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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-01

touched with his hand glass other receptacle con-
tanning anything remotely resembling alcoholic
stimulant. He had never knowingly spoken five words
with who had ever touched an alcoholic stimu-
liant. had been guilty almost of a sacrilege, it ap-
peared, in coming along and asking him such
founding, such scandazing, such unheard of, ques
ton.
begged pardon many times, changed ground with
certain adroitness until after awhile his perturbed chp
simmered down to the normal. STILL had yet solemn
and important duty to perform-the tobacco propo-
sition. How to get at that after his reception of the
drink question, bothered After much mental
travail, l thought of plan
"Once met gentleman of hundred, said (think
ing at the time that it rather clever of me) who
told he had begun chewing tobacco at the of nine
and smoking tobacco at the age of eleven and that he
had kept up both habits all his life
The little old darted quick look of suspicion at
me, as much to say, "Oh know you unmitigated
infant in years. what you trying to get att" Where
upon looked back at him with faced innocence,
and he hudd1ed back in his chair
Either he lied, or he of the progeny of Satan.
who protects his own he squeaked at me-
But" said I, not without keen trepdation, he
smoking at the time he told me-"
"Beelzebub's son, then-not doubt of it,! was his
out of hand pronouncement. And there will be no end
to his smoking!"
With the echo of that awful representation in my
ears, withdrew precpitatey from the field of tobacco
investigation
came upon less CnOrny tn1CKeCS Wnen l entered the
domain of detetcs. Also uncovered his hobby. His
hobby One Meal Day. He had eaten
than meal day since his twenty fourth year
he said At that stage of his life after period of ILL
ness, he had determined las las-so many of
modern dietary experts have determined) that 1--WE all
too much. Hence his afterward altered rule
of meal a day. He did not consider meal the
apple orange that he took upon rising. 1t his
only indulgence in food aside from his midday meal,
which in itself of anything but substantial nature
Coffee? Not sip of the vile concoction had passed his
lips since the regime of Andrew Jackson Tea? An
abominaton!
But very many quite old persons women
pecialy, to find tea stimulating, invigorating-
don't they?" inquired somewhat feebly.
They think they do he replied; but they are in
bondage. They are Slaves to an Herb"
Which, of course, settled that
What His Method Was
GRADUALLY he unfolded what his method of life as
- to other essentials, had been. Up to his nnetieth
year he had walked less than eight miles day.
He had walked two miles day from then until his
hundred and first year. Then he had suffered "a
slight iness-nothng of any account" which had COM
PEELED his giving up his pedestriansm. put my foot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-01
By Clarence L. Cullen

placed his age at anything short of hundred and
fifty Before calling upon him found the record of his
birth in the town hall of the little New Jersey place.
The church record agreed with the official record. The
venerable one who had been born in the town and lived
there all his life, few months above one hundred
and four years old Having cleared this point sought
and found him.
He was huddled in Deep old fashioned, cretonne
upholstered chair placed in the little grape arbor along
side his wistara covered cottage. His housekeeper,
stout and somewhat suspicious granddaughter of sixty
led me to him. He glanced at me keeny out of alert but
faded little eyes of moistsh blue, and waved me to
arbor chair with his crook handled stick upon which he
kept tight clutch.
That which is venerable appeals to me- and mean
disrespect when say that the huddled little old gen.
tleman reminded me strangely and uncannily of
traordnarily intelligent performing chimpanzee had
seen but short time before at vaudeville theater.
refer the facial resemblance The centenarian plus,
never it appeared, man of much bulk had shrunk to
all but unbelievable smallness; "littleness would
be the better word He looked baflingly, unhumanly
little he sat timidly in the great depths of the
brightly lowered, cretonne covered chair. His head
not much above the size of average cantaloup.
The sinian resemblance accumulated by the tiny
black skullcap of velvet which poised rakishly alb
surdly if by accident far the left side of his tiny,
hairless head. The chmpanzee of my still fresh recol-
lection had worn such cap during his "act"
The tiny old man face of the hue of wood ashes
His eyebrows had Disappeared beref of such
mitigating screens his eyes had that curious peerng,
watchful expression Of But shall not revert to that
chimpanzee again; for it seems unlind
He could not have weighed more than seventy pounds.
His granddaughter told that he still able
unaided about the cottage and the little yard thereof;
but he sat hudded in his chair throughout my visit.
His mind quick enough; but his voicea thin reed,
it have been at best-was oddly remote, mufed
by distance that did not exist,-for sat three feet
away from him,-that it seemed to come from some
where few PAGES back of his chair it like the
ped voice of insect the location of which in the
grass could be fixed only approximately.
My Grand, of course, gently to pluck from the
centenaran if he agreeable the secret of his achev
ing such mound of years. To this purpose questioned
him.
Question of Alcohol and Tobacco
FIRST of course to that disreputable duo, alcohol
and tobacco. Had he drank?
No follower of Islam, the road back from his first
pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. could have been
vsbly indignant the asking of such question than
my little very old gentleman in the cretonne chair
He was Quaker (Which had not known, and he
shook his crook handled stick at and demanded of
me how dared to ask him anything like that Drink?
He loathed, he despised-etc, ETC. 1t took quite
time to soothe him. He had in his life
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is "n the prime of life; the man of fifty views it
that his neighbor of sixty is getting ttle the
of sixty acknowledges with reluctance that his
chum of seventy isn't quite spry he used to be,
but he would dare say that the hearing of his
friend of seventy who roundy declares that he is good
for hundred
Thus does angle of vision to what constitutes
longevity alter with mounting years. And it
all crystaizes into the brodiom, 1.-The older grow
the older want to be-.
This, however, is DEPRESSION The point is Would
you like to reach the age of hundred? Because if you
would, have the recipe; two recipes, in fact. True
have not concusvey tested either of these methods of
achieving the century mark. One could do that, of
course only by living to the age of hundred, thereby
indicating whichever of the he had chosen
for his ongeval guidance. No person could expert
ment spontaneously with both of these recipes for the
achievement of centenarianism, since they are more
divergent than the two at the ends of fan shaped
aurora boreals They are in truth, antipathetic and
Numerically different systems for the attainment of
hundred years of life.
say "for the attainment of hundred years in this
ofhand way, for the convincing reason that saw with
these eyes and held personal converse with two praC
ttioners of the respective recipes Both of them had
overtopped the century mark by several years. each of
them thereby proving beyond the possibility of cavil
that he possessed the correct century achieving sys
tenn.
will add here, in its proper place, that my contact
with this pair of quite elderly worthless and their euc
datons of their respective methods of attaining the age
of hundred and more left in such state of beaze
ment and mental confusion that forced to abandon
my hope of reaching the hundred mark. l could
not decide then, have l been able to decide
since which of the schemes of the Anticipated gen.
tlemen adopt for the accomplishment of that long
drawn out purpose can only hope that the reader will
not find himself the horns of the dilemma after
reading the two recipes for longevity.
Number One at Bay
VISITED the century conquerng gentlemen, neither
of whom had heard of the other, consecutive
days. Centenarian No. l lived in somnolent little
New Jersey town. Runor abetted by conjecture, had
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d you live to be a hundred? This
is no idle question. 1t is asked wit
tingly. The answer is not bound to
be" Of counsel" in every case. There
are plenty of persons who aver that
they would not care to live to be a
hundred, or anything like hundred.
These are usually quite young per-
sons; for it is the natural habit of
youth to look upon old age shudder-
ingly, or to turn away from the
thought of it altogether. The boy of
twenty regards the man of forty as
"a back NUMBER; the man of forty
considers that his friend of fifty
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Number One at Bay

VISITED the century conquering gentlemen neither
of whom had ever heard of the other, consecutive
days. Centenarian No. / lived in somnoent little
New Jersey town. Rumor, abetted by conjecture, had
Arizona republican., 1911-04-03

must begin in the home and be ap- piled to the spiritual life of the small CT cities and towns which furnish so much of the population of the larger cities. There must be less scouting at Puritan morals. less sissy treatment of sin in the pulpits. less criticism of parents who endeavOr tO be firm with their children. less punishing of teach CTS who try to restrain their pupils. less making the child it and the parent an old fogy, less of the idea that young America is bound to come out all right anyhow For young Amer ica can get into the wrong place as easily as other flesh and blood.
 Parents Are Responsible.
 Who is responsible? None other than parents are altogether and always responsible. Every item contained in the tremendous catalogue of carnality. corruption and crime is due directly to the. criminal carelessness concerning children.
 "A child is a creature of circum- stances over which he has no control whatever the first ten years exist ence in this wicked world, because born by no volition of his own will He doesn't care whether he is taught as criminal or trained as a Christian, but does take kindly to the first be- cause born carnal in sin and is prone
Arizona republican., 1911-04-03

of taking advantage of them. They are trading today in wOmanly virtue. They are amassing fortunes at the ex- pense of honor. of holiness. of all that men and women should hold best wherever people live.
 "The explanation is easy. These traf- fickers in human souls are protected. Their tracks are covered. They live and work under the surface. In the fathomless pit, deep down among the dregs of society. Here they drag their prey downward for money by bribing men and buying and selling women.
 Protected by Politicians.
 They are in touch with the despic- able professional politician and with the leech-like, money absorbing ele- ment of the police. They cover them selves locally, and officials who are above bribery and above living on the blood of woman find it difficult to reach them. The immensity of their sins against society is unbelievable and unbearable: one shudders at the very thought of it. yet through their wonderful vice prOtectorate they are able to carry on their nefarious trade and drag girls down into their nau- seous haunts.
 Nor will the white slave evil by cured simply by arresting the keepers of evil resorts, although the more such offenders are arrested the better. The must begin farther back. It
Arizona republican., 1911-04-03

to do evil as the sparks are to fly upward If left loose on the streets or in sinful surroundings. how can their course he other than criminal?
 Two of the tens of thousands of cases that I have had tc do with for more than a quarter of century should satisfy the most skeptical as to the cause. also the cure of crime. and should awaken such an interest in in digent and ill-treated children that no more such sad stories could ever be written on the pages of history for our grandchildren to read and reflect upon. From a home of poverty, a widow with one bright boy. called on me holding her all, Harry. by his hand. In tears l learned the hidden history of her heart. how once we were wealthy, lived in luxury in New York city, but my husband was a stool pigeon for Boss Tweed and lived by stealing. l am afraid my boy, from whom I expected so much, will fol- low in his fathers footsteps. Please, pr. Orne. save him if you possibly can
 A Natural-Born Thief.
 T took Harry into our own home, where I soon discovered he was a thief I then took him to | reformatOry at Concord, Mass. and committed him to the care of Gardner Tufts, the superintendent. acknowl- i 'dged as one of the best disciplinarians n the world. Harry graduated the
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thlrd year with the highest possible honors. Superintendent Tufts said to me: Doctor. if you succeed in secur- ing position for Harry where he will be loved and looked after until he gets established, there's one of the greatest men this world ever knew. If. however, you fail here's one of the craftiest crooks I tried my best. only to fail Everyone wanted the boy. but was afraid of him simply because he was from reformatory: hence branded as jail bird. Two years ago a bold burglar entered a palatiaI home Tn Brooklyn. N. Y., turned on the gas. resulting in the death of mother and
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(Continued on Page 5)
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-22
MONEY IS POURING IN
Much of tha Corporation Tax Not DUO
Until Jurc is Being Paid
Other Taxes.

Washing on, April 2l-Althougn
the corporation tax for this year is
not due until June payments are te.
ginning to turn into the treasury
About $325,000 was paid in March
The stimated total receipts for tbs
year are $25,0Go900.
The excise ,aG aud ordinary in
ternal revenue receipts are the only
source of revenue even holding thea
own this month.
Customs receipts however continue
to fall below the estimates but in.
ternal revenue for March alone show
ed increase. The total receipts from
that source this year are 1924 900
about $4,000 more than had been re
oeiyed at this time last year.
The working condition of the treas
ury continue favorable with the GET.
eral fund at $S4 100000 and the bal
ances in the office at $26,000,0O0.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-22
COUNTERFE|TERS CAUGHT
Secret Service Men RAID Chicago
Den and Capture Gang and
Their ParaphernaiIa.

Chicago, April 2l.-Martin Barta,
whom secret service men say is the
head of a gang. Of counterfeArs, was
arrested. One man Is believed to
have been shot While escaping ana
much counterfeiting material and DO
gus money was coniscated in the
raid.
The raid followed tic confession of
Barta, who gave the names of his
associates and the location Of the
plant. One man was making counter
felt nickles wien the raid was made,
He leapad from the second story win.
dow ana escaped Shots were fred
at HIN and be was wounded.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-22
GIRLS ARE DETECTIVES
Showed Extraordinary Goodness in
Capturing Robbers Oklahoma
Mayor tlcnors Them.

Sapulpa, Okla, April because
through their coolness they had
brought about the arrest of Harry
Cleve, and negro and MS wife who
it Is said have confessed ro0rerles
in Oklahoma City, Sapulpa, 81. Louis
and Kansas City, MISS Vivian Carter,
Miss Mabel Burton and Mss Gertrude
Jack, well known girls of this city,
were today appointed detectives by
Mayor Denton .ani their appointment
confirmed by TIE city commissioners.
The girls will receive $500 and re-
ward from the four cities where the
value of the property sail to have
been stolen by the Clevelands is e. il
mated at $4,000.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-22
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS ARE END
ED WHEN DiAz REFUSES TO
REslGN FROM THE
PRESIDENCY.
|MAD{R0. SR., RETURNS
| TO AMERICAN SOIL
Trocps Of Made-o Are Reinforced
Ey Soldiers From Mountains
Eiadcro Visits His Wifc
TWO American Fris.
oncrs Released.

III raso, Tex, April I.--All peace
negotiations between the isurrectos
and he Mexican government wero
called off today.
Oscar Brannis and Esquiyal Obre
gon two congressman from Mexico
.Ci.y who have Ieen attempting to ger
Mader0 10 accept some peace pro
posals roeived telegram this af'ei'
noon Just after the, had sent mes
sengcr under she fag Of truce with
linal appeal 10 tsa rebel leader Il
listen 10 their s9sencat.
Tho mcssasc was fsoA Nesico ciy
Although they Ief,Sed to say wat
sent 1t, Il Informed item that the az.
r.auas Of Mai.r1 y 4 such taat tacs
cotid net be ctter.s.ned ana asFot
them hat ley Iraa negotiations.
Simuitare1usl3 Nth the receipt y,
the TELEGRAM from Mexico City the
insurecto troofs began their march
out ef tie hills and canon by the
hundreds and moved closer 70 Juarez
as II preparing for an attack, but !
soon appeared that they were not
hurrying into any real action.
The troop movement proved to he
Rancho Villas command coming fro%
its camp in the mountain to take iis
position with the ress OF the army
Peace talk occupied the rebel carr
during the day. Ii Juarez the fed
erals having nothing else to do pGt IN
The time erecting few more fori,
Gcatiors.
Messages wene sent to Madero on
several occasions during the day Al
day Madero's unyaried atement 10
that nothing has developed to make
him change his decision OF yesterday
10 oren the battle today lie bus I'd
himself receiving messages from Y
paso, visiting with his wife and re
reporters and correspondents was
celving callers
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-22
SUFFRAGE DELAYED.
EFFORTS FOR SPECIAL ORDER
TO GIVE BILL HEAr,'NG
MAY 2 DEFEATED.
Lee o'NciI Browne Objected As Nc
Declared Biz Was Dad One
and He Wanted it De-
fcated.

Springfield ILL.,, April 81. Efforts
to make the woman's suffrage bill a
special order for consideration on
Tuesday, May 2, was nailed in tie
house today after the steering com,
mittee had agreed to date tae bin
for calling up on second reading the
bill which has passed the senate
Representtve Tice made the mo-
tion that the bill be made special
order. Representative Lee O'Ne.l
Browne objected ana Tico moved 10
srsrcnd the rules. On rising vote
the speaker announced that the house
refused to suspend the e.-,s.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-22
AMERICANS RELEASED,
President Diaz Gives Freedom 20
Americans ASSISTING Rebels.

Mexico City, April 21-President
niaz today ordered the release OF FL
ward III. Bla.t and Lawrence f. Con
verse, Americans who were arrestSd
by government troops and imprisone !
In Juarez. It was stated in the ie
Tense Of the men arrested that they
were arrested on American soil aud
taken back to Mexico by force.
II. c. Converse. father of one OF
the Americans. called at the palace
his morning accompanied by men
her of the U. s. embassy and made 4
Plea on behalf OF both prisoners Diaz
after considering the matter directed
that letter be directed to the an
lborities in Juarez ordering the re.
lease Of the two men.
This letter was given to the elder
Converse who viii take il to Juarez.
Converse lived in Glendora. Csi.
ana was formerly member Of the
Texas militia Illatt came from Pits
burg. Both men were captured in
February near Guideloupe hy Col
Rabago's commend charged with as
sisting the rebels.
Friends claim that the men were
arrested on the uni'ed States sids
and appealed to Washington with the
result that the United States COVE sn.
mcnt made report 70 Mexico and az
the same time instituted an invest
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-22

ceived IGG ana six OF the ballots were
blank IS to The choice for prcsidoat
general. The tcllefs spent almost q
hours counting yesterdays yo,e
Witn Mrs. Scott was elected the On
tire Administration t:a.et except Que
Vice president general. VINO received
ten votes less that the number ne
eessary TO elect aud on which posi-
tion a new ballot will be taken
a Picturesque Gathering.
Describing the contest and TIC
leaders in II, oae writer draws an
interesting picture.
Thickest at Willard
Here in the famed peacock alley
Of the willard Hotel, where the iighl
was ever thlckest, these splendid and
aristocratic ranks Of women Of an
Client lineage and of highest breed
ing, ard magnificently g1wned, looE
some of them, like grand duchesses
and some like the "daug:ters of al
hundred earlI" sweep by each other
ei her in stately greeting or in splen
did scQern, as thir aignmonts are fol
or against THIS presidential candl
date or thc other. There is absolute
ly no compromise or tolcration be
tween the factions. II you are foi
Mrs. Story you are persona non
grata to every partisan of Mrs. Scott
ana ii you arc for Mrs Scott you are
an object of distrust to every bosom
that beats beneath the daisies white
Not McGregor's and Grants, no.
Montaguo's nor Capulets were in
Giercer fcud than this. For no Romeo
nf the Montagues may even smile I'M
on Juliet of the sCapulets, howcvcl
fair, without falling beneath the fac
tons fiery ban.
Senators and congressman, states
men and diplomats parade this daz
zlng corridor every n.gnt with sof
and hestating feet, and ! have yel
to see the first masculine desperate
Concluded on Sixth Page.)
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-22
COURT HOLDS UP BALL GAMES

Springfield, H., April 2l.-The
Springfield club Of the Three /
League will not play ball as long rs
court proceedings affecting the league
are pending. President II, S. Kin
sella of the Springfield club furnish
cd this information tonight when
asked regarding a rumor that the
four southern clubs have plan 10
dissolve the league.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-22
NO ATTACK ron "A HOURS.

Maderos Camp, near El Paso, Tex.
Aprll 2l.-Francisco l. Madero, Sr.
and his party Of peace emissaries ar
rived here tonight after one week on
the field Of lie rebel leader. Gener~l
Madero stated to the newspaper msn
that no attack would he made on
3uarez within the next "A hours.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-22
EN.hRE A-1, STL.silon TICK
EFT ELECTED Exc1l'T VICE
PRESIDENT GENERAL.
COUNT VOTE "A HOURS
New Officers in Fer TWO Years
Picturesque Scene in Corridor
Of Hotalcrder t'as 49,
600 Members.

Washington, April IL Mrs. Mas
thew T. Scott of Illinois ;oaigat w2s
declared reelected PRESIDENT Of tie
Daughters Of the American FcvoA
ton for tNe next two years OF L
1886 vc;5s cast MIS-. Scot received
CT and MIS-, Storey Of New York re-