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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-26
stabbed Wife, Daughters and Self.

Chicago. May 26.-Pasquale Labriola.
an italian, stabbed and probably NOR
tally wounded his wife and two young
daughters and then attempted to kill
himself today. The whole family may
die. Labroi1a, who was still conscious
when the police reached him, said his
wife had threatened to get a divorce
and that if he could not have her, no
one else would He had been separated
from her for year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-26

coat front, fold back over an inset of
green satin and are fastened there by
a satin covered button The cuffs also
are of satin. The skirt has an inset
of satin in line with that on the coat,
and about a foot above the bottom it
is encircled by wide band of the ma
terial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-26
Attention. Eastern satr.

All member of the o. f. S. are re-
quested to meet at the hall, oil North
Kansas avenue. to attend the funeral
of Sister Ellen Parkhurst at 8 O'Clock
sharp. Saturday morning.
KATE E. HANLON,
Worthy Matron Helena Chapter No. 210
ELIZABETH KIRKPATRICKs
Worthy Matron Helena Chapter No. "a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-26

Concert Sunday afternoon and even
ing. Garfield.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-26
DIR. BABE FINDS HIS MACHINE.

their plays will be Dora" "Sheriden
Keene,'' "Slxy Farm" and others.
The Washington times., 1911-02-22
CITY BEAUTIFUL AIM
OF BOARD OF TRADE
Public Golf Course and Rock
Creek Valley Development
Among Plans.

The proposed public golf course in
Potomac Park may fail of realization
un!ess the Board of Trade finds more
general public demand for its establish
ment than has appeared up to today.
Unless at least zoo citizens express their
desire for such course, 1t is the belief
Of William John Eynon, secretary of the
board, that it will net be worth while
for the organization to obtain it. He
points out that there is scarcely room
enough for a nine-hole course, that it
would take $4,000 to put Potomac Park
in condition 10 be used as a golf course,
and that a maintenance fund would
have to he provided.
series of mass meetings in various
sections OF the city for the purpose Of
educating the people tc the need for
park extension and the Improvement of
Rock Creek valley may be held under
the auspices of the parks and reserva-
tions committee Of the Board of Trade.
The committee believes that the people,
as a whole, do not sufficiently realize
the valuc of the many plans for the
Identification of the city.
1t is expected that the District bill,
when It comes from the conferees, will
carry an item of s275,000 for the con-
struCtion of bridge across Rock Greek
at Q street. Plans for the bridge have
been made and call for an arched con-
crete structure.
The Washington times., 1911-02-22

ing all houses, dwellings, barns,
etc, ratproof, and of adopting meas
ures preventive of rats brought in on
ships taking shore leave upon arrival
at port.
The plague situation only compels,
however, renewed interest in what
has for long time been growing evil
dent as a necessity. The age is one
of accomplishment through a broad
economy to which waste of every
sort is primarily abhorrent. Disease
aside, the rat eats in a year far more
than even the most widespread cam
paign for his determination would
cost. Sooner or later the world must
take his measure, and pit science
against a hardihood and virility that
are truly wonderful. The time when
the whole world is threatened through
the rat with a recurrence of the hor
rors of the ancient plaques would
seem the ripe moment for the begin
ming of the certain, if arduous, or
ganized effort. The modern Pied Piper
will not have to take revenge on a
world that refuses to pay for his
services.
The Washington times., 1911-02-22
PNEUMONIC PLAGUE AND
PROLIFIC RATS.

Pneumonia plague in Manchuria is
of virulence exceeding in intensity
the Affections of the bubonic plague
in India, and. from all accounts, ap-
proNimates in mortality the pe>ti-
lcnces which swept Europe in the
Middle Ages. The difference in the
emotion of danger which is now felt
throughout the civilized world is
that, whereas the plaques of a century
or so ago were considered to mani
fest the sudden wrath of Deity, their
spread now finds its more humble
causation in the infected rats and
the plague bearing heas which they
carry
So important is the rat question
considered in England, where there
have been discovered certain localities
in which the plague is endemic, that
at a meeting of nationally prominent
men and scientists recently held at
Guildhall the consensus of opinion was
that the menace was sufficient to call
for government commission charged
at the public expense with ridding the
country of its rodents. The rat hav-
ing been found guilty, it nevertheless
does not follow that the campaign
is to be Immediately effective for his
determination. All known methods,
of trapping, of poison, of killing with
other animals, have their distinct
limitations. The widely advertised
cultures for setting up virulent con-
tagious disease. among the rats have
proved only partially satisfactory, and
the theory upon which they are put
forward is met by the self-evident
proposition that their infection even
with the deadly plague fails signally
to work their destruction. Then, too,
there is the serious fact that. other
lower animals, particularly all that
are of the rodent species, are sub ject
to infection, as witness the ground
squirrel endemic of plague in the
Western United States and the infec-
tion, with deadly results, of the marmot
in China. At the Guildhall meeting,
also, it was pointed out that decima-
ton of the rats only leaves the sur
vivors with more food and more room,
utilizing which they Immediately pro-
ceed to recruit their ranks by a mar
velousIy accelerated propagation. The
best opinion seems to be the most
thorough and expensive one of render
The Washington times., 1911-02-22
TOO BACKWARD IN OUR
DISPLAY OF PATRIOTISM

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
: The writer has often noticed the SEEM
ing lack of patriotism in this city on
the part of the residents in the display
from their residences of the American
flag on national holidays.
He has lived in half a dozen of the
largest American cities, and it is a fact
there are more American flags displayed
on the homes of residents of cities with
a population of 100000 or less than there
are in this the Nations Capital. Will not
some of the patriotic organizations take
this matter up with their members, and
their friends, and the newspapers add
their great influence to the end that all
citizens will unite in the display of the
flag on Washington's Birthday as we'll as
on other national holidays. The cost of a
medium sized flag is trivial with the
satisfaction the owner has in its dis
play, and the feeling that he has done
something to foster the much vaunted
American spirit in the minds of the
school children as well as those of more
mature years. in this the most beautiful
American city. PATRIOTISM.
The Washington times., 1911-02-22
FIGURES OUT A PROFIT
FOR MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
The magazines are raising a terrible
howl at the effort of the Postoffice De-
partment to increase the rate of postage
on the advertising section of magazines,
claimed TO be the cause of deficits of
the department which is carrying this
class matter below cost.
Let US see. At pound rates the cost
OF carrying magazines has naturally in
creased, as the weight of same in
erased, but may we not ask, has the
postage increased per magazine in any
such ratio as the value of the adver-
We think not! II the cost of a page
OF advertising is aScertained. same will
cause some wopder-especially in one
OF the big weeklies~or monthlies-and
II this is SO, why should not the pub
Usher pay some part of the increased
expense to the Postoffice Department,
when his revenue is SO greatly in
creased by the enlargement of his
publication?
In its infancy a magazine consists of
ten parts reading matter to one part ad-
vertising; the publisher does not then
complain at postal rate. AS his product
becomes popular his advertising and
reading matter equalize to five parts of
each; although the increase of the for
mer has increased his income 500 per
the first proportion of ten parts reading
and one part advertising, the publication
through its selling price was not opera
ted at a loss-there seems no reason
why the publisher should object to an
advance on the evident greatly in
creased earning capacity Of his COM
modify!
The Washington times., 1911-02-22
THE NEW TREATY OF CON-
MERGE WITH JAPAN.

| The Taft Administration to date
has gained little of repute for skill in
practical politics, or acuteness in the
conduct of international relations. In
neither of these respects will it gain
much by reason of the new treaty of
commerce which has been negotiated
with Japan, and communicated to the
Sepate.
There is, however, no occasion for
the surprise widely manifested over
the new agreement, which removes all
restrictions on the immigration of
japanese laborers into this country.
That this treaty was in process OF
negotiation, and that Japan was urg-
ing the negation of these restrictions,
has been very well understood for
some time. That the present treaty
will expire next year, and that mean
while a new one must be prepared,
has been common knowledge among
people interested.
1t has been manifest that Japan
would certainly make a determined
stand to remove restrictions upon her
people which cannot fail to irritate
her national pride and it has been
inevitable that if these concessions
were made, they would cause great irrita-
tion in the Pacific and Mountain States
The Japanese people are proud and
self-cOnfident; discrimination against
them on account of race naturally irks
their national and racial sensibilities
For three or four years past it has
been just as plain as anything of the
future could be that Japan would
never agree to a continuance of these
restrictions, if she could possibly
avoid it.
In our own coutry there has not
been enough effort TO prepare the pub
lie mind for these inevitable develop
ments. Right or wrong, reasonable or
unreasonable, the Pacific States will
not now accept any readjustmcnt which
surrenders our control over immigrants
presented TO our ports, without the
bitterest protest. 1t seems as if more
consideration should have been given
to preparing the public mind> for what
has now happened, and to developing
an intelligent recognition of the fact
that concessions were inevitable.
AS it is, the sudden promulgation OF
a new policy toward japanese immi-
grafton is certain to arouse hostility
on the Western coast, and to initiate
a long struggle in the Senate over rati-
flea ton. One more element of difficulty |
and discord has been introduced in a
way that can hardly be regarded as
tactful or calculated TO minimize fric
tion.
The Washington times., 1911-02-22

All of the better known publications
or this class are reputed To be biz
money makers, and as their advertising
rates increase by leaps and bounds as
their Circulation increases, it naturally
appears the cupidity of the owner in
creases as he becomes prosperous, The
more he has the more he wants and
less he likes 10 spend. They can raise
slW,cOOi to fight the Governments de-
mand for a more equitable return to
PostotiCe Department. They can we'll
AFFORD to pay increased rates, and if
made 10 do so will probably keep right
on in business and continue to live!
What does a few cents per copy of post
age count to publication that charges
Sl,VO per page for advertising, when the
retail price of the book pays its cost
after reaching a certain production.
leaving the return for advertising as
pure velvet on the investment,
Publishers will tell you different, but
considering the ratio of a magazirSe's
increase and expense from it's firS to
its last years output, its returns from
its sale and advertising and even an in
creased postage, We believe its re-
munerative qualities will be very salts
factory to its owners. Notwithstanding
the boiler" that's being made.
L. II. RAYMOND.
The Washington times., 1911-02-22

resolution to shut my hand against
every pecuniary recOmpense.
To this resolution ! have inviolably
adhered: and from this resolution Gf l
had the inclinatiom l do not consider
myself at liberty to depart. Whilst
repeat, therefore, my fervent aCknowl-
edgments to The Legislature for their
very kind sentiments and intentions in
my favor, and at the same TIME beg
them to be persuaded that a remem-
branCe of this singular proof Of then
goodness toward me will never cease to
cherish returns of the warmest affection
and gratitude, | must pray that their act,
so far as it has for ITS object my per-
soual emOlument, may not have its
effect. But If it should please the gen.
eral assembly to permit ME to turn the
destination of the fund vested in me to
objects of a public nature, II will be my
study in selecting these, to prove the
sincerity of my gratitude, by preferring
such as may appear most subservient
to the enlightened and patriotic views
of the Legislature.
Il am, etc,
GEORGE WASHINGTON"
The Washington times., 1911-02-22
SENATORIAL DEADLOCKS IN
THE LEGISLATURES.

A deadlock in a State Legislature
over Senatorial election tends to
paraIyze general business while it
lasts. But it does more. 1t inevita
bly, Influences the whole course of legis-
lation to the end of the session, even
after the Senator is chosen.
Of all the arguments in favor OF
electing Senators by direct vote of the
people. this OF the generalization of
Legislatures is the most grave.
The Legislatures at Albany, Des
MOincs, and Helena are still tied I'D
hopelcssly in the matter of choosing
Senators. No end is in sight-except
the end of the session-at either
capital.
but if the end comes. it will come
as the result of some sort of trade,
deal. It always does come in that
fashion; and in the transaction, al
most surely. will be stipulations which
involve a telling influence OH legsla-
tiOn during the rest of the session.
You vote for my candidate for
Senator, and I'll deliver my strength
against that little bill you want
killed. really favor the bill, but I'm
willing to sacrifice that view if we
an only get this Senatorial election
ser in the right way"
That is the essence of the transac-
Non; and it takes place in every
Legislature that has long, close.
Itubborn Senatorial fight.
That is the great reason why Sen
atOrs ought not to he elected by the
Legislatures. The average Legislature
is not big enough to elect a Senator
without making him its boss.
In the last few years a new concep-
tion of the power and responsibilities
of the Legislatures has been forced
upon the country. They must do their
part in settling the great economic
questions that confront the country.
They cannot do that unless they can
90 independent, honest, sincere think
ing.
The Senatorial responsibility should
be taken away from them. 1t would
probably result in giving us better
Senators; it would certainly result in
better State legislation.
The Washington times., 1911-02-22
Foreign Missionary
Society's Elections

The following newly elected officers
of the Women's Foreign Missionary
Society OF the Presbytery of Washing
ton commenced their term of office
this morning: Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe,
president; Mrs. Charles W. Richard
son. first vice president; Mrs. J. A.
Travis. second vice president: Mrs.
ID. +. Wiber. third vice president: Mrs.
Frank G. Wilkins, fourth vice presi-
dent: Mrs. J. A. Leclerc, fifth vice
president; Mrs g. \. Goodpasture.
sixth vice president; Mrs. +. c.
Hough. recording secretary: Mrs. W.
F. Boulter, corresponding secretary:
Mrs. Russell 3. Taylor, treasurer:
Mrs. Frank L. Edginton. secretary of
literature: Mrs. Claude KEEPER seCre
tary of young peoples work.
The election was held in the Church
Of the Covenant yesterday afternoon
and addresses on the different phases
of foreign missions We're delivered by
prominent members of the society.
The Washington times., 1911-02-22
THE PARSON WEEMS VERSION
OF A PATRIOT.

To have been present when George
Washington fell upon the disemboded
spirit of Parson Weems, as the Mary
land fabulist reached the Shining Shore
in the year of grace 1925, would have
been worth dying for. Any man who
had saved his country and loved his
family and paid his debts deserved a
better fate than to be handed to fame
bound to an apochryphal cherry tree
by literary mountebank who, in
capering around the great fountain of
Truth, was never known to get his
feet wet. 1t was worse than crossing
the Delaware on a three color chrome.
And all who appreciate the big hearted,
full bloOded Nirginian for what he was
really worth feel that he must have
introduced some piquant colloquialisms
into the court language of the New
Jerusalem when he saw the smirking
spirit of ParsOn Weems shouIdering in
among those present.
This is the birthday of a patriot and
a gentleman. His is a figure which
fills the imagination and eXcites the
pride OF citizenship. He did great
things, and he did them we'll An his
tOriam with a gift for fairy tales has
made him the peculiar idol of statisti-
clans. faunal naturalsts. lightning rod
agents, and children. They are rem
dering tribute today to a distorted
demi god instead of fine, human
character with lot of faults which
lot of people have inherited from the
Father of His Country.
For all this we have TO thank Par
son Weems. The cherry tree after
thought, inserted in the fifth edition
of his history, was not the shifty old
annalists only sin against the truth.
Master Weems represented himself IA
the rector of Mt. Vernon parish. which
would have been possible but for the
small circumstance that there wasn't
any such parish. He became book
agent, and in order that he might
vouch for the contents, he wrote them
himself 1t is charitable to assume
that The Drunkard's Looking Glass"
was autobiographicaI. No doubt, if the
tooth of time had spared it, his
"IIymen's Recruiting Sergeant, or the
New Matrimonial Tattoo for Old
Bachelors" would have been the most
diverting of all his works.
Let us be just to the great soldier
and statesman, in spite of Parson
Weems. If he was not perfect, he at
least loved truth too we'll to have |
written anything that his early biOg-
rapher foistcd upon his memory.
Across the years we salute the real
George Washington.
The Washington times., 1911-02-22
SENATE is RUNNING
WITHOUT LEADERS
Problem of Successors to
Aldrich and Hale Still
Puzzling.

The important question of who Is
going to be the leader of the Senate
with Aldrich gone and Hale retired IA
as much a problem as ever.
Since 1t has become a certainty that
Aldrich and Hale will leave the Senate
there has been a vast amount if dig
cussion of the leadership of the Senate.
One Senator and another has been talk
ed OF In this connection, but no one
has arisen to take over the reins and
drive things With Senator Aldrich
down South for his health and Senator
Hale away from the Senate for days
until recently on account of illness.
there has been an absence of leadership
and things have just drifted
now Senator Hale has come back and
II Is recognized that SO far as there
is leadership. he Is in charge Of things.
For the most part, the Senate defers
to his wishes, but it is not above over
riding him. So far as the order in which
things are to be taken up 10 concerned.
his wishes are to a considerable extent
respected.
But no leader has arisen to take his
place or the place of AIdrich. Senate
traditions have it that the head of the
Finance Committee is one of the real
leaders of the Senate, but there are
signs OF a revolt against this practice.
Senator Penrose threatens to become
the head of the Finance Committee, but
the notion of the Pennsylvania Repub-
lican boss being the leader of the SEN
ate is utterly out of the question. The
Senate would not listen to this for a
minute. Senator Hepburn got up the
other day and made a protest against
the idea that the men who dominate the
Finance Committee should arrogate to
themselves the Senate leadership.
1t looks now as If the next session OF
Congress, whether regular or extra.
would open without any Senate leader,
and more than that, without any we'll
defined group being intrusted with the
leadership. In the present situation, tho
men who are playing leading parts ar,
Crane, Lodge, Smoot, Root, Cumming
BOrah. Bailey, Stone, Gallinger, and on,
or two others. But there has come abous
no well-defined group leadership, sucB
as formerly obtained when AIdrich
Hale. Orv!lle Platt and Allison ran the
Senate.
The result is that the next session OF
Congress will open without anybody
knowing who is to lead the Senate. The
selection of a leadership will be a mat
ter of gradual development.
The Washington times., 1911-02-22

that the Porto Ricans be made Citi-
zens of the United States.
Time and space do not allow me, as
Porto Rican, to consider Mr. johnson s
letter very seriously, but | will say that
this gentleman does not know what he
Is talking about when, through sneer
ignorance or prejudice he makes a state
ment like the one printed in your valu-
able paper.
A very small and ''insigniticast'' let
ter Is that of Mr.. johnson, and as such
| have to treat IL in behalf of my fei
and myself.
l would not have answered such if 1t
had come from a good authority like
Mr.. Winthrop, formerly governor of
Porto Rico. or from Mr.. Cotton, the
present governor, who loves justice and
speaks without prejudice or ill feeling
towards that unfortunate island situ-
ated in the West Indies.
Prejudice and ignorance drive men
to crime. Mr.. Johnson has committed
crime against the good will and ad-
miration that every true Porto Rican
has for great country like America in
writing such small" letter.
Thanking you in advance for this in
sertion in your valuable paper.
GREGONO H. VEGA
The Washington times., 1911-02-22

Exercises in connection with the OMEN
ing of the new building of the George
town Law School, Thirty-seventh and
o streets northwest, S D. M
Entertainment by the Baraca and Phil
athea classes of the Fifth Baptist
Church Sunday School, E street. he
tween Sixth and Seventh streets
Lecture by Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, Co.
lumbia Theater, II a. m.
Annual meeting of the District of Co.
lumbia Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution, the Arlington,
Opening of the new quarters of Elm
camp: No. S, WoOdmen of the World,
Old Masonic Temple. Ninth and 3
streets northwest, p. m.
Celebration of solemn requiem mass,
st. Patrick's Church, Tenth and @
streets northwest, 10 a. m.
Winter convocation of the George
Washington University, New Masonic
Temple, New York avenue and Thfr-
teenth streets northwest. 1890 a. m.
Annual meeting and reception of the
North Dakota Association of the Dis
trict of Columbia, johnson Hotel,
Thirteenth and streets northwest,
s p. m.
Lecture by Charles Fl. Mccarthy,
George Washington" McMahon Han,
Catholic University, 4:30 p. m.
Birthday party at the Young Wom-
ems Christian Association.
Bible lecture by Mrs. Frank J. Good
win, Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation, II a. m.
Battery ball, National Guard Armory,
tonight.
Illustrated lecture by Beverly 3. Dobbs
The Land Up There" New Willard
The furowiIrg l. o. o. r. organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges-Eastern.
No. !: Harmony. No. 9; Federal CITY,
No. 20; Friendship, No. 12 Encamp-
ments-Columbian, No. !.
The Washington times., 1911-02-22

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The Washington times., 1911-02-22

his true vocation in literature, how,
ever, and therein has won an endur-
ing name. Not that he has created sur
passingly great literature, for such it
is not. But it is at least faithful
record of a phase of our American life
which has long since passed away.
Reports from his bedside indicate
that he cannot recover from his pres
aat illness, and his host OF personal
friends throughout the country feel a
keen regret. The movement to secure
the little log cabin in which he lived
here is timely and appropriate. The
plan should be carried out without
delay.