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apparent. than his successes In the
diplomatic field The TWO great diplo-
matte problems with which he has
had to contend were the Mexican
Eltuation and the Japanese immigra-
lion question. both Of which he in.
herited from the Taft administration.
Early IN August President Wilson
sent Ex-Governor Lind, OF Minnesota.
as special envoy TO Mexico On Au-
gust ~, President fluerta declined
the Wilson offer OF mediation. since
which time the administration has
adhered 70 its policy OF nonInter-
ference. In the Japanese immigration
matter, the President failed In his ef.
forts 90 persuade the California les1s-
lature TO make its antialien land
ownership law less Objectionable to
the Japanese. though he has sue
ceeded in averting anything ap
proaching an open rupture with ia
pan over the question. As both the
Mexican and Japanese problems are
stin pending, Il Is perhaps too early
"a Judge N the success OF the VII
son policies, or to venture pfr.
dictlon az to their ultimate success.
or failure.
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cieties. in which losses are shared by
All members.
Belgium has soc goat insurance so
cietics.
Cow and pig clubs exist all over
Europe
Germany has about so steam pillow
ing cooperative societies. Farmers
have to wait their turn for the use
OF the implement
France has total Of 10000 agricul.
tural cooperative societies
In the Balkans, before the war. Ser.
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McAdans
Lumber
Co.
LUBBOCK. TEXAS
cAIoMEI A GREAT
DANGER TO MANY
Hss 6sd Effect on Some oodson's
Liver Tone Takes ~ Place and
10 perreetiy Harmless
LUBBOCK. TEXAS

81 YOU Will inquire al Red Cross
Pharmacy. you viii and that bod
sons Liver Tone IL guaranteed 10 BE-
safe. reliable remedy TO take the
place OF calomel. and a harmless srf
stimnlhnt aAying no bad after yrects
indeed thitaSS~will ro<Apd purchase
price soc kthOut auestiq}. k/ou are
In any waSsSslSssned th Nhis veg
II is >/unwise to take caIoTel,
even dS.uBfbus. as many people suf.
FER from the poison afterwards. even
though they may appear az first 10
be- temporarily relieved. on the other
hand. Dodson's LAYER Tone Works
easily and naturally (rcaily assisting
naturel with M pain nor grippe and
corrccting all bilious conditions and
Ills OF constipation. clearing away the
SICK headache and the coated tongue,
hriehtcning up the dull brain and
strengthening the weakened body at
the same time that II removes col
lccted waste from tho overourdened
system.
Those who have tried Dcdson's
Liver Tone have found that II msde
them healthier and happier. A test
may prove OF great benefit 20 you
right nov.
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Cough aud Headachfshd ro5 Of the Cois.
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apply AZ once the wanderiul old reliable DIR.
PoRrER's AFTIsRPrlc HEAIiNc OIL. sur
g'eai dressiuf that Irsieves pain and heals a.
The same tire WV Imminent sc. SOC. s. ~
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White Lilac" is absolutely guar
anteed. orspeur money back II you
arespot satkfed-You be the judge.
(s4st)
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and such II is not con-
sidered unethical for a citizen to vote
in support of a tariff to protect his
business or his farm or his factory.
Is it?" and Mr. O'Higgns warmed to
his subject perceptibly. "A man may
conscientiously vote for the national
party and the protective policy which
insures him a livelihood. Surely. But
among the rank and file of Tammany
Hall there are no farmers or manu-
facturers or men of large business.
They, when they vote for a party that
insures them their livelihoods. vote for
the party that assures them their days
wages. They do not vote for so many
thousands year but for So many
dollars a week. When they can do no
better they will seven take two dollars
down. This is wrong, according to our
standards, and party held together
by such dimly enlightened self-interest
is a party held together by the cohe-
sive power of public plumber Between
voting for some thousands year, de-
rived indirectly from the people through
a tariff, and voting for two dollars
derived indirectly from the people
through the pocket of a Tammany
leader. there is all the difference be-
| lWttu IlEnl NlolS' VI 'pui &C nv
one would dispute that" and here You
get the flavor of Mr.. O'Higgins's own
whimsical and ironic humor.
"Tammany Hall derives its strength
from the fact that 1t is. at its roots, an
organization that gives the working
man, the poor and the unemployed
either work or money or both for their
votes just as other political organiza-
l. 90 fa,e ar
and the business man money or BUSH
ness, or both, for their votes. In this
country all men are politically free. but
many men sell their political freedom
to ameliorate their economic difficulties.
And all the Tammanys will be defeated,
as the other political plunderbunds are
being defeated. when people learn that If
they vote for their own interests only
they impair the general and larger in
terest by which they live
For you can't talk five minutes about
the Irish in America without getting
into politics, which is neither here nor
there, except to further illustrate how
much of an Irishman Harvey OHig-
gins is.
To properly focus a subject it is neces
sary to get the right perspective. Har
yey OHiggins was born and brought vi
| in Canada and went to college there
and he came to New York to make his
fortune" full of splendid dreams of thu
city, ready to look at II through boy
eyes. His first novel, Don-o'-Dreams,
before he'd taken to Irish love stories
came out of this period.
de went to school in his home tow
, with Arthur McFarlane. the author o
"Redney McGraw," and he went To col
lege, to the provincial university, wit
Arthur Stringer. the poet. And whe
he ran across McFarlane in Yves
Thirty-fourth street boarding house, an
found young Strnger here and read
to join forces, the three lads iron
, Canada set up housekeeping in fla
near Greenwich Village. The three too
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Harvey O'Higgins Depicts the Irish il
America Who Make Romance in
Greenwich Village and Politics
All Over the Land

"not Iuck" topetber rented tho fat in
common worked skvlarked dreamed
= na s,r,,gylo,, nm 70 racogri,ior ,oye,ber
ana are in closest touch ana friendship
90 ,his dav Thev hung ,ogether ma at
al, belief. and when one Of them mar
rioa ond The others went accounting. tho
,r,ao ,,a o hrought borne IN "IJonevmoon
g,ot" and the sweethear,s were dulv
rato,ood ovor
All This helms IN explain Harvey
o.tJ,ggins,s irish love stories for the
49, NOS HE. and o,, NJ the simple.
bana,, na,ghhorhood lie NJ this Irish
ao,,,or,on, ana Tho a,,mnses n, human
,ntores," and the Going tn market. the
n,a,,,na ,,ait,s down ona,nt old streets.
and tha newsnaner stories dug up all
over The district. came some part OF the
loco, co,or md The Intimate knowledge
% ,,,nos a nd nroblems that underlie these
80, -. NJ oII,ggins related this.
80 sr,'to,,. ra,,,o,onco ana an unreal
- .,o,danco y, Interesting details,
=. aase.a,nn 20 b,s story called THE
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why I write Irish stories. 'OHiggins'
may look like an English corruption OF
'OHagan' or an Irish Improvement on
Higgins but 1t Is neither. 1t IL as
Irish as usquebaugh and as ancient
There was a blind Irish bard, Teigue
Dali O'Higgins, as far back as Shake
speare's day. DALI means blind. He
has been largely dug up and restored
to circulation by the Celtic revival in
Ireland, and his verses are translated
in most of the Irish anthologies of re-
cent years. He was a member of n
family of OHigginses who were pre-
ceptors of poetry In the ancient Irish
neutrality-suspicious. of poetry TO all
Ireland and Scotland the old manu-
scripts call them. 1t seems a large
order for one family, but this was be-
fore the days of race suicide. There's
an old joke that the Irish are all de-
sccndants of kings. Kings have always
seemed to me a rather stupid and pre-
tentious lot, even as ancestors. A blind
bard is more in the modest line of a
literary man who has trouble with his
eyes.
I'm Irish only on my fathers side,
who came from Dublin. My mother was
Stephenson of Lancashire. England.
They met and married in upper Canada,
where the Irish are.about as popular as
they are in Ulster. My affections were
always with them-the Irish. | mean
even as a boy. although | have always
had an English lobe in my brain that
watched them. They will take lot of
watching They're deep. They have q
sly way of appearing simple and laugh
ing in the backs of their minds at your
simplicity in undertaking them. | took
to writing Irish stories because the
Irish stories that I read made me laugh
that way myself"
No, Harvey O'Higgins would not COM
NIT himself as to what Irish stories
| moved him to laugh in the back of his
mind and to for hwlth put his special
knowledge of the Irish to use.
The great difficulty about writing an
interesting short story is that 1t has &c
he short That is why the English move
runs to such lengths. The people in ar
English novel are naturally dumb and
fiat. and the author has to keep YOU
reading by talking Interestingly al
| around his characters, like a ventrilo'
qust with his dummies. In a shor'
story you have to leave your character,
| to express themselves. And Irish char
acters are always expressive. They
have. as you say. the gift Of Cab They
are emotional. They are often witty
They are temperamental, sympathetic
! affectionate. They usually have imagi
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more sympathetic, more intuitive. The
1rishman steers a more erratic course
through the problems of life, by a
compass that is more subject to the
magnetic influences Of sympathetic
attraction. He hates his enemies at a
distance much better than when he
Is in contact. with them. and he Is more
likely to seem treacheruus for that rea-
son. His personal loyalty Is stronger
than his community conscience, unless
his community is his clan. In that case
the Irish have a greater power of COM
munity cooperation than any other
modern race. Horace Plunkett says so.
and he should know. He has been
directing the cooperative efforts OF the
Irish farmers who are being assisted
to the repossession OF their land.
The Irish in America have CO.
operated In one activity that has given
them a black eye. I refer to Tammany
Hall. No one in his senses would try
to defend Tammany Hall. But! Among
our business men and farmers and
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interview him, for he lives and works
somewhere in the wilds of New Jersey
in summer. and in winter he betakes
himself To a workroom in town, and only
his publishers know the secret; but Just
al this time, with his play, THE
Dummy" at the Hudson Theatre, II
was possible to choose the date and the
likely hour and find him at the theatre.
lie is quiet, good humored, pipe
smoking, take life easy kind OF man
tall, lank and broad shouldered. with a
lived in look to the clothes he wears
and a direct, human simplicity to the
way he meets situations or people, and
there is boyish humor along with the
care lines in his clean shaven face, and
likable touch of the quizzical In the
gray blue eyes he turns upon you.
sure. I'm Irish" he admitted, with a
deliberate, Illuminating smile. That's
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from the Third avenue emporium the
dinner from. the corner delicatessen, and
all the component parts of happiness
that turn two waits OF the pavements
into the social unit home.
II wandered down on West street to
the waterfront about the time the team
sters were quitting work for the day,
hundreds of trucks stretching along at
the foot OF Christopher street." said Mr..
O'Higgins, land there was the germ of
the story"
You catch the significant lure to the
Imagination out of which came Carney,
the teamster and bridegroom, in the
first lines that linn the familiar picture:
THE ferryhouse clock at the foot OF
Christopher street marked fifteen
minutes past 5: and all the trucks OF
the wholesale district were hurrying in.
over the paving stones OF the side
streets to the wide esplanade of asphalt
that lies along the stretch of the New
York water front"
1t was in these days of 1.-THE Honey
moon Flat" that Harvey OHiggins was
grinding out copy" for the newspapers.
He had been on paper In Canada, and
he found market for special stories
in the Sunday papers. II wrote up
everything from Chinatown to Harlem
and then | went on the telegraph desk
of a daily until | had some words with
the editor and he told me / could not
write English" related Mr.. O'Higgins
| with an appreciative grin. 81 was fired
| fiat, and l soon went back to news
paper work. At that / managed to
make a living writing English. | used
| to go down to the fire houses, In the
course of my newspaper work, fas-
cinated with the life Of the fire houses
and the yarns Of the men, and one day
| sent a fire story to the Youths Com
pdniOn. 1t was accepted and | was
asked to send more Of the same kind.
But when | sent the stories 7 had the
editors of the Companion said they were
too exciting for the youthful public and
returned them forthwith.
There was some sort of a rule of the
Youths Companion against bloodshed
and sudden death. So | sent the stories
to Scribner's MdDd<ine and Scribncr's
published them and many more which
finally came forth in book called The
Smoke Eaters | had fireman friend
down in the Greenwich Village district,
and even when I moved out of the
neighborhood I used to go down to see
him. The general public liked my fire
stories well enough, hut in the fire
houses they were not thought of much
importance. one of the men OF the
department in speaking of the book tc
this fireman friend Of mine said that he
, didn't think much of it, Said he:
{ That's not literature. 1t is just what
any fireman knows. That book was not
hx,a nj M
, wrote it,.
I In the same way Harvey OHiggin'
q came in touch in his newspaper worl
y with the Police Department, with Tam
, many. with the underlying nature o
t things constructed in New York whei
k ! New York became the city Of the Irish
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nations. They make romantic lovers.
Altogether, they have that rarest or
qualities for writer's uses, they are
extremely human. Everybody Is little
ashamed of being human, but every
body loves to read about people who are
human and to laugh at them or weep
over them. The Irish are a little bit
more human than the humanest. and
they rarely try to conceal 1t. That II
why any one who knows the Irish, and
great many who don't, love to write
short stories about them. Was kiplinp
ever so good as when he wrote about
Mulvaney?
1.-THE English writer-and Kipling Is
not wholly an exception-has failed with
his Irish characters because the English
mind is logical and the Irish is moi
strictly so. The English mind Is more
masculine the Irish more feminine -
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mated the Supreme Court of his State"
So the short story silent Sam" be-
came the only way 10 speak the truth of
tragedy out loud. and holds In 1t
dark thought of other conspiracies of
Injustice inspired by other influences
that control and other victims ''jobbed"
for lifetimes between prison walls by
powers that be. So true is the story
that Harvey O'Higgins has the pictures
of silent Sam" to show-Daneen the
tramp and Daneen the convict. Again
the story is not literature; 1t is life.
The most difficult story to SELL" de-
elared Mr.. OHiggins, thoughtfully,
with a smile of Renaissance in the task,
was The Hot Air Harps. 1t was ac-
cepted by four different editors who
were afraid to publish It for fear OF
offending their Irish readers"
Pressed for a definition of hot air
harp" he laughed and asserted that il
was as difficult to explain as the story
Vas TO SELL The most Irish Of all his
stories is THE Dry Dime Dolan Associa-
lions Annual Picnic" with all the more
exasperating and lovable traits of the
Irishman in love or politics. the charm
and the contradiction and the racial
mystery" OF one kind Of an Irishman.
"A hot air harp" said Mr.. O'Hig-
gins. says more than he means and
means more than he says, and you have
to be an Irishman to understand him,
I'd call George Bernard Shaw hot air
harp and the term will fully explain
him to an Irishman."
But the point where Harvey O1lig-
| gins comes closest to the heart of his
public is not in his study of Irishmcn in
| the various phases of American life but
in his study of Irish womankind.
who has written of the women of the
Easements underworld. the Irish SER
want girl, with her cheeks still as fresh
as pinks from the breeZes of Donegal,
and of the old woman of pots and pans,
with "her comic Irish face" and her
homesick pang for Ireland, but Harvey
| O'Higgins? And who hut he has found
the significance of that social factor the
Irish mother of the tenements In the
| shaping of the fate of men? And who
but he has touched the springs of
eternal romance, of lasting innocence
unfaling faith and nnspoiled youth ir
the hearts of the old Irish women pot
tering over their bread and tea and theii
troubles?
Annie of 1.-THE EXiles' was real in
cident: 1.-THE simple cr'ature, ust to biz
gossoons o. boys that swally theil
tongues whin they go coortln' an have
niver word to say--whnts she t.
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YorkUS.
w vASUINGTON IRVING was the
A first historiographer of New
w York; then came O. Henry,
and now there is Harvey
OH --lns the man who writes Irish
stories.
The special qualification of Harvey
OH.-Euns as a historiographer OF New
York. is his special knowledge of the
Irish
When New York ceased 10 the city
Of the Knickerbockers it became the
CITY Il the Irish. 1t produced the great
est Irish population. by way of Ellis
Island. IF any Of the alien admixtures
in Thee beginning of the influx of the
tl.lns into this melting pot. The
IRISH were the first ingredient in i'm
migration history in the making of the
city The Irish made the East Side.
The Irish made Tammany Hall. The
IRISH made many of the Institutions
that ave at the bottom of the organized
city Of to-day.
Th,n came the Slav and the Latin.
They displaced the Irish on the East
Side The Irish swarmed across the city
10 Old Greenwich Village; and it is in
that Sc dement, of the Irish that most
Of Harvey OHiggins's stories have root
What can a man know of this enor-
nous and complex city? Skyscrapers and
suhways trolleys and LIS; roar #
traii' and speech of all nations; morn
ing and evening throngs of the workers;
sign, that speak in line by day and in
Hight hv night; swarmins. squalid,
tenement streets and the aloof grandeur
or Fifth avenue; steel and stone of a
new city and little old New York
uckrl away in overlooked corners of
the h.s towns. the Great White Way
and tho Stalking Bowery; the trees In
the parks and the ships in the harbor:
people who live here and people who
conn from everywhere.
\ man IAN only know the romance of
thr average He can only know what
th,,. with the eyes to see and the ears
t. bear and the spirit to understand
have found out about 1t. the story
writer. who have told 1t in fiction be-
oags. fiction can give a broader view
~ nh organic construction OF COM
nI''..
a.. uv O'HiggIns's Irish stories have
10 i' Nth the organic construction OF
New 'rfk They are romances Of the
aN"rl-. There are few magazine
fe1t Nho do not know Harvey OHig-
F.n.- Irish stories. lie has written
m''" than a hundred in the years he
a'S ..'a building up reading public
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This romdncer OF Neu York real
ties rrote one story that helped to
so1ic railroad strike, another that
scrr.d as campaign document, a
third that IRON 81 900 as "He best
American short story,"d fourth that
became one of the most successful
plays of its season and many that
kar. interpreted Ner York TO NeT
YorkCrs.
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continued on Sirtccmth Page.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-20
AMBROSE QUESTIONED
IN JUDGE WRIGHT PROBE
Attorney Continues Testimony Be-
fore House Subcommit-
tee Today.

William E. Ambrose, continuing testi-
mony today before the special sub
committee of the House which is in
vestigating the Wright impeachment
case, was questioned as to his con-
nection as attorney in the Rauscher
divorce case, and also as to how close
ly he had read newspaper accounts Of
the testimony in advance Of his own
appearance on the stand.
Mr. Ambrose fold the committee that
as far as he knew his client, Mrs.
Rauscher had never been in Judge
Wrights office except when the judge
was away. He said he had Withdrawn
from the case because he had doubts
as to the strength of the testimony
Read Only His Own Testimony.
Chairman Mccoy asked whether he had
been reading the accounts of the hear
ings as published at length in a local
paper. and the attorney replied that he
had not. except to read his own testi-
mony:
'.This matter Is a grave one to me, :"
he said. Il was here when You adrlon-
ished witnesses to say nothing about this
matter. My recollection is not the best,
anyway. and ] did not care to have my
recollection interfered with by reading
papers or talking with others interested
in the case. 1 have, however. talked with
Mr.. Easby-Smith in the matter because
of my trust and confidence in him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-20
TRINITY HOUSE OBSERVES
ITS 4OOTH ANNIVERSARY
Chartered by Henry VIII and Made
England Mistress Of the
Seas.

LONDON, May 2o-The 40Oth year of
the foundation Of Trinity House, the
world-famous corporation Of master
mariners. chartered May 20. 1914, by
Henry VIII, was celebrated today.
At the time of its chartering the Or
ganization was described as 1.-The Guild,
or Fraternity, of the Most Glorious and
Undividable Trinity Of st. Clement" Its
founder was Sir Thomas Spert. COM
mander of the famous battleship Harry
Grace de Dieu and controller of the
navy. At first the guild was mainly
concerned with supplying pilots for the
ships entering and leaving Deptford
Royal dockyard, but Henry VIII in
creased its prestige by handing over to
the corporation the entire direction of
that dockyard.
Queen Elizabeth intruSted the corpora
ton with what constitutes it's chief mod
ern duty by giving it authority to erect
beacons and other marks for the
guidance of navigators around the
English coasts. These duties. connected
with pilotage, erection and maintenance
OF lighthouses, buoys and beacons, have
been carried out by Trinity House ever
since. and 1t has always led the world
in the matter of coast lighting.
The history of Trinity House is the
story of Britain's rise to the command
of the seas 1t was Trinity House which
by a bylaw in 1857 made a written
agreement between the master and crew
of ship compulsory.
The management of the corporation is
in the hands of thirteen elder brethren
two of whom are elected by the navy.
the remainder being appointed from the
merchant service. Among the active and
honorary elder brethren are the king,
Premier Asquith and First Lord of the
Admiralty Winston Churchill.