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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-06
ARMY NAVY.
Army Orders.

First Lieut.. Henry "A. Finch Corps of
Engineers. is appointed an acting quar-
termaster.
The name Of Col Samuel W. Dunning,
infantry. is placed on the list Of de-
tached officers.
Second Lieut.. Frank Bloom, 4th Field
Artillery. is transferred to the 5th Field
Artillery, with station at Fort SILL Okla.
Capt Robert o. Ragsdale, Sd Infantry,
is detailed as Observation-Disclosures of the
organized militia of Michigan.
By direction Of the President, and upon
the application Of Quartermaster Sergt.
Jerry Collins. 18th Infantry, that soldier
will be placed upon the retired list.
First Lieut. Edward H. Teall, nth In
fantry, is transferred to the 26th In
fantry.
First Lieut.. Hugh NJ. Kelly, 26th In
fantry, is relieved from that regiment
and placed on the unassigned list.
Leave of absence for six months on
surgeons certificate Of disability is grant
ed Capt. Guy T. Scott. Coast Artillery
Corps. s>-gs -
Leave Of absence for fourteen days
Is granted Capt. Thomas NJ. Knox, 5th
Cavalry.
Capt. Walter B. Elliott, infantry. hav-
ing been found by an army retiring board
incapacitated for active service on ac-
count of disability incident thereto, and
such finding having been approved by
the President. the retirement Of Capt.
Elliott from active service is announced.
Maj. Edwin Landon, Coast Artillery
Corps, will proceed to the Walter Reed
General Hospital for observation and
treatment.
First Lieut.. David H Scott, cavalry, at
Fort Sam Houston, Tex, will report to
Brig. Gen. Hugh L. Scott. United States
Army, for duty on his staff.
The appointment of William w. Prude,
jr., late cadet, United States Military
Academy, to be second lieutenant Of in
fantry in the army and his retirement as
such by the President, to date from
March q, 1913, in accordance with
provision I'm an act of Congress approved
March 4, 1913, is announced.
Each Of the following named officers Of
the ordnance department will proceed to
the works of the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany, South Bethlehem, Pa, on official
business pertaining to the operations of
the ordnance department.: Capts. Joseph
III. Pelot, Thomas L. Coles, ROLAND w.
Case, Charles s. Donavin and Arthur D.
Minick and First Lieuts. Charles T.
Richardson and Clarence E. Partridge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-06
Look Out for the Fire Engines!
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

The city council will act wisely in pass.
Ing an ordinance contemplated by Coun-
Gilman Pelcinsh to give fire apparatus
absolute right Of way on all city streets.
The department at present, without
specific legal sanction. assumes right of
way as far as possible. but is none the
less frequently delayed by the stupidity
or stub5ornness OF the drivers Of vehicles.
Delays in reaching a fire are not infre-
quently fatal.
The grade crossings, which in past
years have been the fireman's sorest trial
are being eliminated so rapidly that thew
are no longer fruitful source of trouble
The men can expect to reach the scene Of
a confiagration just as rapidly as their
horses or motors will carry them. unless
they are pocketed by traffic. Such pocket
ing of swiftly moving apparatus is likely
to occur at any time. and it not infre-
Quentiy results In disastrous collisions.
An ordinance specifically giving the de-
partment right of way and fixing penal
ties similar to those for the violation of
other traffic regulations would doubtless
be Of great benefit. 1t would Impress on
every one the necessity Of looking out
for the fire engine. and of getting out OF
the way.
Three minutes, even one minute may be
of tremendous Importance. 1t may mean
the saving Of human life; II may mean
the difference between the saving or the
total destruction Of . costly building.
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members to such friends as in their
judgment would make desirable men,
bers and good soldiers. with the result
that the gallery is well filled on these
an interesting military exhibition.
These cards Of invitation are also
given out by the commanding officer to
employers OF young MEN. with the re-
SUIT tnat many of such employers have
attended and changed their attitude
toward the National Guard, thus with
craving to large extent the opposi-
tlon or employer and employees enlist
ing
The application blank used bv this
company is carried by members to hand
out 10 desirable young men, and so
arranged as to bring to the attention
OF tne man solicited all the many at
tractiVe advantages to be derived from
membership in the guard. This has
proved most efficient
Every member Of the company under
STANDS that he is on the recruiting
committee; no applicant is accepted
until a committee has looked up the
proposed members character and the
oHcerS nave had a personal interview
10 satisfy themselves that he would
make desirable soldier
< * =
Company X. I'd Infantry. National
Guard of the District of Columbia, dis
tinsuished itself socially Friday even
ing at dance given by it's members in
the Arcade. The evening was one of
enjoyment and much of the credit is
given by the company to the commit
tee of arrangements, headed by First
Sergt. Boyd. His assistants were Corp
Barnard and Private Richardson
Capt Lucien B. Earnest, commanding
the company, ordered stacks of rifles
and flag decorations to the hall for the
purpose Of giving the dance military
air.
Among the guests from the brigade
were Maj. T. V. Walker. Capt. Heath,
Capt. Holt and also ]. e. Eldridge.
Lieut.. w. Brown, Lieut.. J. MonOhan and
Lieut.. Turnstall, High School Cadets.
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Special Correspondence of The Star.


LONDON, March %, 1913.
COMEBODY has just been rash enough
to suggest doing away with the Elton
boys silk hat, and none too soon,
either. For little boys to sport plug"
hats. and at school. too. is an obvious
absurdity, and one that would have sur
vived for SO long in no country but Eng
land, where dress is a religion and ira
dition ironclad.
The rest Of the costume worn by the
boys at Elton College is ridiculous enough
in all conscience. including. as it does,
a coat that looks like a mans dress one
with the tails cut off, boiled" shirt
and a white tie. But the silk hat is lit
orally the browning" absurdity. You
would think that nobody could possibly
stick up for it, except as picturesque
relic Of the past, but a much weightier
argument than that for keeping Elton
boys silk hated has just been put forth
by writer in the Elton College Chronicle,
and is being quoted with amused com
ments in the press here
"It cannot be realized" says this writ
err, how much the success of Etonians
in public life Is due to the top hat, which
long practice enables them to wear with
a sangfroid impossible to men not broken
to 1t in extreme youth
Wearing silk hat with ''sangfroid" an
axiom for success in life! Well. perhaps
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-06

noticed with some interest that her false
teeth-upper story-had tumbled out on
the floor.
She just busted them of and took a
new start on the stew.
X x * X
Little Brother comes forward with a
new contribution to this column. He says
there is a new dance called the Salvation
Glide.
us it anything like the Tango?' you
say.
NO nothing like the Tango" comes the
answer. Little Brother says the Salvation
Glide is danced on the heels.
Why?
To save the soles.
Certainly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-06

Phillips of the bureau of entomology at
the Department Of Agriculture Frank
is the high priest Of the American bee.
He is Uncle Sans expert on honey. His
is the last word about bees, and to tell
the truth, when one gets to talking
about bees to Frank one will begin to be-
lieve that the busy little bee is about as
important to American husbandry as the
hen. And Frank is making honey flow
where there was only wax before.
In the chasing down of certain diseases
which scourge the bee industry, Frank
has to sit UP for days and nights watch
ing bees to see just what occurs to them
at certain times.
AS for me. I would not care to sit up
nights with q bee. I'd rather sit up with
a sick friend. Sitting up with bee does
not carry any conviction as an excuse
for being out late, either. Imagine one
arriving home in the wee. small hours
and having a calm but oninous voice
ask:
Where have you been?'
Suppose you answered:
have been sitting up with bee"
Do You believe you could get away
with it. to use the latest vaudeville
slang?
No. You couldn't. Nor would it be Of
any use to say you'd been watching a
tadpole's tail, either.
Among the useful things contributed to
the Red Cross relief train that went from
Washington to the flooded district last
Friday night was a full-grown bathing
suit. 1t was packed in the same box
that contained a roll of carpet, also des-
tined for the flood sufferers by some big
hearted person.
X x x X
Two girls met at the corner of 18th
street and Massachusetts avenue. They
both wore flat-heel shoes and something
at about 1898 in spring hats. One of
them chewed gum with the feverish am
bition of a girl who never learned to
chew till she was twelve and then start
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x Z ::
Thomas Adams, one of the bailiffs at
the Police Court, is unQuestionably Eng
lish. When he first appeared at court
he was forced to put up with deal of
good-natured chatting about his nation
atty, and particularly about certain real
or fancied peculiarities of speech.
Adams bore with these very Well, but
the straw that broke the camel's back
and Adams patience was a large sheet
a thousand reproductions of the letter
H. At the bottom of the sheet was
note which read: when you run out of
this supply let me know and / will fur
nish some more.
Adams carried the paper to Richard
Hughes, who is also bailif at the court,
and asked, in an offended tone: 'Ughes,
'ow can they sye I cawn't sound my
haitches?"
Max Won Schlegell Of Martinsburg, ".
Va, a blond-haired young man who
came from the west about eight years
ago to make his fortune In the Mountain
state, has ideas about running newspa-
pers which are unique. He is editor and
publisher of a daily and two weeklies,
His daily paper is an Independent sheet
and Will not print single line about any
politician, political meeting or political
propaganda Of any sort unless 1t is paid
for in cash at generous rate per line.
No matter il the whole town turns out
to hear the peerless leader on any one
else Max won't print one sentence about
it unless the political organization back
ing the event hands in check. Max
himself is an ardent republican and ran
for the state legislature at the last cleo
ton. but did not quite make It, How
ever, any democrat who wants to roast
Max in Max's own paper can do it for
the price asked, and Max says he would
rather have the cash than remain I'M
roasted.
However. one Of Max's two weekly pa
pers afford him partial outlet for the
pent up enthusiasm. which surges in his
breast, whenever he reads the repub-
lican platform. One of these weeklies is
ardently republican-the other is entirely
democratic. Max is editor Of both. His
daily paper is so good and has so strong
a circulation that Max's political enc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-06
The Woman and the Dog.

From Judge
An elderly woman, with a small dog
upon her lap. while riding in trolley
car. asked the conductor If he would
kindly tell her when they got to Hazel
street.
After she had got up two or three times.
the conductor told her to keep her seat
and he would let her know when they
reached Hazel street.
Finally he called out, Hazel street!'
The woman held the dog up to the win
dow and said, "F1do. look! There's where
you were born!' Then, turning to the
conductor, she remarked. TIN going to
the end Of the line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-06
WOULD ROB E1rON BOYS
OF THllElR SILK HATS

it may be in England, for over here q
topper surely does impress people. It is
rather curious that it should too. con-
sidering what humble folk sport silk
hats. Only few years ago 1t was con-
sdered the only suitable headgear for
employees in the ''city." and one beheld
seven-dollar-a-week clerks. door openers
and even Office boys all silk hated. Now.
however, the silk hat is definitely on the
wane. just about. according to the writer
in the Elton College Chronicle. a hundred
years after it's original Introduction.
Possibly this is because comparatively
few Britons can wear them with sang
froid," not having been broken to them
in youth. like the fortunate graduates
of Elton College.
Its Etonian sponsor goes on to defend
the top hat on the novel ground that it is
''the only form of hat for which we have
pet name" Topper he says, ais
a word unparalleled in the English Ian
guage. 1t is the only nickname which has
firmly ingrained itself In the popular
speech.
The very multitude of ways describing
it shows the top hats underlying popu-
larity. Tall hat silk hat chimney
pot'-no other head covering can boast
this multitude of descriptions
Evidently the writer forgets the hat
which We in America call a derby" and
is known both as bowler" and
''cady." 1t is rather odd. by the by.
that both the term derby hat and
prince Albert coat never should be
used In England, where both Of these
proper names had their origin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-06

him in print was "Mercenary Max"
Sometimes he would refer to him in this
way 1.-The Hon. % Mr.. Won Schlegell.
1 remember standing at Max's side one
afternoon as the opposition sheet came
out and Max's own three papers We're be-
ing edited from their three different
viewpoints. The triple-eyed editor would
read the opposition column. grit his teeth
and then laugh long and loud:
''Gosh,'' he said. that fellows the
cleverest name singer I ever saw. But
just wait. Some day I'm going to get
tired of running an independent sheet and
then I'll bust loose"
Life in that Office is always exciting.
No one knows from day to day what the
opposition editor is going to call the boss.
Sam Montgomery, West Virginia
state senator, was delivering a fiery
speech in a mountain town during the
campaign, and worked himself and his
audience into pitch of wild enthusiasm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-06

mics would buy space during the cam
paign In it to roast Max's party with
his own type. Max used to boil over
with rage az he would read the roast
and smile as he counted up the cash re-
ceived. In addition to being forced to
read these things In his own paper, Maxs
great editorial adversary, who is in real
ity friend of his. used to devote COL
umn a day during the campaign to call
ing Max names. And let me tell you
that when a mountain editor gets ready
to cali names he Is vitriolic. The least
DANGEROUS name that Max's friend called
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-06

and there are medicinal hot springs
some of them at boiling point. where the
pilgrims cook their rice-in which to
plunge If the cold Of the mountain has
found a weak spot in his armor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-06

By Earl Goodwin.

me see that bill I gave you. I don't be
l1eve saw all those things in your trunk.
" course not: and certainly do know a
friend when I see one. Many's the fifty
I've had of your firm"
And. sure enough, he cut the bill in two.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-06

for Col. Roosevelt. A great big man In
the front row was attracting attention
every minute by his wild shouts and ges-
ticulations, and Sam Montgomery didn' t
mind it q bit, because the mans eternal
crv was Murray for the bull moose. +"
speech, Sam pointed to his noisy auditor
and advised all men to follow his exam
pie and shout for the third termer.
Whereupon the mountaineer dragged
about six feet and a half of his length to
an upright position and, addressing Mr.
Montgomery, said:
''Teddy's all right-and II wasn't
republican I'd vote fer him.
There was an accident to woman in a
lunchroom last Monday. Most women
would have died on the spot and left q
request to be buried about $4,000. COO feet
beneath the surface. But this woman
carried herself with demeanor In the
face of embarrassment that would have
made the Sphinx jealous.
hat q little off to the northeast, leaving a
fine expanse of rat showing beneath
her real hair. The worst of 1t was the
rat was an elegant sunset color and
the hair was q fine Flemish oak brown.
That, however, was simply g. starter. AS
she sat down in the lunchroom her hat
fell into the soup Of a man next to her.
and the rat slid into some butter In front
Of her.
as the man fished 1t out Of the con-
somme.
|, She stuffed the buttered rat" into a
shopping bag she was carrying and then
About half way through this perform
ance there was a crash and the luncherx
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ed in to make up for those lost years.
Outside of that both of them looked in
telIigent. and the author of these lines
has reason to believe both Of them are
In the high school somewhere.
This was the conversation:
Coin down town."
Down town Is right"
"F street,?
Sure thing
Say, that's some hat you got there.
Where d'you get it?
"Class, amt it. Muh sister made it,
''She must be there on millinery"
law, she's bear.
"Seen Jim lately"
"'S I'D t. tn house las night
"Oh, you kid!'
Amt he got the grandest shoulders
"Oh, / don't know"
Hes goin' t. take me t. the matinee
Sat'day."
'sY' amt got nothin' on me-"
"Whose draggin' your
Sweetest fellah y ever saw.
! "Where'd yuh meet him.
ITO a dance.
| Lets get soda"
'.Sure"
| This is an honest country. isn't IL?
I was ON the docks in New York a few
DAYS ago, having just had the blessed
privilege OF allowing customs officer go
I through the five dollars worth Of funk
There was a man named Jones, or
O'Grady. or something. who had consid-
cradle OF load Of stuff which he had
bought abroad and on which he would
have to pay some little duty. The Gus
toms man went through his trunk and
made out the little bill, and then looked
into Jones face.
"Say, don't know your" inquired the
customs man.
Perhaps you do"
you're Jones of the Jones Importing
Company. aren't YOU"
Sure .
"WeIl. thought knew you. Say. let
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And Mr.. Jones explained that his firm
did hand out fifty dollar bills to the Gus
toms inspectors, not as bride, OF
course, but just to get our business ex-
pedited.''
All Of which is against the law.
x X X
The boys in the press gallery at 1.-The
Capitol will be interested to learn, no
doubt, that their old and reliable source
Of information, Gov. Bill Sulzer, is still
doing the right thing by the correspond
ents at Albany. The governor never
turned down a newspaper man in his
life. and despite the clamor made against
him by some of the larger journals. the
men who worked for those same journals
always found their friend Bill ready to
help them out of any sort of difficulty in
any kind of a crisis. He was the news
paper mans pinch hitter.
H. B. r. Macfarland was in Albany re-
Gently attending to some legal affairs in
the Empire state capital. and he says
that the governor is treating the corre-
spondents just right.
In the morning" says Mr. Macfar-
land, the governor goes into a large
room at the Capitol. 1t is one of the
largest rooms I have ever seen, and in
one corner there are about forty chairs
The correspondents come there, take their
seats in the chairs, and for half an hour
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-05-23
ADDITIONAL LOCAL

Miss Bessie Borgess. is at home from
Philadelphia, Miss, where she has beer
teaching the past season.
Mr.. II. B. Gurler left this week for
DeKalb, ILL.,, where he will spend a few
days. He will 20 from there to his
boyhood home in New Hamr<ssre,
where he will spend several weeks.
Mr.. S. W. Harkins went to Mobile
last Monday and was operated on We'd
nesday at the Mobile Sanitarium for ap-
pendicitis. He is reported to be much
improved and will be home in about ten
days.
Mr.. Ed Hibbler is in town en- route to
Chattanooga to actend the meeting of
Confederate Veterans. He brought
from home a Stalk of cotton twelve
inches hiSh, which he says is a fair
sample from a hundred acre field.
Mr.. Thos. McHenry and Mr.. J. W.
Paulette are at Hot Springs. Mr.. Nc.
writes a friend that the limit in the
High Cost of Living is reached at the
Springs, and the only reasonable cheap
thing he has run across was a corn doc
tor, who gave him $40 worth of relief
for a dollar.
Messrs, E. V. Yates and Gus Minor
of the Merchants & Farmers Bank, C.
b. Dorroh of the Bank of Macon, S. w.
Heard of the Bank of Brooksville and
Longstreet Minor of the Bank of Shu-
qualak, attended the Bankers convention
in West Point this week.
Miss Lottie Hooper will leave Satur-
day for her home in Edinburg. Miss.
1t is a matter of great satisfaction to
the patrons of the Macon school to
know that Miss Hooper has accepted
the position as primary teacher for the
session.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-05-23
EMBEZZLEMENT OF PENiTENTIA-
RY FUNDS.

The story of the embezzlement of
many thousands of dollars by the
secretary of the Board Of Peniten-
tiary Trustees makes ~disagreeable
reading to citizens and tax payers of
the state. 1t tells of anything but
a proper system of the control and
checking up of the large sums of
money that pass through the hands
of the trustees. The business, or
financial, side of prison admins
tration has for years been recog.
nized as the weak spot in the state
government, as well as Il hotbed of
factiOnal strife and wrangliDg. The
discovery of this embezzlement,
and the arrest of the secretary
seems to have been purely inciden-
tai to the contention between
Governor Brewer and the board,
growing particularly out of his eff
forts to sustain imputations of i'm.
proper or fraudulent sales of state
cotton. 1t is to be noted that de-
spite an apparent design of con
Meeting the two, nothing whatever
has yet been shown to that effect.
1t is being published that Gov
ernor Brewer is after the "men
higher up;' of "hooking the big
fish," This is right if there ARE
any men higher up. But until
there is some showing or tracing
of guilt from the secretary to the
trustees the public should be care
full to exercise a just discrimina-
ton; to remember the bitter feud
between the man who suggests it
and those on whom he would fix
suspicion. They have enough to
answer for without having to meet
unsupported imputations of guilty
knowledge or cognizance of this
crime. On it's face the revelation
of the loot of public funds of which
they are trustees, right under their
noses, for years, condemns their
fitness and competency for the du-
ties and responsibilities confided
to them. But loose attention to
these requirements, and misplaced
confidence in their secretary, is
that rs to be believed of the
board'0f trustees upon the known
facts. -Vicksburg Herald.