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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-19
Pantages' Theater

UNEQUALED VAUDEVILLE.
z. c. Walker, Mgr. Phone 1898
Week Com. Sunday, June 2oth
Phyllis Lee and company, in
Commencement Days." a Con
densed, Breezy Musical Comedy
Four Fantastic La Dells. Lawrence
& Edwards. Marguerite & Hanley
Kimball & Donovan. Matinee daily
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-19
WASHINGTON.

A well balanced program OF
vaudeville acts will be at the
Washington next week, beginning
tomorrow afternoon. The bill will
contain a little of everything and
everything good. The headliner is
the Five Juggling Jordans, artists
in their line, who introduce many
new and novel tricks. Another in.
number will be Miss Alta
Yolo, California's contralto, who
until recently was soloist with
Sousa's band. She will present her
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-19
MAKE SAHARA
HUGE PRISON
(By United Press)

CAIRO, Egypt, juno 19.-rThe
ministers Of finance and interior
are on a. tour, of inspection by way
Of the Farshut railroad, which the
Egyptian government is about to
acquire, of the Gases of Kharga
and Dakela, in the heart Of the
desert, with view of making them
penal settlements. This action
will be taken under a law to be
enacted providing for the per-
petual segregation Of "habitual
criminals.
The GASES will make ideal
spots for this purpose, as the only
means of communication between
them and the outside world is by
the Farshut railroad, and attempts
to escape by any other way would
be nothing short of suicide by
starvation.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-19
oRPHEUM.

The new bill at the Orpheum,
which commences with the matinee
Sunday afternoon, will be headed
by Lily Lena, an English coined
ienne, announced as a charming
young actress, with line of tune
full and refined songs. Miss Lena
is said to excel in many ways the
other English singers whom the re-
cent vaudeville situation brought
over to this country. Miss Lena is
not only beautiful, but has an easy,
gracious manner and manages to
make every point of her songs tell
with an audience. The newest girl
ensemble in vaudeville is the
Electrified Girl Review with
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-19
A CLOSE SHAVE
Many Of Them Happening Every
Day but Soon Forgotten.

MANY OF Them Happening Every
Day but Soon Forgotten.
Close shaves would be Of more
frequent occurrence but for the
tender faces of many men which
will not permit Of shaving often.
Heretofore, nothing has been said
in these columns about poslam,
new skin discovery, In connection
with its use after shaving. Its pub
licity and sales have been confined
almost exclusively to its remarka-
BILE properties as an eczema cure;
1t stops the itching at once and
cures the worst cases In few days
While the application Of poslam
after shaving Is one of its minor
uses. such as for pimples. the com.
plexion, ETC.. shavers will find 1t q
revelation, as 1t does for abrasions,
roughness and severe scrapings
what 1t does TO rail- manner OF skin
difflculties-heals and cures in a
few hours. 1t ia the only article
possessing real antiseptic and cura.
tive value that has ever been ex-
plotted for this purpose, and will
soothe and tone up the skin as no
toilet preparation could possibly
do.
Poslam can be had for 80 cents
at any reliable druggists, particu.
larly Murgittroyd's and Ritter's.
who make a specially OF It. Or the
Emergency Laboratories, No. 80
West 2bth street, New York city,
will send a trial supply free by
mail to anyone who writes for It.
This IL sufficient to show results
| in "a houfs.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-19
.lowANs TO HOLD BANQUET,

The Hawkeye club Of Spokane
will hold their postponed annual
banquet on June 20. at the Hall OF
the Doges.
At Z o'clock a reception will be
held. after which a dinner will be
given. An effort will be made to
have the club members become
better acquainted. The tickets solo
last month will be honored.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-19

comedy and dramatic impersona-
tons. Edna Goodrich Is now con-
sidered a star Of the leading rank,
The four acts Of the play are all
laid In California. Supporting the
stars will appear Neil O'Brien. Carl
Anthony. Zeffie Tilbury, Alice But.
Ter and others.
There is nothing more on the
Spokane theater list until July 8,
when John Drew opens q two
nights engagement In Jack
Straw"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-19
WASHINGTON THEATER

HIGH CLASS VAUDEVILLE
Week Com. Sun. Matinee, June 20
"The juggling sensation Of the
entire world"-The Five Jordans-
most thrilling and extraordinary
tossing feature yet offered. Alta
Yolo, in her own lyrical creation
Fifteen Minutes Around the
World" The Telegraph Comedy
Four, singing and dancing coined
ians. Gruet & Gruet, minstrelsy
minstreled by Ministries. Maurice
Frank, John j. Black & Co., In 1.-THE
Advance Agent" Biograph. Mat
inee daily at 1880; two shows every
evening at 1880 and 8. Prices Ii
and 25 cents.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-19
PANTAoEs.

Phillis Lee and company, In
Commencement Day." condensed
musical comedy. will headline the
new bill at the Pantages Sunday
afternoon, Miss Lee possesses a
beautiful voice and each OF the
boys in the company Of seven are
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-19
SPOKANE.

Nat G. Goodwin and his young
and beautiful co-star, Edna Good
rich, will be at the Spokane Mon
day and Tuesday evenings in
Broadhursts four act play, THE
fastener" Goodwin has given
the stage some of its most striking
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-19

Boys to cell The Press. Can
make good money. See Gates at
The Press. SIG Front avenue, cor.
ner Front and Mil. sss
Evening star., 1909-05-18
The City Beautiful.

From the Philadelphia Ledger
The government of the United States
has recently paid unusual honor to the
memory of Maj. LEnfant, the engineer
who made the plan for the Federal capi-
tai on the Potomac. We can all admire
now the artistic judgment which fore
saw the beautiful city that Washington
has since become. To his own genera
tfon LEnfant was an extravagant
dreamer and his magnificent dis
tances' were long the subject Of popular
derision. Yet as the city has grown up
to 1t the plan has commanded increasing
regard, not only for it's picturesque effect,
but for it's plain common sense. 1t super
imposed upon the simple rectangular ar
rangement of streets. then already famil-
lar in Philadelphia, the supreme advan-
tage of great diagonal avenues. giving di-
rect passage and opening broad vistas in
every direction. magnifying the dignity Of
the principal buildings and leaving fire.
quent open spaces both for use and for
adornment.
This essential feature of L'Enfant's
plan nearly every city. old and new. has
learned to envy and many have sought
to initiate. The same leading idea con-
trolled the epoch-making reconstruction
of old Paris and the later improvements
in London, where vast sums have been
profitably expended to open wide high
ways through congested districts, as well
as to create within the city such ele-
ments of beauty as those which have
been developed upon the suggestions Of
LEnfant's plan at Washington.
Evening star., 1909-05-18
A Real Infant Industry.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
Benjamin Tilman is the only trueblue
protectionist in the Senate. Nobody else
this session has presented the case OF a
real infant industry. The South Caro-
lima tea-grower who raises $1,000 pounds
a year has to compete with the pauper
labor of China and Ceylon. which ship
their product free into the United States
The competition is excessively severe and
Americans are reduced to the hateful ne
cessity Of drinking cheap foreign-grown
tea. If Senator Aldrich would kindly let
Senator Tillman's friend write his own tea
schedule into the tarin bill, as he has
some of his own New England friends, the
South Carolina tea trust would be able to
charge any price that it liked. 1t might
soon declare dividends that would make
the Standard Ol's look Insignificant
Here are S5OOO,OOO of people-a magnih-
cent home market-and only one infant
tea industry. Here are millions of acres
of fertile land capable of cultivation, mil
lions of American men ready to culti-
vate them, and only one tea plantation in
the whole country. Cheap tea. like cheap
clothing, every protectionist knows to be
q curse.
Evening star., 1909-05-18
The Band Concerts.

For more than half century the Ma
rine Band concerts at the White House
on Saturdays in summer have been con-
Quoted, to the great pleasure of the public
Lately a new place for holding band con-
certs has been provided, on the recently
established Potomac drive, through the
park reclaimed from the river, and the
suggestion has been advanced that these
concerts will replace the Saturday pro-
grams at the White House This is not
to be credited. The people of Washing
ton may. il is confidently to be believed,
look for the resumption of the traditional
White House concerts on Saturday, while
those held on the Drive are continued as
an addition TO the series of outdoor
musical entertainments. The Drive con-
certS are not to be considered as the
equivalent of those heretofore given at
the White House and the Capitol The
bandstand is virtually inaccessible save
by carriage or motor, and it is impossi-
BILE for thousands who have for many
years been deriving pleasure and benefit
from the Saturday visits to the White
House grounds to get to the new place
of entertainment.
During the past few years the govern
ment bands stationed here have been
employed to great advantage in giving
programs during summer evenings in the
various public parks in different parts of
the city. In this manner the people who
are held In town during the hot season
are encouraged to visit the open spaces
and given the freedom of the turf and
the benefit of relaxation in pleasant cir
cumstances, with the uplifting influence
of good music. 1t is impossible to esti
mate the benefit derived by the residents
of the capital from this series of divert
Ing and health-giving entertainments. To
those who are enabled to reach the Drive
bandstand the concerts given there dur
Ing the season will undoubtedly prove en-
joyable. These may be regarded as addi-
uons to the governments musical offer
inss for the public enjoyment, and it is
not to be questioned that in due season
the Marine Band will resume it's accus-
toned place at the White House on Sat-
urday and at the Capitol on Wednesday,
with other days allotted to the Drive
Evening star., 1909-05-18
A Hish-Pressure Object Lesson.

Fourteen steamers and four trucks were
called into service yesterday TO cope with
the planning mill fire. For two hours two
thirds of the pumping equipment of the
department was occupied with this one
blaze, which was fortunately kept within
the limits of origin. Had another fire of
equal severity occurred at the same time
il would have been conquered only with
the greatest difficulty and good luck.
Frequently the argument has been ad-
vanced that Washington should have a
high-pressure service to guard against
such possibility. Congress seems to be
Indifferent to the risk that is run here,
although the governments own property
is exposed TO the danger of destruction in
a general conf1agration. The fact that
Washington has never suffered from such
a visitation is no assurance against con-
tinued immunity. The possibility re-
mains from year TO year. with the per-
centage of risk increasing as the city
grows and the business section becomes
more congested.
The local lire department should not be
Evening star., 1909-05-18
How Music Helps Business.
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
The business men of Kansas City are
especially responsive to enterprises that
help to build up the city and promote
their interests at the same time. But
have they given sufficient thought to the
value of music as a factor in the pro-
motion of business? 1t Is a fact that
Kansas City a whole, and its mer-
chants in particular. have lost millions
of dollars b. not having In this city as
fine musical institutions as other cities
have been able to offer the country. This
city gets but small percentage of the
students that annually pay tuition and the
cost of living in the pursuit of their
studies. Music is the most popular OF all
the arts. It's call is strong. 1t draws to
the best teachers, the best institutions,
hundreds of thousands of students an
nually.
Evening star., 1909-05-18
Roosevelt and the Mayoralty.

| The talk of Mr. Roosevelt for the
| mayoralty of New York is another illus
tration of how political speculation with
| his name persists. In the case of no
other man of this generation is the thing
| true in equal measure. Mr.. Bryan is
| much talked about, but only in connection
with the presidency and a seat in the
Senate. Mr.. Roosevelt's admirers asso-
ciate his name with more service in the
White House, with a seat in the Senate.
with more service as governor at Albany,
with the governor generalship of The
Philippines, with the New York mayoral-
ty. and what not. No end of work is sug-
gested for his busy hands to do.
1t would be an extraordinary episode
even in the history of SO extraordinary a
man for the nomination in question to go
to Mr.. Roosevelt. The authors of the
suggestion do not consider that it would
be necessary for him to return and make
| a campaign against Tammany, their idea
being that the authorized use alone of
his name would arouse the big town from
one end to the other, and carry the ticket
| to victory.
| This would be picturesque, and more
than match the famous case of the old
Roman. Cincinnatus was called from the
| plow. He was In an open field, close to
| the big road, and easily reached. 1t was
but a question of hallooing and getting
the old gentleman's attention. But calling
Mr.. Roosevelt from the chase in the
African jungle thousands of miles away
to come home to take up an Office be-
slowed upon him in his absence would
stand alone In all history. Think of the
committee Of notification and of it's jour-
ney in search of the hero.
But the suggestion is not likely to be
adopted. Mr.. Roosevelt is not the man
for the emergency. His admirers in New
York are many and ardent, but the ma
jority of them must see that his name
this year would not answer for con-
juring purposes. The town doubtless
of Tammany control. even with a man of
| the grade of George B. Mcclellan at the
top, must have developed much that calls
for correction.
But even a shaking up In good cause
needs caution for a guide. There can be
too much Of good thing. Or, put in
another way, an excess of agitation and
| reform may not bring the best results.
And that would be New York's fear of
Mr.. Roosevelt. Always an extremist, he
| would be apt as mayor to give the town
something too much Of a rough house in
cleaning up after Tammany. His ex-
perience as President has greatly in
creased his strenuosity, and when In
action, full Of the joy of battle he is hard
to manage.
Evening star., 1909-05-18
The Beveridge Tobacco Amendment.

Mr.. Beveridge's amendment TO the
tariff bill with respect to tobacco. Snuil'
cigars and cigarettes is of much interest,"
and he should carry out his promise 10
go into the subject at greater length pe-
fore the tariff debate closes. His state
ment accompanying the amendment con-
veys some startling information. He es-
Inmates a profit for the tobacco trust OF
over a hundred and twenty million DOL
lars in the past seven years as the result
of legislation repeating taxes imposed Tor
the Spanish war purposes, and his propo-
sition is to reimpose the tobacco taxes
and thereby increase the government 8
revenues some twenty-odd millions
year-a very considerable item at a time
when revenue is under consideration.
The Indiana senator is among the repub-
licans who are contending for I. lowering
of duties on the necessaries of life, and
laying the burdens of taxation where they
may be borne the most easily.
Important also at this time is the sena-
tors exposition of how the remarkable
result of which he complains was pro-
duced. In repeating the war tobacco
taxes Congress did not guard the con-
sumers' interests. but left them at the
mercy of the tobacco trust. And the
trust has improved its opportunity. With
out paying the government anything, it
has been selling to customers the same
size packages at the same prices as when
the war taxes were operating. And so
the government and the consumers are
out of pocket, and the trust the richer,
by an enormous amount.
The lesson is that both in laying taxes
and in repeating taxes the utmost care
should be observed in framing the meas
ures. What are called 'jokers" are
very liable to creep in. And when dis
covered they are always operating
against the public interests. Sometimes
the Joker is a trick of language. Some
times 1t is punctuation point. A COM
ma for a semi-colon, or vice versa, has
more than once figured in contests in
volving large sums Of money.
Just now the whole tariff fabric is be-
ing overhauled. Changes of many kinds
are being made. Some duties are being
lowered. Other duties are being raised.
The free list is being enlarged. There
is the utmost need for watchfulness in
the matter both of language and of pune
tuation. Every interest has its expert on
duty, and legal talent under fee to pass
upon both the form and the substance
of amendments.
Who particularly is looking out for the
government along this line? Why not
committee, for the express purpose Of
weighing words and sentences. and de-
Gliding upon their values in a statute,
and to see that the intent of Congress Is
not in any case either loosely expressed,
or by some fine" expression prevented?
Evening star., 1909-05-18

merely good enough to meet the dangers
as they arise but should be the most
perfect possible safeguard against dis
aster.e 1t has never been large enough TO
cover the territory properly, and by no
better means than the installation OF the
proposed high pressure service. capable OF
extension as the business area enlarges,
can it be brought UP to the mark OF
guaranteeing practical immunity from
confederation BY such an installation
many of the steamers could be shifted to
the residence sections. giving them the
protection they require. and which by the
slow process of occasional additions they
are unable to obtain.
Yesterdays blaze furnished striking
instance of the wasteful methods now en-
ployed in the fighting of fire in the down.
town section. The fourteen steamers IN
service pumped it is estimated. 1850 900
gallons of water, and every drop of that
water was filtered. having been brought
from Great Falls by conduit to the How
ard University reservoir and there passed
through the sand beds to remove fmpuri-
ties. It is figured that it cost the District
actually S1,oGO to convey. pump and inter
this water to say nothing of the cost of
the f1re service 1ISeI. f1du Tue Wdtci io'
been used to drown the f1ames-for which
purpose water taken from the river at the
wharves would have been equally efflca-
cious--it might have been served to con-
sumers at net profit to the District OF
S6240 This is, of course. not to say that
the District lost that sum by reason of
taking the 100000 gallons of filtered
water from the potable supply. But as
business proposition the figures are never
theless instructive.
1t is proposed to establish reservoir at
Fort Reno-one is indeed already con-
structed-and convey the unfiltered, non
potable water there impounded from
springs and streams to the special fire
mains into the heart of the city for use
when fire occurs in the business section.
For a great majority of the fires, not
drop of the city's drinking water will be
used. 1t will be possible to subdue two
or three blazes of the size of yesterdays S
without diminishing in the slightest the
contents of the reservoir and filter beds
near Soldiers Home.
To install the high-pressure service will
cost $75O,OOO. Any day Washington may
have a fire wiping out ten times that
sum l., property values, for the lack of
system of mains giving an unlimited flow
of water in the shortest conceivable time
without exposing other points to disaster.
VIII Congress wait for that day to bring
it to the point of action?
Evening star., 1909-05-18
A Delicate Pursuit.

Dey talks about prosperity
An makes another wish;
You sort O. specks dat it may be
A special kind o. fish.
Dey tells us all to persevere
Because de waters fine.
An some has felt 1t swimmfn' near
An tuggin' at de line.
Dey says: keep still on every hand.
Nor let yoh courage fail.
We's had a lot o. nibbles and
specks we'll ketch a whale!
But stop dat hollerin' in de crowd
An jes' keep holdin' tight!
If you all dom quit talkin' loud.
De fish ain g'ineter bite"
Evening star., 1909-05-18
he New York Sun:

The New York Sun:
"The so-called insurgents in the Senate
are battling for redemption Of the
party's promises.-Washing Star.
did you ever read the republican plat
form OF 1882
Oh, yes. Read the platform when 1t
first appeared: then the speeches made
by the procession of republican SPELL
binders, with Judge Taft at their head.
interpreting it: and have since read Presi-
dent Taft's message to Congress. asking
for a revision of the tariff. The west
the middle west and the northwest were
carried by the republicans on the PROPOSE
ton that some of the Dingley rates were
now too high, and on the promise that re-
publican success at the polls should be fol-
lowed by a reduction of taxation. a new
Evening star., 1909-05-18
Her Interest In the Game.

"Charley DEAR" said young Mrs. Tor
kins, what do they mean when they say
a man tore off hot one to left f1eld?'
cts a scientific phrase was the weary
reioinder. You can't explain it precisely
unless YOU have a centigrade thermometer
to measure the temperature accurately
and a set of surveying instruments 10 as
certain direction
"Ohv' she answered contentedly. Iha'
makes it quite clear. But do you know,
thought it had something to do with base
ball.
Evening star., 1909-05-18

UIn order to avoid delays on account
Of personal absence letters to THE
STAR should not be addressed to any
individual connected with the ONCE, but
simply to THE STAR, or to the Editorial
or Business Department. according to
tenor or purpose.
Evening star., 1909-05-18

tariff law leaving the Dingley law prac-
tically still in force would subject the re-
publican party to the derision OF the
whole country and to the active resent
ment of important sections OF IT,
Evening star., 1909-05-18
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Merely for Show.

well" said Farmer Corntossel. I've
got to look after my tomatoes and string
beans and things"
"You don't expect to feed all your sum-
mer boarders out Of that little garden, DO
you?'' inquired the neighbor.
Nope. I've put in my order for canned
goods. as usual. That vegetable garden
is just decoy.'
Evening star., 1909-05-18

Porto Ricans fail to see why tney
should be classed as amateurs in govern
ment simply because they get into snarls
over appropriation bills.
Evening star., 1909-05-18
Tn the World of Letters.

"What is literature?" said the person
who tries to start arguments.
Literature" answered the man at the
typewriter, lis something to put around
advertisements so that they can be more
effectively displayed
Evening star., 1909-05-18

Possibly William I. Jerome sees no
reason why the Office of district attorney
should not he permanency, something
like the presidency of Mexico, only more
exciting.
Evening star., 1909-05-18
Growth Of Golf.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

crack golfer is being considered by
Tammany as candidate for mayor this
fall. See how we progress. few years
ago golfer was looked upon as a sort
of harmless ass. Now none so exalted
but is willing to do champion reVer-
ence.
Evening star., 1909-05-18

Any other youngsters that the Whitla
kidnapers may have had an eye on will
be old enough to take care of themselves
by the time the sentence is served
Evening star., 1909-05-18

Expert allusion to high prices as "ficti-
tious' need not encourage the consumer
in a hope of meeting them with artificial
coin.