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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19
CONVENTION NOTES AND GOSSIP

the Congress last night to the clerk as
ne called for the key to a room to which
he was about to show a convention
guest.
Hold on snapped the guest-Henry
Valkenstein Of New York-"what do you
take me for. an animal?'
That's all right Mr.. Valkenstein,' y
laughed 1aa he'd, the clerk, 1T is only nickname
have just assigned YOU"
The room number was K-9.
oh, l see," said the guest, ''K-9, ca
nine, good joke, eh?''
Senator W. s. Kenyon of Iowa and
! other supporters of Senator Cummins fol
the presidential nomination predicted last
, night that their candidate would have
le0 votes on the second ballot.
Senator Kenyon made the assertion
after numerous conferences with leaders
of other delegations. but he issued nc
statement.
Samuel Gompers, president, and John
=. Lennon, treasurer, of the American
Federation of Labor, arrived in Chicago
last night and Immediately began formu-
| lation of planks which they will submit
to the proper committee for insertion IN
| the republican platform.
Although Mr.. Gompers said he would
not discuss the proposed planks until
| they had been submitted, it was said re-
| lief would be asked from certain provi-
! sions Of the antitrust law and the curb
| ing of the power of federal judges in
the issuance Of injunctions in labor dis
putes. 1t also was said that prohibition
would be asked on the shipment OF
prison made goods from one state to
another.
| Il do not know when or where or even
if we will be given a hearing" said Mr..
Gompers last night. "All 1 know Is that
we will do our best to wind up our mis-
sion here as soon as possible and then go
to Baltimore to present the same requests
| at the democratic convention"
The ten delegates to the convention
| from South Dakota drew cheers from the
crowds when they appeared at the Coli
scum in the Overland Limited stage
coach.
| They reached the convention hall about
half an hour before the session was
called to order, the driver swinging his
coach and four around to the main en-
| trance in true western fashion. The dele
gates gave a typical cowboy yell, cheer
| ed for their candidate and disappeared
into the building.
! Hawaiis solid support of McGovern
was one Of the surprises of the vote
| on the temporary craftsmanship OF the
republican national convention yester-
| day Four of the six votes had been
| counted on by the Taft people, and they
| lection.
Last night 1t was said that the
Hawaiians had voted against Senator
Root in order to nullify the effect Of
the charge that the Taft people are de-
pending for support on the delegates
from districts which represent no
| electoral votes.
It is claimed by the Presidents man.
ayers that the Hawaiians will be back
| in the fold when the test vote comes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19

CHICAGO June 10@California's two
woman delegates-Mrs. Florence C.Porter
and Isabella w. Blaney, the first Of their
sex to ever cast vote In a national con-
vention. had little to say last night re-
garding their experience. Mrs. Porter
was the first of the two to cast a vote for
McCovern for temporary chairman
II did not mind 1t at ALL" said Mrs.
Porter last night. I'm fact I enjoyed the
experience I was the first woman who
had ever done anything Of the sort, ana
when i got UP I felt good deal like
Joan Of Arc 1 was making history for
the women of America. though in
slightly different way than Joan made it
for France.
oh" said Mrs. Blaney, L just voted
that's all / can't recall how the expert
ence affected me-
Parties In gay attire, with servants IN
tow carrying lunch baskets, formed pro
cession from the big hotels to the Coli
scum at the noon hour, which resembled
picnic crowd starting off for day In the
woods Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt.
IT., Mr. and Mrs Hopkins Smith. the
Misses W1borg. Mrs. Lafayette Gleason,
wife Of the secretary of the convention,
all OF New York, and Mrs. William E.
carried their lunches to the Coliseum.
Il couldn't eat with any satisfaction
with Lafayette up on the stage, said
Mrs Gleason. II was afraid he might
forget his part. 1t was awfully exciting
and awfully firing today, but I'm not go
ing to miss a session..
st was a hard place to enjoy your
lunch,' said Mrs. Borah, who admitted
that she had left before the session was
over II felt sorry for the women who
were there, though. without anything TO
eat Right after Senator Roots election
I put on my hat and 'ducked. It's too
bad. but that doesn't indicate that Taft
will be nominated.
In spite of the precautions taken by the
committee on arrangements and the
police to prevent any but those holdlns
regular tickets from gaining admission to
the Coliseum. it was reported last night
that scores had been passed by door
keepers either for money consideration.
for friendships sake or on ticket re-
sembling the regular one but not gen
uine.
Chief Doorkeeper John ]. Hanson re-
moved several of his aids after taking
their badges from them and caused two
former aldermen to be elected from the
annex. In each case, Hansen said, the
men had been found accepting entrance
fees"
The tickets accepted at the door, but
which were said to be counterfeit, were
the same as the regular tickets only they
did not indicate the entrance, section, row
and seat number. The tickets are said
to have been distributed in national COM
mittee envelopes bearing the words "Ad-
mission only.
Many joke tickets also were presented.
These entitled the holder to pass by the
Coliseum any day during the week
The dog house, shouted ''bellhop" at
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Teaching by Example.

From the New York Tribune.
Not often can the object lesson he
applied more fittingly than It was APP
piled by police Judge in Hoboken be
fore whom two youths were arraigned
for attempted burglary. Among the
waiting prisoners the judge recognized
an ''old-timer." arrested for begging in
this instance, though he had spent
many years OF his life In Jail for Sc
rious crimes. The Judge asked him. out
OF his experience. to tell the young
prisoners whether crookedness paid
I've been At II thirty years" the old
man answered. and there's nothing TO
it. I've let many opportunities to live
right go by. and have brought only
misery and unhappiness on myself. I've
never known anybody that made a real
success Of stealing what belonged TO
other people"
\ trite way Of saying that honesty Is
the best policy. perhaps. Yet the truth
of that maxim was likely To appeal 70
the boys arraigned for sentence com
ing from a miserable old man. a self
confessed faikre. as il had never done
before. They needed 10 see the reverse
side of the delightful get rich quick
existence they had decided on, and the
experience and shrewd wit of the
Judge enabled him to present IL to
them in the most forceful fashion
Prison sentences are supposed to i'm
press on the culprit the fact that the
way of the transgressor Is hard. In
general the individual knows in a NOR n
or less minimizing way that IL he
transgresses the laws of nature or man
he will have to pay. But IL needs the
realize how heavy the payment must
be.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19

She favors a federal direct primary law.
hut she says that If the federal law. is
never adopted II will make little diNsr
ence. as the states following tho lead sof
Oregon and Washington viii enact sep
arate laws for themselves
The convention at which Mrs. fhrtton
was selected was controlled by Clark
sAmpathizers, but Mrs. Hutton will not
say for whom she will vote She was
uninstructed. She will no- vote for Wi
SON She is emphatic about that. She
thinks that no college professor can be
anything but utterly UNIT for the Office
of President. and tho Princeton man ex-
cites in her no enthusiasm whatever. II
is practically certain should there be any
opportunity Mrs Hutton will vote for
BRYAN, for she believes Bryan Is the fore
most statesman in the United States to-
day. and she has cast her ballot for
Bryan electSts twice already.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19
TEMPORARY OFFICERS.

CHICAGO, June 19.-The temporary off,
GERS of the convention are as follows:
| Chairman-Eihu Root New York.
Secretary-Lafayette Is. Gleason, New
York.
Assistant secretaries-C. NJ Harger
| Kansas; John L. Norman. Indiana: A.
w. White. North Carolina: George L
Hart. Virginia: John H. McNary, Oregon
| H. c. Lindsay. Nebraska: Horace H
Bancroft. Illinois; John l.. Adams. Iowa;
Percy E. Stoddard New Hampshire; A
L. Dalrymple, New Jersey.
Sergeant at-armS-William F. Stone
Maryland.
Assistant eant-at-arms-Edward p
Thayer. Indiana.
| Chief neutrality-suspicious. ]. Hanson
Maryland.
| Chief usher-William B. Austin, Illinois
| Chief medical staff-Dr. George c. Hunt
| Illinois.
| Parliamentaran-E. L. Lamson, Ohio
! Official stenographer-M. w. Blumen-
berg, Washington. D. G.
Chief clerk-L. G. Heckinger, New Jer-
sey.
| Chaplains-The Rev James F. Gala
CHAN, Chicago; Dean Walter T. Summer
| Illinois: DIR. Joseph Stolz, Illinois: Rev
John B. Shaw. Illinois; DR.. ]. Wesley Hill
New York
| Reading clerks-William A. Wait, Mich
igan: Otto Bossard. Wisconsin; Thomas
Williamson. Illinois.
| Tally clerk-Archibald G. Graham. In
diana; Henry c. Woodill, Massachusetts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19

" cruel wit finding an easy target in
diminutfve Victor Rosewater holding up
his shaking and impotent hand for order.
View of Press Veterans.
The veterans in the press section
chewed their forbidden and unlighted
cigars and cuddled their untitled black
pipes In anticipation Of the happy hour,
when they could light up and get out
their stories in smoky comfort Even
the grayest and most blase among them
admitted that for red-blood and genuine
chancineSs this convention made every
other meeting of the kind look as pale and
Unconditional as a mothers meeting and
kindergarten entertainment.
Considering that these same wiseacres
predicted that the first day of the conven-
ton will be the qmetest and least inter
esting day of the whole week. 1t is fear
some but pleasurable question In the
minds Of those present as to what will
happen to the iron girders in the Coli
scum when the real roaring is re-
leased.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19

A single congressional district under
ordinary circumstances does not attract
a great deal of attention to itself At a
national convention, but at the coming
convention OF the democratic party in
Baltimore the third district of the state
of Washington expects to gain more than
passing notice from the fact that it has
picked a woman. Mrs. May Albright
Hutton Of Spokane. as one OF its dele
gates.
Mrs. Hutton asked to be sent as dele
gate because she felt that her long work
for the suffragfst cause in the Pacific
northwest entitled her to the place. and
the convention thought so, too. Mrs.
Hutton is one of the most widely known
personages in the northwest states. and
as political worker has been singularly
successful.
|. Is Progressive Democrat.
Mrs Hutton is a progressive democrat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19
PITNEY FOR PRESIDENT.
U. S. Supreme Court Justice Sug'
pested as Republican Compromise.

MoRRISToWN, N. J.. June 1s.-The
name OF Justice Pitney Of the United
States Supreme Court as a compromise
republican candidate for President was
suggested by speakers here last night at
a reception to the justice.
Il am thankful for the position now
have" said the justice. II am seeking
no other. In fact. I believe President
Taft would rather be wearing the gown
tonight than holding the position he now
has. l hope some day he will return to
the Supreme Court bench. where the
country can have the benefit Of his ex-
perience, for he is a great man and a
great lawyer"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19
COMMEND THE PRESIDENT.
California Business Men Condemn
Johnson and Heney's Behavior.

This was among the numerous tele-
grams OF good will and approval that
have reached President Taft last night
and today:
San Francisco, Cal, June Is, 1919.
Hon. William H. Taft,
Washington:
The Young Wholesale Busines Mems
Association of San Francisco, at their
monthly meeting today, passed resolu-
lions condemning Gov. Johnson and
Francis Heney for their noisy be-
havior. You have proved to party sue
cess. Go right ahead
BURT LIMESTONE, Secretary.
"2o Battery street"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19
SIGNS EIGHT-HOUR BILL.
Taft Valves Stipulations in Refer.
ence to Panama Canal.

President Taft today. in the presence
Of Representative Hughes of New
Jersey, signed the eight-hour bill. known
as the Hughes bill. Later. acting on
authority conferred upon him in the
bill, the President signed an executive
order waving the stipulations and pro-
visions Of the act as to ANY contract
or contracts entered into in connection
with the construction Of the isthmian
canal"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19
Tasmania Apples.
From the London Chronicle

There Is q steamer, the Argyllshire, ap-
proaching our shores with 21,OOO,OO0 ap-
ples in her hold-one Of the largest con-
sfpnments of fruit ever sent from Tas-
mania. the orchard state Of the common
wealth. Covent Garden seems hardly big
enough to accommodate such shipment.
but doubtless there are other storing
places and distributing centers in the
metropolis. Six more steamers for Eng
land were being filled up with Tasmanian
apples when the mail left OF all the
countries in the world Tasmania is the
most prolific in apples-and pretty girls.
1t has the secondary title of the ''Circas-
STA Of the Colonies"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19
On the Wrong End.
From Judge

From Judge.
Teacher-Don't say. How Il is rainin'.
Pronounce your g"
Little Girl know. teacher. Let me
say ii.
Teacher-Say 1t.
Little Grl-Gee! How II is rainin'!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19

During a severe thunderstorm Tuesday
night lightning struck the residence OF
Julius B. Gibson. near Huntington, Md.
damaging the building and severely in
juring hts eleven-year-old daughter
Louise. Four horses belonging to Mr.
GibDou were killed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19
Freedom of Judiciary.
Ad journment to Today.

When Senator Root finished. pursuant
70 an agreement between the leaders Of
the factions, the whole business of APP
pointing committees and other proceed
ings naturally belonging 10 yesterday S
work went over until this morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19
Columbus Started This
When He Promoted the
First American Trust

You didn't know this. 1t is just one of
the many things people don't know about
Trusts. Reams have been written about
them-vague mountains of words that only
made the subject more confusing. Now, in
this series of seven big articles on the
"People and the Trusts
you find the subject handled from new
point of view. in simple and novel way.
This series tells you how the Trusts affect
you, and your neighbor and your children.
These articles don't attack anybody; they
are trying to find out the truth and to sug
gest remedy. THEY ARE NOT MUCK
.RAKING, BUT CONSTRUCTIVE. Read
them, beginning with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19

Tar One Michigan delegate alb
sent.
OBJ Senator Root did not vote.
(c) North Dakota cast 1 vote
for w. l.. HOuser.
Id One Oregon delegate alb
sent.
le) One Texas delegate absent.
90 Wisconsin also cast 3 votes
for w. $. Lauder Of North Da-
kOta, 2 for w. l.. HOuser Of Wis.
cOnsin and I for Senator Gronna
of North Dakota. McG0vern did
not vote.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19

II you want work read the want col
umnS Of The Star.
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All Talk as They Please.

From that time on every delegate
abandoned himself to pleasure and
said Just what he thought without
waiting for several hundred others to
finish talking.
Hadley was one Of the few men, by
the way. who deposited their remarks in
every ear uninterrupted and unhooted.
Eddie Cochems Of Wisconsin. an old
foot ball player, with a voice made out
Of second calliope. was another Job
Hedges of New York. who was for
Root, in a few hundred well chosen and
amusing words. got his say. and Henry
Allen of Kansas not only put over his
Jokes, and kicked the opposition in
several resounding wallops without be-
ing interrupted. but uncorked an ova-
tion before he finished exhibiting the
tame Kansas cyclone which he uses
for q voice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-19

The dog house. shouted "bellhop" a.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-09
THE OIL IN A NUTMEG.

If Pin Prick Doesn't Draw Il Then
You've Got q Wooden Article.
The pure food expert at a pure food
show in New York took up a nutmeg.
Watch me Jab this pin into the nut
meg here and there" he said. do
you see how from each pin prick a
little oil exudex? Well, that is a proof
that the nutmeg is good. When a pin
prick draws no Oil from it II in a wood
en- nutmeg. nothing more.
The nutmeg tree OF Asia is seventy
feet high. The fruit is like a pear.
The flesh of the fruit is like candied
citron. and its seeds, our nutmeg prop
er. are enveloped in a yellow rind that
Is our mace.
"NutmeSs are dried for two months
in a moderate heat. They are then
sorted, and the small and broken ones
are thrown into the press for the pur-
pose of extracting their oil. the essen
tial oil Of nutmeg being a very costly
article Of commerce.
The big, fine. choice nutmegs, IL
they are now put On the market, are
all right; but. the oil being so costly,
there is a way of extracting 1t without
the use of the press. The fine. choice
nutmeg is STEPPED In hot water and
afterwam coated with lime. Then.
though all its oil and nearly all its
favor have departed. it looks o. X.
at looks o. K, but 1t is worth
less wooden nutmeg and If you CRATE
1t over anything you get no favor.
while if you stick a pin in it no oil
exudes.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-09
sY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

A poet or writer is somtimes handi-
capped by his own fame.
This is admirably touched off in
Stocktons story, His Deceased Wife's
Sister,
The author of tale with this title
made such a tremendous success with
its publication that he could never get
anything published after under his
own name
Elitors and publishers who beseech-
ed him for manuscripts regretfully re-
turned them stating that while they
were meritorious and, under other cir
cumstances, would have been accept
ed, the publishers or editors wanted
something that would equal if not sur
pass His Deceased Wife's Sister"
So that the celebrated author of
His Deceased Wife's Sister, found
himself literally starving while COM
PEELED to pose in the spotlight as the
genius who had given this story to the
world.
In order to save himself from obliv-
ion by way of the starvation route he
assumed nom de guerre and there
after became prosperous selling his
stories under this name and carefully
preserving his anonymity.
This, while burlesque, contained a
certain modicum of truth.
A great poet of the Middle West,
Coates-Kinney. who did a few years
ago, was an admirable, or lamentable,
instance of this literary injustice.
When still very young man he
wrote the familiar Rain Upon the
Roof" which, modestly published in a
western paper, was copied the world
over, set to music, translated into a
dozen different languages and included
in all English anthologies.
And although his later poetic pro-
duct possessed far greater literary dis
tinetion and was indicative of a ripen-
ed and mellowed genius, this admira-
BILE writer died embittered by what he
regarded as literary neglect although
famous for the authorship Of this lyric.
It is true, however, that a writer or
an artist is not always the best judge
/ of his own work.
| And to give to the world single
expression of universal human appeal
may be the superlative point of arts
tic attainment.
"The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"
is familiar the world over but who
knows that it's author, Francis Bour-
dillon, wrote other fine verse?
Home Sweet Home" fixed John
Howard Payne's fame for all time.
| On the other hand a poem which
makes chit" with the public, both
literary and lay, may be an invaluable
asset to it's author and this proved to
be true with Strickland w. Gillian
when Life" first published his famous
"Finnigin to Flannigan."
Gillian, in an amusing preface to a
new edition of his volume of verse,
Including Finnigin," issued through
Forbes and Company, of Chicago, says
something to this effect:
"The bell-wether, as it were, of this
huddle of strays, is the 'Finnigin' story
which opened to me the door of oppor-
tunity, both in the periodicals and on
the PLATFORM
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-09
NOTICE TO CONTRACT.
ORS AND BUILDERS

The Foster Construction Co.. have
opened a factory for the manufacture
of Cement Blocks, Copings. Porch Col
umns, Caps Stills, etc., at The Old Mill
Works.
They have a complete outfit of mod.
ern machinery and are using nothing
but washed and graded materials in
all their work. If you are contrac.
tor it will pay you to use the best ma.
terials obtainable. If you are going
to build it will pay you to insist that
your contractor use the Foster Con
struction Co.'s products. Would be
pleased to have call at Factory and
inspect their Products or call phones:
Res. 1929 or Factory 3406.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-09
The second-story box.

The second-story box.
The lady sitting at the edge
Which overhung the crowd
Could see the footlights, and some
times
She giggied right out loud
And then we knew she'd caught a
glimpse
OF some one on the stage;
But that was all our bunch could learn
In our sequestered cage.
I'VE got to read our programmes
through,
The laundry adds and all;
Learned where to buy our dry-goods
when
We fixed up for the fall.
We learned whose prices were the
least,
Who carried largest stocks;
But-see the show? Nay, nay, Pauline
We occupied a box,"
In vivid contrast
They call me strong because my tears
I shed where none may see;
Because l smile, tell merry tales and
win the crowd to me;
They call me strong because / laugh
to ease an aching heart,
Because I keep the sweet side out and
hide the bitter part
But. o, could they who call me strong
live but an hour with me
When I am wrung with awful grief in
my Gethsemane"