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The Washington times., 1911-05-01
ZONES TRAINS GUNS
EX-SENATOR MARTIN
Latters Party Standing Questioned and His Tariff Rec
ord Held Up to Criticism by Senatorial Candidate
in Speech at Fairfax Court House.

Denouncing in no uncertain terms the
record Of Senator Martin as showing
continued favoritism to the interests,
and calling upon the voters to throw or
the yoke of boss rule, Representative
William A. Jones opened the Senatorial
campaign in. northern Virginia with a
singing speech at Fairfax Court House
Saturday night. No words were spared
by the aspirant to the Senatorial toga
as he sketched out the record of the
present senior Senator. Senator Mar
tins votes on the tariff measures, the
war revenue bill, and his failure to
vote on certain measures. were held up
10 criticism.
THE tariff is the one predominating,
clearly defined and clean-cut political IS
sue upon which the two great political
parties of this country are divided" as
serted Mr.. Jones, "and in the light Of
the almost innumerable Democratic
amendments to the Dingley tariff bill.
which Senator Martin either voted
against or did not vote at all, how can
he with any degree Of consistency be
classed as a Democrat
"Of the 500 Democratic amendments
offered, 143 were brought to an aye and
no NOle. upon HlnSl9-clSHl VI lHcSc
amendments Senator Martin failed to
vote at all. Did you send him to the
Senate to sit there with folded hands,
dumb as an oyster, and look pleasant?
He voted ON forty-fve of these amend
ments. and no other Democrat voted so
persistently with the Republicans as did
Senator Martin"
A band concert preceded the meeting
at the court house. Mr.. Jones opened
his speech with a few words concern
ing his station in the party.
"I have been a Democrat all my life"
said he "I was born a Democrat,
reared a Democrat, and will be Dem
ocrat until 1 die. I yield to no man in
my convictions, and 1t is because of my
devotion to the tenets of the Democratic
faith that am before you here tonight
to ask you for your aid in my fight for
the re-establishment of those principles
in the State of Virginia"
Senator Martins record IN regard to
the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill occupied
Mr.. Jones attention, Jones replying to
certain alleged misstatements.
within the last few days." said Mr..
Jones, "a pamphlet has been issued as
a campaign document from Senator
Martins headquarters which purports
to give an abstract of all of his votes
on the PAYNE Aldrich bill. In this PAM
pfllet II is stated that not upon a sin
gle schedule or item in the tariff bill
did Senator Martin vote for a protec-
tive tariff or depart from sound Demo-
cratic principle.
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ment with their employers The con-
tagion might have spread from the
makers of pearl buttons to those who
ply their handicraft upon gutta percha
and horn-the fastenings of the COM
mon people. Who knows, indeed, but
what there might have been famine
in the lowly rice button, upon which
SO much neither responsibility depends ?
The history of buttons is exceedingly
entertaining, and a whole body of
literature has grown up around them,
but the American people would have
been face to face with some very en-
barrassing situations if the buttons
had given out.
The skewer, for example, is a very
present help in time of trouble. Torn
from its parent tree to become the
first aid of bachelor in distress, its
merits cannot be exaggerated. But
like many other useful articles it is
exceedingly ungainly.
The safety pin is far more finished
product, and yet it has a special use
which has aroused certain prejudices
against it. Since its evolution into a
shirt waist pin, chased, lacquered, or
set with rhine stones, as the case may
be, it has won some little caste, but
spuds are spuds, though cooked and
christened in the highest French
fashion.
If the strike had continued during
the approaching summer the average
woman whose gowns button down the
back would have gone into nervous
prostration with hooks and eyes. The
peak a. boo, more than ever would have
been open to reproach. In short, the
strike of the button makers has been
settled just in time to keep the coun-
try from going to pieces.
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Never was a husband and father
more loved-I might say idolized. He
was companion to me, and We can
only look to the Father Of the Father
less for help. You were a ministering
angel to him. and l thank God daily for
sending you TO his bedside"
on November 3. 1853, she wrote at
ington:
AFTER battle at Rappahannock Sta
ton. All night wounded coming in. At
intervals, knocking on the windows Of
nurses house for keys to medicine
chests. In answer to question, Bring
swered: Lots Of 'um; piling 'um ina
load of rebs. a general. and lots Of Of
ficers. You'll find 'um mighty dirty.
When morning came, entering my ward,
my eyes fell on two long rows Of sad
sufferers, while the floor was strewn
with canteens, knapsacks, piles Of
blood-stained clothes, boots. and shoes
a worn out nurse fallen asleep"
Sea Island School
For Negroes.
Upon the close of the war, and after
a service SO strenuous as few women
rendered, Mrs. Brinton transferred her
activities to the sea islands of South
Carolina, where she organized a school
for the negroes of two big plantations.
For school room," she says, I'VE
took an old cotton gin house, where
desks and benches were placed. Not
ninnies began to gather at Z o'clock IN
the morning, rolling and tumbling about
in wild glee while waiting for their
teacher. As the babies Of the quarters
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charges which have been preferred this
pamphlet is very disappointing. The
Congressional Record not only does not
show that Senator Martin did not vote
for protective tariff propositions and
that he voted for the amendments OF
ing to reduce the tariff, but it incon-
testably establishes exactly the con-
trary."
He attacked Senator Martins vote on
the iron ore schedule.
Senator Martin declares in this
pamphlet said Mr.. Jones, that he
voted to reduce the tax of iron ore from
10 cents to 25 cents. There never was
statement farther from the truth.
THE bill, as 1t passA the House, pro-
vided for free iron ore, and Senator
Aldrich attempted to amend it upon the
floor by imposing tax Of 25 cents
ton. There was no question ever be-
fore the Senate to reduce the tax from
30 cents to 25 cents ton.
Senator Aldrich finally secured his
amendment, but the House refused to
accept 1t. A compromise 0f 15 cents
ton was finally agreed upon. Thus Sem
ator Martin voted to impose a tax to
practically double that which is actu-
ally provided for in the Payne-Aldrich
bill
ION bituminous ccal, the friends Of
he voted to reduce that tax from 81
cents to 50 cents. Well, he did. after
Senator McCumber. a Republican, had
moved to amend the Aldrich schedule
bv making the rate 40 cents instead OF
so. The duty is now AZ cents a ton, and
thus Senator Martin voted to make the
duty Is cents higher than the Payne
Aldrfch bill provides for"
Senator Martins votes on the lumber
schedule were held up to scathing critl,
cism and ridicule. That he had voted
to increase the duty Of rough LUMBER
80 per cent and that on many OF the
schedules he had consistently voted
with Senator Aldrich was asserted.
Jones closed his speech with an at
tack on boss rule in Virginia he as
serted that a ring Of four men com.
pletelv dominated the state. and that
not an office could be secured without
seeking the patronage Of the bosses.
Complete rottenness in many counties
of the State was evident at each state
convention, he said, when delegates
were unseated and those wished by the
ring placed in power. The question for
the people to decide, he said, was
whether they should rule, or Whether
machine should control the State.
",They tell me that 1 cannot win this
fignt," he said. 81 deny it. The ma
chine cannot last. But whether I win
OF lose, am in the fight to stay"
Mr.. Jones will speak within the next
few weeks in Clarendon and Alexan-
tiria, mass meetings for both towns
having been arranged. following the
conclusion Of the meeting at Fairfax
Court House -..,-,-.----.
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Crossed Ocean Twenty-Five
Times and Planning to
Go Again.
MANY IMPORTANT
PUBLIC MISSIONS
Established Revolutionary Cabin
at Worlds Fairs, Achieving
Financial Success.

had to be cared for, they were brought
along, too. The teachers first command
every morning was:
Go and wash your faces! and the
large horse trough with running water
being nearby, there was a wild scram-
Bile for Its capacious basin. In conse-
quence Of this ingathering Of children
toddIers, many of whom fell asleep and
We're laid away in corners or the room.
The wtde-awake ones were put out IN
the sand to play, and the older ones
went through with their lessons.
The walls of the schoolhouse were
chinked with cotton. and the little
darkies would fill their ears with thtA
and would sit. there studying, uncou.
scious Of the comical sight they pre-
out from their woody heads and black,
shining faces.
Has Crossed Ocean
Twenty-Five Times.
As II her labors during the war be-
tween the States were not sufficient to
enable her to rest upon her laurels.
Mrs. Brinton has crossed the ocean
twenty-five times, and is at present
organizing a party for a tour abroad.
At Budapest in 1873 she represented
America at the great peace congress
held there. and was the only American
In attendance. From Budapest she
went to Berlin to attend the Interna-
tional Council of Women, and later rep
resented the National Geographic So
ciety Of the Capital al a great con-
vention in London. writing Of her
foreign experiences for American
papers.
At every big exposition held in this
country, dating from the Centennial
Exposition held in Philadelphia in 1876,
she has been known to thousands as
The Lady Of the Old Inn"
When came back to America early
in '76." she told me, Il felt / wanted to
illustrate typical American life as I
had 6een some types Of European life
Illustrated at the Austrian exposition.
That gave me the thought of repro.
ducing there a New England country
home of the Revolutionary time
Her idea appealed to the directors Of
the exposition, and out of II grew q
Revolutionary home perfect in every
detail of architecture and furnishing.
Took Kindly to
Fashioned Cooking.
"one day it occurred to me-" says
Mrs. Brinton, ito try to make back.
some of the money that had been in
vested on the place, and 1 decided to
make a trial Of serving some of the
simple. old-fashioned foods our ances-
tors ate. / did not much think that
people would take to 1t, but they did,
and on big days like Philadelphia day.
We were unable TO accommodate the
throngs, and handed out doughnuts and
old-fashioned pumpkins pies to long
lines Of hungry men and women.
Without the least previous training,
I managed to clear that year above all
expenses, the sum OF $4,000"
At the Charleston Exposition, the
Worlds Fair, and other expeditions,
Mrs. Brinton's Revolutionary cabin
sprang up, filed with beautiful old fur
niture and books that in themselves
would make a quite wonderful story.
She achieved a financial success with
every venture, which proves that pies
and doughnuts are not a bad invest
ment.
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BIG FIRES COLLECTION BY
DISTRESS.

Some weeks ago a great loss of life
in New York loft factory emphasized
the need of stringently enforced laws
for the protection of the human being.
Now a property loss of $l0,000,O00
in a little city of $4,000 people again
points the need of stricter building
laws in all congested territory.
The New York factory was fireproof
against burning, but was so constructed
as not to safeguard the lives of it's
inmates. The city of Bangor seems to
have been so much tinder for the
flames. That there was not a great
loss of life as well as money was due
to the accident that the confagration
started in the daytime.
Every city which has a big fire
makes an enforced payment of a long
standing debt. As usual, there is the
added cost of collection by distress,
but it cannot be doubted that a COM
PEELED improvement in building
methods makes even great fire ulti-
mately a profitable experience. Chi
cago, Baltimore, and San Francisco
are all of them now in debt to their
disasters.
Bangor, with its mythical history
as that Norumbega in which adven-
turous sailors picked up rubies by the
handful, may be expected to gain from
its great fire continuing and solid
impulse.
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Answered DR.. Howe's Call
for Women Nurses in
War Days.
WROTE DIARY OF
HOSPITAL LIFE
Founded Sea Island School for
Negroes on South Caro-
lima Coast.
By SELENE ARMSTRONG.

II you've an eye for heroines, be on
the lookout today, my gentle reader.
For who knows? You may meet her
just around the corner-the little old
fashioned woman who has seventy-seven
years Of youthfuiness to her credit, and
record for bravery that reads like a
war generals. You wili know her by
her brisk step, her erect carriage, and an
eagle-nke brightness Of eye. And II
you're poet or an artist you will label
her, In true Whistleresque style, "A
Study in Gray" Gray gown, gray bon
net, and gray hair-all melt into a soft,
quaint monotone that is strangely in
consistent with the energetic up-to-
dateness of her
She Is Mother" Brinton, and she
once worked for the Federal Govern
ment, in troublous times, for the sum Of
thirteen dollars per month. Where
upon you will be ruled out of order IL
you begin an Grafton on the woes of the
poorly paid Government employe, mas
much as Mother Brinton explains:
Spent Salary on
Delicacies for Sick.
You see, my dear, the Federal Gov
eminent paid US war nurses s13 per
month, but that small sum invariably
went to buying such small delicacies for
the sick soldiers as we could procure"
1t was et big mass meeting in Bos-
ton in those ominous days subsequent to
the opening OF hostihties between the
States, that Mrs. Brinton. who was
then Emma Southwick, heard Mr.. Howe,
the husband of Julia Ward Howe, tell
eloquently OF the need for volunteer
nurses for the sick and wounded soldiers
of the Federal army. This, by the way,
was shortly after the return Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Howe from that memorable visit
to Washington which inspired the lat
ter's Battle Hymn Of the Republic" t"
the deathless words Of which will ring
round the world when war is relegated
to back seat among the barbarities Of
the dear. dead past
Il want to go to war" asserted Miss
Southwick to Mr.. Howe. and to Mr.
Bellows, a minister who had presided
at the public meeting which first aroused
her enthusiasm for the profession Of
nurse to the soldier boys.
Began Hospital
Work In Alexandra.
Your? they asked. increduously.
looking her over. and noting the frail
physique, and the soft little hands un-
used to labor. Why. what could you
do. child?"
Give me a chance to show you." she
answered. pluckily. Tell me how to
go to Washington as a nurse, so that
may do my part for the Cause"
On January l. 1852, Miss Southwick
began at Mansion House Hospital. in
Alexandria. the labors which were to
bless hundreds of sick and suffering
men during the four years OF conflict
and which were to close many months
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National Mothers Congress, the Ar
lington. 1880 a. m. and 7:45 p. m
Illustrated lecture by John B. Tor
bert, THE Meaning of Our Flag"
under the auspices of the W. r. C.
Of the G. A. R., Grand Army Hall,
1880 p. m.
Violin recital by Joseph H. Douglass,
Rankin Memorial Chapel, Howard
University, s p. m.
Ladies' night under the joint aus
pices of Beacon and Excelsior
Lodges, Odd Fellows Hall, Sis
p. m.
Meeting of the board of directors of
the Board of Trade, board rooms,
AIS p. m.
Illustrated lecture on THE House
Fly" by Prof. l. o. Howard, under
auspices of the North Washington
Citizens Association, Church of the
Advent, Second and U streets north
west, p. m.
The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges: Potomac,
No. 5. NJ M; Benjamin B. French,
No. Is, NJ. NJ; Anacostia, No. 81, F.
c.: Pentalpha, No. %, F. c.; Mt.
Pleasant, No. 33. E. A. Knights.
business. Eastern Star Chapter-Ruth,
No. A.
The following I. o. o. F. orsaniza-
tions will meet tonight: Lodges:
Langdon, No; rs; Union, No. IL; Cow
enant, No. 13.
Rebekah Desree-Naomi, No. !, degree
work.
The following X. of p. lodges will
meet tonight: Equal, No. II, busi-,
ness; Amoranth. No. 2S; knight
rank; Century, No. 80. business.
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BUTTONMAKERS' STRIKE SET
TIED IN TIME.

Charles Dickens poked fun at certain
SNUG gentry whom he termed button
ed up people" 1t gives one a very
comfortable sort of feeling, just the
same, to be well buttoned, and it is
distressing to think what would have
happened if the striking button makers
out In Iowa had not reached Q settle.
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after that conflict ended. with useful
work for the negroes on the sea Islands
off the South Carolina coast.
Kept journal of
Hospital Tragedies.
In her possession today there is a
stirring war journal. kept by her. its
record of the tragedies of hospital life
traced on slips of coarse wrapping
paper, on bits of wall paper, or occa-
sionally on some of the real stationery
which was treasured for the writing of
letters home for the sick boys
"A dear boy died this morning of
pneumonia" says a characteristic entry
in Mrs. Brinton's old journal. under
date of April q, 1862. "A letter from his
mine, said: Our darling boy was al
ways good and thoughtful for others.
We thank you so much for kissing him
for his grandmother and sister. When
told the old lady, the tears rolled down
her checks. and she said, Give my love
to the dear lady with my thanks, and
my prayers that she will be blessed - -
Under date of August q. 1862. We read:
Called at 10 D. m. to attend Gen.
brigade sent against heavy force. In
fantry, cavalry, ana artillery moved
down like sheep. Generals leg ampu-
tated."
Appreciative Letters From
Relatives of Dead.
And later: September /, 1862 Called
at 8 a. m. to the generals death-bed." "
To which entry is attached a tear
stained and time-bedimmed letter from
the generals daughter reading:
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Catholic Legion Is
To Banquet Tonight

The eleventh annual banquet of the
Catholic Benevolent Legion will be held
tonight at 9 o clock in the Riggs House.
Officers for the coming year will be in
stalled just previous to the banquet.
An attractive toast list has been pre-
pared.
The Washington times., 1911-05-01
New York Taxicab Rates
Ten Cents a Mile More

NEW YORK. May 1.-The advance Of
10 cents a mile, ordered by the Connec-
ticut Taxicab Company, controlling
most Of the vehicles not under contract
to hotels, went into effect today.
F. ]. Holsworth, jr., manager of the
company, said today the advance was
required to keep the concern out Of
receivers hands.
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The dogsbroke about even in his con-
test with moving vehicles yesterday.
One was killed on the Avenue by
street car, r,Iand another caused grave in
juries to,a motorcyclist in Hyattsville.
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Jubilee of Cardinal Gibbons ordina-
ton. This dormitory will be the cor
buildings to surround the campus
which Hill not only add materially
to the valuation and architectural
beauty Of Washington real estate.
but will add to the prosperity of the
city through bringing here hundreds
Of desirable temporary citizens.
Uncle Jim" Wilson, of the Agricul-
tural Department, is responsible for a
little brochure after the Persian school,
indicating by fits contents the easiest
way to rid a bed room ceiling Of mos
quitos. A fragment Of the quatrains
reads as follows:
A cup of tin made fast upon a stick.
A little Standard oil or kerosene; a
quick,
Sharp motion toward the 'squito up
above
And, lol the skeet falls dead. Just try
the trick.
]. R. McGonegal. District inspector Of
plumbing. has issued a timely warning
to users of gas. He says the District
averages three deaths a year from
asphyxiation due to the old practice of
the gas company in setting cutoff
valves close together, thereby rendering
it possible for one to turn on one valve
as he closes the other. The new plumb
ing regulations provide that cutoff
valves shall be at least twelve inches
apart, but it does not apply to old fix
lures, in many Of which the valves are
side by side. It is up to householders
who are supplied with such fixtures TO
protect themselves. An ounce of pre-
nerstone of a group of handsome
vention in turning on and Off is worth
many pounds of cure.
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The colored audience which listened to
Ambassador Bryce yesterday has the
distinction Of being the first gathering
OF their Tace to be addressed by an am
bassador Iof the King.
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Ambassador Bryce may be accepted as
giving US an entirely unbiased opinion
on the solution of the NEGRO question.
The Washington times., 1911-05-01

All Of the G. o. P.'s in town wen
to see the Velephantsytoday.
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The ~par of theroses' is on in Mt.
LRainiers to-day.
The Washington times., 1911-05-01

The net total circulation Of The Washington
Timer daily during the month Of April
was LII, ,6s2 all copies left over and re-
turned being eliminated This number, when
divided by rs the number OF days of publI-
cation. shows the net dailyIaverage for April
TO haYe been alag.
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Amusementa.

National-Aborn Opera Company In
Aida" Sis D. m.
Belasco-Mask and Wig Club in The
Innocents," S:20 p. m.
Columbia--Columbia Players in "Such;
a Little Queen" 8:15 D. m.
Chase's-Consul and Polite Vaude-
vile, AIS and s:15 p. m.
Academy-"Beverly," S:15 D. m.
Casino-Continuous vaudeville, 12:45
to IL D. m.
Cosmos-Continuous vaudeville, to
IL p. m.
Majestic-"Uncle Toms Cabin
Lyceum-"The Bachelors Club" 2:15
and iS:15 D. m.
Gayety-"Gay Masqueraders," 2:I5 and
Sis D. m.
Show Grounds, Fifteenth and H
streets northeast-Ringling Broth
ers' Circus, 2 and 8 .. M
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President Taft. prominent army Of
ficers and i-other big men will attend
the PeacetCongress in Baltimore this
week, after that city has recovered
bit from its3 municipal election war
fare.
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Vbat's on the Program, In
Washington Today.

(The Times will be pleased to an
nounce meetings and entertainments
in this column
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The net total circulation Of The Washington
Times Sunday during the month Of April
waS 20, ,e6. all copies left over and returned
by agents being eliminated. This number,
wheu divided by 6. the number OF Sundays
during April shows the net Sunday average
for April to have been 1b1
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Sunday.

The number OF complete and perfect copies
Of Ths Washington Times printed Sundays
during &hs month Of April was follows:
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Concert Today
By the q. S. Soldiers Home Band,
Bandstand, at $3.50 p. m.
JOHN s. M. ZIMMERMANN,
Director

DlT6ClOE.
PROGRAM.
March, GLORIOUS America. .Losey
Overture, 1.-the Well of Love" BALI
A Dedication, "Melodie in Alb"
Zimmerman
Grand Selection, "Cavalleria Rus
tfcana" Mascagni
Descriptive, "The Cavalry Charge"
Luders
Excerpts from 1.-THE Chocolate Sol
der ..........-............ ..otfaueS
Spanish Serenade, La Paloma,
Yradier
Finale, Assembled Emblems"
Won Blon
"The star-spangled Banner"
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The Mt Ra5nier campaign has de-
veloped a new test of citizenship. The
popular opinion is that a man lives
where he has hisswashing done, but the
candidates in thetlittle Maryland town
declare that it is'where he plants his
rose bushes.
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In each issue OF The Times the circulation
ARITres for the previous day are plainly
printed at the head of the first page at the
ieft Of the. date line.
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Entered, at the Fostoffioe at Washington,
D. c., as second class matter.
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The nuHnber of complete and perfect copies
Of The Washington Times printed daily dur
ing the month of April was as follows:
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after that conflict ended. with useful
work for the negroes on the sea ISLANDS
off the South Carolina coast.