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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
The SPRING DOPE.

. Young Binks is tearing up the paths,
He has the fadeaway down pat;
His arm is in midseason form
And he's a wonder at the bat.
At laying down a bunt he's great
He surely is second Cobb:
Today it looks as though he has
Stepped in and COPIED out Casey's job.
McGrath. the young bush Lacquer, stands
Up to the plate just like vet:
He swats the pellet on the seam,
He hasn't muffed a fly ball yet.
His throw is like rife shot;
II he can only stand the pace
1t is a cinch that he will be
A fixture down at second base.
Young Miller has lot of STUFF,
His splitter has a vicious hop;
The batters almost break their backs
In swinging at his wicked drop.
A second Walter johnson, he
Is being called by those who know;
And last year in the Three-I League
He won four battles in row.
Eternal in the ball fans breast
About this time Of year springs hope,
There are no dreams as sweet as those
Produced by southern training dope.
But we shall see what we shall see,
And when the summer days commence
Where will the spring phenOms all be?
In Providence. in Providence.
Edgar A. Guest, in the Detroit Free Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
The Gold Democrats.

Where are the gold democrats OF yes
teryear? A few of them are republicans.
Changing sides on an issue they con-
sidered vital to the public credit. and
noting Mr.. Bryan's continued and grow
ing hold on the democracy. they decided
to take up permanent quarters in the
new camp.
But the great majority have found
their way back home. and some nave
profited by their return. Mr.. wilson Is
one Senator Hoke Smith Is another, Tor
wshile he supported Mr.. Bryan In 1896 he
did so under protest. He was gold
democrat at heart. The new Attorney
General is another. Gen. Buckner, who
headed the gold democratic ticket in 1896.
supported Mr. Wilson last year on a
platform written by Mr.. Bryan and in a
campaign dominated by him. The list is
long.
Have these men repented OF their gold
attitude in that contest? Probably not
one of them. True. Mr.. Bryan, in the
anger of the first hours after defeat
prescribed sackcloth and ashes for all
who might want to return home. but he
did not stick to the prescription. When
the procession began to move. he re-
ceived all who came in the habiliments
of their own choosing. He was mighty
glad TO see them on their own terms.
Would these men go out again if the
free silver issue were revived and the
democratic party adopted II? 1t is Alto
gether likely. Not one of them has
changed his views on that subject. They
hold now, as then, that free silver coin
age at sixteen to one as an independent
act by this government would bankrupt
the country.
The assurance then seems to be that
the issue which gave Mr.. Bryan his ma
tional fame. and enabled him to impress
himself so deeply on affairs. is dead He
himself has not conceded as much, and
may still be holding the views he held
sixteen years ago. But the fact that he
is now cooperating with men who OPP
posed him then warrants the belief that
he has no present thought of trying to
revive his silver crusade.
There is not like assurance, however,
as respects another of the issues iden-.
titled with Mr.. Bryan's name. The rail-
road question is still unsettled, and still
the subject of earnest discussion.
much stricter governmental regulation is
.urged, and occasionally the suggestion
is. heard that the end will have to be
government ownership and operation. The
railroads themselves, as a sort of threat
against further interference with their
affairs, talk now and then in that strain.
Will Mr.. Bryan return to his recon-
mendation on that subject? When he
proposed government ownership and
operation several years ago his party all
but had a fit and alarmed by the effect
he dropped the subject. But 1t has never
been understood that a change of mind
resulted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
The Postal Service.

Postmaster General Burleson declares
that he is no spokesman. but that his
chief object is to take the post office out
Of politics. This is most excellent assur-
ance from the point of view of efficiency
of the government service. For some
years matters have been moving toward
this end. as the fact has been more and
more plainly demonstrated that the Post
Office Department is business estab-
ishment. and that 1t should be run on
business principles has come to be ex-
pected by the country. With nearly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
A Fascinated Spectator.

Whats the matter with your asked
the moving picture doorkeeper. This is
about the twentieth time you've looked
this film over"
YES. l can't keep away"
and it isn't such great film at that"
"You don't understand. My wife was
the leading woman in that photoplay.
You don't know what it means to a man
to be able to sit down and see his wife
busly occupied day after day and at the
same time not hear her saying word"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
At A MUSICAL COMEDY.

Why does the ''Y'' usurp the 'I"?
really do not know,
But every chorus girl would die
Were IL not to be SO.
For Geraldine is Geraldyne,
While Edith Is Edythe,
And Caroline is Carolyne,
And that's no fairy myth.
And Wayne stands for Mamie, too;
The ~ in May Is 'e,'
While on vice versa cue
Mary becomes Marie.
Now IL these maidens are In Doubt
About the 'i'' and ~"
Leaving, OF course. the grammar ost,
Why not choose little 'I''?
La Touche Hancock, in the New York Sun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

Mr.. Olney's declination of the offer of
the British mission is disappointment.
Mr.. Olney would have been an admirable
representative of the United States at
the court of st. James, well versed in
our diplomatic history, capable Of main
tanning our prestige, and gifted with
qualities insuring him the highest stand
ing at the British capital. Nevertheless,
Mr.. Olney has reached the age when he
has earned the right TO reli--quish respon-
sibilities. He has pat his declnation on
the ground of personal and. family rea-
sons, and while the Presidents selection
of him was in every way justified, the re-
fusal of the tender in no wise lessons fss
significance and importance
Now the President must look elsewhere
for a suitable representative of the United
States in England. a post of particular
requirements. i'm the filling Of which it is
Necessary to proceed with care and dis
elimination. Yet this is not to suggest
that there are few available men. On
the contrary, there are many men who
in a broad-visioned survey, would be
found to measure up to the requirements
craftsmanship is the least to be considered
of the qualifications for this office. Nat
urallx. of course. the next ambassador
to England will be a Democrat, but he
should, and doubtless will, be a Democrat
whose democracy is subordinated to his
Americanism, who is first of all a repre-
sentative OF the United States. At this
particular time. with important questions
pending, il is necessary for the President
to choose with exceptional care. and in.
asmuch as the post is now vacant
through the lamentable death of Mr.. Reid
some time ago, it is needful also to make
the selection as quickly as possible. II
the tender of appointment is made "a q
man as fit I'm all respects as Mr.. Olney
President Wilson will have served the
country well.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
The new PRESIDENT.

From the Knoxville Sentinel.
President Wilson is said to be demo-
cratic in his dress few hundred thou
sands of the faithful are watching for
the sign of democracy in the distribution
of pie.
From the Columbia State.
Woodrow Wilson is already handling
the ship of state from the quarter deck
like a seasoned skipper.
From the Springfield Republican.
1t is a fact, as has been stated in the
washington dispatches. that President
Wilson and his secretary find the job In
washington easier at the start than were
the last strenuous weeks in the executive
Office of New Jersey.
From the Knoxville journal and Tribune
Now attention is being called to the
rather remarkable fact that there are
but four 'I's'' in President WILSON'S In
augural address.
From the Buffalo Commercial.
President Wilson's relatives have not
been backward in applying for federal
jobs. But the President SO far has dis
tinctly discouraged their desires to help
him run the government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
THE Ex-PREslDENT.
n the Topeka State Journal.

From the Topeka State Journal.
Undoubtedly the famous Taft smile ia
none the less expansive now on account
OF the trouble he has left behind
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
Now it is Johns Hopkins University
wants Taft. Woodrow had better keep a
watchful eye on Princeton.
From the Greenyille News.
The Taft smile was the one republican
asset which survived unhurt the slams
and knocks OF outrageous fortune.
From the Birmingham Ledger
One professor becomes President and
one President becomes professor; turn
about is fair play.
From the Spokane Review.
Prof. Taft's smile these days is that of
man who has left all his troubles in
the presidential classrooms at the White
House.
From the Chicago News.
Mr.. Taft is proving that one can ac-
quire as much Isolation in Georgia as in
the heart OF Africa In front OF moving
picture camera.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
Springtime Revery.

Somewhere there's joyous glory
To reward the todlsome way;
Somewhere the song and story
Echo gladly, day by day.
Some day each care that frets you
Will by Fortune be pried loose.
But If the grip germ gets you
In the meantime-what' the use?
Though music may be playing
Where the lights are all aglow
And luxury Is straying
In a vast and glittering show.
Though joys come gayly fiocking
And grief declares a truce,
II at home you're busy knocking
Infuenza-what's the use2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
Evanescence.

The Court of Honor once SO proud
Beneath the splendid lights aglow
Won admiration from the crowd
Who came to see the mighty show.
And then in just one little day
Small wonder that the cynics scott
A man came with a horse and dray
And carted the whole business off.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
Dream of
Nations.
WARNING GIVEN.
From the Boston Advertiser.

From the Boston Advertiser.
Mr.. Wilson has taken the stand that
the Central American revolutions, which
have been planned SO hopefully for his
administration, must cease: this will be a
bitter disappointment to the revolution
aries who have not done much business
for long time.
From the Buffalo Express.
The point Of it appears to be that be-
fore those Latin American fellows can
be told how Mr.. Wilson and Mr. Bryan
really stand toward them they've got
to make up their minds whether they're
democrats or-some of the other things
From the Pittsburgh Press.
President Wilson's announcement to the
republics south of Mexico that the United
States will not countenance revolution
is very discouraging to one of the chief
South American industries. AS for Mex
leo. the effect of the White House state
ment is rather ambiguous, but President
Wilson seems to have been loking out of
the tail Of his eye at Judas" Huerta.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
leadership.

What is a polsical LEADER"
"Well,'' replied Senator Sorghum.
sometimes he is very much like the or
chestra leader; the man who provides
the gesticulations and general excite
ment while somebody else is doing the
real work"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
Something to Boast Of.

WAS there anything about your term
of Office that you could call a real sue
cess?" asked the unsparing critic.
WELL" replied the man who was buy
ing a railway ticket, you must admit
that we've had some mighty fine
weather."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

One reason why the Indian on the new
nickel looks worried and mor1se may be
that he is trying to decide whether the
figure on the other side represents a buf-
falo, satyr or goat in a fur overcoat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

Disqualifying officials relatives
for public appointment does not exactly
square with the theories of heredty
which would look for special lines of
ability on the same family tree.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

Underlying Editor Watterson's comment
on President Woodrow Wilson Is a note
of appreciation such as might be expected
from a master rhetorician who values a
really live topic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

The Filipinos are doubtless hoping that
Cuba will do everything possible to
strengthen Secretary Bryan's faith In the
principle Of self-government for island
populations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

StndH@s Of journalism such as Mayor
Gaynor has made should lead to inter-
esting results, If on retiring from office
he should decide to go into the editing
business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

No doubt Mr.. Taft is congratulating
himself on the fact that he did not have
to consider the extra session in connec-
ton with his duties at Yale
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

balmy March day is regarded with
suspicion as laying the foundation for a
set Of subsequent rumors Of a fruit-crop
failure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

Prevalence of wealth and leisure in
Pittsburgh is again brought to attention
by the advertisement for 10000 laborers
in that city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

The English votes-for-women agitator
doubtless regards dynamite with favor
because 1t produces more noise than the
human voice can create.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

Easter is the next stop for which the
weather man is expected to examine his
signals with particular care.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

George Washington's salary was only
s25 eco. But Washington was in posi-
ton to raise his own meat and vegetables.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

Some Of the Boston spinsters would
doubtless rather pay SIS tax than marry in
a community that would draw such dis
courteous distinctions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

The Huerta government tolerates no
suggestions to the effect that the pen is
mightier than the army rifle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

1t looks as If the 4th Of March resolu-
lions were holding up rather better than
the LIST of January products.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

This time it looks as If Explorer DR..
Cook has managed to get lost for keeps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Where Success eliminates.

You say that man Is rich and Ia
mous?'
YES"
Strange! I go to all the vaudeville
and 1 have never seen his name men,
toned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

Already the Slavenes, Servians and
Croatians dream Of this nation whose
foundations were laid a
Dream OF thousand years ago by
xy-4. their ancestor, but which
N"'Aon0' was blighted and destroy ed
by the Magyars and the Turks. The
Montenegrin and Servian victories have
been echoed In all Slav countries south in
Styria, Istria, Carinthia, Croatia, Bosnia,
ETC. The Austrian government had no
little difficulty in restraining the people
from joining their Slav brothers iu their
struggle against the Turk The truth is
Austria-Hungary and Germany are con-
fronted with foe which both empires
are combatin in their ill-concealed hos
tility to Servia and Montenegro.
There was a dispatch several months
ago which appeared incomprehensible to
those little versed in the intricacies of
Austrian interior politics. The dispatch
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

note in The Star of March 49, 1863
states that owing to the counterfeiting O
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

affirmed that the crown prince. Archduke
Francis Ferdinand. favored the creation
or Slav state-a tralism consisting OF
Austria Hungary. Croatia. Slavonia-in
place of the dual empire. DIR. Forscht
explains that the idea of the crown prince
was logical and even necessary IL peace
between the warning factions in the state
was to he maintained. The Magyars, be-
sides, were turbulent and arrogant. and
their chronic condition was menace to
Austrian unity.
The monarchy. excepting the archduke.
opposed the trialism. Had the concep-
ton been realized the maritime coast
from Trieste to Cattaro and Fiume would
have passed under the influence OF tho
Slavs of the south.
For the present Scutari is a danger
point. Scutari, capital of Albania. Is
on the point of becoming autonomous
state under the protectorate OF the
powers.
The question of the near east may he
resumed I'm two problems-the fate OF
Constantinople and the Dardanelles, and
the fate. of Albania.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

Entered as second class mail matter at the post
ONCE at Washington. d. @.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
MAKING AMERICAN CITIZENS.

investigates. The office and field force to-
gether totals slightly more than 100. The
annual appropriation for carrying on the
work. Office and field. is slightly more
than $2jO,O0O.
Last year 169. 142 declarations were fled
filed and 60 ,965 certificates Of citizenship
were issued. In the last annual report OF
the chief Of the division OF naturalization
a table Is given showing the increase dur
ing the last four years. In 1909 the num-
Der of declarations filed was 1922; in
1910 it rose to 167, 226. and in 1911 to 1885,
157. The petitions for 1909 numbered 49,
17S; for 1910, O3S, and for 1911. 1854.
The force in 1909 comprised twenty EIGHT
people. including officers and messengers,
while today the clerical force alone num-
bers thirty-eight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

Italy maintains an agency Of the Pug
liza Navigation Company at Scutari, the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

One Of the busiest places in Washing.
ton throughout the civil war was the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

In The Star OF March ID, 1853, is
news item telling OF a meeting Of the
stock hol rs OF the
street Car Washington and George
C-no. town Railroad Company,
FS' at which resolution
The Arvada enterprise., 1913-11-27
Three WOMEN
TESTIFY
To the Merit of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Com
pound during Change
Of Life.

Streator, I'll. l.-"I shall always praise
Lydia L. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
The Arvada enterprise., 1913-11-27

Blake's son.!n.law. More-he was the
man whom the machine at its MASTER 3
orders, had slated as next speaker Of
the house Yes, and perhaps II all
one heard were true, for far higher
office later on.
Wanda Kelly knew this. And. thanks
to overheard scraps OF amen'corner
talk. she knew much more. She had
often seen Robertson. Now and then
she had received careless nod from
him or from his stately young wife.
Blake's only daughter. who so often
while congress- was in session ran
down from the Robertson house in
New York for sojourn of day or
two with her husband and father at
the capital.
Yet Wanda wasted fewer thoughts
just now on the celebrity than on the
much younger man with whom he was
talking. And perhaps her thoughts
had telepathic power, For, as Robert.
SON strolled out into the foyer, his
companion crossed directly to the
switchboard rail and stood looking
down at the girl.
Wanda did not see him Or. II she
The Arvada enterprise., 1913-11-27
IMMENSE STORES OF COAL
Supplies for the Ships OF All Coun-
tries Arc to Be Kept Con
stantly at Panama.

When the Panama canal iB opened
two years hence there viii be coal
on. hand for the ships Of all the world
"A tremendous supply which will
be added to as fast as It Is taken
away TO the seven seas.
There will be two great coal.atorage
baslns-one at Crigtobal. for the At.
lantic entrance. and one at BalbOa,
for the Pacific. Al the former place
100000 tons win Dc kept on hand at
the latter 100000. In each the stor'
age will be In huge basins Of rein
forced concrete, In which about half
the coal viii be stored under water.
for use In time Of war, and the
other half above the sea level. 20 be
taken from and added 20 continually
for the ordinary uses Of commercial
and government vessels An i'm.
mense plant Of cranes, cars, buckctB
and other machinery will be installed
to handle the coal as economically as
possible
The cranes will unload coal from
ships; conveying system will trans
fer It TO bridges spanning the storage
basin and dump 1t ut any place de-
The Arvada enterprise., 1913-11-27

birth Of Time have shown to be tho
only safe one. Conventionality' path
may seem to the near sighted to be
twisted foolishly, and unnecessarily
long, But each of those twists repre-
sents the place where tho Man In
Front wisely stepped aside to avoid
the pittall into which the man
ahead Of him had tumbled. And the
short cuts in the long tortuous road
are white with the bones of failures"
I'm going to walk over those same
whitened bones in my short cut from
one point of Conventionality' twisted
path to another. I'm going to walk
back from union that would mean
misery to me-back to the pleasant
home life and social life | love and
don't mean to lose. Don't worry. No
whitened bones will turn under me
and bring me fall. | can defy the
bogy, Conventionality and still live
happy"
Others have detied the bogy. You
are not the first nor the millionth. To
most of them it seemed as safe as It
seems to you"
Yes? | should like to meet them
and compare notes"
You will not meet them" he an
swered grimly, but you will tread on
their bones-in the short cut. Even
as some future challenger of Conven.
tionality shall one day tread on yours"