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The Washington times., 1904-07-20
GUARDSMEN TO GET
PAY FOR SIX MONTHS

Members of the District militia VIII
receive their pay for the past SIX
months service in the Guard within the
next week. Captain Parker, acting dis
bursting officer of the Guard will be-
gin paying on Friday evening. when
the members of general stan will re-
ceive their semi-annual pay The fol-
lowing is the order in which the men
Will be paid:
General staff and general non-com-
missiOned stan at headquarters. Star
Building, at 5 o'clock p. m, Friday. the
22d instant; the First Battalion. First
Regiment. at its armory. at 5 o'clock
p. m. Saturday, the 23d Instant the
First Battery. Field Artillery, Signal
Corps and Ambulance Corps, at the
Center Market ArmOry at o'clock
D. m. Friday. the 22d instant: the Second
Regiment. in the rifle gallery OF the
Center Market Armory, at s o'clock
.. m Friday the 22d instant; the Naval
Battalion. on the Fern. at o'clock
D. m. Thursday. the list Instant. the
headquarters. the Second and Third
Battalions. First Regiment. I'm the rife
gallery, Center Market ArmOry, at 8
o'clock D. m Saturday. the I'D instant;
the First Separate Battalion, al its
almory. at $3.50 O'Clock p. m. Saturday,
the sd instant.
The companies of each battalion VIII
be paid alphabetically.
Khaki uniforms, campaign hats and
side arms will be worn
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
MARYLAND MAN GETS
THE PANAMA PLUM
J. Marbury Keedy, of Hagerstown, APP
pointed Prosecuting Attorney for
the Canal Zone.

Announcement was made at the 18th
milan Canal Commission today Of the
appointment of J. Afarbury keedy, or
Hagerstown. Md. as prosecuting attor-
ney for the commission. with headquar-
tiers on the canal zone. Mr.. Keedy has
numerous friends in Washington. He
Is thirty-six years of age and performed
admirable service during the Spanish
American war He was al Porto Rico
when General Davis. now governor Of
the canal zone. was provisional governor
of the island. and prepared the Porto
Rican code of laws which were found 50
satisfactory that they were adopted
without amendment.
General Davis was pleased with his
record and the appointment IS par
ticularly agreeable one 10 the preSe=st
governor of the zone under whose Jurls-
dicticu Mr.. Keedys work in prosecuting
criminals will be done.
Mr.. Keedy speaks both Spanish ana
French. He viii sail for the tsthmus
with the members Of the commission
who leave New York on next Tuesday
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
The Size of Steamers.

Two suggestions found in recent is
sues Of the New York papers may in
dictate a somewhat important change
in maritime fashions: it is to be
hoped they do One is a comment on
the difficulty which the leviathan
steamer Baltic had in loading, and n
hint that in future ocean steamers
may be improved in the direction of
comfort and safety rather than size.
The other is a very sensible scheme
for combined money-making and pub
lie service in New York harbor, TO
the effect that smaller and more COM
Portable excursion steamers would be
q profitable proposition.
We have gone about as far in the
direction Of size, in this country, as
it is in any way desirable to go. The
mammoth excursion steamer or ocean
greyhound simply kills more people
In case of accident: it is not more
serviceable to the public than smaller
vessels. 1t is to be hoped that in the
near future owners Of maritime craft
will cease 10 feel that success means
mere bigness.
The suggestion that small excur-
sion steamers, fitted up for the bene-
fit Of people who can afford to pay a
good price for their fun. would be
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
'TN A HARD ROW FOR srUMps.n

You ask for manifest. martial deeds?
Go back 10 Ohio's natal morn
Go back TO Kentucky's fields of corn:
Just weeds and stumps and stunps and
weeds
Just red men blazing from stump and
tree
Where buckskn'd prophets midst
strife and stress
Came crying, came dying in the wilder
ness,
Tha; hard. first, cruel half-century,
What psalms they sang, what prayers
they said,
Cabin or camp. as the wheels rolled
West.
Silently leaving their bravest, best
Paving nations path with their dead,
What unnamed battles! what thumpa
and bumps!
What saber slashes with the broad
bright noe.
What weeds in phaIanx! what stumps
I'm row!
What rank vines fortressed in rows OF
stumps,
And the saying grew. as sayings Will
From hard endeavor and bangs ard
bumps.
He got in mighty hard row fo1
stumps;
But he tried and died trying to hoe hi.
row.
o brighter and better that ten-pound
hoe,
Than brightest. broad saber Of Water
loo
Nor ever fell soldier more truly true
Than he who died trying to hoe his row.
The weeds are gone and the stumps are
gone
The huge hop-toad and the copper
head.
And million bent sabers fash til
umph instead
From stately. clean corn in the diamond
sown dawn.
But the heroes have vanished. save here
end there,
Far out and afeld like some storm
riven tree.
Leans last survivor o. ThermOpylae
Leafiess and desolate, lone and bare.
Joaquin Miller in Harper's Weekly.
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
QUIETLY MARRIED
AT BRIDES HOME

Miss Annie Elizabeth Andrews and
Charles Albiu Price were married at the
brides residence Monday evening. only
the immediate relatives Of the two fami-
lies being present The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. DR. Thomas Chal-
mers Easton. the bride being accompa-
MED by the groom sister. Miss Flor
euce Price, as maid Of honor. J. Harri-
son Carter was best man.
The bride wore a gown Of white silk
null and her maid a dainty gown Of
white Organdy.
Miss Ethel a. Davis played the bridal
chorus from 'Lohengrin'' as the bridal
party entered the parlOr. the bride and
groom entering together Among those
present we're Mrs. Atwood. Mr.. and Mrs.
AIbin Price, Mrs. A. NJ. Given, and Mrs.
S. Mcdowell, of Philadelphia; Mrs. John
Harrcu. of Baltimore, and the Misses
Jessie, Mary, and Florence Price, Miss
Bessie Hoffman. Miss Davis, Mr.. Car
ter. and Worth /. Harper.
The bride is a daughter OF the late
Judge Stephen Andrews.
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
Does a Shadow Occupy Space?

but hardly definite enough in their re-
suits tc be accepted in an inquiry of this
sort where exactness is more essential
than imagination.
The editor was also interested by the
experience Of a correspondent, who,
while sailing the northern seas, barely
saved himself from drowning when the
vessel foundered by Selling an ak and
chopping his shadow free from the
mainmast. to which 1t had become solid
~ frozen, thereby threatening to drag
him down with the ship.
As a clear. concise statement Of the
non-substantial side OF the case. We
submit the following from DR.. Fisk FL
gin. Of 1898 Pennsylvania Avenue. Those
who dispute the Doctors findings are
free 10 state their argu meuts-
a shadow is a degree of darkness or
the partial absence Of light visual
impression, and IS formed By the OBJ
structing OF the direct reflected rays
Of an Illuminated or Illuminating body,
by the interposition CT an opaque body.
Is only an impression and not a sub
stance and therefore cannot occupy
space"
The Washington times., 1904-07-20

It takes a wise man to differentia-e
between what is and what seems to be.
Because The Times knew that Wash
ington was pre-eminently the abode Of
wise men it felt certain that the ques-
ton, does a shadow occupy spaee-the
question which has proved so disturbing
to the great city Of New York-could be
answered here with assurance. readi-
ness, and dispatch.
The Times stated it as a truism that If
a shadow was substance IL must occupy
space, and The Times readers have ac>
cepted this view Of the case by submit
ting their proof that a shadow is not
substance. The man who would define
the substance OF a shadow by drawing a
chalk line around it, plainly does not
count in this purely Intellectual contro-
Versy.
Moreover, the efforts of the experimen-
tai scientist. who endeavored TO get the
substance Of a shadow by piling a
series Of shadows one on top OF The
other, were unquestionably ingenious.
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
AUTOMOBILES
RIDE TOO FAST

Prof. Charles W. Needham. president
of Columbian University. who is spending
the summer with his family al their
Newport cottage. was somewhat sur
priscd yesterday 70 have his house guest,
Kirk Porter Lincoln, Of Pittsburg, ar
rested and fined Sl260 for speeding his
automobile. 4 number OF other too swifs
autoists enjoyed the same nOtOriety, all
on account o. the necessity of enforcing
the si,"ef law at this fashionable resort.
where every resident OWLS machine.
Miss Hitchcock. daughter of the Sec
rotary IF the Interior, and Mrs. Hitch
cock. who nave been the guests Of Mrs.
Arnold Hague at Newport, returned 10
the Hitchcock summer home in Dublin,
y. II, yesterday.
Mrs. W. y Slater. who has a cottage
at NarrLcausett Pier. entertained a
luncheon party in tie Grecian Gardens
yesterday.
The Misses Brice arrived in New York
from Europe Monday. went TO Newport
yesterday and entertained = dinner party
at their cottage last night. all of which
fiavCrs Of days past when the Brices In
COTCOrGn house were the most strenuous
entertainers at the Capital.
Mr. and Mrs Francis p. p. Sands,
with Miss Frances Sands and the young
or members Of the family. are at their
cottage, "Ireuia,' Babylon, L. l.
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
The Automobile Question

A case with an element Of humor in
II has come up in a Pennsylvania
town. A man was arrested for run
ming his automobile at a speed OF
more than thirty miles an hour, the
arresting officer being a bicycle po-
liceman. Naturally. In order TO give
chase 70 the offender and catch him
the policeman must have been riding
al a speed considerably greater than
thirty miles an hour
When the case got into the papers,
one of those knowing readers who
make our lives worth living bobbed
mp and asked. in print, how the po-
nceman could ride fast enough to
catch the automobile, If the latter
was making over thirty miles an
hour, since the championship record
for the bicycle is ISL The police
man is expected to feel crushed.
This question of exceeding the
speed limit in an automobile is be-
coming important Naturally, il is a
delicate one 10 decide. II is clearly
difficult TO tell, In the first place,
whether the machine is outside the
speed limit or not Most people would
hardly be able to say offhand
whether any sort OF vehicle was NOV
ing at the rate Of twenty-nine OF
thirty-one miles an hour. Yet there
must be some limit, and people must
be taught TO keep inside il, for the
safety OF the community.
Again. the automobile is different
from most other wheeled things on
which q speed limit is imposed A
bicycle is a thing to be lodged when
going swiftly, but it cannot infict as
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
1t Can Be Done.

Boston has been seizing the oppor-
tunity afforded by the meat strike TO
live up to its reputation as a city of
reforms. II has, in other words,
taken TO eating fish. and by cutting
of its meat supply has caused meat
TO go down in price instead of up.
The people have gone on a strike, Z"
declared a retailer. Our coolers are
full of meat which cannot be sold.
Trade has dropped off 80 per cent
since early last week. The packers
have been arrogant and demanded
their fiat price of u cents, but they
came 70 us this morning and offered
meat at 1012 cents, or almost any
price If we would take it off their
hands"
If the people of Boston can control
the price of meat to that extent sim
ply by refusing to buy. the same thing
can be done all over the country. For
Boston to refuse to buy meat may be
comparatively small item in the
business of the meat trust But for a
dozen large cities all over the land to
refuse TO buy meat would threaten
the very life of the meat trust.
No packer belongs to the meat trust
for his health. He is after the money.
He is dependent upon the people for
his money. AS long as the people,
either fooled by their own belief that
meat is a necessity of life, or willing
for the sake of gratifying their pal
ates 70 pay extortionate prices for
meat, will buy meat at any price, the
meat trust has the people by the
throat But the instant the people re-
volt by refusing to pay extortionate
prices, they have the meat trust by
the throat
II is not right that the people
should have to deny themselves a Gus
tOmary article Of food in order 10
punish those who. through their abil-
ity TO control the supply of that ar
ticle. Cypress the people. Railroad
determinations and other factors
that place the trust in a position to
dictate prices should be dealt with
by law But while waiting for the
law 70 act, it is we'll that the people
should realize and should use the
weapon that they have in their own
hands.
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
DISTRICT COLONY
IN ATLANTIC CITY

J. \. Wolcott has gone to Atlantic
City for a few days and is stopping at
the Avon Inn.
Among the WashingtOnians registered
at the Elberon. Atlantic City. are r b
Viver. d. Thomas. Miss NJ r MotheI'n.
Marie HOlzbeierlein, Willie Holzbeier-
lein, Henry Holzbeierlein, ard Dora
HOlzbeieriein
George Clagett is at the Fredonia :
L. A. Clark at the Morton; Mr.. and Mrs.
d. J. Jones at the Osborne; T. r. Grum-
mOnd at the scarborough: \. /. Long
at the Senate; Miss b. c. Walord at the
Strand; Mrs. + :. Cromwell, Miss NJ s.
Lanck, Mrs. II. L. Lewis. Mrs. E L
Lewis, and Master r. c. Lewis. at the
Sothern; Mrs. X. Barger and the Misses
Miller at the Shoreham; = l. ODER, Mrs.
r. LEIGH. Miss LEIGH. +. L Altermus.
q. c. Altermus at the Wiltshire, and
William ). MadiGan at YOung's.
Master Edward Leahy has gone 20
Atlantic City 10 visit his uncle and aunt,
Mr.. ana Mrs. Harry Major. at their
home, 4l6 Madison Avenue.
Philander Knox. the young son Of SEN
atOr and Mrs. Knox. has Joined his sis
ter. Miss Rebecca Knox, at Atlantic
City.
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
"C0NTENTMENT OF LABOR
UNDER MODERN CONDITIONS

"Contentment Of Labor Under Modern
Conditions" IS the label which Secretary
Shaw has pasted on a photograph taken
under his direction, IN front Of the
Treasury Building yesterday.
The picture shows group of tele-
phcae liuemen seated about a manhole
on Pennsylvania Avenue. with a large
umbrella shading them from the glare
of the sun, and an electric fan in opera
ton I'm front of them to provide them
with the muCh-desiTed breeze.
The making of the picture was Sec
rotary Shaw's own idea He happened
10 see the linemcu attach the electric
fan at tine opening Of the mauhOle, and
the scheme struck him as such novel
one that he decided TO perpetuate II
through the aid OF camera.
The Secretary sent man from the
Treasury Building TO take the group.
1T IS undoubtedly a fact" said Sec
rotary Shaw, that modern inventions
are ameliorating the condition Of labor
every day. When a telephone lineman
has a fan with which to keep cool while
he works II Is certainly AN Improvement
over the old conditions"
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
AMERICAN WOMAN
Welded IN PARIS

Mrs Padelford, daughter Of Mrs.
Beach Grant. who visited Washington
last winter as the guest Of eX-Represen-
tative and Mrs. Shropp. of Pennsyl-
vania, at their home on Twentieth
Street. was married In Paris Tuesday
10 Vicomte de Breteuil in the Church of
St Pierre de ChuillOt.
The church was finely decorated with
flowers, and the bride, who is quite pref
", wore gown Of pearl gray mousse
line de sole. with lace insertions. and a
large picture hat OF tulIe, caught up on
one side with ostrich plumes.
The attendants were two little girls,
Miles de La ROchefoucauld and Clouet,
and the young Nine. de BreteuiI and lie
La Rochefoucauld. The witnesses for
the bridegroom We're the Marquis de
Rrcteuil. his brother, and COmte Jean
de La ROChefOuCauld. his bTOthcr-in-
law and for the bride, her brother-in-
law. the Earl of Essex, and Baron de
kOffmann.
After the ceremony. the BRIDE
mother, Mrs. Beach Grant, gave a
luncheon To the friends and relatives OF
the two families at her home, In the
Avenue du Bots de BouloEne.
a number of distinguished people wit
messed the ceremony
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
LAWYERS DEMOCRATIC
CLUB IS ORGANIZED
Members of Local Bar Extend Con-
CALCULATIONS and Tender Services
to Judge Parker.

Democratic members Of the Dlstrict
byr yesterday organized the Lawyers
Democratic Club of the District OF CO
Iurnbia. The meeting was held IN the
office of Charles w Darr. VINO was
unanimously chosen president win
Richard A. Ford as vice president
Charles Z. Roach was elected secretary
and Charles J. Murphy treasurer.
After the organization was perfected
the following telegram was sent 10
Judge Parker, the Democratic nominee
for President,
..The LAWYERS Democratic Club of the
Distriet of Columbia. this day organized,
extends congratulations and tenders its
services.
the LAWYERS Club TO furnish stump
Sneakers for the Democratic campaign
and in all other ways lend aid toward
the success of the party
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
LITTLE POEMS OF WASHINGTON LIFE


Now Mrs Adeline, the wife of Chubb
Was lady who was president of club.
She TO theaters, he time
cards novels and she thought on wasa
You ought to try society might delight in
Said her that dainty damsel
wtchng ways she knew,
Chevy Chase and Marshall Hail. Cabin
She coaxed her serious aunt of Sunday afternoon
70 wit polyphonic
it? There's the rub"
flying lose her head
and felt like
Felicia nibbled with ecstatic glee
a winge did not agree
short, vas unable to poise and dive
Like her airy niece Felicia Frivolity De Witt
They went to see the animals receiving a 70
parrots shrek the untng COO
they stopped
through the fearful
grasped the specaces of Mrs Perkins Chubb
hem a lively rub-a-dub
They at evening
depended largely vigorous push and pull
A a hurry, he struggled to get down.
through Mrs Chubbs
When pleasure I'll seek at the club"
Said the wrathf woeful and disguised Mrs Chubb
a simple truth,
That alike the rich the and youth
s other folks be fun for
like be just the thing for them to do
interests various of jokes
nicely Of folks
you frivolity seek a club
frivOity any Chubb.
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
WEDNESDAY. JULY 20. 1904.
Russia s Motive.

1t is an ingenious theory which de-
clares that Russia's purpose in prey
ing upon British and German COM
merce in the Red Sea is to embroil
herself with those two nations in or
der to find a Dretext for making peace
with Japan under pressure"
UnquestiOnably defeat from the
hands of either Great Britain or Ger
many would be considerably more
palatable to any European people
than defeat from the hands of Japan.
But Russian affairs in the Far East
are both too bad and not bad enough
to make such a course as deliberately
forcing Great Britain to interfere in
some form or other rather unlikely.
Matters have gone too bad with
Russia to make the recovery of her
prestige Immediately attainable ex-
cept by actually defeating Japan; but
matters are not yet bad enough to
render Russia positively desperate
Surely she would have to be desperate
to adopt policy that would mean, at
the least figuring, a tremendous hui
initiation of the national pride.
Had Port Arthur fallen and were
General Kuropatkin on the point Of
surrendering his army, Russia
plight would be so self-evidently
serious as TO make plausible any
means of possible extrication. But
Port Arthur seems likely to hold
forth for some time, and Kuropatkin
albeit in hard way-is still doing
remarkably well in holding back the
combined japanese forces. The rainy
season may interrupt the campaign
at any time, and Russia's chances will
surely gain from any delay.
In fact, KurOpatKin, according TO
latest reports, is by no means in the
desperate straits he was when Kuroki
first crossed the Yalu River. In view
OF the hope that this definite advance
in military effectiveness must have
engendered, il is not likely that the
Russian government has reached a
point where it will risk national dis
aster on single throw of the dice.
To say that Russia did not foresee
what a disturbance, her demonstration
would make seems equally absurd,
unless one believes that the Russian
government is so accustomed TO exer-
cising despOuc power over its own
subjects that it momentarily over
looked the fact that Russian despot-
ism is not an international COM
modify.
However, whether Russia acted
with reason or followed impulse. it is
evident that the act itself was a
blunder. Whatever international law
may say, Selling the mails was indie
feasible in this particular case, be-
cause IL accomplished nothing. The
military situation has not been af-
fected one way or the other, while
Russia has gotten herself into an IN
pleasant controversy over a small
matter. She has built for herself an
other worry with positively no recon-
pense for the annoyance
The Washington times., 1904-07-20

much damage as a machine weighing
several hundred pounds going at the
same speed. Horses can be danger
Gus, but they cannot equal the speed
of an automobile in the hands of a
reckless driver. 1t may come to the
point of having specially prepared
tracks for these machines, on which
they will be required to run.
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
ADVISES AMERICANS
TO SHUN THE AMAZON

Louis H. Ayme the American consul
at Para, Brazil, after making a trip
up the Amazon, has made a report to
the State Department, in which he ad
vises that Americans keep away from
that country.
Mr.. Ayme says life along the Amazon
is uncomfortable. and says that even with
the chance Of making a fortune. which
Is remote, young American probably
could not content himself in such a
country.
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
TAYLoR,s GRANDSON DEAD.

HALIFAX. y. 5, July 20.-Capt. John
TAYLOR Wood. grandson OF President
Zachary Taylor, and nephew Of Jeffer-
son Davis. died here yesterday. seventy
four years old Mr.. Wood entered the
United States Navy as midshipman, and
served in the Mexican war. During the
civil war he served on the staff OF JEFF
ferson Davis, and with Lees army, and
did daring work as a blockade runner.
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
THOMAS f. WALSH MAY
WEAR SENATORIAL TOGA
Defers to Presidents Alleged Wish.
Has Already Selected
Manager.

DENVER, Col. July &.-NotWlth-
standing repeated denials, Thomas +
Walsh, the Colorado mining king. VIII
be a candidate for the United States
Senate Already he has selected man
aser, I. NJ Stevens, and when he re-
turns 10 Denver from his tour Of Color
ado in a few days, il is said, he VIII
publicly announce mis- candidacy
It has been said by Mr.. Walsh lnnu-
merable times that he desires no pohl-
cal Office. but he filally gave IN 10
President Roosevelt'S wishes
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
ASKS HIS FAMILY NOT
TO WEAR MOURNING

ALLENTOWN. Pa, July 20.-Ex-As-
semblyman David d. Roper. who died
at Slatington. recently. In his will. pro
bated here. made this sensible state
meut:
Il request that none OF my family
wear black for me. Such mourning /
often see turned into sham. Mourning
is of the heart. not OF the clothes. Much
mourning is bad for the living and no
benefit to the dead 80 I advise my
family after my death 10 take as much
pleasure out Of life as they convenient
ly can"
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
DEWEYS DELIGHT
MANHATTAN BEACH
Captain Emery and Family
Their Guests.
MARK TWAIN AND Mr.. GLIDER
Other Social Happenings in Which
Westinghouse Figure at
Summer Resorts.

Admiral and Mrs. Dewey have had as
guests at Manhattan Beach Captain
Emery, Of the Brooklyn navy yard: Mrs.
Emery, and their two daughters. Mrs
Dewey seems to have entirely recovered
from her several years Of delicate health
and with the Admiral attracts consid-
cradle attention in their Boardwalk
prOmenades
The Washington times., 1904-07-20
LIGHTNING STRUCK THE
GUITAR ON HIS BACK

SHAMOKIN. Pa, July 2O.-During a
storm Lieut.. Edward McCay. Of the SAL
walton Army. was walking 10 Big Noun
tain. A guitar was slung across his
back. AS he hurried TO ach a place
% shelter lightning struck the guitar
ard broke il 10 pieces
McCay was rendered senseless. and his
shoes We're torn from his feet He lay
two hours unconscious when pedestrians
found him. He has since fully recovered
The Washington times., 1904-07-20

Capt. Carlos L. Lanela. aIde-de-camp
10 the Governor Of Seville. comes to
Washington with the news that the loss
of her colonies has proved a genuine
benefit 10 Spain. He should tell It TO
Boston. where the anti-imperIallsts live
who so vigorously deny THAI Uncle Sam
Is a full-grown philanthroplst