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SIGNAL CORPS MEN
GET A SHAKING UP
First Experiences on Horseback
Bring Laughs From
Spectators at Warren.
SEVERAL PROMOTIONS
AND APPOINTMENTS MADE
Heading Matter Supplied to District's
Soldiers?Field Hospital
^ Has Toad Mascots.
by j. crosby McCarthy.
' O. M. D. C. Camp. Warren. Ariz., July
17.?A large percentage of the men of
the Signal Corps Company. O. M. D. C.,
encamped here, has a lot to learn about
horseback riding. This was evident when
the first section of the company took its
first field practice on horseback. It de
veiopea tnat a numner or me men never
had done any real horseback riding and
that they knew practically nothing about
saddling a horse. Capt. Terry, commanding
the company, is not a bit discouraged,
however, for he knew that among the
men of his company who are experts in
telegraphy and other signalling work
there were many who were unversed in
caring for and riding a horse.
Some of the men had to be taught how
to put a bridle on their horse and practically'
all of them needed instruction in
the art of saddling their mount properly.
The only tnen who were able to do this
unassisted were those who have been in
camps before, with the company and one
or two others who were born and raised
in the wftt and know how to handle
horses.
The first group of men of the company
to go into the field on horseback was a
I section composed of men selected from the
four sections of the company. Capt. Terry
went "along to instruct the men. Sergt.
Tttler. Stable sergeant of the company,
also went along.
_ Horses Are Borrowed.
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Capt. Dodge of the 22d Infantry, who
has been assigned to duty as inspector
and instructor, for the militia encamped
at this' place, assisted in showing the
green men how to adjust the saddles on
thi#r . mounts properly. The horses used
ete^soine. borrowed from the 22d. It is
reported here that the regular allotment
or norses ana mines ror the signal corps
Company and also the field hospital of
the O. M. D. C. are now on their way
from Fort Sam Houston. Tex.
The men were instructed as to the adjustment
of th%ir Stirrups and how to
handle- the reins. Then they were
shown how to mount, and following
this came instruction as to how to get
their mounts into the simpler marching
formations.
Capt. Terry then started with his
men through the "town of Warren and
through Black Gap toward Xaco. When
they reached the flats to the south of
here a "bull ring" was formed and they
were instructed as to the proper manner
of sitting in their saddles.
Cafct. Terry took his position at a
central point and formed his men in a
circle around him. First he had the
men walk their horses around the ring
and then bring them to a trot. Then
the men were told to walk their horses,
but to keep their feet out of the stirrups.
Then came an order to trot with
the feet out of the stirrups.
Siding Highly Amusing.
This proved to be^a difficult task for 1
some of the men. who were forced to '
catch hold of the pommel of their saddies
with both hands to keep from fall-I
ing "overboard." They flopped about in '
their saddles in a manner that was:
highly amusing for the few experienced
riders of the section and received a
thorough shaking up.
Further instruction in mounting and
dismounting then followed. After about
t wo hours' work many of the men, who 1
were very "green" when they started j
out from camp, had begun to catch on i
to the art of riding. Capt. Terry!
brought them home by a round-about !
route, which carried them through I-.it- !
tie Gold Gulch, making the entire dis- i
lance ridden about eight miles.
Some of the men were a little bit.
sore as the result of the ride, but all j
are anxiously awaiting an opportunity i
to go into the field again. One section j
will be taken out at a time until the j
full allotment of horses arrives, and j
then the company will go out in a :
body.
Capt. Terry has promised his men |
that as soon as they learn how to ride j
I and to core for their mounts he will i
take frequent hikes about this section
and will run telegraph lines to various
points hereabouts. Several overnight
trips are planned and a trip to N'aco,
which will permit a visit to the international
boundary line, also is in prospect, j
Number of Promotions.
V. number of promotions and ap- j
( ointments affecting men in the Signal j
Corps Company of rhe organized militia j
District of Columbia have been made !
since-the oiganization went into camp!
here Still further changes are to be
mad* in the near future, it is undersfood.
for several members of the company
are contemplating asking for discharge
on the ground that they have
dependent families and will be unable 1
to make both ends inject on the small
salaries received in tne service.
Sargt. Marshall M. Miller has been
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r^rp. William T. Bauskett, Jr., has been
promoted to the rank of sergeant.
Privates have been appointed to positions
in the company as follows;
Cdward I- Cooley, to sergeant: Ralph
Johnson, to corporal. Malcolm A. MacQueen.
to corporal; George K. Mac
'racken, to corporal; Henry K. Church,
to corporal, and De Forrest I,. Ormes,
?o corporal. Appointments of privates,
:o privates, first class, have been made
as follows Richard T Bent ley, Daniel
a. McCarthy. Fdward K Silvers. John J
p Scott. Harry F. Volkman, Carl i
Warmker. <'harles K. Welsh and
.lames A. Willis. Private Andrew Car- ;
rioo has b*-er? appointed cook
' Privates Silvers and Scott have been
assigned to serve as clerks at the post
exchange
Receives Handsome Bugle.
Private diaries K Welsh, jr. bugler of |
he Signal Corps Company, today received !
by express a handsome silver bugle pre- \
seated to*him by the Builders and Manufacturers'
Exchange of Washington, of
whteh hi- father is secretary. The bugle
r* ached camp carl> in the afternoon, and
Bugler Welsh sounded the first call on it j
C :*>? o'clock It happened that this
calf was the first for retreat The bugle
handsomely engraved and bears the
iftv of the donor. the recipient and the
date of presentation
tj?pt. Terry had his men busy this afternoon
making racks on which to hold
their saddles, saddle blankets and bridles.
The racks have been set up between the
teal* and the equipment is protected from
the weather by .canvas covers. Men of the
held hospital Unit spent the forenoon
' drilling and- in attendance at a school of
instruction conducted by Capt. Bogart.
Aji fcnvitwtion has been extended to all
he men of the two units encamped here
to utilize the pod! at the Y. M. C. A at
Biebee whenever (hey are in town. The
invitation was extended in behalf of the
'a aoctation today by 1,. R Carter, secretary'
of the boys' department The Bisbee
V M- C. A has two buildings, one for
i mtti and the other for boys Close by is
the V. W. C. A. building.
Supplies Beading Hatter.
i Secretary Carter brought a generous
J supply of magazines and other reading
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matter to the camps today for the men
and promised to have another lot ready
for distribution in a few days. He has
had considerable experience as a Y. M.
C. A. worker among soldiers. Recently
he went from the international border
south as far as the head of Gen. Pershing's
column. He rode in an army
motor truck and carried about two tons
of reading matter along with him for the
soldiers. On the truck with him were two
drivers and another soldier. Every one
in the party was armed, full army equipment
having been issued to Mr. Carter
before he started into Mexico. His trip
to Gen. Pershing's advance column and
return amounted to about 900 miles.
Percy, the pet "prairie boomer'' of
the field hospital, is dead. Too generous
a supply of lizards brought about
his end. A pet rabbit belonging to the
company also has passed to the great
beyond, but this does not mean that
the command is without a mascot, for
its airedale is still on the job, and the
company recently has come into the
possession of twenty-one horned toads.
The manner in which the latter were
acquired follows:
Private Frank J. Kotrba of the field
hospital unit prior to being ordered
into service was employed in the departments
of anthropology and zoology
of the National Museum in Washington.
He is well versed in zoology and
knows all kinds of crawling things by
their first names.
Carries Toads to Camps.
Kotrba set about to get a horned
toad as a mascot for his company,
and after a few hours search the other
day he was rewarded for his effort by
running across three of them. He
picked them up in a fearless manner
and brought them back to camp. A
box with a top of fly screen was provided
for them and then came the matter
of selecting names, for camp mascots
all have to possess names. Tom,
Dick and Harry seemed to be the
three most popular names, and with
due ceremony the toads were named
accordingly.
Sunday morning when Kotrba went
to the cage to give his pets the r daily
supply of flies he was astonished to
find eighteen little horned toads running
about. They were about the size
of a dime and about four times as
thick. All three of the adult toads
appeared to take a motherly interest
in the new arrivals.
Kotrba has been forced to find new
names for his pets. Tom, Dick and
Harry are totally inadequate. Mary.
Jane and Alice have been selected in
their stead.
Gets Men Out of Tents.
Top Sergt. Johnson of the Signal
Corps has struck upon a nne scheme ror
getting the men out of their tents in
the morning when assembly is sounded.
He has made a rule that the section
which is last in forming will receive an
extra 'trick of duty to perform as punishment
for its tardiness.
As the result of this rule Sergt. Johnson
is getting his sections in line these
mornings in readiness for setting-up
exercises in record-breaking time. The
first morning it was put into effect the
men came out of their tents as if shot
from a cannon. So eager were the ocMinants
of one tent to eret into line that
two of their number collided at the entrance
and went sprawling into the
company street.
The fourth section was the first
group of men to feel the effect of this
rule. One of their number was slow in
dressing and the whole section had to
suffer as the result. The extra work
consisted in digging a deep trench in
which to build an incinerator for burning
garbage. The tardy member of
section four was a very unpopular comrade
the remainder of the day.
Wood Supply a Problem.
Cutting two logs of hard oak wood
into stove length is the task assigned to
each member of the kitchen detail
every day. Obtaining a supply of fire
wood is one of the problems here at the
camp. There is no wood of burning
size for many miles around, and all the
wood that is used in this section has to
be hauled a great distance by train. It
sells for $13 to $20 a cord.
Members of the .Signal Corps are putting
the grand stand and bleachers in
the Warren base ball park to a newuse,
while one militiaman takes his
position in the pitchers* box and sends
wig-wag and semaphore messages to
his comrades, who take seats in the
stands.
PRINCE FELIX FOR SHORT.
Fifteen Names of Austrian Archduke
Conferred by Bishop Piffl.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.
VIENNA, June 31.?The latest son ol
the heir to the Austro-Hungarian
throne was formally christened with
great pomp at Schoenbrunn. June 8. and
given the modest total of fifteen names
to carry.
The young man probably will be
called Felix for short. Officially he is
now Archduke Felix, Frederick August,
Maria vom Siege, Francis Joseph. Peter,
Karl, Anton. Robert, Otto, Pius, Michael,
Benedict. Sebastian, Ignatius, Marcus
d'Aviano.
His sponsor or godfather was King
Frederick August or saxony, wno inane
h special trip to Vienna from hresden.
Am representative of the godmother
there officiated Countess hucchesi-Palli
(nee Princess of Parma). The solemn
service in the Maria Therese room Df
the palace at Schoenbrunn was conducted
by Cardinal and Princely Bishop
Ui. Pittl.
Archduke Felix was brought in to the
great room by tiie Countess Thun, with
the King of Saxony following close behind.
He lay, wrapped in silks, on a
silken pillow, quite contentedly as the
formal questions and answers were
spoken, and disturbed the ceremony
The witnesses included the emperor.
Francis Joseph, hut the baby's father,
Karl Francis Joseph, was absent in the
field. He has not as yet seen his son.
Japan Investigating Her Industries.
rorrr??poD<l?>iic* of the AsHrx-iatM Preae.
TOKIO, June ?The Japanese government
has inaugurated an exhaustive
investigation into the industrial and
commercial conditions of the empire,
including the causes of the change in
population, the occupations of the people.
the classification of the number
of persons In the public service and in
independent occupations, and an inquiry
into the problem of the unemployed.
The underlying idea is that of
devising means to develop Japans industrial
and commercial forces
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SURVEY SHIP SURVEYOR
PUT OVERBOARD TODAY
Vessel Building on Great Lakes Is
for Service on the Pacific
Ocean.
The I'nited States coast and geodetic
survey vessel Surveyor was
launched this morning at 11 o'clock at
the Manitowac Ship Building and Dry
Dock Company's yards, Manitowoc,
Wis., on Bake Michigan. She was
christened by Miss Elizabeth Brent
Jones, daughter of E. Eester Jones, sunerintendent
of the coast and sreodetie
survey. The vessel is to be used for
work on the Pacific and Alaskan
coasts and is to be finished this fall
in time to leave the great lakes before
the close of navigation, going then to
the Pacific coast through the Panama
canal.
The Surveyor is a steel steamer of
about 1.000 tons displacement, with
triple expansion engines, using oil for
fuel. She is built to accommodate
sixty-six officers and men arid carry
enough fuel and stores to remain at s6a
on a surveying cruise for three months
at a time without returning to her base
of supplies. The cost of the vessel,
fully equipped, is to be $240,000. which
would he increased GO per cent in case
a duplicate was required, owing to the
advance in the prices of the various
materials.
This vessel is the most modern type
j of boat ever built for the work of
surveying and safeguarding the waters
i for the protection of human life and
j commerce.
KEEFER SLAIN, VERDICT
Coroner's Jury Holds Young Man
Was Murdered by Unidentified
Person.
. | That Clarence Keefer. twenty-six
! years old. whose body was found iri a
1J woods near Michigan avenue and Sar;
gent road. Brooklarid, T>. the rnornj
ing of July 7. was murdered was the
J substance 01 a veraici 01 a coroner ?
jury at an inquest at the District
morgue this afternoon.
The jury determined in the verdict
that Keefer had come to his death from
gunshot wounds received while following
a person or persons unknown to
the jury. Detective Armstrong was the
i only witness heard today. He testified
J that the detectives have been investi|
gating the case, but have failed to loj
rate the perpetrators of the crime.
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Half-Brother Found Body.
Reefer's body was found by Charles
! Riser, a member of No. 6 truck com!
pany, a half brother, who had gone out
J to search for him, as he had not re!;
turned home the night before. The last
seen of Keefer alive was when he left
I his home, about 20ft yards from the
j scene of the crime, and announced his
I intention of following a couple into the
! woods.
j A man wearing a J'alm Beach suit
land a woman attired in a white waist
jand a black skirt, who, the police be,
I lieve. can throw some light on the
itiagedy. are being sought, hut no trace
! |of them can be found, except that they
jleft a Brookland carat *>d and G streets.
DAIRY MARKETS.
CHICAGO.
; CHICAGO, July 'Si.? Butter?No mari
ket.
i Kggs?No market; receipts, 11,470
j cases.
| Potatoes?Higher; receipts, twenty
[tars. Virginia, barreled, ii2.4Oa50: Virjginia.
bulk, HOaiM); Kansas, Missouri
[land Illinois. 7.">a80.
! Poultry ? Alive, lower; fowls, 1W4;
springs, l!la*J4.
NEW YORK. '
NEW YORK. July 22.?Butter?
Steady:: receipts II 2i-'I [lucks, ges;
creamery extras (92 score). 29: creamery
i higher scoring). 291ia30; firsts,
27a2XV,; seconds. 25a261s.
" Eggs" ? Irregular: receipts. 10.7S5
cases; fresh gathered extra fine, 27)ia
29; extra firsts. 2614*27; firsts. 25a26;
nearby hennery whites, fine to fancy,
29a33; nearby hennery browns, 29a31.
Cheese?Firm: receipts. 2.9SS boxes;
state fresh specials, 15*4; do., average
fancy. 1514.
I.lve poultry?steady; broilers. 22a2J:
fowls. M; turkeys. 15alS; dressed
priaM WKhanged.
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ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Commissioner Knight Warns
Police of Coming Perils.
NEW SITUATION NOV. 1
State Officials Will Watch for Violations
of "Dry" Law?Lightning
Burns Mt. Pleasant Store.
Special Correspondence of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va? July 22.?Lightning:,
last night, struck the store 01
Claude Oliver at Mount Pleasant. Bailey's
cross roads, Fairfax county. It
was destroyed by fire, together with its
contents, consisting of general merchandise.
The loss, it is estimated, will he about
$2,000. nartiallv covered bv insurance.
But eight days more remain before
Alexandria's compulsory sewer-tap law
becomes operative. As a result most of
the plumbers in the city have all the
j work they can handle for the present.
Many who have as yet failed to take
out the required permits for sewer taps
will do so during the coming week, as
the law becomes operative August 1.
It is hardly thought that all of the
work can be completed before late in
the fall of the vear.
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Police Warned by Commissioner.
Members of the police force were told
by Commissioner R. E. Knight at the
annual police inspection yesterday afteri
noon that conditions in Alexandria after
j November 1, when the state goes dry,
i are going to be changed.
The detectives who will report violations
! then, hes aid, will come here from other
(sections of the state. Border cities, he
j said, would be watched more closely than
I others. Mr. Knight directed the police
j to live up to the rules and regulations
! governing the workings of the depart J
ment.
In conclusion, he said he simply made
this statement as a friendly warning.
The inspection was made by Commissioners
Schwarzmann, Shinn and
Knight. Every member of the police
force, numbering twenty-three, was
! present. They were complimented by
j the members of the board on their
j splendid showing.
| Secretary Shinn also congratulated
'the police on the way they handled the
I crowd at the fire yesterday morning,
land told the police that hereafter they
{can obtain rope from the Relief hook
; and ladder fire apparatus to rope off
buildings where there is a fire.
Copies of the new rules and regula
S tions governing- the workings of the j
{force, recently adopted by the board, I
i were distributed to the men.
i Alexandria Lodge of Elks gave a crab
i feast at its home last night. The
I Columbia Fire Engine Company also
| gave a crab feast in the engine house.
Post for Dr. W. A. Warfield.
Dr. Walter A. Warfield of this city,
connected with the field hospital. Camp
Henry S. Stuart, Richmond," has been
appointed sanitary officer of that camp.
The class in first aid of the Alevandria
Chapter, American National Red Cross
Society, will be given its first lesson at
a meeting at the rooms of the chamber
of commerce Monday, by Dr. E. A.
Gorman, city health officer,
j Alva Aerie, No. 871. Fraternal Order
I of Eagles. has . arranged to give its
j twelfth annual excursion to Marshall
I Hall Wednesday.
j At the Second Presbyterian Church
J tomorrow Rev. Dr. John Lee Allison,
pastor, will take for his subject at the
morning services "Love's Noble Qualt
ity." Tim evening subject will be
J evangelistic.
ROCKVILLE AND COUNTY
Clark Bichards. Eighteen Years Old,
Missing From Home, May Have
Enlisted in Army.
Spr-rial Corr?spondfnco of TTe Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md., July 22.?Without
giving any intimation that he intended
I erninc awav. Clark Rlr*h?rrt? ai ? v,?
I een years old, son cf Mrs. Helen
j Richards of the vicinity of Clarksburg,
(this county, disappeared about ten days
{ago and his whereabouts have since
i been a mystery. The boy was traced as
far as Galthersburg, where he is known
to have had a check for a small amount
cashed. There is believed to be a possibility,
however, that he may have
enlisted in the army. Effort is being
made to ascertain if such is the case.
County Doctors Meet.
The midsummer meeting of the Montgomery
County Medical Society, was
held at Olney and presided over by the
president. Dr. J. VV. Bird of Sandy
Spring. Topics of interest to the profession
were discussed by Drs. Bird,
Frederick N. Henderson, Edward Anderson,
W. K. Butler and others. At
noon, luncheon was served by the
members of the Olney W. C. T. U.
Brown & Gaskins of Baltimore will
reconstruct the road from Norbccl; to
Redland, this county, known as the
Muncaster Mill road, provided Se.tjoo
to be applied toward the cost is raised
by private subscription. The bid of the
Baltimore firm was the lowest, being
about $30,000.
Leaves Estate to Wife.
The will of Henry Steinberg-, dated
| Xevember 5, 1896, leaves his entire
estate to his wife, Emma D. Steinberg.
She is also named as executrix.
Unacquainted.
From Judge.
"Mrs. Giddigad's baby cried the other
day, when she wanted to take It from
the nurse a moment."
"Yes, the poor little dear is afraid of
strangers." \
MEDICINAL PLANTS !
LONG KNOWN TO ZUNIS
Early Study of Botany by New
Mexican Indians Told
in Bulletin.
Mrs. Matilda Coxe Stevenson De- !
scribes Healing Lore in
Scholarly Article.
An interesting: account of the ethnobotany,
or early knowledge of botany,
of the Zuni Indians, written by the late
Mrs. Matilda Coxe Stevenson, who for
many years studied Indian lore, especially
that of the Pueblo tribes of
New Mexico, was published recently in
the thirtieth annual report of the bureau
of American ethnology.
Under the medicinal uses of plants by
the Zuni, Mrs. Stevenson says that medical
treatment is older than intelligence
in man. The dog hunts the fields for
his special grass medicine, the bear
dresses the wound of her cub or fellowbear
with perhaps as much intelligence
as primitive man observes in h's empirical
practice.
Disease an Evil Influence.
Primitive man does not know why
his medicine cures: he simply knows
that it does cure. He believes disease
to be the result of malign influence,
including that of his fellow-man, to
whom he attributes the power of sorcery
which he himself is unable to
overcome.
Hence, he must summon the aid of
the beast gods, who alone possess the
power of combating the malevolent
practices of the sorcerer, while he administers
their medicine. The plants
of the gods cannot effect a cure, however.
by the mere use of the medicines
concocted from them; during the treatment
of the patient prayers and supplications
must be offered to the gods
to whom the medicine belongs.
The therapeutics of these Indians is
largely associated with occultism, these
people having discovered through the
ages and brought into practical use numerous
valuable plant medicines. In
the first stages it was not understood
that they were endowed with healing
properties except as they were associated
with the gods. The old conception
still prevails.
Botany Part of Daily Life.
| That plants play an important part
in the daily life of the Zuni is shown
by Mrs. Stevenson. She found that in
j their belief plants verily form a part
of themselves, being regarded as sen[
tient beings; for the initiated of the
Zuni could talk to them and the plants
(could answer. Plants were also held
to be sacred, some of them having been
dropped to the earth by the star people;
some were originally human beings,
others the property of the gods, and all
j were the offspring of the earth mother.
1 So interwoven with plant life, in both
[a. religious and an economic way, are
the customs and beliefs of the Zuni
people, and so dependent are they on
the products of the soil that their culture
may be said to have had its origin
in concepts pertaining to the vegetable
I kindom.
Mrs. Stevenson found that plants
used in medicine by these Indians were
riot employed entirely in a shamanietic
way, experience having shown that
n n mci/11/iinau rlarlirorl frAm nlonto
have real medicinal value. They are
often properly and effectively prescribed
by native doctors, although the
medicinal practice of the Zuni has not
passed beyond the empirical or experi:
mental stage, notwithstanding their
[relative high degree of culture. The
[various uses to which plants and their
parts are put by these Indians as food
and medicine, in weaving, dyeing, basketry.
decoration, toilet, folk lore and
ceremonies, as well as a source of
names pertaining to clans, are described
by the author.
Double Nomenclature.
Indian names designating plants were
sometimes found to be the same for
two or more kinds, but instead of this
signifying a lack of specific knowledge
on the part of the natives, this was
found to be due to the fact that these
plants served' the same purposes or
had similar characteristics, although
unlike botanically. Plant names show
! a close association with animal names,
land a number of them are supposed;
i to belong to the animals for which
| they are named, a fact which accounts
! for an erroneous belief on the part of
some students who have thought these
particular medicines a part of, or made
from, the animal, instead of its associated
plant..
Besides the plants held to be the
property of the gods, others belong to
medicine orders of secret fraternities
jnHivirlnalu ur h 11 o odm f. nf tbair
botanical remedies are the property of
I the general community. Antiseptics
arid narcotics were employed by the
Indians, as well as other primitive peo;
pies, at a very early date, although
[civilized man was much slower to adopt
these now indispensible aids to medical
[science. It seems, however, that while}
narcotics were used in many opera- j
tions. they were seldom given when j
bullets were being extracted, the Zuni j
saying that, as men were not like women,
they must of necessity be men, and
accordingly the bullets were cut out
without further ado.
May Increase Belgian Bread Supply.
Correspondence of the Associated Preaa.
AMSTERDAM. Netherlands, July 23.?
A commission of American doctors has
been visiting the Brussels hospitals investigating
whether an increase of the
Belgian population's bread rations-is
necessary. Should it decide in the aft
firmative the American commission for
relief in Belgium will ask the British
government to consent to the supply
of wheat from the United States being
proportionately increased. Commenting
on the subject, a Brussels correspondent
writes that the present position
is one ol "general national underfeeding."
To Show German Aid to Belgians.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.
BRUSSELS, June 30.?An "Exhibition
of Social Help" is to be held here
from July 15 to October 15, to show
what the Germans have accomplished
for the public welfare in various directions
since they occupied Belgium.
The system of workingmen's insurance
introduced by them will be one of the
chief subjects covered. Other matters.
like improvements in caring for the
public health, in providing better
dwelling accommodations and in preventing
epidemics and tuberculosis,
will also be illustrated. Much of the
exposition will he in the shape of mov- '
ing picture exhibits. The social* welfare
branch of the Belgian Red Cross
will have charge of the exhibition and
Gov. Gen. von Bissing has accepted
the position of honorary president.
Russian Agent in Tokio.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.
TOKIO. June 25.?Charles Miller, a
Russian financial agent, has arrived in
Japan to arrange for the payment of
war munitions purchased here and to
investigate and study the commercial
and industrial conditions with a view
nmmnlinc: Russo-Japanese trade.
Mr. Miller predicts a steady increase i
in commerce between the two countries
when the war is concluded. He said
that the abolishment of the sale of
vodka, while sacrificing a revenue of
over 500 million rubles, has brought
about an important improvement in i
the economic condition of the Russian
people and has greatly increased their
purchasing powers..
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Latin American Arbitration. ! j
By Frederic J. Haskin.
i ;
A crisis was recently averted in Mexico
after the armies of two nations had already
met in one struggle and war feeling
was running high on both sides of the
border.
Among fair observers of all opinions it
is generally agreed that the threatened
crisis would have been a disaster to both
countries; for it would not have forwarded
any purpose or plan, but would
simply have been bad feeling run to
bloodshed. It would have been a permanent
blot upon the record of pan-Ameri
can relations.
It is generally known that during the
emergency repeated offers of mediation
came from various I,atin American governments,
and that the best newspapers
in South America expressed the hope that
peace could be preserved for the sake of
the pan-American spirit. It is not so generally
known that the corps of Latin
American diplomats in Washington were
an active force in preserving peace. A
close observer who has an intimate
knowledge of what transpired in Washington
following the Carrizal incident
states that Ignacio Calderon, minister
from Bolivia and dean of the Latin
American diplomatic corps, ought to receive
the Nobel peace prize as a recognition
from Europe of the broad-minded
spirit of conciliation which has grown up
in the new world, and which helped to
avert bloodshed and disaster when both
seemed unavoidable. Men have been honored
with this award for writing books
on peace and for concluding treaties between
nations exhausted by war. It has
never, so far, been awarded to any one
who prevented a war.
Although the fact Is recognized by few
in the United States. Latin Amerfca has
a record for the settlement of disputes
by arbitration which Europe ought to
envy. There is no Hague tribunal south
of Panama, but bloody wars have repeatedly
been averted by the appointment
of referees, and It is not on record
that the prestige and dignity of
The Hague tribunal have ever achieved
as much.
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The most famous, because the most
picturesque, incident in the history of
Latin American
Melted Cannon Into arbit r a tio n is
? . the one which
Figure of Savior. brought into he
ing- the "Christ of the Andes " Chile
and Argentina were on the verge
of war over a border dispute. Certain
broad-minded statesmen in the former
country determined to avert the bloodshed
which they believed was unnecessary.
But feeling was running high
and the romance and lust of war had
blinded both peoples. The leaders
knew the character of their people,
and realized that something as spectacular
and stirring as war itself would
be necessary to avert it. Wherefore,
it happened that the brass cannon of
the Chilean army were melted, and
cast into an heroic figure of the Savior.
This was erected upon the disputed
boundary as a message of peace and
good will to the enemies of Chile. The
people of Argentina met the spirit of
conciliation fairly and the boundary
dispute was settled by arbitration. Incidentally,
a small cast in gold of the
Christ of the Andes was sent to The
Hagle tribunal as a message to Eu.
rope that in South America arbitration
is a reality.
The most fertile cause of trouble between
the different nations in T.atin
America has always been their boundaries.
These were nearly all first determined
in the brave days when Spain
was exploring and conquering America,
and when the king granted to his admirals
and captains lands "as far to
the west as the eye can see." and by
other equally vague definitions, which
might be interpreted in dozens of different
ways. In addition to these boundary
disputes there have, of course,
been the wars which brought freedom
from Spain, and numerous revolutions.
These, however, were all in some sense
struggles for freedom and better government.
They have given Latin
America a reputation for impulsiveness
and bloodshed when as a matter
of fact many a heated quarrel has been
settled in that land without firing a
shot.
The Latin American is willing to fight
and not afraid to die. His wars, when
they do happen, are apt to be long and
bloody. One of the worst of them was
the struggle between Paraguay on the
one side and Argentina, Brazil and
Uruguay on the other. For seven years
the forces of three nations made unceasing
and murderous warfare on the
forces of one. An Argentine general
was then sent at the head of a large
force to finish the job. He went into
Paraguay, but turned back without
fighting. He reported that he would
not make war upon women. For women
and boys filled the ranks of the Paraguayan
army. The men were dead.
And to this day Paraguay has an overwhelmingly
large population of women.
She has never fully recovered,
though half a century has passed since
that struggle.
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This and several other hard-fought
wars convinced the leading men of the
South AmerCould
Hot Afford ican repubWaste
of Human Life. "Zr younx
countries, with great wildernesses to
pfopie, fuuiu nuL .uiuiu ciui_u ?iisie ui
human life. So a strong- sentiment in
favor of arbitration grew up, and has
steadily strengthened.
Stones are even now being planted
on the newly established boundary between
Peru and Bollva. A dispute between
these two countries had gone
to the verge of war when a movement
in favor of arbitration was started and
Great Britain was asked to settle the
difficulty. A commission of three men
was appointed to do so, and both countries
abided by its decision.
President Hayes of the United
States settled a territorial boundary
dispute between Paraguay and Argentina
wjiich had gone close to war
when he was asked to nlediate. He
did so by deciding in favor of Paraguay,
although Argentina had a rather
strong case. Nevertheless, the latter
country accepted the decision without
protest, while Paraguay named a city
\'illa Hayes in honor of the President.
There was once a difference between
Brazil and France as to the boundary
of French Guiana. It was arbitrated,
Switzerland acting as the referee, at
the instance of Brazil. Spain acted as
mediator oeiween v enexueia arm Colombia,
settling a difficulty which had
caused much bitterness of feeling.
Chief Justice White of the United
States Supreme Court settled a
boundary dispute between Panama and
Costa Rica.
The People of Latin America have
had much cause to fight. They have
been building republics in a wilderness I
peopled with savage tribes; they have |
obtained freedom from European domination.
We did both of these things,
but not without bloodshed. For a
time, too. this country was a cluster |
of little states, and there was much j
feeling and considerable lighting |
among them. All Latin America is
still in that condition. And out of this
has evolved a genuine appreciation of j
the principle and value of arbitration, I
which has now, by the efforts of South I
American diplomats to aid in the solu- '
tion of Mexican trouble, been brought
to the attention of the world for the
first time.
Valuation Hearing Is Adjourned.
Hearing by the utilities commission to
establish a valuation on the property
of the Potomac Electric Power Company
has been adjourned until August
7. At that time the company will begin
cross-examination of the commission's
witnesses who have been testifying
as to the tentative valuation, pro*
pofied by the commission. Engineer
Commissioner Kutz. chairman of the
commission, has left for Cape May,
where he will remain until the resumption
of the hearing.
VANCE McCORMICK SEES
LEADING DEMOCRATS HERE
National Committee Chairman Con- ,
fers With President Wilson, Senators
and Representatives.
!
Vance McCormick, chairman of the ,
democratic national committee, today ;
conferred with President Wilson. senators
and representatives, ami other j
democratic leaders here, on the democratic
campaign and details of the1!
plans for re-electing a demo-, ratio Sen- J
ate and House. The first, definite w ork j
of this kind will he done in Maine, where
me urnsm.i.1 15 wm put ivnii tic. n ;
efforts.
President Wilson has bis speech of j
acceptance weU under way although ;
lie v ill not complete it until alter for- (
mcr Justice U'lghes delivers his speech (
of acceptance in New fork July 31.
Mr. McCormiok said tod a that h- had ;
not yet completed the selection of the i
campaign committee of the national I
committee, hut expected to make headway
toda\ .*i his conference here.
NEW BRIDGE SITE CHOSEN.
Will Be Located Between 34th and
35th Streets.
Announcement was made at the War
Department this afternoon that It had
been definitely derided to erect the new i
Francis Scott Key bridge between 3 4th .
j and 35th streets in Georgetown. The i
j bridge is the one designed to take the
! place of the Aqueduct bridge.
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' TJ. S. WANTS FULL REPLY.
No Partial Answer by England Regarding
Mail Seizures Acceptable.
If Great Britain's memorandum re|
garding mail seizures, now on its way
I to Washington from Ambassador Page,
Ideals only with specific cases, but neglects
to discuss the principles for
j which the I'nited States contends, as
| has been indicated in forecasts of its |
; contents, the American government will!
press for a complete reply, making it j
plain that it considers delay in answer-j
iing the.American note inexcusable.
It was made plain at the State De- i
apartment today that a partial reply will
sot satisfy the I'nited States. The Rrit
ish memorandum had not been received j
today by the department.
Col. Butler to Be Buried Monday.
Lieut. Col. Butler, who was shot !
Thursday at Alpine, Tex., will be J
buried in Arlington National Cemetery
here Monday.
War Department reports from Alpine
giving details of the shooting of Col.
Butler say Col. Butler was "absolutely
innocent of any wrong," and whatever
the cause might have been "it appears
like a coldblooded premeditated murder
committed by a man crazed by
jealousy." }
Drugs Stolen From Store.
Theodore A. Judd, who conducts a I
store at 14th and Girard streets north- j
west, reported to the police department '
this morning that, his establishment had J
been entered during the night and a
quantity of morphine, cocaine and other)
I narcotics had been stolen. The store
i was broken into through the forcing of
ja rear window.
Fair Weather Is Predicted.
Despite the clouds which threatened
throughout the morning and forenoon,
fair weather for Washington for tonight
and tomorrow Is predicted by
the forecasters at the T'nited States"
weather bureau. l.ocnl thnndpretdrme
are predicted for the middle Atlantic
states for the first half of next
but exclusive of these fair w.t, . :
is generally predicted.
Woman Doctors for Peking.
j Correspondence of the Associated Press.
PEKING, June 21.?Forty-two woman
doctors, graduated from various medical
schools, will shortly be given certificates
to practice In Peking. These
will be the first women granted official
; permission to practice medicine in the
! Chinese capital.
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Crater Lake.
Crater lake has been known to Inspire
reverence In visitors who claimed
to feel little or none at sight of the
vJrand Canyon. Tt Is difficult to ima^<
ine anvhody who would remain untouched
by the canyon, which Is |>robahly
the most magnificent natural
spectacle In the world; but if such a
person exists be might still feel the
spell of Crater lake.
For Crater lake has the charm of
simplicity, of a direct beauty that
prows after the shock of the first view.
The canyon, if anything:, is too grand;
it seems to have been built anil colored
l"? r the amusement of the pods, and is
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' i" i" ' " - iiiuji rn.'ninjiiiw
humans. :?ft-M ;? time, with an uncom v*>n
s?* of their own importance
ail insi '-Tiiiflea lire There is something
\t-ry diflVient in The placi'l,
brooding beauty <?f ? 'rater lake.
The t5rand Canyon could not be described
in many volumes Many vol'imps
have been written about it. and
st! 11 the only way to pet an Idea of
what it looks like Is to go and look ?'
it. nut Crater lake ran be described
in a few words. It is a cliff-walled
body of sparkling water held high in
the air in the cup of a volcano that ha*
retired from active hueiness for. lo,
these many years. Also it Is bin*?
exceedingly blue, blue beyond the
habit of earthly water. At timea it
looks like a patch of tropic sky seen
in. the early morning.
The only item in the characteristics
of C:\tt- r lake a hare inventory falls
to include is its peculiar attraction
that is almost a fascination. The Indians
peopled it with all manner of
gods and spirits; and it is easy to seo
why t h< y did so. It takes more than a
chemical combination of hydrogen and
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uxygeu ?u tnc -ut mo ?
mosphprf of mystery and unreality
that hangs over the sunlit turquoise
waters.
Mosul.
Mosul Is one of the few places left today
where Romance in her old familiar
garb still walks abroad by day. Accord itic
to poets, of course, Romance has
only changed her clothing; she Is still
to he found everywhere, a golden thread
woven through warp and woof of the drab
fabric of modern civilization. But 1n
Mosul she is doing business in the good
old revolver-and-stiletto fashion of the
old west and medieval Italy. You do not
have to be a clairvoyant to see romance
in Mosul.
The Turkish authorities, who are real- 1
ists by temperament and training, have a
harsher name for the quality. They say
that Mosul is the most lawless spot in
all their lawless Asiatic dominions, ghren
over irredeemably to the devils of dissension
And disorder. Men are still shot
there in broad clay, officials keep their
eyes open or shut according to the size
of the bribe which dazzles their sight?
and they are easily dazzled in this particular
fashion, though their vision Is
strong enough for most purposes.
Like many of the cities in this region,
the discarded cradle of civilization, modern
Mosul is built upon ruins and among
them. The ancient walls are being de- '
pleted daily for building stone, and the
silence of night is occasionally broken
by the crash of a toppling tower that
nobodv takes the trouble to shore up..
The old city must have been imposing
and beautiful: the new one is neither.
It is hot. dusty, unclean and crowded;
and it does not care.
There are no trees in the plain about,
and hence there is very little wood. The
city is built of stone covered with stocco.
There is a soft rock peculiar to the
neighborhood which is freely employed
in building as it can be easily worked
into shape, but it does not last, so that
new ruins are continually complicating
the old.
The people of Mosul are Arabs and MmI
lems for the most part, though there are
a few thousand Christians who remain
from an earlier period, and a few thouI
sand Jews. The three races have gravi[
tated toward a common standard in apI
pea ranee and habits, though each stJll retains
its own religion. One result of this
is particularly welcome to the average
native of Mosul. Friday is the Moslem
. abbath, on Saturday the Jews do no
work and Sunday is observed by the
Christians. So, in effect, there are three
holidays every week.
Temporary Job.
From the Boston Transcript.
"So Hunter is after the hetreea* By.
the way, what does he do for a living?'*
"Banking, at present."
'Tnfieed!"
"Yes, he's banking on marrying her.**
ional Bank,
Street , ,
>k Forward!
Just stop and consider
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wnat a comiortame ining 11
will lie in a few years to,
know that out of the surplus
of the present you have
provided a competency for /
then.
Saving now is the only
certain course. The little ' I
that is necessary to reserve f
out of what you have at !
present will never be missed. I
But it will accumulate and, l||
multiply astonishingly.
It isn't money tied up.
It's yours?for use at apy
time if there's urgent need.
Money at work all the time
it is on deposit here.
a (jf We Pay In- _y
Q% terest on O%
Savings Ac- ^ y /
counts.
Open the account now? "
"tomorrow nevpr cotnes."
Take home one of those
little "Home Banks" like the
picture?and start the kid-,
dies to saving. . I
Robert N. Harper,
President.
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- the children, sum- <c
he suburbs. A few ?
uv you an equity in w
/ou can keep an auto ?
iave when you start ?
; economy. S>
d Real Estate and ?
ins and figure this ?
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