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The Washington times., 1910-04-03
SAYS PUBLIC ILLS
ARE Due TO WASTE
James ]. Hill ReiterateS AS
Sertion Financial Delirium
Is Worldwide.
POINTS TO HEAVY
DEBT INCREASE
Fxtravagance Both National and
Observation-Disclosures Tariff
Also a Factor.

NEW YORK. April 3--In a remark
able interview given out here today
James J, Hill declares the criminal ex-
travagance, both Of the nation and the
individual is lifting tn. cost OF living.
I'VE are Hviny g. declares Mr.. HiIl.
"in an age Of worldwide financial de-
Hrium. Most 0f the nations have
thrown moderation away in the spend
ing Of money"
France, he declares. IS composed OF
the greatest race OF money savers;
America Of the richest individuals Hill
points out that Americans are not con-
servers OF their wealth. He presented
a report that showed that from 1870
10 1890 the wealth OF America increased
ll6 per cent; from 1890 TO 1904. Americas
wealth increased only % per cent Yet,
he points out, Americas debt increased
but IA per cent from 1s7O TO 1880. while
Il increased III per cent from 1890 TO
1904
Cause Of High Prices.
This phenomenal increase Of public
expenditure has already produced a
plentiful crop OF public 1Is," he de-
cIared. 1T Is one OF the causes OF che
increase in prices now disturbing tho
people"
The high tariff and the combination
OF business IN restraint Of trade. Hill
said, added much 20 the present high
cost Of living, but no thought the great
est factor was the decrease in the food
supplies. While Americas population
has been increasing BY leaps and
bounds. Americas farmers have not
been increasing their crops In the same
ratio, the result being a scarcity in
fOodstuhs and consequent increase in
price
Waste Is DeplOred
Waste, both national and Individual; ;
idIeness and increased wages. he de-
clared, caused the cost Of living to in
crease. Wages, he said. could not be
increased without increasing the cost
OF the goods produced by that labor
which demanded the increase in wages.
High wages and high prices work IN a
circle" he said.
We conserve our natural resources
by taking steps to prevent their destruc-
ton" said HiIl, in conclusion Just
so much we save the wealth Of the
country, It's capital and It's credit, from
the predatory poor as well Of the pre-
datory rich, but above all from the pre-
datOry politician
The idea of Intelligent economy must
be restored. Let the rule be that every
dollar unproftably spent marks a crime
the dissipation Of material resources"
The Washington times., 1910-04-03
GOOD TEMPLARS ENTERTAIN.

More than 100 members Of Persever-
ance Lodge. Independent Order Good
TemplRrs, attended the entertainment
given by the organization The affair
took place last evening at the lodge
rooms, 80 Pennsylvania avenue north
west. The program was made Up OF
musical selections and rec1tatiOEs.
The Washington times., 1910-04-03

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The Washington times., 1910-04-03
FIRFS NEAR EDGEMONT.

HAGERSTOWN. Nd, April 3y-An
extensive mountain fire IS burning in
the vicinity Of EAgemOnC. several miles
west OF Pen-Nar About fifty acres Of
timber land have been burned over.
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unless there is a golf course nearby.
Now that she has become expert. she does
not care in the least whether it is on d
private or a public course she plays.
Lord Kitchener. who took up the game
himself this season is credited with hav
ing impressed on the Duchess of MARI
borough the peace-with- ALL the-world sen
sation a game of golf can produce. When
her grace takes up anything she means
ii. as her friends say, and she goes at
it with enthusiasm worthy of an Amer
lean. While she was staying with her
compatriots. Mrs. Vanderbilt and the
Marquise de Ganay, she often was up at
4 am. practicing. Her absorbed air and
the earnestness with which she played
suggested that great things depended on
her every move. Her boys, both of whom
play well. were sometimes with her. The
Blenheim spaniels TO which the family are
so attached would find their way some
times to the course, only to be hurried
back TO the house by an attendant
Countess Torby. wife of the Grand
Duke Michael of Russia. is an inveterate
golfer. She goes to North Berwick each
year to play on the course there. which is
pronounced by experts to be the finest i'll
the kingdom. Arthur BalfourS friends
say if il came to a choice between giving
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NZRzHARD eSM1ESZE2
.QREcZQP NZE
BZREAU
the basis .bZGkJAAA ~3S|Sv

secured is again Subdividcd on the basis
of the coloring of the eye
An index card OF man measured by
the Bertillon system, if the measurements
have been carefully taken will guide a
Searcher at once almost 10 the exact spot
where the records of those measurements
repOSe in the files. \ criminal recaptured
if his measurements have ever been re-
corded. has little chance to escape identi-
fication.
Both the Bertilon and the finger-print
systems of identifying men are often as
great an aid to the innocent a terror.
to the guilty One historic case of the us
of finger prints arose in England shortly
after their introduction there for criminal
work. \ man was accused of a crime and
had found it impossible to clear himself
of the charge. At the last moment a
student of the finger-print system found
the mark of a hand on a window at the
scene of the crime; and through this i'm
preston the actual culprit was found and
identified.
The apparatus for taking the impress
sions of the fingers is simple-some
printers ink. a smooth surface. roller
such as a glass bottle and a piece OF
paper for the impression. With this
equipment a man convicted or A crime
can be made to leave a record from which
he can never escape.
The impression of the thumb alone is
usually enough to furnish a good identi-
ficaton, for no two thumbs are alike.
But in the everlasting man hunt in which
the police of the world are engaged ii has
been found that thousands Of thumb
prints cannot be easily classified, or easily
located when wanted. Then too, man
may mutilate a thumb OF finger in order
to destroy his record.
As finger print is of no use to the
police unless it can be instantly located.
a simple but effective system CT clasSi-
tication and index has been devised. by
which the location of a certain record in
the files is almost exactly known. Tine
prisoner is made 10 record separately
The in,nression of every finger on each
hand. Then print is taken of each hand,
with the four fingers applied simultane-
ousty to the paper
TO the expert. your finger lines present
either an arch. a ''whori. or loop
These divisions are Subdivided many
times. according 10 the direction of the
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EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GIRL A WONDER


and apologies for not coming down
stairs Her eyes are bandaged anr she
couldn't see you. so l don't suppose it
makes much difference. l am her secre-
tary now, and take care of all her cor
respondence.'
The reporter gasped and almost broke
his promise of no Interruptions Eight
years old and private secretary" he
thought.
II have brought you my picture she
continued. 1t was taken for me by my
Esperanto Onklo Karl. whose other name
is Mr.. Randall of Seattle. Wash.
1T is rather hard to begin to tell you
how / learn my lessons. To begin with,
] never study. l have learned Roman
history and Grecian history by using the
texts as the basis of game which 1
play with my mother When we take
long walks through the country together
I learn geography because mother tells
me of the lakes and rivers and the va
rious great and wonderful places in the
world, just some mothers talk to their
children about Jack the Giant Killer.
think fairy tales are nonsense, don't
your
The reporter to gain time for breath,
which was rapidly leaving him because
of the rapidity with which the little miss
was telling her story. murmured, why.
of course" and she continued:
Arithmetic l am acquiring by playing
games sent me by my dear number teach
er in Chicago. Mrs. Hornbrook.
Il don't know why you reporters are
making such fuss. anyhow. | am only
a little girl who loves her books because
they are so interesting and because per-
haps | have never been compelled to
study them. The reason / can spell bet
ter than most girls is, l suppose because
I have a picture of every word in my
head. and it was made there by copying
rhymes on the typewriter
Languages 1 am particularly fond Of
/ can talk to my dolies in French. Span
ish, Latin, Esperanto. japanese, Russian
Polish Italian. German and a little He
brew. 1 have been trying to get papa to
buy me a beginners work on Sanskrit
but he says ten are enough for "a little
girl to understand"
Just then Mrs Stoner called down
stairs to her daughter The reporter took
the hint and went back to his office.
Cherie enters Stanford University in
the spring. 1t il certain the world will
hear much more of her before very long
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Special CORRESPONDENCE Of The Star.
PAI4O ALTO. Cal. Octobe- Il. 1910
IN Palo Alto. Cal there is little girl
who all day long plays with her dolls
L and friSks from room 20 room in the
beautiful home of her parents with all
the ioyOusness of other little women of
her age and who is said to be the BRAIN
lest younsster in the world Already
educators and professors are hailing this
little eight-year-old the coming rival
to William Sidis, the twelve-year-o
phenomenon who is daily astonishing in
structors at Harvard University by his
fcats of learning.
The little girls name is Winfred Sack
vile Stoner She is the only daughter of
DIR. j. B. Stoner. stationed at Palo Alto.
in charge of the United States Marine
Hospital. Her mother is a daughter OF
Lord Sackville, who was ambassador 10
this country from Great Britain during
President CleVeland's administration.
Winifred. or Cherie she is called
familiariy, can speak English. French.
Spanish, Latin and Esperanto fluently to
the extent of carrying on conversation
in them. and can read without difficulty
works written in six other tongues.
This girl prodigy studies as other chill
dren play. While she plays with her
toys. IL Is with A book by her side and
the books get most of the attention at
all times.
Not only is Cherie linguist. but she is
also poetess, and has published a book
of her verses. She is reader of elias
sizes, and would be perfectly at home at
DIR. Eliots five-foot shelves if she were
tall enough TO reach up to the hop.
the youngSter writes a hand that the
average sixteen year-old school girl
would be proud to be able to duplicate.
She is not an old fashioned child in
the sense that the term is usually &C
ccepted, put genuine, whole-souled,
happy little youngster that one sees ex-
amples of in every city
reporter called to see little Cherie
few days ago to talk with her of her
accompli shments
He was ushered into the drawing
room by neatly dressed maid who
went upstairs and announced the Wis
itor.
Usually Mrs. Stoner is present during
interviews, but on this day she was in
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Vile. who is becoming quite clever
player Lady de Clifford. an interesting
widow. who before her marriage was
musical comedy actress. often is seen on
the links. She plays conscientious game
with keen interest.
The majority of women who golf dress
in workman-like garments and the thick
est of shoes. i hear the Duchess of MARI
borough found her heavy Soled SoIfing
shoes very trying at first but, like 9TH
ers. she soon got used to them. Golfing
headgear is rarely becoming The Ouch
esS of Connaught and Princess Patricia
content themselves with tweed hats or
caps with quill. The Countess Torby
and the Duchess of Marlborough wear
more decorative millinery-jaunty velvet
trifleS fitting closely to the head with
Paris ndelibly stamped on them.
Politicians play the game assiduously
when relieved Of their parliamentary
worries and the cares of state. One of
the latest political recruits is II. II. AS
Quith the prime minister. He had
start of about six months over Lord
Kitchener. but while Kitchener began his
practice in peace the prime minister was
initiated into the mysteries and pleasures
of the game amid all the inconvenience
Of political warfare. He went into the
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Most Valuable Faculty.

Bostonian, used to smile at the
brain flag that SO often attacks the
American business men. Prof. James had
his own opinion Of the average business
mans hard work. He thought that brain
flag came more frequently from an excess
of whisky and tobacco than from an eX-
cess of mental application.
'Apropos of this he used to tell story
about little boy who asked his father
Papa, what is executive ability
Executive ability, my son. the father
replied, lis the faculty of earning your
bread by the sweat of other peoples
brows.
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.kME hzz0E
MEF eSElz2EW SEFEZzE

If Il is not there the criminal has no
previous record under any name. If it is
there the mans former record is at once
known. no matter how many times he
may have changed his name or his facial
appearance.
To identify criminal from a photo
graph is an unsatisfactory and often an
entirely hopeless undertaking. The files
OF the secret service and OF city police
departments are full of photographs of
different men who look alike. and of
widely dffere-,t pictures of one individual
Identification from photographs is a
matter of,gueSswork compared 10 the ac-
curacy which attaches to the use of
measurements and finger prints.
In raid OF counterfeiting gangs in
New York several years ago an Italian
slipped through the meshes OF the secret
service net. The only description to be
had was that furnished by an old
photograph, showing the fugitive with
out a beard. Rumors reached Chief
Wilkie at Washington that the man. dis
guised with heavy beard. had turned
up on sugar plantation in louisiana
Armed with the old picture skilled
operative. formerly in the employ of the
secret service, was sent to the Louisiana
district. He searched long and faith
fully for the man. Whenever he suspect
ed a bearded son OF Italy he would
haul him into town and have him shaved
He finally threatened to shave every Ital-
ian in Louisiana. but it was of no use:
he got no track the man he was after
Even under favorable circumstances
Photographic Identification is not easy.
In the Bertillon system the classification
begins with the length of the head Ar
bItrary limits are set, and every head IS
either long, medium or short -
These divisions are subdivided by the
width of the head; then by the length of
the middle finger; again by the length of
the left foot.
Another subdivision is made on the
measurement Of the forearm: another nv
the height of the person. and other sub
divisions by the length of the little finger.
the measurement of the. trunk the arms
outstretched, the length and width of the
ear, and the measurement of the cheeks.
Finally the small division that has been
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up public life or a game of golf at North
Berwick he would abandon the former.
The countess often is the partner of Mr..
Balfour. though he is not especially keen
on playing with ladies. The handles OF
all her golf clubs are ieweled- Recently
she had 81 her numerous 1aras
broken up and set in her favorite club
1t was golfnG. rather than dieting,
which restored TO the Duchess of Man
chester the figure of her girlhood. Some
time ago when her grace was in America
her girl friends roundty scolded her for
the way in which she had allowed herself
to look the part of the matron.
Look at u.s. they cried. See how We
have retained orr straight backs, how
we have maintained the lines of our
teens. Shame on you. Take exercise. p
The duchess loatheS exercise, but she
pondered what they had said. Golf was
recommended to her as requiring less eX-
ertion than anything else. so TO 1t she
took Now she has grown so fond of 1t
that she is out in all Weathers, often
with the duke or little Niscount Mandcr-
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Took Them for Insects.

WOODROW WILSON. the president OF
\" Princeton. said at recent dinner
in the beautiful university town:
when all the world is we'll educated.
as all the world will be some day, then
it will pe better for everybody. SonI-
foolish people. though. don't care to Sc
all the world educated. These people
want to shine-and to Shine. of course.
orc must have darkness.
But that Is poor way to look al il
Those ambitious people should rather say
The more education. the more apprecia-
ton.
There's nothing more disasreeable than
want of appreciation, YOU know \ multi
millionaire returned TO HIS native village
and erected a marble palace on hilltop
there One day. after the palace Vas
completed. he said to the postmaster and
the crowd of loiterers in the general
store:
Boys. my million dollar house up OIL
the bill is simply full of Titians.'
The loiterers exchanged looks OF sur
prise and horror, and the postmaster eN-
claimed:
:. Good gracious. amt there no way O.
KILN EN-?
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1t Rested With Him.

Upton SINCLAIR. discussing the fast
~ ing cure that he has done SO much
to advance, said in New York:
Fasting has become as popular a. ap-
pendicitis. l hope, though, il won't fan
into the same disrepute.
It's currently believed. you know, that
a leading surgeon said TO his wife one
day:
IL operated on Mrs. Gobsa Code fof|
appendicitis last night
Goodness. said the lady. I wonder
who'll have ii neXt?'
- i don't know the surgeon answered
absently. L haven't decided yet
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Still at 1t.

L HOPkINSON SMITH. the brilliant
author and critic, said at a dinner at
the Century Club in New York:
''Oh, yes. We have many excellent mod
ern painters, but ii is only the old mas
tiers that are indeed immortal. The old
masters, you know. are still turning out
new works for the galleries of our multi
millionaires.
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whole of their golfing experience i'm Eng
land. yet they were perfectly satisfied.
Altogether there now are more than 100
clubs in England alone, excluding those
confined to workingmen. in some of
which the subscription is only 81 a year.
Each has its links and clubhouse. The
smallest of these cost at least $4,000,
while those at Deal. Sandwich, Hoylake
and Sunningdale probably cost from 500
600 to $75.0U each. An authority on the
game says that the average cost of a
clubs links and clubhouse could not be
less than $4,000, that the 700 clubs
represent an investment of at least 500
600, 600 So far England alone is con-
cerned the most popular links are, with
out doubt, Deal and Sandwich. with
Hoylake IfverpooD good third. Deal
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land is Countess Cowley. She was the
Hon Millieent Wilson. one of the beauti-
full daughters of the late Lord Nunburn-
holme,. and was the heroine of the senSa
tional divorce suit brought some years
ago by her first husband, Sir Charles
Hartopp after which she was married
TO Earl Cowley. who was the correspond
ent. Another famous lady player is the
Hon. Beatrice Lois Yarde Butler, the
daughter of Lord Ch1Irston and the sis
ter of Capt. Yarde Butler. who married
Miss Denise Orme, the Gaiety actress,
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n 3ERzXt17N RECORD ~<@e eSECRET <SE:RDEE

cation has in turn. been placed at the
disposal of the secret service, the Depart
ment of Justice and other government
branches concerned with criminal sur
VIGILANCE.
The recent meeting of the International
Prison Congress in this country en-
phaSiZed the Importance that is to at
tach to the central identification bureau
when it is fully equipped and thoroughly
organized Sir Evelyn Brise, the English
penologist, in an address before the
prison delegates two weeks ago. declared
that the great need in the United States
today is an agency for gathering crimi-
nal statistics and bringing together all
facts pertaining to the habitual criminals
of the country.
The identificatio of suspected persons
is one phase of the work to be done by
the central bureau. Another is the prep,
araton of criminal statistics and the
equipment of a laboratory in which stu
dents may make exhaustive iuyestiga
tons into the life. habits. history and
influences of American malefactors.
Maj. Richard Sylvester. president Of
the Association of Police Chiefs, and di-
rector of the national bureau of criminal
Identification says that the work of the
bureau is only started. 1t will reach it's
MIA ximuIh efficiency. he says. when it has
provided the means for the immediate
Identification and exhaustive study of
every important individual offender in
the country.
AT present we have a method" says
Maj. Sylvester I'VE must now build up
a system. and that system is the end to-
ward which the bureau of identification
is working.
During the last few weeks all police
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A. J. Balfour, the conservative leader,
is quite a veteran, and, if not the best.
Is certainly the best known player in the
house of commons. He won the parlia
mentary handicap in 1894 and again in
1897. Only a few days ago he and Mr..
Asquith had a friendly game together at
North Berwick.
The Hon. Alfred Iyttleton, another
member of the late unioniSt government,
has taken to golf Mr. Lyttleton came to
his new love with great athletic expert
ence, for he was the greatest tennis and
racquet player of his day, and has played
for England both at cricket and foot ball.
Sir Rufus Isaacs, the solicitor general,
who will lead the prosecution in the Grip
pen murder trial, confeSses TO a weakness
for golf, though owing to professional
claims he is never likely TO become
scratch player.
Although American amateur golfers of
the first water are rarely TO be seen in
the big English tournaments, their num-
Der being limited to two, Travis and By
ers, within the last decade. yet every
summer sees the invasion of the famous
English and Scotch links by hundreds of
American golfers of ability. Their visits
to this side of the Atlantic are made, in
many cases, solely for the purpose OF
playing over and becoming acquainted
with such famous courses as ST. Andrews
and Westward Ho-
These visits in force TO English links by
American golfers are "A matter of recent
years. Indeed. they date really from
Travis win of the amateur championship
of Great Britain, which gave an enormous
impetus to the interest Americans had in
golf as played this side OF the water.
The visit of Harry Vardon and other Eng
ltc1,v oil of To -
interested the American of means in the
English professional, and part Of the time