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The Washington herald., 1908-02-03
The Marine Band.

Editor The Washington Herald:
The undersigned desires TO say a few
words in regard 10 "a bill recently intro
duoed IN Congress by Mr.. Bartholdt, Of
Missouri. restricting the Marine Band in
the matter of competing with professional
musicians IN local private engagements.
The undersigned is not a professional
musician. and his interest in the matter
Is purely academic; therefore he may dis
cuss the matter without the bias of the
personal equation.
In this controversy, which 20 the mass
is entirely uninteTestng, because not un-
derstood, is involved one of the very
greatest economic principles; Has the
government the right by legislation in
action, or connivance OF officials. 10 add
artidcially to the natural economic stress
already laid by our institutions on ono
class Of our citizens? No; emphatiCally
no.
All thinking people to-day recognize the
terrific economic stress under which the
masses Of the American people are now
living, with enormous indirect taxation
and the means OF production and distrl-
button and the measure Of values I'm con-
troll Of a few men Now here We have a
group OF citiZens-no matter how small
who have prepared themselves for q
chosen profession, at the expense of more
or less time and money, who now fHd
themselves largely driven out of this
field of labor. and by matchmaking
more or less than rebates paid by the
government.
The government pays 10 the first and
second class OF the Marine Band a salary
about equal to what the local professional
musician could earn under normal con-
ditiOns: in addition IL furnishes iustru-
ments music. clothing, medical attend
ance. ratiOns, and quarters-and retire
ment after a period OF years on pay.
Now these are in effect. and in fact, a
rebate, even If the same rates for the
, service were ChaTged-whiCh IS not the
case.
Our President sends in special mes
sages 10 Congress arraigning most bit
terly the rebating and chIcanery Of some
Of our business world. If We knew. and,
knowing, cared, it would not be even
necessary TO pass the BarthOldt measure.
for by a word he could efTectu8lv stop
this rebating by the Presidents Band %
and lift this extra and artificial economic
stress from a class on whom IL must
press with crushing force. Why not re-
move the beam. &C? GEO c. BURR
1928 New Y0rk avenue.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-03
Razors and Hair Cutting.

Editor The Washington Herald
In the prophecy OF Isaiah We read In
the same day shall the Lord shave with
a razor that is hired the head and the
hair Of the feet" The same head and
feet which Nebuchadnezzar saw in his
dream Of the political image. The Lords
work connected with the BARRIERS razor
viii operate wherever the established idea
OF government. in all its forms, exists.
Uncle sam has been pictured in news
paper cartoons in the capacity Of barber
for other nations notably in the New
York Evening Telegram. December %,
1862
The word Of the Lord came 70 the
prophet Ezekiel, saying, Take a bar
bers razor' and portray society: there
from shall q FIRE come forth into all the
house Of Israel" In the fifth chapter
the prophet draws a thermal line across
the ages. which becomes a living fire in
the latter days
The Lords work connected with the
baTbers razor IS 10 be fire throughout
all the house OF Israel. and Will be ap-
Piled wherever there is organized gov
erument
Where two OF three are gathered to-
gether casually, there is a spiritual en-
tity,
A man will take graft in politics, be a
hypocrits in religion, and display his true
character in the barber shop In this he
is scientific, following the line Of least
resistance. Here Is applied. more than
anywhere else, JeffersCn's idea OF a gov
ernment with minimum Of governing,
There are two notable hair cuts men
toned in connection with revolutionary
periods IN the history OF the people Of
IsTael-SamsOn' S and Elisha's Elisha was
not bald as the text has il. The term
translated bald head should be polled
head. He had his hair cut for q purpose
4 L. COlfERVIITE
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bllf0r Inc Washington Herald
Lest my last article be misunderstood
by the people who read your paper. LET
me here state in the beginning that I
was not. therein, trying 10 convince the
readers on either side of the question
but merely to give the basis OF all dis
Cussions and especially of those OF q
religious character. Let me state also
that this article is written for the sole
purpose of showing the path along which
the light Of reason naturally leads us.
In The Herald for January % We find
on article by Mr. Henry H. Brown. on
Our Future Life" In this article he
shows up a very confusing conclusion
70 which we are manifestly forced, If
We are TO accept both the Bible teach
ings that death is oblivion. and our
church Catechisms, creeds. and dOctrinal
sermons which teach that death is but
d portal 10 either Heaven or hell OBJ
viOusIv there is but one way to get
things straight Il is by using the light
Of reason and excluding those teachers
and teachings which reason shows us
20 be wrong
If, now, we look at Dame Nature. we
ind in her uniformity and mathematical
precision. in her nationality, and in her
progre essiveness. three great natural
proofs Of the existence Of a Supreme
Intelligent Creator. by whom these things
could be made possible From these same
things we dedUce AZ least two Of the
attributes of this Supreme Intelligent
C-eator-wisdom and power. From the
H=-af.
easily argue the other three-jusJice. love,
and truth
We can reasonably say that the eE-
istence of such attributes as these five
srgues their use; and we ask, What could
POSSIBLY be q more reasonable use OF
them, than the creation OF being who
should possess these same attributes in
q limited degree? Such a being is man.
Having the power 10 reason, he can ap-
preciate his Creators plans. and would
therefore be t0rmented continually with
out a revelation OF those plans which
revelation should be true, and which
should give the whence and the where
the past. present. and future of mans
life. Such q revelation should be pre-
served ir its essence. as wei as inspired
by the Creator from whom Il comes
Lei us look at the Holy Bible. We
notice IN the first place that Ii has with
stood the storms of over thirty centuries,
during which every effort has been made
by so-caIled friend and foe alike 10 sweep
&c from the face OF the earth. IN the
Eecond place We find that its writer's gave
Slp all hope OF earthly advantage and
suffered all kinds Of torture. and even
became martyrs, in order TO give IL 10
the world. Surely this is TOO great a sac
ridce 10 be made for anything less than
a true revelation FROM the Creator,
Notice also the continually good moral
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Signs Inside.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
What we need in this mans town,
declared a street car conductor yester-
day. is signs on the inside of the cars
to tell where the cars going. We ought
to either move the signs on the front END
inside the car or else have both. The
way il is now the women passengers have
al kinds of trouble You see, a woman
never looks ar the sign on the front end
Of the car and after they get comfor-
tably seated they begin 10 wonder il
they're on the right car. Then, like as
not. we have to stop the car to let them
off With signs inside the car they
could see for themselves as soon as they
fusion
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Errors of Sniritualism.

Edtor The Washington Herald;
In your paper of January 20. Mr.. Henry
II, Brown got muddled up on the Scrip
lures. and in the issue Of January q, Mr..
J. T. ParneH made it worse. Therefore.
think We should let God do the talking
and man keep silent before Him (Heb.,
u.2O.
God teaches US that He is three in one
Matt, Xxvii:19. and that man is three IN
one q Thes., v:23; Heb, iv:19. In what
form our God is our minds cannot grasp;
but in Genesis It says we are made in His
image Gen, I:2O.
Now touching the immortality Of not
only the soul and spirit, but Of the body
also, after the resurrection. there is am
pie proof. If Gods word is to be taken
OUke, xXiv;51; I Cor. Xv;42; Phil, lis,
Heb i.3; Cor. xv.49: Mark. Xvil9, Acts
1928; II Cor. iii:iS; II Cor, iH13-1S; Acts
xxvi:23 tRom., viii:29-Our conforming to
the image Of Christi.
Christ reveals the Scriptures 10 his dis
CipIes Duke, XXiv:2O, and shows them
where the prophets Of the Old Testament
foretold his death and resurrection
(Psalms, xvi:9-1G; Psalms, XliXl5, Hos
xiH:4, Hos: xiii:14; Isa. a.,XliiiI1; Isa-, XIv:gl-
g, and the whole Of the sd chapter Of
Isaiah.
I could quote more, but this is enough to
ponder over,
Now. touching tests through mediums OF
the communications from the dead. both
Of the Just man and OF the unjust man.
believe in them, but the only accounts
that we have In the Bible of mediums
bringing up the departed spirit is through
the witch of EndOT q sam, XNviii-7-l-l.
God has told US 90 not have anything TO
do with them Deut.. xviii .g-l5l.
If any spirit appears to US We are told 10
try them, if they be of God or the devil
Su John, iy.l; Matt, XII. Eph., vi.l-;
Mark. i,23--1. CHAS. y. EVANS.
Oh, S4vrDth street northeast
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Marrying for Titles.

Editor The Washington Herald.
I would like to praise the courage and
convictions OF a member Of the New York
State legislature, who introduced the bill
in that assembly a few days ago provid-
ing that all heiresses who marry titled for
eigners must pay the State the value Of
one-fifth Of their property.
Every year we hear OF the daughter Of
a wealthy family marrying for title,
and Invariably her property is turned over
TO her husband. During the past few
years many millions Of money rightfuily
belonging In this country have been takeh
70 Europe by this method Only recently
read q dispatch in our newspapers say
ing q check for five million dollars had
been sent TO Count and Countess SEE
chenyi.
1t seems to DO a growing fad for our
girls to marry foreigners who have some
sort Of a claim 10 a title. These mar
riages are almost all made for c0rven-
ience, and I think praise is due 20 the
man who was bold enough % tell the
country what few other men have had the
courage 20 do. WALLACE FOSTER.
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Objects to Statue Design.

Editor The Washington Herald
Does any one know what the sculp-
tor CD had in view when he designed that
figure supposed TO represent Gen. Sheri-
dan on horseback? Does the animal rep
resent some farmers pillow horse just
scared at the explosion of some boy s
flrecracker. OF is it balky and refusing
to go forward, or is its hind feet stuck
In mudhole or Is it TO appear as the
impossible and exactly the opposite OF
any steed that the general ever saw or
rode?
Gen. Sheridan was one Of the greatest
cavalry generals that the world ever
produced. and the idea Of his eques-
trian statue 70 be erected in the city
Of Washington TO look like that! II
looks like a burlesque conceived by
some one who had felt mis- military skill
during the war Of the rebellion.
Think OF Gen. Sheridan on a steed like
that going 10 the battle Of Winchester,
only twenty miles away II any one
thinks that is "a work Of art don't men
tion IT, A suitable place for that statue
would be to place il in some quiet Sc
cluded, soft spot in the Dismal Swamp
and let IL silently sink out OF sight
81 d. ELLIS
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cationai facilities that the white people
have in this city. ana If We need to en-
large the industrial and training features
of our schools, we can get all the money
that we need from the government.
may add that when the Freedman's
Savings and Trust Company failed. there
were fifty white trustees. and we are now
asking the government TO reimburse the
depositoTs OF that company These men
were made trustees without our consent.
Rev JAMES Il WHITE.
25Illa Fifteenth street northwest.
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MONEY AT 5 PER CENT
LOANED ON D. G. REAL ESTATE,
HEISKELL & McLERhN,
Ia0s Il STREET

the broad ourworklng Of that business re-
.rrenChment and individual conservatism IN
financial matters that IS still spreading
over the land.
The most important piece Of news Of the
week was really, the announcement on
Thursday Of the special session OF the
American Railway Association for the
frst time IN the history Of the organlzH-
ton. called 90 consider the question or
the por diem charge Of 80 cents a day TOW
imposed upou those railways retaining IN
their possession after a certain length OF
time the freight cars belonging TO other
railway lines.
In the difficulty that has arisen here
there is no more clear illustration Of the
complete reversal Of business conditions
that has so swiftly come about
Only a few months ago business was SO
active over the country that the question
Of imposing an additional per diem charge
was seriously sgitated. To-day 350.oe
freight cars in the country are not in use,
the tying up 0f capital involved in the idle
cars and engines and similar unused roll
ing stock amounting. ii is estimated, TO
over S4J0,0e) 900, and the railways are max
ing such efforts to rid themselves Of the
cars Of other lines which are empty that
the cost OF sending such empty cars is
mounting up into high figures.
Such development as this makes ii
obvious that the one real question now
before the business world is not how
cheap money is or will be, and not
what will be the character Of what
ever emergency circulation bill may be
framed by Congress, nor OF anything
that pertains 10 the disturbances and
trials Of the past, but how long the
present era OF business contraction Will
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over again in the makeup of other souls
about to take on existence on this or
some other world
/ have no definite views Of just how
and what everything. or anything. in the
beyond is. but I have decided views as
to what is not, and could not possibly be.
which are sane. safe, rational, logical.
philosophical, harmonious, and satisfying
to those who do not want the earth while
they are on il and everything In the sky
after they are dead HENRY ". VAIL.
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VIEWS OF PEOPLE ONMANY TOPICS
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT?
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT?

effect it has upon those who read its
pages often. Can good effects come from
falsehoOd. OF can bitter springs give forth
sweet waters? From these few points we
see. then. that the light of reason leads
US TO accept the Bible as our authority
and TO reject all teachings contradictory
70 IL. r. WALLACE BOND.
Cleveland Park
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open.
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Individual Guesswork.

Views On this subject must paTteke
largely of the nature of individual
guesswork Strong points in the situa-
ton are oonfessedly not wanting. It
has been again and again pointed out
that no long era OF business trouble
ever prevailed IN this country where
the question of the stability OF the
cOuntry's currency was not involved.
and that such depressions as prevailed
there for causes principally connected
with an overissue Of securities in Wall
street have been comparatively short
lived.
It is certain that the country is in
herently richer now than it ever
was before. and that the people Of the
West and South, particularly, whose
poverty on similar occasions In the past
was the most hopeless element Of the
situation, are now not only in a state
OF affluence but see a state Of almost
assured prosperity in the future owing
70 the larger market that has arisen
for all their staple articles Of prOduc-
tion; and Il is unquestiOnably true that
il is the rich mon OF the country rather
than the people OF the country as a
whole whose pocketbooks have been
depleted by the recent smash in values.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-03
WINTER AIDS TRADE
Stock Market, However, in
Torpid State.
MONEY NOT PRESENT FACTOR

American Railways ASSOeiRtion's
Consideration of Charges for Re-
tanned Freight Cars Important
Sews-IdIe Rolling stock All over
Couatry-ImpOFtance OF Harvests.
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Aftermath of Conditions.

All this is the necessary aftermath not
simply Of a stock market panic, but OF
banking methods reprehensible in the high
est degree. if not actually criminal, even
although this adverse criticism does not
attach in the same degree TO all the banks
that were forced last week to suecumb.
In a general way the shutting ef the
doors of these banks last week was due 10
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Defends Christian Science.

~ Broad street, Sew York.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06

The voice which had been sweet and clear
as bell at the first line, broke at the end OF
the first verse and the fair head rested on the
keys as she broke into passionate weeping.
John Ashland at her side In moment
and, with assumption of authority which made
her look up half frightened, picked up the sheets
OF the song and threw them into the heart or
the glowing Goals on the hearth. "We have had
quite enough of that" he said, and left her
almost Immediately with long handclasp which
was the nearest approach to a tender leave-taking
that he could venture.
He stood at the gate alone in the darkness
for a moment. 81 have gained something" he
said to himself under his breath II have gained
something, for I could never persuade her to
make the attempt before"
For few days he did not go near her again
Il will wait and see if she misses me-" he said
to himself and hard though it was, he kept his
word. Then a pretty note came from her one
day. She was perplexed, she said, about little
matter of business. Would he be kind enough
to come over at his convenience and give
little advice?
John smiled to himself he read the note
and new light began to break upon his mind
Evidently it was good for her to miss him
little, so instead of dropping everything and
going over at once he wrote her. He was sorry
not to see her at once, but he buster than
he had been for long time; he would try to
come over in day or two. His sentiments of
chivalry were rudely shocked by this cavalier
treatment of any woman-most of all the woman
he loved-but John Ashland was learning wis
dom in hard school. Her answer came in a
deeply hurt; she hoped that she would put him
to no inconvenience; she was afraid that in her
trouble she had been inconsiderate enough to
regard his time as her own
He had gained his point now, and wrote
that he would be over that afternoon. He went
early he dared, and it pleased him that
she met him at the door with a bunch Of jon.
quils at her throat. She was especially kind to
him. too-so kind, in fact, that John was enabled
to listen patiently while she enlarged upon some
plans that she had made for an iron railing to
surround Andrew Leslie's grave. They even
strayed out there in the spring sunshine and he
listened and advised her with kindness for
which she felt indebted to him. When he left her
at the house, the sun was down and it was grow
ing quite late.
II gave you some flowers the other day." he
said; "the blossoms at your throat are fading
already. Will you not give some of them to me?"
She put her hands up quickly to her throat. "Oh
I forgot them," she said 81 meant them for An
drews grave" He paed slightly, but she followed
him with a pretty glow her face. "There will
be more in bloom tomorrow" she said; "you may
have them If you wish"
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rible woman will marry you in spite of yourself,
and then what will become OF me? Know tnas
is what she came here for; now, John, hasnt she
been trying to persuade you to ask her to marry
your"
John pondered moment with his face hidden
from her.
married." he confessed "and wanted to know
what style of woman admired most"
There, you see, John," sighed Margaret Leslie
sit is just as I. told you; you men are too stupid
to see where you are going. She will marry you
at once; | know she will"
There is one way to prevent it, said John
looking meditatvely into the fire, "and only one
way so far as I can AS you say that kind
of woman has an unaccountable fascination for
one. I sure that my mother is encouraging
her. Was it yesterday that she tod-Luu-to
call her mother? No. 1t must have been the day
before, for"
Margaret was panic-stricken.
"You are, indeed, lost, John, she said, 1T
your mother sides with her. She must be get
ting childish and she has always been such
sensible old lady, too"
"She must be getting, you say, childish"
said John, mildly MY only chance OF escape
Miss Martin, l mean-has any idea that | am
meditating escape from her tolls"
She looked up at him quickly.
inspiration, "why don't you marry Miss Alleman?"
John Ashland looked at her with quiet dignity
that made her dark eyes droop.
Margaret would you indeed serve me so?"
he said and there was a thrill of pain in his
voice 81 have served almost twice seven
years for Rachel, would you give Leah?"
hot blush burned her face like fame.
"Have l been hard to you, John," she asked,
shyly.
Harder than adamant," said John, with a new
hope in his voice. Margaret, do you remember
the verse that you showed me the other day
the verse that Andrew Leslie wrote? Margaret
you and are at the parting of the ways now.
For nearly fourteen years we have been very dear
friends but have come to the end; we
must be more than friends-or less"
There was a note of command in his tones
that she had never heard from him before She
did not answer him for moment, and he spoke
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06

cat the parting of the ways, Margaret Leslie"
he said soemnly, "for in the old road in which
we have journeyed many years we two will
walk together never again. Which shall it be?"
She did not answer him for moment Nay,
she uttered no spoken word to him, but rising
to her feet she laid both her hands in his in
token of complete surrender, and she did so
a mockingbir rocking to and fro in the cedar
boughs burst into song And John Ashland, thank
ing heaven for the blessing that had come to him
at last was hardly to be blamed that he heard in
the first mellow notes the sound of wedding bells
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06

Il have just been learning lesson of love,
The sad, sad lesson of loving,
And all of its power for pleasure and pain
Been slowly and sadly proving.
But all that is left of that bright, bright dream,
With its thousands of sunniest phases,
Is handful of dust meath the coffin lid
And low grave under the daisies"