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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-14
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All that favorable reviews and adver-
Using Of any sort can do for a book OF
genuine power and interest is 70 hasten
by little the day Of recognition. 1t
viii surely come into its own. Readers
are quick TO recognize merit, at least Of
certain sort; they l,-.cw what they
want, and when the find It they are
not slow 10 lay hold OF It.
A shining example OF this fact Is seen
In the growing popularity OF the charm
ing Story, Bud" by Neil Munro. APP
pearing last spring without any blare OF
trumPets, the book is OF tho sort whose
public Is created by the answer TO the
question. what shall / read2' Mean
while companion books. the best adver-
tised of them. have had their summer
and ceased to be.
Recently there has been a sudden jump
In the demand for the book, which in
dicates the cumulative effect OF these
little private recommendation. on one
score this Is not 70 be wondered 1T, for
since Mr.. Barrie wrote The Lite Min
lister" there has been no mO-e delightful
idylI OF Scottish life. and Bud herself
Is as roguishly bewitchlng AMI as cap
tivating as Babbie. on another, how
ever, Il Is a bit remarkable, for Bud. -
or THE Daft Days" as the English
know it's IA novel without a love
story.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-14
BOOSTING CUAMINS
FOR ANANIAS CLUB
Senator DoIliver Challenges
Iowa Executive on An
nouncement of Candidacy.

Senator Do!liver Of Iowa has set out
10 put into the Ananlas Club-a new one
CT his own Observation-Disclosures Cum
Elins or Iowa, who Is a candidate for
the Senate against Senator Allison.
Senator Delivers efforts are the re.
suit OF speech he made lately at Coun-
ell Bluffs. in which ne said Governor
Cummins months ago. in letters and
speeches, had pledged himself not to be
a candidate against Senator Allison. The
governor denied he was pledged to any,
thing OF the kind; said he would say
more, but he was Christian. and would
give $1,000 70 charity II II could be shown
that he had pledged himself.
senator DolliveF has given out a state
ment embodying letter from Willard
II. Torbert, OF Dubuque. TO whom, IN
the spring OF 1906, Governor Cummins
wrote:
Il am not candidate for Senator
Allson's place. nor have I ever sug-
gested the thing 20 mortal man. 1t Is
simply abominable the way my en9mies
lie about me. I am candidate fol
governor, nothing else"
Torbert says he sent a copy OF this q
Senator Allison to show the latter II was
He also informed Allison that Cummins
had told him that so long as Allison
desired TO be a Senator from Iowa Cum
Minis would support him. Doliiyer con-
cludes by saying that Cummlns gave
other assurances Of support for Allison
and that II the governor persists IN his
denial the proof viii not be wanting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-14
HOLLANDS LAWS
GOVERN RAILWAYS
Regulate Tariffs by Yearly
Earnings of the
Companies.

Consul General Soren Listoe. at Rot
terdann, Holland, has forwarded to this
Government an interesting report OF
government supervision OF railroad
tariffs in the Netherlands.
The authority which the Netherlands
government exercises over private raiIZ
roads. especially so far as the rates
are concerned ne says, rs shown by
the following resume OF the royal de-
cree governing the same:
The tariffs Tor the transportation OF
passengers and freight require the ap-
prevail OF the minister Of commerce and
industry. Before the tariffs are allowed
to be in operation the same must be
published, together with the approval,
and must be generally obtainable at a
price fixed for each tariff. The required
publication must be made ia the man
ner to be prescribed by the minister OF
commerce and industry.
AT any time we can order the freight
tariffs reduced. When. in consequence
thereof. the net earnings Of the rail-
roads decrease, they are unidentified
from tae government treasury. In
such a case the amount OF sndemnihca-
ton IS fixed by the cour. OF Justice
whenever the matter cannot be ar
ranged by mutual agreement. Under nc
circumstances IS this indemnity fixed
at d higher sum than Is required for
the net earnings 10 amount to S per
cent OF the company's capital during
the year OF years that such reduction Is
By US prescribed
ANY changes in the tariffs are 20 be
published at least one month before the
same may be applied. A shorter period
OF time may be allowed with the ap-
prevail of the minister Of commerce and
Industry"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-14
Georgia Near Drought;
JuIep Dies With 1907
Liquor or Wines Cannot Be Sold or Manu-
featured After December 81, and You
Can't Give Away Drink in Office.

ATLANTA. Ca, Dec. 1A-Here's what
is actually going to happen IN Georgia:
At midnight, December 81, the legal
sale or manufacture of intoxicating bev-
erages in Georgia will cease.
1t viii be Illegal TO manufacture them
In any shape or form.
1t viii be illegal to sell or barter for
valuable consideration, directly or in
directly. any intoxicants.
1t will be illegal TO keep or furnish
at any place OF business any alcoholic,
spirituous. malt. or Intoxicating liquors,
II viii be illegal TO do any of these
things with Intoxicating bitters or other
drinks which. IL drunk 70 excess, viii
produce intoxication
No Bottle in Office.
The law Is interpreted 10 mean that
not an ounce OF lntoxicants can be kept
In sn ONCE, store or any place desig-
mated as a place OF business-it MT.
ters not whether II is for sale, personal
use or to give away. Under a strict
Interpretation II will be an infractlon
OF the law to do so.
Liquor may be kept in the home in
any quantity.
It will be Illegal 20 make domestic
wines from grapes. berries, etc.
Attorney General Hart has held that
the law can not interfere with the use
Of wine for church communion, although
the wine must be obtained on side OF
the State.
Men now engaged in the uuuDr bust
ness will be held technically guilty OF
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violating the law II a drop OF intoxi-
cants remains in bars after midnight
OF December 81.
Druggists may sell pure grain alcohol
under the most rigid restrictions. 1t IS
necessary 70 have a physicians pre-
scrlption to secure II, and the ply
sician must testify that he has ex-
amined the person for whom Intended
Must File Prescriptions.
Copies of such prescriptions must be
fled with the ordinary within thirty
days, fee OF 5 cents per prescription
being allowed the ordinary. The ordi-
nary Iaust register and keep books open
for inspection Of public. These pre-
scripuons f0rTn admissible evidence in
any court.
Physicians VINO own drug stores or
have interest in same can not I'LL pre-
scriptions for alcohol In such shops
The quantity limited Is 10 one pint on
a prescription.
Wholesale druggists can sell alcohol
10 retail druggists. Records OF every
sale must be kept
penatured or wood alcohol may be
sold for art, scientific or mechanical
purposes.
Grim alcohol may be sold to BAG
teriologists, actively engaged In their
profession.
No specific Instructions will be issued
10 courts, as each judge is presumed TO
know the law and place correct inter
pretations on It.
Punishment for any infraction will
be as for misdemeanor under section
lu51 OF the penal code. II provides for
a maximum fine OF 81 OO0 or twelve
months In the Changing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-14
.LEWISOHNS DENY
OPPOSING MARRIAGE

NEW YORK. Dec. 1.-THE report
from Asheville. n. c.. that the Lew
isohn family OF New York is bitterly
opposing the marriage of Philip s.
Henry, brotheT-in-law of Jesse Lew
isohn, the banker, to a Miss Wolfe,
governess for Henry's children, was de-
MED last night.
Miss Alice Lewisohn, sister of the
banker, said:
1.-The story that we are opposing any
marriage of Mr.. Henry IS not true.
We did not even know that he con-
templated marrying the governess or
anyone else. Mr.. Henry is a widower.
He knows his own business best, and
so far as I am aware, his business has
not been interfered with by my fam
ily."
when Mrs. Henry died she left her
husband a large fortune, which he is
said, by Asheville people, to have de-
voted mostly TO building a magnificent
palace and purchasing grounds. lie
bought tract which George Vanderbilt
wanted before he erected Biltmore.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-14
Another Fiction Factory

p Marie CorelH mas often been accused
OF being 4 literary syndicate. but the
suggestion that she IS responsible for
the books Of Robert Hichens Is certain
~ new. Frederick A Stokes Company
has just received the following letter.
Are you at liberty 70 tell me who
Robert Hichens Isl I have just finished
The Garden OF Allah and 1 have an
intense curiosity 10 know something OF
the author.
The style Is so Ike that OF Marie Co
relli that / am tempted 20 believe that
she has assumed new name through
some caprice, and mas started to make
q new fame for herself.
II YOU can tell me shall be greatly
obliged"
Luckily the publishers were able TO
give the necessary information.
The interest IN The Garden OF Allah
has been so steadily maintained during
Its life OF more than two years that the
publishers have Just issued an edition
de luxe containing thlrty-two fllustra-
lions Of the scenes OF the novel from
photographs taken for the purpose. The
new edition IS pr nted or fine paper.
and Is issued IN a rich and handsome
binding.
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Practices What BE Preashes.

DIT. SaEer, the author Of The Art
OF Living IN Good Health published
by Stokes). is an excellent example OF
the merits OF the practices he recon-
mends IN his book Alert and vigorous
IN body and brain. progressive. a man
OF ideas and OF action, he is typical
OF the best qualities IN American man
hood today. His profession IS. strictly
speaking, that Of an eve doctor; but
ne takes a broad interest in medical
science, has written copiously for the
medical magazines, and is the inventor
OF several medical and surgical instru-
ments OF value. He Is OF middle age,
but declares that he has Just begun
70 live" and affirms with no hestta-
ton that he expects TO be heard from
within the next ave years IN certain
ways.
DR.. Sager, ike many other medical
men who are interested IN the subject
OF foods and nutrition, built up his con-
stitutiOn to perfect health after having
nearly ruined IL by excess in eating and
hurried mastice tion-thOse deplOrable
habits OF modern life which are the
origin OF so much i'll health For TWEEN
ty-tve years he suffered from dyspep-
sla although he was a medical man In
touch with the most recent discoveries
in the study OF medicine. He cured
himself by the application Of ordinary
cOmmon-sense sound principles, es-
peciaIly as they are set forth In writ
ings OF a layman, Horace Fletcher.
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Some Heroines of Fiction.

Mrs. Burnett IS the creator OF a
number OF stalwart heroines," writes
the Lounger. in December Putnam's.
Where could you fnd a sturdier one
that Joan. that Lass o'Lowrie's. IN her
first noveI7 or one OF greater nerve or
firmer muscle than the Lady Of Quality.
who killed her man with the butt end
Of her riding-whip. and kicked his dead
body out OF siIsht under the sofa2 There
IS nothing 'adorably weak about such
a heroine as this. for she could swear
with the most hardened old sinners who
gathered at her sporting fathers fire.
side.
Il quite agree With Mrs. Burnett as
to the hopeless stupidity of Amelia.
but I cannot call Lady Castieton cat
tish. though I find her very insipid.
There was nothing stalwart about
Thackeray's herOines, and while I would
not give that quality to the herOines Of
Dickens. they are as a rule less insipid
that his great contemporary Perhaps
Thackeray's Illustrations have helped TO
give US a certain contempt for his hero
ines, for he endows them with the slOp-
ing shoulders Of the champagne bottle
and the uneEu~assive faces OF rag dolls.
Even the wicked. but fascinating. Becky
Sharp does not i've up to her character
in his Illustrations.
Mrs. Burnett gives Du Maurier and
Charles Dana Gibson credit for the 'phe-
nOmenal physical Improvement in the
women OF TO-DAY"
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TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN.

Thou blossom bright with autumn dew,
And colcred with the heavens own blue,
That opened when the quiet light
Succeeds the keen and frosty night.
Thou contest not when violets lean
Ger wandering brooks and springs Un-
seen;
Or colun: bInes. in purple dressed.
Nod Ger the ground-bird's hidden nest.
Thou waitest late, and contest alone,
When woods are bare ard birds have
flown,
And frosts and shortening days Dortend
The aged year is near its end.
Then does thy sweet and quiet eye
Look through its fringe to the SKY;
Blue, blue. as II that sky let fall
A flower from its cey0lean wall.
William Cullen Bryant.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-14
FORCED HER TO MARRY,
CHARGES MANICURIST

NEW YORK. Dec. 14-Mrs. Lillian
Eode, q pretty manicurist, employed in
the Daniel building, at Broadway and
Eighth street, has brought suit in The
supreme court TO have her marriage TO
Detreich Bode anRulled- She says she
consented to the ceremony only becaus,
she thought her life was in danger IL
she refused. The husband, charged with
threats to kill in her complaint. is more
than sixty years old, she says, and IS
a manager Of theatrical companies play
ing in small towns west of the Missouri
river.
Mrs. Bode was twenty-five years old
when she waNmarried in Ogden. Utah,
IN November. 19o4. She was residing in
that State with her parents when she
CHANGED to make Nthe acquaintance OF
the theatrical man.
Since the day following the ceremony,
Mrs. Bode says, she has not seen ser
husband nor has he ever contributed
to her support
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-14
.American NatiOu' Is COmplete.

Within the week. with the publication
OF the dnal two OF twenty-sevcn
volumes, 1.-THE American Ration: A
History" compiled from original
sources by associated scholars under
the editorship OF Albert Bushnell Hart,
OF Harvard University. viii be com
plete. The series applies the modern
principle OF historical COMMONWEALTH
dividual investigation OF original
sources, and the consequent re-
construction OF old views into new. II
is probably true. as the publishers
claim that no kindred enterprise has
attained greater Importance in this
country: and the statement that the
preparation has occupied seven years
on the part OF the combined cOEtribu-
tors Is borne out BY the work. The
two new volumes announced by the
''Harpers for publication December y.
are America as a World Power" by
Prof. John II. Latane, and National
Ideals Historically Traced BY Prof
Hart
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Some Favorite Fairy-Tales.

IN the preparation OF their volume OF
"FavOrfte Fairy-Tales, the Harpers
had weII-knOHn literary women and
men help make the selections. Here
arc some or the choosings;
Jack the Giantkiller:" President
Hadley OF Yale University: President
Butler Of Columbia University, Henry
Mills Alden, J. F. Hosic OF the Chicago
Normal School J. NJ. Pereles, chairman
OF the Wisconsin Free Library Com
cinderella: or. the LAttle Glass Slip
per-" DR.. Thomas R LOunsbury OF
Yale University. DR.. J. H Candeld. L.
brarian OF Columbia University; John
Bigelow. J. II. Pereles. and the children
OF the Hon. Grover Cleveland
Jack and the Beanstalk:" President
Butler OF Columbia University, Hamil
ton Wright Mabie.
The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood"
DR.. Smaller Mathews. Hamilton Wright
Mabie, DR.. Henry van Dyke.
Little Red-Rtding Hood" Henry
Mills Alden.
",The Uglv DuckIinE:" William Jen-
nings Bryan, Miss Jane Adams.
Hope AIy-Thumb.'' Henry James
Beauty and the Beast" Julia Ward
Howe.
Little Snowdrop:'' Howard Pyle
THE story OF the Three Bears" F.
A Kendall. secretary OF the Illinois
Pupils Reading Circle
''SnoW-White and Rose-Red:" Fred
erick Dielman. president Of the Ma
tional Academy OF Design.
THE Wild Swans" DR.. Henry van
Dyke, Alice Meynell.
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp"
President Eliot OF Harvard University;
DR.. Henry van Dyke. J. NJ Pereles.
All Baba and the Forty Thieves"
Mark twain, President Eliot OF Har-
ward University, DR.. Lyman Abbott
'"The Second Voyage OF Sinbad the
Sailor" DR.. Lyman Abbott.
The History Of All COgia, a Mer-
chant OF Bagdad:" William Dean How
ellis
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Mr.. Kesters @JOhn o. Jamestown"

In his John O. jamestown" Mr..
Hester has not overlooked the important
part played by the Indian maid, POca-
hontas. not only in the personal history
OF Capt John Smith. but In me desti-
MES OF the col0nists. She Il was who
came bringing relief 10 the latter in the
dire famine which threatened utterly
to eliminate the little colony. and who
tempered the savage disposition and
treacherous dealings Of her father, the
Indian emperor, with the settlers. One
cannot but feel in her conduct, evil
dences Of a deep romantic passion for
the person of Smith himself. though
IL was reserved for another white man,
Rolfe. at a slightly later period, to
marry this dusky princess
It is perhaps not generally known
that King James Of England came near
visiting heavy penalties upon Role for
having violated the law that forbade an
English subject 10 contract a royal
alliance. so seriously did the European
monarchs OF that period accept the
royal status OF their savage brothers
in the new world Of kmericai
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-14
ALTON B. PARKER FLEES
FROM SMALLPOX TOWN

KINGSTON. N. Y, Dec. 1.-THE Ham
ilton Bank receivership hearing was on
IN full blast before Supreme Court Jus
lice Belts, when word seeped into the
courtroom that an epideu-ic of smallpox
Is rampant in Kingston.
1 think I'll beat it, said former
Judge d. Cady Herrick. who was in
court on the Excelsior Fire Insurance
case. Former Judge Alton B. Parker
and James NJ. Clifford, counsel for the
Hamilton Bank. also returned to New
York by the first outgoing train.
Inc entire town Is terror-stricken
Iwenty-fOur cases OF the disease have
already been discovered
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-14
First Be Sure Who Wrote the Book.

A conscientious paragraph T preparing
list OF popular writers likely. he
thought. to last for some lime In liter
allure. after inscribing ar.Jng their
books THE Weavers," the little Scotch
Bud" 1.-The Younger SeJ,' and The
Scarlet Car" and accurately attaching
the names of respective authors, pro-
Eounced this judgment:
Kate Douglas Wiggin ought TO be
included on the strength Of The
Shutter" Authors who are prone 20
be unduly infiuenced-either way-by
newspaper comment would do well to
make a memorandum of this. and TO re-
feet how guiieless on the face of 1t
are the ways of them that review. Mrs.
Burnett may eventually come into her
own as the inalienable author Of The
Shuttle" 1t was only recently that her
book was reviewed as though IL were
Sir Gilbert Parker's novel. The Weav-
-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-14
ADELE RICHIE POISONED
BY A CHICKEN SANDWICH

SIOUX CITY, Dec. 14.-Strf.ken dur
I'M: the first act Of Fascinating Flora"
Ace,e Richie. the actress, was carried
OF, the stage of the fTew Grand Theater
here last night violently I'll Of ptomaine
poisoning, the result OF eating a chicken
sandwich at a local cafe. Attended by
two physicians. she was removed TO her
private car, where doctors worked over
her all night.
Miss Ritchie's understudy, Miss Alice
Jeffray, finished the play IN the leading
role. She immediately Jumped into
favor, being called back for seven en-
cores.
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page may Lot creep IN and interrupt
he tells his story. Pleadings, soft as
silk, flow from his erstwhile militant
mouth In tones that take the listener
ripples against fiowery banks like silver
bells.
His hand upon feIlow-member's
shoulder IL light as the coverlet OF down
upon lady's couch, strangely different
from the iron fist with which, IN the
heat Of wordy strife, ne has split
hundred desks.
Arguments Secret.
OF his arguments little has become
public so far Those who have heard
them have locked them within the secret
recesses OF their hearts, where, in mo-
ments Of reverence. they viii return and
gloat over them as a miser might over
molten gold. But Il is asserted that hts
claims have been extremely Democratic,
that he has SAID, in softest enunclation,
That men are chosen by Democrats for
reasons OF sentiment, and not for prac-
teal, businesslike reasons as the hard
hearted, successful Republicans do.
John Wesley Gaines likes his candi-
date. He hopes all the other Demo-
Gratis VIII like him. II they do the
Congressional campaign will, perforee,
-+t.---"NoNN ~ AAAE AAAsSN eNkRAONtA sly AS-
Districts viii be won by the mighty
force Of affection. Votes will be gar
nered by the strong appeals Of love. A
man who is loved by his fellOW-members
Is practical politician.
Who hts candidate is, no one knows
as yet. save those blessed individuals
who have heard the story OF love and
affection as political factors But John
wesley Gaines has a candidate, a can
didate whom he loves so much that he
has laid aside his hOneSQue qualities
and has become as the gentle lamb who
plays timidly on the green.
Surely, there are stranger things in
politics than ever happened In flctionl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-14
A Practical Guide to the Wagner

Operas.
Mr.. Filsou Yodns, IN modest explana-
ton OF the work he has so admirably
accomplished, says in his preface 10
the Wagner Stories recently publish
ed by the Mcclure Company:
"A long and varied experience Of in
PRODUCING people 10 the enjoyment Of
Manners operas has convinced me that
the process Of imitation is generally
made far too formidable. The un-
fortunate novice is Ilied with inf0r-
nation about leading motives ana mus
teal characterization TIL he goes 20 the
opera like a nervous schOolooy trying
70 remember his lesson All that Is
necessary is that he should know what
the operas are about and this Is what
1 have tried 70 provide.
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DENIES INJUNCTION
TO RESTRAIN STRIKE

BUFFALO. y. Y, Dec. 1A-Judge
Halle has denied the motion Of the
Lackawanna railroad for a permanent
Injunction against the Switehmen's
Union TO restrain them from striking
because Of insufficient evidence The
temporary injunction is now dissolved
and the switchmen are at liberty 10
strike II they desire
Frank T. Hawley, president Of the
Switchmen's Union. SAYS there will not
be an immediate strike, although 30 per
cent Of the men have voted to quit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-12-14
ExoNERATE BALTIMORE AUToIsT

BALTIMORE. Dec. 14.-Frank Brown,
jr.. the son OF Ex-Governor Brown, has
been cleared by the grand jury which
investigated his running down and kill
ing James Grinnen. colored, early
Thanksgiving morning. The action Of
Brown and his companions in continu-
ing In their automobile is denounced as
brutal and cowardly in the extreme.