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The Washington times., 1902-09-09
DOINGs IN THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
Grand Duke Boris of Russia. Much Feted at Newport,
Brings Visit to Close.
Guest of Honor Elaborate Dinner Given by Mrs Ogden Goe
let at Her Charming Vila-Many Washingtonians Re
turning From Their Summer Vacation.
Duke Boris Leaves Newport.

Grand Duke Boris, the Russian noble
man, who has been feted much at New
port during the past week, brought his
visit there to a close yesterday. Sunday
evening the duke was the guest of honor
at an elaborate dinner given by Mrs.
Ogden Goelet, at her charming villa The
guests, which included the Russian am
bassador to the United States. Count
Cassini, we're invited by Duke Boris,
and the company is said to have been the
most cosmopolitan ever gathered within
the walls of Ochre Court.
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AN OVER-CRITICAL PROTEST.

There used to be a joke. away back
in the last generation, that the advo-
Gates of woman suffrage would not be
satisfied until the name of the Pullman
| car was altered to Pull man-and-wo.
man" car. This was only joke, but
the letter of an indignant lady of that
political persuasion, published in the
| ''Woman's Journal" is not humorous
unless unconsciousIy. She says:
Coming North from Florida stop
ped in New York, and there, like all
women. had trunk to transfer.
applied to an expressman to do the work.
The man took out his book to take my
address. l gave him my name as it
good name, and one 1 am not likely to
lose. He wrote it down. Then he said:
Is it Miss or Mrs.
well, I said to myself, this is funny!
This is exceedingly queer!
Il said: Is it customary for New
York expressman to ask a woman IL she
be married or single. when he trans
fers her baggage from one station to
another? Is it obligatory for woman
to tell him if she be married or single
before he can take her trunk across the
city?' The man made no reply. Then
1 said: DO you ask man ifAe be mar
ried or single ere you express his bag
gage from one station to another?' Still
the man said nothing. Then 1 said: Sir,
am Massachusetts woman, member
of the Lynn Equal Rights Club .
The lady in question seems to be
wasting good deal Of rhetoric on a
small matter. Until women cease to
take their husbands names, the form
ality of asking a lady whether she is
Miss or Mrs. will have to be gone
through with, unless one title can be
found which will serve for both depart
ments. And it is unlikely that women
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will cease to take their husbands names
within several scores of years 1t is a
matter of convenience and some senti-
ment, and when a custom has those two
things to back it, it is likely to last
a long time.
| When man gives his address for any
purpose, the information that he is mar
ried. or unmarried. adds nothing what
ever to the defniteness OF the direction.
When a woman gives the same informa-
ton, it is often great help, particu-
larly If the woman gives her husbands
name. Where one person knows whether
Mr.. John Smith has wife or not, and
what her name Is, dozen will know
who Mr. Smith himself is, and where
he may be found. OF course, in the case
this rule does not hold. though even
then, if the trunk happened to go astray.
it might be of assistance to know
whether it belonged to Mrs. or Miss
Smith. But suppose the name given 10
the expressman is Mrs. Ellen F. Jenkins,
and suppose he loses the address CT gets
otherwise confused. He can look under
the name Jenkins in the directory and
find, perhaps. two dozen men and wo-
men bearing it. OF these. there is an
Ellen jenkins who is a washerwoman.
another who runs bakery, and two or
three well-to-dp men by the name Of
Jenkins. 1t is more likely to belong to
the wife of one of these gentlemen than
to the laundress or the be,ser. One
he knows to be a bachelor. He. calls
up the other two in their Offices. by tele-
phone. and presently discovers that the
trunk belongs TO the wife OF Mr.. John
Jenkins. The little abbreviation Mrs"
helped to define things. 1t would have
been still better if the lady had given
her name as Mrs. John Jenkins, as di-
rectories are at present constructed.
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Distinct Social Success.

Americans will be much interested In
the recent marriage in London of Mrs.
Paul Wayland Bartlett. widow of the
wcll-known American sculptor, and
Lieut.. Bertram Lang. of the Argyll
Highlanders.
The affair was one of the distinct So
cial successes OF the week in the Eng
lish capital. Mrs. Lang is supurb
horsewoman. and prior TO taking up her
residence in London lived in Paris,
where she was noted for her courage
and address in the saddle Some time
ago Mrs Lang's engagement TO the
Marquis de Labersac was announced, but
that was subsequently broken. and she
became engaged TO the young Scotch Of
ficer.
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CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.
No Relief in Sight.

New York World-It is to be hoped
that Senator Platt's mysteriously conf
dent prediction that the coal strike will
soon end has solid basis. Meanwhile
to the average observer the situation is
as grave and coal as high as ever; and
another week Of costly war begins with
ugly news of shooting and bloodshed
along the picket lines"
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Expects Big Republican Victory.

THE Republicans will not only retain
control of the House. but they will in
crease their majority, and they will,
carry a number of districts now repre-
sented by Democrats" said Hon. w.
Tyler Page, the Republican candidate
for Congress from the Second Maryland
district, at the New Willard yesterday.
Mr. Page is clerk to the Committee on
Accounts of the House of Representa-
tives, and for twenty years has been an
efficient employe at the Capitol. He is
thoroughly familiar with parliamentary
law and all Congressional proceedings.
He was nominated for Congress the
other day by the Republicans of the
Second district. Representative Blakeney.
the present incumbent. declining to be a
candidate. The district is debatable
ground, but as Mr.. Page is universally
popular with the young voters. 1t Is
believed by his friends that he will
carry the district by safe majority.
"The campaign has just opened in my
district said Mr.. Page. "and from now
kept busy meeting my friends, making
acquaintances, and renewing old ones.
The people are not SO much interested
in the Philippines as they are in the
trusts and the tariff. The Democrats at
first made a great fuss about the Philip
pines and imperialism. They seemed to
forget that the People settled the Phil
ippine question when they reelected
the late President William Mckinley.
But then. you know. the Democratic
party is slow and behind the times. It
will discover by election day that the
Philippines is dead issue.
But of the trusts and the tariff.
These are live questions and call for
very careful consideration. The trusts
are the outcome of our commercial
growth Combinations are the rule of
the hour, and there Is much to be said
in favor of proper combinations. Bur
it's the unjust and unholy combinations
of capital that call for legislative ac
tion; and President Roosevelt has very
clearly pointed out in his admirable
speeches what we will do on the subjccr
of trusts. The Republican party has
never yet been called upon to perform
needed public service that it failed to
to the demand of the people. |
And il won't fail on this trust issue.
Then there Is the tariff the Demo- |
Gratis are crying out against. l grant that |
the tariff needs some revision. And the |
will revise it on lines to do |
the greatest good to the greatest num-
her. There Is no question but that some
of tae schedules of the Dingley law
need alteration to meet changed condi-
lions. but in saying this do not admit
,or concede that the tariff as a whole
S bad. A tariff of thirty years ago
would not fit conditions of today. And
he country has outgrown some OF the
of the tariff Of 1897. There
ore. 1t stands to reason that there
must be some tariff legislation in ,he
lear future. and the people will look to
he Republican party to do the revis-
ng. The Republicans are better pre-
Jared to do this work than the Demo-
rats. and the business interests of the
ountry understand 1t, and hence the4
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in any direct or indirect way. great deal of it is
ethical, and is of value as moral instruction or
teaching A great deal Of it is obscure and some
of it is almost unsatisfactory to the intelligent
reader chapter of Para CELSIUS or any of the
old alchemists searcers after the elixir of life and
the philosophers stone. Even the many volumes de-
voted to palmstry may be said to have raison
dere outside of their more or less tabled value as
means of divining the future. They serve, per-
haps, to draw the attention of people to their hands
and to secure for them better care and more cleanl
ness.
The cause which more than all else has lead to
great revival of interest in this class of literature
is, of course. the wonderful spread in the belief in
spirtism and the consequent deduction that the
spirits must needs know something of the future of
mortals and can be depended upon in vague way
to communicate this knowledge to the material world
Some look to the clairvoyant the most reliable
of this supposed spirit knowledge of the in
dviduaPs future; others depend upon the reader of
cards. the reader of palms, the reader of the stars
But it all be reduced to the cause.-the yearn-
ing Of man for Immortality, and for knowledge of
the future years of his present state
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Personal Notes About Washington People.

of the first
is a
of
First Assistant General
w. ami
haver is
the rebuilding the interior Of the White
Mr. Gus Karger has relieved Mr. Hazard
William spending in
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An Unique Dance.

An unique dance was given last week
at the home of Mr.. Bernard Calvert, at
Woodville, Va. All the old dances which
prevailed prior to the civil war were
revived, and the young people scored
the more modern waltz and two step for
the fancy steps which were in vogue
during the grandmothers' days. Among
Washington visitors were the Misses
Fanny Hughes and Lucie Henry, and
Mr. Frank Pidcock. who were then
guests in Woodville.
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She was a maid of high degree.
And she sat by the open fire.
And nodded, and nodded. and dreamed.
did she,
And dreamed of her hearts desire.
He was a noble old Shotgun
On the tea-caddy there, was he,
OF the Hideyoshies the greatest one
OF the sixteenth century.
And the tea kettle sang Its cozy song,
AS she nodded and dreamed away
OF the far-away prince who was coming
along
To marry her, sure, some day.
Then she half awoke as the tea was
drawn.
And nodded and blinked, did She
And the prince she saw, the great sho-
gun.
In the steam from her cup of tea.
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To Reside in Washington.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Francis Thomas have
returned to Washington. where they will
reside in the future. Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas have lived in Richmond for the
past several years, having moved there
from this city. Mr.. Thomas will manage
the tour OF Polk Miller, the weIl-known
Southern entertainer, during the coming
SeaSCn
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GOSSIP AND CHAT HEARD IN
WASHINGTON HOTEL LOBBIES

business element will give its support
to the Republican candidates for Con-
gress this fall.
"The tariff and the trusts are two
different propositions. for the trusts are
not at all dependent on nor the result OF
the tariff. as has been charged by the
Democrats. On the contrary. trusts
could exist and thrive without the
tariff"
The Washington times., 1902-09-09
CRAIG.
By W. D. NEsBIT.

"Offlcer Craig. OF the Signal Corps,
| Died on duty''-And nothing more?
officer Craig-not muffled drum
Throbs its cadence of grief today
Nor any songs from the bugle come.
Signing their dirges along the way:
Yet there are men who are better now
Better than ever they hoped to be-
Men who would gaze on your pallid brow
Thrilled at death and It's mystery.
Officer Craig-where you lie today,
Still and peaceful. with browsing
eyes,
Would that you knew what the people
Softly of him who for duty dies,
Sweeter than anthem or chant or dirge
Greater than eulogy fine and fair
Are all the thoughts that to language
surge
While you're deep in your slumber
there.
Laurel and myrtle, and rose and rue
Marks of honor and grief-they lie,
Shrouding the body that once was you
Sturdy and stanch when you came
to die.
Officer Craig-can you understand,
There where the shadow encompass
seth?
Surely you hear 1.-THE tribute grand,
Died on duty-the greatest death,'
"Offlcer Craig. of the Signal Corps,
Died on duty" Who could say more?
Baltimore American.
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Everybody Pleased.

Baltimore Americana labor union
In New York has proposed an odd plan
to remove women from employment in
their particular work. 1t is to have the
girls discharged and then marry them.
No strenuous feminine opposition to this
plan has as yet been reported.
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Two important States Lost.

Kansas City Star-David B. Hill may
now be accepted as Presidential i'm
possibility. The fact that he never
tasted liquor would mean the loss of
Kentucky, and the fact that he never
kissed a woman would mean the loss
or Missouri
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Democracy in Good Shape.

Col. John b. Thompson, Of Harrods-
burg. one of the leading distillers of
Kentucky, is at the New Willard. He
is here on private business.
THE Democracy of the Blue Grass
State" said the colonel, last evening,
was never in better shape than now.
We are united all along the line, and
with the exception of the Eleventh, or
mountain. district. we will send solid
of Representatives II the rest of the
Democrats in the country will do as well
as we do in Kentucky. the next House
will be Democratic by safe majority"
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Too Much of a Handicap.

Cincinnati Commercial Trihune-Pres-
ident Roosevelt's belief that every man
must pull his own weight doesn't go in
Ohio. where the perspiring Democrat
not only pulls his own weight, but the
weight Of his party and Tom Johnson's 8
In addition.
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Senators in the Same Fix.

Cleveland Plain Dealer-The Cleve-
land ball club is doing its share of the
hard work. ami If the other fellows will
turn in and pull down the leaders there
u no reason why the home aggregation
should not come within reaching dis
lance OF the pennant.
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Wedding Cards Out.

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis X. Disney have is
sued cards for the wedding of their
daughter. Lena Estelle, TO Mr.. William
Oliver Murray. The ceremony will be
performed tomorrow evening at $50
o'clock at Wilson Memorial Church
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THE PRINCE FROM FAR JAPAN.
By Nine. FRANCIS HIGGINS GLENERNE.

And she heard his voice in the kettles
song,
"Oh. my belle of Che-no-yu,
I've come at last by way SO long
To win and marry you'll"
Then he gave her a robe Of gorgeous
silk.
With sleeves like pair Of wings,
And great, big, double chrysanthe-
mum
For her hair-and combs and things.
And he powdered her chin in the Jap
anese style,
And he taught her the "Grecian bend y
And to patter about in her pattens while
Two more little maids attend. .
But the tabby cat sneezed and woke her
up-
And the prince-Oh, where was he?
He grinned at her and her Senke cup
From his place on the tea -caddy!
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Wedding Date Set.

The marriage of Miss Jewell May
Golden and Mr.. Wyatt Arnold Lee will
be solemnized Wednesday evening, Sep
tember o. at $50 O'Clock. at the resi-
dence of the bride. Eighth and E Streets
northwest.
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The Gamin's Epigram.

Chicago ord-Herald-A New York
boy who was being tried in police court
said: III yer mother don't care for yer,
yer amt got no mother" The Judge
wisely refrained from trying to disprove
the statement
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Guest of Honor.

Miss Gould, Of this city. was the
guest of honor at dance given tho
other evening by Mr.. and Mrs. A. w.
Hall, at Shafersville. Md Mr.. and Mrs.
George 5. Covington were also among
the Washinstonians present.
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Leaves for New England.

New England. where he will spend the
month of September. On his return DR..
Brcsius will occupy apartments at the
Cumberland.
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Prosperity in Dixie Land.

Baltimore Herald-The South has just
been busily engaged in picking and bal
ing 100000 bales Of high-grade cot
ton, and is consequently in the best of
humor.
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Now at Home.

Miss Lottio Y. Handy and her sister
have just returned from their former
home in Washington. Del. where they
spent part of their six weeks vacation,
They also visited Atlantic City and Cape
Hay. While in Washington they were
feted by host of relatives and friends.
The Misses Handy will be pleased to
see their friends this week at their
home, $50 Whitney Avenue northwest.
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The Senatorial Prophet.

Buffalo Express-H Mr. Platt is to
save his reputation as prophet. he will
have to settle the coal strike in another
week.
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Town POINTS. POSTAGE PREPAID

EVENING EDITION. ono yesr. %; six
months, e1.0O; thfes months. 7J cents.
Evening and Sunday. ono year. 35: six
months. $3.50; three months. xI.2J.
Morning, Evening. and sundss. one
year. SO; six months. 10; three months,
$3.50.
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Visiting at Hot Springs.

Mr. and Mrs. James F. Barbour and
daughter Mrs. Nicholas Anderson. and
Mrs Philip f. Mcmillan are among the
visitors at Hot Springs. Va.
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Return to Washington.

Mr. and Mrs. Salvador Desio and thei
interesting family have returned t.
Washington after a summer out OF town
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Too Bad.

Newport Telegram-President Roose-
velt shot a boar while In New England.
What pity he is not privileged to shoot
bores as we'll as boars.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES I'd oUr os

MORNING EDITION. one year. IS: six
months. o2.5O; three months. e1.25.
Aiorning and Sunday. one year. 81; six
months. $3.50; three months. 81. IS.
: unday edition only. ono year. 81; six
snonths. 81; three months, so cents.
The Washington times., 1902-09-09

Officer Craig. of the Signal Corps,
Died on duty''-And nothing more?
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-16
MISTAKE AS TO INSPECTION
FarmvilIe Knitting Mill in Arrears to Its
Hands-Dr. McIlwaine to Lecture.


(Special Dispatch tc The Hmes)
F,ARMV.ALE, VA, Sept. 15.-The
Farmville Guards assembled in their ar
mory this morning for their annua! in
spection which was scheduled to take
place at 1880 o'clock. but to the surprise
and disappointment of a., the inspecting
officer, Colonel 10 Lane Stern. failed 70
show up. and there was no inspection
Colonel Stern arrived on the 1886 train
and inspected arms IN the wardrobes' II
the arlnory this afternoon He says his
failure to be here this morning was due
to mistake in orders.
the employees of the Farmville Knitting
Mills who were thrown out of employ
lnent Ia week by the closing down of the
mills are getting very impatient over
their wages, which have not been paid
them up to this writing. The company
owes every emplove for two weeks work,
some as much as twentv-siN dollars.
The September term of the Prince Ed
ward County Court convened this morn
ing, Judge Crute presiding. The cases,
which were small. were disposed of
quickly.
Dr. RichSrd McIlwaine, Of Hampden-
Sidney College. will deliver a lecture in
the Opera House tomorrow night at s
o'clock, in the interest OF education. The
public is invited to attend.
A large crowd will attend the Confede-
rate reunion at Five Forks tomorrow, a
distance of about five miles from here.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-16
HOW TO REGISTER.

Tn sni;c OF tho oft-repeated statements
% Tho contrary. thore are many people
who are under the impression that IN
order 10 register every man must nave
mid his poll tax or must be subjected
70 some sort OF disagreeable exasntna-
ton
a citizen is entitled to register whe-
.ner he has paid his taxes or not If he
:, war veteran or the son Of war
veteran.
i. no ;s neither, but II he is a person
who owns real estate or personal prop
erty upon which for last year he has paid
State taxes amounting to one dollar, he
oan register.
II he has not paid taxes to that amount
ara lie not a veteran or the son oil
veteran he can register If he is able TO
understand or give a reasonable e1pia-
nation OF any section Of the Constitu-
ton. either reed by him or to him by
Abe officers Of the registration.
i. 10 All perfectly siuple and there is
no reason why any respectable whlte
man In Virginia may not register with
out any sort Of embarrassment to MIN
sclf
Many of those who misunderstand Will
not read this article, but it viii be read.
we hope, by many who do understand
the provisions. and every citizen should
make II mis- business to explain the law
60 those who are laboring under mis-
apprehension.
The registration books are now open
In Richmond. and it is not only the prIvi-
lege, but tho duty, of white men to go
forward and get their names on the per-
tnanent roll. II they do not get in now
they may have trouble hereafter. put
there Is no difficulty in getting on the
roll now, and once on the roll they can
vote forever hereafter.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-16
USE OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

The splendid school buildings of Rich
mond We're reopened yesterday, after
having been closed for more than two
months. They viii now be open five or
six hours day for six days in the week
until next June, when they will again
be closed Tor the summer They are
never open at night, and SO these large
and connexions buildings, with numer-
Gus assembly rooms. are used less than
one-fourth the time
This was the case in New York city
until a few years ago. when some pub
nc-spi-ited citizen came to the concur
sion that this system was a shameful
waste OF a municipal plant The value
OF school buildings in New York is
Sss.lti,lS4. and until a few years ago tho
buildings were occupied 1,0So hours a
year. During the remaining 1850 hours
The buildings wero closed
These statements are made by G. W.
Wharton in the Outlook for September
9th. and in an Interesting article lie goes
on to show how New York has sinct put
Its school buildings TO good account dur
ing the hours when school is not in scs-
sion.
The nrst step IN this airso.ioe. was tho