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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
THE FOOD QUESTION.
From the st. Paul Dispatch.

From the st. Paul Dispatch.
1t would help some, too, if the butcher
could be taught to quit weighing his hand
| in with each purchase of steak.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The trouble with those food investiga-
lions is likely to be that they will either
be too short to get at the facts Or too
long to do this generation any good.
From the Milwaukee Free Press.
The Des Moines man who gobbled
thirty-two griddle cakes at one sitting
has pointed out another way to slam the
beef trust.
From the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
The fact that we now must have bis
cults where crackers used to answer also
makes 1t cost more to live.
From the Omaha Bee.
A breakfast food trust? Perhaps! But
don't dare let anybody get corner on
bacon, eggs and pancakes.
From the Wilmington News.
Meat prices fixed by the wholesalers
continue to go higher. The boycott on
meat does not appear to have served its
purpose. But just imagine what would
have happened If the consumption had
not been restricted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
The Anecdote.

Though faces change from year to yea
Though fashions come and go.
There is one friend who hovers near
In happiness or woe,
AS CHEEKY as the annual song
Flung from the robins throat.
It greets anew the listening throng,
That good old anecdote.
Twas told about the mayor who
Once ruled a country town;
OF governors twas told anew.
AS 1t was handed down
1t rose in dignity; It'll now
OF senators they quote
In turn. when leisure will allow,
That self-same anecdote.
Twas heard no doubt in ancient days
When human speech was young;
1t will be told in various ways
In every future tongue.
Though empires fall and stars collide
Somewhere through space will float
Enduring, whatsoe'r betide,
That ancient anecdote.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
Mr.. Bryan's Health.

Finding a very high altitude in Bolivia
uncomfortable, Mr.. Bryan left for other
parts. He would take no chances Health
IS all. What is applause, what large gate
money, what a presidential nomination
even, to d man whose stomach is out of
keller, or whose breathing apparatus is
defective?
This care was observed before Mr.
Bryan left the country. On his way to
the coast to take ship for Cuba he con-
tracfed a cold, and went at once to bed
A lecture engagement confronted him
but he Cancelled it. The money was re-
turned. and the good people anxious to
hear his voice were disappointed. With
his voice impaired, he would not give
them short measure. But above that
consideration was one about his general
condition, which he wanted restored to
the normal as soon as possible.
Mr.. Bryan wants to live. He is sharing
in the rosy views of his party friends.
Never pessimist, and always full of re-
bound, ne has emerged from every disap-
pointment of the past dozen years with
a heart still in his bosom. Those years
have not withered him, nor repeated de-
feats stalled his buoying hope. He has
peneFeQ Iidt potH he ana HIS party Woulu
get there yet.
Life. then, is pleasing to Mr.. Bryan at
this time. His friends think. and he does
also, that the tide is turning. They are
noting the rows in the republican party
their number and bitterness-and check
ing them off like bill clerk. a little
more hammering of Mr.. Cannon and Mr..
Aldrich, little more insistence on the
statement that the President was bun
koed in the tariff revision, and a little
more all-around criticism of their party
by the insurgents, and the republican
Jig the Bryanites believe, will be up.
Into situation SO promising in his eyes
Mr.. Bryan intends to throw himself upon
his return with full ardor. If he lands in
New York will there be another reception
in his honor? He has friends there and
elsewhere in the east who have his for
tunes as much at heart as when he landed
at that port from his trip around the
world several years ago. 1t may not be
possible for them to duplicate that dem
onstration In size or enthusiasm, but Ii
they bumped themselves they might warm
their leaders heart with some notable
doings. What If the Roosevelt reception
several months later should be the
greater?
Returning In health and fighting spirit;
full of hope and ginger; his eyes still fixed
on the White House, Mr.. Bryan should
again be the most popular and powerful
stumper in his party and for the party
cause in the coming campaign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
T. RS HOME COMING.

From the st. Louis Republic.
No doubt the New York Republican
Club will work up for Roosevelt re-
ception like unto that with which Grant
was welcomed in San Francisco thirty
years ago. But 1t will be remembered
that the waves OF frothy and fOamy en-
thusiasm which swept onward with Grant
in his journey across the continent in
1880 were not strong enough to lift him
to a third term in the presidency nor
even to q third nomination.
From the Columbus Ohio State Journal
Col Roosevelt now plans to reach home
about the middle OF June, but, Of course,
he may conclude to come month earlier,
via Halley's comet.
From the Newark Evening News.
Anyway. bunch of senators and rep
resentatives have several months to cul-
tivate that joyous mien that will be nec-
essary for participation in a formal well
come to the faunal naturalist.
From the Baltimore Star.
At any rate, there need be no fear that
T. r., on landing in New York, will fol-
low the example Of a former prominent
home-comer and put his foot in his
mouth as soon as he opens it.
From the Detroit News.
1t is prophesied that Roosevelt will
hold his silence when he comes home,
but that 1t will be silence full of
meaning. Well, if he does, it will be evil
dence that he caught the sleeping sick
ness in Africa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
,asoners of that period in Con


gresS.
The House is large and noisy body,
making physique and trumpet voice
and assurance elements of strength there.
While. of course, not all-sufficient. where
they accompany real ability they greatly
reinforce it. With all his wit and in
formation and amazing readiness. Mr.
Reed owed much to his large frame and
his height. and to an air Of confidence
which, not even in the hottest corner,
ever forsook him. He looked the gladi-
ator, and talked the part, and he mad
attention.
Gov Long lacked all these things
inches, assurance and a round, full tone.
He never lectured the House, or abused
anybody. His manner differed but slight
ly from that OF a college professor IN
the classroom SO far as ease ana I'M
excitability went. He had his case In
hand, and stated 1t almost in conversa-
tional style, but seldom using q gesture
and never an oratorical strut. He as
sumed intelligence on the part or ms
hearers, and desire for information.
And so he offered his, politely and even
deferentially.
And yet modest as he was, and unag-
gressive, with noise all around him, and
assurance at times ruling the roost, he
got there. He could always secure at
tention. The House discovered that he
never took the floor for mere parade
sake with more thought of himself than
his subject, but had something of value
to say and knew how to say it.
If Gov Long returns he will find only
few of his old compatriots left But
the House in the main bears strong re-
semblance in it's hustle and stir to the
body he knew two decades ago, ndNthe
work will be as familiar to him as yes
terday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
No Halfway Date Reform.

The Commissioners disapproval OF the
Guernsey bill to make the last Thursday
in April legal holiday in inauguration
years, SO that the inaugural celebration
can be held then, while the oath of Office
Is administered on the 4th of March. was
the only possible action. The bill was
far from satisfactory as solution of
the problem. In fact, 1t wholly missed
the point of the case. There Is no public
demand for an inaugural celebration or
jubilation that is not Immediately con-
nected with the event itself. The people
come to Washington by the hundreds of
thousands from all parts OF the country
in order to see the President take the
oath of office and to observe and partici-
pate In the incidental ceremonies. They
would not be in the slightest degree in
terested in any program Of ceremonies
or displays separated from the induction
into Office even by a few days.
The obvious solution of the inaugural
day problem lies in the change to late
April Of the day on which the presidential
term begins. The Guernsey bill ac-
composites nothing. II the date on which
the oath of Office Is administered Is to
remain unchanged the ceremony should
occur on the 4th Of March, with all the
accomplishments of freakish weather to
which that day Is subject. The last
Thursday in April might be made legal
holiday and still the people would come
in great numbers to Washington on the
4th of March and risk their lives as
they have In the past for the sake Of be-
ing here at the moment of the transfer
of authority from one chief executive to
another.
When the Henry resolution was recon-
mitted recently 1t was with the expecta-
ton that it would be remodeled by the
committee on judiciary and returned to
the House. making the necessary altera-
tons in the fundamental law to carry
the change proposed into full effect in
all details, and at the same time to pro-
vide for the presidential succession In q
certain contingency for which there is
now no provision. It is to be believed
that this will be done and that the House
will soon be given another opportunity
to approve the proposition to submit the
amendment to the states for ratification.
There should be no halfway measures.
If Congress undertakes any inaugural
date reform at all 1t should be to the
end of shifting to a more clement sea-
son the entire program, the taking of the
oath, the transfer of executive authority
and the incidental ceremonies, whether
they are conducted under the direct
auspices of Congress or with the as
sistance of the citizens Of tho District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
Finnish
People.
The BARNARD DRAMA

From the Syracuse Herald.
Perhaps Rostands next will be THE
Turkeys Fate; a Romance of Thanks
giving"
From the indianapolis News.
The first performance of Rostand' s
"Chanticler'' yielded $4,000 for the flood
sufferers, which is also something to
crow over.
From the Detroit Free Press.
NJ. Rostand's new play ''Chanticler' Is
a dramatization of the barnyard. It is
now up to somebody to dramatic a cold
storage plant
From the Milwaukee Sentinel
"Sammie'' Gross will now fight kid
Rostand for the worlds "Chanticler"
championship.
From the Milwaukee Journal
If Samuel Eberly Gross couldA realize
on his literary claims, 1t is possible
that Chicago would be able to feel a
stirring Of pride within 1t without go
ing out to the stockyards to stimulate
it's self-appreciation.
From the indianapolis Star.
''Chanticler' was evidently brought out
at this time In honor of the Indianapolis
poultry show.
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Long of Massachusetts,.

John d. Long is mentioned for the
vacancy in the House occasioned by the
death Of Mr.. Lowering. The district is
overwhelmingly republican. and nomina-
ton is equivalent to election.
Gov. Long, as he Is called, is seventy
two. in health again after period of
invalidism, and. although out of action
these past dozen years. still a student
of political affairs. In the House again.
after an absence of some twenty years.
he would speedily shake down ano be
at home. He was q useful and highly
respected man there when his own party
was led by Reed and Mckinley and Can
non and Dingley, and the democracy by
Carlisle and Morrison and Frank Hurd.
He served on the important committee
OF appropriations. which then prepared all
of theHeupply bills, and he did his part
OF the work and bore his part of the
debates with conspicuous ability. He was
one of the most informing speakers and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
Mr.. Folk on Reform.

In the current number Of 8 weekly pub
LEGATION former Gov. Folk Of Missouri
has an article on Tho Limitations Of Re-
FORM" He speaks against expecting or
attempting too much. 1t is well to desire
the best policies Of government, and to
work constantly for them, but always
with the knowledge in mind that perfec-
ton is nowhere possible. To push mat
tiers to an extreme regardless OF environ
ment and practical distinctions Is often
destructive Of the good ends in view. In
the main Mr.. Folk reasons well.
An article of equal, interest might be
prepared giving 1.-The Difficulties in the
Way of Reform" And under that head
would come the evils growing out OF ex-
aggerations in appeals for reform. For
an instance, Mr.. Folk says, In describing
the present situation: Upon the result
of the fight during the next few years
hangs the fate of government by the peo-
ple" Now is that true? Does Mr.. Folk
himself really believe 1t? Is not the state
ment a mere campaign flourish intended
only to startle the reader? We are not
on the brink either of the millennium or
of hades If all our reform measures sue
ceeded we should still be far short of
governmental bliss, while If all failed we
should still be long way from the black
pit.
Another difficulty lies with reformers
who achieve a measure of success, and
then attempt to capitalize their perform
ances for their own ACKNOWLEDGMENT, thus
injuring the cause Of reform.
Only a few years ago a young man
living in a city In one Of the middle
states was elected to q municipal Office
and started in to clean up the locality.
He showed both grit and continuance. and
sent grafters and other lawbreakers
| scurrying. 1t was the best performance
of the kind that section of the country
had ever known. and 1t resulted in the
| young officials deserved promotion.
/ Then came ambition knocking at the
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door. Why not the Presidency? Was not
graft countrywide? Why not clean up
the country?
Then came politics knocking at the
door. and that meant organization and
good terms with men who controlled
organizations. Delegates to a national
convention were not to be had for the
asking. The young mans party was not
so unmanageable for reform that the
practical politicians in 1t had lost all
influence, and the young man discovered
that, to win the big prize he sought, he
would have to play politics. He did so.
and, ceasing to be a great reformer. failed
to become a great political leader, and
fell between two stools. Maybe Mr.. FOLK
has heard Of that young man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
The CONFESSION.

Why did strike hm--he who was my friend?
Why did grapple with him there, and bend
Him back and back and back until his twisted
spine
mine?
All, listen. shoveling the snow
That blocks my sidewalks, where the people 60
Upon their several ways. Ny hands were cold.
My toes were chilled, my shoes had tried 10
shovelful of snow-And he came by
And stopped. and fixed me with his beaming
eye
And opened on me with this sort Of talk:
what you doing? Shoveling OF your walkr'
Chicago Post.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
A Sigh for Old Times.

A New York democrat. after visit to
Washington, Is at home weeping "a
golden age departed There has never
been before, he tells his friends. such an
opportunity as the democrats In Con-
gress now possess. But they are lead
erless, and refuse to be led. Mr.. Bailey,
with ali of his ability, cannot muster
half a dozen followers in the Senate,
while Mr.. Clark Is almost as helpless
in the House. co." exclaims this pes
simist, "for q man like Crisp, Carlisle
or Randall, who knew how to organize
and hold and bind men In parliamentary
fght!'
Yes indeed! Take the situation In
the House in the Forty-eighth Congress.
Mr.. Carlisle occupied the chair, and had
been chosen Speaker on the issue of a
tariff for revenue only. The party was
on the eve of presidential election. and
would be obliged to go before the coun-
try on the record 1t would make at that
session of Congress. If 1t showed unity
and capacity in legislation 1t might hope
to win; IL division and incertitude its
prospects would fade.
The election of Mr.. Carlisle to the
speakership on the tariff issue called for
a tariff bill, and the committee on ways
and means was constructed with the OBJ
ject OF bringing one in. 1t performed
the mission. The bill presented met
with the Speakers Endorsement. and the
brethren were first invited. and then
commanded, to give it their support. Did
they respond? Did they?
The chairman Of appropriations, by Mr..
Carlisles appointment. was Samuel J..
Randall, q master hand at the parlia-
mentary game, and a protectionist. He
did not like the tariff bill, and not only
refused to support 1t himself, burt pro-
ceeded to organize a force for its de-
struction. He gathered around him forty
odd democrats who, like himself. believed
in the principle Of protection, and when
the bill. after a long debate. was put on
its passage. it was defeated. Mr.. Randall
and his friends had proved too much for
the Speaker and his friends.
Some Of Mr. Carlisle's friends wanted
Mr.. Randall removed from the chairman
ship of the appropriations committee. on
the score that the latter, by his insubor-
dination, had forfeited his right to further
party recognition. But Mr.. Carlisle was
at once too broad a man and too good a
politician to listen to such an ill-advised
proposition. If he had done SO Mr.. Ran
dali would have been strengthened. both
in the House and with the country.
Let anybody familiar with the record
of the past quarter Of a century name a
time when the democrats in Congress
were united. Mr.. Baileys experience In
the Senate is Identical with his experience
In the House. while Mr.. Clark. for conso-
lation, has only to recall what his prede-
cessors in the minority leadership, Mr.
Bailey, Mr.. Richardson and Mr.. Williams.
endured from the men Of their times
who would leave the reservation at crit
ical periods.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
The MYSTERY.

g faint me- says the farmer,
Who's gettin' the STUFF"
Tain't me- says the packer;
Il just get enough
To pay q small profit.
As fair AS can be-
And all of them chorus
Together, 'Iaint me"
'Tain't me-" says the tanner,
Who gets the high price
Tor high shoes and low ones,
For slippers and ties
faint me. says the rancher;
Il live and that's ALL
faint me- says the dealer;
MY profits are small"
'Tain't me-" says the Gamer;
MY margins the same
faint me-" says the huckster,
WHO'S bracin the game"
'Taint me- says the gardener;
I'm poor all tn time"
'Taint me-" says the grocer;
Il amt seen 4 dime
It's surely a puzzle
To know where 1t goes;
No maker seller.
Or any of those
Partake of high prices,
So they all agree;
And I'm q consumer,
I'm certain . faint me-"
j. w. Foley, In New York TimeA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
POOR GOAT!

There was a goat in our town
And he was wondrous thin,
And yet wherever food was he
Was always butting in.
And when he found the food was gone,
He never acted blue
He merely ate the dishes, ana
He ate the table, too.
He ate a family washing and
The ciothesline at bite;
And then he ate a milestone, just
To whet his appetite.
He might have been there eating yet,
But that's an open question
He ate box Of breakfast food
And died of Indigestion!
Ted Robinson, In Cleveland Leadogs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
SoCIETY's LATEST FAD.

No stylish women now decry
The suffragette.
She is extolIed and coddled by
The smartest set.
The working girl receives Q card
To each AT Home"
And that, think, we may regard
As going some.
And Mrs. Grundy now would Ike,
As she'll confess.
To be connected with Q strike
As patroness.
Louisville Courier-Jour
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
Available Funds,

"You are spending twice as much as
spent at your age" said the prudent
father
'.Well," answered the good-natured but
careless youth, ''that is because grand
father was not as good a business man
as you are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON,
An Invisible Item.

"Have you your expense account?"
asked the junior member of the firm.
NO." answered the commercial trav-
eler. MY expense account is in my new
overcoat.'
THAT relieves my mind. My partner
was trying to figure whether your new
overcoat wasn't somewhere in your ex-
pense account"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
THE DIFFERENCE.

Ny neighbor eateth lobster:
He eateth rarebit, too.
He loveth brie and edam
And hidcth them from view.
Ny neighbor wakes at midnight
And shrieks with sudden pain.
Quick comes the costly medic
And treats him for ptOmaine.
eat my humble dinner,
My chops and beans and pie,
Perhaps with Indigestion
suffer by and by,
The good old family doctor
Ny case In hand doth take,
And as he spreads q plaster
He calls 1t stomach ache.
New York Tribu
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Equipped.

$50 you are going to start restaurant
in New York;"
eyes. one that will soon become a fad
have secured the essentials
what are they?
"a three-piece orchestra and lot Of
old theater programs"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
An Uurecognized Offense.

.'That man won't stay on the force
long," said one policeman. ''He's too far
behind the times"
what makes you think so?" inquired
the other.
ARRESTED q boy for scorching on
bicycle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
VARIOUS VERSES
ON TIMELY TOPICS


Do you want to buy q fiat?
Do you want to sell your cat?
See Morgan.
DO you want TO buy a drink
DO you want another think?
See Morgan.
Do you want TO borrow two!
DO you want to bet few.
See Morgan.
do you want to take a ride
over on the Jersey slider
See Morgan.
Would you ride TO Boston town,
Where the beans are ell done brown?
See Morgan
Do you want to get boost
To put some feathers In your roostf
See Morgan.
DO you want tu buy some art
or the kind dear to your heart?
See Morgan.
II You want to raise some Ned,
Tell what's happened all to Ted.
He'd see Morgan.
When the doctors all draw nigh. !,
With your toes turned to the sky,
You'll see Morgan.
St Louis Times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13

Sunragettes will naturally argue tina,
an election such as is proposed in the
New York legislature to enable w0men to
declare whether or not they shall vote
will of itself recognize their right to do
so.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13

John L. Sullivan Is still enough Of q
pugilist to make it unpleasant for any
body who fails to properly felicitate him
on his marriage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
Similar Methods.

Like fortune tellers, hatterers go
In quest of favor. drawing near
To tell, not what you ought to know,
But what you most desire to bear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13

Alaska reports one of the worst winters
on record. 1t may have to get to work
on it's own coal deposits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13

Modern steamships do not last as long
as old sailing vessels, but they pay
dividends much more rapidly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13

The comet with two projections may be
some sort of celestial Tillman with
pitchfork.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13

The yellow peril banner once waved by
Mr.. Hobson has faded until 1t could be
loaned out as a flag Of truce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13

The rumors OF inferior marketing for
the White House are in no wise borne
out by the appearance of Mr.. Roosevelt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13

1t is difficult for the average man to
realize that shoveling snow Is just as
good outdoor exercise as playing golf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13

The post card habit has made st. Val
entine's day less of an event than 1t used
to be.