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men in TIL German army. TIL change was
instantaneous. Yesterday TIL Fr-rinch am
bassadure was seen weepin and 'beatln on
tn White House dure with a tennis bat
while tn German Ambassadure made faces
at him through tn window. Baron Speck
has lost wan ear FIR tn fatherland. but he
has negotiated a threaty FIR tn free ex-
poort iv dachshunds into this country.
Former fav'rite Ambassadors ARE
secretly delighted with tn change. but
there ARE fears that. important divolop
minis may follow. TIL Jap'nese Minister
has not been hmsilf since he taught tn
Prisdint iiu-jitsoo an was severely cut be
tn glass iv skylight through which he
was thrown. TIL Fr-rinch Anrbassadure
may go home an his Governmint is nego-
tyatn' with prominent hand ball player.
TIL Swedish Governmint will make an at
titnpt to have Hackenschmitt riprsnt
Sweden at Wash'nton. Last night tn
Prsdnt was in an especially jolly mood
at tn diplomatic reciption where he showed
TIL British Ambassadure new thrip. 1t
wint off very well. TIL Ambassadure on'y
said: My word as he sat down on an
audiron. Til Eyetalian Ambassadure Is
lookin' very gloomy afther an unsuccessful
attimpt to teach tn Prisidint a new game
" cats cradle. TIL Prsidint said it wud be
all right if we used wire cable an whoiver
lost a hand lost tn game too. He is de-
tarmined to establish closer relations with
tn South American raypublcs an he has
challenged tn dark-hued diplomats to a
grand rasslin match, whin he will take
thin all on at wanst TIL Ministers iv
Chile, Peru, Argentine, Brazil, Uruguay,
and Icwadoor have hurridly left town. TIL
Turkish Minister has asked to be relieved
an have his head cut off. He says he
prefers to die at home. TIL Prisidint Is
very much pleased at tn appintmint Of
Oscar the Rooshyan Joynt as Ambassadure
firm Rooshya. He thinks he can make
wan hundherd an eighty pounds be tn
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time tn representative iv tn Car pTisints
his CREDENTIALS.
SO We see Hinnssy. It's no aisy thing
FIR tn spilled darlin iv Europeen coorts to
do business around Wash'nton Who's this
new ambassadure firm tn HON iv that
part iv Anglo-Saxon race that hasn't
got its vote counted yet. He's fine Eng
lish gintleman iv tn old school, firm tn
north iv Ireland. \ good man. He's what
they call liberal n England. A liberal
in England is Il man who believes in tn
same things that radical men in this coun-
thry believe in like J. Pierpont Morgan or
Andrew Carnaygie. He's in favor iv
takin' tn poor mans money away fr m
tn arrystCcracy an givin it to tn plain
rich.
Il don't know what his qualifications f'r
tn job ARE. He looks pretty old to me
f'r gymnast He's a book man an that's
bad. l niver knew amy but Teddy
that cud thrain FIR foot race on lithra-
choor. What did this la ad write. says ye?
He wrote book wanst that Hogan read,
called 'Th American Common Wealth
Hell find: a great deal more wealth whin
he comes over, an If he goes to New York
an stays at a fash-nable hotel he'll see
that it's just as common as iver it was
Il
bad l niver read IL. Hogan says tbs full
iv information about that there docymlnt
that railroad Prisldints an great fi-nan-
ceers have become so much interested in
Nv late, tn what-d' ye-call-it?-th' Constitu-
ton. There amt railroad Prisidint in this
country that hasn't declared: Now that We
call me attintion to it. l wud lay down me
life FIR tn dear old Constitution. | Ike
especially TIL paragraph which say: Hands
off stout railroad Prisidints a nations
pride,'' Me frnd Hartman is in tears over
TIL outrages tn Constitution an Is
thinkin iv leavin tn country an giviu'
away all his hard, even tough-earned.
money. Jim Stiliman rather thin see tn
Constitution maltreated be subpoeny sarvers
is goin' abroad without amy flourish iv
thrumpets, but undher an assumed name
But If | was TIL new British Amba ssadure
It's tn constitution iv Tiddy Rosenfet I'd
Keep me eye on. That's tn on'y wan that
don't need protection fr tn JUDICIARY.
But, anyhow, what difference does it
make at all? Sure, VINO cares who's m
bassadurc? Nanny years ago twas divvle
" a job. Tn Amba ssadure was a part iv
his own country thransplanted Where
liver he whit he IA walkin United States
" America. If amy wan asked him what
tn policy iv his country was his answer
was: 1 make 1t up | go along 1t took
about year fr him to Rapport anything
he had done an another year to get tn
reproof back, so he led a free an riochous
life, declared war, punched Prime Minis
ters in tn eye, an gin'rally misbehaved
himSif, an no wan at home cared what
he did. Be til time they knew anything
about it it was old news an. he was I'D to
some other devilment.
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left over afthcr tn nommynation iv
Congressman. If he gon to England
he must know tn name " SHAKESPEARE be
neart an have an eye r-ready to leak at a
mntion iv that great potc. Til damp elm
ate ~ tn British Isles is ouc to a SUCCESSION
y American Ambassadures weepin at cor
nerstone Iayin's an tn cpenin' " nbries
Whin tn time come to rayyurn tn compli-
mint ye'd r-read in III pa-aper: Sir ALI
Orkns, Consul at Coontown on tn East
Coast is in disgrace with tn Governmint
fr his attentions to a lady that is constd-
cred d s,hrikin' brunette even in sunny Al
RIGA. Til Cabinet is determined to punish
him severely an hn has been appintcd Am
bassadure to tn United States He come
over here an stayed a few years. His first
act on landin' was to file a gin'ral demurrer
to TIL country an it's inhabitants, which
ne filled out in detail later on. He wrote
home TO Chipping Norton fr m time to time
regretting that he had nawthin to eat but
canvasbac elk ducks an tcrrypin an that We
cudden't find amy viggytable marrow. let
along wrinkles. in this degraded country
Afther awhile he set down an Sint a letter
iv advice on American pollyticks to an inno-
clint se,rchar afther tn truth In tn employ
iv a campaign comfy. an thin he was al
lowed to go home be tn first boat
well. sir twas cam an beautifullife
they led Nawthin' to worry thin but tn
question iv dEress an Joe Cannon always
beatin thin to tn vttles. They niver were
able to get in first. They thr:ed to thrip
him up, but lie jumped over TIL British Am
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drugs. But it was fancy built of that
fever which put him the path of sue
cess.
Portuguese who had built the strong stone
house in those far-off days, came in that
night to visit him. They were miners, too,
or metal workers, he could not make out
which, and they strutted about in long
patched cotton stockings which reached to
mid-thigh. and a combination garment of
thick cloth that covered all the rest of
them. Even in that sitting room. and in
that baking climate, they wore metal he'll
NETS and metal body armor, and Carter
wondered how they could go abroad into
the sunshine and not be cooked alive in
their shells
But he did not content himself for long
with this idle observation. There was a
method even in his fevered dreaming. He
put the question: Did they get their stuff
down % the coast on the heads of carriers?
The ghosts laughed at the idea of such a
thing. Why should we go against our
nature? We Portuguese-in the days when
we lived. who speak to you now-we were
seamen and rivermen always. So We built
great fat boats and swan our goods down
the rivers.
christopher said the Englishman,
there's just the tip I've been waiting for.
sort of raft. BY Gee! I'm going to shake
hands with you for bringing the news"
But in that hospitabe attempt he was
stopped by the burly White Man s-Trouble,
who sat on his chest till he promised to lie
still again.
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CHAPTER XVI.
The Kings Bounty.

A further brilliant idea came to Carter
next morning that after all he and White
Man s-Trouble had been raising difficulties
about the rivers navigation that were quite
unnecessary. There was a village of
tives close at their door who were river
farers. What was more likely than that
there were many men there who could pilot
canoe through a chain of creeks till at
last they heard tie great Atlantic surf
roaring on a river par?
White Man s-Trouble shook his head
when he heard the suggestion. Dem BUSH
men savvy nothing" said he contempt
uously.
Upon experiment it proved that he was
right The villagers had acquired the habit
of fishing on the reaches which ran two
miles up stream and two miles down; they
had adopted the customs of their forefath-
ers: no one of them had ever padded be-
yond these limits. They were an incurious
people.
Their canoes were small and narrow and
unweldy. They were dug out from cotton
wood trees with fire, and dubbed into vague
shape with native AIDES, and through sheer
idleness and incapacty the builders had
rarely selected straight timber. Even ex-
pert polers and paddlers could not propel
those miserable craft in straight course
One thing only were these fishers good at,
and that was baling. But in this they had
abundant practice, for all the canoes were
sun-cracked, and leaked like baskets
Il wish" said Carter, for a great raft
that will carry twelve tons of the shiny
stones which fall from the mountain.
They did not know what raft was,
neither did they appreciate the size of
ton. but Carter demonstrated to them, and
White Man s-Trouble kept them from for
getting The Krooboy had found chiquot,
and, from having felt chiquots across all
parts of his own person many time, was
well qualified to WELD such a baton of
authority. Carter picked out suitable cot
ton woods, and the Krooboy apportioned
out the cutters and stayed beside them till
their work was done.
They handspiked the logs down to the
water, again having to be instructed in
this most elementary piece of mechanics,
laid cross-pieces at right angles and dashed
all tightly together with lanes. Then
when they had built up the interstces be-
tween the logs with large pieces of tin
stone. they carried down the smaller
in baskets till the logs were sunk to three
quarters draught
Next they built house the raft and
covered 1t with thatch, and in part of the
house they piled great store of dried fish
as provision for the voyage. And all the
while the ju-ju organ behind them doomed
out at intervals its dismal boo-paa-b umm,
bumm- paa-boo.
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bassadures foot They grabbed his coat
tails but his hunger an dimmycratic thra-
ditions iv what Hogan calls precedence was
too sthrong fr thin. Whin they got into
tn dining room there he was in seat
where he cud grab tn first waiter that come
along. Some " thin asked FIR manly
war to enforce their demands f'r tn first
helpin' to TIL corned beef but Joe Cannon
detied thin. He said no furriner cud get in
ahead Nv him. He'd had tn right. kind "
thrainin in Vermllion County, with hired
man as pacemaker. He said twas merely
matther iv tn start. He off quicker
than tn imported gourmand. an his quick
start give him ten yards advantage over
tn fastest an hungriest man in TIL Diplo-
matte Corps. He thought if it wasn't FIR
his -rayspict FIR tn Chief IXicootive, an if
he wasn't bumped an made TO swerve in
tn stretch he cud run tn Prisidint himsilf
to a head.
'.Iv coorse, Hinnissy, that was a sorrow
iv tn diplomats an they had other griefs
1t was hard to dance tn two-step escape
cuttin off their legs with their soords, their
gloves busted at times, an now an thin
Southern Congressman tapped wan iv linn
on tn shoulder an says: SNOWFALL dash
back to tn pantry an fetch me another
slice iv this here pie, an be quick about it
or I'll blow yer black head Off That
was unpleasant, but tn life gin rally was
cheerful wan an if they cud read Ia
pa-apers they often knew what they were
dom.
But it's all changed now. TIL Ambassa-
dure has snap He's got to keep
thrained to tn minnyit, an whin he goes
up to tn White House he wears fightin'
TRUNKS undher his UNIFORM an carries
tennis bats, fencin masks. wrestlin toys,
an boxin' gloves in his bag Whin TIL
Prisidint come into office he looked tn
Diplomatic Corps over an says he: They
need healthful exercise. They ARE an
aner!c lot An thin ye began TO read in
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But now how is it? Sure an Amhassa-
dure is ABOUT as vallyable a tlllyphone
OPERATOR. He has TO make tn come tons
aa if he listens or cuts in he's fired. He's
a messenger an a slow wan firm wan
Government to another. He goes up Ia a
King with q sealed envelope an hands it to
him with til remark: Sign here That
night maybe, a man raps AZ his dure an
says: ARE We tn fellow that brought tn
message this mornin'?' I am says tn
Ambassadors. hitChin' on his soord. Then
I've come to tell We II pack ye'cr thrunk
an go on TIL eight ifty-five. Ge'er be-
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STINT Us u new ambassador fr' m
England / don't hwy tn poor
q man"
Isn't il good job?" askco
M Horncssy.
1t used to he" said NJ. Doolcy. 1T usoG
to bc . fine jo0 Z V were tired an needed
Il rest Nawthtu tp do all day but kick he
cause Joe Cannon wds let into dinner ahead
is yc an decdin' wUd We wear til green
an yellow pants og IN pale blue knee
braechos to tin White House. Hogan says
H. sec tn diplomats together wan time in
Wash'ntou. There was few white men
among Thin. but IN rest looked like a mus
ter in tn Knights il tn Goolden Star (co!-
orrdD on Emancipation Day.
In Thin good Old times tn foreign ma
tons STINT VS. f'r diplomat something they
cudd"u't use at home an stint thin tn
same an NANNY iy thin. They shipped us
III mimbcr of a noble but rayjooced family
with mustachc that looked well on parade
hut had in tn coffee. an had a fine flow iv
cuuy rrsatian. just tn same a door pest.
W. handed thin back distinguished
statesman who owned a clothing store an
fourteen votes an no more in tn Thirtieth
Congressional DISTRICT iv IOway. If he
had amy more votes he'd stay at home an
get iliCtcd Sheriff or Coroner or to some
other office " honor
''Nayether side got III betther iv tn other.
Ii was case all around iv dsposin' "
what Armour wud call tn bye-product. We
mad AN Ambassadure to Europe iv what
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tn most exercise he liver took was polishing
his eyeglasses. TIL German impror was in
despair, FIR tn Fr-rinch Ambassadure Moo
500 Jusserand was at tn White House iYry
day conductin' important negotiations with
a tennis bat in tn back yard. TIL Fr-rinch-
man is fine tennser, but sthrange to say
TIL Prisidint can just beat him ivry time
1t suddenly occurred to tn kaiser to sind
over Speck, who is wan iv tn best soords-
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Hes a fine English gintleman iv TIL
old school firm tn north iv Ire
land"
nighted Government has asked US to come
outside if dare an we've wired Thin
that We dare
Il heerd Hogan say there was talk in tn
English pa-apers iv goin to with Us
about Japan. said Mr.. Hennessy. I'd
like to see it. Dye think they wili?
TIL English pa-apers said Mr. Doo!ey.
like our own. ARE conducted be renowned
warryors. But. do ye think if there was
ony wan butcher shop in tn city Id thry
to wreck it,"
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tn pa-apers: The arrival iv Baron Speck
Won Sternburg German Ambassadure
at Wash'nton has stint a thrill through
diplomatic circles. Err long time TIL in
f1oonce iv Germany has been waning. TIL
former ambassadure was a larned man, but
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KATE MEREDITH.
FINANCIER.

CONTINUED from Sixth Page.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-21
M. ION SEEKS
HORACE MARVIN
BY POST CARDS
Dumb Searches Garry
Message Where News
papers Do Not
Reach.

The search for the little Marvin boy.
son OF DR.. Horace Marvin, of Dover,
Del, becomes more and more every day
a universal quest.
Disappointments that the seekers have
sustained in their endeavors to ind the
sunny-haired tot have served only to
stimulate interest in the hunt and 10
spuaNthe hunters on TO renewed efforts
With a rapidly that is era tiluing to
The Sunday Times and to the soTrowing
father Of the boy, the movement TO
make every Individual in the country a
detective to hunt for the child is spread
ing. The requests for the post cards
which bear the photograph of the boy
and the offer of the 81 900 reward for his
safe return multiply daily
Many Cards Given Out.
The Sunday Times gives these post
cards free OF charge to all who apply
for them Many applicants have come
already and have obtained cards. ex-
pressing their intention to send them to
acquaintance and friends Throughout
the United States. The sending of these
post cards is the surest way to foster
interest in The hunt for little Horace
They will reach cities and towns not
touched by the many newspapers which
have already entered the Marvin Bow
League exhorting their readers 10
find out whether the missing boy is in
their neighborhood
Reports from these papers in the Mar
win Boy League" TO The Sunday Times
the originator of the idea, are that The
readers are deeply interested In the
nd
termine whether he is in their neighbor-
hood
From a correspondent. signing himself
Continued on Second Page)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-21
TWO PICTURES
OF OUT-OF-TOWN
WINNERS SHOWN
National Contest
to Come to End at
Midnight.

TIE Photograph Of Mrs. Josephine c..
Rice. OF 1900 * street northwest. wins
the nth and last weekly beauty con-
test OF The Sunday Times.
A sad feature OF the affair is that,
when representative Of The Sunday
Times called to notify Mrs Rice OF her
victory last night, she was unable to
see the reporter. as her husband was so
ill as to require her constant attention.
h5r. Rice. who is a well-to-do BUSH
ness man with an Office in the Colorado
Building. submitted his Wife's photo
graph in the contest. and across the
back Of it he had written as her oceu-
patton Scattering sunshine
Blonde, With Big Blue Eyes.
Mrs. Rice Is a queenly blond, with biz
blue eyes She IS a young woman, ap-
parentiy not having reached her twenty
fifth year. She is described BY all her
friends as a real beauty and as a wom-
an popular with all who know her. She
Is originally from Virginia
Mr.. Rice was reported very III last
night His wife was al his side con
stanuy from midday yesterday until late
last night. He was suffering from an
attack of heart trouble.
National Contest Closes Tonight.
Tonight at midnight the great general
beauty contest closes. II has been con-
Quoted by The Sunday Times with the
determination that it would bring out
the most beautiful woman in the Ma
tional Capital The Sunday Times be-
lieves this object has been accomplished.
The cooperation Afforded by the puoyic
has been such as to send into the Beauty
Editors office hundreds upon hundreds
of pictures OF lovely women.
IN the last forty eight hours the pho-
tographs have poured into the Office in
a veritabie torrent OF beauty. Husbands.
Continued on Second Page.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-21
BRYAN'S VISION.
NATION OWNER
OF RAILROADS
Control to Be Tried IN
til Failure, Then Gov
eminent Ownership.
Brpan S Position.

Thorough trial of Government
control; rates based on actual
valuation of railroad physical
properties, rigid conservation of
the rights of actual investors; If
control prove a failure, as he be-
neTes it viii, then ownership by
the Government.
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The authoritative announcement
is made for the first time that Viii
liam Jennings Bryan believes that
governmental control of railroads,
tried under the most favorable con-
ditions, will prove a failure, and that
the United States will ultimately be
confronted with the ulrcct question
of governmental ownership.
The following exposition of his
views is given with the approval of
Mr.. Bryan, but-with the understand
ing that it should not be presented
as an interview:
Government control should be tried
under the most favorable conditions;
81 should be attempted conscientiously
and should exhaust every possibility.
1t should not be invoked by anyone who
makes the wish the father OF the
thought-thSt control viii fail and that
ownership eventually must come 10
pass. To Whomever IS intrusted the
task Of executing laws for such con-
troll, ne owes it 10 his nation to throw
himself vigorously and with honest en-
deavor into the movement Control Is
much more desirable than ownership,
and, e e viii accomplish needed re-
forms. it IS the ultimate most SO be de-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-21
INDICT TOLEDO
BUSINESS MEN

TOLEDO, April -Ninety-three of
the most prominent men in Toledo's bus
mess life were indicted on 245 counts by
the grand jury. which returned its re-
port TO Judge Morris this afternoon. The
men indicted are the members Of the
Toledo Master Plumbers Association,
numbering sixty persons; twenty-four
lumbermen and nine bricknen The in
dictments are returned for violation of
the Valentine antitrust law, and are the
result OF an investigation covering a
period OF about two weeks.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-21
Boys Father Frustrated.

Capt. Charles S. Gay. who has been
a conductor on the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad for thirty years. Is al
nort Frustrated by his sons tragic end.
Stuart was a tall. manly fellow, earn
ing a good salary and amply able 10
support a wife. Although he and Miss
Pendleton were only eighteen years old,
Captain Cay but slightly opposed the
contemplated marriage IN Washington.
should the river yield up its remain
ing dead before Wednesday the pathetic
spectacle Uf a double funeral will be
seen here. Relatives Of both have prac-
tically agreed upon this.
Some very pointed remarks have been
directed toward the policeman in Staun-
ton who turned the lovers back on
Wepesday night. He stated today that
he acted in accordance with a teIe-
phone message from Mrs. Hooker. who
requested that Mabel and Stuart be pre-
vented from marrying.
For some time MISS PendIeton had
been living with her cousin at Waynes-
bOrO, but came here often to visit her
relatives and met her lover.
Ordered back to Clifton Forge after
she had set her heart on wedding Cav.
Miss Pendleton wept bitterly. and GAYS
promise 70 make another attempt a [
marriage in the near future could not
console OF brighten her. Driven to des-
peration over the thought of her crushed
hopes and what her relatives would saw
10 her when she returned, the Rirl
leaped over the rail- OF the Suspension
bridge leading TO her sisters home, and
plunged into the waters
Scarcely had her body struck the river
when Gay Vaulted the rail and exerted
hi9 utmost effort 70 rescue her. A.
though only six feet from the shore.
the girl was weighed down bv her
clothes and sank when her lover was
by her side. He dived after her and il
is believed he caught the girls hodv,
but was drowned while struggling to
bring II up. Many persons here were
skepIical OF the suicide until the girls
body was recovered today. Il WAS AT
first believed the boy and girl entered
into suicide compact. but persons who
saw the girl leap into the water and
the endeavors Of Gay to save her DENY
this.