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The Washington herald., 1912-09-17
COURT GOSSIP GATHERED
THE CAPITALS OF EUROPE

The players may stake sum Of not less
than five francs on any one or more of
these numbers or words. the less reckless
players. of course. preferring to do the
latter. Should the player place his stake
on one number and win. however, he re-
ceives thirty-six times his stake; II on
two. he receives eighteen times; and IL
on twelve, three times its value. In the
event Of him placing 1t one one OF the
words and winning. he only receives the
equal Of his stake.
In order to give one some idea OF the
size and popularity Of the Casino. II may
be mentioned that no fewer than a thou
sand people are employed about the build
ing and in the gardens all the year round.
The Casino is at present the property Of
a joint-stock company. which pays no less
than f5o.000 for the concession This sum,
however. Is being gradually increased. But
the Casino makes immense profits. and,
In addition to paying a heavy dividend to
Its shareholders, IL also defrays the mu-
nicipal expenditure. II Is also rumored
that the Casino authorities pay large
sums annually to the Italian press. there
by preventing accounts OF suicides and
the like from becoming known to the pub
lie. In one year the sum paid for this
purpose is said to have exceeded a mil
lion francs.
But In spite OF the fact that many
gamblers lost their all in the tempting
Casino at Monte Carlo, fortunes, and very
large ones, are made occasionally. II is
probable that the case of Monte Carlo
Wells, who made 1900. 100 at the tables
never will be forgotten in the principality.
But even greater sums have been won.
We all recollect that some years ago a
well-known American got away with
nearly half a million dollars.
The Duchess Dowager Of Genoa, who
is dead at her villa near stresa, on LAggo
Magiore. where she had resided for many
years. was a sister OF the last two Kings
of Saxony. In 1850 she married the Duke
of Genoa, younger brother of King Vic
tor Emmanuel OF Italy. She was a great
favorite among all classes. About eight
cen months after her husbands death in
1855 she contracted a morganatic mar
riage with the Marchese di Rapallo, but
he also died long ago.
She was the mother of the Duke OF
Genoa and the Queen Dowager Marghe-
rita, and. of course, the grandmother Of
the present King OF Italy. The late
duchess was a very clever and accom-
plished woman, distinguished among her
family for her strong common sense, and
her capacity for les affaires" Among
her fine qualities was her independence
which she showed by sending her son to
England 10 be educated at Harrow, where
he studies under the personal care of
Matthew Arnold FTASEIJR
Copyright. 1872, by Court Gossip syndicateJ
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17
Our Medical Education.

According to Dr. Pritchett. Presi-
dent of the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement OF Teaching, who has
issued his bulletin, based upon the IA
nous investigation of Dr. Flexner
there is not medical school to be
found in any foreign country whose
students do not learn anatomy in the
dissecting room and disease by the
study of the sick. He says that it has
remained for this country to confer the
degree of doctor of medicine upon and
admit to practice hundreds annually
who have learned anatomy from quiz
compounds, and whose acquaintance
with disease is derived not from the
study of the sick, but from the study
Of textbooks.
The doctor AYERS that Massachusetts,
tolerates in Boston, New York in the
city of New York, California in San
Francisco, Illinois in Chicago and Mis-
souri, in St. Louis. medical schools
that pretend to train doctors, despite
the fact that they are without adequate
clinical facilities" In Europe. on the
contrary, every such school must have
adequate clinical resources under CON-
plete State control.
Dr. Pritchett further claims that if
the lowest terms upon which a medical
school can exist abroad were applied to
this country, three fourths OF our exist
ing medical schools would have to be
closed, and that the remaining one
fourth would be plenty for our needs.
State board examinations in this
country is almost altogether a written
one, in consequence of which medical
schools lacking laboratories and clinical
facilities can prepare, by hard drilling,
their pupils to pass. In Britain and
Germany the qualifying examinations
are pre-eminently practical. To pass in
anatomy the students must dissect. To
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17
TREATING.
p, GEORGE FITCH.
Asther OF "At Good Old siwash."

Treating ID an American pastime. II
10 also Exhibit A in the European effort
to prove that all Americans are crazy.
Treating IL the process Of drinking a
drink which you do not want in order
to buy another man a drink which he
probably doesn't want, and then drink
ing another drink which you want still
less In order to give him the opportun-
ity OF paying you back before you can
consider him a tightwad who would
rather squander his money on hats for
his wife than in a noble effort to drown
his friends.
This. however. is only the beginning
of treat. Then the first man. having
drunk two drinks which he didn't want,
buys the second man another which he
doesn't want. and drinks third on him
self which Is as unwelcome as a ninth
cousin at Thanksgiving.
After which two other men come in
and the treatee buys the treater another
drink and one for himself. which he
hasn't room for. and also buys drinks
for the two newcomers.
Then each OF the two newcomers buys
drinks for the other three. after which
the original treater repays the new OBJ
legation by buying the original treatee
his seventh drink and drinks for the
two newcomers and another for himself,
which he has to push down with q svab
Then the treatee Indignantly demands
that he be allowed to square himself and
he buys drinks for all the four and for
three strangers who have dropped in
and VINO Immediately prove that they
are freeborn patriots by buying drinks
for everybody. Then the original treat
er. having poured the ninth. tenth. and
eleventh drinks on his hair. buys a bar
rel of refreshments for the other six
men and four more whom he goes out
and drags in by force, gives his watch TO
the bartender. tells the free lunch the
story of his freshly picked young life
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17
G. O. P. and the Silent Vote.

Notwithstanding that politics is sup
posed to be the real hot thing all over
the country at the present time, there
are still large number, what is called
the silent vote, who just sit back and
take notice of what is going on. These
are the men that vote the most intelli-
gently, who are influenced by issues not
by men, who go to the polls thoroughly
posted and cast their ballots for the
party they believe will be of the most
benefit to the country.
They enroll under the flag of their
party, but when it comes to voting
they decide for themselves which tick
ct they will support. This is as it
should be, thanks to the Australian
ballot.
To-day the old-time voter cannot
help but recall the noise and blare of
trumpets of the first Bryan campaign,
all know the result The silent voter
showed his power then, and who knows
but what this fall there will be repe-
tition and Mr.. Roosevelt suffer the
same fate as the Peerless One? The
strong partisan papers are claiming
everything for their candidates, but the
day has gone by when this class of
papers have any weight.
Mr. Wilson and Mr.. Roosevelt are
busy looking after their fences. Mr..
Taft is not. The old-time Republican
is wondering why. He is doing some
guessing on the result. One of these
thinking Republicans, not an office
seeker, has written The Washington
Herald. asking some pertinent ques-
tions. He is Michigan man, whose
State four years ago gave Mr.. Taft a
plurality of 10000, and a couple of
decades ago elected only one Democrat
to its State Legislature He writes:
we are having some very striking
times politically, and there is no one
wise enough at this time to forecast
TIE result 1t seems to me that if
there is any State in the Union the
Republicans ought to be able to carry 1t
IS Michigan. but the result is doubtful.
The candidates are looking after their
individual fences, with the result that
no one is speaking a good word for the
Republican ticket, and there is every
indication that it will go down to de
feat as the result of this policy. Can you
ever remember a time in Michigan with
the official convention in June and at
this date not a single ratification meet
ing held in the State. The powers that
be have promised a lively campaign,
but the Democrats and Progressives
have gotten such a jump on them that
it does not seem possible they can
make up the lost ground"
This condition seems to exist
throughout the Middle West. Next
November will show whether the silent
voter is as strong as he was in Bryan's
FIRST campaign.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17
Detective Story Well Told.

1t is a great yarn which is dished up
for the delectation of the lovers of
thrilling episodes and sensational cap
lures by the New York police, how
they "at last" found and arrested
"Gyp the Blood" and Lefty Louie" )"
the gunmen accused of the murder of
gambler Rosenthal If the Finest" has
proven itself weak in detective ability,
it certainly is past master in telling a
good detective story.
The story is dramatic in the extreme,
and puts to blush much that has been
written in novels But, as a matter of
fact, the New York police are entitled
to about as much credit as it would
have earned if the two gunmen had
grown tired of their inforced seclusion
and given themselves up. That they
could remain so many weeks right in
the city and in continuous communica-
ton with their wives without molesta-
ton by the police, who should have
shadowed the women in their daily er-
rands, riding in the same automobile
to the same house, are facts from
which the skeptical will draw conclu-
sions that may accord with those Of
District Attorney Whitman.
Isn't it significant that the two men
felt that they would not be safer any
where in this country than in the city
where the murder was committed? No
doubt they feared that the police of
other places was more competent than
that of New York, and considering the
attempt of the police department to
snatch Sam Schepps from the District
Attorney, who needed him to build up
the peoples case is it MOTTO say the
least-strange that the capture of the
two gunmen, the only important arrest
to their credit. should have occurred
when the District Attorney was in ST.
Louis?
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17
RAT CATCHERS MADE MERRY.
Convention of Worlds Rodent Ey
terminntors Held in England.

From the New York American.
The rat catchers of the world made
merry at a picnic recently on the village
green at Padworth. near Reading, Eng
land. For a few moments Londoners
had an opportunity OF seeing the follow
ers of this ancient art, for they as
sembled in the city Office of Phillips. the
rat king, on whose doors are printed the
words which proclaimed the doom of the
rat. Phillips claims to have killed more
rats than any man living.
Among the picnickers were Piker. oi
Birmingham. famous through the mid
lands as slayer Of vermin; Snoozer
of Liverpool and Slusher, of Buenos
Ayres, whose kindly face gives no hint
Of a man who delights in slaughter.
There were other huntsman from all
parts OF the world. exchanging views on
up-to-date methods OF rat catching and
discussing with glee new devices for lur-
ing victims to their doom.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17
Politics and Socialism.

BY deciding to agree to the reversal
of the decision of Judge Hanford. out
in Washington State (Which led to the
retirement from the Federal bench OF
that jurist), under impeachment pro-
ceedings before Congress, the Depart
ment Of Justice nullifes the ruling that
man is not entitled to naturalization
as an American citizen because he be-
lieves in Socialism.
Had that judgment stood as the law
of the land, it could have been stretch
ed to mean to refuse citizenship to all
those who believed in the platform OF
the Bull Moose party, on the ground
that it contains a great deal of Social
istic doctrine.
Judge Hanford argued that the So
cialists proposed to bring about a revo-
luton to upset our established form of
government, which he considered trea-
son. 1t is less revolutionary for the
followers of Roosevelt and the believ-
ers in his doctrines TO propose govern
ment regulation of wages and prices.
which, as is well known. is one form of
Socialism.
1t is the right of any citizen to at
tempt and even work for a revolution
and the form of our government #
they mean to do so through the pro-
vision of the Federal Constitution; that
is to say, by voting for the adoption
of amendments to the Constitution, es-
tablishing Socialism in part or alto
gether.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17
HATTERS' TESTIMONY IN.
d. F.. Loewe, Plaintiff in Suit, Last
Witness Heard.

Hartford. Sept. 16.-As the last and
principal witness in the Hatters' boycott
to-day. before Judge James L. Martin
and a jury in the United States Court.
Dietrich Z. Loewe. head of the firm OF
d. +. Loewe & Co, independent
hatmakers OF Danbury, was called 10 the
witness stand to tell his story. Followed
with attention by the judge. jury. and
lawyers. Mr.. Loewe. led by Attorney
Daniel Davenport. Of Bridgeport. related
the injuries to which he had been sub
jected and told of his troubles with the
United Hatters' Union. 1t had cost him
over 10000.
The LOewe firm three years ago was
awarded a verdict. which the Sherman
law. whose anti-boycott and conspiracy
provisions are alleged to have been vio-
lated. trebeled to So. 900 and costs. The
plaintiffs plan to rest with Mr.. Loewe's
testimony. which will have occupied
about twenty days in presentation.
a verdict is not loked for before No
vember !.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17

| pass in medicine and surgery they have
to make a diagnosis Of persons actual
lily sick and indicate the line of treat
ment to be pursued.
Well-trained young physicians find
no difficulty in attaching themselves to
the retinue of hospital staff in Ger
many, thus procuring for themselves
the opportunity to carry on active
scientific work. Here, this is practical
lily impossible Members of the hospital
staff retain for themselves all the op-
portunities that the institution affords.
If they are too busy with practice or
too Indifferent to science to use the
material, clinical or otherwise, it is
wasted.
Therefore, we have this strange anom-
ally. An American graduate in medi-
cine can, for the asking, obtain free en-
tree to the clinics of Berlin, Vienna,
Munich, &c, but in his own country
the doors of the hospitals are closed
in his face. 1t is not a pleasant task
to speculate upon and disclose the rea-
sons back of this unwise policy, due, in
part at least, to the fact that hospital
physicians, engrossed in practice, are
unwilling that their prestige should be
lessened by scientific achievements of
younger men working in their wards.
The laymen in control of our hospitals
easily could break up this selfish un-
progressive attitude by insisting that
hospital opportunities do not exist for
the professional benefit of the visiting
staff.
Medical sects, such as eclectics, oste-
opaths, and the like, practically are I'M
known in Europe. The laws recognize
only one type of qualified physician.
Though he may call himself homeo-
path, eclectic, or anything else he
pleases. there is no inducement to do
so, where the sectarian medicine can
be practiced on lower terms than
scientific medicine
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17
PERTINENT AND IMPERTINENT

From the New York Tribune.
Gov. Wilson says 13 is his lucky number.
Election day isn't the 18th.
From the Pittsburg Gazette-Times.
With all those big crops to spend the
farmers of the United States will be
able to buy a lot of money.
! From the Philadelphia Telegraph
The colonel became enraged at a hotel
k. eper in Portland when a volume of
essays by Paul Hermit vanished from his
room. Tut! tut! Colonel. You have
Caesar and Revelation left.
! From the Philadelphia Inquirer
Have you ever noticed that when an
engaged girl arranges her skirts in a car
she invariably appears to be left-handed? ?
From the Indianapolis Star.
Pledges have never been embarra ssing
to Roosevelt His pledge that he would
not be a candidate this year was broken
without a qualm-we suppose in the
II terest Of ''the larger good" .
From the Duluth Herald.
Brainstorms come and brainstorms go,
but the one thing that abideth ever is
didn't know 1t was loaded.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
What a campaign It is, where candi-
date denies. then explains his denial
then denies his explanation,
From the st. Paul Pioneer Press.
A horse named Reciprocity won a
race at the Toronto fair. and there has
been no move toward annexation, so
far as has been reported.
From the ST. Louis Republic.
Every neighborhood is perfectly GER
tain that the proper place for the con-
tagious disease hospital is somewhere
else.
From ths New York Times.
Two thousand editors for Taft and
only eighty for the coloneli The Bull
Moose will be appropriating Mayor Gay
nor's language and speaking Of "sx-
conviots and editors"
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17
BEGIN GRAFT PROBE.
Grand Jury in William Barnes
stronghold Gets to wcrk.

Albany. y. Y. Sept. 16.-Conditions ex.
isting in Albany County. the stronghold
OF William Barnes. jr.. the Republican
leader are being probed by a grand jury.
which began its work to-day under Dis
trict Attorney Sanford. Judge E. X.
Merrell specially named by Gov. Dix to
sit with the grand jury. charged them.
after each one of the twenty-five men
had been subjected to a severe eXamina-
tion. Two Republican oficeholders were
the only ones peremptorily challenged by
District Attorney Sanford, and they
were excused from serving.
In his charge. Judge Merrell said there
was no worse crime than public grating.
and he said II was the duty OF the jury
to ferret out the crime and punish the
guilty ones.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17

and goes to sleep on the ash can In the
alley. weeping over the fact that Cleo.
patra was no lady
Treating is etiquette and is more rig.
idly observed than most state and ma.
tionai laws man uust always buy .
drink when his turn comes. Only death
or paralysis Of the barkeeper can stop
the rotation. Consequently. thousands
Of men who go into barrooms to absorb
a small snifter OF beer apiece are rescued
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17

from the bar later IN the day By the nfs
saving crew In a taxicab after incredibls
perils.
Some men are 50 mean and lost ia
all sense OF honor or decency that they
will not only go home after being treat
ed without treating back. but will sneak
away and drink by themselves. These
men should, of course, be avoided. They
can be told by their pale compilations
and almost painful sobriety.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17

Senator Penrose and Boss Barnes are
issuing appeals to the voters in the name
of "decency, honor, and fair play" Who
ever has heard of such a thing in Penn
sylvania? Next. We suppose, both will
turn evangelists or revivalists.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
SMALL FAR.

SMALL FRY.
The little fishes In the pools
Where rushes grow
Are said to go about in schools
By those who know.
But this is what do not like.
1t comes to pass
That when 1 nsh I always strike
An infant class.
Uncle Pennywise saysr
Thelatest academic question is this:
Is 1t proper to say eat your soup, or
drink your soup?"
Only Thing Left.
ANY yacht racing this Year,
Ought to be some soon. Now that
the pole has been found, those fellows
will renew their efforts to lift the cup"
September IT in History.
September II. I5s4-Henry VIII won
a hog-guessing contest.
September II. l592-Shakespeare
borrows a chew Of tobacco from Lord
Bacon.
An Important. Point.
II must admit that my nancee can't
cook"
That can be remedied. What's her
attitude about not knowing how to
cook. Does she brag about II, or does
she talk like she would make an effort
to learn?"
Purple Times.
Purple times, we must confess.
Purple poems In the press:
Purple grapes upon the wall
This, you know, is purple fall.
She Explains.
why did you let him kiss you with
out making a struggle?'
well. mother. he's too lazy to put
up a fight for a kiss"
Had Heard of 1t.
There's one thing I want to see
while / am in Europe"
And that is?'
The Hungarian goulash in session"
Club Rates.
MY wife and myself are trying to
get up a list of club magazines. By
taking three you get a discount"
How are you making out?'
We'll, We can get one that I don't
want. and one that she doesn't want,
and one that neither of us wants for
s2.25."
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17

The reporter who met the British Am
bassador at the dock in San Francisco
with a request for his views on the
Panama canai matter has his own ideas
of diplomacy.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17

A man out in Ohio went insane after
persistently reading the Congressional
Record. We are not surprised
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17
Resigns as Manager.

l. l. Armistead. jr.. for the past four
years local manager of the Postal Tele-
graph-Cable Company. this city, to-day
rendered his resignation as such. to be-
come effective at once. Mr.. Armistead
has accepted a position with Swift &
Company in this city.
Funeral services for A. ]. Groves who
died in Washington Saturday night last
as the result of injuries sustained in an
automobile accident. will take place at ,
o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the
residence OF William F. Fair. i0s South
Lee street. Services will be conducted
by Rev. DR.. Taylor. OF Washington. and
Rev. DR.. John Lee Allison. pastor OF the
Second Presbyterian Church, this city.
Members of the Police Department will,
at 40 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, line
up against a team composed of mer-
chants OF the city The game will be
played at the local ball park. Proceeds
will be for the benefit OF the Childrsh's
Home.
There will be no meeting Of the Retail
Merchants Association tomorrow night
owing to the annual meeting OF the
League OF Virginia Municipalities.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17

Countess Nogi was Vassar graduate.
But she was also the wife of a japanese
hero, -...
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17

egates who will attend the convention
have already arrived.
The convention will be presided over
by A. D! Brockett, its president. 1nvo-
cation will be offered by Rev. H NJ.
Canter, pastor of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church South, which will be followed
by welcoming addresses by F. F. Mar
bury, president OF the Board OF Alder
men. and Carroll Pierce. vice president
Of the Chamber of Commerce. Mayor
Ainslie, OF Richmond, will respond. The
regular order of business will follow, and
the programme published in The WASH
ington Herald Sunday last will be car
ried out
The first guns in the annexation pro-
ceedings instituted by the city will be
fred in the Circuit Court for Alexandria
County tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock,
Judge Bennett T. Gordon presiding. As
already stated, 1t Is expected that the
case will occupy a week or ten days.
Many witnesses have been summoned.
An able array Of legal talent will repre-
sent each side.
Arrangements are being made by the
a bazaar which will be given the first
week in October at the Young Mems
Sodality Lyceum Hall
At a meeting of the committee Of ar
rangements held last night President
William Desmond appointed a commit
tee to confer with a committee OF ladies'
of st. Mary's Catholic Church and COM,
plete plans for the bazaar. and also to
fix upon a definite date for holding
same.
The resolution passed by the City,
Council at its last meeting appropriatingl
the sum Of $50 for the entertainment
of the delegates who will attend the
annual meeting OF the League of Virginia.
Munic oIlities. and also appropriating
the sum OF s2i for dues for members
of council has been vetoed by Mayor
Fisher, because a recorded vote was not
taken. 1t is expected that the matter
will be passed at the next meeting Of
council by a recorded vote.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17
Club Rates,
Just So.

THE elm lives for 900 years, the linden
for 800. the oak lives for 500 years"
And the chestnut" interrupted the
other half OF the sketch. lives forever.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-17

From the New York Tribune.
Gov. Wilson says 13 is his lucky number.
Election day isn't the 18th.