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MONDAY. O'rOBER 9, 1316.
A Line o' Cheer Each Day o' the Year.
By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
PIst printing of an original poem, written daily
for The Washington Herald.
TME GOFT OF TTM
Time cannot pause to wait on us.
Yet while he speeds along his way
A gift of hours right glorious
He grants afresh each passing day,
And none's so poor In place or deed
That Time forgets him and his need.
(toyst, Ms.;
"Dancer's Lost Feet Worth $to,ooo Each."
Headlhe At that rate the boys in the trenches
would soon bankrupt the world.
What has happened to Mr. Bryan? He hasn't
been on the first page for some time-and right
in the middle of a Presidential election, too.
With the price of milk going steadily sky
werd, the cows soon will be housed in satin
lined boudoirs and fed by silk-stockinged valets.
Could it be that "Pancho" Villa is growing
that "big black beard" in the expectation that
Mr. Hughes will occupy the White House for
the ment four years?
When you come to consider all the things
our Presidential candidates are willing to do if
given a chance to live in the White House, they
are cheap at half the price.
Should it so happen that women are given
the right to vote and hold office, what would
happen to the "movie" patrons if Mary Pickford
got elected to Congress?
Come on, Maj. Pullman. and follow the ex
ample of Detroit's new chief of police. He has
just donated his entire salary to establish a
bonus system. And $5,ooo a year besides.
The So per cent of railroad workers who were
not benefited by the enactment of the Adamson
bill will demand of Congress legislation that
will give them a fair deal, according to P. K.
Walden, of Chicago, a railroad employe. Is the
best way to gain that point to re-elect Mr.
Wilson?
"It is believed he intended to kill himself," is
the concluding sentence of a dispatch from Mon
tana telling of a man who ignited a stick of
dynamite, reposed upon it and quit existence so
difused that the services of an undertaker were
not required. The conclusion seems justified by
the event.
A London, England, minister who was fined
for violation of the regulations regarding the
use of lights at night, entered the unique de
fense that the light from the harvest moon
was brighter than that by which he was read
ing. And still no steps have been taken to
censor the offending moon.
Little sympathy is deserved by the English
woman who recently became a charitable charge
thnough her fondness for keeping prize cats.
It was testified at the hearing in London that
she frequently had as many as 1oo 'blue ribbon
felines in her home at once. And hundreds of
starving babies almost at her front door, too.
Since the British "tanks" have gained such
popularity on the Somme battle front, the in
genuity of the soldiers has been put to it to
find apt and unique appellations for the land
Dreadnoughts. Here are a few reported by a
London correspondent at the front: Land Dread
nought, Old Tchthyosaiurus, Giant Toad, Motor
Monster. "Jabberwock with eyes of flame," the
"Hush-hush" (in reference to the need for
secrecy before it made its astonishing debut),
Touring Fort, Traveling Turret, Whale, Slug, Boo
jum. Very good for the English, but there is
something decidedly appealing in the French
designation, "Creme de Menthe."
Chairman Vance McCormick of the Demo
cratic National Committee, in an editorial in his
own newspaper, the Harrisburg Patriot, pays
tribute to Henry Ford and his declaration for
President Wilson. "When a concern like his
can reap profits of $z,ooo,000 a week for
a year, can pay perhaps the highest wages in
that class of industry and can market a product
that has brought comfort, pleasure, and money
to hundreds of thousands of persons, all over
the world, a laugh is much too foolish a weapon
to get him out of the court of public opinion."
To all of which everybody will subscribe, but It
mm,.e with singular grace from a man. who, as
smayor of Harrisburg vetoed a bill that would
gie the city laborers a decent wage-not half
what is paid in the Ford plants. A season in
politics has evidently brought about a conver
sion, none the less welcome, if it is somewhat
delayed.
Presumably every nation whatever its ecden
Mc Ipientiveness and skill has more or less
tseg~ with and uncertainty about its arma
me~dynamics and feels complete confidence.!.
Sstruments for projecting heavy explosives
sif ater the most rigid test. But does any
eer nation carry the business of armament
bunhng and using, in invention in manufac
Lur and in first employment, so frbeyond the
syy~ap mecidents of testing and so near the
condiw of gropgigexprmsenttion as does
The Gred Fas P~r hejed.
Before committing any body of itisens to
shoulder the burden of a large debt, the project
calling for the expenditure should be well sifted
and all the facts weighed. Especially is this so
when there is even a reasonable chance of the
ultimate cost mounting steadily higher, without
a corresponding increase in usefulness. Appar
ently the boosters for the Great Falls power pro
ject have not given this phase of the matter as
much thought as it demands. It was not to be
expected that the Federal engineers would so
particularly deep into the ultimate cost, being
more concerned with the engineering possibili
ties of the proposition; but the District Commis
sioners and the various civic bodies who have
lined up behind the Langhtt report owe a duty
to every citizen of Washington, no less than to
the nation at large, to move carefully before
advocating the expenditure of money, of which
$3,000,000 (the initial appropriation asked), would
be only the beginning.
Careful analysis of the facts develops that
omissions in estimates for (minor?) details would
make the total greater by more than $2ooo,ooc
than fgured in the report. And as these omis
sions can be picked by a layman, before the pro
ject has been started, it is safe to assume that
once the work is under way, the engineers may
meet with unforeseen emergencies which still fur
ther will Increase the total.
To begin with, the Langftt report contains
no estimate for installation of a street lighting
system to utilize the hydroelectric power. This
item would amount to about $1,250,000, judging
from the cost in other cities. Then, the available
horsepower given in the government report is
not the available horsepower that can be de
veloped and used, but the shaft horsepower de
veloped by the water turbines and before any
deduction has been made for losses in generating,
transmission and transformation of hydroelectric
energy. About 20 per cent would be lost in
conversion alone, that is in changing the alter
nating current into direct current such as is used
by the government at present. Either this or
change the fixtures, which forethe electric fans
now in use alone, would amount to $64,ooo.
Of the 3,oo acres it is contemplated using
for a reservoir, about one-half would have to be
cleared of timber. Estimating this cost at $i6o
an acre (given by another government engineer),
this item would total $24o,ooo. The Langfitt
report does not contain such an item. Another
$25,ooo might be added for rock borings and
test work-not included in the Langfitt report.
The report estimates that $1,5oo,ooo will cover
the cost of the necessary land and water rights,
but past experience teaches the lesson that Im
proved property cannot be obtained very cheaply
and the holdings of one or two individuals could
rot be purchased at present for that sum. No
allowance has been made for interest during the
construction period, which allowing three years
at 4.5 per cent would add $502,062 to the bill.
Taking into consideration these omitted items,
amounting to more than $2,oooooo, it is estimated
the cost per horsepower (peak load) developed,
would be about $438.2o for the partial develop
ment. The average unit cost per horsepower
developed by large waterpower projects in this
country is slightly in excess of $too per horse
power.
Then again no account is taken in the Lang
fitt report of the cost of land for substations
for the distribution of power. This item might
easily total $5oo,ooo more. A steam auxiliary
plant for use when the water at the falls is low
is mentioned in the report, but no estimate of
cost is made. Such a plant likely would cost
about $3,000,000.
In figuring out the saving to be effected for
the government, the Langfitt report mentions a
load factor of 67 per cent, which does not in
clude commercial lighting or power for the street
railway systems or suburban roads. In 1913 the
local power company, supplying all these de
mands, had a load factor of only 35 per cent.
Were the figuring done on a basis of 45 per cent
load factor or anything near that, the saving
mentioned in the government report would
dwindle into such an insignificent total as could
not by any stretch of the imagination justify the
expenditure of the millions the government is
asked to spend.
It would seem that there is a chance here for
a little further inquiry before the power plan
receives the indorsement of official and civic
representatives of the District.
War Prosperity.
That the present prosperity of the United
States is due in large measure to the European
war seems to be clearly shown by figures com
piled by the Democratic administration, and sent
broadcast by the Republican National Committee.
Seventeen articles entering into the manufacture
of actual munitions, foodstuffs and various sup
plies for the great armies of Europe, have con
stituted this year 64.7 per cent of the total ex
ports of this nation. During 1914, these articles
constituted 31.7 per cent of the total exports.
During the fiscal year, 1914, when normal condi
tions prevailed, the exports of these seventeen
articles amounted to $781,173,390. During the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, with the war in
full blast, the exports of these seventeen articles
amounted to $2,732,2o3,247. The 'gain in the ex
portation of these seventeen articles alone
amounted to $1,951.029,857. That gain would pay
the wages of over a million and three quarter
men for a year at $3-50 a day 'for each working
day. So much for the export trade in war muni
tions and supplies. But the other side of the
slate is equally important. While there has
been this tremendous gain in supplies for the
armies, there has been a falling off in other
lines. The loss in ordinary exports-as dis
tinguished from war exports-for the fiscal year
of 1916 amounted to $2o8,316,s08. Should the
sudden ending of the war result in the return of
war exports to the normal, therefore, the total
loss probably would reach the amount of
$2,7oo,o00,ooo.
We have had plenty of railway supervision in
the pest-too much of it, when one considers
that all the States have their own separatesi
tems, on top of the Federal system. Why a
not the time come to try a little less desfructive
sy-stem and a more constructive one, in which
the community would have some say in thewa
of advising policies that would help the railroas
and the publhc, as well? Too much of the province
of government, in this country, in the past, has
been in the way of punishment. It is time to
stimulate the better function of government; that
of constructive help, encouragement, constant im.
poemen~ fo tha beelt of the whole comn
FaeIhg in Gwusny.
or Jo0lt D. manmy. 7
The young soldier that I talked with in a
cafe yesterday came from Schleswig-HolsteinI
and he bore a Danish name; but he was thor
oughly German in spirit and he expressed the
German point of view. He had been amongi
those who walked tIlmugh Belgium during the
first few weeks of the war. When I asked what
he thought of entering a neutral country in that
way he replied: "I didn't think anything about
it. I did what my government told me to do.
It was explained to us that if we didn't go
through Belgium we should be attacked by Bel
gium and that was enough."
There was another Germas, a young man in
the diplomatic service, thak I discussed the same
subject with. He had been a student in Eng
land and he spoke English like a cultivated
Englishman. He said: "When your house is on
fire, and you are doing all you can to save it,
you don't hesitate to send men through your
neighbor's house even if you know you are going
to cause that house some damage. We believed
that we were to be attacked from several sides.
We had to save ourselves."
It would be easy to say that both the German
soldier and the diplomat were wrong and to con
demn them ruthlessly. But the easy way is not
always, it is not, in fact, usually the right way.
If people are to be judged at all they must have
some allowance made for their point of view.
And if such allowance is not made, who of us,
in the words of Hamlet, would escape whipping?
Those who deal severely with children, ex
pecting them to behave like grown-ups, show
that they are unfit to have the care of children.
But are nations to be considered as if they were
children, the great nations of the world? The
answer would seem to be "Yes." The nations,
notably the great nations, act like children; they
show the same determination to have their own
way, the same willfulness in their relations with
one another. Their standards are much lower
than those of individuals, much more frankly
selfish and tyrannical. If individuals did what
great nations often do, they would be regarded
as criminals and subjected to the odium of pun
ishment.
The powers at war are behaving curiously
like children. They are exonerating themselves
and putting the blame elsewhere. Their self
justifications are leading them to amazing ex
tremes. Killing one can understand on account
of its long association with warfare; but there
are meannesses and pettinesses coming out of
the war that, if they could be fastened on indi
viduals, would be regarded as lamentable expres
sions of character. What individual, with any
self-respect, would think of rifling his neighbor's
private letters? And yet private letters of people
belonging to even neutral countries are contin
ually rifled.
The truth is that when nations go to war they
enter the realn of madness. No longer are they
responsible. Their justifications are mere be
trayals of the extremes to which they are car
ried by their feelings. To blame them, to try
to weigh responsibility, is mainly waste of time.
Essentially they are all alike. The most impor
tant task for the world in this matter of warfare
is to limit as far as it can the opportunities for
the nations to run amuck. But work cannot be
done in wartime. It belongs to the time of
peace. When a man is mad the doctors try to
cure hini; when he has recovered they try to
show him those ways of living that are most
likely to keep him from a boring relapse.
Just now it is plain enough that Germany
wants peace. But will she be allowed to have it?
Surely not! What is the reason? The main
reason is that England will not have peace, save
at the price of victory. "It's a great pity you
didn't let England give you a thundering good
beating at Skagarrak," said a New York fournal
ist to one of the German diplomats here in Ber
lin recently. "Then. England might have been
ready to consider peace."
Meanwhile, the Germans keep saying: "All we
want is to be let alone." There is an annexation
party here, to be sure, determined to hold Bel
gium and the occupied parts of France and to
make Poland either a German dependency or an
independent kingdom under Germany's protec
tion, a buffer state. But this party is in the
minority. There is a general feeling that Poland
must not be returned to Russia's control, and it
looks now as if it would not be and as if its
long hoped-for independence would come at last;
but there is no strong feeling in favor of holding
any part of France or Belgium.
It is well to keep in mind the record of the
party in power in considering the widely dis
cussed and nonpolitical aspects of the quesion
of how to lower the price cost of living. The
purely economic aspects of the matter have been
missed entirely by the administration that has
not lifted a finger to better the conditions that
it so vauntingly laid to the charge of the Re
puhlican party. The increase of retail prices
is a matter that will be laid before the Federal
Trade Commission, as well as a survey of the
increase of living costs generally throughout the
country. It is to be repeated that upon the
coming of the Democrats into power the Repub
licans had made progress toward study of the
higher food costs and were preparing to offset
the economic trend in that direction by such
leg slation as might prove remedial. It is to be
hoped that the trade commission will acquaint
itself with what the Republicans had already
done and be guided thereby in its own investiga
tion and recommendations--Baltimore American.
Would Mr. Wilson ever have been heard of in
politics without Col. Harvey's assistance? Col.
House, chief loafer about the throne, did not
meet the present autocrat until long after Col.
Harvey had made his path straight and smooth
to \\ashington. It was Harvey who dragged
Prof. WVilson forth from academic shades where,
if reports be true, the professor's status on ac
count of temperamental peculiarities was not alto
gether comfortable, and put him in the gover
nor's chair at Trenton. And, with all due re
spect to the colonel's enterprise and his possible
belief that he was tendering a public service we
have not yet forgiven him entirely for his part
in the affair and the country still feels that he
had his Harveyired nerve to inflict such a bur
den upon it.--Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
The Wilson-O'Leary controversy in its ulib.
mate result is likely to prove disappointing to
the Wilson campaign managers. It carries the
atmosphere of the old-fashioned camzpaign "liter
ature. It is altogether unconvincing. As a mat
ter of cold fact, the O'Leary controversy is just
plain politics-polities and nothing more. And,
worse yet, it is un-American politics, deplorable
from every aspect. It is the sort of partisani
ship which no national administration should
countenance and, which the great mass of Amer
ican citizens will resent. The 'incident is an
unhappy one from e eviewpoin, d ti
il5hthe Wilson og
ARMY AND NAVY EW
Newfeevle ehi.ma
The nW .1.00-foot dry dock at Velboa.
Canal Zone, and the 4,0O-ton ogallng
pant at Cristobal, now are in full oper
%tion, according to advices received hare.
Both are being used for comerdal
.hips passing through the Panama CanaL
The cruiser Charlston. which had been
stationed at the Atlantic entrance since
the last German crisis. now is being Over
hauled and given extensive repalra in the
dry dock.
The dry dock is 1.000 feet long by 110
feet wide. having the same dimensions
as the chambers of the locks. It will
accommodate the largest ships In the
world, and even at this stage of aeMple
tion baa handled one vessel drawing
thirty-three feet of water. It has a
depth over the blocks of thirtyfve feet
at mean tide, or forty-five feet at high
tide. It is an integral part of the ter
minal shope and foundries. Together
they can do practically any sort of ship
repair wokk.
The new coaling plant at Cristobal,
which hag an emergency storage cape
city of nearly i00,000 tons, which may be
increased indefinitely in connection with
land storage alongside the plant, has
been designed with especial regard to
naval uses. Its ability to deliver &.0
tons of coal an hour to a ship will make
it theoretically possible for a whole giet
to coal there in twenty-four hours for an
extapsive cruise.
The Sane & Triest Company, which is
erecting a lighthouse on Navassa Island.
off the coast of Haiti. for the United
States Lighthouse Service, has estab
lished a radio station and it Is expected
that the lighthouse service will continue
its operation after the light is placed In
use.
Navassa lies off the coast of the pe
ninsula, forming the southwestern ex
tremity of Haiti. directly on the course
of ships plying between the Isthmus and
North Atlantic ports by way of the Wind
ward Passage, to the east of Cuba. It
is usually the first land sighted by ships
from Colon making direct for the pas
sage, but. having an elevation of only
approximately "0 feet and being with
out distinctive features, It Is hardly
visible at a greater distance than twenty
miles. Ships pass on either side of It.
although generally to the eastward. and
with the increase in traffic in the Carlb
bean. the light will be a valuable aid.
The establishment of the light marks
the beginning of the execution of a policy
on the part of the United States to erect
suitable aids where needed at some dis
tance from the canal to assist ships going
to and from the ,anal.
Naval officers are interested in the
report that the British government con
templates mounting 18-inch guns on Its
newest super- Dreadnoughts, at least one
of these powerful weapons having been
built under direction of the ordnance e2
parts of tie admiralty.
This repor'ed move on the part of the
British government. considered in con
nection with the decision of the Navy De
partment to mount 16-Inch guns on the
four new battleships in this years Ameri
can naval building program, accentu
ates the rapid strides that have been
made in naval ordnance and gunnery
during the last decade. It means that
with better shooting among the world's
principal naviea. and longer battle ranges,
it has become necessary to adopt bigger
guns to deal effectively with Dread
noughts at the distance at which sea bat
tIes are fought today.
Examinations for Marine Corps officers
to whom promo.tions are due, are being
held now at New York. Philadelphia. and
Norfolk. Promotion examinatIons also
are being held In Haiti. Santo Domingo.
Gusm, the Philippines and China.
Former Second Lieut. J. D. Nevins has
nualifled for reappointment as a second
lieutenant in the Marine Corps, under a
provision of the naval appropriation act.
WASHINGTON WOMAN
WRITES MILITARY AIR
One of the Interesting numbers of the
United States Engineer Band concert at
the Washington Barracks this afternoon
will be the premier rendition of a stirring
march, composed by Mrs. Russell M. Mao
Lennan, wife of Lieut. MacLennan, of
the Signal Corps, and dedicated to that
branch of the army service.
It is Mrs. MacLennan's first attempt
at musical composition, although she is
very well known In the social circles of
the Capital as an accomplished enter
tainer.
The march is appropriately entitled
"WIg Wag." and Is said by those who
have been privileged to hear it privately.
to have a catching martial swing Mem
bers of the League of American Pen
Women, the Short Story Club and the
National Service Club, of which Mrs
MacLennan Is a member, will attend the
concert.
OFFICIALS INVESTIGATE
TUBERCULAR CHILDREN
According to the ruling providing for
the segregation of tubercular pupils, the
health officials are making a careful in
vestigation in the public schools with a
view to discovering cases of the disease.
Those obliged to be segregated will be
sent to open-air schools. which will be
provided for at an early date by the
Board of Education.
The work will not end with the plac
ing of the child in the open-air school.
He will also be given an appropriate diet
and will be taught to keep himself as
free as possible from conditions which
encourage the propagation of the dis
ease as well as to be careful not to spread
It to others with whom he may come into
contact.
HMPLSON FACE
ITOIED AND OREO
Daymad .ih Spread Covering
Faceuand ec.Face Disfigured
Very Much. In Two Weeks
HEALED BY CUTICURA
SOAP AND OINTMENT
"My troble began with a few'little
pmples comng on myface. In a few
dys it began to spred.covering all my
face and neck. They were
irritated and would fester
and come to ahead. I could
not sleep, they itched and
burned day and night, arid
9 y face was dis6gured very
much kir the tine being.
"The trouble lasted
relief in awsd oe cae o
Cuticura So. p and one bxof Cuticura
Ointment, and in two week as hele
entirely-"(Signed) Roy Banks, R. F.LD,1,
Milton. Ky., Jan. 25,196
Saample Each Freby Mail
With M 41 .a .- a
31w York, Oct. $.-Repubflm *"P
managers are importuning Th*"'"r
RoeGGvelt to give himself abneet Masi
dweIl to speaking for Chartes Evans
Hug' between now and election day.
Nown is wanted to go into Now Mexico
and Arisons. where the Republim=n think
they have a chance to eeet two United
Sutes Senators. George W. Poaris
has joined with Williazn I. WUiloo.
chatran of the Republican Nationls
Committee, in urging Mr. Roosevelt to
make more speeches than he bad in
tended.
The fact that Mr. Hughes is scheduled
to make an open-air address in Newark
tomorrow noon has caused comulderable
criticism at Republican headuarters. One
of the exactions made in preparng the
itinerary of the third trip Mr. Hughes
is to make is that he be Not asked to
sake open-air speecbe. Mi experience
In'the West and the fact that he was in
danger of losing his voice before he com
pleted his second tour have alarmed the
Republican campaign managers. Mr.
Hughes Is also opposed to making such
addresses. The arrangements for the
Newark meeting were in charge of ver
ett Colby. New Jersey Progresilve.
Hagerstown. Md., Oct. .-The nal
touches are being put on the preparations
for the big interstate fair which will open
here next Tuesday, when the chief at
traction will be the Republican candidate
for President. Charles E. Hughes. A
record-breaking crowd for the opening
day is expected.
Albany, Oct. 8.-The Robert Bacon Sen
atorial League received 864739.46 and
spent 861.1s8.60 on its unsuccessful cam
paign to have Its candidate nominated
for United States Senator by the Repub
licans.
The Samuel Seabury campaign com
mittee records receipts and disbure
ments of $11,984.95. The largest contribu
tions to the Bacon committee were by A.
S. Cochran. Henry DeForest, George F.
Baker, R. P. Perkins, 35.000 each, atid
W. B. Thompson, K4,400.
New York, Oct. I-The Eastern Wom
Ien's Bureau of the National Democratic
Committee is rejoicing over the accesion
to its ranks of Emily G Balh. professor
of economics and sociology at Wellesley
College. Dr. Balch is one of the trio of
peace workers who agreed that under ne
circumstances would they take sides in
politics. The others are Miss Jane
Adda. of Hull House, Chicago, an4
Miss illian D. Wald, of Henry Stree
Settlement, New York.
Reports indicative of the appeal thai
the candidacy of Woodrow Wilson Ua
making to independent voters are being
received at headquarters from all se
tions.
No more significant or impressive sig.
of the trend of current political thought
is furnished in the present campaig.
than these daily announcements of Influ
ential Progressives. former Republicana
and independent voters who are rallying
to the Wilson standard. says the head
quarters officials.
8,609 WOXEN WORK ON TRAINS
London Lines Hire 8.448 as on.
dueters, 176 as Drivers.
London. Oct. 8.-Peter Fisher, presideni
of the Municipal Tramways AssociatIor
announced today there are now 8.60
women employed on street cars of ht
company in London. Of these. 8.433 ar
conductors and 173 drivers. Thirty
eight per cent of the company's employe
'at the beginning of the war have nov
joined the military or naval forces. Th<
company has paid dependent, of thee
defending the nation. $4,2(0,00.
WARS ON ELEPHANT PESTB.
South African Governmaat sends
Out Band et Hunters.
Johannesburg. Oct. .-Because the far,
mors complained the animals destroyed
crops and had killed several persons. the
government of South Africa has oom.
missioned a band of hunters to kill or
part of the herd of 150 elephants in Addc
Bush. fifty miles from Port Elisabeth
This is the only herd now remaining it
Southern Africa.
TO FLY ACROSS OCEAN.
Swedieb Aviator Hopes to Cre
from Newfoundland to Ireland.
London. Oct. L-Capt. Hugo Sundstelt
a Swedish aviator. will visit New Yori
this month to superintend the construc
tion of a Curtiss aeroplane with six 25o
horsepower motors, which will be capable
of lying for thirty hours with three pas.
aengers.
The aeroplane is to make a flight fron
Newfoundland to Treland.
SCHOOLS A
Washington Conservatory of Musi
1212 Conn. Ave.
PRIMARY AND ADVANCED CIORSE&
Graded Courses in all Brnebe leading to Teach
ar's Certiflnte and Artist', Diles. Presoa
work in other schools credited.
E Ladolich (formerly of Petgrad, Rua"
Head of Violin Department.
Arthur S. Witomb, Cornet. Trumpet
lime. C. Curth Grant (Dresdent ianes.
bime. Iabel Carin Sbelle, Voic.
Dr. AIten (russels, Cello.
Mile. IAdorich. Aest. Viohn and IAterstme.
Mi.c Sales Dept. Mr. Yaehmkyl.
Viohns, Phonographs. Mode. Eta
Fr.. weekly Orhestral Gam.
Singing, Elocution.
MRS., EMILY FRI-CH BARNES.
10 llth et. ne. Pthone Line l3.
Tuesdays and Fri. 4 ist b i t.
Fairmont Seminary
SESSION BEGINS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER FOURTH.
Washington
College of Law
'TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
IOpens Sept. 29, at 7 P. M.
Three ters' coarse. LL It.
One. year rost graduate. LL. M
Ettal courses: Iuteritat nd F og ,.t U iee
F dral Trade Commmaton a*o interna~oa Ls.
TsI ssat either 4:R or d-3i . n
Teities, $65. Per Annmm.
ler intration or catalogne sopb to the Deam.
Offtee ers. 10 ts Gs30.
181V N. Y. Ave. Pbeme Main 45%
MR. AND 'IttE. IAC'D iroc:a .
3 ilyier l'. IS t. het e 1. an It nt.
SPm ANISHam.
NEW YOMK DAY ST DAY
Now York. ONi. L-9sgre dagere eW
banjo playes are oming back into the
own. They were crowded Into the bek
ground by the sudde popularity of the
Hawanan eukaale players and brefeo'
dancers as a feeture of life in the Cabi
ett.
In the past two weeks two big Ied (
way lobster halls have Intalled %
eboar-hued Quartets who thmp b
banjas and dag their msee es. 2hW
reason Is supplied by rears to popa
favor of Southern haLai.
After he had amused his anatamaan So
two hours the other night. Uwamed
Hitchcock chauffeured s, into a gOded
cabaret-he farntik the imenel Me
quirement while I ftrished the see
tite.
There was a greu e dd o"
there. They asng a eeng called Hi
siasippi Days"-just intredued to Breed
war-..e when they had enisebd they 4
fairly brought down the house. It vso
an indication of bow popular the tiont
of old-fashioned Southern song Is.
This one dealt with wasterse&e.
plantations. steamboats and levee. Alee
a new urinkle in the cafes is a tehom e
Page girl Formerly waitere called out 0
the name of the person wanted at the
phone Now a young girl walkn to th
tables and savs quietly: "Mr go and Ne
Is wanted at the phone." It is because
of the objections of prominent seen to
their names being yelled In sates that the
new Idea was born.
Michael Mamardi po4ed as a *e'wto
aire Kid. Instead he was a Cierk on
a hallroom income. When him Itene.
Miss Clara Collins. of the Brona, learned
the awful truth she dropped him a note
telling him that thus afterward he would
mean as much In her life as a speech
by Bryan at a brewer's oonventiolt
Michael went to her home all dolled
up He begged her to reconider. "No
I cannot.' she said "'You ae not the
millionaire I thought you were. We
must part forevermore " Out in the
street a tired htrdy-gurdy man was
grinding off -Heart& and Flowers "
"Then I sill end it all.' cried the young
man and he ran into the bathroom, open
ed the medicine chest and seized a bottle.
adding: "I die by poison "
He drank deer. but it wasn't posen
It was a hair tor-r with 67 per cent
alcohol and when the police arrtved
Michael was doing a buck and wing In
the middle of the bathIrob floor. Re
wan as happy as a lark.
"'his is not a suicide. said the copper.
"This here is a plain Jag."
Willie Vernon Cole. Christain Science
healer. who won in hie fight for a new
trial against the charge of illegally prac
ticing medicine. has been the subject
of much editorialization in New York
newrpapers this week. The trend of the
editorials wan to congratulate the Court
of Appeals upon Its decision
This shows the growth of the move
ment founded by Mrs. Eddy in New York
for only a few short yeare ago nearly
every New York newspaper treated the
church more in a bumorous vein tha&
seriously.
The effect of the eson in that the
State cannot make it a crime to treat
disease by prayer-either absent or pres
ent. Cole is himself a very rich man
He is an artist and sculptor of reputa
tion and his wife wee farmerly prominent
socially, but both became healers many
years ago after Mr. Cole Claimed to have
been healed of almost total blindness by
the Christian Sience method
The effect of war on womas*a gowns
is marked Michael the Fifth avenue
' tailor. is exhibiting Burgundy velveteen
suits with bullets embroidered in sitver
and steel around the waist and collar
to reprsent the firirg line. There Is
a dashing Red Cross ereet about the
a and sleeves also And the m e~trp
model Is quite au fatt.
What Woul They layl
What would they May,
I wonder.
The old mountebanks
Balsac,
Catullus.
Chaucer.
Boccacclo
If they knew
That these modern word mongers
Were chopping up indifferent prose
Into odd length&.
And selling t to the re-pspapers and
magazines
At 25 cents
A line'
I rather 'marine
They wnu;d he green w:th er.''
H. T11OMPSON RICH :r Bruno v
Weeky
If one ho-1 fails. find another-Palena
riheetx Marml
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Law School
Begians Its 32nd !ear Sept. 27, 01
4.50 P' -'.
Members of the Asaociation Pf Amer
ican Law Schools. which requires strict
utandari for e-trance and course.
This ensures a sele-et student body and
maximum credit from other law schools
throughout the I'rited States for work
done in the school
Instruc-twn ascording to the most
w.dely hrrr-ed methods by profes
sional to. ier, t'"Ine" in the best
modern Iaw, whools and by lawyers In
active pra ctice.
Three-year course for L.. B. degree;
one-year postgraduate for LL. M. and
Mt. P. L.
F'orenoon enurse s-12. or afternoon
6:50-6 30. Ortonal chanses 7 ES-8:40 a mn.
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