davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
The South and the Currency.

| 1t is announced that, after the ad1Ounr>
ment of Congress- Senator Aldrich will
| make a tour in the SOUTH addressing
bankers and commercial bodies on the
subject Of currency reform. Richmond,
| Atlanta, Birmingham and Galveston
will be among. the cities visited. There
! is a desire in that section to hear the
man who has given time and thought
| to what the public credit demands, and
what as chairman of the Senate finance
| committee he will be prominent In shap-
| ing.
| The Star had the pleasure months ago
of suggesting that such a trip should
be made by the Rhode Island senator.
| At that time he had arranged for only
few addresses, and all of them in east
ern cities. leaving the south and west
and middle states out of the calcula-
| ton. AS the question is national. and
at present there are many divisions
about 1t aoth in the financial and the
commercial worlds. the widest discussion
should be inaugurated and kept up until
Congress squares itself for legislation.
There is an added reason now why
the south should give attention. Within
the past few months democratic pros
poets have materially frightened. and
especially as respects control Of the next
House. Prominent republicans look blue
when the subject is mentioned. They do
not concede defeat but do concede that
the fight of their lives is approaching.
and that they will need every vote they
can command.
democratic House if elected will
mean strong southern influence on ma
tional legislation. A southern man. Mr..
Clark, will be in the chair, and another
southern man, Mr.. Underwood. will be
the floor leader. Mr.. Pujo of Louisiana
Is the ranking democrat on the present
committee on banking and currency, and
Mr.. Hardwick of Georgia on that of coin
age, weights and measures, and because
of their present assignments should reach
the head of their respective committees
under a democratic Speaker. And then
the south, both in Congress and in the
electoral college, is practically the demo-
cratic party.
The currency problem is not coming up
at this session, and there will not be time
| enough to settle it at the short session.
Der, they will be justified in insisting
| that the problem go over to the next
Congress, when. although the House will
/ face one way, and the Senate and the
| President another, politically. 1t should
| still be possible to deal with what con-
| fessedly is not a political proposition.
| The southern tour of Mr.. Aldrich is. all
things considered, of very great interest,
| and should develop in force the southern
men opposed to him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
A Paving Profession.

Does aviation pay? Is 1t worth while to
be a sky pilot with new tangled con-
trivance that skins and scars and sails +?
Ask the manager of NJ. Paulhan. who has
been doing aerial tricks in this country
for some time past, but VINO has just
thrown up his hands in disgust and an
nounced his intention to ignore his con-
tract to give exhibitions and return home
NJ Paulhan is one OF those upon whom
the Wright brothers have laid the ban OF
Injunction against the continued use OF a
machine which they say violates their
patents. He has had to give indemnity
bonds and do other things to square him
self with the law ever since he came to
America on his present trip. and now he
is SO badly peeved that he is willing to
brave further court proceedings and leave
his manager with an untitled contract on
his hands. The manager AYERS that he
engaged the French aviator in January at
a salary of $4,000 month, which amount
has been paid in addition to all expenses
The manager has incidentally furnished
the funds for the bonds required of the
Frenchman. With the troubles between
the manager and the aviator the public
has nothing to do, but 1t is interested in
the sum named as the monthly stipend OF
the aeroplanist No professional racing
chauffeur ever got as much as that. 1t
works out to S28SOOO a year, at which
price almost any bright young man would
be willing to undergo the risk of few
broken bones. OF course, this does no,
mean that when aviation is fully estab-
lished as a sport the price that has been
lately paid to Paulhan will govern In the
market. Planists are somewhat of a
novelty just at present. and they come
high as well as fly high. 1t is this very
fact that the golden days are at hand
that will probably induce large number
Of intrepid people to equip themselves for
the lucrative business of navigating the
air.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
WHEN We WERE KIDS.

When kids together. an we didn't have
care.
In the lazy days of summer. when feet VIVA
allus bare.
When hat warn't necessary. an a necktie in
tn way.
An there warn't blessed thing t. do but
scamper OF an play,
Then tn meant Somethin' 10 us, an the
blue skies overhead
Kinder stopped down in TIL meadow where we
children an said:
Trout hitin' in tn mill stream, hurry up
Now's tn time you should be hkin' t your
fav'rt fshin hole
thing t fret
Save comm home t mother with our hair sus-
picous wet.
Then tn sunbeams an the song birds used 4
They air swimmin' in tn river, better get
there right away:
As we passed em could hear EN- laughin',
splashn' down below.
Then we hurried to the river. JUS fast as
could go.
For there warn't thing t. keep us, like there
il air men,
And tn SunbeamS an the song Dlrds an tue
skies meant somethin' then.
Now tn same sunbeams come callin'. an the
same song birds come near.
And the blue skies bend Ger me and theE
messages l hear:
Every dancing sunbeam tells me that out yonder
That the pickerel are biting. but / only sit aad
dream.
For I've 5ourneyed past my boyhood, I'm slave
forevermore.
And may not heed their whispers. as nsed 10
do of yore;
There are bills to meet and duties that must
not. dare not shirk.
Detroit Free Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
Folk and Free Trade.

Joseph W. Folk of Missouri, though no
longer discussed for the presidency. re-
mains figure in chautauqua circles. and
now and then appears at democratic BAN
quets with words of advice for his party.
Speaking at a banquet In Detroit the
other night. Mr.. Folk said he should
like to see the party make clean-cut
stand against the system OF protection.
There is principle involved in the fight
to reduce the tariff on some articles and
leave il on others
Is 1t MIR. Folks idea that his party
two years hence should adopt a tariff
platform carrying the meaning that at
tached to the tariff deliverance of 1892?
That, it will be remembered was construed
by democratic orators on the stump
that year as "a challenge OF protection TO
battle TO the DEATH" 1t had required
d warm Effort In the national convention
to secure the deliverance. Mr.. Cleve-
lands friends, in control of the platform
committee reported a straddle, but Hen
ry Watterson and his friends appealed to
the convention and put the committee $
nose out of joint. They forced the adop-
ton OF a plank that delighted the free
traders.
The battle was fought, and the free
traders won. But was protection killed
Well! AS developments showed. it had re-
~eived but the lightest tap on the nod
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
7. R. AT KHARTUM.

From the Concord Monitor.
Another name than Gen. Gordon's
will be associated now in the worlds
mind with Khartum.
From the St. Louis Republic.
And the colonel was attired in pa
jamas! What does Wyoming think Of
that?
From the Houston Post.
A careful perusal of the cablegrams
reveals the interesting fact that Mr.
Roosevelt was the first ex-President
who ever greeted Walter Wellman on
the Nile. In some respects at least
T. r. Is simply invincible and in q
class by himself.
From the Boston Globe.
All the reports from Khartum agree
that the ex-President Is physically At
to climb the great pyramid just to get
an appetite for breakfast.
From the Indianapolis Star.
Our Khartum correspondent relates
that Col. Roosevelt Is eager to get
home. where he will be among the
people he knows and who understand
him." Oh. they understand him, do
they? Maybe so. but they are always
wondering what he will do next
From the Scranton Tribune Republican.
The special stan correspondents who
found Roosevelt did not undergo the
hardships of Stanley when he found
Livingstone In darkest Africa, but they
are getting lot more space In the
newspapers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
Department Pay.

The following paragraph printed re-
Gently in the New York Tribune Is a
singular mixture of truth and error:
THE wag who wrote a supposedly hu-
morous letter the other day to Secretary
MacNeagh and signed ii $500 Clerk
evidently never had a speaking acquaint-
ance with a department pay roll. Depart
ment messengers usually get much more
than 5000 There is. in fact. no service
in the world in which clerical labor is
more highly pald than it is in the WASH
lngton departments.
Department messengers usually do get
more than $500 a year. but not very much
more than that figure, and while there
are. strictly speaking. no $500 clerks. -
there are many men and women doing
important clerical work who get only a
slight advance over that sum.
To paraphrase the Tribune's concluding
sentence. there is, in fact, no service in
the world in which clerical labor is so
inadequately paiu as it is in the Wash
ington departments. Taking everything
into consideration, the responsibilities
which rest upon the individual workers,
the slowness of promotion, the rightly
of discipline, the restrictions imposed by
virtue of political exigencies, the average
department clerk is not as well off as
the worker in corresponding lines of
activities in private employment.
There are. of course. some clerical sal
aries in the department scale that are
above the average in private lines These
are above the average in the department
scale. But there are comparatively few
clerks who reach that point There is no
longevity pay system such as o-.ains In
many private establishments, giving the
elder clerks a gradually increasing COM
pensation 10 correspond to their added
efficiency resulting from experience. In
most cases promotions in pay come with
changes in duties. and the consequence is
that the government in effect holds al
the same rate of pay for an indefinite
period the clerks who are kept on the
advance in efficiency with their years of
service.
If the government would establish a
longevity system of sliding scale nav.
ments leading up to some form of retire
ment it would have an ideal service. 1t
would hold in the service the best of its
workers, who now are attracted into
other lines by the superior conditions and
pay scales. 1t woulu be able to reward
the faithful. capable workers from time
TO timc in proportion to their value
maintain a stimulating system of promo
tons preventive of dry rot and above all
enable itself to keep the service clear OF
the superannuateu without violating the
principles of humanity or good business
management.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
A Departure From Type.

Picture buying by millionaires Is said to
be one of the most interesting specula-
tions known Every man with canvas
that looks Old with some mythical figures
leaning impossibly against eccentric arch
itecture, or badly drawn animals gamboi-
ing on long parched greens. HES him to
'connoisseur.' Just whether having an
unlimited check book makes connoisseur
is an open question. So many old mas
tiers" have been bought at ripe prices.
only to prove later to be the work OF
young pupils, that 1t has sometimes
seemed as though the possession OF an
exhaustless check book did not in truth
equip the picture buyer with the discrim-
nation necessary to know painting OF
1857 from a daub of 1909.
Once in a while lack of technical, eX-
pert knowledge about pictures stands a
buyer in good stead. Not often. but now
and then it is profitable for the appre-
ciator of ancient art to be ignorant. A
case Is lust at hand to demonstrate this
point A wealthy New Yorker with a
long purse and q taste for antique pic
lures recently bought grimy canvas for
$500 1t looked interesting, partly. no
doubt, because it was obscure. 1t might
or the product of genius. One Of the
finest of the fine arts is that of initiating
the masters. The painting was taken
home. put to tests. examined under
microscope. and, 10! 1t was found to be
true Titan, worth 100000.
In one sense this Is unfortunate. 1t IS
certain to stimulate the traffic in artful
copies. 1t may be that during the next
few months stacks of Titians will be
worked off upon guileless art-buying
public The picture buyer. like the horse
purchaser. should work under advice, not
Internationally. He should proceed with
caution, should stop. look and listen.
! 1t is as great a folly to undertake TO
| traffic in old masters with professional
nuryeyor as it is to play the market with
out inside tips. For every winning such
as that of Mr.. Stokes with his 20,O0O-per-
cent-proft Titan there are scores OF
losses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
The House.

The turmoil in the House need not have
surprised any trained observer of political
events and probably did not. Matters
with the majority have been at SKIES and
seyens since. the session began. 4 truce,
hastily arranged and unsatisfactory to
both factions of the party. brought the
special session to a close in August. and
from that time until December many
angry exchanges through the newspapers
showed that hostilities were likely to be
renewed They were renewed and while
the fighting had been limited until the
present great engagement opened. the
fighting spirit was present from the first
day of the regular session, and that
meant when the opportunity offered just
the explosion that has taken place.
The full effects upon the business of the
remainder of the session could not posi-
bly, be prefgured now. We must all wait
for the air to clear. The party RESPONSE
BILE for legislation is in a plight seldom,
If ever before. witnessed. Gen. Sherman 5
advertisement of war holds good as re-
spects internecine party strife. That, as
well as real red carnage, is hell. And the
republicans. in the House as elsewhere,
are going to smell sulphur for some time
to come.
Nor will the effects of the row be con-
fined to this Congress: Entering into the
campaign for control of the next House
will be the general proposition to curtail
the powers and Importance of the speaker
ship. Today it is second only to the
presidency in influence on policies Does
the country desire that the Speaker at
most should be a presiding officer, with
no authority to name committees and no
voice in shaping House legislation?
November will be the time for the voters
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
Powers
Granted.
THE PUSHING OF PATTEN.
From the Syracuse Post-standard.

From the Syracuse Poet-Standard.
King Patten complains that the people
of Manchester don't understand him. He
NAV recall the fact that the people of
Chicago were equally blind last April.
From the Detroit Free Press.
James A. Patterns welcome in Manches-
ter. England, was not of the sort to make
a man take off his hat and coat and want
to stay awhile.
From the Galveston News. 4.
Mr.. Patterns experience in England was
so disagreeab,e that he came back home
to the land of high living rather than re-
main abroad where he could buy Ameri-
can goods cheap.
From the Rochester Herald.
There would probably be a dickens OF
a row in old England IL James A. Patten
should 70 over there and try to buy his
way into the house of lords.
From the Milwaukee Free Press.
Mr. Patten has stricken Manchester
from his visiting list
From the Columbus Dispatch.
James A. Patten Of the wheat and cot
ton corners left England ostensibly in a
very ca IN, contented and magnanimous
frame o. mind. But probably that was
only a mask which he will throw away
at sea. When ne speaks on this side of
the water 1t will be different.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20

The idea of organizing q company and
erecting and equipping a factory solely
for the purpose of making 100 cars with
out a cent of profit for anybody will
probably be regarded by foreigners as a
characteristic bit of American extrava-
gance.
The automobile has become a fixed
factor in the worlds affairs. 1t is no
longer toy or a fad. 1t is q necessity
in business and almost necessity in
social life. 1t enters into the personal
scheme of things to an extent not ap-
preciated by large number of people.
1t has expanded the area of individual
activity to a great degree and has eff
fected remarkable saving of time. In
some professional lines. especially In
medicine, the motor car has been q dis
sinct boon to humanity in that it has
permitted speedy visits by physicians to
their patients. All ideas of distance have
been readjusted in consequence Of the
development of this useful machine.
Nevertheless, it is not yet a popular
agency in the sense that it Is within the
reach Of a majority of the people. The
constant effort of mapufacturers ie to
produce q practicable car at a lower price
than that which has been possible previ-
ously. They have lowered the average
cost by large percentage during the last
five years, but still the reliable machine
fit for hard road work remains out Of the
reach of a great number. With this
field of possible buyers in view 1t Is
probable that the makers of motor cars
will continue their effort to secure them
nf$ y-ipo oh - n
sonable prices that those that now con-
troll the market. Thus. there is activity
at both ends OF the line Of auto making,
with the millionaires building their own
cars and the manufacturers reaching out
for the patronage of people of moderate
means.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
VARIOUS VERSES
ON TIMELY TOPICS
MORAL COURAGE.

can give up tobacco whenever please:
4 man who becomes but slave 10 a habit
Who. without cigar. cannot he Mt his ease.
Possesses more self-control than rabbit.
II thought was injured in any degree
by the smoking l do l should quit IL THU
minute:
The doctor has said smoke poison 70 me
But that Is all CANNON: there's no logic in II
/ wish might 60 for long rest somewhere:
can't seem to sleep any more as ought II,
My nerves are nnstrung. | get plunged in despair
Over trivial things when know ought not 70
II thought i smoking too much ! should
cease
And never again have the least craving for IN
II my pipe didn't bring a sweet sense Of peace
] should have the good sense and the will Il
abhor IL.
I have promised my wife to let up for a week
Because I've got sick of her frctting and nag
ging:
The world has. somehow become dismal and
bleak.
And. heavens. how slowly the moments are
dragging.
5. F. kiser. in Chicago Record Herald.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
Motor Manufacturers.

A unique application of the syndicate
principle occurs in the association OF one
hundred wealthy New Workers who have
formed corporation for the purpose Of
building themselves automobiles OF a new
type embracing the best features Of the
leading makes. This private stock"
motor car will at first be sold only to
members Of the syndicate. at a price now
unfixed. Whether the company will sup
ply the general market is not yet de-
termined A factory is to be built for
assembling parts, and IL the car is n
success 1t may be offered to general buy
ers. but probably at a fancy price. This
Is vertically the acme of motor luxury.
1t comes as close as possible to man
building his own high-class automobile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
The Discourager.

=" faint no use,' says Jabez Jones
In his most convincin' tones
When you go to him an say
You've got somethin' that'll pay.
"'Tain't no use,' says he because
Your ideas full o. flaws.
An It's all been done before.
Even If you CHANGED to score
Somethin' that looked like hit
Some one else would gobble tt
It s. right lucky fur some men
Jabez wasn't Twin when
Their great works they undertook;
Bunyan would have stopped his book;
Shakespeare would have quit his plays
Caesar would have changed his ways.
1t would sure have made 'em balk
Jes' to listen to his talk.
Jabez might have played the deuce
With his sneerin' WHATS the uSe?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
The ANXIOUS WEEKS.
rom the St. Louis Globe Democrat.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat
In many localities the Easter celebration
| Is but the forerunner of the opening of
the base ball season.
From the Birmingham Age Herald
The base ball writer's are trying ont in
the practice season a few new adjectiyes
/ and nouns to see II they will fit q hot con-
| test.
From tho Toledo Blade.
| Inasmuch as A. A. base ball umpires are
going into training for a week fans will
expect them to be in the pink of condition
| when the season opens.
/ From the Columbia State.
The Sumter man who sold his business
! because the town would not have base
ball this year and struck out for Ben
| nettsville should have made a home run
for Columbia.
| From the st. Joseph Gazette.
| Some idea of the popularity and profit
| ableness Of base bali in this country can
be had from the fact that some of the
leading players receive salaries of SO. UDO
season for their services.
From the Dayton News.
| There are to be few new base ball rules
this year. Even that old rule that the
pennant belongs to any club that can cap
ture it will hold good.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
HENS ACROSS The SEA.

Eighty thousand dozen eggs have been shippeo
, us from Europe.-Ncws OF the Day.
The Cochins and the Leghorns
That scratch beside the Rhine,
The plump and perky pullets
Beneath the Gallo vine.
The Domncks that cacke
Along the hanks OF Dee,
Are doing double duty.
The hens across the sea.
They heard of how hungered
For eggs that were not old,
For pcariy treasures never
Laid mp In storage cold,
To make the sod+a omclets
To feed the brave and free.
And FASTENED TO our rescue
The hens across the sea.
The fresh and dainty hen fruit
For which the nation begs
They send to us-nine hundred
And sixty thousand eggs;
So here's resolution
or thanks from Liberty.
The Stars and Stripes salute you
oh, hens across the sea.
-Minna Irving. in New York Sun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
The WOMEN'S BANK.

banking or the women. for the women and ~
the women has been inangurated in London. In
the pioneer institution no man can open an ac-
When Madame 4. approves a loan
uIer presidential task,
She'll quite forget, In thunder tone,
Security to ask.
And Madame Y. who gets the cash.
Though honest the day,
Infearing any legal lash.
Will quite forget 10 pay.
So Madame X. depositnr.
To business methods raw.
VIII quite forget 10 answer for
The checks she'll overdraw.
But Madame b. the fair cashier
Good feeling will promote:
She'll quite forget-the blessed dear
Such shortages to note.
But. reader. seek M prophecy.
Their hopes to strike aghast:
And prithee. do not question me
How long that bank will last.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
GLAD SPRING.

/ love the mild and vernal spring
tConfound il all. ii SHOWS again..
When robins mate and bluebirds sing
THAT snow il turning into raint:
The hullfrogs boom in marsh and sedge
tGae whis, the rain has changed To hailD.
The catbird croons in burgeoned hedge
The north wind blows perfect gale.
Spring Is the time To WOO. they say
THAT furnace simply eats up coali;
When lovers tread primrose way
Ut must he pleasant at the pole,:
Come love. let's wander Oh the mead
Ire sure and your furs and sacqueD,
And in the stars loves Language read
WED better take the trolley back.
In spring the golfer hits the green
tThese moonlight nights are fine to skate);
The base ball fan hobs on the scene
Nce-boa ting now is simply great:
The fisherman gets out his gear
fHow clear and sweet the sleighhells sound.
All. yes indeed. glad spring is here.
Next month the snow II he % the ground.
= >e Rochester Post-Express.