Newspaper Page Text
TppppHSipipiB r7 -.1?' '.,vjn HVPJV IIP t "W . '-- THE WASHINGTON HERALD, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 19. 1914. ' THE WASHINGTON HERALD published evert mobmtno bt THE WASHINGTON HERALD. COMPANY I3S2 Kw Terk Ansae. Telepbom HAUf 3300. CLINTO? T. BRACfARD. Presides?, and Editor. ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES t HASBROOK, STORY, AXD BROOKS. ISC, NEW YORK CITT Fifth Avenue Building CHICAGO. ILL People' Gas Building PHILADELPHIA, PA Mutual Life Bulldinjr ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. C. X. ABBOT, Bsrtlett Bldg. SUBSCRIPTION BATES BT CARRIER: Dally and Sunday... Dally, and Sunday. Daily, without Sunday ... k . . .45 cent per raonCh JS.49 per year ,ZB cants per month 6TJBSCB4PTION RATES BT MAIL: Dally and Sunday - ecnti per month Dally and Sunday 16.40 per year Dally, without Sunday ZS cent per month Dally, without Sunday .. 11.00 per year Eunday. without Dally..: Ji.40 per year Entered at the poitofflco at Washington, D. C aa second-class man matter. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19. Hit We haven't heard from Abyssinia yet. The market editor is having a snap these days. And, by the way, whatever became of the baseball war? Nearly every naval officer in Europe is at sea over this war. It is no laughing: matter for the Montenegrins, either. I The German potash industry, we understand, has gone to pot. Now that Carranza has got it. what is he going to do with it? The more we study the war maps, the less we traderstand the war news. If the Russian bear ever learns that he has been attacked, there may be a rumpus. This is a time when the news editor thinks he is a bigger man than the sporting editor. Washington has some mighty good press agents. This is just a suggestion to Germany. It hurts our national pride to have the news for American papers censored by an Englishman. Step! Leek! TMak! President Wilson's address to his fellow-coun- trymen" yesterday should be efficacious both at a balm for ruffled passions and at i warning against loose and tactless expressions of sentiment. He addresses a people which very easily might be led from a 'secure and enviable position of. neu trality into conflict with one or more of the nations which ultimately it should expect to assist to peace. Hit warning should' be carefully read, his point of view studied, and his conclusions adopted at being both patriotic and humanitarian. , t There is no question but what the administration has been worried by the embroiling of Japan with Germany in the Far East We would much prefer that Japan be left entirely out of the melee. But since Japan is in, we must accept in good faith her assurance that she seeks no territorial aggrandize ment, and accepting that assurance in good faith, we must act accordingly. No great power of the world is so susceptible in its foreign relations to public sentiment as is the United States. This is due to our peculiar form of government, which binds so tightly the Executive with, the popular branch of the government, and which divides the treaty-making and war-declaring powers between the Executive and th,e legislative branches. The advantages of this arrangement in so far as the declaration of war is concerned are obvious. We have no wars based on the personal or political ambitions of a few men; we fight for no cause to which the people do not subscribe. But the disadvantages also are obvious at a time when a little pressure or. ex citement one way or another might force the gov ernment from an advantageous position as a power ful neutral, to a course which, adopted in the heat of racial or international dispute among our own citizens, would be repented for years afterwards. It is this susceptibility to a misleading public senti ment to expressions which in volume are all out of proportion to their weight that President Wilson has in mind when he pleads with his, countrymen from his high position as Chief Magistrate: I venture, therefore, my fellow-countrymen, to speak a solemn word of warning to you against that deepest, most subtle, most essential breach of neu trality which may spring out of partisanship, out of passionately taking sides. The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name during these days that are to try men's souls. We must be impartial in thought as well as in action, must put a curb upon our sentiments as well as upon every transaction that mighfbe construed as a preference of one party to the struggle before another." And six months from now there won't be any body in this country who will know wmS Carbajal was. "" T The Sick Man of Europe seems to be getting along better than any of the rest of them. Eiery power in Europe declares it hall nothing to do with starting the war. Mr. Roosevelt is missing a chance to make a large addition to his Ananias clas-. The stately sunflower now promises to become more prominent and may be used to save the coun try's canaries With no more bird seed from Austria and Germany, our own products will come to the front. Wonder if the Paris fashion makers go to the front it will mean a cessation of the attack on the American pocketbook. With no new creations miladi maj be able to wear the same gown a second or third time and not feel she is neglecting her duty as the great merican spender. I aily Cook's bid for notoriety is not appreciated verv mveh by the New York Sun. In commenting upon her announced intention to raise an army ot amazons, it says it "is the very acme of the untimely. It shows a feminine incapacity for distinguishing be tween stern realities and cheap futilities which serious people will be pretty sure to remember when the war is over and the threads of old interests are again picked up." The United States Fish Commission recommends that the catching of sturgeon be prohibited through out the country for at least ten years. It is scarcely that long since this fish was so plentiful in the Poto mac that it was used for fertilizer; now it is ajjnosl as rare as the sea serpent. For several years past there has been a steady depletion of the shad and herring catch iff siear-by waters, owing to the lack of protecting laws or failure to enforce those which are on the statute books. With no prospect of any sub stantial or permanent reduction in the present high prices of meat, conservation of the country's fish supply is plainly a national duty. We don't know what England wants or expects of a poet laureate, but if he is supposed to inspire patriotism or keep it alive, it would seem that James Bernard Fagan an inspiring name, by the way qual ified for the office when he wrote the following verse, entitled "I he Hour," in the London JJaily Telegraph "We have shut the gates of the Dover Straits, And north where the tide runs free, Cheek by jowl, our watchdogs prowl. Gray hulks in a grayer sea. And the prayer that England prays tonight- To the lord of our destiny, As the foam of our plunging prow is white. We have stood for peace and we war for right, God give us victory." The Russian PeriL We have said before -that a victory which leaves Germany prostrate and Russia astride across Europe will have its own terrible problems for us. Our statesmen, who have assumed their terrible responsi bility, will, we trust, never lose sight of that fact Being in, we must win, but we must endeavor at no moment in the struggle to lose our command of the situation or our power to determine that the reor ganized Europe which will follow on our victory tow dc one wmen lornnes nnusn secunety and does tin min European civilization and European liberty, adoa News and Leader. WKt .Stands Pat uck White, the militant minister now doing six is en BUekwellj Island for trying to 'talk in a h not his own, writes to assure Gov. (Jlynn that not penitent and desires no release on the false lse that he is. That seems to be quite satis y. At least it simplifies Gov. Glymrs problem e case. But White makes one sound point in g that his appeal be decided before bis term ends. f the crying evils of our system in minor erimi jts is that the defendant too often undergoes all bstantJally all of the punishment meted out to only to be pronounced wrongfully convicted tewTx-orkWorld, Some Hysterical Tourists. Americans seeking pleasure and traveling in luxury abroad, suddenly finding themselves in the midst of a military movement on a stupendous scale, sights and sounds of war in every direction indicating that all Europe is swiftly to become a battlefield, may be for given if they succumb to something like mild panic. Such sudden transition from luxury to hardship, with the outlook uncertain, but a reasonable prospect of worse to come, might well inspire even the most experienced and imperturbable globe-trotter with a desire to get home in a hurry. Tens of thousands of Americans in Europe have been subjected to no end of delays, annoyances, and discomforts, and millionaires have enjoyed the unique experience of crossing the Atlantic in tie steerage. A few people a very few, be it said to the credit of American pluck and hardihood have seen fit upon landing on their native shores to magnify their own woes and severely criticise the administration, accus ing it of neglecting the welfare of our people abroad. When these hasty accusers recover from the excite ment of their unusual experiences, they will discover that the charge is wholly unfounded. So far there has not been reported a single authenticated case of an American actually suffering privations in Europe. The administration was prompt to put in operation measures for the relief of the travelers, and has since been unremitting in its efforts. With the co-opera tion of the great financial institutions, funds were provided for them, and now, two weeks after the out break of war, they are arriving home in a steady stream, in spite of the fact that most of the vessels they had depended upon for transportation are out of commission. The very great majority of them have suffered much less hardship than would result should all the American summer resorts be closed and the sojourners ordered to hurry home on three days' notice. Considering that between 75,000 and 100,000 Americans in half a dozen countries which suddenly rushed to war were separated from their native land by 3.000 miles of ocean, the present situation is alto gether satisfactory. Ships are being provided for them, and in a few weeks all will be safe at home. In the meantime, they are in no danger, either from bullets or starvation. Probably those who lose a hat box or a hair-ribbon in a cataclysm will not be un duly" startled. Naturally there is anxiety in this coun try for news of friends and relatives, but nobody has yet betrayed the hysteria of that handful of early arrivals who proceeded to attack the administration. Valuable Press Agents. Representative Humphrey illuminated a dark mys tery in the House Monday in advocating the passage of his resolution calling for information about so called "press agents" in the Department of Agricul ture. It seems that Mr. Humphrey is not incensed so much at the presence of these press agents as he is worked-up over the fact that the informa tion which they sometimes make intelligible and available for the newspaper men of the country has been used by a Washington news paper man and editorial writer to whom Mr. Humphrey is not friendly. And Mr. Humphrey solemnly assured the House that this newspaper man holds a $12,000 job principally as the result of in formation and material furnished through this corps of press agents in the Department of Agriculture. If there is one activity of the government in which an intelligent press agent is Justified, it is the Depart ment of Agriculture. The experts and investigators of that department gather and compile more valuable information, offer more practical aid to farmers, manufacturers, and merchants, than probably any other deportment. But this information, compiled by scientists, cannot in the nature of things be expected to be immediately available to the man who most needs it. In the original form sometimes it-fs hardly comprehensible. Surely there is nothing reprehensible in employing an agency through which the vast and valuable mass of information and instruction may be applied where it will do the most good. Sweet IfUeaess. By KMORY J JIATTfES. The Italians say dolce far niente. Bat the good old English language can say it better, at least for our ears. The thing itseli is unsayable, Idleness that one has a moral right to indulge, having worked proper days, that is sweet beyond all expression. The habitual -lounger, the idler in all days, has no part in it. Nor does it seem that it can ever be to an Italian in his semi-tropic what it it to us on summer day after the cold winter. The noiseless sunbeams pour their light out over the silent landscape. The vast unbroken stillness of the countryside lulls you to repose. There is nothing to do but to contemplate the landscape. Not that you are looking at anything in particular. Ypu scarce notice any object, yet your eyes are wide open and there is such a flood of .light Even sight itself is idle. Not at in sleep, but at in tweet idleness.- You do not read a book. You do not con verse with .your friend sitting by. Do you think? Hardly that; certainly you are not thinking of any problem. You are not remembering any past event You are not hoping nor fearing a future event You ignore tomorrow. Let tomorrow stay where it is. The present is all and in all and there is nothing in the present Being in good health, you breathe and do not know it. You have no consciousness of your foot as weary, nor of your back as lame. Your whole body sits on your spirit, as light as air and wholly unused. You do not even raise your hand from the arm of the luxuriant piazza chair. Such is sweet idleness. There is no craving for amusement. More amuse ment is not to be mentioned as a delight in comparison with sweet idleness. You do not wish to go any where. Just where you are is perfectly satisfying. You do not wish for some one to come and help you do nothing. Perhaps tomorrow one will do some thing. Climb yonder mountain, for instance. But no one can help you do nothing. It is all your own affair. If there is some one whom you love sitting hard by that is enough. It is to be hoped the loved one it sweetly idle also. But two people can let each other alone, and no more, in sweet idleness. There are peo ple who are fatal to sweet idleness. They are rest less; they talk and insist on doing nothing worth va cation's while and the board bill. They seem utterly unable to be sweetly idle or allow any one else to be. After a while the leaves of the trees, out there on the lawn catch the eye. These leaves barely move. Then in an invisible zephyr they do move. There is enchantment in watching the faint and feeble stirring of the leaves. And high over the trees the pageant clouds move. like silver castles, like convoys of angels going on some blessed errand. The clouds are so high above earth, where our troubles arc, that it js rapturous repose to imagine one's self riding on the fleecy masses. Idle clouds they are. They sow not, neither do they spin, nor plow, nor gather into barns. And they take such beautiful shapes, going nowhere direct from nowhere, that the idle spectator seems to go with them. No one will ask, "Where did you go today?" If any one does ask we will say, "Ask the clouds where we went They only know." Dolce far niente is the Brahmin's Nirvana. It is the ecstacy of existence merely.' There is no duty in it no aspirant hope, no revelation, no love. There are infinitely better things. " Self-sacrifice arid heroism, for instance. But we are not talking about these nobler things now. Sweet idleness is our theme. The vesper bell is ringing and the evensong now chants upon the air. I do not heed them, however, for sweet idleness enslaves me. " The far faint roar of thernighty railway train sounds brave and manfully, speaking of achievement and honorable toil. Ido not allow it to appeal to me. Let other men do great things, mastering the whole globe. I am sweetly idle. I am neither good nor bad, neither wise nor ignorant I am simply an idler. It cannot last long with the Yankee. It is a mood for the equatorial heat Today .one will be idle. Just for a little season one will do nothing and luxuriate in it. Having sat here under the trees, one will move to the garden seat. Then one ivill stroll, without an errand, going nowhere. Then one will sit and look down on the placid river so moveless, so shining, so idle, the river that has no rapids and no breakers. Sweet idleness is not sleep. Oh, far from that Sleep is cousin to death. And we do not think of the dead as idle. Idleness is the living consciousness of nothing to do. It is the ictory that overcometh this workaday world which is always driving man like a slave. Idleness is a supreme indifference to all duty. Even the birds up there in the blue cannot attain to it. It is only a human state. 1 Hinman in a Hole. """ One Republican candidate for goernor in New York has declared for woman suffrage. Job Hedges, of course. He aw the humor, at any rate, of put ting the Colonel's candidate, Mr. Hinman, in a hole. Mr. Hinman spurns votes for women. Springfield Republican. fflSTORYUIlftERS. A PoIiticiYn Who Had No Enemies. (Written Extras!? lor The HenM.) By DB. K. J. KDWAUDS, A few weeks after the Inauguration of Benjamin Harrlion as President pn March , 18S9, I saw William B. Allison, United States Senator from Iowa, on lower Broadway, New York. The Senator was walking somewhat quick steps as though he had an appointment ot Import ance somewhere In the 'Wall street dis trict I happened to be with the late Frederick D. Tappen. at that time very prominent as a hanker of New York and one of tbe great constructive forces ot the New York Clearing House Associa tion. Senator Allison passed me so rapid ly that Mr, Tappen did not see him. No one who did not know him by sight could have surmised that a man so In conspicuously, 'almost carelessly, dressed as he was could really be the famous Senator from Iowa who had declined the tlmate personal relations with two men who are so hostile that they do- not even speak. "1 was told by a prominent Senator that there was only one pther man In the Senate who possessed that rare sift Be was Henry B. Anthony. Senator for many years from Rhode Island. "You know that the relations .between Blaine and Roscoe Conkllng were' those of bitter personal antagonism. They never recognized one another. In the four years that Blaine was a member of the Senate. Each of them was a warm- inena 01 Allison, jacn u. imw mh. Allison absolutely. So great was his tact so Infinite was bis skill In handling- him self In this relation, that he was able constantly and always satisfactorily to serve as the common friend of both. "Now Blaine was to be Secretary ot Btate In Garfield's Cabinet, while Cockling- was to remain In the Senate. Of course, there was no thought at the time Garfield was Inaugurated that Conkllng would resign. "Allison, who had a wonderful shrewdy ness In forecasting events, was fearful offer of the Treasury Department at Washington and who narrowly escaped 1 jest there be Ipevltable clash between the Presidential nomination at the Re- j Conkllng and the Oarfleld administration, publican National Convention df the pre- He felt that If he remained In the Senate vlous year. he might be able to prevent either an out- "To my thinking." said Mr Tappen, break of hostilities or ward oil some of "Allison would have been an Ideal can- the bad effects upon the party which a dldate. I know him welt He often colli clash would be likely to cause. That I to see me when he comes to New York, ' am told." said Mr. Tappen. "was chief and he always has somo question to ask me relating to clearing-house methods. He frequently wants to know what the conditions of New York banks are whether this bank or that bank Is getting ahead, and If I tell him that some one of them Is he Is anxious to know the reason. "Did you ever know what' the real reason was why Allison at the 'last mo ment refused President Garfield's offer of the Treasury portfolio, a refusal which among the reasons why at the last mo ment Allison declined the offer of the Treasury Secretaryship from Garfield." (CorjTijM, MM. T Dr. X. 1. Edwin!. All rithl Tomorrow Dr. Edwards will tell "How the Congress Gaiter Got Its Nime" ItMtndJ 3Doiitgs of Society Cunae for Friction. Young Demmona, an adjuiter for a his lniiM ha a Mnmnnt' ursiat Ittsrt PltlPTlInlT , I 1 ' ailL47 VMliipail, MDt a 1aa (( 3..,-. SZSZ?ii. X.J.Sn- Ior . from a nearby city, where he had Garfield to recast his Cabinet V , been to adjust a loss on a building that told Mr. Tappen that I had heard all v.- . 1 j 1 .- . -, i r.r kinds of reasons given, the common one I ..How dld he flre start?" Inquired tbe !fk,lB urr LIIKl OCIISlUr WlUOn WHS frlerd. convinced that he would find the atmos phere of the Senate Chamber and ejso clatlona with that body far more aarree- able than service as Secretary of the Treasury would be. There may have been something In that." Mtl Tappen repllMl "but I think I can't say with a certainty." replied the idjuster, "and nobody seemed able to te I. But It struck mo It might have been the result of friction." Why." asked the friend, "what do you mean by thatf well." raid Demmojis gravely. Trie the real reason was known to onlv two .i- ."-. i.. -r... from .-.it.Viino- or three. Allison has that rare faculty jis.nco policy on a 110.000 building-" New of being able to preserve the mot In- vork Times. . . I THE WAR DAY BY DAY Fifty Year$ Ago. August 19, 1864 Mosby'i Ranjen, Coming Upon a Party of the Fifth Mich igan Cavalry Engaged in Carrying Out Orders to Destroy Confederate Property Near Berryrille, in the Shenandoah Valley, Overwhelmed Them and Gave No Quarter. MATHEMATICAL PRODIGIES. AEMY ORDERS. (Written expressly for The Washington Hersld ) Fifty years ago today a company of I lam Sowers a column nt .mv. I CoL John S. Moab's Bangers came upon 1 firmed their Information. The house - ,..,, w, me x-iiiii .uiviuKan cavalry, ws innames ana me family were engaged In executing orders to destroy I gathered, weeping and forlorn, in a Confederate property, near Hcrryille in corner of the yard, gazing at the blai the Shenandoah Valley, attacked and Ing pile that had been their home, overwhelmed them and gave no quarter.,! Sowers was believed by the Federals This savage Incident of the war was to be an ally of Mosb s. an Inevitable consequence of conditions -. prevailing In the alley. Gen. Philip H. I AO ,","rr t,Ien. Cab,.,.... .1 .. . .. - . ..i.c.iuan. uiium unoer oroers irom lien. in? Hangers now set on in pursuit' ",,... ' " . '.Corns arr ordered Orant Issued under military necessity, of the house burner?, whom they found ,, LaT'aSr. one 01 me mosiworraer- UfUt Col 0scar , Straub rt.Uef.d was earning fire and the sword Into the at the firm of Col. Ben Morgan Al-t ' """bematlclans the world has ever from coast defen-es 0f Charleston, and valley. Grant's object ai to destroy ' ready the barn, corncribs gralnhouse 1 sen a young Hindoo. Mr. S Ramanujan will proceed to Fort Howard. Md . and ail crops, livestock and other supplies , and haystacks here were destroyed and ' by name-whose work, although he Is only I a-ume command of the l0ast defences that might be of value to ll army of the house was In flames. This work twer;tr'.5'X yt"',ot a?5' h" xcl,ed the , lieu " Co? Morris K Barroll rel.eved he enemy, under Gen. Jubal A. Early. I was being done by a detail of Hfty me,, admiration of all mathematical experts. a10 '3 " Fort Kk N J mat was operating against Sheridan. from the Fifth Mlchlgan-of which Col. "ai" lnr mo" exiraorainary uung. September 1. and will proceed to Fort With the return of the Germany Em bassy, which will be re-established In Washington Zoday, there will be few closed chanceries In Washington, even though several chiefs may remain abroad or some time to come. The Russian am bassador and Mme. Bakhmeteff. will re tain their residence at Newport although the office of the embassy will be open at 1315 L. street The charge d'affaires of Great Britain and members of his staff returned to Washington from Manchiter, Mass., more than a week ago, while Dr. Dumba, of the Austro-Hungarian embassy, who Is in New York with temporary headquar ters at the Ritz. will reach Washington before the end of the week. Dr. and Mrs. Alexander FItzhugh Ma- Cruder have issued Invitations 10 the marriage of Dr. Magruders daughter. Miss Isabel Richardson Magruder, to Mr. Kent Rdbottom. ensign United States navy, on Wednesday, September 2. at St jiaunews cnurcn, Jamestown, nnoae Island. Tke ceremony will take place at noon to be followed by a breakfast and reception at the Casino, for which cards have also been Issued. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Adams, of Boston, and frequent visitors in Washington, are reported at the Hotel Wagram. Paris. The former Secretary of War, Henry L. Stlmson. and Mrs. tlmon have left their Long Island home for a stay of several weeks at Red Lion Inn, Stock bridge. Mass. CoL Dangerflcid Parker, who passed the greater part of the summer at At lantic City, has returned and will occupy his cottage at Chevy Chase for the re mainder of the season. Miss Dorothy Uoykln. of Atlanta. Ga., has arrived in Washington to pass the next month with her brother, Mr. J. C Boykln. Mian Esther Denny has Joined friends at Atlantic City, where she will pass sev eral weeks. Mrs. Georse E Vincent wife of Pres ident Vincent, of the University of Minne sota, and a daughter of the late Repre sentative Henry W. Palmer, of Pennsyl vania, and Miss Isatxl Vincent have been located at Stockholm. Sweden. They were to have sailed for home August 8 from Hamburg, but are now awaiting an op portunity of returning from England. The wedding day of Miss Vincent and Mr. Paul Harper, of Chicago, as announced Is August S. but It will hardly be pos sible for the bride to arrive at the Minne sota home of her parents by that date. Dr. and Mrs. H. L. E. Johnson, who sailed m June for' Denmark. Intending to males a trip to Russia and return In th. autumn from Italy, have notified their friends that they are passing a dellgntful season In Denmark and will rrtCSa in northern Europe until assured of a com fortable passage home via EnglaTS. Mr. Beverly Kennon Sinclair Eas gone to Nantucket to be the guest of CoL and Mrs. Robert Craig, whifc are occupying their summer home on that island. Miss Florence Earnsworth left yeste day for Sea. Girt N. J., for a visit of several weeks and later will join friends at Atlantic City for the early autumn. Mrs. Delos A. Blodget whose Wash ington home Is 1300 Sixteenth street is at her cottage on Mackinac Island for the month of August after spending the early summer In Grand Rapids. Mich. Mrs. Blodget Is entertaining a houre party of ten young people for the present week. Ml Elizabeth Rush Porter. dauxhtr of Lieut CoL and Mrs. J. BIddle Porter, who Is spending the season at Bar Har bor with her parents, was the winner of the woman's swimming race t the Northeast Harbor aquatic meet on Mon day. Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Tuekerman have arrived at Stockbrldge, Mass.. and are stopping at the home of Miss Emily Tuekerman. who Is visiting at Bar Ha bor. Miss Eleanor Bradley Martin, of Wash ington. Is a guest of her aunt. Mls -e Bradley, at the tatter's home In Harri sonburg, Va. Mr. Robert S. Stuns Is spending his vacation at Ocean City, Md., a guest at tbe Hotel Hamilton. Washlngtonlans at the Wolcott New York City, include Mr". Frederick W Pratt and daughter, Mrs. Francis W. Dickens and Mrs. IL L. Wyman. MIjs Maude Ellis and Miss Ella Lewis are late Washington arrivals at the Wilt shire. Atlantic City, where they will pass several weeks. Mr T Emmet Moore Is a guest at the Hotel Hamilton, Ocean City. Md Miss Ruth Sypherd Clements. th daughter of James il Clements, of Met andria County. Va.. and granddauchter of Maj. T II Sypherd, of this -it w n . went to Paris, France, the last week m July to spend three months in perfe. ting her art studies, has cabled her father that she had come back to London and is "safe," and will sail for America the first opportunity. Yonnc Hindoo at Cambridge Vnl- Lcaie of twenty-one das s granted .. Col Edwin St. J. Greble. General staff vrrsuy Momler. The f00Kinff changes in the assign- There is at the present time studying I mnla ot 0"troC ,n Coa,t Artillerv COl M05b. at the had Of a small , Ruuell A Aire- was inmmnnrir-fl. i,. band of Irregular troops, termed by the act of retaliation for attacks on Federal Confederates partisan rangers and by pickets. the Federals guerrillas, was operating In A part of the detail was about the the rear of .Sheridan's army. By dodging j house when the Rangers, numbering A peace parade of white-haired mothers is being planned by New York women. If any body of men or women has any weight with the fighting powers, the sight of such a demonstration as proposed must com pel attention. War's Attributes Misconstrued. Probably the Germans have not become atrocious murderers overnight. They have generally been as civilized as most other fighters, and national char acter does not change in a hurry. Until people be come used to the slaughter of war they are likely to misconstrue what are its terrible attributes. Phila delphia Public Ledger. j Iron Ores from Texas. Pennsylvania's blast furnaces, which now smelt iron ores from Newfoundland, Cuba, Chile, Sweden, Spain, and other foreign countries, win soon add Texas ores to their supply an interesting develop ment in our great iron and steel trade. Every few yearsa great outcry is raised about the speedy ex haustion of America's ore beds, but invariably it is followed by the discovery of new sources of suonlv. Texas has long been known to contain great quanti ties of iron ore, but hitherto it has not been utilized to any great extent Philadelphia Record. An Echo from Gettysburg. One of the most dramatic incidents of the civil war was the retreat of Lee's army after Gettysburg, with its hundreds of wagon loads of wounded soldiers. A woman who lived, bv the road down which this loner line of scre-aminc. ffrnanintr anrl flvintr men were being hauled told me recently that it was the! most awesome event of her life. Thev went bv her ' home during the night i But even the wounded had to make way for the I guns. When the artillery came thundering along the back and forth through the paes of the Blue Ridge Mountain Range and across the Shenandoah. Mosby was enabled to strike many stlngtrg blows at the Fed erals and to escape when pursued. His method of warVare w-as not con sidered by the Federals In accordance with military rule He was termed an outlaw, and Gen. Grant had Issued orders (on August 16'- that his men be hanged without trial whenever caught A later order directed that nil male citizens In the region where Mosby operated be ar rrstd, since Mosby'n men, when not In the saddle, parsed as peaceful citizens. Thee orders, the stem measures of tbe Federals in burning supplies, and Mosby's successes hi most recent being the capture of a part of Sheridan's wagon train, with about SO prisoners and 600 animals, near Berryville, August 1J combined to rouse a spirit of saage reprisal on both sides, which found ex pression In the shooting down, without quarter, of thecal a hymen whom Mosby's trdops encountered on August 13 Monby ltccroM Mountain)!. Sheridan's orders for the burning of grain and supplies were being carried-! out In the vicinity of Ilerrille by de tails from the cavalry division under Gen. Weslay Merrltt While the Federal cavalry officers executed their orders conscientiously and in the main guarded houses and their Inmates, they felt themselves Justified In punishing inhabitants sus pelted of aiding or harboring Mosby's men. OA the other hand. Mosby held him self to be the aenger of the citizens about Berrjvllle, and after his suc cessful raid against Sheridan's wagons and the disposition of his plunder in Loudoun County, east of the mountains, he recrossed the Blue Ridge and the Shenandoah the latter at Castlemans Ferry and dividing his command of about 300 men Into three companies started to seek the Federal cavalry details. As the Rangers crossed the river at night they encountered a picket of the Fifth Michigan Regiment. A fusillade laid one of them dead and another wounded upon the bank. Two more were captured. Tbe picket was thus wiped out Riding next morning toward Berry ville along the turnpike, the Rangers turned into a byroad, known as 'the Shepherds Mill road, when they heard the Yankees were engaged In burning property. As they neared the residence of Will- about Ramanujan la that as a mathema- i Moultrie. P C In command of the ast tlclan, he is quite untaught Until a yenr ' defense of Charleston. ago he was a clerk in the employment ! Frank K. Fergusson is assigned as of the Port Trust of Madras. j leMerabeil0 ' Hancock, N J . But in Spite Of this, he hast to qUOte. Mal Thomn. R Ijmnr.nr relieve a. Mr Hardy. Fellow of Trinity, who has fort commander. Fort Baker, CaL Sen taken a great Interest in Ramanujan. I tember 1. and will proceed to coast de- himself a areat number 1 tenses or I'ueti ssouna. as ion com. about 1M. rode furiously up, charging them. Taken by surprise, the Federal cavalrymen, most of whom were dis mounted, could make little resistance They broke and fled in confusion. The fields near the house were crossed bv numerous atone irall whlrh lmrw.rid I although he was quite Ignorant of their 'Scott. Cat their flight. The road, their only ave- work and accomplishments Indeed, his Each of the following captains of the nue of escape, they had barricaded for ' mathematical education is father a mys-1 Cff'i Artillery Corrs is transferred as protection, and this was now closed to them. The only way around the barricade was through a gap in a stone, wall, through rlI-ovreH foe himself n r,Mt mimWl of things which the leading mathema- m?,"a1erk,;!l,l-S8&,,;ia"nwl,, , ,i.i.. f ,,. .., ,j- .., i,i Maj Mervyn C. Buckey will report to tlclans of the last hundred years had I commanding officer, coast defenses r.r added to the knowledge of schoolmen. San Frtrhcisco. for duty at Fort V rleld ier. arm ,nt. nrsi i anew 01 mm was willtam A Covington from lKth to about fifteen months ago when he wrote iicth Compnnv to me explaining who he was, and sent, Charles 11 Hilton from Sixty-first to large number of remarkable raathe atical theorems which he had proved." lXth Companv which but one horse could pas. at a j i-al theorem iw hichl .t&l?& mt''a'& time. I This Is the second mathematical genius John p Spurr from Xln.ty.fo,Irth to While crowding about this gap the ' Produced by India In the last three years jj compani Federals were ridden down by the At tne end of 1911 the members of the Edwin C Long from Twenty-seventh Tt.n Ti,.,. ,.1. ... . ., .v I Roval Asiatic Societv held a sDeciallv- to Tw-ntv -ninth Com Dan v n hut w.r. nv.-t.ir.,.. ... .v, . conv ened meeting at Colomo. when thev . r'l)i Henri- r Merriam. Coat Art'' ler Oorp. Is relieved from comma-d hnt . .,i....b v 1 wrrti :ninunni nv rn nninmii -a 1 .. - . m uur... cunciiurrru. in every in- -- -' - - i ritw states army mine planter 1 o- stance the men who surrendered were Power or a Tamil boy, Arumogan A rjeorge Armlstead. and Is assigned t the shot down. complicated series of sums had been pre- S-xty-first Company. When the Rsntrers mrfe off thev wt ' pared 1 1 test the boy's powers, each of First Lieut. Thomas C Cook. C 1st thirteen men amon fallen : erals had ecaped. n the Rangers rode oft? they left ' Pa"a ' l"i me Doys powers, earn 01 r 1 "e"i. 1 1 n dead and two mortally wounded! whlch ne answered within a few seconds m"n'!,'r''f l-,n-' mong the score or more who had 0n sum na- " ch'"' cave as a treat jer. Col G by tlw wall. The rest of the Fed- to ,TI Pe00 a bushel of rice each Each r lBried to the pen One Incident of the attack Is thus told by a Confederate writer: William C. Patterson, a. Rans-er. mirMeri ttire T-et erals. two of them Jumped their horses ond came the answer (which had Artillery Corps, now in temporal nlted Mates artm mine George Armlstead ! as- rarmannnl rnrnmwd ,Vi. uuBuei cumamea d,.i grains, ana iae 01 OPHELIA'S SLATE 5?, 3 road the officers in command of it forced the wagons loaded with wounded to trive them the richt of wav. which was done. A good many of the thousands of the Union wounded at Gettysburg were brought to Philadelphia war hospitals by railroad trains. The nearly 6,000 dead in blue and gray who lay over the sunny fields at Gettysburg gave the opposing armies far less worry than did the hosts of wounded. -That's why I have said the real aim in battle is to hurt, not to kilL Girard. in Philadelchia ftihlie -jiedger. fftr.MJ.V-HT - over a wall. Patterson was close be hind the third when his horse stum bled and fell. The Federal wheeled and fired with his carbine, sending a bullet through Patterson's hat He then start ed to ride the Ranger down, but Pat terson fired at him with a revolver, kill ing him. The man acrrled a bundle In which, wrapped In some bedclothlng, was a quantity of silverware and Jewelry. Aecnsntlons of Cruelty. As a result of this affair. Gen. Sher idan determined to carry out a severe program against the residents of the valley who gave aid or comfort to Mos by Householders between the army's rear and the mountains were now never free of apprehension. They attributed their harsh treatment to natural ruth lessness In the Yankees. Their reports of the activities of the Federals were filled with bitter accusations The events! aoout uerryvine here described In part fixed the men of Sheridan's cavalry In their minds as thieves and oppressors. A distinction between military necessity and unrestrained license does not appear to have been made by all the Federal troopers from the evidence presented by the residents of that section of the val ley. A correspondent of a Southern paper reported the visit of the Federal cavalry as follows "In Clarke County they arrested and carried off every male citizen of Berry ville. the county seat except five, and pave m- uuiheu me llc mansion OI 101. rcu Morgan and Messers. Province XlcCor mlck. Carter Shepherd and William Sowers. They arrested Rev H. Suter and paroled him, and they went Into h's house and destroyed and carried off everything he owned. leaving his family perfectly destitute of all their personal effects. "They treated Rev Charles White and family (who reside near Berryville) in a similar manner Before they applied the torch to Mr. McCo-mlck's house Mr. Brown (his daughter) started upstairs to get her Infant when she was stopped. IShts was eventually permitted to get her child, not however, until they had bruised her arms and nearly torn off one ot her fingers In the attempt to take therefrom a diamond ring. Their pres ence and actions at the residence of Dr. Shenherdson caused the death of his esti mable and accomplished wife, who was HI at the time." To what degree these accusations were true It Is not needful to Inquire fifty years after the event but the conditions that gave rise to them display the bru tality of war In a light that brings out by contrast the blessings At peace. (Ooprntbt, 1)11) Tomorrow 1 Sheridan's hrmr Is baited, at Charlestown. chetty stipulated that IT per cent should First Lieut Henry R. Weston Medi a be given to the temple. How manv grams JJ?erye CWS- now at San Fran, isr did the temple get" Within thre- sec-' ' ' rSItY.2L ftSact,re d.al ''Vh! .O tinnn th. .TntnMnn rt ,K Imp. nf a K be translated), 100,911.709 with X as the fence. fraction over I Leave for three months and ten dav Among other questions were the follow- Is granted First Lieut. Henrv W Wes- )nK. 1 ton. Medical Reserve Corps, upon his ar- "Add together UK. and -j "Jif uSit, George E. Stallman. dental -m-533- surgeon, is relieved from Fort Sam 'Multiply 15.9S3 by Kl.TM Houston. Tex . and will proceed to San "Find the fifth root of t3.3C.357 "What weight of water is there In a room flooded two feet deep, the room be ing 18 feet 9 Inches by I' fe-t 4 inches. Francisco. Cal . and sail November 5 for Honolulu, Hawaii. First Lieut Truman D Thorpe. United States army, retired, is relieved from duty at Wentworth Military Academy and a cubic foot of water u etching C 1-2 Lexington. Mo., to take effect August 3) pounds'" j First Lieut. Edward Dow die. Medical To all of them Arumogan gave the cor- Re?erf. Corps. Is ordered to active dutv rect answers within i few- seconds. Tit- and wl" Proceed to Fort Ontario, N Y rect answers within a lew seconds. Tit- y , L1 , Harlow G Farmer. Medl- ia. Morning Smiles. Iral Reserve Corps, Is ordered to act'vn TOuty. and will proceed to Madison Bar- Tlrond Hope. "Don't keep pestering me " "Then you won't marry m I wouldn't een be engaged to you at I quartermaster of the a summer resort.' Courier-Journal The Latest Style. racks v. Y. Capt. Edwin J Nowlen. Twentv-elchth Infantry, will report to Col August is P Blocksom, Third Cavaln presto- ' of an army retlrlns board at Fort Sam Houston, Tex . for examination Capt Frederick G Stritzinger Jr viuanermasier t-orps. is designat. 1 lomt mnn- i-er camp to be held at Ashlind Xebr Au gust Zl to September i. Capt Stnrz ne-r will make such visits to Ahand and re- film 1ft fimarm VK na Via nAr "Lan sakes. where did Hi Meddet's 1 gary. boy get them outlandish clothes'" "He's ' Leave for seven days Is granted Second Just came home from kollldge an' I sup- Lieut Joseph P Aleshlre. Sixth Cialrv pose that s one o' those New Haven lFlrt Lieut Joseph V Kuznik S venth suits that e read so much about nowa- g'j ,s transferred to th- Twelfth das '-Buffalo Express. for one TOOnth ,s znitA Capt . , . . .Charles C Burt Coast Artlller Corps I nlncliy Stone. Leave for two months Is granted SlaJ ..... .., , . . ..- Peter C Field. Medical Corns inicu-i um. n a i..ow .., i.,v, ln, n., ,,' ,; .! rv..,. girl an engagement ring or t-dwarrl M Tnihntt -vr.i.i -.,r. opals." Slllicus "Gracious' Viasnt it The following officers recently appolnt- unlucky?" Cynicus "You bet It was' She el in the Corps of Engineers from cadets married him." Judge. of the United States Military Academy are assigned to duty as follows What Alls Jones. I Is the matter with NAVAL ORDERS. commissioned A Line o Cheer Each Day o' th' Year. (Written exrrettlr for Tbe Herald.) Br JOHN KENDItlCK BANGS. Knlcker What Jones' Bocker If he takes a vacation, they Capt. C B Morgan. nnn.w hAW k. .an a f t nrA M a nrt If h. . frOtll JUlV 1. 1914 dr.n;rnwonler " h" accoun, sss s& straight-kludge. , MVe. Lieut F. J Fletcher, detached receiv ing ship at New York, to wait orders. Lieut J. M. Stevens, commissioned from March 5. 1914 Lieut. (Junior grade) J. M. Keester, commissioned from June 5. 1914. Lieut- (Junior grade) H A. Badt com missioned from June 6, 1914. Lieut. (Junior grade) R C. Williams, commissioned from Jun 5. 1914. Lieut (Junior grade) R. S. Robertson. Jr . commissioned from June 5. 1914. Lieut (Junior grade) J. R. Barry, com missioned from June 7., 11 11 Lieut (Junior grade) C. H. Maddox, commissioned from June 3. 1914. Lieut. (Junior grade) John Borland, commissioned from June u. 1914. Lieut (Junior grade) J. J Saxer, com missioned from June J. 1914. MARINE CORPS ORDERa -4taJ. Harry Lee. detached duty of division marine officer, fourth division Atlantic fleet, to Fifth regiment Second Lieut L. II. Miller, commis sioned July L THE USE OF TEARS. (Copjrira-- mu You ask me It my tears Are sprung from hidden fears. Or some deep pressing woe. And I, I answer NO! Today's Soul-Cleaning Day, And shedding tears my way Of washing wholly out All trouble, fear, and doubt And every tear that flows Adown my cheeks and nose. To drop oS from my chin. Leaves room for Joy wlthla. , ' I M i -..i