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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
CLERKS TO BIBLE
Assistant Postmaster Robin.
son Gives Christmas Advice
in Novel Manner.

A story has just come to light about
Assistant Postmaster l.. j. Robinson,
Postmaster Merritt's right-hand man.
Robbie as many clerks call him,
after the official regulations for the
handling of the Christmas mail rush had
been promulgated and seemingly every
thing likely to arise had been anticipated.
went of his own accord to local printer
and had a number of slips printed for
distribution among the clerks, carriers
and other employees.
1t bore the heavy caption christmas
Cheer and admonished its readers not
to swear or to get excited, but laid down
the following advice to meet all emer-
gencies:
IF you have the blues. read the twenty
seventh psalm: if your pocketbook is
empty, read the thirty-seventh psalm: If
people seem unkind. read the fifteenth
chapter OF John; if You are discouraged
about your work. read the 126th psalm: if
YOU are all out Of sorts, read the twelfth
chapter of Hebrews; If You cannot have
your own way in everything. keep silent
and read the third chapter of James and
IL YOU are losing confidence in men read
the first chapter OF / Corinthians.
The advice was novel. but the men took
it in good part, and some Of them say
that Postmaster MerrittS after-Christ-
mas notice commencing his employees
should have made some mention of AS
sistant Postmaster Robinson's little adj
vice slip.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
NOW ENGLAND ENJOYS SUNDAY
Robert Morrell Organized Leagues to
Provide Sabbath Amusement.

From the London Telegraph.
Robert Matthew Morrell. founder of the
National Sunday League of Eng and, died
few days ago. He was eighty-nine
years old. He devoted his life to chang
ing the character of the English Sunday
He sought to abolish in England. and
particularly in London. rigid Sabbatar-
iansm Of the traditional Scottish type
and to make the holy day also a holiday.
He neither aimed at nor brought about
in England the continental Sunday or
Sunday indistinguishable from week
day.
That rest for most people consist in
recreation rather than i'd enesS and that
Sunday provides great opportunity Tor
quickening the minds and bodies and gen.
orally Frightening the lives OF the people
was the theory which Mr.. Morrell wished
to see put into practice. By means OF the
Sunday League. which he started in 1870,
he achieved large measure OF success.
the signs of which are most conspicuous
in London.
day League devoted itself to agitation
and education of public opinion. For
forty years the campaign was carried on
by public meetings, debates, petitions.
branch societies and other means, politi-
cal and social. One of the most infiu-
entail supporters was Charles Dickens.
who wrote many powerful letters in IA
vOr OF the leagues objects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
FORMER SLAVE DIES RICH.
Norris Landcraft Accumulates For.
tune Following Civil War.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANDERSON, w. Va, December 2S.-
Norris Landcraft, wealthy ex-save,
who lived near here Is dead at the
age of eighty years. Up to the
civil war he was the property of
the late Samuel Jarrett of West Eir-
gina then Virginia.. At the close of the
war he continued in the service of that
family as a farm worker and by saving
his money he was able later to purchase
a farm for himself, upon which place he
died.
One of his brothers, who was also a
slave. but who had run away, but who
was of a thifty disposition and had made
a Jarrett, and had him 20 to Indianapol $,
Ind, in real estate, died about twenty
years ago. leaving over 10000 to Norris
and another brother and sister. With the
affection Norris st ii retained for men,
bers of the family In which he had been
a slave he went to T.. +. Hill, president
of the bank at Anderson, who had married
a Jarrett. and had him go to Ind annapolis,
look after his interests and secure the es
tate. which Mr.. Hill. and later his son
managed for Norris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
A Singer of Songs.
From the st. Louis Times

from the ST. Louis lines.
Omaha, Neb. has witnessed the burial
of Jules Hubbard, who died in Chicago
several days ago.
1t is being said-and will continue to be
said-of the old singer, He popularized
The Battle Cry of Freedom and Rally
Round the Flag" Lincoln is said to
have declared of him that he brought
-, 600 men to the Union army by singing
patriotic songs at critical time.
Has music lost its birthright in these
days of five-dollar opera? Do We care ex-
clusively for art now, and have We lost
sight of heart in our musical recreatiOns :?
Are any of our great singers serving any
higher purpose than the idle entertain
ment of an hour?
We think SO. Audiences are still thrilled
by the great Schumann song:
Toward France there journeyed two grenadiers.
Their Russian captivity leaving.
though the strife which that song was
meant to immortalze has long since end
ed. We are living in less stressful days
But the heart of man Is still waiting to
be stirred, and when occasion arises the
singer will WELD the powerful influence
that was formerly his
How many recruits swarmed into the
American army a few yesterdays ago
when variety Siu6cio "Cic ShouaM6
''Therell be a hot time in the old town
tonight? AS for the day of peace. who
can say how many young people rush
to the marriage license office because of
such ditties as "A Picnic for Two" and
Love Me and the World Is Mine? How
many unsophisticated people are quick
ened in their perception of domestic vir-
tues by the thousand song of home and
mother?
The singers are merely appearing be-
tween the acts now. They will be ready
when the curtain lifts. Or isn't it truer
to say that the real drama is now on
and that the songs Of the hour of panic
q re not needed2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
No Poverty in Bulgaria.
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
Wealth is more evenly distributed in
Bulgaria than in any other European
state. Poverty, according TO Mr.. Edward
Dicey, does not exist among the Bull
garians. In the towns there are indi-
vidual cases of restitution. owing to drink
and misconduct, but these cases are few
and insignificant. There is no need TO
make any public provision for the relief
Of the poor; there is no question of tho
conflicting interest of workmen and en-
ployers; strikes and trade unions are
alike unknown. Bulgaria, as at present
constituted, approaches as closely as is
consistent with the imperfection of all
human institutions to the ideal state Of
our latter-day social reformers, I'm which
there are to be no poor and no rich
no privileged classes and no social dis
tinctions."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Clothes and the Nobleman.
From the Cleveland Leader.

l. rom the Cleveland Leader.
kipling went too deep when he wrote:
THE colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are
sisters under the skim He could have
stopped at the buff and been equally
truthful, as recent demonstration at
the baths in Budapest showed. Bare
skin, like love. levels al ranks. 1t seems
that Count Karl Esterhazy was return
ing from a dip when the thing happened.
Now. to be an Esterhazy means every
thing in Hung airy. 1t is just like being a
Bidd in Pin lade:phia. On his way to Is
dressing room he collided with Ladilas
RACE the thirty-siXth son of the So
called Gypsy King Both being undressed.
there was nothing to differentiate their
social position.
The gypsy bumped into the noble. who
promptly slapped his face. whereupon the
commoner hurled the count through
glass door, cutting h m SO severe that
he was taken to a hospital. There the
noble learned tie plebeian nature of his
assailant and Immediately put aside his
intention of calling him out. He couldn't
sully his name by fighting duel with
one of lowly BIRTH On the other hand,
the gypsy was Mortified when he found
out his Wet ms identity and was very
penitent and apologize at daring to lift
ris hand to a man SO far above him.
What pif1le!
To a long distance observer 1t looks as
If the gypsy showed true manliness when
he resented the attack OF the mob eman
in the only possible way. They were
down to the elementals in cloths. This
nakedness of the count stripped him OF
any social advantage and put the two
men on a Level. There. as a matter OF
fact, the peasant was the better man.
He proved t so well that he still re-
mains the better, for the count, in shell
tering himself behind his clothes and his
rank. shows himself cheap fellow in
spite of his blue blood. 1t wou be bet
ter If he had more good red blood; that
he would take on the gypsy and prove
that his feeling of superiority was due
to his own qualities rather than to the
fact that some ancient mascul ne for
bear had been a man Of much muscle Or
cunning, or both.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
CHURCH CALLS PASTOR.
Baptists in Cumberland Want Serv.
ices of Rev. H. F. LOOMS.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md. December 2s.-
The members of the First Baptist Church
have united in extend ne call to Rev.
II. +. Loomis of Cannonsburg. Pa, to
fill the pulpit here, made vacant by the
resignation of Rev. Will. lam II. Tinker.
who has accepted the principalship OF
the Allegany county high school.
Rev Mr.. Looms, before going to Cam
nonsburg, was pastor at Elkins, w. Va,
six years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Wine to Battle In.
From the Westminster Gazette.

The following circular has recently
been sent by a number of French wine
merchants to their clientele: Bathing
in superior Malmsey wine is most for
tifying and hygienic for the system. A
hectoliter (about twelve gallons) Of this
delicious wine is sufficient for one hun
dred baths On each occasion the whole
twelve gallons are poured into the bath,
and when the bath (Which should occupy
twenty minutes) Is finished. the wine
should be poured back into the barrel.
After 100 baths the Malmsey wine
is distilled and produces delicious
brandy" This extract is verbatim. AS
schoolboys we had delightful visions of
a famous Duke of Clarence, who was
drowned in a butt Of this delectable
liquor in 147S-a death which ranked him
Immediately with those unforgettable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Washingtonians in List.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE BENEFITS.
Gets Large Sum by Will Of Miss
Sarah A. PattiSOn,

WHITE PLAINS. y. V, December rs
Williams College. at WILLIAMSON, Mass,
is sole beneficiary of the will of the late
Miss Sarah A. Pattison of Ossining
through a decision of the surrogate to-
day. The college, according to this rul-
ing. will receive several hundred thou
sand dollars. The will was made in 1888
The surrogate declared null and void
the will. made in the same year. of Miss
II zabeth y. Pattison, sister of Sarah
\ Pattison. Under this latter will Will
ans Col eye was to have received $780,
ou. BY the surrogate's ruling most OF
his money goes to relatives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
princes who died through surfeits of lam
preys and new ale.

Nevertheless, it seems to have been re-
served for our luxurious age to devise
systematic bathing in wine No doubt
some precedent can be found for 1t in
the Roman empire, and today, in some
of the stories of the wild west. we read
of cowboy millionaires delighting in
baths of whisky; but regimen of baths
in Malvoisie seems the ne plus ultra of
questionable extravaganza, even when
allowance is made for the thrifty prac-
tice of using the same wine 100 times,
and then distilling it into brandy. One
would be inclined to suspect an elabo
rate joke, especially in the naive recon-
mendation at the end, were 1t not for
the fact that the extract is taken from
the Bulletin Official of the Paris mar
kets. paper which is mainly devoted to
making public all information which
tends to the announcement of French
agriculture. Nevertheless, we should
welcome a definite pronouncement as to
the value of vinotherapy before recon-
mending it to England.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Catholic Convent to Reopen.
II Disnafch To The Slar.

i'tlaI DIsIdrCh 10 1 ne StdT.
CT MBERLAND. Md, December 2S.-
The convent and parochial schools of
ST Mary's Catholic Church at Lonacon-
NJ are TO be reopened shortly after hav-
ins been closed for several years. Rev.
Joseph 4. Nolan, pastor of the church.,
has the matter in charge and Is acting
1T the request of Cardinal Gibbons. Five
sisters from the Order of Notre Dame of
Baltimore will have charge of the school
and convent. The school building is al
,-ady supplied with desks and equipment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Tying Up Liquid Capital.

Now precisely this condition of things
is produced when commercial banks pur-
chase investment securities In excess of
the amounts of their capital. surplus and
genuine savings deposits. If they create
demand obligations against such securi-
ties and their payment is demanded be-
fore such securities mature there will be
no funds to meet them. and no funds can
be procured unless such securities can be
unloaded on other banks at home or
abroad. They cannot be unloaded on 9TH
er banks at home because by hypothesis,
as q group, home banks are in the con-
dition described and they can only be I'M
loaded on banks in other countries at
such sacrifice as SUCH banks decide to
impose.
The situation is entirely different when
commercial banks create demand obliga-
ons against commercial paper only.
Such paper represents curren purchases
and sales which, being offset against each
Jther in the form of debts and credits on
the banks books or in the form of issues
of notes and their return in the payment
Of maturing paper, make no demands
1hich the banks are unable to meet.
1t is obvious that imitation may occur
either in the note issues or IN the check
ng accounts of commercial banks and
that II bears no re.atiOn to the maSni-
tude of either or both. Provided they
represent actual exchanges of goods both
may be expended to any desired extent
without imitation, but 20 the extent that
they represent one-sided transfers Of
goods. as they always do when banks
create demand obligations against invest
ment securities. imitation is the result, no
matter how sma l Is their magnitude. OF
course. great imitation is a worse evil than
slight initiation. but the quality and char
acter OF it are the same in both cases.
When imitation occurs, forced liQuida-
ton Is the only alternative. This takes
he form Of the forced sale Of securities
bv banks or their customers and the cut
ding down OF loans which result in forced
sales Of many other forms of property.
IL these forced sales are SO great in mag
nitude that the markets cannot provide
for them failures and settlements
through bankruptcy and other court pro-
ceedings 70 low, and such a condition is
likely to be accompanied by commercial
crisis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29

peal to both borrowers and lenders. The
former will find 1t possible to get genuine
commercial loans at much lower rates
than now, and In their investment loans
they will be freed from the necessity OF
premature and unexpected calls for pay
ment The lenders will be able greatly
to expand their business and will be re-
Eeved of the chief dangers which now
menace them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Will Defend Tariff on Olives.

Los ANGELES. Cal, December D.
DIR. j. c. Huff. representing the olive in
dustry OF southern California, is PREF airing
to visit Washington to defend the present
tariff on olives and olive oil at the hear
ing before the ways and means committee
January o. He was intrIsted with this
mission at a meeting of the olive growers
here yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Chicago Consumes Less Beer.

CHICAGO. December 2s.-Chicago and
surrounding territory consumed 24 ,O4i
fewer barrels Of beer In 1912 than in the
preceding twelve months. according to a
report made today by S. NJ Fitch, col
lector of internal revenue. Brewers ex-
plain the decrease by the cool weather In
the early Part of last summer. The
amount Of spirituous liquors consumed
showed an increase.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Bank Note Imitation.

That imitation in varying degrees of
magnitude. caused by the confusion of
commercial and investment banking. char
acterizes the finances of the United
States the lSreater part Of the time will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
An APOLOGY" by Prof. Hart of
Harvard University.
TOPIC OF BOSTON ADDRESS
Talk Before Political Science and
American Economic Associations.
POPULATION OR PROSPERITY
Theme Discussed by Prof. Fetter of
Princeton at the Same
Gathering.

BOSTON. Mass, December 2S-Prof
Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard, presi-
dent of the American Political Science
Association and Prof. Frank A. Fetter
Of Princeton University. president of the
American Economic Association. We're
the speakers at a joint session of those
two organizations tonight. The meeting
was held in connection with the conven-
lions of various learned societies now in
progress here.
That the time has come for a govern
ment of men was the declaration of Prof
Hart in presenting AN Apology for the
Rights of Men,
Change in Conditions.
He said in part
THE rights of man are not the same
that they were a century ago. New
rights are being added all the while.
There is no rigid standard of the rights
of man. Nor is there any government
of laws which will carry itself on with
out human agency. The attempt to
leave the human will and human errors
out of the account has brought about a
mass of statutes which do not agree with
each other and do not make a consistent
whole. 1t is time for a government of
men,.
Speaking on the topic. Population or
Prosperity Prof Fetter said that the
superior popular prosperity in the
United States compared with Europe
can be preserved only through the con-
servation of natural resources and by
the retardation of the rate of increase
of the population.
May Slacken, Cannot Prevent.
Improvements in agriculture may
sIacken, but cannot prevent the ultimate
decline of welfare. if population con-
finues its rapid growth he said.
Immigration is a source of enormous
and continuing contributions to our pop
uIaton. Ii has, however. established
STANDARDS of living in many occupations
that abnormal. Industries thrive
commercially while paying wages INSULT
cient to maintain labOrers on the Ameri-
can plane. The competitive influence of
immigration is especially great In the low
paid occupations. The pressure of pop
ulation is checking in America the
favorable movement of the popular well
fare noticeable throughout the nineteenth
century.
John Koren of this city was elected
president of the American Statistical AS
ISOLATION at its annual business meeting
today.
Washingtonians in List.
The other officers elected are: Vice
presidents, Henry W. Farnum of Yale
University, L. Dana Durand. director of
the census; Charles p. Neill, United
States commissioner of labor: Henry s.
Soager of Columbia University and
Henry 3. Gardner; treasurer. s. B. Pear
main of Boston; secretary, Prof. Carroi
w Doten of the Massachusetts Insti-
tute IF TechOolOgy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Lost,
Help Wanted,
Room For Rent
Ads,

&c a word; minimum charge, I5c
each day If you are telephone
subscriber, phone us your want
ad. Bill will be mailed the same
day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
National Market for Commercial
Paper.

The next step must be the crea ton
of national market for commercial
paper At the present time the bulk
of the paper which ordinary CONNER
cial processes bring into existence can
be marketed at the local bank only.
since the maker of this paper is un-
known beyond the locality in which he
lives. What we need is the machinery
for giving such paper, when 1t is first
class, nationwide currency, so that
the local bankers ability TO discount
will not be confined to the resources
Of his own community. if they are linn
ited and so that he can safely dis
count the paper of other communities
if his resources exceed local needs
This end attained, bankers balances
with reserve agents would not need
seek the New York stock market
for employment and secondary reserves
would be made up or commercial pa
per instead of bonds
Before we can have national discount
market we must create national inS.f-
tuition for the purchase of properly Sc
cured commerce al paper and equip 1t
with the means of making such pur-
chases in whatever quantities may be
necessary. For such equipment there are
two essen ials: it must hold the cash re-
serves of the entire country, that is, such
portion of the nations supply of cash
as IS not n current use as medium OF
exchange. and it must have the right to
issue no es against commercial assets. AS
the custodian and administrator of the
nations central money reservoir, II would
become the center of its commercial boof-
keeping machinery, balancing on its
books the mutual Indebtedness of all
other institutions. reducing the use OF
money to the minimum and Civ ng maxi
mum efficiency to our money resources.
The right to issue notes against CONNER
cial assets would enable it to supply the
necessary elastic element in our currency
and to reserve an adequate supply of
cash for international and emergency
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Value of Bank Acceptances.

A very important though not absolutely
essential adjunct to national discount
market is the right of banks to accept
bills for their Gus. omers and the develop
ment Of the practice of making such ac-
ceptances. This is the easiest means OF
Civ ng wide currency to commercial
paper The Intervention of a bank be-
tween the local borrower and extra local
markets is essential. there being no O. her
intermediary, and such Intervention must
AXE the form either of the banks in
dorsement of the local borrowers paper
or of the acceptance of bills on his ac-
count Both methods have their advan-
tages and should be employed each for the
purpose for which IL is best adapted and
under the circumstances under which 1t
Is easiest available.
Once the way to the separation Of COM
mercial and investment banking is made
easy and clear, its advantages should ap-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-09-17
SHORT ITEMS.

Elmer Lambert has been confined
to his home by illness the past few
days.
All the elocution classes, under
Miss Morey have been commenced, as
have also the gymnastic classes for
girls and boys under the various
teachers.
There have been two great attrac-
tions at the Wausau opera house the
past week, Sunday evening "The
Shepherd of the Hills and Monday
evening Faust"
A street car ran into one of the
wagons of the Wausau Ice and Fuel
Co., this morning just before I clock,
taking off one of the wheels and
otherwise damaging it.
Be sure and see Wiechmann, the
hardware dealer, when you want a
serviceable and fuel saving range.
They have been sold in this city fol
many years and have proven their
merits wherever used. sl7-tt
During the time of the Scott street
fire yesterday an unrully man was
dubbed by policeman, for attempt
ing to lead horse over line of hose
when persistently ordered not to dc
SO. He afterwards was taken to the
lookup.
Arrangements have been made SC
far for only few foot ball games. II
is expected, but not assured, that the
Wausau team will play its first game
here on Sept. %, with Rhinelander
the second with Merrill in that city
on Oct. 5th and the third with the
high school at Amigo on the 10Th o.
October.