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The Washington times., 1911-12-10
Evenfno Services in the Churches

ORGAN REC1TALR w. Dunham oeans O'clock
by p Dmon, St. Andrews Protestant Episcopal
T., Church, Fourteenth md streets, p. m.
AUDITORIUM MEETNG-Chspan George Robinson United States
army Central Union Mission, 1850
sTHE SACRIFICE MASS"The Father William Rus
meeting Of the League Of the Good Shepherd St Paks
Catholic Church, 1850 m.
PUBLIC AnSaoon Of the District Luther
Place Memorial Church. $3.50 p. m.
EvANGELISTIC SERvICEs-The Thomas HARRISON the Wesley
M. Z. Church, p. m.
Lobeck Nebraska preceded
exercise BY the Rev. Andrew Ensam Luther Place
arHE GLORY OF AN Rev.
gomery, Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church.
aOUR FILIPINO COUsNsr-Ilustrated lecture Presby.
terrain Church. p.
"A DREAM OF sOCIALIsMr-The Rev. Wallace Radcliffe
York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Pm
"THE GREATEST NATIONAL QUESTION OF THE HOUR"-The
Compton Ball. the Metropolitan Baptist Church,
THAT JESUS is GODS SONr-The Rev. D. Cav,
the West Washington Baptist Church, 8 p.
JESUS POPULAR IN WAsHINGTONrThe Rev. E. Hez Sven,
Capital Baptist Church, 4ss G street northwest
SERMONThe Rev. Earl Wilfey the Vermont Avenue Christian
Church, p m.
"A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN GOING DOWN JERICHO
A. anniversary exercises,
the Christian Church, p m.
SPECIAL SERVICES-The Church Of the Ascension m.
sERMON-The George Trinity Church.
St. PauTs Episcopal Church, p. m.
PEOPLES EvENSONG-The Deny Adams Church,
aTHE BIBLE AND MODERN LIFEr-The Rev. C. S. Abbott the
Church Of Shepherd, p.
.sOME PROBLEMS COMMON TO NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA
Charles Wood the Church Of the Covenant
"DO NOW"The Rev. j. j. Muir the Temple Baptist Church,
"THE REPENTANCE THAT COMES LATE"-The Joseph
M. Hamlne Methodist Episcopal Church, p.
STONES IN THE TEMPLE OF CHRIST-JOHN COUGH"
W. r. WedderspoOn Foundry M. E. Church,
samson: EARLY ExPLOTs"-The Samuel H.
First Congregational Church,
aDREAM WORLD RELIGION"The Goodwin,
Pleasant Congregational Church, p. m.
BIBLEThe Rev. Frank Sewa the New Church, 1850
sARBITRATION TREATIES DREADNOUGHTS-The Memorial
Adventist Church. 1910 Twelfth
LEGACY OF PEACE"-The Rev. g. Broskamp, the Y
A, 1850 p m.
"THE GENESIS OF ETHICs"-Dr. william S.
Laws, the Secular League the Pyhian Temple, p. m.
The Washington times., 1911-12-10
SAYS THAT OSLERISM
is HERE REFUTEI

The case of Thomas Harrison. aged
eishty-three years. clerk in the Navy
Department. furnishes another ref,ita-
ton Of Oslerism. DIR. Osler's famous
dictum that a nan usefulness ceases at
sixty Is contrary to facts.
Rudolph Blankenburg. the recently
elected mayor Of Philadelphia, Ii sixty
eight. James b. McCreary. the new
governor OF Kentucky. IL seventy-three.
Four OF the justices of the United States
Supreme Court, are over sixty. Chief
Justice White being sixty-six. Assoc
ciate Justice McKenpa. sixty-eight. and
Associate Justice Holmes and Lurton,
seventy each. And their decisions are
vigorous and far-reachlng; indicating
great INTEL ectual powers. There Is no
evidence of declining mentality there.
Secretary Of the Treasury Franklin
MacVeagh is sixty-nine. Congressman
Cannon, Bingham and Payne, each
leaders and remarkable for their ac-
tivity and virility are seventy-hye. Sew
enty and sixty-eight. respectively.
That blending Of a dreamer and ma.
terialist of Utopia and buccaneer, OF
Give and Hastings with, Hawkins and
Drake, James J. Hill. is az much OF
an empire builder at seventy-four, his
The Washington times., 1911-12-10

for some decades to come the most
efficient railroad development in South
America will be based on the general
purpose of supplementing the great
river routes with which that continent
is vastly better supplied than any
other. The Amazon and Orinoco sys-
TENS, for example, are likely to handle
a vast traffic in the bulky and heavy
articles, that will constitute the, chief
commerce of their basins. From avail
able points on these rivers feeder rail
roads into the interior would bring the
business to and from the great steam
boats which the deep waters can carry.
The Pan-American railroad is a
vision that makes powerful appeal to
the Imagination, but there is no such
justification for it as there is, for ex-
ample, for the Cape-to-C Cairo road
through Africa.
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Of the Cleveland fight for Scent fares,
but out of IL has grown . practical
boost for greater economy in public
and private expenditures. As q nation
We seem to have been gifted with an
imagination SO crude that we couldn't
conceive of a measure of values smaller
than a git" We adopt the lofty air
of Beau Brummel, Who answered a
beggar's request for penny with Eel
low, l don't know The coin" -
Now that the subject has been
brought up the indications are that q
bill authorizing the coinage of a ~
cent and a 2Ia cent piece will be sub
stituted for the measure authorizing
the Scent piece. 1t will enable people
to make fractional change in many
transactions which would not be af-
fected by the Scent piece, which, after
all, would not have any surprising ad-
vantage over three copper coins, out
side of Cleveland and other fortunate
towns where the Scent fare prevails.
When eggs are SIN cents q dozen, for
example, it will be possible to negoti-
ate trade without the alternative of
calling it even" or breaking an egg.
Nobody needs to be told that the
people in the Old Country, where the
unit of values is usually 20 or "a cents,
are much thriftier than we are in this
country, where the unit is four or five
times as great. If the price of theater
tickets in this country were "seven
francs" and shoes sold for twenty
Marks" we would feel instinctively
that we were spending an awful lot OF
money. And then the centimes and the
Pfennings and centavos and centessimi
little measures of value with coin;
age all their own-they exercise q. sort
of psychological influence, as it were.
Most important of all, the ability to
make exact change takes care of the
half pennies, and 80 the real units take
care of themselves. ! 4. 4.
Representative Buckley has rendered
a real service by bringing this matter
up. 1t would be fortunate if the half
cent were coined and used until the
American people "knew the coin" o..
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present age as he was TWENTY-FIVE OF
more years ago. J.. Pierpont Morgan, al
gcventy-four. 10 still the greatest finan-
cier Of this or any other age. while
John Wanamaker. Andrew Carnegie and
Whitelaw Reid, at the same age, seven
ty-four. are stu immersed in great bus
mess and philanthropic activities. James
Watterson. seventy-two years of age
Dr.. c. w. Elliott. at seventy-seven. is
still active in business. John Bigelow.
at ninety-four. is hale and hearty. and
Lord Strathcona. the Canadian High
Commissioner in London, at eighty-four,
Is a globe trotter.
William Dean Howells. Admiral
George Dewey, William winters, Joseph
II. Choate. Lord wolsely, Richard OIL
ney, Andrew d. White. Senator Cullun,
former Senator Depew. Cardinal Glib
bons, Bishop William c. Doane. are a
few Of the names taken at random from
the long list Of men who have passed
the three score and ten mark, and are
still useful to their feIlow-men, whose
daily lie refutes the truth of DR.. o.
All Of this goes to show a man should
not be chloformed short Of seventy at
least, and that a man In only as old as
he feels. EVERETT SPRING.
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Woman Who Smoked Had
Left Pipe At Home

A company Of Edinburgh students
were starting for Glasgow on a football
excursion and meant TO have a carriage
to themselves. At the last moment,
however, just IS the train was starting,
in FASTENED an old woman.
One Of the young fellows, thinking to
get rid of her easily, remarked:
MY good woman, this is a smoking
car, don't you known
Well, well" answer ed the woman;
never mind. I'll max 1t dae." Aud
she took a seat
AS the train started the word passed
round. Smoke her out" All the win
COWS were closed accordingly, every
student produced a pipe and soon the
car was filled with dense cloud of to-
bacco smoke. So foul was tho air that
at last one of the boys began 10 feel
Ill. As he took bis pipe from his mouth
and settled back in his seat the old
woman leaned forw ard TO him.
IF We ara dune. SIR" she said in n
vheedling tone, "wad We kindly gle me
bit draw? I came ava in sic haste
forgot mine,"-Sheffield Telegraph.
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PUBLIC OFFICE
CAMPAIGN BUREAU

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
1t would be a matter Of extreme re-
greet II q private citizen should violate
the basic rule of etiquette which pro-
tects the President Of the United States
from direct quotation. 1t Is all the more
deplorable when the third highest Of
fetal of the Government not only COM
mits that fragrant breach. but adds to
1t the discourteous comment which was
reported In a Washington paper for
December 8.
This but emphasizes the bizarre spec
tacle of the same official converting an
Office OF Congress into a campaign bu-
reau. II is a matter of continent wide
notoriety that a press agency Of SUPER
erogative activity Is fostered in his
quarters, from which hundreds OF let
tiers and circulars are issued daily, and
in which his own private secretary, paid
bv the Government, daily buttonholes
all corners. Isn't 1t, to say the least,
DECORUM.
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WANTS MORE CARS
FOR RUSH HOURS
To Nthe Editor q, THE TIMES.

To'the Editor of THE TIMES:
II the universal transfer system were
adopted. the receipts OF the companies
would be decreased and they would
have a valid excuse for not supplying
better transportation facilities.
The crying need. It appears to me. ia
the furnishing Of more cars from 7:3C
to a. M. and from 1 to D. m. I
live at 2503 Fourteenth street northwest.
When the cur3 re ach that point I'm the
morning the seats are all occupied. and
by the time New W, avenue is reach
ed. from sixty to eighty fares have
been rung up on cars that seat thirty
two people. There should be- at least
twice as many cars on the Fourteenth
street car line, and presume on the
other car lines also, as there are now
during the hours indicated.
ALBERT b. WHITE.
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Nicholson Decides
To Accept Sea Command

Rear Admiral Nicholson. chief of
the Bureau of Navigation, will leave
Washington shortly after the first of
the year for San Francisco to sail for
the Asiatic station. where he will
take command of the Asiatic fleet. re-.
lieving Rear Admiral Murdoch.
This Is the program of Secretary
Meyer following the latest conference
with the President Admiral Michel
son has agreed to take his sea CONF
mand ithout further objection Com
mander Philip Andrews will become
chief of the Bureau of Navigation.
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"a PAN-AMERICAN RAILROAD
SYSTEM.

1t is stated that little less than 200
miles of new construction in Central
America will complete a continuous
railroad line from New York and Chi
,,cago to the Panama canal zone. The
line is now continuous from the United
States system through Mexico to the
Boundaries of Guatemala, and Henry
Gassaway Davis, head of the Pan
American commission, declares that in
jail probability the Central American
'llink will be filled in by the time the
canal opens.
Senator Davis goes farther, and de-
jclares that the Pan-American dream
of a railroad from Argentina directly
through South and Central America,
Mexico and the United States to join
ltArgentina with Canada is not so far in
the future but that its realization is
assured. Perhaps; but it is not ap-
parent that such road would be of
great value. 1t could never compete
economically with water transporta
tion over the great distance-over
10000 miles from New York to Buenos
Aires. A road of this kind would have
to be built with primary reference to
its Pan American character rather than
with view to opening and most effec,
lively developing the great South
american states through which it would
pass. 1t seems altogether probable that
The Washington times., 1911-12-10
Conscience Hurts, He
Goes to Prison for Year

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Dec. TO-
Rather than marry without a clear
conscience. Samuel Grossman. is sery-
ing a year at the naval prison here.
Grossman jumped the navy nearly Ave
years ago, and worked as an electrician
in the West. Later he came East, and
while at work In Syracuse, N. Y, be-
came engaged to a young woman Of
that city.
Day after day the fact that he was
a deserter haunted himA the more SO as
the wedding day grew near Finally, he
told his troubles to his sweetheart, who
advised him to give himself up, telling
him she would wait for him regardless
Of the sentence imposed.
Grossman appeared at the receiving
ship Lancaster in Philadelphia, was
court-martialed. and got Off with a
year in the Portsmouth prison.
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THE STRANGER WITHIN OUR
GATES. '~

Looking for the Government is a
mighty serious task to the stranger in
Washington. The other morning a
French journalist-we always call them
journalists when they're from abroad
sidled up to the desk of leading
Washington hotel and asked where he
would find the Bureau of Immigration.
The clerk didn't know.
Within fifteen minutes four more
people had asked at that same desk
for important bureaus of institutions
Of the Government, and received the
same answers. The Capitol, the Treas
ury, the White House, the Monument
those were all easy; but even the
strangers hardly needed to ask for
them. The stranger with a bit Of real
business in hand could not be accom-
modated with the directions.
Small wonder, considering the multi.
plicity of bureaus and divisions and
how they are scattered. There is War
Department from one end of town to
the other. Likewise Navy or Agricul.
ture.
The Capitol looms from every direc.
ton; and about half the strangers who
come to town for the first time have a
general notion that that's where the
Government lives. If they want to
see the Bureau of Fisheries or the
photographic Division, or the eth.
nology authorities, they instinctively
turn toward the Capitol. DR.. Wiley ia
asked for every day there by people
who are surprised that he is almost
never seen in the big building, and
does his pure flooding in modest bricL
block mile away.
The stranger with these ideas isn't
necessarily a rube. We all had them
more or less, when we first came tt
town. 1t ought to be every Washing
tonian's desire to make the ways easy
and smooth and pleasant about thii
city of magnificent distances.
To that end, for instance, there ought
to be displayed in all public places
as the Union Station, hotels, ETC., some
sort of easy directory of public insti
buttons, Government divisions, etc. II
is not easy to outline just what il
needed; but it should be easy of &C
cess, simple, and as complete as pos
sible in the compass that would permi,
effective display. 1t would save many
stranger from the discomforts ant
bewilderments of first-acquaintanc,
struggles with the Washington com
plexity of streets, avenues, and circles
1t would help establish kindly i'm
preston of the town, would encourage
to visit oftener, and would be wei
worth the trouble and effort for som,
of the local commercial bodies to es
tablish. ~
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KINGS FONDN[SS
FOR SMOKING seen
. IN VARIETY FACTS
Edward Liked Cigars, Pipe,
and Cigarettes-The
Kaiser's Pipe.

King Edward liked cigars, cigarettes,
ana pipe. In his young days his MAJ.
esty smoke cigarettes and nothing else
once when the King was miles out o.
inc Yankee prairie, during his American
ana Canadian travels, he produced
cigar, and his companions followed his
example. "A match, please" said his
royal highness.
A match! There was but one match
between the whole party. The position
was tragic, for the wind was tearing
over the prairie.
In order to decide who should attempt
to keep the solitary match alight in the
wind lots were drawn with blades of
grass. The dire responsibility fell upon
the King. He lay on the ground. and
MS comps MONS gathered round him with
The match ' was i IL sesl'e So wer. all
the cigars. Never before or since has
the King felt SO nervous as when he
struck that match on the vast American
prairie miles away from any town or
The German Emperor smokes cigars
ana cigarettes out of DOORS but Whea
In the privacy Of his study he puirs at
yored by the average smoker, and cost
ing about so cents.
The King Of Spain keeps strictly to
inc Clsarette. InlS Is rolled In paper
ungummed, and requires very careful
smoking to keep whole.
|. Alfonso's cigarette is about as pecul-
lar as the cigar which the emperor
Frfncts Joseph of Austria used to
cmoke. The latter was fitted with q
straw tube, and had to be held in q can
die fame for a minute or two before 1t
could be made to draw.
The Gear Of Russia and King George
favor the pipe. when in private. but
their smoking implements are Of little
value, A small pipe Of the bulldog
type is affected by both Of them. and
the tobacco they consume Is. of the COM
mon, inexpensive kind.
Bismarck was an ardent deyotee of
the weed, and 1t was his boast that he
consumed over 100000 cigars in fifty
years.
Thomas Alva Edison probably holds
the record for the number Of cigars
smoked daily by one man, for he has
confessed that, while ten cigars are his
normal allowance, he consumes double
that number when deeply absorbed in
work.
Edwin Booth often smoked twenty
five cigars day, and his dresser used
to stand in the wings with a lighted
cigar in his hand ready for the great
actor when he made his exit.
Tennyson's love for his pipe was pro-
verbal. 1t was the great poets boon
companion. and an Irish clay was his
favorite. Baskets Of clap pipes ready
for use were stacked round the walls
Of his study, and as many as 800 were
to be found lying loose on the floor
Tt-Bits.
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BREAKING THE "GIT" INTO
SMALL CHANGE.

"Despise not the day of small
things" is mighty good philosophy,
even though it does leap at us from
childhood to the grave from copybooks
and other anthologies of moral maxims.
And so it comes about that Representa-
tive Buckley, of the Cleveland district
of Ohio, is winning fame rather than
notoriety by introducing bill to au-
thorize the coinage of a Scent piece.
The suggestion may have been born
The Washington times., 1911-12-10
Three Face Arrest on
Vote Buying Charge

NEW BEDFORD. Mass, Dec. lot
was announced this morning that war
rants will be asked for tomorrow morn
ing. naming at least three politicians
as, being guilty of vote buying In the
gubernatorial election last month. So
bitter is the feeling over the charges
which Governor Foss personally is
pressing, that the Rev. DR.. Frank E.
Ramsdeil. pastor Of the North Congre-
gational Church, announced that his
Intended sermon on "Dynamiting and
Unionism" will not be delivered, but in
stead he will preach on the corrup-
ton of the CITY,.
The Washington times., 1911-12-10
Kappa Sigma Members
Dine on Anniversary

Today is the forty-second anniversary
of the foundation Of the Kappa Sigma
fraternity. In celebration a dinner was
given last night at the fraternity house,
lIO Vermont avenue by the Washington
members of the society.
Newly elected officers Of the active
chapter were installed as follows: Grand
master, w. NJ. Hallam; grand presi-
dent, c. NJ. Holmes, master Of cere-
tary, Cleon o. Dodge: grand treasurer.
E. A. Miller.
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Wool Lobby Here,
Waiting for Report

Representatives of the National AS
ISOLATION of Wool Manufacturers have
been about Washington for the last few
days, being keenly interested in the
forthcoming report Of the tariff board.
They have got the tip that they need
not be alarmed and that the report will
be satisfactory so far as the wool trade
IL concerned.
The report will go to Congress the
coming week. II II bears out what the
wool trade expects 1t Is more than ever
certain that the House Democratic
leaders will set out to make war on it.
The Washington times., 1911-12-10
Kimball Recovering
From Motor Injuries

Sumner I. Kimball. chief of the
United States Life-saving Service. an
ticipates no permanent injuries from
beoing knocked down by an automobile
at Twelfth and F streets on Friday
afternoon. At first It was feared that
Mr.. Kimbalrs eyesight might be i'm
paired because OF a cut near the pupil.
The machine was driven by man
who gave Mr.. Kimball every possible
assistance and later reported the case
himself to the first precinct station,
giving his name as d. ". Jones, of Park
road, secretary to Senator Nixon of
Nevada.
Mr.. Kimball exonerated the driver
from all blame.
The Washington times., 1911-12-10
Death Agonies Keep
House From Burning

BUFFALO, Dec. 10.-Catching fire
from the cook stove in her kitchen, Mrs.
Apolonia Harlos, sixty years old, in her
death agony knocked over kettle of
water which extinguished a small
blaze on the floor and saved the house.
She was found unconscious. Physicians
say she will die.
AS Mrs. Harlos opened the oven door
to take out some kindling the over
heated wood burst into flames. The
sleeves of her dress caught fire.
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Posse of Citizens on
Trail of Boy Bandit

SALEM, Mass, Dec. 10.-Carrying Q
large bag filled with provisions, Ernest
Rrouillette. an eighteen-year-old ban
dit, heavily armed. Is being sought this
morning by a volunteer posse sworn In
by the local police following the at
tempted murder of James s. Ellis, ses-
retary of the A. G. FHpthingham
Leather Company, and the hold-up an
hour later Of Wallace Cunningham,
owner of a grocery store.
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Senator Clapp to
Speak in Delaware

WILMINGTON, Del, Dec. 1o.-Sen-
ator Moses E. Clapp at the request OF
the Initiative and Referendum League
Of Delaware, will make an address In
this city at the Avenue Theater next
Sunday afternoon at o'clock.
The Washington times., 1911-12-10
Fleet Brings Large
Oyster Supply Here

oysters are plentiful at the Eleventh
street wharf market. A large feet Of
boats. bringing thousands Of bushels
from Blackstone Island, arrived yes
terday. Present prices range from so to
80 cents a bushel. according to the grade
Of the bivalve,
Another feet of boats is expected
either Tuesday or Wednesday,
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Fencers Begin Season.

Tomorrow night the Washington
Fencers' Club. which has included in
it's membership Gen. Leonard Wood.
chief of STAFF of the United States army.
will begin it's seasons work at the salle
d'armes of Prof. Francis Darriculat,
Fifteenth and E streets northwest. A
number of army and navy officers are
interested In the club.
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DR.. Tindall to Talk on
1.-THE Genesis of Ethics

Ethics" by DR.. William Tindall, secre-
tary to the Board Of Commissioners OF
the District, and the Rev. DIR. S. S.
Laws, was the feature Of the regular
meeting of the Washington Secular
League at Pythian Temple at 8 o'clock
today
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In the Mail Bag u

READERS OF The this their
not objectionable
however, written
side Of
OF the writer's evidence
public without
BAG EDITOR OF THE
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Police Know.

I'VE had our family pictures taken
| the other day"
who took them?"
I'VE don't know that yet We are
| waiting to hear from the police
Baltimore American.
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The Business High School and the
Washington College of Law have been
feviving the good old institution of a
fj'int debate"
The Washington times., 1911-12-10

The President, with a hundred callers
yesterday, can hardly complain that no.
body Is lust dropping in" nowadays.
The Washington times., 1911-12-10

Good-by, Mr.. Representative Borland
Pr Missouri, who would give us only
blight millions for the District! Hope
you enjoy yourself.
The Washington times., 1911-12-10

The victims of the Gridiron joshing
pow know how st. Lawrence must have
FELT after the roasting,
The Washington times., 1911-12-10
SUNDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1911.

Everything is practically ready for the
Lincoln memorial except the site and
The design. zee" 49,