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The Washington herald., 1910-06-13

and this was passed by a large majority,
foreshadowing the fate OF the bin.
Once passed. Finland's fate is sealed,
though it is hardly TO be expected that
the people OF Finland wiz submit with
out protest, any more than the people
OF Korea have tameIy submitted to the
annexation by Japan. But ii is hard TO
see what they can do besides protest.
Once the bill has passed the Douma. Fin
lands Diet can pass no law without sub
hitting it TO the imperial government at
St Petersburg. and for the passage Of
such laws as it requires it must look
to the Douma. where. however. Finland
viii have representation.
There viii be charges Of bad faith. Of
course; there viii be criticism of Rus
sia's right, simply because of her might,
20 do this thing; but even il Finland
should evoke a national feeling strong
enough to make itself felt in rebellion,
the end could but be the same. Finland
is doomed 10 become only a name. and
Col. Roosevelt and other imperialists will
have another text on the attractive mat
ter of the Subject races"
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Americans Behind the Guns.

1t is pretty good news that Secretary
of the Navy Meyer gave out at An
napolis the other day TO the effect that
IS per cent of the enlisted men in the
navy are Americans. This was not the
case a few years ago, when the majority
of our sailors were foreigners. many Of
them, as a matter Of fact, not Amer
lean citizens until they took the oath of
enlistment.
OF course, it is not wave OF patriotism
that has caused the change, but change
in conditions. Nowadays We don't have
TO rely on the seaports for our seamen
for the navy, because. as matter of fact,
it makes no difference whether we enlist
seamen or not In fact, 1t IS probable
that capable a. B. would have 10 learn
his craft all over again on board a mod
ern man-Of-War And so il is that the
naval recruiting officer has established
his headquarters in the inland districts:
there is hardly country town that does
not contain the governments advertise
ments for recruits, and the result Is that
our men-of-war are manned by lads from
the country; intelligent, self-respecting,
efficient, and these are very soon made
over into the very material that Is most
needed. One thing yet remains to be
done; 10 devise some plan of making the
service so attractive that a larger pro-
portion of our sailors viii re-enlist when
their time expires
It costs lot of money, time, and labor
to make a good man-of-war's man. and
it's a pity to have TO keep on making a
lot of new ones and letting the older and
trained men 80.
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DAILY
BOOK REVIEW
A SPLENDID HAZARD.

"A Splendid Hazard" by Harold Me-
Grath. is another OF those "adyen-
ture" novels of which, since the era of
best sellers we have had a surfeit.
In this case the adventures Of the hero
begin with a wager that he will buy out
the plaster-of-paris stock OF an Italian
peddler, and standing in front OF bis
fashionable club make a sale within an
hour. He sells sta.uette to lady. nat
urally the heroine, and whom, it does not
take high degree of intelligence to
divine. the hero is to marry: and this
starts the adventure II involves lineal
descendant OF Napoleon. who is called
Napoleon ". and who, although slightly
crazed from a bullet through the head,
Is determined to make an attempt on the
throne of France by means Of a buried
treasure of 100000 francs. The tale is
not embarrassing, though it strains prob
ability to the breaking point; there is
plenty Of adventure Of a sort, and II is
the sort OF summer novel that one may
pick up without any too pleasurable an
ticipation and lay down-at any time in
the narrative-without too much regret
indianapolis: The Bobbs- Merrill Com
pany)
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A TOWN OF NEW RELIGION.
Many Isms Have FIourished in Bat
tie Creek, Mich.

tie Creek, Mich.
From the Detroit Free Press
Battle Greek enjoys unique distinc-
ton. that of having been the home OF
more strange and freak religions than
any other city in Michigan If not in
the United states. The intellectual
soil seems to be fertile for the growth
of mystic and occult isms.
Fifty-five years ago the Seventh Day
Adventists located there and made Bat
tie Creek their headquarters for the
world. Their subsequent wonderful
growth made the name OF Battle Creek
synonymous with Adventism. Then
came the Spirituaiists, and the city be-
came widely known as the headQuar-
ters in Michigan for that cult. At one
time they had very large society. and
all OF the noted free thinkers and ag-
nostics in the country came there 10
lecture
1t is singular that these two denOm-
nations represented the two extremes
in religion. one extremely orthodox and
the other broadest kind OF liberalism.
More literature of these two faiths has
been sent out from Battle Creek than
from any other city in the country.
The ablest and best known authors Of
both isms have resided here at some
time. Among the first settlers were a
band OF Quakers. subsequently they
all became spiritualists.
Next came a colony from the East
who were imbued with Fourierism and
extreme liberal ideas on religion and
social life. They established a COM
munity three miles west OF the city.
built college and other buildings and
called themselves the Harmonists.
Several authors ana men OF note cast
their lot with this socialistic enter
prise, among them being former Gov.
Talmage. of Wisconsin. who died while IN
the community
one man who obtained g good fol-
lowing was DR. Bowling. He had a
strong personality and could easily in
fiuenCed people He had a brand-new
religion, his followers calling them
selves "Christadelphians"
Or. Swartz. OF Chicago, dropped down
to Battle Greek and was the first per-
son to teach the mind cure" I'm that
city He got a following that increas
ed and branched of into other systems
OF new thought, and several societies
along that line were organized, includ-
ing a Metaphysical Club"
The city has had followers and prose
lyters for the "Hermetic Brotherhood, %
Age 10 Come Millennium Dawn. 4"
Breath Of Life" 'TheOsOphy' "Agnos-
tics" Fire Worshipers," Restitution
lists" Saint Of Cod" and Church of
the Larger Hope" cults The latest intro
duction into the city is a new thought
cult, called the FlOhim Brotherhood"
The Washington herald., 1910-06-13
TO-DAY IN HISTORY.
QUEEN ANNE'S WAR-JUNE 10.

When King William III Of England
died in March. 1902. and was succeeded by
Anne, the sister of his wife, and daughter
Of James II, England and France were
about to engage in war. The final break
came on May Is, aud the contest that
followed Is known In European history
as the war of the Spanish succession.
while in American history it is usually
called Queen Annes war, or the second
intercolonial war.
On one side were France. Spain. and
Bavaria; on the other England. Holland,
Savoy, Austria, Prussia, Portugal and
Denmark It was in this war that the
Duke OF Marlborough won his fame.
To the people OF New England war be-
tween England and France meant hid
eoJs nightmare war whoop. the toma-
hawk and soalpins knife. burning ham
lets. and horrible captivity. To provide
against it a conference was called TO
meet at Falmouth on Casco Bay, early
in June, when Gov. Dudley, Of Massa-
chusetts met many of the chiefs OF the
Abenaquis The Indians. protesting to
have no thought OF war. promised peace
and friendship by their accustomed
tokens. But as usual only part of the
tribe had been brought into the alliance,
and some lawiess provocs tons by party
Of English marauders soon drove the IN
dians into their old French alliance, and
war was declared on June lS l702.
By August 500 French and Indians were
assembled ready for incursions into the
New England settlements They divided
into several bands and fell upon num-
Der OF places at the same time. Villages
were burned, inhabitants murdered. and
New England was filed with consterna-
ton. 1t was finally resolved to fit out an
expedition for retaliation, and as usual
the people of Acadia were selected to
expiate the sins of the Indians and Ca
nadians.
Col Benjamin Church was put In com
mand Of $50 men, IA transports, and 36
whale boats. conveyed by three ships OF
war. Sailing from Boston in May. 1704,
Church ravished the lesser French settle
ments on the Acadian coast, but ventured
no attack on Port Royal. In 17o5 another
body OF men, under Subercase-soldiers,
Canadians. peasants. Adventures, and IN
dams, well armed, and with rations for
twenty days, blankets, and tents-set out
to destroy the English settlements in
Newfoundland, marching on snow shoes.
They took Petit Havre and ST. Johns,
and devastated all the little settlements
along the eastern coast and the English
trade was for the time completely broken
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UP. The following spring New England
sent Col. March to Port Royal with two
regiments, but he returned without as
saulting the fort. Gov. Dudley forbade
the troops to land when they came back
TO Boston, and ordered them to go again.
Col March was III, and Col Wainwright
took command; but after a pretense Of
besieging the fort for eleven days he re-
tired with small loss, the expedition hav-
Ing cost Massachusetts, more than $4,000
In lbs a council at Montreal decided 10
send large number of Canadians and
Indians to devastate New England. But
after a long march through the almost
impossible mountain region OF Northern
New Hampshire. a murderous attack on
Haverhill was the only result. In 1903 a
plan was formed In England for the cap
ture Of New France by a feet of FIVE
regiments OF British soldiers, aided BY the
colonists. But defeat in Portugal called
away the ships destined for America, and
a force gathered at Lake Champlain
under Col Nicholson for a land attack
was so reduced by siekness-said to have
resulted from the poisoning Of a spring
by Indians-that they burned their canoes
and retreated.
The next year Nicholson was furnished
with six ships of war, thirty transports.
and one British and four New England
regiments for the capture of Port ROYAL.
Subercase had only $50 men and an in
sufficient supply of provisions. He sur
rendered after a short Commandment. and
on October IS the starving and ragged
garrison marched out to be sent to
France. For the last time the French
flag was hauled down from the fort, and
Port Royal was heneeforth an English
fortress. which was renamed Annapolis
Royal in honor of Queen Anne With a
change Of masters came a change of
names. and Acadia was again called Nova
Scotia-the name bestowed upon il by
James II in 1921. and Port Royal. An
napolis.
June IS, 1858. a treaty was signed be-
tween the United States and China, and
in 1853 occurred the battle of Winchester.
Va. It is the date OF the death of St.
Anthony OF Padua in 1921. II is the birth
day Of Francis Dana, statesman and
jurist d743); Nine. d'Arblay, the noted
English novelist Q752); Gen. Winfield
Scott. the distinguished American SOL
der d7S6) Gustayus V. Fox. the Ameri-
car naval officer, who commanded the
first monitor 70 cross the ocean f1s21), and
Fitz-John Porter. the soldier OF the Next
can and civil wars. whose court-martial
caused much controversy Qs22).
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HOW DID you DIEs

Did yoI tackle the trouble that csme your way
With resolute heart and cheeTfaly
Or hide your face from the light Of day
With a craven soul and fearfuli
Oh. tronble's ton a troubles an ounca
Or trcGble is what yoa make Il;
And il isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts
But only. how did you take it,
You are beaten TO earthg Wei, well, what's thatf
Come up with a smiling face
It's nothing against you TO fan down fat,
But to lie there-that's disgrace
The harder you're thrown. why the higher you
bounce;
Be proud Of your hisckened eyei
It isn't the fact that you're licked that counts;
It's how did you fght-and vhyl
And though you be done to the death. what thenl
II you battled the best you could
If you PLAYED YOUR part in the world Of men,
Why, the critic VIII call it good
Death comes with crawl, or comes with posnce
And whether he's slow OF spy
1t isn't the fact that you're dead that counts.
But only hsw did Soa def
Edmund Vance C5oke.
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NO THRILLING WITH ART.
Mr.. Davis Learns Something when
He Attempts to Whitewash Fence.

From the Galveston News
"Pay a man to dab a little whitewash
on a feneer' Mr.. Davis snorted indis-
nantly.
IF I couldn't do fool work like that
I'd sell out" he said Mrs Davis sighed.
bringing the sigh up from a deep wei
Of experience.
You'll muss yourself all up" she pro-
tested. and it viii hurt your back"
Mr.. Davis laughed sc0rnfully.
Just you watch me, he said. with con-
tidence. Then he went out and bought a
whitewash brush He paid a quarter for
IL, and the dealer had tried TO make him
buy one Tor IS cents.
-Seventy-fiye cents for a whitewash
brush" Sir. Davis was so angry he
steamed
Then ne bought q bushel OF lime and
went home The lime was a fine powder
when it came, and when mixed with
water became A watery fluid with fakes
OF white on top, The lime stayed in the
bottom Of the tub.
When he used the new brush it shed
! hairs like a setter dog in summer, and
being wet, showed that il possessed two
thin rows OF hairs on either side and
none in the middle Also when the
embarrassing dried the fence looked in
nowise different from its former ugli-
ness. Mr. Davis considered. His back
hurt. There was lime In mis- eyes. and
he was mad clear through
He went into the house and found Mrs.
Davis preparing 70 so down town, so he
went back to work.
AS soon as she was safely out OF sight
he headed for a negro shack he knew
and resurrected Uncle Peter, who was
seventy-six years old, and who had been
embarrassing and doing odd jobs for sew
enty years
He turned the job over to Uncle Peter,
who threw his brush into the alley,
empued the whitewash and procured s.
from him.
With a wheelbarrow Uncle Peter dis
| appeared and shortly returned with a
| barroWload Of lump lime and a brush and
| set to work. Mr.. Davis sat on the steps
with his pipe and watched him work
When Mrs. Davis returned her hus-
| band was washed and shaver and the
! fence was glstening white.
why. you did do il" she said. Her
evident surprise nettled her husband
"Of course I did" he said; L do all I
set out to do.
"An by yourself?" inquired Mrs. Davis,
edmiringly.
We'll. confessed Mr.. Davis. It got
| Uncle Peter to sorter help me-"
oh" said Mrs. Davis, and went in TO
take off her hat.
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That Guildhall Speech.

Mr.. Roosevelt's Guildhall speech may
not have started anything in particular
in England, but it stirred up the animals
in Egypt, all right And the excited
state OF mind. evident enough in that
country, will, in the nature of things,
have its effect on England eventually.
The Egyptian nationalist are after the
colonel with particularly sharp sticks.
One eminent person of that ilk denounces
the former President as AN impe'tinent
meddler;" another proclaims him
coarse ignoramusi" third rates him "a
tyrant and butcher. who does not know
what he is talking about" while a
fourth exhibit assures the world at large
that the Young Egypt party Of Geneva
would have seen to it that the colonel
never got out of Egypt alive had it been
realized that he intended delivering that
Guildhall speech.
Ali OF which is meat and bread to the
colonel, Of course! 1t Is upon such
criticism as that that he thrives; upon
such strenuous nourishment that he has
developed into an international figure Of
powerful magnitude and Importance.
People. the world over. reading these
violent expressions from Egypt. will con-
clude. inevitably. that there must be
something radically wrong in the land Of
the Pyramids. after all Having prog
ressed to that point of analysis, the
colonel win more than likely be ac-
copied as a fine authority on what it is
that is wrong. Thus will these defend
ants indicted by Mr.. Roosevelt be con-
victed out OF their own mouths-most ir-
nationally, perhaps. but most surely. in
all probability.
Young Egypt whatever that is-may
as we'll understand right now that it is
not going 10 further its cause by calling
the colonel hard names That game has
been tried out extensively on this side
Of the earth, and 1t invariably is a fz-
zle from the jump If Young Egypt"
does not desire to have the colonefs
word accepted as true, it must get busy
on another tack. and pretty soon, at that
The Washington herald., 1910-06-13
ACUTENEsS OF COWBOYS.
Can Tell Within Two or Three the
Size of a Large Herd of Cattle.

From the North American Review.
Herders on Texas cattle ranches be-
come so expert in their scrutiny Of cattle
that In buying them on the hoof they
often rely for enumeration upon a glance
at the herd as they ride past Their
passing estimate practically never varies
more than two or three from the actual
number IN herds of from 80 to 100 and in
much larger herds Of from 200 to 800 their
estimates viii preserve the same proper
lion Of accuracy.
IN some cases this ability 10 estimate
is carried 10 higher degree OF accuracy
even for very large herds. In the early
EOS before the day Of weighing scales and
railroads, cattle buyers in the Southwest
would buy cattle at so much hundred
weight from their owners This estimate
Of weight was based on what the cattle
would weigh after they had been driven
200, 500, or 400 miles TO the Kansas City
market Nevertheless, the error would
only amount to a few pounds. not enough
10 affect their profits.
Charles Goodnight, Of Goodnight, Tex,
and owner Of the famous buffalo herd
bearing nls name, told some extraordi-
nary things about a negro he knew.
When the roundup time came they
would place this negro in an advantage
Gus position and drive past him the herds
belonging 10 different men. All these cat
tie except the calves had their owners
brands. Later, when these calves, after
| having been mixed up in the corral. were
taken out TO be branded. he could tell
which brand to put on each from having
noted at the time TO which COW each
/ belonged.
This astonishing acuteness is even more
( clearly demonstrated in their detection
OF diseased or defective animals in herds
which they are Inspecting for purchase.
/ In this discrimination they equally rely
upOn a rapid visual sweep Of the cattle
while grazing, the inspector merely riding
! through the herd.
These statements the narrator was az
/ pains TO substantiate by corroborative
testimony from friends on the spot &C
| lively associated with the business OF
cattle raising.
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Good-by, Finland.

It seems 10 be about time to say good
by to Finland as an autonomous state.
Called a grand duchy OF Russia for some
years, It has still been allowed its Diet.
with control over its own internal af-
fairs. and it has always been inclined
bitterly to resent any further encroach-
ment Of Russian influence. But it Is evil
IDENTIFY not to be allowed to have much
TO say in the matter. A bill has been
prepared by the Russian Douma robbing
Finland of her autonomy and making it
an integral part of the Russian empire,
liable to imperial taxation, military serv-
ice. and entirely subordinate to the
Donna
The bin was submitted to the Finnish
zDiet and at once rejected, but test
vote was tried IN the Russian Douma
a motion declaring the bill urgent, %
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Havana Clean and Healthful.

A communication from the editor Of The
Lucia. Havana, Mr. Leon J. Canova,
printed in this issue with reference to
the sanitary work done at the Cuban
capital, is worthy OF more than passing
attention. He gives fun credit TO our
army officers for splendid achievements
incident 10 our occupation. but challenges
earnestly a recent editorial assertion that
there was a lapse of the hysienic work
after the first Intervention
Editor Canova speaks knowingly, OF
course. He has been continuously on the
scene. Conditions have been under his
direct observation. He is a competent
witness, and when he says that Havana
has been kept clean and healthful, and
that there has been no lapse. his word is
TO be accepted unquaiiiedly.
Havana is to-day one Of the cleanest
cities in the world. Visitors to the island
voueh for the fact. They marvel at the
transformation that has been wrought.
It is a most attractive, healthful. and
wholesome metropolis. whose sanitary
conditions are unsurpassed by few. If
any, cities of like size In one notable
respect it excels Washington in its al
most complete freedom from flies and
mosquitoes, even in the hottest weather.
These pests have been banished almost
wholly, which is proof positive of the
city's cleanliness.
So attractive has Havana become IN
der the new order of things that visitors
are convinced that in course OF few
years It viii rank as the most popular
winter resort for American tourists. It's
natural charms and its accessibility will
logically make toward this end
The Washington herald., 1910-06-13
nnngers in AthIetic rrnining.

From the Family Doctor.
The chief dangers arising from carry
ing athletics to extremes are: First, I'M
even development Of limbs and organs,
due TO special extravagent devotion 10
one form OF exercise. This is especially
dangerous in immature bodies. Second.
overstrain on the nerves and rapid waste
of tissue. Third. and perhaps most serf-
Gus of all. general poisoning by the &C
emulation of waste products IN the
body far more rapidly than they can
eliminated by natural means.
Lastly, over physical culture has a very
bad mental enect. for the more perfectly
trained a man is in the physical sense the
nearer he approaches to the level of an
automaton-a splendidly balanced and
regulated machine, but weakened in the
higher mental qualities. vital force can
not be increased in this way; it can only
be specialized, and what Is gained in one
direction has 90 be lost in another.
The Washington herald., 1910-06-13
Danish the Loan Sharks.

All over the country there seems to be
a determination to regulate the loan
sharks who prey upon the poor, the ig-
norant. and the helpless of the commu-
nifty. There is no doubt about the ex-
tortionate interest many of these charge
in the very teeth OF the law. There is
often juggling with accounts; the re-
quirement of advance interest; the fall
ure to credit sums paid ON account-a
thousand tricks that enmesh the victim
in a hopeless web of debt. The loan
sharks ought to be extirpated; any COM
munity would be honored by their alb
sence. Surely the Capital of the Nation
should give them no quarter.
The Washington herald., 1910-06-13
MONDAY. JUNE IS, 1910.
Let Your Paper Come After You

Washingtonians who leave the
city, either for a short or long
stay-whether they go to mountain
or UeashJre. or even across the sea
should not fail to order The
Washington Herald sent to them
by mail. It will come regularly.
and the addresses Will be changed
as often as desired. II Is the home
news you will want while away
from home. Telephone Main 1900,
giving old ard new address.
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co-Eds ignore ~Home at 1Os Rule.


From the Chicago Record-HeEald.
Have the co-eds Of Willard Hail.
Northwestern University's largest girls
dormitory. so impressed the special po-
liceman who stands guard at the doors
after 10 o'clock at night that they may
go any come as they please? Mary Ross
Potter, dean of women at the Evanston
school. thinks not. but evidence from
other sources seems to indicate that at
least a portion of the fair students of
the Methodist school have so Influenced
the policeman that the result is equally
satisfactory to them as though they
were supplied with pass keys.
The situation has become so serious
that Miss Potter has lectured the girls
collectively, and some individually. and
has enforced the rules to the point that
young men callers at the hall complain
of the restrictions placed upon the co.
eds. In fact. the young men declare
that one Sunday night recently nc
young women were allowed to ieavs Il