelt than
ago In his communication Mr.. West fixes for the reln
quishment of his duties the District building He has told the
President that he will leave the office the and
qualification of his but the hope that the de-
lay will be long He desires be relieved by the of De-
cember, if possible
Mr. West will also his connection with the District
of which he chairman His
that position will shortly be presented Martin A.
Knapp chairman of the commission. Mr.
wishes be free devote all his
to the newspaper enterprise which connected
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-11
RETURN TO JOURNALISM
LONG IN CONTEMPLATION

weeks. 1t involved no change i'm policy Of
the paper, or radical change in the per-
sonnel of the staff, but meant a strength
ening of forces and the realization of a
hope which he and Mr.. West had en-
tertained for years of being again as
sociaated in newspaper life and newspa-
per ownership. The success of the Her
aid, he said. had already gone beyond
his expectations. and he felt that this
success would be greatly augmented by
the coming into the enterprise with him
of so practical and capable a newspaper
man, and one so thoroughly identified
with Washington affairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-11
COL. ROOSEVELT WELL.
Party on Guas Ingishu Plateau and
All In Good Health.

NAKURU, Naivasha Province. British
East Africa, November 1.-THE supply
ageHts for the American expeditioI. a..
Nairobi state that there Is absolutely
no truth in the rumor recently circu-
lated that Col. Roosevelt was Ill. The
agents say all Of the members Of the
party are now on Guas Ingishu plateau
and well.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-11
DEATH OF MRS. q. s. GRANT.
Wife Of a Son Of President Grant
Had Been Invalid for Years.

SAN DIEGO. Cal. November 11.-Mrs
u. S. Grant. ffty-three years old. wife
Of a son of President Grant. died yester-
day of apoplexy. She had been an in
valid for years. Mrs. Grant - survived
by her husband and five children. Mrs
u. S. Macy, Chaffee Grant. u. 8. Grant,
Nv, Julia Dent Grant and Fannie Grant.
She was the daughter of former United
States Senator Chaffeo Of Colorado.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-11

Commissioner West leaves the
municipal service to re-enter
newspaper work, with which he
was prominently identified before
he became Commissioner. He
has acquired a substantial inter
est in the Washington Herald,
and will be associated with Scott
c. Bone in the control and con-
duct of that paper. While MIR.
Bone has charge of the editorial
department of the paper, MIR.
West will direct the business end
of the enterprise.
RESIGNATION A BIG SURPRISE.
Mr.. Vests tender of his resig-
nation of the commissionersh,p
was a complete surprise at the
White House, as it will be to the
community, and the President ex-
pressed his deep regret at the
proposed retirement.
Commissioner West personally
presented his resignation to the
President. The letter of resigna
tiOn of Commissioner West and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-11

ROSWELL. n. NJ, November 1I.-As
q result Of swallowing the mercury In q
thermometer. which she crushed be-
tween her teeth as her father was TAX
ing her temperature. Cecil Atwa, five
years old, is dead. Within fifteen
minutes after swallowing the mer-
curry the child was unconscious, and
when the doctor arrived she was almost
without pulse. She only lived q short
time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-11
St Louis Entertains Japanese.

ST. LOUIS. November 1.-THE japanese
merchants and hnanciers who are tour
ing the United States began the second
day Of their stay here by trips through
mercantile establishments. After visiting
the flower show and being guests at a
luncheon in University City. they spent
the afternoon at the country club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-11
Announces His Retirement IN Order to
Return to Newspaper Work on
Morning Paper.
ACTION A COMPLETE SURPRISE
TO FRIENDS AND CITIZENS

Now Serving His Third Term on the Board, and
Was Only Recently Reappointed- Many
Names Already Being Canvassed
for Successor EXPIRES
sions of Regret.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-11

Henry Litchheld West, Commissioner of the
District of Columbia for the past seven years, ten
dered his resignation to the President of the United
States tOdaV
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-11

Boy Dies From Foot Ball Injuries.
MARIETTA. Ohio. November 1l.-Al-
bert Arend. thirteen years old, is dead
as a result of injuries received in q
foot ball game last Friday. The boy
was kicked in the head In q skirmish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-11

The total amount
of paid advertising
printed in The Star
last month. was 1880
columns more than
was printed in The
Stars nearest cotem-
porary.
The average for the
month, including Sun
day, was 1903 columns
per day-the greatest
record in The Stars
history.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-11

Continued on Second PAGE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12
THE COMMODITIES DECISION.

A view of the recent decision of the
United States supreme court covering
the commodities clause of the Hepburn
rate law which probably comedies with
the ideas of the big railroad and fin
ancial interests of the country is found
in the current weekly financial review
issued by J. S. Bache & Co., the promi-
nent New York bankers It follows:
The decision in the commodities case
on Monday. which had been SO long
awaited with the greatest interest and
considerable anxiety. was in its con-
cluSlonS in a way surprise. Neither
the decision of the lower court the con-
tention of the government, or the pro-
testations of the railways were upheld.
The court decided that the Hepburn
/ law was constitutional. which the lower
court had denied. 1t further decided
that ownership of stock in a company
/ did not mean ownership of the COM
modities handled by that company.
This was strongly claimed by the gov
eminent, but the point was quietly
covered by the supreme court in a few
words showing that this matter had
long ago been passed upon by this same
court. The practically unanimous opin-
ion on this point was couched in these
words:
The trouble about that is that it has
been decided in this court that owner
ship of stock in a corporation does not
make the owner of the stock the legal
owner of the property of the corpora
ton. 1t does not give him a legal
standing as respects interest in the
property of the corporation in which
he holds stock
The supreme court further decided
however, that transportation companies
could not transport properties which
they actually owned; and that If any
railroad owned coal at the mines. ii
must IN good faith sell this product
before transporting it. All this so ami
lcably and justly disposes of the whole
louestion that there is no wonder that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12
DRINKING WATER.

The water question, in so far as
health Is concerned, is one of the most
significant questions with which the
individual or the community can
concern itself, says the Delineator for
June. What we shall drink, whether
it be river or we'll or lake or spring
water, is of the utmost Importance.
Our country is so large, our streams
so much used. Take a river like the
Ohio, which flows first in the shape
of many branches through Pennsyl-
vania and West Virginia, passing
towns like Wheeling, McKeesport,
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville and
other places, before finally joining the
Mississippi at Cairo-there could be
nothing more dangerous in the shape
of water than that. 1t is at once the
drain and the sewer of innumerable
villages and towns, the place in
which is dumped all the refuse and
from which is drawn again the water
with which the streets and toilets are
flushed.
You mustn't think either, because
you have a well in your yard that you
are perfectly safe. Do you know
where the water comes from? Have
you any idea what drains into your
we'll? How far is 1t from a sewer
How far from a cesspool? Have you
ever had it tested? Do you know that
some so-caIled pure. cold well water
contains enough lime or sodium or
other chemical to undermine your
bone or muscles and produce certain
forms of disease? You can just as
easily have your system undermined
and destroyed by what you drink in
the shape of pure cold water as by
what you do in any other harmful
way, and more so. It is more insid-
ious.
1t is no excuse to say that you can
not help yourself. The water ques-
ton can always be helped. Wells can
be deepened; drains looked after. If
you live in cities, examinations can be
! asked and secured. Then, at least, if
anything happens to you or your
children. you can bring an action for
damages which will not only relieve
your private needs, but be so signifi-
cant that it will create public senti-
ment and perhaps bring about better
sanitary conditions for your neigh
Dor. Try it, anyhow,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12
.JAYHAWKER JOTS

The Ottawa Herald awards the prize
for unauthorized cussedness to the
individuals at Salina who dug up by
the roots all of the trees recently
planted in the G. A. r. burial lot.
It is pointed out that the Kansas
militia, which is destroying it's old
uniforms because the statutes won't
permit them to be sold, isn't the first
institution in Kansas to tear its clothes
over the law, says the Atchison Cham
pion.
while on a Frisco train down in
the south part of the state few days
ago." says the Osawatomie Globe, 1--WE
noticed an old man with fiddle get
aboard. 1t was not long until some
one got him to play and for twenty
miles the train was filled with a back
woods rendition of the old tunes that
have done service at kitchen sweats'
for fifty years or more. Someone ask
ed the old man where his home was
and he replied that he had no home.
On further inquiry he said he was
born in Columbus. o.. and moved
when a boy to Scotland county, Mis-
souri,. He had never tried to play a
fiddle until he was go years old. he
said, but man owed him bill which
he could collect only by taking a fid-
die. He took it, learned to play, and
ever since has been fiddler, playing
over the country and taking whatever
people contributed. He said he would
be "a years old next month. He was
a remarkably active man for his
years.
The Beloit Daily Times made a trip
through the exchanges the other day
and cu1led therefrom some items in
which some carts were placed before
some horses with the result that a
number of persons may be said to
have received injuries in some queer
places. Here is what the Times
found: While Miss Pearl Kinsmore
of East Wind, Ind, was coming down
stairs Tuesday, she slipped and bruis-
ed herself on the landing. Amos Nit
tleby of Woolpest. Kan. while har-
Messing a fractions horse, was kicked
just south of the corn crib. He is
able to be out again. While Harold
Green of Beulah, Miss, was escorting
Miss Violet Goof home from church
sociable Saturday night savage dog
set upon them and bit Mr.. Green four
times in the public square. Joseph
Tut of johannesburg, Ia, climbed on
the roof of his house last week to find
| leak and slipped and fell, striking
upon his back porch, and causing Sc
rious INJURIES. Isaiah Trimmer, of Dol
bury, Neb.. was playing with a cat
Friday, when the animal scratched
him on the veranda.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12
QUAKER fluctuations.

CFrom the Philadelphia Press.]
The downward path is always
blazed trail.
A girl shouldn't be stuck up just be-
cause her best young man is a perfect
stick.
A girls beauty sometimes depends
on how far she lives from the nearest
drug store.
A girl is almost as much afraid of
caterpillars as a boy is of getting his
ears washed
A man seldom thinks of joining the
Don't Worry Society till he owes every
body In sight.
Some men are born rich, some ac-
quire riches, but mighty few have rich
es thrust upon them.
No system of memory culture has
yet been devised to make a woman re-
member how old she is.
When girl says she loves animals,
IL you have cold you can prove to
her that you are a little hoarse.
The fellow who boasts of his ances-
tors never stops to consider whether
his ancestors would be equally proud
OF him.
Before a man is married he brings
her boxes of bonbons. but afterward she
is lucky IL he brings her some candy in
a paper bag.
Hoax-"They say he starves his
Wife Joax-"Why:: he says he treats
Angels don't eat"
Mrs. Gotrox-"Maud's coming-out
tea should pass off with eclat" Mr.
Gotrox-"AH light. I'll stop at the bak-
ers and order some" Mrs. Gotrox-
I"Order some what?" Mr.. Gotrox-
Chocolate eclat-"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12
PUNISHMENT FITS CRIME.

Life Imprisonment for James H.
Boyle and twenty-five years behind the
bars for his wife is something like
adequate punishment for the crime
they perpetrated in the kidnapping of
the Whitla boy. 1t is fortunate for
society, generally, that the laws of
Pennsylvania where this latest case Of
child-stea1ing developed are so strict
in that respect. The extreme penalties
which have been assessed against the
BoyIes ought to have an exceedingly
deterrent effect on other inhunlans
who might be tempted to emulate
them and those who have gone before
them.
In the whole category of crimes
there is none that is worse than the
theft of child. It stands on a plane
with cold, premeditated murder and it
should be punished just as severely.
The Boyles are deserving of no sympa-
thy, not even if they We're not the
prime movers in the deed as they init
mate and that there were "extenuat-
ing" circumstances in their favor.
There can be no such thing as ex-
tenuatfng circumstances for any one
who participates in any way with the
If others, besides the Boyles, were
mixed up in this Whitla case. the
Boyles should be the last ones to pro-
| tect them. They should tell who were
the accessories or the instigators OF
the crime so that they may be penal
| lied just as severely.
But even if the Boyles had no help
ers the would-be kidnapers of the
country ought to have been taught a
pretty good lesson. In some states
notably Kansas, the punishment for
kidnapping is not as severe as it is in
other states. and not severe enough
In all states that apparently look with
| leniency on this heinous offense steps
should be taken by legislatures to pro-
vide a maximum penalty for child
stealing. 1t is a capital crime and II
there is any excuse for capital punish
ment it might well be applied to it
for no punishment for it can be too
harsh and stern.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Among the most disagreeab1e OF
human beings is the man with a
crouch.
X y
Science is a mighty handy thing on
which to blame lots of things.
y n
If smiles actually cost money more
people would indulge in them.
* 4
This world wouldn't be overly at
tractive to most folks if 1t wasn't for
that little word hope"
There are more good luck stories
than those of the hard luck variety
only they are not told about SO much.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12
FROM OTHER PENS
ADVANCED STEP IN PUBLICITY.

ADVANCED STEP IN PUBLICITY.
Comptroller of the Currency Murray
proposes a new departure in the next
result far more comprehensive than
only to national banks and the sum-
mary has, therefore, been but a partial
epitome of the nations financial condi-
ton. Several states have already
adopted the plan of calling for state
ment from banks operating under state
charters of current dates with those of
the national banks, and this idea has
so appealed to the comptroller that he
will try to make its adoption universal.
The comptroller, of course, has no
power to compel state banks to make
returns to him, but as the data are to
be treated as confidential and used
only in a general summary, it is
thought the banks, with a few, if any
exceptions, will gladly respond to the
request.
If the plans of the comptroller are
successful it viii make the statistics of
immense value to the financial world
as affording a perfect reflection of the
condition of the country. Wherever
the call is seconded by the state bank
ing authorities, as has been the custom
in Nebraska and a number of other
states. it accomplishes another useful
purpose in placing restraint upon bank
pyramiding and transfers of assets
from banks of one class to those Of an
other for g. showing which otherwise
might disclose a weakness of which
the public is entitled to know.-Omaha
Bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12
Fresh Air Tablets.

In these modern days a food or medi-
cine that can't be put up In a tablet is
almost a back number. Even the air is
prepared in compressed form. A few
days ago, when an apartment in Wash
ington's fashionable Connecticut ave-
nue. district became to warm and the
hostess complained OF the STIFFNESS of
the atmosphere, her visitor, who was
Just back from Paris, handed her a
brown tablet and told her to dissolve it
in water. The tablet dubbed away at
a great rate, and the hostess said she
felt relieved: the stale air seemed to be-
come pure and bracing; in fact, it was
oxygenized. "I bought these tablets IN
France" said the visitor. They are
the invention of the acetylene special
list They are a combination of chenni-
Gals that in water give of oxygen in
abundance The tablets are in winter
very popular in France. where one is
considered equal to a window wide
open for an hour."-The Pathfinder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

IFrom the Chicago NeWs.1
Love laughs at the locksmith-and so
does divorce.
Better a stove in the house that
smokes than a peevish man.
It's easier for rich man to know
his enemies than his friends.
II a wife refuses to divorce her dys-
peptic husband-that is love.
When a man is in love II is awful1y
hard to interest him in your troubles
Don't leave SANDER lying around
where IL will twist the tongue of gossip.
Trying to be nice to his wife's rela-
tives is awfuIly hard on a mans dis
position
Just because a man is no better than
he ought to be is no sign that he isn't
worse.
The man who makes up his mind 70
do nothing soon discovers that there s
an awful lot to do.
In summer when other people are in
|dulging in outings the baseball player
devotes his time and attention to in
nings.
The smart man knows when to quit
the game. but the fool keeps everlast-
|ingly at 1t until he advertises his fail
ure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.l
1t costs as much to be the father
of a belle as it does to own a race
horse.
1t is impossible to make your con-
duct perfect, but 1t is easy to make it
better than it has been.
The women always say their hus-
bands coax them to go away for the
summer. but no one believes it.
1t occasionally happens that a
woman thinks she is looking soulful
when she is really looking sour.
A woman always insists upon de-
Gliding whether she does her duty as
a wife: she will not permit her hus-
band to decide.
ways saying of some Older Thing,
has the money to buy good clothes
and doesn't look good in them
People manage to keep all other
family gossip private except when
they have been married more than
once. This little history always leaks
out.
We suppose Peach" is the ac-
eepted nickname for girls these days
because their mothers bring them up
in fear and trembling that a frost
may get them
At what age does the devil develop
in boy? We saw a 4-year-old boy
splitting on another boys shoes this
morning. because they had just been
shined.
The stenographers are also Joining
the muck rakers. One of them said
the ether day: ST get So a week
The men who pay their stenographers
only So week, ought to be strung
up"
eff it were not for just one little
thing" we heard an inventor say
once. 81 would have the greatest in
vention in the world" That one little
thing Is the trouble in every mans
l life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12
ELETCHERIZE.

once man with poor digestion
Ate some cork and carpet tacks,
Ate Two Holsters without question,
Ate some tripe and sealing wax;
Ate OF pickles by the quart, sir;
Ate OF crabs an even score,
ana Wnen ali supplies ran short, sir,
Pun was eiamorous ror more
Dlq II hurt him? No. it cured him;
GU may do as he did, too;
mr. FLETCHER had assured him
Or the virtue in a chew,
new the oysters, chew the chowder,
Chew the fish and chew the meat
CAeW the smallest crumb to powder,
SheW up everything you eat;
new boiled rice and chew the curry.
Chew the pudding, chew the sauce
new them slowly. never hurry;
Cnew, for time is only dross.
SasWlhg 3 good for what may all you.
Cures rheumatism, cures the govt:
CheW, and health will never fail you
w nile your jaws and teeth hold out
Manchester Guardian.