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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
Objects of Solicitude,

Reflect, oh, fellow citizen,
Companion in life's toll,
Upon the patriotic men
Who all our foes would foil.
Their speeches of tremendous size,
Their trips by land and sea-
Oh, pause, good friend, and realize
They're all for you and me!
They twist the tariff schedules round.
They next investigate
They labor with a zeal profound
Where people legislate.
They gather funds for a campaign
And give us music free
Oh, cynic, how can you complain?
It's all for you and me.
So let me eat my modest fare
And be rejoiced to find
So many who will lift each care
From my reluctant mind.
They'll do the thinking for the land,
Whate'er the theme may be.
What sacrifice could be more grand!
It's all for you and me.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
Mr.. Roosevelt on the Stump.

Is it worth while at this time to
undertake to fix the stumping itinerary
of Mr.. Roosevelt, or the number of his
speeches while he is on tour? Will not
the matter be decided by the character
of his reception?
If great crowds come out he will be
pressed to go far. If the enthusiasm is
marked, speeches by the score will be
in request
Mr.. Roosevelt loves that sort of work
While not an orator, he is a speaker of
power. and handles an audience very
we'll Giving the impression of being dead
in earnest in all he says, he infects his
hearers with his own spirit, and so Sc
cures Their attention. His appeal is for
cheers, not laughs. He is not an en-
tertainer whose long suit is jocular
illustration. His relish of good story
is greater than his capacity to tell one.
Moreover, it is perfectly plain now, even
to Mr. Roosevelt himself, that no raucous
clamOr for him to return to the White
House exists. If he needs such a thing in
his business he must create it; and his
best means is the stump. And by the
stump is meant all that enters into
railroad travel by special train, with
short stops for short addresses from the
rear end of coach, and long stops for
long addresses in county courthouses or
city halls.
The probability is that while on tour
Mr.. Roosevelt will be noisily acclaimed,
and have what he calls "a bully time"
He is heavily charged with ginger. He
is tiptOp stage manager. The art
of advertisement is we'll known to
him as to any Snowman of the period
He gives the people what he thinks they
want, which is showman's rule of
business.
But will votes follow i'm the wake of
such excitement? Ask Mr. Bryan, who
stirred up the whole country three times
by stamping tours, and yet lost at the
polls. Let Mr.. Roosevelt recall his own
experience two years ago, when he Gre
ated q furOre in New York state only
to lose to Tammany Hall on election day.
Crowds heard him and cheered him, but
did not follow him to the polls.
Voters have a way of recalling" their
enthusiasm. They may mean it at the
moment of manifestation, but little
reflection disapproves of it, and they
back off. While the speaker is thunder
ing away they are all agreement. When
he is gone they ask themselves what
in thunder it was all about.
Mr.. Roosevelt may have "a bully time. -
Crowds may hear and cheer him. Small
railroad platforms at country stations
may be packed with farmers, and city
streets blocked with merchants and clerks
and idlers to greet him. But after he
has gone will come up the question for
decision: Why should Mr.. Taft be turned
down? In what things does the Presi-
dents leadership stand discredited? Mr..
Taft's strength and hope are in the re-
Election of the voters. If hulabaloo pre-
walls now, and later at Chicago Mr.
Taft will be at disadvantage, and may
be beaten. But in our presidential con-
tests hullabaloo has lost three times
out of four in sixteen years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

vision sweeps for miles. There is also
a point in the Fort Myer reservation
close by the quarters of Col. Garrard ana
Maj. Summerall which affords a majestic
view. At night, when the city lights are
burning, the prospect is brilliant and i'm
pressive. Roughly mile and half south
of this point on the site o. Fort Albany,
whose ruins are traceable. a panorama is
presented which includes the valley of the
Eastern branch to the heights east or
Bladensburg. nine and ten miles away,
and stretches southeast to the hills that
rise above Broad creek in Maryland,
seven and eight miles away.
There is. perhaps, no broader view in
the District than from the site OF Fort
Stanton. on the crest of that picturesque
and rugged hill country that rises to the
southeast of the Anacostia river. in some
places close TO the 3OO-foot level. and falls
away to the valley at Oxon run. STAN
ton seems to have been about the center
of that line of forts-Chaplin. Meigs, Du-
pont. Davis, Baker. Wagner, Snyder, Car
roll and Greble. that stretched along the
crest from Piney run near Benning to the
tip of the ridge above the mouth OF Oxon
run, a distance of six miles.
from points in the District is that from
the northeast part of the hill on which
stands the National Training School Tor
Boys, and where the redoubts of Fort
Lincoln are fairly preserved. The view
sweeps an arc of go degrees. 1t COM
nands the Marlboro road, over which the
British moved from Benedict TO Bladens-
burg, and covers the enemys two points
of crossing on the river 200 yards north
east.
Many thousands of citizens are familiar
with the long views northward and west
ward from the ridge climbed by the
Loughboro road and from the 4O0-fOot
crest along which Nebraska avenue runs
and on which the American Methodist
University stands. The prospect from st.
Adams is also a familiar one.
There are SO many glorious views in the
environs of Washington that a person
cannot climb the highlands that girdle
the old town without being impressed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

past. In our rapture over. the heroes of
today We are apt to forget those of yes
terday. Some men live SO extremely in
the present that they have neither
thought for nor patience with the past.
The little man, clamorous in his quest
for notoriety, noisy in his appeal for APP
plause. agile to shift his party or his
policy and quicker to change his opinion
than his shirt, is the man who can for a
few ticks of the clock fill the public eye.
The world likes it's heroes in the flesh
rather than in the grave, in the quick
rather than in moldy book, in cloth
and linen rather than in stone or bronze.
The world is too apt to consider a great
man dead as only a statue rather than an
example. as a bit of sculpture instead of
an inspiration to truth and good.
There is a proper pride in birth that
prompts man to honor the good in his
ancestors and deters him from doing
aught that might sully name. Honor
able ancestry is praised in holy writ and
classic lore. But it is very easy for a
man to make himself ridiculous on the
subject of ancestry. There is nothing in
common between legitimate pride of
descent and asinine hauteur Of "blood.
These patriotic organizations have their
mission even though. now and then, some
descendants go to the absurdity of be-
1ieving that a recorded descent of several
generations should give them certain
privileges over their fellows, whose de-
scent is equally as long, but not as well
recorded nor as laboriously traced. A
man should respect his ancestors, but he
should not try to make them work for
him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
Indiana.

The Indiana democrats declare for Gov.
Marshall for President No second
choice is mentioned. Among the dele
gates-at-Iarge 10 Baltimore is Senator
Kern. who. most likely. will present the
name of the governor to the convention.
This action would appear TO dispose of
the Kern boom. And yet it may not. If
developments in the convention show that
Gov. Marshall cannot win. and discussion
of a dark horse begins, why should not
MIR. Kern's name figure? He will have
then obeyed instructions. and if Indiana
cannot land with one of her sons, why
not try with another? She probably will
not land with Gov. Marshall.
The platform pronounces against pro-
lection. Custom house taxation should
be limited to the necessities of the gov
eminent"
This is the doctrine that Thomas A
Hendricks in his day preached in the
Wabash country. But since that day
Indiana has become a manufacturing
state. Great industries have grown up
under the care of protective tariff, and
they now are thriving. Indiana has not
voted for a democratic candidate for
President since 1S92-twenty years ago.
a tariff for revenue only?
Thomas Taggart will again represent
the state on the democratic national COM
mittee. He seemed to toy with the
proposition. Three ballots were neces-
sary to fetch him. 1t was only when the
vote was made unanimous that he yield
ed, and consented to serve again
Very like Mr.. Taggart. A clever poll
icia ~ He. ha
way of firing, retiring, and then coming
back. Two years ago he went through
the motions of retiring. Defeated in
state convention on the matter of in
structing for United States senator, he
announced that his machine having been
smashed would go to the scrap heap, The
convention smiled, as did the state, and
when the campaign opened. Mr. Tasgart
appeared with his machine in running
order. and drove it for all it was worth
The machine is still in good condition.
Mr.. Taggart was not only reelected to
the national committee, but chosen del
egate-at-large to Baltimore. He will, of
course, obey instructions as to Gov. Mar
shall, but it is we'll known that he and
the governor are not fond of each other.
This makes Mr.. Taggart's real choice for
the Baltimore nomination a question of
interest. In some quarters he is classed
as a Harmonic. But Mr.. Kern is his
personal friend and legal counsel, and if
the convention reaches the deadlock stage
and compromise man becomes a neces-
sity. who SO likely to receive Mr.. Tag
CARTS attention and support as the Junior
Indiana senator? And should Mr.. Kern
be nominated, who SO likely to be chosen
to conduct the campaign as Mr.. Taggart?
The Parker campaign was fiasco. but
Mr.. Taggart was but a fgurehead in
that, and the candidate was impossible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
Suits that are Really
Young ManniSh.
(Second Floor.

1t isn't size nor years that govern Young
Mems Clothes. They are a type-different
in weave; different in model: different in
almost every detail.
Our designers. have made Young Mems
Clothes a study-in ours you'll find those
features you have in mind. Not freakish in
any sense-and yet full of snap and style
and character that are at once distinctive
and refined.
Nobody devotes so much store room and
tailoring attention to the Young Men as
we do.
We're featuring line OF twenty different m q ~
STYLES of Suts-with the natural shoulder, the ~
long, soft-ro front, gh-buttoning vest and ~ -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

One of the advantages enjoyed by the
District is the privilege of providing
campaign headquarters for any number
of candidates without being forced to
designate a favorite son.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
Ornithology.

THAT dove of peace you speak Of is a
very mysterious and unusual sort of
bird" said one diplomat.
Eyes" replied the other. Sometimes l
think it isn't a dove at ALL
What would you call it?''
"Oh. a sort of fiimfamingo."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

When a New York man with Sriev-
ance abuses the newspapers, the editors
sometimes find a subtle and complete re-
venge by simply printing his hasty re-
marks in full.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
As Times Change,

Fashions change for men as well as
for women"
Yes replied Miss Cayenne. "A fur
overcoat used to make man look like
millionaire Now it makes him look like
a chauffeur"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

Charges TO the effect that loaded dice
were usea by sharDers on the Lusitania
cali attention to the decentralization the
crap game has undergone since il got
into swift company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
Profit for Both.

From the New 1Ork World.
The discovery that there Is profit
enough in the exploitation of Africa for
both is thought to assure peace between
France and Germany for an indefinite
period.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

TIN order to avoid delays account Of
personal absence. letters to THE STAR should
rot be addressed to any individual connected
with the Office, hut simply TO THE STAR. or to
The Editorial or Business Department. according
10 tenor purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

Gov. Harmon may be more or less I'M
pressed that the democrats have never
been as strong as the republicans for the
Ohio idea in the selection of a presi-
dental candidate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

The proposition to recall judicial de-
cisions might be simDlitied by reducing
all public questions to a sort of local
option basis in the first place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
On Both Sides.
rom the New YORK Sun.

It IuIH inc NtW iUFA SUI.
How cruelty unfair to charge the Hon.
Woodrow Wilson with consistent oppo-
sition TO the Hon. William ]. Bryan.
Gov. Wilson has been on both sides OF
that issue too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

New Jersey is looking forward to
lively summer with the Woodrow Will
SON campaign and the summer resort
boardwalks in full blast simultaneously.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

Scarcity of coal threatens to become as
much an international question as the in
creased cost of food products.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

After an overwhelming popular demand
has asserted itself it has to look sharp
TO avoid being frazzled by a careless ma
jority.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning
edition, is delivered by carriers within the city
at As cents per month: daily only. . cents per
month: Sunday only 20 cents per month. Orders
may be sent by mail, telephone Main 2440.
Collection is made BY carrier at the end Of each
month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

Campaign preparations indicate that
this is to be one of the most prosperous
years in the history of stenography and
typeWriting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON,
A Method With Disadvantages.

''Will you make any rear platform
speeches next summer
II don't know replied the candidate.
It's kind of embarrassing to have an
engineer blow the whistle, ring the bell
and pull out just as you get to the grand
climax on which you relied for applause"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

Spanish activity in the interests of a
restoration of the Portuguese. monarchy
may result in spelling a pleasant holiday
for Manuel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

Ii was a triie disconcerting for the
Composers OF prize national anthems TO
see the ''Houn Dawg Song step in and
take immediate precedence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
The Supply Cleaned Up.

Coin fishin' next summer" asked the
man who tells tall stories.
NO" replied Mr.. Growcher. 'If YOU
caught all the fish you said you caught
last summer, there won't be any use of
going fishing next summer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

Business Once, 18th st. and Pennsylvania Avenue.
New York ONCE: Tribune Building
Chicago Office: First National Bank Building.
European Office: Regent ST., London, England.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

The North Dakota primaries indicate
that the state has gotten mixed up in
it's overwhelming demand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

From the Detroit Free Press.
Col. Roosevelt is going TO take the
stump for the nomination that he doesn't
want.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

Payable IN advance-by mail, postage prepaid:
Daily. Sunday included. one month. go cents.
Daily. Sunday excepted, one month. 80 cents.
Saturday Star, 81 year. Sunday Star, 81. 40 year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

Despite their contempt for the law the
Aliens are now forced TO admit that they
need some expert lawyers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
Grand Transformation

Consistency's gloomy grind.
And yet how oft some man you've struck
Who, when he boldly changed his mind,
Unfortunately changed his luck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

Mr. Bryan has passed his fifty second
birthday. The epithet hoy orator" is
forever silenced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

Entered as second-cl mail matter at the post
Office at Washington. D. C.
Smyrna times., 1912-12-18
HeIpina tho Books.

Persons about to install new libra
1es or those who find their books in
bad condition will be glad Of the ad-
vice offered on this subject by a writer
in Les Annales Paris). Glass cases
should always be avoided except for a
few precious volumes which are spe-
cially looked after and frequently dust
ed since the confined atmosphere and
lack of air circulation in such book
cases are favorable to the development
Of germs, insects and mold. Second
ly." adds the Scientific American, "the
simple precautiOn should be taken Of
placing on the shelves behind the
books strips of cloth or flannel mois-
tened with benzine. phenol. tobacco
juice or turpentine. These strips give
excellent results If renewed from time
to time"
Smyrna times., 1912-12-18

There is law against loafng on
streets and street corners. Is it en-
forced? No. The times are many
when it is unpleasant for a lady to
pass. and still our police allow the
nuisance to continue unabated. Talk
about more town laws, ordinances,
against drunkenness, &c. Our Coun-
Gil had better see what we already
have on the statute enforced before
taking up new and untried schemes.
1t isn't so much a matter at the pres
ent time of making more laws as it
is in getting the police to enforce
what we have.
Smyrna times., 1912-12-18
One of the stipulations.

A vegetarian engaged German cook
lady not long ago. His wife liked the
appearance of the applicant. Her ref
erences were good and the wages she
demanded not exorbitant.
"Pd like to have you come" said the
lady Of the house, ''but perhaps you
won't want to live with US. We are
vegetarians and never have any meat
in the house. Would you be satisfied
with a vegetable diet?'
The fraulein scratched her head.
"Vell," she said obviously. ''iss beer
q wegetable?" ?"-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Smyrna times., 1912-12-18

Do your Christmas shopping in the
Smyrna stores. Never have our mer-
chants made better effort to stock
their stores and keep the good de-
pendable goods you are after. In most
all cases, if they haven't what you
want, they will get it for you. Then
patronize home. If you spend your
money where you get it, you will be
able to get it where you spend it.
Do your Christmas shopping at the
Smyrna stores. The Times tells the
Christmas advertisement story and
you will find it a safe and reliable
directory in making your purchases.
Smyrna times., 1912-12-18

Every town in the state of any size
or Importance is booming some candi-
date for the United States Senate to
succeed Senator H. A. Richardson, but
where in the state is there a better
candidate than our own illustrious
citizen, Hon. L. Irving Handy. We
would like to see the honor come to
Smyrna not only for town pride, but
because we feel Mr.. Handy would
represent the state with credit and
ability.
Smyrna times., 1912-12-18
THE MOON AS WE SEE IT.
It's Mountains and Craters and Its
Liahts and Shadows.

It's MOUNTAINS ana OrateTS anu tt~
Lights and Shadows.
The visible part Of the moon is about
equal to the superfcies Of North Amer
ica. It is very mountainous, and around
the vast dry plains which form the
dark spots seen with the naked eye are
volcanoes whose funnel shaped craters
resemble old wells filed In by the de-
posits Of ages.
Maps of the moon show more than
$4,000 such craters. some of them 200
kilometers in diameter.
The radius of the earth is supposed to
be nearly four times that Of the moon.
Proportionally the moon is much more
mountainous than the earth. All the
lunar volcanoes are extinct.
The moon was formed after the earth
was formed. 1t has gone to its doom
faster than the earth because, as its
mass is much feebler than the earth's
mass, it cooled faster. The moons light
and shade are clearly seen because it
has no appreclable atmosphere.
The moon has been called the pan
theon of astronomers because its vol
canoes have been named for astron-
omers. Riccion gave his own name to
a splendid lunar "circus." and to very
small and Insignificant volcano he gave
the name Of Galileo.-Harper's Weekly.
Smyrna times., 1912-12-18
Public Sale of Valuable Personal
Property

The undersigned, Trustee as aforesaid,
will. at the same time and place, expose to
sale by way of public auction the following
described personal property to wit;
One Horse, (Mare), one York Carnage,
one Funeral Wagon, Harness, one Office
Safe. Offic. Furniture, Tombstones, Marble.
Markers. etc.
Terms of sale of Personal Property CASH.
CHARLES H. LIE FEVRE, Esq,
Trustee of the Estate of
James r. Sudler, Bankrupt.
ID. A. GoLDsBoRC UGH, Auct.
Smyrna times., 1912-12-18

If there are any prizes to be handed
out in the matter of 1.-THE Case of
Jennie Brice" the story of which has
been appearing in Everybody's Mag
azine, the Twentieth Century Club of
Smyrna surely ought to get one. The
"Mock Trial" given at the Century
Club Friday evening was a credit to
our Club women. They should get a
prize for the painstaking effort and
ingenuity they displayed if nothing
else.
Smyrna times., 1912-12-18

Council should give every assist
ance to Joseph Smithers in the matter
of getting bigger and better gas
service for Smyrna The town needs
an up-to-date gas plant and the gas
plant need the cooperation of the
town in certain rights and privileges
that must be had to operate an in
dustry of this kind successfully. Mr..
Smithers has given years to giving
the people of Smyrna the best service
within his means and now chat he
wants to equip and improve the plant
on a larger scale, C ouncil should lend
him every assistance. Even with a linn
tied equipment Mr.. Smithers has seen
to it that Smyrna received constant
service and in a period of 43 years
the occasions have been few and far
between when Smyrna was without
service any day or night. With a
good record that any town might be
proud to have, Mr.. Smithers now
comes forward and offers to make the
service second to none and asks the
cooperation of Council regarding his
franchise. Let US hope then that
Council will go to the limit in grant
ing him what he wants.
Smyrna times., 1912-12-18

THE SMYRNA TIMES is published al Smyrna
JeI every Wednesday afternoon.
rHg TIMES is IN independent paper devoted to
he welfare of the town it represents and the
;rate Of which it is q part. 1t also gives the
ms of Importance of the Eastern Shore Of
Maryland
ROBERT u. HOFFECKER,
Editor and Publisher.
A 'VERTISEMENTS-THK SMYRNA TIMES is the
business medium not only for the town it rep
'esents but for the outlying district of which it
is the centre, empracing the towns of Clayton
Kenton, Cheswold, Leipsic, &c. a rate of so
cents an inch for first insertion and % cents
for each subsequent insertion will be charged
for transient advertising. Locals and Reading
Notices, 10 cents per line per issue. special
discount on all semi-annual and yearly adver
tisements
Smyrna times., 1912-12-18

The First Presbyterian Church, of
Chesapeake City, has extended call
to Rev E. G. Eggert. of Harring-
ton. Del.
Smyrna times., 1912-12-18
FOR SALE

Bailed Hay and Straw; also loose Hav
by the ton. One Brood Mare, in foal.
Apply to
JOSEPH r. JEFFERSON.
Smyrna, Del.