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The Washington herald., 1909-06-27
BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS.

working the same itinerary and robbing
prosperous tourists right and left. The
climax Of the story comes on board q
transatlantic liner, where, thanks 10
some skillful lying and some false aIibls.
the young American suspect finds him
self homeward bound II is then thai
the wireless gets in its deadly work and
matters come pretty close 10 being the
hnish OF the American. The turn in the
plot Is. however. very clever. and par
TALLY makes up for tho grievous fault Of
the earlier passages. where the reader IS
conscious Of an impatient sense or not
being able TO come 10 a conclusion. A
quiet Vein of humor runs through the
story, and the love passages ring true
most interesting character is the young
Englishman who Is doing the cathedral
towns in compliance with some absurd
law Of entail which requires him 10 pray
in all the old churches Of Britain before
coming into his property. His concern in
the main story Is at all times deep. and
he. also. is 'in al the death" So frai
is the thread Of the tale. however. that
the ending will not be here disclosed. as
II Is preferable 10 leave the reader 10
receive the fun force Of the storm which
gathers throughout. only 10 break in the
very last moment OF narration.
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

The following books, submitted for re-
view, are hereby acknowledged. and re
views VIII appear IN a subsequent edi-
ton:
set IN SILVER" BY c. y and A.
NJ Williamson. New York: Doubleday
Page & Co.
THE BRIDE OF THE MISTLETOE.' %
BY James Lane Allen. New York: The
Macmillan Company.
THE SHADOW OF THE CRES-
CENT" BY Edward Bedinger Mitchell
New York. Frederick A. Stokes & Co
THE OLIVIA LETTERS" BY Emily
Edson Briggs: Washington. The Neale
Company and Woodward & Lothrop.
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Fifth Prize:
A European
Trip
Valued at $1,000.

This tour completes the list Of
our FIVE grand prizes, and viii be
given TO the contestant receiving
the fifth largest number of votes
in this contest The winner OF this
tour viii not be compelled to travel
alone among strangers, as we grant
the privilege of your selecting any
friend or relative whom you may
wish to accompany YOU, the ex-
penses of both to be borne BY The
Washington Herald. We consider
this a great inducement to you, and
will be surprised if you do not de-
eide right away to enter this con
test.
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Fourth Prize:
A Building
Lot
Valued at S2,145.

This lot (Which is practically
two" lots, Nos. Fl and ~ is 10
Gated in beautiful Chevy Chase, on
Morrison street east, Just off Con-
necticut avenue. Il has an actual
value Of S2,3So.5o. but as we paid
Thos. J. Fisher & Co. the sun. Of
S2,I45 for it, we are advertising II
as a S2,I4s lot. The explanation
lies in the fact that the property,
since the purchase by us, has ad-
vanced 10 per cent In value, which
only goes to show what The Wash
ington Herald is trying to do for
itself and its readers.
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Other Prizes:
II District
Prizes

Although there are four prizes I
TO each Of the eighteen districts, We
wish especially to call your atten- 4,
ton to the first prize, $3.50 EsteY
Piano, eighteen Of which we have
purchased from the Sanders & +,
Stayman Company, OF this city,
They viii be given TO the contest 4
ants who receive the greatest num-
Der Of votes in their respective dis
tricts. We Go not believe thar we
could offer a more acceptable dis 4
trict prize than a piano, especially
when it is an Estey, worth S45o,
and We know you viii be satisfied
with Il.
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Contest Will Close at Midnight, Saturday, July
First Prize:
House andLOt
Valued at $3.50.

This house and lot are located in
the best residence section of Wash
ington, on Bryant street, two blocks
north Of w and half a block west
Of North Capitol. This section is
literally filed with homes such as
we are giving away, the homes be-
ing owned by the dwellers them
selves. The locality is dotted with
churches and schools, and this par
ticular home is within 900 feet Of
the second largest park in the Dis
trict. It is one Of Aliddaugh &
Shannon's Homes Of a Hundred
Ideas"
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Second Prize:
White
Steamer
Valued at $2,250.

We purchased this automobile
from the White Steamer Com
pany, and it cost Us S2,25o. We
shall give It to the contestant re-
ceiving the second largest number
of votes in this contest. This is
prize well worth the winning, being
the very best machine obtainable
at any price It's advantages are
innumerable, its excellence beyond
dispute. You will find world Of
pleasure in the possession of this
car, which IS easily yours if you
want it. It is only a question Of Sc
curing subscriptions to The Wash
ington Herald.
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Third Prize:
Columbia
Electric
Valued ate1,6OO.

This little car IS the very
height Of perfection and elegance,
and IS particularly. adapted to the
use Of professionalism. It is also
the safest car for both ladies and
children It viii go to that con-
testant receiving the third largest
number Of votes in this contest.
We paid the Dupont Garage Com
pany $1,000 for II. and We can as
sure YOU that II IS worth every cent
OF the amount paid. For lightness,
durability, and smooth running,
this car IS IN a classify itself. It isl
yours if YOU want Il
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rs religion necessary is the question
asked by George Burman Foster. profess
sor Of the philosophy OF religion in the
University OF Chicago. in his book, The
Function OF Religion in Mans Struggle
for Existence. The work IS attracting
considerable attention in lay as well as
religious circles
The Washington herald., 1909-06-27

The publishers Of Mr.. z. +. Benson's
novel. The Climber" thought so well
Of the book that. after publishing an
edition IN type which they afterward
decided was TOO small. have now entirely
reset il in larger type, and the new edi-
tion is receiving the attention the book
deserves.
The Washington herald., 1909-06-27

Thomas Hardy recently entered into his
SEVENTEEN year- He is stIll busy with his
great world drama, The Dynasts."
The Washington herald., 1909-06-27

set In Silver" the new book by Mr..
and Mrs. Williamson. is having a great
sale
The Washington herald., 1909-06-27

Among the new novels from the press
Of Macmillan & Co. may be mentioned
The Straw" by Rita Ramsey; THE
Three Brothers" by Eden Phillpotts, and
limbo" fantasy, by Algernoa Black
wood
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Boston; Small. MAYNARD & Co
Edward Balmer is the author who Is
responsible for the strong scene Of Via
Wireless" the big melodrama which was
so successfully produced last season. and
the principal interest Of which centered
about the scene in question In his latest
attempt to place the Marconi wonder be-
tween book covers, Mr.. Belner has fallen
short Of the brll's-eye which ne scored
in his former tale. The narrative IS
chiefly given up to an almost endless dis
cussion and pursuit Of a case OF mistaken
identity In which young and whole
some American travelling through the
English cathedral towns is taken for a
very clever thief. who happens 70 be
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Harper's Weekly for last week has a
humorous article by Z. W Kemble, tell
ing how members Of the Lambs Club
Travelled 2.725 miles, gave several per-
formances each day. and gathered IN
more than a hundred thousand dollars
FOR their new clubhouse
Maclyn Arbuckle as an end man, Ig-
naciO Martinetu as a coryphee. Raymond
Hitchcock as g coon" Charles Kelln
and Wilton Lackaye as Roman cltizenS
and Belesco IN the spot light are among
the Illustrations which the author con
tributed 10 this entertaining article
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The Editors Complaint.

1t is held to be an inexcusable out
rage for newspaper editor to make
the slightest mistake in a statement of
any sort, while professional persons,
upon whose certainty of knowledge and
on whose statement in regard thereto,
life and death or the most important IN
terests depend, make the most serious
errors without mourning the slightest
criticism, much less blame.
Take the Judge on the bench, whose
decisions are set aside and annulled by
higher courts almost every day, and the
Judge whose judgment is so reversed
does not suffer in the least in public and
professional estimation.
These are curious facts, but they are
facts. and they are mentioned, not by
way Of eXcusing editorial mistakes, for
there is no excuse for them. 1t is be-
cause every individual firmly believes
that he could conduct newspapers bet
ter than those who are charged with
the work, while no unprofessional per
son would undertake to usurp functions
of the Judge or the physician.
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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER II, 1909.
PURCHASING VOTES

At the election last week Maryland
voted on an amendment to disfranchise
the negro. 1t failed, as it ought to
have done. Taking away from race
the right to vote, which was once given
them, is a difficult, if not an impossible
task. We hear sometimes of people
expressing themselves in favor of dis
franchising the negro, and they point
to the alleged practice of buying up the
negro vote as their reason. We do not
think this practice is so universal as to
justify such a course, says the Ohio
State Journal. There are, doubtless,
negroes who sell their votes, and white
people, too, no doubt, but they are
low class, and are very few compared
with the body of decent and intelligent
voters. But here is something we can
not understand-w a negro who sells
his vote should be disfranchised and
the man who buys it should be per-
mitted to vote. If the matter were
analysed, the man who buys vote is
a worse citizen than a man who sells
his vote. Whenever a loW-down negro
or white man sells his vote there is
always some alleged respectable man
who does the buying or furnishes the
money.
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A MATTER WHICH CONCERNS
BUSINESS INTERESTS.

AS reason for plunging the State
into another prolonged fight on the
negro suffrage question, the Sun cites
the 'dictum of William Jennings BRYAN
to the effect that ''no question is set
tied until it is settled right" A very
good saying; but much depends on who
has the determination of when an issue
is settled right. Mr.. Bryan made use
of this oracular utterance in reference
to the silversquestion, which seems to
be fairly conclusively settled, in utter
disregard of his views about it. AS
there weresbu $4,000 votes out of a
total of 285, 900 for the amendment. a
good many people will say the disfran-
chising! question has been settled right.
But more important than the repeti-
ton by Mr.. Bryan of an axiom which
has come down from the Stone Age,
and more:important than the views of
our contemporary as to the weight it
should have Tin Maryland, is Governor
Crothers'R prompt acquiescence. His
''me, too, followed more quickly even
than usually marks the concert between
the luminary and. its chief satellite,
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CAR SHORTAGE BECOMING SERIOUS
Coal Companies Forced To Refuse Or
ders Except Subject To Delay.

The shortage of coal cars in the West
Virginia field is becoming more serious
every day, and practically every Balti-
more company operating mines in that
district is handicapped and losing bust
ness because of the inability of the rail-
roads to furnish equipment with which
to move coal.
1t is estimated that in the Fairmont
region alone the mines are behind ap-
proXimately 200, 600 tons in deliveries,
and the indications are that the con-
gestion will become worse rather than
improve, owing to the rush of all classes
of freight. Some companies have been
forced to refuse orders for coal except
subject to delay. In the meantime con-
sumers are clamorlng for fuel, and in
some instances are offering premiums
over quoted prices.
Not only cars but locomotives also
are scarce. Builders are working day
and night to supply equipment, but are
unable to materially relieve the sltua-
ton. Some of the coal companies which
are under contract to furnish a specified
amount of coal monthly to certain con-
Germs are buying coal from dealers at
practically retail prices in order to full
fill their obligations.
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showing that at times fiattery cannot
be too nauseors, or Establishment too
manifest to fail of effect.
Thanks to the overpow ering strength
of the counties IN the legislature, they
can do what they please. The Cover
nOr's recommendation will have weight
with that body. If he recommends, as
he says he will, another DISTINGUISHING
amendment-in return for the incense
which is constantly burned before him
it will have weight; his recommendation
will have great weight. The situation
is one, therefore, which concerns the
business interests of the State and the
city.
Nobody will deny that it is harmful
to the material welfare of the city and
State to have men running up and down
IN 1t DINING into the ears of the peo-
pie that Maryland is suffering dread
fully from the incubus of the negro
especially when it seems so certain that
Vic llISubuS 10 SOlIS " EGiIldIn WIFI us.
1t must be harmful to progress for out
siders to hear the constant cry that
there is milestone about the neck of
this city and State which cannot be got
rid of. 1t will not induce capitalists or
immigrants to locate in Maryland to per-
petually remind them that in one-half
of the State-if the spellbinders are to
be believed-life and property are not
safe, wealth is disappearing and ruin
holds sway. Last of all, it would be
difficult to overestimate the injury done
by the majority party year after year
training new adherents up in the belief
that political leadership consists of get
ting some shrewd shibboletn which ap-
peals to the passions of the people, in
stead of teaching them to gain political
standing by wise administration.
Maryland has great business ques-
lions demanding solution. 1t is worse
than folly to push them aside and devote
our political energies to threshing out
so barren an issue as negro disfranchise-
ment.
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Church Services.
ST. MARKS LUTHERAN

ST. MARK S LUTHERAN.
Services next Sabbath as follows
Sunday school at $3.50 a. m.
misunderstanding at 7:3O.
Deer Park Preaching at II am.
Luther League Wednesday 7:3O p. m.
Everybody welcome.
E. MANGES. Pastor.
BAPTIST.
Services for Sunday are as follows:
Elder Hill-Preaching at IL a. m.
Deep Creek-Preaching at 1870 p. m.
c. w. HUDSON. Pastor.
ST. PAUL'S M. e.
Services next Sunday as follows:
Preaching at 1890 a. m. and 1870 p. m.
Sunday school at 2:15 p. m.
Epworth League Monday 1880 p. m.
Prayermeeting Wednesday 7:3O p. m.
Everybody cordially invited to attend
these services.
G. R. WILLIAMSON, Pastor.
MT. LAKE PARK NJ. E. CHARGE.
Services next Sunday as follows:
Mt Lake Park Preaching at 1920 a.
m. and 1880 p. m.
Class meeting at 10 a. m. and Ep-
worth League at $50 p. M, every Sun
day.
Everybody cordially invited.
p. Z. MUSGRAVE. Pastor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-11-11
DAVIS AND ELKINS HAVE THE KEY
Will Build Short Railway Line and
Have a Double Outlet for Coal.

Senator Stephen B. Elkins and his
father-in-law, former Senator Henry
G. Davis, by the construction of less
I than a hundred miles of track, will
within year, it was stated, at Fair
mont Monday night, be in control of a
railroad situation which will give them
a low grade outlet both to the eastern
| seaboard and the northern lakes for the
enormous product of their West Vir-
ginia mines. They are now placIdly
sitting on the kew to this interesting
and profitable situation. while their en-
gineers are putting the finishing touches
on the surveys.
The building of the forty extern
sion of the Morgantown & KingwoOd
road, from its southern end at Rowles-
burg up Cheat river and across to Elk
ms, will give the two multi-millionalres
line from Morgantown to Charleston.
AT MOrgantOwn they will, it is now
definitely known, connect with the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie and thus reach
the lakes, and at Charleston they will
attach themselves to the Virginia Rail-
road and put their coal at tidewater.
There is much activity in Preston coun-
ty, where the Elkins interests own the
great Muddy Creek and Big Sandy coal
fields. These fields will, it is under
stood, be pierced by branch line from
Trowbridge Ferry, on Cheat river, to
Point Marion, at Cheats mouth, where
the P. & l.. E. will again be touched.
This survey has been made and accept
ed. By this maneuver the Elkins coal
will be run by gravity, practically from
the mines to the Lake Erie tracks.
The man who vouched for the truth
of these statements said there was no
doubt but that the Lake Erie would
build into Fairmont. THE New York
Central interests own tens of thousands
of acres of coal in Marion county and
they are coming for it, " he said. The
Elkins-Davis connection will not in the
least interfere with their coming here. "
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BITTINGER.
zoe OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

The farmer prods his weary team
The thick set sod to break;
One vision haunts his autumn dream
A big, hot buckwheat cake.
Miss Nettie Brininger returned to her
home at Sunnyside last Saturday, after
spending a week with her sister, Mrs.
j. Turner Lohr, at this place.
Some of the young men of this neigh
borhood are bagging quite a number of
pheasants since the season is open; one
reports having killed 10 pheasants and
II rabbits in three days last week.
We are glad to report an improve
ment in Rev. Shoup's condition. He
was well enough to visit some of his
friends near this village last Sunday
and Monday.
K. S. Brenneman, of this place. has
been engaged to teach the Jennings
school, which was vacated by the recent
resignation of Mr.. Rodimer.
c. E. Ellithorp made brief business
visit to Oakland last week.
After a few weeks visit with rela-
tlves and friends here, Miss Fannie
Wiley returned to Waterloo, Iowa, last
Monday, where she will resume her
work as a professional nurse
A report reached here early last Mon
day morning to the effect that the resi-
dence of Daniel Yommer, near Jennings,
had burned to the ground the night
previous and that Mr.. Yommer and his
wife and son were badly burned.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-11-11
ALLE6ANY'S FINE SHOWING.
Republicans Swept Whole County
Cause Of SIoan's Defeat.

For the first time in eight or ten wears
the whole Republican county ticket in
Allegany county has been elected. 1t
swept the county last Tuesday by major
tiles ranging from 68 majority for D.
Lindley Sloan, the Republican candidate
for judge in the Fourth Judicial Circuit.
to 2, 1858 for Zihlman, the Republican
candidate for State Senate, and over
1000 against the disfl anchising amend
ment. The average majority in Ale
gany county was something like 1900,
which is most creditable to the party
and especially to the state central com
mittee Of the county.
1t is to be observed also that part of
the Is, 900 majority recorded against the
DISTINGUISHING amendment in the state,
the Sixth District of Maryland gave a
majority of $3.50, as follows: Allegany
county, zoos; Garrett county, 1855:
Washington county, 1,482, and Freder-
lex county, 887 showing that Baltimore
city and Western Maryland practically
defeated the DISTINGUISHING amendment.
1t has been stated in several of the
papers that d. Lindley Sloan, Republi-
can candidate for judge in the Fonrth
Judicial Circuit, was defeated by Judge
Boyd, because of Republican detection
in Garrett county. This is a mistake,
because Garrett county, while giving
Mr.. Sloan on reduced majority of 154,
had much to contend with in the fact
that Democratic lawyer of Oakland
organized citizens or Independent
movement in the interest of Judge Boyd
without however, indorsing him in the
platform of that party's convention, but
using the movement for the purpose of
taking votes away from the Republican
candidate for judge and giving them to
the Democratic candidate. Garrett and
Allegany counties both gave maiorities,
one of 154 and the other 90 for Sloan,
who was defeated by majority of $50
in Washington county, most unusual
and suspiclously remarkable Democratic
majority in a Republican county. If
Washington county, which has been in
the habit of giving Republican MAORI
ties ranging from 800 to /, 200 for Pearre
and McComas when they have been can
didates for Congress, had even held the
Democrats down to stand-off, Sloan
would have been Judge.
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ploy of an electric light company. He
was stricken with typhoid fever some
days ago. He has the best attention
and his early recovery is hoped for.
Mr.. Irwin L. Sperry has been ap,
pointed treasurer of the Southern Ser
wee Company of Norfolk, Va. This is
a lucrative and responsible position.
The announcement of the death of an
old aud valued friend of Mountain Lake
Psrk reached here Wednesday morning,
in the person of Mrs. Virginia E. White,
who died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Creole H. Wilson, in cumberland,
Tuesday morning last. Mrs. White had
spent her summers at the Park for the
past twenty years or more.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-11-11
The MARYLAND-WEST VIRGINIA
BOUNDARY CASE.

The territory in dispute between the
States of Maryland and West Virginia,
involved in the case argued in the Su-
preme Court of the United States on
Thursday by Attorney Straus,
is a strip containing nearly so square
miles lying along the western boundary
of this State. The northern boundary
of the grant of Charles | to Lord Balti-
of Delaware which lieth under the for
tieth degree of north latitude from the
equinoctial, where New England is
terminated, passing from Delaware
Bay in right line by the degree afore-
said into the true meridian of the first
fountain of the river ''Pattowmack "
That was the western boundary of the
State. Maryland claimed that the line
should have run to the first fountain
of the South Branch, which is the larger
branch or main stream of the otomac
If this contention had been allowed, the
western boundary would have been far
west of the one for which Attorney
General Straus is now contending, and
several of the counties of West Virginia
would have belonged to Maryland
But in that contention the State was
defeated by the decision that the North
Branch, and not the South Branch, is
the ''River Potomac.
Then Maryland established the fact
that West Virginia is claiming and oc-
cupying territory one and a half miles
east of the meridian of the first foun-
tain of the North Branch. The present
boundary is line running due south
from Mason and DiXon'S line to Fairfax
stone. This stone was fixed by proceed
lngs between Lord Fairfax and the
Dominion of Virginia, in which Mary
land had no part and by which Lord
Baltimore could not have been bound.
1t was assumed by some that the spring
at Fairfax stone was the first fountain
of the Potomac. But that assumption
was wrong, because the Potomac in
fact flows from fountain at a place
called Potomac stone, mile and half
farther west than the Fairfax stone.
Acknowledgement Straus maintains
that Maryland had in no way estopped
srself in claiming the western bound
airy for which he contends by any act
accepting the present boundary.
The disputed territory is a sparsely
settled mountain region, with, however,
two or three small villages in it. There
is fine timber land and some fertile val
legs. The greater part of the territory
is underlaid with coal of the upper and
lower Youghiogheny basin and the up
per Potomac basin. 1t is a territory,
upon the whole, well worth acquiring -
Baltimore Sun.