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The Washington herald., 1912-12-01
Woman the ImperuonaI.


Harriet Anderson in the August Atlantic
Woman is not a personality. She is a
symbol. Tbs is by no means assigning
to her an inferior place. Far from it
To regard woman as an inferior man is
foolish, and as long as the woman move
ment, working on that basis, tries to
prove that she is an equal or superior
TO man, 1t must break down. AS long as
scientists and scholars insist on treating
the points where woman differs from man
as inferiorities. so long will their work
remain useless. Equally foolish is the
discussion of which is the more highly
organized. Both are superior; both COM
plete. They are merely different.
Woman has a different nature, a diff
ferent purpose; and the self-centered feel
ing OF personality is impossible to her
She Is GOdcentered. a symbol Of divine
nature. a power working through man
TO accomplish what she will. She is to
men the vision OF creativeness. and this
vision it is their part TO make reality
One has only TO look at the curious re-
suits OF woman's Interpretation Of the
word personality, and her application OF
II to herself as a right" to see how I'll
this man-quality fits her. When woman
starts out with a baleful determination
TO live her own life" II makes one weep
or laugh. according to ones tempera-
ment. Woman's strength and power lie
not in 4 pseudO-personality, but in her
nearness to divine nature.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01

1910, shows his unseifshness and his
willingness to subordinate the grafihca-
ton of personal ambition to party sue
cess. In this, it might be remarked,
he is the very antithesis of the man
who caused his defeat
When Cleveland was defeated at the
conclusion of his first term his friends
at once began to lay plans for his re-
nomination. They worked steadily for
four years and achieved their object.
Two of the men who financed and d.
rected this pre-eonvention campaign
whitney and Lamont) were given
Cabinet positions. Mr.. Taft, however,
discountenances similar efforts in his
behalf. He leaves the field opea for any
Republican aspirant and thus makes pos
sible unity which might be accomplished
without his self-efacement. That he
will be respected as wise counselor,
that he will continue a dominant fig
ure, growing stronger as the years
pass, is not to. be doubted. In fact, his
attitude to-day, as he waits for the de-
velopments which viii determine the
future course of his party, is one which
commends itself not only to Republi-
cans everywhere, but also to the Amer
lean people who admire dignity and
self-respect in those TO whom they in
trust the responsibilities and the hon.
ors Of high ofice. These last days of
the President in the White House are
days which are giving an admirable
climax to his four years of public
service
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01
AIDING POOR OF IRELAND.
Lord nliddIeton's sister Obliged to
Beg to Garry ON work.

Lord afddKeton's Sister Obliged to
Beg TO Carry ON Work.
SPECIAL Cable to the New York Sun.
As the result Of an appeal for financial
aid received by the Lord Mayor. IT has
just become known that the Hon. AIbinie
Brodiek, sister of Lord Middleton, has
cut herself on from the luxuries Of So
ciety and Is devotlng herself to the poor
peasants OF a large district in Kerry,
Ireland. She Is now living on 8 shiIiings
C$120 week in q tiny farm cottage at
Ballincoona, and writes from there ask
Ing help for little hospital she has be-
gun to build in the town. The walls and
roof OF the building have been finished,
but she is without funds to equip and
open II.
She describes the peasantry as beIn1
very poor. Their tiny homes" she
says are overcrowded, and they suffer
unnecessarily when they are sick. They
constantly die from causes which can
be prevented"
OF her own efforts the woman says:
For their sakes have trained myself
to become a certihcated medical and sur
gical nurse, midwife, and sanitary in
spector and ! have settled down here
CBallincoona) to help them all can. I
am living the simplest life, and / have
sold my beautiful old furniture, china,
knicknacks, and Jewelry; but I still can
net obtain enough money for my work
Consequently 1 have been obliged to
beg"
Ballincoona Is twenty-four miles from
any other town in Ireland, but the Hon.
Aibinia Brodick hopes to make II a CEN
yer OF education. hygiene, and small in
dustries. She asserts that she and her
co-operators have already lowered the
exorbitant prices OF provisions.
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Alvin M. Lothrop.

Alvin NJ. Lothrop was one of Wash
ington's most valued and useful citi-
zens, a gentleman, of distinguished
service in the interest of the Capital,
a kindly man whose excellent advice,
words of encouragement, and open
purse for deeds of kindness or civic
pride will be greatly missed.
An invalid for some years, he still
found time to interest himself with
the affairs of the city and to retain
a close personal interest in all that
was going on. He found great pleas
ure in the fellowship of his intimates
and in doing what he could to relieve
distress, although he probably recog-
nized that his own time was short.
For more than three decades Mr..
Lothrop has been a vital part of Wash
ington, a successful merchant, man of
honor and reputation second to none.
That he has left his impress on Wash
ington is fully understood by the
business men of the city
Coming here in 1880 with his almost
lifelong friend, s. w. Woodward, as
the junior member of the firm of
Woodward & Lothrop, he did his part
in the upbuilding of the Washington of
to-day; maintaining a high degree of
commercial integrity, and having the
satisfaction of seeing his firm take po-
sition in the important circle of mer-
camille success, with worldwide repu-
tation and high credit.
Alvin NJ. Lothrsp suffered much.
There was sadness in his home,
through sickness and death of his
wife, but he maintained a cheerful dis
position and lived a useful life to the
end.
He is sincerely mourned by legions
of friends and by Washington as a
city.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01
In Eight Years.

From the Teas Magazine
In 1904 the st. Louis. Brownsville and
Mexico division of the Frisco system was
completed as an independent road. with
B. F. Yoakum as president 1t covers
343 miles along the main line. At the
time OF the completion OF the road there
were only seven settlements where white
people lived. for the entire distance be-
tween Corpus Christi and Brownsville:
and the country at large was virgin
prairie and formidable Chaparral. For
distance OF sixty-three miles up the
Rio Grande there were only two farms.
To-day there are not fewer than %, 900
white people In this same territory: there
are prosperous towns. cotton gins, cot
ton congresses, irrigation systems. There
are thirty-four irrigation and land COM
panies whose investments will total more
than $l4.25O.0n0
And railroad officials OF the highest
authority will tell you that the one man
most active in bringing about this de-
velopment fighting odds, prejudice and
scant frauds, is William Doherty. erst-
while traffic manager Of this railroad.
He has demonstrated that the old policy
OF running a railroad independently OF
the adjacent farming interests is as much
behind the times as writing business let
tiers by hand.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01

Berlin is making ready for the great
est demonstration in the modern history
Of Germany at the celebration OF the
twenty-fifth anniversary OF the reign of
Emperor William II, who it is expected
will receive the Nobel prize for the pres
ervation of peace, and a magnificent
present from the German nation. The
festivities will open next June coIncident
with the opening OF the mammoth sta
dium built for the Olympic games of
1916, and in which the tournaments in
honor Of the Kaiser are to be held.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01

From the Christian Herald
one OF the best and simplest tests Is
to put pint Of water In a fiat earthen ves-
sci, evaporate it quickly and scrape the
receptacle clean of any residue. If such
residue is white and powdery it means
lime or gypsum, hence the water is hard,
but safe. A Witty green or Witty yell
lew gummy residue is suspicious. Burn
Il. and II it turns black. giving out the
smell Of burned feathers, the water is
contaminated with animal refuse and a
likely breeder of typhoid.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01

II is difficult to believe that the Re-
publican party, with its half century of
splendid achievement, has been de-
stroyed Look, for instance, at the
Democratic party. After the civil war
that organization was said to have
been wiped out of existence. For
years and years it fought with hopeless
pertinacity. In 1896 it seemed to have
been dashed upon the rocks, and for
sixteen years was unable to regain
power. During all its period of defeat
and disaster, however, it retained vi
tality. 1t never died. Judging from
this analogy it may easily be predicted
that the Republican party is not
wrecked. The principle of protection
for American industries, sof which it
has been the steadfast exponent, is
still vital issue in this country, and
is likely to be more important than ever
if the tariff-for-revenue-only policy of
the Democrats should prove injurious
10 commercial interests.
But the change that has come over
the times means that the Republican
party must meet and disprove one criti-
cism that is made against it. The
charge is made that it concerns itself
only with sordid and material things
that it places, TO use an epigrammatic
phrase, the dollar above the man. 1t
is true that under Republican admin
istration the country has greatly pros
pered, and that our wealth has reached
an almost fabulous sum- 1t is not true,
however, that the party has entirely
ignored the questions of social better
rnent. 1t has an enviable record in
this regard The trouble is that its
efforts to improve unsatisfactory con-
ditions have not been sufficiently en-
phasized. Surely, all that it has done
in the matter of immigration, of pro-
viding homes for settlers in the West,
of reclaiming the arid regions, of reg
ulating the railroads so as to protect
the shippers and the travelling public.
Of preserving the lives of miners, OF
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

When the leaders in the Republican
party begin to take stock of the future,
as they must Immediately, as well as
inevitably, do if they do not want to
be effaced from the political map, they.
will find the popular vote in the recent
election worthy of careful analysis.
The one fact that stands out most
prominently is, of course, that if the
Republican party had been united, the
Democrats could not have been VIC
torious. The combined vote for Taft
and Roosevelt was considerably more
than 100000 in excess of the total
vote given to Woodrow Wilson. The
latter carried over forty States by
plurality, but only in the thirteen
States of the solid South, including
Kentucky and Tennessee, and only in
Arizona, Maryland, Missouri, and
Oklahoma did his vote exceed the COM
bined Taft and Roosevelt strength.
Maryland and Missouri are border
States with Democratic leanings, and
yet Wilson's majority over Taft and
Roosevelt in the former was only 80
and in the latter only At. The Re
publican vote in Kentucky came within
1900 of equaling the Democratic vote.
1t is also curious fact that in Okla
homa the vote for Taft and Debs-
there being no Roosevelt electoral
ticket-was considerably greater than
the vote for Wilson.
1t is utterly useless to discuss what
might have happened if the Republi
can convention had nominated a COM
promise candidate, but the probabilities
are that such candidate would have
been elected. The point now at issue
is whether the Republican party can
be united or whether it is to remain
hopelesSly divided. The Roosevelt
party, having achieved an apparently
larger measure OF success than the
regular Republican organization, will
naturally consider itself the ranking
minority party of the country. This
claim will be seriously contested and
with some reason. 1t is an indiSputable
fact that thousands upon thousands of
Republicans voted for Wilson, know
ing that Taft's defeat was a foregone
conclusion and being fearful of Roose-
welt. If this detection amounted to a
little over one-tenth of the total Re-
publican vote it would offset the plu-
rality received by Roosevelt over Taft
in the popular poll. There is ample
ground, therefore, for contesting the
Roosevelt claim.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01

New York, Nov: GA little womaA.
who in spite Of her slight build and mod
est manners, has, practically speaking.
stood the State of Oklahoma on its
head. has come to New York for the
purpose of talking to New York women
mi ITpon her arrival Miss Barnard
went directly to one of the big and
most fashionable OF the hotels, but gave
I'm her suite the same night. Il couldn't
stand the life in that big hotel. 1t jar
red frIChtfully. The artificial life lived
nv MANY women OF to-day, whose social
conscientiousness is not yet awakened.
gowned richly in costly furs and jewels
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01
Not . Queen.

''Wombat says he got his dining-room
set with 5000 coupons and his parlor set
for 1000 more"
Have you seen his wife,"
No"
she looks like he might have gotten
her for about fifteen coupons"
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There is one good thing about that
speeches. dinner novelty of New York.
1t will not betray those who look too long
at the wine when it is red.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01
Worm VIII Turn.

Better stop teasing that chap. He'll
whip you some, day."
I've been teasing him for twenty
years. Why hasn't he whipped me be-
fore this?"
You never can tell. Took the Balkans
a long time to get busy, but they made
good" 49, eth.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01

Mr.. Carnegie's idea Of how to die poor
is to leave about S25.OOo.O 900 behind. Rather
a sharp contrast with the condition Of
thousands Of persons who have to pinch
even to have enough to pay premiums on
policy to provide for their burial.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01

Those wiseacres who have banded to-
gether to teach wives how 10 spend
money might as well try to teach dogs
how to bark.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01

1t was hardly necessary for that West
ern College professor to tell US that the
dollar is unstable. There is no need of an
academic education to know that much.
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A Cautious Man.

Hes cautious, hear"
Very. Only goes to the theater on
Saturday nights. Buys his ticket while
the matinee Is on. Won't buy 1T all
unless they let him step In and view q
sample act"
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01

II the man who continually finds fault
with the town he lives in would only
moH away he might be the means Of
improving 1t.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01
December 1 I'm Histor

December /, l5ss-Queen Elizabeth starts
her Christmas shopping.
December /, 1756-Boswell and DR.. John
son are evicted for nonpayment OF rent.
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wouldn't Cost Much.

Back from Europe, eh?'
Yep; and disappointed. Nowhere
could We find any peasants in picturesque
native costumes"
II know. The hotel people ought to
get up a fund and maintain a few"
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Was it Hetty Green's advice to eat plen-
ty Of onions If one wishes to live long
that prompted Mr.. Wilson to go to Ber-
muda?
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slave TO Dufy.

A local housewife Is 50 Industrious that
she always sleeps with a match In her
hand, 50 as TO lose no time in lighting
the morning FIRE.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01
Too Tame.

Our Turkish war pictures fell fat"
why was that?"
People claimed they weren't as good
as the kind We used to stage ourselves
on Long Island"
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01

President Taft, since the election,
has strengthened himself with the
American people by his conduct. They
like a cheerful loser, and certainly Mr..
Taft has not uttered a werd which
could be construed into a feeling Of
disappointment, anger, or resentment
On the contrary, his speech at the Lotos
Club has been universally praised and
has made him many friends. The lat
est statement credited to him, that he
must not be considered as seeking or
desiring the Republican nomination in
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01

The leaves turn red when 1t IL fall
You may, forsooth,
Without much mental strain, recall
This little truth.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01

I and satins, and wasting their days as
life quickly passes. was brought to me
all to forcibly. 1t sickened me-" Six
years ago when the State constitution
of Oklahoma was in the making, Miss
Barnard helped to draft the child labor
law and the several laws which come
directly In the department of charities
and corrections. which she created and
whose commissionership she has held
for six years. The reform of which Miss
Barnard is most proud is the restoring
of nearly 100000 in money and lands
to the Indian children, and the prose-
cution of those who endeavored to de-
prive. the government wards Of valuable
oil leases.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01

While the Republican party is in a
perplexing and embarrassing situation,
the Democrats have an opportunity
which they will not fail to improve.
If they give the people an efficient and
prosperous administration, and if the
Republicans continue divided, they can
remain in power for an indefinite
length of time.
1t is true that they are not without
their own troubles, but as long as they
remain harmonious they need give little
heed to anything else. Gov. Wilson
has thus far acted with excellent COM
mon sense He has conducted himself
with admirable dignity, and seems in
clined to recognize all elements in his
organization. He has appealed to the
vast number of Democrats who are in
Mr.. Bryan's personal following by in
viting Mr.. Bryan's counsel. He would
be politically shrewd If he should in
vite Mr. Bryan to be his Secretary of
State. If Bryan should accept, he
would of necessity be compelled to sup
port the administration. He would be
disarmed as a critic at the very begin
ming of an eventful four years. If he
should decline, Mr.. Wilson would be
in the position of having done his full
duty toward the erstwhile leader of
Democracy. 1t will be interesting to
see how President Wilson handles him
self in his necessarily delicate relations
with Mr. Bryan.
If Mr.. Wilson wants to learn wis
dom from the sad experience of others,
he viii surround himself with strong
Cabinet. 1t was the sagacious William
E. Chandler who once remarked that
upon its Cabinet an administration
stood or fell. President Taft's Cabinet
has been his weakness. 1t is safe to
say, in the first place, that Mr.. Wilson
will not ask any Republicans to his
council board He will not ALLEVIATE
his own party by going outside of it
to find advisers. Then, in the second
place, he will be sure to give the Treas
ury portfolio to some one who is not
only an excellent fnancier, but who is
also thoroughly acceptable to the New
York interests. He will not arouse any
antagonism IN that direction. 1t may
be taken for granted, also, that who
ever goes into the Department of Ag-
riculture will be pledged to vigorously
execute the pure food and drug laws,
while the country will expect the ap-
pointment of an Attorney General who
will not allow a guilty trust to escape.
If the personnel of the Cabinet, when
it is named, gives assurance of all these
things, the country will at least give
the new President credit for-trying to
start Alright.
The Washington herald., 1912-12-01

ameliorating the condition off sailors,
of decreasing the hours of labor in
government workshops, and of a thou
sand and one other things of similar
helpful character is not TO be for
gotten.
The tendency of the times is toward
social reform The Republican party
has already done much in this direc-
ton, for which it has not received its
due need of credit, but it must still
more closely identify itself with the
new movement. II is to be remem-
bered, of course, that unless the prob
lens which now confront the country,
are handled with wise craftsmanship,
we will verge dangerously upon So
cialism. We are, as nation, much
nearer to the menace of socialism than
most people are willing to admit The
Socialistic vote grows steadily with
each election. The so-called Progress
sive platform is largely an enunciation
of Socialistic doctrines. They appeal
to the people, just as all promises of
something for nothing are naturally
popular. Many of Mr.. Roosevelt's
declarations are emphatically Socialistic
in their tone, and there is little doubt
he drew largely from the votes which
would otherwise have been cast for
Mr.. Debs. Even as it was, the Socialist
candidate for President received nearly
three-quarters of a million votes.
What is needed, therefore, is po-
litical party which shall conserve the
interests of humanity without overstep-
ping the line of constitutional govern
ment. This is the mission which the
Republican organization can perform,
and for which it is admirably fitted, es-
pecially if time should again demon
strate that the financial and economic
policies of the Democratic party are
unwise. The American people, despite
the fact that they seem occasionally to
run off at a tangent, may be classed as
conservative. The fact that they have
preserved the Constitution inviolate
through all these years, save under the
stress of civil revolution, demonstrates
their character. The great mass of the
people, while they desire human bet
terment, are not ready to overturn the
foundation upon which has been erect
ed a government of marvellous extent
and power Unless the Republican
party is responsive to this desire, how
ever, showing that its leaders are not
lacking in heart and soul, while at the
same time they maintain the Constitu-
ton, there is no telling how far the
pendulum may swing. In brief, there
never was a time in the history of this
nation when wise, safe, and progress
sive craftsmanship is needed so greatly
as at present.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-31
1O1, WALKS
ACROSS 3 STATES TO
HOME; DISAPPOINTED

KANSAS CITY, July S1-Joseph
Meyer, a Confederate war veteran, who
says he is 1Of years old, and walked
from Fort Worth Texas, to Kansas
City found yesterday that his journey
had been in vain He came to Missouri
expecting to enter the home for ex
Confederate soldiers at Higginsville.
Judge John B. Stone told him he was
not eligible because he has not been
resident of Missouri two years.
Well, l will go to Arkansas then"
Meyer said q know a man in the
Confederate Home at Little Rock
think he can get me in"
And the old man hobbled off, stopped
and feeble. feeling his way along with
a cane, for he is almost blind He will
walk TO Little Rock.
Meyer says he lost his wife, three
children and property worth $35, 900 in
the Galveston flood. Since then he has
been a wanderer He says he walked
from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic
two years ago, and last year walked
from New Orleans to Buffalo and back.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-31
STILL HAS
TALLULAH LAND
S. G. MCLendon Declares Grant
Given by Governor Is Invalid
Under Georgia Laws.

S. &C. McLendon former state rail-
road commissioner, in statement is
sued today declares that the state of
Georgia owns the grand chasm at Tai
lulah Falls and land lot No II in RAJ
bun county, adjoining the falls.
He expressed the opinion in a letter
to Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet. president
of the Tallulah Falls Conservation as
ISOLATION, stating that he had exam
ined the surveys and copies of the
grants which bear upon the land title
situation at the falls. where the Geor-
gia Railway and Power Company is
building a big dam.
Under the state laws, his letter states.
the governor has no right to make title
or issue a grant to such property and
it can only be disposed of through a
public sale by the county ordinary. He
says there is no record of any such title
and that the state still owns valuable
property at the falls. He declines in
his letter to suggest what action the
legislature should take