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The Washington times., 1905-08-17
THURSDAY. AUGUST II. 1905.
The Pressure for Peace,

Notwithstanding that every step
brings them nearer TO the stone wall
in which nobody has yet deserted
promising hole, the peace negotiators
are making progress that is encourag-
inc. There is talk now that Japan
ally, Britain, and President Roose-
Welt are bringing pressure to bear on
Japan that she forego the demand for
a direct money indemnity. II this
could be accomplished peace would
seem to be almost settled.
But whether Japan is induced TO
forego indemnity or not, the powers
interested in the East have much the
same concern that peace be made. IL
japan is given her indemnity war will
cease and Russia will continue a
Pacific power. If the conference fails
and war is resumed, Russia will sure
ly cease to be a Pacific power; she
viii likely lose everything east OF
Baikal. When peace is declared at
last. Japan will get, not money, but
an empire on the Asian mainland.
Shut away from the Pacific. Russia
would then turn again toward the
Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, or
the Atlantic by way of Scandinavia.
in her effort to get an outlet to an
open ocean. 1t would be better for
the powers TO force a peace upon Rus
sia at Japan's price in money, than
TO let the war go on and let Japan
take more land For as surely as
Japan takes the Pacific littoral OF
Siberia. so surely must some other
power feel the pressure, maybe in a
decade. maybe in a generation, OF
Russia's effort to reach the sea,
Europe will see that it were better
to leave open a way to the Eastern
ocean than to take the chance OF
complications elsewhere. Therefore
Europe, when convinced that Japan
will not yield on the indemnity point
may be expected to turn its pressure
on Russia, to induce her to pay the
indemnity and make peace
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THE SCARECROW.

Amid the growing wheat he stands,
a shabby lord OF fertile lands.
His tattered coattails WOO the breeze:
His trousers bag at seat and knees;
His hat. worn rakishiy askew,
Is dated Eightecn-ninety-tw
One arm is stretched above the grain,
And one, unlifted, rears a cane.
Denounciug dreadful. darksome things
on winged marauders' pilferings.
Yet, when the Bluebirds thither HE.
Sweet, hitting bits OF summer sky.
lie half relents-for well lie knows
Whose prowess checks those harvest
foes.
The grub. the cutworm. slug and snail
And thus ne gives them grudging hail:
Away birds. away. Away! birds. away
Take your due-a peck or two.
And come no more today"
But when he sees the sooty crows
Arrayed in meditatiye rows,
And hears the harsh, dtscordant
''caw,''
That threatens ravage. beak and claw.
He dreams Of dearth and scanJy sheaves
And thus repels those ruthless thieves
Away. crows. away! Away! crows
away!
Farmers son has bought a "un-
II IS not safe 10 stav,'
Arthur Guiterman. in New York
Times.
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Amateur Sociology.

Our various amateur sociologists
and sporadic economists are among
the most entertaining people the coun-
try is privileged to enjoy They prove
everything imaginable about social
and material tendencies and each
announces his own conclusions with
an air of confidence that leaves no
room for misgiyings. The trust, the
divorce, the railroad collision, the
Senate. the negro the tariff. the
lynching bee, race suicide, John D.
Rockefeller. the yellow press-the list
of bogies that are given star parts
in the tragedy of the race as
written by various social dFamat-
lists is too long for more than sugges-
ton. Fortunately Americans are
humor-loving people and able to
realize that if all these fatal diseases
were hanging on to the body polite
and the body social, dissolution would
long since have taken place.
Here, for instance, is a Mr. Bodine.
of Chicago. who tells a convention of
factory inspectors in Detroit that
woman is crowding man out of in
dustry and that pretty soon all the
men VIII be farm Iaobrers, miners
or janltors. while the women will hold
down all the good, easy, paying jobs.
Then. apparently not realizing that
there is any contradiction in it, he
turns around and discusses the society
woman, showing that she is generally
worthless as either wife or mother, a
slave to fashion, who looks into her
mirror oftener than into the faces Of
her children, and is fast contaminat-
ing all her sisters.
Mr.. Bodine is right about the
tendency of women TO engage in
directly gainful occupations. More of
them do It than ever before. He is also
right about the inanity of the ultra
society woman, OF whom, fortunately,
the proportion is small. But his con-
clusions are too sweeping. He takes
his own little discovery too seriously.
More women work for wages than
ever before, buC no larger number are
wealth producers. The whole world
is factory nowadays. and the daugh-
ter OF the house, instead Of eard1ng
and spinning and milking and churn-
Ing at home, goes away to do it. She
is paid wages, and therefore gets men
ton in the census reports of people
engaged in gainfuI occupations. II
she were doing the old kind or work
at home she would not be mentioned
because housekeeping and homemak-
Ing are not recognized by the census
as occupationsi
A good many of these social and
economic tendencies that our amateur
sociologists worry their heads about
have been working right along, doing
all the harm they were capable of, but
nobody had isolated the germ. so tC
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speak, and named the disease. Race
suicide is rather a sounding phrase
than a serious menace. So with the
others. The fact that they have been
analyzed and classified and labeled
does not make them any more dan
gerous than they were before. But
the fact that the community has got
this far in its study of them presages
good results.
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RULER OF MOROCCO
REFUSES FRENCH DEMAND

FEZ. Morocco. Aug. 1.-THE Sultan.
Y no claims Jurisdiction over all the Al
gerian settlers in Morocco, has refused
RANGES demand for indemnity and tn.
release of the chief of the Algerian set
tlement at Gharb who is III jail as The
outcome Of local troubles.
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

Andrew Carnegie is dividing the time
on his magnificent Skibo Castle in Scot
land playing golf and fishing on one OF
the beautiful lakes in Sutherlandshire,
where his castle i located. Almost all
OF his weH-ea rned leisure is devoted 10
hack Of a heavy dory, Mr.. Carnegie IS
T0wed about the lake. He has spent a
great deal of time while in Scotlahd
learning the habits of the fish. He has
ac0uainted himself with the various
places where they are to be found and as
n result never returns empty handed
The Washington times., 1905-08-17
MARRIED MERCHANT
WHO WAS A COUNT
Miss Florence CrOcker Won
Foreign Title.
HUSBAND SPLENDID MATCH
Bur He Had No Money and Was Lying
in Wait for American
Heiresses.

NEW YORK. Aug. 17.-Another sur
prise IS In store for the friends OF Miss
Florence Croker. who eloped last week
with Louis San Martino, a young italian
The cable dispatches have designated
her husband as a merchant. san Mar
tir1o is really count. and IS a member
of one OF the finest families IN Naples.
A letter full of enthusiastic description
of the count was received BY friend OF
Miss Croker yesterday. It was written
by q young woman in Paris. The friend
of Miss Croker. who received the lettaA.
lives at the Ansonia, and refused TO peS
nit the use of her name or that Of hep
correspondent.
Count Had No Money.
Count Louis San Martino is described
as good looking. not very tall. sweet
tempered. man of great polish. has
no bad habits and is a splendid match,
except that ne has no money"
Five years ago the count visited this
country as the agent for an automobile
concern. He was received in the best
society. Miss McAlister. a daughter Of
Ward McAlister. was interested in him.
snd saw that he received proper atten-
ton in society, says the correspondent.
The count was not a success as a
business Taan. and returned to Paris
after visit or a few months. There
nc became me protege Of rich Ameri-
can woman. Nine. DanesI, who was
Miss Mary Peck.
Nine. Danesi is OF the old Rhode
Island family of Pecks. and Count Louis
IS related 70 her husband. Nine. Danest
Is about seventy years old. The count
vas constantly at her splendid home in
the Champs EIysaes, Paris.
Wanted an Heiress.
1T was her desire to arrange a suit
able marriage for the count, says tho
writer She introduced him 10 every
American heiress that came to Paris
and gave wonderful Danquets 10 impress
them with his good qualities.
The count was man about town He
visited the hotels and cafes, and the
correspondent declares he was constant
y on the lookout for an American girl
with money. The young woman writes
''* for the American heiress
comes into this world TO renaDilitate
the Golfers of the Italian aristocracy.
In speaking of Count San Martino's
search for an American heiress the
writer says:
Holding this as one Of his cardinal
points of doctrine. the little count pur-
sued his object wherever heiresses We're
TO be found.
No word has been received from
Richard Croker's daughter since her
marriage Mrs Patrick Mccain, aunt
of Miss Croker, who is stopping at the
Ansonia. said yesterday that she be-
IieVed her niece had met San Maruno
on Il previous trip TO France.
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BRIDAL COUPLE
OFF FOR ORIENT
Lieutenant Stewart and
Wife Start for Far East.
WERE MARRIEOAT ROCKVILLE
Bride Insisted Upon Ceremony Being
Performed in Her Native State
of Maryland.

1t has just been announced in this
city that Lieut.. William W. Stewart,
for some time attached 10 the Second
United States Cavalry at Fort Myer,
Va, and Miss Sarah @. Bellman, OF
Washington, were married in Rockville,
Md, about q week ago. The marriage
took place at the rectory of the Rev.
Thomas J. Packard, Christ Episcopal
Church, and was witnessed by several
friends of the young people.
The reason given for having the cere-
mony performed at Rockville was that
the young lady formerly resided at
Hagerstown, and was anxious TO be
married in her native State. The young
couple remained in Rockville for sew
eraI days. and on Sunday left for the
Philippines. TO which place Lieutenant
Stewart has been ordered. II is under
stood that Lieutenant Stewart will soon
be made a quartermaster. with the rank
OF captain.
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That cloud of dust and fog off 30
the northeast is caused by the Ameri-
can Economist getting agitated over
1he reciprocIty congress.
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

Gen. and Mrs. Charles l.. FitZhugh., ac-
companied by a maid. have arrived at
the Mt Washington, in the Breton
Woods. after a stop at Poland Springs,
en- route from Bar Harbor. Mrs. Brown.
of Portland. and Mrs. George Q. Derby,
of Boston, accompanied them. Last Sat
urday the General and Mrs Fitzhugh
were the guests of Capt. Thomas Bush
at the famous Pot and Kettle Club of
Bar Harbor. All of the army and navy
men within reach of Bar Harbor at
tended the reception. A picturesque fea-
ture of the reception was the Virginia
reel danced on the smooth, green lawn.
1t was led by Miss Elizabeth Potter. of
Virginia. and her brother. John Potter
OF Philadelphia
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Those birth rate statistics indicate
that the President has quite a big job
ahead OF him yet IN his role OF advance
agent of posterity.
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

Walter Sanger Pullman, just deceased
was the last descendant bearing the
name of the sleeping ear man. but 1t
Will be perpetuated in the memories
of Deopie who have 10 take uppers.
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PLANS DISCUSSED
FOR FAIRGROUNDS
Directors Are Advised by
Supervisor Curtis.
PRIZES FOR SATURDAY GAMES
Winners at the Various Reservations
Will Be Rewarded for Their
Efforts.

A meeting of the Fairgrounds direc-
tors was held yesterday afternoon a 8l1
@ street northwest. The instructors
from a ma jority Of the grounds were
present, and after transacting routine
business plans were outlined for the
coming weeks work.
Supervisor Curtis explained the advan-
rages OF having q definite daily program
lie said that this was the only way TO
get the best results out Of the time limit.
TOO much time. argued the instructor,
has been given up to weaving. raphia
work. and other indoor pastimes The
children like the idea of learning 10
weave, and, In fact, have taken a great
fancy to everything OF am industrial ma
ture This, says Dr. Curtis. is a good
sign, as it cultIvates the child's mind
and creates the incentive 10 learn: but
that is what he gets at school, and the
best results are obtained on play
grounds from the games and other out
door sports.
Tether Ball Popular.
Tether ball Is. proving one of the most
popular of sports It was decided at the
meeting to organize teams on all the
grounds of three players each. After
the teams a9ve become more proficient
in the game they VIII visit other grounds
and play match games. the best two out
of three games deciding the contest.
The athletic games on Saturday after
Moons will hereafter be opened by a
grand march. participated in by all the
children The leader will carry the
American flag and all viii join IN sing
ing the national anthem. The prizes for
the events We're decided upon ana given
out as follows
Prizes for Winners.
Winners Of championship events will
be rewarded with blue ribbons. Those
finishing second will get red ribbons,
and those coming in third are TO re-
ceiye white ribbons.
All boys equaling or bettering the
standard set In the following events VIII
be given a button with the word
Champion printed upon it.
For boys under twelve years of age
Sixty-yard dash. s 3-5 seconds; pull-up
on horizontal bar, 4 times; running
broad jump feet inches.
For boys under sixteen years of age
Sixty-yard dash. seconds; 100-yard
dash, "A seconds; pulI-up on horizontal
bar times; running broad jump. feet
8 inches
As a basis for the instructors to de-
terTnine the results they are obtaining
the following points as the means oy
which he always noted the progress OF
the work:
First-The personal influence of the
teacher upon the child.
Second-Teaching- of new games and
manner in which the children joined in
the play.
Third-Discipline.
Four h--Attendance Well attended
grounds always indicate that the teach
er is making progress with the chill
dren and that they are being benefited
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

Mr.. and Mrs Hugh {. Wallace. son
in-Iaw and daughter Of Chief Justice
Fuller have reached LuceFne, IN iilGll
big touring car, and are staying at the
Hotel National.
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REPRESENTATIVE and Mrs. John DalZeil
are now at the Hotel Rafael. san Raldel' RatI,l
cal where they will spend some weeks
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

That highwayman who robbed Beef
trust magnate in Chicago must have
felt like old Robin Hood
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

A 3 Brown. of this city. has gone
to Newport. and is stopping at the Ne"
Cliffs Hotel
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If Mary has any regard for her lit
tie lamb she will keep it out of Wall
Street while prices are at their present
altitude.
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Our old friend, Walter Wellman, has
got the real inwardness of the peace
situation. We knew ne would get it
a different kind every day.
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spent at Indian Springs. Mrs Bacon
viii be the guest OF her daughter, Mrs
Willis b. Sparks. for a week after
which Mrs. Sparks win so to Bonners
Elk, n 9, where she win remain until
late in September
Representative and Mrs. William Bal
ley Lamar, of Tallahassee. Fla. who
have spent several weeks at Asheville
\. G. have arrived in Saratoga Springs
N Y, where they viii remain until
late in September
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| Mrs Bacon. wife of Senator Augustus
| o. Bacon of Georgia, has returned TO her
home IN Macon, after several weeks
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GIFTS IN ABUNDANCE
FOR MISS ROOSEVELT T
Presidents Daughter Showered With Presents by Admirers
and Friends in the Far Eastern Countries-Homage
Paid Her by the Natives

There now seems but little doubt that
Miss Alice Roosevelt will tarry in the
Orient after the departure Of Secretary
Taft and his party. and with Miss
Boardman and Miss Mcmillan, be the
guest of the American Minister and
Mrs. ". ". RockhnI, in PelIin. 1t is
supposed that Mss Roosevelt is now
awaiting an answer at Manila from her
father, whom she has consulted upon
the subject
Dresses, embroidery, jewels laces,
bric-a-brac, and treasures of almost
priceless value are said to be heaped
upon this charming American girl in
the far away islands, and all possible
homage is paid her by the natives.
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

DR.. Franz A r. jung of 1923 Connec-
ticut avenue, has just received deco
ration from the Emperor of Germany.
who bestoWs upon him the Order OF
the Crown of the fourth class The
Order of the Red Eagle of the fourth
class has been conferred upon Major
Wurzer. of the Louistitz Jaenckendorf,
of Louisville, Ky. by the Kaiser
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

An Official OF one of the big Beef trust
concerns gambIed away so much money
he committed suicide. That's all.
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

It ought to cheer China as she notes
developing evidence that she Will get
off by paying the indemnity for Rus
s{4
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

Whitelaw Reid. the American Ambas-
sadOr to London, has leased the coun-
try seat OF the late Earl Cowper at
Wrest Park, thirty-eight miles from
London. in Bedfordshire. He has leased
the place for as long as he expects TO
stay in England He fears the fogs of
the clty may affect his health, but Will
make the daily run TO London in his
auto.
Wrest Park is a fine place of 1000
acres. on which there is good shooting
The grounds are finely wooded and con-
tain deer park, water for boating
Conservatives and seven miles OF walks.
A magnificent banqueting hall stands in
the woods.
The mansion is built in the style of
Hampton Court and stands on terrace
surrounded by marble statuary. 1t is
almost as large as the ambassador $
town house. Dorchester House. and is
richly furnished and well equipped with
everything necessary for entertaining
house parties. Some slight changes VIII
be made, work on which will be begun
Immediately and the house Will be READY
for occupancy in Il few weeks.
The Washington times., 1905-08-17
More on the Negro.


what distinguished as the author
of certain somewhat meritoriOus
novels, has written for one Of the
weekly magazines vigorous attack
on the work of Booker Washington.
The essay is flied with compliments
for the great negro worker personally.
1t is stayed and bound and guy-r0ped
with numerous quotations from we'll
known negro teachers. But in the
end it leads to this conclusion as, in
the beginning, it was designed to do:
Mr.. Washington IS not training ne
groes 10 take their place in any indus
trial system OF the South in which
He is not training his students TO be
servants and come at the beck and call
of any man. He is training them all
TO be masters of men TO be indepen-
dent, TO own and operate their own
industries. TO plant their own fields,
buy and sell their own goods, and in
every shape and form destroy the last
yestige of dependence on the white
man for anything.
Mr. Dixon approves the purpose but
fears the result. He looks forward to
day when the race will number
60,000,000 and rich black men will
hold mortgages on the houses tenant
ed by white men, and he asks us what
we will do then. He proposes to
"colonize" the whole race in Liberia
How is he to get them there? VIII he
deport them against their will? 1t is
certain the negro will not go of his
own accord. No white man would
And if the so-called Afro-American-
he of the present generation is a
native-born American citizen-is to
be deported against his will the opera
ton will shake the very foundations
of our Government.
Manifestly the employment of this
whole race as servants solves moth
ing. We have in today's news the
testimony of thoughtful negro resi-
dent of our own city, after studying
his race as a justice of the peace,
that 5000 of the $4,000 negroes in
the District OF Columbia are idIers
| The remaining $4,000 are far from
ideal servants. The best OF them
and only the best of them-may be-
come acceptable carpenters or garden
I ers or machinists In that event they
can be surely kept busy serving their
own kind and they will uplift their
fellows toward a decent respect for
labor and manful contempt for idle
/ ness.
AS for Mr. Dixon's fear of race war
with social equality for the negro as
| the goal, it is the chimera of a peri
ferYid imagination. 1t need never
come. Probably 1t can never come
| For in the words of Lincoln, which
this overwrought novelist quotes:
t There is a physical difference between
/ the white and black races which l be
lieve, will forever forbid them living
/ together on terms of social and political
! eug1aT{Ttr
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

Much interest here centers in two
marriage licenses issued in Rockville.
Md. yesterday. that of William Barkes.
jr-, and Miss BaEbara Fenton, both OF
this city, and Henry W. Hines, OF St.
Louis. and Miss Grace A. DamDier, of
Washington
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

Mrs. Barbour and daughters. Misses
Mabel and Elsie Barbour, are spending
TWO weeks at ''WaVeland.
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

Miss Mae Welsh mas recently returned
from the school of methods at the Uni
versity OF Virginia, and IS now at home
at Edge Hill, Prince George county
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

Nice TO shiver little for a change.
Good evening; have You felt the
typhoid fever germ gnawing at you?
Don't those statistics make you feel
lucky never TO have been killed in
railroad accident?
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Karl Frederick Kellerman, of Ohio,
now connected with the Department OF
Agriculture, win be married tomorrow
in Cumberland Md. TO Miss Gertrud=
Hast, daughter OF George P Hast, OF
that city.
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Miss Lulu A Horigan. of Georgetown,
was married yesterday afternGen TO Roy
Onutt. Of Washington. The ceremony
took place in the rectory of st. Mary s
Church. Alexandria, and was attended
by only a few relatives and intimate
friends The bride and groom departed
Immediately after the wedding, and will
spend the honeymoon at the seashOre.
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

Miss May Clements. of 121 Ninth
street northwest is spending some time
with friends at Colonial Beach
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

Clarence Clements and Miss Edna
Fields both of Arlington, Va, were
married at the Baptist parsonage, Fails
Church. Va, by the Rev \. W. Graves
Tuesday afternoon. They left immedi-
ately for bridal trip and VIII make
their future home at Arlington, Va,
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DR., and Mrs. Albert Evans left for
western New York yesterday. They
will go from there to California, stop
ping at different points of interest, re-
turning to Washington some time in
DcfOiFr
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Mr.. and Mrs. Ammon Behrend and
Misses Laura and Nellie Behrend have
Ieft Bedford Springs, Pa, where they
sreut about three weeks, and are now To-
Gated at the Blue Noun tain House, Ma.
Miss Laura Behrend will spent Il short
While at Arlington, Md, before return
ing home
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

Miss Nellie S. Fulton. of 22lS First
street northwest. is spending some time
al Youngs Hotel. Atlantic City.
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

Miss FlorIne b. Rosenthal and her
sister. HortenSe, are visiting their
aunt, Mrs. Joseph Perlman. of Parkville,
Md
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

Miss Agnes o. Wink. OF San Francisco.
and Robert F. Fugitt. of this city. were
parties to a romantic marriage which
took place at Martinsburg w. Va. May
I. and which is just now announced. Mr..
Fugitt IS in the War Department, and
is a member of several fraternal or
ganiZa tions. standing high in the Ma
sonic order. His bride was also en-
ployed in the War Department for a
time. and has a host of friends here
and in the West
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

Mrs. \. SIgmmd and Mrs. Lewis Neu-
Inyer are at the Raleigh. Atlantic City.
for a two-Weeks stay.
The Washington times., 1905-08-17

Miss Mlddledorf and Miss Carlisle. ac-
cumpanied by their Chaperon. Mrs. j.
I-eaPley have left Washington for At
lartic City and New York.