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HOPELESS Case.

There's no way o comfortin' Oh Dad
Bings.
He's allus foreseein' unpleasant things.
He says, when the sun shines. Like Us
not
It's a-goin' to be too ALFRED hot.'
When it's cloudy he says. "Oh, what s
the use,
| reckon a freshet will soon turn loose"
Nothin' goes on like ii ought TO go.
When crops are plenty the price gifts
low.
He says that the land in which he digs
Is mostly enjoyed by the cows an pigs.
He vows hard work is great distress,
But without it he'd die of loneliness.
That's the line of talk that he allus
brings.
There's no way O. comfortin' old Dad
Bings
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which upon the whole was sound and log
icaI And it worked like a charm. The
government received abundant revenue.
American capital and labor abundant
protection, and business a boom which
shut up the souphouses. and opened the
mines and mills.
But. while the free traders are not
going to have their way. there will nee
essarily be much unrest until there is
demonstration in the Presidents message
and in the debates of Congress as to just
what is to be done to the Payne law.
And no portion of the population will
watch developments more closely than
Mr.. Wilson's fellow-citfzens in the state
of New Jersey.
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BALKAN WAR NOTES.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Montenegro, the littlest of the Balkan
allies had to be, the goat and serve as
first target for the Turkish fire.
From the New York Evening Telegram
When Greek meets Greek We all know
what happens, but when Bulgarian meets
Turk We have to turn our faces away
and stop our ears.
FROM the Toronto Star.
Montenegro has a king, a royal court,
standing army. and declares war on
Turkey. yet Montenegro has a population
only slightly more than half as large as
that OF Toronto. What playhouse pomp.
what toy ferOcity.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
The war correspondents have not had
much practice lately, but the indications
are that they will not be idle much
longer.
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
IL Turkey and the Balkan states en-
gage in war the world will soon be hear
ing moro about Novipazar than ATma-
geddon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13
SHOOTING STARS.
By PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Perplexity.

Il begin to think said the Chinese
statesman, sadly, that there is a con-
spiracy to prevent from being fully
recognized by modern civilization
What's the trouble?''
mo sooner do We overcome the great
difficulty of getting all our people to
cut their hair than along comes the an
nouncement that side whiskers for men
will be fashionable
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Failure of
Discipline.

! tons in the ranks:
by this time the country clearly appre-
ciates the great difference between the
promptness of the rebel armies in their
movements in the field and the lack OF
| such promptness on the part of our ar
mics in similar cases 1t also duly appre-
| ciates the disastrous results of this dlffer-
ence, as seen in repeated Union disap-
pOntments and defeats: for all which the
| Union generals in command are held re-
sponsible by those who do not look below
| the surface Of public affairs Now. the
truth is in most cases the trouble lies far
deeper than the superficial observer sup
| poses. 1t is attributable to the so-called
| philanthropic' legislation last winter OF
| the radical majority of Congress, who
| formally essayed system of managing
our military affairs founded on the idea
| that military offenses should no longer
| be punished under the flag of the United
| States The experience with military men
| since civilization began has resulted In
| bringing every government in the world
| to the point of intrusting its commanders
| in the field with the right of ordering the
death punishment to be inflicted upon any
man or officer below the rank of m
| eraJ who perpetrates a hefnous military
crime. That is, on the spot. Our rad cal
Congress- however, last winter passed a
law forbidding any Union commander to
| infiict death punishment hereafter, and
also making it unlawful for them to order
an infiiction Of the lash as a punishment
for desertion. The consequence is. while
our armies are admirably drilled, they
woefully lack discipline Every offense
committed must be referred to a court
martial, though 1t is notorious that the
courts martial composed of volunteer Off
GERS fail to do their duty rigidly in forty
five out of every fifty cases. 1t is further
we'll known that three-fourths of the mill
tary offenses committed cannot be pun
ished with advantage to the public inter-
est unless punished on the spot This
state of things amounts to a high pre-
MUM upon assertions, struggling, ma
rauding thieving, disobedence of orders,
and, indeed, hundreds of military crimes
great and small; eliminating naturally in
a total lack of that terrible discipline pre-
vailing in the rebel armies, which has SO
far SO effectually deprived us of the advan-
tages of our greater abundance of every
other element of success. Three days ago.
by the by, at single swoop. no less than
3,O00 deserters, stragglers, etc, who had
been collected in the convalescent camp
near Alexandria, were sent to their re-
spective regiments. Throwing out of the
ca lculation the enormous pecuniary loss
involved in such wholesale desertion
struggling, etc, the public will not fail
to realize how it serves to weaken the
hands of our commanders in carrying out
the measures of their respective cam
paigns The remedy. and the only one,
lis i'm rescuing the legislative management
of our military affairs from the hands of
the incompetents who have SO grievously
damaged them.
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Oratorical Style.

who is that taking in the next
room" asked Gladys.
That" replied her mother, lis the
dreadful parrot we bought from q
sailor
"Oh. 1 thought il was father rehears-
ing "a speech denouncine his political OPP
ponents.'
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Methods Compared.

Its difficult for a man to be a candidate
and political boss at the same time
NO" replied Senator Sorghum; .'the
methods are different. The candidate is
supposed to get votes. by shaking hands
with people, and the boss is supposed tu
get them by shaking his fist at Them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

Gov Wilson is telling whats he would
draw IL he We're a cartoonst- Unless the
governor begins TO attend art school
without delay. his future in the publica-
ton line is liable to be limited to some
thing in the contributing editor way.
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Not Unreasonable.

Its getting so that every woman
wants an automobile" said Mr. Growch-
err.
Well replied the patient man, Il
don't blame 'em. If l had to do my
walking in a close-iitting skirt, I'd want
one, too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

Some of the remarks attributed to
Becker indicate that if he had not been
a policeman he would have been liable
to frequent arrest for profanity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

In case Of war Europe should not hope
that the price of American grain will be
tempered to the foreign market as the
price of steel products is said to be.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

After the November excitement is over
Senator La Toilette may be persuaded to
step forward again and tell the world
what Il progressive really is.
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The BULL MOOSE SHAKESPEARE.

| Who steals my purse. steals trash; it's some
thing nothing:
| Twas mine tits bis. and has been slave t.
| tho,isa nds:
I But he that fills 1t full Of campaign tribute
| OR stuffs il with the coin of corpora lions,
Does that which both enrches them
And makes me sweat indeed.
- N. Y. Evening Sun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

The only thing in his career that Col.
Roosevelt candidly refers TO as Il mis-
take was his Endorsement OF William H.
Taft for the presidency
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The Consideration.

The man who travels forth to say
Just how he thinks things ought to bt
Expects to win your vote some day.
Advice is very seldom free
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

The situation In the Balkans might be
different if any one of the European pow
ers were i'm position to declare
Monroe doctrine.
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II il were not for Sir Thomas Upton
the world would be in danger of forget
ting that there is any such thing as the
Americas cup.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

There are moments when getting a bull
moose TO work in harness with anybody
is almost as exciting as broncho busting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

President Taft is deeply interested in
politics. but is not so self-centered that
he cannot stop to take look at the
worlds series score.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

A large number of small campaign con-
tributions answer the same purpose as a
big donation and avoid the possible en-
barrassments of investigation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

Thomas A. Edison says he is a bull
moose The eminent inventor always has
been in favor of anything that would dis
courage sleep.
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Announcement is now made that Tam
many's reign is over. The farewell ap-
pearance' idea manifests itself in politics
as well as on the stage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

Banking firms that refuse to lend money
for purposes of war may yet exert a very
important influence in bringing about the
peace of the world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

In some cities election methods would
suggest the motto, Register, but dom
cash register.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

The next few weeks will witness the
gradual cooling of many threats To cut
loose from old party affiliations
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1t has been said that every man has
the making of "a novel in his life history.
But lot of novels are very uninterest-
ing.
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Turkeys idea of peace would be to have
on hand no more than one war at a time.
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Unpaid
Troops.

of October O.. 1862, is the following para
graph of this character:
while the querulous are growing at
general officers for their supposed tardi-
ness in the field, it will be we'll for them
to recollect that the governments faith
has been broken with too large q portion
of our armies in the matter of paying
them. According to its promises to them.
they We're to have been paid every two
months, whereas many Of the usually
best regiments have not received cent
for full eight months. OF course, such
men will be. comparatively inefficient for
the time being through natural. and in
deed justifiable, discomfort. We may add
that at this moment there are believed to
be forty-five millions of dollars Of requisi7
tons lying in the Treasury Department
unhonored, because. as is alleged. the
money to meet them cannot be prepared
in due time Nine-tenths of these requi-
sitions are doubtless for military and ma
val expenditures-to pay soldiers, sailors,
contractors. etc. 1t is an axiom In war
that unless such persons are promptly
and properly paid their efficiency vanishes,
except where they are kept up to their work
by as despotici resort to the use of bay
onet as characteriZes the Confederate oil
garchy's management Of the affairs Of its
armies.
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General War
Feared.

N9"eu' assurances have been
expressed that the war In the Balkans
would be localized by the powers" Now
the only possible way of localizing the
conflict would be by the understanding
that Europe. in view of the anarchy that
prevails in Turkey, would welcome the
establishment of the Balkan confedera-
ton under the emperor of it's choice.
The first serious engagement between
the Balkan armies and Turkey will be i'm
Thrace. The ultimate point of attack, ii
is understood. is Adrianople, thirty miles
south of the Bulgarian frontier.
Three-fourths of the Greek army. which
has been "set up and reorganized by
a French military mission, will ere this
paratory to an attack upon Turkey at
Elassone. The Greek fleet would lombard
Saloniki, and thus cut. if possible. the
single line of railway by which Turkey
their communications cut, the Turkish
Macedonian army would be at the mercy
of a hostile population. Turkey must
hold Adrianople in order to maintain the
war.
Some military circles hazard the opin-
ion that Turkey may have one or more
of the European powers behind her. and
that a general confiagration must ensue
In such case they point to the recent
Russian mobilization in Poland. This
mobilization. it is confessed, is a serious
check to the German plan of campaign,
which was to hurl her twenty-five corps
against the twenty corps of France be-
fore Russia could cooperate. Until this
mobilization i'm Poland Russia must have
required thirty days to place her corps
on the German frontier. All that is
changed.
But We are assured on the other hand
that the present Balkan conflict is to be
localized. In this conflict there is little
said of Roumania. A cable dispatch
from London said that i'm the vent
of war Roumania would join forces with
Turkey, and thus place Bulgaria between
two fires. Roumania, It should be remem-
bered, is a kingdom since 1881. Following
the revolution of 1865 the people assem-
bled at Bucharest. proclaimed Roumanian
indepe n2ence from Turkey May "a, 1877.
and this was confirmed by article of
the congress of Berlin. signed July IL.
1873. Carol / is king. He is the son OF
Karl of zollern-Sigmaringen.
1t is recalled that September II. 1910,
the following dispatch profoundly stirred
European circles:
From sources absolutely reliable" said
a Partisan journal, I'VE learn that Tur-
key has concluded a military agreement
with Roumania. That understanding as
sures to the Turks the support of the
Roumanian army against Bulgaria, in
case that power attack Turkey"
Roumania since 1908 has become a mill
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Prisoners
Mistreated,

prisoners treatment which caused
Mistreated. &c .s bile, ind,gna 1Sn
Star of October s, 1862, is this instance:
Among the federal prisoners lately pa
pany l.. list Michigan Cavalry, who was
captured by the 18th Regiment, Georgia
Volunteers, the I'D Of August last, while
acting as courier to Gen. Banks at White
Sulphur Springs. When captured and
carried before Col. Douglass of the 18th
stand over Deneen with fixed bay NETS
and cooked muskets, while fifth robbed
his person of money, private letters.
daguerreotypes of his wife and child and
every other article of private property
they could find, Col. Douglass in the mean
while looking on. The next morning Col
Douglass appeared before his regiment
mounted on the horse captured from De-
neen. The latter requested to have the
pictures taken from him returned, which
was refused, Douglass stating that he
(Deneen) had refused to give certain in
then reported to Gen. Stonewall Jackson.
who, however paid no attention to the
complaint. The soldiers who were cap
tured with Deneen were conveyed at once
to Gen. Hills headquarters and were
there robbed of their boots and the pris-
oners were thus compelled to walk bare
foot to Richmond. Two crackers and a
small piece of bacon was all the provi-
sion the prisoners received from the time
of their capture until they arrived at the
Libby prison.
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FIFTY YEARS. ago
In THE STAR

The question of providing mounts for
the Union armies during the civil war
was one of the most difficult
Cavalry with which the government
uorsa. had to deal. there being no
organized ''remount'' estab-
lishment then in existence. In The Star
of October 6, 1862, is the following para
graph:
As some of our contemporaries have
published the fact that the government is
unable to supply sufficient horses for cav
airy service in this quarter, we may add
that probably three or four thousand cav
airy in the armies Of Mcclellan and
Heintzleman are at this moment practi-
cally unavailable for that reason. Ac-
cording to common report, the quarter
masters department declines advancing
the prices paid for such horses-frOm
$40 TO $13O-delivered here When Treas
ury notes were at or near par, and be-
fore the war had used up so many horses,
they Were readily obtainable at those
rates; but with government currency de-
preciated 22le per cent, a great scarcity
of the animals. especially in this section,
through the wars consumption of them,
and higher prices ruling in private horse
sales, as a matter Of course the dealers
will not furnish them voluntarily at from
$11u to Sl30
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Mediterranean questions. The Franco
Italian agreements do not
German touch the interests of the
triple alliance"
AnScASSSS' Italy thus adds the
Temps has a double policy-a continental
policy based upon the tripiice, a maritime
policy based upon the Franco-Englisa
agreement. The first covered her against
Austria Hungary. The second has per-
mitted her to take Tripoli. The events
of 1902 to 1912 have not modified that
situation; they have only accentuated it.
The rapprochements between France and
England U9OD, England and Russia
$500. Italy and Russia $500, show
that Italy felt herself free. as before 10
act in the Mediterranean matter.
1t is not strange that the foregoing
alignment of facts which are amply cor
roborated should have created stir ia
all diplomatic circles and in the European
press. Nor can il he said to have been
unprovoked, for the German press, led by
the Gazette de Frankfort, made the at
tack which has resulted i'm discontinue.
The concentration OF the French fleet
in the Mediterranean has been a subject
of long DISCUSSION between the govern
ments of France and England. Was IL
not better that France undertake the
guard OF the Mediterranean and the
land would assure the protection OF her
own coasts in the North sea and the
French coasts I'm the Atlantic?
With reference to the protection II
coasts in the North sea, Rear Admire
Germinet has stirred up certain circles in
Holland The French admiral declared
that the day of the declaration of war
England and France should MOTH,
neutrals that the Pas de Calais was
closed. Gen. den Beer Portugal replied
in the Naderland at The Hague that
Rear Admiral Germinet's theory was con
tIary to the law of nations and that the
French government should be asked for
an official declaration on that delicate
point.
The Hague tribunal might he asked To-
interpret the law. There are two con
Trajectory opinions: One that the
sovereignty is vested i'm the nefghborfnS
state; the other that there is absolute
freedom of passage Of the straits.
Oh. CHAILLE-IsONG.
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On the following day The Star engaged
in discussion of the matter of the man.
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Inc article is divided into four act,
Inc hrst act opens immediately after IN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

Much discomfort with the management
Of the war was manifested at about thi!
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Entered as secondclass mail matter at the post
Office at Washington. d. G.
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A London dispatch conceals perhaE
some such design of the mowers for in p,
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Next in Importance to storm warnings
come the warnings of those sudden and
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BY mail. postage prepaid:
Daily Sunday incIuded one MONTH co cents.
IiaiIv Sunday executed one month 40 cents
SATURDAY. Star 81 wear Sunday Star 81. 40 year
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Notices of cold waves close greenhouses
and start the boilers. Fire plugs eX-
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Germany has no interests I'm tn
Mediterranean questions The Franco
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In the code from three to seven word
are sufficient to tell Of conditions Whic
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-17

, men, neither through men, but
through jesus christ, and God the
Father, who raised him from the
dead. "-tG /. ~ II the apostle
to the Gentiles had been uncertain
about the revelation which he had re-
ceivsd, he would have been quite
ready 10 listen to one pretending to
be an angel and mimicking angelic
powers; but, knowing that the light
which he followed came to him from
the highest possible source, he was
ready to reject with all vehemence
any false light which might chal-
lenge his attention Men who doubt
the inspiration OF apostles and
prophets and distrust the divine mes
sage sent to our world through the
Holy Scriptures are perpetually de-
luding themselves by their vain eff
forts to eavesdrop the heavenly world
and catch secrets which God has not
seen best to reveal They get moth
ing but self-deception for all their
pains.
The spiritualists and the psychical
research societies have never AIDED
nor inspired one virtue nor overcome
one sin by all their pretended COM
n1unicatlons from the spiritual world.
On the contrary, we may say of them
what the Hon. Thomas B. Reed Is re-
ported to have said OF a certain mem
Der of congress who served in the
house OF representatives while MIR.
Reed was the speaker of that body:
Whenever he opens his mouth, he
arguments the sum of human ignor-
ance in the world"
Let US turn away from the ration
alists and the fakirs and follow the
nj xxyil iaaA
us astray, and although it may not
teach us how the heavens go. 1t win
infallibly show MS how to go to