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The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1907-10-18

When we came out we brought with
us large deposits of salt on our skin.
AS the water evaporated we found our
selves covered with white crystals
Only a strong shower bath of fresh
water or good clothes brush can put
you into fit condition to dress.-Trav vel
Magazine.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1907-10-18
Like All the Rest.

The Lady-Ay husband is particular
~ liable to seasickness. captain. Could
yea tell him what to do IN case Of an
attack The Captain-sraia't neeee-
sSE, Iagn HEB Do {.-Jaage.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1907-10-18
To Look Tail,

A woman must learn to hold up her
head.
TO dress her neck higher.
To wear her hair as high as possible
To wear her gowns broader ON the
shoulders.
TO take skipping and jumping eSer-
cises.
To acquire lin berncss The 1.-the wo-
man is taller In appeal france than The
little stiff woman who walks AS if She
were in q wise.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1907-10-18

Buckwheat began to be cultivated Is
England In loot. 1t had been brough,
into Europe from Asia 100 years be
fore.
The Washington times., 1907-03-16

ther action of the corporation and
board of oyerseers."
To be sure, there will probably be
one or two fewer big" contests in
baseball anC football each season,
but after a little the difference will
never be noticed; enormous expen-
Gitures of money for athletics will
have to cease, but it is high time
they did, for the overexpanded
finances of sports have long been u
harmful feature of college life.
Just how the authorities will 60
To work on their crusade to decrease
the abnormal interest that college
sports have caused in the last few
years" is an interesting problem.
Is that cOnsummation, expected to
come as a matter of course, via the
otaer reforms, or must there be
some special methods of quelling
the present tremendous hold of ath-
lctic contests? In the solution of
that question lies the future of
athletics rot only at Harvard, but
at other and smaller schools.
The Washington times., 1907-03-16
SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1907.
Opening the Union Station.

May / the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad viii run trains into the
new Union Station. This will be
done chiefly in order that the site
of the present y. & o. terminals may
be- graded as an approach to the
newer and handsomer structure. In
December, IS has been expected,
the approaches viii all be finished,
ana the station opened formally
with appropriate exercises.
In justice tC the Baltimore and
Ohio, the impression should not get
abroad that It's trains are to be run
into a building damp with new plas-
ter, or difficult Of access. The H
street cars, viii provide its passen-
gers with convenient transporta-
tiun. and that part of the station
which is first opened will be better
adapted for the comfort and conve-
nience Of passengers than either Of
the older buildings now used. But
ii is unfortunate that Congress has
not yet adopted a comprehensive
plan of street car approaches to the
building, and that the adornment of
the plaza must follow several
months after the opening Of the
station.
The Washington times., 1907-03-16
An English Tribute.

Longfellow's centenary has called
forth the normal amount of crit1-
Clsm-cOndescending and lofty. Half
the magazines have printed esti-
mates which must make the
thoughtful reader wonde either at
lis own undevelopment at the
utter failure of the critics TO beat
LoEgfellow at a game which seems
to them SO easy.
But there have been occasional
oases. Mr.. Howslls, in a delightful
study of Lcngfellow's art. did not
feel qualified TO smirll and bow like
n teacher over boys mistakes in
fractions. And now comes His
Grace, the Bishop of Durham, Dr.
Handley Dunelm, with d most appre-
Ciative estimate of the American
singer to our empty days.
DR.. DuneIm, too, had been shocked
to learn that Longfellow ''is chiefly
read and valued today by children,
and by the men and women who
have never passed their mental
childhood" He, too, had need for
literature at once charming in form
and gentle with the gentleness
which comes not of the weakness,
nut the sweetness, of the mind" So
he turned 10 LongfelIow, with this
result:
went over much OF his verse long
familiar some of IL familiar through
my whole life. and also over certain
poems, The Hanging Of the Crane"
among them. which l had not happened
10 know before. The tranquil but pene-
trating charm. quite of its own kind
laid new hold on me. He found
me- In the very spirit Of his own
beautiful poem of long ago. The Day
Is Done" And continually | was struck
not only with the sweet fullness OF the
poetry. but with its frequent Drilliancy
and perfection OF dicuon-
The reviewer referred 10 above is pitt
less on the heXameters OF "Evangeline,' %
which can hardly be read by anyone
with an ear / ought to be humiliated
IN finding that TO me the metre seems
10 be handled by LOngfellCw quite as
well as by Goethe: both write II in a
style no doubt totally different from the
magic Of Latin and Of Virgil; but with
both II is the living vehicle Of perfect
ma as'rattve and reflection. Only q true
master Of verse could have written the
'Atchafalaya' scene and the last few
pages.
And then. what a man he must have
been-son. husband. father, friend. and
helper OF the helplesSi Take the poet
and the poems together. and / do not
know where to look in the English lit
erature Of the whole nineteenth century
for quite so beautiful an ensemble
That is a notable tribute from an
Englishmau
The Washington times., 1907-03-16

ana quick availability of national
resources. 1t is the evidence thac,
after all the investments in mining
shares, in doomed realty, in
high-price industrials and rail
road securities, the country still
had a stock Of money on hand
winch was available for instant use.
Il is the most striking proof of the
commercial independence, the fnap-
cial autonomy, of this nation, The
production of wealth by this hun
dred millions of Americans has been
going on, and is going on, at q rate
Lever approached by any other coum-
try. The wealth is here, and the
country has given striking proof of
capacity to make it available on
short notice.
The frenzied financiers have been
given the tremendous lesson they
needed, and have been given it with
"LC injury to anybody else. The
public and the President have alike
refused to he scared. The policy OF
progress in public relations 10 the
huge instrumentalities of business
has been sustained and strength
ened, and will go forward
The Washington times., 1907-03-16
The Real Meaning.

1t may be weeks before the shake
down following the stock market up
heaval Will have been concluded and
the public taken into the confidence
of the big operators as to what has
happened. Meantime, there will be
endless conflict of reports as to the
losses of this and the gains of that
q eat interest. Already one can
read, according TO his preference,
that Mr. Hartman has Been
squeezed out of Union Pacific, or
that Mr.. Hartman is stronge. IN
tnat property than ever. He can
End circumstantial explanation of
how Hill ard Morgan effected tie
greatest financial coup, and he ca.
just as easily discover narration of
how they have been heaviest losers.
But really all this is of mighty
small Importance compared to the
essentials. 1t is essentially signif-
can't that the crisis is over without
a failure; that the country calmly
sat by, unruffied and unmoved, re-
fusing TO excite itself or to imagine
that it was about to be hit by some
thing; tha- the President of the
United States didn't bulge from his
determination 70 press forward his
policies which look to better and
safer conditions in future.
\ week ago men entitled to con-
sideration as financial authorities
were OminousIy predicting financial
troubles for the country. Credit
was too extended and widespread;
liquidation must come, and it could
not be effected without ruin to
many people and interests.
Now, compare the actual happen
ing TO that prediction. Liquidation
has been effected with a suddenness
that dazed the whole financial world.
Contraction has come. done its
work, and moved on, to leave the
field again to slow and cautious ex-
pansion. The explosion in the stock
market has been of unparalleled
magnitude; yet ont of it all there is
no failure recorded.
Such thing could happen on no
ether exchange in che world. 1t
could never have happened before in
this country. It is the proof, not Of
the skill of the men handling the
stock market, but of the immensity
The Washington times., 1907-03-16

earth, h0nored industry. II is under
stood that He labOred AT the carpenters
trade at his fOSter-fdther' bench and
II IS known thai He chose His disciples
from the labCriug class Of men by
the swea- OF Jhy brow shalt thou earn
thy daily bread Therefore industry
should not be considered degrading But
our trouble Is that by the sweat Of his
brow one, man is earning the daily
and the idle ones get the largest share
Of his earnings We. read that the
United states produces more million
aires 20 the square foot than any other
country. and / wish 70 recall the fact
that milliOuaires are not created BIZ the
productive industry Of one man. but by
The wealth resulting from the industry
Of many men They are created by
hichiug from the pockets Of the labor
iUE class. that which is rightly theirs
without making an adequate return for
tle same.
] would say in regard TO our system OF
taxation that q high protective tariff IS
a tax upon expenditures, and IL IS un-
poor, according 10 The amount of prOtec-
ton required from tine Government than
II does upon the rich The poor have
very little property that requires pro-
lection, except their lives. but they must
pay "A tax 70 protect the property Of
the rich. Protective tariff diminishes
the purchasing power OF a dollar. and
thereby deFrives the poor OF many
neCessarles o. life.
These are the ideas OF our needs that
I have deducted from reading the ideas
Of others better versed in sociology
than ]. MRS. l. T. NOORNAN.
The Washington times., 1907-03-16

The editors of Slavic, Bohemian. and
Hungarian newspapers in this country
and there are quite a grist OF them-
have been reprinting largely what they
claim IS the first adequate interrreta-
ton OF the great movement Of Siavic
people into the farmlands of Wisconsin
and Iowa, 'Pilsen" AMI the stock yards
district Of Chicago. the cigar factories
and tenements Of the upper East Side Of
New York. and TO the coal fields and
rolling mills of Pennsylvania The
writing IS that of Miss Emily Greene
Balch, of the faculty Of Wellesley Col
lese.
4 year was spent by Miss BaIch at
the sources OF Slav immigration in Aus
tria- Hung ngary-drawing her material
from under the gables Tabor the old
stronghold Of the HuSsites, from the
roadside songs Of the SlOvak field work
ers Of Trenken, from beneath the shad-
oWs OF the grass roofs of Montenegro
and the minarets of Bosnia. from the
idealism OF A little CrOatian school
teacher. and from merchants, students,
prlests-aN those who live close to the
people-retUrned immigrants themselves.
4 second year has been spent bv Miss
Balch. studying the Slavic people IN
their settlement from the Atlantic coast
to Texas and the Northwest.
This second series of her papers be
gins in the April magazine number or
Charities and the Commons Of New
York.
The Washington times., 1907-03-16
A Municipal Advance.

\ playground big enough TO up
buiid the health of thousands of our
children has been purchased in the
far Northeast. 1t is 4 tract of five
acres, practically level, and sold at
a price believed To be distinctly ad-
vantageous TO the District, S3I, 600.
The acquisition of it is a great mu-
nicipal advance for Washington.
The Commissioners acted in the
natter-on the advice of the citi-
zens' committee on Playground
an organization which has proven
the sincerity Of its interest by main
tanning play spaces at its own eX-
Pense until Congress should see the
Importance of the work. In this
case it's judgment was directed to
Seventeenth and Gales streets north
east, not only because the tract of
fcred was large, well adapted TO
playground uses. and was u good
investment, but also because a play
ground already maintained there is
splendidly patronized, because the
tract stands among four public
schools, and because that section O.
the city is building rapidly with
homes.
Every thoughtful citizen in the
community should rejoice in this
step. 1t promises health to the
children of Il whole section, and in
the summer relief from the care of
Youngsters to the mothers of that
section More than that, it opens
the way for developing, improving,
cnaracter-uIaking recreation in lieu
of play in the streets under influ-
ences which must often be degrad-
ing in their tendencies. 1t is good
to know that the allowance of S75.-
0OG which was made by the last Con-
gress will purchase and equip this
ground in the Northeast, a similar
one in the Southwest, and still a
third in Georgetown.
The Washington times., 1907-03-16
What's the Matter
With Washington?

To the Editor OF The Washington Times:
What IS the matter with washington
What Is the matter with our people? ?
am GLAD that the editor OF The Times
has asked those questions. for I think
lhat our citizens should be awakened
L. an understanding OF our ailments as
it is evident 10 tine most careless OBJ
server that we are a sick people and
are in urgent need ofa remedy
/ would suggest that when the body
polite is very much ailing a good SOW
ereign remedy is reorganization oi So
cietyl Reorganization Cor the purpose of
securing 10 every willing worker the
right Of an opportunity TO earn enough
of the nations wealth 70 enable him 10
maintain a decent, sanitary home, 10
provide strengthening food and com
Portable clothing for his family, and en-
able him 10 educate his children and
relieve him OF the necessity Of putting
his little ones 70 labor TO help earn
enough 20 meet their daily needs.
We need TO put aside our remaining
relies Of barbarism. our false ideas, that
greatness and happiness consist IN Lead
ing lives Of luxury. idleness- and ease.
TO put aside our love OF OsuentatiOus dis
play, our greedy scramble after the .arg-
est share OF earthly goods cur inhuman
disregard OF the legitimate rights OF
others 70 a reasonable share Of the ma
tons wealth; the application Of the
golden Eule
Jesus Christ. in his ministry upon
The Washington times., 1907-03-16
IN THE BOOK WORLD

A Recent Description of "Peter Pan"
Everybody who knows him. even
those who can claim him as a friend OF
many years standing, viii tell you that
James Matthew Barrie is just as un-
usual. just as many sided in character.
just as quaint and curious as his Peter
Pau" runs a description of Margaret
Ogilvie's son published by the SCrib-
neT's.
He is a little man. wise whimsical.
and witty: his sympathies are of the
widest; his kindliness without end. His
conversation is a kind of pOetiCal and
pastoral excursion FAR a-field from the
modern noisy world. He is as simple as
Il shepherd boy. driving ais team 10
field, or sitting under the hawthorn.
piping 10 his flock. as though h never
should grow old.
His face has the pale. thoughtful
complexion Of the old Spanish portrait
painters. To look at him is to think
that the genius in his face surveys him
as from a height and projects him into
the unexpected world OF thought and
imagination: as IL the little body was
willfully veered by the bOundless imag-
inings Of the giant mind
The Washington times., 1907-03-16
Presidency Foraker'S Aim
In Brownsville Inquiry
His Object to Discredit Judgment of Roose-
welt and Taft in Dismissing Troops -StrN-
ing to Prove Conspiracy of Citizens.

Senator Foraker of Ohio has set about
with the deliberate purpose of earning
himself a reputation as a greater Sher-
lock Holmes than Sherlock Holmes him
self. He is going to spend the summer
at the enterprise.
1t is the purpose Of the Senator. it
would seem, to strengthen his own
chances as a Presidential candidate and
to wreck those Of William II. Tart by
destroying confidence in the Judgment
Of President Roosevelt and the War Sec
retary
lie proposes first TO prove that the
negro troops who We're quaTtered at
brownsville last August. when that
town was shot up." did not do the
shooting. President Roosevelt dis
charged without honor the entire bat
talon because the soldiers would not
confess that they did it. There is a
strong feeling among many who have
followed the testimony taken by the Sen
ate Committee on Military Affairs that
IT has already been proved very doubt
ful II the soldiers did do It. But until
1t can be proved who did, the public will
net take much interest in the matter.
Would Prove Conspiracy.
Senator Foraker proposes 10 find the
guilty ones, and prove their guilt. He
has cut out a tremendous task. but he
believes he will succeed. During recent
sessions Of the committee ne has driven
in his evidence that the soldiers are
not guiity. He has been opening a line
of evidence TO show the character of ths
people OF Brownsville and the surround
ing country, and the fact that they
The Washington times., 1907-03-16
An Example of Good Description.

A leading New England university
has obtained permission from A. S.
Barnes & Co. to use in a forthcoming
book on English composition, the fol-
lowing extract from "Capn Fri" by
Joseph {. Lincoln, as an example Of
good deSCTinuon.
Ralph vas on-y too glad of the op-
pOrtunity to see, at least, the finish OF
a rescuing eXnedition. and he said so
pulled their 'sou'westers' down over
their ears, and started on the tramp
to the ife-saving station.
THE electrician Is not likely to for
get that walk The wind was, as the
Captain said. at their backs. but 1t
strength, and carried the sleet with 1t.
1t deluged them with water, and plast-
cred them with flying seaweed and ice
The wet sand came in showers like
hail, and beat against their shoulders
until they felt the sting even through
their clothes. Toward the bay was moth
ing but gray mist. streaked with rain
and sleet; toward the sea was the same
mist, flying with the wind over such a
Ralph had mover seen The turf poured
in in rollers that ieaped over each
others bumped backs in their savage
energy to get at the shore. which
trembled as they beat upon 1t. The rip
Piles from one wave had not time 10
few back before those OF the next came
threshing in. Great blobs of foam shot
down the strand like wild birds, and
the gurgle and splash and roar were
terrific
''They walked as near the water line
as they dared. because the sand was
harder there. Captain Fri went ahead.
hands in his pockets and head down
The Washington times., 1907-03-16
That Harvard Report.

After months of hearings, of dis
oussions, of ponderings, in the
course of which all sorts of alarmist
TunOrs have cropped out. the Joint
committee on athletic sports at
Harvard has made public its report,
which is accepted by the overseers
of the university. 1t is in no way
sensational, scarcely disturbing even
10 the most ardent advocate of in
tercOllegiate contests among stu
dents and alumni.
The fear that football would be
especially selected to feel the weight
Of official dIspleasure is seen to be
groundless. The varsity teams of
all sorts are still to be permitted
TO battle with their erstwhile and
present foemen, but at a rate TO be
limited later on. Expenses are to be
reduced, an attempt is TO be made
- get other colleges to abolish pro-
1essional coaches, and after the stad-
iuIn debt is paid, gate receipts are to
be reduced.
There is really nothing in all the
twelve recommendations to cause
any great grief to college men. In
deed, the Keeling of relief among
the sons OF Harvard is so pro-
nounced, after long season of fore
loding. that the undergraduates will
probably hail the committee as a lib
eral and enlightened body. that had
The good sense to turn down Moor
field Storey's minority report, one
clause Of which was: That the
committee on athletic sports be di-
rected not t. permit any further
intercollegiate games until the fur
The Washington times., 1907-03-16
DR.. Chancellor Defended
By Former School Teacher
Says He Is Meeting Common Fate of Re-
former, and Criticisms Are Wholly
UnWarranted.

and difficulties well known TO those who
appointed him We have seen how the
work worry. and responsibility of the
tlanklesS office Of Superintendent Of
schools IN Washington resulted iue the
voluntary retirement of DR.. Chancellor
predecessor from office Does any rea-
SpnaDle citizen for moment believe
. that Dr Chancellor. IS enjoying the
wearing Of his laureIs here? II is
marvel 10 many who have watched
his course that he still has courage and
determination enough TO stick II out
Demands Strict Morality.
Dr- Chancellor stands for the better
ment OF the school system as regards
the needs Of the children. in the matter
OF curriculum, hours, buildings. and
equipment He is for the teachers. in
the matter Of increasing their pay and
reducing the numbers Of their pupils
. 10 a more reasonable number than the
average forty 10 fifty which one lone
. individual in the grades is now eX-
peCted 10 discipline understand. and in
syruct He Is not standing for trucking
20 the powers that be upon questions on
which his authority and experience
make him sure he IS right and they are
wrong. Nor does he consider that
Washington fathers and mothers. any
more than those Of other cities. wish
their children 10 be under the influence
Of school officials of any but impecca-
bic private. as well as public, morality
This 7 know from personal conversa-
ton with him when he was not talking
Tor publication
We need not deny that DR.. Chancellor
has made some mistakes in matters OF
eNpedieucy. perhaps. of diplomacy. un-
dOUb,edly- but they are the mistakes of
an honest man. siugle-mindedIy bent
on doing in the quickest, II not most
Jactful. way the work he was expressly
engaged 70 accomplish
He has had the support Of practically
the whole of the school board in all
his undertakings. and. in several cases
where ne has been most criticised, has
acted on the initiative Of the board.
rather than on his own Hence, drastic
condemnation of Dr. Chancellor involves
COndcuIiuE the judgment Of a consider
able number Of intelligent and public
spirited men and women associated Off
Cially with him
Personally. I wish 10 thank The Times
for the uniformly fair treatment 10 has
been almost alone among the local press
i'm according our new Superintendent OF
Schools
GERTRUDE MACNULTY STEVENS,
Chevy Chase. March l3. 1877.
The Washington times., 1907-03-16
A History as the Best Book.

Life has recently published an inter
esting symposium Of opinions from var
ious persons Of literary distinction as 10
the best hook I have read this year
Perhaps the most interesting letter
elected by the inquiry was from the
veteran Thomas Bailey AIdrich, who
pays his tribute Of admiration to Mr..
Rhodes History Of the United States. %
especially urging il on the attention OF
every young American.
There Is u kind of greatness" says
Mr.. Aldrich, in the lucid simplicity
with which Mr- Rhodes has handled
his vast and complicated material. His
impartiality, insight, and authentic
knowledge Of the events and characters
presented on the broad stage Of his
narrative give his work an inCOmparable
and lasting value The writer brought
TO his task too high a mood for mere
partisanshlp. Here are pages to stir
alike the Northern and the Southern
pulse. ] was about To say this history
Is as absorbing as a play; but / would
Ike TO see p play that is half so absorb
ing"