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ed from her earliest childhood by men
who possessed the traditions of the
She knows the phases, the inner facts.
and all the details which are SO fascinat
ing to hear. Her mother, now dead abou.
fourteen years, was an authority on MS
torical questions of ante-bellum times
and she Illuminated the lives of the great
men Of her day with d fund of valuable
anecdote and personal deduction.
x
Naturally Mrs. Bailey has inherited this
love Of tracing historical conclusions and
is deeply interested In the developments
of the present era. But she is essentially
the domestic type OF woman and her
home absorbs the major portion of hei
time.
II am not among the malcontents of the
National Capital" said Mrs. Bailey, re
Gently, for / find that life here may be
agreeable. 1 think Washington should be
considered a paradise among homekeep
ers. The markets are supplied SO abun
dainty with all the good things, and Sc
early III the season. / am among the old
fashioned homekeepers who delight in go
ing to market and in giving personal su-
perviSion to what Is placed on my table
II Is never a wearisorne task. There is
world of enjoyment In these pilgrimages
the humor in the general situation, all
appeal to me we'll the conscious
ness of accomplishing something worti
while. / think 1t endnently worth while
to have good fresh. wholesome food fol
the table and, like many others, I have
discovered that nothing is quite 50 salts
factory in achieving this end as to pur-
chase for your comlnissary department
yourself
II am partial to the early morning for
such duties and really it appears no hard
ship TO live in Washington even in the
heated term when ii G offers such an end
less variety of scenes. The parks are
delight, the river is all that the most tire
less traveller could see in foreign land
and. as L have said before the street
scenes can prove an inspiration TO the
most faded. Then when the material
part of existence has been attended to-
Washington offers so much for those OF
literary or artistic turn. In this how
ever, there are many cities which offer
as great Inducements and it is source
of qualification to those who are sol.citous
in every part OF the Union. 1t now seems
possible for every one who has earnest
intentions 10 obtain at slight expenditure
all the good reading which can be digest
ed The library reports which come in
from different parts of the country show
a tremendous impetus to the reading
public and | think this hopeful sign in
the national development.
PERSONALLY l am very fond of reading
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one az tn foinest." must go through
he proving grounds
1t is slow work. for II is a far cry from
The realms of practically irresponsible
citizenship to the responsibility OF
guardian OF the peace. And 1t o1ttlines
axes hard knocks and bitter experience
before the veteran and trustworthy po-
Ilcernan is evolved from the new recruit.
Md sometimes the evolution is halted
Hallway, when fiber of insufficient tenn
fer is cast into the seethins furnace OF
the submerged tenth, to teach doctrines
Which the young policeman himself has
sometimes hardly learned.
! y
Waslnnston's school for her. policemen
- ION the streets" Her tutors are the
well seasoned, steadily balanced men who
have known the beats over which they
travel for years Other cities have other
schools where the science of policing Is
dwelt upon, and that of New York is
notably the finest but SO far there has
been little demand in Washington for
such municipal institution, for the
grade of men who make up the metro
politan police force here, in officers and
men are quick to learn and long to re-
member.
Tie preliminaries of the Washington
policeman's education before the tutelage
of the streets begin is Largely confined to
an examination to determine the amount
Of his education, a physical test and the
careful perusal of a small book contain
ing some go pages of regulations and
''Don'ts" He is then given his oath.
swears to protect the Constitution of the
United States and to endeavor to be the
real thing In thrills and terrors to all
evildoers. Then with a new uniform and
an exhaustive knowledge of the style his
white gloves should be on every occasion
lie Is ready for his real education.
Now, because the department depends
upon the timber seasoned in the stress
of duty for its officers. precinct detectives
and ultimately its central office detectives.
the curriculum, though contained In no
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nooo parents removed to Oxford,
Miss. There she grew to maturity. re-
ceived her education and married Senator
Bailey. who took her back to the land
of her birth. Thus it is proved that the
migration of the human kind may be as
fascinating study as the rowing habits
OF the lesser occupants OF the terrestrial
sphere.
Few women in official life can claim the
blood of more eminent men than Mrs.
Bailey. Two of her great-grandfathers
have written their names in large let
ters I'm the martial affairs OF the times
John Adair OF kentucky is famous along
many lines and Richard Clough Ander
son was a revolutionary hero and his
mother was Elizabeth Clark, sister of
two beloved men in revolutionary annals,
Gen. George Rogers Clark and William
Clark. the co-explorer with Lewis Her
parents Were William Preston Murray
and Ellen Adair Anderson and in their
veins flowed the best blood Of the old
south. Mrs. Bailey has heard history talk
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Mrs. Joseph Weldon Bailey Wife Of the Senator From Texas

strewn with excellent musical composl-
lions. During the season Mrs. Bailey
keeps her days at home and returns her
calls and attends to her social duties with
exactitude, all without any OF the troubl o
of which nearly all the senatorial host
esses comp ain. She is an indefatigable
homekeeper whenever the National Legis-
lature is In session. and she Is here at
the first hour and TO the last. no matter
TO what length the sessions draw.
r
Mrs Bailey takes little or no interest
in the so-ca'led woman movements, and
again In this she is representative OF her
class. The womens clubs draw but
sparsely from the geutlewomen OF tho
south, and it is for this reason Mrs.
Dickinson, wife OF the Secretary of War.
so brilliantly advanced.
TN the south" said Mrs Dickinson,
the women have always been a. power:
they have been consulted and their opin-
ions have been respectfully received by
public men and on public issues. So as a
rule they have no desire to fill public
roles. They taste power In the sweetest
sense In that they direct the forces which
direct the national issues"
Mrs. Bailey, though we'll informed OIL
every political quest on, is not concerned
about The so-ca led rights OF woman nor
any Of the questions involved In tho
propag anda. She takes vital interest
III what concerns the welfare of her homo
community, the school resources. the IL
braries. the general sanitary conditions
and such themes. But she has never
found t necessary to plunge into poll
tics on her own account to have any OF
these affairs properly cared for.
Mrs. Bailey is fond of having visitors
from Texas taste the joys of a Washing
ton season and she is a conscientious
hostess on these occasions. She enter
tanned several well known young women
from Gainesville last winter and spring
and, having a large circle OF kinswomen
In the adjacent states, she rarely feels
the isolation of which many families
complain.
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tested place 20 a locality OF comparative
refinement, is the police novitiate in
trusted.
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But rot 50 twenty years ago. Then Tie
young guardian OF the peace was liter
ally left to paddle his own canoe and
the story IS told OF one veteran captain
of q Washington precinct VINO when a
new man was sent TO him would calmly
present him with gun, baton, blackjack
and whistle and tell him Get on a beat
Little difference it made to this captain
whether the man knew what was ex-
pected of him or where lay his beat.
LET him find 1t: it'll do him good" The
captain would say, and so one morning
a new recruit, who should have been
more than mile away doing trick in
old Bloodtield' in the southwest. was
found by an inspector gravely patroling
block on Pennsylvania avenue
Yet those We're the days in which the
finest men Of the department were made.
But sometimes the newly found au-
thority goes to the youngsters head, and
either through overZealousness-for there
IS sucn thing-or undcrZealousness the
young policeman comes TO grief. And II
he succeeds in out-toXing the iaWbreak-
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crs il i no sign that his sergeant or pre-
cinci captain can have the wool pulled
over his eyes as easily. This leads to
the lachrymose tale OF the copper who
was afraid Of the rain.
This particular bulwark OF the public
safety feared not the menace of negro
thug or fighting drunk. but he had Il
eats aversion to real wet water Ac-
cordingly when one night not long after
he was turned loose TO shift for himself
II began to rain the policeman. although
clad in his long rubber coat, cast about
him for a place of refuge, which he
found. The coat made good pillow, and
when the policeman awoke he found that
the rain had ceased, and that il was near
~ time for him TO report off duty. He
had walked several blocks toward the
station house before he realized that al
though he had supposedly been out in a
light rain for more than an hour, his
rubber coat was entirely dry. Nearby was
a water trough. Hastily dippn his coat
into the basin, he shook 1t out. donned 1t
and walked confidently into the station
house to face the sergeant. Nearby his
comrades stood. but their coats We're not
quite as wet as that of the sumberer.
And the argus eye OF the sergeant de-
tected il.
Must have rained pretty hard out
where Nou were he questioned
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Money itself furnishes no happiness and
provides no certainty in the homo foun-
dauons. There are many palaces where
wealth anticipates every want. and yet
where skeleton more grim than death
haunts the cupboard, and an ache sharp
er than consumption's tooth gnaws at the
heart
Moreover. there is no certainty in the
possession of money. The rich of today
are often tomorrow's poor. Croesus,
whose name is a synonym for wealth, was
himself supported In his old age by the
charity of Cyrus.
Eighty per cent of the great leaders in
all walks OF life In America came from
the farm and the rural districts. The great
men In America began their married life
in an humble way. Cornelius Vanderbilt
ferried his own boat. John Jacob Aston
sold apples on the streets of New York
Jay Gould was book agent. John D.
Rockefeller worked In a machine shop.
a T. Stewart began as d school teacher.
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sergeant thinks to this day | did good
work in that case
But perhaps the funniest and most
paradoxical case of all occurred one night
when l was dead tired and didn't care
whether the whole place was burglariZed
or not. was 'hoodlns' in an undertake
er's shop with the lights all out so that
the sergeant could not see me. / was sit
ting near the window where | could watch
for him. and suddenly ] saw white man
approach one of the better houses of the
neishborhood and deliberately begin work
on one of the parlor windows. / got him.
ana also nice little compliment from my
captain.
so, you see. luck sometimes runs with
the loafer, but its bad business for a
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wealth cover up mental imbecility or
moral baseness: What is the interest on
100000, or even s1,U0.o In comparison
to dividends drawn from a loyal heart
and an educated brain?
She who marries man for his wealth
will find that she has made a terrible
bargain; that her life will be one of gild-
ed misery ard her old age will be like
a erag on the bleak side of a desert
mountain, where cold moonbeams some
times glitter, but no sunshine ever falls.
no flowers bloom, no birds sing. but wild
storms howl and hoarse thunders roar.
and through the sweeping storm shall
be heard Gods stern voice: your riches
are corrupted, your garments are moth
eaten, your gold and silver are cankered
and the rust OF them shall be a swift
witness against you and eat your flesh as
IL were fire.
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THE GOVERNMENTS
"OUTSIDE" EXPENSES
. HE United States government pays
out annually thousands of dollars
fnf. nth iIb,

Ts He United States government pa VS.
out annually thousands of dollars
for purposes which not one in a
thousand citizens knows anything about
A close study of the appropriation bills
passed every year by Congress reveals
the fact that this country has an ex-
pense account which contains some re-
markable items. Appropriations for these
have been regularly made for years and
will probably continue to be made for
many more to come.
Although slave. trading is generally sup
posed to be "A thing of the past, the
United States does no think so. This Is
evidenced 10y the fact that this country
contributes 800 as its share OF the eX-
pense of keeping up at Brussels an in
stitution known as the international bu-
reau for the repression of the African
slave trade
Uncle Sam is deeply interested in as
pertaining the size of the earth over
which he recently stretched out his
mighty hand. With 4 view of gaining the
much desired information he pays annu-
ally. through the American embassy at
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CHE Is Woman Of
- Charming Personality and
High Intellectual Gifts
Comes From the Most Illus
trous Families of the South
and Many of Her Ancestors
Have Written Their Names
in History-Mrs. Bailey Is a
Native of the State in Which
She Now Holds Such a High
Social Position. and Was Be-
fore Her Marriage Miss Ellen
Adair Murray.
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John Wanamaker started life at 81 % a
week, and Andrew Carnegie ut $50
Character is the determining force be-
hind money, intellect and love, and so
it is the greatest force in human life.
Commercial matrimony is an evil
peculiar TO our time. The gold fever is
epidemic, and the death rate is appall-
ing.
We put the mark of Cain upon the
man who takes bride, and do not allow
the grave to erase the foul blot from
his memory. What shall we say of the
woman who has her price. and, often
turning what is pure and noble away,
waits for the man who Is willing to pay
for his victim?
What shall we say OF the mother who
places her daughter on the social auc-
ton block and knocks her down to the
highest bidder
She who through the solemn rite of
Inatrimony puts her hand in the hand
OF a man for houses, lands and posses
sionS, and not for love- is not Il wife.
The legal forms may be complied with
and thus seal the lips Of criticism, but
wife she is not.
Promising as the prize may seem, 1t is
rare that she who marries for money
fares well. She finds that serpent often
lies coiling among the orange blossoms.
< ;.
How many young women are bowling to-
day before profigates because they move
in the so-called highest circles and crawl
around fashionable summer and winter
resorts? Because of their wealth and
pride of ancestry they are welcomed,
though their touch is pollution and their
embrace social and moral death. II a
young woman We're as sinful as some of
these society rakes she would be stoned
TO death by her sisters.
Matrimonial conimercialism is closely
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when | vas breaking in. declared a vet
cram Of the force while speaking OF tic
making of policeman. but I'd Ike 10
tell you OF an incident which happened
while 7 was In the rfre deartment. for
You know tho fire laddies are not SO IA =
removed from the policeman anyhow.
Its been more than flfteen years ago
since "A man who Is now well up In TIE
department was given an appointment and,
armed with letter of introduction. was
sent to one of the engine houses He got
there about O'Clock I'm the morning,
when the tricks are just changing. and
stepping inside of the door he found moth
ing there but the apparatus and horses.
all of the men being upstairs The new
recruit soon tired OF waiting and seeing
a hook which he presumed led to a call
bell pulled IL
That hook did lots of things. besides
calling men. 1t released the horses,
sounded an alarm and dropped the har-
ness, so by the time the men were
Swarming down the pole. most of them
half dressed, there was something doing.
They found nobody downstairs. but saw
i'll the distance a fleeing tigure-a fright
ened figure, terrorized by the awful work
OF the nook. They finally caught him. AMI
dumb with fear he submitted to a search
1T the station house, where he was taketl
for turning In false alarm. There the
letter introducing him was found
THAT reminds me OF another case
where the fire department was concerned
although not IN the same way" said
another old member Of the force who
was sitting by.
I'VE had youngster from the coun-
try who was doing his first few trick.
alone. when one day his father and
mother. neither of whom had ever seen
the sights of the city. came to visit him.
AT o'clock one afternoon an alarm
of fire was turned in from that mans
beat, and as 1t was I'm the heart OF the
business district the engines lost no time
in getting there. When they arrived
there was no sign OF blaze or smoke-onlv
a yap policeman and two astounded
gines shore do get around quick. 'Tain't
been more than ten minutes, Ben, since
tibet alarm was turned In.
While most Of the men on the force
stick il out through hard knocks and
bitter experience. some of them show
and, beneath the stigma Of cutters, turn
IN their equipment and call II a day.
There have been two cases In recent
years of this character. one occurred
I'm the tenth precinct and the other In
the third
OF the new work into which the young
policeman is thrown is told the story
of a new man in the Tenderloin pre-
cinct who was taken out by an old hand
the first night to be shown the ropes.
They were walking down 18th street when
a disturbance was heard In restaurant
nearby. Both the policemen rushed for
the scene Of the trouble and as thew
entered the door shot was fired. Tho
new man. on his first trick of duty, Was
wounded.
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evolution as only those who labor for
love can. \ devotion to nature and 70
pastoral scenery Is another characteristic
almost as pronounced as her reverential
devotion to the annals of the past, and
In Texas Mrs. Bailey finds an ample
outlet. She rejoices in the vast extent
of the empire OF the Rio ,irande, as
many love to call 1t. and in the changed
aspect of nature. especially the roillng
country famous for cattle breeding. In
her own home. Gainesville, Mrs. Bailey
shows the same domestic lncilnatlonS
which are SO dominant in Washington.
She is renowned in that region of good
honfekeepers but to this she adds the
wider culture which comes from study,
travel and good reading. She Is fond
of flowers, and gives much attention to
the exquisite native blossoms. and TO
exotics. which thrive well. She is also
devoted to music, and plays well herself,
though Of recent years her musical tastes
have been moe of the tacit than the
active order. As in washington, she
gives most of her time after the home
duties are accomplished to reading and
hearing good music and lectures on art
and literature
The. pioneers of Texas We're on the
highest intellectual plane and their de-
scendants have not permitted these ten
denotes to decl ne. So in Texas, the con-
dtions OF the outpostS Is not existent
Society is cultured and governed accord
ing to the laws which rule the gentle
w
sections of the country. Mrs. Bailey is
prominently identified with all the assoc
Citations which relate TO the general ele-
walton of the state and community and
she takes an active part in all that con-
Germs moral and Intellectual development.
There are two sons in the Bailey family,
the elder Weldon. having recently com
pleted his studies at the University of
Virginia and will probably follow his
fathers footsteps and read law. The Sec
ond William w. Ia ley. is studying In
a preparatory school in Washington and
will enter college i'll a year or two.
Mrs Bailey as q young girl was one
of the famous bellies Of Miss ssippi. She
is considered now one of the handSomeSt
women in Official life and IS one of the
most youthful looking who boasts OF
grown children. Like all southern women,
she is somewhat reserved in her inter-
course with the general public, but in her
own home she Is the most cordial and
delightful Of hostesses. Mrs. Bailey does
not take u prominent part IN the doings
of Vanity Fair, but she extends u wide
hospit ality to those who have the slight
est claim on her family personally or to
the state as represented by her husband.
Her home in Stoneleigh Court is typical
of its m stress. The rooms are open TO
sun and air and there are growing p ants
all about and good books and piano
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The Wrong Tense.

HTHE shameless grating that goes on
- in New York." said the well
known sociologist, DR.. Bolton Ely Flint,
In recent address In Memphis, makes
me think of a conversation between two
crooked storekeepers.
These two men, meeting at the club,
shook hands, and the first said:
" L congratulate you, old chap. Tina.
was a splendid fire of yours last Thurs
day
The OTHER froNned
YOU'RE mixed he said Not last
Thursday; next Thursday"
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related % the dual standard Of morality
MoneE covers the mans sins. [ wish
modern society had the insight of the
poet:
Yes. stone the woman-et tn" man 20 free.
Draw back Hour skirts lest they perchance
May touch her garment she passes
But to him pu; forth {; willing hand
To clasp with his which led her TO destruction
And disgrace. ShuT up from her the sacred
Ways of toll. that she more may win an
Honest meal; but ope 10 him all honorable
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would spend a day without remuneration
watching the destruction by maceration
of United States securities. But to save
the Secretary any possible embarrass-
ment Congress has provided that he may
pay the representative Of the public who
the law says shall be one of commit
tee to witness the reduction Of the secu-
rites to pulp. So day for each day he
may be SO employed.
On the coast of Morocco, at Tangier
and Cape Spartel, mariners used to ex-
perience great difficulty in avoiding
disaster on account of the absence OF
warning night signals on the shore. Light
houses were sadly needed, and as the
government of Morocco would not pro-
vide them. the great powers took the mat
ter in hand in the interest of their ship
ping interests. Lighthouses were estab-
lished, and the powers are assessed so
much annually for their maintenance
The share of the United States in this
expense is 1925.
1t is sometimes necessary for the Unit
ed States to bring back to this country
from abroad persons charged with crime.
1t Is rather expensive work, and for 1t
there is an annual appropriation Of
5000.
This government is ever grateful for any
service rendered its citizens in case of
marine disasters by those of foreign coun-
tries. Such services are usually sub
Stantially remembered. and there is a Spe-
cial provision for them. An annual APP
preparation of S4.J00 IS made for Eek
penses incurred in the acknowledgment
of the services OF masters and crews OF