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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
Progress q Certainty.

We may all fear the wires bearing
Roosevelt letters, or interviews, or
conversations in private, on the sub
ject of the republican party and the
presidency. Quoting him has become
an industry, profitable to some and
interesting to many. At all times
good copy" Mr.. Roosevelt is especial
ly good now, although the judicious
reader occasionally grieves at the stuff
set before him.
With regard to the indisposition of
Mr.. La Toilette. Mr.. Roosevelt is
quoted as saying. after expressing
sympathy, that the progressive move
ment is not dependent upon any one
man or any one group of men, and 1t
is going TO be successful
This is true, whether Mr.. Roosevelt
said it or not. If 1T were not true,
the republican party would be in a
bad way. If it's future depended upon
one man. no matter what his eminence or
section. or upon a small group of men.
no matter what their eminence or local
pull" ii would be ready for its grave
clothes. For whenever political party
in this country confesses to have ar
rived at the one-man stage, 1t will
also confess that it has outlived its
usefulness. a candidate nominated
upon any such confession would be
annihilated at the polls.
OF course progress is going to be
successful. Nobody of consequence is
resisting it. Not since George Wash
ington took the helm has the country
refrigerated. or for day stood still.
We made progress even while the civil
war was on; and we came out of that
terrible ordeal advanced as a nation
beyond any mark we had previously
set.
The question Is not progress. but
the route and the speed. The driver
who fourishes his snake lash, and
sends his team along like mad, makes
progress only to the point where his
fecklessness invites smash Real
progress is made by the man on the
box who knows the road, the con-
struction of the coach, the mettle of
his nags, and the load he is carrying.
By keeping his four wheels on the
ground and steadily turning. he gets
there. The trip may lack excitement.
and be without note as to time, but
there will be no tariff for repairs. At
the end of the journey everything and
everybody will be found right side up
and in good shape.
The argument advanced for keep
ing Mr.. Taft on the box is based
upon the way he has SO far handled
the ribbons. His friends think he has
done well. There has been no loud
popping of the whip, no swearing at
the horses, no hair-raising speed at
sharp turns in the road. But he has
made stations in good time. kept the
company in the main in spirits. and
answered questions in pleasant humor.
Why take him down? What if one or
two of the passengers would like a
little more ginger in the drive? Gin
ger is all very well, but too much
in a man on the box might wreck the
enterprise. Safety is better policy
Than speed in long run with great
values al stake.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
Furniture Slip Covers.

Our facilities for the making of Slip
Covers are uneXcelled. Experienced work
men only are engaged in taking inca sure
ments cutting and making, and perfect
ness is the result.
The line of materials for this work is
very attractive. Cretonnes and other
printed fabrics, also best grade Imported
Belgian Striped Linens. English Damasks.
Cotton Stripes etc.
Upon application samples and estimates
will be forwarded by our representative
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
Awnings to Order.

Awnings add a degree of comfort to
the home afforded by no other home ac-
cessory. We make awnings for homes.
apartment houses, business institutions or
for any building requiring them.
A complete line of best grade Awning
Cloths, and only the finest non-rusting
fixtures possible to secure are used. Per-
feet satisfaction is the only result obtain
able here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
Sympathy.

''You managed to keep perfectly cool
and collected while you were before the
investigating committee"
Yes replied Mr.. Dustin StaX. Il
only had to stay there few hours and
chat with them. But surely sympathize
with those fellows who have to ait
through that sort of thing day after
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
SHOOTING STARS.
By PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Sacrifice REQUIRED.

Father asked the small boy, what
does a. man have to do to be candi-
date?" -
well, my son. for one thing he has to
get up enough patriotism to get out and
deliver free of charge q lot of speeches
that any lecture bupRu would be glad
to pay for"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
Upholstering & Manufacturing Shops
SPECIAL MIDWHNTER PRICES NOW
PREVAIL ON ALL WORK.

Window Screens Slip Covers Draperes and
Awnings made order Hardwood and Paquey Floors laid,
waxed and polished.
repaired upholstered and efnhed All classes of
Summer Furniture and Willow Furniture reprinted tinted and cus
ions made for
Athey Metal Weather Strips installed
Information and estimates all desiring them. All orders will
in strictly and delivery made the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
Not Making q Record.

.'How's your boy Josh doing?'
.Ain't cuttin' much Of a fgger in his
perfession, I'm afraid replied Farmer
Corntossel HE said he was goin' to be
a chauffeur, but I've read the paper every
day an ! amt seen a word bout his
bein' arrested fur speedin'"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
Limited Appreciation.

"That prima donna must love music
thoroughly
ooh, 1 don't know replied the man.
ager. "She doesn't seem to get bit Of
pleasure out of hearing anybody else
sing we'll
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
Let It Sit.

From the st. Louis Republic
The threat that Congress will be in
session until August is not terrifying.
No honest man would complain II 1t sat
until September-and did something worth
while
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06

The Chicago meat packers passed
around their price-lists to one another.
They probably concluded to face the in
evitaDle rather than attempt to keep
business secrets where so much high
class detective talent is available.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06

Residents of the District OF Columbia
may be depended on to take care OF such
voting privileges as they feel called on
to exercise, without asking for the sup
port of the militant suffiragettes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
A Mechanical Substitute.

Why eriticise your fellow-man
Who generally does his best
With a thermometer you can
Find pretext for the kicker's plan
And give your fellow-man a rest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06

Some New Workers are thoughtless
enough to believe their own community
could spare Judge Gaynor long enoush
for him to become President of the
United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06

Mince pie has been mentioned as a
cause of nervousness In America. This
constant succession of Investigations may
have something to do with it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06

Mr. Watterson may decide to let the
democratic band wagon honk merrily
along even though it is impossible to
put another Tilden at the steering wheel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
Looking for Trouble,

from the Chicago Record Herald.
If Postmaster General Hitchcock pro-
poses to take over the messenger boys
along with the telegraph system he must
be inclined to hunt for trouble.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06

The spring time before national con-
ventions is recognized as the regular sea-
son for swan songs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06

Gum shoes are to be cheaper. This is
a proper concession to the eminent de-
tectives who are playing important parts
in public affairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06

Occasionally dark horse is unexpect-
eddy manufactured by an accidental turn
ing off OF the spotlight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06

Roosevelt does not say anything about
getting off into the solitudes to hunt big
game between now and nomination time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06

Mexico recognizes the dove of peace as
a highly influential bird, when backed up
by a large following Of American troops.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
Miscellaneous Furnitmre-.
Am Excellent Assortment inn
the February Sale.

OIL no other line OF domestic expenditure is much time and
thought and care exercised as IN the OF the various
that render comfort beauty
h . ! " p"ase Is aa u supreme ~ " "
rh;s i h,t r,+rr,, ; s;,s +h+ s into h homo
A.. ,I 20 u. a.. a.. .e M 'dt Soes i,o 'e .
800. ~ saaso, ~. g. ~ IA - - 90
msnent so should a1sn h." et ~ -; San atrsno.h and
service in its construction comfort and excellence n it's lines %
f,rnt~a a. n;tr 49, h; au =: ~ =. rs ;. d.;.
10 to per cent is such as would and does the
est respect and admiration for the home
STRONGLY emn,.szs b.se r,,,es =. WEI.
others included in this event. - ~ " - " - -
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06

China Is now engaged in the always
impossible task of organizing a govern
ment that will please everybody.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06

The elopement which starts as public
jest is usually a private tragedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06

Another type of the man who is some
times HIS own worst enemy Is the politi-
cal orator.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
Talking.
From the Philadelphia Press.

FUN Tue FutIaQcIQuku BItss.
The colonel seems to be willing to let
the governors do all the talking, and the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
ChinaWare and Glassware
Combined i'm q Series off,
Strong February Values.

mn TACTICAL and useful items from regular lines
I'LL " reducedsome from special purchases which able
y quote prices whose attracvenes will have great
I'LL peal In both only standard Of quality is recog
nized
FOOTED SHERBET GLASSES of Bohemian optic irdescent
glass, in an excellent shape and size.
$500 dozem Value, $1,000.
GRAPE FRUIT DISHES Bohemian engraved glass in two
piece footed artistic and desirable shape
$8.25 dozen. Value, S1l.5O.
COLONIAL GLASS TUMBLERS suitable all table pur-
whose popularity will decrease desirable size
and weight
Special price, Csc dozen.
DECORATED ENGLISH PORCELAIN COVERED
DISHES varied of decorations shapes and sizes
gold traced; also plain patterns gold sppled
Special price, SOC EACH
Values, ST 900 to 5000.
DECORATED FRENCH CHINA CUPS AND SAUCERS, in
Guiding cups and after dinner coffee and and
bouon number OF dany colored floral
terms, with gold handle and edge
Special price, S1.OO each. ~
Values, $1.75 to $3.50.
BOUILLON CUPS AND SAUCERS of dainty Austrian china
decorated richly cored and border patterns and gold
traced; Divide shape.
Special price, $500 dozen.
Value, $1,000.
JAPANESE ART POTTERY decorations and practical
pieces the lowest prices have quoted Beautiful Japan
with Table Vases Hanging
Vases and Fern Dishes ncased Japanese Woven Bamboo
Special prices, zoe to ST. so each.
Values, 35c to $500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
The Athey Cloth=lined
Metal Weather Strip.

the only device which accompishes the whole
of strip excluding all the drafts and dirt instead
w. only part of it. In addition to this the clot-ned chan
mel acts cushion guide for the sash that the window
opeates smoothly easily The cloth billiard
cloth cravened similar the English sacloh and will
lifetime
This weather strip proof against all the clements of weather
climate neither water will affect it. If wish to
have thoroughly modern dwelling building with all the sanitary
principles of the day. do without
this weather strip.
The Price is Moderate, its many
excellent points considered.
F0urhnp G ST
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
Special Sale of
French Madras Curtains.

KFINISHED French Madras Curtains, in sunfast
IA ings offered the regular selling price, The
ings rich and attractive cream, gold light blue brown
dark red green ose the designs artistic and desirable
finished with deep and border top
Beautiful curtains dining rooms living rooms
be used with equal effectiveness sngly pairs 3
yards long, to pairs Of a kind
$3.50 pair. Value, $3.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
Fine Willow Furniture.
A New arid Interesting Display of the
Latest Designs i'm All Pieces.

H1S showing of the largest presentations
II have made of Fine French Handmade Willow
\Ay nure, comprising large easy chairs amchars
settees coaches, tables magazine chairs and many
odd and unique pieces.
This furniture is shown natural, green and brown
finished any desired shade and wide variety
cushion selection accordance with
uality.
Willow Furniture and
all the and for and strong
possesses great fexby making
bic and restfu.
Armchairs. .......... $500 to $3.50
Rockers. $500 to $3.50
Magazine Chairs. $500 to $3.50
Settees and Couches.. .S14.OO to $4,000
Tables. ..........,.. $1,000 to $500
The above prices apply natural finish onlother pieces
priced accordingly. Cushions, ST each and 81
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-06
The Evenins Star NewspaDer Company.

Business Oabce. fith st. and Pennsylvania Avenue.
New FORK Once: Tribune Building.
Chicago ONCE: First Nstioaal Bank Building.
European Once: Regent ST.. London, England.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13

mark you, grace beauty, finish went down to a far deadlier and more dan gerous battlefield in the years when "the first gentleman in Europe" was their champion than they had ever riske1 in the earlier days. Again, however, Chris tianity came to the rescue and it was the spirit of these things bearing witness with the inner soul of the nation that gave us, out of the moral fiasco of the Georges reigns, the sanity and sobriety and restraint which characterized Eng land under Victoria, and which immense ly influenced the whole 18th century world.
 That is to say deep in the heart of man. struggling against divisions and a thousand lusts, thousand imbecilities, thousand regiments of ignorance and animalism, is the spirit of Christianity. sown broadcast with the seed of the race, cultivated here neglected wonder. That spirit Is the very genius that makes for civilization. And when it obtained expression in Jesus, the Son of Man. once in history. and from Him flowed down the ages as the triumphant spirit of mankind, 1t came to save the half-heart- ed, blind and meager civilizations and in stitutions of earlier days by supplanting them with things completer. more suffi- cient
 Religious revival has been a recent in- strument in Anglo-Saxon lands, whose aim is to better the institutions of polit- ical existence, as we'll as to save the souls of men. And now it is becoming apparent that you cannot save the souls
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13

of the vale of Tempe. Flowers. music, loveliness-exile; SD melodiously large and light in the sun, her valley; perennially smiling. possessing such beauty as the poets only know.
 The place was all breadth and loveli- ness, with wide airs and wide views. There are figs and olives and orchards, and glowing hydrangeas burning blue in the sun, and beds of many colored flow CTS painting the valley with delight, there are song birds blabbing their loves, which the prattling echo catching up babbles and rebabbles to the assembled host of lovers, and there are stately birds of paradise to lend dignity to the scene. Suddenly a sympathetic, youthful voice tells Psyche all there is hers, and that for her to wish and be obeyed are one. She breathes sits down to rich repast. and Is regaed with music from invisible instruments in the hands of invisible per formers. None of her ministers are seen, but her slightest wish is immediately gratifed. At night she retres to couch. the appointments of which are in keep ing with the palace and it's surround lngs; soft stiffness and the night become her recollections of the day. and she dreams the rarest waking dreams, when suddenly, that same sympathetic, youth full voice addresses her in softest ac- cents, and she becomes the bride of the youth. but it is agreed between them as of the marriage pact that she shall never behold him, and that if she shall break the pact, he wil be lost to her forever. Psyche agrees, and is happy beyond the powers of tongue or pen 10 portray. Psyche, wondering whether her sisters would like to see her. was advised of their intense anxiety to see her and know something of her fate. Cupid for none
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13

other was her husband. he having fallen in love with Psyche himself. instead of inspiring her with love for a monster advised her against seeing her sisters. foretelling the dire results which would follow their visit to her. but Psyche was lmportunate, and Cupid acquiesced.
 Zephyrus being again called into requl- sition Psyche's sisters were waited to her palace, where they were immediately possessed of envy, that coal that conNs hissing hot from he'll and they pro- ceeded forthwith upon being advised by her that she had never seen her hus- band, and according to the terms of the marriage contract was never to see him, to poison her heart and mind with sus- picions and misgivngs her sisters pre- valing upon her to hide lamp behind the draperies of her couch which, her husband being asleep, she should show upon him, when she would discover that her husband was most repulsive crea- ture who did not dare discover him self to her, and that this was the secret of the strange condition of the marriage contract. Woman like, poor Psyche swal- lows the suggestions. and all sorts of suspicious fly about in the darkness of her understanding like bats. She secret ed the lamp and dagger with which to slay the monster her sisters have en- gendered in her imagination, and, her hus- band being safely asleep beside her, she steathily withdraws the lamp from it's hiding place, and dagger in hand, shines the light upon her sleeping lord when, to her utter dismay, she beholds the beau tiful god of love himself Tn her anxiety to extinguish the lamp a drop of the -lot oil therefrom falls upon his shoulder and awakens him. The condition of the mar riage contract Is broken, and Cupid takes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13

"HERE can be little doubt that at
 certain critical moments in the his
 tory of the past 2e0o years, when civilization trembled for its own exfiist- ence, Christian ideas have come to the rescue, and men have discovered that their anguished cries for justice and vic- tory had long ago been anticipated by Paul and John. James and Peter, be- cause they were to be discovered fin the Master of these men. As Paul himself put it. there are treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden" in Christ and the aeons bring them to light. Thus when England was in peril of her very sorl by the effrontery and chicanery of Charles Stuart, two ideas sprang into the They were ideas instinctively embodied They were ideas involved in the church, but certainly not very evident in the church represented by Tudor or Stuart. Rather we may say they were creative spirits bearing witness to the spirits of the men of the time. as the spirit of hon. esty bears witness, for instance, even in the United States Senate, or in MT. Taft, today,
 But, however crudely indifferently. in- exclusively the ideas of liberty and righteousness were expressed in any man or set of men in the England of the Stuarts, those ideas actually did save England by swaying Englishmen What ever England means today, or has meant in the political and moral world for this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13

past 250 years. is traceable back to Crom- wells Ironsides and the cropped pates of the Roundheads. Cavalier without Roundhead was not made perfect.
 The other side of the truth needs equal emphasis Neither was the Cavalier or They also had their conception of liberty conservative, reactionary, indeed. Right vation of the existing order and perfect adoration of kingship Liberty to them meant at least their liberty to do as they pleased. while every Roundhead and Puritan reckoned liberty as something with horns to gore royalist ribs and thighs. But the point worth notice as we pass is that the reverence and dignity and splendor of the royalists, they loy- alty and their knightly courage, were something to set off against the more rugged virtues of the Roundheads. Prog ress was the common multiple of opposing forces.
 Modern life gives us something be- queathed by these opposing elements. Our modern ideal desiderates liberty and righteousness, the Roundhead ideal but also love, finish, grace, beauty and chiv- alrous loyalty. The treasures of wis dom and knowledge hid in the gospel have thus been coming to light. and our present world, wherever educated in the true sense, is endeavoring to unite the elements that were in opposition in the Long Parliament and at Edge Hill and Naseby, and all the way between. But.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
TIL WE ATTAIN"-By George Eaves, D. D.

a union of souls. to make the soul of the race, the soul of the united race, per fected because united. Indeed, the liter ature of today is bubbing with this en- thusiasm of a communized humanity, the rediscovery of man. the joy of sweeping aside false conventonalsms and reassart- ing the one thing needful in every home and in every individual, the human soul. the identical soul of man. Here Is the
 breath of life in such old-age pension
 schemes and other political improve anywhere. This makes the dignity of woman's cry for the franchise. Here Is again the explanation of the modern peace movement, of the upbreak of na- tonalism in the Turkish empire as well
 as of a hundred plans for betterment of conditions in industrial and agricultural America We are bound to give the soul a chance to live. We are bent upon un- binding Prometheus, the long enchaned soul of the race We are destined to humanize life, to humanize each soul, to humanize all social, industrial, national relations The eternal God at the heart of the race is uttering His voice. and the rock-ribbed ice of old selfish indiffer-
 entism is melting, according to the
 Scriptures. old institutions, and espe- cially the institution of marriage, are being threatened in the cosmc process but whatever is threatened, whatever may be involved, the one sure thing Is that God is great and will prevail. We shall arrive. We are headed towards a social unity, a common consciousness, unified