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The Washington times., 1908-04-01
SCRUBBED AND COOKED,
MAN IS CALLED CRUEL

NEW YORK. April Here are a few
OF the things Osias Lieberman's wife IS
alleged to have done TO him before suing
for separation and aImony:
Made him scrub the floor and cook
after-theater meals for her
Kicked because he could prepare eggs
only three ways and was a failure at
lobster salad.
Collected payments from the Gus
toners Of his installment 5ewelry bust
ness
ing his stove out during the coolest day
last winter, and the one mattress just
as he was going to bel the same night.
She appeared before Supreme Court
Justice HendTick demanding separation
from Osias, SO week alimony and 500
counsel fees upon charges OF cruelty and
.ntoXication.
Osias didn't look as though there were
enough spunk in him 10 pass for cruelty.
4 married her on 50 per week" he
pleaded hopelessly. II was eating well
then; 1 had two suits Of clothes and my
business was picking up / fixed her UP
fine IN our home at 139 Goerck street
She was thin then; was fat Now
look at US See how she has filed out
until she is one Of the handsomest
East Side women. And see mellow I
have filed in until have not even a de-
cent shadow
Osias wept copiOusIy. The suspicion
OF a tear stood also in Judge Hendrick's
eye. He said, Il deny the separation
and the alimony and the counsel fees
Take her back and start in life over
with her, and may the
Osias wept more cOpiOusIy still.
The Washington times., 1908-04-01
The Venezuela Complications.

There is no doubt that President
Castro is a good deal of a pest, but
it is still rather uncertain whether
he is not also a good deal of a pa
triot, and rather an enlightened
person as TO the international equi-
ties. Castro is rated by different
students as everything from a char
latan and a despot usurper to a
statesman and a great national
leader. He is the enfant terrible
of American diplomacy. He is COM
monty supposed to be something
more than half wrong, but he keeps
enough right on his side and keeps
the wrong so beclouded in uncer-
tainty that it is difficult to reach a
secure conclusion as to the merits
of a case against him.
The insignificance of Castro's
power is one of the factors which
make it possible for him to strut
and declaim and avoid chastisement.
The United States has interviewed in
his country's behalf when the Euro
pean world was involved; it has
been extremely considerate and
slow to wrath when merely Ameri-
con concerns were at stake. Castro
has taken advantage of this situa-
ton repeatedly; unfair and unrea-
sonable advantage. He seems to
imagine that immunity will be ex-
tended to him for any excuses; and
possibly he suspects that the
United StatesowiIl not care to en-
ploy extreme means in managing
him.
In truth, chastisement of Castro
is well-nigh an impossible PROPOSE
ton. 1t isn't practicable to do it by
commercial embargo, because Vene-
zuelan commerce isn't important
enough to make this seriously effec-
tive. A feet can't shoot very far in
land, and an army that could march
inland and make itself really felt
would be an expensive affair. When
it had made its punitive expedition
and been withdrawn, the face of
things would be unchanged. 1t
would be like stab5ing a sponge
with a stiIetto, trying 70 find vital
part. There would be nothing in IL
all for the United States, but seri-
Gus risk of its dignity, a heavy ex-
pense, and the possibility of having
finally TO garrison the turbulent
country in order to collect, after
long years of effort, the indemnity
that would have to be assessed to
pay the expenses of the enterprise.
The Washington times., 1908-04-01
COUPLE BADLY BURNED,
ESCAPING GAS EXPLODES

BEAVER FALLS. Pa. April Fall
ing into a deep ditch into which nat
ural gas was escaping. Mr.. and Mrs.
r. NJ Lowney were this morning hoT-
ribly burned by an explosion which fol-
lowed, and were penned in by flames
until men arrived and rescued them
Mrs. Lowney is so burned that her re-
covery IS douH full
Returning home on a midnight train
from Pittsburg, where they attended q
Geneva College banquet. Mr.. and Mrs
Lowney started to walk to their home
near the college. ree squares from
their home in front = the residence
Of Joseph Roy e cesspoOl ten feet deep
had been dug and a red light placed
near It.
In the darkness the couple stepped
too near the edge OF the pavement and
the earth erumbling through threw them
into the hole. The lantern ignited gas
<Sc-oing from a bursted main, causing
q LOUD explosion.
VIII the burning gas eating into their
1esh Mr.. and Mrs LOwney crouched
In the Dit and screamed. President w
H. Geor.;e, Of Geneva College, living
nearby. with the assistance Of several
students, rescued the two. Mr.. Lowney's
face was burned and flesh fell from his
hands.
Mrs. Iowney was burned over her
entire body and is not expected to live
Mr. I,oWney is a trustee of Geneva Col
lege and superintendent Of the Key
stone DriIler Works here
The Washington times., 1908-04-01
The Evidences of Revolt.

1t would be useless for even the
most besotted devotee of the pres
ent conditions in the national House
of Representatives to deny that the
movement for reform of the rules
is gaining ground. 1t is gaining be-
cause the country at large is COM
ing to understand better than ever
before how much those rules have
degraded the House from its in
tended position as thepopular body.
The truth is that the Senate, not
the House, is today most nearly the
popular branch of the Government.
The Senate's rules are cumbersome,
and at times become the instrument
of delay and filibustering. But,
after all, it takes more people to
conduct a real flibuster under the
Senate rules than it does to operate
a complete hoIdup in the House.
For a good many years it has
been the fashion to muck-rake the
Senate, to lay at its door the fail
ures of Government to respond to
the popular viii, to assume that it
had degenerated into a miIIionaires
club of representatives of special
interests. The thing has been over
done, and today there is revulsion
of opinion. The Senate is coming
to be recognized as the effective leg
islative body. Perhaps it has no
higher average of ability or of good
intentions than the House possesses.
but it has steadfastly refused to tie
its hands and paralyze its abilities
with rules such as manacle the one
time representative branch. 1t is
now the Senate to which the nation
looks to do the real formulative
work on all progressive, construc-
tive legislation. The Senate reha-
bilitated itself in the country's con-
fidence and esteem by its handling
of the rate bill. 1t has been gaining
ground ever since, while the House
has just as certainly been losing.
The number of changes needed in
the House rules, in order to make it
once more a representative and self
governing body, is small The de-
mand that they be made is growing
every day, and in every constituency
in the nation-nOt excepting even
the Danville and Pittsburg districts.
The protest has become so strong
that at least it is safe to say the
Democrats, if they control the next
House, viii not dare readopt the
present rules unchanged. They viii
have 10 make some concession Go
The Washington times., 1908-04-01
DEMOCRATS PLAN
PRIMARY NAY IS
Districts Central Committee
Decides il Cannot Give
Seats to Boilers.

Democracy IN the District Of CoIUm-
bia viii have its primaries for the Ma
uonaI Convention May IS and the con-
ventiOn OF the District Nay Il
This was decided al a meeting last
night OF the central committee Seven
members who boIted at the last co1ven-
ton asked that they be given seats on
the central committee, and notified the
committee that, unless they are given
seats, they viii hold a separate conven-
ton and mix things up in great shape
The committee decided that II had no
Jurisdiction IN the matter, as the last
convention made the membership OF tho
committee final The seven bOl- ers who
want seats on The committee ara VIII
iam Z carr. J J. Kenny. Robert Allen,
John Barrett C 3 Keuealy. J Frank
O-AIeara. and Thomas II carr They
Will renew their petition 70 the COM
The central committee is composed OF
The following representatives OF the
twenty-five districts:
No. !. Thomas J. Moore, ?, William
Mex. Clayton; 3. John Ready T. Smith
Thompson, IT. 3. Thomas L COnuO-. 6.
George c. Rick: :. J. !. Purcell elected
in Tlece OF Edwin B. Hay, deceasGd)- s.
II; 70. E V Roche; II. John c Camp
bel p Michael B SCanion; Is, J Fred
Kelley; Il. Frank J. McCluadC; Il. Rob
ert z Mattingly; Is, George @. Draeger.
i. J. II. Bradley. IS. James B Archer,
jr.; I9, John II. Buscher. %. Lyman 7.
Burdine elected to succeed Dennis p.
Cauaghan, deceased); p, c. H Dausch;
q 3. A. Mcdonald
The committee Endorsed William Jen-
ntngS Bryan for the Presidency
The Washington times., 1908-04-01
Livestock and Meat Prices.

There have been few more ample
Qualifications for Governmental in
reference with trade conditions
than that afforded by the recent
course of livestock and meat prices
In this country.
1t was the livestock of the Middle
West which, rushed to market
in unprecedented quantities, and
thence rushed to foreign consumers
who were demanding it, did more
than any other single factor to
bring in the great stream of money
that hOated the country off the
commercial reefs of last falls de-
preston. The farmers had the
stock, the market wanted it; moth
ing else could so readily be turned
to money
But the tremendous marketing
caused a great slump in prices.
They went down something like 40
per cent. 1t seemed certain that
such a drop could not fail to pro-
duce corresponding reaction in the
prices of meats to the consumer.
But did it? At the very time when
prices of livestock at the great
Western markets were lowest and
receipts were heavy, there went
forth a chorus of complaint from
the carnivoroUs element of the pop
ulation about the advance OF meat
prices, Tt was the same every
where. Nobody seemed to be exact
~ responsible; but it happened, and
happened simultaneously in all
quarters of the land.
Now, following the heavy sales
which may always be expected on a
falling market, the movement of
stock has contracted, and prices are
going up by leaps and bounds. With
them the price of meat is going up
in about the same proportion.
The situation is TINS: ~hen the
price of stock was falling, the price
of meat didn't fall. The consumer
got not one cents benefit. But
when the price of stock began rising
the price of meat kept steady pace
with it.
There seems to be need of expla-
nation, and 1t is respectfully sug-
gested that the Bureau of Corpora
tiOns is there for the purpose of
extracting information on such sub
jects.
The Washington times., 1908-04-01
WOULD PAY "vETS"
WAGES IN GOLD
Scheme to Give Soldiers
Difference Between Green.
backs and Specie.

Nobody seems 70 have figured how
nue. it VIII cost. but there is a strong
and expanding movement in favor OF
payi72 10 the surviving soldiers Of the
ciVh war the amounts which would rep
resent the difference between the value
OF the gre enbacks which were paid q
them as wages, and the amOznt they
would have secured II they lad been
paid throughout IN gold.
For MAN. years this proposa- has
come up from time 20 time. Just now
q great many petitions are presented N
It's .avor, and some Of the Arguments
are conceded by the legislators 10 be
halc 10 answer. For instance. Il is
suggested that bonds. issued during the
war and sold for deprecated green
backs. were paid IN gold. principal and
Interest Why should not the soldier
who -Tas PAD IN greenbacks now get
the Inference. too?
TIE proposition 20 place commissioned
officers on the retired list and give rber5
The pay Of retired officers Of he rank
theg attained curing the civil war. "a
berg dressed with yfgor. and The be-
Eef = that II |ill pass at The nexr
--.iG7-@Ss. That act would TAXA cara al
retired officers IN handsome shspe- but
the men VINO never got commissions
haven't been able 10 work I'd much en-
thusiasm about Il, because IL doesn't
promise 20 do anything for them
II IS Tor this reason that the PROPOSE
ton 70 pay to al soldiers the difference
between the value OF the greenbacks
they received anI the value OF gold al
that time, 10 Jks eOod1O so many thou
sanis OF the soldiers Of the line ANY
pension law, IL IS urged, must be based
Or minimum term Of service ninety
days being tie term now prescribed n
most OF the laws The man who served
1Or years stands on the same footing as
the one who was n ninety DAYS But
when Il comes 70 making good the DIFF
terence between gold and greenbacks,
the benedr Is p-ODOruOnate 70 Lhe
leCSIn OF service
Tie bill IS said 20 have possibilities Of
taking the place. fn the near future
OF ss-1e Of the pension legislation now
urged
The Washington times., 1908-04-01
Art and Nature.

Naturalism as Japan-with the
rest of the worlds coming to IN
derstand it, gets this jolt from the
Tokyo Yorodzu Choho:
Recently a violent current OF thought
has been spreading over our county. It
IS naturalisns, which has its earnest
advocates among our nOvellsts. They
seem to think that human life would
not be worth a straw If there were no
sensual pleasures They would, there
fore, go on spending their whole energy
and their efforts 20 depict the dark side
OF life in the most naked manner. 1t
IS not necessary to state that fiction
written. by such novelists is OF vicious
character. Even grown-up persons VIII
not be safe from its bad influence.
Indeed, these novelists are the mes
sengers of Beelzebub putting on the
masks Of smiling angels sent to tempt
men: they have magical power by
which they can put men into a state OF
anaesthesia and lead them all along the
course Of temptation TO the habituaton
IF fallen angels. If man IS caught by
them. his destiny Will be degrauatlon-
such books as they write are the most
terrible enemy OF young people Every
household should build an iron wall to
keep out immoral novels
OF the immoral novel the 'Yo-
rodzu." or the "Choho," whichever
it NAV be, speaks truly. Every
bousehould should build an iron
wall to keep them out. He VINO
said Lead us not into temptation"
had full insight into the nature Of
the human But of naturalism, our
Japanese contemporary does not
talk so well.
Naturalism has come to mean i'm
morality to vast numbers Of read
ers and to greater numbers of play
qosrs. The disregard for conven-
ton which has led to the adoption
Of an artistic style hitherto con-
demned has usually carried the ar
fist beyond other conventiOnalities.
So we have been given such plays as
Ghosts" a whole department of
graphic art, and not a few operas
of the same general tendencies
But these results are a product of
merged purposes, not of naturahsm
alone.
All art is a matter of emphasis, of
selecting details. Bougereau omit
ted all that was not smooth and
placid; David all that was not stiff
and formal; the Greeks all that
was not of the perfect type as far
as the artist could perceive it;
Robin all that did not have immedi-
a+a and substantial meaning. This
last is naturalism. 1t has its liter
ary expression in such works as
Creatures That Once Were Men,"
1t has no matter of morals, 1T is
matter of eyes and reason Keep
ing TO the great change which has
come over art since the day of
Phidias, insisting on portraying per-
sonality and type, the naturalist
chooses. those actual living details
which, as he believes, will have
The Washington times., 1908-04-01

the demand for better conditions,
and to their own past professions
of reform intentions.
The purpose Of rules is to pro-
mote business, not to prevent it.
The utility Of committees is to aid
in dispatch of legislation, not to
serve as dark pockets in which 1t
may be lost The presiding officer
should be the servant of the House,
not its master.
The Washington times., 1908-04-01
STRAUS GOING SOUTH,
WILL VISIT old HOME

Secretary StraUs, Of the Department
Of Commerce and Labor. accompanied
by Mrs StraUs and thei- daughter,
Mrs. Hochstadter, will leave Washing
ton tomorrow for a trip South, where
the Secretary Is scheduled 10 make sew
eral addresses.
He viii speak on "Our Commercial
Age before the board OF trade in Sa-
vannah, Ga He will also deliver an
address in Columbus. Ca, on Industrial
and educational matters
While IN the South Secretary StrauS
Will pay visit to his old home place.
TalbottOn, Ga, where he was reared
until he was four years Of age, and
where he attended the Baptist Sunday
school. a fact that is now pointed 10 as
showing the tolerant religious spirit
of his father. Wso was Of the Hebrew
bath and religion, as the son IS today.
The Washington times., 1908-04-01
TAFT GOES WEST
ON SPEAKING TRIP

Secretary OF War william H Taft
LEFT Washington today for a ten days.
trip. On Thursday night he will add-ess
a meeting OF citizens and members ~
the board OF trade IN Columbus Obio
He viii spend Friday and Saturday .,
Chicago. where he Will address +La
commercial Club and the Hamilton
Club.
On Sunday. Secretary Taft will de-
part for Omaha, where he will speak 20
the members OF the Mckinley Club
On the following day he will address
the Commercial Club. OF Council BLUFFS
On April he will be in his home town
Cincinnati. where he will be enter
tanned by the chamber OF commerce IN
the afternoon, and the Phoenix C,lub
at night. He will return 10 Washington
on April 10
The Washington times., 1908-04-01
MAN FALLS EIGHTY FEET;
DOESN'T NEED A DOCTOR

NEW YORK, april Rocco Safo
tumbled eighty feet from the top Of the
tank Of the Brooklyn Union Gas Com
pany, at North Thirteenth and Berry
streets. williamsburg. picked himself
I'D. and after rubbing his forehead in
an effort to collect his bewildered senses
asked his feIow-workmen:
''Vhere are the little angels?'
His associates carried him 10 the Office
of the company, where he soon fully re-
covered.
I don't need a doctor" he declared.
q feel like a new man, but while I was
tunbling through space I saw some
wonderful sights. I wouldn't mind
doing it over again If I could only see
the little angels"
The Washington times., 1908-04-01
200 STUDENTS JOIN STRIKE
AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY

PALO ALTO. Cal, April The strike
of the students OF Leland Stanford jr.
University against the faculty edict or
dering compulsory vaccination continues
to spread. In addition to forty-one SIN
dents recently suspended, 200 more nm
dergraduates viii be missed from the
class rooms when classes open Monday.
The 200 failed TO pay any attention To
the faculty order. They will be sus-
pended for ten days.
The Washington times., 1908-04-01
COL0RED PREACHER IS 1877;
FAMILY OF CENTENARIANS

NEW YORK. April 1-Claiming to be
49, years old, Rev. Brooks Mason, a col
ored preacher. is leading revival meet
ings in Plainheld. n. J. He said his
grandfather lived to be $50 years old
his parents passed the 18th milestone
in life and a sister died when she was
1O9 Mason has been married twice. and
his present wife is only twenty-six
years old She accompanies him on his
evangeIistic tours.
The Washington times., 1908-04-01

It appears that Mr.. Bryan is to at
tend a banquet IN New York. where he
is not expected to make a speech. If
Mr.. Bryan proves able TO do this. the
claim that he IS the most versatile per-
son IN the world viii be pretty we'll
demonstrated. He will have done the
one thing nobody really believed pos
Sible.
The Washington times., 1908-04-01
A CRAVE AFFAIR.

Father, said the lawyers pretty
daughter. II just won't listen when ola
Judge PTosby makes love to me-"
MY dear child, don't refuse cried
her Mortified rather. That's contempt of
court.
The Washington times., 1908-04-01

A skunk is reported to have visited
the Office OF the mayor OF Philadelphia
and taken possession The explanation
that the enterprising beast, having
heard something about the Odorous
qualities OF Philadelphia politics, merely
wanted TO fumigate the place, may be
dismissed as inspired by rank malice.
The Washington times., 1908-04-01

Spring. with music, the world doth at
tune
The bird with its song. the rose with its
The brook. with fits ripple. ths boy with
Sound Natures reveHe from inland to
sea
sprine. morning Of seasons. calls earth
10 resume
The work OF providing the harvest Of
noon.
That the stores Of the evening NAY
bring its delight,
A Nature again, earn the rest OF a night.
Josephine Groberty.
els F street northeast.
Where the rosy bosom'd Hours
Fair Venus train appear.
Disclose the long expected flowers
ana wake the purple year.
The attic warbler pOurs her throat,
Responsive 10 the cuckOO's note.
The untaught harmony Of spring.
While whispering pleasure as they
Cool zephyrs through the clear. blue
Their gathered fragrance fling.
Where'er the oaks thick branches
A broader. browner shade.
"here'er the rude and vuoss-growr
O'ercanopies the glade,
Beside some waters rushy brink,
With me the Muse shall SIT and think
Harry l. Sussmau.
Take heart. be comforted; springtime
And wen walk the green meadows with
daTodils blooming:
The sunshine shall waken the sweet
In L.
And cover he heids with buttercups
over
l''oh. south wind. be kind to thy sorrow-
ing children.
The Sick and the poor and tie desc
Come back With thy kisses and speech
less Caresscs,
The earth IS so barren. the north wind
N L Apperson.
sls Eighth street northwest
o. the little birds are singing,
And the little flowers are blooming,
And the little calves are frisling al
around:
And the little lambs are bleating.
And the little frogs are tootling.
And the little bugs are crawling on the
ground.
o. the little leaves are swaying.
And the little crows are cawlnE
And the little girls are dancing IN q
ring;
And the little ducks are waddling,
And the little pigs are squealing,
And the little poets writing rot they've
writ each spring
The Lorraine.
With the joys Of spring comes TIE
greatest OF grief:
More gowns and spring hats. and less
cabbage and beef.
And plumes and bright feathers are
For more needed things. Ike stockings
and boots
With the song OF the bird you hear -
And When It's adjusted she looks like
an ape
With the perfume or flowers comes the
disappointment Of pride.
The bloom OF the tree lost through
Leweua Grobety.
SIS F street northeast.
Spring. spring. Oh beautiful spring!
Send me a husband with money 10 ding
And q heart that IS loyal
A voice that viii sing
4" I love you forever
And a real diamond ring.
81 c street northwest.
The Easter flowers are blooming,
The spring II here again.
And birds in every treetOp
Send forth their glad refrain.
Again their nests are building
IN many q shady nook.
And happy children wander
Beside the babbling brook.
All hail this Easter mOrningi
Our hearts IN song and praise
With love and alteration
Again 70 thee we raise.
For on that first glad Easter,
Before the dawn OF day.
Angels OF God came down 70 earth
And rolled the stone away.
Then Christ. the mighty conqueror,
From out the tomb arose
Victorious Ger sin and death
Triumphant Ger our foes.
Perry Cleveland,
1E5S Corcoran street northwest.
nAEA fnr=@-
The Washington times., 1908-04-01

Senator Jefr Davis established a bad
precedent in allowing an opponent TO
take his cane away from him First
he knows, the 'ctupus viii pluck up
courage TO stick out big tentaOIe am
pull him IN.
The Washington times., 1908-04-01

Every State convention turns out a
tariff revision plank these days, but it
Is well TO make careful examination
Of the timber used IN them.