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Ballooning Safe, Not Cheap.

FROM success Magazine
The only peril in a balloon ascension, in
such good weather as careful aeronautS
choose for a voyage, is in alighting. and
in we'll ordered expedition, where all the
passengers keep cool and cling to the car.
there is no danger at all. Even If the
wind is blowing hard, the strong, elastic,
woven-willow basket takes up the danger
part of the shock. One of these baskets
ought to yield up it's passengers unhurt
from a landing in a wind blowing fifty
miles an hour.
Ballooning. under moderately favorable
circumstances. is safe and simple sport.
1t is not. comparatively speaking. cheap
amusement An ascent including the
cost of gas expense of a pilot and trans
portation of passengers and balloon home,
costs in this country from thirty-five to
seventy-five dollars a passenger. 1t is less
in France; from Paris. you can make an
ascension for about hundred francs.
The fare home is a very variable expense
nothing is more uncertain than the spot
where you will land. OF course, ii is easy
to descend whenever YOU like; you may
limit your flight to a couple of hours.
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the strike. While it was in progress he
was arrested. first for conspiracy, but
acquitted. and a second time for con-
tempt Of court for violating an injunc-
ton. On this latter charge he served
the term in prison-six months-which
has since held him a martyr in the eyes
of a certain element of the population.
He is~a fiery orator, an agitator Of the
firebrand type and is already being heard
on the stump.
Populist Candidate a Self-Made Man
The populist presidential nominee,
Thomas f. Watson, is man of big cali
Der. and is known far more widely than
Is his party. He is of Quaker stock, and
while one of Theodore Roosevelt's an
cestors was revolutionary governor of
Georgia, Mr.. Watson's ancestors at the
same time sat in the revolutionary legis-
lature of the state. But the civil war
ruined his parents, and what little prop
erty they saved after that struggle was
lost in the great panic of '73. when they
were driven from the last of their Geor-
gia plantations. between the Savannah
and the >Ogeechee. Tom, a redhaired
freckle-faced lad, had been receiving free
tuition from a Baptist school, under the
poor and deserving clause of the lat
ter's endowment, but now that his par
ents were too poor to longer pay his
board he went out in the fields to work.
Next he taught a country school, one of
whose rules which he has preserved and
shown to me, was as follows:
THE said teacher shall not be allowed
TO correct no studant in any way only
by switch. the skin not be cut and not
to be abused otherwise" Other of the
rules written by the trustees of this
Central Warrior District Accadamy''
were: "All abusive language such as
cursing and swearing is attually for
bidden." There shall no studant be al
lowed to carry conseald weapons" There
shall be no climbing of fences, resting
or throwing rocks at each other alowed.''
mo student is allowed to fight in school
or on there wax too or from school, nor
no news to be carriade too Or from
school,"
Between terms at this Central Accad-
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ton that could not be appro-
priately named The Cosmo-
politan." and the name would
be full of meaning such as few names
have in this era of haphazard nomen-
clature.
The cosmopolitanism of Washington
apartment house is not as full-hedged as
that of the boulevards of Paris or the
erstwhle Midway Plaisance. but of its
kind it is so we'll developed and preva-
lent that few people remark it. In any
ether town the fact that ones next door
neighbor on the right may be a Georgian
and his next-door neighbor on the left
may be Californian would be accounted
not extraordinary, but certainly not COM
monplace. Here such an arrangement of
neighbors is more apt to be the rule than
the exception, and no attention Is paid
10 it. Therein the cosmopolitanism found
here, and illustrated no more strikingly
than in an apartment house, is of genu-
inc brand. for true cosmopolitanism is
that which is not protuberant. Even In
small country village a stranger may
appear from the most remote corner OF
the earth. but the whole town turns out
to see him. Here such stranger would
attract little more than a passing glance
The true cosmOpolite is at home no mat
ter how far away he is from home, and
Washington apartment houses are filled
with just that sort of cosmopolites. There
are, il is true, some people In Washing
ton apartment houses and some people
in Washington U19.S95 by the census of
1900 who were born here, but the num-
ber nf th0rolohlV cd
tonians who can speak of some other
place as home is astonishing to any
body but a census expert. Back home"
may be Oregon or Florida. Maine or Mis-
souri-a place for which there is long
ing. but longing rarely intense enough
TO overcome the desire of people coming
TO Washington to stay here as long
they can. whether they be in the govern
ment service or not.
From Everywhere.
The people of Washington are people
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lHlellSelit WoTh, IlScS " tNC poSitiofi "a ~
great actress.
LENTALA OF THE SOUTH SEAS; the
Romantic Tale Of a Lost Colony. By
". c. Morrow. The Illustrations
from Oil Paintings by Maynard
Dixon. New York: Frederick A.
Stokes Company.
Pure romance reigns supreme in the
marvellous island where Lentala lived, and
marvels were the order of every day. A
band of colonists are wrecked on a vol
canic island where they are threatened
with a cruel death. Through the agency
of the mysterious Lentala they escape.
The island is honeycombed with caverns
and rendered awe-inspiring by hidden vol
canoes and lofty heights. There is love
story which is vitality concerned with the
identity of Lentala and the equally mys-
terious Beela The book is full of surprises
and is pervaded with the magic of the
tropics.
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WASHINGTON APARTMENT COME FROM

tell how many are not. We have them
from nearly every state in the Union
A mere categorical elaboration of this
assertion would be uninteresling. 1t is
enough to say that one of the big apart
ment houses numbers among its occu-
pants, when Congress is in session, both
senator's from Idaho. a senator from
Oregon. a senator from California, repre-
sentatires from Pennsylvania, West Vtr-
ginia and Ohio. the secretary of the
French legation and scores of other per-
sons equally as diversified with respect to
residential antecedents. Another has a
senator from Colorado. senator from
Missouri. and representatives from the
following states: Ohio. Texas. Colorado,
Missouri. Florida. Indiana, North Caro-
lima. New York, Illinois and Minnesota.
lombia and other people o&icial and I'M
official. from north south, east and west.
Another apartment house contains two
legations. those Of Guatemala and Pana-
ma, the counselor of the japanese en-
bassy, senator from Maryland one
from Utah, and representatives from Ill-
nois. New York. Ohio and Nebraska. The
Chilean and Venezuelan legations are in
apartment houses and nearly a score of
diplomats have residences in apartment
houses. statesmen as rarely find them
selves neighbors with others from their
own state as do people not in public fife.
Whether the natives Of various states
are distributed among the apartment
AcuSCo AL AHc piOpOTtlOu ludC tney
: are distributed in the city at large it is
difficult to tell 1t Is hard enough to
keep track of the number of apartment
houses. which are sprinsing up like mush-
rooms in various parts of the city. and
such task is hereby side-stepped. be-
cause there are already figures enough
in this article. Mathematics give some
people headache. and this is not les
son in arithmetic.
The Crowd in a Lobby.
The cosmopoliAnism of an apartment
house is not to be measured with
yardstick or worked out according to a
table of logarithms. 1t is something of
such delicate texture that it requires
much experience In Sizing up humanity
to detect its presence. To a careless OBJ
server, a crowd gathered in the lobby of
one of them would he as deficient of
types" as a series of Gibson girl pictures.
If there were an American Dickens, one
who could evolve a panorama of Ameri
can characters as typical and varied as
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
BIOGRAPHY, ECONOMICS AND
ENGINEERING BOOKS.

Inc following DOCKS nave peen duueu
recently to the District Public Library:
Religion and Religious History.
Archibald f. J. Primary Department Sunday
School. 1907. CXS-Ar24.
Cope. H. F. The Modern Sunday School In
Principle and Practice. 1907. CXS-C79m.
DE Montmorency, j. T.. G.. Thomas kempis;
His Age and Book. 1906. OK D:96t.
De Eries w. l.. The Foundation Stone Book.
Washing ton Cathedral. 1908. +DDs59- D491.
Grafton C. &. A Catholic Atlas: or. Digest Of
Catholic Theology. Comprehending Fundamentals
of Religion. Doctrine, Means of Grace Worship
and It's Laws. 1905 CIEN-G1J.
Maurice. +. ID. Prayer Bool; Considered Es
pecialiy in Reference to the Romish system. and
the Lords Prayer. 1880. CZ-Mi47p
The Programme OF Modernism: Reply to the
Enctcl!cal of Plus X. with the Text of the En-
cyclical In English Version. 1905 CICA-PS4
Sunday. William. The Life of Christ in Recent
Research 1907. CGQ-Sa112r.
Schaufier. r. II. Christmas Its Origin. .Cele
bration and Significance Related in Prose and
Verse. 1897. CRF Sch rs.
Trench. X. c. abn Lectures on Medieval
Church History 1887. DB-T72j.
Tucker. Booth. Social Relief Work OF the Sal
walton Army i'll the United States. 1900. DIT
TI9s.
Biography.
Anderson. j. +. Mr.. Asquith, 1905. E-As6Sal.
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from all parts of the United States In a
limited degree they are people from
every corner of the world. but the for
eign-born population here is not as large
in proportion to the native born popula-
ton AS 1t Is in many other cities. 1t was
in 1900 only - per cent, in comparison
with 81 per cent for New York. 35.1 per
cent for Boston. 34.6 for Chicago. 22.S per
cent for Philadelphia. 1914 per cent for st.
Louis and, 1876 per cent for Baltimore. On
the other hand, only 46.4 per cent of ma
tive-born Washingtonians were born in
the District of Columbia, while 747 per
cent of Baltimore population are Mary
landers. 800 of Boston's people born in
Massachusetts,. 55. of New York's people
born In the Empire state, and 65.3 of Phil
adelphia's people born In Pennsylvania
These percentages show a striking COM
parison with the Washington percentage.
when the large foreignborn population of
Baltimore. Boston. Philadelphia and New
York and the small foreign-born popula-
ton Of Washington are taken into con-
sideration. Charleston, S. c., affords a
much more striking comparison. No less
than 800 of its Inhabitants are natives of
South Carolina.
1t is the migratory American that is
swelling the population Of the National
capital, just as it was the migratory
American that conquered the west, that
helped to people western Canada. that is
building the big canal down on the 18TH
mus. educating the Filipino. supporting
the bonifaces and the nobility of Europe
and trying to discover the north pole.
1t is the migratory American that does
things and great many Of them come to
Washington to do them. because here is
the opportunity to do them.
So II is that II the occupants of any big
apartment house in Washington were to
assemble and compare notes they could
evolve a guide book Of the entire United
States almost as complete as any Bae-
deker. So Ii is that the man from
Maine who has moved into one house in
that new row which was empty just a few
weeks ago. but filled now, finds his next
door neighbor may be a literary Teller"
from Indiana or some one who may tell
him all about the San Francisco eartn-
quake from the standpoint OF one who
felt the shock or saw the houses totter.
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BOOKS RECEIVED.
THE STUDENT CAVALIERS. BY ].

THE STUDENT CAVALIERS. BY j. r.
Forrest New York: r. +. Fenno &
Co. Washington: Woodward & 10th
rop.
THE WRATH OF kNOPF; and Other
Stories. BY Howard James. New
York: Broadway Publishing Com
pany.
Story of the Texas War of Independ-
ence. By Everett Mcneil, author of
The Boy Forty-Niners,' etc. Illus
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PERSONALITIES of Five

! Rivals of Taft and Bryan
One Only Twenty-Five and
lust Commenced Twenty-Five
year Term for Murder-Ten
Years Below Presidential Age
Limit and Has Lost Citizen
ship Rights-Another Nomi-
nee Has Done Six Months
in Jail-Populist Candidates
Great Struggle-Farm Labor
er, Country Schoolmaster,
Lawyer, Novelist and His
torian - Hearst's Candidate
Began as Clothing Store
Clerk-Temperance Nominee
No Mollycoddle - Strenuous
Experiences Since Nomina-
tion-Rescued From Drown
ing to Break Up a Lynching
and Then Get Assaulted With
a Brick.
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some strange contrasts. BeSlQeS
Taft and Bryan, five other men
have so far been nominated
for the chief magstracy.
Probably the strangest nomination ever
made within the scope of our entire po-
ltical history is that of Martin r. Pres
ton just named for President by the So
ciaist labor party, in spite of the fact
that he is ten years below the constitu-
tional age limit for that office and is now
in the penitentiary commencing a twenty
five-year term for second-degree murder.
Preston was born twenty-five years ago
In Memphis, Tenn, and, after receiving
common-school education. became an
electric lineman. He was at Goldfeld.
New, during the great strike there, three
years ago, and, being a union man. acted
a strike picket. While so engaged he
shot and killed Anton Silva. saloon
keeper, and after being tried and con-
victed of murder in the second degree
was received al the Nevada state prison,
Carson City, on May %, 1907 to begin
a twenty-tive-year term. The socialist
labor leader who placed his name in
nomination at the recent convention of
that party said that it made no differ
ence whether Preston was below the
constitutional age limit or not that IF
he is elected he will be seated" and that
constitutions are for the people and not
the people for constitutions.
Can't Receive Votes Because a Felon
But the convention by nominating him
overlooked another deterrent-that Pres
ton. being, in the eyes of the law. a
felon, has not the rights of a citizen and
could not be voted for legally even if his
time In the penitentiary were served. The
socialist laborites accept Preston in the
same category of martyrdom to which
Haywood. recently tried for completely in
the murder of Gov. Steunenburg was
elevated by their near-brethren. the
cialists proper. They claim that the
strike picket, while acting as the pro-
tector of defenseless girls, enraged the
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The States Represented.

How many states are represented IN
the roster of the occupants of this
house?" the clerk at one of the biggest
apartment houses was asked. and The
reply was: TT would be mucn easier 10
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is not a big apartment
house in the city of Washing
ton that could not be appro-
ii priately named THE Cosmo-
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trated New York: E. p. Dutton &
Co
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The people of Washington are people
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pyrght. 1905. by John Elfrcth Watkins)
.HE small party presidential can
didates of this campaign present
some strange contrasts. Besides
Taft and Bryan. five other men
have so far been nominated
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intelligent work, rises to the position Of
great actress.
The Washington herald., 1908-01-07
MASSACHUSETTS PASTOR
BELIEVES IN LICENSE
Maine Experience Prompted Him 10
Fight Against Prohibition.
HAS REFUSED TO JOIN
ANTI-SAL0ON LEAGUE
Works IN the Shop and Earns Day Pay
to Do Away with "Church Graft"

Pittsfeld, Mass, Oct. i907.-The Rev.
Earl c. Davis. the working pastor OF Unity
church Of Pittsheld. created a sensation In
the NO-License league and Berkshire Min
tsiers club this week by announcing that ne
is In favor OF license.
81 believe in the licensed city from moral
standpoint" said he to a Herald reporter.
II was born and brought up in Maine /
lived in Auburn and Lewiston. What I saw
IN Maine prompts me TO my action now. and
that is the reason Z have taken this stand.
From what I observed in Maine be-
iIeve that no license IN Pittsfeld would mean
the establishment OF innumerable kitchen
dives that would be followed or run in con-
hection with houses OF ill-repute, and NOR
ally the effect would be infinitely worse than
with the open saloon under supervision OF
authorities.
Auburn and Lewiston In Maine are about
the size Of Plttsheld. In Auburn alone there
are $50 kitchen baTrooms, and as many more
in Lewiston under q so-eaIled prohibition
regime.
A native Of Poland. Ne, the Rev. Mr.. Davis
graduated from B0Wdoin college in tho
class Of 1897. and for FIVE years thereafter
was principal Of the high school at BIllerlca.
Mass. He was graduated from Harvard d.
vinity school IN 1904, and was one OF the COM
Tnercement orators. He came to Plttsfield
In March, 1905. Before entering college Mr..
Davis worked in a shoe factory in Maine.
lie has e wife and one childy-Boston SUNDAY
Herald.
The Washington herald., 1908-01-07

clare fuTthe. IS Incapable OF maAi.-
any normal man drunk unless il Is strongly
mixed with whisky before or after being
PROHIBITION REDUCES WAGES.
The brewing industry and It's allied manu-
featuring interests employ approximately
$50, 600 woYkmAn. whose average wages are
the highest drawn by American artisans.
The fund from which this great labor army
receives payment is derived direct from the
sale OF brewery products. Should The pro-
hibitionists gain supreme power and the
brewing industry be iegisletively destroyed
these workmen must be cast on the already
congested labor market to still further re-
duce wages and intensity commercial de-
preston. VIII union labor stand for this7
The Washington herald., 1908-01-07

Special Cable Dispatch to The Chicago Inter Ocean.
MUNICH. Dec. u, l907-A severe blow at
the advocates Of total abstinence has been
struck by the Bavarian War Ministry. which
has issued report showing that in inde.
pendent rifle shooting soldiers become bet
ter marksmen after imbibing small guam
tity of alcohol than before.
Throughout experiments involving the
discharge OF l00O0 shots men who had been
served with liquor displayed more steadsness
and accuracy Of aim while firing singly than
did those belonging to the squad which had
been kept abstinent
The Washington herald., 1908-01-07
AN IRISH PATRIOTS OPINION.
Henry Grattan, Whose Eloquenee Stirred
the Last Irish Parliament in College
Green. Dublin

Upon one famous occasion he said: Gen
tlemen. the health OF Ireland and the pros
peTity Of her breWeTies consider intimately
connected. I have looked 20 your trade as
the source OF life and necessary means OF
subsistence. I have considered il as the nat
uTal nurse Of the people and entitled to every
favor and exemption.
THE Irish Parliament VIII find at your
source and IN its own country the means Of
health. with all her fourishing consequences,
and the cure Of iRtoxication with al hermis-
cries.
The Washington herald., 1908-01-07
THE GRAIN OF THE GODS.
BARLEY-THE NOBLEST OF THE
CEREALS.
It ouickens With Life.

The ancients named barley "the grain Of
the gods "
Because Il was good 10 eat and good 10 drink.
They observe that rs liQuified essence in-
spired noble emotions.
ErRditidn declares that it was the special Gre
tiop of the God Osiris.
who, 6VolYe9lt and FIRST grew II in a garden
by the banks Of the Nile.
'Buta Northern Saga says Il was gift from
Odin the Great.
= lieu Is the hardest and noblest Of all the
The Washington herald., 1908-01-07
WILLIAM PENN,

A stOut Champion OF Personal Liberty.
This celebrated Quaker leader OF the 18th
century, who founded the State Of Pennsyl-
vani. drank malt beer and caused II 10 be
orewed In his own house al Duxbury. Pa, He
introduced Cat very early cstel vine grow
ing and brewing into 4he new Quaker colony
He became Quaker because OF his hatred
to legislative tyranny and came to Amer
lea Tor the avowed purpose Of establishing
commonwealth OF Brothers with Personal
LIBERTY as It's Dase and sure foundation.
During his life he was repeatedly impris-
oned for openly refusing 10 acknowledge
despotic and unreasonable laws which he
honestly believed infrInged upon his personal
rights and individuality.
The Washington herald., 1908-01-07
FOOD VALUE OF MALT DREWS.
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE.
Profound Study of Foods and Drinks
What an Eminent Member OF
Royal College of Surgeons
Says.

In all ages beer has been popularity regard
ed not only as beverage but as a strength
enng food.
This opinion Is borne out by the most
searching scientific analysis. The majority
OF physicians and scientists who have inves-
tigated the matter agree that II contains a
large proportion Of wholesome elements be-
cause OF its cereal orlg!n.
DR.. Wiley is the United States government
expert on pure foods. He writes-these are
MS own words" Beer is a veritable food
product"
Pasteur the e,,,fy,rs r. l. .ts
The Washington herald., 1908-01-07

NsNVs lltrIdlg sS9H2 tGbteb
be surprised 20 find that the drunkards are
not the men who exclusively use beer but
rather those who fortify it with whisky,
rum, brandy, or other ardent spirits.
MADISON,
Fourth president Of the United States. loved
a glass Of good malt beer like all the great
men Of his time.
The Encyclopedia Americana (Vol 81 says:
" In ITS0 Madison publicly expressed the
hopes that the industry of brewing would
extend its influence into every State Of the
Union
Madison was a sane and healthy man who
left behind him the memory Of a successful
and patriotic life,
The Washington herald., 1908-01-07

In all ages beer has been popularity regard
ed not only as a beverage but as a strength
ening food.
This opinion is borne out by the most
searching scientific analysis. The majority
of physicians and scientists who have inYes-
tgated the matter agree that ii contains a
large proportion Of wholesome elements be-
cause Of its cereal origin.
The Washington herald., 1908-01-07
The DRINK OF THE GREAT.
BEER THE DRINK OF WARRIORS
AND STATESMEN-CENTURIES
OF EXPERIENCE.
Beer Drinking Citizens, Soldiers, and
Sailors Have Conquered the World.

The ruling nations OF the world are the
beer drinking nations. They are the best
warriors. the best thinkers, and the best
business men aud the best workers.
The strongest army on earth is-that OF a
great beer drinking empire. The biggest;
navy in the world OF an island people who,
look upon malt beer as a daiL iLy.,1ecessftyT
The richest nation that ever en Sv NJ
where more beer is drunk EsASA1f fAD{ {sObiIt
uIation than aSaEsa..s ssiSk>sts ~ SesssS =
The Washington herald., 1908-01-07

culture has BEEN the n0YgIs auU pSpeCialIy
the historical novel.
Wherever beer becomes the popular
beverage intemperanee gradually de-
never can produce inlebrlety except Il Is
cidedly small. about 3ls% That quantity
THOMAS JEFFERSON,
Writer OF the Declaration OF IBce-
pendeHee.
It Is not generally known that Thomas JEFF
ferson throughout his whole life was an in.
sistent advocate Of the brewing industry.
Beer was On his oplnion) rot only beneficial
drink. but the brewing Of it promoted the
welfare OF the whole country BY opening to
the farmer a wider market Tor his grain
Enc. Americana. Vol.