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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-12-17
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If Christmas day Saturday be
A great winter that year you'll see
And full of winds both loud and shrill.
But in summer. truth to tell.
High winds shall there be and strong,
Full of tempests lasting long.
While battles they shall multiply.
And great plenty of beasts shall die.
They shall be strong, each one. and keer
He shall be found that stealeth aught
Though thou be sick, thou diest not.
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HIS REMAINS WILL
REST IN OAK HILL
Body of DR.. Edward Young VIII
Be Buried on Mon

Funeral services for Dr. Edward
Young, former CHIEF az the Bureau Of
Statistics, who died last nigsi:., win be
held in his home, 400 A street southeast,
Monday.
InterTnent win be in Oak Hill Gene
terry.
Dr. Young was born in Wolfyille,
Nova Scotia, and was ninety-five years
old He removed TO the United States
in 1855, and settled in Ohio, later going
TO Indiana IN February, 1893. he made
the trip from Indiana TO Washington
by horseback He lived for awhile in
Philadelphia and Boston, where he COM
piled and published a number Of books
dealing with statistics and manu-
features
During the civil war DR.. Young was
appointed by President Lincoln to 4
position as chief OF a division in the
Census Office, and in 1870 was made
chief OF the Bureau of Statistics, which
position he held until 1873
DR.. Young leaves son and a
daughter, Charles A Young. Of the
Treasury Department, and Miss Annie
A. Young.
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They would desert when it came to the
scratch. So the committee meekly an
nounced that it was for free oil, and
the victory was complete. But it was
not a victory won by the fighting the
revisionists did; it was won rather be-
cause of the cowardice of the machine
about receiving the Standard Oil brand.
This bill is going to spell political
disaster to the party responsible for it,
unless it is vastly improved in the Sen
ate; and for that there is small hope.
There are hundreds of duties in it
which cry out for just as radical treat
ment, in the interest of the people, as
was given to the oil duty. But they
will not get it. The outrage of the OF
schedule would have been perpetuated
Just as the others are being, but for the
universal sus picion with which Stand
ard Oil is regarded, and the dread which
men feel of having its stamp placed on
their foreheads. Wherein is the glove
schedule more defensible than that on
oill Or how is the wooden duty less
burden on the millions of consumers
than the duty on oil would have been
Free tea and coffee? Yes, the consumer
gets them; but he has no better right
TO them than to reduction of the tax
on spices, and on hosiery.
Because it was possible to make a
spectacular protest against the oil duty,
the machine lay down. Because there
was not quite so fragrant case on
lumber, gloves, spices, hosiery, woolens,
cottons, and hundred other things
which are in fact equally wicked, the
machine gets away with its goods.
Everybody gets his-everybody except
the consumer. Every special interest is
served handsomely; the public interest
is forgotten.
The bill as it leaves the House is
such an accumulation of exposed and
demonstrated frauds on the people as
has never before been perpetrated even
in the Odorous name of tariff revision.
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LITTLE BIT o. TELLER.

Little bit o. Teller. half the time asleep,
Never dom nOthiI fer mis- board and
keep;
Makes a lot O. trouble. costs an awful
sight,
But, oh. how. we rove him Inornin'. noon
and night
Little bit o. fe!ler thinks he owns the
place,
Deepenin' the wrinkles I have on my
face.
But I'm glad we've got i'm, bless his
little heaTti
Listen 20 him singin'-goly. amt he
smart? Chicago Record-Herald.
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A FINE SEVENTEENTH CEN
TURY NATURE FAKE.

From Butte. Montana, come some Gin
teresting details" touching on the his
tory of the toad named Methuselah,
who died in the New York Zoo last
week. 1t seems that Methuselah, along
with several other toads, was blasted
out of a Nevada mine about a year ago
at a depth of 500 feet below cow-punch-
ing level. So it was reported last week,
and 50 it was reported, also, that the
toad must consequently be almost as
old as the hills-at least 1000 years
old. The details sent forth from Butte
have the color of corroborative evidence
Here they are:
Two theories have been offered by
biologists TO explain the presence Of
the tOads i'm the solid rock 800 feet
below the surface Of the earth. One
is that they were imbedded therein
many years ago and held there during
later geological formation above them.
Another Is that they made their way up
from a subterranean river through a
crevice I'm the rock and earth, the crew
ice filling up behind them and imp. Vs.
oning them As there is no present
sign Of such a crevice, either theory
viii warrant giving the toad an age Of
90 years or more. A subterranean
river is known to exist in that part OF
Nevada
Stories like this have been told be.
fore A good many of them are to be
found in the popular literature of New
England and also of old England. Tales
Of this extravagant sort may be traced
back to Pliny, the original nature faker.
Experiments made years ago determin-
ed the fact that, though toads are ca /.
pable of outfasting Tanner himself, they
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cannot live even for two years without
food and air. auckland, the famous
naturalist who edited Whites History
of Selborne," which preserves some OF
these wonder MI narratives, made eX-
periments that convinced him OF the
solidity of this fact.
The yarn from Butte must remind
some readers of the beliefs common
in the seventeenth century. Once upon
a time the unicorn was sighted on the
Hudson. Mermaids and mermen were
then reported to be living along the
New England coast. Cape Ann was
one of their favorite shor, resorts.
Naturally those who believed IN their
existence were not surprised to hear
of sea lassies and laddies holding moon
light dances. The banks of the Anna
zon were inhabited by strange people
whose eyes we're between their shout
ders. And in those days swans sang
before they died; the hare changed sex
every other year; men were turned IN
to wolves; the phoenix still lived to the
age of 500 years; the salamander ca
vorted in the fire; and so on.
The toad story belongs to those days.
1t cannot now command the respect
even of those who accept literally the
assertion that Methuselah lived to be
96g wears old and that Noah, his grand
son. died at the ripe old age of $50.
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TWO VIEWS OF FORDNEY.

Mr.. Fordney champions the interests
OF those who own what remains of the
American forests in order that stump
age may be high. He cares nothing
for the consumer who must pay all the
bills. nor for the manufacturer. whose
commercial life depends on the cheapest
possible raw material Having taken
this position, it is natural that the adj
Vocates of free lumber should select him
as the target for their attacks. The
cause Mr.. Fordney represents is no
Dstronger than the champion Of that
cause.-Detroit News.
Fordney has made no secret OF his
proprietary interest in tho question Of
lumber importation. II was fully IN
derstoOd during the hearings before the
Ways and Means Committee, OF which
quasi judicial body he is now an active
member. When the gentleman says
that there is a combination OF the kind,
he shouted on the floor the other day,
"and that my firm belongs to II, then
he knows nothing about it." My firm
and your firm appear to have Inquired
considerably in the debates. As
i member of the Ways and Means Com
nittee, he has been a judge sitting IN
has own cause.-RichmOnd Times Dis
d tCh.
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SIMS WOULD ASSESS
ALL CORPORATIONS
TennesSean Has Bill to In
crease Revenue of Gov
eminent.

Representative Sims of Tennessee has
introduced a bill for the purpose Of
greatly increasing the revenues of the
Government It provides that corpora
lions doing an interstate business shall
have their gross receipts taxed i Of
per cent per annum.
Mr.. Sims had intended TO offer the
bin as an amendment to the tariff bill
but he was informed that a point OF
order would be made against it, and
under the rules would be sustained
He therefore Incorporated his ideas in
the bill which he has just introduced
Mr. Sims is of the opinion that the
expenditures of the Government are
growing so rapidly that a measure such
as the Payne tariff bill will be totally
Inadequate TO raise a sufficient amount
of money annually TO meet the eX-
penses.
He believes that the taxation pro
posed in his bill is much better method
than the inheritance tax.
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FORM OR JOIN A FIVE DOLLAR CLUB

Two thousands subscriptions means $4,000
Your household, store, office building shop or fac
tory is asked to become a member.
Why not have your employees form a club?
Your labor union should join,
Your fraternal order ought to pay this initiation
fee
Your church, young peopA's society might become
members.
If you belong to any of these or to any other or
ganizaton, make it helpful in the united effort of the
whole community to relieve to befrend and upbuild
the needy.
Your joining the Five Dollar Club will help the
Associated Charities the Citizens Relief Association
and the tuberculosis Association TO carry on their
necessary work.
Send contributions to-
THE JOINT FINANCE COMMITTEE.
811 G Street Northwest
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OUR ENGLISH COUSINS LOSE
THEIR HEADS. TUT, TUT!

England is not master of the English
today. Germany is. From parliament
to coster the whole population is peer
ing out to see not what is good for
England, but what can be done to cir
cumvent Germany. If our cousins were
to note that our other cousins across
the Rhine had declared for immediate
and perpetual peace there would i'm
mediately arise in England a movement
to beat that by year.
How far this shying at German
spooks has gone viii be evident from
this paragraph, seriously set forth in
the serious London Spectator:
The American view of German
naval expansion can be best expressed
as follows: Eve are not at all hostile
to Germany. and want to be at peace
with her. We must, however, remem-
Der the temptation to which she will
be exposed = II circumstances
make il impossible to use it (the Ger
man navy against Britain, II may be
used, faute de mieux, against the
Monroe Doctrine, which German dip
lomatists have always refused TO ac-
knowledge, and which to most Ger
mans seems to partake Of the nature
Of the dOg-in- he-manger." If these
are the thoughts which are now held
in Washington. as we believe they are,
we shall not be surprised If Germany's
action is answered by a correspond
ing activity in America.
The Spectator would better get ready
for a Jolt. America is a long WAYS off
from permitting Germany OF any other
nation to size her naval program for
her.
But this is not the only interesting
revelation as to the state of John Bulls
ordinarily placid mind. That, in fact,
is nothing. Read this from one who
signs himself "a parson and man Of
peace:"
The enemy Of England beyond our
shores has just been discovered at last
to the popular view .. The discov-
cry is a Tremendous one. that the fight
for our national existence has aCtUa a. w
begun and may end the wrong was
But there is a deadlie- enemy WITHIN
our gates. 4; IS OUr selfshnesS, OR
refusal OF sacrifice. When cvangelic
picty and Ignorance OF mundane fact
forbid Cornish youth 20 enlist in army
ment TO recruit four-ffths of its Num-
Der in Manchester, and the less pious
but not less Ignorant la Dor Leader
preached last week the same doctrine
in its own terms-there IS the en-
envy.
No beating of spears into plowshares
and pruning hooks here. Fighting is
what this preacher wants and for the
salvation of English character Above
everything Britain must have men,
arms, and ships to beat down Germany
when the Teutons once start on their
cannibal march to eat the English alive.
Well, we'll
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-10
D. TAFT Is GUEST
FOR EASTER SEASON AT
WHITE HOUSE

are spending Easter week in Atlantic
City.
Colonel Garrard. the commanding Of
ficer at Fort Myer, and Mrs. Garrard.
have issued invitations for a dance,
Wednesday evening, April Il. for their
daughters. the Misses Garrard.
-
Mrs. Marshall, wife of Gen. William
F. Marshall, returned to Washington
last evening from Baltimore, where she
has been making short visit
=
Mrs. William E. Boran, wife of Sena-
tor Borah of Idaho, left Washington
last evening for her home in Boise
City. Idaho.
Miss Ruth Tanner has arrived from
Bryn Mawr, where she is at school. to
spend the Easter holidays with her
mother. Mrs. z. L. Tanner at the Con-
necticut
To Spend Easter Here.
The Mayor of Philadelphia and Mrs.
Reyburn arrived in town yesterday
morning to spend the Easter season at
their apartment at Wendell Mansion.
They were accompanied by their daugh-
ter, Miss Eleanor Crozier Reyburn.
=
Baroness AIix Moncheur came to
Washington this morning from Sharon
Hill. Pa, where she is at school. to
spend the holidays with her parents,
the Belgian minister and Baroness Mon
cheur.
Mrs. Richard Townsend entertained a
small company informally at luncheon
yesterday at her residence on Massa-
chusetts avenue.
Miss Grace Bell returned to Wash
| ington yesterday from New York, where
she has been spending several days with
Mrs. Piquette Mitchell. Mrs, Mitchell
with Miss Bell before returning to
| Mexico to join her husband, the Ameri-
/ can vice and deputy consul at the City
| of Mexico Miss Bell will accompany
Mrs. Mitchell on her return for a stay
OF several weeks in Mexico.
Keishiro Matsui, counselor OF the
japanese embassy, entertained a COM
pany of men at dinner last evening,
commissioners. Takutaro Sakai, and
| HikoJiro Wada, who have been spending
the week in Washington.
=
Have Easter Guest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Townsend
have as their guest for Easter week
Miss Hanna Wright, of Philadelphia.
Mrs Townsend and Miss Townsend
have just recently returned from visit
to New York. when they were the guests
OF Miss Shonts.
Mrs. Bates, wife Of Gen. A. z. Bates,
who is visiting her son-in-iaw and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Dunn Mckee,
at Biltmcre, N. c., is expected 10 re-
turn to Washington early next week
General Bates is at present on a BUSH
ness trip to St. Paul
Mrs. T. T. Mann has issued invita-
tions for a tea Saturday afternoon
April II, in compliment to Miss Bran
well, of West Virginia
=
Miss Elizabeth Farber left Thursday
for two weeks stay at Philadelphia
and Atlantic City.
Gustav Louis, who has been abroad
the past month. has returned.
Mrs. Myer Stern Of the Ashley apart
ment, who has been visiting friends and
relatives in Philadelphia, returned yes
terday.
Mrs. Harry FriedIander and Miss Har-
burger, ars at Atlantic City for a two
weeks stay, and are at the Hotel
Pierrepont-
Miss Adele Goldman. of walbrook is
spending a few days with Mrs. Sydney
Kaufman at the Ashley apartment.
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Member of House Party.
White House Callers

The Vice President.
The Speaker.
Senators Carter of Montana.
Bradley of Kentucky.
Burton OF Ohio.
Dick of Ohio.
Over.nan of North Carolina.
Secretary Ballinger.
Secretary Nagel
Attorney General Wickersham.
Representatives Lowden of Illinois
Lorimer of Illinois
Dwight Of New York
Olcott Of New York.
Cushman OF Washington
Payne of New York
Former Representative Watson of In
diana.
Israel F. Fisher OF New York clay.
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Henry P. Taft, of New York, brother
Of the President. has arrived in Wash
ington to spend Easter at the White
House with the President and Mrs.
Taft.
Miss Susan Biddie, of Detroit. will
spend Easter week with Mrs. Titthnan
In her home in Hiilyer place.
=
Ex-senator Cameron, who has been
spending the last few days at his resi-
dence. on Lafayette Square. has re-
Farm, Pa.
Senator and Mrs. owen, of Oklahoma.
have taken an apartment at the Con
necticut for the spring and SUMMER
season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert N. Harper left
Washington this morning to spend Eas-
ter at Atlantic City.
Mss Isabel Reiser, of Baltimore, is
the week end guest of Miss Isabel Ed
her home on Monday.
=
Miss Mazel Jones, daughter of Lieut.
Col. T w. Jones, and Mrs. Jones. has
arrived. from the Randolph Macon Col
=
Catlin-Cussler
Cards are out for the marriage Of
Miss Mary Lansing Catlin, daughter Of
the late Capt Robert Catlin. to DIR.
Edward Cussler. of New York, at noon,
Thursday, April %. at ST. Adams Ca
thedral. The Bishop Of Washington, the
Rt- Rev. Alfred Harding. officiating.
=
Emory-0vey.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. William H.
Emory announce the engagement of
their daughter. Blanche willis. to Es-
of the British embassy No date has
been set for the wedding.
=
Miss Isabel Bond, of Baltimore, is
spending a week or two in Washington,
the guest OF Judge and Mrs. w A.
Milliken at the Hotel Gordon
=
The Minister of Uruguay and Nine.
de Lafinur will leave Washington early
in June for their native country, where
they will spend the sumner. In the
absence of the minister, the secretary
Of the legation, Alberto Mn Frias, will
act as charge d'anaires-
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh are
expected to return TO the city this even
ing or tomorrow morning from Atlantic
City, where they have been spending
the last week or two. Mr. and Mrs.
Edward B. Mclean. the latter formerly
Miss Evalyn Walsh, wiso accompanied
them. will remain at the seashore for
the Easter season.
=
Miss Florence Grandin went over TO
New York yesterday TO spend the Easter
season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin S. Decker, ac-
companied by Miss Martha Decker, have
arrived from Albany, n. Y, to spend
Easter week at their home on Biltmore
street Mr.. Becker Is at present con-
nected with the public utilities commit
tee of New York State. and spends the
greater part of his time in Albany.
Member of House Party.
Miss Claire Wright. daughter Of JUS
tice and Mrs. Daniel Thew Wright, is
spending Easter week in Maryland,
where she is a member OF a large
house party at the Ennals Waggaman
place near South River. Mrs Freder-
lex Barbour and Mrs Dick Bell. of
Washington. are chaperoning the party.
Miss Edgarina Hast IS VIII go over
to Baltimore Easter Monday to spend
the week.
Mrs A L. Thompson and Miss Ma
bel Thompson, Of the Westmoreland,
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CREW OF DOLPHIN
WILL GIVE DANCE
Sailors Ball TO Be Held in Work
shop of Navy Yard Mon
daY Evening.
day Evening.

Invitations have been issued by tbs
crew of the United States steamship
Dolphin for a dance to be given Mon
day evening at o'clock in the Seaman
Gunners' Workshop, at the Washington
Navy Yard Officers Of the social or
ganiZation Of the ships crew are:
President, G. H. Nicholson; vice prss.-
dent. j. F. Tracy; secretary, G. @, Ger
ron; treasurer, +. G. Bither. Plans for
the dance are in the hands OF several
committees, OF which the following are
chairmen: Floor, A J. Dusold; Fecep-
ton. A FoTdin; decorations, W. A.
Fulkerson; door, W. Eichenbergs and
arrangements, T. A Knauss.
The music will be furnished by the
Dolphin Orchestra, under the leader
ship Of F Hupe.
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MISS CLOUD WEBS
WITNESS AT TRIAL

WINCHESTER, Va, April 1O.-The
secret marriage OF Miss Gertrude Cloud
young daughter of Andrew Cloud. tie
merchant acquitted of the murder OF his
brother-in-iaw, North Shirley. was an
nounced here today.
Miss Cloud and Valentine Hardy, who
also figured In the murder trial, were
married a week ago at Hagerstown, Nd
1t was largely on Miss Clouds testl-
mony that her father was acquitted
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Greenroon1 Gossip

Thursday afternoon has come to be a
professional matinee performance at
the Columbia. Representatives from
several OF the other companies playing
here saw "The Fortune Hunter on thar
day including John Mason and Miss
Julia Hay, of THE Wirching Hour"
Prof. Hadley. Of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, declares The Witching Hour
is the greatest American drama OF re-
cent years.
Strife is the name of new play
now running in London that Charles
trohdm Will bring to this country next
In speaking Of the value of mechani-
cal action on the stage, and its relation
70 the spoken WORD. otis skinner has
this TO say:
IF we seek for the most moving and
most potent moment of the tragedy OF
Macbeth, it is needless to looF into
the lines for its psychology. but fn~o the
action. Nothing in LADY Macbethis
declaration Of ambitious determination
or bloodthirsty force, nothing in Mac
betn.s perturbed soul crying his remorse.
creates in the spectator the trenchant
emotion that is caused by the proDerty
man merely hammering on an iron plate
behind the scenes This occurs after
the murder Of Duncan and in the mag
lnaIiOn OF the audience the old king
lies weltering in his gore. The furious
hammering at the castle gates breaks
the silence Of the scene and the specta-
tor sees in his minds eve the mailed
warrior Macdun. laundering with his
sword hilt upon the pOstern gate. The
scene Of life breaking Ia upon the scene
Of death is dominant"
It seems fitting that the British play.
The Truants," should be reproduced in
this country by Miss Mary ManneriIg
an English actress by birth and an
American by adoption
Miss Anna Mooney, who has a prin-
cipal part with The Boys And Betty
which comes to the Columbia next week
HEN, the composer and musical director
OF the company. Miss Mooney is her
self an accomplished musician and plays
Several instruments.
E. H. Sothern announces that here
after he will appear in only the ciassi-
cal ana Shakesperean drama This sea-
son his repertoire includes Harriet"
Richlieu," and Lord DUndreary7 In
these he viii be seen at the BelascO
Theater for the week commencing April
26. Next year he viii cOnfine himself
entirely to Shakesperean roles. and Will
appear as Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth,
and Shylock-
Miss Amelia Gardner, whose work in
The Witching Hour has attracted
wide attention, is a versatile actress or
the Clara Morris type. She has been
leading woman in the companies OF
many prominent stars.
1.-THE Beauty Spot the new De Koven
comic opera which made its premiere
in Washington only a few weeks ago,
is already heralded as a pronounced
success The production has been book
ed as the spring and summer musical
attraction at the Herald Square The
alter in New York
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VETERAN MAIL CARRIER.

MEDIA, Pa, April 10.-Robert Nor
row. OF Tanguay, who carries the
mail between Cheyney and that place.
celebrated his seventy-seventh birth
day this week Since carrying the
mail he has made over 5000 trips and
covered 1900 miles. He served in
the United States army during the
civil war.
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What Congress Did
IN rHE SENATE

The Payne tarifr bill. passed by the
House was messaged over to the SEN
ate and referred to the Finance Com
mittee.
Senator Cullom presented the monster
petition Of Chicago women against in
creased duties on gloves and hosiery.
Consideration Of the census bill was re-
sumed.
Senator Bailey led in an attack on the
civil service.