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MONDAY. NOVEMBER IS. 1911
The Extra Session.
President-eleei Wilson' declaration
that he means-to call an extra ses
sion of Congress in April causes no
surprise. The Democratic part is
pledged to revise the tariff. But so
was the Republican party, and if tke
vaguely worded platform of the Pro
gressives means anything they also
were committed to ome sort of tariff
revision
No doubt that Mr Wilson and his
party leaders mean to attack this prob
lem in all earnestness and seriousness
Every inference that may be drawn
from his and their character and their
records leads to the conviction that the
inevitable task will be undertaken with
a deep solicitude for the best interests
of all concerned
The Democratic platform was de
cisive as fo immediate downward re
vision, but the following clause was
framed with o much caution that it
offended certain Democratic quarters:
"We recognize that our sstem of
tariff taxation i lntimatelv connected
with the business of the country, and
we favor the ultimate attainment
of the principles we advocate bj leg
islation that will not injure or destroj
legitimate industry"
In realitv this sounds more like the
declaration of Republican, made from
the day tha the Progressives in the
West began the tariff agitation The
difference to be expected from a Dem
ocratic interpretation of the pledge is
to be looked for in the character and
opinions of the men who will control
the revision
To make the sweeping assertion that
all Democrats arc free traders would
be going too far There are in that
partv Senators, Representative-, and
even entire Democratic communities
whKh are anv thing but free traders.
Besides, the part in control must pro
vide revenues from tariff duties
The spirit in which tne new Democ
rat will approach the tariff revision
is verv important, and will be watched
with great interest We have the President-elect's
repeated declarations tha
no interests will have anvthing to fear
from rash action, that the business of
the country is not to be disturbed, and
that even the unequal privileges will
not be removed bv anv drastic process
The protectionists should be glad to
hear Mr Wilson sav that "wc must
have the quietest temper in what we
are going to do"
Mr Underwood who will plav an
important part as leader of the House
in the next Congress, i a business
man and an outspoken conservative.
His agreements on the tariff are very
reasonable This was his latest state
ment "In mv judgment, to keep our
pledge to the consumers and disturb
business as little as possible, an imme
diate revision of the customs laws
should be made at an extra session of
CoMgrcss next spring"
The former rival of Mr Wilson for
Presidential honors, being a manufac
turer and leading emplover in Ala
bama has his finger on the pulse of
the people. He knew perfectly vvha'
he was talking about when he said
there "must be immediate action, for
the purpose of avoiding business dis
turbance When a man of his affairs
fears such an unrest there must be
good grotmd for the belief that there
will be such disturbances Hence, the
bmtt; hence, the extra session
Rriladelphaa and Commission Utile.
The commission form of government
for Philadelphia, which is to be urged
at the next session of the State Legis
lature, appears to be the boldest appli
cation of that new system of municipal
administration yet devised for that boss
ridden city, the third largest in the
countr Thus far the most populous
city to adopt the commission form is
New Orleans, but there it has not been
in vogue long enough to afford con
ducive evidence o'f its -permanent value
It mav be argued that, since more
than a hundred cities of the country
are under the commission plan, the
bens of induction should be broad
enough to satisfy the most skeptical.
But it must be remembered that nearly
all of these are comparatively small
municipalities and that the machinery
which might serve their needs perhaps
would be inadequate for a population
ami interests more than ten times as
peat as the most of them, for. inelud
iag her raetrcpoKtaa area, Philadelphia
has more than 2,000,000 people. Many
of' the smaller cities, in -fashioning their
governments after the greater ones
perhaps have indulged in more offices
and more people to ran them than was
necessary, and In such cases the re
action may have been a healthy one.
A great city -hardly can be conducted
upon an equally simplified basis as
small one, any more than the latter can
continue the methods of the town
which it has outgrown. In Pittsburg
and Boston it has been adopted in a
partial or modified form. But in Pitts.
burg there appears to be no abatement
of criticism and clamor as to municipal
abuses, while Hhe blessings that it may
have produced in Boston have vet to
be demonstrated, at least to those who
are not within close range of observa
tion Philadelphia's troubles are due much
less to the form of government than
to the men who have been responsible
for its operation, and there is where
the citizens have tneir salvation in their
own hands. They showed a realizing
sense of that fact when they chose Ru;
dolph Blankenburg to be their Major.
A succession of such administrations
as he is trying to give in time would
redeem the Quaker Citj, but of that
there can be no assurance, whether it
be governed bv commission or other
wise A commission ma have more
concentrated power, but with such men
as McNichols, the Vares. and the Rej
burns upon it or behind it. 'the planned
administration perhaps might be worse
than anv of its predecessors
Airships in the Balkan War.
Aeroplanes appear to have been serv
iceable to the Balkan allies in their
operations Particular! have they
lived up to what was expected in
scouting Success in survewng the
enemv's lines accounts Iargel for The
accuracy of the Bulgarian artillerv fire
and not the 'better French artillerv "
With Turke defective in a now im
portant department or militarv tactics,
the allies enjoed a big advantage
through their corps of aerial scouts
The lives sacrificed in developing the
aeroplane amount to hundreds Yet
that loss of life is trivial when com
pared with the number in battle that
can be picked out for slaughter liv
enemies alott or when compared with
an armv equipped with fixing machine
and operating against the unenlightened
foe Thus, more than ever, war will
swallow human life Easier rcconnois-
sance will bring armies together in the
decisive crash in a few das, where
once weeks or months were used for
desultory skirmishing
Putting more "hell" 1110 w ir will
tend to keep the war dogs 111 leash
When nations let them slip the shock
will be more quickl met and the de
cision hastened The long-drawn-out
war is a thing of the past
That Conspiracy of Silence.
The Board of Education of New
ork Cit has decided to follow the
example of Chicago and other cities
which were violating the conspirac
of silence" in the interest of future
cencrations Xftcr consideration of
wavs and means it determined to grant
the request of the Public Education
Association and permit lecturers of
that organization to discuss sex h-
giene before audiences of parents, tin
der the supervision of the bureau of
lectures, which lectures, however must
be confined stneth to parents
It is difficult to follow the board s
logic The lecturers cannot be im
moral, or the parent', as well as th
teachers, should be protected The lec
tures no doubt supplv valuable in
formation, or else thev should not be
delivered even to parents If, for in
stance, the morals of the teachers are
not endangered, and the desire infor
mation on the subject, whv should the
be prevented from obtaining it'
School-teachers, if anvbodv parents
not excepted, should have knowledge
of this subject, to be in a position to
instruct and advise the vounger gen
eration, which depends greatl 011 their
guidance The should be encouraged
to attend these lectures, rather than be
prevented doing so
Germany's Food Problem.
The population of the German Em
pire numbers about 65,000000. and most
of these live in cities, occupied in in
dustrial and commercial enterprises;
but in spite of this, ft is the large land
owners who decide the politics of the
empire, impose the taxes, and deter
mine the duties levied on all imports.
As a result, in Germany duties are paid
on meat and all kinds of food stuffs
The duty, in many eases, is so high
that it is practicall prohibitive, which
means that the state derives no income
from it.
The regime of the great land owners
has found a remedy against this, too;
to raise the necessarv revenue for the
state a number of heavj taxes have
been laid upon the shoulders of the
people, which, in the main, hit onl the
large population of the cities, while the
rural population goes free The Ger
man Chancellor recently has held sev
eral conferences to discuss measures to
end the rise in the price of meat, but
few expect any permanent results
The shorter ballot Is gaining In fa
vor, but more cltlxens with longer
memories Is what Is really needed
It seems like a base libel to say that
there are "only a few perfect girls."
Wsshingtonlan never would have
said so.
The Becker Jury has cost New York
almost J3.W. but. it wsa worth the expense.
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
ALL DEFKYDS.
When the boja annoy your neighbor;
Smash hta window panes, forsooth.
You exDlaln. with kindly labor,
The exuberance bf youth .
But In caae your panes they shatter
In some playful little same.
It is not a smiling matter.
But an outrage and a shame
tfilcle rymyTvlse Sil
I guess the election turmoil la over
I se neighbors smiling and greeting
one another again.
the Stranger.
A stranger knocked at a man's door
and told him of a fortune to be made.
Urn." said the man "It appears that
considerable effort will be Involved."
"Oh. jes" said the stranger, "you
will pass many sleepless nights and toil
some daj a."
"I'm," said the man. "and who are
jou"
"X am called Opportunity "
"I'm" said the man. "sou call jour
self Opportunity, but sou look like Hard
Work to me."
And he slammed the door.
'November IS In lllatur).
November 18, 1735 David Garrlck goes
Into musical corned).
November 18, 1621 A Pilgrim mother
Invents cranberr) sauce
Exceptional " alues.
'Still taking Ice. I see"
"Yes, we don t need It, but the Ice
man offers such enormous bargains that
my wife hates to quit"
Income and Outgo.
Tlie poet gets It in the neck.
His bank account Is nil
Kor every letter with a check
A dozen have a bill
Lots of Leeway.
W h are you trying for a Job in the
Cabinet lou know very well that you
have no possible chance.
It doesn t hurt to aim high and leave
plenty of room for discounts All
pect Is a SI ."00 clerkship '
Poetry and Business.
That fellow whi
was talking
nicelv about love in
a poet
cottage must be
o he a a real estate dealer. He s
tr)Ing to persuade me to get married
d buv a semi-detached cottage on
: Installment plan "
Sidewalk, that.
Some of these millionaires teem to
hunt for wa)s of spending mone)
'That 8 right. It s a wonder one of
em hasn't put up a gold-plated mansion
with pearly gates.
BIG SHIPPING DISASTERS
Rrcors of Fifty ears.
Fearful Indeed has been the toll of the
ea during the last half centur). as will
be seen from the following list
1863 Mall steamer Anglo-Saxon wreck'
ed during a fog off Cape Race. New
foundiand. April T, 2T7 lives lost
1S64 II M 8 Racehorse off Cheefoo
Cape. Chinese coast "9 lives lost
18V I.ondon on her whv to Melbourne
foundered In the Bay of Rlsca) Decem
ber lives lost. .20
1567 Rhone and W)e Roal Mall steam
er" totall) lost with about fifty other
vessels being driven ashore b a dread
ful hurricane off St Thomas Virgin
Islands. West Indies, October S6 lives
lost, about 1 000
1570-U M S Captain, foundered near
PInlsterre. September T, 451 lives lost
1S72 Northtleet wrecked In collision off
nungeness Januar) H 500 lives lost
1ST3-Atlantlc White Star liner, struck
rock while steaming for Halifax. April
15. 5) lives lost
1874 Cospatrlck emigrant vessel on her
way to Auckland New Zealand took
lire. December . 470 lives lost
1575 Pacific, steamer from Victoria,
British Columbia, to California, founder
ed off Cape Flattery, November 4. 154
lives lost
1S78 H M S Eurydlce. foundered near
entour. Isle of Wight. March 14. 30)
lives lost Prince Alice, sunk In Thames,
near Woolwich. September 3 between
600 and 700 lives lost
187 Borussla a Dominion steamer,
prang a leak In Atlantic, December 1.
160 lives let
1SS1 Teuton "truck rock near Cape of
liooa nope vugust 30 about 300 lives
lost.
1S81 l-axham sunk In collision off Caps
PInlsterre, Julj a. ISO lives lost
1887 Benton, Singapore steamer, found
ered, April H. 1J lives lost
1SS0 Quetta struck on unknown rock
In Terres Strait, February 3. 133 lives
lost II M S Serpent, wrecked off coast
of Corunna. November 10. ITS lives lost
1S31 l topla sunk In collision with bat
tleship Anson In Baj of Gibraltar.
March. D60 lives lost
1892 Namchow. British steamer found
ered off China coast. January 14 50 lives
lost
1S9J II if S Ictoria wrecked in col
lision with Camperdown. off Syrian
coast, June 22. about 350 lives lost
1895 Elbe, sunk off Ionestoft, January
SO 334 lives lost.
1896 Drummond Castle wrecked off
I shant. June 16, 2S0 lives lost
lSSD-Stella, wrecked through striking
rock In fog off the Casquet", April 4
140 lives lost.
1105 Hilda, wrecked off St. Malo. No
vember 18. 128 lives lost
1M7 Berlin, wrecked at the mouth' of
the Mass Februari 21 128 lives lost
1910 Lima, wrecked off Huamblin
Island, February 15, M lives lost.
I'll Delhi, wrecked off Cape Spartel.
December 13. sir French bluejackets lost
their lives In work of rescue. The- Duke
of Fife, who was on board, died as the
result of shock
1912 Oceana, wrecked off Beachy Head
In a collision with the German bark
I'isague. March 16. 8 lives lost, three
quarters of a million of bullion sunk
Titanic, collided with iceberg, sunk off
Cape Race. April IS. 1,500 lives lost; the
greatest shipping disaster In the history
of the world.
PERTINENT AND IMPERTINENT.
From the Pittaburs Gazette-Times.
The Bulgarians captured Tchatalja,
name and all
Finn tha lliiladelphia Iteocrd.
Senator Warren Is confident that he
will retain Clark as his colleague. Let
W omlng Jubilate
rom Ihe Boston TransLnpt
Will T R klndlj Issue a Thanksgiving
proclamation for 0ster BayT
Frun fl St Luna rtecbUic.
That slxteen-Inch snowfall In Trance
ought to be a great thing for) the Call-
fornla vintage of 1913.
Fnu the Boston HeraW.
The road to Princeton will be a much
traveled thoroughfare during the next
three months.
From tha New York World,
Woodrow Wilson's idea of keeping
"open door" at the White House amuses
Washington, where they know more about
office-seekers than is dreamed of In New
Jcrse.
mm the lliiladelrfcU Recent,
In addition to all the other reat crops (parts, the elemental"), which corresponds
this fall. thtr It tha immense crop of-ito our elementary schools, and the nlld-Dcroocrats-
' die school, which corresponds to oV high
-saIU
'WSfflNi
n nUSSEM. jr. aiacLENNAlv.
It took one man, a business man In a
city not far from the capital, nearly a
week to And out something about Frank
H Hitchcock, the Postmaster General,
that many Washlngtonlans acquainted
with the Inner workings of the Post-office
Department already knew.
This man went day after day at 9 o'clock
In the morning to Mr. Hitchcock's office
and waited patiently to see thePostmas-
ter General He began to have set Ideas
about the Postmaster Genral and what
h- considered the aecesslty of making
Cabinet officers do more work, or at least
maintain some sort of regular office hours
On the night of the fifth day the man
dropped into the Post-office building He
did not know just why but he thought
heunlght get some tip" from the watch
man The only person in sight was the
elevator man.
I want to see Mr. Hitchcock." he
said 'Can sou "
'Have you an appointment with him'"
Interrupted the elevator man, his hand
on the lever ready to stnrt the car
The visitor had a brilliant Idea.
Yes." he quickly replied
All right.' the elevator man said, as
they shot up to the nfth floor ' I sup
pose ou know where his office Is?"
"You bet I do '
There he found several clerks working
busll) His request to see the Postmaster
(jtneral was taken In a most matter-of-fact
way, and In two minutes he saw Mr
Hitchcock completed hLs business and
left for home on the midnight train
The explanation la that Mr Hitchcock
does much of his Important work at
night awa) from the usual interruptions
of visitors and routine matters which
would bother him In the daj time The
fact Is not widely advertised He does
LACK OF FOOD
CAUSE OF LEPROSY
A new contributor cause t' th
cf leprosv was advanced by
ntr Amerkan secretarv of th
Inter 1
national Mission to Lepers In India
,ind
the Lat vesterdav afternoon in an ad
dress on 'The Worlds Lrpers before
the Sundaj afternoon assembly of the I
Young Men a Chritlan Association 1
aamuei jiiKginmunani, on ui "r -
sionar) workers, has discovered that lep
rosj Is mo"t frequent among those peo
pies who never have enough to eat, de
clared Mr Danner His thiorv Is that
the natives of such countries as India
man if not most, of whom go to bed
hungr ever night, are so weakened b
this life-long malnutrition that the are
not able to shake off tlie lepras btcillus
when once It fixes Itself upon them and
In proof of his contention he adduces
statistics which slww that more lepers
are found In India than In an other
ccunlr of the world
All told there are about 1 000 OuO lepers
In the world of whom ZA) are located
In India. The, are also found In China,
Africa, feouth America. Mexico. Iceland
Greenland, and In several States of this
countn
Mr Danner said that the International
Mission to Lepers In India and the East
was an interdenominational bod engaged
In supplv lng these outcasts with "belter.
food medical treatment and moral in
struction.
Washlngtonlans he said are among the
strongest supporters of the ml""lon
George X McLanahan of this ilty Is a
member of the I nited "states Hoard or
Reference, while among the contributors
to the cause In the Capital Clt arts. Ad
miral and Mrs II Brownson. Christ
Church, the Christian Kndeavor T nion
the Church of the Covenant. Mlsi Edit 1
Clark Gunston Hall William Phelps
Eno, Paul Garber Mar h Hamilton
Epworth League, Immanuel Baptist bun
da' School. Miss Mar E Klng"bur. the
Lutheran Memorial Church Mrs ueorge
X. McLanahan Miss Juliet McMaster
Maj D C Phillips Miss Julnata Rohr
bock. Miss Harriet R Southerland the
Kings Diughters. and Rev Charles Wood
Mr. McLanabin asked lor inrtncr con
trlbutlons for the leper mission fund.
and read a letter of approval from Tres.
dent Taft
Mr Danner's lecture was Illustrated
lth a series of sterepptlcon views in
color Mr Danner and Mr McLanahin
also "poke before the Y. W C later
In the afternoon
FW t. lat ien rears the trfriw number of diT
worked iw week by the miner- of the loitrd Kins
dots wis 5.19
fflONMUIXl
Head of Tokyo Schools
Pays Visit to Capital
Hyozo Omori Passes Through City on Tour of
Inspection of American Educational
Methods Tells of Japan.
Horo Omcrl. superintendent of schools
n Tokio. Japan, passed through thla city
estcrda) on a tour of Inspection of the
public schools of America ror tne pur
nose of getting ideas to incorporate into
the school system of T0U0 He was "een
at the New Wlllard last nigm iiu i
not Mr Omorl's first visit to this coun-
He was educated in me cnu
btates. attending Leianu Bianiuru ji .
Fnlversit in California, anu tne 1 .u
College at Sprlngneia, -viass
Public schools in Tokfo. safd Mr. Omorl,
have a history of thirt )earff The coin
pulsor education law compels children
to attend school from the age of six or
seven for six ears but most of them
continue two -,ears longer The situation
in Japan Is not as it is in me 1 ioicu
States. There are few foreigners, and
there is not the desire to "end children to
work so earl).
school System In Jnpan.
Public education is divided into ti
GHTS.
not always have clerks with him
rlaht. often he will drop In unexpectedly
and all alone will peg away at some
pc.rr.llng matter until nearly dawn
Being a bachelor. Mr Hitchcock does
not have to make any explanations when
he Rets nome late
When President Taft returned from his
summer vacation he found the White
House looking as bright and clean as
it usually does In the early fall, follow-
Inu the application or Wnite jialnt. first
applied to hide the smoke ifarks when
the British burned the building There
was no sign of the accumulation of sum
mer's dust which In August makes the
I istoric old building belie its name
Members of the President's official
household who had been at Beverly
wondered where the money came from
to paint the Executive Mansion The
knew that Congress. In its fit of economv,
had failed to appropriate the money for
the annual painting of the exterior
Through Inquirv they learned that the
White House had received Its first bath
since the days of Grover Cleveland, when
the hose was plaed on the white walls
Irstead of being painted, for the same
reason as this 3 ear
Just prior to the President s return.
Cart. TOO Connor, of No. 1 Lnglne
Company . with 1 000 feet of hose and a
detail of ten men. appeared before the
White House early In the morning W lid
rumors that the White House was on fire
were circulated as two streams nf water
were plaved on th walls Hy judicious
handling of the hose onlv three windows
vvtrt- broken b the high pressure
stream
An annual bath is also git en h a hose
dimpani during the summer to the Capi
tol and ihe Senate and House Office
Buildings
IMPERIALISM ONLY
COMMERCIAL ERROR
Our
ilnnlal expansion has been a
lommerrlal blunder but in In
expansion n the great task of
I (.hastlt
exltabl
,:
Kingdom of God on earth, declared
Rev Joeph M M orav esierda In a
sermon at Ilamlini Methodist Church on
America a Providential Possession
After tracing the evidences of Provi
dence in the settlement and hlstor of
America Mr Grav said
"If now ou will leap the ears and
come suddenU to the liter period of our
much-criticised and bewailed imperialism
ou cannot avoid tlie conclusion that It
was Gods hand which thrust us out. It
was the cr of the ding that took our
flag to Cuba the call of the de"ecrated
that summoned us to Porto Rico and
onlv Providence will explain the presence
of America In the Philippines We had
to take them or forfe't the name of
Christian
s a commercial enterprise our colo
nial expansion has been so far the
ghastliest blunder a nation could well
nigh make The millions that hvve gone
to the Philippines In purchase sanitation,
education lonquest and construction the
blood poured out and the lives lost have
not brought In a dollar of profit to the
National Trea-urj but have added con
tinual co"t In money and time and men
and genius
Commercials it has been a blunder
but In the spreading of knowledge and
Ihe extension of libert) In the adminis
tration of Justice and the enrichment of
life in the great tak in short of the
Kingdom of God on earth Ihi" was an
Inevitable expansion behind which It wis
the hand of God that ured and in front
of which the spirit of C, Hi that led
We need as Proiestants and as
pairoits to guard carefullv our poshes
.sions and give oureles thoughtful! 16
the solution of our national and social
problems But we are not going on our
wa unguarded w0 are not fighting a
battle b ourselves Ho ho In the past
secured our heritage and step by step
along Ihe per'lons wa of a new
ilemocrao has led u through strife and
civil war and the multitudinous con
quests of an advancing frontier and over
the deeps of a colonial i-ervlee has et
His purposes which shall not fall
Pist our range of vision Is the open
countr of an established and victorious
Christian citizenship and societ and na-1
tionai activuv it is ror us to lace tne
tasks of to da to appraise the oppor
tunities to distinguish clearly what is
the will of God ind then to ere Him
He will bring it to pass
r ani
schools. As there ire ver few prliate
schools in Japan all clastcs attend the
public schools except the noblllt. who
have a school of their own Tokio ha-s
a populasHon of 2 Ocotnw Ten per c nt f I
these people are of school age Th- sc iojI '
attendance Is Ss per tent From to to I
1 400 children are apiortluned to a "ch ol
The cuirlculum follows the American
plan, and pursues much the same lln or .
studies
Industrial work has an important plai ,
In the school programme says Mr Omorl
but has nut been developed to the extent
it has been in America
Co-eds In Nippon. t
In Tokio, said Mr Omori, the are tr
lnc co-education, and are pleased to find
tt-at it works very well
Before coming to this countr Mr
Omorl visited schools In several Euro
Dean cities and has left ther an aso
clate who is to make a studv of the
schools of Germanv and France Mr
Omorl is accompanied bv Mrs Omorl. I
who is aa deeply Interested In education I
as he, I
SPEED
Br GEORGE FITCH,
Aatbor of "At Good sold sl-rub,.'
Speed la the desire of man to get ome
where else as nearly as possible before
he starts.
Nobody heard much about speed until
a hundred years ago. If a man couldn t
run fast enough to suit himself In the
old da. he hired a horse and beyond
that he had no ambitions Then some
body discovered a method of stuffing
a locomotive boiler full of steam and
the world began to taka up speed as a
fad
We now have trains so fast that they
can transport passengers sixty miles
across country and half way up the
golden stairs In an hour's time.
'An automobile which only goes a mile
a minute Is all banged up in the rear
from the fast cars. Automobiles can now
run around a mile track so fast that the
driver Is breathing his own dust all the
time
few ears ago an aeroplane which
traveled thlrt)-nve miles an hour was a
onder Nowadays it Is a poor areoplane
wltich cannot run alongside a. wild pigeon
and let the aviator stroke Its back while
In full flight
Flft ears ago people took three weeks
to cross the ocean Now four and a half
days Is considered only fair traveling, and
when a steamship Is In a hurry and
meets an iceberg It merely sa)s "toot
toot' and bangs awa
Speed lias otten Into all departments
of life It used to take fifty years In
which to live happily ever afterward, but
some people now complete an entire mar
ried life In six months and average one
romance a ear The man who can't get
rich in three weeks and six plunges Is a
piker and the man who dwadles seven
minutes over lunch belongs to the leisure
IMMENSE COIFFURES IS
FASHION'S LATEST DECREE
Fifty Per Cent More Hair
Boom in Market and Increased
Importations.
Halt the hair worn b fashionable
American women in the next ear will
be from some one else s head The
ver latest coiffures call for 50 per
ent false hair to give background and
foundation to the complications plan
ned. and, according to Herbert Harris
hair expert of Chicago, who Is at the
Raleigh practical! all supplemental
hair worn In the I nited States 1"
grown In foreign lands
Americans live loo fast to save
their combings declared Mr Harrl"
We talk of forestr conservation and
le discuss home economic", but we
fall down when it comes to preserving
the adornment of the human bead
"Therefore, we are forced to rely on
foreign market merlca Imports
fale hair from Europe and Asia
s-eventv per cent of it In the poorest
grade Tome" direct from Chin-v anil
heads of ainc Chlnee women
J ire eager to swap their tresses
for com More false hair will be worn
next season than ever before To he
In stvle women adopt the massive ef
fect In hair coiffure" Hair comes Into
this rountr in three grades Fresh
cut living hair from Europe comb
EDWARD FLETCHER
CALLED BY DEATH
Aged Newspaper Man Dies at Resi
dence After Two Years'
Failing Health.
Well-known to all old Washlngtonlans
and to not a few of the ounger genera
tion Edward T Hetcher seventy-four
ears old died at 7 o clock esterda
morning at his residence in the Inglcside
Apartments 1)S I-ir"t Street Northwest
after a gradual failing of health for the
past two years
Mr Fletcher was born in Trenton N
J, In 1S3 but a brought to Washing
ton wh n a small child IK ng here near
I) all 1 i life
Mr Hetcher up to a few vears ago
had been connected with Washington
newspapers iince his lohood He was
cashier of the old National Intelligencer
for several vears until it went out of
existence in 1m3
Thirt tlve sears ago this Thanks
giving week he Joined the force of
stilson Hiitihins founder of the Wash
ington Post as treasurer of the com
pans in making read for the Post s
first Issue on December S 1S77 This
position Mr Fletcher resigned in 1901
because of advancing ears, hut he
retained hi" connection with the Post
until his death
He leaves a widow formerly Marlon
F Sebastian two sons. Charles
Fletcher of the Philadelphia Inquirer
and Edward B Fletcher of the Dis
trict Tax Assessors Office and two
daughters. Mrs Thomas P Chapman
and Mrs Ruth E Fletcher
The funeral will ttke place from the
residence at 1 30 o clock to-morrow
afternoon, with Interment In Oak Hill
Cemetery.
AGED- MAN FOUND
DEAD IN BED
John Evans Fails to Shut Off Gas
in Extinguishing light
Before Retiring.
Feeble from senllit) John Evans, "ev
ent! -two years old for man) years a
resident of the Capital and well-known
as a baseball fan In the earl) hlstorv
of the Washington Baseb-ill Club, failed
to shut off the gas when lie (xtlugulsh
ed the light before retiring late .satur
da) night in his room at li. Third Mreet
Northwest
I.) lng upon lux ba.u. utth his hands
folded over his che"t hs lifeless hodv
nas discovered In lied ahortl) after s
u clock )exttrdav morning when' his
iaudlad). Mrs Mar) Urou.11. failing to
awaken him bv knoiklug on the door
turned the knob ami entered Tne odor
of gas. stemlng to come from the. room
had awakened her suspicions
Two windows wer closed, hut it was
1 custom of the aged man to lower the
windows In cold weather The gas
jet was but parti) open but the small
escape bad been sufficient to fill the
small room with poisonous fumes Cor
ner Nevltt found that Evans had met
death by accidental asphvxlation and
allowed relatives to take charge of the
bodv
Evans was an un lc of Detective
Harrv Evans, of tlw Sixth prcclncl
The aged man bad lived here practl
call) all of bis lite and had scores of
friends.
class Even learning has succumbed to
the speed fascination. Once our college
heroes wore spectacles and delivered ora
tions, but nowodays. unless a man can do
100 yards in eleven seconds In football
clothes, he cannot; hope to live in col
lege history
in automobile, which only rei a sU miouts
is all btngrd up in the rear
frcaa tha fiat car"
Everywhere over this broad land peo
pie are riding fast elevators toward
Heaven at the rate of 100 stories a min
ute and are getting off of aeroplanes and
returning to earth at the rate of sixteen
feet a second Speed rules everything ex
cept the work on government build ncs
and the sedentary one-egg a da hen.
who hasn t Increased her output In tho
last two billion decades
(CcrrrUht, 1911 bj George Mathew Adams.)
to Be Worn This Means
ings from Europe, and 70 per cent of
the entire leld Chlnee rombings and
stumps
The first grade whlrh constltus
, per cent of all false hair, said Mr.
Harri" "Is living, growing hair, fresh
cut from the heads This is worth S '
a pound The best hair in the world
omes from Moravia This Is Ionic
and soft and the colors are exrellenL
The second grade consists of comb
ings gleaned from all over Europe
bundled Into bales regardless of
length or color and shipped to Ameri
can companies Here the have to bi
sorted This hair is worth f-om ")
to 40 a pound
Third grade hair Is usually from
China There Is some Japane"c 1 a""
in this grade It comes in 131 poun 1
packages called picols, like tea. Most
of this hal- thi" is 70 per cent of th
vleld goes to the department "tore)
and em More trade Half of
plcol of hair is composed of stump
hair fie or six Inches long These ar.
bleached one and curled Into puffs
Of course when the aun strikes them
thev turn green, an they can never
be made up more than once
'GERMAN SOCIETIES
GIYE RECITALS
I Saengerbiind and Arion Gesangve-
rem Open Fall Seasons with
Good Programmes
Utnnugh It was difficult to choose be
I tween the s,aengerbund and the Arion
Ge"angveren at. far as the excellenc
of tie musical programmes which they
presented last night was concerned largo
and appreciative audiences filled the
auditoriums of both of these societies
It being the first musicale of the wint
season of the Anon and the second con
cert of the Saengerbund and the artists
' assisting being favorabl known to mas J
lovers of the r tv
Of Instrumental numbers offered t
1 trios for violin, cello and piano be 11
I C Rakemann violin Richard Lorleberj.
cello and Karl Holer piano prove 1
without an question not onl the mo 1
popular part of the prognmme but the
most artisticallv executed as well
The Saengerbund programme inrl ideit
among other numbers piano solos he
Miss larlne M.( arti show'ng tl s
voung wonnn s splendid technique an 1
tine sen", of interpretation She a si
plaved with one hand th sextet from
l.u.ls doing full Justice t " this beau
t'fnl song-poem nother nn number
was the soprano solo n Mies Edna J
sheehv who mc Wagners "Elsa s
Traum from Lohengrin
Newton Hammer wis in splendid voice,
as was Thomas Murrac both cf whom
are well known to Washing! n concert
goer" The Washington onccrt Quar
tet consisting of Mrs C, nipracht Mrs.
ran 1 ii'iiiim- .i.iii 1, ,nv Muoi.
' Whlltmore sang a number of selections
in a mosi creditable, manner The
s.aengerhund and Arion. undr the direc
tion re"pe-tivel' . of Prof Gumprecht
md Prof Holer ang a number of
I choruses for men voices
Der Drutsch-Ainerikanlsche Cnterstuet
zung erln entertained its members at
in o"ier roat at Nlc Auth s farm on
the Bladensburg road esterdav There
wa muic and songs to add to the Joya
which abounded in profusion
leina Hoia Go Fishlnu.
Onense Orreapondenos Beaumocuit Enterprise
On of the most novel discoveries of
recent date in this count) Is reported bv
Judge J A. Holland, a retired attorney
who whiles the time awa) in agricultural
and other pursuits
Judge Holland has discovered t! at hogs.
especial!) the Duroc Jer'e) specimen,
are fond of fish and an actual experience
was related it the court house ro-dsv by
tHe Judge
Judge Holland states that while watch
ing a herd of his hogs 111 a I t through
which a small stream outlining lari,e
numbers of small fish flowed h- discov
ered that the) wtre niuihlclng 1 r water,
whlih suffocated the tl-h after which
thee gobbled them up with a keen relish
T.. a 1 liew mail Ut Is ,..lr.l a patent fur a
d.tl hlA "l.eo attsstsi to . lc.le antisnatloanr
rrpuaJc ben th hk is ur-o-sl and by
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