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The Washington times., 1908-07-14
ROMAN CHURCH BARS
ELKS FUNERAL RITES
Burial Delayed by Order
FOrbidding Priest to Act
With Fraternity.

TRENTON, July 1.-THE funeral OF
John n. Golden. who was a prominent
Elk and was a Catholic in religion. vas
delayed Two hours by an order sent
by Vicar General Fox. that the family
must decide whether Mr. Golden's aas-
tor or his lodge OF EIks should conduct
the funeral services
The lodge had been preparing for the
services for several days and insisted
that they he allowed TO take charge OF
the ceremonies. Several Protestant rela-
tvs Of Golden sided with them. but
the Catholic relatives outnumbered the
ProteStants. and the priest took charge
o. the funeral Even when the body
was being lowered into the grave the
difference Of opinion was evident. as the
two factions Of mourners were separ-
eted by at least fifty yards. Only a few
Of the Elks attended the funeral because
Of the vicar generals command
The ElkS say that heretofore the
Catholic Church services have followed
lodge services in this city and vicirity
and they object 20 the new order but
Mgr. Fox is firm. and IN the future Sc
cTet societies will take back seat when
funerals OF their fellow-members who
were Catholics arc in progress
The mouSignor says the Elks officiated
here before the Catholic service only in
cases when the priests were not aware
the secret society had offciated. He
says that a rule OF the church is not
TO officiate with any secret society at
the funeral Of Catholic.
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PAYS HIS OWN FARE
BACK TO PRISON
Escaped Man Converted,
Returns TO Serve Four
teen Years.

CHICAGO. July 14.-WiIiam McCarty
IS going 10 the Indiana state pentiten-
tiG-Fy at Michigan City. Unless his sent
enc s COmmuted by a pardon or lesis-
lative action. fourteen years will pass
before he is again a free man Yet no
officer of the law accompanied him on
his trip across the State line. and the
railroad ticket on which he came from
North Yakima, Wash, 10 serve out his
sentence was bought out of his own
earnings
II never was so happy as I am just
now" he said Il mean H. I broke my
parole and it's up to me to go back.
The punishment will be such as I de-
serve, but when I leave my cell I can
do II with head erect and with the
knowledge that am al least honest.
Isn't that worth whiIe?"
McCarty has never heard Of Jean Van
lean He does not even know OF Will
liam January. the Kansas City man who
escaped from the Federal prison at
IeavenWOrth. and was sent back while
a petition with $3.50 signatures went
to Washington asking for his pardon.
He knows simply that ne was con
vert ed recently at a Salvation Army
meeting in North Yakima. became con-
WINGED that il was his duty 10 return
TO the prison from which he had es-
caped when on parole, and set 20 work
earning money for his~passage.
And thereby he goes Jean Nanjean
and William January one better, for his
action, according to his friends, is en-
tirely voluntary
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Food RreserUative Is Injurious,
Experiments in Chicago Pro0e

That benznate of soda, which is
largely use by certain manufacturers
as food preservative is injurious to
the human system, as first announced
by DR. Harvey w. Wiley. chief of the
Bureau of Chemistry, has been deter
mined by trot. John Harper Long, Of
Northwestern University in Chicago.
Dr. Long, who is one Of the I'VE men
eppointed by the President as a
board to act as referee in disputes
between the Bureau Of Chemistry Of
the Department Of Agriculture and
the manufacturers Of the country, IS
said TO be conducting his experiments
in much the same manner that Dr.
Wiley has done his work
The report of the Chicago expert
me'.ts is important as confirming the
position taken by Dr.. Wiley and other
scientific men in Washington.
Vindicates DR.. Wiley.
The manufacturers fought the de-
cisiOns Of the Bureau of Chemistry
and took their grievances to the Pres
ident' who appointed the board Of FIVE
eminent scientists to review the dis
puted points. Friends of DR.. Wiley
locl- upon the Chicago results as a
vinelcation of his work.
1t reported that two members Of
the so-called poison squad" now on a
benzoate Of soda diet at TIE Northwest
ern University. have been made III by
the personalities used In their food, aud
the chemists in charge think they al
ready have enough evidence to make il
certain the ban viii be placed on the
use Of this particular drug in the future.
Although the five-month course of OK
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Winning at London.

American victories are the first news
from the Olympic games at London-
Our rifle team won at the outset. Now
come tidings that Melvin Sheppard, OF
the Irish American Athletic Club. takes
the finals in the l,5O0-meter race, and
that John !. Flanagan, of the same
organization, wins the hammer throw.
The American ri1emen won against
teams representing Great Britain, Can
ada. France, Sweden, Greece, Denmark
and Norway. The best competitors
apainst the Americans were the teams
of Great Britain and Canada, which
won, respectively, second ard third
places.
The all-around superiority OF the
marksmen from this country Is shown
by the fact that they excelled IN i've
out of the six team contests, the Eng
lis team winning the contest at the 6Oo-
yard range by a single point. Inc
pride and the pleasure of the victory
are enhanced by the circumstance that
the English team was tirst-class IN
every respect. The small margin by
which the Americans won, thirty live
points. proves that. As General Drain,
the commander OF the American squad,
said after the trial, the English hst one
of the best teams ever organized; and
it took a better team to win from them.
But the victory is not surprising.
Last year at Ottawa, when teams rep
resenting the United States, Great Brit
ain. Canada, and Australia competed
for the Palma trophy, the American
team won with a score that ecliPsed all
previous records. 1t made LIP out OF
a possible I 800 points. Canada was
second in that match, scoring l,G1l
points. The English team cane in
fourth.
The expected has happened in the
running contests. Americans have
generally taken the shorter distances
and lost the longer ones. Sheppard
victory is over a course about FIVE
sixths of a mile long. The shorter
races may easily enough be won by
his American associates, but there Is
not much ground to hope that in dis
lance running our representatives car
DO so well.
In hammer throwing, Flanagan es
tablished new Olympic record OF l7C
feet Az inches, but did not equal ms
own record of Isl feet If he had failed
either of his companions of the New
York police force, McGrath and Sheri
dan, could probably have bested the
nearest foreign competitor.
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Finding Out Where We Stand.

Uncle Sam has started with his foot
rule on a job of measuring which it
needed him to do He is makirg an in
ventorv-he Is taking stock, item by
item-of the lumber, minerals, land and
water supplies of the United States.
Not only is he going to measure and
weigh the whole total of our American
natural resources, but he is TO have the
tally sheet in his hand by next New
Year Day.
James J. Hill gagged our lumber,
standing and merchantable, at less than
10000 100000 feet. Our annual cut
is about 4O,OOO,OOO,OOO feet. The au-
thorities give us a ton of coal for every
foot of lumber in Mr.. HIPS estimate.
About 2OOO,OOO,OOO tons of iron ore
would approach the end of all the high
er grade supply now in sight. We have
100000 acres OF surveyed ground and
36.5OO,000 acres of unsurveyed ground
as our present stock of land open to
settlement. But the area over which
your Uncle Samuel must lay his meas
uring rod includes also 100000 acres
of unappropriated arid land and $780,
100000 acres which have been settled.
For this work every State in the
Union has enlisted and viii cooperate
with fifteen bureaus of the National
Government. Much of the information
needed Is already at hand, but not com
piled. No little part of it must lie OBJ
tanned from the beginning But the
number of workers Is so large and their
interest so keen that it Is thought the
totals will be computed by the clerks
of the Census Bureau in good time be-
fore the governors reconvene in Wash
ington early next December.
We all know what Is TO be feared
that the most valuable varieties of
timber will be consumed in ten or
twelve years; that the available coal
supply viii be dangerously reduced by
the end of the century; that the prices
of iron will advance ruinously in the
next half century; that the land is not
only filing with settlers, but being
drained of its substance. If those
prospects are before US it is the course
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The Playground Trouble.

While the playground anu school au-
thorities gather at the home plate and
talk, the boys over thirteen years are
kept out of the game. The difficulty
ought to be settled, and settled before
the boys turn by force of natural selec-
ton to vacant lots and asphalt streets.
Like most wrangles which delay the
game, this one seems TO be mainly a
matter Of words. The custom has been
to keep for the boys under thirteel GER
tain of the smaller grounds and 20 pro-
vide for the older boys the larger
grounds within comparatively easy
reach of their homes. With limited
space a single game of basketball or in
door baseball crowds out into TIE street
everybody not playing. The older boys
play such games, and do not often play
tether ball or make caves in the sand.
But this year the Fairgrounds are
sustained wholly by voluntary contri-
buttons, which puts an entirely new
face on the matter. 4 large fraction
Df the funds were raised by the chill
dren in the schools, of whom those in
the seventh and eighth grades are thir-
teen years of age or more. These
larger girls and boys naturally do not
relish being turned away from grounds,
for which, as they thought, they were
giving money. Inbred, the slightest
vestige of tact never world nave turned
them away
Now a compromise is proposed. Six
school Fairgrounds are to be opened TO
the boys of all ages; seven are TO be
kept for those under thirteen. This is
something. But it is a poor way to
settle the trouble.
What ought to have been done is
this: All Fairgrounds should have been
thrown open from the first TO all the
children. Then the difficulty would
have solved itself without a yestige of
the disagreement which has arisen be-
tween the school authorities and the
director. For no live, healthful boy
would go twice to find his playmates
in a ground designed and equipped for
kids After the second day there
would have been no problem left to
settle.
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WOMAN'S TWO SOULS.

Women have two souls, perhaps more,
according to President q. Stanley Hall,
OF Clark University.
He gave this as the explanation OF
the hckIeness Of woman. Of her cratic
methods Of jumping at conclusions and
her intuition" in his address on ''Psy-
cho-therapeutics" before the graduating
class Of the College OF Physicians and
Surgeons the other day at Boston.
Woman is much more susceptible
than man" he said. "Th ere is a good
reason for this. We know that she
has two or more souls. She may love
and hate at the same tine and the
same person. She may say and think
that she is sick or well when the re-
verse is really true. It means simply
that one soul is in ths ascendency.
These two souls mar be absolute
strangers TO each other. but they GER
taInly exist. We have proved il beyond
the shadow of a doubt
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periments was started at the university
June 20. it is said. the effects Of the
benzoate of soda, administered in guam
Titles no larger than those used b. all
food manufacturers employing il as a
Preservative, have been marked.
The Chicago students" like those
taking Lessons in pure food subjects in
Washington. are not permitted TO eat
or drink outside the kitchen. They are
weighed ana their temperature is taken
morning and afternoon Every particle
Of their food is weighed and detailed
reports concerning the condition Of each
are 1nade daily.
Chicago Men Not Immune.
DR.. Wiley, when his attention was
called to the report Of the Chicago In
vestigauons. said that he preferred not
10 express al opinion IN advance Of the
official publication OF DR.. Longs report,
except 10 say that ne is not surprised
that some Of the young men on whom
the experiments are being made should
show some evider, es of discomfort after
being treated 10 the diet Of benzoate OF
soda. as human nature was no different
in Chicago than Washington.
DIR. Wiley expressed his faith In the
work and ability Df DR.. Long, whom he
knows personally, and who he declares
is an eminent ami broad-minded scien-
fist
There can be no doubt" said Dr..
Wiley this morning, that benzOate OF
soda when placed in foods 70 the
amount OF One-tenth Of / per cent or
more viii prove injurious 10 the human
system
DR.. Wiley said that the bureaus re-
port on its experiments was now IN the
hands Of the Government printer. and
that II would soon be ready 10 give 10
the public.
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This is h hole. You are weak.
the victims Of a huge beer resort. which
If you don't break away from viii -
- you the rest Of your lives"
Some one who recognized Mrs. Nation
passed the word along the tables. The
guests rOiselessly shifted their posi-
tons. 1 he waters stood dumfounded
with trays Of fancy drinks
This damnatiou-' began Mrs. Ma
ton Her impassiOned plea had reached
Celia by this time and he came in the
room on the jump. He slipped his right
arm around her waist and led her down
10 the bar In order TO take her from
the room through the rear door.
Undaunted Mrs. Nation continued her
speech as she was escorted from the
room When she reached the bar she
handed the astOnished barteuders some
salut8ry advice and then was put on
the elevator and taken 70 her room by
Celia.
Mrs Nation left for Columbus. Ohio,
where she VIII attend the prohibition
convention, asserting that she will re
turn and look the Annex over again.
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Carrie Nation nUades Pon1peian Room;
Boards Demon Rum in His Dress Goat

- CHICAGO, July 1.-With her trusty
little Ratchet and a score or more OF
scathing words. Mrs. Carrie Nation
dropped uneXpectedlyin into the Pompeian
room of the Auditorium Annex last
evening and made a valiant attempt to
clean the place out peremptorily and
permanently
She left the hotel at O'Clock and
cautiously stole down Michigan avenue
10 another entrance House Detective
James Celia vas stationed at the en-
trance OF the POmpeian room and
knew nothing Of her movements. She
slipped by him and swept down through
the tables to reach an advantageous
spot to deliver her lecture. which size
has planned as a preparatory step 10
her little axe operations
You sinners. sitting here drinking
this filthy stun. began Mrs. Nation.
frowning upon her auditors. who gasp
ed and wondered and moved UneasiIy.
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"HIKADO" PLEASES
NATIONAL AUDIENCE
All of Old Song Favorites
Repeatedly Encored De-
spite Hot Weather.
THE CAST.

That good old standby of comic opera
stock companies, Gilbert and Sullivan 5
..NIkado." with it's many pretty songs
and chorus ensem. les, is the Offering
at the New National Theater this week
and the opening performance last even
Ing vas warmly received. Theatergoers
seem never 10 tire Of such songs as
Three Little Maids .'Titwtllow'
Flowers That Bloom in the Spring.
MY Object All Sublime" and the
"MadrigaI," and es-ch was repeatedly
encOred-
TIE comedy situations and lines con
tinue 10 provoke hearty laughter de-
spite the fact they have been before
he public for many years. In the
Abcrn presentation not few timely
and local hits are perpSt -ated, which
add largely To The enjoyment OF the
production. As usual. TIE Opera Is elab-
orately staged and costumed, and the
presentation was unusually smooth Tor
The bulk Of the comedy is furnished
by Charles W Meyer as hO-hO, the
lord high eXecutiOner, and Huntington
May as PCch-Bah. lord high every INNS
else. Eacn is seen II his best and con
tributes largely 10 the success OF the
preservation. As usual, one of the Tea
lures of the opera are the three little
maids. with Grace orr Myers as Yum
Yum. Edith Bradford as Pitu-Sing, ana
Mile Murray as Peep-BO. Miss Myers
scores with her solo, Hearts DO Net
Break" The dainty comedy work OF
Miss Bradford is delightful She en-
ters into the spirit OF the role with
an enthusiasm that is infectious Miss
Murray is q close second in this respect
and completes the capable trio
George 3. rockingham Is, as usual
excellent in the role Of the Mikado. and
his singing Of MY Object All sublime
calls for many cncores. Hattie Arnold
makes an acceptable Katlsha- Nanki-
Poo, the son OF the MikadO. disguised
as a wandering minstrel, IS interpreted
by Harold Blake in his usual manner.
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CAPT. FERREE WINS
THE REVOLVER SHOOT
!. G. Bum, Of the Police Depart
ment, Second With Strong
Score

With a score OF 81 out OF a possible
5e1 Capt sheridan Ferree won the in
door revolver championship OF the Dis
trict az the annual match held AZ the
range Of the National Capital Rife and
Revolver Club in Winters A--mOTy last
evening. J. G Dunn, Of the Fifth pre-
cinct. the best shot in the Police De
partment. was second. with a score only
four points behind that Of Captain
Ferree
Dunn did some remarkable work on
the second card handed him. making -
out of a possible 80 in five shots W.
J. Mcdonnell was third. with a score
Of 230'
Other entrants and>sccres were; Capt
Alexander Summers, pa, capt p
Whirworth. L. :. A. 30: Col. /. H
Reichelderfer. 229: Lieut., / A Claus
sci. 219. Lieut. f w Holt 2lS. d r
T.anCIev. 203: P. c. BiSchoff. 200: a. p
Johnson. 1S5. II. 3. Hollieheld. l54; T.
J. Williams. is: Lieut.. r. d. Lakeland
100. Major G. :. Wheeler. 50. H. d. Nc
Caskey, 90. and H. J. Stambaugh, 81.
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LUNA PARK VAUDEVILLE.

At Luna Park last night the opening
performance Of the weeks bin was
presented 70 an apprecL-tive audience
The bill includes Press Eldredge- who
has a clever monologue- He also sings
a few songs in pleasing voice. The
Kutie Duo was another excellent fea-
taire Of the program The duo IS com
posed OF the German brothers. who
play Scottish airs on various musical
instruments. CARRIED in the Highland
costume Of the Black Watch OF Eng
land Miss Marie Laurent sang sew
eraI selections and scored a decided hit.
The pony and monkey show made a
good act. and the RenOs' aCrObatiC and
dancing sketch was well received
D'Alma's trained dogs closed the bill
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as depcsitinE millions of goldfish, had
dock, pollock. and Holsters where they
viii DO the most good In addition TO
these special cars the bureau sends
messengers TO all parts Of the country
with consignments Of eggs Last year
the output was more than two billion
and a half fish and eggs. Wouldn't
IZaak Walton bless that place II he
were alive today?
THE SIX cars Travelled more than
$4,000 miles last year distributing the
fish and eggs. and special messengers
Travelled nearly 3o000C miles.
The bureau now maintains thirty
three specially constructed hatcheries
ard sixteen subhatcheries. located in
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MIDSUMMER TWILIGHT.

Horleward the heavy laborer goes
Free. his daily task is done.
Giant-like his shadow grows,
Lengthened b. the setting sun.
Circling round. the swallows go,
Upward In their airy flight,
Whittier bound we may not know
Save to Did the sun good night.
Mona
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than SlO00,OCO. The bureau is now en-
gagged in introducing the lobster Of the
Atlantic 20 the Pacific, and the dom
iciiinS Of the Pacific salmon IN the New
England and middle States.
The bureau maintains two well
equipped seaside laboratories-at Woods
Hole. Mass. and Beaufort. y c.
where scientific ald economic questions
connected witr- che ocean are studied.
zone Of the most valuable adiurcts
Of the scientific work is the steamer
Albatross, Specl aUy constructed for
exploring the depths OF the domain OF
Neptune She is now engaged in making
a biological survey of the Philippine
archipelago"
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an old one and the so-cailed aquarium
cannot compare with many throughout
the country. The bureau has Deeh
clamoring for a new home for years,
vet Congress closes its ears 20 the ap-
peals. So il is probable that the ola
one. which Is on the corner OF sixth
and 3 streets southwest, must do
.'One Of the principal functions OF the
bureau is to stock streams and lakes,
q request for eggs or fingerlings meet
ing with immediate response.
THE bureau has six private cars, when
are sent about the country stocking
ponds. and likes, and rivers, and rlVU-
Jets with & me fish of every species,
salmon tTou-, bass, and perch, as wen
The Washington times., 1908-07-14
Colors Float Over Embassy
on Anniversary of Fall
of the Bastile.
ViScount de Chambrun in
Charge During Absence
of vi. DIES Portes.

Today il the Official national holiday
Of the French Republic and the ma
uonai eolCrs fioated in the Dreeze-or
rather the heat waves-over the en-
b2ssy from sunrise. The fan OF the
Bastile occurred July a.
In the absence at York Harbor. Ne,
OF TIE counselor OF the embassy, NJ des
POrtes, who is acting charge d'amaires
IN the absence Of the ambassador, the
embassy in Washington is in charge OF
the ViscOunt de Chambrun.
Pierre Whelan, Of the embassy. is also
Ia the city, having been called back
from his vacation on account Of the III
ness Of the Niscount de ST. Phaue. who
Is suffering from heat DrOstratiOn.
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LOGICAL CONCLUSION.

First Burglar-Harl, hear some one
talking. Second Burglar-What's he
savIng2 First Burglar-That he never
will bet or another horse as long as he
lives. Second Burglar-Lets get cut Of
this. No money here.--Nchange-
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RooseveIts on Auto rnn.

President and Mrs. Roosevelt made q.
fast automobile run yesterday from
Oyster Bay 10 Cedarhurst. /. / where
they attended the ROckaWay Hunt Club
polo match They were accompanied BY
the Presidents sister. Mrs DOuglas
ROBINSON and Mrs Theodore D. Robin
son, Monroe .. Robinson. ana [err0ir
Roosevelt
Mrs. Roosevelt wore a dainty summer
dress ahd light straw hat trimmed
VIII a wreath Of roses and foliage
The party watched the game from the
piazza Of the clubhouse. and later in the
afternoon returned 10 Oyster Bay by
automobile.
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of common sense TO learn the facts and
face the future intelligently- This
stock taking is one of the best things
the people of the United States have
ever set out TO do.
The Washington times., 1908-07-14

90 s; r. lads. ., s$s:
men. you see the
headquarters of the
Bureau of Fish
cries. known for
years as the Com
mission OF Fish
ard Fisheries. To
1t is assigned the
propagationaIddis dis
tribution of food
fishes, scientific in
vestigation of the
sea and its inhab-
itants, the study of
economic fisheries,
and the CORRECTION
of fisheries Stats
tics.
The huildilg is
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Seeing Washington With The Times Guide

twenty-six States.
one Of the most
interesting lines Of
~ * is the intro
"a ion OF foreign
HShes into Ameri-
Z. waters and the
transDlantingof ne
tive fishes from
one section OF the
country to another
Ihirty-hve years
ago the bureau.
then the commits
son, acclimated
the shad and the
striped bass to the
Pacific coast a. q
cost OF less than
$500 Last yea-
the catch of these
two fishes amount
edto 3.Og8.0o1 pounds
Na.ual .. Lnnra
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ONLY l29 MEN DESERTED.

Acting Secretary Newberry, OF the
Navy department. has received a state
ment tsiat Of the 1890 men OF the At
lantic feet now en- route 20 the. Orient.
only 129 stayed behind in san Francisco.
1t is regarded as likely u.at a number Of
these men are III.
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Guests at Harper Home.

Col ard Mrs Robert n Harper, who
have closed their beautiful home on
Sixteenth street for the season. and ara
located for the sumner months az their
country place. Oak Grove, near Lees
burg. have as their guests. Miss Gladys
Wright and Miss Alice Wright daugh-
tiers Of Judge Daniel It. Wright, o.
washington