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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16
~wE LITTLE HANDS INTO
RIGHT


like star specks in the Milky Way. like
plums i'm a Christmas pudding, like dia-
monds on a dollar princess.
The dear home town is patiently wait
ing for you when you arrive at the very
end of the right Of way.
1t is on the spot when you step out of
the sleeper, swish your skirts and Won
der where on earth YOU are going to lay
your weary head.
II is there when you sit In the four
square, slabsided hotel bedroom next
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16

who had a most wonderful, delightful.
delicious baby
He was spring baby, and as the
weather grew nice and warm and the
winds blew from the south the mother
used to take this wonder OF hers out for
long. long. delightful walks: and while
there is no doubt she had his best good
at heart. yet it is also plain, undoubted
and ridiculous fact that she was so proud
Of him sine just simply loved to have
people notice that he was hers. She was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16

Be detectives in Lent?' require Nogi
with compressed teeth. mo crimes ex-
plode in Lent and shylock Holmes is
useless in the midst of purity"
April II will soonly arrive up" 1
commit. Then lid shall be removed
drunk. card-gambol. leg-dance and MUIR
der will be enjoyed fore & aft
This will be nice date for Japanese
Detectives" snuggest Cousin Nogi.
He doubtlessly would said further
more had not peculiar circumstance
walked in.
Missy.
From out submarine entrance of
ures emerge outwards silently like cells
crawling over talcum powder Fig L
wore opera-house overcoat and silk-pipe
hat of Jno Jake Aston appearance. His
eyes contained considerable presto-iite
and he was smoking a red-hot nail.
Beneath the headquarters Of his over
coat he wore tail. Otherwise you
could not tell him from the New Jersey
suburbs. Figure 2 was similar to Fig
!. only more employment-bureau in his
appearance. He wore a sulphur neck
tie & asbestos overcoat. He follow
doggishIy behind Fig / carrying one
suitcase distinctually labeled Spring
Novelties"
Them Figures stop shyly in shadow of
Perm r r station.
"Beclzebub.'' hoIla Fig 1 softishly,
"why don't you call a taxicab:"
81 am trying to find one. Mr.. Boss
snuggest him. He mako loud signal
BY whistling through his ears. Pretty
soonly one taxi-hack Of sulphur COM
plexion arrive up.
where you wish for to go?" require
Hon. Chauffeur with Tammany voice.
broadway" yall Hon. Beel prompti-
tudinously. Take US to Hotel Spend
more with immediate gasolene"
Inward jumps for Figure l & 2. Honks
by Hon. Ottomobile which start off,
wards.
I'VE must grab this mystery before
Il can do so.' 1 snagger to Nogi. So
with talented knuckles We attached our
selves to smoke-pipe in rearwards of
that taxi-hack and thusly arrive lille
gally to Hotel Spendmore where it was.
Hon stranger with accompaniment of
Hon. Assistant, make get-off at this
fashionable headquarters. He hand Hon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16
WE WONDERLAND THE DEAR HOME TOWN

pink. fragrant heads for us to sniff at
clear down from high green trellises
There and there alone everybody knows
a person, and a persons rightful claims
are properly acknowledge: and, this be-
ing the case. person is justified in being
snippy to this new environment, which
nobody ever wanted to have. anyway
But the actual fact of the matter is
that all up and down the face of the
earth dear home towns are strewn about
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16

ESTERDAY p. NJ.
in the surround
ings Of midnight
me & Nogi was
clipping carelessly
near Penn r. r.
tunnel in city of
n. Y. feeling de-
licously frustrat-
ed.
Why should We
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16

morning. while James is out reporting at
headquarters Or intervie wing his half
scared subordinates. or simply scouting
round town looking for somewhere to
land
OF course. you may, in the very first
glance at your new environment, decide
that the earliest use you going to
make OF 1t is to give it a lovely, long
rest while you go home and visit mother.
But-well, there was once a woman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16

Clerk. THAT Personality is deceiving
you. He is not such name like he
signed. I must tell you truth-you are
entertaining Devils unawares"
do not behave SO apoplexy,'' snug
gest Hon. Clerk. Il have known him
for years. He always comes here every
that nom de plum. If he wish to re-
main perfectly quiet until Apr Il, that
is none of our hotel business. We are
used to Royal Persons in dishguise."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16

Prominent illustrators will then learn
ers. college professors and other folks
which We now admire but don't care to
look at forever.
THE STAGE-Hon. Eddie Foy viii
play the Pied Piper in the New Thcater.
Many plays will he imported from
France. They will not be more immoral
than some we now have, because that
would be impossible-but there will he
more Of them Maeterlinck has been
employed by the week to write a miracle
play for Marie DRESSER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16

II Editor Sunday Star, who keeps
Satan. Jr., employed for printing pur-
poses,
Dear Mr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16

CEVERAL weeks ago grave and dig
nified councilman of Philadelphia in
troduced an ordinance which il
passed would impose a penalty of five
dollars upon every woman or girl found
guilty of wearing a harem skirt in the
streets of the Quaker city. The bill is as
follows:
Section ]. The select common council
of Philadelphia do ordain that the wear
ing of the new apparel known as the
harem skirt on public streets be. and is
hereby, forbidden. as it tends to degrade
womankind.
Section >. The penalty for violation of
the first section of this ordinance shall
be fine of S. for each and every Of
Tense
There is but small likelihood, however.
of this bill passing, as entirely too many
of Phiiadelphia's councilman have wives
and daughters. Indeed there is no dan
ger of Philadelphia being deprived by her
masculine population of view of many
harem skirts on Easter day.
In New York it is said that the mayor
has forbidden women wearing this ap-
parel in the streets. But the mayors or
der is disregarded every day. and will be
on Easter Sunday. Mere man indeed is
helpless when woman has determined to
display the latest brainstorm of fashion.
Who has failed to be moved to laughter
by locking at a picture of a woman In a
costume of a distant period? And this in
face of the fact that while those fashions
reigned not only the women were highly
pleased with them, but the men admired
them fervently as we of today do the
dresses of our wives, sisters or sweet
hearts.
costumes such as the crinoline, the hustle,
the switchback, the Grecian bend and
the others which now look ludicrous, look
so because We see only the pictures of
them.
Dress our beautiful women of today in
these costumes and men, no doubt. would
universally declare them dreams OF
beauty. For it is the life. fluctuating in
a costume. animating it that lends
charm to it and no virtue in the costume
itself. In the sixth century France seems
to have taken hold of the position as
ruler Of fashion that she still maintains
But all art. even the art Of dress, If you
trace it back far enough, leads to the
Chinese or Japanese, and SO in the sixth
century japanese influence is clearly man.
ifested in the dress of the Frenchwoman
which, however. was much simpler as to
making than the dress Of a century pre-
vious.
In the reign of Louis IX-say in the
year 126O-there was veritable satur-
MALTA of dress adornments. This is when
the wasp waist came into being.
Il
To be sure the corset was not such
49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16

Short waists were fashionable in 1884.
so short they almost reached the arm
pits: In some recent years the waists
have been built away down to below
where nature made them. Bustles in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16

date will arrive usual. Dynamite
will be sold to all schoolchildren.
Drunken toughs can obtain automatic
revolvers at any drug store. Nobody
will complain of the silence, except a
few deaf mutes.
WAR WITH MENICO-This brutal
event will cause much suffering among
patriots. Whole regiments of militia
will die of rheumatism caused by re-
naming in Indiana waiting to be tailed
to the front
WAR WITH JAPAN-General Hobson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16

4 Ii down the ages tie same weird
~ fate has pursued US women.
IA We are born into perfectly
lovely home surroundings. We
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Hot, say him with voice.
Did you bring back some delicious
novelties for Spring and Summer in New
York;" require Clerk
Several" snuggest him while eating
parlOr matches
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-16

To be sure the corset was not such a
one as We see at the present day in
America. but it answered the purpose of
reducing the waist line to little more
than half its natural dimensions and 81
was success. Laces and ermine entered
largely into the costume. The lace was
draped from the sort of tiara that served
fol headgear and was caught up here
and there from sleeve and skirt, in a
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1911-12-28
WOOD CITES NEED
OF ARMY REMOUNTs

Washington. ID. c., Dec. S7.-Ma-
ior General Leonard Wood, in his
annual report 10 the Secretary Of
War, regards as a national calamity
the shipment of thoroughbred horses
abroad: for he sees he time when
the army will be unable to securJ
proper remounts.
The Southern Commercial Con.
grcss announced today that IL has
been for some weeks preparing to
consider the whole subject o. horse
and mule breeding in a section OF
the fourth annual convention of the
congress at Nashville next April. The
section will be under the chairman
ship OF George NJ. Ronnel. Chief OF
Animal Hlusbandrv Division. United
States Department OF Agriculture
The following gentlemen will speak
to tho subjects indicated
4 h. White, Leesburs. Va, "Tha
Draft Horse IN the South; Capt. Z
II. Conrad. Ir, in charge OF Front
ROYAL Remount Depot. Front Royal,
Va, The South as a Source Of Army
Rcmounts"; Gen lohn u. Castleman.
Louisville. Nv, THE American Sad
die Horse; ]. L. Jones. Columbia.
Tennessee. The Mule-Breeding 8
Feeding Nmqgement and Market Re
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1911-12-28
BASEBALL NOTES.

The New York Giants Won the
Cuban series PLAYED in Havana, cop
ping 2 out OF the ? games played.
Jimmy Barrett the OLD Cincinnati
and Detroit star. has signed TO man
ase the Des Moines team next season.
The new OWNERS of the Toledo
team have made arrangements for
the Hens" TO train In Lexington,
XIV. next spring.
Harry Pattee. the former Brook
lyn-Rochester PLAYER. has been en-
gagged 10 coach the Brown University
baseball squad.
Marty Hogan. for several years
manager OF Tri-State league teams.
has quit the game and will go into
business in YOUNGSTOWN, o.
James +. Gatfney. the new owner
OF the BOSTON Nationals, says the
South End park is too small and that
he intends building a new plant.
Manager Fred Tcnney. OF the Bos-
ton Nationals. Is writing a book on
baseball specially intended for boys
between the ages of ten and sixteen.
Pitcher Hogan, who has been sign
ed by the. Boston Americans. is quite
a performer on the ice and q mem.
Der of a hockey team in Northern
Michigan
Ii is said that Hugh Duffy has a
two-year contract as manager of the
Milwaukee team, which calls for $751;
00O. That's Glass IA salary all
right.
Followers Of the Cubs are pleased
to learn that Manager Frank Chance
will be In the game next season. hold
ing down his cid position at first
base.
IN effort Is being made TO com
bine the Ohio and PENNSYLVANIA and
Central leagues. Both leagues met
with considerable financial difficulty
last season.
After many delays, work on the
new American league park in New
York has been started The contract
calls for the completion OF the plant
/ by April. 1912.
Newark has signed First baseman
/ Harry Swacina. Two years ago
Swacina was tried out by Pittsburgh.
and last season he managed the Mo-
bile Southern league team.
Monte Cross, the old Philadelphia
player and last season manager OF
the Scranton team, will perhaps be
appointed manager of the Lynn New
| England league team.
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HALF CENT COINS NEEDED

piece. which. after all. would no.
have any surprising ADVANTAGE over
three copper coins outside OF Cleye-
land and other fortunate towns where
the scent fare prevails. When eggs
are 80 p cents a dozer. for example.
II will be possible 10 negotiate a trade
without the alternative OF calling 4,
even" or breaking an egg.
Nobody needs TO be told that the
people In the old country. where the
unit Of values is usually 20 10 "a
cents are much thriftier than We are
la this country. where the unit IL
four or five times as great. II the
price Of theater tickets In this coun-
try were seven francs and shoes
sold for twenty marks" We would
feel instinctiyely that We were spend
ing an awful lot of monew. And
then the centimes and the pfonnlgs
and centavoes and centisimi little
measures Of values with a coinage all
their own-they exercise a sort OF
psychological influence. as Il were.
Most important of all, the ability
TO make exact change takes cares Of
the half pennies. and so the real
units take care of themselves.
Representative BulKeley has rend-
cred a real service by bringing TINS
matter up. Il would be fortunate II
the half-oent we're coined aud used
until the American people knew the
coin"
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Baltimore News.

Baltimore News.
"Despise not the day Of small
things is mighty good philosophy.
even though Il does leap at us. from,
childhood to the grave. from copy
books and other anthologies OF moral
maNims. And SO IL comes about that
Representative Buckley Of the Cleye-
land district of Ohla Is winning fame
rather than notcricty by introducing
bill 10 authorize the coinage Of 4
scent piece.
the suggestion may have been
born Of the Cleveland fight for 3
cent fares bat out OF IL has grown
practical boost for greater eco.
nomy In public ard private expen
ditures. AS nation. We seem 10
have been gifted With an imagination
SO crude that We couldn't conceive OF
measure OF value smaller than a
cent We adopt a lofty air o. Beau
RrumTel, who answered . begyar's
request for q penny with Fellow,
| don't know the coin"
Now that the subject has been
brought up. the indications are that
a bin authorizing the coinage of a
half-cent and two-and-a-half cent
piece will be substituted for the mco
sure authorizing the Scent piece. It
will enable people 10 make fraction
al change in many transactions which
would not be affected by the 3-ccrt
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1911-12-28
POULTRY FIGURES
IN CENSUS REPORT
Special to paily News.

Special 70 naily News
Washington. u. c., Dec. 27.-sta-
ustios relative to poultry reported on
farms in continental United States M
the Thirteenth Decennial Census.
April 18th. 1910. are contained In
an official statement issued today by
Director Durand.
The total number OF farms report
Ing poultry for 1910 was 5.5S5.O32,
or SIS per cent OF all farms In the
country. Only 6.5O7 of the farms
reporting poultry failed 10 report
chickens. Turkeys were reported
from S71,l23 farms. or 81 per cent
ducks from 503.7Oi. or 7.O9 per cent:
geese from 662,32l, or l0.a per
cent: guinea fowls from 339,53S, or
5.3 per cent. and pigeons from iO9..
fO7. or IL per cent.
The number of fowls reported In
1910 was 295.SSo.0O0 and their 10.
tai value was 1888. 900. or an
average value OF fifty-two cents
Nearly q per cent OF all the fowls
were chickens. They numbered
2S0.S45,000 and their value was
sl40,206,o00. the average value be.
ing fifty cents. TURKEYS numbered
3,6S9.o00 and were valued at Sc,
606.0O0 the average value being
Sl.79. The ducks reported numbered
2,9S7,0O0 and were valued at ST.
$4,000, with an average value oil
fifty-four cents The total number OF
geese was $4,000 and the value So.
$4,000, or an average value OF sew.
enty-two cents Ostriches TO tbs
number OF 1891 were reported witt
"A value Of Sl,Ge6. 900, or over $500
each. The ostriches were reported
from five states. Arizona. Arkansas
California, Florida and Texas.
Iowa ranks first in the total valu,
OF poultry. amounting to St2,27O,O00
Texas is tenth with a value OF 81.
$4,000.
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Hooked Up.

The young politician was as oblis.
ing as possible. but there was n limit
TO his possibilities when the re-
porter asked him what his wife would
wear at the mayors reception. he as.
sumed a confidential air
I'm tell you Just ms much rs I
know myself" he said Last nigh,
she told me she would wear white:
this morning at breakfast she said
she'd decided on her rose-colored
gown. and when ! said good by to her
she had spread a grey one beside the
rose on one chair. and her
black lace beside the white on ala.
other. and was taking something else
out OF the wardrobe II her hair
hadn't caught on a hook as she turn
ed round. | might have been able to
tell you more"
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1911-12-28
New Use for X.RaYs.

II Is claimed that the Mays have
been successfully applied In France to
the detection OF authorizations OF food.
where the adulterants consist OF some
kind of mineral matter. The TODD TO be
examined is reduced to powder and
spread thinly upon glass An A'ray
photograph OF the glass reveals the
presence OF the mineral particles by
the failure OF the rays to penetrate
them as they penetrate the other con
stituents OF the powdered food
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1911-12-28
A Pennsylvania county's OIL Wells.

n Mexican county whenever they
want funds TO run the county anairs
they Just put down an oil well on the
county farm and up the money gushes
The South Penn drilled well last
week that is doing i've barrels a day
after being given a shot OF SO quarts OF
nitroglycerin A farm like that is q
mighty convenient thing tor a county
10 have. Philadelphia Record
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quirements."

The purpose of the Congress 10
having this thorough discussion OF
horse and mule breeding is to in
crease he wealth OF the South by
showing the farmers OF the South
how both climate and soils lend
themselves to the successful raising
of stock
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Gray n Son.

Gray n son. cleaners, pressers, hat
ters Phone j22; 3O4 East Fourth
street 297-tfc
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Table delicacieS. the quality yor
can depend upon. Griffin Grocery
3G-tfC
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1911-11-10

to dissolve and sell out, and in order to
satisfy all and meet their demands,
one and all, they found it absolutely
necessary to engage the services of the
Sweeney Co. to dispose of the stock,
which company is considered among
all large, prominent merchants, bank
ers, etc, throughout the country, to be
one of the greatest trade producers
that we have anywhere. So if under
any circumstances, that you are in
doubt about the selling out of the
above firm, Mr.. Sweeney has on de-
post certified check for one hundred
dollars, or will pay out in good Ameri-
can money this amount, to any one
who can prove that this is not a
straight, boni fide selling out sale and
dissolution of partners.
| do not wish to indulge in person
alities or vituperation of any kind, but
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1911-11-10

an initiating roarback of little or no
consequence, has questioned the truth
of our selling out sale, also the sales
company, who are in charge. The
slogan of this imitator is-to stampede
the town for information regarding
other merchants business; first to the
newspaper office, then to the paint
shop, shopping around for the wanted
Information so as to initiate, to offset
any plans made by others. This is
what you have here and it is called
competition. Is it not sad to think such
| riff raft should exist along the lines of
commercial enterprise, much like
weeds in a garden. They should be
hoed down or put to test With his
100000 stock, so claimed by this Mr..
Imitator and taxed accordingly to the
amount he is placing before people
who know he is telling an untruth and
| if under any circumstances this same
imitator can show where he has half
of this amount I win pay him two dol
lars for every one he has over the sti-
pulated amount. It's poor rule that
don't work both ways. | will take him
on vice versa. You can fool some the
people some of the time, but not all OF
the people all the time. My own per-
sonal experience Of merchandising in
the United States is not at all limited
My record of past experiences shows
or speaks for itself While with such
houses as VIM. H. Elliott of Detroit
Mich; Slessinger & Moyher, Chicago
The Fair, Chicago; P. r. Hannifar
Co., of Milwaukee, The Lewis Dry
Goods Co., of Butte, Mont, will show
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1911-11-10

The services at the Methodist church
will be as usual Sunday. The Sunday
school, led by Supt. e. L. Ash
ton, will meet at 10, the morning SER
mon at II, the Epworth League at
$50, and the evening service at 1880
The subject for the morning will be
the first in series of sermons on
"The Miracle of Christianity" The
topic for Sunday will be "The Miracul-
Gus Origin of Christianity DR.. G. T.
Higgins sings as a solo "Just for To-
day" and the quartette renders the an
them, con Jordan's Stormy Banks ]
Stand" All are cordially invited to
attend the services.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1911-11-10
BY SWEENEY.
One Who Swallowed the Sword.

l am myself, personally, through my
company, conducting straight, boni
fide Selling Out Sale of the stock of 0.
A. Stalker & Co., Twin Falls, Idaho,
consisting Of mems clothing, furnish
ings, ETC., one of the largest and fin
est stocks of it's kind in the state, one
that has stood supreme since Twin
Falls has been in it's infancy; one
that the people have watched grow and
prosper from small store to one OF
the largest of its kind here, built up
on business principals of good sound
dealing, value giving and trustworthi-
ness. The interested parties holding
stock in the above firm have decided
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1911-11-10

whether | have promoted successfully,
and show dividends to men who know;
good sound, shrewd Americans, men
who have made their money on the
chances of give or take; men who
know the merchandise business; men
who have stores that are stores, not
peanut stands. These are some of the
places of business where the bulk of
my experience was gained, not at
Jerome, Ida, or Minidoka.
The Essence of the Sales Business:
Each and every large store throughout
the country has in their employ, what
is called or commonly known as
"PrOmOtOr" or "Sales Maker" While
with these houses | was in the capa-
city of same; up to the time | organ
lied and began for myself. | have
yearly contracts with some of the larg-
est stores throughout the country who
know the true merits of my system
ability to get up and dispose of stocks
large or small, and where ignorance
is bliss, it's folly to be wise This
same foreign born imitator does not
know the English language to just
only explain where he is at, and it's
high time, either for me or some other
merchant, to show such people up, for
its not the first time. | am ready to
go further.
J. E. SWEENEY,
Sweeney Sales Co.,
Selling Out Stalker & Co.
l