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Monday night. 10-2
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people. 1877
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Monday night. 1912
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The Washington times., 1907-07-08
STRIKERS ARE FOUGHT
BY WHITE SLAVE ACT

PITTSBURG, July Six suits have
been entered In the Allegheny county
courts for violation Of contracts made
under the apprenticeship act of MS
when slavery fiourished and men bound
themselves and their children out for
service. In the contracts the Manu-
facturers' Association is said to have
tried TO defeat the Machinists' Union
by schooling apprentices to take places
of skilled men in case Of strike. There
are thousands OF agreements Of the
same nature In Pennsylvania, It is as
serted.
The Thomas Carline Sons Company
claims Harry McC1elland. ST., John
Meyer. Louis Klingensmith. Andrew
Keim, Gustave Wolf. and Louis Spreng
apprenticed their boys TO it, and that
the boys have struck. Damages of s, 800
IN each case are demanded.
Copies Of the agreements show the
defendants apprenticed their boys.
whose ages range from fifteen to seven
teen years, for terms Of 1880 hours, in
which time the company was to teach
them the trade - .nachinist. The par
ents were to be paid for their services
from ~ cents per hour at first to 16
cents per hour. After the first two
months the boys could not withdraw,
but when the machinists struck they
walked out, too, at time when their
services would have been valuable In
breaking the strike.
The Washington times., 1907-07-08
Our Girls and Oklahoma.

A cat in a dishpan can splash a
great storm.
So does one of our Western con-
temporaries lash the pond of its
own perspiration into fume and
fury. The trouble is over the failure
of the Census Bureau to send young
women to Oklahoma to enume-ate
the inhabitants. Staid, inquiring
folk of the East will find it hard
to understand unless they read the
indignant papers own statement of
the case. Thus
The President has ordered a census
Of the prospective State of Oklahoma.
To tabuIate the returns clerks will be
sent from washington. Among
the applicants are some of the young
women who make up in such large pro-
norton the force OF Government en-
Iloyes at Washington. All these appli-
cations from young women are prompt
~ rejected.
Eve will send no women clerks TO Okla
hona. That is a new country, and too
Wild and woolly for Washington girls
What follows this is hot stuff, and
no mistake. Oklahoma is a safer
place for n girl than Washington.
There is probably nowhere in the
~. s. an equal population with SO
The Washington times., 1907-07-08
LIZARDS AND ANTS
KEEP CABOOSE CLEAN

NEW HAVEN, Conn. July Sin the
caboose of a freight train which makes
daily trips to this city is a pet lizard.
which the train crew declares is a sub
stitIte for screens or blinds. When the
caboose is laid by at the terminals or
other stopping places and the crew lie
down for siesta they say the lizard
stands watch on the breasts Of the
sleepers. Coolly waiting it's chance, il
snaps up flies or insects which try TO
disturb the crew. The lizard is said to
be such favorite with the men. they
would fight any one who says a word
against il.
The same crew say they have a rem
edy for bedbugs. which infest their
caboose after hOboes have paid II n
visit. They get a Jar of black ants,
which they turn loose in the sleeping
quarters. The ants seek out and de-
stroy the bedbugs industriously.
The Washington times., 1907-07-08
FIG LEAF PARTIES BARRED
BY ORDER OF A JURY

DIES MONIES, Iowa, July s.-High
society in this vicinity has had its ar
dor for fig-leaf parties completely
chilled.
On Independence Day one Stephens
discovered a party of giddy Des MONIES
people on the banks of Walnut Creek.
Under pressure of the heat and the in
spiration of champagne on ice. men and
women removed their garments to a
startling degree and were wearing
skirts made of leaves which the ladies
had artisticaIIy sewn together. stephens
had the whole party arrested.
At the trial the jury rendered a YER
dict of acquital, but advised the de-
PENDANTS not to let 1t occur again.
The Washington times., 1907-07-08
HAVE THE TIMES MAILED TO YOU,
MONDAY. JULY S. 1907.
The Election of Captain Oyster.

The Board of Education and the
parents whose children receive in
struction at its hands are alike to
be congratulated on the election of
Captain Oyster as president of that
body.
What our local schools have
needed for years is a grip of iron.
Strong control would have prevented
the major part of the petty politics
and mistaken self-seeking among
officers and teachers which have so
far impaired the efficiency of the
system. Grip of iron and strong
control can be confidently expected
Of this new president.
Characteristically, Captain Oyster
accepted his new responsibilities
with declaration of purpose-out-
spoken, direct, unmistakable. Out
OF it platform might be made with
oil propriety, as follows:
We have a duty to perform to the
children of this city. Our first interest
should be in them, and everything
should be done TO work in harmony
and to tneir interests.
We have, too, about LOO TO l,S0C
teachers entitled to consideration from
US, and they. in return, owe a duty tC
US, for the performance of which they
receive compensation.
We have also had a new Superinten-
dent. a man OF ability and courage. and
strong in his own covictiOns-
think Dr. Chancellor is an able man
and since he has had this one years (pre
1iminary) experience, il should be al
that he can reasonably expect and IL Is
now up to him TO get TO work and make
q success Of his position.
When those three propositions are
analysed they will be found to fore
cast just that honest. square, bull
dog administration which has been
the crying need of our Washington
schools for the past eight or ter
years. In his effort to fulfill that
need, Captain Oyster has a right to
expect the earnest support of every
citizen who believes with him that
the children are the first RESPONSE
bility of the board.
The Washington times., 1907-07-08
STRANGE CULT GREETS
LEADER, JUDGES WIFE

DIES MONIES, July s.-The warrant
for the arrest OF Mrs. Scott Ladd, wife
OF Justice Ladd, Of the Iowa supreme
court has been dropped, and she re-
sumed her meetings in the Mission
House in South Des Moines, which, 1t
was charged. were disorderly.
Crowded into a stuffy room 20 feet
by IS. 200 of her disciples were so joyful
at her return that some Of them writhed
on the floor. beat themselves upon the
breast. and lay in frances for hours.
Their cOntortions are said to have been
worse than anything heretofore prac-
ticed by the cult.
The floor is covered with filth, but
the converts were oblivious to surround
ings. Pretty girls. aged women. and
elderly men moaned and swayed in
rhythm to the sermon Of Mrs. Ladd, and
the singing sounded like warwhoopS. 1t
is said Judge Ladd has threatened to
sue for divorce II his wife does not give
Up the mission.
The Washington times., 1907-07-08
PASTOR AND GIRL
FOUND TOGETHER
Christian Endeavor Speaker
in Escapade at
Hotel.

ALTOONA, Pa, July S.-The Christian.
Endeavor Societies Of Blair county held
rally at Martinsburg- The Rev.
William y. DeIler. pastor or the Second
United Brethren Church Of this city. was
delegate and the principal speaker.
A girl OF nineteen registered at the
Hagey House. at Mar;insburs. as Miss
Margaret GuilliGOrd." After delivering
his address Mr.. DeIler Jdso registered at
the hotel. although nc had been stay
ing at a friends mouse.
Landlord Samuel Mayne, OF the Hagey
House. thus continues the story:
Shortly after midnight \ servant IN
formed my wife that the Rev. Deller
had gone to Miss GuiIIiford's room. Ny
wife told me Of 1t and I went TO Miss
GuillifOrd's room and demanded en-
trance. Being denied, I threatened to
batter down the door. and was about TO
carry out the threat. when 4 was open
ed. / found Miss Guillitord and Delier
in deshabille and ordered them from the
hotel.
Name your price 70 keep this quiet.
said the Rev. Dellcr
Il told him that he must go. They
Hollidaysburg and then went 20 Al
toona. still retain part Of Deiler's
ATTIRE
The affair vas brought to the atten-
ton of the trustees OF the church and
a committee was appointed to investi-
gate. Oeller was called before the com
mittee and he confessed his guilt He
said he was down and out. All he de-
sired was that nothing be said until he
got his family away from Altoona Then
the Rev. J. / l. Bressler, presiding
elder of the Altoona district.
The Washington times., 1907-07-08
The Maryland Fight.

Maryland Democracy has n hard
fight ahead of it, in the effort to
retain control of the State, and
team work will be necessary to
party success. Therefore especial
Significance and Importance attach
TO the apparent effort of Arthur Pue
German, jr., to make himself the
head of a strong personal organiza-
ton in succession to that which his
father ruled.
State Senator German has demon
strated ability, and he has had the
best training that could be given by
. father who was one of the great
est politicians of his time. There is
evidence that the name of German
still has good deal of magic in it,
and that the younger of that name
will find it good capital.
But, seemingly, the developments
thus far have not been, as a whole,
favorable TO the proposal to make
the German rule a dynasty. From
the day of the Howard county con-
yention, which Mr.. German ruled as
with a rod of iron, the evidences of
determined purpose to prevent his
reaching the leadership have been
multiplying.
A few cases like that of the Came
rons might be cited of political
power transmitted from father to
son in this country, but they are sc
few as to be chiefly useful as dem
constructions of the rule that such
transmission is distasteful to the
community.
The Washington times., 1907-07-08

high a standard of personal safety.
Education, religion, and morality
have dwelling places there, and only
visit the rest of the earth. A Wash
ington girl of good character and
common sense could have the time
of her life in the new State.
Washington viii admit these West
ern conclusions without indorsing
the argument. 1t would be a shame
to knock the wind out of a tribute
like that by taking away the breath
of occasion for it. But, as a matter
OF plain, summer, practical fact, the
Census Bureau took no such action
as our contemporary imagines. Girls
were not sent TO Oklahoma for the
simple and businessIike reason that
they were not the employees best
fitted to make the enumeration.
That is all.
SO, If our contemporaries local
representative had taken the trouble
to go to the telephone and inquire
here in Washington, this outburst
of indignant defense for a prosper
GUS and happy Commonwealth would
never have eased the safety valve.
But none of us will regret it, if we
read on to the end, for there at
last is this subtle and double COM
pliment tc the charms of our wom-
ankind-54,OOO stronger than our
mankind-and the chivalry of the
new State:
Probably the census official was
eQuivocating. His real reason for re-
fusing is that he is afraid the girls will
get married and stay IN Oklahoma II
he lets them once get there.
The Washington times., 1907-07-08
PATS SILK HAT
SAVES BABES LIFE
YoungSter ChuckIeS When
1t Falls Three Stories and
Lands on Lid"

NEW YORK. July S.-Patrick Hen
messy. Of 30 Throop avenue. Williams
burg, accompanied by his friend. FL
lery MCGUIRE, was bound for a funeral.
Both were fittipgly clad in the usual
black. but Patrick was the prouder OF
the two in the possession of a shiny
silk hat EIlery wore a near Panama
AS the Pair turned into Sumner avenue.
Patrick discOursed on hats and hatters.
and other matters sartorial.
"A little man like you. Ellery." he
said to MCGUIRE. would look Ike =
wart under a canopy in one Of these
sinners. Stick to them grass hats: they
become you better"
Sure. It's yourself has the elegant
appearance in a checse-box lid" sneered
MEG oire. You're a handsome man,
Pat. with your face agin a wall
% Ills Jealousy only that's burning
you, Ellery,F smiled Hennessy as he
tilted his tile at a more rakish angle.
But. niver mind; when you get 10
heaven they'll crown you wild a tin
bowl"
An you'll wear a star, maybe. and
be put over the gates Of Hades to
dazzle the OWLS
"Ha! Hal" laughed Pat. "Hor'-but
he got no further. Directly in front OF
lG4 Sumner avenue he sat down on the
pavement and counted eight constella-
lions and a milky way dance before his
eyes.
At his feet sat Edward Hackett, aged
three, with two chubby little feet stuck
through Hennessy's silk topper.
"Da, Da, Da! Eddie out the winder. -
lipsed the child.
Didn't none O. the family come down
wild your" asked Hennessy harshly.
''Zere's mommer now,' cried the child
as a wild-eyed young woman dashed
down the stoOp moaning:
Me child, ME childl he is kilt
He is not, madam" retOrted Mr.
Hennessy, rising. IT'S me own pride
saved his life." and he picked up the
remnant lid and stamped Away home
ward. Mcclure was sitting on the curb
holding his sides
Little Eddie had bounced ont of the
third story window. He didn't have Z
scratch.
The Washington times., 1907-07-08
CUBAN WAR WITH US,
PREDICTED BY ISLANDER

HAVANA. July SIN an interview
Gen. Loynaz Del Castillo said that II
the Americans fail to keep their prom
ises concerning the re-estaolishment OF
the republic war would certainly enSue.
and that the best elements in the coun-
try would take the field He added that
the Cubans would win. he thinks. how
ever. since receiving the telegram from
Secretary Taft, through Governor Ma
COON, the other day. that the Americans
viii keep their promises. In the course
OF weighty utterances on politics hs
was asked what he was doing Just now.
He replied that at present he was a
peaceful man. engaged in farming
The Washington times., 1907-07-08
How Beachey'S Airship Looked
To a Nearby Girl Spectator
By ELEANOR F. BOWERS.
Aged Fifteen
By ELEANOR F. BOWERS,
Aged Fifteen Years.

II was In the summer OF 1907 that we
all assembled on the roof OF the HOoe
building and waited patiently for the
now tiny speck 70 draw near This
specK was In the air, getting nearer.
larger, as II few toward the Munsey
building II was an airship, one OF the
worlds greatest wonders. and Beachey,
the engineer and inventor OF the ma
chine. was riding in state on what
seemed 10 be a huge. live locust shell
AS the atrship drew near the people
stood with open mouths and eyes in the
broiling sun. forgetting their weak eyes
and hearts. They were getting covered
with tho smoke from the neighboring
chimneys; their feet were burning from
The Washington times., 1907-07-08
Japan'S Investment in Peace.

Nowhere in print have we oberved
anything which suggested a study
of Japan's available volume of ma
tional resources in the light of the
remarkable industrial movement in
progress in that country. Has Japan
been strengthened or weakened as
factor in international situations
by her great plunge into the ma
tionalization of business
Thomas F. Willard, and some other
intelligent writers who have gone
beneath the surface of things in
| Japan since the war with Russia,
have conveyed some idea of the i'm
mense experiment that country is
making in the development of manu-
featuring, shipping, colonial trading,
and development, under the immedi-
ate auspices of the imperial govern
ment.
The imperial credit has been lent
to, or the government has become a
| partner in, great variety of enter
prises of widely divergent charac-
| ter. All of them, however, have as
their general purpose the industrial
and financial expansion of Japanese
opportunity, and the absorption of
| the greatest possible share of the
commerce of the Orient. Banks,
manufacturing concerns, great trad
ing companies for the exploitation
of Manchuria, shipping corporations,
etc, have been brought into partner
ship with the government more or
less directly. The number of gov
eminent monopolies of great indus
tries has been strikingIy increased,
and it has been gathered that the
policy is more and more TO intro
duce governmental interest into the
business of the empire.
To do all this the empire has been
increasing its debt ever since the
war. To continue such a policy, it
would seem, more increase of debt
is inevitable. To abandon the policy
after fairly launching upon it must
mean business disaster, loss of en-
ployment TO many people, and read
justment which, especially in a time
of national stress, would be exceed
ingly difficult.
Japan needs a period. of peaceful
opportunity and Development Per
haPs it peculiarly needs it because
of the multiplied activities of its
government, and the close relation.
ship which Il has assumed to bust.
ness development. At any rate, a
study by informed people of the
effect on japanese available govern
mental resources, as affected by the
expansion of this industrial nation
alization policy, would be extremely
interesting Al. the present time.
The Washington times., 1907-07-08

the gravel on the roof; they were thirs-
", and as noon came on, hunger seized
them. but they forgot everything in
their excitement, for the airship was
preparing 70 land.
Shouts and yeils filed the air as
Beachey and his airsnip came 70 a
stop.
The airship IS a wonderful object ana
appears 10 be nothing more than a
mere shell. II seems impossible for any
thing so frail 10 be capable OF holding
a persons weight and yet be aerial
Then came the wait Tor Beacley 10
start again and the people began TO
realize their condition. The crowds dis
persed soon afterwarL we among the
rest, leaving Bea>aey 20 star With less
] spectators than he mad upon the arrival
The Washington times., 1907-07-08
MASTERPIECE MUTILATED
BY DISCHARGED EMPL0YE

PARIS, July s.-A dismissed employee
today slashed with a knife Nicholas
Poussin's masterpiece. Winter, or the
Deluge." in the Louvre When arrested
the man said his object was to attract
attention to his grievance.
The painting. which Is valued at sew
erdl hundred thousand francs, 1t is
feared cannot be repaired
The Washington times., 1907-07-08
DREYFUS WILL RETIRE
ON PENSION FROM ARMY

PARIS. July 1T is stated in mill
tary circles that Major Alfred Dreyfus.
former captain of artillery, who was
once sentenced on a charge of treason
TO Imprisonment on Devils Island. is
shortly to retire from the army accept
ing pension,
The Washington times., 1907-07-08

1t turns out that Guatemala claims an
army of $1,000 men, and is disposed to
use them against Zelaya's scheme of
Central American federation. Accurate
statistics are not at hand. but the army
is understood TO contain 5000 generals,
seventeen privates. and the balance In
minor officers.
The Washington times., 1907-07-08


forth the words that have wrought their
power through many generations.
Traditions Handed Down
They speak OF the curse with bated
breath. Briefly. 1t is their family his
tory. never written. but told 10 each
Of their descendants when they are
old enough to understand Just how
many years ego 1t happened none will
say. but II was before the western
part of New York State was settled
One dark night a peddler travelling
through this region on horseback lost
his horse in trying 10 ford CattarauguS
creek. After the accident the man.
drenched and shivering. descended the
clih- A light shOne through the black
ness. which. on nearer approach. was
found TO come from a comfortable look
ing farm house, and he made his way
there.
A powerfully built man Of about thir-
ty-five invited him to enter. The ped-
der asked II he could hire a borse TO
ride 10 Buffalo. thirty miles away. but
the farmer replied that none OF his OWL
could be spared, though he added that
he could probably find one at neigh
bor's the next morning. he ended BY
offering a bed for the night which the
peddler gratefully accepted
In the kitchen, which he crossed 20
the large room the man indicated. the
traveller noted q rough-looking woman
frightened eyes. who shrauk back when
he bowed his greeting A later story
claimed that she was the daughter OF
wealthy parents. murdered for their
money while driving through the unfre-
quented section.
Peddler Was Murdered.
The Peddler was given supper. which
he ate sparipgly. and, worn out with The
experiences Of the day. went at once TO
bed. He was awakened suddenly By
some one moving about HIS room. be
rose and started toward the door only
He screamed and clutched at the sides
OF the opening as he went down. but
before he could pull himself back a door
descended on his hands Its tremendous
weight severed the clutchi1g fingers.
and he sank into the pit where he was
left to bleed TO death 1t was his dying
curse. invoking heaven to bring upon
these people and their children an in
| jury Ike 10 his, that they believe has
followed them
Even since that time, according 10
| the story, the Robinsons and the
Wrights. tho two families represented,
have been afflicted with these mains i
hands and feet They have kept them
selves apart and have perpetuated ard
( viii perpetuate the defOrmity for years
I 10 come. unless their intermarriage IS
prevented.
| Once q daughter of this strange Peo-
/ PIE whose young beauty had escaped
| the physical marks left home and IN
/ the West was WOOed by a young man
of good family. Coming East. however.
! terror and loathing broke their engage
ment She later married one OF her
l own community, and her children have
/ ca. lied out the curse
The Washington times., 1907-07-08

The Teddy bear Is now accused of con-
veying the germs of race suicide. This
is believed TO complete the list Of known
bacilli whose transmission has been at
tributed to II.
The Washington times., 1907-07-08

All fears that anything was wrong
with Captain Hobscn are finally set
at rest by his appearance with an in
terview demanding immediate increase
of naval strength and casually men
tioning that he told us So
The Washington times., 1907-07-08

The Civic Federation's report on mum
icipal ownership proves that most Of
the bogies about that proposal are ex-
ceIlent for boyle purposes, but that
they have no existence in fact in cities
where municipal ownership is the rule.
The Washington times., 1907-07-08

Vice President Fairbanks has fairly
placed himself in the Presidents class
Of proSressives. by devoting himself to
a practical demonstration of the process
of extracting the watet. He extracted
It, however. from the interior of a young
woman who had near drowned. rather
than from a corporations capitaliza-
ton
The Washington times., 1907-07-08

This is a mighty good season for
putting out these alarming reports that
the anthracite supply will not last over
seventy-five years
The Washington times., 1907-07-08

The report that Venezuela has new
cabinet viii cause small worry, in Wow
of the announcement that President
Castro continues to improve in health.