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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15

If October has been selected then the
meet Is ours.
VICE President Buckner Of the So
called powder trust" against which
the government has a suit pending. is
real sincere talker. He went after the
naval committee the other day. and after
he had discoursed for awhile on the
patriotism and philanthropy OF the trust.
and told of the money it had refused to
take from the government and the real
cash it had returned, there wasn't dry
eye in the House.
That man Buckner," said one promi-
nent republican member of the committee
at the conclusion of the hearing. as he
used his kerchief freely. lis either a
wonderful hot air artist or else we ought
to nurse these here trusts until they
grow up. Grandma taking care of little
Willie couldn't have been more indul-
gent than this power trust, according to
Mr. Buckner. has been to the United
states government"
CPEAKER CANNON is. in some ways.
~ an admirer OF newspaper men. The
other day after reading the fifty-seven
varieties of interviews with him concern
ing his declaration that he had no inten-
ton Of retiring. would not retire. ETC., he
stuck his hands in his pockets. tilted his
cigar at an acute angle. grinned through
the smoke and said:
well. the trouble this time was that
the boys had something to go on. But
they can write beautiful and accurate
stun when they're not at all hampered by
facts"
Something Of a knock, yes?
TT is very apparent that wireless teleg-
1 raphy is not a good medium for pri-
vate messages, unless they be sent in
code, and this sometimes is inconvenient.
If not actually impossible. Out at tho
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Neatly Hit Off.

MRS ELLA WHEELER WILCOX at
lV1 one of her dinners at the Bungalow,
her picturesque residence at Short Beach,
Conn.,. hit off in a neat epigram a notori-
Gus difference in the worlds treatment
of the sexes.
ITO say" she observed. that every.
body is talking about a young man is an
eulogy: but to say that everybody is
talking about a young woman is an
elegy.''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15

ECENTLY / went
aboard one Of the
great winter-cruise
steamships an hour
or so before she
was due to swing
out into the Hud-
son and then point
her nose toward
Sandy Hook. The
steamships desti-
nation was the
Mediterranean ana
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or so ago, for at that time the govern
ment published eight immense volumes
containing the precedents of the House OF
Representatives, on which the parliament
tartan had been working for the best part
of fifteen years. With these to aid him
il is possible that some man with par
ticular leaning in that direction may bob
up and In course of time come to be a
valuable aid to whoever may happen to
be in the chair presiding over the delib-
erations Of the House.
But won't 1t be a grand sight when Mr..
Kinds, who is so familiar with the House
of Representatives since its inception
that he can quote the language in which
the first Speaker of the body asked that
a drink of red-eye be brought to him in q
teacup at half-past 4 O'Clock of a cloudy
afternoon February q Of the year sew
enteen hundred and umpsteen. takes
notion i'm his head to discuss point OF
order from the inside out. He'll have
the Speaker groggy and stalling for
the gong long before the round is over
Here's to him. May he come back as a
member and stand 'em all on their heads.
THE national authorities on this pro-
posed aviation carnival for next year
must have had Washington in mind when
they selected October as the month for
holding the big show. October is our
long suit here. our one best bet, our ex-
hibtion season. While the ordinary
aviator here would freeze to death in
March, be drowned in the sky in April.
suffer with the heat in June, be sun
struck in July, parboiied in August and
suffocated in September. in October he
would flourish like the green bay tree.
He could climb up in the sky high
enough to break Paulhan's record with
N,,f oil mil nN11or p evofffnD
chilly around the feet. He could sail
along. admiring the scenery and happy
that he was alive. For we are green and
gold and contented and Indian-summery
down this way in October. and an avia-
ton meet is the only other thing that
could make us any happier.
Let 'em bring on their monoplanes and
biplanes and dirigibles and all the rest.
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puffs to spread on one side Of an oyster
cracker?
Huh. I've listened to your talk with
EN-! All that you fan about stogs and hats.
and the sloppiness Of the fiat maid and
your ailments, and all that. How's that? ?
What do expect a group Of women to talk
about? Well. that's drawing 1t pretty
fine. Perhaps you'd like me to take a
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7 the way" inquir-
ed Mr.. Grump at
the dinner table
the other evening.
ARE you expecting
any Of those CAB
ble-gabble female
friends OF yours
here this evening?
Hope not. Noise
is all right in It's
place, ibutbn Doesn't
belong in a fiat
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ticularly. He went to dancing school. for
one thing, and he went buggy-riding with
his mother, for another. and he never
went barefoot in the summer. for still
another. and there were a whole lot of
Objectionable things about him: SO that.
as I say, 1 didn't particularly care for
that Other Boy.
But he had a pair of skates.
That made it very different. It's
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HIS will be one of
those "They amt
goin' t be no
core" stories.
It has to do with
skates and skating.
(Nunno. not the
kind of skates you
think Is meant !;
but ur e-enough
ice skates, for skat-
ing).
1t was way back
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15

M ALA WHO represents oil
J dianapolis paper in Washington. has
been told so often that he is the living
image of Attorney General Wickersham
that he is beginning to believe 1t himself.
The fact is, he is Mr.. Understands alb
solute double and looks as though he
might be his twin. If Mr.. Hornaday
weighed few pounds more and let his
mustache grow just trif1e longer 1t
would take thumb-print expert to tell
them apart
Just the other evening about dusk Mr.
Hornaday was walking down the Avenue
in front of the White House when he felt
a touch on his shoulder and, looking
around gentleman of distinguished ap-
pearance, with whom Mr.. Hornaday was
marked. Good evening, Mr.. Attorney
General. / wanted to have a word with
YOU. Do you mind IL take a moment of
your time now"
You have made a mistake said Mr..
Hornaday II am not the Attorney Gen
eral"
The distinguished looking gentleman
drew himself up somewhat and appeared
offended. You don't have to deny your
identity to me, Mr.. Attorney General
said the other man. II am not a news
paper man. I am Senator Rayner Of
Maryland"
And I am a newspaper man and not
the Attorney General replied Mr.. Horn
aday.
Then there were mutual explanations,
and Senator Rayner went on his way
wearing an expression OF profound aston
ishment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15

ming here, a sanitarium for females who
can chop the English language into
hash for 1865 calendar days without re-
wfnding?"
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plays were produced. and their plays
were to be produced, as matter of
course. IL they won the prizes.
Mr.. Hayman said that of the several
thousand plays submitted, some of them
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Well, after the potato feed was all over
they began to play Skinny lit was before
the days or hockey on the ice and IL
was a great little old game ! stood
around the embers OF the bonfire TO
watch II. The Other Boy was a good
deal OF boob at the shiny game and
he got his bumps right along Once or
twice he got cracked soundly across the
stins. was delighted to observe this
1t filled me with profound and consum-
ing mirth to see him get cracked on the
shins or fall down in the progress OF the
game.
Every time he passed by where was
standing he'd look at me out OF his big.
bovine eyes, as much as to say: We'll
you think I'm goin'. { get tired, hey?
Fergit it,
Two o'clock came. then g. Snow be-
gan to fall. The leaden sky was very
chilling and depressing. l was cold 10
the marrow. But II didn't seem possible
right along skating all day without let
ting me put 'em on for a few minutes.
anyhow. after the way he'd sort o. half
promised me when we were on our way
to the crick.
Finally. at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
when 1t was beginning to get a little
dark lit was at the season when the sun
went down at half-past ~. the Other BOY
skated over to where i WAS. He was
MORALLY tired all right. could see
that
SAY" / said TO him, ''..n be dark
soon. Coin T. let me put 'em on for
awhile?"
Maybe" said he. Guess ! will
maybe. Waitll I skate around little
while longer and then you can put EN-
on
on he dashed. tired as he was. But
my hopes were high. was going 10
have a chance to put EN- on at last Ny
long vigil at the crick-side was not going
to be in vain. Even half an hours skat-
ing would compensate me for that long.
weary wait.
Every time the Other Boy dashed by
where | was standing. shivering. l figured
that he was going TO pull up and sit
down and take of his skates and let me
put 'em on
And every time | was disappointed. The
darkness began TO fall alarmingIy fast.
At 4:3O o'clock darkness fell all of q
sudden.
The miller who owned the crick began
TO shoe the skaters of the ice He didn't
want EN- to be taking chances by skat-
ing on the crick after dark
And SO 1t was all over. and / didn't get
'em on after all.
Then l went home and gave an ex-
PLANTATION which didn't explain as 10 why
i hadn't been home to dinner As a
matter OF fact. there were corporal do
ings on account of the inadeauacy OF my
explanation.
few weeks ago. while on q journey. 7
met the Other Boy in the smoking COM
partment of a sleeping car
Say. old man." he asked me- have
you got a lower BERTH"
Il have" said l.
We'll. the best we could do-my wife
and WAS to get TWO uppers." said he.
THE wife. you know. is pretty stoutisli.
and | don't believe she could climb into
the upper, and I'd take IL mighty kind
OF you il you'd"
And on.
Each gentle reader perusing this has
one guess as TO whether l gave up my
lower berth
CLARENCE i 6E1lH1k
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bawIers were mostly considerably larger
than us sliders. why. we gwanned real
promptly. and resumed the stomping up
and down.
I suppose no chicken hawk ever watch
ed a fluttery barnyard hen more keenly
than | watched that Other Boy as lie
circled hither and yon on the ice. My
eyes ached from watching him. | was
seeking to detect signs OF WEAKNESS in
him. But he was unwearied. Nary a
sign Of fatigue did he show. l believe
that Other Boy could have gone smack
dab to the north pole without airy sleep
in an igloo. he was unfatiGueable.
At noon he came skating over TO where
l was standing. (He wasn't even puff
ffng from his exertions. I noticed with
a miserable feeling)
Tired. hey7" said I. not. however.
with the slightest hope.
Nav" he replied. Il amt tired
Amt chuh goin' t your dinner? IT'S
Nav" he replied. "'Drather skate
than eat any time"
l felt like kicking a clod loose and
throwing 1t at him. But I didn't
wanted to skate, and throwing a clod at
the skating line.
| decided to cancel my own dinner.
with the hope that maybe the Other
Boy would get tired during the dinner
hour. Not that / wasn't MORALLY hun
CRY But I didn't feel like taking the
desperate chance Of hiking home TO cat
dinner as long as there remained the re-
hottest chance that the Other Boy would
get tired and let me put on his skates
for few minutes.
Well, along toward half-past twelve a
choice little party OF the bigger boy skat-
ers built bonfire along the crick and
roasted about a peck OF nice. big. fat,
mealy potatoes in the fire for their din
ner. They didn't want to go home. and
thus the spuds
The Other Boy was in on that spud
feeo L wasn't. None Of the skateiess
ones were
skunk around on the outskirts of that
potato-eating bunch. watching 'em eat the
nne, big. mealy. bonfire-baked potatoes
and life was a misery to me- THEY'D
brought salt along to put on the pota-
toes, and maybe those hot, salted pota-
toes didn't look good, I've seen whole
lot or flne-looking food up and down the
earth since that day; but no food that
ever l saw anywhere looked 80 good TO
me as those potatoes that I wasn't I'm on.
The Other Boy. I observed, ate three or
Tour OF EN-. standing there on the verge
or the crick with his skates on. He
gazed at me blandly as he ate. OF course
by this time ! dislked him intensely
He didn't, you see, even offer to let me
put his skates on while he was eating
those potatoes I considered him a good
deal of skunk for this. II consider him
so YETI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
NEW YORK, January IA. 1910.
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hours and hours, when you've been sur
rounded by two or three of these female
gabsterinos on your list of intimates. try
ing to fish with live bait for even a
symptom Of an intelligent idea exuded
by any or all Of 'em, and that I've had
to give 1t up in despair and misery every
time? Never even got nibble when,
switching to fancy flies for bait. I'd seek
to lure them to uncoil something that
sounded human.
II wonder where you pick up these
mental zeros. anyhow. How dye get
acquainted with 'em? Sometimes 1 think
you must advertise for 'em. You must
stick advertisements In the papers stat
ing that you want to become acquainted
with a bunch of women who wouldn't
know beans II they saw 'em in a bag
labeled BEANS in letters nine feet
high. How's that? Most of your women
friends are wives of business associates
of mine. and you got acquainted with
'em through me? Oh, sure! Certainly!
l might have known that you'd switch
it around to me that way. But 1t doesn't
happen to be true. Maybe one or two
of them-the one or two really intelligent
women that you know-are the wives of
friends of mine. But the rest Of 'em
hail smack-dab from the No-Womans
friend of mine was the husband of any
of these chippery-chappery women that
sit around here talking through their
tufbans, then I'd tip him off that he was
in bad, and IL he didn't take the tip I'd
stop walking on his side Of the street.
What? They're all perfectly respecta-
BILE women? Well. who the dickens said
they weren't? There you go with that
distort1ng stuff! Have you heard me
emit even one crack about their respecta-
bility? They're too blamed reSpectablet
That's what ails EN-, IL you're asking me.
The chief characteristic of responsibility is
dizziness. and that's the - How's that?
Would / have you choose doubtful but
clever women for friends? Now, see here.
that isn't any fit question for a respecta-
BILE married woman to put to her hus-
band, and you know it. Just you let me
catch woman of that kind around here,
that's all. I wouldn't care how infer
nally respectable she might be, she'd be
going down in the elevator so fast it
would make her head swim, and there'd
he some comparing of notes up here after
her departure that would make your head
swim, too.
"A woman doesn't have to be doubtful
or things like that. you know. to be able
to let an idea escape from her mental
midrin every other Tuesday week or so.
This town is just stuffed and damned
with the incest kind of self-respecting
women who wouldn't walk in the middle
of the car track during a binding rain
storm for anything You could offer 'em.
Why don't you get acquainted with a few
of that kind, instead of these Killed star
fish who mooch around here getting off
endless gusts of that old No. south
breeze. but who haveV't enough sure
enough gray matter underneath their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15

THERE was never a more popular man
in Congress probably than Repre-
sentative Jim Griggs. who died very sud-
denly at his home, In Dawson, Ga, sew
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Mare Island navy yard it seems that the
officers on shipboard made considerable
use OF the navy wireless. by which they
are permitted to transmit messages free
of charge. in corresponding with their
best girls on shore.
Everything would have been all right il
a couple OF precocious youngsters hadn't
erected a wireless station some miles
away, for sake of practice, taking down in
a book they kept for the purpose. all the
messages that came flying through the
air from the fleet When they had made
quite collection they called on the city
fered him the book.
Well, the newspaper did print some of
the messages-but with the names
changed. Even so, there are reported 10
be some folks in navy circles out that
way who don't speak now. and perhaps
even more serious troubles may result.
Nowadays, may be understood. the
Navy Department and the commissioned
personnel of the navy enthusiastically
indorse the bill introduced by Representa-
tive Roberts of Massachusetts, for con-
troll of the air by a seven-headed wire.
less telegraph board.
-
THERE is one thing for which the in
surgent cause should be blessed and
venerated. BY some secret and wondrous
process or argument Victor Murdoch. the
boy insurrectionist of the Sunfiower state.
has been impressed with the absolute
necessity of keeping quiet. He hasn't
uttered a word above a whisper in ten
days or more, and even then made sure
he was alone.
@HARLIE MANN, the superintendent
- Of the House press gallery. hasn't
spoken to me since I mentioned in this
column couple of weeks ago that he
was the only genuine existing member
of that once famous organization ''rhe
General George Washington Horse-Hold-
ing Association and that he could pre-
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few weeks off for the purpose of fixing
up a set of subjects for your female
friends and you to gass about? What
that? How do I expect you to get clever
women for friends? Well, that's a SEN
sible question. too. isn't it? How the
deuce do I know? Is it up to me? Dye
expect me to go out into the streets and
lay a-hold of women who look half intel
ligent, and drag 'em in here?
Its a womans business to make the
right kind of friends for herself. not her
husbands. Now. don't you try to corner
me by forcing me to suggest some way
whereby you could become acquainted
with the kind OF Intelligent women
have reference to- refuse to be trapped
in any such a manner. If you don't know
how to do it. then I'm not going to tell
you. that's all.
"I've got enough on my mind without
being asked to hike around this man S
town picking out women friends for you
who can do something else but sit with
their hands in their laps and laugh and
ghegle like chessy cats all the time.
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written by men of known cleverness as
writer's of fiction or essays. not one really
struck him as being anything like as good
as second rate; while the great majority
OF them were simply hopelessly and lu-
dicrously impossible. The prizes, there
fore, will be awarded to the writer's of
the few plays that were as good as sec
ond rate: but Mr.. Hayman remarked in
cidentally that he would not serve on any
more such play-reading committees. 1t
aroused within him, he said. too much of
feeling Of despair for the stage 1t
seemed to him as il about half the men
and women in the United States were
trying to write plays, and yet none OF
them were getting within leagues Of hit
ting upon the most elemental idea of
With all of the New York
theaters to be supplied with fresh plays.
and new theaters constantly a-building.
Mr.. Hayman considered that the lookout
was just about as bad as 1t possibly
could be.
After a while, 1t seems. the American
stage will have to rely upon that unique
combination of Capri-loungers. Booth
Harrington and Harry Leon Wilson, to
write all of the plays: and still. work as
hard as they might or may, those two
using both hands each,
can't turn out more than four or five
plays a week.
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"Hows that? Clever women of the
kind l am speaking of generally are
nasty. and horrid. and catty, and over
bearing. and treacherous, and all like
that? Ha. ha. How you women do wor-
ship each other, don't you? OF course.
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T was a dreadful
thing to see the
way many men,
bers of the House
jumped up in the
air with both feet
and landed on lit
tie Tommy Hard
wick. a tiny. but
otherwise perfectly
good representative
from the sovereign
-
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NEXT to Seth Low. Mr.. Gaynor prob
~ ably is the least magnetic mayor
that New York has had in something like
thirty years; but one of his little stunts
has already caught on wonderfully,
nevertheless. I refer to- his pedestrianism.
Mr.. Gaynor's house in Brooklyn 10 be-
tween eight and nine miles from the city
hall in New York. but he walks the
distance every morning. at a good stiff
clip. and gets to his Office in a glow and
all rosied up, considering his decided
elderliness. good deal has been writ
ten in the New York papers about the
mayors determined pedestrianism, and
now / notice a great many Of the older
boys of my acquaintance walking either
to or from their offices, and some Of them
covering five or six miles at the stunt,
at that. They argue that If a man of
GaynOr's age can get away with SO long
walk before getting down to his desk
grind O. mornings, there's no particular
reason why they can't do the same, and
meet them putting and blowing along,
to or from their work, swearing that
they are losing their paunches by pounds
per diem and sleeping and eating like
percherons. Which is one little notch to
be cut in favor of Mr.. Gaynor. He'll be
needing favorable notches, / am afraid,
before his term is up. for a man with
the Gaynor temper can scarcely expect
to get on with this populace for four
years at stretch without having a heap
of trouble sooner or later.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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shot holes through the sundry civil bill
that was then before the House with
divers and sundry points of order.
Mr. Hardwick isn't bad fellow, but he
is very young.
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If October has been selected then the
meet is ours.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-10-26
New Auditor Files Bond.

Mr.. Horace Hardy filed his bond
saturday and sent II To the Sec
retary OF State to be confirmed and
iC probable that he will be I'm the
auditors Office Monday to transact
all business that turns up. 1t is ex-
pected that the commission will he
received today so that there will be
no need To wait longer than Monday
90 begin business.
This is quick work on Mr.. Harby's
part for II was only Thursday that
ne received the recommendation OF
the legislative delegation as the ap-
pointee until; some one could be se-
lected by a called primary election,
making In all only three days In
which the details OF the appointment
have been looked after and COM
pleted.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-10-26
Death OF III. u. Parker.

Bishopville. Oct. 2i.-The funeral
service OF III. u. Parker. whose death
occurred at the home OF his son. J..
h. Parker of Americus, Ca, OH
Tuesday. was held yesterday at noon
In the Methodist church. and his body
laid 20 rest In Old Bethlehem ceme-
terry. The services were conducted
by Rev. w. w. Daniel OF Columbia.
assisted by Rev. =. a. Murray and
Rev. Hugh Murchlson.
Mr.. Parker was n years old. He
was twice married. or the first
union he Is survived by Dr. Parker
of this place. Pickney Parker of
biaekville. Dr. Thomas Parker OF
Columbia. OF the second marriage.
o. IL Parker and daughter. Miss
Anna both OF AmSricus. Ca.