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THANKS, DOCTOR.
Dr. Friedmann, of turtle serum fame, is back in
Berlin, saying nice things about America. The doctor
thinks this is a great country, and that, even though
its professional classes rather gave him the icy
countenance, the plain people are friendly.
When a man who got a reception such as Fried
mann received in this country.can go home and turn
the other cheek as cheerfully as he does, it is time
to-wonder how in the world, if- occasion required,
this lovable nation could manage to make itself
offensive.
MORGAN' ESTATE AN EXCEPTION.
Almost without exception in recent years, the es
tates of very rich men have proved under appraisal
smaller than 'estimated; commonly a great deal
smaller. Popular impressions of the wealth of prom
inent men are almost uniformly exaggerated.
It is now announced that the J. Pierpont Morgan
estate -will appraise at about $100,000,000, which
makes it a good deal larger than was commonly-ex
pected or estimated following the financier's death.
The appraisers,"valuing it for the determination of
the tax it will pay in New York, are agreed that the
figure will be about $100,000,000, on nearly all of
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wnicn a t per, cent tax win De paia io tncaiais
of New York. It is thus made the. largest estate
that has paid .an inheritance tax in New York.
TORPEDOLESS TORPEDO BOATS.
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Capt Willard S. Sims, who has been a sort of
stormy petrel' of navy reform for a long time, de
clares that there is about one rpund of .torpedoes
actually in existence for the use of our navy. It
takes about a year to make a torpedo, which seems
decidedly unreasonable. He points out that our
navy, as to torpedoes, compares to an army going
to battle with one shell in every gun and none in
reserwe.
Captain Sims generally makes good when he
indulges criticism of this type. He is one of the
men with intimate knowledge of naval affairs, the
product of persistent and untiring work and study.
-Under Roosevelt, as naval aid, he was of. the
greatest value, and,, if his views were" not always
acceptable to his superiors, they at least impressed
the country" well.. The latest accusations of unpre-
p&redness demand attention. - '
AS TO STAYING QUALITIES.
Governor Sulzer and direct primaries have been
defeated. Direct primaries, however, will assuredly
win in the, end. It is merely a matter oftime, and
probably not'so very much time at that.
"Whether Sulzer will win along with the reform
for which -he .has fought, depends on his staying
qualities. Thus far they seem good. Hughes tried
to force primaries by one sort of fight, Sulzer by
a very different; and both failed. Sulzer is the
State's leader of the cause now, and if he is re
sourceful enough to keep the fight alive and himself
in its lead, he will be the big figure in the State
when he wins. But it is a difficult thing to accom
plish. Men fall by the wayside in such struggles,
while the,cause .often .marches on and leaves them
to be forgotten. Sulzer's splendid fight deserves for
him a better fate.
tions From Sofia, the world got an Idea that the
Bulgarians had to do about all the fighting while
their allies easily overran the country. "But since
Adrianople's surrender there have come intimations
that iii fact the Bulgarian siege of that city was far
less desperate than the Sofia war office represented j
and that In fact the city might have been carried J
much sooner than it was.
War among the allies may very easily overturn
some preconceived notions as to the military leader
ship in the earlier 'struggle. If the Bulgars sus
tained such losses as they represented at the time,
they can hardly be prepared to match Servia's force
of today; and by all accounts Servia is in much bet
ter economic condition than Bulgaria.
THIS & THAT
Wtth Sometime a Little if the Other
CDJJST "2"OTT BEAT IT ? By MAURICE' KETTEN P
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THE GAS COMPANY'S VALUATION.
PENNSYLVANIA GANG AND PATRIOTISM
The Penrose-McNichol gang in the Pennsyl
vania legislature was all worked up a few weeks ago
over patriotism. They rushed through a bill for
bidding any flag but the flag of the United States to
fly from the public buildings in that Commonwealth.
They had the bill rushed to the governor and
he signed iL
Then the same gang slaughtered the child labor
bill and the woman's bill.
They put clauses in those measures allowing the
corporations to driye women and children overtime;
they enforced a ten-hour day; they took the limit off
in canneries, and they" even cut out the clause for
bidding the employment of mothers within four weeks
after childbirth.
But their patriotism was untarnished, for they
had passed a bill forbidding any but the national flag
to fly from public buildings in Pennsylvania.
They had saved the honor of the State.
NEW WAR IN" THE EAST.
.
'wServians and Bulgarians are at each other's
throatsvsajid a real battle had been fought, or, at
least, begun, 'according to meager dispatches from
the territory occupiedbv the rival armies. The
news thus far has come frOnL. Belgrade, capital of
Servia, which during the war ofthe allies against
Turkey was usually extremely reticent, leaving to
Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, the privilege of giving
out most of the news, and claiming for Bulgar arms
most of the glory of that struggle.
It will be safe reasonably to discount assurances
ot a decided Servian advantage in the initial con
flict Yet on the other hand it will not do to pre
sume that Bulgaria, if there is to be a war, will
be an easy winner. The Servians and Greeks
played magnificently their parts in the campaign
against the Turks; so magnificently, indeed, that
their unexpected successes gave them control of ter
ritories which" at the opening of that contest nobody
suspected the allies would be able to take. It is to
be kept in mind that the present casus belli lies in
tbevfact that the Greeks and Servians were more
successful. jtban, the Bulgars. Reading the emana,
The need that the public shall know accurately
what are the values of the public service properties
is illustrated by the announcement that the Wash
ington Gas Company has had an appraisal of its
property made, which shows it worth $18,700,000. A
few years ago this same 'company was insistent on
being allowed to reorganize its capitalization on the
basis of a valuation of $13,000,000. It claimed that
that was its reasonable value, therefore, it ought to be
permitted to expand its capitalization to that point.
At the time when that was undertaken gas was
selling at $1 net. Today it is selling at 85 cents net.
Of course, the physical property is not affected by
a reduction in the price of gas; but the earning
capacity decidedly is affected. It becomes quite im
possible, in all the circumstances, to accept as rea
sonable a present valuation near to $19,000,000.
If the corporation is still able to earn, returns
which would carry a capitalization over $18,000,000,
then there is acute need for an immediate valuation
.in order that it may be known to what extent the
earnings are unreasonable and excessive. Edwaro
W.' Bemis, gas expert of national repute, only three
or four years ago, estimated that a valuation of this
property would find it worth about $7,000,000 or
$8,000,000. Washington may well prick up its ears
at the proposal more than to double that figure.
Let it be assumed that the property is worth
$10,000,000, but that the company thinks it can earn
return on $18,000,000. If that be accepted, then
it is apparent that the company is earning more
than it ought to, with a proper regard for the pub
lic's interest. The public has no business paying
for gas a price that will produce dividends and' in
terest' on double the real capital invested. There
has long been insistent demand for reduction of
the price. The company's own appraisers have pro
vided the finest possible justification for that de;
mand. Nobody dreams that the physical property
is worth $18,000,000. It can be appraised at that
figure only by including elements of franchise
value, going-concern value, and the like, that the
courts nowadays look upon with disapproval in fixing
rates.
.The whole affair enforces the conclusion that
no -time mustbe lost making the valuation which is
demanded by the new public utilities lawThere is
persistent rumor of impending developments in gas
affairs, which should not be permitted to take the
form of any recapitalization of consolidation, while
the representatives of the public interest are yet
in the dark concerning fundamental elements in the
situation.
SOMETHING IN COMMON.
Although the weather maketh one
To simmer, sizzle, stew, and fry,
The House will stay in Washing
ton And so shall I. ' '
It must remain to sanction laws
About financial libertee;
'Twill stay in Washington'because
Of currencee.
Which same makes ME adhere
to biz,
And tells me that I dare not flit;
Except that in my case it is
The lack of it.
From" July 1 unUl September IS the
car schedules, will be "suspended,"
which Is one way of saying that they'll
CO hang. So, too', will a lot of 'the pas'
sengers.
The shift In schedules .works particu
lar hardship with us. Only recenUy we
learned the time that the open car on
the Mt Pleasant line passes our corner;
now we must conduct a new'inqulry.
Three Days Each; Three For a Week.
G. 8. K.: In re the five-day Imprison
ment for barblclde, I would like to have
quotations on motormen who fall to
stop when, one signals.
SUP.
It Is proverbial that the drowning
man clings to a crowbar. So we adhere
to the hope that all this currency, dis
cussion may put a -certain Congressman
in mind of a certain $16.44. Or, rather,
an uncertain $16.44.
THE PRESIDENT'S STAND.
Matters tariff-wise are approaching the point
where the question may properly be asked whether
the President would sign a bill that did not fulfill
his expectations. Mr. Cleveland -would not sign it,
but he did let it become a law without signature.
Mr. Taft did sign it, and then was bound to go out
and defend it before the country, which made him
the immediate objective of the disaffection over the
legislation. What would President Wilson do?
Free sugar and free wool would be impossible
if the Democratic Senators who voted against them
in caucus should do the same in the Senate. It is
generally believed only two of them will do that,
and that these provisions w;ll go into the law.
But it would help vastly if the White House would
permit knowledge to get abroad that the bill would
not be signed without these provisions; not only
that it would not be signed, but that it would be
vetoed.
To veto the measure enacted by his own party's
Congress is a hard thing for a President. But al
most everybody agrees that if Mr. Taft had done
that he would have been approved by the country
and re-elected. The nation has not forgotten the
tariff scandal of the Cleveland regime.
The question right now, and it is more urgent
every day, is whether there are enough high-tariff
Senators among the Democrats to force the same
issue that arose when the Wilson bill was made
over in the Senate. It is practically certain that
there would not be, if it were known that a bill
thus emasculated would not be signed, but instead
would be vetoed by President Wilson. It is not for
the President to make threats, of course. He is not
presumed to decide what he will do until the meas
ure gets to him fronv Congress. None the less, in
these times of very direct executive participation in
lawmaking, there is small difficulty getting the 'deal
conveyed to legislators that the President inclines
decidedly to a given course.
The Democratic party has promised revision, and
the President has construed that promise to mean
certain things. Will he insist to the last extremity?
The knowledge that the President would veto a
bill under certain conditions would be an insurance
of its passage. A small minority of Democratic Sen
ators may inveigh against certain schedules on the
ground of injury to those States; but those samt
Senators know that as between standing by the Ad
ministration and standing by these interests of the
States, their political course will be safer if they do
not break with the Administration. To give way before
the overwhelming verdict of a party caucus can be
excused. To smash a whole party program cannot,
as has been proved by the execration that was meted i Uo. . ,......
.i. x. j .u wi .. .u c . ! Tnat la our OBJcction to the bankers.
to thg men .who unmade the .Wilson act in the Senate, i o. a it
We Think You Host Be Kidding Us.
G. S. K.: Didn't see anything about
open air sleeping In yesterday's line-up.
so write to inquire. I hope you slept
well last night
R,Tt
An office discussion as to whether men
who wear brown., derbies always sport
celluloid collars has been unofficially de
cided in the negative. Though there's
much to be said on both sides. Celluloid
or none, declared one combatant
The
THE SUMMER DATS.
summer days some of them
"beauta?
Are practically here, i, ri.
And Sokes about dry bathlng-tuit ' '
Are alto drawing near. ,
( Column conductors and others making
errors take heart No less a sporting
authority than the New Tork "Morning
Telegraph" referred fo the Nationals'
pitcher of two days ago as "Roebling."
Obviously Not
G. S. K.: I read that steps will be
taken to prevent the sale of "firearms
and dangerous weapons." Obviously,
they don't refer to unloaded firearms.
M. B.
It Is cruel and useless, as Lardner
points out in the chlcagotribune, to
keep the scouts running any longer.
Everybody knows what's In the mes
sage. .
He's Our Favorite Aversion.
G. S. K.: For the Restaurant Pests:
The man who uses all his butter and
half of yours before the soup ar
rives. M. M. M.
"Furthermore." writes somebody, who
doesn't sign himself, "yesterday I pass
ed a shoemaker's rhop (why shoe
MAKER?) that didn't advertise 'Repair
ing Neatly Done. "
So Do Lots of People.
(From the InKoldvby Lfirrnds )
still poking his nose Into THIS AND
to THAT.
Speaking of the modern dances, which
we seldom do, Mlsa May Wygle figures
!n the day's news. If that's the way
she pronounces it
Pestacian Perfection.
F. L. C. : "Also the card player who
holds his hand so that everybody at the
table can look Into It."
ANON.: "The salesman who inquires,
when giving you your change: 'Any
thing else?' "
As a number of people Informed us,
the first game was called off, but they
played the second. Or how would you
put It?
The Truth About It
G. S. K.: M. B. may have discovered
the old-fashioned man who uses a read
lng-glars, but he didn't tell you what he
uses it for. It is to read the speed dial
on his automobile. p. j. c.
For the Millennium Club: The ellml-
naUon of the middleman.
We're Too Fond of the Open.
G. S. K.: AVould you call a plagiarist
a second-story worker?
R. UNGTON.
The objection of the bankers to the
money bill, we notice, is a "lack of re
serve."
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HE good owld names are dyin' out
"We called our childher dear;
No wonder that we're talked
ahmit
It's worser every year.
We used to have the names lv saints
An' marthyrs at our call;
To mention them now brings com
plaints Och, that's the worst tv all!
There's Pat an Bridget FInnegan,
"Who called their daughter Maude,
An.' may I never sin again.
Their youngest b'y is Claude.
An when me next-dure neighbor's wife
Prisints a young gossoon.
He's doomed to thravel all thro' life
As Percy George McCuni.
Besides, there's Pether Rafferty,
Who hates the owld green sod,
Tho' tlsn't many years since he
Was carryln' the hod.
He an his wife 'twould make ye wild
Announce, wld pride an glee.
The marriage of their only child,
Miss Genevieve Maree.
The"names lv grand owld Irish Kings
We'll never hear them more;
Instead they have new-fangled things
Begob, it makes me sore.
The hayroes, saints an' marthyrs, too.
No longer have the call.
Our race will soon be lost to view
Sure, that's the worst lv all.
rr HERE are jusl as good mermaids still in the sea
I As ever were caught!" said the cynical male.
"Ah, yes," quoth the Summer Girl, "that may' be -But
aren't you afraid that the BAIT may get stale?"
It is not the fear of being shipwrecked that keeps a bachelor
from embarking on the sea of matrimony; ifs the awful horror of
being becalmed.
In these days a girl almost hesitates to appear on the street
wearing her own natural complexionjor fear that she may be con
sidered eccentric or conspicuous. -'
Here's a Book
A pretty woman may make fools of all men some of the time,
but a wise woman will concentrate on making afool of some man.
all of the time.
"Bees Shown to the Children." By
Ellison Hawks, published by the Piatt
& Peck Co., of New Tork.
Passing all human understanding, the
ways of tne little honey bee have prov
en of great fascination to thinkers for
hunderds of years, and any account
of them Is full of Interest. Ellison
Hawks has written a book for children,
jet the simple and very complete story
of the lives and customs of bees, to
gether with their anatomy and rela
tions to flowers will prove absorbing
even to older persons. Thirty-nine
plates, seven of which are In color.
Illustrate the book, are quite a story
In themselves, and do much to make
this little volume a valuable asset for
any child, old or young.
His Only Reason.
"Why do you always wear those old
clothes?" .
"Because X m airaid Comstnek would
be titer me it Z didn't."
When a husband manifests a willingness to promise his wife
anything under the sun in order to make her mind easy while she is
away on her vacation it merely inspires her with a sudden suspicion
that she had better stay at home and keep an eye on him.
Learn One Tkiif
Ercry Day
4. THE CRUST OF THE EARTH
f- iH2 earth Is a bail, with a cold
crust and a heated, probably
- molten. Interior.. Thia la proves
by natural hot springs, volcaaosv
etc At one time the earth must bav
been more or less smooth and equally
hot both interlorally and on the sur-
As it whirled through space, through
centuries of time, the crust gradually
cooled. This caused a contraction or
shrinking. The once smooth surface be-
came much as the outside of asbrivA
tied apple locks to you. Thus thsjf
mountains and the valleys were ionnedJT
Giant upheavals are. fortunately, fW;
and far between. So most of the chang-,
mg of the earth's surface is due to thf
constant wear of the water. It la aj
great factor In the transformaUon. b-
cause besides wearing away It also car-
rles the loose material from one pot to
anoli-c-r and deposits It t
TI cause we have seen them dig and
blait in one spot for months we imagine."
that the crust of the earth is llmltlestr
in djpth. This Is not true. The crust,
of h's globe, on which we Uvei .com
pared to the bulk of It Is about equals
to the relative size of a sheet of thia
paper pasted on the surface of "very
large watermelon!-
The ability to converse in seven languages is not half so useful
to a woman in this world as the ability to keep silent in one.?
Motor cars are all right for eliminating space, but.for eliminating
diffidence, boredom, and bachelors ttitre has never been anything
quite like a good, old fashioned horse and buggy.
Divorce the greatest common divisor.
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DEAD BROKE.
"N"?
OT all towns are like Blank-
llle." explained the shirt
salesman to a group of fel
low drummers who wera
waiting for the train the other morn
ing. "In Blankvllle there are seven
different roads that will take you out
If ybu have a ticket or the price. If
you haven't the price, move anyway.
"I went broke over a slot machine
one time and the town lost no time In
showing me the cold shoulder.
"The hotel froze onto my trunk nd
I wired to New York for funds, 'n
the mean time I gathered In a bag
gage check at the depot when the bag
gage man wasn't looking. JThen I went
uo the street to another hotel and
wrote a pal's name across the register.
Thmwlnc the check down. I demanded
that they Dring my irunK up wunoui i
me when I made New York. Therefore
a twenty spent In the last town looked
smaller to me than a kick from the
boss about expenses. There was a show
In town that night and I Joined out
with It In the morning there was a
letter from my bank In town Inclosing
funds.
"In the meantime my "trunk" could
not be located and the management at
the hotel where I was stopping was all
apologies. They refused to take a cent
and Insisted that I make an affidavit
about my 'missing trunk. When the
banks opened I got my money and
went over to the first hotel and paid
my bill. After which t gave them a
piece of mv mind."
"What did the firm say after the
trip?" asked one of the other drummers.
"They complimented me on the bus!
loss of time. Then I went In and had,, ness secured and remarked on the ab
n sw ell feed. sence of mishaps "that seemed always
"I had no more towns to make MU to occur In the travels of the othr
trio and as I had been away six weeks men. I am so glad you don't gamble
X bad QUjtt ft bit ot lajanr. coming to said the bos.
What's on the Program in
Washington Today
Annual excursion to Chesapeake Beach
of the "Washington Railway and Elec
tric Company .Relief Association.
Address by Prof. George A. Hill beforf
the Greater "Washington Poultry and
Pigeon Club, 1214 F street northwest
Theater party at the Columbia by th
Washington Canoe Club, 8:15 p. m.
Buteball Washington vs. Philadelphia,
double-header, 2 p. m.
Meetings, night:
Mnionic New Jerusalem. No. 9: George
C. "Whltins-. No. 22. and Temple-Noyes.
No. 32. Washington Chapter. No. 8.
R. A. M.: William F. Hunt Chapter,
No. 16. Order of the Eastern SUs
Old Fellows Columbia. No. JO: Excel
sior, No. 17, and Salem No. 22.
Red Men Logan Tribe. No. S. Wiscon
sin avenue and N street: Sioux Tribe,
No. ls K street near Four-and-a-half
street southwest.
National Union Bancroft Council,
Tj pographleal Temple.
K. O. T. M.-District Tent No. S.
Mariners" Temple, foot Seventh street.
Knights of Pythias Harrrony Lodge.
No. 21.
Golden Eagles America. No. 3, ZXS
Pennsylvania avenue southeast
Amusements.
Columbia "Mrs. LefflngweU"s Boots,"
2:15 and 8:15 p. m.
Poll's "The Call of the North." s:i3
and 3:15 p. m.
Belasco Antarctic pictures. 3:00 and 8:3a
p. m.
Cosmos Vaudeville. 1x0 to 10:45 p. m.
Glen Echo All amusements.
Chevy Chase Lake Dancing and znuila
by section Marine Band.
Marshall Hall Boats leave Seventh
street wharf 10 a. m.. 2:33 p. m.. and
fi.30 p. m.
River View Park Boats leave. Seventh
street wharf. 100 a. m.. 2: and 7
p. m.
Steaner St Johns leaves Seventh street'
wharf at 7 p. ra. every evening except
Saturday. and Sunday for, forty-sUi
trim oa th Potomac. "
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