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The Washington times., 1912-04-05
W0RKINGMAN' WANTS

WORkINGMEN-Neithe can the wisdom OF
our position as experts baseball stop
us from selling slightly used suits, 50 to $40
md the savings tall; one price. JUSTH' 8
OLD STAND. 6l9 u. L
The Washington times., 1912-04-05
DOGS AND PETS

ST BERNARD and collie dogs and puppies
pedigreed and registered; finest stock ever
in city. Inquire 7o2 7 st. n. w. Phi. North
The Washington times., 1912-04-05
PIANO TUNING

PIANO TUNING. n.50: POLISHING, $50
All player-piano and organ work guarant ssd.
Main 26S, drop postal to HERMAN s
PLAYER-PIANO SHOP. 1920 Pa ave. n. W.
The Washington times., 1912-04-05
AT WOODBRIDGE

EXCEPTIONALLY FINE SUBURBAN
HOME.
stories, G rooms and bath. cellar, attic
furnace heat. fne shade. maCadam street, Ia
reduc, Tor quick sale to SO, 500 Easy terms
A ba gain.
H. r MANDLER 60, 7O2 nth st. ~ W.
The Washington times., 1912-04-05
BIRDS AND ANIMALS
TRANSFER AND STORAGE

PADDED vans. 81 & S5 ID; 2-h. wagon. s. Id.
Phone Main 19l5-1Sl6.
COLUMBIA TRANSFER < STORAGE CO.,
905 n. Y ave. n. w.
Packing and Shipping. Storage, 81 van load
The Washington times., 1912-04-05
IF YOU CAN PAY

sl5O0-$l5O cash, balance $l5 month lO-acre
chicken farm with buildings. BON $50
Times office.
The Washington times., 1912-04-05

MONEY LOANED SALARIED PEOPLE
women keeping house, and others, without
security; easy payments NGfce in all prin-
Cipal cities, u, ii. TOLMAN.. Room sos. $50
Nth at
The Washington times., 1912-04-05
PLUMBING AND REPAIRS

WE install and repair gas hot water heaters
and remodel bathrooms; reasonable prices.
Samuel S. Streb. 427 r st. n. w. Phi. 6oSL
The Washington times., 1912-04-05
WALL PAPER

ROOMS PAPERED. 81 up. Seud postal for
sample and estimate. CHAS. R HYSAS,
fo4 e. Cap. st. Phone Line. 2239. =
RELIABLE work at reasonable prlces;
prompt attention given all orders. Phons
Line. ASA Oscar W. Huth 221 z q. ". u
LATEST bESIGNS-Large rom papered, 81
0rsp postal N. E. REYNOLDS. :lS + 81
- w.
The Washington times., 1912-04-05
BICYCLE REPAIRING

UNICORN TIRES. $40: Hartford seconds
81 80; Hartford n, So; Neverout lamps, 81. 49,
Vulcanizng, 6Oc. 7TH AND l. CYCLE CO.
The Washington times., 1912-04-05

NEW. plain but neat 4-room house, East
Hyattsville, I min. walk from cars COM
mutation rates $3.50 per month, large W
Eas and gas stove. 81 $50; SIS cash zuG 5l3Sy
per month. J. c. ROGF"' o"u bll. Rain
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
WHO SAYS LATIN
AT STRATFORD IN 1877?

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
The authority for that startling list OF
Latin schools books used at Stratford
In Shakespere's boyhood days has not
as yet been announced by your con-
tributor
Will he please tell us where he got 1t,
as such an item would be the most i'm
portant contribution to Shakespeareana
in modern times. 1t certainly escaped
the critical eye of Halliwell-Phillips in
his Outlines of Shakespeare"
AS this contributor is doubtless the
only person in the whole world that has
this information, we hope he won't keep
his authority hidden.
On page IS, vol. OF Halliwell-Phillips'
work, he states:
There were few persons at that time
at Stratford capable of initiating him
CWilliam) even into these preparatory
accomplishments reading and writing).
We also find in the above mentioned
work the signatures of nineteen of
Stratford's aldermen, thirteen of whom
Among the thirteen is John Shack
sper, father of the actor. Judith
Shaksper, daughter OF the actor is also
represented by her mark in another
document.
We might rather believe that Baalam 4
ass spoke Hebrew than the yarn about
those Latin books at Stratford in 1877.
Oh, you ShakSpeTites, Credat Judaeus
Apella non ego!-which might be trans
lated-tell such yarn as that to the
marines who have never seen blue wa
ter, not to an old salt.
NORTH MERRIAM
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
AMERICAN PEOPLE LOVE
TO BE HUMBUGGED

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Although ] am a Democrat and one
without a qualifying adjective, 1 can't
help but admire the courage and consis-
tency NJ Senator Robert NJ. la Toilette,
"f Wisconsin. and deeply sympathIze
with him In his physical breakdown,
end In the desertion OF 70 many OF his
insurgent Republican friends at this
time. II seems to me that the insur-
gents. II tthey are earnestly and sincere
ly in favor of progressive principles.
had better remain under the banner of
e man who is the pioneer in these re-
Forms within the Republican party, in
stead of fiockinR to Theodore Roosevelt.
who trains with the hare and runs
with the hounds" who foisted Taft upon
the country, ana who is now secretly
plotting his downfall; who, while Prcsi-
dent, had as his chief spokesman m the
Senate, that high priest of protection
and arch stanipatter. Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts,: who
York Republican State convention. in
dorsing the iniquitous Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill, the very bill that the great
lua aJority of insurRent Republicans have
been fighting for the past two years or
more. and VINO, in the last analysts, Is
the greatest "straddler' OF the age.
While in the insurgent West during the
last campaign, II is q well-known fact
that Roosevelt made radical speeches,
and while in the East. during the same
campaign made conservative speeches.
But. as the great Snowman. p. T. Bar
mum so we'll sail. THE American peo-
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
THE BUTTER MONOPOLY OF COLOR.

The prejudice against oleomargarine has been
weakening rapidly as the consuming public has been
learning that this unobjectionabe food possesses the
potentiay of competing with butter and helping to
break down its artifcally high price There is Ger
tanly merit in the claim of the oleomargarine max
that Congress has legislated in favor of butter
in an unfair manner. Butter has been granted a
monopoly of the right to artificial coloring; yet
the of such coloring matter invented by the
discoverer of the oleomargarne processes, and was
later appropriated by butter makers.
The oleo defenders point out that Menge-
NMouries, the French inventor of oeomargarine, in
1862 specified the use of annato to color it yellow
Butter makers presently began using this coloring
material to get the attractive golden-yellow hue so
much desired
If it is harmless in butter, why not in oleo
Yet Congress passed law imposing internal reve-
tax of 10 cents per pound oleomargarine thus
colored, while leaving the butter makers free to en-
poy the same coloring matter.
In effect, then, Congress has taken away from
one industry a discovery which it produced and by
the exercise of the taxing power and turned it over
to another industry. In time when butter is under
suspicion of being controlled by about as undesir
able combination has undertaken to jack
up the price of necessary of living, it eyre
giousy unfair thus to the legislative power to
strengthen its position and break down that of the
rival that, if given fair chance, might break the
monopoly.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
THE BRANDT CASE AN EXAMPLE.

There is flavor of fifteenth century methods,
of starchamber proceedings, and reckessness Of pro-
priees in judicial procedure, about the Of Folke
E. Brandt that makes absolutely necessary thor
ough airing of the case.
Brandt valet and secretary in the home
of wealthy New Yorker. Discharged, he turned up
in the house few evenings later was discovered
by the head Of the house, and, after an alteration
and physical clash left BY appointment he went to
the Office of the householder later, and there was
arrested and it is charged railroaded by unfair pro-
ceedngs to the penentiary thirty-year sentence
for frst-degree burglary
The friends of Brandt say he was in no case
guilty of first-degree burglary, because he did not
break" and enter the house; that as first offender
even If guilty, he was not liable to so long sen!
tence; that, in fact he had entered the house at in
vtaon Of one Of its inmates and that, because the
name of a woman would have been dragged into the
affair, he consented to plead guilty with the expecta-
tion that he would get light sentence Instead, he
was given the extreme limit
That some evidence manufactured and more
suppressed, and that the whole affair savored of
Dreyfus methods, is already indicated by revelations
thus far made. The case presents the adminstra-
tion of justice in peculiarly un-Amercan light 1t
is that demands TO be sifted to the very bottom
and if it proves that Brandt was in fact the victim
Of vicious miscarriage of justice the extreme pen
alties should be inflicted on everybody concerned
in it.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
EARNESTLY OPPOSES
THE SMOOT SUBSTITUTE

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Apropos of the recent action of the
Senate Committee on Pensions in SUBJ
stituting the so-called Smoot bill for
House hill, No. l. commonly called the
Sherwood or dollar-a-day bill, I wish
to state that l think 1t is every vet
eran's duty to register his most earn
est protest against such action. The
substitute bill, emanating as it does
from the pen of Mr.. Smoot, one of II
not the closest adviser of President
Taft, necessarily represents the Presi-
dents personal views and attitude on
the pension question, and l think, that
II such is the case, 1t behooves every
veteran of the civil war to let it be
distinctly understood that he will no
longer either vote, nor allow his in
fiuence to be asserted, in behalf of any
man or political party who so flagrant-
IL assails their interests as this, un-
doubtedly, Administration bill does.
l, myself, am lifelong Republican,
and have worked and voted with the
party ever since the close of the civil
war, and personally, one measure will
serve me about as we'll as the other,
as I draw a disability pension carmel
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
BETTER TIME COMING
is HIS PROPHECY
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
The general inclination of the people
In discussing the liquor problem is from
the standpoint of prohibition.
Prohibition like the Christian doctrine
leads to better immediate conditions a
little at time 1t may be, but enough
to show implicit progress.
Each new condition is a progressive
fact, which bears a fruitage of passing
value to the interpreters, reflected III
the unrest of the patriotic usher of the
cold water army OF good will in place
of the horrid processes inaugurated by
the saloon and its associations.
The morality of temperance work an''
its beneficent results, shine forth SEEM
ingly as part of the infinite redemp-
ton.
Temperance builds records of valued
conditions, which never lose by repctl-
tion. Saloon records go from bad 4"
worse, built on depressed lines winch
repeat themselves at each succeeding
harvest in unnatural outTages equaleh
by no other cause or all other causes
combined.
Five hundred and seventeen saloons
the present number in Washington
selling the accredited Sl5 per oay IN
a neighborhoOd of poor people opens
a. wide field for imposition TO greater
or less degree, on the Board OF Charl-
ties, who assist the saloon, by feeding
it's victims, and supporting the people
who could support themselves II their
money went for bread instead of Civ
ing II to the saloon for liquors.
This hint does not have to go out
side of washington to be authenticated
from credible Information. If the saloon
is a necessity then is murder a neces.
'Dr' "p'' A. M. BROWN.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
BEN JONSON MADE
MYSTERIOUS REFERENCE
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Two questions for the faithful

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Two questions for the faithful.
1. The star witness for the Swan of
Avon" is Ben Jonscn. A question In
cross-examination:
Ben Jonson, in your eulogistic verses
in the folio of 1923, you say that the
works of Shakespeare" are to be pre-
ferred to any of those produced by
'insolent Greece or naughty Rome" In
your discoveries, published in 1G4l, you
gave a list of English authors that you
considered the most worthy of esteem.
Why, in that list, did you not mention
Shakespeare at all, but place Bacon at
the head and say that Bacon hath
filled up all numbers and performed
that in our tongue, which may be COM
pared and preferred either to insolent
Greece or naughty Rome" adding that
Bacon is the acme of the English
language?
Since Jonson cannot answer for him
self, will one of the faithful answer
for him?
2 Ben Jonson became Bacon's secre-
tary in 1870. In an ode to Bacon in
honor of his sixtieth birthday, Jonson
says, referring to Bacon:
Thou stands I as II some mystery thou dIdst.
'Tis a brave cause of Joy, let 1t be known.
For I were a narrow gladness, kept thine
own.
What did Jonson mean? e. W. M.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
LEGENDS FROM CHILDHOOD
OF HUMAN RACE
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor of THE TINES:
Noah's Ark was 500 feet long, about
ninety-one feet wide, and fifty-tive feet
high, and was built with three stories
1t has been estimated that it contained
t76. 900 birds, 3.616 beasts, 1900 reptile
human beings, 1000, 900 insects, and
innumerable microorganisms This yes
eel had only one window, twenty-five
inches square, and located in the Roof;
and one door. The window must have
been kept closed during the forty days
of rainfall. Since DR.. Wiley has aroused
such great interest in ventilation and
kindred subjects. 1 have been wonder
ing how those poor. overcrowded. up-
derfed animals managed to breatae
with so small an aperture for ventila-
ton, as they stood for 377 days miser-
ably huddled together in almost total
darkness. This story is almost too
great a strain upon my credulity.
Preachers seem to be ashamed OF this
unscientific tale, as they never refer to
It in sermons. They appeal to the emo
tions only, and never make any at
tempt to remove these obstacles to
faith. The Bible has been found in
error in its geology, astronomy, ven-
tilatiOn, and what-not; is there not
strong probability that it is also mis-.
taken in it's theology? Just a collection
of myths and pretty fairy tales left
over from the childhood of the human
race? AGNOSkO.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
SAYS THAT SCIENCE
CONFIRMS THE BIBLE
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor of THE TINES:
Mr.. Scanland, in the Mail Bag OF
February 13, says: stick to the Bible
or stick to science" and in his article
shows that he Is neither a biblical
scholar nor a scientist: in fact, he shows
that he does not know his own lan-
guage, certainly not words of three
letters such as day" which the die
tionary says means "a time or period"
as well as the time between sunrise and
sunset.
1 would advise Mr.. Scanland to buy Il
dictionary and study the English Ian
guage, and go to Sunday school or to
church. II he has not the time to go to
church or Sunday school, let him ask
any rabbi, priest, or minister as to any
part of the Bible that he contends con-
fiicts with science.
There Is no conflict between scieneC
and the Bible, one confirms the other.
and there has never been a discovery
made by science that has been out Of
discord with the Bible. ! would advise
Mr.. Scanland to scan some work on the
science of geology to know something
about the land, before rushing into
print upon subjects which he shows that
he is ignorant, and can only have d
bad effect upon those who are also
ignorant.
SUNDAY SCHOOL SCHOLAR.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17

to reach the jerk-water taverns where the besming
Bonifaca thinks six bits for a nights lodging is so
cheap that guest has right to go shopping around
detect shortcomings in the Sheet If the guest is
little longer than the who used the bed the
night before he pull the sheet up his head
during the first part of the night and drape il over
his feet during the morning hours. In that way his
whole body uxuriates under the linen" in the course
of the nightly maps. AS for supplying length which
permits of a fold under the chin, these fellows
one can hear him say-will be wanting silk pajamas
and nightcaps next
The proposed measure has not yet become a
law, but the hotels in the Empire State, remember
ing that such law did go through in Texas and Ok
lahoma are busy letting out hens and laying in new
linen. The strong crm Of the law win fin them pre-
pared.
The commercial travellers smile trumphantly,
but they will not be content until it is enacted in
supplementary act that the vegetable elder down
gathered from the plant shall be stigmatized as
it deserves, and the Snowy linen shall not be of
last years snow
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
RAIN CHECKS ON STRANDED CARS.

motorman's effort to street car on
two divergng lines at the same time, at the inter
section of Seventeenth street and the Avenue this
morning, was not a success.
1t did succeed, however, in blocking traffic on
most of the leading thoroughfares just at the time
when the department clerks and the world at large
going to work, and in spite of the large number
of employees who gazed earnestly, even regretfully
and reproachfully the eccentric vehicle, it refused
to jump back on of its own accord.
All of which may have been Fate of cussedness
But any rain checks" distributed to those
who had to get off and walk rather than be late for
business? Even in instances where passengers had
paid fare to ride block?
The Capital Traction Company innocent of
having created any such panic.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
ASKS SOME QUESTIONS
AS TO NOAH'S ARK

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
The explanations Of the great flood,
which were published in the Mail Bag,
have been very interesting and in
structiVe, but there is another mys-
terry 1 would like to have explained.
I mean the great structure floating on
the flood. Could Noah build such a
large ark, larger than any Great
Eastern, out of wood? And how did
he collect all the animals all over the
world? Did they come of their own
Volttion from the Arctic circle, from
Africa, etc? Who tended to ali these
animals in the ark, and how were
the hygientc conditions kept up? How
did Noah feed all these animals? Did
he take In an extra number of sheep
for the lions, tigers etc2 And when
the waters subsided and the ark
came to rest, on what did the ami
mails live, especially the carnivorous
animals? And how did each kind get
to the regions suitable to them? Bid
they live on their fellow travellers
that happened to go in the same d.
rectlon! TRUTH SEEKER.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
lRISH-AMERICAN is
SHAKING OFF SHACKLES
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Mr.. Blaine has his Burchard. d"
Writing from this text in the Mail Bag.
IF. G. p" does some queer reasoning
He infers some things that are scarce
ly less than libelous OF the Irish-Amer-
lean.
Harper's Weekly, he tells us, is pro-
foundly English; and has caricatured
the Irish and the things they hold
sacred. The editor OF Harper's has
ceased to support Governor Wilson for
the Presidency. Therefore, says IF.
G. p" Wilson becomes stronger with
the Irish of the New England States
Where did this political wiseacre
make his observations? He should be-
come better acquainted with the in
telltgent American of Irish extract ton.
The latter would be found a person
of less prejudice and more consistent
reason than he is wont to be represent
ed. The immigrant from Hibernia in
his new environment of freedom Is
shaking off the mental chains which
have weighed him down since Adrian
handed over the Emerald Isle to an
alien king
The better we know the Irishman
in America the better shall we ap-
preciate him. w. @.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
HONEST SHAKSPEREAN
VOICES HER LAMENT

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Sailor Hunt" in the National Trib-
une of Sth instant, descants thus pa
thetically on Stratford and the Genius
CT the Place."
The reason, i suppose, why a visit to STRAIT
iord Is considered such a great privilege and
the place held sacred Is the meageTness
or reliable Information concerning Shaks-
pere. About all we really know OF his life
Is that he was born in Stratford. there grew
TO manhood, Courted, married and had chill
dren, went to London. where he acted and
wrote plays, then returned to Stratford, where
he died. If there were more places con-
nected with him, or fuller history OF him.
we would not hold Stratford so close to our
hearts and cherish It do. Although
book after book has been written OF his life,
with details of what Shakspere did under
certain circumstances, etc, most Of II IL pure
conjecture. Therefore we must make the
most Of what we know.
The satisfaction to be obtained from a visit
to stratford depends largely upon the tenn
permanent. Very little that is genuinely
Shaksperean is to be seen there II moved
to kiss floor (possibly not an original
floor etther) because some great man once
trod on 1t. you will derive inexpressibIe
things from the visit. I do not exactly know
what l expected. but ! was disa pponted
However. I shall always rejoice that
could make this pilgrimage.
Does not this travelogue remind one
OF the trusting and tender devotions Of
Mark Twain at the tomb of Adam?
ST. ALBAN.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY II,
BRANCH LIBRARY MOVEMENTS.

Takoma Park is endeavoring to secure a more
liberal allowance for the support of its branch library
and other sections of the city are making an earnest
effort to raise funds for the construction of similar
branches
This is a movement which is entitled to the
heartiest support, and it is hoped it will meet with
success all along the line.
The abundance of good books and their accessi-
by by reason of the public library constitute one
of the distinguishing characteristics of our civiliza-
ton. Culture and education placed within the
reach of the humbIest and poorest and the level of
the whole community is raised
Let the good work be carried forward.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
SOTHERN OVERLOOKED
SOME IMPORTANT POINTS
To the Editor OF THE TIMES;

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
E. H. Sothern's article in the jan
uary Munsey, which ably stated the
case for the Shakespeareans, is by no
means satisfactory. AS there are
many important points that Mr.. Soth-
ern's article fails to touch upon,
should like to hear his answer to a
few questions.
l. There is in the British Museum a
rough note book of Bacons called
"Promus," consisting of multitude
of terms of expression, or forms and
eleganctes."
How does it happen that these PRO
mus" notes, which were used to only
a small extent in Bacon's acknowl
edged works, are scattered by the
thousands in the Shakespeare plays?
2. In 1857 there came to light some
OF Bacon's manuscripts, bound to-
gether in the form of volume. In
the table of contents, on the title
page, appears "Rycherd the second"
and "Rycherd the third" but some of
the contents are missing, and among
them Richard the second and Richard
the third.
Among the scribblings on the same
title page of that Bacon volume, the
only known place in the world where
plays appear from documentary evil
dence ever to have existed, appears
the name Francis Bacon several times,
and also several times the name of
William Shakespeare.
Is not this significant?
3. A short time before Shakespeare
death there was issued a quarto edi-
tion of Henry VI, Part II. In 1913
Sthree years after Shakespeare
death), appeared an edition Of this
play, containing many alterations,
Now, In the folio of 1923, the same
play appears with about 1000 lines re-
touched, and upwards of 1000 lines
added
How did the Stratford actor manage
to achieve this revising?
z. w. NJ.
The Washington times., 1912-02-17
SAYS LINCOLN WOULD
UPHOLD SOCIALISM

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
I'm glad to hear Of the Socialists
winning so many victories, for they are
surely gaining and winning day by day
Anyone who reads the daily papers
can see this. The workingmen and
people all over the world are Just wax
ing up, and 1 think II is nigh onto
time, too, for they have been domi-
neered over long enough. Abraham
Lincoln was a Socialist. He had every
belief Of a Socialist for this can be
proved by many things which he has
said and done, and If he were alive to-
to uphold Socialism, we know, for II is
Tor truth and justice, and let me say
here these two things will always win,
as everyone knows, and the poor abor-
ing man can look up to God and thank
Him for the things which he now is
beginning to see, for the mists are
clearing away. w. r. CISSEL.