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The Washington herald., 1912-10-01

October Is a serious. thoughtful month.
which happens after September and just
before the coal question becomes in
tense. 1t is not naturally an exciting
period, but has been made so artihcially
in America by the invention Of football.
the open season for hunting. the world s
championship baseball games, and the
closing Of the political campaigns.
Because of these four things. October
produces more cases of heart failure.
pocketbook failures. sore throat, broken
ribs and buckshot in the face than any
other month, and rivals July in the over
working Of physicians.
In October vegetation closes up the
years business and rettres into winter
quarters. The fields become brown, and
the summer girl takes of her $50 coat
of tan with lemon juice and writes for
samples OF the latest society pink. Oc-
tober usually begins as coldly as an
emotional actress before a small house,
but warns up by noon and becomes rare
ly and pensively beautiful until p. m.
when dusk begins and the thermometer
begins to slide like the Brooklyn base
ball team in July. BY o'clock the
American husband is usually in the GEL
October Is a frail month as far as heat
goes. and has no vitality at all.
In October the leaves become red and
gold. and the sumach flames on the hills,
while the corn husker rolls out at
a. m. and picks corn until his thumb
throbs like an overdue tooth. The blare
OF the brass band and the hoarse shrek
OF the orator shake the land at night.
while in the afternoons the earnest full
The Washington herald., 1912-10-01
The Passing of Theodore
A Parody on Philips "Fau ofNapoleon.' .

he was all things to all men, and to
himself alone was he true!
He affected crusade against his
"bosses." that he himself might become
the country's only boss.
He made war on predatory wealth and
tainted combines and trusts which did
not support him.
trusts into two classes-the good, which
supported him-and the bad, which did
NOT.
In the South he was the people
friend with Democratic tendencies-in
the North a progressive Republican.
He was an Eastern Puritan and a
Western pugilist!
That he might secure negro support
In the North, he admitted them to terms
Of political equality: and that he might
obtain white support in the South. he
excluded the negro from his political
conventions.
Affecting to hate '.muck-raking," he
was himself a political scavenger
A Rough Rider. he attempted to
rough-ride the Chicago convention, and
got "steam-rolled" for his pains. Fall
Ing to rough-ride the Republican party.
the only party which had ever honored
him. he bolted, and OF his vassals formed
party which he could ride at pleasure
"a party quick to do the ma ster's will. 80
He selected the moose as his emblem.
because that animal changes its coat
every year, and Is never found twice in
the same place.
He was a political chameleon, that took
the hue Of every party with which he
associated.
He could play the role of Prince Ru-
pert or Falstaff with equal talent.
He welded the Bible or the big
stick" with equal skill; and quoted scrip
ture with as much ease and applica-
tion. as Satan himself
He insisted on "a square deal-when
he held four aces-but refused TO play
II not allowed to stack the cards
Processing to be a reformer, he at
tempted to reform everything but him
self-professing to yenerate the men,
ory OF Lincoln. he was everything that
Lincoln was not; and in the name of
Washington and the famous cherry
tree. he became the mogul of his self
created Order Of Ananias.
So long as the Republicans kept him
In ONCE, he was as true to them as II
was his nature to be true to anyone but
himself But when the party could sub
NIT no longer to his intolerant bigotry:
when II refused to be made the foot
stool of his Unsuitable ambition: when
it refused to keep him perpetually in
office. he deserted II. that he might form
for himself a party of serfs and satellites.
He was grand. gloomy, and hilarious
by turns, and through all his moods he
was the same selfish, egotistic. ambi-
tious self.
But he is fallen.
He declined Hadley's admonition to
fling away ambition. and by that sin
he fell
Politicians may learn from him. that
the safest study. as well as their noblest.
is the real interest OF the people: the
people are taught by him, that there Is
no demagogy. however adroit, through
which they may not discover the out
lines OF the ambitious leader. and he is a
living lesson. that IL egotism and am
bition can raise one to the highest sta
ton. common sense and patriotism can
PROSTATE him to the lowest
The Washington herald., 1912-10-01
CARE OF DEPENDENT CHILDREN
Catholic Body Urges State support
of OHsprfnE.
From the New York World.

From the New YORK World
1t is gratifying to note that at the
National Conference OF Catholic Charities
in Washington. among the many excel
lent addresses made was one by Mary
Shinnick. probation officer of Cincinnati.
urging that in cases where mothers are
unable to support and educate their chill
dren it is better for the State TO sustain
the home. to help the mother keep her
child, than to break up the home by
sending the child to an institution.
whether maintained by the State, by a
church. or by private charity.
This is one of the best and most i'm
portant of recent philanthropic move
ments. Wherever It has been fairly tried
the results have been beneficial, in many
cases surprisingly so. The mother is the
natural guardian OF the child. and ex-
cept where her maternal instincts and
love have been perverted by vice or de-
stroyed by madness. she is superior to
any other guardian that either law or
religion can provide. The very home
itself is worth something. Its influences
are far above the reach of any that can
be provided in an institution. no matter
how well manager. Nor is the cost
greater In many respects II will proba-
bly, be found cheaper as we'll as better
than the old way. In any case 1t is the
right policy.
The Washington herald., 1912-10-01
Our Penchnnt for the Telephone.

From the Cincinnati TimesStar
OF the Zoo. 100000 telephone calls that
passed through the central Offices of
the world during 1911 no less than 14,5oo,-
100000. or 50 per cent, were from Ameri-
cans. In other words, Uncle Sam took
down the receiver just about twice as
often as all the rest of the world COM
bIned. With this fact in mind, 1t is not
at all surprising to learn that of the
12,4S3,0O0 telephones in the world the
United States has no fewer than 1885, 900.
or that the American telephone invest
ment is $l.02S. 10000. compared with
worlds total of N,72s. 100000. Most Of
these things should occasion no aston
ishment- The telephone Is an American
invention. its utility was first appreci-
ated by Americans. and Americans have
been most persistent in employing II and
EIsking II an important factor in their
everyday lives. Everybody knows this.
But one thing not so generally known Is
that the wide use of the telephone in this
country has been accompanied by corre-
spending neglect OF that other and ear
iier American invention for eliminating
distance-the telegraph. When the fig
ures concerning the worlds employment
OF the telegraph are given II is a differ
ent story. Only Il per cent OF the 57s, ,000,-
DC kilograms sent in the world in 1910
were forwarded in this coutry.
The Washington herald., 1912-10-01
Relative Value of Hygienist Ideas.

A leading local physician expressed
as his opinion that the great inter
national gathering in this city last week
of medical scientists from all parts of
the world developed the usual freak
ideas and nonsenscal propositions I"
Perhaps this is so, but we venture to
say that it also propounded more ideas
and reported more discoveries than had
been the case at any former interna-
tional congress.
The work to be done in the various
countries represented. We are told, will
prove great aid in tabulating the vital
statistics of the world, and in arriving
at definite and uniform results in the
battle with bubonic plague, hookworrn,
typhoid. tuberculosis, and other con-
tagious diseases. In regard to eugenics,
the congress will bear the fruits that
within a single generation will prove
of benefit. The propositions looking
to the segregation of feeble-minded
children and tracing the causes of their
condition; prohibition (by the several
nations) of the marriage of epileptics
or of habitual criminals; surgical treat
ment of the habitual criminal class !;
prohibition of the marriage of persons
suffering with tuberculosis and diseases
of similar transmissible nature; an en-
lightened campaign against the abuses
of alcohol, and world awakening to
the necessity of united battle against
white slavery cannot fail to result in
the production of better race
Education of youth of every land in
subjects of sex, SO that the growing
The Washington herald., 1912-10-01
COTTON FEATURES IN THE SOUTH
Producing States Spin More Bales
Than All Others Combined.

From the New York World.
The report of the Census Bureau show
ing that during the year neding August
81 the cotton-growing States spun IN
their mills more bales OF cotton than
all other States combined, marks an i'm
portant epoch in the industrial revolu-
ton that has been going on ever since
the close OF the war. II Is further noted
that during the year the number OF act
i've spindles in the South increased by al
most half a million. The exact figures
are ZIP, ,622 bales used in the south.
against 2,665.O4s used in the rest Of the
country: 11.5S5. S39 spindles active in the
South this year. against 1l,os4,623 In 1911.
The southwark shifting of the cotton
industry is due in a measure to the enter
prise of the people of that section. but
mainly to the economic law that of later
years has almost everywhere been car
rying the mill to the field Of raw mate
rial instead Of taking the material to
the mill. The iron and steel industry
long ago shifted to States where coal
and iron abound. Wheat and lumber
are being worked up nearer the fields and
forests where they grow. There remains.
however a long distance to be traversed
before the revolution Is complete and all
raw material is put into finished fab
RIGS at home. Thus the entire amount Of
cotton worked up in the United States
as a whole during the year under re-
view was but 5.SS7.61 bales. while the
total crop was 17,673.2e4. There is evi-
IDENTIFY large room for Southern manu-
featuring expansion before it reaches the
measure of the raw material In this re-
spect alone.
The Washington herald., 1912-10-01
REVIVED AFTER HANGING.
Several Strange but True Cases of
Reconciliation in England.

From the London Chronicle.
Resuscitation after hanging is not un-
common. In 17oS a housebreaker named
Smith was hung up at Tyburn. A re-
prieve came after he had been suspend
ed for a quarter of an hour, and he was
taken down, bled, and revived. One Will
lam Duell. duly hanged in London in
174O. was taken to Surgeons Hall to be
anatomized, but came to life again, and
was transported. At Cork a man hanged
in January. 1867. for a street robbery, was
Immediately after hurried to a surgery,
where an incision was made in his
windpipe. and he recovered and went to
the theater the same evening. And after
Fauntleroy. the banker and forger, was
executed in 1894. there was a widespread
rumor that he had escaped death by the
insertion in his throat OF a silver tube
which prevented strangulation. and that
on being restored to Consciousness he
went abroad and lived for many years.
The Washington herald., 1912-10-01
OLD JACK FROST.

Old Jack Frost is q festive fellow
He paints the Landscape brown and yellow.
On starry nights, when the air is still,
With silver mallet and crystal drill
He softly opens the chestnut burs
And lightly sprinkles a dusty furze
Over the haystacks the roofs, and walls
The cleaning pumpkins. like golden balls.
Across the meadows where moon-sprites sail
He silently spins spangled VEIL
While grooming cTickets in hedge and bower
Chip to the moon and the dying hour
Then on the hills and along the lanes,
Where the drowsy herd roams and complains
And the whippoor-will calls through the night,
In the dreamy moments crisp and bright.
Old Jack Frost slips with bewitching ease
And sTills his paint-pot over the trees
That glitter rays Of dazzling gems
In precious brooches and diadems.
Through the summer scenes and autumn haze
Where the quaint procession calmly strays
Far over the fields and through the woods,
Bedecked in russell and crimson hoods
That glisten and glow among the green,
While visions. trail to and fro between
The magic wickets and mystic bars
Where elves seem catching the falling stars
All flashing and fading in the light,
Through ulstling curtains, serene and bright,
As the passing days grow short and chill
And hush the rapture Of brook and rill,
Old Jack Frost roams with q spnghtly tread
Amid old trails where the flowers are dead.
Clipping the leaves with enchanted shears
And filling the eyes Of Time with tears.
GEORGE SANDS JOHNSON.
The Washington herald., 1912-10-01

From the Charleston News and Courier.
A correspondent wishes to know what
is the color of a Bull Moose. White In
the South, black in the North.
From the New York Tribune
With a bumper corn crop in sight and
business of all kinds unusually good for
a Presidential year. Mr.. Beveridge's ap'
peal to pass prosperity around falls
rather fiat.
From the Kansas City Times.
II a judicial decision should not he
recalled" why did Judge Grosscup re-
call the decision of Judge Lands finine
the Standard Oil Company?
From the Springfield Republican.
voter who heard Gov. Wilson speak
in New Haven last evening tells the Re-
publican that he thinks the speaker hit
the nail on the head when he referred
to one of the candidates for President
as the understudy Of providence"
From the Boston Herald
Bathing may be defined as the act
of applying water to the skim says a
learned authority at the Hygiene Con-
gress How simple the learned can be.
From the Portland Oregonian.
Residents of Oceanside. Cal. have pc
titioned the City Council for a municipal
barroom VIII we next ask the govern
ment to trim our whiskers?
From the st. Louis Republic.
The registrar of Northwestern Univer-
sity says American girls are growing
prettier. but he can't make the old
timers believe it. The prettiest girls are
always the ones every man knew when
he was about twenty.
From the Omaha Bee.
Demand for men is heard from the
East and West, and the voice of the
calamity shouter is drowned in the din
of industry. Who says politics inter-
rupt business?
From fhe Philadelphia Telegraph.
The number of violent deaths in In
diana during August was distressingly
large, but Just think Of the number of
political deaths there will be in Novem-
Der when the Bull Moosers get what's
coming to themi
The Washington herald., 1912-10-01
A Clear Case of Majority Rule.

Whatever may be said of the nomi-
nation of Job E Hedges. as the Re-
publican candidate for Governor of
New York, it cannot be advanced that
his nomination was dictated by leader"
or boss" 1t came after several bal
lots in open convention. Wadsworth
was the preference of Barnes and the
old machine. Senator Root and Herbert
Parsons and other leaders preferred a
dark horse; but all kept hands off the
majority and the delegates had their
way and nominated Job Hedges. 1t
was a clear case OF majority rule.
Three ballots were taken. Hedges led
from the first and when the third bal
lot showed him steadily gaining strength
the delegates focked to him. They
picked Hedges from a list of eleven
candidates after days of fruitless effort
to combine, outside the convention hall,
upon a man who might get enough
votes to nominate on the first ballot
James w. Wadsworth. jr., former
Speaker of the Assembly, who later
was nominated Lieutenant Governor,
gave Hedges the hardest fight for the
nomination.
Job E. Hedges, who was prominently
mentioned few years ago as an oppo-
nent of Mayor Gaynor in the election
in New York City. is considered to
possess unique qualities as cam
paigner He was born in Elizabeth,
N. J.; in 1862 Like Woodrow Wilson,
he is graduate of Princeton Univer-
sity For two years he was private sec
retary to Mayor Strong, where he had
every opportunity to learn the duties of
the city's chief executive. For a few
months he acted as New York police
magistrate, and in 1900 he was made
deputy attorney general of the State.
In that capacity he took out of the
hands of the Tammany district attor-
ney many cases of arrest for election
frauds, sending a number of repeaters
to jail. In November, 1908, he declined
an offer of an appointment of Assistant
Treasurer of the United States at New
York, to succeed Hamilton Fish.
If a persuasive personality on the
stump is to play much of a part in the
selection of the next New York Gov
ernor the Republicans would have to
make a vigorous search to find a more
virile campaigner than Job E Hedges
The Washington herald., 1912-10-01
THE PEOPLES FORUM
"OId Girls" Who FIfrf.

To the Editor: In Mondays paper was
sermon of advice to young girls given
by Rev. Mr.. Montgomery. From what
may be seen on Street, corners Of
Eleventh and Twelfth Streets, mornings
and evenings. II is the ''oId girls who
set a bad example to young clerks who
come to this city. These "old ones
stand and watch for their prey. gener-
ally elderly men. or younger men. They
gaze apparently into windows while they
watch and wait for the victim. willingly
1t may be, but the example and nuisance
is very bad. The younger girls say 1T
is the custom in Washington" and It is
the long custom of some.
CONSTANT READER
The Washington herald., 1912-10-01
Merit System for Postmasters.

The Postmaster General has recon-
mended, and the President, it is under
stood, will take action TO include the
fourth-class postmasters in the classi-
fed civil service The country has
known for some time where the Presi-
dent stood with respect to the PROPOSE
ton. When he vetoed the measure
providing for a seven years tenure of
civil servants he took occasion to state
his attitude on this important question.
The post-offices have been the leverage
by which professional politicians tried
to keep their grip upon their influence,
In many cases the result has been that
the men receiving the recognition and
drawing the salaries have been senti-
nels on guard to watch over the in
terests of their patrons, while those
who have done the work have had 10
remain in the blind horse" class.
There are other Federal positions to
which these conditions apply. but hard
ly any other come so close TO the peo-
pie. President Roosevelt made a be-
ginning with the fourth-class post-of-
fees and put about a quarter of the
whole number into the list to which
President Taft would transfer the re-
mainder lover 36.ooo) That is as far
as his executive authority extends, but
it does not indicate his desire for the
expansion of the merit system 1t is
his conviction that it should also apply
to the first. second. and third class post
masters as well. and even to all civil
servants below the grade of Cabinet
officers
This may not be calculated to increase
his popularity with the politicians. but
it certainly will be appreciated by the
public We have never had a Presi-
dent who has based his appointments
less on personality and more on merit
He does not inquire about a mans po-
litical alignment so much as about his
fitness for the service that awaits him.
and as long as that service is faithfully
performed the incumbent has nothing
to fear for his tenure, whether pro-
tected by the civil service laws or not
Not all men in his position have been
or would be equally broad-minded
The Washington herald., 1912-10-01

The following clever article. which ap-
peared in the Tulsa (Okla.) Daily World
and other American newspapers, wai
written by Judge A. A. Freeman. Of Vic
toria:
He Is fallen! We may now pause be-
fore that unique prodigy that lowered
amongst US like some modern Don Out
oxte. whose insolence terrified the glance
Its audacity attracted. Aggressive. intol-
Grant. and peculiar, he strode the halls
Of the White House a sceptrec dictator,
wrapped In the glory Of his own egotism
A mind bold in its comprehension OF pop
ular ideals-a will despotic in Its die
tates-an energy that distanced expedi-
tion, and a conscience pliable to every
touch of interest marked the outlines OF
this extraordinary character; the most
extraordinary, perhaps. that In the an
mails of the United States, ever rose,
reigned, or fell
Flung into life on the ebb Of . revo-
luton that taxed every device Of a peo-
pie that acknowledged no superior, he
commenced his course an aristocrat by
birth and a scholar OF no mean attain
ments.
With wealth and fortune for his friend,
he rushed into the lists where rank and
wealth and the -four hundred" arrayed
themselves. and Depew and Platt and
the "bosses'' fed from him as from the
glance Of destiny.
He knew no motive but interest-he &C.
worshiped no god but ambition: and
with an eastern devotion he knelt at the
altar of his idolatry.
Subsidiary to this there was no creed,
nor opinion. that he did not avow or re-
pudiate. as self-interest seemed to die
tate.
In the hope of the Presidency he up
held the machine" and when that de-
serted him appealed to the mob.
The orphan OF Mckinley. he became
the adopted child of the ''interests"-the
denouncer OF bosses. he became himeif
a boss: the pretended friend of law. he
defied the law, the courts and the gov
eminent; and. on the ruins of McKin-
leyism. the courts, the bosses. the inter-
ests, and the government itself. he reared
the throne OF his own political despot-
ism,
A professed Christian. he was the idol
OF the profane and dissolute; a professed
patriot, he made his country subservient
to his own ambition, and under the name
Of Lincoln he grasped without shame
and wore without remorse. the diadem
Of Burr,
But in all he did he was consistent
with himself
He was unique: sui generis-he was
the same defiant and aggressive egotist
he was T. R.: he was the Melchizedek
OF the modern age, without prototype
and. we trust. without antetype There
was but one OF him-there could not
be a second: for nature was without
material for its construction and the
world without room for its exploitation.
In all this. his affectation OF politics
and other creeds. must not be omitted.
A Republican. a Democrat. a standpat
ter. a Progressive. a protectionist. and
a free trader. a Socialist, an anarchist.