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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01
THE OLDEST WOMAN.
Bahia Vasilka Was Born in q Little
Bulgarian Town in 1884.

From the London Standard.
The claim of Frau Dutkiewitx OF Posen,
born February q, 1855. to be the Oldest
woman In the world. is now contested by
Mrs. Bahia Vasilka. VINO was born In May.
1874, in the little Bulgarian village of Ba-
velsko. where she has lived ever since
The record Of her birth is preserved in
a neighboring monastery of the Orthodox
Greek faith. Bahia Vasilka is the daugh-
ter OF q peasant, and worked herself as q
peasant up till a comparatively recent
date. For moro than 100 years she reg.
ularly worked in the fields. according to
the custom Of her country. where women
are employed In all sorts OF manual la
Dor. When she was born Bulgaria was
merely a province OF the Turkish empire,
and the entire population groaned under
the tyranny Of their Turkish rulers.
She has seen innumerable wars and re-
bellions. massacres and atrocities, polit-
teal crimes and political tragedies. She
recollects with perfect distinctness events
that happened at the end Of the eight
zenith century and the beginning of the
her earlier life up to the time when she
attained tho age OF eighty are far more
distinctly impressed on her mind than the
happenings of the last forty-six years.
Dada N6SIlka uVcQ through All the Crises
Of her nation. and now rejoices to know
that Bulgaria Is an Independent kingdom,
Her son Todor, following the family
tradition. has also worked in the fields az
q peasant nearly all his life, but he has
also taken part in various wars and re-
bellions In the Balkan peninsula. He 10
not quite so fresh and vigorous as his
mother. although he Is still capable Of
doing a good days work. The oldest
woman in the world Is said to enjoy fairly
good eyesight and 1ood hea ring ana .bo
Is able TO walk without support.
She lives on pension paid her by many
of her numerous descendants. who humber
more than 100. She II naturally. quite q
come great distances to get Q elin,pse OF
this wonderful woman who has defied the
ravases Of time for . century and q quar-
ter. . -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01
Takes Notice of Attack in New
York Evening Post.
"DELIBERATE PERVERSION''
Denies Sending for Hartman to
Levy for Contribution to
Campaign Fund.
Theodore Roosevelt. in the Outlook.

Theodore Roosevelt in the Outlook.
In the New York Evening Post Of Fri
day. August 26. there appeared in an
editorial article the following statements:
Il will make the corporations come to
time.: shouted Roosevelt to the mob.
But did he not really mean that he would
make them come down with the cash to
elect him, as he did before? For a man
with Mr.. Roosevelt's proved record 1t is
simply disgusting humbug for him to rant
about the corporations. upon whose treas
urers he fawned when he was President
and wanted their money for his cam
paign. Does he think that nobody has
a memory which goes back to the life
Insurance Investigations, and that every
body has forgotten the $4,000 taken from
widows and orphans and added to Theo-
dore Roosevelt's political corruption fund?
Did he not take a big check from the
beef trust, and glad to get 1t? And now
he Is going to make the corporations come
to time! One can have respect for a
sincere radical, for an honest fanatic, for
an agitator or leveler, who believes that
he is doing Gods will: but IL is hard to
be patient with a man who talks big but
acts mean. whose eve is always to the
main chance politically, and who lets no
friendship. no generosity, no principle no
moral scruofe stand for a moment be-
tween himself and the goal upon which he
has set his overmastering ambition
This champion Of purity, this roarer for
political virtue, is the man who was for
years, when In public life, hand in glove
with the worst political corruptionists OF
his day: who toadied to Plat, who prais-
ed Quay, wha paid court to Hanna; under
him as President Aldrich rose to the
height Of his power. always on good
terms with Roosevelt; 1t was Roosevelt
who in 1905. wrote an open letter urging
the reelection of Speaker Cannon,
against whom mutterings had then be-
gun to rise; it was Roosevelt who asked
Hartman to come to the White House
secretly. who took his money to buy
votes in New York, and who afterward
wrote to My Dear Sherman'-yes. the
same Sherman-reviling the capitalist to
who he had previously written, saying,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01

When woman who IS travelling is
assigned TO her room In a hotel she
looks up the hotel rules on the door and
carefully reads them. When she comes
TO one as follows: mo washing OF clothes
permitted In this ROOM" she gives
satisfied sigh. Then she unpacks her
trunk, rings for hot water and within an
hour has the mirror covered with hand
kerchiefs pasted there to dry. and has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01

hose. underwear. waists, etc., hanging
over the back Of every chair. Then she
gets out her diary and notes in II how
much money she has saved. There are
said to be some very historic places in
this town." she notes after detailing her
wash. but I will not have time to see
them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01
The Feud Still On.

From the Boston Transcript
EtheI-Maud says she is ready to make
up II you are
Kate (snappily)-Tell her I'd be ready
to make up. too. II I had . complexion
as muddy as hers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01
Reckons With Glass Hostility.

The Evening Post is not In itself suf-
ficiently important to warrant an an
swer. but as representing a class with
whose hostility it is necessary to reckon
IN any genuine movement for decent gov
eminent, it is worth while to speak of
1t. There are plenty of wealthy people
in this country, and of intellectual hang
ers-on of wealthy people, who are de-
lighted TO engage in any movement for
reform which does not touch the wicked
ness of certain great corporations and OF
certain men of great wealth.
People OF this class will be in favor Of
any esthetic movement; they will favor
politician, against the grating labor
leader or any man of that stamp, but
they cannot be trusted the minute that
the reform assumes sufficient dimensions
to jeopardize SO much of the established
order OF things as gives an unfair and
improper advantage to the great corpora
ton, and to those directly and indirectly
responsive to its wishes.
The Evening Post and papers of the
they represent, would favor attacking
a gang of small bosses who wish to con-
troll the republican party. but they would,
as. the Evening Post has shown, far rath-
er see these small bosses win than see
movement triumph which aims not
merely at the overthrow Of the small po-
litical boss, but at depriving the corpora
ton of its improper influence over poll
tics, depriving the man Of wealth of any
as simple American citizen. They would
be against corporations only after such
corporations had been caught in the
crudeSt kind Of crfminality
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01

From NJ. A. r. -. =
He-Going to marry the rich Jack Ham,
mond? Why, / thought he had thrown
all his money to tho dogs.
She-So he did: but they turned out %
be retrievers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01

80 your son In London IL a director
at the stores. That's very responsible
position
"Yessir: e 'as to direct the customers
what get lost."-The Taller.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01

Il fear the hero OF the magazine serial
viii be bankrupt next month"
why so?'
He leaves q taxicab waiting in the
last chapter.'-St. Louis Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01
Things Hard to Say.

1t is no pleasant duty to say these
things Of Mr.. Roosevelt We had hoped
that time and reflection had sobered him;
and that his western speeches would show
him capable of taking an elevated politi-
cal leadership. But whatever he may do
In his set addresses. II Is plain that he
means en- route to stir the popular heart
by appeals In his very worst vein.
His leaping back into his old role is
both indecent and dangerous. 1t Is indie
cent because, In utter disregard of all
propriety and Of personal and political
fair. play, he rushes upon the next prest-
dency as II 1t were already his. and
boasts OF the great things he is. going to
do: II Is dangerous because the more
the mob yells approval of his reckless
speech. the more reckless 1t will become.
It Is evident that there are troublous
times ahead of the sober and steady peo-
pie of this country IN dealing with this
man who came back to help solve our
problems and Is proceeding to do II by
making them more dificult than before.
There Is nothing to do but to face him
squarely and tell the truth about him.
The taste OF his quality which he gave
yesterday will no doubt delight the crowd,
but II leaves sensible and patriotic citi-
Gems a&hast. They are startled by the
thought that we may fall into the hands
OF this braggart In whom self-seeking is
SO finely blended with hypocrisy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01
LaceS and
EmbrOideries
in FRIDAYS Clean Up.

Small lot of remnants OF OM-
All-over Embroideries that eOyC
sold up TO 75c. G. I. P..-..
Remnants of IS. to q inch Swiss
and Cambria Embroideries, compris-
ing beautiful fiouncing and NA
corset cover patterns. Soc ZVDC
and 49c values. G.. T. P.
Table of Embroidery Bands and
Finished-edge Gallons in d.
the newest patterns. VAL Il DC
ues up to sc. G. I. P.
27-inch Swiss Flouncings, full
pieces, showing dozens of
deep. heavy patterns Sold On
elsewhere at zoe and 75c. aOyC
G.. T.
Table of Cluny Laces. Linen and
Cotton Torchons and AU/
Point desParis novelties. AAAC
Worth up TO 1Oc. G. T. p. ~
Mems, Women's and Chill nn
dren's Hemstitched Hand VIC
kerchiefs. @. T. p, for...
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01
ROOSEVELT GETS R0AS1NG IN EDITORIAL;
LIES, AND KNOWN TO Be So, HIS REPLY
Newspaper Says Ex-President
Consorted With Corrupt.
.ovERMASTERlNG AMBITION
Scathing Criticism Of His Con-
duct and Language Is
Made.

Editorial in New York Evening Post. August Is.
We should like to think of Mr. Roose-
velts performances yesterday as those
Of the ever boyish. He reminds one of
a college athletic hero, who, after grad
uation, simply cannot live without the
himself on the foot ball field in order to
hear the glad sound once more.
1t is two years since Mr.. Roosevelt has
fed on the yells OF the crowd in railroad
stations, and yesterday he made UP for
long abstention by gluttony. Yet, as we
say, we should prefer to think OF all
this as comic. There Is undeniably an
amusing side to Mr.. Roosevelt's wayside
oratory. 1t recalls the political speaker
preserved in the amber Of James Whit
comb Riley's verse. who
Helt the banner up'srds from a trailin' in the
dust.
And cut loose on monopoly. and cussed and cussed
and cussed.
But laughter cannot help passing into
anger and a sense of gross outrage when
car-end harangues is fully taken In.
Supreme Political Power"
For here is a private citizen assuming
that he has supreme political power.
Here is former President showing aside
the actual President as IL he were a
truckman..
Here is a man who forever chatters
about the square deal, yet Who treats
his own friend and the chief of his own
party with absolute unfairness, pushes
himself forward as the only true foun-
tain OF justice, announces what II will
do just as though his being elected
President next time were already settled,
and bears himself throughout as pc
cu1iaf1y repellent combination Of dema-
gogue and dictator. >.t
The thing goes beyond a display Of bad
taste. As such II Is shocking. but 1t Is,
besides. an exhibition Of moral impu-
dence.
Il will make the corporations come to
time" shouted Roosevelt to the mob. But
did he not really mean that he would
make them come down with the cash to
elect him. as he did before?
Tor a man with Mr.. Rooseveits proved
record 1t is simply disgusting humbug
for him to rant about the corporations
upon whose treasurers he fawned when
he was President and wanted their money
for his campaign. Does he think that no.
body has a memory which goes back to
the life Insurance Investigations, and that
everybody has forgotten the $4,000 taken
from widows and orphans and added to
Theodore Roosevelt's political corruption
fund?
Did he not take a big check from the
beef trust, and glad to get It.?
And now he Is going to make the cor
porations come to time!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01
'~HAfd TO Be Patient"

One can have respect for a sincere rad
zeal, for an honest fanatic for an agitator
or leveler who believes that he is doing
Gods will: but it Is hard to be patient
with man who talks big but acts mean.
whose eye Is always to the main chance
politically, and who let's no friendship. no
generosity. no principle. no moral scruple
stand for moment between himself and
the goal upon which he has set his over
mastering ambition.
Such wild and whiriing, words as Mr..
Roosevelt uttered yesterday are curse
to public life. They arouse passion with
out directing II. They give no one a
clear idea OF what the speaker meant,
except that he sought to infiame the
crowd and make mischief.
He Eliminates against crooked men.
He Is going to ''cinch" the crooks. Why
not be specific? Whom does he mean?
Even Mr. Roosevelt cannot intend us to
understand that he will be detective, po-
lice, magistrate. jury. jafler. all in one.
and will get after every burglar and
swindler in the land. No, his crooks are
political crooks.
What he wants the crowd to under
stand is that he is with them In their
present wrath. against men who go into
politics to make money, or who advance
by political corruption. or who are no
torious as INSCRIPTIONS machine politi-
clans. Yet this champion OF purity, this
rodrer for political virtue. Is the man
hand in glove with the worst political
corruptlonists Of his day: who toadied
to Piatt, who praised Quay. who paid
court to Hanna: under him as President
Aldrich rose to the height Of his power.
always on good terms with Roosevelt.
It was Roosevelt who. in 1906. wrote an
open letter urging the reelection Of
Speaker Cannon. against whom mutter-
ings- had then begun to rise; 1t was
Roosevelt who asked Hartman to come
TO the White House secretly. who took
his money to buy votes in New York,
and who afterward wrote to MY Dear
Sherman''-yes, the same Sherman-revil-
ing the capitalist to whom he had pre-
practical men," II Roosevelt Is the
great cincher Of crooks. why didn't he
cinch them when he was shaking hands
with them?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01
Deliberate Perversion of Facts"

In other words, the statement Of the
Evening Post is not only false and ma
Iicious. is not only in direct contradiction
OF the facts. but is such that II could
only have been made by q man who.
knowing the facts, deliberately intended
to pervert them. Such an act stands
on. level Of infamy with the worst act
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-01


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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-08-16

of the feud to one and another in or
der to avoid an Introduction TO the
stranger and when the time came to
20 home, Adora had a vision OF
very stern John Lane whose eyes
avoided her timid glance, while John
Lane secretly carried away a sore
heart and recollection of sweet. oval
face with shy brown eyes.
They met in the village and passed
haughtily by-each with beating heart.
When the holidays were over John
Lane had gone away again and Adora
lost her interest in the winter amuse-
ments OF the village and even went so
far as to find fault with Aunt AIMS at
titude against the Lanes.
Adora's way through the woods led
across the brook that formed the boun-
dairy line between the two properties
II added to her discomfort to find
Silas Lane. himself. diligently chop
ming a hole in the ice of the brook
preparatory to dropping a fishing line
into the icy water underneath.
"Howd'y do?" said Silas. politely. as
Adora passed with daintily hfted
skirts THE laurers pretty handsome
this year"
Adora inclined her head gravely'
but made no response. She had prom
,sed Aunt Ann not to speak to the
Lanes and she would not break ner
nromise-and yet. something impelled
her TO pause and look wistfully back
at the old man who had returned 10
his sport with little angry laugh
Suddenly, he looked up and saw hef
watching him with grave intentness
and with an impatient gesture, he
threw down his line and came toward
her.
Mad at me. amt you. miss" ne
quer!ed. dryly.
Adora shook her head slowly
"'Spose your Aunt Wynne's told yo'
all about how | cheated her out OF th'
brook-eh?" he insisted.
She nodded.
"Weu. | didn't cheat her-it's be
,onged to us for three generations
only YOUR eat-grandfather. he sur
viewed the property In his day and, a
cool rs YOU please. he just annexed
the brook We just let 1t so yea
after year. but when was LOOKING
out for John-that's my son-to com
home and take over the farm. feit
though he ought to have the proos
It's ours by right and the water-powe
will be just the one thing that 5 iaef
ing ON our farm. told Mrs. Wynns
! saws: Go down to the recorders o
fee and see the papers FOR yoursen
| It's all down in black and white ou
] woman-like. she wouldn't STIR s'e'
! hut lust sits hack and sulks,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-08-16

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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-08-16

tion-for months I vOided what seemed
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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-08-16
REMARKABLE AERIAL TRIP
Voyage Of Lieut.. Honeywell From St
Louis Across Lake Michigan
Filled With Danger.

Ionia, Mich.-Lieut- H. E. Honeywell
of ST. Louis and his balloon. the Gen.
tennial, which landed at Shiloh. ten
miles north Of Ionia, had a remark
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started from ST. Louis with ". T. ASS
man as a passenger. Progress was
rapid until Kenosha- Wis. was
reached and the crossing of Lake
Michigan begun. Here the balloon
dropped TO only 500 feet above the
ground.
To the many observers on the shore
between Racine and Kenosha II
seemed that the balloon would be car
ried northward toward the hea6 OF
the lake rather than toward safety on
either shore. From the way Lieuten
ant Honeywell kept near the earth II
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-08-16
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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-08-16

The Boundary Line
By CLARISSA MACKIE


"Adora!" called Mrs Wynne from
the front door
The girl turned at the gate and
looked back with resentful eyes. I'm
not going to speak to any OF the
Lanes" she said sharply.
Il thought you might forget" said
the older woman.
Il shall never forget, Aunt Ann"
said Adora proudly, as she passed
through the gate and out into the
crisp snow OF the road.
She did not turn toward the village
street but made her way up a mar
row, untrodden path. Presently the
path wound into the tall, brown silent
woods with its carpet OF snow under
foot and bare interlaced branches out
lined against the blue sky overhead.
AS Adora walked slowly through the
woods her thoughts were of the year
before, when she had first come to
make her home with Aunt Ann
Wynne. Then 1t was that the Lanes
had been Aunt AIMS most intimate
friends, but there had been trouble
over boundary line in the woods ant
Mrs. Wynne complained that Sila!
Lane was trying to take advantage o
the fact that she was woman whit
did not understand matters Of bust
ness-and after that it went from bat
to worse. until Silas Lane actual,
claimed the brook that formed tn
boundary line between the two proper
ties; then, the two families did no
recognize one another, and to friendl
little Adora this was a great blow.
But that was not the worst Whe
half Of the year had gone by, job
Lane had come home from the agr
cultural college where he was learl
Ing to be a twentieth century farme
Adora met him at barn dance, an
as soon as she learned the name {
the handsome stranger whose stead
grave gray eyes followed her wis
fully in the mazes of the dance, SUI
den terror struck TO her heart-f(
she very much feared that she wou
have liked TO know John Lane. b.
she was forced to whisper reminds
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-08-16

censure. When the late Justice Brew
ef, whom Governor Hughes will sue
coed, came from Kansas for the
bench, he wore as fine bunch OF
populistic whiskers as that state ever
produced, but quickly taking broad
hint, amputated them. and from that
time on was one of the smooth-faces.
Mustaches do not come within provi-
sions of the law, hence Chief Justice
Fuller, Justices Day. Lurton and
Holmes sport downy decorations
north of their upper lips Justice
Kenna goes even trifie farther and
attaches himself to sidewhiskers-
The main point is: Will Governor
Hughes recognize the fact that whis
kers and judicial brains, as exempli
fed by the Supreme court. do not
mix?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-08-16
Lieutenant Honeywell.

is believed he had little need of using
his ballast up to the time of leaving
the west shore of the lake and that
he had retained most Of the sand.
Lieutenant Honeywell was in the
S70-miles-in-2S-ho race with Dr..
Fielding to West Sheppard. Que. The
Centennial was in the race from St
Louis to Mobile last year
Assman is qualifying as pilot and
has one more trip to make