The Washington times., 1911-07-21

by agents being eliminated. This number,
during june. shows the net sunday average
for June to have been A.7o6.
Entered at the Postorlce at Washington.
.. c., as second class matter.
Today Blue and Gray drink from the
same canteen.
And now the navy is seriously con-
sidering getting itself vaccinated against
typhoid.
The indications are that in the en-
narrasSrnent of riches Aviator Atwood
will get nothing.
A local husband has brought forward
ono suit because his vito refuses to
mend the other one.
The Health Department might invest
that S501 Of rat money in occurring a re-
turn engagement of The Piper"
The MayGower will soon take some
more first families, includiEg the Presi-
dent, on a little search for freedom.
Washington will 20 to bed tonight
with very different feelings from those
she was experiencing just fifty years
ago at that hour.
There is much satisfaction in reading
the official denials OF reports that Am
bassadors Bryce and Jusserand are to
leave Washington.
Judging by the delays in Tama Jim's
opinion on the Wiley matter, he is either
O very slow reader or else he has a
cramp in his writing hand.
Starting a pie counter in the House
restaurant and letting DR.. Wiley out at
tie same time is like throwing away
your umbrella just as 1t starts to rain.
Want to join the militia? The District
Guards will accept enlistments until the
first of the month. in spite Of the fact
that the encampment is near at hand.
The report comes that Secretary
Meyer caught twenty-one salmon in
six days. If you don't believe 1t he
can show you the rod he caught 'em
with.
That Maryland magistrate probably
holds that 1t takes better knowledge
Of Athletics than OF law to tell whether
a given mix-up is a mill. fisticuff. or
a frolic. ,.
News that a schooner will shortly sail
from Maine with 200 tons Of ice for
the Capital should cheer up the thirsty.
Here is cold comfort for people who
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famine.
Secretary Of War Stimson, who 10
now at Panama, has visited the big
locks, and pronounced them satisfac-
tory. The keys, also-in the shape o:
the guns-wilI measure up to all re-
quirements.
Courses Of manual training in the
public schools of the District should go
far toward eduipping the young men
and women of the future to meet the
practical affairs Of life and the result
Of the experiment will be awaited with
deep interest.
The progress being made in aeronau-
tics was again shown yesterday when
Lieut. T. De Witt Milling easily beat a
flyer Of the rails with a craft of the
air. In the three-mile race lasting three
minutes, the aeroplane beat the train
by 100 yards.
mbassador Jean Jules Jusserand,
representing the French republic in this
country, is not only an accomplished
diplomat, but a scholar of high attain
ments. WHO is held in the highest es-
TEEN. 1t is gratifying TO know that the
reports of his transfer are unfounded.
1t begins to look as though the Diff
fculties that the Treasury Department
has been facing over the new building
for the Bureau Of Engraving and Print
ing are swept aside and that the Capital
will soon have a handsome granite
structure in the Mall as another show
place to boast of. >.
Residents Of Washington should study
carefully the bulletin issued by the
Health Department upon the treatment
of infantiIe paralysis. While officials
do not expect an epidemic like last
years. they feel that the danger is
great enough to Warrant extreme care
!. and every precaution.
It is touching coincidence that
Joseph A. Weeks. who served on the
staff of Gen. Stonewal Jackson. should
have passed away on the very eve of
the semi-centennial of Bull Run. He
was rinety years OF age, and acted as
courier for General jackson the night
he was shot by his own men.
There have been many histories OF
Bull Run written from various points OF
view, but those who visit the field to-
day and here the story of eye witnesses
related on the very scene Of the con-