The Washington times., 1911-06-05

during May shows the net Sunday average
for May TO have been Ass.
In each issue of The Times the circulation
figures for the previous day are plainly
printed at the head Of the first page al the
left OF the date line.
Entered at the Postotfice at Washington,
D. c.. second class matter.
The start of the Glidden tour from this
city is a joy postponed, since the date
has been advanced from June q to some
time in the fall.
Our special ambassador, Col. John
Hays Hammond. has reached Lon
don. There is nothing to wait on
now except June %.
Washington farmers are becoming
very, very careless. One of them, liv-
ing near Good Hope, dropped off to
sleep in a hay loft and sustained a
loss of more than 500.
Our local physicians seem to think
the theory that tickling the ankle as
a test of a fractured skull merely
indicates that the theorists them
selves are a little cracked
Prof. Bailey, for fifty years instructor
IN elocution at Yale. who died yesterday,
was in the late sos close friend and
associate of Lincoln and was his COM
panion during the famous Lincoln Doug
las debates.
We cannot view with alarm the re-
port that there will be q serious short
in h.. IN
the contrary. we shall be prepared to
point with pride to the decreased crop
of ptomaine victims.
Perhaps, in some respects, We shall
be rural for a long time to come. but
surely we have reached a stage where
the scattering of handbills about the
streets should give place to more
metropolitan methods of publicity.
Another link with the historic past
has been broken. Louis L. Beaubien,
who assisted in carrying President Lin
coin from Ford's Theater and after
ward stood guard in front of the house
on Tenth street in which he passed
away, has just died in Detroit at the
age Of eighty-nine.
The keen enjoyment with which
HandeIS Messiah" was received at
the Metropolitan NJ. E. Church last
night indicates at once the high
standard of culture which pervades
all circles in Washington and the
abiding greatness of the time hon
ored sacred classic.
While Congress sits in the Capitol and
passes-or, at least disCusses-cOnserva-
ton and the science Of forestry, no for
ester's attention is given to a rapidly
decayirg tree on the east side of the
grounds, and the neglect Of the pruning
knife in the early stages apparently
has permitted the tree to decay beyond
nope Of arrest
The Swiss patriotic and social or
ganization, Die Stauffacherin, held it's
June meeting yesterday afternoon,
with the Swiss minister and his fell
low countrymen in attendance. No
nationality represented in Washing
ton life is more patriotic than the
Swiss and their meetings are always
delightful and inspiring.
With a new chapel of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church of the Epiphany dedi-
Gated yesterday. an addition planned by
the Grace Reformed Church, not to
mention a dozen or more church struc-
lures built, remodeled, or enlarged with
in a year, it is hard to see how the
Capital is as all bad as a recent church
convention and local preacher claimed
it is.
Lieut.. Com. Leigh c. Palmer, naval
aide to the President, will continue in
his present position after his forth
coming marriage to a charming Georgia
woman. In waving the precedent that
his aides should be unmarried, Presi-
dent Taft has shown a gracious cour-
tesy, which those who know the charm
ing bride-to-be can more readily under
stand.
For forty-one years active in educat-
ing the Youths of the District, three
times sacrificing his own preference Of
position to serve where the Board of
Education believed they most needed
him-as Superintendent OF Schools
Alexander T. Stuart now rellnqulshes
that office, and resumes his favorite
work as director of intermediate in
struction with the esteem and friendship
OF thousands who have been trained for
life work under him and the commenda-
ton of all citizens who have watched
his work.
Charles D. Walcott, secretary Of the
Smithsonian, a paleontologist of world
wide recognition, is making another
worlds record for Washington, arrang-
ing in the New National Museum an
antediluvian corridor that has no equal
for far-ancient specimens. This collec-
ton is all the more complete and nice
in every detail since II is the loving la
Dor of one who is devoting his life to
this research, with the Jealous assist
ance of young taxidernist c. w. Gil