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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
The COMING COMET.
From the Galveston News.

From the Galveston News.
Now that Halley's comet has been re-
united with it's tail it will. presumably,
interpose no objection to fly time.
From the Dayton News.
Still it is not going to be such a great
thing to look at the comet, since 1t is
reasonably certain that none of US will
be here when it comes again to tell the
folks how much brighter 1t used to be-
From the Sioux Falls Press
Halley's comet is entitled to an apol-
ogy from those people who said it was
the cause of the unusually early and
warm spring.
From the Toledo Blade.
Will the astronomers who started the
report that the comet had lost Its tail
apologize?
From the Augusta Herald.
Another thing to be thankful for is
that Halley's comet will not return again
in seventy-f1ve years. This will leave
quite a while to give attention to other
things.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
We are told that the tail OF the comet
Is 100000 miles long and growing rapid
ly. This looks as II 1t might have trouble
when it strikes an UP grade.
From the Springfield Union.
After all the mean things that have
been said about 1t 1t is not surprising
that Halleys comet should hide its tail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
TO TOMMY TACGART.

with Apologies to Rudyard KiplinG.D
The state conventions soon to meet,
And though the goose hangs high,
And honors will be passed around,
No TaRgart need apply:
For it's Tommy this and Tommy that
And Tommy get out o the way:
But ''Mr. Taggart. II you please"
When the band begins to play.
Full many a fight has Thomas fought.
Full many a victory won:
But when the spoils are passed around
His usefulness Is done:
For It's Tommy this and Tommy that
And Tommy. wait below:
But it's ''please to walk in the front, sir,
When the funds running low.
When party organs needed help.
And candidates were glum.
All hands appealed to TaRgart.
And he never failed to come.
But it's Tommy this and Tommy mot,
And Tommy wait outside:
But Thank you. Mr.. Taggart
When others want to ride.
It was very fine at Denver.
With Kern upon the slate
To have our Thomas fix him up
As Bryan's running mate;
But it's Tommy" this and tommy tns%
And Tommy, walk behind
And ''Mr Taggart. II you please"
When fghtng's in the wind. .
Indianapolis StaA
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Gov. Hughes and the Bench.

Rumor continues busy with the sugges-
ton of Gov Hughes for the Supreme
bench. His qualifications for the place
are Of the first order. His character Is OF
the highest. His appointment would be
received with lively satisfaction in the
legal world, and would undoubtedly
strengthen the court. He would be good
barring accidents. for at least twenty
years service The country holds him in
great esteem.
But while the judicial world would gain,
the political world would lose. by the ap-
pointment. And the political world has
the higher call. so to say, in the prem
ises.
Gov Hughes is an unusual man. AS We
all know, he is in politics by sort of
accident. He had never given thought
to that field Of activity. He loved his
profession, was in the enjoyment of
good practice. and entirely satisfied with
his outlook With nothing Of the hurrah
in his composition, he looked. II at all.
with indifference on the noise and fever
Of political life. The quiet Of his Office
and the contentious Of the courtroom
for him.
But once drawn into the political field
political work. In his first campaign for
from the stump. The best Of the typical
spellbinders, with their good stories and
rhetorical hourishes. were nowhere by
comparison with this clear-headed man
of unadorned and direct statement, with
message Of Importance to deliver. Two
years ago he made a wide tour Of the
country in behalf Of Taft and Sherman,
and proved to be. next to Mr.. Taft him
self, his party's strongest card in the
campaign.
AS an executive Gov. Hughes has scored
with the best in New York's history.
Opposed by the machine men of both par
ties. often acting together, he has sew
eral times put them to rout and to-
day his leading policies. are approved
even by many prominent democrats. Mr..
Ravens, who has just come into notice
by the Rochester election, and is under
consideration for the democratic nomina
ton for governor. is Hughes democrat.
Gov. Hughes wants to return to the
practice of law. But he need not remain
there even II permitted to return at once.
New York will elect a senator next win
ter. If Mr.. Taft gets a second term, men
of the Hughes stamp will be in demand
for the highest places. Many changes
will of course be made in fitting out the
ship Of state, for the second voyage I'M
der the old skipper. So exceptional man
should be kept available for politics. Ma
terial for the Brewer vacancy on the
bench is abundant. But not so as re-
spects the vacancy in the political world
that would be occasioned by the transfer
Of Gov. Hughes to the judicial world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
CITY Trees and Gardens.

The city Of Denver is determined to inn
prove itself. It's officials and citizens
realize that there is a civic duty beyond
the mere paying Of taxes and the main
tenance of an organization to admins
ter the law Denver intends to become
a city of trees as means of preserving
the public health and also as a measure
of attrativeness. This is a slow process
when the individual initiative o. the citi
gems is relied upon and so Denver has
adopted the sensible expedient Of buying
the trees and distributing them free to
the people. This practice was inaugurated
In 1905 and has been continued since
with increasing success in the planting
and preserving of the trees. The other
day 17.174 young shade trees were dis
tributed gratuitously under a municipal
appropriation OF 5000. The requests
for trees greatly exceeded the supply In
Denver Municipal Facts. the official pub
LEGATION of the municipality, is told the
story of the 1910 tree distribution, with
Illustrations showing the intense eager
ness of the people to obtain these gifts
from the city. few years of this Eind
of work will at a very small expense give
Denver an invaluable equipment Of
ehade-giving. health-preserving trees.
Fortunately Washington needs no such
wholesale tree distribution to cause its
streets and avenues to be bowers Of
spring and summer beauty and of au-
tumn glory. The wise planners of the
city made provision for tree spaces that
has been utilized so fully that the capital
today is in a class by itself in the mat
ter of foliage. There is room for tree
planting in the back yards. however, and
many residents take advantage Of this
field I'm order to give themselves the COM
forts of summer shade and shelter.
Washington's chief need Is in the line
OF more thorough cultivation of the
land available for garden making. While
the city is taking care Of trees In front
Of the house the householders should
take 1t upon themselves to till the soil
for decorative purposes within the
bounds OF their own premises.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

Judge Parker. Judge Herrick. Augustus
Van Wyck. John B. Stanchfield and w.
F. Sheehan. But all are corporation
lawyers, and at this time the coin Of a
corporation in a mans pocket does not
add to that mans popularity in politics
There also is David B. Hill, in retirement.
but not from age or any infirmity. He
made reputation during one term in the
Senate, and would take foremost place
there again. A democratic victory in New
York, with Mr.. Hill as part beneficiary,
would be a most notable thing and cause
a national flutter.
Even a democratic landslide this year
could not change the complexion OF the
Senate. But the democratic party will be
Judged in measure by the men it sends
there is an hour Of triumph; and 1t is
hardly necessary to say that men OF the
Taggart stamp in an arena Of dignity and
power would chill the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
LINES FROM AN UNCLAIMED RIB.

Oh unknown man whose rib i am.
Why don't you come for me:
lonely. homesick rib I am.
That would with others be.
/ want to we'd
There now. it's said.
II won't deny and hbl
! want my man TO come at once and cla10
His rib,
Some men have thought that was theirs,
But only for a bit;
We found out soon II wouldn't do:
We didn't seem to At.
There's Just one place,
The only space
I'll It'll will not 6bl-
l want that man to come at once and claim
His rib!
Oh, don't you sometimes feel q lack,
A new rib needed there?
It's l. Do come and get me soon
Before have gray hair!
Come get me, dear!
I'm homesick here:
want-(and I'll not fbl-
I want my man to come at once and claan
New York Tins.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
Abuse and Public Office.

Is undertaking driving sensitive men
out of Office. and preventing sensitive
men from asking for office? Is the pub
lie service being injured by the bitter
abuse Of public servants? Are we ap-
preaching time when a tough hide Will
be of more importance in politics than a
clear head and c definite purpose?
Do not believe II. What is called muck
raking is as old as government itself. 1t
is one of those low weapons which men
have always employed in political con-
tentions. Said the cynical old lawyer to
the hedgling, When the law and the
facts are against you, abuse the other
side In politics this principle is often
adopted.
The idea-widely prevalent--that muck
raking is carried to a greater degree now
than ever before grows out of the fact
that a far larger number of publications
exist now than ever before. Means of
circulating abuse are ampler. That Is
ALL Abuse is not more virulent Read
ing shows that invention and invective,
with political leaders as targets. record
no advance over the exhibitions of for
mer days The policy has always been
to soak him. and soak him good and
the ability has never been lacking.
And never was there a time when good
men along with bad did not have to take
the lash while in office. History is full of
instances, our own short hundred years
supplying a goodly number. Our great
est heroes-both all but worshiped to-day
were ceaselessly and cruelty pursued while
living. Washington and Lincoln were all
but tortured by their enemies. But neith-
or swerved hairs breadth from his course
because of any written or spoken word
In denunciation of his acts or aims.
4 pleasant story is told of a man who
accepted a nomination to the mayoralty
Of his town. His little daughter. just
old enough to be noting serious things,
was panic-stricken by the announcement
and begged him to withdraw.
"Why. my darling?"
People will say such nasty, mean
things about YOU
But that won't hurt. Anyhow, you
and mamma won't believe 'em, and that's
the main thing with me-"
But suppose you are defeated
well, I've got to take my chances.
But il you're elected. will you punish
people who have abused your
'I'H put every one of 'em In Jail.
1t was only with this promise that the
gentleman could get his candidacy vised
at home.
1t is the effect at home that counts
Men themselves know the game, ana
while not caIlous to outrages are NOT
awed by them. No brave, square man
In Office ever allowed his course to be
blazed for him by blackguards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
'ERBER1 ON BRINGING UP CHILDREN.

You've got to myke the young uns mind,
You spare the rod. youth spoil the chile.
Hits downright folly TO be kind.
For gentieness will myke 'em wild;
You've got TO teach 'em to hobey.
To rule 'em when their spunk happeaO;
To myke EN- do Just wot you sye
Just tan their 'ides h0r box their hears.
Why, bless you. hover 'ome they bring
Their children hup the wye they Ort,
They're not halowed TO do ha thing
But wot they're pulled hup mighty shoeoS
Yes hover 'ome they're seen. not card,
Hand hevery little young un fears
That hff e dares to speak ha word
'EN get ha box hacross the hears.
You'll never ear han English lad
Get saucy TO rs parents, hor
Hexclyme Hi WON'T" hunfO lis dad,
Hor kick is eels hupon the floor.
For e his brought hup 10 hcbey,
Hand 'e's been tryned for future years.
Yes hif e as "A word TO sye
Ell get ha box hacross the hears.
wot's that? Hit 'urts i'm? Not . bit.
Hit does i'm good. hand mykee I'm mind
Your Yankee children, Hi submit.
Hare spoiled by parents being kind.
You ort to myke them be polite,
Don't mind little thing like tears,
The honly wye to tryne them right
His tan their ides hor box their hears.
Detroit Free Pres
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
SOCIETY'S PANACEA.

fDr weicbard has discovered the anti-toxin
or fatigue in human beings and animals. His
one experimentation has been completely sue
essf,l Technical World Magasine.)
What checks the sirloin's rising rate.
Makes ranchmen take the busters gais;
And short supply will soon abate?
The weichard antitOxin.
III.
What stirs up Bridget. Sarah. Kate.
To Kitchen zeal, a novel trait:
Our standards low to elevate!
The Weichard anti-toXin.
III.
What stops the farmers growl at Fate,
What stills the anarch's sheer OF hate.
What ends the Walking Delegate?
The Weichard anti-toXin.
What saves our very wobbly state,
What comes all good to propagate
Or check all Ill, at any rate?
The Weichard antitoxin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
CONSERVATIVE MAN.

He was a conservative man;
In fact, he didn't know how
To make a noise and stand for his rightss
Or raise any kind OF row.
He was a conservative man,
Who did not like to jar
The feelings Of the community.
He would leave things a. they are.
He was a conservative man:
When any one had q scheme
To promote a business epterprise-
he called the thing . dream.
He was a conservative man
When any one sought to sevo
wandering soul on the brink Of hell
From shame and q suicides grave.
He was a conservative man
OF a properly mixed alloy;
He never knew very much sorrow.
In fact, he knew no JOY.
He was q conservative man
Who never was fooled by shama;
careful Suspicious and cautious 0sfaU@
A human clam Of clans.
eScfauton Tribuno 1a2abneGAs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

aided eye at various points In this hemi-
sphere. rising early in the morning, just
before dawn, and remaining visible for
nearly an hour. At present 1t has no
tail from the earthly point Of view. as
the appendage Is streaming away from
the nucleus directly toward this planet.
AS both the planet and the earth change
position with relation to the sun the
tail will presumably became more and
more evident until it streams the sky
In a splendor unrivaled by any of the
known members of this great family Of
wanderers. 1t is estimated that the most
brilliant spectacle will be presented n
few days before the 18th of May, when
the tail will be visible at its fullest ex-
tent.
Those who apprehend disaster as result
Of the occultation of the two orbits may
be confronted by the reflection that the
comets tail Is at most merely a gaseous
aggregation of luminous particles of no
substance. II is calculated that the earth
will pass through only the outer portion
Of this streamer. The atmosphere of the
earth is SO dense that it is extremely
doubtful whether any of the cometary
gas can penetrate sufficiently through
this envelope to affect the inhabitants
even slightly. If the gas of which the
tail is composed is Of the ordinary nature
Of that substance, lighter than air. 1t will
&c resisted by the atmosphere, the<m-
ameter of NE earth being thus fT the
purposes of\ self-protection frof the
comets influ,pce increased bs>aAproxi-
mattly ninety 1mf>s~m other wAfs. the
atmAsphere WIZ aofN a cushi@b AT
all eSeats-snat is cAnEon seTe view
of the situation thaAsurNt shoHH appear
to the reason wen -1<<bsrstitious.
and it is to bA hoped hat systematic
efforts will be Ihade Sy governments
throughout the world to allay the appre-
tensions which SO plainly prevail The
Italian government is already instructinS
the local authorities to adopt all posi-
BILE means Of reassuring the people, who
are greatly disturbed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
VARIOUS VERSES
ON TIMELY TOPICS
A REVISED VERSION.

Oh. Mary had a little lamb. regarding whose
cutfcular
The dun exterior was white and klnked in each
particular
On each occasion when the lass was seen per-
STIMULATING
waiting.
One day IL did accompany her to the knowledge
dispcnsary.
Which to every rule and precedent was reck-
lessly contrary.
Immediately whereupcn the pedagogue su-
Exasperated. did eject the lamb from the in
Then Mary on beholding such performance ar
bitrary,
Su6used her eyes with saline drops from glands
called lachrymary,
And all the pupils grew thereat tumuituously
hilarious.
And specialized on the case with Wild con
lectures various.
what makes the lamb love Mary so:' the
scholars asked the teacher.
He paused a moment. then he tried TO dag
the creature.
.'Oh pecus amorum Mary habit omnia TEN
porum." :
Thanks teacher. DEAR the scholars cried.
and awe crept darkly DER 'em.
Life
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
Sweet Revenge.

Il suppose you will be too rich to take
in summer boarders this year,"
well. answered Farmer Corntossel,
well take 'em jes the same. Mandy an
the two gals want somebody to show off
their good clothes and jewelry to-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.


you say you were away from the Office
yesterday because of illness?' said the
stern employer.
yes" replied the young man who knew
he was discovered. Several of the UNI
pire's decisions made me sick
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

Some Of the states are evidently try
ing to figure out some benef1cent
scheme by which visiting automobilists
can be made to bear the entire burden
of governmental expenses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

A little jaunt down to South America
hardly entities Mr.. Bryan to the ovation
customarily reserved for regular globe
trotters.
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The Unpoetic Fact.

OF April rains the poets love to tell
In language very gentle and refined.
And yet when you have lost your good
umbrel
They're just as wet as any other kind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

One of the census mans hardest tasks
is to smile at the same jokes on his
business a hundred times a day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

Mr.. Rockefeller has managed to devise
a way to get rid Of money that beats
all the freak dinner parties ever organ
lied in Newport.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

No man should thirst In vain for pub
Tic notice when he can get it in a day
by either launching a political boom or
wearing a straw hat in April.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

Some Of the grafters show that it is
easy to extort money without resorting
to those cumbersome Black Hand meth
DDS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

Gov Patterson is evidently confident
that the state Of Tennessee is as ready
to pardon as he is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

Base ball Indignation sometimes runs
so high that 1t looks as IL some one
should be employed as a referee, in addi-
ton to the umpires
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

Senator Aldrich's retirement will make
a distinguished vacancy in the scapegoat
department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

Wolter, the New York murderer, was
easy for the police to recognize and con-
vict. owing partly to the fact that he Is
not a Chinaman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

1t is startling to think Of the salary
W. r. Hearst might command as a news
maker II he were an employee instead Of
a proprietor In his offices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

One of the retirements from public
life rumors that made good beyond dis
pute was that OF DR.. Cook
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Justified.

MIR. Bliggins says he Is awfully bored -
After talking with HIM for Ave minutes
and discovering what he thinks about,
replied Miss Cayenne, you can't blame
him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

Great pride was felt half century ago
in the fact that by means of a pony ex-
press service San Fran
The ponv cisco was brought within
ten days Of the eastern
Express. cities. In The Star of
Apri, q, 1850, is the following comment
upon this achievement:
THE overland pony express, between
the western frontier Of Missouri and San
Francisco, so lately established, is already
an entirely successful enterprise We
have before us letters that left San Fran
cisco on the 4th instant, In the shape OF
teIegraphic dispatches, and were mailed
at Carson City on the same day. and
reached the Washington office on the 18TH
at 10 am, having been placed in the Or
binary mail Of the country at st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, on the 10th instant, or in ten
the general news from California coming
by that trip of the pony express was
published simultaneously, through the
medium of the telegraph, in all the con-
siderable cities of the Atlantic side. Thus
the pony express has brought San Fran
cisco. for most practical business pur-
poses, actually within ten days OF New
York New Orleans, Boston, washington,
etc The Establishment OF the pony ex-
press though apparently a hazardous
enterprise involving as II did an original
outlay of money to transact an entirely
new business was but the natural re-
suit of the rapidly increasing necessities
of the commerce between the two slopes.
I've have also before us the first speci-
men of the silver Of Carson valley sent
east of the Mississippi, which was re-
ceived in the shape of a finger ring. by
the trip OF the pony express referred to
above The silver mines OF Carson valley
form the last discoveries of American
mineral wealth of actually demonstrated
Immense value. and are already drawing
to the locality a population SO large and so
full of energy and enterprise as to make
IT a matter of absolute necessity that
Congress shall at the present session pro-
vide them with some government neces-
sary to their wants and calculated to rem
der their magnificent valley speedily as
useful as possible to the rest OF the United
States
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

DE man dat makes de bigges' mistake"
said Uncle Eben. "is de one dat can't per-
suade hisse'f to own up dat he ever makes
any"
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Triple
Alliance.

say, and they might say it more freely
and all the more because of their ire
sponsibility.
Thus, DR.. Won Bethmann-Hollweg was
told. in The absence of ministry. that
Italy appreciated the triplice because of
its assurance of peace: Italy had no in
terest whatever in the bellicose plans
of Germany. There was intimation that
Italy was not pleased with what had
been done on her eastern frontier. also
in the Balkans That under such cir
crmstances Italy should desire to con-
tinue in the triplice would be remark
allie. Her interests were wholly for peace
and Italy would not. under any circum-
stances. employ her forces for the fur
therance of Germany's plans, if those
pans were to be directed against France,
England and Russia. Italy desired peace,
a peace of fifty years was necessary to
develop her vast resources and thus en-
able her. untrammeled. to play her part
as q great nation. Italy would no longer
consent to be a pawn on the political
chess board. Italy would attend hence
forth to her own affairs.
CHI. CHAILLE-LONG