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The Washington times., 1911-04-10

Engineer of Bridges Bailey, of the
District government, who was an.
nounced to speak at the meeting of
the Anacostiaf Citizens Association
on Wednesday night next will be un-
able to attend. President Charles R
Burr is trying to obtain another
spsSker.
The Washington times., 1911-04-10
Cornell Journal Urges
Much Beer at Banquets

ITHACA n. Y. April 10--The Cornell
Era Is urging the inclusion of beer in
the senior class banquets this year,
enough to go around several times"
The Washington times., 1911-04-10

The services to be held on Thurs
day evening next in the Presbyterian
Home on NJ street northwest, will be
under the auspices of the Garden
Memorial Presbyterian Church, of
The Washington times., 1911-04-10

Mrs. Blthla Dawson, elghty-elsht years
old, one of Anacostia's oldest residents,
was honored by kinsfolk and acquaint-
snces last efening at gathering held
10 commemorate her birthday anniver-
Eary in the Dawson home, l202 Talburtt
street.
:. 1t was largely a family assembly
which passed the hours in ways pleasing
to the aged woman.
The out-of-town guests were w. r..
Dawson, postmaster at Sterling. Va; {;
Mrs. Dawson. and their two daughters,
Misses Pearl and Ruby Dawson, and
Mrs. Emma Reel and her son, Stanley,
of Fairview, Okla. Mrs. Reel Is a
daughter of Mrs Dawson.
RemembranceS were received by Mrs.
Dawson from Mrs. Nettie Spooner. a
daughter, in Grinnell, Iowa; from Mrs.
Mary Watson, a sister, in Greenwich,
n. j., and J. J. Dawson, son. of
Cabool, Mo.
Others present were c. L. Dawson.
of the Postofice Department. another
son, and Mr.. and Mrs. joseph X.
Dawson. of Anacostia.
Mrs. Dawson, who is the widow Of
Alpheus Dawson, has lived in Anacos-
tia twenty-slX years. She Is native
of Olney, Buckingham. England.
Three citizens of this part of the
District turned out today with the Dis
trict veterans of 1861 in celebration of
the f1ftieth anniversary of the enlist
ment of the "three-months'- men," as
they were known. These were George
W. Skidmore, William Fastnaught, and
John Taylor.
The application of Lorenzo 7. Stewart
to conduct poolroom on the east
side of Nichols avenue near the street
car transfer station, has been rejected
for a second time. The petitioner OBJ
tanned the requisite number of signers,
but members of the Board of Educa
nifiznnS' association h
jected to the granting Of the license.
I Capt w. T. Anderson, commanding
the Eleventh precinct, received strong
representations from members of the
Board of Education as to why there
was objection to the issuance of Ii
cense. as the proposed pool room would
be almost directly opposite the B1rney
public school. These objections being
referred to the Municipal building the
application was rejected.
Engineer of Bridges Bailey, of the
District government, who was an
nounced to speak at the meeting OF
the AnacostiaI Citizens Association
able to attend. President Charles R
Burr is trying to obtain another
speaker.
The services to be held on Thurs
dav evening next in the Presbyterian
Home, on M street northwest, will be
under the auspices of the Garden
Memorial Presbyterian Church, of
-AnaCoStia.
Electa Chapter. No. ,, order of the
Eastern Star, has prepared a pro-
gram for the entertainment of its
members for the meeting tomorrow
evening. which will take place in the
Masonic Hall, when six or more can
didates will be presented for admis-
sion.-
The musical program for Easter
Sunday afternoon at the Government
Hospital for the Insane will be par
tfcipated in by the choir of the Gar
den Memorial Presbyterian Church, of
this place. Edward T Davis. who
Is the musical director of each, will
have charge
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-17
The HYDE Case.

Evidently the friends of DR.. Hyde
are preparing to make a most desper-
ate fight for the freedom Of the man
charged with the killing of Colonel
Swope of Kansas City, for they have
been greatly encouraged by the deci-
sion of the state supreme court grant
ing the new trial and virtually rebuk-
ing the trial Judge for imprisoning
the defendant during his original hear
ing The effect of such a ruling upon
the public from which the next jury
will be drawn cannot be passive. The
chances are that it will be much
harder to convict DIR. Hyde a second
time than 1t was before.
The state, however is not Indifferent
to the task confronting it. 1t has re-
tanned as special counsel to aid in the
prosecution Senator James A. Reed
and his law partner. who helped out
in the former trial Manifestly the
prosecution is thoroughly awake to
the possible advantage the defense
will have derived from the ruling of
the supreme court. The case is one
that has attracted national interest,
because of the prominence of the
parties concerned and the overpower-
ing pathos that comes from such
tragedy within family circle, where
a mother is constrained to go against
her daughter, whose husband is the
accused 1t always seems too bad that
in poisoning case Of this character
the pivotal evidence must be cireum-
stantial, for, though, strong as it may
be, it cannot but lack the definiteness
usually expected where a mans life
or liberty is at stake.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-17
People Talked About

Some signs of widening peace pass by un.
noticed The Daughters Of the American
Revolution, in session in Washington, did
not 'insurge'' enough to command a front
page notice.
Canada insists on postage stamps with
more local color and less of the empire s
insignia. THE Lady of the SHOWS" as
Kipling wrote. IL daughter in my mother &
house, but mistress in my own"
California husbands convicted of nom
support are now obliged to- chase the
lazybug on the rock piles, for which the
respective counties pay to the wives N5C
a day. The latter are willing to have the
job made a continuous performance.
When Reno Judge granted Mrs Dow
ling a divorce he endorsed on the papers.
Because OF the extreme cruelty OF the
defendant the bonds OF matrimony are
hereby forever severed" That was eight
months ago, and on Monday Mr.. and Mrs.
Bowling went to the New York city hall
and got license to be married again.
Cleveland is moving to give effect In part
to the wish of Tom johnson by giving his
name to a public park. when / die" he
said Il hope the people will make a play
ground over my body. l would rather have
children romping over my grave than
hundred monuments" AS his body rests in
New York, Cleveland proposes to fulfil his
wish as far as practicable.
Carnegie's hero roll carries the names Of
452 persons thirteen Of whom received gold
medals, 1876 silver medals and "a bronze
medals The annual report of the commits
sion in charge of the fund shows disburse-
ments OF $S5S,525.54 to heroes and their de-
pendents and Sl49, l6g> for>the relief of sur
ferers from disaster. The nero pension roll
amounts to 1898 annually
Louisviles new hotel has been named
the Henry WattersOn. There was a prize
contest for a suitable name and so many
people suggested the name Henry Waiter
SON for the new hosiery that to award
the prize will be exceedingly difficult
Good luck and God bless you" wrote the
distinguished editor from Europe when he
had heard how his townsmen had honored
him.
One American millionaire al least is just
being reminded that England taxes wealth
or ability to pay rather than the consump-
ton OF the poor. This Is NJ. Bayard Brown
the New York banker. who was an Amerl-
can citizen, but who resides in England,
and has thought 10 escape the British in
come tax by living In a yacht and claim
ing American citizenship. He must pay
$1,000 under q judgment OF the English
courts,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-17
Good Advice, if Only Followed.

The annual report Just made by
Superintendent Poulson OF the Anti
Saloon league for Nebraska concludes
with the following paragraph:
While We should be glad to have any
body or anything hit the saloon, we dare
not endorse and condone anything and
everything that does hit it. for honorable
antagonism that will bear investigation
when the final victory comes is the only
sort of warfare the Anu-saloon league can
afford to indulge in.
This is good advice If our anti
saloon reformers will only follow it.
If such a rule is self-applied some
things that have scandalized and dis
credited the work of some of these re-
formers will not be-repeated.
II this advice is followed, boys of
tender years will not be sent out with
pocket money furnished to them to
buy and drink liquor in places sus-
pected of keeping open after hours.
If this advice is followed, imported
preachers will not be deputized to go
Summing in the bawdy house district
to get personal experience there first
hand. s--
II this advice is followed, notorious
ex-convicts will not be turned loose
under hire TO swear other people into
the penitentiary.
II this advice is followed, jail-bird
dynamiters, reckless of the lives of
innocent women and children, will be
left to take the consequences OF their
misdeeds instead of being defended by
the reformers.
If this advice is followed, in a word,
past methods pursued by the anti
saloonists hereabouts will be dis
carded and we will have a new deal
that will get just as good results with
out bringing the reformers down to a
level lower than those they seek to
reform.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-17
That Historic GaHzl.

About the gavel which Champ
Clark, as the first democratic speaker
west of the Mississippi, will WELD,
clusters a mass of romance and legend
prominent in the historic life of Pike
county, Missouri The gavel is made
of a piece of bur-oak taken out of an
apron log of an old mill dam founded
on the Peno river by the first white
settler of Pike county about 1916.
Citizens of Rails county hewed 1t out
of the rough log and presented it to
the speaker with a detailed statement
OF the history of the log, mill and men
who maintained Il, all OF which forms
readable little chapter in the vera
cious Congressional Record. The mill
site still stands, but haunted, ii is sup
posed. by the creduleus Aissc arians,
who follow the legend that in it's
waters an angered Indian chief once
hurled the bodies OF his daughter and
her spouse because they welded
against his will
so" says the accompanying state
meHt, "Mr. Clark will have a gavel
with a history OF love and romance
attached; a history OF ancient as we'll
as present usefulness a history OF
love. hatred and revenge as we'll"
The bur-oAk is sometimes called the
mossy-Oak. quite appropriate, It would
seem, to Pike county, though not to
up-to-date statesmen. II is one of the
most valuable species of oak, eoarser-
grained. though not as strong as some
others. This particular piece will have
some delicate functions to perform,
and IL is to be hoped its coarse fiber
and medium strength will meet the
test. 1t probably will prove strong
enough, for il has been Water-soaked
for about a century, IL seems, and
still is said to be in a good state OF
preservation.
II remains to be seen whether this
trophy of primeval Missouri will be-
come the emblem of the old or the new
in democracy. the conservator OF the
party's traditions or the monitor of
new dOctrihesS whether like the old
apron log from which il was hewn il
will remain fast to its moorings and
be welded in fact as well as in name
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-17
On the Border.

Those Mexican rebels have some
misguided notions Of international
comfy IL they think the way TO gain
recognition as a belligerent power
from the United States is to shoot up
one border town in order to take
another. Douglas, Ariz., and Aqua
Prieta, Mexico, are in such close prox-
unity that It requires skillful work to
sack the latter without molestlng the
former. Reports OF what has trans
plred during the last few days, there
fore, are scarcely apt to prompt the
belief that Uncle Sam is getting ready
to favor General Madero with oficial
recognition. what the general and his
men should be more concerned about
is that they do not attract a different
sort Of attention from Washington.
President Tsfts judicial tempera-
ment appears to be nicely mixed with
q firmness and aptitude for action at
critical times which is reassuring to
the interests OF this country. when
Nv AOtiHos uNAltOt luCTciOEss bhdL IL
will be held responsible for depreda-
tions committed upon American soil
or inhabitants, whether by federal or
rebel forces. he speaks with a direct
ness that is not to be misunderstood
by President Diaz or his ntagonists.
1t is to be hoped that the United States
will not be called on for any more
aggressive action, but the president
manifestly is taking no chances and
accepting nothing for granted, else he
would not order additional troops to
the border.
1t should be plain now to those
who were seeking for sinister reasons
for mobiliEing the forces in Texas
that there were plenty of legitimate
reasons to prompt 1t. The people liv-
ing in Douglas and other border com
munities doubtless appreciate the
presence of the troops, whether those
residing in Chicago, Boston or New
York do or do not.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-17
Mexico.

Mexico.
OMAHA, April 15.-To the Editor Of The
Bee: The traditions. history and conditions
now obtaining in the republic OF Mexico
have been reviewed form time to time,
seeking, II possible, in a final analysis the
cause or causes OF the discomfort and dis
ruption Of that republic. Many optimistic
writer's, viewing only surface indications OF
the armed conflict. hold to the contention,
| that IL the strong and vigorous government
OF Disz were overthrow the people Of
Mexico would enter Immediately into the
realization OF a perfect liberty. dissent
from so superficial an opinion.
The so-called tyranny of Dlaz II per
fecty logical to the conditions under which
he governs; Diaz tyranny Is but the
tyranny OF Mexico's ideals Mexico may
struggle in arms today. and tomorrow be-
lieve that the nation has achieved liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. but II will
be only a phantom.
Liberty will not descend to a people; a
people must raise themselves to liberty.
Liberty is enthroned in the unveiled
presence Of Diety, untrammeed by dogma
or creed. reckoning onward the human race
TO its glorious achievements. An appeal TO
reason satisfies its every desire for truth,
justice, tolerance and fraternity
And, that nation that would approach it's
sacred precincts must leave behind the
altar OF idolatry, ignorance and supersti-
ton.
Mexico, though a republic in name, true
to the history Of nations has not risen
above ideals Of its altar. Neither. can a
nation possess even a radiant hope OF
liberty and the pursuit OF happiness, that
places Its moral and mental freedom at
the mercy OF an alien, specially, while
that alien is In conspiracy against civiiE-
alton.
However there is always a hope even
in the darkest hour Of nations struggle
for the God-given rights of its people.
Let the Mexican republic break with the
traditions of its past and the fossilized
survivals Of past age, that the living
pulsating heart OF Mexico's humanity may
not be stifled in its noble aspirations for
a higher civilization.
J. -BRAXTON GARLAND.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-17
CUR GOVERNOR AND HIS VETO.


Aurora Republican: Governor Ndrich's
veto record is long ore. but 70 is a record
to be proud OF Not single measure We
toed BY tho chief executive shSuld have
been passed by the legislature
Fails city Journal. Governor Adrich We
toed the real estate agents bill that had
no other purpose than to suppress curb
stone statesmen and retired farmers who
refuse TO rent an office ard take out a
business license but sell lands "a side
issue to the confusion of the regular trade.
Fremont Tribune The World-llcrald felt
impelled TO commend Governor Aldri,n for
vetoing the telephone merger hill: hut after
its loud-mouthed insistence that he do II
to save the state from the most dastardly
piece Of Legislation Of the session It could
not give that kindly word without spleen
ing over the whole list OF matters It ala
not approve.
Kearney Hub Discussing the non
partisan election OF judges The Omaha Bee
very truly says that 1T il a gratuitous at
front TO the int diligence OF the people to
suggest that our courts are swayed in
their decisions by any consideration of
party advantage" Certainly Il cannot be
shown that Nebraska has had partisan
supreme court. even though the empty
charge has sometimes been made by our
democratic friends
shland Gazette. Governor Aldrich has
vetoed the bill permitting Sunday base ball
in the cities but he was careful to do so
with the view to saving his bacon among
the sports. What he did was entirely com
mendeble but his explanation and endeav-
ors to shift odium onto another party only
serves to cast suspicion upon his motives.
Nebraska city Press: Now won't Omaha
be mad: Governor Aldrfch tells the people
OF that benighted town that they are paw
ing too much taxes and that their charter
bill is N. @.
Grand Island Independent: Governor
Aldrich will be sustained in the matter u
the veto Of the so-cslied non partisan Judi
clary bill TO this extent. at least, that I'm
the history of events very little that il
really non-partisan has even sprung from
very partisan source. II Nebraska ever
secures non-partisan judiciary Il will he
when such a Judiciary shall have been
framed by nUn-partisen commission and
When both as to nominations and elections,
the candidates cannot secretly, or other
wise, be involved with partisan affairs.
Perhaps 1t may come high in price but
1t may be worth the cost especially ie
school elections are coupled right up with
the judiciary elections.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-17
RECEIVERS VALUE OF LOST
RAILWAY TICKET IN COURT
Company Must Refund Money 10
woman and Pay Costs of Action
In Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES, Cal. April ia rail-
road passenger may lose his ticket and
recover the value Of it from the railroad
company, according TO a decision rendered
today in the supreme court. Mrs. Mary
A. Verberg sued the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe for $1OStO the price Of ticket
which she had purchased from the com
pany and later accidentally burned. The
company resisted on the ground that the
ticket must be returned In order to obtain
a refund. Justice Stephens found against
the company in the district court and the
SUPREME court sustained his decision, or
dering the company to pay the amount Of
the ticket and the cost of the action.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-17

Nebraska Grand Army Of the Re.
public men want to unite in recon-
mending one of their number for the
vacancy on the National board in
charge of soldiers homes, place
filled by the lower house of congress.
Two important facts are being over
looked, however, first, that the vacant
membership does not necessarily go
to Nebraska, and second, that the
democrats, and southern democrats at
that, are now in control of the house.
If this place does not go south of
Mason's and Dixon's line we miss our
guess
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-17
EDITORIAL SNAPSHOTS.

Houston Post: The Nebraska idea -. we
believe. 10 free list lumber or bust, but
for the Lords sake don't poster out beet
sugar"
Cleveland Plain Dealer; Says Senator
Bailey Of Texas: Il am an old-fashioned
democrat, and I believe in the cdhstitu-
ton" According TO this, Bailey is six or
eight things at once.
Pittsburg Dispatch: Jim Dahlman the
cowboy mayor of Omaha. is willing to go
TO Memphis for a million and a half II the
Tennessee town is still hankering for a
Nebraskan. Memphis, however, will wisely
insist on no substitution
Houston Post: 1t is said Mr.. Bryan ad-
vised Mr., Taft with respect 10 several vital
policies. There are bound to be a great
many fools with money in this country.
Can't We interest some OF them with our
2-to-1 proposition that Mr.. Taft will not
follow the advice?
Sioux City Tribune: The first move Of
the ''mayoress" OF Hunnewell kan, is
against pool halls. She believes home is
the best place for boys. She proposes to
appoint a woman chief Of police The ef-
fort OF these two women to clean up the
town without the use Of the broom will be
watched with interest
New York Tribune; General Williams.
the borderland bandit who was killed by
the Mexican troops the other day for his
Outlawry. Is now said 10 have been not an
American deseTter. but "a scion OF the
British aristocracy." Let us be grateful
that he alone out OF innumerable thousands
was not introduced to public notice as "a
Yale graduate"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-17
BALLADE OF POOR TOURIST.
Tom DAILY in catholic STANDARD

Tom DAILY in Catholic STANDARD.
Al home or IN far-away chimes.
Wherever the tourist may stray.
RE must look "a his quarters and dimel
70 Keep them from melting away.
one hates 70 appear like a Jay,
SO into his pocket he dips.
Such scOTn do the servants display
For the fellow who never gives tips.
The magnate, the maker Of rhymes,
The poor devil author" and they
whose money bags jingle like chimes,
Are marked as legitimate prey
have little or much as YOU NAV.
The food and drink passing your lip0
Claim tribute! The outlook Is gray
For the fellow who never gives tips,
we need reformeT az times,
\ man of true courage, to stay
Society's foibles and crimes,
Ana keep ne from getting too gay:
one needs TO be brave 10 say Nay
To the porter who handles his grips
80 there really Is something 10 saw
For the fellow who never gives tips
Envoy
We plkers, We grumble but pay
Lake lor0s, for our holiday trips
But come, let as Irvine a bouquet
For the fellow who never giveS tinA
Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-17
THROWING OFF THE INCUBUS.
Democrats i'm Congress Push Bryanism
10 the Rear.


Washington Post
Mr.. Bryan's poor success in organizing
the Sixty second congress heightena his
distinction as the great organizer OF de-
Feat While his personal qualities still
make his presence felt wherever his ac-
tivities may take him Washington Chau-
tauqua, or lincoln--his limitations as a.
safe guide in politics have been sianaIIy
demonstrated so often that the bulk OF
MS democratic followers in years gone by
are come to rely more on their own judg-
ment than on his. Besides he had no part
in bringing about the democratic victory
last fall. On the contrary, his genius for
misdirection lost his own state to the on
position, an act of disloyalty that leaves
him today without a claim on the consid-
GRAFTON Of the Nebraska democracy. This
attitude OF Nebraska democrats in con.
gress toward Bryan faithfully reflects the
feeling toward him out there. And as he
has forfeited every right to enter party
councils at home by what process of rea-
soning is he privileged TO have any part. .
democrat, in tile organization of the
Sixty-second congress?
BY refusing to stuItify themselves by do
ing Bryan's bidding, tho senate democrats
have done their party the most signal serv-
Ice they are likely to have opportunity
to perform. His gratutous attack upon
Senator Martin further testifies to the wis
dom and prudence Of the caucus in turning
It's back upon the man who for sixteen
years has vainly endeavored to convince
the conservative democracy that he has
the head and heart Of democrat
Bryan goes hack TO Nebraska ss mucl,
negligible quantity nationally as he "a
locally