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The Washington times., 1905-07-28
Filming The End Scatter.

The good city of Omaha has set an
example that should be followed
wherever the summer street car oper-
ates and the end-seat hog hogs. 1t
has passed an ordinance which aims
TO put ring in the snout of the end
seat swine.
Without especial prediction for
Omaha. one must be loath to believe
that the end-seater is Of any more
virulent type there than elsewhere.
BY the same token that the goldenrod
is entitled to be accepted as the ma
tional flower, the end-seater is fairly
&c he considered the distinctive type
Of national citizenship Both of them
ply applies to the business Of riding
on a street car the ideals that appeal
to him in other walks of life. He
sees a good thing, grabs it, and sticks
to it.
The Omaha ordinance for the elimi-
nation Of hoggishness from this class
of hogs provides that if any passen-
ger refuse or refrain from moving
over when his presence at the end
of a seat is calculated TO obstruct
impede. incommode. delay. annoy, OF
disadvantage any other passenger in
getting on the car, or securing a seat
thereon. each and every such offender
shall be fined not to exceed SO foI
each such offense.
With prod such as this. it would
seem that the end-seater could reason
ably be expected TO shove along with
something Ike alacrity, even if with
out especial graciousness.
1t might be a severe shock to th'
ladies not TO have TO trail theil
dresses over the feet of the end-seat
er. and occasionally TO be tossed int
his lap by the starting Of the car
but they would accustom themselvei
In time to the experience, and woulC
learn 10 like it.
II bad manners become a wors
nuisance than bad morals, why no
legislate Improvement into them? /
seems as If Omaha has got hold o
the really popular end Of the railroad
regulation movement
The Washington times., 1905-07-28
Accusation Is Not Proof.

Newspaper headlines are announc-
ing today to the whole country that
the Equitable Life Assurance Society
is insolvent.
AS a matter Of fact, it is nothing of
the kind.
The whole truth of the matter Is
that even the allegation that the So
ciety is insoivent is pro forma, and is
designed, not so much to secure the
payment of the society's present debts
as in ordinary insolvency cases. but
to obtain from the courts the broad
est possible inquiry into its affairs
and ultimately a gradual and pru-
dent termination of its career.
The Equitable Life Assurance So
ciery involves the savings of thou
sands and thousands of American citi-
zens. The earnings of those savings
seem to have been misused. But there
is not yet the slightest ground for
thinking that those savings them
selves have been endangered. While
they remain intact there is no posi-
bility of insolvency. Secret loans
may consume their increase. Extrav-
agance may lessen their increment
But, if the principal is intact, all talk
of insolvency is not only injudicious-
it is wholly unwarranted.
As a people we are too apt at TAX
ing charges for proof. The plaintiff
in a divorce suit, for example, has
everything his own way with the
public. The burden of proof, which,
by every consideration of common
fairness, rests upon him to support
his allegations. is shifted unWarrant-
ably to the defendant, and multiplied
in the public demand that the latter
disproYe charges which he may never
even have heard before, and may be
wholly mischieyous. slanderous. and
vile.
Let us go slow in our present awak-
ening 10 honesty. Let us be honest
in that as we hope to be honest in
other things. Let us protect the saw
ings Of these thousands of investors
in the Equitable with our confidence
instead Of imperiling them with ouI
suspicious. Let us wait on the courts
In the end we shall find. almost GER
tainly, that while the officers of thi.
society may have been filling theil
harness rooms. and will be punished
accordingly. the courts have locked
the stable door for the policyhoIders
while the horses are still inside.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28
PRETTY wEDDING soLEMNIZED.

a pretty wedding was solemnized
Wednesday evening by the Rev. DIR. J.
J. Muir, pastor of the Temple Baptist
Church. at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. r r. Jones. 1314la Ninth street
northwest, when Miss Dixie Gould
Rosenberrye. of Oak Ridge. Va, be-
came the wife Of Sidney r Scott Belts,
OF this city. The maid of honor was
Miss Marie L. Mitchell, and the flower
girl, Miss Madeline D. Jones J. Leon
Mckinley acted as best man
The bride wore a white silk gown,
trimmed with lace. \ long flowing veil
was caught with q cluster Of white
carnations. She carried a bouquet OF
carnations and ferns.
The bridesmaid wore white silk and
lace. carrying pink carnations and
ferns Among those present were Mr.,
and Mrs +. Russell Zones. Mrs. S. s.
Rosenberrye, of Oak Ridge, Va; Mr..
and Mrs. Derfiin6er, % Roanoke, Va,
Mr. and Mrs Charles H King. Mr.
and Mrs John r. Mitchell, Mr.. and
Mrs. Abbott f. Jones, Major Alexander
Hunter Mrs. e. Sanford. Mr.. and Mrs.
William Russell, William F. Tanner
Miss /. King, John Mitchell, jr., Miss
NJ Smaller. Mrs. $. H. Wiley, Misses
Carrie and Ruth King and Lucy Rus
sell Marcus r. Jones, George Rogers
Julius Viedt, DIR. +. II. MOZART, and
Mrs NJ L. Green, of Alexandria. Va
The Washington times., 1905-07-28
THE BREADWINNERS"
AND SECRETARY HAY
An Expert Authority Determines That No One But the
Diplomat Recently Deceased Wrote the Book That
Has Since Become Famous.

this present year OF 1905. AS Burke put is.
twenty-five years are a great space In
the scale Of life of man; they are no in
considerable space even in the history OF
a great nation
Most Americans have forgotten that
there was any question between labor
and capital IN 1883. One of the contempt
rary anecdotes about The book was THAI
the author was impel1ed to formulate It's
theme by q casual remark made 10 him
by a friend IN the street OF some West
era city. we think Detroit: DO You
know. there is not carpenters daugh-
ter IN this town who win marry 2 car
penter? II is SClemnizing thought. It
appears IN the novel in this dictun,
which may be called a text:
Saul Matchin Is = Iaborin man him
self; but look al his daughter She
would die before she would marry q
workman"
All in "rhe Breadwinners."
Although the greatest fortune in the
United States in 1888 was very likely
not one-twentieth of the size OF the
greatest fortune of 1905, yet it was al
ready evident that there were vast in
equahtIes OF fortune. 1t needed no d.
vinely inspired prophet TO foretell that
where there were marked inequalities
Of fortune there would be hatred,
malice, envy, and all Observation-Disclosures,
and the principle of democracy would
be in danger. But an insight analogous
20 the prophetic strain was needed 10
work out the types Of character and
the probabilities of incident that would
proceed from the working Of those pas
sions.
We have them all in THE Breadwin-
ners''-the ambitious girl who aspfres to
higher status than that of her par
ents; the honest but touchy working
man VINO falls an easy prey to the
labor leader" the same objectionable
thing today that he was twenty-five
years ago; the careless, fortunate
and democratic 'magnate." All these
things have been accentuated since. so
that one can sincerely say that The
Breadwinners is a more live and
timely book now than II was when It
was first published. and that, II il
was the best seller Of 1883 il much more
richly deserves TO be the best seller
of 1895
The Washington times., 1905-07-28
THE SECOND DANIEL"
MAKES DIRE PROPHECY

PORTLAND. Ore, july 2a.-"Be-
tween the 9Th of July and the 10Th day
Of August the smouldering volcano Of
Mount Hood viii break forth in erup-
ton. sending showers of molten lava
broadcast over the land. There viii also
be floods of such magnitude that the
whole Hood river valley will be mum
dated. and every man, woman ana enid
who remains therein Will be drowned
Such IS the prophecy uttered in Hood
River by n ftinerant evangelist, calling
himself the Second Daniel" and claim
ing to come from the Willamette valley
Many persons, fearing that the prophecy
will come true have already made ex-
cuses to absent themselves from the
town and valley.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28
CONCERT At STANTON PARK.

The Naval Gun Factory Band will give
an open-air concert at Stanton Park
Fifth and Q streets northeast, this even
ing at 1870 O'Clock. The following pro-
gram win be rendered. under the direc-
ton of ]. G. Moody. leader:
March First Brigade. / \. G., Weldon
Selection from opera Wang Morse
Serenade, Summers Night sutton
Waltz, Sounds from Erin Bennett
Songs. Blue Bell In the Shade of
the Old Apple Tree"
Trombone solo, sacred Beautiful
Home of Paradise" ..............K King
Frank Teffeau.
Patrol, American" ...........,. Meacham
March ''Waldmere'' .Losey
National air 'Star-Spangled Banner
Key
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

first time that a public man has thus
deliberately lodged q Presidential
nomination that seemed TO be coming
his way 1t suggests either that Gov
ernor Douglas takes an absolutely
new view of the Presidency or else
that he places a painfully low valua-
ton on the Democratic nomination
for the office.
Governor Douglas is business
man in politics AS he has never been
q Spectator in business, so he has
not been a speculator in politics. He
doesn't care to gamble on such q
long shot as the Presidency via a
Democratic nomination He has dis
covered that campaign for the gov
ernorship of Massachusetts is very
expensive enterprise, albeit not with
out advantages in an advertising way.
Politics as a profession. with shoe
sales as by-product, would seem TO
have been quite a success in the case
of the amiable governor Why should
he IHGS ndSI1ly REJECT Inc IQSt biIot
he might expand his shoe sales in
proportion as he broadened the realm
of his political activities? Even If he
should not be elected President, ii
would seem prima fecie good propo-
sition to make himself shoemaker in
| extraordinary to the Democratic
party, which, despite some tendency
! to rag-tag political fashions, includes
q very large proportion of people who
wear shoes. And to be elected, if such
| luck should befaI, would afford an
opportunity to disprove one more OF
those wise old saws that generally
| are not wise at all-the one about
shoemakers' children going unshod
For then we would all be the shoe
makers children. and to reject his
wares would involve nothing less than
! leZe majesty.
Taken all in all, it seems as if the
| governor owes it to his business and
his party to reconsider his dodge.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28
ANTICIPATION.

And now the brindle COW, serene,
Comes slowly into view
Upon the far off rustic scene.
With aspirations new.
The winters dreary days are done.
Monotony has ceased,
and now beneath the smiling sun
Her bovine eyes may feast
On Summer Boarders. feminine,
with waists Of scarlet hue,
And then-Oh. may 1t not be mine
TO see what she will do!
-Lurana W. Sheldon, in New Yorl
Times,
The Washington times., 1905-07-28
PROGRAM AT LINCOLN PARK.

The United States Engineer Band.
julius Hamper, chief musician. will
give concert at Lincoln Park this
evening al 80 o'clock. as follows:
March The Iron King" list Clair
Overture, "PIque Dame ........--.S uppe
Barytone solo, Longing for Home"
Hartmann
Corporal Mills.
Waltz, ''Loveland' .-.........-... HOlzmann
Echoes from the Metropolitan Opera
House" Tobani
Serenade. ''EspagnoIe'' .Schlepegrell
Excerpts from woodland" .Luders
March, Bright Eyes. Good-by'
A1sTyne and SCnWdTz
Star-Spangled Banner
The Washington times., 1905-07-28
Governor Douglas Dodges.

Governor Douglas Of Massachusetts
is represented as fearing to make an
ether run for the chief executive
Office of his State, lest, in case he
should be elected once more, it would
put him hopelessly IN line for his
party's nomination for the Presidency.
This rettcence of Governor Douglas
suggests. some interesting political
possibilities. It is believed to be the
The Washington times., 1905-07-28
IN JAPAN
UNUSUALLY F7ONORED
Mikado Opens Private Park for First Time to Foreigners
for Use of Secretary Taft and Party-Memorable
Festivities in Tokyo

of the Gymkana games held on the
Dixey place IN Lenox. Much OF the sue
cess Of the entertainment was due to
his management
He was twenty-five years old. Nothing
further than the announcement of his
death has been received by his family.
Miss Gwyn is a guest for the summer
of Mrs. Z. II. G. Slater. at Newport.
Mrs. ", NJ. PostleWaite, of Washing
ton. Is among the recent arrivals at Bar
HarbOr where she is taking a cOnspicu-
Gus part in the entertainments at this
popular social colony
The Washington times., 1905-07-28
LOGIC.

Mistress-Mary Ann, you have q new
beau in the kitchen every week NOW
this must stop.
Maid-NYen mum. If ye'C buy a better
quality av food. l could keep EN- longer
than a week, an wouldn't have TO be
gittin' new ones all tn time!-Cleyeland
Leader
The Washington times., 1905-07-28
TOLD OUT oF SCHOOL.

Stranger stopping to admire the
house)-rhat's a pretty little tower on
the top OF this building. What do you
use 1t for?
JOHNNY heard papa say there was =
'cumbrance on the house. I guess that'n
where he keeps it.-Chicago Tribune
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

With the first session OF the peace
conference scheduled for August o. it's
q good guess that Oyama's men will
give a fine sample Of intensified mill
tarism meanwhile
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

The officers of the Equitable did ex-
tremely well, but when 1t comes 70 get
ting away with the goods in really
frenzied fashion. our money will be on
the lawyers.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

A haistorm has ruined 20 per cent
Of the Connecticut tobacco crop, but II
Is stated that the nutmeg and cabbage
yields will he up TO the average. and the
State Is not worrying.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Assistant Secretary Hays. who made
his reputation as a breeder of valuable
hybrid live stock. Is now accused of pro
ducing a hybrid cotton acreage report
by crossing the two previous reports
about which there had been so much dis
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

In the long run. reciprocity will be q
lot better commercial policy for this
Government. or any other than re-
taNation. But, of course. if we want
to retanate, why, by lingo, welfare
taliate.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28
GEN. VHEELERS
DAUGHTER WEEDS
Becomes Wife Of William
julius Harris.
ceremony IN NEW YORK
Bride Is Popular Girl and Was
Volunteer Nurse During
Recent War.

Miss Julia Knox Wheeler. one OF the
attractive daughters of Ger. Joseph
Wheeler of Alabama. was married last
night IN ST. Thomas Church. New York,
to William julius Harris, OF Cedartown.
Ca
General Wheeler escorted his daughter
to the altar Mrs Earnest y. Stires,
wife Of the officiating clergyman, was
matron Of honor, and Miss Wheeler's
three sisters, the Misses Annie Lucy
and Carrie Wheeler We're the attendant
maids. The young women wore white
organdic trimmed with lace, over white
silk slips, and carried pink roses.
DR.. Scale Harris, of Georgia. was his
brothers best man. the ushers were
Capt. Joseph Wheeler. il. brother Of
the bride and William r. kirkland.
Mrs. Harris IS an extremely popular
girl, and is as we'll known in Washington
as she is through the South and in New
York. She was volunteer nurse during
the Spanish-American war. and is OF
that high type of Southern womanhood
which is especially charming
Mr.. and Mrs. Harris have gone on q
trip through the North. and will make
their home in Cedartown.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

These folks who are petitioning for a
receiver for the Equitable. alleging in
the petition that there isn't anything
left TO receive, seem 10 be in a some
what anomalous attitude.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Some Of the cotton that was intended
for the keyholes of the grand jury room
got cram1ned into the mouths OF the
witnesses by mistake.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

When the Chinese are asked TO admit
by treaty that they are an inferior race.
they feel about il just as We would.
Ever stop to think OF what the Z. S. A
would do if somebody should put 1t thar
way?
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Ana they can even fight yellow fever
without paying tribute 10 Rockefeller.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

One of these days the Kaiser will stick
his finger into a promising looking dip
lcmatic opening ana discover that the
wheels are going round.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

The marriage of Miss Vylla Ellicott
Poe, OF Washington, and DR.. Ross Julian
Wilson. OF Indian Territory. has been
announced. The marriage occurred on
Sunday. DR.. and Mrs. Wilson left after
the ceremony for Baltimore, where they
are now visiting. They viii be at home
in Ardmore, Indian Territory, after Oc-
tohar
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Stokes. accompanied by
their two souls and single thought. have
arrived in London in the processes OF
their wedding tour. and may be expected
presently TO resume congratulating the
world ON their uaDpiness.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28
Warded Of Inquiry.

Political ambitions it was one Of his
characteristics, II not Of his distinc-
tions. that he never had any. But when
he had anonymously written the best
seller of its year, as THE Breadwin-
ners' undoubtedly was, IL may well
have occurred TO him that there We're
things in il which might stand in his
way If ne should ever come to enter
tain political ambitions II was reported
al the time OF the original publication
that the author had said that his bust
ness would be injured If it were known
that he had written that book That =
exactly the humorous way in which
John Hay would nave warded Off in
quiry II is quite certain that II the
cautious Junius had been as incauttons
as John Hay was about preserving his
anonymity, there would not nave been
n Junius controversy that could have
lasted a fortnight. let alone two genera
tons.
But this is by 10 means the whole of
the matter, nor even the greater part of
it. The political and social provision
shown in this story marks IL much
better than the best seller" or the sen-
saticn OF its year The date of the
copyright Is 1859. and john Hay died in
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Some people are SO grasping! Nicholas
had 100 much advice before he met
William
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was to-
day the guest at luncheon OF Mr.. Bal
four, prime minister OF England. Sen
ator Lodge will he among the dinner
guests tonight OF the American am
hassadOr Whitelaw Reid. General
Miles and Assistant Secretary OF state
LComis viii also be among the guests.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Maybe the Joint High Commission
VIII come down a little after it is in
yestfgated
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

If kerosene is really the correct rene
dy FOR yellow fever, there will be ample
public sentiment IN favor of diVerting
a pipe line to Park Row. New York.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

J. P Morgan has sailed from Liver
pool for America on the steamship
Gcpanic
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Russia decides that she doesn't favor
an intercOntinental, railroad, including
tunnel under Bering sea. This gives the
proposal q chill that even the Arctic
weather UP there couldn't apply.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

The torpedo boat Vesuvius. which was
hit by It's own torpedo, must have had
a notion that il beIonged to Russia.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

What in the world will become Of the
Pennsylvania Legislature, trying tG
perform without any boss?
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

The Hon. Jefferson Davis. of Arkan-
sas, who after due excoriation OF that
States legislative lobby advises blow
ing up the State house, is threa tening
to crowd the Hon. Robert Marion La
Toilette Oft the bench.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Capt. ana Mrs L. G. Barnard. with
the formers mother. will spend the
month Of August on Tlghlmans Island
Chesapeake bay.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Hereafter instead of locking the
stable door after the horse Is stolen. it
viii be proper to make war on the
mesquite after the fever has broken out.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Mrs Edward A Mitchell. of Wash
ington, was one OF the attractive assist
lawn of St Peters Church. NaTragan-
sett Pier.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Senator Hausbrough of North Dakota
srrived In Atlantic City yesterday for
a weeks visit He is registered at the
IIaymOre.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Whitelaw Reid, American ambassador
10 England. Mrs. Reid and Miss Reid.
were among the guests OF Mr.. ana Mrs.
William George Cavendish Bentinck last
night when the Bentincks gave n din
ner in honor OF King Edward. Other
Americans in the party We're Mr. and
Mrs. d. Ogden Mills. of New York. Am
bassador Reid yesterday presented Mr..
Mills 10 King Edward when an audience
had been arranged in Buckingham
Palace
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Mr. Justice Wright doesn't propose
that the cotton leaks shall extend 10 the
grand jury end OF the service.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Alfonso has a lot Of trouble. The an
archists try 20 blow him up. and his
family tries TO marry him off. Poor
bow
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Miss Ida Goldstein, who went to Hart
ford, Conn. TO attend her cousins we'd
ding, Will spend the entire summer there.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

In an editorial regarding The Bread
winners the novel whose authorship
is ascribed to John Hay, and which
The washington Sunday Times viii
publish se~iaIly, beginning next Sunday,
the New York Times says:
The forthcoming publication Of the
novel. The Breadwinners, published
first nearly a quarter Of ceEI Jury ago
in the Century Magazine. wiH be in il
self a most Interesting event. and raises
q number of interesting questions. The
most obvious % these questions. the
question as to authorship, Is not so much
raised as settled.
Nc Possible Doubt.
There is no possible doubt that John
Hay wrote that book. The bruit Of his
authorship has been So going about
every day since the day Of his death
that his authorship would, OF course.
have been denied authenticity had
Genial been possible. But that is by
no means all Nobody, in the light
which has come upon the country since
John Hays death about John Hay s
life, can fail TO identify The author in
hundred unconscious touches, and some
perhaps, net quite unconscious.
On the very second page Of the novel
there is a description OF q room which
shows. we viii say that amateur spirit
10 which one of our esteemed contemPo-
raries attributes the success Of John
Hay In diplomacy, but we viii say that
spirit OF connoisseurship which all MS
acquaintances knew TO be one OF the
facets of his many-siGed mind ana
there is even more direct evidence, eFl-
dence which would convince Jurymen
who might be quite insensible 10 the ar
gument from connoisseurship.
On page 30 of the novel we read a6out
the lying aou Of '-sodden, swearing
fighting drunkard' IN Indiana, who was
brought TO book in the town OF Salem
In Who's Who in America" we redd
that John Hay was born in Salem, ma
Evidently the notion of mystihcaLlon
had not when he wrote the page IN
question, occurred 10 the author. or ne
would have taken pains 10 cover his
tracks better than that. And, at tht
time. there is no reason to suppose thar
the notion of nystifying anybody nae
occurred to him. He was at the tlmt
living in retirement and at ease, with NJ
particular ambitions.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

The Misses Celia and Bertha Lowen-
thai are spending the summer at Pax
sons, Va
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Abe Signund is taking a short trip 10
Norfolk, Va.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

The Baroness Van TuyI, wife OF The
secretary 20 the Netherlands legation.
Is ore Of the most admired visitors to
Newport this season. Her appearance at
the tennis tournament yesterday gave
the feminine contingent something TO
think of It. She was attractively gowned
IN white linen, and was one of the hand
s0mesL women on the grounds.
The Washington times., 1905-07-28

Mrs. Ossie KIinger. of Washington,
accompanied by her son, is now in Glen
Falls. n. Y, where she Will remain
through the summer as the guest Of her
sister Mrs NJ. J. Kelly. Mrs klinger
has Just concluded an interesting trip
over Lake Ontario. the ST. Lawrence
river through Canada and northern
New York.