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THE MAN WHO WATCHES THE
THERMOMETER.

Theophile Gautier insisted that the
Russians, of all the people in the world,
are most sensitive to cold, and that If
1t were not for the double windows
to their houses and the wealth of furs
with which they wrap themselves they
would freeze to death, where a French
man would utter few "Sacres" and
go on about his business. In like manner
it has been reversal of the traditions
to find that the colored brother, who
was supposed to require something
like tropical heat to make him feel
at home, was not only able to stand
with Peary at the arctic apex of the
world, but to make himself very much
at home in general in those States
where the thermometer tries to shrink
down into the bulb.
The power of the Imagination may
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SPANISH WAR VETERANS
HAVE STRONG CLAIMS

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
An article under the caption "Why G..
A. r. Prefers Sons Of Union Veterans, ''
I say let them have the sons and daugh-
ters Of veterans just as long as they
don't intrdue on the rights Of real SOL
diers First comes the q. A. T. IN
precedent, next the Confederates. and
then the Spanish War Veterans. then
the sons and daughters. would be
ashamed to say I was son OF vet
eran and didn't 90 to war when PresI-
dent Mckinley asked for men. But in
stead they hide behind their fathers
coat tail and tell what they did. am a
son Of a veteran and am glad to say
that belong to the real thing. the
Spanish War Veterans. The civil war
was a fight amongst brothers. The
Spanish war caused the men OF the
Maine to be remembered. They made
the American nag known everywhere.
They changed the map of the world.
They caused the Panama Canal to be
built. They have a home in Arlington.
and, lastly, they take the G. A. r.
place in a few years at Arlington Gem
etery on Decoration Day. North and
South united in paying respect to all
the dead. w. H. LOWDER,
Ex-JJnited States Regular.
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Here's a Book
ATHoNIA: OR. THE ORIGINAL -FOUR
HUNDRED. BY H. George Ehuette
published by the Lakeside Co., Man
itowoc, WIS.,

Whoever reads "Athonia; or, the Orig
inal -Four Hundred" will pronounce 1t
very original and entertaining piece of
satirfcal humor. But only those who
like this sort Of thing very much indeed
will ever reach that point. for It isn't In
most human nature to endure through
out the 500 pages required for H. George
Shuette to tell his fantastic tale OF the
Greek commercial adventurers who dis
covered America centuries before CO.
lumbus was heard Of.
About one-eighth OF the book In guam
tity would be refreshing. 1t Is the sa-
tire of quiet chuckles, and done almost
throughout In elaborate reportortal fine
writing. There Is reminder of the
Pickwickian discovery OF 'Bill Stumps.
His Mark" In the narrative unearthed
by the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES American
newspaper correspondent In Athens. The
good ship Aeolus voyages over the
Greek and Roman curriculum Of our
high school days in a delightfully."- unct-
uous fashion, and the model city OF
Athonia, founded on the shores of the
newly discovered country, anticipates
the goal and the difficulties of modern
socialism, women's rights. elgenics. and
the other problem solvers. Eventually
the children of the original aristocracy
betook themselves to barbarian and the
Indians. except a few who tried to re.
turn 70 Greece and were lost at sea.
II Is genuinely clever and well-sus-
tained-but only Mark Twain can be
entertaining for that length Of time.
y. n. @
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POOR ECONOMY OF tsr
. SUNDAY STREET CLEANING

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
While In the downtown sections of
the city on q recent Sunday morning,
l was very much surprised to notice
the iaborers Of the Street Cleaning De-
partment busy at work In cleaning the
streets. Having been connected with
one OF the principal departments In one
OF our large cities for long period of
time. ] am fully convinced that by
working street laborers on Sundays, re-
gardless OF what wages they are paid.
is a gross mistake. I have seen II
tried on several occasions with the re-
suit that such inferior labor was en-
ployed, nothing was accomplished. II
the officials of the Street Cleaning De.
partment would 80 change their
methods that laborers are paid a few
cents day more for what they do in
the week, the city would be clean. and
II would not reflect on the department
a. II does In this case. It cannot be
contended that laboreTs will work will
tngly all the week, and then give the
city Just a. good work on Sunday. This
old doctrine has long been exploded.
II the department cannot do proper
work on other days. then the officials
should consult the street cleaning de-
partments OF other cities and profit by
their experience. c.
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THE CABINET BREAKER IS AT
1T AGAIN.

People who follow foreign politics in
general and French politics in particu-
lar will feel a special regret that
Premier Caillaux was not able to re-.
construct a cabinet in, which Theophile
Delcasse would have been in charge of
the portfolio of foreign affairs. There
II a very general feeling that he has
been made "the goat" on more than one
occasion, and there would have been
. touch of poetic justice If Moroccan
affairs had restored him to the posi-.
tion from which Moroccan affairs de.
posed him in 1905 when Germany de-
nanded his head on charger as the
price of keeping the peace.
1t was only two years and hall
ago that the passionate and intemper.
ate speech delivered in the chamber
of deputies by Premier Clemenceau
tsunting Delcasse upon having humili.
ated France, brought the sudden over,
throw of the ministry of the day. Al
one of the correspondents said at the
time, "Clemenceau did not fall; hs
plunged out of office" He was not con
tent with having stirred the resent
ment of the chamber by his initial at
tack, but continued in the tone of bit
ter raillery for which he is famous:
20. q truce to false indignation. ]
pray you. You led US, NJ. Delcasse
within hairs breadth OF war, and
you d1d nothing to prepare for AMI
such policy BY taking military precau
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be one Of the factors AZ work IN either
case, as Minnesota incident Of re-
cent occurrence would indicate. II
also throws q little sidelight on the
peril Of watching the Thermometer.
For Nose johnson was . Dixie darky,
to the core, notwithstanding the fact
that he had spent . large part of his
life in the Gopher State. So when he
sailed forth one morning during the
recent cold spell he was aware, by his
own proper senses, that the morning
boasted an eager and nipping air.
He had no doubt that the temperature
was well below freezing. At tho same
time he had no overweening desire to
break forth into an old plantation
song about the cotton and the cane
or to change his habitat from the land
where tips and wages on breezy
Western scale make life profitable as
well Is endurable.
But a. luck--ill. luck-would have
It Nose had been raised on the com
mon or garden Thermometer on which
the freezing point Is thirty.two in the
shade. He had never run up against
those scientific contriyances marked on
the centigrade scale on which zero 10
the freezing point. When, therefore,
in walking down the street, he hap-
pened to catch sight of one of them
which registered forty eight degrees
below zero It took two men and q boy
to restore him to consciousness. Ex-
PLANTATION to the effect that such ther.
mometers had running start of
thirty.two ordinary degrees on the or
dinary Fahrenheit system belonged to
the realm Of abstract fguration on an
atmospheric basis" He knew that he
was freezing to death, and nothing
could restore his circulation but
ticket to
Way down South, whore the SUN shines
hot I'm theory
Way down where the sugar-cane grows.
Wind and snow may make the
Southland shiver, but there will be no
centigrade Thermometers to increase
the natural temperature, and Nose will
live happy ever after. But, in no wise
profting by Noses experience, a per.
verse generation, instead of thinking
in terms of sunshine and spicy breezes,
will continue to watch the thermometer
and make themselves unhappy.
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ATAvISTIc ARYAN AND HIS
INCOMPREHENSIBLE ETHICS

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Despite the plaitudinous ponderosi-
ties and superficial sentimentaiities
enunciated In your columns by q GER
tain sapient savant who holds that the
Caucasian is an evolved being possess
Ing a social system. maintain, az an
irrefragabie postulate. that not mere
ly the Caucasian but the entire Aryan
type IL atavistic. having devolved from
a former stage Of civilixation.
May not the race, indeed. at the pres
ent time be said (pardon the anacoen-
osis) to be In the position OF an eden
tulous old man who. because Of ssnility,
claws out with accipitrine clutch to-
ward those things which. II secured,
would be Of no avail to him in his
degenerate state?
will elaborate this doctrine, and re-
fute Mr.. Swearfngen's hypotheses, in 4
series OF LS72 letters which I am pre-
Raring Tor daily publication in the Mall
Dag. PIETRO ACCURSO.
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HARDSH|PS COMING
FOR P[NS|ON[RS,|S
TNEEDALE'S BELIEF
Deficiency In Fund for Fami-
lies of Police and
Firemen.

suffering and hardships face the PEN
honers OF the police and fire depart
ments. many of whom are widows and
children, because Of the deficiency in
tne pension fund Of 60 per cent for the
month Of January. according To state
ments OF District officiais. Auditor
Tweedaie said today he personally
knows Of . number of pensioners who
arc dependent upon payments made
oy the Dfstrtct government for their
support. and that to give them at the
END OF the month only 70 per cent of
the amount due, will work hardship
In each case.
Referring to the need Of legislation,
which will place the pension fund upon
a stable basis and insure the full
amount of pensions each month. the
auditor contrasted the methods Of
New York city and the District In car
ing for their fre-fifhters. The families
Of the three men killed at the Equit-
able building fire will receive the full
pay OF their rank for one year. After
that the widow will receive half the
pay Of her husband during widowhood.
and the children will receive speci-
fed pension according to age, until
sixteen years old.
The widow OF Cant. Timothy J..
Brown. OF engine company No. 4. who
was killed In the fire at the store Of
the American Tobacco Company, SIS
Pennsylvania avenue, October II. was
given q pension of S5c a month, ard to
each of her Ave children under sixteen
vars OF age pension Of IS q month, a
total Of SIS. Because Of the reduction
In TIE Police Court fines, uron which
the pension fund depends for its chief
source CT revenue, Mrs. Brown and
her children will receive for the month
Of january probably not more than SS0.
A number sof other instances ere on
record in tho Fire Department of Wild
ows and children nf Bremen who will
receive less than half the usual amount
Of their pesions.
The District already owes to the pen.
sioners the sum Of $15.566.30, the total
amount Of the deficience for last year
II 10 hardly believed rossible. the Of
Iiciais say. that payment of this de-
fciency can be made. unless other
sources Of revenue are authorized by
Congress. The bill before Congress rro.
vfdee that the entire cckt of the PEN
zion fund shall be paid from the reve-
nues of the District. ano that any de-
ficiency which may exist each month
shall be made up from the sale Of all
licenses other thnn liquor licenses.
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EXPLAINS OPPOSITION
TO SHERWOOD

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
In reply to ''Ex-Soldier," will state
that the opposition to the Sherwood
pension bill has come more from Re-
publicans than Democratic. and that its
most bitter opponent Is a Northern. not
q Southern, Democrat. e..
Southerners reflect that they have
sworn to do their duty as Congressman
Of the United States; that they are
bound to uphold the honor Of their
country and help fulfill Its obligations.
One of these is to take care. Of the
Union veterans.
When the first call Tor volunteers was
issued in 1861 the United States Gov
ernment promised to support the wild
ows and orphans of those who were
killed and to pension the veterans who
Were disabled. whether by service or
old age.
II the Confederate States were in ex-
tstence now, would any Southerner re-
fuse liberal pensions to Confederate
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A sOUTHERN DEMOCRAT.
PREVENTION OF CRUELTY
TO HUMAN BEINGS

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
How strange It seems there are hu-
nane societies for the prevention of
cruelty to animals and, To my knowl-
edge. not one for the prevention of
cruelty to human beings. In the car
building or repair department Of the
washington Terminal Company men
work in and over ICY and dangerous
pitS wheeling cars and lay on the
ground making repairs. with the rain
pouring on them and running from the
roofs. It 10 compulsion to work In ali
kinds Of weather In this department. II
the men desire to hold their positions.
It . pitiful to see these men work in
such 9 deathtrap az those icy pits,
without shop. or shed over them. II the
Humane Society could spare little Of
their time and visit the Terminal Com
psny at Ivy. City and Investigate for
themselves they would find It heart
company would be compelled to build q
shed or shop. as they do in the West.
The human being needs protection as
well az animals. BLANCH FRY.
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Russia to Aid Rebels
Overthrow ManchuS

LONDON, Jan u.-According to cables
received here today from Tfen Tsin, 1t
has been announced there that Russia
Will assist the Chinese revolutionists in
overthrowfng the Manchu dynasty,
providing the republicans will agree to
permit Outer Mongolia to become inde-
pendent. This would permit Russia TO
extend her sphere Of influence IN the
Orient to an alarming extent
The Russian legation here denies that
such an announcement was authorized
by the imperial Russian government, but
there is little doubt felt In diplomatic
circles that the Cars minister's will go
to almost any extreme to obtain the IN
dependence Of Outer Mongolia.
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WANTS MORE LIGHT
ON SHIP SUBSIDIES

To the Editor of TILE TINES:
Some statesmen believe in upholding
the American merchant marine without
new or additional burdens upon the
people and without bounties from the
public treasury.
Sounds fine as rhetoric. But q Curl
Gus nation wants to know how.
Other nations, with growing ocean
tonnage. use subsidies bodily and get
their money back ten and a hundred
fold In revenues collected from the
worlds commerce. Americans pay out
$500, ,OOO, 900 a year, of which upward Of
p5 per cent goes to these subsidized for
eign ship owners.
II any stateman has a miracle-work-
ing remedy UP his coat sleeve, for this
humiliating situation, let him hasten to
produce II. He will need no other title
EVERETT SPRING.
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Total for the month. a., ,01i
Sunday average for the fnonth...,.... A.toS
q The net total circulation OF The washington
Ptmes Sunday during the month of Decem-
Pe9 was La, W6. all copies left over and re-
8urned BY agents being eliminated. This
Gun6ays during December, shows the net
sunday average for December to have been
eolemnly swear that the accompanying
Rtatement represents the circulation OF The
IWeshington Timer a. detailed, and that the
net nsures represent, all returns eliminated.
Ehe number Of copies Of The Times which
Rse sold. delivered. furnished, or mailed to
p0ne nde purchaserp or subscribers.
FRED A. WALKER,
General Manager.
Dle1y1ct Of Columbia, %:
eubscribed and sworn to before me this
mr.t day Of January, A. d. 1912
(bsaL) ALFRED HIGBIE,
Notary Public.
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yeteransf That 10 why some sx-con-
federates have voted. for every Union
pension Dill that has been passed. How
terna1 help from Union veterans II they
were not willing and glad to heip
brother Union veterans In their old
These pensions viii not long depiete
the bloated billions In the Treasury
vaults; the veterans will soon have
passed away. way.o,,r -
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Seek Miners Bodies.

NEW CASTLE. Pa, Jan. lL-Res-
cIing parties are sinking shaft 10 the
Allen coal mine. near Mt. Jackson. to-
day in an effort to recover the bodies
Of Frank Coulter and Jsmes McChes.
ney, who were caught when the mine
EIade to reach the mine by the en-
trance, but the rescuing party was
driven back when the roof fell. All
hope of finding the men alive has been
abandoned
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MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.

Arrived-Patapsco, Yankton. Patterson,
AT Guantanamo: Salem. at SewaIi
Point; Prairie. at Hampton Roads I;
Roe, az Norfolk; Hull. Hopkins, at
Sausalito: Paul Jones. at San Diego:
Nero, at Acapulco.
Sailed-Caesar. from Portsmouth, N. H.,
for Hampton Roads; Dixie, Ammen,
Preston; Trippe, Sterett, Wake,
from Bermuda for Guantanamo; Alb
arenda, from Shanghai for Kiu-
Mang; Potomac. from Neuvitas for
The Washington times., 1912-01-11
Oatmeal Cereal.

Mix in the top Of the double boiler
three-quarter cup Of oatmeal or any oat
preparation. one-half teaspoon of salt
and one and one-half cups cold water;
let stand over night. In the morning
boil flve minutes. stirring until thicken-
ed, then cook over hot water twenty
minutes. stirring occasionally. Cook tho
day before. Make double the quantity
put what Is left over into some kind
Of mold for the next breakfast, slice
1t and fry. In dripping or butter, and
serve with syrup.
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THE TAFT PLAN OF CAM
PAIGN.

AAVSiucHI Auitb pOltichi managers
ara taking the public into their conf.
dence as to their plan of forcing his
denomination. They are engagingly
frank in announcing that the machine.
ridden, misunderstanding Republi-
can party of the South IL to be used
to the uttermost to pry the President
into the denomination. No matter
that there are no electoral votes for
the party In the South; It has half
enough delegates to nominate. Those
delegates will be named by conven-
tions Of postmasters, internal revenue
officials, collectors of ports, Federal
court officials, and the like.
To make assurance doubly sure,
these same Federal officials will them
selves compose the delegations. Who
else could, when there are no Repub.
licans in the South save the place.
holdersa
Some months ago the Alabama or
ganization called snap convention,
and named o Presidential delegation,
instructing it for Taft. Every man
in the convention, and every delegate
named, it is declared, was Federal
officeholder.
The convention was utterly irregu-
lar. The national committee has new
er permitted delegates to be chosen
till after its issuance of the convention
call. But that was immaterial; it was
desired to give demonstration of per.
feet control, and Alabama was called
on to provide it. 81
Now it 10 announced that the Florida
State convention win be held Feb
ruary 8. It il chosen for this leader.
ship, in point of time, because it is
counted as certain to name q Taft
delegation.
The Georgia State committee was or.
dered to do something for the cause,
and so Internal Revenue Collector
Jackson got it together, and had Taft
resolutions passed, some ten days ago.
1t IL announced that the Virginia
bosses, Slemp and Martin, have given
tho President assurances" that their
convention, March IL, will send an in.
structed Taft delegation.
All this sounds like good Taft news.
But what are the facts, Why do not
the Taft managers get the State COM
mittee of New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, or some other State that has
possibility of electoral support for the
Republican party, to meet and indorse
the Presidenti Why do they not give
demonstration of their strength in
some really significant territory, by
calling early conventions and getting
some delegations that also stand for
electoral supporti
They don't do it BECAUSE THEY
CAN'T. They don't DARE try any
performances of that kind outside the
machine-ridden South which they con-
troll through the patronage power.
The game is to mass together as
many Southern delegates as possible,
just as early as possible, in the belief
that as the total becomes more i'm
pressive it will increasingly discour.
age efforts at opposition in those
States to which the party must look
for its real strength.
just to the extent that this Admin.
istration plan works, so far will the
Republican party's chances of winning
in the November election be injured.
Every development that increases
Taft's chances of nomination, brightens
up Democratic prospects of carrying
the country.
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BRIG. GEN. ALLEN
REALIZES AMBITION
IN AERIAL STATION
Fondest Hope Is Fortifica-
tion of Coasts With
Airship Fleets.

With the opening OF the first part Of
the coming week Of winter headquar-
ters OF the navy aviation school at san
Diego. CAL. and the establishment OF
permanent aerial station in the Phil
ippine Islands. Brig. Gen. James Allen,
chief signal officer Of the War De-
partment. will realize one Of his fond
%. hopes, that OF taking the first
..eps toward fortfying the coasts Of
TINS country and possessions with q
pertect system Of aerial guards.
cenerai Allen has worked hard to
Dund up powerful aerial feet for this
government and nothing plcases him
fruit.
wnhe the navy aviators are supposed
70 remain IN San Diego for the winter
oniy' It 10 almost certainty that with
IN announcer year or 80 the Government
whi maintain . permanent station on
the Pacific coast.
The Next Step.
The next step toward coast fortinca.
uon may come ON the Atlantic coast.
The Signal Corps will select some city
where conditions are good for nying
near the Atlantic.
Lieut. Frank Lahm has taken charge
Of the aerial station In the Phiiippine
Islands. A Wright biplaue has been
shipped to him. and will be delivered
either Saturday or Monday. II viii be
assembled Immediately and put into
use. This station will be permanent,
and from time to time its capacity and
usefulness will be increased. Es
The signal corps officers are watching
with interest an important experiment
the navy aviators are undertaking.
Capt Washington /. Chambers 10 the
man behind the gun In the navy avia-
ton school. ably assisted by three splen-
did fiyers-Lieuts. T. L. Ellysou. John
Rodgers. and J. H. Towers. This ex-
pertinent II with aeroplane cloth-the
material used in making the planes Of q
machine. One material to be tested is
and the third, the sort that has already
been used before. 10 an oiled cloth.
Tho Manufacturer,
The first Of these IL manufactured by
the Goodrich Rubber Company, Of Ak
rom Ohio. ana the second by the Good
year Rubber Company. The aluminium
surfaced cloth II almost invisible when
high in tho air. and 10 light In weight.
The makers OF this claim 1t will be al
most impossible to see an aeroplane If
the planes are surfaced with this COM
position. The brown cloth, II Is
claimed, n filled with q composition
made from wood flber. making It water
proof. This cloth cannot be washed,
but Its makers claim It does not show
dirt.
The navy aviators win select what
they think 10 tho best cloth for their
Jmachiues. and II 10 probable that in the
future the navy biplanes win be sur
faced with . cloth best suited for work
on the water. lta
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