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The Washington herald., 1912-05-26

half a score of others who abound in and
about Washington, should form the nu-
cleus for a splendid polo team, and no
doubt its challenge will soon be received
at Meadow Brook.
Baltimore is surrounded by hunt clubs,
among them the Elkridge, Green Spring
Valley and Patapsco. All count among
their members women who ride straight
and true and who never baIk at the go
ing, no matter how heavy, or how for
bidding the timber that confronts them.
Baltimore women have been slow to take
up polo for the reason that nearly all Of
them adhere to the side saddle, very few
of them having appeared at home on
cross saddles. But they, too, will prob
ably have a team in the field before the
Newport and Narragansett seasons set
in, and then, perhaps, the matches will
assume national Importance.
First Practice GameS.
Mrs. Charles Carroll Rumsey, who,
prior to her marriage, was Miss Mary
Hartman, eldest daughter of Edward H
Hartman, is q fine polo player, as is her
husband. Both have engaged in matches,
and Mrs. Rumsey doubtless will make the
first of the Meadow Brook teams. She
has been an ardent horsewoman for years,
and this is instructive, inasmuch as her
father was one of the best patrons of the
in this country, although
his tastes ran to trotters. Mrs. Har-
riman, his widow, is keeping up the splen-
did work he instituted. and the horse
lovers of Orange county, n. Y, in whose
rugged hills the Hartman es-l
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Mrs. H c. Phpps and Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, i.

, ing skirts and side saddles they excelled.
Now that they use the cross saddle they
can meet a man on equal footing. They
have the skill and knowledge of the game
to back them. They ride lighter than the
average man, and then it Is generally
known that woman in the hunting field
takes longer chances, rurs greater risks
and i far more hazardous than most men
With good hands, which the majority Of
them have, and a good and comprehensive
knowledge of polo. see no reason why
they shouldn't come out with a team that
will make the men players extend them
selves 10 the limit to win. am glad to
see this team formed. and I predict q
splendid career for it..
Both Mr.. Thomas Hitchcock and Mr..
Thomas Hastings are enthusiastic over
the plans of their wives. and as both know
horses and every sport connected with
them. it is only natural that they should
bend every energy toward aiding the
women in putting a winning team on the
ieId and one that can meet those COM
posed entirely Of men on equal terms and
make them so at top speed from start to
finish to hold their own against the eques-
triennes
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Miss Frances aadden Riding Pat PO
Feminine Members of the Meadow Brook Hunt
GLIB Have Organized and Expect to Play a
Series of Intercity Matches with Men-Wif
Accept No Handicap in Games

well is a fine rider, in discussing the
plans for the women's team waxed en-
thusiastic.
Many persons think" she said, that
polo is exclusively mans game. That
demonstrates how little they know about
it. To be a proficient player one must be
good and daring rider, possessing firm,
steady hands, an unerring aim, clear
vision, a quick wit, and, above all, indom-
liable courage. W.. have scores of women
who ride with the Meadow Brook hounds
who possess all these attributes, all of
which they have demonstrated time and
again in the hunting field. Therefore, see
no reason why they can't excel on the
polo field as they have done in the hunts
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contestants in this match. and although
Mrs. Hitchcock's team won defeat in thi
instance was by no means ignobIe.
The first of the practice games foI
women was played at Westbury few
days ago and not only was there a BIZ
gallery" present to cheer the contestants
but a score Of women were on hand, al
eagerly awaiting their chance to cut int
the game. Miss Emily Randolph ha:
been assured of 4 place on the first team
although what position she is to play il
match games had not been determined.
Mrs. Ambrose Clark and Mrs. James A
Burden are others who have enrolled
themselves as members of the new asso,
citation. and they, too, will make a de-
termined fight to win places on the team
There is no dearth of material, for there
are so many fne players among the Long
Island hunting set that the wedding out
process will be one to tax even the most
diplomatic of matrons. But it has been
given to understand that merit alone will
win, and under such conditions every
player is on her mettle
Will Accept no Handicap.
Miss Marion Hollins has been more
prominently identified with coaching than
hunting, although she is a fine rider
She is among the latest to join the
polo recruits and her friends declare sh.
will crowd the others hard if they hope to
best her at the game.
Several of the women identified with the
Polo Association while grouped around
the field at Westbury a day or two ago de
clared in chorus that when they had be-
come accustomed to their ponies-many
of them trying out new mounts this sea
son-they would give the teams made up
of the crack men players of Long Island
a game that will put them on then
mettle to win, if, indeed, they do win.
I'VE want it thoroughly understood,
said Mrs. Hastings, that we ask No
quarter nor will we accept a handicap
We all know polo from A to z and even
now we can ride as straight as any man
on Long Island. The men know this as
well as we. Somebody asked US not long
ago how big a handicap we expected.
That's perfect rubbish. We will accept
no handicap. for we viii stand or fall b. ]
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AN ECCENTRIC SOLDIER.

T has been said of Prince Leopold Of
Anhalt-Dessau. one of Frederick the
! Greats most able generals, In every
thing a soldier and an oddity. he was q
prince in nothing, save in his love of
power"
His soldiers called him the Bulldog"
He liked the name. for it set forth the
traits on which he prided himself-ten-
acity, courage and tOughness.
He bore a leading part in twenry-ons
battles and twenty-seveu sieges. The sol
diers regarded him as invulnerable, for
he was only once hi;. and then lightly.
When in camp he associated with his SOL
diers as though ne and they were COM
pauions.
But he was a savage when his wishes
or his authority were opposed. While q
youth he fell in love with the daughter Of
an apothecary. One day he saw her at
her window talking famiEarly with a
man. Maddened with jealousy. he rushed
upstairs and ran the man through the
body. The wounded man was doctor
and the girls cousin. Leopold married
her and their life was happy one. When
the news Of her death reached him he was
besieging a city His grief was intense,
but he told h.s sons of their loss in this
laconic phrase
Curse it. boys, The devil has carried
off your mother
One day in church the minister gave out
the first verse of a hymn
Neither hunger nor thirst,
Nor want nor pain.
Nor wrath of the Great Prince,
Can me restrain"
Leopold. thinking that the Great
Prince" alluded to himself. grasped his
cane and rushed up the pulpit stairs.
The minister hardly saved himself from
a thrashing by shouting. Il mean Beelze-
bub. not Your HighnaSS,''
He knew only one tune. the "Dessauer
March, and cared for but Cne hymn,
Luther's a Mighty Fortress Our God"
He called it. Our Lord Gods Dragon
March" and Numbered it out to his one
tune, whether in church or camp.
When he heard that his daughter WAS
at the point of death he marched to her
at the head of his troops so
that she might be buried with military
ionors. Finding her alive he prayed. with
tears running down his rough cheeks.
Lord God. l haven't asked you a single
hing for an age. And won't bother You
my more if you will only restore NJ
laughter to health nOW."s
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dragged for fifty yards IN the arena.
Nothing daunted, Miss Allen, after be-
coming disentangled from the stirrup,
shook the dust and Enme from her smart
riding togs and. remounting, negotiated
all the jumps in splendid style and cap
tured the coveted ribbon.
Miss Mildred Greeble, sister Of Lieu
tenant E. S. Greeble, o. s. A., proved
her skill in taking her brothers various
mounts over the prescribed jumps with
out a falter.
These three riders, to say nothing of
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tate is Derched. are a unit in asserting
that she is doing more to keep up the
standard Of horseaesh in that community
than any other individual.
Mrs. Rumsey proved her worth as a polo
player last summer when she played a
match with such adopts at the game as
Mrs. Hitchcock, Miss Hitchcock and
Mr.. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. This game
was played at westbury. L. l., on the es-
tate of Mr.. Robert Bacon, one time Am
bassador to France. Mrs. Rumsey's hus-
band, fine PLAYER, was another of the
The Washington herald., 1912-05-26

- HE men and women Of the
Meadow Brook Hunt Club have
always been nOteds as hard
straight riders. 1t has been es-
pecially noticeable that the wom-
en- have more than held up their
end in the hunting field, for there have
been few runs of the Meadow Brook
hounds within the last ten years in which
one or more women were not in at the
death and always well up with the for
tunate one to claim the brush.
In view of their regulations as superb
and intrepid riders it is not in the least
surprising that these women should have
emulated the example of their brothers
and taken to polo with a zest and pro-
icieacy quite in proportion to their PROV
ess in the hunting field. For them it is
not a great change from hunter to polo
pony and whereas they have no intention
of deserving the hunting field, yet they
will direct their energies to the polo field
for some time to come.
A woman's polo team is but another in
dication that the fair sex have no inten-
tion Of allowing the sterner sex to out
strip them in any branch of sport not
entirely reliant upon Drawn and muscle,
although polo is game in which no enc
Of endurance is called into play. Such
team has been formed and several meet
ings have been held by its organizers, with
Mrs. Thomas Hastings as presiding
officer
When it was first known that Mrs
Hastings and Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock
were contemplating the organization of a
woman's polo team there were enough
applications received from the Meadow
Brook colony alone. to select half a dozen
teams. There was no danger of a dearth
of talent, and 50 many have been en-
rolled as candidates that the process of
elimination will have to be resorted to
before a representative team can be Sc
Iected.
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that led Us over all sorts of country,
through all sorts of going and over the
stiffest jumps to be found on Long
Island. There are few men hunting to-
day who can show the way to Meadow
Brook women. By consulting a record
of all our runs you will find that women
have come out with flying colors, and
just as many, proportionately, were in
at the deaths as men. In fact, speaking
proportionately, l believe the balance
will be found to be in the women's favor"
Since polo is a rough game at best,
chances are that all the women who take
it up will be compelled to overcome what.
prejudices they might have had against
the cross saddle, for if they hope to shine
as polo stars'they will find the side saddle
and habit an insurmountable handicap.
Riding astride is not looked upon with
the same adherence, by even the most
straight laced of women, as it was few
years ago, and to-day the habit maker
tells YOU that boots and riding breeches,
with long skirts and coats, for women
are far more In vogue than the old fash
toned skirts, no matter how abbreviated
they might be.
Side Saddle a Handicap.
In a spirited game of polo any woman
aupesring upon the field on a side saddle
would find herself handicapped to such
an extent that she would soon become
90 discouraged that she would give up in
DESPAIR. The evolutions of polo pony
can only be Iikened to the agility of a cat.
He knows the game quite as well as his /!
rider. and there is never a second that he /
hasn't his eye on the ball And his OBJ
ieet without suggestion from his rider
that is, if he is q well trained pony-is to
keep as close to the ball as possible. he
can turn at almost right angles while go
ing at top speed, and some have shown
that while at q dead run they can almost
wheel on the traditional three cent piece.
Therefore, with one of these sinewy,
wiry and agile little beasts under her the
rider must keep riding" every second
she is in the saddle. To play polo sue
cessfuIly, as the champion American
team demonstrated to the extreme dis
cOmftuTe of the visiting EngIiShmen last
year. 'sdrrup riding" is not conducive to
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-03-07
UNPAID SOLDIERS
RI0TINC IN PEkIN
Mutlnous Chinese Troops Burn
and Stay; Authorities Seem
Terrified.

Pekin.-Taking the old Chinese cap
ital by surprise, some hundreds OF
Yuan Shi Kai's troops started series
of riots that rapidly penetrated all
quarters of the city. They fired in
discriminatory and caused panic after
panic in the crowded streets. Shops
were wrecked and burned. The riot
ers gave non-payment Of their wages
as the reason for their outbreak.
More than 100 executions have TAX
en- place. For the most part the VIC
tins are civilians and included six
women. Apparently the authorities
are afraid to punish the soldiers.
There are now 5000 foreign troops
in Pekin and the natives feel safe.
Five thousand Japanese troops have
been ordered from Port Arthur to
Tien- Tsin, where there are only 1900
foreign soldiers.
AS the railway between Pekin and
Tien-Tsin Is again open the 200 Am
erican troops of the 18th Infantry
under Major James Arrowsmith ar
rived here. The American compounds
are both beyond the city walls and are
surrounded by their own walls. There
fore they are considered not to have
been endangered.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-03-07
FOOD SAMPLES STARTLE
Sand and Salt Among AduIterants
That Are Used,

New Haven, Conn.-Even the food
chemists at the Connecticut agricul-
tural station are surprised by the re-
suit of series Of tests they have just
completed, which show that of 1922
samples of food, drink and drugs an
alyzed, 232, or nearly one-third, were
adulterated below standard or mis-
branded. The wooden nutmeg was
not in evidence, but other things were.
For example:
OF 300 samples of milk, were
skinned, 81 watered, and 3 both skim
med and watered. Of 46 samples of
summer drinks, 10 contained benzoic
acid, 2 coal tar dyes, 20 saccharine,
and 8 artificial colorings. Sand was
found in chocolate. Sixteen of 81
samples of ice cream contained gela-
tine. Bouillon cubes were more than
half salt; a pound of the cubes, cost
$3.05, contained six-tenths of a pound
of salt, worth l cent.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-03-07
A Chinese PRINTING Office.

The difficulties of making up a font
Of Chinese types are very great. Kang
Hsi's dictionary, the standard and
most comprehensive work of its kind
contains 4OS9O characters. but it has
been found that for all practical pur
poses a font need contain only about
1000 With a font of this size the
Chinese printer, in the course Of set
ting up a book, will frequently find
that he lacks a dozen or so unusual
characters. a difficulty which he meets
by having these missing symbols hand
cut on blank type by skilled engravers.
Although practically all Chinese news
papers and books on modern topics are
now printed from movable metal type.
books pertaining to old China, such as
the Confucian classics and the com
mentaries on them, are still produced
by the time honored method Of print
ing from wooden blocks.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-03-07
Advice to the Trustee.

In handling other peoples money
the principal must be kept intact. II.
as a trustee. those to whom you are
responsible insist upon an income
which you in your heart know cannot
be obtained without taking some slight
chance. give up the trust without hest.
tation, says Worlds Work. There is
no more bitter experience through
which an honest trustee or executor
can pass than the rendering of an ac
counting for a lost or depleted trust.
No reason or excuse can weigh for an
instant against the actual result which
he faces. A single slip in the handling
of funds like this may doom all future
generations of that family to lives of
poverty. This is the greatest RESPONSE
bility ever laid upon trustee. an ex
ecutor. banker or an adviser, and no
honest man should assume it unless
he is prepared to endure for the sake
of the future all the criticism that may
center upon him on account of ey
IRENE conservatism in the present.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-03-07
Reminders of NAPOLEON.

81 never knew Missouri was filed
with reminders of the NapOleonic wars
until | took a trip over the Missouri
Pacif1c's river branch to 8oonville,
q travelling man remarked "Thoughts
of the great struggle in France com
menced to dawn upon me when the
brakeman went through the train
calling Napoleon recalled the career
Of ambition of the great Corsican gen
eral and was allowing my thoughts
to wander in that vein when the next
station was nnounced-Waterloo. |
began to recall further incidents and
thoughts Of the victorious general who
blasted Napoleon's hopes Of a great
empire. Imagine my surprise when
found the next station was Wellington
The next stop had nothing to do with
the French wars, SO thought the CO.
medicines were over. But wanted to
learn the why of it all. so asked the
conductor He didn't answer He was
Grouchy."-Kansas City Journal.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-03-07
BANK ROBBERS AND
POLICE IN BATTLE

Montreal.-Surprised while thew
were dynamiting the West Montreal
branch of the Royal Bank early in the
morning, gang of five bandits, all
masked and heavily armed, defied the
police and gave battle.
One robber was killed outright and
Charles Fitzpatrick, son of the local
chief of police, was badly wounded.
After two of the robbers were can
tured another battle occurred in the
outskirts of the city, and the others
are being closely pursued. No loot
was taken from the bank.
The attempted robbery was the
most daring in the history of Canada
Late at night, Canadian Pacific rail-
way Waterman saw the men lettering
around the station and tracked them
without being noticed.
He glimpsed the men crawling
through the window of the bank. the
protecting bars having been sawed
through. He notified the police. and
posse surrounded the building.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-03-07
TIMELY HINTS
FOR FARMERS
Red Glover In Rotation.

One reason for the great popularity
Of the red clover plant is the ease
with which it lends itself to the rota-
tons which have been practiced In
the sections to which it is adapted.
The fact that it lives but two years
necessitates a rather short rotation on
the farm, especially when the clover
is seeded alone.
Meadows and pastures containing
clover and grass mixed are usually
held three or four years. even though
very little clover may remain during
the last year or two. The value Of
red clover on the farm makes 1t usu-
ally desirable that considerable
area of the farm be at all times seed
ed to this crop.
The Illinois experiment station has
shown as a result Of a thirty year
test that corn on land continuously
has produced twenty-five bushels to
the acre, corn alternated with oats
forty three bushels, while corn, oats
and clover in a three year rotation
gave a yield Of fifty-nine bushels for
the corn.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-03-07
Sandy Soils Need Humus,

The addition Of vegetable matter to
sandy soils is very important since 1t
is needed to increase their water hold
ing capacity as well as to add fertility.
Water is often the limiting factor in
the production of sandy soils. due to
their coarse texture and lack Of veg
etable matter. To prevent winds blow
ing sand the land may be laid out In
long, narrow fields with alternate grass
and cultivated crops. Protection wind
breaks of pines or other trees are eff
fective for short distances.
Legumes are beneficial to sandy soils
because they supply the much needed
nitrogen as we'll as humus. Peat can
be used to advantage as a nitrogen fer
ti1izer where a supply is readily avail
able. The use Of lime on sandy soils,
which are very commonly acid, will
aid in securing a stand of alfalfa and
clovers. incubation is also usually
necessary to grow good crops Of le-
gumes.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-03-07
Pure E.nqIish,

my dear. wish you would speak
more carefully" said a stickler for
pure English to his wife. You say
that Henry Jones came to this town
from Sunderland Don't you see that
it would be better to say that he came
from Sunderland to this town."
81 don't see any difference in the
two expressions" rejoined the lady
But there is a difference in the two
expressions-a rhetorical difference
You don't hear me make use of such
awkward expressions. By the way.
have a letter from your father in my
pocket"
"Oh. dear! Is my father In your
pocket?" inquired the wife. "You
mean that you have in your pocket
letter from my father
There you go with your little quib-
bles! You take delight in harassing
me. You are always taking up
thread and representing it as rope"
Representing it to be a rope. you
mean. dear"
And then he grfnned a sickly grin
and wished he had never started the
discussion Answers.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-03-07
FRESH GROUND
BONE FOR HENS.
Valuable Supplementary Feed
For Poultry.

Hens require lime to make eggshells
and, while there is a small amount Of
lime in the composition of all grain, it
is not there in sufficient quantity to
make the shells needed to cover the
eggs. Something, therefore, must be
given the hens to make eggshells. This
is frequently furnished in the shape Of
lime or old plaster or oyster shells.
But even with these accessories hens
frequently lay eggs with soft shells.
This is because there is still something
lacking in order to make the shells
hard. Green bone fed to hens supplies
this lack. The mineral matter fed to
chickens in bones is also valuable in
the development Of their own bones
and in growing their feathers and even
in the making of their flesh. But more
than anything else is the protein ele-
ment the hen gets from the bone for
the making Of the body of the egg.
Grain feeding alone will not answer
for this purpose, because grains are de-
fcient in this protein element. The
bone, therefore, is a most valuable sup
Elementary food. 1t enters into the
making and growth of all the fowls
and affords them an excellent tonic.
But it is especially valuable for the
hens. 1t makes sure of the eggs.-Kan-
sas Farmer
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-03-07
Brief News of the Week

Avaunt the corset. New York suf-
fragists have declared against corsets
in their campaign for saner dress for
women
Vaccine for scarlet fever, originally
discovered by a st. Petersburg ply
stefan, was put to its first practical
test in Boston and proved thoroughly
successful.
Employers in the Lawrence, Mass,
textile strike offered concessions to
the strikers, agreeing to an advance
Of five per cent in wages. The offer
was not accepted.
Los Angeles is agitating the COM
mission form of government, q COM
mittee of Is, two of whom are women,
having been appointed by the council
to draft a charter.
The new Chinese government has
taken strong stand against the use
Of opium. General Huang, minister
of war, has ordered shot all soldiers
found smoking the drug.
There Is no improvement In the
Mexican situation the past week. De-
sultory fighting occurred in different
portions of the republic. An ultima
tum has been given to Madero by the
permanent committee of the Mexican
congress that he must restore peace
in Mexico within so days or resign.