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Evening star., 1909-06-20
The Presidents Three Months.

Here and there are newspapers sympa-
thizing with the President. They con-
ceive him to be sadly bedeviled. Office
seekers crowd his ante room. Senator's
and representatives are pulling and haul
ing him first to this and then to that side
of the tariff question. He is new TO his
place. He has had just enough TO do with
politicians to be distrustful of the best of
them. Upon the whole, lie has had a
depressing three months in the White
House.
Whence comes this information? it
does not tally with well accepted news
here. Where are the crowds of office
seekers Not at the White House. nor at
the hotels. As Tire Star stated the other
day, President Taft, SO far. has had COM
paratiyely little worry on the subject of
patronage, and has distributed but few
places. When he will begin, and what his
pace then will be, nobody knows. He is
keeping his own counsels as to that.
He has listened TO good deal of tariff
talk necessarily. Not only senator's and
representatives, but eminent men of the
business world, have discussed revision
with him, giving their ideas of what
should be done. But 1t Is misuse of lam
suage to say that he has been pulled
and hauled to any side in the contro-
versy in Congress. He has stated his
own views in general terms, and rested
there. Having no bill of his own, and
no call to draft one. he awaits the blu
now taking shape where the shaping of a
bill is obligatory. Ii is Smiths time 10
walk, and the President is not Interfering
with the program.
And why represent the President as a
stranger to, and helpless i'll the hands Of,
politicians: He has had long experience
with them He knew politics and held po-
litical office when a young man, and for
almost ten years now has moved as a
prominent figure in the midst of big po-
lltical events. He is far from being nerv-
Gus In the presence Of men with axes to
grind and clever ways of approaching the
stone. In word, he is a politician him
self. and at home with the fraternity.
The President is not in need of SYM
pathy. His health is good, his compan-
ions are of his own selection and to his
taste, and while he is busy he is not bur
dened. Probably no Pr9sident.s s first three
months of Office ever yielded him more
comfort. He has made several trips away
from home. and on all of them received
hearty assurances OF the good will of the
people without regard to party. Why
sympathize with a man in clover? Why
wish him free of duties which belong ia
his ONCE. and are of a nature to demand
the employment of his best powers?
Evening star., 1909-06-20
!; The Electric Wires.

paragraph in the news columns in
The Star Monday stated that progress
is being made in the burial of all the elec-
trio wires in the District including the
telegraph conductors. This is decidedly
gratifying. Washington is conspicuous
among American cities for its compare
tive freedom from overhead wires. Its
fight against the introduction of the over.
head trolley resulted in the establishment
OF a conduit system of rapid transit which
is today one of the most effective in the
world. With the exception of few
wires in the outlying sections, there are
no electric light conductors overhead.
and thus. save for house connections. no
high-power conductors are exposed. In
the main the telephone wires are strung
10 the houses froom mid-square poles con-
meeting directly with the conduits. The
telegraph wires are all that remain over
heal and these. it is now announced, are
going underground rapidly as the work
can be pressed.
In this connection is recalled the havoc
played by the storm OF the night of March
:; last. Miles of telegraph lines were
borne down along the Atlantic coast. In
this city the damage to the telegraph
companys property amounted to thou
sands of dollars directly while the loss Of
business Incidental to the interruption Of
the trafffc was extremely heavy. Fortu-
nateiy the falling of the wires within the
city proved harmful only to the telegra pin
companies and their patrons, but the ap-
nearance OF the wreckage proved con-
clusively 70 the people Of Washington
thar the overhead wire is a menace as
We'll as an expensive method Of electrical
conduction.
In all likelihood the March storm
spurred the telegraph companies on to
the resumption Of the wire-burying work.
which had been very slackiy prosecuted
up TO that time for some years past This
has been the history of all such i'm
. provements. II is 70 be doubted whether
the progress noted in The Star yesterday
would have been accomplished IL the In
auguration day had been fair without a
prelude Of storm. 1t is yet to be seen
whether the telegraph companies and
the railroad companies will accept the
lesson SO plainly taught by that dis
astrous experience and bury all their
lines between the cities, thus insuring a
continuation of service in all weathers
Evening star., 1909-06-20
Vicious Reading.

4 New York hoy of seventeen years sat
in the room of friend reading aloud
from a dime novel, in the company OF two
younger boys. Suddenly a tragedy was
enacted This is what was afterward told
by one of the trio. aged fourteen:
He said Steinberg was reclining in a
chair reading aloud from dime novel
when Williams commenced TO play with
the revolver. a cheap affair he had OBJ
taiued the previous day by trading q bi
cycle for 1t. The weapon did not work
the cor ortlusion that ii could not be made
to explode the two ball cartridges that
were in the cylinder. He pranced around
the room as Steinberg read several ex-
citing passages from the dime novel and,
suddenly pressed the muzZle OF the
weapon against Steinberg's right arm,
according to young Morelli. Then. after
pointing the revolver at his companions,
he raised II above his head. 1t was while
he was lowering his arm that the re-
volver was discharged"
These boys were probably accustomed
to tndulging in vicious reading OF the
dime novel" type and the shooting was
doubtless the climax Of many gatherings
for the purpose of deriving excitement
from the lurid tales OF adventure and
crime. In all likelihood the Williams
boy had been led TO procure the pistol I'm
consequence Of the unwholesome stimula
ting effect OF the literature he had been
imbibing.
Parents should be as careful about the
kind of books boys read as about their
companions and habits. II is, of course,
difficult TO keep a constant watch over
the reading OF the youngsters. but there
are ways of prevention which do not in
voive continual surveillance Many boys
get to reading sensational stories because
no attempt is made by their elders TO
guide them 10 better books The adults
responsive for their mental and moral
Evening star., 1909-06-20
SILENT AFRICA

From the Albany Evening Journal.
1t is getting to be dullest Africa.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Alls quiet on the Ijiniki, or whatever
its jungle name is.
From the Chicago News.
More details as to what Mr.. Roosevelt
is doing would greatly help the moving
picture men who have to reproduce his
actions in some back lot for the benefit
Of the hungry machine.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
The man who started the report that
Col. Roosevelt was lost In the African
jungle would no doubt be blackballed
by the Ananias Club.
From the Nashville Tennessean.
Wall street doesn't show the least un-
easiness about the failure to hear from
Roosevelt for ten days.
From the Providence Bulletin.
Something seems to be missing from
the daily news. Is It the morning re-
port from east Africa?
From the Columbus Ohio State Journal.
The most sensational development yet
in connection with the faunal expedition
Is that 1t has gone ten days without
getting any newspaper dispatches
through.
Evening star., 1909-06-20
MAKING A CHOICE.

The railroad folders come to us
With offerings galore,
Ii seems as II more numerous
Than even heretofore.
There's Foggness upon the Lake,
And Hollow-in- the Glen:
Hotels: The Gouge. the Graft the Fake,
The Cabin and the Den.
Likewise there's the Bluff upon the Hirla
And Fishsmell- by the Sea;
The Falloff House. with mountain thrills.
And Leve1-on- the Lea.
And there's the Wigwam-in-th the Woods:
The Shanty on the Sound:
For simple tastes, the Get the Goods,
Or Hotel All.Around.
The prices range from up to down.
According to the spot:
The courtesy. from smile to frown;
The game. get all you've got.
The railroad folders come to Us
With offerings galore:
But we shall stay. and save much fuss
At Home Is Heretofore.
-IndianspoliS News.
Evening star., 1909-06-20

training consider that the schools do all
that is necessary. forgetting that nor
mally constituted boy will naturally seek
some mental recreation in books outside
of school
In these days of free library facilities
there is no excuse for allowing the young
sters to go outside the range of good read
ing in satisfying their desire for literary
refreshment Nearly every city Is no"
equipped To supply the demands OF all
classes for books. Washington's libraries
are doing an excellent work in meet
ing the requirements of the young. The
Public Library circulates thousands OF
books weekly in response to the calls of
readers of all ages.
Not long ago. in one of the large busi-
ness establishments of this city. 1t was
discovered that some of the boys en-
ployed were reading dime novels of the
unwholesome crime suggesting type. A
proposition was thereupon made to them
to have them supplied with good books
from the Public Library under special
arrangement. The boys eagerly agreed to
drop the trashy books on these terms. and
since then they have been reading the
Juvenile classics, and have been led grad
ually into the broader field of general
literature They have learned that there
are interesting stories that deal with de-
cent characters and describe probable and
yet dramatic adventures Their concept
o. book has been changed.
There would be fewer cases for the Ju-
venile Court now and the criminal courts
ter if the elders would take corrective,
leading interest in hat the boys read.
Parents who have no home libraries can
readily gain the help of the Pubic
Library. Neighborhood reading clubs can
be formed. The boys should be plainly
told that they are wasting their time and
injuring themselves BY indulging In a
course of secret reading, which Is just as
demoralizinS as any other hidden indul-
gence in the forbidden.
Evening star., 1909-06-20
old FRIENDS ARE BEST.

My closet door
Is covered DER
With pumps and shoes IN great array.
At me they shine
In polish fine.
But, ah, what base deceivers they.
That patent pair
For Sunday wear
Look innocent and free from guile;
What they can do
To punish you
Has thumbScrews beaten BY q mile.
Those oxfVd ties
I quite despise.
Though soft and easy they may seem.
As II they might
Give great delight
But that Is all a foolish dream.
And so I wear
This shabby pair
And. singing. 60 upon my way
In JOY and peace.
May they increase
In size and comfort every day!
Chicago News
Evening star., 1909-06-20
VARIOUS VERSES
ON. TIMELY TOPICS
A SUMNER GARDEN.

l know garden fair and vide
Where pale green roses moi and sway
And fourishny either side
Are purple daisies bright and CAV.
There yellow lilacs peep from out
A grape-leaf cluster bright snd rcd
And saffron pinks climb roundabout
While other blooms their beauty >aed
A spray Of dark blue eslantine
Mods by orchid cleaning HACK
Some dark gray msrigolds .ntninc
Where pure white rose leaves tumble back
bunch Of ripe green cherries too,
Grow with lot of silver grapes
And pears and spples Of weird hue
Grow In a dozen varied shapes
This garden-wait. ] think rou'll soc
Strawberries Of golden tint
That flourish mongst these things that he
or wondrous hue and shape and CLINT
This garden is no shady spot
Hedged by wall Of living green.
No neatly planned and bordered plot
Where pleasant walks and hooks are seen.
Nor do the scientists there come
To view the wonders on display
And find themselves from wonder dumb
That such things see the light OF day.
Ab. no. Yet tits not necromance
That works these changes as To that
This Wild and weird and queer e1panse
Is but nv lady's summer hat.
Chicago Evening Post.
Evening star., 1909-06-20
THE MODERN LOVER TO HIS LOVE.

Come. let hurry. for why should we tarryf
Let US cease doubting and hastily marry
You. dear, and ];
There is no reason to wait. heavy hearted
1t would be simple, you know. to get parted.
Should our love die.
Is 1t not foolish to linger in sadness
When for q season we both may have gladnessf
Answer me. dear.
All. you are sflent-you cannot deny it
Come, oh. my darling, my dearest, let's try it
Say, for year.
We for fortnight have gladdened each other
Why, ask your father 60 70 your mother,
Sweet little one:
If in year In less regret it
1t will be simple and easy to get It
Neatly undone.
Come. let us hasten to take the plunge brayey;
Why should tarry think of ii gravely-
Why, dearest. why?
II there be rocks we are destined 70 smash on
We may console ourselves. being in fashion
You. love. and l.
$: E. Kiser. in Chicago Record Herald.
Evening star., 1909-06-20
BOARDING HOUSE PLUNGE.

You dunn into the tub some salt
That's finely ground.
And then into the tub you vault
And splash around.
It's like an ocean bath, one finds.
Although II lacks the melon rinds.
The water isn't quite so rough
As ocean waves,
Yet hlls the picture well enough,
And money saves
And other boarders at the door
Will initiate the surfs loud roar.
kansas City Journal
Evening star., 1909-06-20
Meeting q Crisis.

Eff Mandy was a suffragette,
! know jes' what I'd do.
I'd go an cast a vote, you bet,
Jes' like she told me to,
Sos she could stay at home an tend
To them small boys up -brinsin'.
With pies to bake and clothes to mend
An time fur smiles an singin'.
An when them boys is twenty-one
I'll stand 'em up in line
An see that all their votin's done
BY orders, same as mine.
With all them voters. pears to me,
She'll have no cause fur frettin'.
It's lots more influence than she
Could WELD by suffragettin'.
Evening star., 1909-06-20
The BRITISH BOCY.

1t has daebshund body
And wheels like pretzels fine;
II Kisses through the heavens
Like beer upon stein.
John Bull is filled with holding
And thinks beyond doubt
The scareship's bound to get him
Ell he don't
Watch
Out.
HIS children stop their crying
II but its name they hear;
Beside its nightly vision
Pink rats are naught 10 fear.
John Bull IL filled with terror;
His calm is put to rout;
The scareship's bound to get him
Ef he don't
Watch
Out
Wilson In New York Suy
Evening star., 1909-06-20
Taft to Negroes.

In all Of his addresses to negroes the
President gives excellent advice. His
sympathies are clearly with the work
Booker Washington Is doing. He sees
progress for the race only along the
lines of industry and everyday useful
ness. For that matter, the same is true
of the white race. The great majority of
people, white and black, earn their bread
in the sweat of their faces; and where
well earned it is eaten In safety and con-
tentment. The drone or the sloven not
only falls behind, but deserves his fate
Evening star., 1909-06-20
As 1T HAPPENED.

Maud Muller on summers day
Put up a bluff at raking hay
But on the high road kept an eye
In case judge came riding by.
And. sure enough. a Judge did pass
At forty miles an hour. alas.
It gives to romance quite Jar.
The modern honk- -honk touring car
Louisville Couricr-Journal
Evening star., 1909-06-20
Homicidal Desperation.

so you are afraid to discharge your
cook?
Yes. Well have to adopt heroic meas
ures.
What will you do"
Move into the country and put a gaso-
line stove in the Kitchen
Evening star., 1909-06-20
Classics and Best Sellers.

THE men who wrote the great English
classics We're not noted as producers of
best Sellers" remarked the critic.
mo answered the complacent author;
but nearly every classic was the result
of a disappointed effort to produce a best
seller"
Evening star., 1909-06-20

E. H. Hartman is quoted as being
opposed to secrecy about the details
Of railway accidents. The air Of mystery
is undoubtedly more aggravating to the
public sense than frank explanation
would be-
Evening star., 1909-06-20
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
No Object of Sympathy.

You don't hear any more about the
man with the hoe
NO" answered Mr.. Crosslots. The
man who can stay home and fool around
the garden is lucky compared to the one
who has to go back and forth to town and
tote bundles"
Evening star., 1909-06-20
Careless Charles.

Charley. dear said young Mrs. Tor
kins. what is piker?"
"A piker is man who starts with
shoe string and tries to run it up into a
bank roll"
How careless of you. Every time you
used to go to the races you insisted on
wearing button shoes.'
Evening star., 1909-06-20
A MERE CONSUMER.

And who are you:" st. Peter cried
As he the cringing stranger eyed.
The poor shade shrank against the wall:
I'm a. consumer. that Is all
Cleveland Plain neale,
Evening star., 1909-06-20

Mention Of Judge Parker AS re-
organizer of the democracy sounds like
a project to equip some of its sonorous
oratory with muffier.
Evening star., 1909-06-20
4 CERTAIN ABUSED PERSON.

All. he was fair, The ne'er shone on oue
As fair he.
When tumult dies, and all is said md done,
Then we shall see
How fair he was. But. o how indscreet!
The frcnzied fans they harrIed him. and heat
Him up because his ruling brought defeat
But he was fair!
Buffalo NoUh
Evening star., 1909-06-20

Reports of scientific Endorsement Of
cannibalism merely indicate that another
college professor has said something
he didn't intend to have taken quite
seriously.
Evening star., 1909-06-20

A President is fortunate when he car
put so much in his messages for mem
bers of Congress to think about tha,
they have no time for irate personalities
Evening star., 1909-06-20

Gov. Haskell seems to have lost the
gift of swinging rhetoric that dis
tinguished him during the campaign.
Evening star., 1909-06-20

Even China wants an enlarged navy.
regardless of the careful diplomacy that
would be necessary to prevent some other
power from taking prompt possession
nj
Evening star., 1909-06-20

\ tax on net earnings would complicate
affairs for managers of business en-
terprises who make practice of losing
tho books.
Evening star., 1909-06-20

Tariff revision has become SO COM
prehensive a question as to include even
q revision of the Constitution.
Evening star., 1909-06-20

The ex-Sultan of Turkey knew better
than to leave his enormous private for
tune In the custody of his countrys
banking system.
Evening star., 1909-06-20

The Howard Gould divorce case is in
no wise concerned with sentiment. 1t
is purely question OF alimony.
Evening star., 1909-06-20

A Fourth of July sufficiently rainy to
discourage indiscriminate pyrotechnics
might be reckoned a national blessing.
Evening star., 1909-06-20

The ability to secure S125,OO0 bail
proves that Morse's credit is still good
in some quarters
Evening star., 1909-06-20
Observation.

OF public servants as Of those
In private life it's true
Some startling things they might disclose
If they told all they knew.
Evening star., 1909-06-20

= The possibility of reforming Wall street
Is still discussed. Notwithstanding the
discourageulents of Tom Lawson.
Evening star., 1909-06-20

States concluded treaty OF arbitration
with China in accordance
Arbitration with the provisions OF
article 10 of the conven-
treaty ton for the pacific settle
ment of international disputes concluded
at The Hague July %, 1899, by which the
signatory powers reserved the right OF
concluding agreements with a view to re-
ferring to arbitration all questions they
should consider possible to submit to ar
bitration. The United States thus recog-
nizes the equality of China.
Mr. Scudder of the International Bank
ing Association in an address to the con-
yention of National Association of Manu-
facturers. alluding to the .'open door your
opportunity" said: '"The time has arriv-
ed for you American manufacturers to
cast your eyes beyond the horizon OF your
native land. You have passed that hrst
stage which all new efforts must expert
ence. Henceforth your serious attention
must be fixed on the world as your neld
Of distribution. You gentlemen will need
to become foreign merchants and not 10
be local manufacturers only. You will
have to make up your minds to become
sellers OF goods abroad as well as to be
makers at home. / have thought II
strange that while every leading nation
of the world has branch banks or bank
stitntions was represented abroad. The
International Banking Corporation. which
I have the honor to represent here. Is TO-
day the only organized home effort look
ing to the upbuilding of American trade
and acting as direct aid to American
commerce abroad"
At a dinner OF the Economic Club OF
New York, in discussing the subject OF
''Our Commercial Rela-
Resemble tions With the Orient"
Mr.. Chester Holcombe,
xAHe1lcans. formerly secretary of the
United States legation and acting minis
ter at Peking, said: 1.-The Chinese are
very sentimental race. You would be as
tonished If I would tell how many points
Of close resemblance I see between the
average Chinaman and the average Amer
lean But I could really convince you If
you are open to conviction that the Chi
nese are more like ourselves than we are
like any other race on the face of the
earth. No emperor ever had nor, unless
they change radically in their character
istics, ever will control them. Do you
know that there is more local self-gov-
ernment and has been for centuries In
practice in the empire OF China than has
ever been known elsewhere on the face
of the earth2"
These are some of the many reasons
why we have an interest in China. The
five or ten millions which we are asking
as of right to participate In loan to
help in the construction of railways In
China is a very small matter compared
with the principle in the balance of our
influence in China, and consequently our
influence in the Pacific ocean. Of which we
are mutually great part.
CHI CHAILLE-LONG.
Evening star., 1909-06-20
TIE STAR has . regular ana permanent
Family Ci1uuhtto1 nuch more tha3 the
combined eirculation Of sAe other wash
ington 6ailiss. A. . News and Advsr-
Using Medium it has no conpetttoy.

The Evening Star. with the Sunday morning
edition is delivered by carriers within the city
~ 20 cents per mouth: without he Sunday mora
ing edition at ~ cents per month.
Rr mall postage prepaid.
Daily. Sunday included. one month. SO cents
Daily. sunday excepted. one month. 10 cents.
Saturday Star. year. 81 on.
Sunday Star. year. $50
Evening star., 1909-06-20

Recently-on October S, 1S9S-the United
States concluded a treaty OF arbitration
with China in accordance
with the provisions OF
article 10 of the conven-
Treaty. t,on Gov .ha nacif5c sett,e-
Amador ledger., 1909-07-16
lone.

j. ". Sibole and family took their
departure last Monday for Lake
Tahoe, whefe they will spend the
summer.
The n S 6 w and N D q W held
joint installation last Saturday night
ia the new hail of the Native Sons.
After the installation, refreshments
consisting of ice cream, cake and
punch we're served and the remainder
of the evening was spent in tripping
the light fantastic toe.
Jessie Clifton was on the sick list
the first of the week, but is able TO
be about now.
Mrs A S Cunningham left last
Monday for Seattle, where she will
visit several months with her folks.
Miss Hazel QuiroIo of Jackson is
the guest of Miss Bess Scott. Miss
Hazel soon expects to assume per
manent position in the Jackson post
Office.
Oroville Helfern is now installed as
driver on d. Stewards delivery
wagon, it being necessary for Walter
Stewart to Iemain III the store.
Frank Seguin and daughi er
Blanche, left Tuesday for the city,
where they will enjoy a few days rest
Il ii Dunlap is engaged in remodel
ing the store occupied by Sibole q
Gillum.
The heat the last few days has been
intense, and it is evident we are en-
ioying, "the good old summer
time.'' loneite.