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Evening star., 1909-09-12

American towns named Taft; and this es-
innate excludes Taft, Tex, named for his
wealthy brother Charles, who owns there
the big Taft ranch, where the President
will spend several days in October. Doubt
less there are other places in the land
named Taft, as this dozen and half only
includes post offices. The states and ter
ritores in which the President has been
thus honored are California, Idaho, 1lli-
nois, Kentucky, Louisiana Missouri. Mon
tana, New Mexico. North Carolina, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Caro-
lima, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming
and Samar, p. I.
There are two less Roosevelts than
Tafts. or sixteen; however, there are
five towns named Teddy and five more
named Theodore, in honor of the ex-
President, all of which brings Mr..
RooseveIt's village namesakes up to
twenty-six against Mr.. Tafts eighteen.
But the President is as yet but a hair
year in Office.
There are already four more Tafts-
named after William H. Taft-than
there are McKinleys, but there is one
McKinieyville, which raises the total
of post office towns named for the mar
tyr-President to seventeen. Mr.. Cleve-
land, however, broke the record of all
other recent Presidents in this respect.
there being thirty-seven post offices
named for him-twenty-nine of them
called Cleveland (Which, OF course, ex-
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Outraged.

L1RAM MAXIM. the inventor OF the
/ ! splendid .'silencer.' said in the
course of a recent interview In New
York:
THAT infringement case, too, was won.
The opposition had a lot of witnesses put
they were all badly coached. AS padly
eoached, indeed. as But listen.
"A phrenologist visited village. He
offered to examine any ones bumps for
a dime. bury blacksmith's helper
said he would have his bumps examined,
and as he took his place. another man
whispered in the prenologist's ear:
"He's very fond of veal
AT this hint the phrenologist nodded
gratefully He then read out the black
smiths bumps. credting him with all
sorts of virtues and finally he said in a
loud, positive tone.
Now l come to your diet. Gents. If
there is one thing in the world our sub
ject dotes on, it is veal. Why
But the sentence was never finished.
The blacksmith rose suddenly and knock
ed the phrenologist down.
blast yer he roared. What's 1t got
to do with you If did steal calf!'
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same interest prevails about Mexico as
may be noted in its capital.
1--WE come to this country for the sum-
mer and many Americans go south for
the season of ice and snow. What is
termed the unrest of the denizens of the
new world applies equally to Mexicans.
Canadians as to the people of the United
States. There appears constant inter-
change of visits. l delight in listening
very often to Mexican music, which gets
a place on popular concert programs.
hear La. Colombo, La Paloan, and that
exquisite strain, La Golondrina, which is
the Mexican Home, Sweet Home fire.
quently, and it shows more clearly than
words that the warmest admiration exists
between the two countries, when they
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Nnecdotes Concerning
We'll Known People.

had charge of half a million belonging
to two old maids. Now, I'm afraid. the
old maids will have to go to work. Moral,
beware of the trustee.
"A good many of us, if we are mixed
up with trustees, have something like An
ME Johnson's experience.
"Annie's uncle left all his money to
his son on condition that the young man
married Annie. II he didn't marry her,
then the money went to Annie herself.
The son didn't marry her. He eloped
with a much prettier girl. Annie, well
enough pleased on the whole, then called
on the trustee
1--we called for my money, she said
"'What money! the trustee demanded,
in surprise.
'Uncle's money that you're in charge
Of said she. 1t was to go to me If Tom
didn't marry me-and he didn't. So its
mine. Please hand it over.
Tut. tut said the trustee. Not so
fast. You don't understand a trustees
duties Patience. patience. It's true Tom
hasn't married you, SO far, but he may
bury or divorce a dozen wives ana stiil
come back to you in the end.
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adopt each others music and revere the
literary and artistic genius of the other.
For some time before the departure OF
Senor Creel, the question of removing the
Mexican embassy to a residential section
of the city was much discussed. The en-
bassy was erected by the minister best
known and generally beloved, Senor Ma
tias Romero, and twenty years ago ii stood
among the famous private homes. Nearby
the former Secretary of State and one
time minister to Mexico. John w. Foster,
had his home, but long ago the Fosters
went west of Connecticut avenue. The
same is true of all the houses, and now
the neighbors of the embassy are busi-
ness houses and hostelries. Sonora Creel,
who loved nature, found it a hardship TO
gaze from her front window into the
prosaic precincts of a grocery store and
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THE. GREATPosrAL CARD

which has remained upon the books for
many years forbids the Presidents ac-
ceptance of gifts from his subordnates in
the service of the federal government
and the Constitution itself forbids his re-
ceving presents from rulers or govern
ments of foreign states. Since literal ad-
herence to this constitutional stipulation
might ieopardize international comfy, our
Presidents have always accepted royal
and governmental gifts on behalf of the
people of the United States and have then
turned them over to the Smithsonian In
stitution. Thus the lions sent TO Presi-
dent Taft by the King of Italy are to be
deposited with that institution for ex-
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No Honey Factory.

ttTHAT was an error" said Senator
Beveridge. apropos of an OPP
ponent's argument at dinner in In
dianapolis Our friend made an en-
barrassing error. He reminds me of John
Winslow.
John Winslow spent his honeymoon at
Niagara. He left the bridal apartment
late one night to bathe. and on his re-
turn knocked. as he supposed, on his
wifes door. calling softly:
Honey!
There was no answer. Winslov
knocked again
Honey"
Still no answer. Winslow thundered
on the door.
Honey! he cried, in voice of agony.
.fnen reply came at last.
Sneak, You bloomin' idiotp q ~.,.
voice growled. This is bedroom, not 4
blooming beehiver" NV
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The Boss.

MFRS. STUYVESANT FISH, in the
1V4 course of recent anti-suffragette
argument in New York, said with a smile:
TOO many of my sisters appear to
think that the woman should be the head
of the h6use. They would have her dom
mate over her husband as Mrs. Cudlip
was said to dominate over hers.
Mrs. Cudip-to give You an Idea OF
her perfect domination-said one day to
her husband. sharply:
"'Jethro, who was the greatest general
in history?'
.Jethro, not to be caught mapping, an
swered, calmly and meekly:
"'Joan OF Arc"
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Chinese laundry. while the noise at
tending the routine of life in hotels and
boarding houses under her very nose was
somewhat disturbing.
Sonora de la Barra Will no doubt find
her environment just as uncongenial, and
it seems that the Mexican embassy will
be the next to fall in line and move to-
ward Rock Creek Park and the western
hills. AS soon as the sonora is establish
ed in the present embassy, the ambassa-
dor will give the customary reception
which marks the advent OF stranger
in the highest set in the foreign corps.
This will probably occur in the early
part of November, after the amenities
begin at the White House. Senor and
Sonora de la Barra have two sons. Fran
cisco, aged eleven, and Julio, who has
just passed his ninth birthday.
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Showed He Was Bored.

MARTIN BECK. the well known vaude-
AVA vile mpresario. was talking in the
smoke room of the Mauretania about
bores.
Dash, the steel man." said Mr.. Beck,
''has a short way with bores. One tackled
him last month on the piazza of an
Atlantic City hotel-talked straight ahead
to him for thirty minutes about grand
opera.
Dash, the instant there came a pause,
said earnestly:
q 1 tell you, sir, there's no Holsters like
Maine lobsters'
'"The bore started.
No doubt he said; no doubt. But
what has that got TO do with what ]
was talking about?'
Dash heaved a yawn.
By the way he said what were you
talking about? !"
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TAFT MONTANA. TtE HooDooEDTos1

that it was "once part of rabbit shot
on the seventh day of the week and
7th day of the month, and the seventh
month in the year. at full moon. In a
country churchyard. by colored
clergyman" 1t is further stated that
the mount of this talisman is of the
"luckiest of gold from Alaska"
Another odd remembrance is a great
postal card, nearly yard long. bearing
a greeting.
January he made an address to the
students of the Georgia School of Tech
nology and asked the students to make
him some sample of their skill and
send it to him for a souvenir He had
forgotten the incident entirely until
this summer, when there was received
at Beverly a handsome rug, seven by
ten feet, made by hand, entirely OF
gold and white cotton and woven with
a large 'sr'' in the center. 1t was de-
signed by senior of the textile class,
all of whose members took hand In
its making.
X
A number of invitations and cards en-
graved upon costly plates of gold have
lately been received by the President.
That bidding him to attend the golden
jubilee of the San Francisco Schuetzen-
verein late this summer is inscribed upon
golden rectangle four and half by
three and half inches in dimensions and
weighing eighty pennyWeights. The
precious metal is of IA karats and the
plate is inclosed in an ornate jewel case.
A duplicate was sent to Emperor Will
helm.
Another of these precious souvenirs is
a solid gold frame five by seven inches.
with President Taft's full name engraved
at the top and inclosing an engraved card
of membership to the Washington Cham
ber of Commerce.
The Society of the Cincinnati, to which
the President was recently elected, has
lately presented him with handsome
gold badge bearing the insignia of the
order.
Tons of gifts will be received by the
President in the course of his 1900
mile tour of the country this summer
and autumn. His predecessors have es-
tablished the precedent of refusing cost
ly gifts from individual strangers and he
will undoubtedly adhere to it. A statute
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The Joy That Killed.

CENATOR TILLMAN was praisinG the
- humor of republican congressman
.'His humor, however" he concluded,
"is rather grim. told him the other
dav about a mutual acquaintance who
had died, a man he had never hkeo.
"'And his wife is dead. too saia.
.rIa himself died on Monday His wife
died two days later. The papers didnt
gay what killed her.
:" she was tickled to death. / guess,
said the congressman grimly.
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SPECIAL rA1Lt~Aeo ON That BRnIGo PRE5CNT5 FoR
PRESIDENT TAFT

cludes Cleveland, Ohio. and eight of
them called Grover. One of these latter
is Grover, Cleveland county, n. c.
xH
The proverbial Taft luck" which has
blessed the President thus far along the
ascendant of his career has not lent its
magic TO all of these post offices named
Taft In fact, dire misfortune has laid
its blight upon two of them to date. A
cruel fate visited the town of Taft, In
the Philippine Island of Samar, when
big typhoon wiped 1t out. This was last
October, during the presidential campaign
when some Of the facetiously inclined
were cruel enough to suggest that the Dig
wind came from Lincoln. Neb. About the
same time a great fire broke out in the
main hotel at Taft, Mont, and after de-
stroying the hotel itself wiped out SS0oOo
worth of buildings. The only people IN
the neighborhood who did not regard the
name Taft as hoodoo were the prom
bitionists. Thirteen barrooms went down
in the holocaust
No President has received greater
variety of gifts than those which nave
come to Mr.. Taft thus far. Most or them
arrive by registered mail and are re-
ceipted for at the Washington post office
by Robert Anderson, special postman TO
the President, who for this purpose makes
three trips day to the post office In the
special mail wagon shown in the ac-
companying picture. The latest item
upon the ledger of the White House
clerk who keeps track of these presents
are two lion cubs from King Victor Em-
manuel Of Italy. They are part or the
litter of a lioness presented to that ruler
by Emperor Menelik of Abyssina. Em-
peror Menelik has been a generous con-
tributor to the ZOOS of the various rulers
of the world. He presented President
Roosevelt with collection Of zebras, lions
and baboons which were turned over 10
the National Geological Park'at Washing
ton.
Two other recent additions to the Taft
menagerie are white possum and a large
hoot owl The albino possum. very rare
specimen, was captured in Comanche
county, Texas, whence 1t came by express
to Washington. The hoot owl was cap
tured on Jordan Island, in the Chattahoo-
chez river, Georgia, and was sent to the
President by an admirer in Atlanta.
Every joke which has been cracked at
Mr. Taft's expense and every humorous
situation In which he has figured Is repre-
sented in freak gift sent to him. When
he was in st. Petersburg, two years ago,
his trousers split across the knee. just
when he was hurrying to keep dinner
engagement with one of the digntaries OF
the cars court, and he had to rush oack
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good1y proportion of the animals in this
"Uncle Sans Zoo" comprises what 10
sometimes termed the presidential me-
nagerie." Dozens of its rare animals were
contributed by Mr.. Roosevelt while he
was in the White House, and Mr.. Taft
will draw from all parts of the world
dozens of more strange cEeatures OF the
animal kingdom for Washington tourists
to feast eyes upon The Smithsonian's
repository for inanimate objects presented
to the President by foreign governments
and rulers is the National Museum. where
they are placed on exhibition.
JOSEPH ELFRETH WATKINS.
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during her recent residence there, and
each day she spends an hour or two at
her piano. In Washington, the wife OF
the Mexican ambassador will find much
accomplished music lovers. There are
several illustrious musicians in the diplo-
matte corps. Sonora Maria de Calvo,
wife of the minister from Costa Rica,
is not only a brilliant pianiste. but is a
composer of note. Madam GUIDE, wife of
the Norwegian minister, once hoped for
a professional career as a violinist, and
the minister has the finest tenor voice in
Washington. In the younger set of the
corps there are many musicians far
above the average, and there are fine
pianists, violnists, harpists. and vocalists
in the resident society.
Coming so recently to this country and
in rather fragile health, Sonora de la
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CHE Is the Latest Arrival
- in the High Diplomatic
Circle-Is a Handsome, Cul-
tured Woman, Daughter OF
Senior Borneque, a Proml-
nent Banker of the City OF
Mexico The Sonora Has
Recently Come From Paris,
Where She Has Spent the
Interim Since Her Husband
Left Brussels.
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Made Him Sick.

-HE Chevy Chase caddies are stiii
cbuckljne, over a story about Presi-
dent Taft.
Tba President one afternoon played
rather badly. He turned to MS caooy
after he had fooled drive ana SAID IN
..Thfs isn't a pleasant spectacle for you.
I'm as bad as a Scotch laird at st. An
..The ST. Andrews caddies are all old
men, and one day when this laird was in
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Barra has not been able to catch more
than a fieeting glance of her future home.
She went at once to the summer en-
bassy on the North Shore. and will re-
main there until the latter part of Oc
tober The ambassador. however,
vouches for the fact that the chatelaine
of Mexico's official home is anticipating
her first winter In Washington with keen
pleasure "Of course" explained Senior
de la Barra. I'VE have so many Wash
ington friends that we shall feel at home
at once Then there will be no need
of formality in learning conditions as
they prevail. We have heard so much
from friends in the various capitals
where we have. lived that l am familiar
with every kind of procedure But II
will be interesting to note If events tran
spire after a preconceived notion In
Mexico, we are rather leisurely people in
the amenities, and the idea of laboring
Evening star., 1909-09-12

A NIMALS From Royalty
"A and American Admirers
Every Humorous Situation
in Which He Figures In
spires a Gift-Luck Amulets
Cards and Invitations on
Solid Gold-Eighteen Ameri-
can Post Offices Named for
Him Already.
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HAT land of song'
romance and mys-
terry is worthily
represented b y
Senor and Sonora
de la Barra. The
former came to
Washington last
February after a
Ion er interim
than Mexico usu-
ally permits in Sc
lecting her ENJOYS.
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TAFT
already rivals Mr..
Roosevelt in the
matter Of honors
and gifts received
from admirers. 1Ac-
cording to the new
Official Postal Guide
there are even
thus early in the
chief executives s
career = no less
than e 1 e h t e e ri
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Beware of the Trustee.

TT X ADAIR the western detective.
]. was in Duluth on the trail of an abb
sconding trustee.
"The rascal" said Mr.. Adair, bitterly.
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rancher of the range country.
Another remarkable chair built for Mr..
Taft added greatly to the gayety of his
last tour of the orient. During his forS
mer visit to the far east the then Sec
retary of War had been greatly huThiliat-
ed by the repeated breaking of sedan
chairs, and this time Mr.. Wilder, our
consul general at Hongkong, had to have
special chair of extra size built for the
big statesman. 1t was constructed for
$5 by one Yu Wo, a Chinese chair build
err and according to the oriental custom
a contract had to be drawn up to cover
the transaction. This yoluminous docu-
ment is an interesting addition to the
archives of the State Department. 1t
reads, in part:
II, the undersigned, Yu Wo of Is B
Wellington street, agree to make sedan
chair for the American consul general
in the city of Hongkong, as the red
haired people foreigners) style it, or
Fragrant Streams. in the vernacular.
This chair is to be used to carry the
American giant. the Honorable William
H. Taft. Said Taft being one of the
most conspicuous ornaments of the Amer
ican Wal WusPu Imperial cabineD. It
would obviously disintegrate in Queens 9
road or in front of government house.
Such things have happened. To avert in
ternational complications, ], Yu Wo. as
sert my skill as chair maker"
The extra bracings of the chair are
then described at length, after which
specifications comes this peroration: with
such precautions l do safeguard the dig
nifty of a friendly power and contribute
an honest chair makers part in preserv-
ing the peace Of the far east"
A recent Taft gift harks back to
President Roosevelt's bon mot about
having the then War Secretary to sit
on the lid at Washington when the
chief executive and most of the cabinet
were away. This freak present is an
enormous tin lid tWenty-six inches in
diameter and circular in form.
Luck amulets always form a con-
siderable proportion of presidential
gifts. A Philadelphia who lately sent
a gold-mounted rabbit foot to Mr.. Taft
specified in the letter of transmittal
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especially bad form his caddy, after nine
holes of missed shots and puts. shook
his old gray head. surrendered the laird's
bag of clubs TO another caddy and said:
Yell no mind. laird? / made but a
poor breakfast this mornin'. and I'm not
in condition to stand any mair o't.'"
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The late ambassador, Senor Greer, uiu
not resign his post until last autumn,
though a year previous he had been elect
ed governor of his home state, Chihua-
hua, Mr. Godoy acted as minister-resi-
dent until he was called to his own post
in Havana, and until Senor de la Barra
could sever his social and business obli-
cations in Brussels. the post remained
vacant Sonora de la Barra remained In
Paris, and, owing to serious illness. she
was unable to accompany the ambassador
when he made a special voyage to
France in the early part of the summer.
Socially considered, the Mexican en-
bassy is one of the most important homes
at the American capital. Not only does
Mexico now rank among the great ma
tions, but the impetus given Pan-Ameri-
ca has added much luster to her reputa-
ton The Mexican ambassador is gener-
ally esteemed as the dean of the Latin
American contingent. but now. as there
is u Brazilian ambassador of longer resi-
Gence in Washington, Senior Nabuco has
been accorded that honorable position
But Mexico is the neighbor geographical
ly and geographically considered that
should be on terms OF the closest init
macy with the United States. As that
revered diplomatist, Sonora Romero, was
fond of pointing out, one country lies
in the north temperate zone and the
other claims a large part of the tropics,
so between them they should divide every
staple of necessity and luxury known
in modern civilization. Then TO greater
portion of the Latin countries Mexico is
more v'tally important than to Brazil
Hence the de IA Barras step into high
social power. As 1t we're. they hold
balance of power and they are In the
envious position when every one worth
while seemed desirous of gaining their
friendship.
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to his hotel to change his neither gar
ments. Immediately upon hearing of this
Cecil Lyon, leader of the republican party
in Texas, conceived the idea of presenting
Mr.. Taft with pair of nOn-tearable trou-
sers, which might incidentally call atten-
ton to an industry of his state which was
to bid for protection under the impending
tariff legislation.
Admiral Togo, three-year-old Angora
ram which chad won a first prize at
the ST. Louis exposition, was shorn and
the mohair obtained from him was sent to
a Philadelphia manufacturer, who Wove
1t into the finest of gray cloth, which was
sent to Mr.. Taft's Washington tailor. The
actual cost of the garment was SIo. and
thus were obtained the most expensive
trousers ever made. But their history did
not end here.
Before giving them to Mr.. Taft the
Texas republican leader took them to the
Chicago convention and carried them into
the hall, floating from standard bearing
the inscription: AS pants the hart for
cooling stream. SO Texas pants for TAFT
They were placed in the custody of
giant Chicago policeman. and but for the
to be of Mr.. Taft's exact size all would
have been well. But as it was the
colossus in brass buttons coveted the
Texas souvenir, and neither he nor it
has been seen again by Mr.. Lyon. so
this year Admiral Togo was shorn
again. producing ten pounds OF wool,
woven into five yards of striped mohair,
which Mr.. Taft's tailor again made into
trousers of the exact presidential size.
They were formally presented to the
chief magistrate.
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Another thriving Texas industry is rep
resented in a $1,000 chair lately made
for the President, entirely from the horns
Of Texas steers. This is the gift OF
n. r. Powell, wealthy ranchman of
Pettus, Tex A pair of huge horns.
measuring eight and one-half feet from
tip to tip, form the back and part
of the arms of this presidential chair"
A similar chair, costing $3.50. was pre-
sented to President Benjamin Harrison
by Dennis O'Connor, another Texas
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Senior de la Barra, like all of the states
men of Mexico. Is well informed about the
United States and understands conditions
as thoroughly as he does his own Like
nearly all Latin diplomatists. he is a
graduate of law, and he has paid keen at
Evening star., 1909-09-12

Unlike many who show skill in music
in their girlhood days. the sonora has
not permitted the cares Of a family to
interfere with her accomplishments She
studied under the best masters in Paris
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-12-02

Ruth Stackhouse, Mabel Evans,
Mary Stackhouse. Helen David,
Louise Moore, Lillian Louis of
Timmonsville, and Miss Katie
Pleasants of Rowland, N. c.
Miss Marv Stackhouse and Mr..
K. p. Stackhouse gave a Thanks
giving dinner in honor of few of
their friends last Thursday.
Those enjoying their hospitality
were Misses Eula and Beulah Brad
dy, Pena Bracey, Maggie Easter
ling, Lila Watson, Mabel Evans,
Ruth Stackhouse, Jeddie David,
Messrs. Will Carter, John c. Be-
thea, Ray Ewing and Earle Bethea.