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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-04-02
SENATOR WATSON NAMED
AS SENATE PALLBEARER.
special niapatrh 10 ne TnteIllrenc.r.

spfcIlI UHpntoh % he InteIIIEencer.
WASHINGTON. u. G., April l.
Senator Clarence Watson. OF West
Virginia. was designated to-day as one
of the honorary pallbearers 20 repre-
sent that body ~ the funeral Of the
late Senator Robert Taylor. OF Ten.
nessee.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-04-02
KNABE MURDER
SOLVED AT LAST
Sailor confssses 20 Killing Woman
Physician In indianapolis
Last Winter

PORTSMOUTH. April Seth
Nic OILS. a sailor. who vas arrested
here Saturday on a charge Of holding
up a bartender 10 get a drink. has
confessed, the police say. 20 the mur.
der OF Dr. Helene Knabe at Indian
apOlis. some months ago Nicolis
says he did the deed az the instiga.
ton 81 another whose name he de-
clined ~ give. and claims be was paid
$4,000 20 do %. according 20 the police
story
Nic0lls Is a sailor. % wears old. and
has been I'm Portsmouth on several
occasions. the last time being a short
time before the mysterious murder
at indianapolis. He came here again
last week 10 visit friends
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-04-02
coNeREssMEN MAY
LOSE MILEAGE ALLOWANCE

WhRIffNGTON. April Repre-
sentative cox ~ Indiana today intro
duced q bin to cut on the mileage al
iowarcos n senators. representatives
ard territorial delegates and provide
that they be paid actual travelling ex-
pCnscs.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-04-02
THE wEArHER.


WAsHfHoToH, April 1.-Forsoasti
Tor Ohio ana western Psnnayivania-
nain Tuesday, cooler south portions.
Wednesday probably fair Win rising
tsmpcrature.
FOR west virrinia-Rsin. somsuhat
cooler Tuesday, wednesday fair.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-04-02
HOLIDAY SPIRIT MARKS
CLOSING or MINES

PITTSBURGH. April Miners IN
the Pittsburgh district today entered
on the suspension caused By the
cleveland conference with q holiday
spirit. glad TO have vacation after
an unusually busy year. Picnics and
outings we're held a. number Of
places throughout the district. and AZ
an open air mass meeting IN Castle
shannon. Pa. where miners from
half dozen towns congregated. the
cleveland settlement was endorsed
after u had been explained by Presi
dent Francis Feehan Of district No. 6
Of the United Mine Workers
The district convention was hur.
riedly reconvened today. notices be.
ing sent 10 all delegates % report Al
the labor temple IN this city tomor.
row morning. u is predicted the con
vention VIII formally endorse the
Cleveland settlement and some mines
10 The district viii resume operations
not later than next Monday morninE
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-04-02
W. % ne Ambassaaor.

INNUON. April According f1 the
IrtinE rrrfrarf. rirrt 0f tho Daily Tele-
srru. Ur Wu TlnF FHnr ia alnnrt crr-
ttir f1 hrfHne tho Chinese anuasaador
at Washington.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-04-02
Mitchell 70 Speak.

DU BOlS. Pa. April Delegates
representing district No. 2. United
Mine workers ~ America. are gath.
cred here tonight for their annual
convention. which beKins tomorrow.
John Mitchell is scheduled m the
principal speaker in the evening
The mines we're idle today. but a re-
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-04-02

CoOriiHu'a On second Ps~.l
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-11

The piano was once the parlor mark
Of prosperity In the American home. II
advertised the fact that the owner had
more money than he needed or knew
how to spend and had passed above the
cabinet organ stage of society.
People used to begin saving for pianos
when they were married and get them IN
time for their grown-up daughters 10
practice upon. The resident OF village
who had a piano was more admired than
the citizen who now owns an automoole
and it cost him just as much for the
distinction because all the musical en-
tertainments had to be given at his home.
Pianos have now become as common as
bath tubs and mission furniture aud the
man who OWLS one has no reason to be
proud and stiff A plano is now con
sidered as necessary as a front porch
and even more necessary than BABY
and is the greatest American postponer
OF prosperity-for every young couple mas
TO buy a piano before It can begin to
put money in the bank.
Pianos have become common because
they are now easy to buy. Anybody can
buy a piano by paying 81 down and 81
a week until Bryan is elected. Pianos
cost the average family So a year
through life. for by the time they have
finished paying for the first piano II
doesn't match the woodwork of the new
house and has rheumatism Of the bass
strings, thus necessitating the payment
OF 81 down for a new one.
Pianos are quiet and refined in repose,
but when ANNOYED by stTOng-wristed per-
formers are capable of keeping entire city
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-11

Fru11 the prc1dPucs Journal
Now comes an iconoclast who would
rob US Of the good old superstition OF
St. Swithin's Day. First thing We know
some one will be telling US that the
grounding is not to be depended upon
as weather prophet. st. Swithin lived
a mere matter OF I.O00 years ago, and
it was not so very long after his death
that they began TO use his birthday as
a gauge for the weather. As the old
tradition held. and still holds. St Swith-
ms Day strikes the keynote for the
weather of the following forty days. X
il rains on July l. it will rain every day
until August p. and. conversely, If II
is dry on the former date no rain Will
fall for forty days.
But the iConoClast has examined the
records at Greenwich, England, for a
period of twenty years, and he an
nOunces that ''of the forty days follow
ing July Il the greater part were rainy
when st. Swithin's Day was fine. In the
period spoken OF there have never been
forty consecutive wet or dry days after
the anniversary, whatever the conditions
may have been on that day
Undoubtedly a careful examination OF
the records in any other part OF the
world would show similarly unsatisfac-
tory results We may safely assume
that St Swithins reputation as a wealth
err prophet has been smashed. And Yet
We meekly offer the guess that for the
stated section of midsummer a weather
demonstration based on the st. SwithiD
superstition will make fairly good
showing when compared with the work
OF the United States government experts.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-11
Naturalization Buncombe.

The japanese suggestion of the nett
tralization of the Philippines, which
would be of advantage to Japan, is
merely an echo of a proposal which
has been made in the United States.
Its American promoters have been
those who oppose any policy OF the
administration, and also those who de-
cry the American policy in the Philip
pines as "imperialistic."
1t would be difficult to imagine any
thing more illogical than this attitude.
Naturalization implies one of the most
offensive features OF Imperialism
namely. discrimination among states in
stead of equality, and the exercising
of overlordship by one or more states
over another. The neutralized state is
placed in an inferior position. as one
which is unfit to enjoy the sovereignty
with which it is nominally invested. 1t
would seem to be more acceptable 10
national pride for the islands to be a
part OF the possessions of one great
nation than to be the ward OF a num-
Der OF powers.
Furthermore. as long as VIC hold the
islands we are free from entangle-
ments. But the moment we joined
with other powers in neutralizing them
we should plunge ourselves into en-
barrassing complications. Memory of
Our troubles when we Joined in trip
artite naturalization of Samoa ought to
be sufficient to warn every American
against repeating that experiment in
circumstances which would magnify its
embarrassments and perks. The disas-
tiers of the Anglo-French neutraliza-
ton of Egypt and of the attempted
naturalization of Morocco is still fresh
in our minds. These are to be avoid
ed. But to initiate are examples like
our own prudent refusals, in Cuba and
elsewhere, to enter into protectorate
compacts with any other power.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-11

tone, the light and shade, the change
and variety Of London are wanting.
Paris is the plainest city in Europe.
Antiquity had two towns called Adria,
neither Of which could be Identified now:
but by a strange coincidence both of
them passed their names to other items
Of geography that are at this moment
prominent in all minds. The Adriatic,
the future OF which is becoming a grave
problem, took II name from the place
called Adria, little south OF Venice. be
tween the mouth Of the Pc and the
Adiga, and now somewhat inland from
the sea. Another Adria, farther south in
the Ab-uzzi Mountains now called Atri.
gave its name to the Emperor Hadrian,
or Adrian, whose family came from
there. And it was he who turned Uska-
DANA into Adrianople.
Sublime Porte is one OF those EupO-
pean expressions for Turkish institu-
tons which are never used by the Turks
themselves. The Ottoman governments
official title for itself is Hukumet-i-
seniye-the glorious government Turks
do not speak Of the Sultan" out o. the
"Padishah." a Persian term. meaning
the Father of Monarchs. Turkey is a
geographical expression used outside the
land it denotes, but unknown to those
who dwell in II. The Turks talk of Ru
melia AnadOl The foreign residents
may speak Of Anatolia Albania or the
Lebanon. They will tell you that they
live in Smyrna or SalOnikL or BeyrCUt.
or elsewhere. but the word Turkey
never crosses their lips. In the empire
itself there is no collective name for the
territory OF the Sultan.
Albania Bulgaria. and RoumanIa, AL
though contiguous to one another, speak
three different languages The Bulgarian
tongue is that OF ancient Russia, and
Roumanian resembles that OF ancient
Rome more closely than modern Italian
does. Albania has no marked affinity
with any other language though philol-
ogists have discovered in II soma slight
trace OF Basque and Hungarian infiu-
enCe. Yet, strangely enough, the three
languages have one popularity in COM
mOn-that OF putting the article at the
md of the word it qualities. Thus. the
title of the leading financial paper Of
Bucharest is Courier vi FinanCier'-tha
Financial Courier, 80 'uI'' being the ROU-
manian the" FLANEUR.
fCrrvrirbt 1911, by Court Gossip Syndicatcl
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-11
Street Safety.

An appropriate Christmas gift, one
that would please the people of the
District and do much to prevent the
too frequent accidents due in part to
old-fashioned and village methods in
vogue in this city regulating street
traffic, would be the adoption of an
ordinance giving the police more power
in controlling all vehicles and pedes-
trians.
Mondays record: A bicycle and
automobile collision, a garbage wagon
and street car smash-up, carriage
and automobile crash, and two-horse
team and automobile accident. Fortu-
nately, none of these was serious.
The next two weeks will undoubt-
eddy be busy ones on the downtown
streets, due TO the holidays. The Her
aid does not advocate any hasty legis-
lation, but set of rules governing the
control of the busy corners would do
some good if it helped to educate both
pCuCSLIldllS dllu QlNGlS " ODSClNG lllC
rule of the road. One point should be
borne in mind, and that is people
should not walk on the streets, where
it is not necessary, but should stay on
the sidewalks.
The securing of any legislation in
the District is becoming to be looked
upon as joke, and while The Wash
ington Herald cannot advocate Board
of Aldermen with a political Mayor,
yet the old system is infinitely prefer
able in the securing of results to that
governing Washington. An alderman
Is directly responsible to his ward, and
if he does not give his constituents
what they want they can take his head
off. What has the people of the Dis
trict to say when they desire needed
legislation? Nothing.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-11
BY THE DOwAGER.

The Capital is a gathering place FOL
the exes. Retired diplomats. particular
". find here the clcancst city, the most
cosmopolitan atmosphere in the country,
hence, choose it as an abiding place for
their old age. Henry White. for years
the popular secretary Of the embassy
in London, then Ambassador al Rome
and Paris. when he quilted the latter
post. came to Washington. where he has
built a handsome house along French
lines and filled It with the souvenirs he
gathered during his diplomatic life
abroad. Wisely planned and arranged
in admirable taste, the interior OF Mr..
Whites house Is one OF the most pleas
ing in town. 1t has lately received the
finishing touch. the arrival of the for
mer Ambassadors little granddaughter
who has come with her parents, ths
Count and Countess Of Seheer-Thoss, to
pass the wintT with Mr.. and Mrs
White.
Muriel White was one Of the most
beautiful and interesting American girls
who ever lived in Europe. IL she could
be called an American girl. which. eX-
cept for her nationality. would hardly
be a correct classification, for She was
educated in Europe, lived all her life
between London. Rome, and Paris. with
rare and short visits to this country.
She was. so extremely charming. how
ever. so lovely in face and character.
that all the Americans who met her
were anxious to claim her for their own.
and would have been glad to have hsr
married to an American.
But at was too beautiful to have
been" as the Germans say. Muriel met
the handsome and dashing Count Sc
heer-Thoss, OF the imperial bodyguard-
met and loved at first sight, and was
married not long after the first meet
ing. It was, as matter of fact. an
excellent marriage. The Seheer-Thoss
family is ancient and distinguished. The
counts mother was Countess Saurma-
Jeltech, whose brother, l think II was,
served at one time as German Minister
here. A year after their marriage little
daughter, christened Margaret. was born
to the Seheer-Thosses on her fathers
birthday, which was very considerate OF
her, since 1t enables her parents to cele-
brate both birthdays on the same date,
which Is a distinct gain, for in Germany
birthdays are occasions 81 great cere-
mony.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-11
Commission in New Orleans.

Prom the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
At a specific election last week New
Orleans decided to adopt the commission
form of government. The Southern me-
tropolis has a population of 3Ss.o5, and
is considerably the largest American city
to experiment with this form Of govern
ment in its pure form. The outcome will
therefore be OF unusual interest to stu
dents of municipal administration.
The government of New Orleans has
been exceptionally inefficient and has
been under the suspicion OF corruption.
The people of the city, weary of the sys-
tenn under which they had suffered, de-
mollshed it by a decisive majority.
New Orleans, like any other COmmu-
nifty that tries an innovation as a means
of relief from intolerable governmental
conditions, must not forget that any form
of government will not work itself. It
must be guided by the vigilance and in
telligence of the citizens. II good men
are not put in office in New Orleans the
commission plan will be a failure. All
that its adherents claim is that the COM
mission plan affords a community a bet
ter opportunity to provide itself with
efficient government. If a community is
not alive to its responsibilities no form
OF government wilt be proof against per-
version.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-11

the exemption of coastwise vessels fly
ing the American flag nor the imposi-
ton of foliage upon ships of other
nations is a violation of the Hay
Pauncefote treaty. There may be a
divergence, of opinion among ourselves
as to the ACCESSIBILITY of imposing such
foliage, or making such exemptions, as
expressed by some leading men; but
what in the name of common sense or
international usage has Great Britain
or any other foreign country to do
with it? What right does this give
any nation TO NEEDLE with our domes-
tic law-malling? No doubt England
would. like to get all the extra privi-
leges that it can grab, by threat, after
standing by and allowing us to expend
hundreds of millions upon this man.
moth project, which is to be benefit
to all the world, by shortening the old
Cape Horn route to the Pacific. Is
not such a shortening of the trip benel
fit enough for the commerce of the
world?
What does England want? Would
she agree to have her vessels pay the
foliage if American bottoms would also
have to pay? Or does England desire
exemption at all hazards, because, when
the Panama Canal project first was
preached, it quickly tried to interpose
difficulties by some clause in the Hay
Pauncefote treaty, which go ipso" was
annulled by the provisions of the old
Clayton Bulwer agreement?
No arbitration! Let the United
States stand upon the dignity of a
great nation that does not have TO
brook any interference in its own do
mestic laws or affairs.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-11
CLOSE VIEW OF PEOPLE WELL
KNOWN IN WASHINGTON

COlfaN. Blaine, and Reed NAV be cited.
All Of them Were greatly disappointed.
With his eye on the White House Mo
Einley sought the Speakcrship in lNS9. 1t
is generally conceded that his failure to
get it made him President
Poor fellow" said Ben ButterwOrth
to me one day when Mckinley was max
ing a speech ON his tariff bill lie
doesn't believe that he is going to be
President. but he Is Just the same. and
D he will owe II to me. ] got out Of his
way for the Speakership.'
ButterwOrth was most popular in the
house. When in ISIS the Republicans re-
gained that body by a slender majority
he wanted to BE- Speaker. McEinlnv after
much effort, persuaded him no, 10 be
candidate. hut to give way in his be
half
We both lost out" continued Butter
worth. but the major feels worse about
it than !. As chairman Of the Ways and
Means Committee he has haG to father a
tariff bill. and he thinks this will cook
his Presidential goose. but 1t won't. He'll
make tariff law that will land him in
the White House"
Tom Reed won the Spcakcrship. and on
account Of McKinley's great knowledge
Of the question he was put in charge Of
the tariff making committee. although
Reed preferred ButterwOrth for the place.
Reeds fine intuition told him it would
be the making Of Mckinley.
Clark has had his chance. He will be
siXty-scvCn years old at the end of
President Wilson's term. We're he ten
years younger there is no telling what
might happen in 1916 In the event that
ne still has hopes nc will have Bryan to
reckon with. and Bryan has the ad-
vantage in the matter Of age, and a few
other things.
In the meantime. should both Clark
and Bryan continue on the "Chautauqua
circuit" we may expect to be RECALLED
with some interesting political rcmin-
iscences. There is no plar" Ike "Chau-
tauqua" for advanced craftsmanship.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-11
TALLEYRAND's "oNE SAUCE"

From the Manchester Guardian
One man at lunch took a bottle OF
Worcestershire sauce and deluged a
lamb outlet with the highly aromatic
condiment. "Dresdful," commented a
neighbor. why do you take Worcester
shire sauce with lamb?3
I'VE have many religions, but only
one sauce" quoted the offender in re-
ply, land this must be the one sauce.
seeing that It was invented in seventeen
something or other" One of the diners
hazarded the opinion that the quoted
saying was created before the days Of
the inventive Worcester chemist, and
forthwith there was an argument about
the origin OF the saying and what was
the sauce referred to. 1T must have
been mint sauce" suggested one. Mint
sauce is essentially English. ! remem-
Der when the Manchester councillors Wis
tied Lyons their hosts made a special
point Of providing them with mint sauce
to their lamb. 1t was the sauce Of Eng
land, they said" But the mint sauce
advocated was soon silenCcd.
What about melted butter was ask
ed. and that sent the party out on a
hunt FOR the quotation and its author.
Literary folk were tackled. Every
body had heard inc quotation, ana out
of twelve people questioned four plump
ed for Noltairc. One of the party I'M
dertOuk to run the thing to earth. He
searched Brewer and Bartlett and a
dozen other books of quotations in vain;
he read a whole volume about Voltaire' 5
life in England. and he was on the point
Of giving UP the search when battered
volume Of Sayings Of Great Men" on
the shelves of the wooden hut" in Pic
cadilly caught his eye. Turning TO Vol
taire, he found scent-not the scent of
mint sauce The great man did say
something about the English religions,
but nothing about the one sauce. How
ever. the collector of the great sayings
considered this particular saying suffi-
cientlv Voltairearf in character to men
ton it on the same page. and he cred
its authorship TO a Neapolltan ambas-
sadOr, whose name did not matter. Per
haps he merely adopted II. Tallcy-
rand's gibe at the Americans for having
thirty-twO religions and only one course
for dinner suggests the possibilities of
plagiarism. But apparently the mint
sauce theory is quite wrong, for it was
melted butter that the Neapolitan am
bassadOr had in mind. At least so says
the collector OF the great sayings"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-11

FROM the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Premier Borden is returning to Canada
after having been made much of during
his visit In London. The ELUSIVE well
come that was extended to the eminent
Canadian was an expression of approval
of his emphatic sentiment in favor of a
Canadian contribution to the imperial
navy.
Great Britain wishes Canada to pre-
sent her with two up-to-date battfeships,
and Mr. Borden Is wholly in sympathy
with the British desire. He has prom
Used to use all his influence to induce
Canada to display her loyalty in this
very practical manner.
or course, Great Britain does not de-
sire these additions to her navy for any
purpose even remotely connected with
Canadian welfare. She is looking for
ward to what she believes to be in
evitablc war with Germany, and is try
ing TO wheedle her self-governing do
minions into making contributions for
the defense OF the mother country.
II remains to be seen whether or not
the Canadians will finally consent TO in
crease their taxes for this exhibition Of
loyalty. On paper the proposition looks
very handsome and patriotic The cry
of loyalty" doubtless had its effects in
inducing many Canadians to vote against
American reciprocity. 1t may serve to
start them in the business of building
ships for war in which they are not
interested.