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basis as employees in the Postoffice
Department. There is no reason why
they should be allowed but fifteen days
leave, against thirty for the other fel-
lows.
The short-sightedness OF Congress In
reducing the number of medical in
spectors for the public schools OF
Washington from twelve to ten will
work injury, to a large number of school
children, as result of plans now being
formulated by the District Health Of
ficer under the new legislation. DR..
Woodward announces that medical in
spection will have to be abandoned in
several buildings next year. The reduc-
ton in the number of medical inspec-
tors was made to provide for two den-
tai inspectors. While the latter are
needed, 1t is doubtful whether the net
benefit to the District will compensate
for the loss Of the medical inspectors.
1t will be gratifying to the people Of
washington to learn that the public
markets are in good condition. The Su-
perintendent OF Weights and Measures
and the District health inspectors give
the markets a clean bill in a report
filed With the Commissioners yesterday.
The District government owes no more
important obligation to the community
than the strict regulation of the city's
markets, where thousands of people
purchase food every day. and where it
Is impossible for the laynan to protect
himself fully by his own efforts. 1t will
be source of satisfaction to the COM
munity to know that that obligation Is
being properly discharged.
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Older Masons Held In
Honor, Says Grand Master

While the strain of work in the Fed
eral Lodge of Masons is placed upon
youthful shoulders, the older members
are held in honor, Grand Master KEEPER
said at the celebration of the 11Sth anni-
versary Of the lodge last night. They
are honored, he said, both for the work
they have accomplished and for the
opportunities they have placed at the
doors Of the young men.
DR.. William A. Harries, worshipful
master of the lodge, was POSTMASTER at
the banquet given in honor of twenty
seven men who had been members of
the lodge for more than quarter of a
century. One of them is 6. A. Hall,
who was admitted with his brother. A.
G. Hall, July II, 1856 A @. Hall was
unable to attend last night and sent
a greeting.
Admiral George w. Baird, U. s. ~,
retired, president of the Masonic Vet
erans' Association, spoke on the work
Of the association which maintains an
"open door policy" John D. Bartlett,
master of the lodge in 1868, recounted the
early history of Federal Lodge, which
was founded by the builders of the
White House and the Capitol. Other
speakers were Thomas w. Fowler, John
T. Chancey, DR.. A. Behrend. John T.
Clemens, w. NJ. Somerville, C. F. Ben
jamin, and George Gibson.
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THE FASCINATION OF BUG
LITERATURE.

As Caesar had his Brutus and Charles
the First his Cromwell, so every grow,
ing thing seems to have its own
especial bug, sent to plague it and
stunt its growth. That informing semi,
nary of parasitic literature, the
Bureau of Entomology, has been send,
ing out some bug booklets which
fairly make the flesh creep. One in
voluntarily wonders how the green
herb ever reaches the adult stage OF
plant life. The sorghum has its midge
the alfalfa its caterpillar, and the
corn its billbug.
The men of science have added to
the terrors of the billbug by designat,
ing him in their own impressive YER
nacular as Sphenophorus robustus
Any one with small Latin and less
Greek can tell at glance that he is nc
pale and aenemic parasite. There is nc
probability that the first dinner OF
young roasting ears will carry him of
with the collie. Sphenophorus robustus
sturdily laughs-robustiously chortles
at anything short of paris green. We
gather from the descriptive literature
Entomologist Kelly has placed at our
disposal that the billbug is more
ferocious than the camelopard, more
deadly than the Gila monster.
Nor yet can the waving fields of al
fafa wave in peace. That, too, as we
have seen, has an enemy which walketh
in darkness and wasteth at MONDAY.
1t is a striking fact about the grub
which makes the butterfly that it
puts on new ethics with its coat. As
a caterpillar, in this instance at least,
it attacks the alfalfa, but when it be-
comes a glossy butterfly it puts away
wormy things and becomes one of the
plants chief agents in development.
We find ourselves in entire agreement
with the Bureau OF Entomology on
the subject of the sorghum midge. Mr..
w. Harper Dean, writer of the special
pamphlet in question, holds that the
English sparrow may be bad, as he
undoubtedly is; that the moth and the
rice weevil have sins to answer for,
but that the real enemy of sweet sor-
ghum is the Nigetia sorghiella Other
things which contribute toward the
sorghum's destruction are dark nights
and the planting of it too near the
big road. But this is mere trifing with
a grave subject. After perusing this
work on the sorghum midge We are
more convinced than ever that the real
enemy has been found. 1t is simply a
case of "Up, guards, and at him!"
This little series of pamphlets on
bugs combines the charm of the Elsie
books with the solid. qualities of the
historical novel.
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Blames the Mistakes of Her
Life to the Stones Evil
Influence.
SEES TROUBLE FOR
THOSE WHO OWN 1T
Tells Of Her Happy Marriage to
Englishman, and of
Leaving Him.
By SELENE ARMSTRONG.

THE Hope diamond? Ugh-gh-gh!'
The former Lady Hope put her per-
fectly groomed hands over her face,
and shuddered. Seated there on a wood
en- bench in the bare and tiny dressing
room of the Casino Theater, she looked
strangely out Of harmony with her sur
roundings. In her conventional evening
gown of flame-colored satin with the
rosettes of wilted chiffon at her breast.
Three splendid rings of diamonds,
pearls, and rubies were her only jewels
with the exception Of the stones that
glittered at the tips of her ears. The
years have been kind to her, for her
hair was not dyed. AS raven black as
when, eighteen years ago she danced
her merry way into the heart of Lord
Francis Hope. and SO into the inner
circle Of the English nobility-it lay in
simple but luxuriant coils on her shape
ly little head.
"Ugh-gh-gh" the former Lady Hope
said again. reminding me that this was
to be an interview for next days pa
per.
so you are superstitfous about it
this Hope diamond?" I asked energet-
ically.
That am" she told me. TN Lon
don, as theI wife Of Sir Francis Hone.
l wore the Hope diamond only twice.
Both times It was to large private en-
tertainments at which the gowns and
jewels were particularly magnificent.
Later Lord Francis sold It, and neither
he nor had a single regret at parting
with II.
But that stone7 1t is a hoodoo, tell
you. When I was coming to Washing
ton last week. my trunks were lost, and
I said:
1t is that miserable old Hope dia-
mond that is doing its best to confuse
me. But 1t shall not succeed
Il understand that the present holders
of the stone, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward q.
Mclean, Of this city, are not supersti-
tious. and that they do not believe the
stone can bring them misfortune. Rut
what about a lawsuit involving manv
thousands of dollars. Isn't that had
luck enough to begin with3'
Believes She Has
Shaken It's Influence.
At last. however, this woman who
sat on the wooden bench in the tiny
dressing room of the Casino Theater,
and told me her remarkable life story,
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with its well-nigh unbelievable lights
and shadows. believes that the baleful
rays of the Hope diamond have ceased
to cast their fatal influence on her
career.
As May Yohe, she is back again
and back to make good.
1t Is now eighteen years since, singing
and dancing in THE Crystal Slipper"
she was toasted as one Of the most
beautiful women on the American stage
Though but seventeen years OF age at
the time. 1t was predicted by her friends
and critics that she was destined to be-
come the queen of comedy in this coun-
try. 1t was during a brief season in
London that Lord Francis Hope, then a
poor man, but belonging to the flower
of English nobility, met her. and be-
came enslaved by her youth and beauty.
At eighteen she was Lady Hope. bear
ing one OF the proudest titles in all Eng
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Brass Buttons
Hypnotized Her.

wait of half an hour, with two running,
and Of an hour with but one.
And II would seem that an order oy
the Commissioners to this effect, ac-
companied by the threatened revocation
of It's license in case of failure to com
ply Herewith. would be quite sufficient
to cure the evil of which SO many COM
plants are Justly made. And 1t would
seem that there could be no doubt OF
the power of the Commissioners TO re-
woke the license of this company unless
IT. will render this required better serV-
ice, although it would be much better
for Congress, by appropriate Legislation,
to enlarge and define the powers OF the
Commissioners over public service cor
porations, persons, and associations
within the District. +. E, H.
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that after "he." "she," or at" is ten
months DID," the nursing may be for
gotten, or may be commenced or may
continue? If the chemical laboratory
prepares the milk, what has the doctor
to do with that process on the question
OF weaving? More light.
Don't forget to empty and wash the
bottle after each feeding and stand
them on end. They should be boiled
once a day.
What does them" refer to in this d.
rection, the bottles or the baby? This
is necessary in order that the mother
shall know what to stand on end" and
what to boil once a day."
Don't forget that you must handle
the baby's food in a cleanly manner.
The hands Of a mother or nurse
should always be thoroughly cleaned
with soap and water before handling
the baby's food or eating apparatus.
If some of the good mothers or nurses
pull the doctors hair or ears 1t will be
because they are suspected of being
untidy. 1t may be safe for him not
to call until the baby is at least ten
months old"
]. FRAISE RICHARD.
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American Army Officers
Brass Buttons Hypnotized
Her, She Says.
ELOPEMENT ERROR;
TRYING TO RIGHT 1T
At Thirty-five She Has No Doubts
of Her Ability to
Come Back"

my senses for a short period. And. like
a few other women in the history Of the
worlds big tragedies I trampled under
my feet all that was most wonderful
and most splendid in life. 1 killed 1t
forever, and now there is nothing left
but to begin again."
Her life with Strong was period OF
unabated wretchedness, and after few
years she obtained a divorce. Now,
penniless, and past thirty-five years,
she has come back to begin over.
And why not?
/ "A woman is not old until she Is
dead" says May Yone with a superb
sort of courage. I'VE are in our mental
prime at forty years of age, and We
have suffered Yes, God knows we
have suffered, and SO. learned little bit
about how to live.
"I am going to try TO come back
And I will come back. This is because
I am depending upon my courage, and
my mentality, not upon any pnyslcaI
charm, to bring me back.
II am making my beginning In Vaude-
villa because this not infreQuenUy opens
a way into the legitimate, Dut oners eA-
cellent remuneration, and am now PEN
nileGS except IOE INV "CCAiJ
sPerhaps the world sneers at ambition
in a woman nearly forty, put TINS ooe5
not frighten me. / dare TO tnlnk tndt l
was one of the most popular women on
the stage when l fell in love with Lord
Francis Hope and married him. dare
to think that / can make myselr as
popular again Certainly 1 shall make
myself respected -, ,
"And YOU are without bitterness? l
asked, wonderingly.
81 truthfully tell you yes, she an
swered, and you can see that this must
be true. If permitted myself to dwell
upon the past, upon what / nave won
and thrown away again, do you not see
that / should be bereft of my reason
"And / want to tell you, before we
drop the curtain on my past again, tnat
Lord Francis Hope was perfect man
a prince among men
Now remember" she said, with her
brave smile and an intensity OF earnest
ness that was wholly pathetic, as We
said good-by, I am going to make good.
There's a certain white-haired old lady
waiting for me to do it It's my
And as I gave her my hand on 1t she
was still smiling. Standing there in the
doorway of the little dressing room, her
head held high, there was something
brilliant and compelling in the figure Oh
the woman.
And yet-was it only physical fatigue?
Was It the limp, wilted, chiffon roses
at her breast? Or was 1t the years now
buried? Something, I know not what,
had laid upon her irreyocably the
shadow of a world-weariness.
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TIMELY LETTERS TO THE TIMES MAIL BAG

In Kansas, shows that the gentleman Is
mistaken about Kansas.
Third. In regard to other parts Of
the country will refer him to Flint,
Mich, a city of $3.50 population, that
elected a mayor, three aldermen. and
part of supervisors and trustees
Beatrice, 10000 population: Weymore.
2, 700, and Red Cloud, 5000 population, all
in Nebraska, elected Socialist mayors.
Berkley and Pasadena, Cal, elected So
cialist mayors Butte, Mont, population
8, 900. elected city ticket and majority OF
aldermen, Socialists.
Many other places in different parts
of the country elected all or part of
their town officers, while several others
were defeated by only few votes. So
cialism attracted but little or no at
tention in most of those places before,
all of which goes to show that Socialists
and Socialism is now more popular than
Abolitionists and Abolitionism was up
to a few years before the war, and that
history is repeating itself.
F. BURROW.
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Twenty-ninth Church Congress, sessions
at Continental Memorial Hail. at 1880
a. m and p. m.
International Congress on Child We'll
fare, the Arlington, session at 10 a. m.
and 7:45 p. m.
Lecture by Joseph Daniel Sullivan on
some Of the historic places in Ireland,
New Willard, tonight.
Ladies' social at Elks Clubhouse, 9H H
street northwest, tonight.
The following Masonic organizations will
meet tonight: Lodges-Harmony, No.
II, p. M; school of Instruction
Knights Templar Commandery-Wash-
ington, No. l; grand visitation. East
ern Star Chapter-Naomi, No. );
Brookland, No. II.
The following i. o. o. F. organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges-Eastern,
No. Z; Harmony, No. 8; Federal City,
No. 20; Friendship, No. II. Encamp-
ment-Columbian, No. l; regular ousi-
The following K. of P. Organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges-Columbia,
No. 26; Hermione, No. u; Mt. vernon,
No. 5; Union, No. %. Uniform RANK
Washington Company, No. l, drtll.
Celebration of the ninety-second ami
: yersary of the l. o. o. F., in the tenn
pie. in Ninth street northwest: tonight
Meeting of the Federation OF Liquor
Dealers of the District OF Columbia,
National Hotel, p. m.
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NEW PLANS TO ERADICATE
ALLEY SLUMS.

The newest plan for the eradication
of the alley slums of Washington is
not all that could be desired, but it is
worthy earnest consideration. 1t pro-
Vides that the alleys shall be converted
into minor streets, and that whatever
benefits are found by the condemna-
tien Juries shall be assessed as benefits.
and that damages shall be assessed as
damages against adjoining property. 1t
then provides that the difference be-
tween damages and benefits always
on the side of damages-shall be paid
from a fund raised by a special tax
levy on real estate and its improve
ments in the District.
In other words, it is proposed that
whatever expenditure from the public
treasury is necessary shall be paid by
the District, without assistance from
the Federal Government.
This plan, which is being worked out
by Commissioner Judson and the
housing committee of the Monday
Evening Club, puts it up to the people
of the District to handle the alley
slums as local question, in which the
United States has no interest. 1t must
be admitted, in the first instance, that
the expense would not be great. The
difference between the damages and
benefits in each block would be small,
and the tax which would be put upon
the District would, therefore, be so
light that nobody would feel it. Any
criticism of the plan must necessarily
be criticism of its principle; no OBJ
lection could lie against it on the
ground that it placed burden upon
the property owner.
The new plan has much to commend
it. The best argument in its favor is
that it would probably receive the
prompt approval of Congress, which no
other alley slum plan has ever re-
ceived The chances of getting through
Congress in the near future bill that
calls upon the Government to pay part
of the expense of wiping out alley
slums are pretty slim. If a regular
appropriation on the half and half
basis for this work cannot be obtained
it would seem to be the part of wis
dom for the District to take the next
best thing-authority to do the work
at its own expense.
Another argument for the plan is
the benefit to the health and morality
of the community that would follow
the eradication of the alleys. The alley
conditions of today affect every per-
son in the District in greater or less
degree. If they were improved the
District as a whole would be improved
This, in point of fact, is the explana-
tion of the reluctance of Congress to
help out on alley work with Federal
funds.
One of the strongest features of the
new plan is the expedition with which
it could be executed. A special tax
levy of l cent on each $lOO of value
in real estate and improvements would
produce fund of $4,000 a year. With
that the alleys could be wiped out in
a few years, and the alley slum prob
lem solved. Instead of waiting for
years-as it has already done-for Con-
gress to talk about the alley slums,
the District could pitch in and eliminate
them without waste of energy and
words
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FIVE-CENT LOAF GROWS
l. CONSTANTLY SMALLER
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
Will you kindly take up the investiga-
tion as to the weight of bread the
bakers Of the District are selling for 5
cents per loaf2 Bread is the ''staff of
life," and yet the loaf ID getting lighter
ali the time. In fact, II Is so small It
will soon be impossible for a poor man
to call 1t other than a luxury. ]
wish you would look into the matter,
as your paper has more than once
helped suffering humanity, and by pub
licity such as yor paper can give, 1 feel
sure the poor mans burden will be
lightened. L. T. II.
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Amusements.

National-Mlle. Trentini in Naughty
Marietta" 2:15 and S:15 P; m:
Belasco-Edith Wynne Matthison In
"The Piper" 2:15 and S:15 p. m.
Columbia-Columbia Players In "Ari-
zona," 8:15 p. m.
chase'+Consul and polite vaudeville.
2:15 and S:15 p. m. -
Academy-"James Boys in Missouri"
Majestic-"sapho," afternoon and even
ing. ,, 49,.
to IL p. m.
Lyceum-"The Florida Strollers." 2:15
and S:15 p. m
Gayety-"Behman Show" AIS and
S:15 D. m.
Arcade-Motion pictures, skating, and
bowling, afternoon and evening.
Howard-"Star of Zanzibar" tonight.
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Rate Concessions to
A Tap Line Cancelled

Another tap line suspension was or
dered by the Intestate Commerce Com
mission today, when it, cancelled rate
concessions recently made by several
railroads Of the Manufacturers Railway
OF ST. Louis, until Aubust 2S, pending
inYsstigatQn
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MAY YOHE.

land. She built her own theater In Lon
don-the Lyric, which is today the sec
ond largest playhouse In that city-and
acted there for a number of years.
Everything In England was always
wonderful to me. i have only beautiful
memories of it." May Yohe says today,
as she looks back upon the life which.
with her own reckless hands, She has
put forever beyond her reach.
Eight years after her marriage to Lord
Hope, newspapers on both sides Of the
Atlantic were filled with stories Of the
sensational elopement Of Lady Hope and
Capt. william Putnam Strong, U. s.
A, a son of the late Mayor Strong, of
New York.
Brass Buttons
Hypnotized Her.
"I can only say that the brass but
tons of the American army hypnotized
me, as they have hypnotized other wo-
men," is all that May Yohe says In ex-
tenuation Of her act Il was bereft OF
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Perhaps this is tn = day On which It
was originally intended to cut of the
heat from the school buildings.
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When John Hays Hammond gets
through talking back !at Dan Sully. he
may not be in a very diplomatic frame
of mind
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The net total tctrculation Of The Washington
Times (Sunday)k during the month Of March
was I6s 55S, all copies left over and returned
by agents bein eliminated This number,
when divided b,t 4. the number OF Sundays
during March, 81 Sows the net Sunday average
for March to he, te been 2,1SS.
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TheSnet total circulation Of The Washington
TimeS daily during the month Of March
was 14236, 793, all copies left and re-
turned being eliminated. This number, when
divided by q, the number OF days OF publi-
cation shows the net daily average for March
TO haveNsbeen 45s07.
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Whene'er you see the fy,HIny boy,
Don't fail to strike hfms down,
For he is spreading gemssand things
All DER the blessed town
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'Tis the first straw Of sspringtime, so
jauntily worn;
It's a cinch It won't go far before # is
torn.
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Good afternoonI Have Mr.. and Mrs
Berger investigated you YETI
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Every good man wishes the Child We'll
fare Congress, now in session, the great
est success-'for Of such is the kingdom
Of heaven"
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In each issue Of The Times the circulation
figures for the previous day are plainly
printed at the hea q Of the nrst page at the
left OF the date HIte-
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Sunday.

The nun pber Of complete and perfect copies
Of The Washington Times printed Sundays
during the month of March was as follows:
March g.. ,.....4e,173 March 1s.........46,127
March k....4s, ,2s4 March 26......-..47.26o
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Sports

Meeting of the Washington Cricket
Club at AZ Tenth street
Meeting Of Capital City League In the
Century building.
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Who cares wheFe' the Garden Q
Eden was on a dayt ike this7
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Concert Today
By the U. S. Marine Band, at
Potomac Drive, at S P. M.
WILLIAM H. sANTELMANN.
TAadAr

PROGRAM.
March, "Staunch and True. ....Teike
Overture. "Rienzi". Wagner
Polonaise ct Polonaise, from bal
Costume" .Rubinstein
Grand Fantasia, Samson and
Del1lan ......-.........s.-Sd -SdlHt-od6l
Waltz, "Espana" .....-....W Waldteufel
Two movements form "Scenes Pit
toresque"-
(a) "Angelus." Cb) ''Fete Bo-
meme -......s............... .ndSScuct
1.-The Blessing Of the Daggers,"
from 1.-THE Huguenots". .Meyerbeer
March, Under Freedoms Flag
Nowowieski
"The star-spangied Banner.
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Spare the fiy antevspoil the soup.

Entered At the Pc Pcetorrics at Washington,
D. c.. as second chts matter.
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Total for reonth. .lSS, Iy4
Sunday avei age for month. .........- 45.449
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Vbat's on tie Program, In
Washington Today.

(The Times will be pleased to an
nounce meetings and entertainments In
this colUmnl