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The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
The House Fly.

From the New York Tribune.
The open season of the house fly Is
here once more. and il behooves US to
resume early and with renewed en-
ergy the campaign against this dan
gerous insect begun last year. Clean
illness is the most effective weapon in
the war upon this carrier of disease,
cleanliness in the home and the stable
in streets and alleys, above all in
places where foodstuffs are prepared
for market or placed on sale. Bake
shops, meat-shops. and the kitchens of
restaurants should be the concern of
every citizen. not of the board of
health alone. Fly hunting Is repulsive; /;
prevention in the proper places. ruth
lessly enforced when necessary. will
ultimately do away with its necessity.
No doubt the various public and VOL
untary bodies that last year undertook,
directed, and encouraged the war upon
this disseminator of typhoid fever will
take the field this season in ample
time. The warning issued by them
early in 1911 and the methods suggest
ed met with gratifyingly prompt reply.
The whole country was made fully
aware of the danger that turks in the
sticky feet of these scavengers. A
word in time should sufice for the sea-
son that is before U.S.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
Transient Licenses Too Low.

There are certain obligations every
citizen who is at all interested in the
welfare of his home town assumes, not
as a duty. but as matter of course,
realizing that what is beneficial to the
business interests is either directly or
indirectly of proportionate benefit to the
individual. The business man, to be sue
ceSsful, to be able TO offer his patrons
the best and latest that can be secured
in his line, must of necessity be patron
lied. The more customers he has, the
more the, will benefit with him. That
is simply good business
No one objects to an outside merchant
coming here TO sell his goods, providing
he pays tax equal to that paid by the
local merchants in the shape of rent.
&c The present plan of taxing the out
slider $3.50 per SI5o of the inventoried
value of the goods he brings here is not
sufficient protection to the home mer-
chant. This amount is fixed according
to the time the license is taken out and
is good from the time it is dated until
the end of the fiscal year.
A man can come to Washington with
line of samples only. possibly in pho
tographs, on which at this time it would
only be necessary for him to pay one
fourth of the regular amount. or less
than 40 cents on the $Iso basis, and be
allowed to compete with home merchants
until the end of the fiscal year, June 90
This amount is hardly worth consider
ing. The tax should be per diem one,
and large enough TO protect the retail
business interests of the city. The Her
aid trusts the District Commits sioncrs
will take this matter up and make the
proper recommendations, so that an ade-
quate per diem tax can be assessed.
AT the present time an outside jcwclry
concern has an agent here in an effort to
capture some of the retail trade of the
city. : No rent to pay except for his room.
no fixed overhead charges, no particu-
lar interest in seeing that proper fund
is raised by taxation for the right gov
ernment OF the city. This condition
should be corrected. He should pay his
proper share of the city's expenses.
incidentally, The Herald refuses TO
accept the advertisements OF outside con-
Germs who send agents here 10 compete
with the tax-paying retail merchant |
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
WHY STRIKE EPIDEMICl
Increase of Wages at Lawrence
Causes Industrial Disturbance.

Increase of Wages at Lawrence
Causes Industrial Disturbance.
From the Boston Herald.
The answer to the question stated in
the title is simple. II is because Of the
increase of wages that has resulted
from the Lawrence conflict. Strikes, like
everything else, are judged by their re-
suits II these are favorable TO the
strikers. persons in other places and en-
ployments who feel themselves similarly
situated are tempted to proceed by the
same methods to better their condition.
The strike which fails of its purpose
has an opposite result.
All TITS is entirely apart from the mer-
its of the controversy in each Of the
cases now before the public. that of the
railroad men. that of the anthracite
miners. that of the textile workers, &c
Conditions differ widely in the various
occupations. The only unifying bond is
the effect of the successful strike in
encouraging new ones. The last an
thracite settlement made certain that
more opportunities for settlement would
be afforded.
way should be found to accord labor
its justly increasing share OF the prod
ucts of industry on some other basis than
as trophies won on the field of battle.
Other controversies of a competitive sort
are settled in more rational way To
do this in the trade between labor and
capital is the pre-eminent need of the
hour.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
ANNIVERSARY DATA.
APRIL 2. 1919.

United States Senator George
Nixon, OF Reno, New, was born II
Placer County. Cal, ffty-two years
ago to-day.
Jefferson Davis made his night from
Richmond forty-seven years ago 10.
day.
The Hon. William Bauchop Wilson
who ascended from pick and shove.
IN the coal mines TO a seat in Con.
gress. and now representing the Fit
teenth District OF Pennsylvania II
that body. was born at BIantyre
Scotland. nifty years ago to-day.
Rev. Thomas : Hastings, ex-presi-
dent of the Union Theological Sem
mary, died at the age of eIEhty-four
years. in New York City, one year
ago to-day.
Forty-seven years ago to-day Gen
Grant made his final assault on Pc
tersburg. and at the close or a day
of desperate fighting the entire line
of Confederate intrenchments was
carried and Gen. Lee gave orders for
the evacuation of both Petersburg
and the outpost on the Appomattox.
While Gen. Grant was taking possess
sion of Petersburg, Gen. weltZeI with
his troops, chiefly composed OF negro
regiments. took possession of Rich-
mond.
The Hon. Michael r Conry. who
represents the Twelfth District OF
New York Ccity). in Congress. cele-
brates his forty-second birthday to-
day
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
STATESMEN, REAL AND NEAR.
BY FRED c. KELLY

has much the same regard for truth and
consistency that our friend White has
exhibited here this evening"
When Ansberry was through. the min
lister. who had invited White to make his
address. got up and said seriously:
While 1t may be that the speaker ex-
aggerated considerably, yet stiH believe
and hope others do, that a number Of
the things he told us were true"
And White has been afraid to give
talks on the Klondike from that day to
this. lest Ansberry hear OF II and appear
again. like an evil spirit or a harpy to
spoil the feast.
Representative William c. Redfeld. of
Brooklyn. now serving his first term in
Congress, Is the one member of the
House who throws literary style into a
tariff speech. His talk is heavily pad
ded with facts. nut they are offered in
such an entertaining fashion that they
are entirely objectionable, and a Red
field speech listens ike a romance
though. happily. not like the Robert W.
Chambers kind.
Though he wears a lacy fringe OF
sandy sde whIskers. Redheld knows a
great many things besides tariff facts.
would meet in a days journey by land
or sea. He likes to run a motor boat by
day and a pianola by night, and Is ex-
pert at both. lie know a lot about
raising roses and collie dogs, and is
president Of the biggest singing society
in Brooklyn. This latter BiveE him more
pride. perhaps, than his knowledge about
the phases and foibles Of the tariff
Redfeld is a manufacturer. He got
his business start by selling paper for
little wholesale house in Massachusetts,.
Later on he set out for New York to make
his fortune. AS the paper business was
the only line in which he had had any
experience he went down to Beekman
street. where all the paper houses were.
in quest OF a job. He had no pull but
plenty Of purpose. and he started in at
Beekman street to ask for a posi-
ton" From there he crossed Beekman
street to No. ?. and so on until he had
reached ., where they put him to work
Since theen twenty-five has been his
lucky number. He was twenty-five years
old when he moved from New York TO
Brooklyn and got into the manufactur-
ing business; he met his wife on the 18th
OF the mouth, and IL was on the 18th of
the month that he got II into his head
to run for Congress.
William Stewart Reyburn, the Philadel-
phia chap who wrested the youngest Con-
gressman belt from Billy Murray, OF
Massachusetts. a few months ago. spe-
cialized on economics and American his
tory when he went to college. hoping that
he might break into Congress at an early
age. Reyburn is an agreeable young man.
but wears one Of those narrow mustaches
such as are used by foreign jukes and
the like.
Copyright, 1872, by Fred c. Kelly. All rights 10
seTed.l
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
A P r | L
Ey GEORGE FITCH
Author of AT Good Old Siwast"

where becomes green and fresh and ten
der. The country roads also lose their
hard, callous nature and become soft
and succulent. After April has rained
for about nineteen days on an eight
hour schedule, the roads become so soft
and embracing that the mail carrier
has to sit on his buggy top TO keep his
necktie out of the mud.
April is chiefly noted in the United
States for the opening Of the baseball
season. During the last ten days OF the
month a million baseball fans are sud-
denly turned on and life once more be-
comes bright and stuffed full OF interest
There is no more inspiring sight than
that of a baseball fan in April. as he
sits in the thick weather on the port
side of third and shouts hoarse encour-
ing grandly to third through the billows,
tossing up spray like a racing motor
boat.
April elections also give US our mayors
and aldermen. Because OF this. great
many reformers are demanding that
April be left out OF the calendar
April is barred by two great sorrows-
the late frost and the early spring house
cleaning The late frost comes like a
dastardIy assassin and murders the IN
nocent spring vegetables and the Con-
gressional boom. while the early house
cleaning breaks loose with relentless
fury in many a happy home and shuf-
1es II up until the distressed husband
has to find his way through the parlor
at night with a guide. to say nothing OF
saving up enough money to buy back
his second and third best pairs OF pants
from the old clothes man.
April is a beautiful month south OF
Mason and Dixon's celebrated line.
North OF this line. however. 1T Is like a
stock company gold mineAit consists
mostly OF prospects.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
ROBERT L. TAYLOR.
C"Gov. Bob."D

Written mst after having heard him in his IA
nous lecture. The Fiddle md the Bow" at Mic
dlesboro. n.y. February :. lseel
A Christians heart with mercy knit,
courtier's grace, a kingly wit;
An orators tongue. a statements mind,
With a poets sensitive soul combined.
gentleman. The children's knight.
The masses friend. a States delight.
A man whose matchless. magic art
Doth move to laughter. rends the heart
With deep emotions-grief and pain
Then sweeps US back to mirth again,
Who drinks toast, but not to wine"
Nor lovely woman, most divine"
But gives that ieeting age Of truth
The preference-he drinks to Youth"
He leads us through the realm OF space,
And shows US Eden's vanished grace;
He leaves the crowded din of men,
And bids us walk in quiet glen:
He speaks in homely Southern phrase
OF old-time darkies' homely ways;
With wit and pathos he describes
The unconscious drolrry of their lives.
And then, with gentle, unseen hand,
He strikes our hearts with music's wand
We hear a thousand vibrant strains,
We stroll 'mong peaceful country lanes
Or stand with him. inspired to fervor
BY some old master, passed forever.
He bears us wheresoe'er he will;
Through forests shade, oer sunny hill;
He shows us Music's tender sway,
Felt in the hearts of rich and gay,
As we'll as those whose humble lot
'Tis TO exist in mountain cot
The rich mans life may not be pure.
The poor mans motto Is ENDURE
One tolls to live. one lives to gain,
But Music speaks to each the same.
With him We sail ethereal seas,
And Music watts US, as a breeze,
When, lol he floats us back again
To carnal earth and earthly men,
Our fickle senses. quickly moved,
Desert the heights SO lately roved,
Drop back to scenes Of everyday,
And, with his gayety, we're gay.
He lures us by his mystic note
From Adams bliss to Charonis boati
Son Of the South, thy worth we know
Long may We live TO draw the bow
Across the strings of violin.
Across the saddened hearts Of men,
May poets muse and Music's charm
Keep thy spirit from alarm,
When the strings fan mute at last
The bow drops loose, its mission past.
But when we see thy face no more
Thy voice shall cheer US as before;
The chance sound of a violin
VIII wake thy words to life again.
-AEnes Blanche Hiekes.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
POLITICAL POINTS.

Prom the Atlanta Constitution
No wonder Gov. Wilson got lost while
automobiling in New Jersey, he's away
| from the State so much.
From the Baltimore Sun.
Whitelaw Reid's assertion that Roose-
welt told him he would not be a cam
| didate may yet be verified by the re-
suits.
From the New York Post.
We know that the colonel is the only
man who can unite the party and so
men have said so and the colonel ad-
mits il.
| From the Buffalo Times
What impractical men Harvard astron-
| omers are. Here they have made
a map of 100000 stars, when everybody
is hungry for a reliable map of the
political armament.
From the Boston Globe.
President Tafts message declaring
that the cotton duties of the tariff now
in force are far too high comes strik-
ingly coincident with the strike and lock-
out at the cotton mills in Lowell.
Some of them keep hammering at
the compromise candidate idea, but they
have not got 1t exactly straight. The
ticket will be: For President. Jacob C.
Riis of New York. For vice president
Old Bill SeweIl of Maine. Platform, Both
Members of This Club.
From the Kansas City Journal
Col Bryan's idea of a national con-
the government with Judson Harmon at
its head.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Meanwhile we assume that you are
reading Mr.. La Fonette's autobiography
as 1t appears in its regular monthly in
stallments, Wh-what!
From the Topeka Daily Cspital
Another surprising thing about the
Democratic party is that II has more
candidates for President now than II
had votes in 1908.
From the Atlanta Journal.
And yet there were people who said
the President wasn't a first rate poll
tician.
From the Troy IN. " Record.
Roosevelt denies that he wants to be
king. At the present time he looks
much like Napoleon Fastening back from
Moscow for the purpose Of strengthen
ing his political fences.
From the Baltimore Sun.
The President has never before been
so assiduously attentive to the old wood
pile. Believes in saving while the saw
works well.
FINN, the Obio State Iour,,I
We are afraid that Col. Roosevelt
will not go down into history as one of
our best losers.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
A Congressman-at-large for Alaska

Alaska wants stronger, more vigor-
Gus representation in Congress. She
wants TO clear the clouds of misinforma-
ton in which she is wrapped, to be able
TO present her needs forcibly and direct
ly, not only to Washington, but to
the people of the nation, and to do this
her leading spirits are now crystallizing
a movement which may result in sending
prominent SeattI, citizen to the House
as an envoy of light from the northern
territory.
Alaska has made an organized ap-
peal TO the voters of the State of Wash
ington to choose a Congressman-at-
large who knows Alaska and its needs,
and to elect him on the one issue of
making it his special object to put
through Congress the recommendations
of Secretary Fisher for the building of
system of government-owned rail-
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02

Masanao Hanihara, first secretary OF
the Japanese Embassy. is not given to
boasting of the dolngs OF his country
men in peace or war. but the other day
he told this:
1t was at the great battle of Tsu-shims
in the Jap-Russ war, in which the Jap
| anese captured the entire Russian neet.
! Oficers with the japanese feet sighted
with their glasses a Russian man-of-
war that was beyond peradventure
sending some kind OF a signal But Il
was a signal that none OF the japanese
officers knew. They discussed what
It might mean, but none had any def
mite idea to offer. Then somebody re-
called that Lieut.. Nagasato, then on the
flagship. had spent much time in Eur
ope and had acquired much familiarity
with the naval signal codes OF the lead
ing powers. They sent for Nagasato.
He looked through the glasses moment
and then said:
According to the international code
that Is the signal for surrender"
They tried then to verify the signal
by their own code books. And at that
juncture they made noteworthy dis
coyery.
torn out OF every code book In the Japa-
nese navy.
Representaive George White, of Ohio,
was invited out to a mems club at a
Baptist church here recently to give a
talk on his experience in the Klondike,
where he had acquired enough gold dust
a few years ago to clog a sewer.
Some Of Whites jocose Ohio colleagues.
Tim Ansberry among them, heard about
his kfne on and II
be there and add what they could TO the
hilarity of the event.
When White had finished his speech.
amid much hearty applause. Ansberry
got himself introduced and said that he
felt IL his duty 10 see truth rise triumph
ant. even though the late speaker who
had trampled II underfoot happened to be
his friend. In justice TO White II should
be said that he had adhered strictly to
facts in his recital of adventure, but
here and there he had omitted details
that gave Ansberry his opportunity. For
example, .-e told of digging down into
seventy-two feet of frozen ground after
gold, which he washed In a running
stream. neglecting to state that the wash
ing was done the following spring.
ITS too bad that a supposedly reputa-
bic member Of Congress sheuld insult
your intelligence" declared Ansberry. He
tells OF washing gold in a running stream
while the ground Is frozen down seventy
two feet / suppose water doesn't freeze
up there when the ground does"
And the Baptists began TO exchange
glances.
White had described the wonders of the
aurora borealis. comparing its weird
nutterings to a huge American flag.
when he thought he saw the Ameri-
can flag in the heavens" said Ansberry.
he probably did see II. He saw II wav-
ing at the north pole where il was
planted by Doc Cook. who, BY the way.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02

April is brief. emotional month which
has only thirty days and spends most Of
its time weeping for the thirty-first. 1t
arrives just after the backbone of March
has been broken. and lasts until IT is
safe to put on a thin necktie and a cot
ton vest and go to a baseball game with
out a footwarmer.
April consists OF sunshine and sobs in
equal doses, like a Hearne meiodrama,
and Is one OF our most charming months
in spots. When the April sky is blue,
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
His Hope.

From Judges Lbrary.
Il suppose" said the beautiful girl
you write for the mere love of writ.
ing
Yes" replied the sad-looking poet
but I still hope to some day be able to
write for at least Is cents a line"
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
An ExtenuatinE Fkct.

From the Cleveland Leader.
The Editor-Look here! You've en-,
gaEed a married woman to run our
Home and Mother department
The Sub-Yes, but she's only been mar
ried three months, and she lives at
hotel. She'll be all right, I think
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
QUIZ GOVERNORS DOUBLE.
'Twan't Wilson After All, but the
Women Thought So.

Women Thought So.
From the New York World.
While pondering over matters pertain
ing to his position as president of the
Manufacturers Light and Heat Company
last night in the Fort Pitt Hotel, where
he lives. John Z. Gill was confronted by
a delegation of women.
Governor, what do you think of us?''
shouted the spokesman. Are you with
us or against US? What is your opinion
Of our movement to get our rights"
Il don't believe ! understand you"
Gill murmured. You ask me as govern
or of something or other. Oh. I see.
Gill concluded. and a grin spread over
his face. I'm not Gov. Wilson.
The resemblance between GIL and Gov.
Woodrow Wilson is so striking that the
Pittsburger has been mistaken for the
Jerseyite on several occasions They met
for the first time last Friday, and Gov.
Wilson expressed amazement that an
other looked so nearly like him.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02

Charles O Jones. in Judges Library.
Speak honeyed words; they are better
eating than are the other varieties.
II an opponent smite thee upon one
cheek. turn the other cheek to the audi
ence and prove TO their complete satis-
faction that the blow left no mark.
Learn to say nothing gracefully, and
you will hurt no mans feelings
Even stumps have roots; II you can't
get at the root Of the matter under dis
cussion. somebody may get at the root
Of the stump.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
Always Something,

THE girls of my daughters class have
agreed to graduate in dollar gowns
That will save you a handsome sum. -
1T ought 10, but will IL? She'll proba-
bly, want to carry about forty dollars
worth Of violets or a bushel Of orchids,
perhaps"
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
No Advance.

Have those Baltimore hotels put up
prices for the Democratic convention"
Il don't find II So. l have engaged a
billiard table TO sleep on at 20 cents an
hour. Those are regular billiard rates"
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
Ministerial Asset.

Prom the New York Weekly
Mrs. Gadd-That new minister amt
much on visitin', is he?
Mrs. Gabb-No. / guess maybe his
wife is purity good cook herself,
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
A Mean Man.

A popular local belle and her beau had
a quarrel.
kindly return my lock of hair
"AH right. Do you want the dark lock
or the one you gaze me when you were
a blond ?"
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
settine . senater Risht.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
Senator Rayner speaks of Roosevelt
spleen. Spleen! Gall, man, gail!
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02

and the warm breezes are enticing the
diffident radish from the bosom Of the
garden. April is so fascinating that the
whole world goes out Of doors in order
to breathe It in larger quantities. In
April. the apple. peach. and cherry trees
explode into blossom. and nature every
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
April 2 in History.

April .. IT55-Boswell is elected from
the Cheshire Cheese Tavern for making
too free with the free lunch DR.. John
son highly indignant
April 2. 1IT-Richard the lion-hearted
has his sheetiron trousers creased. A
crease would last several years in those
times.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
At the Ball.

'Muriel has the reputation Of being
ethereal"
Yes: and know how she manages.
"How?"
I've been watching her. and she has
eaten a chicken sandwich with twenty
six different men. Every one of those
men thinks she's ethereal, and she's had
a pretty fair feed. See?'
The other girl saw.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
Endless Toll.

How doth the little busy hen
Delight TO scratch.
Each day you reconstruct again
Your garden patch.
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
OR SPRING FEVER.

He never, told his love
In ardent tore.
He never made a motion
To indicate devotion
Or have it known.
He never told his love
In glowing screed.
And we who think II over
Must tabulate this lover
As queer, indeed.
He never told his love.
We must confess
He really thought the feeling
He found upon him stealing
Was biliousness.
Uncle Pennyrfse Sayst
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02

The ruling passion is strong. Amund-
sen visited a barren island in Southern
seas and found there a man who had
formerly been an American magnate of
note. He was shipwrecked and spent
two years among savages. When
Amundsen found him, he had accunnu-
lated 4.0o0 900 clam shells, and IN another
year he would have had every clam
shell on the island
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02
Uncle Pennywise Says,
He Had the Habit.

Are we going to have white Easter
or green Easter?
The Washington herald., 1912-04-02

Prom the Atlanta Constitution
No wonder Gov. Wilson got lost while
automobiling in New Jersey, he's away
from the State so much.