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and there are extenuating circum-
stances even for young Jagger's ungal-
liant attack. The pies that mother
"used' to make have been thrown in
our faces, fguratively speaking, for SO
many years that it is nothing short of
refreshing to find some one, though OF
tender years, defending this glorified
article of food as actually existing now.
1t will be noted that this was no
reminiscent graybeard, recalling the de-
lectable and generous slices with which
an indulgent parent regaled him in his
youth-as we'll as he could recollect.
1t was the testimony of a full -blooded
boy as to the cookery with which he
was currently familiar. He was stand
ing up to be knocked down for the pies
his mother makes now and will con-
tinue to make. Albeit he had never
inquired too searchingly into the gen
esis and chemical purity of the mince-
meat, he knew safety pins from raisins
and currants and the like, and he was
at least pardonable in vindicating the
output of the Jaeger oven.
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VIHDICATING THE PIES
MOTHER STILL MAKES.

OF course, the charge that safety pins
and other articles of wearing apparel
had been found in one of mothers pies
was not easy to be borne, but Theo-
dore Jaeger, whose parents conduct a
Brooklyn bakery, did very wrong to
strike a lady in the face by way OF
protest. Albina gave better account
of her sex and her fifteen years when
i'll Theodore's own picturesque Ian
guage, she knocked him down and
washed his face with SNOW" This, of
course, furnished no satisfactory rea-
son why her father, the groceryman
did not sell the Jaeger brand of pies
nor was it conclusive proof of the
charge that hardware, knick- knacks of
the toilette and articles of vertu found
their way into the mincemeat. Even
an ordinary pastry cook, with little
experience, can make the crust and the
filling hold together without the use of
safety pins. Spiked with this strange
device, they certainly do not become
any more digestible.
The question of the merits of the
controversy may be dismissed as one
of the incidents in the rivalry of trade,
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THE NATIONALS OFF FOR
THE SOUTH.

The Nationals aggregation of pen
nant chasers today shoulder their will
low sticks and start South to timber up
for Il season which has already begun
to stir the blood and stimulate the
hopes Of the local fans Other signs
OF spring may fail. The fig tree may
put forth her untimely figs and the
peach orchards may court certain death
by their hardihood. But when the
hearty cry of play Ball" breaks
the long winter stiffness we know of a
certainty that the time is at hand for
the buds to shoot and the bleachers to
root, though the HagcrstOwn Almanac
itself should hold to the contrary.
Manager McAlccr feels that he has
gathered together stronger team than
he has ever had before. and that the
coveted ensign may yet float in the
National Capital. At all events he is
going out after ii with all the energy
and determination of his nature. The
section for the work out. Nowhere
in the country is there a kcencr inter
est III sports than in Atlanta, where
the local team feels that it has a
vested right in the penmant of its own
league. The coming OF the Nationals
has been awaited with great interest
and everything has been done to make
them feel at home. If there is anything
in what the high-browe call psychology,
the environment and the auspices which
will attend these practice games should
90 a long way toward bringing the
Nationals into good shape. The dope
from Ponce de Leon Park will be fol
lowed with growing interest day by
day, and the team carries with it the
hearty good wishes of the folks back
home.
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RAISING MONEY FOR CON-
VENTION HALL.

Every organization in Washington
should respond to the call foy the mass
meeting to be held March - to start
the campaign for Washington's share
of the money with which to build the
proposed George Washington Memorial
Convention Hall
The Chamber of Commerce commit
tee i'll charge OF the work of raising the
S250OO0 which the District must sub
scribe has outlined a most comprehen-
sivc plan of operations. Before actual
solicitation of funds begins a mass
meeting of representatives of every or
ganization in the District will be held.
Speakers thoroughly familiar with the
memorial project will explain it and
the delegates present will be asked to
90 back to their respective societies and
tell what they have learned
Civic, fratNrnaI, patriotic, business,
religious, philanthrOpic, correctional,
and all other organizations of Wash
ingtonians will be urged to send repre-
sentativcs to the mass meeting. BY
making these representatives under
stand the convention hall movement
and appreciate its significance in dol
lars and Ccnts-amd by inducing them
TO carry the message TO their own peo-
pie, the Chamber of Commerce COM
mittce hopes to extend knowledge of
and interest in the memorial project
to every person in the District. After
this has been accomplished, solicita-
ton of money will begin.
This systematic, businesslike method
of procedure is bound to bring good
results. Two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars seems to be a lot of
money, but when the people of Wash
ington understand it is an investment
that will yield tenfold every year, they
will be lacking in sound, business judg-
ment-which they are motif they fail
to give-it.
The returns from the convention hall
will come from the big national and
international conventions that will be
held here as soon as we have quarters
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in which to accommodate them. Scores
OF them refrain from coming now only
because there is 10 building in Wash
ington big enough to house them,
Once the convention hall is built, the
amount of money brought to Wash
ington and left here every year by visi
tors will be increased by eight or tel
million dollars.
Every person in Washington will gel
share of this huge sum. If the
money is left in the city, every man
woman, and child will profit by it
Every man, woman, and child, there
fore, should be a contributor to the
original investment of quarter of 6
million.
One of the strongest arguments
which we would be foolish to over
looks the fact that, for an invest
ment of S25O,OO0, we will get con
vention hall costing $2,5OO,OOO.
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BANKER ROBINS REVERSIBLE E
INSANITY.

The psychological possibilities in the
case of Robin are of an abysmal depth
Declared by every rule and regulation
of the profession of alienism to be
insane, adjudged competent by hard
headed and utterly conceited jury, be
now pleads guilty and declares from
an intimate knowledge of the facts
that his only intellectual weakness
was in supposing that the common
sense of common people could be as
easily imposed on as the professional
credulity of science. That there may
be no doubt about it, Robin appears to
have so thoroughly confused the issue
as to get in a position to trade with
the prosecution upon his promise to
turn States evidence against certain OF
his alleged associates in crime.
OF course. this does not satisfy the
alienists. When they have declared a
man insane, he is crazy--once and for
all. So far as they are concerned,
there is no appeal from their decision.
As they will lucidly point out, the man
himself is least of all a proper Judge
of the state of his mentality. 1t is
common experience that the insane
asyIums are filled with perfectly nor
NAL persons kept there by perfectly
crazy attendants. Any patient will
tell you so most convincingly. When
Robin says he is sane, therefore, it set
ties nothing except his trial.
1t will be noted, however, that he
never said so until all chance OF avoid
ing trial had vanished. There must
have been some strange telepathic
influence coursing from the common
sense jury that passed on Robins
brain that hypnotized it to act through
out with the same criminal intelli-
gemce that he displayed when, a fren-
zied fnancier at large, his hallucina
tions made the money OF other folks
appear his own.
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Fourteen Years of Republican Rule

of specified classes of legislation has so
reduced the time for appropriation
measures as to make one of these three
propositions inevitable
II there IS any real basis for the
supposed objection of the public to eX-
ira sessions, the public will have to
overcome that objection, or else be
satisfied with leaving its public business
undone. There are going TO be more
extra sessions in future unless such a
change as Mr.. Tawney suggests is
made. The business of Congress has
the veteran leaders who have at least
been adopts in the dispatch Of that bust
ness which they considered useful, and
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Doesn't Know Foul
Tip From Three-Bagger.

But what does she know about base
ball? She has been trailing around with
me for twelve years. and since that
time and in the days when we were
courting she held down a grandstand
seat just as relgiously as most women
go TO church.
For intelligence and common sense
will stack her up against any wom-
an in the land. She knows things l
haven't time to learn and never will
know. But when ii comes to base
ball-well she just can't tell the diff
terence between a foul fly catch and
n three bagger. And l haven't any
false hopes that she will"
The manager stopped for breath
after this unprecedented example of
louuacity. Men have said that Mr..
McAleer was taciturn. that he couldn't
talk about anything but baseball. But
an interview proved otherwise. His
bovhOUd and his wife are two sub
iccts upon whicn he grew enthuslas
tic.
He thought for a minute or two and
ignored several Questions and then
opened up again on the psychological
shortcomings of woman as related TO
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shock
Some Senators the White
be
hadg
the went
in
impossible
This completely whered visitors
in
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in the asphyxiation OF that to which
they objected, are passing from control
Growing Complexities
Of New Congress.
New leadership, new purposes, new
policies, will come to the top in the new
COngtess. They will make new de-
mauds for time and consideration. The
political complexities of a Congress di-
vided on partisan lines are further COM
pIiaated by the fact that the President
is pressing as a paramount policy
reciprocity-a proposal that seems to
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Cites His Wife to Show He
Doesn't Hold 1t Against
Them.
GROWS LOQUACIOUS
WHEN INTERESTED
Finds Her Unable to Realize That
Anything But Meanness
Actuates Umpire.
By JULIA MURDOCH.

mo woman ever understood base
ball or ever can hope to-"
So says James Robert McAleer. He
speaks with /authorIty-from twelve
years marital experience and from
more years of observation from the dia-
mond than he cared at first to tell.
1t wasn't that the Nationals intrepid
manager lacked chivalry. He explained
apologetically that he didn't regard
woman any less highly on that account.
But, in strict regard for the truth, Mr..
McAleer said he felt compelled to make
the admission.
There is my wife," he said. looking
more enthusiastic than at any time
during the interview. she just about
comes up to my shoulder, has red
head. and a peaches and cream COM
plexion like a girl of sixteen, and Is as
full of ginger. If there ever was a
true sportsWoman she Is one.
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the national game. Only he did not
call IL that.
at isn't that they are not interest
ed" he went on thoughtfully. They
can hCIler with the best of them. But
thev seem to think the poor 'ump
gives decisions against their team
just out of natural meanness and If
some one on the other side pulls
good pIay they say he has a mean
disposition"
By this time Mr. McAleer had be-
come unmistakably enthusiastic. He
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putou their
extra session
haveg
a to
a arealon The the etarin him
a rest
Europe along the last of April He
and is
the
such is the weary o the
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paused suddenly and turned to his in
terviewer, who had apOloGiZed for 1ot
knowing baseball thoroughly. and
said smilinglN:
so you see don't hold that against
you since you are woman
Before the talk was over the man
ager did drift to baseball. But he
talked hesitatinGly on this topic, evil
IDENTIFY trying to fight shy of terms
TOO technical for the feminine un-
derstanding.
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AmuSenentS,

National-Mrs. Fiske In Becky Sharp
2:15 and Sis p. m.
Belasco-FaVersham In THE Faun,"
o15 and $50 p. m.
CoIumbia-Richard Carrie in jumping
Jupiter" 2:15 and Sis p. m.
Chase's-Edward Abeles and polite
vaudeville. 2:15 and S:15 p. m. .
Academy-"In Old Kentucky" 2:15 and
Sis p. m.
Gayety-"Cracker Jacks" 2:15 and s:1s
p. m.
Lyceum-"The Wise Guy" 2:15 and S:Ii
p. m.
Casino-Continuous vaudeville 12:45 to
II p. m.
Arcade-Midway attractions. afternoon
and evening.
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Associations, Chamber of Commerce,
1900 F street northwest, 8 p. m.
Meeting of the Biological Society of
Washington, Cosmos Club, S p. m.
Meeting of the Pennsylvania Society,
Pythian Temple, 1912 Ninth street
northwest, p. m.
Reception for Count Ehrensvard, the
Swedish minister, by Drott Lodge,
order of Vasa, Carroll Institute Hall,
$50 p. m.
Meeting of F1agg Council, No 1885, Uni
ted Commercial Travellers OF America,
Pythian Temple, S p. m.
Meeting of the Tennessee Society of
Washington, Pythian Temple, D. m.
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March 4.
| 5 9 7
BY JUDSoN C. WELLIvER.

With the gavel-falls, which at noon to-
day marked the adjournment OF the
SiXty-frst Congress, fOurteen-year
era Of complete and uninterrupted Re
publican rule reached its close.
The Republicans came to power March
4, 1891 Mr.. Mckinley had been elected
President. by vastly the largest majority
ever given Presidential candidate 10
that time.
After fourteen years OF Kaleidoscope
shifting in the realms of politics. eco
nomics, and public thought, the Repuoh-
can party is passing from control. The
triumphant RepublicaniSm of Mckinney
has changed - The Iemoralized, torn'
and disheartened party which President
Taft heads.
They have been years of such rapid
movement as no other period in ma
tional history, save that OF the clVi!
war. has seen. Industrial and COM
mercial development have been without
precedent. A foreign war has been
fought, the country has stepped into the
circle OF world-powers, and a mighty
navy has been built, a colonial policy
has been established, population, and
wealth have grown by seVen-ieague
strides and in merely material ways
tho country would seem to have every
justification for continued confidence in
the partv that fourteen years ago swept
into complete domination.
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Ambassador Hill was rather lack
ing in his usual diplomacy when he
paid S65OO for portrait of himself
Just as Congress was considering
measures for the relief of our ILL
housed and underpaid representatives
al
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Certain members of the Japanese
cabinet have asked the Mikado to pun
ish them for permitting anarchy TO
lift its head in the empire. What a
surprised lot they would be If he
took them at their word and sent for
the lord high eKecutioner!
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The net total circulation of The Washington
Times daily during the month of February
was l,0I7. .GS9, all copies left over and re-
turned being eliminated. This number, when
divided by "a, the number OF days of publ
cation. shows the net daily average for Feb
ruary to have been A, 902.
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An Ohio man has been sued by his
wife for divorce because he had not
spoken to her in seven years. He may
be thankful that death is no longer the
prescribed penalty for standing mute"
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As well as one can gather, the
Indians out in Oklahoma still want to
hunt game in the streets of Guthrie
and other cities and let the Govern
ment issue rations when the days
sport yields poor returns.
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Now that the Nationals are on the
way to Ponce de Leon Park, let us hope
they will be able to locate that fountain
of youth which We have heard so much
q abOut,
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Urges Mothers to
Let Boys Play Ball.

That's where you women can help
US; and your boys. Say that from
me. Instead of making your boys sit at
desks let EN- play baseball 1t will
make men of them. And there is a
bit Of money in it if they make good.
But they can't break in and expect
TO pull dOKn d big league job without
hard work. Your true ball player must
be ambitious. He must be enthusiastic,
He must work like l mean he must
work hard. II he hasn't the nerve to
work hard he never will get anywhere"
Then the veteran baseball man grew
reminiscent and told Of his career on the
diamond When pinned down he admit
ted it had covered a period Of twenty
eight years. He began on the cinder
piles OF his native town, Youngstown,
Ohio. one vas -eminded of the reply
the small boy gave when soue one ask
ed him how old ne was:
If you goes by what mudder says,
Use gOin' on seben. but if you reckon
by NAH experience Is most a hundred"
That's the way il is with Jimmie
McAIeer. Into his life have been crowd
ed experiences that would make most
men old. Instead, he is full of vigor,
of youthful enthusiasm, and behind
seemingly imperturbability there turks a
genial glow that warns when he is in
company with conGenial friends.
That is why they still call him
Jimmy.
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Capital T ales x

before. they he
blaze of He
be.
pass
to
be a o
made the speech his life
in it.
killed job Six later
havin a
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Sports.

Georgetown indoor games at Con-
vention Hall.
asketball-Regulars VS.. Rovers, at
] Y, NJ. C. A. Gymnasium.
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In the still hours of arctic twilight
Congress at last made its acknowledg
ments tG Captain PearY.
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From % Years Experience
Picks Honus Wagner
As Ideal.
SAYS. MANAGERS MISS
MANY GOOD PLAYERS
Urges Mothers to Let Boys Get
Out in Back Lot and Find
Themselves.

Admiration for "Honus" Wagner
sticks out all over Manager McAleer.
There's a square topped, fine old
ball player" he said. And he explain
ed in carefully couched language the
whereforeness of his great admiration
for the great Pittsburg player
There are other Wagners, though"
he said. The job of US managers is
to find them. They are in every walk
of life. But they are hard to pick. 1
guess we miss a lot of them. They
come from public schools, boys who
play hockey because they can't keep
away from the game. They are the
boys who go out in the back lots and
swat the ball around with a fence
paling when they ought to be driving
the cows home, or splitting kindling
or doing chores for their mas
Suddenly he turned about emphatic
ally and said:
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Washington Today

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nounce meetings or entertainments in
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ments.)
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March 4,
| 9 | |

have more strength among his political
opponents than in his own party. Thus
Representative Swager Sherley of Ken
lucky said today:
Perhaps the most notable feature
of the session has been the continual
widening of the breach between regu-
lar and progressive Republicans.
coupled with the sharp break between
the Executive and members of both
factions. whereby he has been left
practically alone in support of those
measures which he desired to put
through as his own party legislat tiOn.
This was particularly illustrated in
the situation that developed with re-
gard 20 Canadian reciprocity. The
opposition was so strong that il fus-
ed into a common camp the widely
separated wings OF Republicans. pro-
greSSiVeS from Iowa and hide bound
regulars from Pennsylvania Mean
while there developed the remarkable
situation of a Democratic minority in
the House standing almost unani-
mouslY for the treaty. though advanC-
ed as Republican measure by a Re-
publican President"
Today begins the second half Of
President Tafts administration and
the situation suggested by Mr.. Sher-
ley NAV become more or less striking.
as the Democracy shall press. or fail
to press, its opportunity to widen the
breach among Republican elements
The Presidential preliminaries for 1912
are already opened. They have been
opened, in behalf of the anti-Taft Re-
publicGns, with the bitter attacks OF
promise for restoration of harmony
and unity of action.
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SUNDAY,

The number Of complete and perfect copies
OF The Washington Times printed Sundays
during the month Of February was as follows
February 5......46.176 February 19......46, 424
February l2......47,10 ,10l February 2G......4s, 209
Total for nth........................ 1880
Sunday average for month........... 46,977
The net total circulation OF The Washington
Times Sunday during the month of Feb
ruary was 16N.9l7 all copies left over and
returned by agents being eliminated. This
number. when divided by 4. the number of
Sundays during February. shows the net
Sunday average for February TO have been
2,229
In each issue or The Times the circulation
figures for the previous day are plainly
printed at the head Of the first page at the
left OF the date line.
Entered at the Postofice at Washington,
d. G., second class matter.
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1t will seem almost like Sunday to-
morrow.
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Remarkable Quantity
Of Legislation Passed.

Yet with so unsatisfactory a political
situation, the Republican party has
passed a remarkable quantity of legis-
lation in the last two years. The meas
ures include:
The Payne-AIdrich tariff.
The railroad rate law, which as al
ready interpreted practically amounts
to the establishment Of Government
rate making.
Postal savings banks.
Submission of the income tax consti-
tutional amendment
Publicity of campaign contributions
in national and Congressional elections.
Creation of a Bureau of Mines.
Issuance of 800, ,000,OO0 bonds to COM
plete irrigation works.
Creation of the Appalachian-Wnfte
mountain forest reserves.
Ratification of a treaty with Japan
which removes many causes of fric-
ton between the two countries.
Creation of a tariff commission.
There has been uneXampled activity,
under Attorney General Wickersham,
in the prosecution of combinations un-
der the Sherman act.
The early completion Of the Panama
Canal has been assured, and measures
for it's administration. and for its for
tifieation. have been passed.
Democratic House
To Pass Reciprocity.
: Just ahead lies the new era of Demo-
cratic. initiation Of important public poll
cies. The Democrats are going to as
sumo, Jointly with the President, the
responsibility for the reciprocity pact
with Canada. 1t will be passed by the
House without amendment. and with
well-nigh solid Democratic backing.
Then its future will depend on the at
titude of a Senate which, though slight
Iy Republican. is expected to follow the
House procedure.
Revision of the tariff schedule by
schedule, with special reference to cor
re,tins the evils of the graft sched-
ules," will he the special work of the
extra session after reciprocity is out OF
the way In this the Democrats will act
in cooperation with the progressive BE
publicanS. whose exposure of the cbjeC-
tionable aspects of the old tariff system
made a great national issue of the
schedules.
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FEHRUARY CIRCULATION.
naflU

The number Of complete and perfect copies
Of The Washington Times printed daily dur
ing the month Of February was as follows:
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TotaI Tor month ................ 1888 79I
Daily average for month.............. 1878