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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
SENATE AND HOUSE MIGHT
PICK UP A FEW POINTS.

For shrewd people, we Yankees
present fine picture in our present
rattles over the deficit. We have
been building a canal, surviving a
panic, rating our income accord
ing to a tariff open 20 manifest
objections as a source of revenue,
and yet because our receipts have not
kept tally with our outlay we must
shut down on everything and imme-
diately devise a new scheme of income
which will balance the existing ex-
traordinary situation
No mercantile house that had just
spent thousands of dollars on a new
automobile delivery system would
throw fit if the improvement could
not be paid for out of the current earn
ings. No store would hang up its shut
tiers and call in the sheriff if it did not
make money through a period of con-
tinued depression. Above everything.
no business man with American in
stincts, would talk of Gripping his
plant in order to save money.
Yet this Is the attitude of Con
gress which precludes all appropriations
save "the rock bottom items for run
ming the Government" The Senate and
the House should take counsel of the
retired Secretary of Commerce and
Labor, the present Secretary of the
Treasury, or some other man that has
had the training Of running a large
business without the help of an advis-
DRY council OF 500 They would pick
up a few points.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
CoLUMBIA-NibIo Travel Talk

Fred NibIo. the American humorist-
traveller. viii again conduct his audience
tomorrow afternoon at the Columbia
through Russia and Siberia from the
Black sea 20 the farthest points OF the
empire.
This travel talk through the land OF
the Car is said to be Mr.. Niblo's best
effort. Mr.. Niblo Will carry his auditors
from Poland TO Finland, introducing
Moscow, the Holy City. and showing
within the sacred walls OF the Kremlin
by means OF motion pictures. some
very rare religious ceremonies The
COSsack soldiers in action, the TartaTs
OF the Kazan, life or the VOiga, scenes
at the great Russian fair, and IN fact
all phases and forms or Russian lie
from the peasant 10 the nObleman. viii
be graphically illustrated and entertain
inEly described - Mr. Niblo-
All the snap shot and motion pictures
Of Russia were taken personally bY
Mr.. NiblO. The balance Of the series
viii include Italy, from Nesuvius 10 the
Alps. and London from Windsor Castle
10 WhitechapeI
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
PROFESSOR BLAMES
LIES ON LAZINESS
Says But Few Men Deliberately
Resort TO Telling of
FalSehoodS.

PROVIDENCE, r. Z, April Intel
lectUal slovenliness" is the great cause
Of faisehOOd in this country in the
opinion of President ". L. p Faucie.
Of Brown University.
When nine students at the university
were suspended for "cribbing," the
president com, cented on the affair in
these words;
The great source Of untruth in Amer
lean life is not the deliberate resolve to
lie. No man consciously chooses false
hood as his mode Of success. The real
source Of the evil is intellectual sloven-
illness. unwillingness to buckle down to
hard work and Willingness to take shell
ter in the first and easiest refuge that
offers "
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
CULLOM'S RUNAWAY.

Senator Shelby NJ. Cullom Of Illinois
has a good story he tells about his
experience in a runaway. 1t happened
a generation ago, when Uncle Shelby
was governor Of Illinois and Don Cam
erOn was Secretary OF War.
Il went to Rock Island one day to
make a speech. said the Senator.
There I met Gen. William T. Sher-
man, his son Tom. and Don Cameron.
We had TO get into a Democrat wagon
and drive four or five miles to our des-
ti1ation, where the meeting was held.
The wagon was drawn by two spirited
horses. We had got nicely started when
one OF the horses got his tail over the
reins and the team started 70 -un away.
IL was impossible to hold them As
we sailed along, Don Cameron. looked
ahead and saw a turn IN the rad. He
yelled 10 Us that we'd better Jump, as
II was certain the horses would not
make that turn, but would dash on
straight ahead. But when It came 10
jumping We found there were trees on
one side of the road, and on the other
a steep embankment.
Don Cameron jumped and rolled down
the bank, getting badly bruised Sher-
man did the same thing, and tur1b Ied
clear down the embankment. When I
Jumped / rolled fully twenty feet down
the embankment. clawing at sand and
bushes in the effort 10 stop myself l
had no skin left on my hands or face.
Tom Sherman stayed in the wagon, and
when the horses came 10 the turn the
wagon lurched into the air and Tom
was thrown fully thirty feet. He lit on
his feet and stood still.
We wore all a sorry looking lot I
made my speech, as I was billed to.
but my face looked like a mass of ra "
beefsteak. I'll never forget that ride.
and ! guess the memory OF in stuck
close 70 Cameron and Sherman"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
AMY GRANT READS
OPERA OF SALOME
Assisted BY Bruno HUM, Who Pre-
SentS Bits of the
Music.

With bits OF the score Of ''Salome,"
the operate success Of the year. played
~ Bruno HUM. the pianist. Miss Amy
Grant, a reader, presented the book
Of the opera yesterday afternoon in
The Columbia Theater. Her readings
were followed with much interest, but II
requires the talent Of more than one
person and the combined influences Of
stage settings and orchestral accom-
paniment 10 give redeeming qualities to
the revolving story.
Miss Grant read the libretto. pre-
senting the ines Of each character in
turn. but the recitSA did not prove OF
vast interest for tie reasons stated
heretofore.
Mr.. Huhn'J work was thoroughly In
tereSting, and the otis Of sore the
arrangement affo-5ed gave 2 delightful
insight into the charming music Of
Richard Strauss.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
SENSIBLE WOMAN CRITI-
CISES CURRENT STYLES.
Wv take fashion seriously?

Why take fashion seriously?
Here we have "Femina Sana" #rit-
ing t. a contemporary to say that the
Easter display OF hat monstrosities
makes the rational and reasonably con
servative blush for our sex" To this
exponent of rational and reasonable
and easily riled conservatism the gin
evitable impression" of this hat dis
play you may see on our Washington
streets any day is that women are
wing with one another as to who shall
excel in eccentrieity, ugliness, deform-
ity, lack of proportion and discomfort"
Hence she is induced to wonder ''if
some women would hesitate TO wear
anything, however hideOus and sup
Posedly impossible, if decreed by Dame
Fashion"
We advise "Femina Sana" and all
the other conservatives to read their
histories, especially the French, Eng
lish, and American histories, and then
pu to themselves the popular little
question, Whats the user" Dame
Fashion is not to blame. If some wo-
men want to wear these Inverted coal
seuttIes, bathtubs, flower pots and
bushel baskets" to quote the pictur-
esque description of the critic who re-
CARDS herself as emiHently sane and
sensible, why shouldn't they? They
have 10 take them off in the theater;
save at the ball games they don't in
terferc with the general public.
Whether they wear them in church is
an incidental, if not inconsequential,
question. They take up no more room
in the street cars than the men who
fence themselves in with newspapers.
Really these popular hats are most
interesting study in human ingenuity.
II is a veritable feat to design some
of them. 1t is no less a feat to wear
them and appear comfortable. Doctors
have often praised woman's courage.
Milliners can do likewise. The air that
goes with some of these new hats is
Enthusiastically Amazonian. Poets and
painters cannot but admire it. It might
well be called heroic
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01

be to fall into one of the pits so clev-
erly concealed as not yet to have been
discovered.
In the last five years, the demand for
tariff revision has fed more upon the
demand for cheaper lumber, than on
any other one thing. By this it has
grown and waved strong. The whole
country had come to believe that free
lumber would serve the double purpose
OF cheapening this universally neces-
sary article, and conserving our forests.
Not daring to make a square, honorable,
face-tO-faee fight for the maintenance
of the old schedules, the lumber in
terests sought to trick Congress to
bunco the country. How does the
country feel about it?
Mr.. Fordney rejoices in the clever
ness and skill with which the lumber
proviso was drawn. He wanted it TO
keep out Canadian lumber, and was
sure it would do just that; he admitted
it, when forced to do so. Mr.. Fordney.
of course, could afford to feel cheerful
about it. He has made his millions in
lumber; in protected lumber, in lum-
Der which now sells at prices fast MAX
ing it a luxury. But how would the
country feel if the bill should pass, at
waking to discover the working of this
provision which has caused so much
to the millionaire lumber
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
What Congress Did
IN THE SENATE.

Senator Clay got q resolution passed
by the Senate calling on the Treasury
Department for mass OF information
regarding sugar, with the object Of
making a fight 20 cat the sugar duty
in half.
\ resolution was passed 10 limit the
business Of the Senate until the tariff
bill comes in 10 the census bill and
routine morning business.
The Bacon resolution 60 require open
hearings by the Finance Committee
was discussed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
TELEPATHY THEME
OF THOMAS DRAMA
THE Witching Hour" Is Sc
riouS Treatment of
the Science.

At the Belasco Theater next week
viii be seen Augustus Thomas newest
play. The Witching Hour
The play treats seriously OF tele-
pathic science. IN Which the ShUberts
will Introduce their new stellar player.
John Mason. The Witching Hour IL
the famous pIaywright's generally
recognized masterpiece. Its remarkable
New York success -gSer one years TN
interrupted run at the Hackett Theater
created demand for the piece, ana
the Shuberts have been obliged to or
game several companies to appear
simultaneously throughout the country.
me original organization, headed BY
Mr. Mason and his Hackett Theates
company. viii be he one to be seen
here and later this original production
VIII be sent abroad.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
White House Callers

Senators Cullom Of Illinois.
Root OF New York
Simmons of North Carolina
Overman Of North Carolina.
Nelson OF Minnesota.
REPRESENTATIVES Stanley Of Kentucky.
Graf OF Illinois.
Kennedy of Ohio.
Moorehead of North
Carolina.
Speaker of the House Cannon.
Former Senator Hemenwav OF Indian ma
Former Representative Watson OF indi-
ana.
Former Governor Jarvis, OF North Car
olina.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
LUMBER SCHEDULE JOKER
SHOULD BE ELIMINATED.

1T is a good, safe guess that if a
popular vote could be taken on three
propositions
l. To retain the present lumber
tariff;
2. To reduce it 10 81, or one-haIf the
preseEt rate; or,
3. To make lumber free at our
ports
a majority Of the people of the United
States would vote for free lumber.
The Payne bill cuts the tariff from
81 TO 81. Apparently it does. But he
catechising which Representative
Kitchin administered to Mr.. Fordney,
the lumberman of Ways and Means,
developed the admission that, in fact,
the Payne bill would not let in a foot
OF lumber cheaper than at present.
The joker on lumber is all that Mr..
Kitchen called it. 1t Is the mos1 auda-
cious and remarkable effort to fool the
public that even a tariff measure ever
contained.
Briefly, the provision for lumber re-
duces the tariff one-half, and then fol
lows proviso that "if any country,
colony, province. dependency, OF other
political subdivision shall impose any
export duty, tax, or other restriction
whatever on any forest product ex-
ported to the United States''-then.
and in that case, the Dingley rates
shall apply to all forest products from
that entire country, offered at The
ports of the United States.
Mr. Kitehin pointed out that Ontario
imposed some sort OF tax on cordwood
exported; Quebec, a tax on logs cut
from the crown lands for export: Brit
ish Columbia, some other unimportant
restrictive duty. The effect. however, is
TO make the Dingley rates apply to
every foot of lumber from. any part Of
Canada. If single county in Ontario
or sole parish in Quebec had an ex-
port duty of l cent per thousand on
lumber to the United States, the Ding
ley rates would be applied on all forest
products of all parts of Canada!
Mr.. Fordney admitted ali this, under
Mr.. Kitchin's questioning. He gloried
in il. He was proud of it. Perhaps it
is something TO be proud of; but the
fact remains that that proviso was in
tended to be the means of playing the
cheapest, most discreditable three-she
now you-see -it-and now -you-don't game
on the American public that has ever
been undertaken.
There is too much Of this sort of
thing in the Payne bill 1t reeks with
disingenuousness, with trickery, with
irdirection, with devices by which to
seem TO do that which is not in fact
done. Do the men uho drafted this
bill believe the people would continue
to be fooled after it had passed? Do
they not realize that a day of reckoning
would come? Can they not anticipate
the day of reaping the whirlwind?
A majority OF the House 'of Repre-
sentatives is today afraid of this bill :;
.afraid that 10 pass it in any form will
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
CoLUWBIA-@The Fortune Hunter.Y

Manager Fred Berger announces The
Fortune Hunter next week. with
Thomas w Ross in the stellar role.
Messrs- Cohan and Harris produced
this play. the author Of which is Win
cheH Smith, young man who Ieaped
into international fame with Brew
steTs Millions a couple Of seasons ago.
The combination OF play and star Is
regarded as unusually happy.
The Fortune Hunter" is an American
comedy OF the minute IN four acts
dealing with town and country life
The leading role is said to be sIngu-
larry strong Thomas ". Ross IS
thought 70 be the foremost exponent
on the stage today OF the modish
clever. debonair. resourceful young
American 10 whom everything Is pos
sible. Though still IN his twenties he
has created gallery OF dramatic pOr-
traits that make his record most dis
tinGuiShed.
The supporting cast is capable one
including number OF clever character
actors
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
AcADEMY-"The Cowboy Girl"

When KiIroy and Britton obtained he
new melodramatic musical play they
believed the public wanted something
new in theatrical way
THE Cowboy Girl'' is novel It offera
q thoroughly good and interesting West
ern stage story OF true American he
and, incidentally, many original songs
are introduced The Cowboy Girl
boasts OF clever comedians who a-e per
fectly competent 10 enact the serious
roles and TO enliveE the musical en-
scgnbles-
a chorus OF pretty show girls assist
materially in the brilliant numbers
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
IOWA LEGISLATURE
KILLS PROHIBITION

DIES MONIES. Iowa. ApriI Con
stituuonal prohibition for the state OF
Iowa was postponed for two wears. II
not defeated permanently bv the ac-
ton OF the State senate IN voting down
mouoD 10 take up the question. The
vote stood % against 70 n for
The pFnhibitioni0t6 admit thor defeat
and t'S there is no hNro o revivtng
the me or in the ten remaining DAYS OF
the preSent session Of the Leg stature.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
ANOTHER YELLOW PERIL.

MOUNDSvILLE. W. Va. April Ia
Henry Paul. a well known man os this
city. has received a letter, signsd tha
yellow Ten" demanding that he IeavE
MOundsville under penalty CT death
Some time aso FTeSSrick Crawford rs~
ceived a similar letter. and five days
later was shot and killed from ambush.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
LYCEUM-sGaiety Girls"

Pat White and His Gaiety Girls.
VINO are booked for all next week at the
New Lyceum. beginning with the usual
matinee, promises a number Of original
novelties
In addition TO his successful bur
Iesque. 'Doings in Mudviile." he will
present the musical athletic novelty.
THE Night of the Fight OF The
Roman Athletic Club, " in which the en-
tire company Of forty people viii ap-
pear.
. The olio portion Of the program in
cludes the Malvern troupe: Jennings.
Webb and O'Neil in a comedy sketch
entitled Whose Girl Are You" Grant
and Catlin. and George 7. Davis
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
SPEECH RETURNED
By PLUNGE IN SEA
Deaf Mute Made Sourd By Dip
That Ruins Gown-Jewels
- I oct
Are Lost.

Los ANGELES, April Miss Ber-
nice POoler. a visitor from Philadelphia,
and a deaf mute since childhood. re-
gained her speech and hearing. follow
ing an Involuntary plunge IN the Pa
cific ocean, a, Balboa Beach. However,
she lost a pair of valuable gold combs
and a diamond pin, and ruined her
gown. She says II was worth it. Miss
Pooler lost her speech and hearing by
falling into a lake in Pennsylvania
when she vas an infant nineteen year
ago.
said today MY poor gown is wrecked,
but ] am not complaining; I am the
happiest gnl in the world / am also
the most laxative. probably: but do
you blame me2 Wouldn't you talk till
your tongue was tired IL YOU were me?''
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
HAS A MEMORY

with one wave Of my wand - saws
the fairy, Il can make you grow young
again"
Excuse me-" replies the woman. IF
I decline your kind offer. If Won can
bring youth 10 me st my present age.
all right; but / positively refuse TO
travel back through Photography, the
first stages Of bridge, the habit back.
the straight front. balloon sleeves, and
all the rest OF the fads l can remem-
Der. Life.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
GAYETY-ReiIly and Woods Show.

Two entertaining burlesques and al
oliO above the average are promised
in the Reilly and Woods show at the
Gayety Theater next week
Especial care has been expended on
the music IN this production. and the
numbers are all said 20 be OF the
whistling kind A large chorus has
been chosen with a view TO their sing
ing ability.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
I'M THE HOUSE

House met at 10 o'clock.
General debate on the tariff bin re-
sumed.
The Rules Committee will MT bring in
a resolution cutting off debate before
Monday.
There VIII be a night session tonight
beginning az O'Clock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
Capital Tales

An express wagon drew Up in front
OF the White House Offices the other
day, and the expressman struggled
through the reception room into a back
room. BE was carrying a large box,
the top Of which was covered only with
Stats.
What's that2" some one asked.
Nothing but a 'pOssum,'' said a White
House attendant contemptuously
People send them here all the time"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
NATIONAL-Robert Edeson IN "Th
Call of the North"

Robert Edeson viii present at the
National TheaJer for the first time IN
Washington next week his latest play.
The Call OF the North" which was
based on Stewart Edward White =
-'Conjuror's House. by George Broad
hurst, author OF the Man OF the
Hour"
Mr. Blossoms new play, all OF the
scenes OF which are laid in the Hud
son Bay region OF northern Canada, IS
said 10 be one OF the most attractive
in which ne has been seen The char
acter Of Ned Trent, which Mr.. E6eson
impersonates. Is that OF q vigorous
young American, who, TO avenge the
death OF his father, journeys into the
Wilds OF the Northwest
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
CHASE'S-Vaudevue.

Chase's next week win offer "Circur-
stantiaI Evidence" BY the Harrison
Armstrong company. the MirZa-GOlem
troupe, the RarTOvs-Lancaster COM
pany, Sydney Deane and company Fred
Sosman. Dave Jones, and Harry Mayo,
Biunn, BONN, Brrr, and the motion pic
ture series, The funny Fisheries
The 8IirZa-Golem troupe are from
Persia. The BarrowS-LancaSter COM
pany viii offer their Few comedy, Like
Father, Like Son"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
County Option Defeated.

MADISON. Wis, April County Cd
ton in Wisconsin received its deathblow
In the senate OF the Wisconsin Ieeisla-
ture when the measure was defeated
by vote OF II TO II.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
At Japanese Embassy.

The Vice President and Mrs. Sherman
were the guests Of honor at dinner
given last evening by the Japanese
Ambassador and Baroness rakahira-
The company invited 10 meet ON in
cIuded Senator and Mrs. Burrows, Sen
ator and Mrs. Flint the former Minis
ter to Cuba and Nine. QUesada, Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Frederick Rodgers,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01

Meanwhile. with the tariff bill doing
what IL can q boost the price Of neces-
saTies OF life. bread trust has been
organized under the laws Of New Jer-
sey with $8,O00.0O0 capital. That seems
ike getting rather too much water
in IL
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01
MAJESTIC-MOving
Vaudeville.
Pictures and

Four speciaIties VIII again comprise
the augmented vaudeville program a
THE Majestic next week Song, dance.
and acrObatic numbers viii be IN
cludCd-
Moving pictures designed TO be botI
instructive and amusing viii comprise
the CameTEphOne Offering
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01

Mr. Hill assures us that he hasn't a
cents worth Of interest in any tree in
the word, save as an ornament. Orna-
meat 70 The annual balance sheet.
doubtless.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01

Prohibition has been defeated in
Iowa. Poor, arid Old Kentucky, which
used to poke so much fun at Iowa. will
understand what the irony Of fate is all
about now
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01

the L. 5. Express Company manage
ment as 'freebOOters." Well. they de-
serve it, for not having the judgment
TO keep q Senator Of their own any
longer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01

ne famous DunSmuir lawsuit, which
involved fortune rightfuliy belonging
70 my mother proved TO me the sheer
necessity Of an intimate InowIedce Of
IdW ana legal procedure If one hopes IL
secure Justice" says Miss Edna Wal
ice hopper. That is why 1 have for
some ume devoted myself to the study
OF law and hope soon TO receive a de-
S[Se from an Eastern university"
MISS Hopper seems determined to find
way 20 retain possession Of that auto
IuoDile' insurance policy ct al, claimed
By the creditors of her husband. a. O.
Brown
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-01

The whirlpool" Will follow The
Nan from Home at the AstCr TEeater.
mat Is what usually happens.