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Evening star., 1917-09-16
AROUND THE CITY.

This is fine world. provided you
don't ask too much of it. An old gen.
tIeman who lives here says so-and he
ought to know, seeing this is the tenth
time he has come back to earth-which
beats the cat by one.
1t might be more times, of course.
but he couldn't swear to it. as the first
thing he can really remember was
when he and another slave rescued
little Moses from the bulrushes.
Even at that. his experiences count,
especially as he tells them with the rel
ish of one to whom each reincarnation
was a feast-thouGh he explains that
fate's platter holds for him only the
fshtails and drumsticks of this life.
and that his place at Fortunes table is
located at the end which feudal folks
used to cali below the salt"
The other day he was talking to a
prophecies who can foretell a whole lot
more than will ever happen. but whose
memory refuses to go back of the centen
nial-which. confidentially. ii can. OF
course. only it doesn't, seeing that spin
stery lady has just natchelly go to keep on
being a girl till she dies of old age
But that doesn't prevent her. from forag-
ing into other peoples pasts-so she
asked him if he always came back as a
man.
"Except once. The time a couple Of
rs robbers stole the rubies from the
temple of Isis and got properly stab
bed. ! had to take my punishment as
a woman. Ybu remember Tarpia. who
sold her city for jewels? That was me.
This poor old leg of mine has never
hurt met can never hurt me-like
those gold ornaments with which those.
invading soldiers crushed me as they
marched through the gate | had opened
for them The very memory Of 1t is
like the sting of a viper. But il taught
me one good lesson. I've been honest
ever since. And | learned many things
that you have to be a woman to know
about. Hand me a pill. honey, that's
one cruel decor on my trail.
when | hear people criticising some
wife for not wanting children. L know
it is because the poor thing was over
burdened with them in her last rein
carnation: l had eleven myself. And
who is living her life without marriage
or home. | know that she has served
out her earth trials and is being pur-
posely deta ched from this world to f1t
her for a more beautiful sphere.
1t was astonishing and entirely sat
isfactory information, but the proph-
etess felt that it would have been
somewhat more reliable If the old gent
tleman could have kept back the
whimsy smile that went with it.
All of which, neishbors, dear, is just
to give you a peek at the bravery of
one invalid who, when a favorable OPP
portunity. such as a prophecies. comes
along. likes to play at make-believe to
forget suffering that is real.
Almost anything helps when one has
to live with a pair of dear feet that
will walk the earth no more.
Her good, honest face had the bloom
of fictions milkmaid. And she was
brisking along with a freedom un-
trammeled by corsets. when-an of
mental disturbance caused
her to stop and look into her handbag
Something had gone wrong with her
finances. 1t was written in her face
with the clearness of that other writing
on the wall.
rummaged through il.
Then she pumped herself down on a
Evening star., 1917-09-16

curbstone and emptied its contents IN
her lap. In the spilled-out display
were shoe laces. a spool of white cot.
ton, some safety pins. a reel OF tape
and enough sleazy pink ribbon to make
hair bow. Also one of those knitted
clowns that strike cymbals when you
pull him with a string
The price of each purchase did the
woman count up by humping her nm
gers on knee. but her anxiety showed
no let-up untl-with a belated flash
of Joy-she pushed a hand under her
jacket and brought out and unwrapped
a pin with a glass set that was better
than real emerald because it was
twice as green.
The money problem was solved: the
Fuckers slid out of the good. honest
face. and. having stuffed her things
back into the bag, the woman scram.
bled up and walked of. serenely un-
conscious of the passing crowds that
had halted.
And she doubtless never gave anothsr
thought to her spectacular stunt un-
less. maybe. somebody asked her how
she got all that dust on the sitting.
down widths of her dress.
woman scurried out of a newspaper
office and started for the market to
keep a business date. Self-centered in
her work. she had no eyes for the new
extreme that might accent the average
crowd She was just hustling along.
until-whiff,
The market place changed itself into
a medieval poem. except that instead OF
printed verses in a book. there WAS
The green silence of a castle garden
and the gray frown of a castle wall.
In the shadow of the wall. two cruel
whose arms were around an urn OF
sweet basil and whose face was bowed
in it's leaves.
They were moving picture knights, for
one Of them dragged the weeping lady
from the urn. while the other dug his
sword into the spicy greenery untn It
uncovered the head of her true love
whom they had slain and which she
had buried in the urn that she might
mourn II evermore-and-
Then the street was back again and
the woman was realizing that some one.
as hurried as herself. had bumped her
against flower stall and made her
upset a box of sweet basil leaves on
the bricks.
Which shows what imagination caa
do.
History repeats herself. but q child
is always original
Small Marjorie was most fnte1lfgently
over motion pictures Of the
war When she failed to understand q
she asked for information:
Why are those men STOPPING under
that bridge. mother"
Mother explained that they were go
ing to blow il up.
oh, Will they have breath enough
Dixie and are homesick for the land
where milk and honey flows. just turn
into 18th street and walk and walk and
walk. until YOU come to a garden, green
with bushes that are brown with pods
topped with snowy mounds-like ice
Cotton. MAMIE LANCASTER.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
The Presidents Return.

It is hoped the President has been
thoroughly refreshe,. by the sea air. He
needs to be strong. He is returning to a
town which awaits him, business in
hand.
Several important appointments are
commerce commissionerships- of
particular interest TO the railroads-or-
ganizations which just now are having
troubles of many kinds.
Then there is the colleetorship of the
port of New York. Dudley Field Ma
lone is desirious of an early release
He wants TO get ont of office so as to
get into the fight for suffrage. New
York state votes on the suffrage ques-
tion in November.
Then there is the conference on the
revenue bill While the President is
not formally a conferee. he is very
much interested in the controversies in
hand, and the versialists-especial-
ay the democrats-are very much IN
terested in him. With him close by they
will be able when in tight places to get
his opinion. He is very approachable
and responsive at such times. as his
party friends in Congress well know.
Very likely, too his views and wishes
will be sought about a recess or an ad-
journment. That matter has been under
discussion SO often and so long, and
given rise to so many conflicting
opinions, an appeal to the President
seems natural He has secured nearly
everything he has asked. Congress has
been very obliging. and is still in that
mood. Hence. should he say the word
the session will close soon.
If closing day should be October |.
the President and senators and repre-
sentatives will he able if disposed to
devote a month to the campaigns in
which they are interested. and then
month-Novemb ber-to canvassing on
the subject of the war The President
has been advised to visit several of the
cantonments, and address the men. and
the same suggestion has been made to
members of the cabinet
But the congressional card is still un
finished. and sudden developments any
day may add items to it. Forecasts are
worthless. The most that can be said
with safety is that Congress is in ses-
sion, the business in hand urgent and
important, and the question of closing
day see-sawing. There is no real i'm
patience to hurry through. but only a
wonder as to what can he done at
time when there are no guide posts. and.
as result. confusion is great and prog
ress difficult.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
SWEDEN EXPOSED.

From the Charleston News and Courier
The German spy system works Won
derfully well until it runs into the
American secret service.
From,the Chicago Post.
No sense of surprise or shock is felt
at the red handed discovery of Ger
many in the act of using neutral
country and neutral channel of COM
munication for warning against the
world
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Swedish minister to Argentina
SAYS he didn't transmit any German
messages. Who's a liar:
From the New York Tribune
There is nothing new in the idea of
the German government as an assassin.
The Lusitania episode established Ger
man official reputation in this country.
as Belgian and northern France epi
sodes established it in Europe.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
cd chaos would prevail. Order can be
preserved only through the acceptance

preserved only through the acceptance
of the rule Of the majority. The state
gains its security solely through the ac
quiescence Of the people in the verdict
of the larger number Of the people in
any line of policy, after a public ex,
preston of judgment, called an election
1t IS true that the issue of peace OF
war with Germany was not submitted to
! the people. The Constitution, under
which we all live and to which we all
| subscribe, does not provide that such
an issue shall be so submitted. 1t spe-
cifcally grants to Congress the right to
declare war and to raise and maintain
| armies. Until that Constitution is
changed there can be no decision by the
people themselves on this question.
Congress may elect to refer the war is
sue to the peoples vote. if it is willing
to divide the responsibility, but it must
still, short of a constitutional amend
ment. make the final decision.
If Congress does not represent the
people there is failure of democracy
here. If it does represent them, then
the people, the employers. speak through
Congress. And Congress has declared
war, and war having been declared, ii is
not within the right of the people, the
employers, to criticise that declaration
in terms of refusal to abide by it
until 1t can be overruled by another
vote in Congress. The agitation of in
dlvlduals or groups against the war or
against the methods adopted for the con
duct of the war is not the exercise of
the right of an employer toward his en-
ploye. 1t is the action of a discontented
employe against the course of his en-
ployer. The positions are reversed
The right of free speech does not
mean the right to attack the govern
ment when it is doing its appointed
work, assigned to it in constitutional
manner by the designated authority,
representative of the people. The paci-
fists who now demand that right seek
to destroy the governments power of
command. With no credentials from
the ballot box, nothing to demonstrate
that they. represent a majority, they
would have the war stopped not through
a reversal of orders from the people at
an election. but by threats of revolution.
Who are the patriots. those who ac-
cept the decision for war, rendered in
proper form by the constitutionally ap-
pointed power, and stand ready to do
whatever is necessary to prosecute it to
the point of victory' Or those who now
cry for peace. who preach surrender.
who denounce the action of the majority
representatives and. when checked in
their outcries, revile the government for
with what they call free
speech? If these latter are the employ.
ers, this is indeed mad world.
Evening star., 1917-09-16

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
The Swedish minister to Argentina
remarks that lin the United States they
are very excitable." Quite so-espe-
cially where murder, or completely in
murder, is concerned.
From the New York World.
1t was by no accident that the dfplo.
matte agencies OF Sweden were pf0.ti-
tuted is the treacherous business 0f
the German foreign ONCE.
From the Springfield Republican.
In this war against democracy he
kaiser is the leader Of all the forces Of
reaction, and in Sweden. which u vefy
unlike Norway in this respect. the
forces of reaction are powerful.
From the New York Herald.
Americans are loath to believe that
the Swedish people will consent 10 ehe
continuance of a government guilty q
staining their country'a honor.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
A Great Circus
Combination.
ENTRAINING.

Fare thee we'll. my soldier brothers,
Fare thee we'll.
What the futme may hold for you
None can tell
Hopes were not born 10 be shattered.
Troubles borrowed never mattered.
Play your mans part, that is all;
Onward sounds the bugle's call.
Prayers go with you, soldier brothers.
Earnest prayers.
That. as patriots, forgetting
Other cares.
Your high courage may not fail you
When advancing foes assail you:
Where your country's nag doth lead.
May that be your goal in deed.
Fare thee well. my soldier brothers,
Fare thee we'll.
We shall think of you tomorrow
With regret. and maYbe sorrow.
But today our pride. my brothers,
Every other feeling smothers.
God above. your cause defend;
Play your mans part TO the end.
Frank Fair. in st. Louis Globe -Democra
Evening star., 1917-09-16

New York is wondering whether Ger
man music will be "verboter' next win
ter. The standard composers include
so many Germans that it would be i'm
possible to discriminate. The censor.
ship of public opinion will doubtless be
satisfied if steps are taken to prevent
the American love of music from being
exploited for the benefit of eotemno.
raneous German publishers and pro
ducers
Evening star., 1917-09-16
HEARD And SEEN.

full carbon copies Of the London speeaA,
as the boys who work for the s61I
metropolitan dailies" all wanted to Oo0A
several hundred words OF the London
speech to capitalistic sheets for Whloh
they work.
When Meyer heard Of this he a.
loped over to the press gallery. sp0aah
In hand-only he had changed his MIND
about the ignorance of newspaper men
and had drawn q little pencil line
through that sentence.
II they had not asked for that-spooch
would they still be ignorant?
Hail. Hail! The Snob!
This time 1t Is a department store
saleswoman. and rumor has It that they
can outsnob anybody on earth.
For instance. a sloppey looking vo-
man of middle age. with q ninety-eight-
cent umbrella and a very fierce looking
hat. with her hair dribbling down a4 the
sides. and all that, went into one OF
the best stores. She got by the door
way and the elevator man didn't throw
her out. so she walked to q saleswoman
on the fourth floor with the scared air
Of country mouse.
will you show me a suit?' she asked
Whereupon the Queen Of Sheba tilted
her nose high up in the air and said
from a lofty eminence:
"Rully. now. L don't believe We have
anything that would interest you.
Then she turned away with her
lively.
The little gray mouse of a lady turn
ed away. too. and sought the proprietor.
and the little gray lperson went on out
OF the store. a footnhan assisted her into
a $4,000 limousine. the manager sent
for the Queen of sheba, and the Queen
nf Shah
in three minutes and forty-seven SEC
onds Also. the managers ears were
ringing with the rebuke from the little
gray lady. who was the best customer
he had ever had on his books
IF your clerks treat poor people the
way she treated me because I happen
TO be plainly dressed, then never
never. want to step foot in your store
again"
Some folks uptown hired unto then.
selves new butler last month. He
told them he knew all about butlerinr
and that he had done the Job for the
nffttest people in the world. He wls
colored. pompous and impressive; 20
much SO that. although he asked for
gigantic wages. he got it right OF the
bat.
on the afternoon he started in his
mistress went out riding. When she
returned she asked him II any one had
called.
Nom" responded the butler, no.
body ain zackly called. But two old
folks come round in a hack and whom
| tole 'em you was out they jos went
away and lef' some III white cyards
an a lot O. cigarette papahs"
tThink this over. It's better on COT.
itation.)
Champ Clark has added another
classic to the list of proverbs.
1t was in the midst of the debate on
the insurance bill. Representative GIL.
lett of Massachusetts, had been guilty
of gross exaggeration by saying: "A
bird in the hand is worth seven in the
BUSH.
Champ Clark was not to be outdone:
He thinks So" declared the Speaker
but in my district there is q lawyer
who believes a bird in hand is the
noblest work of Cod
EARL GOODWIN.
Evening star., 1917-09-16

About the time President Wilson was
elected for the first term there was a
very rich manufacturer Of sugar. who
went around with long face bemoaning
the (assumed) fact that Wilson meant
ruin to industry.
You will remember that it was about
that time also that the Calamity Club
began to hold meetings on the street
corners and contracts for bread lines
were about to be let by the old guard.
Also sites for soup houses were picked
out and a new wing was planned for
every poorhouse in the country. Old
time republican politicians who had never
been used to the feeling of a man out Of
office laughed with giee every time they
heard of a factory closing down or a
concern falling, for each failure was a
step toward republican administration.
so they said.
The rich sugar man told his wife and
his daughters that in one year they
would all be starving.
you seem to have plenty now" he said
with tears. But the sugar industry is
ruined and in twelve months we will not
have much as the cost Of one little
grain"
Whereupon the girls stopped buying
only.
The mans sister. hearing all this ca
lamity, dug into her sock and pulled out a
bale of stock in the sugar company.
which. if placed in the throat of a mas
todon. would have choked him to death.
Rushing to her brokers', she gasped:
Sell II while the factory smokestack
is still intact. that I may not have to
part with it after the boilers rust from
disuse.'
Whereupon he sold it at an enormous
price and sister cleaned up a large wad.
She smiled and smiled and smiled. and
her cheerful countenance was such that
her brother got grouchier than ever. He
didn't believe in a smile as long as a
high protective tariff was threatened
with disaster
why do you grin like monkey in the
face of all this terrible disaster" he de-
manded.
Because I have sold all my sugar
stock at a big price and I have made a
million dollars"
The brother fell back faint. He
gasped:
sold your sugar stock, You haven't
sold all your sugar stock?"
"I have" answered the sister. Choir
Ting. lat a big price and cleaned up for
fair"
The brother checked before he could
ask her
And why did you do that"
Because ] took it for granted the
factory would close down ana mat you
were scared to death. You have been
telling the girls they couldn't spare a
nickel for car ride and that one year
from today we would all be begging
So ] sold it while the selling was good
Whereupon the brother looked at her
sadly:
You have thrown away billions.
That stock would double in price in a
year"
All of which proves the old saying
that if you holler long enough you will
believe what you're hollering.
Meyer London. socialist member of the
House from New York city. made a rat
Ting good speech one day last week,
giving very interesting theory as 10
why the. war is breaking down. In the
course of his speech he made the re-
mark that newspaper men are intensely
ignorant
About one hour later there were loud
q
Evening star., 1917-09-16
SHOOTING STARS.
RY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Caution.

Your speeches are not very interest
ing"
ut may be mistake to make a speech
too interesting" replied Senator Sor.
ehum. "It's better to say things in a
dull way so that they won't be remem.
bered in case you want to change your
mind"
Evening star., 1917-09-16
Climatically Speaking.

Warm wave an cold wave-prctty much
the same;
Amt no way o tellin' how to play the
weather game.
Shirt sleeves SO tlimsy, or overcoat SO
thick
No matter what you're wearin', YOU are
pretty sure to kick
Cold wave or warm wave-the difference
is small;
The wind 1t starts a blizzard, or you get
no breeze at all.
Thermometers will fret you when they
drop or when they climb.
If you stand around an watch 'em you
will simply waste your time.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
Thrift.

care you going to save your straw hat
till next SUMMER
81 thought about it; but feed is so ex-
pensive l thought it more economical to
give it to the goat for his dinner
Evening star., 1917-09-16

By his resignation. Dudley F. Malone
does service to the cause of woman suf.
frage by preventing it from being tenn
porarlly forgotten in the presence of in
ternational discussions of overwhelming
interest.
Evening star., 1917-09-16

Firms in Morocco are advertising for
pianos and other musical Instruments
There are still corners of the earth
where war has not conquered the de-
mand for the diversions of refined lux
urv
Evening star., 1917-09-16

BY this time the German empire ought
TO have the foundation for a popular
series of pacifst demonstrations that
Will be beyond the suspicion of ulterior
motive.
Evening star., 1917-09-16

Nicholas Romanoff is entitled to sus-
pect, in the face of climatic conditions,
that by going to Siberia he escaped a
particularly hard winter
Evening star., 1917-09-16

kornilof will be remembered in Rus
sian history as the gentleman who tried
to throw the monkey wrench into the
of government.
Evening star., 1917-09-16

The problem of heating small sub
marine entirely surrounded by ice water
may not be without its seriousness in
the estimation of the crew.
Evening star., 1917-09-16

Won Bernstorff has at last found a
place where the surrounding public SEN
timent is admittedly in agreement with
his professional opinions
Evening star., 1917-09-16

shudder at the orders he has received
from time to time.
Evening star., 1917-09-16

The physician who reported Kerensky
an invalid was probably graduate of
Berlin medical school
Evening star., 1917-09-16

The calm confidence with which Count
Luxburg advised murder by submarine
marks him as one of those not born TO
be drowned.
Evening star., 1917-09-16
Change of Date.

Now mortals troubled with a thirst
Which makes their feet unwarv
viii swear off on November lst.
Instead of January.
Evening star., 1917-09-16

The largest question Korniloff has
succeeded in raising relates to proper
form of punishment for his activities
Evening star., 1917-09-16

"A good natured man. said Uncle
Eben, "ain' entitled to much credit if
he's good natured only jes' because he
kin take life easy an not care wha.
happens"
Evening star., 1917-09-16
Hoarding.
Is Bliggils a miser2"

as Bliggins a miser?'
II shouldn't say that. He's perfectly
liberal with money. But he's terribly
stingy with a bucket of coal"
Evening star., 1917-09-16
Early Frosts
and Corn.

NAV come ten days earlier than usual
and prevent the corn from ripening.
Every fall millions of people are hop
ing that the first fall freeze will be
DELAYED ten days longer This anxiety
and this oft-recurring loss due to fall
frosts can be largely prevented by ear
lier planting.
Concerning the ability of corn to
Withstand low temperatures. some work
conducted during the past three years
nv the office of corn Investigations of
the Department of Agriculture in south
ern, central and northern states has
brought out points of practical value.
Points which can now be proftably
applied in the northern third of the
United States are:
First. Seed corn that natures prop
erly and is thoroughly dried as soon
as mature and kept dry will give a
strong germination. Second Seed corn
of strong termination can be planted
several weeks earlier than ordinary
seed. Ordinary seed will rot where
proper seed will not valuable points