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Evening star., 1914-02-01
Miss Bull, Journalist, Dead.

NEW YORK January S1.-Miss Emma
Bull, Paris correspondent of the Brook.
lyn Eagle for the past thirty-two years
died today at her home in Paris.
Miss Bull was born in France, bu,
came to America at the age of seven
She taught in Cincinnati for number
of years, then went back to France and
served as a nurse during the Franco.
Prussian war. After the war she
resumed teaching in Cincinnati In 1875
she went TO Paris as correspondent fol
American newspapers.
Evening star., 1914-02-01
Dynamiters Ask New Trial.

CHICAGO, January 31--A petition
that the United States court Of appeals
here set aside its grant of new trial
to Olaf Tveitmoe of San Francisco. Rich
ard Ii. Houlihan of Chicago and VIII
liam Bernhardt of Cincinnati. convicted
in the dynamite trial at Indianapolis,
was filed here today by Frank c. Daley.
United states district attorney at In
.;i;t ..d polls.
Evening star., 1914-02-01
Succeeds Cardinal Rampolla

ROME, January 31.-Cardinal Merry
del Val will assume the position of arch
priest of st. Peters Monday. succeeding
the late Cardinal Rampolla, and solemn
ceremonial will be held. The Pope, in
honor of the occasion. will present,
through Cardinal Merry del Val, to the
Basiica a magnificent gold chalice and
pyx incrusted with previous stones, val
ued at $4,000.
Evening star., 1914-02-01
Davis Jury Disagrees.

BRUNSWICK. Ca, January 31.-The
jury in the case of V. r. Davis, tried
for the murder of his wife, being unable
to agree, a mistrial was declared today.
Davis probably will be tried again at the
next term of court.
Evening star., 1914-02-01
Washington Survivor
Gets Joyful Welcome
on His Arrival Home

That Can't Z. Z. Johnson of the steam
ship Monroe and the men of his crew
did everything possible, so far as he
could see, to save passengers following
the crash with the Nantucket, was the
statement made here last night by James
O'ConneH. member of the federal in
dustrial relations committee. the only
Washington man in the catastrophe, who
arrived at his home, 2126 1st street north
west. last night.
Alleged statements Of Thomas r. Har-
rington of Bridgeport, Conn, one OF the
survivors, whose wife died from exposure
and shock following the collision. that
stewards on the Monroe did nothing to
assist passengers, and that one Nfeboat
refused to take himself and wife on
board, were doubted by Mr. O'Conneli.
He said that If such things happened he
had not seen them.
Bears Evidence of Wreck.
Mr. O'Connell bore many evidences of
the wreck when ne arrived here last
night. accompanied by two sons. who
went to Norfolk to meet him. Both his
. legs were badly skinned and bruised and
he was sore all over. He said he did not
4. know when he received the cuts and
! bruises. but thought he had gotten them
while sliding down the side of the ship.
+. He assisted in rowing one of the life
boats. which explained his soreness.
Members OF Mr.. O'Connelrs family re-
eeived him joyfuliy when he arrived last
plight. and many friends called at his
home or telephoned TO congratulate him
f, bn his escape from the death which
: claimed SO many others.
: 1T always happens after a wreck or
catastrophe of any kind that some peo-
. pie tell rather colored stories" said Mr.
. pConneu soon after his arrival here.
s.The crash came so suddenly that few
Of the survivors knew Just what did hap
; ben. | noticed when We were returning
pn the Nantucket that some people al
ready were beginning TO eXaggerate.
8 No Trouble in Rescue.
: II am reasonably sure that it was our
/, iifeboat which picked up Mr.. and Mrs
Harrington out OF the water. I know
there was no trouble about IL. While We
j were pushing around looking for sur
pivors several of those in our boat said
we should not take any more on board
but Capt. johnson, who was also in the
p, boat sternly told them that he was in
$ command and that the rescue work
SHOULD go on
:. Fl do not see anything the captain or
other officers could have done had they
remained longer on board. I think the
. captain was thrown into the lifeboat
Just as l was. The entire thing was so
sudden that there was little any one
T. could do. I feel sure that all those
lost were people who never got out of
their staterooms. Nothing could have
saved them. We looked all around and
saw moody looking for assistance
; Mr.. OConneIl said he was unable TO
throw any light on who, if any one,
: was 10 blame for the crash.
Evening star., 1914-02-01

William ]. Clark. seventy-six years old,
a former Judge of the orphans court of
Cecil county, Nd, died Thursday near
North East after an Illness of several
weeks.
Evening star., 1914-02-01
Negligence Is Charged.

The libeliant further recites that
the collision was in no way caused py
the fault or negligence of those on
board of or in charge of the navisa- :
tion of the steamer Monroe, but was
due solely to the carelessness. negll-
gence and faulty navigation of those
on board of and in charge OF the
steamer Nantucket and especially in
the following particulars:
In not having competent master ana
crew; in failing to give the signals re-
quired by law of a vessel under way IN
a fog: in proceeding at q high rate oil
speed in foggy weather; in not stopping
her engines when she heard the log
whistles from the Monroe; in faiilng 10
keep and maintain a proper and efficient
lookout. in making absolutely no efforts
to avoid the collision, but, instead COM
ing on with undiminished speed after she
had heard the signals from the Monroe
in that the Nantucket was carelessiy
and negligently navigated-'
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collision, in a sum which the libeliant Is
at present unable to state with accuracy
but which, upon information and peneI,
he AYERS will amount to upward OF
81 600 600
Evening star., 1914-02-01

Bandits are again becoming active in
the rebel territory. and are gaining re-
cruits. After they held up and robbed
a train on the Mexico Northwestern at
Cuzman, but permitted the passengers.
including twenty-five americans americans: oI,in to PRO
ned on a campaign Of looting in western
Chihuahua. where rebel forces have
been unable to capture them.
p.ssenpers from Chihuahua corrobo-
rated a report that Luis Terrazas. jr.. son
of a wealthy land owner. had been tor
tured by the rebels to induce him to dis
close the hiding place of fortune IN
cash.
MANY of the horses which were taken
to the American side when the federal
army crossed over from Ojinaga were
found to bear the brand of American cat
tlemen in Mexico, who are members OF
the American Cattle Raisers Association
The horses had been pressed into the
service of the Huerta army. On the
American side agents Of the Mexican gov
ernment sold them. This was done, but
later such of them bore American
brands were ordered held.
The Washington herald., 1914-01-11
SOME REFLECTIONS ON
THE NEW INCOME TAX

our lifetime of endeavor consists chief
ly in unpaid bills labeled Please Remit
The custom house inspectors are
harder on the man with nothing to de-
clare than they are on those whose
boxes are full. They slam their things
all over creation, and insult the owner
with the same abandon with which they
greet a recognized past mistress in the
arts of smuggling. Innocence is no
protection when a custom house in
spector gets after you, and it will be
the same way with the new kind. None
of US can hope to escape. The income
tax inspectors will come here just as
eagerly as they will go to that palatial
mausoleum in which Mr.. Rockernegie
dwelis on the corner of Bond avenue
and Easy street, and they'll rummage
through our trunks, boxes, and bu-
reaus in search of such interest-bear-
ing securities as they may suspect US
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he needs twenty-five dollars he buys a
fifty dollar overcoat, has it charged,
and takes it around the corner and
pawns it, and ekes out the deficiency
with jackpot or a grand slam, in the
manipulation of both of which he is
what Socrates used TO call cracker
jack. II you ever saw him walking
on the avenue, or entering swell res
taurant anywhere. you'd stop and say
to yourself, BY George! That must be
Mr.: Idle Rich, of whom / have heard
so much lately. Gosh! | wonder how
it feels TO be himr
Him shifted the Bibliomaniac, al
ways a stickler for purity of speech.
Sure thingr said the Idiot. "You
don't stop to think of grammar when
you are dazzled by that spectacle. You
just give way, right off to your natural,
unrestrained. primitive instincts. and
speak English in exactly the same way
that the caveman spoke his tongue in
those glorious days before grammar
came along to curse education with its
artificial restraints upon ease of ex-
preston. Gosh | wonder how it feels
to be him. is what you'd say as old
Empty Wallet passed you by disguised
as the Horn of Plenty, and all day
long your mind would continue to ad-
vert to him and the care-free existence
you'd think to look at him he was
leading: and you, with a four dollar
bill within your reach every Saturday
night, would find yourself positively
envying him his wealth, when, as a
matter Of fact, he hasn't seen a single
red cent he could properly call his own
for ten years"
"Oh, well-what of it?' said the Bib
liomaniac. "Of course, there are
sponges and snobs in the world What
are they to u.s."
why, nothing" said the Idiot. only
| wonder what Smythe and his kind
are going to do when the income tax
collector comes along and asks for his
little two per cent of all this snowy
exterior. 1t will be a terribly humil-
iating piece of business to confess that
all this ostentatious show of prosperity
is nothing but an empty she'll, and that
way down inside he is only an eight
cen karat, copper-fastened. steel-riveted
bluff-fact is he'll have the dickens of
a time making the tax collectors be-
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tire pleasing belief that the income tax
was going to be jolly little club with
which to hit old Brother Pluto on the
head, and make him fork over, while
we Nixicrats sat on the fence and
grinned. 1t was going to be great fun
watching the Plutes disgorge, and we
all had a notion that life was going to
be just one exgurgitating moving pic
ture after another, with us sitting in
front row seats gloating over the Sor-
rows of Croesus and his coughing cof-
fers. But alas for our dreams of joy
it hasn't worked out quite that way.
The vexation of the blooming thing is
visited upon every one of us. Them as
has has got to pay Them as hasn't
has got to prove that they don't have
to pay. and l tell you right now, Mr..
Bib, it is going to be terrific prop
osition for a lot of chaps in this land
of ours who are skinning along on
nothing a year.. but making noise
like a ten thousand dollar proposition"
Il fear me their name is legion"
said the Bibliomaniac.
Il know one named Smythe," said
the Idiot. IF a painter were looking
around for a model for Ready Money
in an allegorical picture Smythe would
fill the bill to perfection. You ought
to see him. He walks about the streets
of this town giving everybody he meets
a fifteen thousand per annum look
when, as a matter of fact, he hasn't
got ten cents to his name If he was
invited to a submarine masquerade all
he'd have to do would be to swallow
a glass of water and go as a sponge.
He makes about as big a splurge on a
deficit as you or | could make If our
salaries were raised oIo per cent and
then some As week-ender he is
in the A One class. He hasn't paid
for a Sunday dinner in FIVE years. nor
has he paid for anything else in earned
cash for three. His only sources of
revenue are his friends, the pawnshops,
and his proficiency at bridge and
poker. His only hope for staving off
eventual disaster is the possibility of
hanging on by his eyelids until he
dawns as the last forlorn hope on the
horizon of some freckle-faced, red
haired old maid, with nine millions in
her own right. He owes every tailor,
halter, and haberdasher in town. When
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lieve it. and then he'll be face to face
with a federal indictment for trying
to dodge his taxes. And that business
of dodging-that brings up another
phase of this income tax that / don't
believe many Of US realized when we
were shouting for it as a means of
shacking Mr.. Plute last year. Did
you ever realize that it won't be very
long before the government, in order
to get this income tax fixed right, will
have lot of inspectors who will be
delegated to do for you and me, and
all the rest of us. what the custom
house inspectors now do for travellers
returning from abroad? Every man
and woman travelling upon the seas of
life, Mr.. Bib. will be required to enter
the port of taxation and there submit
declaration OF the contents of their
boxes to the tax inspectors, which will
be followed, as in the case OF the trav-
eler from abroad, by a complete over
hauling of their effects BY those same
inspectors. The tessalated pave of
your safe deposit companies and banks
will look like the floor of an ocean
steamship pier on the arrival of a big
liner, only instead of being showed un-
der by a mass of shirts, trousers,
Paris-made revelations in chiffons,
silks, and brocades, necklaces, tiaras.
pearl ropes, shipped aigrettes, and
snowy drifts OF indescribable, but in
these free days no longer unmention-
able, lingerie, it will be piled high with
steel bonds, New Haven deferred div
idends, sinking fund debenture certi6-
Gates, government fve-eighths per cent
bonds, certificates of deposit, miscel-
laneous stocks, mining, industrial. rail-
way, gilt-edged and wildcat, in one red
unburial blent; while the poor owner,
fearful lest in the excitement of the or
deal he may have neglected to mention
some insignificant item of a million or
two in Standard Oil, will sit by and
sweat as the inspector tears his ruth
less way through his accumulated
stores of wealth
1T will be almost enough to make
a man sorry he's rich," said the Doc
tor.
''Oh, no." said the Idiot, for the rest
of us will be in the same pickle, only
in a more hurniliating position as the
intruder reveals that the sum total of
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grinned the Idiot. when the govern
ment finds it necessary to nab leader
Of fashionable society for trying tc
smuggle in one hundred thousand dol
lar pearl necklaces by sewing them up
in the lining OF their hats, and to fine
,, the most eminently respectable citizens
in the country as much as 5000 for
returning from abroad portly with five
or six hundred yards OF undeclared
lace wound inadvertently about their
stomachs, having in the excitement oil
their Homecoming put 1t on in the place
of the little flannel bands they have
worn to ward off cholera and other
pleasing foreign maladies, it loses some
of its confidence in human nature, anG
acquires some of that penetrating in
quisitiveness OF mind which is said &c
be characteristic of the native of Mis-
souri. 1t wants to be shown, and il
the income tax remains in force We
might as we'll make up our minds that
the inquisitorial Inspector will soon be
added to the official pay roll of the
United States of America
But" protested the Bibliomaniac
that will be plain common-garden
espionage of so intolerable a nature
that no self-respecting free people will
submit to it. 1t will be an abominable
intrusion upon our rights of privacy"
The Idiot laughed long and loud.
1T seems to me-" said he, after
moment, that when Col. John w.
Midas, of the International Hickory
Nut Trust, advanced that same objec-
tion against the proposed tax a year
ago, Mr.. Bib, you sat in that very same
chair where you are now and vocifer-
ously announced that there was moth
ing in it."
"Oh, but that's different" said the
Bibliomaniac. midas is a rich man.
and / am not"
We'll, l suppose there is difference
between prune and Canadian melon,
old man, but after all, they're both
fruit, and when it comes to being
squeezed guess it hurts lemon just
as much as it does lime. ], for one,
however, do not fear the inspector. My
securities are exempt. for they all pay
their tax at the source"
What are they, coupon bonds?"
grinned the Lawyer.
NO. said the Idiot; pawn tickets.
interest on which is always paid in Cd
vance, :.
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are not a plutocrat trying to pass your
self off as a member of one of those
respectable middle-class financial fam
lilies in which this land is so pleasingly
rich. You've got to lay statement of
YOUR financial condition before the gov
ernment whether your income is nine
tv-seyen cents a minute or forty-seven
thousand dollars an hour. Nobody is
exempt from that nuisance. As l un-
derstand it, the government requires
every man, woman, and child to go to
confession, and own up TO just how
little or how much he or she hasn't
got. All men stand equal in the eyes
of the law when it comes to the show
down. There is no discrimination in
favor of the rich in this business, and
the inconvenience of having a minion
of authority prying into your private
affairs is as much a privilege of yours
as it is of Uncle Johns, or good old
Handy, Andy from Skihibo. Uncle
Sam is going to put his eye on every
man-iack of us and find out whether
we are any good or not, and if so, for
how much. He will have sleuths
everywhere about to estimate the cubic
financial contests of your trousers
pockets, and whether you keep your
money in bank, in trust company,
in a cigar box, or your sock, he is go
ing right after it, and he'll get his
share or know the reason why. There
isn't a solitary nickel circulating in
this land today that can hope to escape
the eagle eye of Secretary McAdoo
and his financial ferrets."
"You surprise me-" said the Biblio-
maniac. IF what you say is true, it
is a perfect outrage. You don't really
mean 10 tell me that l have got to
give a statement of my receipts to
some snoopy-nosed old government Of
fetal, do You?
Even So" said the Idiot, "or at
least that is the way | understand If.
You've not only got to tell how much
you've got, but you must also disclose
the sources of your revenue. If you
found a, cent on the corner of Main
street and Desdemona alley on the
fifteenth day of December, 1913, there
by adding that much to your annual
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of trying to get by with. Mr.. Bib will
have to dump his bureau drawer full
of red neckties out on the floor to
prove to Uncle Sans satisfaction that
he hasn't got a fourteen million dollar
bond issue concealed somewhere be-
hind their lurid glow. The Doctor will
have to sit patiently by and unprotest-
ingly watch the inspectors going
through the pockets of his unrivaled
collection of fancy waistcoats in a
heart-breaking quest for undeclared in
terests in mining enterprises and pop
ular cemeteries. Trunks, chests. hat
boxes, soapboxes, pillboxes, safety
razor boxes-in fact, all kinds of re-
ceptacles in this house, from Mrs. Ped
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pulled out Unexpectedly roll of twen7
ty dollar bills amounting to $500 in all,
and then in an absent-minded moment
got away with it before you realized
that it belonged to the man standing
next to you, you'd have to put it down
on your statement just the same as
all the rest of the items, under penalty
of prosecution for concealing sources
OF revenue from the officers of the
law. Oh, it's a fine mess we smart
Alexanders of the hour have got our
selves into in our effort to establish a
pipe line between the plutocratic pock-
etbook and the United States Treas
ury. We all hypnotized ourselves into
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agoes ice chest to Mr.. Whitechokers
barrel of sermons--will be compelled to
disgorge their uttermost content in or
der to satisfy the government sleuths
that we who dwell in this Palace of
Truth, Joy, and Wafles have not a
interest in Standard Oil
hidden away lest we be compelled to
pay our due to the treasury"
"You don't mean to say that the law
so provides, do you" said the Bib
liomaniac.
"Not yeti said the idiot, but it will
its bound to come. In the very ma
ture of the beast it is inevitable. There
never was tax yet that found warm
spot awaiting il in the hearts of its
countrymen. The human mind with
all its devilish ingenuity has never yet
been able to devise a tax that some
body somewhere-nay, that most peo-
pie everywhere-did not try to dodge,
and to catch the dodgers the govern
ment is compelled to view everybody
with suspicion, and treat hoi polloi
from top to bottom as if they were
nothing more nor less than a lot OF
unregenerate pickpockets. horse thieves
and past masters in the gentle art of
mendacity'
"Frightfulr' said Mr.. Whitechoker
And is not a mans word to be taken
as a guarantee of the accuracy of his
return?"
Not SOS anybody would notice it,"
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tcopyrisht, lsiL,


0yATELL, Mr.. Bib,v said the Idiol
w cheerfully, as he speared a
lonely prune and put it out of its
misery, have you made your return
to the income tax collector yet?'
4 both rejoice and regret to say
that my income is not large enough
to come under the provisions of the
act,' said the Bibliomaniac, "and con-
sequently | haven't bothered my head
about it
~Then you'd better gen busy and
send in a statement of your receipts
up to January first from the first OF
last March, or you'll find Uncle Sam
after you with a hot stick. For the
sake of the fair name of our beloved
home here, sir, don't delay. I'd hate
10 see a federal patrol wagon rolling
up to our door for the purpose of TAX
ing you to jail"
But / am exempt" protected the
Bibliomaniac. Il don't come within a
thousand dollars of the minimum
That may be all true enough" said
the idiot, 'sYou know that, and know
that, but Uncle Sam doesn't know it,
, and you've got to satisfy him that you
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receipts, you have got to enter IT IN
your statement, and so clearly that the
authorities will understand just how,
when, and where it came into your
possession, all under oath; and you are
not allowed 10 deduct your current
living expenses from it, either. 1T in
STOPPING over to pick up that cent you
busted your suspenders, and had to go
and pay fifty cents for new pair,
thereby losing forty-nine cents on the
transaction, you aren't allowed to
make any deductions on that account.
That cent is NET-not NIT, but
NET. Same way if in a crowded car
you put your hand into what you pre-
sumed to be your own pocket, and
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Everybody Must Go to Confession and Own Up
How Much He Has or Hasn't, He Cheerfully
Explains---Says Uncle Sam Is Looking for the
Ready Money ard Is Bound to Exc Out Any
Deficiency by Making Grand Slam--Says
Pawn Tickets Are Paid at the Source, Just
Like Coupon Bonds.
Evening star., 1914-12-29
NEGRO BURGLAR BALKEO
AT TAKOMA PARK LIBRARY
Janitor Is Slashed in Encounter
With Early Morning Intruder,
Who Escapes.

The vigorous blowing Of police
whistle attracted Sergt. Russell and
Policeman Stearman to the Public
Library, Takoma Park, about 2:l5
o'clock this morning. Only a few
minutes before the whistle was blown.
it is said, the two men in uniform
separated near the library and went in
opposite directions, and on their re-
turn to the library they found William
r. Stone, the janitor, partly clad. He
told of an encounter he had had with
a colored burglar.
He said he was aroused by the crash
ing of a window pane, and said he
found a negro about to enter the
building: that he grabbed the man
around the neck, and the latter cut
his arm.
A resident on the opposite side of the
street heard the commotion and went
to a front window, taking his rifle with
linn and covering the front of the Ii
brary building to apprehend any in
truder who might appear. Stone was
the only person he saw until the police
came.
Sergt. Russell and Policeman Stear-
man made a search for the burglar
described by the jantor, but found no
trace of him. 1t is stated that n num-
Der of small theftS have been COM
lnitted in the library. but an eXamina-
tion of the building today failed to
show that anything was taken this
morning.