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The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
The Value of an Idea.

The report that an invention for max
ing salt has been sold to an American
syndicate for no less than s., $5,ooooooagain
illustrates the remarkable value of good
ideas in these DAYS of keen competition
in the commercial world. We cannot
all think out intricate devices for saving
time and labor, but the fact should not
be overlooked that some enormous for
tunes have been made from little things.
Simple toys, puzzles, and games have
often proved such successes as to put
thousands of dollars into the pockets of
their inventors.
The man who invented the tin rattle
for babies made million. while the
man who thought out the idea of the
returning bail, an ordinary rubber or
wooden ball, to which was attached
an elastic cord, prohted to the extent of
$4,000 per year. The flying top had
rush of popularity which enabled its in
ventor to live in the lap of luxury for
the remainder OF his life, while Dancing
Jim CrowY-i Is said to have yielded an
annual income of $4,000. 1t is not so
many years ago that every one labori-
ously laced his boots from the lowest
hole TO the top. There was none of that
lightning crossing of the laees into the
neat little hooks with which the modern
shoe IS provided. The inventor of the
boot-hook sold his patent for the sum
of $3.50, and the purchasers are said to
have made million. When Kennedy
introduced the shoe lace he made s., ,soo,-
600, and the inventor of the roller skate
made similar fortune out of his idea
The inventor of the metal plates used
for protecting the soles and heels of
shoes from wear sold 100000 plates
in 1879, and in 1887. the number reached
total. of I43!ooo,ooo, which realized
profits of $4,000 for the year.
But the inventor does not always reap
magnificent rewards. Take the case of
the wire-wound gun. Longridge invent
ed the glin IN England m 1854, but the
British authorities would have nothing
to do with it Thirty years afterward
the British ordnance department sub
jeeted one of the guns to exhaustive
tests and so satisfactory were the re-
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
BUSH A BUILDER.
EnferprisinE Brooklynite Who Add
ed Million Annually to Revenues.

Enferprising Brooklynite Who Add
ed Million Annually to Revenues.
FSom the New York Mail. -
Two men, still young, have done more
perhaps to build up the city than any
other persons in it One Of them is
William G. McAdoo, the other is Irving
I. Bush MeAdoo has concerned himself
with the passenger business. Bush has
concerned himself with the freight .busi-
ness. The two are akin in energy, fore
sight. relation to transportation.
7 People on Manhattan Island know
something about Mr.. McAdoo and his
work, for one leg of his enterprise is
planted here They know less than they
should about Mr.. Bush, for his enter
prise is altogether in the neighboring
borough. His monument is in South
Brooklyn, and some of US have never
been to South Brooklyn. and others of
US have not been there in several years,
and meanwhile, thanks to Mr.. Bush, a
new city has arisen there.
The monument to this man is the Bush
terminal. We call it a city, for it covers
aO acres; it is served by seventeen
steamship lines; it has fleet of tugs.
car floats. lighters. and barges; it has
twenty-five miles of railroad trackage;
it has. seven piers 100 to 1,400 feet long.
where the Chelsea piers are only 500
feet long: It has eight factory buildings,
each 100 feet long; 1t has 122 ware
houses.
All this has been made out of next to
nothing, and therefore We call Irving T.
Bush a builder ana city benefactor.
When he began in 1895 he and his family
we're paying taxes on an assessed valua-
uon of $1,000. Now the property repro
sents an assessed valuation of SO 900, 900.
This man has added s1.Oo0,oO0 a year to
city revenues
But. he has done something better than
that He has made subsidiary seaport
He has provided dockage for the vessels
carrying the bulkier freights, and kept
them from leaving this port. He has
attracted new businesses to this city from
other places; in the last two months. for
example, four Such-a consummation usu-
ally achieved in smaller cities by munich
pal advertising and stock bonuses and
celebrated by public dinners. He has de-
VeAoped a system of economical and
expeditions handling of freight He has
applied department store methods to pro-
duction and distribution.
Now is the time for the community
to know all about Mr.. Bush. because it
Is the declared policy of the city to own
its own water front. and therefore his
waterfront property; because it has built
piers on both sides of his property. which,
in order to stimulate business, it is leas-
ing in competition With his and at prices
lower than he can meet-iower even than
per cent gross return on their cost !;
and because it wants him to extend to
its own enterprise the railroad facilities
he has built up for his terminal We
should strike a bargain that shall recos-
nize. rather than discourage, this mans
contribution as a builder. and place his
experience, his capacity. his plant at the
cityS service.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
Washington's Future Leaders.

When IN the natural course of events
the coterie OF splendid men who have
for so many years been dominant in
Washington affairs shall retire, their
successors. II is gratifying to know, will
be worthy and well equipped. The ar
ticlc which The Washington Herald
prints IN its magazine section this NOM
ing tells the story of the lives of some
OF these men of the young guard
The trouble with an article of this
kind is that it IS necessarily restricted.
Merely to mention. much less do ade-
quate justice to, all the bright, braIny
young men who are doing so much for
Washington would require score OF
pages where only one is available. At
the same time it is worth while to emu
merate only few, because they will be
recognized as typical of the new and
young Washington. Ii is to these alert,
active, patriotic citizens that we must
look for the continued progress of the
National Capital. They must take up
the burden which others will lay down.
They have already demonstrated that
Washington will be safe IN their hands
These young men have shown. too,
the falsity of the statement that there
is no opportunity here for material ad-
vancemcnt- Their careers demonstrate
that ability and enterprise are bound to
achieve success, and that here in Wash
ington no young man need be dis
couraged The fact that men from
other cities have come here and reached
the top of the ladder must impress it
self upon every Washington boy. What
men have done, men may do again. No
chance for young man IN Washington?
The question is absurd. There is plenty
of opportunity here, and, best OF all,
there arc Young men with stamina and
ambition to take advantage of it.
All honor should be given to the men
who have rendered splendid service to
Washington during long and Useful lives
When their activities shall cease, their
work will be taken up with energy and
intelligence by the young men who are
already becoming factors in this COM
murity. and whose devotion to the Ma
tiond Capital is unsclfsh, untiring, and
genuine.
To these leaders of the future, a
hearty God-spccd!
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
The Champagne War.

1t is an axiom in France that when
anything goes wrong in that country it
is the governments fault Thus it comes
about that while the French government
has a good deal to do with the causes OF
the present unrest in the champagne
district. the origin of the trouble is not
political at all.
When, on account OF successive crop
failures, the producers of champagne de-
nlandcd governmental relief, and cspe-
cially protection against adulteration
and misbranding. the French authorities
undertook an official delimitation of the
champagne region This led to an in
teresting complication. The Department
of the Aubc found itself outside the
magic region legally authorized to call
its product champagne. There is no
doubt that that department was a part
of the ancient province of Chanpa gne,
but IN the exact technical study of the
wine question it has been established
that the secret of the real champagne is
connected not with geographic, but with
geologic divisions, and thepeculIar chalks
over which spread the roots of the vine
producing the champagne grape do not
reach to Bar-sur-Aube. The growers
in the latter region. finding themselves
excluded from what they have naturally
come to regard as an inalienable right to
be considered part of Champagne. have
risen in revolt. They refuse to label
their product as mere Sparkling wines.
The dilemma in which the French gov
crnmcnt is placed is not an easy one
Law and order must be maintained, but
at the same time public sympathy gen.
orally is with both groups of growers,
and especially with those of Bar-sur-
Aube, who from time imnlemorial have
regarded themselves as much a part Of
the champagne district as their north
ern neighbors. The merry war is not
likely, however, to affect this country.
At any rate, the price of cold bottle
has not yet been reduced.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
A Miraculous Cure.

From London TitBits.
The other day saw the death of an
old friend of the Kaiser-Prfnce Boris
Czetwertynski. The prince had passion
for big game hunting, and a rather funny
story is told in connection with one OF
his expeditions in Central Africa.
The one thing he could not tolerate
was anything in the way of shirkins
hard work. AS he was going up-country
one of his companions-a rather lazy
of being ill After the
prince had nursed him tenderiy for sew
eral days he began to be suspicious, and
finally he became convinced that the man
was shamminS.
One morning, as he entered the tent, his
patient asked plaintfvely:-
Boris, do you think shall der
The prince smoothed his patients pill
low in the kindest way, and whispered:
Il pray every morning that you WILL"
Tho patient was up and about next
daY.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
AS OTHERS SEE 1T.
From the Philadeiphia ReDrd.

From the Philaaelplia Record.
In the spring young mans fancy
lightly turns-to fancy socks and neck
ties.
Frum the Galveston News.
The truth about mothers-in-law Is that
they have kept many a sonin-law from
having to work for a living.
From the New Yok Press
Anyhow, a woman knows enough
about mathematics to figure out how
many spring bonnets her husbands an
nual cigar bills would buy.
From the Detroit Journal.
The girl who knelt at church affairs as
If to pray and picked pockets instead
must have been reading magazine arti-
cles on. the lives Of pious commercial
pirates.
Etum the Deuvcy Republican.
wichita Socialists have adopted the
following slogan: I'VE will Mtlwau-
keeize wichita" Any Socialist who
can repeat that slogan rapidly three
times win prove that he has not NIL
,waakeeized himself
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
Bryce on Reciprocity.

From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Ambassador Bryce's keen intelligence is
shown in his analysis of the proposed
reciprocity agreement between the United
States and Canada. The arrangement he
says, rests on a growing realization of
the fact that a high tariff wall between
contiguous countries whose products are
economically interchangeable is an injury
to both and opposed to sound fiscal prin-
ciples. 1t is to products economically in
terchangeable that the proposed agree
ment applies, it involves no sacrifice of
the principle of protection to the indus
tries of the United States. There is a
likelihood that its enactment would tend
to reduce the cost of living in the United
States. If so, it would tend to bufwark
those industries in their competition with
the industries of other manufacturing
nations for position in the markets of the
world.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
A wOMAN's DARLING.

Jones worried when he saw her fruvn.
He hated wrangiing and she knew it;
He was her drudse. her slave, her dupe.
Whenever she held up q hoop.
Poor Jones submissirely jumped through 1t;
For her he humbiy knuckied down
She shaped his every act and habit;
He kept her dressed in splendid style:
He lived TO make her happy, while
She cared for him about a. much
As II he'd been . rabbit
When Jones was gone she married Brown.
Whose fists were big and coarse and hairy;
He let her work to buy his bread.
He sometims flung thinsS at her head,
And loafed from Juno to Jauna1;
At night he fingered iats in tom
Nor cared how xck she v0 % 1nnon;
But shs was happy when he came
Sometimes and. calling her b. name.
Impaired . half gentle tpach.
Prutcsting that hs loved bar only.
Chieap BsemkHG1id
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
Filing An Alfbi.

From Tit Bits
Parson Whites precautionary measure
of protecting his chicken coop with
chilled steel bars was futile. for that
very night four more of his choice Leg
horns disappeared. leaving the severed
bars as the only visible evidence Of the
theft. However, his suspicious pointed
toward his next-door neighbor. whom he
had seen prowling around his yard that
day. and accordingly he had this sus-
pect up in the Police Court the next
morning.
IF the prisoner can file an alibi, I'll
let him of with a suspended sentence, -
announced the judge at the end Of the
evidence Can you file an alibi. Ham,
81 guess can," eagerly rejoined the
suspect, 'Hf 1t amt any harder den Pah-
son Whites chicken coop bars"'
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
Main Supports of Church.

From the Detroit Journal.
Bishop Doane refused to allow a
woman to speak in his cathedral though
the speaking of women to their sons and
brothers and husbands is the chief thing
that keeps cathedrals and churches
standing.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
Just One Thing to Do.

From the New York Commercial.
The best thing for the Democratic ma
jority ip the House to do is to take
prompt action on the reciprocity pro-
posal. put 1t up to the Senate and the
President for approval or disapproval
and then ask the Senate to join in a
conference committee to consider the
date of adjournment
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
Loyal to the Core.

From the Pruridence Journal
Yale's admiration for its distinguished
alumnus In the White House is veil
known. The other day he was reported
to be suffering from pink eye. and now q
New Haven dispatch says that there are
one hundred cases in the university.
Could loyalty 60 any further?
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09

A youth of seventy-siX the other day
eloped with a coy maiden of seventy.
Needless to add that no irate parent
chased after them in an auto.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
OTHER FAVORITES.

The crocus and the daffodil
Have had their day;
And made our pulses gently thrill
In roundelay.
But they are hackneyed. and thcf bard
1t really seems,
Such vegetation should discard
For newer themes.
In fact. the time is now at hand
To go to bat
In favor of the radish and
The marrowfat
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09

Lives there a forecaster who is able
to supply rain for a crouch or sun for
the optimist?
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09

So Oyster Bay has voted strongly
against local option. Oyster Bay? Oys-,
ter Bay? Have we ever heard that name
before?
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09

Col. Bryan approves of Gov. Wilson,
Is this good news or bad?
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
Spring RepaFfee.

You are daffodilatory about setting out
your flowers this year remarked the
first hunorist.
Il always wait until the weather is
settled responded the second humorist
That is my invariable crocustom."
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09

The only actual maneuver in Texas
was the maneuvering out of. Texas Of
colored regiment
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
Declined with Tha nka.

Mister asked the wayfarer, 'have
you got any old clothes you don't want?''
No; but here is an old automobile
you may have
Thanks, but I have enough trouble
supplying my own wants, without begging
gasoline from door to door"
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09

The opera which is to be written on
DR.. Cooks trip to the pole no>doubt VIII
be a.froSt
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09

Mr.. Taft knows and has demonstrated
that brevity is the very acme of diplo-
macY
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
Choice Locations.

THE advertising man has his troubles
these days"
LAS to how
Everybody wants space next to pure
baseball matter
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09

We . still missing those MissoUr
mules on the Avenue
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
To Helm Ont.

Il have too many friends. People are
always bothering me to drink with 'em."
why don't you employ social Sec
retary?-
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
Never Again.

why don't you give your wife an al
lowance?"
II tried that once, and she spent 1t be-
fore I could borrow il back
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
An Artistic Touch.

I'D like to take you to lunch, old man -
You are very kind
"And I would if 1 had the price. Could
you spare a ffve?'
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
Spring Fever.

In this life, so full Of crazy,
Scrambiing men,
1t is helpful to be lazy
Now and then.
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09
GOSSIP OF THE
HOTEL LOBBIES
Masauersdinr In Male Attire.


Capt L. o. Farrell, of New York, for
merry connected with the police depart
ment Of that city and now engaged in
private business, was seen at the Raleigh
yesterday In discussing women who don
male attire Capt Farrell said: Mas
querading In male attire is more COM
mon for women than is generally thought
Two reasons drive women to pass az
men
First Of an, a young man of engaging
and refined appearance finds work very
easily, especially If he has good habits
The woman dressed up as a man seldom
smokes or drinks. and. being rather awk-
ward in associating with men or women
of her age, seldom goes out at night and
therefore makes an excellent clerk
Secondly, she can, thanks to a MANS
garb, avoid the unwelcome attentions OF
her employers or of the patrons of the
establishment where she works. Just as
il happened in old-ume novels where the
heroine went about in a knights axmor.
the female masqueraders Of to-dzy are
exposed as the consequence of some
physical injury"
The Washington herald., 1911-04-09

The most enthusiastic believer in vac
cination might take alarm at one sec
ton in an act which made vaccination
compulsory in Scotland. By a section
of this act the registrar was ordered
to make out a list of the names and ad-
dresses of such persons as have failed
to transmit or lodge a certificate of vac
cination, and upon receipt of the list or
order of vaccinator appointed to
vaccinate the persons named in the list,
he, in pursuance Of such order. shall vac
cinate the persons named therein"
AS it was the duty of parents to for
ward the certificate 1t was thus clear
that il they failed to do so, they would
have to submit their own arms to the
needle and lymph, penalty which. it is
not necessary to say, was as little con-
templated by the law as 1t would be
relished by the parents.
A statute for the rebuilding Of Chelms-
ford jail provided that prisoners should
be confined in the old jail until the new
one was built A very proper precau-
ton, one would think. But as subse-
quent clause ordered that the new prison
should be constructed out of the materials
of the old one, the difficulty Of providing
accommodations for the prisoners during
the pulling down and rebuilding was so
obvious that a new bill had to be drafted
How the horse thief in Edward Wis
day must have chuckled when an act
was passed to restrain his misguided
zeal! The act provided exemplary pun
ishment for the thief who stole ''horses'
lin the pluraD, but allowed the stealer
OF one horse to go scot free. As a ma
tural consequence. until the act was
amended. the horse thief had profitable
time annexing his animals one at .
time. FIANBUR.
lOupnisAt inl.. b Mcclure ,NsvsapE agueis.hl
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-12-20
Partial Table of
Contents

Dictionary of the English Ian
guage.
Authorizations Of the Parts Of
Speech.
Origin, Composition and Deriya-
ton OF the English Language.
Principles OF Grammar.
Simplified Spelling.
Key Of Pronunciation.
synonyms and Antonyms.
Christian Names OF Men.
Christian Names OF Women.
Foreign Words, Phrases, Prov
erbs, Quotations, etc.
Facts about the Earth.
Declaration Of independence.
Constitution of the United Safes
of America.
Metric System of Weights and
Measures.
Value of Foreign Coins in L. S.
Money.
A4AG D44tI tuNe.
Weather Forecasts.
Presidents of the United States.
Language of the Flowers.
Language OF Gems.
Streets, Names OF, their Origin
and Meaning.
Dictionary OF Commercial and
Legal Terms.
Familiar Allusions.
Famous Characters in Poetry and
Prose.
Decisive Battles.
1900 Synonyms G. Antonyms
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ot new words will agrceably
surprise the most critical
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and American authorities peng definition and pronunciation
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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-06-08
COMMENCEMENT WEEK.
Many Changes in Houghton High
School Teaching Staff.

Supt. Doelle yesterday gave out the
program for commencement week In
the Houghton public schools which
commences Monday evening. The
manual training. domestic science and
commercial exhibit will be held Mon
day evening, TO 10, Tuesday after
noon 4 to $3.50 and Tuesday evening
Z to 10. The eigth grade commencement
also viii be held Tuesday evening in
toe Central assembly room.
The high school class day is sche-
culcd for Wednesday evening i'm the
Central assembly room and the COM
mcuccment exercises. with an address
by Hon. H. r. Pattengill, will be held
Thursday evening in the Amphidromc
taH.
The promotion of Miss Anna NJ. Nyc
To- b- supervisor OF Eindergartens and
primary grades for the Houghton
schools, T. one that VIII give much
pleasure to Houghton people Miss
Nye has been director Of the Central
Kindergarten for the past ten years,
during which time she has become
one of the most influential factors
in the promotion of education tn
Houghton. She is particularly popu-
lar with parents Of children under her
charge. She viii be succeeded in the
Central kindergarten by Miss Hide
garGe Guck of Lake Linden.
The policy of having men principals
in ali ward schools of Houghton has
been changed and hereafter women
teachers will iii these positions. Miss
Charity Warrington. a graduate OF
the HOughton high school Of the class
OF 1901 and the Marquette normal
viii be principal of the West Hough-
ton school next year, and Miss Anas-
tasia lIcmock, who has had charge
Of the Hurontown scnool for the past
two years, viii be the principal of
the East Houghton school next year.
Miss Frances Goodale, who has been
assistant to Miss Nye i'm the Central
kindergarten, has been promoted To
the dictatorship of the East Houghton
kindergarten.
Walter Kr1ll Of the high school will
be assisted 10y prof Whitcomb in the
manual training department.