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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-16
DeathA

Henry p. Lurer. % years. us Eighth
street northwest.
Elizabeth NJ. Snider, "a years, 2sz
Twentieth street northeast
Unknown, s. years. Chesapeake and Ohio
canal, mile above Aqueduct bridge.
Bernard O'Brien. IS years. as @ street
northwest
Mrs. Zippora Drummond. 80 years, SID
ley Hospital.
Mrs. Annie E. Ready. Y years. Jht
Presbyterian Home, 1870 NJ street
northwest.
Susan F. Gender. CO years. 1911 Eighth
street northwest
Sidney Burlingame. 81 years, . Rhode
Island avenue northwest.
Jacob Mann. 90 years. Providence Hos
pital.
Catherine Smith. Is Seventh street
northeast
Infant OF Albert and Alice p. Van Der
wander. 10 day. George Washington
Hospital.
Raymond Hunt. years. CHESAPEAKE and
Ohio canal and Jefferson street
John T. Phillips. IS years. Ills Twenty
NTH street northwest.
Mrs. Tracy Fusco. II years. Sibley Hos
pital.
Augustus .Thornett. 81 years. Providence
Hospital.
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MOVES MEMORIAL
GETS MORE GIFTS

Charles J. Bell. treasurer OF the
Crosby Stuart NOyes Memorial Fund.
acknowledges receipt OF the following
additional subscriptions.
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AS TO A FRIEND.

How about him? Is he straight"
Yes. he's straight; but ne doesu' I
bend over backwards"
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Committee. and one OF those selected
to formulate a plan during the sum
mer for the revision OF the tariff. then
stepped forward
He was greeted enthusiastically. the
Michigan delegation. OF course. being
especially noisy When the tumult had
subsidized Burrows began the reading o.
the formal opening address OF the con.
Vention, which. according 90 tradition
Is TO be the keynote OF the coming cam
paign AS he made each telling point
and described the wonderful progress
OF the country under Republican rule
he was frequently interrupted by ap-
plause- He possesses a strong voice.
and 4 seemed TO carry well through
the hall.
Session Adjourns.
At the conclusion OF Burrows re-
marks TIE cheering and handclapping
continued for several minutes A sem.
blanee OF quiet having been restored
the Senator announced the names OF
the old temporary officers OF the con
ventiOn, selected by tho national COM
mittee. ami they were formally ap-
proved by the convention,
The ehaiFn1en OF the various state and
Territorial delegations were then called
upon 20 send up 20 the secretary's desk
the names OF III .se .Hey had chosen 10
represent theFI upon the standing com
mittees = the convention, and an
noUncement was made OF the meeting
places OF those committees. With thar
the business or the first day OF tho con-
declared adjourned until noon tomor-
row
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TOday's Vital Records.
Births

Albert L. and Ella Embrey, boy.
Edward and Alice Jones. girl.
Albert b. and Katie NJ. willis, boz,
charles and Lillian A. Fuchs, boy.
claude III, and Lena 4. Haga. girl.
George w. and Laura V. Talbot, girl.
Harry T.. and Marion ] Burke. girl
Charles and Ethel Ditton, girl.
William II. and Lily NJ. Havenner, boy
william and Angelina Luzi. boy.
Angelo and Caramella CarofulO. girl.
salvatore and Rosarea L.agana, girl
Antonio and Filomeria Norcia, girl.
Henry and Blanche Riedel, girl.
John F. and Mary Menehan, boy.
BENJAMIN +. and Margaret J.. Jarboe
girl.
Summer p. and Daisy Belcher. girl.
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Today's Convention Program.

10 o'clock a. m.-DOors OPEN
1880 m-Band concert.
Noon-Caled to order by National Chairman New Prayer.
Call for convention read.
Speech by Temporary Chairman Burrows.
Selection of temporary officers
200 p m.-AdjOum until tomorrow noon
4OOp m.-Meetings committees credentials, resolutions,
rules and order of business and permanent organization.
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occur. but he insisted that II 1t once
started there could be only one result,
and that would be the nomination OF
President Roosevelt. Following that, he
said the President woulG sweep the
country despite all the charges OF bad
faith that his enemies possibly could dig
up against him.
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Thinks Third-Ternl Sure
If President Is Named

Former Senator Stewart or Nevada.
who was a caller at the White House
today, and who discussed with interest
the possibility OF a stampede for Presi-
dent Roosevelt at Chicago, declared that
should such a thing occur, nothing but
death could stop the Presidents re-
election.
Senator Stewart said that he had no
Information that such d stampede would
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BOASTS "BARY' MAYOR

Guthrie Allison. brother OF the Rev.
John Allison, OF Washington, has h4sE
elected mayer OF WytheviIle, We. ar.
Allison is one OF the youngest men ever
elected a mayor in Virginia He de-
feated former Mayor Terry in an ex-
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-10-16
SO Simple.

The little man at the back of the
pit had been vainly trying to see
round the big, stout fellow in front
of him, but not one glimpse of the
stage could he obtain. At last he
leaned forward and touched the 9TH
er on the shoulder.
excuse me, sir" he said meekly,
"but l can't see the stage at all"
"Can't see the stage?" repeated
the big man sarcastically. "Well,
what do YOU want me to do-llft
you on my shoulder"
Hardly that replied the little
man deprecatingly, "but 1 thought
perhaps
'Look here" interrupted the big
man: Il know how to manage 1t.
Just You keep your eye on me and
laugh when I laugh" London
Chronicle.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-10-16
Derivation of the Word Sunday.

The word Sabbath" is a Hebrew
term for a period as well as quality
Of time and means crest" In the
Bible it is used only with this
meaning. Periods of one year or
of seven years were thus character
lied. Every seventh day was OBJ
served by the Hebrews as weekly
sabbath" In addition to this
day Others were appointed in which
the obligation to cease from labor
was as binding as the observance Of
the weekly sabbath" Sunday"
is so named from the day which
was dedicated to the worship of the
sun. Christian nations observe it
as their Sabbath" but Sabbath"
is not SUNDAY"
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-10-16
Speecllless With Race.

Strong emotion" says Darwin,
''interrupt> the steady flow of
nerve force to the muscles This
prevents the proper working OF
those muscles which are used in
speaking; hence the stumbling and
incohcrencc of the speech. The
voice sticks in the throat" to use
the words of Virgil. In some cases
speech is for a short time impossi-
bic, as is seen where a person is
said to be "speechless with rage"
The hoarseness Of the voice is due
partly to the fact that passion
causes an overaction of all the or
gans, partly by the fact that for
generations harsh and fierce sounds
have been made use Of to terrify
opponents in quarrcls, and so have
come to be associated instinctively
with anger. Possibly the fact also
has its influence that the utterance
of sounds such as those referred to
is in some way or the other a relief
to the feelings.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-10-16
Tho Source Of Supply.

The sling, or shanghai" as it IS
sometimes called by boys, who use
it to shoot at birds and any other
target that takes their Youthful
fancy, is an illegal weapon in Mel
bourne, where the police confscate
svery one they see.
One day Bobby, aged five, meet
ing another bobby" in blue uni
form and brass buttons, asked
eagerly, rs it true that you take
shanghais from little boys"
Indeed ! do" answered bob
by" senior.
"Then will you please give me
one?" asked Bobby junior limo
cently.-Youth's Companion.
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Alas, Poor Kids.

"This book" remarked the house
TO house merchant as he dexterous-
" inserted one foot in the door
way and smiled pleasantly, is well
named The Mothers Guide. With
its aid YOU can bring up your chill
dren properly"
His victim thoughtfully exam
ined the binding and felt the
weight of the book. Then she
gripped it by the edge with her
right hand and brought it down,
whack, on the other.
TO the astonished salesman she
appeared to be trying to see how
convenient it was to handle. But
for what purpose?
Il don't think I'll take one, she
remarked at last. I'm sure it's no
better than the ordinary slipper''
London Answers.
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EATERS OF CLAY.
These Queer Folk Are Found In Nearly
Every Country.

In every country there are to be
found people with peculiar appe-
tite that regards earth as "a deli
cacy. 1t is difficult to account for
this curious perversion of taste. At
the present time in some parts Of
Germany, Sweden and Italy earth
is baked into bread and is a mar
ketable commodity.
In Germany there is what is call
ed "stone" butter, made from clay.
1t is spread on bread. The Indians
of South America mix clay with
their food as a relish, and in west
Africa it is quite common prac-
tice to chew a yellow oleaginous
clay.
Probably the habit of eating
earth had its origin in famine,
when it was taken to appease hun
ger. But in many places it was
taken as a tidbit or delicacy (as
some benighted folk in America re-
gard chewing gum to satisfy a
craving of the palate.
In Java the people make regular
little red earth cakes, which they
carry to market to sell. They are
the Clancy" biscuits of that island.
The Chinese eat white clay
which could not by any stretch Of
Imagination be called nutritious,
and in India one can get from the
chemist pills manufactured from
earth of yellow color, supposed to
contain great medicinal properties.
Many women in Assam are adj
dicted to the earth eating habit.
In Bengal, more particularly among
the middle and lower classes, the
habit is widespread. All over In
dia the people indulge their par
TALLY for mother earth. No class
or caste is exempt from the prac-
tice, though they try to keep it
secret. In Calcutta one can buy in
the bazaars thin waters of edible
clav.-Pittsburg Press.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-10-16
Gold the First Metal Used.

Gold was probably the first metal
known to man, because it is gener-
ally found native. The oldest metal
lie objects to which We can assign
a probable date were found in a
royal tomb at Nagada, in Egypt,
supposed to have been that of King
Menes. In one Of the chambers
were some bits Of gold and bead,
a button and a fine wire OF nearly
pure copper. If the tomb was prop
erly identified, these objects were
at least $500 years old at the time
of their discovery. Nearly all the
ancient gold that has been exam
ined contains enough silver to give
it light color. 1t was gathered by
the ancients in the bed Of the Pac-
tolus and other streams of Asia
Minor.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-10-16
THE HONEY IN FLOWERS.
Pits and Pockets In Which 1t Is Care.
fully Concealed.

Before "the bee sucks" as Ariel
put it, he must find the wonderful
places where the flowers hide away
their honey, to be found like the
priests hiding holes in ancient
mansions by the right sort of Wis
itor, and to keep away all intruders.
In the recesses of the crown i'm
perial lily at the center can be seen
six large honey pits, one on every
floral leaf, and each is trimming
over with big drop of honey and
glistening like tear drop. Shake
the flower and it "weeps" as the big
drops fall from it, soon to be re-
placed by other tears in the rapidly
secreting flower. The simple folk
call the flower "Jobs tears"
The snowdrop is literally flow
ing with honey, for in swollen veins
traversing its fragile whiteness are
rivers of nectar. The petals of the
columbine are ingeniously and clab
orately designed with view to pro-
viding good places of hiding for
the honey. Each is circular, hol-
low, shaped like a horn. In each
the honey is secreted in a round
knob at which would be the mouth
piece end Of the horn, and the five
are arranged in a ring side by side
with the honey knobs aloft. Though
the honey store is obvious from
without, yet the insects who would
sip it must creep into the flower
and penetrate with long nose up
the curving horn to the knob.
Sometimes the petals are all
joined together into tube, and the
sweet nectar simply exudes from
the inner side of the wall and col
lects at the bottom. This is the
case in the dead ncttle, the tube OF
which forms so toothsome a morsel
that some children call it "suckies."
The honeysuckle is similarly plan
ned, and its sweetness is so striking
as to have furnished its name.
The monkshood has quaint nee
taries. II the hood be drawn back
there suddenly spring into sight
two objects on long stalks which
are sometimes like a French horn,
sometimes like a cowl or, looked at
sideways. not unlike pair OF
doves. Their presence within the
hood has provided the nicknames
Adam and Eve and Noah's Ark.
Thus the honey bags are carefully
tucked away and protected.-Chi-
caCo Tribune.
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while hor%mg all over our gardens.
Why? | think because they are
catching bugs and know they will
not offend rs. Grows roost at dis
lance from their nests. Why? |
think the reason is that they are
afraid Of cndangering the limbs
where the nests are placed.
Cooperative moral order sends
the kihgbird today to join the crow
in fighting the deadly hawk, but an
other day I find him fighting the
same crow that is stealing young
robin for his dinner. Why do the
English sparrows not invade my
acres at Clinton? They are all about
me in vast numbers, just across the
street, and they jabber in crowds
quite within my hearing, yet hardly
once or twice year does a single
sparrow show himself inside my line.
If this is instinct, it is very recently
acquired instinct, for | had a seri-
Gus task in teaching them that it
was unsafe to intrude.
Why do my bees refuse to allow
one of my hired men to approach
the hives? 1t cannot be instinct,
although | confess | cannot trace
out the logic involved. Why do two
of my hens follow a COW hour after
hour about the pasture? Not in
stinct, | am certain, but these two
have discovered what the others
have not, that the cows motions
stir up grasshoppers and crickets:
After my fathers death his dog led
strangers into the house, holding
their hands in his teeth, and he
watched to see if harm was meant.
Was that good logic or was it mere
instinct?
During warm summer shower l
saw an angleworm try to draw a
stick into its hole, holding it by the
middle. After vain effort of this
sort, it deliberately felt its way to
the end of the stick and then drew
it easily into the ground. Its din
ner of soft bark was secured. Was
this incipient reason? What in
stinct could have taught that logical
process. Science published my notes
on the subject at the time with ap-
prevail. Personally, do not believe
that there is an entire absence of
these logical processes from any part
of living nature-not even from
the ovoid cell in which life first APP
pears. am convinced that the uni
verse is charged with reason and
that instinct is only a byproduct OF
universal thought,-E. p. Powell IN
independent
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-10-16
He Was Nonccmmittal.

A Philadelphia who crosses the
Atlantic several times each year
happened during his last visit to
London to bc ont on the street
quite early one morning. He had
noticed that the reflected light gave
the sun the appearance OF being in
tho west.
To policeman lie met the Quak-
er City man pointed out the place
from which the sunlight seemed to
stream. "Ah." said he jocularly,
$50 the sun rises in the west in Lon
DOM
GAS to that, sir replied the OIL
Ger, with great dignity, 81 really
can't sav."-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-10-16
INSTINCT OR REASON?
What a Nature Student Has Observed
In Birds and Animals.

Along the hillsidcs where my
home is placed crows assemble IN
vast numbers. Is it only instinct
that leads them to set sentinel on
guard when they pull corn or ma
raud the birds nests? Blackblrds
do the same, and they have kept me
on a merry chase-merry for them
Just at church time, to get them
out of my corn. But in Florida
these sar,c birds do not set guard
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1908-10-16
Tioer "Whiskers" as Poison.

In the recollections of Il we'll
known big game hunter in India
it is stated that after SHINING a
tiger it is always necessary to guard
its whiskers, as the natives have an
unpleasant habit of cutting them
up very small and mixing them with
the curry of those they dislike. The
finely divided bristles set up an ir-
ritant poison, the result of which
often proves serious. - London
Globe.
Evening journal., 1908-07-11
The neutrality-suspicious..


The following verses were written
from recollectons of the old farm and
the great tree sixty years ago:
Old Listens High -Woods-Farm.
Away down in Thoroughfare Neck,
Retains it's old time ancient charm,
Southeast of Blackbird creek.
Southwest from Collins Beach,
A gone-by summer resort,
The mother land Of the luscious peach
Included in this report.
II hugs the beautiful western shore
OF our spacious Delaware bay
With marshes with cattail reed galore
Three square and bent salt-hay.
II slopes of nicely on every side,
Like an artificial mound.
And elevated above the tide
It's rich, productive ground.
To stand upon its highest point
And view the bay broadcast,
With canvas spread and compasspoint,
And legion vessel mast.
The eye takes in the beauties shown
And bosom heaves within,
Till Nature smiles without a frown
And greater joys set In.
Our eyes were drawn to the famous
spot
Where stood the famous treee
Which could be found on chart and
ptt,
on inland or at sea.
| It stately stood in centuries past,
OF the forests a giant great,
And with defiant look IL cast
It's eyes as IL TO prate.
Look up TO me ye forest wilds,
And wish that you were great.
NV fame Is found in many files
OF many a court and state.
-Admirer
Evening journal., 1908-07-11
Saturday, July II, 1908.
BRYAN AND KERN.

TT AVING failed in their efforts to secure
4 l. Judge Gray as a vice-presidendal candidate in
order 10 conciate the Eastern or Cleveland wing
OF the party, the supporters OF MIR. Bryan VINO
were in such complete control OF the Denver con-
vention. followed their original intention OF
nominating MIR. Kern, of Indiana, for vice-presi-
dent. In some ways the nomination is most APP
proprate The ticket of the party as it emerges
from Denver is a ticket of noted losers. Mr.
BRYAN has twice been nominated and defeated
for the presidency and he is to try a third time
on the ground that the third shot is a lucky one,
although Henry Clay did not find it so.
Mr. Kern has been twice nominated and twice
defeated for governor OF Indiana. He is good
loser The nomination of Mr. Kern, however
shows that the Democrats will make their fight
in the middle West Mr.. Kern is spoken OF as
campaigner Of no mean ability. Originally he was
a gold Democrat and opposed the nomination of
Bryan in 1896, but after the nomination was
made, he fell in under the party banner
The battle will, therefore. be fought along the
old lines II will be question OF the Democratic
ticket with its uncertainties, its varying prom
ises, its extreme radcalism, which will grow
more radical as the campaign progresses.
II cannot be denied that throughout the mid
die West Bryan is regarded as stronger than he
was in either of the two campaigns, but admitting
this, with the almost solid East against him, in
order 10 win Bryan will have TO make large
sweep through the West and middle West.
1t is difficult to see, taking the most rosy views
of the Bryan prophets, how Mr.. Bryan really
has chance of election. There is nothing in TIE
platform that promises to win votes for the can
didates, and while in some parts of the country
the campaign may be very lively, there seems to
be no sound basis for predicting anything but de-
feat for the Democratic ticket
Evening journal., 1908-07-11

to public service corporations rights should be
reserved to municipalities by which MUNICIPALITIES
would have some form of control or regulation
some supervision of Theses corporations. Had this
been done, such an intolerabe condition as that
which has harassed Chester would not have ez-
listed.
And why should it be done? Simply because
company like street car company enjoys mo-
nopolistic privileges 1t uses the city property.
The city should guard its own property and in
terests, and therefore it should have some say in
emergencies such as the Chester situation when
they arise. That is the chief lesson of the Ches-
ter strike.
Evening journal., 1908-07-11
THE DELAWARE SITUATION.

IN SOME ways the Delaware Democratic lead
ers are in a strange position. They worked
for the nomination of Judge Gray because of
their admiration for the judge, and also because
they thought that his nomination would have
given the party splendid chance to carry the
State at the coming election
Having failed to secure the nomination of the
Judge, they must now enter the campaign in
more hopeless position than if they had not
started the agitation for the Judge. The canvass
stirred up some of the old-time Democratic fac
tiona feeling. The attention of Democrats was
persistently called to the allegations that Bryan
was not really Democrat but that men who
held the views that Judge Gray holds were the
true Democrats.
viii not the effect be with the younger voters
who might be disposed towards Democracy to
hesitate before supporting such candidate as
Mr. Bryant Instead of proving a help to the
Democrats of the State, it looks as if the efforts
of the Denver boomers will prove a boomerang
so far as the campaign in this State is concerned
Evening journal., 1908-07-11
WILL COOPERATE TO
GET A NEW SCHOOL

At the monthly meeting of the Hill
crest Improvement Association last
night, in the home of ]. II. huntington,
Hillcrest. IL was reported that as
Isurances had been given of the CO.
Operation o. the Montrose and Holly
Oak Association in all school matters.
The three suburbs are all Mt. Pleas
ant school district, and a meeting of
the school committees Of the associa-
tions will be held within a short time
to consider the needs Of the district
The association appointed the follow
ing school committee last night: d. f..
zippe, J. Talley Smith and George A
Wolf.
Evening journal., 1908-07-11
BANTAM MOTHER
OF PARTRIDGES

G. S. Gooding. a farmer of near State
Road, has a bantam hen which IS the
proud mother Of fourteen young part.
ridges. Mr.. Gooding while moving re-
Gently killed the partridge mother while
the bird was sitting on the eggs. and
taking the eggs home he placed them un-
der the bantam and she hatched them all