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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-03
Counting Is Slow.

Baltimore, November 2.-Despite predic-s
tons, the weather today was ideal for an
election day, and heavy vote was polled.
Voters went to the polls early. Interest
in the general ticket was overshadowed
by that in the proposed amendment to the
state constitution intended to disfranchise
the negroes, and practically all estimates
and comparisons have this as a basis The
ticket was complicated, the easiest to
vote requiring IS marks. hence the count
was very slow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
CALLING FOR ARBITRATION
AT NEW BEDFORD.

We trust that one of the lessons of
Labor Day will not be overlooked in
connection with the present crisis in
New Bedford The business men in the
mill city, at any rate, are wide awake
to the advantage of arbitration, and
the time must come when in such a
situation, involving the welfare of so
large a part of community, arbitra
ton will be strictly enforced.
The president of the textile council
in New Bedford is quoted as saying
that the mill workers are anxious TO
take a fair position in regard to the
wage matter. IF the manufacturers
are willing to be fair also" says he,
"they viii submit the question to
arbitration. and it will be settled salts
factorily to both parties"
The sooner arbitration becomes tie
ready remedy for industrial ills the
better it will be for cities like New
Bedford.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
PRESIDENT NAMES
CENSUS OFFICIALS
More Supervisors Are Sc
lected by Taft for Six
States.

BEVERLY, Mass, Sept. 9.-The ap-
pointment of the following census super
visors has been announced here:
Alabama-Second district, William G.
Swanson, MONTGOMERY tDemJ; Third
district, Joseph II. Adams, Ozark
.(Dem.).
Georgia - Fourth district, Edward
Thomas Moon. Lagrange tDem)
North Carolina-Eishth district. James
l. Campbell, Norwood Tenth district
John W Norwood, Waynesville.
Pennsylvania - Second district, Ellis
Chandler Abrams, Moores; Fourth dis
trict Milton ). Falck, Lancaster: Sixth
district. John 3. Graham. Ashby; Tenth
district J. Andrew wilt, Towanda
Fourteenth district. Warren G. Light
Harrisburg; Fifteenth d. -trict, Lewis
Charles Elliott, York; Sixteenth dis
trict, Samuel Lennon Reed, Ebensburg
Seventeenth district. Samuel r Hamii-
ton: Eighteenth district. Jacob r
WenCk, Tioncsta; Twentieth district,
David Elmer Thompson, BIairsviIIe,
TWenty-fTst district, G. .. Frye, Char
Dickey Somerset
South Carolina-Fourth district, George
NJ. Pritchard.
Virginia Eighth district, Albert
Fletcher, jr., WarreutOu tDemD
All the supervisors are Republicans
except those designated as Democrats.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
MT. WEATHER BUREAU
is ALMOST COMPLETED
Damage Done by Fire About Two Years Ago at Sta
ton in Virginia Almost Entirely Repaired
Ready Next Fall for Observations

Weather Bureau officials are looking
forward impatiently- 10 the completion
Of all the buildings at the observation
station at Mt Weather. Va.
The last of the buildings vii be COM
pleted there this fall, and the damage
done by the big fire about two years
ago entirely repaired. With the station
completed and fully equipped, 1t is eN-
pected that observations and expert
ments Of great value in the forecastinS
Of weather conditions viii be made
The great work which Or. Willis
Moore and his aides are trying TO DO
al Mt. Weather is to perfect their knowl-
ecge Of upper air conditions. Until COM
ps.ratively recently, weather forecasts
we're based entirely on knowledge of
conditions at the surface of the earth.
Now the Weather Bureau draws not
only upon the widest possible informa-
ton obtsirable at the earth's surface,
but upon such facts as TO meteorological
conditions in the upper air. miles above
the earth, as are obtainable- II is now
possible 10 send kites or aeroplanes
four or FIVE miles above the surface of
the earth and obtain readings of the
conditions. and these are of great value
in making weather predictions. a most
important phase Of the wo;k at Nj
Weather relates to the measurement OF
heat Of the suns rays by the atm"-
sphere. Observations along this line.
taken in connection with the work which
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09

enjoy his rest; it inspires a voluble
and efficient vocabulary; it encourages
the militant spirit and the proper aim
OF missiles in the dark. In art the cat
Is the true symbol of grace; in So
ciety the sedative comrade of old maids.
1t is the Visible incarnation of mystery
and puzzle not second to woman her
self. And it is the only animal that
can purr. Purring should not become
a lost art
But for even graver reasons than
these we oppose the extinction of the
cat. 1t is the sole hope o. religion
and philosophy. 1t had nine lives.
Eight times could it return from the
bourne that none other returns from.
And it is only question of time till
we teach the cat to talk. and then it
can explain the mystery of death.
We bad hoped to keep this dream
secret, but now we must speak. Save
the cat snd pierce the eternal veil.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
THE HOUSE CAT HAS FALLEN
UPON EVIL DAYS.

The eat is doomed. The Government
has taken up its sad case, and put it
in the outlaw class, along with its an
cient enemy. the rat. Poor pussy is
indicted on two counts-non-supp
and cruelty. II doesn't earn its living
any more. The sapping luxury Of mod
ern civilization has proven too much
and the once ferocious feline is declared
TO be too fat and lazy to kill an ordi-
nary brown rat" Instead, this new
member Of the idle rich lives on birds
And this is a grave charge. For it
killed the bird that killed the bugs
that KILLED the crops.
And it cannot live in the cities like
the other idle rich, for the ordinary
sparrow is about as hard TO catch as
a rat. and all the mice have been driven
out OF the new style concrete buildings
Alas. poor Tom. We knew him WE'LL
And yet cats are still useful in some
ways. They are least useful at mid
night on the back fence. but even there
they have points. 1t often awakens a
man SO he can turn over and really
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
FATHER is GONE;
SUICIDE SUSPECTED

YORK, Pa, Sept. with the an
nouncement that he was tired Of life
and that his friends would never see
him again, Henry Godfre-, a farmer,
living near Arbor this county, disap-
peared from his home last week and
no trace Of his whereabouts has been
revealed up until this time. He leaves
wife and seven children, the oldest
Of which is aged fourteen years.
The general impression is that Cod
frey has joined York s weekly suicide
procession and will be found dead in
some secluded spot not far from his
home. Several searching parties have
gone out in the hope of discovering his
body.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09

is being done by Prof. Abbot, OF tho
Smithsonian Institution, in measuring
the variations in the amount of heat
furnished by the suns rays, constitute
valuable additions TO the sum OF infor-
nation necessary TO the perfection OF
the weather forecast system of the
United States
While the United States obtains its
OF other governments. IL is at the eX-
pense of this Government. No other
government can compare with the
United Stetes IN efficiency Of weather
service II is a strange fact that when
the barometer and thermometer, the
fOrecasting were invented. America was
almost an unknown continent IT was
1913 that the barometer was invented Dy
Torricelli, and about the same time that
the thermometer was first brought into
use, the invention of Calico. These
two savants could never have dreamed
that their greatest field OF usefulness
would be found in foretelling meteor
illogical conditions IN continent which
was then barely known TO Europe eN-
Cept by name and by the strange tales
or a few explorers.
The demand for knowledge OF the
weather is constantly growing IN the
Moore. The high schools and COLLEGES
have taken il up. Or. Moore has just
completed a text book of 500 pages On
the subject OF meteOrology, dealing with
that science in a way to culninate IN
It's application 10 the weather. II rep
Moore and is intended for general per
usaI a : we'll as for the use Of the stu
dent i'm the colleges and high schools OF
the country.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FITS
CRIME OF TRAIN WRECKING

There is some satisfaction, in con
neetion with the wrecking of the Bal
timore and Ohio train at Chewton, Pa,
in the thought that the State of Penn
sylvania permits capital punishment
for offenses of this sort.
Nor is any unreasonable blood
thirstiness indicated by the wish that
the men who committed the crime may
promptly be caught and brought to
Justice The train wrecker represents
total depravity about as nearly as any
other Of the worse class of criminals.
Mankind has looked with horror upon
the murderer since the days Of Cain,
but the train wrecker is, in effect, a
wholesale murderer. And one of the
worst things about his exploits is that
when they are not promptly punished
they are apt TO stir up other degen-
crate beings to like deeds.
The idea of wrecking this Baltimore
and Ohio train might very readily have
been born of the successful holding up
Of the Pennsylvania train last Tues
day. IN view of these facts, the action
Of President Murray in offering large
reward for information leading 10 the
arrest and conviction OF the guilty men
is TO be commended. and it is TO be
hoped that it. and the activity Of the
police may be all that is necessary to
catch the criminals without delay.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
VAST SCOPE OF FOREST SERV.
ICE ACTIVITIES.

Whatever may be the outcome of the
controversy between Secretary Balm
ger, of the Interior Department, and
Clifford Pinchot, head of the Forest
Service, there can be little doubt that
one result of it has been TO direct the
public attention more than ever to the
Importance of conservation and TO the
great work which the Forest Service
has done in preventing the needless
and wsnton waste of the nations for
ests. If it be true that Mr.. Pinchot is
10 be deposed, he can step down and
out with the consciousness OF having
in his zine built up a bureau whose
activities are of wide scope.
Moreover, there are signs that the
interest of the public is being intensi.
fed in this question of forest preserva-
ton and reforestation. Il is said that
since the outbreak Of the Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy there has been a
great increase in the number OF people
who have been writing 10 the Agricu-
tural Department and the Forest Serv-
ice for information about the national
forests. II is patent the question of
how 10 save the forests is becoming
more and more acute. and is appealing
10 more and more people. According to
regent Forest Service figures. our for
ests are being cut three times as fast
as they are growing. and we are on the
road toward serious timber famine.
When the Bureau of Forestry was
started it was but a small establish
ment. Now, it requires S6.OOo.O00 an
nuaIly and its supporters think it is
well worth it. II has under lis control
q small army Of trained foresters, who
keep watch over nearly 100000, 900
acres Of forest land besides capable
lumbermen and rangers, whose bust
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09

To the Editor OF The Washington Tines.
In the Sunday Times Of SEPTEMBER 3.
"A Washington Teacher discusses; with
much forcible reasoning the practice
of allowing pupils to select their own
high school studies. The facts therein
set forth justify the conclusica that
such children are not competent TO
make a wise selection. Unfortunately.
also$ II is true that the average parent
is no better qualified than his child
The teachers would be more likely to
select wisely, and if the parent could be
induced TO seek their advice il would
be wen. But at best it is only a guess
what boy or girl is nj for until they
are tried by performance in some prac-
teal way.
Our schools are defective in falling
to obtain such expression on the part
OF students as will disclose their natIr-
al inclination and aptitu ie. An instance
Is given Of boy of fifteen years who,
choosing his own course. made fall
ure Of it and when HIST heard from
was in mental position in a stable"
Yes, it is a pity, Ths whole system
that we now sustain at such expense Is
pitiable. Honest, hard-worked and de-
voted teachers are being sacrificed
along with millions Of pupils by a
false, unnatural, and oItgrown method
OF training the yt5S-se In the earlier
grades the work Is less Objectionable:
but beyond the age Of twelve years
children cannot be kept under the dis
cipline of our present schools without
serious and permanent injury The ma
turing period Of every child should be
spent in freedom. Long continued study
Of book lessons should not be permitted
Life in the open air. useful work meth
odically pursued, athletics, physical
culture, with the requirement Of robust
health and the habits that tend to viz
tue, contentment and cheerfulness-
this should be the training of youth
from twelve to eighteen years of age
Then with healthy bodies, sound morals
and level heads, they are fitted to take
up the academic studies Of high schools
and colleges. with some chance OF re-
ceivinS benefit
Now we see ignorant parents send
ing their children. unframed at home
and often spoiled and vicious. to be
worked over into something fine and
great that they presume will dazzle the
public eye. They are not content to
nave the CnltO become a EOOQ citlZens
prepared TO earn an ordinary livelihood
but they expect him TO have a public
career of some kind, though they have
leid no foundation in home training;
the old expectation OF figs from this
ties, and Sil&en purses from SOwS' earSi
Il is time for the people 10 unite
with the teachers in holding an inquest
over the school system There has Eeen
no end OF controversy over the Wash
ington schools both in and out Of Con-
gress. yet the administration has been
quite as good as elsewhere; and no
finer body OF teachers IN any school; the
and equipment are fairly good.
too. With all this. bad system of edu-
cation cannot yield good results. The
system is destroying the children of the
nation, and infiicting hardship and loss
upon its faithful teachers.
EDWARD DANIELS.
49, NJ street northwest Washington.
d. G
September :, 1909.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
Northern Lights

The Polar loneliness seems TO have a
tendency to produce bad attacks Of ex-
aggerated ego.
The Government ought 20 put in a
police toX at the Pole so wandering ex-
plorers can call up when they arrive.
Commander Peary's thoughtful do
mesticity was shown by that cable TO
his wife--"Don't worry about Cook"
The terrible part about this contro-
versy is that we will have bales of I'M
intelligiblc expert testimony from the
Eskimos.
Do Arctic explorers use musk-ox Aneat
because it is cheaper than American
beef?
Santa Claus can now get Walter
Wellman's siTship at a bargain.
Scientific observations seem TO have
been forgotten in a wild tumble of I'M
scientific observations.
Maybe the ice-pack has a joker in it.
Can these wild ru,Iors about a short
age in the Pole crop be due to the
Polar bears?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09

ness 1t Is to patrol the forests, prevent
trespass, and guard against fires.
No part of the conservation move
ment has attracted more notice than
this one to conserve the timber sup
ply snd see that coming generations
are not left without forests, in order
that great private interests of this
generation may profit the more. What
ever may be the end of the pending
clash of officials. it is to be presumed
that the work of the Forest Service
will be protected from any backset.
Anything that would tend to cripple it
would ne calamity.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
SPECIAL ENVELOPES
FOR TIE DISTRICT
Commissioners Will Send Repre-
sentative to Postoffice De-
partment.

In response to the request OF Post
master General Hitchcock, the Commits
sioners will appoint a representative OF
the District on the committee Of awards
Of contracts for furnishing the Federal
and District government certain special
enveioDes not included in the regular
four-year contracts. The heads OF the
District departments will be directed to
forward 10 Property Clerk NJ. g. Har-
grove samples Of the sizes and styles
desired.
Under the law the District as well
as al Federal departments. is required
TO make purchases of all envelopes I'M
der contracts made with the Postoffice
Department.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECHES
IN THE WEST.

President Taft has most interest
ing experience ahead of him in his visit
to the West. Judging from the COM
ment of some of the newspapers, there
is the keenest curiosity as to what he
will have to say. He will have to run
a gantlet from which some men might
shrink, and if he gets through in a
way to give general satisfaction, it will
be vastly to his credit. This will be
the first extensive speech-making tour
of the President since his Inauguration
and since the passage of the tariff bill
by Congress, and for these reasons
there will be the more concern in what
he will have to say.
The Kansas City Star asserts that in
spite of the fact the tariff bill has been
passed and the new tariff law has gone
into effect, the people will want TO hear
about the tariff. 1t SAYS:
They viii want to hear FROM the
President himself what he thinks OF
the kind OF revision that was made
contrary TO the Chicago platform. con-
4
poses Of the President They will
want TO hear from him what his plans
for further revision are.
The Star adds that the Western Re
publicans have made up their minds
they are not going to be ruled by New
England and for New England, and are
determined that the Republican
party's legislative policies shall not be
dictated by an emisssry of the special
interests hailing from the smallest and
least productive State in the Union"
II SAYS. too. that while in the West the
President will meet the constituents of
some of those men in Congress who
stood by the party platform and Presi-
dent Tsft's pledges, and that fthese
constituents will want to know some
thing of the help they may expect from
the White House" The Star tells the
President the men who betrayed the
party will be weeded out by their con-
stituents in any event, and that what
he may say on the subject is not a
governing consideration Of course, for
they are going to stand by the men
who stood by them"
1t appears from comment of this sort
that the President will be under the
necessity, if he satisfies at least one
element of the Republican voters, of
speaking out in pretty blunt fashion on
some Of the questions before Congress.
Some folks seem to think Mr.. Taft is
going on holiday iaunt. As a matter
of fact, he is confronted with an ordeal.
Factionalism is rampant in the Repub-
lican ranks OF the West, and, 70 repeat.
the President will have 10 exhibit
rare quality of genius if he goes
through it without treading hard on
the corns of somebody.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
MILITARY FUNERAL
FOR GENERAL CORBIN
Body Will Be Placed In a
Vault at Arlington to
Await Daughter.

With all the final honors that the
military branch of the Government
which he served so long and faithfully
can bestow, the funeral Of Gen. Henry
c. Corbin, who died in New York yes
terday. viii be held tomorrow after
noon at 3 o'clock from ST. Johns Epis-
copal Church
The body will be escorted to Arlington
Cemetery on a caisson, attended by
troops from the Arsenal, Fort Myer,
and the Washington Barracks.
Brief services will be conducted at the
vault, where the body will lie until
Mrs. William NJ. Parsons, the generals
daughter, row in Europe, can reach
Washington Interment will not take
place until Mrs. Parsons arrival.
Reaches Capital
The body OF General Corbln reached
Washington last night. It was accom-
panied by Mrs. Corbin, cIajor W. E.
Horton, and Capt. julius Penn, who left
for New York Immediately upon hear
ing OF the generals death, and a friend
of the Corbin family, Mrs. Sweeny,
whose husband served in the civil war
with him.
Lieutenant Alexander. of he-Engineer
Corps. met the party az the Union Sta
ton. DR.. and Mrs. J. ]. Richardson
took Mrs. Corbin TO the family home
at Highwood. Chevy Chase
II is not planned to have the body
lie in state at St. Johns Church. al
though those present probably will be
given the opportunity to look for the
last time upon the dead soldiers face.
SDecial provision will be made at the
church for those intimately associated
with General Corbin IN life. and the
Grand Army OF the Republic and Loyal
Legion veterans will have spaces re-
served for them. Distinguished men
from the army. navy, and official walks
Of life. and representatives from all
classes will gather at the side of the
Corbin bier
Following kilograms OF sympathy re-
ceived yesterday from President and
Mrs. Taft. Vice President Sherman.
Brig. Gen. Fred D. Grant, David r
Francis. OF st. Louis, Thomas F. Walsh,
and others OF prominence, scores Of
MESA ges were received at the Corbin
home today and many closer friends
Of the family called. Numerous floral
offerings attested also 10 the grief that
IS felt in official circles generally al the
death Of the distinguished officer. pa-
triot. and soldier.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
DEATH OF LIEUT.. GEN. H. c.
CORBIN.

The unexpected death of Lieut. Gen.
Henry Clark Corbin. of this city, re-
moves from the United States army
one OF its strong and striking figures.
His services TO his country were long
and distinguished, beginning with his
enlistment in the army as a volunteer
in the Eighty third Ohio in the days
of the civil war, and coming down
through the campaigns against the In
dians, the war with Spain, and the
fighting in the Philippines.
General Corbin's record shows that
ne was a brave fighter, but he will be
remembered in history rather as an
organizer and disciplinarian than be-
cause of his many gallant and heroic
services in the field. As adjutant gen
eral during the Spanish war, the cam
paigning in the Philippines, and the
Boxer warfare in China, he was much
in the public eye, and, in spite of severe
trials, he stood the test. Perhaps the
best tribute that can be paid to his
services in that capacity is to say that
President Mckinley was in constant
consultation with him and had the most
implicit confidence in him.
Few men in the army, though he had
gone on The retired list, understood its
complicated problems better than he
or looked on them with greater breadth
of view. His passing is a great loss to
the army, and he will be mourned in
Washington as one of its most public
spirited and most hospitable citizens.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
In the Mail Bag

The Times will accept for Publi-
cation In its Mail Bag columns,
short, vigorous letters on question
of public interest. IL cannot un-
dertaI<e TO publish letters exceed
Ing ESQ words, and reserves the
right rigidIy TO eOndense c0mmu-
nicntiOns which are of greater
length. Letters must contain the
name and address OF the writer,
but these win not be published IL
request TO that effect Is mnde.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-09
THIRD STORK VISITS
SUFFOLK COUNTESS

BEVERLY, Mass, Sept. 9-News has
been received here that a third son
has been born 10 the Karl and Countess
OF Suffolk and Berkshire at their coun-
try seat, NildeT Marie Castle Scot
land. The countess formerly was Miss
Daisy Letter daughter of Mrs. Levi T.
Letter OF Washington. who has a cot
tage here. She is a sister Of the late
Lady CurZon.