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tanned at thimble party and the
members devoted the early part of the
afternoon to their needle work.
Games and music were other pleasant
features of the afternoon. A two
course luncheon was served at five
o'clock. Flowers and greenery dec
Grated the tables in the dining room
and prettily. The members will have
their next meeting in two weeks on
Friday afternoon, August 10th a the
home of Mrs. Bert Newell in Indiana
Harbor. The members will bring their
needle work to the meeting and fol-
low their usual social program.
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ENJOY THE AFTERNOON.

a pleasant meeting of the Happy
Hour Club took place yesterday after
noon at the home of Mrs. @. F. Phares
In Detroit street. Mrs. Phares enter
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-03
NOTICE.

All members of the Hammond
Sangerbund Fidelia are requested to
join in the parade of the Plattedutsche
Glide. Sunday, August 4th at 1870 a. m.
We will meet at 10 o'clock in our hall.
s22t E. PICKART. Sec'y.
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and Mrs. j. Q. James
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Beroth are
spending a few days with relatives in
Warsaw. 4
Fred Brown of Bryan, o.. is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. d. Mcdowell for q
few weeks.
d. Badef of Whiting transacted busi-
ness here yesterday.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-03

If you smoke a Lavender once you
will always call for them
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HOW THE PHILIPPINES ARE GROWING IN WEALTH AND INDUSTRY

else in the Philippines is scientific agri-
culture There is no richer soil in the
world. and none so badly farmed By a
semi-civilized people. The government
has been trying to improve the agricul-
tural conditions, and it is gradually bet
tering them. The insular government
has department of agriculture, which
has been connected with the bureau of
education. 1t has college in the
province of Laguna, two miles from Los
Banos which is now entering upon its
second year. There is bureau of agri-
culture which has its experiment sta
tons, and farming and gardening is now
being taught in all the schools. Thee
are government agricultural farms
where they are experimenting with new
rice machines, new plows and other farm
tools, and where they are also carrying
on stock breeding and the study of meth
DDS to prevent cattle diseases.
The bureau of education publishes an
agricultural magazine in English and
Spanish, and this gives advice as to inl-
proved agriculture and information as
to the raising of all sorts of crops.
FRANK q. CARPENTER.
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Two Views.

Upton SINCLAIR. at a recent con-
~ vention OF college socialists in New
York, said:
1--WE are told by certain rich and pow
erful persons that If We help the poor
and weak we interfere with the great nat
ural law of evolution. The fittest, We
are told. should survive. The unfit
shouldn't be helped. They must be al
lowed to die off in their pestiferous
slums and foul, black sweatshops. Other
wise We'll soon have world made up or
unfit wrcckage.
That sounds reasonable at first hear
ing. But my reply to it is this:
If you put bishop and a greenhead
ny to live together in a Overwhelming
swamp, the bishop will die and the green
head fly will survive-and that is the sur
vival of the fittest in the strictest scien-
tific sense-the survival OF the life best
adapted to a swamp environment. But
drain your swamp, let the sunlight In.
make the place wholesome-and then the
bishop will survive and the noisome fiy
will die"
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HONE Or Col. SAMUEL WASHINGTON,
CHAkLES Town W. Va.

Index Cass county. No. The line stops
with his only son, Thornton Augustine
Washington.
So, It's claimed by some. this Thornton
Augustine Washington would today be
welding scepter instead of paint
brush had "a crown descended from the
immortal George through the latter's full
brother Samuel Pharmacy was once
the chosen profession of this possible
monarch. but he found the brush more
lucrative than the res;ie and became
house painter. He lives near Index, Mo,
with his two maiden sisters.
Had Washington gained sufficient pow
er to retain "A crown would he not have
arrogated to himself sufficient power 10
choose his own successor, inasmuch a.
the dynasty would have originated in
him? And in this event would he have
left his crown to the lad. John Thornton
Augustine. grandson of his dead brother
samuel. or would he have placed it upon
the brow of a more mature kinsman, in
whom he had confidence? The latter
question is answered as follows by a
prominent member of the Washington
family. to whom the writer is indebted
One thing is reasonably certain. Had
Washington accepted the crown and had
named his successor from among his nu
merous nephews he would have named
Col William Augustine Washington tson
Of his half brother. Augustine III, who
was his favorte nephew. whom he named
first after his widow, among the exec
utors of his will. to whom he gave the
first choice of his swords and who also
was his legatee.''
1t is through this favorite nephew that
William Lanier Washington, the broker.
and Bushrod Washington, the Union vet
eran. trace their descent.
About the only certainty which can be
nbe1 tn HiSnnSCino Ia
American people long ere now would
have overturned the throne, even had
Washington mounted II. In that event
one of the three living gentlemen, men
toned as possible kings, would very prob
ably be much in the limelight of the pres
ent generation as the American pre-
TENDER for. without doubt, we would still
have considerable royalist party among
us.
Copyright, 1912. by John Elfreth watkins.l
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the union referred to- Jane, however,
was not the daughter of George Washing
toms eldest own brother.
He was Col. Samuel. mention OF whose
name turns us now to the other side OF
the original controversy-whether. If
Washington had been crowned king, his
throne would have descended through his
lf-brother, Augustine ii, this eldest
full-brother. Col. Samuel. Authorities far
To agree as to whether, by rigid inter-
probation of the law of succession, descent
through half-brother would be recog-
niZed. Had this hypothetical crown been
worn by George Washington's father it
would have passed to the son by the first
marriage, unquestionably. But, suppos-
ing it to have origina ted with George
Washington, the question whether Ii
would have descended to his half brother
or full-brother is a veXed one. But let
us concede that the line of descent was
through the eldest full-brother, Samuel.
and see who. in this event, would be the
present American king.
Samuel himself could never have in
herited the crown. because he died in
1871. eighteen years before the death of
George. And Samuel's eldest son, Thorn
ton. also died before the general, although
only by a few months. However. the line
through these two was unbroken inasmuch
as Thornton was survived by John Thorn
ton Augustine, who was lad of sixteen
when the first President gave up the
ghost that chill day at Mount Vernon.
This. possible heir apparent took for his
first wife Elizabeth Conrad Bedinger OF
West Virginia, daughter Of revolution
airy officer. Their eldest son, Laurence
Berry Washington, born in 1911, was a
lawyer, a lieutenant in a Virginia reg-
nent in the Mexican war and in 1919
joined the rush for gold in California,
drifted to Missouri and died suddenly on
a Mississippi steamboat in 1856 He was
a bachelor, SO the descent would have
gone through his eldest surviving broth
er. Daniel Bedinger Washington, born in
1914 who married his cousin, Mrs. j. J.
Wharton, in 1913, moved to Missouri in
1856, fought in the Confederate army and
spent his last days on his farm near
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Not That Kind.

<fr T would save lot of trouble" said
a newspaper man the other day to
Representa- tive Slayden Of Texas. after
the democratic caucus on the Henry reso-
luton to investigate the money trust"
IF you would allow us to attend the
caucus.
ION the contrary" replied Mr.. Slayden,
with a twinkle in his eye, II think 1t
would make a lot of trouble"
We'll, can't you give me an interview
on it, now that the fight is over
No" answered Mr.. Slayden, 1T would
be against my principles. L never kiss
and tell"
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Mistaken for a Hotel Firm.

Mrs. q. II. +. BELMONT. at tea at
AVA tho Colony Club in New York, was
talking about European society.
"Wel'bred Americans, She. said
usually succeed in foreign society. but
they are confused at first by the differ
ence in social customs. IL they are not
careful they make odd mistakes.
Il heard of an odd mistake that an
American artist made in England. The
Duke Of Richmond and Gordon. desiring
to honor his art. sent this artist an in
vitation to Gordon Castle. But the poor
artist never having heard Of the duke.
declined the invitation haughtily. Tho
address to which he sent his defamation
showed the wherefore of his haughtiness.
The address was, 'Messrs. Richmond y
Gordon, Gordon Castle Hotel.
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nephew swim v;


country's father"
The Virginia Society of the Cincinnati,
after considerable research. has granted
this honor to Mr. William Lanier Wash
ington. New York broker. who is the
first Presidents great-great-great-gra
nephew OF course. the society has rot in
vestisated any possible claims which this
gentleman might make upon the Ameri-
can throne. had his immortal uncle
cepted the proposition of his friend, Col.
Nicola. But in the Society of the Gin
cinnati the right of membership descends
from eldest male heir to eldest male heir
by the English law of primogeniture.
This same law determines the succession
of the British crown as well as that of
nearly every other monarchy of Europe,
save that in certain emergencies where
male heirs are lacking the succession
may go to a woman, as in Victoria's
ease. But male heirs are favored when
existing. Therefore the fact that Will
liam Lanier Washington has been unani-
mously selected as George Washingtons
hereditary representative in the Gin
cinnati society serves. in the estimation
of a faction of the Washington family.
10 establish the certainty that the New
York broker would now be our king had
the general, like Napoleon. accepted the
royal powers placed with his grasp.
At the time OF the celebration of the
centenary of the first Presidents in
auguration in New York. there arose a
spirited controversy as to who was then
the head of the Washington family in
America. A number of persons, more or
less related to the first President. were
brought forward and featured in the
papers. and although the discussion
aroused a certain amount of ridicule, 1t
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THORNTON.
AUGUSTINE
WASHINGTON

wood Augustine. who Went to Michigan,
and there, following the early profession
of his collateral ancestor OF immortal
fame. became a surveyor i'll the public
land office He fought in the Union army,
studied law. settled later at Kankakee.
ILL.,. and married a Miss Fletcher, whose
father had moved to that state from
WestmOreland, the native county of the
Washingtons in Virginia.
His children are Bushrod, the eldest
son. u Union veteran. of Goodman, Mo.
james. p,asterer and house painter, of
kankahee, ILL.,; William Augustine, law
Yer and judge, also of kankakee, and a
married daughter, who removed to Chi
cagO. f-..
BY strict application of the law of
primogeniture it would therefore appear
that Washinston's crown, if descending
through his half-brother, would now be
worn by this aged Union veteran, Bush
rod Washington, who was born in Kala-
mazoo, Mich, in 1872 He is described by
kinsfolk in the east man of educa-
ton and studious tastes. In the Union
army he fought with his father and his
brother, William Augustine, his courage
being such as to arouse the admiration OF
his commander, Gen. Logan. who offered
him commission. which he declined.
In 1866 he married Martha Jane Nc
Rae, by which union there is one daugh-
ter Mrs. Stella Evelyn Withers, of Chi
-cago. III.
But despite this discovery of the lost
Bushrod's oldest sons oldest son. par
tisans of William Lanier Washington
maintain that the latter should be re-
tanned in his established position as head
of the family by virtue of double de-
scent from the general. And this double
descent is traced as follows: First
through the line of George Washington
eldest half brother with male descendants
las stated; and, second, through the first
Presidents full brother, Col John Angus
tine Washington, whose eldest child, Jane
is the New York brokers' great-sreat-
grandmother. Above it was mentioned
that the brokers' Sreat-great-grandfathe
married his cousin Jane" and this was
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length Of 700 miles or more. will be car
r:ed on with it. During the present year
the road and bridge funds available vii,
PROBABLY exceed three million dollars
The work Is going on in twenty-nine OF
the thirty-one Christian provinces and
ferries and bridges are planned every
where.
The archipelago has been divided up
into road divisions, and these divisions
into districts Every district has its own
engineers and they report to the division
engineers. who get their orders from the
board of public works at Manila. Most
of the designing is done at Manila. the
bureau furnishing plans and specifications
for all bridges and culverts.
These new roads are better maintained
than those of the United States. Each
of the. provinces has "A road fund, taken
out OF the provincial treasury, and every
mile of road has one or more men en-
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copra while in other islands it takes
5000 or 5000. There are groves in the
Philippine Islands where $500 nuts Will
make a ton and some at San Remon, OF
which it takes less than $500. Our gov
eminent is now sending out information
to the people as to the best nuts to plant
and advising them just how to cultivate
their plantations to get the best crops.
MY latest information from the Islands
is that cocoanuts are now paying better
than anything else. The officials say that
the copra towns never know hard times
and that the presidents of one of them
complained that he could get TO servants.
The cocOanuts bring in so much that the
people will not work.
The Filipinos are not satisfied with their
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land is as rich as that of Hawaii. but
that enc trouble is that the soil is too
ricn. The cane grows SO fast that the
grade of sugar is low. They are now
trying to exhaust the soil by planting
rice with the cane.
AS ii is now, there is but little gooo
machinery in the sugar industry. There
are small mills and small Plantations.
One province in Luzon has +OO~sugar
growers. who cultivate altogether 3',VO
acres. They make only about two-thirds
of ton of sugar to the acre, evaporal.
ins. the mice i'm old castiron kettles set
in a furnace and fired with the refuse
of tho cane.
The total sugar exports of the islands
last year were valued at only Hltie
more than So ,000,c01.
What is needed more than anything
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miles of trails through the mountainous
sections.
The general management of the good
roads movement is under the bureau OF
public works That bureau has ], 400 men
in it's technical and clerical positions and
it has road working army of more than
10000 laborers. The bureau has mapped
out a great scheme of roads covering the
islands. Each island has it's own prob
lens, but there are to be chief roads con-
Meeting the provincial capitals and cities
with branch roads extending out to the
smaller towns and important villages
The trunk lines are expected to be COM
pleted within the next five years and
work on the branch roads, having
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ployed to keep it in order. The road man
has shovels and picks, and he spends
all his time on the highway.
The people are now spending about
S175 per kilometer, or in the neighbor-
hood of $500 mile, a year in keeping
UP the first-class roads. The head man
of each division makes a special in
spection of such roads, and the division
engineers go over them every two weeks.
AS it is, nearly LOCO bridges have been
built since 1907.
The most important of the new roads
now under constructions are in LuZon.
There are two principal projects. One is
a wide automobile road running from
Manila to the northwestern end of the
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island. and the other is Il second road
from the capital to Sorsogon. in Albay,
at the southeastern end When these
are completed one will be able to travel
in an automobile posthaste from one end
OF LuZon to the other.
Already there is an excellent autoElo-
bile road from Manila to Bas uio, the
summer capital in the mountains OF
northwestern LuZon, and there is a reg
ular automobile service between the two
places. This carried eight or nine thou
sand passengers last year. The auto
mobiles also transport mail and freight.
| am told the new roads have greatly
improved the condition of the localities
through which they go. They are having
the same effect as the building; of IA pew
railroad i'm the United States. Villages
arc springing UP along them. new farms
have been laid out and blacksmith shops
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tobacco trade with the United States
When the tariff was removed they eX
pected to swamp us w.th Manila cigars
and to sell them at Havana prices. With
that view they sent about 930GD.0oO the
first year. but the trouble was that they
hurried the manufacture and in their
haste used short filters and bad wrappers
AS result the Cigars got a bad name.
and there was no market for them. Some
of them eventually went at less than fac
tory prices. and the exports the second
year were reduced over two-thirds They
bacco Is excellent and in tine it will have
a great market here. Last year we took
almost half of the exports. the number
consumed being about S4,OootC0, and the
value alraost s2.O0o,c00.
AS to the sugar crop, that Isl greatly
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THE Good Roads Move

THE Good Roads Move
1 ment and What 1t Has
Done - A Great Scheme
Which Will Open UP the
Countrywide New Rail-
roads-How the Ports Are
Improving - New Lig hit
houses Postal Savings
Banks and Wireless Tele-
graph Stations-Big Money
in Cocoanuts and Hemp
The Sugar Possibilities
The Filipinos Need Modern
Agriculture The Govern
ment Farms and Agricultural
Colleges.
Copyright. 1872. by Frank C. Carpenicry
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Col. WASHINGTON
TIE GENERALS ELDEST
FULL-BRDTHER

lean .Almanach of 1865 as ''the oldest and
nearest surviving relative Of his grand
uncle Gen. Washington" He was born in
Westmoreland county. Va, the year Of
President Washington's first Inaugural
ton, graduated from Harvard, entered
the law, moved to Maryland. served ten
years in Congress from that state, was
president of the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal, also commissioner of Indian. affairs,
and was prominently mentioned for the
vice presidency. He died in Georgetown
in 1854. Through him the Cincinnati So
ciety has brought down the descent through
his eldest son, Lewis William Washing
ton; through the latter's son, James Bar
roll Washington, the aforementioned, and
finally to the latter's son, the aforemen-
toned William Lanier Washington.
great-great-great-gr grandson of George
Washington's oldest half-brother leaving
male issue.
During the past few years the heirs of
George Washington have been pressing
through Congress a claim for certain
public lands granted to the general, but
alleged to have been Jumped" by a one
time United States senator. And it SO
happens that Mr.. Lawrence Washington
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nNE of Three Living Men
~ Would Now Be a King
or Pretender-One a Broker,
Another a House Painter and
Third a Union Veteran-In-
vestigation by Society of Gin
cinnnati Favors the Broker,
But a Lost Branch of the
Family Has Just Been Found
and Status of Problem Has
Changed.
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HIS letter has
nothing to do with
the politics of the
Philippines. 1t will
not discuss the
feelings OF the
people, nor deal
with their ability
or non-ability to
rule. 1t is a bust
ness letter and
treats of business
conditions. | want
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stimulated the Society of the Cincinnati
to ascertain for itself who was the man
most eligible to represent the patriot
comma er-in-chief in the organization.
AS the result of several years inveSti-
CATION by the societys genealogists, the
Iate James Barroll Washington, secretary
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany. was offered membership as Gen.
Washingtons hereditary representative.
This gentleman. thus selected as the gem
erals heir, by virtue OF the law of primo
seniture-as the man who in England
would have inherited any titles and es-
tateS belonging to George Washington
was born in Baltimore in 1880. became d
ajor in the Confederate army, and While
ON duty i'm Alabama married Jane Britney
1.anier Cabell of that state. He with his
sisters and half-brother, inherited Wake
field the house in which Gen. Washing
ton was born, and where his ancestors
had dwelt. They also owned the
burying ground in which the generals
American ancestors are inferred. and this,
for the consideration of one dollar. has
been leased for ninety-nine years TO the
Colonial Danes of Virginia. who have
suitably protected and marked it.
In 1873 James Barroll Washington's
duties called him to Pittsburgh, and it
was by virtue of his residence there that
he was invited to join the Pennsylvania
Society of the Cincinnati. But Inasmuch
as the Virginia society. which had become
dormant. was then being revived. he felt
that his allegiance was to the latter
state However. during the many delays
ill accomplishing the revival of the Nir-
sinia society he lost interest and died.
Since. then the Virginia society has
taken up the thread, and after a careful
investigation has installed his son as the
hereditary representative of the coun-
try's father. And this son is the Will
of
toned.
The gentleman who would be King
William of AInerica-many now think
had his great-great great-granduncle
been weak enough to accept throne,
was born nearly forty-seven years ago
at Montgomery, Ala, where his father
was serving as aid-de-camp to Gen
Joseph L. Johnston. After his parents
moved to Pittsburgh he was educated at
the University of Pennsylvania. After
serving as general passenger agent OF
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, he be-
came president of corporations engaged
in the manufacture of steel and oilcloth,
a. we'll as of a land company, and he
was also vice president of corporation
manufacturing freproofing material.
For the past dozen years he has lived in
New York, where, as stated he is
stock broker Six years ago he married
Miss May e. Brennan of Louisville.
He is a clubman, and with his wife
has an entree in the most exclusive
social circles of the metropolis His
hobby is the breeding of blooded Irish
settlers. Despite his southern lineage, he
is a republican in politics, although he
prefixes independent" to that party
designation.
Now as to his right to the distinc-
ton Of being the hereditary repre-
sentative of the first American:
Gen. Washington was the first presi-
dent general of the Society of the Gin
cinnati, organized by his brother Off
GERS in the continental army, just be-