Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1923, Page 30

| the office in his home at the south- east corner of 13th and F. Lund Wash- ington, In 1796, moved it to East Capi- tol and 1st streets.. In 1799 Thomas Munroe moved the office back to its first home on F street, and later opened it in a bullding at the north- ‘west ‘corner of 9th and E. Some time before 1836 the office was opened in the bullding between 8th 4 gt e gl > lana, | 8O » which was de- Buropens U 16 Regent B Lamdon,Bagiant stroyed by fire on the night of Decem- adiion CLaag Siar. with, the Sundss Sechies | ber 16, 1836, and the city post office at 60 ceats r-unku .-ly.ueuur ‘was opened in “Mr. Seaver's brick R—tht 5""“’.,_ e T o "ielepbons Mala | house” on the west side of 7th street, a 8000. Collection is made by 7t the | few doors morth of D. Then it was moved to Masonic Hall at the corner THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Editien. . WASB!RST;I. D. C. SUNDAY........October 28, 1983 THEODORE ‘W, NOYES. ... Editor SRR RN The Evening Star Newspaper Company Buaioess Office, 11th St. and Pe #3d of each month. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. |of 41, street and Louisiana avenue. Maryland and Virginis. Postmaster James S, Gunnell, ap- g}{; ;:'liys day. e ‘:-“ o pointed by President Van Buren, Sunday oni mo., 20c | moved the office to the building at 15th and New York avenue which had been All Other States. the branch bank of the United States, Efl}fi ;r:gysnndhy:} fis) $19.00: 1m0 8¢l and was later occupled by Corcoran Sunday only. Ay - mo., 26c {and Riggs. From there Postmaster ey William Jones moved the office to 12th Mem| N The A.::.:'d'mmmnm‘“ and the Avenue, which became the Phrthes eaitea 't 1 oc i ofserivee cecaiied | 2100 OF the Kirkwood House and now b inis baper”and .,:;M...“,.,:;h fewe pub, is covered by the Ralelgh. Postmaster ished herel rights ©f | Jones later moved the office to Carusi's 1 dl hes hereln o b oo L bullding at the corner of C and 11th streets. That was in 1841, In 1843 the The Car-Token Rate. office was in two brick buildings on "The order of the Public Utilties Com- | 7¢p, street between E and F “just mission that the street railway com-|north of the general post office,” and vanies place car tokens on sale at the|in 1857 it was removed to the first barns at the rate of three for 20 cents | goor on the F street front of that may be viewed and appreciated as | pujiding, which we came to call “the disposition to apply the standard fare | 013 Post Offce building” and later vate of 6 2-3 cents as far as possible. It | une general land office. does not, of course, meet fully the re- . Guirement for smailer lot transactions, for comparatively few people will buy Home Brew Ingredients. _ the small lots at the barns, since pur- One of the moves which the prohibi- chase there would involve inconven- | tion commissioner plans to-make is & {once. “drive” against certain producers of The plea of the companies remains | home brew ingredients. It is said that that the half-portién sales would slow | 9ome breweries are making large sales up car movements by imposing more | Of beer ingredients, mixed and ready transactions upon the conductors. This | for fermentation in the home. It is point has been denied. It is urged that | 2gainst these breweries that the pro- there is no gain in time of car opera- | hibition commissioner may take a tion through the sale of the full por- | tion. He belicves that it will not be tion of six for 40 cents. As between | necessary to take this matter to the the sale of three tokens for 20 cents {COUrts, as breweries operate under per- and the collection of a cash fare of 8 | mits issued at the pleasure of the gov- cents, it is surely to the interest of | ernment. The commissioner is report- the companies, intent tpon speed, to [§d as saying that “a Milwaukee con- promote the former. cern has been putting cut more than The 62-3 cent rate of fare, which is | half & million dollars’ worth of malt the present token rate of & for 40 cents, { SYrup annually.” There has been & §s the legal standard fare in the District. | conference between the prohibition ‘The differential of 113 cents for cash | commissioner and others, and the an- faves may be regarded as a penalty. | nouncement has been made that “all That penalty should not be collected | breweries will be notified to cease the from any person who iishes to pay | manufacture of such syrups, and fail- the token rate, whatever the number fure to do so will result in prompt he buys. revocation of their permits to manu- Some of the cars in this city bear | facture cereal beverages. placards asking passengers to buy| It is said that so extensive has be. tokens at the rate of fifteen for $} as | come the traffic in malt and other beer @ means of promoting facility of car | ingredients that in many cities retail operation. Many peopie do this for | stores have been opened which deal in their own convenience. If the token | nothing else. It is also said that sov- rate is not applied to the small-portion | €ral stores of this kind are in Wash- purchase surely the purchaser of large | ington, and that the sale of these portions, he who buys a dollar's worth, | ready-mixed ingredients is not a viola- should get more than fifteen tokens | tion of law. Raids were made on some for his money. If that were done there | Of these stores some time ago and would be some justification for refus- | their stock was carried to a govern- ing to sell the smaller portions at the | ment warehouse, but later returned established rate. because there was no provision of law . under which prosecution could be 3 brought. 1 Southern Land Reclamation. e e e Wik i e In the holding of the forestry, vecla~ |\ on e ured and sold by brewerles, mation and hom@fnakmz conference | o ynoce plants manufacturing “near at New Orleans Novempber.19 10 22,0 ang other cereal beverages under which will be attended bY oVernors | o.w nment permit, the prohibition offi of several states, Secretary Wallace | ,1q peijeve that the source of the trou- and a number of senators and repre- {1 ooy reached. When these prepa- sentatives in Congress, together with { oo "0 o0 and sold by other noted men from many sections, public ;. n erng there seems to be a difference attention will be drawn to a subject| .o ,5inion s to whether they can be which is worthy of consieration. The | s "o bronmition enforeement south has exteusive areas of cut-over, | (i " 1na the prohibition forces swamp and overflowed lands which | ooia” wop home brewing at its can be reclaimed and made Into farms, | (oo and it may be that they wil providing homes and communities for | v\ " oonoree to remedy What they S8 s boruiaon. believe o be a defect or oversight in Reclamation has for twenty-one | fo o years been almost wholly confined to . the west, and federal assistance ap- proximating $140,000,000 has been be- Parts of Speech. stowed upon that region, to the prac.| The fact that children in the Dis-| tical exclusion of the rest of the coun- | trict schools showed high percentages | try. It is claimed by the sponsors of | of Incorrect usage of irregular verbs | the pending movement that these |is no serious reflection on the uchool!! 1 1 southern lands can be reclaimed for | or the children. Customs of speech in about oné-fourth the cost of reclaim- | the home will outwelgh the grammati- ing arid and semiarid lands of the{cal influence of the ablest and most west. patient teachers. Elegances of lan- The ‘'movement js said to contem- | guage are not, at the present time, as piate the creation of small, self-sup-|highly esteemed as in days when the porting farms for people who will live | mechanical esclences were less de- on them; to provide rural homes as a | veloped. The lad who persists in say- means of living and: to produce not{ing “I seen it” or “I done it” may nierely money but men and womed 'nevertheless be the admiration of the for the strength of the nation. The ob- | household as the only one who knows ject is worthy, and should find support | how to persuade a refractory flivver. in the quarters to which the appeal { Books are valuable and important as may be addressed. ever, but the serious intellectual 0 e energy of the world has been gssert- French economists can contemplate | ing itself largely along mathematical social disintegration with perfect | and mechanical lines. Ideas are recog- equanimity so long as it keeps on its| nized @s essential. Phraseologies are own side of the River Rhine. The fact | efter-considerations. should not be lost sight of that an- —ttet———— archy, in its very nature, is no re-| Inaddition to the many other house- specter of political boundery lines. hold pets bestowed on President Cool- J e idge, the old republican elephant has \An early presidential boom at least | been led up to his front door and se- Zives a man prominence such as to|curely tied. make hie word more or less important mmepm A i p—— in connection with the selection of an| It is often asserted that no man is actual candidate. essential; yet it must be admitted in e —— Europe that the passing of Bismarck Post Office Recollections. made a great difference. e fesisustis e S, h:l:?f;.:::mrtfie;um.;:z”m While full reparation is demanded sixstory bullding of the Ceftral Union | TR Germany, b m::‘ oty ission at 622 Loulsiana avenue is 3¢ her ValliEhg being rapidly demolished. preparatory | 7 P¢* SR 16 buliding a seven-story fireproof structure for the mission and the Mary New Fire Apparatus. Farr Perry Memorial -Emergency | The District fire department is to be Home for Children. The old bullding | strengthened by the immediate pur- has been used as a hotel, city post of- | chase of four triple-combination pump- fice and United States pension office at | ing engines, one chemical wagon, one different times.” Middle-aged Washing- | service truck and one aerial hook and tonians remember when that bullding | ladder. The need for this apparatus ‘was the Seaton House, and when the | has been' serioualy felt, and the Dis- city post office was there. The post | trict is to be congratulated on finding office was housed there from 1879 to!the money with which to buy it. The 1892. Our city postmasters during that | low state into which the apparatus of period were James B. Edmunds, 1869- | the local fire department has fallen 1880; Daniel B. Ainger, 1880-1882;| has been pointed to many times dur- ‘Thomas L. Tullock, 1882-1883; Frank | ing the past year or two, and although B. Conger, 1883-1888; John W. Ross, | the equipment soon to be added will 1888-1890, and Henry Sherwood, 1890- | not bring the department up to date, 1894. nor in line with the calls made on In 1892 the post office was moved to | it, some deficiencies will be supplied. the Union bullding on the north side | Stress is often laid on the fact that of G between 6th and 7th, where it re- | the department has been “‘motorized,” mained until 1898, when it was re- | but that does not signify as much as hoved to the Post Office Department | many persons think. Motors grow old, buliding opposite The Star office. and improved models of motor fire en- ‘Washington eity's post office has|gines come on the market. A large ‘been in many places. When Themas | part, of the District's motor apparatus Johnson. became postmaster in 1785 |in the department belongs not to hie opened the office in a house on the | the ‘period of 1923.. A number of the north side of F' between 13th and 14th. | steamers of’ a bygone time are still ‘When' Christophér. Richmond succeed- | with ue.- The horses that drew them ed him a few months later he opened]were retired and gasoline tractors were hiiched to the éngines. These tractor-steamers are: familiar johjects in the streets, and they are siow and feeble compared with that typs of en- Bine whose motor propels the car and ‘works the pump. All tractor engines and other motet apparatus are in daily service, and there is.no motor apparatus in reserve to replace break- downs. When & tractor-drawn or other motor engins falls-out of commission a team of old fire hqrses must be re- called from their retirement. The fire department Is doing thé best that can be done with the means at hand, but much mohey must be spent before it can meet the requirementa of growirig ‘Washington. ——— et Radio Listeners-In. ‘Washington's high-power radio broadcasting stations have asked the owners of receiving sets to send postal cards to the commissioner of naviga- tion giving an average of the number of persons who listen in. Other in- formation will also be sought. The bews is that a count of radio-receiving sets in Washington and the number of lsteners-in is being undertaken by the Department of Commerce. If the cen- sus-taking plan works well in Wash- ington it is probable that an effort will be made to make a national count of receiving sets and listenersin. It would be interesting to get some fig- ures indicating the number of persons who listen to songs, sermons, speeches and reports that pass through the air. Certainly the number is large. The growth of the radio habit in the Dis- trict and nearby Maryland and Vir- ginia has been strong and rapid and the number of men, women and chil- dren in this section who sit about the radio. instruments in the homes and take their evening entertainment out of the air must be considerable. ————— Holiday Cards. Though the Christmas season is sev- eral weeks if the future, the Post Office Department is making plans for prompt and otherwise efficient han- dling of mails, which are much heavier at that time than at any other. Christ- mas and New Year are always times of stress with the postal people and we shall soon be recelving admonition to “mail early.” one means of helping the mail service the Post Office Department is inveighing against odd-size greeting cards and envelopes and is seeking to secure co-operation of manufac- turers, dealers and the public. Spokes- men for the department say that the use of freak envelopes and cards ham- | pers mail delivery, as most of them have to be canceled by hand, “it being necessary to remove them from the stream of ordinary sized letters flow- ing through an automatic canceling machine.” There are other objections to cards of unusual size end form. There is no sense in sending cards that are exceedingly small or ex- traordinarily large, or cards that are round, triangular or five-cornered. The rectangular card of normal size can ocarry one's sentiments handsomely. —_—— e In endeavoring to avert a 'mext war,” caution on the part of world statesmen may be necessary to avoid saying something that may start an- other fight. ————— ‘While Lioyd George comes as & pri- vate citizen, American impression is inclined to assign to him the highly responsible role of ‘“unofficial ob- server.” —_—— The fact that its inventor is & pro- hibitionist does not prevent the “fliv- ver” from being utilized by the boot- legger as a favorite means of distribu- tion. ——— Chinese rioters cannot be said to discriminate deliberately against for- eigners. They treat strangers pretty much as they treat one another. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Tree. An oak for centuries had stood A thing of strength and pride; To seek its shelter cool and good Men came from far and wide. For centuries it slowly grew Through days of storm and sun, Nature was patient, for she knew Her work would be well done. Alas, how great is human pow'r! To set his hearth aglow A woodman came; within the hour His ax had laid it low. How great is human pow'r, alas, Increasing more and more, To bid the splendor swiftly pass ‘Which man can ne'er restore! Getting Them Trained. “Are you always able to keep your political promises?” y “Not always,” admitted Senator Sorghum. “But my constituents are not as exacting in such matters as they used to be. They are coming to regard a political promise chiefly as an indication of whether a man's heart is in the right place.” Jud Tunkins says the merit of at- tending strictly to your business de- pends somewhat on the kind of busi- ness you're running. The Nickel. Oh, five-cent ickel, in the future far, | H Perhape once move youw'll flourish in your pride; And serve to buy a falrly good cigar, A quart of peanuts and a street car ride. Home on Wheels. *You spend most of your time tour- ing?” “Yes," replied Mrs. Chuggins, a lit- tle wearily; T bave about decided to take the ‘Home, Sweet Home’ motto oft the parlor wall and hang it in the filvver.” 3 Procrastination. “Procrastination is a dangerous fail- ing. t is,” answered Cactus Joe. “I re- member several of the old-timers that met with serious disappointment by not shootin’ quick enough.” - “Don't act haughty,” sald Uncle Eben. “If nature hsid meant you to look down on de rest o>de world you'd have been built like a giraffe.” l i e Conflicts of Peace Are Cited As Worse Than Those of War|' BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL, Former Viee h:::.l( of the United es. . We have grown go accustomed to the belief that war means loss of life other fellow, and led to the careful concealment of each player's hand. 1 may be using a very imperfect ll- lustration to express what I have in mind, because my knowledge of peker /Capital Sidelights .4 BY WILL P, KESNEDY. How he secured an overwhelming majority in a mining ¢amp in Mec- Dowell “county, W. Va. where the population was 90 per cent colored, and where the democrats usually had a hard time finding enough demo- cratic voters to serve as election and destruction of property that weis limited, but I am told the biggest | Officers, is told by Representative T. may have lost our perspective as to.| the ‘real condition of the world. I know of no way definitely to deter- mine where the ultimate horror of the late war is to be found. Of course, it was an awful shock to receive from officlal sources notice that a husband; a brother or a son had “gome west” But there was a cer- taln finality about this which, in the end, was' quite lkely to bring a measure of reconclliiation, As the days went by and the cause in which the loved one perished trf umphed,. there probably came the consoling thoughts that the sacrifice Wwas not in vain, that the one gone Calmly and deliberately men was part of the glorious record, and |over the cards they have that he was safe. But what may be said touching thosd who were wound- ed in body or mind? How contem- plate the slow revolving years of agony and sufferlng—by the world forgot! "Is the real agony of war, therefors, physicial: or mental? I am much inclined to belleve that it is mental; and this brings me to the conclusidn that whatever Sometimes, of course, it is only indi- vidual stziving to get the advantage of other individual conduct, but every now and then it is organized conflict, where great masses of men are en- gaged in intellectua] war and Inflict injuries which may be permanent, if not fatal. Whether it shows itself in conflict with gun and and airplane or in perso for supremacy In socal life of mankind, war Is the product of the intellect rather than the brute force of men. * ok ok X There is an Inherent discourage- ment In the pursuit of knowledge. The more we strive to know and the more we seem to accummulate of knowledge the less certain we be- come in our judgment. The best that any man at times can do is to make & conscientious guess, hoping that he ght, conceding that he may I am about to make a guess to_the effect that the Injuries inflicted in actual warfare in their sum total are not equal to the Injuries which are inflicted In the everyday affairs of life. Whether Inspired by ehvy or ambition, actual warfare ulti- mately -is brought about either through actual falsehoods In diplo- matic_relations or part-truths.. 8o in the warfare of peace a ma- jority of the casualties are the direct result efther of bald lying or partial concealment 1 often have wondered who conceived the idea that cunning wae essential to success. My Presby- terian ancestors would have asserted that cunning was a gIft of the evil one. I like to think myself orthodox, but I am inclining toward the view that cunning _ is rather than ofiginal sin. event, some one concelved the ldea that the way to succeed in life was to drive a sharp bargain. and then some one developed the idea by con- celving that the way in which to drive a_sharp bargain was to conceal part of the truth from the other fellow. Thus settlements of these warfares of peace took on the aspects of a game of cards, in which the prize goes to the man who can do the most bluing with the weakest hand. * X ¥ X Such a system as this inevitably produced doubt and suspicion of the New Lord Hotham Involved By Grim Family Tradition BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. That the new Lord Hotham, head of one of the oldest houses of England. should be merely a distant cousin of the late peer, who has just passed away at his ancestral home in York- shire, is quite in keeping with the traditions of the family. For since the crestion of the® barony. at the close of the eighteenth century, in favor of Admiral Sir William Hotham, in recognition of his victories as com- mander-in-chief of the British forces in the Mediterranean, it has never once passed from father to son. ?he six holders of the peerage have, with- out exception, been succeeded by a brother, & grandson, a nephew or a cousin, and the new Lord Hotham, who is an officer of the Grenadier Guards, in his twenty-fifth year, and a bachelor, has now,:as the heir pre- sumptive to his title, his younger Peter, who 13 nineteen years :;l’:::f One can understand a certain Teluctance on the part of Lord Hot- ham to wed. For he naturally fears that in the event of his becoming the father of a boy the latter will be doomed to dle prematurely, in keep- ing with the strange fate which seems to have prevented zny peer of the line from being succeeded by his son. Lord Hotham has lkewise a baro- netcy, one of the earliest created, and bestowed by King James 1 upon Sir John Hotham, who. after marrying ho less than six times, came to an unhappy end. As governor of Hull he may be said to have set the match to the civil war by refusing to admit King Charles I to the town. But sub- sequently he deserted the parliamen< tary cause, won over, it ls said, by the fascinations of Queen Henrietta Marfa, and, when he ended by turn- ing his loaded gun upon Oliver Crom- well himself, the latter considered that Sir John's defection from the principles of the commonwealth was established and sent him to the scatf- fold on Tower Hill, on the same day as his eldest son, in 1644. * ok * % But the Hothams were prominent in English life for hundreds of years before the days of Oliver Cromwell and of King Charles. For they have been settled in Yorkshire ever since Sir John de Trehouse received the lordship of Hotham, in that county, from Willlam the Conqueror for his signal services at the battle of Hast- |ings. Venturesome and daring, the othams have written their names in the annals of their country whenever turbulence marked 1ts history, They fought under the first three 'wards in France and In Scotland. They crossed_the lglll with Henry IV and Henry V. playing their part valiantly at the battles of Crecy and Agin- court. joined their fortunes to the Lancastrian cause in the wars of the roses, fought under Northumber- land in the battle Of the spurs and under Surrey in the battle of Flodden fleld. It was a Hotham who played an important role in assistini - llam of Orange to the throne of Eng- | Qi 1 after the flight to France af l:ln:r James I, and Admiral Sir Wik- liam of Hotham, the first of them 'lg be raised to the peerage, won ti respect and admiration of both Hood and of Nelson and played no mean part In_their naval victories. i The Hothams in modern times m: be sald to live up to the traditions ot the family. For one of the half dosen nayal officers of the British empire, holding the rank of admiral of tha fleet, which quivalent to the grada of field marshal in the army, is Si Charles Frederick Hotham, who h: worn the grand cross of the Order the Bath for a quarter of & century, and who was held in &-rthulu high favor of Queen Victoria I deed, when he Wwas commi Peirt - chief at Portsmouth &nd governor: that great maval stronghold' the bluffer is the best player. At any rate, the game‘has this to recommend it~—the players whe are bluffed out of thelr money take their losses like sportsmen and cherish no enmity nor il will toward the one who out- bluffed them. Unfortunately, - how- ever, the world's affairs cannot be conducted by poker rules. In order to lose money at poker a mah must have it to lose it, but in playing the game of life a man may lose not only the money he has but the money he must earn in the future: a loser mort- ges his property and his services or the days to come. Too many contracts of the world re being made and too muech of its work is being done upon a, bluff. look in their hands in the hope that they can reach the conclusion that they can make the other fellow.throw up his hand and permit them to rake in the profits. They conceal from the other fellow all they know. They are true dis- ciples of leyrand. They believe that language was invent for the purpose of concealing ide: ey would resent even the suggestion that in which all things are lawful. ey may not lie; mayhap they tell the truth: but they deem _themselves justified In not telling the whole truth. In all other relations except the particular one in which they are playing the game they would tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. They pride themselves on their honor and posges keen ldeas of Jjustice. * % x % Where have we gotten this idea that business is a game and not a lfe work? Tt is producing envy, hatred, malice, i1l Wil In all the relations of life a state of soclety which 1s far worse than that of the master and servant Is developing. {Much as that old relationship of master and servant was to be deplor- ed, there were some good things about it, such as friendship and good will and mutual helpfuiness; vet it ‘was not, of course, what it ought to have been. When God made the kingdom of the world and the people therein He created a democracy, albeit one man had to rule for the good of 8o- |clety and another had to serve. Not- withstanding our boasted democracy, our clvilization is far from perfect. Strife is pbservable everywhere. Busi- ness xeems to be one form of intel- lectual warfare in which hundreds and thousands are being maimed in body or mind. Bitterness and prejudice |and hatred are growing, I sometimes !fear, rather than diminishing. | “Personally, I trace this never-erd- ing warfare to the tendency to con- sider business a game. I do not wonder, in the light of the past, that men are unwilling to submit .thelr differences to presumably diinter- eated judges, but I feel there are yet enough honest men who would hon- estly say, in view of all the facts, what ought to be done—men who do not sit in_any of the games. I am still hopeful that they will bring | about an armistice, if not a treaty Dfl peace. I repeat that business men are Inot dishonest. They are merely! obsessed with the idea that business Is a game in which the ethics of | gambling, rather than the moral code. are to be employed. Advisory arbi- tration will some day terminate this present warfare, which s condemning many persons to lifelong suffering. (Copyright, 1f by Twenty-first Century Press.) demanding his | queen was constantl; er seaside home Dreserics at Oaborne, b on the Isle of Wight. Then there was Sir Charles Hotham, sixth baronet of his line. who was dispatched to Berlin in 1730 to carry througlt a. double matrimonial pro- posal. by which the kings of England and Prussia were to exchange their daughters in marriage with their eldest sons. the tact of Sir Charles, the devotion of the young- ster who was destined to figure in history as Frederick the Great for his cousin, Princess Amelia of En, land, and the contemptuous patlence of George II with the semi-maniac king. Frederick William 1 of Prussia, could not bring off this arrangement. Carlyle's description of the affair is in the nature of a classic, and one cannot refrain from the belief that he must_have had access to the official dispatches and private correspondence of Sir Charles, especially in the de- scription of the Prussian queen's en- treaty to the British envoy to assist her in restoring some measure of sanity to the distracted and utterly impossible court of Berlin. * k k% 8ir Charles’ mission was finally brought to a close by a personal mes- sage which George II ordered him to leave with Frederick William, in pre- senting his letters of recall, to the ef- fect that “The King of England will trouble no further respecting any- | thing whatsoever that concerns the King of Prussia, or his family.” If this Sir Charles Hotham, the | sixth baronet, was high in the favor of George II, the Hothams of the reign of that monarch’s grandson, George 11I, were equally appreclated by that sovereign, especially the eighth baronet, one of flve brothers who, each of them, played an im- portant role in that era. The baronet himself was one of the principal and most trusted members of the house- hold of the king, holding the office of groom of the bedchamber. George III's_regard for Sir Charles was so great that he insisted upon appoint- ing Cel. (afterward Gen.) George Hotham to the extremely delicate charge of the education and control of the then Prince of Wales. Another of the brothers, Willlam, achieved fame as a great naval commander and was elevated to the peerage as the -first Lord Hotham. Still another brother, who became the ninth baro- net, was elevated to the Episcopal bench as Bishop of Clogher, while Beaumont, who succeeded his brother, as second Lord Hotham, was for thirty years a baron of the court of the exchequer, and on his re- tirement from office received the king’s final tribute, “I have known many Hothams, and I have never known one of them who was not a man of honor.” Of Sir Charles Hotham, the old ad- miral of the fleet, now In his eight- feth year, it may be said that no man has ever been prouder of his profes- sion than this typical sea dog, and great-grandnephew of the first Lo Hotham, the companion in arms of Nelson, and his intimste friend until they quarreled violently on the sub< ject of the execution of the Italian patriot Caraccloll, by orders of Nel- son, at the instance of King Ferdi- nand, and especially of the dissolute ueen Caroline and her equally licen- friend, Emma Lady Hamilton. r Chatles it is related that, be- ing a_eincerely’ pious man, he ‘in- variably, when afloat, took off his mg!orm coat, with all its gold lacs when engaged in his private dev tions, in order that he might not feel himself too much on a footing of equality with the Almighty and might approach the throne of his Maker in a Dewmlnf state of humility and sub- mission. It may be of interest to add that the same story is now current ' tious of s8I - | about a popular and very gallant ad- miral of the United’ States Navy, the fascinating picturesqueness of whose language and resourcefulnéss ‘ap- proaching genius in the choice of his expletives would never convev to the general public the 1dea that he is at heart a deeply and sincerely religious man. J. Ldily, an incoming democrat from Hinton, W. Va. During the cam- palgn last fall, when he reached the camp the colored people were holding 2 revival meeting. When Lill tered the church the preacher in- vited him to make an address after the religious services. His account of what followed is: . ‘I asked them what subject they preferred for me to talk upon. They answered, ‘Anything.' As you know, the colored people are terribly afraid of the Ku Klux Klan, especially the colored people who emigrate from the south, so I made a speech of ten or fifteen minutes, putting in my time criticizing the Klan. To my surprise en the election returns came in I had carried that precinct.” * K ok % The new senator from Nebraska, Ralph B. Howell, recalls that when he was fourteen years old. his imag- inatton was fired by the idea of making money as a book salesman. “I, had heard of a young man who was putting himself through col- lege in this way,” Senator Howell ambition did not appeal strongly to my father, but at the close of the next school year, when I was fifteen years old, through the influence of my mother, he consented to making a trlal. I secured some territory, about twenty miles away, for the .sale of “Great Events of the Past Century,” by Attorney General Devons. It was an interesting vol- ume and I had its incidents at my tongue's end. YMy first attempt was upon a young miss about eighteen years of age., who was teaching at a country achool. She vidently impressed by my flowing descriptions and put down her name for one volume, to be delivered thirty days later. I remem- ber this success quite intoxicated me and’ T felt a very warm friendship for the young lady. Encouraged by the results of my first effort, I work- ed unceasingly for the next two or three weeks and sold some thirty books, and then returneéd home. Though I thought myself successful, 1 had no desire to make book selling & business, as it was not to my liking. Finally, the time came to deliver the books and I received two shocks in quigk succession. “First, the Young school teacher did not seem to remember me when 1 called, and, furthermore, she said she didn't have any money and couldn’t take the book; at least, 80 she sald. Of course, I expressed a sense of surprise and disappointment, but I reasoned that If she did not have the money, that was all there was to it. The rest of the day I called upon wix other subscribers, bulkcmly succeeded Iu delivering one 0k “That I was a defected boy that night goes without saying. Upon Eoing to bed I eessed restlessly, disturbed by a feeling of failure. But the next morning, as I awoke, I remember I came to the conclusion that I had just got to make these people take the books, so 1 promptly started off to call or the school teacher again, who received me with a stony stare. However, 1 was not 10 be repulsed. 1 stayed with her all morning until she dismissed school, and then walked with her to her boarding place, where the kindly farmer's wife Invited me to stay for dinner, and when the meal was over I got my money, which she had bor- rowed, and she sent me off with this parting shot: “You are the last book agent ever need bother me.” As 1 look back over my career, 1 feel that this apparently trifiing incident con- stitutes one of the most important events of my life. At least, I have never forgotten its lessons, and the effect was magical even at that time, for by some hook or crook I deliv- ered all but five of those bocks, and got the money.” * % % % While most everybody knows that Massachusetts furnished two FPresidents before these days of Cal- vin Coolidge—John Adams, who signed the Declaration of Independ- ence and proposed George Washing- ton for general of the American Army and whose last act In office was to appoint John Marshall first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Jokn Quincy Adams, who was elected President by the national House of Representa- tives, and who died- in the Caplitol bullding—it iz not as generally known that Massachusetts had other distinguished son who came within one vote of being President. ‘This was Abbott Lawrence, for whom the city of Lawrence, Mass, named and who founded the rence Sclentific School in Caml mf’ In the whig convention which named Zachary Taylor as candidate for President, the contesting candi- dates for the vice presidential nom- ination were Lawrence and Millard Fillmore of New York. Only one vote separated these candidates. Lawrence then withlrew, and after the election of Taylor and Fillmore, President Taylor died in office, being succeeded by Fillmore. Lawrence sefved for three years as United States minister to Great Britain, * % % x Here is another ¥free seed” story. This one is told by Representative Frank Murphy of Steubenviile, Ghio. He recelved . a letter of appreciation from & poor woman in a small min- ing town in his district. She said: “If this government did nothing but send out flower seeds in order that their beautiful growth might cover the ugly scars on the old globe, it has not been established in vain. Dishwashing not half so bad ff a few posies look up at you and smile.” This correspondent teils how she got a sermon out of a flower: “I was as blue as the darkest navy. I walked out In the yard feeling like nothing could make ‘me smile again. In my old, dirty cellar window, in- slde the gl 2 miniature morning glory had blossomed. It clean and freah and wholesome some carefully nurtured hothouse plant, and just as glad that it was alive, I thought if anything so pure and lovely could Jool happy and preach a sermon in that dirty win- dow, I should be ashamed of mysel: to lament. S0 you see you may be distributing flower sermons.” Many members of Congress who re- celved similar letters showing how the seeds are welcomed are prepar- ing_to renew their fight for “free seeds” in the next Congress. LR Secretary Wallace has authorized a warning to be issued to the people throughout the United States to pay no heed to forecasts regardifig next winter's weather. No credence should be given to newspaper predictions of weather conditions for long periods in the future, even though such fore- casts purport to come from the goy- efnment. A case In point 1 recent prediction in & Boston mne per to the effect that the “coming winter will be the coldest and snowiest win- ter in history” in New England. ‘The weather bureau of the United States Department of Agriculture ab- solutely disclaims any responsibility for such a statement. The bureau does not attempt to issue predictions even of a general character for weeks or months In advance. The ubject of forecasting for seasons or onsiderable periods ahead has long engaged the attention of meteorolog- fcal scientists, but thus far no laws of sequences have been discovered whereby long-range forecasts of a reliable character can be made. Reputable meteorologists through- out the world agree that the science has: not -advanced to the point 1t can be dene. 2] acquired. Anyway, The promoters of the dollar theater for New York city are discouraged and depressed. Theirs has beén the idea of bringing good drama and comedy and music within reach of the average man and woman at a price they could afford to pay. It was ad- mitted there are thousands, possibly millions, of persons unable to pro- duce $440 a seat for the better theat- rical productions. It was also admit- ted that a lot of persons paying 56 cents to zee a movie might be in- dficed to part with a dollar to see something in the legitimate. But interest in the dollar project has lagged. It has_lagged because the people of New York apparently have lost all respect for the once al- mighty dollar. A one-case note has come to be regarded in the metropolis as of little more real value than the million-mark German notes hawked about the streets at 5 and 10 cents apiece. The movies that charge $2.20 and the shows that charge $4.40 are crowded each night, while the dollar theater seems entirely lost in the shuffle. To make 'em think a thing is good in New York you have got to charge ‘em for it. £k % K That is why all records were broken at the opening performance of the Zlegfeld Follies. There was an extraordinary line in the announce- ‘ments of the opening. It said “there will be no increase in prices after the opening performance.” You real- ized partly what that meant when you asked the aforesaid prices. They were $22 a seat. This was not the price gouging of the speculators. It was the box office figure. But still there was ambiguity in that an- nouncement line. You wondered how there ever could be an fncrease over the $22 of the opening night. Then it was explained that Miss Billie Burke's husband meant that after charging $22 for the opening night there would be a return to normaloy —if $4.40 per can be termed nor- malcy. Heretofore there have been 311 prices charged for the opening per- formances of the big revues, because has been argued these perform- ances have about them the intimacy of a sort of glorified dress or undress rehearsal of the “glorification of the American girl”" But this year Mr. Z. argued with himself that if the people were foolish enough to pay $27.50 to see Mr. Dempsey and Mr. Firpo sock each other in_the jaw, and foolish enough to pay $22 to sec Zev run rings around Papyrus, why shouldn’t they pay $22 to see a hun- dred pretty girls in all stages of glorification? k¥ % Well, Ziegfeld was right. The New Yorkers fought each other to pay the $22. Why, therefore, should not the promoters of a $1 show be discour- aged? It is said that when the audience at the opening of the Follles was fil- ing out about 2:30 a.m. Eddle Cantor Heard and Seen ‘These are furnace daya. Now come again hours of wrestling with that very necessiry plece of household apparatus. Without the furnace or some sort of stove winter would be a time of terror. It was not for nothing that Dante made the lowest circle of his hell a place of bitter cold. The hottest summer days are more easily stood by most of us than the slightest bit of cold. Wherefore the such & prominent placa in the thoughts of thousands of city and town dwellers these early autumn days. From the old hand, running a furnace is commonplace, to the latest recruit in the fine art of keeping the house warm, all give a lot of thought and attention to the humble furnace. ‘We can get along without as much food and drink as most of us com- monly stow away, but without the turnace life in winter would be a miserable existence. If any one doubts this just walk into a govern- ment department on a cool fall day, just before the heating plant is put into operation. The chief clerk will tell you that scores of complaints have been made by the force about the lack of heat. e battle of the windows wages without ceasing. One faction believes the office {s warmer with all windows down. The other declares that plenty of fresh air is what is needed. In the average home there is a battle between the desire to be warm and to save money. Usually the lat- ter wins for several days, maybe sev- eral weeks. The family sits around and freeses until at last the head of the house throws caution to the winds and plenty of coal into the fur- nace. Then life becomes pleasurable again. Smiles break out. We are living at last. * * % Yet what a perverse thing a fur- nace can be to the novica! It is much like a dog. If youshow yourself afraid of the brute it will bark and maybe bite. So with the furnace. Go after it gingerly, it will run up to the danger point one hour and down to the extinguishing point the next. It ‘one is afraid to put coal on it goes out. If, scared of it going out, one shovels in coal the furnace works overtime, sending the thermometer to tremendous helghts. Once the machine is mastered, however, it behaves very nicely there- after. * * x Dogs have a great deal of sport at all seasons. But perhaps In autumn the canines outdo themselves in sheer enjoyment of living. Bulldogs, collies, terriers, all breeds and brands, cavort, run cut sun- dry capers through the fallen leaves. Maybe it is the rustling leaves that put zest into their existence. Pere baps was that fine bone recently ust let a dog l‘“ loose on a sidewalk covered with e aves. ‘Watch him Kick his way through! He does a tremendous amount of snuffing at the leaves, as he plows his ‘way down the street, giving an excel- hnt demonstration of how to enjoy ife. * ® % Radio is glving opportunity for any amount of pretense to knowledge on the part of those who hayve had & bit of experience with it. ‘They talk glibly of the fundamen- tals of the science as if they under- stood the mystery, when, as a matter of fact, nobody really can explaln it. They know how to make it work, and are able to explain in words why it works. Yet the words explain noth- ing, really, neither the how nor the why. More frank 1s a three-year-old child who had a pair of receilvers gum over her head and adjusted to er ears. She “got” the bedtime story, no question of that. But somehow it didn't seem to interest her much. She fidgeted. At last sbe removed the head set, glacad it carefully on the table, owed and said: “Excuse me, please; I have to leave ow. L The next day she listened to musiec. She heard it, but did not know where it was coming from. Talk of “ether” would not have helped at all. “Take me out to see the people who|h she are singing,” CHARLES E. d. TRACEW ELL. | furnace occupies to whom | was seen tugging and kicking at his orchestra chalr, iHey, what you doing?” yelled an paid 3§22 for this seat, young replied the comedian, “and by ds I'm going to take it home L Luncheon with Walter Camp at the Yale Club, New York, on a rainy day. Naturally you avoid the heavy table d’hote of the main dining room and make . for the specialty shop—the grill. “What will it be?” says the grand old man of foot ball. The only thing is, that word “old” doesn’t seem to fit Walter Camp. Bronzed and rugged, he sits there before you, the picture of virile manhood. He is bald, beyond a doubt, but it is not the baldness that “busts” right your face. You wonder why. The you realize there is no white pallo to the Walter Camp dome. It, t0o, i® bronzed and weather-beaten—the re: sult of many hatless days on_ golf links, bridle paths and foot ball fields. Bixty-five summers have passed over that very fine head, bat they have assed with padded tread and left ittle trace behind them. : “What will it be?" repeats Walter+ Camp, and still you hesitate. You Wwonder what the daddy of the daily dozen is going to take himself, and you don’t want to risk 2 frown of disapproval from this master of con- dition over some ill-chosen dish of your own fancy. The master's mind is soon made up and you sit back at attention to hear his order to the head waiter. You are certain you are on the verge of some great dietetic se- cret. “An oyster stew and some milk crackers—none of the salty kind" . That's all there was to it and you wonder why you couldn't have thought of an oyster stew yourself,. Others have done it, so why get’ stage fright with Walter Camp? ‘Dessert? Yes, bring me a jar of honey and some more milk crackers, toasted.” And that's all there was to that. No coffee, no tea; just a sort of milk and honey diet. Why not? Isn't it the fabled menu of the land that s fairer than this? : But here's a secret. Perhaps it shouldn’t be told. But one must frauk with one's public, 80 here goe: Walter Camp smoked cigarettes a through the meal—just plain, com- mon, round cigarettes; no gold tips or nuthin’. * k Kk ¥ Fred Licb, head of the New York chapter of the Base Ball Writers' As- soclation, says the world serles press* box never beeld such sartorlal glo- ries as he saw in thep ress stand at Belmont Park the day Zev put the bee on Papyrus. The raiment which® gave Fred such a kick adorned some of the sport writers from Great Bri ain. One of them had on a derby of pearl gray, with pearl spats and pearl gray gloves. | T’ told one of the visitors writes, under the pseudonym of ‘Hotspur,' sald Fred. “If that's so, I don't see any reason why his friend in pearl igray shouldn't be 'Hot Dog.' : Fifty Years Ago In The Star Speculation as to the cause of the panic which swept this country fifty years ago and as to” Boutwell on means to prevent re< . currence ran rife after the Panic. \no first convuision had subsided. “The Star of October 22, | 1873, says: ’ “Just as every old woman has s, | certain remedy—or thinks she has— | for toothache, rheumatism and other | human ailments, so every public maa tri Bray has his pet financtal theories which, g if adopted, will. In his opinion, brin abput the golden age. when everys: body will be able to buy cheap and sell dear, wages will be high and’ produce low and Black Fridays and financial panics and revulsions will be unknown. Lx-Secretary of the Treasury Boutwell is the latest states- man to give the public his views on this important subject, and as he has had experience in that direction his,. opinons are cn to more weight,, than are thogc of the would-be wise men, whose remedies would be worss than the disease. He delivered a lec fure 4n New York city last night on finance and panics, their causés and; cures. He said that one of the causes which contributed to our present financial condition was the excess of the volume of paper over the actu wants of the country; son was that the balance of trade, has been against this largely for . many years; that another fact to be. taken into account is the large spec- ulation in gold in Wall street, based on the actual demand of five millions a week for payment of dutles, He, maintained that it was not possibie:, to retain specle payments until the balance of trade is little or nothing: against us, and that he had no faith : In any scheme for redemption, but in ~ & generous comprehensive ~ publio: policy by which the industry of the ; country “shall be developed, its re-\ sources multiplied and its capacity to supply foreign countries without. articles of production increased, 0. that the demand ot gold to go abroad e met by a dem Ssliio and of gold to * The following in The Star of October 24, 1873, shows that in at least one re-* spect prices are lower than i Cable they were fifty years ago: ““The official figures of the: Bates. g0~ American Telegraph Company, which owns all the cables be. ., tween Europe and America, generally, | show that whenever the rates for mes-. sages were reduced there has been a marked increase mot only in the mum- ber of meesages but in the receipts. For the first three months when tho tariff was $120 for twenty words, the™ number of daily messages averaged 20.° nd the receipts 33,671 For thirtecn months after this, when the rates we: reduced just one-half. the dally mes- sages averaged 64 and the recelpts’ $4,209—or a decrease In rvate of 50 per . cent and an increase in the number of messages 120 per cent and the income 12 per cent. For the next nine months’; the rate was $25 for 156 words, the messages went up to 131 per day, 104 ¢ per cent and the income to $4,617, more than 9 per cent. 'In June, 1871, the tarift was reduced to $10 for 10 words and continued so for ten months, with an increase of 33 per cent in the num- ber of messages, with a slight falling | Off in receipts. ' On the first of May, . 1872, the rates were cut down to $1 a word and for @ year the results. were . atifying, an increase of messages., rom 438 to 646 per day and an in- crease in receipts from 39,114 1o $9.413. Owing to the breaking of the ! cables last spring the rates were in- creased to $1.50 per word, but on the ¥ first of June last were again re- % duced to '$1, the company finding it more profitable to take this action. The inference natoraily is that tele- raphs, raliroads, steamers and other cilities for ‘the public of a similar character are much more remuner- ative when moderate rates charged for the accommodation of the 2 people. Corporations often . wonder ¢ why .their enterprises fail to pay.l when the simple sceret is that their : rne':_'(or serving the public are too'l 3 'he present. cable rate. to England.} is 28 cents a word. ared .