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The Washington times., 1903-11-26
In Diplomatic Circles.

Fernand 1Ou Martheray. the Swiss
minister. arrived at the legation today.
The Washington times., 1903-11-26

The PoStIn as.er General and Mrs.
Payne viii sasertain few friends at
dinner
The Washington times., 1903-11-26
The Cabinet Circle.

The Secretary Of State and Mrs. Hay
will spend today at the home OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Payne Whitney. in New York
The Washington times., 1903-11-26

Mrs. Root has gone to Clinton. n. Y.
and will spend Thanksgiving with her
son. Edward. who is a student at Hamil-
ton College Miss Root remained in
Washington with her father. the Secre-
tary Of War
The Washington times., 1903-11-26
Gravity of the Situation.

The absence Of so many officers from
their command is commented upon by
General Randolph as follows:
From the above il will appear that
only about "a per cent OF the total num-
Der OF artillery officers present for duty
have had over five years experience IN
the artillery. The gravity OF this stu
alton will be readily appreciated when
II is recalled that at the present time
the duties and responsibilities OF an ar
tillery officer are greater than ever be-
fore. II is neither good administration
nor fsir to the officer concerned TO put
IN IT experienced one in a position OF
comm and. Nhepe ignorance may result
In the loss OF human ife. or in the de-
struction OF thousands Of dollars Of Gov
eminent property"
The Washington times., 1903-11-26
SERVICE WEAKENED
BY OFFICERS ABSENCE
Too Many Artillerymen De-
tached on Special Duty.
GEN. RENDOLPH'S COMMENT
Life and Property Put in Jeopardy by
Placing Young officers Where Expe-
rienced Ones Are Required.
GEN. RkNDoLPH'S COMMENT

Embarrassment caused in the artillery
by the absence OF experienced officers
and the shortage of officers Of all grades
Is emphasized in the report of Brig. Gen.
Wallace Randolph chief Of artillery,
which has just been made public.
One hundred and thirty-five artillery
officers were absent from their com
mands in the past year. These ranged
in grade from lieutenant colonel to sec
ond lieutenant. The conditions are bet
ter than they were last year as a result
Of an order of the Secretary Of War
directing that officers detailed for duty
at the Military Academy, for recruiting
service and for duty as military in
structors at colleges be furnished from
the line officers of the three arms Of the
service propOrtionately to the number Of
officers in each arm
The Washington times., 1903-11-26

To relieve further the shortage Of off,
GERS. General Randolph advises that
Congress provide for a special academic
staff, 10 consist of all officers detailed
on duty at colleges and the Military
Academy. The places OF officers detailed
on this duty should be filed. in General
Randolph's opinion. in a manner similar
10 that now adopted in the staff corps.
The total number OF officers in the
artillery corps provided by law is 632. OF
this number 800, or 81 per cent, have
had less than five years Of experience
as commissioned officers. OF the 257
artillery officers with more than five
years Of experience, SO are on detached
service
The Washington times., 1903-11-26

Mrs. +. A. Broughton. OF Bradford
England. is a visitor in Washington.
The Washington times., 1903-11-26
MENUS FOR TOMORROW
DINNER

Tomato Bisoue. Salmon.
Mashed Potatoes.
Cauliflower.
Sweet Potatoes.
Mince Pie. Cheese. Coffee.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-01
From the Youths Companion.

From the Youths Companion.
Horses are enlisted" in British cav
airy regiments on reaching their third
year, but ii is generally two years more
before they are taken for their first
swimming lesson. This branch of their
education receives a good deal of at
tention at the Aldershot training camp.
writes w. c. Fitzgerald in the Royal
Magazine. The veterinary officer and
riding master of the regiment super
vises the work, and only experienced
men are allowed to assist.
The great thing is not to force or
alarm the horse during his training,
but rather to lead him by each stages
to enter the water quickly, fearlessly
and as noiselessly as possible. If ter
rified at the start, the horse bould be
likely to fight shy of deep water ever
after. So on the first day the man
who has charge of the horse walks his
pupil about on the edge of the water,
just permitting him to wet his hoofs
and fetlocks. The next day the horse
is introduced a little farther into the
water, perhaps up to his body. and
allowed to splash round as he pleases.
In this way the horse is gradually TAX
en- farther and farther in, until at
length he loses his footing and starts
Qull0 idlul any Tic HAL III
charge swimming by his side to give
him greater confidence.
Then the horse is taught to swim in
company with others. beside a boat.
by way of training him to cross rivers
with his regiment. en- masse. The
horses are Invested of all saddlery but
head collars and head ropes. The men
Of each troop get into a boat, and by
means of the head ropes bring their
horses into the water alongside. Then
the boat is hauled across the river by
a rope manned from the opposite side,
and the horses necessarily follow.
At times the horses are exercised in
bearing their riders across on their
backs. The horse wears only the head
collar and bridoon, and the rider strips
himself and throws his legs up along
the horses tanks so as not to impede
the animals movements. As the horse
naturally swims very low in the water.
the riders weight pushes him down UNI
til only his head is above the surface.
But the animal soon gets over the ur-
easiness this causes him at first. Then
the horses tuition is complete, and he
is classed In his regiment as prod
Gent" He has, in fact. passed his
exam" as much as any cadet At
sandhurst
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-01
BAD FORM.

Not very long ago, says the New
York Tribune, it was considered bad
form to appear in very light colors and
ornate gowns in the street. Women
who have no other way of showing off
fine clothes wear them in the street"
was then the fashionable dictum, and
the best dressed Americans almost in
variably chose dark colors and severe
lines for daytime costumes, save when
they drove in their carriages, richly
tired, to some especial function. In
England, on the contrary, very light
colors have always been in vogue;
their fashionable season being in late
spring has probably influenced the mode
in this respect. But in America it is
only for the last year or two that light
gowns have been permissible or much
worn. Now, however, milady having
allowed herself to appear before the
public in the daytime in light tints,
has suddenly jumped into the other ex-
treme and wears gowns for ordinary
wear that a few years ago would have
been considered only appropriate for
some occasion" IT felt like Gin
derella to-day" said a "tailor-made"
girl returning home after walk with
some of her friends. Stella was in
pink, Maud in pale yellow and Ruth in
mauve." Surely, not in the street,"
said her mother, who retained her old
fashioned ideas about the dress of a
lady.
They all wear light gowns now,
Mamsie," said the girl coaxingly, land
! want you to let me have a pale blue
cloth, with hat to match, for the Horse
Show A."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-01
AND SHE DIDN'T PLAY
BRIDGE, EITHER.

The following tale, says the New
York Evening Post, comes from
Munich. A philosopher described the
affection of a remarked widow as a
pocket telescope which magnifies her
first husband to a giant and reduces
the second to a pygmy. But the rule
is not without exception, and perhaps
one of the most remarkable on record
is a lady whose maxim was "Out of
sight out Of mind" Her better half
bequeathed a large sum of money
enough to maintain her very comfor-
tably for the rest of her days. But
soon after the funeral the tickle lady
set out for Monte Carlo, where she
gambled away her fortune in the space
of a few weeks. But her resourceful-
ness displayed itself anew in a most
unusual way, which is now the theme
of conversation in the Bavarian capt.
tai She actually sold the family vault
in the Campo Santo Cemetery, and,
together with IL, parted with the splen-
did tombstone erected to the memory
of her dearly beloved husband" for
the sum Of 5000 marks, or $1,000. A
few days ago the two collins contain
ing the mortal remains of her late
husband and his first wife, who died
in 1891, were disinterred and removed
to the common section of the church,
yard, where they were lowered into
a grave which cost Sc. The inscription
on the artistic monument was removed,
and the present burial place indicated
by a fat slab. The proceeds of this
extraordinary sale found their way at
once to Monte Carlo, and were duly
scooped in by the Indifferent croupier
there. The once wealthy lady is now
a beggar, with no hope Of retrieving
her fortune or position.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-01
A MERRY HEART.

When you come to a wearisome bit of
the road.
Where the stones are thick and the
path is steep,
And the back is bowed with the heft
of the load,
AS the narrowing way is hard to
keep.
Don't stop just then for a wasteful
sigh,
But challenge the worst with stead
fast cheer:
= Gods angel will hasten, your pioneer.
When you reach a lonesome bit of the
road.
Curtained about with mist and murk,
And you hear faint sounds from the
dread above,
Where shivering. grim hobgoblins
Turk,
Just laugh to scorn their doleful cries
This is the place to whistle and sing;
Brush the fog from your fearless eyes
And close to the faith Of your fathers
cling.
When you stand at sorrowful bit of
the road.
And a hand you loved has loosed its
clasp:
When streams are dry that in sweet
ness flowed,
And flowers drop from your listless
grasp:
Zen now take heart, for further on
There are hope and joy and the dawn
of day:
You SHAH find again what you thought
was gone;
'Tis the merry heart goes all the way.
Margaret E. Sangster.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-01
RoMANcES OF RINGS.

Many curious. stories have been told
of articles which had been lost and al
most miraculously recovered--stories
which were proved to be authentic and
true to fact. One of the strangest was
told by the Fife Herald zone morn
ing last week." 1t says, "a workman at
West Bridge Flour Mills, Cupar. while
in the act of washing a quantity Of
Egyptian beanss had his attention d.
rected to something sparkling at the
bottom of a vessel. He at once lifted
up the article, which proved to be a
valuable diamond ring of chaste work.
manship in fine gold. There had origf-
nally been seven diamonds in the ring.
but one had been lost out OF the setting,
otherwise the ring was uninjured. The
mystery is, however, how did II md its
way there. The beans, we believe,
came direct from Egypt; and, OF
course, as someone must have lost the
ring in that country, means were taken
and we believe with success. to dis
cover the rightful owner. The far
Travelled ring has returned to the East"
Another story was told as follows:
Fifty years ago, or thereabouts, Adj
miral X was in command of one Of
his ma esty's ships on the Mediterran-
can station. He always wore an an
tique ring OF rare workmanship ane
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-01
BASKET BALL is HARMFUL.

At a convention of the physical di-
rectors of Eastern women's schools,
held in Boston last week, says the Chi
cago Chronicle, Miss Lucille E. Hill,
physical director of Wellesley College,
declared that basket ball, now so popu-
lar at the various institutions of learn
ing, is a grave abuse of physical Gull
ture.
Miss Hill said that it was more i'm
portant to have healthy mothers than
healthy fathers and basket ball should
be stopped at once so far as girls under
the college age are concerned, and
should be admitted among the sports
for women of any age only under pro-
fessional supervision.
The physical effects upon young girls
is at a critical period in their growth
into womanhood, the chances of perma-
nent injury to beauty and health, the
evil influence of such excitement upon
the emotional and nervous feminine ma
ture and the tendency to unseX the
player--for she declared that the COM
petitive game, with its travelling about,
its exhibitions before mixed audiences
and its cultivation of the win-at-any-
cost spirit was not womanly and made
neither for character nor refinement
were all urged against the game for
young girls. For it's vogue she blamed
not so much those who reveled in play
as the school boards and the principals
who permit and in some cases encour-
age it,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-01

THE advocate of the theory that man
is far superior to his helpmeet thinks
it is a great fact to proclaim that not
one of the things that are called great
inventions came from the brain of
woman. Therefore he concludes that
a woman never invents anything
worth while. An after-dinner speaker
lit may have been Chauncey Depew
or Ambassador Choate-once answered
that argument by saying: Yes, 1t is
true she has never invented anything
great except the best way of separat-
ing the male inventor from the money
he has acquired by making the So
called Inventions
About fifteen years ago the contro-
versy grew so hot that the patent COM
missioner had the records of his office
searched for the purpose of making an
accurate table showing how many
women had taken out patents.
There were less than 5000. Since
that time two more pamphlets have APP
peared, showing that the total num-
Der of inventors belonging to the weak
er sex does not exceed 5000. Since the
last Of these was issued the names of
perhaps 1000 have been added to the
record.
"The whole number of patents grant
ed in the United States to date is 1885,
046. OF course many patents have
been issued to the same man, men like
Edison and George Westinghouse hold
ing hundreds of them. 1t is a fair
statement to say that letters patent
have been issued to at least 100000 per-
sons, and of this great number only
about 49, 900 are women.
1.-THE first American queen to be
granted a letter giving her the eXclu-
sive right to manufacture an article
invented by herself was Mary Kies.
The records do not give her address.
The letter was issued May S, 1909, nine
teen years after the patent office was
established. She contrived a method
for weaving straw with either silk or
thread. The records do not show
whether she made or lost money on
the venture. 1t is probable that she
lost, as the vast majority of inventors
do. They do not even make enough
to pay the cost of taking out the lat
ter. which is S35."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-01
Face Death and Danger.

That the woman explorer who sur
mounts uncomfortable hardships and
faces death and danger in their most
terrifying forms is, says the Chicago
Chronicle, usually a delicately nur-
tured, fragile, essentially feminine
woman, and as far removed as posi-
BILE from the amazon one might so nat
urally picture her, is a fact likely to
upset all ones preconceived ideas about
her. This is true of nearly all famous
woman explorers, from Mary Moffat
and Lady Baker to Miss Kingsley and
Mrs. Theodore Bent of later days.
Lady Baker was such an absolute
stranger to fear that she would walk
alone into the tents Of the most ruth
less of slave dealers and calmly lead
off his captives from under his very
eyes. and Mrs. Marion Mulhall. who
risked death a dozen times and tri-
umphed over hardships that might
have killed the strongest man, in the
dark, wild country that lies between
the Amazon and the Andes, is wom-
an Of such frail and delicate ap-
pearance that one might think March
wind would blow her away.
Miss Gordon-Cumnling was born
with an adventurous strain in her
blood, for her very name recalls thrill
ing stories of fights with wild animals
in little-known lands, and she has
proved herself worthy OF her paren-
tage. It is difficult to say what dark
corners Of the earth this daring woman
has not invaded. She has rambled
thousands of miles in China; was the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-01
WOMEN AS INVENTORS.

Another controversy as to what de-
gree the inventive faculty is possessed
by women seems imminent in the pat
ent office at present" says an employee
Of that department.
Every few years some jealous advo-
cate Of the equality OF the sexes rises
up to declare that the female portion
Of the humankind Is just as bright, in
tellectnally. as the male portion.
About every fifteen years that dis
pute degenerates into a squabble as 10
the deductions that are to be drawn
from the facts found in the patent Of
fee records. Usually the man in the
argument taunts his opponent about
the relatively small number of new
and useful things invented by women.
He usually says that woman has never
invented anything that has no bearing
upon the making of wearing apparel,
healing OF the sick, suppression Of noise
or to Increase the comfort Of mankind.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-01

first white woman to penetrate the
mysteries of Thibet; she has seen the
sun rise from the granite crags of CAL
ifornia, has climbed the Himalayas,
looked on the fire fountains of Hawaii,
played at Robinson Crusoe on scores
of Pacific islands, has made herself
quite at home in the heart of Fiji and
New Zealand, and is as familiar with
India and Ceylon in their least known
districts as with Bond street. The
story of her adventures reads like a
thrilling romance-from her brushes
with death among the Pamirs to her
experiences of Samoan rebels.
A more fearless explorer, male or fe-
male, than Miss Mary Kingsley, niece
of Canon Kingsley, has probably never
lived. She perfectly reveled in explor-
ing countries in which no European
had ever set foot, and instead of
avoiding danger seemed actually to
court it. Everyone thought her mad
when she started on her journey of ex-
ploration in the elephant and gorilla
countries of South Africa, with an es-
cort of treacherous natives. In the
rapids of N'ojole her canoe was upset
three times and each time she narrow
ly escaped death by clinging to a rock
until she was rescued.
On one occasion she faced alone a
fierce and enormous gorilla, while her
cowardly escort took to their heels;
and, later, she spent some weeks
among the cannibals in the Rembwe
country, making friends of natives
whose larders were stocked with hu-
man joints. an this country Miss
Kingsley wrote, the dead are cut up
and kept in larders. precisely as civil
lized people keep their fresh meat. The
bones are scattered about the country,
which is difficult of locomtion on ac-
count of the vast number of concealed
man traps"
Mrs. Theodore Bent, another woman
whose appearance suggests rather the
drawing than the trackless des-
erts, has outstripped many a male ex-
plorer in her daring and her defiance
of fatigue and danger.
Not long ago, when she was travel
ing with her husband in South Arabia
she had many a narrow escape from
cowardly bullets, and once she was
ordered to dsmount lin order that her
throat might be cut" Mrs. Bent, it
may be interesting to add, travels in
tweed coat and skirt coming well
over the knees, breaches, CATERS and
Shoes" She wears a pith hat and al
ways sleeps in a hammock
Mrs. Isabella Bishop, the daughter
or CheSnlre rector, mas a rare record
Of travel and adventure. She has
spent eight years in exploring the
least known parts of Asia-five of these
years since she was left a widow. Thi-
bet is an open book to her, and so are
Persia, Kurdistan, Korea, Siberia S-s1
China. She has spent long months
among the Rockies, has climbed the
highest peak in Colorado, has been
kidnapped and nearly shot, has lived
six months in the Sandwich Islands,
followed unbeaten tracks in Japan, and
has explored every corner of the
Yanktse valley.
Lady Florence Dixie has ridden thou
sands of miles on bare-backed horses,
has shot big game and made herself
quite at home among the fierce saw
ages in Patagonia; and Mrs. NOR has
risked her life scores Of times and
Travelled thousands of miles through
the dark jungles and swamps of Cen
trail Africa.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-01
WOMAN'S WORLD

will be supplied adequately by any 9TH
er forms.
In his utterance of these words such
gentleman recorded a conviction of
the equality of all gentlemen, regard
less OF the accidents of wealth or sta
tion and of the Difference due to all
women, simply because they were wom
en-, so simple, natural, and instructive
that no explanation or argument was
needed to support or defend it.
In his use of those words he recorded
his instructive conviction that polite
ness, whether to equals. superiors. or
interiors, was neither a tribute OF re-
spect to power nor a condescension to
weakness, but was made necessary by
self-respect in himself. and was a lust
tribute to the self-respect of others.
Standing thus upon the broad fouu-
datfon of mutual self-respect, the old
style manners smoothed the path of
life because they implied a real equal
lty between all well-bred men, and a
real Difference of such men to all wom-
en- that is not apparent when the name
OF the person addressed is substituted
and that vanishes altogether when
plain Yes" and NO" are used.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-01
OId-StyIe Manners.

Mrs. Martha Foote Crow. dean OF
women at Northwestern University
rays the Chicago Inter-Ocean, is re-
ported to have informed the young Ia
dies under her direction that she does
not approve the phrases Eyes, sir"
and Yes, maam," because they are
"old-fashioned."
With reference to Yes, ma'arl,"
Mrs. Crows condemnation will be gen.
orally approved. 1t is merely an I'M
politely slipshod rendering of yes,
madam" and never was in good taste
or fashion, old or new. And doubtless
Mrs. Grow is correct in condemning
Yes, sir" and Eyes, madam" as
oId-fashioned. d"
Yet few who remember the old style
manners as practiced by those to the
manner born can regard a verdict
which records the passing away OF
those phrases without a natural sigh of
pensivc regret.
There was something in the tone In
which a gentleman Of the old school
SAID Yes. sir" or Eyes, madam"
whose place in social intercourse those
VINO remember it can hardly believe