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The Washington herald., 1910-03-27

'The Watch Ger the Rhine" Is
the national anthem OF Germany. II
serves for the Fatherland the same
purpose as Rouget de Isles The
Marseiliaise" for the French people.
called out by the French revolution.
and our own national anthem. Ny
Country, Tis Of Thee" II had its
birth from the same revolutionary
feeling The political unrest in
America and later in France
brought out a demand for rights,
for suffrage. for representation in
legislative affairs. and for freedom
from the CALLING medieval shack
les
This upheaval was particularly
profound and deep-seated among the
German peoples in the early SOS,
when they came to realize that they
were being ruled by lot OF weak
ling princelets. The vigorous young
German party started 10 make its
voice heard. despite the fact that
scores of such men as Richard wag-
ner and the late Carl Schurz were
expatriated across the frontiers be-
cause OF their supposedly seditious
acts or speeches.
Having been forbidden by the
police to meet for political discus
sions. the young men Of Germany
took refuge in their German soci.
eties. where, unmolested. they sang
the old songs of the Fatherland
and such revolutionary pieces as
the 'Marseillaise." Hand to hand
in this struggle for political free
dom went the glad vision of unit
ed Germany. TO which, also, among
such advanced thinkers and mill
tary organizers as the Great En-
peror William, Prince Bismarck.
and Count Won Moltke. was linked
the dream OF. at some not far dis
tant day. recovering the long lost
Rhine province from France, the
hereditary enemy.
In 1854. when the German people
were at fever heat. a young enthu-
siast named Max Schneckenburge
wrote a poem beginning:
voice resor1nds like thunder-peal.
Mid dasAing wave and clang Of steel,
TIE RhiDsl The RhiDe The german Rhine
Who guards to-day my stream diyine7
The stanzas, FIVE ii ell. were i'm
mediately set to music by an equal
" inspired composer named Karl
Wilhelm. The song at once leaped
into popular favor. and by common
consent was adapted as the Ger
man watch and war cry. 1t was
sung from Bavaria on the south to
the Baltic on the north; from the
Austrian frontier on the east to
Alsace and Lorraine on the west.
When. at length. a United Ger
many faced France in that memoir
able struggle Of 1901, every sol
der in the German legion knew 1t
by heart. and 1.-THE Watch Ger the
Rhine" literally became the march
ing song and the battle-ery of her
armies in the field. Whole battal
ions and divisions went into action
chanting its stately measures, and
the Iron Chancellor voiced IL as his
personal opinion that the singing
of this song did as much to win vic
tories as did the German bayonets.
On June 10, 1892, IN the little
town of Tuttlingen. on the Dan
ube. in Wurttemberg. a handsome
monument was dedicated to the
poet of Die Wacht am Rhein." The
poet had been born at the little
village of Thalheim. close by, and
there his remains were removed
from Switzerland in 1886. Only a
few weeks previous to that France
had celebrated the centennial ami
versary of the birth of the poet of
The Marseillaise" By unwilling a
monument In the natal place of the
singer.
Copyright. 1910 .'The
The Washington herald., 1910-03-27

ital City League. Luitich won the cham
pionship in that league with his Aloysus
team, and his friends are confident he
will land ST. Stephens near the top this
year.
F. ". Parker, of the night linotype
force. las purchased a victrola and will
entertain a number Of his friends to-
night at his home, L street north
west
John r. Purvis, Thomas w. Kemp, and
George L. Eichborn, of the keyboard
room, are spending Easter Sunday at At
lantic City.
William NJ. Reilly received the indorse-
nent Of more than Ice unions as a candi-
date for president of the I. T. L.
The campaign for officers of Columbia
Union Is warming up, but the number of
candidates this year will be smaller than
usual. only eight being entered for dele
gate so far, and it looks as If that will
be all the entries. The monotype section
have four of these. Messrs. John O'Don-
noghue, Joseph E. Goodkey. Allan r.
Flowers, and Chairman Phil Nachman.
John Onyun is the candidate from the
proofroom. and Bob Summers, of the es-
timating force. completes the list OF men
from the g. p o. NJ. L. Statler is the
candidate from the newspaper field down.
town, and Percy ]. Lowd the choice of
the book and job men. The chief interest
Of the campaign will undoubtedly central
lie about the presidency, and the contest
between Jason Waterman and f. c. Rob-
erts promises TO be one Of the most
hotly contested fights the members of
1o1 have INDUCED in for a number of
years.
The Union Printers Home property is
estimated to be worth nearly 100000.
Luke Ludlow. delegate from the book.
binders union, will be the master OF
ceremonies of the Central Labor Union
smoker at Typographical Temple to-mor-
row night.
c. 7. Harding. officeman in the Office
of foreman Of printing. is enjoying the
Easter holidays at Atlantic City.
Compositors Edgar ]. Dwight. George
Johnson. and Frank Fl. Jones, OF the
document section, are still on the sick
list.
Myron z. Ferron, of the keyboard room.
had on exhibition at the noon hour sew
eral days of last week his newly invented
rotary can opener. which he has patented
and is about to put on the market
Recent correspondence received by
The Washington herald., 1910-03-27

The first woman to obtain an air pilots
license from the French Aero Club. Nine.
de Ia Roche. was awarded it for guiding
an aeroplane four times around a course,
q total distance Of about twelye miles.
The Washington herald., 1910-03-27
No 81.
THE WATCH DER THE RHINE. :"
D THEIR HISTORY
MAX SCHNEcKENBURGER.

MAX SCHNEcKENBURGER
A voice resounds like Handicapped
Mid dashing waves and elang or steel
The Rhine, the Rhine, the German Rhine,
Who guards to-day my stream dvine?"
Dear Fatheriand danger thine;
Firm stand thy to watch the Rhine!
They stand hundred thousand strong
Quick to avenge their countrys wrong;
With flal love their bosoms swell
They'll guard the sacred landmark welll
Dear Fatherland. no danger thine;
Firm stand thy sons TO watch the Rhinei
The dead OF heroic
From heaven look down and meet their gaze:
They swear with dauntless heart, 20 Rhine,
Be German this breast Of mine"
Dear Fatherland no danger thine;
Firm stand thy sons 20 watch the Rhine!
While flows drop of German blood
OR sword remains to guard thy food
While rifle rests in patriot hand
10 foe shall tresd thy sacred strand.
Dear Fatherland. danger thine;
Firm stand thy to watch the Rhine!
Our oath resounds the river flows
IN golden light our banner CLOVIS
our hearts VIII guard thy stream divine:
The Rhine, the Rhine the German Rhine,
Dear Fatherland, danger thine;
Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine.
The Washington herald., 1910-03-27

Chairman Laura B. Gordon. of the docu-
ment section. from Secretary Treasurer
j. w. HAYS. Of the ]. T. T.. with refer
ence to the scale report. Is the most
interesting reading lately from head
quarters
The Washington herald., 1910-03-27

The number Of visitors to the Govern
ment Printing Office several days dur
ing the week was so large that additions
had to be made TO the guide force.
Hyrus Terry says it was the hardest
week he had since Inauguration.
The Washington herald., 1910-03-27

G, F. Gilmore. a veteran composstor OF
the Navy branch. is so i'll At his home. IS
l street northwest. that little hope is had
Of his recovery.
The Washington herald., 1910-03-27

John r. Purvis, Thomas w. Kemp, and
George L. Eichborn, of the keyboard
room, are spending Easter Sunday at At
lantic City.
The Washington herald., 1910-03-27

William NJ. Reilly received the indorse-
nent Of more than loo unions as a candi-
date for president of the /. T. L.
The Washington herald., 1910-03-27

Copyright. 1910, THE Pres compans.l
The Washington herald., 1910-03-27

F. ". Parker, of the night linotype
force, has purchased a Victrola and viii
entertain a number of his friends to-
night at his home, l L street north
west.
The Washington herald., 1910-03-27
This IS the very eay Of God.
Serene with holy light it came.

N WHICH INC slIeaM O HltltuI Ulltd,
Swept over the worlds crime and shame.
Rome is the place where Easter is
celebrated with great pomp and bril-
hancy. At dawn of day the great can
non at the castle of st. Angelo is fred,
and on this day the Pope otficiates in
The Washington herald., 1910-03-27

ital City League. Luitich won the cham
pionship in that league with his Aloysius
team, and his friends are confident he
will land ST. Stephens near the top this
year.
The Washington herald., 1910-03-27

Sam Gompers. jr., was at last Sundays
union meeting. helping raise money for
an injured pressfeeder. and succeeded
pretty we'll Sam has not entirely recov-
cred from his spell OF typhoid fever. but
Is able to perform his duties at the
Census Office.
The Washington herald., 1910-03-27

Myron z. Ferron. of the keyboard room.
had on exhibition at the noon hour sew
eral days of last week his newly invented
rotary can opener. which he has patented
and is about to put on the market
Recent correspondence received by
The Washington herald., 1910-03-27

Charles Nelson. of the linotype force.
has acquired an interest in d fine news
paper property at Winchester. Ky. and
has resigned.
The Washington herald., 1910-03-27

COmpositors Edgar j. Dwight. George
Johnson, and Frank II. Jones, Of the
document section, are still on the sick
list.
The Washington herald., 1910-03-27

There are many legends OF Easter Dav
in the different lands. One of the most
beautiful is that after the Crueiaxion
good and holy monk found the crown
of thorns that had encircled the Masters
brow. The monk picked UP the crown
and carried it to the monastery In which
he dwelt, and he and his COMPANIONS
gazed on it with tear-dimmed eyes. On
Easter morning he went TO the little
chapel. on the altar of which the crown
had been placed. Upon opening the
chapel door he found the room most DEL
icately and sweetly perfumed, and on
looking about for the cause of this he
discovered that the crowd had been
transformed into a wreath OF exquisite
flowers. from which the perfume came.
il may be that belief in this particular
legend gave rise 10 the profuse use of
flowers. and particularly Of white flowers
at Easter time The lily and the pas
sion flower have long been associated
with Easter
The earliest Easter hymn Of which
there is any knowledge carries US bacl:
fifteen centuries. It's author. ST. AM
brose. bishop of Milan. was born not
many years after the recognition of
Christianity by Constantine The first
verse, which has been translated, is as
follows:
ne = a. Cd
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1910-02-11
A ClubWoman's TrouhIes.

One of the anEoyances of the club.
woman's life lies in the tickets that
are pressed upon her and from which
there seems to be no escape.
1t Is not UNUSUAL fo' the president of
a prominent " Iani2k i'm to find from
30 to so of these invitations" in her
daily mail, each 'lclosing from one to
a dozen tickets, which she is expected
10 either purchase herself or dispose
Of among friends
What is the victim to do? She can
not ignore the matter-there have
been cases where the sender attempt
I'd to enforce payment for tickets not
returned. 1T Is serious enough, says
me of these grievously offended ones.
to be bombarded at receptions and
cas-, but when one has to sort over
lozens and dozens before getting to
mes personal notes IT is too much"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1910-02-11
BUSINESS NEWS
Grain and Milling News.

The Lafayette FIGURING Mills Co.
has Incorporated at Lafayette, Ore,
.,tb capital stock of $40, 200. In
Generators are Willis Kramer, p. p.
o,ds and Lulu Kramer.
is announced that the Baker
ctv Ore, Touring mills, which
rned to the ground last October,
he rebuilt at once. Stevens &
stout will make the new mill some
r,bat larger than the one destroyed.
G N. Hinchliff, Floyd Hinchliff
ond Fred Hinchliff have incorporated
tbe Elberton FIGURING Mills Co., at
EIberton. with a capital stock of
100000.
The Oregon Flake Food Co. and
the Pacific Coast Corn Flake Co.
have consolidated at Portland, Ore,
as the Pacific Northwest Milling Co.
The Ritzyille FIGURING mill ground
424.5O0 bushels of wheat last year,
turning out $4,000 barrels of flour
During two years it has shipped l.
o25 carloadsh of uour, two-thirds of
which were destined for the Orient
and California.
Large aggressions are planned by
the local farmers unions through
out Eastern Washington for the
present year 1t is proposed to es-
tablish grain warehouses on all raj l.
roads and that the growers shall
handle their own wheat the com
ing season.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1910-02-11
Transportation Affairs.

Bellingham has raised subscrip-
tons of $3S2,500 to the fund of
100000 required by the Stone-Web-
ster interests before commencing
constructions upon he BelHngham-
Skagit lnterurban railway project.
The Yakima Valley Transports
ton company has purchased block
of land adjoining the holdings of
the North Coast road, and will en-
gage extensively in handling fruit
shipments from the Yakima valley.
The Northern Pacific railway has
al large force of men employed in
pushing its extension east of Lake
kapowsin, where the St. Paul & Ia
coma Lumber company is establish
ing camps for logging a billion feet
of timber.
President Strahorn, of the North
Coast railroad has issued instruc-
tions to contractors to at once start
work on the cut and grade at Union
Gap, six miles south of North Yakf-
ma, one of the most serious engi-
neering problems in the completion
of that system. President Strahorn
has given assurance to growers that
his road will be in a position to han
die the fruit crop of the present sea-
son.
a Bellingham daily has arrived at
the conclusion that the big logging
concerns of Whatcom and Skagit
counties have come to an under
standing with the Stone-Webster syn
dictate, whereby logging roads will
be converted into interurban systems
when they are no longer demanded
for Industrial purposes, and adds:
When the interurban lines are to be
operated, electrical power for them
will be at hand, for the development
of this motive force has already been
taken in hand in the Skagit county
hills. The Skagit Power company,
said to be subsidiary concern of the
Great Northern, will spend $6,50O.-
geo in the erection of a plant which
will supply 100000 horsepower to
the Puget Sound country The site
of the plant is on the Skagit, above
Marble Point.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1910-02-11
Cop and Market Notes.

The Walla Walla Fruit and Vege-
table Producers union has com
menced the shipment of spinach from
the Walla Walla valley, and will
soon be sending out onions, though
the late cold snap killed the tops of
the first crop.
A Nez Perez Idaho, dispatch says:
In spite of the meat boycott, hogs
continue to advance in price in this
section, and a Seattle buyer has in
the last four days notified the farm
ers of a standing offer of "a
cents a pound live weight, for the
block hogs, the offer to hold good
until March /.
Indications are that the peach
crop of the Yakima valley will be
enormous, double that of 1908,
which was looked upon as a big
peach year. Buds are reported in
good condition and the winter wealth
er crisp, but not too cold, is said to
have been ideal for the trees. The
apple crop, too, is promising.
Late orders for apple trees indi-
cate that $50 acres of Touchet val
ley land will be planted with COM
mercial orchards this spring 1t is
estimated the capital to be invested
IN the fruit industry near Dayton in
two manths will total 100000. The
land represents a valuation of $175,-
600, and the trees mean $4,000 ad-
ditional.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1910-02-11
Industry and Improvement.

The Cement Products Co. has filed
articles of incorporation at North
Yakima.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Consolidated Granite Works at
Seattle.
The J. j. Bremen Oyster Co. has
been incorporated at Olympia with
$4,000 capital.
j. B. Dabney will erect a three
story reinforced concrete building at
Aberdeen at a cost of 1000.
The $225,0OO plant of the Occur
d'Alene brewery was offered for sale
at public auction last week to salts
fy claims of $145.O0O. 1t was ap-
praised at $4,000.
William Shultz has been elected
manager of the Friday Harbor Pack
ing company, to succeed Captain Wi
ley, who will devote his attention
10 other interests.
Members of the state capitol com
mission have decided to advertise at
once for the sale of farm lands con-
talhed within the granted areas of
Eastern Washington.
eastern capitalists have acquired
possession of the Northern Pacific
hoiulngs on Moses Lake, near Wilson
creek comprising 10000 acres, and
VIII put the land under water with
in one year.
ny postponing the convention of
the Washington State Good Roads
association until February 1924,
'ne attendance of several prominent
nien at the Aberdeen meeting has
oeen assured. One of the important
questions for consideration is the
e'ahtlng of blanket franchises to
N"hSportation companies for use of
9'"'e and county highways. Such
PERMISSION was renently disallowed
" the superior court of Chehalis
souh1y las the result of which the
issue mas been squarely raised.
H. D. McCool, the cruiser from
-'erett' who cruised the state capt.
vi lands and found that they con-
,a'n ABOUT 100000, 900 feet of tim
ol all kinds, was engaged to go
MS reports and estimate the
Oh this timber by quarter sec
aOnS' 1t is figured that the timber
no" "orth between $4,000, 900 and $5,-
= V,Voo' but the commission wants
AnoW exactly what each quarter
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1910-02-11
TO SEEK LOST SAILORS.
Government Boat Starts Out tC
Search for Six Survivors of
Lost Farallon.

Seattle, Feb. 1.-THE revenue cut
ter Rush. stationed at Juneau, is
expected to be ordered today to be
gin Immediate search for the five
men who left the wrecked steamer
Farrallon at Hanna bay a month
ago to seek aid for their shipwrecked
comrades, and who have not been
heard from since. United States Sen
atOr Piles has been requested by
Frank E. Burns, manager of the
Alaska Steamship company, owner Of
the Farallon, to secure from the
treasury department the necessary
authority for the dispatching of the
Rush, and it is practically certain
the request will be granted. If for
any reason the Rush should not be
available the steamship Yucatan, due
at Valdez today, will be ordered to
the westward for the purpose.
The six men who risked their lives
for their imperiled fellows are: Sec
ond Mate Gus Swanson; Seaman Otto
Nelson and Charles Peterson, Captain
Wedding and Engineer Albert Bailey,
en- route to Kodiak to join the launch
Sea Wolf, and Charles Bourne, a res
ident of Afognak
The men left the ship January 7
destined for Kodiak, distance of
about 1870 miles. Up to January 90,
when the last reports were received
from that port, they had not arrived.
Manager Burns does not share the
general belief that the men have
been lost in the severe storms that
have ragged along the Alaskan coast
for many weeks, but thinks they
have put into one of the many In
dian villages along Shelikof strait.
He bases this opinion on the fact that
Captain Wedding is familiar with
that country.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1910-02-11
FIGHTING SQUIRREL PEST.
w. D. Foster, Superintendent of
State College Farm, Writes
Interesting Article.

Not having returned to take the
part assigned me on wheat con
ention program, Fighting SPUR
rels on the College Farm, Thought
it would not be out of place if |
would give some of my expert
.ences on this subject to the press ::
There is not much poetry in this
work of fighting squirrels, but
neat deal of prose, and to my mind
there is no subject that could be
discussed at a gathering of farm
ers that ought to interest them
more than he problem Of how to
get rid Of he squirrels.
Seven years ago, when | came
to the College Farm, like all other
farms in the Palouse country, it
was oyerrun with squirrels, and
every day during the first sum-
mer months one could easily notice
added daily destruction not only
in the fields assigned to field crops,
but i'll almost every one of the ex-
perimental plots.
At that time | was not acquaint-
ed with the habis of the pest and
did not give the attention to SPUR
rels the first summer | was here
that | have done since. The second
year of my sojourn in Washington
we planted a field Of corn on the
north side of the farm, and in less
than a week four acres were miss
ing which had to be replanted and
carefully watched. In discussing
the matter with the heads of the
department | was given authority
to clean the squirrels off the farm
if possible, and from that time up
to the present | have tried i'll every
way possible to get rid of the
squirrels, and with what success
those who have visited the farm
during the last two or three years
can testify.
Prof. Piper of the Biological
Survey was here for two seasons
trying to devise some means that
would assist the Palouse farmer
to eradicate squirrels. was in
close touch with him. He tried a
great many different kinds of poi
son at the College Farm, and with
all due respect to Mr.. Piper, he
was certainly in earnest, for the
methods used were apparently a
failure so far as the big Palouse
squirrel is concerned. We used all
kinds of poison ourselves, and no
doubt killed some squirrels, but
to clean them entirely off the in
terror Of the farm we had to re-
sort to more accurate methods,
consequently traps were purchas-
led, and a man assigned to the
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1910-02-11
WAS WOMAN MURDERED?
Skeleton Found in Lonely Spot May
Have Been Miss Lavender,
of Kansas.

San Francisco, Feb. 1.-THE police
today received a telegram from Kan
sas City, Mo-, stating that the de
scription of the woman whose skele-
ton was found on Mount Tamalpais
last week fits Miss Lena Lavender,
school teacher of that city, who
has been missing since last Septem-
Der, when she was last heard from
at Seattle.
The message was signed by Green
Lavender, father of the missing
young woman, and stated that the
clothing and jewelry found with the
skeleton tailed with that of his
daughter He said that when she left
home last September sche had $1,000
in cash. She first went to Topeka,
Kan, and from there journeyed west
ward.
1t is supposed that she went to Sc
attic to attend the recent exposi ton
From that city she wrote her father
that she intended to go to Africa
to do missionary work. That was the
last heard from her.
Mics Lavender was 80 years old
and handsome. She was a suessful
teaher in the Kansas City shoots, but
left home declaring she was deter
mined to see the world.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1910-02-11
Seed Corn Wanted.

Washington State College is be-
ing flooded with applications for
seed corn. The applications come
from all parts Of the northwest,
but especially from the four coun-
ties of eastern Washington in
which the boys corn growing con
test was held last year. The col
lege cannot supply one half Of the
demand and Prof. Thatcher has
issued a call for all who have
home grown seed corn to report
to him, in order that the demands
may be supplied.
Boys who engaged in the corn
growing contest Will have an OPP
portunity to make additional prof
its from their crops by selling the
corn for seed. They are advised to
hold their corn in good condition
and offer it for sale for seed. They
can get fancy price for it and
will not only be making an addi-
tional profit, but will be encour-
aging the corn growing industry.
The prospects are that the acre
age of corn planted in Washing
ton this year will break all pre-
viouS records, for it has been fully
demonstrated that corn can be
grown here at a profit.