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Evening star., 1912-07-13
The Next Congress.

A special session Of the Sixty-third
Congress? That will depend. There will
be pressing business of the highest inn
portarce Trusts. the tariff and the cur
rency await action, and the country
wants action.
But It is action, and not agitation and
political n,anenvering. the country wants.
1t wants tariff revision. and not mere
talk about It; additional trust legislation,
and not debates about the origin and
application Of the Sherman antitrust
law; currency reform. and not repeti-
tions OF the charge that Wall street
is behind Mr.. Aldrich's suggestions.
And action. therefore, will depend upon
a Congress in agreement with the White
House II Congress points one way and
the President another. action will be
unlikely. II not impossible.
Democratic calculations are based upon
great confidence. The leaders OF that
party are sure the country Is ripe for a
complete political overturn. and that both
Congress and the presidency are coming
their way They expect to hold the
House. capture the Senate by a work
able majority and elect Mr.. Wilson by
an enormous vote. II such Is the result.
then the sooner the new order begins to
do business the better.
Mr.. Tafts friends as a rule are re-
serving expressions. Some are not hope
full Others are. There are TAFT men
who think that after the campaign gets
under way and the Taft speakers get into
their stride the outlook for the President
will materially brighten. They think the
record only needs a more aggressive ex-
position to attract the support Of both
capital and labor. and they believe Mr.
Taft will win. II he does, a republican
| Congress may be a part OF the party
spoil. and in that event an extra ses.
1 sion will be demanded
| So far not even the most extrava-
| 4anS NS AhA- RooseHAlt man. haYa aug,
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Warning.
On. Mr.. Politician.

Oh, Mr.. Politician.
II you should call again,
Appealin' to the Judgment
OF us common folks an plain,
I give you timely warnin'.
Whoever you may be.
Fur guidance safe an sane Jest now
Do not appeal to me.
When the mercury has risen
An the sky is blazin' white
An mosquitoes come a-prowlin'
Fur my gore each summer night,
Oh, Mr.. Politician,
Don't ask advice from me.
I'm plain. perhaps, an common,
But my Judgment Is N. G.
Evening star., 1912-07-13
A Protest.

"Yes, said the misunderstanding
woman; Il might manage to hand you
a bite to eat if you'll saw and chop a
good pile of stove wood. and bring in
few buckets of water and chop the weeds
out Of the garden and fix up the fence"
Lady" replied Meandering Mike, I'm
only hungry wayfarer. l amt yer
husband"
Evening star., 1912-07-13
Motives ObScured.

IF we women had the vote, matters
would be simplifed.''
II don't know" replied Miss Cayenne.
"They might be more complex. When
man sent us candy and flowers we
wouldn't know whether he was leading up
to a proposal or merely electioneering."
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Gntered as secori i-class I.ail matter at the post
.f,ce at Washington. d. @.

C-In order to avoid delays on account Of
personal absence. letters to THE STAR should
not be addressed 10 any individual connected
with the Office. hut simply to THE STAR. or TO
the Editorial or Business Department. according
to tenor purpose.
Evening star., 1912-07-13
The Student.

''Is that candidate a student of political
economy?'
Perhaps But from the way he figures
out votes for himself should say he
had devoted most Of his attention to
mental arithmetic
Evening star., 1912-07-13

Woodrow Wilson's suggestion of a need
Of moral pride does not indicate any great
degree of subservience in catering to the
Atlantic City vote. The local population
might remind the professor that most Of
the people in Atlantic City at this time
Of the year come from all parts Of the
country and cannot be reformed In the
few weeks at their disposal for vacation
purposes.
Evening star., 1912-07-13

The members Of Congress remaining In
Washington find it impossible to make a
clash in debate seem very thrilling, after
what took place in Chicago and Balu
more.
Evening star., 1912-07-13

Summer heat Is sometimes blamed for
prostrations that are largely due to in
dividual indiscretion and might occur In
any kind of weather. To the maxim
Don't worry might be added the more
important suggestion, Don't try to drown
your troubles
Evening star., 1912-07-13

The notification of a candidate that ne
has been nominated is not an incident OF
any practical importance. 1t is rather
an occasion of festivity to which popular
sentiment is strongly attached. and is
perquisite of the brass band industry
which could not be eliminated without
hardship.
Evening star., 1912-07-13

The prohibition party has a great many
friends and admirers who adopt its prln-
c.ples without giving it their votes In an
election It's platform claims especial ap-
proval at this time of year as one of the
most valuable of hot weather "dont's.
Evening star., 1912-07-13
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
No Sinecure.

What are the principal activities OF
the official position our friend occupies?'
Those involved in holding on to 1t,
replied Senator Sorghum
Evening star., 1912-07-13

1t must be said of Harry Thaw that in
the management Of his case he has not
allowed considerations Of petty economy
to interfere.
Evening star., 1912-07-13

Boston contains a great many admirers
of Esperanto in spite of the fact that
neither Emerson nor John l. Sullivan
ever spoke the language.
Evening star., 1912-07-13
Candid Avowal.

You haven't your usual remarkable
stories to tell about your fishing trip.
No. the truth is that l got SO inter
ested in trying to catch some fish, 1 for
got to think up any
Evening star., 1912-07-13
That North Pole.

The arctic wanderers lot is tough.
Though he the goal may win.
There is no ice box big enough
To put his treasure in.
Evening star., 1912-07-13

The spontaneous petition" for Mr..
Tafts withdrawal was about as effectual
as Mr.. Roosevelt's Overwhelming de-
mand"
Evening star., 1912-07-13

A lot of western cowboys can never be-
lieye that T. r. actually allowed some
body to "hold him up at Chicago and
rob him of a nomination.
Evening star., 1912-07-13

It will be something to be- recognized in
natural history as the man who made
the bull moose famous.
Evening star., 1912-07-13

England does not feel that work on the
Panama canal will be complete until her
smartest lawyers have had a chance at
the scale of prices.
Evening star., 1912-07-13

Every days reports from Mexico
strengthen the impression that Dtaz was
a wonderfully able and resourceful man.
Evening star., 1912-07-13
Original Wilson Men.

From the Boston Transcript.
The original Woodrow Wilson men"
are now coming out OF the woods in
hocks. Most of them lack means Of
proving their identity.
Evening star., 1912-07-13

PAYABLE IN adsance-hv mail postage prepaid:
Daily. SUNDAY included. month 90 cents.
Daily. Sunday excepted. one month. 40 cents.
Saturday Star. 81 year. Sunday Star. S2. 40 year.
Evening star., 1912-07-13
Big Race.

From the Springfield Republican.
1t will be the biggest Yale-Harvard-
Princeton race in history.
Evening star., 1912-07-13

If a Camorrist cannot convince the
court, he at least feels that he has enter
tanned the audience.
Evening star., 1912-07-13

No political party can hope to monopo-
lize Thou shalt not steal as its cam
paign motto.
Evening star., 1912-07-13
III. Evening star Hswspapsr Company.

Business Once. flth st and Pennsylvania Avenue
New York once: Tribune Building.
Chicago once: First National Bank Building.
European once: Regent ST., London. England
Evening star., 1912-07-13

1t is not alone the con-
venience, or the fresh
ness, or the crispness, or
the unusual food-value,
or the digestibility, or
the cleanliness, or the
price, that has made
Uneeda Biscuit the
National Soda Cracker.
1t is the remarkable
combination of all of
these things.
If everyone, every
where, knew how good
they are, everyone,
everywhere, would eat
them-every day.
Sold by grocers in every city
and town. Bought by people
of all classes.
Always S cents i'm the mois-
ture-proof package.
NATIONAL BISCUIT
COMPANY
Evening star., 1912-07-13

The Evening Star with the Sunday morning
sd,tfon f. delivered by carriers within ths city
at IS cents per month: daily only. Is cents rer
month: Sunday only. 20 cents per month. Orders
may re cent by mail or telephone Main 244O.
Collection IS made by carrier at the end OF each
month.
Evening star., 1912-07-13
4 Big Job.

From the Boston Herald.
In restoring Eden the British engineer
viii ned more than is1xafion 6t6oh1ak-
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New York-WAsfIINdToN-
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In Your Absence From Town

daily household
In
Mail Order
tegen efficient wishes makes for
Then liberal allowances the
possible
NOTEWhen home be d
identification.
Evening star., 1912-07-13
RUG WEAVING.

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Evening star., 1912-07-13

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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-07-06
THE "HELPLESS" GIRL.

The helpless girl is the most pre-
eminently selfish of all women. And
the worst of it is that it is very hard
selfishness to fight against, as she
is usually sweet-tempered in her ty-
ranny.
In her home life before marriage
she is always the one who gets up
last in the morning and shirks work
all day long.
Tears come easily to her eyes.
She knows the power of her baby
ish appealing way and uses it to the
utmost
Her mother or sisters make her
clothes, tidy her wardrobe, write her
notes, make excuses for all her short:
comings, and do their level best to
add to her selfshness in every way.
With men she has a wistful
please ake-care-of-me' air that ap-
pea1s to their chivalry.
If she is plain they are not easily
imposed upon, but if she is pretty
they are lost.
Don't be a helpless girl. It's so
mean!
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WAGES OF SIN.
Parents Can Save Their Loved Ones
BY Proper Discipline.

The wages of sin is death, and par
ents are guilty of mortal sin who
neglect a proper supervision over the
habits of their children SO long as
they are under the home roof.
Too much liberty of action granted
young, inexperienced girls and boys
soon degenerates into license, with
the inevitable result of mortal sin,
says the Los Angeles 'Tidings."
Parents cannot be too careful. They
must remember that young blood
needs steady mind to guide and
control its action.
The natural impulse is to brook
no curbing, and if parents are weak
or lax in their authority, or overcon-
fident in the ability of their children
to resist temptation, they are in seri-
Gus danger of opening the way to
those sins whose wages are paid in
death to body and soul
Like a beautiful flower trampIed in
the filthy mire and despoiled of its
purity and fragrance, just when it
should have been maturing into fruit
fulness, is the life of the young man
or woman when wrecked through the
force of it's own unbridled nature
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-07-06

And who is to blame? Surely not the
unguided and undeveloped youth that
seeks only the qualification of the
body, whose demands are Unsuitable,
but rather those to whom God has
confided the care of an immortal soul
to be trained in the way of virtue and
modesty, of uprighteousness and in
tegrity, that it may rely not upon its
own strength but upon the grace that
God gives through holy religion, to
meet and resist the temptations of
life.
No mother ever should lose or shun
the full confidence of her children,
both boys and girls. And if she keeps
step with them, day by day, as they
grow from childhood into the full
strength of maturity, there should be
no false modesty to place barrier
between mother and child, for therein
lies the devils greatest strength.
Young people of the present day
have entirely too much freedom. 1t
is wrong for them to be allowed out
late at night, running the streets at
all hours, going to places of amuse-
ment, or dances, with neither father
or mother, or some older friend to
chaperone them. 1t is not surprising
that our Juvenile courts are crowded,
and that the DEVILS emissaries in the
form of criminal practitioners can
reap of harvest of worldly wealth
through their nefarious operations,
while Satan himself gathers a har-
vest of souls through the wages of
| sin
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THE BEST TEACHER.

The more a parent or teacher be-
lieves in a child's purity or motive,
the purer that child's motive will be-.
Nothing is more disheartening to a
child than to be charged with an I'M
worthy motive that never occurred
to him.
If a boy is scolded for quarrelling,
when he has simply interfered to
stop a quarrel, he is less likely to
be a peacemaker at the next oppor-
tunity. Ii he is taken to task for
being late at school before the teacher
finds out why he is late, his sense of
Justice may be outraged if his late
ness is of a kind that the teacher
would approve, with knowledge of
the cause.
The light-hearted, generous, for
giving spirit of the child makes many
teacher or parent careless about
giving offense. But if we would set
up pure motives in abiding power in
the life of a child, we must check
our laundering suspicious, believe in
the childs purity of motive, and keep
that belief plainly to the fore in
every issue.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-07-06
OPEN THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART.

Lucille is a wise little girl" ad-
miringly declared her aunt. 'She
knows something that would do every
girl lot of good to learn, just as
soon as she can. She knows when to
open and when to shut the door of her
heart. For instance: May Stanley
came in here a little while ago and
started to tell a bit of schoolgirl Cos
sip. Lucille did not hesitate minute
She just put up warning finger,
laughingly, and said: "Now, May,
what is the use of wasting time and
breath On what may not be the. least
bit true, or that will only make us
sorry if it is true? Let's try over my
new song, instead of gossiping."
THAT was when she shut the door
promptly in the face of wrongdoing.
But she flung the same door open
wide to take in the story of the poor
child who is i'll in the little cottage
down the street; and she helped make
some dainty custard for her. Yes,
there is a password that one must
give to open the door of her heart.
That word is good will. Anything of
an opposite sort makes the door fly
shut and lock fast, before it can get
it"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-07-06

but he remembered the example OF
Joseph. who became prime minister
of Egypt four thousand years before
and that of Daniel, who was prime
minister to the greatest despot of the
world five centuries before the birth
Of Christ
He pushed his way up through the
lower classes, up through the middle
classes, up through the upper classes,
until he stood master, self-poised,
upon the topmost round of political
and social power. Rebuffed, scorned,
ridiculed, Kissed down in the House
Of Commons, he simply said, "The
time will come when you will hear
me-" The time did come, and the boy
with no chance but determined will,
swayed the scepter of England for a
quarter of century.
Henry Clay, the 'tmill-boy of the
slashes," was one of seven children
of widow too poor to send him to
any but common country school,
where he was drilled only in the
three RS" But he used every spare
moment for study without teacher,
and in after years he was king
among self-made men. The boy who
had learned to speak in barn, with
only cow and horse for an
audience, became one of the greatest
of American orators and statesmen.
George Stephenson was one of
eight children whose parents were so
poor that all lived in a single room.
George had to watch COWS for neigh
Dor, but he managed to get time to
make engines of clay, with hemlock
sticks for pipes. At seventeen he had
charge of an engine, with his father
as fireman. He could neither read
nor write, but the engine was his
teacher, and he was a faithful stu
dent. While the other hands were
playing games or loafing in liquor
shops during the holidays, George was
taking his machine to pieces, cleaning
it, studying it, and making expert
ments in engines. When he had be-
come famous as a great inventor of
improvements in engines, those who
had Ioafed and played called him
lucky.
These instances could be multiplied
indefinitely. They go to show that
success is due, not so much to posi-
ton, or place, or time, but to the
man!
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-07-06
THE PRAYER OF ST. FELIX.

Lord, for tomorrow and it's needs
l do not pray;
Keep me, my God, from stain of sin
Just for today.
Let me both diligently work
And duly pray;
Let me be kind in word and deed
Just for today.
Let me be slow to do my will,
Prompt to obey;
Help me to mortify my flesh
Just for today.
Let me no wrong or idle word,
Unthinking say;
Set Thou a seal upon my lips,
Just for today.
Let me in season, Lord, be grave;
In season gay;
Let me be faithful to Thy grace
Just for today.
And if today my tide of life
Should ebb away,
Give me Thy sacraments divine,
Sweet Lord, today.
In Purgatory's cleansing fires
Brief be my stay;
0, bid me, if today I die
Go home today.
So, for tomorrow and it's needs,
I do not pray;
But keep me, guide me, love me, Lore
Just for today.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-07-06
AN OLD IRISH PRAYER.

The universal night prayer of the
children, beginning ''Now I lay me
down to Sleep" is only about a
thousand years older than Protes-
tantism, although many of the misin-
formed appear to believe that it is OF
Protestant origin, says the Dublin
Irish Catholic. This old, old Catholic
when Fire was Erie, and there have
been wilder surmises than this: that
st. Patrick taught it to the children of
the High King at Tara, that St.
Columbkille bore it to Iona, and that
St. Aidan carried it from Iona to Eng
land when he founded Lindisfarne
Abbey. In one form or another the
little prayer has descended through
the ages from mother to child among
those conservators of tradition, the
Irish peasants. In the days of that
precursor of Henry VIII, the irrelig-
ious, dissolute William Rufus-that is
to say, in the eleventh century-the
old baby prayer was suddenly pre-
scented at Court. 1t was at time
when the corrupt monarch lay dan
gerously ill., He had banished st. An
selm and Anselm's clergy, and in the
hour of mortal need he was without
spiritual help. Trembling for the sal
ungodly courtiers to kneel and pray
for him. They knelt and muttered
some jargon. The king would not be
satisfied; he ordered them to pray
audibly. But these, his chosen friends
and fiatterers, were of his own impious
stripe; not one of them could say an
intelligent prayer. At last they be-
thought them of a little page who had
but lately come to Court, and who had
been observed and Knocked at his
night prayers. The child was brought
to the kings bedside; he kne1t and
prayed:
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
Bless the bed that lie on.
There be four corners to my bed;
There be four angels overspread;
Two at my head, two at my feet,
To be my guardians while l sleep
Auu IL L Vic OCLOAO L b"SSnS'
Sweet Mary's Son, my soul pray take.
The modern English form is very
much shorter:
Now I lay me down to sleep;
l pray Thee, Lord, my soul to keep;
If I should die before l awake,
pray Thee, Lord, my soul to take.
Amen.
One ancient Irish version runs hus:
Or ere l go this night to sleep,
I give my Lord my soul to keep.
There are four corners to my bed;
Four angels round about my head
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
God bless the bed I rest upon.
And if die ere l awake,
| give my Lord my soul to take.
Amen.
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THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.
TO A LITTLE FRIEND.

May angel faces smile upon thee, dear,
And angel voices sing joyful lay;
May golden sunshine flood the heavens
clear,
Thy First Communion Day!
May all the love those angel smiles
suggest,
And all the sweetness of their voices
gay,
Unite, to make the happiest and best,
Thy First Communion Day!
May our dear Lord come down from
heaven above
To rule within thy heart in holy
sway,
And find a dwelling place of purest
love,
Thy First Communion Day!
An old, old friend-a priest-at Holy
Mass
Will fondly think of thee, and often
pray
What paradise he promised thee, sweet
lass,
Thy First Communion Day!
T. A. M. in APE Maria.
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BOYS WITH NO CHANCE.

what has been done can be done
again." said the boy with no chance,
who became Lord Beaconsfield, Eng
lands great prime minister. 81 am
not a slave, I am not captive, and
by energy can overcome greater OBJ
stacles.
Jewish blood flowed in his veins,
and everything seemed against him,
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