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Fifty years later the city had spread two miles beyond the Swamp and Grandson was submerged beneath so much Unearned Increment that he began to speak with what sounded to him like an English accent and his Shirts were ordered from Paris.
 On the 1st of every Month the Agents would crawl into the Presence of the Grandson of the mighty Musk rat Hunter and dump before him a Wagonload of Paper Money which had been snatched away from the strug- gling Shop-Keepers, who in turn, had wheedIed it from the People who paid Nickel apiece for Sunday Papers so as to look at the Pictures of the Decorations in the Supper Room at the Assembly Ball graced by the Presence of the aforesaid Bachelor whose Grandfather had lifted the original Catfish out of the Chicago River.
 Then the Representative of the Old Family would take Garden Rake and pattern all this hateful Currency into neat Mound, after which a milk-fed Secretary would iron it out and dis infect it and sprinkle it with Lilac Water and tie it into artistic Packets, using Old Gold Ribbon.
 After that, it was Hard Lines for the Bachelor, because he had to sit by a Window at the Club and dope out some new Way of getting all that Coin back into Circulation.
 As a result of these Herculean Eff forts to vaporize his Income, he found himself at the age of 40 afflicted with Social Gastritis. He had gorged him self with the Pleasures of this World until the sight of Menu Card gave him the Willies and the mere smention of Musical Comedy would cause him to break down and Cry like Child.
 He had crossed the Atlantic so often that he no longer wished to sit at the Captains Table. He had rolled them high at Monte Carlo and watched the Dunbar at Delhi and taken Tea on the Terrace at Shepheard's in Cairo and rickshawed through Japan and ridden the surf in Honolulu, while his Name was a Household Word among the
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ENGLISH STOMACH
 MAIN GERMAN TOPIC

Berlin, January 6.-(Speclal.) )-" English Sptonage" has been the predominant newspaper headline and the ali-absorbing topic of the week in Germany. The verdict of the Leipzig supreme court, which can hardly be said to sin on the side of mercy. is universally approved. Max Schultz. the Southampton ship broker, and his four German accom- pltces, enter upon their long periods Of penal servltude to the accompaniment of a chorus of malediction, which is in- spired by the conviction that they have got no more than their deserts.
 The tone of jngo megaphones like the "Tagliche Rundschau" would lead a messenger from Mars to think that such d thing as a German spy had never ex-
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isted There is no virtue in blinking the fact that the recrudeseense of tho "ling- fish Spionage" mania has vislbly aggra- vated German Angophobism.
 Since the beginning of the Schultz trial there has been an avalanche of leading articles in eminent journals all harping on the "uualterabe fact' that Britain is now convicted of deliberately planning war on the Fatherand. If the govern ment secures a pilabe reichstag at the forthcoming elections and finds conditions propitious, 1t Is a moral certainty the English Spionage" will be exploited as an argument in favor of new dread- noughts and more army corps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-07

Man with tattered Coat Tails was seen going over the old familiar Jumps.
 MORAL: Those who Marry to Es- cape something usually find Some thing Else.
 Copyright, 1912, by George Ade.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-07

so close to your Table that you can almost reach out and Touch them. Pm going to Travel 12 months every Year and do all the Stunts known to the most imbecile Globe Trotters."
 A few Weeks after that Haggard
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Away back in the Days when every toor Man had Bacon in the Smoke House, this Pioneer had been soaked In Trade and found himself loaded up with a Swamp Subdivision in the Edge of Town.
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Children Debarred

Capetown, January 6-(Special.) )-The judgment delivered in the Moller case In which Q mans children were debarred from school because their mother was "ofr color" mas an important bearing on
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"RASHFIJL BALLADS"

ldSilioHs TASTEFUL BALLADS" (By Burges Johnson, Illustrated, Harper
 Brothers, New York.
 With n delightful spontaneity, Burges Johnson's humor bursts forth in his "Bashful Ballads" which is collection of verses covering the whimsical, fantas- tical, and farcial. Varying meters and astonishingly clever rhyme tells the tate In each case and justifies MT. Johnson in his confession.
 My heads a morass Of singular jingular meters en masse.'
 Sea ballads. Book Ballads, Bachelor Ballads, and Householder Ballads are all strung together. and are really delightful reading from start to finish.
 The "Introduction" to the "Bashful Bal lads" is clever particularly those lines which contain the following:
 "For the rhymes in this book almost without exception the author is alone re- sponsible. In justice to himself. however. he wishes to state that in preparing "A Bungle Ode he was abetted by Mrs Howard Kingsburg; that Mrs. Felicia | Heman's collaborated on ''The Boarding | House;' and that responsibility for "The | Elergy in a City Backyard rests equally | upon the late Thomas Gray, Gelett Bur , ges and himself.' T is "A Song of the Yankee" "A Polywog- ] ism "Gnats," "A Coquette," Be it Ever So Humble. 1 A delicious spark of humor is the Re | cipe for Poems," which is appended: Find thy subject If the task be hard
 Consult thy Keats and Shelly-in them Is
 Some measure that will suit busy 1 | Twas "Adonais' l used in writing this Then if thy rhythmic feeling run amiss Read thru the ticking clock-it may transfer
 Those beats from out it's cranal abyss l All choked with wheels. to where thine own works whirr- | Then sit thee calmly down before thy typewriter. l See next thy subject. Let the matter be | Not as a stranger, but some old, old friend.
 As Death Daisy Spring" or Con stancy,' Then from thy ryhming dictionary send For oft it's echoing columns hap to lend A few poetic thoughts to him who gleans, And keep in mind. until the very end. That line is best if none knows what
 it means.
 Thus do the poets write their verse for
 magazines.
 WHAT BIRMINGHAM BOOK LOVERS
 ARE READING.
 The Birmingham Public Library gives out the following data for December, the last month of the old year of 1911:
 The six most popular and widely read books for the -month of December In Fic- tion were:
 ''RIcHARD MEYNELL," by Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
 THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH by Wright.
 THE HARVESTER" by Porter.
 THE COMMON LAW" by Robert Chambers.
 THE NEER DO WE'LL" by Rex Beach.
 THE IRON WOMAN" by Margaret Deland
 In Non-Fiction the six best books which have been most universally read were
 HOW TO LIVE ON TWENTY FOUR HOURS A DAY" by Bennett.
 THE CRUISE or THE SHARK by London.
 EVERY WOMAN by Browne.
 REGENERATION" by Haggard.
 HEROES OF CA.1FORNIA,' by James.
 nMy TIFE'' by Wagner.
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Which Can Only Be Obtained by Scientific

A thorough investiga tiny to self and those wh you the best service. Tn any man who sincerely q would like to have you f. Inducements they have to treatment of certain dises
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of Peter Pan accompaniment is formed to every performance through which the reader is carried in the most delightful fashion.
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GEORGE ADE'S NEW FABLES IN SLANG (1912 Models)

CERTAIN affluent Bachelor A happened to be the only 4 \ Grandson of rugged Early Settler who wore Coon-Skin Cap and drank Corn Juice out of Jug.
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ASSESSMENT FIGURES
ARE FOUND TO DIFFER
Herbert J. Brown Cites Dis.
crepancies to House
Committee.

Herbert ]. Brown, the expert employed
by the House committee on the District
to examine into the tax assessment sys-
tenn of the District. was thee chief witness
at the meeting of the George investigat-
ing committee this afternoon.
Clarence Donohoe. real estate dealer.
who was q witness several days ago.
again testified. He gave several instances
OF property on Capitol Hill being assessed
too high. judging by the figures of sales
for the property.
Defends "True Consideration"
Mr. Browns testimony was in defense
of the bill for true consideration" being
mentioned in all papers involving real es-
tate deals
He had examined into the records OF five
title guarantee companies with view to
finding out just where the assessors Of
fee suffers by not being able to get at the
actual amount Of money passed in buy
ing and selling big properties.
He also testified he had examined. into
the decisions reached in condemnation
cases. especially with regard to the prop
erty on which the Senate and House Office
buildings are located. and in regard to
the five squares near Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and 18th street recently purchased by
the United States government. He said
his conclusion is that the assessments
are too low in those particular instances.
The decision of the juries in the cases
was very much higher than the figure as
shown by the assessors office.
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NEW AEROPLANES ORDERED
Army to Receive Three, One to Be
Used at Station Here.

Three new aeroplanes of the Wright.
Curtiss and Burgess types have just been
ordered for the army by Brig. Gen. James
Allen, chief signal officer. With the ar
rival Of these machines the army will be-
come a rival of the navy in hydro-aero-
plane flying. Two new aeroplanes Will
be established for hydro-aeroplane work,
one at Washington barracks on the
Potomac river. and the other either at
the Signal Corps post at Fort Wood, N.
Y, or at Governors Island.
Four of the old machines in the pos
session of the Signal Corps will be fitted
with hydro attachments. Two of these
will be sent to New York and the other
to the barracks in this city. leaving nine
aeroplanes at College Park. Md, aviation
station. The appropriation for machines
was exhausted by the latest order.
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ROMANCE OF SCHOOL LIFE.
Students at Washington Mission
Seminary Wed Tonight.

A romance OF school life will be con-
summated at the Washington Foreign
Mission Seminary. Takoma Park. this
evening. when Miss Belva Lockwood
Vance and Rembrandt Morris. fellow
students at the school, are united in
marriage. The ceremony will be per-
formed at the seminary by Rev. j. N.
Anderson.
Miss Vance, whose home Is In Knights
town, Ind, and Morris, who came to
Washington from Covington. Pa, became
acquainted while fitting themselves for
missionary work in the special course at
the seminary. Mr.. Morris went TO Rock
Vile Monday and secured the license TO
wed Miss Vance. and II was enormously
published that they had been married IN
Rockville Monday afternoon.
Following the ceremony this evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norris will travel for a
time in America, doing domestic mission
work, and subsequently they will sail for
India and establish themselves perma-
nently In the foreign mission field.
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PLEDGES WILL Be KEPT,
| SAYS CHAIRMAN BARNES
Asserts New York Delegates
Will Abide by Action
Taken at Rochester.

NEW YORK, May 29.-wflham Barnes.
jr. chairman Of the republican state
committee, today authorised the follow
ing statement:
This contest Is one Of principle, not OF
men, II q majority portion Of the mi
nor1ty of an electorate in some states
have not comprehended the meaning Of
the situation and have become infected
by the personality Of a candidate 1t does
not in any way change the situation nor
affect the duty Of the delegates from the
state Of New York. who will go to Chi
cago pledged to the platform OF princi-
pies adopted by the Rochester convention.
"It is not surprising that in a few
weeks campaign q majority Of the
republican electorate failed to COM
prehend what Mr.. Roosevelt's assault
upon republican principle means. His
tory is being made very fast, and
realize where they are going. Mr..
Roosevelt's platform, which. II his
candidacy should be accepted, the re-
publican party must oficially indorse.
is the rule of the people without re-
striction through constitutional form.
Mr. Roosevelt knows. as every other
student Of history knows. that no
democracy can endure on that basis. and
that the people themselves are the
first to recognize this and turn to an
individual to rule them.
1.-The duty OF the republican delegates
from New York was never more solemn
never more clear. never more patriotic
than at this very time, when the needless
and thoughuess are willing to take the
initial step for the overthrow of the
American Constitution, with Its honored
guarantees to each citizen that he can
be protected through the courts from the
aggression of the government. the major
ity or a single individual.
81 repeat what I said the other day.
that the contest at Chicago will be be-
ardice.'
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Club Picnic Announced.
PAYS ASSAILANTS' FINES.
DR.. JOSHUA s. Tyree Releases Girls
Who Attacked Him.

Having prosecuted two colored girls
on a charge Of assaulting him. and after
sentence had been imposed. DIR. JOSHUA
S Tyree. druggist. of 18th and n
streets northeast today had his assailants
released from custody.
DIR. Tyree testified that the girls as
saulted him May 81 near his store After
considerable evidence had been heard
Judge Mullowny imposed a fine on each
OF the women. Later DR.. Tyree urged
the court to reduce the fine. His request
was compiled with and thereupon the
druggist paid the fines and the defend
ants were released.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-29
ASSIGNED TO FORT BLISS.
Second Cavalry, on Way From Ma
Mia, Goes to Texas.

The I'd United States Cavalry. now re-
turning from the Philippines, is to be sent
to Fort Bliss, Tex. though 1t is declared
that no warlike significance attaches to
the order. The regiment Is due at San
Francisco June 49, and was originally
destined for station at Fort Mead. s. D..
and Fort Smelling. MINI. At Fort Bliss
the I'd Cavalry will relieve the head
quarters and first squadron of the 4th
Cavalry, which will join the remainder
of the regiment at Fort Huachuca-
The 9th Infantry upon its arrival about
June Is will be quartered at the exist
ing environments on the Preside reserva-
ton, San Francisco.
The headquarters and two battalions Of
the 9th Infantry will take station at Fort
Thomas, KY, and one battalion at Fort
Smelling. MINI.
This provides for all the six regiments
Of cavalry and infantry ordered back
from the Philippines by reason of the es-
Establishment of permanent regiments at
war strength In those islands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-29
ARMY OFFICERS SONS
NAMED TO WEST POINT
President Taft Appoints Thir.
teen Cadets at Large to-
Fill Vacancies.

President Taft has appointed thirteen
young men cadets at large at the United
States Military Academy. and they will
enter the next class in June These ap-
pointments are the result Of a compet.-
tive examination in which fifty candidates
took part. There were but thirteen va.
cancies to be filled. The successful can
didates, in the order of their standing.
are as follows:
A. K. King. son of Capt. ]. H. King.
u. S. A. retired: H C. Jones. son OF
Maj. w. X. Jones, pay department. L,
s. A.; ]. NJ. Crane. son of Col. c. C.
Crane, 9th United States Infantry: w. A.
Snow, son of Maj William j. Snow. Sd
Field Artillery; Frank c. Scofield, son of
John c. Scoield. assistant chief clerk OF
the War Department; J. B. Bennett. son
OF Maj. j. B. Bennett. oath United States
Infantry; Craigie Kraynbuhl, SON of the
late Lieut.. Col. NJ. G. KraynbuhI. Sd
Field Artillery: F. G. Bonham. SON OF
the late Lieut.. w. B. Bonham, U. s. A.;
p. G. Bliss, son Of Gen. T. H Bliss. T.
s. A.; George ]. Newgarden, jr, son of
Maj G. j. Newgarden, L. S. A., retired
Z. II: Evans. son of Maj. E. w. Evans,
pay department; K. NJ. Halpine, son OF
Lieut. n. ]. l.. T. Halpine, L. S. N, re-
tired; ]. w. Rafferty,, son of Lieut.. Col.
Ogden Rafferty,, U. s. A. retired
Born and Educated Here.
Cadet Scofield was born and educated
in this city. He was graduated from the
Western High School last year. He was
a sergeant in Company H of the high
school cadet regiment and was a member
of the foot ball and base ball teams OF
the Western High School
Cadets Snow and Newgarden. although
not natives of this city, We're students
at the Western High School. Snow was
graduated last year and also took a
course at the Columbian Preparatory
School. His father. Maj. Snow. is now
on duty in the militia division OF the
War Department Cadet Newgarden lives
with his parents at 1888 Massachusetts
avenue.
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MASTER Of CARPATH|k
PRESENTED LOVING CUP
Can't. Rostron and Members of
Crew Honored by Survivors
of the Titanic. -

NEW YORK. May 7s.-capt. Arthur
II. Rostron. commander of the Cunard
liner Carpathia. the ship that sped 20
the rescue of the passengers OF the
sinking Titanic. was presented with
a handsome silver loving cup by q
committee Of Titanic survivors. which
boarded the liner on her arrival here
today. Gold. silver and bronze medals.
together with a framed set OF engrosscd
resolutions. were presented TO the
officers and entire crew, which had
been mustered in the saloon.
Capt. Rostron. In responding. said
the credit was all due the crew Of the
Carpathia; he had merely tried TO do
his duty as a sailor toward suffering
humanity. The crew, he said, have
brought this honor TO me and to them
selves"
This was the first return of the Car
pathia to this port since she brought
back her cargo of survivors four days
after the tragedy.
Among the memb ers OF the committee
present were bjornstrom Steffenson OF
the Swedish legation, Mrs. j. Brown OF
Denver, Carl Behr and Frederick X.
Seward.
Capt. Lord in England.
LIVERPOOL. May 29.-Capt. Stanley
Lord Of the Leyland line steamship Cali
fornan. who was criticised by Senator
Smith. the chairman of the sena torial
committee which inquired into the II
tanic disaster. in his report presented
yesterday to the United States Senate.
and whose command Of the Californian
on her present trip from Liverpool 10
Boston has been taken over by Capt.
Masters, is now In England.
Officials of the Leyland line today an
nounced that Capt. Lord is remaining in
this country In order TO testify before the
British Board of Trade inquiry into the
loss OF the Titanic. the hearings of which
will be resumed June 4. The Leyland line
officials added that no action whatever
had yet been taken with regard to any
definite change in the command OF the
Californian.
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Leaders Are Optimistic.

The leaders Of the strike movement now
say the trouble will soon be brought to
an end, as the men express themselves
satisfied with the report of Sir Edward
Clarke, who after close inquiry found
that the trouble was mainly due to fall
ure to carry out the clause in the existing
agreement between the employers and the
men providing that differences be refer
red to the board of trade for decision.
The strikers believe that this report will
insure their victory at the board Of trade
conference between representatives Of
both parties to be held May 81, with the
object of arranging a settlement.
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LORD M0NTAGU IN SENATE.
Englishman Watches Proceedings of
Upper House From Floor.

Lord Montagu OF Beaulieu OF London
a member OF the house OF lords, and
an automobile editor, was a guest of
the Senate today. He was greeted by
many senators. and he watched the pro-
ceedings from seat in the Senate
chamber.
Godfrey Marks of London. who ac-
companied him. was a spectator in the
gallery. They left today for st. Louis
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JAP QUESTION UP AGAIN.
Magdalena Bay Matter Discussed BY
Senate Committee.

Negotiations OF Japanese interests for
hand on Magdelena bay, Mexico. the
theme of q recent message from Presi.
dent Taft, were discussed today by the
Senate foreign relations committee. and
the whole subject was referred to q Sub.
committee for investigation.
Senator Rayner's resolution calling for
an inquiry into Mexico's right to sell land
to foreisners or grant exclusive fishery
rights to them and to determine whether
such acquisitions or concessions encroach-
ed upon the Monroe doctrine was the
basis Of the discussion.
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LITTLE CHANCE FOR WRIGHT.
Physician Attending Inventor Makes
Unfavorable Report.

DAYTON, May 29.-'Wilbur Wright is
still holding lis own. but 1t seems that
there is little chance left for him. SAID
DIR. D. b. Conklin today. Last night
Wrights temperature from the typhoid
that is threatening his life lowered about
1O4 degrees. and early today there was
little improvement.
The Wright family today continued to
entertain hope for a favorable outcome
Of the aviators illness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-29

Another group of enlisted men in the
army will be examined at Fort Leaven-
worth. Kan, July 1. to determine their
fitness for promotion to the grade of
second lieutenant in the cavalry. field
artillery or infantry. A board to con-
duct the examinations was appointed to-
day by the Secretary of War. Maj.
Stephen H Elliott. 18th Cavalry, Is the
senior officer Of the board.