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Tramps-at Sea and Ashore.
Hrcs,s ne Survey.

Whoever hrrt named the wandering
cargo steamship tramp did II In a
moment Of inspiration. A sea tramp and a
shore tramp have more in common than
the name. These steamers go everywhere
in the came slouchy, aimless way, without
knowing whittier they will sail from the
next port. and never knowing when they
will get into the lane that leads home
Tramps ashore and afoat carry with them
enough to cover their nakedness: the bare
necessities OF life suffice: they are invol-
untary ascetics Tramp steamers have the
pinched. hungry look of city newsboy,
for they were born In adversely, and the
chill breath OF economy constantly blows
over them. They are the undermined.
underfed. overloaded ishmaelres OF the
sea.
Every seaman's tongue is against them,
and the merchants Of the world conspire
to get their goods carried In them for
nothing II is seldom one hears ANYBODY
speak respectfully OF a tramp Men in
liners, deep-water vessels and regular
trades Will allude with an infection Of
pride to my ship: coastinR men speak
OF them tramps' with a sniff OF scorn
that aefes Interpretation. Those who go
In them especially the Officers, speak in
n depfecating. haN-apologetic way OF
thaf being in q tramp. as though caught
where they should not be.
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City Planning Movement.

|
Foreign governments, municipal or ma
tional. unhampered by constitutional re-
strictions to which American cities are
subject. have made 1t a practice to oon-
troll the development Of the cities. It is
prescribed that certain territory shall be
reserved for residential purposes and
the area in which factories may be con-
structed are also designated. In this
country efforts have been made with
some success to protect residential areas
from liquor saloons. livery stables and
other kinds Of business that may be
home surroundings. But 1t has been
considered contrary to the guarantees
Of tho constitution to undertake to inter-
fere with the right of a land owner to
build factory or some other ordinary
business structure wherever he chooses.
Obviously the public authorities ought
to have some power to control the use
Of property in such manner as to pro-
mote the best development of the COM
munity. It Is not right that single
landowner should be permitted to
change the character of district by
planting a factory amid group OF
homes It would be better for all IL the
authorities should exercise a reasonable
degree OF control In matters OF this sort.
Notwithstanding the difficulty of the
the terms Of q council resolution, has
appointed commission Of aldermen
and citizens to make report on the
conservation OF residence districts. Pre-
sumably the constitution of the state
will have to be amended before much
power can be exercised in limiting or
controlling the spread Of business con-
Germs into home districts. But well
considered report on the subject should
assist In bringing about the needed modi-
fication Of the constitution. Possibly
the con.nission will find that something
can be accomplished to protect residence
neighborhoods. even under the present
limitations
The work Of the commission Is in &C.
cord with the general city planning
movement. IL cities are to be laid out
properly the public authorities must
of structures in particular localities.
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The Mississippi Bluffs.
From the st. Louis Republic.

From the ST. Louis Republic.
1t was recorded as a matter of current
news recently that st. Louis people were
displaying tendency to occupy the bluffs
and highlands along the river for subur-
ban homes. 1t is strange that so natural
a tendency should be so novel as to be
worthy Of record in the daily papers
The country about st. Louis has placid
and restful beauty. Its wide undulations.
the vivid green of it's vegetation and the
stateliness of its forest growth have
much of charm. For miles these scenes
Of pastoral loneliness are bounded to-
ward the east by fringe of timber which
surmounts the rocky lodges bordering
the Mississippi while across the stream
the willow-lined shore of Illinois and the
bottom lands stretch away to the low hills
and bluffs on the horizon. Below the
great river responds with an inexhaus-
tible play Of light, shadow and color
to the ever-changing conditions of cloud
and sky. What tina river lacks Of the blue
and silver flash OF clearwater streams
1t repays in an infinite VARIETY OF shades
and tints that encompass the whole
range Of subdued color. It's long reaches,
visible for many miles from It's banks.
fade into distant skies with q suggestion
Of the sea itself.
Such scenes are reserved now to the
chance wanderer or the purposeful seeker
after scenic beauty. The wonder Is, not
that people are beginning to think Of the
bluffs as places for country homes. but
that they were not fully pre-ernpted for
that use long ago.
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Tammany Fights
the Unit Rule.

~ never can understand why woman
wants to keep a room as dark as
pocket" ;.
And never can see why a man can
read a paper without having every blind
in the house wide open"
Sunday noon-a cloudy Sunday-when
Paul had felt too tired to go to church
and Frances had gone alone. Return
ing In the state OF readiness for irrita-
ton that often follows spiritual uplift.
she found her husband In the parior
haloed by tobacco smoke and encom-
passed by Sunday papers. Every shade
was up to its full height, every curtain
pushed aside.
The sermon had been on THE Sins of
the Tongue" If 1t hadn't been for that,
Frances felt she could have said vol
,rmes as she went about the room.
STRENGTHENING curtains and shades. AS
her efforts narrowed the light which
fell on her husbands paper, he looked
up with some annoyance. :,
you make 1t SO dark I can't read.
he commented.
There's no sense in having every
thing sprawled wide open like that. 1t
makes the house look horrid to have the
shades clear up to the top OF the win
down.
Then came the remark with which this
began and Frances retort With the
words a recollection OF the sermon flashed
into her mind. and she shut her lips
tightly and stopped to pick up the scat
tered papers. ,
Ia 7ily But what's the sense of pick
ing them up before I've done reading
them?"
There's no one here to be hurt by II
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Politics and Satire.
From the Springfield Republican.


In England satire in verse has kept a
somewhat larger place than in this coun-
try. and II is not surprising to find an
important .review lampooning member
of the cabinet quite in the old style. or
to find the victim retorting with prose-
cution. The poet Of Blackwoods was
quite in the wrong in charging that Win
ston Churchill when a prisoner OF the
Beers, broke his parole, and the editor
got off easily by apologizing that he had
not known that Mr. Churchill was re-
ferred to in the lines:
More fond of warlike words than blows, s
When captured by our Afrie foes, =.
How cleyerly he homeward stole.
And broke his prison and parole.
Behold him. just from school released.
Playing al soldiers In the Fast. II.
From discipline he seeks relief
In mutiny against his chief.
The instance illustrates the two weak
points of most satire-first that IL is un-
knows who IL is about. No literary type
is more darkly abusive or gives moro,
work to dryasdust critics.
Yet for all that IL is a splendid literary
form. and 1t is pity that In modern
the past English literature has been ex-
celled In this field only by the literature
Of Rome. SATIRE" said a great Roman
critic. lis wholly ours. and this primary
has never been seriously contested. Yet
by close imitation such as the Romans
used In respect to Grecian literature,
England became a good second. Dryden
ranks next to Juyenal in the grand style.
and OF the moderns who have written by
the mellower rays of the Nenusine lamp
none have surpassed Pope. The list OF
English satirists is long and brilliant and
in the swapping rhymes of the heroic
couplet English verse has resources not
inferior to those of the Roman hexame-
tiers In the long run II is more telling
than the labored rhymes OF "A Fable for
Critics" The satirical vein went out
along with the eighteenth century poetical
ideals, and most modern satire has been
light and feeble, mere specialized form
of verS de socfete
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What They Quarreled About.
1.-THE SINS OF THE TONGUE"
By Christine Terhune Herrick.

itr
And l certainly do"
II beg your pardon. OF course, II they
| don't suit you. they must go!'
do just as you please! I don't care
| how you keep the place!
And Frances left the room with dig
nifty, her head very straight. To go te
| church and say your prayers and come
home feeling happy and good, and then
| to be met by thing like this the mo.
ment you get into the house! What was
| the use?
Like a profane echo came the murmul
from the room she had quilted:
| "Oh hell, what's the use?"
| Frances stood STILL Should she go up
stairs and cry or go back and laugh
| Then-was 1t the sermon or the swear?
day. She dropped into seat on the
| bottom step and broke into a shrek OF
laughter
.Hullo! what's the matter7' from Paul.
Its so funny! Here I come home
feeling pious and prayerful. and lose my
temper the first thing and scold, and you
swear! Say. isn't 1t funny?'
Pauls mouth twitched.
IF that's the way you look at tt"
well, 1t is! Leave your old papers all
over the room If you want and put the
pesky shades out of the windows IL you
old mess than a row. Let's be comfort
able!''
Paul made a circular grab at his
papers.
"They may go hang for all Of me.
thought you were going of to cry!'
II was!"
"Well, I'm glad to know how to break
up weep. One little 'cuss word worked
the cure. BY George, I'm glad l married
a good sport"
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Merits Of White Bread.

From the New York Evening Post
The battle of the breads has been going
on In France, where the merits Of white
bread recently scored a victory over the
brown or graham bread. The latter,
adopted in 1908 for the army, has now
been replaced by a white bread ration.
The daily portion of twenty-six ounces
of white bread has been reduced to
twenty-three ounces. but the white -four
is estimated to contain one-sixth more
OF nutritive substances than the graham.
Other advantages claimed for white bread
are that 1t absorbs liquids more freely,
thus facilitating the amalgamation OF
saliva and gastric juice. Tho white bread
in turn 10 more completely assimilated
than the brown, whose larger proportion
OF mineral salts thus goes for nothing
Economically the brown bread is at a
disadvantage sipce the bran 1t contains
can be used as a food for animals more
profltably than for man. commission
appointed by the French minister of war
sums up it's findings in the statement that
the growing use of white bread among
civilized people Is founded upon 1.-THE ex-
perience of millions a million times re-
peated.
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rather Grady's motion to abrosate it was

rather Grady's motion to abrogate It was
defeated by 46S to 1872.
Gen. r. 8. Bragg OF Wisconsin made a
speech for Cleveland. in which he said
''They love him and respect him. not only
for himself. for his character. for his in
tegrity and judgment and iron will. but
they love him most for the enemies he
has made" This ELECTED a bitter retort
from Grady. but ii also redou5led the en-
thusiasm Of the Cleveland men. and when
an attempt was made to stampede the
convention to Thomas A. Hendricks the
cry was "A little more grape, Capt.
Bragg. Cleveland was nominated easily
on the second ballot. and Hendricks was
chosen as his running mate.
The feature Of this democratic conven-
ton was the presence OF Gen. Benjamin
F. Butler Of Massachusetts, as q bidder
for the presidential nomination. Butler
had been a figure In the democratic con-
vention at Charleston IN 1860. but after
the war had been a republican. Then he
was elected governor of his state as a
democrat and only six weeks before this
convention met he had been nominated
for President by the greenbacker-anti-
monopoly party. He offered to advocate
pensions for Confederate soldiers and
promised to take the negro vote away
from Blaine. but he was not able to per-
suade the democrats to take him seri-
ously.
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Vindication Of LEnfant.
From Harper's weekly.

The site that had been selected on the
Potomac was thick woods, naked fields
and treacherous swamps. 1t was Wash.
ington's ambition to make out Of this
wilderness a new city which should be
metropolis AZ we'll as a capital. a second
London or Paris. There were no city
planners in those days as there are now
President Washington chose MAI. En-
FAINT for the task. LEnfant had rebuilt
the New York city hall. and In Phila-
delphia had erected on the house OF Rob-
the first mansard roof ever seen IN
America. There were only four million
people in the United States then, but II
was Washington's wish that the new
capital should be laid out for future
population Of at least 100000. L'Enfant
worked on his plans for many months.
He studied the plans Of oldworld cities
and freely sought advice of the founders
OF the republic. The city plan that he
evolved still stands unique in world archi-
lecture It's partial re tndsn It's Is com
pletion will be the Washington Of his
tory's tomorrow. LEnfant's original
plans are preserved In the Congressional
Library. They were enthusiastically re-
ceived at first. but were 30 far ahead OF
ticable Only within recent years have
they been resurrected. Then they were
found to be so comprehensive. SO simple
and intelligent that. though they were
drawn more than a century ago, the
modern city builders could see nothing In
which they could be improved.
But LEnfant died an embittered and
disappointed man. There was much fric-
ton between him and his associates. He
became unmanageable and was removed
from Office The work was placed in the
hands Of Mai. Andrew Ellicott, a bright
young Pennsylvania who had been one
of his subordinates. Ellicott proceeded
to develop and carry out LEnfant's
ideas, and to him much credit also IL due.
Until he died, L Enfant haunted the halls
Of Congress. pouring his alleged grew
ances into the ears of all who would
listen to him. He spurned the compen-
sation thst the government offered him,
ana lived on the bounty Of others. In
1900 his remains were transferred from
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Catal0gued.


iron n Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Poet-Pardon me. but I haven't
SEN my poem on the vernal season In
print as yet.
The Editor--Not as yet. Ell? One mo-
nsot please. We have just installed a
new card system. Name. please?
The Poet--Hyacinthe Gloom.
The Editor-Ah. yes. G-e-g-Gloom
Here we are: H. Gloom, four verses
crocus breaks tn. mold title when Ma.
ture Rises From Her Dreams" All, yes
Section u. drawer %. Lemme see. Your
red-ink number ~ eIS, folio SO. Look fol
your verses early In 1917 Good day.
And the poet YEARLY stalks out.
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their former resting place and were
placed in Arlington cemetery with full
military honors. and q year ago a
memorial was unveiled over them It is
a marble canopy on which is carved the
original plan Of Washington, and over
looks from a green hillside. the city Of
his dreams.
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KEYS THOUGHT INSANE.
Arrested for Annoying Girl, He Is
Sent to HOSPITAL.

W. II. Keys Of 1861 Parkwood place,
arrested by Policeman Castle Of the
tenth precinct last night for annoying
the seven-year-old daughter of Edward
Mccormick while in a moving picture
theater, was committed to the Wash
ington Asylum Hospital for observation
by Judge Mullowny. when arraigned in
the Police Court today. Keys Is report
ed to have formerly been an insane pa
tent.
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ence in national politics. would be the
man to lead the party to victory.
Tammany Hall hated him, and John
Kelly led the fight against him in conven-
ton. Henry Watterson was there striv-
ing against Cleveland and fighting for
Senator j. E Mcdonald OF Indiana. Ohio
presented Thurman, Pennsylvania Ran
dali and Kentucky Carlisle as favorite
sons. in addition to the HoOsie. Nc
Donald.
The New York delegation INST the day
before the convention and adopted the
unit rule. binding all seventy-two dele
gates to vote for Cleveland. There were
twenty-five Tammany men who were op-
posed to Cleveland and they attempted
to start boom for Roswell P. Flower.
When the convention met Tammany
made a fight against the unit rule.
Thomas F. Grady
Tammany Fights made the attack on
II yY.An the rule. and in
the Unit Rule. c,dentally assaulted
Cleveland in a most violent manner.
Bourke Cochran defended the rule: Carter
Harrison Of Chicago agreed with Grady.
On a vote tho unit rule was upheld. or
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-22

From the Kansas City Journal.
What be these?''
Talking machines. you rube. Drop
nickel In the slot and the machine will
talk to you."
by heck. ia do It IL thought could
get civil answer"
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feated in the conventions of 1876 and 1880
that the vote
Call the Roll for on the tenn
Temporary Chairman. man was
had by calling the roll of the individual
delegates. In the New York delegation
Plat and Robertson voted for Clayton.
Curtis and Roosevelt for Lynch. In Ohio
William Mckinley voted for Clayton.
Joseph B. Foraker for Lynch. In Illinois
Shelby NJ Cullom. captain OF the Logan
boom. voted for Lynch. Lynch won by
vote Of 431 to $50.
The anti-Blaine forces had won tine first
test of strength, but they were not able
to keep up that compact organization that
had nominated Hayes eight years before.
Their desperation was extreme There
were repeated suggestions Of Gen. Will
liam Tecumseh Sherman. as a war hero.
there being no less than 40 Union sol
diers among the delegates. But this Gen.
Sherman stopped by declaring that he
would not accept the nomination and
would not serve # elected.
Only four ballots were taken. The
rumored combination between Blaine and
Tom Plat. made it's appearance. the
Arthur men were not able to gain re-
cruits and Blaine won easily. Logan
was named for Vice President
Early in the convention Gov. Hawkins
OF Tennessee had offered the chariot
wheel resolution that had made it's first
appearance in 1880. binding all the dele
gates to support the nominee. The reso-
luton did not come to q vote. being OPP
posed by Curtis and others. When the
nomination was made the Independents. .
as the friendly papers called them, or
"mugwumps," as the enemy termed them,
were silent: A New York paper. under a.
subhead, Roosevelt Reticent," gave this
reply to request for an opinion on the
nominations:
'Mr. Roosevelt Of New York said: No.
I have nothing to say just now. The
reason Is because / haven't thought about
1t. It is a matter for grave considera-
ton, for reflection. Come and see me a
week hence"
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stable at low gauge. during the war all
fiscal questions were subordinated. and
while there was greenbacker move
ment and a hard money movement. the
resumption of specie payments in the
Hayes administration had practically set
tied all live questions So it was that
when Garfield defeated Hancock the Of
fees were the whole stake.
Garfield being elected, he took Blaine
into his cabinet and made w. H. Rob-
ertson collector of the port at New
York. That appointment so angered
Conkling and Plat. both then senator's.
and having claims on the New York
patronage. that they resigned and ap-
pealed to the New York legislature
for vindication that they didn't get.
Garfield was assassinated, but Arthur,
although Conkling man. kept Robert
son in office. The New York collector
was not grateful" to Arthur for his
retention, but was true to Blaine. who
had forced his appointment.
When the pre-convention campaign
opened the ms were for Arthur. the
'outs" we're for Blaine, being led by
Robertson. although he was in" Many
leading republicans-old men who had
supported Greeley in TT and young men
who had come up since the war-were for
Edmunds and civil service reform. John
Sherman and John A. Logan were favor
lite sons. and Gen. Sherman was dark
horse war hero.
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Mr.. Roosevelt did one other thing in that
convention. He signed an appeal to the
Appeal Is Signed
by Roosevelt.

claring for a reduction in duties and
for free raw materials. The platform as
reported by William Mckinley did not
contain the plank prayed for Another
future President who played a part was
Benjamin Harrison. much talked Of as
a possible dark horse. He listened kind
" to this talk and thereby earned the
undying enmity OF Walter @. Gresham,
then in Arthur's cabinet. and a claimant
for In6iana's support for the presidency.
The democrats met at Chicago July s.
The nomination of Grover Cleveland was
q foregone conclusion, but the opposition
was determined and 1t fought until the
last. Efforts had been made to persuade
Mr.. Tilden to get into the race. but he
would not permit the use OF his name.
Cleveland had been elected Governor OF
New York by a huge majority and had
shared in the democratic victories of
1882 Everybody believed this would be
democratic year and that Cleveland. al
though he had had absolutely no expert
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was chairman of
nofac+iona IN the national COM
mittee. There were
Camp OF Blaine. some startling de-
fections from administration forces to the
Blaine camp. the newspapers being full
OF stories that Collector Robertson had
persuaded the southern delegates to de-
sert the administration and rally under
the gonfalon Of the plumed knight. AS
to Arkansas. the story was doubtless
true, for the Blaine men controlled the
national committee, and it recommended
Gen. Powell Clayton OF Arkansas for
temporary chairman. This, the Blaine
men thought, meant sure victory for
them.
The convention met next day and Sena-
tor Sabin presented Gen. Clayton as tenn
porary chairman Henry Cabot Lodge Of
Massa chusettS thereupon arose and NOM
mated John r. Lynch Of Mississippi, a
negro, who had served several terms in
Congress. William w. Morrow of Cali
fornia pleaded with the delegates to
stand by the committee. George William
Curtis spoke for Lynch.
/ Theodore Roosevelt. twenty-six years
old, and already leader in his state,
spoke for Lynch. He said In substance
that the national committee ought not to
be permitted to control a national con-
vention; that the committee had only two
or three delegates In its membership: that
the delegates were sent by the people to
act as the supreme party power. and that
the national committee ought to be
taught it's proper sphere. Then he closed
with a tribute to Mr.. Lynch, and an ap-
peal for recognition OF the colored
brother.
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At the first Garfield was not mentioned
except as the darkest of dark horses.
Benjamin Harri-
GARFIELD Mentioned son. who was to
have his chance
Ooah Nurse. eight years later.
was most often spoken Of rs the dark
horse favorite, and Window was talked
about great deal. On the first day OF
the convention New York correspond
ent said: When the name Of Garfield
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But the organization Of the republican
party stiffened itself against sentiment
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When the convention met Tammany
made a fight against the unit rule.