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The Washington times., 1908-04-17
SCOTTISH RITE OBSERVES
THURSDAY WITH DINNER

More than 80 members Of Evangelist
Chapter No. 1, knights Rose Croix and
Scottish Rite Masons, celebrated Mandy
Thursday with impressive ceremonies.
at 1907 G street northwest, yesterday
evening After the formal extinEuish-
ing OF the symbolic lights the knights
marched TO the assembly hall, where a
banquet followed. JaCObus s. Jones'
master Of the chapter, acted as toast
master
Among those who spoke were Arthur
B. Hayes. 32d. formerly solicitor OF
internal revenue. Henry X. Simpson,
32d X. G. G. H, Augustus 3. Coolidge
32d grand master mason: Harry G.
Kimball, Carter 3. Keene. 32d, and
Maurice D. Rosenberg, 18th. The com
mittee on arrangements consisted of
EllwOOd p. MOrey, 32d: Fred NJ. Book,
32d; and Francis A. Sebring, 32d.
The Washington times., 1908-04-17
ARMY BILL WAR
HALTS PROGRESS
House and Senate Con-
ferees Can't Agree on
Appropriations.

War is on between the House and
Senate conferces on the military appro-
priations bill It appears that consid-
GRAFTON Of a huge appropriation for
army purposes doesn't tend to make
those in charge of IL pacific At any
rate, there is no peace between the two
conference committees, and little sign
Of any
The conferees have been holding meet
inss from day to day until recently
They found themseI ,ses unable TO reach
an agreement. SO ts.y have quit try
ing. The House Conferees a day or two
ago left Senator Warren's committee
room, where the meetings have been
held. They have not been back since.
II has not been decided formally to
report a disagreement to the House and
Senate. Should this be done, it would
put the bill in serious jeopardy. II is
not belize ed a disagreement Will be re-
ported. At least, further efforts will be
made TO come 20 an understanding. but
there viii be rluch delay I'm reaching
one.
Representative Hull. chairman Of the
House Committee on Military Affairs,
and head OF the conferees for the
House, is leaving Washington Sunday
TO go TO Des MOines and look after his
political fences. He viii not be back
Tor a week In the meantime there
Will be no meeting of the Conferees-
In view OF the failure TO agree friends
OF the army pay bill have been alarmed,
but there is no warrant for this. II
appears that the confereeS are not at
serious odds over the Increase Of pay.
The exact point at Issue is not made
public. The barracks ana quarters ap-
preparation is one cause of difference.
in a general way. the Senate conferees
are accused OF being "bull-headed." and
insisting on having their way on GER
tain items IN The bill that are not Of the
foremost importance. OF course the
Senate conferees feel they are justified
in their position.
The Senate increased the bill nearly
$1,000, 900 over the House bill.
The Washington times., 1908-04-17

wife every day. and. when it was de-
cided that she should move 20 North
Carolina, the store was sold. Mrs
Caldwell continued 70 write TO her
husband, but after the first two weeks
Of his absence she did not hear from
him She received a letter. however,
from brOther-in-laW she says. CURLY
informing her that her letters were
unwelcOne.
This brought on a serious nervous
illness As soon as she recovered. Mrs.
Caldwell went 10 her husbands home
in North Carolina He had departed.
however. and all Mrs. CaldwelTs efforts
TO find him proved unsuccessful
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TAKE UP BIEBER CLAIM.

The special subcommittee Of the House
Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds is expected 20 take up next
week the question OF the right OF Sidney
Bieber TO valuable land along the Ana
costa river The subcommittee viii look
into the merits of the bill passed by the
Senate some tire ago, repeating the
grant 70 Mr.. Bic. err
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and basket under the other, to put
in the wagon, the horse was gone!
Now, you know, I've had several
hard jolts in the course Of my life,
but do you know, don't think I ever
had harder one than that.
"You see, I was young, that was my
first job and my first responsibility,
and everything seemed big to me
then; and I'd been entrusted with the
care Of a horse and wagon, and now
I'd lost it. thought I'd never seen
the street look so empty; with that
horse gone it seemed as if everything
was gone; and I just stood there in
the store door, with those things I'M
der my arms, helpless, and gazed at
where the horse ought to be, stunned
by the first hard shock that had ever
struck me.
But that same minute man COM
ing along the sidewalk, and who saw
me standing there and who knew
what was the matter from something
that he had just seen and from seeing
me, says, throwing his thumb back
over his shoulder:
81 just saw him walking off there,
around the corner
"And if somebody should come in
now some day when I was $4,000
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to be present from the rajah to his
visitors, and it is offered first to the
gentleman, who inclines his head
touches the edge Of the tray with the
tips of his fingers, and it is then pass.
ed over to the lady who invariably &C.
companies the British officer, If he is
married, on such occasions. She fol-
lows the example of her husband, and
the tray and it's contents are then re.
turned to the jewel room.
In lieu of the unaccepted Jewels a
long necklace Of tinsel, Of little value,
is placed around the neck Of each,
where it remains during their stay
within the palace: There is a very
strict law against any British office,
accepting any gift from a native
prince ,s
Even when doctor may have per.
formed some serious operation upon q
rajah, who, being grateful, wishes to
give exclusive of a money fee, vary.
ing from 200, to 1000 pounds, accord.
ing to the operation performed
present Of a shawl, golden cup or some
similar valuable, the doctor must OBJ,
tain special permission from the vice,
roy before he dare accept the present.
If any officer accepts a gift of any
value without such permission he may
have to resign. This rule was made
because in the old days, when the East
India company governed India, an OF.
ticer's pickings and the presents, often
extorted from the rajah, were worth
much more to him than his salary.
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omen OF ALL NATIONS STUDYING MEDICINE
Pennsylvania Boasts of Unique Institution Where Women
ILL.,. Strive to Become Physicians.

intelligence and earnestness Of purpose
is noticeable in the faces which look
down from the benches
Just now the women students are
trying to raise funds for the hospital,
and have organized various entertain
ments in which the international
character OF the school plays an i'm
portant part. They are succeeding.
TOO, for as the people of the country
realize just what the school is doing,
they are coming quickly to it's sup
port.
The Woman's Medical college
stands for what has been accomplished
by the so-called new woman" and
the result measured by years is little
short of marvellous. To understand
how women have overcome prejudice
and natural handicaps in very few
years, we need only turn to a book
written by DR.. Clara Marshall, dean
of the college, and read chapter on
early efforts of women to enter the
medical profession. This chapter in
cludes a clipping from a newspaper,
bearing date Of Nov. -, 1869, in which
an account is given Of clinic at the
Pennsylvania hospital-the first which
women were permitted to attend. Here
is an excerpt:
When the ladies entered the am
phitheater they were greeted by yells,
misses, caterWaulings, mock applause,
offensive remarks upon their personal
appearance, etc. During the
last hour missiles of paper, tinfoil, to-
bacco guilds, etc., were thrown upon the
ladies', while some Of the men defiled
the dresses of the ladies near them
with tobacco juice. It is but just to
the ladies to say that they maintained
their position as scientific students by
a quiet and modest demeanor."
1t is interesting to note the course
Of the Woman's Medical college gradu-
ates. ...
Do they take the medical course as
a fad, or do they intend to follow it
as a life work?
I Does matrimony interfere with their
profession?
Do they prove incompetent as prac-
ticing physicians?
The answers to these questions may
best be found in a table compiled by
the college and which shows results
that speak we'll for the institutions
work.
The following query was sent out
to 224 graduates recently: Are you
engaged in active medical practice ?"
or the replies received, 166 were in
the affirmative. Twenty three were in
the negative, and the reasons given
were: Domestic duties. 8; philanthropy
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short in my engagements and, tell me
just where could go to get the money
shouldn't feel so much relieved as
did that day when this man told me
what had become of the missing horse.
II hadn't had much experience of
horses then, but of course 1 knew,
when the man told me that, that the
horse hadn't been stolen or run away;
that he'd just got tired Of standing
there in front of the store and had
started to walk back to the barn. And
there found him all right. He had
miscalculated little turning in from
the street and brought up with one of
the front wheels Of the wagon against
the fence on the side Of the driveway,
but he'd halted at that, and there he
stood with nothing broken:
"And what blessed relief to me
that was! And to be sure never left
him standing after that without tying
him.
"You don't want to be timid, son,
ever; but it's foolish to take unneces-
sary risks"
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lay observer would call "the horror Of
a surgical operation"
Here and there in the throng is a.
foreign looking face, indicating the ex-
ception to the general rule of Ameri-
cans. The kimonos of the Japanese
maid covers lie frail forms of some
of the mikados subjects, whose dark,
almond-shaped eyes are aglow with in
telligent interest Rubbing elbows
with her is a Chinese maiden in her
picturesque garb, also absorbed by the
exhibition going on below. H.
Next to the Chinese girl sits one
whose face bespeaks the Pole, and 9TH
ers are German, French and Italian.
English femininity, with the beautiful
clear complexion Of the island across
the sea, is there, too, and beside her
sits an American negress. Finally there
are the faces Of Turkish women, Gu
bans and Filipino maidens, and scat
tered all over the seats are types Of
the clear Drained, seIf-reliant and in
telligent American woman from all
parts of the country.
The old superstition and comic paper
Jest about the woman fainting at the
sight Of mouse seems cheap and fool
1sh in an atmosphere Of this sort. Most
physicians say that they attended their
first clinic as medical students with
many qualms, and if they got away
without fainting they felt lucky. All
will admit, however, that the sight Of
an operation is a trying one on ordi-
nary nerves, so it follows that these
earnest women students possess a re-
serve force Of nerve control not un-
derstood by the person who first per-
petrated the mouse fable.
The large chinned, Nbespectacled
''frumpish" creature, commonly known
as the masculine type" appears to be
missing at these clinics. Instead del
icacy of feature and sympathy es-
sentially womanly, together with high
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hatred of Biddle and tho bank as
sumed the most implacable form. FL
nally he vetoed bills to re- charter the
bank at the expiration of it's life in
1886. He withdrew the government de-
posits and put them in state banks.
regardless Of the district in financial
and business circles which his course
induced.
Biddle on his side, by nature some
what formal and ceremonious in his
manner, and made little vain of his
position because of the Difference
which had so long been paid MIN on
account of his financial power, neither
at first or afterward offered to abate
anything in the struggle.
While he overrated his power, he
was not to be outdone, and applied for
and secured charter at Harrisburg.
Thus, when the national grant. expired,
the doors continued to open each
the Bank of the United States of Penn
sylvania.
So well did Biddle manage that he
weathered a storm of suits against
him and carried the bank through the
panic of 1887. When he retired from
the presidency in 1889, the banks
shares were selling at Sill.
But trouble followed in 1S41, as a.
result of disturbances of that year, and
in 1S43 the shares were worth only
81. The eventual failure of his pet
financial scheme affected Biddle so
keenly that he died in 1914, virtually
of a broken heart.
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ty years. Thomas Willing, one time
partner of Morris, was chosen presi-
dent of the bank, and the institution
fulfilled it's functions for the allotted
time in the face of an agitation
against it. Albert Gallatin, who was
secretary of the treasury at the time
of the war Of 1872, was strongly in
/lvor Of congress renewing its charter,
but his advice was not needed and the
bank passed into the hands of Stephen
Girard, the great philanthropist and
dnancier Girard renamed it 1.-THE Bank
Of Stephen Girard," and operated it
as a private enterprise. 1t is still in
existence under the same name.
Need for a revival Of the federal
bank was felt in 1916, and congress
was prevailed upon to authorize
charter for the Second Bank Of the
United States in that same year. It
was around this institution that the
great bank war" ragged for many years
and in which those two remarkable
men, Nicholas Biddle and Andrew
Jackson, were the striking figures.
The second bank was capitalized at
S35,000,o0o, and was to run twenty
years
AS in the case Of the first bank,
Philadelphia was chosen for its home,
As the City Of Brotherly Love was the
financial csnter Of the country in those
days.
The new bank occupied magnif-
cent marble building on Chestnut
street, above Fourth, now used as
custom house and the subtreasury. In
fits vaillfa were six or seven millions
amounted to about six millions more.
II had outstanding about s12.eoo.ooe.
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ISuCy 4oCollOIl
e Experience, recent and
somewhat bitter, has taught the coun-
try what the banking interests have
been DINING into the ears Of lawmak-
er and layman for many years-that
there is sonietnfha amiss with our
currency system. needs stretching,
the bankers say; that is, it, must in
clude some provision for emergency,
some safety valve through which extra
circulation may be had when the vol
ume Of the country's business is so
large that ready currency is needed in
all parts of the nation at the same
time.
One of the pet schemes advocated
by the currency system reformers is
the federal bank idea, a scheme for a.
great central institution, something
like the Bank of England, through
which the affairs of the government
may be transacted and relief accord.
ed the money market in times of
stress. It is to be sort of financial
life saving station.
Various lawmakers view the plan
In various ways. Some are enthusiastic
over it, some.are willing to debate the
scheme, while others dismiss it alb
solutely. Uncle Joe" Cannon, speak
er Of the national house of representa-
tives, who yields such mighty power
that bills often win or lose at his nod,
Is among the last named class.
He expressed his opinion of the
project in very "Cannonesque" Ian
guage the other day when some one
asked him what he thought Of it.
oh" said Uncle joe" and the
word he used wasn't i'pshaw"; neither
was it fudge" but it summed up his
opinion.
All this indicates that congress is not
going to break it's record and be a
unit over even such a vital question
as currency reform. The federal bank
scheme will be fought out just as
though it were a brand new idea.
The fact that it is not new is an
interesting one to recall at this time.
indeed the United States has had two
other federal banks in its history, al
though they are buried in the long
past out of the recollection of all but
the oldest Of the older generations.
But the buildings where the govern
ment did it's own banking still stand
rs monuments to the system which it
Is proposed to resurrect. They form
Two of the interesting landmarks of
Philadelphia, the Quaker City, which is
known as the Cradle aof Libertty," and
Is perhaps the richest spot in point of
historical interest in the country.
1t was in 1871 that congress, chiefly
through tho efforts of Alexander Ham
llton, first secretary of the treasury,
authorized the establishment of the
drst Bank Of the United States.
Hamilton's original idea was to in
clude the Bank of North America,
which Robert Morris founded, in the
Federal Constitution, but the law
makers thought otherwise, and they
chartered new institution with a
capital Of 100000 to run for twen-
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CENTRAL UNITED STATES
kAsCHEME NOT NEW
Earlier Experience Of Country with Two Such Institutions Re-
Called by Present Agitation.

of notes, which were as good as gold
from Maine to Georgia. Indeed, they
were worth their face in specie in any
foreign exchange house in London,
Paris, Calcutta or st. Petersburg. The
annual profits of the institution were
more than $3,000,00o In the bank in
Philadelphia 100 clerks were employed.
and It had Is branches in various
towns and cities of the Union, employ
ing 400 or 500 more. Through its agen-
cies all the, revenues of the national
government were received and dis
bursed.
Nicholas Biddle, who bore at once
the reputation Of being one of the
handsomest men in America, one of
the best scholars and one of the
shrewdest fnanciers of his time, sue
ceeded to the presidency Of the second
bank upon the retirement of Lang
don Cheves,, leader in congress and
South Carolina man, who was first
president of the institution. This was
in 1928. Biddle had been director
of the bank since 1919.
Andrew Jackson represented an ele-
ment in the country opposed to the
Federal bank plan, and he had not
been long in the White House before
Biddle, whose heart and soul were
burned up in the institution realized
that he would have to do battle with
a powerful adversary if the bank was
to remain a part Of the nations finan-
cial system. =.
The clash between the two strong
men was precipitated when Biddle re-
fused at Jackson's request to remove
jeremiah Mason, friend Of Daniel
Webster, from the presidency of the
branch bank at Portsmouth, N. H. "Old
Hickory's' ire was aroused and his
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Cat with knowledge Of Music.

At meeting Of a Washington short
story club the other evening a young
woman from the northeast section,
whose mind is said to run to innova.
tons, produced from her handbag a,
roll of manuscript written on the
daintiest Of ecru-tinted paper delicate.
ly perfumed with violet, and read
her literary offering. It proved to be
an account of the wonderful doings
of her pet pussy cat, Sweet Pea" as
she had named the animal. She read
how she had trained the cat to sing
"Auld Lang Syne," "Annia Laurie"
and other venerable airs in the high
falsetto voice for which the feline
family is noted. Then the young wo.
man related how, in the .balmy sum.
mer nights, in the romantic moon.
Hight, her pet cat would station itself
on some neighboring fence and sud.
denly I'LL the neighborhood with
strains of music instead of the usual
caterwaultng that is produced by ma
rauding pussy cats and Toms.
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GIFTS. MOTTO BE ACCEPTED.

Why Princes Of India Are Safe in OF.
fering Jewels to British Officers.
There is a curious custom at the
courts Of the Indian princes. When q
British officer or a physician calls
upon a rajah he is shown into the re-
ception room, where sits the xajah
surrounded by the great state officers.
After the exchange Of the usual salu.
tations one Of the officers brings in a
tray on which are displayed jewels
and golden ornaments studded with
valuable stones, perhaps worth $780,
900 OF more.
The trayful of valuables is supposed
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| Do the Best 1 Can.

I do the very best I know how-the
very best can; and I mean to keep
doing so until the end. If the end
brings me out all right, what is said
against me won't amount to anything.
If the end brings me out wrong, ten
angels swearing I was right would
make no difference.-Abraha Lincoln.
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&c work, 1; ill health. 6; retired, 3;
no reason assigned, S.
Seventy-six of the women practi-
TONERS gave the monetary return from
their practice, and the average figured
out about $4,000 year. Ten reported
making less than $1,000 a year; "a
made $1,000 or more, but under $4,000;
20 made between $4,000 and $4,000;
10 between $1,000 and $4,000; S between
$4,000 and $4,000; 8 between $4,000
and $4,000, and 4 between $4,000 and
$4,000.
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She Was Anxious.

"Do you think your mother likes
me, Manner"
%I am sure she does.''
What makes you sure?"
Because it was only yesterday she
asked me when you and I were going
to be married, as She wanted to live
with u.s.
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HIS FIRST HARD JOLT,

He Loses Horse-What That Taught
Him-Lesson of His Experiences.
tive had number Of surprising
things happen to me in the course of
my life" said man Of mature years,
Of many experiences and now of great
wealth, "but> none that comes back to
me more wildly than the first of all,
that happened to me when was quite
small boy.
"I'd just got my first job as a boy in
a grocery, and one of the various
things did there was to drive the
wagon delivering the goods. I used to
go around to the barn where we kept
the horse and hook him up mornings
and drive him around to the store,
and when I wasn't off with him deliv-
ering something, why, there he'd stand
through the day, out in front of the
shop.
"But one afternoon when came out
Of the store with a box under one arm
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With Apologies To-Whom?
The Mohawk to the Hudson runs,
The Hudson to the sea,
And even then there's scarcely room
For, the names Of Canajoharie, Co
hoes, Herkimer, Amsterdam, Little
Falls, Whitesboro, Frankfort, Utica,
Fort Plain,
Rome and Schenectady.
Chicago Tribune.
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Correcting Her Answer.

"A teacher in the Garfield school was
teaching primary class the beginning
Of arithmetic.
"Now I have one pencil in my right
hand and one pencil in my left" she
said. How many pencils have I? Helen.
you may answer"
Two" piped small voice.
Then one and one make two. do
they not?"
Sure"
The teacher frowned at the disre-
spectful answer.
i That's hardly what you should have
said,' she said. Twill some one in the
class tell Helen what her answer should
have been?'
There was moment of hesitation
Then one brown fist shot confidently
into the air.
All, James, you may tell Helen what
she should have said.''
Sure, Mike!" shouted Jimmie, in q
tone of triumph Kansas City Star.
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'NNSYLVANIA boasts the
possession Of a unique
school-a school where
women Of all nations are

NM> studying to be physicians.
k-- There are other schools
like the Woman's Medical college, of
course. but none is so large, and there
Is none in which so many races are
represented.
Scenes in the operating room of
medical college, with the students
croWding the rows upon rows Of bench
es and the surgeons busy with the
knife. and foreeps, In the pit-beiow, are
common enough. But think of a scene
like this:
A woman lies upon an operating ia
BILE in the center OF the "amphitheater,"
awaiting a delicate and serious opera
ton. Surrounding her are half dozen
other women-nurses and surgeons.
Above on the tiers of seats sit a throng
of young, and many of them pretty
women, watching eagerly the deft
strokes Of the scalpel, and, cool and
collected, look on the face of what the
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What luck on your hunting trip"
Extraordinary. wanted buck,
but shot a cow which, I found. was
worth, just fifty bucks