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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28
Feminine Finance.

From Judge.
He-You owe me ten kisses. Pay up!
She-explain, sir.
Hell won them. You know very well
that 1 wagered dozen pairs of gloves
against ten kisses. and won. l.
She-Oh! but kisses. you know
He Cirmly)-kisses should be paid just
as religiously as any other debt.
She Cthoughtfully)-Just the same as q
note?
He-Yes.
Sheer a check?
He-Yes.
She-Or-or-or a draft?
He-Certainly.
She-Then. you poor fellow, I'll give
you q draft on Aunt Jemima!
He never smiled again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28

an empty house, for another the prelimi-
nary whirr of dentists drill, for third
a dinner al which he is post-prandial
speaker. for fourth a waiter who has
not deserved tip. Few get through life
entire strangers to terror in some form.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28
No Use.

From tho Cleveland Leader.
You say Jones is down and out? Why.
il was only a little while ago that he told
me he had the key of success"
He did. but the poor fellow wasn't able
10 find the keyhole.''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28
Business Meeting Held.

Builders Man-Hi. gunner. that new
row of 'ouses in Maple Grove are all
fallen down like pack o cards.
BuiIder-Idiot! Didn't ] tell you not to
take the scaffolding down till you'd put
the wall papers up.-London Opinion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28
Reason for Desiring Commission.

When Mr. L. w. Oyster suggested that
the alleged cost of the local railways
was due to overcapitalization Mr.. Smith
responded: THAT is why we want a pub
lie service commission, which can guard
against THAT evil" He said he wanted
public service commission that could
honestly and intelligenty investigate
conditions here. In Detroit the mayor
ad appointed a commission of fifty citl-
zens, who had employed the best experts
to be obtained, and their report would
not expect Congress to pass upon these
questions without having first n fair,
honest and intelligent investigation.
Therefore he proposed a commission
President. all of them to be chosen from
outside the District. The District now
has an able board of Commissioners, but
these Commissioners already have too
many duties, and he did not want them
to be embarrassed by accusations when
they made their decision In any manner
affecting public corporations. He wants
the commission to be such that when it
submitted it's report 1t could look every
stockholder and every man, woman and
child in the face with the certainty that
they would have something to act upon
which could not be questioned. None of
the District Commissioners knows any
thing about the manufacture of gas or
| L
telephones And their decision would
always be questioned on the ground of
partially. If the President appoints the
commission it's fairness cannot be ques-
toned. If it comes from outside the Dis
trict no one could say it Is partial.
He assured his hearers a law would be
enacted within the next sixty days which
would add practically 1000 acres more to
the 1900 or $500 acres now devoted to
public parks: that Mr.. Tawney Of the
riot nnrrr nd n
tically agree upon the details of the plan.
\ bill will also be enacted, he said, to
provide for system of parks In the
District.
Mrs. Smith said no additional persons
were to be employed in preparing the
plans. for 1t was thought the assessor,
the surveyor and the auditor for the Dis
trict could do 1t. and an appropriation of
$4,000 would be made to prepare the
plans, having in view the idea that the
the whole work.
Chairman Smith explained that while
the entire board of District Commission
ers has voted unanimously upon a public
service commission proposition he knew
that one Of the former Commissioners
leaned rather to his idea of how the
thing should be done. The gas, electric,
electric railway and telephone corpora
just as such corporations need it else
where throughout the country.
Has No Doubt Of Success.
Mr. Lancaster asked if such a plan
would work In Detroit. Mr.. Smith
evaded a direct reply by saying the COM
mission there had employed experts who
came from points outside of Detroit. He
assured his hearers he would fight for an
outside commission
IF / am beaten he said, 'I'll smile
and go for the District men; but I have
no doubt OF the success of my PLAN
Judge Bundy ascked as to the perma
nanfr IF the commission MI Smith re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28
Fresh Goods.

From the Boston Transcript.
She-Did you see many fresh faces at
the opera the other night?
He-Oh. yes. Some of them had only
Just been made that evening
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28
Claim Foul Play.

The case was taken up on the request
Of life insurance companies of Indiana
and Tennessee, which are said to be
swindles. These companies, supposed to
have paid $1,000 already on policies is
sued in the Rider case, are excluded
from business in this state, but are al
legged to have carried on a large business
in Kentucky through an agency at New
Albany, Ind.
Rider, it is learned, carried policies on
his life agsregating $4,000, but none of
his relatives is named as beneficiary
Mrs. Mary Quill, a sister. and D. r.
Rider, a brother, made affidavits several
days ago that they believed their
brother came to his death by poisoning
and that he was victim of foul play
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28
Assailant Arrested.
A Toss-Up.

From Fliegende Blaetter.
Matrimonial Agent-RealIy, when / see
those two whom 1 am going to introduce
to each other / don't know to which
shall break it galltly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28
Testimony of Experts.

In the last Congress, Mr.. Smith said,
they had two experts before his commit
tee one for one hour and the other for
thirty-three minutes. I'VE do not know
the cost of making gas here" he said,
and yet because we did not pass law
reducing the price of gas to a certain fig
ure after less than two hours conference
with experts who had the knowledge We
needed, we were criticised"
1t was ridiculous, he said, to expect
Congress to pass upon the question on
such consideration. He then referred to
Detroit and it's street railway franchises,
which were expiring, and to the fact that
the people refused to renew them for
thirty years more and made a emand
for a three-cent fare. He said Washing
ton had a six-for-a -quarter-fare system,
which no other city had, and yet it was
known that the underground system here
cost three times as much the overhead
system in other cities. He explained that
a Judge had recently decided in Cleveland
that the fare there should be ) cents
with l cent for transfer.
"They have the overhead system, and
if in the judgment of that judge 3 cents,
with one additional cent for transfer,
was the just thing there, how could the
people of Washington demand universal
transfers with a SX-for-a-quarter ticket
system with their underground system,
which cost three times as much as that
of Cleveland?'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28
The Exception.

From the New York Times
We like a man who is always the same,
unless he happens to be very disagree
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28
FIGHTS IN VAIN
CURLY, PARALYTIC NEWSBOY,
TRIES TO AID AGED MAN.
Stabbed In Back for His Chivalric
Interference With Rowdies and
Is In Hospital.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 2S.-"Cur1y," a
paralytic newsboy, who, with his stick
and pack of papers, was a familiar fig
ure at the corner of 7th avenue and saith
street, demonstrated with three rowdies
who were teasing an aged man early
this morning and was stabbed three
times in the back for his pains. His
real name is Thomas Graham and he
lives at 261 West 37th street He Is at
Bellevue Hospital in a critical condition.
Two arrests were made by central
office detectives. The men they locked
up are Julian Larruoy, twenty mine
years old, chauffeur, of 217 West SD
street, and Alfred Druggi, a musician,
who roomed with Larruoy. Curly posi-
who had stabbed him when the chauf-
feur and his roommate were brought TO
the hospital.
Goes to Aged Mans Aid.
The cars pass infrequently at am.
and an old man had been waiting for one
bound up eth avenue for some time when
the three rowdies came along. One gave
him a push that sent him off the curb
stone, and another caught him by the
coat tails and hauled him back so rough
ly that he came near falling in the gut
ter. They shouted and jeered at him and
one of them yanked his beard.
This was too much for Curly, who had
been looking on with rising resentment.
He hobbled over on his stick and ad-
dressed the old mans prosecutors in
shrill voice, crying shame OH them and
Juggling at them Intellectually. Then the
attack turned suddenly on him. One of
the men cursed him and gave him a cuff,
and at the same time he felt burning
pain in the back as he was rapidly stab
bed three times in succession.
Assailant Arrested.
With cry of pain Curly fell to the
sidewalk. The three rowdies ran away.
but two detectives who happened to be in
the neighborhood were soon at the side of
the wounded boy. One Of the detectives
rushed the boy to the hospital. while
the other proceeded to 217 West 33d
street, where he found Larruoy and
Druggi
When the two men were taken before
Graham he positively identified Larruoy
as the man who had stabbed him. and
thought that Druggi was one of the
others. but could not identify him posi-
lively. Both were locked up at police
headquarters. charged with felonious as
sault.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28

1t pays to read the want columns .of
The Star. Hundreds of situations are
filled through theuRv
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28
OUTSIDE MEN BEST
Plan Proposed for Public
Utilities Commission.
CHAIRMAN SMITHS VIEWS
Believes Members Should Not Be
Chosen From District.
CITIZENS MAKE OBJECTIONS
Representative Who Heads District
Committee Expresses Emphatic
Opinion.
CHAIRMAN SMITHS VIEWS
CITIZENS MAKE OBJECTIONS

The discussion of District affairs took
a wide range with Representative Sam
ue w. Smith. chairman OF the House
committee on the District of Columbia,
as the principal speaker last night at the
meeting of the Brightwood Park Citi-
zens' Association. Mr.. Smith was the
special guest of the organization. Presi-
dents of other citizens associations were
also on the guest list.
When Mr.. Smith informed the gather
ing that he favors a public service COM
mission to regulate District corporations.
the members of the commission to be ap-
pointed by the President from outside the
District, he stirred up vigorous protest.
Charles G. Lancaster, president of the
Northwest Citizens Association, stated
with emphasis that the citizens of the
District of Columbia will not stand for
such proposition. Mr.. Lancaster also
declared that the cost of the reclamation
of the Anacostia flats should be paid by
the general government, just as it had
paid for the reclamation of the Potomac
flats some years ago.
Representative Smith was presented to
the audience by William NICK. Clayton,
president of the Brightwood Park Citi-
Zens~Association. Mr.. Smith said he was
glad to extend his acquaintance among
the citizens of the District, and eX-
pressed the hope that they should also
have an opportunity to know him better.
He referred to comments of his actions
that had been made in the past, and as
sllred his hearers he did not deserve them;
that his efforts here, as elsewhere, had
been disinterested and for the public
good. He wanted to live in history as a
man who had really accomplished some
thing worth while.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28
Three Questions Considered.

Mr.. Smith had three questions which he
wished to bring to their attention. The
first was a proposed bill to carry out
Commissioner Judson's idea of financing
improvements in the District, whereby a
certain portion of the revenues is to be
laid aside year by year for ten or twelve
years to accumulate fund of $20.ooo,ooo
for public improvements, including the
reclamation of the Anacostia flats and the
establishment of a roadway and park on
the south side of the river, the connection
of Potomac Park by boulevard with Rock
Creek Park, grand extension of the
park system. the construcuon of new
penal institutions outside the District, the
installation of high pressure in the city
Waterman system the elimination of OBJ
jectionable grade crossings and other
matters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28
Coroner Signed Certificates.

William r. Richards. coroner of Floyd
county, Ind, and former medical exam
liner for the National Life company, said
he had signed certificates of health for
applicants for insurance whom he did
not know, but only when he had been
assured by the agents of the companies
that 1.-The risk was a good one
Il did not have to stretch any points
in order to pass these risks, but there
were too many of them looking for pol
icies,' said Or. Richards.
Il believe this investigation will I'M
earth one of the biggest insurance swim
dies ever exposed" said State Insurance
Commissioner Bell today as he took up
the case of Walter r.. Rider, a teamster,
who died January A. and whose body
was exhumed yesterday by the coroner
at the request of certain insurance COM
panies. The death certificate indicated
that Rider died of intestinal trouble, but
it is reported that the autopsy which
began today showed large portion of
the lung eaten away, supposedly by tu-
berculosis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28
INSURANCE FRAUDS
Kentucky Agents Held on
Companies Charge.
POLICIES FOR INvAllDS
Officials Say More Than 100000
Has Been Obtained.
PHYSICIANS IMPLICATED, TOO
Sound Persons Examined, But Poll
cies Made Out in Others
Names.
POLICIES FOR INvALIDS
PHYSICIANS IMPLICATED, TOO

LOUISVILLE. Ky, January 2S-Rapid
developments are expected in the al
legged insurance frauds. which state ON
Gals and officers of the insurance com
panies involved claim will reveal bold
and systematic robberies of companies
in half dozen states. Last night John
j. Keane, Timothy O'Leary and Patrick
j. Needham, local agents for several ME
insurance companies were arrested,
charged with defraudinS the companies
which employed them out of thousands
of dollars. They will be arraigned today.
The laws net, it is said. will not be
drawn tight until it further incloses at
least three prominent Louisville physl-
clans and score or more of dummies
Say Invalids Were Insured.
The warrants We're sworn out by G.
Renick, secretary and treasurer of the
Indiana National Life Insurance Com
pany of Indianapolis. Ind, charging that
the three men under arreset defrauded
the insurance companies by various de-
vices of insuring INDECENT. diseased and
decrepit inyaidS. and, through colluslon
with some of the relatives of the appli-
cants sharing in a division of the death
claims when paid; by submitting per
fectly sound persons to physicians for
physical examination, but having the
policies made out in the name of some
other person in precarious health; by
collision with physicians who supplied
the agents with blanks filled out. no eX-
animation of any character having been
made, and by other methods. Mr.. Renick
charged that 100000 or more had been
fraudulently obtained. His affidavits al
legged the three agents worked for the
following companies: Indiana National
Life Insurance Company of Indiana, the
Independent Life Insurance Company OF
indianapolis, Ind, the Commonwealth
Life Insurance Company of Kentucky
and the Standard Life Insurance Com
pany of Des MoineS, Iowa.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-12-07
News From 1,abun

Many people we know are rejoicing
over the nice rain we had last night
and today. The farmers grain is com
ing up nicely.
Mr.. Nesbitt Mahon was the visitor
of Mr.. Claude Mahon Tuesday night.
Mr.. Ed Acker, of Williamson, is Wis.,
iting relatives in this community.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Roper of Laurens.
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Roper
Sunday.
A goodly number Of young people
from Laurens attended the s, vice at
Rabun Sunday morning.
Miss Maude Sharp was the welcome
visitor of Mrs. Leonard Abercrombie
Saturday night and Sunday.
Rev. Mr.. Baggott pastor of Rabun
/ Creek church spent Saturday night
with Mr.. II. II. Mahon and family.
Mr.. Willie Coleman and son. of
Woodruff, spent Saturday night at the
home of Mr. w NJ. Mahon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Armstrong. of
Fountain Inn. visited Mrs. kebpcca
Owens Sunday.
Mrs. Melvina Abercrombic is spend
ing awhile with her daughter. Mrs.
Paul Willis. in Shiloh community.
Mr, Sloan Mahon left Sunday even
ing for Laurens, from where he will
go TO Columbia for few days
Miss Allie Babb. after spending two
weeks IN I.'nrens. returned home Fri
day.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-12-07
HOW TO RUN HORSES.

While we do not claim to be an eX-
pert on horses, we do know that more
good horses are ruined by just such
methods as were followed in trying
to get little pony off the square yes
terday than all other things put to-
gcther.
a little Louisiana Marsh pony was
being carried home, when he took an
idea that he would rather not be car
ried so fast When he stopped the
man driving it began pulling Jerking
and whipping him nn;il he was fran
tic. score or more of idlers gather
ed Ground TO watch the fun and con
tl'it ute TO it. Grown E.cn shook their
overcoats hit him from behind with
whips waved their arms at him and
aid everything conceivable to worry
and annoy him. For ten or fifteen min
utes this was kept up and the pony con-
tinued to rea and paw in the air. Fin
and with loose line he trotted off.
Even though he had been bad, ami
NAL already, this treatment made him
worse and the best of them would
have been ruined. Such treatment as
that has the same result as the first
runaway does: the horse never gets
over 1t.
Leaving out the actual monetary
value of the horse. grown men who
know the suffering that fear and ex-
citement causes the dumb brutes,
when they are being held by ropes and
are unable to protect themselves or
flee away, should have some considera-
ton for them and try in the only way
possible. by kind and gentle treatment.
to teach them to work and do what
is expected of them
n horse that is once treated as that
one was yesterday hardly ever, if he
ever. gets over it. He is ruined ami
NAL for life. He is ever on the look
out for someone or something to hurt
or anlict him.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-12-07
T0nAY'S ADVERTISER.
What ii Contains Both in the Way of
News and Advertising.

we present to our readers today
what we think one OF the largest pa
pers that we have COTTON out for some
time We wont say "one of the best 6"
for that would be egotistical consid-
erlng our recent taking over of it's
management. However this issue Will
be found to contain thirty-hve col
umnS of solid reading matter. equal
to and perhaps exceeding the amount
OF any county paper i'm the state
Only trough the generous patronage
of our advertisers are we enabled
to give to our patrons so much of the
news of the day. Not only are we in
debted to them for their nstrinsic
value but for the interesting things
which they themselves contain. The
days of freak advertising are over and
the time has come when the merchants
can only afford to advertise those
things which they can conscientiously
offer to the public and at prices which
are not deceiving
i'''' "'"uSS Dt counted on tnat
the store that advertises Is the store
that is most wide awake to the needs
of its customers and the one most like
ly to offer genuine bargains. That is
fact that cannot be denied because
the prosperity of the Advertising firm
is automatic.
We would urge generous perusal
of every advertisement in the paper
and in all reliable papers The modern
man often looks first at the new ar
ticles and ideas displayed in the ad
vertising sections and turns his at
tention to the reading matter after
wards. In advertisements big ideas
are expressed in few words and in
much of the running stories few ideas
are expressed in many words.
Thus. with the large amount of read
ing matter and the interesting ads.
we believe this issue of The Advertiser
Will please all of It's patrons.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-12-07
NATIONAL SOLONS
CONVENED MONDAY
(Continued from page one

the stroke of II. the house remained
in session long enough only to hear
prayer and the roll call, to adopt res
olutions Of sympathy on the death of
Representatives Brownlow of Tennes-
see, Foulkerod of Pennsylvania, Tir-
rell of Massachusetts and Gilmore of
Louisiana. and the members of the
house who have died SINCE the ad-
journment of the previous session,
and to have the oath of office admin
istered to three new members.
To Notify President.
Representatives Tawney. Calder
head and Clark were named by
Speaker Cannon members of the point
committee to call upon the president
and notify him that congress had as
sembled
The new members who entered
upon their duties as representatives
of their districts today were: John j.
Mitchell Of Massachusetts, to succeed
the late Charles @. Trrell: r. NJ.
Lively OF Texas. to succeed Gordon
Russell who resigned to become a
federal Judge; and Il. d. Massey of
Tennessee. to succeed the late w. p.
Brownlow.
World-wide arbitration to settle
differences between nations was
urged by Rev. Henry d. Couden in
his opening prayer in the house The
chaplain expressed the hope that dis
armament of the worlds navies and
armies might be brought about in the
near future.
OF the 39l members OF the house.
%iS answered their names at the roll
call
Mr.. John r. Blakely. OF Clinton. at
tended the sales Monday.
Mr. w II. Druniinorti and mir NJ. q.
Patterson, trustees of the Lanford
school. were among the visitors to
the city Monday. They are arranging
for the sale of $4,000 in bonds for the
Improvement OF the school facilities.
Misses Mamie and Sarah Babb spent
Sunday in Gray Court with relatives.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-12-07
U. d. C.'s TO GREENWOOD IN 1911.
Successful State Convention Closes at
GeorgetOwn-0cc aston Most De-
ligtful One.

Georgetown. Dec. 2.-The third and
last days session of the L. ID. Cos
convention was opened with prayer,
at $50 o'clock this morning. Nothing
remained to be done, except to decide
upon the next place of meeting and
the election of officers.
Mrs. 4. T. Smythe, on behalf of the
Charleston chapter, extended cor
dial invitation to the division 10 meet
at Charleston, and another was receiv-
ed from Robert Walter chapter. of
Greenwood, which was reinforced by
an urgent request from the mayor OF
that city, that the next convention be
held in the interior and hospitable city
of Greenwood. Not to be outdone,
Georgetown put in her bid most gra-
ciously. The ballot was taken on the
two former places, and Greenwood
won. Thanks of acceptance were at
once dispatched to the mayor,
Mrs. KOhn Reelected.
The election of officers was then
nSlu dS lOilONH lSSi-
dent, Mrs. August Kohn; first vice
president. Mrs. j. Walter Doar; sec
ond vice president, Miss Emily Gra-
ham; third vice president, Mrs. d. B.
Alexander; fourth vice president, Mrs.
Allison Lawton; recording secretary,
Mrs. c. ]. Milling; corresponding sec
retary, Miss Alice Earle; treasurer
Mrs. NJ. j. Perry; registrar Mrs. c. E.
Graham, recorder of crosses, Mrs. W.
II. Fowler. auditor, Mrs McCue.
The executive officers of the divis-
ion are exceedingly efficient in their
several offices and the work of the
convention was carried on with the
utmost harmony and in rapid man
ner.
AS presiding officer, Airs. Kohn was
businesslike, considerate always, and
in every way made an ideal chair
man. There were only two changes
in the officers. that of Mrs. Lawton and
Mrs. McCue
Final Adjournment.
The convention adjourned at |
O'Clock, p. m., after the singing OF
God be with you till me meet again, u
"nd few words of benediction and
Godspeed from the president.